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| 00:00:05.55 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Good evening everybody and welcome to the regular Sausalito City Council meeting for Tuesday, June 26, 2018. I'll call the meeting to order and ask Lily to take the roll. |
| 00:00:17.39 | Lily | Councilmember Withee. |
| 00:00:18.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:18.41 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 00:00:18.46 | Unknown | here. |
| 00:00:18.76 | Ray Withey | you |
| 00:00:18.83 | Lily | Council member Hoffman? Here. Council member Cleveland Knowles? Here. |
| 00:00:22.27 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | you you |
| 00:00:22.49 | Lily | Vice Mayor Burns? |
| 00:00:23.35 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Pierre. |
| 00:00:23.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:23.74 | Lily | Mayor. |
| 00:00:24.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Here. Leslie Alden, will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? |
| 00:00:31.98 | Unknown | Thank you. you I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. |
| 00:00:34.27 | Unknown | I pledge allegiance. |
| 00:00:35.35 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | TODAY. |
| 00:00:38.81 | Unknown | and to the republic for which it stands. |
| 00:00:39.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:39.13 | Unknown | Two, three, five. It's a... |
| 00:00:41.78 | Unknown | one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. |
| 00:00:53.12 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Next on our agenda is closed session announcements. We have no closed session announcements this evening, so we will turn to public comment on closed session items. Is there any member of the public who would like to comment on our closed session items? Seeing none, we'll move on to approval of the agenda. May I have a motion? So moved. Is there a second? |
| 00:01:16.32 | Joe Burns | Second. |
| 00:01:16.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Aye. That motion carries 5-0. Aye. |
| 00:01:18.11 | Joe Burns | Hi. |
| 00:01:21.54 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Next on the agenda is special presentations and mayor's announcements. First up is the introduction of Maurice Black, custodian, and Oscar Lucario, landscape worker. We'll welcome Mike Langford to the podium. |
| 00:01:41.57 | Mike Langford | Good evening, Madam Mayor, City Council, City staff, everyone there. It's a great occasion when we can bring new employees on to replace those that have retired or have gone on to other successful positions. And today is such that night that in the Parks and Recreation Department, I'm introducing two new employees. Unfortunately, one of them could not be here. He had some family obligations that he had to get to. That's Maurice Black, he's our new custodian. You may have seen him around City Hall. He's been here for about a month. Very nice gentleman, has a great custodial background. Grew up in Mississippi, so you may hear a little bit of his Mississippi twang there. But we're very fortunate to have him on board, and he's been doing great. Who I do have with me today is Oscar Lucario. He's one of our new landscapers, or actually is our new landscaper. We're extremely fortunate to have Oscar. He has a passion for landscape and the environment, in fact, so much that he has a BA in conservation restoration with a minor in urban planning from Sonoma State University. He had a landscape business with his father up in Novato, and he's been a resident of Marin County since 1995. So it's my pleasure to introduce Oscar Lucario. |
| 00:03:03.78 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 00:03:08.95 | Oscar Lucario | Thank you so much. This is one of my Second real job that I had. I think working with my father was a pleasure to be out in the environment, getting to know Marine as a place of action, of integrity, and commotion for environmental favor. I'm happy to be here, happy to serve the people and the citizens of South Salido, the tourists, and practice more languages. As people ask me for directions. And it's a beautiful place to be. I think confronting climate change, sea level rising, I couldn't be at any better place. So I'm glad to be here. Thank you. |
| 00:03:15.83 | Unknown | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 00:03:33.69 | Unknown | . |
| 00:03:33.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:33.79 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:33.84 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:33.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:41.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:44.60 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:44.64 | Unknown | All right. |
| 00:03:51.13 | Mike Langford | So I do want to add we've already had compliments from the public on the work that Oscar's been doing. I got a call the other day around 10 o'clock, and he had just started the work he was there all day to do. So we're very fortunate. |
| 00:04:07.25 | Jill Hoffman | I don't know. Okay, yeah. |
| 00:04:09.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:11.05 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:12.65 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh my God, my God. Thank you Mike, we'll turn now to 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 any member of the public who would like to comment on an item not on our agenda this evening? Seeing none, we'll move on to action minutes of the previous meeting. |
| 00:04:41.61 | Charlie Boyce | I sure do. |
| 00:04:42.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh. |
| 00:04:42.97 | Charlie Boyce | Thank you. |
| 00:04:42.99 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:04:43.01 | Charlie Boyce | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:04:47.06 | Charlie Boyce | I'm representing the what she hardware and bring them here in the corner. |
| 00:04:54.48 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, can you just state your name for us? |
| 00:04:56.78 | Charlie Boyce | I'm sorry, Charlie Boyce. |
| 00:04:58.40 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Hi, welcome, Charlie. |
| 00:04:59.55 | Charlie Boyce | You bet. And we lost our 20 minute parking zone. We had two of them in front of our hardware store. And one of them is painted gray now. That's about a week and a half ago. uh, We really can't figure out why and why we had no notice or anything like that. And I have a petition here with about, oh, I don't know. 300 signatures. To get it back. If we could. |
| 00:05:26.24 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | you may hand your petition to our board clerk, and I will ask our board clerk to refer this to the agenda setting committee for referral or further action. Thank you. |
| 00:05:41.60 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, if there are no other comments on items not on our agenda, we'll move on to action minutes of prior meetings. We have minutes for May 22, June 12, and our special city council meeting of May 30, 2018. |
| 00:06:01.32 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Make a motion to approve. |
| 00:06:03.75 | Ray Withey | Second. |
| 00:06:04.73 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All in favor? Aye. That motion carries 5-0. |
| 00:06:06.08 | Ray Withey | I. |
| 00:06:09.68 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | We'll move next to our consent calendar. Matters listed on the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial, require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous counsel of support, and may be enacted by the council in one motion in the form listed below. I will note for the record that item 4M concerns a matter from which I will recuse myself, and so we will be handling the consent calendar in two separate motions this evening would any member of the council like to comment on or pull an item from our consent calendar |
| 00:06:44.63 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, I'd like to take 4D off the consent calendar. Which is the adoption of ordinance number 1259 amending the municipal code to increase the limitations on campaign contributions. |
| 00:06:59.76 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, we will move that item to 6.0. |
| 00:07:02.60 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 00:07:02.65 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | BE. |
| 00:07:05.25 | Carolyn Ford | I would like to take, I don't know if I need to take it off the calendar, but I do want to reference item 4I in our later discussion with regard to the budget. and in the context of revenue generating stream from that effort. So there is a budget in there and there's a review of how much has been made. So I don't know, would you like me to take it off? |
| 00:07:24.13 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | The consent item is simply to receive and file, so you don't need to pull it off to be able to refer to it. |
| 00:07:29.77 | Carolyn Ford | Okay, that's fine. Sleep. |
| 00:07:30.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | you |
| 00:07:33.63 | Joe Burns | Anybody else pulling? I have just a statement. |
| 00:07:37.18 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | well let's hear public comment first is there any public comment on our consent calendar for this evening Seeing none, we'll bring it up here. The vice mayor has a comment on an item. |
| 00:07:47.99 | Joe Burns | Just that on the letter. Uh, Oh, crying out loud. Where is it? Which one is it? 4F? 4F. Yeah, on 4F. |
| 00:07:57.69 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:08:00.85 | Joe Burns | I thought that was another good opportunity for us to make one of those templated letters personal to Sausalito, especially with a highway going, bifurcating our city limit, as well as our proximity to the bay and the stewardship of the bay under our guise, especially with runoff and things coming down. So it's almost like that letter is meant for us and should have a little more personalization to it on its impact to Sausalito. |
| 00:08:25.12 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Lilly, is there a deadline on providing that letter? |
| 00:08:30.69 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | If not, I'm going to recommend we delegate to the vice mayor the opportunity to edit the letter and bring it back. |
| 00:08:38.13 | Joe Burns | And for clarity, who do I delegate that to? |
| 00:08:38.16 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | and for clarification, |
| 00:08:43.58 | Joe Burns | Except... So moved. |
| 00:08:46.84 | Jill Hoffman | And can I have a point of clarification not on this? Thank you. |
| 00:08:50.02 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Let me just see if Lily can answer the question. |
| 00:08:56.50 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, why don't we let, while Lily's looking for that, why don't we turn to your item of clarification, Susan. |
| 00:09:01.79 | Jill Hoffman | So in terms of item 4D, I just wanted to have a separate vote on that So I don't need like a staff presentation. |
| 00:09:09.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh. Oh. Okay, so then we will handle the consent calendar this evening in three segments. All right, so I'm just going to pause for one more moment to give the board clerk an opportunity to answer about the timeliness of item 4F. |
| 00:09:36.94 | Joe Burns | I'll use that time. Okay. To just compliment staff that I know worked so hard on the track it system. Getting those slides was great to play with. I actually went on and registered. I know my industry as well as many people that interact with the city are really going to appreciate at least the ease that it was getting on. I haven't gone through a full permit and done all that, but great process. I'm glad those slides were in here and good job. |
| 00:10:05.69 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So, Lily, on item... Joe. On item 4, I, I see the request letter. It's dated June 6th. I don't see any deadline. So let's go ahead and we'll move that to our next meeting on July 17th on consent. And hopefully the vice mayor or his team can come up with some edits. All right. Okay. So for this evening, I will entertain a motion to approve items 4A through 4C, 4E through 4C. 4E and 4G through 4L. Second. All in favor? Aye. Next I'll entertain a motion to approve item 4D. |
| 00:10:48.91 | Jill Hoffman | I. |
| 00:10:49.26 | Carolyn Ford | All right. |
| 00:10:55.78 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So move. Second. All in favor? Actually, Lily, will you call the roll on that one? Thank you. |
| 00:11:02.75 | Lily | Council Member Withey. |
| 00:11:07.55 | Lily | This is for 4D. |
| 00:11:11.39 | Ray Withey | Um, |
| 00:11:15.45 | Ray Withey | Yeah, I think this needs to be reconsidered now by, We're on the second reading of this if we decided we wanted to reconsider this. How do we vote? Do we vote against the second reading? |
| 00:11:31.64 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Well, you have the option to pull it. So Susan said she didn't want to pull it, she just wanted to vote on it. If you want to pull it for consideration, we will pull it and we will move it to item 6B this evening. |
| 00:11:42.28 | Ray Withey | So let's do that. |
| 00:11:43.20 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. |
| 00:11:43.97 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:11:44.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | here. All right, so then, Joe, would you like to handle the vote on item 4M? |
| 00:11:50.22 | Joe Burns | Yeah. Now to 4M. Do I hear a motion to? move on for him. |
| 00:12:00.41 | Ray Withey | I move to approve consent calendar item 4M. |
| 00:12:06.06 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 00:12:06.08 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Second. |
| 00:12:07.26 | Ray Withey | All in favor? Aye. |
| 00:12:08.25 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Aye. And I will abstain. All right, we're gonna move on to our business items. First item, 5A, is a long overdue update from Supervisor Kate Sears. Welcome. THE END OF THE END OF THE Okay. |
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| 00:12:40.30 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
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| 00:12:46.56 | Unknown | My technical assistance needs some technical assistance. Okay, we're good. So, John is going to pass down. I'm going to figure out how to advance the slide. |
| 00:12:48.03 | Adam Politzer | The Press. |
| 00:12:50.97 | Unknown | We're good and I'm going to figure out how to advance What? Thank you. |
| 00:12:58.39 | Unknown | Any minute now. Oh, there we go. All right. Very good. So thank you, Mayor Cox and council members for having me. This is really sort of a rare opportunity for me to be on this side of the podium, and that's a real pleasure. So I haven't been here in a while, and I have a lot to talk about. So I hope you will bear with me. And? There we go. So I wanted to give you a list, just as a start out, of some of the things, the assignments that I have and what I do for all the residents of our jurisdiction. This is not a complete list of assignments, but I think it gives you a sense of why I may look a little haggard and tired and frazzled and running around. There's a lot to do to do the people's business. So I wanted to start out, and probably because the budget is top on my mind, I want to start with that, but I also want to... Move on to some of these other things that you see here on the screen. Transportation, things that we care about. These are several initiatives I'm going to talk to you about. And then, of course, all the things related to climate change that I know are important to all of our jurisdictions along the Bay. So let's start out with the budget. This is really at the top of my mind since the county just approved our second two-year budget this last week. |
| 00:14:01.82 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:14:28.35 | Unknown | Uh-oh. Okay. All right. I'm messing with things, apparently. This was the second time, you know, it was really... This is our second two-year budget, and when we first came up with the idea two years ago to do a two-year budget, I don't think any of us at the county really knew how whether that was going to be successful or not. And this go-round really proved... what a great opportunity that is. I think it lightens the load a little bit on our departments, but it also really gives us an opportunity to think forward in a way that's very thoughtful. So this year we are facing some challenges. I think all of us who are conservative in our fiscal management have thought about we're on a wonderful trajectory in the economy as a whole. We've been on that trajectory for nine years. And when does it end? And so we were really planning forward with the thought that the future might not be as good as the present. And so we took a very conservative approach. For the first time in five years, we were able to make $5.4 million in significant budget adjustments to really make sure that our budget was balanced and we were on very secure footing moving forward. And for our immediate year, 2018-2019, we're actually reducing our county budget by $3 million, followed by $1.1 million in year two. And I say this because we are hoping that our economy keeps on its forward and upwards trajectory. But we want to make sure, you know, there's a lot of economists who are saying that by 2020, things may not be looking as rosy as they are now. So we wanted to position ourselves in a stable way as we can, and we've done that. We also wanted to make sure, as I know all of you do in your city budgets, to make sure that we were really creating a budget that furthered our highest priorities. And so we're creating new ways to create housing in an already built-out county. I know this is issues that you face as well. And we're doing some of the same things that you're doing here in the city, of promoting accessory dwelling units and junior ADUs. We're also continuing a partnership that we developed with the Marin Housing Authority, to fund what we call our Landlord Partnership Program, which is to try to encourage more landlords in the county of Marin to accept Section 8. And that's been tremendously successful so far in expanding that program. And we're also trying to work to assist those who are precariously housed. We have a number of issues that we also prioritize, such as racial equity. I'm sure all of you saw the race counts report that was not a good assessment of where the county should be and wants to be in terms of equity issues and we're taking that very seriously we're also boosting our commitment to sustainability and planning for climate change and really like all our jurisdictions, we're making sure that we are augmenting disaster preparedness, because so many of our residents are concerned about that. And finally, we have issues with our buildings maintenance and our infrastructure, as I'm sure these are all familiar issues for all of you. So. I think I might have gone a little bit too far. Hold on a second. Yeah, let me go. I went the wrong direction. So I wanted to give you some real specifics on how we've decided to spend some of our money. You know, as I'm sure you know, we are a property tax county, so our budget does not fluctuate much. It's very stable, some would say near flat, and that has a lot of benefits. A lot of times people look at Santa Clara, they look at San Francisco, and they think, would it be so fantastic to have a budget based on sales tax? You've got these fantastic big boom. But of course, the downside of that are the years that are not boom years. And so we are always working with the relatively flat minor changes and adjustments and trying to use that money as efficiently and successfully with as much impact as we can. So we have a balanced budget for the two years coming up. But we're also within that budget trying to expand programs for particular areas that are very important to us. And those include mental health and homelessness, and also our road improvements. I'm going to tell you just a little bit more about that going forward. Thank you. I wanted to show you this slide, not because anyone really loves getting into the down and dirty of anybody else's budget, because you handle your own sufficiently, but what's important to me about this particular slide is the large proportion of the county budget that goes to health and human services and public safety. And so that's over 60% of our budget. In this public safety category here includes child support services, the district attorney, our fire and sheriff's department, our public defender and probation. And I'm really highlighting these areas because they're areas that cities and towns aren't as engaged in. Health and human services include social services, mental health and substance abuse, and public health. So. Talking just a little bit more about issues that I've flagged, on the right side is the picture that we hope to never see active in our community of firefighters. But given the heightened concern about disaster preparedness and the potential of increased fire danger, we've allocated an additional $1 million for our general fund for overtime for our firefighters. We really had significant overtime for firefighters last year. We pretty much spent the entire year fighting fires, and we had firefighting teams all over the state of California. We're hoping this year is not like that, but given that we've already seen an early wildfire already, who knows what's going to happen. So I want to talk a little bit more about health and human services, because that's area that unless you've really wanted to use our services, you may not be as aware of and tell you where we're directing funds. In particular, in this budget, we're concerned about directing additional funds to improve our mental health services in our jails. You may have noticed that that was something the grand jury thought that they should talk about and gave us some good suggestions, and it was an area we were already talking about that needed to improvement, and so we're putting half a million dollars into that. We're also putting over three million dollars into increased mental health services. That comes largely from the creation of additional outreach teams to be out in the community because that really is where you get your most effective impact on the folks who need those services. And we're also focusing on residential placements for folks with mental health issues. And that's over a million dollars. We're focusing on residential placement. We're putting over a million dollars into drug and Medi-Cal delivery. We had great expansion in our Medi-Cal signups last year. And we're also putting 2.5 million into a new program called Whole Person Care. And I flag that in particular because one of the challenges in public health, as in some of our other areas, but particularly in public health, has been the siloization of funds. And I think we all know that really if you're going to take care of the person, you need to take care of the whole person. And there's a new state program that's really facilitating that and hopefully will create a better platform for us going forward so we can really look at the whole person and what that person needs and provide services in a way that makes more sense for individuals. We're also focusing on additional funds for homeless, and we are funding up to $4.8 million for homeless services in particular, all of which fortunately comes from state funding. I now want to shift gears and take us over into transportation and infrastructure and local transit. We're going to try not to talk too much about traffic, but this obviously has implications for all of it. So, we have a lot of roadways in the county of Marin and we have a lot of bridges. And as with many of our jurisdictions, we have a lot of work to do and maintenance and repair work to do. I really wanted to highlight, rather than talking through what you can read on the screen, I want to make sure that we're all aware, I know, I'm assuming all of you are, but folks listening may not be focusing on the importance of Senate Bill 1, SB 1. And so, you know, that's the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, which increased the gas tax last November and then another increase beginning in January of this year. It's extraordinarily important for all of our jurisdictions for help in funding fixes to our roadways, our freeways, our bridges. And... So we're expecting in the county an unincorporated Marin to receive about an average of $4. million per year for use on our roads. Those funds are going to help us a lot. It's a little bit of a every step you make, you look at the larger amount that you need, which for us is $190 million over the next 10 years just to maintain our current road conditions. So this is the part of every year, the budget that I always hate, is that graph of where we're going on our PCI and our roads. But I can't sort of underestimate the importance of these funds for SB1 and how important it is for all of us to do whatever we can to make sure that a ballot measure that's going to be on the ballot in November to repeal SB1 does not succeed, because I don't know really what any of our jurisdictions would do if we lose that money So, We also just recently last week, in addition to the budget, got an update on the Muir Woods Reservation System. And as you may remember, we went through quite a number of really about a year and a half of often contentious conversations with the Park Service, ultimately sort of facilitated by our Congressman Huffman to reach a memorandum of understanding about how to engage in a more productive way with the Park Service and hopefully reduce the traffic impacts on all of our communities, but particularly along Shoreline Highway and into Tam Valley. And so part of that agreement was for the Park Service to create a reservation system. And there were also additional parking enforcement and controls, enhanced patrolling by our sheriff, enhanced staffing by the Park Service to make sure the enforcement was better and more effective, and a particular parking corridor that was going to limit parking near the woods. Now, it's been bumpy because the Park Service needed about two years to get the reservation system up and running, and while that was, we were waiting for that to happen, we were already enforcing parking restrictions. And if any of you drove out to Muir Woods and saw what the impact of that was in people deciding to park just about anywhere they possibly could, it has not been pretty. But we finally have the reservation system in. It took effect for passenger cars in January and for commercial vehicles in April. So what I'm gonna show you on this slide are very preliminary numbers, but I'm feeling optimistic. And so the red to the left, as you can see, were the visitation numbers for 2017. The blue to the right is for 2018, and the numbers are coming down. We didn't see much change in January. It went not quite the right way in February, but this is really a time when people were trying to |
| 00:26:29.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:29.62 | Unknown | Thank you. discover the reservation system, and get used to using it. What we have for March and April, I'm optimistic. If we can keep this trajectory going, I think it really will be helpful for all of us in sort of smoothing out the visitation and smoothing out the traffic and making it perhaps possible for us to drive from Sausalito to Mill Valley along Shoreline Highway on a weekend. But that's a very optimistic statement. So because things are not quite perfect yet, and I'm not sure. We've had some queuing on the roads. My favorite, actually, criticism on this particular list is the parking ambassadors are too friendly. I don't know if that's a criticism that you've gotten with your bike ambassadors, but apparently people are being too friendly and chatting too long, and that's backing up the traffic. So I don't know how the Park Service is going to deal with that criticism, but hopefully some of these other issues of queuing along the roadway. The message is things are not perfect, but they're heading in the right direction, and I'm really hoping with the commercial vehicles, they're already seeing sort of anecdotal signs that what we used to see at the large commercial buses, half full, is changing, and that they are really putting more people on buses and limiting the number of buses. So we'll see. This is a work in progress, but I think it's a positive report so far. So local transit, obviously, part of the success of trying to get cars off the road for Muir Woods is the Muir Woods shuttle. And the vehicle you see on the right is sort of the mobile information welcome center. that was just acquired by a Marin Transit that's parked down at Pahono, where everybody goes to get on the bus to go to Muir Woods. And so we're hoping that that actually gets more people to realize they should get out of their car and get on that bus. I also wanted to note, as you know, one of my assignments is to be on the Golden Gate Bridge District Board, and with the significant help of two of the council members here, Vice Mayor Burns and Council Member Susan Cleveland Knowles, and they're good lobbying efforts, and the staff at Golden Gate Bridge District actually paying attention. We last week voted to maintain the Route 92 that will get us all of the Civic Center in the city down Geary. So we're happy about that. Now, the picture on the right, you know, as a board member of Marin Transit, we're always trying to tinker with things and address unmet needs, and that is the picture of a vehicle. It's called Marin Transit Connect. It's a new pilot project. where you can get on-demand service to go where you need to go without making any advanced planning or advanced reservations or anything. And so this is a pilot project, runs from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. just in the northern San Rafael area, and we will see how it works because I think with the challenges of getting a lot of folks on public transit, if we can be more flexible, have on-demand service, it may be helpful. Okay. So I want to shift gears now. and talk about a number of the initiatives that my office is involved in that I think, hopefully, are both relevant and of interest to you. And the first one is something that you know a lot about, which is the good efforts to address our aging population. So we will have 34% of our population over the age of 60 by 2030. And really, so I have to say thank you to Sausalito for being at the forefront, for doing so much in this area. And the World Health Organization's designation is an age-friendly community that Sausalito has challenged the county to now be taking efforts to get that designation for unincorporated areas as well. Obviously, you served as a model with what was really a groundbreaking CARS program in Sausalito Village. And so we've taken all this seriously. And there's obviously a great deal to do with all of the needs of our aging population. But to try to sort of give an umbrella to all these activities, our board has declared 2018 as the year of the older adult, really sort of kicking off a calendar of events and programs that relate to all of us and our aging challenges. But there's a couple of things that are entertaining, I think. It's not all about Alzheimer's and some of those other things that we are all afraid of as we age. But one of the things that I hope you will come check out up in our gallery space at the Board of Supervisors is an art exhibit called 80 over 80. Actually, there's two parts of this. So the 80 over 80 is at our Marin Center, and it's a collection of artwork by artists over 80. And it was really wildly overscribed. We had about 160 artists who put in artwork for us, and it's fantastic. But in the gallery outside our Board of Supervisors are photographs of residents of the county who are over 80. And it's fantastic to see these photos because if I could look that good when I'm over 80, I will be very pleased. It's just a wonderful sort of celebration of our older residents. |
| 00:31:10.25 | Unknown | THE FAMILY IS |
| 00:32:11.34 | Unknown | Our county, Marin County Parks, as part of this celebration of the Year of the Older Adult, has launched a program called Outside for All Ages, which offers guided walks and naturalist outings in county parks and open space. And I hope people will check out the Parks and Open Space website for information about those walks because they're really fun and entertaining and informative. So another initiative that I want you to be aware of is our Clean Marin Coalition. And I'm very proud of this particular effort because it came out of a group of residents, primarily in Mill Valley and Strawberry, five different folks who called my office, each separately, and said, we've really got a trash problem and I want to do something about it. And so we said, well, that's fantastic. You form a group and work it forward. And from that very modest beginning, we have an incredible collaboration now between residents, our environmental organizations, municipal and county agencies, businesses, and just everyone who wants to get engaged to try to reduce our litter problem and try to keep trash out of our waterways. As you all know, we have mandates, new mandates from the state of California about making sure that we are keeping trash out of our waterways. And this has just been a great community resident engagement to make sure that they're helping in that initiative. We're planning to have a number of volunteer cleanup groups in pretty much every county, every community in the county, including later in July in Marin City. And if you have any local businesses who are interested in becoming Clean Business Partner, they can check that out at our Clean Business Program website because that part of it, obviously, is critically important. We had great collaboration with some of the fast food businesses on the Redwood Frontage Road and Strawberry of investing in new trash cans that were bird proof and really getting their employees out to clean up and we need that in really all areas of our county. One of the other initiatives that we're doing that we launched is a campaign to raise awareness about the risk of toxins in your backyard and any of your landscape areas around your home, and this really came out of ongoing discussions that we had for about a year and a half at the county about reducing the use of glyphosate in our public spaces. And we got together a fantastic group of stakeholders, really led by our parks and open space, but to really come together and talk about how can we enhance education, because I think for most of our public jurisdictions, we're really on integrated pest management we're aware of the impact of toxins but what everybody has in their garages is not so great so we have finished the first year that was the think before you spray picture that's in the lower left left hand corner and And for year two, we're sort of branching out and looking at other landscape poisons like rodenticides and expanding into insects, too. So you can learn more about that at yardsmartmarin.org. And then, you know, how could you resist ever talking about dogs? You know, this was a campaign that I'm sure you all remember, very contentious in all of our communities, at least in Southern Marin, about the Park Service's desire to limit one's ability to walk with your dog in open space. And we had fantastic community members who were very engaged. and through email discovery efforts that they made that they called woofy leaks, discovered all sorts of documents that persuaded the Park Service to maybe back off just a little bit and allow folks to take their dogs for a walk. So, you know, I really highlight all of these because all of these initiatives are citizen activism at its best, I think really focusing on things that are important to us. So now I want to switch over to an area that I know all of you know I spend an awful lot of time working on. It's really a priority for me, and hopefully it's a priority for all of us, given the state of our world, and that's climate change and sea level rise. So I want to start off again on this theme of how important community engagement is. And you may remember, after Hurricane Sandy devastated New York City, there was a program, Rockefeller Foundation funded a program called rebuild by design. It was a challenge to get good ideas about what New York City should do to make itself more resilient. And so, you know, there's been a lot of conversation among an awful lot of folks and stakeholders around San Francisco Bay. There's a lot of awareness about the impact of sea level rise here in the Bay. And so Rockefeller Foundation sponsored another challenge here in the Bay Area called Resilient by Design. And they put design teams in nine counties around the Bay. And we were very fortunate in Marin County to get two of the teams assigned to our county. One of them went to the canal area in San Rafael. But another one, and it was sort of a last-minute, very happy surprise for all of us, was a team that was assigned to work in Marin City. And they gave a very sophisticated course on permaculture to residents of Marin City and had just extraordinary success in getting people engaged. In fact, this team is really one of the best groups at community organizing and education and engagement that I've ever seen. And I'm really hoping that this process is going to be a model for many of our communities about how we truly get our residents engaged in topics that are not on their face simple and require some learning about science. And so this was a fantastic project, and they developed at the end of it, just a couple of months, all of this was sort of on a fast cycle, what they're calling a people's plan that has some very practical ideas about what the community might do to address, to begin to address sea level rise. And they're working on getting funding, and I really hope that we're able to. We're integrating their people's plan into our flood district work plans going forward, and I'm hoping that the community will have some good examples for all of us of what simple steps we may take that are helpful for climate change and sea level rise. And then, of course, I had to give a shout out to everything you've been doing here. You know, the sea level rise event was absolutely fantastic. I thought some of the speakers were terrific, and we played the game of floods, and it was so interesting to me the mix of people who were engaged in playing the game of floods, because so often, we've played this game all over. The EPA has played the game, all sorts of state agencies have played the game, and usually people do not particularly want to talk about retreat. This group jumped right in and sort of looked at the whole menu of things that we all should be thinking about, and it was just tremendously productive. So thank you and your sustainability commission for doing a fantastic event. So we then, as I'm hoping you remember, a year ago launched what we call BayWay, which is our sea level rise vulnerability assessment along our Bay Shoreline, collaboration between the county and all of our cities and towns. We completed our vulnerability assessment, and we're really thinking ahead now to what kind of adaptation measures measures and various other steps do we need to take to be able to address our particular sea level hotspots, although that's sort of a mixed metaphor, in Marin County. But I wanted to remind you of this because an important part of this initiative for us is to provide support to the cities and towns in any way that you might need with I know the work that you're doing on sea level rise. And we're also looking at what do we need to change in terms of our planning documents, some of our Department of Public Works practices, to make sure that we are thinking forward and that steps that we take, changes that we make in our environment are actually helpful. And we're all looking at funding to do pilot projects so we can really test out some adaptation measures and see how they work. So stay tuned on that. We also have Bothine Marsh, and this is an area that we've wanted to address for a long time. It has interesting sort of sea level rise transportation, public access, environmental implications because the Mill Valley Sausalito pathway goes right through the middle. And, you know, we've repaved part of that pathway. There's tremendous public desire for us to repave all of the pathway and repair the bridges. We've been reluctant to do any of that until we were able to really have a stakeholder engagement process to talk about the future. Because anything that we do to that pathway has implications for sea level rise. And some folks have said, well, just it's easy. Raise the pathway. You'll have a have a great levy it'll be all problem solved it's a little more complicated than that and so we have now had two two workshops to really talk about the future of the marsh and we're looking at obviously a lot of the opportunities for marsh enhancement and for flood control issues, but also what should be the future of that pathway. So that's a work in progress, and I look forward to further engagement and your thoughts about all of that, because obviously the flooding at Manzanita Pajono and in this area implicates all of us. sort of taking a springboarding off of some of the scientific analysis that we had done that was a precursor to the workshops that we did on Bothine Marsh, we just recently obtained a grant from Caltrans that includes the roadways around the marsh. So hopefully that money will help us start being able to plan about how are we going to try to address the flooding that we all see at Manzanita Pahono while also planning appropriately for the marsh. So I want to step back to the regional perspective for a minute. You know, one of the other assignments that I have is to serve on the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority Governing Board. This is the agency that hands out the money that was approved by the voters in measure aa for wetlands restoration and so we've just allocated our first round of funding of 18 million dollars for projects around the bay one of them was in marin county uh up at the deer island in novato which is really sort of the first to support phase one of a tidal wetlands restoration project but what was really interesting to me and i think significant for all of us on that governing board was the range of projects that were funded it it went from everything um from the salt bay south at the South Bay Salt Ponds project at the south end of the bay, which is a huge restoration project and fascinating to tour if you've never done that, to a very, very small project on the East Bay shoreline that was a green infrastructure project. And so I'm hoping as we go forward, we're trying to use this money in ways that's impactful for communities, but also gives us experience with different kinds of projects. So, and finally, almost, I'm getting there almost, I know you'd like to hear me talk about environmental issues, and I know all of you have heard me talk about Drawdown, our Drawdown or in project, but I wanted to touch on this a little bit. As I know all of you who heard me talk about Drawdown, our Drawdown Marin project, but I wanted to touch on this a little bit. As I know all of you who are at the last MCCMC meeting heard me talk at great length, but this is really modeled on Paul Hawkins' Project Drawdown, which is probably for folks who don't do a lot of reading on climate change, is the one book I would really recommend because it's so positive in suggesting a hundred different steps that can be taken to address climate change around the world. Not all of those ideas are suitable for Marin, but many of them are. And so we took what we thought was going to be most impactful for us and launched our own Draw Down Marine campaign with Paul Hawkins' support. And so why did we want to do that? And I know nobody really needs a refresher course about greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on our environment, but I think we always, I can't look at this slide too often to remind us about the tremendous proportion of greenhouse gas emissions that transportation comprises in our county. It's just so crucial that we start taking action. And so our Drawdown Marin campaign includes, it has various working groups. We're populating these working groups as I speak, and one of them, obviously, is on transportation. And, you know, essentially what we want is each of these groups to suggest how we get to a fossil-free future as fast as we can. We also have an RFP out at the county to hire an additional staff person in our sustainability group to really be the person who will lead this effort because it's not just about the county there's a tremendous public outreach component they're the working groups with technical expertise on them and there's just everything that all of us need to do so I'm going to keep urging all of you to help us with this effort and um there will be more information i think once we're able to get our additional staff person on on uh the payroll we're really which we hope to do by early july we're really going to hit it and so there will be more information ahead i hope i encourage you all to do this at mccmc i'm going to repeat it when we launch this campaign we our board of supervisors passed a resolution sort of committing ourselves to really doing taking significant action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions i hope that your council will think about doing that as well And that's actually it. And this is a picture from the last time I was in the Sausalito Fourth of July parade. And at least one of the participants got really tired. So I thought this was a good place to end, given that the parade is coming up soon. And we'll see how everybody gets through it. So thank you for the time and the generosity in letting me talk for a long time. I'm open to any questions your comments or suggestions or good advice you may have does anyone have any questions |
| 00:47:57.39 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:47:57.62 | Unknown | THE STATE OF |
| 00:47:57.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | supervisor. |
| 00:47:58.79 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Yeah, I do. So thank you so much for being here. We really appreciate your time. One thing you didn't talk about too much is how do you think city councils in your area of Marin County can best interact with you or best be helpful in some of these countywide initiatives that you've talked about? So sort of what can you've talked about what you do for us and for your constituents, but what can we do to better coordinate with our board of supervisors and some of your programs? |
| 00:48:24.74 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:48:29.26 | Unknown | some of your. No, so I appreciate that question. And, you know, certainly on Bay Wave, we have a group of elected officials, and the executive committee is fairly focused. It's been a small group, and then we have a larger group that really invites all electives to participate. We're following that model in drawdown. And so, you know, one or more of you who would be interested in serving in that capacity on our elected officials plus others' executive committee and advisory committees, that would be tremendously helpful. Because as I said, with all of these initiatives, particularly I think with Drawdown, the public education and outreach piece is just crucially important. And I think, you know, we don't create programs that are truly helpful to our communities unless we have members of our local elected bodies helping us design those programs so that we know that it's going to resonate with your residents and also helping with the outreach. So that is a way to get engaged. I'm here to help, and I get emails all the time from residents. I have to thank all of you for not emailing me as much as other people do, but I'd encourage you to email me more. I really am here to help, and so feel free to reach out on any issue. I know the mayor and I have talked about some of the challenges with Fort Baker and the Park Service, and we've had plenty of prior conversations about the importance of getting the Vista Point Trail actually built. We've had issues where people have connected with me because I serve on BCDC, and there's local issues I can help with on that. But for all of these, whether it's trying to deal with some of our traffic and get Caltrans to collaborate in ways that are effective, I can help with all of that. I have a very good relationship with Caltrans that I've spent a lot of time fostering. And so really, I'm here to help. And do not be shy about reaching out. I know that there's a lot of issues that you focus on in your jurisdiction that are really jurisdictional specific. But there's an awful lot that we all share in terms of issues. And so let me know where you need help. Yeah. OK. |
| 00:51:01.81 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I have a question. So I do also want to acknowledge you. You are working with us on... |
| 00:51:03.62 | Unknown | Pretty bad. |
| 00:51:04.06 | Carolyn Ford | . |
| 00:51:11.70 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Anchor outs. Yeah. Having them designated as increasing their priority on the health and human services list for housing. |
| 00:51:22.03 | Unknown | Right. Thank you for teeing that up, Joan, because it's something I forgot to talk about. You know, we're like you, I'm sure, trying to make sure that most of what we do at the county is metrics-based and data-supported, so that we really have ways to measure whether what we're doing is effective. And so that perspective is one that our Director of Health and Human Services, Grant Colfax, who's a neighbor of mine here in Sausalito, feels very, very strongly about, and it's a perspective that he's really brought to the county's work on homeless issues. And so, I appreciate the desire to come up with metrics and measures that are applicable countywide. It's something that we need to do and often is very challenging when you have a county unincorporated areas that go from West Marin that have very different needs, to our more highly developed corridor, it's often a challenge to design regulations and ordinances that work for everybody. But it's a good goal. And so we are trying to come up with metrics that are applicable to sort of ranking need in our homeless community. I had a conversation, and I know that the mayor did as well, with our director of health and human services to make sure that our anchor outs resonate in those measures. Because I think, at least from my perspective as the Southern Marin supervisor, so much of the conversation about homelessness has really been San Rafael-centric. And I want to make sure that the programs that we're offering and how we are measuring the success of those programs covers the folks that we have here anchored out on the Bay who needs services of all sorts different kind of housing and mental health service and health and human services services across the board so we will be working I hope the mayor will join me in additional follow-up conversations with our director about how we can make sure that those measures fit the needs down here as well out. |
| 00:53:38.60 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And something else you've offered to help us with is our traffic backs up all the way to Spring Street on a daily basis. |
| 00:53:44.83 | Unknown | on a family basis. Yes, indeed. You know, and I'm curious about the experience down here because, you know, after the third lane on the Richmond Bridge opened, there was a collective sigh of relief in Central Marin and certainly in San Rafael and a lot of our staff of taking 20 minutes off their commute. As a Saucena resident who tries to drive north, I haven't quite had that sigh of relief. And so we obviously continue to have significant challenges, and I know that there's been, should I say hesitation, maybe blending into concern in this community about ramp metering, which is sort of our next phase of Caltrans measures to supposedly address our traffic issues. I understand the challenges here and why there's good questioning about whether ramp metering will actually have much of an impact on our traffic needs. I've spent a lot of time in recent years focusing just a little bit north on the East Blythedale 101 overpass Tiburon Boulevard, mess of traffic because that all contributed to our backups and people, you know, jumping off the freeway and going on the frontage road and backups in all directions. We've had tremendous support from Caltrans in a lane widening project that hopefully will address some of the traffic issues in that particular snarl and address some of the concerns that Tiburon and Belvedere had about that on-ramp and how ramp metering was going to affect that situation. The next conversation that I think we've had these conversations in this community a couple years ago with Caltrans about the issue of ramp metering, but I think it's time for us to go back and renew those conversations about the challenges of our on-ramp to 101. And it certainly is the case that once those ramp metering lights go in, they don't have to be turned on. And so I think we're going to want to refresh the conversation with Caltrans about our specific needs to make sure that they understand our geography. When we've had one of the first conversations with Caltrans staff Thank you. refresh the conversation with Caltrans about our specific needs to make sure that they understand our geography. When we've had one of the first conversations with Caltrans staff about the the on-ramp from Tiburon Boulevard, they didn't even realize that that on-ramp goes all the way to Carta Madera. So let's make sure that they are really well apprised and understand what our geography is is here. |
| 00:56:26.47 | Joe Burns | So that window of negotiation is still open? |
| 00:56:27.06 | Unknown | SO THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO |
| 00:56:30.66 | Unknown | Well, so we can't, as I understand, we can't stop it. And, you know, for a long time we thought that this was a project that might never happen because of lack of funding. My understanding now is that there is funding. And starting in 2019, ramp metering, the lights will go in. So they aren't in yet, and I'm sure that, you know, I know that they've been working on designs, but I think it's never too late to have a conversation about the input on designs and the conversation about Will it be actually impactful for us if the lights are triggered or not? I think it's probably unrealistic to think that we could stop ramp metering for our on-ramps. I think that ship has sailed, and we certainly made a run at that. But there's still space for conversation about how will that system actually work and what will help us. And part of that, frankly, is traffic surveys. And, you know the conversations with Caltrans, they said, oh, we will do an analysis of traffic after the ramp metering lights have gone in and the program has started. And I think many of us said, well, how will that be helpful if we don't have the data up front? And so that's what really got Transportation Authority of Marin to start doing more fulsome traffic analysis that hopefully will help inform Caltrans in our conversation. Thank you. |
| 00:58:02.29 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And then something that affects both Sausalito and the county of Marin is our school system. Yes, indeed. So we don't have any jurisdiction over the school system, and yet the efficacy of the school system has huge ramifications for all of our residents whom it is our responsibility to serve. And so I think we would really appreciate your collaboration with us because it affects, you know, it's Marin City students and Sausalito students together who suffer when there's not effective management. |
| 00:58:30.94 | Unknown | I'm too bad. about. |
| 00:58:33.36 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:58:39.30 | Unknown | Absolutely, and I'm happy to help with that. I mean, I don't have jurisdiction either, even though we adopted education as one of our four E's and our priorities. It was really aspirational rather than practical. But this is a situation that obviously concerns me greatly for the reasons that you said, having Sausalito and Marin City in my district and the impacts in both communities being very critical and Mill Valley of course I mean all of this I mean the conversations about different possible alternatives and how that school district might be managed affects all three of our communities and I frankly I've said this to folks and it's probably probably too blunt a statement, but I wish the conversation were different. There have been challenges in the Marin City schools for a very long time, as we know. and I feel personally as long as we keep focusing the conversation on what's wrong with the schools and how are we going to fix it, we're really missing the larger picture of what do we do to support the families whose children are not succeeding in school. And we all talk about wraparound services as a county. We've certainly made a lot of efforts to make sure that we are providing better services, but we have not, I don't think, made the kind of progress and had the kind of impact and really shifted the conversation of what it needs to be. So that's my personal frustration with the conversation as it is, but I'm happy to help in any way that I can. I've had early meetings with Mary Jane Burke, sort of flagging for her my concerns about the situation, and I'm happy to help in any way to continue those conversations. |
| 00:58:44.66 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Right. |
| 01:00:37.15 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:00:37.17 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:00:37.78 | Unknown | Thank you. You're welcome. |
| 01:00:39.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, any other questions from us? All right, I'm gonna open it up to public comment. |
| 01:00:48.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | especially. I still do. |
| 01:00:54.97 | Unknown | Thank you. Sorry, I haven't seen David Lay in ages. |
| 01:00:58.72 | Unknown | I know. |
| 01:00:59.04 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 01:00:59.17 | Unknown | I've seen David Lee. |
| 01:00:59.97 | Unknown | . |
| 01:01:03.32 | David Lay | Yeah, my name is David Lay, I live in the harbor. I'm going to punch up a couple of things that Kate said. She's heard these before. She didn't like it, but she heard me for it. Um... If you go to the Civic Center, where she works. The parking lot is full all the time. And we have a bus system around here. and. You people don't take the bus. She doesn't take the bus, and most of the people that work there don't take the bus. And most of the people who work for all of our government don't take the bus. I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO I used to have two cars, a car and a truck actually. And I got rid of them. About 92. I've been voyaging on my boat. I've been to the oil spill in Alaska, and I decided I wasn't going to drive anymore. In some years, I get by without ever getting in a car by persuading other people, let's go to San Francisco and go out to dinner. And why don't we take the bus? And sometimes it's a good experience. But a lot of times it's bad, and I know why, in talking to the people that Run the... run the bus system. that CAIT oversees. is like talking to a post. And that's because none of you And none of those people ever take the bus. and there's a lot of other things she said along that line, that you kind of slide over, but if you took the bus, and I don't mean once a week, I mean all the time, so we get down to a goal. one car per household. and that doesn't exist here. because you have too much money. Okay, the other thing, anchor outs. We've got a couple of people that consider us prey. She ran a meeting one time And I wore a sign on my chest, I'm not prey. Well, there's still a couple of people in my neighborhood that have been involved with it for a long time. One of them doesn't even live in Sausalito. They are. encouraging, people from homeless people to come and live in Sausalito because then they can prey on them. And. Nothing's been done about that. and that is not gonna stop until we do something about it. and everybody knows it, you're shaking your head, who were still praying. And you all, by reference. I also pray because of that. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:03:48.58 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Bye. |
| 01:03:48.72 | David Lay | I think government in South Salido is great, and I think government in the county is great. |
| 01:03:49.07 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | On the podium. |
| 01:03:53.71 | David Lay | You know that and she knows that too. Thank you very much. Before you leave the podium, |
| 01:03:58.84 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:03:58.89 | David Lay | Thank you. |
| 01:03:58.93 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. Thank you. What would you have us do? to stop the homeless from being preyed upon. |
| 01:04:06.82 | David Lay | I've done a lot of writing on those things, writing on things from a bike path that runs from the bridge across the DGN array, because there's a great route to do it. I got maps to lay that down. All the way to the bus system, I wrote and wrote and wrote, and nothing happened. Um, to lots of other things. It's too long to go into here, and it's things to take up one at a time. And every once in a while I get my foot in, stir the pot, and I run up against a stone wall Go somewhere else. |
| 01:04:40.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:04:41.77 | David Lay | but, That's what we need. |
| 01:04:43.86 | Unknown | Thanks. I wonder if I could diverge from practice and respond a little bit. Because on the transit piece of it, and it really goes back to my theme about the importance of community engagement and grassroots activism. And I gave the example of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Route 92, that because of the good activism of two members of this council and other members of our community. The proposal by the Bridge District had been to get rid of that route, and we have saved it. And I'm hoping that the results there on that route will be increased ridership. And as I was reminded of what happened a couple probably last year, on Route 8 in Tiburon. And it was a similar circumstance where staff at the Golden Gate Bridge wanted to get rid of that route because there wasn't sufficient ridership. And the folks who wrote the bus came in and said, no, we actually have all of this ridership. We then had the staff do an analysis of how many people were getting on the bus at different stops. And we issued a challenge to the riders to get out and increase the ridership, and the impact was extraordinary. And so a lot of this, to get more people on the bus, it really is that kind of activism by riders on the bus to make sure people know about the opportunity to get the ridership up. As all of you know, as transit agents, we've got to balance our budget and we count how many people ride the bus and what our subsidy is. And the best way to help us is to help us get more people on the bus. And so David is one of our best sources of input on where the schedule has gone awry on the buses not matching up with each other, and it's that kind of really individual input that makes a big difference. you |
| 01:06:40.70 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Other public comment? All right, I'm going to close public comment and bring it back up here for comment. |
| 01:06:49.04 | Jill Hoffman | So just kind of just add on to that last thing and to let Mr. Lee know I do take the bus every day. So that's one issue. But also for everyone's information, the Sustainability Commission did go through a priority setting process a month or so ago. And one of the issues that they do want to prioritize is transportation and public transportation, including outreach to residents and employees in Sausalito to encourage more ridership on public transportation. So that's something the Sustainability Commission will be taking up. over the next year. |
| 01:07:29.14 | Joe Burns | I'll piggyback on that and say first, thank you for coming tonight and your presentation. And we heard a lot and I'll be calling you. On the ridership, one of the things we learned on 92 was the opportunity and the responsibility for more public outreach for all the parties involved. And we're going to take that on as well. I'm glad you brought it up at this portion. We're going to bring it up again towards the end of the meeting but just to remember to remind our residents and as we learned our employees and employers through the chambers through all sorts of our points of information to take public transportation so thank you for that reminder |
| 01:07:59.29 | Unknown | Right. |
| 01:08:07.56 | Unknown | Thank you. Thanks for having me. |
| 01:08:11.04 | Carolyn Ford | Yeah, thanks for coming. It was great to see you. Great to have you here, of course. I used to commute every day on the bus or the ferry. It was a delight. So much easier to get into downtown than driving a car. And we just went down to a one-car family last week. So we'll see how that goes in our house. I think it would go good. I'm excited, actually. |
| 01:08:30.95 | Unknown | actually. |
| 01:08:34.66 | Ray Withey | Thanks for coming. The issue of transportation is, as Supervisor Sears knows, I sit on TAM now with her and everybody else who's interested in transportation and have been a lone voice at trying to warn about the impacts of ramp metering in Sausalito because I mean, it's going to be a disaster from every angle. Every angle. |
| 01:09:10.17 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:09:13.09 | Ray Withey | not only I mean where it's perhaps most needed for congestion it's not going to work because down at the south the north end of town The reason why the congestion is because you've got to lanes for lanes trying to do this. causing a backup all the way to Spencer. You're then going to put a ramp meter in at Spencer, and you're going to block all the streets that the Golden Gate Bridge District and Marin Transit buses, together with the Marin Airport, are stopped at. So you're going to create a backup there. It's a really clever plan. And then when they realize that it's not going to work, they're going to shut everything down, and we're going to have ramp meters at both exits that are never going to be lit and are going to become the poster, the photograph for how the state wastes transportation dollars. That's what's going to happen. |
| 01:10:10.21 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:10:14.31 | Ray Withey | We're all trying to warn Caltrans and they're not listening. But anyway, notwithstanding that, thanks for all your work on transportation and all the other stuff you did. You didn't mention Marine Clean Energy. You've done so much there. |
| 01:10:26.85 | Unknown | No I didn't. I figured you were on top of that and advised everybody about it. |
| 01:10:27.66 | Ray Withey | I figured you would. done so much there, so thank you very much for that. |
| 01:10:34.58 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So I'll echo the voices of my fellow council members in thanking you for coming. We would like you to come see us at least once a year going forward. Thank you for the effort of you and your staff in providing us a really comprehensive report about what you do. And I do have a couple of comments. You said feedback is welcome. So on the sea level rise issue, one of the challenges we're having, and thank you for sharing your county sea level rise expert with our general plan advisory committee that's very helpful but one of the challenges our general plan advisory committee is facing is the wide ranging metrics publicly available regarding sea level rise and there's right now a debate on our committee about which levels do we rely upon. So I'm not looking for you to answer that today. But I think continued county leadership about what, you know, we don't wanna do, we don't wanna panic and move everybody up on the hill and take away all shorefront living. |
| 01:11:36.07 | Unknown | Right. |
| 01:11:36.83 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | But at the same time, we don't want to build in wetlands that are going to be underwater in 10 years. And it's really challenging today to predict where will we be in 10 years and 20 years. Exactly right. Particularly with the evolving climate change, which has the impact on sea level rise. So we look forward to your continued leadership on that. |
| 01:11:48.86 | Unknown | Exactly right. |
| 01:11:54.19 | Unknown | Absolutely. THE WEAVY. |
| 01:11:56.59 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:11:59.26 | Unknown | Yeah, and let me just say on that, I'm not sure whether Chris Chu has been coming down |
| 01:11:59.34 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:12:05.23 | Unknown | to provide input. You know, this was an important conversation when we were launching BayWave, and really the first conversation in-house was what metric do we use because there are so many out there. And so I know Chris Chu would be happy to come down and talk about that thought process that underlines all the data that you see in the BayWave Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment that I'm sure you're looking to for some of your planning advice. and so the difference in in the sea level rise, the Bay Wave Sea Level Rise vulnerability assessment that I'm sure you're looking to for some of your planning advice. And so the different scenarios there, I mean, I think this is a conversation that has no... specific answer, right? I mean, this is the challenge of the phenomenon because things are changing, are moving so much more quickly. And so this is a challenge for all of us. And as we are now thinking about adaptation measures, it's very much in the forefront of all of our minds and our staff's minds about how do we think forward so that we are making suggestions of adaptation measures that might be appropriate for us to adopt, but making sure that anything we do do does not create an impediment for the augmentation that we know we're going to have to make going forward. And not get ourselves too stuck on the idea of trying to figure out exactly what's going to happen by when, but make sure that we have, we've created an evolving improvement plan for ourselves. Easier said than done, but this is a conversation that we all do need to help each other with. So, thank you. |
| 01:13:41.13 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And the other thing that I'll close with is you also do serve on Richardson Bay Regional Agency. And the city of Sausalito withdrew from RBRA, but that doesn't mean we aren't still interested in collaborating with RBRA. And I think we really are counting on your leadership and that of the other members of RBRA to identify and move forward with a collaborative approach to addressing homelessness on the waters. As David accurately points out, the number of anchor outs is continuing to grow. And so it's going in the wrong direction. And the only way we will turn the tide is to start collaborating together on a unified enforcement strategy. Because if we're doing one thing and our BR is doing something different, then we're working at cross purposes. |
| 01:13:46.82 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:13:47.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:13:47.47 | Unknown | I do. |
| 01:14:33.36 | Unknown | Absolutely. And I think communication and collaboration are two most important words that start with C in this context. And particularly from my perspective in the county, making sure that the communication and the collaboration between our county sheriff and Sausalito PD is as good as it can be and as seamless as it can be. And definitely that goes for RBRA as well. We need to all be talking together and working together and trying to figure out what the appropriate future is to address these issues that we are all familiar with. Great, so thank you very much for indulging me in so much time, I appreciate it. |
| 01:15:08.42 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm not. Again, thanks to you and your staff. Thank you. |
| 01:15:13.16 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 01:15:19.12 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Alright folks, next on our agenda is Item 5B, the community survey results, reducing the risks from wildland fire and we have Chief Tubbs here. |
| 01:15:31.02 | Unknown | technical difficulties, stand by. |
| 01:15:42.27 | Unknown | I tried to back out of her presentation. I tried to back out of her presentation. |
| 01:15:44.27 | Unknown | I tried to back out for President Trump. |
| 01:15:48.82 | Jill Hoffman | I know I have a bar in here somewhere. Thank you. |
| 01:15:51.93 | Unknown | Thank you. They're curiously strong. I'm scared to check them down. |
| 01:15:57.46 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:16:06.05 | Lily | Let me do this. Let me run it from the computer and I'll just advance. |
| 01:16:08.92 | Unknown | Okay. Okay, so I'll just give you a signal. |
| 01:16:19.25 | Jill Hoffman | What are you leaving? |
| 01:16:23.31 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:16:23.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:16:29.69 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 01:16:33.71 | Unknown | We certainly could. I think she's close here. |
| 01:16:38.33 | Jill Hoffman | Sorry. I'm not going to be No worries. Then I'm going to have this for dessert. |
| 01:16:47.06 | Unknown | All right, we ready? |
| 01:16:47.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:16:49.44 | Unknown | Well, good evening, Council. Thank you for the opportunity to come speak to you tonight about our wild land survey that we recently conducted. Thanks, Lily. Before I do, if the Council indulged me just for a minute, there's a few folks that I would like to thank. Not long after the fires in the North Bay, the mayor and the city manager were part of a group that went up to that area and toured Fountain Grove Coffee Park and a number of those areas. And this survey is really born out of that experience, sort of looking at what were the lessons learned up there, what can we draw from that, what can we bring back to our own community. I'd also like to acknowledge and thank Abbott Chambers for handling the mechanism or the mechanics of this survey. He did a lot of work for us on that and very, very grateful for that. So by way of background, Last year's North Bay fires and recent events, certainly in the Sausalito, including the fire up off of the 101, have been a stark reminder of the threat that we face in this area from wildland fire. So we were last before the council on April 3rd proposing a planned community survey and asking the community about their concerns about the threat and some potential strategies. So tonight I'm here to report the findings of that survey and offer our analysis and our recommendations. So the survey questions are designed to sort of assess the level of concern in our community. That's one of the things that we wanted to get a perspective on. And to gauge sort of their interest in some of the proven strategies out there that we know work in other communities. But I want to emphasize for a moment that this is a really high level study and this will make a little bit more sense as I get into discussing the results. So when we look at this chart, the survey results, there's a couple of things that I wanna point out initially, and then we'll get into a little bit more depth in the analysis. So first of all, we received 200 responses from the community, which is about a 2% response for the population. And it revealed, if you note on the bar on the left, a very high level of concern about the threat. As a matter of fact, it's about 92.5% of the respondents indicated a concern. And over 76% of those folks feel that we should be doing more to reduce the risk from wildland threat. It also revealed varying support, as you'll see on the three far right, as highlighted some very broad strategies, varying levels of support for those risk reduction strategies. As a matter of fact, from left to right, 63%, 73%, and 90.5%. Thank you. What I want to call your attention to though, what really jumped out at me, were the number of responses that were either ambivalent or unsure. And I'll get into talking a little bit about what we drew out of that, but for me, it was actually one of the more significant findings in the study. The other thing that we asked the community was about with regards to outreach and education. So we know that a big part of reducing risk is those things that we can do to teach people to avoid the risk in the first place. So awareness, education, those kinds of things. And certainly since the North Bay fires, we've been engaged a lot more in outreach. We did a community outreach in Sausalito, we did one in Tam Valley, we've done one in Strawberry. And these are the areas that we have focused on and what we've heard from the community are their priorities. So notifications as an example is a real big concern about how will I be notified of an event? And so there is certainly that's been reinforced from, the response that we got from folks. So our analysis, again, as I said, clearly there is a high level of concern in the community and they think we should be doing more But I think what the survey suggests to me, and again, I'll go back to sort of the ambivalent and the unsure responses, is that we have some work to do in creating better awareness and more education. So why did those folks say, I'm unsure about some of the questions we asked? So if we asked, for example, would you support a vegetation ordinance? Well, I'm not sure. So we have some thoughts about that. 17.4% were unsure if we should do more to reduce the risk. I found that rather perplexing. But what it tells me is maybe we're not doing a good job about telling people what the risks are and more importantly, why they're at risk. So we think there's an educational opportunity there. Between about 14.5% and 17% were unsure about implementing the different ordinances or those strategies. But here we felt like, you know, those questions, again, I'll come back to the high level, were so broad, in fairness to the respondents, not sure that they could accurately answer that without knowing exactly what we were talking about. So when we talk about an ordinance about vegetation, what does that mean? Is there an enforcement component to that? Does it have a retroactive element to it or is it only proactive? So we think there is more information for us and more interaction with the community to be had. So what are our recommendations? Very simply, obviously, the first one is that we want you to receive the report tonight. We wanted to come back as part of what we talked about on April 3rd and let you know what we found out. And so tonight, that's part of our presentation. Again, probably the highest response of support and strategies we got are chipper days. And one of the things that we believe that we should be doing more is seeking additional funding opportunities That's a proven strategy has very broad support in the community And while we access the grants that are available, we don't think that's the only funding source for us We think there may be some opportunities around fundraising. There may be opportunities out of maintenance and operation budgets those kinds of things we think we could do some more exploration on that to see what's available the grant market again is is both drying up and very very competitive however the district regularly applies for Cal Fire grants PG&E grants so on and so forth We also, to the question of ordinances, feel that we should do a lot more research on that. What are those options? What are other communities doing that they're finding are successful? What are they finding that are supportive in their community? And what are they finding that is not supportive, and why? So we believe that we have some work to do there. And we would like to be able to come back to the council and report on those findings with their support Um, We also believe that we should do more about increasing opportunities for the community to learn about the risk, as I talked about before. We think this is both a partnership for us, as I think there's some opportunities for city staff to engage that in some of the communities that they're involved with. But how they can take steps to take individual and as a community things that they can do to reduce those risks. And so that's really sort of the high level returns on our survey. And I guess I'd really like to open it up for questions from the council and hear your feedback. |
| 01:24:39.19 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'll start with a question that I heard from a resident when this item showed up on our agenda, which is one of the, so a couple of questions. One is, residents, as you and I have discussed before, there's a tension between picturesque landscaping and eliminating fire fuel. And so. Is there an opportunity to educate residents about pyrophytic versus pyroresistant, if you will, vegetation? And also how to create landscaping vistas that are appealing and yet not dangerous. |
| 01:25:26.74 | Unknown | Thank you for the question and yes, the short answer to your question is yes, absolutely. I think again, I'll refer back to my comment a moment ago where I think there's opportunity both for the district and the city to engage in that. So certainly through our building department and interactions that they have with that community, I think there are opportunities to engage in those kinds of educational and awareness venues. I think that there is a lot of, when we do these community outreach meetings, and we talk about pyrophytic and non-pyrophytic plants, the first look we generally get is the glazed eye. What is a pyrophytic or a non-pyrophytic plant? Again, really great indicators to us that teaching our community about what are the elements that contribute to the risk, so fuel load, weather conditions, those kinds of things, where we can, I guess, educate about there are certain things that we don't have control over, weather, for example, but there are things that we do that can help lower that level of risk. And that's only one element, as you and I both know, that there are elements that go beyond that. Well, if all of those things that we do, both from an education and an engineering standpoint, fail, and we have to then intervene in some way, whether that's evacuation and or responses from the fire department, what's the best way and what's the role of the citizens and how do we do that effectively? |
| 01:26:53.58 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | As a follow-on, many of our residents are aware of the pyrophytic nature of eucalyptus trees, and yet they are bountiful here in Sausalito, and cutting them down does not immediately destroy the root ball, which lasts quite a bit longer. So one resident asked, is there grant funding to abate eucalyptus trees? and how does one abate the eucalyptus tree and given the root ball, put something else in its place in order to prevent the hillside erosion? |
| 01:27:29.86 | Unknown | Those are some of the very conversations we're having in the fire service. So there are no grants that are dedicated to eucalyptus eradication. And certainly there is a great deal of concern that we don't want to remove one problem but create a whole other stream of problems. So especially on hillsides where vegetation plays a major role in putting off slides and things like that. I think it's an answer that we in the fire service sort of continue to sort of work through on a case-by-case basis where grant funds are available and moving a eucalyptus tree or replacing with something else makes some sense. We do that, but each of those has to be taken on by a case-by-case basis, I think. |
| 01:28:14.61 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So is that something residents can reach out to the fire department for assistance with? |
| 01:28:18.76 | Unknown | Yeah, and we actually pretty regularly get phone calls about that. A lot of times they come across as, it's my neighbor, not what I want to do for my property, and can you intervene on my behalf because I don't want them to know. But, yes, a lot of times we'll go out to those homes and we'll meet with the homeowner and walk them through defensible space and talk about what are some of the things that they can do and what are the potential cost implications to those but where we can remove eucalyptus and all of those other pyrophytic type materials we definitely try and push in that direction. |
| 01:28:52.75 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:28:52.77 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. Other questions of the chief? Jill. Speaking of neighbors, so we're surrounded by a national park on three sides or four sides depending on how you. Not three, not four, because, you know, water. But anyway, and so what, if anything, can, you know, residents who live right up next in the city, right up next against the Park Service do to create a defensible space in that area? Did your survey address that at all? And if not, what are your thoughts on that? |
| 01:29:06.40 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:29:27.09 | Unknown | No, the survey didn't specifically address that. Obviously, that's been an element of dialogue in this area for quite some time, formally and informally. We have a very good relationship with the folks who manage the GGNRA. And we work with them when we identify areas that we think that they need to intervene on their side in their jurisdiction. Clearly, we have no jurisdiction to mandate that, and the federal government seems to be very resistant to the locals telling them what to do. But we try to work to find opportunities where it's mutually beneficial. They don't want to see the park land burned down. It's the most visited park in the United States. But what we try to do where we have influence and we can direct some control, especially with the homeowners, is make sure that on their side of the property line that they're doing everything they can to create a defensible zone. If they have threats that are on the other side, the GGNRA, our experience so far has been that they've been very receptive to try and resolve that. Some of that is driven by what funding is available, but they have not been resistant to either us or the individual citizen reaching out to them. |
| 01:30:43.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Other questions of the Chief? That was my question. |
| 01:30:46.49 | Joe Burns | I just had a quick clarification on the around how quick but on the vegetation ordinance I know you addressed some of it in your presentation when I read in the staff report I was just a bit confused on what the residents or what the respondents might have had access to as far as what a vegetation ordinance looks like you kind of answered that but and that you will come back with more information but just really quickly what would a vegetation ordinance are we talking like a point of sale style ordinance? |
| 01:31:11.56 | Unknown | So typically what we're talking about, what's often referred to one option is what's called a WUI ordinance, a wildland urban interface ordinance. And there are varying variations of that. So if we think about that as sort of your ultimate tool, there can be different levels that are not collectively a WUI, but you can sort of get to that point. But they involve sort of two primary areas. areas is around the plant material, and then the other is around construction materials and construction sort of mechanisms, how things are put together. So when we talk about on the vegetation side, typically there's an enforcement aspect to that. So for example, the city of San Rafael a number of years ago banned junipers. And so if you had junipers, you had to remove them and replace them with non-pyrophytic plantings. That's sort of, again, all the way up at that hard ultimate line. But there are communities that take different approaches where they say, well, we're not going to so much enforce as much as we want to create awareness in the community and become very aggressive about teaching people about, hey, these plants are probably better than those plants. And as the mayor mentioned earlier, ways in which you can design your yard that are still very, very attractive, but they reduce the level of risk because of the planning material. So there's really a number of options, I guess, available, a menu, a suite of options available, which, again, I think was reflected in this survey as people are, well, what are you talking about? I don't know what a vegetation ordinance might look like. |
| 01:32:54.74 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, if there are no further questions up here, I'll open it up for public comment. Yes, David. |
| 01:33:07.65 | David Lay | I think we're trying to go after this 500-yard hole with a putter. A bureaucratic approach isn't gonna do diddly. If you all will get in a launch or one of the cruise boats here and go out on the harbor, right up and down the channel, you'll get a view of the problem. And there's a route for a fire to take from Nevada right up across the hill up along the highway and back down to old town and burn the whole damn thing down all the houses too And The trees are in the park and pushing property lines back a little bit with clearing the ground isn't going to solve a eucalyptus problem. You know the leaves just fly while they're burning. And it's awful. If you've been up to the place The place in Santa Rosa, I went there just before and just after, and it's horrifying. And the flames we saw across the bay here years ago. I was here then. It was one of my stops on the way through, I think, before I moved here. and the whole ridge was burning and that's here. Thank you. What we need for that to happen is a car accident at Nevada after a week of northers. And high pressure, which is the cause of the northers, is the thing that's going to be happening over the Central Valley more and that pushes the wind right down through Karkina Strait over this shallow spot and right at us, 50 knots. 100 degrees. what we really need to do is take all those trees down. Now, if you walk down the end of B Street, right at the crossroad right here, right by the basketball court and look up the hill, THE COUNTRY. There's two eucalyptus trees just about right at the view of the street, right up there, sticking up there like brooms. Somebody's cut all the lower limbs off, and those trees really split off limbs like there's nothing to them. Um, I'll finish this. And. Somebody needs to tell those neighbors that that tree is going to fall down, it's going to blow down, because if you look a little farther away, you're going to see that it has clear air right from the southerly. And it's just going to blow that tree right over and kill somebody in the house, probably more than one. Um, somebody's gotta take a little gumption and go and talk to your neighbors, they're your neighbors, and talked to him and said, you gotta cut those two trees down, there's two of them. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yeah. |
| 01:36:12.16 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | it. |
| 01:36:17.96 | Unknown | I just wanted to take an opportunity as your city librarian to invite everyone to a program that we're having Thursday night here in the council chambers. Deputy Fire Marshal Fred Hilliard will be here presenting a defensible space workshop. So that's going to be an opportunity for residents of Saucelita's homeowners to learn how to create defensible space around their homes. And I'm sure that Fred will be able to answer other questions about types of plants and other things like that. So please join us Thursday here in the council chambers at 7 o'clock. |
| 01:36:47.85 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. And were you here in the room to hear the acknowledgement of you by the chief? Yes, he thanked you for your help with the survey. Couldn't have done it without you. All right, any other public comment? I'LL CLOSE IT. To close public comment, bring it back up here for comment by council members. |
| 01:37:09.74 | Jill Hoffman | Sure. Well, thank you to the chief. Thank you for being here and thanks for this work. This is obviously an incredibly important issue. I was going to mention this later during our kind of council member updates, but it's more, I think, appropriate at this time. So Mayor Cox had appointed me to the MCCMC Committee on Disaster Preparedness, and I attended my first meeting of that last night. And, you know, I think there will be some good collaboration that comes out of the various cities, you know, in cooperation with fire districts and others. Two of the things that we are going to focus on are best practices with both local ordinances, and then also something I think that's really important is best practices with neighborhood organizing. I mean, because there's only so much that you all can do or that we as city council members can do, but when there's an emergency, Really, it's your neighborhood connections and, you know, your organizing ability, who you know. you know, what kind of signage you have on your doors, and that kind of thing that's going to, you know, really help as well. So those are the two areas that this particular committee is going to try to focus on. What are the best practices? And there's already some great examples, including from Sausalito and other communities at Marin. I'm looking forward to that, and hopefully this fall we'll have some conclusions. |
| 01:38:43.66 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:38:43.70 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:38:43.78 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:38:44.08 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:38:44.12 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:38:45.57 | Joe Burns | I'll just say thank you, and we keep getting these great little reminders, and I feel like it's... it's a benefit to us that we have these little reminders that haven't turned into major occurrences, from both Spencer and now Princess Street, the Lake County fire this early in the season, you know, these things that, We're dodging bullets, but we have to use these opportunities to remember to talk to our community. So glad you're here tonight. I'm glad that we're working on this. And regardless of my last name, I'm not a. |
| 01:39:24.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:39:24.65 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So I will echo the comments of my fellow council members. Thank you for being here. Thank you for your leadership in taking leaders from the various cities and really capitalizing on the opportunity presented by the Coffee Road and the Santa Rosa Fires as a learning opportunity and also capitalizing on the heightened community interest to reach out with this survey now and to start to put in place now some of the things that residents can do to reduce risk and better plan and protect themselves in the event of an issue. Thank you also. So the chief is going to escort Mayor Aya from Sakaide, Japan, who also chairs Sakaide's Disaster Preparedness Department on a tour of the Santa Rosa fire paths and also the hopefully we can perhaps stop at the disaster preparedness center in San Rafael which was mentioned to us at the EOC so thank you for making yourself available for that as well I really think outreach from the local level all over is important Okay. All right, we're going to next invite our Public Works Division Manager up for a presentation on the award of the Dunphy Park Improvement Project. General Engineering Construction contract. |
| 01:41:10.86 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you, Madam Mayor. Jonathan Goldman, your public works director and city engineer. I'm going to take this and, with the clerk's permission, ask her to start the presentation, because this laptop is rebooting. It's actually a momentous occasion in my opinion, and it's kind of a complex Thank you a complex situation, but I but a very simple recommendation for council. Fundamentally, we're recommending that council award a construction contract for the initial phase of construction at Dunphy Park this evening doing so is consistent with staff's efforts and I know the Council's intent to continue to deliver parks capital improvements consistent with the city's strategic plan and the budget And again, our Recommendation on the front end, as stated here on the slide, these slides I just prepared this afternoon. So they, I understand, got posted as late mail not too long after I finished it. So I apologize for these not being out in the packet. There are a couple of gems, if you will, of information in the PowerPoint that aren't in the staff report and I will highlight at least one of them and you're welcome to exclaim loudly when you get to it if I haven't already described it as a highlight. Sorry, so the recommend act, the resolution, the draft resolution that's in your packet is fairly complicated because it involves a sequence of uh, of decisions of, um, resolutions on the council's part. The first of those, as I said, award a contract for construction of the base general engineering scope of the project for which we received and opened bids. Directing staff to issue notice of award and then amending two existing contracts, one with Garcia and Associates who are our cultural resource consultants in helping us with the Section 106 National Historic Preservation act consultation through the corps of engineers and the permitting process and then amending our existing contract with the principal design team a very minor budget augmentation at this point and much less than they requested but i think a reasonable step for us to ask council to take to keep the project moving forward, given the two prior steps. And then finally, directing staff to continue to diligently work through the other details of making sure that the rest of the project is delivered within the project budget that's proposed in the staff report. One of those issues, I know that we have representatives from, or a representative from Galilee Harbor here this evening. As you may recall, part of our project involves construction on Galilee's property. Galilee is delighted to have us do that and give us money as long as they end up with a parking lot as part of the deal. But there is still a contract to be negotiated, so that's the last of those recommendations. Just this is kind of a reminder of where we were in our last episode. |
| 01:44:48.65 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm going to stop you, do we have a copy of this presentation on the dais? |
| 01:44:53.68 | Jonathon Goldman | not a paper copy. No. |
| 01:44:56.06 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, because the resolution you're seeking is not fully enunciated in the staff report. |
| 01:45:02.08 | Jonathon Goldman | It should be fully enunciated in the resolution. |
| 01:45:03.94 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | in the resolution. If you go, oh, in the resolution, okay. But if you go back one slide. |
| 01:45:07.35 | Jonathon Goldman | Yeah. |
| 01:45:09.02 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | that directing staff, Thank you. |
| 01:45:10.59 | Jonathon Goldman | Yes. |
| 01:45:10.66 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. is not in the Staff report, it's probably in the resolution. Okay. |
| 01:45:16.65 | Jonathon Goldman | If there's any of this missing when we get to the end, feel free to let me know and I'll make sure you get anything you need, especially if you're supporting staff's recommendations. |
| 01:45:28.17 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, well, and in the future, it would be helpful to have, if it's not in our staff report, it would be helpful to have this on the dais. |
| 01:45:37.10 | Jonathon Goldman | Absolutely. So, again, as council and the community may recall, we rejected bids on this project some time ago. The design team, including city staff, did a fair amount of work to value engineer the project and try and get it to a place where it was deliverable in the sense that with adequate funds available and a reasonable plan for going forward, that we could return to City Council and seek your approval to continue moving forward. That general engineering scope was described in general terms the last time we met on this topic. The pre-engineered restroom and trash enclosure buildings under California multiple award schedule contract are bid exempt. We are not required to acquire them by the same |
| 01:45:57.42 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:46:35.18 | Jonathon Goldman | procurement process that we would if we prepare plans and specifications and things like that. And then because general engineering contractors don't normally do landscape contracting kinds of work, the value engineering process resulted in us kind of separating that and then initiating a negotiations or conversation with Conservation Corps North Bay with the contemplation that the city would purchase plant materials and figure out how to get that piece of the project delivered separately. The bids that we opened May 22nd, the low bidder was Integrate Construction Services. They are a kind of a a project management construction service company. One of their principal subcontractors proposed is Brenneman Construction out of Walnut Creek, who you may recall we're very familiar with their work. They ended up being the low bidder on a significant number of the accessibility, barrier to accessibility removal projects that we've done over the last several years. They have a high quality work ethic and have been a pleasure to deal with from staff's perspective. So we're encouraged that they're such a significant member of Integra's construction services team. In addition, we broke the project into a base bid, a base general engineering scope, and identified two additive alternatives, and there's a graphic that shows some of that. It's at the end of the presentation, but it's maybe the first or second attachment to your staff report. But the base bid amount, $2.175 million. Their pricing on the additive alternates, number one, $285,000, and then the installation of the light poles and light fixtures of the light poles and light fixtures at the bocce courts was another additive alternate item. They gave us a price for that, so their total bid was $2.545 million, but their base bid amount, which is what we're recommending that council award, is the $2.175 million. |
| 01:48:44.97 | Jill Hoffman | Can I just ask a question on that? So can you go back? Yeah. So when will the decision come about these alternative one and two, about whether we can add those. |
| 01:48:58.08 | Jonathon Goldman | Did I |
| 01:48:58.50 | Jill Hoffman | So it's not part of our approval tonight. Is that correct? |
| 01:49:01.64 | Jonathon Goldman | It's not what we're recommending that council approve tonight, no. And I believe that council has the, that the city has the right as the owner of the project to, for example, if we award the base contract, to ask the contractor that. And the way I would frame that question, the question that you just asked is, when is our buy or die date for triggering these additive alternates? |
| 01:49:31.29 | Unknown | That's my question. |
| 01:49:31.63 | Jonathon Goldman | If they say it's tomorrow, then at these prices I would say we're not going to have you do that work. If there's flexibility in their schedule and the opportunity, and very frankly the opportunity to see if we can negotiate some differences in prices, frankly the aggregate paving amount doesn't make sense to me from an individual context. But that's a subject to negotiation once we're under contract for the base bid amount. |
| 01:50:06.80 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, and you don't have the restroom here, but that is also not part of the base bid, correct? That's a separate purchase? |
| 01:50:14.22 | Jonathon Goldman | That's correct. Separate. Yes, and does not involve this contractor at all. |
| 01:50:17.97 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 01:50:21.76 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, and is that part of staff's recommendation for tonight or not? |
| 01:50:26.19 | Jonathon Goldman | I'll get to that. Staff is recommending, again, the umbrella that we tried to work under here is a firm project budget. From this point forward, how are we going to deliver this park project for, on the order of $2.6 million? And staff... |
| 01:50:27.81 | Jill Hoffman | Jeff. |
| 01:50:44.44 | Jonathon Goldman | has put together a set of recommendations that include the restrooms and the trash enclosure and the dollar amounts in a subsequent table. But we are not asking Council and don't recommend that Council decide to make that purchase tonight. We've got it in the overall project budget along with a number of other, in fact here are all the additional project delivery costs that were identified in the staff report. that in addition to the base bid amount, take us to the $2.6 million. So there are, draw attention to the footnote here, there are The basis for and assumptions that go into a number of these dollar amounts are in table two, the footnotes to table two in the staff report. The additional permitting costs that I alluded to in the form of Garcia and Associates contract amendment were estimated at $20,000. I have requested a proposal from them for additional services because their original scope did not include the level of effort that is going to be necessary for Section 106 consultation with Federated Indians of Great and Rancheria. In addition, we're asking for another $10,000 for the principal design team for services during construction, at least at this point. The restroom and trash enclosure, I made a mistake in a previous staff report, thinking that a firm quotation that we had received for the furnishing of those materials included installation, those structures. I was wrong. We have a revised quote and this is a firm fixed price from RomTech for furnishing and installing both of those structures. THEIR OWNERS. |
| 01:52:37.00 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So Jonathan, if you're not asking us to approve that scope of work tonight, That list is nevertheless in our table as what you want us to encumber. That 267512 is under the column amount to encumber. So can you just explain? why you want us to encumber those funds, but you aren't ready to spend them. |
| 01:52:59.34 | Jonathon Goldman | because our commitment to you and the community is to deliver a project for $2.6 million, and this is how we propose to do it. And if Council appropriates that $2.6 million this evening and basically earmarks these additional project line items so that those monies can't be spent somewhere else without council's subsequent approval, that's what we're recommending you do. |
| 01:53:32.13 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And how long will RomTech keep open its bid to Construct the restroom and trash enclosure for 267512. |
| 01:53:44.18 | Jonathon Goldman | I don't remember how long their quote is good for. I certainly think that we have some time, and again, it's staff's recommendation Because there are still some moving parts here, including the CalRecycle Grant, including the fact that we still don't have permits from BCDC and the other joint aquatic resource agencies. We're still in a regulatory compliance process with Marin County Environmental Health and CalRecycle over remedial actions associated with the landfill. Our recommendation is let's not commit, let's not send ROM check a check for $270,000 because, for example, we may choose to defer that for a year or something like that. And if there's a cost increased in the next year, I would not expect it to be particularly significant. but at least we're conserving that cash so that if a contingency comes up that council decides is a higher priority, you still have the cash to spend rather than not. |
| 01:54:02.89 | Unknown | Thank you. you |
| 01:54:55.14 | Ray Withey | Just a follow up on that. So just to make sure I fully understand, |
| 01:54:56.68 | Jonathon Goldman | Just a minute. |
| 01:55:04.64 | Ray Withey | You're asking, you want us to approve the construction contract for 2.1 million, whatever it is. But you also want us to further appropriate 477,000 Will the individual, some of those individual, if you can go back to the other slide, the individual components, such as the restroom and trash enclosure, even though we've appropriated it, to award that, would that come back to cancel? Yes. Okay, thanks. Thanks. |
| 01:55:36.31 | Jonathon Goldman | Yes. |
| 01:55:40.23 | Jonathon Goldman | So again, restating this from, it's been provided in different forms a number of times in the past, but the proposed funding, which is adequate for implementation of the actions that we recommend tonight, certificates of participation, there's 1.3 million dollars available with the city having expended, and I emailed you all before the meeting, something like $422,000 of certificates of participation funds previously to date. $612,000 from Measure O, $200,000 from the Measure O ADA projects, and the reason for that, just to remind you and members of the community, is that the Measure O ADA budget arena was established to address commitments that the city made in settling a lawsuit in this particular case where I suppose fortunate that the plaintiff's expert walked through Dunphy Park and identified a number of barriers to accessibility so we have agreed to remove those barriers to accessibility and selling that lawsuit to the tune of two hundred thousand dollars two hundred thousand dollars from from the parking fund, $150,000 from the Tidelands fund. The community development block grant that Galilei has offered to contribute to the project is $115,000 if Galilei gets a parking lot out of the project. $75,000 in municipal sewer system extension, yes sir. |
| 01:57:19.17 | Joe Burns | Can I ask you on that? Have we communicated with the county, Lili or Molly Crone on an update of our time schedule? My last communication with them was probably two months where they told us they still had the funds, but have we communicated our new timeframe with them at all? |
| 01:57:20.06 | Jonathon Goldman | Yeah. |
| 01:57:37.97 | Jonathon Goldman | Yes. |
| 01:57:38.52 | Joe Burns | OK, good. And then right after we reward, we'll see a good comment. |
| 01:57:42.13 | Jonathon Goldman | Thanks, Anna. So that total, the total of those funding sources is $2.652 million, round numbers. The proposed project budget, again. I'm sorry. Can I? |
| 01:57:56.51 | Jill Hoffman | I'm sorry, can you just go back? So and then we have a potential grant fund that might augment this, is that correct? |
| 01:58:04.76 | Jonathon Goldman | We do, and at the same time, because |
| 01:58:06.77 | Jill Hoffman | at the same time. |
| 01:58:09.73 | Jonathon Goldman | We open bids. The bids are good for a certain period of time. I'm not sure. The challenge from the city manager is, how are you going to deliver this project with real dollars? That we already have. |
| 01:58:20.71 | Unknown | We already have. |
| 01:58:21.64 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:58:21.65 | Unknown | you |
| 01:58:21.79 | Jonathon Goldman | soft dollars and if it's 2.6 million dollars find a way to make that work and this is how staff proposes to make that work and if we get yes i'm sorry |
| 01:58:21.86 | Unknown | THE END OF |
| 01:58:30.94 | Jill Hoffman | And if we get a significant or insignificant award, would that measure O funding? Is that what would come... |
| 01:58:42.58 | Jonathon Goldman | That staff's recommendation is that to the extent that we do receive grant funds, up to $612,054, they would be used instead of Measure O General, so those funds would then be freed up to be used for other parks projects or other projects at the council's discretion. To the extent that the grant exceeds $612,000, then we're potentially in a position to fund some of the originally designed components that we're not proposing to deliver at this point in time. |
| 01:58:43.88 | Jill Hoffman | out. Thank you. |
| 01:58:54.26 | Unknown | MMM. |
| 01:59:21.53 | Jill Hoffman | Great. And can you remind us about that timing that's coming up fairly soon that we're hoping to hear about the grant? |
| 01:59:28.36 | Jonathon Goldman | I will be delighted to later in my presentation. |
| 01:59:30.81 | Jill Hoffman | Oh, okay, sorry. |
| 01:59:32.35 | Jonathon Goldman | All right. Anticipation is sometimes a wonderful thing. |
| 01:59:38.54 | Carolyn Ford | So, I'm sorry, I have a question on that slide as well. So, if we've already used |
| 01:59:39.65 | Jonathon Goldman | Yes. |
| 01:59:45.93 | Carolyn Ford | $422,251.15. |
| 01:59:49.79 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:59:50.96 | Carolyn Ford | of the certificates of participation money, then I don't understand why 1.3 million is still up there. Shouldn't that be reduced by 422 or not? |
| 01:59:58.77 | Jonathon Goldman | THE CERTIFICATION. |
| 02:00:01.88 | Carolyn Ford | Oh, got it. Okay. |
| 02:00:05.76 | Jonathon Goldman | The figures that I gave you earlier this evening are actual expenditures. There are probably still some encumbrances in addition to that because we do have contracts that have not been fully billed out. But we started with 1.8. |
| 02:00:10.21 | Carolyn Ford | All right. |
| 02:00:10.45 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:00:20.42 | Carolyn Ford | Great, thanks. |
| 02:00:22.92 | Jonathon Goldman | All right, this too is a table that's in the staff report. And forgive me, I can't remember which table number it is. But the idea is to show basically the cash flows associated with a $2.652 million appropriation this evening, encumber 2.175 for the base bid amount. That leaves $477,000 of that. Here's how those additional project elements would be spent down to zero left in the budget. |
| 02:00:55.45 | Jonathon Goldman | As I indicated, certificates of participation expenditures to date, Fiscal 17 and Fiscal 18, 420 to 251-15. We have, as I mentioned, we're working on the Section 106 consultation through the Corps of Engineers, excuse me, which is the lead federal agency on permitting. I'm optimistic that that will continue to go well. it still requires a lot of energy. Here's the current status on the CalRecycle Grant. We have been awarded a grant. And the details of that are important and I'm not willing and Melanie's here to kick me and Adam's here to kick me if we try to spend the money before we have a grant contract. But we understand that we will receive reimbursement for remediation of the landfill up to $750,000. |
| 02:01:59.33 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:01:59.97 | Jill Hoffman | Great news. |
| 02:02:00.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:02:03.44 | Jonathon Goldman | under that. |
| 02:02:04.02 | Unknown | All right. |
| 02:02:04.03 | Jill Hoffman | Is this the aha moment? |
| 02:02:04.42 | Jonathon Goldman | Yeah. There might be more. |
| 02:02:05.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:02:05.40 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:02:06.06 | Unknown | because it's not in the staff report. |
| 02:02:08.20 | Jonathon Goldman | That's not in the staff report. That's news from yesterday. |
| 02:02:08.35 | Unknown | THE CITY. Yes. |
| 02:02:13.50 | Jonathon Goldman | In addition, I do want to highlight at the city attorney's recommendation that the project was in fact found to be categorically exempt from application of CEQA, and a notice of exemption was filed in 2017, June 12, 2017. So recommended actions, again, as indicated at the beginning, recommend that council appropriate the funds. I know that it's in the budget, which you may subsequently appropriate, and you can't appropriate it twice. But independent of what happens later this evening with the budget, although I'd be willing to try to spend it twice. In order to award this contract tonight, because 2.6 million is not in this fiscal year's budget, it requires that appropriation. recommending that Integra be awarded the contract in the amount of 2.175, and that we would issue them notice of award, which then starts at 10 day clock under which they have to come into contract with the city or they forfeit their bid bond amend the city's existing contract with garcia and associates to add twenty thousand dollars to their budget and amending uh royston honomono's contract to provide uh ten thousand in additional budget to them as well as these directions to staff dealing with some of the the other loose ends the most important in my mind being making sure that we have Galilee's permission to make improvements on their property and that they give us money to make those improvements on their property. Thank you. Any questions of staff? |
| 02:04:01.31 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, any further questions of Jonathan? |
| 02:04:04.84 | Carolyn Ford | I do. So can we go back to the CalRecycle process? number there. And so that's. what you expect to be granted And we've received word that we have been granted it, that we're likely to be granted. We have. |
| 02:04:21.16 | Jonathon Goldman | Yes. We do not have written notice, but we have email and a telephone. |
| 02:04:29.63 | Carolyn Ford | Great. OK. But that's not reflected in the numbers that you've provided to us. That's correct. Because it happened yesterday. Yeah. OK. |
| 02:04:32.80 | Jonathon Goldman | That's correct. |
| 02:04:38.14 | Carolyn Ford | Okay, I think that's, I have some comments on that, but that's great, great news. |
| 02:04:44.41 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, other questions of Jonathan? All right, I'm gonna open it up for public comment. Vicki? |
| 02:04:51.18 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 02:04:54.93 | Vicki Nichols | I just want to say personally, and I think from a lot of other people in the community, how much I appreciate Jonathan being so resourceful and anybody else on staff to get these grants for us. Because the money's out there, but being creative and writing it, that's almost a million bucks towards this project, so hooray. |
| 02:05:12.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:05:12.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:05:12.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:05:12.71 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:05:12.83 | Unknown | you |
| 02:05:16.36 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? I'm going to close public comment and bring it up here for comment. |
| 02:05:21.39 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 02:05:23.24 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:05:23.45 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 02:05:23.48 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:05:23.51 | Carolyn Ford | Jill. So, And this is just. based on the comments about the CalRecycle Grant. Um, I'd like to the sources and uses. |
| 02:05:36.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes. |
| 02:05:37.42 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. Yeah, I'd like so I'd like to see, you know, we talked a little we talked about this when we were talking about the budget last week about the different funding sources, so I don't want to go over that again, at least not right now. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE BUDGET ADJUSTED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE GRANT. SO IF WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON IT, THEN I'D RATHER SEE THAT REFLECTED. And how that would be. |
| 02:06:07.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | and how they're doing. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:06:08.50 | Carolyn Ford | Yes. |
| 02:06:08.92 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So this only |
| 02:06:10.04 | Carolyn Ford | has us appropriating funds. No, I don't know. I understand that but I think that we need to we need to see how it would be adjusted with the grant because if we're voting on it and we're appropriating it, then it will be spent. But you understand |
| 02:06:24.92 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I understand that we don't have the contract for the... grant money yet. |
| 02:06:29.61 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 02:06:29.65 | Unknown | you |
| 02:06:30.00 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So we can't appropriate against money we don't yet have. |
| 02:06:32.55 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:06:32.80 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 02:06:32.84 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | but we have a deadline to accept the bid. |
| 02:06:35.37 | Carolyn Ford | But when's the dentist? |
| 02:06:35.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. It's 60 days typically from the, so the bid bond is only good for 60 days. |
| 02:06:39.45 | Carolyn Ford | So we have time. No, I got it. I understand that. But we have time and we have another city council meeting in two weeks. |
| 02:06:46.56 | Jonathon Goldman | If I may, through the mayor. My recollection is that the bid expires in August. And the challenge to staff and to CalRecycle and our design and consulting team is, to try to figure out how much of that $750,000 is necessary for remediation of the landfill. And we still don't know the depth of cover over the landfill or the lateral extent. So we're unlikely between now and your last meeting in July to be able to tell you exactly how much of the CalRecycle Grant we're going to be able to take out. |
| 02:07:30.24 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. I get it if at all because it may all be. |
| 02:07:34.65 | Jonathon Goldman | We'll be able to take advantage of a lot of it. Right. And I appreciate that. |
| 02:07:37.48 | Carolyn Ford | Right. SO, |
| 02:07:38.70 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:07:40.74 | Jonathon Goldman | Ms. Nichols comment but it's actually CalRecycle that has been very proactive and very helpful in managing this process. It was their engineers estimate after looking at our plans of $750,000 in costs that may be associated with the remediation. So I am grateful that not only did they tell us about that and help us through the process of applying for the grant and at this point although i wish i had a contract that had people's signatures on it i'm also grateful that we've been awarded a grant so um I think in addressing the issue that you're raising, we're certainly in a position to continue to come not only to council in agendized meetings, but also share with you and the community all of the progress that we make towards delivering the project. you know, going forward. So my suggestion is that there's the opportunity and adequate funding available to do what staff is recommending tonight, knowing full well that the news the next time will be even better than |
| 02:08:40.93 | Unknown | So, |
| 02:08:54.33 | Jonathon Goldman | what |
| 02:08:55.23 | Carolyn Ford | Hold on, I have a follow-up question. So... |
| 02:08:55.28 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 02:08:57.51 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 02:08:57.61 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Can I have one follow-up to your question? Yeah, sure. May we include in our direction to staff that as the Cal Recycle grant funding becomes available, you supplant the Measure O allocation with Cal Recycle grant funding? Yes. |
| 02:08:58.79 | Carolyn Ford | Yes. MAYBE. |
| 02:09:14.85 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 02:09:14.87 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. . That's fine. All right, other questions of staff? Or you have comments, Jill. This is a comment. |
| 02:09:20.39 | Unknown | You have comments, Jill. |
| 02:09:21.67 | Unknown | comment. |
| 02:09:22.56 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | time. |
| 02:09:28.34 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Who else has comments? |
| 02:09:29.53 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. So I just want to say I am so thrilled that this is moving forward. Since I moved to Sausalito probably about 19 years ago, I have noted with some sadness the state of the deferred maintenance on most of our parks. And I was just so happy with measure f and the fact that this whole community made a commitment to redoing one by one our incredible resources that are the park so i was very nervous when we got the first bids for this project and i'm just i can't say how gratified i am that we did get a bid through a lot of creative rebidding by staff and just creative thinking on everyone's part about how to move this forward. So thank you for everybody that made that happen. I also want to echo some of the prior comments about the very creative use of different funding sources for this project and thank Galilee Harbor for working collaboratively with the city on this, for using our ADA funding, for the sewers I think are in there, and the COP, Tide Lens Trust. You know, it's just really been a great kind of patchwork of bringing a lot of different funds together to kind of keep moving this along. So I am really excited to move this forward tonight. Um... |
| 02:10:45.51 | Unknown | See you next time. |
| 02:11:04.44 | Jill Hoffman | I also just really want to special thanks to Jonathan with Public Works, but also to Rec Park for the design work that went into this and to the commission and coming up with a plan. There were a lot of aspirational things that are still in there and that I hope will happen, but at least the nuts and bolts are going to move forward. So thank you so much. if my other council members agree that is. |
| 02:11:32.11 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 02:11:36.48 | Ray Withey | Um, Well, I am very pleased with the outcome of this and I'm happy to vote for the appropriation of the full amount here and the awarding of the contract. Back in 2012, When I first ran for city council, IN We actually had an election where people actually campaigned. And the one thing that kept coming up was the funding for parks. |
| 02:12:12.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:12:13.02 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:12:13.04 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:12:13.09 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Sure. |
| 02:12:13.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:12:13.56 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:12:13.63 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:12:13.74 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. We debated you, as I recall. |
| 02:12:27.68 | Ray Withey | And I remember before I became a city council member, sitting down with someone who was then on the finance committee and said, Ray, you've got to understand when you're going through everything and as now everybody knows who's been anywhere associated with finance committee. You're going through all of this and you're juggling the dollars and in the end there just isn't enough money left for the parks. OK? And that had been going on for years and years and years. And that's why they were in the state they were. And the only way you do that is you put a stake in the ground, you raise money, and you actually start trying to do it. And this is, you know, we got four things to do. We got MLK, Dunphy Park, we've already done Robin Sweeney, and we got Southview left. And so for those who, seem to be forever critical of Measure F and the various ways in which we've scraped together funding, get over it, because it's the way every capital project works. Everyone, my experience in TAM now, has taught me that every single one of the infrastructure projects throughout the whole of the county never has enough money when it gets started, and you're always together. Grants and ways to piece together a fabric of funding to be able to get it done. This has been done, it's been done very creatively, and I'm very happy with staff, I'm very pleased with staff, and with everybody who's put this together. So well done, everybody, I think. |
| 02:14:08.61 | Joe Burns | Yes, agreed. Thank you. There's a couple of people I want to call out as well. But Jonathan, awesome. And your news that you dropped on us tonight was just fabulous. I think we're all the same. INTERPREDATION TO WAIT UNTIL IT'S IN THE BANK, BUT AWESOME. I'M GOING TO ALSO BRING UP SOMETHING THAT COUNCIL MEMBER HOFFMAN BROUGHT UP AT THE LAST MEETING. And it's referenced here in the staff report under the fiscal impact where the addition to the funding listed in table three, staff will be working with the Parks and Rec Commission to develop and implement strategies for private funding as a source of community donations. I think that is a great opportunity for our new Park and Rec Commission. I keep calling them new, but our seated Park and Rec Commission now. And it reminds me of this process when Doreen Gennard and I, as two people on the Parks Direct Commission, I'm going to say five or six years ago, but I'm not sure, when we got a meeting with Adam. And we said, what can we do? What are our financial opportunities? Understanding what Ray had just said with, you know, every time we do a budget, there's not even hundreds hundreds of thousands let alone the millions of dollars that we had identified for parks. And we were looking at opportunities that we just thought for sure the community would open their pockets for. Whether it be a bond for a lot of parks, a donation campaign for one park, neighborhood contributions, whatever it was. We thought for sure this community would open their wallets. And... Lo and behold... The measure F opportunity, I'm sorry, the certificate of participation opportunity came about. And it was just amazing that we could do such a thing without having to go to our community and say, give us the money. Now, in a sense, they are giving us the money. It's public money, and I think we've exhausted how this thing works and what it means to our community. there's still an opportunity for us to go to the community and say, we need to fill this gap, or we need to do these trees, or we need to add this. Because we're right on the point of, you know, we have an incredibly successful community AND WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL PARK OUT HERE. ONE NOW THAT'S GOING, GETTING CLOSE TO ANOTHER. WE'RE GOING TO BE BREAKING GROUND ON MLK. THIS IS JUST PHENOMENAL. |
| 02:16:39.46 | Joe Burns | And I think we just have even more opportunity to do some small parks and really give the community an opportunity to give some money and make private donations and really put us ahead of par where we had been below par for so many years. So awesome work. I want to thank all the way back to Jock Solman and Paul Leffingwell for their work, really getting really getting this kick started with us to have a concept to work with and not having to come up. It was initial funds that kept throwing us off. Just the $100,000 or $200,000 for design was something we didn't want to do because we didn't see the big picture down the road. So for those gentlemen and their group with the friends of Dunphy to help kick this off on this particular park, all the way up to this recent finding of money. It was just spectacular. Donna, I hope you get word to Doreen. I'm going to send a message in a bottle, but your message will probably get there first. Is she taking bottles right now? So thank you all for the work, staff, all across the board. |
| 02:17:41.83 | Carolyn Ford | I have some. So thank you for reminding me that, Joe, about the private donations. So I'd like to see staff come back to us on that with regard to opportunities for the public to donate for the support of the parks. Because my math indicates that when you add up all of the things on our list, even though we're not voting on all those today, we're at about 3.4 million to all in. you know to raise raise comment about the people that criticize measure F I wasn't one of the people that criticize measure up but I do listen to the people that had concerns when they were talking about measure F and one of the concerns was that we've UNDERBUDGETED AT 1.8 MILLION, I THINK THAT'S BORN OUT. I DON'T THINK YOU CAN ARGUE WITH THAT. THE PEOPLE THAT WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT HAVE BEEN PROVEN RIGHT. Anytime I address something in Sausalito, I listen to both sides and I listen to people when they have credible concerns and I think that we need to fold those in. One of the things that we talked about last week about the different funds, and that I think, Ray, that you talked about a little bit was when you draw down those funds, you put your budget at risk, and you have funds for a reason so that you can draw on them if you have an emergency if you have a spill if you have something so you have you have an ability and your resilience so. Um, I LIKE THE WAY THAT THIS IS STRUCTURED. MY ONGOING CONCERN IS, WHAT'S THE REAL COST GOING TO BE? AND SO I APPRECIATE THE STAFF'S EFFORT TO INCLUDE ALL OF THAT IN THE STAFF REPORT AND THE WAY THAT WE'VE SORT OF COBBLED TOGETHER THIS FUND. I'M DELIGHTED ABOUT THE CAL RECYCLE GRANT. THAT'S GREAT NEWS, ESPECIALLY IF WE CAN PUT THAT MONEY BACK INTO OUR SORT OF MEASURE O CAPITAL FUND. BECAUSE KEEP IN MIND, We're taking two things out of the Measure O, sort of earmarked funds, which means we won't do a whole lot of capital improvement because we're using the budget for Measure O for Dunphy Park. But nonetheless, I'm... I'm. Thank you. pleased with that and pleased with the way that staff has been transparent about how the funds are being used. So thank you and thank you for all your hard work. I mean, Jonathan, you've just been incredible in trying to engineer this to a point that we can get it to a point where we can vote on it and pass it. |
| 02:20:12.69 | Joe Burns | I'm sorry, can I say one more thing too? |
| 02:20:15.61 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Guys, I haven't gotten to speak yet, but go ahead. Oh, go ahead. No, go ahead. You go ahead. You and Jill get your second round, and then I'll get my first. |
| 02:20:17.21 | Joe Burns | Oh, go ahead. |
| 02:20:23.93 | Joe Burns | Um... I'm reminded of something I meant to say earlier, too, about when we're talking about costs of parks and the value of quality of life and what parks add to the quality of life in a community far exceeds their construction costs. And we are now putting together. We already have a high level of service based on what our community has told us. We have a great place to live. We know that. We know that people wanna be here, both living and visiting. But we're about to increase that quality of life for our residents far exceeding this cost that we're putting into this park, or these parks. So I wanna keep that on the forefront too, of what the net equity is to our community. It's again, I'm excited, thank you. |
| 02:21:10.42 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I will echo the comments of my fellow council members. I definitely think that this has been a strong example of collaboration of staff and volunteers in conceiving, designing, um, procuring and funding this important project. I want to commend again Jonathan and his staff's ingenuity in cobbling together various funding sources and procurement approaches. I mean, the fact of using CMAS and piggyback and other procurement approaches and really being able to parse out this project into deliverable pieces has been critical to the success of the overall effort. I also support the opportunity for resident financial contributions. You know there are two additive alternates that are not yet funded and you know that's certainly one source for those funding opportunities. I'm also relieved that the CalCycle grant came in. Measure O, I did not oppose Measure F at the time it came out, but I have criticized it since because the estimates of what it would cost for the parks were low, and they were old at the time that Measure F hit the ballot, and they did not include various soft costs, including construction management and other soft costs. And I think that's a learning opportunity for us in the future. Should we wish to seek funding for various other improvements, we want to be sure that we're seeking the full amount of funding that we need. Um, And I'm relieved that we're not using Measure O, because of Measure O General. Now, Measure O, part of Measure O is ADA, and I have no issue with using ADA funds, because those funds can only be used for ADA improvements. And so I have no issue with using the Measure O ADA component. But Measure O, when it went out in 2014, was to maintain the city's long-term financial viability and improve local quality of life and essential city services. It was to provide locally controlled funds for general city services and infrastructure, and we named our deteriorating 80-year-old storm drains and essential repairs to our cracked roads and streets. And so because that's how we publicized how we were gonna use Measure O, I was, it was a challenge to consider using Measure O, the general portion for a park. Thank you. So I'm relieved that we're not going to have to do that. And instead, we can use the CalRecycle Grant. So kudos to staff for... for obtaining those grant funds for us. That's a great accomplishment. So I will entertain a motion, but I do want to add to that motion the, um, the language that I mentioned earlier so perhaps i'll just make the motion all right so um i move that two million six hundred and fifty two thousand fifty four dollars in funds be appropriated for the dunphy park improvement project that a contract for construction of the base bid scope of work for the bid price of two million one hundred and seventy five thousand is awarded to integra construction services that the city manager is authorized to notify integra construction services of the award and execute the contract that the city manager be authorized to execute a standard form of amendment to the city's existing contract with Garcia and Associates for cultural resource consulting to provide additional budget of 20,000 that the city manager be authorized to execute a standard form of amendment to the city's existing contract with our HAA to provide additional budget of $10,000 and That staff be directed to A, ensure shrubs and trees of adequate size are procured and installed, along with any irrigation necessary to ensure the turf and plantings are established and maintained through the life of the project. B, ensure construction of the bocce courts is satisfactorily completed. And C, negotiate an agreement with Galilee Harbor to ensure that the parking and related improvements planned on Galilee property are permitted to be constructed in exchange for a hundred and fifteen thousand dollar contribution to the funds for the Dunphy Park improvement project and that staff be directed to replace the six hundred and twelve thousand fifty four dollars in funding sourced through measure O General with funding sourced through the Cal Recycle Grant to the extent feasible under the terms of that grant. |
| 02:26:07.50 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:26:08.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Aye. That motion carries 5-0. Thank you, Jonathan. |
| 02:26:09.82 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:26:09.97 | Jonathon Goldman | I. Thank you. |
| 02:26:17.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:26:18.20 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:26:18.31 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:26:19.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, next up on our agenda is the budget. I suggest we take five minutes and then we'll- |
| 02:26:28.55 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, everybody, we're back on, and we're ready for the highlight of the evening. which is the adoption of our fiscal year 2018 to 20 strategic resources allocation plan and fiscal year 28 to 19 budget. Melanie Purcell. |
| 02:26:43.31 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:26:44.39 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:26:44.41 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you very much. So your presentation is on the dais, as well as a handout with a couple of graphs that were requested by a council member. Just to kind of show the breakdown of annual revenues. This is the last, the current budget, because we have not loaded. the proposed budget that we're talking about, but if we can get the. Screen up, then we'll... Sorry. Do you have these? While we're getting started, I do want to say thank you very much to the Finance Committee and to the Council, as well as to the department heads and Heather. |
| 02:27:17.91 | Unknown | and |
| 02:27:18.41 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:27:19.71 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:27:19.83 | Carolyn Ford | THE END OF |
| 02:27:19.86 | Unknown | at the last minute. |
| 02:27:20.59 | Melanie Purcell | on our staff who have been a tremendous help in pulling this budget together. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's been quite a teamwork, so thank you very much for that. So what I have done in this particular presentation is you'll notice that there's a handful of newer or updated slides at the beginning and then there's a break with next steps. And then there is the other material from the prior presentations that if we have any questions we can go back and review. |
| 02:27:53.02 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | THEIR PARTICULAR PARTICULAR PART |
| 02:27:54.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | staff report on the dais. |
| 02:28:01.78 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So, and it looks different. |
| 02:28:02.96 | Melanie Purcell | from what was in our packet. Okay, I did not provide that there, so I'm not sure the origination of that. |
| 02:28:13.21 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:28:13.33 | Melanie Purcell | I don't know. |
| 02:28:13.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:28:16.41 | Melanie Purcell | Let me start and then we can, because the information should be consistent with the staff report and the presentation that I have in front of you. The staff report that was emailed out with the packets, with your regular packet. |
| 02:28:33.74 | Jill Hoffman | I'm sorry, I'm just a little bit confused. So in my city council... On the iPad, I don't have any PowerPoint, and I don't have a PowerPoint up here. Is that right? There is a PowerPoint left at the dais for each of you. Here. |
| 02:28:48.97 | Melanie Purcell | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:28:49.03 | Jill Hoffman | I'm going to grab you an extra cup. |
| 02:28:49.69 | Melanie Purcell | That's it. |
| 02:28:50.42 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. All right. Yes, I do. Okay. Sorry. All right. Okay. Good. |
| 02:29:06.23 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Maybe the one on the dais, Melanie, is color, and the one in our packet is not. |
| 02:29:09.26 | Unknown | WELL, WE'LL BE Mr. Cohen, can further proceed? |
| 02:29:17.20 | Ray Withey | See, so I know. |
| 02:29:18.02 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:29:20.66 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OK. |
| 02:29:20.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:29:22.29 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | The one in our packet has Bates numbers on it, and the one on the dais does not, so it led me to believe it was different. |
| 02:29:36.64 | Melanie Purcell | Okay, so. Thank you. Okay, heading into our, just to go over some of the additional scenario information. Looking again at our fund balance projections. I have the summary of the capital improvements program. as that is incorporated within the budget, and then the resources allocation plan. And the annual budget itself, and then we can review the resolutions or any questions that you have about the details. So the additional pension trust scenarios, I was asked to provide what would happen in my projections if we change the contribution from $775,000 in the current year to 600, 500, or 400,000. |
| 02:30:25.24 | Melanie Purcell | Are the screens moving differently? So what has happened here is the impact of the general fund becomes almost identical because of the way the policy is designed. That the initial year is coming from surplus balance and then the policy would be that all surplus funds of the general fund would then go into the trust. So the impact of the general fund remains the same. The impact and the trust itself changes Thank you. it's moving slower than I am, so. |
| 02:30:57.10 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. There you go. |
| 02:31:01.62 | Melanie Purcell | Okay, that works. So you'll notice that these scenarios each show, basically I added seven, eight, and nine, and they are reducing, steadily reducing amounts going into the trust. The original scenario that was recommended by Finance Committee of $775,000 is the green line, and obviously that shows a higher level of balance over time. It's about a 10%, 10 to 15% actually difference, million to a million and a half over a 10-year period in terms of how much is in the trust at the end of 10 years. What it comes down to is the timeline for the trust changes about four years in lifespan. And that means that more like 32 to 27 five year span is how long the trust will last. rather than an extended value. So by that point, presumably, we have evolved in a different direction and we have much more concrete information. So the substantive changes really are about $1.5 million difference in balance at the end of ten years available to the city to use in the trust, assuming that we continue the contributions. |
| 02:32:17.74 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So Melanie, as I look at this graph, it looks as though at 10 years, 2028 to 29, we're just over 8 million if we use scenario nine with the $400,000 base, whereas we're at 10 million if we use scenario one the surplus balance to trust. |
| 02:32:39.59 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:32:39.70 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So that's almost a $2 million difference. It is almost. |
| 02:32:41.60 | Melanie Purcell | It is almost too many. It comes, it rounds up to about 1.6. |
| 02:32:45.15 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And we don't yet know if CalPERS is going to further reduce its discount rate. Right now they're heading towards 6.5%. THANK YOU. |
| 02:32:57.97 | Melanie Purcell | They have confirmed we are going to seven, that has been adopted. They have kind of held steady at this moment in terms of their communications to the finance industry. there is speculation that they will go to 6.5. Certainly the numbers provided by Bartell and Associates were at 6.5% actual revenue, so kind of superseding the assumptions of CalPERS. And that gives us a little more concrete impression of what the trends will be in our behaviors. So the numbers that I've used for the assumed contribution that we will have to make each year reflects that 6.5%. |
| 02:33:39.55 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | But one of the challenges we discussed at our last meeting is the volatility of that and the predictability of that. And we had asked to have Bartle and Wells tell us what it would be if it went down to 6%. And I understand from you, we don't yet have those numbers from Bartle and Wells. But to your mind, does this $2 million cushion in 10 years give us more stability and certainty against further volatility in the CalPERS discount rate? Absolutely. Just by definition, it will. Thank you. |
| 02:34:24.83 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes, Ray. |
| 02:34:28.47 | Ray Withey | I'm still struggling a little bit to understand why their Y scenario 9 and 8 are almost superimposable. Just don't make any sense. I still can't figure that one out. |
| 02:34:53.31 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:34:53.36 | Melanie Purcell | I've run the model and... |
| 02:34:53.60 | Ray Withey | But that's what |
| 02:34:55.08 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:34:56.86 | Melanie Purcell | It's interesting to me that I found that they did behave almost identically. I would have expected actually more volatility. |
| 02:35:02.68 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 02:35:03.27 | Melanie Purcell | in the bouncing, but actually it didn't work that way. And I used the same 2.5% return throughout the model. Thank you. |
| 02:35:11.01 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE Thank you. |
| 02:35:13.88 | Melanie Purcell | I do notice that because we make the consistent assumptions regarding the contribution year over year, that that is part of what keeps that shape consistent. |
| 02:35:25.09 | Joe Burns | Thank you. At the finance, we looked at a lot of different scenarios that included the general fund balances and those things that really had skewed lines. |
| 02:35:34.61 | Melanie Purcell | Yeah, the contribution from the general fund particularly as you go into lesser amounts or not contributing at all or drawing down then it becomes very erratic. |
| 02:35:44.04 | Joe Burns | This is just all one scenario with different. |
| 02:35:47.72 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:35:47.75 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And does this assume the same So I know that this assumes that the surplus balance goes to trust each year. This year we're putting 775 as our projected surplus balance by June 30. What does this assume that same surplus each year? Thank you. |
| 02:36:07.26 | Melanie Purcell | No, it continues the surplus that we discussed. And actually, if you want, I'm going to go ahead and skip down. Actually, if you go all the way. Oh, yeah. I see. Yes. It's toward the back of the packet. |
| 02:36:14.87 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh, yeah. Yep. |
| 02:36:20.14 | Melanie Purcell | um, It shows that the $50,000 next year, $300,000 deductible, |
| 02:36:29.70 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:36:29.72 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh, the slides, oh yeah, they are numbered there. |
| 02:36:44.38 | Melanie Purcell | Can you jump to slide 14, please? Yeah. |
| 02:36:48.25 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:36:48.32 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:36:52.30 | Melanie Purcell | Slide 14, at the very bottom line it says net. That would be the surplus assumed, and that would then be the contribution to the pension trust fund each year. |
| 02:37:02.69 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So Melanie, last week our net surplus after contribution of the 775 was 74,000. Can you explain why this week it's at 15? |
| 02:37:13.97 | Melanie Purcell | Okay, there's two different numbers here. The $74,000 incorporates remaining funds from the existing surplus balance. That would be an operating balance in this particular case. And there is a little bit of fluctuation simply due to moving the grants around and reconciling this back. If we can go to. See that. Thank you. Slide five. Thank you. |
| 02:37:46.64 | Unknown | Thank you. You don't forget that. |
| 02:37:50.82 | Melanie Purcell | This is what exists as of today's date with the assumption of what we think that the actual change in the current year will be. And I still hold that that 247 will be very close. So this would leave us with that general fund cash available as of July 1st. above and beyond the recommended policy levels. If you go to the next slide. What we're saying is that given these other uses, recommending $500,000 in the capital arena, And then $775,000 to the trust, $50,000 to economic development pilot, that would leave the 24,000. And so that's where the 74 comes from. And the 24 and the 15 are in the same category and I have confidence that it will be at 24. So we would still hold with the $775,000 in the current year would be an action of the existing balances. Then we would go forward with whatever you adopt as the actual budget. for the coming years and toward the end of each year, and certainly at the mid-year, you would be assessing what the anticipated balances would be and authorizing that transfer to the trust. |
| 02:39:08.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So I see that the projected use of general fund balance includes the economic development pilot that Vice Mayor Burns requested at our last meeting. On slide 18, you're also seeking an additional $30,000 for continued code enforcement. |
| 02:39:28.71 | Melanie Purcell | Yes, this was requested that as part of considering where we can bring us to ensuring that code enforcement continues at an adequate level. Adding an additional $30,000 to bring it to $50,000, which is approximately the halftime, excuse me, quarter time position, that would use some of the projected fund balance from 18-19 would reduce the contribution to the staff, and it would reduce future surpluses as long as it continues. The distinction being that we would be using operating dollars, not fund balance. It does affect the fund balance because obviously we projected on slide 15 those balances to go forward, excuse me, 14. So it would reduce this net by $30,000 annually. |
| 02:40:20.57 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And so on slide 14, you're showing general fund expenditure forecast. You show operations. Is that where you reflect? I would reflect it there. It is not in these numbers. |
| 02:40:30.69 | Melanie Purcell | is not in these numbers. |
| 02:40:32.57 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | It's not in these numbers. It is not in these numbers. So this is something you're asking of us to do this evening, but it's not reflected in the slides we have. |
| 02:40:32.67 | Melanie Purcell | It's not in these numbers. It is not in these numbers. |
| 02:40:38.25 | Melanie Purcell | Right. Yes, I was requested to put it as an option for council. And so if you look at the third bullet, the last bullet on slide 18. |
| 02:40:53.83 | Jill Hoffman | I'm sorry, I know I couldn't hear that well last week, but did we talk about this last week, this $30,000 for code enforcement? |
| 02:41:00.73 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So code enforcement was one of the reductions that we had discussed at the finance committee level. Adam, go ahead. |
| 02:41:06.84 | Adam Politzer | Yeah, I mean, from last week's meeting to this meeting, so the answer to Councilmember Cleveland's question is, no, we didn't go into any specifics about adding additional money. What was recommended was reducing code enforcement all the way down to 20,000. once we started looking at the direction the council was going and that there was still going to be a balance of money and you guys playfully said well we should spend it um and we're not being playful here no we didn't all say that uh just i'm saying playfully um uh in the spirit of the good energy we had in the room all night tonight um But staff has looked back and is concerned in terms of the code enforcement activity that we have tried to Um, consistently enforce that we thought that we went too far. And so we put it as a question for council, for your consideration to increase that back to $50,000. Melanie, can you tell me what was it originally? What was it? Was it 75? |
| 02:42:17.12 | Melanie Purcell | Originally we had $85,000 set aside for additional building inspector support and code enforcement. |
| 02:42:24.40 | Adam Politzer | So I felt like we were actually stripping it down too far, and so that's why we're asking for your consideration. You can reject it, but we think that based on the momentum we've had the last few years on code enforcement activity, we might put ourselves in a worse situation. |
| 02:42:41.07 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And Adam, with the code enforcement, is there an opportunity to self fund some of that through the collection of fines for code violations. |
| 02:42:54.23 | Adam Politzer | we have shared with the council in the past that there is a mechanism for the fines and you know what our first step is is compliance so we're asking people to comply what we have done uh and especially related to some of the airbnb items where people have not complied is that we have levied the increased fines but we we i think we found out in the first pilot program where we put $50,000 for code enforcement with the intentions of recovering $50,000 we we did not you know we didn't accomplish that but I think that the council has given direction in the past and I would imagine it would stay consistent that you would like us to be aggressive in our code enforcement and aggressive with those fines with people that don't comply so if the council still feels consistent with that direction you know that's how we will operate but more importantly we want to be able to respond to the residents when illegal building or activity are going on trees being cut so that we have someone that can in fact respond and the person that we contracted out that did a terrific job was coming on Saturday and Sunday based on calls and contacts that they would receive. for the weekend, so it didn't fall strictly onto our police department. |
| 02:44:12.80 | Jill Hoffman | So this $30,000 is for contract employee? Yes. Okay. So, you know, I think code enforcement is a priority. I guess what I would have liked to some advance kind of warning about this, because we have a couple pages in our packet of things that weren't funded this year, and I don't feel like we ever kind of got to prioritize that. So it sounds like staff has picked your priority and that's what you're recommending, but... Well, |
| 02:44:45.66 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And I'll share. |
| 02:44:46.01 | Adam Politzer | And that's a fair assessment. |
| 02:44:48.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And I will share that I did raise the issue of code enforcement at the Finance Committee level as a level, as a concern that we were reducing our allocation to code enforcement. So |
| 02:45:02.08 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. There's just a bunch of things here that Thank you. We never talked about. or at least as a city council, we never really went through this list and prioritized it. |
| 02:45:12.24 | Carolyn Ford | As a city council. |
| 02:45:13.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:45:20.22 | Carolyn Ford | What page, Susan, what page are you looking at? Well, it's the list |
| 02:45:22.40 | Jill Hoffman | Well, it's the list of items, 2018 to 20 discussion items, and there's a whole list of discussion items not included in the budget. |
| 02:45:30.26 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Bye. Those are pages 32, 33, 34, 35. |
| 02:45:34.83 | Jill Hoffman | And so, for example, you know, one of the things that I had talked about at one meeting was a part-time sworn patrol officer to help with peak times downtown. A member of the public tonight mentioned to me historic preservation consulting for $30,000. That's in here. You know, just a lot of important stuff. So I just feel like I didn't really have a chance. I didn't understand that there would be another 30,000 that we're talking about tonight to kind of go through this again myself, kind of figure out where I what I felt so. |
| 02:46:12.19 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And Melanie, we've identified as part of our staff report other revenue opportunities that have not yet been Yeah. finalized or included in the budget. And so when those other revenue opportunities come available, such as insurance archeology and other you know, if we decide to have a marijuana dispensary on Gate 5 Road or whatever. So can we then go back and... |
| 02:46:45.45 | Jill Hoffman | Sharon, you're going wild. |
| 02:46:48.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Can we then go, well, I hate that San Rafael is collecting tax revenue for deliveries to Sausalito. I don't like the deliveries to Sausalito, but if they're going to be here, I want the tax revenue from it. So... So can we, when and if we capitalize on those other revenue opportunities, can we go back and revisit some of these discussion items not included in the budget? Absolutely. So we can adopt an amended budget to capitalize upon additional revenues. |
| 02:47:17.11 | Melanie Purcell | What we would intend is that, for example, with the CalRecycle Grant, when that grant is finalized, we would be bringing that agreement to council and amending the budget at that time through that resolution. Similarly, as the other revenue options come about and always at the midyear budget amendment, the intent would be to take an assessment of what we have available, what we think is available, bring forward all of the items that are here, and ask the council which they'd prefer to pursue, recognizing we'll obviously have some recommendations. The idea would be to look at whether it's a one-time source or an ongoing source, and that would obviously color the recommendations of staff in terms of capital versus an ongoing operational. |
| 02:48:02.79 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. So may we ask that at our mid year budget that staff return to us these discussion items. To give us an opportunity at that time when and if additional revenue sources are available to prioritize the discussion items not now included in the budget. |
| 02:48:22.91 | Unknown | No, the pollution. |
| 02:48:24.29 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm going to add it to the motion. it. I'm going to add staff direction to the motion. Okay. |
| 02:48:32.97 | Melanie Purcell | more in your presentation? Actually, no. Unless you have questions, I'm happy to answer questions. Okay, questions of staff? |
| 02:48:42.99 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:48:43.95 | Jill Hoffman | So I have a question to our city manager, which I already know the answer to, but I just wanted to make sure the public was aware, but a number of meetings ago, we talked about a contribution to the county homeless fund that for the next three years will be focused on the mobile shower program, and we had talked about it a long time ago and then I just realized that I had not confirmed that that was in our budget. So could the city manager just confirm that our contributions, Sausalito's contribution is included in our budget. |
| 02:49:18.49 | Adam Politzer | Yes, it's confirmed and it's in the non-departmental Um, line item. |
| 02:49:24.01 | Jill Hoffman | Great, thanks. And that's every city in... Marin County contributes to this fund and it's a shared fund. So thank you. I appreciate that. |
| 02:49:34.10 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Other questions of staff? I'm going to open it up for public comment. Seeing none, I'm going to bring it up here for comment. |
| 02:49:45.83 | Carolyn Ford | So one of the things, and the reason why I said during the... Consent calendar with regard to 4I, the receive and file bicycle parking congestion management. you know, I was looking through the report because I was always interested in the revenue that's coming in from that. But I didn't see it in the budget and proposed, you know, proposed new sources of revenue. Yes. And so, and I was wondering why. And so, and I asked Melanie, did you guys discuss it? And I asked Ray, and the answer is no. But I think that we do need to pay attention to that because, you know, some of the projections when we started the program were that it could definitely be a revenue center for Sausalito. And projections that were run by Dr. Fotch when he initially set up the program was that it could be a healthy source of revenue. And so, and I'm looking, you know, looking through it. TONIGHT AND THE WRAP UP FOR, YOU KNOW, THE INCOME THAT WE EARNED IN APRIL AND MAY. You know, I have a concern because the numbers are up, the bike numbers are up, but the revenue is down by about 20% in bike parking. So I'm looking at the southbound bike counts. It looks to me like the numbers are way down. |
| 02:51:03.49 | Unknown | Wait. |
| 02:51:06.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:51:08.65 | Carolyn Ford | But that's southbound. northbound or when the bikes are coming into town, southbound is when they're leaving, right? So if you look at... If you look at the The bike counts. There's an increase of about 4.3%. What page are you on? I'm on page two. Item four, I, page two. Yeah, I'm in it. So station one counts. |
| 02:51:32.75 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, I mean, |
| 02:51:38.44 | Carolyn Ford | Yeah, so I'm... If you look totals all the way down and then over to the side, 4.3% increase. And then if you look by parking permits sold, it's down... about 19% and a corresponding down another 19% negative 19. So you know that's that's a concern that I want to talk about next month when we get the the bike report. for the month of June. Hopefully those numbers are going to change. But the good news is that the bike returns is earning, I think, a better revenue source. I think with some with some management of that operation that could be a very serious. you know, increase in our revenues. So anyway, I just wanted that to be included. when we're talking about these other you know, other options. I just want that to be recognized and added to that list because it's already something that's up and running. We just need to focus a little bit on the management of it and I think it could be, THE POTENTIAL FOR A SIGNIFICANT SOURCE OF REVENUE, JUST LIKE CAR PARKING, LIKE A BITE PARKING, Um, in some ways the same way as car parking. |
| 02:52:55.15 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | May I? I see the chief is here in our. in... the audience. Chief Rohrabacher, I wonder if as part of your report next time, when I drive through town on the weekends, I see a number of bikes now being collected in front of Salidos in the parking lot in front of Colido. Several parking spaces are now used for bike collection and also at the joinery and also at the bike shop on Bridgeway. Is it possible for your staff when they're in the area to get an idea of how many bikes are being, you know, collected at those various areas in town? Because those are bike parking permits that the city of Sausalito is now no longer getting because the bikes are being taken elsewhere, not to our downtown parking area. So is that something you can take a look at for our next report? |
| 02:54:07.82 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Sorry to put you on the spot. |
| 02:54:10.57 | Chief Rohrabacher | That's OK. I don't know that we can, actually. I don't know how I would even do that. I mean, I have to assign people there. to count those. And I don't think we have the staff to do that on our own. And I really don't think they're going to give us the information if we ask. They are permitted to operate those businesses, but they're not required to provide any accounts. We do look at the service, though, as a positive in congestion management because it's drawing bicycles away from... |
| 02:54:32.33 | Unknown | We do. |
| 02:54:38.90 | Chief Rohrabacher | the congested area downtown. And so they went through all the permitting processes over the off season. And so all that is in line |
| 02:54:47.71 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I was curious. |
| 02:54:48.03 | Chief Rohrabacher | I just don't know how we would count them. |
| 02:54:50.27 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I know that the joinery and I know that Bay Cities went through the permitting process, but I was curious about the metered parking in the lot. Well, it is the joinery lot, yeah, next to Salido's. That is the joinery lot, yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. Just a thought to try and have a metric to understand, yeah. |
| 02:55:13.33 | Ray Withey | Could I have a follow-up question on that? Sorry, I don't know if you had finished. Okay. |
| 02:55:14.69 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes. |
| 02:55:24.44 | Ray Withey | At the moment, where would any proceeds that come into the city from our deal with social legal bike return for administering this? Where does that, does it get booked into parking or you |
| 02:55:42.18 | Melanie Purcell | It comes into the parking fund itself. |
| 02:55:42.20 | Ray Withey | It comes into the... So, To the extent there's a positive cash flow there, which should be under this deal, that would come in as revenue. It will come in as revenue. |
| 02:55:51.83 | Melanie Purcell | Right. |
| 02:55:56.47 | Melanie Purcell | It will come in as revenue. Any that comes in, we do not pay their expenses. |
| 02:56:00.17 | Ray Withey | Right. |
| 02:56:00.51 | Melanie Purcell | We just simply give them a cut back of the revenue. |
| 02:56:02.60 | Ray Withey | Right, OK. And so the one thing is, I think it's Going into this way back, the bicycle parking, at least from the City Council perspective, was viewed as almost a cost center whose purpose was congestion management. I think Council Member Hoffman though is raising a very good point. Should we be re-looking at this as a revenue center. not a call center, because there may be an opportunity there, and I don't know, but I think it's worth a discussion. But originally, even though you had people who were operating it were thinking differently, the Council when it first set this up was not viewing it as a profit centre. It was almost a cost that we were hoping to cover our costs in order to provide congestion management service. But that can change and I could easily support a change. |
| 02:57:08.36 | Joe Burns | Yeah, and I think the the leadership of the group at that time also was very careful to say if you start looking at a revenue and your goal is to grow revenue 5% what are you growing more bikes 5% so it wasn't necessarily a goal to do that but to maximize a revenue without growing an impact is. what we're talking about in so many other scenarios is reducing impact, yet still growing revenue, whether that be through rates or whatever, that would be an opportunity that I think would be a good thing to look at. |
| 02:57:40.88 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:57:41.03 | Carolyn Ford | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:57:41.22 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:57:41.74 | Carolyn Ford | further comments on the budget? Well, Now that we have this issue, you know, and I want to listen to what other people have to say, too, but You know, if we go back to the economic development, the $50,000, and then now we're throwing in the mix... you know, 30,000 for code enforcement, you know, I like code enforcement. I think we, yeah, absolutely, I think we need to fund that. But then how does that impact the $50,000? And that was just sort of, I mean, it wasn't a bad decision. idea, but it was just, you know, kind of a number opportunistically, I think. that you named or identified so I you know I will listen to whatever be all things about adjusting that or if anybody's interested in adjusting that between those two numbers and I mean, everybody's worked incredibly hard on this budget. This was a challenging budget. I think it's incredibly important to keep the I've talked a lot about pensions over the last four years, but we need to absolutely keep that amount funded this year, the 7 to 75, and then continue to fund with excess, right? Continue to fund with what we put in the sort of baseline, but also continue to fund against the risk of volatility of that number of our unfunded pension liability because we know it's going to keep going up, and the question is how much is going to keep going? THE RISK OF VOLATILITY OF THAT NUMBER OF OUR UNFUNDED PENSION LIABILITY. WE KNOW IT WILL KEEP GOING UP. and to guard against I think we're going to be able to guard against our inability to have a healthy operating budget in future years because we're paying for our unfunded pension liability, I think is really important. So... |
| 02:59:32.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | We are in common. |
| 02:59:34.60 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 02:59:35.09 | Jill Hoffman | So I have a couple of comments. So as the newest member of the city council, this was my first budget process. So I really appreciate the patience of staff and especially Melanie and of my fellow city council members and especially the finance committee, who I think, and I'll include the vice mayor in that, who sat through all the finance committee meetings, but I think there was a lot of hard work done there that really came through when this came to us for our review. And I also just wanted to thank everyone for being absent unexpectedly last week and for bearing with me on the telephone. I know that's not easy either way. And overall, you know, I think the most important thing to me in looking at a budget is that it reflects the values and the priorities of the community. And overall, I think we have a really prudent budget that does reflect our values. We've got a decent amount of money for our parks for long-term maintenance of things like our infrastructure. We've got some good extras, including the $50,000 for the Economic Development Fund that was suggested last week that I'm happy to support. And as Council Member Hoffman just mentioned, we have a very significant contribution to our pension trust fund. and I think at this AND AS COUNCIL MEMBER HOFFMAN JUST MENTIONED, WE HAVE A VERY SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO OUR PENSION TRUST FUND. AND I THINK AT THIS TIME WHERE MANY COMMUNITIES ARE STRUGGLING WITH HOW TO RESOLVE THAT, THAT THIS IS A GOOD TIME to invest heavily in that. And we had to make some sacrifices to make that happen, but I'm pleased with that result. I was also assured in some conversations with our city manager between last week and this week that the $775,000 investment in the pension trust will not hinder our ability to find extra funds if in the event that the bids come in in excess of what we have for Southview Park or for other things that we can adjust over time. I would support the mayor's motion or extra amendment to our resolution to consider some of the items not included in the budget that we talked about earlier. I think there are some really good things on that list, including historic preservation, the part-time patrol, swarm patrol officer. you know and I'm I also am very in favor of the part-time patrol, swarm patrol officer. You know, and I also am very in favor of code enforcement. So if that's staff's priority, I'm happy to move that forward tonight. I just sort of, you know, like to kind of go through that list, but I think it's a good choice. Lastly, I guess if there was any one issue in this whole process that I wish we had done differently this time is I wish we had started the conversation about the revenue sources earlier. and really had that thoughtful conversation at the full city council. um meeting i i don't really love it that we're going to be deciding on very important taxes and revenue sources after we've adopted the budget, even though those won't hit for another, it's not this fiscal year, but the next fiscal year, I just feel like the community outreach hasn't been ideal. I feel like my learning curve on some of these revenue sources I'm still catching up and we still haven't, we've got a consultant report that is yet to come. So I just think from a lesson learned perspective, I, in future years, if we do have significant revenue sources, especially things that impact our community and that might have to go to the ballot, that we start that conversation early, because it is a big commitment to go out to the voters and I want to be confident if we make that decision. But otherwise, I just really appreciate all the work that went into this and I am ready to support the motions in front of us. |
| 03:04:03.13 | Ray Withey | Okay, so. This is the sixth time I've done a budget. |
| 03:04:10.47 | Charlie Boyce | Thank you. |
| 03:04:11.89 | Ray Withey | And last, well not last, but it's the sixth time on the Finance Committee I've done a two year resource allocation plan. |
| 03:04:24.61 | Ray Withey | I mean, I think we've got a... A very good model forecast for how things are going to look. Knowing that anything beyond Four years, five years, six years is... You don't want your model to say it won't work. But it doesn't mean your model is going to work, right? Because of the volatility, right? So it's got to at least work. But don't expect things, you know, what's the old saying? You know, strategy falls apart on first contact with the enemy, right? Well, this is July 1st. This is going to be different. So understand that. But I do need to make a couple of comments, which I think there is more. Risk. in this budget than in others I've been involved with. And the risk is on a variety of fronts. Um, The main one being, well there's two, no there's three actually. Three, I would say. The first is. So what? Councilmember Cleveland North has indicated is Look, the really, I know how, you know, in terms of sensitivity to the model, to various things, Melanie and I have spent hours on the phone saying, okay, now if you reduce that by that, what would happen? If you do this, what will happen, right? You can only do it real time by looking at it, otherwise we'd end up with thousands of pages of scenarios, none of which would be intelligible. In the end, if we don't raise revenue and have those positive nets over the next three, four, five, six years, this model doesn't work, and I think Melanie would agree with that. In fact, some of it's very sensitive to that. So the ongoing feeding of the trust is as important, if not actually more important, than this initial contribution. That's what at least the model says to me. And the ability to do that, and I think Melanie, you'd agree with that as well, right? The only way to do that is to find the $400,000 to $600,000 worth of extra revenue over the next two years, or to reduce our expenses by $400,000 to $600,000, or some combination of both. And if you don't do that, this model doesn't work. On the expense side, we have MOU discussions next year. We've taken a very... THE FEDERAL. projections that are on the expense side of this budget are gonna become quite a challenge over the next year in terms of our labor costs, and that's a risk. That's a clear risk. And then the final risk is in our operations and that you'll find in the non-departmental expenses. I mean, we flatline those as a method of force forcing savings somehow there. But we have some of the line items in there, an example being legal, but it's not the only one. There are others which are growing significantly and are going to put expense pressure on. So we've got risks there, we've got risks with the labor costs, and we've got risks with the raising of the revenue. Other than that, it's a great budget. No, but seriously, it is a good budget, but understand there's those risks. And our job is then to manage those risks. So guess what? July meetings, discussion and direction regarding all of those revenue things, I mean, That's it, folks. We got to do this, one or the other. So anyway, I think it's a great job by staff and thank everybody who's done this. I'm still a bit queasy about the fund balances. You can't do this again. We've brought them down to what I think is the bare minimum. I honestly do believe that, other than for the funds that are specifically designated for the purpose. But the general fund balance, you know, I've got to tell you, it happens with budgets all the time. Three months ago, there was $1,300,000 that could be spent on one-time things. And guess what? It's all been spent. |
| 03:09:08.33 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:09:10.36 | Ray Withey | Thank you. you We got $15,000 left out of $1.3 million of excess fund balance. And, God damn it, we found a way to spend every bit of it. |
| 03:09:26.31 | Joe Burns | THANK YOU, MELANIE AND ALL THE STAFF FOR EVERYBODY GETTING INVOLVED ALL THE WAY BACK TO PRESENTATIONS. IT IS A GREAT PROCESS. I ENJOYED IT BECAUSE I GOT TO SIT THERE AND BE QUIET AND WATCH A LOT OF IT THROUGH THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. BUT, UM, And then I want to talk quickly about the I WANT TO TALK QUICKLY. |
| 03:09:47.50 | Unknown | Why did you tell him? |
| 03:09:49.36 | Joe Burns | Bye. |
| 03:09:49.41 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 03:09:49.44 | Joe Burns | Oh, my God. |
| 03:09:54.66 | Joe Burns | I don't have anything for that. Um, The $50,000 in the investment program I've talked about with the business development, it's on there. I appreciate that. To better clarify that, I think a very rough number, it maximizes itself at the minimum of $200,000 a year. So this $50,000 is just a drop in the bucket, and the committee is going to meet and talk about how we do that. But I want to just remind you that we bring that back up to this council. and it's... IT'S JUST A DROP IN THE BUCKET. AND THE COMMITTEE IS GOING TO MEET AND TALK ABOUT HOW WE DO THAT. BUT I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE BRING THAT BACK UP TO THIS COUNCIL. AND IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT STARTS THE TEST. AND I'M SAYING THIS WITH BUSINESS PEOPLE IN THE ROOM. IT STARTS THE TEST OF HOW WE VIEW THIS TYPE OF INVESTMENT. It's going to relate to the business tax, which is an investment for the greater good, as well as additional TOT, as well as how we spend that, how we grow the pie. how individual businesses pay into a way to grow the pie for everybody is kind of that greater good that we are in charge of creating. And I appreciate that we should have started this earlier and we should have in a discussion format. on what we wanted to do. We also need to see, when we go to these next discussions on how we're going to raise this revenue, we need the community and the people looking at this to understand the risk that is out there if we don't create this revenue. So it needed to be on paper. It needed to be out there that says, if we don't, we don't fund this. And if we don't fund this trust, then that number, and there was earlier graphs that show without those contributions on an annual level. It skyrockets down. And if we don't fund this trust, then that number, and there was earlier graphs that show without those contributions on an annual level, it skyrockets down in an opposite manner of what we just saw. And we're upside down, three, four, upwards of six, seven million dollars in some years in the 2030s. THAT TYPE OF GRAPH, WE CAN EVEN RECONSTITUTE THAT WHEN WE GET INTO THESE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE TO PUT THE GREATER GOOD AHEAD TO KEEP OUR LEVEL OF SERVICE UP THERE AND KEEP BUSINESS THRIVING THROUGH PROVIDING WHAT WE PROVIDE AS A COMMUNITY. WANT TO BE ALONE WITH YOUR PHONE? I think we have to really look at that. This is our investment portfolio. The 775 is a big number and THE ONLY REASON I'M COMFORTABLE IN THAT IS KNOWING THAT WE HAVE THE CONTRIBUTION IF WE NEED TO IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. SO THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF FLUX IN OUR BUDGET FOR THAT. BUT I THINK WHAT WE'RE DOING IS THE RIGHT CALL WITH THAT. I APPRECIATE THE OTHER STAFF CHIMING IN ON CODE ENFORCEMENT. YOU KNOW, THEY LOOKED AT THIS AND SAID THIS IS WHERE WE BEST USE SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDS, SO I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT THAT. So I'm I'm comfortable with where we are I comfortable with the I'm comfortable with the process that we got here. But I think it is all in the details on how we continue to look at that revenue going forward and. and make sure that we understand why it's in there and when we go to ask for these increases, how imperative is that those be in this budget, budget forecasts. |
| 03:13:18.12 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm going to agree with the mentor on the City Council in all of this, Ray, that I agree in my first foray on the Finance Committee. I do think this is a very good budget. I do support staff's recommendation that we allocate $50,000 for economic development as a one-time pilot project, but I would like to As I mentioned last week, I do believe that should be metrics-based. Just as the prior $30,000 allocation was metrics-based, I think the $50,000 has to be metrics-based as well. And what I mean by that is have the business group come to us, tell us here's how we're going to spend it, and here's the rate of return we expect from it with measurable Objectives I also support staff's recommendation for 30,000 for continued code enforcement I think that's something that's important to a lot of residents And I think it's important that staff maintain the level of service and maintain Their responsiveness to resident concerns that are raised I I I think it is critical for now that we adopt this plan to invest our surplus in our pension trust in order to hedge against the volatility of our pension obligations until that gets straightened out a little further and until we actually start to hit that zenith that we're projected to hit in six years and make sure that we have the resources to see us through that cash flow challenge I believe there is risk in this budget as there is in every budget. I think we've done a lot of things to mitigate that risk. I think we've mitigated our risk by doubling our shortfall reserve policy. And that is reflected in our tables. So I think we have mitigated risk by yesterday, identifying a replacement for over $600,000 in Measure O funds with the Cal Recycle Grant. I think we will continue to mitigate risk by exploring some very lucrative potential additional revenue sources. And so I am comfortable with the level of risk that we will face in the next two years for this resource allocation and in the next one year for our budget. So if there are no further comments, I'm going to go ahead and move to adopt the following three budget limitations resolutions. One, approving the appropriation limit for fiscal year 2018 to 19 pursuant to article 8B of the California Constitution, the GAN limit. Number two approving the budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year and the fiscal year 2018-20 resources allocation plan with the addition of the $30,000 recommended by staff for continued code enforcement And if it's acceptable to everyone with a metric system applied to the $50,000 budget, economic development pilot expenditure. Three, approving the resolution establishing the authorized staffing levels and salary ranges for all permanent and temporary positions for fiscal year 2018-19. and then I'm going to add a number four, which is to direct staff to return to the council at midyear with the status of our revenue opportunities and with the list in today's packet of discussion items not included in the budget to provide the city council with an opportunity to prioritize those item, those discussion items. And then I also want to direct staff to return to us for discussion and direction on the business tax, license tax, the transit occupancy tax, demand parking, fee schedule, and other revenue opportunities. |
| 03:17:52.18 | Ray Withey | Madam Mayor. Yes sir. The three statutory resolutions we have to pass, could we have a clarification from the city attorney as to whether we can do that in one motion? |
| 03:17:53.42 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes, sir. |
| 03:18:04.39 | Mary Wagner | You can. |
| 03:18:05.19 | Ray Withey | We can? Okay. First time we will have ever done it in one motion, so that's good. |
| 03:18:05.35 | Mary Wagner | We can't. Yeah. |
| 03:18:10.71 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OK. All right, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay, that motion carries resoundingly. |
| 03:18:14.44 | Ray Withey | Hi. Hi. |
| 03:18:20.45 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you very much. |
| 03:18:22.09 | Melanie Purcell | you |
| 03:18:22.12 | Unknown | Hi. |
| 03:18:22.81 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 03:18:22.98 | Unknown | Thank you. Your homework. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:18:30.95 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, we're now going to move on to our new item 6B, which is adoption of ordinance number 1259, amending section 4.04.040 of the Saucydeur Municipal Code to increase the limitations on campaign contributions. You have a staff report in your packet. This staff report does not include. the information that was provided to us at first reading of the ordinance, which was the comparison of of what other jurisdictions spend, but I'm going to open this up for comment, actually, from the dais, from Council Member Withey, and from... Councilmember Cleveland Knowles first since they Expressed an interest in further discussing this item |
| 03:19:26.94 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, so the reason I wanted to take this off of consent was that last week I expressed some concern about raising our contribution limits from $250 per person to $500. And I said last week that I thought that the $250 limit was appropriate for a small town, that just in general I feel like money is like politics is awash in money. I think it's feasible to run a good campaign. with that $250 limitation. And, you know, Council Member Hoffman had some good comments about I Thank you. that a higher limit would allow people who don't have their own funds to more easily raise money. I think the way to address that point is to consider a limitation on contributions by a candidate to their own campaign. So I, and I ended up voting yes. last week and over the week I thought about it and I decided that I had not voted correctly for myself and that I would like to change my vote to no. So that was why I asked for it to be taken off consent. Thank you. Great. |
| 03:20:52.81 | Ray Withey | Yeah, this was something I thought we actually rushed through a bit. The fact that I was still thinking about it the next day meant I hadn't fully, I think, deliberated on it. Uh... |
| 03:21:10.47 | Ray Withey | So for a little town like ours, what is the best thing to do? I know as a candidate, there's always times when you feel like you wish there was no limit. If someone has been willing to write you a $1,000 check, which there were some people, you know, turning it away, I am, I have to confess, completely opposed to putting restrictions on what an individual can fund their own campaign. I just think that that goes against the grain in everything I believe in. So sorry. But that's just my view on that. so If we were going to reconsider our vote, don't we need a motion to reconsider? I mean, how was the process for this during the second reading? |
| 03:22:13.17 | Mary Wagner | So if what you want to do is either discuss changes to the regulations that you gave first reading to last time, we would, if there were directed changes to that, we would actually go back and have another first reading and then come back for a second reading. If, um, people have changed their mind about the ordinance at all you know you could call the question on second read and see if it it passes or doesn't pass i don't believe this is a situation where you need a motion to reconsider because there are options to modify the language in the ordinance and or not adopt the ordinance tonight you could also direct us to bring something back to you for more considerations. You have a lot of options. If you technically want to undo your vote from last time, then that would require a motion to reconsider tonight by someone who voted in the majority, which you all did. So someone could make that motion and then you'd have to take a vote on that. I believe it carried 5-0 last. No, it was 4-1. Sorry. So the one person who voted against it wouldn't be able to make that motion, but the other four of you would be able to. So then we would have to come back to you again. |
| 03:23:14.08 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | No, it's 401. |
| 03:23:25.01 | Jill Hoffman | And just for clarification, I did not mean that I wanted to change my vote from my vote that I took last week I just I'm going to vote differently. This week is what I meant to say so. And I just had one little niggling thing. I was surprised to see this item on consent, because the vote was for one. So just for the future, it seems like if something, it says that this is expected to have unanimous consent by the council, so it seems like probably It should have been off. That's just a nitpick. |
| 03:24:04.06 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I, So I have run for counsel twice. The first time I ran for council, I was sitting on the planning commission, and although I had lived here for over 20 years, I was a workaholic and hardly knew anybody. And I ended up lending my campaign over $10,000 because I was running against two incumbents. And as a concerned citizen, I thought it was really important to stir things up a bit and to bring to light some issues, including the budget. I had seen minutes from a BAC meeting in which our finance manager at the time said it would not be untrue to say the sky is falling. And I was seriously concerned about the budget and about other issues, but I didn't know enough people in town to gather enough to raise enough funds. I had total strangers giving me money at coffees, but I was knocking on doors and trying to raise money in order to participate in the political process. And it is, I spent $30,000 that year on a campaign because I was also a novice to campaigning. I knew nothing about the political process, so I hired a consultant that cost me a ton of money so I sold a car in order to be able to afford to run for office and you know I am a devoted volunteer to this town and I think it's important that committed people have the opportunity to have their voice heard And so... It's not inexpensive to run a campaign, to mail flyers, to run ads. So I... I certainly agree with Council Member Withy. It's important not to take away someone's ability to invest in their own candidacy. And in looking at the survey of what other municipalities allow as a funding limit, $250 is low on the grand scale of things. And so those are my thoughts about the importance of... Um, ensuring that people who want to participate are, that it's economically feasible for them to do so. |
| 03:26:45.32 | Joe Burns | I will first open first I want to say you came here as a tourist I think we got to and look at all you've done did I came here as a tourist that's my plug for tourism. |
| 03:26:51.41 | Unknown | I did. I came here as a tourist. Yeah. |
| 03:26:58.76 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | On day four of a one week vacation, I started looking for a job. |
| 03:26:60.00 | Joe Burns | I didn't need a whole story. I just kind of went, okay. THAT'S AMAZING, JOE. I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO THIS GROUP FOR THE WAY I PROCESSED LAST WEEK. I REALLY DIDN'T HAVE A PLAN AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE I WAS GOING TO GO WITH THAT. AS AGENDA SETTING COMMITTEE, I AGREED THAT WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT IT. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE CONVERSATION, I WASN'T INSPIRED TO SUPPORT IT, SIMPLY BECAUSE I DON'T REALLY SUPPORT CAMPAIGN FINANCING. I DO SUPPORT LIMITS IN GENERAL, AND I DON'T LIKE A LOT OF THE FUNDING WHEN IT DOESN'T MATCH THE MEDIA MIX purchasing ability because then you get an overweighted amount of expenditures that makes the minority sound really loud, whichever way that minority is going. And that's what kind of frustrates me at times, not just this community, I'm talking about in general. where you just have so much money for such limited media buy, which granted I know we have tens and fifteens and 20th and $30,000 numbers, but that's still really small as far as what some communities have to spend. in a media mix to reach the community. And we ended up getting six, seven, eight flyers saying the same thing. So I kind of wanted to hear something different last week when we opened it up to the group. And I didn't have any particular thing. I wish I would have said more of this at that point. I'm not going to change my vote to yes tonight. But that's just kind of how I feel about it in general and I just wanted to make that more clear this time. |
| 03:28:40.22 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. So, yeah, just to sort of elaborate on some of the things that were brought up in the staff report last time. You know, when you look at other cities and there's a comparison there, you know, we're on the absolute low end of, you know, the comparisons. Where East Palo Alto is $500 a person, Fremont's 500, Half Moon Bay is $1,000, Haywardward, 315, but they have a CPI, Consumer Price Index, increase every year. 500,000. Nevada 400, Oakland 500, Pinole 500. I mean, I'm just going through the list here. I mean, I understand those are big cities, but, you know, this ordinance was adopted in 1999. and it's never been increased. And to sit here and say that you don't recognize that there's been an increase in the cost of buttons and signs and buys is just disingenuous. I mean, to double this is really pretty modest, actually. And we're still, I think, I feel like having run a campaign, you know, still on the low end. And it really creates an opportunity disparity about who can run and who can't if you have a low per person I THINK THERE'S A LIMIT ON WHO CAN DONATE TO YOUR CAMPAIGN. BECAUSE THEN THE DISPARITY COMES WHEN PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO SELF-FUND THEIR CAMPAIGNS. AND NOT EVERYBODY IS ABLE TO SELF-FUND THEIR CAMPAIGNS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, IN THE BIG POLITICAL WORLD, you know, people with the most money, unfortunately, sometimes win. Here in Sausalito, we've kept that, at least we've tried to keep that in a in a certain level of spending. But the fact is, if someone is of a higher income level and they want to come in and spend a ton of money on the campaign, they can. That's up to, you know, they can do that. But you have to be able to level the playing field just a little bit. And I feel like that's what this ordinance update is doing, is leveling that, to a certain extent, a very small way. In a very small way, it's leveling that. You know, $500 per person is still pretty low. But it also allows you to spend more of your time campaigning and talking about policy and engaging those types of things instead of going out and asking people for money. And so you're able to get in. And luckily here in Sausalito, I feel like we have pretty low. Um, to run a credible campaign, it doesn't cost an outrageous amount of money, thank God. And so you can get to that level where you can run a credible campaign a lot easier, a lot faster at $500 as opposed to $250. So I feel very, very strongly that this is a way that it allows people of all income levels to run a credible, decent campaign here in Sausalito and doesn't freeze people out. Um, And it's very modest. I mean, like I said, this ordinance was enacted in 1999. It's 20 years ago, and we've never increased it. So I feel, you know, like I said very strongly, this is just an attempt at both things, right? It's an attempt at keeping the amount of money that we spend on campaigns at a reasonable level, because, I mean, how many people can you, you know, Can you reasonably reach for in Sausalito to donate your campaign. But on the other hand, it makes it a little easier for people that aren't using their own money or have access to that kind of funds through their own income or wealth, whatever you want to call it, to be able to run a credible campaign. So I don't see that The concerns about how much we spent on campaigns is really impacted that much. What the real effect of this is, is that it opens the doors to the political process for more people. AND HE'S NOT GOING TO BE |
| 03:32:45.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | further comment. |
| 03:32:47.79 | Jill Hoffman | I DO JUST WANT TO NOTE, THE STAFF REPORT DID MENTION A LOT OF OTHER CITIES THAT HAD HIGHER CONTRIBUTIONS, BUT BERKELEY DOES STILL HAVE A $250 LIMITATION. IT'S A HUGE TOWN. AND SAN FRANCISCO, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, AS Councilmember Burns was saying, you know, it's a much higher dollar media market or whatever. It's $500 there. So, I mean, I think... some of the examples are not necessarily representative. |
| 03:33:17.47 | Joe Burns | Yeah, and I'd say one of the metrics that we didn't get into, and it's a lot of work, but when you start looking at how much average campaign spends per vote, I'm always amazed that we can spend, you know, $10 per vote, $20 per vote. That's the type of number I'd like to see how that plays out in other communities like Fremont. you know, where you have 125 or 150,000 people, whatever they're up to now. So, yeah. |
| 03:33:48.64 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, I'm going to move that we waive further reading, read by title only, and adopt ordinance number 1259 of the City Council of the City of Sausalito, amending section 4.04.040 of the Sausalito Municipal Code to increase the limitations on campaign contributions. I'm sorry, Vicki. Sorry. |
| 03:34:10.56 | Vicki Nichols | That's all right. |
| 03:34:12.45 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I we ended up commenting before public comments or I apologize for that right |
| 03:34:15.95 | Vicki Nichols | That's all right. I apologize for that. That's all right. So I wasn't gonna, I didn't know this was gonna come up again and be pulled, but I was surprised when I read this on the, agenda for last time. I can't come to all the meetings, it seems. So um, There was a reason for this in 1999. This was deliberately put on because of people having a really, really, I won't name the name of the candidate. Some of the people that have been here for a long time know, but a really ugly campaign. And it was put on at the council at that time, the limitation, a couple of which the composition, I think, were lawyers and could fund their own campaigns. But they put the 250 on here to make it such that you can't stop someone from funding their own campaign. I agree with that. Thank you. But if you're going to be elected and represent the public, you have to get out and meet the public and work for the dollars. I've campaigned twice. I know it's hard. The last time, I think I paid $49 for my campaign. So I was able to get it not in all 250 donations, but it can be done. And I just feel really strongly that the cities that were compared to Sausalito, I was shocked to look at those. There's nothing near the population of Sausalito. So to raise it to five, you're going to get the same. If you go back on the last couple years and look at the various candidates, you're going to see many times their professional colleagues that have money to give them each $500. I mean, that's different too. So I would encourage you to not, I don't see any reason to do this, I really don't. |
| 03:36:11.12 | David Lay | I shouldn't say it's David Lee again. the campaign, the election of 98 was... Tremendous for this town. Made a hell of a difference, coming away from the government we had to what we got. things really worked more like you are. And I don't think it's money that did that. I think those people got out and talked to everybody. And I was pretty new in town then. BUT THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO DO. That, The election really made a difference and it wasn't money that did it. And I think money spoils things. And I think a couple of things. every dollar that goes into anybody's campaign there can't be any PACs or anything that put in the money another way. Everything has to be above board and reported. And I think that's already state law. Thank you. and that it should be as low as you can keep it And the extra money you put in and raised from other people, I don't think that really helps in this town. I think there's the people you go and talk to, especially at the women's club meetings and the Spinnaker meetings and all those things, that's where it is. I'll take 30 seconds to do another thing. That is, it sure is good to see a three to two Three to two is really looking good. And it sure is good to see Some staff people here, and we're in the room tonight, did... really are all working really hard That comes from you all doing your homework, Adam being a good controller that he is and just running those things and Keeping that spirit right down through the guy that does the hedge clipping and all that stuff. It really it really shows When I sit on the bench waiting for a bus and the guy comes along They're not leaning on a shovel. They're doing what they have to do And that comes out of the top. And that's the way it's going to work with buses. When you see the top people doing it and all of a sudden they get it and none of you do yet. But when they get it, then all of a sudden, everybody else pays attention. through the atoms. right down through everybody else, and all of a sudden, it's Sal's problem. Thank you very much. |
| 03:38:36.09 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. I'm going to close public comment. And I will just echo what Jill said. $250 today is not worth nearly what $250 was worth 20 years ago. And so... you know, increasing the campaign contribution limits, It makes sense if you want to continue the policy that was adopted 20 years ago. The other thing is, talking about population, with larger population towns, there are more people to draw upon as resources for campaign contributions. Whereas with a smaller population town, the number of people who are actually involved. Thank you. who will answer their door and talk to you at their door about Sausalito issues, is smaller than that in larger populated towns. |
| 03:39:32.98 | Carolyn Ford | I have something to add as well. you know I agree with with Vicky's comments, you know, in Sausalito you have to get, luckily you can. because they were so small, but you do have to get out and talk to people. I mean, no one's saying that you're not going to do that. The issue is you have to have certain things or when you run a campaign and there's certain infrastructure that you need to have, I mean, you have to pay for that somehow. AND the lower the limit, the harder it is for somebody that does not have a personal wealth behind them or the ability to pay for it themselves, the less effective, by definition, that person is going to be. If you artificially keep the limit so low that you're going to spend all your time begging people for money instead of actually running your campaign. So, and it makes you seem a less credible candidate as well. And so, you know, I don't see this as unreasonable. I don't, and frankly, I don't really understand why we're having this discussion about it. Because the change from 250 to 500 really isn't, you know, a significant jump when you look at you know 1999 versus 2018. I mean, unless you want to apply a CPI index to it, like the other towns did, and see what that number comes out at. But anyway... Yes, Ray, you seem to see. |
| 03:40:59.26 | Ray Withey | No, I just did a little calculation just for everybody's benefit. Yeah. $250 inflated at 3% over 20 years accumulated is $451. |
| 03:41:04.47 | Carolyn Ford | Yeah. |
| 03:41:13.48 | Unknown | You did that in your head right? No, I did it. |
| 03:41:14.58 | Ray Withey | No, I did it on my calculator. |
| 03:41:16.03 | Carolyn Ford | . |
| 03:41:16.08 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 03:41:16.12 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:41:16.18 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 03:41:16.47 | Carolyn Ford | Yeah. I WANT TO MAKE AN ALTERNATE MOTION THAT IT BE 450. I'M OKAY. YOU KNOW, AND, YOU Anyway. |
| 03:41:29.82 | Jill Hoffman | So I'm glad we had it. I think this is a relevant conversation. I'm glad we had it. I agree. I mean, I think everybody has good points, and I think it was a good conversation to have. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:41:39.54 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 03:41:39.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:41:40.16 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So Mary, let me ask you this. If the motion on second reading doesn't carry. Can we go back and have discussion about what might carry? Okay. All right so I already read this and that is my motion. Lily, will you call the roll? |
| 03:42:00.38 | Lily | Thank you. Councilmember Withey. |
| 03:42:06.37 | Ray Withey | Yes. |
| 03:42:08.04 | Lily | Councilmember Hoffman? Thank you. Council member Cleveland Knowles? No. Vice Mayor Burns? No. |
| 03:42:14.69 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:42:15.36 | Lily | Thank you. Mayor Cox? Yes. Carries 4-2. No, 3-2. Sorry. It's 11 o'clock. |
| 03:42:18.49 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:42:18.99 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I agree too. |
| 03:42:19.90 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 03:42:19.94 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | HE'S NOT ABLE TO DO. |
| 03:42:25.51 | Ray Withey | I honestly didn't know how I was going to vote there. So I actually think it was worth the discussion. |
| 03:42:31.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I greatly appreciate the discussion, and I also agree with David Lee. I'm proud that... Thank you. Lay sorry. Yes, I am proud of the number of 5 0 votes that we have, but I don't mind when we split 3-2 because I think it, you know, we are different people with different views and I think it's healthy to have productive debate. So thank you all for that. |
| 03:42:40.48 | Unknown | It'll... |
| 03:42:58.73 | Joe Burns | The debate would worth $250. |
| 03:43:01.65 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. All right, we're going to move on to item seven. How did we get an hour behind? I can tell you. All right, item seven, city manager report. |
| 03:43:02.18 | Joe Burns | I'm sorry. Yeah. |
| 03:43:09.97 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 03:43:15.41 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Council member reports. So now you see, this is the issue. The heading is all of this. It's just, this is a, I always have a challenge following the agenda in this new format. So I'm gonna open this up for public comment on city manager reports, council member reports, city council appointments, and other council business. Any public comment? Seeing none, we'll move to 7A. or 7B, City Manager Information for Council. |
| 03:43:47.06 | Adam Politzer | Madam Mayor and Council members, I have no specific items to report, but happy to answer any questions from the Council. |
| 03:43:52.89 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Any questions of the city manager? Thank you. Council member committee reports. We've already heard about MCCMC disaster. Ray, I know you have. MCCMC pension. |
| 03:44:07.36 | Ray Withey | Yeah, well, we've been talking about pensions. Last night after disaster in the same building, we had the MCC, MC Pension and OPEP Committee I think that's moving along. We've got a sort of the beginning of trying to assemble consistent data for all 11 cities in Marin. So, yeah. I've volunteered to help draft with Larry the report. So we're going to use Sausalito as an example to at least get all, because I feel pretty confident we know all the data here. And so let's get a template of what a city reporting out would look like, and we'll run that by staff. We're probably going to break it up into themes, not city, but we're asking the cities to come up with and we're going to provide the template because they're still not quite sure how to do that so that'd be fun um and we'll see where this gets hopefully the goal is to be able to report to mccmc um november december time frame and to supplement the report that we did in 2011, or was done in 2011, I wasn't there. That's it. That's the only thing I've been to. |
| 03:45:31.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. |
| 03:45:32.03 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:45:32.13 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:45:32.70 | Carolyn Ford | Jill? Council member reports. We had a waterfront committee report, but I think you already referenced that earlier. |
| 03:45:41.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes. I'll report on RBRA. |
| 03:45:47.25 | Joe Burns | Yes, I had two probably worth speaking. One was the Marine Telecommunications Agency, which really the only message there is that we're going to kind of take a combined look as a group at small cell tower ordinances throughout the county to make sure we're protected and in a position to gain through the Marine General Services when another |
| 03:45:47.79 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 03:46:19.83 | Joe Burns | PROPOSITION AB 649 COMES ABOUT. THE TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANIES ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO GO AFTER THAT SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. SO MORE TO THAT TO COME. BIKE AND PED WAS MORE INTERESTING. THAT GROUP, AGAIN, A NEW GROUP TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AND NOT GETTING MUCH INPUT FROM THE STAFF LIAISON, I MEAN THE COUNCIL LIAISON, BUT THEY'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THEIR WAY. THE FIRST DOCUMENT The first document that they're looking at is the bike plan check-in, and they did put together through a couple subcommittees some really good points that they need to put together one more time, which I believe is the 17th or 18th, but has David Suda reached out to you, Adam? we're looking at maybe getting on the 31st calendar, which we could talk about in a THE BIDEN'S DEPARTMENT OF THE the plan check in and maybe even a little bit about some areas where they can expand as a committee how they look at congestion management through and then pedestrian other bike uses and those types of things transportation congestion and circulation. Yeah, so that's it on those. |
| 03:47:45.47 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I attended an RBRA meeting, that's the Richardson Bay Regional Agency, on June 14th. in which The new bylaws were adopted, shifting the percentage responsibility now that Sausalito has withdrawn from RBRA. And starting discussion of undertaking study of a potential mooring field. And so I was happy to hear that the RBRA is going to undertake study of the mooring field before embarking upon it. I was happy to hear from Supervisor Sears this evening, who sits on RBRA, that she agrees that the city of Sausalito and RBRA need to communicate and collaborate so that we get in lockstep regarding an enforcement strategy on the bay. And so we will be having a future meeting with RBRA to try to move that commitment forward. I, on Monday morning, attended a meeting at the Port Commission for the city of San Francisco, at which they approved, where the Port Commission approved the National Park Service plan for ferry service from and operations from San Francisco to Alcatraz. Their plan includes a potential future ferry service to Fort Baker. And although those plans have not been fully conceived, because those plans have not yet been fully conceived, Sausalito, I, on behalf of Sausalito, and Sausalito in correspondence to the Port Authority, requested that they sever the Fort Baker project from the overall approvals, or in the alternative that they adopt three as part of the project, or as part of the mitigation measures for the CEQA review of the project, adopt three regional transportation solutions to ensure that when and if ferry service does commence to Fort Baker, that the impact on tourists and on residents is minimal and that the service and operations are well managed. The port did not adopt. or add to its agreement, the three regional transportation measures that Sausalito requested. They did add to their resolution, and they did add to their comments, comments that they understand that Sausalito has significant concerns about these issues, and that these issues warrant further study. And so we're grateful for that. We're grateful that the National Park Service has agreed to continue to meet with the city of Sausalito to discuss a potential MOU. memorandum of understanding to address these concerns. And so we will continue to do our best to protect Sausalito's interests with respect to that potential future project. I don't think I have. Oh, and the general plan, the M group hosted a general plan workshop this past weekend. Very well attended and very well received. And I was so happy to see younger residents that I had not seen before. I'm pleased that three of the council members on the dais were able to attend and we tried not to talk but simply to facilitate That was challenging for one of us, I will tell you. Me? But I'm very encouraged and I look forward to this body receiving the feedback from the M group about what it heard from the residents as we as the general plan advisory committee commences the visioning process. Okay, item seven. D is appointments to boards and commissions. I'm not sure. We have in our we have a staff report Lily. |
| 03:52:29.51 | Lily | The first item is the appointment to the community safety disaster preparedness committee. You have one member whose term has expired and he's eligible for a second term. You did have an application submitted and an interview scheduled for this evening. However, she at the last minute was unable to attend the interview. Therefore, you may go ahead and reappoint the existing member to his second term if you so choose. |
| 03:52:57.51 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So I move we reappoint Tom Perazzo to his second term on the Community Safety Disaster Preparedness Committee. |
| 03:53:05.66 | Ray Withey | Second. |
| 03:53:06.69 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All in favor? Thank you. |
| 03:53:07.62 | Ray Withey | Aye. Aye. |
| 03:53:07.87 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Aye, that motion carries five zero. Next is the Library Board of Trustees appointment. |
| 03:53:14.45 | Lily | Thank you. |
| 03:53:16.48 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 03:53:16.49 | Lily | So for this position, you have a member who has their first term expired. We have no other applications, and therefore you can, if you so choose, reappoint her to her second term. |
| 03:53:27.82 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I move we appoint Judy Ann Annan to her second term on the Library Board of Trustees. All in favor? Aye. That motion carries 5-0. |
| 03:53:49.15 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Currently, I sit on the MCCMC Pension Committee, but I have been unable to attend the last two meetings. Thankfully, Council Member Withey does attend, but I'm going to appoint as I'm going to replace myself as the alternate to that committee with Jill Hoffman. Alright, that's it on 7D. Moving on to 7E, Lily, you added the matter regarding the parking spaces in front of the hardware store to the list of things for the agenda setting committee to determine how to handle moving forward. Any other comments or questions on future agenda items? |
| 03:54:34.90 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, I had one thing, and I forgot to mention this earlier when we were talking about the budget, but one of the revenue measures that we rely on, obviously, is Measure O. And at some point, before it gets kind of critical, I would like to talk about renewing Measure O and kind of the right timing and when and kind of how to do that. I thought it was really interesting when Tam came and presented to us that they had gone out ahead of the time that they needed to on the ballot. And I just think that that's worth considering. It's such an important revenue source for us. So it's not completely urgent, but personally, I'd just like the agenda setting committee to consider kind of an earlier discussion of that. |
| 03:55:15.29 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:55:23.51 | Jill Hoffman | issue. |
| 03:55:24.71 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Great. So Lily, will you add that to our list as well? I am, I will say I am so pleased and proud that our list of potential future agenda items has dwindled from like 12 pages to four. So congratulations to all, to staff and to us for getting all that work done. |
| 03:55:44.01 | Ray Withey | It works when you put 20 things on the table. |
| 03:55:47.41 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | . |
| 03:55:47.56 | Ray Withey | . |
| 03:55:48.42 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | That's right. |
| 03:55:48.47 | Ray Withey | And... |
| 03:55:48.55 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 03:55:48.59 | Ray Withey | Okay. |
| 03:55:49.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 03:55:49.25 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 03:55:49.38 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 03:55:49.43 | Ray Withey | Yeah. |
| 03:55:49.45 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. All right. Other reports of significance, I'm going to pass it to Vice Mayor Joe Burns. |
| 03:55:58.21 | Joe Burns | Well. Supervisor Kate Sears kind of stole my thunder on this, but I'm glad she did because she said it so appropriately and at a good time of the meeting when people were still watching, that the Golden Gate District has... |
| 03:56:02.80 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | You did? |
| 03:56:14.44 | Joe Burns | We'll be retaining Route 92, that is the route that goes from Manzanita through Sausalito. down Geary into the Civic Center. Susan council members who include Noles and I attended Susan was there more as a user of the surface and as the route and spoke very eloquently both on that issue as well as a couple other transit issues related to the to the district and 101 and this and that. But I just think just being there and more importantly the story was the community that showed up. We had just such a great, I mean, people that we didn't know and the employers that were here and that they showed up and you know, young people that's irrelevant just that they're young businesses here working in the in the marine ship and they they got involved and they expressed their opinion and they said here's how we use it and I think we're all kind of like wow we didn't know that that's how you used it. But that also makes us realize there's many more out there, and there's many more that could be using it. So we wanted to use this time really as a way to remind our residents who are watching, to remind other people, there's some really good routes, and Route 92 is a very important route. It's only one that reaches that side of San Francisco into a residential community where people come here to work. We have to always remember that our community THE PROGRAM IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO Now, I use public transportation, I know you're going to say that I don't. But as a realtor, it's really hard to sell real estate on a bus. But yeah, so that's it. |
| 03:58:22.74 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Mm-hmm. You don't know what happened? you |
| 03:58:26.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:58:27.35 | David Lay | Thank you. |
| 03:58:29.32 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | He does know what happened, Kate Sears confirmed it tonight that the Route 92 was preserved. Anyway, sorry, there's no more public comment. Although I will say I rode the ferry yesterday to the hearing at the port commission with the city manager. I am also a frequent user of public transportation when feasible. All right, it's almost 1115. I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. |
| 03:58:54.68 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:58:56.14 | Joe Burns | Second. |
| 03:58:56.74 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Thank you, everybody. |
| 03:59:04.12 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Sorry. |