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| 00:00:01.35 | Mayor Burns | Good evening. This is the regular city council meeting of October 22nd. I'm going to call to order and ask a roll card to be taken. Serge. |
| 00:00:15.00 | Unknown | Council member Cox? Here. Council member Riley? |
| 00:00:18.44 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 00:00:18.48 | E. Gallickson | Here. |
| 00:00:19.34 | Unknown | Councilmember Withey? Here. Vice Mayor Cleveland Knowles? |
| 00:00:22.63 | E. Gallickson | I'm not sure. |
| 00:00:23.27 | Unknown | Mayor Burns. |
| 00:00:24.31 | Mayor Burns | Here. There are two items that we will be hearing in closed session tonight. D1, conference with labor negotiators pursuant to section 54957.6. Representatives Charles Sakai and Sloan Sakai, employee organizations, also the police association. D2, liability claims pursuant to California government code section 54956.95, claimant Walter and Carolyn Treiber. against the city of Sausalito, in the name of claimant Peggy McDonald, against the city of Sausalito. Are there any closed session public comments? Seeing none, we'll close public comment on closed session and adjourn. to the seven o'clock meeting. See you back here. |
| 00:01:28.54 | Unknown | be far away. It's true. |
| 00:01:40.34 | Unknown | Stay. What care are I? Dear, I'll get far. As long as I |
| 00:02:00.72 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:02:17.04 | Unknown | Say what care I have. Oh, dear. I'll get by. As long as I No! |
| 00:03:20.22 | Unknown | Oh. Do it again. Thank you. you Thank you. I may say no. No. No. But... Do what I need. |
| 00:03:45.09 | Unknown | My lips just ache. To have you take the kiss That's waiting for you |
| 00:03:58.90 | Unknown | You know if you do. Thank you. |
| 00:04:07.74 | Unknown | You won't. Regretting Come on. Get it. Oh. |
| 00:04:20.45 | Unknown | No one is near . you I may cry |
| 00:04:34.40 | Unknown | But no one can hear. you |
| 00:04:36.44 | Unknown | Here. |
| 00:04:41.68 | Unknown | My mom may scold me Because she told me It was naughty. But then... Please. Do it again. |
| 00:05:02.06 | Unknown | Just do it again. |
| 00:05:16.94 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:05:27.51 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:05:57.29 | Unknown | you Thank you. you |
| 00:06:05.17 | Unknown | Come and get old. you . Turn out the light Thank you. you |
| 00:06:21.08 | Unknown | And hold me close. Those in your arms all through the night Thank you. Thank you. you Mama, my miss goal. Because she told me It was naughty but then Bye. Please. Do it. Again. Bye. Just do it again and again. |
| 00:07:13.45 | Unknown | And again. you Just do it again. |
| 00:07:35.77 | Alan Broadbent | Hi, this is Alan Broadbent and you are tuned to Radio Sausalito. |
| 00:07:49.56 | Unknown | He used to sail Baby. We'll be right back. Thank you. As we natives say So be tough |
| 00:08:04.51 | Unknown | If you're ever gonna kiss me And it better be tonight. While the mandolins are playin' And stars are bright If you've anything to tell me It had better be tonight. Somebody else may tell me And whisper the words just right. Mellow's the sail Amen. As we natives say Hot, sweet. |
| 00:08:58.90 | Unknown | All this poor Americana Who knows little of your speech? You're nice, Italiano. Hamster to teach. Show me how in old Milano The levels hold each other tight. But I warn you, sweet Paisano, it had better be tonight. Meglio stasera Baby, go, go. As we natives say Ha! to be done. |
| 00:09:59.43 | Unknown | Radio Sausalito would like to thank Joan and Stuart Emery of Belvedere for their generous donation, which is vital to our broadcast signal. Thanks, Joan, and thanks, Stuart. |
| 00:10:09.61 | Unknown | Just a friendly reminder that in our 19 years of being on the air, Radio Sausalito has never interrupted our programming for pledge drives like other radio stations. But we do rely completely on listener donations to keep us on the air. Please make a secure donation on our website or send us a check to P.O. Box 397, Sausalito, California, 94966. We need you to join other listeners, and please make a donation today. |
| 00:10:40.54 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:41.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:41.18 | Unknown | Thanks. Here's a public service announcement from the Sausalito Women's Club. |
| 00:10:49.94 | Unknown | The architect of Hearst Castle, as well as the Saus Lido Women's Club building, Julia Morgan, will be profiled at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 24th. The presenter is Mark Wilson, author of Architect of Beauty, and an expert on Julia Morgan's mentor, Bernard Maybach. This event is open to the community and there will be a no-host bar. |
| 00:11:15.65 | Unknown | That's a free talk about Julia Morgan at the Sausalito Women's Club, 120 Central Avenue, Sausalito. It starts at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 24th. please RSVP to Yvonne Spencer at SWCPS94965 at gmail.com. Once more, that's swcps94965 at gmail.com. |
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| 00:15:12.83 | Alan Broadbent | In books by Hemingway and Jones. Those literary baritones The language can get pretty rough. The hero's tender butt. |
| 00:15:22.32 | Unknown | I'm not. |
| 00:15:24.33 | Alan Broadbent | He's tough. A night of love then off to war. The ladies always beg for more. Those virile heroes never miss with manly dialogue. |
| 00:15:36.70 | Unknown | I'll let you know. |
| 00:15:37.07 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 00:15:40.04 | Alan Broadbent | Like this. I love you true, I love you straight, I love you honest. You're like a symphony, a sonnet. |
| 00:15:49.16 | Unknown | Oh, my. |
| 00:15:59.15 | Mayor Burns | All right, well thank you for being here, thank you for your patience. This is, if I can get my glasses out, the October 22nd City Council meeting. We just came out of a closed session, that's why we are running a little late. And in that closed session, we've got my agenda here. In that closed session, we heard two items. And we did have a, I'll make some announcements in just a second. First, I'm going to do the Pledge of Allegiance. And Lisa, would you give us the pledge? It's yellow. Lisa. Yeah, please. |
| 00:16:37.99 | Councilmember Withey | In addition to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. |
| 00:16:39.03 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:16:40.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:16:40.11 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:16:40.58 | Unknown | space. |
| 00:16:40.92 | Unknown | of America. |
| 00:16:53.75 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. So as I was saying before I gave our nation that's due pledge, closed session we have just one announcement that we did hear two items and we had a recusal. Mr. Reilly. |
| 00:17:06.91 | Unknown | Yes, I had to recuse myself from item D2 due to the proximity of my home. Thank you. |
| 00:17:14.01 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. There were no other closed session announcements. Looking for an approval of an agenda. |
| 00:17:19.33 | Councilmember Cox | So moved. Second. |
| 00:17:21.22 | Mayor Burns | All in favor? Aye. That passes 5-0. |
| 00:17:22.27 | Councilmember Cox | Bye. |
| 00:17:26.28 | Mayor Burns | Well, we have some exciting stuff now. I'm going to call up Jerry Taylor for a special presentation on the Ice House Grand Opening. |
| 00:17:48.02 | Unknown | I just a couple of little things to remember how much fun we've had over the years with this. Here's a cartoon that Phil did years ago when they were moving the ice house from the corner of Litho and Caledonia Street to downtown, and here is a nighttime photograph of that midnight move. I'm going to pass these over to you guys in just a second. and followed up by 20 YEARS AGO IN 1999, Here is Phil Frank and Mayor Amy Belser. at the Ice House for the grand opening of the museum Thank you. And here's a picture on the backside, including Robin Sweeney, Margaret Badger, Joe Troy, Jean Fiedler, And I think that's Dana Whitson and Amy Belser in this picture also. So kind of fun stuff. And doing these kinds of research, we came across possibly an interesting fact, and that is historical society signed a lease 20 years ago for a 20 year lease. And we're supposed to be paying a dollar a year plus interest. and Even though I'm a finance manager, those kind of calculations are a little bit high for me, so we – overestimated here. you Here is our 20-year rent payment. from the historical society. Do I dare touch? |
| 00:19:11.35 | Mayor Burns | Do I dare touch? |
| 00:19:12.34 | Unknown | Don't spend it on. |
| 00:19:14.74 | Mayor Burns | Ha ha. |
| 00:19:15.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:19:15.51 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. You spelled Burns wrong, but that's all right. |
| 00:19:17.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:19:18.65 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:19:20.07 | Unknown | C-I-T-Y, I think. |
| 00:19:21.08 | Mayor Burns | cute. |
| 00:19:21.62 | Unknown | Why? |
| 00:19:22.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:19:22.97 | Unknown | I'm going to go. |
| 00:19:24.86 | Unknown | So that's a little bit of business to take care of. Then we started building a plaza. And here is a lovely photograph taken a few years ago with Don Olson. Norman Gloria Walshwiger sitting alongside me and Dana showing off the plans to the public. And Now... within the last in January, Here's some characters you may recognize when we're having our groundbreaking. So this week, on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The public is invited. because This is a gift from the city of Sausalito, from the people of Sausalito. Thank you. |
| 00:20:08.48 | Unknown | begin like |
| 00:20:09.24 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:13.58 | Unknown | Thank you. This is a gift from the people of Sausalito. For Sausalito, about Sausalito, to the city of Sausalito. And we are so glad, honored to have received the support from the council, the planning commission, the historic landmarks board through the years. We've gotten generous donations, about $250,000 cash, $150,000 of donated services, and we are, I hope, done. Phil is still upstairs. He's scheduled to move Thursday. The donor wall is scheduled to be installed Friday. We're opening the plaza Saturday morning, whatever it is. We are happy. Bubbly, I've asked Joe and Susan to say a few words on Saturday morning. I'm looking forward to that. There are several other interesting people and not necessarily interesting people, but we are honored to have Carl Nolte give us a few words also. Carl is the one who did the final edit on the historical timeline of Sausalito. This is going to be fun. We are not going to get killed by standing in the traffic. We are going to enjoy ourselves. And if you pass those on down, eventually they'll get back after that. I'm going to go ahead and get a chance to get At 10 o'clock at the Ice House Plaza, we're not going to be late, we're actually having a little procession. to get some props from here. down to there. So there'll be a few people in historical costume tagging along. It's not a parade. We don't have a permit. We are walking on the sidewalk and not stopping So thank you everybody. And again, thank you. Sincerely. |
| 00:21:55.15 | Mayor Burns | Thank you, Jerry. Something tells me we'll be able to find you Saturday morning, wherever you are. Thank you so much for that and congratulations. |
| 00:22:05.92 | Mayor Burns | All right, that's it for special presentations. I'll make one announcement, and it's just more of an announcement since we have people here and watching TV. Keep an eye on your news closely in the next 24 hours. As we've all heard, we're under a red flag warning. PSPS might be taking an impact here in our area. Some counties have enlisted. That can change at any moment, as we learned this time two weeks ago. So, Just to our entire community. Don't be caught unprepared, keep an eye. Abbott Chambers, our director of communications is here. He's been putting out updated information as the city gets it, as well as the other sources that you use. So keep an eye on all that stuff. Next I'm going to start with, go to communications. This is the time for public communications, 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 or engaging in discussions concerning items of business that are not on the agenda. However, the council may refer matters not on the agenda of the city staff or direct this subject agendized for a future meeting. You get three minutes. It's not a goal, it's a max. And I have one card right now. If you'd like to speak, you could fill out a green card. I have Lisa Celino. said it wrong. Lisa, tell me how it gets. |
| 00:23:22.46 | Lisa Chilino | My name is Lisa Chilino. |
| 00:23:24.27 | Mayor Burns | now. |
| 00:23:24.74 | Lisa Chilino | Thank you. And I am here on behalf of Sausalito Beautiful, in addition to Mike Lankford, head of Parks and Rec. the entire Sausalito Beautiful community, And the Parks and Landscaping team led by Mike. I wanted to thank you, the City Council, for entering into a public-private partnership with Sausalito Beautiful to plant 108 trees and bushes in MLK Park. We had about a week and a half ago. About a week and a half ago, we had 80 volunteers come out on Saturday morning to plant those trees and bushes. And we were led by 17 leaders, including three of our city council members. Thank you, Susan Cleveland Knowles. Thank you, Joe Burns. And thank you, Ray Withy. for leading our teams in a successful planting. It was a great day, the entire community came out. We had firefighters there, we had people from Every single community benefit organization in Sausalito including lions. Rotary. We had chamber members out there. Everybody came out, and it was a great morning, and the trees are looking great. So thank you again. |
| 00:24:44.34 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. Nice work. The following day, my fingers were able to do just a couple things. One was send a text to the vice mayor saying, are you sore as I am? She goes, no, it's great, I feel great. Youth. Is that another one? |
| 00:24:59.71 | Unknown | Just told Joe he had to be a better delegator. |
| 00:25:02.19 | Mayor Burns | . I have another one, Melanie Hamburger. |
| 00:25:10.78 | Melanie Hamburger | Good evening. I am a resident of Liberty Dock and an employee of Marin City Health and Wellness Center. So I walk the great 101 divide between the two communities many days. And we recognize that there are lots of people in neighboring communities to Marin City who really don't know much about Marin City, about its history and about some dynamic things that are going on in the community. And also recognizing there's a lot of discussion right now because of the California Attorney General's recent decision. We are a health and wellness facility, and we are We have some exciting things going on. We are expanding and we have purchased a property across the street next to bayside mlk where we'll be building a marin city health and housing hub it will have 24 units of affordable housing And it'll be a community owned and community developed program and I'm the fundraiser so I'm the one that gets to raise the 27 million dollars. But mostly we want people to just learn more about Marin City and how people came to live in Marin City and things that have affected residents of Marin City and THEIR HIGHER. Things that we're very excited about in the future for Marin City. So one way that we're doing that is we're hosting house parties and community discussions. And I wanted to tell you about a conversation between our supervisor Kate Sears. And Nancy Johnson, who's well known in the Marin City and Marin County community. She's the president of our board and also serves on the board of the Marin City Community Services District as well as the Human Rights Commission for the county and many other roles. So the Sausalito Cruising Club has been very generous in making space available before they have live music on November 7th. We've done a little flyer, we have an Eventbrite site that is kateandnancy.eventbrite.com. And it's a free event, but we would love for you to tell us that you're coming just because there is a capacity limit. So I did some flyers, I was hoping I could share them with each of you and that you might tell folks who would like to know a little bit more about Marin City. It is a discussion of community, family, and health, Sausalito and Marin City. really thrilled. We're thrilled to be able to offer this, we hope it'll be the beginning of many dialogues that bring the two communities closer together and I don't have my contact information on here, but I'll make sure it's on one of the websites that are listed here. I should have added that. So may I leave them somewhere for the council members or any participants who might be interested? |
| 00:27:29.55 | Unknown | for the |
| 00:27:30.46 | Mayor Burns | Council members. City clerks. |
| 00:27:34.71 | Melanie Hamburger | It's November 7th, I'm sorry, 5.30. That's Thursday, November 7th at the Sausalito Cruising Club. Thank you very much. That was a big oversight. |
| 00:27:41.86 | Mayor Burns | Thanks, Melanie. You can give that to Serge right here. That's perfect. Any other public comment? Any other cards or anybody would like to come and speak for three minutes? Seeing none, I'll close public comment. Thank you both, and bring it back up here for action minutes of the previous meeting, September 24. |
| 00:28:01.02 | Councilmember Cox | his appraisal. |
| 00:28:02.45 | Mayor Burns | I think I heard something. And I think I heard a second. |
| 00:28:02.47 | Councilmember Cox | I THINK I CAN CHECK |
| 00:28:05.72 | Mayor Burns | If you haven't heard, Council Member Joan Cox has a cold. I have first and second. I have a motion in a second. All in favor? Aye. That passes 5-0. |
| 00:28:14.50 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:28:19.78 | Mayor Burns | Council member committee reports since last week, who would like to go first? |
| 00:28:25.82 | Unknown | I don't have anything. |
| 00:28:26.94 | Mayor Burns | I don't really have a couple. Okay, please, Tom. Thank you. |
| 00:28:31.39 | Unknown | All right, last Thursday on October 17th, I attended the Business Advisory Committee. First off, my first time attending, I want to thank the citizens who are on that committee. Many have served multiple terms. This meeting was centered around the general plan and their desire to provide input to the city council via letters, which we should expect by our next city council meeting. It was in three areas. They would like to see us consider looking at the marineship as three geo zones during the general plan update. They would like us to consider economic sustainability as an important item across all elements of the general plan, including the marinship. They would like us to consider eliminating the current marine ship specific plan and replacing it through the general plan. And I think observing the members of this committee was pretty consistent how they felt about this and these are a letter we'll expect. Secondly, they would like to request that a representative of the BAC participate in the interviewing and evaluation of the firms responding to our RFP for digital platform and marketing services. And then finally, there was a great conversation about how a committee such as theirs can set agendas, communicate, share information more effectively, and I've shared that with staff. Finally, I am a member of the OMIC committee and I just want to make folks aware that I participate in a few exploratory conversations. There are potential collaborations between the city and private owners, nothing actionable at this time, but nor any concrete proposals, but just transparency, share that. That's my report. Great, thank you. |
| 00:30:16.79 | Unknown | Next break. |
| 00:30:20.89 | Councilmember Withey | Um, let me see. So... The general plan advisory committee. We have a monthly report on our consent. I think it's a major agenda, a business item for the next meeting. So I won't really comment on it other than suggest you read the report that's on consent. I was unfortunately out of town. an important business advisory committee meeting, so thanks for attending. That was, I'm sorry I wasn't there for your first introduction. I was instead along with the mayor in Long Beach, attending the annual conference of the League of California Cities, in which both the mayor and I are on the North Bay Division Executive Committee. This was its usual annual conference. Yes. You can imagine that the topics of conversation were obviously housing and what's going to happen in Sacramento next year with the housing bills that have been put on hold. Which are going to dramatically change, the feeling of the conference was next year. A theme was smart cities in the sense that if you're not smartening up your infrastructure, along with replacing it, you're already behind. And I'm sure we'll be talking about that more in the context of our general plan and in the context of our strategic plan. And the final thing, there was the usual sessions on cannabis and not a whole lot of movement there really, compared to where it was a year ago to be honest. But incremental progress. Everybody's trying to figure out how to monetize it, raise revenues from it. So that was the theme of that conference. And trying to think, we mentioned OMIT discussions, but other than that- Sewer. Sewer. Well, we're going to actually talk about sewer tonight. The sewer committee has been meeting and that is Councilmember Cox and myself. I don't know if Joan you're going to add any more, but look forward to tonight's agenda item, which is some of the fruit of the work that we've been doing. |
| 00:32:39.71 | Lisa Chilino | See you. |
| 00:32:39.94 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:33:00.45 | Councilmember Withey | doing. |
| 00:33:02.47 | Unknown | Excellent. |
| 00:33:03.59 | Mayor Burns | Do you have anything? Okay. I will just say that along with these comments on the league. There's some really cool things that I just want to say because I saw them. A drone used with public safety and Chula Vista has a great presentation where the moment they get a public safety call, this drone goes up and gets over to that faster than anybody else can with a. with a And they use this demonstration of they can see somebody with a gun so they can tell the officers as they're rolling up where this person is, what kind of gun they might have, what their license plate is so they can already be contacting family. I mean, they get more going before the emergency arrives than what takes place after. It's absolutely amazing, which is a no brainer for how to use drones or UABs, UAMs, UAM, UAM, drones. So that was really cool. And as Ray said, the smart cities and, oh my gosh, even Long Beach, right on the street that we were having our conference had some construction going on. Of the fiber they're laying and the purpose of that for anywhere from AI cars to interacting with safety personnel. The streets are going to be completely different, let alone the rest of our infrastructure as far as charging and all those things. And then some good age friendly stuff, Sausalito got a shout out by me. But in one of the presentations about what we've done with age friendly, a lot of communities are trying to do some of the same things. And there's also opportunity for us to take it even further, especially with age friendly housing. So all in all, a great conference, and I think we each learned a lot. Two other committees that I attended, one was last night, the bike and ped. They continue to move along with a lot of great ideas. It's been wonderful to have our director of public works and city engineer Kevin McGowan in those meetings now. He's able to keep that group on task with providing him the information as they see these items. He's turning it around in, in clearing up their expectations on how that might work. So I think we have a good path going with that committee. Some of the same items we've heard before, the Columbus Street crosswalk, great information on that, that the safe routes to school. No, TAM, the TAM money might be able to fund a big chunk of that. |
| 00:35:36.64 | Unknown | Did we make an announcement yet? |
| 00:35:36.68 | Mayor Burns | WE HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS. We don't have authorization yet, but we got it in. |
| 00:35:40.47 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:35:40.98 | Mayor Burns | Yeah. |
| 00:35:41.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:35:42.87 | Mayor Burns | We don't have the answer on that yet. The other meeting I attended was the HBD, which is our hospitality business development, similar to the BAC and often some of the same discussions. Their committee was talking more about in the near future how to get some of their events that are this season into the pipe for advertising or exposure in markets, not only ours, but some greater markets. As you know, we really want to drive some traffic midweek to our downtown businesses in the off season and spread that out a little bit. So there's going to be a lot of events that they're looking at and bringing forth. Obviously, we have the festival, the lighted boat parade, Gingerbread House, I think Super Bowl, they're looking at maybe an expanded herring festival. So all in all, great information, great stuff that there's going to be more events, more opportunity for us to interact with our businesses in a festive and entertaining way. So that's all I have. That's it for community reports. I will now bring it to consent calendar. We've Matters listed on the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial, require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous council support. Is there anybody who needs to recuse on any of the items on consent? |
| 00:37:09.40 | Unknown | So... You know, I'm sorry, but I meant to call planning staff and ask about 556 Sausalito Boulevard because that's only about seven houses. down from me, but I am not, haven't confirmed, so maybe an abundance of caution. I will just recuse myself on 5F. Is that? Okay. Thank you. |
| 00:37:32.52 | Mayor Burns | Fair enough. |
| 00:37:32.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:37:33.03 | Mayor Burns | Yep All right, I'm gonna open up to public comment on Items on our consent calendar, would anybody like to speak to an item on our consent calendar? Seeing none, I'll close public comment on consent. Bring it up here for one or two motions. |
| 00:37:52.20 | Unknown | I'll make a motion to approve items 5A through D. I'm sorry, 5A through E and G. |
| 00:38:00.53 | Councilmember Withey | second. All in favor? Aye. First motion passes 5-0. |
| 00:38:02.39 | Unknown | Bye. Bye. |
| 00:38:06.17 | Councilmember Withey | I move adoption of consent calendar item 5F. |
| 00:38:12.18 | Councilmember Cox | Second. |
| 00:38:13.07 | Councilmember Withey | Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. |
| 00:38:16.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:38:16.09 | Councilmember Withey | So, yeah. |
| 00:38:16.36 | Mayor Burns | That passes 4-0. recusal This brings us to our business items. And on our business items, we start off with the best, the sewer. Capital Improvement Program. I'm going to bring up Kevin and I'm sure he will introduce Vivian. Kevin McGowan, our Public Works Director. |
| 00:38:36.93 | Kevin McGowan | Good evening, Mayor, members of City Council, Kevin McGowan, Department of Public Works. I get the lovely task of introducing Vivian Howson, who is our consultant for the sewer collection system. She's going to walk us through a presentation and hopefully answer all your questions associated with our sewer system. Thank you. you |
| 00:38:56.76 | Vivian Howson | Good evening, Mayor Burns, members of the council. Thanks for having me here today. I am here today to give you an update on wastewater collection system maintenance and management and this is following the activity that we had over the summer related to the rate increase, which I'll talk about in a few slides. Just background as a reminder to those who haven't seen these presentations before, the city has about 20 miles of sewer pipes. Most of the pipes are about 80 years old, some older, and four city pump stations that are currently managed and maintained by Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District. The flows are sent to Sausalito Marin City for treatment and also discharge of the treated water So on this map, the blue line shows the SMCSD facilities that cross through the city, and the green lines show the city's sewer collector pipes. |
| 00:40:06.57 | Vivian Howson | The city has a new rate structure that was approved last summer. And the rate structure is good for five years through fiscal year 23, 24. |
| 00:40:10.91 | Unknown | AND, |
| 00:40:16.63 | Vivian Howson | The rate structure, allows the city to fund sewer maintenance and management. The expectation and the way the rates were established were that the city was going to rehabilitate about 2% of its system per year. The estimated cost for that is approximately $1.7 million per year. The system has more than pipes. It also has pump stations. And so in lieu of replacing pipes, there may be years where some pump station work is completed. But overall, on average, the expectation is 2% per year. And if we can do things more cost effectively, we'll get more done. The rates also continue to pay debt service on a revenue bond that was issued in 2015 and also a state revolving loan fund or fund loan. This chart shows the projects that were identified. The city has had two rate increases since establishing the initial project rate, the initial CIP and the initial rates back in 2009. And so this table shows the projects that were listed in that original CIP in 2009 and the status of the projects There were other smaller projects included on the list as well, but these were the significant projects. And as you can see, most of the projects have been completed or are currently in planning. And there are four projects that remain to be completed, and I'll talk about those separately. Those are all rehabilitation and repair projects that are based on closed-circuit CTV inspection data that was collected pre-2009. So it's quite old, as you can imagine. And so part of our plan is to gather more information so we know that we're replacing the most critical facilities in the future. So marching down the project, Gate 5 Road was an INI reduction. project that the last wet weather actually demonstrated to us that it was effective. You never really know if those projects are going to be effective until you get good rain, and we got good rain. And that Gate 5 Road pump station was able to keep up. And it used to not keep up because too much water was coming in. So that was a really positive outcome. |
| 00:42:37.05 | Unknown | that was. |
| 00:42:39.04 | Vivian Howson | Prospect Avenue, Toyon Lane, those were pipeline repairs that were very, very critical that were completed. Spinnaker, Anchor involved the installation of a new pump station, a grease interceptor, and rehabilitation of an existing station. And those were extremely critical, especially the new grease interceptor that was installed downstream of the Spinnaker restaurant. There was a lateral repair in Martin Luther King Park that was allowing a lot of infiltration. And the Whiskey Springs lift station has capacity and condition issues. And right now that project is being completed. The construction should be initiated this year or early next year in conjunction with SMCSD. The design for that facility has been completed. |
| 00:43:02.06 | Unknown | there was a level |
| 00:43:27.08 | Vivian Howson | There is another project which I'll, I have another slide on and that's Alexandra Beach and I have a slide that shows more of that project and so I'll talk about that in a second when we have the picture up on the screen. And then we have four projects that were replacement, repair, capacity projects that over the past, since 2009, it's not clear that there They're now the most critical projects for the city. They are projects that need to be taken care of, but we just want to step back and do some assessment and just make sure they're the most critical projects and that the city's funds are not, we're not fixing these items at risk of missing something else that's more critical. And these projects may very well rise to the top again. We just want to make sure. So the process that we're implementing to continue the CIP is an asset management process. This picture depicts It's really, representative but it's also pretty accurate of the rate at which the city had installed its pipes. And then if you were to replace every pipe on its proposed schedule based on useful life, the replacement schedule would mirror the installation schedule. And what we're trying to avoid is a replacement program that has peaks like that. So the asset management approach levels out the replacements, really figures out |
| 00:44:52.88 | Unknown | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:44:53.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:53.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:58.39 | Vivian Howson | what the most critical replacements are, so you're spending your money in the right place and you're deferring maintenance at extending useful life as long as you can, pushing out replacements that can wait So you're basically taking care of the worst items and keeping your car running as long as you can before you finally have to go out and get a new one. And so that's where we are. Our goal is to establish that flat line so that your expenditures are constant and also your rate needs are constant. The asset management approach, and many of you have probably seen this in other presentations. So there's really this square is a risk square. So the yellow is the lowest risk, and the purple is the highest risk. And you have likelihood and consequence of failure, and the two together create that risk. And the objective of an asset management approach is to follow that white line. So you really want to watch and watch until you get into that extreme. When you get into that extreme, you replace. So you really watch your assets. And then when you get into that purple zone, decide what to replace. |
| 00:45:52.11 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:46:06.91 | Vivian Howson | And then what can go back through the cycle? And that's what happens in an asset management program year over year over year. Because with preventive maintenance, you can continue to extend the useful life of pipes. And one key aspect of that is the city's computerized maintenance management system. The city has just moved from one system to another and is populating that system. It's a system called CityWorks, and it's a system that can work for all city assets, not just sewers, eventually. And so a critical part of this entire process will be to make sure that is running very, very well and is very well populated and is being used pretty robust, pretty heavily by city staff. So we'll move on to the capital needs. So Whiskey Springs Pump Station, as I mentioned, is going into construction. The design's been completed. The project hasn't been bid yet, so it'll have to go through the entire process of being bid, advertised, and bid before it goes into construction. And then our next highest priority that we see currently is Alexander Beach Street. And so on this graphic, the blue, you can see some blue arrows down in the water. Those blue lines are city lines. And They are actually underwater. and they do convey wastewater. So they're very, very critical. And so what we are planning to begin to look at is how to address the wastewater in those lines. And it's a very complex issue, Issue. but it can be solved. And it's going to take a lot of thought and a lot of conversation Um, A lot of discussion, and so we're just beginning on that process in conjunction with SNCSD to come up with the best solution for these lines. And these lines were, the line along the beach was listed in the 2009 CIP as the Beach Street Main. And so we're changing, we're using Alexander now because Alexander is part of a much bigger solution than just Beach Street. These are lines that were included in the 2009 list and they were considered very high priority at that time as well. The priority continues. And now we think is a good time to begin really begin those discussions in earnest. of investigation in terms of tracing wastewater, figuring out where it flows, figuring out what the issues are. So we're ready now for a deeper discussion on this. Other projects that are planned for the near term is to begin a new closed circuit TV inspection program of the city's pipes. The last TV program that was implemented was in around 2010, 2011. We have inspected areas that need inspection on a yearly basis, but haven't had a systematic program to go in and start really capturing a lot of data. So that will be one of the first things we do. In fact, the staff have already started on that process. The other, as I mentioned, is the City Works computerized maintenance management system, really bringing that up to speed. you also have a lateral ordinance, which is... was, looked at in around 2009, 2010, and at that time, you actually had, the city had one of the first lateral ordinances of all the communities here, so you're very, very proactive in that regard. There have been a lot of changes, a lot of activity in ordinance language since then, so we're going to take a look at the ordinance language again and see if any updates are needed. I'm not sure. We are going to look at the capital repair and replacement program. and review the remaining priority projects, which were on the list that I had earlier. Also review your capacity needs because the hydraulic model showed that there were some capacity issues and those capacity projects were on the priority list. But the recent wet weather events have not shown So we want to take a look at the model again and look at the results and just make sure those are a priority before you start spending money on capacity, before you do more repairs. And then there are new priorities that have come up, and they always come up, and that's the wonderful part of asset management is that you're always going out and getting new data and integrating the new information in a very structured and strategic way. And so we'll also integrate new priorities that have been identified by staff as we develop this new program. And then from the O&M perspective, There are discussions that are beginning on O&M priorities, including continued discussions with Sausalén and Marin City on strategic partnerships and potential consolidation of operations if that consolidation would be beneficial to the rate payers. The potential benefits of consolidation, there is a lot of work that's happening together already. South Florida Marin City currently operates and maintains the city's lift stations. South Florida Marin City currently collaborates with the city on many topics, especially the capital improvement projects, also budgets, and in the recent rate structures, South Suderman City worked very closely with city staff to discuss all of the information behind those activities. And in the recent rate structures, South Suderman City worked very closely with city staff to discuss all of the information behind those activities. consolidation would potentially streamline these two operations and provide benefits such as a single strategic focus. Right now, SMCSD manages and maintains the sewers in Marin City, and then that wastewater comes through the city and then goes to the treatment plant. They're already... sending their crews and their trucks out into the area So there could be, and they're working on the pump stations and they're working on the single focus could be beneficial. There also may be cost benefits and improved communications if there were a single operation, and there are also the benefits of potential centralized emergency response. There's already cooperation in that regard, as we saw during the last outage, but if there were a centralized emergency response program, there could be benefits. So these are all just things that I'm speculating on right now, items that have been discussed. But, of course, a feasibility study would really look into these items and many, many other items much deeper to determine if such a thing is feasible. And so our staff recommendation is to receive and file this information regarding wastewater collection system maintenance and management. And in cooperation with Sausalud and Marin City to authorize staff to hire a consultant to conduct a sewer consolidation feasibility study. And then when that is completed, of course, in the future, if it's determined by the sewer committee that consolidation is feasible, then that discussion would come back to council for a discussion about a future |
| 00:53:37.03 | Mayor Burns | Great, yes, we have one question at least, Vivian. |
| 00:53:41.47 | Unknown | I have a van, thanks for a great report. So when you say authorize staff to get a consultant to do a feasibility study, what does feasibility mean in that context? |
| 00:53:55.93 | Vivian Howson | So Adam, would you like to answer that? |
| 00:54:00.50 | Adam Politzer | Yes, I think the initial phase would be looking at the structure of the city's sewer department or division. The cost associated with all of the operational components of our sewer enterprise. And then also compare that with the structure of the Sanitary District to look at where and if they're compatible. Can, are they in, is the district in position to absorb our operation of the sewer enterprise? And financially would the costs associated with maintaining and operating the city's sewer system, would that be financially viable for the district based on the revenues that we collect through our sewer fees? So that would be the initial study to look at both operating, management, and the economics of the two operations. And that would give you the initial look to see if this is feasible. Then there's significant work that goes into the, do you want to add this, Kevin? |
| 00:55:20.36 | Unknown | Okay, so it's not legal feasibility or, I mean, we can do it. It's just more a question of desirability, it sounds like. It's really financial. |
| 00:55:26.92 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:55:27.75 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. |
| 00:55:27.95 | Unknown | financial efficiency and Okay, you can add, sure. |
| 00:55:34.34 | Kevin McGowan | We'd also want them to look at a timeline as well so that we have some idea of not just what we need to do, but what our timeline is in order to achieve what we want to do. So I know Adam kind of mentioned that, but I just want to bring it up as well. |
| 00:55:48.81 | Unknown | Great, and then I just have a second question, which is, do we have an order of magnitude of the cost to do this kind of a study? |
| 00:55:59.49 | Adam Politzer | For authorizing that tonight. We don't at this moment. We believe it would be in my authority, but we're using purposeful words in the sewer committee confirm this. But this would be something that we would share the cost with the district. So for example, when we did the initial consolidation study with Southern Marin Fire, the initial study was around $50,000. The city paid $25,000, the district paid $25,000. We don't think, because this is a. To not oversimplify it, this is not as complicated as the Southern Marin Fire, because we're really talking about a set set of fees with the revenue that we generate. And then the assets that we've been studying and working on for years. And as we heard from the members of the district, they believe that the city has done a much better job in terms of how we've moved forward in maintaining and managing both capital and maintenance projects. So we think that it would be less than $50,000 in total, but our half of that would be half. |
| 00:57:08.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:08.15 | Mayor Burns | . |
| 00:57:08.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:08.49 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. Good, any other questions? |
| 00:57:11.17 | Unknown | Yes, I have another question, maybe Adam, he can answer this as well. And after we do that study, issuing an RFP is just going to the Southern Marine for them to respond? It's not a competitive RFP, is it? |
| 00:57:25.57 | Adam Politzer | So the RFP. Ooh. Come on up, Kevin. So the RFP. So assuming that the feasibility study comes back says this is worth exploring, then we would send out an RFP and the sewer committee discuss this as well, which would be really localized. So we would aim for companies here in Northern California, or at least limited to the state of California, that would come back that have had experience consolidating city lines into districts. We're one of a few cities that remain that are still in the sewer business. Most cities are now part of districts like Ross Valley Sanitary District overseas, most if not all of Ross Valley. So we would send out an RFP, those proposals would come back. There's no cost to sending out the RFP. but you would then receive the RFP, we would bring that back to the council, and the council would authorize us to award a contract to the firm that we feel that would do the best job in bringing us to the conclusion, which would be We recommend consolidation. Now you go through the formal process to consolidate and they would lay out that entire process from start to beginning once the consolidation study and report were concluded So that is a competitive bid process because it's normally over. the threshold. And again, we would look to the district to share that cost with us, which at this point they have agreed. We would, there's a benefit for both of us to do it together. I think what the district's position is, is for the feasibility study, the city would take the lead on that effort. But the consolidation study, the district would take the lead. We're still equal partners, but one being in the lead position. because the consolidation study really about what they're going to receive, and how they're going to match it. So they want to be in more of the driving position to understand the consequences of these decisions. |
| 00:59:29.55 | Mayor Burns | Good. Any other questions? I want to open up to public comment. This is the time that the community can speak to this item. You have three minutes. Is there anybody who would like to speak to this item? Seeing none. Any other comments? I'll close public comment and bring it up here, any comments that somebody would like to make. |
| 00:59:52.06 | Councilmember Cox | This is something we discussed at length at the sewer committee meeting. And I think both of, I think these actions are important to, ascertain the feasibility of our future action. This is also part of our long term strategic plan. |
| 01:00:09.56 | Councilmember Withey | so uh... I agree with Councilmember Cox. We've been meeting as a sewer committee along with the Marin City Sanitary District. who run the treatment facility and discharge facility. Because if you recall, we did a rate study and did rate increases at the same time, so the sewer committee was meeting with the Marin City Sanitary District in order to make that as efficient a process as we can. And through, at the end of that, I think we were all left with a feeling that This doesn't make sense having two sewer districts, really doesn't. And so is there a way in which we could create operational efficiency, reduce costs and basically make our capital dollars collectively go further? And so it seemed that this was an obvious thing that we should now do. The process that Vivian and Adam have outlined is really a two step process. An initial smaller feasibility study to even say are you in the ballpark? Because structurally it might not work. And before significant amount of money is spent to provide all of the legal and financial analysis which has to go forward to the regulatory agencies that are going to approve this if it turns out that it's feasible to do so. So I think it makes sense to spend a smaller amount of money, first of all, to see if it's feasible before what's going to be a big ticket item is a study to consolidate. It's going to be a fairly big ticket item and you don't want to spend that until you know there's no major structural impediments to getting it done. So that's how I see it and I think it's money well spent. And if we can find a way to consolidate, and I don't know what the numbers are going to turn. No idea, no preconceived notions. I just hope structurally it does work so that we can save rate payers potentially money and notions. I just hope structurally it does work so that we can save rate payers potentially money and moderate future rate increases. Come in. Thank you. |
| 01:02:33.05 | Unknown | . |
| 01:02:33.81 | Councilmember Withey | Yeah. |
| 01:02:34.01 | Unknown | Yeah, so first I just want to thank my two colleagues, Councilmember Cox and Councilmember Withey, for all the work on this. I think this is a great, |
| 01:02:34.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:02:42.84 | Unknown | And I'm looking forward to seeing the results of the feasibility study. And then I'd also like to thank the Sassolid-Omerin City Sanitary District for their cooperation and for their partnership and offering to share the cost of the study. So I'm really hopeful that the study will show some good results and that this would be a great model and a good step for efficiency with local government agencies. So thank you all, and I'm in favor of moving forward with the first and second steps. |
| 01:03:15.83 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:15.88 | Unknown | Thank you. I agree with everything the Vice Mayor just said. So I certainly hope the feasibility study says this makes great sense. Because I think it makes great sense to have a combined district. So I would just caution, it seems like the feasibility study is more of a financial study and should be low cost and most of the data will come from our staff. So hopefully we do that quickly and efficiently. |
| 01:03:33.32 | Thomas Aarons | Thank you. |
| 01:03:33.38 | Unknown | and he's going to be |
| 01:03:41.97 | Unknown | Yeah, please. |
| 01:03:44.93 | Councilmember Withey | One point that I think nobody's made, which I think would be- I'll have a start. Is going to help us is that- |
| 01:03:49.27 | Unknown | I'll have a spell. |
| 01:03:53.19 | Councilmember Withey | We've just come off of both the district and the city doing rate studies, which means we've got a lot of data. So hopefully that data can feed into this feasibility study, and I see Vivian nodding her head down there. So that should actually mean that we don't need to be repetitive, and it's good therefore that we're doing that shortly after having done the rate study. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. |
| 01:04:19.04 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. When Kevin introduced Vivian, he said Vivian can answer any question we have on sewers. And no doubt she can, I just hope she never will. Because there's a lot of questions with our system on what we can look at. And I'm glad you at least pointed out one with the sewer lateral ordinance, taking a look at that in your process. As well as I hope that is something that's really looked at during the consolidation. That's the one time where we do share kind of a service within our building department as far as through the realtors getting their RBR, their resale inspection. Thank you. with the superlateral, that's sometimes a challenge we have in other markets where there is a different agency. So now that pretty much every community now in Marin does have these types of superlateral ordinances, there's plenty to choose from and great ideas out there on how it's working and not working. So good stuff. I appreciate the comments up here. I agree with them all. I look forward to this moving forward in the next year as we get closer to what we've been talking about for many years. And I think it's due time, so good job. |
| 01:05:26.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:34.64 | Mayor Burns | Anything else? That is it. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you, Vivian. |
| 01:05:42.54 | Mayor Burns | Hey Kevin, don't go anywhere. Next up, 6B, we're going to adopt a resolution continuing the declaration of a local emergency related to storm activity and landslides. |
| 01:05:53.52 | Kevin McGowan | Good evening again, Council. I'm glad to introduce Eric Vaughn from Harrison Associates. He's going to lead us through a presentation on the debris removal project and hopefully give us some updates on how the project's moving along. |
| 01:06:13.82 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. |
| 01:06:13.86 | Eric Vaughn | All right, thanks Kevin. Hey. OK, so I'm going to give an update on where things are and progress that's been made. So just quickly, we'll go over the timeline, where things stand, and how the timeline has evolved moving forward, project status, what our current priorities are. We'll go over the budget implications of the project, personal item recovery, an update on reimbursement, and then our current priorities. So a brief timeline overview, disaster was in February, Um, August notice of award was provided to resource environmental on September 23rd mobilization began on the ground and as of October 10th the crescent right of way was cleared of debris. Um... you So just in terms of project phases, the first priority was to clear Crescent. That activity has been completed. So there was approximately 700 tons of debris removed from Crescent Avenue over a course about eight days. So they moved very quickly. It was easy to remove debris from Crescent because access for the trucks and everything was pretty straightforward. that also included removing a lot of housing material that was situated sort of around touching Crescent. So the contractors continue to use Crescent as a staging area, it's really the only way to access of the trucks to remove the debris. And in order to remove debris from outside the Crescent right of way, it required a special machinery, I'll show photos, So that process has been going on in the past two weeks, and in fact, the debris removal has been moving very quickly. There's two reasons for this, it's great news. we're expecting that the debris should be completely removed by October 24th, which is only in a couple days. So the contractor has moved very quickly, very efficiently. So we're very happy to report that. So in terms of total numbers, so there's two reasons why it's happened so quickly. The first is that contractor was the right contractor. The second reason is that there's a lot less debris than we initially estimated. So we initially estimated there was about 5,000 or so tons of debris. Well, it turns out that there's somewhere probably in the neighborhood of 1,250 or so tons of debris, so there's less debris than we initially anticipated. So that's great news. We've had geotechnical engineers on site for the last couple weeks to help us determine what needs to come out and what needs to stay. Geotechnical engineers have been very clear that all of the debris that was deposited by the mud flow needs to come out for overall long-term stability of the area. Any material that's deposited from the mud flow event is loose and is capable of moving down as a result of rainfall and things like that. So that's been very clear guidance. to the team on what needs to come out, and that's exactly how we proceeded. In fact, I was out there today. It's quite amazing to look at the site I don't have great photos from today, But the next time I come, I'll show you photos of the site. Of course, it's interesting to look at because it's completely clear. It was heavily vegetated, of course, beforehand. But it's nice to see that, for the most part, it looks, aside from it being scoured, it's nice to see that it's clear. So we're finishing up debris removal this week, and then we're moving into the next phase, which is emergency protective measures. So it's nice to be ahead of schedule I check the 10-day forecast every morning. and we're really hoping to get the emergency protective measures in place very quickly. I'll talk about the budget implications. We had initially designed a pretty straightforward approach to protective measures using JuteNet and seeding it. It looks like now that we've got the area clear and we can really see the contours of the area, we're going to need to add additional measures, so we'll be working with Public Works uh, putting those together and then putting them in place very quickly. And then there will be a pause for the winter. Over the winter, we'll be working on finalizing the design for the Thank you. sewer repair and the stormwater repair. and then Next spring, we move forward with the utility repairs in earnest. So this is a schematic of the slide area. I've mostly said what's on this already. So approximately 700, 711 tons of debris has been cleared from the right of way. It's... I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO Mary Wagner, city attorney, negotiated or established an agreement with Marin Municipal Water District for them to compensate. the contractors work on removing debris from their property. We hauled approximately 122 tons between Marin Municipal and 6062, so that's the area below Crescent Avenue. And then we're finishing up the debris removal on the upward side of Crescent, which is about 550 tons. |
| 01:11:52.54 | Mayor Burns | Can I ask you just, sorry, about the winterization basically. Yeah. As we have this map up here, obviously we'll divert storm water. |
| 01:11:54.92 | Eric Vaughn | YES, MA'ROR. |
| 01:12:01.75 | Mayor Burns | from going over the edge there at Sausalito, it'll continue to have that push down to the other drains. Down at the bottom, before you get to Crescent, will there be a measure there to do something with water that gains there prior to going over the road, or what winterization will happen right there? |
| 01:12:18.91 | Eric Vaughn | Yeah, so there's really three aspects to it, and you've outlined them. So there's the area above Crest. So the watershed, This is essentially the funnel, the bottom end of this particular watershed. Most of the watershed is above Sausalito Boulevard. So all that water we want to try and contain through the existing stormwater pipe that's there. And then I think we're going to try using a temporary pipe. to attach to that to bring down. And the idea is to try and bring it down below Crescent. We had a CCTV crew out today Try and look at how clear the stormwater pipe is below Crescent. Ideally we can go under it rather than try and figure out how to go over it or divert it out of the watershed, which is not ideal. So we're working on that solution right now. But yeah, so the first priority is to make sure that the water from above Sausalito. is not going on to the site. The second priority is to capture any runoff within the debris area and so that's those are the protective measures we're designing now it may be something like |
| 01:13:23.31 | Unknown | maybe |
| 01:13:25.16 | Eric Vaughn | some kind of material that protects it. captures that perhaps bring it into the temporary pipe. We'll have more details on that the next presentation. And then the third piece, as you said, is ideally to try and get the water under the road. So we'll have a clear idea on that in the next two weeks. Thanks. |
| 01:13:39.54 | Unknown | you Thank you. |
| 01:13:39.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:13:47.98 | Eric Vaughn | Okay, so in week one, we were sort of starting at the very beginning, all the debris on crescent. loaded at a very quick rate. It was much faster than it's been now as we've had to haul debris from the higher parts of the slide area. THE FAMILY. So as you can see, by the second week, the right-of-way was mostly clear. They started working on the housing material in earnest. I'll get to personal item collection. We were able to collect several items, and we've continued to collect them over the course of the recovery efforts. This was a particularly interesting challenge. The House... stopped within inches of that pump station somehow. So the contractor very skillfully extracted the roof upwards. Marin Municipal was on site. Inspectors were on site. Very close collaboration. So that was all taken care of in a couple days. Thank you. So this is a device that they brought in last week. They call it a spider. It has those big rubber tires and it's It's kind of amazing. It's able to move over really challenging terrain and haul the debris down from the higher ends of the slope. So this is the equipment that they've been using for the last couple of weeks to haul the material from the upper end of the slope and bring it down to Crescent where it's hauled onto trucks. |
| 01:15:20.94 | Eric Vaughn | We've recovered five vehicles to date. The vehicles have been a challenge. In fact, there's still a vehicle that we have not identified the owner And this is a bit perplexing to us, but we're continuing to try and sort this out. We have the vehicles all staged, and we're close to getting them out, so that will be happening soon. |
| 01:15:45.52 | Eric Vaughn | in terms of locating the utility lines now that the debris's been clear. We've been working hard to figure this out. It's been an interesting puzzle So this, stormwater line. was pretty straightforward we pretty much knew where that was down the center of the gully it's in green The sewer line was more challenging to locate, and it was not where we ended up expecting it to be. You can see it's up more on Crescent, higher of the purple line. And so now the challenge is trying to figure out how to connect the affected homes on Sausalito to that line. So we've made good progress on this side. figuring out where the easement So apparently there is an easement for the sewer line, which we weren't expecting. and then We'll have to figure out how we want to handle the stormwater system. |
| 01:16:44.14 | Eric Vaughn | So... the cost implications, so the good news, bad news. So overall, because there's less debris. the cost of removing debris goes down. So that's the downside. On the upside of the scale, because of the total amount of... contaminants that were in the soil, we did a set of sampling before debris removal began. And as expected, there was low levels of contaminants related to the automobiles and the housing materials. The good news was that asbestos levels were below the 1% threshold, which is good. And so, as a result of that, we had to haul the material to what's called a Class 2 landfill, as opposed to a Class 3, which is sort of no restrictions. So the cost per ton was higher than expected as a result of all the material being at that low level contaminant level, rather than just some of it, which was our initial estimate. But overall, the total cost has been lower than expected due to the less material. However, my only caution is that we'll probably need to increase the amount of funds going towards emergency protective measures, which, as I said, will be more than we had initially anticipated just being jute net and seeding. So we should know more about that in the next week. |
| 01:18:17.03 | Eric Vaughn | So as I said, we had a process in place that's been diligently followed by our inspector. He's recovered several items. We recovered a wallet today. We've recovered several items from many of the – and we've been able to identify many of them. So we have a list with photos. All the items are bagged and sent to police for safekeeping, and they will be available to pick up. I understand we're just finalizing the release form, and once that's completed, the items will be totally available. But they're all safely secured. at the moment. So I think the last I saw the list, there was 36 items recovered. |
| 01:19:02.36 | Eric Vaughn | So reimbursement update. As we discussed last week, two weeks ago, Most of the project has been approved in terms of debris removal, emergency protective measures utility repair, street repair if necessary. The one sticking point was removing debris from private property, which is not something that's typically covered under FEMA public assistance. We did send a request that was denied. We did get the denial letter on August, no, September 20th. from FEMA. So the city is able to appeal that decision, and that is something that we're pursuing and developing a strategy for at this time. Having said that, The total amount that we anticipated for the removing debris from private property is now less because initially we had projected that there was over 3,000 tons of material on private property. And now that estimate has dropped down to about 550 tons. So the good news is that that total cost that's at risk is lower than it was. However, we're still pursuing a strategy to try and recover those funds through reimbursement. |
| 01:20:27.61 | Eric Vaughn | So our current priorities are to finish developing the emergency protective measures and implement them quickly. Thank you. Thank you. um... The debris should be completely removed by the 24th, which is Thursday. And we'll be implementing the protective measures immediately following debris removal. Following that, we'll finish our investigation of the stormwater and sewer lines and develop an approach for restoring those. And now, happy to answer any questions. |
| 01:20:59.64 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:21:00.34 | Unknown | TODAY. |
| 01:21:02.23 | Mayor Burns | That's great, Eric. Thank you. Any questions for Eric or Kevin for that matter? |
| 01:21:08.47 | Unknown | Yeah, I have two, sorry, two questions. One is what's the approximate cost to the city at this point of clearing the debris from the private property that we would be seeking an appeal to get reimbursement for? |
| 01:21:25.02 | Eric Vaughn | Right. So the numbers change as the debris is collected. Wait, did I pass it? |
| 01:21:32.85 | Unknown | Just approximately is fine. Looks like we're at 1.2 million, 2.7 million. |
| 01:21:38.93 | Eric Vaughn | Right, so that's the total. The funds that are at risk in terms of reimbursing, removing the debris from private property, so it's an estimated $210,000 plus a small portion of the three line items at the top. which is estimated around 50, so it's in the 250 range. |
| 01:22:06.47 | Unknown | Okay. Great, and then maybe it's a question for the city attorney, what's the timeline for an appeal? |
| 01:22:13.79 | Eric Vaughn | The city has 60 days to appeal, and I'll pass it. |
| 01:22:16.96 | Mary Wagner | Yeah, and actually the date of the FEMA letter was October 10th. So we have until, we have two months basically, December, early December. |
| 01:22:20.83 | Eric Vaughn | Oh, sorry. |
| 01:22:21.34 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:22:26.08 | Unknown | And then do we know how long the appeal process takes overall? |
| 01:22:29.67 | Mary Wagner | I don't off the top of my head, but we can certainly sketch that out for you and the processes after that. |
| 01:22:37.75 | Unknown | . |
| 01:22:37.94 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 01:22:37.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:22:37.99 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 01:22:38.29 | Unknown | Great. Thank you. |
| 01:22:42.68 | Mayor Burns | I see no other questions. Jeff's up Kevin you want to toss in before I do public. |
| 01:22:47.07 | Kevin McGowan | Yeah, if that's okay. Sorry, Eric, I kind of pushed you out of sight. Mayor, you had a question about the drainage system at Sausalito Boulevard, of whether the water is going to be diverted similar to what it was last year. |
| 01:22:49.38 | Mayor Burns | THE END OF |
| 01:23:02.68 | Kevin McGowan | And I think my instruction so far to Eric and his team is to try to maintain the drainage in the current watershed. See if you can get it down and keep it in the same watershed. If you divert it and send it to a different watershed, that system may not be able to handle the flow. |
| 01:23:17.78 | Mayor Burns | Okay, you're talking about Offsauce, Lita Boulevard. Yes. Got it, thank you. |
| 01:23:19.44 | Kevin McGowan | Yes. Got it. Thank you. And so I just want to clarify that, that I think what Eric was talking about, this green line shown here, we're trying to take a look at seeing if we could put a tight line in, some solid plastic pipe that will run it all the way down to Crescent. So just to add some clarity. Thank you. |
| 01:23:32.55 | Mayor Burns | Yeah. Okay, cool. |
| 01:23:35.11 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. |
| 01:23:38.22 | Mayor Burns | I'm going to open up to public comment. Does anybody like to speak to this item? Any public comment on this item? Seeing none, we'll close public comment. Council comments? |
| 01:23:54.43 | Unknown | . Thank you. |
| 01:23:56.68 | Councilmember Cox | Because I have no voice, I'll be brief, but thank you, Kevin, for the presentation and including the update about the personal property and the cars and the vehicles, because that was something very important to the residents. And thank you also to our consultants for the rapid. work and what you've accomplished in a short amount of time once we were finally able to get underway. And go get them with respect to FEMA, thanks. |
| 01:24:24.62 | Mayor Burns | Mm-hmm. Well, that's about right. |
| 01:24:27.95 | Unknown | Yeah, I would just echo all of that. Well said in a short amount of time, Joan. And it's just great to see it really cleared up there after a very long time. |
| 01:24:29.35 | Mayor Burns | Good. |
| 01:24:38.49 | Unknown | Now I just made a comment, it's great to see a government project coming in under budget. So nice surprises. We're so used to surprising the opposite direction, so that is great news. Can I ask a question? I want to clarify. Sure. Above Sausalito Boulevard, are we pleased or satisfied with the work that's done above Sausalito Boulevard, which is, I guess, not our responsibility? |
| 01:25:05.21 | Kevin McGowan | That's a very good question, and I think we're working with Mary and the attorneys at the National Park Service in order to address some of those issues, especially before the rainy season, whether to cover up the SCARP or not or take a look at that drainage system that's up there. We're intending to try to put in some monitoring wells through our geotechnical engineer, which is suggesting to take a look at it. And I don't think that we've gotten too far yet. I don't know if you want to comment on that, Mary, of your interaction with the Park Service, but we'd like to get up there and make sure that we can monitor that hillside. |
| 01:25:44.68 | Mayor Burns | Okay. Thank you. Any other comments? Great, I'll just take a motion on the adopt a resolution. |
| 01:25:54.33 | Unknown | Second. you I'll make the motion, I'm sorry. I'll make the motion to adopt the continuing emergency. |
| 01:25:56.34 | Mayor Burns | I'm sorry. |
| 01:26:02.68 | Unknown | Resolution. |
| 01:26:06.23 | Unknown | Second. |
| 01:26:06.70 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. All in favor? |
| 01:26:10.06 | Unknown | Aye. Aye. |
| 01:26:10.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:26:10.50 | Mayor Burns | Aye. The recommended motion passes five to zero. Thank you, Eric and Kevin. Great work. Thank your contractors again for us as well. Good job. Oh. |
| 01:26:26.61 | Mayor Burns | Fred Hilliard, Fire Marshal Fred, you here? I know you are. We're gonna hear from Fire Marshal on 2019 California Fire Code update for ratification. Thank you. |
| 01:26:41.92 | Fred Hilliard | The good news... is we haven't done anything crazy since the last time we were here. |
| 01:26:46.19 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:26:47.06 | Fred Hilliard | Three years ago. As you know, this is a three year cycle that the California Fire Marshal does with us. The California Fire Code has to be readopted prior to its effective date, which is January of 2020. And if we do nothing, then we go with our standard code requirements, which is the minimum code requirements outlined by the Fire Marshal for the state of California. And if we decide, we can make some alterations or changes or modifications in order to either increase the requirements in certain areas, which we've done in the past. So we haven't really changed very much. I did prepare this just so that those of you who have not been through this process before, we can quickly go through a few slides, and I'll just outline what we are adopting. Also to note that this is a little different this year than we've done in the past. In the past, the city has adopted a fire ordinance. in this particular cycle the city is going to ratify the southern the city has adopted a fire ordinance. In this particular cycle, the city is going to ratify the Southern Rint Fire Ordinance once it's been adopted by the fire board, and that's because due to the annexation, the city actually does not have authority in the fire side of things to enforce or dictate any of the fire code requirements. Also, I have been working directly with staff on this. We've met several times, and the modifications that are required for the building side of things, we've already discussed, and that will be in the presentation by Thomas Aaron. So we're looking forward to moving forward. So we kind of went over exactly what was required. The code adoption, we're going to adopt the 2019 California Fire Code and the 2018 International Fire Code Appendix A only. This is not a wildland urban interface code like we've done. When I came here last time, we were ratifying the ordinance of the 2009 International Fire Wildland Urban Interface Code. So this one is, this particular code cycle is based on the 2018 International Fire Code. That's by the International Code Council and it's a model code. And also the 2018 International Wildlife and Urban Interface Code, by the International Code Council. It contains local amendments crafted countywide. So... |
| 01:29:25.03 | Unknown | Absolutely. |
| 01:29:30.65 | Fred Hilliard | We have the fire marshals, the fire prevention officers throughout the county since 2010, have made a very conscious effort to work specifically together to make our ordinances the same. And we are very, very close. So there's a couple of little tweaks for each individual district and department. But for the most part, this is the closest we've ever been so it's it's it's really good thing to see that county wide so there's not confusion if you're in mill valley and you're doing a project and across the street is the southern burn fire district and the ordinances are very similar they're they're quite the same It incorporates new construction, substantial remodels, which is anything above 50% determined by the actual plans and what you're doing and the sections for existing buildings, which is Chapter 11. So existing buildings does have some modifications that get done, which is required when the code is adopted. There isn't really anything in there that's changed since the last code cycle. So anything that has changed, we've also addressed by notification to those individuals that would be affected by that. |
| 01:30:48.80 | Fred Hilliard | Again, the state adopts the fire code every three years. The Building Standards Commission adopts the California fire code. And then January 1st, if we did nothing, the minimum code would be effective. But we aren't going to do that because we want to make sure that what we are doing now is continued forward. Local agencies and cities, they can adopt a more stringent code within 180 days of July 1st. So July 1st is when we get the publication. And we have from the July 1st to the end of the year to make our modifications and our ordinances. |
| 01:31:21.54 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:31:31.07 | Fred Hilliard | So municipalities within the fire district ratify the adopted ordinance, and that's what I was just talking about. So we have in our district, in the Southern Fire District, we have the city of Sausalito. We have the town of Tiburon, some areas of the town of Tiburon is in our jurisdiction, and we have the county of Marin. So those areas, those districts would then ratify the ordinance that the fire board would then adopt. Fire Chiefs and Fire Marshals within the county, we review the code. We make modifications based on local conditions, which is how we've always done in the past. We take recommendations for the adoption with several amendments. What we want to do is we want to fine-tune the code to meet the local needs of our jurisdictions. And that's where the little tweaks happen between the different jurisdictions. It's not the big changes. It's just little changes. And then the last code adoption, again, was passed October 23rd of 2016 with no significant changes. |
| 01:32:36.88 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:32:47.65 | Fred Hilliard | So the local key amendments, basically the things that we want to call attention to, just because some of these things have also changed in the previous code. Most of it is renumbering of code reference sections, where they reflect sections that were found in the previous code or in the current edition. Adoption of Appendix A of the 2018 International Wild and Urban Interface Code, Believe it or not, since 2009, it really hasn't changed. Appendix A hasn't. And what that is is that's the maintenance portions of, you know, have to clear vegetation, you have to, you know, clear your roof and such, something that we've been doing and we've had in previous code language. The adoption of Appendix O. So this is for temporary haunted houses, ghost walks and similar amusements. this is an appendix that we had Appendix O, so this is for temporary haunted houses, ghost walks and similar amusements. This is a appendix that we adopt. One thing to note that the appendix don't automatically get adopted unless we formally adopt them in our ordinance. Otherwise, they're considered to be not part of the minimum code requirements. |
| 01:33:51.93 | Eric Vaughn | it. |
| 01:33:58.71 | Fred Hilliard | In this section we modified or added the following definitions, which relates to the moderate hazard occupancies. Um, For the most part, again, we don't really have any agricultural crop production, although I keep hearing that we are going to have some sort of crop here in the near future of some sort. And we have cultivation drying process and storage response. That may also be affected later on. It depends on what happens with the production. uh, the marijuana thing. Deleted chapters, we deleted chapters and sections that were not adopted by the State Fire Marshal. Some examples are like for food trucks. There is a talk about like do we regulate food trucks? Well, we don't. The fire code really doesn't have a good section to regulate food trucks. That's really a Department of Transportation. They regulate that kind of thing. However, we are working with the Department of Transportation on the state level to talk about, you know, the dangers of some of these food trucks because they need to be regularly inspected, and they're working on a program for that. |
| 01:35:04.52 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:35:07.19 | Fred Hilliard | We have a couple added sections from Appendix D, Fire Apparatus Access Roads. In this particular section for Fire Apparatus Access Roads, most of it has to do with obstructions for aerial apparatus. As you know, we got a brand-new 107-foot tillered ladder truck. So in certain areas within the jurisdiction, we need a little bit more clearance. So this allows us to require that apparatus roads are maintained so that we can get through there. Amended sections that impact and delay the response for first responders. And then we also deleted some sections of chapter nine, which is fire protection systems. And we did that specifically because we wanted the thresholds that we have right now in place for fire sprinkler requirements to continue so that we can continue to regulate those Chapter 33, which is the fire safety during construction and demolition. Obviously, it's critically important that we still regulate when construction is happening and what safety is being done and what is happening during construction because that's a typical time when things can go wrong. We've seen that in some of the larger residential areas. apartment structures or condominiums that are all wood and then you've seen the fires that come from that so we regulate those We require that when they get to a certain height that they have to have their sprinklers installed Before anything is done like siding or roofs or stuff like that The only project that comes to mind Right now that could be affected by that is the is the bridgeway project Over on bridgeway and Filbert that's still going through the process. I for permitting. We also knew occupancy and uses for Chapter 39 is something that was added. But, again, we don't, in our particular case, extraction facilities, we haven't gotten there here in the city yet. This is directly towards the marijuana side of things where they extract from the plant to make their oils and whatever they do. So these are things that we wanted to be able to make their oils and whatever they do so these are things that we wanted to be able to make sure that we're ahead of the game so that when this does if this does happen in our in our district that that we have a process for um code enforcement on those. And then continued streamlining of Chapter 49, which is the wildland urban interface area. As you know, the entire city is wildland urban interface. We removed a couple of things that were in the previous code for marinas and dry boat storage and wet boat storage and also boat repair. We put those in. We thought that it was going to be the right thing with permitting those particular facilities. But after taking a real strong look at it, it was more of an enforcement and educational issue. It really didn't belong in there. The other Fire agencies throughout the county really didn't have that in there as well, so we decided that we were going to delete those out of the permit section, which is Section 105. And then, of course, adopting the 2018 Wild and Urban Interface Code Appendix A. In conclusion, we're requesting that the City Council ratify the ordinance that the southern marine fire district board of directors is going to adopt and that adoption which is our second hearing it's our public hearing and second meeting is on november 6th our plan is then to come back to you uh well ask you to actually put this on the consent calendar for november 19th and uh and with that i entertain any questions |
| 01:39:04.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:39:09.99 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:39:12.08 | Unknown | Thank you. Thanks for the presentation, Mayor Marshall Hillard. I guess my only question is, do any of the items that you discussed tonight have significant costs for homeowners or for new construction? |
| 01:39:27.01 | Fred Hilliard | No. No, nothing has changed since our last adoption as far as costs for anything. |
| 01:39:34.22 | Unknown | Okay, great. Sure. Thank you. |
| 01:39:38.37 | Unknown | Hello, fire marshal, thank you for the presentation. Just made a similar line on things like the access road for the new truck. Is there any retroactive costs that are incurred because of that, if access roads can't accommodate the new truck? |
| 01:39:50.88 | Fred Hilliard | No, but two things. One, great question. Two things is that, one, it's really about substantial remodel and where those homes or buildings, this is more for building, commercial building, if they're substantially remodeled, we can require that portions of that area surrounding that building be accessible where it's not accessible right now. Or if a new building comes in and it's deemed that we need truck access, we can require that truck access. But for existing, our existing area, it's not on a retroactive requirement. if we do have it in the code then we can also reference it you know with those those owners |
| 01:40:31.34 | Unknown | Yeah, if I could just add a clarification for the council as well, just so that there's no confusion with regards to the ladder truck that Fred is talking about. So this was a replacement apparatus, and as Fred mentioned, it's called a tillered aerial. So it's an articulated vehicle, actually is much more It has the ability to access places that our previous ladder truck could not. So I don't want the council to have the impression that the newer ladder truck requires a greater deal of access. In fact, it requires less than our previous ladder truck, which is why we purchased it. |
| 01:41:07.40 | Unknown | Any other questions? |
| 01:41:08.15 | Mayor Burns | Any other questions? Seeing none, I'll open up to public comment. Anybody from the public like to speak on this item? Seeing an almost, but not an actual comment. Anybody else? Seeing none, we'll close public comment. Any other comments we'd like to make on a motion, non-actionable item? |
| 01:41:27.48 | Unknown | . Is that a hint? So we don't ratify tonight, we just move it along and wait until November 19th? |
| 01:41:35.21 | Mayor Burns | 19th? Any reason 19th and not the 12th or? |
| 01:41:36.53 | Fred Hilliard | THE END OF THE END OF THE Yeah, because our board would then adopt it on the 6th to try and get it back in to the staff report. |
| 01:41:39.28 | Mayor Burns | You said that. |
| 01:41:47.75 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:41:47.78 | Mayor Burns | Got it. |
| 01:41:48.17 | Unknown | of these. Thank you. |
| 01:41:48.88 | Mayor Burns | I think you said that. |
| 01:41:51.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:41:53.59 | Mayor Burns | All right, thanks a lot. Thank you. Great job. Thanks for hanging around tonight. |
| 01:41:55.18 | Fred Hilliard | Great job. |
| 01:41:55.85 | Eric Vaughn | Thank you. |
| 01:41:55.87 | Fred Hilliard | Thank you. Okay. |
| 01:41:57.35 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. Good work. |
| 01:42:01.57 | Unknown | Thank you. We did the bowling card first. |
| 01:42:02.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:42:03.12 | Mayor Burns | What are you doing? |
| 01:42:07.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:42:07.68 | Unknown | has been very good on that. |
| 01:42:08.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:42:10.31 | Mayor Burns | Yeah, would anybody mind if we switch Tom in front of Kelvin? |
| 01:42:13.65 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:42:15.46 | Mayor Burns | Would you mind, you want mine then? Let's throw Tom up. We're going to switch, if anybody's here for public items, we're going to switch 7B with 7A so we can get Tom Ahern's. |
| 01:42:25.33 | Fred Hilliard | Yeah. |
| 01:42:28.79 | Mayor Burns | Through here pretty quickly. |
| 01:42:34.53 | Mayor Burns | So still keeps the bus scared. |
| 01:42:35.00 | Thomas Aarons | Good evening Mayor Burns, council members. I'm Thomas Aarons for those of you who haven't met me, and likely most of you haven't, because I'm fairly new here. Contract building official for the city. The ordinance before you tonight is a fairly routine triannual adoption. Fred covered a lot of the background, the state does it. The state of California takes the international codes. In my case, this was just fire code. In my case, it's the building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, green building, etc., etc. So there's 12 parts, one of which is his. So the state takes what's originally published as the International Building Code. It takes almost a two year process in order to revise those. And they heavily amend and append it to those codes. They almost double in size in the state of California. Um, And then they publish those typically in July, and then they give local jurisdictions 180 days to review and amend those. So that's the period of time we're in now. They'll become effective on January 1st. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS. With respect to the ordinance in front of you, most of the changes we've simply updated for the new code references, most of the changes are carried forward from the previous adoption. There are a few things that I brought in from my experience in other jurisdictions that I thought would be advisable for the City of Sausalito. Most of the proposed amendments carried over in previous years. Examples of provisions that were added or amended include provisions requiring a building permit for freestanding masonry walls or fences over three feet in height. To require the posting of a city placard at locations where a building permit has been issued. THE CITY IS GOING TO BE providing wording to allow the council to act as an appeals board instead of the formal appeals board that is mandated in the code. incorporating recommended changes from the fire department regarding fire protection systems and WUI regulations, in particular in the residential code. Requiring roof coverings throughout the city to be a class A ignition resistant. Excuse me, recovering only. And restricting the use of retaining walls in certain cases and providing clarification for private swimming pool. testing and safety requirements. Those are kind of the bullet points on anything new. Most of the amendments are actually administrative in nature. They deal with procedural things, fees, penalties, Things like that. We have also included at the end of the ordinance, we've included the required findings for the health safety code So when we amend the code, we must make findings based on local climatic, geological, and topographical, I think it is. So those are included at the end of the chapter. Ultimately, those findings along with the ordinance will be filed with the California Building Standards Commission. And then at that point, that's required in order for them to become legal. That's it, as far as the Cliff Notes version. Again, Fred covered most of the background related to the state adoption of the codes. At this point, I'll just accept questions if you have any. It's getting late. |
| 01:46:03.46 | Unknown | Yeah, I guess I'll just ask the same question. I asked the fire marshal, which is will residents see any significant increase costs from this updated building code? The only thing that you mentioned that caught my eye was the class A roof, possibly, but And this is mostly, I mean, I think from a staff report perspective, it's just a public notice issue. I'm not, I mean, I'm generally favorably inclined to update our building and fire codes. But I do think we should give the public notice if we are increasing requirements that will cost real money to people. |
| 01:46:38.24 | Thomas Aarons | Sure, so in all fairness a couple of things do, so we've amended some of the, We've refined some of the exceptions to the building code. So there's an exception in the building code that says if you have a shed that's an accessory building that is unoccupied, that is 120 square feet or less, you're exempt from a permit. We added some nuances to that to say this must also not include any electrical, plumbing, or heating devices, because as we all know, there's creep and then it becomes a cottage and then it becomes something else. So the exemption was really meant for the storage shed or the place shed in your rear yard. In addition, the freestanding masonry walls, they're an additional hazard over and above what a fence is considered to be. So we decided it's important to permit those. And the class A roof, it's become such a common building material anymore. It really probably adds some minor cost to the roof replacement, but not substantially. Thank you. |
| 01:47:43.60 | Mayor Burns | I have a couple questions on the document. Do you want to do those this week or at the next reading? What would be the best? |
| 01:47:50.07 | Thomas Aarons | I can certainly attempt to answer your questions now and if not, then I can be well prepared for next month. |
| 01:47:56.30 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:47:56.35 | Thomas Aarons | you |
| 01:47:56.40 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:47:56.44 | Thomas Aarons | Um, |
| 01:47:56.89 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:47:57.62 | Thomas Aarons | Thank you. |
| 01:47:57.64 | Mayor Burns | And I realize that some of this might be explained in definitions that we don't have in this document. But on work commencing before permit issuance, which is 109.4, no page number. Okay. |
| 01:48:07.84 | Thomas Aarons | Okay. |
| 01:48:09.85 | Mayor Burns | Any person who commences any work on a building will be subject to a fee equal to three times. Is that good legal wording, any person doing any work unless work is defined somewhere else in the document that we don't have? |
| 01:48:26.83 | Thomas Aarons | This is very, very similar to the base code language. |
| 01:48:31.42 | Mayor Burns | Yeah, because I know- |
| 01:48:32.36 | Thomas Aarons | I know we don't look up for you. |
| 01:48:34.03 | Mayor Burns | Sometimes we'd. do work up to what's required in a permit on a property. Right. And that's not defined. |
| 01:48:42.02 | Thomas Aarons | I think they kept it just a little bit loose because when you start to define what work is, there's such a broad. I mean, when you look at what requires a building permit, it's easier to say what doesn't require a building permit as opposed to what does. So I think in the same vein, perhaps the wording is that way. In addition, we deliberately added the word may be subject to. The penalty process always has to be administered by the building official. There are cases where someone might begin work, an ill-informed property owner might start to do something simply not realizing he needs a permit. notified that he does may not be appropriate to penalize him. So we want to allow some latitude, but at the same time, have a provision whereby we create a real disincentive to |
| 01:49:33.11 | Mayor Burns | I get it. Yeah. This doesn't even say who the subject, who would We get the fee. |
| 01:49:38.60 | Mary Wagner | Well, and I concur with that summary, and I think it's kind of industry language. So you'd have a lot of application in other jurisdictions as well as our own. And I think you had pointed out that the trigger is work that would need a building permit. Which would be easy to put in here. |
| 01:49:48.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:49:49.03 | Mayor Burns | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:49:49.25 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:49:54.88 | Mayor Burns | Which would be easy to put in here. Excuse me? Which would be an easy line to put in here. |
| 01:49:56.57 | Mary Wagner | THE END OF THE END OF THE I think it's there, I think that's what it means. It's in the building code and it means work that you would need a permit for. If you didn't get that permit, you're subject to triple fines. |
| 01:50:09.97 | Thomas Aarons | before obtaining the necessary permits, so by implication I think it means that. I can work on clarifying that language for you, sir. |
| 01:50:17.39 | Mayor Burns | And then on the energy code section under 818, California Energy Code on Title 24, I think is part six. And on this section under California Energy Code, it references part five, herein referred to as the California Plumbing Code. Is that? |
| 01:50:37.80 | Thomas Aarons | Oh, could that be a typo? |
| 01:50:39.13 | Mayor Burns | I don't know, that's why I was wondering if they reference the energy code back in Title V. Again, if this was picked up by other jurisdictions, then it very well could be correct. I'm curious why it says that. |
| 01:50:52.95 | Unknown | um I'm trying to find it here. Existing building code. What section is that? |
| 01:50:58.25 | Mayor Burns | It's chapter 8.8, 8.18. |
| 01:51:00.71 | Unknown | point All right, got it. |
| 01:51:07.19 | Thomas Aarons | And it says Title V and it is not Title V. |
| 01:51:10.06 | Mayor Burns | Then on the page following it, again, no page numbers, but 8.18.101 California Energy Code. Title 24, part five. |
| 01:51:22.63 | Thomas Aarons | Oh, yes, you're absolutely right, thank you, it's a typo. |
| 01:51:25.31 | Mayor Burns | Okay, so that whole thing will come out then because it's not the California Planning Code. |
| 01:51:28.82 | Thomas Aarons | Thank you. I apologize. |
| 01:51:29.80 | Mayor Burns | Okay. And then... We talked specifically about Sausalito, Santa Ana winds, we can call those Diablos? Do you want to call those Diabolos since we're calling them now? But anyway, just the word Santa Ana spelled wrong. That was it. Thank you. |
| 01:51:47.42 | Thomas Aarons | Thank you. |
| 01:51:47.57 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:51:47.66 | Thomas Aarons | Thank you. |
| 01:51:47.73 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:51:47.74 | Thomas Aarons | Thank you. |
| 01:51:52.05 | Mayor Burns | Well, I read through it because I had a reason to read through it. |
| 01:51:55.71 | Thomas Aarons | I appreciate the detail. |
| 01:51:58.44 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. Any other comments? Questions? |
| 01:52:04.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:52:04.25 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:52:04.28 | Unknown | All right. Tom, anything? |
| 01:52:12.38 | Mayor Burns | Yeah. I'm going to open up to public comment. Would anybody like to speak on this item? Amending the chapters 8.6 of the Title 8 municipal code. Anybody at all like to speak to this scene? None. We'll close public comment. Bring it up here for final comment. Seeing no final comment, we'll send you on your way, Tom, with a, oh, we have some actions here. |
| 01:52:39.70 | Mayor Burns | We've done our public hearing. |
| 01:52:40.75 | Unknown | We're doing our first reading today. Okay, so I will move that we Introduce and the first reading of chapters 8.06 through 8.28 and chapter 8.40 of Title 8, the Sasoledo Municipal Code, and adopt the 2019 edition of the Title 24 Code of Regulations in the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code with local amendments. |
| 01:53:11.49 | Linda Hen | Is that good? |
| 01:53:12.62 | Councilmember Cox | What do we need to say, introduce by title and wave first reading? |
| 01:53:14.11 | Linda Hen | You want to do the whole thing? |
| 01:53:16.25 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. you |
| 01:53:17.06 | Unknown | but if |
| 01:53:17.69 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:53:17.70 | Unknown | Mary tells us we do. |
| 01:53:17.74 | Linda Hen | you |
| 01:53:17.77 | Councilmember Cox | We don't. |
| 01:53:19.41 | Unknown | Okay. I'm just reading, that's the only thing that's on my agenda. |
| 01:53:19.95 | Mary Wagner | I'm just. |
| 01:53:23.83 | Mary Wagner | That's fine. The adoption process when you're incorporating by reference is a little bit different. So you actually just need to read the title of the ordinance and then we publish and then we return back to you for another public hearing and adoption. |
| 01:53:39.71 | Unknown | So we don't need to take any action tonight? |
| 01:53:41.45 | Mary Wagner | You need to do exactly what you just did, introduce the ordinance. |
| 01:53:43.54 | Unknown | Okay. All right, so I made the motion. |
| 01:53:48.31 | Councilmember Withey | Thank you. |
| 01:53:48.35 | Mayor Burns | Second. |
| 01:53:49.98 | Unknown | you |
| 01:53:50.03 | Mayor Burns | All in favor? Aye. 5-0. |
| 01:53:50.98 | Unknown | Aye. |
| 01:53:54.05 | Mayor Burns | We'll continue the second reading until November. you 12. Do we have motions on those? |
| 01:54:03.55 | Mayor Burns | We don't need. |
| 01:54:03.60 | Mary Wagner | We don't have that. We actually need, I think, a little bit more time than that. We don't need you to actually make that a formal action tonight. Okay. We'll do the publication and bring it back to you for a second reading in accordance with the statute. |
| 01:54:10.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:54:10.52 | Mayor Burns | Oh, great. |
| 01:54:10.98 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:54:11.74 | Mayor Burns | Okay. |
| 01:54:11.97 | Unknown | Right. |
| 01:54:16.55 | Mayor Burns | Great, thank you. Thanks Tom. |
| 01:54:23.57 | Mayor Burns | All right, Mary. Mary Chan. |
| 01:54:26.60 | Unknown | Oh. |
| 01:54:29.88 | Mayor Burns | We're going to adopt and give second reading to ordinance 1274, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Sausalito to adopt marijuana regulations. |
| 01:54:39.28 | Mary Wagner | Thank you Mr. Mayor, members of the council. As you indicated, this is the second reading of the ordinance to essentially maintain the status quo of the city's regulations with respect to marijuana. You gave the first reading at your meeting on October 8th and held a public hearing. This typically would be a consent calendar item for you, a second reading. It was actually noticed as a public hearing item, so we've kept it as a public hearing item, but I'll be very brief. The ordinance that you have in front of you tonight includes the direction from the council to modify the purpose statement that we Heard from you on October 8th. I would like to let you know that staff met with Fume, which is the entity that spoke to you in January that was interested in a non storefront location in Sausalito. They informed your planning staff that they had looked at various locations in the Marinship. and met with property owners They determined it's not financially feasible for them to do a completely non-storefront operation. And that they would rather, or that they would be modifying their proposal to include at least a retail component or to be essentially only retail. Staff also met with the other entities that had presented at your last meeting that were interested in a storefront or retail location in Sausalito. All those entities have been instructed to come up with a proposal to kind of outline what it is that they actually would be doing in Sausalito, what their products would be, et cetera, et cetera. I'm not sure. There's nothing in your ordinance tonight that precludes staff from having those conversations. But if in fact the council wants to consider those types of uses in the future, we would recommend bringing that back to you. Thank you. let you know what people are interested in doing, and then get your policy direction on whether you want to entertain modifications to the ordinance in the future. We do recommend that you continue the status quo due to the fact that the current regulations were adopted as an urgency measure and they expire at the end of November. So to keep on track, we would have you do second reading tonight. We then wait 30 days and then those regulations become effective. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. |
| 01:56:53.75 | Mayor Burns | Thank you, any questions? |
| 01:56:53.87 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah, just for clarification for anyone who's interested, the status quo in Sausalito is that medical marijuana and recreational marijuana are legal to deliver only and otherwise everything else is prohibited. |
| 01:57:09.82 | Mary Wagner | Correct, delivery only. So it's delivery originating in somewhere outside of Sausalito, but delivery into Sausalito is allowed. But no other marijuana businesses or uses are allowed in Sausalito. |
| 01:57:22.17 | Unknown | Okay. Thank you. |
| 01:57:26.03 | Mayor Burns | Any other questions for Mary? Seeing none, I will open up to public comments. Is there anybody who would like to speak on this one? I have one, E. Gallickson. Anybody else, please fill out a card, give it to the city clerk. |
| 01:57:40.36 | E. Gallickson | Distinguished Councillors, ladies and gentlemen. In the 1860s, Prince Otto von Bismarck famously observed that the making of laws is rather like the making of sausages. It's unpleasant to observe the close range. In the ordinance before you tonight, I find to be a particularly unpleasant sausage. Let me begin with the word marijuana. It's an archaic term. And what I'm sure the counselors have not yet been apprised of is that the term is also xenophobic and racist. It was coined a century ago in the era of reefer madness to demonize the Latino population. And today, it's offensive. The plant is called by its botanical genus, Cannabis. But that's hardly material. what actually is material is the results of the city's survey of their constituency on these particular topics pertaining to the ordinance. I refer you to issue 5751 on the city's website. And I draw your attention to two responses given by the populace. to the questions of the retail sales of marijuana and the outdoor cultivation of up to six plants for personal use. I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that both of these received a majority response in favor. but not just a majority, an overwhelming majority. 88%. of the respondents to the city's survey, said that retail sales of recreational marijuana should be left. A similar percentage 81.6% said that outdoor cultivation of up to six plants should be allowed for personal use. The ordinance in front of you tonight outlaws those. And we live not in a dictatorship, but in a society where elected representatives must be responsive to the will of their constituents. You canvass the will of your constituents in the ordinary form, receive their responses, and I trust you will vote accordingly. Secondly, I draw your attention to the Sausalito Municipal Code Regulations, Section 10.47, .040. which indicate, and I quote, Violation of this chapter shall be and is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. and contrary to the public interest. Well, as the city attorney can no doubt confirm, or as reference to any elementary textbook of law will indicate common law. indicates. that a public nuisance is a situation in which the public suffers an injury, a loss or damage. Now perhaps the city councilors are more imaginative than I am, but I certainly for the life of me cannot figure out how the cultivation of a plant on one's own private property for personal use in any way injures, damages, or causes a loss to the public. I think as I've shown, this bill defies both the will of your constituents and common sense. You must vote no. |
| 02:00:44.92 | Unknown | Great, thank you. |
| 02:00:47.79 | Mayor Burns | Yeah, fill out a card. I have a card up here. You have a card? The card's up to the city clerk here. I'll call your name from there. Well, no, there's two people behind you. |
| 02:01:07.99 | Councilmember Withey | Okay. |
| 02:01:09.21 | Linda Hen | Hi, my name is Linda Hen. I'm with the Marin Prevention Network. And I want to thank you for the time and diligence you're spending on this very complex and complicated topic. |
| 02:01:09.41 | Councilmember Withey | My name is |
| 02:01:19.33 | Linda Hen | the implications of legalized cannabis are extensive and we've seen that in other states. And in reference to the survey, this was really an opinion poll and not really a statistically valid instrument because of the way the information was gathered. It would have to be a random sample. There are a number of issues connected with commercial retail outlets. First of all, the high rate of Youth use in Marin County is higher than the rest of the nation and in California by nearly 50%. And cannabis use disorder is the number one reason that youth seek treatment, seek substance abuse treatment in Marin County. And storefront sales will increase access and diversion and the use of fake IDs. A storefront will also bring increased traffic to Sausalito and the increased risk of impaired drivers. And if Sausalito does permit a retail, they will be the first one to do so in Marin County. And it will likely become a destination. So with impaired driving, This has increased in almost all states since legalization and there's currently no standardized test to test for this besides the subjective field sobriety test. And there have been increased fatalities and accidents due to impaired driving. under cannabis. |
| 02:02:43.57 | Unknown | THE END OF |
| 02:02:45.07 | Linda Hen | The resource burden for the city is also extensive. Tax revenue will be needed to cover administrative cost regulation and enforcement of cannabis activity. Funding is also necessary to provide education, public health awareness, and treatment options to mitigate the inherent risks and harms. The burden of those costs on a small town could counter any potential financial gain. There is the question of how public consumption will be regulated and enforced and how will the police department handle the increased resources needed to avoid increased secondhand smoke violations, impaired driving and other unintended consequences. There are no guaranteed consumer protections for high THC commercial products that have no FDA oversight. And have not undergone long term testing because on the health impacts because it isn't legal. And then will THC vaping products be allowed? And as you know from the recent news, these products have been found to be deadly. and very dangerous. While there are legitimate medicinal benefits to cannabis, there is also proven risks, including physical dependence, addiction, cannabis-induced psychosis, and lasting damage on the developing adolescent brain. Unfortunately, store owners and staff are not bound by any legal or ethical guidelines similar to other health care professionals. So I urge you to weigh the pros and cons, Ellen, and before you embark on a path that could potentially ruin Sausalito for the charming town you are. Thank you. And thank you. |
| 02:04:10.60 | Unknown | care for you. FUN. |
| 02:04:11.10 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 02:04:11.31 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:04:18.95 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. And thank you. Thanks for that. Lori. Lori. |
| 02:04:27.39 | Lori Dubin | Good evening council members, my name is Lori Dubin and I am a Marin parent of three children. two 20-somethings and one teenager who is going to be attending Tilden Prep right up the road. I emailed you this morning, but just want to highlight some of the things that I wrote about. I am the founder of a nonprofit called Be The Influence, and it's been around for about ten years. In our middle and high schools in Marin County, it seeks to reduce the rates of substance use, which as the prior speaker said. are the highest in the state of California. They mirror adult usage rates, we are the healthiest county. in California of 58 other counties, but when it comes to impaired driving and traffic fatalities. drug overdoses, and binge drinking. We're the least healthy county, so it's no surprise that our kids mirror the behavior that they see in their adults. One thing in particular that we try to do at Be the Influence is to educate parents on the risks of drug use. on the developing adolescent brain and we especially had to make a big effort on cannabis because you've got, industry and pro legalization people that will I want everybody to believe that it's a harmless natural herb that cures all ills. There may be medicinal benefits, the harms are increasingly being documented for youth. And there is a study that shows that youth rates for cannabis increase in neighborhoods where there are dispensaries because the use is normalized. And the perception of risk goes down. And rates increase. At neighboring TAM High School, we've got 48% of 11th graders who are current users of cannabis. That's in the last 30 days, and that's compared to national rates of 17% for 10th graders and 22% for 12th graders. So right here at TAM High School, we're double what kids in other communities are using. The first speaker referred to a survey that was done a while ago. And it was for the purpose of assessing whether deliveries would be allowed in distribution facilities. In the wake of that survey, first of all, there were only 307 respondents. The landscape has changed with the vaping crisis. have seen headlines that have disappeared in the last couple weeks. The hospitalizations are mounting 1,533 deaths and the grand majority of the hospitalizations The large majority, 80%, are due to cannabis vapes. This is not the time to let businesses come in. |
| 02:07:41.06 | Mayor Burns | Thank you, Laurie, I have a question, so don't walk away. And I did email Laurie as well, I think you might have received it. |
| 02:07:46.70 | Lori Dubin | you |
| 02:07:47.42 | Mayor Burns | And since you are here as a professional and in the business. I did ask for the study that shows that teen rates |
| 02:07:56.45 | Lori Dubin | Okay. |
| 02:07:57.09 | Mayor Burns | I WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE |
| 02:07:57.55 | Lori Dubin | In neighborhoods with dispensaries. |
| 02:07:59.25 | Mayor Burns | Any scientific data would be great because we have not seen any of that. In fact, we've seen the opposite of that. But both parties now have made the point that Marin teens have a high rate of use. |
| 02:08:01.38 | Lori Dubin | Because we have not seen any of that. |
| 02:08:10.27 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 02:08:10.68 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. But there is no legal dispensary in Marin. So what's the nexus between a legal dispensary and the high rate? |
| 02:08:16.26 | Lori Dubin | Well, you want to go back to legalization of medical marijuana. And proponents of legalization, they've been around for a long time, but they latched on. to medical marijuana. And that had an impact on kids who think, it's medicinal, it cures anxiety, insomnia. |
| 02:08:37.32 | Unknown | Only Marin kids. |
| 02:08:38.12 | Lori Dubin | Those, yes, Marin kids and also teens in other states such as Colorado, which also had medicinal legalization and then recreational. The medical cards were so easy to get. Kids 18 and over could easily go to a Okay. Show up a doctor and get these medical cards. |
| 02:09:03.21 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:09:03.34 | Lori Dubin | Thank you. |
| 02:09:03.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:09:03.53 | Lori Dubin | Thank you. And I also wanted to respond to your comment. I think it was at the last meeting about the black market and concern and the hope that- |
| 02:09:11.83 | Mayor Burns | I haven't asked that question, so thank you. |
| 02:09:13.67 | Lori Dubin | Okay, well I'm happy to answer that because it's thriving in places like Colorado. |
| 02:09:15.78 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 02:09:18.84 | Lori Dubin | Thank you. |
| 02:09:18.87 | Mayor Burns | Catherine |
| 02:09:25.45 | Unknown | Hi, I am a Sausalito resident and I'm a property owner since 1990. And I am totally against normalization of pot here in Sausalito and pot destination for the whole county of Marin plus tourists. It will make an impact. It does normalize. It is not a natural substance such as 30 years ago when I even bought my home. It's become very synthetic and very high potency, up to about THC of 80, 90 edibles, 100. I'm not an expert, but I have been studying it, and I have gone to conferences, and it's not something I want in this town. I don't think that it will add value to any of our homes. I think it will normalize additional use in kids and adults in public even. I can smell it on the streets and it's a normalization and it will make Sausalito known as the pot center of Marin. Because all the other towns have just said no. And I don't think we need it. I think those that really need medical marijuana can get it through delivery or through their doctors. And it will just be a negative and increase impaired driving, increase any kind of vagrancies. And it will not be a positive. It will not bring us the kind of tourists we want. We have issues with excessive bicyclists, but that's pretty benign to what we might be looking at here in terms of influx of outsiders. We're only 75. 100 people. So it's not a lot. of a population to really support this kind of activity and I don't see that the taxes are going to be that beneficial. You know, I really don't see the benefits. |
| 02:11:42.05 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. That's me. Okay, good, thanks. |
| 02:11:42.78 | Unknown | Oh. That's me. you |
| 02:11:53.41 | Jasmine Garrity | Hi, my name is Jasmine Garrity. I am a Sausalito resident and I'm also a member of the Murren Prevention Network and I do a lot of the education in schools around vaping and tobacco. After reading the staff report, I understand the time constraint that you guys are under and I realize that you're going to likely adopt the staff report. So I'm glad that you will be moving forward with this tonight before the state regulation comes into place. I'd like to thank you for your diligent work on this and prohibiting retail storefronts as the risk to normalization and decrease perception of harm among young people. I also want to talk about a couple concerns that I have for future discussions around this topic. At this point, there are people who are dying from cannabis products, both legal and illegal products. And after attending the Bureau of Cannabis Control meeting today, it is clear how little enforcement and regulations that there are at the state level. Another thing that I was looking at under Prop 64, there is this taxation loophole. If the legal market cannot compete with the black market, the taxation rates can go down to 0%, which means that the town will in turn get nothing. In Colorado, to the Smart Approaches to Marijuana Study in Colorado, for every $1 of tax revenue from cannabis products, the taxpayers paid $4.50 for enforcement, licensing, and regulation. I'm sure that you all received the letters that were sent in from Dr. Matt Willis and Mary Jane Burke as far as studies that are happening recently. I would just like to reiterate that in 2017, the National Academies of Sciences report released a study indicating the risk of cannabis. Motor vehicle crashes, which doubled in the state of Washington. The regular use of cannabis increased the risk for dependence and psychotic mental illnesses. And in August 2019, the Lancet study further described cannabis inducing mental illnesses. I would just like to see if cannabis moves forward in this, that we're tracking all of those things that are happening and noticing what mental illnesses and psychotic breaks that are getting attributed to the cannabis industry. Like I mentioned earlier, there's 7,500 people here in Sausalito and In San Francisco and other neighboring cities, they have a density which they're going with. It's about one retail outlet for 10,000 residents. Here that would be equated to.7,000. 0.75 of any cannabis use. We have a small town here. We already have a lot of tourists that come here. We don't want to make this a continued tourist destination. We have a lot of people smoking cigarettes in places where secondhand smoke policies are enacted. And we haven't been able to get a grip on getting that going with the tourist industry. That we do need to continue to the cannabis industry as well. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:14:59.44 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comment? I don't see anybody else left. So. Thank you for those. We'll close public comment, bring it up here for final comment. |
| 02:15:13.40 | Mayor Burns | I'm going to make one. Thank you. Sorry, because I did ask the question. I think you brought up great points. We don't want marijuana in the hands of kids, and I think that's what a lot of the supporters are asking for retail. to keep it out of the hands of kids, $10 billion a year in the black market is 9 billion too many. And kids, the 48%, they're not getting it from dispensaries. Um, Colorado has, we have tons of studies and that's why I've been asking, I asked Dr. Willis for the study. Give me data because every report is coming out that teen use is dropping near legalization. I know you'd say no, but I'm just saying that's what CNN, US News, and Chicago Tribune have all recently reported. It might be wrong. It might be wrong and there is a nexus between the 48% of teens that use marijuana and the no dispensary. But we need to see more than just anecdotal information. We need data. But either way, that's not what we're talking about tonight. We're talking about a simple ordinance to keep us out of the problems with the state. And Does anybody have any comments on that ordinance? And I do have one, and I wanted it last week to change it from marijuana to cannabis. |
| 02:16:30.46 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 02:16:31.95 | Mayor Burns | That's |
| 02:16:32.61 | Mary Wagner | I think we're tracking the language of the state statute and because this is a second reading, we would have to redo the first reading if you're going to make changes other than clean up. typo changes can we agree that when we bring this back for further |
| 02:16:48.39 | Councilmember Cox | That was the only idea. We'll revise it from marijuana to cannabis. So just for clarification. |
| 02:16:48.60 | Mary Wagner | That's very true. |
| 02:16:49.03 | Unknown | I do. |
| 02:16:49.60 | Mary Wagner | Yeah. |
| 02:16:50.92 | Unknown | marijuana. So just for clarity from the city attorney, the state actually uses marijuana. |
| 02:16:57.30 | Mary Wagner | I believe so, I think we're tracking that language. I'll definitely look at that for you though and we'd be happy to bring that back to you in the future if you'd like to reconsider. |
| 02:17:08.05 | Unknown | All right, any other comments? Susan, I think you had one. you know. |
| 02:17:13.33 | Unknown | Nope. I mean, I would like to thank everybody that came out tonight to talk about this issue. Especially teen use is of great concern. I've got two, a preteen and teenager myself, but that's not In front of us tonight, we're talking about medical and recreational delivery. But I really appreciate the comments and I do feel. that the more data driven information that we can get, the better. I also think there's a lot lack of oversight at the federal level that is just completely distressing, that has allowed vaping products to enter into the marketplace with literally no oversight and no control. So I see that as the primary source of, the primary thing to combat at this point in terms of teen use. It's just very concerning. But again, I think we're doing the right thing here tonight by continuing to ban everything but recreational and medical delivery. So I can, if there are other comments. |
| 02:18:25.03 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:18:25.06 | Unknown | you |
| 02:18:25.85 | Councilmember Cox | I'll echo those comments and also say thank you to the various public officials who took the time to write to us, as well as those who took the time to appear before us this evening. |
| 02:18:38.09 | Unknown | And I'll just comment, this is a very complicated matter and a lot to learn. Thanks for everyone for your comments. I think it is important that we approve this on the consent calendar in our next meeting. We don't have time to rethink any changes, so I support the direction we're in. |
| 02:18:57.88 | Councilmember Withey | So agreeing with all that, I move to way further reading, read by title only, and adopt ordinance number 1274. An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sausalito to adopt marijuana regulations, Sausalito Municipal Code Chapter 10.47. |
| 02:19:15.86 | Councilmember Cox | SECOND. |
| 02:19:16.19 | Councilmember Withey | All in favor? Aye. That passes 5-0. |
| 02:19:19.74 | Mayor Burns | Thank you. |
| 02:19:25.05 | Mayor Burns | That brings us to. Item eight, city manager. Reports, City Council appointments, and other council business. Is there any public comment on items 8B through 8B? E Any public comment on these items? Seeing none, I'll turn it over to the city manager. |
| 02:19:46.15 | Adam Politzer | Yeah, just very briefly, recognizing that we might have a new record tonight, so I'd like to help reach the record of adjourning maybe before 930. But one of the items that we'll start seeking council feedback on is next year's council schedule. So as we come now to the holiday season with Halloween, more than a week away and then Thanksgiving afterwards and then all the winter holidays following time will escape us to start if you can looking at particularly for the at least the first quarter of 2020 January February March and April you know so that we can get the schedule out to the council with our proposed dates and then we remind you to the council what staff tries to do is look at holidays look at various schedules like school schedules the federal holidays the local holidays and then try to avoid having back-to-back council meetings look at when we have Mondays off not have a council meeting the next tuesday because it doesn't give staff or council real opportunity to prepare a lot of council members reach out to staff on monday after reading the packet on the weekend and then obviously following up on tuesday so please start looking at your calendars if you know now you have travel dates or conflicts on our traditional Tuesday meetings. I would like to say traditional first and third, but we haven't been first and third. We've been traditional Tuesdays. They've either been the second or the fourth or first and third, or as we'll see next month in November, we're going to be back to back council meetings. So we try to avoid those when possible. So as soon as you can start sending us that information, we can start putting together a draft schedule. We'll send that out to you and then. We'll look at that at our December meeting. to confirm it. And as we start working with you between now and December, we hope to have something that's workable when we get to December. Happy to answer any other questions from the council. |
| 02:21:59.27 | Unknown | So just in response to that, I appreciate that heads up. I think it would be really helpful if we could set our schedule for January sooner than December, just for me personally. I have some travel planned in January, so if it's at all possible to pull other council members and get those meetings set up, that would be great. |
| 02:22:24.18 | Unknown | Great. |
| 02:22:25.80 | Mayor Burns | All right. Appointments to boards, commissions, and committees. We have none tonight, though Serge is going to be working on a little addition to Abbott, who's going to run more of a higher profile article in Currents, seeking participation in the open committees that we have. Bike and Ped, community disaster, planning, all sorts of things. Um. Kind of unrelated, but it was earlier, so I'm just going to say it right now. I'm passed a letter to the, along the dais here that we received from Senator Dianne Feinstein. Thanking us for our letter on FCC and the bill that she's putting forth. So I think it helps forward it back to you guys, but she didn't say anything personal like, you know. house cocoa or anything like that but I take it she really did sign it. She didn't. On her desk. Any other items of interest, future agenda items that we heard tonight? Who would like to throw something out? |
| 02:23:27.90 | Unknown | Yeah, I would like to get an update on the items that the bike and ped committee forwarded to us about four I want to say four months ago. You mentioned one tonight, the Columbus Street Crosswalk. |
| 02:23:45.87 | Mayor Burns | Yeah. |
| 02:23:46.18 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. And the downtown loading and parking, it is really, I've got to say, I do agree with the Bike and Ped Committee that in the morning near Princess and Bridgeway, It's really, the situation is not good. |
| 02:24:03.20 | Mayor Burns | Yeah, they're there. |
| 02:24:05.62 | Unknown | So I would like to get an update at some point. |
| 02:24:05.68 | Mayor Burns | So in that regard. And I can give you that. So what they have now is a working document that has links. |
| 02:24:10.43 | Unknown | THEIR OWNERS. I don't think we can get into a discussion, but I wanted to put it on a future agenda. |
| 02:24:14.71 | Mayor Burns | Yeah. That's part of my community report. |
| 02:24:19.64 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:24:19.86 | Mayor Burns | All right. Anything else? Any other items? If it's seen then, this meeting is adjourned. |
| 02:24:30.71 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you for your world's record. |
| 02:24:34.29 | Councilmember Withey | Keeps it up. |
| 02:24:53.34 | Mayor Burns | Here's these and the check. |
| 02:25:03.06 | Unknown | Mmm. Oh, crikey. Do you want to see? |
| 02:25:11.89 | Mayor Burns | What are we doing? |
| 02:26:27.55 | Unknown | May it come? Good night. you Thank you. |
| 02:27:03.01 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 02:27:05.20 | Unknown | you |
| 02:27:06.18 | Mary Wagner | I'll show you a photo, please. |
| 02:27:10.57 | Mary Wagner | Hello, Rick. |
| 02:27:18.23 | Mary Wagner | Answered, aye. |
Melanie Hamburger — Neutral: Announced a community event to educate Sausalito residents about Marin City's history and future projects, including an affordable housing hub, and invited attendance. ▶ 📄