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| 00:00:06.29 | Unknown | We'll be right back. |
| 00:00:11.49 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the regular city council meeting of February 11th, 2020, for the city of Sausalito. Could our clerk please call the roll? Sure. |
| 00:00:23.37 | Chris Chu | Councilmember Cox? Here. Councilmember Riley? Here. Councilmember Burns? Here. Vice Mayor Withey? Here. Mayor Cleveland Knowles? |
| 00:00:26.22 | Vicki Nichols | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:00:27.49 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:00:27.50 | Vicki Nichols | Here. here. |
| 00:00:30.95 | Heidi Scoble | but I think that's a great thing. We have one item in closed session, conference with legal counsel on anticipated litigation pursuant to paragraph two or three of government code section 54956.91 potential case. Is there any public comment on this item? Seeing none, the City Council will adjourn into closed session and we will be back to start our regular meeting at 7 o'clock. |
| 00:01:07.04 | Council Member Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:01:28.36 | Maureen Parton | OK? |
| 00:01:38.31 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, welcome everyone again. This is our regular meeting of the Sausalito City Council on Tuesday, February 11th, 2020. We have already come into session and called the roll. Vicki Nichols, would you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? |
| 00:02:01.58 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:02:22.10 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 00:02:23.35 | Heidi Scoble | All right, so the council met in closed session and we have nothing to report. Do I have an approval of our agenda tonight? So moved. |
| 00:02:37.66 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:02:38.62 | Heidi Scoble | All in favor? Aye. |
| 00:02:39.43 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:02:40.38 | Heidi Scoble | Any opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries five zero. Under special presentations, mayor announcements, we had none when the agenda went to print. But since that time, there have been some disturbing accounts that the city council has received in the past few weeks of dog biting incidents near Curry Avenue. And these reports have also been widely circulated on social media. The city, including the city council, have taken these reports very seriously, and our chief of police, our captain, and our city manager have been working closely with county authorities to address these issues. So just before we get started tonight, I'd like to ask Chief Warbrocker to give us an update, which he has regularly done to the council in writing, which I'd like to thank him for. But just so that the public knows the status of everything, it would be great if you could provide that update orally. |
| 00:03:38.38 | Unknown | Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the City Council, and also to the community. I appreciate the opportunity to update you at tonight's meeting, but also the entire community, about an item that is, of course, of serious public safety concern, and that's the dog bite incidents on Curry Lane. So the dog bites occurred, just in summary, the dog bites occurred on January 21st, so now we're a few weeks later. When that happened, there were really three victims, two that were mauled, viciously attacked and bitten, and one man was actually chased into the back of his truck to escape being bit by the dogs, these two dogs. And then the dog bites occurred on January 21st, so now we're a few weeks later. The dogs live at a residence on Curry Lane, And they were loose without supervision and no one was walking them, they weren't on leash. And unprovoked, they attacked these men across the street from the residents. The men were hurt seriously, they had to be taken to the hospital for emergency care. and be treated for the wounds. Officers from the Humane Society responded, officers from the police department responded, and of course, medics and firefighters from the fire department responded. All to render aid and of course, try and get these dogs corralled and back home. the follow-up is that what happens next that's everybody wants to know how quickly will this be resolved and what happens so In a case like this we do our best to assist the Humane Society with their investigation We like every other city and also the county of Marin in Marin County we are a contract agency with the Marine Society for animal control services so the responsibility for the investigation is lies with them, but we simply just don't wash our hands of it and walk away. We do what we can to help them complete that investigation. The end result for the Humane Society is to create petitions and the petitions are what in our words would be like a police report and they submit them to the Marin County District Attorney's Office to the Consumer Protection Unit to two particular individuals, attorneys that work in that division who act as the hearing officers for dog bite cases or other cases brought forward by Marin Humane Society. So that's where those petitions are now. Those petitions were delivered on Monday. I reviewed them myself on both Thursday and Friday last week after the Humane Society completed their work. So sometime in the next two weeks, the hearing will take place about those dogs and the owner of the dogs is certainly very aware of what occurred. He is actually being cooperative. The dogs were. left to be quarantined in place at the house. I know people find that very disturbing. It is actually one of the options under the ordinance to allow that to occur. And the quarantine in place for the 10 days is actually to have them checked for rabies and the dogs came back negative for rabies and within that 10 day period and so the dogs were no longer quarantined at home, but kept at home. The Humane Society had a very Thank you. Thank you. Pointed conversation with the dog owner about those dogs need to be left in and watched and secured on the premises and not be allowed to get out. On the occasion that the dog bites did happen, the dogs happened to get out an open front door. and show We believe that Nothing has happened since that day. However, there was a call for service on the 29th about dogs running loose, and the substitute officers responded. And so did the Marine Humane Society officers But the dogs were, upon arrival, the dogs were not loose and the dogs were secured in the yard at the house where they live. We don't have any way of knowing there was no one there. to assist with maybe the dogs get out. So we don't really know, that's a little bit of a known Thank you. so that's the best we could do with that we don't have an eyewitness about the dogs we did have somebody that called but nobody that was there to tell us and so when the humane society we arrived dogs were already secured so i it's Human society's belief is the dogs, in fact, were not out, but at this point, I don't know if that, it does matter because we wanna have some confidence that the dog owner is being responsible about keeping those dogs in the house because none of us want to see those dogs somehow get loose again. And so, We're all waiting for the petition. hearing date to be set. and We're all hopeful that the two injured men will recover from their injuries. They're pretty savagely bitten. And we do know that Those same two animals were involved in a dog bite incident in 2016. And same location area and neighborhood. Humane Society included that incident in the petition on this particular case because it shows a prior incident. And it becomes relevant as the petition goes forward so the hearing officers can see that it's not the first time that these dogs have attacked somebody on the street. But again, there's a legal process to follow. I know people are very concerned and I know that they would like us to go and take those dogs and do something with them. We clearly aren't equipped to do that. We have no kennels and nobody to do that. That's why we contract with the Humane Society. I do understand that people are upset and nervous about it. I'm sure you're going to hear from a few of them tonight. And it's not that we disagree, it's just that there is a process for this to go forward. If the owner knows that if those dogs get out, and they're impounded by the Humane Society officers, he's not going to get them back until the hearing is over. And I'm imagining that he doesn't want that to happen. So he has a vested interest in making sure those dogs are secure. However, there is some fear in the community, and I thought I would update you on that. |
| 00:10:11.53 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you very much. We really appreciate that. And so this is just an announcement and special presentation at this point. Thank you so much. Okay, moving on to communications. This is a time on our agenda when members of the public can speak to the city council about items that are not on our agenda tonight. We have an unusual number of speaker cards tonight. We have about nine speakers. Please come to the microphone and state your name, and you'll have three minutes to talk. I'm going to call, given the number of speakers we have, I'm going to call three names at a time. If you can stand up here behind the lectern, that would be great. Curtis Havel, Piper Perot, and Steve Moore. |
| 00:11:06.80 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:11:06.81 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:11:06.83 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:11:06.88 | Heidi Scoble | Good evening, Council. Sorry, before you start, I understood we were having some problems with the microphones earlier. Is this all, is the sound picking up okay? Okay, great. Thank you. |
| 00:11:06.93 | Unknown | Good evening, counsel. |
| 00:11:16.21 | Heidi Scoble | Sorry, go ahead. |
| 00:11:17.17 | Curtis Havill | Sure. Good evening, my name is Curtis Havill. I'm the harbormaster of, serving for Richardson's Bay Regional Agency. I just wanted to give you a quick update on what's happening out on the bay. We've got a boat count currently of about 133 vessels. Of those 133, there's eight vessels that are new to the anchorage. They've all been posted with 72 hour notices. Since they've arrived, three of those have been disposed of, two are in the process of leaving, and three belong to return clients, which are a more complicated equation that we're working on trying to address. Recently, I made progress on establishing an impound facility and moving our impound program forward. I'm hoping to launch that program later on this month and with any luck, I'll be moving anywhere from four to eight vessels off the water and into impound. I'll also mention that the vessels that have been disposed of and the ones that we're looking out for impound are all unoccupied vessels. Beyond that, I wanted to quickly comment, this past Sunday we had some pretty solid wind blow through. We ended up with three vessels on the beach over at Schumacher. I was in contact with Chief Rohrbacher, Captain Frost, Mike Rainey over at Schumacher, and I have to thank Chief Rohrbacher for having me cool my heels a bit and wait and see things out. The situation ended up resolving itself, so that worked out for the best. Finally, I wanted to also mention to you and give my thanks to the Sausalito Police Department. They responded to a call for service at the Army Corps of Engineers a couple of weeks back. Corporal Padilla, Officer Fathervey, and Officer Walsh, did an exemplary, I mean they held the highest ideals of public service, of law enforcement, of serving the community. They responded to a call from Marty Plisch over at the Army Corps, someone who was trespassing, who wasn't supposed to be there. I was standing by in my vessel to make sure that we, you know, had the person underserved, supervision at all times. But I just, my hat's off to the Sausalito Police Department for being there when when the call was made. So thank you very much. |
| 00:13:29.79 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Thank you. Thanks for coming tonight. And I think the next time we have an update on our waterfront plan, we'll make sure that you're invited and able to update us at that point too. So thank you. Hi. |
| 00:13:43.13 | Piper Perot | Hi, good evening. My name is Piper Perot, and I would like to bring to the City Council's attention that I have started a petition to save Travis Marina Presidio Yacht Club. And currently we have 6,500 people that have signed this petition. And that has just started a week and a half ago. And the concern is that National Park Service wants to work with a private developer to take over the waterfront. And one of their cited reasons is that Travis Marina is not offering public access, that it's for military workers. And, members of the Presidio Yacht Club only, and I would like to say, and I think the 6,500 other people, that that's not true. It has been open to the public for the past 20 years. And this is an important issue for a lot of people because we do not want to see it developed like Cavallo Point, which the Passport Resource is one of the developers that would like to take that over and has put in the request for qualifications. And the other is Kenwood Investments that's redoing Treasure Island. And we feel that this is a specific, unique situation and highly valued place that would never be the same if that is actually what ends up happening. So we're in support of Travis Air Force Base, staying the operator, and the request is that City Council also adopt a resolution to support them remaining the operator of the waterfront and the boat shop. All right. |
| 00:15:13.31 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Thank you. Next, Steve Moore, and then after Steve, Dennis Webb, Kay Moore, And Steve. |
| 00:15:24.16 | Steve Moore | Good evening, Council members. |
| 00:15:25.02 | Heidi Scoble | I don't. |
| 00:15:28.11 | Steve Moore | My card is a little out of order. I'm basically standing to support my wife Kay Moore and Dennis Webb who began this new movement, but She is the one that was attacked in 2016 and I speak as a longtime dog walker and on that street and uh, person who's lived in Sausalito for 45 years, so. My wishes are to get this taken care of with the Humane Society, I see that as the weak link. not the police department. I know the deal was done years ago to give the Humane Society, this type of power. but there is something amiss in that arrangement. And so I'm here to just state that and hope that we can move a little bit differently with the Humane Department. Thank you. |
| 00:16:21.77 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you very much. Dennis K. Moore, so if everyone could stand up and if your name has been called, and then Steve Stevens, and after that, Betsy Stafford. Thank you. Good evening, council. |
| 00:16:32.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:16:32.30 | Dennis Webb | Good evening, Council. Thank you for letting me speak. |
| 00:16:33.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:16:34.90 | Dennis Webb | So a couple weeks ago, two of my workers got mauled really bad. But I want to start off Actually, I want to start off saying that somebody gave me a few of their minutes to share because This is really important, and it's about public safety, so I'd like to ask for six minutes. |
| 00:16:49.78 | Heidi Scoble | So Dennis, I'm sorry, but the Brown Act and the protocol is you get three minutes. |
| 00:16:55.80 | Dennis Webb | Unless somebody else can donate their three minutes to me. |
| 00:16:58.66 | Heidi Scoble | No, that's... not part of our rules. So thank you so well, we'll pause the clock. We'll just clarify for everyone that it's three minutes for everybody. It's to be fair. And I apologize that you weren't aware of that. But that's the way the meetings are run. |
| 00:17:01.64 | Dennis Webb | Thank you. |
| 00:17:14.16 | Dennis Webb | Okay, no problem. I want to start off four years ago. I was bit very bad by a dog, and so was approximately 13 people here in Sausalito. They were documented, confirmed. There's case numbers, okay? It was by Cheryl Pop's dog. Sparky everyone knows Cheryl. There was an incident that happened here at City Hall at Park and Rec Where Jeremy Holt got bit really bad ambulance came the dog got removed nothing happened 12 other bites happened since me being one of them people in the face hands. We're talking Close to half a million dollars worth of stuff Nobody is enforcing dog bites here in Sausalito we need a dog a vicious dog unit type thing where one person can track it and take care of this numerous emails numerous phone calls nothing to humane society to police department they don't know how to handle it there's no rules regulations are you know, two of my men got mauled here in Sausalito. Bad. Two different times of the day. Morning time and afternoon. Both of them taken away. No. In the afternoon, Sean was taken away by ambulance. In the morning, fire, police came. He was able to drive away. There's rules and regulations and laws and ordinances that say that if two dog bites happen and they're punctured, the dogs would be immediately removed. These are ordinances from the animal control department and they're not even following their own ordinance to this day. These dogs are still out there. Now they're coming out at night. They're barking through the night because they know that the heat's on The gentleman who owns the dogs is a public defender in San Francisco's name is Daniel Meyers. He's 35 years old. He's had six dog bites, two of them two weeks ago, one of them three years ago, and a couple of them scattered in between. These dogs have been seen on Glen Drive, on Spencer. Thank you. on Cloudview, on Johnson Street. They just go for occasional walks. They go in, they go out. It's like they have the password to the gate. We've asked animal control, can you check the property for a breach? They will not check. We've asked the police department to check for a breach. Now, if I was a police officer, I don't know if I would. want to do that because I have not been trained to do that. So nobody is checking for a breach. To this day, these dogs have gotten out two times confirmed by two separate people on Curry Lane. So they basically have gotten out again. There's young mothers with these fancy double strollers. I saw one yesterday. She was talking on her telephone. The one little girl in the lower... stroller looked like she was around two the other one looked like she was around three she's talking on her cell phone i says you know there were some incidents here the other day with dogs and she goes yeah i heard some dogs here and uh i says i want i want to walk right around here um What's going to happen is Thank you. |
| 00:20:04.35 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you, Dennis. So we understand this is a very important issue to you. So thank you for coming. Kay Moore. |
| 00:20:11.15 | Kay Moore | Hello, I'm Kay Moore and I've lived in Sausalito for 44 years. I'm not surprised with what Dennis has reported because the same thing happened to me four years ago when I and my little pug Poppy were walking up the lane, Curry Lane. I saw the dogs ahead of me about 75 yards. I knew these dogs were dangerous or I was wary of them. So I turned around to walk down. One of Dan Meyer's friends had the dogs out. He started screaming at me, pick up your dog, Thank you. showing that he knew that these dogs were dangerous. I retreated, but before I could even pick up my dog, these dogs were on top of me. They pushed me, they slammed me down to the cement They bit my arm, they took my dog Poppy by the neck. They wouldn't release her. I was so traumatized. My arm was bleeding. Finally, they ripped through Poppy's halter and let her go. And honestly, to this day, I am still suffering from PTSD. This is a horrible incident. Dan Myers has had the opportunity to do something about this, and he has not done anything. And it's just a matter of time before these dogs take out a child and kill the child. |
| 00:21:46.27 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Thank you very much. Steven, Steve Stevens. |
| 00:21:50.80 | Steve Stevens | Thank you. Good evening, council. Um, I'm a good friend of Moira Consulman. She owns the home that Dennis Webb's crew is working on. And I go up there often to assist her in organizing and moving things about while he's doing the renovation on the home. I wasn't up there in the day of these attacks, but I'm up there often. I park my car where these trucks were parked. often, and I'm living in fear. I went out and bought a couple of small cans of pepper spray and carried a stick for a while, You know, it's a really concern for me and I don't see that there's any hope for anything being done within the next two weeks. Three weeks, what am I supposed to do? What are we supposed to do up on Curry Lane? I don't have to get impassioned because you've just heard two people. The only other thing I'd like to mention is I've worked in Sausalito for 25 years and I've lived in Mill Valley, but I spend most of my time on the waterfront in Sausalito. Every single day I see at three to six dogs or more separate that are off-leash. I was charged by one a couple of years ago at the harbor, off leash. I went directly to the police department. There's nothing they could do because I don't have a picture. So now I carry myself. But I'm just saying. This is an isolated instance that's happened now over a period of three or four years. Violent dogs, there needs to be something done because someone's, as this lady just said, There's a lot of young children on that street as well, you know, small dogs. It's an issue that needs to be taken care of in the entire city of Sausalito. The leash law needs to be much more strictly enforced. Anyway, thank you for your service, all of you. Thank you. |
| 00:23:41.97 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Thank you very much. Betsy Stafford, Bob Stafford, Maura Konzelman, and John DeRay. |
| 00:23:51.27 | Betsy Stafford | Hi. Hi, good evening. Thank you. |
| 00:23:52.57 | Heidi Scoble | At a mate. |
| 00:23:54.22 | Betsy Stafford | Thank you, council members. I'm Betsy Stafford, 260 Curry Lane. I've been a member of, president of Sausalito for 44 years. |
| 00:23:55.38 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:24:05.11 | Betsy Stafford | I'm gonna ask you to imagine And I want you to, Pretend you're coming out of my house. living on the same street. as these two dogs Imagine you decide to go out on a walk alone, and even better, God forbid, you decide to walk with your little 11-pound dog, or your 30 pound toddler, human toddler. Before you walk out the door, you be sure to reach for your can of pepper spray. Put it in your right-hand pocket. Then you put your dog or your child on a short leash, not a long one. in your left hand. And then you go grab your metal walking stick in your right hand and go out for a walk. And then, the dog won't turn to the right. because the dogs are already barking Two doors away. This is a place that, Curry Lane is a place where everybody used to come and walk all the time, a special turnaround for your walks. Nobody comes anymore. It's really empty. I mean, we are frightened. Just. That's just how I prepare for a simple walk, and that is fear. We are really frightened of these dogs. They've already mauled all these humans and the dogs too. Please, I beg you, do something. |
| 00:25:40.23 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. And Bob Stafford. |
| 00:25:43.65 | Bob Stafford | I'm Bob Stafford. I've lived here just about as long as she has. And after 40 years on Cloud View Road, we moved to Currie Lane, so there weren't quite so many steps. Anyway, you've heard quite enough about this, I think. I'll simply say that I'm going to be when the Humane Society comes and talks to you, you'd think they were constitutional scholars. They pull out an iPad that shows the Fourth Amendment on it. And as you may know, the Fourth Amendment prohibits arbitrary search and seizure of your home, which is your castle, right? The problem is in that Fourth Amendment, which I'd be happy to read to you at your leisure, even though it's very short, it has two key provisions, probable cause, and what's the other one? Probable cause, what did I say the other one was? Anyway, they're both met in this situation. somehow the humane society, which is I think the issue here, has this, in my opinion, faulty interpretation of the Fourth Amendment where they're paralyzed. And unless you have the ability to take a video of a dog while he's attacking you instead of defending yourself, they don't think there's any evidence. So to me, the issue is broader than our situation. the policy the Humane Society has. Thank you. |
| 00:27:10.63 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you very much. Thank you. Maura Konzelman, John DeRay. Carlo Berg. Jeff Jacobs and Carol Cotton. If everybody whose name has been called could stand up, that would be great. |
| 00:27:25.77 | Moira Konzerman | Hello, everyone. My name is Moira Konzerman. |
| 00:27:25.78 | Heidi Scoble | Hello. |
| 00:27:28.50 | Moira Konzerman | And I've lived in Sausalito for over 32 years. and at 285 Curry Lane. which is the only home on the court. of a very steep driveway. And when, uh, Mr. Meyer moved in. and I thought he was married. The first person I met was this woman who was I'm not sure. apparently having the dogs loose and I was coming down my very steep driveway and I almost hit them. So I stopped and told her that there's niche laws in Sausalito. and that The dogs need to be. on the walk with the leash on. And she seemed to understand that. A couple of nights later, The man was walking these two dogs, and the dogs had a leash on their collar. But they were running loose with the leash on. And so I just want to say there's a lot of people, elderly people, Everybody with kids walking to the court trying to enjoy a nice walk in the neighborhood. They can't do that anymore. And after the incidents, And with Dennis going back and spending a lot of time. And with the two incidents and the police coming and the Humane Society, and the fire department, nothing's been done. It's been almost two weeks or maybe more, and now we're finding out nothing will be Really forthcoming for another two weeks maybe. Thank you. Meanwhile, the men who was mold on the face. He had to get his rabies shots. And you know, I don't know what's happening with Mr. Meyer. He needs to step up and obey the law. And these dogs are coming in and out somewhere. How can we just ignore this when we have the safety issues that we're living under. I feel like I'm in a siege too, because my mailbox is down at the bottom of my steep driveway. I never go down and pick up my mail anymore. Steven comes over and picks it up for me. So I It's just incredible that The Humane Society is using the Fourth Amendment and nothing is being done. And it's clear that the dogs are coming out somehow and they've been seen on the road, but everyone needs to have a camera a take a photo. And who knows what's gonna happen? any time now, it's just very volatile. And I ask please that all of us in this room, concerned citizens and you, help us fix this problem. there's gotta be some responsible party that stands up and says, you know, until we figure this out, let's get those dogs out of some sort of home, Well, thank you. |
| 00:30:28.83 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Thank you very much. John DeRay? |
| 00:30:34.11 | Unknown | Thank you, my name is John DeRay, thank you for letting me speak tonight. Today I wanted to publicly mention a great loss on the waterfront. I think probably you folks know about it, but the public may not. The death of Roy Kano. Roy lived legally on his boat at the Sausalito Marina, the old Marquez property. One night, about two weeks ago, he slipped off his dock on the way off of the dock, going somewhere, and his body was found the next day in the water. He was a 53-year-old resident of Sausalito. He was a shipwright, very well-respected, helped everybody down there, also a carpenter and a sailor. And just out of respect for him and his family, wanted to just mention that Victoria Colella had a memorial service for him last Friday night and over a hundred people showed up to that and the last thing I just want to read a couple of sentences from his daughter who's out of town that she posted on social media dad loved Saito. I was born there on a boat. He lived and worked there for 53 years. We are thankful for all of your love and friendship. Sincerely, his daughter. Thank you. |
| 00:31:55.83 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you so much. Jeff Jacobs. |
| 00:32:03.33 | Jeff Jacobs | City Council. Mayor. city workers and residents of Sausalito I will second The condolences for Roy, he was working on the tall ship when I was working there. And The water can be a dangerous place. California. California's flag has a grizzly bear on it. And there were grizzlies here. for a long time. And there's a native who lives on the waterfront who talks about his grandfather Wondering if He was going to go out for a walk. without a big branch. next to him to deal with the grizzlies or a rock. or some fast moccasins. Nature BATS LAST. This meeting here is From the agenda is going to be about sustainability. We just hit two records. for high temperatures in San Rafael after a 50 mile per hour blow from a blue sky in February. This is not a normal weather pattern. I've been here a little while. I understand a tiny bit about it. I'd like to read. Something from Exodus. Chapter 18. This is about how to pick judges and leaders. It says, it came about in the next day that Moses sat down to judge the people, and the people stood before Moses from the morning until the evening. Moses said to his father-in-law, the people come to me to seek God. If any people have a case, they come to me. I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the statutes of God and his teachings. Moses' father-in-law said to him, the thing you are doing is not good. You will surely wear yourself out, both you and those people who are with you, for the matter is too heavy for you. You cannot do it alone. Now listen to me, I will advise you, and may the Lord be with you. You represent the people before God, and you bring the matters to God. You shall choose out of the entire nation People of substance, God-fearers, people of truth, and people who hate monetary gain, you shall appoint them over thousands, leaders over hundreds, leaders over fifties, and leaders over tens. These are people that live in the community and people who know What is happening? |
| 00:35:06.13 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, thank you. |
| 00:35:06.62 | Jeff Jacobs | Hallelujah. Thank you for being here. |
| 00:35:09.78 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you, Jeff. Carol Cotton or Carlo, either one of you. |
| 00:35:15.13 | Carol Cotton | Thank you. |
| 00:35:15.14 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:35:15.19 | Carol Cotton | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:35:15.92 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:35:15.94 | Carol Cotton | Thank you. Thank you. I'm Carol Cotton and I'm here to also express deep concern about these vicious pit bulls on Curry Avenue as a grandmother of three grandchildren. I'm afraid to take walks there. I used to. I've been in Sausalito for a very long time. I'm appealing to you as council members to address the humane society. The rumor has it that they will do nothing about euthanizing vicious dogs who have attacked more than one person unless they kill them. I don't know if that's true, but that's on Nextdoor. But I think that people should feel safe walking on the streets here and walking on the sidewalks with their strollers and their grandchildren. And I think that there might be something that you could do as a council to address this issue with the Humane Society and not just pass the buck on from one organization to the next. Thank you. |
| 00:36:22.15 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you. Carla? |
| 00:36:23.64 | Carol Cotton | Thank you. |
| 00:36:23.72 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:36:28.41 | Carlito Berg | Hi, Carlo Berg, Marina Plaza, Marina Harbor. Firstly, thank you, Curtis and the police department for handling that incident, which is right adjoining our property at the Bay Model the other day. I think they've done a great job, and Curtis especially. If you know me, you know I like data. And so I just wanted to talk a little bit about the newest age friendly report from Marin County, which was just approved on the third the number one issue there was housing as we can all imagine and some salient points from that report would be from now until 2040 which is sort of in the gen in the timeline of the general plan the cohort of 80 and older in Marin County will increase 200% We've already talked at previous meetings about the incredible increase in folks over 65 within the city right now. Folks over 65 within Sausalito itself is 2,500 people. Even if 10% of those folks wanted to get housing, it would not be available in the city in terms of continuum of care housing, which is in the 2023 housing element and update. And also, we're looking at 656 in the most recent sample size that said of Sausalito residents that said they would live in senior housing right now in the city. But there's only 38 units in the entire city, none of which are continuum of care, which allow you to age in place gracefully. Um, So I think we don't really like to think about senior housing in the same way that we don't like to think about our own mortality. Um, because frankly, you know, one thing that's going to happen to all of us is we're all going to age and die. And one of the things that's. Two things that's going to happen if we're blessed enough to live that long is we're either going to get cancer or Alzheimer's, dementia. Um, And that's about a 10% chance if you're getting Alzheimer's dementia, which means you need some assisted living. So if you had 2,700 folks and you get about your 10%, that's about 270 units. There's obviously not enough in the city. That means people need to leave. And to me, that's sort of a travesty. And I think it's the number one goal of any city and any planning effort in general to look at the demographics in the future and to prepare for them now and currently there isn't a pathway in the general plan update to create those units for housing which means people are going to have to leave their homes and leave the city of Sausalito which is obviously not ideal I don't think anyone wants that to happen um You know, to me, urban planning in general is the idea of planning and it's the idea that to meet the future needs and commitments of any community. You look at the demographic data now and the wonderful thing is because of, thank you very much. |
| 00:39:29.97 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you, Carlo. All right, are there any other speakers for general public comment on items not on our agenda tonight? Seeing none, I'm going to close general public comment. And I will just note that because these items are not on our agenda tonight that we cannot have a discussion about them at this point in time. But we do have a part of our calendar to discuss future agenda items later on in the evening. So I can let the folks know who came here tonight about the dog biting issues that we will communicate back out through Nextdoor, through the currents and other mechanisms. If you've emailed us directly, the city will email you when the hearing in this particular case is set so that everyone is aware of that date. So I really appreciate everyone who took the time to come tonight and share their concerns with us. Thank you very much. Okay, moving on, we have the action minutes of the previous meeting. We have two minutes, minutes of January 14th and the minutes of January 28th. Are there any corrections or do I have a motion? |
| 00:40:49.07 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:40:50.18 | Vicki Nichols | I move approval of the minutes for January 14th and January 28th. |
| 00:40:50.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:40:50.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:40:58.01 | Unknown | I second. |
| 00:40:58.63 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 00:40:58.74 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:40:59.83 | Heidi Scoble | I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries 5-0. We'll move on to our item about council member committee reports. This is time on our agenda for council members to let each other and the public know about meetings that they have attended in their capacity as city council members. Would anyone like to start? |
| 00:41:02.08 | Unknown | I... |
| 00:41:29.53 | Heidi Scoble | Council member Riley. Start with you. |
| 00:41:34.29 | Unknown | Well, okay. |
| 00:41:34.61 | Heidi Scoble | Having no volunteers. You're the newest. |
| 00:41:36.10 | Unknown | I will give an abbreviated version for Councilmember Cox and I and she will add color. We attended a legislative committee. We covered three important topics. One was reviewing our municipal code for giving approvals to our city staff on what they're authorized to purchase. And we made adjustments to those and consistent with the prior meeting we had. We also looked at an amendment to the South City Municipal Code requiring undergrounding when a new service panel is put in place and we approved exceptions which would encourage the placement of electrical vehicle charging stations and solar panels and not necessarily having to do undergrounding. And then we reviewed expected changes to ADUs, which will be presented here in the near future. |
| 00:42:33.66 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Thank you. Anyone else? |
| 00:42:36.80 | Unknown | I've had one meeting that I've attended and I attended it twice since our last meeting that was the desegregation advisory group for the Saucyde Marine City School District those are meetings that were set up through the judgment of the Attorney General in how to desegregate the district school there have been three the first one was in december and then these past two this last week last two weeks basically the discussion started with unification as that was kind of an agreed path by so many different people that the desegregation group has started with unification as its sole fix to desegregation of the district school i think everybody agrees that's a good path Thank you. as its sole fix to desegregation of the district school I think everybody agrees that's a good path my only concern is that it's the sole path and that there isn't any other options being discussed and that we kind of came into the conversation with the path already set but nonetheless it it has become somewhat of a unification meeting and to this point has been a lot of information from work groups on unification to to the ground rules of the meeting has been what's come forth so far in these meetings um And just a lot of information coming out. And I know we're going to talk about this a little later as well. Thank you. |
| 00:44:02.98 | Heidi Scoble | That's it. |
| 00:44:03.09 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:03.92 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you. Councilmember Withier Cox, do you have any items to report? |
| 00:44:11.31 | Vicki Nichols | I had no meetings, committee meetings, other than I attended the MCE, Marine Clean Energy, technical committee. we discussed a number of items of particular interest was how to and whether to accept any |
| 00:44:16.46 | Bob Stafford | Uh, |
| 00:44:44.07 | Vicki Nichols | Let me call them surplus assets, it's not quite the right term, but it's the best way term I can use of PG&E. That resulted from a settlement and ruling from the CPUC, which is the California Public Utilities Commission. And that was, it's a fairly technical discussion and in the end we decided to accept some of PG&E's hydroelectric into our hydro-generated assets into the portfolio, but to reject some of the nuclear-generated assets that PG&E is making available to CCAs. So the second, and this relates to the technical committee is basically charged with, among other things, the construction of MCE's energy portfolio. Thank you. The more I found interesting and exciting development was the fact that because MC has evolved to the point where it now has credit rating from two rating agencies, which I previously reported, it can consider entering into some very novel and interesting transactions that have been occurring in California recently by both investor-owned utilities as well as CCAs, but not yet CCAs. And that is what's called a municipal energy prepayment transaction. And I know this is good to say. |
| 00:46:23.75 | Heidi Scoble | That's the exciting part. That's the really exciting part. |
| 00:46:24.98 | Vicki Nichols | That's the really exciting part. No, basically, because MC is a municipal agency, it means it can either itself or through an intermediary issue municipal bonds. And because municipal bonds are of such low interest rates, what you can do is prepay some of your contracts for energy procurement and save potentially up to millions of dollars per year for the agency. And so we authorize the staff to come back with a specific plan. And potentially in the next month or two, MC is likely to enter one of those transactions, which is very interesting. It will basically lower their energy procurement costs using this novel financing mechanism. That's the sort of thing that gets me interested, sorry. |
| 00:47:24.36 | Heidi Scoble | I know, I love it. And hopefully lower energy bills. Thank you. |
| 00:47:28.90 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:47:28.92 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:47:28.97 | Council Member Cox | THE END OF THE END OF THE I'll just say Council Member Riley and I also attended a waterfront committee meeting this morning in which we continue to move forward with the permitting process and negotiations with Bridgeway Marina. We're making good progress and hope to bring something to the Council on that at the end of March. We hope to return with some ADU regulations at the end of February. In addition, the city manager and I met with Senator McGuire and the RBRA, the Richardson Bay Regional Agency, last Thursday. in Sacramento in preparation for a meeting with the Bay Conservation Development Of course. which has been moved from the end of February to the end of March. And it's our intention to continue to meet and confer with RBRA and Senator McGuire to present a united plan to meet BCDC's requirements, enunciated to us at the end of last year for removing Bayfield. |
| 00:48:34.49 | Heidi Scoble | great thanks um i will attend the sausalito sustainability commission this thursday which is here in city hall there are lots of exciting things on the agenda including microgrids ev charging I will. There's a Follow up on the conversation we're going to have a little bit later on the low emission action plan. And then also a discussion of an initiative to have Amazon be accountable for their packaging. I also just wanted the public and other city council members to know that tomorrow at both 2 and 7 o'clock, the Bay Model is holding a master planning session, which I think is its first, but to talk about kind of the future of the Bay model. So I think that's obviously an important, Institution in Sausalito, so I'm hoping to attend the later Meeting and then also this morning I gave a brief presentation to the Chamber of Commerce On our planning efforts and the sustainability Commission was also able to present to the chamber about the plastic ban ordinance that will go into effect on June 1st So I think that's all on my front. So thank you everybody for those. guess we should do we usually take public comment on this okay so moving on to our consent calendar these items are 5a through 5f and these items are considered routine and we will not have presentations on them We have had no request to take anything off the consent calendar for tonight, but if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on any of these items, this is your time to do so. I do not have any speaker cards. Seeing no public comment, are there any council member comments? Or do I have a motion? |
| 00:50:46.64 | Unknown | I'll make a quick comment just to highlight 5A. They're all important, but 5A, getting such another positive crime and traffic report. I think that was great to see, and I encourage getting these as often as possible because I think they're wonderful for our community to witness as well. But thank you for the work that was put into that. That was a great item. |
| 00:51:11.40 | Heidi Scoble | Agreed. Anybody else? So public comment on this is closed. |
| 00:51:23.06 | Heidi Scoble | Okay. |
| 00:51:32.51 | Sandra Bushmaker | Sandra Bushmaker, resident and interested party in general. I would like to speak to 5F, your strategic plan update, and would like to know if there is a way to make this more publicly known so that more members of the public can come to the second session of your strategic plan which is May 4th, February 14th, 15th as I understand is that correct? |
| 00:51:58.43 | Council Member Cox | March 5th. March 5th. At 6.30 p.m. |
| 00:52:01.10 | Sandra Bushmaker | Oh, it's been changed. |
| 00:52:04.18 | Council Member Cox | No, it's not been changed, that's always been Wednesday. |
| 00:52:04.22 | Sandra Bushmaker | It hasn't been changed. That's always been when it's changed. It's March 5th? Yeah. Okay, that's good to know. I understood it was February 15th, this Saturday. Okay. Can you give me the time? |
| 00:52:18.11 | Council Member Cox | 6.30 p.m. |
| 00:52:19.74 | Sandra Bushmaker | At night, the strategic planning session is at night. Thank you. |
| 00:52:22.54 | Council Member Cox | He's, |
| 00:52:22.76 | Sandra Bushmaker | Thursday evening. |
| 00:52:22.85 | Council Member Cox | Thursday evening at 6.30 p.m. Thank you. |
| 00:52:25.63 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:52:26.16 | Sandra Bushmaker | Appreciate it. |
| 00:52:29.12 | Heidi Scoble | And just for the public, those meetings are public meetings, and they are publicly noticed on our website. Okay. |
| 00:52:40.21 | Council Member Cox | I move approval of the consent calendar. |
| 00:52:42.51 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:52:43.59 | Heidi Scoble | All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, the consent calendar is approved, 5-0. |
| 00:52:44.20 | Council Member Cox | Aye. |
| 00:52:51.84 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, we have no public hearing items tonight, so we are going to move on to our business items. And I'm really excited about the two, well, all three items, but especially, no disrespect to Chief Tubbs, but especially the first two, which are both about issues near and dear to my heart, but I think a lot of us up here on the dais. So two important issues. First. which are both about issues near and dear to my heart, but I think a lot of us appear on the dais. So two important issues. First is item 7A about the county's bay wave and adaptation land use initiative, and then item 7B is about low emission action plan that the Sustainability Commission will present on. But just before we get started on both of those, I just wanted to say that I think these are two really important foundational elements to a lot of the planning work. that we are doing at the beginning of this year. So we have our general plan, we have our strategic plan, and these issues kind of permeate a lot of the discussions that we're having. So I thought it would be useful to take a deeper dive tonight when we don't have any particular actions in front of us so that we can really get some expertise on these issues. So with that, I'd like to introduce the Bay Wave and adaptation land use planning presentation. We have two representatives from the county, Chris Chu and Leslie Lacco from the county. And then we also have Maureen Parton, who's an aide to our supervisor, Kate Sears, here. So maybe Maureen, do you want to kick us off and then we'll hear from county staff? Thank you so much for being here tonight. We really appreciate it. Appreciate it and we appreciate Supervisor Sears and your leadership on these important issues. |
| 00:54:44.82 | Maureen Parton | Thank you very much, Mayor and City Council, as well as staff. Maureen Parton, aide to supervisor Kate Sears. THE END OF THE END OF THE Unfortunately, Kate is unable to join us tonight for the council meeting. but she wanted to thank you. for taking the time to hear a presentation from Marin County staff. Special thanks to you, Mayor Cleveland Knowles, for extending this invitation to present this evening. Leslie Laco. Senior planner with the Marin County Community Development Agency will present information about the adaptation land use planning guidance developed as part of the county's Bay Wave program. Chris Chu, Principal Planner with Marin County's Department of Public Works, manages the Bay Wave Program. and is here to answer questions about that program. They have been working to help the county City and town leaders consider and examine a suite of land use guidance policies and tools. that can be used to address sea level rise. One of your own council members, Ray Withey, has been an enthusiastic, consistent, and helpful member of the Bay Wave Executive Committee Steering Committee, offering his time and expertise to the process. asking incisive questions, and bringing his insights to the discussion and the direction of this unique multi-jurisdictional collaboration. Ray has been also a contributing member of the MCE Clean Energy Board as well, as you heard earlier this evening. Thanks to city of Manager Adam Pulitzer, your staff, and the entire council for your commitment to addressing climate change and working together. This is all new territory. as yet unknown. and mostly untraveled. As with addressing our wildfire challenges, when it comes to flooding, and rising seas. We are indeed. all in this boat together. Thank you so much for inviting us. |
| 00:56:46.57 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 00:56:56.16 | Heidi Scoble | All right, so I'm going to try to keep us on track tonight. I understand your presentation will be about 10 minutes. Is that correct? |
| 00:56:57.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:56:57.88 | Leslie Laco | Thank you. |
| 00:56:57.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:56:57.93 | Leslie Laco | Talk tonight. |
| 00:57:02.11 | Leslie Laco | Thank you. Yeah, I'm going to fly through the beginning of it. Can you hear me okay? |
| 00:57:06.38 | Heidi Scoble | It's a little, yeah. Is that microphone working? It's good? No, it is. |
| 00:57:08.15 | Leslie Laco | Yeah. Okay. No, it is. I'm a little tall for it. Oh, okay. Great. So I may just do this if that's okay. That's great. Thank you. |
| 00:57:16.59 | Heidi Scoble | great thank you |
| 00:57:18.50 | Leslie Laco | Oh, you just saw what you weren't supposed to see? Thank you. So, Thank you, Mayor and Council Members, for having us here tonight. I usually like to start my presentations with just making sure everyone's on the same page with sea level rise, we all have a pretty basic understanding and of how it works. So sea level rise is caused by two main factors. and one is thermal expansion, so as water warms, it expands, and the other is land ice melt. And the second, the land ice melt is the, is becoming a larger and larger contributor to sea level rise, and it is the sort of unknown in sea level rise projections. Sea level rise projections are increasing over time, mostly because of the rate of land ice melt. This is from 2008, shows three feet of sea level rise in 2100. And then I'm gonna take you through these really quickly. 2013, we're at five feet in 2100, and then in 2017, we're at five feet with, with a possible 10 feet at 2100. The one thing that you might notice with all these graphs is that right around 2050, all of the lines are pretty similar. And it's not until after 2050 that they really spread out. And so as a planner planning for uncertainty, it's really helpful to see that glimpse of the next 20 or 30 years, that there's not a huge change there and the real uncertainty starts after that. So I always take comfort in that and I like to show that as, before I start a presentation on sea level rise. So in Marin County, of course, it already floods. And so planning for flooding is imperative no matter what happens and what sea level rise projection is out there. What we did at the county was we did a major vulnerability assessment, and I'm sure many of you remember that. It was a huge collaborative effort that involved all of our cities and towns and stakeholders and regional and local governments, and it identified the vulnerable assets and infrastructure and vulnerabilities to our communities along the entire Bay shoreline. |
| 00:59:58.98 | Leslie Laco | The vulnerability assessment in some ways is the easy part. The hard part is really figuring out how to deal with those vulnerabilities. And it can be a seemingly overwhelming task. We've broken it into sections, and the section that I'm working on right now, my piece, is to develop this guidance, which is guidance for adaptation land use planning. And specifically, because the state is mandating that local governments update their general plan safety elements to include adaptation to climate change impacts. We wanted to put out guidance so that local governments could have a document to look at and help them through that. Um, As part of this guidance, we have a sea level rise overlay with policies associated with that, and then we also have some recommendations, and I'll walk you through those. We have case studies, three case studies that are sort of outside the general plan, kind of the typical general plan scope. We include an overlay with policies, and we also included a decision-making process because when you're planning for uncertainty, it really helps to have a process for planning that will help move you forward. |
| 01:01:24.97 | Leslie Laco | Our case studies, we focused on acquisitions. There's a number of FEMA programs to help with acquisitions. We focused in a little bit on a program that was identified for Imperial Beach that used a fee simple lease back program. And it sounds... When you live in Marin County, you think, oh, we could never do any kind of acquisitions because our real estate values are so high. But this program in Imperial Beach, where admittedly real estate values are lower, was somewhat successful. And it did exemplify how you might use a program like that combined with other programs to at least offer some sort of financial assistance to people that may have to eventually leave their homes or sell off property. We also looked at different tax systems. Oh, I'm sorry. I just put my hand on that. Tax systems to pay for adaptation measures. And we really liked the approach that Corte Madera took using the sales tax. Rather than taxing their residents, they tax the people that use the facilities that are most likely to be protected by that sales tax, using the money from that sales tax. We also looked at geologic hazard abatement districts. Those are a type of special district that are pretty well suited to sea level rise. They offer more flexibility. The projects can change over time. These, say, if you have a large-scale infrastructure project or, um, or a tidal marsh restoration project that can provide some protection. It could change over time as conditions change. Also the GAD, as they're called, can issue bonds. So it could prove to be a more sustainable way for communities to protect themselves as we move forward. I don't know why these keep flipping around. Anyways, the other thing that's included in the report is the adaptation pathways approach. And so the way that we try to deal with that is to focus in on an area, Tam Valley in this case, and pick four potential adaptation pathways. These are just samples. This is not a proposal by any means. The first one is to hold the line at Highway 101 and 1 and protect everything behind it. So that would be a long-term strategy. The second one there is to restore and elevate Bothine Marsh, which would be a near-to-medium-term strategy. The third is to do what we're suggesting here is an overlay for sea level rise area that includes associated policies. And the fourth is another long-term measure, which is retreat, maybe with some acquisition or financial assistance. So in theory, the way this would work is that you... You could start on something that's more achievable in the near term, like a marsh restoration, and then as flooding begins there, you can move to a longer term strategy. So you have a continuous pathway through. |
| 01:04:51.34 | Leslie Laco | I'm a little short on time, so I'm gonna skip over this part. But essentially what you're looking for is a process that identifies trigger points along the way when you have to move from one pathway to another and allows for a lot of public input and monitoring in the process. So it ends up being a fairly circular process, but it identifies ways to move forward and continue to involve and monitor and be iterative as you're moving forward. |
| 01:05:33.07 | Leslie Laco | So this map again shows what would likely be an overlay for this area. The red area marks the near term. and the red and yellow combined are a medium term sea level rise scenario. A lot of the literature recommends using the 100 year flood plain for a sea level rise overlay because, and this is very close to the 100 year flood plain in this case. But the reason why is that there's already a lot of statistical analysis that shows that those areas are more likely to flood, and so you're more likely to be protected if you're challenged legally, because there's a lot of information to support your use of that as an overlay zone. So this would be the area, and then we had a lot of discussion about the policies that would be associated with an overlay. The report actually includes extensive information on different planning tools, the pros, the cons for those planning tools, and an extensive appendix describing over 60 tools that you could use to address sea level rise that have been used or could potentially be used. when we started talking about the kinds of stressors and impacts that residents in these areas or business owners in these areas would undergo. We had a really hard time imposing additional regulations that could be too burdensome on them. So that was a large part of our discussion. Another one of another constraint that we that we talked about was just the geologic and topographical constraints here in Marin County with the big mountain and then some flat areas. that are very close to the shoreline. The most easily developed areas are those closest to the shoreline. And in fact, that is our development pattern. And that is a lot of that development is on Bay Phil. So that's part of what makes us so vulnerable. Another one of the constraints we talked about was just the complexity of some of the policies. Yeah, this is us at the table. So as an example of that, transfer of development rights is a tool that's always thrown out there as the solution to sea level rise, but when it comes down to it, if you think about your bundle of rights that go with your property and taking some of those rights and moving them to new locations here in Marin County, there isn't really, and especially here in Sausalito, there isn't really a lot of space to move them to. And so you end up wondering where do they go and perhaps really, You just move them from one hazard to another. And so we struggled with that a lot. We did end up including in the overlay some recognition that it would be useful to search out areas where you could do transfer of development rights, but we didn't recommend it as a policy. So ultimately, the policies that we did include in the overlay, first and foremost, a waiver of liability and assumption of risk, restrictions on land divisions, to further explore the feasibility of acquisition or financial assistance programs, and to encourage nature-based shoreline protection. And the report actually has very specific policies. It includes policies for nature-based shoreline protection. TO ALLOW REASONABLE INTERIM USE OF PROPERTY THAT'S AT RISK OF NEAR-TERM FLOODING. IT INCLUDES DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR ADAPTING IN PLACE OR ALSO FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT OR REBUILDS. It includes policies for allowing additional building height for elevation projects. So most of these are written as sample policies. The policy language is there. You can fill it in as you want or change it as you want. There's also a series of recommendations, which are more general in nature. We recommended that local governments continue to coordinate, especially where impacts are shared. And we are working with planning directors. We've been attending planning directors monthly meetings and presenting there. And we also invited your planning director to the executive steering committee meeting for Bay Wave. We recommended exploring tax programs and using the adaptation pathways approach, doing more outreach and education to get clearer goals and objectives from our cities and towns for sea level rise, maybe through the Bay Wave Executive Steering Committee, and to explore further adapting in place. We are a county that has floating houseboat marinas, and that sounds very pie in the sky, but we know how to permit those. We know how to deal with with them and then finally to follow those cities closely who are already working on countywide on their plan updates such as the city of San Rafael who is in fact got draft policies and a draft overlay as part of their general plan update so with, I conclude, and I would just like to say that we will continue to work with your planning directors, and I believe Chris wants to make a couple comments real quick. |
| 01:11:41.00 | Heidi Scoble | Can I just ask one question before you turn to Chris? Yeah. So you said you're working with San Rafael because they're in the middle of their general plan update. We are also in the middle of a general plan update, as you can see from the maps, both, you know, here in your adaptation land use planning guide and in the original Bay Wave, I think it was called the feasibility or the, anyway, your original report, you know, Sausalito has potentially heavy impacts from sea level rise. |
| 01:11:44.03 | Leslie Laco | Yeah. |
| 01:12:09.28 | Unknown | You know, Sausalito has... |
| 01:12:14.56 | Heidi Scoble | did the county come to the GPAC to make a presentation on these efforts, or were they invited, or... I was just wondering if you've worked at all with Sausalito and our consultant that we're working on our general plan with. |
| 01:12:30.96 | Leslie Laco | Thank you. |
| 01:12:31.01 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:12:31.03 | Leslie Laco | Thank you. So we did interview your former planning director, Danny Castro, for this project. So he did weigh in early in the project. And we are really just starting the coordination part of this, which is really one of the reasons that we're here tonight is to really dig in a little deeper. |
| 01:12:54.67 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Great, we're really excited to have you. So I was just wondering if you had gotten into Sausalito specific issues yet before. |
| 01:13:04.68 | Chris Chu | We haven't, but I did speak to your consultants on the general plan update and just offered our support. And that's really, I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Chris Chu, I'm the program manager for Bay Wave. And we've been working with all 11 cities and towns to plan for adaptation and to sea level rise, and we know that it's a big issue here in Marin County because of all of our miles of shoreline. And really what we're doing as the county is trying to fill gaps and voids in knowledge and data like this land use planning guidance that Leslie shared. We have other tools that we're working on now on transportation, emergency response, and others that we're happy to share. And really we're working with the cities and towns as they invite us in. So Corte Madera and Santa Fe are definitely cities to look to. They're moving ahead with their adaptation process and we're happy to share that. We've been working with your staff and we hope to continue to work with them as your general plan moves forward. |
| 01:14:02.09 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, great. um, Yeah, I think it would be helpful to have a close collaboration. We've got a subcommittee of two council members and two planning commissioners who are trying to focus in on, we've kind of got draft policies and objectives, but this document that I had our clerk attached to our agenda tonight. It's just so full of information. It's a very deep dive, and I think we would love your assistance in kind of helping sift through it in terms of what would be most useful and applicable to some of our challenges. |
| 01:14:51.58 | Leslie Laco | Absolutely. We would really be happy to do that. And we, of course, will learn in the process. |
| 01:14:58.84 | Heidi Scoble | Great. It would be a lab of experimentation. Excellent. An innovation lab. An innovation lab. |
| 01:15:03.21 | Leslie Laco | Okay. |
| 01:15:05.50 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, so yeah, why don't we open it up to council member questions, and then I've got some public speaker cards. So, |
| 01:15:13.57 | Unknown | Thank you both for a great presentation and the work you're doing. And it's great to know we have this local resource looking out for Marin. I'm curious, what support are you receiving from the state and federal level of what they're doing around sea level rise? I mean, it's happening on all our coasts. And are they proactive in helping you or are you doing a lot of the work yourself? |
| 01:15:36.52 | Leslie Laco | Do you wanna take that first? I'm happy to. Well, we have benefited from state grants in, Both the Bay Wave program on the Bay side and the coastal program, the C-SMART program on the coast side have benefited from state grants. And we also work as closely as we can with the Bay Conservation Development Commission who has developed new policies for Bay fill, for habitat, and also for social equity, as it especially going, you know, as we address climate change moving forward. Do you want to add anything? |
| 01:16:17.53 | Chris Chu | Thank you. a little bit, which is that we do have grants. We have successfully received grants to help our programs, but we are also looking at the state. The state just recently released a legislative analyst report on sea level rise. You can look it up. It's publicly available. They actually just presented |
| 01:16:19.18 | Leslie Laco | is that Thank you. We do have grants. |
| 01:16:35.65 | Chris Chu | last week in Foster City on kind of the big issue. And one of the clear messages from the state was that local governments need to do their part. That we're responsible for protecting our shoreline. So while there's state guidance, you saw the projections for the state of California that comes from the state. There's state mandates to basically plan better across state agencies. At the local level, aside from the grant funds, they're really asking us to take that lead. So here in Marin County, we are trying to be up ahead of a lot of the other Bay Area counties in terms of the work we're doing, the cooperation, the coordination, so that we can demonstrate elsewhere kind of how we can do that first here in Marin. |
| 01:17:17.30 | Heidi Scoble | Joan, did you have questions? |
| 01:17:18.80 | Chris Chu | . |
| 01:17:18.97 | Council Member Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:17:18.98 | Chris Chu | Thank you. |
| 01:17:19.00 | Council Member Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:17:19.46 | Chris Chu | I had a comment. |
| 01:17:20.81 | Heidi Scoble | So I was, do you have a question? Right. |
| 01:17:26.65 | Vicki Nichols | Thanks for the presentation. Chris, this may be for you. This question may be for you. Could you give us some sort of projecting forward some view as to what the next steps for Bay Wave? You did the vulnerability assessment, and then you, as a follow-on, looked at various adaptation measures and sort of piloted them in certain areas. So what's next? |
| 01:18:03.64 | Chris Chu | Thank you, so we have really started, we started with that vulnerability assessment. Following that, we really did look at issues that are countywide. And so this land use guidance is one example of that. We are working on adaptation projects, largely on county lands where we can, protect shorelines in place where we have that room. We funded a study with the San Francisco Estuary Institute and Point Blue to look at nature-based adaptation this really followed on a regional document that was the adaptation atlas for the Bay Area looking looking at kind of redefining how we look at our land how we look at the Bay to to look at our adaptation options we funded that so that in Marin we had two case studies one in Novato one in Corte Madera to look at how we can use nature to help protect those areas where we have some room and we were working right now on on looking at transportation across the county an emergency response across the county and how sea level rise starts to impact us because we have so few roads we have so few ways in and out of this county we are a peninsula and we are we are blessed with a lot of open spaces but that also does limit the ways that we can move around and so really trying to encourage collaboration across the jurisdictions, but also across our cities and towns with our residents. So looking at the fire threat as well as the flood threat, bringing people together so that this isn't just an issue about the shoreline. We're really kind of looking to the cities and towns and looking to our own needs as the county to see how we can sort of support this going forward. And so a lot of this comes out of kind of a trial and error and looking kind of working with all the cities and towns to figure out what we need next. And so that's really been our focus and that's what we'll continue to try and do. |
| 01:19:50.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:19:50.39 | Chris Chu | Thank you. |
| 01:19:50.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:19:51.91 | Heidi Scoble | So I was just wondering if we could go back to your adaptation pathways slide so that I could just understand exactly what that means. Understand the report and your presentation in terms of the adaptation techniques. |
| 01:20:08.31 | Leslie Laco | Yeah. Well, let's start here, the slide that I skipped over. Does that sound good? |
| 01:20:14.77 | Heidi Scoble | Great. |
| 01:20:16.60 | Leslie Laco | So, um... So the black oval is the adaptation threshold, and that's when you're dealing with an adaptation pathway, you want to identify the place that you don't want to get to. The place that you want to avoid, so that's where the levee over tops and the homes behind it are flooded. Or say the road floods 20 times a year and you can't You can't get to work and you can't get your kids to school and et cetera, et cetera. So that's your adaptation threshold in a certain area. And then if you go back to the the triangle. you want to set up a signal that tells you when it's when it's time to start planning. for a new pathway. So. Let's say you're on the Bothine Marsh restoration pathway and... you reach a point where It's clear that that the marsh is no longer functioning. in the way that it's supposed to function to attenuate wave activity, to keep the shoreline from eroding. You've got a lot of erosion happening and the habitat value is no longer there and it's time to move on to a different pathway. So you identify the signal. What is the signal? Thank you. the shoreline's eroding and I don't know, the habitat value is gone. Find some better way to define that. Then it's time to start. Can I just stop? |
| 01:21:46.69 | Heidi Scoble | Can I just stop you right there? Are you using pathway as like a trajectory in that sense? Absolutely. Okay. Not like a, not the pathway of the water or. |
| 01:21:48.19 | Leslie Laco | Yeah. |
| 01:21:52.24 | Leslie Laco | Absolutely. |
| 01:21:58.15 | Leslie Laco | No, no, it's really- |
| 01:21:58.93 | Heidi Scoble | So it's really... So the trajectory of a given thing. |
| 01:22:01.49 | Leslie Laco | Yeah, it's very conceptual. It's more of a planning trajectory. Very good. Okay. So you identify a signal that tells you it's time to start a planning process to make a decision, DP, your decision point, right? Or sometimes a trigger. So you make a decision and then you leave yourself enough time to be able to implement that decision. So if your decision is that you're gonna protect everything behind 101 and, you know, create a bulkhead there, then you need enough time to actually build that and implement it. So that's going to push everything back quite a bit. But you want to do that before you get to your adaptation threshold. So that's sort of how it works. Does that help at all? |
| 01:22:54.06 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, that's really helpful. Thank you. |
| 01:22:54.09 | Leslie Laco | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:22:54.31 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:22:57.36 | Leslie Laco | Thank you. |
| 01:22:57.38 | Heidi Scoble | Any additional questions? Okay, well we'll take public comment and then thank you very much for that. I have Kevin Kiffer, Terry Thomas, And then I had a question. Vicki Nichols, you put in a speaker card. Is that for this item or? Okay. So Vicki, third. |
| 01:23:26.24 | Kevin Kiefer | Good evening, Council. I have a couple of questions for Ms. Dileko. She mentioned the Corte Madera waterfront and some benchmark tax adjustments as a potential source of revenue for the projects here. Um, I didn't hear her mention anything about the BCDC though, and I wonder if she could elaborate on the court's the court's reversal of the BCDC's jurisdictional authority over the boardwalks of Cordo Madera and Larkspur that happened last year. And second question I would have is the, The underwater streets, the county's underwater streets, the city also has underwater streets, I believe. Will they grow in area as the sea level rises? Are you going to be able to impound them with seawalls? And then has the county been involved with the, third question, kind of been involved with the horizontal levy project, which was a genetic modification of marsh plants that would suit the needs of sewer dischargers throughout the Metro Bay area, because the plant would dine on the sewer discharges. And also in in its course would also then protect the shores from sea level. Right. Then I have a fourth question. |
| 01:25:20.40 | Kevin Kiefer | What bundle of rights will the anchor outs have? Will the legacy of the anchor outs bundle of rights be trashed with the horizontal levy that nobody seems to be talking about? you have a row of lots on the other side of the navigational channel, and they are end-to-end lots with no passage for any road service or anything through them. So obviously that's the termination of your ultimate goal is those lots. What's going in there? Is there a tube for BART going in there to connect with the super smart train? Or what's the plan? If you're projecting 20 years out, let's hear it. |
| 01:26:18.26 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you, Terry Thomas. Good to see you again. |
| 01:26:23.42 | Unknown | THANK YOU. Thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. I wanted to, I thought this a good time since Marin County was giving their presentation to you all to update you on a project that I presented to you a couple of years ago for Conservation Corps North Bay. regarding a nature-based adaptation wave attenuator at Dunphy Park. Thanks to you again for a $10,000 match donation and a letter of support. for the Conservation Corps North Bay to pursue this work. We were. awarded the grant of $170,000 And about half of that went to educating and having core members work on nature-based adaptations. And the other half went to actually designing two conceptual designs for a wave attenuator off of Dunphy Park that would protect your shoreline at Dunphy Park. And those two have been kind of a long time in working, so I just wanted to update you on that project briefly. So since that time, ESA was contracted to look at the conceptual models and have developed two draft conceptual models. There is a draft report that is being reviewed by the Coastal Conservancy. The grant came from the Coastal Conservancy. I should have mentioned that, Well, it actually was a mirin THEIR OWN. grant as well because it came from the buck fund originally but the Coastal Conservancy managed it. So ESA has a draft. together and that is being reviewed by the Coastal Conservancy. Dr. Kathy Boeier of EOS, Estuary and Ocean Science Institute at Romberg Tiburon, completed an eelgrass survey of the health of the eelgrass in the Dunphy Park area with corps members. And that is complete, just pending some review comments again from the Coastal Conservancy. And Dr. Chayla Zabin of the Smithsonian Institute, who is also out at EOS, completed a native Olympia oyster survey of that Dunphy Park area, again, with Corps members. And that is also just about complete. And then finally, the final piece of this was to put together four posters for education on the different aspects of the Dunphy Park ecology and nature-based adaptations there. that would be able to have the Sausalito Community Boating Center do programming. and also available for public and educational student work out at Dunphy Park. So hopefully this will all be pulled together soon now, and I look forward to briefing you all on the outcomes. Thank you very much. |
| 01:29:14.98 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you for coming. We really appreciate it. Vicki, and then after Vicki, Sandra Bushmaker. And Caroline Revell. Thank you. |
| 01:29:26.06 | Vicki Nichols | Good evening, Mayor Cleveland Knowles and council members. I'm thrilled to hear the update from Terry about our project that I think Jonathan Goldman was very proactive in helping us get. But I'm really excited to hear the county's presentation. And I think you heard a discreet... um, comment from Chris about They would love to be invited in. They have been very non-intrusive. They've done this body of great work. They're experts at this. Please avail yourselves. We're doing the general plan. We need their knowledge. There's two things that stood out for me in this report, and I haven't downloaded it, but I will. And they concern financing. People are, every city's going to be looking for funds, and the federal government is not going to be really helping us on this coast. They've been pretty clear about that. So we're going to have to be self-sufficient as much as we can. And I think we have a unique opportunity here in Sausalito. I think I've talked about this before, in that we have a Tidelands Fund that is supplanted with money from the leasees that are in that area that the monies go into those funds for improvements in the waterfront area so if we had a instrument the Finance Committee could look at that there was as some line item of that portion of rent that could be used solely for sea level rise planning I would love to and I'm going to keep hammering about this because we have this ability with the Tidelands fund to often these times is these grants is Terry sort of mentioned are just leveraged off of us showing that we have some funds or matching funds. If we had a little bit of money sequestered in these, like in the line item for planning, we could go after these funds that are available maybe more quickly than other communities that hadn't planned for them. And the other thing I heard was the Jihad, which is something that I heard first from our landslide committee-making districts. Let's think about a Jihad district for our marinship. We don't have anything down there. We know we're going to have to provide financing for this. So I just, I'm really happy that this is all coming together at a time when we can affect the latest information in our general plan, avail ourselves of this experience that we don't have to pay for. and I hope that with Lily being back that we'll really get back up to date since Danny's gone with getting her involved with what the county's doing. Thank you. |
| 01:32:10.02 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you. Sandra Bushmaker and then Carolyn Revelle and then Janelle. |
| 01:32:15.03 | Sandra Bushmaker | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:32:15.35 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:32:15.88 | Sandra Bushmaker | Sandra Bushmaker, resident and interested party. |
| 01:32:15.91 | Heidi Scoble | Sandra Bush. |
| 01:32:18.95 | Sandra Bushmaker | three items on 7A. I was very pleased to hear the county services being made available to the city of Sausalito on the update of its general plan. I would like to recommend that the General Plan Advisory Group, reconvene to hear the county's presentation. rather than just limit it to the subcommittee so that the entire the general plan advisory committee could hear the offerings of the county. Secondly, um, I have read the BCDC letter addressed to Lily Wayland dated November 4th, 2019. And I would like to know how the city is responding to that particular letter. So it's a treatise, I might add, in case you haven't read it yet. It's about four pages single spaced. So it has some relevant issues to the issue of sea level rise. And lastly, as Vicki mentioned, the general or the geologic hazard abatement You know I've said them before and we presented them as an integral part of the mudslide task force, also known as a landslide task force report to the City Council on September 24th. I would like to see the city agendize that item for the formation of a committee that deals with jihads and whether they should be uh, CONVENED. In other words, we could have one for sea level rise, we could have one for landslide purposes, there could be for various purposes. The advantage is that Funds are segregated and designated only for those purposes. There's no mixing with the general fund. The mudslide task force money would not be used for sea level rise in the marine ship. And I think it's time that the city, since this is such a wonderful and relatively simple, organization to form. and that you would form it as the city council. I'd like to see agendized for discussion, further discussion. Thanks so much. |
| 01:34:29.29 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:34:29.39 | Sandra Bushmaker | Thank you. |
| 01:34:29.41 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:34:29.42 | Sandra Bushmaker | Thank you. |
| 01:34:29.96 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:34:29.98 | Sandra Bushmaker | Thank you. |
| 01:34:30.08 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:34:30.77 | Sandra Bushmaker | CAROLYN. |
| 01:34:30.98 | Heidi Scoble | I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE |
| 01:34:31.45 | Sandra Bushmaker | Well, I'm not sure. |
| 01:34:31.73 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:34:33.78 | Unknown | Welcome. Good evening. I don't have anything specific to say other than to commend the Council for putting this item on the agenda. I think it was very informative and clearly it would be wonderful if the whole community could learn more about this important issue and there is a great deal of research being done by Bay Wave and other organizations. Several of us from Sausalito Beautiful have been getting a little reading group together to inform ourselves. And we're finding there's just a tremendous wealth of information that I'm sure you and the council are availing yourself of. And will, I understand, be trying to incorporate some of these important insights and recommendations into the general plan. And I can't speak for Sausalito Beautiful, I I'm really speaking as an individual, but I just think it's a very important issue, and we're so glad that you're addressing it head on, and thank you. |
| 01:35:25.84 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you. And if your reading group has cliff notes that it develops from all these reports, that would be very helpful. There's so much out there. We do. Janelle Kelman. |
| 01:35:33.53 | Janelle Kelman | We do. Hi everyone, Janelle Killman, Vice Chair of the Planning Commission, member of the original GPAC, which met for about two and a half years, member of the current subcommittee, four of us. First of all, thank you so much for having members of the county come Chris and Leslie, thank you guys for being here and bringing this information. I know you've been hard at work. What I want to do is just share some of the reading group materials and other stuff that's come to mind, and I hope that we can blend this into further conversations as well as to the working group and the subcommittee. So first of all, on the Bay Waves point, just something I want to flag is I don't think the Bay Waves information includes subsidence, liquefaction, or a 10-year storm. But to the extent it does, we should certainly be looking at that specifically as to Sausalito. Obviously, as the water's coming up, our land is going down. that puts us in a more precarious situation than a lot of other communities. I also just want to point out a lot of other great work that's out there. There was an article in the LA Times this week. talked about that the Ocean Protection Council Advisory Board which is tasked with guiding the state's coastal policies. is now pushing California to be prepared for at least 3.5 feet of sea level rise by 2050. And that article was about Foster City and San Mateo and how they're struggling to figure out how to deal with this. I also want to talk about something Leslie had mentioned around adaptation for land use planning. One of the things we've discussed at GPAC, and I hope will continue, is getting ahead of the issue of sea level rise, making that the ethos for us where it sort of trickles down to every element in the general plan. So then we make decisions regardless of the element. We're thinking, how is this impacted by sea level rise? So somebody mentioned updating the safety element. To include adaptation to sea level rise, I want to make sure we do that. I see Southern Marine fires here. I think about, wow, is access going to be by boat? in the future, or is it going to be over by car or by truck? I think the San Francisco actually, the mayor will know this, just built their new fire station actually on pontoons, and it's a floating structure. So there's a lot of good information in the area. Jihads, great idea, I won't go into it, but our Landslide Task Force report is one of the best reports I've seen a subcommittee do. I hope you revisit that. Legislative Analyst's Office has a lot of great information coming out from the governor. We've got the governor's proposed budget and resiliency bond. We've got the Senate and assembly resiliency bonds. There's money out there if we're smart about it. Probably means we need somebody within either the city council or city hall to spearhead this to really be the point person going after these measures. I also want to call attention to BCDC guidance. They're adapting to rising tides project, urges communities to plan and prioritize the setting of residential and other vulnerable land uses away from the coastal zone. That's the type of adaptation we need to be thinking about in the general plan process. How would we deal with those issues? Creative solutions, Leslie mentioned them, floating homes. We know how to do that. We're experts in doing that. I'll mention the SF Estuary Institute. I know my time is up. We do have a reading list, happy to share it. Thank you. |
| 01:38:35.68 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you very much. The last speaker card I have is Carlo Berg, and if anybody else would like to speak on this topic, please come forward. |
| 01:38:52.79 | Carlito Berg | Carlo Berg, Marina Plaza, Marina Harbor. First of all, thank you, Janelle, for those comments. I thought all of those resources were great. I'm going to check a lot of them out. I have just one quick question. I was looking at the functions you had, and I don't know if we can go back potentially. Am I allowed to touch this to see what functions there were? Yeah. All right. So you had linear functions for different areas of wave height, but then you had an exponential function for up to 10 feet. So I'm wondering, how do you calculate that? What's the data and what sort of confidence interval do you have? How confident are you that that 10 feet is going to happen versus the other areas? |
| 01:39:14.91 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:39:34.44 | Heidi Scoble | So hold on, hold on. Oh, I'm not allowed to ask a question? No, so this is the way it works. You can let us know if you have questions, and then if a council member would like to ask staff to address them afterwards. So you can let us know what your questions are, and then we cannot shout out from the audience because this is being recorded for... |
| 01:39:36.65 | Carlito Berg | Oh, I'm not allowed to ask a question. That's it. |
| 01:39:45.00 | Carlito Berg | okay you're gonna |
| 01:39:50.93 | Carlito Berg | for all of our |
| 01:39:51.80 | Heidi Scoble | All of our residents at home who are watching us tonight. |
| 01:39:54.79 | Carlito Berg | Sorry about that. So I guess the question is, there's multiple different areas that have sea level rise at three feet. We just heard three and a half feet potentially. We know elevations in all these different areas. How likely actually is it that we're going to exceed certain levels, and how do we take that into account in terms of planning, especially if we're planning for our general plans timeframe, and those timeframes are beyond that? potentially. That's my question. |
| 01:40:21.98 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other public comments? Okay, maybe we could have Leslie back up. I did actually have a similar question, and then I don't know if we can draw up page 13 from the plan on the slide. So you had some maps in here and there was a 96 inch. a map and then a 24 inch map. And I think this kind of goes to Carlo's question. |
| 01:40:53.65 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:40:53.77 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:40:53.97 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:40:54.46 | Sandra Bushmaker | Yeah. |
| 01:40:54.71 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:40:58.88 | Heidi Scoble | we're gonna try to draw that up but maybe if you could just talk a little bit about the projections and then I had also meant to ask you I'm glad that Janelle Kallman raise this issue you know we have and i'm sure other areas have not only the issue of sea level rise but because our marine ship area was built on landfill we also have subsidence issues so how that might affect your calculations and might impact the way that we look at things here so this is page 13 it's a little hard to see, but there's two maps, one that says 96 inches and one that says 24 inches. And then I was just wondering if you could talk about the two different scenarios. Thank you. |
| 01:41:44.39 | Leslie Laco | So in the BayWave vulnerability assessment, we looked at different heights of, different levels of sea level, and then we also looked at storm surge on top of that. So, and then this data actually comes from BCDC, Um, And the reason I used it is because it shows the depth of flooding, which we didn't have in the Bay Wave vulnerability assessment. The 96-inch scenario shows something very similar to the scenario that was in Bay Wave, which was 60 inches plus a 100-year storm. So that's why I used that for this report. So that we had that data that showed the same degree of flooding, but also showed flood depths. So the same area of flooding is really what I should say. Neither data set includes subsidence, and neither data set includes anything about groundwater impacts either. |
| 01:42:55.61 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. And how would... Sausalito go about factoring in those issues which are Thank you. fairly real for the Marinship area. when we are, you know, we've basically been using the Bay Wave analysis kind of as our, benchmark because it's you know a lot of work went into that from the county but we also understand that it's not a complete it's only as good as what the assumptions were. So how would that impact the way we kind of look |
| 01:43:36.04 | Leslie Laco | at things? Well, I don't know who's on your consulting team. So, I mean, really you need a geologist and a hydrologist to look at that. And the data that we used in the vulnerability assessment isn't gonna get you there. And some of the work that Christina Hill at USGS and UC Berkeley is doing now is relatively new. So I'm not sure if there is a data set out there that's gonna going to have exactly what you're looking for. But there are some inferences that I'm sure can be made by the right experts. I'm not that expert. |
| 01:44:19.96 | Heidi Scoble | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:44:20.35 | Leslie Laco | Okay. |
| 01:44:21.11 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:44:21.20 | Leslie Laco | Thank you. |
| 01:44:21.21 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:44:21.62 | Leslie Laco | I'm sorry. And then just to speak to the other man's question about the sea level rise graphs, that data comes from the |
| 01:44:21.94 | Heidi Scoble | I'm sorry. |
| 01:44:36.16 | Leslie Laco | 2008 data comes from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The 2013-2017 data comes from the state. Those scenarios are based on they're based on greenhouse gas emission scenarios, and there's a lot of modeling that goes into them. And it's not something that we did here at the county. Okay, great. Any additional questions? |
| 01:45:01.97 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:45:04.18 | Unknown | Yeah. And it kind of goes along with the data that I don't think we need to get into, but looking at The charts and going back to the one and a half degrees Celsius projection and where we are in that Warming cycle that's caused a the slope that we're starting to see and then how it It curves up kind of to carlos question is you know, why is it curve up? But more importantly what happens in that period that we're not talking about that's more than just sea level rise I think we look at sea level rises as water just Rising, but really what's going to happen is it's going to go up and down, and there's going to be changes to fauna and changes to coastlines and much more soil intrusion from hills. And landscape will change as much as the water's slowly rising, which is kind of our perception we already see that in the previous 50 years of up and down cycles as that goes up as those cycles are going to be even more drastic so we have to have the data to keep us at task when we're in those down spots as well as preparing for all those other events that occur that are more than just the water rising, how do we kind of employ put those into planning. We're not we're not even sure what both in March will look like or what's growing there or what type of wildlife will be using it in 2010. the 2100 let alone that the water might be a certain height. That will be probably our least concern frankly. |
| 01:46:43.89 | Leslie Laco | Um... Well, the. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and USGS Cosmos data does factor in storm activity. And so they're looking historically at storm activity and then modeling and projecting into the future. So we do have some information on that that's modeled for these projections. |
| 01:47:09.85 | Unknown | And I've heard we've used like 10 year storm applications in this is that the type of thing we're doing is we'll put in certain storm levels into these calculations to I think somebody mentioned a 10-year storm level that's being included in one of these applications. Is that true? |
| 01:47:20.97 | Council Member Cox | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:47:21.15 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:47:25.47 | Unknown | Is that true? Did we include tenure in Bayway? I think we just had 100 years. No. I thought I had a tenure. |
| 01:47:27.70 | Unknown | No, I thought I had her tenure. |
| 01:47:29.37 | Chris Chu | Thank you. |
| 01:47:29.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:47:29.42 | Chris Chu | We had six different scenarios in the vulnerability assessment, 10, 20, and 60 inches of sea level rise, and that allowed us to account for that variability and that uncertainty in the future. And then for each of those, we added the 100-year storm. And that's just because we see that here in Marin. We see that commonly enough. We know what that experience is like, not with 60 inches of sea level rise, but we wanted to give a range of projections that we could be planning in the general plan time frame but also just long term for the county how we were going to start to pull people together and think about our changes but this is climate change as a much broader topic and not just sea level rise so we're talking about changes in weather pattern we're talking about changes to fire conditions which we've already seen we're talking about all these things together and really trying to plan for all of it and that's really what we're talking about changes to fire conditions, which we've already seen. We're talking about all these things together and really trying to plan for all of it. And that's really what we're trying to do by bringing all this information together. |
| 01:47:30.45 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:47:30.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:47:30.48 | Unknown | We had six different. |
| 01:47:35.80 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:47:35.81 | Unknown | that. |
| 01:47:40.79 | Unknown | MAKING A LITTLE BIT. |
| 01:47:44.51 | Unknown | I mean, that's |
| 01:48:07.68 | Unknown | So we're talking about |
| 01:48:22.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:48:23.91 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thanks. Joan, did you have any questions? Thank you. So just a last question, I noticed that the report, at least the adaptation land use planning report is marked as draft. Is there... a path to finalizing that. |
| 01:48:39.74 | Leslie Laco | I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING. |
| 01:48:40.94 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah. |
| 01:48:41.00 | Leslie Laco | Yeah, it was draft because we had someone working on the graphics for it. And she finished today. We'll get that up, and I'll send Heidi a link to it so you can get it on our website. So there's not any more process? No, there's no more process. |
| 01:48:52.02 | Heidi Scoble | Okay. Get it on our website. |
| 01:48:56.97 | Heidi Scoble | Okay. Great. Well, thank you both. This was really fantastic work, and we really appreciate your being here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Are there comments from council members? |
| 01:49:05.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:49:15.77 | Vicki Nichols | So thanks to the county, excuse me, staff for coming tonight. On the specific question of factoring in subsidence and so on, proposed to our public works director that we start seeking grant money to look at maybe doing a LIDAR study of the marine ship and other vulnerable areas which is probably most of Sausalito Richardson Bay coastline or waterline and And because I think in the marineship, in particular we have a we have, we know that there's been subsidence. So all that means is that the vulnerability models or the inundation models are going to be worse than you know those pictures, those graphs show. And so I think one first step would be to actually get the data and figure out what the actual level of our land levels are so that we can actually rerun these models with a more realistic. And I think we'd be quite scared. |
| 01:50:46.44 | Unknown | I'd like to second thanking Vice Mayor and Mayor for putting this on the agenda. I think it's wonderful that we have no climate change deniers in this leadership or in our community. And I'll follow on Janelle's comment. I do think we are doing our general plan update right now which is a 30 year plan. We're looking at three feet of water level rise, sea level rise in the next 30 years. It's perfect timing and I think our general plan has to have this front and center through everything we do not as an appendix or not as a set of separate bullets. It needs to be incorporated into everything so it falls through through our zoning and our ordinances and we are taking a proactive lead. Those are my comments, thank you. |
| 01:51:31.20 | Unknown | Anything? |
| 01:51:31.86 | Unknown | Yeah, I agree. And I think we've come to that conclusion, you know, consider sea level rise in pretty much everything we've talked about. But to an extent, we have to stop considering it and implement it as well. You know, I mean, we need to somewhere along the line from this discussion to now a document that we're going to be putting forth next year, we have to have specific implementations and using that data to say you know this foot level or this this direction back I mean we need to put something other than just consider and the words that we've been using I'll say I appreciate the comments today that we've finally got this, not finally, but that we've had this discussion that we've been talking about, and it's perfect timing. So it's exciting and a great document. Thank you. |
| 01:52:19.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:52:20.26 | Council Member Cox | I'll just comment that the general plan working group did unanimously agree to add a sustainability slash climate change element to our general plan within which we can address issues such as these to ensure that we prioritize our consideration and mitigation of these matters. |
| 01:52:43.01 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Yeah. And I think in addition, but not meaning that just putting it in that one place, we would leave it not informing all of the other aspects of the general plan as well. So I just want to say I really wish I had been able to read every page of this report. I read a lot of it. I would just really like to thank the county for moving from the vulnerability assessment to a report like this that includes concrete kind of a menu I guess is how I read it a menu of options for local governments and unincorporated areas in the county on funding on planning tools on adaptation mechanisms and and everything it's it's like a great resource book and I am really looking forward to to having more discussions, both the GPAC, at the general plan subcommittee, at the Sustainability Commission on what in here is right for Sausalito. And, you know, we don't have time to kind of get into those details tonight, but there's so much great information, the pros and the cons of all of the different strategies that you laid out. And kind of a little bit deeper dive on some of the legal issues of doing nothing I thought was really interesting. And kind of the tools and financing mechanisms to help move us forward and give us some resources to attack this really critical problem so i was really excited to see this and i really appreciate all of that hard work and it's going to make our job which is a difficult job as everyone is facing a lot easier so thank you so much and we'll look forward to continued collaboration with you as we work forward on our general plan so thanks so much for coming Okay, I'm gonna move on to item 7B, which is the low emission action plan that our own sustainability commission drafted. And we have seen this in a few different places. It was referred to the general plan advisory committee and sent to us a while ago, but we haven't really had a chance for a deep dive on this. We have, we'll give a minute for setup. |
| 01:55:07.49 | Ting | All right, I'll get started because we only have eight minutes to solve one of the world's most pressing issues, so I'll jump right in. All right. |
| 01:55:09.47 | Heidi Scoble | minutes. |
| 01:55:13.40 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you so much. Thank you, Ting, for being here. Ting is the chair of our Sustainability Commission, and we have Greg Thompson, one of our members. Yes, thank you. |
| 01:55:20.05 | Ting | Thank you so much, Mayor Cleveland Knowles. You've been a very great support to our commission. So thank you for everything you do. And thank you, council members and staff for having us here today. All right. So as mentioned, we don't have a lot of time. Also, we're in the middle of a climate emergency. It's come up several times today. And seeing the climate impacts also, you know, resulting in sea level rise. That shows us how we need to adapt to the changes, but we want to take it a step forward and also focus on mitigation. We still have time, but it means we have to act now, and we have to act very quickly. And this is why we created the Low Emissions Action Plan, also called LEAP, which I think is a great, great way to put it as well. So the objectives of leap is really to reduce our emissions dramatically. We need to do it within this decade, if not faster. And this is well aligned with the overall statewide goal. We've heard a lot about that as well tonight of reducing emissions by 40% below the baseline 2005. And this plan is aligned with other counties in Marin such as San Rafael and San Leandro and we've adapted it to fit the needs of Sausalito What we're requesting today is for you to review. I believe we've sent the full LEAP plan already. We would love to get your approval so that we can move forward on some of the recommendations that we will be making tonight. This will provide a framework for us to be able to justify some of the things that we'll be proposing and will help us find the path forward to implementation And really, just to frame the situation, reducing emissions isn't just about melting ice caps and polar bears, we've heard it with sea level rise, but it's also very much in our immediate community. We've seen it in the last 12 months with the worst fires on record, the highest temperatures on record, and resulting in poor air quality than in, for example, India or China. So it has a real health impact on all of us and it also has an impact on our economic future as well. So what we are proposing is the following. Here you see an overview of the emissions of Sausalito, and you see the three major categories where emissions result from. So the largest category being transportation, followed by the residential energy use, as well as commercial use. So by targeting these three categories, we can count for about 96 of the city's emissions. So the idea is really to focus, we have a lot going on, climate crisis impacting so many areas, and if we're talking mitigation, this is where we need to start. So the LEAP plan is focused on these three areas, and Greg will give a more detailed overview of what that entails. |
| 01:58:18.10 | Greg Thompson | Great. Thank you, Ting. Thank you, council members. Again, this plan was developed in alignment with the county's goals and actions to take on emissions, as well as aligned with San Rafael and San Anselmo, just as two leading cities in the county doing this. So we really are in alignment with the county and as well as the state. So the overview here is with transportation to increase EV charging infrastructure and obviously using clean energy for that. MCE provides us with a great option there. And then to influence cleaner public transportation, increased ridership, first last mile options, et cetera. And I will go into a little more detail on that in a second. And then for energy across residential and commercial to get us to that 96% total emissions addressing those is to become 100% renewable energy community, right, opting into MCE Deep Green, which is an option for all of the folks who use electricity here, and then to electrify heating and heat efficient buildings while also building resiliency. I'm going to come back to this slide in a second. I'll say why. But essentially going into the highlights of our recommendations, right, for transportation to address 60% of our emissions here. So electric vehicles. Develop an EV plan that will result in 30% of registered passenger vehicles in Sausalito to be electric by 2030. So this includes identifying high-profile and high-traffic areas to install EV chargers. And we can utilize the Transportation Authority of Marin's EV charger subsidy for funding there. And then we can do things like provide free parking for EVs at city and meter parking lots and then promote not prevent EV charger installations for homes and businesses. For public transit, we can support and promote public transit in general. We can work with Marin Transit and Golden Gate Transit to maximize ridership through expansion and or improvement of transit routes and schedules. Developed first and last mile programs to maximize utilization of the commuter buses and ferries, including electric shuttle buses. We want to definitely promote bicycle use, so encourage that as an alternative to vehicles, establish and maintain a system of bicycle facilities and access ways that are consistent with the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committees and their recommendations. Walking safe routes to schools, establish and maintain more pedestrian rights of ways that promote and enable walking for both residents and visitors. Continue to support the safe routes to school program, increase bicycling, walking, carpooling, taking public transit. And then finally, this advanced community energy system. This is an initiative that's at the state level to get state funding and expertise for communities to create local energy systems and all the benefits that that gives us. So multiple carbon reduction, resilience and cost effective benefits, including clean electricity for city and residents transportation. So for energy, addressing the remaining 36% of our emissions for commercial and residential, our recommendation highlights are to encourage residential and commercial solar and other renewable energy installations. And we can do that by providing, you know, streamline permitting and reducing or eliminating fees as feasible. Encourage residents and businesses to switch to 100% renewable electricity via MCE Deep Green, as an example, and note that less than 5% of our residents and businesses today currently subscribe to Deep Green. So there's a lot of benefit we can get out of getting more people on that. So promoting and subsidizing through a tax break or tax incentive the electrification of building systems and appliances that currently use natural gas, including heating systems, hot water heaters, stoves and clothes, dryers. And there are existing programs and rebates via MSEP. |
| 02:02:00.64 | Unknown | more. |
| 02:02:20.00 | Greg Thompson | Install solar energy systems and batteries at municipal buildings and facilities. Include available parking and or open spaces as appropriate. including school properties, so we can utilize these municipal sources, and this aligns with the ACE, Advanced Community Energy mentioned earlier, for energy resilience, for critical and priority services in Sausalito, such as police, fire, health, water, food, shelter, etc., in the case of emergencies and in the case of grid failures, which we've all been subject to. And then energy efficiency programs expand participation in residential and commercial energy efficiency programs by promoting local partnerships and utility state and federal rebate and incentive programs. Complete replacement of all outdoor lighting and with lead fixtures. So this is an overview, what we're asking, is really to be able to move forward with detailed implementation plans for each of these and as part of that we have already submitted an ev charging request currently there are no public ev charging stations in sausalito we've identified transportation authority of marin grant to cover the cost of the hardware we would put a request in for the city to fund the labor cost we did provide a list list of spaces, and then we would request to incorporate EV charging in future constructions. And so this is an example of, we have a framework in the LEAP, in the Low Emissions Action Plan. We wanna move forward with implementation as we go through each of the priorities from that plan. Obviously with city council approval, But we've been told we can't exactly move forward with an EV charging plan, for example, until the city council says public works and the city can actually move that forward and help us with that. So that's what the low emissions action plan is about, and we're hoping to move all this forward in concert with the city council's blessing and approval so we can come back with implementation plans based on the framework and goals in this plan. |
| 02:04:20.65 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you. Thank you. So Greg, I just have a question. So you mentioned that San Rafael and San Anselmo had developed similar plans. And did their councils adopt those as standalone documents? Or did they sit in their general plans? Or do you know? |
| 02:04:21.09 | Greg Thompson | Thank you. |
| 02:04:27.44 | Greg Thompson | Yeah. |
| 02:04:34.39 | Greg Thompson | No, they adopted them and of course they each do different things slightly, but from what I understand, both adopt the plan, they approve the plan as the framework and then integrate them into the general plan. Yeah, exactly. |
| 02:04:48.84 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you. Are there other questions? Can I add one more thing to that? |
| 02:04:51.48 | Ting | I'm just gonna add one more thing to that. Just for context, we also presented in front of the general plan update this framework And I would urge the general plan to also leave room for innovation. So right now, if we're thinking 20, 30 years in the future, we don't have all the answers today. We do need a level of vagueness in the general plan to accommodate that technological advances will come down the line. So just to frame that. |
| 02:05:17.24 | Heidi Scoble | Great, well thank you both for that. Are there questions for Ting and Greg? |
| 02:05:22.77 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. It's great work. Do you see this document being kind of a living document that we can continue to update and move along as opposed to having multiple amendments or additional, I guess we would have amendments, but additional plans going for special like the EV plan could that just be built into this as one single plan that we can refer to and then it it grows as we get exactly. |
| 02:05:46.84 | Greg Thompson | Exactly. I think that's the intent is that it's a framework and then it's step one, step two, step three as we go forward. Okay. So we don't have to have a separate |
| 02:05:57.03 | Unknown | Okay, so we don't have to have a separate plan for the EVA. It could be put into this as part of that. Once you get our blessing on whatever. Exactly. |
| 02:06:02.46 | Greg Thompson | Exactly. |
| 02:06:03.78 | Ting | And one more thing to add, this also aligns with the climate action plan, which you already signed off on in 2015, I believe. And so it's, it's basically getting more specific and focusing our efforts on mitigation and emissions reduction and the largest categories of emissions reduction. |
| 02:06:20.33 | Heidi Scoble | Right. So just to put a little bit of context around this, I think Greg and Ting already alluded to it, but one of the things that's come up at the Sustainability Commission is they came up with this great plan And then I think the recommendation was that it be forwarded to the GPAC. It was forwarded to the general plan advisory committee, but it didn't really um, get a lot of attention or focus turning into policies there. So then there was, as I became more involved with the subcommittee, you know, it seemed like it would be better to sort of hear this as a thing and decide if, you know, how we want to address this, either through the general plan subcommittee as you know adopted here so there's no action tonight but i i personally find an enormous amount of value in a plan to get us to state goals that we need to reach and it is in alignment with the county. So that's I kind of wanted to bring it forward. simultaneously with our general plan and strategic plan discussions, to kind of get people's input about how you think about this moving forward. So I really appreciate everyone hearing that. Are there other questions or should we move to public comments? So I have one speaker card that doesn't I'm not sure if if it's for this item anonymous. |
| 02:07:51.59 | Heidi Scoble | Excuse me. |
| 02:07:55.56 | Heidi Scoble | So we took general public comment at the beginning of the meeting. Okay. So is there any public comment on this item? |
| 02:08:05.36 | Heidi Scoble | OK seeing that I will bring it back up to the city council public comment is close. |
| 02:08:15.86 | Council Member Cox | I will say that as they mentioned this plan aligns with the climate action plan that was adopted by the City Council in 2015. And I think that is the most powerful way to Um, ensure that. the recommendations of this plan are implemented as a part of our general plan. planning process. and elsewhere. So. I think we should calendar this as a future agenda item for a resolution of approval of the lease. |
| 02:08:49.17 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:08:49.19 | Council Member Cox | Right? |
| 02:08:49.34 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:08:49.35 | Council Member Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:08:49.37 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:08:50.69 | Vicki Nichols | I can certainly support that, but I think we need to have a clear understanding of what all our different plans are supposed to do. We have a climate action plan. Climate action plan is determined by state law, and it's very clear that it – I – I would hazard a guess that other than the members of our sustainability commission and perhaps one or two others nobody's ever looked at our climate action plan and so why not well i think because we got as part of our you know, processes and understanding of the relationship between the general plan, the climate action plan, and Um, you know, the LEAP policies that really are part of the Climate Action Plan, but As someone said, the Climate Action Plan has no teeth. Nobody's ever looking at it. Nobody's ever doing anything with it. So if the way to get the Climate Action Plan in force is by adopting the LEAP recommendations and then moving forward, so be it. But I would urge our planning staff to really get to grips with how the different planning documents talk to each other. |
| 02:10:08.92 | Unknown | I'll consider it's not a strong enough word for you. Thank you. |
| 02:10:15.37 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, I mean, we have a climate action plan. Sustainability Commission, we have no public EV charging stations in Sausalito. We are not even mini step towards achieving our climate goals. So from my perspective, it doesn't really matter to me what planet's in. I would like to make a commitment to meet these goals by 2030 and start getting to work doing them. I only have a few. I pretty much wholeheartedly endorse the leap. I have a few tweaks in the sense of, you know, just a few things like I would not really endorse free parking for any EV. for all time, because I think the more EVs we get, we could kind of shoot ourselves in the foot by reducing our parking revenue. But I just have a few small things. So I would wholeheartedly endorse Council Member Cox's suggestion to agendize this for approval. And if we have modifications that we wanna make at that time, that we do so and perhaps have staff analyze |
| 02:11:22.21 | Unknown | modifications. |
| 02:11:29.70 | Heidi Scoble | that relationship to at least make sure we're all clear about the relationship at that point. So I know we don't have this as an action item, but maybe |
| 02:11:44.13 | Council Member Cox | I've listed it to mention on our future agenda items. So right now this is receive and file. |
| 02:11:49.11 | Heidi Scoble | Okay. Are there other comments? |
| 02:11:52.90 | Unknown | My only comment, thank you for this great work. And the key words are action plan. And so we're talking about climate change all the time. Here's, I think, actionable things we can do very quickly. But to keep focus on it, I also think in the general plan, which is the document that does stick around and. impacts many things in the element on sustainability that's where we put all these leap recommendations as well so that we are starting immediately but we're carrying it through our general plan |
| 02:12:22.16 | Heidi Scoble | Right. Okay, so we will receive and file this report. We will thank the Sustainability Commission for their good work on this topic, and we will move on and at future agenda items, we can address this issue further. Okay, we have item 7C. thank you so much for being here southern marin fire department fire drones program deployment presentation i appreciate your patience i'm waiting for this item to come up and we hope that you and your family are well |
| 02:12:57.13 | Unknown | Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council. Thank you for those sentiments. I'm happy to report that the very serious condition is on a very positive trajectory, so we're very thankful for that. And so I also appreciate the Council's patience with delaying the presentation and coming to you tonight. So thank you on behalf of the Council. |
| 02:13:14.53 | Heidi Scoble | Well, we certainly understood that you needed to be with your family. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming back tonight. |
| 02:13:18.02 | Unknown | Thank you very much. So, again, thank you for having us tonight. We're always grateful for the audience and the opportunity to engage the council and the community. My presentation tonight is designed to be intentionally short. Tonight is simply an introduction of a new service program that the fire district is developing, and to advise the council and community of the upcoming outreach and education we'll soon engage in. We will return at a later date to share a more detailed picture of the capabilities of this technology. This is a program that our board directors identified over three years ago as a service enhancement initiative that fire staff was directed to explore and eventually deploy. Its primary goal is to support our mission of life safety and property preservation. And it's clear that this technology has the capability to accomplish this objective and greatly enhance the services we currently provide. Though the staff report provides a comprehensive high level summary of the past three year journey, it more importantly provides an outline of many of the tasks, important tasks, we still have to accomplish before a full deployment of this service occurs. In short, this program is still evolving and part of the reason for us being here tonight is that the program has enough substance to begin outreach education and discussion with the community and with the council. And we're here to begin that dialogue. So what I'd like to do right now is just apply about a two-minute video that just shows a little bit of sort of the capabilities of the system. It's a very, very high level. We'd come back later with a much more detailed video showing the full capabilities of the system. I apologize for the manic music in the background. |
| 02:16:54.43 | Unknown | Clearly, we're keenly aware of the privacy and surveillance concerns that logically arise from this type of technology. And this is why we feel it's imperative to begin these discussions with the community and the council now. It is critical that our agency develops operating parameters and safeguards that are established through internal policy and procedure to protect the privacy. and the confidentiality of our citizens while also improving our services and life safety capabilities. This is best achieved through the outreach and education involvement process that we're about to launch. We believe that having that public input in the development of our policies and procedures is critical to this program being embraced by the community and ultimately it being successful. We further intend to be back before the Council in the coming months, providing an update on the results of this community outreach, the education and feedback and the program's evolution. as well as provide more information and demonstrations of the programs and its capabilities. We believe it is important for the community and council to have a full understanding of this technology's benefits as well as the practices and safeties that will be in place to protect those that we serve. We're excited about this evolving service enhancement and look forward to begin the conversation with you and the community. And with that, I'm happy to entertain any questions. |
| 02:18:16.54 | Heidi Scoble | My microphone's not on. Thank you. Are there questions from council members? |
| 02:18:21.94 | Council Member Cox | Thank you, I forwarded correspondence to the chief earlier today. containing some recommendations and concerns from one of our residents. And I was pleased to get your response that that's the very purpose of this public outreach. How will we notify the community of the various meetings or community forums that they can attend and express their concerns? |
| 02:18:54.04 | Unknown | Yeah, our intent is to certainly leverage all of the communication mediums and tools that we currently have, so I would expect through the Sausalito community that we would be using the Sausalito currents. We would certainly try and tee this up through anything that we can post on the website. When we go to do an outreach meeting, it would be much like we did when we were going through 2017 and 2018 with the fires, the district putting out public notifications to either communities or community groups or if neighborhoods, if we're meeting with neighborhoods. Again, our intent is to try and saturate the community of the time and place of the meetings and then the nature of those meetings. |
| 02:19:38.13 | Heidi Scoble | Right. Any other questions for the chief? |
| 02:19:40.83 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:19:40.88 | Unknown | Yep. You're gonna be doing a lot of valuable work for us in that area as you're out asking these questions and and getting that information And I say yes because I think you know We've I've talked about it before how important this would be to our police as well Will you be kind of for at least working with our department on Some of the similarities in that process so that we don't have to reinvent that wheel when that time comes For maybe our PD to have a similar style program |
| 02:20:07.51 | Unknown | Absolutely. As I referenced earlier, it's really taken us three years to get to this process. It's not as simple as purchasing a drone and saying we're ready to go. There are COA requirements, FAA requirements. There's a lot of licensing and regulations that you have to go through before you even initiate a program. I've already spoken with Chief Rohrabacher about these things. We are happy to partner with them, not only within what we've learned in the development of the program, but certainly in the community outreach. I think the concerns that we're going to hear would be the same ones that they would hear, and I would expect we may even try and partner in doing those. |
| 02:20:48.57 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Good question. |
| 02:20:51.54 | Unknown | Thank you for the presentation, I'm a big supporter of the technology. And thank you for doing the outreach to the community to get input into the policies and procedures. And all the concerns you're going to hear is centered around privacy is what it's going to be. And so the policies and procedures are going to be put in place to address those concerns. Is there some forum where there's approval of those policies and procedures? that meets the needs of the community, because this is coming 2020, which is we're in 2020. |
| 02:21:22.25 | Unknown | Coming 2020, meaning we're starting the outreach in early 2020. We don't anticipate to deploy the program until we have exhausted |
| 02:21:24.78 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:21:30.20 | Unknown | this process with the community. To answer your question specifically, We want to be wholly transparent with our policies and procedures. So the first part of that involves getting community feedback to continue to evolve those bring those back to the community and the council getting yet another sort of round of feedback and evolving those to a point where I think the community says, we're comfortable with this, operate within this. I think the next question to that sort of question, if you will, Thank you. The step beyond that is what is the oversight to that? And that's another part of the discussion that we want to have with the community. How do we ensure that those policies and procedures we've adopted are being followed? Thank you. |
| 02:22:11.61 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Any other questions? Okay. Well, we'll start the public feedback process right now. I have three speaker cards, and then we'll might have you back. Frank Shinnaman, Alice Merrill, and Kevin Kiffer. |
| 02:22:23.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:22:33.58 | Frank Shinnaman | Good evening and thank you. I'm a resident, Frank Shinnaman. of Sausalito. And I've sent you in a note that you acknowledge. Thank you very much. And thank you for passing it on. And I want to applaud the fire district for the transparency. and the intention of being very open with the entire process and taking in community comments. And as you already mentioned, the key issue here in drones is always privacy and surveillance. And I would just emphasize along with some of the points that I made in an email, that there is a hugely significant difference between emergency operations and police operations. One is investigative, It has a public safety aspect, but only in regards to a crime scene, versus emergency response. And a very key difference is in the need for or the justification of recording and what can be done with those recordings. So identification, use of drones, and then recording. And I look forward to the process that we're going to be going through. Thank you very much. |
| 02:23:38.67 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Alice Merrill. Good evening. |
| 02:23:43.97 | Alice Merrill | Thank you. Hello there. I'm a serious skeptic. I don't like drones. I don't like them wandering around the harbor. I don't like drones. I just wonder what our grandchildren's lives are going to be like with this. So when we say outreach, and it sounds good, and it definitely sounds good, and they have great intentions and great plans, but... |
| 02:24:00.39 | Unknown | Mm. |
| 02:24:14.59 | Alice Merrill | I... I just don't always believe what is said because I don't think it always follows through. And when somebody, one of you said, well, it'd be great for police work, that just makes my whole soul shiver. what are we doing here? How are we conducting our lives? So if it's really for emergencies that are happening all of a sudden and you need help, Well, fine, I guess. I will go to those meetings. But as a general thing, I just think we have to think really strong and hard about this kind of technology and this kind of... of way to get around and see things that you don't even know is being seen. And it worries me. Thanks. All right. |
| 02:25:22.23 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:25:26.89 | Kevin Kiefer | Good evening, Council. My name is Kevin Kiefer. I'm an anchor out. I don't have problems with privacy because I don't have any. I get RBRA and Sausalito City Police and Sheriff's Boat coming right up to my boat and holding cameras to the window. So bring on the drones. You have to factor in the context that it is a federal special anchorage. The shores and the waters of Richardson Bay Anchorage are federal, and the federal government has already been using drones out there. So after that wind event, I believe last fall, they were surveilling boats that were damaged, boats that were tied, you know, securely tied to docks and marinas, which you quote unquote call harbors. and they were being surveilled by the United States Coast Guard with drones that were launched from a beach within the Marineship area. And I don't believe they asked anybody permission to do so. So you might want to factor your federal context into this. And another thing, I thought this was going to be maybe a more detailed presentation, and I'll look forward to that in the future. But the Southern Marin Fire District has a very prominent gun sight notch right out of the middle of it. It's a very interesting dynamic. The dimensions there separate the dimensions other fire districts and water from what? What exactly does a fire district need to be separated from itself for? I think you should look into the uniqueness of the jurisdictional boundary of the fire district because it doesn't equate to zip code, it doesn't equate to census block, federal census blocks, it doesn't equate to voter precinct. design. So what is it? Why are there so many such a variety of divisions. Why should we do that? A FIRE. crew. have jurisdiction here but not here. a few hundred yards away or a few hundred feet away. I think there needs to be some consistency in your presentation of your jurisdiction. But that's going to take some truth. Thank you. |
| 02:28:28.43 | Steve Moore | Thank you. |
| 02:28:30.47 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you. Is there any other public comment on this item? Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna close public comment and ask for any comments or feedback from the council. This is just an informational item. |
| 02:28:48.54 | Unknown | there's a great article in western states if you haven't read it already um on drone use with code enforcement and you know and that has the risk of going too far and that's a risk that's being you know discussed right now this i think is such a a valuable tool and i've seen demonstrations on it and i've seen just applications that recently where we would had would have been amazing like the active shooter at um potential active shooter at tam high in Mill Valley a hiker on a cliff in on the on the edge of the ocean who needs to get a lifeline that a drone could bring to him I mean think helicopter times a hundred in efficiency in times exponential Gain is unbelievable. So I'm excited to have this conversation because I do think it's very important that we get through these items but when the we have this technology and we can get on the backside of an active shooter or know where and something's happening in a fire or police situation is going to be so extremely beneficial to our community and I've again been following this for a while I'm very excited about the conversation we're going to have |
| 02:29:52.82 | Unknown | One comment also, I think this is just one technology that's going to give us privacy concerns. And we're going to be dealing with cameras and facial recognition, our license plate readers, home security cameras. And so, again, I'm a supporter of these technologies, but I think we need to get ahead of what kind of privacy protections do we put in place for our residents as these technologies become more prevalent? I think it's an agenda topic that's a global topic, but we should put focus on it here in our community. |
| 02:30:00.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:30:31.77 | Council Member Cox | I endorse that sentiment that we need to carefully consider privacy protections. I think we've done a good job of that with our license plate readers. So we've had a very successful track record of enforcement efforts around the license plate readers. But we only... utilize that information through a computer search when we're aware of a warrant or something of that nature. So it alerts us when someone with a license plate that has a warrant outstanding for certain types of crimes enters our jurisdiction and so there are in which we can tailor our privacy protections appropriately to the utility of the technology and I think it will be important to do that and I welcome the feedback from folks like Frank Shinnaman and Alice Merrill and others about how we can best do that but I'm confident that there is a way to balance those interests Thank you. |
| 02:31:28.87 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah. |
| 02:31:29.45 | Council Member Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:31:29.67 | Heidi Scoble | Sorry. |
| 02:31:29.97 | Council Member Cox | Go ahead. Thank you. |
| 02:31:30.81 | Vicki Nichols | I was just going to say I agree with all my fellow council members here. I appreciate Chief Tubbs your comments about transparency of policies and I think that's going to be the thing that is going to give our residents some comfort when they see that there's going to be some fairly stringent and strict policies for how the use of this and I think that will help alleviate some of the concerns. So I look forward to the further outreach. |
| 02:32:04.01 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, I would just pile on with everybody else and say, I think identifying early on the exact use that is beneficial from the use of this kind of technology, and then kind of assuring the public that any other use will be disregarded. So in my work in San Francisco, we've done a similar thing with cameras on buses to address parking and bus zones, double, you know, impermissible parking. similar thing with cameras on buses to address parking and bus zones double you know impermissible parking in bus zones so people's cars are caught on camera and they're fine for parking in a bus zone but there is no other legally permissible use of that video footage for any other purpose. So if there happens to be an accident or any other incident, then that's not admissible in court or can be used for any other way. So that's just one example of you know, kind of defining your objectives up front for what you want to do, with the video surveillance from the drones and then kind of tailoring your privacy policies on the other end. to eliminate use of the Um, the footage for other purposes. And I think that's kind of what everyone has been saying that kind of finding those. I would also encourage you, I mean, I think to really, consider and enhance the benefits to the public and to your own firefighters from this technology. It seems like it could clearly have life-saving benefits and just kind of highlighting the trade-offs there for folks so that they understand that it could be beneficial to them and their families in addition to our firefighters. I think that might be helpful. So I'm sure you'll be doing that. Thank you. So thank you for this initial kickoff of this. It sounds like we've got more discussions to come in different for us. So we will endeavor to keep the public updated through all of our channels with any information that you can provide us going forward. So thanks for being here tonight. Okay, that's the end of our business items. We're gonna move on to city manager report, city council appointments and other council business, which is items eight. We will take public comment on all of those items. At this point, I have only one speaker card from Kevin Kiffer. If there's anyone else who would like to speak on these items, please come forward. |
| 02:34:49.72 | Kevin Kiefer | Kevin Kiefer as I stated earlier I'm an anchor out so I'm not really a resident I'm considered all points non-residential unacceptable unreasonable but I nevertheless would like to attempt to agendize something. I've never been able to before, so I'm perfectly well aware that this is futile, but it is something that I need to do. This city administration Thank you. has vicarious liability attached to it for its responsibility as a public trust lands tidelands trusteeship And that's through statutory law. uh, A very high level of law and I don't believe that you can easily avoid your liability for your responsibility over the tidelands. But I believe that you are not being responsible. And I don't believe that you are acting as trustworthy over the public trust. And I believe that you should look into it, and I believe you should agendize that. Thank you. |
| 02:36:18.97 | Heidi Scoble | Great, thank you very much. Okay, we have item 8B is city manager information for the council. Does our city manager have information for us tonight? |
| 02:36:32.57 | Marcia Raines | Just two quick items. One is the city manager conference hosted by the League of California Cities was last week and both Yulia Carter and I attended. It was actually one of the better conferences that I've attended in the 12 conferences that I've attended from city managers. One of the things that was very noticeable at the conference was these discussions on technology and again drones, the use of technology based on the workload and how to use technology to support the level of service that we provide. So just a very good conference in general. The discussion, one of the discussions that I found very interesting was the cell phone technology that almost anyone of the age of 34 and younger will never have a landline there in homes that for the folks that have their own homes or apartments depend on a cell phone as their communication 74% of the United States with families with children in the next five years will be without landlines because the kids now all have cell phones it's just a new way of it's just a new era. And that when we talk about the phone company like AT&T, the younger generation doesn't understand that one bit. So it's just a very interesting discussion that we're transitioning. you know, another way that we're transitioning in technology. Um, The other big news is that the city is moving forward with the recruitment of several positions and as you learned that The last council meeting, we introduced our new city clerk. and she's now starting week three. We're very excited. Lily Whalen, our Community Development Director, came back last week from maternity leave, so she's now on week two. And just in her short-term back, We have interviewed and made offers to a senior planner. we're about to make an offer to an associate planner. And we just closed on the recruitment for the assistant. planner so we hope. By the end of the month those positions will be appoint it. and hopefully by early part of March. All those positions will be seated. and then our Community Development Department for. So this side of the building with engineering um, and community development will be back staff whole Our police department, as you will meet in the very near future they have appointed their new officers, so the police department is whole. is whole and we've started the recruitment in, uh, administration to fill the vacancies that that occurred this past December the last recruitment that has come to an end and also was successful was the appointment for our next park and recreation supervisor so that position has also been offered and we're just doing background and look for the park and rec supervisor position to move forward. And Linda, as you guys may recall, was responsible for our classes, working hand in hand with Julie and Mike downstairs. we're well under our way of filling all the vacancies managing through the transition that we've undergone. for this past year. So that concludes my report happy to answer any questions of the council |
| 02:40:41.65 | Heidi Scoble | Great. Thank you for that update. Are there any questions for the city manager? I'm sorry. Um, so item eight C is appointments to boards, commissions, and committees. And given that our new city clerk has just started, she made the suggestion that we kind of take a step back and reorganize all of the applicants, kind of make sure that we had everything, uh, running smoothly. So we are going to probably agenda is more interviews, um, in March. So we took a break. today on that but we will be prioritizing that um in the next month so we have nothing um on uh citizen appointments to boards commissions and committees i do have um a couple things um first on our business advisory committee um i am going to thank and excuse Ray withy for his service on the business advisory committee and appoint Joe burns in his place and that will mean that Joe and Tom Riley will both be liaisons to the business advisory committee and councilmember Riley is also liaison to the, or you, no, I'm sorry. and Council Member Burns is also liaison to the hospitality committee. So that will mean that there are only two council members dealing with both those committees so that we can avoid any Brown Act issues and the two of you can discuss those. I'm hoping that if the two of you think it's appropriate that you could take a look at kind of the overlap and the functions of those two committees, hospitality and business advisory, and perhaps use some of the expertise we have with Cosmont to see if there are sort of best practices in getting input from our business community as we move forward. And if you have recommendations for change, that's great. If you don't, that's also fine. but I think there's some potential overlap there, and I don't know if there's other comments on that issue. Okay. So have the city clerk update that list. And then I separately listed the desegregation advisory group out tonight because there's a lot going on with our school district. I would say we're sort of in a state of emergency at the moment. We also got correspondence today that we've lost another 10 children from the district. That puts the total at about 45, which is about 10% of the school district that has left. within the year, which is the only time in the last 12 years that the district has actually lost not gained. children so right now in terms of our liaison on the list we had council member Hoffman now council member Riley as the liaison to the school district we had had a temporary standing committee for a while with Councilmember Cox and Councilmember Hoffman. And then as mayor, Councilmember Burns had done a lot of work and has been invited to participate in the desegregation advisory committee. But I think others on the council have also received meeting invitations, and it's very kind of chaotic and confusing about kind of unification, desegregation, kind of everything that's going on. So I thought that I would appoint Council Member Riley and Burns as our two liaisons to the school district for the time being. And Council Member Burns, if you could continue your, at least a focus on the desegregation advisory committee, but in conversation with Council Member Riley on other issues, I think that would be helpful. and kind of moving, we can talk about this at future agenda items, but I do think it would be helpful to get kind of an update about the overlap on these various efforts that are going on and opportunity to weigh in uh there's just so much um concern and uh fear about the future with our residents and those of the entire 94965 district that i think it would be good to get an update on that |
| 02:45:41.85 | Unknown | Um, |
| 02:45:46.12 | Heidi Scoble | perhaps at our next meeting so does um i think those are all the committee appointments i wanted to make so now we have future agenda items I don't know. |
| 02:46:02.03 | Council Member Cox | a couple of notes on that so for future agenda items we talked about well I would like us to consider agendizing |
| 02:46:02.07 | Heidi Scoble | I've got a couple of notes on that. |
| 02:46:10.44 | Council Member Cox | a revision or at least looking at our dog bite ordinances to see how the city might be more proactive moving forward with that issue. We also. |
| 02:46:20.83 | Heidi Scoble | Can I add to that that it seems like we have a service agreement with the... Yeah, sorry, with the Humane Society and that it would be interesting to see what the terms of that agreement are. |
| 02:46:30.92 | Unknown | I MEAN, I |
| 02:46:38.25 | Heidi Scoble | and uh if there are other options for performing that. |
| 02:46:42.26 | Council Member Cox | I mean my recommendation would be to delegate this to the legislative committee to take a closer look and then bring it back to the council |
| 02:46:48.64 | Heidi Scoble | Great. I just wanted to look at both the ordinances and the actual agreement that we have. |
| 02:46:52.34 | Council Member Cox | Correct. And then the next is a possible consideration of adoption of the LEAP. |
| 02:46:59.46 | Heidi Scoble | Mm-hmm. |
| 02:47:00.07 | Council Member Cox | Great. And then something else that we discussed briefly this morning was advancing the Blue Ribbon Committee recommendations so I'd like to just put that on the agenda perhaps refer that to the legislative committee on my list so great and then items 15 and 16 on future agenda items say there's no date we're now aiming for February 25 2020 for those those are the housing ordinances and |
| 02:47:07.54 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:47:07.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:47:07.58 | Heidi Scoble | Mm-hmm. Thank you. |
| 02:47:12.30 | Heidi Scoble | It is. |
| 02:47:31.83 | Council Member Cox | I've forgotten what 15 was. housing ordinances and amendment to the purchasing regulations. We're aiming to bring that back to the Council on February 25. And then regarding future agenda item number one, explore the feasibility of a development agreement. I think there's been a decision that a development agreement is not the feasible approach. And so that will now be considering how best to proceed with possible cannabis regulation, because some of the Vendors who had offered non storefront now say the only viable approach is storefront So I think we just need to calendar and update to the cannabis To consideration of cannabis operations in general |
| 02:48:16.24 | Heidi Scoble | Okay. Yeah, I agree we should calendar it. I don't understand when that decision |
| 02:48:21.03 | Heidi Scoble | THE FAMILY. |
| 02:48:21.20 | Council Member Cox | We just heard a brief update this morning at the legislative committee that the city attorney has found that a development agreement is probably not the way to proceed. So. |
| 02:48:29.73 | Heidi Scoble | So. Do you want to weigh in on that? Yeah, if we could just share that information. |
| 02:48:34.69 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:48:34.70 | Council Member Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:48:34.74 | Unknown | about information. |
| 02:48:35.85 | Council Member Cox | Okay. |
| 02:48:37.42 | Unknown | So it's listed as a future agenda item. If you'd like a quick update, I'm happy to provide it, or we can talk about it at a future agenda item. |
| 02:48:38.32 | Heidi Scoble | It's not a discussion. |
| 02:48:39.44 | Council Member Cox | Yeah. |
| 02:48:45.82 | Unknown | The bottom line is that we've heard from various proponents or proposals on marijuana and cannabis that non storefront only use is not viable economically, so they want a storefront component. We talked about a development agreement as a |
| 02:48:46.04 | Unknown | bottom line |
| 02:49:03.97 | Unknown | non-storefront in the marineship. I think if the council wants to consider allowing storefront cannabis operations, you should proceed through that as a zoning ordinance amendment, not a development agreement. and determine the appropriate places for them. But we can have more discussion about that as appropriate. And also just another quick update, the ADU regulations have to go to the Planning Commission first, so we intended to bring you an update |
| 02:49:23.42 | Unknown | OKAY. |
| 02:49:29.56 | Unknown | as a consent item on the 25th. with a schedule of it going to the planning commission and then coming back to you for consideration and adoption. |
| 02:49:38.36 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, great. Thanks for that update. Um, you Those are all the items I had. |
| 02:49:43.87 | Council Member Cox | Those are all the items I had. |
| 02:49:47.81 | Heidi Scoble | Um, I wanted to... put on the agenda at some point a discussion. You know, there's a lot going on in the Community Development Department and I appreciate the. update on hiring there but i'd like to have an overview of our enforcement efforts on various issues obviously we have a short-term rental update coming up but also enforcement in the marinship has come up a couple of times and i'd just like to look at we had increased our enforcement capability about a year and a half ago and just kind of hear how what types of issues were pursuing in that vein and have an update Thank you. Anything else? |
| 02:50:40.51 | Unknown | Is Doug barking on here already? I don't know, I don't think. |
| 02:50:45.59 | Heidi Scoble | That was you, Joe, last week. |
| 02:50:47.42 | Unknown | Thank you. Just fill in a neighbor's request. |
| 02:50:49.84 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, all right. There are no other reports of significance, so we are adjourned. |
| 02:50:49.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:51:00.15 | Heidi Scoble | to 950. |
| 02:51:05.75 | SPEAKER_05 | Yes, I see. When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek. Heavens. I'm in heaven. And the cares that hung around me through the week seemed to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak. |
Steve Moore — Against: Expressed concerns about the Humane Society's handling of dangerous dog incidents, calling it the 'weak link' and urging the city to address the issue differently. ▶ 📄
Dennis Webb — Against: Described multiple dog bite incidents over four years involving the same owner's dogs, criticizing the lack of enforcement by animal control and police, and emphasizing public safety risks on Curry Lane. ▶ 📄
Kay Moore — Against: Shared a personal experience of being attacked by the same dogs four years ago, resulting in PTSD, and warned that the dogs could kill a child if not addressed. ▶ 📄
Steve Stevens — Against: Expressed fear due to dangerous dogs on Curry Lane and broader concerns about off-leash dogs in Sausalito, calling for stricter leash law enforcement. ▶ 📄
Betsy Stafford — Against: Described living in fear on Curry Lane, detailing precautions taken for walks due to the dangerous dogs, and pleaded for action to address the issue. ▶ 📄
Bob Stafford — Against: Criticized the Humane Society's interpretation of the Fourth Amendment as paralyzing enforcement, arguing that probable cause exists in the dog bite cases. ▶ 📄
Moira Konzerman — Against: Reported ongoing safety issues with the dogs on Curry Lane, noting lack of action by authorities and calling for responsible intervention to protect the community. ▶ 📄
John DeRay — Neutral: Announced the death of waterfront resident Roy Kano, sharing condolences and a message from his daughter, and noting a memorial service attended by over 100 people. ▶ 📄
Jeff Jacobs — Neutral: Offered condolences for Roy Kano, commented on dangerous weather patterns, and read a biblical passage about selecting community leaders. ▶ 📄
Carol Cotton — Against: Expressed concern about vicious pit bulls on Curry Lane as a grandmother, urging the council to address the Humane Society's policies to ensure public safety. ▶ 📄
Carlo Berg — Neutral: Presented data from Marin County's age-friendly report, highlighting a 200% increase in residents over 80 by 2040 and a critical shortage of senior and continuum of care housing in Sausalito. ▶ 📄