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| 00:00:03.07 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of the Sausalito City Council. It is February 25th and could we have the clerk call the roll please? |
| 00:00:13.72 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:00:13.78 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:00:13.85 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Cox? |
| 00:00:15.22 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:00:15.23 | Heidi Scoble | Here. Councilmember Riley? Here. Councilmember Burns? Here. Vice Mayor Withey? Here. Mayor Cleveland Knowles? |
| 00:00:15.27 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | HERE. |
| 00:00:16.82 | Unknown | Here. Here. Yeah. |
| 00:00:21.88 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | here. Our first order of business is to go into closed session. Is there... |
| 00:00:33.19 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:00:35.60 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Sorry, is there a closed session? |
| 00:00:37.78 | Mary Wagner | It's item number two on the front page of your agenda, Madam Mayor, the liability claim of Shaley Coons. |
| 00:00:42.66 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, sorry, thank you. Yes, we have item number 2D, a liability claim pursuant to the California government code, section 54956.95. Shaylee Kuntz against the city of Sausalito. Is there any public comment on the closed session item? Okay, seeing none, we will adjourn and close session and be back at seven o'clock, thank you. |
| 00:01:09.93 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Wake up to reality. |
| 00:01:12.36 | Unknown | For he's like a child Amen. |
| 00:01:18.97 | Gregory Taylor | There's a lot of people out there in the United States. |
| 00:01:21.03 | Robert Eakin | Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and go ahead. Thank you. |
| 00:01:49.30 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you. |
| 00:01:49.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:49.42 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you. |
| 00:02:21.97 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | We are back from closed session and are going to continue our city council meeting in open session. Janelle Kelman, will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? |
| 00:02:38.59 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | flag. Thank you. |
| 00:02:47.09 | Heidi Scoble | indivisible with the revenge. Justice for all. |
| 00:02:54.49 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | So the city council just met in closed session and we have no closed session announcements. Do I have an approval of the agenda? |
| 00:03:06.03 | Councilmember Cox | of the agenda? |
| 00:03:06.79 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:03:06.82 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:03:06.87 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:03:06.89 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:03:07.46 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:03:08.68 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, the agenda is approved. And our first item is special presentations and mayor's announcements. And I'd, is Julie here or Adam, are you gonna make this presentation? We have Maria Hernandez here. Okay, Maria, great, good to see you. Maria is here here the important announcement about the 2020 Super Bowl winner |
| 00:03:09.67 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:03:09.71 | Unknown | I'm not. |
| 00:03:09.77 | Councilmember Cox | Bye. |
| 00:03:09.82 | Unknown | Hi. |
| 00:03:10.26 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:03:26.97 | Heidi Scoble | We have Maria. |
| 00:03:41.87 | Maria Hernandez | Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Cleveland Knowles, and good evening, Council. My name is Maria Hernandez, and I will I'm here to announce the winner of the Super Bowl of 2020, but nobody's here from the seafood peddler. So I'd like to move it to the next next agenda, if that's possible. |
| 00:04:01.68 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Sure, I'd be happy to do that. |
| 00:04:03.91 | Maria Hernandez | THANK YOU. |
| 00:04:04.28 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | All right. Great. Thank you, Maria. Just a few other quick announcements. Not, no. But I do have two other mayor's announcements. First is we had quite a lot of public interest on an incident in town related to dog bite issues near Curry. And at our last meeting, we did not know the hearing date for that incident. And that has now been set for March 24th at 10 AM. We remain involved and our chief of police and city manager have been actively involved with this issue. So that hearing will be at the Marin Civic Center. And as soon as we know exactly where, we will make sure that interested members of the public. are informed about that. Also, I had a very nice request from a member of the public, David Sudo, to adjourn tonight's meeting in honor of C.D. Madsen. He was a 70-year active member of the Sausalito Lions Club, moved here when he was six years old in time to see the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. He died when he was 101 just recently. He was an avid golfer and also before he retired a contractor with Maggiore and Gelati and Maggiore. So we will adjourn tonight's meeting in his honor. All right, so we are gonna move on to communications. And this is a time for members of the public to address the city council on items that are not on our agenda tonight. And you will have three minutes to... address the city council. I have several cards. If you have not yet filled out a speaker card but wish to address the city council, please do. We have Gregory Taylor. Peter Romanowski. Robert Eakin are my first three names. |
| 00:06:24.95 | Gregory Taylor | I'm Gregory Taylor. Tonight I'll be talking about Sausalito's Anchorage, Richardson's Bay, the anchor outs, the 72 hour rule, And freedom. I only have three minutes, so I'll start. With a history of man. Several hundred years ago, Western civilization consisted of many vast feudal estates, innumerable peasant holdings of small farms, uncounted villages and towns, and a few cities small by today's standards. For the most part, men lived as their fathers and grandfathers before them had lived. folklore and superstition were generally considered the intellectual keys to understanding. and scientific knowledge as we think of it today was almost unheard of. Class distinctions were rigid in many parts of the civilized world, Village industry was controlled by the guilds and other authorities. Progress was not generally expected and often was not tolerated. Most men were slaves, seemingly held in perpetual bondage by custom, fear, ignorance, and superstition. Only the more fortunate, who had been granted dominion over the earth and the fruits thereof, seemingly by an inscrutable providence, could live much differently than did beasts of burden in that almost forgotten age." Nevertheless, within that civilization, an idea began to find increasing acceptance. In a word, This was the idea that individuals might be free. but its scope developed gradually, and even today, we are not sure that we grasp its full implications. To me, freedom means being able to anchor out on Richardson's Bay. I'm here tonight to ask you the Sausalito City Council So start the process, and I understand it's a process, but to take the steps necessary to get rid of the 72-hour rule prohibiting people from anchoring out in Richardson's Bay and the waters off Sausalito. I want you to communicate to the R.B.R.A. and the B.C. D.C. and tell them this plan isn't working. We don't like what it's doing to our community. resistance. and pressure from them as you will Tell them. This is our town, and don't you forget it. |
| 00:09:25.39 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you. Peter Romanowski. And if those of you who have put in speaker cards could line up, we've got Robert Eakin and C. Gibson are next after this. |
| 00:09:37.53 | Peter Romanowski | PETER ROMANOUSKI, A LONG TIME resident of the area. I got here in 1964 when I was 16, and I watched Sausalito change, change, change. I married a sea captain's daughter, Ernest Nyan-Celtenhofen, who's supervisor of this county, who owned all the key strategic points in this county from the courthouse to the Industrial Center building to the 3030 Bridgeway building and on and on and on. And even though I was a son-in-law, potentially of the most powerful and richest man and the richest county in the world, I gave it up for Jesus, and I was exiled in 1984 by my in-laws, and I've been living on a boat since 84. And I've had no help whatsoever to get back on land. I mean, we've just been left to die. All our, we are a floating concentration camp. They're firing at us, they used to actually shoot |
| 00:09:57.74 | Clara Player | to the next episode. |
| 00:10:32.47 | Peter Romanowski | at the anchor outs from Tiburon, the high power rifles. The former mayor of Sausalito burned down the center fire department out and burned down the dry docks and caused the. So we know the history of Saucyote, you know, just a bunch of crooks, abortionists, homosexuals, baby killers, You know, we know the score. And I'm the chairman or the chaplain of the anchor outs. You know, I'm the longest surviving chaplain of the anchor outs. I know none of you could have been elected unless you were pro-abortion and pro-gay. Pro-gay marriage, I know that. And if not, raise your hand. Raise your hand. If you didn't go pro-gay, pro-abortion, Democrat. I'm the last surviving Republican, I think, on the Anchorage too, but I'm not here to yell at anybody. I'm just here to say that I am the chaplain of the Anchorage and what's happening is destroying people's homes and boats is not right. God will punish you. You... God may burn down the city hall. Lightning may strike it. I don't know, we wouldn't burn it down, you know? But there are people that would. Don't push people too far. There are people who have nothing to lose anymore. You know what I mean? Nothing to lose. We have the largest homeless population in the nation. We have the lowest education in the world, 33 or something. We're spending all our money on police and prisons and jails and hospitals. And countless thousands of people are dying in the streets. poop and needles because the cities won't provide toilets. And I'm not yelling at anybody. I'm just speaking. I'm not saying any individual. and I could destroy any one of your lives politically, and you know that. I filed papers on the most powerful DA in the nation in California and brought her down eventually. And then it brought down the governor to cause a chain reaction. Now I'm not bragging, but I know what I'm doing. I've run for office 10 times or more on ballot. I know what's going on. I know the payola. I know the back scratching. I know what's going on. God bless you. Thank you. |
| 00:12:40.03 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you very much. Any questions? |
| 00:12:40.05 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you very much. |
| 00:12:42.05 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Not at this time. Robert Eakin. Thank you for your |
| 00:12:45.29 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you for your attention. And this is not directed at anybody here. Thank you very much. Not yet. Your time is up. But if it comes to a recall, it'll be the one that he incest the most. Mr. Romanowski, your time is up. |
| 00:12:47.96 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you very much. Not yet. Your time is up. Mr. Romanowski, your time is up. Thank you. Robert Eakin. Mr. Eakin? |
| 00:13:03.12 | Robert Eakin | Okay, is this on? Yes. Hey guys, I'm sorry, that's a hard follow up. |
| 00:13:04.72 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Yeah. |
| 00:13:05.00 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:13:08.97 | Robert Eakin | Amen. Yeah, I guess I'll start by saying my name is Robert Akin. And I've been in this town for about 12 years, and for the majority of those 12 years, I've lived in the Anchorage. I've never broken a law in this town. I've never gotten so much as a traffic ticket. No drunk in public, nothing like that. and my ship can pass inspection. If you came out to my boat right now, in just got me off guard. You'd see that everything is in order. I don't have any kind of illegal contraband there and everything will pass inspection. I've been in and out of this harbor for a long time. 12 years now. IT'S A LONG TIME FOR ME. Anyway I made 18,000 miles in the meantime. The first time I came here was 2008. Stayed here for about two and a half months, I was really appreciative of that time because I had to rebuild my transmission and I had to wait for parts. I ended up waiting seven weeks for those parts to come in. I knew how to fix it. I knew exactly what I needed. But I had to wait for that to happen. I had to sit here and wait for that to come in in the mail. so that I can put it into my transmission, I can get on my way. I got on my way. Thank you. I had a great time of it. Went down to San Luis Obispo, sat down in Morro Bay for a couple of weeks, had a great time. great time. Well, coming back up here about a year later, I ended up in this bay again, sat here for about four months. And I didn't need any repairs at that time. Just kind of sat and hung out. Made sure that I was able to pass inspection as required. game to shore a lot of times. I've never gotten so much as a littering ticket in this town. never parked a vehicle illegally, never so much as thrown a piece of gum wrapper on the sidewalk. And I support everything that you guys are doing. And I support everything that you guys are doing out here when it comes to the idea of achieving a medium. in this established society we got here. But look, guys. You've got a culture differential here. You've got a lot of really rich people sitting on here on shore. You've got a lot of tourists that come through this area. And I... I applaud that. You guys are doing really great for that. But you've also got this culture of the waterfront out there. And. Although I shamefully was preceded by a couple of people that really didn't speak in our best interest here, we all do actually matter. and You know, Coming from the perspective of somebody who has never broken a single one of your laws, who has always contributed everything that I have towards making this town a better place, I really don't think that it would be in our best interest to kick all of us out before we have some way of making something happen. Maybe a mooring field, I know my time's over. |
| 00:16:10.43 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Akin. I appreciate it. All right. C. Gibson, please. and after C. Gibson, Susan Gordon, and Janelle Kelman. |
| 00:16:32.28 | C. Gibson | Minutes. Thank you. |
| 00:16:39.67 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, we're gonna start your time, so. |
| 00:16:44.97 | C. Gibson | Oh, you already started. I would like to say that Sausalito is a wonderful town. It's my favorite place to live. I've lived here for 20 years. It's one of the world's great coastal towns, so I'm absolutely delighted to be here. My parents told me I was here in utero before I was born in Berkeley, so I'm slightly older than 20 years. And I just want to say that I think this place is great. I also appreciate and respect all of the council members and the work that they have done. It's a lot of hard work. I understand that I've been in city government before, Um, However, I as a constituent have had a challenge. The challenge I've had is with the appeal over at 416 Napa. And I brought to the attention an appeal because I needed to protect my privacy. and the privacy was sort of ripped out when a 70-foot tree was taken down. when the height of the building went up illegally, et cetera. And I brought those challenges, but I don't think that I was hurt. And I say that because the challenges I'm gonna put forward that I hope nobody else runs into is that I paid the $3,800. That's your fee. I'm not, I'm not, wrestling with that. I also had to pay an $1,850 fee to stop over at the design review as part of your procedures. So I paid $5,600 for 10 minutes, and I was told I would be heard about at 7 p.m. I was the only paying customer, and I was put to 11.40 p.m., a time which scientists say that your brain doesn't work, asking you questions that I wanted answers to, particularly to Joan Cox. I think that I'm gonna ask, does she have a bias with Michael Rex? I'd like to have that answer straight up because I asked if there were any conflicts. I would ask Joe Burns, did he have a bias with my neighbor Mark Rushford? Mark said they were good friends. It's important because there's a great deal of money that was mentioned that the owners that they received from from Team Rushford in an offer that was discounted by Rushford, but I would like to know, because if that was the case, maybe it was true that a lot of things ended up in my backyard. Furthermore, at the last meeting where I asked for refunds on my appeal. fees of $3,800, which is the same amount that you refunded Uh, when they put in an ADU. you refunded them $3,800, and yet the biggest ADU fee is $1,200. So I couldn't quite understand why that happened. Also, Joan Cox had said, that she had come to my place for consideration to my property to see how it was impacted, which would be great. which is what Susan Cleveland Knowles did and Ray Withy did. But you have to come to my property and you'd have to come on my deck and my property's fully gated. So I'm going to call malarkey on that unless you want to say you, and we're up on the side, whereby you couldn't see how it impacted. So I would like to have that reflected upon because I want that integrity there. And then finally, Joan Cox is stating that she's the mayor on the world's most widely used LinkedIn for the last two years and seven months. So somebody ought to update that. |
| 00:19:50.29 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. All right, thank you miss Gibson Susan Gordon Janelle Kelman and then Jeff Jacob. |
| 00:20:01.26 | Susan Gordon | Thank you. That's the only thing left of my house. And believe it or not, it was found and it was sent to the police department in November. He knew he had to come, I guess. Can you believe it? That's the only thing. It's been over a year now. It's been a while since I've been here, and I don't want you to forget about me. that we still have 408, even though it's gone. I'm concerned about what's happening to the hillside. And I'm not going to spend time asking you questions, because as we all know, we're in a lawsuit. and those questions will get answered. But what I'd like to know is what happened to the task force? um, It was, I read it on September 24th, I believe, |
| 00:20:53.78 | Clara Player | Thank you. |
| 00:20:55.92 | Susan Gordon | It was done by a group of individuals from our community who were intelligent and responsible and had really good answers and questions, and I don't know what happened to it. |
| 00:20:57.22 | Clara Player | of individuals. |
| 00:21:08.96 | Susan Gordon | I know there was something in December, and I missed that meeting, where maybe it got tabled. I don't know. I would really like to have an answer to that. Um, |
| 00:21:24.37 | Susan Gordon | We have three, four entities, three entities. We have the US Department of Interior, Letter to the City, we have the update on NPS and we have the state of California. What's happening to that hillside? I was there today and I don't see anything. I see what we've done. |
| 00:21:46.39 | Susan Gordon | and you did a beautiful clean up. actually the grass is starting to grow through the covering, I think it will be okay. But what's happening across the street? That's it. But thank you. Great, thank you very much. I have the next biggest task I have. |
| 00:22:03.59 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | I have. |
| 00:22:07.05 | Susan Gordon | is I have to make a list of everything that was lost. So I hope this guy can help me. |
| 00:22:15.50 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, I hope he can too. Thank you for coming down. Okay, Janelle Kelman. |
| 00:22:23.53 | Janelle Kelman | Good evening, Janelle Killman. Nice to see you, council members. Since Susan just came up, I think it is worth stating again that the Landslide Task Force did, of course, spend many months putting together a really fantastic series of recommendations including surveys, assessment districts, AND I THINK THAT'S A historic landslides as well as a hillside ordinance All this was provided to the council several months ago. THE FAMILY IS I'm just here to request that we see some action on that, Since we. can see what has happened in the past. And if you pull any number of permits, and zoning packets from actually City Hall. You will see there's a number of historic landslides throughout town, and we just don't have a handle on that. So I'd like to see that come back to the council. I'm also here to mention, as we all know, that the Cosmont Land Economic Study is being submitted for review and I believe will be presented at the Business Advisory Committee at 9 a.m. this Thursday. I'm here to request that you include the General Plan Working Group as well as the Planning Commission in the review of the land Economic study. given that there's a number of economic studies that can be performed and we pick land, IT SEEMS THAT Definitely the Planning Commission should see it. but also the general plan working group. Now I understand there's some budget concerns. We may be out of budget for an additional staff report. or more review. So to that end, I think the Planning Commission, if it could simply just have it on the agenda and you can make clear to staff, that would be okay to add it to the agenda so we can simply satisfy the Brown Act and be able to have a formal conversation. as a planning body, not just as members of the public. I'd very much appreciate it. |
| 00:24:08.41 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, great, thank you. |
| 00:24:12.70 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Jeff Jacobs. And then the last card I have is David Sudo. So if there's anybody else who would like to make public comment on items not on the agenda, please fill out a speaker card. |
| 00:24:25.89 | Jeff Jacobs | HOOD. Good evening, Madam Mayor and City Council, City workers, citizens of Sausalito. I'm not sure. Last Sunday, The Mariners in an attempt to obtain leverage. not being able to buy the services of expensive lawyers, Or... even be able to vote in a block to influence politicians yet. walked through the city of Sausalito. We had 10 people in Hebrew, that's called dominion. with signs and a drum trying to keep it peaceful, and full of love as much as we can. Call it a Sailors March. The most famous sailor around these parts A guy named Francis Drake. I... We go on his boulevard. We think or don't think that he landed on Drake's Bay or maybe in San Francisco Bay. Maybe in Oregon. He was the first circumnavigator From England? And he had to put down a mutiny. And the mutiny, started because the gentleman investors in his privateering enterprise, sent by Queen Elizabeth I, who had invested, wanted to go on an adventure themselves. And then he had the sailors. So he said this. As the mutiny was happening. For by the life of God, it doth even take my wits from me to think on it. Here is such controversy between sailors and gentlemen, and such stomaching between the gentlemen and the sailors. It doth make me mad to hear it, But my masters, I must have it left. for I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner and the Mariner with the gentleman. So the first part. of The demand is that mariners And gentlemen and ladies are treated equally. That's the point of Many of our laws, if we read them carefully, of the California and United States Constitution It's in our hearts. It's in all of our holy books. that we don't get called Socialists because we insist that there is some equality that is beyond private property. There is some place for mariners to land. there is some place on shore for them to congregate. So you can meet us on Sunday at 10.30 a.m. at Yatak Chi Park. Thank you. |
| 00:27:27.94 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great. Thank you, Jeff. David Sudo. And after that I have no further public speaking cards. |
| 00:27:40.73 | Vicki Nichols | First, I'd like to thank the mayor for acknowledging C.D. Madsen. He was really an integral part of our Lions Club. He was active volunteering for events up until about five years ago, so well into his mid-90s. I just wanted to come here and talk about a different subject. I noticed the city is noticing a project downtown, and I don't have a problem with rebuilding an over 100-year-old building. That might be functionally obsolete. What did concern me is the plans for seating and the amount of space taken up on that sidewalk. Currently, it seems like our policy is to allow for the minimum three-foot ADA requirement downtown. That's what's kind of been done in a couple different projects down there. This is the busiest part of our town. The sidewalk's the busiest part of town. I would note that San Francisco requires a four-foot through way, and I think possibly the city needs to develop a policy about what kind of widths we require around cafe seating downtown. Probably the PBAC would be happy to take that up at the council's direction, but it would be great if the council could give PBAC some direction on that to look at it. Thank you. |
| 00:29:07.54 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great. Thank you. Is there any other general public comments? Okay, seeing none, I did just want to note, since there were a couple comments, that we did have a hearing both at the Finance Committee and here on the landslide task force recommendations, which were very thorough and excellent. One of the issues was it was not in the current budget for our Department of Public Works. We did at the Finance Committee, if my memory is correct, ask for that to be prioritized in the upcoming strategic plan and budget for this year, at least the first series of recommendations, which are based on a survey using LIDAR, among other things. So we are taking those recommendations seriously and moving them forward. Okay, with that we'll move on to the action minutes of the previous meeting, February 11th. Are there any comments or do I have a motion? So moved. |
| 00:30:11.39 | Unknown | There was, after her, after Joan's comments. |
| 00:30:12.52 | Councilmember Cox | I'm not sure. |
| 00:30:12.61 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | I'm sorry. |
| 00:30:12.66 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:30:12.76 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:30:12.78 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. Sorry, there's one type on the very last page line 14. It should be short term rentals instead of sort term rentals. |
| 00:30:23.15 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, thank you. With that amendment, |
| 00:30:26.82 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 00:30:26.88 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | about? |
| 00:30:27.10 | Unknown | So moved. |
| 00:30:28.20 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries 5-0. |
| 00:30:29.94 | Unknown | I'm fine. |
| 00:30:34.92 | Unknown | I appreciate the clerk spelling my last name correctly. |
| 00:30:40.08 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay. We will move on to Council member committee reports. who would like to start. |
| 00:30:52.08 | Unknown | I will. I have a few this time. All right. So I have five. Wow, it was a busy week. Spring break or winter break. First one was the Community Safety Disaster Prep Preparedness Committee that meets Wednesday, first Wednesday of the month, I believe, five o'clock down at the fire department. As you know, that committee has talked about a lot of different things things recently but what has been consistent for the last year was the preparation of an emergency guide and we have talked that guide in a print piece that would go to all residents we've thought that through and that might be overdone so it turned out that we brought that down in scale to about a thousand copies of a printed emergency guide that has gone to print so we will have something and that's going to be used largely as collateral at events at opportunities to engage with people about safety preparedness what happens with earthquakes landslides and all those types of things and as well as to direct community community members to our website that has that in more of a live document so that was good news coming out of that committee I also attended the Marin telecommunications agency or MTA and MTA is the agency that receives the franchise fees from both Comcast and AT&T for cable use. And this has been a large JPA within our county for many years. One person from each community sits on that. We take those franchise fees. |
| 00:30:53.08 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | I have a few |
| 00:30:53.51 | Unknown | to see. |
| 00:30:53.78 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. All right. |
| 00:30:54.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:32:26.65 | Unknown | portion goes to what's called peg, which goes to our CMCM. community Marin the community Center of Marin and that who's doing her and that's another good plug but over the years we've had some challenges with what that committee does or what that agency does and we have a change occurring where that committee that agency agency is basically going to fold into MGSA, the government services of Marin. And the only kind of outlying part is how we deal with policy. But at our next meeting, in fact, we have a policy committee tomorrow. And then our next meeting, we will formalize that and bring it back. And each one of us will repeal our ordinance on how we how we contribute to the MTA we'll still get our franchise fees but we'll have just a little different process in public policy The library report attended library trustees. That's a great committee that, you know, our communications director and librarian, Abbott Chambers runs. He introduced a new employee and we talked a lot about the different programs that are going on with the library which is continues to just grow in programming and there's another great event coming up shortly. I can't think. Van Dam with Michael Rex and the next one Vicki so library I invite everybody to take a look at that report that that Abba puts out because it's really in depth desegregation with the schools we've had two meetings since our last and that committee again goes to the process of based on the judgment from the Attorney General, the process of desegregating the district school. In that process, the first duty was to suggest that the only way through desegregation was unification. So it's kind of a dual meeting, it's discussing unification as the sole process to desegregation. A few of us have invited the committee to look at maybe an alternative or plan B or anything else in case unification does not work. But either way, the committee is looking at desegregation through unification, and that process has been going Well, in the process of getting a ton of information, there's been work groups who have provided everything from curriculums to budget, finance, facilities, and community involvement in philanthropic opportunities. So the final kind of meeting of that group should be in March and we'll prepare a document that goes to both boards for consideration in a unification process. Finally, the community development block grant process for Marin has started, and that is where the county receives federal funds to go towards housing and development of opportunities for fair housing and under-advantaged people. A ton of applications come in for those, and we sift through. The first meeting was a workshop to go through all of those applications and I'd say you know 3 million 4 million dollars in in requests I think that roughly turns out to be about 1.3 when we get the federal funds and we'll have two more meetings both Novato and San Rafael will do theirs next month and by May we will propose to the county how to use that money there's a a few products coming out of, programs coming out of Marin City, one being the Marin Horizon School, another one with the Community Development Services. And then one out of Sausalito, which is Galilee Harbor, asking for some money for their docks lighting, which we will support, my role will support as much as we can for Southern Marin. So those are the five that I have attended. |
| 00:36:27.08 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you. Anyone else? |
| 00:36:31.67 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:36:31.69 | Unknown | Certainly, Councilwoman Burns, thank you for working so hard. I took advantage of ski week, so a shorter update. I do want to thank our community development director, Lily Whelan, for her patience and education of me. I spend time with her understanding our host compliance software and system for monitoring short term rentals. I learned quite a bit. I encourage others, if you want to visit the website, understand the tool that's being used to monitor the activity. I think it would be very informative for our upcoming conversation. Thank you to Lily. And then the OMIC committee team members, Council Member Withey, myself, and our city manager, Paul Itzer. Um, had a good meeting understanding what's the latest activity with the machine shop building on intentions of the veterans. Nothing to report here, but hopefully we can try to make something happen with that property. |
| 00:37:29.52 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, and just because the two of you are on BAC and hospitality, and I think Planning Commissioner Kalman, Chair Kalman, noted that we have on Thursday at 9 o'clock here in City Hall a hearing on the Cosmont Land Economic Study. |
| 00:37:53.35 | Unknown | which I will be eagerly watching from home because I believe it's being streamed and so. Worldwide. Worldwide, yeah. So I have nothing to add to Council Member Riley's discussion about our trying to understand where the machine shop is. I actually had a very, very light two weeks. The MCE board meeting was canceled for February because they didn't have enough agenda items, so that was interesting. And tomorrow I will be attending the Bay Wave Executive Steering Committee, of which I'm a member, and partly the theme is a discussion Thank you. Bay Wave Executive Steering Committee, of which I'm a member. And partly the theme is a discussion abstractly, generically, rather than specifically, of how cities and the county can work together and jointly apply for grant funding through this sort of brand, if you like. So, and then I know they were invited to somehow join us in our general plan efforts. And so I will make that point tomorrow. |
| 00:39:19.54 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you, and we have followed up and we'll be discussing sea level rise as part of the sustainability element of the general plan. Council Member Cox. |
| 00:39:32.69 | Councilmember Cox | Sure. We had a MCC-MC legislative committee meeting on Monday at which two bills that are under watch were discussed. One is SB 278 as amended by Beale regarding the Metropolitan Transportation Committee, which would authorize each county and cities to develop or update transportation plans for the county and cities every two years. The other is AB 2057 proposed by Senator Chu, which establishes the public sector institutional capacity and accountability required to create an integrated, equitable, high ridership public transit system in the Bay Area. Both of those bills are under watch. As we learn more, I'll update you. Councilmember Riley and I this morning attended the RBRA working group meeting with the Audubon Society this morning in preparation for our preparation of a staff report and materials to present to BCDC the Bay Conservation Development Commission uh, at the end of March, we'll be presenting our draft report to the city council at our next meeting, and we'll update you in more detail on various open items then. But I'm proud that our police force continues to make significant progress with providing health and human services to those anchor outs that seek them, identifying land-based housing where appropriate and identifying candidates for our Safe Harbor Program. Our goal is to have five boats in our Safe Harbor Program by the end of March. |
| 00:41:25.77 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great. Good news. I had just two things to report on. First of all, on Wednesday the 12th, I went to the Bay Model Master Planning event. There were two events held, one in the afternoon at 2 o'clock and one in the evening at 7 o'clock. So that was the one that I attended was very well attended, a good show of community members and business business folks there so that was great i think staff um is well aware of the master plan and um the time to comment on that but um i thought it was great that um chris gallagher has taken the initiative on putting together the first bay model Master Plan. So interested members of the community can find that online under the Bay Model website. And then we had a week ago Thursday a sustainability commission. A large part of that meeting was devoted to microgrids with a presentation, and that will be an ongoing priority for the sustainability commission this year. And then another item, along with regular committee items, that was discussed at some length was Sausalito's response to a request to support an Amazon or an Amazon initiative to encourage Amazon to either take back its containers and packaging or to take other measures to be more sustainable. so that led to a wide-ranging and interesting discussion, and the Sustainability Commission may be asking us to either allow them to write a letter or to write a letter ourselves. So I think that's all. Thanks, everybody, for all your work on the outside committees. So we are gonna move on to our consent calendar, and I have a number of speaker cards on this, but before we do, I just wanted to comment on item 5B, which is, memorializing council direction regarding the marineship specific plan and um i think we had agreed to put this item on but as i reviewed it um and looked at our direction from 2018 that was articulated by mayor then mayor cox i think who summarized an excellent kind of path forward. It really seems like this issue at this point has developed and we have draft policies already in our draft elements and we also have some items that may need priority in our strategic plan in terms of possible zoning map amendments. So I would suggest if the city council is amenable after we've had public comment that we refer this item to our general plan subcommittee and also to our strategic planning discussion in terms of staff work on zoning aspects of the Marin ship specific plan. So that would be my recommendation for five B. But, so are there any council member comments before I open it up to public comment on any of the consent calendar items? |
| 00:45:01.72 | Councilmember Cox | I would just like to clarify that the 5D, the ADU, and junior ADU policies will go to the planning commission and then return to us. This is merely a staff report, but I commend the city attorney. and our outside law firm who've done a great job of summarizing the requirements and how best to accommodate those with the specific needs of Sausalito. |
| 00:45:25.02 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great. Thank you. Yes, it was a great staff report as were the others. Anybody else? OK, I'm going to open it up to public comment. I have Nora Sawyer, Sandra Bushmaker, Alice Merrill, and David Sudo. |
| 00:45:51.21 | Nora Sawyer | Hi there. I'm Nora Sawyer, and thank you for giving me the time to speak and for all your hard work on behalf of Sausalito and its future. I'd like to briefly speak in favor of including art and artist spaces in the resolution regarding the marineship and the marineship specific plan. I noticed the absence of them in the resolution and I don't believe that it, reflects any malicious intent or disdain for the arts. And I was pleased to see that artists were included in the vision statement. as part of the thriving community that was mentioned there. However, by not including art and artists in the resolution alongside light industrial, maritime, and the working waterfront, I worry that the city may unintentionally signal that the arts are not a vital part of the marineship, and that as a result, programs and policies that protect spaces for art and artists may not be counted among the relevant parts of the marineship-specific plan to be carried forward. I think that's a good thing. Artists play a vital role in our ecosystem. It's true of any city. And while the creation of art for art's sake might not directly bring in tourist dollars, it's part of what makes a city interesting and feeds our soul. It can be tempting to think of art for art's sake especially, as a luxury, something that, while nice, serves no real purpose. Thank you. But though its purpose is subtle, I believe it's essential. Actually, I don't just believe it's essential, it is essential. Sorry, didn't mean to insert that there. A city without space where art and artists can thrive is an unhealthy city. It becomes stale. It loses the creative energy that working artists bring to every aspect of civic life and risks losing the ineffable qualities that make a place interesting, alive, and unique. Therefore, I think it's vital that we ensure that the preservation and creation of spaces dedicated to artists and their art remain a part of the Marinship Plan. Thank you very much. |
| 00:47:45.37 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you. Sandra Bushmaker. |
| 00:47:48.41 | Sandra Bushmaker | Thank you. Sandra Bushmaker, resident. Good evening, everybody, public, staff, mayor. Council. I am speaking to a request that item five be removed from the consent calendar. I sent a general request to all of you and I've had communications with several of you individually. And I want to thank Nora for bringing that to our attention, As I understand the consent calendar, and my experience tells me this is for non-controversial items, The marineship specific plan is a highly controversial item. The public needs to have an opportunity to have fair and full hearing on this matter. The general plan, General Plan Advisory Committee has not had a chance to review that. The Planning Commission has not had a chance to review the MarinShip specific plan And I am concerned that this highly controversial issue is being Buried. to a point where the public, unless they study, Thank you. your agendas and look at the attachments will have an unclear position on what is happening in Sausalito with regard to the plan. So my request is why was this put on the consent calendar? as a controversial item. Uh, What does the resolution mean? The resolution, in my opinion, is vague, ambiguous, is not specific to the issues concerning the marineship, and it seems to be an unenforceable resolution. because of its vagarities. And I think that that is something that we need to address and give the public an opportunity to have an to speak to this issue. This is a big deal issue for the city of Sausalito. I do have further comments that I will make at the appropriate time on the specific item 5B, And I just want to thank the public who recognizes that this is an important issue, and I urge the council to make this a viable public discussion on the elements of the MarinShip Specific Plan. What concerns me about your resolution is it has glaring omissions. And glaring restrictions have been ignored that exist in this marine ship specific plan. We already have problems with the vendors in downtown Sausalito. Why would we want to encourage more tourists and Chotsky shops in the marine ship? It makes no sense. So I think that my point is, in my 20 seconds left, that I want to make sure the citizens of Sausalito are fully aware of what is happening with the Marineship Specific Plan and the efforts in that area. Thank you. |
| 00:50:43.13 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you. Alice Merrill? And then David Sudo. |
| 00:50:50.22 | Alice Merrill | Hello. |
| 00:50:51.89 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Hello. Thank you. |
| 00:50:52.62 | Alice Merrill | Sorry to be here again. Just today, evidently the Marin Housing Authority had a big meeting, or the county commissioners did, about the Marin Housing Authority for development over in Marin City for all of the housing, all the HUD housing over there. Every person that stood up at that meeting said, please don't use this company to do this. It's a private development company. And they voted unanimously to use that company. So, Non-profit companies are very good for doing that kind of work. They picked the profit company. I think that that's what's happening here. for the Marin ship. I really do. I really think that it's getting railroaded. It's getting, It feels very corporate. It feels very, it's like not a small town anymore. It's not. it's not the old, the history, let's keep our history. Why not? That's, why not keep our history? It's a wonderful thing. And the whole town has changed a huge amount over the years. But this one little area, has changed a lot, but not as much. And let's just not do that. THE FAMILY IS I have a letter that you got in your late mail from the Saasley to Working Waterfront Coalition. They said the same thing. Please listen. to the people who are residents, workers down there, people who really care about this. It's so discouraging. Okay. So we have to keep the special designation of the marine ship, not just ignore it. I'm not sure. THE END OF THE END OF THE One of the research things that you did for Cosmod, how much time do I have, was Port Townsend. My experience at Port Townsend is they love their waterfront. They love their workers down there. They have sailmakers and boat builders and the whole works. And if something goes wrong, they are there. How can we get our people there? I would like to say to the people who are watching tonight please. Well, Speak up. If you care about the Marine ship, people who are watching tonight, if you care about the Marine ship, don't just sit there and watch. Say something. Really, oh, So my very last thing, when I was growing up with my father who had boats in his blood, he thought that taking people out on the water was a way to help people understand a different perspective of the world of life of their town. And he took people out all the time. I wish you were still here to take each and every one of you out on Simba so you could go get, just get the feel of it. And that's not the Marin ship, but that's part of it. Thank you. |
| 00:53:51.86 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you, Alice. David Sudo? |
| 00:53:57.40 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | And then Vicki Nichols and Jonathan Rodriguez. |
| 00:53:57.67 | Vicki Nichols | Vicki Nichols. So I'm up here to talk about, I guess it's 5G, our roads report. That has a lot in there to be concerned about. First, we're only spending half what we need to maintain the current quality of our roads. And the other big glaring thing that I saw in there was the fact that in the next four years, We don't have the bridgeway waterfront between Princess and Richardson in that plan. Looking at the plan, it looks like two years ago, they said it would cost about $1.1 million to do that stretch. I'm sure that's probably an undercount because it's not including all the utilities work that we probably should do at the same time. I'm hoping that that's not in the plan because we have we're gonna have a bigger project that includes redoing utilities including the sewers and the water system at all at the same time. It's been about 50 years since that whole system was put in. The current PCI on that in the report from two years ago was 36. At 30, it's basically a failed road. So something needs to happen. I've noticed when I'm biking on that road now, I'm spending just as much time dodging potholes as I am tourists and cars, and it's really getting to be a hazardous thing. I hope that we're not looking beyond the four year horizon to do something about that road. It really needs attention before then. Thank you. Can I just ask, |
| 00:55:40.66 | Unknown | Can I just... to go to the next episode. |
| 00:55:41.86 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 00:55:41.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:55:41.97 | Vicki Nichols | to be able to get the |
| 00:55:42.02 | Unknown | to do. |
| 00:55:42.11 | Vicki Nichols | Bridgeway between Princess and Richardson Street. |
| 00:55:42.87 | Unknown | Bridgeway. |
| 00:55:46.63 | Unknown | Richardson Street. |
| 00:55:47.24 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 00:55:50.61 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you very much, Vicki Nichols, and then Jonathan Rodriguez. |
| 00:55:54.53 | Unknown | Good evening Mayor Cleveland Knowles and council members. I'd like to just read what I had written, but I want you to be sure that I am speaking as an individual, not in my capacity as chair of the planning commission. with the thoughts and experience of living here 38 years and being involved in the last general plan update. So here I'm going to. I mean this with respect, but I feel very strongly about this. Your formal action tonight to eliminate the marinship specific plan is ill-advised and premature. It seems as if the primary focus of this general plan update process has been on the Marin ship without looking at our whole city holistically. Eliminating the maritime preferences as dictated in the Marinship Specific Plan has been the goal of some for many years. It appears by your scheduled action tonight that they have won with nothing in place to safeguard what a majority of community members and business owners handily identified as their preferences for this area as listed in the marinship plan. And I'm talking about the results from the workshop that was held, attended by 140 people. If you look at the Excel sheet that was produced, you can go down to 20 areas that got the top votes, and they were all related to the uses that are there now. So I just encourage you to... Listen to what the community has said. The marinship specific plan should not be formally removed until there are protections in place. Enforcement of the existing zoning is negligible. You have heard yourselves from at least one business whose use is permitted under the current plan, not being able to find space when at the same time the property owners are renting to non-permitted businesses with no consequences. If you remove the marineship specific plan with nothing in place to guarantee priority, of the existing uses, you will be condoning the erosion of Sausalito's character in history. In light of the national philosophy, if anything goes, rules and laws be damned, you will be empowering property owners there to further do as they please and continue to flaunt it. Pressure to upzone and further develop in the marineship has gone on for years. Now it is being cleverly stitched to sea level rise as an urgent manner. We need to look back at our history. This has been on people's radars for years. Am I against change? Absolutely not. Nor do I think everything in the marineship area is historic. But we can plan for this area to maintain a vital working waterfront fostering innovation, and honoring our history while carefully considering what new uses might work in harmony there. I'm not against change. Um, But I, okay, that's enough. Thank you. |
| 00:58:57.59 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you very much. Jonathan Rodriguez and then John DeRay. And if there's any other speakers, please come forward. |
| 00:59:10.92 | Jonathan Rodriguez | Hello, my name is Jonathan Rodriguez. Hi. I'm a resident here in Sausalito, just north. I actually live on a small sailboat with my partner, and I work on fixing traditional ships in San Francisco. So I feel really kind of attached to the waterfront community and the Marin ship in particular. I actually attended a GPAC meeting about six months or so, I'm not exactly sure when, it was kind of an accident as I am standing here as a bit of an accident again. I thanked the GPAC and the work they had been doing and was a proponent of the idea of going and doing the studies and the testing. It didn't seem like there was any harm or foul in learning more about the uses of the Marin ship. I was warned against how studies are used, that it kind of gives power to people in doing change. The mayor mentioned moving ahead with the previous mayor's ideas and notions based on the statements and his previous statements about the marineship and the marine general plan. I'd be mixing up my acronyms there. A lot of good things are said in his statement that is listed in the paperwork, and a lot of good things were said in the GPAC about how we're gonna protect our community and our waterfront and do light industry, keep it a working waterfront. There's been things about the arts, but again, in action, in this, sorry, this movement, promotion, we are missing the actual protections that are in the previous agreement. And if we don't actually have those in place as we move forward, they're easily swept under the rug. And that's where you're going to find a lot of pushback from us is you hear the arts and you hear light industry. Ray, I believe it was you during that meeting mentioned that industry is moving in a direction that maybe offices are the way of the future. We're not going to fit a factory in Sausalito of a large scale. That may be true, but that's still, again, a slippery slope of not really getting exactly the right type of maybe industry. there are ways to look forward that I think keeping the original restrictions maybe not necessarily exactly but Throwing out the plan, as the previous mayor kind of alluded to, is not exactly the way I would go about wording this future plan for the marineship. And that's it. That's a little bit wishy-washy, but thank you very much. |
| 01:01:56.46 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great. Thank you. John DeRay? |
| 01:02:04.55 | John DeRay | Hello, John DeRay, temporarily furloughed member of GBAC. Thank you for letting me speak today. I wasn't going to speak today, but something Nora Sawyer said made me think about the restrictions that are missing in this resolution. The restrictions are very important. City Council, I believe it was at the joint PC City Council meeting, articulated those restrictions should be in at the joint PC city council meeting articulated those restrictions should be in at the subcommittee meeting a few weeks ago. It was articulated that those restrictions should be in and also at GPAC that those restrictions should be in. And I wanted to focus on one because of what Nora said about the artists. It reads, applied arts is not to exceed 50% of all arts use on a parcel and only with a CUP. So what does that mean? If a building is filled with applied arts architects, for example, only 50% of that building can be architects. The rest has to be artists, fine artists. So we know that doesn't happen now, so there's a violation already. And I think we have to keep an eye on that kind of language and how that can be how that can be NRWN, NRWN around that language. For example, if we start allowing new uses, attorneys, doctors, hedge funds. where architects are only 10%, well then, artists only have to be 10%. So, It's very important to. Look at the language. of these restrictions and it's important to fold that language in as everybody has expected that to happen including at the workshop. |
| 01:03:54.28 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you. Is there any other public comment on the consent calendar? Okay, is there any other... So as I said before we heard public comment, my current proposal is that the 5B is referred, we do not make any action on that tonight, but is referred to the general plan subcommittee as to those policies that are within the Marinship-specific plan that should be dealt with at a general plan level and as for the more specific items related to zoning that those could also be considered as a whether we can prioritize that year in our budget during our strategic plan and budgeting decisions and that that is probably at this point in time, from my perspective, the most appropriate place to have those discussions. And then if further city council direction is warranted, we would bring it back here for future action. Yes. So is there? Yes. So can I just ask a matter of procedure? Should we approve the entire consent calendar? Yes. Now, or can we discuss the future of 5B at this point in time? It's at your discretion, however the council wants to handle it. |
| 01:05:19.11 | Mary Wagner | At your discretion, however the council wants to handle it. |
| 01:05:21.36 | Councilmember Cox | And I had a question on another item on the consent calendar before we approved. |
| 01:05:21.38 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:05:25.49 | Councilmember Cox | Great. |
| 01:05:27.70 | Unknown | So I wanted to support the mayor in clarifying what our process is going to be for the replacement of the Marin ship specific plan. I thought we made it very, very clear that this council directed staff to for planning purposes to Take the route that the M group were asking us to take we've got to make a decision Are we going down the path of eliminating the marineship specific plan? Right or are we going to have a new marineship specific plan and this council made the decision to direct staff For this moment in time down that first path, which is we would try and roll up the policies that rightly belong in the general plan up from the marineship specific plan, and then we would program in at some what will become a major project, which is the redoing of the zoning ordinance, including any changes of zoning in the Marin Show. Okay. Thank you. The Marinship Specific Plan was put in in 1988. The zoning ordinance was then amended in 1995, 2005, I can't remember which, okay, yeah. And I've been told by those who worked on it that it took five years to amend the zoning ordinance. I don't know if that's historically correct. I haven't been able to find anybody who was around specifically when that zoning ordinance was put in place. Okay. It is totally naive to think that it's going to be able, we're going to be able to put a major change in the zoning ordinance in place without at least a, let's be the most optimistic, it's going to take a year. So that means, and I think that even that would be, there's no way it's going to take longer, okay? And so... in the sense, Next week in our strategic planning session, we're going to be talking about the various programs that we want to program in over a six year period. I would imagine that staff are considering that the zoning ordinance amendment might be a high priority item because we can't retire the marineship specific plan until we've done the zoning ordinance change. and nobody up on this council has any concept of trying to shortchange that system. I think I speak for everybody here. Okay? And quite frankly, I am a little, I'm really upset |
| 01:08:10.63 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:08:20.64 | Unknown | that folks accuse us of not listening, When, when, when. If you actually go to the vision statement of the Marineship that we put in place, It agrees with nearly all the public comments that we've received. I would suggest perhaps it's certain other people who aren't listening. This council does not deserve that. |
| 01:08:49.12 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:08:49.90 | Unknown | Am I coming? Yes, thank you, Vice Mayor. I support your decision to remove this from the consent calendar and move it to the working group. Yes, so I support your decision, Mayor. However, I think it's important, I do believe. That first off, I'm gonna thank Mr. DeRay for spending a couple hours with me, touring me through the Marin ship. It's very eye opening and I encourage everyone to do that. I do believe in the protections of the MSP. I do believe we want to protect our maritime, our artists, our light industrial. However, I believe the right thing is put those protections into our general plan and have one modern document. Not one modern document and one 30-year-old document. Because most of the things that I'm interested in the general plan affect the marinship. We need to address contamination, We need to address storm drains. We need to address sea level rise, subsidence, new communication infrastructure. We need to improve the circulation. I really would love to see a pathway through the marinship so that the whole community can enjoy that history and that part of our city. We have talked about, and I support, Introducing live work zones for our artists and our light industrial workers. We have affordable homing where people can live where they work. We don't have that in the marineship specific plan. I support local serving businesses for that community. So if they live in the neighborhood, they have access to local services. I like the idea. of a Galilee-like harbor. where we can have more people living on boats in that community and it's not in there. All this stuff goes into the general plan, and I'd like to see the protections of the MSP come forward. I think there's a concern that we are right now saying get rid of the MSP. I do not believe that. I would say get rid of the MSP if and when our general plan has the protections in place and addresses all these new things we need to do in the Marineship. And that's what I hope we achieve. |
| 01:11:03.26 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you. And yes, I think that as articulated by a question from Councilmember Cox at our joint session of the Planning Commission and the City Council from the M group, that that is the plan. That we are not, there's no intention of retiring the Marinship specific plan without an adequate plan in place. So thank you for clarifying that. |
| 01:11:28.04 | Unknown | Well, I'll just, you know, to go along with the vice mayor, we'll say that now, but at the next time we have this conversation, all sorts of things will be thrown out that we didn't say that, that we are planning some development scheme with profit for profit developers or I, at frankly at this point, I'm at loss of what will be said next about something that we have been more consistently discussed and more consistently on the same page than any other item we've talked about in the last three and a half years that I've been on this dais. And we can say something so black and white. And then next meeting it will be changed again of what was. So I'm at a loss. I appreciate the process you're going to take, Mayor, and I agree with it. And we'll do it again. |
| 01:12:00.71 | Clara Player | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:12:00.79 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | So, |
| 01:12:08.59 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, so for that item, THE FAMILY IS NOT ABLE TO Oh, I'm sorry, Joan. Yeah, of course. |
| 01:12:15.94 | Councilmember Cox | I do believe it was the intention, it was certainly my intention when I articulated direction to staff that the MSP, the Marinship Specific Plan, not be retired until of the relevant policies, programs, and protections had been rolled up into the revised general plan. That intention was memorialized in the draft resolution. It's at the end. However, I do appreciate the fact that new ideas have arisen. Since then, the M Group has some ideas about how best to accomplish this task, and for that reason, I support... removing this item from consent, moving it down to the expertise of the general plan advisory committee working group uh where who can best who has been immersed in these issues for years and can best address the community's concerns in and if appropriate bring a revised resolution back to the city council. I will note that The whole reason of bringing this resolution to the City Council is that people were concerned that my direction that I enunciated two years ago was inadequate. This was an attempt to memorialize that direction in a resolution. So I believe that. The intention was... appropriate but I agree with the mayor's suggestion about how best to carry out that intention |
| 01:13:53.08 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, so can we, without objection, refer item 5B to the general plan subcommittee and as appropriate, the, our strategic planning process. So moved. |
| 01:14:04.28 | Unknown | Second. |
| 01:14:04.72 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Second. All in favor? Aye. That motion carries five zero. Do I have a motion on the rest? Before we move forward with a motion, may I? |
| 01:14:11.71 | Councilmember Cox | Before we move forward with a motion, may I ask a couple of questions of staff. I appreciated the comments of David Suto, and I would just like to ask of staff, AND I THINK I'M GOING TO He mentioned that the Bridgeway waterfront between Princess and Richardson is not in our current. street repair plan. I personally ride my scooter down, my motorized scooter down Bridgeway, and I have to constantly avoid potholes and also this huge steel... I don't know, steel piece that's- Plate. Yeah, plate, right in the middle of the road. So I appreciate that concern. So may I ask what the city's intention is with respect to that stretch of bridgeway? |
| 01:14:49.40 | Clara Player | That's, |
| 01:15:00.56 | Kevin McGowan | So that's an interesting question. I'm Kevin McGowan with the Department of Public Works. The intent of this staff report was to kind of take a higher level look at how our streets are. We have 32 miles of streets. And to kind of take a higher look at where we are in relationship to other cities throughout the county as well as take a look at where we are kind of financially to see what we need to dedicate to the road To get into the specifics, I think that we should probably take into account your comments and David Souto's comments when it comes down to actually selecting the roads themselves to be resurfaced. If you'll notice in the staff report, these are proposed roads. And I would anticipate that we would get to the actual specifics, excuse me, when we get to the CIP itself or even awarding a contract. These roads can be changed, and the treatments themselves can be changed as well as we work our way through the process. This was simply a first step to kind of take an overall look at all of our road systems. So I would encourage the public and yourselves to provide me some input on what we should look at so that we can go to that next step, which is to have staff evaluate these road systems to see if the PCI really reflects what is happening out there in the field. |
| 01:16:19.15 | Councilmember Cox | And my, thank you. My other question is, Mr. Suto asserted that we are only spending half of what we need to maintain the current quality of our roads. I was not clear about what substantiates that assertion, but do you have any comment on that? |
| 01:16:42.97 | Kevin McGowan | In this report, |
| 01:16:43.75 | Councilmember Cox | Since we're going to be doing our strategic plan next week. |
| 01:16:43.78 | Kevin McGowan | I'm sorry. |
| 01:16:47.80 | Kevin McGowan | Yes, kind of with this staff report, it references another report that was developed for rating the roadway system called the PCI. And within that report, it had strategies as well that listed how much money the city should set aside in order to keep the same PCI rating or less. So in the report itself, it also suggests that over the last seven or eight years we put about six hundred and seventy thousand dollars each year into our road systems obviously that varies from year to year and then if you step back and take a look at the report provided by pavement condition sorry I don't have it memorized but within the report it suggested that we need to allocate at least a million dollars to keep our PCI the same they also had different scenarios there where if we wanted to set aside more money each year to our road system we could increase the PCI which is an overall rating of our rideability of our roads. So I believe what Mr. Soto is suggesting is that we're probably not setting aside enough. The 670 on an average might not be enough to cover what we need to do, and that would be to keep our roadways, PCIs, the same. |
| 01:18:10.03 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you, and I thought this report was really interesting, and I appreciate David Sudo bringing up the concerns. I had some similar concerns, but it did seem like given our that this is really a question for our upcoming budget and our strategic planning process. If we are going to augment our road improvement budget, that that's gonna be a decision that we may have to move funds from other important projects as well. So I think that obviously this is one of the things that we hear a lot about and experience in our own lives on a day-to-day basis. So I thought the report was good, and I think this chart on page, I don't have the second page of the report, about kind of long-term funding over five years and how we can either keep the same PCI, lower it, or improve it was interesting. So thank you for highlighting that. So, |
| 01:19:10.97 | Councilmember Cox | the mayor with that clarification I'm prepared to move can approval of consent calendar items 5a and 5c through 5g |
| 01:19:19.81 | Unknown | Second. |
| 01:19:20.62 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries five zero and the remaining portions of the consent calendar are approved. So that brings us to business items. We have one business item tonight, the Sausalito Ferry Landside Improvements, item 6A. And I think Mr. McGowan, this is your presentation. |
| 01:19:48.16 | Kevin McGowan | Good evening, Mayor and City Council members. I'm Kevin McGowan with the Department of Public Works. I'm hoping we can switch the projector over. |
| 01:20:00.11 | Kevin McGowan | Prior to getting going this evening, I would like to thank Mary Wagner and Adam Pulitzer for helping me with the presentation, as well as the staff report. This is a complex project, and I needed all the help I could get. So I just want to say thank you. |
| 01:20:20.65 | Kevin McGowan | Okay, we're almost there. |
| 01:20:31.43 | Kevin McGowan | It is up on my screen. |
| 01:20:35.53 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | So if your presentation is up on your screen, you can start with the preliminaries if you'd like. We'll catch up. I think we have it on our. |
| 01:20:43.60 | Kevin McGowan | OK. |
| 01:20:44.19 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | I pads as well and a printout. |
| 01:20:47.31 | Kevin McGowan | All right. Thank you very much. I think I kind of have quite a few little slides here, so I want to be recognize our time here and move this along fairly quickly. So we have prepared a few slides for you this evening regarding this project. Some of the issues around the project And in connection with this specific work, are complex, as you can probably imagine. Our intent is to provide you with some background into where we are today, and staff is recommending executing a professional service contract with BKF engineers. which will... which will be described in the presentation as option one as we work our way along. |
| 01:21:33.70 | Kevin McGowan | Okay, if you can follow along, I am on slide number three at this point, and for those of you who might have a handout. Just to remind everybody, there are certain properties in and around the ferry terminal where the city owns the underlying property where Sausalito ferry terminal is located. and the city leases this property to Golden Gate Bridge and Highway Transportation District. |
| 01:22:01.91 | Kevin McGowan | Golding Bridge Highway and Transportation District currently, their current ferry dock system is antiquated and needs to be replaced at this point in time. They are planning to rehabilitate and rebuild the ferry dock. in the next two years. I'm up to slide five at this point. City staff has been working with Golden Egg Bridge and Highway Transportation District and their whole design team. We are currently in the, excuse me, they are currently in the permit acquisition phase of the work. So they have a design and they're trying to acquire their permits for the actual work. They also anticipate that the replacement of the ferry dock will take several years with the current schedule showing the work being completed at the end of 2022. Thank you. The actual construction schedule may change as they get closer to awarding the construction. |
| 01:22:59.84 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | So Kevin, I'm just going to stop you right there and just ask, are we going to be able to get the PowerPoint up? Otherwise, I have an extra, I think we have a couple of extra ones that maybe if there's anyone in the audience that wants to use these to follow along We could do that. Because we have them, at least we have them on our iPads. Do you have, can you use the iPad? |
| 01:23:21.48 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 01:23:23.92 | Unknown | the items. |
| 01:23:35.94 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:23:35.96 | Ben Barker | God bless you. Thank you. |
| 01:23:38.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:23:57.47 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, but we can continue. Yep. Okay. Let's continue. I've, if the public can share the three copies, that would be great. |
| 01:24:08.09 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Did you have one at your dais room? Is that the dais? |
| 01:24:15.17 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | OK, so we can keep moving along. Sorry about that. |
| 01:24:28.00 | Unknown | you |
| 01:24:30.70 | Kevin McGowan | Chugga-da-chugga-da. Okay, I will keep moving along. I am on, I am currently on slide six. |
| 01:24:33.89 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | There we go. |
| 01:24:34.36 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:24:42.11 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great. Thank you. |
| 01:24:45.72 | Kevin McGowan | on slide six at this point. Oh, one back. There we go. Okay, thank you very much. Sorry about the delay here, little technical difficulties. So on this slide, one of the questions I kind of brought up is, so what is the Ferry land side? This area, outlined in red, in this little diagram. And I'm sorry about the sketch. My computer skills aren't as good as I'd like. But the area outlined in red is where patrons who utilize the ferry congregate to board or disembark from the ferry. In Sausalito, this area is rather small, for the volume of people utilizing the services. The adjacent parking lot known as parking lot one And that's kind of outlined a little bit in yellow there. It doesn't show the entire parking lot. Parking lot one is where vehicles tend to drop off patrons who use the ferry. In addition, some patrons utilize other parking areas and then walk over to this area. to board the ferry. These are shown with little purple lines on our drawing to show kind of connectivity. And it doesn't look like that came through specifically. Regardless, with all this happening, you may be able to tell that this area becomes congested. Next slide, please. So what's the problem? Currently there are issues or conflict points, which is more of a traffic engineering term by the way, conflict points. where patrons from multiple modes of travel tend to access the ferry. These conflicts include pedestrian conflicts with those waiting for the ferry. bicycle queuing for the ferry. vehicle dropping off areas that may conflict with pedestrians. pedestrians walking through the area to visit the shoreline, Vehicles dropping off that share the area with pedestrians. So if you have too many pedestrians, the vehicle can't drop off. The area is pretty darn small. And in addition, wayfinding and correct locations to access the ferry are all considered conflicts and are problematic. having Tracy way closed off in the summer season summer tourist season helps to control some of the bicyclist activities. However, conflicts still exist in this small area next to the ferry. Next slide, please. So a little history. We'll keep going through this and trying to get us to a point. In October, 2017, the city granted conditional approval to Golden Gate Bridge and Highway Transportation District to repair their dock system. Golden Gate also agreed to pass through to the city from the Federal Transit Administration a grant that would support land side improvements. This total grant amount from the FTA is 2 million and the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway Transportation District threw in 400,000 while the city allocated 100,000 to have a total of 2.5 million which is the budget for this project. Next slide, please. The language in the grant which is stated in the staff report and there's a pretty big paragraph in your staff report to review it is important to understand This sentence on the screen before you is just the first sentence in the entire paragraph, but it kind of encapsulates what is needed. So- The project supports the enhancement of the shoreside Ferry Plaza Promenade, including the existing ferry passenger staging area. as well as improve and enhance pedestrian and bicycle access routes to the Shoreside Ferry Plaza Promenade. To me, that kind of encapsulates Not sure if I get that right. But it kind of encompasses what the project should be with regard to this grant funding. Next slide, please. The map shown here shows the ferry and the land side that are next to the ferry dock. And if you could push the Enter key one more time. There we go. Thank you very much. This diagram also shows the other parking areas, intersections, and some traffic flow which feed into this area. Staff anticipates that these circulation elements will be addressed in the strategic plan and the general plan, which are both currently underway. That's the circulation element. Just wanted to re- Reiterate that. In July 2019, the city issued A request for a proposal. for the development of a visioning plan and the design of improvements adjacent to the ferry landing. staff followed the fta's best practices in which the proposals were judged on a Qualifications-based selection process. In September, interviews were held with all of the applicants and the firms were then raided. The table on this screen or this slide basically shows the firm's ranking based on their qualifications and the panel that reviewed them. Next slide, please. Thank you. Based on standard engineering practices, staff extrapolated the approximate amount of funding available for the design and the visioning phase of the project. Staff proceeded to open the cost proposal from the first preferred proposer. Based on the FDA procedures, staff may open one cost proposal at a time and attempt to negotiate with that firm before opening the second preferred cost proposal. Staff was not able to reach an agreement with the first preferred proposed proposer for the visioning and the design of the project and proceeded to open the cost proposal from the second preferred proposer who is BKF engineers. Next slide please. During the negotiation process, BKF Engineers was able to submit a revised proposal for the design. However, the scope of the project was reduced to include some visioning and design to be based on the minimum scope noted in the grant language. In addition, a categorically exempt process should be pursued as well as minimal traffic analysis for this specific area. Next slide, please. On January 28, 2020, staff recommended that the City Council approve a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement with BKF engineers. Council did not approve this request and requested that staff perform additional review of the FTA process, as well as look at a broader visioning in the area to address connectivity concerns. The original grant language is not specific and does not require that the improvements support the enhancement of the Shoreside Ferry Plaza Promenade, Excuse me, let me rephrase that. The original grant language is not specific and does require that the improvements support the enhancement of the Shoreside Ferry Plaza Promenade including the existing ferry passenger staging area, as well as improvements to enhance pedestrian and bicycle access routes to the Shoreside Ferry Plaza Promenade. Staff believes that the intent of this language is not to fully examine all circulation elements in lot one and traffic flow into this area, but instead to focus on the specific areas near the ferry. This is some of the broader visioning concepts and concerns should be addressed with a strategic plan and general plan in the circulation element as noted before. Next slide, please. |
| 01:33:24.98 | Kevin McGowan | The first option available to City Council is to approve BKF's contract and also include specific steps to address concerns brought forward at the January 28th Council meeting. This includes meeting with local design professionals. in the area that have played a role, a key role, in identifying visiting components. This includes utilizing previous plans such as the Imagine Sausalito plan or other plans in the area, as well as utilizing local consultants or local professionals who have put many years into studying this specific area. The intent is to meet with these folks to help the city and our consultant formulate improvements to the Ferry land side that will not preclude future improvements to other areas. BKF can also, uh, is also proposing to administer two public meetings following the meeting with the local design professionals. and seek input from the public on the fairy land side. BKF will... bring these concepts back to council. for approval prior to moving forward with the design of the Ferry Landside. Next slide, please. Let's go back one. Just to enumerate on the bottom, option one is what staff is recommending to council at this point. Next slide. Thank you. The second option would be to reject BKS proposal and open the third cost proposal from SWA. If this cost proposal is greater than the budgeted amount for the design plus visioning, council may direct staff to readvertise the project. If this occurs, council may consider allocation of additional funds to support the visioning portions of the project. In addition, if the project is re-advertised, it may be important to modify the scope to be more in line with the funding available. Next slide, please. Thank you. |
| 01:35:37.63 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:35:37.78 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. Option three. Council may choose to approve BKS proposal for visioning plus the development of the design for the ferry land side. Their proposal, for both of these is 822,000. which will require additional funding, which is not identified at this time. Staff did reach out to Golden Gate Bridge and Highway Transportation District and asked them if there was additional funding available for this project, and they said there was not. Next slide, please. |
| 01:36:14.13 | Kevin McGowan | Another alternative is to reject all the proposals and re-advertise the project. If this alternative is pursued, staff recommends pursuing a separate process for the visiting phase which is not funded by the grant. This will expedite the visioning and allow for some of the design to start, such as the surveying and the preliminary plan layout for the project. Next slide, please. So with that, staff recommends that we move forward with BKF and that's option one. This option will move the project forward and will allow for construction to mesh with Goldgate Bridge and Highway Transportation District's project with the intent to finish the work by June 2023, just prior to the heavy tourist season. With that, in the audience tonight we have Jason Kirchman, who is the lead designer for BKF, and I was hoping that he may be able to get up and give us a minute or two of explaining how BKF is familiar with this type of a project and they have the experience in this specific type of work, if that's all right with councils. |
| 01:37:28.74 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, that would be great. Before you come up, could I just ask one question? So your recommendation is option one, but could option one, if through our strategic planning process, we prioritize some kind of broader look at the larger area that you showed on one of your slides? Could option one sort of be done in tandem through other funding sources with that broader process? |
| 01:38:04.70 | Kevin McGowan | Yes, a lot of these different options, I think we can mix and match some of the alternatives within them. The idea and the intent is to make sure that we keep moving forward with the grant process and not lose that opportunity. |
| 01:38:19.92 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay. Thank you. Sorry to come on up. |
| 01:38:27.06 | Jason Kirchman | Thank you, Jason Kirchman with BKF Engineers. I just wanted to real quickly give you a brief overview of our firm and the team that we've assembled for the project. BKF Engineers for 105 years in the Bay Area has been providing civil engineering, land surveying, and land planning services. We've been in the North Bay for 30 years, and more specifically for this project would be run out of our Santa Fe office. So it's a local team here. One of the things I really want to highlight is the team we've assembled because there's many components to the project. So RHA landscape architects would be helping with the public outreach as well as the landscape architecture. Pre-C Transportation Consultants is our transportation consultant looking at the circulation, some of the pinch points and things that Kevin referenced. And then LSA is our environmental consultant. So some of the projects that this specific team or portions or combinations of this team worked on, we've worked on several projects that have the same elements here with the envisioning as well as the construction document component, and some that have the challenges or may be controversial. One would be an award-winning project in Santa Rosa's Andy's unity park which was a combination effort between BKF and RHA other elements that have involved a lot of public outreach is Three main thoroughfares that everyone's probably familiar with, the recently completed Miller Avenue. Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, which is currently out to bid, and then the Third Street Project in Santa Fe, all three of those, BKF was involved with portions of this team. So I just wanted to kind of briefly give you an overview of our firm, what we do. Be happy to answer any additional questions either regarding our firm or in regards to the presentation. |
| 01:39:58.28 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you very much. I did have one question. So on one of Kevin's slides, he noted that there was minimal traffic analysis associated with this. And so with this kind of, I appreciate staff's kind of clarification in the staff report, and tonight that this is a kind of more reduced focus proposal you know on the immediately adjacent ferry landing area but so when when we say reduced traffic analysis you also noted that you have a circulation consultant so would that circulation consultant be providing bike and pedestrian circulation analysis, just perhaps not traffic analysis such as out on Bridgeway and in and out of the parking lot? Or maybe if you could just talk a little bit more about what |
| 01:40:54.41 | Jason Kirchman | That's correct. Flow analysis. |
| 01:40:54.46 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | flow analysis we could expect. |
| 01:40:56.82 | Jason Kirchman | That's correct. So in discussions with our traffic consultant, when staff came to our team to ask us if we could reduce the scope in order to fit within the funding available, that's exactly what they discussed, was focusing on the pedestrian and bike circulation around the ferry terminal itself. And it would be more of an advisory approach. So they would participate in the visioning process and would basically do analysis on the ultimate design, seeing where it would fit into the overall scheme, but would not be a full traffic report that you may be accustomed to seeing. |
| 01:41:25.65 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | But the queuing and the flow of waiting and pedestrians moving off and on the ferry, all of that would be... still addressed. |
| 01:41:35.01 | Jason Kirchman | Correct, but it would be addressed more in a typical fashion, so based on historical, sorry, anecdotal information, as opposed to performing multiple counts over a period of time. That's one of the pieces of scope that was reduced. was to treat it more of a based on historical information and information from staff and the public as to what the problems are as opposed to spending a long period of time collecting new data to analyze. |
| 01:42:02.01 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Absolutely. Thank you. |
| 01:42:05.22 | Unknown | So I want to make sure I heard this right. So your traffic consultant is Parisi, right? Correct. Okay. So I think it's important for everybody to remember that Parisi is our traffic consultant as well. And he's part of the traffic consultant for the works for the M group. He's the traffic consultant for our general plan. and he's been our traffic consultant for years. So nearly all of our traffic analysis is actually being done by someone who has all of our data. Okay, yeah, which you're obviously aware of. |
| 01:42:12.41 | Vicki Nichols | Correct. |
| 01:42:40.59 | Jason Kirchman | And actually, Vice Mayor, on that same point, we are, we play a much smaller role, but we are subconsultant dem group as well as part of that. |
| 01:42:48.96 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | That's actually really helpful. Thank you for clarifying that. |
| 01:42:54.98 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Any questions of either Kevin McGowan or? I do have one question. |
| 01:42:58.34 | Unknown | I do have one question one. For Kevin, I think it's great we're going to have community outreach and community input. And we talk about local design professionals providing input. Do you know who they are and you've already selected them? Or is that, can local design professionals say, hey, I want to also share ideas? |
| 01:43:19.40 | Kevin McGowan | Well, I think that I would look to our city manager for assistance with that, knowing that he has more depth and knowledge of who to include with this. But at this point, I know that we've reached out to Michael Rex. We've reached out to Peter Van Meter. We've reached out to others who have been instrumental in developing some of those previous plans who have that history that I personally may not have. So I'm going to kind of steer it towards that. |
| 01:43:45.86 | Adam Politzer | I'm excited. Yeah, if I can just step in, I think the intent from the feedback that we received would be limited to design professionals. So Bill Hines with SWA, Michael Rex, you know, those have been folks that have come and shared their comments with the council Or with staff. Bill Werner and Bob Hayes who have been part of the design team that came before the council initially. And then we'll look to other professional design teams that either work. actively with the city of Sausalito or referred by any of those four individuals that I just mentioned. The intent is to keep the group small, and keep the focus on lot one without eliminating opportunities to capture design elements that will be part of a separate process as funds become available. |
| 01:44:48.26 | Unknown | question yeah for Kevin in looking at the timeline from the bridge district I know they have their in water and then general construction have we worked with them on what that end phasing of general construction on land means as far as how much space how much staging how much disruption in case we can maybe start something that is more adjacent to Gabrielson in maybe quarter two or three of 22 as opposed to waiting a whole other season after their construction. |
| 01:44:48.85 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 01:45:20.68 | Kevin McGowan | That's a great question. And at this point, since they haven't secured their contractor, we haven't necessarily gone into that much detail. and talking with John Eberle at Golden Gate Bridge. We have mentioned that we would we prefer that they do not use as any of the area on land, that they take everything from the shore side. But they haven't gotten back to the specific details, and I think they're waiting for their contractor to come on board so that we can simply discuss that and how we interact with them with our construction. |
| 01:45:54.58 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | And I guess just one last question. We didn't talk about this at our last hearing, but at some point in time we had some recommendations from the Sustainability Commission on some aspects of this project. Have those been conveyed at some point to the contractor? |
| 01:46:14.63 | Kevin McGowan | but kind of. At this point, no. We are simply trying to get to a point where we can hire our consultant. I know that we've consistently talked about trying to make sure that we have conduit in the ground so that we can put charging stations that we want to keep our eye out for any opportunities in order to make that happen. |
| 01:46:22.17 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay. |
| 01:46:29.48 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | So, |
| 01:46:36.50 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, great. Yeah, and I think there were some other issues such as Well, I can comment on those at the end. I just didn't know if those had been conveyed yet. Okay. Thank you. I think we've got some public comment. Are there other questions for Staff? Okay. So we will... I've got Kieran Culligan, Peter Van Meter, and... Yeah, I think those are my two. |
| 01:47:04.85 | Kieran Culligan | Hi, I'm Kieron Culligan, Sausalito resident. First off, I just wanna say I'm super excited to see activity on this topic. This is gonna be something really meaningful for Sausalito for a long, long time. So that's part of why I wanna make sure that we have a scope off the bat that actually can do something. And so I worry when I look on page 14, I believe, if it's possible to bring up that project impact area, is a very... constrained space when we talked about all this problem. So what's actually kind of interesting is in this report, a lot of the pictures that describe what we think of as the area around the ferry and the circulation that happens to get onto the ferry. pictures on page two, on page nine, on page 13, on page 15, on page 17, on page 20, they're not even in this project impact area. So. they're not going to be part of the explicit design. We might get some advisory things on the current proposal, but we're not going to get an actual vision and design out of it. And that's a problem. So I would think that, I would recommend not proceeding unless we can explicitly add at least some minimal areas. Council Member Burns, I think you've said in the past that I'm not sure if it's by statute or by practice, but we have a hard time reducing the number of parking spaces in the city. And so if that's the case, if we're basically stuck with this number of parking spaces, we're basically just asking the designers to play Tetris with zero space on the board. So if we were to add, at a minimum, if we were to add Tracy way, if we were to add the full promenade, it would at least give the opportunity to have some design changes on how this whole thing is laid out. But if I look at what we have right now, it just feels awfully constrained. And we're going to end up in a place of doing those other designs later, paying even more, and ending up with a suboptimal design. So I would love, I think BKF's work on Miller Avenue and other places has been awesome, really good work. And so if we can use them, but with a slightly enhanced scope From the get-go, I would feel much, much better. Thank you. |
| 01:49:05.42 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you. Peter Van Meter and then Bill Hines. |
| 01:49:11.38 | Peter Van Meter | Well, it's interesting you have that picture on the screen because on June 18th, Council Member Cox pointed out that the actual land side is not included in the project area. And I provided a sketch that night. And then, the city attorney Wagner. only asked me to get a copy of that sketch on July 31st, after the bids already came in. And of course, on June 18th, we said, Amendment should go out right away to the RFP, so they're actually bidding on the project area. So I question, really, is the RFP perhaps totally legal? But anyway, it seems to me the next thing that we need to do is really option I forgot the number, but opening the next bid. because clearly the negotiations failed on the first two bidders. They did not able to reach a financial agreement on the scope of the RFP. So we went back and changed the scope to get a number that looked somewhat acceptable with BKF. The first bidder did not have a chance Compare with that. And besides that, even on the original RFP, the scope of the RFP, we don't know where the third bidder would come in. If you look at the numbers, they're hugely different between the first two bids that have been opened. They're ranging from 800,000 to 1,004,000. renegotiated one down to 270,000, So you've got literally more than a million dollars spread between these bids. And so that suggests that there's a lot of variability between what the bidders have to say. and maybe bidder number three, is add a number. for the original RFP, that might be within acceptable range. Then if you made the decision to modify the RFP like you did with BKF, change the scope of the project, then try that if you think that's legal. with the third bidder. Maybe you even get a better result. So it seems to me the thing that you need to do tonight is to direct staff to open the third bidder. And finally, as we've said repeatedly, Visioning is absolutely essential in this project. to see how it's gonna all tie together and look at what you can do on first phase. And I was very encouraged by staff report that you can actually consider doing a phased project. You don't have to do all that stuff about the connection to lot three and so on right Let's deal with the actual land side plaza area that's essential for this project in phase one and get that done through planning. Thank you. |
| 01:51:32.93 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great. Thank you. Bill Hines. And if there's any other public comment, please let us know. |
| 01:51:46.70 | Bill Hines | Hi there, Bill Hines, and when I'm not working on behalf of Sausalito Beautiful to make Sausalito a better place, I'm a landscape architect with SWA Group. a worldwide landscape architecture planning and urban design firm headquartered in the Marin ship of Sausalito. A few of my comments on the staff report and kind of proposal out there. I think that, you know, staff and council are sort of in a hard place to make a decision on this. The option one proposal that's sort of the staff recommendation is basically the exact same thing that we looked at two weeks ago. So Timing isn't necessarily relevant, but anyway, Thank you. It really limits the study area of the project, and it doesn't address the problems that the project has the potential to fix. The study area was actually expanded during the RFP process by some of the feedback that we gave in some of those discussions. So there's another yellow area outside of that that was sort of a bigger area. Because we understand that you do need to really be able to grapple with all these pieces to consider the best way to move forward. I think the public meetings are sort of an interesting notion. It seems like these are really just to gather information and not necessarily looking at different options, so there's no real visioning that I'm seeing through this process, and it's just a way to execute a contract. And I think the fact that the There's so much going on with traffic and circulation does need to be studied. We did have Parisi on our team as well, because we do think that this does need a more comprehensive look. Unfortunately, the design fees here are higher than anticipated for the project, which is outlined in the staff report. I don't think that, as we discussed the last time this issue was up, that option one really addresses the ideals of the project. Um, One notion might be that if it was possible to move ahead with BKF, with the current abbreviated scope we put in front of that process a visioning phase that could either be done by BKF or potentially someone else that might be able to explore a wider range of options so that when it comes time to actually moving from 30% to 100% and executing the project that they're you know, kind of further along and it gives them more of a concerted scope to execute, assuming we have some different alternatives that were identified in the visioning phase. So, you know, I think SWA's assembled a great team for the job. We're prepared to do the project, and we're hugely committed to doing something great. for Sausalito and the ferry landing. and If it's not us to do it, I would just ask that you uphold some of the comments that you've heard today and make sure that they're all captured in the process. Thank you. |
| 01:54:53.06 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you very much. Any other public comments? Okay, seeing none, we'll close public comment and bring it up here. |
| 01:55:07.39 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Anybody? |
| 01:55:12.74 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | want to start. |
| 01:55:13.63 | Unknown | I'll start. Very similar to starting, like I did the last meeting, we talked about all this, and hopefully for the last time. We're starting to get into an inappropriate area, I think, in that we had a very specific project process, and that was for a committee to meet, Based on the bidding process for this, different than other bidding processes where we go straight dollar, that we have a process that chooses the proposers and then opens the bids one at a time. we came up with the conclusion in that group that sat through all those gave it donated a lot of time to sit in these meetings and do all this I was thrown aside and we thought we'd do something else. We have $2.5 million in a limited time frame. to get... something on the ground or we're not going to do any of it. And I'll tell you what the visioning scope looks like because I received a letter from a package and I've forwarded it to this council from one group that wants to talk about the visioning. That includes Anchor Street, crosswalks up and down Bridgeway, pretty much that entire yellow area. It'll take us about five years to discuss and another 10 years to build. So that's the visioning. Opportunity that's out there that we could wait until we examine all that or |
| 01:56:29.54 | Gregory Taylor | Bye. |
| 01:56:30.47 | Unknown | We can spend two and a half million dollars to go after the two or three strong choke points and get this money spent appropriately while we vision for something bigger and I will respectfully disagree with Peter Van Meter and though I Walked and completely appreciate the plaza idea. I think it's spectacular and what we need the choke point is coming off the ferry right in front of the yacht club and Cars not being able to turn around and getting backed up and the process of getting from the ferry to lot two or three is Through a parking lot as opposed to a pedestrian area to me that choke point alone gets solved in this two and a half million dollars It gets solved in this planning agenda And then we can worry about the crosswalks up on bridgeway and the closing of anchor the rerouting of anchor and the incoming of different Trapped and all those other visionary points are going to come up We need to take the path right now of finalizing this project Scope and not losing this money Because those two don't conflict those choke points and apply at a new Plaza someday. Different items they should be visioned we should talk about it we should go through that process But let's not lose this two and a half million dollars for the sake of a plan that includes everything between here and Bay Street |
| 01:57:49.74 | Unknown | you |
| 01:57:51.31 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:57:51.33 | Unknown | So I agree with everything Council Member Burns has said on this. So we last discussed this four weeks ago, I think it was, and Going into that meeting, I had made the provisional decision that I was going to vote for that project. and during the course of the meeting, as things unfolded, I changed my mind. The reason I changed my mind was that it became very clear to me that we had not really, through nobody's fault, we hadn't really put the whole story out there. The issue of the litigation with the Ferry District, the issue of the settlement, the language of the settlement, the language of the grant, the language of the conditions of approval that we have and certain conditions of approval that are not even in the staff report which can aid us in the design of where the passengers where the boarding passengers sit and so on so I realized that we weren't thinking about this we had all obligations, so I was the vote that put a break on this. But I'm gonna vote the other way now, because I think the staff report has fairly clearly indicated And again, I agree with Council Member Burns that what we need to get going now needs to get started. But we do at the same time need to expand the visioning. And so we do need a parallel process. Now we've, the idea which I think is an interesting one of bringing some design professionals together. The community has been talking about this for two decades. Every single plan that you can think about, somebody has a plan, it's there. So in the end, I think the purpose of the design professional meeting is just to get all the sensible ones down on a piece of paper so that then BFK, if that's who we award it to, can actually say, do any of these plans mess up what we want to do or we're going to recommend? Or are what we recommend, is it going to foreclose any of the myriad of options that are out there? And so I think with that, that's a good addition to get us going. But I also think, as has been indicated, through the strategic planning process and the budget, we need to ask whether we need to peel some money out of, say, the parking fund. And actually use it to enhance the visioning process, but that's a decision for the upcoming budget discussions. So I intend to vote for option one. |
| 02:00:50.73 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:00:54.37 | Unknown | So here's my concerns. We originally had $4.2 million, we now have 2.5. So we already lost some and I'm concerned about losing $2 million from the government. So we have to move quick. I do believe and I thank staff for being creative since four weeks ago. In that we have a different proposal to meet with local design professionals, to get some community input, not to do a complete visioning for all of the area. But to get some of the visions in the future to help us design that small, Ferry land side area, I keep saying landslide, land side area. designed to accommodate what we want to do in the future. If we pursue a full vision, I think we'll be here, you know, 9, 12 months from now, without $2 million, arguing about what it could be. So I encourage us to get our great local design professionals to share their great ideas. I encourage two great community meetings and that we get the project started. I think option one is the correct thing at this time. |
| 02:02:08.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:02:10.46 | Councilmember Cox | I also am prepared to vote for option one. I commend staff for incorporating some flexibility into our process moving forward to enable us to capitalize on the funding that is available now while still continuing to keep the big picture in front of us to be able to move forward when and if we identify additional funds. But I think it's critical that we not lose the funding that we have now and that we make the best possible use of it and do our best to identify a manner in which we can incorporate the improvements we make now into a more holistic plan for the entire downtown area. |
| 02:02:58.10 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you. Yeah, I wanna thank staff for the additional work, for the presentation. I think everyone has articulated very persuasive reasons to move forward with option one. We had a very long discussion about this at our last hearing, going over all of the downsides of this approach and recognizing our limited resources that we have at hand versus the kind of great things that a good visioning process can result in at this space. So I remain kind of disappointed with our options, but I think the most pragmatic thing is to move forward with option one, I will be advocating strongly to find money in our upcoming budgets to focus, to try to blend option three and to devote some more funding to kind of a slightly broader visioning for this area. And then in the general plan process for an even longer term, broader circulation plan for this area plus kind of the broader Bridgeway corridor. So I think this is our best option. I am encouraged that we will have a meeting of relevant design professionals. I think the most important thing to bkf at this point is that we don't want to preclude options in the future and that we want to keep this space flexible because there are just a lot of potential moving pieces in that so that we want to kind of keep that in mind so that we're not undoing uh good work um in the kind of near to midterm um the the one thing that I would say that I remain very concerned about is the lack of budget for circulation analysis. And for Parisi, I think Vice Mayor Withey brought an important point that Parisi is our consultant on a number of other issues. But even as we have drawn this project kind of down to a more micro focus on the land side, the whole issue is circulation. The area must flow. And I think that is kind of the paramount consideration that both the Bridge District and we are concerned about is having a workable functioning system. So I guess I would just encourage staff and BKF to really discuss whether there is some more budget or attention than can be put on pedestrian, bicycle, flow, and traffic in that area. So that is, I don't think it's a, it's not a no, but it's a plea to make sure that we have adequately thought about how people are moving, standing, queuing, walking, and biking in that area. So with that, I will end with some qualms, support option one. |
| 02:06:21.01 | Councilmember Cox | . Then Madam Mayor, I move we adopt a resolution approving and authorizing the city managed to execute the professional services contract with BKF engineers in an amount not to exceed $246,450 for the Ferry Landside Improvement Project based on the Option 1 process noted in the staff report. |
| 02:06:27.59 | Clara Player | to the next episode. |
| 02:06:27.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:06:40.53 | Unknown | Second. |
| 02:06:42.05 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries five zero. And thank you to BKF for being here tonight and thank you for all the public comment. |
| 02:06:43.06 | Councilmember Cox | I. |
| 02:06:43.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:06:54.62 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, we are now moving on to our public hearing items. We are only about 30 minutes behind. Is everyone okay moving forward with item 7? Okay, great. We will call item 7A, which is the issuance of revenue bonds by the California Municipal Finance Authority under the Tax and Equity Fiscal Responsibility Act, otherwise known as TEFRA. Ms. Carter. |
| 02:07:21.62 | Yulia Carter | a staff presentation. |
| 02:07:22.80 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:07:22.97 | Yulia Carter | Thank you. Good evening, I'm Yulia Carter, your Assistant City Manager and Administrative Services Director. The item before you tonight is a public hearing requested L'Sei Francais de San Francisco. It is related to issue of tax exempt financing. I want to point out that there is no fiscal impact associated with this item. because the city of South Salida will not have any financial or legal obligations related to this debt. And tonight we have Ben Barker from the California Municipal Finance Authority and Clara Player. from the L'Estée Francaise, they will be doing presentation and we'll be happy to answer questions. Okay, thank you. Welcome. |
| 02:08:08.65 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:08:14.34 | Ben Barker | Good evening, honorable mayor and council members. My name is Ben Barker. I'm with the California Municipal Finance Authority. We have been asked to issue bonds for the school. This project is a multi-jurisdictional project. Most of it will be taking place in the city of San Francisco. In the city of Sausalito, there's a $2 million piece that's just a simple refunding. When a borrower options to go into the taxes and market, a tougher hearing must must take place and what that is is just a public hearing letting the public know that the borrower will have seek to enter the taxes on market the interest rate will be tax exempt on the bonds and from there the city approves that the CMFA is the issuer it relieves the city of any fiscal fiscal or moral responsibility the city won't have any play any in part of the bonds they're acting purely as a host jurisdiction to hold a public hearing and the resolution clearly states and outlines that the city does not have any fiscal impact in the bonzer is not does not have any more legal liabilities with the bonds to so and I can answer any questions from there a question |
| 02:09:17.79 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:09:17.91 | Councilmember Cox | and it's a great day. |
| 02:09:20.61 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, Council member Cox. Thank you. |
| 02:09:22.48 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. And I just closed my window, so give me one second, sorry. |
| 02:09:27.41 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | So actually, I have a quick question while you're opening the window. So I think you just said it, but just to be clear, the Sausalito project that's kind of defined in our resolution and staff report, that is just a $2 million portion of the larger project, and it's just a repayment or refinancing? Is that what you said? |
| 02:09:45.41 | Ben Barker | They have outstanding debt that they're refunding as part of a larger financing to lower their debt service and their Financing costs. Okay. So this this piece is purely just refunding the old two million dollar debt here in Sausalito There's no physical project. There's no new construction. There's there's nothing party to in place |
| 02:09:52.60 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay. |
| 02:09:58.05 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | there's no physical. |
| 02:10:03.35 | Ben Barker | Thank you. |
| 02:10:03.39 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you very much. |
| 02:10:04.75 | Ben Barker | And just to also be clear, the city is not making a loan. This is a private loan between the school and a bank. |
| 02:10:12.73 | Councilmember Cox | Yes, thank you. Two things in the staff report it says that the well It's it it says that the project includes Um... Reef at financing the acquisition construction improvement equipment and maintenance of certain educational support and administrative facilities least occupied and operated within the city. |
| 02:10:40.14 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 02:10:40.85 | Councilmember Cox | So it doesn't mention other jurisdictions. It simply mentions within the city of Sausalito you're now saying it's in other jurisdictions, not just the city of Sausalito |
| 02:10:44.75 | Ben Barker | Thank you. |
| 02:10:49.27 | Ben Barker | Yeah, and the reason it's stated that way, that's the legal language. The TEFRA code changed last year where instead of TEFRAing for just each individual city and clearly stating what was happening within the city, the TEFRA language has to encompass the entire project as a whole. Um, And so the legal language has changed a little bit. And the language that you just read off was part of the original legal language that was used when the bonds were originally issued. So this part of the financing is just the refinancing part of that. If there was gonna be any construction, the school still has to go through the normal process of the normal city ordinances. This isn't skipping anything. |
| 02:11:29.63 | Councilmember Cox | The term that particularly concerned me is the acquisition, because right now, Lise Francais leases property from the city of Sausalito. So is there some intention to acquire that property from the city of Sausalito? |
| 02:11:32.86 | Ben Barker | Okay. |
| 02:11:43.59 | Ben Barker | No. Again, this is part of the larger financing that includes San Francisco. |
| 02:11:48.04 | Councilmember Cox | Is there going to be an acquisition of property in San Francisco? |
| 02:11:52.72 | Ben Barker | Again, that's old language from the original issuance of the acquisition of the property in San Francisco. In the resolution that will be approved, or we're asking to be approved tonight, it does not say that there's an acquisition of any specific property. The lease, I'm not sure how much the term is left on the lease of the property, but the financing can't include a purchase of property here. |
| 02:12:18.86 | Councilmember Cox | the title of the resolution does include refinancing the acquisition construction improvement equipment so it does refer to acquisition |
| 02:12:24.73 | Ben Barker | SO IT'S A GOOD THING. |
| 02:12:29.15 | Ben Barker | Right, and that is part of the total The total financing. |
| 02:12:33.89 | Councilmember Cox | So within the total financing, there is an intention to acquire additional property? |
| 02:12:37.99 | Ben Barker | No, again, that's the old bond language that they're refunding. So I know the legal language sounds, it's a little confusing, but what is happening is just refunding the $2 million piece that was already previously done in the city of Sausalito. |
| 02:12:54.13 | Councilmember Cox | Right, I do these types of refundings for other municipalities, and I'm not familiar with the approach of |
| 02:12:57.76 | Ben Barker | Thank you. |
| 02:13:02.16 | Councilmember Cox | utilizing the language of the initial financing in the resolution approving the new financing. |
| 02:13:08.32 | Ben Barker | Um, Every time that a tougher hearing takes place or a refunding takes place, they always use the original language that was done for the bonds that are being taken out. So the original language will always be in there because that was the language that was put forth in the original bond financing. The refunding will take out that original language. It's always in refunding language every time. |
| 02:13:35.64 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:13:44.99 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | OK, I do not have any speaker cards. Is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? Seeing none, would the, I'm sorry, and does the representative from the LISEE, would you like to address us at all, or? |
| 02:13:59.20 | Clara Player | Thank you. |
| 02:13:59.21 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:13:59.23 | Clara Player | It was just if you had any other question regarding the term acquisition. I mean, the story of the Lissé, we've been there since 2013. We are very happy to benefit from the lease with the municipality. Our intention is to continue to lease the premises. When we moved in 2013, we had to do some renovation on the premises. to acquire some equipments and that's why we, issued this first loan and now we are refinancing the old, everything, all the depth of the school, that's why we have a portion of it attached to Socialito and the rest is attached to San Francisco because we have two other campuses in San Francisco. |
| 02:14:51.68 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Right. Good, thank you. Any questions? Okay. Thank you very much. I'm going to close public comment. Are there any other comments? Okay, do we have a motion? |
| 02:15:12.67 | Unknown | I move that we adopt the resolution of proving the issuance of the bonds by the CMFA for the benefit of Licea Francais de San Francisco, a California nonprofit corporation and the organization described in Section 501c3. Can we do the whole thing or are we good? |
| 02:15:12.91 | Clara Player | move. |
| 02:15:13.18 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:15:13.30 | Clara Player | that, |
| 02:15:28.70 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | I think that's enough. |
| 02:15:31.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:15:31.89 | Unknown | second. |
| 02:15:33.32 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries 5-0. And thank you very much for being here. |
| 02:15:34.52 | Unknown | Aye. |
| 02:15:43.47 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | So I'm sorry, the public hearing on |
| 02:15:51.58 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | public comment on items not on the agenda. Is there any objection to opening public comments not on the agenda? Thank you. Okay, so before we hear, so this is not on this particular item. Okay, so we're finished with item 7A. Thank you very much for being here tonight. Congratulations to the Lise. Thank you. And we will reopen general public comment. You have three minutes. And so just for the future, when we take general public comment at the very beginning of our meeting, so this is unusual. I apologize. I was working. Thank you for coming tonight. |
| 02:16:25.10 | Erin Lee Fowler | But thank you for coming. My name is Erin Lee Fowler. I'm here to inform you guys that I'm filing a lawsuit against the city of Sausalito and the Army Corps of Engineers. My boat was not tagged. It was crushed along with everything I own, including my daughter's ashes. It led your police department into tasing me with a broken back. I'm not a criminal. I was on my own property that was stolen from me. at the Army Corps during business hours. you know, the gates were open and I went in and I boarded my boat to get my property. And I was tased and pulled off the boat with a broken back and everything I owned was crushed. Even my purse that I had that day that I sat on top of the boat with my cell phone and all my money and my ID, everything. Um, That man is a criminal, and I think you guys should be aware of who you're letting represent you. Last I checked, I was a United States citizen and I had rights, and every right that I had was trampled on that day. And to no avail have I gotten anyone to do anything about it and stuff I've had for 20 years. My daughter's ashes were on that boat, and now they're in a garbage can, and all this man can do is laugh. own. And I have a problem with that as a citizen. you know? just saying you know I run around with a Native American flute and I don't hurt anybody and I didn't deserve what I got that day at all. With that I'll be quiet but yeah. |
| 02:18:05.22 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Right. Okay, thank you very much. We appreciate you coming. Okay, with that we're going to go back to our regular agenda, item 7B. This is an ordinance amending chapter 3.30 of the Sausalito Municipal Code about the purchasing of supplies, equipment, and services. And we have our Public Works Director. |
| 02:18:29.13 | Kevin McGowan | Good evening again. This is Kevin McGowan, Department of Public Works. Before I get started, I just want to thank Mary Wagner, our city attorney, for helping me with this staff report and presentation, as well as thank the legislative committee for assisting me with this particular section of the code. Next slide. |
| 02:18:45.14 | Clara Player | Thank you. |
| 02:18:45.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:18:45.23 | Clara Player | Thank you. |
| 02:18:48.33 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. Chapter 3.30 essentially details how we purchase items such as supplies or equipment. And this section of code also details purchase procedures related to public works construction projects. In order to understand the proposed changes, we need to provide a short explanation, or at least I need to provide a short explanation, of purchase orders and formal construction contracts and formal construction contracts. as well as professional services. Purchase orders are used to acquire material and equipment. microphones, screens, lamps, things that we might put up with our own forces. Our own staff would put these in place. We use a purchase order procedure to acquire the equipment or property and then we install it ourselves. Public Works contracts relate to us hiring a contractor. to build something or install something such as constructing a new parking lot or resurfacing an existing parking lot. Informal contracts relate to a dollar threshold. in which the city manager can issue a contract while a formal contract requires city council approval. An update to our current code is needed to be in compliance with the California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act, otherwise known as CUPCA. And I think on my little acronym on the bottom, I forgot an additional A, so my apologies. So in addition, some modifications are needed to our code to represent current thresholds in the construction and purchasing industry today. Thank you. Our current limits stated in the code are noted in the staff report as well as on this slide. For purchase orders, any purchase greater than $25,000 will need council approval. and any purchase between five Thousand and 25,000 requires city manager approval Professional services contracts have similar constraints in which the council approval is needed for contracts above $25,000. Now, these actual amounts are stated in the code itself. Next slide, please. Approximately every two years, the state controller's office updates specific limits for informal construction contracts and negotiated contracts, such as professional services contracts. This section of code is obviously called the California Uniformed Public Construction Cost Accounting Act. It's in the public contracts code. Portions of the city's code do automatically update to these limits. However, other sections of our code are fixed, allowing all the sections of Chapter 3.3 automatically will, let me read that again, allowing all the sections of chapter 3.30 to update automatically will streamline our ability to procure supplies and materials, expedite construction projects, and expedite professional service contracts. Next slide. City staff has brought this to the legislative committee. which had some great suggestions related to how our code should be structured. The proposed modifications include allowing Um, allowing the city manager to approve purchase orders up to 50% of the public contracts code amount. In this case, the current limit noted at the state is $60,000 such that the proposed limits for our city could be set at half of that, which is $30,000 as noted in the table. Similarly, the city manager may execute a professional services contract up to $30,000, and all professional services contracts above that amount will need to be approved by the city council. This percentage modification allows us to change the municipal code in compliance with the state limits as they're updated every two years. Okay. So next slide. All right. With that, I'm here to address any questions and comments for the proposed changes for the coast. |
| 02:23:21.29 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Right, so I just have a quick question. So it sounds like really right at this moment, the ultimate limit for each category is not going up more. It's going up about $5,000 from $25,000 to $30,000 under the two categories on the right. But the real benefit is that if the state law changes to be higher, then we don't have to come back and modify the code again. |
| 02:23:43.70 | Kevin McGowan | That's correct. |
| 02:23:44.57 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay. All right, thank you. And did the members of the legislative committee have any comments that they'd like to add to this presentation since you've already |
| 02:23:55.75 | Unknown | I fully support this in the spirit of streamlining our operations, making these decisions faster, putting more hands in more decisions on our staff, and not revisiting this every two years. |
| 02:23:56.37 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | I've heard the matter? |
| 02:24:08.92 | Councilmember Cox | And I'll say it was important to us that while we're increasing limits that we nevertheless maintain transparency. And that's the reason for the quarterly reports to council about the expenditures. So I think that's a safeguard that we adopt and that way we increase efficiency and maintain transparency and accountability. |
| 02:24:31.37 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, okay. Is there any questions for staff? Is there any public comment? Seeing none, any discussion or motion? |
| 02:24:44.23 | Unknown | I want to thank the two legislative committees for that idea. I think that really does help a lot and it was a good idea and thank you staff for putting together and making this quick and easy. |
| 02:24:55.42 | Unknown | fully supported. |
| 02:24:56.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:24:56.17 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:24:56.19 | Unknown | of this. |
| 02:24:56.58 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:24:57.79 | Councilmember Cox | In that case, Madam Mayor, I move we introduce and read by title only an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sausalito amending chapter 3.30 of the Sausalito Municipal Code, purchase of supplies, equipment and services and procedures for public work contracts. and that we direct staff to return to the Council with quarterly reports on the consent calendar summarizing contracts let under staff's authority under the revised regulations. |
| 02:25:19.19 | Unknown | I second that. |
| 02:25:20.63 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries 5-0. Okay, we'll move on to item 7C, which is another amendment of the municipal code regarding underground electrical wiring and facilities. |
| 02:25:36.84 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you, Mayor, members of City Council, Kevin McGowan again from the Department of Public Works. The item before you this evening requests modifications to Chapter 18.08 of the Sausalito Municipal Code, which relates to undergrounding of electrical wiring and facilities. Before I get started, I always want to thank Mary Wagner, as well as Lily Whalen, and Thomas Ahrens, who you may not know is our chief building official at this point, as well as the legislative committee. Next slide, please. As noted in our staff report, this section of the municipal code was developed in 1974 and is a mechanism for having new electrical services undergrounded, which improves community aesthetics as well as improves the health and welfare of the public. Modifications to this chapter of the code are needed to address new advancements in solar energy, electrical vehicles, which are recognized at the state level as reducing our carbon footprint. Other changes in this chapter include allowing exemptions for replacing services that were damaged in a disaster and replacing antiquated facilities. The current code does not distinguish between these new advancements such that undergrounding overhead facilities would be required, which is a significant expense and in most cases is not commensurate with the proposed improvements. Next slide. |
| 02:27:08.24 | Kevin McGowan | The existing code also references the underground committee, which is no longer active. |
| 02:27:14.33 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:27:15.85 | Kevin McGowan | in order to address questions and concerns by the public. The proposed code changes allows the community development director and the public works director to convene to render a decision. Appeals of that decision can be forwarded to the City Council. city, the city's modifications to this code section. are not intended to circumnavigate the utilities' ability to manage their facilities per the California Public Utilities Commission. |
| 02:27:50.97 | Kevin McGowan | And with that, if you have any questions or comments, I'm here to answer them. |
| 02:27:56.84 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great. Thank you very much. Are there any questions for Mr. McGowan? I'm going to go to the Okay. Thank you. |
| 02:28:07.59 | Unknown | Thank you. So I don't know which slide it's on, but it only dawned on me as I was looking at the staff report again tonight that the... exemption if you like for putting on Having to put in say a new panel to put solar on Okay, we're saying we're exempting that from the underground and rules, right? That's correct, right? The one area which I think we may not quite have right is the battery storage I think the battery storage is linked to solar and |
| 02:28:39.25 | Kevin McGowan | That's correct. |
| 02:28:53.64 | Unknown | in the way that this is written. And I'm not sure it should be because 30%, I don't know what the number is, but 30%, certainly the whole of Marin, but a bigger percentage of Sausalito, you really can't put solar in. There's really no way. You've got all these trees and many, many roofs are inaccessible to solar. But there's a significant greening effect by putting battery storage in nonetheless. Because what it means is you can capture electricity and power up your batteries during the a time when there's actually renewable energy on the grid, such as solar, whereas by the time, this is the infamous duck curve, where the energy usage through a 24-hour cycle looks like a duck. And so the neck of the duck is the rise in the load that's needed between 4 and 9 p.m. And there's solar is not available then for most of the really high energy usage, especially in the winter. Some way in which, for instance, MCE and a number of us who have been working on this are trying to persuade people if they can to nonetheless install battery technology. They can do the charging during the day. It will flatten out the duct curve and it means we can get more actual renewable energy onto the grid and therefore use. So what I would like to see is that the exemption applies not just batteries in connection with the installation of solar, but batteries installation period. Does that make sense? Yes, yeah. |
| 02:30:40.00 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Yes, yeah, and there's another, oh, go ahead, Councilmember. |
| 02:30:43.33 | Councilmember Cox | I was going to ask the city attorney if we can amend this from the dais and still have first reading tonight because I had a recommendation about how to. |
| 02:30:51.48 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:30:51.49 | Councilmember Cox | you Yeah, just split G. But let's hear what Susan's question was. |
| 02:30:59.36 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | It's fine. It's more of a comment. I was just going to say the other impact or the other benefit of using batteries, even if you don't have solar, is that then you often don't need to have a generator, and the generators are loud, and they often burn or most always use fossil fuel, so that there's that additional benefit as well. Absolutely. The noise issues. So even if you don't have solar, I think there's a lot of benefits to that. So I would be supportive of an amendment, and did Council Member Cox... All right, so... Yeah, why don't you enunciate an amendment, and then we'll take public comment. |
| 02:31:18.34 | Clara Player | as well. |
| 02:31:19.03 | C. Gibson | Absolutely. |
| 02:31:28.03 | Councilmember Cox | All right, so, yeah, why don't you, All right, the city attorney is nodding her head yes that we can amend this from the dais. So I recommend we split G so that G as rewritten would G would be the installation of a new service panel in connection with the installation of a small residential rooftop solar system as defined in SMC 10.70. |
| 02:31:53.26 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Hello. |
| 02:31:56.75 | Councilmember Cox | Period. and the other would be the installation of, and then there would be a new, H. and every other item would be sequentially renumbered that would read the installation of battery storage facilities. |
| 02:32:16.68 | Unknown | And both of those that related to the tire scope |
| 02:32:19.63 | Councilmember Cox | Yes, when that is the entire scope, so that that clause, when that is the entire scope of work would remain at the end of G and the new H. |
| 02:32:27.93 | Unknown | Yeah. and then we reference G&H again in 0.035 cumulative impacts, we have to change that as well. |
| 02:32:37.92 | Councilmember Cox | Correct, so it would be G, H, or I in 18.08.035. |
| 02:32:45.37 | Unknown | May I just not to, I'm supportive, just maybe simplifying if you look at G. |
| 02:32:45.97 | Councilmember Cox | So. |
| 02:32:51.05 | Unknown | where it says or battery storage facilities related there to we just delete related there to it covers the whole thing. |
| 02:32:57.82 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, I actually prefer that amendment because I'm concerned that if we break them up, then that's not the entire scope of work. |
| 02:33:08.40 | Councilmember Cox | Well, I'm recommending we include the entire scope of work. I'm concerned if we leave it all in one. there is still And. And as we are replaced by our successors, it could be ambiguous that the battery storage system is somehow related to the installation of a rooftop solar system as defined in SMC. So even if we take out the words related there too. |
| 02:33:34.61 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | What if we just in G said, or battery storage facilities, whether or not related there too. |
| 02:33:42.20 | Councilmember Cox | Well, that's fine. Yeah. That's fine. So then the only amendment to be clear for the record would be |
| 02:33:46.64 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | But then the only amendment |
| 02:33:50.47 | Councilmember Cox | to G. which would be the installation of A new service panel in conjunction with the installation of a small residential rooftop solar system as defined in SMC 10.70. Or, the installation of battery storage facilities, whether or not related thereto, comma, when that is the entire scope of work. |
| 02:34:09.10 | Erin Lee Fowler | Correct. Thank you. |
| 02:34:10.82 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:34:11.43 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay. Any other questions or comments? Thank you, Vice Mayor, for raising that issue. Is there any public comment? Mr. Sudo. |
| 02:34:32.67 | Vicki Nichols | So I'm very glad that this is moving forward. I think we've been talking about it for a while, and it's glad that we finally have movement. I think the realities of views versus dealing with what's an increasingly obvious problem with climate change. We moved a couple of years ago from making solar. Neighbors used to be able to complain about solar panels on other people's roofs, and we made that change a couple of years ago. So I think this is a great plan. One item that I would maybe not today's legislation but to also consider is gas to electric conversion of appliances in the house and how that might dovetail into this legislation and whether you might want to consider that now or at some later point. That one gets a little more complicated because it usually involves some kind of renovation, but something to consider also. As we try to move forward with our greenhouse gas reduction goals, it's important that we remove friction points in our community. Thank you. |
| 02:35:53.34 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you very much. Any other public comment? Okay, so I just actually do have one more question. So looking at the exceptions, if someone is all of a sudden getting very excited about going green and they want to put in solar panels, battery storage, and they've just purchased an electric car, So they're doing those three things together. Does the you use of the words when that is the entire scope of work at the end of G and H. |
| 02:36:36.00 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | cause an issue. So I mean, I get it that this is not part of some other bigger project. So I understand the intent. But I'm wondering if you decide to do several things that are all qualify as an exception, that this language would confuse |
| 02:36:54.20 | Unknown | You're saying you can't do G and H. |
| 02:36:56.48 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Yes, yes, so if I'm very inspired, |
| 02:36:57.33 | Unknown | So if |
| 02:37:00.60 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | to kind of change. |
| 02:37:01.33 | Councilmember Cox | But as written, you could do G and you could do H. Each individually would be the entire scope. So. Each is an exception in and of itself. |
| 02:37:12.82 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | I know, but if you're doing your electrical upgrade to accommodate both. that's. |
| 02:37:19.35 | Councilmember Cox | If you're doing an electrical upgrade, I mean, the whole thing is we did not want people to avoid to be able to avoid the undergrounding requirement by using this artifice. |
| 02:37:35.82 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Right, but they would be doing two of these things. So I just, I mean, I would like to remove the ambiguity. I just realized that when we were looking at the change. So, I mean, it might be better to say at the beginning, this chapter shall not apply to the following types of facilities. |
| 02:37:57.98 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | If combined or alone, they constitute the entire scope of work. |
| 02:38:05.54 | Unknown | If we were to say. |
| 02:38:05.91 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | We'll be right back. |
| 02:38:06.16 | John DeRay | Thank you. |
| 02:38:06.18 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | This looks like the city attorney. |
| 02:38:07.49 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:38:07.59 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | THE END OF |
| 02:38:07.68 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:38:07.71 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:38:07.76 | Councilmember Cox | to weigh in. |
| 02:38:08.10 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 02:38:08.29 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:38:08.30 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:38:08.93 | Mary Wagner | Madam Mayor, members of the council, if I may. So I thought that you might wanna put it in actually the cumulative impact section, because right now the only ones you're accepting are G and H. So you could say something along the lines that this section is not intended to apply to a combination of G and H. |
| 02:38:27.78 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | That's great. Thank you. |
| 02:38:28.89 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:38:28.92 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:38:28.98 | Councilmember Cox | I agree. |
| 02:38:32.43 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | under 18.08.035. Correct. Is there any objection to that? No. OK, and are there any comments? Thank you. |
| 02:38:48.60 | Councilmember Cox | I see no comments, Madam Mayor. I will move that we introduce and read by title only an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sausalito, amending Chapter 18.08 of the Sausalito Municipal Code, Underground Electrical Wiring and Facilities, as amended from our public comments this evening, and that we disband the undergrounding committee. |
| 02:39:10.47 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great and before there's a second on that I would just like to really thank the legislative committee on and staff. This issue has come up several times at the sustainability Commission and I really appreciate you're moving these items forward. I do also. Thank you. Yeah. want to thank david pseudo for mentioning the conversion of appliances from gas to electric and i think that is something that we should pursue at some point but i see that as a different amendment so i'd like to maybe on future agenda items uh get that on our list So anyway, do we have a second? |
| 02:39:53.59 | Unknown | Second. |
| 02:39:55.16 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries five zero. And thank you very much to our public works director for a number of items tonight. |
| 02:39:56.08 | Unknown | Hi. |
| 02:40:06.92 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, moving on to item number eight. This is city manager report, city council appointments, and other council business. Now we have one opportunity for a public comment on all of these items. Does any member of the comment wish, any member of the public wish to comment on any of these items? Seeing none, we will... Take item eight. be a city manager information. |
| 02:40:40.89 | Adam Politzer | I have no additional items other than what were reported earlier from the various committee reports from the council members. that I served on several of those meetings. I'm happy to answer any questions from the council. |
| 02:40:54.25 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Great. Thank you. Any questions for the city manager? Okay, seeing none, appointments to boards, commissions, and committees. Excuse me, I have one. I think as then Mayor Burns noted, the MCCMC has developed a Climate Action Committee. And I am going to appoint myself to that committee, but ask that the vice mayor serve as an alternate, given his expertise on MCE, marine clean energy. And I have no other appointments. So just for the clerk, that's a new committee called the Climate Action Committee of MCCMC. um we have no appointments to boards and commissions on our calendar tonight i mean for citizen appointments so i think we can move on to future agenda items The only thing that I would like to ask is that we have a presentation by our sister city organization at some point in the near future. And also I think we have agendized other organizations that might be helpful as we look at our strategic plan, such as Cecilie beautiful so. Just ask the agenda setting committee to work on this. Oh, and I did want to also add that at our last agenda setting meeting, we talked about having a family forum at our upcoming meeting of March 10th. We've often spent a lot of time with our age friendly advocates. And I was hoping that on March 10th, we could also hear from families in town about what issues are foremost in their minds. So the current format that I was considering is an hour prior to the City Council. Any organizations that wish to come to City Hall could have a table probably in the Edgewater Room. Any of our nursery schools, sports organizations, you know, could have a table for information. There would be child care provided, and then we would spend the beginning of our city council meeting hearing public comment from families. We'd also have brief presentations only from the city on the services that we provide to families, so probably our library and a recreation and park department park and recreation so those would be the only presentations So I just wanted to let you all know that we're trying to organize that for March 10th. Thank you. Are there other future agendas? |
| 02:44:11.67 | Unknown | Maybe it's safer else to school. |
| 02:44:13.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:44:14.02 | Unknown | say process school maybe |
| 02:44:15.99 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Safer at the School would be a good addition. Thank you. |
| 02:44:18.95 | Councilmember Cox | I wanted to note that on March 11, we will be hearing an update from the Waterfront Committee, including the draft report to BCDC. That's not currently reflected on our agenda. And then I had requested a number of items at our last meeting, but none of them appear to have made it to the agenda. So I had asked that we consider revising our dog bite agenda so I had asked that we consider revising the dog our dog bite ordinance. I had asked that we consider referring the Blue Ribbon Committee recommendations to the Legislative Committee for consideration. I had asked that we consider adoption of leap |
| 02:45:02.60 | Councilmember Cox | I think those were the three. |
| 02:45:07.78 | Councilmember Cox | And it's fine if the agenda setting committee decides not to do that, but typically we put something on there and say what the disposition is. |
| 02:45:15.38 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | No, I agree. You did ask for those, and I am supportive of all three of those. THE FAMILY. |
| 02:45:20.22 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:45:20.35 | Unknown | Thank you. tonight David Sudo also brought up the sidewalk distance widths and that has been discussed in PBAC I think as we get further into some of this economic development conversation as well and uses of dining and outside dining we might want to have something a little formalized that especially in that corridor where the bodies get so thick that we have I actually thought it was 48 inches. I didn't know it was 36 because 48 seems... especially in that corridor where the bodies get so thick. I actually thought it was 48 inches, I didn't know it was 36, because 48 seems, that we are already 48, but even that's pretty narrow in some of those spots. |
| 02:45:28.22 | Unknown | Oh, yeah. |
| 02:45:58.71 | Unknown | And you can kick it to PBAC and they've already started doing some of that work. |
| 02:46:06.07 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Oh, so dog biting is on here. So, Okay. Anyway, just for clarity, actually all of your adoption of LEAP, advancement of Blue Ribbon. I didn't see the back of the page. Recommendations. I didn't turn the final. Okay, so 18, 19, and 20 are on our future agenda items. All right, great. Thank you so much. Sorry about that. Thank you to our clerk. |
| 02:46:18.20 | Councilmember Cox | I didn't think that. recommendations. |
| 02:46:20.93 | Clara Player | Okay. Thank you. |
| 02:46:23.05 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:46:23.20 | Clara Player | Bye. |
| 02:46:25.69 | Unknown | Thank you so much. Sorry about that. Thank you. Can I make a comment, if I may? So I think one of the things that I learned when the mayor and I sat down in the agenda-setting session with the staff was that the staff is working on a much more comprehensive understanding of the city council timetable over a longer period of time because there's a natural series of things that just fall because of the calendar like the budget for instance and the various things so I think that's gonna happen and because we're in the middle of our strategic planning process, I think what will happen is some of these items that are sitting on a list saying to be determined will suddenly find itself a home as it goes through that process. So I would just encourage staff to continue with that process because I think it will help enormously. |
| 02:46:29.15 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Amen. |
| 02:47:31.86 | Unknown | Like. on the list is good. |
| 02:47:34.36 | Unknown | We put them wherever, yeah. |
| 02:47:37.31 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, and I actually wanted to take one item off and also apologize to Councilmember Burns. On item number six is Measure C, Council Endorsement. And we did not put that on the agenda, and that was not an advertent decision. I think I just didn't realize that there was a time sensitivity to that. and we didn't talk about it at agenda setting, and now I think it's too late. So I apologize, it wasn't. |
| 02:48:07.82 | Unknown | I just wanted, it was not an item of mine one way or the other. |
| 02:48:11.06 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Right, but you did ask for it to be put on and we just didn't address it. So I think that should be taken off because we're not gonna take action on that. |
| 02:48:11.69 | Unknown | I did ask. |
| 02:48:21.37 | Mayor Cleveland Knowles | Okay, anybody else for future agenda items? All right, other reports of significance? Seeing none, so we will adjourn tonight's meeting in memory of C.D. Madsen. And again, thank you for bringing that to our attention. |
Peter Romanowski — Against: Criticizes historical treatment of anchor-outs, describes them as a 'floating concentration camp', warns of divine punishment and potential unrest if homes and boats are destroyed. ▶ 📄
Robert Eakin — Neutral: Shares personal story of lawful anchorage residence, suggests considering a mooring field as an alternative to eviction, and emphasizes anchor-outs' contributions. ▶ 📄
C. Gibson — Against: Raises issues with appeal process at 416 Napa, alleges bias by officials, questions fee refunds and procedural integrity, and calls for transparency. ▶ 📄
Susan Gordon — Neutral: Inquires about status of Landslide Task Force recommendations for 408 hillside, notes ongoing lawsuit, and requests update on task force outcomes. ▶ 📄
Janelle Kelman — In Favor: Urges action on Landslide Task Force recommendations and requests Planning Commission and General Plan Working Group review of Cosmont Land Economic Study. ▶ 📄
Jeff Jacobs — In Favor: Advocates for equality between mariners and shore residents, references historical mutiny and 'Sailors March', and calls for space for mariners on shore. ▶ 📄
Vicki Nichols — Neutral: Thanks mayor for acknowledgment, raises concern about sidewalk width policy for downtown cafe seating, suggests PBAC review and council direction. ▶ 📄