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| 00:00:03.05 | Heidi Scoble | Audio is up. We'll start with the streaming. Okay, we'll admit the participants. |
| 00:00:09.36 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:10.49 | Heidi Scoble | Good evening, Mayor Hoffman and council members. This meeting is being held pursuant to section three of executive order N-29-20 issued by Governor Newsom on March 17th, 2020. And all members are joining this meeting telephonically through Zoom and broadcast and is being broadcast live on the city's website and on cable TV channel 27. |
| 00:00:31.43 | Jill Hoffman | Good evening and welcome to the regular city council meeting January 26, 2021. Uh... Heidi, would you please call the roll? |
| 00:00:40.02 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:00:40.43 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:00:40.48 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 00:00:42.00 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:00:42.02 | Unknown | here. |
| 00:00:42.88 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Blaustein. here. Councilmember Cleveland Knowles. Thank you. |
| 00:00:47.55 | Unknown | I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO |
| 00:00:47.79 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Kellman? Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:00:52.34 | Jill Hoffman | here. |
| 00:00:52.39 | Heidi Scoble | All members are present and there's a quorum. |
| 00:00:52.95 | Jill Hoffman | All members are. Thank you, Heidi. We will be hearing items D1 through D3 in closed session this evening. Um, D1 is conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, Item D2 is conference with real property negotiator pursuant to property at MLK School Site at 100 Ebb Tide and 610 Coloma Street in Sauslio. Item D3 is conference with real property negotiator pursuant to property at 100 Spinnaker drive and Sausalito. California. I will now open public comment on these closed session items. I see no hands raised. Heidi, do you see any hands raised? |
| 00:01:42.39 | Heidi Scoble | I don't see any hands raised, Madam Mayor, but would you like me to read how public comment may be taken? during this time since we do have some participants. Sure. At this time, members of the public may address the city council regarding all closed session agenda items. Public comment will be accepted by video or audio audience participation via Zoom. video or audio public comment participation is limited to three minutes per speaker. If you'd like to make a comment, please raise your hand in the Zoom application and you'll be called upon when it's your time to speak. to raise your hand from a phone press star nine. Each speaker will be notified when the time has elapsed. And Madam Mayor, I still don't see any hands raised at this time. |
| 00:02:21.71 | Jill Hoffman | Very good, thank you. Then in that case, I will now close public comment and we will adjourn to closed session. |
| 00:02:38.17 | Heidi Scoble | Audio's up, streaming's up. We're going to admit all of our participants. |
| 00:02:38.28 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:02:48.04 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor you may resume the open session of the city council meeting. |
| 00:02:53.10 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you very much. We have no, I'm reopening the open session of City Council. for January 26, 2021. We do not have any closed session announcements. Moving on to item 2B on our agenda, approval approval of the agenda. I'm going to request at this time that items five, I cannabis update and 7a. housing elements. be pulled from the agenda for a future date at the request of staff. due to unforeseen staffing. humility. So may I have a motion or a second? Thank you. |
| 00:03:34.50 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:34.55 | Jill Hoffman | you |
| 00:03:34.61 | Janelle Kellman | to be able to get the |
| 00:03:34.78 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:34.80 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:34.82 | Jill Hoffman | . |
| 00:03:34.97 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:35.03 | Jill Hoffman | some |
| 00:03:35.31 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:36.10 | Jill Hoffman | for those items. |
| 00:03:36.98 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:37.03 | Jill Hoffman | with the |
| 00:03:37.70 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:37.75 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:37.85 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:37.87 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:37.89 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:37.97 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. Madam Clerk, can you please pull? |
| 00:03:46.06 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 00:03:47.44 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:47.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:47.61 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:03:47.74 | Unknown | you |
| 00:03:48.16 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Blaustein. Yes. Council member Cleveland Knowles. Yes. Vice Mayor Kelman? Yes. and Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:03:56.79 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, the motion passes unanimous. Moving on to our next agenda item, mayor's announcements. I have a couple of announcements. The first announcement is that if we, due to the current weather conditions if there's an indication that there's a power outage any part of Sausalito. We will pause at that point and decide if we, how to proceed. So we may call the meeting for the night if it looks like it's widespread or if there's a thought that it may come back on. will determine at that point how we want to proceed. Anyway, I just wanted to make that acknowledgement at the very beginning. My next... And my next announcement is, I have three announcements tonight. That was the first one. My second one is on the status of the tent encampment in Sausalito. And so there's been, we've had a lot Um, calls and emails and comment on this. And so I wanted to give everybody an update to the extent that I can at this point. Over the last few weeks, the city has received calls and emails from residents with questions concerning a tent encampment on city land adjacent to Dumpy Park. I want to thank you for your concern. I also want to assure you that the city is working diligently to identify available and appropriate resources Thank you. to assist individuals at the encampment to find alternative housing or shelter. We have been in contact with county and state health officials social service officials and social service agencies to help identify options, and have also been working with offices of county and state elected officials. As always in Sausalito, we are committed to continue seeking appropriate alternative services for those living in the tents And meanwhile, the Saucyote Police Department is monitoring the site motivated by compassion as well as safety concerns. Residents who have questions about this issue can direct their inquiries to Sausalito Police Lieutenant, Stacey Gregory. at s Gregory s g r e g o r y at saucel.gov or call at 415-289-415-289-415-289. 4170, again, 415-289-4170. We will continue to give you updates at upcoming city council meetings and through the Sausalito Currents e-newsletter, but I can assure you we are working tirelessly to come up with a solution As always in our creative way in Sausalito to address the highest concerns that we have here, which are the safety of our citizens, the safety of the people in the encampment and the better course of action for the city of Sausalito. So that is my second announcement. My third announcement is to thank the public agencies for the assistance with past storm and wind events on January 18, 19 of 2021, which is ironic because we are again in perhaps another storm event tonight. That was a Herculean effort on the behalf of several state and federal agencies. Um, And resulted in quick and substantive action to prevent THE END OF THE END OF THE significant property damage from 23 boats that washed down to Sauslio shores from, uh, waters outside of our waters. So I want to thank the U.S. Coast Guard, Sector San Francisco, Captain of the Port, Marie Byrd, U.S. Coast Guard Station Golden Gate, Chief Warrant Officer Craig Ross, the commanding officer of the station, BM1 Anthony, cop shivered the commanding, uh, the command duty officer on that night, being one Christina Duffy operations, petty officer and on dirty on duty boat crews, those guys were out on the waters, pulling boats out of harm's way. Same for Southern Marin Fire District Battalion Chief Matt Bouchard was the incident commander and the water rescue boat crew from Southern Room Fire, Army Corps of Engineers, Marty Plish, the operations navigation chief, Joseph, Raxton's Marine op the Marine engineer will Hennessy the equipment operator. And finally, from Richardson Bay Regional Agency, Curtis Havel, who's the Harbor Master and Jim Malcolm, the Assistant Harbor Master. So these guys in coordination with Sosselia police department did a tremendous job that night to avoid even more damage to people in our jurisdiction and to the marinas and beaches. So thanks so much to them. to that coordinated effort. Now moving on to the second item on our agenda, communications. Heidi, would you like to read the communications section? |
| 00:08:42.01 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:08:42.02 | Jill Hoffman | or did you know that? |
| 00:08:42.31 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:08:42.46 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:08:42.60 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:08:42.80 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:08:44.42 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, I can read it. This is the time on the agenda where the public may provide public comment for those items that are not on this agenda. Public comment will be taken via Zoom, and you can use your video or audio audience participation buttons via Zoom. Video or audio public comment participation is limited to three minutes per speaker. If you would like to make a comment, please raise your hand in the Zoom application and you'll be called upon when it's your time to speak. To raise your hand from a phone, press star nine. each speaker will be notified when the time has elapsed. |
| 00:09:18.91 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. This is a time for public comment for items not on the agenda. So now the item's not on the agenda. are the items that we just removed other than other items really not on the agenda But we just removed the cannabis and housing element um are now not on the agenda so if you wish to still make public comment on those items Now is your time to do that. So. Anyway. Moving on, please raise your hand. and |
| 00:09:49.49 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:09:49.52 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:09:49.56 | Jill Hoffman | I'm |
| 00:09:50.03 | Heidi Scoble | Are you seeing any raised hands? Madam Mayor, I'm not seeing any hands that are raised at this time. |
| 00:09:56.66 | Unknown | The raise hand function isn't working right now. Is there a different way that we could go about this? Thank you. |
| 00:10:04.80 | Jill Hoffman | I don't know if a different way. I'm guessing that, Whoever just spoke, wants to make a statement. Bye. OK. Oh, gee. I'll tell you what. |
| 00:10:20.83 | Robbie Powelson | Can you hear? |
| 00:10:22.04 | Jill Hoffman | Hold on just a second. Hey guys, everybody, hold on. I think I just saw somebody with clapping hands. |
| 00:10:29.13 | Susan Shea | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:10:29.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:29.33 | Susan Shea | Thank you. |
| 00:10:29.81 | Unknown | That's not raising your hand. |
| 00:10:30.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:31.71 | Heidi Scoble | And you know, it appears |
| 00:10:31.81 | Unknown | It's a good thing. Thank you. |
| 00:10:35.64 | Heidi Scoble | It appears as though Zoom has some significant glitches going on at this time. Council Member Sobieski has been able to raise Yes. |
| 00:10:45.92 | Ian Sobieski | Yes, you go to reactions on your bottom bar and click reactions. And there should be a little raised hand. Thank you. Is that only a bit more? |
| 00:10:56.38 | Melissa Blaustein | Is that only available to hosts? |
| 00:10:57.04 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:11:00.80 | Joan Cox | Only for hosts. |
| 00:11:02.39 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | So I'm not getting that. Do you think we should take a three minute break, Jill, so that our IT staff can see if they can |
| 00:11:05.39 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 00:11:05.80 | Unknown | you |
| 00:11:09.95 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | address this or do you want to use the clapping hand? Thank you. |
| 00:11:12.75 | Jill Hoffman | Let's just take a few minutes. quick break. I agree. Let's take a two minute break and see, or three minute break and see if we can figure this out. and |
| 00:12:02.47 | Heidi Scoble | you professional. Ross Jacobs has been able to provide us with a workaround, |
| 00:12:04.07 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:09.77 | Heidi Scoble | regarding this situation. |
| 00:12:13.05 | Unknown | Okay, what's the workaround? |
| 00:12:14.16 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:12:14.40 | Heidi Scoble | So the workaround is similar to what Council Member Sobieski has indicated. So as a guest, if you do click on the reaction button, below the reactions, there is a raise hand function that only guests would be able to use. |
| 00:12:31.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:31.96 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:12:31.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:32.03 | Heidi Scoble | It does look like actually co-hosts are able to use it as well. |
| 00:12:38.60 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Um... |
| 00:12:43.00 | Melissa Blaustein | I'm still not seeing any reason. If that doesn't work, you could also temporarily enable the chat function. I know we normally turn it off for these meetings, but that way folks could just during public comment period say, I would like to comment in the chat bar. if the hand raise doesn't work. I just think it's really critical. Obviously, we all agree we need to be able to take public comment. |
| 00:13:02.52 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 00:13:02.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:13:02.73 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Well, I tell you what, And oddly, that happened. The clapping hands are there. So let's just use it clapping hands and, um, Thank you. want to make a public comment, use a clapping hands. If we call on you, you clapped and you didn't really want to make a comment. You just wanted to actually clap then. You can say I was just clapping. Okay, let's try it like that. We'll try it this time. We'll see how it goes. All right, so if you wanna make a public comment, raise your, do your clapping hands. And now is the time at four matters not on the agenda, |
| 00:13:41.08 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, so I see clapping hands. from Charlene Eldon and Ha. Robbie Powelson and Susan's iPad. And those are the top three, the next three ones. And then I see Sandra Bushmaker and Megan. point in. Oh, no, okay, you're not seeing anything from, Negative on Sandra Bushmaker, but yes on Megan. Okay. Oh, wait, there was one more. Okay. |
| 00:14:05.98 | Heidi Scoble | WE'LL START WITH THE We'll start off with Charlene and then Robbie and then Susan's iPad. Very good, thank you. So it's just gonna... Thanks to everybody for... |
| 00:14:09.00 | Jill Hoffman | you |
| 00:14:11.88 | Unknown | Very good, thank you. Thanks to everybody for coming. |
| 00:14:18.21 | Heidi Scoble | Right. |
| 00:14:18.43 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:14:18.85 | Unknown | Go ahead. |
| 00:14:19.09 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:14:24.81 | Unknown | Bye, everyone. Welcome. Thank you. Go ahead. |
| 00:14:28.16 | Sybil Boutier | Go ahead. |
| 00:14:30.65 | Unknown | This isn't going to be pleasant. I find it unacceptable that Susan Cleveland Knowles is continuing to hold office. She, along with her husband, Jeff Knowles and many others here in attendance today, were found guilty of knowingly and willingly segregating Sausalito's schools. They were on the board. and in city council. Once the ages desegregation order came down the city of Sausalito under Susan's mayoral leadership filed against the desegregation. Then once COVID had been clearly ravaging the BIPOC communities, especially black communities Susan claimed that she couldn't provide assistance to Marin City because it was not in Sausalito's jurisdiction. That, in hindsight, was a very ironic thing for her to say, given that she was one of the people who helped to steal money from that school, an estimated one to two million. Give context to the public bills eager co founder of the willow creek academy charter school was quoted just in 2016 saying that black children were inferior genetically and therefore incapable of success with Jen Conway and many other parents in attendance and agreement. There is no way forward. with segregators and possible white supremacists in office I'm asking Susan Cleveland Knowles to resign thanks to her involvement and knowledge. of segregation, what you did was unconscionable and shameful. and your position in power is a blight on all of us. Sausalito needs to divest from white supremacy. make up for what it has done. and remove all those who were found guilty from positions of power. make a clear statement against white supremacy like the Marin County Board of Supervisors has already done following the coup Make a statement. in favor of equity reparations directly to Marin City. and in favor of equality and democracy. Thank you. |
| 00:16:38.36 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. I think the lineup was Susan's iPad and Robbie Powelson, although I don't see your clapping hands anymore, but I believe that that was our lineup. So I think So let's go with Robbie Powelson next. I see his clapping hands. And then we'll go with Susan's iPad next. |
| 00:17:03.14 | Jill Hoffman | All right. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Go ahead, Robby. |
| 00:17:09.41 | Robbie Powelson | Can you hear me now? |
| 00:17:10.91 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:17:10.94 | Robbie Powelson | Yes. |
| 00:17:11.03 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 00:17:11.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:17:11.84 | Robbie Powelson | Thank you. |
| 00:17:11.87 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 00:17:12.17 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:17:12.85 | Robbie Powelson | Yeah. I'm at the encampment right now and been the day I've been helping people get situated The majority of people out here at the Superman are people who are former anchor routes who've lost their boats to either Curtis Howell or I've heard the name Devin Rose who apparently is a detective. that destroyed one woman's home. I think it's, It's kind of incredible how this encampment has grown because there's been because of Sausalito's both Sausalito's approach to the Anchor Elk community as well as its trying to wash in his hands with the RBRA along with I mean, leadership we've seen in terms of working with BCDC in the eradication effort of this community has created I mean, it's like a humanitarian crisis, feels like. You know, we just had a man today, just lost everything, Curtis Hobble. took his boat in punched it full of holes. We got it all on video. pulls it up and then We went in to try and retrieve it the day of. Couldn't do that. Came back the next day with waterlogged, everything gone, three laptops. And, It's like a, It's just a shameful thing. And it's interesting because I'm looking for I've seen a statement publicly made about the encampment. Um. You know, apparently it's a big discussion in town and next door. Apparently it's all over. Nobody here, none of us at this encampment have access to next door. There's a whole conversation Sausalito's having. And I think that echoes what Charlene was saying about the segregation. I have no idea, and I've sent an invitation to all of you to come down, including your director of public works, your police chief. and the city manager to come and meet with people. These are normal people. |
| 00:19:12.27 | Damian Morgan | Thank you. |
| 00:19:12.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:19:12.41 | Damian Morgan | Thank you. |
| 00:19:13.37 | Robbie Powelson | Um, You can come down to meet us anytime we have masks. come and talk to her. We're not going to fight. And I think there's just, Right now, what we have is unsustainable solutions right now that the county and the city of Sausalito, Richardson Bay Region Agency are all participating in. You know, today we had a social worker come by woman who had come off one of the boats. And also 40 days. in a psychiatric ward And the social worker, I had to help the social worker set up a tent. And this is Marin County. This is Marin County where I have to spend my time helping the social worker set up a tent. for a long time Sausalito resident. And these are your constituents. And whether you're not, you know, South Salido has tried to wash their hands, the Accra community. much as they did back in the you know, during the ship days. You know, Sausalito has a big shameful history. And I hope you guys redress that and come down and visit |
| 00:20:14.80 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, three minutes time has elapsed. |
| 00:20:14.85 | Robbie Powelson | Thank you. |
| 00:20:15.47 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. Up next, I believe is Susan's iPad. Thank you. Um, I saw clapping hands earlier and. And then I see next up is Joan Cox. And then Chris Monroe. I'm sure. |
| 00:20:33.15 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:33.17 | Susan Shea | Susan's are. Thank you. |
| 00:20:33.80 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:20:33.83 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:20:33.96 | Susan Shea | you |
| 00:20:34.02 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:34.18 | Jill Hoffman | Joan Cox and Chris Monroe. |
| 00:20:35.92 | Susan Shea | Okay, thank you, Susan. You're... Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor. Council members, staff, residents. Well, after that last guy talked, okay. I don't. My name is Susan Shea. I live on Spring Street. I have read the comments via email regarding a 10th city |
| 00:21:01.71 | Susan Shea | Although I understand the concerns, I do not at all agree with the solutions offered. This last year we have experienced a pandemic and result in economic downturn that has affected the most vulnerable of us. the projected rise in homelessness in the next two years makes it mandatory that Sausalito develop a plan with neighboring towns |
| 00:21:27.32 | Damian Morgan | Thank you. |
| 00:21:31.47 | Susan Shea | because we with all good conscience because can we with all good conscience. I think we have no role in alleviating suffering. We certainly should be thinking this is everyone else's problem. All human beings. deserve housing. Thank you. |
| 00:21:57.29 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, Susan. Okay, next up on my list is Joan Cox and then Chris Monroe. |
| 00:22:07.37 | Jill Hoffman | Welcome. |
| 00:22:09.36 | Joan Cox | Thank you so much. Some of you know that I'm a former council member who started Sausalito's safe Harbor program to allow anchor outs to become liveaboards in Sausalito's various marinas. I've been down to the tent encampment every single day since it started, including today. I've chatted with some of the folks down there and I can tell you, and I've chatted with various anchor outs who know who the anchor outs are and who the tent campers are. And I can tell you with the exception of one person, Thank you. tell you and i've chatted with various anchor outs who know who the anchor outs are and who the tent campers are and i can tell you with the exception of one person the tent encampment is not comprised of anchor outs i don't know why mr powelson believes that to be the case or whether he's making a political statement of his own which i've known him to do by showing up to bcdc's executive director's house in person i've also received hate mail from various folks but i will tell you that the anchor outs tell me that the tent encampment is not comprised of anchor outs sausalito has not seized any boats belonging that are being lived on by anchor outs, we totally adopted a moratorium commencing with the pandemic in March of 2020, as did RBRA. So it is a misnomer that these folks are anchor outs. That's not to say that they don't need assistance. And I've been working behind the scenes with various legislators and other leaders regarding how best to assist those in need. But I do want to dispense with the misnomer that those are anchor outs. We already have a program for anchor outs. It's our safe harbor program. We funding for that beginning in november of 2019 and renewed in november of 2020. And we are actively addressing the needs of the anchor routes more in Saucenbo's waters. Thank you. |
| 00:24:01.43 | Unknown | Thank you. Our next step is Chris Monroe and |
| 00:24:05.02 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:24:06.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:24:06.27 | Jill Hoffman | Sorry, bear with me for a minute. I have to, Megan, I see next Megan Boynton. with clapping hands and sorry, one more. And that's, And That's it. So I see Megan Boynton, |
| 00:24:21.39 | Jill Hoffman | AND CHRISMAN ROYSING. |
| 00:24:21.96 | Unknown | for Chris Monroe and then Megan. Okay, thanks, Chris. Go ahead. |
| 00:24:25.15 | Connor Johnston | Thank you. So you guys aren't the only ones having technical difficulties. I am, as most of you know, Connor Johnston My business partner, Chris, and I share a Zoom account, and I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get the name to change. but I'll be Chris. Um, I just wanted to briefly say congratulations and welcome to the new counselors, Kelman, Blaustein, and Sobiaski. Congratulations on a really hard fought campaign and, Congratulations, Madam Mayor, to your new position. We were thinking that the cannabis item would be discussed today, so we plan to come and speak. But since it's not, I will just briefly introduce the item that my colleague, Meg, who's speaking after me, is going to invite each of you to an event we're hosting a week from today to talk a little bit more about our proposal for cannabis retail in Sausalito. It'd be great to have you there. We have some excellent speakers in terms of medical issues and continuous issues and all of those important topics. And we just wanted to please urge you to continue working on the issue. We are now officially two years into this project, two years since Chris and I started knocking on doors and talking to people about the idea of cannabis retail. in Sausalito. And we're still just as excited to move forward and hope you guys will keep moving on it. So thank you. |
| 00:25:46.57 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thanks very much. Okay, the next... Megan, I believe, was the next person I saw clapping, and then I don't see any other clapping. We're gonna... Uh, sorry, I see. Curtis Lovell is also clapping. So we're going to do Megan and then we'll do Curtis. Okay, go ahead, Megan. |
| 00:26:05.59 | Megan Boynton | Hi, and I will just echo what Connor said. Congratulations to all, Happy New Year. some really great faces and yeah, congratulations. I'm here in support of cannabis. And I thought even though we're moving the agenda item, I just use this opportunity to give a pitch for the meeting that Connor discussed earlier on Tuesday, February 2nd, to discuss cannabis in Sausalito and the community. I'm a parent and a mom and a South Slido native. And I just feel like the conversation needs to open up to the community. We need to talk through things. We need to hear concerns. and we need to give information. And so I hope everybody that's on this call will join us on Tuesday at 6.30. If you have any questions and want an invite, just email me at megb.com. at louis-420.com. And I really do hope to see you there. And again, congratulations, Council, and Happy New Year. |
| 00:27:08.18 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay, so |
| 00:27:14.53 | Jill Hoffman | I see Curtis, I believe Curtis. Okay, go ahead, Kirsten. |
| 00:27:24.55 | Curtis Havel | Thank you. |
| 00:27:24.57 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:27:24.97 | Curtis Havel | Thank you. Hi, good evening everybody. THE FAMILY. Welcome to the new city council members. I'm looking forward to meeting you. The Richardson Bay Regional Agency has a lot planned for 2021. I wanted to share some of the current information with you. Right now we have a count of 103 vessels out in the Anchorage. Today, my assistant harbormaster and I went out and did a check on the location of all the vessels in the Anchorage. That way, if anything happens over the course of the evening and the Coast Guard needs to call and find out who's on board, how to get ahold of somebody, I can try to assist with that effort. I won't be going out on the water tonight just because my boat's not equipped for that kind of weather. I'm not sure. But so we did that in preparation for this event. Um, thank you, Madam mayor for the kudos. Appreciate it. It's been a busy, busy week and a half. Thank you. |
| 00:28:10.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:28:10.62 | Curtis Havel | Um, and I just got home. So I forget my, uh, kind of haggard appearance here. I'm not sure. 2021 we've got we just got a word from our folks the housing outreach team that funding was approved for the addition of an outreach worker to help us implementing the portion of our transition plan that deals with housing outreach out on the Anchorage. This is significant. So in the past, there wasn't an outreach person specifically assigned to Southern Marin now we have somebody assigned to southern moran and that includes richardson's bay so we're really excited about that we're hoping 2021 we'll see some folks getting housed from the anchorage Something else that was very exciting recently that occurred was we received funding, additional funding for our eelgrass protection and management plan. We've contracted with Rebecca Schwartz-Lessberg of Coastal Policy Solutions, and she's busy working on the drafts plan that we'll hopefully be bringing to our board of directors, our BRAA board of directors in March. But that's super exciting because that's a shot in the arm that we needed to get that moving forward. And then finally, if you've got questions about the Richardson's Bay Regional Agency Board of Directors adopted a transition plan back in June of 2020. It's online at rbra.ca.gov. And it talks about our management priorities. And it talks about how we're going to go about continuing to work the number of liveaboards in the Anchorage down that we're going to be able to you know, along to the point where it's restored to being a 72 hour anchorage. Um, it is an anchorage. It's going to continue being an anchorage. It is not a Marina. And I recently I've been, I think there's been some confusion on that point. A marina, when you put a boat in a marina, you're paying for security, you're paying for trash, water, electricity. An anchorage is where you drop anchor, you stay temporarily, and then you continue on your journey. So we're really trying to get the word out and make sure that people are clear on what Richardson's Bay is and what it isn't. If you ever have questions, please reach out to me. I'm happy to talk to you anytime. If you want to come out on the water, I'm happy to take you out on the RBRA patrol vessel as well. Thanks. |
| 00:30:11.44 | Jill Hoffman | Thanks very much. Okay. scanning for IC1, |
| 00:30:24.98 | Heidi Scoble | I'm a mayor. Yeah, Eva Cresante, which is also Eva's iPhone, raised her hand earlier. And would you like us to ask if she would like to provide any public comment? |
| 00:30:25.03 | Jill Hoffman | I was- |
| 00:30:37.41 | Jill Hoffman | Sure. I keep seeing Chris Monroe to go clapping again, but I don't think he means to do that because he already talked, I think. We already had Chris Monroe. So yeah, Eva's iPhone, whatever iteration that is, if she would like to speak that now's her time. And that's the last clapping hand that I see. |
| 00:30:56.72 | Eva Crisanti | Thank you. It's Eva Crisanti and I just want to point out that I had to repeatedly raise my hand and then email Susan Cleveland Knowles and email Jill Hoffman and forward it to Heidi just to get this acknowledged. But I do wanna thank Susan Shea for her comments. I had the pleasure of listening to the Reverend Dr. William Barber during the inauguration, prayer breakfast. And He was... extremely evocative and there's nothing that that he said that didn't evoke everything that Martin Luther King was talking about in his last few speeches about the needs of the poor, and and our responsibilities as a country and beyond. And I saw right away this past summer when I first met Robbie Powelson, that he had this quality. It was a tremendous quality of leadership and courage And he's a very plain spoken young man. I thought it was phenomenal having Joan Cox chime in and complain that people living in this tent encampment aren't actual anchor outs. Frankly, to my mind, it absolutely does not matter. I also had the pleasure of rereading The Grapes of Wrath recently, John Steinbeck's angry epic masterpiece, which I truly recommend everyone on city council. It's magnificent and it doesn't take prisoners. Um, but I guarantee you that Steinbeck would have nothing good to say about Curtis Havel or Joan Cox. His rage at how poor people were being treated in the Central Valley. was complete. And it's fascinating to me when you look at what informed Steinbeck's work, which was a lot of research with what WPA was doing. And, you know, in that case, the federal government came in and they went right to where the unhoused people were. and they built, amenities for them right there. They built libraries, they built schools, they built laundromats, they built showers, they built bathrooms. A lot of these people who were dust belt refugees had never seen a working toilet. They built things that didn't just address people's physical needs, but they addressed their social and spiritual needs. And out of that, we got some great music, including, you know, Woody Guthrie. So, you know, it's sad to hear Joan Cox. It's sad to hear Curtis Hovel. We can be a better country than this. I thank Robbie for all this work. Time has elapsed. |
| 00:34:01.59 | Jill Hoffman | Robbie, for all this work. |
| 00:34:02.87 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:34:05.23 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, so I don't think I see no other I see nowhere they're clapping hands. of people that haven't already spoken. So can you confirm that, Heidi? |
| 00:34:19.22 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, if we can just ask the participants to either clap their hands or give us a thumbs up just so we can check one more time And in the meantime, while we're waiting to see if there are any other public comments, I did want to let everyone know that apparently there was a recent Zoom update. So after this meeting, you may want to update your devices because they moved the raised hand function a couple times. So that's probably what's causing this issue tonight. so I apologize for any inconveniences. It does not appear as though we're seeing Oh, Chris Monroe is able to raise his hand. |
| 00:34:59.32 | Unknown | But Chris Monroe, we already had a comment from Chris Monroe. |
| 00:35:02.67 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:35:02.69 | Unknown | you |
| 00:35:02.71 | Heidi Scoble | Yes. |
| 00:35:02.72 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:35:03.28 | Heidi Scoble | I'm not sure if this is the Chris Monroe or our previous speaker. Apparently the previous speaker was having trouble renaming himself, um, |
| 00:35:07.97 | Connor Johnston | All right. |
| 00:35:07.99 | Unknown | Definitely. |
| 00:35:08.34 | Connor Johnston | Thank you. |
| 00:35:12.16 | Heidi Scoble | So at your pleasure, can we at least see who it is? |
| 00:35:13.56 | Jill Hoffman | At least. Thank you. Yes, you may show yourself. the person known as Chris Monroe. with the race to hand. |
| 00:35:25.45 | Jill Hoffman | I see it as not the same person. They're very good. Please continue. This is Chris Moreau, I believe. |
| 00:35:28.46 | Chris Monroe | It's a good idea. Yeah, this is the real Chris Monroe. |
| 00:35:33.96 | Jill Hoffman | Please continue. |
| 00:35:35.21 | Chris Monroe | Good evening, council members. Thank you for having us and congratulations to all the new members. I wanted, and I'm Chris Monroe with CrossFit Sausalito and also a member of Otter Brands with Connor Johnston. So just wanted to extend a |
| 00:35:42.03 | Damian Morgan | Bye. |
| 00:35:51.64 | Chris Monroe | to our community meeting coming up soon and hopefully you can all attend. But I also wanted to just touch base with what Sausalito is potentially trying to do to help small businesses that have been severely affected by the pandemic and the shelter in place order. My business since March 15th has been allowed to operate for a total of 10 weeks. And we are now going into February. And I owe in excess of coming up to about $60,000 in back rent. And with the moratorium lifting, I will be in deep trouble running my business. And I'm going to be in deep trouble. You know, my business is a good business. We always have enough money. And I actually am on the verge of having the busiest potential season ever. I mean, more than I would normally get in a normal January. I mean, I have... in excess of 10 to 15 people who are ready to sign up immediately. So month to month, I will make plenty of money. incredible, but the back rent is just something that's going to be crippling to most small businesses. I am hopeful that Sausalito has something that they can try to do to help us directly or at least are reaching out in some way. I'm watching eagerly to see what happens on a state level, what they're trying to do. I mean, the PPP is just, it's not enough. And even if I get it, it mostly has to go to payroll. If I'm closed, I can't use it. Hopefully I can get in touch with somebody from the council who could let me know how they can help and if there's some kind of plan. But It's getting pretty bad. I know everybody says it's getting bad and it's getting bad but it's a tipping point. It's rough. It's been very difficult emotionally. I try to go day to day, but I'm it's bad. And I think a lot of people don't have a chance to have Sam. Sam. Thank you very much, and thank you again for having me. |
| 00:37:59.44 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay. I don't see any other. indication of someone that wants to speak during public comment for matters not on the agenda. Do you see anybody? |
| 00:38:12.60 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, I do not see anybody at this time. Thank you. |
| 00:38:15.79 | Jill Hoffman | Um, |
| 00:38:16.01 | Heidi Scoble | and you're not. |
| 00:38:16.21 | Jill Hoffman | In that case, we will close public comment for matters not on the agenda. We will move on to our Next agenda item. which is action minutes at the previous meeting. me teens. So we have two draft. meeting minutes, one is a special meeting minutes from January 7 and regular meeting minutes from January 12. may have a motion to accept these or Are there any corrections, requested corrections? |
| 00:38:47.35 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | I have a small correction to the January 12th meeting minutes. I think we ended up realizing that the two committee appointments were done by roll call, vote first to the mosquito abatement district and second accepting the resignation so we did vote on that second matter and that's not reflected in the minutes but with that correction I would move approval of those |
| 00:39:12.05 | Jill Hoffman | Very good. Anybody? Is there a second to the motion? second. Okay, Heidi, if you could call the roll, please. |
| 00:39:22.55 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 00:39:24.24 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:39:24.30 | Heidi Scoble | Wait, wait, wait, hold on. |
| 00:39:24.32 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:39:26.21 | Jill Hoffman | Uh... I need to take public comment on the minutes. Sorry, my apologies. Is there any public comment on the meeting minutes from January 7th or January 12th. |
| 00:39:44.86 | Jill Hoffman | I see none. Heidi, if you can confirm that, then we'll close and then we'll have a motion. |
| 00:39:55.22 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, I do not see any reactions at this time. |
| 00:39:58.46 | Jill Hoffman | Very good. I will close public comment and then I will ask for a motion again. |
| 00:40:05.16 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | a motion with the amendment. |
| 00:40:07.37 | Jill Hoffman | second. |
| 00:40:09.53 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 00:40:09.55 | Jill Hoffman | half second the motion |
| 00:40:09.59 | Melissa Blaustein | have a |
| 00:40:11.08 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. And Heidi, could you call the roll? |
| 00:40:14.37 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 00:40:15.80 | Ian Sobieski | Yes. |
| 00:40:16.01 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:40:16.04 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:40:16.97 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Blaustein. Yes. Councilmember Cleveland Knowles. Thank you. |
| 00:40:21.26 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:40:21.49 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Vice Mayor Kelman? Yes. Mayor Hoffman? |
| 00:40:25.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:40:25.59 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Okay, council member committee reports. Moving on to agenda item number four, council member, Council member of committee reports. Um, Do we have any, I have a couple of community reports, but does anybody want to go first? Do you really have any? Thank you. |
| 00:40:46.57 | Melissa Blaustein | I have a few. |
| 00:40:47.31 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:40:47.70 | Melissa Blaustein | Go ahead. I attended the sustainability commission meeting, which was really |
| 00:40:50.18 | Jill Hoffman | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:40:55.12 | Melissa Blaustein | Interesting, the Sustainability Commission is still I'm hard at work in advocating to ensure that there is an EV charging station, public EV charging station in Sausalito, glad to see is being considered as well to items that are coming up on the city council. They're also continuing to follow and we're happy to see the letter submitted on the grand jury report on the status of climate change. And we'll continue to be working on that as well. They are also working on creating very impressive subcommittees dealing with specific issues related to climate change. So you'll be seeing and hearing from the much more frequently, hopefully at the city council and we should have a report from them soon. I also attended the Historic Preservation Commission meeting on January 21st, where a number of items were heard three were related to properties within the Marin ship and I think there were three other properties. Most will be moving ahead to the planning commission. A few received a certificate of approval |
| 00:41:51.27 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:41:52.14 | Melissa Blaustein | One in particular that a number of merchants have asked about is the Chanel building on Princess Street. So that will be heard by the planning commission as well. I want to thank everyone that attended and stuck, hung in there for that meeting because it was about four hours, which is longer than the general meeting. So I want to thank everyone that attended and stuck, for that meeting. and the committee did a really good job of hearing all the items and all of the presentations despite a number of technical difficulties. So those are the committee reports. Those are my first questions. time on each of those and we'll continue to be reporting back. |
| 00:42:25.39 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thanks. |
| 00:42:26.11 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. Anybody else? Madam Mayor, I'll jump in. So Councilmember Sobieski and I had the pleasure of meeting for the machine shop subcommittee. And so we had a meeting with GSA and also with Huffman's office to discuss next steps on that. now looking at our options now that we understand the acquisition process and the surplus process and we'll come back to that we also. Council members will be asking and I met several times since our last meeting to discuss some updates to the city manager process I won't go into that because that is a. um item on our agenda so i can just tell you we've been very diligent and even met over the weekend to uh really brainstorm some new ideas for how we can roll this out. Madam Mayor, do you want me to cover finance and or legislative or would you like to handle this? |
| 00:43:13.70 | Jill Hoffman | Sure, go ahead and cover finance. If you want to roll into legislative, that's fine. And then I'll, if I need to weigh in, I don't think I will, but go ahead. Thank you. |
| 00:43:21.38 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:43:21.40 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:43:21.45 | Janelle Kellman | Okay. |
| 00:43:21.51 | Jill Hoffman | Oh, sure. |
| 00:43:21.97 | Janelle Kellman | so finance committee met earlier this week we focus on investments cash management debt and capital improvement projects those agendas are available on the south state of finance committee web page and you can go to the agenda and you can see all the attachments that we reviewed our next meeting is going to be february 2nd we'll be looking specifically at debt service and our deal with southern marine fire district and then then we also have some longer and larger long term debt obligations that we decided to handle in a separate meeting. So on February 18th, we'll be looking at pensions and our OPEB obligations. So I hope you all can join us. It's about two hours long, but very, very interesting meetings. |
| 00:44:03.67 | Jill Hoffman | Fascinating. Do you wanna do legislative, MCC, MC legislative or do you want me to do that? |
| 00:44:08.49 | Janelle Kellman | Sure, happy to jump in. I sat in on the legislative Thank you. |
| 00:44:12.31 | Susan Shea | you |
| 00:44:12.44 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:44:12.48 | Susan Shea | Bye. |
| 00:44:12.63 | Janelle Kellman | committee meeting as well. So we heard from some state representatives. Revenues apparently are up across the state. They're looking at eviction bills. Biden had signed an emergency eviction relief through the CDC that was getting rolled down to the local level. Many of you know that the stay-at-home order was lifted. So earlier in the day on that meeting, the California Restaurant Association had actually leaked a memo anticipating that the governor would do just that. And then we saw that happened a few hours later. |
| 00:44:12.65 | Susan Shea | Thank you. |
| 00:44:42.95 | Janelle Kellman | Some other really interesting things coming down the pipe. There's a huge climate change bond that may be promoted. They're aiming for the November ballot for 2022. It'll include sea level rise. McGuire is working on an affordable housing bond also for November 2022. And it looks like we'll have some additional housing and education bonds on the next ballot. From Levine's office, apparently he introduced a bill to abolish the death penalty in California, and he's working on a COVID relief and contact tracing There's also some new wildfire evacuation studies that are happening. These are actually quite interesting because they're focused less on safety routes, more on traffic engineering. So they're looking at ingress and egress studies. And then there's some additional monies for resilient forests, defensible spaces, and some type of economic stimulus. Thank you. |
| 00:45:37.88 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:45:37.90 | Janelle Kellman | right? |
| 00:45:37.97 | Jill Hoffman | I have nothing to add. Thank you for that very thorough recitation. Okay. Anybody else have any committee meetings or reports? |
| 00:45:47.75 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah, sure. Our vice mayor summarized the two events I attended with her, worked on with her. The third is the Parks and Recreation Commission that I attended a meeting of last week. It was our first meeting. I got to know them and they are working on a new white paper to lay out goals and working patterns to try to be even more responsive to the community vis-a-vis our parks. We also discussed the potential donation of 20 or more relatively mature oak trees from a donor that might be planted in various locations in the city. considered and also there will be some outreach to Sausalito Beautiful to collaborate on that possibility. |
| 00:46:32.08 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, any other updates? |
| 00:46:34.38 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, I had just two quick updates. Unfortunately, I had a conflict with the last pedestrian and bike advisory committee meeting, but they did take a look at the capital improvement program. and also went back to the bike master plan. I had an agenda item on that, and then I was able to attend Safe routes to school. which was an interesting discussion. about issues that exist now and then issues that will exist with the unified school. next year and September. Right now there are only of kids attending school. So a lot of this was planning for the future. |
| 00:47:19.08 | Jill Hoffman | All right. Thank you. Okay, any other updates? Then I will open... this item up for public comment. |
| 00:47:33.26 | Jill Hoffman | I'm gonna do my scan. And I, on my, I do not see any, INDICATION THAT there's a public comment on this. Heidi, can you please confirm? |
| 00:47:47.04 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, I'm not seeing any reactions at this time. |
| 00:47:47.09 | Jill Hoffman | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:47:51.36 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, in that case, I'm going to close public comment and I'm going to... Move to the next item on our agenda, which is the consent calendar. Um, Matters under listed on the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial, require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous council support and may be enacted by the council in one motion in the form listed below. there will be no separate discussion of consent calendar items. However, before the council votes on a motion to adopt consent calendar items, council members, city staff, or members of the public may request that specific items may be removed from the consent calendar for separate action. In order to request an item be pulled, you must have a complete speaker's card. Anyway, raise your hand. Items removed from the consent counter will be discussed later on the agenda. When public comment will be heard on any item that was removed from the consent calendar. Um, |
| 00:48:45.18 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Madam Mayor, I would like to request that we remove item 5E. As I discussed last week, that's the ferry landslide, land side improvement. project. There's been, we've had extensive council discussion of this in the past. There was some great public comment. And I understand from our public works director that if we do not have a discussion tonight. The next time we see this, we will be at 30% design drawings. and we will not be able to make significant modifications without substantial cost. |
| 00:49:18.78 | Jill Hoffman | So, Very good. We can remove it. That's, uh, and we can discuss this, uh, once we remove them. Okay, any other requests to remove an item from the consent counter or any objection for removing that from the consent counter? Okay? Um, Any, do we have a motion? Oh, hold on a second. |
| 00:49:42.97 | Jill Hoffman | There are eight items on the consent calendar, seven if we remove item 5E. Um, |
| 00:49:54.09 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, do we have any public comment on consent calendar items? I see a hand raised for Susan's iPad. Let me see if I have seen other hands raised. I see no other hands raised. So Susan |
| 00:50:08.64 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | I think Eva chair must be also Pardon me? Eva's iPhone also gave a reaction |
| 00:50:17.35 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. So I have Susan and then I have Eva's iPhone. Yeah, I see it now. OK, go ahead, Susan, and then Eva, or Ava, I'm sorry, you're up. Go ahead, Susan. |
| 00:50:31.34 | Jill Hoffman | Susan, you're still on mute. We can't hear you. |
| 00:50:55.91 | Susan Shea | Thank you. |
| 00:50:56.03 | Jill Hoffman | Heidi, can we |
| 00:50:56.97 | Susan Shea | Now just unmute it. It wouldn't be for. |
| 00:50:57.55 | Jill Hoffman | Right. |
| 00:51:00.73 | Susan Shea | So I just wanted to agree with Susan Cleveland Knowles and ask you to take the fairy landing off the consent calendar. |
| 00:51:10.15 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:51:10.28 | Susan Shea | Thanks. |
| 00:51:10.52 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. and you It was iPhone. |
| 00:51:22.45 | Eva Crisanti | Thanks so much. Are we allowed to make comment on 5A or just to ask to remove it? |
| 00:51:33.47 | Jill Hoffman | 5A on the consent calendar. address it in the manner you see fit during public comment. |
| 00:51:40.66 | Eva Crisanti | Okay, is this the right time for that though? |
| 00:51:43.46 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:51:43.60 | Eva Crisanti | Okay, terrific. Thanks so much. Yeah, I did want to address the idea of responding to the Moraine Grand Jury about the gun next door. It seems to me a very strange thing. that we're talking about the gun next door, but we're not talking about the sheriff permitting the Contra Costa SWAT team to raid Marin City in November of 2019. I believe it was November 14th that that occurred. That was a pretty violent, traumatic incident. And It seems very, very strange to talk about handguns owned by the general public and for them to issue an entire report on that and never investigate the Marin County Sheriff. I also, I don't know if people are aware of this, but there's a small cohort of women who've been doing some pretty diligent Public Records Act requests, and I was able to do on arrests and demographics from the Marin County Sheriff and what it shows is that blacks and Latinos are uh, arrested in in mad multiples of their demographic presence in this county. And that's pretty disturbing. the Marin civil grand jury never even investigated that. Um, And, They never asked for an investigation of why it was appropriate in any way to permit the Contra Costa SWAT team to just practice on Marin City. I mean, there's something quite hideous about that. I'm not sure. So it just seems to me that it would be appropriate for you to remove the item and have a longer discussion since there's all this talk about equity and and some sort of like coming to terms with all the terrible things that Sausalito has kind of like participated in against Marin City. This would be a really good opportunity to take that item off. and craft your response so that it actually the research that the women in this county are doing with regard to the women in this county are doing sheriff use of force police use of force and certainly the very disturbing demographic trends and these are demographic trends the data I got ultimately from the county covers 1990 through 2020 now for the sheriff And I'm happy to send it to you. We're making a visual presentation of it. There'll be graphs, but I ask you to take this off and reconsider, thank you. |
| 00:54:29.66 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Um... Okay, I'm scanning. I do not see any other raised hands or other indication reaction that anybody would like to make public comment at this time. Heidi, can you please confirm that? |
| 00:54:46.12 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, I just scrolled through the list and have not seen any other raised hands or reactions. |
| 00:54:50.96 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. I will close public comment. at this time and then I'm gonna open the consent calendar up for council comment with regard to the item of 5E is Is our public works director on the line and can I pose a question to him? |
| 00:55:15.34 | Jill Hoffman | you Is Kevin McAllen available for me to pose a quick question to him? I see you're on. |
| 00:55:23.76 | Heidi Scoble | I'm not a mayor. I see him. I apologize. Kevin McGowan. |
| 00:55:28.39 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:55:31.81 | Heidi Scoble | Yes, I'm assigning him |
| 00:55:31.83 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. him. Okay, thanks. Hi, Kevin. So thank you for being available. So the idea was that this was on consent for info purposes and that this would come back to the city council in the next, |
| 00:55:37.33 | Heidi Scoble | There we go. |
| 00:55:37.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:55:47.96 | Jill Hoffman | no later than the next 60 days for a substantive discussion and as a business item. And so council member Cleveland Knowles, as I understand it is concerned that if it comes back within the next 60 days, you will be too far along to make any changes or for us to have a substantive discussion on the plan. Is that correct? What's the status? |
| 00:56:14.09 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. Good evening, council members. It's nice to see everybody. I had some internet problems, but hopefully this will last. We can definitely bring this back to the city council within the next 60 days. The idea was to have the, with the local professional group, kind of finish up what they were working on, and then to start the public meeting. Um, and, and we were not planning on bringing it back to council, just like, uh, uh, Councilmember Knowles had suggested, but there isn't a problem with bringing it back to the council In fact, it would be great to do so. So I look forward to that. |
| 00:56:49.49 | Jill Hoffman | So that's what, That was the intent and my apologies, that was not clear in the staff report. Um, my idea was some of these bigger issues that have you know, that preceded the current city council is to bring these kind of big things back on the consent calendar with the idea is just for info. So everybody can get up to speed. Everybody can understand where we're going, whatever the issues are. But I'm gonna make sure that that's called out and recommended action. So when something like this is on, on the consent calendar. If you look under recommended action, it's gonna clearly say, this is on for info purposes this will come back to the city council within the next city 60 days for either business item or public hearing so |
| 00:57:35.88 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | it. So Mayor and Director McGowan, the staff report actually says it will come back after we are at 30% design drawings. And I asked the director and he responded to the full council that yes, when we are that far down the road, if we want to make substantial modifications, we could be precluded from doing so without Sam. fairly significant costs. So that's why I wanted to have a full discussion of it this evening. And we had a great staff report. We had, you know, really amazing presentations by all the architects. And we have, you know, we've taken stuff off the agenda. So I thought this would be a great time. Thank you. That's my recommendation. |
| 00:58:23.69 | Jill Hoffman | I went, so. Um, So since we're still in the comment period, I would prefer that we, because the way I've message this and I'm not sure that everybody understands that this was going to come on for action tonight, that this was an info evening. And so. Kevin, can I, can you, can we bring this in the back in the next 60 days with, with, the ability to further, you know, for substantive discussion. |
| 00:58:54.18 | Kevin McGowan | Absolutely. Not a problem. |
| 00:58:55.46 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:58:55.49 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. |
| 00:58:55.97 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Okay, I'm going to hold off on the design for 30% design drawings. |
| 00:58:56.09 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 00:59:01.45 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Can you do that? |
| 00:59:02.85 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:59:02.89 | Kevin McGowan | Yes. |
| 00:59:02.90 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Yes. I... I don't see why we would delay it, |
| 00:59:08.05 | Kevin McGowan | Well, we have a step process in that we do need to have a public meeting before we even start the full design approach. So I believe that we can bring this back to council in between those two. And we can still make the schedule work. We should be okay. |
| 00:59:20.10 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not. Okay, so let's do that. That's how we're going to proceed on this. Great. |
| 00:59:28.43 | Ian Sobieski | Can I ask a question just of the director? I would just love to pin down the answer to that question. So the 30% design work will not be Thank you. |
| 00:59:36.03 | Kevin McGowan | Indeed. We shouldn't be starting the full design or developing the 30% until we have the public meeting and then that would be after the 60 day period that the mayor is talking about. |
| 00:59:50.30 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | But the public meeting won't be a city council meeting, so we won't be able to actually have a discussion. So, Jill, if you don't mind, can we just take a vote on this? |
| 00:59:58.22 | Jill Hoffman | I don't understand the problem. So Kevin is telling us that there's no downside that he's not going to, that it's okay to bring it back to a future city council meeting. so that Everybody understands who's seen our agenda. understands that it's not on consent, that it's gonna be for a full PUBLIC HEARING. And so I feel more comfortable with that rather than moving something off consent. that has been on the agenda as something that's on consent, because people read our agendas and rely on that. rather than moving it back on for for a public hearing tonight. Um, I don't think that's warranted because Kevin's telling us that the concern that you have about us being 30% down the road that he's going to hold off on that. and not go forward with that. If we, I don't know if I can get it on the next city council meeting because we're going to have to put the, probably the general plan update or the arena, sorry, the housing element update. on the same agenda so next february 9th is going to be very heavy. but we can get it on for the meeting after that. So I don't think that we should proceed and pull something off consent and put it on for a public hearing when it hasn't been on our agenda in that way. And that wasn't the intent of putting it on consent. |
| 01:01:18.80 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Well, we did discuss this last week and I asked for it to be a business item. So if we can hear it in the next couple of meetings, that's fine. But we're going to be in really significant budget discussions very, very soon. |
| 01:01:18.86 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:01:29.77 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | And so we've got a super light agenda tonight. You know, I think this is an important topic. |
| 01:01:36.20 | Jill Hoffman | I can tell you I will put it on for a business item within the next 60 days. So that's how I would like to proceed. And I think that's So, All right. So do we have? Do we have a motion? |
| 01:01:54.54 | Ian Sobieski | I think you have another public comment there, Mayor. |
| 01:01:57.91 | Jill Hoffman | Karen Hollweg, Public comment is closed. |
| 01:02:00.07 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 01:02:00.33 | Jill Hoffman | Sorry. |
| 01:02:00.36 | Ian Sobieski | Sorry. |
| 01:02:01.41 | Jill Hoffman | No worries. Um, okay. So do we have a motion? on the agenda. |
| 01:02:10.01 | Jill Hoffman | Oh. |
| 01:02:12.75 | Melissa Blaustein | All right. to. Is the motion to take it off of the agenda so that it will be heard at a later date? Is that the motion? |
| 01:02:20.91 | Jill Hoffman | No, the motion is- |
| 01:02:21.02 | Melissa Blaustein | Or to vote for everything. |
| 01:02:23.19 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. The motion is for the agenda as is. um, to approve the agenda. to prove Approve the consent calendar is what it is. Approve the consent calendar. The plan has always been that this is gonna come back as a business, that 5E is gonna come back as a business item. and it will be back on our agenda within the next 60 days. |
| 01:02:48.29 | Janelle Kellman | Madam Mayor, I'll make the motion. I understand what you're trying to say here, that it's on consent and people perhaps didn't know we would have a robust conversation that this really deserves. And so we're committing to put it on the agenda so we can make sure absolute full public participation. So with that in mind, I'll go ahead and make the motion to adopt the. consent calendar. |
| 01:03:11.41 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:11.57 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:03:11.61 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:03:11.93 | Janelle Kellman | Second? Anybody second? |
| 01:03:13.03 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. a straw second. Okay, Heidi, could you take the roll, please? |
| 01:03:19.05 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 01:03:23.17 | Ian Sobieski | Yes. |
| 01:03:24.06 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Blaustein. yes council member Cleveland Knowles yes vice mayor Kelman Yes. and Mayor Hoffman. Yes. |
| 01:03:33.53 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Okay, moving on. There are no public hearing items tonight. On item seven, our business items, I'll remind everybody that 7A was taken off the calendar. for tonight. and therefore we're moving on to What was item 7B, but I believe now is 7A because we removed 7A. So anyway, racial justice update. an appointment of two city council members to diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups. to ensure implementation of actions that could be taken by the city of Sausalio. |
| 01:04:11.14 | Unknown | Absolutely. |
| 01:04:11.75 | Unknown | Thank you. |
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| 01:04:11.87 | Unknown | Racial. |
| 01:04:12.39 | Jill Hoffman | justice so our Heidi our own our own secret Heidi Scoble to give us the presentation on this agenda item. Go ahead, Heidi. |
| 01:04:22.70 | Heidi Scoble | Good evening, Mayor Hoffman and council members. Let me just share my screen quickly. |
| 01:04:32.51 | Heidi Scoble | So as you will recall on July 7th of last year, the city council conducted a community forum to facilitate and begin the conversation on opportunities the city can do to confront and combat racial and social inequities. Approximately 140 participants attended the meeting with 36 participants providing public comment. The forum concluded with the council adopting resolution number 5957 that supports Black Lives Matter, condemns institutional and systemic racism and commits to and to continue to discuss, develop, and implement an action plan to address social justice and racial equity initiatives, policies, and programs in Sausalito. The council also supported a list of economic inclusion, education, legacy, and communication actions, such as some of the items that I'm going to be discussing in the next couple slides. Further, the council requested updates that we bring to a city council meeting to show how we're making progress on this issue. |
| 01:05:14.41 | Damian Morgan | THE END OF |
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| 01:05:14.61 | Damian Morgan | So, |
| 01:05:35.35 | Heidi Scoble | So before I go into this next slide, I did want to provide a little side note for members of the public that were not able to join the forum back in July. You can review a video link to the meeting and hear the conversation by going to the city's website and going to the city council meetings and agenda section and then go to the July 7th meeting. So as for our update, the city has made great strides even though there's still more work to do regarding a bunch of these action items. First, we'll talk about regulatory and policy efforts. Since July, the city council approved body-worn cameras for officers, and currently there is a draft policy that some of the city's committees and commissions are reviewing. And once that policy has been vetted, we'll bring it back to the city council for discussion. The city council also approved that residents within the unincorporated area or zip code of 94965 are allowed to apply for various committees and commissions and boards to act as liaisons and regional partners. The city has announced or provided announcements in the currents and we're still looking for applicants. So if you know anybody within the unincorporate areas of 94965 that includes Marin City, the House Boats and Muir Beach, we'd love to see applications and the city clerk myself is currently working with the mayor to schedule interviews and hopefully we'll get appointments to these various boards, committees and commissions. The city council also adopted a resolution regarding age-friendly home |
| 01:06:10.65 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:16.41 | Heidi Scoble | grant or the home grant adaptation program to include low income homeowners for planning to do some home rehabilitation with some grants. The municipal code has also been amended to allow for neighbors within the unincorporated areas of 94965 to be eligible for the city's resident parking program. It's a great program. that the city would love our unincorporated neighbors to participate in. It does provide some parking abilities within the downtown area. Other policy efforts that are ongoing and hopefully we'll see a conclusion to in the near future is that the general plan update has included a new racial justice and social equity statement. And there are a myriad of new land use, economic and community design, historic cultural preservation elements and programs that have also been incorporated into the general plan. I won't go into all those policies and programs, but there is an attachment to the staff report that one can read. Some other actions that we've taken would be that the city applied for and are now members of the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, or GARE. As some people know it, it's a national network of governments working together to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all. The Park and Rec Recreation Program or department has coordinated with Marin City to provide an outdoor movie night that occurred over Halloween. And they've also been working with Rally for Reading, which offers free 90-minute tennis programs for the Bayside Martin Luther King students. And I'd say the gold star of all staff related to trying to chip away at these very important action items would be our very own Abbott Chambers City Library and Communications Director. He has done a yeoman's job working to provide not only library programming that I've listed in the staff report, but he's also been volunteering his time to work with the Saucelida Marin City School District to help them overhaul their website and provide an updated unification on their website. He's also, in terms of what library functions been working with the Saucyde Marin City School District and the Marin City the library at Willow Creek Academy in advance the school unification. Additionally, the library has purchased more than 50 books and e-books on racial justice topics to supplement the Sausalito Library collections. There have been two racial justice virtual programming opportunities that have occurred. One was there in Paradox Liberalism, and racial separation presented by Alex Shafran. And then the racial divide in California in the 1800s presented by Jim Scriba. There was also a great conversation that I apologize for not including here. THEIR HIGHER. regarding the maroon ships. and segregation issues there and then we have a couple programs that are pending. One would be the Salt and Peppa talks, school desegregation in Sausalito in the 1960s, and then what a southerner learned about housing discrimination in the San Francisco Bay Area. I would strongly encourage any member of the public to listen in on these virtual programs. They're amazing. They're great storytellers and big kudos to Abbott Chambers for finding these speakers. So onto the next slide, now what? So we've taken some action to further our commitment, but there's a lot more work to be done. We're diligently trying to work towards our goals and the city will continue, city staff will continue to fulfill its commitments, but there definitely are more opportunities to, advance equity and inclusion to strategize and continue towards fostering and strengthening the city's relationships with our regional neighbors living in the 94965 area code or zip code as well so um so with that we think it would be really important for the council to consideration to consider the |
| 01:11:37.16 | Damian Morgan | So, |
| 01:11:45.96 | Heidi Scoble | the formation of an ad hoc working group and the ad hoc working group would consist of two council members to help staff develop an action plan to move forward with achieving more related to the racial and social inequities and further equity and inclusion and diversity and so with that staff is recommending that the council receive and file an update on actions to promote racial justice and have the mayor appoint two council members to an ad hoc working group to develop recommendations to the council on diversity equity and to ensure implementation of actions in support of racial justice. So with that, I will conclude. to an ad hoc working group to develop recommendations to the council on diversity, equity and to ensure implementation of actions in support of racial justice. With that, I will conclude my presentation and I'm available to answer any questions you may have. |
| 01:12:27.69 | Unknown | So, |
| 01:12:33.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:12:38.93 | Jill Hoffman | I have a question. I have trouble getting my screen back on. I have trouble getting my screen back on. Yes, you have a question or a comment? Council member, anyone else? |
| 01:12:54.54 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, so I think it's really important, Heidi, we received... at our last meeting from Lisa Bennett, the Mill Valley and inclusion task force report. And I think that should be available. With our agenda items tonight, it's a very thorough report. They took a pretty wholesale look at issues. attach that and did you did staff review that and do you have uh, Any thoughts about that? |
| 01:13:29.10 | Heidi Scoble | Yes, so after our last meeting, I downloaded that document, read through it, and it was really clear that there are some really great ideas and objectives to pursue, but we also thought it was really important to bring this back to the Council and establish this ad hoc working group so that the Council, two members of the Council can work with staff to really review those documents as well as what we've worked on in the past and see what would really be important in terms of creating an action plan. And then we would bring this action plan forward to the council for future consideration. And it would be in keeping with the past efforts that our neighbors to the north have done. But we want to also make it Sausalito specific as well. And yes, I will upload that task force report that the city of Mill Valley prepared |
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| 01:14:23.91 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Great, and then I just also would note that at the beginning of December, The University of California at Berkeley came out with a study that was published in the IJ last updated on December 1st. I think that should also be included. You know, that tells a pretty sad story I think that we are all aware of. about Marin and the lack of diversity here and the top 10 of which Sausalito is sadly number four in Um, lack of diversity. So I think that should really be included and recognized in our staff report and attached to Hi. to the agenda as well. |
| 01:15:13.89 | Janelle Kellman | I have another suggestion on those lines. So Heidi, sort of missing from the opportunities attachment is an area around environmental justice. and San Francisco Estuary Institute. in coordination with Dr. Christina Hill at UC Berkeley. are working on dealing with sea level rise and some projects in Marin City. other, um, aquaculture type scenarios and some really interesting research focus on that community. And so I just want to note that to be included probably as a separate topic. |
| 01:15:49.18 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you, Vice Mayor Kellman. And that's another reason why we would really like to create this ad hoc working group, because, you know, we're coming up with ideas, but there's so much more out there. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. And so I appreciate that comment, and I put it down as our notes. |
| 01:16:07.72 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. So this is the time for council member questions or comments. Councilmember Cleveland-Knowles has provided some and Councilmember Kellman I have something as well. |
| 01:16:19.03 | Unknown | I'm gonna go. |
| 01:16:19.75 | Susan Shea | Thank you. Bye. |
| 01:16:22.47 | Jill Hoffman | Pardon me? Hold on, I think council member Belaustein trying to make a comment and then council member Cleveland also I see you're also trying to make a comment so let's let Councilmember Blauste, go and then we'll circle back. |
| 01:16:36.38 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah. want to say. and acknowledge that we're all White sitting on the city council. So we're all sitting with our privilege right now. And I am excited to see that we are talking about racial justice and equity and it's critically important and we need to have these conversations and I appreciate the insistence on creating a working group but I, I, I really, really want to stress that it is critical that whatever we do with this working group, it is involving and elevating our BIPOC community. We can't have conversations about discussions for what we can do to advance racial justice with staff and council members, even if it's just staff and council members, without including without including members of our BIPOC community. So whatever we decide to do, we really, really, really need to make sure that it is inclusive of a larger group. And to that end, Councilmember Clevenals mentioned the Mill Valley Report, which is a great, I think it's an excellent work from so many really dedicated task force members. And perhaps we need an open forum for a task force or an approach like the one that Fairfax took for instance or what Tiburon has been doing. But I think it's so critical that we include as many of these voices as possible because I as a |
| 01:17:52.26 | Heidi Scoble | I... |
| 01:17:53.12 | Melissa Blaustein | privilege. best knows. I'm the one who best needs to learn and do more educating of myself, which is critical for our community. But I really want to make sure that we are involving those voices as much as possible. And perhaps I need a little more clarity. Obviously, I would be interested in participating or serving on this working group because this is an issue that I'm very passionate about. Um, but I would wanna know if it was a committee or a working group, because if it was a working group where there was an opportunity to include folks from the BIPOC community, that's critical. Thank you. |
| 01:18:28.04 | Jill Hoffman | Well, let me, let me, Let me clarify here for a second. This was a time for council member questions after the presentation. So then I'm going to open up for public comment. Then I'll close public comment. Then I'll bring it back for further discussion up here on the city council. |
| 01:18:42.97 | Melissa Blaustein | So then I guess my question would be, is the working group Is it gonna be inclusive of any other community members? So, |
| 01:18:51.04 | Jill Hoffman | Let's talk about that. I think that's a question. So Heidi, do you want to take that or do you want me to take that on the thought process? |
| 01:18:59.59 | Heidi Scoble | You can definitely answer it. The intention, and I'll just jump in what my idea is in working with the mayor, is that we would start with two council members that are appointed to this group. And once we meet, then we can actually define the scope of the work that we want to accomplish and achieve. And if that's to reach out to certain stakeholders, then that working group can be able to do can do that. Madam Mayor, would you like to add to that? |
| 01:19:30.10 | Jill Hoffman | So the working group is really just to consider what the scope of the effort is going to be. and so and make it come back to the city council make a recommendation okay you know we've looked at this we've reviewed what other municipalities have done and we've reviewed what other options there are and then what's the structure that fits sausalito right it may be a combination of those things and then at that point then we would talk about I think bringing it but The first step is just sort of gathering information. Um, and then charting, making a recommendation to the full city council, what the best way forward is. And it may be, it probably will be some sort of larger group with different populations brought in and as part of that effort. Just because we wanted to have some clear structure. of how we wanted to proceed. Thinking that we would be back to the city council fairly quickly on how we want to structure going forward. So that was the idea just to make it efficient and make sure that we're all |
| 01:20:24.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:20:25.56 | Jill Hoffman | moving forward. And then we're doing it in a way that we're capturing the best practices And building upon all the other studies that have gone before. So that that's kind of the idea. So if there's no more questions about the presentation specifically, that what I'd like to do is open up for public comment. Everybody okay with that? Okay. I see no objection. So I'm going to open up for a public comment on this item. And we're going to use The same method, which is, I believe, clapping hands, if you would like to comment. And I'm not seeing any clapping hands. You know what? |
| 01:21:03.96 | Melissa Blaustein | I think Damian Morgan had a public comment. |
| 01:21:05.77 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:21:06.17 | Melissa Blaustein | tried to clap. |
| 01:21:07.30 | Jill Hoffman | I see Eva's clapping very good. |
| 01:21:07.46 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:21:11.99 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. And so I see Eva, I see Damien. Do I see any other? Oh, Aaron, of course. Aaron's there. She actually has a tan raised. Excellent. So. So let's start with Eva, and then we'll go with Damien, and then Aaron. And those are the three I see. If anybody sees anybody else, feel free to call it out. Okay, so we'll start with Eva, then Damian, then Aaron. |
| 01:21:35.69 | Eva Crisanti | Yeah, that was a really, really interesting exchange. I think one of the benefits of having some younger people on city council is the obvious point that Melissa Blaustein brought forward, which is that it's just bizarre even to consider having a working group on racial equity that doesn't have that that is entirely white And I, you know, I felt like I was a little bit in a science fiction movie watching this because I sit in on the Mill Valley City Council meetings too, especially I've been especially tuned in for the DEI stuff and that, that, DEI committee has been absolutely treated so poorly by the all white or the nearly all-white city council in Mill Valley. And so, you know, my hopes, even if you did, create some sort of integrated committee, the hope of them actually being heard by the likes, I hate to say it, but of Jill Hoffman and Susan Cleveland Knowles is It's not great. And In both of these instances, what you have is like a white city clerk or a white person that they hire to talk about what the DEI is doing. That's what Middle Valley City Council is doing now, rather than actually hearing from the DEI committee members who have to speak now in public comment. It's really, there's something really funny about it, but it's also kind of sad. I'm not sure. I would just point out that you know, the notion that you would even try to do the working group without serious input is pretty bad. And I do have to say that our professional biases do play a role. I know that Jill Hoffman has served in the U.S. Navy. My father was an Army captain, but we're also pretty cognizant of How? how racist our armed forces are right now. We are finding that the majority of people of color who are serving in our military are experiencing extreme harassment and discrimination in the military. And this is particularly true in the Navy. So I would simply ask, to be a little more aware of how she sounds and what this moment requires. Thanks so much. |
| 01:24:01.67 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Next up is Damian and then Aaron. And I'm going to look at Canvas again and see if I see anybody else's hands. Okay, go ahead, Damian. |
| 01:24:11.36 | Damian Morgan | I, good evening, you can hear me correct? |
| 01:24:14.35 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:24:14.40 | Damian Morgan | Yeah. |
| 01:24:14.53 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:24:14.55 | Damian Morgan | Thank you. |
| 01:24:14.58 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:24:14.63 | Damian Morgan | Thank you. Hi. Thank you. Thanks Heidi for your report. Damian Morgan here, Marin City. Something, well Jill, I was, from your comments regarding Melissa's question, I'm a little unclear if, the public will be invited to this committee. I imagine so. I don't see any reason why not. So I want to put my name in the hat. So when you... open this committee up, please email me and I'll be ready to join this committee. Um, Going forward, Heidi and Mayor Hoffman, in this report, I didn't see anything about cannabis. regarding equity. Um, I do expect that. The Canada's... uh, or cannabis delivery business in Sausalito will. include the emergency community on. Some level. high level. SO AGAIN, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING ABOUT CANNABIS, DOLLARS, MONEY, PROFITS REGARDING THE MARINE CITY COMMUNITY WITH CANNABIS. Watch this. I shouldn't have to watch it. I want to make sure that you know We are not left out again. It's a perfect opportunity, newer business, growing business. Marin City should have and will have a seat at the table regarding sauce, leto, and cannabis. So, Um, I look forward to seeing this report from you, Heidi, next time, next go around. And I'm expecting to see cannabis regarding equity, in this report. Thank you. |
| 01:26:00.93 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Next up is Erin and then I see Sybil. Go ahead, Erin. |
| 01:26:12.64 | Aaron Singer | Hi everyone. My name is Aaron Singer. I'm a 25 year resident here in Sausalito and business owner. I'm also currently on the board of the Marin City Community Development Corporation. uh the first I want to thank uh the city council for placing much deserved focus on this very very important issue it's an issue for a time and I'm glad to see our city addressing it and I look very forward to hearing more about the working group I actually have three ideas I think we should explore as a city to support racial equity and justice and to improve both of our communities. one of those projects is one that I've already started some work on and actually there's a group of folks that are involved in moving it forward and that's an idea for a marine ship trail This project would create a historical walking trail from Sausalito's Marin ship to Marin City. As we all know, the two communities were tied intrinsically during World War II to the Sausalito Marin ship effort here. The project would be expressed in a number of initiatives. First, a trail map that would identify points of interest around town that are specific to the Marinineship history and that would be both in Sausalito and in Marin City bronze plaques and historical built-in displays that would be in situ at various points of interest that would educate visitors about this history and the history connected to those points of interest. And then twin Marinship history museum displays. One is already existing at the Sausalito Bay model, but I and this group would propose a new museum, an additional display in Marin City. at a location to be identified as we move forward with the project. There's a number of folks that have indicated support and want to see the project move forward and that includes Chris Gallagher at the Sausalito Bay Model, Jerry Taylor at the Sausalito Historical Society, as well as various community leaders in Marin City, including Dr. Michael Britt, who's the new executive director at the Marin City Community Development Corp, Felicia Gaston, founder of Performing Stars, and Don Lancaster at the Marin City Community Services District. The second thing I would love to float out there is for Sausalito to establish an official sister city relationship with Marin City. And in that relationship, create programming under this relationship that would establish more more deep ties between our two communities and bring those two communities together. And then the third thing over. |
| 01:29:35.95 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman, the three minute time limit has elapsed. Would you allow Mr. Singer to speak or has his time ended. |
| 01:29:45.64 | Aaron Singer | real quickly. |
| 01:29:47.26 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, are you asking for additional time, Mr. Singer? |
| 01:29:51.43 | Aaron Singer | Yeah, just just 10 seconds. |
| 01:29:53.67 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, I'm gonna... Okay. 10 seconds. |
| 01:29:58.55 | Aaron Singer | The third idea is to pass an ordinance that would require that any legacy Jim Crow redlining discriminatory language be permanently expunged from any property deeds of homes in Sausalito and Marin City. |
| 01:30:15.07 | Jill Hoffman | Very good. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, moving on to Sybil Boutier. |
| 01:30:17.94 | Aaron Singer | I think. |
| 01:30:27.35 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:30:27.37 | Sybil Boutier | Absolutely. Good evening. I just want to applaud the city for taking this effort so seriously. There's been of course, lots of talk in Every direction on the need for equity and get the conversations going in a civil and respectful way. with everybody recognizing that Um, We were all born in the bodies and the families that we are. and to we can't be attacking one person or another for the for that. situation, the whole idea. is to have reconciliation and figure out a way that we can all get rid of our prejudices and see each other as fellow human beings living together here. And So I think I really applaud you for taking this next step, very serious step. of moving forward with this in a much more concrete way |
| 01:31:33.43 | Damian Morgan | Ooh. |
| 01:31:37.59 | Sybil Boutier | And I would ask everybody involved to keep in mind that we're all just human beings trying to figure out how to do this, and it doesn't get us anywhere. to be attacking each other for who we are to start with. So I just wanted to say that and hope that we all can be civil and and have a positive attitude about how we're gonna work together to achieve the equity that we all desperately want to have in our community. So thank you for letting me speak about that. |
| 01:32:14.05 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. I see no other reactions or hands raised to indicate that we have additional public comment on this. Heidi, can you please confirm that? |
| 01:32:26.07 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, I do not see any other reactions or hands raised. |
| 01:32:29.51 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, I'm gonna close public comment. at this time on this matter and now bring it back up to the council for further comments. THE FAMILY. on how to move forward. And I'll start off for just a second. So just to reiterate this, this working group is not the substantive group. This is the working, this working group is going to figure out a recommendation to the city council on how to move forward with this effort. And like, you know, I'm fairly certain there's going to be the recommendation is going to be that we have a broad array of people from our community. that weigh in on this effort. But this is just to speed us along and make sure that we've considered the best course and have the opportunity to look at what other communities have done and adopt their best practices moving forward. And there's been a lot of work, so luckily, there's some things for us to look at and build on our successes to this point. That's my comment. And if we have other council members wish to comment, you're welcome to comment at this time. |
| 01:33:32.20 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | I'll comment. So I just want to thank Melissa, Councilmember Blaustein for making her comment right away about the fact that this is an all-white city council and that we are and it's also one of the least diverse cities. in California. So that's kind of our starting point. And I just want to thank and acknowledge her for that. And I hope that Mayor Huffman, that you will include her. in a working group, I think, as some of the public comments showed. We definitely need her perspective. She's been committed to this work. um, for a long time. um with that i also wanted to say that I think that even the subcommittee of the city council will need to include diverse voices in taking recommendations about how we move forward. So whoever is on the working group, I would strongly urge them to consult with others from the BIPOC and other communities here in Marin and perhaps elsewhere about potential paths that we might take. kind of from a procedural standpoint, and I've said this before, I would love to be part of a southern Marin or a Maroon-wide effort. I recognize that there is value in internal discussions within each community. |
| 01:35:01.74 | Damian Morgan | you |
| 01:35:02.99 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | But I also think that it is more robust, more efficient, Thank you. and perhaps more productive conversation if we include all of our neighbors both in the 94965 and in Southern Marin, at least at some level. And I know Supervisor Walton Peters has offered to join us in efforts or to support us in ways that she can. I also think we need to look inward. I have been attending the workshops that the stand up for racial justice has been offering to all city council members. and I don't know if the mayor has also had a chance to join a group yet. But that training is incredibly important and I would urge that my new fellow council members to reach out and become part of one of those cohorts. It's a great chance to work on this issue. across the county with some very talented trainers. I also think we should think about staff Um, that respect as well and encourage our boards and commissions to continue the conversations that they've started. on these issues and to make recommendations to the working group as well. We had some really excellent work done by the sustainability Commission. on this issue in light of our general plan policies and programs and I know we've had some interesting discussions at the PIVAC. I also think we might want to include the chamber from both a job workforce standpoint and also from a training standpoint to make sure that we have a welcoming and inclusive. front door. for people that visit. That's all you know. In terms of substantive issues and things I'm hoping the work group will recommend that we really focus on, I think two of The big ones for me are housing. and transportation. Um, And Housing, obviously the Berkeley study that I mentioned earlier, pinned the availability of multifamily housing as one of the key elements in attracting and retaining a diverse population. So I think we have to work. exceedingly hard to take a look at our housing stock and this kind of overlaps with our upcoming work on our housing element. to really look at the past systemic |
| 01:37:43.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:37:44.14 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | in our housing market as Mr. Singer alluded to. And we have a lot of and to do everything that we can to address those and then to move forward to attract retain and welcome a more diverse community, both racially but also across the economic spectrum. um So that's work that I hope the work group will endorse. And then secondly, on the transportation perspective, Um, I know Council member Blastie will probably agree with this. We've talked about this a lot but also the workforce housing part of it. We have so many people that work here in Sausalito who cannot afford to live here. And that has a lot of negative consequences, obviously from an equity perspective that's terrible, but also from an environmental. All right. justice and transportation issue that's terrible as well. So, and then secondly on transportation, you know, I think that we have a really excellent network here in Sausalito designed for commuters. So if you have a job in the city, and you're a professional, you have a great transit network, but it doesn't work so well for our restaurant workers. and our other types of workers here. So I think there's a lot that we need to do. to make getting to Sassolito and leaving Sassolito at all times of day. more equitable. And then I guess lastly, and I know we're going to have a lot more conversations about this one, the work group. comes back, but We talked about this at the PDAC and I'm I know that a number of our residents have talked about just the linkage between our two communities and the 94965. We just have a terrible pedestrian Otto. and bike. between Marin City and the and Sassolito. I know there's a group focused on getting the tunnel to be more welcoming, even, you know, we fought so hard to get it well lit, it's kind of well lit now, but it's still not that attractive. So in addition to that great work, which I know is ongoing, and thank you to the people who are working on that, I would really love to see a pedestrian bridge uh, that is sort of similar to the one in Berkeley on the 80, that I-80 as you drive through a beautiful, like iconic pedestrian and bicycle. bridge. I have raised that issue at least once at the transportation authority of Marin. Obviously it would be a big effort. But I think something like that could really be a great symbolic and functional issue. We have a lot of work that we can do in conjunction with the efforts going on in Marin City around flooding And which both affect Marin City deeply, but also affect us here in Sausalito. And I think those joint efforts would be excellent to put on our list of priorities. So I'm sure I have other stuff, but I've taken up too much time. So I'll let other council members. speak but thank you for putting this on the agenda thank you to staff for all the work that they've done and I'm really looking forward on going a lot deeper. um into these issues. |
| 01:41:23.55 | Jill Hoffman | you Um, any other comments from council member Kelman or sobieski in light of the comments we've already had or your own comments? |
| 01:41:32.89 | Janelle Kellman | I would love to chime in. Thanks to Councilmember Blalstein. I sat in on the community at the table leading with anti-racism speaker series on Monday. I appreciate you sharing that. And then also thanks to our historical society. I got to join a Zoom program on Joseph James and the Marin ship. Many of you know that he's a civil rights icon. He fought against the screaming or discriminatory hiring practices, the Marineship shipyards during World War Two. I guess the point I want to make is that I mean, the history of the marineship is as much the history of Marin City as it is Sausalito. I mean, we have that shared common ground right and so one of the things i think we really want to focus on we should focus on are not just a program or policy but finding actual executable partnerships finding things that we can work on together and i think when you actually have something whether it's education or climate justice or um or or the marineship it really can grow those bonds. And so I really would love to see the working group that I know is gonna come out of this subcommittee focus on three additional issues. You know, Aaron mentioned the Marin ship, I think that's a huge opportunity for us with our shared history. Climate justice is a big one, and this is going to take the form of dealing with sea level rise, storm runoff, groundwater, monitoring wells. It's going to take the form of not marginalizing BIPOC communities into areas that are contaminated, flooding, or sinking. We have to make sure that we're paying attention to these issues in all of our policies. And then I think we have some phenomenal opportunities on the education front. Some of you may know that Spalding Boatworks, also in the Marineship, is working on building out its education programs. And so many of the skilled laborers during World War II in the Marineship area were actually from Marin City and lived and worked there. So what a great opportunity for us to move forward with this. I appreciate the mayor sort of clarifying that this is just really just the first pin of steps on a much broader program that we hope to really drive forward in our community. What happens tonight and decision tonight is not intended to be the entire working group, I think it's to provide advice and some information on a direction. So I appreciate the mayor letting us have this on the agenda and I think we have an enormous opportunity I think we will make the most of it, and I hope we do. Thank you. Councilmember Sobieski? |
| 01:44:09.48 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:44:10.68 | Ian Sobieski | I will not do labor things by repeating all the good ideas that I agree with and I've heard my colleagues articulate. I think one area I would add an emphasis to I would like to see emphasis added is on policing. and how that interacts with the with a projected ethos of welcomeness, welcoming, I think it's a good thing. As we know, policing across the country is under scrutiny. and deserve it or no, there is nevertheless a particular perspective that needs to be attended to. So it's a challenging issue but it's also a very important one to achieve what council member Susan Cleveland knows it. described as being a welcoming community. When Aaron Singer spoke about being a sister city, I think he also was implying with his idea for a historical walk, also a genuine cultural connection of shared cultural events. Yeah. and I think that We have many cultural events here in Sausalito that should make an extra effort to be welcoming to the full zip code. and vice versa. There really ought to be a real effort to make sure that it's a two-way street in terms of public cultural event sharing. So those are two areas I would encourage the working group to add to their list of areas to look at. |
| 01:45:43.43 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. I've already said what I thought, what the outline of the working group is gonna be, right? Um, These are all great ideas. I'm sure we've all taken notes or if we have a little rewatch the video and take notes on everything that was brought out. And so again, the idea for this working group is just to give us a structure for what we're gonna do going forward. And so I'm gonna point myself as the mayor because I think this is so important that it warrants mayor's attention. And then council member Blaustein for the working group. Now, if this is gonna be the structure going forward, who knows what our recommendation is gonna be when we come back or what our collective idea is from the city council going forward. So that's what we're gonna do. at this point and you can expect to see us, I hope in the next 60 days to come back. Um, with the with the with the caveat that we have lots of big issues on our agenda for the next 60 days also with our budget with our city manager with um, other things, ferry landing, general plan update. housing alone update. So I'm going to try really hard to bring it, have us, the working group, bring it back with a structure of moving forward. with that. I'm gonna close this item because we're finished with our conversation we've taken public comments so moving on to item 8B, City Manager information for Council. So. we're going to have are the first item is going to be an update from Deborah on our human resources consultant with our update on our city manager recruitment. Um, And I am going to do I'm going to we will take public comment on this particular item. And so. We're gonna hear from Deborah and we're gonna have questions from city council and then open up for public comment. on, Oh, hold on, I'm sorry. Pardon my apologies. I skipped ahead. Okay. Sorry, I skipped ahead straight to AB. My apologies, Deborah. So we're gonna do public comment. on items 8B through 8E. Um, And those are generally our appointments to boards and commissions or future agenda items. Um, but I will say item eight B is our city manager report. I will take additional public comment at that time on that issue alone. Okay. So, um, at this time, uh, I'm going to ask the city clerk to, uh, Well, we don't even have the city clerk to inform. We all understand how we're taking public comment tonight, so. Um, For people in the public who would like to make comment on items 8B through E, Now's your chance. |
| 01:48:51.31 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | So Mayor Huffman, I'm just slightly confused. So AP is the city manager update. So you're asking for public comment on that topic now? |
| 01:48:59.48 | Jill Hoffman | Well, Unfortunately, that's the way it's listed on the agenda as we publish it. So, uh, but I understand that last time there's a little bit of confusion that people miss the public comment on item a B. So. Yes. |
| 01:49:10.79 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Yes, could you just clarify, will people be able to comment now and then again on item 8B? |
| 01:49:16.05 | Jill Hoffman | No, I mean, if you haven't, I'm letting people, I guess, make the option, right? So this is public comment right now for items 8A through 8E on our agenda, as it's stated in our agenda. But if you would rather wait and do public comment on 8B, then I will allow that. but not both, right? You can't, I don't want, we're not gonna hear public comment on item 8B in both places from the same person. Is that? everybody? at least it's clear to city council. Okay. Uh, I I'm not seeing any hands raised. Or, oh, I do actually, now I see Vicki Nichols. or any other indications that somebody would like to comment. So clapping hands or anything. So, okay, so Vicki, Nichols, go ahead. |
| 01:49:59.49 | Vicki Nichols | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:50:03.10 | Vicki Nichols | Hello, Mayor, I was just confused. I'm just looking, maybe I have the wrong copy of the agenda, but I don't see anything down for 8E. |
| 01:50:15.86 | Jill Hoffman | You are correct, there is no 8E. So it's eight, eight. A through 8D. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay, so then I still don't see |
| 01:50:26.29 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:50:28.31 | Jill Hoffman | With that, I don't see any other public comment at this point. Okay, so close public comment. on items 8E, 8B, 8B through 8. D. on our agenda because we have no Thank you. Now I'm moving on to 8B. understanding that if people would like to comment on just 8b, which is the city manager recruitment, I will call for public comment on that. And with that, Debra, We're ready for your report. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 01:51:01.99 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:51:03.40 | Jill Hoffman | Everybody. Okay. |
| 01:51:06.01 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:51:09.15 | Unknown | Good evening, Madam Mayor and council members. So tonight I'm actually honored to provide an update on behalf of this council's first working group. And at the council's January 12th meeting, Vice Mayor Kalman and Councilmember Sobieski were appointed as working group to support the city manager recruitment and search process into advance key directives provided by this Council. those work group directives We're to work with staff and provide one click access to the current status of the recruitment for residents, such as a dedicated website, to extend an invitation to city boards and commissions through their chairs to either provide individual or group feedback. We wanted to recognize that the EDAC group had presented comment on their own. initiative and then to explore alternative and non-traditional candidates in past to entry into the position and other means to engage the community. The working group reviewed the steps taken thus far in the recruitment and also all of the comments and interests and information provided by this council and through public comment on January 12th. So the city council had, has, appointed an interim city manager and marcia rains engaged avery and associates to conduct a search stakeholder engagement meetings have occurred the brochure and materials were developed and the search opened on january 4th when avery placed the brochure on their website um On the 12th, this council appointed the working group and the working group has met several times and the council This is the update that we're presenting to you based on those meetings. I need some water. I'm sorry. |
| 01:53:06.18 | Unknown | So based on all the information and comments considered, The working group recommends that the recruiting process proceed with a focus on two core materials, the city manager recruitment brochure that is on the Avery website. and is also an attachment in this packet and this agenda item and resident feedback and nomination form, which is a new form created by the working group. If it's approved tonight, it will launch as early as tomorrow and definitely before the end of the week. And in this, and they've identified three non-traditional alternate paths to candidate entry. And those are actually in the resident feedback and nomination form so that we can, inform the community about the types of candidates they may be able to recommend be part of the recruitment. Then, there's a newly created so i'm sorry so then a community survey um The community survey that the working group wanted to do is this nomination form, this resident feedback and nomination form. And they wanted to provide an opportunity for the community to participate in the outreach for candidates to provide feedback that was swift and brief and free format. in a free form format. And they wanted to provide community comments in a format that will be easier to incorporate into the process in the future once we receive them. So to do this, the nomination form contains a description of the characteristics of a city manager drawn from the comments received in the January 12th meeting. and from the public comment that was involved in that meeting. It also contains three descriptions of possible city manager candidates from non-traditional roles. And it asked community members to recommend or refer candidates for city manager and comment on whether they agree with the description of a city manager provided or if they'd like to provide their own information on what that description should be. So tonight the working group is asking the council consider granting authority to the working group to replace the community survey form approved during the January 12th meeting with this new resident feedback in nomination form. Upon approval, the new form will be provided to the community. Um, We also, the working group has worked with staff and has a draft that was not ready to come out to this meeting, but they're ready to launch a dedicated informational webpage. It could launch as early as tomorrow and by the end of the week as well. They also are recommending language tonight as attachments to this item for outreach to city boards and commissions, outreach of a personal nature to colleagues, email lists and networks. And they're working on development of marketing flyers for deployment in the next week to non-traditional sectors. in the areas such as the candidate descriptions that they've put into the community feedback and nomination form. um, Tonight also the working group is asking the council to consider to allow additional time for the marketing outreach by the community, staff and other key stakeholders using these new materials and these new methods for outreach. And we're asking for we're recommending that the council consider extending the filing period two weeks through February 15. Our consultant, Paul Humora of Avery & Associates has confirmed that this extension will not extend the full time frame of the recruitment. So to recap, The working group recommends council consider granting the following authority to the council working group. Replace the community survey approved on 1-12 2021. with the resident feedback and nomination form for immediate deployment. extend the filing period for applications through February 15, 2001. AND allow them authority to work with Avery and staff to amend current and to create and deploy future marketing materials, messages and feedback solicitations without further approval by the full Council that are based on the concepts provided in the attachments to this report. And so that concludes my presentation. And I'm going to step back and allow you to discuss or ask questions. |
| 01:57:53.96 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you, Deborah. And thanks to the working group for all this great work on this effort. I have no questions. Does anybody else have questions? And then we'll move on to public. comment and then we'll come back for our discussion. So I see council member, the analysis hand up. So go ahead. |
| 01:58:12.68 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, thanks. So thanks for all the hard work. This was really great. I guess the question that I had. I have two questions. One is the thresholds that are included in the descriptions of managing 50 people or more and having managed a budget of 20 million or more. |
| 01:58:34.89 | Damian Morgan | Amen. |
| 01:58:36.52 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | So those seem pretty high to me, given the size of Sausalito. I think we have 76 FTEs, I wanna say, maybe. anywhere, somewhere around that. number and our actual general fund budget, which is kind of the actively managed portion of our budget is at this point, unfortunately under 20. I was wondering where those numbers came from and whether you might be open to lowering them so that they sound in the materials like they are Yeah. don't apply unless. |
| 01:59:17.02 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah, then if that's how it sounds, then that's a failure, because it was exactly the opposite, First off, they just came out of Um, spitballing it with the goal in this resident nomination and feedback form simply to get people that read it to start thinking out of the box about who they know in their networks that might be someone they should put forward. If you interpret it as discouraging, then it's not meeting its goal. It's meant to be encouraging. And the real goal is just someone who has managed a significant budget and someone who's managed a meaningful number of people. And so if the precise numbers are wrong, then that's a problem. I guess it was there only because significant and meaningful can mean different things to different people. So some sort of number could be potentially helpful for some people. |
| 02:00:12.10 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, and I also think, you know, people think in terms of direct reports versus not direct reports and so |
| 02:00:12.14 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah. |
| 02:00:18.46 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Anyway, like a lot of people just have five direct reports, but they really those direct reports might have |
| 02:00:18.56 | Ian Sobieski | Anyway. |
| 02:00:25.57 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | So we didn't. |
| 02:00:25.85 | Ian Sobieski | So we didn't. |
| 02:00:27.19 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | So- |
| 02:00:27.20 | Ian Sobieski | So language like a million dollar budget and a significant number of people be in a multi-layer organization be guided language? |
| 02:00:32.42 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah. |
| 02:00:35.00 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 02:00:35.02 | Janelle Kellman | large teams |
| 02:00:35.90 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 02:00:35.96 | Janelle Kellman | to the |
| 02:00:36.03 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | $7 MILLION BUDGETS. Yeah, I like that. Thank you. Great suggestion. And then my second question is I'm a little, I really like the whole structure, so this isn't meant to criticize, but I don't quite understand the nomination I think we should just be directing people confidentially to Avery. People who are really out there doing great things in a current job are not going to want their names. These forms, if they're given to us, they're going to be public records. And if they're so Anyway, I just feel like we need to be super sensitive with valuable, great candidates and treat the nomination as a private that people should send their candidates directly to Avery and then they will be under the cloak of the personnel exception to the Brown Act. So I guess my question is, did I understand the nomination Am I missing something and did you have a different idea? So that I don't squash that idea and that recommendation. |
| 02:01:43.97 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, it's a great point. And Deborah, I see you came on, so I know you're gonna tell us how it works. The intention I we talked about this at length that we said, don't don't just nominate a name. Go ahead. Or if you do go directly to Avery, so it will retain that confidentiality. But Deborah, maybe you can articulate the process better than I can. |
| 02:02:05.92 | Unknown | So the... The only information that the form will collect that will come out as a public document is their comments related to the description and characteristics. The button that will that actually they push if they want to nominate someone goes to an email address that is captured here in HR. And that's so that we can AND I THINK THAT'S A GOOD so that we can have a discreet conversation to direct them to Avery. And the idea was, and it doesn't have to go this way, but the idea was that these candidates may not know what it is to be a city manager and they may have more questions. And that was the thought. before they wanna apply, but it's also, available to just say, If you know someone, tell them and have them send them here. I mean, that's the other option. |
| 02:03:03.27 | Ian Sobieski | There is a real goal, I thought, and tell me something, It's changed, but part of the thought is that we have an incredible network. We have an incredible community. |
| 02:03:18.34 | Ian Sobieski | I guess I should unmute myself if I want to speak. So let me try that again. So I thought that part of the opportunity here is to take advantage of our incredible community and the networks that everyone has professionally. to target people that we might want to outreach to and talk about whether they want to apply to the position. And so that's the point of the nomination. that denomination creates the application, but it does identify |
| 02:03:46.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:03:48.31 | Ian Sobieski | constellation of potential candidates that in some form or fashion, we may want to reach out to and invite to consider this role. particularly since some of these people may never have really seriously considered a city manager position. They may be retired, they may be at a, on a career path that didn't have city managers necessarily the next stepping stone. But to do that, And I think we still have to work on the process of how to do that. We want to have some outreach. potential. That outreach could come from the nominator, by the way. person that thinks well of their friend. or colleague or acquaintance. and thinks that they should apply. So we might ask the nominators to do preliminary check with their friends. about the position and refer them, of course, always back to the official job posting on |
| 02:04:43.42 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Great, thank you. |
| 02:04:45.19 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | It just looked like a piece of paper that you would write a name on. As long as the link is confidential, I think that addresses my Thank you. |
| 02:04:51.77 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 02:04:51.99 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:04:52.02 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Any other questions at this point before we open up for public comment? Thank you. |
| 02:04:59.59 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah. |
| 02:04:59.80 | Jill Hoffman | that. |
| 02:04:59.97 | Melissa Blaustein | question. |
| 02:05:00.41 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:05:00.92 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:05:01.10 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:05:01.39 | Melissa Blaustein | What? |
| 02:05:01.61 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:05:02.10 | Melissa Blaustein | This, Just I wanted to double check on the on the timeline with our interim city manager. Is it, we're still I know we had mentioned that in the last meeting we're just that's all resolved and we're on track and good to keep the interim city manager as this process goes forward. |
| 02:05:18.28 | Jill Hoffman | My understanding is we are on track to keep her through this process. Okay. understanding. |
| 02:05:22.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:05:23.61 | Jill Hoffman | And that February, extending the February 15 timeline will not affect the end timeline. So. Great. Or I could have let one of the working group people respond to that. Okay, any other questions? before I open up for public comment. the council see none Okay, I see one hand up. from Julie Vieira and I don't see any other indication of people who want to weigh in for Julie? Whenever you're ready. |
| 02:06:01.04 | Unknown | Hi, everyone. I just wanted to make sure that it says residents can nominate someone, but Remember the business community, you have members of the community that own businesses in Sausalito that do not live in Sausalito. So they do not qualify under the resident title and you have some business owners that may know someone out there that they might want to recommend. So you might want to think about changing from that resident to some other because it might keep someone from recommending an applicant for the job that just owns a business in Sao but doesn't live here. |
| 02:06:47.13 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Thank you. I don't see any other hands up. Heidi, can you please confirm? |
| 02:06:57.41 | Heidi Scoble | There are no other hands that are raised. |
| 02:07:01.30 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, very good. Then I'm gonna close public comment on this item and bring it back up to the City Council for comment Um, Deborah, do you want to put up, can you put up those three those three things that you're asking for direction from the city council, Are they under recommendations on the staff report? Mm-hmm. So it's the same thing? All right. That's fine. I'm looking at them on my staff report. Do we want to, I'll just, I don't see any, I support all three of those recommendations to replace this community survey with the resident feedback and nomination form with with some of the edits that we've been talking about tonight. I think I don't have any objection to those edits, but I'm happy to you know, hear further discussion on that. I support extending the February 15th |
| 02:07:49.13 | Damian Morgan | Yeah. |
| 02:07:57.18 | Jill Hoffman | Deadline. Um, Yeah. and the authorization to work directly with staff and Avery without having to come back here and ask our direction on further efforts. I think that's why we assigned the working group and I have confidence in them moving forward. |
| 02:08:14.09 | Megan Boynton | them. |
| 02:08:16.04 | Jill Hoffman | Those are my initial comments. them. Moving on to the rest of the council. |
| 02:08:20.85 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. Mayor Hoffman may I just ask that poll the Council um can we just get some some direction around a response to Julie's suggestion we did talk about this we could change that language from residents to community with that feel right to everybody. Community management. |
| 02:08:38.49 | Vicki Nichols | community. |
| 02:08:39.03 | Jill Hoffman | Many members, yeah. |
| 02:08:41.14 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 02:08:41.19 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:08:41.34 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 02:08:42.34 | Jill Hoffman | I don't have any objection to that. I think that's, we're after the best candidate we can possibly find. So whatever avenue they come from. Thank you. |
| 02:08:49.17 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, I think, you know, anywhere extended Southern Marin, you know, business, you know, Very well. |
| 02:08:59.06 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. I'm for 965 community members. |
| 02:09:05.72 | Janelle Kellman | We'll be right back. |
| 02:09:05.81 | Jill Hoffman | you |
| 02:09:05.96 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. I said community members. Thank you. |
| 02:09:08.73 | Jill Hoffman | Words method is fine. |
| 02:09:09.77 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:09:09.81 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:09:10.19 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, and then the other change we'll make is the, we'll take out the specific language, we'll say large teams and multimillion dollar budgets. |
| 02:09:18.90 | Jill Hoffman | That's fine. Thank you. |
| 02:09:24.42 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, do we... |
| 02:09:24.74 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:09:25.84 | Jill Hoffman | I don't... I don't think we need to take a vote on this. I haven't heard anybody object to these three recommendations for the authority for the working group. |
| 02:09:38.73 | Unknown | Madam Mayor, I apologize. Since we are in Zoom world, you do need to take action by a voice vote. |
| 02:09:45.33 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, very good. Then can I have a motion? I make emotions. |
| 02:09:49.80 | Melissa Blaustein | I'm ready. to support the working group recommendations Second. |
| 02:09:54.56 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, and can you call the roll? |
| 02:09:57.02 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 02:10:00.82 | Ian Sobieski | Yes. |
| 02:10:01.98 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Blaustein. Yes. Councilmember Cleveland Knowles. Yes. Vice Mayor Kelman. Yes, thank you. Mayor Hoffman. Yes. |
| 02:10:11.65 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay. Um... then moving on to, uh, and thanks to our working group. Great job you guys and keep going. Thank you. |
| 02:10:22.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:10:23.03 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. her. Okay, appointments to boards, commissions, and committees. You know, before before we removed it from the, agenda for the housing element update, I was going to assign housing element working group of janelle uh vice mayor kelman and council member cleveland knolls but that's off our agenda. But I'm wondering if I should go ahead and make that appointment so that you guys can get going. How do you feel about that, Councilmember Cleveland Knowles and Vice Mayor Kellman? |
| 02:11:06.89 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Yeah, I think that makes sense. Thank you. |
| 02:11:09.42 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and do that and you guys can engage and go. God bless and Godspeed. Thank you. |
| 02:11:15.73 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Um, |
| 02:11:17.26 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:11:17.28 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Okay. So. Sorry. |
| 02:11:20.52 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:11:21.47 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Mayor Huffman, just to be clear though, There were recommendations in the staff report on this item about starting you know, contracting and We're not going to start any process until the full council has heard that correct. I don't think that would be appropriate. So yeah, all right, we'll just line up what else might be on that list, but. Okay, thanks. |
| 02:11:50.78 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. So moving on to item 8D. future agenda items, I have a future agenda item that I'm going to address first. we've had the issue come up about masks. in town due to COVID-19. and whether or not we wanted to consider some legislation to make them mandatory. And Um, and so I was trying to figure out which, I mean, with the council's recommendation, which. which committee that would go to. So that might fall under the COVID-19 working group or the legislative committee, in looking at the Marin County Health Order, It does carry civil penalties. So it may be that since there's already you know, there's already a public health order that is enforceable by civil penalties. Do we then wanna put that in the COVID-19 working group to figure out how and what method to implement it. Or do we want to go to legislative committee for a review of that? and a recommendation of whether or not we want to consider legislation in Sausalito. There was, um, the city of Monterey had, um, passed, uh, uh, an ordinance about mask wearing with some penalties. I'm gonna ask for discussion on this. you know, open to whichever working group. Go ahead. Councilmember Cleveland-Hollis. |
| 02:13:17.13 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | So given that there are various options, one of which is legislative and many of which are not like education, et cetera. I would think it should go first to the COVID subcommittee and if the COVID subcommittee recommends the council legislation as the solution than the legislative committee should hear it. That's my favorite. Two cents. |
| 02:13:41.58 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, that makes sense to me. have an opposition to that or objection to that? Okay, great, thank you. for that comment. And so then I'm going to ask for this to go to the COVID 19 working group with the thought that it's gonna come back as a future agenda item if that's a recommendation from the the COVID-19 working group. Okay. And with that, do I have other future agenda items from other council members? Yes, Vice Mayor Kellen. I know you've Thank you. |
| 02:14:14.23 | Janelle Kellman | probably all heard me say this before, but I'd like us to start thinking about when we can start talking about a sea level rise adaptation plan, And I wanted to bring this up now because I do think it's going to be extremely relevant to some of our downtown planning. whether it's the Ferry Landsat improvements Bank of America. There's a lot of money out there right now for coastal resiliency grants. and that might be a path to funding for some of these projects and so if we can start thinking of them holistically and under their a framework of sea level rise maybe the plan early will get better results at a at a lower cost. So does have to be, you know, in the next |
| 02:14:51.71 | Unknown | And I... |
| 02:14:53.62 | Janelle Kellman | 30 days, next 60 days, but I would love to get feedback from others and just start thinking about that for us. |
| 02:15:00.32 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, great, thank you. Any other requests for futures end items? |
| 02:15:05.78 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | So I would endorse that suggestion and perhaps if we can't get to it in the next 30 or 60 days, perhaps refer it to the Sustainability Commission to get a start on. Um, Okay. |
| 02:15:18.93 | Vicki Nichols | Yeah, that's great. |
| 02:15:19.12 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:15:19.51 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 02:15:20.26 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | And then I also just wanted to follow up from one of the public commenters today about the level of hurt being felt by various businesses. Bye. I think the Chamber is doing a very good job And I think the EDAC was also gonna survey businesses, but I would just like to maybe get an update at the council level. of what we know. about businesses in Sausalito, which ones are doing well under COVID. which ones are kind of staying |
| 02:15:51.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:15:51.33 | Susan Cleveland Knowles | Thank you. solid and then where are our real needs for COVID recovery. So maybe the EDAC and the chamber together could work to bring something forward. But I do think that's Just got to be top of mind as we head into this year. |
| 02:16:13.74 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, I agree. Okay, we'll add that to the list. Any other suggestions for future agenda items? Okay, I see none. So at this point, I am going to adjourn. the meeting. Thanks for everybody's hard work and for the public who tuned in and their hard work as well. |
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Robbie Powelson — Against: Spoke from the tent encampment, criticizing city's handling of anchor-outs and RBRA, describing a humanitarian crisis, and inviting officials to visit the encampment. ▶ 📄
Susan Shea — Neutral: Urged development of a regional plan for homelessness, emphasizing that all human beings deserve housing and Sausalito should not ignore the problem. ▶ 📄
Joan Cox — Neutral: Clarified that tent encampment residents are not anchor-outs, defended city's Safe Harbor program, and noted ongoing efforts to assist those in need. ▶ 📄
Connor Johnston (as Chris Monroe) — In Favor: Congratulated new council members, promoted upcoming community meeting on cannabis retail, and urged continued work on cannabis policy. ▶ 📄
Megan Boynton — In Favor: Supported cannabis retail, promoted community meeting on February 2nd to discuss cannabis, and emphasized need for open conversation. ▶ 📄
Curtis Havel — Neutral: Provided update on Richardson Bay Regional Agency, including vessel count, new outreach worker, eelgrass protection plan, and clarification that Richardson Bay is an anchorage, not a marina. ▶ 📄
Eva Crisanti — Against: Praised Robbie Powelson's leadership, criticized Joan Cox and Curtis Havel, referenced Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath', and urged better treatment of unhoused people. ▶ 📄
Chris Monroe — Neutral: Expressed concerns about small business struggles due to pandemic, citing $60,000 in back rent and seeking city assistance for business recovery. ▶ 📄
Eva Crisanti — Against: Criticized Marin Civil Grand Jury report on handguns for ignoring sheriff's SWAT raid on Marin City and racial disparities in arrests, urging removal of item 5A from consent for broader discussion. ▶ 📄
Damian Morgan — In Favor: Requested inclusion in racial justice working group, emphasized need for cannabis equity benefiting Marin City, and urged focus on BIPOC community in planning. ▶ 📄
Aaron Singer — In Favor: Proposed three ideas: Marin Ship historical trail linking Sausalito and Marin City, sister city relationship with Marin City, and ordinance to expunge discriminatory language from property deeds. ▶ 📄
Sybil Boutier — In Favor: Applauded city's serious effort on racial equity, urged civil and respectful dialogue, and emphasized reconciliation and seeing each other as fellow human beings. ▶ 📄
Julie Vieira — Neutral: Suggested broadening city manager nomination form from 'residents' to include business owners in Sausalito who may know qualified candidates. ▶ 📄