| Time | Speaker | Text |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00:07.62 | Heidi Scoble | Now we're going to admit all public. |
| 00:00:16.25 | Heidi Scoble | Good afternoon, Mayor Hoffman and council members. This meeting has been held pursuant to government code section 54953E. And in light of the declared state of emergency, the regular meeting of the city council for October 12, 2021 will be conducted telephonically through Zoom and broadcast live on the city's website and on cable TV channel 27. |
| 00:00:41.88 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Good evening and welcome to the regular city council meeting for Tuesday, October 26th, 2021. Mr. Clerk, would you please take the role? |
| 00:00:52.83 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 00:00:54.25 | Jill Hoffman | here. |
| 00:00:55.13 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Blasdy. |
| 00:00:56.73 | Jill Hoffman | Here. |
| 00:00:57.05 | Sandra Bushmaker | Thank you. |
| 00:00:57.51 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Cleveland Knowles. |
| 00:00:59.43 | Sandra Bushmaker | Thank you. |
| 00:00:59.47 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:01:00.26 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. |
| 00:01:01.56 | Sandra Bushmaker | Thank you. |
| 00:01:01.59 | Jill Hoffman | Here. |
| 00:01:02.25 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:01:03.82 | Jill Hoffman | Present. All members are present and there's a quorum. We will be discussing one item in closed session this evening, and that item is conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, Initiation of litigation pursuant to California government code section 54956.9 D four one potential case. And I will open public comment on this one closed session item at this point. |
| 00:01:34.63 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, would you like me to read the instructions for public comment? |
| 00:01:37.96 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, please. |
| 00:01:39.54 | Heidi Scoble | 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 will be called upon when it's your time to speak. To raise your hand from a phone, press start 9 and each speaker will be notified when the time has elapsed. Madam Mayor, it looks like we have two hands raised at the moment. I'll ask. Charlie with a Galaxy S10 to unmute and show her video. |
| 00:02:10.73 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, and let me just say, this is public comment for items on the closed session agenda? If these are, if your comments are for matters, not on the agenda for the regular city council meeting, then I would ask that you wait until we start at 7 PM. What does that mean? Thank you. |
| 00:02:30.79 | Unknown | Hi, so this is not my scope of expertise, so I'm not exactly sure, especially in light of the fact that closed session pertains to potential or anticipated litigation. I'm not I don't feel there's been a lot of information that's been forthcoming about that. I can say that I'm currently on site at the encampment, which is has been declared a disaster by Mr. Zapata. So I'll leave it to all of you as to whether you want to take our comments on that at this time or wait until after your closed session. Thank you. |
| 00:03:04.25 | Jill Hoffman | I think that would be after the closed session when we start our open session at 7 p.m. Thank you. |
| 00:03:11.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:11.63 | Jill Hoffman | OK. Agreed. okay so that's on the agenda i think um |
| 00:03:13.71 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:03:17.05 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, so that would be under public comments for matters not on the agenda. And hold on just a second. That's later in the agenda though. So that's gonna be, And |
| 00:03:28.61 | Ian Sobieski | Mayor Hoffman, they may want to comment on the state of declaration of the state of emergency, which might be earlier. |
| 00:03:29.69 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, go ahead. |
| 00:03:36.15 | Jill Hoffman | Oh, that's true. |
| 00:03:36.67 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:03:37.47 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, that's true. Okay, so we'll take public comment on that. So, Um, Uh, Miss Charlie, uh, When we get to that, I'll note that I know that there are people from the encampment that want to make comments and so that I'll call that out during the meeting. |
| 00:03:52.70 | Unknown | Great, so we'll do our best. And we're limited on like, cellular battery time and reception and things right now, but we'll do our best to hang tight. Thank you so much. |
| 00:04:03.12 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, so just call back in or, you know, at 7. Okay, great. |
| 00:04:06.76 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:04:07.66 | Jill Hoffman | Great, thank you. Sure, you're welcome. |
| 00:04:07.67 | Unknown | Right. |
| 00:04:10.24 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. All right, is there anybody on that would still like to make a public comment now? Or I see Mr. Logan's on the line. Mr. Logan, are you also gonna comment? Your hand's still up, did you want to comment on Item D1 on the closed session, or did you want to wait Thank you. |
| 00:04:27.14 | Timothy Logan | Yeah, I just I just wanted more reference onto, I know it's a closed session, I don't know the articles. of what you were talking about Is that position pertaining to the legal of Marin ship. |
| 00:04:46.84 | Jill Hoffman | I think I would wait for our city attorneys on the line, but I think I can generally say that from what I just heard, I think your comments are more appropriate for the 7 p.m. So, |
| 00:04:59.23 | Timothy Logan | Thank you. |
| 00:04:59.24 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:04:59.26 | Timothy Logan | I was just wondering if your private session was to discuss your legal statute or legal matters in Marinship Park. |
| 00:05:07.73 | Jill Hoffman | I'm gonna let the, yeah, Mr. Logan, I understand. So I'm gonna let our city attorney respond. |
| 00:05:07.81 | Timothy Logan | I'm going to let that. |
| 00:05:08.49 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:05:12.44 | Mary Wagner | Yeah. Thank you. That closed session item is unrelated to the Marin Ship Park Encampment. |
| 00:05:18.60 | Timothy Logan | Thank you. |
| 00:05:18.63 | Mary Wagner | Okay. |
| 00:05:19.17 | Timothy Logan | Thank you. |
| 00:05:19.20 | Mary Wagner | But all I'm on my mind. |
| 00:05:19.96 | Timothy Logan | Thank you. |
| 00:05:20.42 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. All right, thank you. Okay. Okay, any other Any other public comments for the closed session agenda? |
| 00:05:29.99 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, I see no other hands raised at the moment. |
| 00:05:30.00 | Jill Hoffman | Meta Man. Okay, very good. Then I'll close. I'll close public comment for our closed session item, and we will adjourn, and I'll see everybody back at 7 p.m. for our open session. Thank you. |
| 00:05:48.45 | Unknown | Never let the sun forget to shine upon your face. So when others would have rain clouds, you'd have only sunny days. If the stars were mine, I'd tell you what I'd do. I'd put the stars right in a jar and give them all to you. |
| 00:06:09.43 | Unknown | If the birds were mine, I'd tell them in the sea. I'd make them sing a sonnet when your telephone would ring. I would put them there inside the square whenever you and I saw. There'd always be sweet music whenever you'd walk about. If the birds were mine, I'd tell you what I'd do. I'd teach the birds such lovely words and make them sing for you. I'd teach the birds such lovely words and make them sing for you. |
| 00:06:40.80 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:06:40.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:06:40.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:06:43.53 | Unknown | . Pupupuera, ram, popuporatá, daldí tatá, pitatá, popupuera, da. |
| 00:07:12.62 | Unknown | If the world was mine, I'd paint it golden green. I'd make the oceans orange for a brilliant color scheme. I would color all the mountains, make the sky forever blue. So the world would be a painting and I'd live inside with you. If the world was mine, I'd tell you what I'd do. I'd wrap the world in ribbons and then give it all to you. I'd teach the birds such lovely words and make them sing for you. Thank you. What I'd do I'd wrap the world In ribbons And then give it all To you I'd teach the birds Such lovely words And make them Sing for you I'd put those stars Right in a jar Give them all Do you? |
| 00:08:07.84 | Unknown | I'm so excited. Thank you. Bye. |
| 00:08:29.61 | Unknown | I'd certainly like to tell you about a friend of mine. who's a very extraordinary jet. If he set his heart to do it, He could be the president I'd certainly like to tell you more about my friend But this little anecdote should be enough to prove to you if he's determined Ain't nothing gonna be too rough Johnny Jones, an extraordinary boy with a very, very ordinary name. Met Cynthia, Pamela, Vander Lodge, one of the blue bloods of most exclusive dame. Johnny Joes, this extraordinary boy. So the story goes, his heart was all aflame. He said, Cynthia. I gotta go for you, and I'm curious to know if you feel the same. She said rather coldly For a peasant boy, you're acting rather boldly. But his remarkable charm, she was inclined to underrate. This I grossly understate, cause if you're walking down our street almost any afternoon, and three little toe heads go to pass you by, And you're impressed that the kids are very... Very... Shall we say extraordinary? Well, put away your doubts, cause you can bat your bones. This little Cynthia Pamela. Johnny Jones Thank you. |
| 00:10:14.72 | Unknown | . you you Bye. . |
| 00:10:26.30 | Unknown | Thank you. If you are walking down our street, Almost any afternoon and three little towheads go to Pashu Bum. And you're impressed that the kids are very Very. shall we say, extraordinary. Well, put away your doubts, cause you can fetch your bones, this little Cynthia Pamela. At Johnny John. Yes. An extraordinary bold With a very, very ordinary Amen. Thank you. |
| 00:11:04.57 | Unknown | Hi, this is Matt Stolling, and you're listening to Radio Sausalito. |
| 00:11:49.03 | Unknown | I spent last night dreaming of your eyes, but your head kept getting in the way. |
| 00:12:08.44 | Unknown | Your lips dropped in to tell me how you've been. And when I tried to kiss them My pillow told me I missed. Your voice dropped by Then sang a lullaby. And it was then I knew just what to do. |
| 00:12:43.91 | Unknown | Thank you. Oh. |
| 00:12:46.12 | Unknown | I'd fall asleep and die. |
| 00:13:40.97 | Unknown | . Boys drop by. and sang a lullaby. And it was then I knew you Just what to do I'd fall asleep at you . you Good. |
| 00:15:37.98 | Unknown | . you Bye. . Thank you. you |
| 00:16:10.34 | Unknown | Through the trees Comes Autumn with her serenade Melodies, the sweetest music ever played. Autumn kisses we knew are beautiful soon. I'm really. As I pause to recall the days into fall like tears. Silver stars were clinging to an autumn sky. Love was ours Until October wandered by |
| 00:16:54.98 | Unknown | you |
| 00:16:57.22 | Unknown | Let the years come and go, I'll still feel the glow that time cannot fade. When I hear that lovely autumn serenade and lay. To me. you you |
| 00:17:46.90 | Unknown | Ernie Watts. |
| 00:18:00.12 | Unknown | Hi, I'm Julie, and this week from the farm, we're featuring four musical improvisers making use of malleable structures of form, harmony, and rhythm to create very different versions of the songs they love. We're featuring Bruce Gers on the bass, Jerry Bregonzi on saxophone, and you're going to want to hear it this week on Dream Farm Radio. |
| 00:18:23.81 | Unknown | Dreamy Jazz on Dream Farm Radio, every Wednesday at 4 and 8 p.m. on Radio Sausalito. |
| 00:18:35.13 | Unknown | Here's a public service announcement from the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. |
| 00:18:42.20 | Unknown | Next to You is a free exhibit of photography, painting, and sculpture that celebrates the joy, vitality, and healing power of the performing arts. On view in San Francisco from now through December, Next to You is a farewell ballad to a strange and challenging time and a look forward to a future where we are reunited. |
| 00:19:06.35 | Unknown | That's a free exhibit celebrating the performing arts at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco. Open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 to 6. For more information and to find out when accompanying film screenings and live performances are scheduled, visit McEvoy Arts, that's M-C-E-V-O-Y arts dot org, or call 415-580-7605. |
| 00:19:29.47 | Unknown | Now it is time for Tide Tones PM, your afternoon Tide report from Radio Sausalito and the Tide guy, me, Peter Hewson. Today is Tuesday, October 26, 2021. And on this day in 1911, Mahalia Jackson was born. Eye to eye to 5.1 feet will occur at 3.05 p.m. Thank you. It will be followed by a low tide of 0.5 feet at 10.20 p.m. The next high tide will be 4.3 feet at 6.35 a.m. That's on Wednesday, October 27th, followed by a low tide of 3.7 feet at 10.48 a.m. Multi-measurements are for the Golden Gate, so compensate accordingly. Today's sunrise was at 729. Sunset will be at 618 with darkness by 715. There you have it. Today's Tide Report brought to you by Radio Sausalito. This is the Tide Guy bidding you a good day. |
| 00:20:41.73 | Unknown | Got to give. It's all. Take. Let me tell you. I let your poor heart break a little That's the story of That's the glory of love. You've got to laugh a little. Try a little. Before the clouds roll by, roll by, but that's the story of, that's the glory of love. As long as there's the two of us, we've got the world and all of its charms. And when the world is through with us, We've got each other's arms You've got to whip a little Lose a little And always have the blues a little That's the story of, that is the glory of love. |
| 00:22:32.87 | Unknown | We're about to give. |
| 00:22:33.86 | Unknown | You got to give a little, you got to take a little, and let your poor heart break. That's the story. That's the glory of love. You got to laugh a little Buy a little. Say goodbye a little. That's the story of That's the glory of love. |
| 00:23:01.03 | Unknown | As long as they're there |
| 00:23:02.50 | Unknown | And the two of us |
| 00:23:04.03 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:23:04.05 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:23:04.07 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:23:04.09 | Unknown | Bye. We've got the world in all its charm, boy. When the world is through with us Ooh. You're on. win. A little. Produce a little. Well now, baby, get the blues a little. That's the story of that is the glory of love. That's the story that is the glory of love. Sweet love. |
| 00:23:44.69 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 00:23:44.96 | Unknown | Mmm, the poets say. Let all who love us |
| 00:23:56.82 | Unknown | But I'm in love, and I know what time it is. you |
| 00:24:02.67 | Unknown | you |
| 00:24:02.74 | Unknown | Thank you. The good book says go seek and ye shall find. |
| 00:24:11.16 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:24:11.30 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:24:11.32 | Unknown | I don't. |
| 00:24:13.73 | Unknown | Well, I have sought, and my, what a climb it is. my life. It's just like the weather It changes with the hours |
| 00:24:28.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:24:28.19 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:24:28.29 | Unknown | to the community. |
| 00:24:31.65 | Unknown | When she's near I'm fair and warmer. When she's gone, I'm cloudy. with showers. In the name of the Lord we shall. Like the ocean, it's either sinking. or swim. Winner! Thank you. Thank you. Man! loves a woman. Like I Love her. |
| 00:25:22.91 | Unknown | Never treats me So we... Tentu you Oh, is she sure? Thank you. I got it bad. That ain't good. |
| 00:25:55.79 | Unknown | Like a lonely |
| 00:25:59.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:01.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:01.51 | Unknown | We've been willow. Lord. Shit. In the wood. |
| 00:26:13.10 | Unknown | I got it, man. |
| 00:26:15.30 | Unknown | you |
| 00:26:17.66 | Unknown | Mmm, that ain't good. |
| 00:26:29.89 | Unknown | For when the weekend's over |
| 00:26:37.30 | Unknown | And Monday rolls around I am a Like I start out Cry! |
| 00:26:54.02 | Unknown | I'm crying. |
| 00:26:58.29 | Unknown | My heart out. She don't love me. Like I love her |
| 00:27:13.19 | Unknown | You're listening to Radio Sausalito, a non-commercial Part 15 compliant radio station broadcasting great music and community information 24 hours a day. You can hear us on 1610 AM in Southern Marin, also heard on cable as the audio accompaniment for Marin TV. Our FCC IDs are NWXAM1000 and MQ5FM10TX. On iTunes podcasts, search for Radio Sausalito. |
| 00:27:46.72 | Unknown | I used to visit all the very gay places. |
| 00:27:49.32 | Unknown | Lord, Lord, Lord. |
| 00:27:50.08 | Unknown | you |
| 00:27:50.13 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:27:51.06 | Unknown | Those come with made places. |
| 00:27:52.34 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:27:53.14 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:27:53.15 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:27:53.27 | Unknown | . Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of light. to get the |
| 00:28:01.02 | Unknown | The feel of life. |
| 00:28:03.43 | Unknown | From jazz and cocktail The girls I knew had sad and sullen great places with distant carry tracers. |
| 00:28:15.12 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:28:16.19 | Unknown | that used to be there, you could see where they'd been washed away by too many through the day. 12 o'clock till Then you came along with your siren song. to tempt me to madness. I thought for a while that your poignant smile was turned with the sadness Of a great love for me |
| 00:28:58.02 | Unknown | Oh. |
| 00:28:58.97 | Unknown | you you |
| 00:29:01.68 | Unknown | Again. |
| 00:29:02.07 | Unknown | I am |
| 00:29:06.22 | Unknown | It was long and long. |
| 00:29:09.14 | Unknown | you |
| 00:29:09.97 | Unknown | you |
| 00:29:10.04 | Unknown | you |
| 00:29:10.09 | Unknown | you Life is lonely Again and only last year Everything seemed so sure |
| 00:29:28.28 | Unknown | Mmm. |
| 00:29:30.56 | Unknown | Now life is awful. Again, a trough full of hearts. But on the beat of both. |
| 00:29:43.92 | Unknown | you |
| 00:29:47.31 | Unknown | wink and power. Thank you. |
| 00:29:50.67 | Unknown | . |
| 00:29:51.60 | Unknown | Please the bite of it. |
| 00:29:51.79 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:29:56.27 | Unknown | All I care is to smile, inspire this. |
| 00:30:00.41 | Unknown | you |
| 00:30:04.56 | Unknown | I'll forget you, I will, while yet you are still. |
| 00:30:07.04 | Unknown | I |
| 00:30:14.55 | Unknown | Burning inside my brain, oh man. as much. Stifling those who strive I'll live a lush life. In some small dive and bath. |
| 00:30:35.14 | Unknown | you Over. |
| 00:30:36.27 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:30:36.42 | Unknown | you |
| 00:30:37.46 | Unknown | A bee. While I rot with the rest |
| 00:30:40.18 | Unknown | I'm going to go. |
| 00:30:43.69 | Unknown | Of those whose lives are lonely |
| 00:30:46.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:30:46.07 | Unknown | of our |
| 00:30:46.66 | Unknown | True. |
| 00:31:42.69 | Unknown | Bye. . you Thank you. |
| 00:31:52.80 | Unknown | Hmm. you you . Thank you. you Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. |
| 00:32:05.42 | Unknown | you |
| 00:32:05.50 | Unknown | you |
| 00:32:05.69 | Unknown | Amen. |
| 00:32:05.97 | Unknown | Oh, my. Is much Stiving those who stride |
| 00:32:18.53 | Unknown | you |
| 00:32:19.63 | Unknown | I'll live a lush life. |
| 00:32:22.73 | Unknown | you |
| 00:32:23.98 | Unknown | And some small dove |
| 00:32:28.97 | Unknown | you Thank you. |
| 00:32:31.91 | Unknown | Remember? I'll be there. |
| 00:32:35.86 | Unknown | Thank you. you |
| 00:32:37.28 | Unknown | While I rocked with the rest Of those whose lives are lonely. |
| 00:32:43.10 | Unknown | whose lives are |
| 00:33:03.72 | Unknown | . |
| 00:33:32.22 | Unknown | There ain't no use. in me. |
| 00:33:39.88 | Unknown | Toronto. Tell you how I feel what I feel ain't with your feelings I don't know what we did wrong. I just know. If you go home I ain't gonna let you break my heart again |
| 00:34:15.19 | Unknown | There ain't no use to be trying to find out. Where you been? |
| 00:34:26.56 | Unknown | Where you been, Aide? Where I'm going? Because if... I ask you where you been? The hurting stars and it don't end. So I ain't gonna let you Break my heart again. No! I ain't gonna let you break my heart. again. |
| 00:35:01.96 | Unknown | you |
| 00:35:02.30 | Unknown | Cheers. Don't be calm as... Thank you. Thank you. Pain ain't my friend. |
| 00:35:13.49 | Unknown | Seems like you enjoy my crying, babe. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, You always said that I was strong And I believed you That you were wrong Thank you. Lately, God knows I haven't tried Woo-woo-woo-woo. |
| 00:35:47.71 | Unknown | There ain't no use in you. Try to kiss away the hurt, babe. |
| 00:35:57.65 | Unknown | Cause it hurts the way down where it's deep And it's hiding. So if you decide You'll come home, you'll walk in and it won't be like before. Thank you. |
| 00:36:16.67 | Unknown | you |
| 00:36:18.20 | Unknown | I ain't gonna let you break my heart again. No, I... |
| 00:36:25.95 | Unknown | Bye. Thank you. |
| 00:36:26.44 | Unknown | you |
| 00:36:27.00 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:36:27.01 | Unknown | you gonna let you |
| 00:36:29.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:36:30.37 | Unknown | Break my heart. |
| 00:36:37.64 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, and we're admitting all participants. |
| 00:36:52.58 | Heidi Scoble | And Madam Mayor, welcome back. |
| 00:36:53.36 | Unknown | What? |
| 00:36:54.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:37:09.59 | Jill Hoffman | Are we ready to go, sir? |
| 00:37:10.75 | Heidi Scoble | We're ready to go. |
| 00:37:11.78 | Jill Hoffman | OK, good. Thank you. Welcome back to our regular city council meeting for October 26th, 2021. We are returning from closed session. We do not have any announcements from closed session. We're moving on now to item 2B, which is approval of the agenda. before I call for a motion to approve the agenda, I know. going to make a motion or at least we're going to talk about an amendment to the agenda to ratify a proclamation of a local emergency related to the 2021 storm event a four-fifths vote is required since the item arose after posting the agenda and there's a need for the council to take immediate action and that we're going to if we vote to add this item we're going to address it under special presentations at the beginning of the agenda so in other words we're going to actually talk about the local emergency and the proclamation after we take this motion to amend the agenda and we approve the agenda so I'll make a motion to amend the agenda. Thank you. Do I have a second? Yep, I'll second. |
| 00:38:19.67 | Janelle Kellman | It's like, Thank you. |
| 00:38:22.00 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. I'm going to open up public comment now for just the item to amend the agenda to add this proclamation. The next thing we're gonna do is vote on the proclamation. I'm opening public comment just with regard to the and adding this item for the agenda. Okay, I'm not seeing any hands. Is that right, Serge? |
| 00:38:46.89 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, that's correct. I see no hands raised at the moment. |
| 00:38:50.50 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, very good, then I'm going to close public comment and ask that the roll be taken. |
| 00:38:57.18 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski? Thank you. |
| 00:38:58.75 | Jill Hoffman | Good. |
| 00:38:59.02 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Councilmember Blofstein. |
| 00:39:01.28 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:39:02.11 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Cleveland Knowles. |
| 00:39:04.88 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:39:05.76 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Killman. |
| 00:39:07.12 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:39:07.36 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. We are hopeful. |
| 00:39:09.30 | Jill Hoffman | Very good, thank you. The motion passes unanimously. Okay, now our next item on our agenda is our, Item 1A, which is to adopt a resolution ratifying the proclamation of the existence of a local emergency. So we're gonna have a short, a short, uh, from our city attorney, Mary Wagner on this. um, and then we'll ask for counsel Council member questions? And then I know that from our closed session. public comment that we have two members that were from the encampment that wanted to speak on this and when I open up public comment, that would be your time to speak, I believe on this issue. So, Right now we're going to go to our city attorney, Mary Wagner. |
| 00:39:58.34 | Mary Wagner | Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. On Sunday, October 24th, the city manager acting as the director of emergency services issued declaration of a local emergency due to the atmospheric river and the large amount of rain and high winds that occurred in the city of Sausalito resulting in downed power lines, downed trees, widespread flooding and power outages. And there were particular impacts to the encampment in Marinship Park that resulted in some additional steps that needed to take place there. Ongoing recovery operations included removing the fallen trees and branches, clearing, clearing blocked drainage facilities, and opening an emergency shelter at the MLK gym. with the assistance of the Red Cross and the County of Marin. The item before you tonight is to ratify that declaration of local emergency. Under the municipal code and the state statutes, the council's required to act within seven days of the city manager's declaration of the emergency in order for it to remain in effect. So you have a resolution in your packet tonight to take that action. And with that, Madam Mayor, I'm happy to answer any questions. And then it would be appropriate to take public comment and then to return to the council for action. |
| 00:41:18.02 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Do we have any questions from the council? I see Vice Mayor Kelman. |
| 00:41:23.03 | Janelle Kellman | has her hand up. Go ahead. Thank you, Mary Hoffman. Mary, thank you for that. Um, just quick question. I noticed the resolution mentions the CD AA funding, uh, what is required by the city to be able to file for that emergency services funding? Uh, and, uh, relatedly, does this help us qualify for FEMA funding, uh, in an anticipatory manner? |
| 00:41:43.55 | Mary Wagner | It's a step that's required for those funding sources, Madam Vice Mayor, whether or not the city will be eligible and whether funds will be available is a different question. and what is required in order to receive those funds is something that I'm not able to answer for you tonight. But we can certainly return with that information in the future. |
| 00:42:06.27 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Thank you. Any other questions from council? Okay, I'm not seeing any hands. Okay, so then we'll open up public comments on this issue of the proclamation of the existence of a local emergency. I see one hand up and that's Charlie's Galaxy and I see another hand, Mr. Logan. And so I'll let the clerk call out. who's, the order. |
| 00:42:32.09 | Heidi Scoble | Carly, you've been unmuted and has to share your video. |
| 00:42:41.77 | Jill Hoffman | Um, um, Ms. Sharlee, you're on mute. Oh, sorry, yeah, my apologies. |
| 00:42:46.63 | Unknown | Oh, sorry. Yeah, my apologies. Okay, so I apologize. I'm certainly in agreement and I believe everyone else is with the proclamation for the declaration Disaster, emergency services, request for services, I'm So... Should I wait and still reserve comments? |
| 00:43:06.16 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 00:43:06.23 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:43:06.26 | Jill Hoffman | Now's your time. Go ahead. |
| 00:43:06.36 | Unknown | Thank you. OK, now's our time. So basically, unfortunately, at this time, our emergency services coordinator is presently indisposed. And so, Uh, basically what transpired was, um, I was here during the disaster. And because I have FEMA training and human services training, I DID MY PASSION. |
| 00:43:37.95 | Jill Hoffman | All right. |
| 00:43:38.09 | Ian Sobieski | I'm sorry, I can't hear this. |
| 00:43:39.23 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, sorry, something happened. We all went on mute there for a second. So let's restart her clock. whatever, grade or something. Hold on a second, man. No worries. |
| 00:43:49.70 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:43:49.73 | Unknown | No worries. |
| 00:43:50.81 | Jill Hoffman | Go ahead, we heard you right up until the point where you had FEMA experience. |
| 00:43:55.65 | Unknown | Okay, so basically at this point, because we didn't have any other services available, |
| 00:44:00.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:00.90 | Jill Hoffman | IT'S A VACATION. |
| 00:44:01.32 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:44:01.98 | Unknown | to us here. I with my experience determined it was best to do the disaster |
| 00:44:03.20 | Unknown | I'm not sure. experience. |
| 00:44:08.98 | Unknown | recovery here and I've done my best to do that. So what transpired on Saturday night was this between by 12 a.m. we were flooded. equipment was destroyed, generators, power tools. Um, |
| 00:44:25.12 | Chris Zapata | Robert Gregg. |
| 00:44:27.14 | Unknown | It was. and adequately described as a disaster zone. Um, the fencing collapsed. there was debris flying. As an advocate, the advocates here maintain a tent here. I had, one of the best. and I stayed here. And I was one of the last to go back. |
| 00:44:51.80 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:52.37 | Unknown | and, um, |
| 00:44:56.79 | Unknown | I'm... Sorry to say. that at midnight we were flooded AND I THINK IT'S A people. We're soaking wet. Um, I took someone into the advocacy tent AT MIDNIGHT. By 4 a.m. people were screaming, there was chaos, the fences were collapsing, there was flying debris. with males. Um, Most people had been evacuated by that time, trying to find some, any means of shelter other than here at Marin Ship Park. the soy, it was completely flooded. The soil has a stench of contamination. People were here today talking about samples and You know, my boot, were rotted WITH THEIR CITY. within 24 to 48 hours. Um, It was complete chaos. By approximately 5.30 at 4 a.m., we had someone who was screaming. and I attempted to evacuate her multiple times as well as did other people, she refused. by 5.30. My tent, the advocacy tent was struck with flying debris and collapsed on me. And at that point I had no alternative to evacuate and others were evacuating. So at that point by 6 a.m. I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT There was standing room only in the bathrooms and the floor was coated with mud. Um, It was horrific. Thank you. It was absolutely horrific. Um, I went back. to try to clear the camp. at 6 a.m. and was yelling, In particular, we had one person I knew who may potentially still be here, Mr. I'm Dreamweaver. And I went back to try to make sure that he was evacuated. and I screamed multiple times. and pretty much. At the end of the day, the entire camp was evacuated to standing room only. in the bathrooms at 6 a.m. with the exception One. who refused to evacuate. It was horrendous. |
| 00:47:19.66 | Unknown | It was horrendous. and laps. |
| 00:47:22.47 | Unknown | Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Do you want to pass it on? Can I pass it on, please? Others would like to speak. Sure. Thank you so much. |
| 00:47:33.56 | Jeff Jacobs | All right. Hello, Madam Mayor, City Council. Can you hear me? |
| 00:47:37.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:47:37.68 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, go ahead. |
| 00:47:38.82 | Jeff Jacobs | That's good. This is Jeff Jacobs from Camp Formaret Revival. here at Marin Chefs. THEIR HANDS OF THEIR HANDS OF This place is a bar, very low line. I think that was known from the beginning that even directly to the south that field there is higher. and has less moisture. So our needs are that There are paths here that are not pure mud, and there are structures that can keep out the next rain. Behind the library is a model of Cabin. I asked Chris Zapata how much that cost to build. It's obviously up to code since it was built by Sausalito and is now being used. as a COVID testing center. So I'm suggesting that we experiment with one of those here at Camp Cormorant for one of the campers. And the 180, $6,000 that's been used for security as of now, you It's not here. The money is there with you. So we appreciate the sleeping bags and the tarps and the tents that Chris and Melissa brought. And thank you. Thank you. So we do want to collaborate with you, of course. And spend this money for something good. and not just destruction and lawyers and bulldozers. Thank you very much. Thank you. Anybody else want to talk? |
| 00:49:02.71 | Timothy Logan | And he was. |
| 00:49:02.96 | Bradley O'Brien | Yeah. |
| 00:49:03.99 | Jeff Jacobs | Okay. |
| 00:49:05.39 | Bradley O'Brien | getting involved. |
| 00:49:07.27 | Jeff Jacobs | Thank you. |
| 00:49:07.28 | Unknown | Is the clock running? |
| 00:49:08.89 | Bradley O'Brien | Thank you. |
| 00:49:08.90 | Unknown | Go ahead. My name is Kenneth Kennedy. I've lived in Marin my entire life. I was here during the storm. And I guess What I got to say is I'm just, so disappointed. I really can't understand it. We're friends with the Alchemy team here. They've been saying for weeks before There's $180,000 was approved. that we're going to get platforms, that we can secure our tents. Get us off the dirt. We've said since February of last year in court, that this is a swamp when it rains. that there's 19 toxic metals in the soil and we're walking in I'm just really disappointed win. when the city did finally show up after 14 hours, after The aftermath. THAT THEY OFFERED Hot food. not a possible place to sleep, but Robbie Powson had already take an initiative. put things online, people sponsored, and most of the camp got a place to stay that night. while you guys were promising hot food. and a place to stay. We showed up for the hot food the next day. There was no food. They said, well, are you moving in? We'll order some food. That is not what we were promised. I feel like all the promises the cities have made, since last year. HAVE BEEN BROKEN. And I'm very disappointed. Thank you for your time. |
| 00:50:38.41 | Cynthia's Joel Egging | Thank you, sir. Hi. Hi, my name is Cynthia's Joel Egging. I just wanted to say if somebody could bring like wood chips from like wood, you know, where they're chopping up all the fallen trees, we could deal with like at least what right here appears to be like, you know, what could be potentially dangerous sanitary condition of the mud. all over the camp so we could literally just bring in like some mud chips and then hay over it and immediately just make it a much better environment right here kind of like immediate solution. Thank you very much. Does anybody else want to? |
| 00:51:09.90 | Emilio | Thank you. |
| 00:51:09.95 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:51:10.10 | Emilio | Yeah. |
| 00:51:10.45 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:51:11.40 | Emilio | Yes, hello. My name is Emilio. Nice to meet you again. |
| 00:51:11.64 | Ian Sobieski | Yes, I know. |
| 00:51:15.68 | Emilio | I met you before when you came to the camp and I felt so proud that you as a mayor The town showed up. THE FAMILY. But I was so concerned because over 10 months, I never met you or heard you saying or trying to help me. to come for 10 months. 10 months have passed. Unfortunately, somebody dropped the ball on your side. And it is very, very, very sad. you know, what is happening here? These are human beings you're violating the human rights We are. in a city that can really provide help. You can make a model program. for the world to follow. but you choose. to go in a different direction. Thank you very much. |
| 00:52:02.12 | Unknown | We're slipping. |
| 00:52:03.09 | Emilio | I'll pass it on. |
| 00:52:03.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:52:04.08 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:52:05.91 | Emilio | Thank you. |
| 00:52:05.92 | Unknown | All right. |
| 00:52:07.24 | Unknown | Hi there. |
| 00:52:07.80 | Unknown | I got a couple ideas. People want mail. Maybe we could pick up mail at the library or we could arrange something. We couldn't arrange it necessarily by ourselves. But it would be great if somebody higher up could negotiate that for and, um, The other thing is It'd be good to have like a Is this like a clinic day if somebody came in and just checked anybody that had any woes or anything that |
| 00:52:36.89 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:52:38.49 | Unknown | get an account of who is wounded or not wounded. And it was as you know, medical needs. Yeah. That'd be great. And thank you so much. You have a beautiful city. |
| 00:52:58.66 | Unknown | All right. |
| 00:52:59.15 | Robbie | and All right, Robert. Yeah. |
| 00:52:59.75 | Unknown | All right, Robert. Thank you. |
| 00:53:01.63 | Robbie | Hey, it's Robbie. Yeah. |
| 00:53:02.32 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:53:02.98 | Robbie | Yeah. you know, |
| 00:53:03.70 | Unknown | know |
| 00:53:04.48 | Robbie | I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO I don't understand why you felt the need to suddenly not be able to talk about you. plan at the camp. As soon as there's a video camera on. |
| 00:53:14.43 | Unknown | CISTERS. |
| 00:53:16.07 | Robbie | No. The fact, it was very disingenuous that all of a sudden You know, you can you can explain, explain yourself your legitimate functions as mayor. and I think that's a good thing. you know, trying to lobby For what? For a shelter that as far as I'm aware of, nobody has even taken up. Zero. |
| 00:53:34.72 | Unknown | Oh. |
| 00:53:34.95 | Robbie | Bye. |
| 00:53:34.97 | Unknown | you |
| 00:53:35.04 | Robbie | I mean, |
| 00:53:35.22 | Unknown | I mean, I hope it's not. |
| 00:53:36.98 | Robbie | So I and the thing is, is that we had to scrounge. We got good people step forward and support people in time. I need the city with not here. |
| 00:53:37.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:53:37.22 | Unknown | So, |
| 00:53:37.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:53:45.67 | Robbie | So he was not here at all. Even though the city is the reason we're all here. In the box. Okay. but |
| 00:53:51.34 | Unknown | I'm sorry. It's funding for hotel rooms. |
| 00:53:52.10 | Robbie | And this is the next point as as Charlie's saying, We called the Red Cross. Red Cross wasn't aware about the state of emergency. When state emergency... Yeah. state. Come on. Amen. |
| 00:54:06.75 | Unknown | Amen. |
| 00:54:08.03 | Robbie | as state of emergency. in the state of emergency. And yet, What does the city have to show for it? What does the city have to show for it? What are the city's price? And $300,000. |
| 00:54:18.91 | Unknown | When we can buy the building, call it a day, use the Section 8 vouchers and get reimbursement from the feds the whole time. |
| 00:54:20.67 | Robbie | three years THANK YOU. THE FED. $300,000, I mean, 185,000 for the new services already approved. |
| 00:54:31.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:54:31.20 | Robbie | 120,000 for urban out for me. |
| 00:54:31.25 | Unknown | Thank you. 20,000. |
| 00:54:33.44 | Robbie | Nobody was here during a state of emergency. even though we were in wind tunnel and in a bog because of the city's decisions. City has liability because the city has placed Everybody here, and your own fences were falling on people's tents, the cities that you the tent, the, which we had explained to you, I mean, these fences aren't stable they're falling on people I mean So with that, I would just say I'm very dis... I'm lucky I don't have current activity training. Anyway. |
| 00:54:58.13 | Unknown | I'm very disappointed. Anyway. |
| 00:55:01.47 | Robbie | Amen. So anybody else want to? MARK, DO YOU WANT TO TALK Thank you. |
| 00:55:06.45 | Mark Vanderveg | Thank you. |
| 00:55:06.55 | Robbie | Yeah. |
| 00:55:09.08 | Mark Vanderveg | Hello, how are you? I'm Mark Vanderveg. Thank you. Yeah. How are you this evening? |
| 00:55:16.61 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:55:16.63 | Unknown | Go ahead, sir. you |
| 00:55:19.01 | Mark Vanderveg | Yeah. |
| 00:55:19.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:55:19.55 | Mark Vanderveg | Thank you. |
| 00:55:19.65 | Unknown | No, no, no, this is your time. But that you built the mobile handicap accessible shower because |
| 00:55:20.05 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:55:20.09 | Mark Vanderveg | Thank you. |
| 00:55:26.68 | Unknown | Aaron couldn't get in the shower trailer. |
| 00:55:28.91 | Mark Vanderveg | Okay. . Yeah. What I've been working on is a portable shower for everybody. Yeah, it's a prototype that's on a dolly. and That's what I've been working on. I got it. You just hook it up to a faucet. AND, You're good to go. It's on demand hot water heater, so you have instant hot water. Or you can make soup or coffee. depending on what you want to do. Yeah, I'd work on sailboats too, so. Yeah, it's a pretty universal deal, so Hopefully that will help. Hopefully it's a push forward for all of us because that way, When we have jobs, we can take a shower every day like everybody else. |
| 00:56:10.51 | Unknown | and it would help us to support |
| 00:56:11.98 | Unknown | or if you live for coffee. |
| 00:56:12.67 | Mark Vanderveg | Thank you. But anyway, |
| 00:56:14.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:56:15.30 | Mark Vanderveg | I survived the hurricane and I don't know what else to say. |
| 00:56:20.74 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you, sir. |
| 00:56:24.23 | Mark Vanderveg | All righty. |
| 00:56:25.21 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:56:25.26 | Mark Vanderveg | Thank you. |
| 00:56:25.32 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:56:26.64 | Mark Vanderveg | Thank you very much. All right. |
| 00:56:27.99 | Jill Hoffman | All right, thank you. We're gonna move on to our next call. Okay, this was really nice. |
| 00:56:28.75 | Mark Vanderveg | We're going to |
| 00:56:29.00 | Robbie | And... Okay. All right, that's it. |
| 00:56:34.66 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Um. Sturge, I think you can, yeah, thank you. Okay, Mr. Logan, I believe is next. |
| 00:56:43.21 | Heidi Scoble | Mr. Logan has been unmuted and asked to share his video. |
| 00:56:48.92 | Timothy Logan | There you go. |
| 00:56:53.34 | Timothy Logan | or a metamaker phone. Let me first off, by saying, Thank you to everybody that has stepped forward and helped us move from a crisis. It has been a... Hard road. especially for the ones who have been there trying to do what it seems the city council has It's stolen on. I just, I don't know. I don't get it. for every I have some in here. As far as the wood chips and hay, that won't necessarily work because of the mold. Um, it needs to have gravel down and gravel doesn't work with wheelchairs. That aside, we have the crisis counselors, if this is a disaster and an emergency, then why have there been no crisis transfers? Why have there been nobody for mental health or anybody that has cared if we have injured or anything else about the matter. Um, The people of the city have been far more helpful than the city council has. Um, from the clothing, food, gift cards, the rooms that they put us up in, Um, from day one, it seems like for every, one person that has something against us to say, there's 15 that have something that wants something good for us to happen. We didn't want to be moved to Marinship Park. We told you from the gate, Marinship Park Buds, you guys already knew Marinship Park Buds, There was talk in previous the council discussions about this incident and how maybe we put them on pavement or whatever. And what do you expect us to do after we got out of the Red Cross shelter that you supposedly put up? that we don't trust because of the COVID problems I mean, you can't stay six feet apart inside a shelter that is designed that way. So I'm asking again, where do you expect us to go We're... we're done with that back to where we were at because it's gonna just be muddy and, fill up again with water as soon as it rains, the next storm comes in. Um, I'd like to thank the mayor for showing up. It shows that she does have some heart and compassion for us. I want to say the city manager was supposed to have, sent out somebody to work with me. And that person that he'd set up the date for never showed up. um, I've only talked to him twice now. And the time that we've been there, They showed up with a load of gravel for like the kitchen area that didn't fill the whole kitchen area. and 20 pieces of pellets and 10 file boards Nothing to put them together and wanted us to put up our own platforms and put them underneath the tents a half a day before the rain. I just, I don't understand why, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'VE BEEN, suffering so much already that It doesn't. We don't get anything until there's more suffering to be had and then you want to move us back just on a later date to suffer some more. Thank you. |
| 01:00:19.16 | Jill Hoffman | of the |
| 01:00:19.18 | Heidi Scoble | Mr. Lovin, your three minutes have a lap. |
| 01:00:19.23 | Timothy Logan | Mr. Lovato. |
| 01:00:22.32 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, Mr. Longer. Um, okay, so I don't see any other hands up. |
| 01:00:30.26 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no other hands raised. |
| 01:00:30.28 | Jill Hoffman | Madam. Hold on, Ava's iPhone, I see, which I believe is Ava Cresante. So. |
| 01:00:40.29 | Heidi Scoble | Yes, Ava, you've been unmuted. |
| 01:00:43.19 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:00:43.21 | Janelle Kellman | that. |
| 01:00:45.13 | Ava Cresante | Thanks so much. I'm really glad that you gave time Um. to hear the anchor outs. Can you hear me okay? Yes, we can't, go ahead. Thanks. Thanks for making time to hear from people. in the encampment. Um, I just, I just want to point out that, um, that I think it's great that they're thanking the people of Sausalito I want to point out that as someone who lived in a marina in Sausalito, the anchor outs were often quite helpful to me. And even this weekend when there was a storm coming, and my boat in the marina was taking on water. The first person I thought to call was one of the anchor outs. And he gave me great advice, even as he was dealing with a complete disaster on the water. in his own boat. but he was able to instruct me on what I needed to do to fix what was happening on my boat. And excellent advice as always. So many of these individuals are so such skilled sailors. and unfortunately this whole situation on land for them is, is really, you know, a result of, of the improper seizure and destruction of their boats. And I hope we can just keep that in mind. Um, I was reviewing during the storm after I got my boat bailed out. I was reviewing some of the correspondence from BCDC and I saw how much money people in Belvedere were raising to fight the mooring field. One guy who's a headhunter put up a hundred grand, said he was gonna put up a hundred grand to fight the mooring field. that would have really helped in a situation like this. And Amore Field should never have been fought because these people have homes and they shouldn't be in a muddy, I'm not sure. |
| 01:02:38.48 | Jill Hoffman | Ms. Cresante, I think you've |
| 01:02:42.03 | Ava Cresante | Sorry, sorry, can you hear me? Yeah, I was gonna say like, |
| 01:02:42.06 | Jill Hoffman | Sorry, can you hear me? |
| 01:02:45.65 | Ava Cresante | THEIR OWNERS. City of Sausalito wouldn't even have to be in this position if someone had simply said it's improper for Curtis Hobble to seize a board of a hundred boats and and crush I don't know how many of them I mean that was really out of control this was a this was a problem that that was of RBRA's making in many ways. But anyway, I, I just think that the anchor outs should be appreciated for their many skills, and they belong on the water, not in a muddy field. Thank you. |
| 01:03:20.45 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 01:03:20.77 | Ava Cresante | Thank you. |
| 01:03:20.80 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay, now I don't see any further hands. So I'm going to close public comment. And for this item, I'll either bring it back up to the city council or all or a motion. Either one. or |
| 01:03:40.33 | Janelle Kellman | Mayor Hoffman, since we have this dialogue and the opportunity in a public forum, I'd be very interested to have the city manager describe for us what he knows to be the outstanding items that we can in fact move forward on. I mean, we've heard and we know, and I'm sure all of us, either went by or went to the academy this weekend. I went on Sunday. I saw it myself, I'm sure we all did. There are some very clear steps we can take. I've been talking about having a plan Can you give us some insight now that we have this resolution? what that plan, might be, whether it is pallets or whether it is fixing the fencing, whatever it might be, I would very much like to hear. |
| 01:04:27.01 | Chris Zapata | Can you hear me? |
| 01:04:28.14 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, go ahead. Also an update on on the steps that we did take on Sunday. If we're gonna do that now, or maybe we're gonna do that |
| 01:04:35.05 | Chris Zapata | Thank you. with the volunteers. Why don't I start with that? And then I'll answer the question about where we are. |
| 01:04:37.08 | Jill Hoffman | the volunteers. Okay. |
| 01:04:42.21 | Chris Zapata | So as you know, the city council approved funding for services and security. And on tonight's agenda, you have an item related to services and coordination of those services. When we heard there was a weather event going to happen, we took and we prepared what we thought was a response to provide some shelter, some improvement to that Marinship encampment that involved gravel, that involved tents, that involved sleeping bags, that involved hygiene, that involved tarps that involved pallets that involved plywood. We worked with our local pastor, Paul Marita, and his church to kind of distribute those to the people that we thought we could do. And that was Saturday. When the storm hit on Sunday, the county and the city and the Red Cross in unison and our homeless committee of Mayor Hoffman and Councilmember Blaustein Supervisor Moulton Peters all met in Sausalito to kind of understand what we were doing and how we were doing it. And that's when the declaration of emergency was declared. And the executive decision to open up the MLK gym and cancel all things for the next. week was made. In that response, the Red Cross and the County of Marin were extremely helpful. They committed 45 beds, delivered those in the conditions that we saw. We placed them in the gym in a manner that is COVID. protected. 20 was the only amount we could put in the gym without adequate spacing. At the same time, we started working with the county Human Services Director Ken Shapiro to talk about what it is we could do in terms of other types of assets and facilities that could move people out of the weather So in that regard, we were connected to a group called New Beginnings. With the council's funding, we've reserved seven beds. Four for men and three for women. Those are six-month stays. And we went out and promoted that Sunday night to the people in the encampment. That there was a temporary shelter in the Martin Luther King Gymnasium. There were approximately six people. in the area, two in their little shed and four others in the restroom. And we let them know and they refused to go to where there was a drier place. So in the aftermath of it, what we've done is we've put big containers out, roll-off bins out to get rid of the debris. We understand the fencing. We understand the wetness of the condition at the Marin ship. But we cannot just go in and move people's belongings without adequate notice. And so until that notice takes place, people come back to the encampment. We have that stage and whatever is there, we will remove. But in order to get into the encampment itself, we think it's respectful and proper and lawful to make sure that the people that are in the encampment know what we're doing with the things that may be disposed of. We continue to work with the downtown streets, Tamesda County, and try to place people in either the 20 beds at the gym, or the seven beds that we are in fact reserved and have for the next six months in the new beginning shelter in novato At this point, I don't have much else to report. I know that the Homeless Committee and Mayor Hoffman Councilmember Blaustein, along with Supervisor Moulton Peters, you know, are talking about what next steps might be. I have been having conversations with the county manager and his teams about what next steps might be that are not related to a disaster, but related to providing housing in the future. So that's for a future meeting. As I said tonight, when you allocated $185,000 for security and services, We took the approach that services were the first step. And so hiring or considering the hiring of Marin City Cooperation Team tonight will help us get to that stage. We will transition from Urban Alchemy has done good work for the city, but we need people with mental health capacity. We need people that can refer to county services and other services and then dialogue and communicate with the encampment members and the people around the encampment that own property to create a code of conduct there. And we need to do all that while we're balancing a legal situation that South Sealer has been in for a couple of months now. |
| 01:09:23.50 | Chris Zapata | That's off the top of my head. If there's anything that you think I missed mayor or council member Blasdine, please, please. I do. |
| 01:09:29.84 | Jill Hoffman | I want to, I want to add a couple of things that actually three things that Councilmember Blaustein and I have been working on our theme throughout this year has been that not the year, but 10 months. has been that our focus is on is, Finding shelter. Right now, our focus isn't on an encampment of tents, our focus is that we don't think that that's adequate either and that we're trying to find shelter through county services for the people in the encampment who are without alternatives for shelter. I've been talking about a certain proposal that I forwarded to the County supervisor this afternoon. It's something that I've talked about in many meetings with the county in the past few 10 months. And that's a plan for generally you know, I think what I'm calling it is a stabilization center for unhoused. And so it's a combined center on the model of center fells service area. But their service area includes, is a temporary, that is a temporary pilot program, I think what we want to do is combine the lessons learned there for a more substantial type for lack of a better word, village setting where you have individual units for the unhoused as a stabilization center and a service center and a way to transition them into housing units. that we know I think are coming down the pipe, but they're just not quite here yet. And so that, I made that proposal today, in writing a draft to account supervisor molten peters like i said and we're requesting a meeting with the county players and stakeholders so that we can hone in on what we think will be a successful plan and can be adopted by the county and funded maybe from some, some of the state funding that just became available. So we're doing that. We're also looking at a city on property to perhaps convert at least one of those units, one potential unit into a transitional housing location for someone that's experiencing homelessness. And then further efforts, council member Blassey and I are Thank you. going back to the ADU idea with Marin Housing Authority. So we're going to have another follow up outreach this time we're going to do an outreach through the list of ADU uh, permitted. land homeowners that we know and we're doing a follow up to our march. our March 24th presentation that we did on how you can use your a second unit or an ADU in your home to participate in homelessness housing with wraparound services and a housing manager from Marin Housing Authority. So, We're sending out We're sending out notices to all of the ADU owners in town to attend. Um, and also reminding people that. There is up to a $40,000 interest free loan available for people who need that to bring a potential unit up to code. So lots of resources. Those are things that we are working on in addition to all the other good work that the committee's been doing and council member Blaustein has been doing. So just to catch everybody up on that effort. Did I miss anything, Council Member Blattelstein? I'm sure I missed a lot, but that's... |
| 01:13:23.55 | Melissa Blaustein | Well, I noticed that we have Ken Shapiro from HHS on the call, or he was on earlier, and I just want to... acknowledged that the county was really responsive to the state of disaster on Sunday. And since the state of cultivators came to meet with us in Sausalito and drove through a flood |
| 01:13:33.87 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 01:13:38.77 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah. way to be here and to be with us and the county |
| 01:13:41.57 | Unknown | and |
| 01:13:43.07 | Melissa Blaustein | I think we all acknowledge and I just really appreciate the honesty and the bravery of the folks in the encampment telling their story of getting through what was clearly a really challenging event and and um i know the county acknowledges what you know the mayor and i've seen over the last few days and i've you know i was in the this is the encampment i think three or four times in the last few days um that I'm really, we're all very concerned about the winter and we need a better solution. And so our partners in the county are aware of that too. And so I just, I'm sure at some point we'll hear from them as well. And I just wanted to acknowledge the work that they did on Sunday too, to get us to help us get the Red Cross beds. I know that this county manager Matt Heimel was on the phone with our city manager pretty frequently as well. and and you know, We can't let this happen again. There can't be another storm event where folks don't have a place to go until. late in the evening. Anyway, we're hard at work. |
| 01:14:45.96 | Jill Hoffman | you Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for those comments. Okay. Any other comments from, yes, Councilor Tobias, can I see your hand up? |
| 01:14:56.00 | Ian Sobieski | Thanks mayor. Senior manager Sapata, could you elaborate a little on YOUR COMMENT CONCERNING THE NEVATO SHELTER AVAILABILITY? AND THE It sounded like you said that there were seven beds available they were offered to members of the the emergency encampment that they were declined. Is that accurate? |
| 01:15:16.71 | Chris Zapata | No, that's partially accurate, Councilmember. The money that you approved last Council meeting. for services and security allows for discretion on the part of city manager to look at solutions. And so one of those solutions that was brought to us by Ken Shapiro in the county was a shelter in Novato that had seven beds available. four for men three for women this was i believe it was yesterday and so we reserved those beds we purchased them they're ours for the next six months they're a part of a cooperative agreement between the county and avato and they provide a subsidized rate for the city so the amount is is not exorbitant so we said we'll take all all seven for six months and and then we'll go out to the encampment and promote that with the encampment persons in coordination with the downtown streets teams. That's happening as we speak. I don't have information to report to you as to who's taken up that offer, but it's intended for the highest, neediest person in the encampment and there's some criteria that's been developed to to ascertain that it's not first come first serve there's got to be you know a look at what it is that their needs are and obviously there are criteria that have been set by us and then if that doesn't work in terms of people taking those beds then we're working with the county on the formulas they use, but we've created our own formula. in Saucelito that mirrors some of the things in the county's formula. but it is ours and we're using that to figure out who we can take over to those seven beds. And again, four for males and three for females. |
| 01:17:03.36 | Ian Sobieski | Okay, thank you. That's an exciting first step. towards that goal, it would be great to get a report at the next city council meeting about the status of those seven beds. |
| 01:17:13.48 | Chris Zapata | Thank you. plan on it, bet on it. Thank you. |
| 01:17:17.96 | Ian Sobieski | So Mayor, if it's appropriate, I'd be willing to make a motion to adopt the declaration of emergency and also just join in the thanks to you. and Councilmember Blaustein, our city manager, all our city staff, members of the public who've helped people at the encampment and the people at the encampment themselves who spoke tonight and who helped organize things during this emergency. |
| 01:17:42.53 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Do I have a second? THE SECOND. Thank you. Could you call the roll, please? |
| 01:17:48.21 | Heidi Scoble | NEW SPEAKERS, Councilmember Blomstein. |
| 01:17:52.97 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:17:54.02 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Clivelet-Knowles. |
| 01:17:56.08 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:17:56.94 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. |
| 01:17:58.29 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:17:58.59 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Mayor Hoffman. |
| 01:18:00.19 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Moving on to our next, |
| 01:18:05.81 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:18:05.85 | Chris Zapata | Mayor if I can. |
| 01:18:06.88 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:18:07.06 | Chris Zapata | Yes, go ahead. Before you run the nuts, you've taken it. |
| 01:18:07.30 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Wonderful. |
| 01:18:10.39 | Chris Zapata | In addition to thanking the community members and other folks, I really want to stress that it was a storm that impacted the entire community in a lot of areas, whether it was people without power or flooding or down things. And, you know, we had a crew working around the clock. from Public Works that came and did what they could to try to help the situation. So I really want to acknowledge the public works team, the police department, the other departments that pitched in, Parks and Recreation Department who are manning the MLK facility now. They did a lot of work to try to respond to this. And then secondly, I just received information from Mr. Shapiro that we have one person in the county in that facility in the beginning. So there are six lots available now. |
| 01:18:56.76 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay, great. Thanks for that. for that real time update. |
| 01:19:01.59 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:19:01.70 | Chris Zapata | Yeah. |
| 01:19:02.18 | Jill Hoffman | Thanks to, I agree, and thanks to everybody. It was kind of a, Everybody... Everybody was working so it's good. Thanks to our staff, great effort. Okay, so motion passes, did we vote? |
| 01:19:12.52 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:19:15.74 | Jill Hoffman | We call the roll. Yeah, okay, motion passed unanimously. Moving on to our next item on the agenda. which are action minutes of the previous meeting, Um, And these are the action minutes from October 12th, 2021. Do I have a motion or is there any Corrections. |
| 01:19:36.79 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:19:36.80 | Jill Hoffman | I don't know. |
| 01:19:37.02 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:19:37.16 | Jill Hoffman | motion. |
| 01:19:37.49 | Janelle Kellman | They're often less on his credit. |
| 01:19:38.74 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:19:38.81 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:19:38.91 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Hold on just a second. I think I went to, so let me open up public comment first and then we'll come to the motion. Okay, public comment for action minutes. Seeing no hands. Closing public comment. We're moving on. |
| 01:19:54.74 | Heidi Scoble | Those are probably the same. for a minute. Thank you. You're correct. There are no hands raised. |
| 01:19:59.18 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, very good. Then I will, so we have a motion on the table. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. Could you please take the roll call vote, please? |
| 01:20:12.06 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Sobieski. |
| 01:20:13.49 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:20:13.84 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Council member Blomstein. |
| 01:20:19.80 | Janelle Kellman | You're on mute, council member Blossom. Yes. |
| 01:20:24.48 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Cleveland Knowles. Thank you. |
| 01:20:26.11 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:20:26.48 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Vice Mayor Kellman. Thank you. |
| 01:20:29.13 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:20:29.32 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Mayor Hoffman. |
| 01:20:30.95 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, motion passes unanimously. Moving on to our next item, which is consent calendar. Matters on the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial require no discussion are expected to have unanimous council support It may be enacted by the Council one motion. 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 be removed from the consent calendar for separate action. Items removed from the consent calendar will be discussed later on the agenda and public comment will be heard on any item that was removed from the consent calendar. Um, There are four items listed on the consent calendar. 3A, which is adoption of a city resolution, the city council, accepting Dunphy Parks soil stockpile removal project as complete. |
| 01:21:23.89 | Unknown | or remove. |
| 01:21:25.92 | Jill Hoffman | thanking 11 Engineering Inc. and directing the city engineer to file a notice of completion 3B is receive and file the library quarter one. 2021-2022 report. Item 3C is receive and file a finance report for fourth quarter fiscal year 2020-2021. Item 3D is receive and file a finance report for first quarter Fiscal Year 2021-2022 And before we move on for a vote on the consent calendar, I'll open up public comments. I see one hand. It looks like to me it's Miss Nichols. Does he only handle it? I don't know. Yes. |
| 01:22:09.77 | Heidi Scoble | There she is. Vicki, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:22:14.35 | Vicki Nichols | I'm sorry, I don't have the agenda in front of me, I'm not in a place where I can look at it. Is one of these items a historical context statement? I'm not sure. |
| 01:22:23.92 | Jill Hoffman | No, ma'am. |
| 01:22:23.98 | Vicki Nichols | No, ma'am. that. |
| 01:22:24.96 | Jill Hoffman | That is a business item number five C. So that'll be our last business item on our agenda tonight. |
| 01:22:28.07 | Vicki Nichols | So, |
| 01:22:31.68 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, Mayor. I'll speak then. Thank you. Okay, very good. Thank you. Okay, I don't see any other hands up. for public comment. |
| 01:22:39.88 | Heidi Scoble | met a mayor there, no, their hands raised. |
| 01:22:42.18 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Then I'll close public comment. Is there any additional council discussion or is there a motion? |
| 01:22:50.55 | Ian Sobieski | I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar, but I would just like to note on the dumpy part that came in almost $150,000 less than what we allocated. So I thought that was Some very welcome and rare good news. I'm happy to get that, I make a motion. |
| 01:23:07.28 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you for having a second. Thank you. Okay? Would you please take the roll call vote, please? |
| 01:23:16.82 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Sobieski. Yes. Council Member Blaustein. |
| 01:23:21.01 | Melissa Blaustein | Yes. |
| 01:23:21.36 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:23:21.85 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Clever-Light Knowles. |
| 01:23:23.48 | Melissa Blaustein | you |
| 01:23:23.54 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:23:23.96 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kelman? Yes. Mayor Hoffman? |
| 01:23:27.48 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, motion passes unanimously. Item four is public hearing items, but we have no public hearing items. So item five is our business items. As I said, we have three business items. 5A is our Public Works Department overview. keeping with our our effort this year to have department updates from all the departments on our agenda throughout this fall. And so, and then, so item 5B is recommendation of homeless services contract with Marin County Cooperation Team. And 5C is gonna be consideration of the citywide It's also a historic context statement. And so we're gonna start off with item 5A and the overview and the presentation is gonna be given by our Public Works Director, Kevin McAllen. Mr. McAllen. Good evening there. |
| 01:24:17.22 | Kevin McGowan | Mr. McAllen. Thank you. |
| 01:24:19.34 | Jill Hoffman | Welcome. |
| 01:24:19.75 | Kevin McGowan | members of the city council. Great to see you. I have a presentation this evening and what I'd like to do is start off by sharing my screen. So let's go there first. Hopefully you can see my presentation at this point. |
| 01:24:35.76 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:24:36.17 | Kevin McGowan | you Great. It should be a blue background. Yes, it is. |
| 01:24:38.92 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:24:39.78 | Kevin McGowan | I do have a pretty long staff report for Public Works, but it was recommended that we probably start out by talking a little bit about the recent storm. And so I have a few slides on the recent storm and the activities that we've performed. And I'd like to also bring in Lauren Umbertus, our maintenance manager, as well as Chief Rohrbacher and possibly somebody from the fire department as well to kind of talk about how they've handled this storm event. |
| 01:25:08.43 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. |
| 01:25:09.81 | Kevin McGowan | All right. As you have heard earlier, we did do some work down at the Marin Ship Park by delivering pallets and placing some rock in the areas close to the kitchen area. We've also, prior to the storm, we've done our best efforts to try to capture as many leaves and clean out our storm drain systems before this event. This is a standard thing that we try to do before we know there's rain coming in. The majority of our crews were on basically cleaning out the catch basins, making sure systems were functioning before the storm event. We can never really tell how much intensity on a rainstorm will come in. And we were quite surprised this event. So some statistics for you as well. I have a couple of different sources for this. I'll just start with the rainfall event. So in Kenfield, they had more than 20 inches of rainfall. That's more than 50% of their annual total. That gives you an idea of how much rain fell in the last 48 hours, pretty amazing. We do have a rain gauge on the roof associated with our sanitary systems, and we read 9.3 inches here in Sausalito. Again, that's a huge amount. There are some other things that were impacted by the storm itself. We didn't have a high tide or a king tide. However, the storm surge, the fact that the storm was pushing waves up towards the Bay Area and water accumulation, raised that tide level from what was noted as a 5.6 on the tide charts to a 6.9, which was observed here in town. we did have some water or part of the bay getting close to bridgeway and the picture down to the right hand side the other things that were very impactful to the city has to do with the amount of wind we we saw so just taking a look at some of the the wind data that came in for the 24th which is sunday and part of the 23rd in some areas you had wind gusts up to 30 miles an hour and in other areas up to 56 miles per hour that's huge that's a that's a big impact to us here in the city due to that wind, we've had lots of impacts, obviously trees and other issues, utility issues. We kind of mentioned about some of our failures. I tend to think of them as more learning opportunities as well. Somebody asked if we have any stormwater pump stations here in town. We do not. We do not have stormwater pump stations. We have sanitary pump stations. And I'll take a look at that in a minute as well. But our crews were very busy taking a look at fallen trees, making sure that our roadways were open. Lauren's going to talk about one particular issue up on Prospect and Channing, which had to do with multiple things from utilities to trees to even MMWD water. So we've had some good luck with a few things and obviously some not so good luck with things. Utilities I just mentioned, the encampment at Marin Ship Park, the wind impacts down there were pretty devastating, as we've heard. We've had some sanitary overflows, and those have to do with a couple different issues. And I'll talk about those a little bit later. Some of our other sanitary pump stations towards lot one, we were lucky that the power did not go out in that area such that that pump station remained operational. I consistently have worries about that pump station if the power goes out. So we were lucky in that event. Some of the work that we've done in the past on the hillsides with storm drain systems that we've replaced, Thank you. the power goes out so we were lucky in that event some of the work that we've done in the past on the hillsides with storm drain systems that we've replaced they were working well and I was out there on Saturday and Sunday taking a look at those hillsides making sure that I didn't see any dirty water coming off the slope and even considered walking way up above towards the highway to take a look One of the things that impacted our ability to respond to city of Sausalito issues, had to do with something that our neighbors were impacted by. And this is Marin City's off-ramp. The drainage system in Marin City right near the off-ramp is a gravity system that travels underneath the highway. And it's my understanding that that was blocked during this event. And vehicles were backed up all the way towards San Rafael. It took me more than two and a half hours to get in on Sunday. I think I'm one of these cars in the background here. But that is one of the issues that we need to talk about in the future of making sure that we can get our responders to Sausalito quickly in order to support our system. Other things that came into play, this is a couple pictures of Dumpy Park. Dumpy Park became flooded basically because the tide came up at the same time it was raining. So the water had no place to go. Over time that area will recede, and I'll show you some other pictures in a minute. So right now I'm hoping Lauren Umbertus is on the call and he can kind of talk to us about Channing and Prospect. This is a... Difficult issue that happened. Lauren, are you on the call? |
| 01:31:01.10 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, he's on. Go ahead, Lauren. |
| 01:31:03.60 | Lauren Umbertus | Good evening, Mayor Hoffman and council members. This is Lauren. I'm the maintenance manager for the department of public works. And thank you Kevin. Kevin had a lot of points and some good pictures there that showed the impact of the event and it was a It was significant for sure. Department of Public Works staff in on Saturday. conducting some storm prep, but then we had two crews come in on Sunday and they were consistently driving throughout town addressing tree limbs in the roadway, blog storm drains, doing whatever they could to assist So I want to thank all those guys that were able to show up on Sunday. And in the last few days, most of what their work has been done is trying to do cleanup around town, pulling vegetation that was staged while the storm event was happening and now trying to dispose of that. The pictures that you see on your screen right now is up on Prospect and Channing and Cable Roadway up in the hills and where they all kind of come together is very exposed. area. and And they really received quite a bit of impact from this storm. there were three large trees that came down and two smaller trees that came down what you see in your middle picture there where you see the cut logs that's actually the from PG&E that was struck by a tree brought down over Prospect Roadway We didn't. basically knocking out power for many of the residents Just before that tree, you can see that in the right hand side of your screen. is another cypress tree that came down landed on top of the vehicle severely damaging that vehicle. made it difficult to access the PG&E poll as that was kind of a little bit farther forward was another tree that came down on cable roadway that crossed over cable roadway and struck a carport with another vehicle inside of that carport and in that lower left-hand picture you can see on that structure up there that the there was a window that was blown out And I don't believe that that window was blown out by material by the tree falling I believe it was blown out by high winds up in that area PG&E responded on Sunday and were also out there all day yesterday. I believe that they were able to reinstall the power pole and reestablish power approximately 6 p.m. yesterday. City crew contractors were out there today removing what trees were left by PG&E. PG&E came in and of basically got all their power, but left all the other material off to the side. So we had a city contractor removing that. Kevin mentioned that MMWD may have been involved We did actually have one unit Surprising that it was only one unit, one unit did in fact lose their water supply on their side of the meter so There was one residence that was without water for the last 24 hours. They were contacting a private plumber to get their water restored. And, but we didn't, the first reports were that we had water main break, which would have been a much more significant problem for MMWD and for all the residents up there involved. So we are continuing to do cleanup in this area. and we'll continue to try to make sure that we get all this material out So that's my report on this particular area of town. If you have any questions for me on this. |
| 01:34:45.08 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you, Lauren. I appreciate it. One of the things that Lauren has to face on occasion happened here at this location. It's the fact that there's an electrical line that's down, and we cannot access that area because it's a live wire. We have to wait for PG&E to get in there first before we can assist with trying to remove these trees that may be blocking someone's driveway. So it's always a bit of a timing issue and we try to work as closely with PG&E as we can, as well as any other utilities and the fire department to gain access. So... |
| 01:35:23.34 | Lauren Umbertus | I'll add to that comment by Kevin. One of the challenges that we do have in Sausalito, as you're well aware, is we have a lot of these very narrow streets up in the hills. And in this particular case on Prospect, beyond the Prospect and Channing Way intersection are a number of other residences that are accessed by continuing down prospect and it has a cul-de-sac at the very end. So when this tree came across and brought over this power pole, those residences at the end of the street, had no vehicular access out of that area. And even when PG&E was able to clear the trees, |
| 01:35:54.09 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:36:00.60 | Lauren Umbertus | to start their work because of the heavy equipment that they had the road was still closed. So one of the challenges is that When these types of events happen, some of those folks, if they had an emergency might not have had a very good way of getting out of that area. And in fact, I believe in the chief for Southern Marin Fire may be able to answer this question, but it's my understanding that because of the trees fell, one of their ambulances got trapped on the other side of the tree and was unable to get out of that area for a period of time until they could clear that. |
| 01:36:18.57 | Unknown | of |
| 01:36:31.85 | Lauren Umbertus | So just one more challenge that we have within our hilly community and steep streets and narrow streets. |
| 01:36:39.01 | Kevin McGowan | Great. Thank you, Lauren. Let's continue on. I'm also hoping at this point that our police chief can step in and give us a little summary about some of the police department's responses during that time. Chief, are you on the call? |
| 01:36:54.45 | Unknown | I am and thank you Kevin for preparing these slides. I have to say that in the public safety triad of public works and fire and police. This is one of those events that's largely a public works response. Our job really is one of support THE FACT THAT WE HAVE We had about over 80 calls for service during the storm period time, but over 50 of them are related to helping with storm. assistance activities that you can see on this particular slide. However, crime doesn't stop entirely. We had a stolen car come into town. In the morning, which our officers were able to locate and recover and care of that. THEIR OWNERS. We, had the opportunity to check on all 50 of the people in our department's RUOK list to make sure they were all right and see if they needed any assistance. And we also ended up having a domestic violence case, ended up having to make an arrest in that case. And so when that happens, that requires a trip to, jail one of the officers out of service during that time so We do our best to help in this case. I'm actually a little reluctant to even... I share in this presentation because it was currently all public works and fire doing the MR. the bulk of the labor and much appreciated. Our job was to do just to be the best support that we could. And again, thank you, Kevin, for including us in that. |
| 01:38:37.69 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you, Chief. Appreciate it. Chief's very modest. We couldn't do anything without their assistance because we had streetlights out. We had a lot of other things going on at the same time. So I'm wondering if there's anybody from Southern Marin Fire on the call. I don't see anybody right now, so I will kind of cover a little bit of what I know about Southern Marin fire and this event. When Lauren and I kind of go into this mode of emergency action, we turn on our radios and start listening to what's happening throughout most of Southern Marin. And we're hearing lots and lots of calls to emergency services for trees down, for roads block. I'm pretty sure that I heard a lot of calls for Mill Valley and other areas due to the amount of wind that we saw as well as the amount of water coming down through those natural channels. So Southern Marin fire, I don't know if they've augmented their battalions or anything during this event, but I'm pretty sure they were very, very busy. So we can get an update from Chief Tubbs at a later point in time if he's not on this call. Now, there's still additional actions happening at this point in time. So once the rain stops, we still keep going. We have to clean up. We've got a lot of other things going on that we need to address. The water was cleared in Marin City as far as clearing the drainage system, so the access back to Sausalito from southbound traffic is still functioning. However, there's still some areas that still have water, and we're waiting for those to go down. Lauren and his crews are still working on cleaning catch basins, making sure things are still functioning correctly. And we have some protocols that we need to follow for a sanitary overflow that occurred on the north part of town. And that's kind of an interesting and complex issue, so I won't get into it too much. But it has to do with some pump stations that are currently being worked on. And the fact that the way the systems are set up through the sanitary district, they actually accept flow from Tam Valley CSD as well. So that's a complex issue. Now, a couple other things as well. I think this was mentioned earlier of thanking Wren County for providing some assistance to us. We really appreciate that. We also want to do a shout out to all of our staff. They worked exceptionally hard over the weekend. They had a lot on their plate, and I don't think these folks ever slowed down. So many thanks to them, and I'm pretty proud of them for going through this event. And I think in some ways we're pretty lucky. So with that, I can still continue on with our annual update if council would like us to, or if we can stop It's up to you, Mayor, if you would like us to continue. |
| 01:41:29.22 | Jill Hoffman | Thanks, Director McCowan. I think you should just keep going and then we'll take public comment on all of these things during the public comment section. |
| 01:41:39.82 | Kevin McGowan | That sounds great. All right. So, um, For our annual report, we prepared a rather lengthy staff report for you. And this staff report addresses a lot of the issues that council has raised in the past. I'm hoping that this presentation provides a short summary of the items within the staff report. Now, in typical fashion, I missed a few grammatical errors in the staff report, so my apologies. But we also have, keep in mind that we also have a special meeting with the city council this coming Saturday, which is intended to address the strategic plan. The strategic plan contains more than 50 capital projects related to DPW. We are not anticipating discussing these this evening, but they will come up in our next meeting with council on the 30th. |
| 01:42:29.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:42:36.99 | Kevin McGowan | Public Works recently backfilled our assistant engineer position, which was vacated in January, 2021. and was only a one-half full-time equivalent position during COVID. We are happy to welcome Ali Iqbal, our assistant engineer. And I know Ali is on the call. If maybe he can show his face at this point in time, that might be great just to wave. We usually, for new employees, we'd like to have them meet the city council. But in this case, since we're simply having a Zoom call, I think it may be just appropriate to say, welcome aboard, Ali. We really appreciate his assistance. Public Works is... There we go. All right, thanks, Ali. Public Works is divided into three main divisions, engineering, maintenance, and sanitary. With Ali backfilling the assistant position, we now have a total of 12 FTE, or full-time equivalent, positions. This includes four FTE for engineering, five FTE for maintenance, and three for sanitary. Each division administers different programs, with each program having its own goals and purpose. However, the overarching goal of our department is to provide safe infrastructure for the general public. We want everybody to be safe here in Sausalito as much as possible. Overall DPW has 19 different programs. Some of these are repeated in each division, but that's in order to make sure that we cover everything. And looking at work that the engineering division performs, we manage a total of seven programs. The major programs consist of developing and implementing capital projects performing land development reviews of private property development, and issuance of encroachment permits. Assistance with public records requests and assistance with litigation are also programs we administer, or at least assist with. A staff of four manages these programs. Certain programs such as the land development and permitting issuance have specific deadlines such that they tend to have a higher priority than capital projects. Unfortunately, the lack of dedicated staff assigned to the capital projects impacts our delivery of those projects in a timely manner. And I'll have another slide to kind of explain this a little bit. |
| 01:45:19.79 | Kevin McGowan | Our maintenance division also manages a total of six different programs. This includes maintenance of our roads as well as our buildings. Other cities in the county have dedicated divisions for each of these programs, but based on Sausalito's size and our staff, these two programs are addressed by our maintenance division specifically. Our maintenance division also addresses tree issues and on occasion assists with the development and management of specific capital projects. Some of the duties performed by this division include managing and repairing our 32 miles of roadways. these folks are the eyes and ears that help us make sure that our roadways are in relatively good condition and are working as intended. The division also utilizes outside consultants to perform work as needed to assist all departments. The Public Works Department played a vital role in establishing the accountant area in Marinship Park and continues to provide assistance with regard to that facility. |
| 01:46:36.16 | Kevin McGowan | Our sanitary division is composed of three FTE personnel and manages several different programs. The maintenance of the existing sanitary system is the primary focus of this division. We also utilize consultants to assist us with the capital projects assigned to the sanitary division. And, but staff is needed to manage this consultant and prioritize the projects. Other programs administered by the division include assisting residents with the sewer lateral grant program, providing reviews of private systems, as well as providing underground service alert markings in the field for utilities. All of these are important programs and require staff to multitask in order to expedite the work. |
| 01:47:30.10 | Kevin McGowan | Public works staff is funded through the general fund as well as the sanitary fund. Actual allocations of staff time of each of the budget centers changes over time, depending upon the program requirements. For example, in the month of October, we estimate that a total of 1.65 full-time equivalencies were dedicated to the capital projects. This includes my time and other staff to keep projects moving forward. Unfortunately, this is not sufficient to cover the more than 20 active projects on the capital list. There are several reasons for this that occurred, for the lack of moving projects forward. not being able to backfill the assistant position and having to multitask to address other programs administered by the division have been the main reason for not completing capital projects in a timely manner. Now, on this slide, you'll notice that the funding that is set aside for the engineering division is composed of two different funds, the general fund and the sanitary fund. That's shown at the top. Now in the next chart down below, you'll see that I've kind of taken a look at all of the different programs within the Public Works Department and just broken them out per the month of october now you'll see that we we only have 3.05 ftes assigned to sanitary now that changes over each year especially in the summertime we will allocate more time from our road crew folks in order to work with the sanitary division and and make sure that we clean more systems and utilize staff that way. In the month of October, we're basically on prep work for cleaning catch bases. So we do have to allocate more staff for that. So this allocation changes over each month. I have an example for you. The chart on the screen is a simple work allocation schedule for our senior engineer. It shows that his time is dedicated for several different programs throughout the month, including several capital projects. However, Through the month of October, additional issues came up that modify this schedule. |
| 01:49:55.68 | Kevin McGowan | Adding projects such as gathering data for the Caledonia Street closure, submitting the appropriate grant paperwork for FEMA, and assisting with submitting grant paperwork for the Ferry project, as well as permits and adding additional committee meetings, forces us to reprioritize our work. Since many of these new assignments have a priority, The capital projects tend to be moved out. Having project managers or additional staff to address capital projects specifically would help to keep projects on schedule. This is simply an example at this point. It is our understanding that council would like each department to address specific issues related to the services we provide starting with, How do we determine our current level of service? The answer to this question depends on each program. From the 50,000-foot level, we look at whether our roads, facilities, sanitary facilities provide safe and sufficient services to residents. Really, when we step back and look at that entirely, that's our main goal for the public works. We want our facilities to be safe and to be utilized in a safe manner. Diving in a little deeper, we look at the program we provide. While we have limited staffing and that staff is required to multitask, we find that some programs tend to be sacrificed compared to other immediate work. This was explained in the previous slide, in which we noted that CIP projects tend to get pushed back to allow our limited staff to address priority work, such as land development or permits that may come in and have to be issued right away. Other programs such as vegetation management and sanitary are priorities to prevent flooding and overflows, which are safety issues. All programs have room for improvement. However, with limited amount of staffing, our department has made significant efforts to address immediate issues that affect the public health and safety. |
| 01:52:19.40 | Kevin McGowan | How would DPW be affected by a 10% cut? Prioritizing which programs would be affected would need to be addressed in order to provide a response to this question. Reducing the staff allocations in the engineering division could result in implementing less cip projects or reducing the number of permits issued or reduction of the land development reviews the staff report notes some strategies to address these issues such as utilizing an outside firm to manage all cip projects and increasing fees to cover dpw reviews of private property projects Reduction in the maintenance division would be very impactful to the city. Currently, many services and equipment utilized to provide these services require a minimum of two people to perform. Reduction of maintenance programs may not be manageable and will end up impacting safety aspects of our roadways and facilities. Again, the staff report makes some recommendations to augment these types of services. While we are currently discussing staffing, an analysis of reducing the number of programs and the expectations around those programs should be evaluated. |
| 01:53:45.24 | Kevin McGowan | So how would DPW be affected by a 10% increase in funding? the allocation of an additional 10% for staff could be utilized for several different positions. Over the last several years I have been here, DPW staff has had to manage a rather complex billing system for not just CIP projects, but for maintenance work. Having one person shared with DPW and Community Development Department to manage this type of work would free up staff for other programs. Utilizing a senior engineer to perform administrative tasks may not be the best use of city resources. Seeking out a person who can assist the city with securing and administering grants may be a course of action that could prove fruitful. Grant administration is also complex and having an expert familiar with these processes |
| 01:54:38.92 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:54:40.73 | Kevin McGowan | would assist staff In addition, providing mapping services for all divisions and all departments to identify areas of impact for encroachment permits, as well as fire and police, would help to explain complex issues such as eelgrass restoration and fire fuel reduction in wooded areas of Sausalito. Adding field personnel for both the maintenance division would significantly help to effectively perform maintenance tasks. We currently share resources internally but have but having an additional dedicated worker for a sanitary will allow for more effective services. DPW does need more staff, but narrowing the focus and identifying what program is important to council and the residents would be helpful to further define where this increase can best be utilized, such as project managers for capital projects or field personnel to improve maintenance activities. |
| 01:55:47.48 | Kevin McGowan | Our hours of operation vary between maintenance and engineering. Our maintenance divisions start generally at about 6.30 AM, and they finish at about 2.30 each day, while the engineering division has more of a standard 8 to 5 schedule. Our engineering division also work closely with our community development division, and we mirror our hours to facilitate the counter and assist the public with regard to improvements on private property. All of our staff is available in an emergency, as we kind of saw last weekend. Many thanks to Lauren and all of the maintenance staff who stepped up over the last weekend. I'm proud of these folks and their efforts and what they did for us. How do we measure success? is our next one. Let's see here. For an overall perspective, DPW wants to provide safe streets, facilities, and sanitary systems to provide effective services to the public. If we dive in a little more, our success of each program is measured differently. The capital projects program measures its success by how many projects we complete. Maintenance measures their success by on minimizing impacts to the public and providing safe roads and facilities to everybody. Sanitary success means no overflows and also making sure that the system is functioning as best it can. Our success is also measured on how quickly we respond to complaints and address field issues. DPW staff understands that there's always room for improvement, and we welcome ideas and new technologies to help us achieve the goals of each program. The council has also asked the department about items related to innovative solutions, expense reductions and shared services. As noted in the staff report, we have mentioned that we already share resources with the internal divisions. Last year, we shared our assistant engineer with the city of Mill Valley due to fiscal constraints related to the pandemic. Future innovation solutions for fiscal constraints include seeking more grant opportunities and utilizing a firm or providing a new position to seek out funding to support these programs. initiating the design of projects when we may not have construction funds will allow us the ability to have more shovel-ready projects and be ready to construct when funding does become available. Other efforts mentioned earlier included charging for applications for DPW design reviews, as well as seeking out technology to better streamline our workload |
| 01:58:54.86 | Kevin McGowan | While the council has asked the staff to cover more specific questions related to the fiscal responsiveness, we felt it was important to mention some of the items that public works has addressed in the last year. These include, but are not limited to, issuing the same number of permits during a pandemic And while staff reductions were in place, implementation of important projects such as the gate section Prima project. or moving forward with a ferry land side improvement project. Assisting residents with providing information to the council related to pg needs work and their rule 28 true rule 20 program. I'm so sorry. |
| 01:59:44.04 | Kevin McGowan | For our maintenance division, over the last year, we stepped up to not only place more than 8,000 pounds of asphalt in potholes, but have also facilitated the installation of bollards and striping on Caledonia Street, installed rock paving material in the tree wells downtown, replaced fencing at Willow Creek, and have responded quickly to public hazards and inquiries. That doesn't really include some of the other stuff that we generally do all the time, which is maintain our street clearances, clean vegetation, make sure our systems are working. Our sanitary division has also stepped up by assisting residents with, with the sewer lateral program, which, which we have plenty of these sewer laterals that are privately maintained in Sausalito. They have also managed several contractors for immediate and emergency actions and administered the reporting aspect of overflows and coordinated with regulatory agencies, which is no small task. Implementation of new electronic systems to identify potential blockages, as well as working with the Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District on methods to maintain systems will assist the residents in Sausalito. |
| 02:01:16.16 | Kevin McGowan | Lastly, every day I come to work here in Sausalito, I'm impressed with the men and women who work here. Not only are they talented and professional in the work that they perform, but they are also very dedicated and genuinely interested in doing the very best for the residents of Sausalito. While I see this every day with DPW personnel, I also see this with all departments and all personnel in Sausalito. I'm happy to be part of this team. With that, that concludes my presentation for Public Works. So thank you very much. |
| 02:01:56.10 | Jill Hoffman | Thanks, Kevin. That was very thorough and a great presentation. I'm guessing there's a couple of questions or questions, not a couple, probably some questions from our city council members. Ask if there's any follow-up based on the presentation. from our director McAllen. And then here's the flow for those of you watching. We'll have questions from our council members, then we'll go to public comment, and then we'll come back for discussion. and or direction from the council so I see Councilmember Sobieski has his hand up. So go ahead, Councilmember Sobieski. except that you're muted. |
| 02:02:37.31 | Ian Sobieski | Director McGowan, I just wanted to say that was an excellent presentation. It hit all the points that we asked for. and really was a tour before us. I've learned a lot and I want to commend you and the whole department for |
| 02:02:46.98 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 02:02:51.86 | Ian Sobieski | for especially for all the highlights of the successes in the face of challenges that you, any of it, there are many examples there I didn't know about. I tried to take quick notes and failed. I'll have to watch the, the presentation again to establish a full list, but I really wish the whole community could have seen that list from doing permits on time, during the pandemic. at the same rate as pre-pandemic to all the other things you listed. It was very impressive. I know we'll talk more on Saturday about specific things, but I just wanted to, to re-emphasize one thing you said. You, I think said that a lack of staff is a primary impediment to the timely execution of the capital improvement program. what you said or some version of that. I don't want to put words here. |
| 02:03:42.77 | Kevin McGowan | Well, I think what I'm referring to is that we have a total of four folks who are working in the engineering division. Currently we have lots of programs, as I mentioned, and those folks, their time is divided between those programs. Now, if we want to reallocate some of those programs and put less time into it, we could put more resources into the capital projects themselves. However, my recommendation right now and how I referenced it is, I think we need some project managers to move these projects along. Some of them are very big. In other words, the Ferry Landside project now has two pieces to it. So that needs more resources assigned to it so it moves the projects along. And remember that if we're going to measure success in our capital projects, We generally want to get those projects finished. So that's how we measure our success with the CIP. I hope that addresses your question. |
| 02:04:43.70 | Ian Sobieski | It does just taking it a step further, is it possible? at some meeting at some time, if not Saturday, to understand the relationship between added headcount and the effect on the schedule of actual project implementation. |
| 02:04:58.56 | Kevin McGowan | We would have to take a close look at the projects and estimate how much time is allocated per each engineer. That'll take a little doing, but I think that we could have that discussion close to Saturn. |
| 02:05:12.63 | Ian Sobieski | And then related to that, could you do the same thing regarding what you would call sort of a level of maintenance, whether it's the pavement quality index or any other measurable standard of how we respond to maintenance? of our infrastructure. Is that a similar task that could be? FORM. |
| 02:05:33.45 | Kevin McGowan | It can. It needs a few more steps in there. So it depends upon what we're talking about. We have a report on our roadway system that was developed in 2018, which recommends that we set aside a certain amount of money to maintain the pavement condition index at 70. At this point in time, we're not allocating that amount, but if we're going to move forward and allocate more money to that, that becomes a capital project. And that also means we need a project manager to get that thing going. So With other things like the facilities themselves, such as the City Hall, we would need a facility assessment study. I've seen one here in 10 years ago in some of the files, but I think we need something new that would tell us what we need to improve with this facility. |
| 02:06:26.02 | Ian Sobieski | Oh. when will we be able to get something like that? from the point of view of really being able to make the trade-off, budgetary trade-offs and decisions about where to invest. If we want to get back to basics, make sure we maintain our infrastructure well and that we invest in our infrastructure. increase our pavement quality index and attend people's a bunch of infrastructure questions across town. How can we get a range of specific requirements to do that so that we can make trade-offs. those objectives versus other things the city cares about. |
| 02:07:00.21 | Kevin McGowan | I think our starting point is the CIP, which we have developed annually. If you take a look at the May 11th, 2021 staff report, there's an attachment there that has a six year CIP. It shows a list of all the projects. And the intent was that council would take a look at that and start to prioritize those projects so that we have a path forward. The other issue that you are mentioning is the strategic plan, which we're going to talk about on Saturday. That's kind of a little bit higher level than the CIP itself. And it takes a look at where we need to focus some of our attention to establish those priorities. So I think the way I'm not sure if I'm answering this correctly, but the way I understand this working is we have a general plan, which is an overall scope of the city. Then we have a strategic plan, which helps us identify the priorities. What do we want to do first? And then we jump into the CIP, which is the details of which project do you implement first? So that's my understanding of how to dive into this type of question. |
| 02:08:06.29 | Ian Sobieski | One last question, which is, you mentioned a bunch of ways you measure success. And many of them are quantifiable and the pavement quality index is just one of a variety, but that's one that you actually do quantify, whereas many of the others could be quantified. And as far as I know, there isn't a sort of dashboard that summarizes the quality of our infrastructure and the quality of our maintenance. Is it possible to develop a quantified set of metrics that describe the state of our infrastructure and our maintenance? |
| 02:08:37.86 | Kevin McGowan | Yes, in some cases. The thing I mentioned about our facilities, such as City Hall, we need a facility assessment study. I don't believe our staff is capable of doing that. We would hire an outside firm to look at the building itself, and that includes accessibility to the roof, to everything else that we have in the building. Other items, such as a sidewalk assessment, have been done in different communities as well. We could move in that direction. I think we'll be talking about a lot of this type of stuff on Saturday and some of the needs that the city may have. You're correct that we don't have anything that, well, we do have some things that are quantifiable, but additional studies are needed. THANK YOU. |
| 02:09:22.99 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you, Council Member Sobieski. Any other council members have any questions for Director McCown before I open this up for public comment? Yes, Vice Mayor. |
| 02:09:32.03 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, thank you. Thank you. And really, Dr. McGowan, that was a fantastic report. Huge thank you to you and your team, to Lauren who I know is on site and driving around and taking photos. You guys really, really did a fantastic job in this presentation. I just want to commend you because it was really thorough and excellent. And I know we, we emailed a little bit today. You, you hit all the points that I thought, we needed to hear on the storm. action report. So thank you for for doing that, taking that on. And a huge welcome to Ali, who I know we are happy to have as well. Um, |
| 02:10:07.13 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:10:07.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:10:07.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:10:07.74 | Janelle Kellman | I'm wondering, and thank you to Councilor Sobieski, for handling so many of the strategic questions that was really really helpful I have just one more to add on that, which is, |
| 02:10:17.36 | Unknown | which is... |
| 02:10:18.20 | Janelle Kellman | To what extent, Kevin, are you planning for projects from a preventative perspective? And I I'm looking at this with an eye towards resiliency and sustainability. with the definition of resiliency as the ability of a system to come back from a potential breakage or to adapt to something, a new condition. Do you have resiliency built into your planning, both at the maintenance and the CIP level? |
| 02:10:43.75 | Kevin McGowan | So not necessarily. Um... We do in some cases. I think the way to address your question is when we start looking at these bigger projects, sea level rise, north-south Greenway, can we combine these type of projects so that they are resilient in the future and they can be built to address more than one issue? I think that's where we want to head. Um, We have multiple types of projects as well. And resiliency comes into play not with just one type of project. My example is when we put in a curb ramp, we also want to take a look at accessibility throughout that area. That's my simplified version for a street resurfacing project. When we do that, we have to review the curb ramps and make sure they are up to compliance as well. So it's kind of a complete street approach. Now, there are new issues coming up, and we had mentioned them, sea level rise, to climate change, to all sorts of other things that are new to us. We at Public Works want to adapt to that, and I think some of the other agencies who are coming forward with grant funding are looking for that type of approach as well. So we definitely want to look in that direction, but the existing projects that we have are basically complete streets projects And as we get new ones, we'll look at exactly what you're talking about. |
| 02:12:18.01 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, that's great to hear. And partly where I'm going with this is to help the council better understand what some of those preventative tool sets towards resiliency might look like. So you had mentioned sensors and monitoring and more data and GIS mapping. And fortunately, I think we have some good resources here. I know the State of the Rights Task Force will be sharing the map that we've created, but the county has some really excellent resources around sensors and monitoring and GIS Do you have any specific ideas about how we might work more closely with the county to leverage some of those resources and make sure that we have complete datasets? And again, if you don't in the moment, I'd welcome that in the future. |
| 02:13:02.43 | Kevin McGowan | Yes, definitely. I think we had even talked about shared services with the county at some point in time as well. And we definitely want to look into that. To be honest, my expertise in GIS is not that great. I would have to reach out to somebody who would have more experience. But those are great examples. We also are working pretty closely with Mill Valley and their DPW on certain issues. So, again, yes, we want to collaborate together to make things work better. |
| 02:13:32.03 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, and sorry, just a couple, just two more questions, Mayor Hoffman. You mentioned Duffy Park and you showed us the slide of the flooding And I didn't quite get what you said was the cause of that. literally the perfect storm of two or three things. Can you just reiterate that or repeat that? |
| 02:13:49.44 | Kevin McGowan | You bet. Okay, so we've got more than nine inches of rainfall happening in 24 hours. Here in Sausalito, it all flows to the bay. So it all goes down through a system. And in this case, the watershed that serves Dumpy Park comes down off the hillside. It goes into a filtration system. It goes straight out to the bay. Now, if the bay is higher than the outlet, the water has no place to go. And so that's why you saw it coming out of the manhole. The water needed some place to go and it has a lot of, pressure from that hillside coming down very quickly. |
| 02:14:25.96 | Janelle Kellman | It'd be interesting to use that potentially as a case study to understand what tool sets we as a council might be able to approve to prevent that with an eye again towards resiliency for our infrastructure systems. If that comes up on Saturday, I welcome that for a future date as well. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor Hoffman. |
| 02:14:44.79 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay, thank you. Any other council questions for Director McAllen before we move to public comment? Yes, Councilmember Blastene, go ahead. |
| 02:14:54.18 | Melissa Blaustein | I had one question and that was a fantastic presentation and I really appreciate you and your team. I will never forget the image of you in your yellow raincoat and rain boots coming in from the storm on a Sunday to meet with us and be there for your team and to help us. So I really, truly appreciate you and everybody at DPW. And I just wanted to ask about, You know, you put it in both challenges and accomplishments, the response to community concerns. And I'm sure we have all experienced calls from neighbors wondering about you know, why their street has a pothole or what the quality when when they're specific street will be paved or they found something in the thoroughfare. Can you just for the folks listening and just so that you can get credit for the great work you're doing for outreach talk through, and you know, a community member calls DPW and says, Hey, there's a pothole on my street. What is the response process for you just to make it more in layman's terms for folks at home to understand so you can get credit for all of the outreach you're doing there? |
| 02:15:56.48 | Kevin McGowan | Well, I wish I could get the credit, but I think I'm going to shift that over to Lauren and his team. Our maintenance division is our main folks of the eyes and ears in the field. When we get a call, we get either a call or we get an email. It can either come in through the website itself, and in that case, that gets distributed to myself, engineers, as well as Lauren in the field. Now, from that, we triage it. We try to take a look at that request to see if it's a big issue right now. My example today is we had somebody who sent me an email and requested to have a shield put on their overhead light, their street light, to prevent it from shining into their bedroom. It's an important issue, but we do have other things on our list, such as removing trees and making sure roadways are open right now. So for the public, like I mentioned, you can access our website to submit something through, I believe it's currency or something on the website that we will get notification. You can also call us here and just call us on the phone or submit an email to me directly. And to be honest, we've got a lot of accolades for Lauren and his crew because they react very quickly. So great job, Lauren, on your team being out and about. I can simply call him. I know he's in his car driving around to take a look and make sure things are OK. So that's generally how we manage our response time, especially during a disaster. We want to make sure that we get to things right away. |
| 02:17:33.97 | Melissa Blaustein | Thanks, Lauren. We really appreciate it. |
| 02:17:39.04 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Any other questions from council members? Okay, then we'll move on to public comment for This item, which is the Public Works Department overview. and ad hoc storm update. So. Thank you. |
| 02:17:55.61 | Heidi Scoble | Now we do have four hands raised in the first speaker. It's Timothy Logan. |
| 02:17:55.63 | Jill Hoffman | Amen. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:18:02.35 | Unknown | Okay. Thank you. |
| 02:18:06.52 | Heidi Scoble | Timothy, you've been unmuted. |
| 02:18:09.84 | Jill Hoffman | Mr. Logan, I believe you need, there you go. |
| 02:18:12.24 | Timothy Logan | First, I wanted to say that How was it that what the Public Works did for us made us safe? I'm not entirely sure. Um, they didn't drop off anything to put the stuff together, like nails or anything. They just brought those 20 pallets for the encampment to share between us. They knew this storm was coming almost a full week before it hit us and how big it was gonna be. There was talk all over the TV. We didn't get those powers until like a day. before that happened. also I... During that storm, I was up in the middle of the night, seeing what was happening in the world, There was a transformer arcing up around Rodeo somewhere. One of those transformers was arcing. I'm not sure. Blue, purplish, green. sometimes across the sky. So you guys might wanna be concerned about that. There is some arcing up there during the storm, that I didn't hear mentioned on here. Also, the fire department. I call them specifically because I've seen somebody that was in danger and their bow had flipped And They came out. Way late that day, I had to make the phone call twice to the fire department. from two separate phones second time they came out to rescue the person who they never actually ended up rescuing. Another boat, another anchor happened to be going by and found the person hanging off the back of his boat, drowning in the water. The fire department would not listen to my direction. When I told them that they asked me for my direction, when I told them where it was, they went in the opposite direction and they passed way out further than they needed to. and driving around in circles doing God knows what, but they didn't actually rescue anybody. They were more having fun out in the waves. not listening to my direction or the direction of the fire department that was trying to give to them that I'd seen a boater go underwater at. that's concerning for me also because right when I first got here, there was a man around New Year's a couple years ago who died on New Year's because of a drowning incident and it was a really strong win that day. that incident I watched the man had his leg up over the gun well of a boat. The fire department comes into the Salem, hits the boat that the man was almost into and puts that boat underneath the water It puts both the boat owner and the guy who was just pulled out of the water back into the water The fireman jumps into the water to save him, and gets him onto the back of the deck. Now this man's dead. He's not breathing. And the fire department is just standing above him, talking like it's nothing, instead of giving this man resuscitation or starting CPR like they should have. I would have figured because if anybody gets pulled from the water, I mean, automatically know that you should clear the lungs of water before anything. They take this man, I started yelling at the fire, the man, start CPR. Why aren't you starting CPR? And he refused to start CPR. In fact, he asked the officer to come take care of me instead. |
| 02:21:32.14 | Heidi Scoble | Mr. Logan, your three minutes have elapsed. |
| 02:21:35.40 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, sir. |
| 02:21:38.64 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Shirley's Galaxy. Shirley, you've been unmuted. |
| 02:21:45.89 | Unknown | there. |
| 02:21:46.21 | Jeff Jacobs | Thank you. |
| 02:21:46.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:21:46.26 | Jeff Jacobs | you |
| 02:21:46.35 | Unknown | Wait, share video. |
| 02:21:46.77 | Jeff Jacobs | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 02:21:48.47 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:21:51.22 | Jeff Jacobs | Hello again from Camp Cormorant Revival. Thanks to Kevin McGowan and the DPW. for representing as a union and not participating in the bulldozing of the original Camp Cormorant. That is democracy in action. And our thanks. The second one is perhaps they did not participate in the siting of this camp here. on what the Department of Public Works, director just said is a sewage outlet area. even a leach field that we can smell it now. This is a low line area. there's going to have to be a solution here. and the solution is not going to come necessarily from the federal government from declaring an emergency. The emergency is here, and it And it's now. I'm not sure. The second point I'd like to make is on the eelgrass that he was talking about, eelgrass restoration. A report in the New York Times now has disclosed THAT ATTORS. disturbing the eelgrass. lead to sexual reproduction of the eelgrass and more diversity in that species. that in fact that enables us to survive And in the same way the otters do that, so do the anchor outs. It would be nice if eelgrass wasn't used against the anchor out anymore after that report. The third. The point I'd like to make is on climate change, that, uh, I, uh, the... agenda for the next meeting. is being planned later on in the night. I don't know if I'm gonna be here, so I'm I'm asking for a climate emergency to be declared here in Sausalito. to be discussed in the next meeting. That means that we undergo mitigation factors, and in this camp, The people here are using a lot less energy and producing a lot less energy. carbon output than the people on the flats or the people on the Hill. So we are doing our part, and we're asking the city of Sausalito and its citizens, and the leaders to do their part. Thank you very much. |
| 02:23:59.66 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. passing it. Hello? Go ahead, ma'am. |
| 02:24:06.65 | Unknown | Sorry, is it okay if I continue? |
| 02:24:08.65 | Jill Hoffman | Sure. |
| 02:24:08.98 | Unknown | Thank you. So I just wanted to comment. I've heard a lot of praise about Department of Public Works and I would like to just share the experience that I had it's my understanding that Mr. Zapata contacted Department of Public Works to come and drop gravel at the site in anticipation of mud. and potentially flooding. And what happened when that occurred is I was here when Department of Public Works arrived and there were three workers And they were All Uh, very willing to help. and serve whatever we needed here. they had a very small load of gravel I asked them to please dump gravel in front of the only source of heat in the camp. and they were willing to do that and then shortly after i believe his name is lauren the supervisor arrived on site And he wasn't. very welcoming. and he was very curt with me. And when I asked him if it was okay for them to put gravel near the only heat course, in the kitchen. basically what he proceeded to tell me was to get a broom. and push the water. |
| 02:25:25.54 | Emilio | I'll see you next time. |
| 02:25:25.70 | Unknown | Thank you. So I'm very disappointed in that. And then one of the other concerns that I wanted to address as well was . the people who arrived to about Soil sampling, if the city was aware of that, if it's the city who's requested it or where that's coming from, because everything is very chaotic and |
| 02:25:50.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:25:51.49 | Unknown | inhumanely mismanaged It's the only way I can really describe it. so that is a concern as well, and then my final thoughts I believe is that From my understanding with the Biden-Harris update to the FEMA policy as of June 27th, I believe, 2021, It was specifically updated to include those dwelling camps or encampments. And so at this point, I do. agree with the declaration of the need for more assistance that this has become unmanageable. Um, So... There are still FEMA resources available, I believe, which is why they would have updated the policies. So I'm not sure why people were left in a disaster potentially disaster area. and we should have, had more support. there was no there wasn't Any chief director anyone that came. to provide evacuation or supportive services. So, And at the end of the day, the final result is I believe that the city of South Guido is in the process of trying to acquire a property that could potentially, and I think you. back fully Melissa Blauske's proposal for workforce housing. That's the only real good suggestion I've heard thus far. Um... |
| 02:27:25.55 | Heidi Scoble | Three minutes have elapsed. |
| 02:27:28.37 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:27:28.39 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:27:28.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:27:29.06 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:27:30.78 | Heidi Scoble | Anybody else? |
| 02:27:31.36 | Jeff Jacobs | Thank you. |
| 02:27:31.37 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:27:31.39 | Jeff Jacobs | Thank you. That was great. |
| 02:27:36.33 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Or moving on to the next, which I think is Mr. O'Brien. |
| 02:27:44.20 | Heidi Scoble | Mr. O'Brien, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:27:53.75 | Bradley O'Brien | OK, I think I am good to go. |
| 02:27:56.28 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Go ahead, sir. |
| 02:27:57.73 | Bradley O'Brien | Yes, so my name is Bradley O'Brien. The city council might remember me from past meetings. I was the previous commissioner on the undergrounding committee trying to underground Sausalito overall 20 years ago. And I'm currently working with the four street Fanta group to see if we can find a way to underground four street without encumbering neighbors with a with the results of that underground project, looking at Kevin's Thank you. presentation i think the one thing that struck me first is we really need to underground sausalito we can't just have trees over poles we can't have the potential for fires it just shows how exposed this city is to the safety and the welfare of our citizens we don't underground sausalito i think everyone is aware that there was a pole on four street that caught on fire not very long ago the gentleman before me mentioned he saw to go ahead and get to the next question. I'm going to go ahead and get to the next question. I'm going to go ahead and get to the next question. I'm going to go ahead and get to the next question. I'm going to go ahead and get to the next question. I'm going to go ahead and get to the next question. I'm going to go ahead and get to the next question. I'm going to go ahead and get to the next question. I'm going to go ahead and get to the next question. I'm going to go ahead and get to the next question. because the wires didn't go through trees or were not going over homes and finally pgne came 36 hours later to look at the wires so i think the city council really i know you have a lot on your plate and listen you know i listen to all these council meetings now but you really need to understand that the safety of the citizens must come first and you really must do something about undergrounding the city I'm one solution or not a solution, but one thing I think will help with that was in Kevin's report was getting a grants writer or manager for the city. I'm not dealt with federal grants in, creating infrastructure in our territories. And for the amount that the city would pay to hire someone, you can get an exponential benefit from that if you can get it federal and state grants. And I think if the city is creative, it can tie in undergrounding with resiliency and climate change, which are very well funded programs at this point at the federal level. And so I highly encourage the city council to bring in a grants writer slash manager to try to tie in all those components and see what we can do for the city for the city. Getting back on the micro level on my FANA 4th Street project, one thing I'd like to ask the city to consider is to somehow encourage PG&E to work with the FANA group. We're actually at the point where we're trying to define an underground district, but it's very difficult because it's difficult to determine what the district should be, how large it should be, what it might look like so we're not impacting other homes. I was wondering if the city might be able to encourage PG&E in light of its unilateral action, putting the Viper recloser on Forestry to actually volunteer some time to our group to help define what an underground district should be and to help better understand what that project would be and how it might impact neighbors thank you |
| 02:30:51.49 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:30:52.62 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker, it's Carolyn Revelle. Carolyn, you've been unmuted and I can hear your video. |
| 02:31:02.60 | Carolyn Revell | So. my visible and hearable. I'm Carol. |
| 02:31:05.67 | Jill Hoffman | on Carol. Go ahead, Ms. Ravel. |
| 02:31:08.99 | Carolyn Revell | Carolyn, you go president of Sausalito, beautiful. I read with great interest, the staff report and heard the presentation by Director McGowan about the great number and variety of his department's responsibilities After our recent storm, we can only be in awe of the work of his department that under he undertakes for our city as our storm drains to scorch rainwater. We worried about landslides and fallen tree limbs littered our streets. Clearly the community expects a lot from our Department of Public Works but among the responsibilities assigned, we feel department budgets should allow adequate staff for another key responsibility that is omitted overseeing the planting and health of street trees. Summarizing his department's maintenance responsibilities, Director McGowan stated in his report, the maintenance manager addresses the review and removal of city trees. Apparently the department's responsibilities do not explicitly include the planting and care of trees in the public right of way. Though the Parks and Rec Department plants and maintains trees in our parks, who is given the responsibility and the staffing to focus on planting new trees to beautify our streets and our medians. . CIP coordination director McGowan noted interaction with maintenance staff regarding the development and implementation of the CIP projects is very important. In the past, the maintenance manager, Lawrence Umbertus, has stepped in and managed capital projects. Sausalito Beautiful, as you know, has advocated for funds in the annual CIP budget to add new street trees on Coloma Street and replace dying trees on Bridgeway and Princess. But the question arises who is assigned the responsibility foreseeing that those trees are purchased, planted, and properly maintained. Mr. McGowan's phrase, the maintenance manager has stepped in identifies the problem. rather than such an ad hoc arrangement, Shouldn't a staff member be explicitly assigned the responsibility for overseeing a skilled professional in planting trees and ensuring at least the first few years of maintenance. Again, we applaud Director McGowan for juggling all the responsibilities he currently has And we ask that the council recognize this serious omission regarding planting and maintaining the health of street trees as you continue reviewing the responsibilities of the Department of Public Works. Thanks so much. |
| 02:33:27.67 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. I see one last hand up and that's Morgan Pierce. |
| 02:33:33.90 | Heidi Scoble | Morgan, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:33:40.34 | Morgan Pierce | Good evening, Mayor Hoffman, Vice Mayor Gelman, members of council, city staff, and my fellow community members. My name is Morgan Pierce, and I'm speaking tonight on behalf of Sausalito Beautiful, where I serve as Vice President. First, I would like to express my thanks to the Department of Public Works and the broader Sausalito community for its efforts in addressing devastating impacts of our recent storms. And while trees figured prominently in the department's presentation regarding powder, outage of prospect and Channing Way, You must recognize here the trees are not the villains. but rather the impacts of development on root systems unprecedented weather events and proper planning. And these all need to be considered. Speaking of trees, I'd like to echo the sentiments of Sausage the Beautiful President, Carolyn Revelle and thank the city for its continued support of South Sea to the trees and the environment in which they thrive. We recognize that there are many elements that contribute to our city's success. to manage the long-term health of our trees. and in planning for their suitable replacement when age, damage or other factors necessitate such replacement and as such would like to support the Department of Public Works in its quest for adequate support to sustain this critical component of our city's infrastructure. |
| 02:34:48.30 | Morgan Pierce | It's also the beautiful is proud of the proactive productive relationship we have developed with city manager Chris Zapata, Public Works Director Kevin McGowan. Parks and Recreation Director Mike Langford and the Public Works Division of Manager Lauren Ibertus. to realize our ongoing vision to enhance South streetscapes and other public spaces through the introduction of new trees which offer a wide range of benefits to our community, such as shading and cooling, wildlife and pollinator habitat SLOPES STABILIZATION. reduction of stormwater runoff and desirable aesthetics, to name just a few. South City Beautiful looks forward to our continued relationship with the city and offers its assistance. and that of its landscape architects and designers. in the planning for our city's tree friendly future through outlining a citywide map. of existing and potential tree locations. identifying the ideal species for each location and understanding the broader implications of sea level rise and how climate change might be mitigated to some degree by a forward-thinking and responsible tree program. Finally, through Saucyta Beautiful's community engagement and fundraising efforts, We plan to continue our acquisition of nutrients for our community. I look forward to working with the city to provide adequate planning, to ensure their health. into the future. Thank you. |
| 02:35:59.67 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay. Any, I'm going to close public comment. I don't see any further hands, but the clerk could confirm that please. |
| 02:36:10.33 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no hands raised. |
| 02:36:13.37 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Do we have any additional questions for Public Works Director based on what we've heard to this point, any follow-up? Um, Go ahead, Council Member of Cleveland Knowles. |
| 02:36:31.48 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah, I think just the one issue, and perhaps this is more of a discussion for Saturday that I'm really interested in is this tension that the director described that I've been very worried about between kind of handling our day to day items, emergencies and issues raised by the community versus making progress and staying committed to our longer term. projects, our cap, especially our CIP. So, you know, whether that is, really focusing on our strategic plan and our priorities or whether that's a different kind of solution, like having staff that is just specifically devoted to implementing the CIP. or other solutions I'd just be really interested in having that discussion, both with our city manager, public works director, and the rest of the council. So I do see that over time that we get distracted. you know, often for very good reasons from our projects because of something more urgent or pressing that comes up. And I think that's frustrating for everyone, for staff, for the public. also just Leads to long term lack of maintenance of some of our important structure. So I don't have a specific solution, but I am really, I think that That's something I would just like to focus on as a council. . on Saturday and in the coming months. |
| 02:37:56.96 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:37:57.00 | Ian Sobieski | You know? |
| 02:37:57.77 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. I think that's a good point. and that we can all sort of think about that and bring ideas on Saturday, how to approach that. I see Vice Mayor, so go ahead, Vice Mayor, and then I'll vote. |
| 02:38:07.83 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, just one quick question. |
| 02:38:09.33 | Jill Hoffman | . |
| 02:38:10.70 | Janelle Kellman | I'm sure. Yeah, one quick question for Dr. McGowan. or maybe this is a m for Saturday. It would be really helpful to know just consistent with what Councilmember Cliven-Knolls just articulated, it's kind of the low hanging fruit of some things that we can do versus the things that might be a heavier lift and how you might be thinking about them. So, you know, again, talking about resiliency and sustainability, you know, something quite easy to do would be to ban leaf blowers in Sausalito. In fact, Governor Newsom has already banned those to a great extent. So that would help us move towards a community that's relying on a sustainable future. But that's on one end of the spectrum, certainly on the other end of the spectrum are capital improvement programs and long-term planning around resiliency. if you can maybe start to think about some of those things for Saturday, I think would be really helpful. So yeah. |
| 02:39:03.97 | Jill Hoffman | Well, let me just announce I meant to do at the beginning of the meeting, but I forgot. We're going to have a, it's not a special meeting, it's just another scheduled meeting, extra, I guess, scheduled meeting on Saturday from nine to one. and we're going to specifically address the context of our strategic plan and implementation plan that was prepared in the early months of 2020 against our current budget and and staff bandwidth. and helping us prioritize. So this context that we're talking about right now is something that we're gonna be looking at. It's gonna be a Zoom meeting, just like all of our meetings, it'll be recorded. It'll be posted. Um, George McCown, I had a follow-up question. about trees and about the maintenance ongoing maintenance for trees and and you know it in asking that question I have to give a shout out to you to Sausalito Beautiful which is a non-profit that was stood up here in Sausalito I think five years ago they've done tremendous tremendous work helping us with our gardens and helping us with our green infrastructure or sorry not green but our green gardens and our our landscaping. as a supplement to our public works. So go ahead. I'm sorry. Director McGowan, if you could answer that question. |
| 02:40:27.10 | Kevin McGowan | Well, in general, I apologize to Sausalito Beautiful for not including them as part of my presentation. But, yes, they are a key factor in helping us take a look at our street trees. We're working closely with Lauren Umbertus, who has kind of a background in trees, and knows a little bit more about it than I do. So we do work closely closely with them and we want to continue that relationship even though it may not have been specifically mentioned in my presentation lauren takes a big effort in making sure that we work closely with them and continue to install new trees as well as examine existing trees for any diseases or making sure that they are in good health |
| 02:41:09.22 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. And so this is our, there's no, this is to accept the report. This is just part of our periodic update from our departments. So just let me on behalf of all of us, I think thank the public works department for the tremendous amount of work that you do and your dedication during the storm, this past storm weekend, but also all the storms and all the rainy emergencies that come up in town. And we so appreciate all the, all that you do for us and for our citizens. Thank you very much. Anybody else want to Chime in or are we good? Thank you. I think we all agree. so Okay. Thank you, Kevin. Thanks to you and your team. Thanks Lauren. |
| 02:41:49.35 | Unknown | Thanks for you and your team. |
| 02:41:51.59 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, moving on then to our next. item on the agenda is item 5B, which is a recommendation of homeless services contract with Marine County cooperation team. I will note that I'm aware and welcome our supervisor, Stephanie Bolton-Peters is on the line as is the director of health and human services, Benita McLaren. And, um, health and human services. I'm going to get this wrong. Mr. Shapiro, Ken Shapiro, but Ken Shapiro and Ashley Mark McIntyre also on, on the line. So we have a good representation here from the county as well when we're talking about not this specific contract but also some of the other items we've talked about previously tonight so we welcome them and I invite our city manager Chris Apata to talk about our homeless services contract with Marin County cooperation team. And I understand Jameer is here too, right? |
| 02:42:50.32 | Chris Zapata | it. |
| 02:42:50.91 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, very good. |
| 02:42:51.72 | Chris Zapata | Yeah, so thank you, Mayor, members of the council, members of the public. I'll be brief. This is an item on the agenda that is a result from the council allocating $185,000 for services and security at the Moran ship encampment. And this is to execute a six month, up to a six month, homeless service contract with the Moran County cooperation team for up to $85,041 to provide services to the encampment for the city of Sausalito in the areas of COVID assistance, mental health, outreach and communication, referral to other resources including the county and state senior and disability assessment encampment safety and maintenance and weather preparation so i won't go into the actual proposal nor will i go into the um, resumes of all the people involved in the Marin County Cooperation Team. I'll let the executive director who leads that, Jameer Reynolds, share his screen and provide a brief presentation. And then we'll take questions from you when he's done. |
| 02:43:57.25 | Jill Hoffman | Hi, Mr. Reynolds, go ahead, welcome. |
| 02:43:59.10 | Jameer Reynolds | Hello, everyone. I'll get right to it. First of all, thank you for having me. I will begin sharing my screen. it's possible. |
| 02:44:16.11 | Heidi Scoble | It is possible you are a co-host and you should be able to share your screen. |
| 02:44:28.19 | Unknown | difficulty at this time. |
| 02:44:38.67 | Unknown | I'm tired of getting folks, my apologies. |
| 02:45:00.54 | Jameer Reynolds | I don't know what's going on, but it's telling me, it's giving me, uh, Yeah, it's not allowing me to share my screen. |
| 02:45:10.42 | Jill Hoffman | Mr. Reynolds, would you like to, how about, would you be able to email your presentation to our |
| 02:45:16.37 | Timothy Logan | Yes. |
| 02:45:17.03 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 02:45:17.05 | Timothy Logan | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 02:45:17.92 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 02:45:17.94 | Timothy Logan | Yeah. |
| 02:45:18.73 | Jill Hoffman | email to him and then perhaps you could start your presentation and when when uh If the city court receives it, then maybe he could |
| 02:45:23.51 | Kevin McGowan | I'm sorry. |
| 02:45:26.02 | Jill Hoffman | Sure. |
| 02:45:26.89 | Kevin McGowan | Sounds good. |
| 02:45:30.12 | Jill Hoffman | It's always something, by the way. you. |
| 02:45:32.12 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. |
| 02:45:32.20 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:45:32.22 | Jameer Reynolds | Yeah. |
| 02:45:35.98 | Jameer Reynolds | Am I emailing it to Chris? |
| 02:45:38.34 | Jill Hoffman | Bye. |
| 02:45:39.42 | Jameer Reynolds | I'm not sure. |
| 02:45:39.58 | Jill Hoffman | I mean, he was... email to search, |
| 02:45:42.33 | Jameer Reynolds | close. Okay. What is your email search? |
| 02:45:49.33 | Unknown | S-A-V-I-L-A at salsalito.golf. |
| 02:46:17.63 | Jameer Reynolds | All right, it should be coming your way, sir. |
| 02:46:23.15 | Heidi Scoble | I'll put it up on screen as soon as I receive it. |
| 02:46:25.71 | Jameer Reynolds | right? |
| 02:46:25.96 | Unknown | it. |
| 02:46:30.62 | Jill Hoffman | Mr. Reynolds do you want to go ahead and just start? |
| 02:46:32.48 | Jameer Reynolds | Yes, I'll start. Okay, so first of all, thank you for having me. |
| 02:46:36.86 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:46:36.92 | Jameer Reynolds | Um, |
| 02:46:36.93 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:46:37.46 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:46:38.42 | Jameer Reynolds | The really getting started again, I am the executive director of the Marin County cooperation team along with my wife, Shakira Williams Reynolds, who was also the deputy director. A brief background on the Marin County cooperation team. It was actually started as a response to the pandemic in Marin City. We looked around and we decided amongst convening with local organizations that there needed to be a coordinated effort in order to serve the various demographics within the city, which then branched out into Northern Marin, Western Marin and other parts. We are focused in Marin City. The Marin County Cooperation Team, we provide free, comprehensive support services addressing both critical and long-term needs and transparent and robust civic engagement to address the historical and systemic racism and large wealth disparities that have left parts of Marin County lacking in basic quality supports, equitable economic and educational opportunities. and safety. why we exist We, to empower Marin County historically underserved communities and most vulnerable residents to increase their health. wellness, educational outcomes, and economic opportunities. in order for them to experience an overall improved quality of life through service relationship connection and equity our programming We do provide comprehensive support services. We actually have over 50 community-based partners, including professionals, volunteers, and staff. And we have seven specialty teams in the areas of family needs, seniors, and disability support, educational support, college and career readiness. mental health and wellness, crisis care, and civic and community engagement. Um, I want to focus on the Marin County Cooperation Team. We were recently selected as the Marin County Health and Human Services Lead Agency for the Southern Marin Community Response Team. We're providing community response and recovery coordination to communities in southern Marin who experience public health threats. So with this flooding that occurred that impacted our encampment community, Having the Southern Marin Community Response Team in place, we would be able to collaborate with partners just like with Mr. Tim spoke about knowing the storm was coming a week before. Being a part of this team, we will be able to prep with our partners to better support those involved in the encampment. And so our strategies and guiding principles for our CRT is we leave with trust and respect, including different viewpoints and experiences, understanding the nature, tolerating the chaotic nature of emergency response. and focusing on building capacity and not perfection. Um, One of the things that I would just like to highlight in listening to both, you know, all of the community members is really the platform of wanting to be heard and providing strategic services and not blanket, not a blanket service model. And some of our service examples since the formation of April in April 2020, MCCT, we have served almost 700 clients. Some of these service includes our internal staff providing directly rather than other agencies include door to door canvassing, for Marin City seniors. residents to conduct wellness checks and assess critical needs during the pandemic. We also secure rental assistance for community members, providing emergency assistance for domestic violence victims. We arrange housing relocation services For those who have limited mobility, we would do medication and pick up and drop offs. We also were doing transportation to medical appointments for seniors and expecting mothers. We provided seniors with emergency resources to eradicate health related and biohazard issues in their home as well in improving accessibility. Our staff has also assisted residents with access to secure funding for routine and emergency dental care. We also purchased and distributed power outage kits for seniors, supplies and kits to assist with at home with COVID-19 protocols and remote learning. Another highlight of being a part of the Southern Marine Community Response Team is we will actually be able to partner with some of our our CBOs and the county to potentially have a mobile vaccine on site, potentially having Binax testing kits. I did hear a community member in the encampment spoke about having access to those types of things. And so, like I said, with the coordinated effort, we will be able to serve. The great thing about our organization is our office is literally across the street from the encampment. So we will not have to come from anywhere else. We will literally be across the street and you will have access to our services almost immediately. And, you know, and some of our relationships have resulted in just providing meals. We help distribute over 122,000 pounds of food through our Wednesday Food Distribution Center at Bayside with the help of the SF Marin Food Bank. the Marin Sheriff's Office and the Marin Department of Probation. and our teams. It's a lot, so I'll be brief. We have our family needs team, Is it dedicated to assisting with transportation, food, clothing, and referrals to other teams as needed. Oh. |
| 02:53:05.38 | Jill Hoffman | Mr. Reynolds, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I think our city clerk has his hand up. I'm betting he's got your slides. Okay. |
| 02:53:11.01 | Timothy Logan | Thank you. |
| 02:53:11.03 | Jill Hoffman | All right. |
| 02:53:11.23 | Timothy Logan | All right. |
| 02:53:11.91 | Jill Hoffman | Is that what your hand's up, Mr. Clerk? |
| 02:53:11.98 | Timothy Logan | TODAY. |
| 02:53:12.04 | Heidi Scoble | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:53:12.13 | Timothy Logan | Yeah. |
| 02:53:14.61 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, yes, thank you. We did receive the email, but I do need access to the... |
| 02:53:19.87 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:53:20.03 | Unknown | Okay. All right. |
| 02:53:22.02 | Heidi Scoble | You can do that quickly and I'll get you up on screen. |
| 02:53:27.06 | Unknown | Thank you. I believe I gave you access search if it asked me Thank you. |
| 02:53:36.16 | Heidi Scoble | Great working on it right now. |
| 02:53:44.44 | Heidi Scoble | It's still, it's asking for permission. |
| 02:53:49.67 | Emilio | Okay. |
| 02:54:07.61 | Chris Zapata | Mayor, if I may. |
| 02:54:08.91 | Jill Hoffman | Go ahead. |
| 02:54:09.98 | Chris Zapata | He was on a roll. I think he didn't need that flight show. |
| 02:54:12.00 | Jill Hoffman | It was. |
| 02:54:13.82 | Chris Zapata | But I'd also like to point out to the community that's watching |
| 02:54:14.01 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:54:17.87 | Chris Zapata | that the proposals in the council packet as are the qualifications of |
| 02:54:22.45 | Unknown | as a |
| 02:54:25.30 | Chris Zapata | the folks that will be working with uh, Jim and his team should the council approve the contract this evening. |
| 02:54:32.47 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Well, let me ask you, Mr. Reynolds, were you almost through your slides? |
| 02:54:37.40 | Jameer Reynolds | Yes. Okay, I see. Okay. So I wanted to... |
| 02:54:38.09 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, I see. |
| 02:54:42.66 | Jameer Reynolds | really lift up listening to the community members doing the actual platform to feed back. I walked through the can with downtown streets. I spoke with Laurel personally. I met with Tim. He helped me create the list. And so I do know that there was Aaron who had limited mobility. And there was also Sandy, I believe, as well. I work with Melissa Blaustein Laurel. We were, as an organization, we were working to get Sandy into some shelter. I do know that she was released from the hospital and Aaron as well. When I returned, Sandy was not there, but Aaron was. And I worked with Dan and Laurel to transport they transported Aaron to a local hotel where we as an organization paid for three days of shelter. And so just being there and listening, the one thing that I would like to highlight and really work on is creating a listening session for the community members at the encamp along with local business leaders as well. just listening to to our encampment members. They really wanna be heard. I hear mental health services on our team. Our lead for our mental health and wellness team is Ms. Chelsea True. who is a certified clinician as well. And we also have Ms. Delan Hunt. who works with the Richmond Police Department. And she actually goes out on calls with the police department. If there is a community member who is maybe having a mental health crisis. So we are adequately equipped to not only address those needs, but also create the platform that represents all parties involved. And so, you know, just looking at our, um, our scope of work conduct street outreach to provide information, resources, access to shelter services. I know Miss Ashley McIntyre is on the call. work with her with the Racial Equity Action Lab around homelessness as well. We would also provide personal protective equipment, safety brochures. And for those who may have appointments in and around the county, we would assist with transportation there as well. You know, our goal is to create a database that reflect those in the encampment and really sit down with them and create a file so we exactly address their needs and build from there. We do know that transition is hard and so really empowering them to transition is our goal. But we do know that it really starts with putting the service in place to serve. again, providing case management, quick assessment. Uh, I don't know of any youth that are in the encampment, but if there are, we will put things in place to support them as well. And so as you can see, our proposal reflects really the basic bear things that we will need to be successful. And you also see that our MCCT will handle any COVID protective equipment, or gas mileage for transportation to medical appointments as well. |
| 02:58:28.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:58:28.79 | Jameer Reynolds | So again, thank you all for your time. I know it's late and I just really appreciate you just really allowing me to speak. |
| 02:58:36.21 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you very much. So we have your slides. So what I would suggest that we do is attach those to the agenda online. so that people can see those and and i appreciate you coming uh mr reynolds and giving us this presentation i'm excited for you guys to come and uh and work with us so Anyway, Chris, do you wanna Talk about the next steps. |
| 02:59:01.37 | Chris Zapata | Very straightforward, Mayor. Because the amount of money that you approved last month is bifurcated between services and security, so we're recommending a six month. So you see the total proposal was for about double that. So we're cutting it in half. And as a pilot, we intend to monitor it should the council approve it tonight and see where we get with it and make sure that all things that we can do to help |
| 02:59:02.47 | Jill Hoffman | I've heard a lot of people, but I think, I think, I've heard a lot of people, but I think, I've heard a lot of people, but I think, I think, I've heard a lot of people, but I think, |
| 02:59:29.05 | Chris Zapata | the encampment residents as well as the people and community around it. get to a better place and partnering with the Marin County Cooperation. And we think that's a very good pivot from the good work that Urban Alchemy did with our police department into a more direct services kind of model as opposed to a monitoring and cleanup model. |
| 02:59:52.67 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Do we have any questions from council members for Mr Reynolds? Yes, Vice Mayor. |
| 02:59:58.92 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you, Mayor Hoffman. Mr. Reynolds, thank you so much. It's an excellent presentation. I read up on your organization in preparation for this meeting. I'm really impressed by your fortitude and what you've developed, Chair, and I appreciate you coming forward to help us. Just a quick question for you and maybe the city manager. two parts of the same question. One is how should the council be thinking about how we measure success of this contract? And then what are the expectations that we should have about communication or understanding how things are proceeding with your work? |
| 03:00:33.71 | Timothy Logan | Oh, right. Sorry. |
| 03:00:34.76 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 03:00:34.78 | Jill Hoffman | Go ahead. |
| 03:00:35.33 | Jameer Reynolds | Thank you. |
| 03:00:37.63 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 03:00:37.65 | Jill Hoffman | ahead. |
| 03:00:39.20 | Jameer Reynolds | Oh. I can go. Yes, yes. Great. Yeah. Okay. So what we will do is, Vice Mayor, we will produce a monthly report. |
| 03:00:41.38 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 03:00:47.42 | Jameer Reynolds | we will definitely put metrics in that reflect that the work that is going on, whether it's partnering, looking at transitional housing, whether it's around vaccine distribution of kids, access to services. We would also look at attendance as well. So we would create a monthly report right now. to draft up, to reflect uh the the I guess what is actually going on in the encampment. We would also solicit input from the encampment members as well on how you know what we are doing well, you know, some things that we can work on. We would want an all inclusive model that reflects the actual work we're doing. You know, that is what we will present to you. |
| 03:01:36.37 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Thank you. Um, Chris, do you have anything to add to that? Or Mr. Zapat, our city manager? |
| 03:01:41.53 | Chris Zapata | Yeah, no, Mayor, I think I just would say that one of the real measures is going to be how many people we move into some form of housing. So, you know, you started with about two here a couple years ago and now we're up to mid 40s and so bringing that number and putting people into places where they don't have to be on the elements is what I would deem a success as we start to monitor whatever improvements are made. however we house people and conjunction with our partners that are the county and nonprofits and churches. and whatever we can do in our community, because I think that's the real metric. how many people get to a house. How many people get into shelter? And so that's what I would be looking for. |
| 03:02:26.49 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, agree on that. Go ahead, Council Member Blasting. |
| 03:02:30.44 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you, Jameer, for being here this evening. And thank you for taking the time on Thursday to visit the encampment with me. really impressed by the way that you were able to start conversations with our partners at downtown streets and Ritter House. And I just wonder if you could talk a little bit about your approach to our collaboration with the county and how you plan to work together with them since they're a really critical partner to us and our work in identifying. folks that are |
| 03:02:59.51 | Jameer Reynolds | So the good thing is that we've been having a relationship with the county for about a year now. And so to really discuss what has been done What are some things that that have worked and have not worked. But really I wanna focus on getting the feedback from the encampment members and then going to agencies and working together to build a complete plan. One thing that I've learned in discussing with some encampment members is, you know, they want more efforts that reflect the needs that they that they desire, where they feel that they could be successful. And so using that all-inclusive model will allow, you know, it will help with the transition, but it also will help with the communication, because I do believe that there is a breakdown in communication. Me being someone who was homeless before, and who really understands the need for supports. And even being overlooked, I come with a different perspective when I enter these spaces. And, you know, just really providing that input. You know, that's what I would use to build a bridge. |
| 03:04:18.67 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Our city manager has his end up. Councilman Blossom, your hand is still up, but I'm guessing that your answer is good. Thank you. |
| 03:04:24.43 | Melissa Blaustein | your position. |
| 03:04:25.15 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:04:25.19 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. Thank you very much. And I was really happy to get to see some of your approach firsthand on Thursday. So looking forward to working with you. |
| 03:04:33.79 | Chris Zapata | Yeah. Vice Mayor Kimmel asked a good question about measuring success. And one of the other measures of success is our calls for service. What kind of calls we're getting, how frequent those calls are, where they come from. Because if they come from the encampment and they diminish because things are better, that's a good sign. If we continue to get calls from the people around or the community members that are concerned and those diminish that's a good sign but ultimately I think calls for service is going to be a key metric what kind of calls who they're to And the frequency is really important for us to measure. And that to me would be part and parcel to how we start to monitor success. But again, going back to, The ultimate metric, it's getting people into shelter or into housing. |
| 03:05:22.53 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Any further questions for Mr. Reynolds or our city manager, Mr. Zapata, from the council members, based on the presentation? I see no hands raised. Okay, in that case, I will open this matter up for public comment. I see one hand raised, that's Charlize Galaxy. I don't see any other hands right up. There we go. Mr. Logan, Mr. Sudo. Okay, very good. All right, I'll let our city clerk call. Call the order. |
| 03:05:52.19 | Heidi Scoble | Charlie, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 03:06:03.59 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not hearing anything from Charlie's galaxy. It doesn't, I don't, There isn't. |
| 03:06:16.65 | Jill Hoffman | Ma'am, I think let's come back to you. For some reason, I'm not seeing a mute sign, but I'm still not hearing you. Okay, we'll come back to you. There you go. Okay, now I can hear you. Okay. |
| 03:06:30.75 | Unknown | First and foremost, I find it outrageous and offensive Thank you. as well as most. other residents here at the encampment that anyone would refer. to this location as our encampment. when we don't even know who this representative is. Secondly, I have FEMA training. I also have a background in human services. And I ran the case management office on a multi-collaborative effort. in Sacramento County that was governed by HUD. This is my scope of expertise. and currently I do high value real estate consulting. in primarily Marin County. which covers insurance loss control. With that being said, I find it. particularly egregious that this proposal would come forward. without real consultation. with the members of this encampment. It's unacceptable. AND, I no longer regret asking multiple times about from Cuma. This has become unmanageable and this presentation is a prime example of that. and This is ludicrous. And at this point, I'm just going to end my comments lest I become Thanks, sir. Let me pass it on to anyone else who wishes So I'll give you the story. Yeah, that's good. Yes. |
| 03:08:11.23 | Jeff Jacobs | Can you hear me? |
| 03:08:12.39 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, go ahead, sir. |
| 03:08:12.51 | Jeff Jacobs | I just want to say, Hi, this is Jeff again. Madam Mayor. |
| 03:08:19.02 | Unknown | Great. |
| 03:08:20.22 | Jeff Jacobs | THE FAMILY. I'm interested in meeting this person and anybody else that would want to come to the encampment. Uh, I'm just going to say that there have been the rides given to appointments and help with the bureaucracies and services all done members of the camp for each other. and interested members of the community with no funding. from the city or the state? It was nice that now there is this concern WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO self-governing now and we have been for 10 months now. since December 28th. We are willing to work with whoever shows up but I'm a little bit disturbed, Madam Mayor. your reference to San Rafael as a model. San Rafael is fenced off. Even water is not allowed. They have no cooking facilities. THERE IS GOING TO BE A No guests allowed. It says no donations allowed also at the gate. So we want to make it very clear that this place is run by the residents in the noble tradition of John Steinbeck and grapes of wrath. and the weed patch camp. in Bakersfield. It's over. Thank you for taking this issue so seriously. And we will continue doing what we're doing We won't always brag about it, though. |
| 03:09:52.51 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:09:54.30 | Cynthia's Joel Egging | Bye. It was really interesting. Everyone here just got a little bit shamed. by this gentleman who just was so together because I've been telling everybody here for months they need to put together an actual service company to actually be able to receive funding to do the things we're talking about. And I think it's great that this guy is making a service company because I think it's the most relevant thing that anybody could be doing right now. But we definitely would like it's be recognized that it would be more important to actually pay members of the camp to do these services, which is more of the approach that Alchemy has and would really be much more efficient than hiring and making another payroll. So thank you all, bless you. |
| 03:10:27.26 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | more of the |
| 03:10:36.59 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. you |
| 03:10:37.28 | Cynthia's Joel Egging | Excellent. |
| 03:10:37.97 | Jill Hoffman | you |
| 03:10:38.21 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:10:38.63 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:10:38.67 | Unknown | you Thank you. |
| 03:10:39.02 | Cynthia's Joel Egging | Anybody else want to? |
| 03:10:39.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:10:40.96 | Cynthia's Joel Egging | Thank you. |
| 03:10:40.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:10:41.35 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:10:41.36 | Cynthia's Joel Egging | Thank you. |
| 03:10:41.38 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:10:41.40 | Ian Sobieski | If there are other folks that want to talk from the encampment, could we ask them to turn the volume up on their phone? Perhaps I'm having a little trouble hearing them. |
| 03:10:48.91 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. That's a good point. Um, Ma'am, I can't hear you anymore on the phone. |
| 03:10:58.31 | Jill Hoffman | from the encampment. I think it's gone mute again. |
| 03:11:06.83 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, I'm sorry. I think there's something going on with the phone. We just can't hear you. Um, uh, OK, so what we're going to do is We're going to go on to the next person. and then perhaps come back. if we can get your if we can get the phone to to to work okay so that's what we're going to do mr clerk if you could call the next |
| 03:11:32.08 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Timothy Logan. Thank you. And Timothy, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 03:11:43.95 | Timothy Logan | Yes, first I want to say Thank you to Mr. Miller for coming out and speaking with me. I'm sorry that the other people that we're speaking right now weren't there or present when you were there. You seemed like an individual who was Thank you. willing to listen and to work with us. I didn't misrepresent. I was too taken aback at first by the statement of our camp from you. because you have only been there briefly. I figure the hour came from you at once being homeless, though, and being familiar with our situation. and I want to thank you for that. part of it because, uh, We are striving to be in the position you are now, which is a successful working class, and have our stuff together Thank you. I didn't miss that. I hope. I hope that we can work in that direction as we move forward with this and i hope the city council does approve you for the bill. I am concerned that |
| 03:13:08.82 | Timothy Logan | The city council isn't doing more than they'd have. But we will see what on their end |
| 03:13:18.98 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:13:19.18 | Timothy Logan | We will see what happens with this new entity that you bring in. I just want to say thank you again for meeting with me and chatting and talking with this stuff. If there's any other Anything else that should arise, I will be in contact with you. Thank you. |
| 03:13:43.83 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you, Mr. Logan. |
| 03:13:48.22 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is David Sudo. David, you've been unmuted and I'll share your video. |
| 03:13:56.93 | David Sudo | Good evening, City Council. I guess Jameer didn't mention his other job, which is, He's running the |
| 03:14:02.95 | Chris Zapata | you is, |
| 03:14:04.27 | David Sudo | community services for the school district |
| 03:14:07.85 | Chris Zapata | Thank you. |
| 03:14:07.86 | Jeff Jacobs | Mm-hmm. |
| 03:14:08.25 | David Sudo | But I think he has a lot of experience in Southern Marin helping provide services to the community already. And I'm particularly uh, hopeful about this because it also builds additional skills and supports Southern Marin community members. and helps build up resilience within within the greater 94965 community so I see a lot of positives to this I I you know obviously we need to to improve communication but I'm confident that Jameer can do that. I've seen him at school board meetings for the last couple of years and, um, He gets things done. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you. |
| 03:14:55.43 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you, Mr. Suda. |
| 03:14:59.23 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker, it's Joan Cox. Joan, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 03:15:08.46 | Joan Cox | Good evening. I'm on my Mac, so I'm not able to share my video at the moment, but I... Thank you so much for your presentation and the work that Jameer Reynolds proposes to do and the metrics that the city manager mentioned are truly worthy. I wanted to I wanted to point out the obvious to you. the response from some of the members of the encampment who were offered beds, but who declined because of a lack of trust. That's the same thing that we ran into with the Safe Harbor Program is we had slips available And we had funding available. But we had many of the anchor outs who declined to apply for a slip because of a lack of trust. And so I think one of the biggest hurdles for any program will be building trust and obviously, Mr. Reynolds, you've heard from some of the members of the encampment tonight. who, you know, at the outset would prefer more outreach before they decide whether or not this program is worthy. So I just wanted to share that from our experience with the Safe Harbor Program, that building trust is one of the biggest hurdles. In speaking personally with members of the encampment, when they were over at Dunphy Park, I interviewed many of them and asked them, are they seeking housing? And their answer was no. Many of them are not seeking housing. Many of them do not want to abide by rules and regulations regarding Um, and some of the rules and regulations imposed in San Rafael, as you heard earlier, from Mr Jacobs testimony this evening. So I just wanted to you know, reiterate what I know you're well aware of and what the city council members are well aware of. And I don't even know a metric to measure your success in addressing that challenge. But that is one of the biggest challenges that we encountered in our initial efforts to address Sausalito's homeless problem when many of our homeless were living on the water. Thank you for your time and thank you for your investment in our community. |
| 03:17:33.76 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. I don't see any further hands up. Mr. Clerk, can you confirm that and then we'll |
| 03:17:40.34 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no hands raised. Would you like to reach out to Charlie and see if she still is interested. She does not have her hand raised. |
| 03:17:52.13 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. I think that's sufficient. I don't see a hand from Charlie's Galaxy, so I'm going to assume that that we've talked to everybody. Oh, there we go. Okay. All right. Let's try again and see if her phone will, if we can hear her. And if there's somebody that hasn't spoken yet, Is there, Mr. Jacobs, is there someone that hasn't spoken yet? |
| 03:18:17.24 | Jeff Jacobs | a Jewel would like to speak a little bit. |
| 03:18:19.25 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, go ahead. Yep, go ahead. |
| 03:18:20.97 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 03:18:20.99 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:18:27.77 | Jill Hoffman | Ma'am, your... You're muted again. We can't hear you. |
| 03:18:36.09 | Unknown | at night. |
| 03:18:36.97 | Cynthia's Joel Egging | We should be good. Yeah, we should be okay. Okay, there we go. |
| 03:18:38.49 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, there we go. I can hear you now. |
| 03:18:39.97 | Cynthia's Joel Egging | Thank you. Okay, I was just talking about, we heard you say something about a sewage overspill, and we just wanted to know, because we have a lot of mud here in this location, it's kind of like the drainage of the field heads right to where we are. And so I wanted to know about |
| 03:18:53.05 | Unknown | and |
| 03:18:54.91 | Cynthia's Joel Egging | The field right next to us is dry. And so we wanted to know about immediately like being able to move the camp over there. It would be great working with the town to do that because if you take a walk around, you'll see an actual hill over there and a totally different texture and it's not right now this mud is just ridiculous And from what you said, it could be actually like, you know, a severe sanitary problem but it seems very answerable on just the other side of the fence. So I just did want to bring that up. |
| 03:19:22.01 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you for that. Thank you for that. and Okay? So we're finished now with Charlie's Galaxy and we're gonna move, I'm gonna close public comment and we're going to move to our council discussion. |
| 03:19:44.17 | Melissa Blaustein | Mayor Hoffman, I think that we might want to offer the opportunity to Supervisor Moulton Peters, listening in on our meeting just in case she had wanted to, I think she had wanted to make public comment, but I don't know that she was able to Zoom hand raise. I got a text. |
| 03:19:56.98 | Jill Hoffman | Oh, okay. Sure. Yeah, thank you for that. Yes, supervisor Walton-Peters. I'm looking for you. |
| 03:20:10.15 | Melissa Blaustein | uh, Thank you. that director finita from me. There we go. Thank you. |
| 03:20:17.31 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | Thank you. |
| 03:20:17.63 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:20:17.93 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | Thank you. Good, good evening, everyone. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. I'm glad to have sat in on your discussion tonight. I appreciate all the efforts you're making. I want to... Introduce Benita McLaren. from our Health and Human Services Director. I was gonna offer some thoughts and then I'll come back in after her comments, if I might. Sure, go ahead, Dr. Meclaren. |
| 03:20:44.66 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Oh. |
| 03:20:53.91 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | Thank you. |
| 03:20:53.94 | Benita McLaren | It takes a little while. |
| 03:20:54.59 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:20:55.40 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | Thank you. |
| 03:20:56.04 | Benita McLaren | There we go. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I'm Benita McLaren, Director of Health and Human Services for the County of Moran. I hope you'll indulge me for just a few moments for some comments. And I just want to say in Health and Human Services we've worked really hard on many fronts through our various public health, social services, behavioral health, and whole person care divisions to fulfill our mission to protect the health safety and of all Marin County residents for the past 20 months Sausalito, San Rafael, Nevada, and unincorporated Marin all have encampments during this time with their own unique challenges. We work cooperatively with our cities to address these issues as best we can with the resources at our disposal. The many supports provided, including weekly case management conference of the encampment residents, a medical mobile medical program through health and human services sponsorship through Ritter Center, which provides regular medical visits to the encampments, high utilizer case management, which is jointly funded by the county and the cities and a bilingual teams on the water and on land. There is a shelter system in Marin and the county of Marin pays for, with health and human services, pays for most of the operating expenses at the current shelter and about half of the operating expenses at the new beginning shelter. Homework Bound works diligently to identify opportunities for folks who want to and who qualify to enter the shelter to do so. There are 184 shelter beds and 629 permanent supportive housing units in the county. We've established a safe, that's been mentioned, we established a safe harbor program in partnership with Ritter Center and your city, which has been successful at bringing anchor outs from the Sausalito waters into slips. Before COVID in December 2019, HHS had begun working with the city of Sausalito Police Department, Downtown Streets Outreach, RBRA, and Marin City Health and Wellness Clinic to conduct outreach to the Anchor Outs. When the COVID pandemic occurred, we were forced to curtail our efforts and outreach to the water was impeded resulting in the lack of engagement to the anchor outs many times these those experiencing homelessness as been mentioned do not trust the homeless system and our providers and our partners Because of this break, We didn't have the time to establish these positive relationships with them. And no level of trust was able to be established over the last 12 to 18 months. This year we have implemented our new outreach program and have funded two bilingual outreach workers. They conduct outreach to South Salado encampments and to both outreach. Since the establishment of the outreach team, 55% of the encampment residents have completed a coordinated entry assessment. These are intimate questionnaires, and we ask very personal questions and collect a lot of information. We really need to build trust when we're completing these questionnaires. So far we know at least 21 of the 47 encampment residents qualify for permanent supportive housing. because of the results of these assessments. 16 of the 21 are now connected to case management and case management is the path to housing in Marin. With our Housing First philosophy, we've housed 400 people in the past four years. They've maintained their housing status with 92% retention rate, Three of the 400 individuals are currently housed in Sausalito. Now that we have those 16 persons enrolled in case management, the next step is to finding housing and helping prepare helping prepare them for issuance of a voucher, which does take time. We believe it's hard to, it's sometimes hard to get people to leave their beloved city of Sausalito and move to other parts of the county. We really need the help of the residents of Sausalito to help us identify housing options. We have a highly dedicated staff in health and human services. We'll continue to work collaboratively with, the city to find creative solutions and chat solutions for people experiencing homelessness throughout the county. And we look forward to working with Mr. Reynolds, and letting him know of our efforts so far. Thank you. |
| 03:25:34.66 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay, thank you. um, Go ahead and supervise them all peers |
| 03:25:44.87 | Jill Hoffman | Serge, would you please unmute? There you go. |
| 03:25:49.04 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | Okay, good. |
| 03:25:50.83 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:25:50.84 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | Thank you. Mayor Hoffman and Council Member Blastain and the entire counseling, the city manager and your staff. I know how very hard you've been working on all of this. and the county does want to support you. We do have the Health and Human Services resources that director mclaren has mentioned we did have difficulty getting cohesion with residents in the camp for various reasons but we would like to start again with jameer i've worked with jameer i know him and his role at the school district as well as the neon marcus Youth Academy and the cooperation teams. And I think he will make a very good partner for Sausalito and also for the county. And so I hope that he and the county can meet and compare notes about services I want to acknowledge what both Vice Mayor Janelle Kellman has said in one of our weekly coordination meetings, the mayor and I and city staff and the RBRA staff meet every week for a half an hour to talk about what's going on in the encampment and on the water. And in those meetings, we share info and we share comments like Janelle made, which is that trust is really key as council member, former council member, Joan Fox, has also said so we know change moves at the speed of trust and this will take time to build but we are committed to work with you and all the members of the encampment to build trust and to provide services and support and keep people safe So with that, I know we've got a road ahead of us and storm season is here and we need to figure out how to protect people at the encampment and we wanna be helpful with that as well. |
| 03:27:36.51 | Unknown | and we'll see you next time. |
| 03:27:43.79 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | It's mostly a pledge that we're in this and we're in this for the long haul with you. Thank you. |
| 03:27:50.32 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. I appreciate that. And so since you have both you and Director McLaren here and you were able to make comments, I would like to see if we could make a commitment to meet together at least later this week to talk about the path forward. I'm pleased that we have 16 people in the pipeline for housing, but as you know, these are in the pipeline to get a voucher and to then find housing, and I believe Mr. Shapiro is on the line and his estimate I believe at one of the other meetings was that it takes two to three months get housing once you have a voucher in your hand. So I sent a proposed plan and draft plan to the supervisor this afternoon on a plan that I've been talking about for a long time, which is a more consolidated And and supplemental approach to the Housing First, which is, bringing people together in a central village type environment where resources can be and so in a safe place for people to reside until they can be able to get their own be matched with, housing so would it be possible for us to commit to get together later this week on that issue with with the team i think it moves much faster when you're coming to um, resolution if you can get the team together in a room. Absolutely, we can definitely meet. Okay, very good. Thank you for that, Director McLaren. I appreciate that. Okay, and so any other questions, follow up questions from our, from our panel members. |
| 03:29:29.63 | Jill Hoffman | No, I'm sorry. from our council members. for me. It is 10 o'clock. Okay, I see a hand up from Mr. or Council Member Sobieski. |
| 03:29:42.98 | Ian Sobieski | I just had a question from Ms. McLaren. Could you help me understand a level set, the success of the 400 that were successfully housed compared to the with the number UNHOUSED INDIVIDUALS IN THEIR INCOME |
| 03:29:58.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:29:59.92 | Benita McLaren | robot. |
| 03:30:00.32 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah. |
| 03:30:00.34 | Benita McLaren | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 03:30:00.49 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 03:30:00.61 | Benita McLaren | . and people in Warren County on house and, um, And so yes, it is a slow process, but I do think that, it it has been a success in getting those people house and keeping them house and that is most other communities cannot boast of keeping people house as you can imagine that if you have chronic, especially for, these are people that have chronic homelessness for most of these people that we're talking about, the 400, that means that they have been housed, unhoused a long time. And getting people to stay housed is a major accomplishment. So yeah, there are quite a few people that, though we're still working on, yes. |
| 03:30:43.98 | Ian Sobieski | And just help me understand it from the better that are other communities that have perhaps a longer history with this. what is done with the sub segment of the population, certainly not the whole population, but the sub segment that's mentally competent makes a choice not to accept any help or offer of housing. What's been the political community response to that subset. |
| 03:31:11.60 | Benita McLaren | Well, I think it really, you know, I'm not sure I can answer that question fully because I think it varies from community to community. I mean, we can see what is happening in other cities that are surrounding us like San Francisco, and Oakland and Berkeley, where there are just a lot of people who are experiencing homelessness and some, you know, there are a lot of people that times the resources um, that out, you know, the number of people who need assistance outstrip the number of resources available. I'm not sure I can answer because I just think it varies from some communities. There are communities and a homeless expert Ashley McIntyre she I'm not sure she's on the line I know she knows of some communities that have eliminated chronic homelessness. And that is our goal is to get to zero people who are experiencing chronic homelessness. So there will always be people who will go through periods of homelessness. I don't think you'll ever eliminate complete homelessness, but people who are experiencing chronic homelessness, who have long periods of homelessness. So I don't think Ashley is available to answer. But I do know that she has had some experience with people. experiencing some communities who have eliminated homelessness. Homelessness following the housing first philosophy. |
| 03:32:43.86 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | Thank you. I think Ashley had a couple of points, Mayor, that she could add. I think she's not able to turn on a camera, but if she can just speak for a minute, she has a couple of points about how |
| 03:32:45.53 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:32:56.30 | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | communities have been successful. |
| 03:32:58.67 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. I see Mr. Shapiro's on, but I also see Ashley. I'm looking for her on the screen so I can direct our so I can drive to cover. Um, okay. I no longer see her. |
| 03:33:13.37 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Chair, has been co-hosting. |
| 03:33:13.39 | Jill Hoffman | I'm Oh, she's been coming. Okay, so Ms. McIntyre, You should be able to Yes. Can you see? |
| 03:33:20.97 | Ashley McIntyre | Can you hear me? |
| 03:33:21.64 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:33:21.66 | Ashley McIntyre | Thank you. |
| 03:33:21.68 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:33:21.71 | Ashley McIntyre | Yes. I... Thank you so much. Just very quickly. the uh it's it's our experience the and the experience of communities across the country that the vast majority of people will not refuse housing that meets their needs typically people refuse an offer of housing or shelter because the offer isn't appropriate for them for a variety of reasons. that may be hard to understand from a Habas perspective, but many of the folks that we work with have deep, deep layers of trauma. And many have maybe traumatic brain injuries, personality disorders, behavioral health issues that mean that they can't um, they can't manage in communal settings like a shelter. Maybe they've tried it and it hasn't worked. And so they're not willing to try it again. Most of the folks that we're working with have really been burned by the system of care many, many times. But with sufficient engagement, which unfortunately does take time, but with enough engagement and trust building and with appropriate low barrier housing, which is part of why Housing First is so successful, the vast majority, 95 plus percent of people are willing to accept resources eventually. We actually found in San Rafael, There are a number of people who are providers honestly would have bet quite a lot of money would never accept the housing that was offered or any services and when they started to see other people that had been homeless for a very long time access housing and stabilize and stay housed they started approaching our service providers and saying i heard so and so got housed i'm ready to talk about my housing when they started to see that they could trust the providers in the system they were willing to engage um so that the the number of folks who ultimately refused is typically extremely low and there are um many communities across the country now that have ended chronic homelessness |
| 03:35:26.96 | Ian Sobieski | Thanks for that illuminating answer, actually. I appreciate it. |
| 03:35:30.47 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, council, I don't know who had ended up first, either vice mayor or councilman McLean-Oles. |
| 03:35:36.17 | Ian Sobieski | Thank goodness the vice mayor. |
| 03:35:38.16 | Janelle Kellman | Right. Thank you. Great. Yeah. Thank you, Mayor Hoffman. An enormous thank you really to Supervisor Moulton Peters her team and Dr. McLaren and Mr. Shapiro and, Um, just for joining us tonight. I think it's really helpful to have this dialogue and appreciate you staying on with us. past the 10 o'clock hour. I have a couple of questions for Dr. McLaren, just so I, get the facts I think straight. So you have made a comment, I think that 55% of the individuals in the Saucedo encampment. I have been screened. AND I THINK THAT'S A Can you just help us understand what that process is for screening the remaining 45%. And in that screening, Are you asking about the housing type that Um, as, as Ashley, indicated would be meaningful to them. |
| 03:36:28.31 | Benita McLaren | Yes, it is. Oh. Ashley says she can answer a little bit more detailed question than I can. But yes, it is a very detailed screening, and it really does get to the needs and the desires of those individuals. But let me let Ashley answer, because she is more deeply connected to the screening tool. But it's a very good tool, and it really does help us to really understand the, as Ashley mentioned, traumas, the background, the resources that the clients need. So go ahead, Ashley. |
| 03:37:07.45 | Janelle Kellman | I'm sorry to interrupt. I just want to be clear. I'm more interested in understanding what the county's process and timeframe is for screening and planning members of the kneecap man. |
| 03:37:14.65 | Benita McLaren | Oh. |
| 03:37:16.91 | Janelle Kellman | Oh, excuse me. |
| 03:37:17.12 | Ashley McIntyre | Thank you. |
| 03:37:17.17 | Benita McLaren | Okay. |
| 03:37:17.60 | Benita McLaren | I, |
| 03:37:17.81 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 03:37:17.94 | Benita McLaren | Bye. |
| 03:37:17.98 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, sorry, I wasn't clear, my apologies. |
| 03:37:20.32 | Ashley McIntyre | Yeah, it's a detailed screening that does ask a lot of personal questions, things that you typically would not ask of a stranger. And certainly you would not share those things with a stranger if they were asked of you. And so for some folks, it does take time to build trust to be able to take that assessment. So our outreach teams are in the encampment, engaging people actively. If somebody has not been assessed and they would like to be, all they need to do is raise their hand and say, please assess me. It takes maybe 15 or 20 minutes. It's not, that's not the barrier. The barrier is simply building enough trust with the encampment residents to garner their willingness to participate. |
| 03:38:05.33 | Janelle Kellman | Sure, and I know that building that trust takes time, and I appreciate that. The other comment or question I had was, I think you said there were 16 people in the queue who could qualify for a housing voucher. Our city manager shared with us earlier that we have six six spots in a six beds that the city is covering the cost of. I'm not sure. what's the process for getting these 16 people in the queue and does the county contribute to the cost of that? |
| 03:38:37.86 | Benita McLaren | the two different questions you're asking and the 16 people are now connected to case management. case management is what helps them to get to permanent supportive housing. And so those other people who are, you know, as long as we can find housing for them that they will accept, they're in the queue to make that next step. The six people that you're talking about or the six slots are temporary housing or interim housing or shelter, they're known as shelter. Those six slots are not, that the county does pay for, half of the cost of the shelter that's at the new beginning shelter and that the county does pay for half of that already. Does that answer the question? |
| 03:39:29.97 | Janelle Kellman | Partly, I guess I'm hoping to understand the pathway to getting these 16 people a bed where the reassurance that the county will be helping us with that, that cost. |
| 03:39:43.00 | Benita McLaren | Getting the people, so they already have been identified for case management means that they are on their way to getting a voucher and that, yeah, but once they get a voucher, That means they have, you know, money for housing as the bottom line. And so all they need at that point is, all they need is a house. And so, but they do have to accept the house, right? They do have to find a housing that they're willing to accept. And so that's one reason I asked, I made the plea to ask people to look for, you know, ADUs or rooms or other things that they might make available in Sausalito, because we do know that people that, you know, are in Sausalito wanna stay in Sausalito. And if we offer them a room in Santa Fe, they don't have to take it. And so they may take it, if it's available, they may not. So that was what I was just trying to say that, yes, those 16 people are well on their way. Their next step is getting a voucher, but the harder part is then find connecting them to the right housing that meets their needs that they would like to go to. And we really, because what we call it is permanent supportive housing. And the supportive piece is that case management. So that's a big piece. And so they've got, if they get that supportive piece, that case management, that's a really big critical point. And that case management is what keeps people successful in housing. That's a quick question. |
| 03:41:14.33 | Ken Shapiro | Could I add, just add one thing? Yeah. |
| 03:41:15.24 | Benita McLaren | that. |
| 03:41:16.69 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 03:41:17.57 | Ken Shapiro | This is the... |
| 03:41:17.87 | Jill Hoffman | This is Ken Shapiro. Ken, I'm gonna get your title wrong, but you're the Director of Homeless Services in Marin County? |
| 03:41:26.82 | Ken Shapiro | Nope. |
| 03:41:28.03 | Jill Hoffman | I got to be working right there, right? |
| 03:41:30.70 | Ken Shapiro | No. |
| 03:41:31.79 | Jill Hoffman | Tell us what you do. |
| 03:41:33.73 | Ken Shapiro | I've got a couple of titles, but one of them is the whole person care director for a very short time. We've hired someone to take that job and they'll be starting November 14th. And I look forward to introducing them to you. |
| 03:41:43.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:41:45.21 | Ken Shapiro | He's a, he's a resident of Marine County and some of you may have run into him before he's a, long term public health professional in the community. and will be joining us November 14th. But in the meantime, I'm doing that job in addition to being Benita's deputy. |
| 03:41:55.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:41:59.32 | Ken Shapiro | But just one thing I want to add to what Benita described and everything she said was right. So these 16 people we've identified, this is through that money that you appropriated that came through the ARPA. |
| 03:41:59.43 | Unknown | but, |
| 03:42:11.40 | Ken Shapiro | and those monies are going to go a really long way. There's a massive amount of leverage happening behind the scenes there. We're as strategic as we can be because we have Just like you, we have limited resources and they're scarce. for handling the thousand people we counted experiencing homelessness, we're trying to serve them all. We try to be very strategic. So the way we're leveraging those funds you put forward through ARPA, we're matching them dollar for dollar. Our Board of Supervisors put a dollar for dollar match in there, but that's just sort of the beginning of the match. |
| 03:42:31.97 | Unknown | to be. |
| 03:42:44.49 | Ken Shapiro | That's then leveraged to use a Section 8 federal housing voucher. That's a four to one. leverage. on that voucher and that gets us four years of services and a lifetime of housing but then now our board is on the hook for a lifetime of services as well. So we've made a commitment for using our ARPA funds to match your ARPA funds. to get four years of services. We've used that to draw down a federal voucher and then we'll continue to maintain services for that individual. on into the future. That's a commitment now we've made as a county. So that's sort of like the, it does take time, but we're building layers and layers of leverage onto the $100,000, I can't remember what it was, of money you put toward services from your ARPA set aside. |
| 03:43:37.28 | Benita McLaren | The other part I want to mention is that we do pay for two housing locators that work with Marin Housing Authority. And so those housing locators are ready and available to talk to any would be landlords in Sausalito who would love to like to know about all the benefits of working with our programs. And there are a lot of benefits of being, connected our housing program. So... |
| 03:44:05.78 | Ken Shapiro | So. |
| 03:44:06.52 | Benita McLaren | Yeah. |
| 03:44:06.92 | Ken Shapiro | Go ahead. And then just one other thing. Vice Mayor, the question about the costs of the New Beginning Center. That's operated by Homer Bound of Moran. long-term provider in Miranda. I'm sure you know about them. So the cost to you all per day, we pay 50% of the operating expenses at New Beginning Center, nearly 100% of the emergency shelter in San Rafael, which is typically in Mill Street, which we're rebuilding right now and adding 32 units of permanent supportive housing above it. But in the meantime, they're operating out of a property we bought during Home Key 1.0. over on Bellum Boulevard, 3301 Kernow Boulevard, in fact. Um... So, You're paying $9 a day for people to be at that shelter. That's the cost to the city of Sausalito for those beds. |
| 03:44:59.29 | Jill Hoffman | So thank you for that, Ken. that I just mentioned too, is that the timeline or the runway from when somebody gets a case manager to actually going into getting a house or getting shelter, getting a house, whatever, pursuant to that voucher. is like two to three months, right? |
| 03:45:20.99 | Ken Shapiro | Yeah, it can easily be two to three months. And it's a federal voucher. So there's a lengthy bureaucratic process, including fingerprinting, background checks, a lot of work that our case managers do to get people what we call document ready. There's a lot of documents that have to be together. and they have to run through a massive federal bureaucracy to get that voucher. And that's the magic of case management right there on the front end is getting that voucher into the person's hands. Once we have the voucher in the person's hands, we have to find a place for them to live. So yeah, it takes months. |
| 03:45:58.72 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. And so you guys weren't on the call earlier, but at the very beginning of the meeting, we were talking about, Council Member Blassey and I, our efforts in Sausalito to try to engage people with either extra units or and we're looking to do a lot of some of the things that we're looking to do. a follow up and if you guys want to come, that'd be great too. a follow up, we're sending, I think we're going to mail out postcards to all of the All of the people that have ADU permits issued in the past, I think two or three years, Um, you know, to see if they would want to even interest in participating And I think we're looking at a follow-up with the Marin Housing Authority at 6 p.m. on either the 17th, 18th, of November. because I've talked to you about, but they have very specific questions about how that thing is gonna work. And the THEIR, UM, protections, I think, and the vetting process that Ken just mentioned. for people that are participating in the program. And so to give them some comfort and to help maybe get some additional units through that method in a faster way here in Sausalito. So that's one of the things There's a couple other things that I mentioned that we can discuss in our meeting that we're going to have later this week. Um, Okay, so does anybody have any further questions? Council Member Cleaver-Nulls, go ahead. |
| 03:47:28.01 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I don't actually have questions, but I did just have two comments. First, I just wanna say, you know, this is the most I know there's still a lot of work to do, but this is the most optimistic that I've been hearing in the presentations tonight. Both, I just wanna thank County Supervisor and the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services for Moran and her staff for coming tonight and it's just so It's just great to hear that we've got 16 folks that are engaged with case workers, that we've got 55% of the that have taken the VI-SPEDAT and that we're just making incremental progress. So in building those relationships of trust and on the path and then also hearing from our city manager And you, Mayor Hoffman and Councilmember Blaustein, that we have six beds. at new beginnings or seven, I guess. You know, I think these are just real concrete steps and I'm just very encouraged and just wanna thank everyone |
| 03:48:27.09 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:48:30.67 | Ian Sobieski | for all their hard work. and thank the county especially for being here tonight and taking the time to listen and answer our questions. |
| 03:48:36.27 | Unknown | to be able to get the |
| 03:48:39.66 | Ian Sobieski | And then just the second thing, Mayor, you mentioned a draft transitional housing plan. And I would just love... you could circulate that to the full council. That would be great and if we could perhaps have a discussion with you know, just being informed about that would be very helpful. So thank you. |
| 03:48:59.99 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, but let me talk to them first. I just sent the draft to them this afternoon, to Director McLaren and Supervisor Walton Peters and our team. So completely, yes, agreed. We'll discuss it. And so I think we do need to take some do we need a motion we need to give direction to the city manager I don't see on our staff report that we need to make a motion, but Mary, do we need to make a motion? |
| 03:49:28.56 | Jill Hoffman | Mary. |
| 03:49:29.54 | Mary Wagner | Yes, Madam Mayor, I think we're looking for your authorization to enter into the contract. |
| 03:49:30.20 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:49:34.32 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, but does that mean a motion or is that just- |
| 03:49:36.06 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 03:49:36.07 | Heidi Scoble | Yes, please. you're going to |
| 03:49:36.93 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 03:49:36.95 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 03:49:38.30 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, then I make a motion that the city manager is authorized to execute the contract in the amount of I think it's 85,000. |
| 03:49:46.42 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:49:48.54 | Jill Hoffman | and our staff report $85,040, $41 to provide services to Marin county cooperation team for up to 85,000 to provide services to the city of Sausalito in the areas of COVID-assistant mental health outreach and communication, referral to county, state and other resources, senior and disability and campus safety and maintenance and weather preparation. And this is a six month homelessness services contract. Do I have a second? Second, Mayor Hoffman. Very good. Can the clerk please call the roll vote? I'm not sure. |
| 03:50:23.86 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 03:50:26.38 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 03:50:27.49 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Blaustein. |
| 03:50:34.10 | Heidi Scoble | I'm sorry. |
| 03:50:34.12 | Jill Hoffman | Sorry. |
| 03:50:34.85 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 03:50:35.88 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 03:50:37.78 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor, Council Member Cleveland Knowles. |
| 03:50:40.94 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 03:50:40.96 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 03:50:42.98 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. |
| 03:50:44.28 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 03:50:44.60 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Mayor Hoffman. |
| 03:50:46.20 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, very well, thank you very much. Thank you to all of our county participants who came this evening as well, we appreciate that. Okay. Moving on to our next item on the agenda. consideration of the citywide socioeohistoric context statement |
| 03:51:03.84 | Unknown | you |
| 03:51:04.90 | Jill Hoffman | and we're going to have a short presentation from our Five minutes, it says on the agenda. of some of that. |
| 03:51:12.12 | Heidi Scoble | I'm going to go. THE END OF THE END OF THE I'm not sure. Thank you. We start from the beginning. Good evening, Mayor Hoffman and members of the city council. Thank you so much. For some reason, my video is not showing, |
| 03:51:25.35 | Jill Hoffman | I can see your presentation though. |
| 03:51:25.56 | Heidi Scoble | see your Okay. and then I'll work towards fixing my camera. So apologies for that. I was working earlier. So I'll make this brief, but thank you again for the opportunity for me to bring before this item for the consideration of the adoption of a citywide historic context statement. |
| 03:51:35.06 | Unknown | Uh, |
| 03:51:35.29 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:51:35.33 | Unknown | you |
| 03:51:44.41 | Ian Sobieski | Amen. |
| 03:51:44.83 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Just to familiarize yourself with what a historic contact statement is, it's a policy document that identifies important things relevant to the city of Sausalito. And with those themes that establishes periods that is significant. related to each of those things, such as identifying significant property types and styles of architecture. and layering into that, it also highlights the character defining features associated with that architecture, such as architectural design, materials, demonstrations, and, A historic content statement is also a very helpful tool to help staff and decision makers and the public understand what makes the building historic or not and it provides a framework for identifying and evaluating individual resources |
| 03:52:26.21 | Ashley McIntyre | . |
| 03:52:31.74 | Heidi Scoble | and historic districts for national and California mobile registration programs. So for example, when the city was undertaking the listing of the machine shop as a Thank you. the landmark, a historic contact statement was prepared for the Marineship specific plan. So how did we get to where we are this evening? So I'll just briefly go through our history because it is important to understand the context of why we're here. And it actually started back in 1976 when the city associated city council at that time made a commitment to historic preservation. So with that, they created the historic landmarks work, which has now been succeeded by the historic preservation commission. but it also created the historical society |
| 03:53:13.46 | Vicki Nichols | And |
| 03:53:13.73 | Heidi Scoble | with the volunteers related to the historical society those volunteers were enlisted to conduct surveys of properties within the city of Sausalito and they were able to come up with a listing of surveys that made certain properties eligible for the state and national register and it also established a series of houses that became known as our noteworthy structures list. And those noteworthy structures could be potentially significant to the city of Las Ledo as local. |
| 03:53:39.29 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:53:47.42 | Heidi Scoble | So in July 2011, Sassata became a certified local government. So a certified local government partnership is a program that was established through the National Historic Preservation Act of 1967. And what this does, it's a program to encourage direct partnership with local governments and the states to identify, evaluate, register, and preserve historic properties. So essentially the city of Sausalito now has people standing with the California Office of Historic Preservation and the Department of the Interior National Health Services. to his parents' property. After the city became a certified local government in 2012, the city received a grant for $14,500 for the preparation of a historic contract statement. at the city Thank you. submitted for the preparation of this historic contact statement, the city selected Christopher Boatling to prepare the document. |
| 03:54:37.78 | Ian Sobieski | you. |
| 03:54:37.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:54:38.03 | Unknown | Right. |
| 03:54:44.85 | Heidi Scoble | and a draft document was prepared in 2014. and was completed in 2020. |
| 03:54:50.84 | Unknown | morning. |
| 03:54:51.89 | Heidi Scoble | on may 20th of this year the historic preservation commission reviewed the documents |
| 03:54:53.00 | Benita McLaren | the family. |
| 03:54:56.92 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 03:54:57.17 | Benita McLaren | Thank you. |
| 03:54:57.22 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 03:54:57.24 | Benita McLaren | Cheers. |
| 03:54:58.50 | Heidi Scoble | if you can do that, the Planning Commission reviews the document. This past August, the city council conducted its first review of the document. At that time, it was identified that there was an opportunity to incorporate additional items to that document. So since that time, a working group and was created with Mayor Hoffman, Council Member Blasdain, Nikki Nichols, who is the chair of the Historic Reclamation Commission. So as a result of that effort, the document, which is included in your staff report this evening, includes the draft historic context statement for consideration that includes red lines, edits prepared by our consultants, Christopher Herfling. and those are in red. There are also edits that are in yellow highlights that were prepared by the working group and there is a section that's in blue highlights |
| 03:55:49.16 | Unknown | you can. |
| 03:55:50.26 | Heidi Scoble | where garbage was added where there was not consensus with the working group So the purpose of this item tonight is for the council to consider those edits |
| 03:55:54.33 | Unknown | that, |
| 03:55:56.38 | Unknown | No. |
| 03:55:56.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:55:56.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:55:59.41 | Heidi Scoble | and determine whether or not the document sufficient enough for adoption. So with that, the elements that were addressed in the draft document for consideration this evening would address land acknowledgement, just correcting minor references. There was a section that separated the Coast-Newark period and the Spanish and Mexican period before, and there were more general classifications And there is a recognition that racial housing covenants existed in Sausalito and Marin. |
| 03:56:27.15 | Unknown | THE END OF |
| 03:56:29.07 | Heidi Scoble | There was also a discussion added regarding the impact of the social growth movement. And there was a revised reference to Cypress Bridge not being a park but an open space preserve. Another item that was not included in the staff report or as of the writing of the staff report |
| 03:56:40.95 | Unknown | non-inclusive. |
| 03:56:45.15 | Heidi Scoble | and relates to city's history regarding annexations. So in doing a little bit deeper of a dive into the city's records, it was, that has found that annexations occurred from 1942 to most recently, 1978. So there would be minor recommendations just to add the verbiage related to the 1978 reference. So that step is presentation and recommending the council consider the revised historic contract statement |
| 03:57:13.06 | Unknown | our presentation. |
| 03:57:13.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:57:17.47 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. as a tool to safeguard Saucedo's distinctive cultural, historical, and architectural heritage and direct staff at Fort A. . |
| 03:57:25.42 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:57:25.47 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 03:57:25.50 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:57:25.58 | Heidi Scoble | to be able to get the |
| 03:57:25.65 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. That was. |
| 03:57:26.16 | Heidi Scoble | So with that, I'm available to answer any questions. |
| 03:57:28.98 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Does, do any council members have questions? |
| 03:57:36.55 | Melissa Blaustein | I just wanna clarify the sections that are added by Mr. Verplank and the sections that are added by the working group because the change of the The section on the MiWOC with the red line edits, I'm pretty sure those are the edits that I had made And then we had a separate land acknowledgement, and I'm not sure This is the same. land acknowledgement. So did he go back just to clarify what the process was? Did he go back over ours prior to this? And make additional changes? |
| 03:58:04.74 | Heidi Scoble | And unfortunately, I think what happened is with the transition of former Community Development Director Wayland and me jumping in and not familiar with where the working group was at that time. I proactively reached out to Christopher Plank based on the statements made by a council member Cleveland Knowles regarding the land acknowledgement and the New Walk Indians. And this was as a result to just an email asking questions about the process. So I was trying to proactively include that in there. And so, So the land acknowledgement that is in the document for consideration is the verbiage from Christopher Roe Plank. the Thank you. move that language forward because it was a little bit more robust. in terms of its language and I would be happy to |
| 03:58:51.67 | Vicki Nichols | AMERICAN. |
| 03:58:55.38 | Heidi Scoble | pull up the past documents and you can compare. But in looking at the language, It definitely included a little bit more information related to the context of that. And then the Miwok Indian references were very similar, but I just chose Christopher Plank's verbiage. |
| 03:59:16.84 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:59:16.86 | Jill Hoffman | So, Okay, so let me just I'm just gonna throw something out. It's a little bit, I know it's a little bit irregular, because of the, in the order, but because of the hour, right? Where we've tried to keep to not going past 10 o'clock And my recommendation is gonna be that we send this back to the historic planning commission that they look at the four, um, the four All right. attached. Um, public comments that were attached. One of the public comments was Councilman Cleveland-Knowles, the other one was some language from Councilman Blaustein. There was also public comment statements from John DeRay, residents John DeRay and um, and James Scriba. I think at this point in time, there was some pretty involved sort of research that needs to be done on Mr. DeRay and Mr. Scribis, and also Council Member Cleveland-Knowles' comments as well, I think need to be vetted by the Historic Preservation Commission. I'm not sure. That's what I'm going to recommend. I just want to foreshadow that. And I think that's the way to go. I don't see us making a whole lot of headway at 1030 tonight and going through these line items for the 130 pages of the story Preservation document. but So yeah, Councilmember Cleveland, also go ahead. |
| 04:00:47.07 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I sent my, I think at our last meeting, we had, I just had noted that I had made notes and was ready to comment. So I had sent them. |
| 04:00:53.06 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 04:00:53.08 | Jill Hoffman | THE END OF |
| 04:00:55.68 | Ian Sobieski | to staff for your and council member Blavstein's considerations. I reviewed the report. I think most of my comments have been you know, mostly addressed that there's more work to do but I also know that this document you know that people are waiting to be able to use the document so I'm I think the main item is the |
| 04:01:14.83 | Unknown | Thank you. All right. |
| 04:01:19.93 | Ian Sobieski | is really with the mission in the Marineship Historic Context Statement. you know in response to Mr. Dray's comments and comment from Ms. Bushmaker. So I'd leave that up to our Community Development Director determine if that's best addressed in our Sausalito historic context statement or We should send it back. out to be addressed. in this statement. So that's the only real big |
| 04:01:48.28 | Unknown | That's fine. |
| 04:01:48.82 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 04:01:50.51 | Ian Sobieski | outstanding thing. And I didn't, I have to apologize. I didn't understand that the text in blue that's in our new version is still, under dispute, but if that section is included, then I'm perfectly fine with the statement as it is. |
| 04:02:05.91 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Um, Councilor Blasting, go ahead. And then we'll go to public climate and then, Then back to discussion. |
| 04:02:15.46 | Melissa Blaustein | I was just trying to gain clarity from Councilmember Cleveland Knowles if you were referring to the paragraph around discriminatory policies in housing and the slow growth movement. I'm trying to find which page it's on in the PDF. |
| 04:02:30.15 | Ian Sobieski | So it's on page, yes, that was the paragraph I was talking about. It's on. thought that was just an exciting thought that was what you and the mayor had agreed on |
| 04:02:41.32 | Jill Hoffman | No, I think that's the disputed paragraph. |
| 04:02:44.64 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 04:02:44.66 | Melissa Blaustein | Oh. Thank you. Heidi, did you put in the one that I had sent in the email as that is for which? Yes. Yeah. |
| 04:02:52.69 | Heidi Scoble | And I have the contact statement, if you'd like me to pull it up and share the screen with the language. |
| 04:02:52.83 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:02:59.59 | Melissa Blaustein | Um, let's, Yeah, it's on page 127, I see. |
| 04:03:01.47 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. Thank you. 121, 122, I think. of the context statement, maybe. |
| 04:03:10.49 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, so that's going to be more for our discussion instead of question, isn't it, or no? I just wanted to get clarity on that for the, that's the section for our discussion. That's fine. |
| 04:03:20.11 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:03:20.13 | Jill Hoffman | okay so let's go ahead with public comment and then we'll bring it back to the side whether or not we're going to |
| 04:03:20.15 | Melissa Blaustein | Okay. |
| 04:03:24.62 | Jill Hoffman | get into wordsmithing tonight at 1035 or whether or not we're going to punt it back to historic preservation. Um, Let's, I'll let the clerk call the roll. I'm sorry. call our public speakers. |
| 04:03:40.70 | Heidi Scoble | You know. |
| 04:03:41.14 | Benita McLaren | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 04:03:44.41 | Heidi Scoble | Our speaker tonight is Vicki Nichols. And Vicki, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 04:03:54.42 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. Good evening Mayor and Council members. I am part of the working committee And I am going to ask that this be pulled and sent back to the HPC for a number of reasons, of which I'll just summarize a few. You've just said it three times that Susan and Melissa's comments were to be in the document. I did not even see all these comments. So we had a problem. in the process the way this was handled I'm not going to reiterate that but just take from that what you will. There's too many changes in it now. When we had agreed to do this, it was a couple of tweaks. I felt comfortable doing that representing the commission. but now we have suggestions with no text, And that means rewrites, who's doing that? This has to come back to HPC. It has to go to the Planning Commission and then come to the Council. like any other community document does. I really feel firmly about that. I provided analysis that was asked for from the two council members at the last meeting concerned that this document didn't address THEIR OWN HIGHER. social justice and racial inequality in our general plan. I did an analysis that's not in here. But I was able to take Christopher's document and point directly to General Pan policies and um, um, programs. So I, I, you know, I think we've got a little wordsmithing here going on, but more importantly, you see the history of this document. We cannot do our work in that preservation committee and You know, this started when I was on the commission the first time when we got the certified local government, we got that first grant from the state as our first effort. I feel, I hate to say it, but I feel like we've been hijacked here. and the way we're going, we still will not get this done before the end of the year. This is vital. Please give it back to the people that know what this document's about. Let us make the recommendations. You ultimately have the final veto. But then by then we will feel like we've had our due to put the statements in that we feel are appropriate in a context statement. There's a lot of discussion over housing. This kind of narrative is best suited and we'd be perfect in our new housing element if we need to go into such explanation. but I can't urge you enough, please pull this. It shouldn't be decided late at night by the council and not been reviewed by the two committees that use this vitally in their work. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 04:06:49.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 04:06:49.95 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 04:06:49.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 04:06:53.80 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Morgan Pierce. Morgan, you've been unmuted and asked for your video. |
| 04:07:01.99 | Morgan Pierce | Good evening again, members of city council, city staff, and the Saucedolid community. My name is Morgan Pierce, and I am pleased to see the Saucedolid historic context statement nearing completion and its acceptance and its acceptance as an important tool for use in the preservation and evolution of our distinctive community. I am honored to have been involved at the Mason stages in the development of this document many, many years ago. In my former capacity as a member of the Historic Preservation Commission, then known as the Historic Landmarks Board, and in collaboration with Vicki Nichols, prior speaker, and former and current member of that commission, and Heidi Scoble, then Sausalito Planner, and our current Interim Community Development Director, both of whom brought years of valuable preservation experience coupled with intimate knowledge of Sausalito to that conversation. I truly appreciate the increased awareness brought to this effort through more recent understanding and acknowledgement of the legacy contributions to sauce leader by indigenous peoples and the African-American community, including those offered by council members, Blasin and Cleveland Knowles among others. I fully support the inclusion of these contributions in the document. NERJ prompt review. and resolution of the content in question and the other. in defense of current and future development threats. IN OUR COMMUNITY. Thank you. |
| 04:08:17.08 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Uh, I... I saw Ms. Cox's hand up earlier. Is her hand now down? |
| 04:08:26.00 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor. Here she is. |
| 04:08:28.32 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, there you go. Thank you. |
| 04:08:34.26 | Heidi Scoble | John, you've been unmuted. |
| 04:08:35.74 | Joan Cox | Thank you, sorry about the confusion. I really just wanted to endorse Vicki Nichols' statements about having the HPC review the historic context statement. I mean, it just makes logical sense that you would have your community experts appointed for a specific purpose, have the opportunity to weigh in on a final draft statement that has actually been drafted and it's not still awaiting edits. Um, just from a process perspective and from a transparency perspective it seems to me that's a logical course so. I just wanted to endorse her request. Thanks. |
| 04:09:15.50 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Okay. I see no further Um... Hands up. Okay. Okay. So bringing it back to the council. As I said, I think the best course of action at this point is to send it back to the historical preservation commission. It's their document. It's, you know, we've got lots of edits that have been proposed, some substantive, very substantive from Mr. DeRay and also weighed in by Mr. Scriba and some of the themes that were raised. and some of the other comments, I think rightly should be vetted by the people authored the document. It's going to come back to us for further for final for final approval, but at this point, I just don't see us doing a good service tonight at 1042. So I think that's the best way to go. Okay. Yes, councilman Cleganeals, go ahead. |
| 04:10:19.83 | Ian Sobieski | Thanks, Mayor. Could I just ask our Community Development Director and City Manager, you know, that's quite a lot of additional work at the staff level. And I do feel like Mr. Scriba's comments as far as I understand it have been addressed by our community development director, So I just don't see that there are that many edits and we've had two public hearings on this. I just like to understand how much staff work it'll entail to take it all the way back through and the Planning Commission. |
| 04:10:52.99 | Jill Hoffman | Well, I don't think we haven't, we, the city council hasn't had two public hearings. We had one, well, this is the second one, I suppose. So this would be the second one, yeah. |
| 04:11:00.09 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 04:11:00.17 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 04:11:01.46 | Jill Hoffman | Well, yeah, but I mean, I mean, there's how many pages of proposed edits and there's You know, are we going to... |
| 04:11:08.61 | Ian Sobieski | In the document that's in front of us, they're not. I mean, there's just... |
| 04:11:12.88 | Jill Hoffman | In the document in front of us, there's edits throughout. There are edits throughout that document. |
| 04:11:13.07 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 04:11:18.81 | Jill Hoffman | Um, that we added at the the working group level there were additional edits by councilman blasting there were suggestions and edit two pages of edits proposed by you and there were edits by john de rey a substantive quite substantive issues related to the Marinership that need to be further vetted by the Historic Planning Commission, Historic Preservation Commission. Um, you know, And this is the time to do it. Right? I mean, normally I would have said at 10 o'clock, let's call it. and punt this to the next meeting, for the first thing on our agenda, I wanted to hear it because I wanted, I think it really needs to go back to the historic preservation commission for them to look at this and then for the proposed edits and then bring it back to us. I'm gonna make a motion. I'm going to move that we send it back to the Historic Preservation Commission. Go ahead a second. |
| 04:12:23.66 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 04:12:24.91 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:12:24.92 | Janelle Kellman | Well, Mayor Hoffman, before, I do see Council Member Brostein has her hand up and I don't know Do you want to take a comment first before we? |
| 04:12:33.17 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, there's a motion on the table. Council Member Blaston, go ahead if your hands have a motion. |
| 04:12:35.98 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. I just, I mean, I'm not, I'm surprised that the, the decision to send it back to HBC since there was such a sense of urgency. I'm not going to obstruct a request from the chair of HPC to be able to have more opportunities to review it if that's what's being requested. But I will say I'm not gonna, approve the document if it continues to exclude important conversations around our history of exclusionary housing policies and what they've meant for the socioeconomic makeup of Sausalito. I think it's really critical that that language is included. I did substantial research and included citations for all of the information that's included in that paragraph. which I think is really critical and I'm just gonna say, the paragraph prior to it was about the slow growth movement. And so this was a response to that paragraph and just so that folks are aware if you're not at page 121 in the document it says, The slow growth efforts had an impact on the lack of racial and socioeconomic diversity in Sausalito. While lower income communities did not have the political capital to preserve their neighborhoods from new development, primarily white and well-resourced cities in Marin County were able to halt planned infrastructure and many other development proposals citing environmental concerns. In the 1960s, an awakening environmental movement focused on preserving open spaces. While these efforts resulted in preventing, quote, sprawl areas open for future development were no longer available, Marin County led the country in enacting some of the most- I think people can read that, Council Member. |
| 04:14:01.11 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:14:01.63 | Melissa Blaustein | So, |
| 04:14:01.97 | Jill Hoffman | I don't... |
| 04:14:02.42 | Melissa Blaustein | you |
| 04:14:02.63 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. I understand your point. I understand your point. |
| 04:14:03.96 | Melissa Blaustein | Bye. |
| 04:14:07.30 | Jill Hoffman | and, So I think the proper place to vet it is back at the, historic preservation commission. And I don't want to digress into a long, |
| 04:14:11.50 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 04:14:15.30 | Jill Hoffman | back and forth about it, I think that that's the proper thing to do. So, you know, So. Thank you. you Okay. Any other discussion? |
| 04:14:28.04 | Ian Sobieski | So I would just say that I think if one of us is speaking, that we'd just be allowed to finish. I, you know, I mean, he wants to hear this. We'll just send it back. But I am concerned about staff time and we did not get an answer to that question. |
| 04:14:34.44 | Sandra Bushmaker | I'm not sure. |
| 04:14:42.59 | Ian Sobieski | But, you know, I, |
| 04:14:43.35 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:14:43.80 | Ian Sobieski | THE FAMILY. |
| 04:14:43.97 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, staff time, we'll have an answer for that. I wouldn't expect that there would be a whole lot of staff time. the sort of preservation to deal with. And then it's gonna come back |
| 04:14:54.03 | Janelle Kellman | us. |
| 04:14:54.32 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:14:54.38 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 04:14:54.91 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:14:54.94 | Janelle Kellman | So. |
| 04:14:55.67 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:14:55.68 | Janelle Kellman | So Mayor Huffman, sorry, my part is, I know Robert was a warning, you made a motion and there should have been a second. So, it. I guess what I'm hearing, I'm not hearing anybody disagree with the nature of the comments that were added. What I'm hearing is that the HPC would like to review how it's crafted and insert it into the document so that when they use it in a planning session, it has greater utility. So if that I think is what I'm hearing, I can second your motion. I don't want to delay. things unnecessarily either. I do understand the importance of having a crafted in a manner that is you can use easily as a planning commissioner or as a member of the HBC. So I'm not hearing any dispute around |
| 04:15:37.85 | Unknown | you can see. |
| 04:15:42.36 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 04:15:44.98 | Janelle Kellman | sort of the the direction that the commons were going in. So I know you have a motion open. I'll second that motion for that reason. Okay, do we need to, let's call the roll. or |
| 04:15:57.97 | Jill Hoffman | whoever's going to go. |
| 04:16:00.21 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 04:16:01.66 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 04:16:02.03 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 04:16:03.86 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Blaustein. Council member Cleveland Knowles. |
| 04:16:09.53 | Ian Sobieski | Yes. |
| 04:16:09.97 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:16:10.71 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. |
| 04:16:11.94 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 04:16:12.80 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 04:16:13.92 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, thank you. It's unanimous and thanks to our working group councilor blasted and Okay. Chair Nichols for our work on it, and it's going to go back to the Planning Commission for review and vetting of the comments that were submitted and then come back to us. Okay, moving next to our, on our agenda. Um, is Communications. This is Tom and the agenda for members of the public to provide Any public comment for items not on the agenda, except in limited situations, state law precludes the council from taking action on or engaging in discussions concerning items of business that are not on the agenda. However, the council may briefly respond to statements made or questions posed by a member of the public ask clarifying questions, make a brief announcement or matters not on the agenda to the city staff or direct that the subject be agendized for a future meeting. If you would like to provide public comment, Please rush your hand in the Zoom application. The city clerk will call on individuals. who have raised their hands in the order they are raised. After you're called on, you will be unmuted. We already know all that. Please keep your comments respectful and focused. We want to listen to any individuals who request to speak and each speaker has a responsibility to act in a civil and courteous manner as defined by the chair. We will not tolerate hate speech, direct or indirect threats, or abusive language. The meeting hosts will mute anyone who fails to follow these guidelines. So now I'm opening up public comment for matters not on the agenda. |
| 04:17:58.78 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, the first speaker we have, it's Charlie Galaxy 10. |
| 04:18:02.84 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, go ahead. |
| 04:18:06.71 | Heidi Scoble | Charlize, you've been unmuted. |
| 04:18:21.64 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, Mr. Taker, we cannot hear you. I don't see. There you go. Okay, now we can. |
| 04:18:28.12 | Jeff Jacobs | Thank you. |
| 04:18:29.83 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, go ahead. |
| 04:18:29.88 | Jeff Jacobs | Okay, go ahead. Something I'd like to mention. which is that public communications, Madam Mayor, Beginnings. of council meetings when we began this journey many moons ago. And now, they've been put for some reason at the end. I... I don't understand the reason why. Here I am. with you. at the end of this meeting. Thank you. This is ending, and I'd like for something else to end. and that is the climate chaos We in Sausalito. and in Marin County especially, are contributing THAT CAUSES The violence of the storms on Rainbow Bay. that endangered boats sank some, put some people into the water. The wind. was measured at 72 knots. Thank you. by one boat that came in. these events Our cause now We've learned. by us. by people contributing their carbon output, by people flying in planes, by Electrical. heating and cooling. of apartments and houses. all these things. that it is time to join with the other cities in Marin and the county and the state and governments all over the world with declaring a climate emergency and with working on mitigating are damaged to the environment and doing it now. that we here at Camp Cormorant are producing with no electricity except for solar panels. A lot less carbon output. than the people on the hill. that we can lead this. THAT THIS IS A WAY for the underserved communities, for black people, for all the people to get together. to solve this problem now. to take it seriously. to declare an emergency like so many others have. So that's what I'm urging you to put on the agenda. for next meeting. Thank you very much. |
| 04:20:59.03 | Sandra Bushmaker | Okay, thank you. |
| 04:20:59.93 | Jeff Jacobs | Thank you. |
| 04:20:59.98 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 04:21:02.66 | Jeff Jacobs | Okay. |
| 04:21:02.97 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay, thank you. Let's move on to our next speaker. So, Thank you. |
| 04:21:10.02 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Sandra Bushmaker. Sandra, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 04:21:18.00 | Sandra Bushmaker | Good evening, counsel. I know it's getting late. I sent you a letter, which I saw was on the agenda, requesting that you agendize a resolution by the city council to ensure whatever local control is left after SB9 be in implemented in Sausalito the deadline is 12 31 of this year and there's been numerous articles written about this subject and I would like to encourage this council to make sure you pass a resolution by the end of the year in order to and devise whatever local control we can on the subject thanks very much talk to you later Thank you. |
| 04:22:17.99 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, I believe that there are no further hands raised. |
| 04:22:21.89 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, very good. Then I'll close public comment for matters not on the agenda. Uh, moving on to city manager. reports city council appointments and other business We'll take public comment on these items item 8A well item 8B through 8E, uh, |
| 04:22:40.89 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 04:22:40.91 | Ian Sobieski | I'm not. |
| 04:22:41.03 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 04:22:41.08 | Ian Sobieski | I'm not. |
| 04:22:41.25 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 04:22:41.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 04:22:41.36 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 04:22:44.03 | Jill Hoffman | at this point. And I'll open public comment for those items. |
| 04:22:50.02 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, David Sudow. |
| 04:22:50.06 | David Sudo | Thank you. |
| 04:22:50.16 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 04:22:50.63 | David Sudo | Thank you. |
| 04:22:52.32 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Thank you. |
| 04:22:53.03 | David Sudo | Go ahead. |
| 04:22:53.95 | Heidi Scoble | David, you've been unmuted. of the darkness. |
| 04:22:55.64 | David Sudo | That's it. I just want to, I just wanted to put a brief note out there that, the PVAC actually needs new, new, uh, committee members. We're down at least one a member, voting member, We lost our 94965 person and are and Aaron is gonna be, probably taking it. have limited availability. away. for for a couple of months probably. We need, I think we need to look at uh, appointing some new people for the PVAX. |
| 04:23:43.67 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Yep. So, Thank you for that. |
| 04:23:53.94 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, any other, I don't see any other hands raised for these items, is that correct? |
| 04:23:59.89 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no hands raised. |
| 04:24:02.82 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, then I'll close public comment for item 8. all the items on eight. And then our next step is city manager. Information for Council. Go ahead, Mr. Manager. |
| 04:24:17.60 | Chris Zapata | You're going to have me talk. I provided a written report. I think it's important that you know you see it and one of the things in there that I really want to highlight is that as you approved the restoration of the finance director position, we hired a new finance director. Her name is Vivian Chu. And she's following the Zapata rule, which is at 10 o'clock. If you have something on the agenda, you can sign off. So she's not on the call now. She's on her way home. But let me just say this, we're very pleased to have her on our team. She comes from the city of Albany recently, worked for the cities of Mountain View, San and was an auditor with the City and County of San Francisco and worked in the private sector with UC Berkeley. Her skill sets include she's a working finance technician. She's super experienced with audits, We believe that, you know, she will be a great addition to our team. because she's a certified public accountant and certified internal auditor. And as you know, we've been having some audit challenges in this city for a couple of years for a lot of reasons. As we complete this audit, the fixing and the addressing of the findings and audits. That's going to be a big responsibility as well as building our budget. So I'm really, really pleased that she started. She started on Monday. She's been getting oriented and I look forward to a long and successful career with the City of Sausalito meeting our Finance Department. |
| 04:25:43.68 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Um, Okay, so moving on to appointments we don't have any appointments to boards and commissions committees tonight although I did hear Mr. Sudo and so, um, We have an appointment. |
| 04:26:03.06 | Ian Sobieski | . I'm sorry. I do. |
| 04:26:05.25 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 04:26:05.79 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah, yeah. |
| 04:26:06.06 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 04:26:06.97 | Unknown | You're right. |
| 04:26:07.29 | Ava Cresante | Bye. |
| 04:26:07.36 | Jill Hoffman | I'm sorry. |
| 04:26:07.43 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 04:26:07.56 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. I just, okay. And I'd make a motion on that unless I guess we already took public comment. |
| 04:26:13.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 04:26:13.57 | Ava Cresante | Thank you. |
| 04:26:13.58 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 04:26:13.84 | Ava Cresante | Yes. |
| 04:26:13.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 04:26:14.61 | Ian Sobieski | to make a motion to appoint Planning Commissioner Saad to the Housing Element Advisory. |
| 04:26:23.20 | Jill Hoffman | I'll second that. Go ahead. Sorry. No, Vice Mayor, second. |
| 04:26:24.08 | Emilio | Thank you. |
| 04:26:24.11 | Ian Sobieski | Go ahead. |
| 04:26:26.97 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, so let's take the roll on that. Mr. Clark. |
| 04:26:32.54 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 04:26:38.21 | Heidi Scoble | I'm sorry, nothing came through. Councilmember Sobieski? |
| 04:26:40.89 | Ian Sobieski | Yes. |
| 04:26:42.22 | Heidi Scoble | It was a member of the last team. |
| 04:26:43.83 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:26:44.64 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Kielbret-Nolz. |
| 04:26:46.32 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 04:26:47.35 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. |
| 04:26:48.52 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 04:26:49.39 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 04:26:50.17 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, and And then let's if I got to look the clerk to talk to Mr. Sudo and look at. Um, the PBAC numbers if they're below quorum. Okay, if they're going below quorum, let us know. Okay, Councilor Blasdine has her hand up. |
| 04:27:13.22 | Melissa Blaustein | of sustainability. |
| 04:27:13.36 | Jill Hoffman | Sure. |
| 04:27:14.28 | Melissa Blaustein | also is very close to being Yeah. So. letting them know. |
| 04:27:18.44 | Jill Hoffman | Great. Thank you. |
| 04:27:19.03 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:27:19.04 | Jill Hoffman | how much? |
| 04:27:19.31 | Melissa Blaustein | I think that's a good question. There's still four, right? Well, someone's out on maternity leave, and so I I just, Anyway. WELL, THAT'S OKAY. |
| 04:27:29.98 | Jill Hoffman | talk to just talk to the clerk if it's below four then if if it's at three right then that's a That's a concern, immediate concern. If it's four, you still got to, in my mind, you know, an extra member for a quorum, which is what I care about at this point. Okay. Okay, so moving on to future agenda items. Do we have any additional future agenda items? Thank you. |
| 04:27:59.17 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:27:59.22 | Jill Hoffman | if you would like. |
| 04:27:59.24 | Melissa Blaustein | And you would have to. |
| 04:28:00.15 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:28:00.18 | Melissa Blaustein | for vaccination. |
| 04:28:00.20 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 04:28:01.28 | Melissa Blaustein | I have my hand raised. So much. I don't see land acknowledgments on there. I had asked for a land acknowledgment at the last meeting as something that would be placed on the future agenda, similar to what we added to the HBC. And I also, in light of, being interrupted when I was speaking this evening, would probably like to add to the agenda a refresh of civility or a conversation around civility as a council. just because I think it's really critical that we're respectful of each other when we're speaking and making comments and asking questions. And so if we need to review that together, we can. |
| 04:28:31.74 | Jill Hoffman | That's great, I agree. We have protocols and when there's a motion on the table, normally the motion is addressed. And so tonight I gave you some leeway to make some further comments, but I think at the late hour reading something that everybody that you had already referenced, go back to and read was something that you know, didn't necessarily warrant the time of the people that are listening or the people of the council. I'll try to figure out a way to keep us focused. but it's incumbent upon the council to work within the protocols and stay focused during meetings so that we can get done at a reasonable hour. So we had, We went, I think, long tonight in that I wanted to finish up the historic context statement. and get it in, or get it back to the, at least get back to, historic preservation if that's what we were going to do. And with that, Um, Any other future agenda items? Yes, Mr. Zapata. |
| 04:29:37.45 | Chris Zapata | Thank you Mayor. With respect to Council Member Blaustein's request for an agenda item, can you refresh my memory on how Sassley Road approaches putting things on the agenda? Is it a single council person that asked for If there's no objection, then it gets put on? Or does it take two people, three people? What's the process here? |
| 04:29:55.42 | Jill Hoffman | The process that we use right now is that we have, we allow council members to add things to the list for future agenda items. It's up to the agenda setting committee to vet those and decide what, and we've got it down to three items on the agenda because we have a stated goal from our city council to, finished by 10 p.m. Generally, And maybe that's too much. Maybe we got to get down to two. working within the strategic plan that we have, working within other priorities that we set, that's what we work against at the Agenda Setting Committee. |
| 04:30:33.75 | Chris Zapata | Thank you. |
| 04:30:33.90 | Jill Hoffman | for what is on the agenda. |
| 04:30:34.12 | Chris Zapata | OK. So the response is we placed this on the agenda setting committees TO DO LIST. |
| 04:30:40.45 | Jill Hoffman | Mm-hmm. |
| 04:30:41.27 | Chris Zapata | Correct. |
| 04:30:41.65 | Jill Hoffman | but then it's yeah but then we The agenda saying committee does the hard work looking at how it rates that we're not going to be of council member time. |
| 04:30:54.20 | Chris Zapata | Understood. |
| 04:30:56.29 | Jill Hoffman | So, yes, Vice Mayor has her hand. |
| 04:30:58.03 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. I just want to offer in follow up to Sandra Bushmanker's comment about SB 9. I think it'd be interesting to look at that and that appears to be time sensitive. So I don't know what others think of that, I think it would be worth our, so hard luck. |
| 04:31:14.18 | Ian Sobieski | Thank God. |
| 04:31:14.74 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 04:31:14.75 | Ian Sobieski | I understood that was I'm sorry, Councilmember Serbioski. |
| 04:31:19.55 | Ian Sobieski | I'm sorry, I was just coming on Janelle's point. There was a draft document that that I sent to Mary Wagner and Heidi Scoble on that issue. And Mary says she's gonna bring it to the legislative committee for you guys to discuss. |
| 04:31:38.11 | Ian Sobieski | the Republican. I'm sorry. Yeah, so I can help. That's what I was just going to say. I think that's one of our agenda items at our meeting on Friday at 11.30, although the agenda hasn't been posted, so I'm not sure. that will be able to be posted. timely manner. Okay, great. |
| 04:31:52.03 | Ava Cresante | I'm not sure. |
| 04:31:53.33 | Ian Sobieski | Great. Thank you. That was great. And I'd also just like to speak in favor of the land acknowledgement discussion |
| 04:31:56.23 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:31:56.28 | Benita McLaren | but I've said, |
| 04:31:56.77 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:31:56.87 | Benita McLaren | Thank you. |
| 04:32:02.88 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. I heard that the last time. I thought it was on our future on the list. Anyway, we'll address it. at our agenda setting this week. And so with that. Any other reports of significance? Nope, very good, we're adjourned. Thank you. Thanks everybody. Thanks everybody. Thanks to staff. Thanks everybody for your hard work. |
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