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| 00:00:17.09 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, so we've just started our audio sequence and we're live. 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 November 9th, 2021 Pardon me. will be conducted telephonically through Zoom and broadcast live on the city's website and on cable TV channel 27. |
| 00:00:48.51 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you, good evening. Welcome to the November 9th, 2021 regular city council meeting. Mr. Clerk, could you please call the roll? |
| 00:00:58.54 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. here. Councilmember Blomstein? |
| 00:01:02.81 | Janelle Kellman | Here. |
| 00:01:03.70 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Cleveland Knowles. |
| 00:01:05.44 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:01:06.20 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. |
| 00:01:07.75 | Janelle Kellman | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:01:08.51 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:01:09.88 | Janelle Kellman | Here, all members are present and there's a quorum. Items D1 and D2 will be discussed in closed session this evening. D1 is conference with legal counsel, Existing litigation for Santa California government code section 54956.9 D1. The name of the case is Sausalito Marin County Chapter of the California Homeless Union versus City of Sausalito. United States District Court. Case number 3, TAC 2-1, TAC CB, TAC 01143, TAC LB. D2 is conference legal counsel, anticipate litigation, significant exposure to litigation pursuant to California government code section. 54956.9 D2, one potential case. At this point I will open up public comment on the closed session items. And, um, Mr. Clark, if you could inform the public on how public comment will be taken, I would appreciate it. |
| 00:02:09.14 | Heidi Scoble | Sure, 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. Each speaker will be notified when the time has elapsed. |
| 00:02:29.69 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you very much. I don't see any hands up. Mr. Clerk, could you please confirm that? |
| 00:02:33.93 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no hands raised. |
| 00:02:37.37 | Janelle Kellman | Very well, and I will close public comment, and we will adjourn to closed session, and we will rejoin open session at 7 p.m. Thanks very much. |
| 00:02:51.89 | Heidi Scoble | We have restarted our audio sequence and we're now life. |
| 00:02:59.43 | Janelle Kellman | Good evening and welcome to the November 9th, 2021 regular city council meeting we took Um, We took the roll at 6 o'clock prior to our closed session, and I'm happy to announce we are all present and we have a forum. And so the regular meeting is now open. We have no announcements from closed session. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? |
| 00:03:27.24 | Ian Sobieski | So moved. |
| 00:03:28.45 | Janelle Kellman | Second. Mm-hmm. Mr. Clerk, could you please take a roll call vote? |
| 00:03:34.66 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Sobieski. |
| 00:03:35.42 | Janelle Kellman | whiskey? Yes. |
| 00:03:36.40 | Heidi Scoble | you Councilmember Blavstein. Councilmember Cleveland-Anal. |
| 00:03:41.53 | Janelle Kellman | Yes. |
| 00:03:42.49 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Killman. |
| 00:03:43.93 | Janelle Kellman | Yes. |
| 00:03:44.22 | Heidi Scoble | you Thank you. Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:03:45.68 | Janelle Kellman | Yes. Mayor, the motion passes unanimously. Moving along to our first item on the agenda is a special presentation, and that's a presentation of the Sister City program, and that will be given by Our Parks and Rec Director, Mike Langford. So go ahead, Mike. |
| 00:04:05.04 | Unknown | Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor, City Council. As many of you know, The city of Sausalito has a long history of sister cities. In fact, we have three sister cities, and many of you on this meeting have been to one or possibly all of those sister cities. I had the great pleasure of going to Portugal on what we called the adult trip. And on that trip, The representatives from Sausalito had a fantastic time and it really brought home to me the value of this type of program And as it was all started bringing people people. So with that, I'd like to introduce Harry Chapman, and Harry is going to give you a presentation and an update on where we are with the Sister City program in Sausalito. |
| 00:04:54.85 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. Welcome, Mr. Chapman. Thank you. |
| 00:04:56.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:57.44 | Harry Chapman | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. Thanks for the introduction. I'm gonna try and share my screen. |
| 00:05:06.65 | Harry Chapman | working. |
| 00:05:07.56 | Janelle Kellman | Yes. We can see it in here. |
| 00:05:10.13 | Harry Chapman | Right. Okay, thank you, Mike. I think you're right. It's a cultural to cultural exchange. I think it's been a couple of years since we presented, Sister Cities has been able to present to city council. So we're quite honored to be here to, PROVIDE AN UPDATE I'm not sure. Let me start off. |
| 00:05:34.88 | Harry Chapman | I DON'T FIND MY CONTROLS. |
| 00:05:38.58 | Janelle Kellman | There you go. |
| 00:05:40.74 | Harry Chapman | Here we go. So let me first start with the mission statements, Citra City mission statements. Everybody's clear about what we're all about. The mission statement is to promote and facilitate people to people relationships between individuals in both cities and deeper understanding of the cultures, societies, histories and other circumstances of the two societies. It's interesting looking at this because when this was written, it's probably way back when I first got involved 20 years ago, We only, we thought we only had one sister sitting. But we actually have, now we have three. Back then we did have one active sister city, that was Sakai-de Japan. It started in 1988. The brief history of that is the engineers for the Sedo-Atachi Bridge that connected the mainland to Shikoku, the island that Sakai is on, came over to study the Golden Gate Bridge, discovered Sausalito, approached the city council, and promoted establishing a sister city relationships. It's been a very active, relationship, ever since then. It's based on a student exchange where students one year will go from here to Sakai Day and live in the homes in Sakai Day learn all about the culture of Japan, And then the next year, delegates from Japan will come and reverse it, they come here, live in homes, and learn all about as much as I can in 10 days about the culture here. It turns out that in 2011, with Mike Boyle's research, reading the plaques down at Vigno de Mar Park, he said, well, what is this sister city in Vigno de Mar? And did some research and reestablished relationships. And it turns out that is our oldest sister city, but it wasn't active again until 2011. And that sister city exchange, it's still based on a cultural exchange, but it's a very different orientation. It's really focused on helping women in business in Vignola Del Mar be more successful. And they've had an incredible track record of success with the people that have been involved in that program. It's many of the same people year after year. And so it's a very different kind of exchange, but very rich in... quite important. Our newest one, established in 2013, is with Koshkai. That's where Mike was. I was with Mike over and Jill. Hush guys a few years ago. This based on a youth sailing exchange. So this is done in conjunction with the youth sailing program with the Saucieto Yacht Club. And there again, we have typically young teenagers will come over, live in homes, and basically spend most of their days out on the bay sailing when they're here. And likewise, when we go there, our kids sail there. The Quskay program is broader than that in terms of they also have this adult exchange it's not an exchange but it's a trip for adults that Quite fun. |
| 00:08:50.50 | Harry Chapman | Okay. The way we're structured is we have three operations councils, one for each of the sister cities, but it's the overarching organization is this Saucedo Sister Cities board. This is the board. Let me explain this a little bit. You can see the three ovals, one for each of the sister cities. The names in dark blue are people that are also on the board. They're members of the operations council and they're also on the board. THE LIGHTER BLUE RECTANGLES ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT ON THE BOARD, BUT THEY'RE THE of the operations councils. In fact, as I look at this, three of them |
| 00:09:32.01 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:09:32.13 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:09:33.21 | Harry Chapman | lighter blue rectangles have been on the board and they have turned off the board In addition to that, we have our city council liaisons, Melissa Blaustein and Susan Cleveland Knowles. Thank you very much for operating in that capacity. They're members of the board. They're non-voting members, but they provide a connection between the sister city operations and the city council. I'm gonna quickly go through the kind of what's happened with the Sakaidae program And then we're gonna get into Qashqai's and Abhinel Del Mar. Cheryl Popp will do Qashqai's Monica, I was kind of... Then again, we'll do the opinion. Hush guys, we've been dealing with two years of COVID, so we haven't been able to do a physical exchange But what we did, what we focused on two years ago was a digital video exchange where we would make, and this is people from the operations council or former delegates would, make these short videos, I mean they're two minutes to five minute videos about different aspects of culture here in the U.S. and we would post those out to our YouTube channel. And we would exchange those with Sakai-Di, and likewise, Sakai-Di would do the same. And so it would give us a chance to keep in touch and learn a little bit about their culture and have them learn a little bit about our culture, even though we couldn't physically to the two cities. I have a quick example here. Let me just play this for you. I'll just do a little bit of this, but it's a good example of this. of the program. Sounds not working. Okay. I'm not sure. |
| 00:11:26.07 | Harry Chapman | I'm not sure I enabled the sound, This is, what's impressive about Ethan's video here is he is doing this all in Japanese. So most of them were done in English and they were translated for our Japanese viewers. But Ethan did this entirely in Japanese. And you can see he's basically giving a view of what it's like, what the terrain is like. around Sausalito. I think it gets into the animals and such like that. |
| 00:12:00.44 | Harry Chapman | I'll move on. and get the idea. |
| 00:12:09.08 | Harry Chapman | This past year, this has shifted into trying to get our delegates back together, the people that have actually gone over to Sakai Day, We had the delegates from 2015, 17, and 19 we convene And we had reunions via Zoom for an hour, hour and a half, a chance for people to catch up. They're all off doing other things. But we had the delegates from the US along with the host families in Sakai Day on the same Zoom. So they did a little bit of reminiscing. They did a little bit of catching up. AND THEY JUST HAD A REALLY GOOD TIME. THE FIRST TIME WE HAD DONE THAT. AND IT WAS VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL. I THINK EVERYBODY THAT PARTICIPATED at a really good time. Yeah. I'll hand this over to Cheryl Popp for Qashqai's Operations Council. |
| 00:13:18.46 | Harry Chapman | You there? |
| 00:13:22.98 | Harry Chapman | I saw her on, and she's got to unmute herself. |
| 00:13:26.62 | Unknown | Cheryl, if you could raise your hand, that might help us find you. but I'm not. I'm looking for Cheryl right now. |
| 00:13:34.00 | Harry Chapman | She was on earlier. |
| 00:13:35.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:13:40.16 | Harry Chapman | Well, okay, in the interest of time, let me just go through her slides. The, um... The Cascais program, as you know, you know, it's very active here in Sausalito. We have the annually, we have the Fado get together at the Pines. There's a special event this year at the IDESC Hall, where the Consul General of San Francisco for Portugal has brought in this very on. well-known photo singer and she's going to be presenting at IDES Hall. I think the capacity there's 260 people Also, we're going to have Fado at the Pines. This is a fundraiser. It's done in conjunction with the Youth Sailing Program. And it's a money raiser. It's always a wonderful event. If you haven't been, you can. |
| 00:14:30.75 | Janelle Kellman | you Harry, just a second. Mr. Clark, our Saucy-O-Books by the Bay is Cheryl Kopp. If you could... Could you unmute her? Sorry, Harry. |
| 00:14:42.64 | Harry Chapman | That's good, yeah, no, I'm glad that you found her. |
| 00:14:46.14 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, we're working on that. |
| 00:14:49.38 | Harry Chapman | I thought I saw her earlier, at least this time. |
| 00:14:50.96 | Janelle Kellman | No, I, yeah, I can see her right now. Um, |
| 00:14:52.65 | Heidi Scoble | you know, |
| 00:14:56.23 | Ian Sobieski | or, |
| 00:14:57.54 | Janelle Kellman | There you go, okay. you |
| 00:14:59.33 | Cheryl Popp | I'm sure we can get it. |
| 00:14:59.55 | Janelle Kellman | I'm sorry. |
| 00:14:59.57 | Harry Chapman | Cheryl, I jumped in there. You're a bullet point. |
| 00:15:00.99 | Cheryl Popp | All right, yeah. I'm sorry everyone, I was not, you weren't letting me in. Madam Mayor and all our friends on city council, where were you Harry? projects. Now you're in. You have a floor. Anyway. |
| 00:15:13.36 | Janelle Kellman | Now you're in. |
| 00:15:15.87 | Harry Chapman | Okay, so we're on the Youth Sailing Exchange, the third bullet here. |
| 00:15:19.48 | Cheryl Popp | Okay, so you skipped the Prashenakashkash and all that, |
| 00:15:24.53 | Harry Chapman | I did the first two bullets. |
| 00:15:24.58 | Cheryl Popp | I know. |
| 00:15:26.18 | Harry Chapman | on this. |
| 00:15:26.33 | Cheryl Popp | Yeah, we'll go back in. Okay, okay. I'm just gonna start. I'm gonna go through this really quickly. Needless to say, most of our programs were curtailed the last few years due to COVID. but we've kept a few things going. Everybody knows about the Parse de Cascais, that wonderful private part private-public partnership we did with the city. and the gift of cash of the calzadas and the compass rose we did. It's a beautiful plaza, a gift from the city and our council to the city of Sausalito. We did maintenance on that this year. We did a jazz by the bay, Portuguese program, Portuguese food booth and wine. We've had, uh, I think I'm on the slide before this, Harry, |
| 00:16:11.42 | Harry Chapman | Oh, okay. |
| 00:16:12.35 | Cheryl Popp | Yeah, this is the slide we skipped. Okay. Can you go back one slide? Anyway, sorry, everyone. Oh, there we are, sorry. Yeah, so anyway, this is sort of what, we didn't do much this year, except we did, |
| 00:16:19.49 | Harry Chapman | Oh, there we are, sorry. |
| 00:16:27.52 | Cheryl Popp | we have a very robust Facebook page and mostly what we focused on was planning for next year, including this adult tour of cash guy, which I would invite all of you to join us on if you've not been. Now we can go to the next slide, Harry, and I'll roll through this. Um, We will be doing our own Fado at the Pines as we've done for many years. I think most of you know Fado as Portuguese folk music is sort of a cross between opera and Lady Gaga. But we're also doing a special event that we're partnering with IDEST and Instituto Camoes actually next month. It's a special opportunity for a cultural exchange, which is really what we're focused on in our program, cultural and educational exchanges. This is with Cuca Rosetta and Julio Rosenda. She's considered one of the top three Fadistas in the world, and it's remarkable that the Consul General of Portugal, the new Pedro Pinto, who's just joined us, with his wife and lovely daughter. brought this to Sausalito and it's an invitation only, but it bodes very well for future cultural exchanges of this nature. which are very high profile so then we'll do our own photo at the pines in may as we've always done a benefit for Our use sailing exchange, which is scheduled for June 24th through July 2nd. All systems are go for it this year. The partnership we have with the Sausalito Yacht Club and Club Naval in Keshkai. Brilliant program for these young sailors. and In conjunction with that, we will be doing this adult tour, which we mentioned earlier. We've also had on hold a Sausalito exhibit in Keshkai, which will be launched in the summer of 22, which we're partnering with the Sausalito Historical Society on. In the following year, the Cache Cache student sailors will come here and they will bring an exhibit. And a very new and exciting program that we're starting next year, which Jim Meyer, my vice chair, and I have been working on since we met with the culinary school in Estrell four years ago, is a culinary intern exchange, which Jeff Shirash and Jim Gabbert have been instrumental in spearheading this and they will send young student chefs over to work at the Spinnaker and at the Saucelot Yacht Club and then we'll send people over as well so We've got some really great new programs planned. If you have any questions, I encourage you to contact either me or Jim Meyer. We're excited about our partnerships and the 2022 programs, and we certainly appreciate all of the city's ongoing support for this. Obrigada. |
| 00:19:12.76 | Monica Finnegan | Thank you. |
| 00:19:12.78 | Cheryl Popp | Thank you. |
| 00:19:13.08 | Monica Finnegan | Thank you. |
| 00:19:14.13 | Harry Chapman | Okay, moving on to Vino del Mar, Chile, we have Monica Finnegan. |
| 00:19:17.77 | Monica Finnegan | Okay. Hi, let's see. |
| 00:19:26.38 | Monica Finnegan | Crap my hair. Here you go. |
| 00:19:28.86 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:19:30.26 | Monica Finnegan | Okay, there we go. Okay, good evening. Thank you all again. Many thanks to... the city of Sausalito for the support of our Sister City program. It's been a wild ride throughout the If you remember Harry's introduction, the first part, Viña de Mar is the oldest sister city, but during the Pinochet years, the State Department shut us down and we were lying fallow for many, many years until Herbie went down and reignited the program about 10 years ago. So we were invited by the mayor, the then mayor of Viña de Mar, to meet with a group of women that are all small business owners. And our goal with them has been to really help to mentor, train, provide leadership, for these business women and the council general here when we first started the program his instructions were to teach the women in Chile to be as aggressive as the American British women are. So I think he's got a lot of people in Sausalito helping with that cause. Due to the pandemic, our trip to Venue tomorrow was canceled in 2021. and we're disappointed because the hope was that we would be able to celebrate their 21st anniversary So we're putting that forward and hope to visit in 2022. During that time, during the pandemic time, we really pivoted to stay in touch with the IAF Women with bi-monthly Zoom programs. And we continued on our mentoring and training. We developed some important topics to discuss. And we're happy to say that on most of our, next slide please, In most of our Zoom meetings, we've had quite a few of their members, 35 to 40 members participating. Next slide, please. The 2021 Zoom topics involve several informative and insightful training programs. Julie Vieira, we have partnered with her in the chamber, and she has given online business training for a lot of the marketing, online marketing sites because the women really would like to enhance their online marketing programs. Isabel Allende wrote a book called The Long Pedal of the Sea and it's about the Spanish War and the refugees brought to Chile by Pablo Neruda. And amazingly enough, four of the women on that Zoom meeting had family members on that refugee boat and that have been integrated into Chile, and they're the descendants of that whole situation. We've had online new marketing they have a new marketing program that they've developed for online sales where they've all put their materials together. And we worked with Don Daglow, who is our Sausalito, and our own Sister City webmaster to help them figure out how to monetize more appropriately that website, because that would help bring them more exposure and more money. We also had a really interesting International Women's Day program, where they introduce us to one of their famous women, Gabrielle Misphile, who's a famous poet laureate in the first one in Chile. and our own Kathy Stierhoff introduced them to Sally Stanford, we all learned a lot I think you would be interested to know that when Sally died, she had a $20 million estate. And that's quite amazing for the kind of venue that she made her money in. We had a lot of inspiration for future activities like couch shopping and cyber shopping. And now we're assisting them in recruiting some new members to their program and we're onboarding their new leadership. A couple of comments from their past president sort of says it all. our relationship with sister city is old and very vibrant through zoom meetings we've overcome overwhelming effects of the quarantine |
| 00:23:26.92 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:23:31.69 | Monica Finnegan | And thanks to these online activities, we've been able to continue our relationship, making it stronger and more fruitful. And their new president has said similar things, but for AHEP, it's very important to be united in normal times. Now, in pandemic times, it's even more important. We have a lot of relevant cultural and economic relationships to maintain, and they've been tremendously enriching in this sad and complicated period. With the periodic zone meetings, Zoom meetings, we look forward with great anticipation And every day our union will be stronger because we're coming to know each other in these times, people to people. And that is just what we are all about in Sister City. This year we received our second international award. There's an organization we belong to called sister city international. There's about 2500 sisters all around the US. And we were recognized as the sister city that have the best business, trade and professional technology program during 2021. So we're really proud Our first award was in 2016, when we were recognized. |
| 00:24:35.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:24:35.51 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:24:35.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:24:37.18 | Monica Finnegan | as the best program overall in the country for the size that we are and |
| 00:24:43.14 | Ian Sobieski | the |
| 00:24:43.87 | Monica Finnegan | city that we are. So we're very proud of our results. So next to you, Harry. |
| 00:24:49.91 | Harry Chapman | Okay, back. I'll just wrap up quickly here. Thank you, Monica. So our goal is coming up. We're actually going to have a planning meeting, our annual meeting in January, to refine these, but sort of our enduring ongoing goals are to have, we need to finance this All right. this effort. We're always looking for some financial support, either through sponsorships or foundations, We are going to be looking at expanding our board and forming formally setting up some committees, subcommittees on the board. We'd love to expand some partnerships within the community. And of course, we're going to continue our people to people diplomacy and, um, We want to thank everybody in Sausalito for their continued support. We have incredible, as everybody knows, spirit of volunteerism and cooperation here. Especially I want to thank Mike Langford and the Parks and Rec Department, you guys over the years. I mean, really every year you jump in there and make it all happen. We just can't thank you enough for all you've done for us. And that's about it. Any questions or things we can help you with? |
| 00:26:02.94 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you for that wonderful presentation. Do we have any questions from the council for Harry or any of the presenters before we open up public comment on this item? I don't have to. |
| 00:26:13.89 | Melissa Blaustein | I don't have any questions, but huge thanks. |
| 00:26:14.28 | Monica Finnegan | Thank you. |
| 00:26:14.30 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:26:17.02 | Melissa Blaustein | Great. Thank you, Mayor, for organizing this presentation, and thanks to Sister Cities for being here tonight. Yeah, I'll just echo them. |
| 00:26:25.47 | Jill Hoffman | I'll echo that. We've been trying to get you guys on the agenda. Glad we were able to. It's such an incredible program, and I love the way it really shines through what makes Hossalio so unique, and it's just amazing to have such a global reach as well. So thank you to everybody. I know you give a lot of time. |
| 00:26:41.30 | Janelle Kellman | I'm going to open it up for public comment then, and then any final comments from us as a council. Uh, At this point. open up for public comment. I don't see any. I think we can end the sharing of the screen at this point. |
| 00:26:57.60 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:59.61 | Janelle Kellman | And then I don't see any hands up, though. Mr. Clerk, can you please confirm that? |
| 00:27:05.23 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no hands raised at the moment. |
| 00:27:08.82 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thanks. Then I'll close public comment and... Um, reiterate our thanks to the Sister City and all that you do to bring wonderful programs and assets to our town. And the Cache Cache Plaza is just fabulous. And the other efforts with the other two programs, too, are amazing. Anyway, okay, then moving on, thank you. Continue on with the Sister City Program, please. Okay, moving on to our next is, Our next item on the agenda is action minutes of the previous meeting. And so those are regular city council minutes of October 26, 2021, and regular city council minutes of October 30 and Can I have a motion? to approve as submitted, or are there any corrections? Or if there's any corrections. |
| 00:28:04.70 | Jill Hoffman | or if there's any. So move. I'll make the motion, Mayor. |
| 00:28:06.11 | Janelle Kellman | I can. |
| 00:28:07.35 | Jill Hoffman | unless we have corrections. Thank you. |
| 00:28:09.30 | Janelle Kellman | Second. Okay, we have motion on the table. I will now open up public comments. for this item. And I don't see any hands raised. Mr. Clerk, can you please confirm? |
| 00:28:20.98 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct, there are no hands raised. |
| 00:28:23.73 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, I'm gonna close public comment. There's a motion that's seconded. Mr. Clerk, could you please take a roll call vote? |
| 00:28:32.12 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. |
| 00:28:36.54 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Blaustein. |
| 00:28:38.08 | Janelle Kellman | Yes. |
| 00:28:38.45 | Ian Sobieski | you |
| 00:28:38.87 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:28:38.99 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:28:39.12 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Glivelet-Knolls. |
| 00:28:40.69 | Janelle Kellman | Yes. |
| 00:28:41.11 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Kelman. |
| 00:28:43.20 | Janelle Kellman | Yes. |
| 00:28:43.90 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:28:45.48 | Janelle Kellman | Yes, the motion passes unanimously. Moving on to our third item on the agenda tonight, which is a consent calendar. Matters listed on the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial, require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous counsel support and 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 the calendar items council members city staff or members of the public may request that specific items be removed in the consent calendar for separate actions. 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. I THINK I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO I will note that there are 10 items on the consent calendar tonight. Item 3A is adopt a resolution approving an encroachment agreement to construct a new three-foot retaining wall and three feet nine inch expansion of an existing driveway at nine flat Avenue. Item 3B is adopt a resolution of an encroachment agreement for the exclusive use of existing off-street parking located in the city's right-of-way adjacent to the property at 234 Woodward Avenue. 3C, adopt a resolution of proving an encroachment agreement for outdoor sidewalk seating guard rail, rejecting awnings and freestanding planter boxes in the city's right-of-way adjacent to the property of 12L Portal and 690 Bridgeway. 3D has adopted a resolution of proving an encroachment agreement for a front awning above the public sidewalk located at 1309 Bridgeway. 3E is Southern Marine Fire. Department 2021 Sausalito Storm Outlook. 3F is adopt a resolution authorizing the purchase of a Bobcat Toolcat. 5610 multi-used vehicle using fiscal year 21-22 budgeted funds. 3G is authorize a city manager to execute purchase agreement with downtown Ford to purchase a F4. 550 dump truck to replace a previous dump truck damaged in a vehicle fire at a cost of $72,778.07. of which 71,086 and 47 will be reimbursed for the city's vehicle insurer or net cost to the city of $1,691.60. Item 3H is a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the first amendment to the professional services agreement with VH, Hausen & Associates, Inc. for wastewater collection system engineering in an amount of $119,900 for a total contract of $229,922. Item three, I, is adopted a resolution to continue conducting the city council and all other city board commission and committee meetings remotely due to health and safety concerns for the public, I am three J is Sausalu Police Department's Crime and Trafficking report calendar for year 2021. third quarter report. So those are the 10 items on our consent calendar this evening. And I will now open up public comment on this item. I've not seen any hands. Mr. Clerk, can you please confirm? |
| 00:31:58.72 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no hands raised. |
| 00:32:02.09 | Janelle Kellman | Very well, then I will close public comment. and ask if there is a motion or further discussion with the council on the consent calendar items. |
| 00:32:12.15 | Melissa Blaustein | So mayor, I don't want to necessarily pull any kind of off of consent, but I did just want to make a comment that we have two vehicle procurements, items 3F and 3G. on the agenda and are low, emission action plan, transportation policy, one. calls for the city to attempt to purchase all new, either zero or low emission vehicles. or to at least consider all possible options. So I did reach out to staff. I raised this point several times, not recently, but probably a couple of years ago when we were purchasing vehicles. We haven't purchased one in a long time. I think staff understood the point and they did a quick analysis and demonstrated that there were no lower emission vehicles that were feasible to procure for these two things, these two particular that. tasks. So I just wanted to make the point that I hope are, you know, that we should really be cognizant. These vehicle purchases are very expensive and we hold them for many years. I'm ready to move the consent calendar, but I just wanted to call that out and hope that low emission action plan. top of mind when making other |
| 00:33:37.76 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, well, thank you for that. Thank you for reaching out to the staff. I would ask that going forward, does the staff include that in the staff report? that they've done that analysis and that in keeping with our plan for low emissions. So thank you for that effort. Do we have a motion to adopt the consent calendar? that motion. second. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Clerk, could you please take a roll call vote? |
| 00:34:06.06 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Sobieski. Yes. Council member of Loestein. |
| 00:34:10.09 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah. |
| 00:34:10.93 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Cleveland Knowles. |
| 00:34:12.72 | Janelle Kellman | Yes. |
| 00:34:13.57 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. |
| 00:34:15.15 | Janelle Kellman | Yes. |
| 00:34:15.51 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:34:17.47 | Janelle Kellman | Yes, so motion passes unanimously. Moving on to our next item is public hearing items. There are no public hearing items this evening. Therefore, we will move on to our business items. We have three business items tonight. The first is a review of the public, by our Director of Public Works, Kevin McCowan, about the Caledonia Street Pilot Project, The next item after that will be 5B, and that's community development Community Development Department Overview And that will be given by our interim Acting Community Development Director Heidi Scoble And 5C is consideration of adopting a land acknowledgement policy, and that will be given also by Ms. Scoble, our acting community development director. So Mr. McCowan, if you would like to kick us off with our with a review of the Caledonia Street Pilot Project. The floor is yours. Thank you for joining us tonight. And we're going to tie. |
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| 00:35:14.86 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council. I'm Kevin McGowan with the Department of Public Works. And hopefully you can see my screen here. We can stand. The health should be all blue. |
| 00:35:23.51 | Ian Sobieski | We can scan. |
| 00:35:25.52 | Kevin McGowan | Yes. All right. Item 5A before you this evening relates to the outdoor dining pilot project on Caledonia Street. I only have a few slides for you this evening, and hopefully we'll get through them fairly quickly. In 2020, the city, the state, and the country were affected by COVID-19 pandemic. Restaurants in particular were not allowed to continue with indoor dining. Other businesses were also required to not provide indoor services. In order to assist Sausalito businesses, the city moved forward with allowing outdoor dining and initiated a pilot project to close the end of Caledonia between Pine and Johnson Street. The closures started at the end of July in 2020 and were originally implemented on a daily basis. Barricades and other devices were utilized to close the roadway to vehicles each day from approximately 3 p.m. until 10 p.m. The original daily closure was not sustainable by city staff. In September of 2020, the city installed removable barricades in the road and allowed Caledonia Street to be closed continuously from Wednesday afternoon to Monday mornings. These closures proceeded until later in November 2020 and was started again in March of 2021. The closure restricted parking on both sides of Caledonia, which affected other businesses in this area. On July 27, 21, the city council instructed staff to move to modify the closure geometry. to allow northbound vehicles traveling and parking on the east side of the roadway. In addition, the Contraflow bike lane was installed on the west side of the street, and the city allowed restaurants to utilize a portion of the now closed southbound lane. This section of Caledonia was restriped in September 2021 by city staff. The pilot project area on the west side of Caledonia, fronting the restaurants, has been utilized for outside dining. Concrete surfaces have been installed in the parking areas as parklets, and are being utilized for outside dining as well. Sidewalk areas are also being utilized for dining services as long as a four-foot, clear path of travel is maintained for pedestrians. In addition, the remaining section of the roadway outside of the parklets could be utilized for outside dining by each restaurant. In this case, only two restaurants have utilized this space for their patrons. |
| 00:38:30.12 | Kevin McGowan | I'll leave a minute. It's the right page. During the July 27th, 2021 meeting, the city council requested that staff gather data on whether this pilot project is successful. In order to determine whether these areas are well utilized, staff has reviewed the available seating for the area, which is broken into three categories, sidewalk dining, Parklet Dining and Street Dining. Tables are not specifically secured in place such that more or less than four patrons can sit at a table. In general, there are a total of 88 available seats, which only includes the four tables in the roadway area for those restaurants who choose to utilize that space. All right, let's keep going. So there's some parklet areas with the red arrows on your screen, and then some additional dining areas in the street itself with the red arrows. All right, let's continue on. In order to gather data on how many patrons utilize this area, the city installed a small camera on an adjacent light bulb. The camera takes pictures of the area every 30 minutes from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. The quality of the pictures is just enough to discern if patrons are utilizing the seating provided. In other words, Temerit doesn't really get into too much details. Reviewing and gathering this data was staff intensive, such that Public Works reviewed a two-week increment to determine the average occupancy for the area. All right, again, a couple arrows to show you on the screen. This is for the parklet dining with the green arrows, and then some more patrons are shown there with the red arrows. Sometimes difficult to determine if folks are sitting at the tables, but we made our best shot at that. The data indicated that the highest number of patrons occurred on Friday through Sunday. the camera utilized had difficult time obtaining clear pictures in low and transitional light phases. So when it changed from kind of dusk into evening time, the camera didn't do well. So we didn't include that data in the analysis. Identifying the number of patrons after that time is possible, but not exact. Nevertheless, data was gathered showing that the area is utilized by restaurants in the area. The percentage of use does change over time. In other words, one restaurant In other words, one restaurant may have a peak in service at about 8 o'clock at night Another has a peak at 6.30 at night time. The analysis performed by staff is an overall average that may not identify or indicate whether all restaurant seating is fully utilized for each business. It's just an average. In reviewing the data gathered, the highest occupancy occurred on the weekends. In order to check to see if that data was fairly accurate, city staff visited the area on Labor Day, which was a warm sunny day with mild wind. At that time, the sidewalk seating was fully utilized. The parklet seating was 40% utilized, and the street seating was also 70% utilized for the two restaurants who chose to place seating in the roadway area. In other words, we wanted to kind of gather some information to make sure that what we were seeing in the camera was fairly accurate. feast on the day to gather. and that observed in person, sidewalk and parklet dining appears to be well received by the public utilizing the dining area, with an average maximum utilization of more than 34% and 25% respectively. In addition, the outdoor dining has been significantly utilized when the weather is cooperative, such as on Labor Day. Sometimes we do get a lot of wind as well as fog. Staff has reached out to one restaurant owner who has requested that the street dining remain in place. They have also asked that they be allowed to utilize tents and heaters in the area. Public works and community development will continue to assist these businesses in this particular area. Staff did not reach out to adjacent businesses in this particular case, basically because we didn't have available staff to do that and we had other priorities at the time. I did want to mention that because it was rather staff intensive to gather all the data itself, even looking at the camera and reaching out to adjacent businesses with a bit time consuming. At this time, staff recommends leaving the current pilot project in place. And that concludes my presentation, and I'm available for questions. Thank you so much. |
| 00:43:59.82 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thanks Kevin. Thanks Director McAllen to you and your staff. That was an excellent presentation and analysis. And I know it took a lot of time with many other priorities. And we talked about it at the prioritization and planning session. on October 30th, should anybody want to go back and look at that. especially the first hour, which is very important. So I saw Council Member Sobieski's hand go at first and then Council Member Blasdy. So that's the order we'll go. for right now. So if you go ahead. |
| 00:44:28.15 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Director McGowan. for your work and the gathering of that data in response to our request. That was pretty groovy, and I look forward to using that trick more around town. It's nice to have some data, so thank you for that. You said that the pilot is well received by the public. in terms of the utilizing the space. What complaints, or did you keep track of any make complaints your CV, How many have you received? Who do they tend to be from? visitors, residents, other businesses, Can you please characterize any other qualitative or quantitative feedback you received on the pilot? |
| 00:45:07.86 | Kevin McGowan | As I mentioned, |
| 00:45:08.47 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah. |
| 00:45:09.77 | Kevin McGowan | I mentioned that the The pilot project is well received by those utilizing it. And I didn't necessarily say that I reached out to different members of the public as well. We just haven't had enough time on our books to really do that, which is a little bit unfortunate. The complaints I've received had just been recently from a member of the public stating that we really didn't reach out enough to some of the other businesses. So that's a valid complaint, and I would say, yes, that's probably the case. Other than that, I haven't received any other comments specifically on this project. |
| 00:45:47.75 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you very much. |
| 00:45:50.61 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. Councilman Blaustin, go ahead. |
| 00:45:53.47 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah, thank you so much, Director McGowan, for taking the time and really responding to our request for data, because especially given the presentation that you gave at our last council meeting about all of the things on the plate of DBW, it's just really impressive. Thank you so much. especially right down to the percentage points of use, really took it to the next level I have a couple of questions given that it seems like there is positive feedback for the pilot project. And if we do move forward at this point and decide that we will extend the pilot project Does that mean that the business owners will have the ability to add permanent embellishments to the parklet or to the sidewalk? And what would that process look like? |
| 00:46:34.18 | Kevin McGowan | Yeah, I do believe that is the case. If we decide to move forward, I believe that the businesses or the restaurants can move out their planter boxes a little bit closer to the bike path that's there, and we can make further improvements as well. in that specific area. |
| 00:46:53.01 | Melissa Blaustein | And then I did, I think that Council Member Sobieski touched on this, but just to clarify, since we did get some correspondence about this, did we, beyond just asking business owners, was there any sort of outreach to neighbors on the street? |
| 00:47:06.22 | Kevin McGowan | No, ma'am, we did not do that. |
| 00:47:09.04 | Melissa Blaustein | You had a lot on your plate. So anyway, thank you. I appreciate that. That's all for me. |
| 00:47:13.70 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:47:13.72 | Jill Hoffman | Thanks, Vice Mayor Kelman. OKAY, THANK YOU. HI, DR. MCALEN, THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT. A couple of questions because I think members of the public will probably want to know this as well. I myself have witnessed that the northbound lane is closed and there are sometimes saw horses or other types of ballards preventing access to the lane. Is DPW on a schedule for opening that? Have you experienced that? Can you just speak to that comment that we received? |
| 00:47:43.65 | Kevin McGowan | I have seen a few of the delivery trucks that will simply park right there in that specific lane northbound, which is problematic. Technically, I should be reaching out to the police department to help us with that at that point in time. But that has only been my observation of one occasion where I've seen a delivery truck stop there. |
| 00:48:03.61 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, yeah, I think the question, and I haven't looked in the last couple weeks, but that there was actually a closure there, that you actually couldn't go through and that lane was effectively closed from type of sawhorse or a bollard or something else that we would be maintaining and removing. Is that something that is a continuing problem for us? |
| 00:48:21.99 | Kevin McGowan | You know, I haven't heard anything about that. So that's new to me. Please let me know when that happens. |
| 00:48:30.11 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, and I just want to follow up with something Councilman Blassey asked about. So if we approve this program, is staff recommending that if the approval goes through and the restaurant owners are able to make use of this area. Do we talk or look at some type of rental program or what that would cost for them to utilize that area? Is that part of the analysis you guys are looking at? |
| 00:48:54.26 | Kevin McGowan | No, at this point, we are simply looking at the data. I thought it was very important to bring some of the data back to you at this time. That's what we had suggested back in July, that we would be returning to you, taking a look at some of the data that we've gathered. I think my intent today is to simply bring this information to you. I'm recommending that we allow it to be maintained in the way it is right now, and possibly returning to you again in the springtime to really seek some more input on how we can improve this particular area of town. |
| 00:49:30.89 | Jill Hoffman | Great. And then just one last question, Mayor Hoffman. Do you have any comments on circulation patterns or how DVW makes decisions around circulation patterns? I seem to recall we had a study of this area. We've looked at this area in the past. Do you just want to write any comments for the public about circulation? |
| 00:49:48.80 | Kevin McGowan | I have heard that there have been a few issues with trucks trying to make a right turn going southbound who can't follow through to go through on Caledonia. We want to take a closer look at that and make sure that we don't have any conflicts in that area. So, yes, we're continuing to look at that. We want to pull in our consultant, Parisi and Associates, to look at it with us. Preferably, we might want to utilize a fire truck to make the turn so we can visualize it. So that might be something that we would want to do. |
| 00:50:25.40 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, I see Councilmember Sobieski's hands up. I'm going to ask a couple questions. Councilman Sobieski, and then I'll come back to you if that's okay. So, Director McCallum, looking at the data and the pictures that you provided, on the north end of that block. there are at least one or two parking spots that are completely unutilized. Is that the case? |
| 00:50:49.92 | Kevin McGowan | That is true. |
| 00:50:51.61 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, and then it also looked to me like from the data that you collected that you know, that the parking outside of the parking spots, the parklet. So we have parklets. parking spots that are filled out in the parking spot. And then we have another area in between the parklet and the bike lane, which we're calling the street area. It looks to me like the street area beyond the parking lot parklets is is vastly underutilized is that fair i mean it was in a single digit percentages compared to the other Did I read that right? |
| 00:51:26.35 | Kevin McGowan | Yeah, you are correct. Remember that only two of the businesses are utilizing that specific area. And I think they generally use that as overflow. So when they fill up their park web, then they can go ahead and utilize the street area as well. So you're correct. They don't utilize it that much. |
| 00:51:43.04 | Janelle Kellman | So, would there be any I mean one of the concerns is that you know obviously the businesses that are now fully operating they weren't operating during covid obviously but now fully operating are concerned about the loss of parking space, Would there be any way to return those two that are unutilized? and I'm just throwing this out there, back to use. I mean, they're on the end, they're on the the north. I think they're on the north. would you call that west? I don't know, the north end of the street. |
| 00:52:15.54 | Kevin McGowan | Yes, northwest, the other corner of Pine Street. Yeah, the car park. |
| 00:52:19.95 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, the car. |
| 00:52:20.52 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:52:20.54 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:52:21.26 | Kevin McGowan | We have a bit of a difficulty. In other words, we put in the bollards in a specific area Prior to implementing this phase of the pilot project, we would have to remove or reinstall a few of the bollards in a different configuration in order to make it work. So it is possible, but we'd have to do a little bit more work |
| 00:52:42.22 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thanks. Those are my general questions. Council Member Sobieski, go ahead. |
| 00:52:47.47 | Ian Sobieski | I was actually going to ask that same question about the parking spots, mayor. I was just wondering if it was In terms of reconfiguring the bollards, is it possible simply not to install one of them so that the car can slip in on the right. And could those spots be made available just to residents? of that area. |
| 00:53:07.89 | Kevin McGowan | Let's see, that's several questions at once. So let's start with the easy one. I have a little bit of a concern of taking the ball out and saying that the parking space can be utilized because the only way to get out of there would be to back up. And so backing up into traffic coming from Pine Street down the hill could be problematic. I'd be glad to look at it and see if it is a possibility. So any suggestion is always a good suggestion. And then your second question, if you could say it one more time. I was just asking. |
| 00:53:39.93 | Ian Sobieski | I was just asking whether those spots, since they might be a little bit tricky, |
| 00:53:46.33 | Kevin McGowan | All right. |
| 00:53:46.57 | Ian Sobieski | I think they were made available only to residents of either adjacent buildings or nearby buildings. that maybe could satisfy the concern about any kind of tricky parking. in their response. |
| 00:54:00.98 | Kevin McGowan | You know what, I'm not sure if I've ever heard that in the in Sausalito itself of whether that can actually be done, because this is a public street and it should be able to be used by the public who is anybody. |
| 00:54:15.57 | Ian Sobieski | Of course, we are making a special design here. So I was just wondering if that's, If it became more of a driveway that was available to one or two local residents, then I don't know if that would solve more your concern about the particular driving pattern if it wasn't imposed by the general public, but it was a reserved spot for So. Thank you. local residents of that area. |
| 00:54:39.53 | Kevin McGowan | I think we'll be glad to take a look at it. Thank you. |
| 00:54:42.96 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thanks. Councilmember Cleveland, I'll |
| 00:54:44.97 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 00:54:48.24 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you, Mayor. I was actually gonna ask a similar question, except we did get some public comment and I've heard from folks and experienced myself that we don't have adequate by parking or scooter parking and stroller parking. So it might be helpful to use those spaces, be safer, Um, accommodate a lot of people and a lot of people arriving by alternative modes to create kind of a pen for for those types of vehicles. So if we're gonna get into engineering solutions here from the dais, I would just throw that out for consideration over time by the Department of Public Works. I'd be very supportive of that, as I have had, there just does not seem to be adequate places to put bikes that don't impede sidewalk access. And I know people with young families also have trouble with their strollers Maybe we could even include an area for ducks, bananas. throwing that out there. |
| 00:55:51.09 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 00:55:52.86 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 00:55:52.87 | Janelle Kellman | Oh, dog park. Are you suggesting a dog park? Okay, to be clear. Okay, so no further questions from council, then I'll open up public comment on this matter. I see one hand up. And we'll go with that one, just pick us off. I saw other hands various. throughout the presentation, so maybe other people jump in. |
| 00:56:14.51 | Heidi Scoble | maybe. |
| 00:56:16.63 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, there you go. Mr. Clerk, I'll let you call the speakers. |
| 00:56:20.58 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, our first speaker, it's Elizabeth Nibot, and she is unmuted and asked to share her video. |
| 00:56:31.97 | Elizabeth Nibot | I'M HAVING TROUBLE WITH MY VIDEO, BUT I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU, DIRECTOR MCGALLEN, FOR THE REPORT. I'D LIKE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE BUSINESSES ON THE BLOCK THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING. strongly like to keep the current plan in place and move towards making it more permanent. I, for one, listening to the conversation, love the idea of using the street portion that are not being used by the other two restaurants for bike racks or strollers something of that nature. Again, kind of creating a community feel and accommodating people who come by other means of transportation. I think we're hoping that Sausalito will join cities around the Bay Area, throughout the country and all over the world, embracing shared spaces and outdoor dining. and you know, for myself and that was previously F3. WE DO USE THE SPACE AVAILABLE. and we find that there's still a lot of people that want to continue dining outdoors no matter what the weather there's Thank you. And then, of course, when the weather's nice, everyone wants to be outdoors. So thank you for the time. I'm not sure. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:58:02.14 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. Okay, moving on to our next speaker. |
| 00:58:05.73 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Vicki Nichols. You've been unmuted and asked to share your video. Thank you. |
| 00:58:15.74 | Vicki Nichols | Okay, now I'm unmuted. Thank you. I actually sent the council, I'm sorry it was late mail, but it was late, but for your reading, on this subject, I've sent the council a letter. I just wanted to make a few points here. You know, using data from Labor Day on a beautiful day The city is usually inundated with traffic for a normal art festival. And using admittedly the observation that city staff could only get out at a certain time. I totally appreciate that. I am not trying to be difficult here, but I live two blocks from this area, and these seats are not used that much. So I'm checking into the just the legal configuration of the closeness of the bikes with this lane. There's supposed to be a buffer lane. This is being ignored. I can tell you that as the restaurant owner made her comments in the staff report, There's just not one or two people that are upset about this. So you aren't listening to us. You haven't reached out to us. You're being now talking about permitting something that you said last time related to parklets would be discussed in April. You're now setting this up to be approved and these expansions to occur. So please start telling us what you mean so we can determine where your views on our disk And be honest about it. You're saying one thing in a meeting that the striping's temporary. Public Works was down there for four days. That has been painted. This is a test project for doing the whole block. The count was out of the bag when you tried to link it to the emergency. conditions where the city manager could sign off on it. I'm not against any of this, but I just think it's being done very not very honestly, and you're not including people, And this is in the middle of a commercial residential block. This is a unique district. We have it nowhere in Sausalito. Everybody considering this lives nowhere near us. So you don't know what's going on unless you're sitting down there dining all the time. And I can tell you that you're not because we're not seeing people in those seats. So please pay attention to the letter. I'm speaking for a number of people that have contacted me and I really think that we mean this. Uh, it's too bad that we're not able to address you in public because of zoom. But I think this has compromised the public process. You're not hearing what we have to say. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:01:02.87 | Monica Finnegan | Thank you. |
| 01:01:06.43 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Morgan Peers. Morgan, you've been unmuted. |
| 01:01:15.59 | Morgan Peers | Great. Good evening, Madam Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor, members of council, members of city staff, and my fellow community members. Thank you so much for focusing on this important issue. I think it's one of the highlights of the pandemic is that we were able to come together and create a unique outdoor dining experience that not only helped the community but helped the businesses and I'm representing Sausalito Beautiful as its vice president speaking this evening and as a resident, And we would like to see the pilot program continue However, we do recommend some continued assessment of the project as Director McGowan identified the analysis was done over a two week period, obviously covering part of a holiday and during a pandemic, obviously some more data would be certainly helpful. in making sure that the long-term implications implications of doing this on a permanent basis are assessed properly. I'm not sure. And I think Director McGowan also identified that they didn't reach out to local business, you know, the surrounding businesses and the surrounding residents, I think it's probably important to make sure we have that data set as part of your assessment for making any final determinations on this project THEIR HIGHER. Independent of that, I think it's great that we have more outdoor dining. It's also beautiful. Obviously advocates for more outdoor public, beautiful space. And we would love to see how this could be a win-win for everyone. So thank you very much for your consideration. We look forward to the next steps. Thank you. |
| 01:02:44.02 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you for your comment. |
| 01:02:47.41 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Sandra Bushmaker. Sandra, you've been unmuted and has to share your video. |
| 01:02:56.28 | Sandra Bushmaker | Good evening, everybody. Good evening, council. and stay out I wanted to reiterate a point I've raised |
| 01:03:00.05 | Monica Finnegan | Bye. |
| 01:03:00.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:04.06 | Sandra Bushmaker | on several occasions about this project. While I'm not speaking against the project, I remain concerned that there hasn't been an outreach to the residents that live in that area. and the other businesses as to the impacts on them. Now that means that Just because you didn't receive a whole bunch of letters from residents speaking to this issue, that doesn't mean they don't have an opinion. It requires, in my opinion, an outreach program. So I'd like to see the council Um, pursue a better outreach to the neighbors before making this a permanent situation. That's all I have right now. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:03:51.33 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Monica Finnegan. Monica, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:04:00.29 | Janelle Kellman | Um, |
| 01:04:01.03 | Monica Finnegan | I'm just saying you're on mute still. Sorry, thank you. |
| 01:04:04.24 | Ian Sobieski | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:04:04.63 | Monica Finnegan | Um, I just wanted to maybe cover some other kinds of considerations. This all started in the pandemic and I've spoken to several of the restaurant operators and they have suffered, suffered, suffered, really Seriously. And I think one of the goals of the parklet concept is to really assist and help them recover from their loss during the pandemic. And it's not gonna be a six month recovery. I think it's gonna take a much longer time. So the parklet concept, I think is really a boon to their restoration and I think it's really great that BPW has |
| 01:04:37.20 | Ian Sobieski | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:04:40.40 | Monica Finnegan | and is trying to continue to continue with that. I think when the appropriate outlook on them so good for Morgan to mentioning that because all over, as Elizabeth said, all over the Bay Area, There are parklets that are sprouting up and it's the new new, it's the new way everybody is operating. So I just encourage everyone to really consider this and find a good win-win solution that's appealing to all. Thanks. |
| 01:05:09.09 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:05:09.11 | Monica Finnegan | Thank you. |
| 01:05:09.82 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:05:12.57 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Joan Cox. Joan, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:05:20.03 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Good evening. I need to. I wanted to just share another perspective that I heard when we first considered this on the council, which is You know, the businesses that were affected by the pandemic were not operating when we commenced this pilot program. So, doing outreach now. to the businesses and to the residents. As your public works director said, it's probably the next step, I think makes a lot of sense because although the restaurants suffered sorely, many of them were able to offer takeout services during the pandemic, where some of our smaller businesses, such as my hairstylist, were actually closed throughout the duration of the pandemic and suffered mightily as well. So I just think the outreach recommended by your public works director Thank you. actually closed throughout the duration of the pandemic and suffered mightily as well. So I just think the outreach recommended by your public works director, continuing the pilot program until the spring, when you can factor into account the feedback from the community of residents and businesses is your best. approach moving forward. I was amazed at how great the single lane looks when I first, so I think you're really on the right track, but I think it's important to factor in the public feedback, what they'll Thank you. Okay, thank you. |
| 01:06:43.98 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Kevin Carroll. Kevin, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:06:59.13 | Janelle Kellman | Mr. Colonel, we're not seeing or hearing you. |
| 01:07:04.97 | Kevin Carroll | Okay, I'm going to get them now. |
| 01:07:06.36 | Janelle Kellman | Yes, sir, we can hear you now. |
| 01:07:08.01 | Kevin Carroll | Okay, great. I'm not sure. two points I think that are important the actual application that the restaurant submitted in the first place. the very last items with your signatures. was they would contact all residents and businesses within 300 seats. They would do it. They never did it. Still have a good time. The number two point in Mr. McGowan's staff, or It states that the vinos which has obtained permission from the adjacent property owner. It is a single property owner who owns the barber shop, and the venous restaurant. and he has stated several times to the barbershop He never gave permission. So my question would be, shouldn't have be required in writing. Thank you. |
| 01:08:07.31 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:08:11.78 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, it looks like Elizabeth raised her hand again. She's already spoken at the beginning. |
| 01:08:18.48 | Janelle Kellman | OK. Do we have anybody who, I don't see anybody then who hasn't spoken. I don't see any new hands up. And so if you can confirm that, Mr. Clark, then we'll close public comment. |
| 01:08:31.00 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no other hands raised. |
| 01:08:35.17 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. Okay, so we'll bring it back up here for our council discussion. Councilmember Cleveland Knowles, go ahead. |
| 01:08:47.25 | Melissa Blaustein | I just had one question to clarify a comment made by the public and then I had some comments. I think there seems to be some confusion between two actions that we took at a prior meeting, both on the same night, I believe one was about Caledonia Street. And Mr. Miguel and maybe you can help clarify for the public one was about Caledonia Street, which we agreed that we were going to treat separately, and the second was an overall city parklet program. that we did send, I think, back to our Community Development Department, and we are going to hear |
| 01:09:15.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:09:23.77 | Melissa Blaustein | about some streamlined procedures for parklets in general that the rest of the city later I think. I can't remember exactly what the timing was, but it was on a longer timeframe. Is that correct? And maybe you could just. Recap. for the public who seem to be confused that Caledonia is one thing that we were undertaking and then the Parklet program was a different |
| 01:09:48.15 | Kevin McGowan | Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Yes, you are correct. They were two different items. We wanted to kind of separate the two out because we had moved forward with Caledonia Street. It kind of is a zone project. And then the Community Development Department, as well as Public Works, were working together on looking at streamlining some approaches associated with parklets throughout the city. So you are correct. |
| 01:10:12.71 | Melissa Blaustein | OK, and then if other people don't have questions, I have comments. But if there's other questions, I'll hold off I see. |
| 01:10:18.97 | Janelle Kellman | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:10:19.05 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:10:19.17 | Janelle Kellman | Do you have a question or comment? comments, although I've forgotten Okay, very good. Go ahead, Councilman Clevenals. |
| 01:10:27.10 | Melissa Blaustein | Great, thank you. And thank you to our public works staff for the excellent presentation. I'm strongly in favor of continuing the pilot in the current configuration. I think that's the one lane travel and the bike Contra flow lane creates a really safe and welcoming environment. The bike lane is great for bike travel, but it also creates a safe buffer for from traffic for people dining and it slows the traffic in that position of California. I, just want to endorse the comments that were made about supporting all of the businesses on that street and i think they are all benefit in. I would like to just say that I think we did very very consciously consider very extensive feedback that we got from neighbors and businesses on the street about the foreclosure. restored all the parking on the west side of the street. which a number of businesses have complained about, including the hair salon. So I think that's great that that parking was back. |
| 01:11:36.56 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 01:11:40.71 | Melissa Blaustein | We restored northbound vehicular traffic, which I think other businesses will also concern about And then, are utilizing the other side of the street as the kind of heart rate kind of calm area. I think that was a great compromise and a really a great solution. you know, I'm surprised about the comments about lack of public notice. I think we have heard Caledonia Street more time for the last two years than almost any other item. This might be the sixth or seventh hearing that we have on this portion. of town. And we did get Okay. huge amount of public comment from neighboring residents and neighboring businesses. And it's been an occurrence. and obviously posted with our agenda so you know i welcome more comment i have gotten only |
| 01:12:38.59 | Unknown | you know, |
| 01:12:42.30 | Melissa Blaustein | positive comments about the current configuration, a number of comments are posted. tonight. Obviously we need to continue to do outreach, continue to receive public comments, |
| 01:12:49.42 | Unknown | Good night. |
| 01:12:56.48 | Melissa Blaustein | happy to move forward with the pilot configuration. In terms of timing, I would actually be in favor of a little bit longer amount of time to give businesses you know, the certainty and the time that they need to apply for and install any infrastructure that might make it more successful. but I'm... Thank you. Open. to hearing from others. And then I guess lastly, I would just like to thank everyone who is making the Wednesday Night Live events. successful. I don't know who was down there, if anybody else was down there last Wednesday, but that area was just thriving with the band and all of the responsible and really nice. and it wrapped up early. So hopefully it wasn't a big disturbance for the neighbors. So thanks for that. |
| 01:13:54.43 | Unknown | Thank you. Customer of Glass. |
| 01:13:56.03 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:13:56.05 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:13:56.87 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. And the Wednesday Night Lives are the first Wednesday of every month because I know some of the organizers are on this call. And there is great music all across downtown and on Caledonia and at Golden Gate Market. So I would echo that that's a great program. And I absolutely am in support of continuing the pilot program. I think it's been really... wonderful for our community to have an opportunity to engage with this new type of more vibrant outdoor dining to get more use out of the street and i think that i would agree with council member cleveland knows the compromise of closing one side of the street and allowing for some traffic on caledonia has been a better approach for the community. I like the idea that we have a bike lane there and that we can bring more people down on their bikes, more pedestrians. And I also think continuing the program will give businesses the opportunity to further beautify the parklet. Some of the feedback that I received when we launched the program initially was, it's kind of ugly down there, it's nice to sit outside but there's not much or there's just tables, and giving an enhanced length of the pilot will allow businesses to really invest and not be afraid that their investments will be for not, and they will be able to put beautiful planters and perhaps more heat lamps and lighting down there. And you know it's been a really difficult 18 months for our businesses in Sausalito. And I think it's really important that we do what we can to continue to support them. And I would also support a continued extension of the of the pilot. That being said, I really appreciate the community members who continue to stay engaged and ask about and continue to push for increased public comment and outreach and engagement. This is a still pilot program continuation, and so we would welcome further public comment, further conversation, perhaps specific targeted outreach from the city in the form of a postcard to neighbors to get some additional feedback and make a, permanency decision at the end of a clear period. But I think the program has been really great, and I really appreciate DPW, your hard work on pulling together this presentation this evening, especially the data gathering, the amount of time that you spent on this, and everyone who's been involved in trying to get more folks to downtown and to Caledonia. And I would be, again, in support of the pilot. |
| 01:16:14.98 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thanks. If Council Member Sobieski and Vice Mayor don't have any comments, I'll just go ahead with my comments. So anyway, Director McCowan, thanks so much. Like everybody else said, and I've already said, the metrics are super duper helpful. And the fact that you were able to give us this kind of analysis is really helpful for our decision making process. And at a time when you guys have been dealing with storms and broken water mains and all kinds of stuff. So I appreciate this and putting this as a priority on your plate, I know. So perhaps we can work on that and maybe Take this off your plane. Get the metrics. through some other methods, but I really like those metrics and they're super helpful. The two concerns, a couple of concerns came out to me that I, you know, would look for in our, the next analysis is, you know, are we full, you know, if we do extend it, are the restaurants who are using it then going to fully utilize that space in between, you know, their tables and the street or the bike lane or not? And then maybe we need to rethink that. I don't know. But that's our next step, right? But at least we'll have the metrics on whether or not that space is being utilized. The other issue is that there's only two restaurants that are utilizing that space, so that's of interest as well. Maybe that has to do with whether or not the space is being fully utilized or not. And then the two parking spots that are basically just sitting there empty. I think in the interim, it'd be great to put a bike rack out there, but we can talk about that and what's within the realm of possible on that. and utilizing that for perhaps the first ever stroller parking area. I don't know if there's other designated strollers, but we are certainly innovative here in Sausalito, so I'd be in favor of that in this interim period. Those are my comments. Well done to the public work staff. And also, sorry, with public engagement, yeah, agree, perhaps a postcard out, and then at the next time we look at this, maybe we'll have more engagement from those who are directly affected by the closure. So that would be my interest point in making a more permanent decision. |
| 01:18:03.47 | Unknown | Um, |
| 01:18:03.79 | Ian Sobieski | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:18:03.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:18:25.42 | Janelle Kellman | Anyway, I saw the vice mayor's hand go up next, and then Councilmember Sobieski hand also up. |
| 01:18:30.48 | Jill Hoffman | I'll try not to repeat what my fellow council members already said. Lots of good comments here, although I will Also say I think the postcard idea from Council Member Glastien is an excellent one. We should pursue that. Yeah, like the mayor, I think we have a couple of very clear outstanding issues. You know, I know this was noticed and we spent a lot of time here at council talking about this and debating it. But at the same time, the workshops that were held were not well attended, and I can't account for why that necessarily was. So before this becomes permanent, it does feel like there needs to at least be a communications and outreach plan, and I think that postcard is a great first step on that. So I think that should be a part of what comes back to us. The other thing that comes to mind, I really appreciate the data. It makes it a lot easier to understand what is happening. But I noticed in the staff report two things that I feel like we could probably have further inquiry. One is the staff report sort of had a caveat that this was during a warm area and that a warm time in town and that the wind quality or the weather and the temperature. And I noticed on the screenshots it normally varied from 75 to 95 degrees, which is a very different environment than if we were to go out there today. So I think that's worth sort of understanding what that is like, not to say that that should mean we don't pursue this project, but I think it'll help us for an overall more holistic game plan as we move into this new era, I think, of outdoor dining, much like Saucyote Beautiful opened up and offered us tonight. The other thing that I think a piece of data that is missing here is, What is happening with the indoor dining for the restaurants? I think we just need to close the loop on that. I went to Zalta on opening night. I was very excited to join them, and it was packed inside, completely packed. So I was happy to see that. I don't want that to be a ding against any restaurant, but I think just to close the loop on the data analysis and assessment, we should understand what is happening for our businesses down there, and we should do that anyway from our economic perspective to understand that health and vitality from a sales tax point of view. So I think that's a good thing. We should understand what is happening for our businesses down there. We should do that anyway from our economic perspective to understand that health and vitality from a sales tax point of view. So I think that's a missing piece of data there. And I think that will help inform us to the extent that this public property is something we're going to rent out to restaurant owners. And what is a fair market value for the price of that? And how do we start providing encouragement permits to others that they have to apply for or not apply for? So that should be part of the analysis when it comes back to us. But I think this is a solid program. I think it has a lot of goods. It's helping our businesses. as I think it is the way we are moving as a society to go out to our dining and support additional. But I think this is a solid program. I think it has a lot of good. It's helping our businesses. I think it is the way we are moving as a society to go outdoor dining and support additional parking features in terms of bikes and scooters. But I really want to see us come back with our well thought out plan for the community engagement and like i said that postcard is a great idea so thank you |
| 01:21:15.64 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. Councilmember Sobiesta. |
| 01:21:17.55 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah, so I'll echo what the Vice Mayor said about it not necessarily being free. I think it's too early to talk about what it actually should cost, but it may be at the end of the day, we'll decide it is zero. but it shouldn't necessarily be the case. We can't really tell that yet because we're still learning about it. very quick and short pilot, and it was nice to see a little bit of data. but it was over a short period of time, and I think we need for the data to have real integrity, the time period has to be appropriate. So as Councilmember Gloucstein in Cleveland and all suggested. I'm favorably disposed to doing the experiment over an appropriate period of time, and I think extending it through the end of next summer is the appropriate container. to look at the data set. It's not permanent, and this is, I think, a lovely way when you can get away with it for doing these sorts of things. We can theorize ad nauseum about what will happen to circulation and usage can't always hit the building and then tear it down so easily, but the traffic patterns are easy to manipulate and experiment with. So it was really great that the original full-degree closure was modified in the face of data. actual use. to reopen the northbound lane and recover all the parking on the east side of the street. that kind of flexibility I think looks like it's going to continue. Director McGowan talked about looking at issues with truck turning radiuses and looking at whether those parking spots could be used for parking or perhaps for which I think is a great idea by parking or parking or dog parking. and, uh, I like that whole approach and the whole openness of everyone. to not be dug in, but to actually experiment and work with what's workable. Over the coming months, I think the best way to get public feedback is people are going to, in addition to those that we've Already talked about it. is that people provide feedback related or they'll love it and And we should keep tabs on that. But it would be good to have a formalized outreach approach periodically over the coming year to be sure that that data also has integrity. So one or two check-ins. so that we can get the brightest feedback possible. But I do think this is a great way to do some of these things when we can, which is just let's try it. but also have the integrity to be willing to turn it off. In Palo Alto, when I lived down there, Thank you. Okay. get response to a similar, a circulation issue I'm very confident |
| 01:24:00.59 | Janelle Kellman | member Sobieski were |
| 01:24:02.36 | Ian Sobieski | People could have argued forever about whether that worked or not. But at the end of the day, just doing it let us spot out if it did. And in that case, it didn't work, and the streets were all reopened. So I hope the outcome with Caledonia will be just as clear. |
| 01:24:18.67 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you, Councilmember Sobieski. We lost you for a minute with your connection. It just slowed down, but I think we got the gist of what you were saying. |
| 01:24:25.70 | Ian Sobieski | I'm sitting in city hall. So you'd think it would be fast here. We need to up our broadband. |
| 01:24:30.72 | Janelle Kellman | Let's not talk about the mysteries of technology. Okay, alright, so then I'm gonna close I think, Director McAllen, is that good for you? Is that good direction for you from the city council? Do you have any follow-up questions for the city council? |
| 01:24:46.44 | Kevin McGowan | No, thank you so much for your time and effort on this. And I've got some good direction and some good ideas to pursue. So thanks so much. |
| 01:24:53.41 | Janelle Kellman | okay thank you very much I'm gonna close this item in and we're gonna move on to Our next agenda item. which is item 5B, and that's our community development department overview and fiscal year 21-22 quarter one report, and that's from July through September of 2021. Let me just say, this is in part of our program of bringing all of our departments in and giving us department overviews. And we've been doing that, I think we started this in June or July. And so, This is our community development interim Director, so welcome Ms. Scoble and you have the floor. |
| 01:25:32.75 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:25:32.77 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:25:32.78 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you and good evening Mayor Hoffman and members of the City Council. Thank you for this opportunity to provide an overview of the Community Development Department. Before I get into my presentation, I just wanted to thank you and our City Manager Chris Zapata for the opportunity to allow me to come back and dive into my planning roots. I started in the Community Development Department here in Sausalito, so it's been fun to come back, but with a different capacity. and i'm excited for this department's next chapter with the current recruitment of a full-time replacement so that recruitment ends tomorrow so um based on my linkedin page where it shows over a thousand views um this job announcement and i'm hopeful that the city will be able to find an amazing replacement um sadly as you know we lost our former community development director who was beloved and did an amazing job for the department. And big shoes to fill, but I'm So with that, let me share my screen. and start my presentation. |
| 01:26:41.07 | Heidi Scoble | Can you see my presentation? We can. Okay, great. Thank you. So our Community Development Department's main purpose is really to guide, regulate, and enforce the development of buildings and structures and land uses within the city of Sausalito. As part of our charge, we have three divisions within our department. We have our planning divisions. which is responsible for current planning, advanced planning, some co-enforcement related to land use and providing public information. And I'll be getting into a more in-depth conversation as to each division as we move into this presentation. Thank you. And we also have our building division, which is responsible for maintaining public health, safety, and welfare. So what they do is they ensure compliance plan check related to building codes. They issue permits, they conduct building inspections, and they also, too, provide public information to the community. The last arm of the department relates to our code enforcement. They are charged with investigating code complaints, ensuring that land uses are in buildings are in conformance with our zoning regulations and our municipal code. And they, again, also provide public information. So the most important part of our Community Development Department is really the information sharing aspect. So within our department, it's comprised of nine full-time staff members. We have a community development director, whose main charge is to basically oversee the entire department. There are also certain aspects of our municipal code where the community development director is responsible for providing input, and I'll speak to that in a little bit. Within our planning division, we have a principal planner who is currently Rosalind Thompson. She was recently hired in October and she comes with a great wealth of information. We'll be presenting her to the city council at the next meeting. as with the city's other new assistant planner, Adam East. And then we have two other assistant planners. We have Alana Licht. who was hired during COVID in 2020. And we have assistant planner Mike Genusek, who was also hired in 2021 during, or 2020 during COVID as well. And we also have a full-time administrative aide For the past few years, the city has also entered into an agreement with planning consultants, one to help the backfill of our current planning with, and we have Michael Baker International who's provided staffing for that and they've been- |
| 01:29:16.53 | Unknown | Maybe some break next. I mean, if something's really working for me, I just need something to shift me out of the seat. |
| 01:29:21.74 | Janelle Kellman | Excuse me, I think someone accidentally |
| 01:29:30.08 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, I'll jump in. So Michael Baker International has been really instrumental in helping the city catch up with its current backlog of planning applications. The city also is in contract with MIG. They are also a planning and environmental consulting agency that is still working on cost recovery projects. We have our building division with our building inspector, Kenneth Henry. Kenneth has been with the city for coming up to 15 years. and he does conduct some regular routine plan checking over the counter. He helps provide amazing customer service to our residents and he does conduct inspections. We also have our permit technician to MyBurden. who is responsible for intake and issuance of building permits. She's basically our administrative paper keeper associated with permits. And the city council recently approved a full-time permit services coordinator. An offer has been made, and we are awaiting the arrival of this full-time employee hopefully in December. If it gets pushed back, it may be January. But the purpose of the permit services coordinator is to act as the intermediary between planning and building to help facilitate and streamline the permitting process, both at ministerial, kind of over the... to act as the intermediary between planning and building to help facilitate and streamline the permitting process, both at ministerial, kind of over-the-counter, level and then also discretionary, which gives a little bit more thought. applied to those types of permits. Similar to the planning division, we also have contract staff. that helps with part-time building official responsibilities. So they would help, the building official helps with the management and oversight of the building division, and also conduct some plan to act. |
| 01:31:21.81 | Vicki Nichols | and future. |
| 01:31:22.85 | Heidi Scoble | duties, the building official has also been very helpful with the city's current digitization project related to all community development department files. We also have a plans examiner that's a consultant and a part-time building inspector that helps to backfill inspections out in the field. And lastly, we have our code enforcement officer who is also a part-time consultant. The building and code enforcement consultants come from a company called CSG, and they have been providing services to the city for over 10 years. and are known in the industry of providing great service. So going into the Community Development Department, relating to current planning. So the charge of current planning is basically to ensure conformance with title 10 of our Sausalito municipal code. Our title 10 is essentially the zoning regulations and which within the zoning regulations, it speaks to land use and how you can develop your property within the various zoning districts. Also within our zoning ordinance, we have different permits. Some permits are considered to be ministerial, which are permits that if you comply with certain standards listed in the code, then they can be issued by right without any public hearing or decision by any administrative or hearing body. Those types of permits cannot be appealed by the general public. And then we also have discretionary projects or permits, which do require some thought and consideration and judgment. These types of permits typically are sent to a hearing body for a decision-making process, such as the Planning Commission. Although we do have some administrative permits as well, such as Administrative Design Review, and those permits can be appealed similar to the other permits that could be appealed by the planning commission as well. Examples of destruction permits would be design review, use permits, variances, And we have a type of permit called a zoning permit, which is typically issued with a ministerial building permit. but there is an appeal period associated with that type of permit. So we call it quasi discretionary. We basically approve it, but it can be appealed. One of our other charges related to current planning is that we do coordinate with other departments and agencies so that we can that are solicited input on projects to determine what type of information we would need to know about a project, an example would be If you're building a project in a residential neighborhood and there's some grading involved, then you know that you'd want to get input from the Department of Public Works so they can look at the grading and drainage plans related to that. Another type of planning I guess. bucket that the planning divisions responsible for would be our advanced or long range planning. This is typically establishing the policy relating to the development of Sausalito. Examples of long range planning would include our general plan, our housing element, amendments to our zoning regulations. Those are just a few examples. In terms of public information, currently we provide public information via phones, internet, and over the matter. I'll speak to that in a little bit, which we're really excited about. And then the planners are also charged with some code enforcement aspects as it relates to land use. Sometimes it's a lot easier for a planner to follow through on a potential code enforcement case depending on how it relates actually to our Title 10 and our municipal code. So in addition to our discretionary and advanced planning, and this is kind of along the same lines as the advanced planning, I just thought it'd be important to identify certain projects that we're working on. Congratulations, you officially have a brand new general plan. That was a huge undertaking. |
| 01:35:27.27 | Unknown | You... |
| 01:35:28.94 | Heidi Scoble | And now that we have this plan, we have a bunch of implementation measures that correspond to that plan. So over the next few years, we'll be in strategizing the implementation of those policy programs and objectives. We're currently working on our housing element. We are also charged with certain state prescribed requirements, such as SB 743, which requires us to prepare an analysis for vehicle miles traveled. This is really relating to the development of projects as it relates to the California Environmental Quality Act, |
| 01:36:01.58 | Unknown | . |
| 01:36:02.91 | Heidi Scoble | We work on certain grant funding programs such as home key and room key. There's some climate action reduction pollutant strategies that our staff is working with the Sustainability Commission on, and then also our Legislative Committee, which will then go to the council shortly. We're working on an SB35 project related to the creation of objective development design standards. This is related to streamlining projects. still working on our machine shop. Cannabis is always an item that we're planning for. We're working on ED charging stations, short term rentals, Another project that isn't really quasi-long range, but not in the policy sense, is we're working on still completing our digitization of our community development department records. This is |
| 01:36:46.58 | Morgan Peers | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:36:46.63 | Janelle Kellman | WORKING. |
| 01:36:46.90 | Morgan Peers | I'm sorry. |
| 01:36:51.88 | Heidi Scoble | a much larger undertaking than I think one originally anticipated. It keeps on growing, especially when you find new records in an offsite storage facility. So we'll be talking about that in a little bit too. One of the greatest things about our advanced or long range planning projects also is that we have a myriad of historic preservation initiatives. And since the city is a certified local government, we could leverage some grant funding to hopefully undertake some of these projects I will We're working on COVID-19 permits, and soon we will be working on parklets visioning and bringing something to the council in March of next year. related still to planning is that, and this is related to our discretionary projects, Planning staff also works with our zoning administrator. The zoning administrator is the first arm of three primary decision-making bodies within the city. So we have our zoning administrator that starts with approving certain discretionary permits Then you have our planning commission, and then typically the planning commission items go to the city council unless the charge is a legislative action such as a zoning ordinance amendment, and that goes to the planning commission with a recommendation to the city council. but our zoning administrator typically is the community development director, but with our new principal planner, part of the duties and responsibilities could be assigned to the principal planner. They facilitate the noticing and genetizing management of those meetings. They manage all the records related to actions, such as resolutions and minutes, |
| 01:38:30.15 | Unknown | and then, |
| 01:38:31.51 | Heidi Scoble | It's estimated that the zoning administrator hears about 10 or less items or discretionary projects a year. I tried to go back 10 years and the numbers are across the board, but I might say 10 is probably a safe number. |
| 01:38:35.36 | Unknown | . |
| 01:38:45.10 | Heidi Scoble | We also have our planning commission And our community development director, principal planner, is charged with acting as the secretary to the commission. So essentially, they're facilitating the management of that meeting as well, which includes ensuring proper noticing, making sure the agendas and the agenda packets are posted in a timely manner. and also running the meetings, whether they're virtual or in person. And similar to the zoning administrator, we manage records of all actions, resolutions, minutes, and the Planning Commission conducts two public hearings a month. And I was trying to go back to see how many planning commission items we hear or descriptionary items we hear a year and it's across the board. But I do have a metric that I can share with you later on in this presentation. Thank you. Planning also works with the Historic Preservation Commission. We have a staff liaison who's assigned to the Historic Preservation Commission of late. And we did have a consultant who was an architectural historian who provided a lot of great value to the commission, but with our new assistant planner, we're going to train the assistant planner to help run those meetings as well. And similar to the zoning administrator Planning Commission. We also facilitate noticing agenda management records. And the Historic Preservation Commission meets once a month And then we also have the sustainability commission where we have a staff liaison as well. And we do the same thing as with the other boards, committees, and commissions. and there's one meeting a month. So with that, planning doesn't work. And we'll go into building. |
| 01:40:21.39 | Unknown | and then we'll go |
| 01:40:23.14 | Heidi Scoble | So within building, they do conduct the plan checking to ensure conformance with the building codes. There's the building permit intake in issuance, so we receive the information, we process it, we issue it. And there is some coordination that's required because we do have an outside plans examiner for any project that requires a structural review. So we send that out to CSG. We have building inspections, so whether that's our in-house staff or another consultant, |
| 01:40:49.65 | Elizabeth Nibot | Thank you. |
| 01:40:49.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:40:53.99 | Heidi Scoble | and they provide the inspections to ensure public health, safety and welfare related to conformance with the building codes. And I'd like to add that every couple of years, the city does update its municipal code to include the current building codes that are in effect at that time. And lastly, Building Division, again, provides information to the general public, either on the phone, the counter, And with regards to code enforcement, the city has never really had a formal code enforcement officer, but over the past five or six years, the city has been contracting out, or contracting with CSG to provide service. And this was just a metric that we've started to follow for the past three years. We've been tracking the different types of code enforcement complaints. And it looks like currently we're down to 59, full of complaints and then you can see from the slides the variety of different complaints that we received, building public works, lighting, parking, |
| 01:42:02.82 | Heidi Scoble | So as the council is aware, and you adopted a budget for planning and building, and then code enforcement is kind of bundled up in there under the professional services. So with the planning division, we do have six full-time employees. And this slide shows what was actually adopted as part of the budget. I'd like to point out that the professional services line item shows a very big number, over $2 million. If you actually look down into what that means. We do have a couple of cost recovery I'm going to go to the accounts that we're anticipating will recoup approximately a million dollars of the professional services allocated for this. And we're working with the finance department currently to try to understand how those cost recovery projects are working. |
| 01:42:47.20 | Ian Sobieski | you |
| 01:42:47.25 | Unknown | Thank you. THE FAMILY. |
| 01:42:56.15 | Heidi Scoble | So with the building division, it's been budgeted for free, full-time building employees and as you can see, and then the various allocations here. Their budget is a little bit less than the planning division, especially in light of the fact of the big professional services line item that we have. |
| 01:43:18.08 | Heidi Scoble | So with this overview, I thought it would be a great opportunity to provide the quarterly one report for fiscal year 21, 22, and then also to provide some metrics. It was great to see that the city has been providing this data over the past few years. So I thought it'd be fun to kind of update our charts and provide some data here. So you can see with our discretionary plan, so these are the planning applications that are coming in for either zoning administrator, planning commission, and our city council review, you can see that, um, |
| 01:43:47.80 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:43:47.82 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
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| 01:43:49.00 | Heidi Scoble | With the exception of the first quarter in fiscal year 1920, we're pretty much averaging 10 to 13 applications a quarter. And so, you know, It's like 66 for 18, 19, 58 for 19, 20, and then 47. So we're pretty much concerned So we see a trend here. The same with the ministerial permit. I'm not quite sure what was happening in fiscal year 18, 19, where it was 65 across the board, but you can see some trends where we're pretty much on par with the first quarter intake of these ministerial permits. Typically in the planning world, you see a little lull after the first quarter |
| 01:44:14.24 | Ian Sobieski | I'm not sure. |
| 01:44:35.69 | Heidi Scoble | because people think that they're supposed to take a break, when in reality, when you're planning, you actually, this is the time to do it so that you're ready to get your building permit in the springtime. So we'll see an uptick in January, February in these permits. So in terms of our planning fees, It's really interesting to see the trend lines here. If you look at the first quarter of fiscal year 18, 19, it's pretty low, but then it starts to shoot up. as a If you go back in our history, you can see that this is the first time we're starting to implement cost recovery for our planning consultants. So this is when MIG, RDS, and the M group started coming in. And right now with our current fee schedule, if we have a cost recovery project for our consultant, we can recruit those fees. |
| 01:45:17.42 | Unknown | right now. |
| 01:45:23.75 | Heidi Scoble | Whereas if the application comes in and it's being processed in house, then we have a lower fee. So these numbers are to be primarily to our cost recovery So with our building permits received, there were some gaps in our data but you can see that we're pretty much on trend-ish, although it's hard to tell what our trend is for the first quarter of this year. We don't have the first quarter data. But the permits are fairly consistent about ranging from the 130, 160 marks And with our issue permits, we have a little bit more data and it looks like We're ahead of our fiscal years 1920 and 2021, but we had a bumper year in fiscal year 18. |
| 01:46:23.96 | Heidi Scoble | So this was also a really interesting chart to see. So our valuations pretty much are steady. You can see we've had some low years, and then we've also had a bumper year. And I was speaking with our building inspector regarding the quarter three valuation, and we were trying to figure out what actually happened here, you know, We usually run around 35 to 4 million, sometimes 1.5, we'll be at the age of six. But we had a 16 million valuation and we're thinking that that corresponded with the Casa Madrona project where they invested a lot of money in it and there were some pretty hardy commercial projects that were being constructed at that time. and you can see the same trend with regards to our building these charts as well. |
| 01:47:13.54 | Janelle Kellman | So, excuse me, director, We're getting some feedback from a microphone. I don't think it's yours. I think we might have another caught mic somewhere on our, in the city, on the city staff perhaps. So anyway, if we could just maybe pay attention to that throughout the last five minutes about, we've been getting some serious feedback, so. Anyway, please go ahead. |
| 01:47:40.54 | Heidi Scoble | I'm on the... Thank you. Thank you for that. I'll wrap this up. I realize I'm probably going a little bit longer than I should. So I just want to talk about a couple highlights. So I've only been in the department for this is going on my fifth week, but I have encountered highlights during my first month back. And the first one is that we're catching up with our planning backlog. So thank you, Michael Baker International Group, They have been amazing to allow us to be able to catch up with this backlog. We've also hired a new principal planner and assistant planner and permit services coordinator. |
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| 01:48:18.22 | Heidi Scoble | And another highlight is that As of November 2nd, we are officially open to the public. Our hours of operation are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, from 9 to noon and then on Tuesdays 9 to noon and then 1 to 4 and then on Wednesdays we have an open counter free-for-all from 9 to noon and then on Thursdays by appointment only we're open from 9 to noon. uh, This picture to our left on the slide actually shows the first day of our public counter being open. We were damn-packed. from |
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| 01:48:56.83 | Heidi Scoble | at nine to noon, we were able to issue eight permits and brought in about $4,000 in permit fees. So this was a success. There was a little concern that no one would come, but we opened up and there they were. So we were excited about that. And then another change is that staff has been primarily working from home. and during covid and now the staff is expected to be back in the office on tuesdays wednesdays and thursdays So with our highlights, we also have some challenges that we've been facing. We've had a few years of a lot of turnover, and what that has led to is significant and consistent policies and procedures. So we're working on trying to establish new policies and procedures And with our new principal planner and her background, she's already starting to work. on me. So we'll hopefully get some continuity and consistency in the department. Another challenge has been in COVID, you know, reinventing how we do business and now planning for how we do business post-COVID. So that's been super challenging. We have a mindset of how things were working in COVID, and now we have to unwind that and change it. And change it sometimes hard when you're used to something different. that. We also have underutilized, inadequate, and or redundant technology. There's a great opportunity to invest a little bit more time and money into our current current tracking system. When it was set up, it wasn't, fully set up for what it has the capability to do. So we need to look into making that system more robust. We also are finding that we have a lack of sufficient licenses for a couple of different software applications that we're using There's also a lack of technology training. Our staff doesn't really know how to use the systems that we currently have, and so there's a good opportunity to train everyone on how to use clothing or track it, myriad of other different things we can do. I've also noticed that we have simplification of software. The city's paying for Microsoft Teams, which is a super robust software, but we're also paying for Calendly or using Adobe Signatures, our Adobe accounts when we have DocuSign. So there's an opportunity to really do an inventory of what we have and see where we can streamline our technology. There's also been a struggle with right sizing our cost recovery projects and contracts. We have everything in place, but and there's been a slide and We haven't done a good job of managing those monthly contracts and parlaying our invoices that we're receiving to the applicants. And so we're finding that sometimes the applicants are a little bit surprised at some of the costs. And so we're working through how to better inform our applicants on that. And then the one thing that's super critical is that the Community Development Department has an outdated schedule and if I would implore the council to do something, it would be allocating funding so that we can actually do a true cost study and try to figure out our hourly costs and then modify some of our fee structures so that we can go into full cost recovery. The city is losing a lot of money in terms of our current fees related to discretionary permits, and there's a really good opportunity to right-size that. The same is with our building department fees where some of the older fees in the county Thank you. to discretionary permits, and there's a really good opportunity to right-size that. The same as with our building department fees were some of the older fees in the county, and there's an opportunity to enhance them to market level. So with that, there's also opportunities again for staff training, especially as a customer service. training and setting expectations for that. Definitely ongoing professional development and training. That's something that I've already talked to staff about. We have a budget to allow for that. And there's great courses that are offered out there for subdivision map backs, CEQA sustainability, sea level rise, |
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| 01:53:13.40 | Heidi Scoble | building, so you name it, there's something out there and professional development not only helps them, but it also helps the city as well. We also need to complete the digitization project at 300 Spencer, which is the city fire station. We probably have another 50 to 60 community development department related boxes that need to be digitized. and that will help complete our our project there and then we have probably another 40 boxes down here so we have about 100 boxes that we're working through And then, established policies, procedures, best practices, training for fiscal management of the Community Development Department, We don't have a lot of policies relating to this, So I think if we have some type of policy manual that we can work with our finance department, then we can understand how we can do our daily course of business as it really. to the fiscal management of community development Again, there's also an opportunity to create And policy related cost recovery, project management, and invoicing policies. I probably sound bureaucratic, but policy, policy, policy. I think it's really important to just create essentially a rule book on how we're supposed to operate, and then we could follow that. And then by following it, then we're continuing that consistency and continuity in our daily practices. So I feel like I'm a broken record here, so I'm gonna just move on to this. These other recommendations were also included in my staff report. So, the So with that, I think I was said a lot, so I'm available to answer any questions you may have regarding the community development permit. |
| 01:55:06.97 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you for that very thorough analysis of community development and planning. That was an excellent presentation. I see that it looks like me, Council Member Blalstein had her hand up first and then the vice mayor. |
| 01:55:22.56 | Melissa Blaustein | Great. Thank you so much, Heidi. That was a really exhaustive and informative presentation and also the staff report was really fantastic. I noticed the last few slides were really pages six and seven recommendations from the staff report, which were really critical and I wanted to just bring up here a couple of points from six and seven. One of the things you mentioned in there is |
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| 01:55:44.14 | Melissa Blaustein | that would be helpful for us with our order is to reinvent the code enforcement division with formal policy and procedures to address workflow and follow up and maybe even consider hiring a code enforcement officer. One of the things we asked of our departments is like, what would you do if you had 10% more budget? Would you put something like that? on that list of if you had 10% more budget, that would be a priority for you. |
| 01:56:07.53 | Heidi Scoble | Well, interestingly enough, if we're able to keep our current budget for code enforcement, we could actually hire a full-time person and still be under budget from what we're currently paying our consultant |
| 01:56:20.68 | Melissa Blaustein | That is very interesting and great to know and definitely something to take action on and consider. And I really appreciated all of the steps you'd like to see taken on those two pages of the staff report. Another thing that was in there that was interesting to me was the updated records management and digitization. And I was wondering if you had considered We talked when DPW presented about having an app where you take a picture of something and you submit it and DPW gets back to you. Is that something you're thinking about in terms of maybe developing some sort of app for community development or even streamlining some of our online processes? I know that right now you can apply a few permits online, but whatever we can do, considering your great work, with the virtual counter during COVID, what other steps could we take to use technology to streamline things? |
| 01:57:07.02 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, so interestingly enough, our current permit tracking system actually has an aspect to it where you can It's allowed. you know, a link and then submit what the issue is. You can upload a picture. And we just don't have it operational. So if we wanted to see, spend some time and money into making that work, we could do it. But wearing my quasi-IT hat, because I seem to be wearing a bunch of different hats, |
| 01:57:34.05 | Monica Finnegan | Yeah. |
| 01:57:34.30 | Heidi Scoble | I have been researching different applications and one application that I've talked with our city manager about is the C-Click and Fix type application. There are a lot of other similar applications that are out there. And so we're actually in working with an IT consultant currently, we're trying to see if there is an application that would be beneficial above and beyond what our current capacity is with our track-it system that could be used citywide. |
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| 01:58:02.32 | Heidi Scoble | And that would include discussions with Director McGowan as well. So one of the items that I had in there as a recommendation that I didn't speak to is that we need to break down our silos. And this is just a perfect example of that. We're super well intended. |
| 01:58:07.14 | Ian Sobieski | THE END OF |
| 01:58:17.66 | Heidi Scoble | I just really appreciate our coworkers, but I think sometimes there are some inefficiencies in terms of how we're moving because we're so myopic in terms of our lanes. if we have opportunities and time, which we're facing that we don't really have a lot of time, but if we have time, we can think more strategically and work together more collaboratively to figure out what we can do for all of us. And that's a great example of that. |
| 01:58:44.49 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah, it would be really fantastic to have the same application on the back end for DPW and CBD, just for a variety of reasons, but that's a great... Great point. Another thing you mentioned in the staff report that we didn't really touch on as much in your presentation, but I just wanted to ask a little bit about it. is one of the realities that we faced during COVID was high staff turnover. And I'm wondering, you know, because you're such a critical department and everyone works so hard, the number of hours that people were working here in COVID and in general, you know, what steps are we, you outlined in your staff report strategic development and opportunities for the department to really learn and grow. Are you doing some sort of survey to see what staff engagement levels are or staff level of happiness or, because we value your team so much and all of our employees in Sausalito and I just wanted to see from your role, even though it's only been five weeks, what your thoughts were on that as well. |
| 01:59:42.50 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, so that's definitely on the list of things to do. I was hoping first to get the new permit services coordinator on board, but, and we can talk about that. You know, our initial kind of what we have time to do right now is really spending time with our new planners, and it's only because they're new, but really taking this opportunity to onboard them. And what's helpful is that now we're in the city hall three days a week. It makes it a lot easier to onboard the employees with training opportunities and figuring out where information is. And even though everything is pretty much digital, It just makes it so much easier when you actually are next to a person and you can show them how to do something. You're not in this Zoom world. So that survey is going to be on that list. I don't know if I will be the person doing it, if it's gonna be Roslyn or our future community development director. |
| 02:00:43.96 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:00:43.98 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:00:44.67 | Melissa Blaustein | And then the last question I had, you just had a brilliant segue to, which was about the permit services coordinator position. I'm wondering about if this role will also liaise with the business community, because that's something that a lot of our council members have talked about, wanting to have a point person at CBD that works with the businesses that have issues people that are really trying to to get a new permit focused on commerce, for instance. |
| 02:01:07.98 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, the purpose and the intent of that position, and it's actually part of the job description, is to act as a quasi-Omsudsman to facilitate the permit processing. I think as it relates to the EDAC recommendations and facilitating streamlining that, I think there's different levels of streamlining. This position can definitely do that, but there are other people involved in that process along the way so it's a big coordinated effort between planning building and the services coordinated coordinator excuse me |
| 02:01:40.04 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. Thank you so much, Heidi. I really appreciate it. Great presentation. |
| 02:01:46.11 | Unknown | Thank you, Vice Mayor Kelley. |
| 02:01:48.69 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, Director Scoble. That was really, really impressive. I know that was a huge lift. So thank you for stepping in and making that happen. |
| 02:01:48.95 | Unknown | THANK YOU. |
| 02:01:56.69 | Jill Hoffman | coming up with so many creative recommendations. I want to focus my questions on a few of the other topics not covered yet. Cost recovery, the fee schedule, and the general plan work plan. So my understanding, and I'm just looking for clarity here, that when we look at cost recovery, It's one thing to think about what the cost of the consultant is, but are we currently accounting for staff time and actually managing the consultant so that when we look at requests or we're being told that it's 100% cost recovery, are we actually capturing management time as well? |
| 02:02:29.75 | Heidi Scoble | I cannot answer that at this moment. We've been working with the finance department to try to figure that out. So, um... Yeah, I can provide an update in the future or have the future community development director come back in the new year to provide an update, but that information is unknown at this time. Thank you. |
| 02:02:52.87 | Jill Hoffman | OK, and then on, yeah, no, totally fair. There's so much other information you provided us. That was just an outstanding question for me. And then on the fee schedule, you made some recommendations about how to proceed with that. |
| 02:02:53.09 | Heidi Scoble | Okay. |
| 02:03:04.87 | Jill Hoffman | THE FAMILY. And they seem like they could have a lot of benefits, both in the streamlining, but then also find additional monies for the department, What does that effort look like if you know, just in terms of time, or you urge the council to think about pursuing this? What would it cost us? How should we be thinking about that? |
| 02:03:23.35 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, so it's a little bit of an undertaking if you don't really have a good metric to understand how much time you're actually spending in different permit applications. But there's companies out there that actually do this and provide this service because by law you can't just throw out fees and hope to collect them. There's actually state regulations that require you to demonstrate your cost of service. And so, So I've been actually through this process in the past, and essentially what you do is you break down every workflow or item that would be related to a fee, identify kind of an average cost of what it would cost to process that type of permit or application, and then they factor in the overhead, it's an opportunity to identify technology surcharge fees or paper or anything. your true hourly cost, So they're taking the overhead and the true cost of service. and they come up with an hourly rate that covers staff. And it is a big undertaking and it can be an expensive item depending on how large the scope is. if the city wants to be able to you know balance out the revenues and expenses related to community development, this is the first step that you would want to take. And the money would be well spent up front. So on the back end, you'd be able to recoup it. There's great companies that have done it. And there's actually a company that has done it in the past for Sausalito, and I think it's NDS. |
| 02:04:58.52 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, that's helpful for us to understand that. And I guess it's sort of similarly, one of your items is a general plan work plan. So how should we be thinking about that? That's also a big lift and there's zoning changes and new smoke code changes. Is that something that, Community Development Department is going to get started on or the work plan is coming soon? Just any more color on that? |
| 02:05:25.39 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, so our principal planner will be essentially responsible for that in coordination with the community development director. So we're anticipating starting that process in December. So as the council knows, every year we have to provide a general plan update and housing report to the council typically in April. And so my anticipation is that in April we'll also be able to unveil kind of what that work plan is because we have to demonstrate how we're meeting it. So, um, So we will be coming back. of to the council with more information on that work plan. So I believe our former director, Waylon, has an idea of how she was going to implement it. And then just working with our new principal planner, we'll figure out where we need to get. But just going back to the the fee study as it relates to the general plan. So one of the benefits of this fee study is that you can actually come up with a general plan impact fee. So every time, let's say a permit is issued, you can collect a certain search fee that will help create the funds for these implementation projects. And it's typically like a dollar or two for permit, but those monies add up, and it's a great way to generate money to actually be able to fund the projects that we want. have or that you have to do. |
| 02:06:46.10 | Jill Hoffman | Great. Thank you for that. Thanks for your hard work here. |
| 02:06:49.66 | Janelle Kellman | So I have a couple follow-up questions. if it's okay with Councilmember Sobi Eski and Councilmember Enoz. So I really like, thank you very much for your analysis. And I think it might have been helpful actually for you to be an interim director and come in with a fresh set of eyes to take a look at departments. and your prior experience also with the permit, I'm sure was helpful. I like your comment that you said that maybe, that the efforts were a little bit myopic due to focus on just staying in lanes and that going forward, perhaps we need to look at you know, people being aware or staff being aware of you know, how their efforts overlap with other efforts or other efforts are actually dependent on completion of whatever that staff person is doing and how to move that project forward. So I think in this interim period in the last nine months, we've seen a lot of projects get stalled because there wasn't that integration. and between the departments. So my question to you is, During this process, have you seen Um, some lines of effort between perhaps community development planning and maybe even public works where those certain lines of effort for permitting can be more streamlined and utilizing assets from different departments without it being stowed by a stovepipe effort Have you seen any opportunities for that? |
| 02:08:15.40 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, there's great opportunities. I think in COVID, we had more challenges in terms of coordinating, but now that CPW staff is also same kind of CDB staff is. We're seeing that we're having more conversations about meeting with each other and trying to figure out how we can best collaborate and streamline. And in fact, Director McGowan reached out to me. He's like, hey, do you have a chance to meet so we can talk about how we can work together? And that's been on our list. So, yeah, it's great to be able to be in the office. And the challenge is that we have so much going on that it's sometimes hard to carve out the time to meet because we have competing deadlines. For example, |
| 02:08:53.47 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:09:01.52 | Heidi Scoble | know i have this meeting tonight but then i also need to prepare for the historic preservation commission agenda and the planning commission for next week and then the special city council for next week so it's on and on and on but um but you also have to carve out time for your co-workers as well to make it happen so use this Yeah, time management. |
| 02:09:20.83 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, I think that's a really interesting effort, though, in the next few months. And I know it can't be done immediately, but I think it was really valuable, actually, for you to be in community development during this process and be that part of the review. I look forward to seeing some of your conclusions and maybe even some recommendations about, between both of you and Director McAllen, right, working together and what your recommendation would be going forward. Also, I was very interested in your assessment that we're losing a lot of fees, which we just talked about, but also redundant software capabilities and streamlining those. Thank you for that assessment as well. And we look forward to your recommendations about what software we should keep and what we should jettison. And maybe there'll be some additional cost savings there and increase efficiency. Um, Thank you for that. I don't have any further questions for our interim community development director. Yes, Council Member Sobieski. And then once we're finished with our questions, we'll move on to public comments. Yes, ma'am. |
| 02:10:22.98 | Ian Sobieski | Go ahead. |
| 02:10:24.18 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:10:24.21 | Ian Sobieski | Just a quick one, please. So I appreciate and advocate for |
| 02:10:24.23 | Janelle Kellman | just |
| 02:10:29.34 | Ian Sobieski | appropriate cost recovery and love that you're going to take a fulsome look at that As part of that effort, Will you benchmark? our I'm going to go ahead and against similar communities. I've only heard anecdotally some comments about how we compare to neighboring communities wherever out of whack it might be looking. good to look at how we do things to see if if we're unnecessarily running up the clock, spending unnecessary staff time with. purpose. |
| 02:11:01.67 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, that's actually one of the things that we have in the process. So as part of this current fiscal year budget, there was some money that was allocated for our contract building official to kind of do a review of what other communities are charging in terms of the building permit fees so we should have something i don't know in the next few months but i would definitely advocate for a more traditional fee study that would be all inclusive and encompassing so that we truly understand what our true overhead costs are and our cost of services. And again, it's a great opportunity just to include things that we historically haven't included. |
| 02:11:40.20 | Cheryl Popp | Thank you. |
| 02:11:45.56 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:11:48.13 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. Any other questions before we move on to public comments? I see no hands raised from the council, so then I will open Public comment on this manner, which is 5B, and this is a Community Development Department overview. |
| 02:12:05.07 | Janelle Kellman | I'm not seeing any hands. Mr. Clerk. |
| 02:12:09.22 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. I see no hands raised at the moment. |
| 02:12:13.19 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, very well, then I'll close public comment and we will... any further discussion or direction or perhaps from our interim director any clarification on directions. Yes, Councilman Clevenalds, go ahead. |
| 02:12:29.86 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah, thank you, Mayor. So I just wanted to thank our Interim Community Development Director for that thorough presentation and staff report. And also just, I guess, note, this isn't a question, but it's more of a comment. that You know, there is a lot, especially on the planning side of the house, on the to-do list. and Then a lot of process improvements also suggested by the Anom Director. And so, you know, I think as with and our priority setting conversation that we had last weekend, or two weekends ago. You know, I would just, urge. us and staff to really think about what on that really long list is a priority and in what order we want to approach that because it does not seem and Ms. Stowell can interrupt me or correct me if she thinks I'm wrong, but it does not seem possible with the staff that we have. to move forward in a robust way with all of those projects, in addition to just the day-to-day work that staff needs to carry out. So I would just point that out. I don't have a solution tonight, but I think it's something that really needs to be top of mind as we move forward. |
| 02:13:47.67 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 02:13:48.87 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, I completely agree with that. you know, I'm sure our city managers looking at that list as well. And, um, taking into account the presentation that he gave at our prioritization and planning session i'm sure he's doing an overlay of that but thank you for calling that out it's a lot of work i know um so anyway all right then um if no more comments or from the city council thank you very much to our um to our public interim community development director and excellent presentation So I appreciate that hard work. that it took to pull all that information together and present it to us at this public meeting. Okay, moving on to our next item on the agenda is 5C, and that's consideration of doping and land acknowledgement policy, and that's with our interim community development That's on top of everything else. She's been working on this presentation, so thank you so much for putting this together for us. |
| 02:14:47.29 | Heidi Scoble | It would be my pleasure. Great, thank you, I'm back. since my Adobe does not want to allow me to have a full screen. So I will start it and then I'll probably go full screen as we move along. So thank you for this opportunity to |
| 02:15:01.11 | Unknown | Thank you. I'm sorry. |
| 02:15:05.09 | Heidi Scoble | provide this item for our discussion regarding whether or not the city council would like to direct staff to work on preparing a land acknowledgement statement Before we go into what that is, I just thought it would be important to share with the public what is a land acknowledgement statement. It's a formal statement that recognizes and respects indigenous peoples as stewards of the lands and highlights the relationship that has existed with these indigenous peoples and their traditional territories. and and why do we recognize them? Well, we have our Coast Miwok indigenous peoples who have been here before we have a tape of this area. And so it is a simple and powerful way of showing respect to the Coast Miwok and allows creating a broader public awareness of the history and how they have impacted Sausalito. So, Thank you to Councilmember Blaustein for raising this at a couple different meetings and putting this on our future agenda setting. And thank you to Mayor Hoffman and Vice Mayor Kellerman for actually providing an opportunity for staff to present this item. We thought this was a really great opportunity to begin this conversation and thank you |
| 02:16:14.62 | Unknown | comment. |
| 02:16:24.37 | Heidi Scoble | and talk about whether or not the City Council really would like to allocate some staff time to work with the Federated Indians of Gratown Ridge Rancheria cultural staff to come up with recommendations that we can then bring to our diversity, equity, and inclusion working group, which consists of Mayor Hoffman and Calcino Roblaustein on ways that we could potentially incorporate a land acknowledgement statement in Sausalito's ordinary course of business, whether it's at meetings or in the community |
| 02:16:34.85 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah. |
| 02:16:58.33 | Heidi Scoble | verbiage that could be posted on our agendas, or if it's voluntary email signature blocks, and these are are all great things to to consider i recently learned that the american planning association also has some good helpful tips on on how to prepare land acknowledgement statements for consideration so in utilizing our planning tools and in working with the federated indians of grattan rangeria we could potentially come up with something to present to the council for consideration. Currently the town of Fairfax and the town of Santa Anselmo and the city of San Rafael are currently incorporating land acknowledgement statements at the beginning of their meetings. For Fairfax, they incorporate the statement at the beginning of all their meetings The town of San Anselmo, I believe the vice mayor provides a statement and that the mayor of the city of San Rafael provides a land acknowledgment statement. And then the the town of San Anselmo's planning director has a signature block on our email with the land acknowledgement. So staff is recommending the council directs staff to work with the Federated Indians of Tolerantria and the city's diversity, equity, and inclusion working group to develop a land acknowledgment policy if the council would like. So with that, I will conclude my presentation, and I'm available to answer any questions you may have. |
| 02:18:24.49 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. Thank you for putting this together for us. Do we have any questions from City Council? Yes, Council Member Blossom has your hand up. |
| 02:18:33.16 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you, Heidi, for bringing this forward. And thanks to the mayor and vice mayor for getting it on the agenda. I know you did some preliminary research and work on this already in advance of this meeting, including reaching out to graduate Maria already. Could you just let us know what work has been done so that folks know what you looked into and where we stand now before making recommendations going forward? |
| 02:18:53.18 | Heidi Scoble | Yeah, so what I did was I conducted an assessment with my network of planning directors and then also my network of city clerks to identify what our local municipalities and the county are doing and so i was able to find out you know the few um cities, towns that have land acknowledgement statements. But I also reached out to the Federated Indians of Grifon, and I haven't received a phone call back, So I'm hoping that with any direction from the city council, then I can use that as a more formal entree. And then maybe reach out to more people within the organization to try to... I'm going to get the one. |
| 02:19:39.90 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. Any other questions? Councilman Blasti? Your hand's still up. I think. Okay. All right, any other questions from council members before I open this matter up for public comments? Nope. Okay. Then I open this item up for public comment. |
| 02:20:02.21 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:20:02.23 | Janelle Kellman | I'm right. |
| 02:20:02.43 | Heidi Scoble | Senator Mayor, we do have one hand, actually two hands. Vicki Nichols, and you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:20:02.47 | Janelle Kellman | I've been a mayor. One year. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:20:11.98 | Vicki Nichols | Hi there, thank you. I appreciate the... Council getting this on the agenda. This came up during our WORKING COMMITTEE, for the historical context statement. We actually did come up and we have one in place for that, so I'm interested to see what you all come up with, and I would hope that we could use it consistently. Whatever the council's using in that document, Um, We did identify at that time, Granton, Racheria, there's a but as Titus mentioned there is that officer who at the time was working from home and not there. So I think the person's difficult to reach, but, um, I'm gonna stick with it because I believe this is important. Fairfax, as you say, has been doing this for quite a while. Thanks. Okay, thank you. |
| 02:21:06.59 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker, it's Eva. Eva, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:21:13.81 | Unknown | Thanks, can you hear me okay? Yes, go ahead. Thanks. I thought the letter from Lisa Bennett was really good. today, it's in your notes, but it basically supports a land acknowledgement but points out that a mere land acknowledgement doesn't really change anything in actions need to be taken Um, And I think that's really important. I listened to the land acknowledgments in the various meetings, especially Santa Fe, it does seem you know, kind of ironic because San Rafael contains one of the most segregated communities in the county. And there's certainly no spirit of the land acknowledgment going on. in San Rafael right now, so it just, you know, it can be a very empty gesture. and I would advise you against doing that. I wouldn't advise you against a land acknowledgement entirely. THEIR OWNERS. But I do think it raises some some interesting questions about What? We saw a historical society might want to review in terms of its own policies and practices I know that I made multiple calls to the Historical Society over the years trying to get information or ask questions. about segregation in Sausalito and I was rebuffed. And other times I always met with the kind of sullen hostility just for asking So, um... you know, I do want to support this. I hope that especially the person who spoke just before me, Vicki Nichols. looks a little deeper than the just the land acknowledgement. And everyone on council should too, because it can, like I said, It can be a very good gesture. It can also be an empty gesture. Thank you. |
| 02:23:19.50 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:23:19.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:23:19.83 | Janelle Kellman | you Okay, I see no further hands up. And so I'm going to close public comment, unless the court tells me otherwise. |
| 02:23:30.40 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no other hands raised. |
| 02:23:33.11 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. Then I'll close public comment and bring it back up to the council for I'm in favor of moving forward and having the clerk, I'm sorry, pardon me, the interim community development director continue to work on this. And I think it's a great effort. And thanks to Council Member Blaustein for suggesting it. and I think providing some information to the staff to get us started. Thanks for that. And go ahead, Councilman Blastey. |
| 02:24:01.38 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah, thank you, and I really appreciate this being brought forward, and I appreciate also the public comment letter that we received from Lisa Bennett and Ava's comments just now. about this not just being a statement where we check a box and say that we did it. And I really see this as an opportunity for us. One of the things that Dr. Garcia talks about is how critical it is in social justice work to acknowledge the history of how we got to where we are before we can really effectively move forward and then take some action on it. And this is an opportunity for us to all, in making a land acknowledgement statement, of course, recognize and honor the heritage of the Newark tribe and work closely with Breton Rancheria representatives. And I really hope we begin a productive conversation, not just about this land acknowledgement statement, but also about how we might have education programs, how we might have more partnerships, how we might build bridges, and how we can better serve indigenous communities in Northern California in general. And also, perhaps it can be a great point of engagement for our working group to talk about our own points of privilege and what that looks like. And so I'm really pleased to see it come before the council. And I hope we really take this opportunity to use it as a place to reflect on continued opportunities for |
| 02:24:57.47 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 02:25:18.50 | Melissa Blaustein | this work. And I appreciate the comments about not just making it be a statement, but having it be a real start for action. So I'm absolutely in favor of continuing to work on this, hopefully with a lot of coordination but with the Gretchen entry address. |
| 02:25:34.34 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Vice Mayor. Thank you. Yes, I'm going to make a big alignment with Councilmember Blaustein on this. I'm delighted that we are reviewing this, and I hope more communities, nationwide obviously, but certainly in Marin County, pursue this as well. So I fully endorse the suggestions of the staff report. Probably with the added suggestion that there be some assessment or or opportunities to have implementation, what that might mean for our community. And I thought that Ms. Presente made a really interesting, excellent point for us to not overlook, which is to see what type of partnerships within Sausalito we might be able to further this historical society, Sausalito Beautiful, or other organizations that are looking at this or have with it's also beautiful or other organizations that you know are looking at this or have with it or have the opportunity to do that so maybe that could be a part of what we move forward with but I don't want to preclude anybody else's comments but I am fully ready to make a motion and think it's the right step forward for us. |
| 02:26:35.33 | Janelle Kellman | Okay. Thank you. I don't think we need a motion. I think we just need to give direction. Well, then I think WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO BE direction unless we have two other council members who haven't weighed in |
| 02:26:42.45 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:26:42.47 | Jill Hoffman | And... |
| 02:26:42.52 | Monica Finnegan | unless |
| 02:26:42.96 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:26:46.30 | Janelle Kellman | absent some. Did you guys want a way in? |
| 02:26:49.05 | Melissa Blaustein | So I'm fully supportive. I appreciate the comments of earlier council members. I don't want to add on. I just do see this as a, not a static acknowledgement that we slap on. you know, our agenda, but as a living, acknowledgement and process, um, and repeat the comments that it's an active process, that you want to take action. So I'm looking forward to hearing what staff and Equity Committee to come back with. Thank you. |
| 02:27:20.59 | Ian Sobieski | you know. |
| 02:27:20.61 | Melissa Blaustein | I did it. |
| 02:27:20.93 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:27:21.40 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:27:21.47 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:27:21.49 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:27:22.28 | Ian Sobieski | I echo those comments and everyone else's. |
| 02:27:26.02 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, very good. All right, so I think that's sufficient direction Ms. Goble, do you need further direction now? I'm looking for you. There you are. |
| 02:27:35.51 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. No, I have enough direction, and I know how to proceed. And this is super exciting. My head is spinning with ideas of how to actually implement more than just statements and acknowledgments on speeches of paper. So this is exciting. Thank you. |
| 02:27:49.83 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. Okay, moving on then to our next item. which is communications, and this is our time for communications for matters not on the agenda. And so, This is the time for this item six on our agenda. This is time for members of the public to provide any public comments 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 that are not on the agenda. However, the council may briefly respond to statements made or questions posed by members of the public ask clarifying questions, make a brief announcement, or refer matters not on the agenda to city staff or directed the subject be agendized for future meetings. If you would like to provide a public comment, Please raise your hand in the Zoom application the city clerk will call on individuals who have raised their hands in the order they were raised. After you are called on, you will be unmuted and to allow you to share your comments, remember public comments. are each allowed a total of three minutes to speak. Please keep your comments respectful and focused. We want to listen to any individual who requests speak and each speaker has a responsibility to act in a civil in a courteous manner as defined by the chair, which is me. We will not tolerate hate speech, direct, or indirect threats or abusive language, the host will mute anyone who fails to follow these guidelines. And so at this time, I open up public comment for matters not on the agenda, and I see two hands raised so far, and I'll let the clerk. column in the order you see them. |
| 02:29:26.61 | Heidi Scoble | David Sudo, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:29:33.73 | Unknown | Good evening City Council I just wanted to note the passing of Tony Tom last week He's a big fan of the business owner in the community for over 40 years and really was the center of our advocacy for bicycles it's transportation and in Sausalito for that length of time and maybe suggest that we adjourn in his honor this evening thank you |
| 02:30:00.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:30:00.60 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:30:00.63 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:30:00.65 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:30:00.68 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 02:30:00.75 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:30:01.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:30:04.06 | Heidi Scoble | THE FAMILY. Our next speaker is Alice Merrill. Alice, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:30:19.18 | Janelle Kellman | Ms. Meyer, we are not hearing you or seeing you. |
| 02:30:26.57 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, if you would like, we can move on to Charlie's Galaxy S10 and come back to Alice. |
| 02:30:32.90 | Janelle Kellman | That's fine, let's move on. And Ms. Merrill, we'll try to come back to you after we're finished with our next speaker, so. |
| 02:30:45.52 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:30:45.54 | Unknown | Oh, my God. |
| 02:30:46.70 | Heidi Scoble | Charlie, you've been unmuted and has to share your video. |
| 02:30:50.43 | Unknown | Okay, I had some notes. just some comments and questions that I had. I wanted to start first with the status of the Marin Cooperation Team contract. specifically in if and when that $85,000 contract was signed. I when I asked Jameer who contacted him about putting that proposal into the city council, He finally confirmed that it was someone from the county, although he wouldn't specify who. So yeah, I'd like to find out if that contract in fact was signed because he did tell me that it was unsigned when I spoke to him last week and when I spoke to Mr. Zapata on Thursday I mentioned that and also made it abundantly clear that I felt in my personal opinion that this person incapable of providing for the needs of this community, especially at this time. So with that being said, I'd like to point out that Stephanie Moulton-Peters is our district supervisor. She also sits on the board of directors with RBRA. And in my opinion, this is a direct conflict of interest considering the RBRA is actively displacing the acre-out community. and contributing to the homeless crisis currently affecting Sausalito. So it begs the question if social justice is clouded here. Moving along, I'd like to find out the status of the Red Cross shelter at MLK Gyms, Osolito Playland, our local elementary school. if that site is still open as an emergency shelter, and if so, until when? I'd like to address that the last update in regards to unhoused persons at the encampment was July 2nd, |
| 02:32:41.59 | Unknown | can't move. |
| 02:32:44.91 | Unknown | And that actually reads that The city is committed to treating those who have no option for indoor sleeping with care and compassion and to ensuring that Marinship Park is a safe and appropriate transitional camping site. And I'm here to say that that's just, absolutely farther from the truth than could possibly be stated. Um, Moving along, Lieutenant Gregory stated that the city manager stipulated that unhoused persons are to be confined to defense enclosure at Marin Ship Park. And I would just like to state that section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime. for any person acting under color law to willfully deprive a human being of a right or privilege protected under the Constitution. Um... advocates. and residents of the encampment are continuing to be targeted. Today, Stacey Gregory and Nick White walked through the encampment And apparently upon departure, Lieutenant Gregory contacted the Department of the Work and instructed them to remove brand new, like, really good condition. Thank you, ma'am. |
| 02:33:57.78 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you, ma'am. I'm sorry. I think your time is up. So thank you for your public comments. And we're gonna try to go back to Ms. Merrill. |
| 02:34:08.41 | Heidi Scoble | Alice, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:34:15.02 | Janelle Kellman | And Ms. Merrill, we are still not hearing or seeing you. So we'll go through. We have three callers, and then before we finish, we'll go back to Ms. Merrill. |
| 02:34:26.31 | Heidi Scoble | you . |
| 02:34:27.58 | Janelle Kellman | Go ahead, Mr. Clark. |
| 02:34:29.43 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, our next speaker is Eva. Eva, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:34:41.79 | Unknown | Ms. Christine. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah, I definitely think we should adjourn in honor of Tony, and I think we should also name a street or two after Tony Tom. He was such a part of Sausalito. And my family became clients as soon as he opened the shop. There are so many Tony stories that can be told, and they're all funny and wonderful and heartwarming. And I do wanna say that one time I was in Tony's store, and there was a beautiful, beautiful pair of $400 racing shoes bike shoes that I had wanted to buy for years, but of course would not. And there was a very charming woman who was preparing to buy them. and I asked her what race she was preparing for, what event she was preparing for, and she, She said, I don't ride a bike anymore. I just really love Tony, so I like to buy things here. And that was really the essence of Tony's shop. I used to like to say that Tony was everybody's Chinese rabbi. You would go by the store late at night. late at night all the time after I got off my shift. It might be like 11 o'clock or midnight or 1 a.m. in the morning. And... And there'd be some guy talking with Tony and I don't know if he just, |
| 02:36:10.63 | Unknown | you |
| 02:36:13.28 | Unknown | you know, was going through a hard time at work or whatever, but there he would be and they'd be having a great time talking about bikes. and forgetting their troubles. You know, I got to meet Greg Lamond there, my cycling hero. And when Greg Lamont finally showed up, there had been a woman who had a really broken down bike. I mean, worse than mine, she is there. and she wanted her bike fixed. And the breaks were bad and we were like, well, you know, everything's busy. Greg LeMond's coming, so if you could just wait, we'll get to you. And Tony did so much work for free for other people. I mean, you report. Tony would help you for free. and give away bikes. And he wasn't a businessman, he was an artist. |
| 02:36:58.10 | Unknown | HE WAS IN THE BEST. |
| 02:37:00.77 | Unknown | And we kept telling her, just try to be patient. She said, when are you gonna work on my But grace. And finally Greg Lamont shows up and we're all excited and we're so happy and everyone's getting their book to get signed. And this this older woman with a broken down bike, she she looks at Greg Lamont and it's like this this light went off over her head and she says, hey, Hey, you! Are you the guy who's gonna fix my brakes? And that could only happen in Tony's shop. I could tell him a million of these stories. I won't take your time. Yeah, there's gotta be a parade for Tony, who was the most beautiful man I ever met. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that. |
| 02:37:44.71 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Timothy Logan. Timothy, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:37:53.74 | Unknown | you Yeah, maybe it wasn't. But there's a few things here at Malaysia Park that really need to take pressing matters. The well-being and the health of people in the cabinet because of It looks like sewage contamination. If it wasn't addressed tonight, because it should have been addressed on tonight's board, Oh. human life is what's at stake here. It's not money, it's not its actual life. um, and the danger there. That's one. Two. |
| 02:38:39.08 | Unknown | the both offices are, um, I'm talking foams. with us. It's a great taking We'll find it in the next one. uh, picking on all I think irresponsibly. because There's Oh. The rest were for a crisis. uh, I'm not sure. could all leave. for throwing rocks at us. That's just wrong. The fact is there still hasn't been open investigation. into the misconduct of the police officers the ones that are working, She might be. the ones that are throwing rocks, yeah, he's Well, it's going good. You should be fired. But I think overall, we hold the whole thing should be done because None of them are problem. Any good? They're playing both sides of the coin, and all their input is themselves. Stacey Gregory made fun of to me when I asked about I said, I work, I go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning. I don't get a shower. And she says, so? You know, The lack of concern and consideration from the police department is ridiculous. There needs to be a growth. Um, |
| 02:40:13.09 | Unknown | If you guys don't see us on the street, paying attention to what's happening. You're all never going to get elected again. I mean, You're not listening to your people. You're going against them. work. People are demanding, and did you want to Little us. are making a stainless squalor. I'm, I'm, of seeing him. to even be here. I wish I could go somewhere else. I really do. I wish I could take all my friends with me. Um, But you guys have kind of seen it for, I can't. |
| 02:41:05.22 | Unknown | Well. |
| 02:41:06.20 | Heidi Scoble | Tim, your three minutes have elapsed. We're moving on to phone number, 415-532-4675. |
| 02:41:24.49 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 02:41:25.91 | Janelle Kellman | Yes, we can hear you now. Go ahead. |
| 02:41:26.32 | Unknown | Thank you. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I must congratulate you on the the horrible work that you have done I've decided to learn shit. It is appalling. It is a shame on each one of you. to ignore the necessities very, very basic human rights. the necessities that you should have covered without a question, without a doubt. These are human beings that you are oppressing. Everyone. of the request of the people at that encampment. has been I'll be. You have not provided any a glass of clean water. a piece of bread for any one of these individual One piece. problem was created by taking their votes. I threw the anchor house. It shows me. an amazed lack of respect for human life. I hope that you can treat the dog better than you are treating these people. the site. is a biotoxic. site. We have tested the water. Spain. Shame. I hope that you consider some help. for this period. because they are organizing and the last suit you have in your hands. is trying to be monumental you didn't make a monument of this day. police. Please, by tomorrow morning. Go help these people. Do what your heart and soul that you may have something left in there. will help. these people. things are going to get. ugly for the city of South Korea. repercussions. what you have done I don't know. Horrible. to the city. Please, go to bed tonight. I think. Do some deep soul searching of yourselves on helping human beings. who not. Do not. do this ever again to anyone. very much. hope you can find some sleeping time tonight. And your children, I hope that they know what you're doing. You will show them what is in your heart. Thank you very much. |
| 02:44:01.57 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. I don't see any further hands raised. Mr. Clerk, could you confirm that please? |
| 02:44:08.06 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no other hands raised. Would you like to try Alice Merrill one more time? |
| 02:44:16.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:44:16.31 | Janelle Kellman | Sure. |
| 02:44:17.16 | Unknown | you |
| 02:44:17.55 | Janelle Kellman | I don't see her. Miss Merrill, if you're on, there you go. Okay, see your hands up. Miss Merrill, I cannot see you and I cannot hear you. Okay. |
| 02:44:28.02 | Alice Merrill | I'm not going to be muted. |
| 02:44:28.90 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:44:28.94 | Alice Merrill | Yeah. There I go. Okay, well, I don't know where I am, but that's all right. Okay. Here's why, oh, you can't see me anyway. here's what I wanted to say. And it maybe had to do with the last thing you were talking about with the, talking about the land rights, I can't remember the right words, I've been noodling the idea that maybe Dunphy Park could be renamed to Miwok Park. That's an idea that I have. I have told a few people and they've said, oh, Dunphy, some people say it's a great idea and other people say, I don't think Earl Dunphy's family would be very happy about that. But anyway, That's my idea. I think it would be kind of cool because they did find the mounds and the, you know, all of the stuff down there, right there in the park. So that's all. That's it. Thank you. My, my, my mouse wasn't working. I don't know why, but now it is. Thank you very much. You're all very kind. Lovely. devices. |
| 02:45:31.98 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, now, thank you, Mr. Clerk, for calling that out and reminding me that we were gonna go back to Ms. Merrill. And so now I don't see any further hands up. |
| 02:45:41.94 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you're correct. There are no other hands raised. |
| 02:45:42.17 | Janelle Kellman | THE BEST. Very good. Then we will close public comment for matters not on our agenda. And so our next item is committee reports. Do we have any comments from our council members in addition to written council member reports? |
| 02:45:59.83 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:46:03.11 | Janelle Kellman | Um, Thank you. |
| 02:46:04.26 | Monica Finnegan | Sarah, can I just ask a question? |
| 02:46:04.38 | Melissa Blaustein | All right. |
| 02:46:04.65 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:46:04.74 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. Sure. I would love to, I'm not opposed to doing written reports. I haven't seen any from anyone and I haven't done any. |
| 02:46:14.67 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 02:46:15.75 | Melissa Blaustein | Um, So, And mostly it's just because I've run out of time. I do have some stuff that I thought was worth like some PowerPoints that were shown that I was on that I think would be really interesting for the rest of everybody. So I will send those to the clerk and he can post them. But is that, I just haven't seen any examples. So I think that's what we agreed to. But, um, It did. We did. I'm admitting that I have not done my homework on this. But it might be helpful. I'm not. |
| 02:46:50.16 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you for that. |
| 02:46:50.74 | Melissa Blaustein | you |
| 02:46:50.80 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, so, okay. So for the next city council meeting, I'll try to be sure to put out some sort of format for us that can then be, um, then, then be maybe by Monday afternoon, we'll say is our deadline. And then that can be, um, pull together by our clerk and then attached to the agenda. So let's do that as a goal for all of us If you have something, but even though you have written report, you have something fast that you want to you know, that you want, that you want to call out during committee reports. I mean, I think that's a good thing. And I have one thing from the, from our homeless task force that if you guys don't mind, I'll just throw it out real quick. We are hosting another, seminar forum on using your adu for homeless housing and we're having the moran housing authority come back we did one in march and that was sort of about how to convert perhaps a unit that you had and interest free loan of up to $40,000 that was available for anybody who wanted to do that. They're specifically gonna come back on We're having it on November 18th on Thursday, November 18th, And I think that's gonna be an occurrence. And it's at 6 p.m. It'll be a Zoom. and we sent out a mailer to every ADU, permitted ADU, owner in Sausalito. about the seminar and hopefully our goal is to get you know, maybe, you know, it'd be great, wouldn't it? If we could, 5% of our ADUs could be used for homeless housing. The idea is that their, Marin Housing Authority has a great program They have a housing manager who manages a unit specifically for the homeless, housing program. the landlord can choose whoever they, you know, from the pool of people that have vouchers. You can vet and choose who you want in there. There's wraparound case management services, and you receive market rate rent directly from the Housing Authority. So it seems to be a win from all sides. So hopefully we'll have some people that are interested in that and will participate in that. That's a great way of bringing really quickly new units online for Um, housing, those without housing. in addition to other efforts that are ongoing that take a lot longer runway. Anyway, that's one of the things that we've done, that we met with the Health and Human Services Director, this in between our last meeting and the staff specifically about different options that are available and specifically about the new grant program that's coming specifically for encampments. There's 47 million available for that. And so we're hoping that we can get a, grant request in for that program to help us here in Marin County and specifically in Southern Marin. Those are the highlights from our homeless committee. Any other highlights anybody wants to call out from community reports at this point? No hands raised, very good. Then we will move on to our Next item, oops, sorry. |
| 02:50:11.43 | Ian Sobieski | I don't... |
| 02:50:14.01 | Janelle Kellman | So I'm gonna move on to public comments on community reports. And I see one, Hannah, and I'll ask our clerk to |
| 02:50:24.68 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, we do have a hand raised. It's with a phone number 415-532-4675. And you are unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:50:38.38 | Janelle Kellman | Yes, go ahead. |
| 02:50:41.10 | Unknown | I just, again, The questions were never answered by anybody in regard to this AT&T. and well-being of the homeless people in the town of San Salido. THE FAMILY IS On several occasions I have been there. assisting them. bringing them the help that they need. Bring your food. and the The refrigerator unit. games. trying to help them set up the kitchen. bring in wood sheets for them. building its tiny little shed house. while you guys I'm gone. Nothing. It is. and absolutely a show. that. You are acting like this. with your own American citizens. It is an adoration. the United Nations West contact And they are going to give you all. because they have something that they can teach you and show you what needs to be done. So please put attention for all the people that are gonna be the advisors, on Coles. before. the lawsuits start raining. on your truck yard. So thank you again. |
| 02:51:59.58 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. I see one of their hand raised. Mr. Logan. |
| 02:52:06.22 | Heidi Scoble | Mr. Logan, you're being unmuted. |
| 02:52:09.61 | Unknown | Okay, I'm just going back to this money that you're going to apply to get for helping the homeless I'm only going to go to the homeless. or just more into your guys' pockets and big accounts pull off on everything else because I mean, You really? They're going to spend money on boilers. fighting against us. and actually, spending money to help us. So if you're going to try to get more money to help us, make sure that you actually spend it on a not fighting us, not causing our problems. with the increase in size. not moving us from where we were at to a contaminated bleach field, He's just gonna pay for that one. I mean, watch. If that was the case, I mean, cramping us up in such a small area. It was, It's appalling visit. We are still here. Knowing that Every second. between my prevents, between somebody here. You couldn't. of the contaminants that are in the ground. Good morning, everyone. And I think that's what it is. appalling. What's it all? Go, go, go. Your lack of human life. The story of human life is so robe that You can't afford Room's for us. for a couple of nights and so we can actually get some testicles to find out whether or not if the ground is best contaminated. If it is, there's no way we should remain here. And this whole area should keep us up. Is that where that money's going to be going then? That's the thing I would like to know. |
| 02:54:14.89 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. I think we have one other handout. |
| 02:54:20.20 | Heidi Scoble | Yes, Madam Mayor, we have Charlie Galaxy S10. Charlie, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:54:28.13 | Unknown | I WOULD LIKE TO |
| 02:54:28.39 | Heidi Scoble | And. |
| 02:54:30.83 | Unknown | Thank Tim Logan for his comments. |
| 02:54:32.28 | Heidi Scoble | you |
| 02:54:35.61 | Unknown | He was very well spoken tonight in regards to addressing some of the SERIOUS ISSUES. I'm not sure. I JUST WANTED TO SAY PERSONALLY, you know, I challenge each and every one of you from Chief Roybacher to Mr. Zapata to Ms. Blaustein to Ms. Hoffman, Like, all of you are welcome to come to the camp. I want you to come. I'd be happy to walk you around and introduce you. and talk to you about the community. That's what the community wants. Um, You know, and I can do my best to protect you from the ghosts and goblins and you might get some street tacos at the same time. My point in saying that is, I don't... It's clear to me that from the city level to the county level, that I just keep coming to the same word. This has become a manageable. I mean, |
| 02:55:36.41 | Unknown | Maybe you need to experience it. before you can begin to come to resolutions and proposals because it SEEMS TO ME AT THIS POINT hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent. and we're back in square one. If you would have sent a bus today, I would have tried to convince as many people as I can. GO OVER TO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WITH ALL THIS. SO ON THAT NOTE, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN. I challenge all of you to come. Come spend the night. Come spend the night. Thank you. |
| 02:56:19.91 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. Moving on then, I don't see further hands raised, and so unless the clerk tells me otherwise, I'm going to close this public comment and close this item and moving on to item eight on our agenda, which is City manager report, city council appointments, and other council business. we take public comment on this uh item 8b through 8e at one time and that's at the top of this item i will note that our city manager has submitted a written report for us and so at this point i will open public comment on items under eight, which is city manager report, city council appointments and other council business. I see one hand raised. |
| 02:57:11.09 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, we do have one hand raised and that's phone number 415-532-4675. And you're now unmuted and ask to share your video. |
| 02:57:22.74 | Unknown | Yes, good evening again. We have run a review on Mr. Chris Zapata's actions in other cities and the reasons why he was fired. |
| 02:57:35.02 | Ian Sobieski | I don't believe these comments remain to the topic at hand. |
| 02:57:35.87 | Unknown | THEIR OWN. Excuse me. |
| 02:57:38.92 | Ian Sobieski | Excuse me sir. |
| 02:57:40.04 | Unknown | I'm not sure. Thank you. |
| 02:57:40.46 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 02:57:40.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:57:40.51 | Janelle Kellman | You will be. |
| 02:57:40.51 | Ian Sobieski | You will call it. |
| 02:57:40.93 | Unknown | Thank you. I'm going to go. |
| 02:57:41.30 | Ian Sobieski | . |
| 02:57:41.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:57:41.39 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 02:57:41.52 | Unknown | to, |
| 02:57:41.77 | Ian Sobieski | you |
| 02:57:41.93 | Unknown | I'm really sad. |
| 02:57:42.94 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, hold on everybody. You're talking over each other. Okay, so. The objective here is to talk. Please on the phone, I'm just gonna, hold on. |
| 02:57:47.41 | Unknown | The objective here is to cut one. |
| 02:57:52.64 | Janelle Kellman | Everybody just... |
| 02:57:53.89 | Unknown | It was my dad. |
| 02:57:54.46 | Janelle Kellman | I think everybody has come down. |
| 02:57:56.25 | Unknown | It is my time to speak. We must respect that. You have heard if you could please |
| 02:57:56.37 | Janelle Kellman | We've got a lot of people. Well, that's true. If you could please just wait a second. I would ask you to be respectful. talking to you. Point of order was that we are on items 8A, and these are City Manager reports, City Council appointments and other council business. And so I would ask that if the people who have their hands up now if your comments are going to pertain to those items then let's go forward if not then i would ask that you lower your hands so let's go back to the gentleman who was speaking, which was the phone number. And sir, I would expect that you are going to keep your comments to item. And that's going to be city manager report, the city council appointments or other business under item eight. So if you have comments for items under eight, then please go forward. If not, I'll note that you spoke under two different other items on our agenda and provided us public comment on those items. |
| 02:59:03.38 | Heidi Scoble | And Madam Mayor, phone number 415-532-4675 has been unmuted. |
| 02:59:12.44 | Janelle Kellman | That's where I'm not hearing you. |
| 02:59:14.72 | Unknown | I will respect your resignation and the resignation of Teresa Pata in the next 24 hours. Thank you. |
| 02:59:21.32 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. Okay, Mr. Logan, I see your hands up. Go ahead for item eight. Um, There you go. OK, I see that you're unmuted, sir. |
| 02:59:36.00 | Unknown | I would also like to ask for the resignation of Kurt Zapata He's just not shown that he could be trusted. um That's not all I have to say on that. Okay. |
| 02:59:51.93 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. And then our next one is Charlie's Galaxy. |
| 03:00:00.94 | Heidi Scoble | Charlie, you're being unmuted. and ask to share your video. |
| 03:00:05.89 | Unknown | Actually, he's just on the other building again. |
| 03:00:08.20 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, Ms. Rilligan, that's okay. I think we're going to listen to Charlie. Thank you so much for letting us know. |
| 03:00:13.46 | Unknown | Okay, so I believe this was pertaining to a report And I think I saw the report from Mr. Zapata, pertain to my question earlier as to, I would like to, just get a straight answer as to what the status of the Red Cross shelter at the MLK Gym and Sausalito Playland is. um, AS TO Is it still open or? WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THAT BECAUSE HE STATED IN HIS REPORT THAT IT IS. However, another individual apparently went today and came back and, apparently spoke to a director at the school who said that today would be the last day. With all due respect, I would just like you know, some direction and, on what's going on with that. Thank you. |
| 03:01:08.10 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. Um, I'm sure city staff who monitors this we'll get back to you with the status of the shelter. It's been open for quite some time up at the MLK gym. And that's the emergency shelter. Not to be confused with the new beginnings shelter beds that we have offered. So, okay, moving on to the next item, which is the city manager information for the council. Our city manager provided a written report. He's not able to be with us tonight due to a family emergency. So, we don't have anything other than his written report. We have no appointments tonight, so that's 8C. Future agenda items. Do we have any council members who would like to request future agenda items. Yes, Council Member Blassing, go ahead. |
| 03:02:05.77 | Melissa Blaustein | I have a few. One is I know we were supposed to have on our consent calendar at some point financing for the swings at Southview Park. Southview Park looks really beautiful and it has pretty much everything, but at one point there was gonna be a swing and somehow that's been removed and I just wanted to see what was going on with that and get that on an agenda. It's probably an easy consent item. |
| 03:02:24.94 | Ian Sobieski | THE END OF THE END OF THE you |
| 03:02:25.22 | Melissa Blaustein | you And I also wanted to see if we could potentially invite, there's a new Southern Marine Fire Energy Coordinator. Her name is Elaine Wilkinson. She just started this week. And it would be great to have her just come to a council meeting and talk about the energy programs and how people can get involved to start energy teams. And on that note, I would really like us to get on the agenda, setting up a designated EOC emergency operations center for the city of Sausalito during the latest storm. We realized that in fact, we do not have a, an EOC. And I think we need to have a conversation about what our emergency operations plans are as a council. So I think that's pretty critical. Thanks. |
| 03:03:05.20 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:03:05.22 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:03:05.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:03:05.27 | Melissa Blaustein | And... |
| 03:03:05.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:03:06.68 | Melissa Blaustein | Um, |
| 03:03:07.33 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:03:07.34 | Melissa Blaustein | And |
| 03:03:07.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:03:07.58 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:03:07.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:03:08.76 | Melissa Blaustein | I think I just saw that the community disaster committee is meeting this Tomorrow. It's tomorrow. |
| 03:03:16.96 | Melissa Blaustein | you |
| 03:03:17.03 | Melissa Blaustein | you |
| 03:03:17.10 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:03:17.33 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:03:17.37 | Melissa Blaustein | you |
| 03:03:17.40 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah. |
| 03:03:17.43 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 03:03:17.49 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah. |
| 03:03:17.57 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 03:03:17.60 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. Bye. |
| 03:03:18.02 | Melissa Blaustein | I miss a bit. |
| 03:03:18.28 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:03:18.30 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, the disaster preparedness committee. I thought there was something, |
| 03:03:18.72 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:03:18.75 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:03:18.77 | Melissa Blaustein | you |
| 03:03:18.82 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:03:18.83 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:03:23.36 | Janelle Kellman | with them about the EOC, but Maybe, who's our liaison? Is that you, Council Member Blassey? Perhaps you could, yeah, that would be great. We'll put this on our future denies, I think to address with them as well, because I know that they did some work on that in the past, I'm pretty sure. So thank you. Thank you for bringing that up. And sorry, Councilor Clevenholtz, I interrupted you. um, |
| 03:03:45.62 | Melissa Blaustein | No, that was my main point, but |
| 03:03:47.59 | Janelle Kellman | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 03:03:47.88 | Melissa Blaustein | We did have a very robust emergency operation plan and |
| 03:03:47.94 | Janelle Kellman | THE FAMILY. |
| 03:03:53.34 | Melissa Blaustein | um, group at one point, so, and we have a written plan, so I'm not sure what what happened, but yes, good thing to get updated on. |
| 03:04:03.76 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, great, thank you for that. Okay, anybody else? Future agenda items? Okay, moving on. Any other reports of significance? Nope. OK, very good. We're adjourned. Excellent. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you. |
| 03:04:19.89 | Monica Finnegan | Thank you for sharing. Thank you. |
| 03:04:21.90 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah. |
| 03:04:22.69 | Monica Finnegan | Hold on. |
| 03:04:23.77 | Janelle Kellman | You want to? |
| 03:04:24.99 | Monica Finnegan | Thank you. |
| 03:04:25.02 | Janelle Kellman | Yes, so sorry. |
| 03:04:25.52 | Monica Finnegan | Oh, sorry. |
| 03:04:26.84 | Janelle Kellman | I'm so sorry. Thank you so much for reminding me. Yes, and I've... I have something from that I'd like to read about Tony Tom. Um, and his many years of service here in Sausalito. So it's a sad day for cycling A legend among us has passed on for 46 years. Tony had his shop of bicycle honesty in Sausalito and offers cycling fanatics the finest from around the world. His quest for the best and his deep understanding of why it was so was a delight that kept us rolling smooth and easy through the years, whether it was for his customers, for his team, or record attempt. Tony was the best there was, always sharing his love for bikes and making them better wherever he could. Tony died this past week way too soon. As Ray said, now Robin Williams has his great mechanic. Rest in peace Tony. And that was written by Joe Breeze and that was posted on Facebook. So thank you. Thank you for that. And thank you for Council Member Cleveland Mills for passing that to me to read in honor of closing |
| 03:05:08.59 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 03:05:34.81 | Janelle Kellman | our meeting tonight in memory of Tony and the many years of service and joy that he brought to the people of Sausalito. So thank you. And now we're adjourned. |
| 03:05:45.44 | Melissa Blaustein | Good night, thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:05:47.69 | Janelle Kellman | Thanks everybody. |
| 03:06:03.97 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
Vicki Nichols — Against: Criticized data reliance on a single nice day (Labor Day) and lack of outreach to residents and other businesses. Argued seats are not used much, expressed concerns about legal configuration of bike lane buffer, and felt process was not honest or inclusive. ▶ 📄
Morgan Peers — In Favor: Representing Sausalito Beautiful, supports continuing pilot but recommends more assessment over longer period and outreach to surrounding businesses and residents before final decisions. ▶ 📄
Sandra Bushmaker — Neutral: Concerned about lack of outreach to residents and other businesses regarding impacts. Urges council to pursue better outreach before making permanent. ▶ 📄
Monica Finnegan — In Favor: Supports parklet concept as crucial for restaurant recovery from pandemic losses, encourages win-win solution, notes parklets are becoming common in Bay Area. ▶ 📄
Joan Cox — Neutral: Suggests outreach now to businesses and residents is next logical step, as some businesses (like hairstylist) suffered during pandemic too. Supports continuing pilot until spring to incorporate community feedback. ▶ 📄
Kevin Carroll — Against: Raised two points: restaurants did not contact all residents/businesses within 300 feet as promised in application, and question about written permission from adjacent property owner for parklet use was not obtained. ▶ 📄