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| 00:00:02.07 | Heidi Scoble | Good afternoon, Mayor Hoffman and council members. This meeting has been held pursuant to government section code 54953E. And in light of the declared state of emergency, the regular meeting of the city council for December 7th, 2021 will be conducted telephonically through Zoom and broadcast live on the city's website and on cable TV channel 27. |
| 00:00:26.61 | Jill Hoffman | Thanks very much Mr. Clerk would you please take the roll? |
| 00:00:31.47 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, I apologize. I missed admitting all participants. So let me do that and I'll read the introduction. My apologies. |
| 00:00:36.65 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:00:36.68 | Jill Hoffman | So, thank you. |
| 00:00:41.17 | Jill Hoffman | Oh, no worries. Very well. Thank you. |
| 00:00:48.85 | Robbie Powelson | Thank you. |
| 00:00:48.87 | Heidi Scoble | Good afternoon, Mayor Hoffman and council members. This meeting has been held pursuant to government code section 54953E. And in light of the declared state of emergency, the regular meeting of the city council for December 7th, 2021, will be conducted telephonically through Zoom and broadcast live on the city's website and on cable TV channel 27. |
| 00:01:12.75 | Jill Hoffman | Uh, Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Could you please take the roll call vote? |
| 00:01:17.71 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobhirsky. |
| 00:01:18.97 | Jill Hoffman | Let me take the roll, sorry. Yes. |
| 00:01:22.45 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Cliver-Denold. |
| 00:01:25.91 | Jill Hoffman | here. |
| 00:01:27.06 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:01:30.77 | Jill Hoffman | Here. I will note that we have, Council Member Blaustein is absent. And she contacted me before the meeting that she's having a family emergency and I do not expect her to join us. This evening, And as a foreshadowing out of courtesy to her, I will move on our agenda. that we moved the mayor and vice mayor. Votes. to January 11th. to the January 11th meeting. So I'm gonna move to amended agenda when we get to that point. later in our meeting. because she is not able to join us this evening. No need to talk about it right now, but that's later in our meeting. Um, Okay. the The following items will be discussed in closed session this evening. D1 is public performance evaluation pursuant to California code section 5.4. 957 Title City Manager, D2, this conference with legal counsel, existing litigation pursuant to the California Code section 54956.9 D1. |
| 00:02:35.50 | Titi | Thank you. |
| 00:02:37.14 | Jill Hoffman | name of the case is Sausalito Moran County chapter of the California Homeless Union versus City of Sausalito United States District Court case number three tag 2 1 tech cv tech 0 1 1 4 3 tech lb Number D3 is conference real property negotiator pursuant to california government code section 549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563-549-563- Point eight property. MLK school site 100 Ebtide and 610 Coloma street negotiating parties our new village school negotiating negotiator is the city manager and the city attorney under negotiation or price and terms. D4 is conference with legal counsel Existing litigation pursuant to California Government Code Section 54956, 0.9 D. One. name the case is Dinahhanian versus Kolowich, city of Sausalito, Marin County Superior Court Civil Case Number 1903553. And At this point, I will open I will open public comment on closed session items. |
| 00:03:52.21 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, would you like me to read our statement, do public comment. |
| 00:03:59.17 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Thank you. |
| 00:04:00.82 | Heidi Scoble | A 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 is your turn to speak. To raise your hand. |
| 00:04:13.76 | Jill Hoffman | Mr. Clark, we just... |
| 00:04:17.09 | Heidi Scoble | to raise your hand from a phone, press start nine, and each speaker will be notified when the time has elapsed. And Madam Mayor, it looks like we do have two public speakers. The first one is a guest with the name of T.T. and you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 00:04:35.89 | Janelle Kellman | OKAY. |
| 00:04:41.68 | Titi | Hi, can you all hear me? Thank you. |
| 00:04:43.77 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, I can. Go ahead, please. |
| 00:04:44.04 | Titi | Thank you. Great. I don't have any comments on pending litigation. However, I do have issues to task with the city manager, Mr. Zapata. |
| 00:04:53.52 | Ian Sobieski | which should be considered in closed discussion. |
| 00:04:55.36 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:04:55.51 | Titi | would be considered |
| 00:04:56.96 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 00:04:57.37 | Titi | Exactly. |
| 00:04:58.06 | Jill Hoffman | It means that |
| 00:04:58.11 | Titi | Thank you. |
| 00:04:58.16 | Ian Sobieski | and being the children's dinner perfect. |
| 00:05:00.05 | Jill Hoffman | Just a moment, please. So we had a point of order from our, Councilmember Sobieski I believe madam you were talking about Um, item perhaps You were making comments about the city manager |
| 00:05:13.03 | Titi | Is that correct? Well, those are matters to be considered and discussed in closed session as it pertains to performance review, correct? I think council member Sobieski |
| 00:05:24.98 | Jill Hoffman | He's talking about item D1. |
| 00:05:25.53 | Ian Sobieski | EY. She's correct, I stand corrected. My apologies, I misunderstood the point she was making and I apologize to the speaker and So thank you. |
| 00:05:34.68 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you very much, Council Member Sobieski. Madam, you may continue. |
| 00:05:38.48 | Titi | Okay, so let's be clear. Some of the campers at MarinShip are former anchor outs who've had their boats declared marine debris, seized by the RBRA and crushed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Others are at risk of the same. Now they're homeless as a result of government action. Mr. Zapata, along with the rest of the panel, assured the Camp Comorant community, there would be open dialogue in an effort to reach an amicable solution to this crisis. However, to date, it appears the city manager is acting of his own accord in sourcing potential service providers for this project. It's unfortunate. but based on Mr. Zapata's performance as city manager in San Leandro, as well as Anaheim, along with the Proposals he's brought forward as a resolution to Sausalito's current crisis I'm of the opinion he's ill-equipped and incapable of managing this city effectively. For the record, Mr. Zapata has established a $464,000 contract with Urban Alchemy, who's a compromised service provider due to the following. The Urban Alchemy team was co-mingling with clients during their prior assignment here and breached confidentiality as it pertains to their interaction with law enforcement. specifically information has been carried back to the camp in regard to communications with Lieutenant Stacy Gregory. So here's another service provider who is unable Thank you. to breach the surface of the complex needs of this community. And this is professional misconduct at its highest level. Due to the mismanagement of the anchor outs and unhoused population in my city, along with the deliberate actions of this panel. More specifically, Mr. Zapata, You all have allowed this inhumane and illogical course of action. I've asked the Office of the Governor for assistance and oversight in regards to this emergency as declared by Mr. Zapata himself. and his request for state funds. The Urban Alchemy guys were here today and I met Michael at 7-Eleven where he bought a beer and slammed it around the corner and headed back to the camp. When I confronted him, He confirmed it in front of everyone. It begs the question, is that honestly your service provider of choice? In conclusion, Make sure you grab the Christmas turkey by the neck before you cook it. Thank you. |
| 00:08:09.96 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:08:13.00 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker, it's Timothy Logan. Timothy, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 00:08:26.75 | Timothy Logan | I just wanted to say something that the police people just said. um and he's in his home. |
| 00:08:37.30 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you, sir. |
| 00:08:44.18 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:08:44.20 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. |
| 00:08:45.30 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:08:46.35 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, it looks like we do have another speaker and the name on the on screen, it's Elba. You've been unmuted and as to share your video. |
| 00:09:00.40 | Jill Hoffman | I believe our previous speaker needs to be, mute there you go thank you thank you Mr. Clark okay very good Yes, go ahead, but I think you're still on mute on your end. |
| 00:09:08.13 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:09:15.46 | Jill Hoffman | I believe you've been unmuted on our end. Madam, you need to mute on your end. |
| 00:09:18.56 | Unknown | All right. Hi, can you hear now? |
| 00:09:20.28 | Jill Hoffman | I can hear you now, yes, go ahead please. |
| 00:09:20.35 | Unknown | I can't hear you now. Yes, go ahead. Hi, this is Cynthia's Egg, Inc. Chair of Camp Cormorant. And I wanna say it was great having the Alchemy guys here today. breath of fresh air. And hopefully it can be the beginning of a lot of really good decision making and It's great to have them back. I hope it all works out. All right. Bless you guys. Thank you. |
| 00:09:39.03 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. |
| 00:09:44.90 | Heidi Scoble | And Madam Mayor, we have no other public speakers at the moment. |
| 00:09:50.71 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, very well, thank you. I will then close public comment. |
| 00:09:57.47 | Jill Hoffman | and we will adjourn to closed session. Thank you. |
| 00:10:08.56 | Heidi Scoble | We'll resume our audio sequence and cameras are Thank you. |
| 00:10:14.38 | Unknown | up. |
| 00:10:17.59 | Heidi Scoble | getting all public right now, so give us about five seconds. I'm going to go. |
| 00:10:25.22 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:41.82 | Heidi Scoble | And Madam Mayor, all participants are in the room. |
| 00:10:46.26 | Jill Hoffman | Very good, thank you. We will, at this point, we will reopen the meeting. We are returning from closed session. I will note that We have four members of our council present, Council Member Blaustein, Oh, sorry. Councilman Walsing will not be able to join us this evening. And so due to a family emergency. So. Um, could I have, uh, APPROVAL of the agenda or a motion to approve the agenda. |
| 00:11:14.27 | Melissa Blaustein | So Mayor Hoffman, I'm happy to approve the agenda, but I think you wanted to remove the items five, I'm sorry the items about the selection of the mayor and vice mayor and move those to our January meeting |
| 00:11:21.51 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not sure. |
| 00:11:21.97 | Unknown | it. |
| 00:11:22.03 | Jill Hoffman | Great. |
| 00:11:28.97 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, I was... I would like to move to approve the agenda with the following amendments that items due to the absence of council member Blaustein that we AND, UM, Move items 4D. which is presentation, to the Mayor Hoffman in 2021 highlights 4E which is council election of the mayor and 4F which is council election of the vice mayor to our next regularly scheduled city council meeting, January 11th of 2022. Um, Do I have... a second on that motion? |
| 00:12:12.12 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah, I'll second that motion. And I just also wanted to recognize that this is our December meeting and that traditionally we've had our holiday parking donation fund. and we hear from several nonprofits that we've been able to contribute to and people that have been providing services to the underserved. And it's always a really wonderful holiday tradition. And I just hope that we can return to that. next year. With that, I'll second the agenda. |
| 00:12:39.98 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. May I have a vote, please? |
| 00:12:43.73 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Sobieski. |
| 00:12:46.14 | Ian Sobieski | Can we just have some discussion on that? Sure. I just want to understand the context because it's all a surprise. So I understand Melissa's gone and, you know, You, Mayor and Susan are the veterans on the council. I just wanna, I've been through this before, so I'm just looking for a little color understanding the terms of office and the proposal for the delay to January. |
| 00:13:11.15 | Jill Hoffman | I think the color would be that, you know, the tradition of the city council is that you vote on new mayors and vice mayors every year for the next year in December. but there's nothing, I don't think there's any, It's like there's no ordinance for that. the way we've done it by habit. Um, Anyway, council member Blaustein said she wasn't able to be here tonight. And so I, out of, out of deference for that and that hoping that she would be able to be here and that we would be able to vote as a council all of us present um i offered to move it to the next scheduled meeting and she seemed greatly relieved that Um, that she would be able to attend that meeting. and thanked me and said that she was gonna go attend to her family emergency. |
| 00:14:00.85 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah, and I'd like to just echo that Mayor, I think that's the right thing to do and that all five of us should be present both to commend you for your year and to choose leadership for next year. |
| 00:14:13.16 | Ian Sobieski | Okay, and if we decided to do a special meeting earlier, then we could do that if we... so chosen, presumably. |
| 00:14:22.14 | Jill Hoffman | Um, Presumably, yeah. But I, you know, yes. |
| 00:14:27.41 | Ian Sobieski | THE END OF THE END OF THE Thank you for... the discussion. |
| 00:14:30.68 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Okay, motion on the table. It's seconded. Can I please have a vote? |
| 00:14:37.62 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Sobieski? Council Member Cleveland Knowles. |
| 00:14:42.42 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:14:43.49 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kelman? |
| 00:14:45.02 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:14:45.73 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:14:46.73 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Okay, motion carries unanimously with the four council members present. And moving on then to our next presentation, which is our next item on the agenda, which is special presentations and we have none this evening. Our next item is action minutes of the previous meetings and it's approval of draft minutes of the regular city council meeting of November 16th, November 17th, November 24th, and December 2nd. And do I have, a motion Do I have a motion to approve? |
| 00:15:30.05 | Melissa Blaustein | make the motion if there's no corrections, although I think we have to take public comment as well. |
| 00:15:34.20 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Okay. Okay, so there's a motion on the table? I'll go ahead. Is there a second? And then we'll move on to public comment. |
| 00:15:45.13 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:15:45.15 | Jill Hoffman | So, Okay. Okay, then we're gonna open up public comment for minutes of previous meetings. Do we have any public comment for this item? minutes of previous meetings. |
| 00:16:00.29 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, it does not look like we have any hands raised, but would you like me to read how to provide public comment? |
| 00:16:06.21 | Janelle Kellman | Yes, I would. Thank you. |
| 00:16:08.27 | Heidi Scoble | Video or audio public comment participation is limited to three minutes per speaker. If you would like to make a comment, please raise your hand in the Zoom application and you will be called upon when it's your time to speak. To raise your hand from a phone, press start nine and each speaker will be notified when time has elapsed. Madam Mayor, looks like we do have one hand raised and that's Timothy Logan. |
| 00:16:32.43 | Janelle Kellman | Okay? |
| 00:16:34.37 | Heidi Scoble | Timothy, you're being unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 00:16:41.93 | Jill Hoffman | Mr. Luger, we're not able to hear you. |
| 00:16:50.73 | Jill Hoffman | Mr. Logan, we're still not able to hear you. I see that your hand's up. We can see, yes, sir. Now this is for Mr. Logan. |
| 00:16:55.91 | Janelle Kellman | THE FAMILY IS |
| 00:16:56.11 | Jill Hoffman | support. |
| 00:16:56.99 | Janelle Kellman | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:16:57.76 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, this is for item two, which is just about minutes of previous meetings. Is this the item that you wish to provide public comment on? |
| 00:17:06.49 | Timothy Logan | Yeah, the minutes on previous meetings, I believe the last city council meeting There were several questions that were asked by In fact, one of them was You said that we could talk to the Coast Guard Director and never from a recognition of staff, but we never got any answers The question for us, the coach called? And I was curious as to why that was, why we never seem to get any answers. to the questions that we pose. |
| 00:17:44.17 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, sir, let me- |
| 00:17:44.61 | Timothy Logan | Well, let me... I think it's really meaning something |
| 00:17:49.27 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, sir. Yes, sir. But I think what you want to talk about if you want to speak to maybe matters that are not on the agenda, this is just that you've read the minutes and that you have some amendments on the minutes or that you wanna provide public comment for these drafts of the minutes. Is there any issue that you have with the draft of the minutes? |
| 00:18:09.14 | Timothy Logan | to try to get a little bit more The fact that the drafts don't reflect for any answers back from you guys. It bothers me some because I would like this to be more of an open dialogue. And it doesn't seem that way to us. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:18:29.44 | Jill Hoffman | All right, thank you very much, sir. Do you see any other questions Hands raised, Mr. Clerk. |
| 00:18:37.44 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, there are no other hands raised at the moment. |
| 00:18:40.58 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thanks very much. then there is a motion on the table. I'm going to close public comment. Motion on the table. Motion is seconded. Can I please have a call the roll? |
| 00:18:51.80 | Heidi Scoble | Councilmember Sobieski. Yes. Council member Glyberman-Holls. |
| 00:18:56.98 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:18:57.96 | Heidi Scoble | VICE MAYOR KILMAN. |
| 00:18:59.41 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:19:00.11 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:19:01.07 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Okay, moving on to our next item on the agenda, which is the consent calendar. Matters on the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial, require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous council support, and may be enacted by the council in one motion. There will be no separate discussion of the consent calendar items. However, before the council votes on a motion to adopt the consent calendar items, council members, city staff, or members of the public may request the specific items be removed from the consent calendar for separate action items removed from the consent calendar will be discussed later on the agenda and public comment will be heard on any item that was removed from the consent calendar There are six items on our consent counters evening. The first one is a report on State bill 1383, which is state mandated organic waste diversion model ordinance. Item 3B is adoption, adopt a resolution to extend the amnesty period for Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units to December 31st, 2022. Consideration of an amendment to the lease agreement between the city of Sausalito and the New Village School. That's item 3C. Item 3D is review and approval of the city council meeting schedule for June through December of 2022. Item 3E is receive and file. annual list of expiring terms on the various boards and commissions during 2022. And item 3F is adopt a resolution to continue conducting the city council the city council and all other city board commission and committee meetings remotely due to health and safety concerns for the public. And so I will open up public comments. with regard to the consent calendar and then I will close And we will have a motion. THE END OF the consent calendar. And so, I see Council Member Sobieski's hand up, but Council Member Sobieski, I think we'll get to you when we get the motion on the table. |
| 00:21:07.16 | Ian Sobieski | This is the fix that comes out of closed session? |
| 00:21:09.15 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. Yeah, you know what, let's do the, maybe we should do, let's do if there's a, if there's a motion to accept the consent calendar and councilman sobieski you can date the amendment prior to |
| 00:21:21.03 | Ian Sobieski | I move to accept the consent calendar with a modification on item 3C, the New Village School lease, the 13th amendment to that lease. changing what is in the staff report from the $1.30 per square foot of outdoor space. that's in the report and reducing that to 40 cents per square foot. outdoor space. In addition to that, you start dating and it's for that area added by for the area added by the 13th amendment will be the the use or occupancy of that area. by the 13th Amendment or receipt of the requisite license from the state. for the operation of a preschool September 1st, 2022. |
| 00:22:07.16 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. All right, thank you. amendment motion with the amendments on the table. Do I have a second for the motion? as it's amended on the table. I'll second that. Okay, thank you. And so we will move on now to public comment on the item. |
| 00:22:22.74 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, it does look like we have a hand raised in Peter Van Meter. YOU'VE BEEN... |
| 00:22:27.75 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:22:27.79 | Janelle Kellman | Okay. |
| 00:22:28.55 | Heidi Scoble | unmute it and ask to share your video. |
| 00:22:30.69 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. |
| 00:22:33.46 | Peter Van Meter | Good evening. I was unable to comment on this item. when it was on our previous meeting agenda. And that's item 3F I'm referring to, which is a continuation of remote meetings. I think it's really essential we get back to in-person meetings as soon as possible. the community. collaboration and the dynamic of those meetings is irreplaceable and has not been a factor as we've gone through these remote meetings. I think that the city can undeclared its emergency. If that's a statement that's required to make this happen, and continue to do events such as the recent |
| 00:23:06.89 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 00:23:10.53 | Peter Van Meter | Historical Society event where attendees as a city sponsored event, of course, and attendees were required to show proof of vaccination. And that was a very successful event. I think that same kind of format can be handled at in-person city council meetings, really important. Now, if you want to try to have hybrid meetings for some people who want to participate via the screen, I think that is a workable concept and something that can be considered as well. So I think your choice here tonight is either to take this item off the consent calendar and schedule it later in your meeting for debate and reverse your prior policy decisions. or if you refuse to do that tonight, when you come up for your automatic renewal. although it's not automatic when you come up for your renewal in 30 days, And you have made every effort between now and that 30-day extension dates. to do what you can to go back to live meetings. Really essential for public participation with the city council in Sausalito and other meetings as well. The other boards and commissions that this ruling applies to. |
| 00:24:15.28 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:24:18.28 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Timothy Logan. Timothy, you're being unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 00:24:26.64 | Timothy Logan | Um, now that last speaker was, uh, very correct. And we need to make sure that people are more, um, public and, um, upfront sort of thing. like is the fact that you have to have a vaccination card Thank you. |
| 00:24:45.84 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:24:47.06 | Timothy Logan | get into one because then that leaves people like me Mm-hmm. So we plan on getting vaccinated. no other option and I can't get into those three meetings. I think my voice is very, Well, I heard through the people and I'm pretty articulate about what I say. So, I see there's some problems there with the whole vaccine thing. Other than that, yes, I think we should get back to public meeting. Thank you. |
| 00:25:16.57 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 00:25:19.67 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Eva. Eva, you've been asked to be unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 00:25:32.38 | Eva | I wanted to just THEIR OWNERS. I would like to comment on the, the notion that you would either go to full in-person meetings with no Zoom, or just the idea of trying to maintain the vaccination card check that's going to be really complicated Um, We are going into flu season and neither of the prior two speakers, both of whom I have a good deal of respect for, um, will be, uh, swabbing the floors in the emergency room or in the ICUs. Um, once people start getting sick, um, flu season is, is hard enough on hospitals, but we've had two years of pandemic, uh, with hops hospital staff running down. And just because some homeowners, uh, want to, go back to in person meetings because it makes them feel better I don't blame them I mean I think it'd be nice in general but that's probably not where we're at at this point nobody really knows much about the new variant and I think it's it's unwise |
| 00:26:29.57 | Jeanette | In general. |
| 00:26:42.62 | Eva | to do. to reopen public meetings with all the complications thereof right as you're entering the winter when this is when even without a pandemic emergency rooms are often going on to divert so I would advise you not to |
| 00:26:58.44 | Titi | are |
| 00:27:04.06 | Eva | not to bend to pressure to reopen before you really know what you're doing and if anyone has any you know doubts about that just take a look at what happened in Cordo Madera at the Neal Cummins School where unfortunately, because somebody sent their kid who the health department had instructed them not to send them to school. they did so anyway. Maybe it was a mistake, we don't really know, but the fact is that 75 people had to quarantine after that. If some of those people, you know, if it's not a school situation, if it's a public meeting space and some of those people are healthcare workers, then hospitals are going to be short. the most important thing is keeping people safe and as sick as everyone is of the pandemic. I don't blame them. I'd love to reopen, but it needs to be thought through very carefully. Thank you. |
| 00:27:56.07 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:27:59.58 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, I don't see any further hands up. That correct? Miss you, port. |
| 00:28:04.70 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. We have no other hands raised. |
| 00:28:07.78 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. In that case, there's a motion that's been seconded. I please have a roll call vote, please. |
| 00:28:17.02 | Heidi Scoble | Council member Sobieski? Councilmember Cleland Knowles. |
| 00:28:21.72 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:28:22.52 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. |
| 00:28:23.88 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:28:24.25 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:28:25.59 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Okay, thank you. Moving on to our next item, business items, we have, We have three business items on our agenda tonight. We let's sustainability commission presentation. authorized the city manager to execute an agreement with urban alchemy and Our third item is an update on the Bank of America building, which will be fairly short and that's gonna be from Um, Councilmember Sobieski, For those of you who joined us late, due to the absence, unexpected absence of Council Member Blaustein, we continued Item 4D, 4E, And for F. the january 11th our next city council meeting which is january 11th um, absent. anyway the motion on the table that was approved was um to move it to january 11th Okay, so let's go with our presentation from the sustainability commission and I welcome Looks like Ms. Wiley is going to give the presentation. It's just guessing, but it looked like that's the way it's gonna go. Okay, good. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. |
| 00:29:40.92 | Elena Lipp | Good evening. I'm here to give a short introduction good evening city council my name is Elena Lipp and I'm an assistant planner I staff the sustainability commission I'm available for questions afterwards um but with us tonight our chair Lauren Wiley co-chair Greg Thompson and Commissioner Mark Palmer and you're correct chair while you have the floor |
| 00:30:02.15 | Jill Hoffman | Thanks very much. Thanks for that introduction. |
| 00:30:05.03 | Elena Lipp | Thank you. |
| 00:30:05.05 | Lauren Wiley | Thank you. |
| 00:30:05.12 | Elena Lipp | Oh, sure. |
| 00:30:05.47 | Jill Hoffman | . |
| 00:30:05.54 | Lauren Wiley | you |
| 00:30:05.74 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:30:06.21 | Lauren Wiley | Thank you, Helena. Hello, Madam Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor, Council Members, and members of the public. I am the current chair of the sustainability commission. Vice chair Greg Thompson and I are here representing tonight and pleased to present an update to you about the work we are undertaking to support the city's commitment to sustainability as articulated in the general plan. Meeting the commitment will require collective action from everyone in our community. no business no individual or city department will be immune from needing to transition to new behaviors and business practices in order to meet the critical timeline set forth in this plan And many of the change will be required by state law within the next few years. So as we outline on page six of tonight's presentation, which is attached to the agenda and I believe being shown on the screen. I'm not sure. Yeah. Um, So, we're going to have to do The sustainability commission's role is to advise the city council on critical priorities that will equitably advance our community's sustainability. |
| 00:31:16.97 | Titi | Our work is |
| 00:31:17.96 | Lauren Wiley | Thank you. Is that being shared? |
| 00:31:22.35 | Greg Thompson | working on it. |
| 00:31:23.59 | Lauren Wiley | Okay. Oh, thanks, Greg. um, So on slide 6 we gave a pre read, so there'll be a few slides in there that you can thumb through and I'm highlighting a couple of those before turning it over to Greg. And on slide six, we talk about our role. And then as you'll see in slide seven, We are fortunate to have commissioners with deep expertise in many of the areas that we cover. Our primary topics, waste, water, energy, transportation- Chair Weilley, |
| 00:31:52.47 | Jill Hoffman | Chair Wiley. sorry this is there we go we lost you for a second okay i mean we didn't lose you but we lost the the powerpoint so |
| 00:31:53.99 | Lauren Wiley | Yeah. Here we go. |
| 00:31:59.98 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. Go ahead. We can now see it. Can you see it on your screen as well? |
| 00:32:04.69 | Lauren Wiley | Yeah, now I can. So, Greg, if you go to page six or whoever's sharing, |
| 00:32:13.23 | Lauren Wiley | And you'll see the role of the sustainability commission, which I've spoken to. And then, um, on the next slide. And then the next slide on slide seven shows that the commission is made up of of those of us who actually work in our day jobs in this topic area or many of them. And it's allowing us to then break into subcommittees and really dig into the details between our monthly meetings. So we've been able to cover a lot of ground. Um, on the subcommittees are shown on the next slide. For example, the Commission's been working for years on the topic of waste in close collaboration with Bay Cities Refuse and has brought forth and implemented the first stages of a single-use plastic band ordinance as well as securing grant funding this past summer to be used to assist the city with the upcoming implementation of SB 1383, which is no small task. And that is, was presented in the calendar tonight. with lots of great documentation put there by Elena Lipp. who is managing that process. Amen. Other topics are in earlier stages of their development. And with our short time here this evening, we chose to focus on the topics that are Hi, yes. in greenhouse gas emissions. And therefore we see them as our priority areas. At the end of Greg's presentation, we'll be asking for your support on some next steps. And we'll be also asking you to consider supporting a climate emergency resolution for Sausalito to be brought forth as a future item on the consent calendar. While the city has already made strides to build climate action into its general plan, we have not yet seen sustainability be integrated into city operations to the level that will be required. declaring a climate emergency might be helpful to the city for the purposes of prioritization, and for the community as something to rally behind and help with communication. it could spark the collective action that we will need. So thank you, and I will pass it to Greg Thompson from here. |
| 00:34:30.97 | Greg Thompson | Great, thank you, Lauren. And thank you city council for, um, giving us this opportunity to do this presentation. Next slide, please. I'm going to focus on the priorities as Lauren mentioned. So why is sustainability important. Next slide, please. And what the real, real critical needs are. Obviously we're in a climate crisis and it's, you know, the health issues are a big deal. You can, see the bullet points there about air quality and that the pollution kills three times more people than other things. And with the increasing emissions, things will get worse. And so we are stating here that without addressing emissions, we will be impacted by more devastating and frequent droughts, fires, storms, mudslides, along with higher sea levels. Next slide, please. So this is from the Marine Climate and Energy Partnership. This is the emissions pie chart. And as you can see here, What we've done is taken the two largest categories. So transportation and basically natural gas or methane gas, which together, constitute over 90 percent of our emissions so our city's focus should be on those two categories so transportation EV charging from 100 renewable electricity and then cleaner public transportation with increased ridership for the transportation category And then for the built environment, homes and businesses, the methane gas, is the second largest and so there we want to become 100 renewable energy community with electrifying the heating and also water with efficient buildings. Next slide, please. So, in the adopt in the general plan we now have a sustainability element so the adopted general plan says that sauce lido will make transformational changes to become a leader in sustainable practices and that we are prioritizing sustainability through the implementation of the objectives, the policies and programs that are in the sustainability element of the general plan. Next slide. And our first objective in the sustainability element is this pursuant to the general plan that our goal is to reduce emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. And that California is also has additional goals of achieving 100% carbon free electricity by 2045 and an economy wide carbon neutrality by 2045. The point here is that we as a city here, are in line to track these goals at the state and county level and make sure we are we are doing our part there Next slide. All right, so within this, the key priorities are transportation and energy, as mentioned, which are over 90% of our emissions. Next slide. I'll give a couple of updates on these two categories So the background on transportation, so in compliance with other cities in Marin, including San Rafael and San Anselmo, our recommendation is to increase EVs to 30%, by 2030, by building out the EV charging infrastructure as city infrastructure, and encouraging EV ownership through incentives, public education, and development requirements. And this is all in line with the state's goal to put 5 million EVs on the road by 2030, The next bullet is just saying that there's all kinds of improvements in the technology and the costs in subsidizing these from different sources, state and and automakers commitments to expanding their EV offering. So the timing is really good here. And in addition, EV charging stations can also become another revenue source for the city. And then a couple of points here, Assembly Bill 1236 requires cities to make EV charger permitting and approvals easy. and so requiring homeowners to underground electrical lines when the selling EV charges is in direct conflict with that and adds an enormous unwarranted cost And then the Transportation Authority of Marin is subsidizing the installation or the cost of the EV chargers And right now we have applied for and received approval for charging ports for the city. Next slide. This is read, read. just iterating why transportation is important. Most of our emissions in transportation here are from passenger vehicles. That's why EVs be charging infrastructure is so critical. We are trying to align our emissions reductions by addressing the transportation category increasing EVs to 30% by 2030. And that means public EV charging becomes required city infrastructure. And that's a key point here. There's a couple of stats here about, you know, how many charges you need. And I don't need to go to the details here, but it's to say that, If we're getting to 30% of the 8,700 vehicle registrations we have here, It's 2600 EVs. So that's roughly, you know, a lot more, you know, it's 80. So public charging ports and seven or so fast charges. So we, what we're going to do next slide. I'm going to lead us to where we're going to get to with this. First, these are the list of things in the general plan that are the requirements for EVs and EV charging. I'm not gonna go through these, but it's charging stations, EV plan, all kinds of support the city needs to implement on behalf of this objective. Next slide. THEIR OWN And so our next steps here is that we would like the city council to direct city planning and operations staff to include EV charging as essential city infrastructure in city planning and operations per this requirement for the city, the state, et cetera, on electrifying transportation to reduce those emissions. In the sustainability commission, we have a transportation subcommittee and we are participating in and will help finalize the Marin County's EV readiness plan. So that's the plan that is going to, I'm not sure. put to the right you know, number of public EV charges and the right type of public EV charges in place across the county, including Sausalito. And that's via the MCEP, the Marine Climate and Energy Partnership Steering Committee. |
| 00:40:51.48 | Eva | This isn't the doctors or the nurses. |
| 00:40:54.43 | Greg Thompson | somebody should go on mute. Um, And then, We want the city council and the city staff to integrate this final Marin County EV readiness plan into city planning and operations. And then it will include additional direction from our transportation subcommittee. Next slide. Moving on to energy and methane gas, so that's 28% of our emissions. And again, transportation and natural gas, methane gas is over 90%. Just quick background on this, a new study was showing that replacing natural gas with clean electricity, particularly for heating and hot water production, slash his admissions but also saves consumers money. So it's a benefit in terms of economics, as well as in terms of the environment and the climate issues. Next slide. The couple other bullet points on that slide is about solar and other things we can do to make our energy and we're going to have a These are the general plan requirements and the sustainability element, which, uh, which cover natural gas replacement construction goals, including, um, you know, net zero energy construction in both private and public sectors. So managing all electric systems for heating and appliances, rebate programs, utility partnerships, partnerships, and on next slide. Uh-oh, where's the text? Next, hit the button. There we go. Bye-bye. All right, so There is alignment here with the Marin County code. So Marin County in collaboration with the Marin Climate and Energy Partnership is exploring and researching an all-electric new construction reach code And every three year code cycle, Marin County recommends all municipal jurisdictions align the building codes as best as possible. So that minimizes confusion, right? So we want to align with the county code here. So our recommendation is a new construction electrification code to be adopted concurrently with the tri-annual county code and California code going into effect January 1st, 2023. Next slide. And so our next steps on the energy side is to align with the county on the code but also include major renovations because new construction only is not going to help us much with the missions we don't have that much new construction There are going to be multiple jurisdictions that also include major renovations in existing homes and buildings that would cover replacing gas appliances with electric. and then promote also on the energy category, promote and facilitate solar and storage installations throughout the city. And one comment across the state, there's like over 50 cities that have already passed an electrification ordinance here. So we are, we would be jumping on board a large train of other cities who've already done this. |
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| 00:43:48.65 | Greg Thompson | Next slide. So our requests for the city council based on today's presentation, based on where we are, based on our priorities are these three items. we put this into question format so will the council agree to create a sustainability role as part of city staff to ensure that the adopted sustainability priorities in the general plan are integrated into our regular city planning and operations. We think this is essential. And number two, Will the council support our prior prioritization and preparation that we were requiring for the transportation and energy priorities as stated in this presentation. And essentially the good news there is that we are tracking countywide planning for both transportation in terms of the EV readiness plan and energy, in terms of electrification ordinance, with some other input from the sustainability commission subcommittees on those two categories. But that's essentially what we're saying. Number three, will the council support the commissions submitting a climate emergency resolution as Lauren was saying earlier? to be presented as a future consent calendar item. So that's a way to emphasize the critical importance of integrating sustainability into city operations, as well as community and business best practices. And that is our presentation for today. Thank you. |
| 00:45:16.15 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thanks very much. Thanks for all the work on this. And thanks for all the work that you guys do throughout the year with regard to sustainability commission. And I will say that Greg, did a tremendous amount of work on our sea level rise task force as well. So thank you for that. and thanks to all of your team. Excellent presentation. uh, Let's just go around. to city council members. Do you have any questions for and questions for the commission or for staff on this presentation. And I think we can I don't know that we need to continue to share screen at this point, maybe later, if there's a question, And any questions for the commission or for the staff before we move to public comment on this item? I don't see any questions from the council I see no hands raised. Thank you. |
| 00:46:12.44 | Janelle Kellman | Actually, maybe I'll go. |
| 00:46:12.76 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:46:13.72 | Janelle Kellman | Oh, no, I don't. |
| 00:46:13.76 | Jill Hoffman | Oh no, I don't. Go ahead. |
| 00:46:15.21 | Janelle Kellman | or somebody has his legitimate hand up and I only, Well, he has his daughter. |
| 00:46:18.48 | Jill Hoffman | He has his virtual hand up and you have your actual Yeah, he should go first. I'll wait in line. Okay, go ahead. I can't ask somebody else to go ahead. except that you're on move. |
| 00:46:30.38 | Ian Sobieski | Thanks for the update. Congratulations on your work. I look forward to your meeting. I think it's tomorrow. Um, and And I was just wondering if as part of your work |
| 00:46:38.21 | Titi | Thank you. |
| 00:46:38.31 | Peter Van Meter | . |
| 00:46:38.48 | Titi | We'll be right back. |
| 00:46:38.53 | Peter Van Meter | to the |
| 00:46:38.55 | Titi | So, |
| 00:46:40.69 | Ian Sobieski | uh you have considered or would consider looking at other similarly sized municipalities that might be thought leaders in terms of ordinances and other things that they have actually adopted and that we could simply copy and paste more or less in our community rather than trying to develop things from whole class |
| 00:47:00.37 | Greg Thompson | Yeah, that's a great question. And we do that as a matter of course. And so for example, the Sustainability items in the element in the general plan were based on what Shannon Semmel and San Rocco have prioritized. And so we are constantly in touch with not only other jurisdictions but also with some of the countywide collaboration teams on this to make sure we are tracking what they're doing, using them as a model And that's what has gone into all of our planning. So we have none of this has been created out of the blue or just as a Sausalito thinking it has been countywide. We've looked at some state things as well, and it's been in good conversations with other sustainability leaders across the county. |
| 00:47:54.49 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Any other questions for the commission? Oh yes, sorry, Vice Mayor, go ahead. Thank you. |
| 00:47:59.58 | Janelle Kellman | Great, Lauren, Greg, great to see you both. Thank you for taking the time. I know it's a lot of work. So we got the presentation, I appreciate you hanging with us here. So to build on council member Sobieski's question, two parts to it. One is, I serve on the MCC MC Climate Action Committee and Greg, you know this from time to time, I will pull in you or Mark or council member Blaustein to say, hey, this other jurisdiction is doing something similar looking at electrification. So my first question is what can we as council members do to further assist you in that? And then the flip side of that is, are you currently keeping any type of tracking system with something we actually talked about at MCCMC, trying to keep track of what everybody is doing, but have you guys thought about maybe doing that? And in fact, we could lead the way and share that with other communities. So that's my first question. And then I have another question for you. |
| 00:48:54.85 | Greg Thompson | Yeah, I can jump in and Lauren may have more to add. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing because I'm involved in you know, for example, a the County collaboration team on sustainability and there's MCEP and what you're doing. And it's sort of like, how do we align this and make sure we're all collaborating well? And I think one of the answers is, if we have some kind of recurring way to sync up in a line on the different. There's too many multiple meetings happening on sustainability and climate stuff around the county. And it's all helpful and it's people are trying to do the right thing. And it has got to be a better way we can align as a city council and a and if we had somebody in on staff who was responsible for sustainability as we are suggesting or strongly you know asking for that person could help So that's one answer. |
| 00:49:56.15 | Lauren Wiley | Yeah. Greg and I are completely aligned on this. That was my instinct as a response was to say, go back to number one of our asks we really are THE FAMILY. hurt by the fact that we don't have, like some of the other jurisdictions do, an owner, an actual role with dedicated time to owning these things. Alaina, who's on the screen here, is tremendous as our liaison and is doing so much work. but she has a full day job. We are volunteers. We have full day jobs. So does the council. So at some point, you know, we need that dedicated time. to take all of this advisory and all these big ideas and all these plans and actually implement. I think we're at that stage. I don't know that we were there two years ago, but we're firmly there now, especially when you look at SB 1383, in full implementation stage. And then you have these ideas that are incubating right now, but coming in hot from the state and we just need to prepare ourselves. |
| 00:51:01.97 | Janelle Kellman | So great, great segue to that one. Greg and I have talked about this at length as well. And this echoes what we put in as the very first recommendation in the Sea of Liberal Rights Task Force report and recommendation. And whatever we call it, I think we're all in agreement that there's a lens towards climate issues, whether it's sustainability, resiliency or whatnot. I think it would be helpful. And so I'm wondering if you guys have undertaken this, I think it would be helpful to kind of flush out what the individual would do um and then maybe uh you know we talked about at our workshop on october 30th wanting to have a grant writer come to the table if you've identified any funding sources just to kind of jump start this process um so i'm interested to hear if you've done any legwork and if you haven't i get it right we're all we're all busy um and i'd also love to know you know other than san rafael with corey um and i think san san selmo maybe splits a person and um RJ in Corner Madera kind of wears a couple of hats. Who else is doing this? It's always really helpful to bring information to the council to say, Like this is the state of affairs in Southern Moran, in Moran County. Here's who has somebody full time, part time. Here's what they're doing. Here's what they've passed. Do you have access to that info or have you started to put that together? |
| 00:52:18.11 | Lauren Wiley | We do. We have a lot of it. Elena and Greg and I have had numerous conversations about this. I believe Elena and you could speak out, but I know that you were doing some research on job description stuff. I know that there's someone in Mill Valley. that also has sort of a shared hat Elena, did you want to comment? |
| 00:52:42.32 | Elena Lipp | Yeah, Novato has a full-time sustainability coordinator, Gretchen Schubach. If you look at the roster of MCEP, You'll see most of the sustainability coordinators for for the various cities of Marin County. |
| 00:52:59.05 | Janelle Kellman | Well, I'll take this last thing. I just want to give a shout out to Elena for her hard work. And I know you have a full plate, but you also have a background in sustainability. So we're very fortunate to have you and your insight. And so I'll just stop my questions there, but thank you all for your hard work. And Elena, thank you for wearing an extra hat here. Thank you guys for having me. |
| 00:53:17.18 | Greg Thompson | I want to echo that and also I really want to thank our mayor and vice mayor for setting up the sea level rise task force and leading that with such excellent thank you both for that. |
| 00:53:28.63 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Council member Cleveland-Nulls. |
| 00:53:34.18 | Melissa Blaustein | Great, thank you. Yeah, and thanks for the great presentation. It's amazing to see kind of the next iteration of the low emission action plan and kind of starting to actualize some of those items and bring them forward. So thank you for that. Just to follow up on the Vice Mayor's comments, Yeah. I think bringing a more, some practicality to the position of a sustainability coordinator would be very helpful. I mean. I think some of you were able to listen to our strategic planning session and our discussion around budgeting and the fact that we are facing structural deficit and we've got financial challenges. So I really like the idea of some kind of a shared position, either a position that we share with another jurisdiction or someone here within our staff that can be doing, several roles, but dedicated to sustainability as well, just as a start and kind of see how our financial situation improves. I'd love to get the city manager's thoughts as we head into our midterm budget. and think about our next year budget about what we could start to do to institutionalize that and formalize it within Frosilito and then maybe grow it over time. And then I just kind of on the EV charging, EV Focus. I think that's a great, you know, it's obviously one of the biggest areas, the biggest bang for our buck in the transportation sector, but I would also just, like to add that you know, like to hear kind of how you're thinking about the EVs from a congestion management perspective. I mean, just replacing, our fossil fuel vehicles with EVs is not going to help our kind of. and congestion issues that we have in Marin. And so, you know, maybe at some point coordinating with the feedback and kind of other first mile, last mile solutions, transit solutions, water-based ferry and taxi, et cetera. you know, to kind of supplement the move to EVs with also less reliance on single use, automobile as well could be really interesting. And I don't know if you've kind of had some of those discussions but I know we've been having those regularly with the pedestrian bike advisory committee. So there's probably a lot of great synergy I know I've reduced my auto trips hugely by just having an e-bike. |
| 00:56:07.57 | Titi | you |
| 00:56:08.94 | Melissa Blaustein | and by taking public transit to work, You know, so there's a lot of multiple ways to reduce our emissions and would love to see that. I know focus the EV focus will get us the largest emission reduction I think But, kind of has to other side impacts as well. So we'd love to see some coordination on, um, transit and first mile, last mile. So, but thank you. |
| 00:56:37.78 | Greg Thompson | Thank you. Great. That's exactly right. And in the sustainability element, the transportation segment does include both of those. And we didn't cover the other part, but it's equally important or as important at least And we even tossed around the idea that, if we had a mobility or transportation group task force commission, whatever they would combine both types of mobility so that we could cover it all with one. strategic plan if you will that's a i think a really a good idea to think about Thank you. |
| 00:57:10.33 | Lauren Wiley | Good, thank you. Yeah, I mean, I think going back to my introduction when I was saying no one is really immune from this affecting them. that means no commission either, right? So I think we're just going to see more and more and more need to recognize shared goals and how we are addressing them. and be sure that we're not operating in silos So it really is sustainability is an all hands on deck and about it type of problem. And I think that's what we can expect to need more of and need your support as, You're going to have that sustainability lens. when you are liaising, we, Melissa, who's not here, I'm sure would have a lot to say as our liaison. You all are liaisons to other groups. Having that sustainability lens and asking those questions within those groups is really helpful to us. |
| 00:58:04.99 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. So at this point, if there's no further questions from the council, We'll move on to public comment. on this item and then we'll close public comment and come back for any further discussion. or and move on to our next city council or city Next item on our agenda. Okay, I see two hands up. Mr. Clerk, I'll let you call the names as you see them on your screen. |
| 00:58:27.47 | Heidi Scoble | David Sudo, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 00:58:34.43 | David Sudo | Good evening, City Council. Thanks for having us on the agenda today. I think the EV charging numbers pretty closely aligned with the comment I made earlier this year. about what we need for EV charging in town based on our VMT. and the number of rentals and houses without driveway access where people can charge off street, um, And I would also note that this is EV charging, putting EV charging stations in public, Kevin McGoing could probably |
| 00:59:01.86 | Titi | I would ask you to do that. |
| 00:59:08.29 | David Sudo | inform us more, but it's not as simple and fast process it's gonna you know it could take a year to get a charging station in or more And that's a lot of staff time also liaising with construction consultants, charging companies and PG&E to get utilities put in place. I suggest maybe we need a consultant to help us with our EV charging station issues. you know, determining siting and utilities. And we need to get it. We're not we're behind now with the. with our implementation since we've already have about 10% of all cars in California now. new cars are all EVs and probably Marin that's a higher number we're just we're just gonna be really behind and I answered only I know one person who wanted to drive this EV to Sausalito for the day and he couldn't find charging so he had to drive his SUV instead and I'm sure there's more people out there like that and finally I think we should also look at marine vehicles and charging for marine vehicles while we're at it we have a tremendous number of gas powered, uh, vehicles in our marinas and there's some very interesting and uh cost-effective So it's coming on into commercial availability. Thank you. |
| 01:00:37.74 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:00:38.28 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:00:43.43 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker, it's Peter Van Meter. And Peter, you've been asked to be unmuted. |
| 01:00:50.13 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. I would just be very cautious about mandating the elimination of natural gas in homes. I'm not sure. and it wasn't one correction as far as cost, uh, cleaning a load of laundry and our gas dryer is about one quarter of the cost doing it with electricity. So I'm not sure that that cost item was correct. But also there's other factor here that, particularly as you have more EVs, our electrical grid, which is already stressed, is going to be stressed even more. I saw you kind of had in the fine print Thank you. okay, we're going to charge all these vehicles with renewable energy. Well, of course. you know, that's not only a long way off, but it's not gonna, as we all know the story, not reliable 24 seven. So I'd be very cautious about not having natural gas available for backup in homes. I see you did exclude cooking, because that is absolutely essential that natural gas be available for that purpose. But I kind of worry about mission creep, as you start saying, we're gonna eliminate all other gas appliances. Well, then the next step is gonna be, well, sorry, you just gotta take out your cooktop and print electrical and, You know, frankly, that's just not going to work for many, many people. So just simply be cautious in how far you extend this and how you do it. and so on because it can be a real health and safety matter. WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE GAS, heat available as a backup as an example. And of course, are unique. I realized that. that we have a gravity gas furnace. So it doesn't require any electricity to turn a fan and blow it through our house. It just works silently. with no electricity. So. You know, we can't hope that everybody else has that, We're lucky to have it. Thank you. |
| 01:02:40.49 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:02:43.59 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Kristen. Kristen, you've been unmuted and has to share your video. |
| 01:02:49.64 | Kristen | Hello, good evening. Just wanted to chime in here really and commend Lauren and Greg. I served on the sustainability commission for six years, just turned out earlier this year. And it's been really amazing to see how far the Commission has gone when I first joined. We were just starting to talk about what we called a green lens being applied to city decision making. And I loved hearing Lauren talk about the sustainability lens and the interfacing of sustainability issues with the larger citywide decision making process. we can't escape what's happening around us. And so let's take a leadership role. And just a bit of a historical reflection, When I first joined the Commission, Sausalito was, I guess, you know, I think it'd be fair to say was lagging in terms of its sustainability efforts countywide. We were the last city in the county of Marin to get a curbside composting program. Now we have a wonderful program and I really feel like we've progressed and taken more of a leadership role. And so I just wanted to encourage council to seriously consider the recommendations made by Greg and Lauren tonight and to really interface with the larger county, perhaps with a role. paid staff person to do this really important work. So thank you everyone. |
| 01:04:08.27 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:04:08.29 | Kristen | And, |
| 01:04:08.32 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:04:11.68 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Eva. Eva, you've been unmuted and asked for your video. |
| 01:04:18.60 | Eva | Thanks so much, Eric Cresanti. And I just wanted to point out kind of the irony of, a very wealthy homeowner talking about his gravity fan and how efficient it is. And he doesn't rely on electricity for that. What we're looking at right now in terms of a lot of the homelessness issues and the refugee issues is really the beginning of climate change. And In Sausalito proper, you have a population of people who use very little They don't use a lot of electricity. They don't use a lot of gasoline. They have an incredibly small carbon footprint. And yet these are the people that, you know, through the great wisdom of RBRA and much of the advice of former city council member, Joan Cox, these were the people who were reviled and whose very small amount of property was seized improperly, it was crushed, leaving them homeless, which has now left you with a very large bill. So I think we can, you know, feel you know, we should be looking at sustainability, but a lot of this electric vehicle stuff, there's a lot of downside to that too. And unfortunately, What I've seen is a lot of people with electric vehicles thinking like, well, I don't have to curb my driving now. And you know, the batteries are toxic. If they catch on fire, they're very hard to put out. I'm worried about the new electric motors for boats. quite have a handle on it yet. And at the same time, you know, it is necessary to change. And unfortunately, a lot of the change is stuff that, you know, kind of the wealthy people who have more say in government don't hear, which is that they need to curb their consumption. I mean, that's a really, simple straightforward premise. And unfortunately the people who are doing that are not getting heard and in fact they're getting abused for Ironically, living as modestly as really we should be in this particular era of massive storms, big droughts, epic droughts, flooding, etc, etc. So let's hopefully, you know, not use the idea of sustainability as a reason to just consume more. Thank you. |
| 01:06:56.23 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:07:00.64 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Timothy Logan. Timothy, you're being unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:07:07.54 | Timothy Logan | Yes, I just want to say thank you to Peter because I didn't have a comment before you started speaking and something came to mind. him saying how gas in a regular seem to be very important, almost life So do phones. |
| 01:07:25.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:27.16 | Timothy Logan | Not having them anyway. |
| 01:07:29.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:29.59 | Timothy Logan | So the first thing We've been without power without gas and such for over a year with no help in sight, It concerns me that nobody's even broached that for us. Thank you. |
| 01:07:47.73 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you, sir. Okay, I don't see any other. Answer it. um, |
| 01:07:55.02 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. There are no other hands raised. |
| 01:07:58.90 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. So then I will close public comment for this item and I will bring it back up to the city council for additional discussion or |
| 01:08:07.71 | Titi | All right. I mean, |
| 01:08:12.00 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not sure. additional discussion and direction, but I'm sorry. I'll go. I'll just start the discussion with more Thanks for everything that you guys did. I think we had a really great discussion. and some inquiry for the staff, I think, to follow up on and our city manager. with regard to staff time and how we can allocate that for this important effort. And I think, you know, these are, these are things that we need to address here in Sausalito and, and thanks for that great presentation. So do we have any other, discussion by the council or any other comments before we close this item? Yes, the vice mayor. |
| 01:08:54.17 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, Mayor Hoffman, I think... you know, we've talked about this with the city manager, that, you know, there is interest in, strong interest, I think amongst this council and amongst the city staff our community to pursue having a point person you know, within city hall, who can speak to these issues. Certainly there's budget constraints and we have to figure out how we, with the scope of that, job description would be and how we would fund it. But I'd like to keep that at the forefront of our minds and maybe plant that with the city manager to say, let's continue this conversation or figure out a way to make sure this conversation does not fall to the wayside, because I think it is important to bring somebody with that expertise into city hall and to provide a lens of climate leadership, which is one of the stated objectives or our general plan update, apply that lens to a lot of the work that we do. And I think we'll find there's an efficiency and a long-term resilience that comes from that. If Chris, if we could sort of speak offline about how we keep that as a priority, I'd like to continue. with that topic. |
| 01:09:54.40 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. I see Council Member Cleveland Knowles' hands up next. I also see Chair Wiley's hand up, but this is the time for City Council discussion. Okay, thank you. Go ahead, Council Member, please. |
| 01:10:09.04 | Melissa Blaustein | Yeah, thank you, Mayor. One of the things that we were asked was, I think we've talked about the staff, and I think the Vice Mayor just summarized that. very well, so thank you for that. There is also a request for the sustainability commission would prepare a resolution about a climate emergency. I would certainly be willing and you know, be great to get that if that's something that the sustainability commission thinks. would be helpful. So I'm very open to considering that on an upcoming consent calendar. Bye. they have one in mind. and maybe you could work with council member Blalstein on that. And then in terms of the prioritization of the transportation and energy priorities as they were outlined in the presentation today, very much aligned with the low emission action plan that we already endorsed as a council. about a year and a half ago. with my comments about the EV that we're going to have the move to EV is being complemented with other transportation solutions. I'm happy to endorse the priorities that were put forward this evening. |
| 01:11:30.57 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Same, I agree with Council Member Cleveland-Nulls and Vice Mayor Kelman. and so council member sobieski any further comments very well |
| 01:11:40.03 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. |
| 01:11:41.40 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, very well then. Thank you again to the sustainability commission. Excellent work to all of you and your commissioners and to Um, Ms. Lipp as well as our Assistant City Planner or Assistant Planner thank you so much for helping with that I'm helping that the important work of the Commission |
| 01:11:54.40 | Titi | HELPING THEM. |
| 01:11:56.91 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, so closing this item and moving on to our next item, which is item 4B and that's authorized the city manager to execute an agreement with Urban Alchemy in the amount $463,620 for enhanced management services at the homeless encampment, and approved payment of $34,914.14. for service previously provided. our Mr. Zapata, are you going to be doing that presentation? |
| 01:12:24.84 | Titi | Thank you. |
| 01:12:24.85 | Chris Zapata | Yeah. |
| 01:12:27.72 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:12:27.74 | Chris Zapata | I guess. |
| 01:12:27.91 | Jill Hoffman | What's that? |
| 01:12:28.99 | Chris Zapata | Mayor, Council, and members of the public, I'll be brief. As you know, last month the City Council approved funding to create some security and services at the encampment and the offer to work with the Marin County cooperation team was put in place and they withdrew. as they withdrew, that created a scenario where we needed to start from scratch again. So we engaged, re-engaged Urban Alchemy, who had done work in Saus Lido since, early in the calendar year. And in that conversation with Urban Alchemy, There was a request based on Some of the concerns raised by people in the encampment people adjacent to the encampment and community members that they needed more order, more maintenance, and more safety. And so with that in mind, I approached the urban alchemy leadership group with And proposal that would be a more robust, more complete approach to management of the encampment, and that would include a six-month agreement with the first three months, operating at a seven-day-a-week, 24-hour-a-day camp. the following three months, which would be a five-day 24-7. encampment management. In that management structure, there's also you know, de-escalation and intervention, There's referral to services. there's general maintenance and there are performance metrics. And because we have been using private security to help try to monitor it and have found it to be not as successful as what we saw with Urban Alchemy. who did the work here for a period of time, they have agreed again to assist the community, to assist the guests at the encampment. and to provide that service level at that price. My recommendation and strong recommendation is that you approve the contract tonight so that we can start with the things we need to start with as we head into some more wet weather. And we deal with some of the needs and issues related to the encampment. Parallel to that, I've asked the Homeless Committee of Mayor Hoffman and Councilmember Blaustein to create a a forum with the adjacent property owners. And we've scheduled that for Monday at 3 p.m. to kind of talk through what the path forward is. and then work with Urban Alchemy to work toward stabilizing the encampment and providing a higher level of service than was previously provided. And that concludes my report. We do have... representatives from urban alchemy, on the call if you have questions about what and how and who. But they've been really, really Um... helpful in re-engaging as it's not easy to stop and start with an encampment and that's been made clear to us with what we see going on in our encampment |
| 01:15:40.98 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Thank you for that presentation and thank you for all the hard work that you and the staff did to get us to this point. Um, And so do I have any questions? Do we have any questions from the council members to our city manager or to our staff on this item? Yes, council member Cleo Noles, go ahead. |
| 01:16:05.12 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, City Manager, for the presentation. I'm generally supportive of moving forward with the contract, but I would just note that it is exceedingly expensive in the context of our budget and not sustainable for us to pass the six months. So I just wanted to understand, and I may not have this completely correct, but that in San Rafael and Novato, They use a model that has a camp manager. and a well-trained security detail that is used to working in encampments contexts. And that that is a not, you know, a more, um, economical approach. And I was just wondering if you The city manager has looked into that and whether that might be a long-term solution that we could move to after I I think we need this initial contract to get things under control, but after that, um, whether you've looked into that and whether that might be a possibility. |
| 01:17:15.22 | Chris Zapata | area. Mayor and Council, if I can respond to that. Yes, we have looked into what? city of San Rafael is doing and what Novato is doing. and try to compare them to other experiences around the Bay Area. The bottom line is Sassu has a very unique homeless encampment based on the water. and that in and of itself is a challenge. Sausalito also, we've asked different security companies for different approaches in pricing, and again, we just tried that, and it doesn't seem to be working, and so we're trying to engage someone that does this in San Francisco and does it at a high level and bring them back to our community. But I totally agree with you, it's not sustainable. So we will be looking at different partnership approaches, including grants, nonprofits, the county, the state, and the community. to assist us as this is outstripping our ability to fund in a quick way. Thank you. So I hope that answers your question. I'm happy to answer any more. |
| 01:18:29.40 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Yeah, go ahead, Vice Mayor. |
| 01:18:32.26 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. And thank you, Mr. Zapata, working so diligently on this and thank you our, Committee and Urban Alchemy for coming back into our community. I had some questions last time around milestones and metrics. And I would like to make a request that at our next city council meeting, or maybe prior to that, since that's not until January 11th, that you provide the council with some metrics and milestones that we would have around expectations regarding this contract so we can measure success. and understand the spend. And then relatedly, one thing I have asked for in the past. is a daily record. And so I'd like to understand her block of me's record keeping and our ability as council members to receive that record ability of our community to understand what's happening within the encampment. So You don't have to respond to that second one now, but I would like you to pursue that. Then come back to us with some options and opportunities. I like to see daily reports from Urban Alchemy. I like to see that distributed to the council. under attorney client privilege since we are in litigation. but I would like to get your thoughts on both of those things metrics and daily reports. |
| 01:19:47.70 | Janelle Kellman | If you have thoughts now, I welcome them. |
| 01:19:50.71 | Chris Zapata | Oh, yes. No, and I think that's important that we, figure out what we can provide in terms of information that doesn't compromise the the guest at the encampment and make sure that it is done in a way that isn't detrimental. So we certainly can look at what models exist out there to provide those. They provided a starter set of data that they would give to us, and that would be helpful as we look at things that they've suggested might be like what they're intervening in, you know, how they're having a positive effect, what type of de-escalation they're taking place with. All those things are good things to measure. And they've agreed to do that to start. We can look at more as we talk through the contract with them. |
| 01:20:39.68 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay, thank you. Any other questions from the council members before we open public comment? Seeing none, then we will open comment on this item. on the agenda and I see five hands up. And so generally when we get to five or more, We reduced public comment down to two minutes instead of three. So absent an objection from the rest of the council, I'm going to I mean, they're reducing public COMMENT. time down to two minutes. And so if we could open up public comment I'll depend on the clerk to call out the names. |
| 01:21:19.99 | Heidi Scoble | Our first speaker, it's Timothy Logan. Timothy, you're being unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:21:26.36 | Timothy Logan | Okay, I want to make this fast because I just only have two minutes. home. Most off Can I normally keep people in a kennel and not clean their stalls? Would I be allowed to not feed them? or clothing. You don't need be clean. I'm not starting with the good thing because none of this is good. I'm asking for justice, I'm asking for very feminist equality for the constitutional rights we are given from birth as Americans. and our humanitarian rights for being human. I'm asking for an immediate removal for every man, woman, and child and dog to be moved from Loresh to park, placed in rooms until further notice. because of the health and safety of what's going on there. and your voice and your voice. covering the ground and nobody seems to care. What is more in fact that the sewage that's on the ground is going to be put into the air and made airborne and we're going to be living right next to it No, I'm not going to put my voice down. As far as lawsuits go, there's about to be a whole millions and millions of dollars and lost out for his lawsuits. So, tell us about people who start telling you, that They're the ones paying for this. It's not them. Okay, we all know that you're going to go and get all this money that you spent on us and ask for Uncle Sam to get it back in homeless refunding and homeless accounts. So stop making the city people think that they're the ones that are paying for this when they're really not going to have anything come out of their pockets. You all know this. okay, why does Urban Alchemy all of a sudden have a $400,000 contract when the last place that I talked about it because I told them how raw sewage is on the ground, I said they better not do it because if they're with you with that contract, you know, they're going to be probably held liable. How does Urban Alchemy feel about being liable for the raw sewage that is currently on the ground and their people walking through it and breathing it and and and just like the rest of us I mean they're actually putting their people at higher risk right now is that where their money is coming from or where's that where |
| 01:23:51.26 | Heidi Scoble | Timothy, your three minutes have elapsed. |
| 01:23:54.43 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:23:54.45 | Timothy Logan | I'm not sure. |
| 01:23:54.64 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. |
| 01:23:58.53 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Jason Ceres. And Jason, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:24:06.11 | Jason Ceres | Yeah. Can you hear me? Yes, we can, sir. Go ahead. OK, great. Yeah. I have some concerns with urban alchemy they have like four lawsuits going on one of them is for civil rights issues and you know, there, there, it was in the city and this, I think it's Strickland versus urban alchemy. Um, she's they're suing, she's suing for civil rights violations because, uh, They're they're they're de-escalation process. with her was calling the police and trying to get her arrested on some trumped up charge and there's labor issues with other lawsuits. Thank you. wage stuff going on, it's like grifting, they're grifters. And I just want to let you know also about Novato. looked at urban alchemy and they heard bad things about urban alchemy and they passed on urban alchemy Um, Security. in that Novato Camp will not be allowed in the camp unless there's a fracas going on. Okay. That's why it's cheaper in Novato. That's why. Santa Fe is using their city and they're saving money that way. The only services that are coming in, I think are the care team from Community Action Marin I believe they'll be the ones that are coming into, uh, provide outreach for us, but I, |
| 01:25:39.70 | Titi | All right. |
| 01:25:42.62 | Jason Ceres | you know, this price tag for six months. is absolutely crazy when you could be spending it so much better so much wiser And maybe start by getting these people hotel rooms until you get that, uh, Fecal contamination fixed. Thank you for your time. Thank you. |
| 01:26:00.73 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:26:03.73 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker, it's Robbie Powelson. Robbie, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:26:15.53 | Robbie Powelson | Hi there. You hear me all right? |
| 01:26:18.43 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, sir, go ahead. |
| 01:26:20.13 | Robbie Powelson | So, Yeah. I would hone in on a few comments that were made, both Susan Cleveland Knowles and city managers seem to agree that this contract is going, this is not the level of services that we could do. This is a Surge of services come in two days before The city's going to be pulled into court for contempt for the deployable inhumane conditions and Marineship Park that are making people sick. their causes You know, our samples of high levels of fecal matter and enterococcus in the groundwater seeping out from right next to where everybody was cooking Now we have to move everything off. very very serious conditions and failure to keep people safe. Also, Janelle Pillman said that she wants daily reports that are protected under attorney client privilege. And so what the city is essentially doing is, THEIR OWNERS. using THE END OF Kellman's comments. I think you need to revisit. The city intends to do. what we've always raised an issue with urban alchemy talking to the representative parties. that's a good idea. collecting information in a way that's not proper. and really is that. A back door. where you're improperly gaining information. And I think urban alchemy When Urban Alchemy first showed up, before they got their first contract. You know, they they earned a lot of trust because they came out. They were smoking weed with people. They were acting real cool. but to see how they're close linked with law enforcement THE FAMILY IS NOT A LITTLE BIT. and the way that they're basically a way for the city to pretend like they're bringing solutions to the table when you're not, when you can't even control your police department. which Mike McKinley assaulting a resident of our camp. making her live in fear of her life. Sergeant George's. |
| 01:28:26.12 | Heidi Scoble | Robbie, your three minutes have elapsed. Salt. |
| 01:28:26.51 | Robbie Powelson | you're |
| 01:28:29.87 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, sir. Thank you for your comments. |
| 01:28:33.41 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker, it's Jeanette's iPhone. And Jeanette, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:28:45.98 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not sure. There we go. Jeanette, we cannot hear you. Can you hear me now? |
| 01:28:51.76 | Jeanette | Yes. |
| 01:28:52.01 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Yes, ma'am, go ahead. |
| 01:28:52.60 | Jeanette | Yes, ma'am. Hi, my name is Jeanette and my husband and I put our feet down in Sausalito in mid-70s, and moved to San Rafael some 30 years ago. My husband and I took a leisurely drive yesterday through Sausalito, looking for the studio and seeing if the wooden doors were there, we came upon the homeless encampment. We stopped the car and took a look. What a filthy, filthy, disgusting mess. These homeless people have made that camp. I'm surprised the health department hasn't been in there. I, There was open containers of food. The place is a mess. I don't understand why they can't keep that place clean. And yet, You know, they're sitting around the fire. I saw six or seven grown adults that could have been cleaning up and making that place somewhat livable. But from what I saw, we stopped the car. I looked in and it is a filthy, disgusting mess. I support anything that the city of San Rafael can do. I think urban Alchemy would be a good start to get these people some help. and to get them housing, but. you know, at 3 PM and you're six to seven male adults sitting around a fire doing nothing. It's just outrageous. I also want to support Sergeant George, I've been a victim of Jeremy Portage. I was at a peaceful demonstration in Nevada and he pushed me, I'm 71 years old. And I hear there's a petition going around to have them removed. And I hope that's not the case. I also hope the community of Sausalito will support and remove this encampment and return Marin's ship to the Sausalito Art Festival. but I think that's a great question. that's, I hope that the community will support Sergeant George. Like I said, I've had problems with Jeremy. and you guys have your hands full and I'd like to see that encampment cleaned up. It's a mess. I don't understand why the county can't come in and help you. There's plenty of room up here at the Civic Center. |
| 01:31:04.81 | Heidi Scoble | And Ed, your two minutes have elapsed. |
| 01:31:07.06 | Jeanette | Okay, well, thank you very much for listening. And I hope this place can be cleaned up because it's disgusting. Thank you. THANK YOU. |
| 01:31:14.03 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah. |
| 01:31:14.26 | Jeanette | Thank you. |
| 01:31:14.28 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:31:15.66 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is TT and You've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:31:23.77 | Titi | First and foremost, Let me apologize on behalf of Jeanette because I'm under the impression she's likely not a resident of Sausalito. Secondly, I would like to Cosign for Jason and Robbie. and agree with pretty much everything they had to say. Thank you so much. |
| 01:31:48.00 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay, I don't see any other hands up. |
| 01:31:53.62 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, you are correct. We have no other hands. |
| 01:31:56.15 | Jill Hoffman | No, no, okay, hold on. I see Ms. Crisante's hand is raised. I saw it earlier and then it went down, but now, welcome Ms. Crisante, go ahead. |
| 01:32:06.81 | Eva | Thanks, can you hear me okay? |
| 01:32:08.59 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:32:08.62 | Eva | Thank you. |
| 01:32:08.65 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, go ahead. |
| 01:32:09.24 | Eva | Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah, I really would like to urge you not to engage with Urban Alchemy. The lawsuits do not look good. The price tag is really, really high. And, um, the situation that you have right now, which is, you know, in many ways, not of your own making, because you know, this is an encampment that, with It was a problem created in many ways by overzealous seizure of votes by Curtis Havel. And, you know, as I said before, I think you should probably be looking at suing RBRA and Curtis Havel for leaving you with this situation. it is a really it is a unique community and um as opposed to person who spoke before, I think Jeanette, who who had nothing good to say about it. I've visited many times and I've seen people work very cooperatively. I've seen also a lot of people in trauma because of what recently happened to their boats. I mean, these were really their homes and they were seized and destroyed and they were powerless to do anything about it. So it's a community that's been through a lot of trauma, but is still capable of working together And we've mentioned more than a few times, Weed Patch, the Weed Patch Camp, and the democratic structure for that. Um, anchor out community um that is is still here in Sausalito I think I think they're people you can work with um and I think that if you give them some governance of the camp and um and have actual skilled people working with them, not urban alchemy, which is vastly untrained, you know, for much less money you could get many better skilled people in there to work with them and help them you know, govern themselves and it's, it would really be a win-win. So I just want to thank you. |
| 01:34:16.60 | Jeanette | Thank you. |
| 01:34:16.61 | Unknown | I'm going to go. |
| 01:34:16.97 | Heidi Scoble | THE FAMILY IS |
| 01:34:17.04 | Jill Hoffman | I think there's two minutes. |
| 01:34:18.03 | Heidi Scoble | TODAY. |
| 01:34:18.30 | Jill Hoffman | I would. |
| 01:34:18.32 | Heidi Scoble | lab. |
| 01:34:18.39 | Jeanette | I don't know. Thank you. |
| 01:34:18.98 | Eva | Thank you. |
| 01:34:19.11 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Sorry. Okay. Thank you. Okay, so now I see no further hands and I will close public comment. |
| 01:34:22.59 | Jeanette | Okay. |
| 01:34:27.99 | Jill Hoffman | and, uh, to bring it back to the city council for further discussion and or a motion. Or do we need a motion? We do need a motion, yes. or marry our Yes. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay, any further discussion? with regard to the city council or do I hear a motion? |
| 01:34:53.20 | Jill Hoffman | Should I make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the con Oh, it's Council Member Silviasi, yes. |
| 01:34:58.33 | Ian Sobieski | I would just add just in terms of context, a lot of money. It's a tragedy we have to do. spend this money. This isn't a problem solely of our own making. There are many sources of this stretching all the way back to the Supreme Court decision that established an incredibly low bar for people to decline help. The Donaldson decision in the Supreme Court established simply the capability of surviving safely in freedom as a standard for a person to decline health. So it's been delineated on our website in many meetings, the various opportunities to get a room here. Thank you. several rooms that were made available that were declined. parking lot that was declined. Um, help. that is often declined. because the amalgam in the And this encampment is of many different kinds of people. It's not fair to pigeonhole that whole group with any one description. but it is a complex problem of actual human beings with different levels of mental competence economic hardship. personal trauma, drug addiction that manifests a range of behaviors. some of which include quite provocative antisocial behavior. So we're trying to do our best. while under court injunctions. restricting what freedom of action we have. and this substantial expenditure of money is the required least bad alternative to try to bring some order to an increasingly negative situation. in that area. So I'm reluctant that we have to engage in this expense and I'm particularly discouraged because I don't know how much actual how much we can actually help many of these individuals. uh, but we have many interests to balance as a city and we're trying to do the best we can. support this resolution and I wanted to make a comment after we pass it about our police force. So I hope they will be recognized after our resolution. It's a good thing. |
| 01:37:22.60 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Any other discussion or I'll make the motion. |
| 01:37:29.01 | Janelle Kellman | Yeah, Mayor Hoffman, I'll just, just for the good of the, |
| 01:37:30.29 | Jill Hoffman | but just |
| 01:37:32.72 | Janelle Kellman | the order and the solidarity of the council, I think it's important to note that I agree with Council Member Sobieski and I won't try to re-articulate what he said, We don't take this lightly. We would love to be moving in a positive direction every day And we look forward to that. And I just, you know, I'll put my voice in. I agree with Council Member Sobieski. It's a big expenditure. It doesn't go lightly and we look forward to continuing ways to to help individuals in our community. |
| 01:38:09.02 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:38:09.05 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Any other comments? And so then I'll make the motion to authorize the city manager to execute an agreement with Urban Alchemy in the amount Uh, and, execute the agreement in the amount of $460,620 for enhanced management services at the homeless encampment and approved payment of $34,914.14 for services previously provided. Do I have a second? |
| 01:38:40.40 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:38:41.20 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, could you please call the roll? |
| 01:38:45.05 | Heidi Scoble | Council Member Sobieski? Councilmember Gleiblet-Knolls. |
| 01:38:50.46 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:38:51.27 | Heidi Scoble | Vice Mayor Kellman. |
| 01:38:52.64 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 01:38:52.66 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:38:53.57 | Heidi Scoble | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 01:38:55.09 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, and I meant to say that I agreed with Council Member Sobieski's eloquent statements, as well as the Vice Mayor's statements. And so council member Sobieski you |
| 01:39:04.99 | Ian Sobieski | I just wanted to add one thing. |
| 01:39:05.06 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 01:39:07.57 | Ian Sobieski | Thank you. You know, we're residents of this town and uh and the city council was a legislative function Um, We often thank our employees for all the hard work they do. helping with the Christmas tree, keeping our parks clean, administering the budget and whatnot. There's one class of employee that actually We often honour our police force but that's been really called to do a tough job here. the, are, as I said earlier, interacting with a group of people that range in their in their behavior from a perfectly cooperative Um, suffering from economic hardship or otherwise to quite combative potentially with mental illness, potentially with drug addiction, They're trying to do their job as law as appropriately and lawfully as possible in place of just stuff that's hard to do on a human level, viral name calling. provocative behavior, but then also in a context of deliberate misinformation. falsehoods, divisiveness and divisive rhetoric. And so I just want to really just say personally to I'm pleased with Sausalito that I support them in their lawful efforts to keep us all safe and to and to do their jobs in this very tough context. So, if So I wouldn't really say that, but you know, I don't want to put anyone on the spot, just wanted to make sure that that was said, outlet. |
| 01:40:40.05 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you very much for those comments. about our police force who do a very tough job indeed. Okay, any other, moving on to our next item? is is our Councilmember Sobieski and I's report on the Bank of America building and so Um... This this presentation changed a little bit. It's we're anyway, Councilor Morstowieski, do you want to give it? |
| 01:41:08.70 | Ian Sobieski | We were hoping, the mayor and I were hoping to be able to make a recommendation here today. The reality is we had six submissions, four of them were really on the market as credible responses to our inquiry for ideas. Two of those four we felt really stood out. We interviewed and engaged with both of them. we were moving towards making a recommendation and then Very recently, one of them, and both of them, of course, as is typical in the real estate |
| 01:41:33.54 | Timothy Logan | I mean, both of them, |
| 01:41:33.97 | Titi | Thank you. THE FAMILY. |
| 01:41:36.36 | Ian Sobieski | leasing situation both of them had tenant improvement expenditures And a considerable period of time between today and when they would begin paying rent, one of those two proposals, came back. promising to because of the change in their financial circumstance and their own ideation around their idea to be able to make a proposal to be renting the building from the city at a, to cover our nut, to cover our expense as soon as March or April. And so we want to engage with that meaningfully and also circle back around with the other proposal and um and issue a proper report we anticipate when that's done all the ideas that were submitted will be part of that stack report so you our colleagues and the community can see all the ideas that were there along with our recommendation about which one to proceed and we can discuss whether to to just the take care of that recommendation or engage in further process of engagement. as you are calling seated. |
| 01:42:33.94 | Jill Hoffman | So we're aiming, I think, to come back or at least going to try to get back on the agenda in January. So, We feel like we've got really Great. options and i think we're very close but we we wanted to do follow through a little bit more and it wasn't quite ready I don't think to for presentation tonight so um that's our report it's not as it's not I mean in some ways it's better than what we thought it was going to be because I think the proposal is going to be very good for our city and very good for us. the people and for us financially as well. um, So that's our update. Yay. questions from the council on that before i open up to public comment |
| 01:43:22.42 | Jill Hoffman | No questions. Very good. All right, I'm gonna open up public comments with regard to... the Bank of America building. I see one, okay, go ahead. I see one hand up. |
| 01:43:36.95 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, would you like to keep the clock at two minutes or three minutes? |
| 01:43:40.80 | Jill Hoffman | Well, I think since I have one hand, we'll go with three. If five hands pop up all of a sudden, we'll, oh, well, the hand is now down. Okay. |
| 01:43:49.88 | Heidi Scoble | Okay, sorry. You're correct. It looks like it just popped right back in. So I'll underline. |
| 01:43:51.24 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:43:51.26 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:43:51.28 | Jill Hoffman | No. |
| 01:43:51.34 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:43:55.82 | Heidi Scoble | on mute and ask to share the video, to tell you've been unmuted. |
| 01:43:59.65 | Titi | Okay, good. Thank you so much. In reference to the Bank of America building, I would just like to state for the record that that is a vacant building owned by the city. that could have been effectively emergency transformed into a sheltering facility, however you all chose not to. Why? Because it's on Bridgeway? in the public view. in tourist season. Come on now. Stop it. Stop it. But good luck. Good luck. |
| 01:44:35.44 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. And I don't see any other hands. So closing public comments. I will bring it back to the council for further discussion or we will move on to our next agenda item. Yes, council member Cleveland Knowles. |
| 01:44:50.63 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you Mayor. Thank you Councilmember Sobieski. I just I mean I I would really like to get this schedule for this. It's really seemed to lag from August when we were supposed to have proposals. And so I think if we could get a schedule that the council could, rely on and move forward, I think that would be really helpful. You know, I know we've talked about this before, but we did have |
| 01:45:17.02 | Titi | Thank you. |
| 01:45:17.05 | Lauren Wiley | Thank you. |
| 01:45:21.22 | Melissa Blaustein | a significant amount of revenue budgeted I think that's a good thing. from the Bank of America with the expectation that there would be a much earlier lease up of that property. We're not seeing that revenue, so that's going to So, you know, I, I think that's a good question. I think it's great news that there is good news. I'm really looking forward to hearing more and getting more information about the proposals. And so if we could all get that information that might help along with the schedule. So, you know, thank you both for working on this, but I do worry that we're far behind where our estimated um, target has been. |
| 01:46:05.18 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. |
| 01:46:06.38 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:46:06.40 | Janelle Kellman | Um, |
| 01:46:07.41 | Ian Sobieski | I'll step in that. I agree. Yeah. And so how about a commitment that we're bringing it back at the next meeting, January, what is it? |
| 01:46:07.42 | Janelle Kellman | I'm afraid. |
| 01:46:17.01 | Jill Hoffman | Sure. Yeah, yeah, and I will say, |
| 01:46:18.19 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah. |
| 01:46:20.03 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, and I will say that we are focused on rent, right? So a lot of the proposals were, you know, no rent for years in lieu of, you know, the amount of tenant improvements that they would have to do. And so our focus has been, I will say this, income producing revenue stream. And so that's, I agree with councilman on that. Yeah. |
| 01:46:44.24 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah. but I was going to credit you, Mayor, in that exactly regard. Councillor McLevland knows that while, yes, I agree, it has, the schedule has slipped actually, the possibilities have gotten better. So we'll see if the proof's in the pudding, but what comes together in the final recommendation, Um, the improvements, the changes in the proposal were a result of the iterative engagement with the applicants. |
| 01:47:12.07 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:47:12.48 | Ian Sobieski | We'll see if that bears fruit, but if it does, we'll actually be in a better place. then it wouldn't look like if we had presented this six weeks ago. |
| 01:47:21.42 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, the quality of all the proposals I felt were very good. Okay, do we have any other comment or questions about further comment. Very good. Moving on then to our next which, okay, Rima. Reminding again, D-E-H-E-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A- and F were removed, not removed, they were amended to and continued. to the January 11th meeting. And so communicate, we're moving on to communications and this is for items not on the agenda. So this is the time of the agenda for members of the public to provide any comment, public comment for items not on the agenda. Except in limited circumstances, state law precludes the council from taking action on or engaging in discussions concerning items of business that are not on the agenda. However, the council may briefly respond to statements made For questions posed by a member of the public, ask clarifying questions, make a brief announcement or refer matters not on the agenda to city staff or direct that the subject be agendized for a future meeting. 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 order in the order that they are raised. After you're called on, you will be... the apps to unmute. Um, and public comments are limited to two or three minutes to speak. Please keep your comments respectful and focused. We want to listen to any individual who requests to speak, and each speaker has a responsibility to act in a civil and courteous manner As defined by the chair, we will not tolerate hate speech, direct or indirect threats or abusive language. The meeting 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. so i see four hands raised so um Let's go ahead and start. hold on, I see five hands raised, so we're going to We're gonna reduce to two minutes our public comment to two minutes. Go ahead, Mr. Clerk, call as you see fit. |
| 01:49:22.60 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, our first speaker is William Versace. And William, you're being unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:49:31.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:49:31.88 | William Versace | It already worked. I'm not sure exactly how Councilmember Cleve and Noel's background always managed to be right in front of what I want to talk about |
| 01:49:33.40 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 01:49:33.53 | Heidi Scoble | Bye. |
| 01:49:33.69 | Unknown | I'm not sure exactly. |
| 01:49:35.02 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:49:42.44 | William Versace | But nearly, I recently sent you an email about this. Nearly five years after city council resolution, 5679 planning commission's resolution 2017-15 and fully five years since bcdc's conditional approval permit m2015 period 19 period 00 And despite the completion of the Valhalla private development, there are still no plans for the required access ramp. at the end of Main Street. Construction schedule does not exist. it. is in contractual default, and the project has been legally abandoned for more than two years. So I'll salute the Department of Public Works as the permittee. and subject to penalties of $50,000 to $5,000 per day for the past months since it was scheduled to be completed for the future year or more than it may take to complete it. I'd like to give all sorts of disclaimers. I'd like to note that this issue predates any of the existing public works and building department directorship or staff who had no previous knowledge of it and have been promptly and extremely responsive to my questions. I personally assured all of them that this issue would not be discussed at the city council tonight. except for my request to put on the agenda for the City Council's next meeting. Planning and Connection, next meeting. And many of you know how much I admire you personally and your unappreciated service. And this issue predates all of you. I sent you an email with remarks from BCDC's enforcement attorney, Brent Platter, who's confirmed on behalf of BCDC program enforcement manager Priscilla and Jinga. and project plan reviewer andre gaffney two minutes have elapsed |
| 01:51:46.22 | Heidi Scoble | Mr. McClendon. |
| 01:51:50.15 | William Versace | a letter to them |
| 01:51:51.45 | Heidi Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:51:52.48 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, sir. Thank you. |
| 01:51:57.28 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker, it's Vicki Nichols. Vicki, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:52:04.06 | Vicki Nichols | Good evening, Mayor Hoffman and council members. I'd like to bring something to your attention. became aware of today. It's also related to BCDC. BCDC is soliciting comments from local jurisdictions, environmental groups, for support of their, it's a sea level rise adaption platform. I don't have the correct title in front of me. But basically it's a planning tool that can be used with the more regional approach so that everyone is planning, uh, solutions on the same page. I think it's very important. I got a rundown on it today. The organization that I'm connected with where I ran across this has signed in a letter of support. I know you have no meeting again in December and they're asking for letters by the end of the year. My understanding is this came out through an email request, so it may have been overlooked or you may not. have gotten it. but I would appreciate the city trying to connect with BCDC. I think it's important as a jurisdiction that we sign on to this. We've gotten our recent sea level rise task force doing great work. and I would sure love for us to be engaged with BCDC on this platform. They've done the work. Let's sign on and get the advantages of it. Thank you. |
| 01:53:33.80 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, thank you. |
| 01:53:37.67 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Eva. Eva, you're being unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:53:48.10 | Eva | Thanks so much. Can you hear me okay? Yes, go ahead. Thank you. I have to say I was a little, I was a little taken aback by Mr. Sobieski's comments. I, I. I, I want to speak carefully because I think that the situation is delicate, but I found the comments very provocative. I saw the video in question and I was very concerned about a lot of aspects of what I saw. And I'm not the only person who's concerned that video has I checked this afternoon. It had been viewed over 30,000 times. I mean, I guess that's what you call going viral. IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF THEM. You know, it is. it is disturbing video and it is disturbing video not because of what a young black documentary maker is doing in the video. It is disturbing because of the conduct of Sergeant Georges who has, been involved in prior incidents. |
| 01:54:53.84 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:54:55.17 | Eva | I very patiently and for some time been trying to get you guys to think about your police department and what might need to change. And I understand that these institutions are hard to change. but it doesn't look good for the Sausalito City Council when Mr. Sabieski, makes comments like that when everybody can see the video. and it it's you know, one of the things that's most disturbing is they've decided to AND I THINK THAT'S A arrest this man. They're treating him very roughly, but Sergeant George is very deliberately putting his unmasked face right up into Mr. Porch's face. This is in direct violation of basic COVID protocols it makes you wonder how many of these offices are even vaccinated. A lot of questions there. I'm very disappointed in Mr. Sobiski. |
| 01:55:56.04 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:55:56.07 | Eva | THANK YOU. |
| 01:55:56.14 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:55:56.18 | Eva | Thank you. |
| 01:55:56.19 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 01:55:56.38 | Eva | Thank you. |
| 01:55:57.66 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Sandra Bushmaker. Sandra, you're being unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:56:04.56 | Sandra Bushmaker | Good evening, council. I sent you a letter which was attached to the agenda about hiring a consultant to count the number of units at number of lots that legally could be split under SB9 so that we have that number. And we have the number of units that can be built on that lot. I do feel that we're going to need that number in our negotiations with our RENA numbers. And I would like the city to have documented evidence that they can point to. with numbers in hand. So I would like to see action by this council. This is two letters I have written on the subject. In addition, SB9 allows the city council to make certain requirements about affordability of these units. And I think this is something that we should also explore and develop. Lastly, my letter references the defects in the Turner Report. and it's inapplicability to Sausalito. And I would like to make sure that we do not quote that report given the fact that it is full of Uh, defects. in reference to our town. Those two things I'd like to see the city get ahead of this issue. and not wait until It is great. THE END OF THE END OF THE a mandate. And lastly, I would just want to reiterate the point about using our local powers. to determine what units can be affordable in it to get the maximum number of affordable units in this town rather than market ready, I mean market uh, priced units. All right, that's it for tonight. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:57:54.55 | Heidi Scoble | Our next speaker is Timothy Logan. Timothy, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 01:58:03.08 | Timothy Logan | Yes. for the city council and the city in general. What the police officers have done is just outrageous and then called for I thought there would be more speakers upon tonight. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE The violations that they have created over just a few months that we've been at Malintia Park, are too numerous to count. The fact that they should have open investigations on many of the violations that they had, and still there's none there. Um, there's the fact that there's no testing besides what the city council has done and has not divulged, not shared with us. We know that there's sewer contamination, but we don't know, it looks like there might be actually radiation contamination from the dagger counter that we use. What other testings do we have to go through and start protecting ourselves to try to protect ourselves from you, the city council? Because you guys are going to put us in a pin next to where you're going to create fecal matter into the air and then have us entrapped in a basic cage. What if there's a fire inside that pin? We're all gone. We'll be crushed by trying to get through the little tiny doors. We'll be dead before that though with the fecal matter and stuff airborne now with the dirt and construction that's going on right at the store. I mean, you guys are making mistake after mistake after mistake. I call for all of you to step down and pass this up to the next hiring to in command in the government because you have failed. Every single one of you city council members, city managers have failed us as politicians, as people in general, and as militants, I don't want to go there. I mean, how could you possibly live with yourself knowing that you've kept us inside of raw sewage? well we've been here nobody in the book nobody will what we have since your personal and make it legal for them to live in sewage. Timothy, you're two minutes. |
| 02:00:08.34 | Heidi Scoble | Timothy, your two minutes have elapsed. |
| 02:00:15.07 | Heidi Scoble | And our last speaker, it's Titi. And Titi, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:00:22.53 | Titi | Hi, I just wanted to make a comment in regard to Sergeant Georges. We all know. He beat Batman. Okay. outside of that, The reason that local law enforcement is unable to do their jobs effectively here is because city management is incapable You guys. have created. this. Rat's next. for local law enforcement. So thank yourselves for that. Thank you. |
| 02:01:02.19 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. I see no further hands. And so, closed public comment for matters not on the agenda. And we'll move on to our next which are Council member, community reports. |
| 02:01:15.53 | Ian Sobieski | And so. |
| 02:01:16.46 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:01:16.63 | Ian Sobieski | THE END OF |
| 02:01:16.70 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:01:17.36 | Ian Sobieski | Yes. I just feel compelled just to say one more thing. I'm not sure. We're not all defined by And it, people have different sense of what reality is. And I think when we speak about the hardworking professionals in our city, a balanced and fair view is always called for. So, I'm not being extreme. But I simply am thanking our police officers for the hard work they do. in an environment where we know there are a wide range of people. with different levels of mental capacity and provocativeness and aggressiveness. So again, I just want to say thank you to all our city employees, particularly our Hardworking police. We're trying to do the best they can in a very tense situation. And I know that the city of Sausalito. and the residents here. think them. for trying to do what they can to be helpful to all of us, including those who are living in that encampment. Thank you. |
| 02:02:16.56 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Okay, moving on. Item six, council member committee reports. Do we have any council member committee reports? See no hands raised. Very good, moving on. |
| 02:02:32.08 | Ian Sobieski | I guess we have just EDAC. |
| 02:02:32.69 | Jill Hoffman | Wait. |
| 02:02:35.49 | Ian Sobieski | that EDAC has met on Monday, the Economic Development Advisory Committee, and they solicited from their membership a list of priorities for the future, to work on next. And so they have, they polled their people and had a full discussion that the vice mayor and I participated in. great list exciting interesting um When they are finished with that, they've done a first pass at it, they will finish at their next meeting and make some recommendations for the vice mayor to bring. to you all for further feedback to them about what to work on the last time they made such a, that exercise, they came to us with six recommendations and we asked them to focus on three. They completed all three. Kudos to them, a very hardworking group of volunteers that is making a real difference here in town. That's it. But maybe the question has more to add. |
| 02:03:33.17 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:03:33.22 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:03:33.61 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:03:34.84 | Janelle Kellman | Okay, very good. Go ahead, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I'll just share that there's actually a new MCC MC water subcommittee. It came out of an MCC MC general meeting, the ones that we have on Wednesday nights. And there's three, Uh, Subcommittees within the subcommittee, one is on recycled water. It's a working group to identify opportunities to replace use of potable water for irrigation and toilet plumbing. There's one working on local policy and programs, looking to identify best practices and successful water supply conservation policies. |
| 02:04:01.92 | Titi | Look, can you see? |
| 02:04:06.60 | Janelle Kellman | And there's one looking at grants and funding. So I had been on that original MCCMC meeting. So I put my hat in the ring and offered my services. Council Member Blaustein had expressed an interest. So I also pulled her into the meeting. There was actually, anybody could join. I don't think there was a limit. I can't actually go on Thursday. So if anybody wants to go on Thursday night at five o'clock, please feel free to step in if you're interested in that topic. I just wanted to show that that now exists. |
| 02:04:36.40 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Councilman Sobieski, your hands up. but your mute is on. |
| 02:04:42.85 | Ian Sobieski | I wanted to add a report from OMIT about our real estate improvements. So a year of a lot of progress in finance and in the community development department. You can add to that list of improvements in how we manage our real estate heretofore. Thank you. We didn't have a dedicated person on city staff focused on this task. Now, thanks to the efforts of Chris Zapata and Deborah Bunchmore in HR, we have a gentleman named Mike Wagner who has been hired to help professionalize how the city manages its property. He ran real estate for the, County of Sonoma. seems extremely competent and on the ball and has already hit the ground running just a few days in. He helped provide the comparable analysis that allowed us to appropriately price the lease to the new village school that was on the consent agenda. He's gonna take on the first task of assembling all a comprehensive list of all city owned property delineate that list among what can't be rented and what can. And in that second group, help us understand what in that group we have rented and what we haven't and why we're not renting what we could. and then try to understand it. how to create a process for obtaining market rent rates for our properties. And when we deviate from market rent rates, have a clear policy to explain and guide us when to do that. So I think we'll be seeing a big change, which will also drop to the bottom line and more than pay for itself many times over and have a significant effect. on our budget, but it will also allow us to have the tool to better manage our property for community purposes as well as financial ones. experience. |
| 02:06:32.41 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. That's very exciting news. Okay, any other committee reports? Okay, seeing nothing, I'll open up public comment for committee. for this item, which is a committee reports. |
| 02:06:49.37 | Jill Hoffman | See no hands raised. I will follow up. Go ahead. |
| 02:06:52.80 | Heidi Scoble | I'm going to follow. You are correct. There are no hands raised at the moment. |
| 02:06:57.49 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thanks very much. Then I will close public comment and moving on to our next item on the agenda, is item seven and that is where we hear city manager report city council appointments and other council business We take public comment on these things at the very beginning of this item. And so at this point, I will open up public comment on these matters. under item seven. opening public comment by Sino. I see one hand raised. |
| 02:07:30.70 | Heidi Scoble | Madam Mayor, we do have one hand raised and that's Timothy Logan. Timothy, you've been unmuted and asked to share your video. |
| 02:07:40.89 | Timothy Logan | I don't know if this is a great spot for this, but I would like to be put on city council agenda at some point so we have more time to discuss matters of what's happening at Marinship Park. instead of just the two minutes that we're allowed per person, We have far more information and details that we need to share with the public that you just do not allow time for currently. |
| 02:08:06.19 | Titi | Thank you. |
| 02:08:07.91 | Timothy Logan | And I was, ask if you put on the city engineer for nice run. And pertaining to that. |
| 02:08:17.24 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you, sir. Actually, that was the correct time to speak and because you're speaking about future agenda items and that's under this item. Thank you very much. You suggested a future agenda item. Okay, and I see no other hands raised. And so closing public comment? On this, we'll move on to the actual issues under this. So the first one is Item 7B and that city manager report or city manager information for the council. Mr. City Manager do you have? a report for us beyond what we've already talked about tonight? |
| 02:08:53.29 | Chris Zapata | Just quickly, Mayor, really briefly for the public and the Council. Next Tuesday at noon, there's a Finance Committee meeting. and it's an important one. We're going to be talking about our audit status. We're going to talk about our budget calendar, try to talk about Measure O a little bit, as well as pension and refinancing of those obligations. |
| 02:09:15.02 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thanks very much. Okay. Thank you. And our next is appointments to boards, commissions and committees. We don't have any of those on our calendar night, future agenda items. We just heard one from Mr. Logan and then for city council members, yes, go ahead, Councilmember Cleland Knowles. |
| 02:09:33.16 | Melissa Blaustein | Thank you, Mayor. It was actually sort of a combination of appointments to boards, commissions and future agenda items in that I know that several of our boards and commissions are missing members. So I did just want to get on our, I know you would want to wait and do it annually, but if we could get that on sooner rather than later. And I know that means that we need to solicit applications from members of the public. So that has to happen first. So that's something. And then I just thought it was, I just wanted to recognize the general public comment from Mr. Versace. about the Valhalla and the ramp down to the beach, the access, because he said that that issue had I'm going to go to the next slide. preceded us, but I noted at the time that former council member and planning commissioner Cox and former planning commissioner Vicki Nichols and I or the three planning commissioners that two planning commissioners were conflicted out of that project so the three of us were the only three planning commissioners and we had numerous numerous numerous meetings on that issue so it would just be great if staff could deal with that request appropriately because that was an important condition of approval to that project for that access. And then Lastly, another comment that someone made about our housing situation and affordable housing I realized we haven't gotten an update recently. We usually get either quarterly or maybe there were semi-annual updates on how we are meeting our prior housing element, goals, um, And I remember in the past that we were doing very well on our affordable housing numbers, but not very well on our market rate numbers. And I don't know if that's changed. And I just think it might be helpful to get a one-way communication that could be posted to our agenda. or on consent or at some point, I just realized, I don't think we've seen one of those. in quite a long time. So I would like to get that update on where we are with our current housing elements. housing goals. So thank you. |
| 02:11:50.07 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Any other council member requests for future Zend items? Thank you. |
| 02:11:55.77 | Janelle Kellman | Thank you. |
| 02:11:55.93 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. In that case, we are ready to adjourn but before we adjourn I have We will be adjourning this evening. in honor of |
| 02:12:06.96 | Jeanette | Bye. |
| 02:12:07.99 | Jill Hoffman | uh, a long time member THE FAMILY. Bob, Bob Pulitzer, but before we go to his attorney and his honor. I would like to acknowledge and recognize that today is December 7th. which is the day that, uh, Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. And so I'd like to quote just a small portion of President Biden's story. Speech today. in remembrance of that. On December 7th, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked our forces at Pearl Harbor and other locations in Hawaii taking the lives of 2,403 service members and civilians and leading the United States to declare its interest into World War II. It was a day that still lives in infamy 80 years later. As we mark National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, we honor the patriots who perished commemorate the valor of all those who defended our nation, and recommit ourselves to carrying forth the ensuing peace and reconciliation that brought a better future for our world. I will note, too, that Um, when I was the mayor the last time in 2016, I was asked by the Japanese consul general to give a toast to the emperor. at their December holiday party. because of our sister city relationship. And I thought what a great night that was that as a Navy officer, 75 years at that time, after the attack of Pearl Harbor. we were engaged in peace and friendship with our former enemy, And what a great thing that was for our town to be sister cities with Sakai Day and what a great benefit that brings to us. um, in moving forward with peace and friendship with our former enemy. And so. And that was indeed something to toast that night. And so let's move on then to the remembrance of Bob Pulitzer who lived here. And we're going to close our meeting in his honor. He was a longtime resident. He also happened to be the longtime father of our former city manager, Adam Pulitzer. Um, We are closing the meeting tonight in his honor. He was preceded in death by a few months by his wife, Olive, who also lived here. for many years in Sausalito. Bob was born in the Bronx, New York in September of 1929. They raised four children here in Sausalito, Cassandra, Nicholas, Adam, And Nerissa. Bob opened his private architecture practice at 3030 Bridgeway in 1968. As so many in our town, he contributes so much, and as an architect, it brought so much beauty to our town. You can still see some of the buildings and homes that he he designed principally at 2nd and South Street, there are a row of four homes that as you walk through that street, You can see the lovely homes and how he enhanced our town and what a beautiful legacy that is. He was appointed to the Saucyoteal Community Appearance Advisory Board. on which he served from 1975 to 1982. This was later renamed as a design review board. He was appointed to the Sausala planning commission And, served on that from 1982 to 1991. He served as chairman of that board from 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989. Michael Rex told me that he always had confidence that Bob would give him good feedback, good and solid feedback when he came before him the Saucolet planning commission. Mr. Pulitzer was appointed by Governor Pat Brown to the California State Board of Architecture Examiners in 1982. He served as secretary in the number two position for the California Board of State Architectural Examiners in 1984. He was appointed to National Council of Architectural Registration Board in 1984 and this administers national exam and licenses for all 50 states. He was a member of the Marin County Democratic Central Committee. since 1966, EASTERTA'S CHAIRMAN, in 1968 to 1970, from 1975 to 1977. and in 1982 to 1984. He was a member of the Sausalito Foundation He was a director of the Marine Conservation League in 1974. He was a board director at the American Lung Association. He passed away this past November. on November 24th. Interestingly, he and his wife, Olive, were married, on December 7th in 1957. and today would have been their 64th anniversary. we close tonight in honor of their legacy of beauty family and love in our little town of Sausalito And so I closed the meeting in their honor AND, AND, Let me pull just briefly, do we want to return to closed session? with our city council members. |
| 02:17:03.50 | Ian Sobieski | Yeah, I think we should just to close over, |
| 02:17:05.68 | Jill Hoffman | Very well, then we will adjourn. |
| 02:17:06.93 | Melissa Blaustein | I would rather prefer not to. Could we find another, can we do it in January? Well, |
| 02:17:14.03 | Jill Hoffman | going to have our close, I don't Well, I tell you this, why don't we, why don't we pull for another time, perhaps if council member of Cleveland knows has strong objections to going back into closed session tonight. Sure, I respect that. Thank you. Okay, very good. All right, thank you everybody. Happy holidays and, um, Good night. this group. next. |
| 02:17:43.60 | Chris Zapata | I'm going to get to meet Bob Helms. a San Francisco legend. on the next Jazz Rhythm. |
| 02:17:52.44 | Chris Zapata | Thank you. |
| 02:17:52.46 | Greg Thompson | Jazz Rhythm airs Wednesdays at noon. |
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