City Council Feb 20, 2024
City Council Meeting Summary
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| 00:00:00 | None: None | The City Clerk announced the start of the February 20, 2024 City Council meeting, mentioning the location at 420 Litho Street and the broadcast माध्यमs: Zoom, cable TV channel 27, and the city's website. | No Motion | 0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral |
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| 00:00:22 | I: CALL TO ORDER, APPROVAL OF REMOTE PARTICIPATION BY COUNCIL, AND ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION - 6:00 PM | The meeting was called to order. The first action was to approve the remote participation of Councilmember Janelle Kelman from Playa del Carmen, Mexico. However, it was noted that under the Brown Act, approval wasn't required for remote participation when properly noticed, and Councilmember Kelman was not participating under the emergency circumstances exception (00:01:10). The agenda included closed session items: existing litigation (Whiskey Springs Villa HOA vs. City of Sausalito), potential litigation exposure, and real property negotiation (Sausalito Center for the Arts). The council then moved to approve the agenda (00:03:06). | No Motion | 0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral |
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| 00:03:16 | II: RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION - 7:00 PM | The meeting is reconvening to open session. There is a typo in the title of item 3G, BKF should be SWA. A motion was made to approve the agenda with the amendment. (00:03:29) | Motion to approve the agenda with the amendment. Seconded. Roll call vote taken. (00:03:29) | 0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral |
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| 00:03:51 | 2: ACTION MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING - 7:05 PM | The council is asked to approve the action minutes from the February 6 and February 10 meetings. The city clerk opened the floor for public comment, and after no comments were made, the council closed public comment and moved to a motion. A councilmember moved to approve the two sets of action minutes, which was seconded and approved via roll call. | Motion to approve the action minutes from February 6 and February 10 meetings. (00:04:44) | 0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral |
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| 00:04:57 | 3: CONSENT CALENDAR - 7:07 PM | The City Council is considering the consent calendar, which includes items considered routine and non-controversial. The items include the library's second-quarter report (23-24), the police department's crime and traffic report for 2023, the treasurer's report from December 31, 2023, a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a professional services agreement with parametrics for the Bridgeway Safety Improvement Project, a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a supplemental agreement with Marin County for a joint cycle nine highway safety improvement signal intersection improvement project, a resolution declaring a public works vehicle as surplus and authorizing its disposal at auction, a resolution approving the third professional services contract amendment with SWA Architects for design services related to the ferry landside improvement project, the second reading and adoption of ordinance number 2-2024 amending chapters related to design review procedures and building permit conditions, authorization for the city manager to execute a professional services agreement for planning and building services with Four Leaf, and a resolution to amend the length of terms of three members of three years for each member and set term limits to a maximum of two for Economic Development Advisory Committee EDAC members. Councilmember Huffman requested items 3J and 3K (related to the Economic Development Advisory Committee (EDAC)) be removed and combined with item 5E for discussion (00:07:48). | No Motion | 1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral |
City Council Meeting Transcript
| Time | Speaker | Text |
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| 00:00:00.03 | City Clerk | Good evening, Mayor, City Council. Tonight's February 20, 2024 City Council meeting is being held at 420 Litho Street in Council Chambers 420 Litho Street. It's also held, it's also being broadcast via Zoom, cable TV channel 27 and the city, the city of Sausalito's website. Thank you very much, City Clerk. |
| 00:00:22.05 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:22.29 | Unknown | Our first after calling the meeting to order as we as I am right now, we are first act will be to approve the remote participation of by our colleague Janelle Kelman. |
| 00:00:32.23 | Unknown | uh she will be producing participating remotely from the magical resort calle 38 and entre avenida |
| 00:00:41.90 | Unknown | but five a in Arizona federale maritama central in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. So could we please have a motion to approve our participation? |
| 00:00:50.44 | Unknown | So moved. I'm sorry, a point of order. |
| 00:00:53.03 | Unknown | I think she's appearing under a certain section of the Brown Act that doesn't require approval because it was properly noticed as an open meeting at a remote site. |
| 00:01:02.91 | Unknown | My script says approval of remote participation by council. So city attorney, please advise us on what we should do. |
| 00:01:10.21 | Unknown | Yes, I don't think that the council needs to provide any sort of approval. The council does need to vote to provide approval when council members are participating under the emergency circumstances exception in the Brown Act, which Council Member Kelman is not using for this meeting. |
| 00:01:25.81 | Unknown | Thanks for the catch and correction. And maybe we can fix that in going forward in our standard script for remote participation under this provision. So council member Kellen will be participating remotely from said lovely spot. And we will now do a roll call |
| 00:01:44.42 | Unknown | Attendance. Our attendants. |
| 00:01:45.48 | City Clerk | for our tenants. Councilman Blossene. |
| 00:01:48.67 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:01:49.48 | City Clerk | Councilmember Hoffman |
| 00:01:51.56 | Unknown | Here. |
| 00:01:52.17 | City Clerk | That's when we're coming. |
| 00:01:53.36 | Unknown | Here. |
| 00:01:54.38 | City Clerk | Vice Mayor Cox. |
| 00:01:55.27 | Unknown | Here. |
| 00:01:55.56 | City Clerk | Thank you. |
| 00:01:55.76 | City Clerk | and Mayor Sobieski here. |
| 00:01:57.68 | Unknown | Our closed session items are conference with legal counsel existing litigation whiskey springs villa hoa versus city of sausalito. Conference with legal counsel see difficult exposure on new case and counsel with real property negotiator. Parties being sauce leader Center for the arts in the city of sausalito Chris Zapata Chad has a little more bonita as city negotiators, are there any public comments on the closed session items. |
| 00:02:23.72 | City Clerk | We don't have any other members of the public in-house. And on Zoom, if anybody would like to make a public comment, you can use the raise hand function and we will call you. |
| 00:02:34.15 | City Clerk | I've seen no public comment. |
| 00:02:35.94 | City Clerk | Okay. |
| 00:02:36.02 | Unknown | Public comment is closed and we'll adjourn in closed session. |
| 00:02:41.95 | Unknown | are going to resume coming back from closed session there are no announcements from closed session we'll begin today's meeting with a recitation of the pledge of allegiance |
| 00:02:52.29 | Unknown | especially to the flag of the United States of America. |
| 00:02:56.12 | Unknown | And to the Republicans, for which we stand, one nation, |
| 00:02:59.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:00.04 | Unknown | I've been here. |
| 00:03:00.97 | Unknown | that it's pretty and pretty strong. |
| 00:03:04.15 | Unknown | Thank you very much. |
| 00:03:06.30 | Unknown | We will now move to approve the agenda. Could I have a motion to approve the agenda, please? |
| 00:03:10.35 | Unknown | So moved, I understand there may be a correction to one, the title of one item on the agenda. |
| 00:03:16.59 | Unknown | Thank you very much. I was going to announce that in a moment, but there is a typo in the title of item 3G. The three letters BKF should say instead SWA. I'll reiterate that title out loud when we get to it. |
| 00:03:29.91 | Unknown | With that amendment, Mayor, I move approval of the agenda. |
| 00:03:33.92 | Unknown | Is there a second? |
| 00:03:34.72 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:03:35.44 | Unknown | City, I believe we need to do a roll call because Councilmember Kelman is coming in remotely. Is that correct? I think it is. So let's do a roll call vote, please. City Clerk. |
| 00:03:44.03 | City Clerk | Council Member Blaston |
| 00:03:45.41 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:03:45.78 | City Clerk | Thank you. |
| 00:03:46.21 | City Clerk | Councilmember Hoffman? |
| 00:03:48.13 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:03:48.43 | City Clerk | Thank you. |
| 00:03:49.04 | City Clerk | Council Member Cohen. |
| 00:03:51.40 | City Clerk | Vice Mayor Cox. Yes. |
| 00:03:52.94 | City Clerk | Mayor Sobieski |
| 00:03:54.24 | City Clerk | Thank you. |
| 00:03:54.27 | Unknown | Yes, we will now move on to approval of previous action item minutes for the agenda for the minutes of February 6 and February 10 meetings. Are there any public comments on the minutes from those two meetings. |
| 00:04:08.92 | City Clerk | If anybody has any public comments, you can fill out one of these forms over there and bring it back over here. If you're on Zoom, you can use the raise hand function right now. And right now we have two people. You can put your hand down if you don't plan to speak on the item about the minutes. Because we have Claudia Brisson, but we're going to wait for a little bit to give Claudia the chance to either keep the hand up or keep it down if you're going to speak on the action items. All right. Thank you so much. |
| 00:04:35.90 | City Clerk | All right. |
| 00:04:38.50 | City Clerk | See no public comment? |
| 00:04:40.44 | Unknown | All right, we'll close public comment for that item and ask someone to move. |
| 00:04:44.46 | Unknown | move approval of the two sets of action minutes. |
| 00:04:47.33 | Unknown | Is there a second? |
| 00:04:48.73 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:04:49.56 | Unknown | Item is approved and seconded. All in favor, let's hear a roll call. Sorry. Go ahead, City Council. |
| 00:04:55.04 | City Clerk | Councilman Blossie? |
| 00:04:56.34 | City Clerk | Yes. |
| 00:04:56.54 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:04:56.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:57.15 | City Clerk | Councilmember Huffman. |
| 00:04:58.16 | City Clerk | Yeah. |
| 00:04:58.25 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:04:58.36 | City Clerk | Thank you. |
| 00:04:58.90 | City Clerk | You know somewhere we're coming? |
| 00:05:00.68 | City Clerk | Vice Mary Cox. Yes. And Mary Sobieski. |
| 00:05:02.89 | Unknown | Yes, moving on to the consent calendar. These are items that are normally considered routine and non-controversial, require no independent discussion and are expected to have unanimous council support and may be enacted in one motion. There'll be no separate discussion on these items. However, before we vote, any member of the city council can request that a specific item be removed for a separate action. Items removed from the consent calendar will be discussed later in this same meeting. I will just go over the titles and then we will take public comments. So item 3A is a library second quarter report for the last fiscal year, 2324. Item 3B is the Sausalito Police Department's Crime and Traffic Report Calendar Year 2023. |
| 00:05:44.87 | Unknown | Item 3C, review and file of the treasurer's report, December 31st, 2023. Item 3D, adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the professional services agreement with parametrics to develop the plan specifications and estimate for the Bridgeway Safety Improvement Project, Napa to Johnson Street, in an amount not to exceed $189,978. item 3e adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a supplemental agreement with the county of Marin for the joint cycle nine highway safety improvement signal intersection improvement project. Item 3F, adopt a resolution declaring one public works vehicle as surplus and authorize the city manager to dispose of said equipment at auction. Item 3G, adopt a resolution approving the third professional services contract amendment with swa architects for design services related to the ferry landside improvement project item 3h the second reading and adoption of ordinance number 2-2024 an ordinance of the city council of the city of sausalito amending chapter 10.5 for design review procedures of title 10 and chapter 8.34 building permit conditions of title 8 of the Sausalito municipal code item 3i authorized the city manager to execute a professional services agreement for planning and building services with four leaf effective January 1st 2024 not to exceed $300,000 through June 30, 2024. Item 3J, adopt a resolution to amend the length of terms of three members of three years for each member and set term limits to a maximum of two for Economic Development Advisory Committee EDAC members. Item 3K, reappoint Scott Thornburg, Rachel Daniel stout and john de rey to the edac for three-year terms ending january or february sorry 20th 2027 and reappoint malcolm morgan and monica finnegan to terms ending june 9 2026 those are the consent items does anyone wish to remove any |
| 00:07:47.79 | Unknown | That's remember Hoffman. |
| 00:07:48.63 | Unknown | Yes, in the same vein, the last time the EDAC motions were on, sorry, the last time the EDAC motions were on the agenda, I would request that items 3J and 3K be removed. |
| 00:08:00.19 | Unknown | and combined with item |
| 00:08:02.56 | Unknown | the business item |
| 00:08:04.87 | Unknown | Sorry, Lord. What is it? 5E. 5E. And then we discuss all those. All right. |
| 00:08:05.93 | Unknown | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:08:06.05 | Unknown | Lord. |
| 00:08:07.03 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:08:08.97 | Unknown | And then we discuss all those. All right. Those two items that we pulled combined with item 5E. Any others? |
| 00:08:14.79 | Unknown | Can I get a motion? Oh, I'm sorry. Now we have public comment on the consent calendar. Any public comment, please. City Clerk. |
| 00:08:22.25 | City Clerk | So anybody that wishes to have public comment, we have a bunch of 5Cs over here, but if you want to raise your hand in-house, we can get you. |
| 00:08:30.42 | City Clerk | Right. Seeing none in house. Sandra Bushmaker on Zoom. |
| 00:08:41.65 | City Clerk | Mark, you may begin. |
| 00:08:44.07 | City Clerk | Unmute yourself, please. |
| 00:08:49.87 | City Clerk | You can't unmute yourself. Let me try it. |
| 00:08:56.89 | Unknown | She can call in from her phone. |
| 00:09:00.65 | Unknown | Oh, hang on. Whatever you did work for a second. Do it again, Mr. City Clerk. |
| 00:09:08.15 | Karen Hollweg | There we go. Thank you. |
| 00:09:09.84 | Karen Hollweg | I thought we took public comment on the agenda because I had some comments to make on the agenda. |
| 00:09:15.62 | Karen Hollweg | Just as a question that I wanted to bring up, |
| 00:09:19.54 | Karen Hollweg | Karen Hollweg, What on the consent calendar, I wanted to know what happened with the building assessment item that has been put over from two or three meetings ago. |
