City Council Jan 11, 2025

Jan 11

City Council Meeting Summary

Time	Item	Item Summary	Motion Summary	Comment Summary
00:00:30	None: None	The meeting is called to order, and the city clerk calls the roll. (00:00:52) Councilmembers Blaustein, Hoffman, and Sobieski, Vice Mayor Woodside, and Mayor Cox are present. (00:01:09) Councilmembers Kelman and Hoffman announce they need to participate remotely due to illness, citing emergency procedures in the Brown Act. (00:01:57) The City Attorney clarifies that they need to confirm no other adults are present. (00:02:04) Both confirm they are alone. (00:02:12) The City Attorney confirms that they are seeking approval for participation under emergency circumstances. (00:02:40) Kelman motions for the remote participation of both himself and Councilmember Hoffman.	Motion to approve remote participation for Councilmember Hoffman and Mayor Kelman passes unanimously. (00:03:05)	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:03:16	2: STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP TO DISCUSS CITY GOALS, SAUSALITO 2020- 2026 STRATEGIC PLAN, STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES/OPPORTUNITIES/THREATS REVIEW, CITY FINANCES, DEPARTMENT HEAD PRIORITIES, AND CITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES	The meeting was called to order and facilitator Amy Haworth from MRG Solutions was introduced (00:03:22). Amy is also the mayor of Manhattan Beach. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Babette McDougall (00:04:57). Mayor Kelman expressed difficulty hearing what was going on (00:05:44). Mayor Kelman made opening remarks, thanking council members, the city manager, the city attorney, and department heads for their time and investment in the five priorities for 2025 (00:06:33). He noted that this is the sixth year of the strategic plan developed in 2020 and that the city has gone through a renaissance in the last six years (00:07:15). He also pointed out that in 2020 staffing levels and turnover were considered a weakness, but he no longer considers that to be the case (00:07:42). He highlighted the challenges and opportunities that Sausalito faces as a small town with big town challenges (00:08:10).	No Motion	10 Total: 4 In Favor 1 Against 5 Neutral
00:09:12 Adrian Brin was Neutral: Expressed appreciation for the council and staff's attendance on a Saturday and emphasized the importance of addressing issues like empty storefronts, vacant industrial land, and crumbling infrastructure, which were hot topics during the election. They highlighted the need to focus on the economy to fund infrastructure improvements. 00:10:48 Babette McDougall was Neutral: Requested that whoever leads the Pledge of Allegiance should use the microphone so everyone can hear (00:10:48). She raised concerns about the clarity of budget items approved on the consent calendar, questioning whether they are new add-ons or part of the current budget cycle (00:11:46). She also emphasized the importance of addressing density issues and citizen involvement to prevent overdevelopment (00:12:32), and highlighted the need to protect open shoreline. 00:14:02 Joe Novitski was Neutral: Representing the Open Water Rowing Center and the Floating Homes Association, he emphasized the reality of sea level rise and its impact on Sausalito's shoreline infrastructure (00:14:56). He urged the council not to lose sight of this issue in their strategic planning discussions. 00:15:34 Fred Moore was In Favor: Suggested seeking contributions from volunteers and nonprofit organizations to help alleviate the load on government departments. He mentioned the Sausalito Foundation's ideas for a new welcome sign and artists walk and offered his time to assist with research or background work. 00:17:19 Sharna Brockett was In Favor: Highlighted the broad impacts of not having enough housing in Sausalito, including long waits for services, difficulty finding caretakers, and traffic congestion (00:17:19). She argued that increasing housing will improve the quality of life for residents. 00:19:59 Morgan Pierce was In Favor: Emphasized the importance of green infrastructure as a vital component of the community, supporting health, livelihood, flora, and fauna. She urged the council not to lose sight of green infrastructure when discussing ways to reduce liability and improve public spaces. 00:20:51 Alice Merrill was Against: Agreed with the need for more affordable housing but cautioned against over developing the Marinship (00:21:14), emphasizing its importance as a working waterfront. She suggested considering housing in properties close to the Marinship and urged thoughtful planning. 00:23:01 Charles Mertens was In Favor: Stressed the need for workforce housing for teachers, first responders, city staff, and the aging population (00:23:15). He highlighted the negative impacts of a lack of housing, including labor shortages, economic leakage, increased traffic, and missed revenue sources. He also urged focusing on resilience against wildfires, flooding, and sea level rise. 00:26:35 Jeff Chase was Neutral: Jeff Chase's comments were unintelligible due to technical difficulties 00:26:44 Jill Hoffman was Neutral: Spoke about the anchorage on the Sausalito side, noting that people take refuge there from high winds, especially from the east. She stated that the Sausalito side is protected.
00:27:46	2.B: Strategic Planning Workshop To Discuss City Goals, Sausalito 2020- 2026 Strategic Plan, Atrengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats Review, City Finances, Department Head	The meeting is a strategic planning workshop to discuss city goals, the Sausalito 2020-2026 Strategic Plan, a SWOT review, city finances, and department head priorities. Amy Haworth, a consultant and the current mayor of Manhattan Beach, frames the workshop's agenda: the City Manager will review strategic plan accomplishments, department heads will present priorities, and the council will discuss the city's challenges and set strategic goals for the year. The aim is to outline a process for moving forward, focusing on priority setting rather than a complete strategic plan overhaul. She also asked the councilmembers what they would miss most about their community if a tragedy occurred. Mary, the City Manager, presents an overview of the 2019-2020 Strategic Plan, highlighting its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. She notes the plan's relevance and discusses progress made in the past year, linking accomplishments to the plan's goals. She identified areas of improvement that she felt were missing from the original plan. Councilmember Hoffman raises a question about fire insurance availability in Sausalito, prompting a discussion about potential solutions and future agenda items. After a break, Amy Haworth reviews that the council members stated their priorites, and the goal was to try to get actionable plans to take forward. She proposed going through each of the Staff priorities to see what alignes with council priorities.	No Motion	5 Total: 2 In Favor 1 Against 2 Neutral
04:04:18 Carolyn Rivel was In Favor: Carolyn Rivel discusses the importance of trees in mitigating climate change, improving air quality, controlling erosion, and supporting wildlife. She expresses concern that trees were not emphasized enough during the discussion, and would like Sausalito to appoint an arborist to manage care and future planting of trees. 04:05:38 Alice Merrill was Against: Alice Merrill states that she opposes any new housing development in the industrial sector of Marinship. 04:06:24 Bonnie McGregor was Neutral: Bonnie McGregor plans to submit additional comments in writing due to time constraints. She suggests exploring a private residence adopt-a-stairway program for maintenance. Additionally, she has concerns about the impact on traffic due to the potential new housing development. 04:10:49 Sandra Bushmaker was Neutral: Sandra Bushmaker makes three points: improve public access to the budget on the website, work with Southern Marin Fire District to send residents information on how to prepare for evacuation, and create a program to repair stairways to have better routes of egress. 04:12:30 Morgan Pierce was In Favor: Morgan Pierce speaks in agreement with Carolyn Revell, advocating for the replacement of removed city trees with species and practices that preserve the urban tree canopy while mitigating the risks associated with improper planting, and would like to partner with the city on this venture.
04:18:39	3: ADJOURNMENT	The meeting was adjourned by Kelman (04:18:44).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

City Council Meeting Transcript

Adrian Brinton

City Council Jan 21, 2025

Time	Speaker	Text
00:00:30.24	Adrian Brin	City Council, it is now 9 a.m.
00:00:37.17	Kelman	Good morning everyone and welcome to Sausalito's strategic planning meeting on
00:00:44.04	Kelman	Saturday, January 11th at 2025, I'll ask the city clerk to call the roll.
00:00:52.11	Adrian Brin	Councilmember Blaustein.
00:00:54.62	Blaustein	present.
00:00:55.84	Adrian Brin	Councilmember Hoffman.
00:00:58.67	Blaustein	here.
00:01:00.38	Adrian Brin	Councilmember Sobieski. Here. Vice Mayor Woodside. Here. And Mayor Cox.
00:01:07.56	Kelman	Here.
00:01:09.50	Kelman	at,
00:01:09.83	Kelman	So as a preliminary matter, Jill, Councilmember Hoffman and I both need to make announcements regarding our remote appearance.
00:01:19.26	Kelman	It sounds as though we are sharing the same malady. So unfortunately, the day after our last city council meeting, I came down with the flu. And although I am feeling better today, the last thing I want to do is spread the wealth to the public and my fellow council members. And so I'm seeking leave to participate remotely, pursuant to our the emergency procedures enunciated in the Brown Act.
00:01:53.09	Kelman	City Attorney, is that adequate?
00:01:57.31	Sergio	I think the only other disclosure that you need to make is whether or not there's any adults present in the room with you.
00:02:03.15	Kelman	with the
00:02:04.00	Sergio	Um,
00:02:04.40	Kelman	Thank you.
00:02:04.91	Kelman	No, there are no, I am in my home office and there are no other adults in my home.
00:02:12.77	Sergio	Yeah. And to be clear, you're seeking the city council to approve your participation under the emergency circumstances exception under government code 54953.
00:02:24.58	Kelman	Correct, and so on that basis, I will entertain a motion
00:02:29.10	Kelman	Well...
00:02:29.17	Sergio	Well,
00:02:29.91	Kelman	Yeah, thanks.
00:02:31.65	Councilmember Hoffman	Same under the just cause and there's no other there's no other persons over the age of 18 in the room with me as well.
00:02:40.95	Kelman	Okay, so then I'll entertain a motion for the remote participation of both Councilmember Hoffman and myself in today's meeting.
00:02:49.10	Kelman	That's what I'm saying.
00:02:49.22	Woodside	That's fine.
00:02:49.64	Kelman	of it.
00:02:49.83	Woodside	Thank you.
00:02:49.84	Kelman	Thank you.
00:02:50.33	Blaustein	The agent.
00:02:51.62	Adrian Brin	Okay, I will do a roll call vote. Council Member Blaustein.
00:02:56.31	Adrian Brin	Yes.
00:02:56.38	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah.
00:02:56.65	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:02:56.68	Adrian Brin	Thank you.
00:02:56.69	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:02:57.15	Adrian Brin	Councilmember Hoffman.
00:02:58.77	Councilmember Hoffman	Yes.
00:02:59.63	Adrian Brin	Councilmember Sobieski? Yes.
00:03:01.01	Kelman	Yes.
00:03:01.66	Adrian Brin	Vice Mayor Woodside? Yes. And Mayor Cox.
00:03:05.06	Kelman	Yes, that motion carries unanimously. Thank you.
00:03:11.68	Kelman	Okay, I do not have the...
00:03:13.86	Kelman	the agenda in front of me, so give me one moment.
00:03:16.32	Mary	That's okay, Mary. You can turn it over to the city manager. We'll go from here.
00:03:19.97	Mary	Okay, wonderful. Thank you, City Manager.
00:03:20.15	Kelman	Okay, wonderful. Thank you, city manager.
00:03:22.33	Mary	Lovely. Welcome, everybody. I'd like to begin by thanking you all for your attendance and certainly the council that's here and the council that's trudging through this in their illnesses. Thank you very much for that. I'd like to introduce our facilitator who's going to take us through this day, going to lead the discussion of the council, work with the community as well as staff. We were fortunate last year to receive her services. This is Amy Overworth, who is our facilitator for the day from the
00:03:52.59	Mary	Mark Margin.
00:03:54.27	Mary	MRG Solutions. And so she has been a fan of Sausalito's and now is a real fan of Sausalito because she was here last year and she is now here again this year. And so we're looking forward to her services. So, Amy, do you want to say a few words?
00:04:11.08	Amy Haworth	I guess.
00:04:11.59	Amy Haworth	Yeah, let me borrow the microphone if you will.
00:04:14.29	Amy Haworth	And I know that we are going to have public comments, Madam Mayor. Yes.
00:04:18.34	Unknown	Yes.
00:04:19.11	Amy Haworth	Yeah, but I'll just...
00:04:22.03	Amy Haworth	I mean, I can save my comments for after the public comments. It is an absolute pleasure to be here. I am also currently the mayor of Manhattan Beach, which is in Los Angeles.
00:04:33.69	Amy Haworth	Ooh.
00:04:34.99	Amy Haworth	Um...
00:04:36.38	Amy Haworth	And I'll make some comments regarding what we're going through in a bit. But really, it's so great to be here, to be here for the residents and council. I know that everybody wants the best for Sausalito, which is such a great place. So thank you.
00:04:52.85	Unknown	and-
00:04:53.18	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
00:04:53.98	Unknown	very good
00:04:54.84	Amy Haworth	Kelly.
00:04:54.84	Mary	Kelly.
00:04:55.60	Mary	If I could...
00:04:55.71	Amy Haworth	if I could.
00:04:56.05	Kelman	Thank you.
00:04:56.07	Amy Haworth	Um,
00:04:56.22	Kelman	Thank you.
00:04:57.01	Mary	We still need to do the Pledge of Allegiance as well. Thank you, Babette.
00:05:00.41	Kelman	All right, great. Let's go ahead and do the Pledge of Allegiance. I'll ask that Babette lead us.
00:05:07.31	Kelman	in the pledge.
00:05:13.25	Unknown	Thank you.
00:05:15.22	Babette McDougall	I would like to acknowledge the substance in the room.
00:05:19.32	Babette McDougall	Keep checking me, join me.
00:05:21.52	Babette McDougall	Thank you. Thank you. I will. Thank you.
00:05:25.50	Babette McDougall	Yep.
00:05:26.73	Babette McDougall	I play some music.
00:05:27.69	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:05:27.73	Kelman	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
00:05:29.85	Babette McDougall	There you go.
00:05:30.11	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:05:32.75	Kelman	Thank you.
00:05:32.77	Unknown	Thank you.
00:05:32.82	Unknown	Thank you.
00:05:32.84	Unknown	Yeah.
00:05:32.98	Unknown	Thank you.
00:05:33.14	Kelman	and to the republic for which it stands.
00:05:36.62	Kelman	One nation.
00:05:37.88	Kelman	Under God.
00:05:39.22	Kelman	indivisible.
00:05:40.40	Kelman	with liberty and justice for all.
00:05:44.31	Kelman	City manager, I'm just going to let you know, I'm having a hard time hearing what's going on there. So I don't know if there's anything to be done about that.
00:05:52.74	Mary	We'll we'll try to fix that mayor. We can hear you very clearly.
00:05:56.50	Kelman	Okay.
00:06:00.77	Kelman	Okay, we are going to take public comment.
00:06:03.69	Kelman	in just a moment. But before we do, I had a couple of remarks that I wanted to make to kick us off. Then we'll take public comment and then I'll turn it back over to Amy, if that's okay with everyone.
00:06:20.51	Kelman	Again, I'm not hearing anything from anyone city manager.
00:06:23.51	Mary	It's fine. It's silent. We're waiting for you, Mayor.
00:06:26.72	Mary	Thank you.
00:06:26.75	Kelman	Okay. All right. Thank you.
00:06:26.77	Mary	Okay. All right.
00:06:28.64	Kelman	All right, good morning, everyone, and welcome to our 2025 strategic planning workshop.
00:06:33.40	Kelman	I want to thank all of our city council members, our city manager, our city attorney, and all of our department heads for investing their time this morning to this important planning effort. I also want to thank and acknowledge you for the work you invested in putting together your five priorities for 2025. I really believe that investment of effort will facilitate our public process today.
00:06:59.26	Kelman	Some of you may know that this is year six of a six year strategic plan that we developed in 2020 and a little later this morning you'll hear a report card from the city manager on how we've measured up over the last six years.
00:07:12.52	Kelman	But at the time we developed that plan,
00:07:15.02	Kelman	We had a different city manager, a different city attorney, a different police chief, a different finance director, a different community and economic development director, a different community services director, and a different human resources director, just to name a few. So as former Mayor Sobieski liked to phrase it, Sausalito has truly gone through a renaissance in the last six years.
00:07:38.95	Kelman	But something I am proud to share with you is that in 2020,
00:07:42.46	Kelman	We listed staffing levels and turnover as a weakness.
00:07:47.45	Kelman	And I don't consider that to be the case anymore.
00:07:51.05	Kelman	I am pleased and proud that some of you sitting here today have been offered the opportunity to work elsewhere, probably for a higher salary, and yet you have chosen to invest your time and your future in Sausalito.
00:08:06.35	Kelman	Our city manager who has worked in far larger cities than Sausalito,
00:08:10.65	Kelman	tells me that Sausalito is the most challenging city he has worked for.
00:08:15.50	Kelman	I think that is because we are a small town with big town challenges.
00:08:20.86	Kelman	But with those challenges come opportunities. And each of our council members is uniquely qualified and equipped to address those challenges. And each of our carefully chosen staff members and department heads are similarly uniquely qualified and equipped to address those challenges. And so against that backdrop, I am pleased and excited to embark on this strategic planning effort this morning and to see what we can create in the coming year and for the future. Thank you.
00:08:59.56	Adrian Brin	Do we want to take public comment?
00:09:01.23	Adrian Brin	Yes, please.
00:09:03.62	Adrian Brin	We'll start with Adrian Brin.
00:09:12.70	Unknown	Good morning, Adrian. I'm a resident and I didn't expect to go first, but thank you for taking my comment and thank you to the city council and our city staff for coming in on this beautiful Saturday morning and spending the day here in the city council chambers. Appreciate that. You know, it's great that we're talking about the strategic plan and having a strategic planning session. And, you know, I was thinking about it this morning and thinking about the quote that every system is perfectly designed to achieve the outcome, which it gets.
00:09:41.68	Unknown	And our city is like that as well. And right now, we're achieving a lot of good outcomes, but we're also achieving outcomes like a few too many empty storefronts.
00:09:52.76	Unknown	a little too much vacant and fallow industrial land, and a little bit too much crumbling infrastructure. And I think those were really hot topics in the election, and they're ones now with the strategic plan to try to put those pieces together is something we can take forward.
00:10:10.38	Unknown	those things are all related and you know focusing on our economy and our empty storefronts helps us uh build up an economy that can pay for the infrastructure so i think it's great that these things are on the table really excited that we're talking about them today uh and again um thank you guys thank you to the mayor and councilmember hoffman for coming in uh feeling the way that you do today that's going to make it even more challenging so i appreciate that as well thanks
00:10:38.70	Unknown	Thank you.
00:10:41.45	Adrian Brin	Babette McDougall.
00:10:47.30	Adrian Brin	Bye.
00:10:48.13	Babette McDougall	Good morning and thank you for recognizing me. All right, lesson learned number one. Now that the current mayor has returned us to inviting a member of the attending public to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, I'd like to officially request that that person step up to the microphone.
00:11:04.28	Babette McDougall	That way people who are looking from Zoom can hear everything. I'm not sure, did you hear the acknowledgement of both Chief Tubbs and Chief Gregory who joined in leading the pledge? No. I didn't think so, I'm sorry.
00:11:17.73	Babette McDougall	Going forward, lead the pledge from the mic so everybody knows what's going on. All right, thank you. So the reason I'm really up here, thank God I have an extra few seconds,
00:11:24.63	Unknown	Thank God.
00:11:27.86	Babette McDougall	As we go forward in today's exercise,
00:11:32.31	Babette McDougall	I would like to just point out a couple of things that I have found confusing since I started paying attention regularly to the council meetings in 2023.
00:11:43.08	Babette McDougall	And, um,
00:11:44.90	Babette McDougall	So here's the one thing.
00:11:46.49	Babette McDougall	Items that are approved for expense, either on the consent calendar or elsewhere, they fail to be recognized as whether or not they are, in fact, part of the current budget cycle, or is it a new add-on? And if it's a new add-on, is it added on to the current budget cycle or some future budget cycle? I don't know. So that's one question of confusion I'd love to see somehow addressed and clarified, because actually a lot of people in town are of the impression, I don't know what to think, frankly, but I have heard.
00:12:16.83	Babette McDougall	That if it's on the consent calendar, that means it's not in the budget.
00:12:20.67	Babette McDougall	Now, I don't know if that's true or not.
00:12:22.62	Babette McDougall	Because we spend a lot of money on the calendar. We sure did last year.
00:12:26.72	Babette McDougall	Over a million, more than a million, wait, some millions. Anyway, so going on, density issues.
00:12:32.88	Babette McDougall	Well, there's just nothing like redesigning Southern California as we speak to really have to ask again, is Sausalito taking density issues seriously? This whole concept of being pushed and pushed by outside forces, being sued in a court saying Sausalito doesn't deserve to be in charge of its own development future, especially where housing or other needs are concerned, to me is unacceptable.
00:12:59.23	Babette McDougall	And.
00:13:00.13	Babette McDougall	acceptable. And the more that the citizens are involved in this process, I think the stronger we be. We are united if we get behind the idea that none of us want to see this place overbuilt.
00:13:10.81	Babette McDougall	It's exactly what the city council member representing Pacific Palisades
00:13:15.79	Babette McDougall	Vice Mayor and I were speaking of this earlier.
00:13:18.30	Babette McDougall	A new word, I'm going to call it a new word, densification.
00:13:22.93	Babette McDougall	Density is now a noun.
00:13:25.21	Babette McDougall	All right, densification is something that we have to deal with.
00:13:28.75	Babette McDougall	So all of these issues are so relevant. We're lucky to have someone from Southern California leading us this morning on these very kinds of questions.
00:13:36.12	Babette McDougall	So finally,
00:13:37.73	Babette McDougall	I'd like to address this remark
00:13:39.97	Babette McDougall	by one of my good neighbors about vacant fallow land.
00:13:44.73	Babette McDougall	One of the things that makes Sausalito great is the fact that we still have open shoreline.
00:13:50.35	Babette McDougall	Original matters. Next person.
00:13:51.33	Adrian Brin	Next person is Joe Novitski.
00:14:02.09	Joe Novitski	Good morning, Madam Mayor. Excuse me. City Council members. My name is Joe Novitski. I'm not a Sausalito resident. I live in your area of influence. I drove through a flooded parking lot to get here today on a 6.7 foot tide.
00:14:18.97	Joe Novitski	Thank you.
00:14:19.48	Joe Novitski	Uh,
00:14:20.08	Joe Novitski	I am, however, a board member of the Open Water Rowing Center, which is a
00:14:25.03	Joe Novitski	taxpaying business in the city of Sausalito.
00:14:28.30	Joe Novitski	And on behalf of the open water flowing center and also all of the houseboat residents that I I'm on the board of the floating homes association as well.
00:14:36.89	Joe Novitski	I would like to today
00:14:39.66	Joe Novitski	to bear in mind what we consider to be, in most planning efforts,
00:14:45.04	Joe Novitski	Except of course, in the result, in the case of the resilience, the sea level rise adaptation plan.
00:14:52.18	Joe Novitski	I would like you to not lose sight of what we call the elephant in the room.
00:14:56.58	Joe Novitski	A level rise is a reality. We suffer it on the line with every
00:15:05.12	Joe Novitski	Every tide above six feet above mean, low or low water.
00:15:09.61	Joe Novitski	And we would like you not in your strategic planning discussions to lose sight of the fact.
00:15:15.20	Joe Novitski	that that is a reality that is going to flood the infrastructure in the Sausalito shoreline within the next 25 to 30 years. Thank you very much.
00:15:24.65	Unknown	Thank you.
00:15:26.60	Adrian Brin	Next speaker is Fred Moore.
00:15:34.47	Fred Moore	Again, like everybody's mentioned, thank you very much for coming in and spending many, many hours this beautiful day helping the citizens of Sausalito. I'm hoping that part of your strategic plan can be seeking the contribution of volunteers and nonprofit organizations in the city. I think this is an amazing city with so many people who are willing to give their time and efforts to participate in making the Sausalito better and helping alleviate the load of a lot of the governmental departments as well as the elected officials. I think you can take advantage of their expertise, some of their private funding to help accomplish some of the city's goals. one in particular i know the sauce little foundation is working on some interesting ideas that they would like to come before that council with new welcome sign of potential artists walk along the waterfront. And I hope that those can be met with some city assistance in helping to expedite approvals, permits, etc. to help those come to fruition.
00:16:39.52	Fred Moore	And I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed or the lightest bulb in a chandelier, but I would like to offer myself
00:16:47.18	Fred Moore	two hours, a couple hours a week, a couple hours a day, a couple hours a week to act as you want any of your assistants. I'm kind of bipartisan, but to the extent you have things that you have to get done but don't have time, please feel free to reach out to me and I'll contribute my hours and time to help do some of the research or background that you need. Thank you very much and look forward to a great 2025.
00:17:11.16	Adrian Brin	Next speaker is Sharna Barakian.
00:17:19.50	Sharna Brockett	Hi there, I'm Sharna Brockett and I'm a Sausalito resident. So I think there'll probably be a lot of discussion around our housing element and how do we get shovels in the ground and produce some housing. I just wanted to add a little, I thought this was a really interesting information. I went to an event that was about affordable housing in Marin. And this slide, I have it here on my phone, I was going to read it, really impacted me. And I think it's good for us to educate ourselves on, by not having enough housing in Sausalito, what that means. So, you know, a long wait for a doctor's appointment, it's a housing issue. Can't find a dentist, it's a housing issue. A car inspection, not a repair, costs $300. It's a housing issue. As you get older in your own town and you want to downsize, live in a more manageable, smaller perhaps condo or apartment, and you can't find one and you have to leave Sausalito, it's a housing issue. You can't find a caretaker to help yourself or your parents. It's a housing issue. Your school can't find a math teacher or hire a math teacher. It's a housing issue.
00:18:28.21	Sharna Brockett	Your kids are starting families in Portland, Oregon, or in Petaluma, California. It's a housing issue. You're stuck on the Richmond Bridge in traffic. It's a housing issue. Favorite restaurant, Clip 8, because I can't find people who will work in the restaurants to serve you. It's a housing issue. Want to reduce greenhouse emissions? It's a housing issue. Want to reduce homelessness in California? It's a housing issue. I just want to put that out there. I mean, I know we're all upset about...
00:18:56.87	Sharna Brockett	the possibility of changing our town and producing more housing, but it really is more than just that.
00:19:04.53	Sharna Brockett	I do believe that we'll have a better town, a better quality of life. If we can have our teachers, our police, our fire, our waitstaff, um,
00:19:13.98	Sharna Brockett	Just a lot of people who can't live here now live here.
00:19:19.51	Kelman	Um,
00:19:20.80	Kelman	City manager,
00:19:21.92	Kelman	I am seeing lots of flickering in the city signal. It keeps flickering and saying low unsupported signal, low signal coming from the city. I don't know whether Councilmember Hoffman is seeing that.
00:19:34.90	Kelman	Yeah, she is seeing that as well.
00:19:37.25	Kelman	I recommend someone
00:19:39.93	Kelman	Check your internet connection to be sure
00:19:43.34	Kelman	it is strong enough to support this meeting.
00:19:47.42	Mary	Working on it, Mayor. I'm not sure that we'll be able to fix it, but we're working on it.
00:19:51.39	Kelman	All right. Thank you.
00:19:53.89	Adrian Brin	Online we have Morgan Pierce.
00:19:59.30	Morgan Pierce	Hello, thank you everyone for joining us today. Members of council, members of staff, members of the public for this important conversation. Sorry, I'm joining remotely, but I just wanted to offer that as a Saucyde resident and community volunteer, I wanna make sure that we don't lose sight of our green infrastructure as an important component of our community and how it supports not only our health and livelihood, but those of our supporting flora and fauna. So as we discuss ways to reduce liability and improve our public spaces, let's not lose track of our green infrastructure. Thank you.
00:20:36.51	Morgan Pierce	Thank you.
00:20:40.06	Adrian Brin	Alice Merrill.
00:20:47.57	Alice Merrill	Very sorry for being late. I had a little glitch.
00:20:51.63	Alice Merrill	I totally agree with Sharna that we have an issue and I would love it if we had our worker bees and our teachers and our everybody's being able to live closer and this wasn't such an exclusive wildly crazy exclusive town, but I but for me, but
00:21:14.63	Alice Merrill	The Marinship is not the place to look to clear out the housing issue. The Marinship is a vital place that is on the seashore, one of the few places that are still working. There are lots of them that have closed down for big fancy housing. I know that some people are interested in workforce housing down there, and maybe that can be worked out, but if it turns into...
00:21:47.07	Alice Merrill	big restaurants and big hotels and big restaurants
00:21:51.52	Alice Merrill	condos.
00:21:52.84	Alice Merrill	that is the absolutely wrong way to go for that particular area. Um,
00:22:01.46	Alice Merrill	What can I say? If we have housing in some of the properties that are close to that, that would be obvious for housing, then what happens is the people who live there complain, and it gets closed down. The only place that that doesn't happen is probably an airport, because that's obvious. But we really, really have to be thoughtful about this. And I'm willing to have houses crowded in here and there. I think that there are lots of properties that are big and empty and have lots of beautiful gardens. I would love one. But please don't just look there. Thank you.
00:22:01.68	Wilfred	What?
00:22:51.38	Unknown	Thank you.
00:22:53.27	Alice Merrill	Charles Mertens.
00:22:54.13	Adrian Brin	Thank you.
00:23:01.03	Charles Mertens	Good morning, City Council, and thank you for the opportunity to provide comments today. Really appreciate the work you're doing to get the priorities for our city set forward and appreciate
00:23:08.83	Charles Mertens	of all of our wonderful city council members working overtime on a Saturday to be part of this process.
00:23:15.09	Charles Mertens	For me, some of the key priorities here, and we've heard this with Sharna and Ms. Merrill's comment was regarding housing. We do need more workforce housing for our workforce, our teachers, our first responders, our city staff, and our aging population, so that way they can remain in Sausalito.
00:23:31.07	Charles Mertens	The impacts of not having housing include or can lead to labor shortages, impacting our local businesses and the economic conditions of our city. If we are to have successful businesses and a thriving working waterfront, we need workforce housing.
00:23:44.37	Charles Mertens	A lack of housing also leads to economic leakage.
00:23:46.85	Charles Mertens	It reduces local spending. When workers commute from outside Sausalito, they spend less locally, which diminishes sales tax revenue and affects local small businesses, including armoring ship businesses.
00:23:57.92	Charles Mertens	fewer residents means less demands for local goods and services, slowing economic growth,
00:24:02.93	Charles Mertens	And when workers commute in from outside Sausalito, it causes increased traffic and pollution, undermining our city's sustainability goals.
00:24:10.59	Charles Mertens	It also means missed revenue sources. Fewer housing units result in lower property tax revenues, which fund critical city services like schools, public safety and infrastructure.
00:24:20.29	Charles Mertens	Sausalito also misses out on fees collected during the permitting and construction process.
00:24:25.69	Charles Mertens	Also, we talk a lot about our city about our liability risk related to sidewalks, trees, our payment conditions, but the cost of the city's liability for not complying with housing could result in additional financial penalties, loss of local control over land use decisions and ineligible being announced.
00:24:43.31	Charles Mertens	eligible for state fighting or grants. When we talk about our state's liabilities, we need to talk about the liabilities of not having workforce housing here in Sausalito.
00:24:51.56	Charles Mertens	We also need to focus on resilience. We've seen the absolute horrific devastation that's occurring in Los Angeles due to wildfires. Given Sausalito being subject to high winds and a highway at the top of the hill, we too can be exposed to this.
00:25:03.86	Charles Mertens	We need to have the defenses against wildfires and also just the impacts of flooding and sea level rise that impact our city.
00:25:11.07	Charles Mertens	This first starts with infrastructure.
00:25:12.76	Charles Mertens	where we talk a lot about our PCI and improving our payment index, it doesn't make sense to me that we repave our roads just to tear them up to then later bury power lines and fix our sewer systems, which we also need to do.
00:25:24.43	Charles Mertens	Infrastructure improvements are also needed to improve our critical corridors, allow for multimodal transportation and improve our transit hubs, including our ferry landing, bus stops, parking lots. And we need to optimize those as much as possible.
00:25:37.09	Charles Mertens	So how do we do this? We grow the economic pie of our city. We grow the economic opportunity.
00:25:42.27	Charles Mertens	Infrastructure projects and resilience projects are expensive.
00:25:45.61	Charles Mertens	Instead of raising taxes on residents, we must find additional ways to generate revenue and make meaningful growth.
00:25:51.27	Charles Mertens	to our city.
00:25:52.48	Charles Mertens	Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments and I look forward to the future discussions during today's meeting.
00:25:57.73	Unknown	Thank you.
00:26:00.63	Adrian Brin	We have Jeff Chase.
00:26:13.27	Adrian Brin	You gonna unmute yourself?
00:26:20.17	Adrian Brin	Oh.
00:26:21.71	Adrian Brin	We can hear you.
00:26:25.98	Jeff Chase	you
00:26:27.95	Unknown	Bye.
00:26:30.89	Unknown	Right, turn up the window.
00:26:32.04	Unknown	Amen.
00:26:32.29	Unknown	you
00:26:32.41	Kelman	Thank you.
00:26:32.58	Unknown	Thank you.
00:26:32.61	Kelman	You're cutting in and out, Jeff.
00:26:32.64	Unknown	You're cutting it.
00:26:35.80	Unknown	I don't want to. Services.
00:26:35.97	Unknown	I am on one-off. Services. Hello? Can you hear me?
00:26:38.97	Kelman	Oh, yeah.
00:26:39.34	Jill Hoffman	Hello?
00:26:40.51	Unknown	Yeah.
00:26:40.81	Jill Hoffman	Can you hear me?
00:26:41.69	Unknown	Thank you.
00:26:41.74	Jill Hoffman	We can hear you.
00:26:43.27	Jill Hoffman	Oh,
00:26:44.52	Jill Hoffman	Hi, Madam Mayor and city council.
00:26:47.12	Jill Hoffman	And people of Sausalito...
00:26:50.28	Jill Hoffman	I'm going to speak about the anchorage on the Sausalito side.
00:26:55.05	Jill Hoffman	Jill Hoffman, as a sailor, knows
00:26:58.48	Jill Hoffman	that
00:26:59.51	Jill Hoffman	in a storm, people have to take refuge
00:27:03.22	Jill Hoffman	from very high winds. So on the Sausalito side, it's protected.
00:27:08.40	Jill Hoffman	especially from the east wind. So people have to necessarily go there and do go there now for that.
00:27:16.55	Jill Hoffman	that it seems
00:27:18.47	Jill Hoffman	And, and, and I'll just stick to that. So, uh,
00:27:21.82	Jill Hoffman	for beer and uh
00:27:23.49	Jill Hoffman	Have a great day. Bye.
00:27:25.04	Unknown	you know,
00:27:25.16	Jill Hoffman	Thank you.
00:27:25.53	Unknown	Thank you.
00:27:29.34	Adrian Brin	Okay, no further public speakers.
00:27:32.82	Kelman	All right, thank you, Wilfred. With that, I will invite our consultant, Amy Haworth, to make an introduction and provide us an overview of our day.
00:27:46.94	Amy Haworth	Thank you, Madam Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, council members, public and staff. So, as I said earlier, my name is Amy Haworth. It's my second time up here.
00:28:02.05	Amy Haworth	I love local government.
00:28:04.43	Amy Haworth	And, uh, I don't play pickleball.
00:28:07.08	Amy Haworth	I, uh,
00:28:08.78	Amy Haworth	There's no, I don't kayak down in Manhattan beach. This is what I do for fun. Um, I am the mayor currently in Manhattan beach. I have 18 and a half years of elected experience. Um,
00:28:21.45	Amy Haworth	For those of you who weren't here last year and heard all my fabulous credibility, that's why I'm doing this. All of you know this. So for eight years, I was on the Manhattan Beach School Board and then eight years on the city council where I had to take a term limit break of two years. And now I'm back on the council. I was not on during COVID. so anybody who has been on city staff or served during COVID you know what it's like to really be in a existential threat.
00:28:53.92	Amy Haworth	I want to thank you for asking me back here and hopefully my only goal is to be of service to all of you to the Council and to the residents and I apologize that I have my back to the residents right now. That's very uncomfortable as it would be for any of you right because we want to hear from the residents and we never want to turn our back on you.
00:29:13.07	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
00:29:14.12	Amy Haworth	So please accept my apologies for that. A little bit of housekeeping, how this is going to go down, if you will. Our your city manager is going to be talking about some of the accomplishments, if you will, and what has been done and how it has met the goals of the strategic plan, which, as the mayor mentioned, is in its final year.
00:29:37.37	Amy Haworth	Department heads are going to present up to five priorities for their departments for the coming budget year and beyond. And then I'm going to sort of frame how the council is going to then discuss how you want to approach
00:29:53.62	Amy Haworth	What's facing the city? It may be different from the staff and
00:29:57.35	Amy Haworth	That's what you get to do. You get to give direction.
00:30:00.20	Amy Haworth	Right.
00:30:00.95	Amy Haworth	and I'm going to help you navigate that. And then what I want to end up with at the end of the day is a process for going forward. By the way, this is not a complete strategic plan design meeting. I want to make that clear. That takes a lot of time. That's not what we're doing. This is kind of more of a strategic goal, priority setting for the year, a work plan perhaps. But the council members will be working during lunch,
00:30:29.13	Amy Haworth	We're going to hopefully get the council members to prioritize. You do have some big issues facing you.
00:30:37.06	Amy Haworth	And while plans can feel limiting, I know that a plan that was done six years ago may feel limiting. It can also...
00:30:45.19	Amy Haworth	allow you to move forward on these big, huge, heavy items before you. So I'd like you to maybe approach it with that.
00:30:54.56	Amy Haworth	But anyway, I do want to leave you with a process. I have suggestions for how staff can set up a process for tracking what we do today, what you do in the future and reporting out to the public. You have such a wonderful engaged community, much like ours in Manhattan Beach. And then the last thing I want to say before I turn it over to the city manager, somebody mentioned, yes, I'm from Manhattan Beach, which is part of Los Angeles County. We are completely safe. We are south of the airport. But it's not to say that we're not affected. Everybody I see on the dais and the metaphoric dais or the virtual dais knows that if something like this happens,
00:31:36.01	Amy Haworth	you will be involved, right? You are the people who take responsibility for your community. So it might be everything from,
00:31:43.08	Amy Haworth	helping the emergency operations center, might be baking banana bread for the fire department, it might be finding homes for somebody, helping the school district. Right now I've been working with Chevron to get 5,000 N95 masks donated to the elderly in our community because they don't have air purifiers. The devastation is horrific.
00:32:06.89	Amy Haworth	I don't know how it will rebuild. Los Angeles will not be the same.
00:32:12.08	Amy Haworth	Um,
00:32:13.21	Amy Haworth	Yet here I am. In addition, my computer died, and it's hard to get fixed when there's a wildfire going on. So I will ask for your patience if my PowerPoint looks like a ninth graders.
00:32:25.89	Amy Haworth	theirs would probably be better.
00:32:27.73	Amy Haworth	But I will be here in service of you. This is so important. But going back to the fires, if you will,
00:32:34.87	Amy Haworth	I want you to indulge me and I want everybody to take a deep breath of air right now.
00:32:41.39	Amy Haworth	All y'all.
00:32:42.46	Amy Haworth	All y'all at home, because I got off the plane and even at the Oakland airport, I was like, oh my God, this air. I'm so grateful.
00:32:50.91	Amy Haworth	And I also now want to ask the council members, each one of you, I want you to think about for a second.
00:32:57.04	Amy Haworth	God forbid, that what happened in the Palisades would happen here. What would you miss most?
00:33:02.84	Amy Haworth	about your community and i'm going to start i could start with you madam mayor but maybe i'll start with vice mayor besides since he's sitting in front of me and we'll do that
00:33:15.03	Woodside	I'd probably miss, if this may sound a little too much, I'd miss so much I'd be overwhelmed, and I would miss all those opportunities that support living...
00:33:23.23	Wilfred	Mm-hmm.
00:33:30.59	Woodside	just living on this earth. I know many people who lost their homes up in Santa Rosa in the Tubbs fire. That's right. I think we have an employee here who lost a home or was displaced from paradise. I know people who were in Lahaina who knew people who perished.
00:33:51.28	Woodside	What you miss is so overwhelming.
00:33:54.57	Woodside	Thank you.
00:33:54.58	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
00:33:54.75	Woodside	It's hard to say I'll miss the air.
00:33:57.38	Woodside	I'll miss my friends, I'll miss getting up in the morning and being able to walk my dog in the neighborhood that used to be there. I mean, I don't know where to start.
00:34:06.21	Amy Haworth	I appreciate it. Councilmember Sobieski.
00:34:15.10	Sobieski	Yes, if we had a tragedy of that scale, I would miss.
00:34:17.97	Sobieski	Thank you.
00:34:18.97	Sobieski	the loss of the luxury of being able to fight so
00:34:23.52	Sobieski	vociferously and angrily about trivial stuff, which is what we do all the time here, instead of focusing on the really big things that matter and being grateful every day for the blessings we have of liberty and comfort, security and health.
00:34:31.62	Wilfred	better.
00:34:39.40	Sobieski	So I'd miss the indulgent luxury.
00:34:39.47	Unknown	Thank you.
00:34:39.52	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
00:34:39.57	Unknown	So, yeah.
00:34:42.84	Sobieski	getting so pissed off.
00:34:44.63	Sobieski	about little things.
00:34:46.27	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
00:34:47.22	Amy Haworth	Appreciate that. Councilmember Blaustein, before we turn to Zoom.
00:34:50.41	Amy Haworth	And would you mind repeating the question again? Yes, of course. In and out a bit.
00:34:53.48	Kelman	Yes, of course.
00:34:56.41	Amy Haworth	Oh, I know. It's so frustrating, I'm sure. I'm asking everybody, and it's going to be Councilmember Blaustein, and I'll turn to you both.
00:34:56.43	Kelman	Oh, I know.
00:35:03.79	Amy Haworth	If.
00:35:04.38	Amy Haworth	God forbid a tragedy such as the Palisades happened here and everything's gone. What do you miss most about your community here in Sausalito?
00:35:13.49	Amy Haworth	Councilmember Blasstein.
00:35:13.76	Blaustein	Yeah.
00:35:15.28	Blaustein	There are countless things I could mention about the beauty of our town, of the gorgeous views of the Bay, of walking the neighborhoods. But I think I would really miss the people in our community because after a tragedy like the one that Los Angeles is facing, many people will never be able to go back to their homes. And the Palisades community will never be what it was before. And Los Angeles will never be what it was before. And if we were faced with that sort of tragedy here we would lose core members of our community not just through the loss of the destruction of their homes but being able to directly link to some of the conversations we're having today about housing how would we be able to how would people be able to afford to return to their homes and to rebuild especially given the age of some of our community members And so that would be, you know, the people in our community is what makes it so special and full of richness and history. And to see that change, I would really deeply miss it. Okay.
00:35:29.79	Wilfred	loss.
00:35:33.08	Wilfred	and the
00:35:39.39	Unknown	is with it.
00:35:59.56	Wilfred	And so
00:36:11.03	Amy Haworth	Madam Mayor or
00:36:12.10	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
00:36:18.90	Kelman	Sure.
00:36:21.43	Kelman	You know, I am old enough to be the child of parents who grew up during the Depression.
00:36:29.56	Kelman	And,
00:36:31.08	Kelman	uh,
00:36:32.08	Kelman	When my dad passed away, I found
00:36:35.77	Kelman	Bags and bags and boxes full of empty cans in our attic.
00:36:40.97	Kelman	because he was saving carefully
00:36:45.10	Kelman	in the event of another huge
00:36:48.36	Kelman	event where you couldn't find groceries, you couldn't buy gas, things really came to a great standstill. And so I have a little bit of understanding of living in a parsimonious way to hedge against an uncertain
00:37:07.01	Kelman	You know, one of the unfortunate things for those in the Palisades is that their insurance, many of them had their home insurance canceled by insurance providers and weren't able to obtain insurance.
00:37:22.01	Kelman	replacement home insurance because of the high risk
00:37:26.04	Kelman	of the area in which they lived. And so many of them do not have
00:37:30.08	Kelman	the backup of insurance. And so they are going to be forced to rebuild without that financial benefit. So I definitely would miss the things that we take for granted, like being able to jump on the internet and handle everything remotely.
00:37:49.74	Kelman	I think it would force us to go back to a simpler,
00:37:53.78	Kelman	And perhaps
00:37:55.54	Kelman	in some ways, better way of living where we don't do everything virtually, we're forced to,
00:38:02.97	Kelman	pull together as a community and devise creative solutions to a disaster. So, again, I'm going to refer back to the vice mayor's using of the word renaissance. You know, the opportunity when you're facing a tragedy of incalculable magnitude is the opportunity to create something new and better and to grow stronger from it. So I hope that is what we would be able to do if we faced that sort of tragedy. I also hope that some of the tasks we are, many of us have already listed on our priorities and that we'll be working with today will help to hedge against and prevent us from experiencing that sort of tragedy.
00:38:58.40	Amy Haworth	Thank you. And Councilmember Huffman.
00:39:02.18	Councilmember Hoffman	So I, yeah.
00:39:04.96	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, I'm,
00:39:07.49	Councilmember Hoffman	I guess I have a different perspective maybe
00:39:12.66	Councilmember Hoffman	closer to maybe to council member Cox, I'm from the Midwest, you know, so farm folk,
00:39:18.51	Councilmember Hoffman	You know, we regularly face...
00:39:21.20	Councilmember Hoffman	you know,
00:39:22.48	Councilmember Hoffman	Environmental disasters where, you know, we have tornadoes regularly or we have floods regularly where we're wiped out, right? You know, your farm's wiped out and your, but your community's not wiped out. You just sort of pull together and
00:39:34.14	Councilmember Hoffman	it's unthinkable that you would leave your land. You know, you just all pull together and you build back.
00:39:39.32	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, your community is there and you all work together and you build back and you just keep going. You know, it's the community, it's there, it's your land that's there, you just keep going. And that's what's important. And so you just keep moving forward. And I would think that that's what we would do to pull together in Sausalito. Yeah.
00:39:58.37	Councilmember Hoffman	if something like that would happen.
00:40:01.48	Councilmember Hoffman	You know, we had a
00:40:02.86	Councilmember Hoffman	tremendous, horrific mudslide
00:40:05.53	Councilmember Hoffman	in 2019.
00:40:08.03	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, that we pulled together. It wasn't catastrophic, but it was pretty significant.
00:40:13.80	Councilmember Hoffman	and horrible.
00:40:15.79	Councilmember Hoffman	It was miraculous that nobody died. I mean, it was just miraculous. I don't know how that happened.
00:40:20.95	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, pull together and were able to rehouse, you know, the people that were affected by it. But, you know, I think the community here is pretty tight and we take care of each other, at least we try to. So I think that's the most important thing for us here.
00:40:39.30	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
00:40:39.46	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah.
00:40:39.95	Amy Haworth	Thank you. And I know that's a really somber way to begin, but I also think, you know, everybody is
00:40:46.38	Amy Haworth	Mindful, you mentioned these
00:40:49.01	Amy Haworth	big things of pulling together community, people.
00:40:53.66	Amy Haworth	Uh,
00:40:54.64	Amy Haworth	Ian, appreciating the luxury of being angry about little things made me chuckle as a council member.
00:41:01.54	Amy Haworth	in a very good way.
00:41:04.22	Amy Haworth	Just going to say, you know, they don't even have coffee shops to gather at. The grocery stores are gone. The schools are gone.
00:41:10.60	Amy Haworth	Um,
00:41:11.49	Amy Haworth	they will rebuild because of people like you and people like the engaged folks in this room. So
00:41:17.33	Amy Haworth	There's a lot of needs here. Somebody said a big, a small city with big city needs.
00:41:22.45	Amy Haworth	There's a lot of conflict. You've got density and then you've got housing, right? Or density and housing versus open space and character.
00:41:33.21	Amy Haworth	And we're going to we're going to try to move through this. I'm here for you and I'm going to turn it back over to the city manager who's going to talk to you about
00:41:43.12	Amy Haworth	the realities of the past year and so on the ground. And then I will step back up at a later point to work with all of you. So thank you for digging deep.
00:41:52.68	Amy Haworth	And hopefully today there'll be some steps that you can take towards the future. Thank you.
00:42:00.89	Mary	Thank you, Amy.
00:42:01.76	Mary	Thank you, everybody, for their input and their words. Mayor Cox, you said, I said, Saucyut was the most difficult town I'd ever managed in 33 years.
00:42:12.95	Mary	Thank you.
00:42:13.00	Kelman	I think challenging was the word I challenging, sir.
00:42:13.04	Mary	I think challenging was the
00:42:15.97	Mary	Yeah, it's the most interesting town that I've ever worked in. And that's, that's, that's the best way to put it. Because people here really care. They absolutely do.
00:42:26.60	Mary	And I want to give kudos to the past city council and staff that put together the strategic plan in 2019 2020 is a very good document and I've seen lots of them and Unlike some that sit on a shelf. This one has not set on a shelf. It's been actively worked on And you know that saying of fail to plan plan to fail That's true But the other pieces that's evident today is it even the best planning can be overtaken by events. We do not know what's going to happen. So I love the exercise of strength, weaknesses, opportunities, and threat analysis, which you did in that plan. So I'm going to run through a little bit of that so you can have my sense of it as somebody that came, you know, three years after it started. Under strengths, I want to highlight three things that you talked about. The city's location and physical attributes, world class, absolutely world class. What's behind Mary Cox on her screen is known throughout the globe, and you're right at the doorstep of that. The other thing that was under strength was a customer service focus. Okay, that's something important. And the other thing I noted was infrastructure investment.
00:43:45.48	Mary	And I know that that was on the heels of building a police and fire station, on the heels of passing a measure to get parks built, and on the heels of passing measure O. So that made sense when you did that then. In terms of weaknesses, again, emergency management, hillsides, and infrastructure needs.
00:44:07.77	Mary	still relevant today.
00:44:10.15	Mary	So I am gonna read through the
00:44:12.68	Mary	Opportunities in total and threats because I want everyone to hear what the council then thought and see how relevant it is today
00:44:20.11	Mary	Climate change and sea level rise was seen as an opportunity
00:44:24.97	Mary	Marineship.
00:44:26.36	Mary	Innovation Center.
00:44:27.95	Mary	undergrounding, a changing population, alternative service delivery, retail land use changes, new infrastructure resources, technology utilization, economic development, relationship with Marin County, transportation,
00:44:45.99	Mary	and definition of identities, which I didn't quite get, but it was seen as an opportunity
00:44:51.81	Mary	Now I want to get to the threats.
00:44:53.94	Mary	that.
00:44:55.31	Mary	Limit change and sea level rise.
00:44:57.58	Mary	hillsides.
00:44:59.39	Mary	recessions and the fiscal impact of a recession, state housing requirements, the competing divisions for the Marinership, staff turnover and loss of knowledge, school and family impacts, decline of tourism, again, emergencies and disasters, lack of diversity, increase in homelessness, and the speed and advancement of technology. So that's excellent work. And I would say 75% of it's still relevant today. What I think I want to point out is some of these things caught my eye in terms of I thought maybe they're missed or maybe they could be emphasized, amplified. We didn't talk about risk management and insurance in any of that, which you could. Obviously, you couldn't foresee a global pandemic, COVID, which nobody could. There's no conversation about gate five and gate six road, which there could be affordable housing, the opportunity for waterside activities, organizational development missing. property management could have been in there and grants chasing other people's money or outside resources those things to me are things that if i had to do it again today they'd be in there somewhere in those four categories and then certainly i want to say and end on a high note with respect to the swat strengths you've invested in public safety whether it's the buildings and whether it's the people whether it's the labor contracts and police and certainly the community at large is invested in fire and one of the things that I do when I come to the city is I want to know what the ISO rating is insurance service organization rating because if you have a 10 that means you don't have a fire department
00:46:46.21	Mary	If you have a one, that means you're best of the best. And Sosso was fortunate to have a fire district that has an ISO rating of one.
00:46:58.14	Mary	That's what you want to know. That means the training, the equipment, the water pressure, all the things needed to provide that type of service has been looked at by someone outside of the fire district and rated.
00:47:08.59	Mary	And here you have an ISO rating of one. So that's really important. Next slide, please.
00:47:14.68	Mary	Now I want to talk about the progress, and I'll be brief. So in 2026, you had a mission statement, and you can spend a lot of time on these things, and you did, and I'm glad you did because we don't have to today, but they're still relevant. And the mission statement was Sausalito serves those who live, work, and visit in the city, fostering new opportunities to protect and improve the quality of life in our unique waterfront community and you follow that up with the statement sasda will bring together its residents businesses and visitors to create a thriving safe environmentally welcome and friendly community that cultivates its natural beauty history the arts and waterfront culture that's all very important and i'm glad you did that go to the next slide please katie thank you
00:47:57.74	Mary	You had values, which are also extremely important. Innovation in creating informed risk taking. Creating an environment where people excel to their full potential. Transparent and accessible government. Professionalism and accountability. Respect for equity and inclusion. Excellence in public service. Teamwork.
00:48:20.39	Mary	Next slide, please.
00:48:22.41	Mary	So that's the work that councils do to kind of set the foundation for what their goals and then their strategic objectives are and their implementation plan is. And there's 166 tasks identified in this plan. But let's start with the goals. Five goals. And these goals are still all relevant today. They all make sense today. Utilize comprehensive planning to balance the community's character and diversity with its evolving needs. And everything is evolving. Strengthen our community identity. Enhance our fiscal resiliency. Continually improve and maintain infrastructure while addressing climate change and ensuring resiliency. I said it twice. And I want to make sure that you all understand. Three ago when I came, I said infrastructure, finances, and people. Those were the three things that I thought the council should focus on, and it was in your plan. And then ultimately maintain a strong organization to deliver effective, efficient, and sustainable municipal services. Those are all extremely relevant, and I want to talk about how we moved the needle on some of those this past year. Every year, I do a presentation of the end of the year council and mayor achievements, and it's a laundry list. I did it with Councilmember Hoffman, did it with Councilmember when she was the mayor, Councilmember Kelman when she was the mayor, Councilmember Blaustein when she was the mayor, and Councilmember Sobieski mayor council member, when she was the mayor and council member, so be just December. So those are all part of the public record in terms of what's been happening in Sausalito, but I'm going to tie these specifically to the strategic plan. Next slide, please Katie.
00:50:00.03	Mary	So I mentioned there's 166 tasks assigned in the strategic plan, and in calendar year 2024, some of the work that was done, it touched on them. And I won't go through all of it, but I'll go through some things that I think matter. One of the strategic objectives under your goals was to broaden Richardson Bay management. And what have we done there? Advancing goals in the management of Saucera Waterfront. I'm very proud of the work the police department did with partners to remove the Vadura and to take our responsibility for vessels in the bay, in the Sausalito section of the bay from 93 to 2. That's phenomenal.
00:50:40.72	Mary	After 10 years and then some, the City Council developed citywide improvements to the new ferry landing. You approved the execution of a longstanding grant and construction of a ferry project to include Tracy Way and the continued name of Tracy in the project.
00:51:00.43	Mary	In terms of quality education, two large long-term agreements with two schools have happened, one with the New Village School and one with Licee Francais. They not only provide educational opportunities, they provide significant revenue to the city of Sausalito. In terms of protecting historic resources, if you look downtown near El Portal, you'll see the historic Sassado Hotel and what's going on there. And it's being done with every bit and work of the planning commission, historic preservation commission, the community and economic development staff to make sure that we do protect historic resources. Next slide, please.
00:51:42.20	Mary	in terms of the city and its position as an age-friendly city, Sastaloo is pretty unique in that it's part of an international conglomerate of cities that value their elderly. That's on our website. There is extensive support to our community that is my age and older, and that's a good population. That's something like the CARS program. I misspelled that. I'm sorry. And then the city council wants to remind us that these residents and this population matters, and so resolutions this past year acknowledging Alzheimer's and loneliness and isolation in older adults were passed. We always want to support our businesses in Caledonia as a resident serving retail and services district. Thanks to the work of our recreation and parks department and our police department and the chamber of commerce and others, the second annual toast to Sausalito was held, and that drove a significant number of people to Sausalito that will come back. May have never been there. And so that is a big, big thing.
00:52:52.84	Mary	You know, stimulating Sosilo's identity as an artist's environmental innovation hub. This year, the city council finalized a long agreement with the Sosilo Center for the Arts. Improving the visitor-serving experience in downtown. The funding and formation of the Property and Business Improvement District was also done. You know, foster our reputation for maritime services and activities. We worked, many people worked on this and we heard the harbor master, Curtis Havold, speak about Clipper Yacht Harbor's work on and all the partners, but the city of Sausage was certainly a partner in that effort to have the second annual Sausage of the Boat Show.
00:53:32.54	Mary	And the beloved sea lion was restored after much, much community care and concern and work, and work with not one, not two, not three, but four different permitting agencies. So you see it like it never left, and there it sits as a sign of Saucelos Maritime Heritage. Next.
00:53:57.53	Mary	So, creating long-term economic development strategies, we work every year with the Economic Development Advisory Committee.
00:54:06.44	Mary	The Department of Community Development was expanded to be Department of Community Economic Development, and that has been stabilized under the leadership of Brandon Phipps. They support business vitality, and there's an emphasis on trying to help retain and grow businesses in Sausalito. I think the proof will be in the pudding in the next year when you look at what's going on, provided we can get council and community support for various projects. You will see a different downtown Sausalito. We'll continue to try to work on Caledonia. The Marin ship is obviously something that we need to fix the infrastructure at as we work there. And then we need to seed some of these areas with activities. And that's what recreation and parks do. do you know our pensions and post-employment benefit obligations the city of Sausalito has done a very good job in setting up a 115 trust in 2015-16 you put funding into it the total amount as of this last statement I got I think it was was last week, is $6,111,184 that is used to hedge against our cost increases in pensions and post-employment benefits. And then ensure adequate cost recovery. The city council approved a user fee study and an updating of our cost allocation payment. That is being worked on by a company called Wildan. We have an impact fee study going on to figure out how we can have new growth, pay for new growth. And then last but not least, you did some work with the sanitary sewer enterprise by creating a rate structure that is not five years, not four years, but three years, so that the rate or the district sewer in the city transfer can continue, which was a priority last year. And then that's part of improve, implement the sewer distribution system consolidation. Last December, this past December, you authorized a memorandum of understanding that will do just that. We have some work to do with the Saucydeo Marin Sanitary Sewer District to implement it, but, you know, we're moving forward aggressively to try to get that done.
00:56:22.89	Mary	Thank you.
00:56:24.19	Mary	Next slide.
00:56:26.81	Mary	hazardous mitigation plan and a focus on hillside and waterfront risk resulted from climate change you know the work that was done by former councilmember Kelman and her team and sustainability Commission to get 1 million dollars from the state of California to work on that resulted in us hiring a resiliency and sustainability manager Katie though Garcia who has worked extremely well and hard with the community and other stakeholders to implement the vulnerability and adaptation plan with the community. That's a half a million dollar investment by the city. There is also a contract that had been completed with Miller Pacific for the completion of a geologic hazard monitoring plan and related work. So yeah, 2019 was a horrible event for the people involved, the community, and it's impacted the city to this day.
00:57:19.16	Mary	proactive risk management and asset or proactive asset management. The city council worked long and hard making sure that we got it right, but we issued a request for proposals for comprehensive review of our facilities in the city. And that's being done by a company called Veritas Consulting. They should be done with this by February, Kevin, and I hope I'm right. I know Council Member Hoffman is asking me. February is the date. And then also just this last month, December, you approved a $1.9 million investment in our buildings and our facilities to become more efficient and more sustainability by entering to a contract with climate tech. And then it really matters when you have good people. And so develop an employee retention and recruitment plan to ensure high quality staffing. Our business model now has a 36 hour work week for non-management and non-public safety and non-enterprise folks. So that allows people.
00:58:37.41	Kelman	We lost you.
00:58:38.64	Kelman	City Manager.
00:58:40.85	Mary	Can you hear me?
00:58:41.68	Kelman	Yeah, we hear you now.
00:58:43.45	Mary	Where did you lose me, Mayor?
00:58:45.94	Kelman	I think we lost about two sentences.
00:58:49.08	Mary	So retention and recruitment and succession planning. Our business model now includes a 36-hour work week. It's important because we have many of our employees live outside the city limits, so this allows for one day less of travel and gasoline, impact on the environment. We use the new world of remote work for those that can, and it makes sense to, know, some people work three days in the office and one day remotely on top of the day that is not Friday. So that's important. The city council adopted a philosophy of mid-market pay to make sure that we didn't lose people. You created some sustainability in departments and workloads by adding two project managers, a resiliency and sustainability manager, and then you gave a strong direction to create succession plans by not having so many consultants. So a lot of consultants that we have are in the past. Those that we do have, they're there for a limited duration or because we cannot get the position filled, but we continue to try. But we've taken that model way down post-COVID to the point where we're happy about our workforce being all city employees to the extent we can. And then addressing new technologies to enhance and streamline city services. Public safety is really important. The police department was just to prove new council. The council just approved new cameras for the police department, which is very, very, very important for crime reduction. And then we also implemented our rock solid RC click fix app finally for problem solving and problem help and solutions from the community to help us and help us develop metrics and some of the problems that we see that are pretty common. And then we added EV charging stations to City Hall. And you added and approved the creation of a new risk manager position so that we can lower our risk profile and future insurance costs. Next slide.
00:58:56.63	Kelman	Yep.
01:00:58.48	Mary	Okay, that's my recap of the strategic plan and where we've made some progress in that plan. I wanted to cover the SWAT to the Strength of Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats because that's in the agenda. The public would expect that. And I'd also like to note that as this meeting is recorded, it'll be a record of this day. So if residents were not able to attend the meeting or sign in on the meeting, zoom in on the meeting, this will be part and parcel. All of the attachments that we have will be part of the record as well, so people can go back and look at those if they feel the need to. So that concludes mine. Any questions? If no questions, we'll go to the department's.
01:01:42.84	Kelman	Any questions of council members? Yes, council member Hoffman.
01:01:46.34	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:01:47.20	Councilmember Hoffman	Thanks.
01:01:48.36	Councilmember Hoffman	Can you hear me okay?
01:01:49.68	Kelman	Yes, thank you.
01:01:51.16	Councilmember Hoffman	Chris, I had a question about fire insurance. And this is just, I'm sorry, this is just because of what's going on across the state or in Southern California right now.
01:02:02.39	Councilmember Hoffman	Um, and I haven't, you know, this is just, I'm sorry, this is completely off the cuff, but
01:02:07.97	Councilmember Hoffman	A few years ago, we had some
01:02:09.91	Councilmember Hoffman	information that many people in Sausli were having trouble getting fire insurance.
01:02:14.43	Councilmember Hoffman	Do we have any update on that or is there any update on that situation? Do we know is that resolved or is there any, do we have any updated information on that at all?
01:02:24.47	Mary	Council member Hoffman, thank you for the question. I do not have that information, but that's certainly an important question that we should get the information to and we will and see what the status of insurance in Sausalito and people's ability to attract that insurance. I'm sure people in the fire service, people in the finance and people in the risk management field can give us some insight into that. I'm happy to get that to you at an upcoming city council meeting.
01:02:48.61	Mary	Okay, thanks.
01:02:49.42	Kelman	you
01:02:49.67	Kelman	Thank you.
01:02:49.70	Mary	Okay.
01:02:49.94	Kelman	And if I might, city manager, I don't know if you know, but...
01:02:49.96	Mary	And
01:02:56.25	Kelman	We convened and attended with Southern Marin Fire and the Sausalito Police Department, a gathering at the Spinnaker midway through last year with an HOA who had some of those same concerns.
01:03:08.69	Kelman	And at that time, we learned from them and others that, you know, Southern Marin Fires Firewise program that communities can sign up and get certified by. And it entails, you know, clearing of brush, inspection of homes, rating of homes by Southern Marin Fire that they do for free and as a courtesy to the community has been helpful in
01:03:35.60	Kelman	facilitating the obtaining by residents of insurance, even where existing policies have been raised or canceled. So I know it's something that Southern Rune Fire is actively collaborating with the community on, but who knows what impact is, you know, the fires in Southern California will have because it's going to make the insurance market even more risky, just as the Tubbs and other fires, you know, Paradise fires did
01:04:03.97	Kelman	several years ago. So who knows what lies ahead for the California insurance industry.
01:04:09.25	Councilmember Hoffman	Is that a future agenda item maybe? Is that within our scope of city council? I don't know, but-
01:04:14.59	Kelman	I would love to undertake that as a future agenda item, a study session and call in. We, you know, we called in some brokers from State Farm and other.
01:04:26.78	Kelman	large California insurers to speak to us so we could do the same.
01:04:32.20	Kelman	I think it's a great idea. Thank you.
01:04:32.61	Woodside	Thank you.
01:04:34.09	Woodside	If I can just jump in for Hoffman's question, I can answer a little bit anecdotally. Recently in my neighborhood, a number of us, including myself, received notices of cancellation. So it's happening on a very accelerated rate. And apart from how I feel about it personally, it's a huge problem, and it's only going to get worse because of the Southern California fires. All of these things are pooled in such a way that a fire in one part of the state is going to raise rates and create changes throughout the state. and I agree with both of you that we should have a session on this and try to bring resources together so we can help members of our community navigate this very challenging problem that we're all going to face.
01:05:26.54	Councilmember Hoffman	When was that, Vice Mayor? When did you get that notice?
01:05:33.09	Woodside	I got the news about six weeks ago and went back to insurance broker, and they found a coverage for much more money and much less coverage. So we're going to do that because we've been continuing to search and finding no real alternative that is adequate as far as I'm concerned. But we're not alone. I know we're not alone. And I wouldn't be surprised that as we take a close look at our hillsides and hear from our fire people, we're going to see that we're more vulnerable perhaps than we thought to catastrophic fire.
01:06:18.18	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:06:20.00	Kelman	Any other questions of council members?
01:06:24.24	Kelman	All right, thank you. With that, we'll move on to the department head priorities.
01:06:32.76	Kelman	All right, first one is Sausalito Police Department. I guess we'll hear from
01:06:37.14	Kelman	Stacey.
01:06:38.55	Kelman	Gregory.
01:06:40.99	Gregory	Good morning, Council. I'm happy to be here and happy to go first. Today, you'll see my top five priorities on the screen. What I'm going to do is go through each of them and just kind of give you some thoughts and strategies that we plan to look at and implement to reach those goals. The first is retention, focusing on retaining our current staff. We put a lot of time, money, and energy into hiring the right people that fit here in Sausalito.
01:07:13.54	Gregory	Oh.
01:07:13.93	Gregory	because that's very important for our community. And so we want to continue to work on strategies that will keep those employees here. Our turnover at this point is low, and so we want to work to keep it that way. The obvious one is competitive compensation and benefits, but others are to prioritize career development, mentoring and succession planning, enhance our work-life balance,
01:07:38.18	Gregory	modernize equipment and programs, improve engagement and communication within the department and outside into the community, and then build stronger organizational pride.
01:07:47.28	Wilfred	and,
01:07:52.02	Gregory	Number two, recruitment and hiring opportunities.
01:07:55.83	Gregory	It's a really competitive market right now. I mean, you'll see signing bonuses up to $100,000 for lateral officers. And so, you know, with that competition for law enforcement officers between agencies, you know, we have to try to keep our competitive edge as well. So some thoughts around those are, you know, internal recommendations for employees. We're currently down three. That does not include the two frozen positions. You know, creating a recruitment website and even a recruitment video. Southern Marin has a pretty amazing, actually a few. And, you know, putting those on social media and just really getting our brand and our name and our culture out there. Financial incentives to entice applicants, offering flexible time and other alternative perks like that. Conduct focus groups, I think, talking to our current officers to see what
01:08:52.63	Gregory	What do we need to offer or provide, or how do we get out to the people who we want to come have apply with us? And then the well-being agency culture, again, is big. Training and development. Our current average time on patrol is just less than five years. we have one officer with about two months and on his own and up to 20 years as a police officer. But so, you know, five years down is the majority of our, our staff.
01:09:29.52	Gregory	That experience gap is a big deal. So focusing on training and developing them to be safe, to be able to protect the community in an efficient manner is important. So we need to focus on that basic training. We need to reinforce and demonstrate our quality of service
01:09:49.76	Gregory	quality of life service style because we do operate,
01:09:54.94	Gregory	in a manner that is different than some police departments. We do a lot that most police departments aren't going to look at. And so...
01:10:04.47	Gregory	helping new officers understand that, yeah, you're wearing a badge and a gun, there's a lot more to it that we expect from you here in Sausalito. You know, well-trained officers are better prepared to handle complex situations, they make sound decisions under pressure, and they're going to respond appropriately to those kind of diverse calls for service that we receive.
01:10:24.74	Gregory	Community engagement, that's obvious. You know, we want to get out and be a part of the community. I think we do a pretty good job.
01:10:31.88	Gregory	We're going to be...
01:10:34.17	Gregory	Starting another Citizen Police Academy. That will be happening in February. We are taking applications for those that are listening. We need to do more activities like the Coffee with a Cup. We do National Night Out, but getting out in the community and letting not just be me or the lieutenants. We need to get the younger officers out and have their faces known to the community, their names, and so people feel like they can approach us. we're also recruiting for volunteers and faces known to the community, their names, and so people feel like they can approach us. We're also recruiting for volunteers in public safety. So if you're interested, please see me.
01:11:09.59	Gregory	Chamber of Commerce and strengthening our partnership there. I think that's a huge opportunity. You know, Sausalito Village, knowing where those vulnerable people in our community are is also something that we've been working on, but we would like to and should enhance.
01:11:27.21	Gregory	And then lastly, our waterfront management. We want to achieve the compliance of the BCDC at the end of 25, having zero boats, our waterfront. We currently have two, as the city manager mentioned. Another goal and desire of ours is to purchase our own patrol boat.
01:11:45.72	Gregory	Um, it's very hard to manage a waterfront without
01:11:49.38	Gregory	the asset to do it.
01:11:50.90	Gregory	Right now, we have to rely on the RBRA harbormaster and the sheriff's office to let us know there's boats in our water that shouldn't be and or to help us get out to those boats to mark them for 72 hours or whatever we need to do. We do have an agreement with the Marin County SO to use one of their patrol vessels, but that vessel is in, you know, fairly poor condition. It's our secondary boat. So for us, you know, fairly poor condition. It's our secondary boat. So for us, you know, we see our own vessel to be, you know, an opportunity for us to get out and do more on the water.
01:12:27.88	Gregory	So those are our five top priorities. And I'm open for any questions.
01:12:35.59	Blaustein	I have my hand raised, Mayor. I don't know how we're doing questions.
01:12:39.28	Woodside	Since I'm here, I'll just lead off and-
01:12:42.67	Blaustein	Please.
01:12:42.98	Unknown	I don't know.
01:12:44.43	Woodside	Yeah, it's hard for you to see, I think, Mayor.
01:12:50.06	Woodside	Member Blaustein has a question.
01:12:53.59	Blaustein	Thanks, Chief Gregory, and thanks for all of the great work that Sausalito PD does, and we're so excited that you're officially the chief and doing a fantastic job. With regards to the patrol boat, would that require additional training for the staff to receive their captain's licenses, or do we have to hire someone new to be able to direct the boat, or is everyone already fully trained on that?
01:13:16.42	Gregory	Not everyone. We do have two employees with captain's licenses. And we do have employees that have training to operate the boat. If we were to obtain our own boat, we would...
01:13:26.52	Gregory	we would certainly make sure that we sent people to
01:13:29.42	Gregory	the training to acquire their captain's license. So we have redundancy.
01:13:33.62	Blaustein	And do you know if previously we've applied before my tenure for grant funding for a boat vessel or have received any sort of additional like federal funds for that? That might be a city manager question, but it just seems like.
01:13:47.15	Gregory	Yeah, I have no knowledge of it now. Okay.
01:13:48.74	Blaustein	Okay.
01:13:48.77	Gregory	Thank you.
01:13:51.69	Blaustein	Like what?
01:13:51.90	Unknown	Go ahead.
01:13:54.14	Sobieski	Chief, I'd like to echo my thanks for your work. Chief, congratulations, and for your whole department. Thank you. So many different things, as you said, not just...
01:14:03.88	Sobieski	enforcement of law, but service to the community. So thank you.
01:14:08.06	Sobieski	In terms of retention, can you just help educate me, remind us all, most of our police officers don't actually, do any of them live in Sausalito? Most of them commute elsewhere, right?
01:14:17.63	Gregory	We have one that rents here in South Slido.
01:14:19.76	Sobieski	So what's the average commute time for one of our officers, or our force on average, you think?
01:14:25.16	Gregory	50 minutes to an hour each way.
01:14:26.89	Sobieski	50 minutes to an hour each week.
01:14:28.26	Gregory	Most of us are in either Sonoma or Napa County.
01:14:30.98	Sobieski	So most our entire police force lives in Sonoma or Napa County.
01:14:34.77	Gregory	Correct. We have, I think, only two officers in Marin County.
01:14:39.79	Sobieski	I think that's an important level set that's easy to miss. And I wanted to emphasize that. Thank you for that.
01:14:42.42	Gregory	that it's easy.
01:14:48.24	Sobieski	Just another thing that was mentioned by city manager to be approved, something called a flock camera system. Can you just remind everyone what that is?
01:14:55.92	Gregory	Yeah, so the FLOT camera system is an automatic, automated license
01:15:00.64	Gregory	um, camera reader who, you know, it picks up the vehicles that are coming into town. So we're not looking at the license plates and monitoring it that way. The license plates that are actually alerted are those that are
01:15:12.42	Gregory	stolen, you know, attached to a violent criminal, or wanted in some manner that they trigger the license plate reader, then we get the alert and we're able to respond and look for that vehicle. You know, the great part about the Flock camera is we now have cameras, prior to with the vigilance system, it was only at the entrance and exits. Now we have internal cameras inside the city. So dispatch can actually watch as long as they hit one of the internal city cameras. We'll know the direction to travel and have a lot better opportunity of obtaining that vehicle.
01:15:53.19	Sobieski	Thank you. And then just two more questions. One,
01:15:57.02	Sobieski	And I didn't forewarn you about this, so I'm not asking you for any answer, then just a request. I'd looked or just began to get information about the number of citations that the city of Sausalito Police Department has issued over time. And there's been a real change over the last, let's say, 30 years.
01:16:08.28	Wilfred	See it.
01:16:12.55	Sobieski	And I wonder if I could put it to you or just have it be a get your reaction on maybe explaining the basis of that change, whether it's a change of attitude around enforcement, a change of staffing. What's the maybe to research and report on the change in citations, parking traffic citations in particular and the costs. So good luck.
01:16:31.41	Gregory	Yeah, I am aware of that as that was brought to my attention at the Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee. So I have been forewarned. There's a lot of reasons for that. Staffing.
01:16:40.09	Gregory	Um,
01:16:40.95	Gregory	training
01:16:42.70	Gregory	COVID.
01:16:43.70	Gregory	homeless encampment
01:16:45.10	Gregory	You know, I haven't really, you know, been in my role as a lieutenant, which I was promoted lieutenant 2016.
01:16:52.09	Gregory	Definitely the philosophy around it has also changed. And,
01:17:00.32	Gregory	So but I would say staffing is the number one. And then with the you know, we have two cops that
01:17:06.13	Gregory	Yeah.
01:17:07.75	Gregory	were hired in COVID, and they were not taught to
01:17:10.95	Gregory	make a traffic stop for probably a year into their career, for the most part, because we didn't want them talking to people. So the homeless in Cam, and we had no other time to do anything but.
01:17:21.45	Gregory	Um, so there's a lot of reasons behind it. Um, so that's, that's kind of my initial reaction.
01:17:29.95	Sobieski	My only other question is none of these five says the word parking isn't on your slide. Parking revenue makes up more than 10% of our city's budget. Correct. It's a major business model of the city. It pays for resident services without taxes. Do you have any goals around parking or any thoughts around it?
01:17:49.11	Gregory	Parking is a hard, parking is a hard animal to tackle. So there's, you know, there's the enforcement side and then there's the managing of the lots and the permits and the residential. So those goals change all the time. You know, you poke a balloon, you fix one problem and it causes another one. And so that's happening all the time with parking. So, you know, our goal is just to
01:18:15.80	Gregory	create a parking infrastructure that makes as many people happy as we can. Because it is tough, as you know.
01:18:27.04	Gregory	Thank you.
01:18:27.06	Kelman	Um,
01:18:28.54	Kelman	I assume, oh, I cannot hear what Amy is saying.
01:18:34.69	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
01:18:34.70	Gregory	Yeah.
01:18:35.31	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
01:18:35.36	Gregory	Thank you.
01:18:35.94	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
01:18:36.04	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
01:18:36.71	Amy Haworth	Thank you, Madam Mayor. I was just asking the Vice Mayor if I could step in. And I see that Councilmember Hoffman has her hand raised, so I think we'd need to allow that question.
01:18:36.73	Kelman	Thank you. I was just asking.
01:18:38.36	Gregory	Thank you.
01:18:45.74	Amy Haworth	Um,
01:18:46.99	Amy Haworth	these are incredibly valuable questions one thing though we're concerned about is getting through sort of hearing all of the priorities
01:18:54.63	Amy Haworth	which you have in front of you as well. So then we can actually get to your discussion. So,
01:19:01.82	Amy Haworth	If council could maybe keep their questions, maybe write them down. I know it's really frustrating, right? Because and you have such great staff. So I would like to allow.
01:19:09.65	Wilfred	you have such
01:19:12.57	Amy Haworth	Okay, Councilmember Hoffman, and then continue to go through the other department priorities, if that's amenable to all of you. Thank you.
01:19:20.25	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
01:19:20.28	Kelman	Thank you. Two things. City Manager, can you get Amy a microphone so that she can speak from
01:19:28.01	Kelman	her desk without having to get down.
01:19:30.20	Unknown	Yeah.
01:19:30.68	Unknown	Thank you.
01:19:30.69	Amy Haworth	Yep.
01:19:31.03	Unknown	Thank you.
01:19:31.52	Unknown	Okay.
01:19:31.54	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
01:19:31.56	Kelman	It just got me one.
01:19:31.98	Amy Haworth	Yep.
01:19:32.26	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
01:19:32.45	Kelman	Thank you.
01:19:32.94	Kelman	All right, great. And two, may I ask council members to please write down, record your questions. These are questions, many of them that are super appropriate as we undertake the budgeting process and really drill down into each department heads priorities and what they need funding for in the coming year. So we allotted five minutes per month
01:19:57.83	Kelman	department head to produce present their priorities to us. So if we take 15 minutes per department head, we will then not have any time to do our own strategic planning.
01:20:12.73	Kelman	And so I appreciate your
01:20:15.62	Kelman	Um,
01:20:17.02	Kelman	courtesy in
01:20:18.87	Kelman	complying with the direction offered by our facilitator. But I do wanna take the questions from council members.
01:20:27.72	Kelman	or Hoffman, since we heard from other council members.
01:20:31.82	Kelman	You're on mute.
01:20:32.73	Kelman	Councilmember Hoffman.
01:20:34.92	Councilmember Hoffman	I'm happy to pass. I can follow up with Achievement later.
01:20:37.45	Kelman	Okay, wonderful. Thank you so much. Very good questions.
01:20:41.81	Kelman	And thank you, Chief, for presenting your priorities.
01:20:50.77	Kelman	All right, next up we have, I assume, Chief Tubbs for Southern Marin Fire.
01:20:59.69	Kelman	Chief Tubbs, welcome. I'm so sorry I'm not able to be there in person and shake your hand, but we are so happy to have you attending. It's great to see you.
01:21:09.33	Wilfred	Thank you, Mayor, and likewise, great to see you.
01:21:12.01	Wilfred	Mayor Cox, Vice Mayor Woodside Council, thank you for the opportunity to be here before all of you today. It truly is a privilege. For the record, Chris Tubbs, Fire Chief.
01:21:21.50	Wilfred	Before I do our presentation, if I could just take a moment to thank the council and the community for their outreach and support given events in Southern California this week. We have 14 firefighters deployed down there, additionally here at home in order to ensure that we provide constant staffing. We have members working seven to 10 days consecutively, great sacrifice to their families. Very, very proud of my team for the work that they're doing.
01:21:21.61	Fred Moore	I'm bored.
01:21:48.38	Wilfred	As of this morning, the Palisades fire has 11% containment and the Eaton fire has 15%.
01:21:54.50	Wilfred	So we have a long way to go, but we definitely appreciate the support from the community. Thank you.
01:22:00.97	Wilfred	And especially given in light of the events this week, I'm going to touch very briefly on the subjects except for the risk reduction piece. I'd like our fire marshal maybe to speak a little bit more in depth on that for the brief time that we have.
01:22:14.97	Wilfred	Thank you.
01:22:15.61	Wilfred	So very quickly for our agency this next year, we're continuing to look at our work around diversity, inclusion, and belonging, and the values that we derive out of that as an agency from bringing a variety of experiences and knowledge that help us create really good solutions. Again, I won't go into a lot of detail on that right here. We've embarked on a new three-year strategic planning process with the Jacob Green Associates.
01:22:42.23	Wilfred	That's going to be somewhat built off of our recently completed master plan where we had 38 findings and 21 recommendations from that.
01:22:50.23	Wilfred	That plan is available on the website in case anyone would like to see that.
01:22:55.47	Wilfred	Technology strategic plan. Given a lot of the changes that our industry is experiencing these days, especially with the rapid growth of technology around AI, machine learning, augmented reality, and virtual reality, we're going to embark on a strategic planning process looking at the technologies that we have, the softwares and hardwares, and make sure we're using that effectively and efficiently, and we're poised for what the future impacts will bring.
01:23:20.53	Wilfred	And then finally, public safety cloud. This is an endeavor that began with the California Fire Chiefs Association.
01:23:26.61	Wilfred	The Western Fire Chiefs Association of Microsoft
01:23:29.31	Wilfred	to build a public safety cloud. We're participating in that process that began when I was the president for the California Fire Chiefs Association.
01:23:36.90	Wilfred	So we're excited to see what that will bring. And with that, I'd like to turn it over to our fire marshal, Chief Hilliard.
01:23:44.88	Hilliard	Hi, good morning. Really quick to blast through this because I know you have many other people to talk. I just want to give you a quick overview of some of the items that we're doing in fire prevention for the city of Sausalito. So we've established community fuel breaks and forest health restoration projects. We're going to have five new projects within the city. We have seven existing major fuel breaks. We're 85 percent complete. So we're planning to complete those other fuel breaks in the city in the upcoming year. We've done between 900 and 1,000 residential home inspections this year, which is the most that we've done in any year. And we will be completing the entire wildland urban interface zone by next year. so we'll have all those homes and properties inspected
01:24:36.42	Hilliard	We continue to do occupancy inspections in our commercial structures and businesses that's ongoing and we will continue to do that this year with the hopefully getting a majority of the of the older businesses or the newer businesses completed this year.
01:24:53.97	Hilliard	We're working with the community development with the city staff on large projects, including a proposed larger facility on Bridgeway and Princess.
01:25:08.94	Hilliard	We're going to continue our on-demand chipper program programs open to the public.
01:25:14.24	Hilliard	where they can call us and, you know, if they're removing brush, we'll come and pick it up for them.
01:25:19.03	Hilliard	We're also going to continue the Southern Rhin hazardous tree removal program. So that's for dead and dying trees at no cost to the resident or the, the city will remove any dead trees that are standing at, um,
01:25:34.59	Hilliard	in the city. We're also going to continue our evacuation evacuation route clearing, which is we call it the paved roads clearing. So basically we go up and we make sure that the roads are wide enough for our fire apparatus and any type of evacuation.
01:25:53.08	Hilliard	to facilitate that. And then we're going to continue to bolster...
01:25:58.73	Hilliard	And.
01:25:59.56	Hilliard	train our existing citizens and new citizens with our CERT and neighborhood response programs. And then just on a side note, because we're talking about insurance, I'm actually flying down to Los Angeles next week. I've been asked to sit on the California Home Fire Insurance Workshop as part of the state fire marshals. So I'll bring back a lot of information, which I will share with you.
01:26:29.21	Amy Haworth	Thank you. I say thank you.
01:26:34.19	Amy Haworth	with next.
01:26:38.44	McGowan	Good morning, Mayor, Council Members, Kevin McGowan, Public Works Department. I'll make this fairly quick. Public Works has at least four major budget centers from streets, engineering, park maintenance, and sewer. So we were asked to do five major points for our department, and I broke it into two slides. I'm so sorry. So the first slide has to do with our Department of Public Works priorities, And that has to do specifically with what we need to do our job. In the next year, we're going to find that we're going to need more vehicles. Several of our vehicles are failing. We need to update those. In addition, we have space planning issues. We have an older building and we have more staff coming in. Where are we going to put people? I have one engineer who's working underneath the stairs, not quite Harry Potter-ish, but close. So we would like to get him moved.
01:27:28.44	McGowan	Oh,
01:27:29.32	McGowan	Our facility, our corporate yard needs a new roof on several different areas. We have to decide what we do with that building and that entire site, what its disposition will be. And in addition, we use consultants for specialty items such as geotechnical engineering and traffic engineering. We do not have the staff to cover that. So we definitely need to have consultants to cover some of those. Next slide.
01:27:55.29	McGowan	And then from a city perspective, looking at the city in general for the next year for capital as well as public works type of priorities. I'm recommending that the city council take a look at flooding aspects, specifically on gate five. This has been happening for quite a few years. We've installed a new tide gate this week, and it works okay. It doesn't solve the issue. We have more issues to deal with down there. Now, in each one of these bullet items that you've seen on your handout, you'll see that trees are coming up more and more. This is a liability to the city itself. We have sidewalks that are being pushed up that are hazards. What's the cause of those? And generally, it is street trees. So we have to have some disposition of the city, the council to say we need to take out some of these trees in order to deal with these issues. And we have quite a few of them. I wanted to bring it up because it is going to be a major issue in the next year. We also have our street repair. We have to update our streets. As you all know, I've made several presentations on this. As far as our pavement condition index is at 58. A good standard is about 70, and it will take quite a bit of resources to pick that up, and I know that we'll be discussing that this year. You've also mentioned things such as the capital program, that's our buildings. And we also wanna be careful about
01:29:27.80	McGowan	how much more maintenance we take on for some of our buildings. They are getting older and older. We'll find in the last year, 2024, we put in a whole lot of funding for one of our buildings, Old City Hall.
01:29:40.88	McGowan	And we want to be careful of all the other buildings that we have as well.
01:29:45.50	McGowan	Thank you very much. You'll notice that on my list on the screen, I'm not going to go through every one of them, but trees comes up several times. So I do think that's an important issue we need to take a look at. Thanks so much.
01:30:07.81	Brandon Phipps	Good morning, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members, staff, members of the public. Happy to be here today to summarize CDD's priorities for 2025. And I'll just say, very grateful to be on this excellent team in this amazing community.
01:30:09.24	Unknown	Yeah.
01:30:09.33	Unknown	I'm sorry.
01:30:21.23	Kelman	And for members of the public, can you introduce yourself, Brandon, please?
01:30:24.85	Brandon Phipps	Absolutely. Brandon Phipps, Community and Economic Development Director with the city. Thank you, Mayor.
01:30:29.49	Kelman	Thank you. Welcome.
01:30:30.61	Brandon Phipps	So I'll dive right in. The first three priorities you see here are
01:30:34.98	Brandon Phipps	Probably no surprise to you all. They're all interrelated and related to compliance with state housing element law.
01:30:42.05	Brandon Phipps	and the adoption of new development standards that will apply to the majority of our city.
01:30:47.18	Brandon Phipps	It is no mistake that these items are the top three. It's imperative that they be adopted this year.
01:30:52.31	Brandon Phipps	or addressed this year, excuse me, and be addressed in line with the timeline that staff have developed and shared with you all. This timeline and adoption is only one piece of a larger puzzle. However, follow-on implementation of these plans and policy documents will become a new focus for CDD once we're able to address these most immediate priorities. As related to the other priorities, these are actions that are ongoing and have been in progress since I joined the city in October of 2022. Regarding priority number four, in the coming month, the council will see ordinance amendments brought forward by CDD in connection with ADU and JADU policy for compliance with new state laws related to SAM as well as formula retail and more to come after that. Pre-35 is one we in CD are always focused on. Providing exceptional service to our community is one of the elements of this job I'm most passionate about. And improving our internal processes is one way we can do that, particularly as related to our permitting and review processes, the way we structure our applications and how we interface with this community.
01:32:07.23	Brandon Phipps	I will end there. Thank you for the opportunity to speak.
01:32:10.51	Kelman	Thank you, Director Phipps.
01:32:13.72	Kelman	All right, next we'll hear from Katie Throe-Garcia.
01:32:17.02	Unknown	Thank you.
01:32:20.40	Katie Thao Garcia	Good morning, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilmembers, members of the public. I'm Katie Thao Garcia, the City's Resiliency and Sustainability Manager.
01:32:28.38	Katie Thao Garcia	Here I have my estimated priorities for 2025. Nearly all of these priorities seek to address goal D of the strategic plan, continually improve and maintain infrastructure while addressing climate change and ensuring resiliency. However, I would be amiss to omit the strategies outlined in goal B, strengthen our community identity. It is my goal to embed community resilience in nearly all city processes and to make sure our identity as a Bayfront community can continue in the face of future changes for climate change. Since my position is a little different from all of the other department heads, some of my priorities are rather project-based. The first is to complete or nearly complete the city's shoreline adaptation plan in 2025. This will set us up nicely to fulfill many, but not all, of BCDC's requirements for SB 272 and includes a holistic view of sea level rise vulnerability and opportunities for the shoreline. For members of the public who are online, we have community meeting number two coming up on January 25th at the Bay Model.
01:33:42.49	Katie Thao Garcia	um second priority in December 2024 council approved the first favorite phase of infrastructure modernization energy conservation sustainability program which was um approved on December 3rd you should see significant progress on this project in 2025 um
01:34:03.17	Katie Thao Garcia	Also in 2025, Council may consider future phases of this project, which could include significant upgrades to City Hall, resulting in further greenhouse gas emission reduction.
01:34:15.99	Katie Thao Garcia	So those are two rather project-based goals. In addition to this, I continue to work on state law compliance, which is a heavy lift, you know, resulting...
01:34:27.72	Wilfred	Thank you.
01:34:27.74	Unknown	you know,
01:34:30.96	Katie Thao Garcia	from regulations from SB 1383. Uh, future examples of future work in 2025 include a Sausalito restaurant workshop for SB 1383 compliance, which I'm partnering with
01:34:45.00	Katie Thao Garcia	Bay City's Refuse and the Chamber of Commerce on. Additionally, I anticipate that our findings from our SB 1383 audit will be coming to Council in 2025 and making any potential corrective actions that are outlined in that.
01:35:04.42	Katie Thao Garcia	For community resilience home planning, I will continue to work with the Sustainability Commission, Marin Climate and Energy Partnership, and the Marin Microgrid Working Group to identify funding or other opportunities to get backup electricity storage in Sausalito, whether it's at City Hall or somewhere else. And finally, my last priority is to integrate resiliency and sustainability planning awareness into all city departments and community organizations. Examples of progress on this in 2025 will be to work in collaboration with other departments on grant applications organizing trainings workshops and tabling at community events and participating in community-led projects for resiliency. So I look forward to seeing many of these projects as your accomplishments at the end of 2025. Thank you.
01:35:57.38	Katie Thao Garcia	Thank you.
01:35:57.48	Kelman	Thank you.
01:35:57.85	Katie Thao Garcia	DR.
01:35:57.97	Kelman	Dr. Garcia.
01:36:02.62	Unknown	Next slide.
01:36:09.07	Kathy Nikitas	Hi, I am Kathy Nikitas, and I am the Human Resources Manager for the city of Sausalito. So I really looked at budget priorities within HR, and certainly I am glad to say that in most aspects, we are doing really well with staffing, and the police department is one area where we're working on, and a couple of other positions that we have a hard time with, but otherwise, we're not in crisis mode crisis which is a nice thing to say so for budget priorities I indicated an ERP system we are looking at some software that will really really help help us improve our efficiency citywide I'd also like to look at ergonomic review for all of our staffing. Last summer, we were lucky to get some free sit-stand desks, a batch of those, and a lot more people are interested in them. And I'd like to be able to make sure everybody's working safely while they are working.
01:37:15.47	Kathy Nikitas	Also looking at increased external training funds and also looking at opportunities where we can do training for with with people who are volunteering. And we do have people who have offered to help us with some, you know, some team building and staff building type of training. Uh.
01:37:36.74	Kathy Nikitas	I heard the mention of office space and someone working in an alcove.
01:37:42.51	Kathy Nikitas	Um...
01:37:43.57	Kathy Nikitas	and a sit-stand desk in an alcove, which is very impressive, I have to say. But there's an ongoing project with turning our game room into some office space, some cubicles. That is a huge budget priority that relates to HR.
01:37:58.47	Kathy Nikitas	And the last would be changing our halftime admin assistant in HR to full-time. That would be a fabulous thing. We have many more priorities, but budget priorities, that's what we have. I look forward to the rest of the day. Thank you.
01:38:15.38	Unknown	Thank you, Director Nkitas.
01:38:17.03	Unknown	Next, we'll hear from our library.
01:38:22.42	Brian Vitale	Right. Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members.
01:38:24.91	Brian Vitale	and managers and staff and members of the public.
01:38:27.53	Brian Vitale	For the record, I am Brian Vitale, the Acting Community Services Director
01:38:31.82	Brian Vitale	And as ACT-A director, I have the great opportunity
01:38:36.19	Brian Vitale	to help our city evolve by streamlining our operational efficiency, improve community engagement, while still preserving the independence of parks and recreation and library services.
01:38:45.52	Kelman	And Brian, are you able to adjust your volume up at all?
01:38:45.99	Brian Vitale	And are you...
01:38:50.87	Brian Vitale	Maybe.
01:38:52.15	Brian Vitale	All right, you love it.
01:38:54.12	Brian Vitale	We'll see.
01:38:56.02	Brian Vitale	Looks like this is the loudest.
01:38:59.49	Brian Vitale	that this
01:39:01.16	Brian Vitale	Maybe I could take the headphones off and it will be
01:39:05.43	Kelman	Well, I don't know if the if the council chambers are able to hear you. I'm having difficulty hearing you.
01:39:11.69	Woodside	It's not all that clear here either.
01:39:15.54	Woodside	is
01:39:16.03	Unknown	Let's see, is this a little bit better?
01:39:17.61	Kelman	Oh, yes. Much better. Thank you.
01:39:19.59	Unknown	Oh, great. Okay. Well, the computer microphone wins over these headphones.
01:39:26.56	Unknown	All right.
01:39:28.52	Unknown	I'm going to start with the library and I'll come back with Parks and Recreation soon. Our acting city librarian Jeffrey Jackson and I worked on these priorities and I feel confident that these priorities can be addressed and accomplished in 2025, maybe a little bit in 2026 as well. So the first one is to enhance facilities and accessibility. We want to continue creating a welcoming, safe and accessible environment for all community members by improving infrastructure and ensuring accessibility standards. So that's facility upgrades, widening the aisles, adding...
01:40:00.34	Unknown	automated doors providing better seating options for that would meet our community needs, provide a reservable quiet room for small meetings, for tutoring or online using an online reservation system, establish a storage room for supplies, programming materials, books, AV equipment and shelving hardware, and finding alternative program venues for library events. Next is effective staffing and support. We'd like to ensure the effective service. and finding alternative program venues for library events. Next is effective staffing and support. We'd like to ensure the effective service delivery and resource management by expanding staffing capacity to support library growth and enhance the user experiences. We'd like to create a permanent part-time library one position and this will increase the current position by six to nine hours weekly, and then hire one to two substitute library assistants.
01:40:49.94	Unknown	to fill some vacant shifts and address attrition. Number three, increase community outreach and partnerships. We want to strengthen our collaborations with local organizations and position the library as a hub for community engagement. We want to launch targeted marketing campaigns, create collaboration and align efforts with parks and recreation, and expand partnerships and community collaborations with the schools, nonprofits, and local businesses where we can host events and share resources. Sausalito Marin City School District, Laissez-Français, New Village School, Women's Club, Sausalito Historical Society, and more. Next, number four, we would like to enhance services and collections. We want to expand and modernize the library offerings to better meet the needs of our community. Start tech help programs where we could do workshops with one-on-one assistance for patrons navigating digital tools and platforms. Expand the collections and increase availability of Spanish language and large print materials. And evaluate and reimagine collections. So, reconfigure underperforming or outdated collections to better align with our patron interests. And then lastly, update policies and procedures. Ensure that the library operations are transparent, efficient, and aligned with legal and best practice standards. So, update the circulation manual, review and revise the library policies, create an up-to-date disaster preparedness plan, and access the needs, excuse me, assess the needs for strategic planning.
01:42:24.64	Unknown	So those are our priorities and our goals. We want to continue having a robust library that serves the needs of our community each and every day. And we're excited to move into 2025 and start working on these priorities.
01:42:39.95	Unknown	Thank you.
01:42:39.98	Kelman	Thank you, Director Vitale.
01:42:45.55	Kelman	All right, next we'll hear from our city attorney.
01:42:49.13	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
01:42:51.51	Sergio	Hi, counsel. Thank you for taking the time. As you're aware, the city attorney's job has typically two components. There's a proactive side and a reactive side. On the reactive side, we are dealing with claims and potentially litigation against the city.
01:43:07.20	Sergio	On the proactive side, we are trying to work with the departments and the council and all the city boards and commissions
01:43:14.57	Sergio	to do the work up front to minimize how much time we spend working on the reactive side.
01:43:19.37	Sergio	Uh, so...
01:43:20.72	Sergio	As the council is aware, the city attorney's job is to advise the city council, the city boards, commissions, and all the departments in the conduct of their business and their priorities. So as such, typically the city attorney doesn't really have things the city attorney wants to prioritize. Rather, we want to help you all do your work and what you think is important.
01:43:43.09	Sergio	That being said, to minimize the amount of time we spend on the reactive side of things, you know, we have identified certain things that we think the departments and, you know, the council, you know, with the departments should work on. One of those big issues is keeping the municipal code up to date.
01:44:01.64	Sergio	in your emails you'll see a
01:44:03.93	Sergio	Thank you.
01:44:03.97	Sergio	update on the status of some of those efforts, which I would like you to review after this meeting rather than during this meeting. Additionally, you know, I will continue working on advising the City Council and the department on its operations and related issues.
01:44:18.72	Sergio	matters.
01:44:21.18	Sergio	One of the big projects currently being worked on, CDD did
01:44:25.75	Sergio	overview as their priorities, which include the amended housing element,
01:44:30.43	Sergio	the draft rezoning, the ballot measures, all of those issues are likely going to take up, I would say, a substantial amount of time for January, February, and possibly part of March.
01:44:41.87	Sergio	Additionally, we're working on helping the department and city manager address risk management opportunities. I will say that since the city has hired...
01:44:52.69	Sergio	George Hills to provide risk management services. They have provided some additional recommendations to the departments. Additionally, they are a valuable resource for helping the city attorney
01:45:03.67	Sergio	you know, deal with handling of claims and investigation of claims. So I think that that has been a valuable effort that the city has done in the last year, and we're going to continue working with them and
01:45:17.36	Sergio	streamlining some of those processes for claim handling.
01:45:20.41	Sergio	And then lastly, of course, prioritizing the city's best interest in litigation and contract negotiations.
01:45:26.99	Sergio	In terms of figuring out what those interests are, frequently touching base with the department heads, with the council,
01:45:33.86	Sergio	you know, is important, but also, you know, time consuming for all of us and very frequently a subject of our city council meetings. So I thank you for your time. If you have any questions, let me know.
01:45:45.57	Kelman	Thank you, Sergio.
01:45:49.49	Kelman	All right, next we'll hear from our finance director, Chad Hess.
01:45:53.94	Chad Hess	All right.
01:45:55.83	Chad Hess	Good morning, Mayor, Council, members of the public.
01:45:59.24	Chad Hess	Um,
01:45:59.97	Chad Hess	So our priorities in the finance department
01:46:02.11	Chad Hess	is to invest in a new, are you guys able to hear me?
01:46:06.43	Chad Hess	Yes, we are. Thank you. Okay, it froze on my end. So...
01:46:07.49	Unknown	Okay.
01:46:09.41	Chad Hess	I'll keep going. Invest in a new enterprise-wide software application to manage finance, payroll, permitting, licensing, and event registration.
01:46:18.38	Chad Hess	We're going to continue to look to implement and monitor risk reduction efforts from the risk management perspective, working with our consultant, George Hills.
01:46:28.11	Chad Hess	And then also reopen that in-house risk manager position in the coming months as we
01:46:33.66	Chad Hess	informed counsel that we would.
01:46:36.60	Chad Hess	Also, always looking for resources to continue invest in my staff to help develop and cross-train my staff within the department.
01:46:44.94	Chad Hess	looking to expand their abilities through GFOA or CSMFO trainings as well.
01:46:51.67	Chad Hess	Uh,
01:46:52.61	Chad Hess	Another priority is looking to implement the CARES plan that we came up with earlier this year, the cost and revenue efficiency.
01:46:59.16	Chad Hess	plan. So again, really to help strengthen the city's financial position by looking at what are the costs we're incurring and are there ways to streamline them.
01:47:07.79	Chad Hess	but then also look for new revenue resources.
01:47:10.60	Chad Hess	And then lastly, develop our 10-year budget tracking tool and develop a long-term plan
01:47:16.17	Chad Hess	that helps us make better decisions and helps with public engagement.
01:47:20.39	Chad Hess	in the budget process.
01:47:21.66	Chad Hess	Thank you.
01:47:22.53	Chad Hess	So those are my priorities from a finance perspective. I also oversee IT, if we can
01:47:27.41	Chad Hess	Next slide.
01:47:29.59	Chad Hess	I guess I,
01:47:30.80	Chad Hess	There we go.
01:47:31.46	Chad Hess	Also want to go over, move our ArcGIS solution. Currently we have an on-premise solution that is
01:47:38.53	Chad Hess	very old, very outdated.
01:47:40.47	Chad Hess	not configured in the optimal way. So we would like to move that to a cloud-based environment to help our planning teams, our DPW teams,
01:47:48.99	Chad Hess	work in a more efficient manner.
01:47:51.71	Chad Hess	We're looking for a more robust data backup solution for our data, the city's crown jewels, if you will, all of those resources, files, and documents.
01:48:00.74	Chad Hess	We have a backup solution in place, but I just want to make sure that we have the best that we can do.
01:48:05.47	Chad Hess	we can have and we can afford.
01:48:07.98	Chad Hess	With the climate tech agreement, we started with a public Wi-Fi network in the parking lots one and two.
01:48:15.12	Chad Hess	That discussion needs to continue on to expand that down Bridgeway and other areas of town where
01:48:21.66	Chad Hess	We have communication challenges for our parking infrastructure.
01:48:25.61	Chad Hess	Um,
01:48:27.35	Chad Hess	Fourth on the list, I need to continue to stay focused on the city's cybersecurity posture.
01:48:32.75	Chad Hess	We need to make sure that we have users well-trained, that we have the hardware and software in place to
01:48:38.51	Chad Hess	help us safeguard the city's assets and reputation.
01:48:42.27	Chad Hess	And then,
01:48:43.01	Chad Hess	Unfortunately, I have the second one, but I think it's important. So I'll leave it here as well. Develop that 10-year long-term plan.
01:48:49.36	Chad Hess	Um,
01:48:50.59	Chad Hess	just because that is an important task for the city and the community. So with that, I'll yield back.
01:48:56.46	Chad Hess	Thank you.
01:49:01.54	Sobieski	You are muted, Mayor.
01:49:04.43	Sobieski	Mayor, you're muted.
01:49:06.25	Sobieski	out.
01:49:06.53	Kelman	Thank you.
01:49:07.97	Sobieski	Thank you.
01:49:08.00	Kelman	uh,
01:49:08.98	Kelman	Thank you, Chad. Next we'll hear from community services
01:49:13.71	Kelman	director Brian Vitale again regarding parks.
01:49:18.10	Unknown	Right. Thank you again, Mayor. Every day I work with Public Works Director Kevin McGowan, Maintenance Division Manager Pat Glasko, and Park Supervisor Kent Basso to address the priorities for the parks. And these are specific for recreation within the parks. And we have a lot of really great parks in town, and there's a lot of great projects that are taking place. So the priorities that we have are ever evolving with the parks, and we're always working with a wide variety of people to better enhance these parks to make sure that they stay community gems. And one of the things with our parks that we need to always make sure to do is facility upgrades and safety, making sure that that's a priority, that the amenities that we have are working and that the improvements that we plan on are outlined appropriately to make sure that they are safe for all of our facilities to use. So the immediate actions within year one is going to be making sure that our gym floor is refurbished and installing new carpets in that area. The MLK gym gets a lot of use throughout the year and making in that gym floor has not been refurbished in a good long while. So we have a lot of community partners and a lot of renters and contractors that are interested in helping get this effort happening. But
01:50:44.55	Unknown	Along with that is proper signage in all of our parks, making sure that all our municipal codes are clear for visitor guidance about what can and can't take place inside of those parks. And that is a...
01:50:57.56	Unknown	As I said, we have a lot of parks, so there's a lot of work that needs to be done there to make sure that we have our proper signage. Our court and facility maintenance, creating a schedule and conducting annual maintenance of our bocce courts and volleyball courts, our pickleball courts and tennis courts, our basketball courts, our outdoor basketball courts, our playgrounds, walking paths, they're all very important to our community and very important to make sure that we start creating a schedule
01:51:29.20	Unknown	where we can make sure that our staff is able to assess any of the needs
01:51:35.39	Unknown	that need to take place. Scheduling semi-annual professional cleaning for floors and carpets for these facilities that get high use, the Edgewater room, the game room, and a variety of others. And then
01:51:49.85	Unknown	court resurfacing, developing a five year resurfacing plan for tennis.
01:51:55.47	Unknown	It looks like my battery is about to die, so I'm just going to continue to talk and transition inside of the house. Yeah.
01:52:04.16	Unknown	And then for future projects, installing lights for the volleyball court and adding a second court as well.
01:52:13.00	Unknown	a effort from our community to add some fundraising efforts in there.
01:52:21.34	Unknown	Just tell them.
01:52:23.59	Unknown	at this real quick, my apologies. And then,
01:52:28.21	Unknown	in the two to five year upgrading the grass at Mirren Ship Park and enhancing its usability and additionally adding windscreens to the courts. Then moving to recreation.
01:52:40.56	Unknown	I will be quick with this. I worked with our recreation supervisor, Carly Bartlett, and recreation coordinator, Candice Panisi, to continue where we left off in 2024. The goal, our first priority, is to increase inclusive programming for diverse populations. We want to expand programming to reflect the needs of our diverse community, ensuring inclusivity across all ages and abilities. So we want to launch more social sports leagues and adult and senior programming, such as walking clubs, pickleball leagues, bocce tournaments. We want to provide age-friendly programming tailored to adults, including fitness classes, art workshops, and the social events, and expand family-focused programming with activities for youth, toddlers, and parents, such as play groups, events, and family yoga. The second one is increasing grants and sponsorships and partnerships. We want to encourage collaborations to secure funding and maximize the utility of city-owned spaces, work with our resiliency and sustainability manager and community and economic development director to identify and pursue sustainable projects, grant opportunities and community services, collaborate with the library for enrichment and leisure programming, and collaborate with local businesses and organizations to develop cross promotional sponsorships for events and programming. The last part is we wanna optimize our city-owned facilities by promoting them for rentals, public programming and special events.
01:54:06.84	Unknown	Our next number three is to develop an art in the public places program.
01:54:12.09	Unknown	This was something that my predecessor, Mike Langford, had envisionment for in 2020 and 2021, but COVID had other plans for us during that time. So we want to start the process of activating parks and open spaces with art installations that reflect Sausalito's cultural identity and creativity. We want to collaborate with local artists and organizations to install exhibits, identify funding sources such as grants or partnerships for public support art initiatives, integrate art with the community in events to create immersive and cultural experiences, and collaborate with the Parks and Recreation Commission, City Council, and the community to plan for the locations and the appropriate approvals. Next, we want to host special events with a high return on involvement. We want to evaluate our current special events, plan engaging events that are cost-effective, draw significant participation, and enhance Sausalito's community spirit. We want to prioritize collaborative events in the winter and early spring to increase off-season engagement, introduce more activities such as seasonal markets, themed fitness challenges, or one-day tournaments, and focus on low-cost, high-return programming to maximize resources while delivering value to the attendees, i.e. a Super Bowl event that is taking place next month that engages a community through walking around town, getting into businesses, and tasting some soup the day before the big game. And then lastly, we want to grow the recreation department. We won't be able to really do much of these other priorities without growing and investing in our staff because we've broke the demand to ensure a high quality experience for our participants is ever growing. So with the transition that we had from library and recreation to community services, we want to hire a
01:56:03.23	Unknown	half-time to three-quarter time recreation specialist with the potential to transition to a full-time based on program growth and revenue. And this would also add in an additional three to five part-time staff to support this increase with leagues and program enrollment. And then this will help provide ongoing training and development opportunities for staff to enhance service deliverables. So that is Parks and Recreation.
01:56:29.45	Unknown	Thank you.
01:56:30.13	Unknown	Right.
01:56:35.19	Brian Vitale	it.
01:56:36.24	Unknown	Thank you.
01:56:36.27	Mary	I don't.
01:56:36.42	Unknown	Thank you.
01:56:36.44	Mary	Okay. Can I interject one thing real quick? So I think it's important. I want to just go briefly over another function that matters to the community council, and that's the city clerk's office, who doesn't just do agendas and minutes and administrative tasks for us, but the window operation and Public Records Act requests, they handle that. And some of the things they need to do really are important for the council to hear is we have a multitude of records at the old fire station that we really need to get our arms around so that we can digitize those in accordance with law and so forth so that we don't have the bad space and the bad record keeping that is going to only get worse if we don't do something about it thank you
01:57:20.92	Kelman	Thank you, city manager.
01:57:23.17	Kelman	All right, and again, thank you to all
01:57:25.23	Kelman	of the department heads for the thought and time that you invested in putting together your priorities.
01:57:31.70	Kelman	They're inspiring in their depth and breadth.
01:57:35.35	Kelman	Um,
01:57:36.26	Kelman	And it's a really great way to start off this strategic planning process.
01:57:40.87	Kelman	So with that, I believe it's time for us to take a 10 minute
01:57:45.19	Kelman	break for personal convenience,
01:57:48.85	Kelman	We are.
01:57:50.54	Kelman	roughly, let's see, 10,
01:57:53.95	Kelman	35. All right. So we're about 20 minutes behind. So hopefully we'll catch up a little bit. Um,
01:58:01.52	Kelman	But let's go ahead and take a 10 minute break.
01:58:03.82	Kelman	Yeah.
01:58:04.86	Kelman	Thank you, Vice Mayor.
01:58:07.14	Kelman	Welcome to the club.
01:58:19.55	Kelman	Let me know when folks are ready to resume.
01:58:23.01	Unknown	Thank you.
01:58:28.61	Amy Haworth	Okay. With a button. It worked. Okay.
01:58:30.02	Unknown	what's going on.
01:58:30.11	Kathy Nikitas	or, you know,
01:58:35.38	Amy Haworth	Okay, I'm going to join as a panelist. Let me know, Mr. Vice Mayor and Madam Mayor, when we are...
01:58:41.45	Amy Haworth	Going out.
01:58:43.37	Amy Haworth	I think we're ready.
01:58:43.96	Kelman	THE FAMILY.
01:58:44.03	Amy Haworth	I need to roll.
01:58:44.49	Kelman	We're going to turn it over to you, Amy.
01:58:46.02	Amy Haworth	me.
01:58:47.12	Amy Haworth	All right, thank you so much. In a moment, I'm going to share my screen. I wanted to frame sort of the rest of the day here.
01:58:56.54	Amy Haworth	We heard from the excellent staff, all the things that they'd like to be able to do
01:59:01.78	Amy Haworth	And I'm sure the council is aware and probably the public too. You know, those are not all things that have been put on the agenda that have been budgeted.
01:59:10.26	Amy Haworth	But these are the things that these experts see as really critical for their own departments. But it is the council's job, you know, elected by all of you, to also now give direction as to what they think
01:59:25.97	Amy Haworth	is most critical. And as I said in the beginning of the day, this is not to be confused with an overall strategic planning process. Some of the things that you may end up with today may be very task-oriented. Some of them, but, and some of them may be only achievable, they may be short-term. It doesn't mean you're not going to be setting some long-term priorities or defining some parameters
01:59:52.48	Amy Haworth	But, um,
01:59:53.71	Amy Haworth	As we're discussing priorities, is it achievable? Is it attainable with where you are now or want to be?
02:00:03.83	Amy Haworth	you
02:00:04.19	Amy Haworth	And that that does seem like a limiting function, but again, we will create some sort of pathway forward so you can do a plan. And as the mayor mentioned, you know, keeping your questions in mind for the budget upcoming budget session. So here's how I propose that we proceed. And I believe all of this will be made available to the public, but we have all of the council
02:00:38.51	Unknown	What?
02:00:38.55	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
02:00:38.56	Kelman	Bye.
02:00:38.60	Unknown	Yeah.
02:00:38.70	Kelman	Exactly.
02:00:39.02	Unknown	Go.
02:00:40.44	Unknown	Thank you.
02:00:40.47	Kelman	Okay, can you hear me now?
02:00:40.47	Amy Haworth	Okay, can you hear me now?
02:00:40.87	Unknown	Thank you.
02:00:41.80	Kelman	Council member priorities have already been uploaded to
02:00:44.67	Amy Haworth	to.
02:00:44.92	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:00:44.94	Kelman	the
02:00:44.98	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:00:45.06	Kelman	Thank you.
02:00:45.09	Amy Haworth	Great. Thank you. I did not know that. Thank you, Madam Mayor.
02:00:45.24	Kelman	Yes.
02:00:50.61	Amy Haworth	Okay, we're pivoting all over the place here, folks.
02:00:53.12	Amy Haworth	So what I'm going to do is I'm going to share my screen and we're going to go,
02:00:57.43	Amy Haworth	through everybody, we're gonna allow the council members to state their priorities. Council members should feel free to take up, you know, five minutes if you can do that since staff did.
02:01:02.32	Wilfred	Good.
02:01:07.18	Amy Haworth	Um,
02:01:08.24	Amy Haworth	And then we'll start to look for, sometimes your priorities are going to align with staff and with each other. And, you know, if we work through lunch, we're going to come up with achievable goals for the year. So let me, please be...
02:01:25.63	Amy Haworth	Please be patient with me and the technology.
02:01:28.98	Amy Haworth	Um, let's try it.
02:01:34.20	Amy Haworth	On mine, I have them. I have them. I just I'm trying to open my screen. Okay, there's my settings. Don't need my settings. Can you see?
02:01:45.76	Amy Haworth	Okay, I haven't shared it yet. Let's see.
02:01:53.15	Amy Haworth	Black arrow, yep, I tried that. Google Chrome, let's try that.
02:01:59.93	Amy Haworth	Thank you for your patience. I don't want to open system. Oh, Grant, I'm very, go ahead. I can share my screen, Amy, if all else fails.
02:02:04.03	Unknown	Thanks, Diana.
02:02:07.95	Unknown	else.
02:02:08.74	Amy Haworth	Okay, I need to allow Zoom is all, so give me two seconds.
02:02:12.98	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:02:13.27	Amy Haworth	Okay, I'll talk fast. Tell some jokes.
02:02:20.37	Amy Haworth	Thank you. I got it.
02:02:22.93	Amy Haworth	It might make me leave the webinar.
02:02:26.49	Amy Haworth	Uh,
02:02:27.90	Amy Haworth	Mayor, if you could share Councilmember Hoffman's while I re-sign in. Sure. Yeah, great.
02:02:31.40	Jeff Chase	Sure.
02:02:39.20	Amy Haworth	Okay.
02:02:40.92	Unknown	Thank you.
02:02:40.94	Amy Haworth	And again, I will be
02:02:46.36	Amy Haworth	logging back in but if you could put up council member hoffman's um
02:02:50.69	Amy Haworth	Going to our mail from last night, so give me one second.
02:02:53.87	Unknown	Well.
02:02:55.15	Adrian Brin	I can do it on my end. I made it a PowerPoint.
02:02:57.24	Unknown	All right, great. Go ahead.
02:02:58.02	Adrian Brin	Go ahead.
02:02:59.27	Unknown	Oh.
02:03:00.08	Unknown	Okay.
02:03:07.05	Unknown	And then I'll be back in if you want.
02:03:10.27	Amy Haworth	Look at this.
02:03:13.64	Unknown	Thank you.
02:03:13.66	Amy Haworth	just
02:03:13.81	Kelman	a little bit of a
02:03:14.27	Amy Haworth	panic.
02:03:14.74	Kelman	Thank you.
02:03:16.63	Kelman	It started to share Walford and then it disappeared.
02:03:19.70	Adrian Brin	Sorry, I had opened up the PDF instead of the other.
02:03:24.43	Kelman	Okay.
02:03:25.17	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:03:25.69	Amy Haworth	.
02:03:25.76	Kelman	Who gets first?
02:03:26.96	Kelman	Thank you.
02:03:26.99	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:03:27.01	Adrian Brin	I got it.
02:03:30.05	Kelman	I think it's good that the city clerk do it so that you can talk, Amy.
02:03:34.03	Amy Haworth	love that.
02:03:35.58	Amy Haworth	I would love that so much. All right.
02:03:38.31	Kelman	All right, let's go to Council Member Hoffman, as mentioned by Amy.
02:03:41.69	Amy Haworth	Love it.
02:03:42.72	Amy Haworth	Okay, Councilmember Hoffman, talk us through your list.
02:03:46.13	Amy Haworth	This is Jones. So we're going to move to that's Jones. Yeah, let's move. There you go.
02:03:55.41	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay.
02:03:55.97	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:03:56.20	Councilmember Hoffman	.
02:03:58.55	Councilmember Hoffman	Sorry, sorry my voice is coming and going.
02:04:02.83	Councilmember Hoffman	So top top is prioritization of infrastructure projects so.
02:04:07.39	Councilmember Hoffman	All of our infrastructure projects, it would be prioritization of those.
02:04:11.57	Councilmember Hoffman	The second is to adopt council meeting general protocols that includes Brown Act, Levine Act, and all other California ethics rules as part of our
02:04:21.18	Councilmember Hoffman	part of our general operating protocols.
02:04:24.13	Councilmember Hoffman	Um,
02:04:25.23	Councilmember Hoffman	and completion of the facilities assessment by February 1, 2025 for all city owned properties. So I would
02:04:33.26	Councilmember Hoffman	I would suggest that we just adopt that as our, even though our city managers told us that we're
02:04:39.27	Councilmember Hoffman	I would say that we just adopt that as a priority.
02:04:42.32	Councilmember Hoffman	And then
02:04:43.60	Councilmember Hoffman	Following on with that, completion of a preventive maintenance schedule for all city-owned properties.
02:04:49.16	Councilmember Hoffman	That follows on with we have a facilities assessment.
02:04:52.67	Councilmember Hoffman	but preventive maintenance schedule
02:04:56.68	Councilmember Hoffman	follows a facilities assessment, and that's something you should have for all of your facilities, which is you have preventative maintenance, which keeps all of your facilities
02:05:08.24	Councilmember Hoffman	all of the maintenance schedule. You have a schedule for
02:05:13.83	Councilmember Hoffman	the maintenance for all of those, all of your facilities. I was surprised that we didn't have that.
02:05:18.76	Councilmember Hoffman	that's kind of a standard thing that you should have for all of your facilities.
02:05:22.91	Councilmember Hoffman	um,
02:05:24.36	Councilmember Hoffman	And then we just adopt as a policy that we have a balanced budget.
02:05:27.92	Councilmember Hoffman	I mean, that's just that we just have that as a council priority.
02:05:31.63	Councilmember Hoffman	period. And those are just my top five. Those are pretty standard basic
02:05:35.26	Councilmember Hoffman	See you all.
02:05:36.29	Councilmember Hoffman	Surprise we don't have those in place already. But anyway, that's it.
02:05:36.44	Kelman	I'm surprised we don't have that.
02:05:39.51	Kelman	Thank you, council member Hoffman.
02:05:41.74	Kelman	who's next, Amy?
02:05:43.97	Amy Haworth	I believe we, Councilmember Blaustein?
02:05:48.69	Blaustein	Are you pulling it up? Sorry that this is a text-heavy slide, and I will try to be quick, but it seems that there are a lot of already overlap with Councilman Hoffman because I have infrastructure improvements on here. I was thinking in these goals more in the context of a five-year strategic plan, so it's less specific, but investing in our PVI rating, which is our pavement index and our roads, using Measure L dollars to make our roads accessible and safe. The next one, decreased risk. I think we heard a lot today from our city attorney, but also from our fire department about what we're up against in terms of the mitigation and planning. And so I want us to really find a way to focus on addressing our risk and dealing with smaller slip and fall incidents, but also more larger scale mitigating climate change and disaster preparedness, which brings me to item three, which is climate change risk mitigation and disaster preparedness. I continue to think that we are
02:06:40.58	Blaustein	And we have declared from this dais that we are in a climate emergency and we need to assess all of our infrastructure issues with a climate lens. And the same goes for disaster preparedness. Obviously this week has been a difficult reminder of how critical it is for us to start taking immediate steps to address infrastructure challenges with regards to disaster preparedness and emergency.
02:07:03.40	Blaustein	And this also includes for me sea level rise, lowering our carbon footprint more generally and mitigating serious climate risks. And then, of course, thinking about our economic prosperity and how do we continue to have strong economic growth and encourage increased revenues for our community to thrive. To me, that looks like investing in longer term climate economic solutions to drive our TOT and sales tax and grow tourism downtown.
02:07:25.72	Blaustein	It looks like applying for and obtaining more grants, both federally and at the state level. And also I see I would like to see more of a push towards curating public art, making our downtown a real place for visitors that treasures our historic past as an artist's enclave, which I think will encourage economic activity. And finally, there is no way our city could exist or run without our incredible staff. So I want to continue to see it be a priority that we retain our amazing staff and that they are well respected and receiving the support that they need to continue to provide an extremely high level of service and customer service to all of our residents.
02:08:02.97	Kelman	Thank you, council member of Blaustein.
02:08:04.74	Kelman	Thank you.
02:08:04.94	Jeff Chase	I'm sorry.
02:08:05.02	Kelman	to the next one.
02:08:05.73	Kelman	I think we're going to Councilmember Sobieski next.
02:08:11.71	Sobieski	Hi, so I actually
02:08:13.97	Sobieski	didn't have a model for this, so I had two pages. It's lengthy as well.
02:08:18.09	Sobieski	But.
02:08:18.96	Sobieski	But there's only really one. I had goal A and goal B. I had two. But then I decided to make...
02:08:24.41	Sobieski	leave it leave the title of goal b goal b and make goal a priority one i only have one
02:08:29.43	Sobieski	But it enables everybody else's priorities, every other council member and the entire community.
02:08:34.44	Sobieski	My reflection of the last four years is that we have a lot of ambitions, but we're not
02:08:40.72	Sobieski	serious about funding them because a lot of the real ambitions that are going to move the needle on the quality of life of our town.
02:08:48.53	Sobieski	are going to cost money that we don't have.
02:08:51.09	Sobieski	We've been having budget surpluses for many, many years, but it's not significant enough
02:08:56.29	Sobieski	Our operating surpluses haven't been significant enough to fund our own ambitions. So
02:09:03.58	Sobieski	The priority I would love us to agree on
02:09:06.38	Sobieski	a serious top level, highest level parity.
02:09:09.34	Sobieski	is to organize ourselves in our consideration, our lens and our staff around how to add $3 million of new annual recurring revenue
02:09:19.53	Sobieski	to the city's budget annually.
02:09:21.81	Sobieski	And if we want to add a constraint on this to help avoid it being spent on things that are considered non-priority, we could have that money from these additional activities directly go to the current capital improvement fund.
02:09:37.06	Sobieski	So the reason we want this money, for instance, and it's one of my related goals, is to actually set time-based metrics on improving
02:09:45.63	Sobieski	our infrastructure. We have facilities and other infrastructure, sidewalks and whatnot, but one that's already quantified and quantifiable in a very easy way is our roads. And so I propose the ambitious goal of getting to an A grade of our roads within 10 years
02:10:01.23	Sobieski	and a C grade within five years. Just that C grade would cost, by the way, $25 million.
02:10:09.92	Sobieski	just to get our roads to 75. Remember the thing Kevin McGowan gave us this graph with his report, $25 million to get to 75. So it does us no good to have a bullet point that we're not serious about attaining.
02:10:23.31	Sobieski	If we are serious about improving our infrastructure, if we're serious about sea level rise, if we're serious about fire resiliency,
02:10:30.99	Sobieski	if we're serious about any of these things,
02:10:33.56	Sobieski	We have to be serious about...
02:10:35.53	Sobieski	increasing the revenue in the city budget.
02:10:39.50	Sobieski	That then gives us the rationale
02:10:42.28	Sobieski	for making the trade-offs because everyone loves the empty field where we used to run our dog or the way things are.
02:10:49.94	Sobieski	And when a proposal for a 30-room hotel or some other thing that causes economic activity comes down, it is easy to be then influenced by the people who argue for leaving things the same.
02:11:03.46	Sobieski	But if we want to make things better for fire risk, for infrastructure or any of these things, then we need to seriously consider
02:11:09.91	Sobieski	some of the list of ideas that I list there below a significant number of additional hotel rooms. Every hotel room gets us something like $35,000 of tax revenue. Uh,
02:11:21.25	Sobieski	Adjusting our franchise rules, perhaps on a very deliberate basis to help foster activity. Really changing our permitting process. You know right now, if you're a fisherman, you're not allowed to sell fish off the back of your boat in the Marinship? How does that fit in with the working waterfront maritime community? It retards economic development. If you want to throw a quick event on your private property, you have to get a conditional use permit that involves an appealable process instead of a ministerial permit.
02:11:50.47	Sobieski	You have 30 days when you make an application for a permit to get a reply on that permit. It could be 72 hours. It doesn't have to be 30 days. These are all things which would help foster economic growth. And we can talk about how to do them. But I would say that we ask ourselves to hold ourselves accountable.
02:12:11.33	Sobieski	for economic growth as a way of funding everything else and bring forth an aggressive plan to add $3 million to our budget.
02:12:19.70	Sobieski	The second part of that is that I think we can accelerate our infrastructure repairs with our current
02:12:25.35	Sobieski	funding mechanisms we do have measure l in place that is a pretty reliable source of something like 20 million dollars we could bring a lot of that spending into earlier fiscal years we can do it in a variety of ways either floating a bond that's guaranteed against that revenue or by taking it from our own uncommitted cash that would then be replenished by measure l and in so doing we could have a quicker investment in our infrastructure and our roads by doing that we would get economies of scale that would make that entire project much cheaper and we get more done for the same amount of money if we do it all rather quick and by the way we could take advantage of modern and modern processes of water treatment and environmental design to help reduce the amount of payment that's done and attend to some of our sustainability goals. So I'm sorry, that's what I will quickly summarize on infrastructure. I want to be mindful of the time of others. So I'm just going to go to a goal B, which is the arena process is one we had to go through. It was state law. It was required.
02:13:25.58	Sobieski	we are going to succeed at that, I'm confident. And we will avoid the builder's remedy in the near term. But if the city of Sausalito doesn't actually get housing built, we will always be under threat of losing our local control. And if private property owners don't build property, then we may be in a situation where, just like Sausalito's population has declined since 1980, it may continue to decline. And we could face some serious sanctions and lose local control. We have, aside from the state mandates, we have our own interest in getting the kind of housing that would enhance our community. And so I would propose that we decide what that housing that's actually good for our community is.
02:14:05.41	Sobieski	employee housing, senior housing, artist, live, work, or maritime housing, and use the tool of community development agreements totally separate from and in parallel with the
02:14:15.62	Sobieski	housing process separate from that to help work with private property owners to
02:14:20.46	Sobieski	to incentivize and actually get built within five years
02:14:25.49	Sobieski	or at least permitted housing projects that meet our societal community needs to enhance our community. And using the CDA, of course, as the lawyers here know, we would retain full local control in the look, feel, finish, and particulars of those buildings. But to do that, we need expertise,
02:14:46.95	Sobieski	urban planners architects uh and a agreed upon process to negotiate with private property owners uh and and understand that doing so would require a quid pro quo some kind of agreed upon trade-off where there's a win-win outcome
02:15:01.58	Sobieski	Those are mine. Thank you very much.
02:15:04.99	Kelman	Thank you, we'll go to Vice Mayor Woodside.
02:15:09.08	Woodside	Thank you. We haven't discussed these specific things until this date. That is among council members. We're Brown Act covered. And I'm just amazed already at the amount of overlap we're seeing. Maybe we use different words and different approaches, but there's quite a bit of consistency as I'm hearing it. And I'm going to add to that in a moment. And I apologize for the narrative form of this because I don't think we had a standard to follow, and that's fine, but I want to preliminarily say that I learned something today that I had not known, and that is that we're in the last year of the strategic plan. As I read the dates, it looked to me like we were in the next to last year. Now, why is that important? Strategic planning, well done, which I think this one was well done, does have a life and it does provide a guide for everybody going forward if we can come to an agreement on a true strategic longer-term plan. And I think we're, I guess, on the cusp of having to start again and see whether we can develop the plan for the next six years. So I think I have to add that to a list of priorities. If we're in the last year now, we better start thinking about how we're going to develop the next one. And it is an involved process that involves everyone in this room and members of the public.
02:16:04.73	Wilfred	Bye.
02:16:32.83	Woodside	Now, hang on.
02:16:32.93	Joe Novitski	Thank you.
02:16:33.01	Joe Novitski	All right.
02:16:33.79	Woodside	Having said that, let me just take off with my quick list here, housing.
02:16:39.97	Woodside	We all know this is one of the most challenging things that we face for many reasons, not just the fact that there's a state mandate. My personal view is that we actually do need affordable housing, particularly housing focused on seniors, people who can perhaps work here, live-work settings, intergenerational housing so that as people age in place they can maybe age in place with family members or other supporters. We don't have that in this community in very large numbers. And to the extent we're mandated to build new housing, I think almost everybody in this community says we don't need luxury condos. We don't need high-rise buildings. We need housing that is sensitive to our neighborhood, to our quality of life, which I think you will say,
02:16:48.60	Wilfred	mandate.
02:17:33.88	Woodside	almost unanimously, were pretty proud of this city because of the quality of life here and the members of the community. So I would set an ambitious goal to actually approve housing, that is, plans approved, projects approved, on as aggressively as we can for the type of housing I describe, and actually have some shovels in the ground. I mean, we don't build it as a city typically, but we need to streamline our processes and do a number of things to make sure we're actually approving and that we will actually achieve the appropriate housing that fits in our community and serves the people who we hope will be able to afford it. Secondly, on infrastructure, I agree with much that's been said about the need to prioritize it. From my perspective, I've always used the concept of guiding principles. So we have a lot of infrastructure needs. We have way more infrastructure needs than we can afford. I think we all know it. Walk around town, you can see it. It's obvious. But what should be the priority? And my guide would be infrastructure needs, in this case, infrastructure needs, the top priority would be those that serve public safety.
02:18:57.97	Woodside	So a simple thing, how do we get out of town in an emergency? How do we get out of our home safely down the hill when the road is stacked up with cars and is dangerous? What about those stairs that are in repair? Those probably don't cost as much, but they may be the most effective way to escape the fire when it comes or a landslide or a flood if we can get those in good shape. So I would prioritize the things that we can actually do something about with the limited resources we have. And that's just the guideline. And so, you know, I don't want to say that stairs and such should be the number one thing on our list of to-dos, but it might well turn out that way if we apply the standards that I'm suggesting, which is to emphasize the public safety improvements. So, for example, I don't disagree with setting a target of getting our roads up to snuff. It's a very expensive process. But if we want the quality of our roads to be, you know, at the A or B level, how does that stack up with other things that affect public safety more directly, like perhaps a retaining wall to prevent a landslide or something like that? These are going to be things we have to balance as we go forward. It's very challenging, but I think I'm on the same page as Mayor
02:20:21.97	Woodside	former mayor sobieski when it comes to we really need to look at these things in the big picture long-term way have effective plans and then when we do prioritize let's make it clear why we're prioritizing what we do so i think that's pretty much it i tried to summarize what i kind of wrote down in narrative form but i really this, and I want to also say I appreciate the input from all of the people we've heard from today, members of the public and staff, and it's a little frustrating to all of us that we can't have this as a conversation. One of the reasons we're set up the way we are is so that everyone can be heard, people can attend remotely, that we have a good record of it. The room is set up for that purpose, not necessarily for the kind of conversations that we'd like to take place to move this forward.
02:21:18.18	Amy Haworth	I appreciate you saying that because there's y'all do want to have that conversation with your constituents. It's something that really stands out about your Council.
02:21:26.62	Amy Haworth	So I appreciate that, Madam Mayor.
02:21:29.57	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:21:29.61	Kelman	Oh, could you hear me?
02:21:30.15	Amy Haworth	hear me?
02:21:30.47	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:21:30.92	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:21:30.94	Kelman	Yes, thank you.
02:21:33.03	Kelman	All right.
02:21:34.33	Kelman	It is so gratifying
02:21:36.53	Kelman	to hear other council member priorities and the fact that we're already so aligned on many of the priorities that we've enunciated. So sort of like former Mayor Sobieski and Council Member Hoffman, I, my top priority is to create a short and long-term economic development strategy focused on addressing fiscal challenges, fiscal resiliency, and creation of an asset management plan. So, you know, first we have to identify the money that we need to spend, and then we can figure out how best to spend it. And so my second priority is infrastructure,
02:22:13.40	Kelman	Um,
02:22:16.23	Kelman	We have over $10 million in unassigned fund balance, not including
02:22:22.33	Kelman	Measure L monies, which are right now, I believe, another $2.3 million.
02:22:26.95	Kelman	And so I've identified 10
02:22:30.46	Kelman	things that we should be considering as we decide how best to leverage our unassigned fund balance. And I mentioned these to you all on November 19th at our council meeting. So streets is definitely one of them, including increasing our PCI index.
02:22:46.91	Kelman	implementation of the Climatec assessment and recommendation.
02:22:50.88	Kelman	um,
02:22:51.77	Kelman	Facilities evaluation will be completed in February 2025, just as we did for our sewers. I agree with Councilmember Hoffman. We need to develop a 10-year plan for addressing deferred maintenance and ongoing operational needs.
02:23:11.40	Kelman	Same thing with storm drains, we expect to have that assessment done in two months. When we have that assessment, we then need to figure out a 10 year plan to address deferred maintenance in our storm drains.
02:23:23.82	Kelman	sea level rise assessment. We are undertaking that now. We have grant funding available to start to
02:23:30.18	Kelman	address and mitigate
02:23:32.00	McGowan	Good.
02:23:32.34	Kelman	you
02:23:33.22	Kelman	Our existing stairs. I'm so happy that we're about to reopen our North Street stairs, but many of our stairs are in disrepair and need our attention.
02:23:45.16	Kelman	implementing our landslide task force recommendations and addressing our geologic hazard report. This is part of risk mitigation, but Council Member Hoffman chaired our landslide task force in 2019 and came up with recommendations. It's six years later, it's high time that we invested the funds to actually implement those strategies as possible.
02:24:12.52	Kelman	Um,
02:24:13.38	Kelman	We have in place a required ADA transition plan that we need to be making progress on.
02:24:20.28	Kelman	And finally, we realized last year that residents are largely responsible to repair their own sidewalks. Many of them don't know that we need to get out a community
02:24:32.43	Kelman	notification system, but
02:24:34.51	Kelman	But I also would like us to establish a revolving fund so that we can help to fund the resident repair of sidewalks and have them repay that fund.
02:24:43.69	Kelman	All right, third, housing.
02:24:45.86	Kelman	just like many of you, I've identified three things I think we can get done this year.
02:24:51.67	Kelman	One, finalize our housing element and our revised zoning ordinance. Two, identify developers to construct senior housing on city properties. We are ready to roll with the corporation yard now. We just need to find a developer who can feasibly build.
02:25:10.13	Kelman	and then identify grant funding to construct teacher housing on Nevada Street.
02:25:16.46	Kelman	Number four, regional engagement to advance Sausalito priorities through collaboration.
02:25:22.33	Kelman	Gate 5 road drainage issues. That's the county and the state. The machine shop.
02:25:29.35	Kelman	you know, that's a great potential resource for Sausalito and we can leverage our relationship with Congressman Huffman to help us with that. The Vista Point Trail for bicyclists. This is something we have been wanting to do since 20...
02:25:46.51	Kelman	17.
02:25:47.95	Kelman	There's progress being made, but that's a great way to reduce bicycle accidents and increase rider safety and reduce our risk management protocol. Ongoing support of the Dorothy Gibson House. You know, that's, again, a county collaborative project. And then an undergrounding strategy, something else we can pursue with PG&E, the county and the state.
02:26:21.70	Kelman	And then five, restructure and streamline service delivery with a focus on transparency and customer service. We have great staff.
02:26:32.80	Kelman	we now need to change the way that the community perceives our staff. And we need to focus on customer service so that we don't ever receive complaints that an email went unanswered or, you know, someone took action without advising the property owner that they were going to take action or, you know,
02:26:54.23	Kelman	It took three years or four years to process a development application.
02:27:00.31	Kelman	Um,
02:27:01.42	Kelman	And I think we have to do all of this while advancing employee retention, recruitment, and succession plan to ensure high quality staffing
02:27:11.07	Kelman	for the community.
02:27:14.13	Kelman	In 2018, I characterized my mayorship as building bridges, not walls. This year I'm tackling
02:27:24.61	Kelman	what I call foundational building blocks. And so I'm really encouraged that my fellow council members share a lot of these priorities
02:27:35.83	Kelman	And, you know, we did this in a vacuum without knowing what each other was going to write. And so
02:27:42.17	Kelman	The amount of unicity amongst our priorities is really encouraging. Thank you.
02:27:49.45	Amy Haworth	All right.
02:27:51.50	Amy Haworth	So we're done. No, just kidding.
02:27:55.25	Amy Haworth	So I know that...
02:27:58.46	Amy Haworth	I would like to
02:27:59.76	Amy Haworth	to dive in a little bit. I know we have like a working lunch scheduled, so I don't know if people need to bring food or maybe you can feel free council members if you need to get up and get something because I think we should dive into things. Is that y'all good with that?
02:28:14.22	Amy Haworth	I'm not sure where that y'all came from, but I'm gonna go with it.
02:28:19.06	Amy Haworth	So I do really think it is. Oh, I got joined as a panelist. I'm not sure. I do really. You all have said that, wow, we did this in a vacuum, right? There's so much similarities. And there's also been a comment that. Oh, do I have to mute? Do I have to unmute? Okay. Sorry, guys. There's also been some comments that we wish this could be a dialogue. And I want to try to open it up for the council members at least to have a dialogue, right, with each other.
02:28:47.34	Amy Haworth	I am not here to opine on what I think should be the most important or what you should do. But if you will indulge me for two minutes, I might share with you an experience that I've had with a couple of things that all of you have mentioned. Your housing element, if I'm not...
02:28:48.26	Wilfred	I am not here.
02:29:05.75	Amy Haworth	Incorrect. It has not yet been approved.
02:29:09.03	Kelman	If we have an approved housing element,
02:29:11.32	Kelman	We are in the process, we were the first city and only city to in Marin County to timely adopt a housing element that was approved by HCD. We're in the process of amending the housing element to address some comments.
02:29:27.49	Kelman	from HCD and some challenges, but
02:29:30.95	Kelman	Um,
02:29:31.88	Kelman	we have an approved housing element in place.
02:29:34.29	Amy Haworth	Thanks.
02:29:34.97	Amy Haworth	Thank you for the clarification. Or not but. And so ours has been approved. We had to submit amendments. Be very, very careful with this process.
02:29:47.64	Amy Haworth	Yes, there's a lot in it. I really appreciate in this community that people are saying we need affordable housing, we need workforce housing, we appreciate this, but there's also conflicts about density, right? That's a worry.
02:30:02.05	Amy Haworth	Um,
02:30:03.13	Amy Haworth	i'm going to say that the state is dead serious about this and we have we nearly faced a builder's remedy uh action uh
02:30:12.85	Amy Haworth	And we have a commercial corridor called Sepulveda.
02:30:16.26	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:30:16.29	Amy Haworth	And we now have, you know, apartments going up there, which I think is an appropriate use, but some it's very upsetting to our community because whether it's an appropriate area,
02:30:26.62	Amy Haworth	we're going to have 900 new people. So understand that it's not just where you put the housing, whether you put it over here or there, it's also the fact that that will
02:30:38.13	Amy Haworth	intensify the use of your community. So your police department, your fire department, your community development office, right? All those things will be impacted by housing.
02:30:49.37	Amy Haworth	And...
02:30:51.36	Amy Haworth	I wanted to comment on something that one of your staff members, I believe it was the director of human resources, was talking about an enterprise system that they're looking at that. I'm pulling this up, not as it's good or bad.
02:31:03.93	Amy Haworth	I'm pulling I'm pointed it out to you because we went through
02:31:08.03	Amy Haworth	yes we approve that you you need to do that every now and then you need to have all the departments talking to each other this is an incredible undertaking so i think that sometimes we council members pass a policy which is improve customer service and efficiency and through the human resource department that could be a policy but we may not understand how that impacts the staff on a day-to-day basis and how it could take over for a year or two or three. So I'm just, that's a caution. And I'm not paid by staff to say this. I'm just telling you it actually, it took us quite a long time. And once we got it done, guess what? Some of the software's out of date.
02:31:53.93	Amy Haworth	I'm not kidding.
02:31:56.61	Amy Haworth	I would like to do this, Madam Mayor, and this is all happening on the fly.
02:32:03.30	Amy Haworth	So please, if you don't like the process I'm going to suggest, I will do anything you want. I would like to bring up a few items that I thought there was some agreement on and see if we can drill down on it and see if you guys can have a discussion about what it means.
02:32:17.73	Amy Haworth	and go from there. Or the other way we could do it, you could all like say one thing and see if there's agreement and move on.
02:32:28.52	Amy Haworth	How do you suggest?
02:32:30.75	Kelman	Listen, you have fresh eyes, Amy, you're our facilitator. So I say, you know, go ahead and identify
02:32:38.04	Kelman	points of commonality that you observed and let's move forward from there.
02:32:42.75	Amy Haworth	Okie dokie. So, um,
02:32:45.55	Amy Haworth	I'm going to share my screen in a minute, hopefully.
02:32:48.93	Amy Haworth	If not, I am going to move to the flip chart, Madam Mayor, which I know is not ideal.
02:32:55.49	Amy Haworth	everybody, including staff, mentioned infrastructure.
02:32:59.81	Amy Haworth	So I think
02:33:01.01	Amy Haworth	And that can be huge, but there has to be steps to take to go for that.
02:33:10.22	Amy Haworth	I would like to turn it over to council members. If we're talking about infrastructure, I think everyone either mentioned in their comments to me or in their reports the pavement index and your rating, right, which impacts public safety. It impacts evacuation routes. It impacts risk management. So I would suggest you maybe start there. Talk about, and if you say it's 25 million Councilmember Sobieski and a public works director, which I believe, yes, I understand you need to identify funding, but can we talk about what the steps would be to address that?
02:33:54.05	Amy Haworth	I'm
02:33:54.45	Kelman	you
02:33:56.26	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:33:56.27	Kelman	Yes.
02:33:56.95	Kelman	I think we can discuss the steps to address
02:34:01.25	Kelman	paving the streets.
02:34:03.78	Kelman	if you agree on it. I mean, that's the thing. I think we all agree, but how much of our fund balance to spend is,
02:34:11.83	Kelman	is where I think there might be some disagreement because we have,
02:34:18.16	Kelman	you know, I laid out 10 things that are competing needs for that fund balance so and I didn't even mention pensions. So we certainly we have
02:34:30.43	Kelman	I think Chad said
02:34:33.32	Kelman	Chad, how much is in our...
02:34:36.66	Amy Haworth	CIP.
02:34:37.18	Kelman	Thank you.
02:34:37.70	Kelman	in our Measure L funding.
02:34:41.08	Kelman	right now.
02:34:42.36	Chad Hess	So,
02:34:43.12	Chad Hess	As of the audit date, let me look that up for you. I don't recall off the top of my head, but I'll have a number for you in...
02:34:48.49	Kelman	It was like 1.2 million or 2.2 million.
02:34:48.50	Chad Hess	It was like one
02:34:50.83	Chad Hess	more than that. It was in the three million's.
02:34:53.99	Kelman	Okay.
02:34:54.36	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:34:55.47	Kelman	2.3 million. So...
02:34:57.70	Kelman	you know,
02:34:58.71	Kelman	Amy, I think we're focusing on what we can do in 2025. And so it would take 25 million, as Ian said, over 10 years,
02:35:09.23	Kelman	I mean, $25 million to get us from
02:35:12.42	Kelman	our current index to a minimally acceptable index. But we're certainly not gonna raise 25 million this year or ignore all of our other infrastructure needs to focus only on streets.
02:35:26.89	Kelman	I really think we have to be having a holistic conversation about infrastructure.
02:35:31.85	Amy Haworth	So noted and Ian has his hand up and so I have a different approach, but council member.
02:35:36.95	Sobieski	Well, I was just going to say I couldn't have framed it better than the mayor just did. And Councilmember Hoffman had a version of this, too. There's short-term and there's long-term.
02:35:45.96	Sobieski	And short term, we have more resources than we have thought as our great finance team has begun to help us clarify and understanding our balance sheet. There are these millions of dollars, but we could do a couple of things with the $10 million. We could decrease our pension liability risk by paying down some of our pension liability. We could improve our infrastructure, or we could use that money in some other way to increase our financial resilience against economic shocks. So that's a trade-off of what to do with that cash. And so this is a strategic planning session. So we're thinking about year one, as the mayor said, for 2025. What kind of strategic tactics are within the next 12 to 18 months, like pulling in with a bond measure or others uh the outer years of measure l to accelerate you are within the next 12 to 18 months, like pulling in with a bond measure or others, the outer years of measure L to accelerate funding. But my question, and I leave it to you, Amy, to figure out how to delineate this, but it's a question to my colleagues. If we're really serious about all these big items that I've been hearing about the whole time I've been on city council.
02:36:43.61	Unknown	We're not.
02:36:50.97	Sobieski	My statement to you, my analysis of our budget, my experience for years is we do not currently have a business model that will pay for what we say we want to do.
02:37:03.40	Sobieski	I just want to be clear about that. We don't have a business model to pay for what we say we want to do.
02:37:07.91	Sobieski	we can get there i think we have a lot of unused competitive advantage as a city we could have more hotel rooms that would generate 25 000 per hotel room
02:37:19.16	Sobieski	we could generate more activity in the marine ship we could have more bustle dust construction activity but we'd have to be deliberate in how
02:37:29.27	Sobieski	to do that. We'd have to really be aggressive. So I would
02:37:32.76	Sobieski	propose that a way of talking about this is twofold. One, what do we do with our existing money to accelerate infrastructure? But separate from that, I'm advocating for
02:37:42.52	Sobieski	the hard work actually, probably multiple meetings and engagements of actually laying out a economic development plan that adds at least $3 million every year to our budget. Because then a lot of the things we've talked about can be funded.
02:37:55.14	Sobieski	But that means...
02:37:55.34	Amy Haworth	Great.
02:37:56.88	Sobieski	actually making some choices.
02:37:58.68	Kelman	All right, recap, you know, it's a. I'm going to ask Walfred to start the three minute clock as council members chat so that we can, or maybe a two minute clock
02:38:08.88	Kelman	because
02:38:09.69	Kelman	I don't want any one council member to monopolize
02:38:13.72	Kelman	this discussion,
02:38:15.04	Kelman	And I, you know, Ian,
02:38:17.25	Kelman	developing a way to generate 3 million a year is great, but we really need to be looking at what can we do this year? So, you know, I'm gonna call next on Councilmember Hoffman and then on
02:38:31.10	Kelman	Vice Mayor Woodside.
02:38:34.21	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:38:34.22	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you, Madam Mayor.
02:38:36.92	Councilmember Hoffman	So my comments are just for the pavement index.
02:38:36.99	Kelman	Well, my question.
02:38:41.21	Councilmember Hoffman	We had a presentation
02:38:42.88	Councilmember Hoffman	from Kevin back in, I think in June of this year, a very measured, this is how much we would need this year, three different roads we could go down.
02:38:52.94	Councilmember Hoffman	You can increase it this much by devoting X dollars, X millions this year, you know, to just keep it steady.
02:39:01.59	Councilmember Hoffman	another million to increase it this much, another million to increase it this much.
02:39:06.69	Councilmember Hoffman	The pavement index, it's not a lot to keep it steady. It's not a lot to increase it.
02:39:12.53	Councilmember Hoffman	So it's not an insurmountable question to increase the payment index. So it's not like it's insurmountable to increase our payment index. It's just, you just have to devote the money and stick to it, which we haven't done this year. And so I don't wanna say,
02:39:26.98	Councilmember Hoffman	that you throw your hands up and you just can't increase the pay the nicks. You can, you just have to agree to do it as a priority and then stick to it, which we haven't done. So I just want to dispel that narrative that seems to be going this year. It's pretty clear and you can just go on our,
02:39:42.36	Councilmember Hoffman	our website and just look at pavement index and look at his plan and we just haven't stuck to it so
02:39:48.29	Councilmember Hoffman	Karen Hollweg, And Council Member Hoffman can you remind us of what those amounts were.
02:39:48.32	SPEAKER_24	And council member.
02:39:52.41	Councilmember Hoffman	I can't right now because it's
02:39:53.98	Kelman	It's not in front of me, but it's not that much. Others are commenting. Can you pull that up so that we know what he said? I can circle back.
02:39:59.95	Sobieski	Bye.
02:40:00.02	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:40:01.15	Sobieski	I can scan it. I have it here in front of me. And how about I said it to you, Mayor, to put on the screen?
02:40:01.53	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:40:06.09	Amy Haworth	Which one are you looking at? Or you could send it.
02:40:06.21	Councilmember Hoffman	Which one? What are you looking at? Or you could send it.
02:40:08.49	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:40:08.84	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
02:40:08.88	Unknown	Thank you.
02:40:08.91	Councilmember Hoffman	So,
02:40:08.98	Unknown	Yeah, the plane.
02:40:09.60	Unknown	Yeah.
02:40:10.75	Amy Haworth	And I appreciate, I was sort of trying to get to that, that there's a phased approach. There could be things year one that you can do to address that because I heard it from all of you, but I see Councilmember Woodside, or are you not finished yet? Sorry. Yeah.
02:40:21.25	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, no, no. Ian, what presentation are you looking at?
02:40:25.21	Sobieski	It is the one you're referring to Councilmember Hoffman, and I'm holding it up here in my hand. And just just in round numbers to get to 75 in four years costs $25 million.
02:40:36.35	Councilmember Hoffman	But which presentation are you looking at?
02:40:38.46	Sobieski	Well, it's page six of something called executive summary from PEI. Okay, I'll go look for the one I'm looking for.
02:40:45.49	Councilmember Hoffman	I don't care.
02:40:45.97	Kelman	I'll go look for the one I'm talking about.
02:40:46.98	Sobieski	I'm Kevin McGowan.
02:40:49.24	Kelman	Yeah, so Ian,
02:40:49.43	Sobieski	So Ian,
02:40:50.69	Kelman	Council member Hoffman is going to pull up the one she had in mind.
02:40:50.83	Sobieski	Councilmember
02:40:54.83	Sobieski	I'll send it to you, Jill, so you can-
02:40:57.56	Sobieski	I don't. Okay. I won't. Yeah. I'll wait.
02:41:00.06	Kelman	Oh, okay. I'm going to let Vice Mayor Woodside speak.
02:41:07.13	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:41:07.15	Kelman	Thank you.
02:41:07.60	Woodside	Thank you.
02:41:08.82	Woodside	Mm-hmm.
02:41:09.91	Woodside	We're going to have to reach agreement at some point as to what the number is to achieve certain things. And I don't think we have that yet. So I hear phrases like it's not that much or it's insurmountable. There's a lot of room in between. I don't think we can do that today. But I did hear one thing from actually we all want to increase our pavement index somewhat within means. There are other competing issues. In my mind, there's some smaller, very much affordable items having to do with stairs and things like that that may be more critical in the long run if we're facing catastrophic problems.
02:41:54.87	Woodside	Failures. But having said that, what Member Sobieski suggested is that we look at the revenue stream from Measure L and see if we can front load it so we actually have more money to spend in the short term to get some things like the pavement index moved further up. So rather than to try to settle on the exact amounts, I just think one thing that we might do strategically is ask the city manager and our finance person to say, is the climate such that we can take advantage of the revenue stream and front load a little bit more money so we have more money to spend now on these important priorities?
02:42:24.97	Unknown	Yep.
02:42:41.80	Amy Haworth	Could I ask a clarifying question, Madam Mayor?
02:42:44.53	Amy Haworth	uh,
02:42:45.39	Amy Haworth	When you say front load, do you mean use that money for then to bond a project? Is that-
02:42:51.95	Woodside	Is that...
02:42:52.36	Woodside	a bond and there are other financing mechanisms? Yes.
02:42:55.23	Amy Haworth	Yes.
02:42:56.26	Amy Haworth	Okay.
02:42:57.41	Kelman	Um,
02:42:58.25	Kelman	Okay. So what I'm hearing are a couple of things as priorities.
02:43:04.38	Kelman	identify ways to increase annual revenues. So that would be a priority for 25.
02:43:10.43	Kelman	for 2025.
02:43:12.31	Kelman	Another priority for 25 that I've heard is to include in our 25-26 budget an amount to increase our PCI index to an appropriate level given funding constraints.
02:43:29.47	Kelman	And that I think addresses Councilmember Hoffman's
02:43:32.42	Kelman	Karen Grove, Point about the need to increase the index, but it also addresses Vice mayor would sites point about there are competing needs for that. Karen Grove, Money and then the third priority would be to consider whether it's appropriately appropriate to leverage some portion of our measure l.
02:43:53.38	Kelman	Uh,
02:43:54.11	Kelman	Annette Haworthy- Annual funds and our existing general fund balance. Annette Haworthy- To.
02:44:02.92	Kelman	leverage
02:44:04.65	Kelman	Deferred infrastructure repairs now through some sort of COP or bond, rather than just using cash.
02:44:17.19	Kelman	So those are three potential priorities I've heard from the comments.
02:44:20.28	Sobieski	Thank you.
02:44:21.49	Amy Haworth	Okay, I see Councilmember Sobieski, did you want to?
02:44:23.86	Sobieski	I don't want to step on in order, but I did have a comment just on your item, Mayor, when you come back to me.
02:44:28.23	Amy Haworth	Okay, and then do you want to go first, Councilmember Blatstein?
02:44:31.64	Blaustein	Yeah, sure. I'll just go quickly. I mean, I would really like to see us if we're having a conversation about, and I don't know where we're beginning or ending, specifically PVI or allocating for infrastructure. I just really want to, given what's going on in Southern California, consider an additional allocation for disaster preparedness, whatever that looks like, whether that's prioritizing road improvements that would allow for evacuation, as Vice Mayor Woodside pointed out, or providing a set-aside amount of grants for people who want to get to zone zero in front of their houses, but I would like that to be considered in the context of how we're spending this budget year given what what we're seeing unfold and just our general vulnerabilities.
02:45:13.82	Amy Haworth	Okay. Number.
02:45:15.26	Sobieski	Number one.
02:45:16.30	Sobieski	with,
02:45:17.40	Sobieski	All right.
02:45:18.70	Sobieski	So yeah.
02:45:18.90	Amy Haworth	Yes.
02:45:19.10	Sobieski	Thank you.
02:45:19.75	Sobieski	Just on your first point.
02:45:20.66	Amy Haworth	Can you speak more closely into the mic? Thank you.
02:45:22.73	Sobieski	Yes, thank you. I thought that was a great summary, just on that first one since I was advocating for it. I feel like we wanna be ambitious in that revenue growth. Revenue growth is easy to say, okay, we added 100K to our budget. The real goal, the strategic goal, not for just over the next six years to move the needle for our town,
02:45:42.98	Sobieski	Council member Boston's point and everything else.
02:45:45.57	Sobieski	We need...
02:45:46.21	Sobieski	literally millions to solve this and we can do it. We can be a rich town without raising taxes.
02:45:51.91	Sobieski	Thank you.
02:45:52.42	Sobieski	I believe there are a bunch of ideas to do this that actually would be win, win, win all the way around. That's the ambition for that one. So I just wanted to put a marker of $3 million. I think it could be higher, but in your first idea, not just new ways to generate revenue, but generate at least $3 million annual recurring revenue to the city.
02:46:12.45	Amy Haworth	Okay.
02:46:14.42	Amy Haworth	So...
02:46:15.59	Amy Haworth	Go ahead, Madam Mayor.
02:46:18.02	Kelman	I was gonna say, are we aligned on those three priorities? We are not prioritizing them yet. We're not placing them in
02:46:26.76	Kelman	you know,
02:46:27.60	Kelman	highest to lowest, but are we aligned on those three priorities?
02:46:35.09	Woodside	You're referring to the way you stated them, which I agree with.
02:46:38.87	Kelman	Yes, increased annual revenues. I'm happy to say a goal of by 3 million, although I don't know that we'll identify $3 billion in the upcoming.
02:46:47.97	Kelman	fiscal year.
02:46:51.23	Kelman	include
02:46:52.58	Kelman	Well, I already enunciated them, so.
02:46:56.36	Amy Haworth	I mean, I think if, if
02:46:59.11	Amy Haworth	I appreciate the goal. I agree with those. Okay.
02:47:00.52	Sobieski	THE FAMILY IS
02:47:00.56	Kelman	I agree.
02:47:00.96	Sobieski	Thank you.
02:47:01.79	Sobieski	Okay.
02:47:03.90	Amy Haworth	I just want to clarify that when you say identify,
02:47:07.68	Amy Haworth	When you say identify additional revenues and setting an ambitious goal,
02:47:13.32	Amy Haworth	You're asking, this is going to require a lot of study
02:47:18.16	Amy Haworth	And a lot of like, I'm sure you have like a finance subcommittee or and there's going to be a lot of community vetting and engagement. And so it's it's it's an intensive thing. It's not somebody going away for a week and coming back and saying, here's what you're doing.
02:47:31.94	Kelman	We already invested a city council meeting to it last year. This is an ongoing project.
02:47:37.31	Amy Haworth	Great. That's good. I think you restated it well. And I wrote it down, which I'll capture later.
02:47:42.51	Amy Haworth	But Councilmember Woodside did bring up, or maybe it was you, Madam Mayor,
02:47:47.74	Amy Haworth	So, I mean, I was the one who said, hey, I hear you all talking about pavement, right? I mean, I was just listening and that's what I threw out. I hear you talking about the stairs, I hear you talking about landslide, you know, other things, storm drains.
02:48:01.10	Amy Haworth	in infrastructure, is there anything else that you want to talk about in terms of priorities that may be
02:48:09.04	Amy Haworth	you know,
02:48:10.13	Amy Haworth	will shuffle a little bit.
02:48:13.64	Amy Haworth	I see Councilmember Blaustein here. Can I call on her and then whoever else?
02:48:20.19	Amy Haworth	Doing my best here with the Zoom hybrid.
02:48:21.17	Blaustein	Zoom hi.
02:48:21.90	Blaustein	I mean, if we're if we're tapping into that, I'll just again make the case for stairs and exit routes and disaster preparedness and I would add flooding, especially at gate five, as addressed and mentioned by director mcgowan.
02:48:34.77	Amy Haworth	Yeah, that was mentioned by staff, as you said, and I think it was also mentioned by the mayor and maybe council members. So I'm going to add gate five to list of potential priorities.
02:48:44.71	Amy Haworth	Okay.
02:48:45.52	Amy Haworth	So.
02:48:45.55	Kelman	So,
02:48:47.06	Kelman	I mean, may I just, I mean, we have
02:48:50.97	Kelman	As I listed, we have 10
02:48:53.70	Kelman	competing
02:48:54.87	Kelman	infrastructure needs. So,
02:48:57.33	Kelman	Amongst, you know, the ADA is something we are
02:49:01.10	Kelman	you know, by a consent decree required to do.
02:49:04.67	Kelman	So I'd like to put those 10 priorities, those 10 items back up on the board and see if any council member wants to ignore any of those 10 as we put together our 25-26 budget.
02:49:20.45	Kelman	if we wanna ignore facilities
02:49:24.62	Kelman	assessment and long term
02:49:28.64	Kelman	Deferred maintenance. What I'm suggesting is that we include
02:49:32.38	Kelman	in our
02:49:33.26	Kelman	Fiscal year 2526 budget.
02:49:35.45	Kelman	addressing long
02:49:38.02	Kelman	deferred maintenance on all
02:49:40.90	Kelman	10 of these issues
02:49:42.96	Kelman	Thank you.
02:49:43.27	Kelman	um,
02:49:44.51	Kelman	and figure out how best to utilize our fund balance and our Measure L funds and our C-level rise funds and any other enterprise funds available to address them.
02:49:54.54	Kelman	But I'd like to put the 10 up.
02:49:54.69	Wilfred	but I'd like to...
02:49:56.75	Kelman	and just see if anybody disagrees that we should be addressing these. Rather, because I think we have a lot of agreement on many of them.
02:50:04.93	Amy Haworth	Yeah, that's a great idea. So Walford, could you put up her slide again, focusing, I don't know if you can zoom in,
02:50:12.51	Amy Haworth	on her
02:50:14.15	Amy Haworth	Item number two, infrastructure.
02:50:18.38	Amy Haworth	Because I did, I mean, this was everybody talked about this, right? And you all had very similar things. So if you can find a way to address these things. Okay, back up one, because it's number two.
02:50:33.81	Unknown	There we go.
02:50:33.84	Amy Haworth	There we go.
02:50:36.32	Amy Haworth	OK, so I think that we're talking about streets. I think there's agreement to include that, as you mentioned.
02:50:46.13	Amy Haworth	Um,
02:50:47.46	Amy Haworth	The climate tech assessment wasn't that was already budgeted and agreed upon. So the recommendation will come back. So that's part of your work plan.
02:50:56.23	Unknown	Okay.
02:50:56.32	Amy Haworth	Okay.
02:50:56.56	Unknown	Okay.
02:50:56.69	Unknown	Thank you.
02:50:56.71	Unknown	Thank you.
02:50:57.91	Amy Haworth	Facilities evaluation and I know Councilmember Hoffman brought that up as well. That is in process and you're supposed to get that. Okay, so that's that's good. That's great.
02:51:07.46	Amy Haworth	With any conversation-
02:51:07.54	Kelman	Does any council member disagree with including
02:51:12.87	Kelman	addressing
02:51:14.78	Kelman	uh,
02:51:15.61	Kelman	you know, needed repairs on facilities identified in the evaluation as part of our upcoming budget process. I can't see
02:51:23.74	Kelman	the council members. So if you could let me know if anybody raises their hand, Amy.
02:51:27.79	Amy Haworth	I will do that. Does anybody... I agree.
02:51:29.33	Woodside	I agree. I don't disagree. I agree.
02:51:31.79	Amy Haworth	Agreed.
02:51:32.84	Amy Haworth	You have agreement here.
02:51:34.57	Amy Haworth	Okay.
02:51:34.73	Woodside	Okay.
02:51:35.33	Amy Haworth	You have agreement. You're right. You'll have this upcoming budget presentation, and that will help that.
02:51:41.85	Amy Haworth	Is a sea level assessment something that's already planned, or is that something you want to have happen? You skipped storm drains.
02:51:49.90	Kelman	So the city manager told us last year that we would have a storm drain assessment in roughly four months. So I've shortened that because I believe we're now at two months. So
02:51:49.93	Amy Haworth	So the
02:52:02.79	Kelman	Um,
02:52:03.75	Kelman	I think we need to do the same thing with storm drains as we're doing with our other facilities, but I'm asking to see if there's any disagreement on the council.
02:52:12.19	Amy Haworth	Does everybody agree with this assessment of the storm drain assessment?
02:52:15.90	Kelman	And then identifying a
02:52:19.73	Kelman	a plan to address deferred maintenance.
02:52:24.02	Kelman	Yeah, and that's actually...
02:52:26.62	Kelman	All of these I'm suggesting we include a plan to address deferred maintenance and
02:52:33.82	Kelman	in our 25-26. So that's really the priority, but I wanna make sure there's agreement
02:52:38.93	Kelman	that we include these elements in that plan.
02:52:45.70	Kelman	Thank you.
02:52:45.72	Amy Haworth	So
02:52:47.68	Amy Haworth	I would like to ask a question because, so I'm not from here, but the existing stairs, I've heard all of you mention that in terms of public safety, in terms of
02:53:00.15	Amy Haworth	evacuation in terms of infrastructure.
02:53:03.30	Amy Haworth	um
02:53:04.79	Amy Haworth	Has there been studies? Is there a plan to address this or something you're saying? No, we have to add this to deferred maintenance.
02:53:13.14	Amy Haworth	For the storm drains? No, no, for the stairs.
02:53:17.41	Woodside	There's standards, there's not a separate
02:53:17.56	Amy Haworth	There's a number of.
02:53:18.96	Jeff Chase	THE FAMILY.
02:53:19.15	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
02:53:19.18	Jeff Chase	Exactly.
02:53:19.43	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:53:19.47	Amy Haworth	Right.
02:53:19.54	Jeff Chase	THANK YOU.
02:53:19.64	Jeff Chase	Thank you.
02:53:20.47	Kelman	Bye.
02:53:20.57	Amy Haworth	Go ahead, Steve.
02:53:20.58	Woodside	Go ahead, Steven.
02:53:21.04	Jeff Chase	even.
02:53:22.05	Woodside	I'm sorry, I'm just gonna- No, please do. When I raise it, I think of the,
02:53:22.74	Jeff Chase	No, please do.
02:53:26.32	Woodside	Great number. I don't have the number in mind.
02:53:28.94	Woodside	Throughout in the steep hillsides, there's overgrown, hard to use, dilapidated places for people to walk.
02:53:40.56	Unknown	Mm-hmm.
02:53:41.00	Woodside	And it's not just for convenience. A lot of these were developed way back in the day in these narrow canyons with single-lane roads. They cross-cut them, et cetera.
02:53:49.44	Amy Haworth	Right.
02:53:51.62	Woodside	And it's evacuation route and
02:53:54.53	Amy Haworth	Okay. Okay.
02:53:55.11	Woodside	I'm not sure.
02:53:55.16	Amy Haworth	Thank you. Sorry. I'm just, and then Madam Mayor, who I think just dropped off. Did she drop off?
02:54:02.97	Amy Haworth	Uh-oh.
02:54:03.07	Kelman	Yeah.
02:54:03.16	Unknown	Oh, I'm here.
02:54:03.87	Amy Haworth	I'm here.
02:54:04.69	Kelman	BLOCKING.
02:54:04.86	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:54:04.90	Kelman	my
02:54:05.08	Amy Haworth	it.
02:54:05.15	Kelman	video.
02:54:05.60	Amy Haworth	Okay, good. I was going to say rut-ro.
02:54:07.97	Kelman	And to Melissa Blaustein's point, the stairs are a very crucial part of our evacuation plan for our residents. So it's not just, you know, we cannot all escape by driving on our roads. We have to escape using water, using our stairways to get either to higher ground or lower ground and using our streets.
02:54:18.85	Unknown	Right.
02:54:32.35	Kelman	So let me, um,
02:54:34.83	Kelman	at council member Hoffman, did you have a comment?
02:54:37.09	Kelman	Thank you.
02:54:37.11	Councilmember Hoffman	Yes. Yeah. Sorry. And these are from a risk assessment. These are city owned.
02:54:37.13	Kelman	Yes.
02:54:41.94	Councilmember Hoffman	pathways.
02:54:43.39	Kelman	Thank you.
02:54:43.51	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:54:44.06	Councilmember Hoffman	True.
02:54:44.40	Kelman	Thank you.
02:54:45.80	Kelman	Okay.
02:54:46.04	Amy Haworth	Okay.
02:54:46.14	Kelman	Thank you.
02:54:47.24	Kelman	Thank you.
02:54:47.25	Amy Haworth	But is there any disagreement on including stairs in this? I want to ask a question about it, if I may. I'm not the sixth council member, I promise. But I want you to all think about your ADA transition in line with the stairs.
02:54:51.03	Kelman	I want to say,
02:55:01.93	Amy Haworth	I don't know if the city attorney is still on.
02:55:04.45	Amy Haworth	our public works director but I would imagine there's some issue with certain repairs of those stairs that would trigger ADA which makes it a very different procedure so do you want some guidance on that now or you just want to keep that in mind for the future because we have faced this in our town
02:55:25.07	Kelman	Yeah, so I will, let's have Director McGowan reach out to you as we address this, but for today, today is not about implementation, today is identifying priorities.
02:55:36.04	Amy Haworth	Peace.
02:55:36.78	Amy Haworth	So does everybody agree with stairs, including stairs, for a number of reasons?
02:55:42.10	Amy Haworth	Okay.
02:55:43.51	Amy Haworth	Basically, A through J, these 10 items, you have, and then next is implementing landslide task force recommendations.
02:55:51.97	Kelman	Yes, this is to prevent another house sliding down a hill as it did in 2019.
02:55:59.33	Kelman	um,
02:56:00.56	Kelman	You know, we have implemented
02:56:03.31	Kelman	a few but not many
02:56:05.15	Kelman	of the task force recommendations. And again, Council Member Hoffman can speak more intelligently to that.
02:56:12.57	Amy Haworth	Okay, but everybody agrees that this should be included. I'm getting nods, Madam Mayor. Thank you. Geologic hazard report, that's already been done. So you wanna address those issues. Correct.
02:56:24.18	Kelman	All right.
02:56:24.20	Alice Merrill	All right.
02:56:24.23	Kelman	Correct.
02:56:24.49	Kelman	Thank you.
02:56:25.48	Amy Haworth	The ADA transition plan.
02:56:27.93	Amy Haworth	Part of the...
02:56:28.08	Kelman	That we are required to do, and we've been remiss.
02:56:28.10	Amy Haworth	that.
02:56:32.43	Amy Haworth	and then studying the resources needed to fund repair of sidewalks.
02:56:38.95	Amy Haworth	Well, I think
02:56:38.98	Kelman	Well, I'd like us to set up some sort of fund to help our residents repair the sidewalks they're required to repair.
02:56:47.05	Kelman	and then repay the city. So I don't know if there's any agreement from the council on that.
02:56:53.14	Amy Haworth	Vice Mayor Woodside has a comment.
02:56:55.47	Woodside	I was going to say, conceptually, we have to address the question of sidewalks. I don't know that the specific allocation of city dollars, the specific mechanism we can talk about, but it's a big issue, and I think it was a surprise to many property owners that the sidewalk is actually the responsibility of the adjacent property owner, legally, but we want to be in a position to help effectuate the repairs in the appropriate way.
02:57:04.67	Unknown	Yeah.
02:57:04.97	Alice Merrill	or,
02:57:09.00	SPEAKER_24	Agree.
02:57:17.52	Unknown	you.
02:57:17.58	Amy Haworth	Yes.
02:57:24.49	Amy Haworth	Agree.
02:57:25.37	Amy Haworth	So you're not prescribing the how, but you want to be study it.
02:57:29.42	Sobieski	Yep.
02:57:29.76	Amy Haworth	Okay.
02:57:30.13	Sobieski	Oh, I just, since we're commenting on it.
02:57:34.50	Sobieski	It's a quick way to leverage private money to fix a communal resource. It's already a private property owner's obligation in many cases, not all cases. My own perspective, it's a dereliction on our part. If we don't expeditiously move forward with some sort of strategy to leverage that obligation, many people can afford it. And those that can't, we can try to help in the way the mayor has outlined. But it's a risk. It's a liability risk. It's an infrastructure task that we can help accelerate. And so it's an example of being serious. So I'm responding to your characterization. Amy, all we want to do is study it. No, I want to...
02:58:14.06	Sobieski	I...
02:58:14.97	Sobieski	My highest level strategic thing is let's get serious about all these repairs and really
02:58:20.25	Sobieski	have ambitious time-based goals to achieve them.
02:58:24.10	Unknown	Okay.
02:58:24.69	Sobieski	So we didn't talk about time-based goals in the mayor's list here, but I presume it's implicit that we actually want to act on these things in the timeframe she's talking about, not just come up with a.
02:58:36.48	Sobieski	not just come up with a plan.
02:58:38.71	Amy Haworth	Well, and the thing is, is though that I think you don't want to remove options for how to accomplish what you want to accomplish. So whether it's city funding those who need help or whatnot, I think you want to leave those options on the table. So that's 10 priorities for infrastructure. So Madam Mayor, I think if it were me, I think it might be important to say what is the top three here.
02:59:08.46	Amy Haworth	Um,
02:59:09.59	Amy Haworth	No, you don't want to get that tactical or that. No.
02:59:11.94	Kelman	No, Amy, we are going to address all 10 of these within our budget.
02:59:17.25	Kelman	Amen. All right. Sorry, I'm not.
02:59:17.32	Amy Haworth	Amen.
02:59:18.65	Amy Haworth	our
02:59:18.72	Unknown	All right.
02:59:18.74	Amy Haworth	not really.
02:59:18.97	Unknown	religious.
02:59:19.43	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
02:59:19.45	Kelman	But go ahead.
02:59:20.53	Kelman	As part of our budgeting process, we're going to address all 10. We're not going to handle all 10 this year. Hopefully we'll start all 10 this year, but I don't know. It will depend on what the council decides.
02:59:31.93	Kelman	as part of the budgeting process, but we're identifying these as 10
02:59:36.14	Kelman	infrastructure priorities to be addressed within our budgeting process for the coming year.
02:59:41.54	Kelman	And hopefully to adopt a long-term plan
02:59:45.50	Kelman	for addressing all of them so that we have some confidence
02:59:49.47	Kelman	over how much we're going to need to spend in coming years. And that's
02:59:52.98	Kelman	Councilmember Hoffman, did you want to report back on the PCI index?
02:59:58.66	Kelman	You're on mute.
03:00:05.99	Amy Haworth	Karen Hollweg, I feel you.
03:00:08.27	Amy Haworth	Uh.
03:00:09.63	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:00:11.05	Kelman	Thank you.
03:00:11.08	Councilmember Hoffman	Wait.
03:00:11.39	Kelman	I'm not.
03:00:11.66	Councilmember Hoffman	We're going to hear from
03:00:12.30	Kelman	TOUCHER.
03:00:12.35	Councilmember Hoffman	else.
03:00:12.49	Kelman	Yeah.
03:00:12.64	Councilmember Hoffman	There we go.
03:00:12.67	Kelman	their relationship.
03:00:13.01	Kelman	Thank you.
03:00:13.23	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, yeah.
03:00:13.85	Councilmember Hoffman	No, yeah, we were looking at the same, we were looking at the same chart.
03:00:16.92	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, we could get us up. My point was we could get us up to a solid, like fair.
03:00:22.10	Councilmember Hoffman	with a combination of
03:00:25.76	Councilmember Hoffman	Like,
03:00:26.42	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, one to five million per year over what we were already doing.
03:00:30.32	Councilmember Hoffman	in a slurry or different method.
03:00:33.58	Councilmember Hoffman	But we weren't even doing that or we're not even doing that. And we keep underfunding our
03:00:37.51	Councilmember Hoffman	what Kevin comes to us and asks for, we're not even doing that.
03:00:40.65	Councilmember Hoffman	And so
03:00:41.69	Councilmember Hoffman	Anyway, you can go back and look at the
03:00:44.11	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, what Kevin's asked for us last year, you know,
03:00:47.77	Councilmember Hoffman	were underfunding
03:00:49.71	Councilmember Hoffman	those procedures that he's asking us for.
03:00:53.96	Councilmember Hoffman	I mean, freak.
03:00:54.98	Kelman	We have 3.6 million
03:00:56.97	Kelman	sitting in our measure L fund right now. So that's certainly
03:01:02.45	Kelman	And that and we've promised to confine that fund to capital improvements, I mean to infrastructure so.
03:01:12.20	Kelman	Well, we should be spending more
03:01:13.22	Councilmember Hoffman	I mean, you know, when I look at the
03:01:13.25	Kelman	on our roads.
03:01:16.22	Councilmember Hoffman	When you look at our roads, it's pretty clear, you know, that we're not spinning on just basic.
03:01:20.74	Councilmember Hoffman	how you're getting around town.
03:01:22.23	Councilmember Hoffman	So.
03:01:23.00	Councilmember Hoffman	Anyway.
03:01:24.29	Councilmember Hoffman	That's my point. We don't need to spend 25 million just to get us up to fair, you know?
03:01:29.52	Councilmember Hoffman	That's my point.
03:01:30.04	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:01:30.08	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
03:01:30.09	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:01:30.19	Kelman	Thank you for that. Very important. Thank you.
03:01:32.20	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:01:32.96	Amy Haworth	And then council member Sobieski.
03:01:35.86	Sobieski	I think...
03:01:37.50	Sobieski	Um, Councilman Hoffman, we should probably look at the same graph because I'm looking at the same graph
03:01:41.87	Jeff Chase	Yeah.
03:01:42.50	Sobieski	3 million a year times
03:01:44.40	Sobieski	the five years to get us to
03:01:46.97	Sobieski	75.
03:01:48.55	Sobieski	is actually 4 million a year. Just 3 million a year times five years is $15 million. So that's just guess the 70.
03:01:48.81	Jill Hoffman	Yeah.
03:01:56.81	Sobieski	Five.
03:01:57.02	Councilmember Hoffman	No, you're looking at the top line. You're looking at the top line, the 81.
03:02:02.09	Sobieski	It's the blue graph. So the blue graph is 3 million a year, 2.9 million a year, starting at 58. To get us to, I'm sorry, I was wrong. It's 65 over five years. Is that if to get us to 75 is...
03:02:08.43	Councilmember Hoffman	which is-
03:02:14.47	Sobieski	just shy of 5 million a year, and we're currently spending 1.4. So 5 million a year times four is $20 million. You know, it's a matter of just the fact. It's that very graph that, like I said, I have from the, and Director McGowan's here, he authored that graph. So it is, we have some money to,
03:02:33.75	Sobieski	make.
03:02:34.45	Sobieski	steps in that direction, but
03:02:36.53	Sobieski	But the current, you know, to maintain things as they are requires $1.5 million a year.
03:02:42.76	Sobieski	To raise them from 58 to 60 over five years requires 1.8 million a year. To raise it from the current 58 to a score of 81 requires $5.7 million a year over five years. So that's 5.7 times 5 is...
03:02:59.21	Sobieski	close to $30 million.
03:03:01.20	Sobieski	to get it up.
03:03:02.75	Kelman	But I think it's the goal of the council to ascertain how much per year we can afford to spend given our other
03:03:10.50	Kelman	priorities, you know, not preventing landslides and all the other priorities we've just all agreed upon. So,
03:03:16.51	Kelman	But it's very reassuring.
03:03:18.40	Kelman	to hear that we can spend an additional between one and $5 million per year
03:03:23.10	Kelman	funded by Measure L,
03:03:24.94	Kelman	to really increase our PCI index.
03:03:28.30	Councilmember Hoffman	Yep.
03:03:28.56	Kelman	Thank you.
03:03:28.74	Kelman	So I wanted to make fair with that.
03:03:28.91	Councilmember Hoffman	Right, additional. I wanted to make a fair amount.
03:03:30.46	Unknown	There's no front wheel.
03:03:31.04	Kelman	I'm sorry.
03:03:31.41	Kelman	Item A is street.
03:03:31.42	Sobieski	Item A is-
03:03:34.33	Sobieski	On item A, you say streets including PCI index, if I could suggest just adding on to that.
03:03:35.36	Unknown	Thank you.
03:03:35.37	Kelman	Thank you.
03:03:38.21	Kelman	It's just-
03:03:39.59	Kelman	I got it. Council member Sobieski, I don't want to debate now.
03:03:43.19	Kelman	implementation, we've identified it as a goal. Let's continue to identify goals.
03:03:48.97	Sobieski	Right, it was a goal around, it was around your point. It wasn't implementation, it was just a question about, we talked about whether it's a policy goal to direct street
03:03:58.37	Sobieski	reform to include, you know, modern sustainability techniques or not. And that affects the total cost also. So I didn't know if you wanted to include that in your goal articulation or not.
03:04:08.55	Councilmember Hoffman	Well done. And that goes back to the other, you know, page eight of this report, right? There's different types of things that we could be doing too, like heavy maintenance, slurry seal or chip seal or these other types of things that we can do that are cheaper. That also goes to it. You know, and the other things that I was looking at on this was...
03:04:28.01	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, the same chart that you're looking at, you know, the average of 2.9 million a year,
03:04:37.57	Councilmember Hoffman	you know,
03:04:38.94	Councilmember Hoffman	that would increase the PCI by five a year.
03:04:42.15	Councilmember Hoffman	right under your blue graph.
03:04:43.99	Blaustein	Just as a point of order, I don't think that members of the public have that in front of them. And so it's difficult when we go back and forth. I was able to find it, but I'm not really comfortable with us going back and forth over the numbers without us having either it pulled up on the screen or. I agree.
03:04:53.62	Unknown	Thank you.
03:04:53.66	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
03:04:53.93	Unknown	you
03:04:55.66	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:04:55.70	Amy Haworth	I agree.
03:04:56.24	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:04:56.32	Blaustein	I agree. I agree. I agree.
03:04:56.49	Amy Haworth	I agree. I agree. I agree. That's a great point. I see Councilmember Woodside's, Madam Mayor. Is that all right? Yeah, we can be one.
03:05:03.48	Woodside	I just wanted to suggest that we move on and make it
03:05:05.27	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
03:05:05.82	Kelman	Thank you.
03:05:06.82	Kelman	Let's move on. We've identified the priority. We'll figure out how best to implement it.
03:05:13.43	Kelman	when we can share our
03:05:17.43	Kelman	uh,
03:05:18.97	Kelman	documentation with members of the public and each other.
03:05:23.17	Woodside	Yeah, I may cry out for a for a session that is longer than this just devoted to that issue.
03:05:23.29	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
03:05:23.32	Kelman	.
03:05:23.37	Amy Haworth	.
03:05:29.70	Amy Haworth	It may and you know your your idea of including you know making emergency access better ties into all of this as well. And I I do think the fact that you all get this chance to even just have this discussion is important. So we've kind of gone over infrastructure.
03:05:52.52	Amy Haworth	And more will come up probably. What's another area of agreement that you guys heard? I could tell you the answer, but I kind of want to hear from you. And I will need to plug in my computer. I have a plug if somebody can direct me to an outlet. But you all talk amongst yourselves. So I heard housing.
03:06:10.98	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:06:11.15	Amy Haworth	Yep, me too.
03:06:14.50	Amy Haworth	Let's talk about that.
03:06:18.17	Kelman	I heard fiscal responsibility.
03:06:21.29	Kelman	as a common thread.
03:06:25.24	Amy Haworth	Fiscal responsibility and fiscal resiliency, very similar. With housing,
03:06:33.12	Amy Haworth	um
03:06:34.60	Amy Haworth	If I'm looking over my notes here.
03:06:38.03	Amy Haworth	You're you know you need to finalize your zone your housing amendment.
03:06:42.47	Amy Haworth	You don't even have to put that
03:06:44.46	Kelman	But as a priority, that is happening this first quarter, no matter what. We already have a timeline. It's already scheduled into our city council meetings. Our community and economic development director has a timeline.
03:06:58.11	Kelman	We can include that as a priority. It's certainly, I think, a top priority since it's already...
03:07:04.20	Kelman	under way, but
03:07:05.89	Kelman	That's not something we have to align upon. We've already given direction and that's already being carried out.
03:07:12.05	Woodside	And if I can just add, there's one ancillary issue that I know the mayor has raised last year, and I'm interested in it myself.
03:07:20.30	Woodside	it's an ancillary matter to take a look at and i think there's there'll be assignments to look at the possibility of our city becoming a charter city for purposes of preserving a greater control locally over such matters land use matters not exclusive control of course but right now we're powerless vis-a-vis the state so i just i just want to mention that now it's not a priority for
03:07:48.41	Kelman	Paul.
03:07:49.59	Kelman	Let's take a poll because that's going to take time and effort.
03:07:52.80	Kelman	Councilmember Hoffman has already
03:07:55.67	Kelman	Karen Hollweg, engaged in a preliminary meeting with me and the city manager so.
03:07:59.50	Kelman	Let's take a poll about whether this is something we want to invest time and resources on this year.
03:08:04.76	Amy Haworth	Madam Mayor, I think that's an excellent idea, but I would also, does everybody on council understand,
03:08:11.84	Amy Haworth	the pros and cons of it. I think we've had two.
03:08:16.41	Amy Haworth	On consent.
03:08:16.97	Kelman	we've had a full
03:08:18.33	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:08:18.47	Kelman	report on it
03:08:20.22	Kelman	we developed a task force to come back to the council the task force has not yet come back to the council
03:08:25.79	Amy Haworth	Okay, so you want to take a poll right now?
03:08:28.12	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
03:08:28.73	Amy Haworth	And who wants to, you know, whether it's a priority or not, but how many in this room, and you can raise your hand on screen,
03:08:34.99	Amy Haworth	want to pursue
03:08:37.62	Amy Haworth	the charter council member blasting.
03:08:39.71	Kelman	It's not personal.
03:08:40.73	Amy Haworth	It's...
03:08:40.96	Kelman	It's not become a charter city.
03:08:42.72	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:08:42.73	Kelman	It's,
03:08:43.59	Kelman	study whether or not to become a charter city.
03:08:46.67	Blaustein	Thank you. I just don't, I would like to have a better understanding of the amount of staff time and resources being devoted to that, given our limited staff time and resources for things like.
03:08:55.31	Blaustein	where we're going to spend our infrastructure and disaster preparedness and otherwise. So it's not that I don't agree with it or think it's a wonderful thing if the Council
03:09:02.04	Blaustein	members want to pursue all of that.
03:09:03.81	Blaustein	on their own time, but if we're gonna use staff time for it, I'd like to have more information because I don't think prioritizing that from a staff time standpoint makes the most sense. I think it's zero.
03:09:11.73	Councilmember Hoffman	I think it's zero staff time.
03:09:14.59	Unknown	Bye.
03:09:15.02	Councilmember Hoffman	Right? Like zero. I guess the mayor and I are looking at it, right?
03:09:21.26	Kelman	Yeah, and the city attorney is already working with another... He's actually...
03:09:25.48	Kelman	write the guide.
03:09:26.84	Kelman	for how to become a charter city for the League of California cities. And he's working with another city, I believe his firm is working with another city on becoming a charter city. So I don't see a huge investment, but I'm happy to see he's turned his camera on.
03:09:28.87	Unknown	Thank you.
03:09:28.92	Unknown	for the first time.
03:09:40.68	Sergio	Yeah.
03:09:42.30	Sergio	In short, to date, minimal staff time, minimal city attorney time, I think, has been dedicated to this effort besides conversations with the city manager. I agree.
03:09:52.34	Sergio	The council will need to, via a subcommittee or otherwise, work with the city attorney's office to prepare a draft. And there will need to be multiple drafts.
03:10:02.10	Sergio	meetings. It's not a trivial effort to become a charter city. And then we will need to work to prepare resolutions to put it on the ballot.
03:10:07.02	Wilfred	and then,
03:10:10.48	Sergio	after having at least two public meetings on it several months apart, in accordance with the procedures of the election code and state law for forming a charter city.
03:10:21.88	Sergio	Um,
03:10:22.82	Sergio	So...
03:10:23.87	Unknown	It's a
03:10:24.46	Sergio	capacity to do this work certainly as particularly if the council makes it a priority. And if
03:10:29.99	Sergio	you know, the council designates a working group, I would anticipate that
03:10:33.96	Sergio	that would streamline things in terms of, um,
03:10:37.38	Sergio	you know, being able to quickly and efficiently resolve
03:10:41.03	Sergio	basic questions about what should go into the form of the charter. But I would not be surprised if it doesn't require
03:10:48.33	Sergio	you know, 50 to 100 hours of, you know, city attorney and city council time, you know, in terms of getting this over the hump and getting something on the ballot.
03:10:58.76	Blaustein	And then we'd also have to pay the cost of putting it on as a ballot measure and running the election, et cetera.
03:11:03.64	Sergio	Correct. Yeah. And for that reason, actually, you need to, I believe you need to put it on as a
03:11:10.19	Sergio	on a general election. So you're not going to be able to call a special election for that matter.
03:11:14.98	Blaustein	It's a significant cost to the city. It's not without cost.
03:11:18.47	Blaustein	Oh, yes.
03:11:18.49	Sergio	Yes.
03:11:20.14	Blaustein	It's 50 to 100 hours of your time, Sergio. That's significant cost.
03:11:24.73	Kelman	That's to carry it out. If we decide to carry it out, Council Member Blaustein.
03:11:28.58	Kelman	I'm asking whether we want to study it.
03:11:28.60	Blaustein	I'm asking.
03:11:31.67	Blaustein	Karen Hollweg, Well, I mean I think studying it is different than prioritizing it if you want to study it and it's not staff time that's great but prioritizing it, given the conversations we've been having about our budget and how constrained, we are. Karen Hollweg, i'm not as comfortable with just from the point of saying about fiscal responsibility as a guiding measure. Karen Hollweg, If this is a project that that two Council members want to take on and bring forward that's very different but making it a priority for us, given what we've talked about today.
03:11:55.19	Blaustein	My feeling is I'm not comfortable with doing that, but I'm just putting that out there.
03:11:58.89	Kelman	Any other council members want to weigh in on this so that we can move on?
03:12:02.67	Sobieski	I'm personally more aligned with what Melissa just, Councilmember Vostein just articulated. I definitely see the advantages, but we no longer have the list of priorities in front of us here. So it's always about stack ranking them. So I'm a little bit lost because I don't see what,
03:12:13.91	Unknown	Thank you.
03:12:13.92	Unknown	Thank you.
03:12:13.94	Kelman	because I don't know.
03:12:15.41	Sobieski	I'm competing with.
03:12:16.91	Sobieski	Yeah, and really, you know, Charter City
03:12:17.17	Kelman	Karen Hollweg, yeah and really you know charter city was not any of the five priorities that any Council Member identified so.
03:12:25.75	Kelman	I just-
03:12:25.97	Unknown	I'm-
03:12:26.46	Unknown	Thank you.
03:12:26.80	Kelman	We already have an ad hoc committee to study this. That was already authorized by the council last year. So I'm going to...
03:12:33.75	Kelman	have
03:12:34.93	Kelman	Have us move along.
03:12:36.08	Kelman	Um,
03:12:36.50	Unknown	Thank you.
03:12:36.98	Amy Haworth	And I would just add that when you come back,
03:12:40.03	Amy Haworth	clearly people want to know how much does it cost to put it on a ballot? What are the, you know, all of those things. So I'm sure your working group can figure that out.
03:12:50.34	Amy Haworth	Okay, so housing we said that's fine. What about?
03:12:56.65	Amy Haworth	Oh, golly. Sorry.
03:12:58.42	Amy Haworth	You...
03:12:59.59	Amy Haworth	There were issues around
03:13:03.00	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:13:04.33	Amy Haworth	raising revenue or no, you added that you added to study
03:13:08.48	Amy Haworth	uh,
03:13:09.44	Amy Haworth	how you could raise revenue. And that was something
03:13:11.30	Kelman	Well, that was...
03:13:12.23	Kelman	Thank you.
03:13:12.25	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
03:13:12.30	Kelman	Yeah, we've already included that. Identify ways to increase annual revenues by $3 million. That's already identified as a program.
03:13:20.16	Kelman	priority.
03:13:21.73	Amy Haworth	Go ahead.
03:13:23.36	Blaustein	What about, we haven't talked about, many of us mentioned economic plan or economic growth or economic, I think articulating that into a clear goal would be a good use of time.
03:13:32.53	Amy Haworth	Great.
03:13:32.88	Blaustein	Thank you.
03:13:33.68	Amy Haworth	Love it.
03:13:34.43	Amy Haworth	Um...
03:13:35.68	Amy Haworth	How about we bring up
03:13:37.49	Amy Haworth	And again, this is...
03:13:40.26	Amy Haworth	Yeah, because I'll tell you what I heard in a bunch of different...
03:13:43.65	Amy Haworth	conversations that we've had and also in your reports and I hopefully the city clerk will bring up some of the slides again, but there's business longevity there's not just new businesses or you know there's you know supporting current businesses. revitalization of downtown.
03:14:01.40	Amy Haworth	uh
03:14:03.34	Amy Haworth	And.
03:14:04.32	Amy Haworth	I think also your infrastructure plays into a lot of this, but let's go into
03:14:09.75	Amy Haworth	I think.
03:14:09.99	Kelman	Clark, can you bring up the council priorities instead of the department head?
03:14:13.32	Amy Haworth	Yeah, it's going to be under
03:14:15.80	Amy Haworth	Um,
03:14:17.57	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
03:14:18.36	Kelman	No, that's the department head priorities.
03:14:25.21	Amy Haworth	Mayor we had mayor Cox had those sobyoski Melissa.
03:14:32.43	Amy Haworth	Sorry, I'm going back and forth between last names, titles, and first names.
03:14:36.00	Amy Haworth	Um,
03:14:36.72	Kelman	Let's go to Councilmember Blaustein first.
03:14:39.88	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:14:39.93	Kelman	Thank you.
03:14:40.97	Amy Haworth	There you go.
03:14:42.19	Amy Haworth	So economic growth and increasing revenues for a thriving community. How would you identify or state a goal for that?
03:14:51.40	Adrian Brin	How many minutes do we want for speaking time?
03:14:53.58	Kelman	two minutes each and I'll let Council Member Blousting lead off. Can you try to turn this into a discrete goal Council Member Blousting.
03:15:06.98	Blaustein	I don't know if I can do that in two minutes off the cuff. Um,
03:15:12.36	Blaustein	identify new
03:15:16.29	Blaustein	economic programs to drive to OT and sales tax.
03:15:19.95	Blaustein	Thank you.
03:15:19.97	Unknown	Great.
03:15:20.02	Blaustein	I know that Councilmember Sobieski has some ideas on this and it was also in the vice mayor had some thoughts so but that's the first one I can think of.
03:15:30.26	Blaustein	Also, I would love to put somewhere in there as a goal, obtain more grant funding.
03:15:35.33	Blaustein	federally or nationally or federally. I,
03:15:38.08	Kelman	Is there anyone who disagrees with a goal of apply for and obtain more grant funding?
03:15:45.71	Amy Haworth	do you have the ability on the staff
03:15:50.03	Kelman	We have a grant writer on staff, Amy.
03:15:53.00	Amy Haworth	All right.
03:15:53.43	Kelman	And we have Katie Thro-Gracia, who has been amazing.
03:15:57.65	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:15:58.55	Kelman	Again, I'm not concerned with implementation today. I'm concerned with identifying the goals. So we have identified a goal of apply for and obtain new grants. That's a priority.
03:16:09.21	Amy Haworth	and identify programs to drive TOT and sales tax.
03:16:13.80	Kelman	Well, that was how Melissa enunciated it. I haven't heard council agreement on that yet.
03:16:18.26	Amy Haworth	Do we have council agreement?
03:16:21.41	Sobieski	Well, I agree with it.
03:16:22.66	Sobieski	Thank you.
03:16:23.00	Sobieski	I said it also. One example, just add one Christmas ornament to the tree. I think it's a low-hanging fruit one would be.
03:16:30.16	Sobieski	a quantifiable goal of adding 80, that's eight zero hotel rooms to the city of Sausalito that would generate just those 80 hotel rooms if they're like in above tides, that would generate $2 million in extra revenue to the city that we could spend on infrastructure while also having the ancillary benefit
03:16:47.15	Sobieski	of all the other spending that those visitors would have in town.
03:16:51.28	Sobieski	Right now we're giving money away to Mill Valley.
03:16:54.10	Sobieski	And people are staying at the Aqua Hotel or Cavallo Point instead of staying here paying for our infrastructure.
03:17:01.19	Kelman	Thank you, Councilmember
03:17:04.02	Kelman	Sobieski, and do you believe it's a
03:17:06.94	Kelman	feasible goal to
03:17:08.90	Kelman	create 80 new hotel rooms in 2526 because we're looking at 2025 priorities.
03:17:16.63	Sobieski	I apologize if I misunderstood the strategic plan was limited to just 2025.
03:17:21.62	Kelman	This is our 2025 strategic planning session.
03:17:25.35	Sobieski	Well,
03:17:25.56	Amy Haworth	It's not an overall, it's not a six year plan.
03:17:27.83	Kelman	Right.
03:17:28.10	Kelman	will undertake a six-year strategic plan next year.
03:17:32.34	Sobieski	Yeah, indeed. Well, then I apologize for kind of a fundamental misunderstanding of the scope of our conversation. And so I would then frame it more in this is the first step on something I already have an eye toward. We all know we have these huge bills for a variety of things. So it really would be. So the answer is no. You're not going to get a new 80 hotel rooms this year, but you could
03:17:56.35	Sobieski	with that, we could start that journey today.
03:17:59.36	Sobieski	and that would pay dividends i don't see any reason to wait the journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step so yeah uh if we are aligned around that goal as you know very well mayor we have a proposal from the maddens for three hotel rooms in their hotel that's just three well now we're well that's
03:18:04.81	Unknown	Yeah.
03:18:15.13	Amy Haworth	Well, again, implementation.
03:18:15.98	Blaustein	Go ahead, Councilmember. Something like in the strategic year 2025, create a program to fast track an application for hotels. There's something that's more like gets us there.
03:18:16.52	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:18:16.53	Sobieski	Thank you.
03:18:16.74	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:18:24.89	Sobieski	Thank you.
03:18:24.95	Kelman	So
03:18:25.04	Sobieski	Something like-
03:18:25.80	Kelman	about
03:18:26.31	Blaustein	Thank you.
03:18:26.74	Kelman	a, and this is something the PBID is already working on, but how about ensuring
03:18:33.39	Kelman	full occupancy of
03:18:35.52	Kelman	Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B. Christine B.
03:18:51.15	Kelman	uh,
03:18:52.17	Kelman	full room occupancy of existing hotels as we identify
03:18:56.87	Kelman	space for new hotels.
03:19:01.10	Sobieski	I'm certainly not opposed to that, Mayor. That was the argument for the PBID and others, is to fill our latent inventory.
03:19:08.05	Sobieski	Again, I just think the opportunity for us as a town not to pay higher taxes, but to have much better infrastructure and services is to take advantage of our unique competitive advantage as a town. And our easy underused category, because we already have a TOT tax that's 14%, is to have more hotel rooms. We're giving that money away to our friends in Mill Valley right now.
03:19:31.71	Sobieski	by not having enough hotel rooms. We don't have enough hotel rooms.
03:19:35.16	Unknown	Those rooms aren't filled.
03:19:36.79	Sobieski	Carmel has more, yeah, but Carmel also doesn't have, has a lot of empty space in the winter, but they have more dollars per spent on residents, three times more than us because they have a lot more hotel rooms.
03:19:49.11	Amy Haworth	I'm
03:19:50.12	Amy Haworth	And if I may interject,
03:19:52.76	Amy Haworth	that what Councilmember Blasstein did suggest was identify programs to drive to OT. And so this fits under that I would and again,
03:20:03.81	Amy Haworth	worry about the prescription or the implementation after there's been some research.
03:20:09.41	Amy Haworth	I because, again, you're not committing to we're building three, we're allowing three new hotels. I mean, there has to be a capacity study, everything else. But I think if you identify the program to drive to OT and sales tax, you're covering something. Yes, Vice Mayor has his hand up.
03:20:25.53	Woodside	And I think we have our economic development folks and so forth looking at these same issues, and I'm wondering whether or not hearing from them on all of these, both strategic level and implementation level at some future date, is a focused discussion again, because I think we could debate quite a bit today as to what the right answer there is, but in concept,
03:20:51.70	Woodside	TOT brings revenue direct to the city. It's not shared with anybody else, and that's one main reason why there's high interest in it from a fiscal point of view.
03:21:02.67	Woodside	We can't ignore it.
03:21:03.09	Kelman	Oh.
03:21:04.32	Kelman	So vice mayor, do you agree of identifying this as a priority?
03:21:08.03	Kelman	for 2025.
03:21:09.50	Kelman	to
03:21:10.55	Kelman	Uh,
03:21:11.24	Kelman	identify long-term economic solutions to drive TOT and sales tax.
03:21:15.95	Woodside	The way you phrase that then, yes, and I would just add, and we want to consult with our own experts in the community that are actually looking at this.
03:21:25.40	Kelman	Well, yeah, but we have to give them the go ahead. So they asked us to consider their proposed priorities as part of today's session. And this was one of those.
03:21:33.74	Woodside	Totally agree, and I agree with the way you formulated it, yes. Okay.
03:21:37.18	Kelman	Right.
03:21:37.60	Kelman	Karen Hollweg, Have you got that is there any disagreement with the way by any Council Member with that priority as I enunciated it.
03:21:44.98	Kelman	Yes, Council Member Hoffman, you're on mute. Thank you.
03:21:47.14	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
03:21:47.74	Councilmember Hoffman	Um,
03:21:49.14	Councilmember Hoffman	When you say our, our.
03:21:51.08	Councilmember Hoffman	Experts. Are you talking about our hotel owners?
03:21:54.58	Kelman	He's talking about EDAC.
03:21:57.11	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay, EDAC, because my,
03:22:00.18	Councilmember Hoffman	like,
03:22:00.85	Councilmember Hoffman	My concern is that
03:22:03.67	Councilmember Hoffman	when we talk about
03:22:05.16	Councilmember Hoffman	TOT.
03:22:07.84	Councilmember Hoffman	We don't want to run afoul or run across.
03:22:10.56	Councilmember Hoffman	are hotel operators in town.
03:22:13.22	Councilmember Hoffman	and
03:22:14.32	Councilmember Hoffman	what their, you know, their business models and their business revenue models. Because sometimes when I go back and talk to them about what are, you know, what are your efforts and what are your revenue
03:22:28.93	Councilmember Hoffman	you know,
03:22:30.11	Councilmember Hoffman	What are you showing, right, about, um,
03:22:36.26	Councilmember Hoffman	what's going on in Sausalito and do we have room for another hotel? I'm hearing something different.
03:22:41.47	Councilmember Hoffman	And so, and what are your thoughts on, do we have room for another hotel?
03:22:46.26	Councilmember Hoffman	And do we have room for excess capacity for another hotel?
03:22:51.70	Councilmember Hoffman	you may get another response from them. So, I mean, you need to bring them into the mix before we start going down different roads, I think. So that's just a cautionary thing.
03:23:00.81	Woodside	I think that's what Mayor is suggesting is that we look at capacity. And when I say experts, I'm thinking EDAC, but I'm also thinking of the Chamber of Commerce and the PBID and the others who've been convened to look at these same issues. I assume we'll hear from all of them when the subject came back to us, if it does.
03:23:06.01	Councilmember Hoffman	And when I
03:23:06.57	Jeff Chase	Thank you.
03:23:06.62	Wilfred	Thank you.
03:23:20.23	Kelman	Okay, so again, are we okay with enunciating a priority of
03:23:24.72	Kelman	identify long-term economic solutions to drive TOT and sales tax. However, we may decide to do that.
03:23:35.24	Amy Haworth	Oh, sorry.
03:23:36.45	Amy Haworth	I think there's agreement on this. And I...
03:23:41.70	Amy Haworth	You know, it's not.
03:23:43.37	Amy Haworth	It's not just an increase in hotel. I mean, there's a lot of discussions to happen, but you want to put a focus on this area.
03:23:51.59	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:23:52.92	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:23:52.97	Kelman	Okay, while we've got Council Member Blaustein's slide, may I turn to number five? Because I think a couple of us talked about staff retention
03:24:02.47	Kelman	Satisfaction. Can we agree to include that as a priority for this year?
03:24:09.00	Kelman	I see Council Member Hoffman nodding yes, I can't see the rest of the council.
03:24:09.29	Amy Haworth	Council.
03:24:12.38	Amy Haworth	Yes, they're saying yes. Okay.
03:24:12.78	Kelman	That's right.
03:24:13.86	Kelman	Okay, great. So let's go ahead. And I like the way that councilmember
03:24:18.40	Kelman	Laustein
03:24:21.22	Kelman	framed this, so let's go ahead and include that as a priority for 2025.
03:24:28.36	Amy Haworth	.
03:24:29.27	Amy Haworth	Well done. Okay, don't worry. I'm making very official notes here on my post-it notes that at the next break I will write on a document and share with everybody on the screen.
03:24:38.48	Amy Haworth	if I get internet back.
03:24:40.12	Kelman	All right, we only have an hour and 15 minutes left. So when are you planning to take our next break?
03:24:45.40	Amy Haworth	Well, I was just going to ask.
03:24:47.23	Amy Haworth	Um,
03:24:48.74	Amy Haworth	I think what I'd like to do, what I think makes sense is to take a quick little bio break, as we call them, comfort break.
03:24:53.15	Wilfred	Bye.
03:24:56.00	Amy Haworth	and come back and talk about a little bit about looking at back at staff goals to see if there's any some alignment so that
03:25:04.17	Amy Haworth	those things are more likely to be embraced or easier for direction.
03:25:10.28	Amy Haworth	and the next steps and
03:25:14.44	Kelman	So Amy, I absolutely want to look at staff goals, but I want to be sure that we've covered the areas of unicity amongst the council goals first. So during the break, could you identify any other points of intersection to be sure that we've actually prioritized
03:25:32.20	Kelman	Council goals that we already are aligned upon.
03:25:35.30	Amy Haworth	You betcha.
03:25:36.30	Kelman	Okay.
03:25:36.79	Amy Haworth	So right now it is 1, no, 1246.
03:25:41.97	Amy Haworth	Do you want to come back at 1?
03:25:44.26	Unknown	Great. Is that OK with everybody?
03:25:47.59	Unknown	All right, great. Thank you, everybody. Great, great discussion so far.
03:25:50.71	Amy Haworth	I'll call you all to order the vice mayor, but I'm just...
03:25:54.32	Amy Haworth	using my microphone to bring you all in, doing the dirty work here.
03:25:59.48	Amy Haworth	Okay, I think we're all here, Mr. Vice Mayor or Madam Mayor.
03:26:04.16	Amy Haworth	um,
03:26:05.58	Amy Haworth	So I actually, let's see if I'm on the Zoom. I might not be on the Zoom right now.
03:26:09.93	Amy Haworth	Over the break, here's what I came up with, and I will put it up on the screen in a minute, but if you'll just bear with me here with the technology. The council areas of agreement that, and there were so much agreement, infrastructure,
03:26:24.76	Amy Haworth	identify ways to increase revenue for infrastructure dedicate money to pavement leverage measure L deferred maintenance and then the 10 and
03:26:32.78	Amy Haworth	Items that actually the mayor had identified and
03:26:36.76	Amy Haworth	Identify programs to drive TOT and sales tax revenue and apply for and obtain more grants.
03:26:43.83	Amy Haworth	Staff retention and satisfaction.
03:26:47.59	Amy Haworth	And then I do have other notes that I will add for a summer report for everyone, but I also added kind of other ideas, Charter City, just to explore what that would entail. And if it does give you the protections that you seek from some of the mandates.
03:27:04.37	Amy Haworth	And so before we move on, I mean, before we move on to
03:27:10.81	Amy Haworth	some staff goals, again not a staff to-do list as they have a lot of staff to-do lists. I just wanna be sure that I'm not missing something where there was a lot of council agreement.
03:27:25.06	Amy Haworth	So let's turn that.
03:27:25.12	Kelman	So let's turn that off.
03:27:25.99	Unknown	Thank you.
03:27:26.39	Unknown	Thank you.
03:27:26.44	Kelman	person.
03:27:26.71	Unknown	Thank you.
03:27:26.81	Kelman	Thank you.
03:27:27.05	Kelman	So council members, is there anything that one of you listed
03:27:31.77	Kelman	that you believe there was agreement from others that we haven't covered this morning, because I don't want to leave anything out.
03:27:39.92	Kelman	Councilmember Blaustein and then Councilmember Sobieski.
03:27:43.50	Blaustein	I would like to see a clear goal and unseated around disaster preparedness. And I think we're probably all.
03:27:49.27	Blaustein	in agreement with that.
03:27:49.96	Kelman	I absolutely think we're aligned on disaster preparedness. However, I think we have to ensure that we are collaborating with Southern Marin Fire on that because we are paying 40% of our property tax revenues each year to Southern Marin Fire.
03:28:06.99	Kelman	to ensure disaster preparedness. So I'd like to ensure we're doing our part, as you mentioned, Council Member Blaustein, in improving our stairs and our streets to allow for evacuation. But I wanna be sure that we are not
03:28:24.02	Kelman	undertaking a role that we're paying someone else to do at the same time. So I think we have to manage and collaborate and oversee their work and do our own work as well.
03:28:34.80	Blaustein	I think that at least enunciating a goal around having a community drill where we partner with Southern Marine Fire or enunciating goal around creating and finalizing
03:28:43.78	Blaustein	our stairs map for disaster repairness or something because
03:28:47.14	Blaustein	I love Southern Marine fire and I love working with them. And I think a goal is that we're going to do that even not necessarily at staff costs, but I just, I'm not, I feel like given what's going on leaving here today without a goal that is clearly related to disaster preparedness is just, we'd be remiss. So I welcome, however, we write that, that integrates Southern Marine fire. And I would welcome ideas from the dais, but I just really want to see it.
03:28:50.48	Kathy Nikitas	Thank you.
03:28:50.50	Unknown	Thank you.
03:28:50.53	Kathy Nikitas	name.
03:28:50.80	Unknown	Thank you.
03:29:08.45	Blaustein	included somehow.
03:29:09.73	Kelman	Thank you, Councilmember Sobieski. And I'm not seeing the clock, Walfred.
03:29:15.60	Amy Haworth	What?
03:29:17.31	Kelman	the clock, putting me
03:29:17.38	Sobieski	the clock.
03:29:18.12	Amy Haworth	The clock.
03:29:19.03	Sobieski	on the clock. I like it. It's there.
03:29:21.65	Sobieski	I'm going to go.
03:29:21.71	Kelman	I'm not seeing it.
03:29:23.08	Sobieski	Thank you.
03:29:23.11	Kelman	Thank you.
03:29:23.15	Unknown	to, you know,
03:29:23.18	Kelman	Thank you.
03:29:23.28	Sobieski	We're seeing it. It's on our screen, Madam Mayor.
03:29:23.30	Unknown	We're seeing it.
03:29:26.41	Kelman	I see it.
03:29:27.47	Sobieski	You know, so you're-
03:29:28.63	Kelman	No, I'm seeing council member priorities from Blaustein.
03:29:28.68	Sobieski	No.
03:29:28.99	Amy Haworth	I'm,
03:29:32.28	Kelman	It's off to the side. If you look at.
03:29:33.90	Sobieski	Thank you.
03:29:33.95	Amy Haworth	So I will hold Councilmember Sobieski to the two minute call. How's that?
03:29:38.99	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:29:39.65	Councilmember Hoffman	That's weird. I see it. It's right down at the bottom. Must be your view, your gallery view. Click on your view.
03:29:42.91	Amy Haworth	Bye.
03:29:42.98	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:29:46.33	Sobieski	Oh, okay. I just, you asked Mayor about other areas of agreement. I think you are taking, it's not on my list, Amy. Well, it is actually later, but Mayor, you said-
03:29:58.23	Sobieski	a bunch of housing related things around using community development agreements and actually where you and I had agreement in part was being a little proscriptive about housing we actually want to build not
03:30:10.95	Sobieski	complying with the arena element of
03:30:12.96	Sobieski	Thank you.
03:30:13.23	Sobieski	allowing private property owners to build, but actually you wanted to build some housing of a particular kind.
03:30:13.55	Wilfred	I don't think.
03:30:18.43	Sobieski	I also feel as a community, we should. I think that's an area of some agreement that there's a subset of the housing goal
03:30:24.52	Sobieski	that we actually all feel is
03:30:27.00	Sobieski	creative to our community.
03:30:28.84	Sobieski	And it will require a government partnered plan
03:30:32.98	Sobieski	like a community development agreement plan or grant or cooperation if we do something on private property with a community development agreement. So I feel like that's an area of potential strategic goal. We need to establish the ontological category because we haven't done a community development agreement, I believe in a long time around here. And so we need to agree that we're willing to do that and put some scaffolding around what we're looking for.
03:31:01.14	Sobieski	And that would also, of course, tie into Blaustein's economic development agenda, because some of there could be win-win
03:31:08.92	Sobieski	around mixed use, around creating more industrial, around housing. That's all around a community development agreement. So preserving the zoning, but making an exception to the zoning for construction that would be aligned with our community goals.
03:31:25.27	Kelman	I absolutely endorse embarking on that. And I also am very interested in an enhanced infrastructure finance district for the Marineship. Those are not things I think I can make happen this year, but I'd absolutely like to embark on those. But I was gonna embark on those
03:31:44.44	Kelman	Um,
03:31:45.20	Kelman	you know,
03:31:47.36	Kelman	I'm not asking the Council to prioritize that with staff time until we address some of these other priorities like passing our housing element and our zoning ordinance. So I'm absolutely willing to invest some effort to
03:32:07.44	Kelman	to position ourselves to do that. I just don't know that that's something I can say we're gonna accomplish this year.
03:32:16.86	Amy Haworth	I'm
03:32:18.02	Amy Haworth	If.
03:32:18.88	Amy Haworth	So-
03:32:19.04	Kelman	Thank you.
03:32:19.07	Amy Haworth	So.
03:32:19.29	Kelman	Thank you.
03:32:19.36	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:32:19.39	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:32:19.56	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:32:19.64	Kelman	is like it.
03:32:20.25	Amy Haworth	I thought.
03:32:20.47	Kelman	I saw Councilmember. I didn't know Councilmember Hoffman had something she wanted to see and saw her.
03:32:27.62	Councilmember Hoffman	I was just going to echo that. I didn't know how to,
03:32:30.49	Councilmember Hoffman	articulate a response to that. I was really intrigued by how to
03:32:32.91	Wilfred	I was...
03:32:36.25	Councilmember Hoffman	process that and and how to
03:32:40.43	Councilmember Hoffman	formulate a response in the scope of our priorities for this year. But kind of a subset of how to make that a secondary sort of exploration and incorporate that into, you know,
03:32:59.32	Councilmember Hoffman	I don't know, I'm trying to figure out, I'm thinking that through right now and I think Joan
03:33:05.38	Councilmember Hoffman	If-
03:33:05.46	Kelman	THE FAMILY.
03:33:05.76	Kelman	Well, how about just identify a process for negotiating potential
03:33:13.64	Kelman	in.
03:33:15.11	Kelman	uh,
03:33:16.16	Kelman	community finance district in the marineship and negotiating development agreements.
03:33:21.58	Kelman	Identify a process, though, is the priority.
03:33:21.68	Amy Haworth	identify
03:33:24.56	Amy Haworth	So,
03:33:25.47	Amy Haworth	I'm adding this under other ideas and not so that we don't lose it.
03:33:30.97	Amy Haworth	because I think people are saying, oh, this is interesting.
03:33:34.55	Amy Haworth	Here's what I had written and then
03:33:36.37	Amy Haworth	I'd written exploring community development positioning in terms of meeting the housing element and then identify a process for potential
03:33:46.35	Amy Haworth	community financial
03:33:48.03	Kelman	I would say EIFD, an Enhanced Infrastructure Finance District,
03:33:52.57	Kelman	utilizes county funding as well as city funding as well as owner funding.
03:33:57.49	Amy Haworth	Bye.
03:33:58.92	Amy Haworth	at.
03:33:59.71	Amy Haworth	I will put this under other ideas and when I submit a draft will make sure that wording is correct unless so I hear actually I hear three people say that's good for other idea is there anyone who says absolutely don't put that on as an other idea.
03:34:14.76	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, other idea but not priority, right?
03:34:16.81	Councilmember Hoffman	and
03:34:16.87	Amy Haworth	Okay, councilman.
03:34:17.26	Councilmember Hoffman	That's technical, that's highly technical complicated.
03:34:18.66	Amy Haworth	I'm sorry.
03:34:18.68	Woodside	That's technical, that's highly technical.
03:34:20.20	Woodside	in agreement with members so bsc that we can achieve more this year but that means i'm more optimistic than perhaps the majority i can live with the language now i'm just hopeful
03:34:32.84	Woodside	that we can do more this year.
03:34:35.30	Woodside	And, uh,
03:34:36.87	Woodside	Maybe that's just me and Ian, but I'd really like us to be more aggressive if we can, but we're now setting priorities and there's three votes to do it this way. That's fine.
03:34:40.09	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:34:46.94	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:34:47.96	Amy Haworth	So are there other priorities or ideas for priorities that are before I go on to some staff notes or staff topics? I added the explore work with Southern Marin County Fire on emergency preparedness, perhaps a drill, stair maps, whatever the implementation may be.
03:35:11.19	Amy Haworth	So if you're not creating your own emergency preparedness, you it's working with Southern Marines. I include that as a priority.
03:35:19.28	Unknown	Yes.
03:35:20.10	Amy Haworth	Great. Hey, look at that. And I just want for the public and those watching on zoom to understand these council members have done a lot of work in preparing their ideas, their priorities, their goals. And it's pretty remarkable. And I want I want to commend them and say that's why we're able, it may feel frustrating at times, but I think that we're actually getting real work done here. So
03:35:46.53	Amy Haworth	Um,
03:35:48.49	Amy Haworth	This is by no means a final document. It's fluid. But why don't we move on to some staff priorities, Madam Mayor.
03:35:57.94	Kelman	Okay, great. Walfrey, can you take this PowerPoint down? Great.
03:36:01.82	Amy Haworth	Yeah, and I have...
03:36:04.05	Amy Haworth	So yeah, I have my own, but
03:36:06.34	Amy Haworth	Let's see what you have.
03:36:07.73	Kelman	Well, how did you want to address this, Amy? Did you want to identify some potential
03:36:13.23	Kelman	Sarah Silver, Staff priorities for Council consideration, because some you know some of the staff priorities we've already addressed, you know, in terms of employee retention and risk reduction so.
03:36:29.14	Amy Haworth	And I thought we would go down the list.
03:36:32.11	Amy Haworth	And
03:36:33.07	Amy Haworth	Uh,
03:36:34.07	Kelman	Well, that's like a
03:36:35.91	Kelman	15 page document and we have one hour.
03:36:39.23	Amy Haworth	Right. Here's what, and Councilmember, or Vice Mayor Woodside's,
03:36:42.66	Woodside	Just as I listen to the various department heads, they are telling us, I think, that they want to work on these things, each and every one of them. So in terms of prioritizing things that would have an impact on staff, unless I'm misreading them, they are planning to work on these things and bring them, bring the issues to us at the appropriate time, whether it requires a budget, a contract, a purchase agreement, or whatever.
03:37:16.24	Woodside	I'm very happy with what I heard and I'm,
03:37:16.27	Kelman	Let me rephrase that.
03:37:17.33	Kelman	was what I heard.
03:37:19.02	Kelman	Right, but Steven, we don't have the time
03:37:22.90	Kelman	For staff,
03:37:24.20	Kelman	to do everything staff would like to do and still carry out the priorities we've just identified.
03:37:30.68	Kelman	So,
03:37:31.29	Woodside	Thank you.
03:37:31.41	Woodside	I hear what you're saying. And I guess.
03:37:33.25	Kelman	And so there's a time and money constraint.
03:37:36.37	Kelman	Some of the asks from staff were to spend some money. We have to identify where to get that money.
03:37:42.31	Kelman	So putting a new roof on the corporation yard
03:37:45.80	Kelman	That's something that's part of a budget conversation.
03:37:49.65	Kelman	Yeah.
03:37:49.67	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
03:37:50.27	Amy Haworth	guys into one of your goals or kind of expectations to see the facilities assessment report
03:37:56.98	Amy Haworth	and deferred maintenance report, that's going to be on there, right? And that's how you can plan for it.
03:38:01.92	Amy Haworth	Right.
03:38:02.53	Amy Haworth	Let me reframe what I envisioned for a little bit of time here.
03:38:07.01	Amy Haworth	Is...
03:38:08.08	Amy Haworth	to I can
03:38:10.22	Amy Haworth	We can look at the slides and say yes they've already identified that as a goal for instance, you know the police department you know recruitment strategies you know that's recruitment hiring and retention that's about something that you've already talked about right. So I think it's not about you prioritizing what staff said it's not about say no staff you're not going to do this now that's certainly not it but I think there's value
03:38:37.41	Amy Haworth	in highlighting and again i'll take notes and then prepare provide it to you highlighting all the areas that council feels is a priority so that staff understands what they've identified is also a similar priority
03:38:50.91	Kelman	Okay, so with the caveat, again, I don't know that we're going to get through 45 bullet points in the next 45 minutes.
03:38:59.31	Kelman	So, but let's, we can take a stab at identifying some big picture priorities from each staff.
03:39:06.18	Amy Haworth	Yeah.
03:39:06.74	Kelman	Again, all of us,
03:39:07.56	Amy Haworth	All I want to do is look at the priorities that you identified.
03:39:12.34	Amy Haworth	infrastructure, retaining employees, you know, looking for ways to increase TOT and see how it aligns with each thing and just highlighting it. I don't think it needs a lot of discussion. I don't think you say, oh, yeah, that's not right.
03:39:26.12	Amy Haworth	So...
03:39:27.19	Kelman	All right, so Walford, will you bring up the staff slides?
03:39:29.69	Amy Haworth	up and I think I can do it in 15 minutes.
03:39:32.49	Kelman	Okay.
03:39:33.68	Amy Haworth	if,
03:39:35.56	Amy Haworth	Got ambitious suddenly.
03:39:36.89	Kelman	Well, again, this is a council, it has to be a council member, not
03:39:41.47	Amy Haworth	Yeah, you're right.
03:39:41.70	Kelman	You're right. Just go up to the beginning.
03:39:45.46	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:39:47.14	Amy Haworth	Not the threats. It's going to go to the
03:39:48.62	Kelman	Just go to the police department of Alfred if you would.
03:39:52.03	Kelman	Because that was the first department head.
03:39:52.48	Amy Haworth	THE FIRST
03:39:54.42	Amy Haworth	It was?
03:39:55.49	Kelman	Thank you.
03:39:55.52	Amy Haworth	Okay. Yes, it was.
03:39:56.53	Kelman	Thank you.
03:39:57.77	Kelman	We started off with Chief Stacey Gregory.
03:40:01.36	Amy Haworth	So it looks like retention strategies was something you identified.
03:40:07.28	Amy Haworth	you know not specifically police department but you did talk about employee retention uh councilmember sobieski
03:40:14.62	Sobieski	Well, I mean, you see where the overlap is, but is it helpful to point out where they're
03:40:19.48	Sobieski	When I see this, I see omissions in a sense, which is there isn't anything here on parking.
03:40:24.88	Sobieski	to major.
03:40:25.07	Amy Haworth	Would parking come under police or would that come under finance?
03:40:27.50	Sobieski	As it's currently organized, it's under police, but that of course is a question that you know one way to respond would be to at least have part of parking.
03:40:35.31	Sobieski	respond to.
03:40:35.84	Kelman	That's right.
03:40:36.00	Kelman	Council has already given direction to carry out the Dixon...
03:40:36.09	Sobieski	Thank you.
03:40:36.19	Sobieski	Yeah.
03:40:39.48	Kelman	parking study implementation measures, some of them. So
03:40:43.97	Kelman	But if we want to re-enunciate that as a priority, that's fine by me. So address Sausalito.com.
03:40:51.21	Kelman	parking,
03:40:53.47	Kelman	uh,
03:40:54.40	Kelman	needs. Ian, how do you want
03:40:56.03	Sobieski	to enunciate it.
03:40:57.59	Sobieski	that sounds implement the Dixon
03:41:01.17	Sobieski	recommendations.
03:41:03.33	Sobieski	Sounds fine.
03:41:03.51	Amy Haworth	Have you guys agreed on all of that, that you should implement?
03:41:08.57	Sobieski	We did over a year ago.
03:41:08.61	Amy Haworth	We did.
03:41:10.83	Sobieski	And I guess there would be a potential to do item there.
03:41:14.41	Sobieski	not to decide now, but
03:41:16.66	Sobieski	uh you know form often follows function function often follows form right now uh wayne kwan in the police department reports to chief gregory that's naturally a puts an emphasis on enforcement
03:41:28.59	Sobieski	since parking is intrinsic to our economic development and a big revenue source for the city, it's part of our business model, there'd be an argument that it either report directly to the city manager, at least partly, or to our economic development officer, Mr. Phipps.
03:41:42.07	Kelman	So a big part of parking is the parking, I can speak from personal experience are the tickets that the police department writes and so
03:41:51.28	Kelman	I think parking is where it belongs and then we can have the interface with Public Works and the city manager
03:42:00.14	Kelman	as appropriate to carry out.
03:42:01.63	Sobieski	Thank you.
03:42:01.97	Kelman	and implement the Dixon rule.
03:42:03.03	Sobieski	report.
03:42:04.06	Sobieski	Yeah.
03:42:04.33	Sobieski	It's...
03:42:05.31	Sobieski	So I don't know, I can bring it up in future agenda items or whatnot.
03:42:08.89	Sobieski	because it's across through.
03:42:10.45	Kelman	We've identified it as a priority. We'll figure out how to implement it.
03:42:13.64	Kelman	Later.
03:42:14.57	Amy Haworth	added it to my list.
03:42:16.28	Kelman	Okay.
03:42:16.72	Amy Haworth	Oh,
03:42:17.47	Amy Haworth	So again, I'm showing there's a lot.
03:42:20.16	Amy Haworth	I meant and now we've added address us little parking needs and the Dixon report
03:42:24.73	Kelman	I'm going to say the waterfront management purchase of a patrol boat is something we have to address in a budget.
03:42:30.57	Kelman	discussion.
03:42:31.51	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:42:31.99	Kelman	not a
03:42:33.13	Kelman	not a priority.
03:42:34.11	Amy Haworth	starting.
03:42:34.40	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:42:34.89	Amy Haworth	I wasn't going to address each item because you had mentioned that, I mean, we shouldn't address everything. This is a budget, there's alignment and is there anything new?
03:42:44.32	Amy Haworth	So we're not going to go over every item.
03:42:46.43	Unknown	Okay.
03:42:46.72	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:42:47.04	Amy Haworth	Fine.
03:42:47.68	Amy Haworth	Okay, next department.
03:42:50.67	Amy Haworth	So that's the fire. So again,
03:42:54.63	Amy Haworth	Uh...
03:42:55.92	Kelman	We don't manage Southernman fire, but it's important for us to understand
03:43:01.01	Kelman	what they're focusing on. And I agree with,
03:43:05.08	Kelman	Councilmember Blaustein and others, you know, the risk reduction and preparedness is really key to us.
03:43:10.66	Amy Haworth	Right.
03:43:12.25	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:43:15.27	Amy Haworth	Next.
03:43:16.72	Amy Haworth	Next.
03:43:20.00	Amy Haworth	Um,
03:43:20.98	Amy Haworth	So I would suggest, and again,
03:43:24.79	Amy Haworth	that the maintenance
03:43:26.98	Amy Haworth	and all goes under your assessment infrastructure. And there's, so there is alignment there.
03:43:34.61	Kelman	Yep. Councilmember Hoffman, are you saying anything?
03:43:38.80	Kelman	Oh, I thought I saw you speaking.
03:43:41.51	Amy Haworth	But then the other things become budget items. Okay. So the next slide. And then you can tell me if there's anything missing.
03:43:52.63	Amy Haworth	Bye.
03:43:53.41	Amy Haworth	You addressed gate five flooding and flooding and infrastructure.
03:43:57.75	Amy Haworth	Correct.
03:43:58.81	Kelman	It was not one of the things that we listed under the, you know, we talked about storm drains, but we did not specifically include flooding on the 10 infrastructure issues. So I would add flooding.
03:44:12.85	Kelman	to the 10 infrastructure issues.
03:44:14.45	Amy Haworth	Is there agreement on that in the room?
03:44:16.88	Amy Haworth	I see...
03:44:18.47	Amy Haworth	Yes to flooding, yes.
03:44:21.45	Kelman	Councilmember Hoffman has a comment.
03:44:23.28	Amy Haworth	it.
03:44:23.33	Councilmember Hoffman	When we talk about gate five, we really have to delineate what we own and what we don't own.
03:44:28.63	Councilmember Hoffman	Agreed. So we have to be very careful about
03:44:29.15	Kelman	We'll be right back.
03:44:31.19	Councilmember Hoffman	Gate 5.
03:44:32.44	Councilmember Hoffman	So,
03:44:32.69	Kelman	So,
03:44:33.01	Kelman	Let's say collaborate with the county.
03:44:36.35	Kelman	to address, and the state.
03:44:39.38	Kelman	because we're getting some mistakes.
03:44:39.46	Councilmember Hoffman	Because we're getting to the state. Yeah, private owners.
03:44:42.51	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:44:43.53	Amy Haworth	I've captured that. So this is see this is why this is good, because now we're seeing, OK, this is what they missed, right?
03:44:52.03	Amy Haworth	Uh,
03:44:52.94	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:44:52.96	SPEAKER_24	What about trees?
03:44:55.09	SPEAKER_24	Thank you.
03:44:55.10	Kelman	Thank you.
03:44:55.86	SPEAKER_24	Thank you.
03:44:58.93	Kelman	I don't think we addressed trees as part of infrastructure.
03:45:02.68	Kelman	Thank you.
03:45:02.75	Amy Haworth	Is there?
03:45:02.78	Kelman	Is there
03:45:03.96	Amy Haworth	talked about sidewalks and perhaps some program to help those repair you did not address trees.
03:45:13.80	Kelman	Councilmember Hoffman again.
03:45:15.37	Kelman	Oh, yeah.
03:45:15.42	Councilmember Hoffman	I'm not sure.
03:45:15.81	Councilmember Hoffman	No, sorry.
03:45:16.57	Kelman	Oh, anybody have a comment about trees or how or whether to include that?
03:45:16.58	Councilmember Hoffman	I don't know.
03:45:21.82	Kelman	as a priority as we consider infrastructure.
03:45:26.36	Kathy Nikitas	Thank you.
03:45:26.37	Sobieski	Go ahead.
03:45:27.13	Kathy Nikitas	Thank you.
03:45:27.27	Sobieski	Director McGowan is pretty explicitly mentioned it twice. I'm a little deferential to his expertise that this is an issue that needs to be addressed. It's of a theme.
03:45:35.74	Sobieski	which might be a way of broadening it, which is the entire lifecycle cost of a thing ought to be standard policy. We've talked about.
03:45:42.79	Sobieski	a road diet where we consider greenscapes on the few streets in town that are
03:45:48.33	Sobieski	wider than need be and ways of treating stormwater. We've talked about the vice mayor said about thinking ahead about underground work that needs to be done before we repave a street. So it'd be a prioritization of a comprehensive look of total life cycle ownership cost for infrastructure projects that are coming up.
03:46:09.86	Sobieski	Including trees.
03:46:11.26	Councilmember Hoffman	Council member Hoffman same I guess we need to do it street I guess we need to do a tree index and maintenance.
03:46:18.08	Kelman	Well, this talks about shifting responsibility to the fronting property owner. That's actually a legal process.
03:46:24.71	Kelman	That's not something that's in place right now.
03:46:27.58	Kelman	I see that as a little separate from addressing deferred maintenance is
03:46:32.37	Kelman	and we're just undertaking an effort
03:46:35.12	Kelman	responsibility.
03:46:37.81	Kelman	I would say for the city, you know, tree removal and replacement with appropriate trees on city owned property.
03:46:46.17	Amy Haworth	which is a treat under a treat index.
03:46:47.05	Unknown	Thank you.
03:46:49.92	Amy Haworth	I mean, there's two separate things and you could add
03:46:52.92	Amy Haworth	And then when you...
03:46:54.14	Amy Haworth	You do your CIP meeting, then you can really get into the nitty gritty and then you're going to decide.
03:46:58.48	Amy Haworth	what you do and don't do.
03:47:00.33	Unknown	Yep.
03:47:02.38	Amy Haworth	Okay, can we move on?
03:47:04.38	Unknown	Yep.
03:47:04.64	Kelman	Thank you.
03:47:05.26	Amy Haworth	All right.
03:47:07.69	Amy Haworth	So let me get to my list.
03:47:10.05	Kelman	These things are, so the top
03:47:13.09	Kelman	the
03:47:14.12	Kelman	The top three are already in process and will happen in the first quarter.
03:47:19.54	Kelman	The number four was addressed by the city attorney as well.
03:47:26.42	Amy Haworth	And the other things are sort of their internal operations, which
03:47:32.51	Amy Haworth	don't have to be part of your priority. It could be part of customer
03:47:35.96	Kelman	But,
03:47:36.80	Kelman	I would like to enunciate customer service.
03:47:40.14	Kelman	and transparency.
03:47:42.40	Kelman	by our
03:47:45.25	Kelman	resident serving departments as a priority? What would people think about that?
03:47:51.30	Kelman	customer service and transparency.
03:47:54.81	Kelman	by our resident servicing departments. Resident serving departments. Okay, I see a thumbs up from Jill.
03:48:01.84	Woodside	Uh,
03:48:02.74	Amy Haworth	Sorry, vice mayor and then council members.
03:48:05.39	Woodside	I like that language because it's not unique to this one department. Yep.
03:48:09.86	Amy Haworth	Yep.
03:48:10.70	Woodside	goes beyond. And I just say that as I read the number five,
03:48:15.41	Woodside	I'd say that
03:48:17.17	Woodside	When you talk about improvements in the internal process, I think the goal that most council members would share and members of the public would be things that will streamline the process and make it more easy for homeowners to modify their properties, etc.
03:48:37.87	Kelman	Yeah, I agree with Council Member Sobieski that we should not be taking 30 days just to acknowledge receipt of an application.
03:48:45.97	Kelman	for a permit. So we really need to
03:48:51.34	Kelman	And so I'm happy, so happy to see this on the community and economic development directors list of priorities.
03:48:59.83	Kelman	All right, so is there any disagreement with
03:49:01.95	Kelman	um,
03:49:03.37	Kelman	We have...
03:49:03.49	Amy Haworth	Bye.
03:49:04.30	Amy Haworth	Sorry, Mayor. And again, it's because.
03:49:06.22	Kelman	Again, I'm sorry, I cannot see the diet.
03:49:08.30	Amy Haworth	I know. And I'm sorry. So,
03:49:08.31	Kelman	I know.
03:49:10.64	Amy Haworth	for those, we're not just interrupting each other, we just can't see the same thing. So Councilmember Sobieski has something to say.
03:49:16.13	Sobieski	violent agreement i was just uh taking a page from our former colleague janelle kelman you can't manage what you don't measure
03:49:23.92	Sobieski	this particular item is amenable to being measured, we could set a goal of decreasing response time to between
03:49:33.68	Sobieski	and actually report on it. So right now, 30 days is the measure. I'm sure Brandon could report on what the average is, and we could measure the improvement of response time
03:49:44.09	Sobieski	Over time, you know, my...
03:49:46.77	Sobieski	Who knows how fast it could become. It would be great if it was...
03:49:48.02	Kelman	Yeah.
03:49:48.95	Kelman	Yes, so that's an implementation measure. Council member, what I'd like to suggest, because I hear so many of us with lots of ideas for implementation of these goals. So I think we should have another
03:50:01.32	Kelman	workshop to identify implementation measures for the priorities that we've established.
03:50:07.17	Amy Haworth	Yeah, I think that's wise. What I hear, and just give me a nod of the head,
03:50:12.05	Amy Haworth	that we're going to put this customer service, the language that you used, on your priorities. It does reach across, I think it's,
03:50:21.64	Amy Haworth	Okay, great. So moving on to the next department.
03:50:28.23	Amy Haworth	Okay, we're in resiliency and sustainability.
03:50:33.33	Amy Haworth	Let's see, I've lost it on my list.
03:50:36.40	Amy Haworth	So
03:50:36.69	Kelman	So she has shoreline adaptation plan
03:50:40.87	Kelman	On our infrastructure list, we included sea level rise,
03:50:45.60	Kelman	So rather than sea level rise, I would say I would replace sea level rise with shoreline adaptation plan. So is everybody amenable to that?
03:50:56.45	Amy Haworth	Do I speak? Yes?
03:50:56.70	Kelman	Thank you.
03:50:56.74	Unknown	Yes.
03:50:56.84	Kelman	Thank you.
03:50:56.89	Unknown	Thank you.
03:50:58.44	Amy Haworth	Yes, for your record, Vice Mayor has said yes, Council Member Blasdain.
03:51:06.27	Kelman	I see, and I see Councilmember Hoffman nodding.
03:51:06.91	Amy Haworth	And,
03:51:07.03	Blaustein	that I see.
03:51:07.28	Amy Haworth	Council member.
03:51:07.70	Blaustein	Thank you.
03:51:07.74	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:51:07.82	Blaustein	happening without a hearing.
03:51:09.07	Blaustein	I just I feel like it's a both and I don't want to remove the language of sea level rise specifically given the the framing and how important it is I mean I understand that the shoreline adaptation plan is addressing sea level rise but I feel like we need to include explicitly sea level. So let's.
03:51:23.60	Kelman	Right.
03:51:24.38	Kelman	So let's say sea level rise slash shoreline adaptation plan.
03:51:24.76	Amy Haworth	that you can see.
03:51:28.24	Kelman	Okay.
03:51:28.43	Amy Haworth	That's great. Easy to do.
03:51:31.61	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:51:33.12	Amy Haworth	Um.
03:51:34.26	Amy Haworth	All right.
03:51:34.58	Kelman	So Community Resilience Hub Planning
03:51:34.62	Amy Haworth	So,
03:51:39.04	Kelman	Um,
03:51:39.95	Unknown	Thank you.
03:51:45.49	Amy Haworth	I don't know what that is, so I'll let you guys open.
03:51:48.96	Blaustein	I had worked for a while on a micro grid working group with the county and we had some conversations and applied for some grants to build a community resilience hub at city hall. It's so that if there is an emergency, there's a place where there's access to chargers, there's a cooling center, there's an immediate emergency response. So I think that that was part of the plan and I know there were some grants applications already in process around developing a community resilience hub at city hall or at a different location if that wasn't appropriate.
03:52:13.82	Jeff Chase	HOME.
03:52:18.80	Amy Haworth	question, Madam Mayor? Could you add that to your emergency preparedness goals?
03:52:25.48	Unknown	Sure.
03:52:26.85	Amy Haworth	One thing, if I just may comment on something that's happening in Manhattan Beach, we got requests to open up our community center to the seniors who are having a problem with the air quality. We could not do it.
03:52:38.37	Amy Haworth	because there's a lot of requirements, at least from our county, maybe it's different here.
03:52:44.23	Amy Haworth	but we didn't have the right air filtration we didn't have the right yada yada yada so we've now added that to our immediate goals to kind of make that happen so that we can be that but so that that's a great goal to incorporate
03:52:58.30	Amy Haworth	Thanks. OK, so I'll add that in the language. OK.
03:52:58.47	Unknown	Yeah.
03:52:58.54	Jeff Chase	Thank you.
03:52:58.57	Unknown	Thanks.
03:52:58.71	Unknown	Thanks.
03:53:01.69	Unknown	Okay.
03:53:06.13	Amy Haworth	Human Resources.
03:53:10.05	Amy Haworth	Um,
03:53:13.14	Amy Haworth	So it feels like there's like the retaining your excellent staff and employees. There's some of that with, you know, training, um, um,
03:53:22.67	Amy Haworth	Some of it's a budget item, some of it's a to-do, so I think you can just move on from this one because you're not discussing those items today.
03:53:30.99	Amy Haworth	Great.
03:53:32.52	Amy Haworth	See?
03:53:33.18	Amy Haworth	All right, next slide.
03:53:37.52	Amy Haworth	Library, I think once again,
03:53:44.56	Kelman	up.
03:53:45.60	Amy Haworth	Same thing.
03:53:46.51	Kelman	customer service.
03:53:46.53	Amy Haworth	I'm sorry.
03:53:48.03	Kelman	covers some of this.
03:53:51.39	Amy Haworth	I would agree.
03:53:53.72	Kelman	And staff retention covers some of this.
03:53:57.11	Kelman	And
03:53:58.12	Kelman	facilities improvement covers some of this. So I think we've covered
03:54:02.31	Kelman	most of these through the priorities we've already established.
03:54:05.85	Amy Haworth	Right, and I can create a document that's going to show
03:54:09.30	Amy Haworth	like the different goals and how it all fits together.
03:54:13.24	Amy Haworth	Okay, next slide city attorney.
03:54:16.62	Amy Haworth	Um,
03:54:18.39	Amy Haworth	I mean,
03:54:19.93	Amy Haworth	These are things he's doing all
03:54:21.97	Kelman	the time.
03:54:22.41	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:54:22.61	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:54:22.66	Kelman	all the time in an excellent job. So I just say,
03:54:27.25	Kelman	Thank you.
03:54:27.98	Kelman	you
03:54:28.03	Amy Haworth	you know,
03:54:28.09	Kelman	you know, forge ahead.
03:54:30.78	Amy Haworth	Yep.
03:54:31.03	Kelman	continue. Thank you.
03:54:32.30	Amy Haworth	you.
03:54:32.51	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:54:32.53	Kelman	you
03:54:32.84	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:54:34.84	Amy Haworth	Okay, so, you know, the finance is also about customer service like number one is definitely something that relates to both human resources to planning right this is about customers.
03:54:48.60	Amy Haworth	Risk reduction.
03:54:50.56	Amy Haworth	which that was something you discussed and didn't make the priorities.
03:54:55.97	Kelman	I would say, please, let's make that a priority. So reduce cities risk, overall risk profile.
03:55:07.23	Amy Haworth	Sorry, I'm writing it down and then I want to
03:55:11.83	Amy Haworth	Is there anybody, raise your hand if you don't agree with adding that to priorities. Okay.
03:55:20.27	Amy Haworth	I mean, it's just, it does. You're right. It covers. Right.
03:55:22.67	Unknown	See you later.
03:55:24.86	Amy Haworth	Okay, I'm sorry, I lost my place. Oh, it's right on here. Okay, so, and again, some of this will also fits in with Council Member Hoffman's the enhanced budget tracking 10 year toll.
03:55:39.05	Amy Haworth	you know, tool.
03:55:41.20	Amy Haworth	uh council member sobieski cost and revenue efficiency to enhance city uh financial positions so i think this really aligns well
03:55:50.82	Amy Haworth	Okay, next slide.
03:55:54.61	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:55:56.98	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:55:57.51	Amy Haworth	Again, here you have stuff that would kind of dovetail with Councilmember Sobieski, your parking system Wi-Fi that's going to, you know, that's also infrastructure.
03:56:07.74	Amy Haworth	cybersecurity.
03:56:09.09	Kelman	I would like to include the city cybersecurity as a subset of reduce the risk management profile.
03:56:15.30	Amy Haworth	Just going to see that.
03:56:18.27	Amy Haworth	Let me add it.
03:56:21.04	Amy Haworth	Cybersecurity risk, okay?
03:56:26.56	Amy Haworth	You really don't want to have to deal with that. We have to take training all the time.
03:56:31.08	Amy Haworth	Um,
03:56:31.94	Amy Haworth	We actually get our IT department tries to send us on phishing. They actually try to catch us.
03:56:38.57	Kelman	So,
03:56:38.84	Unknown	Thank you.
03:56:39.36	Amy Haworth	Okay.
03:56:40.95	Amy Haworth	Yeah, the next one, I think, right? Take notes, Peterson.
03:56:44.88	Kelman	So we have to leave time for public comment within our...
03:56:47.40	Amy Haworth	I know. I'm getting there. I'm doing, I'm.
03:56:48.26	Kelman	Okay.
03:56:50.94	Amy Haworth	you know, stream, okay.
03:56:52.21	Amy Haworth	Facilities again, this is about risk. It's about facilities. Great. Next slide. Right.
03:57:00.16	Amy Haworth	Yep.
03:57:01.56	Amy Haworth	include diversity grants. This is grants.
03:57:06.97	Amy Haworth	And that fits in. Okay. Okay.
03:57:12.08	Amy Haworth	I mean, some of this is about other things, but that doesn't mean it's not a priority or shouldn't be done or shouldn't be done. Okay. Next slide.
03:57:19.46	Amy Haworth	you know, he mentions develop
03:57:20.98	Kelman	art in public places and that was part of what councilman
03:57:25.10	Kelman	Member Blalstein included on hers that's something we're already undertaking in terms of our stairs I don't know if that's something that Council wants to endorse as a priority.
03:57:35.32	Kelman	Um,
03:57:36.30	Kelman	you know,
03:57:37.70	Kelman	Um,
03:57:39.79	Kelman	there are
03:57:41.11	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
03:57:41.99	Kelman	Say again, Jill.
03:57:45.26	Kelman	Jill.
03:57:45.72	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, I don't think that's a priority, but I think it's a great one of those secondary things. I agree.
03:57:50.51	Kelman	Bye.
03:57:50.76	Kelman	I agree.
03:57:51.18	Kelman	Yeah, let's include that as a secondary goal with some of the others, like
03:57:55.62	Kelman	Uh,
03:57:55.93	Councilmember Hoffman	uh,
03:57:56.06	Sobieski	Yeah.
03:57:57.17	Kelman	MarinShip EIFD.
03:57:59.03	Sobieski	Amy, is that correct?
03:57:59.60	Kelman	We are.
03:57:59.98	Sobieski	Thank you.
03:58:00.53	Sobieski	Well, if I, I mean, if you want to just check with her, when I think the art in public places is a high, really high ROI, return on investment and involvement. It could be very low cost. There are a lot of partners in town. We're an art, it's kind of core to our community, identity and brand. I think it pays dividends economically. You can imagine the visitors that can be generated by interesting public art. We currently don't have a program. It could be done in partnership with the ICB and with the SCA. And so I think it's just so on brand. It's a lot like Janelle's comments around trying to harbor our brand as an outdoor hub for mountain biking and everything else.
03:58:01.53	Unknown	Yes.
03:58:41.69	Sobieski	I guess, really have a different perspective and feel like of all that's one of the most interesting to me.
03:58:44.41	Councilmember Hoffman	Oh, I think.
03:58:47.12	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, but hear me out. Just let me respond to that. Give me one minute. Go ahead. It's not really... I'm still not seeing a clock from...
03:58:50.25	Kelman	All right.
03:58:53.59	Kelman	I don't know why.
03:58:54.36	Councilmember Hoffman	Bye.
03:58:55.12	Councilmember Hoffman	Looks okay.
03:58:56.19	Councilmember Hoffman	I don't think it should be a council priority because once you get a council priority, then it slows everything down and mucks everything up. Think of the boat show.
03:59:02.45	Councilmember Hoffman	It's not a council priority. It's a
03:59:04.86	Councilmember Hoffman	Run with it.
03:59:06.33	Councilmember Hoffman	On your own.
03:59:07.41	Councilmember Hoffman	And
03:59:07.88	Councilmember Hoffman	make it happen, right? Like make it happen.
03:59:10.92	Councilmember Hoffman	And don't gum it up with a bunch of red tape.
03:59:13.26	Councilmember Hoffman	That's all I'm saying.
03:59:14.95	Kelman	I will say I met with Cass Green, and I know this is something that's already high on the Pbids radar. So I would say, you know, let's let them run with it. Let's list it as a secondary goal for this year.
03:59:27.05	Amy Haworth	I hear you. Councilmember or Vice Mayor Woodside has his hand raised. I'm sorry again. I'm
03:59:31.96	Kelman	cannot see the
03:59:32.91	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:59:32.94	Kelman	Thank you.
03:59:32.96	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
03:59:32.98	Kelman	So apologies for-
03:59:35.27	Woodside	Right.
03:59:36.20	Woodside	Don't worry, I'll speak briefly that I think some of these things that we're talking about that are secondary, we just have to say as a council, we want to be opportunistic. If during the year something comes up that meets one of these general goals or one of our priorities or is good for our community, we've got to maintain at least that flexibility to be open to it. So when we say run with it, we'll take it up later, we mean it.
03:59:38.51	Kelman	Yeah.
04:00:05.66	Woodside	Thank you.
04:00:05.76	Amy Haworth	MMM.
04:00:05.93	Woodside	We'll consider it when it comes back.
04:00:08.33	Amy Haworth	What I'm hearing, Madam Mayor, is first of all, you know, parks or recreation, they're saying this is important. I think it's really in your vision statement for your city. I think it's part of your values. And I also see all of you saying this is good for so many reasons, economic development, brand identity, reducing isolation, all of it. We can put it on other ideas.
04:00:29.07	Amy Haworth	Which is totally fine, but I think it's happening organically and I don't think any of you are gonna say we're gonna turn our back on it Because we don't like it
04:00:35.90	Amy Haworth	So.
04:00:35.97	Kelman	But if we have other ideas, it keeps us in front of it. If we don't write it down,
04:00:40.02	Kelman	It's like our six year old strategic plan. We aren't mindful of everything in that plan all the time.
04:00:47.24	Amy Haworth	I've got it. I'm going to have it written down.
04:00:49.27	Kelman	Okay.
04:00:50.13	Kelman	Thank you.
04:00:50.16	Amy Haworth	Next slide.
04:00:50.97	Kelman	Thank you.
04:00:52.76	Kelman	That's it.
04:00:53.81	Kelman	Well, the city manager did manage, it did mention something raised by the city clerk, which is the archive obtaining and archiving the records at the,
04:01:04.20	Kelman	fire departments. So, you know,
04:01:07.15	Kelman	creating access to our
04:01:10.12	Kelman	um
04:01:13.40	Kelman	records, our archives, our
04:01:16.64	Kelman	is something that's
04:01:19.37	Kelman	managing our records is something that's really important. And I don't, you know, I think Walford said we need to hire someone to help with that.
04:01:26.58	Kelman	I don't know if that's true, but
04:01:28.47	Kelman	It really is a priority to me.
04:01:31.40	Kelman	You know, we're looking at a solution on Bridgeway for our Bridgeway median.
04:01:36.62	Kelman	And our parametrics just proposed something that Jonathan Goldman proposed 10 years ago.
04:01:42.54	Kelman	But we don't.
04:01:43.81	Kelman	remember that jonathan goldman proposed it 10 years ago because we don't have ready access
04:01:48.78	Kelman	to
04:01:49.75	Kelman	our
04:01:51.49	Kelman	institutional records. So I would like to frame a priority of
04:01:58.07	Kelman	you know, identifying a way to better manage our institutional records.
04:02:04.99	Amy Haworth	And that also fits in your goal, a little bit of customer service and transparency.
04:02:10.59	Amy Haworth	a little bit. I know it's for a different purpose, but better management of your records. We could maybe put it
04:02:18.52	Amy Haworth	Well, it depends on what you all want. And kudos to everyone for staying focused and alive.
04:02:25.40	Amy Haworth	energetic, but if you want to add better management of records to other ideas or to a priority, I will put it where you want it.
04:02:36.03	Amy Haworth	Anybody? Anyone?
04:02:38.70	Amy Haworth	Bueller?
04:02:39.80	Amy Haworth	Sorry, we're talking about
04:02:39.83	Unknown	I proposed it as a
04:02:40.78	Kelman	Bye.
04:02:41.45	Kelman	it as a priority if any does anybody disagree i see people looking down
04:02:45.91	Kelman	texting,
04:02:46.89	Kelman	Does anybody disagree?
04:02:48.34	Kelman	Thank you.
04:02:48.35	Councilmember Hoffman	Are we talking about the firehouse records?
04:02:50.34	Kelman	No, we're talking about records in general.
04:02:53.30	Kelman	I, I, I,
04:02:54.99	Sobieski	I always thought that was being done. I thought CDD had digitized all the housing records. And so I thought this was an ongoing program still.
04:03:02.34	Kelman	We have archival records that are not digitized and we have no access to.
04:03:03.05	Sobieski	Yeah.
04:03:07.76	Kelman	Seems like a no-brainer.
04:03:08.94	Amy Haworth	Yeah, agreed.
04:03:09.92	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
04:03:10.00	Kelman	Thank you.
04:03:10.22	Amy Haworth	Thank you.
04:03:10.26	Kelman	Thank you.
04:03:10.43	Amy Haworth	Okay, great priority then. Council member Hoffman though, did you disagree or have another? No, I agree completely.
04:03:17.55	Amy Haworth	All right.
04:03:19.25	Amy Haworth	Um, let me
04:03:20.94	Amy Haworth	do a little bit of resetting the time.
04:03:22.96	Kelman	I'm not going to hear public comment, because I don't want to ignore it. I don't know how many people are there.
04:03:27.59	Kelman	But I promised a comment.
04:03:28.62	Amy Haworth	promised.
04:03:29.55	Amy Haworth	There's people here and I want to hear from them, of course.
04:03:31.91	Kelman	I know you
04:03:33.93	Amy Haworth	But I want to, that's what I was gonna say, we're gonna hear from public comment, we're gonna hear from council members. I'm going to follow up with a report to all of you and also next steps. I mean, I think,
04:03:48.46	Amy Haworth	You guys have made, you guys have a lot of, like you say, unity around all of these things.
04:03:55.50	Amy Haworth	And I think it's good for staff to hear all this. And once I put it all together, I think you'll be very happy with what you've done here. But let's hear from the public and then council members. And it's 145. So here we go. All right. All right. Can we have
04:04:11.50	Adrian Brin	Can we have a Carolyn Rivel piece?
04:04:18.75	Unknown	Thank you so much for this opportunity to be part of the really quite fascinating discussion. As you might imagine, I'm here to talk about trees. I certainly heard...
04:04:28.96	Unknown	A lot of emphasis on infrastructure, and I absolutely agree that's essential. But there's also green infrastructure, as Morgan mentioned at the beginning. I didn't hear the word green infrastructure mentioned by any of the council members, per se. The parks director, very interesting, but the word trees never crossed his lips, the word trees. The DPW director, of course, is rightly concerned about the danger from roots raising our sidewalks, the hazard. I don't dispute that. But as trees are removed, I do hope trees can be replaced. And as we know, there has not been arborist on the city payroll as long as I've lived here 16 years. And at least if we could have a focus within one of the city departments on trees, appreciate that. I think there's no question that trees are I'm going to go ahead and get some time. And at least if we could have a focus within one of the city's departments on trees, appreciate that. I think there's no question that trees are important. All of us would agree to mitigate climate change for air quality, for erosion control.
04:05:25.17	Unknown	wildlife and there's always beauty. So thank you very much for your work and don't forget the trees. Thank you.
04:05:31.65	Unknown	Thank you.
04:05:33.69	Unknown	Yeah.
04:05:34.08	Adrian Brin	Alice Merrill.
04:05:38.66	Adrian Brin	Yeah.
04:05:38.89	Alice Merrill	Thank you very much. This has been very interesting. I'm Alice Merrill. I live in Sausalito. Okay. My one comment. I said no.
04:05:47.08	Alice Merrill	housing in Marinship. I mean, no housing in the part of Marinship that has been designated
04:05:53.29	Alice Merrill	as industrial. There is plenty of area in the marineship that has been designated as housing in the plan.
04:06:07.04	Alice Merrill	I'm not being exclusive. Neither are they. And so please remember that those people can get started. Why aren't they getting started? Thank you.
04:06:16.39	Adrian Brin	Bonnie McGregor.
04:06:24.74	Unknown	It's good afternoon already. I'm Bonnie McGregor. I live on Princess Street. And I thought I was coming to a different meeting this morning. My fault. So you see what I'm using for my notes. It's to get up and comment. I've made a lot of notes, none of which I want to go into at this moment because we'd be here till after dinner. But I have comments which I will submit. I'll write up and submit however they can be entered into it because I've got some thoughts and ideas. I was dying to jump in during the thing. I kept my mouth shut.
04:06:57.87	Unknown	For example, an idea on the stairways. You want to talk about involving the private citizens and things.
04:07:04.52	Unknown	We've had a lot of adoptive programs around here.
04:07:07.39	Unknown	And I'm thinking about let's look into, not do it, but let's look into the possibility of a private residence adopting a stairway. And that means maintenance costs, et cetera. That would be one thought. And another one on all these houses that they want us to add. I've got a lot of comments on that area. But has thought been given into the automobiles that will be added to our crowded streets when they add 700 and some odd houses? And usually every place has got two cars.
04:07:38.49	Unknown	Think what that does to Princess Street. Anyway, I mean, Bridgeway. And a lot of other comments like that that I just want to make sure that we get our two cents in and take into consideration. Thank you for this. It's been a great, great experience this morning.
04:07:53.60	Adrian Brin	Babette McDougall.
04:08:03.24	Babette McDougall	Thank you, Mr. City Clerk by Bent McDougall, Sausalito resident.
04:08:07.34	Babette McDougall	So I'd like to comment broadly about what we've covered today, if you don't mind.
04:08:12.47	Babette McDougall	fundamentally agree with how you have outlined
04:08:15.36	Babette McDougall	the principles going forward.
04:08:17.13	Babette McDougall	I would like to really emphasize the issue of risk management. I have felt consistently disappointed by the city's performance.
04:08:25.06	Babette McDougall	this year. I mean, the last year.
04:08:27.52	Babette McDougall	because
04:08:28.54	Babette McDougall	When we talk about it, like for I'm just going to use the model of the P bid.
04:08:32.43	Babette McDougall	It's a brand new concept when you think about it, a public-private partnership.
04:08:37.26	Babette McDougall	PBIDs haven't been put together that way. We had people come all the way from San Francisco and say, yuck, government, money, no way. I mean, we heard everything. So my point is, don't just give me an opportunity cost like we might clear this if everything goes well.
04:08:51.54	Babette McDougall	I think fair risk assessment says, what happens when something doesn't go well? Like, for example, we don't appropriately plan or budget for the portfolio of the city's real estate and its ongoing maintenance and upkeep.
04:09:04.90	Babette McDougall	What if suddenly something, you know, a hot water thing blows up and every customer in a restaurant is injured? I mean, you see what I mean? We have risk assessment that we don't even think about.
04:09:14.08	Babette McDougall	we should be thinking about it.
04:09:15.60	Babette McDougall	And it disappoints myself. I shall speak on my own behalf.
04:09:20.38	Babette McDougall	that we don't look at both sides of the coin.
04:09:23.65	Babette McDougall	Okay, heads I win, tails you lose. Is that the game we're playing here? Heads I win, tails you lose.
04:09:30.55	Babette McDougall	That's what it sounds like. That's how it comes across. And I'd really like to see an improvement on that.
04:09:34.96	Babette McDougall	Because, you know, we all have our big kid britches on here. That means we look at the opportunity
04:09:40.46	Babette McDougall	as it could be in its best case, but we also look at what happens if it's not the best case, and we have things that we hadn't considered. So these are the kinds of ancillary things that I really want to emphasize going forward. They've been given short shrift these last two years that I've been paying attention.
04:09:56.57	Babette McDougall	of putting money forward for surprises that have nothing to do with fixing our infrastructure being dropped from the very insurance pool that we helped establish.
04:10:05.06	Babette McDougall	because we now have more than $10 million in lawsuit payouts.
04:10:09.64	Babette McDougall	And we were dropped.
04:10:10.82	Babette McDougall	as a high risk. Now these things should not have been unnoticed by this council that's been in operation since 2020 for all intents and purposes.
04:10:20.42	Babette McDougall	So I look forward to the new blood. Hopefully that'll keep us more focused on plan.
04:10:24.79	Babette McDougall	And I just want to say thanks for all your hard work. I know I'm always telling you, but we can do better.
04:10:30.85	Babette McDougall	And I believe that we can do better, but I have a lot of faith in your ability to step up to that opportunity. Otherwise, I wouldn't be wasting my time here.
04:10:37.97	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
04:10:38.44	Babette McDougall	So thank you for all you do for our town.
04:10:43.00	Adrian Brin	Online, we have Sandra Bushmaker.
04:10:49.54	SPEAKER_24	Good afternoon, Council. Thank you for holding this workshop, and it's been very interesting. I appreciate all your input. I have three points that I'd like to make.
04:10:58.86	SPEAKER_24	Number one is to improve the, that we discussed privacy, I believe we discussed this Tuesday night, to improve the public's access to the budget.
04:11:09.17	SPEAKER_24	on the website.
04:11:11.18	SPEAKER_24	In other words, to create a better plan for the public and make it easier for the public to see the budgetary process.
04:11:18.00	SPEAKER_24	Number two, this is a good time for the city to work with Southern Marin Fire District to send out a flyer while everybody's consciousness is raised.
04:11:27.68	SPEAKER_24	for how individual residents can prepare themselves
04:11:32.58	SPEAKER_24	for evacuation. For example, a go bag,
04:11:36.05	SPEAKER_24	and knowing their evacuation routes, et cetera.
04:11:38.74	SPEAKER_24	This is a simple reminder that can go on one postcard
04:11:42.08	SPEAKER_24	per resident here in Sausalito, that makes a lot of sense to me.
04:11:47.07	SPEAKER_24	And third, I would like to see a program to repair the stairways for emergency egress. Many of the stairways, while I know that Sausalito Beautiful has been, and the stair group has been working on,
04:12:01.28	SPEAKER_24	keeping the foliage out of it, the stairs themselves
04:12:04.49	SPEAKER_24	don't have proper railings, don't have proper risers and treads to make evacuation
04:12:10.66	SPEAKER_24	begress
04:12:12.69	SPEAKER_24	easy, easier, shall we say.
04:12:15.49	SPEAKER_24	But those are the three things that occurred to me that I'd like to see made priorities for 2025. Thank you.
04:12:24.89	Adrian Brin	Morgan Pierce.
04:12:30.02	Morgan Pierce	Hello again, a huge thank you to city council, city staff, and members of our community for sharing your time and insights into this important effort.
04:12:37.56	Morgan Pierce	As it pertains to trees, I would like to echo the sentiments of Carolyn Revell, who spoke a moment ago, and reiterate on behalf of Saucy-de-Beautiful our interest in working with Director McGowan and the Department of Public Works in their efforts to not just remove our city trees, but replace them, utilizing species and practices that will preserve our urban tree canopy while mitigating the risks associated with improper planting and planting.
04:12:59.72	Morgan Pierce	Together we can achieve a both and solution
04:13:02.67	Morgan Pierce	And South Dakota is eager to continue our partnership with the city, which has been successful for so long.
04:13:07.06	Morgan Pierce	Thank you.
04:13:10.65	Adrian Brin	No further public speakers.
04:13:13.72	Amy Haworth	So, Madam Mayor, I know you'd like if council members, oh, sorry, if council members would like to make a statement or a comment.
04:13:24.59	Amy Haworth	Again, if I may, just very quickly.
04:13:26.50	Kelman	We have seven minutes left, so each council member can speak for one minute if they like.
04:13:31.56	Amy Haworth	Okay.
04:13:32.84	Amy Haworth	Go.
04:13:35.97	Amy Haworth	Okay.
04:13:36.20	Woodside	I'm going to start by thanking the mayor for keeping us on schedule and other things. You really helped us drill down to things that are going to be useful going forward. And a huge thank you to everyone who's stayed all morning and well into the afternoon. We talk about prioritizing things for the city. That really means hopefully helping various department heads understand what our priorities are so they can do their job better. And I hope, and I would just simply ask as a more or less rhetorical question, I hope you can get back to the city manager as to whether you think this was productive from your point of view. I'd like to hear the answer to that, but not right now.
04:14:19.11	Amy Haworth	19 seconds left. Okay.
04:14:21.31	Woodside	Yeah.
04:14:24.23	Blaustein	Okay.
04:14:24.30	Amy Haworth	Who's next?
04:14:24.97	Blaustein	Thank you.
04:14:25.06	Blaustein	I just want to say thank you very much to the mayor for convening this strategic planning session and thank you to Amy for coming up here and to all of the department heads, including our city manager for putting together their strategic goals and also my fellow members of the council who I believe were very collaborative today and we had a
04:14:42.32	Blaustein	really positive discussion about what we want to take on. And I really appreciated that. And I look forward to us delivering on these goals and perhaps being even more ambitious and delivering on our secondary goals as well.
04:14:55.58	Amy Haworth	Council member so yes, you before you turn it over to zoom.
04:14:59.85	Sobieski	Thank you, Mayor, for organizing this great session here today.
04:15:05.57	Sobieski	we are focused on government here. We're on the city council and that's our responsibility. I, uh,
04:15:11.88	Sobieski	want to just put a pin in the thought that Soselito is made up of obviously all us residents and business owners and stakeholders who are building the community, whether it's Soselito beautiful or the women's club or just people living quietly in their own comfort in their homes, living their lives. That's the heart and soul of the community. And I mentioned that only because I think a path toward solving a lot of our fiscal problems or whatnot is
04:15:36.88	Sobieski	public private partnerships and that really means trying to let 1000 flowers bloom and the whole idea of taxes is that we raise a small percentage of tax on economic activity to fund community goals so growing our economy is the way of solving most of our problems. And we do that in partnership with our community so let's keep going and congratulations.
04:15:58.56	Amy Haworth	Tukins left Councilmember Hoffman.
04:16:03.69	Councilmember Hoffman	COB, Jean Gatza, Sorry, my voice is almost gone so just thanks to the socio team for showing up today and everybody, the staff who came in and gave us their thoughtful presentations and the Council.
04:16:14.81	Councilmember Hoffman	as well, and all of us today who showed up, so thank you.
04:16:18.76	Councilmember Hoffman	it.
04:16:19.94	Councilmember Hoffman	Hope everybody stays healthy.
04:16:26.59	Kelman	All right, I'll just close out by, again, I wanna pretty much echo everything
04:16:31.53	Kelman	Council member Blaustein said,
04:16:33.47	Kelman	Thank you to Amy for flying up here to facilitate a second year in a row. We're a challenging group, so thank you for
04:16:40.75	Kelman	being up to the challenge. Thank you to staff, department heads,
04:16:47.68	Kelman	for investing the effort. You know, today's session was so much more meaningful because council members and department heads
04:16:55.19	Kelman	really put invested the effort ahead of time.
04:16:58.52	Kelman	to cue us up,
04:16:59.75	Kelman	One of the most gratifying things coming in
04:17:02.65	Kelman	was how aligned we were on many of our priorities.
04:17:06.75	Kelman	One of the most gratifying things going out is how collaborative we were in identifying our priorities for this coming year. So thank you to all. Very much appreciated. And I'm really excited to move forward to the next step of implementation.
04:17:24.07	Amy Haworth	Great. And if I could just say a final word and I can do it in a minute too. I want to thank you all for the opportunity. You have a very amazing engaged community. You're right. Madam Mayor, all of the council members put in a lot of pre-work as of course staff did. And also people should know, Madam Mayor, how much you worked to prepare to help frame this and to help drive a lot of this and, um,
04:17:48.74	Amy Haworth	So I really appreciate that. So it's been a real privilege. It's, you know, you're not that challenging. I know you're really not.
04:17:58.32	Amy Haworth	I promise you, but I will really follow up with you and suggest next steps. So this isn't just, this is the beginning and then you get to focus on how
04:18:08.24	Amy Haworth	you make and you help, not you make, but you direct and help all of this get done
04:18:13.25	Amy Haworth	So it's been my pleasure. Thank you.
04:18:18.64	Amy Haworth	Yes. The report will be within a few days. A draft report I'll send to the city manager and.
04:18:18.67	Unknown	Yes.
04:18:24.92	Kelman	here.
04:18:25.10	Kelman	Let's just say within a week, if that's all right with you.
04:18:27.40	Amy Haworth	Yeah, it's fine, but I definitely want your input. Like I want to send it to you.
04:18:31.58	Amy Haworth	First, so that you make sure that I get it down correctly. I think I will.
04:18:36.39	Kelman	I saw Councilmember Hoffman raise her hand.
04:18:39.63	Kelman	Oh, bye. Oh, okay.
04:18:41.76	Amy Haworth	Bye.
04:18:41.77	Kelman	I'm sorry.
04:18:41.83	Amy Haworth	Oh, my God.
04:18:41.98	Kelman	Thank you.
04:18:41.99	Amy Haworth	Yep.
04:18:42.33	Kelman	better.
04:18:43.53	Kelman	OK.
04:18:44.22	Kelman	Thank you, everybody. Great meeting. Take care.
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