City Council June 17, 2025

Jun 17

City Council Meeting Summary

Time	Item	Item Summary	Motion Summary	Comment Summary
00:00:56	II: CLOSED SESSION - 5:30 PM	Mayor Cox announced the items to be discussed in the closed session: C1 concerned real property negotiations regarding the attorney street dock, C2 was a public employee performance evaluation for the city manager, C3 involved labor negotiations with the Sausalito Police Association, and C4 was a consultation with legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation, specifically one case with significant exposure to litigation. (00:00:56) Council member Sobieski recused himself from item C1 due to the property's location and potential financial impact on his property. (00:01:22) The council then adjourned to closed session and planned to reconvene at 7 p.m.	No Motion	1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
00:01:40 Walford was Neutral: There were no members of the public present in the audience or on Zoom.
00:01:52	III: RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION - 7:00 PM	The meeting reconvened at 7:00 PM. The city clerk called the roll, confirming the presence of Councilmember Blaustein, Councilmember Hoffman, Councilmember Sobieski, Vice Mayor Woodside, and Mayor Cox. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Mayor Cox announced that a closed session was held with no announcements to make. Then Mayor Cox requested a motion to approve the agenda.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:02:57	1: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS/MAYOR'S ANNOUNCEMENTS - 7:02 PM	This agenda item included two special presentations. First, the Police Department Oath of Office Ceremony was held for four new members: Pete Flores (Parking Enforcement Officer), James Angelopoulos (Police Officer), Michael Brand (Property and Evidence Technician & Parking Enforcement Officer), and Cynthia Morgan (Administrative Aide). The Police Chief introduced each member, sharing their backgrounds, experiences, and fun facts. The City Clerk then led the new members in taking their oath of office. Family members were invited to pin badges on the new members, followed by a photo session. (00:15:52) Councilmember Blaustein suggested a screening of the SFPD animal dog show that Pete Flores was on at some point at the library as a future agenda item. Second, Mayor Cox issued a proclamation recognizing and thanking Yoshi and Susie Tomei for their many hours of community involvement. Yoshi Tomei accepted the invitation to serve as the Grand Marshal for the 2025 4th of July parade.	No Motion	1 Total: 1 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral
00:21:29 Yoshi Tomei was In Favor: Yoshi Tomei expressed his gratitude and honor for being recognized by the community and accepting the role of Grand Marshal for the 2025 4th of July parade. He mentioned his 42 years in Sausalito and his commitment to continuing to be part of the community.
00:22:54	2: COMMUNICATIONS - 7:45 PM	This agenda item consists of public communications to the City Council. One speaker, who identified herself as speaking on behalf of seniors, shared her difficulties in finding housing after being evicted. She felt disrespected as a senior and described issues with her eviction case, including alleged misinformation about being served papers and her lawyer's handling of her case. She is seeking housing in the community. (00:24:44) Another speaker thanked the councilmembers for their deliberate decision-making and suggested a future agenda item to consider power washing the sidewalks downtown, offering to volunteer for the work. (00:25:12)	No Motion	2 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 2 Neutral
00:22:54 Unknown was Neutral: A senior resident spoke about her eviction experience, feeling disrespected, and her difficulty in finding new housing. She mentioned issues with legal representation and the lack of available Section 8 vouchers, and she is seeking housing assistance in the community. 00:25:12 Fred was Neutral: Fred thanked the council for their thoughtful decision-making. He suggested considering power washing the sidewalks downtown as a future agenda item, referencing the cleanliness of Sausalito's sister city in Portugal and offered to volunteer to do the work.
00:26:18	3: CONSENT CALENDAR - 8:00 PM	Mayor Cox introduces the consent calendar, noting that items listed are considered routine, non-controversial, and expected to have unanimous council support (00:26:27). The consent calendar includes items 3A through 3I, including the adoption of draft minutes, Juneteenth and National Gun Violence Awareness Day Proclamations, authorization for the city manager to sign a grant agreement with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for the Turning Street Dock Improvement Project (00:26:37), adoption of a resolution adopting a list of projects for fiscal year 2025-26, funded by Senate Bill, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (00:27:11), adoption of a resolution approving updated job descriptions and approve an updated pay range for existing positions (00:27:25), adoption of a resolution approving an encroachment agreement to allow construction of relocated entry steps and wraparound landscaping planters (00:27:25), adoption of a resolution approving an encroachment agreement for a 42-inch fence in the public right-of-way at 99 Cloudview Road (00:27:48), and authorization for the city manager to waive building permit fees associated with necessary and needed replacements and ADA improvements at 5% for senior housing (00:27:48).	Mayor Cox makes a motion to approve the consent calendar (00:29:41).	1 Total: 1 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral
00:28:52 Babette McDougall was In Favor: Babette McDougall expresses support for the consent calendar, particularly highlighting the relationship with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, mentioning her experience witnessing the release of Chinook salmon under the Golden Gate Bridge and emphasizing the importance of building these relationships (00:28:52).
00:29:48	5: BUSINESS ITEMS - 8:10 PM	The council voted on a motion, which carried.	Motion carried (00:29:49)	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:29:53	5.A: Adopt a Resolution Adopting the City of Sausalito Budget for Fiscal Year 2025-26	The City Council reviewed and discussed the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2025-26. Chris Zapata, City Manager, emphasized the budget's focus on personnel, finances, and infrastructure (00:30:16). Jesus Nava, Interim Finance Director, presented the final revenue and expenditure adjustments, highlighting that changes since June 3rd were mostly neutral (00:33:50). Councilmembers discussed various aspects of the budget, including revenue and expense totals, the capital improvement fund, Measure L funds, and rental funds (00:36:16). There was a discussion on the inclusion of deferred maintenance costs from the Veritas report in the budget, with clarifications provided by both staff and councilmembers that some repairs were included in the CIP (00:42:16). The segregation of rental funds and the need for accounting for deferred maintenance were also discussed (00:44:19). Jesus Nava said the OpenGov shows very succinctly how the revenues trend here in Sausalito (01:11:38).	Mayor Cox motioned to adopt the resolution attached to the staff report adopting the city of Sausalito budget for fiscal year 2025 to 26 (01:37:27). The motion was seconded and carried 4-1.	5 Total: 2 In Favor 1 Against 2 Neutral
01:13:49 Babette McDougall was Neutral: She questioned the disconnect with the previous finance director and suggested a forensic investigation by an impartial citizen group. She also emphasized the importance of the working waterfront alongside the visitor traffic industry. 01:16:06 Ray Withy was In Favor: Ray supported adopting the budget, highlighting its solid nature and the progress made despite the absence of a finance director. He clarified that using business enterprise funds to balance the general fund is the purpose of those funds. He suggested that future needs should be addressed in the capital improvement plan (01:17:48). 01:18:27 Liss Meryl was Neutral: She agreed with Babette's points and noted a discrepancy in the agenda regarding the time allotted for public comments. 01:19:01 Sandra Bushmaker was Against: She argued that having $36.6 million in revenue and $32.7 million in expenses does not equal $4 million of surplus income. She highlighted concerns about depleting funds for the general fund when there are significant deferred maintenance costs. She shared specific numbers from the Veritas report related to MLK, Old City Hall, and the parking fund. 01:23:01 Adrian was In Favor: He commended the City Manager for implementing his priorities of staff, finances, and infrastructure. He acknowledged the need for further work on understanding unrestricted vs. restricted funds and raising revenues for infrastructure needs. He saw a need to look at developing areas of town to support revenue increases (01:24:11).
01:39:17	5.C: Approval of Amended and Restated Franchise Agreement with Bay Cities Refuge Service Inc. for Solid Waste, Recyclables, and Organic Waste Services and Adopt a Resolution Approving the Solid Waste Collection Rates	Mayor Cox introduces the item and turns it over to the city manager.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

01:39:27	5.D: Approve and Authorize City Manager to Execute Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Sausalito and with the Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District to transfer sewer collection services and Authorize Mayor to Execute Bill of Sale for Sewer Col	The City Council is considering a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District to transfer sewer collection services from the city to the district. City Manager Chris Zapata explains that this has been a priority for the council, and the MOU includes revised financial language to facilitate the transfer. The transfer would extinguish the state revolving loan fund and the 2015 sewer bond debt (01:39:48). It also sets aside money for legacy pension costs and other post-employment benefits. Public Works Director Kevin McGowan notes the district specializes in sanitary work, making them well-suited to manage the sewer system. (01:43:55) The MOU outlines a roadmap for fiscal transfer, public outreach, personnel, and equipment transfers. The district has committed to filling the delta and writing a check of approximately $3.198764 million to the city so they can pay off the bonds and legally transfer the system to them (01:47:39). Councilmember Sobieski asks about the timeline for completion, with McGowan estimating September or October. Councilmember Blaustein clarifies that the district will assume environmental compliance risks and infrastructure liability (01:51:23). Mayor Cox thanks staff, the city attorney, and the sanitary district for their work on the transfer. Councilmember Hoffman also thanks staff and acknowledges the contributions of Dan Reiner and Jeff Kingston. Councilmember Woodside supports the transfer for increased efficiencies. Councilmember Blaustein highlights that the Sewer transfer was flagged as a big concern because of the infrastructure upkeep and that SMCSD is willing to consolidate with them and work with them on this (02:02:45).	Mayor Cox moved to approve and authorize the city manager to execute the memorandum of understanding between the City of Sausalito and the Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District to transfer sewer collection services and authorize the mayor to execute a bill of sale for the sewer collection system following completion of financial transactions for the collection system (01:57:33). Councilmember Blaustein seconded the motion (01:57:55). The motion carried unanimously (02:03:58).	3 Total: 2 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
01:52:20 Babette McDougall was In Favor: Expresses support for aligning with Marin City. Raises concerns about exiting the traditional sewer model and the implications of scaling up for future population growth due to transit worker housing. She wants to make sure that we're mindful of this as we go forward. And finally, as we exit the old, do we know that the people that may or may not have relied upon us in past, do we know the status of how they're going to get on as our neighbors? 01:54:00 Sunshine was Neutral: Claims she was allotted only two minutes for public comment instead of the advertised three. She was asked to please let the city council and the city manager know about Rooted in Marin. 01:55:55 Ray Withy was In Favor: Former mayor, congratulates the council and staff for their work on the transfer. He said in 2014 the city manager, Adam Pulitzer, said we have got to develop a plan to get the hell out of the sewer collection business. He emphasizes the importance of building scale and efficiency, ensuring residents' property tax dollars are efficiently spent.
02:04:15	5.B: Adopt a Resolution Establishing the GANN Appropriation Limit for Fiscal Year 2025-2026	Interim Finance Director Jesus Nava presented the item, explaining that establishing the Gann appropriation limit is a standard budgetary procedure. The limit is based on tax revenues and adjusted using data from the Department of Finance, including population figures (using Marin County data showing slight growth) and per capita income information from the Department of State. The current projections indicate the city is well under the Gann limit, with approximately $2 million to spare, ensuring compliance. (02:04:36) There were no questions from the council. (02:05:11)	Motion to adopt a resolution establishing the GAN appropriation limit for fiscal year 2025 to 2026. (02:05:43)	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

02:05:56	5.C: Approval of Amended and Restated Franchise Agreement with Bay Cities Refuge Service Inc. for Solid Waste, Recyclables, and Organic Waste Services and Adopt a Resolution Approving the Solid Waste Collection Rates	The council is considering the approval of an amended and restated franchise agreement with Bay Cities Refuse Service Inc. for solid waste, recyclables, and organic waste services, as well as adopting a resolution approving the solid waste collection rates. Catie Thow Garcia, the city's Resiliency and Sustainability Manager, presented the item, noting Bay Cities Refuse has been Sausalito's waste hauler for a long time, with the most recent agreement approved in 2004 and extended through 2027. The new agreement includes SB 1383 compliance, a shift to a fixed escalated franchise fee, modernized service and billing, improved community outreach, and an extended term through 2037 with a five-year option. Proposed rate increases include residential rates up 3.2% (CPI), multifamily up 4.1% (CPI plus SB 1383), and commercial rates up 5.0% (CPI plus COVID recovery, CARB regulations, and SB 1383). Sausalito will still have the lowest waste hauling fees in Marin County. Councilmember Blaustein noted that Greg feels like a refuge when they call with a problem. (02:06:29)	Motion to approve the amended and restated franchise agreement with Bay City's Refuse Service, Inc. for solid waste, recyclables, and organic waste services, authorize execution by the mayor, and adopt a resolution approving solid waste collection rates in accordance with amended and restated franchise agreement. (02:17:06)	4 Total: 4 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral
02:11:39 Mark Palmer was In Favor: Mark Palmer, representing the Sustainability Commission, spoke in favor of the agreement, highlighting Bay Cities' 36-year history, active participation in sustainability initiatives, and their role in implementing SB 1383. He urged approval of the amended agreement and proposed rates. 02:13:12 Babette McDougall was In Favor: Babette McDougall, a Sausalito resident and business person, expressed gratitude for the attentive service provided by Bay Cities, especially for hillside residents. She acknowledged potential price increases but emphasized the value of their reliable service. 02:14:32 Bonnie McGregor was In Favor: Bonnie McGregor, a resident for over 40 years, urged approval of the contract, emphasizing Bay Cities' excellent service and participation in city activities. She highlighted their support for events like the art festival and Shine Sausalito, praising their over-the-top service and community dedication. 02:16:20 Carolyn Revell was In Favor: Carolyn Revell echoed previous comments about Bay Cities' community service, particularly at the Sausalito Shine event. She emphasized Greg's personal involvement and the company's consistent support for community events.
02:22:13	6A: City Manager Information for Council	City Manager Chris Zapata presented the City Manager's Quarterly Report, which details the work done by all city departments to maintain city services and advance projects. (02:22:37)	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

02:22:49	6C: Councilmember Committee Reports	This agenda item covers reports from council members on their committee activities. Mayor Cox begins by noting a request from Nancy Hall Bennett to transmit a letter of support for AB 996, which receives no objections. Councilmember Blaustein reports on the Disaster Preparedness Committee's first meeting after reconfiguration, highlighting new enthusiastic members and the adoption of strategic goals. She also mentions the Sustainability Commission's discussion on EV chargers at Dunphy Park and a resolution regarding EV charging costs. Blaustein also shares PBID's accomplishments, including new patio furniture, lighting on Tracy way, and floral hanging baskets. Finally, she thanks the city manager and Chief Gregory for rescuing a pigeon from Driver's Market. Another councilmember reports on emergency response confusion being resolved and attending a Chamber of Commerce presentation by Cass Green about budget priorities, as well as the Marine Clean Energy meeting, which is actually scheduled for July 17th. Councilmember Hoffman then reports on the upcoming North Bay Division of Cal Cities meeting on July 2nd, focusing on the SHIPS Act, and the August 15th North Bay Division meeting in Sausalito. They also mention the Long Beach Cal Cities conference. Finally, a councilmember discusses SB 79, which Sausalito opposed, and its current status as it goes back to the Assembly.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

02:30:15	6E: Future Agenda Items	Mayor Cox opens the floor for future agenda items. Councilmember Blaustein requests a discussion regarding a resolution supporting a program for black students within TUHSD that was recently defunded and reiterates the desire to see the Marineship master plan and a general master plan agendized. Councilmember Sobieski seconds the motion to agendize the Marineship master plan and suggests bringing back the staff report from April 23, 2023, to discuss potential next steps. (02:31:04) Mayor Cox requests that minutes be attached to the agendas on a monthly basis (02:31:31), to which Walford responds that they will be posted as staff provides them (02:31:40).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

02:31:45	6F: Minutes from Boards, Commissions, and Committees	Mayor Cox inquired about ensuring the receipt of minutes from boards, commissions, and committees.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

02:31:49	6H: Public Comment on Items 6A-6C and 6E-6G: limited to 2 minutes/person	Mayor Cox opens the floor for public comment on items 6A-6C and 6E-6G (02:31:52).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

02:32:01	7: ADJOURNMENT	Mayor Cox adjourned the meeting at 9:40 p.m. (02:32:01.86)	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

City Council Meeting Transcript

Adrian Brinton

Time	Speaker	Text
00:00:56.31	Mayor Cox	In closed session, C1 is conference with real property negotiators. The property is the attorney street dock. C2 is public employee performance evaluation. The title is city manager. C3 is conference with labor negotiator. The employee organization is the Sausalito Police Association. And C4 is conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation, one case.
00:01:22.95	Council member Sobieski	And mayor, I'll be recusing myself from that case because of the location of the property and the...
00:01:30.70	Council member Sobieski	my assessment of the financial impact it will have on my property.
00:01:33.75	Council member Sobieski	Thanks.
00:01:34.09	Mayor Cox	Thank you. City Clerk, do we have any public comment?
00:01:40.44	Walford	There's nobody in the audience and seen none on Zoom.
00:01:43.19	Mayor Cox	Thank you. With that, we will adjourn to closed session and we will resume. We will reconvene at 7 p.m. Thanks.
00:01:52.60	Ray Withy	.
00:01:58.75	Mayor Cox	All right, good evening everyone and welcome back we are reconvening the Sausalito City Council meeting for Tuesday June 17 2025. I'll ask the city clerk to call roll.
00:02:15.49	Walford	Councilmember Blaustein
00:02:17.83	Mayor Cox	Yeah.
00:02:18.84	Walford	Council member Hoffman?
00:02:20.55	Mayor Cox	Here.
00:02:21.28	Walford	Councilmember Sobieski? Here. Vice Mayor Woodside? Here. Mayor Cox? Here.
00:02:25.46	Mayor Cox	Here. Next is our Pledge of Allegiance.
00:02:31.15	Unknown	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
00:02:45.37	Unknown	Thank you.
00:02:46.67	Unknown	We held
00:02:46.91	Mayor Cox	We held a closed session this evening. There are no closed sessions announcements. May I have a motion approving of the agenda? So moved.
00:02:55.18	Unknown	Thank you.
00:02:55.23	Mayor Cox	Second.
00:02:57.30	Mayor Cox	All in favor? Aye. That motion carries five zero. Next is special presentations.
00:03:11.51	Unknown	Thank you.
00:03:11.53	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:03:14.87	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:03:16.34	Unknown	Is Yoshi here in the audience anywhere? I'm not seeing him.
00:03:20.35	Unknown	So.
00:03:21.37	Unknown	Yeah.
00:03:22.13	Mayor Cox	All right, I'm going to exercise my discretion and postpone my special presentation until on my first special presentation. And we're going to move forward with our next presentation, which is the Police Department Oath of Office Ceremony. And I'll welcome our police chief to the podium.
00:03:44.38	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:03:44.40	Unknown	Well, I have to say that worked out for us. It's hot back there.
00:03:49.73	Unknown	So thank you, Yoshi.
00:03:52.31	Unknown	Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council, and the Sausalito community. I'm honored to be here tonight to introduce four of our newest members of the department and to share with you and the community
00:04:05.46	Unknown	A ceremony that holds great significance in our profession. The swearing-in ceremony is more than just a formality. It's a meaningful tradition.
00:04:17.73	Unknown	that marks the beginning of the public service servants commitment to serving the community.
00:04:25.63	Unknown	By taking the oath, which they will tonight in front of you, our employees are pledging to uphold the values of integrity, accountability, and service.
00:04:35.23	Unknown	And before we proceed with the actual swearing in,
00:04:38.00	Unknown	I'd like to take a moment to say a few words about each of them. I'm going to invite them up in just a minute.
00:04:42.79	Unknown	Um,
00:04:43.80	Unknown	This is a special occasion, not just for them, it's for their friends, their family, the photo. It's a moment that we remember in our career.
00:04:51.41	Unknown	And so after the introductions, we'll have the official swearing in.
00:04:55.82	Unknown	with a city clerk.
00:04:56.85	Unknown	And
00:04:58.23	Unknown	then following that, and we'll try to make it as quick as possible. We'll have a family member come up, pin their badge, take a photo, and then
00:05:05.13	Unknown	And then we'll be out of here.
00:05:07.07	Unknown	So with that, I'll ask all four of you to come on up.
00:05:16.76	Unknown	And while they're coming up here, if you could just line up right here in front of the board.
00:05:23.93	Unknown	So, um,
00:05:26.31	Unknown	I asked each of them to write me a bio. I edited a little bit, but
00:05:30.85	Unknown	about themselves and not just what they're doing here, but who they are as a person, where they came from and their family and hobbies and just their whole being.
00:05:40.77	Unknown	So we're going to start with Pete.
00:05:43.54	Unknown	Pete Flores, he's one of our newest parking enforcement officers.
00:05:48.33	Unknown	He was hired in August of 2024. And so I'm just going to read this. So bear with me.
00:05:53.07	Unknown	He was born and raised in San Francisco. He attended a Japanese elementary school at an early age. He later graduated from...
00:05:59.30	Unknown	Woodrow Wilson High School and continued his education
00:06:02.94	Unknown	at the City College of San Francisco.
00:06:05.11	Unknown	He began his law enforcement career in 1997 as an animal control officer for the city and county of San Francisco. A fun fact, and I will pass this around when I'm done.
00:06:14.66	Unknown	is that he was on the Animal Cops of San Francisco TV show. He shared with me proof right here on his bio.
00:06:23.26	Unknown	His proudest achievements was retiring after 23 years of dedicated service as a public officer. While he still holds a deep passion for animals, Pete chose to retire in order to pursue new challenges and focus on the next chapter of his life.
00:06:35.56	Unknown	He enjoys various hobbies, including cooking, scuba diving, motorcycle track days, traveling, spending time outdoors, and meeting new people.
00:06:44.12	Unknown	Lives on the coast in San Francisco with his beloved cat Oliver, who is also here.
00:06:50.16	Unknown	Pete's goal is to serve the city of Sausalito by delivering high quality service and continuing to grow in his professional public service career.
00:06:57.33	Unknown	With a strong foundation in law enforcement and a commitment to community, he looks forward to continuing meaningful service to the city of Sausalito. So that is Pete Flores. Next we have...
00:07:16.00	Unknown	Next, we have Officer James Angelopoulos. He's our newest police officer. He's been with us for 10 months. Actually started as a full-time police officer in August of 24. He was hired as an academy trainee and sponsored by us to go through the Santa Rosa Police Academy, where he graduated successfully. After completing his five months of internal training, he's now serving as a solo beat officer and patrolling the streets of Sausalito.
00:07:41.39	Unknown	James grew up in Novato, attended Marine Catholic High School,
00:07:44.97	Unknown	He holds a degree in marketing from the University of San Francisco.
00:07:48.73	Unknown	Before joining the force, James worked for several years as an EMS professional in both San Francisco and San Mateo counties.
00:07:56.41	Unknown	A fun fact about James is that he started as a high school basketball coach, a role that eventually led him to train NBA players in shooting and dribbling skills, including...
00:08:08.63	Unknown	Thank you.
00:08:09.31	Unknown	Help me.
00:08:10.76	Unknown	Kawhi Leonard, who played for the LA Clippers, and Richard Jefferson, who played for the New Jersey Nets. James is engaged to his fiancée, Cassidy, who you'll meet in a minute.
00:08:21.93	Unknown	In his free time, he enjoys working out and playing basketball. He's excited to continue developing as a police officer while serving the Sausalito community.
00:08:31.11	Unknown	So that's James.
00:08:39.17	Unknown	Okay, next we're going to talk about Michael Brand.
00:08:44.35	Unknown	there. Okay.
00:08:45.49	Unknown	Yeah.
00:08:46.50	Unknown	Most people, at least around the police department, we call him Mac. He's been employed as our property and evidence technician, also parking enforcement officer, although we haven't trained him yet to be out on the streets yet. He's been with us since September 24. His role is to manage, document, and safeguard all our evidence and property to make sure the chain of custody is intact for our cases and all the work that we do out on the streets. He currently lives in Pacifica with his girlfriend, Alicia, who is also here tonight.
00:09:17.78	Unknown	He moved there primarily to be closer to his family after earning his bachelor's degree in criminal justice and law enforcement administration from Colorado State University. Matt grew up in San Francisco, and his mother still lives on Mission Street. He spends many weekends helping her care for foster dogs. She currently has five dogs, and that number changes depending on the need.
00:09:37.43	Unknown	Mac and Alicia both share a love of books and movies, especially in the horror genre. And he says that she's the biggest fan.
00:09:45.97	Unknown	They spend most of their free time enjoying these hobbies together. Mac is grateful for the opportunity to serve and support the community and is committed to maintaining the integrity and professionalism of his role. So that is Mac.
00:10:05.10	Unknown	And last but not least, Cynthia Morgan. She joined us in February of 2025 as our administrative aide.
00:10:11.77	Unknown	She serves as the face of our department as visitors come to the front counter and
00:10:16.98	Unknown	taking the phone calls when people call the police department. Cynthia was born into a military family and spent her younger years moving all over the United States and living in Japan for three years after her father retired.
00:10:28.05	Unknown	They settled down in Petaluma.
00:10:30.02	Unknown	And she has been a proud resident of that community since 1988.
00:10:33.87	Unknown	Cynthia's professional career has been dedicated to retail management, loss prevention, and most
00:10:39.32	Unknown	She's been a part of the
00:10:42.75	Unknown	as a record specialist and call taker for the San Rafael Police Department.
00:10:46.70	Unknown	During her time there, she was also part of the crime scene investigation team and contributed to their recruitment team.
00:10:55.46	Unknown	She is married to her husband, John, who you'll meet tonight, and enjoys the outdoors cooking and spending time with her five dogs. She looks forward to serving the citizens and employs a Sausalito. And her fun fact is that it's her birthday.
00:11:11.47	Unknown	Okay.
00:11:11.76	Unknown	Thank you.
00:11:14.07	Unknown	So happy birthday.
00:11:18.14	Unknown	So with that, Walford, are you ready?
00:11:32.99	Walford	Okay, everybody can raise their right hand.
00:11:36.28	Walford	And please repeat after me. I state your name.
00:11:41.24	Walford	to solemnly swear.
00:11:44.24	Walford	that I will support and defend
00:11:47.68	Walford	The Constitution of the United States.
00:11:52.05	Walford	and the Constitution of the State of California.
00:11:56.97	Walford	against all enemies
00:11:59.80	Walford	Foreign and domestic.
00:12:02.38	Walford	that I will bear true faith and allegiance
00:12:07.75	Walford	to the Constitution of the United States
00:12:12.46	Walford	and the Constitution of the State of California.
00:12:17.55	Walford	that I take this obligation freely
00:12:22.31	Walford	without any mental reservation.
00:12:26.65	Walford	or purpose of evasion.
00:12:30.16	Walford	and that I will well and faithfully discharge
00:12:36.81	Walford	the duties upon which I am about to enter.
00:12:52.77	Unknown	Okay, we'll just start with James. We'll go in order and pin the badge, take a photo, and then we'll leave you to the rest of your meeting.
00:13:02.32	Unknown	Cassidy, come on up.
00:13:05.07	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:13:05.11	Unknown	Bridget.
00:13:10.29	Unknown	Go slower.
00:13:11.67	Unknown	Thank you.
00:13:14.20	Unknown	Aw.
00:13:15.74	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
00:13:17.44	Carolyn Revell	Thank you.
00:13:18.76	Councilmember Blaustein	I know. Yeah, I know.
00:13:25.73	Unknown	Thank you.
00:13:34.35	Unknown	that.
00:13:34.42	Bonnie McGregor	you
00:13:34.54	Unknown	Thank you.
00:13:34.65	Bonnie McGregor	Thank you.
00:13:34.91	Unknown	you
00:13:34.98	Bonnie McGregor	Thank you.
00:13:37.12	Bonnie McGregor	I'll go over them again, I'll go.
00:13:38.03	Unknown	Thank you.
00:13:39.09	Bonnie McGregor	We'll do it after.
00:13:39.80	Unknown	Thank you.
00:13:42.30	Unknown	Okay.
00:13:42.97	Unknown	Pete, you want to call up whoever's going to pin your badge?
00:13:43.24	Catie Thow Garcia	Pete, you want to call?
00:13:50.40	Unknown	Jared is a captain with Tiburon Police Department and a good friend of Pete's.
00:13:50.74	Adrian	as a counselor.
00:13:56.93	Adrian	I think we saw from 18 and a half years ago, even my bad.
00:14:00.15	Unknown	Aww.
00:14:01.57	Unknown	Bye.
00:14:15.61	Adrian	Yeah.
00:14:18.21	Adrian	Thank you.
00:14:25.63	Unknown	All right, Alicia, you're up.
00:14:30.00	Unknown	Thank you.
00:14:30.02	Liss Meryl	Yeah.
00:14:31.62	Liss Meryl	Oh.
00:14:32.03	Unknown	you
00:14:43.08	Unknown	Bye.
00:14:45.93	Fred	Thank you.
00:14:48.50	Fred	Thank you.
00:14:50.32	Sandra Bushmaker	Thank you.
00:15:04.06	Unknown	Okay, and last but not least, John, come on up.
00:15:31.14	Unknown	As always, thank you for allowing us to have the ceremony here. It's very important that the community sees us, you meet our new members, and that we get to share this awesome ceremony in front of you. So we're going to leave and go have cake and let you to your meeting.
00:15:45.10	Unknown	you
00:15:45.17	Mayor Cox	We'd like you to do the tradition of coming in front of the council so we can each shake the hands of them. Absolutely. All right.
00:15:50.28	Unknown	Absolutely.
00:15:52.03	Councilmember Blaustein	like to do a screening of the SFPD animal dog show that you were on at some point at our library. I'd just like to put that on as a future agenda item.
00:16:02.65	Unknown	I'll send you the picture via email.
00:16:15.52	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:21.87	Bonnie McGregor	Thank you.
00:16:21.89	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:16:22.04	Bonnie McGregor	They need to come up and take a photo.
00:16:23.98	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:16:24.13	Bonnie McGregor	you
00:16:24.53	Unknown	Oh, yeah, okay.
00:16:25.90	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:26.61	Adrian	Bridges, your news and the kids.
00:16:28.21	Adrian	Right?
00:16:29.36	Fred	Yeah.
00:16:30.07	Unknown	you
00:16:30.12	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:30.32	Fred	Thank you.
00:16:30.93	Fred	Thank you.
00:16:31.03	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:32.06	Fred	Thank you.
00:16:32.08	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:33.21	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:33.46	Adrian	you know.
00:16:33.83	Unknown	Talk soon.
00:16:36.37	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:37.21	Unknown	All right.
00:16:37.33	Liss Meryl	That's just a good idea.
00:16:39.62	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:40.47	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:44.08	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:45.73	Unknown	We'll see you.
00:16:46.76	Unknown	Thank you.
00:16:48.84	Unknown	Well,
00:16:49.26	Unknown	of the last one.
00:16:51.20	Unknown	I think so.
00:17:08.06	Unknown	God.
00:17:09.73	Unknown	Thank you.
00:17:14.70	Unknown	Thank you.
00:17:15.38	Kevin McGowan	All right.
00:17:15.97	Bonnie McGregor	Thank you.
00:17:21.34	Unknown	Thank you.
00:17:31.93	Chris Zapata	Congratulations.
00:17:33.99	Unknown	Thank you.
00:17:34.08	Chris Zapata	Thank you.
00:17:34.53	Liss Meryl	Thank you.
00:17:34.55	Unknown	Thank you.
00:17:39.29	Unknown	Thank you.
00:17:41.06	Unknown	Amen.
00:17:43.17	Unknown	now.
00:17:44.76	Unknown	Okay.
00:17:48.10	Unknown	Thank you.
00:17:48.13	Mayor Cox	It's really supposed to sign.
00:17:49.69	Unknown	Thanks.
00:17:52.44	Unknown	Bye.
00:17:58.77	Mayor Cox	All right, folks, we have one more special presentation for this evening. One of my great privileges as mayor, actually each of us enjoys as mayor, is to issue a proclamation.
00:18:10.46	Mayor Cox	I'm issuing a proclamation this
00:18:12.86	Mayor Cox	This evening to Yoshitomei.
00:18:14.83	Mayor Cox	who's here in our audience, and I'm gonna go ahead and read it.
00:18:17.51	Fred	Hmm.
00:18:19.18	Mayor Cox	Proclamation City of Sausalito recognizing the dedicated service and contributions of Yoshi and Susie Tomei to the Sausalito community.
00:18:26.80	Mayor Cox	Whereas, the City of Sausalito is pleased to have this opportunity this evening to acknowledge the many ways in which Yoshi and Susie Tomei have been involved with and participated in our community, city civic organizations, worldwide civic organizations, and special events. And?
00:18:42.98	Mayor Cox	Whereas Yoshi first came to California in 1981 for a six-month teacher exchange program, and that's when he fell in love with the United States. And whereas just five years later, and nearly 40 years ago, Yoshi opened Sushi Ron Restaurant in Sausalito in 1986. And?
00:19:02.69	Mayor Cox	Whereas since then, Yoshi and Susie built the restaurant from a small sushi bar into an industry star with international renown. And...
00:19:11.65	Mayor Cox	Whereas hundreds of Sausalito residents were fortunate to be members of Sushi Ron's Sushi Lovers Club back in those days.
00:19:19.46	Mayor Cox	And...
00:19:20.69	Mayor Cox	including me.
00:19:21.79	Mayor Cox	Whereas long committed to giving back to his community, Yoshi is a long-term member and director with the Associated Chamber of Commerce. And...
00:19:29.40	Mayor Cox	Whereas beyond his participation with the Chamber of Commerce, Yoshi is constantly engaged as a business and neighborhood leader along Caledonia Street and in all of Sausalito. And...
00:19:40.57	Mayor Cox	Whereas in addition to attracting customers from around the world, Sushi Ron is also known for entertaining and making Sausalito residents feel at home with many of their customers also turning into friends and family. And...
00:19:52.30	Mayor Cox	Whereas Yoshi has been an amazing sponsor and resource for Sausalito's Sister City program with Sakai de Japan, fostering the relationship since its inception in 1988, accompanying our student delegations and hosting theirs, hosting numerous dinners and fundraisers in support of the Sister City organization, and serving as an amazing ambassador and liaison for decades. And...
00:20:15.49	Mayor Cox	Whereas Yoshi and Susie's commitment to serving others embodies the spirit of Sausalito, and we are endlessly grateful for his friendship and humanitarian efforts. And whereas in honor of his tireless service to our town, Sausalito is honored to invite Yoshi Tomei to serve as its Grand Marshal for its 2025 4th of July parade.
00:20:40.41	Mayor Cox	Now, therefore, and in witness whereof, I, Joan Cox, mayor of the city of Sausalito, have hereunto set my hand upon this proclamation, recognizing and thanking Yoshi and Susie Tomei for their many, many hours of community involvement, and ask that the citizens of Sausalito also offer their gratitude and thanks to them when they pass them on the street. Arigato goza maisu.
00:21:08.17	Yoshi Tomei	Thank you.
00:21:09.84	Yoshi Tomei	Thank you.
00:21:11.04	Unknown	Thank you.
00:21:11.24	Unknown	Thank you.
00:21:11.92	Yoshi Tomei	Thank you.
00:21:13.18	Jesus Nava	Nobody gets off.
00:21:20.39	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:21:20.40	Yoshi Tomei	at least at the same time.
00:21:21.25	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:21:21.87	Babette McDougall	Same few words.
00:21:25.92	Mayor Cox	Yes, can you tell us if you accept to become the grand mark?
00:21:29.57	Yoshi Tomei	Yes, yes. Thank you. This is a great honor to be in this community, being here. I'm celebrating my, as an owner, 39 years. I was there before the manager, three and a half years, 42 years in Sassariro. I'm very humbled, and I greatly appreciate it, accept it, a great honor. And I continue to keep working. I tell the other guests I'm not retiring, I might take a little more time off but I just visited my first granddaughter in New York City and I came back late last night. Anyway, it's a great honor, thank you I will continue to be part of South Korea, part of the community. Do me arigato.
00:21:29.87	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:22:13.04	Unknown	Thank you.
00:22:21.64	Mayor Cox	Alright.
00:22:23.70	Mayor Cox	With that, we will move on to communications. This is the time for the city council to hear from citizens regarding matters within the jurisdiction of the city council that are not on the agenda, except in very limited situations, state law precludes the council from taking action on or engaging in discussions concerning items that are not on the agenda. And so with that, I will welcome Sunshine to the podium.
00:22:47.41	Unknown	Thank you.
00:22:54.70	Unknown	Good evening, everybody, City Council and all of you. I'm here just because I'm starting to now speak on behalf of seniors. And seniors need to be treated with much greater respect than they've been treated in the past. I've lived here across the street for 12 years. A new manager came the 8th after, in all those 12 years, and she lied. I was not served papers, although they said I was. They found out that I wasn't served papers because the Zoom camera caught me here when he was supposedly serving me papers. It was January 15th that I moved out, and I still have not found a place to live. I went to legal aid.
00:23:42.14	Unknown	My lawyer took his vacation during my case and didn't inform me that I was in a federally subsidized apartment and it was not a Section 8 and everyone else seems to want Section 8 vouchers. I was told California has not, or Marin has not offered any for two years and no one is offering me one now, although I thought someone's got the power to be able to do that. But I'm looking for the yes in this situation. You know, I've.
00:24:12.31	Unknown	And.
00:24:13.09	Unknown	Healing, I have a handicap placard because I'm handicapped.
00:24:17.88	Unknown	That didn't matter. All the other tenants spoke on my behalf.
00:24:21.73	Unknown	they wanted me to stay. I don't know if the court, that was ever presented to the court. But in any case, it was a perfect storm of being evicted. And the council helped on some, they helped house my storage, my storage.
00:24:40.61	Unknown	possessions, but not me.
00:24:44.02	Unknown	And I'd like to get housing. And I'm asking for help throughout the community of San Francisco. I can live in and help someone. I just need a place to live. And
00:24:56.71	Unknown	That's it. Thank you.
00:24:58.53	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:24:58.63	Unknown	.
00:24:58.65	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:24:58.70	Unknown	Thank you.
00:24:58.77	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:24:58.90	Unknown	Thank you.
00:24:58.94	Unknown	Thank you.
00:24:58.95	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:24:59.02	Unknown	Thank you.
00:24:59.71	Mayor Cox	City Clerk.
00:25:01.35	Walford	no further public on
00:25:02.73	Mayor Cox	Okay, with that, we will move on to the...
00:25:06.46	Mayor Cox	Oh, Fred, did you have something?
00:25:11.59	Mayor Cox	Welcome.
00:25:12.64	Fred	Welcome. Just real quick, Mayor and Councilmembers, I just want to thank you again on behalf of the citizens. I know you guys have a lot of things on your plate, a lot of things to consider. And I know you guys always give very strong, deliberate decision-making in your comments as well as your decisions. I know you don't always agree, but I really appreciate the fact that I know that you've given it thought and you haven't just brushed it aside. And also, as a member of EBIT, I was wondering if you could consider a potential future item of putting back on their thought process of power washing the sidewalks downtown. We just got back from Portugal in our sister city and it's about four times the size of Sausalito, but we were remarked on how clean the sidewalks and the surfaces were, and how uncluttered the city was. And I think that might be something to consider going forward to help clean up the downtown with power washing. I'll volunteer to do the work, just need a power washer and coordination with the downtown people as far as electrical outlet, and I'll get it done early in the morning. So just bring it up with PBIT if you wouldn't mind. Thank you very much.
00:26:18.10	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much.
00:26:18.67	Fred	Bye.
00:26:18.72	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much.
00:26:20.19	Walford	No further public comment?
00:26:21.47	Mayor Cox	All right, seeing none.
00:26:24.39	Mayor Cox	I'll move on to the consent calendar.
00:26:27.55	Mayor Cox	Matters listed under the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial, require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous council support, and may be enacted by the council in one motion.
00:26:37.97	Mayor Cox	The items on our consent calendar today are items 3A through 3I. 3A, adopt the draft minutes of May 27, 2025. 3B, Juneteenth National Freedom Day Proclamation. 3C, National Gun Violence Awareness Day Proclamation. 3D, authorize the city manager to sign a grant agreement with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for Turning Street Dock Improvement Project in the amount of $170,439 dollars.
00:27:04.52	Mayor Cox	and contribute $56,813 of in-kind.
00:27:08.81	Mayor Cox	Staff time wages.
00:27:11.66	Mayor Cox	3E, adopt a resolution adopting a list of projects for fiscal year 2025-26, funded by Senate Bill, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, in the estimated amount of $186,780.
00:27:25.04	Mayor Cox	3F, adopt a resolution approving updated job descriptions and approve an updated pay range for existing positions. 3G, adopt a resolution approving an encroachment agreement to allow construction of relocated entry steps and wraparound landscaping planters and to permit the existing southern wall and central bay window of legal nonconforming residents to remain within the public right of way at 416 Richardson Street.
00:27:48.34	Mayor Cox	3H, adoption of a resolution approving an encroachment agreement for a 42-inch fence in the public right-of-way at 99 Cloudview Road. And 3I, authorize the city manager to waive building permit fees associated with necessary and needed replacements and ADA improvements at 5%.
00:28:07.75	Mayor Cox	401 Olima Street, Sausalito Rotary Senior Housing, to continue to support income-restricted senior multifamily housing in the city.
00:28:18.08	Mayor Cox	Uh,
00:28:19.11	Mayor Cox	Any questions about the consent calendar?
00:28:22.11	Mayor Cox	I'll open it up for public comment.
00:28:24.44	Mayor Cox	I have no speaker cards.
00:28:46.73	Mayor Cox	Go ahead, Babette, you're our only public speaker.
00:28:52.49	Babette McDougall	Thank you very much, Babette McDougall, Sausalito resident. So on the consent calendar, I thought this was a really interesting read today.
00:28:59.27	Babette McDougall	For one thing, I'd like to call out our relationship with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. I had the opportunity just recently to actually witness
00:29:10.24	Babette McDougall	the disposition of these little Chinook salmon that were created up in the McEulney River hatchery area.
00:29:16.58	Babette McDougall	and released under the North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. It turns out they say it's their most successful site, I think they said, up and down the Pacific. How exciting. So really, I think the more we do with them, the better. So I look forward.
00:29:29.80	Babette McDougall	to building these relationships. And I know that they're not going to be easy going forward, but they're never more important as they are now. Thank you for allowing me to speak.
00:29:38.03	Babette McDougall	Thank you. City Clerk.
00:29:39.50	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:29:40.22	Walford	Seeing none.
00:29:41.24	Mayor Cox	All right, I'll entertain a motion approving the consent calendar.
00:29:45.49	Mayor Cox	So moved.
00:29:48.56	Unknown	Second.
00:29:49.32	Mayor Cox	All in favor? Aye. That motion carries.
00:29:53.07	Mayor Cox	5-0 we will next move on to business items and I will turn it over to the city city manager to introduce item five a adopt a resolution adopting the city of Sausalito budget for fiscal year 2025 to 26.
00:30:11.65	Chris Zapata	Thank you, Mayor, members of the public. I wanna begin by saying,
00:30:16.44	Chris Zapata	Your work and your time on the dais as a mayor and council and the time you put in to get to this foundational document and bringing it forward tonight is much appreciated. I want to give you a little history in June of 2021. It's my first month on the job post pandemic. And that budget was a little rough in October of 2021. 2021 after the impacts of the budget, as well as some of the things that to me were pretty obvious in the community, I gave some recommendations to that city council that they could benefit by focusing on a back to the basics approach. And that approach involved personnel, finances, and infrastructure.
00:31:03.15	Chris Zapata	I'm proud to say that this budget is that. It is absolutely the best budget that I have worked on in my four years here and why. It creates an environment that continues stabilizing our workforce
00:31:17.41	Chris Zapata	It provides for continued emergency and pension strategies that are funded at $9 million and $4 million.
00:31:24.46	Chris Zapata	It invests over $17 million in our capital projects that are much needed in this city.
00:31:30.35	Chris Zapata	So that is why this is the best budget that I have been a part of in my four years in Sausalito. As you know, budgets are documents that express our values, our city values. What you fund is what you value. Budgets are documents that have many facets, and there is a process in these budgets. These budgets, like tonight, they come forward for adoption today.
00:31:53.44	Chris Zapata	At the end of this calendar year, you probably will have a completed audit.
00:31:58.28	Chris Zapata	In the beginning of January, you will be looking at a mid-year financial process. And then in January, after you have your strategic planning session, you will then start with a new budget calendar for that year. So these opportunities for these foundational types of policy decisions and the budget is that are really, really milestones for our city staff, our community, and certainly for yourselves. so as we present tonight's presentation I really like to thank the interim finance director Jesus Nava and our finance department for working with you and working with city departments to present tonight's budget and our strong recommendation is is that you adopt it Jesus please
00:32:46.61	Jesus Nava	Good evening, members of the city council. We just have a short presentation today. So on the third, we went through an extensive presentation showing you most of the budget issues and most of the budget policies that were being implemented as part of this year's financial plan. What we have for you today is just sort of a recap of some additional changes, final actions for today so review the final revenues and expenditures for the general fund review the all funds summary as organized by the city council discretion to appropriate funds so the council had asked for us to organize the all funds summary in such a manner so that the council could tell what discretion they had in the uses of those funds. Review the general fund summary since it's the major fund. Review the measure L sub fund again given the emphasis on capital improvements and then adopt the resolution approving the budget. Next slide.
00:32:48.13	Unknown	Thank you.
00:33:50.23	Jesus Nava	So the first item that you have before you are the final expenditure adjustments to the adopted budget. So since June 3rd, we've made a number of changes. Those are documented in this sheet. As you can see, they're pretty much neutral. Overall impact on the general fund is about negative $3,300 or less than two hundredth of a percent. So it's really insignificant and minuscule. But those are included in the adopted budget that's before you today.
00:34:26.19	Jesus Nava	Any questions? It pretty much just implements the city manager's recommended reorganization.
00:34:31.88	Jesus Nava	Next slide, please. Yes.
00:34:34.78	Unknown	Thank you, Jesus, for providing this to us. So what's the total...
00:34:43.39	Unknown	the total revenue and total expense in this budget.
00:34:47.33	Jesus Nava	or
00:34:49.49	Jesus Nava	You want to know...
00:34:51.79	Jesus Nava	General fun or entire?
00:34:54.05	Unknown	Just the bottom line.
00:34:54.99	Jesus Nava	The bottom line?
00:34:55.67	Unknown	Bye.
00:34:56.24	Jesus Nava	In terms of the bottom line, if you look at your report,
00:34:59.18	Jesus Nava	City Council report, we have an operating budget amount
00:35:02.79	Jesus Nava	and about the $32 million range, and then a CIP amount as well.
00:35:07.65	Jesus Nava	Okay.
00:35:07.68	Unknown	Well, I'm just talking about in just a...
00:35:11.33	Unknown	um,
00:35:14.11	Unknown	not operating, but when you look at just a balance sheet, just a regular balance sheet, bottom line revenue and bottom line expense. Or you can do it the other way, however you want to say it. Whatever you want to say, like expense.
00:35:17.93	Catie Thow Garcia	Thank you.
00:35:17.95	Unknown	MAH-HMM.
00:35:18.26	Walford	Thank you.
00:35:25.71	Jesus Nava	Okay.
00:35:27.31	Jesus Nava	Let's go to the all funds summary. Next slide, please.
00:35:32.86	Jesus Nava	So you'll see that you have in your recommended budget, a revenues column. If you go down to the bottom, you'll see revenues, 36.6 million.
00:35:42.97	Jesus Nava	And then on the expenditure column, you'll see expenditures of 32.7 million. And then transfers to the CIP of 16.6 million. For estimated ending balance, all funds of 22.7 or $22.8 million.
00:36:04.77	Jesus Nava	I do not. Sorry.
00:36:07.32	Mayor Cox	You don't have it. You're fine.
00:36:10.48	Mayor Cox	Okay.
00:36:11.96	Jesus Nava	So everybody can hold these numbers.
00:36:12.16	Mayor Cox	Everybody follows these numbers.
00:36:13.53	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:36:13.80	Jesus Nava	Okay. All right.
00:36:16.03	Council member Sobieski	I guess just to emphasize that,
00:36:19.25	Council member Sobieski	uh since it's on the top of mark the total revenue is 36.6 million for the whole enterprise the total expenses is 32.7 million so that's just shy of a four million dollar surplus so what you've done new over the whole enterprise more money we've taken in than expenses and then what you've done new in this budget is we've had a capital improvement fund for a long we've had a capital improvement like like you can't hear me, sorry about that. So the total revenue is 36.6 million. The total expenses is 32.7. So we're exceeding expenses by just shy of 4 million. And what you're doing new here is we've had a capital improvement fund for some time, but you're taking $16 million that has been sitting on a bunch of other funds, including the general fund, and you're putting it into the capital improvement fund.
00:36:32.53	Jesus Nava	surplus.
00:37:06.42	Jesus Nava	Correct. So the general fund will be contributing to the CIP fund $5.6 million.
00:37:17.89	Jesus Nava	All of Measure L will be taken in the CIP.
00:37:23.44	Jesus Nava	In terms of your rental funds, you'll be contributing 470,000 to the CIP.
00:37:23.75	Catie Thow Garcia	THEIR OWNERS.
00:37:31.91	Jesus Nava	Your capital improvements fund 1.1 million.
00:37:37.59	Jesus Nava	the CIP, and then out of your restricted 1.4 billion from the title and for that 16.6 million.
00:37:44.01	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
00:37:44.03	Council member Sobieski	Thank you.
00:37:45.38	Unknown	And to follow up on that, and you're including all of the revenues from the parking fund, the Martin Luther King fund, the old city hall fund and the Bank of America, well, such as it is the Bank of America fund.
00:37:57.50	Jesus Nava	Yes, correct. Those are described as rental funds where the city council has full discretion to use the collected revenues subject to potential lease requirements that may exist now or in the future.
00:37:58.24	Unknown	THOSE ARE DEPARTMENT.
00:38:10.14	Unknown	And you run that down straight through the revenues, and it goes all the way down. That's how you got the $36 million in revenue. Correct.
00:38:17.46	Jesus Nava	Correct.
00:38:17.85	Unknown	Okay. Thank you.
00:38:18.93	Chris Zapata	Can we clarify the comment that I heard, which is we're using all of the funds from the parking in my career. We have fund balances in those funds after this year's budget issues. What are they?
00:38:29.81	Jesus Nava	Yes, we do. So parking fund starts with a estimated fund balance of 2.5. We're bringing in revenues of 3 million. We have expenditures of 2.8. We have a transfer to the CIP of about 400,000. We're an estimated ending balance in the parking fund of 2.35 million.
00:38:51.38	Unknown	And as a as a follow up then on that, one of the things I had asked at the last city council meeting was that you include the deferred maintenance or the maintenance costs of the facilities assessment from the Veritas report and we discussed this earlier this week and in fact we discussed it last weekend earlier this week and there was a decision made not to include those deferred maintenance costs in this year's budget. Is that correct?
00:39:15.86	Unknown	Oh.
00:39:16.14	Jesus Nava	Not a decision that was made, but that we would not be including some of those repairs or rehabilitations in the budget unless they've been included in the CIP budget.
00:39:25.37	Unknown	And at this point, there's no way that any of those, none of those, the facilities assessment and those costs in the Veritas report have been tied to directly to any of the CIP or tied to any of the funds at this point.
00:39:44.37	Unknown	Not as part of the budget exercise. In this presentation, not as this budget exercise.
00:39:44.50	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
00:39:44.52	Unknown	Not as part of the budget exercise.
00:39:48.16	Unknown	Correct.
00:39:48.64	Unknown	There might be some somewhere in the budget in the CIP, but it's not booked and it's not booked against specifically any of the funds at this point.
00:39:57.92	Jesus Nava	We haven't specifically identified any of the items in the varieties report to be addressed as part of the revenues that you have before you.
00:40:08.18	Unknown	Thank you.
00:40:08.20	Mayor Cox	Okay, thank you.
00:40:08.94	Unknown	you
00:40:09.36	Unknown	Yeah.
00:40:10.22	Mayor Cox	Can I ask a follow-up? So when we discussed the capital improvement plan twice, we specifically allocated various of the recommended Bureau Veritas repairs into our capital improvement program for this year, including
00:40:28.53	Mayor Cox	a an amalgamation of small repairs that traversed many of our facilities. Is that not true?
00:40:36.63	Jesus Nava	Yes, there were included in there a variety of repairs and replacement
00:40:43.07	Mayor Cox	Right, and we ascertained those by looking at the Bureau Veritas report and seeing what they...
00:40:49.88	Mayor Cox	communicated were our most urgent repairs to be undertaken. And then our public works director,
00:40:58.57	Mayor Cox	We have compiled those, and we have included a number of those in our current upcoming year capital improvement program. Is that not right?
00:40:59.56	Bonnie McGregor	Thank you.
00:40:59.60	Liss Meryl	Yeah.
00:41:00.22	Catie Thow Garcia	So,
00:41:08.79	Jesus Nava	Is that not right? That is correct. Okay. I think the reference was that there isn't a complete match up between what we've got in the budget and the needs as identified in the report.
00:41:18.46	Mayor Cox	For each of our various facilities, like the Gene Hiller old
00:41:19.68	Jesus Nava	like the GMO.
00:41:22.68	Mayor Cox	City Hall like.
00:41:24.61	Mayor Cox	the MLK, et cetera.
00:41:26.93	Jesus Nava	Yeah.
00:41:27.37	Jesus Nava	Correct.
00:41:27.59	Mayor Cox	understood.
00:41:28.77	Mayor Cox	Okay.
00:41:29.58	Mayor Cox	For instance,
00:41:29.94	Unknown	Yeah.
00:41:30.97	Mayor Cox	If I could follow up on that. Okay, the vice mayor had his hand first, then Melissa, then you.
00:41:35.64	Unknown	And just quickly, my recollection is in this budget is about $600,000 plus for some of those recommended actions for long-term maintenance. Okay.
00:41:47.01	Jesus Nava	Yeah, I don't have an itemized list of any of the repairs or rehab items as identified. There is a total. But there were included, a variety of them. But I don't have the specifics. That's what I'm telling you.
00:41:52.50	Unknown	There is a total.
00:41:59.42	Unknown	Okay, but there is a dollar amount, a rather substantial one, to address some of those specifics this recommended budget year.
00:42:07.92	Jesus Nava	There are some needs that have been identified correct. But as to the actual dollar amount, I cannot provide it for you at this point in time because I don't have it in front of me.
00:42:07.94	Unknown	There are some needs.
00:42:11.05	Chris Zapata	But.
00:42:16.07	Chris Zapata	Mayor and council, I can give you some examples of where this has occurred. You know, you have money set aside for the Spencer Fire Station Rehabilitation in this capital improvement program. The vice mayor mentioned the facilities maintenance. There's $630,000 or so attached there. We have $1.3 million set aside for lot one. There are different aspects of the capital improvement program that address the concerns that were laid in the Veritas study that total $55 million. So $55 million is not one year fix. It's gonna take time to do that. What you're doing tonight is you're taking the first aggressive step towards starting by adopting this budget, which has a $17 million investment in facilities across the city, including the facilities mentioned in the Veritas report. But we are not trying to solve that problem with this budget. That didn't happen overnight. It's not going to get fixed overnight.
00:42:16.09	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
00:43:08.25	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
00:43:08.27	Unknown	Thank you.
00:43:08.34	Jesus Nava	Mm-hmm.
00:43:09.20	Jesus Nava	And as you recall, we'll still have the discussion at some point in time as to whether the council wants to take some measure L money and actually go out and, you know, secure some debt to take care of those items up front as well. But, you know, that's at a future point in time together with our financial advisors.
00:43:29.50	Mayor Cox	Councilmember Hoffman.
00:43:35.76	Unknown	Okay, thank you. Well, no, let's, well, if we could just focus back then on the funds, right? So the enterprise funds, the segregated enterprise funds, and I believe that's the, the, um,
00:43:49.34	Unknown	the rental funds that you have up here. So the whole issue of the rental funds is
00:43:53.93	Unknown	that you segregate the rental funds so that you build up a fund inside the rental fund as an enterprise, and so that you book the needed...
00:44:02.94	Unknown	As an accounting, you book the needed repairs that you need on this rent-
00:44:11.99	Unknown	producing capital asset so that you have the ability to make the repairs so that this thing continues to
00:44:19.13	Unknown	create the bottom line that you put into your general fund so that you can continue to do that. So when I was looking at the Veritas report and the reason that I had requested that the Veritas report totals be also added as a fifth column here or sixth column, how many, one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh column over here on the right so that you can see why you need to keep money in or at least account as part of the accounting process. And you can see what the deferred maintenance is on this. So for instance, my calculation when I added up the Veritas report for the next five years, the MLK income producing enterprises at the MLK site need $3,795,000 in repairs in the next five years. So over the next five years, we're going to need $3 million in repairs to New Village School needs $500,000. Lycée Francais needs $2 million. The gymnasium needs $700,000. The bus bar needs $534,000. and the public restrooms there need $33,000. So if we keep siphoning money out of this fund to balance our general fund, as we have done in this budget, we're not going to have the money to do the needed repairs so that this continues to be a revenue-producing asset, for instance, the Lycee Francais, that pays a significant amount of money. Is that a question? It is. And so I'm wondering why we haven't done that. We paid a lot of money for the Veritas report. My understanding was that was going to be incorporated into our budget as soon as we got this report. And so I don't think that was a direction from the council not to
00:45:48.99	Catie Thow Garcia	It is.
00:46:10.32	Unknown	go through this exercise or at least account. And I think most ongoing businesses would incorporate that.
00:46:17.71	Unknown	So I'm wondering why we didn't do that this year.
00:46:20.41	Jesus Nava	Well, possibly timing. I mean, the report came out, the budget was being worked on, two different processes. You know, one could be just a timing issue. Second is that you really do have time to work on some additional financial plans as well. I mean, you've identified the needs that exist and have been identified. You do have some additional resources and you have measure money that you could consider to leverage some debt if you really wanted to use measure l money to fix more of your facilities so i mean there are options that you can work with with your financial advisor you just need to sort of think about how you're going to approach that and then take sort of the next steps
00:47:00.50	Unknown	Thank you for that. And so, but at this point, we haven't gone through that exercise and we're really sort of at risk at this point because we haven't accounted for that in this budget.
00:47:11.50	Jesus Nava	You've accounted for minimalized what I, and again, I don't want to talk for public works because I didn't do the actual work in terms of identifying the immediate needs, um,
00:47:22.07	Jesus Nava	But there are needs and there'll continue to be needs. And part of the strategy will be to figure out how to finance them. And as we go along.
00:47:29.51	Unknown	So let me go down here with this rental fund through the Bank of America Fund. So I'm interested in this fund as we go across
00:47:41.10	Unknown	And this also doesn't have the outstanding capital improvements that we're going to have to start making this year. So the losses over here.
00:47:52.53	Unknown	that we see on this fund in the estimated ending balance that represents
00:48:00.31	Unknown	Does that, that represents
00:48:02.99	Unknown	the loss to the city or the,
00:48:06.33	Unknown	that represents the number that we're taking out of the general fund to balance the debt service on this.
00:48:11.19	Jesus Nava	Yeah, pretty much the debt service is their biggest expense there. You know, you have a debt payment of about $161,000.
00:48:20.30	Unknown	And then again, going back to the Veritas report, we're going to be, it reflects that we're going to be needing to make another $600,000 in capital improvements at the SDA over the next five years.
00:48:32.40	Unknown	Thank you.
00:48:32.42	Jesus Nava	I believe they have been identified, but I also understand that the city is working on additional revenue sources for that particular fund as well. So
00:48:32.54	Unknown	I mean,
00:48:42.41	Unknown	But those additional revenue sources are only going to bring us up to maybe breaking even on the debt service. It's not going to address the need for the capital improvements of $618,000 over the next five years. Correct.
00:48:55.13	Chris Zapata	Correct. Let me respond, Mayor, if I can. I'm going to help shed some context to this. I'll give you an example. The city went into debt to buy the MLK facility. Once the city paid that debt off, it's now generating $1.4 million a year. At some point, you will pay off the debt for the B of A building, and then it will be generating cash to the general fund in excess of the expenses that you are paying. Now, you amortize that over time. Maybe this improvement that needs to happen there doesn't allow you to start recouping cash until you're out in the six, seven, eight, nine years. But at some point, you will, just like with the MLK school, start generating cash with that. Very few assets that you buy turn into cash cows, net cash cows immediately. It takes time. And so with the D of A building, you are trying to minimize the outgo to the city, plan for the future capital improvements that the city council agreed to. And somewhere in the near future, five years away, six years away, you will have something that's actually 10 years, the debt will be paid off, and that will be free and clear cash to you other than operating costs or any sinking fund you want to set up. But you can't start these funds with the presumption that they got to generate cash, net cash, from day one because they don't.
00:50:19.47	Unknown	I'm sorry, City Manager, are you saying that when we bought the B of A that we should not have expected to be able to rent it to somebody that might have been able to pay a rental fee that would have exceeded our debt service?
00:50:31.78	Chris Zapata	you tried
00:50:33.53	Chris Zapata	and direction from the council was to adopt the lease structure that we have in place. So you will get there.
00:50:38.43	Unknown	So you will get there. We made it a quick break.
00:50:40.89	Unknown	Okay, we made a decision. Let me finish, Councilmember, please.
00:50:41.29	Chris Zapata	I didn't make that decision. We made a decision. Let me finish, council member, please. Let me finish. You know, the- Okay, pardon me, go ahead. The debt service to purchase that building for $2.3 million was well known.
00:50:44.35	Unknown	Let me finish.
00:50:46.54	Unknown	Okay, pardon me, go ahead.
00:50:56.24	Chris Zapata	and was scheduled out over...
00:50:58.07	Chris Zapata	15 years, you're five years into it.
00:51:00.67	Chris Zapata	That there was no surprise there. I'm not sure what council voted on that, but good move. That's a strategic asset that you acquired. It's now generating cash and visits to support your downtown. Is it netting revenue today? No. Will it net revenue in the future? Absolutely. That's all I'm trying to say.
00:51:19.85	Unknown	Well, when we first, yeah, the thought process when we first took over, it was a conscious decision. This is a question, this is really Q and A
00:51:28.97	Mayor Cox	here.
00:51:29.03	Unknown	Thank you.
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00:51:29.20	Mayor Cox	right now.
00:51:29.22	Unknown	Well, I'm going to correct the record because the city manager-
00:51:32.11	Mayor Cox	You can do that during your public comment.
00:51:33.64	Unknown	No, I'm going to do it now.
00:51:34.96	Mayor Cox	Nope, this is the time for questions. Mayor, respectfully? Respectfully, this is the time for questions. The city manager?
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00:51:42.03	Unknown	The ministry manager just made a mistake.
00:51:42.52	Mayor Cox	I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO
00:51:42.97	Mayor Cox	statement about what this council please don't speak over me I don't speak over you I was not finished and you interrupted me please don't
00:51:49.82	Unknown	Well, you just cut me off.
00:51:49.91	Mayor Cox	Well, you don't-
00:51:50.92	Mayor Cox	Yeah, because it's a point of order.
00:51:52.00	Unknown	It's a point of order. I don't know who's cutting off whom.
00:51:53.69	Mayor Cox	I'm making a point of order. This is the time for Q&A. You may address your opinions on our capital improvement program and our budget when it's time for comments. This is the time for questions. I have other council members awaiting the opportunity to ask questions.
00:52:06.77	Unknown	Well, point of order, if our city manager makes the misstatement about what this council did when we first did our first lease with the SCA, I think that I have the right to correct that statement. When we did our first lease with the SCA, we consciously decided to have a break-even lease with the SCA. It was amended a year ago.
00:52:28.06	Unknown	And now it's not a break-even lease with a triple net lease. Do you have a question, Councilmember Hoffman?
00:52:35.18	Unknown	Yes, and I'm going to get to that in a second. We made a decision a year ago to no longer have a triple net lease, so we are now responsible for all of the maintenance on it. And this is a big part of why this issue needs to be booked in our budgets, and it's not. And so anyway, okay, moving on to my next question. With regard to the Business Improvement District, I'm looking...
00:52:52.01	Catie Thow Garcia	Budgets.
00:53:05.64	Unknown	Is that here on, oh yes, okay. It's the Business Improvement District.
00:53:09.56	Unknown	So is that's down there under restricted funds. I'm interested in why the business improvement district is down under restricted it that's listed as a restricted fund are you we considering that to be a revenue producing fund.
00:53:24.46	Jesus Nava	That's because the uses of those resources are specific to be used by the Business Improvement District itself. So we transfer that money over to them for their use based on their budgets and their strategies for implementing their expenditures as agreed to with the council. That's what I'm assuming.
00:53:42.58	Unknown	And is that, and that was just because we didn't know where else to sort of account for that? Or because we can't use those funds. No, you can't.
00:53:48.29	Jesus Nava	No, you can't. I mean, they really belong to the DBID. We collect them, we send out the bills, we collect the revenue, and then we'll transfer it right back to the business improvement district for the reason.
00:53:58.14	Unknown	But the city doesn't use those funds. We can't use those funds.
00:54:01.16	Jesus Nava	We do not use those funds. They belong to the business improvement district.
00:54:04.25	Unknown	Okay, and as I understand it though, we are 40,000, or are we 40,000 or $45,000 short in collections from the property owners?
00:54:14.49	Jesus Nava	This just simply shows that at the beginning of the year, you had $45,000, that the revenues that are projected to come in are $235,000, and that the whole amount will be transferred right back out to the business improvement district for their use, leaving a fund balance of about $45,000, but we'll probably transfer the complete amount over to them for their use since it's part of their budget.
00:54:37.22	Unknown	Okay, so let me ask the question again. The 45,000 that's estimated fund balance, does that reflect the collections that we have not collected from the property owners?
00:54:50.13	Jesus Nava	No, it's just the money that's sitting in the fund. Is that just a coincidence? It's just a coincidence. Okay. The whole amount will be transferred over to the BID for their uses. Okay. It really belongs to them. We're just a fiscal pass-through agency.
00:54:52.19	Unknown	Is that just a coincidence?
00:54:54.15	Unknown	Okay.
00:55:04.49	Unknown	OK, so I'm sorry. So then there's no accounting here for the fact that we have not received or collected
00:55:06.67	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
00:55:13.71	Unknown	Thank you.
00:55:13.72	Jesus Nava	No, it's just spending on fund balance.
00:55:13.76	Unknown	No, it's just spending on
00:55:15.92	Unknown	Thank you.
00:55:16.24	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:55:16.34	Mayor Cox	Can I ask you guys not to interrupt each other? Because we need the public to be able to hear what you're saying.
00:55:17.03	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
00:55:18.41	Jesus Nava	because we need.
00:55:21.07	Jesus Nava	Yes, sorry about that. Thank you.
00:55:21.44	Unknown	Thank you.
00:55:22.82	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
00:55:22.84	Unknown	Yeah.
00:55:23.97	Unknown	I apologize. Okay. And there's no under expenditures then for the PBID. I don't see anything or the business approved district fund under expenses, expenditures. So there's no, we also don't have an accounting for what they've expended money on or do we not book that at this point?
00:55:47.57	Jesus Nava	No, we don't control their budget or their expenditures. Okay, gotcha. We just collect on their behalf.
00:55:48.50	Unknown	We don't.
00:55:50.39	Unknown	Okay, gotcha.
00:55:52.77	Unknown	Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you for that.
00:55:54.97	Unknown	Thank you.
00:55:55.12	Unknown	Councilmember.
00:55:56.00	Councilmember Blaustein	Blalstein.
00:55:56.28	Unknown	Thank you.
00:55:56.47	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, great. Thank you. So I think you said that, according to the accounting here, we had something like $36 million in revenues, $32.7 in expenses, and then the general fund contributed to the capital improvement plan. So I just want to
00:56:07.62	Councilmember Blaustein	hone in or zoom in on the capital improvement plan and I might have director McGowan answer these questions. I'm not sure who the right
00:56:13.12	Councilmember Blaustein	person for it is. But Director McGowan, you presented to the Planning Commission last week, right, on the CIP? Right.
00:56:18.64	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, great. And during that time in the staff report, you said,
00:56:22.57	Councilmember Blaustein	The CIP is a five-year planning document, which includes a list of known improvement projects for the city. Products are broken into different categories based on the type of sources, and then you go forward to break it down, right?
00:56:33.17	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay.
00:56:33.66	Mayor Cox	And then you also noted. Can you step to the podium and answer vocally? So those watching. I can do my yes. Yes.
00:56:39.16	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah.
00:56:40.18	Councilmember Blaustein	Well,
00:56:41.46	Councilmember Blaustein	Great. Perfect. And so when you started the Capital Improvement Project planning for this year, based on the upcoming fiscal budget, did we yet have the Veritas study?
00:56:50.37	Kevin McGowan	When I first started, no.
00:56:52.90	Councilmember Blaustein	And it looks like you added here a new category to the CIP based on that assessment study. What did you call it?
00:57:00.71	Kevin McGowan	Building assessment.
00:57:01.72	Councilmember Blaustein	building assessment. So you've already accounted for it and we're thinking about it in the CIP, correct? Okay. And then I want to zoom in on some of the funds specific to the CIP as they relate to our use of these funds, because that's being...
00:57:12.29	Councilmember Blaustein	brought up and you might be able to enter this or Jesus. But so if you look at, for example, the parking fund, which is a specific fund that we expected two and a half million in revenue, we got three, we use 2.8, then we took 400 to our CIP.
00:57:25.33	Councilmember Blaustein	I have a couple of questions, Director McGowan. So in the CIP, we have a plan to improve our parking payment systems, correct?
00:57:33.89	Kevin McGowan	Yes, we have a few projects that relate to parking. That's correct.
00:57:37.65	Councilmember Blaustein	And would you say also our parking lot reconstruction, which is also in the CIP would relate to the parking fund?
00:57:44.05	Kevin McGowan	No, if you take a look at the details, we split that between the Tidelines Fund as well as the Parking Fund because it is within the Tideland Zone.
00:57:51.02	Councilmember Blaustein	because it's-
00:57:52.89	Councilmember Blaustein	Right, but what I'm trying to get to the bottom of is the funds that are going into the CIP will be going to projects that benefit the parking fund correct. Yes. Okay, so you could say that the funds that we're moving are going back into the work that will reallocate revenue for that fund specifically. Okay, and then just to pull out on some other revenue generating funds, I noticed also in the capital improvement projects this year you've allocated $75,000 for the MLK gym right.
00:58:17.14	Kevin McGowan	Yes, that was a specific project.
00:58:19.37	Councilmember Blaustein	And that's part of the capital improvement project that plans based on all of these revenue generating funds.
00:58:24.21	Kevin McGowan	Yes.
00:58:24.77	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, great. I just wanted to clarify. And then one last point is that, Jesus, last time we heard from you and we talked about the budget going forward, we all asked for a 10-year planning horizon and agreed to discuss a 10-year planning horizon, correct? Correct.
00:58:37.24	Councilmember Blaustein	And that's something we're still going to look into as
00:58:40.17	Councilmember Blaustein	as we budget going forward.
00:58:41.64	Jesus Nava	I believe the city manager has committed to get going on the 10 year financial modeling
00:58:47.21	Councilmember Blaustein	Right.
00:58:47.63	Jesus Nava	project.
00:58:47.65	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
00:58:47.87	Councilmember Blaustein	And Director McGowan, I imagine that as we go forward with our CIP and project for the next five years, we would take into account both the Veritas study and the 10-year budgeting. But you did your best possible job, given our fiscal picture this year, to start taking steps for capital improvements and use of our measure L dollars.
00:59:04.81	Kevin McGowan	Yes, that's correct. We want to take a look at that longer range that's anticipated in the BV report and anticipate with some of these buildings and areas that
00:59:15.83	Kevin McGowan	We have to set aside funding in future years in order to address things. So you're correct.
00:59:19.93	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, and you have every intent to help us plan to set aside funding so that we can deliver on the Veritas project going forward.
00:59:25.90	Kevin McGowan	I will do my best.
00:59:26.76	Councilmember Blaustein	Great. Thank you very much.
00:59:29.74	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:59:29.75	Jesus Nava	All right.
00:59:31.27	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:59:31.29	Jesus Nava	Did you want to continue with your presentation? Yeah, sure. I mean, so just a couple of things. It's the nature of local government to always have more needs than would you have resources. You know, I think at the last meeting, Mayor, you said, hey, between you and Chris, you got like 70 years of experience between you. And you know what? In those 70 by 35 years, you've never have had enough money to do everything that is needed it's always been a hard decision to decide or to put your money to get the best bang for the buck so you know it's a that's just the nature of the work and the nature of the decision making process so even though it may seem a little bit conflict written that's just the way it is you know and ultimately that's how you get to your decisions
01:00:17.68	Jesus Nava	Next slide.
01:00:21.07	Jesus Nava	So the general fund, high-level general fund. So the general fund accounts for all general revenues of the city, not specifically levied or collected for other city funds. So this is your default fund. In many cities, small cities in particular, you may have one or two funds, but the general fund is always a fund that you need to have. And as you can see there, you know, we started, it gives you three fiscal years worth of data. It gives you your actuals for 2324. It gives you your estimates for this current year, which ends in a couple of weeks. And then it gives you your budget for the next fiscal year as well. Let's concentrate on the budget for next fiscal year. As you can see, the general fund has a beginning balance. We'll have a beginning balance of $24.3 million. We're projecting general fund revenues of 22.8, transfers in of 2.75, expenditures of 22.7, transfers to the CIP totaling 13.7, and that's both the general fund and the measure L.
01:01:26.73	Jesus Nava	So a net change in your fund balance of $10.8 million, mostly because of the transfers to the CIP. For an ending fund balance next, June 30th, 2026, of $13.5 million. When you break out the fund balance into your designations, you can see that $4 million is for your PARS pension and $5.5 is for your economic stability reserve, leaving you an unassigned balance of $4 million. And that $4 million is clear of any restrictions or clear of any encumbrances at this point.
01:02:09.76	Mark Palmer	Okay.
01:02:10.01	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
01:02:10.30	Jesus Nava	Next slide.
01:02:12.59	Jesus Nava	Measure L.
01:02:14.59	Jesus Nava	So Measure L, when you look at your audited financial statements and you look at the general fund, your general Measure L and your pension is included in that display. And then at the end of the book, you have a schedule that breaks them out as well so that you have so that the citizens can see what's in the general fund. This schedule breaks out the measure L for you so that the citizens can also follow how much money, aside from the general fund, it will produce. So once again, three columns, your actuals. You had begun with a general fund balance of about a little less than 700,000. You brought in revenues of almost 3 million. You had available resources of 3.6.
01:03:01.89	Jesus Nava	Coming in no expenditures this current year you brought in another 2.8 so available resources are 6.4 you had expenditures of about a million dollars so you're. ending fund balance is projected to be 5.5 million dollars and the new budget we start with that 5.5 we bring in another 3 million.
01:03:23.64	Jesus Nava	For available resources of 8.4, you actually have expenditures of $450,000, which is your two project managers. And then you're transferring out the remainder to the CIP, and that amount is $8,027,000. So at the end of next year, you'll have used all your Measure L revenue for CIP. It should reflect zero.
01:03:48.87	Mayor Cox	So, thank you for including the expense allocation for our two project managers. It was my understanding from our discussion of our capital improvement fund expenditures in the upcoming year that this $8 million would also cover additional staffing necessary to oversee, manage the projects that we're undertaking in the coming year, that those projects exceed the capacity of our existing staff. Am I right about that?
01:04:21.44	Jesus Nava	Yes, Your Honor, and that's what that 450 pays for, the two additional project managers.
01:04:25.55	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:04:25.67	Mayor Cox	too.
01:04:25.96	Jesus Nava	Additionally,
01:04:26.18	Mayor Cox	not our two existing.
01:04:27.49	Jesus Nava	Two additional.
01:04:28.24	Mayor Cox	Okay, great. Thank you for that.
01:04:30.41	Councilmember Blaustein	See you next time.
01:04:31.16	Councilmember Blaustein	Director McGowan, do you want to just speak to what those two project managers are going to be working on for the public to be aware of, just which projects?
01:04:42.88	Kevin McGowan	Thank you. We're taking a look at all of the projects. Generally, it's most of the new ones that are coming in. Remember, on the capital improvement program, we separated them to active projects versus new projects. There are some of the new projects that we want our staff to work on, but most of the new ones are going to be handled by the part-time staff coming in for capital managers. Thank you.
01:05:10.68	Jesus Nava	Any other questions on measure L use? Okay, good. So council fulfills its commitment to the public by using all the money for the capital improvements program. So congratulations to that. Next slide, which is the final slide, and it's just simply the acknowledgements. So we've worked, you know, this was a quick budget. We had a couple of months to turn it around. we've met with every member of the city council to hear their concerns and to hear their ideas to share information. So you've made your voices heard loud and clear about what your expectations were, not only in this budget, but moving forward as well. So we have done our best to try to incorporate as much as your feedback and your desires in the budget. We may not have gotten them all, but it's a good start. And given the comments that we heard tonight about the needs for additional maintenance dollars, I think the council has heard that also very clear and will probably be looking to do more in that arena as well. So, you know, all things being equal, I think the council has done their due diligence in making sure that the planned expenditures are what they need to be. And unless there's further questions or further comments, I think we're ready to adopt the budget.
01:06:28.35	Mayor Cox	I'm going to first open it up to public comment.
01:06:31.39	Mayor Cox	Oh, sorry. Go ahead.
01:06:33.35	Council member Sobieski	I just wanted a level setting question, sir. First of all, thank you very much. I know you stepped in and congratulations.
01:06:41.84	Council member Sobieski	The city manager described this. Well, maybe I'll ask the city manager this. You described this as the best budget I've worked on in four years here.
01:06:50.46	Council member Sobieski	And I know you two work together on it. And that's quite a statement. This is a man not given to hyperbole or adjectives very often. So can you help me understand why the public should think of this?
01:07:01.12	Chris Zapata	Thank you.
01:07:01.51	Chris Zapata	Thank you.
01:07:01.55	Council member Sobieski	In those terms.
01:07:02.36	Chris Zapata	Thank you.
01:07:02.42	Council member Sobieski	Thank you.
01:07:03.13	Council member Sobieski	Thank you.
01:07:03.15	Chris Zapata	Sure, I can. It's called investment in longstanding capital improvements that have been languishing, frankly, because we've had some decisions to make. Are we going to have a renewal of Measure O? When that happened, that created Measure L. The expansion and extension of that created a resource. how do we know what we want to have in reserve so that we can handle an emergency as best we can? That resulted in the 25% formalization of that longstanding societal policy. You know, what are we going to set aside for pensions? That resulted in a million dollar investment a year after. And then it was, well, how do we know what we need to spend? And that was the Veritas Facilities Assessment. So the culmination of all that is $17 million commitment to starting to move the needle in something that we've been trying to get right for three years. So for me, that's one aspect and the main facet of why this is a great budget. The second one is, is there's some succession planning in this budget, you know, trying to maintain and keep and recruit staff that we have, reward staff that have been here. This budget does that. The reorganization that's set forward that I proposed, oh, a month ago involves, you know, some recalibration of the organization and making it a little more agile, a little more sustainable, and doesn't cost the city a whole lot of money. I think that's really important. And then the completion of audits in the past, and I thank the people that worked on them, has resulted in what I told you two years ago was some unassigned fund balance that you needed to invest. And at one time I told you that was $ plus million dollars. Well, tonight you're taking and investing at least half of that into needed capital projects that will do a couple of things. One, they help our business environment. Two, they certainly help our risk profile. They meet longstanding needs that are quality of life. So this is, yeah, absolutely the best budget that I've been a part of in Sausalito and and by the way, you know It takes a lot of hard work to get here And you all have put in that work to get to the point where it took three years, but here we are tonight So that's why I say it's the best budget since I've been here that I have been a part of
01:09:21.54	Council member Sobieski	So my follow-up question is all this money that we're investing in infrastructure that we've moved into the CIP fund all this money. My second question is all this money that the city council has now moved into the capital improvement fund.
01:09:33.79	Council member Sobieski	Where did that come from? It looks like we doubled the amount of cash on our balance sheet over the last 10 years. So is that coming? Where's that from? Is that from bringing in more money than we spend every year or something else?
01:09:46.58	Jesus Nava	Well, yeah, I mean, the only way you can accumulate these fund balances is by not spending all the money that comes in. So, you know, on the one hand, we've heard we've got additional needs that need to be taken care of. But on the other hand, you've done very well in terms of accumulating some balances of cash in some areas where you need them. You know, now from we're hearing as let's put that money to work in the smartest way that we can in order to make sure that we fulfill the needs as best identified by the citizens and you as a city council so your job now is to decide hey here's where the needs are best and here's where we're going to place our money and the budget just does that it provides uh numerous resources well what i heard from when i came in from the was, hey, the council really wants to jumpstart the CIP program and really wants to get ahead of making these improvements, so let's figure out a way of doing it. So most of the emphasis was on that CIP area and making sure that we could identify the dollar amounts that were needed to at least begin putting that money aside so that you could get those projects done. And is there more needs? Yes, there are. So that means we've got to be smarter and figure out how to even do our job even better. You know, take the money that we have and try to leverage it even a little bit smarter and see what we can do. You know, that's just that's the nature of the business.
01:11:08.87	Council member Sobieski	exciting. Thank you very much.
01:11:10.50	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
01:11:11.68	Jesus Nava	All right, I'm going to open it up to public
01:11:13.03	Unknown	comment.
01:11:14.67	Mayor Cox	I don't have any.
01:11:15.31	Unknown	Thank you.
01:11:16.26	Unknown	Okay.
01:11:18.06	Unknown	Pardon me. Jesus, I had one more question. And we had discussed this when we were talking. And that's the downward revenue trend that we're seeing. And so can you just briefly explain that and what we saw in the OpenGov?
01:11:32.32	Unknown	what we saw in the OpenGov when we looked at that, and then what you're seeing in the numbers that haven't yet been uploaded into the OpenGov report.
01:11:38.36	Jesus Nava	So the OpenGov shows very succinctly how the revenues trend here in Sausalito. You have good years followed by some less prosperous years, I should say, where revenue is not the same. But the good years come, and then you have a couple of years. So you had a great year in 23, 24, as you saw, revenue succeeded expenditures by about $5.8 million between the general fund and Measure L. So a lot of cash came in in that year.
01:12:17.12	Jesus Nava	we are now seeing sort of a slowdown of those revenues. And I'm even projecting a greater, not a greater slowdown, but a slowdown as well in the coming years. If you look at your TOT, I've dropped them by about 2% in anticipation. And I've also lowered your sales tax collections to about 2.67 for next year, as opposed to 4 or 5% as they've been.
01:12:41.53	Unknown	Thank you.
01:12:41.54	Jesus Nava	And.
01:12:41.65	Unknown	And
01:12:41.71	Jesus Nava	Thank you.
01:12:41.80	Jesus Nava	It's a very conservative estimate.
01:12:43.85	Unknown	And that's from the downward trend that you're seeing from 23, 24, and 24, 25, and you expect that to continue in-
01:12:50.10	Jesus Nava	The normal cyclical, you know, redundant economic, you know, trends that come and go. I mean, we've talked, I think I've spoken to all of you about this. The city's economy trends with the tourism and the business cycles of the Bay Area. So when the economy and tourism are up, Sausalito prospers. when the economy and tourism are up Sausalito prospers when the economy and tourism is sort of ebbing and on the down low your revenues tend to go down and with sales tax and the TOT and your business license taxes all being sensitive to economic trends you know that's what you would expect to see.
01:13:35.21	Unknown	Thank you for that. Thank you.
01:13:37.96	Mayor Cox	All right, we're gonna open it up to public comment. We'll hear first from Babette McDougall.
01:13:49.90	Babette McDougall	Thank you for acknowledging me, Babette McDougall.
01:13:53.01	Babette McDougall	So I want to speak to two core issues with regard to looking at the new budget for the coming year.
01:13:59.59	Babette McDougall	First of all, I would like to quote the city manager when he says this budget, like any city's budget, is supposed to reflect that community's values.
01:14:09.87	Babette McDougall	So I just want to ask the question. On the one hand, when we had a finance director available to us who led us through a very similar discussion over the previous couple of years, and we had great confidence that everything was going well, and then suddenly this year, there was this huge disconnect that was never appropriately addressed or explained.
01:14:31.25	Babette McDougall	I don't know why there was no forensic investigation, at least by the
01:14:35.18	Babette McDougall	some impartial citizen group. The one that comes to mind for me would be like the finance committee, because these are citizens, of course.
01:14:41.59	Babette McDougall	with oversight or with assistance to the finance direction for the city itself. So that's one item I'd like to put out there because I don't,
01:14:49.62	Babette McDougall	There's a lot of us that wonder, well, how are we supposed to have confidence going forward if it wasn't confident before? What's the difference? And then the second item has to do with, I'm glad to see an acknowledgement that the visitor traffic industry, the hospitality business has on the city budget. I don't understand why there is not a corresponding constant attention being given to the marine ship. You know, the working waterfront, I come from a household where we had a pleasure craft for decades, right here in Sausalito at Clipper.
01:15:22.21	Babette McDougall	and then later at Travis, where it still lives. And every single thing needed for that 32-foot sloop was taken care of right here in Sausalito. Never had to leave town to keep the boat always beautiful and in shape for anything.
01:15:38.01	Babette McDougall	So if we let the working waterfront
01:15:40.62	Babette McDougall	degrade.
01:15:41.99	Babette McDougall	What are we doing to our waterfront as a whole? How soon before the waterfront itself dies?
01:15:48.40	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
01:15:49.97	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
01:15:50.04	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:15:50.58	Babette McDougall	you
01:15:50.66	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:15:50.81	Mayor Cox	Cynthia
01:15:52.43	Mayor Cox	egg egg ink.
01:15:54.43	Mayor Cox	And Mark Palmer.
01:15:58.34	Mayor Cox	Then I'll call on Ray with you.
01:16:06.46	Ray Withy	Yeah, good evening, everybody. I always show up on budget night. So first, I want to make three points. First, adopt this budget. I agree with the city manager. This is a very solid budget. On the operational side, it's status quo.
01:16:29.36	Ray Withy	There needs to be a lot of analysis to figure out long term
01:16:34.81	Ray Withy	its sustainability
01:16:37.02	Ray Withy	But
01:16:37.90	Ray Withy	Three months ago, you had no finance director. You had a budget ahead. And you have now, I think, a budget. I feel pretty comfortable about it.
01:16:49.12	Ray Withy	And we've not been very good at budgeting over the last few years. That's the first point. Second point.
01:16:55.28	Ray Withy	There's a narrative going around town.
01:16:58.72	Ray Withy	with some residents, that the only way in which the city balances its general fund is by using its business enterprise funds, such as Parkin, MOK, etc.,
01:17:11.93	Ray Withy	Yes, that's correct.
01:17:13.97	Ray Withy	Thank you.
01:17:14.55	Ray Withy	That's the purpose of those funds. The purpose of those funds is to transfer revenue into the general fund.
01:17:23.15	Ray Withy	And so this conversation that is ongoing is utter nonsense.
01:17:30.26	Ray Withy	Nonsense. The third thing I want to say is that there are issues you need to address. MLK is an example. Council Member Hoffman is correct. You need to schedule out future needs for capital improvements. But guess what?
01:17:48.50	Ray Withy	That needs to be done in our capital improvement plan.
01:17:51.71	Ray Withy	The facilities assessment report needs to be washed through our capital improvement plan with all of its prioritization and then a schedule, future schedule of possible investments that need to be made and then you will know and have the funds from the enterprise fund to pay for it. What does that mean in the end for my last three seconds? A long range financial model.
01:18:20.19	Ray Withy	Thank you.
01:18:21.31	Ray Withy	you
01:18:21.42	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:18:21.44	Ray Withy	I'm sorry.
01:18:21.49	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:18:21.51	Ray Withy	THE FAMILY.
01:18:21.59	Mayor Cox	Liss Meryl.
01:18:27.65	Liss Meryl	Welcome. Two things.
01:18:29.59	Liss Meryl	I agree with, um, with Babette. I'm not going to go into it because she just said it all. I thought it was,
01:18:35.24	Liss Meryl	She hit on the points that I think are important.
01:18:38.10	Liss Meryl	And B.
01:18:39.24	Liss Meryl	little
01:18:40.36	Liss Meryl	little housekeeping thing. It says in the, in the agenda that we get three minutes.
01:18:46.62	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:18:46.67	Liss Meryl	And we don't.
01:18:48.03	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:18:48.83	Mayor Cox	Thank you. I'll ask the city clerk to correct that.
01:18:53.48	Mayor Cox	Okay, city clerk, anyone online?
01:18:57.13	Walford	Senator Bushmaker?
01:18:58.56	Mayor Cox	Welcome, Sandra.
01:18:59.46	Sandra Bushmaker	Thank you.
01:19:01.74	Mayor Cox	you
01:19:01.75	Sandra Bushmaker	Thank you very much. Good evening, counsel.
01:19:04.27	Sandra Bushmaker	I just want to...
01:19:05.21	Sandra Bushmaker	I hope we got three minutes.
01:19:08.08	Sandra Bushmaker	I have two minutes.
01:19:08.47	Unknown	Absolutely.
01:19:09.04	Unknown	It's actually
01:19:11.56	Sandra Bushmaker	To say that we have $36.6 million in revenue and $32.7 million in expenses does not mean we have $4 million of surplus income.
01:19:22.48	Sandra Bushmaker	which I think one of the council members says, because we have used all these fund transfers, we don't have $4 million of new revenue.
01:19:31.02	Sandra Bushmaker	And I just wanted to go through some numbers that I pulled out of the Veritas and Attachment 6.
01:19:39.05	Sandra Bushmaker	with regard to using these funds. We pulled $500,000 out of the MLK fund. We have $140,000 left in that fund, and we have $13.4 million of repairs to MLK.
01:19:55.23	Sandra Bushmaker	Old City Hall, we pulled $100,000 out and we have $1.1 million of repairs for Old City Hall.
01:20:03.50	Sandra Bushmaker	We pulled out 1.7 million
01:20:06.28	Sandra Bushmaker	from the parking fund and we've got 2.6 million of parking
01:20:11.75	Sandra Bushmaker	matters, parking lot repairs.
01:20:13.81	Sandra Bushmaker	to it.
01:20:14.74	Sandra Bushmaker	to happen with the Veritas report.
01:20:17.34	Sandra Bushmaker	So we've got $53.3 million of deferred maintenance, according to the Veritas report.
01:20:23.90	Sandra Bushmaker	And I believe that we need to get real with that. And I'm happy to hear that there is some discussion about really moving that forward.
01:20:34.09	Sandra Bushmaker	I am concerned about depleting the funds for the general fund when we have
01:20:40.34	Sandra Bushmaker	these costs
01:20:42.18	Sandra Bushmaker	associated with these particular assets.
01:20:44.74	Sandra Bushmaker	With regard to the retirement pension,
01:20:47.22	Sandra Bushmaker	It came at the city manager responded to my letter, which is in your packet.
01:20:52.30	Sandra Bushmaker	And made a comment about the 2001 decision for increasing.
01:20:57.67	Sandra Bushmaker	retirement benefits.
01:21:00.25	Sandra Bushmaker	When we did that, and I was on the council at that time,
01:21:06.09	Walford	Next speaker is Jacqueline Armikus.
01:21:12.05	Jacqueline Armikus	Good evening, council members.
01:21:14.76	Jacqueline Armikus	And thank you for taking my questions here. I don't know if I really have a question. I have a statement to make.
01:21:21.66	Jacqueline Armikus	regarding
01:21:23.28	Jacqueline Armikus	the fees, the, um,
01:21:25.33	Jacqueline Armikus	financial health of the city moving forward.
01:21:28.04	Jacqueline Armikus	after this fiscal year ending June 30th, 2026,
01:21:32.26	Jacqueline Armikus	My concern is whether the city of Sausalito has the ability to continue annual debt service requirements
01:21:38.91	Jacqueline Armikus	beginning fiscal year, ending June 30th, 2027.
01:21:42.64	Jacqueline Armikus	Starting in 2027, the
01:21:46.77	Jacqueline Armikus	Annette Haworth, Ph.D.: Annual debt service for obligation bond series B 2006 is $1,145,000.
01:21:56.24	Jacqueline Armikus	My concern is that as the city continues its deficit spending close to $3 million, as noted in the fiscal year ending budget 2026,
01:22:05.57	Jacqueline Armikus	And it continues to draw on MLK funds, parking funds, city funds to bridge this gap.
01:22:11.60	Jacqueline Armikus	Um,
01:22:12.12	Jacqueline Armikus	Um,
01:22:13.54	Jacqueline Armikus	that moving forward, um,
01:22:16.10	Jacqueline Armikus	from
01:22:17.34	Jacqueline Armikus	Mm.
01:22:18.31	Jacqueline Armikus	Fiscal year in 2027 to 20, 2042.
01:22:22.45	Jacqueline Armikus	we have a general obligation fund to meet
01:22:26.21	Jacqueline Armikus	in the amount of $25,615,000. And those payments begin in
01:22:33.15	Jacqueline Armikus	fiscal year end, June 30th, 2027,
01:22:38.01	Jacqueline Armikus	My question is, is how are these funds
01:22:41.15	Jacqueline Armikus	going to be repaid.
01:22:48.86	Jacqueline Armikus	Thank you.
01:22:48.88	Unknown	Thank you.
01:22:49.41	Walford	Thank you.
01:22:51.25	Unknown	Thank you. City Clerk.
01:22:52.91	Walford	Next speaker is Adrian.
01:23:01.87	Adrian	Hi, thank you for taking my comment.
01:23:04.89	Adrian	You know, one of the commenters earlier talked about how we're gonna get confidence going forward. And I think one way we do that is by looking back and looking at what our city manager said about
01:23:15.34	Adrian	his priorities when he came in about staff, finances, and infrastructure.
01:23:19.69	Adrian	And I think over the first years that he was here, looking at the staff and the way that we've actually kind of rebuilt our staff since he's been here has been really good. Finances, I feel like we've made a lot of progress in how our finances are seen and understood. And now this year we're investing a lot in our infrastructure. So I would say kudos to that. I think we've done a great job.
01:23:40.43	Adrian	You know, the city manager has done a great job in implementing what he said he was going to implement.
01:23:47.06	Adrian	I'm glad that we split out the unrestricted funds from the restricted funds, but it sounds like there's still a lot of confusion, especially listening to some of the other comments. So we have a lot more work to do there. Understanding the difference between a capital budget and an operational budget is difficult and understanding what our long term capital plan looks like versus our operational budget is difficult.
01:24:11.63	Adrian	You know, we do need to increase our revenues to be able to pay for our infrastructure needs looking out 20, 30 years. And the time to do that is now. So hopefully we can kind of come back around to that and understand how we can raise our revenues by...
01:24:25.40	Adrian	increasing our business downtown or developing areas of town that are underutilized.
01:24:31.59	Adrian	But it's great that we're having these conversations. I think we've come a long way. So thank you very much.
01:24:37.89	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:24:38.93	Mayor Cox	City Clerk.
01:24:39.69	Walford	No further public comment?
01:24:41.01	Walford	Thank you.
01:24:41.03	Mayor Cox	Right, I will close public comment and bring it up here for discussion. City clerk, will you set our clock as we each embark upon our comments, who would like to lead off.
01:24:52.13	Unknown	I'm happy to. Thank you. I agree with former Mayor Withey. I agree with our city manager. This is a very decent budget. It emphasizes capital improvements by a significant dollar amount that we have in the bank, just to use the vernacular. All of these funds that are not restricted have historically been transferred over the years to fund basic operations, capital improvements, et cetera, et cetera. Over the last few years, this city has determined that it will have a 25% reserve.
01:24:53.01	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:25:28.09	Unknown	general reserve. And that's in this budget, built into this budget. The estimates of revenues are conservative, according to our finance director. Conservative revenue estimates, expenditures that do a whole lot to improve infrastructure. And during the last campaign for office, that was a big deal to the community. We want infrastructure improvements. We want our roads. We want to deal with sewers. We want to deal with sewers. We want to deal with our stairs and steps, et cetera, et cetera. That's in this budget.
01:25:53.32	Catie Thow Garcia	improvement.
01:26:02.95	Unknown	I don't believe it's appropriate to use question time to make a statement. So I only asked one question, and that was about the minor maintenance, $500,000 or $600,000 that's in this budget, plus the big ticket items like parking lot one in this budget. So let's approve this budget. It reflects, thank you, city manager and director of finance. We gave clear direction. We had input from the public. Many, many hours of hearings. We gave direction, and you've come back to meet our goals as we stated. Thank you.
01:26:37.26	Mayor Cox	Who's next?
01:26:40.82	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:26:41.78	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, I again really want to thank our city manager and our interim finance director and all of our different departments, especially Director McGowan, for thinking so much about what our CIP looks like and just the...
01:26:53.68	Councilmember Blaustein	amount of
01:26:54.61	Councilmember Blaustein	Collective leadership and effort that went into this process. Thank you so much. And we've talked a lot about, you know, does this budget reflect fiscal responsibility, but it also reflects how we make our priorities and our values in the community. And I'm really proud to see that our level of service is going to remain very high.
01:27:11.74	Councilmember Blaustein	that all of our employees are going to stay with us here in Sausalito. We didn't have to eliminate any positions. We're seeing a huge investment in improvements to our infrastructure. So we're listening to our residents, and we're applying our Measure L dollars to infrastructure improvements. And we're preserving a 25% in our reserves, which is well above average. So I'm just really impressed by what we were able to get to, even though there are many local jurisdictions right now who are really being squeezed and our statewide budget is under a lot of pressure. We here in Sausalito have managed to maintain a smart fiscal picture, and that's really thanks to the great team that we have working here for us at City Hall. I'm definitely thrilled to see that we have two specific contract manager positions that not only will aid our public works department for the work and help that Director McGowan needs, but it will also ensure that we deliver on our capital improvement projects and deliver on the sources of funding that we are prioritizing to move those forward. So I think really what I think about when I think of approving this budget is that we've done a great job in a challenging fiscal environment,
01:28:19.09	Councilmember Blaustein	and I'm very supportive of moving us forward. I do think that we can continue to do better because it's always great to iterate and improve. And I look forward to our 10 year budgeting picture, our long-term budgeting picture, so we can make decisions about how we wanna spend our,
01:28:35.30	Councilmember Blaustein	spend our fund balances and also about how we address our pension issues. I would like to work with our consultant on a hybrid solution to our pension balance, as I discussed at our last budgeting hearing. And I think that's something that deserves consideration.
01:28:47.22	Councilmember Blaustein	But I think once we have a 10-year fiscal picture, we can do a better job of what we want our long-term budget to be, and we can also do more to integrate the Veritas facilities assessments needs that have been addressed. So, again, thank you, and I'm enthusiastic and ready to pass this budget this evening.
01:29:05.66	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:29:06.96	Mayor Cox	who,
01:29:07.03	Unknown	Who's next? Councilmember Hoffman? I'm happy to go. Thank you. Well, so let me just say straight off the bat, I completely support the CIP budget. I pushed for that for years. I voted for that. I'm glad that we're allocating so much of our unallocated funds to those CIP projects, and I think that's the right thing to do and I'm glad that that was brought forward and I'm glad that Kevin put that together for us and I'm glad that we've got two new project managers contract project managers I think that's the right thing to do too so I'm happy to support that part of the project and I budget in as much as it was brought before us and I voted for it before but I do have concerns about the way that this budget is configured and the way that it's been presented and specifically I think that's's been presented. And specifically, it's pretty obvious, the way that the rental funds are booked and the way that the outstanding maintenance is not booked against it, particularly since we now have this information. I mean, we've been pushing for this information for years and years. And the Veritas, incredibly thorough Veritas report that is now in our hands that we got in March, that's actually attached, if anybody else wants to look at it, to the March 18th, 2025 City Council meeting. It's item 5A, attachment one on that agenda. So it's a really great resource um you know it's 50 million over 20 years but um just for these four uh four rental facilities um you know there's almost four million in the next five years and so that's the short run way and so that's not that hard to pop that into the budget and that's what i had requested um that that be that fourth line and and thank you to by the way let me just get that set out before thank you to Jesus Navi for coming in and helping us with this budget I know it was a huge lift and I appreciate that the work that he did and you worked with our staff and our city manager and got this summary sheet together for us because it really helps it's just very very clear, right? So you look at the rental income on that subtotal rental funds, 4 million, but you look at the five-year outlook from the Veritas report, we've got 4 million in outstanding maintenance on all four of those buildings that we need to look at. And it would have been easy just to pop that number into a...
01:31:32.45	Unknown	into the spreadsheet and account for it. So I don't, you know, ignoring it doesn't help us. And I know that there are some projects in the current CIP report or CIP project list, but they're not those projects. And those projects are in the next five years because those were prioritized by Veritas, the professionals that we, you know, that we hired and paid a good amount of money. So the economic trend is also troubling. I would request that we also do a forensic audit. I think that's absolutely in line for the way that our finance manager left us. I would also ask for an update to opengov.org for the information. It's the end of your time for now. We'll come back to you. Thank you. Okay.
01:32:12.90	Mayor Cox	one up
01:32:15.55	Mayor Cox	It's the end of your time for now. We'll come back to you.
01:32:18.20	Council member Sobieski	Okay.
01:32:19.00	Council member Sobieski	Council member Sobieski. I'll use my part of my time to ask you a clarifying question, Mr. Director of Finance. You might want to go to the microphone. Just if you heard one of the public commenters say that it's false to say that we have $36 million, $36.6 million forecast in revenue and $32.7 million. Are those two numbers correct?
01:32:39.92	Jesus Nava	The numbers are what the numbers are.
01:32:41.44	Council member Sobieski	And so if you subtract those two numbers, that means it's a $3.9 million surplus is the forecast.
01:32:47.26	Jesus Nava	That's the, what do you call the... Delta. The Delta. Yeah, yeah, the Delta.
01:32:50.25	Council member Sobieski	The Delta.
01:32:51.99	Council member Sobieski	So this is not from a transfer. This isn't from some hocus pocus. Your forecast is for a surplus budget across the entire enterprise. All the funds are just shy of $4 million. Correct. So the commenter was just mistaken.
01:33:04.34	Jesus Nava	Well, and again, we begin with the assumption that all city money is public money. That's right. Belongs and is under the control of the city.
01:33:04.39	Council member Sobieski	Well, in the games
01:33:12.46	Jesus Nava	Right.
01:33:12.74	Council member Sobieski	Right. Thank you, sir. And all city money is public money. And I guess I would just say
01:33:17.16	Council member Sobieski	Congratulations on this budget. City Manager, congratulations on this capstone of achievement. After several years, we have a surplus budget, again,
01:33:26.28	Council member Sobieski	And we had the surplus budgets over and over again. And back in September 28th of 2023, I put out a video to the town, which at the time was shocking because it was entitled to Sausalito Broke. And in it, I pointed out something that I was almost scared to say because I couldn't believe by looking at the numbers that we consistently had operating surpluses in town. And the tell is that the amount of cash on our balance sheet doubled.
01:33:49.78	Council member Sobieski	And part of the reason was this myth
01:33:52.67	Council member Sobieski	that we were broke. And so we actually weren't spending as much money in our infrastructure as we should have been.
01:33:58.90	Council member Sobieski	So finally, now...
01:34:00.55	Council member Sobieski	we are investing more than $17 million in infrastructure, thanks to getting on the same page. But I want to say this myth is harmful. This attempt to confuse and so fear, uncertainty, and doubt is not a formula for fiscal restraint. It's a formula for confusion. And it means that we're not investing in our infrastructure the way we should. And those bills have added up. No matter what you do now, we can't tinker around the edges of any and have any hope of ever solving our 50 to 100 million dollar deferred infrastructure bill. And part of that is sown by the confusion. So I would ask everybody not to write
01:34:37.30	Council member Sobieski	grandstanding letters, but talk to you, the director of finance, talk to you, the city manager, learn for yourselves what the truth is, and then come together to try to figure out ways to grow our economic pie. Because the only way we're going to really solve our infrastructure problem long term is by doing that. In that same email in September 28th of 2023, I was the first one to ask for this comprehensive facilities assessment, because I was also saying what we need is a 10 year tool. And with that tool, we can trade off the level of quality. We went in our parking lots versus the level of quality. We went in our playgrounds versus the level of quality. We went out of our streets because everything's not going to be a plus and have low taxes. And we need to make adult decisions. And we do that with tools and with truth.
01:35:23.05	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:35:24.72	Mayor Cox	All right. I'm in agreement with my fellow council members. I do want to thank City Manager Chris Zapata and Interim Director of Finance, Jesus Nava, who joined us when we had only a little under three months left to put together this year's budget. A Herculean and really excellent effort. Thank you so much for that. At the end of last year and as a part of our priorities established at the beginning of this year, the City Council gave direction to the City Manager and staff to undertake the study necessary to understand our various deferred maintenance requirements in a number of areas, including streets, sidewalks, stairs, storm drains, hillsides, ADA requirements, and others, so that we could decide how best to spend our unassigned fund balances to address these needs. I believe our decision to expand. Thank you.
01:36:30.72	Mayor Cox	I was dismayed that the quotations from the Bureau Veritas report were misleading. The $53 million in deferred maintenance is certainly not intended to be spent all in one year, and certainly not this year. There is no way we could possibly manage that level of projects in a particular year. Instead, we have already given direction to our city staff to hire a consultant to assist us in developing a 10-year model to better plan how and when to undertake the capital improvement needs identified in the Bureau of Veritas report and other resources we have compiled. to assist us in developing a 10-year model to better plan how and when to undertake the capital improvement needs identified in the Bureau of Veritas report and other resources we have compiled.
01:37:01.45	Mayor Cox	As I stated at our last City Council meeting, we also do need to adopt a policy for how and when we transfer funds from our various cost centers, including our rental funds. At our last meeting, I recommended we undertake that effort at the time we close out this fiscal year and decide how to allocate this year's projected budget surplus amongst our pension obligations and other needs.
01:37:27.19	Mayor Cox	I disagree that we need to undertake a forensic audit. We received a clean audit from Badawi last year with no findings. And that includes our compliance with needed checks and balance requirements to ensure sound fiscal practices. And so at this point, I'm prepared to make a motion that we adopt the resolution attached to our staff report adopting the city of Sausalito budget for fiscal year 2025 to 26.
01:37:56.51	Unknown	Second.
01:37:58.05	Unknown	Um,
01:37:58.79	Unknown	there
01:37:59.28	Unknown	Go ahead. I have one thing that got lost, I think. The other one was a request that we update opengov.org to our current, I think, 2324 needs to be updated and 2425 numbers we have. But those haven't been updated in OpenGov.
01:38:15.08	Chris Zapata	Yeah, I'm very, if I can thank you for that Council member Hoffman. In addition to the updates, we will print budgets for the city council and half of the public in the library and city clerk's office. And they will certainly be printed online so that people can access this budget going forward. Thank you.
01:38:33.00	Mayor Cox	And city manager, we usually keep one in the library as well so that the public has access. I thought I said the library in the city clerk's office. Okay, if you did. The fan is on over here, so I have a hard time hearing some of our... The library where the public gathers. Okay. There will be a budget. Thank you. Hard copy.
01:38:37.87	Chris Zapata	Okay, if you did, the fan is,
01:38:46.18	Mayor Cox	All right, great. With that, I'll call the question. All in favor?
01:38:50.23	Mayor Cox	Aye. Any opposed?
01:38:50.38	Unknown	Thank you.
01:38:50.41	Carolyn Revell	Bye.
01:38:51.98	Mayor Cox	No.
01:38:52.86	Mayor Cox	All right, so that motion carries 4-1. At this point, I see that we have a board member and the executive director of the Sauciuto-Marin City Sanitary District in our chambers, and I would like to indulge upon my colleagues to move item 5C up to 5B so that we undertake that item next.
01:39:17.97	Mayor Cox	Seeing consensus, I'll first turn it over to the city manager to introduce this item as well. And, of course, this item is...
01:39:27.96	Mayor Cox	Sorry, it's item 5D.
01:39:30.19	Mayor Cox	Approve and authorize the city manager to execute a memorandum of understanding between the city of Sausalito and the Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District to transfer sewer collection services and authorize the mayor to execute a bill of sale for the sewer collection system following completion of financial transactions for the collection system.
01:39:48.68	Chris Zapata	City manager. Thank you, mayor and council. I want to start by saying this has been a priority of this city council and past city councils. As recently as 24, you affirmed that this was something you wanted to see done. So the city and the sanitary district have been working on this for years in an agreement to transfer services from the city to the district. There's been consistent work done by council committees, the most recent one being Vice Mayor Woodside and Council Member Hoffman to work with the district's special committees and district staff and legal staff to make this all come forward. Tonight, we are pleased to bring forward with the sanitary District a revised memorandum of understanding for consideration by the City Council with one change from December of 2024 and two omissions from December of 2024. The two omissions being the council direction to add a service area expansion limitation language. That's not in this MOU. The language to add a city of Sausalito seat on this new commission as a contingency of the memorandum of understanding. That's not in this MOU as well. I can say that there are four of the five members are residents of Sausalito that are on the board at this time. What it does have is revised financial language. And what that revised financial language does and is necessary for this transfer to occur provides a legal framework and a financial framework for the city to undertake this. And the highlights of that are it cleans up our balance sheet. The transfer of the district of the sewer system to the district means that the state revolving loan fund that the city has on its books now will be extinguished. The 2015 sewer bond debt that is on the city's books now will be paid off with the sewer district participation. It also sets aside money in the financial section for the legacy costs of pensions, as well as the legacy costs of other post-employment benefits that would be related to this service. So that is really, really important. I also think that it's important to acknowledge that this is not the transfer of the
01:42:17.98	Chris Zapata	the fire district to Southern Marin or fire department. This is something totally different. This is something that we worked with the district on. They worked with the local agency for mission commission on and LAFCO made it very clear that this was a call that the district and only the district could make to go it alone or to bring it before LAFCO. The district chose to go it alone and take forward the process we have, which is perfectly legal. So tonight, what you have in front of you is a roadmap for the orderly transfer. There's a schedule. Kevin's going to walk through some of the highlights and then hopefully we can see a vote. And then I also really want to acknowledge the board from the sanitary sewer district and the general manager, Jeff Kingston and his team for their constant work on this over the years.
01:43:08.23	Chris Zapata	you
01:43:08.24	Kevin McGowan	We,
01:43:08.78	Kevin McGowan	Thank you, Mr. City Manager.
01:43:11.06	Kevin McGowan	Public Works Director for Sausalito. And I, too, want to thank Jeffrey Kingston and Dan Rayner for being here this evening. They have been instrumental in this entire process. Next slide, please.
01:43:21.83	Kevin McGowan	I only have a few slides and I'll do my best to run through them. I think you've seen most of these before.
01:43:26.79	Kevin McGowan	We're moving forward this evening or requesting to move forward with a memo of understanding. And I just want to kind of back up and make a refresher that we have 21 miles of sanitary collection systems. And currently residents of Sausalito receive two invoices on their property bills, one from the city of Sausalito and one from the district. And it would be good to consolidate those into one bill.
01:43:55.29	Kevin McGowan	The district is an entity that all they do is sanitary work.
01:44:00.37	Kevin McGowan	And so they have skill skills in dealing with just sanitary. Well, our public works department is good at this, but we do have other priorities that we have to take into account. So.
01:44:12.17	Kevin McGowan	Having the district move forward with managing this is a good idea for our residents. It's an efficiency that will help our residents move projects forward.
01:44:21.95	Kevin McGowan	Next slide, please.
01:44:25.13	Kevin McGowan	The district is a five-member board and provides conveyance and treatment services for Sausalito, Marin City, TAM, CSD, and some outlying areas. They service 10,000 equivalent dwelling units and 16,000 members of the district.
01:44:42.56	Kevin McGowan	of the public. So they are a decent sized organization and they know what they're doing. Next slide, please.
01:44:50.26	Kevin McGowan	As many of you know, this discussion has been happening for many years, and we have worked very hard with the district to move it to this point. So again, many thanks for that. That includes you folks as well on the council, as well as members of the board of the sanitary district.
01:45:07.99	Kevin McGowan	In 2094, the district and the city met with members of LAFCO, and I think this was mentioned before, that we do not need LAFCO approval at this point in time, and that's a big step for us. So that will save us time and effort. Next slide, please.
01:45:26.45	Kevin McGowan	In order to move forward, we kind of need a roadmap. And the roadmap is the memo of understanding. So this specific document will help us make, make allow us to move forward with certain key elements. And there's a lot of steps noted in the memo of understanding, but keep in mind that it, that the major portions have to do with fiscal transfer and as well as public outreach and personnel and equipment transfers as well. Next slide.
01:45:56.49	Kevin McGowan	So the city has several financial issues that need to be addressed as part of the transfer. This includes retiree pensions, as well as other post-employee benefits, clean water revolving loan, as well as a 2015 sewer bond. The bond was mentioned by Chris as well, and I think that's covered in your packet of how we intend to address that. Next slide, please.
01:46:29.19	Kevin McGowan	We have a schedule included in your packet.
01:46:32.16	Kevin McGowan	Our folks from the district have suggested there might need to be some minor changes with that.
01:46:37.87	Kevin McGowan	And we'll need to discuss the timing with the district. But in general, the idea is to move forward with this MOU.
01:46:44.65	Kevin McGowan	The district will meet hopefully tomorrow to weigh in on whether the MOU is approved, depending upon your actions this evening.
01:46:53.61	Kevin McGowan	And that'll set the stage for things such as bond transfer, public outreach, as well as other actions such as transferring easements. One of the things I wanted to mention is that transferring easements is something I haven't done in the past, and I will probably need the help of the district to move that forward, and it may take some time.
01:47:16.34	Kevin McGowan	But we will utilize our resources as best we can to move that forward as quickly as possible.
01:47:21.99	Chris Zapata	Kevin, can we go back two slides?
01:47:26.30	Chris Zapata	One more.
01:47:28.95	Chris Zapata	One more.
01:47:31.02	Chris Zapata	the financial slide.
01:47:33.54	Kevin McGowan	forward.
01:47:37.05	Kevin McGowan	There you go.
01:47:39.22	Chris Zapata	I don't think we can go past that so rapidly. I think there really needs to be some understanding of what is actually being done by the district and the city to facilitate this. So, yes, you know, setting aside money for pensions and post-employment benefits and paying off the loan. But what the district has committed at this point to do is the delta between the $5 million payoff, $5.1 million payoff of those water bonds, the district is going to fill that delta by writing a check of approximately $3.198764 million to the city so we can pay off the bonds and then legally transfer the system to them. So, you know, the fact that the district is coming up with $3 million to do this, I think is really, really notable. I didn't hear Kevin mention it. So I thought it was important for me to mention it because Mr. Kingston and his team are here. They can tell you, you know, that's a lot of money, but that's what's going to take to get the city out of the sewer business and transfer this service to them. They understand.
01:48:49.22	Chris Zapata	Chris, I think your mic's off. They're prepared to vote on that tomorrow at noon, which at their board meeting, which I will attend. And, you know, to culminate the work that both sides have done to move this forward. Thank you.
01:49:04.00	Kevin McGowan	All right. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. I appreciate the clarification. Next slide and one more after that.
01:49:10.99	Kevin McGowan	There we go.
01:49:12.66	Kevin McGowan	I think that concludes my short presentation. And again, I want to thank Jeffrey Kingston and all of his staff, because it's not just Jeffrey, it's Kevin Rahman and his staff behind the scenes helping us out, as well as Dan Rainier and Don Beers, who have attended most of our subcommittee meetings, and you folks on the council as well. So many thanks. This is one of those projects that it takes a village in order to make something happen. So thank you.
01:49:42.28	Chris Zapata	And Mayor, kudos to Kevin for staying with us all this time. And thank you to our city attorney, Sergio Rudin, for his work, as well as our finance department, Jesus Nava, Peter Stonebreaker, to get this information in a way that it could be digestible, working with the Bank of New York regarding the sewer debt and working with the state involving the revolving loan fund. So lots of folks have had work here. There's still some work to do, but I think we're at that point where if you approve tonight and the district approves tomorrow, it's going to create a different scenario in Sausalu for the residents, which it should be seamless to. And for the district, it'll be, I don't want to say that word,, but it brings forward, you know, that whole aspect of collection into their service and their operations. Thank you.
01:50:36.02	Mayor Cox	Thank you. With that, I'll open it up to questions.
01:50:39.10	Chris Zapata	Thank you.
01:50:39.11	Council member Sobieski	Council member Sobieski. Maybe I missed it, but when will you estimate this all to be finished?
01:50:45.66	Kevin McGowan	My original schedule said sometime in, I believe, in September or October. Some of those details I, again, need to discuss with the district to make sure I'm on the right page. There are some key components there. One has to do with public outreach, and we intend to utilize an outside consultant to help us with that.
01:51:06.30	Kevin McGowan	In addition, the easement transfers make me a little bit nervous, and so I want to make sure I have enough time to deal with that.
01:51:14.24	Councilmember Blaustein	I don't see you.
01:51:15.32	Kevin McGowan	Councilmember Blaustein.
01:51:16.79	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:51:17.81	Councilmember Blaustein	Hi, Director McGowan. I just wanted to clarify just a few things that will shift when
01:51:23.32	Councilmember Blaustein	Sarah Silver, If we approve them a random understanding for the consolidation. Sarah Silver, That means that now the South Sudden Marin city sanitary district would take on the environmental compliance risks associated the environmental compliance generally associated with the sewer protection district correct.
01:51:37.95	Kevin McGowan	Yes, everything associated with the collection system.
01:51:40.91	Councilmember Blaustein	And so the same goes for the infrastructure and infrastructure liability. Yes. Okay. And also all of the regulatory reporting and audits and whatnot. Yes. Okay, great. So it'll save us a substantial amount of staff time and oversight concerns. Yes. Okay. And potential risk for insurance around our infrastructure. Yes.
01:51:49.51	Kevin McGowan	Yes.
01:51:54.63	Kevin McGowan	Yes.
01:51:58.86	Mayor Cox	Yes.
01:51:59.13	Councilmember Blaustein	Great. Thank you.
01:52:02.36	Mayor Cox	Any other questions?
01:52:04.43	Mayor Cox	All right, I'm going to open it up for public comment.
01:52:11.47	Mayor Cox	MacDougall?
01:52:20.23	Babette McDougall	Thank you very much.
01:52:21.63	Babette McDougall	I'm not sure if the letter I sent earlier today made it to the public record, but I did address some of these items at that time.
01:52:29.09	Babette McDougall	First of all, let me just say I am in favor of progress. And I love the idea of aligning with Marin City.
01:52:35.53	Babette McDougall	I think there are two things that we need to have our...
01:52:38.79	Babette McDougall	we need to be mindful of as we go forward. Number one, to say again,
01:52:43.53	Babette McDougall	the words from the city manager, about moving us out of the sewer business by basically exiting the traditional model
01:52:51.38	Babette McDougall	of what hangs out there on the cliffs overlooking Richardson's Bay toward the Golden Gate.
01:52:56.86	Babette McDougall	And moving instead toward what, and this is the second item to be mindful of,
01:53:01.64	Babette McDougall	As we go into this new sewer district, what we're really doing is scaling up for the very kinds of projects that our supervisor, Stephanie Moulton-Peters, will be overseeing over the coming couple of years.
01:53:12.19	Babette McDougall	of years, which has to do with this huge expansion population-wise in Southern Marin and Sausalito to accommodate transit worker housing.
01:53:21.82	Babette McDougall	So this is on the horizon through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and it's pretty apparent that scaling up for a much larger sewer system is because we're going to have a whole lot more people to deal with coming forward.
01:53:34.76	Babette McDougall	So I just want to make sure we're mindful of this as we go forward. And finally, as we exit the old, do we know that the people that may or may not have relied upon us in past, do we know the status of how they're going to get on as our neighbors? Thank you so much.
01:53:50.76	Mayor Cox	Sunshine.
01:54:00.19	Unknown	I would like to take this opportunity to say that I read
01:54:04.48	Unknown	the agenda, and it said we had three minutes for public
01:54:08.07	Unknown	opinion. And I was given two
01:54:11.36	Unknown	Oh, I see here. It does say it down here. But it only said two minutes, and I don't know why it was mistaken. I would like to have one more minute because I did email something to the city clerk that I was asked to please share with the city council and with the city manager. And that's because I had a call today from someone that works up in at the Civic Center for the government and he wanted me to mention to you to look at the report please
01:54:44.95	Unknown	called RootedInMarin.org.
01:54:47.85	Mayor Cox	Sunshine, this public comment period is strictly confined to the MOU with the- Understand, but I was in the-
01:54:53.38	Unknown	Understand, but I was not given my third minute. We were giving everyone two minutes this evening.
01:55:00.93	Unknown	but it said on the paper, and I can read English,
01:55:05.50	Unknown	It said three minutes.
01:55:07.29	Unknown	And I'm asking because I was asked...
01:55:11.20	Unknown	by this person working for the government in San Rafael.
01:55:14.27	Unknown	that's the Civic Center, to please let the city council and the city manager know about Rooted in Marin. We received your correspondence regarding Rooted in Marin.
01:55:21.40	Mayor Cox	We-
01:55:21.48	Unknown	because-
01:55:21.94	Mayor Cox	you're not.
01:55:24.45	Unknown	because they're going to be pursuing that no elders will be treated as I was treated
01:55:30.98	Unknown	And I've been hearing in other communities, they don't even allow someone that's 85 to be evicted after they've lived in a place for 12 years and caused no problems. Thank you for understanding that if you write three minutes, please give us three minutes.
01:55:48.99	Unknown	Ray Withy.
01:55:55.82	Ray Withy	Good evening again. I was particularly wanted to come down for this agenda item. In 2014, I was mayor, actually, and our city manager, Adam Pulitzer, said, you know, Ray, we have got to develop a plan to get the hell out of the sewer collection business. Okay. It took a long time and a lot of work. So I'd like to say congratulations to all of you and all of you that have worked on this. This is very important. It's important to build scale, efficiency. Our residents can actually guarantee that their dollars that they spend on their property tax bill that goes to sewers is very efficiently spent because it's one very competent entity actually doing the work. So in 2020, as you know, on my last year on the council, together with our current mayor, we worked hard on the sewer consolidation work and the various studies that were put forward. So I'd just like, again, to you guys to thank you and say congratulations. This is a job very, very well done.
01:57:22.56	Unknown	Thank you.
01:57:23.23	Mayor Cox	City Clerk.
01:57:23.60	Unknown	Thank you.
01:57:23.66	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:57:24.13	Walford	No further public comment.
01:57:25.92	Mayor Cox	All right, with that, I will close public comment. I'm going to bring it up here for discussion. I'm going to lead off. I'm going to move...
01:57:33.21	Mayor Cox	that we approve and authorize the city manager to execute a memorandum of understanding between the city of Sausalito and the Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District to transfer sewer collection services and authorize the mayor to execute a bill of sale for sewer collection system following completion of financial transactions for the collection system.
01:57:53.96	Mayor Cox	second.
01:57:54.22	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
01:57:54.45	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
01:57:55.21	Councilmember Blaustein	Second, sorry.
01:57:56.09	Mayor Cox	All right, and then I'm going to lead off with public comment. And city clerk, will you manage the three-minute clock, please?
01:58:03.65	Mayor Cox	not public comment, the comment by councilman.
01:58:06.22	Mayor Cox	members.
01:58:06.50	Liss Meryl	you
01:58:07.63	Mayor Cox	So, again, I want to thank the city manager, the public works director, and the city attorney for their work to negotiate and memorialize the logistics and deal points necessary to implement this important transfer. Thanks also to General Manager Jeff Kingston and board member Dan Reiner for their attendance here tonight, but also for their really conscientious pursuit of...
01:58:29.23	Mayor Cox	of this transfer of services over the last 10 years at least. Thanks to Ray Withey for his leadership in working with us to formulate an outline of deal points back in 2019 and 2020. Thanks to our current working committee, Vice Mayor Woodside and Council Member Hoffman for their work to bring this home.
01:58:48.47	Mayor Cox	I think this is really going to be great to transfer this facility to the experts who have a track record of success. We are well familiar with their success because they already provide our treatment needs. They successfully navigated the settlement of an EPA consent decree regarding the adequacy of our services, facilitated in large measure by a very successful and impressive expansion of their facilities several years ago. They have been great partners over the years, successfully collaborating with us to construct impressive pump stations where needed in Sausalito, most recently on Olima Street. And there will be less confusion with a single sewer service invoice on our property tax rolls. I fully endorse the proposed public outreach to rate payers that will explain that this transfer has very different and positive financial implications, different from the consolidation of our fire protection services that the city undertook over 10 years ago. And so with that, I'm very grateful.
01:59:52.78	Mayor Cox	Pleased and proud to bring this longstanding priority and project to fruition.
02:00:00.24	Mayor Cox	Would anyone else like to comment?
02:00:02.85	Mayor Cox	Councilmember Hoffman.
02:00:03.85	Mayor Cox	Oh, sure. Okay.
02:00:05.59	Unknown	Thank you. Thank you to our staff. I mean, they worked super hard on this. You know, Kevin, our public works director and Kevin McGowan, our city manager, Chris, just worked tremendously hard on getting this together. And also,
02:00:24.23	Unknown	I think that's...
02:00:24.83	Unknown	I think somebody already thanked Dan Reiner who's sitting out there. Our city resident, Dan Reiner, also the board president. Dan was originally appointed in 2011.
02:00:29.48	Unknown	resident.
02:00:34.34	Unknown	um his term current term ends in 2026 so you know we'll see how it goes he's only been president for 12 years i think so something like that um and jeff as the district director thank you so much for your help on this and your staff it's it's been a huge huge effort um and i look forward to this final um you know getting this at least starting the journey to finish the transfer this is the first step right also bill ring who is also also a resident, Shirley Thornton also sits on the board. And it wouldn't be right to do this without a shout out to Ann Arnott, our long-term resident who served for, worked for the board district for 30 years, I think, and then served on the board after she retired. I invited her tonight, but due to the late hour, you know, no doubt she's not here here. Anne, I hope you're watching, and if you are, I want to thank you personally and on behalf of the council for all of your service. And we were, at least, Council Member Blaustein and the mayor were there at the pump station down by Whiskey Springs last year that is named after Anne Arnott. And if you go by the bench there, there's a little plaque there that says it's the Ann Arnott pump station. So anybody who wants to go there and sit on the bench and look at the pump station, it's a lovely location. And I know it was a matter of great concern for the people at Whiskey Springs. And thank you to the district for delivering that lovely little bench and the plantings around it. So anyway, back to business. Thank you for your hard work. And I look forward to finishing this transfer and consolidating these. I think it's a good, we're on a good path. And I think the increased efficiencies, and I agree, it's the right path. So thank you to everybody.
02:02:17.06	Unknown	I think it's all been said. I just want to say thank you. I'm the late comer to this and looked into it in detail and was convinced more and more that a focused jurisdiction is the best way to go for sewage as well as a few other things. So thank you all for all your hard work and foresight, Madam Mayor, former mayor, and all those who started thinking about this years ago. Thank you.
02:02:40.89	Mayor Cox	Councilmember Blaustein.
02:02:42.09	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, I'll just say that in 2017, when I...
02:02:45.61	Councilmember Blaustein	really started digging into our city budget and our infrastructure and I met with our then public works director, Director Goldman. The first thing that he flagged as a big concern was our sewers and just how much
02:02:57.93	Councilmember Blaustein	um,
02:02:58.57	Councilmember Blaustein	you know, infrastructure upkeep they required, how much risk they might require or assume, and just the fact that SMCST, which is a phenomenal district with amazing employees, a great history, an incredible team,
02:03:10.07	Councilmember Blaustein	is willing to take this up and consolidate with us and work with us on this.
02:03:15.11	Councilmember Blaustein	Very lucky.
02:03:16.28	Councilmember Blaustein	And I'm hopeful that because we're well positioned with the district being consolidated, that SMCSD will now be able to earn more grant funding because they have a larger jurisdiction.
02:03:25.40	Councilmember Blaustein	They'll be able to have longer term infrastructure investment and capital planning tools. So I just feel this is a really big.
02:03:31.36	Councilmember Blaustein	win-win and I'm really grateful to the district for wanting to partner with us and wanting to take this on and
02:03:36.78	Councilmember Blaustein	Appreciate everyone who's been involved. Obviously, also a big shout out to Ann Arnot.
02:03:41.82	Councilmember Blaustein	um and the bench and the pump station and but all of the great work that the members of the district board do and thank you for being with us tonight as well both of you uh really appreciate it and excited for what the future holds on this
02:03:54.90	Mayor Cox	Great. I will now call the question. All in favor?
02:03:58.77	Mayor Cox	Aye. Aye. That motion carries unanimously. Congratulations. Thank you so much. We're going to take a five-minute break before we resume our final two business items.
02:03:59.21	Councilmember Blaustein	Bye.
02:04:15.76	Mayor Cox	We're ready?
02:04:16.84	Mayor Cox	Okay, we're going to resume the next item on our agenda is to adopt a resolution establishing the GAN appropriation limit for fiscal year 2025 to 2026 and i'll welcome Jesus Nova our interim finance director.
02:04:32.69	Jesus Nava	So this is one of those perfunctory
02:04:36.33	Jesus Nava	things that the council has to do as part of the budget. So the GAN appropriation limit simply takes your tax revenues, sets a limit on them based on the prior year data. That data is updated by information that's provided by the Department of Finance. It updates your population. In this case, we're using the Marin County population figures, which show some very slight growth, plus also the information provided by the Department of State on per capita income. So with those two numbers, we update the number, give you the new GAM limit. As you can see, we're way under the GAM limit by about $2 million, so we're in compliance.
02:05:11.28	Mayor Cox	All right. Thank you so much. Any questions of the finance director?
02:05:16.04	Mayor Cox	Seeing none, I'll open it up to public comment.
02:05:19.46	Mayor Cox	City Clerk.
02:05:20.19	Walford	Seeing none.
02:05:21.07	Mayor Cox	All right, I'll close public comment. And I guess let's see, I will make a motion.
02:05:33.94	Unknown	Oh yeah.
02:05:36.32	Unknown	Thank you.
02:05:36.96	Unknown	It's all right.
02:05:38.62	Unknown	Sorry.
02:05:38.97	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:05:43.12	Mayor Cox	All right, I move we adopt a resolution establishing the GAN appropriation limit for fiscal year 2025 to 2026.
02:05:50.90	Councilmember Blaustein	second.
02:05:51.76	Mayor Cox	All in favor? Aye. Aye. That motion carries 5-0.
02:05:56.42	Mayor Cox	With that, we'll move on to item 5C, approval of amended and restated franchise agreement with Bay Cities Refuse Service Inc for solid waste recyclables and organic waste services and adopt a resolution approving the solid waste collection rates. I'll just notice, I'll just note that the title and the staff report make reference to Bay Cities Refuge, but the resolution properly refers to Bay Cities Refuse Service.
02:06:26.19	Mayor Cox	You know, autocorrect is a bear sometimes.
02:06:29.23	Councilmember Blaustein	Although sometimes Greg feels like a refuge for many of us when we call with a problem.
02:06:35.03	Mayor Cox	Yes.
02:06:35.87	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:06:36.38	Mayor Cox	All right. And I will welcome our Resiliency and Sustainability Manager, Katie Tho Garcia.
02:06:43.31	Catie Thow Garcia	All right. Good evening.
02:06:45.56	Catie Thow Garcia	Mayor, vice mayor, council members, members of the public, I'm Katie Thao Garcia, the city's resiliency and sustainability manager. Thank you for catching that clerical error, which I noticed very just recently.
02:06:58.50	Catie Thow Garcia	at the late night of the hour. Thank you.
02:07:02.42	Catie Thow Garcia	So tonight I'm going to be presenting on the amended and restated franchise agreement with Bay City's Refuse and adoption of a new solid waste collection rates for tonight. Next slide, please.
02:07:15.94	Catie Thow Garcia	So Bay City's Refuse has been Sausalito's longtime waste hauler.
02:07:19.78	Catie Thow Garcia	The most recent franchise agreement was approved in 2004 and had an original term through 2017 and a 10-year option to extend through 2027, which was exercised by the waste hauler.
02:07:34.01	Catie Thow Garcia	Included in the agreement are services that extend beyond traditional waste hauling and include street sweeping,
02:07:41.03	Catie Thow Garcia	e-waste hauling, bathroom cleaning,
02:07:43.48	Catie Thow Garcia	and waste hauling at many city-sponsored events. The city's compliance with SB 1383 requires curbside organic hauling,
02:07:53.67	Catie Thow Garcia	And under the current franchise agreement, the city receives a 15% of the waste haulers gross revenues. I'd also add that Bay City's refuse goes above and beyond in our community, participating regularly in the Sausalito Sustainability Commission meetings, the Chamber of Commerce and volunteering and hauling at events organized by Sausalito Beautiful. One example of this is the annual Sausalito Shine cleanup, which took place this morning and is pictured on the slide. Thank you. at events organized by Sausalito Beautiful. One example of this is the annual Sausalito Shrine cleanup, which took place this morning and is pictured on this slide. Next slide, please.
02:08:27.72	Catie Thow Garcia	In 2024, the city was approached by Bay City's refuse to begin the process of amending and restating the franchise agreement.
02:08:35.72	Catie Thow Garcia	Um,
02:08:37.10	Catie Thow Garcia	In addition, this was in conversation with the passing of SB 1383 in 2021. While the current agreement is valid till 2027, Bay Cities Refuse Service is required to upgrade their hauling trucks to meet the California Air Resource Board air quality standard, which means they have to take on additional debt to purchase these trucks. As a result, Bay Cities needs the additional security of a longer term franchise agreement.
02:09:05.32	Catie Thow Garcia	And in addition to this amending and restating the franchise agreement allows the city to incorporate SB 1383 regulations and update residential and commercial hauling rates all at the same time. Next slide please.
02:09:19.49	Catie Thow Garcia	So updates to the amended and restated franchise agreement include SB 1383 compliance organics and contamination monitoring, franchise fee moving from a percentage based collection approach to a fixed escalated fee.
02:09:38.61	Catie Thow Garcia	modernized service and billing,
02:09:41.30	Catie Thow Garcia	community outreach improvement, and an extended term through 2037 with an optional five-year term after that. Next slide, please.
02:09:53.66	Catie Thow Garcia	So effective July 1st, proposed rate increases include residential rates up 3.2%, which reflects the Consumer Price Index, or CPI.
02:10:06.02	Catie Thow Garcia	Multifamily up 4.1%, which reflects 3.2 of CPI plus 0.9% for SB 1383 additional compliance. And commercial rates up 5.0%, which reflects the 3.2 of CPI plus an additional 1.8 for a
02:10:27.64	Catie Thow Garcia	additional COVID recovery, CARB regulations, and SB 1383 compliance. And even with these rate adjustments, there will still be the lowest waste hauling fees in Marin County. Next slide, please.
02:10:43.35	Catie Thow Garcia	Together, this makes up a fixed franchise fee of $686,400 per year plus CPI with rate adjustments made every five years, as is outlined in the franchise agreement.
02:10:58.97	Catie Thow Garcia	And last slide, please.
02:11:01.89	Catie Thow Garcia	So staff's recommendation tonight is to approve the amended and restated franchise agreement and adopt a resolution approving the solid waste collection rates. I will also just add that I've been working very closely with the city attorney on this.
02:11:15.74	Catie Thow Garcia	So he will be available for any questions. And Bay Cities Refuse has joined us tonight.
02:11:21.67	Catie Thow Garcia	Thank you.
02:11:22.06	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:11:23.10	Mayor Cox	Thank you. Any questions?
02:11:27.00	Mayor Cox	Seeing none, I'll open it up to public comment.
02:11:33.52	Liss Meryl	Oh, look.
02:11:39.22	Mark Palmer	Good evening, Mayor, Council Members, Mark Palmer, Sustainability Commission.
02:11:43.93	Mark Palmer	Bay City's refuse has been the city's waste hauler for 36 years. Can you believe it?
02:11:49.38	Mark Palmer	And 33 years ago in 1993, the original incarnation of the sustainability commission was the waste management advisory committee. And for as long as I can remember, and looking at the minutes, past minutes over 10 years, Bay Cities has been engaged, an engaged participant in the sustainability commission meetings, helping to implement the city's goals for waste reduction, reuse, recycling, composting, and the single use plastics ban.
02:12:18.88	Mark Palmer	S.B. 1383 a statewide mandate authorizes enhanced requirements for including organic waste collection edible food recovery from large food businesses. Procurement of recycled organics compliance record keeping education and outreach and penalties for non compliance.
02:12:38.18	Mark Palmer	This franchise agreement renewal with Bay Cities Refuse authorizes a continuing relationship toward managing Sausalito's solid waste and minimizing the use of landfill while ensuring implementation of SB 1383. I urge approval of the amended franchise agreement, including the proposed customer service rates. Thank you.
02:12:59.19	Mayor Cox	Thank you. And thank you for your service on our Sustainability Commission.
02:13:03.68	Mayor Cox	Babette McDougall.
02:13:07.86	Catie Thow Garcia	Thank you.
02:13:07.96	Unknown	Thank you.
02:13:12.79	Babette McDougall	Thank you for acknowledging me. So I could speak frankly as a business person in Sausalito, as a community volunteer, but I'm going to speak first and foremost as a resident of Sausalito because I have to say...
02:13:26.78	Babette McDougall	that as someone who lives on a hillside, and it's really impossible to deal with those bins the way they're supposed to be dealt with, over the years, you really cannot even put a price tag on the well list
02:13:38.56	Babette McDougall	intended and very careful, attentive service that this company provides every single person in our town, whether we're a resident or something other. I just cannot, I mean, it's kind of embarrassing really to not be able to say thank you often enough because they're always available to us. And I'm really grateful for that. So I just want to say that, yes, the price is probably going to go up according to the CPI. And anybody with a fixed income household is going to say, ouch.
02:14:10.13	Babette McDougall	But you cannot put a price on this kind of service and know that they've always got our backs. That's what matters. Thank you.
02:14:15.97	Babette McDougall	you
02:14:16.38	Babette McDougall	Thank you. City Clerk.
02:14:18.64	Walford	We have Bonnie McGregor.
02:14:26.30	Walford	you can unmute yourself
02:14:30.90	Bonnie McGregor	You couldn't hear me say sorry.
02:14:32.63	Bonnie McGregor	Good evening, Mayor Cox from the City Council.
02:14:35.88	Bonnie McGregor	Bonnie McGregor, a local resident for over 40 years. And I'm coming to you tonight also as a
02:14:41.92	Bonnie McGregor	resident.
02:14:43.51	Bonnie McGregor	And I want you to approve the city's Refuge Service contract
02:14:47.59	Bonnie McGregor	They not only provide excellent refuge service, they have continued to participate in various city activities such as today,
02:14:56.05	Bonnie McGregor	which was shown in the previous slide.
02:14:59.10	Bonnie McGregor	And I saw the back of my head in the slide, so I could guarantee I was there.
02:15:03.19	Bonnie McGregor	And they have for years, I volunteered for this art festival for over 35 years.
02:15:09.26	Bonnie McGregor	and served as the captain of garbage at one season,
02:15:12.37	Bonnie McGregor	And so I worked with Greg Christie's team personally to keep these fairgrounds
02:15:17.63	Bonnie McGregor	for 35 years.
02:15:20.18	Bonnie McGregor	They always go over the top in service.
02:15:22.78	Bonnie McGregor	Greg's wife provided wonderful sandwiches and other goodies for us to eat as the garbage committee that year.
02:15:29.95	Bonnie McGregor	They also always were at the 4th, they were in the 4th of July parade.
02:15:34.29	Bonnie McGregor	and the party participation are above normal service as usual.
02:15:38.47	Bonnie McGregor	for the whole event.
02:15:39.69	Bonnie McGregor	They always used to participate, I don't know whether they'll always do it or not, in the chili cook-off as a participant, and also the refuse servants.
02:15:47.50	Bonnie McGregor	So once again, they're over the top during the Shine Sausalito event today.
02:15:51.67	Bonnie McGregor	They took on
02:15:53.59	Bonnie McGregor	They cleaned up a lot of the Tiffany park, which was not on our schedule.
02:15:57.71	Bonnie McGregor	in addition to taking care of everything else today.
02:16:00.48	Bonnie McGregor	We need to hold on to a service that is so dedicated to the community. Accept the contract.
02:16:06.86	Unknown	Thank you. City Clerk.
02:16:08.86	Walford	Next speaker is Carolyn Revell.
02:16:17.47	Carolyn Revell	Can you hear me?
02:16:18.99	Carolyn Revell	you
02:16:19.01	Unknown	Yes.
02:16:19.21	Carolyn Revell	We have you.
02:16:20.54	Carolyn Revell	I want to simply echo everything that's been said about the community service that Greg and his company provide.
02:16:27.38	Carolyn Revell	As Bonnie mentioned and Katie, Greg was there with his crew today at our Sausalito Shine event and went beyond the duty, as Bonnie said, by going down as far as Tiffany Park. But he himself and his other associate were there themselves doing a lot of cleanup. He's always there at our Green Thumbs events, picking up the trash bags that we leave of refuse. And he's a community asset. And definitely, I want to add my recommendation to approve this contract for this community asset, Bay City's refuse. Thank you so much.
02:17:03.86	Walford	Thank you.
02:17:05.11	Walford	No further public comment.
02:17:06.66	Mayor Cox	All right, with that, I will close public comment and bring it back here. I'm going to lead off by making a motion that we approve the amended and restated franchise agreement with Bay City's Refuse Service, Inc. for solid waste, recyclables, and organic waste services, and authorized execution by the mayor, and adopt a resolution approving solid waste collection rates in accordance with amended and restated franchise agreement.
02:17:34.77	Unknown	Second.
02:17:36.31	Mayor Cox	I'll just echo some of the comments we heard, which is Bay Cities has provided refuse services to us for 36 years.
02:17:44.39	Mayor Cox	Greg Christie is truly an engaged participant in our community, attending our sustainability committee meetings, volunteering at the Saucy-Dude Art Festival for years, and marching in our 4th of July parade. We really appreciate the civic-mindedness of Bay Cities. I fully endorse facilitating their ability to obtain
02:18:10.79	Mayor Cox	needed monies to carry out required implementation of SB 1385
02:18:15.95	Mayor Cox	and continue to minimize the use of landfill,
02:18:18.80	Mayor Cox	I also appreciate the thoughtfulness of our city attorney and the manner in which he
02:18:24.00	Mayor Cox	Um,
02:18:24.79	Mayor Cox	negotiated and constructed this agreement to keep pace with
02:18:29.58	Mayor Cox	pending legislation and litigation in this area. And so with that, I'm prepared to support this move.
02:18:40.62	Councilmember Blaustein	Councilmember Blaustein. So I've had the opportunity to work with Kim and Greg for almost a decade now through the Sustainability Commission and then my service on the council. And we are so lucky to have Bay Cities in Sausalito. It is unbelievable to me. If you look at what they're proposing, they're really just adjusting us to CPI and agreeing with the SB 1383 requirements, which I believe you deserve a huge raise for everything that you do all the time to support our community. You are at every jazz and blues. You are at every Sausalito Beautiful event. You answer every phone call. You actively work to make composting and recycling a priority and not just a priority, but easier in our community, which, you know, often isn't talked about, but is a huge step just for sustainability. And your commitment to sustainability really shows in how much you contribute to the conversation at all of our sustainability commission meetings and how you always just show up to be a part of that discussion and to look for things like service providers. When we were using our-use plastic band. Where can we find one that works with your composter? And what is it? And how do we get it to our restaurants? And just as someone who's really committed to climate change in our community and taking necessary sustainability steps, it's just really...
02:19:58.13	Councilmember Blaustein	amazing to have partners like, like you guys in, in that work. So I'm definitely supportive of, of, and approving this and just a big thank you to Kim and, um, for everything you guys do for us. Thank you.
02:20:10.28	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
02:20:10.57	Mayor Cox	Vice Mayor.
02:20:12.24	Unknown	Yeah, just two things that I learned tonight and today, actually. One is it's the lowest rate in Marin County. And given our hills and given the difficulty going on essentially one-way roads is just remarkable. And every single person I've encountered who's hauling around things that weigh a lot, and then they go off and work out just so they can stay in good shape, right? It's amazing. The other thing I learned this morning, I attended a Chamber of Commerce mixer where they were complimenting the fact that, oh, you're having a problem with your sidewalk? Well, Bay Cities also does that, which was frankly news to me. So thank you for all you do.
02:20:47.62	Catie Thow Garcia	Well,
02:20:47.77	Mayor Cox	Well,
02:20:53.29	Unknown	and I fully support the contract.
02:20:56.68	Mayor Cox	Anyone else?
02:20:59.18	Council member Sobieski	Not to belabor the point, but you guys are great. It's a sign of corporate culture, which is remarkable. And congratulations. It really, building culture is hard and it endures through employees and generations. It's, we could all take a lesson.
02:21:16.23	Council member Sobieski	And anyone with a business can take a lesson from your company. So congratulations on what you built.
02:21:24.49	Unknown	Sorry. I just wanted to echo everything, but also to thank you for, I think you guys still do in some instances go upstairs to get trash for people that can't make it up and down the stairs. So I want to personally thank you for doing that. I appreciate that. I know that might be unique to our hillside community, but it's needed for some of those people. I know it's a unique service for Sausalito. So thank you for that. And thank you for being our partner for so many years here in Sausalito. We appreciate it.
02:21:55.29	Mayor Cox	Great. And with that, I'll call the question. All in favor? Aye. That motion carries unanimously. Congratulations. And again, thank you.
02:22:07.44	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:22:07.96	Liss Meryl	Cheers.
02:22:09.26	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much. We appreciate you.
02:22:13.31	Mayor Cox	All right, I'm going to move on to item six. The first is 6A, City Manager Information for Council, including the City Manager Quarterly Report. Thank you, Katie.
02:22:30.12	Mayor Cox	the
02:22:31.00	Unknown	Thank you.
02:22:31.59	Mayor Cox	Good night.
02:22:37.34	Chris Zapata	Mayor and council members of the public in your packet is the quarterly report from the city manager detailing work done by all the departments to keep the city services and projects moving forward. That concludes my report.
02:22:49.59	Chris Zapata	Thank you.
02:22:50.08	Mayor Cox	you
02:22:50.20	Chris Zapata	you
02:22:50.52	Mayor Cox	Next is city attorney information for counsel. Anything, Sergio?
02:22:55.21	Unknown	Nothing further to report tonight.
02:22:57.51	Mayor Cox	All right, thank you next is Council Member committee reports you'll see in your packet a request from Nancy Hall Bennett that we that the city of Sausalito.
02:23:10.66	Mayor Cox	Transmit a letter of support for AB 996. Any objections from anyone?
02:23:19.60	Mayor Cox	No objection. Great.
02:23:19.61	Unknown	No objection.
02:23:25.50	Liss Meryl	I have some committee reports. Yes, go ahead.
02:23:26.25	Councilmember Blaustein	Yes, go ahead. Okay. So big week for committees. On Wednesday evening, the Disaster Preparedness Committee, which Council Member Sobieski sits on with me, met for the first time as part of its reconfiguration. You might recall that it has been
02:23:42.82	Councilmember Blaustein	over a year since there was a meeting of the committee and we've since appointed a number of new members. I'm happy to report there's a lot of new enthusiasm as well as a number of people who have significant experience in emergency management, including someone who worked as a professional emergency
02:23:58.87	Councilmember Blaustein	manager and runs cyber management for Kaiser, for instance, someone who did specifically marketing for an ambulance company.
02:24:07.94	Councilmember Blaustein	So has marketing informational support for emergency management and Janelle Kelman sits on the committee. So there's just a lot of,
02:24:14.27	Councilmember Blaustein	energy, folks with institutional knowledge, Bonnie McGregor. So we had a great first meeting and agreed that we would meet monthly for the first three months as we set our strategic goals. And we've recently reviewed.
02:24:25.41	Councilmember Blaustein	and have received from the chief
02:24:27.10	Councilmember Blaustein	Mill Valley Strategic Plan for Disaster Preparedness, and hopefully we can take some steps to model
02:24:32.50	Councilmember Blaustein	That then on Thursday, I attended our quarterly sustainability commission meeting.
02:24:37.71	Councilmember Blaustein	where we had a robust discussion regarding support for
02:24:41.21	Councilmember Blaustein	continued support for EV chargers at Dunphy Park and the contract that we established for the six EV chargers there. So there'll be a resolution from the Sustainability Commission.
02:24:50.86	Councilmember Blaustein	regarding that and EV charging costs.
02:24:53.05	Councilmember Blaustein	generally in the community. This morning or sorry Monday morning was the PBID meeting. I was unable to attend but I did review the presentations and I and you have probably all seen and noticed some of the accomplishments of PBID to date. If you've been downtown you will have seen that there are new patio chairs and tables, beautiful blue tables downtown that folks have been sitting at right in front of and in our new plaza that we've received a number of compliments and letters about.
02:25:18.55	Councilmember Blaustein	There's also new lighting on Tracy way, which is currently lit up in rainbow colors for pride. Although those light colors will change. It's really festive and great to have down there. And there's also new floral hanging baskets. So PBID also presented a report on that. The, um,
02:25:33.81	Councilmember Blaustein	the funds that they've received and what they plan to do going forward and they have a lot of positive momentum so wanted to share out those three reports
02:25:42.95	Councilmember Blaustein	One more, sorry. One more, just a nod to, I don't know if this is a committee report or like a response or note of significance, but I want to thank Chief Gregory and our city manager for responding to a pigeon on the loose in driver's market on Sunday evening. One of the pigeons from the-
02:25:58.95	Councilmember Blaustein	The Portuguese pride or the Portuguese parade, the white dove that was released wouldn't leave and was took up residence in driver's market for almost a week. And I think it's good luck to anyway, the they had trouble getting the Humane Society to come out. The city manager and chief Gregory on Father's Day handled it. And the I think that the white dove is now safe.
02:26:20.33	Mayor Cox	Council member Blasin earlier tonight, you heard an inquiry from a member of the public about power washing the sidewalks. Is that something you can mention to the PBID? Absolutely. Okay.
02:26:33.17	Unknown	Other council member reports. If I could just follow on, we'll eventually sort out the confusion as to who's on the emergency response. I'm now on it and I'm not confused now.
02:26:42.62	Mayor Cox	I'm not confused.
02:26:43.84	Mayor Cox	That's been ironed out. Yeah. Yeah.
02:26:44.93	Unknown	Yeah.
02:26:45.25	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:26:45.34	Mayor Cox	Okay, yeah.
02:26:45.83	Unknown	Yeah.
02:26:46.13	Unknown	So, well, I will be attending in the future. Thank you very much. And then I did this morning at a Chamber of Commerce presentation. Cass Green did a very nice presentation, which she has a PowerPoint for that. It really talks about the budget priorities, et cetera. So anyone who's interested, I think that can be made available to to read. And then lastly, I'll be attending on Thursday, the Marine Clean Energy meeting.
02:27:12.59	Mayor Cox	Thursday is Juneteenth. I think they're not meeting until July 17th.
02:27:16.24	Unknown	Okay, that explains it.
02:27:16.42	Mayor Cox	According to him.
02:27:17.89	Mayor Cox	That explains. If you could, you have an email in your inbox.
02:27:21.87	Unknown	I'll straighten it out. Thank you. Great.
02:27:23.09	Mayor Cox	them yet.
02:27:24.15	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:27:25.58	Mayor Cox	MCE, Marin Clean Energy.
02:27:28.44	Mayor Cox	Any other council member reports? Yes, council member Hoffman.
02:27:31.86	Unknown	This is upcoming. This is just for your FYI. On July 2nd, the North Bay Division of the Cal Cities will be hosting a meeting up at the Cal Maritime Academy, which excitingly will be coming the Cal Poly campus of the Maritime Academy. So it's going to be subsumed into or become part of Cal Poly, but it's with Congressman Garamendi.
02:27:58.12	Unknown	And the North Bay Division is hosting that up there.
02:28:01.19	Unknown	um what time uh you know what i don't know it's in the morning 10 30 i think is a
02:28:06.46	Unknown	is when that's going to start but anyway every the council's invited and so that's put that on your that's going to be focused on the ships act and garamendi congressman garamendi is going is one of the authors of the ships act and so that's of interest obviously to um you know vallejo and that area and also some of the other towns up there that have former shipyards and um as president in north bay division uh i'm running the meeting but also i'm interested in that for possibilities here in sausalito so i understand you're you're attending and so that's of interest and i'll be reporting on that um at our second july meeting um and also on our is our for us our august 15th north bay division here at jazz by the bay so put that on your calendars for council members um and then our long beach cal cities conference so that's for us and our uh city staff down at uh down in long beach so you know sign up because it does sell out and of course the hotel rooms sell out fast so anyway that's for us in our upcoming calendar so
02:29:12.74	Mayor Cox	Great. Thank you so much.
02:29:14.36	Unknown	Go ahead. Do have more to report. Okay. So SB 79, which all of us, we did send a letter in opposition and that the current status on that is that it passed by one vote from the Senate to go back to the assembly. And so it's now working its way through the assembly. So, look to a request sometime in July to probably way back in with our assembly members on amendments to that as it works its way through the assembly. And that's the bill where it allows transit companies to use whatever property they own as part of a transit company to build whatever it is they want to build, including housing, including commercial, including whatever it is, wherever they want to build it, regardless of zoning in the towns where they have property. So anyway.
02:30:15.06	Mayor Cox	Bye.
02:30:17.02	Unknown	Thank you.
02:30:17.03	Mayor Cox	Great, anyone else?
02:30:18.59	Mayor Cox	Okay, then we have no appointments to make this evening. Anything regarding future agenda items.
02:30:26.43	Mayor Cox	I'm sorry.
02:30:27.77	Mayor Cox	I have.
02:30:28.04	Councilmember Blaustein	One. Okay, go ahead. Oh, two. So I think many of you may have followed the recent vote at TUHSD regarding defunding a program that was in support of the black students within TUHSD. And we had, I had received a request to potentially consider a resolution supporting that program. So I'd like us to have a discussion about that sort of resolution if we could. I also just wanted to bring up again that I would love to see us agendize a marineship master plan and a general master plan.
02:31:00.62	Councilmember Blaustein	Yes.
02:31:01.87	Council member Sobieski	Yeah, Mayor, I'd like to second that. May...
02:31:04.37	Council member Sobieski	April 23rd of 2023, we had a nice staff report and a consideration. I think things have evolved since then, and I would propose we bring back just the same staff report and have a discussion about next steps based off of it. No need for staff to do any more work than that without any further direction from the council, but if we could just agendize that so that we can either agree not to take any action or agree to take some, I'd appreciate it.
02:31:29.67	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:31:31.15	Mayor Cox	All right. I haven't seen any minutes attached to our agendas in a while, so I'm hoping we can continue to do that on a monthly basis.
02:31:40.31	Walford	Yeah, as staff gives me their minutes, I'll post them on there.
02:31:45.70	Mayor Cox	Well, maybe you could just follow up to make sure you're getting them.
02:31:49.39	Mayor Cox	Once a month. Will do.
02:31:51.30	Mayor Cox	Okay.
02:31:52.14	Mayor Cox	There are no other reports of significance. I'll take public comment on items, the items within item six.
02:32:01.09	Walford	See you, man.
02:32:01.86	Mayor Cox	All right, then I will happily adjourn our meeting at 9.
02:32:06.64	Mayor Cox	40 p.m. Thank you, everybody.

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