City Council Oct 15, 2024

Oct 15

City Council Meeting Summary

Time	Item	Item Summary	Motion Summary	Comment Summary
00:00:00	None: None	Jeffrey James calls the meeting to order on October 15, 2024, at the City Council Chambers, 420 Little Street. The meeting is being broadcast live on the city's website, Zoom, and cable TV channel 27. (00:00:05)	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:00:23	I: CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL & ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION	Mayor Sobieski called the meeting to order, and the roll was called, with Councilmember Kelman absent. The council then moved to adjourn to a closed session to discuss two items: the Cass Gidley Marina and the MLK school site. Vice Mayor Cox recused herself from the second item due to the proximity of her residence to the property (00:01:04). Public comment was opened and closed with no comments made. The council then adjourned to closed session, scheduled to return at 7 p.m. (00:01:15)	No Motion	1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
00:01:16 Katie Thau-Garcia was Neutral: Acknowledgement of being recognized to speak.
00:01:30	II: RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION - 7:00 PM	The meeting reconvened to open session. Mayor Sobieski announced there were no announcements from the closed session. They then adjourned to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:01:56	1: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS/MAYOR'S ANNOUNCEMENTS	Mayor Sobieski introduces Katie Thau-Garcia, the City's Resiliency and Sustainability Manager, for a special presentation. (00:02:12)	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:02:26	1.A: Presentation on Shoreline Adaptation Plan & Beyond	Katie Thau-Garcia presented an update on the Shoreline Adaptation Plan and recent funding received for shoreline resiliency projects. The presentation covered the history of sea level rise planning efforts, the goals and scope of the current adaptation plan, and the outcomes of the first community workshop. Key deliverables include a project website, community pop-up materials, focus group meetings, community workshops, a community visioning document, a vulnerability assessment, and a prioritization framework. The plan is on schedule to finish in late 2025. The presentation also highlighted three recently received grants: $614,000 from the U.S. Economic Development Administration for a Gate 5 Road to Harbor Drive Improvement Study, $250,000 from the Ocean Protection Council for a Sausalito facility vulnerability assessment, and $170,000 from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for the improvement of Turney Street Dock. (00:05:49) The goal is to prepare a community-informed sea level rise adaptation plan that includes an updated vulnerability assessment, a community vision, and prioritized adaptation strategies. (00:14:25) Significant additional funding was leveraged for these other three projects to build off of the shoreline adaptation plan. Councilmember Kelman congratulated Katie on her work, highlighting the success in securing funding for the Turney Street ramp project and the potential for future funding based on the Economic Development Administration grant. (00:16:33) Councilmember Austin praised the work and inquired about sharing information with neighboring communities like Marin City and the houseboats, ensuring collaboration with county and regional partners. (00:20:14)	No Motion	4 Total: 1 In Favor 1 Against 2 Neutral
00:22:06 Eva Crisanti was Against: Eva Crisanti expressed concern that the projections being used are overly optimistic. (00:22:06) She also raised the issue of the environmental cost of the war in Gaza and Lebanon, arguing that the CO2 emissions from the conflict will exacerbate global warming and impact the Bay Area. 00:24:22 Damian Morgan was Neutral: Damian Morgan highlighted Marin City's selection as one of 12 communities to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and invited everyone to a press conference on November 1st. (00:24:22) He stressed the importance of collaboration between Sausalito and Marin City on environmental issues and sea level rise adaptation. 00:26:30 Jeffrey Chase was Neutral: Jeffrey Chase thanked Katie for the report and suggested using floating structures as an adaptation strategy. (00:26:30) He criticized the town for not providing meeting minutes before public comment. (00:27:15) He argued that anchor outs mitigate climate change by using less electricity and car travel and that mitigation is about not doing something, which is free. 00:28:46 Babette McDougall was In Favor: Babette McDougall thanked Katie for the report and commended Jill Kahn and Janelle Kelman for their work on the initiative. (00:28:46) She expressed concern about the flooding in the American South and suggested stretching the parameters of the mitigation effort. (00:29:03) She advocated for more organic, sponge-like shoreline interfaces with water rather than heavy-duty concrete walls and seawalls, which she sees as failures.
00:30:26	2: ACTION MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING	The council is considering adopting the minutes from the September 3rd and October 1st City Council meetings. The Mayor opened the floor for public comment. Jeffrey Chase commented on the absence of prayer before the meeting, relating it to current events in Israel. He also discussed the issue of homelessness in relation to Grants Pass and Camp Cormorant, stating that the Sausalito Police Department has learned better how to deal with the homeless since Camp Cormorant. He mentioned the $50,000 allocated to remove boats, specifically mentioning David Lay (hippie Brian). Chase also noted that all boats were supposed to be off of spinnakers in the eelgrass protection zone today, but one boat remains. The Mayor closed public comment and asked for a motion to approve the minutes.	No Motion	1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
00:30:44 Jeffrey Chase was Neutral: Expressed concern over the absence of time for prayer before the meeting, relating it to events in Israel. He spoke about the issue of homelessness, the removal of boats, and the eelgrass protection zone.
00:32:06	3: CONSENT CALENDAR	The meeting covered the consent calendar items, which are considered routine and non-controversial. The items included: 3a) authorizing the city manager to execute the fifth amendment to the agreement to purchase of parking equipment, 3b) declaring one VIPs vehicle as surplus, 3c) authorizing the city manager to execute the first contract amendment with HNFH consultants, 3d) receiving and filing the treasurer's report for June 30th, 2024, 3e) amending consultant services agreement with the novo planning group, 3f) waiving the second reading and adopting ordinance 5 2024, and 3g) waiving the second reading of adopt end adoption of ordinance number 6 2024. Item 3E was pulled from the consent calendar at the request of staff to be pushed to the October 29th meeting. Council Member Kelman asked a question about the distinction between 'current quarter par value' and 'GASB 72, fair market value' in the Treasurer's report, which Director Hess clarified. (00:35:45) Kelman also asked about making suggestions for changes to the treasurer's report, to which Hess responded that they are not looking for recommendations at this point, just a file and receive of what the city's cash positions are and where they are held. (00:36:35) The City Manager explained why the Treasurer's Report was on the agenda for the second time. (00:49:38)	Council Member Austin moved to approve the consent calendar (00:32:58). The motion was seconded (00:33:00) and passed by a unanimous vote (00:33:03).	5 Total: 2 In Favor 2 Against 1 Neutral
00:37:33 Jeffrey Chakeson was In Favor: Jeffrey Chakeson made three points: the city is in a strong financial position, they have built fiscal resiliency, and he discussed the infrastructure. (00:37:33) 00:39:41 Jeffrey Chase was Against: Jeffrey Chase announced he is dropping out of the council race, and voiced his objections to several items on the consent calendar. (00:39:41) He specifically opposed item 3a, $30,000 for parking, and the $94,000 for sewer customer questions (00:40:15). He congratulated the council on 3G, allowing secondhand goods, miniature golf courses, and fortune-telling. He thinks we can reduce the pensions. (00:40:50) 00:42:01 Sandra Bushmaker was Neutral: Sandra Bushmaker requested that the source of funds for each item on the consent calendar be identified, specifying where the expenditures come from in the budget. (00:42:01) 00:42:56 Babette McDougall was Against: Babette McDougall questioned why so much funding is decided under the consent calendar. (00:42:56) She would like to know why the city of Sausalito puts so many funding decisions under the consent calendar (00:43:15). She also raised concerns about the amount of money spent on consultants, suggesting it reflects poorly on the staff and questioning whether the money should be spent on staffing adjustments instead. (00:43:50) 00:44:48 Adrian Brinton was In Favor: Adrian Brinton expressed excitement about the city's surplus from the previous year and thanked the city staff for their hard work in managing the finances. (00:44:48)
00:51:45	5: BUSINESS ITEMS	The council moved to approve the business items. The motion was seconded and passed with a unanimous 'aye' vote.	Motion to approve the business items, seconded and passed. (00:51:45)	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:51:51	5.A: Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Professional Services Agreement for Planning and Building Services with 4Leaf, Effective July 1, 2024, Not to Exceed $330,000 Through June 30, 2025	Director Pips introduced the item, clarifying that while the contract is for $330,000, the actual cost to the city is closer to $163,000 due to applicant-paid permit fees and city revenues from permit administration (00:52:37). He noted the department's decreased reliance on Four Leaf since October 2022, when they filled over half the CDD staff, and how the monthly bill went from $100,000 to $25,000 (00:54:50). He recommended authorizing the City Manager to execute the agreement to cover the building official position and plan check review services (00:57:13). Vice Mayor Cox expressed shock at the department's previous reliance on Four Leaf and congratulated Director Pips for rebuilding the department (00:57:54). She inquired about plans to hire an in-house building official. Director Pips confirmed the plan to re-solicit for the position after discussing salary range increases (00:58:48). Council Member Kelman, citing past redlining of the Four Leaf contract, asked about contract management and audit frequency (01:00:31). She also raised concerns about consistent plan check reviewers and decision-making on complex plan reviews and overtime (01:01:19). Director Pips clarified the review process, turnaround times, and the consideration of Sausalito-specific zoning knowledge (01:03:49). Councilmember Hoffman noted the progress and her support of the contract (01:07:28).	Vice Mayor Cox moved to authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement with 4Leaf, not to exceed $330,000, with the provisos that the Community Development Director review and incorporate relevant comments from Councilmember Kelman's previous redlines, make an effort to identify specific Four Leaf employees to serve as Sausalito's building official where possible, and that the resolution include a 'whereas' clause reflecting the anticipated level of cost recovery (01:20:00). The motion was amended to direct the City Attorney to revise the resolution with three requirements: identify specific staffing, incorporate red lines, and include a 'whereas' clause that memorializes the amount of the total that's expected to be recaptured through cost recovery (01:26:36).	1 Total: 0 In Favor 1 Against 0 Neutral
01:17:05 Jeffrey Chase was Against: Jeffrey Chase criticized the consultancy, suggesting it creates the appearance of corruption and contributes to the rising costs of government in Marin County. He alluded to climate change and consultant hiring as issues.
01:27:25	5.B: Introduction and Waiver of First Reading of Ordinance No. 07-2024 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sausalito Amending Chapter 10.47 “Marijuana Regulations” of the Sausalito Municipal Code	City Attorney Sarah Silver introduced Ordinance No. 07-2024, which amends Chapter 10.47 of the Sausalito Municipal Code regarding marijuana regulations. The amendments are non-substantive and primarily aim to align the city's ordinance with current state laws, particularly in light of the Medical Cannabis Patients Right of Access Act. Key changes include removing the prohibition of cannabis transport through the city and eliminating duplicative language concerning medical cannabis deliveries. The ordinance also updates references to state laws regarding business licensure for deliveries. (01:28:06) Mayor Sobieski opened the floor for questions but there were none. (01:28:53) Vice Mayor Cox appreciated the updates and moved to introduce by title only and waive the first reading of Ordinance No. 07-2024. (01:29:11)	Vice Mayor Cox moved to introduce by title only and waive the first reading of Ordinance No. 07-2024, amending Chapter 10.47, Marijuana Regulations of the Sausalito Municipal Code. (01:29:25)	1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
01:29:00 Jeffrey James was Neutral: No public comments were received.
01:29:46	6: COMMUNICATIONS	Mayor Sobieski opens the floor for public comments on items not on the agenda (01:29:46). Jeffrey Chakeson requests that the city manager address misinformation circulating in the community, specifically accusations against city staff and the finance committee regarding manipulation of city processes and funds to influence the election (01:30:21). He acknowledges the difficulty of this request for the city manager (01:32:06). Babette McDougall supports Chakeson's call for addressing misinformation (01:32:36) and suggests the council and city staff proactively correct false information (01:32:52). She also mentions confusion over financial handling and criticizes disinformation campaigns among candidates and unauthorized photography (01:33:12).	No Motion	2 Total: 2 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral
01:30:14 Jeffrey Chakeson was In Favor: Requests the city manager to address misinformation circulating in the community, including accusations of city staff manipulating city processes and funds to influence the election. He cites concerns over misleading information and unaudited financial statements. 01:32:26 Babette McDougall was In Favor: Supports addressing misinformation, especially during the election season. She criticizes confusion over financial handling and expresses concern about disinformation campaigns among candidates and unauthorized photography.
01:34:29	7: COUNCILMEMBER COMMITTEE REPORTS	This item is for council members to report on their committee activities. Vice Mayor Cox reported on the Finance Committee meeting (01:34:39) where the Treasurer's Report and an audit update were reviewed. She addressed a public comment accusing the committee of manipulating the agenda (01:35:09), clarifying the precedent for receiving unaudited financials (01:35:21). Councilmember Jill provided an update on the Sewer Committee's work on combined services with the Sausalito-Marine City sewer district (01:36:33) and efforts to bring residences on the south end of town into compliance (01:37:18). Councilmember Austin discussed serving on Supervisor Mary Sackett's special committee focused on e-bike safety regulations for kids and teens (01:38:07). Councilmember Kelman noted that Galilee Harbor received a grant from Marine Community Foundation to examine putting a wave attenuation mechanism adjacent to their docks (01:38:48). Councilmember Austin also shared that she and Councilmember Cox met with a neighborhood group to answer questions about the Housing Element (01:39:25). Mayor Sobieski discussed connecting Meals on Wheels of San Francisco with local representatives to explore a pilot program in Sausalito to help alleviate loneliness and isolation (01:40:04).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

01:40:46	8: CITY MANAGER REPORTS & OTHER COUNCIL BUSINESS	Mayor Sobieski calls on the City Manager to present the City Manager Reports & Other Council Business. (01:40:46)	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

01:40:52	8A: City Manager Information for Council	City Manager Chad provided an update on city infrastructure, focusing on the $347,000 investment in Marinship Park, which includes tennis court and parking lot repairs, fencing, and the addition of pickleball courts. The park is expected to reopen in January. Discussions are ongoing regarding the Varda mural's protection and the reopening of the fenced-off green space. A potential contribution from a Mill Valley group for field preparation and usage is being discussed, considering artificial versus natural turf, with input from the Sustainability and Parks and Recreation Commissions. Council Member Kelman suggested exploring grants for climate-resilient paving materials for future projects, particularly for parking lots and tennis courts (01:42:49). She also suggested that restriping paint can also help. The Mayor supported this idea, suggesting that it be a policy direction for future public works projects (01:44:10).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

01:44:52	8B: Future Agenda Items	The council discussed potential future agenda items. Vice Mayor Cox requested that staff identify the budget source for expenditures in future agenda items to provide more transparency to the public. Mayor Sobieski supported this suggestion, and it was taken as a consensus direction to staff. Council Member Kelman suggested a presentation on a pavement case study from Pacoima that showed significant heat reduction. Mayor Sobieski agreed to add it as a future agenda item to educate the council. Kelman also requested separating the GAD list and the potential Hillside Ordinance for a more focused approach and asked for preliminary research from the city attorney on the feasibility of constructing on hillsides, referencing hillside ordinances in other cities.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

01:48:05	8C: PUBLIC COMMENT on Items 8A-8B	This agenda item was for public comment on items 8A and 8B. Babette McDougall expressed gratitude for the council's thorough engagement and acknowledged Ms. Weiss-Mayer for addressing Sandra Bushmaker's comments about improving the submission of agenda items. She also emphasized the unique personality of Sausalito and implored the council to maintain a balanced, respectful, and fair approach during the upcoming election season.	No Motion	2 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 2 Neutral
01:48:25 Jeffrey James was Neutral: Made a comment about his place. 01:48:32 Babette McDougall was Neutral: Expressed gratitude for the council's thorough engagement and acknowledged Ms. Weiss-Mayer for addressing Sandra Bushmaker's comments about improving the submission of agenda items. She also emphasized the unique personality of Sausalito and implored the council to maintain a balanced, respectful, and fair approach during the upcoming election season.
01:50:32	9: ADJOURNMENT	The Mayor announced the end of the meeting, thanked everyone, and stated the next meeting would be on October 29th (01:50:34).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

City Council Meeting Transcript

Adrian Brinton

City Council Oct 29, 2024

Time	Speaker	Text
00:00:00.03	Adrian Brinton	.
00:00:01.03	Jeffrey James	Thank you.
00:00:02.23	Jeffrey James	Good evening, Mayor.
00:00:04.03	Jeffrey James	and council members
00:00:05.62	Jeffrey James	The meeting of October 15, 2024 is being held at City Council Chambers at 420 Little Street. It's also being broadcast live on the city's website and via Zoom. And it is also on cable TV channel 27.
00:00:23.37	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you, Mr city clerk. I will call this meeting to order. Mr city clerk, would you kindly call the roll?
00:00:32.77	Jeffrey James	Councilmember Blaustein.
00:00:34.35	Council Member Austin	Yes, present.
00:00:35.44	Jeffrey James	Councilmember Hoffman.
00:00:37.46	Jeffrey James	Thank you.
00:00:37.49	Council Member Austin	Here.
00:00:37.75	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
00:00:37.83	Jeffrey James	Councilmember Kelman.
00:00:40.33	Mayor Sobieski	She's absent. She's not arriving later.
00:00:41.17	Jeffrey James	She's not present.
00:00:42.52	Jeffrey James	Thank you.
00:00:42.81	Jeffrey James	Vice Mayor Cox
00:00:45.54	Mayor Sobieski	Here.
00:00:46.27	Jeffrey James	and Mayor Sobieski.
00:00:47.77	Mayor Sobieski	here in closed session, we'll be discussing two items, conference with real property negotiator, the Cass Gidley Marina at 1001 Bridgeway. And the second item is conference with real property negotiator, the MLK school site 100 Ebb Tide Road. Are there any recusals for this?
00:01:04.83	Vice Mayor Cox	Thank you, Mayor. I will be recusing myself from the second item due to the proximity of my residence to the subject property. Thank you.
00:01:12.90	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you, vice mayor. We will adjourn the closed session and return to the
00:01:14.84	Vice Mayor Cox	return.
00:01:15.97	Mayor Sobieski	There are no... Sorry, thanks. Yeah, public comment, please, on these two closed session items. There are no public comments. All right, closing public comment. We will now adjourn to closed session and return at 7 p.m.
00:01:16.04	Jeffrey James	that are just.
00:01:16.20	Vice Mayor Cox	We have a lot of people.
00:01:16.24	Jeffrey James	Go for it.
00:01:16.47	Katie Thau-Garcia	Thank you.
00:01:30.73	Mayor Sobieski	Turn from closed session. There are no announcements from closed session.
00:01:35.66	Mayor Sobieski	adjourn the open session and begin with the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
00:01:41.75	Vice Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:01:41.79	Jeffrey Chakeson	PLEDGE.
00:01:42.02	Vice Mayor Cox	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.
00:01:43.15	Jeffrey Chakeson	Thank you.
00:01:43.95	Jeffrey Chakeson	the United States.
00:01:44.83	Jeffrey Chakeson	of America.
00:01:46.02	Jeffrey Chakeson	to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God.
00:01:50.04	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:01:51.69	Babette McDougall	Liberty.
00:01:56.86	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you very much. We will begin with the special presentation of Katie Thor Garcia. Ms. Garcia.
00:02:07.59	Mayor Sobieski	I don't know if your microphone is working.
00:02:10.31	Mayor Sobieski	could you tap on it to see if it's
00:02:12.84	Katie Thau-Garcia	Yes, now it is on. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Sobieski, Vice Mayor Cox, Councilmembers, members of the public. I'm Katie Thau-Garcia, the City's Resiliency and Sustainability Manager.
00:02:26.25	Katie Thau-Garcia	Tonight, I'm here to present information on the shoreline adaptation plan and other recent events related to shoreline resiliency in Sausalito, please. Next slide.
00:02:38.05	Katie Thau-Garcia	You know, kid?
00:03:01.15	Katie Thau-Garcia	I will go over that in my presentation.
00:03:06.11	Katie Thau-Garcia	Perfect. All right. So to give you a brief outline of what I will talk about this evening, first, I will go over a recent history of past events related to sea level rise and shoreline resiliency. Following this, we will dive into the shoreline adaptation plan, remind ourselves of the goals, the scope of work, and deliverables. Next, we will present information. It's the slide before, just the outline. Thank you. Next, we will present information on the first community workshop, which took place on September 7th, followed by next steps for the plan.
00:03:45.41	Katie Thau-Garcia	After this, I will talk about other funding recently received by the city and the alignment of this funding with the shoreline adaptation plan. And finally, I will address some conclusions on our work to date. Next slide, please. Thank you.
00:03:59.88	Katie Thau-Garcia	All right. So to go over a few past events in March 2021, then Mayor Hoffman initiated the Sea Level Rise Task Force.
00:04:12.16	Katie Thau-Garcia	And following this in November 2021, the sea level rise task force submitted a report to city council recommending formal sea level rise adaptation planning efforts. Later in March 2023, the city received a $1 million grant from Cal OES thanks to Councilmember Kelman to create a sea level rise adaptation plan. And later in that same month, I was hired.
00:04:39.26	Katie Thau-Garcia	as the city's first resiliency and sustainability manager to manage the shoreline adaptation plan, among a bunch of other things.
00:04:47.60	Katie Thau-Garcia	By October 2023, SB 272 was passed mandating local jurisdictions have a sea level rise adaptation plan by 2034 with prioritized funding for those jurisdictions with approved plans.
00:05:02.97	Katie Thau-Garcia	By December 2023, council approved the consultant contract for the shoreline adaptation plan, the technical and design team, WRT, and the community engagement specialist, Rainwater and Associates.
00:05:15.69	Katie Thau-Garcia	By January 2024, we began work on the shoreline adaptation plan. And most recently, in October of this year, BCDC released their draft SB 272 guidelines, which I will go over later. Next slide, please. All right. So to remind ourselves of the goal of the shoreline adaptation plan, in December 2023, when Council approved the professional services agreement with WRT and Rainwater Associates, we also approved the goal that was outlined for this plan.
00:05:49.48	Katie Thau-Garcia	The goal is to prepare a community-informed sea level rise adaptation plan, which includes an update of existing vulnerability assessments, a community vision, and prioritize conceptual adaptation strategies for Sausalito and the neighboring floating homes community. The plan will identify near-term and long-term adaptation priorities along the Sausalito shoreline.
00:06:12.71	Katie Thau-Garcia	The completed shoreline adaptation plan will then be used to leverage further funding to implement projects that were identified in the plan and hopefully meet SB 272 guidelines or at least in part. Next slide please. Together with the technical and design team WRT and the Community engagement consultants rainwater and associates, we make up the project team.
00:06:37.57	Katie Thau-Garcia	The December 2023 Council approved contracts included a roughly 20-month scope of work to finish in late 2025.
00:06:46.77	Katie Thau-Garcia	We are currently about a little less than a third way through the project, and at the October 29th Council meeting, there will be a formal report with work done on the consent calendar for you to approve. Next slide, please.
00:07:04.10	Katie Thau-Garcia	So key deliverables from the project staff, that includes the consultants and myself, include a project website, for those of you who haven't checked it out, Sausalito.gov slash shoreline plan, community pop-up materials to be used at already scheduled community events, two focus group meetings, three community workshops, a community visioning document based on feedback received from the community,
00:07:33.48	Katie Thau-Garcia	a Sausalito-specific vulnerability assessment, and a final prioritization framework that identifies near-term and long-term adaptation strategies along the shoreline. Next slide, please. Thank you. So on September 7th, we had our first community workshop for the shoreline adaptation plan. The focus of the workshop was to explore projected flooding in Sausalito, sea level rise, and its associated impacts to Sausalito.
00:08:02.96	Katie Thau-Garcia	to provide an introduction and education on adaptation strategies, planning, and how this builds off of previous work.
00:08:11.04	Katie Thau-Garcia	to hear from the community about vulnerabilities, opportunities, and priorities along the shoreline, and to build connections between the project team and the community members. Next slide.
00:08:24.34	Katie Thau-Garcia	So to anybody who attended the workshop, the impact was pretty clear to see. We had roughly 120 participants with people lining up at the door before we even opened. Some people went around back to get into the spinnaker.
00:08:38.97	Katie Thau-Garcia	We had a lot of input that was given, and we made connections with the community members and adaptation professionals on the consultant team.
00:08:48.13	Katie Thau-Garcia	Some general sentiments of input that we received from the community was that community members generally who attended the events understood the impacts of sea level rise and were pretty well versed in the projections. Probably in thanks to work done by the Sea Level Rise Task Force.
00:09:06.95	Katie Thau-Garcia	Interest in adaptation techniques were generally in line with Sausalito's character, so supporting things like floating structures.
00:09:15.61	Katie Thau-Garcia	And we heard that there was a high value in maintaining views and public access. And finally, we also heard general sentiments that people were really ready for the next steps. They enjoyed focusing on getting to know the project team and getting education, but they wanted to find out where we're going.
00:09:35.32	Katie Thau-Garcia	So following the community workshop, everybody was invited to fill out the community survey, which is still open if anybody would like to participate.
00:09:45.34	Katie Thau-Garcia	Next slide, please. So the Shoreline Adaptation Plan remains on time and scheduled to wrap up in late 2025. Our immediate next steps include to synthesize feedback received at Community Workshop 1 and the community survey,
00:10:01.57	Katie Thau-Garcia	community pop-up events, and workshop number two, which will be coming in probably January 2025.
00:10:08.88	Katie Thau-Garcia	to draft a vulnerability assessment and to draft a community visioning document after workshop two.
00:10:15.92	Katie Thau-Garcia	and to continue to assess the alignment with other city projects and SB 272 guidelines, which are in the draft stage from BCDC and forthcoming.
00:10:26.89	Katie Thau-Garcia	Following the update to Council that will be presented on the consent calendar on October 29th, another update will be made to City Council most likely
00:10:36.61	Katie Thau-Garcia	in late winter 2025 following workshop number two.
00:10:41.99	Katie Thau-Garcia	Action at this time will include approving the draft vulnerability assessment and the community visioning document. Next slide, please. So that pretty much wraps up information on the shoreline adaptation plan. Next, I will be talking about three other recently received fundings from the city in terms of grants, either from the state or federal side of things. So since beginning to work in Sausalito and diving really in depth into the shoreline adaptation plan, I've become acutely aware of the issues related to sea level rise, groundwater rise, and subsidence in Sausalito.
00:11:22.00	Katie Thau-Garcia	In late 2023, the city found and applied for funding to continue our understanding of sea level rise and its associated impacts on our infrastructure, particularly on the Gate 5 Road, where flooding acutely persists.
00:11:36.33	Katie Thau-Garcia	In August 2024, the city was notified that we were selected to receive funds from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to complete a Gate 5 Road to Harbor Drive Improvement Study in the amount of $614,000.
00:11:52.24	Katie Thau-Garcia	Funding is approved to complete data collection of saltwater intrusions, storm drains, and other infrastructure, subsidence mapping, and sea level rise impacts to the area.
00:12:05.34	Katie Thau-Garcia	We have a goal to examine potential solutions in the area, so Gate 5 Road to Harbor Drive,
00:12:10.52	Katie Thau-Garcia	and up to Murrenship Park.
00:12:12.78	Katie Thau-Garcia	and to expand on the existing planning efforts from the shoreline adaptation plan.
00:12:17.98	Katie Thau-Garcia	Staff will begin to outline the scope of work for this project this fall, and it will be proceeding shortly after. Next slide, please. So following the notice of EDA funding, the city was also notified from the Ocean Protection Council that we were approved for funding to complete a Sausalito facility vulnerability assessment in the amount of $250,000.
00:12:46.64	Katie Thau-Garcia	The purpose of this is to expand the overall Sausalito vulnerability assessment, which will be completed under the shoreline adaptation plan, and to take a deeper dive into facilities and other infrastructure that might be of risk to sea level rise or storm damage impacts in Sausalito to assess our...
00:13:07.74	Katie Thau-Garcia	basically to assess our risk in those facilities. Funds will be used to build off of the Department of Public Works 2024 facility conditions assessment, which is ongoing, and to model into the future considering sea level rise. A professional services agreement for this work will be forthcoming likely in late 2024.
00:13:34.55	Katie Thau-Garcia	Next slide, please. And finally, we have most recently received award of funding from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to complete planning and designs for the improvement of Turney Street Dock in the amount of $170,000. The project represents one that has been highly advocated by the boating community in Sausalito.
00:13:57.47	Katie Thau-Garcia	We have only just recently received this notice of funding, and we will be working out the scope of work later this year.
00:14:05.49	Katie Thau-Garcia	Next slide, please. All right, so now some conclusions about what all of this means. So I just want to highlight that the Shorley and Adaptation Plan remains on schedule and set to complete late 2025. And this will be prior to three more updates from the Council.
00:14:25.14	Katie Thau-Garcia	In addition, significant additional funding was leveraged for these other three projects that I mentioned to build off of the shoreline adaptation plan, which represents a new approach to outside funding brought by myself in collaboration with the Sea Level Rise Task Force, Sustainability Commission members, council members, and under the direction of the city manager.
00:14:49.60	Katie Thau-Garcia	And finally, I want to highlight that these are really complex problems. Sea level rise in Sausalito involves getting a lot of people to the table. It takes...
00:15:00.38	Katie Thau-Garcia	really having a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to addressing. So far, they have required collaboration between basically all of the city departments, many commissions, and outside organizations. However, what makes them truly successful is our communities of support, which has been instrumental in getting the funding that we need to do these really important projects. So with that, next slide, please. My last one, I just want to end and say thank you to the council, to the community members. Myself, the resiliency and sustainability manager, leans on many community groups, commissions, organizations, businesses, and individuals to help make Sausalito a better place to live, work, and play for us all. Thank you to the many people who have had a hand in supporting this, or who have even donated things to raffle off at events. I really appreciate it.
00:15:59.22	Mayor Sobieski	And thank you, Director Garcia. I really appreciate your work on this project. Are there questions, please?
00:16:05.72	Council Member Kelman	Yeah.
00:16:07.15	Council Member Kelman	Right ahead.
00:16:08.22	Council Member Kelman	Thank you so much. This is really outstanding work. When we hired you, we had the intention of being able to build upon some of the initial efforts and you just slid right in and followed that. I'll just share with the council, the Tourney Street Ram project was something that Katie and I looked at when she first got here and we thought that the Division of Boney and Waterways would be a suitable funder for us.
00:16:33.48	Council Member Kelman	We tried to convince them of that. They did not agree. And I just want to flag that Katie didn't give up, and she astutely identified California Department of Fish and Wildlife as a potential donor. And with that $170,000, not only do we have an opportunity to improve our only public waterfront access, but that means that these bundle of funds is in excess of $1 million for this calendar year. So I just want to congratulate you, and thank you for not giving up and pulling on those threads. I did have a question around the Economic Development Administration grant.
00:17:07.84	Council Member Kelman	So, and then you touched upon this. Can you just speak a little bit more about how that lays the groundwork
00:17:12.61	Council Member Kelman	for future grants and if you have anything you want to share about your strategy
00:17:16.63	Council Member Kelman	or a timeframe or what else we might be able to pursue based on that initial grant
00:17:22.79	Council Member Kelman	Yeah, for sure.
00:17:24.04	Katie Thau-Garcia	Um,
00:17:25.47	Katie Thau-Garcia	So I guess...
00:17:27.71	Katie Thau-Garcia	I guess I'll start with the scope of work can identify many different ways
00:17:34.55	Katie Thau-Garcia	to pursue further funding, you know, we could look at storm drains. And, you know, ideally we're going to look at a bunch of different things, but storm drains, saltwater intrusion,
00:17:45.32	Katie Thau-Garcia	impacts to our critical infrastructure related to sea level rise, related to subsidence, related to other aspects of climate change, are all things that could be involved in the scope of work. And I think that sets us up really well to get the implementation funding, right? So this $614,000 is great planning money, but a 2011 study on Gate 5 Road has pointed to some
00:18:15.67	Katie Thau-Garcia	very pricey implementation dollars. So the Economic Development Administration is not unique in their ability to, when they fund planning, they want to see things through to the implementation level. So I think while $614,000 is very exciting, what makes this more exciting is the potential to go back for construction funding.
00:18:42.07	Council Member Kelman	Right.
00:18:42.49	Council Member Kelman	And have you given any thought to how this improves the city's risk profile?
00:18:47.77	Council Member Kelman	Bye.
00:18:49.47	Katie Thau-Garcia	I have after today, I will be presenting this and probably more information. In a sit down with our very new risk manager at Sausalito. And yeah, hopefully addressing this and figuring out where we can take it and
00:19:10.70	Katie Thau-Garcia	Limiting our risk.
00:19:11.95	Council Member Kelman	Congratulations Katie, great job. Thank you.
00:19:15.53	Mayor Sobieski	Any other question?
00:19:17.62	Mayor Sobieski	I just had one. Is there any focus on the dilapidated docks next to the Turning Street ramp that's on city property? Is that part of your scope at all or visioning?
00:19:29.77	Katie Thau-Garcia	So what we included in the grant application is the ramp itself, the gangway next to it, and up to the bulkheads on Humboldt. So it could go all the way that far.
00:19:46.22	Katie Thau-Garcia	as I'm pretty sure includes all of those, those docs that are in between the
00:19:52.70	Katie Thau-Garcia	the ramp itself and the bullcan.
00:19:54.93	Katie Thau-Garcia	I'm not exactly sure how far this $170,000 is going to get us. So I would...
00:20:02.85	Katie Thau-Garcia	I don't want to say that it will definitely include that. We want to make sure our scope of work is doing as much as possible, but we're not.
00:20:10.59	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you. We're not. I'm pleased to hear the scope goes there. Council Member Blasney.
00:20:14.26	Council Member Austin	Yeah, amazing work. And I think that means that now your department and your role has brought in almost $2 million in grant funding. So that's really incredible. Thank you so much. And I was able to attend the adaptation workshop, and everyone was incredibly enthusiastic. So amazing work. We're all very proud of you and thrilled to have hired you. I just wanted to ask, since I know that sea level rise and flooding is an issue that not just impacts Sausalito, but also impacts, of course, Marin City and the houseboats that are outside of the main realm of the city of Sausalito, what's our plan to share information and best practices learned with our neighbors on this process, and are we already engaging with the county and regional partners to make sure that everyone has the advantages of the grant funding and the work that we're doing?
00:20:58.69	Katie Thau-Garcia	Yeah, that's a great question and probably one I probably should have touched on a little bit more. I'm really specific to our shoreline adaptation plan. So our scope of work is Sausalito, but our sphere of influence actually goes out to the houseboats. This was done prior to me getting on board with the city.
00:21:19.14	Katie Thau-Garcia	Councilmember Kellen had a great conversation with the county about expanding the scope of work to go out to the houseboats. So they will be included in this. We've gotten some really great feedback from the Floating Homes Association.
00:21:37.45	Katie Thau-Garcia	And then, you know, beyond that, the county has agreed to be involved in that aspect of the plan. So I work closely with Chris Chu on that.
00:21:50.14	Katie Thau-Garcia	at the county.
00:21:52.28	Mayor Sobieski	Okay, if there are no more questions, then let's have public comment, please.
00:21:56.77	Jeffrey James	Okay, we have Eva.
00:22:06.09	Eva Crisanti	Thank you, Eva Crisanti. It does seem to me that the projections you're working with are overly optimistic. We've just seen major flooding in this country in places that were never supposed to flood.
00:22:21.80	Eva Crisanti	And I see Janelle Kelman nodding her head when I say that, and I'd like to point out that the situation is far more serious.
00:22:28.85	Eva Crisanti	then anyone on this council or any other elected reps in Marin County are willing to concede.
00:22:34.99	Eva Crisanti	And I must bring up the issue that I tried to raise at the end of the candidate forum, which resulted in your police department, two of your police officers violently ejecting me
00:22:45.37	Eva Crisanti	from the forum.
00:22:47.38	Eva Crisanti	There is an environmental cost, a very steep environmental cost,
00:22:53.25	Eva Crisanti	to the war that we are funding.
00:22:55.56	Eva Crisanti	that Israel is waging not only in Gaza,
00:22:58.89	Eva Crisanti	But in Lebanon, yes, this is very important. I'll tell you why, Mayor. I'm very happy to explain this to you because none of you have considered it.
00:22:58.94	Damian Morgan	Thank you.
00:22:58.99	Damian Morgan	But in Lebanon, yes.
00:23:07.44	Eva Crisanti	In the first two months of Israel's war against Gaza, 281,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions were released. It's now been a year and they've added Lebanon. So now we're looking at nearly 2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions. And our rate of global warming had already accelerated so dramatically.
00:23:32.23	Eva Crisanti	Now, this is particularly important because
00:23:35.83	Eva Crisanti	The U.S.-Israel relationship
00:23:38.00	Eva Crisanti	comes down even to the local level.
00:23:40.77	Eva Crisanti	here in the Bay Area. And this is what the research that I've been doing through CPRA and interviews has shown, that there is a very strong, very, unfortunately, very undisclosed relationship between our elected officials and the lobby that is promoting this current war, which is going to bury us in CO2 emissions. You need to think about this.
00:24:09.44	Jeffrey James	Next speaker is Damian Morgan.
00:24:22.84	Damian Morgan	Thank you. As I'm sure you are well aware of that, well aware that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has chosen 12 communities in the USA to work with, Marin City being one. You know, the Marin City being labeled underserved is an understatement. It actually is understatement.
00:24:47.24	Damian Morgan	Criminal, what has happened in the community that I grew up in. I can't state it enough. So they're here, and we're hoping we are actually shooting for a November 1st press conference with Mr. Huffman. I invite you all to come.
00:25:03.22	Damian Morgan	Sir, this is about our shoreline adaptation. I understand that, sir. It's regarding the environmental impacts to here and to Marin City. And what I'm getting at is, before you cut me off, is that in our meetings with core engineers, Saucido has come up in our conversations. So as Melissa asked, how will we all communicate and work together? Thank you. And we'll be in touch with you regarding sea level rise, regarding the communities. We do all live here, sir. I've been coming to this community for 50 years. So, what happens here? I do care about what happens in my city also. So, I understand this. I know what a Brown Act is. I've worked in four and a half years, but I have a little leeway for underserved communities and people who want to speak about things that matter to everybody. So...
00:25:53.76	Damian Morgan	I got a little off course there because he cut me off.
00:25:56.88	Damian Morgan	What I'm saying is, November 1st, we're having a press conference so we all can come together and work on issues together.
00:26:04.65	Damian Morgan	How does that sound? Work on issues together.
00:26:07.79	Damian Morgan	what we're hoping for. Hello, Jill.
00:26:09.91	Damian Morgan	So, uh,
00:26:11.50	Damian Morgan	Please come.
00:26:12.76	Damian Morgan	Thanks for the report. We'll see you on the 1st in Marin City.
00:26:15.97	Damian Morgan	Thank you.
00:26:17.83	Jeffrey James	Next speaker, Jeffrey Chase.
00:26:30.23	Jeffrey Chase	Thank you, Katie, for that interesting report on adaptation, including the use of
00:26:40.07	Jeffrey Chase	floating structures, otherwise known as
00:26:43.78	Jeffrey Chase	Boats.
00:26:46.78	Jeffrey Chase	to deal with this issue.
00:26:48.51	Jeffrey Chase	And thank you for talking.
00:26:51.10	Jeffrey Chase	I don't know your name, but talking about Israel. Hello, mayor, city council.
00:26:56.32	Jeffrey Chase	And a few citizens and workers from the city as well.
00:27:03.31	Jeffrey Chase	Sukkot is a holiday that's coming up. The Brown Act, thank you for bringing that up. Because Sausalito has chosen...
00:27:12.32	Jeffrey Chase	for whatever reason, to be the only town
00:27:15.99	Jeffrey Chase	or county to not have the minutes before the meeting for public comment.
00:27:24.45	Jeffrey Chase	It has to be a time for freedom of religion.
00:27:28.65	Jeffrey Chase	that.
00:27:29.44	Jeffrey Chase	It's not allowed to prevent prayers,
00:27:32.73	Jeffrey Chase	or dedications, prayers or dedications in any religion before the meeting by having chosen not to have three minutes before the meeting and to say every, we have to keep on the agenda. So I'm gonna keep on the agenda here about climate change. Thank you, Katie, again, that right now, the only people that are mitigating
00:27:33.34	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
00:27:33.36	Katie Thau-Garcia	Thank you.
00:27:33.39	Mayor Sobieski	I think you should.
00:27:33.78	Katie Thau-Garcia	Thank you.
00:27:34.52	Katie Thau-Garcia	Thank you.
00:27:34.57	Mayor Sobieski	I got,
00:27:46.74	Katie Thau-Garcia	We have to keep it.
00:27:57.37	Jeffrey Chase	the issue here in Sausalito are known as the anchor outs. We use less electricity. We use less car travel. We fly less. That if we persist in refusing to mitigate, the disasters will get worse and worse. Adaptation is about money.
00:28:20.14	Jeffrey Chase	Mitigation is about not doing something. It's like the anchor outs. It's free.
00:28:27.80	Jeffrey Chase	Thank you.
00:28:27.82	Jeffrey James	Thank you.
00:28:27.83	Jeffrey Chase	Thank you.
00:28:27.97	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
00:28:28.03	Jeffrey James	Thank you.
00:28:30.35	Jeffrey James	Is there,
00:28:30.62	Mayor Sobieski	Yeah.
00:28:30.87	Jeffrey James	public comment? Yeah, we do. We have online. We have Babette McDougall.
00:28:31.22	Mayor Sobieski	on it.
00:28:42.55	Babette McDougall	Can you hear me all right?
00:28:43.91	Mayor Sobieski	Yes, we can. Go ahead, Ms. McDougall.
00:28:46.26	Babette McDougall	All right, so I just want to thank Katie for that nice report. I want to thank Jill Kahn.
00:28:50.36	Babette McDougall	for all that she doesn't want to thank Janelle Kelman for all that she has done between the two women.
00:28:55.39	Babette McDougall	spearheading this initiative on behalf of our town.
00:28:58.60	Babette McDougall	I also would like to echo what was said about the frightening amount of
00:29:03.17	Babette McDougall	flooding that has now taken place in the American South.
00:29:07.54	Babette McDougall	And although our geography is a bit different here,
00:29:11.42	Babette McDougall	I think there is good reason to say that, you know, maybe we need to stretch the parameters a little bit in how we consider this whole mitigation effort. I once again would like to call to everyone's attention.
00:29:23.40	Babette McDougall	What is being looked at around the whole world?
00:29:26.24	Babette McDougall	which is less about these
00:29:28.41	Babette McDougall	heavy duty concrete walls or these barriers to the flow of water.
00:29:33.71	Babette McDougall	but instead more sponge-like
00:29:36.28	Babette McDougall	more naturally occurring.
00:29:39.14	Babette McDougall	shoreline interface with water
00:29:41.41	Babette McDougall	that
00:29:42.13	Babette McDougall	over the long term, seems to better mitigate
00:29:45.59	Babette McDougall	flood problems. I mean, if we experience the kind of back-to-back storms like what just happened in Florida,
00:29:52.24	Babette McDougall	Of course, it's a different kind of consideration.
00:29:55.88	Babette McDougall	But this said...
00:29:57.13	Babette McDougall	I really want to make sure that you all pay attention
00:30:00.37	Babette McDougall	to the not so much the seawall concept, which I always hear bantered about, and it concerns me, because these have proven to be abysmal failures throughout the parts of the world where they're employed. So we need to look more organically at our mitigation outcomes. Thank you.
00:30:19.85	Mayor Sobieski	No further public comments. All right, we'll close public comment. Is there any other comments from the dais before we move on?
00:30:26.65	Mayor Sobieski	All right, thank you very much. We'll move on to the action minutes from the previous meeting, adopting the minutes from the September 3rd, October 1st City Council meeting. Is there any public comment on this item?
00:30:35.81	Jeffrey James	We have Jeffrey James.
00:30:44.81	Jeffrey Chase	Mr. Mayor and counsel, I'm very serious about the absence of a time for prayer.
00:30:53.19	Jeffrey Chase	before this meeting for any religion
00:30:56.57	Jeffrey Chase	that we do not have it and attempt to cut that off means that we cannot deal on this level with what's going on in Israel. Sukkot,
00:31:08.41	Jeffrey Chase	I'm going to mention this because we do not have time for the agenda item.
00:31:14.15	Jeffrey Chase	and a prayer that
00:31:16.43	Jeffrey Chase	according to the rules, but I'm going to break the rules. That's what anchor outs do. We're illegal boats.
00:31:22.54	Jeffrey Chase	Sukkot is celebrated.
00:31:25.34	Jeffrey Chase	In John 7...
00:31:28.44	Jeffrey Chase	where Jesus changes his mind,
00:31:31.14	Jeffrey Chase	He says first he's not going to go, and then he goes.
00:31:35.43	Jeffrey Chase	to Jerusalem to celebrate the festival of booze.
00:31:40.49	Jeffrey Chase	The antidote to grants pass, making homeless people that carry a blanket on public property illegal. We've had some Sausalito Police Department people talk about this with the homeless, and we won't permit going back into the past.
00:31:59.17	Jeffrey Chase	that Sausalito Police Department has learned better how to deal with them since Camp Cormorant.
00:32:05.62	Jeffrey Chase	So the $50,000
00:32:07.91	Jeffrey Chase	to remove there's only two boats on the Sausalito side
00:32:12.62	Jeffrey Chase	David Lay.
00:32:13.87	Jeffrey Chase	And we call him hippie Brian. And I hope he gets well.
00:32:20.20	Jeffrey Chase	Today was the day that all the boats were supposed to be off of spinnakers in the eelgrass protection zone.
00:32:27.83	Jeffrey Chase	There's exactly one boat there now. All of the other boats are not there.
00:32:34.09	Jeffrey Chase	The government has made a promise. And as sometimes happens, they are not going to be able to deliver on that.
00:32:41.93	Jeffrey Chase	Okay, so we are still there. There are 12 people who are holding very strong. Thank you, Mayor.
00:32:51.62	Mayor Sobieski	Any other public comments? No further public comments. All right. Close public comment. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? I have the minutes.
00:32:58.37	Council Member Austin	So moved.
00:32:59.70	Mayor Sobieski	I think
00:33:00.46	Council Member Austin	Second.
00:33:01.22	Mayor Sobieski	All right. All in favor, say aye.
00:33:03.35	Mayor Sobieski	Aye. Opposed? Demands are approved.
00:33:05.95	Mayor Sobieski	you
00:33:06.20	Mayor Sobieski	moving on to the consent calendar these are generally items considered routine and non-controversial and can pass with an all-in-one motion however any city council member may request that an item be removed from the consent calendar the consent calendar consists today of 3a adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the fifth amendment to the agreement to purchase of parking equipment and related services with ips group for amount not to exceed $30,000. 3B, adopt a resolution declaring one VIPs vehicle as surplus and authorizing the city manager to dispose of said equipment at auction. 3C, adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the first contract amendment with HNFH consultants to address sewer customer questions and inquiries in an amount of twenty thousand dollars for a total contract not to exceed ninety four thousand seven hundred seventy dollars 3d receive and file the treasurer's report for june 30th 2024 3e adopt a resolution to amend consultant services agreement with the novo planning group for preparation of an amended housing element general plan amendment and rezoning documents preparation for the environmental impact report for the amended sixth cycle housing element in the amount of 154 461 dollars 3f waive the second reading and adopt ordinance 5 2024 an ordinance of the city council of the city of sausalito repealing and replacing chapter 3.30 purchase of supplies equipment and services and procedures for public works projects and amending section 2.08.160 purchasing duty and 3g waiver of the second reading of adopt end adoption of ordinance number 6 2024 an ordinance of the city council of the city of Sausalito repealing chapters 2.32 redevelopment agency 5.16 handles and circulars 5.20 miniature golf courses 5.24 secondhand goods 5.28 operation of gasoline service stations 11.08 residential development review 13.12 fortune telling palmistry and similar practices and 17.20 street numbering of the susan municipal code
00:35:13.51	Mayor Sobieski	Are there any items that? Yeah. Oh, and yes, city manager.
00:35:15.06	Chad	And.
00:35:18.92	Chad	Yeah, we have a request to pull item 3E to push to the October 29th meeting.
00:35:24.36	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you, sir. Yeah, that was a request passed on by staff that 3E is not yet ready. And so at the request of staff that will be removed. Of course, anyone can make public comment about that item as it is still an agendized item, it will appear again in a subsequent meeting.
00:35:40.51	Mayor Sobieski	Is there any request to move anything from a consent calendar? And if not, we'll move to go ahead.
00:35:45.64	Council Member Kelman	Thank you, Mayor. I don't have a request to remove. I see Director Hess is here, and I'm wondering if I could just ask a clarification question about the Treasurer's report? Sure.
00:35:53.53	Council Member Kelman	HERS.
00:35:54.16	Council Member Kelman	So I'm just looking at the city of Sausalito Treasurer's report from June 30, 2024. Sorry, forgive my ignorance. I see a column current quarter par value.
00:36:04.82	Council Member Kelman	And then GASB 72, fair market value. And could you just articulate the distinction between those two or how we should be
00:36:11.49	Council Member Kelman	They are the exact same, but I'm just wondering why they have, there you are.
00:36:11.52	Director Hess	Yes.
00:36:14.56	Director Hess	Yeah, so the par value would be the base value of that security, whereas the GASB 72 fair value would be adjusted based on the market value of LEAF. So in most instances, it's going to be the same with the exception of LEAF. There's a scalar factor that they publish for the end of the quarter.
00:36:33.24	Council Member Kelman	Thank you.
00:36:35.30	Council Member Kelman	Okay, and then if there was an opportunity to make suggestions for changes that would have been included in this report?
00:36:41.63	Director Hess	changes for
00:36:42.91	Council Member Kelman	different accounts or maybe you weren't pleased with the percentage change.
00:36:47.32	Director Hess	This is simply reporting what we hold at that given point in time and just giving an overview of that. Not looking for recommendations at this point, just a file and receive of what our cash patricians are and where it's held.
00:36:59.94	Council Member Kelman	Let me rephrase that. By not asking for any changes or recommendations, you are implicitly suggesting that you are satisfied with the results of the Treasury.
00:37:07.24	Director Hess	Yeah, I'm comfortable with where we hold our dollars. We are continuously evaluating things, but no recommended changes at this point, from my view.
00:37:14.92	Council Member Kelman	Okay, thank you.
00:37:15.87	Council Member Kelman	Welcome to America.
00:37:17.54	Mayor Sobieski	Okay, seeing nothing from the consent calendar, we'll move to public comment on the consent calendar items. Mr. City Clerk.
00:37:24.76	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
00:37:24.78	Jeffrey James	Ray with you.
00:37:33.89	Jeffrey Chakeson	Good evening.
00:37:35.22	Jeffrey Chakeson	I want to make three points.
00:37:39.70	Jeffrey Chakeson	The first is a sort of summary point that...
00:37:43.68	Jeffrey Chakeson	The Quarter 4 Treasurer's report tells me.
00:37:48.96	Jeffrey Chakeson	that the city is in a very strong financial position.
00:37:54.31	Jeffrey Chakeson	We have built and you have enhanced
00:37:58.17	Jeffrey Chakeson	Fiscal resiliency.
00:38:01.41	Jeffrey Chakeson	Second point, what's fiscal resiliency?
00:38:04.97	Jeffrey Chakeson	Well, it's flexibility.
00:38:08.08	Jeffrey Chakeson	Primarily the development of a very significant cash balance that you've deployed in different ways. Let's take the pension trust fund as an example.
00:38:20.30	Jeffrey Chakeson	Many jurisdictions
00:38:22.42	Jeffrey Chakeson	locally
00:38:24.43	Jeffrey Chakeson	probably in the North Bay, possibly in the state, would envy
00:38:29.91	Jeffrey Chakeson	the position we are in.
00:38:31.97	Jeffrey Chakeson	with regards to our pension obligations.
00:38:36.07	Jeffrey Chakeson	The pension trust fund has been well funded. I think you're going to continue to fund it. And I think you're well positioned, very much so.
00:38:45.51	Jeffrey Chakeson	Okay, such that
00:38:48.04	Jeffrey Chakeson	it's dropped significantly in terms of my anxiety levels about the fiscal position in the city.
00:38:56.04	Jeffrey Chakeson	And then finally, the third point I want to make is on our infrastructure.
00:39:01.27	Jeffrey Chakeson	There is no question that over the years, and you as a council through Mecherelle, changed the trajectory of,
00:39:10.70	Jeffrey Chakeson	of the amount of dollars that we could invest in our infrastructure.
00:39:15.97	Jeffrey Chakeson	the key challenge you face.
00:39:19.00	Jeffrey Chakeson	And the key challenge the next council faces is how to exponentially change.
00:39:26.23	Jeffrey Chakeson	that trajectory, because the dollars you need certainly can't be obtained from the general fund.
00:39:32.42	Jeffrey Chakeson	Thank you.
00:39:33.97	Jeffrey Chakeson	Thank you.
00:39:33.99	Jeffrey James	Jeffrey Chakeson.
00:39:34.72	Jeffrey Chakeson	Thank you.
00:39:41.08	Jeffrey Chase	Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to make it official.
00:39:45.51	Jeffrey Chase	I'm dropping out of the council race. I filed a...
00:39:50.46	Jeffrey Chase	lawsuit in federal court, but the hearing will not be until January.
00:39:55.94	Jeffrey Chase	However, to add on to that lawsuit, we will be taking a vote on the Anchorage.
00:40:01.97	Jeffrey Chase	deciding what we're going to do as the government has failed with their plan, which was not a good plan at all. Yes, I'll be talking about the consent calendar.
00:40:11.40	Jeffrey Chase	So what the consent calendars, we'll start with...
00:40:14.66	Jeffrey Chase	Uh,
00:40:15.72	Jeffrey Chase	Three a
00:40:18.78	Jeffrey Chase	That's $30,000 for parking. So right now, governments, instead of mitigating against automobile emissions, which contribute significantly to climate change, are making much of their revenue...
00:40:33.76	Jeffrey Chase	off of parking. So I would take that off the calendar.
00:40:38.91	Jeffrey Chase	$94,000 for questions about the sewer system, up to $94,000, at least $33,000. That would be outrageous.
00:40:50.35	Jeffrey Chase	So I don't see that that's non-controversial. $154,000 on 3E, which you've taken off temporarily. But I'd like to congratulate you on 3G, which means that secondhand goods and miniature golf courses
00:41:09.45	Jeffrey Chase	And fortune-telling palmistry and similar practices are now allowed in Sausalito. So thank you very much for that.
00:41:21.50	Jeffrey Chase	The consent calendar is not non-controversial. What can happen, and the clerk and I had a discussion about this, is we can reduce the pensions, especially when people like John Rohrabacher, former chief of police, is getting a double pension at the moment. That we can have, if we need workers for the city, hire workers for the city, not side room deals with no discussion, otherwise known as this calendar.
00:41:46.76	Mayor Sobieski	Otherwise, no.
00:41:50.49	Jeffrey Chase	Okay. Just because I'm not running. Thank you.
00:41:54.07	Jeffrey James	We have people online. We have Sandra Bushmaker.
00:42:01.70	Sandra Bushmaker	Good evening, counsel. I just would like to make a positive suggestion so that the public further understands budgetary issues and spends that exist on the consent calendar.
00:42:13.78	Sandra Bushmaker	In addition to the amount being put in the caption, I would also like to request the source of these funds. In other words, where do these expenditures come from in the budget?
00:42:26.11	Sandra Bushmaker	Is it from the particular department's budget?
00:42:28.73	Sandra Bushmaker	Or is it from
00:42:30.28	Sandra Bushmaker	Is it outside of the budget and coming from the general fund or other funds? So that is my request that we have an identification of the funds.
00:42:40.09	Sandra Bushmaker	that are being used for these items that appear on the consent calendar. Thank you.
00:42:46.13	Jeffrey James	Thank you.
00:42:47.22	Jeffrey James	PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ensign PB, David Ens
00:42:55.02	Mayor Sobieski	Go ahead, Ms. McDougall.
00:42:56.15	Babette McDougall	Okay, can you hear me?
00:42:57.01	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
00:42:57.26	Mayor Sobieski	Yes, we can. Go right ahead.
00:42:58.51	Babette McDougall	All right. I love it when it works. Okay. So as many of you know, I certainly have questions about your consent calendar.
00:42:58.78	Mayor Sobieski	you know,
00:43:05.26	Babette McDougall	It was very nice of Vice Mayor Cox to respond to me today to explain a little bit about why we're looking at a June 30th
00:43:12.47	Babette McDougall	financial report at this time of year.
00:43:15.71	Babette McDougall	I don't know, maybe someday I'll understand it. In the meantime, I wonder why the city of Sausalito
00:43:22.09	Babette McDougall	puts so much funding decisions under this thing called consent calendar. I mean, not long ago, somebody raised the issue that you're talking about well in excess of a million dollars just on the consent calendar. Now, today, we're still looking at big numbers. And I love Bushmaker's idea about why don't we identify the funding sources? Because I don't really know how we're going to ever get our arms around this consent calendar the way you all are driving it lately.
00:43:50.00	Babette McDougall	And I don't know what to make of how we're going to spend all this money on consultants. Quite honestly, it's a rather poor reflection on our staff. It strongly suggests a million dollars for one consultant alone. This is a job that somebody is hired to do. Imagine spending that money on staff instead of consultants, where we have an institutional memory that we're better equipped to move forward on.
00:44:13.20	Babette McDougall	And finally, I just want to say, going back to this issue of staffing and consultants, why are we spending so much money on consultants? If our staff cannot handle the work, then why don't we look at staffing adjustments?
00:44:26.06	Babette McDougall	rather than just blowing it on consultants.
00:44:29.52	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
00:44:31.16	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you. Are there other?
00:44:32.71	Mayor Sobieski	about commenters?
00:44:33.49	Mayor Sobieski	Yeah, Adrian Brinton.
00:44:45.50	Adrian Brinton	Hello, can you hear me?
00:44:47.09	Mayor Sobieski	We can hear you. Go ahead.
00:44:48.88	Adrian Brinton	Great, I just wanted to say on item 3D, the treasurer's report,
00:44:53.18	Adrian Brinton	We're super excited to see that when we closed the books for last year that we had a surplus. I think half of that surplus came from the city staff and reductions in addition to the other half going from
00:45:07.22	Adrian Brinton	more revenues that weren't expected, but
00:45:09.95	Adrian Brinton	you know, the half that came from reductions, I think we can attribute
00:45:12.87	Adrian Brinton	a good part of that to the hard work of our city staff. So I just want to jump on and say thank you for that. And thank you for
00:45:18.44	Adrian Brinton	taking our finances very seriously. We obviously have
00:45:22.17	Adrian Brinton	the deficit this year to worry about and deal with.
00:45:24.97	Adrian Brinton	And this having more money coming into the year definitely helps there. So thank you very much.
00:45:32.18	Mayor Sobieski	No further public comment. All right, we'll close public comment. Is there a motion to approve the consent calendar?
00:45:33.11	Jeffrey James	All right?
00:45:36.38	Jill	A follow-up question? Actually, it's a clarification question for our finance director. And it's also, I suppose, for our attorney, city attorney. It's a Bran Act issue. I just want to make it clear, based on some of the public comment, that we haven't discussed in the staff report supporting the treasurer's report, didn't have any report on the pension trust fund. Do you agree with that?
00:46:01.19	Director Hess	There is financial information regarding the pension trust fund's balances.
00:46:06.28	Jill	But there's no analysis in the three-page staff report. There was certainly no analysis on that.
00:46:10.82	Director Hess	Not on the treasurer's report. Thank you. But it does report the balances.
00:46:12.10	Jill	Thank you.
00:46:13.91	Jill	Got it. And also infrastructure.
00:46:16.85	Jill	There's nothing in the three sentence staff report or in the treasurer's report that would directly relate to a report on infrastructure.
00:46:23.66	Director Hess	there is a report on the balances of those funds that have available resources.
00:46:28.19	Jill	And that's all.
00:46:29.06	Director Hess	Correct.
00:46:29.55	Jill	Okay, and that's the purpose of
00:46:32.30	Jill	the Treasurer's Report to report on the balances in our current accounts.
00:46:36.54	Director Hess	Correct.
00:46:37.11	Jill	Thanks.
00:46:37.62	Director Hess	Yes.
00:46:38.65	Jill	Can I ask Mary?
00:46:39.97	Vice Mayor Cox	Can I make a follow-up?
00:46:41.67	Vice Mayor Cox	I guess I'll make a follow-up comment.
00:46:45.75	Vice Mayor Cox	This is the second time we've seen
00:46:47.90	Vice Mayor Cox	the Treasurer's Report on Consent. You had a detailed staff report at the September 3 Council meeting in which you did go through
00:46:58.05	Vice Mayor Cox	the investment policy, the various...
00:47:02.61	Vice Mayor Cox	Um,
00:47:03.18	Vice Mayor Cox	funds held
00:47:04.97	Vice Mayor Cox	Um,
00:47:05.90	Vice Mayor Cox	in the trust, in the parking fund, in the general fund, in the MLK fund, in the Measure L fund. Is that right?
00:47:11.42	Director Hess	Yes, this was presented back in September.
00:47:13.78	Vice Mayor Cox	on consent on September 3, and we unanimously adopted your report at that time, didn't we? That is correct. Thank you.
00:47:16.60	Jill	Thank you.
00:47:21.76	Jill	a follow-up based on that then.
00:47:23.40	Jill	Then why is it on the consent calendar again?
00:47:28.04	Jill	That's somewhat unusual that we would have.
00:47:29.78	Unknown	Let me respond to that.
00:47:31.65	Unknown	Thank you.
00:47:31.67	Jill	Pardon me?
00:47:31.94	Unknown	Let me respond to that.
00:47:33.36	Jill	Okay, and if we're gonna go into deep analysis, and I would suggest that we not veer and violate the Brown Act about a deeper analysis of what this Treasury report means,
00:47:43.30	Jill	and an unnoticed discussion.
00:47:46.77	Jill	of our
00:47:48.38	Jill	Fiscal position or anything else that we may veer into so I mean this legislating by ambush has got to stop either
00:47:58.06	Jill	This is going to be an agendized item, and we're going to have a full discussion of it.
00:48:01.62	Jill	or we have a three-page staff report.
00:48:04.29	Jill	So if we're going to veer off into something else, I think, once again,
00:48:10.18	Jill	We're really
00:48:10.50	Sarah Silver	Council, if I can probably try to help provide some clarity. Per state law, the city treasurer is supposed to provide a written report that is just the receipts, disbursements, and fund balances to be provided to the council.
00:48:24.78	Sarah Silver	Additionally, there is for public agencies that have investments, there is supposed to be a quarterly report regarding the investments.
00:48:32.98	Sarah Silver	So.
00:48:33.91	Sarah Silver	Typically, these are pretty perfunctory if they're just the monthly reporting.
00:48:39.05	Jill	This is on our agenda, I guess, for the second time.
00:48:43.32	Jill	as a treasurer's report. I'm happy to move on, but it seems like this is being
00:48:48.47	Jill	veering off into something
00:48:49.97	Jill	that was not noticed.
00:48:52.30	Vice Mayor Cox	Well, I'll just make the point that any council member can pull anything that's on consent off of consent if we'd like to have a more thorough discussion regarding it. That is our practice. It's on consent because it's considered routine and customary, but if any council member seeks a consent,
00:49:11.16	Vice Mayor Cox	more detailed
00:49:12.92	Vice Mayor Cox	uh discussion of any consent item we
00:49:16.45	Vice Mayor Cox	are welcome to pull it off, and we also typically defer to members of the public who request that we pull an item off of consent.
00:49:25.32	Council Member Kelman	May I, Mr. Mayor? I just have a question for the.
00:49:28.02	Mayor Sobieski	I think the city manager had a comment. I want to respect that he asked for the floor, Mr. City Manager.
00:49:29.37	Council Member Kelman	I want to comment.
00:49:33.62	Chad	you're right.
00:49:34.10	Chad	Now the question is why is it on twice? And the answer is,
00:49:38.06	Chad	The code that the city of Sassau operates under requires the city manager to give information that's financial to the city council. It's a requirement. When I see questions regarding the financials of the city, it's pretty important to clear them up. So if the city staff report on the 9th, I believe it was, wasn't as thoroughly reviewed by the public or by the community, and it creates some doubt about the city's intention in releasing information, then I'm going to release it again simply because in September on the 9th, in that staff report dated, Chad signed it, 8-27, this information indicated our general fund balances, which again are a snapshot in time for 23, 24. And so when you look at that, and you look at them again, what that tells you is our fund balance is increased in the general fund by a couple million dollars. And that informs future conversations that are financial in nature by the city council. I don't want any confusion about what our numbers are, because there seems to be some sentiment that we are cooking the books in some way, shape or form. But I told you three years ago, we have a infrastructure issue
00:50:47.54	Chad	Easy to see. I told you a year and a half ago, we have $10 million in general fund reserve that we need to figure out what to do. You put together your 25% reserve policy. Now I'm telling you that you have
00:50:58.78	Adrian Brinton	Ooh.
00:50:59.25	Chad	Better than expected financials at the end of 2024, 2025. And I'm telling you twice so that you can have a real conversation about it in the future and there'll be less confusion about this in the public.
00:51:11.55	Mayor Sobieski	We have a book.
00:51:11.97	Chad	you
00:51:12.02	Mayor Sobieski	on the consent calendar.
00:51:13.39	Council Member Kelman	May I just ask a clarification? Ms. McDougal mentioned, Director Hess, why is it dated June 30th, 2024? It sounded like there was a reason for this. It's dated August.
00:51:13.42	Mayor Sobieski	Go ahead.
00:51:24.41	Director Hess	So it's the balances as of June 30th, we report at the end of each fiscal quarter.
00:51:30.25	Director Hess	It was dated when it was prepared, and it was presented on September.
00:51:34.42	Director Hess	3rd so that's why it was dated august because that's when i completed the report and submitted it to council
00:51:40.36	Director Hess	for
00:51:41.12	Director Hess	inclusion on the agenda.
00:51:43.06	Mayor Sobieski	I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar.
00:51:45.34	Mayor Sobieski	Is there a second?
00:51:47.58	Vice Mayor Cox	Second.
00:51:48.19	Mayor Sobieski	All right. All in paper, say aye.
00:51:49.87	Mayor Sobieski	Bye.
00:51:51.38	Mayor Sobieski	I think calendar is approved. We'll move on to the next business item, which is for you.
00:51:55.85	Mayor Sobieski	for no public hearing items.
00:51:57.77	Mayor Sobieski	First business item is 5A, authorize the city manager to execute a professional services agreement for planning and building services with four-leaf effective July 1, 2024, not to exceed $330,000 through June 30, 2025.
00:52:10.99	Mayor Sobieski	Mr. Director Pips.
00:52:13.57	Director Pips	Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, members of the public and staff. Happy to be here, as always, this evening to introduce Council Item 5A, as stated by the Mayor, a request to authorize the City Manager to execute a PSA with four-leaf for fiscal year 2425. And thank you, Mr. City Clerk, for putting up the presentation. Before I dive in, I'd just like to address the...
00:52:37.31	Director Pips	contract amount of $330,000 and state that the true amount of this contract is in fact much lower, closer to $163,000 based on a large portion of this contract being paid by permit applicants.
00:52:52.68	Director Pips	revenues occurring for the city for our administration of building permit applications, as well as a contract buffer of 10% to maintain insulation in cases of overbillings or the need for a greater amount of services that were initially accounted for. So these things together reduce the true contract amount by approximately $167,000, or just over 50% of the total contract amount. And I'll discuss this further in the presentation, but also wanted to name it up front in order to reduce any potential sticker shock. Next slide, please.
00:53:30.64	Director Pips	As Council may recall, a significant portion of CDD staffing roles were being filled by third-party consultants when I began working for the department. Since that time, significant changes have occurred, specifically as related to new personnel and decreasing reliance on third-party consultants. I would say primarily as related to Four Leaf.
00:53:51.93	Director Pips	Specifically in October 2022, as you can see here, more than half of CDD's staff, including the director role, were filled by four-leaf personnel.
00:54:03.59	Director Pips	Only one staffer from that era is still present with us, and that staffer is our building inspector, Kenneth Henry, who has been with the city for 19 years and counting.
00:54:15.98	Director Pips	Just prior to me joining the department and at this exact time with the staffing you see here, the Community Development Department was spending over $100,000 per month on Fortleaf. Next slide.
00:54:30.74	Director Pips	Regarding new personnel in CDD, as you can see here, we have significantly reduced Four Leaves' role, specifically as related to our planning team, our community development or permit tech role, and our code enforcement officer, and have filled these positions with full-time in-office staff.
00:54:50.93	Director Pips	Four Leaf's role in CDD is currently limited to filling the role of building official as well as providing essential building plan check review services. As a result of these changes, as well as increases to the quality of management within the department as a whole, the Community Development Department has realized tremendous budgetary savings, turning our $100,000 monthly Four Leaf bill into a $25,000 monthly bill, a reduction of 75%. Next slide.
00:55:23.97	Director Pips	Here's a graph that I put together based on four leaps billing to the city since the city's initial contract in 2022, which highlights the reduction that I was just speaking to and over $100,000 monthly bill down to $25,000 per month. Next slide, please.
00:55:41.75	Director Pips	As I mentioned at the start of this presentation, the true amount of the fiscal impact of this contract to the city is significantly lower than the contract amount.
00:55:51.19	Director Pips	This is primarily due to the fact that the city does not pay directly for fees associated with building plan check review services. Rather, these fees are paid by the applicant and passed through from the city to the applicant to Fourleaf.
00:56:06.76	Director Pips	excuse me, the applicant to the city to Fourleaf. These pass-through payments represent about 33% of the total proposed contract amount, which equates to approximately $110,000. So if we subtract the pass-through amount from the total contract amount, we reduce that 330 to 220.
00:56:27.49	Director Pips	Moreover, when you factor in other aspects of the contract,
00:56:30.88	Director Pips	such as a built-in buffer and the revenues generated to the city through retaining 25% of our building permit plan check fees for permit management and administration, the amount further reduces to approximately $163,000.
00:56:46.76	Director Pips	less than half of the total contract amount.
00:56:50.05	Director Pips	Finally, the city realizes savings of approximately $214,000 per year.
00:56:55.40	Director Pips	based on leaving the position of building official unfilled. That amount is based on discussions with the HR director, as well as related to the total cost of the building official's salary, plus any benefits that the city would accrue in addition. Next slide, please.
00:57:13.87	Director Pips	So that brings me to staff recommendation. Recommendation this evening is that the City Council authorize the manager to execute a professional services agreement with Four Leaf in an amount not to exceed $330,000 to continue the provision of essential services to support the necessary function of the Community Development Department. And just to reiterate, this agreement is intended to cover costs of contracted staffing for the position of building official, as well as essential building plan check review services. Next slide, please.
00:57:46.24	Director Pips	That does it for my presentation. Thank you, counsel. And I am available to answer questions.
00:57:48.99	Mayor Sobieski	And I am available.
00:57:51.98	Mayor Sobieski	first question.
00:57:54.95	Vice Mayor Cox	Thank you, Director Phipps. I am shocked. I had not realized.
00:58:00.97	Vice Mayor Cox	of course i wasn't on the council in 2022 that we had one person then who is still with us today so that is shocking i am and congratulations to you for the great efforts in rebuilding your department
00:58:18.13	Vice Mayor Cox	I wanted to just highlight something in your staff report regarding the ongoing use of Four Leaf as the building official.
00:58:25.64	Vice Mayor Cox	um we are realizing a salary savings uh by using four leaf as the building official which amounted to roughly 107 000 for the first half of the fiscal year is that right
00:58:39.62	Director Pips	Correct.
00:58:39.99	Vice Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:58:40.24	Vice Mayor Cox	Okay. And so...
00:58:44.78	Vice Mayor Cox	Are there plans to eventually hire an in-house building official?
00:58:48.97	Director Pips	So firstly, appreciate the comments, Vice Mayor. Thank you very much. And to your question, the answer is yes. I have been in touch with our HR director. We plan on re-soliciting for the position of building official.
00:59:01.81	Director Pips	but only after we have a meaningful discussion on potentially increasing the salary ranges for that role. We have attempted to fill that seat in my time with the city, not one, but two, not two, but three times. This would be attempt number four. So in order to make more attractive
00:59:01.86	Katie Thau-Garcia	but,
00:59:21.55	Director Pips	the role, the position in the city, increasing the salary is one additional avenue that we might take. And there are some additional strategies that I've discussed with the HR director that, you know, I look forward to digging into her as well, with her as well. Thank you.
00:59:36.49	Vice Mayor Cox	And then my other question concerned your CDD staffing overview. And again, thank you very much for that table.
00:59:44.36	Vice Mayor Cox	I did not see code enforcement.
00:59:47.81	Vice Mayor Cox	And I had thought that code enforcement used to be a function of C, a community development department. Am I...
00:59:54.15	Director Pips	It should be there. Maybe I just missed it. Let me go to my slides.
00:59:56.09	Vice Mayor Cox	Maybe I just missed it.
01:00:00.18	Vice Mayor Cox	Oh, CE officer.
01:00:02.12	Director Pips	Thank you.
01:00:02.15	Council Member Kelman	Yes.
01:00:02.32	Vice Mayor Cox	Oh, yeah.
01:00:02.37	Director Pips	Code enforcement officer, excuse me for the acronym in this.
01:00:02.45	Vice Mayor Cox	couldn't
01:00:04.63	Council Member Kelman	It's an attachment too as well.
01:00:05.98	Vice Mayor Cox	And so that is also a third-party consultant. So this says that...
01:00:13.64	Vice Mayor Cox	Well.
01:00:14.49	Director Pips	So I will all just clarify.
01:00:17.29	Director Pips	in 10 2022.
01:00:19.03	Director Pips	That was a position that was filled.
01:00:20.58	Vice Mayor Cox	Bye.
01:00:21.00	Director Pips	Bye, 4Leaf.
01:00:21.83	Director Pips	And now it is Mr. Van Hook.
01:00:23.13	Vice Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:00:23.18	Vice Mayor Cox	Okay.
01:00:23.41	Director Pips	Thank you.
01:00:24.12	Director Pips	at full-time in-office staff.
01:00:25.88	Vice Mayor Cox	Okay.
01:00:26.74	Vice Mayor Cox	All right.
01:00:27.03	Council Member Kelman	Thank you so much.
01:00:27.99	Director Pips	Thank you, Bruce Mayer.
01:00:30.52	Mayor Sobieski	Go ahead.
01:00:30.86	Director Pips	Thank you.
01:00:31.34	Council Member Kelman	Hi, thank you, Director Phipps. So I did a very thorough redlining of the four-leaf contract the first time it came through, and I will just...
01:00:42.62	Council Member Kelman	Suggest that it's missing many of those key elements. So let me ask you this who will be managing this contract?
01:00:49.87	Director Pips	I will.
01:00:50.57	Council Member Kelman	And how often will it be audited?
01:00:53.47	Director Pips	We can audit it as much as counsel desires. I will say, you know, I generally would say I don't conduct formal audits in connection with provisions of essential services. However, I do have constant contact with the contract manager on Fort Leap's side. That's Craig Toll. And I do track people.
01:01:12.66	Director Pips	certain metrics as related to the performance of our consultant to ensure that they're providing quality service.
01:01:19.15	Council Member Kelman	So let's talk about those metrics. I don't see them in the contract. One of the concerns we had the first time around that I had redlined was that we wanted the same individual doing the plan check so that there wasn't, somebody reviewed it twice and then the third time around it was a different individual. Those type of safeguards are not included here. Are they intended or how else might they be covered?
01:01:43.15	Director Pips	So,
01:01:43.23	Director Pips	Thank you.
01:01:43.25	Vice Mayor Cox	So,
01:01:43.43	Director Pips	Thank you.
01:01:43.52	Council Member Kelman	Very good.
01:01:43.54	Vice Mayor Cox	There is a provision that says it's Craig Toll.
01:01:46.91	Vice Mayor Cox	I'm sorry, what's Craig? Craig Toll is identified as the person responsible for the work in the contract.
01:01:52.57	Council Member Kelman	So he's the only individual who will do any of the play on track work?
01:01:56.02	Director Pips	He's the manager of the contract.
01:01:57.49	Council Member Kelman	So this is my concern. The number one issue that I hear about four-leaf from residents is that they have different four-leaf contractors working at any given time on their plan check. And so the first time around, we really wanted to make sure if they started it, they continued it. And then my second part of that question is, who decides? It's more expensive after two checks. Who decides when it goes to checks three plus, which is a higher fee?
01:02:27.09	Director Pips	So I'll clarify, it is the initial check plus two additional checks that are included in the initial review. Any follow-on reviews will be charged. I'll also state, and thank you for the questions, I think they're important ones for us to dig into. As related to the number of staff members per project, I did do, for lack of a better term, an audit on exactly this to assess how many staffers are on each project, and I will say,
01:02:53.67	Director Pips	the vast majority of the time, it's between one and two people.
01:02:57.84	Director Pips	The amount of people that review the contract, however, depend on a few factors. One of those factors is the schedules of four-leaf staff. So for example, somebody might go on vacation.
01:03:08.77	Director Pips	That would be unfortunate, but in order to keep the contract moving forward, in some cases, 4Leaf requires an additional staffer to review. I'd say that is a small percentage of the time. A more likely case is that a project is submitted which requires 4Leaf to review for multiple different specializations. So, for example, 4Leaf has architectural specialists, Forleaf has engineering specialists, and based on the kind of comments that are needed to fulfill compliance, those specialists are both required. So that is one of the ways in which we increase the number of people who review.
01:03:49.93	Director Pips	Based on my assessment, I do not feel that the number of people reviewing four-leaf contracts is inappropriate or outside of any industry standards.
01:03:59.11	Council Member Kelman	Okay, thank you. On page 14, it says larger complex plan reviews can be negotiated to achieve the best possible pricing.
01:04:08.88	Council Member Kelman	That stands out for me, and I'll ask it as a global question. Who is really making these decisions around is this a larger complex plan review or when something is over time or premium time, which you can see on page 14 has a multiplier for the rate? How much control are we exerting over the contract, and how closely are we watching their work?
01:04:30.80	Director Pips	Yeah, so for larger contracts, I have almost daily correspondence with the four-leaf folks to ensure that we're shepherding projects forward. I would say that generally, as related to larger projects, that takes more of my focus on average in all cases,
01:04:47.90	Director Pips	So scale is definitely a factor, and I would say that the scale of projects, but also the actions of the applicant to fulfill the requests of a four-leaf commenter or achieve compliance is an aspect, too. I have just one example. Worked with and reviewed some comments from four-leaf that were not responded to the first time by applicant, not responded to the second time or the third time, and the applicant comes to our offices asking why we haven't approved their project.
01:05:19.10	Director Pips	At that time, I generally review and arrive at those exact comments that have been provided and
01:05:25.97	Director Pips	Communicate that with them and chart a path to success.
01:05:29.14	Council Member Kelman	Who decides the turnaround time for plan track
01:05:33.20	Director Pips	The turnaround time is firstly motivated by the Permit Streamlining Act. We must meet certain deadlines, and those deadlines are generally around 30 days. However, you'll also see on the four-leaf, I think, fee schedule that all reviews attempt to be conducted initially within 10 days, and then following that within an even shorter period of time. And for lack of a better term, I conducted an audit of the amount of time that Forleaf takes on each of their building plan check reviews. And I note the average is approximately 10 days.
01:06:11.22	Director Pips	which is very well in line with an industry standard.
01:06:16.22	Council Member Kelman	One more question.
01:06:16.83	Katie Thau-Garcia	Thank you.
01:06:17.96	Council Member Kelman	Do we know whether 4-Leaf has the ability to assign somebody who has knowledge or experience with Sosilito zoning ordinance? Because that's been also a concern in the past where someone has no idea and then it's very slow.
01:06:32.03	Director Pips	Excellent, excellent question. So the good thing for us is building plan check review primarily relates to the building code, which is a non Sausalito specific document.
01:06:42.82	Director Pips	So I would say as related to building plan check,
01:06:44.97	Director Pips	and in all cases, always good to have some institutional knowledge, you know, some grouping of folks who understand how the city works. And we have been contracted with Forleaf for some time. I believe that the building plan checkers in Sausalito, excuse me, that work for Sausalito via Forleaf do understand some of the unique aspects of Sausalito and some of the intricacies that make certain plan reviews more challenging than others. For example, building on a 40% slope, um,
01:07:16.40	Director Pips	Yeah, I'll end it there. Thank you.
01:07:21.34	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
01:07:22.47	Mayor Sobieski	Julie, raise your hand.
01:07:28.06	Jill	Thank you.
01:07:28.61	Jill	Well, so I was on the dais in 21 and 22, so I'm not as surprised that we had so much of a turnover. And I will note that recent reports from the United States Census Bureau, as well as the World Economic Forum, recognizes there's actually terms for it. It's called the Great Resignation in 2021.
01:07:51.14	Jill	And in 2022, it's called the great reshuffling. So huge amounts of numbers of people changing industries, changing
01:07:57.42	Jill	For whatever reason, and we certainly saw that here in Sausalito where people quit because they wanted to be closer home they didn't want to come into the office.
01:08:04.49	Jill	and they didn't want to work here in City Hall as required. So I'm not surprised. There's been almost a complete turnover since then in the four years.
01:08:16.77	Jill	That's striking, but I will say,
01:08:19.68	Jill	I'm enormously pleased with the department now and where it is now, and you specifically as our new CDD director. And so thank you. I think you're doing a fantastic job. And the rest of the new guys, Matthew and Maria Hernandez and all your team over there.
01:08:35.20	Jill	I'm very happy about that.
01:08:36.89	Jill	Um,
01:08:38.12	Jill	We talked a little bit earlier today and
01:08:41.07	Jill	As we discussed, there were some performance questions about
01:08:44.16	Jill	and I think we've talked a little bit about some of the
01:08:47.98	Jill	just now with the councilman kelman's questions about controls and performance uh metrics uh and performance reviews with them and so you've talked a little bit about some of those are baked in but we do you have anything more to add on that issue with the
01:09:06.05	Director Pips	Thank you for the comments, Council Member. You're welcome. Very much appreciated, and I appreciate the question. So as I've learned from Council Member Kelman, it's always nice to bake smart metrics into the way that we manage our contracts. So I would say metrics that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound are metrics that I want to evaluate when we evaluate the contracts that we have with our third-party consultants. Some of the metrics that we've talked about already I think are important, and I'm just going to summarize those in addition to some of the others that are kind of part of my primary set of smart metrics. So the average number of reviews per project.
01:09:45.22	Director Pips	based on my review.
01:09:46.84	Director Pips	With four-leaf, it's two to three.
01:09:49.10	Director Pips	That is consistent with the industry standard.
01:09:51.66	Director Pips	Average time to complete review, 10 days.
01:09:54.97	Director Pips	First review generally is longer. Second and following reviews are generally shorter. That is consistent with industry standards.
01:10:03.24	Director Pips	Price to city.
01:10:04.66	Director Pips	for the review.
01:10:06.19	Director Pips	In this case, this specific contract, the city receives 25% of building plan check review fees. As related to the contract amount specifically, that would equate to approximately $27,000 based on 33% of the total contract being paid by applicants as pass-throughs. Another one, average four-leaf staff per project, as mentioned, one to two people, primarily based on scheduling and required reviews from specialists. And plan check averages, how many per year and what are we charging or what is the average charge and what does the city get?
01:10:45.71	Director Pips	We average around 150 plan checks per year.
01:10:48.35	Director Pips	totaling approximately $110,000 with an estimated average permit or building plan check fee of $733. So those are some of the metrics that I use and keep apprised of and update over time. I would be open to any additional smart metrics that council would like to suggest.
01:11:09.81	Jill	And Director Phipps, we are currently preparing to put out another job listing for the building official position that Four Leaf is now going to fill, but we're looking for a full-time person for that.
01:11:26.31	Director Pips	Correct.
01:11:26.80	Jill	And if we hire a full-time person before the end of the four-leaf contract,
01:11:31.19	Jill	Will the four-leaf contract end or will they overlap?
01:11:34.19	Director Pips	That's an important question. Thank you for asking that. So this contract is a not-to-exceed contract, and the city essentially may...
01:11:42.97	Director Pips	halt the request for four leaf services
01:11:45.92	Director Pips	you
01:11:45.97	Director Pips	as we see fit. So in the case, of course, that we are able to hire a full-time building official, I would imagine that it would be appropriate for us to reduce that specific service and to maintain the building plan check fee services.
01:12:02.01	Jill	And we also discussed earlier today that we are also
01:12:07.86	Jill	using currently or we started using currently a new plan check, an additional plan check service.
01:12:15.81	Director Pips	Yeah, thank you for bringing that up as well, Council Member. So I'll just state for Council that we are and have evaluated an alternative contract with an additional firm in the amount of $25,000 for as-needed building plan check, as-needed planning building services, to have an additional option in case our capacities are spread thin, in case four-leaf capacities are spread thin. and as additional option in case our capacities are spread thin, in case four-leaf capacities are spread thin. And as preferred by Council, I think I'd be happy to, you know, dig into that specific secondary contract if Council would like to explore.
01:12:56.83	Director Pips	having those building plan check services provided by a different third-party consultant.
01:13:03.75	Jill	And this is good because we have a deeper bench on services and qualified services for Sausalito.
01:13:09.08	Director Pips	Yes, yeah, it keeps us a little bit more flexible and agile.
01:13:12.46	Jill	Okay, thank you.
01:13:17.64	Vice Mayor Cox	The whole conversation about staffing made me think of construction contracts that I write and
01:13:24.27	Vice Mayor Cox	In those construction contracts, we have a staffing list where we
01:13:29.22	Vice Mayor Cox	list specific names of those people authorized to perform work on this particular project. And I'm wondering...
01:13:36.84	Vice Mayor Cox	if that type of approach might work for Sausalito as a way to address kind of
01:13:43.09	Vice Mayor Cox	building a bank and maintaining that bank of institutional knowledge amongst the folks from Fourleaf who serve as our building official. So I just wanted to ask if that was something feasible that you could explore with Fourleaf, where you actually...
01:13:59.52	Vice Mayor Cox	I don't know if they have 10...
01:14:01.13	Vice Mayor Cox	Five, you know, they charge $175 an hour for building officials. So I don't know how many they have on staff. But if we could include as a provision in our contract a requirement that where
01:14:17.06	Vice Mayor Cox	possible, because obviously people do go on vacation or whatever, but where possible, the building official work will be performed by one of the following two, three individuals as a means to better quality control, who performs the first, second, third review, and who performs work on particular projects.
01:14:40.24	Director Pips	Yeah, thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd be happy to consider something like that. I can just state, based on discussions with Craig, you know, that's something that I qualitatively carry into my requests with him. Objectively, it's the case that it's better for us to have a longstanding building official.
01:15:00.26	Director Pips	in a contracted or full-time in office role. So I would support that, and I'd be open to collaborating with city attorney as to where that might fit in the contract.
01:15:10.03	Vice Mayor Cox	I mean, it's usually for me, well, it could be under responsible. There's a paragraph in the beginning of the agreement, but it could also be just a staffing paragraph. And the other thing is, I was wondering if you still have access to the red lines that Council Member Kellman prepared at the last...
01:15:30.41	Vice Mayor Cox	negotiation of the four-leaf
01:15:32.66	Vice Mayor Cox	contract and whether you might be able to review some of those red lines and ensure
01:15:36.93	Vice Mayor Cox	that we've addressed those points since obviously she invested some effort and thought into customizing a contract better suited for Sausalito.
01:15:48.52	Director Pips	Yeah, I think that's an excellent comment. Appreciate Councilmember Kelman's efforts. I will just be transparent. I'm not sure that I've reviewed or seen that red line. And I'll also state that we have recently updated our kind of template for professional service agreements. And that's an activity that's been taken on by city attorney. So I've deferred to that updated template as far as those agreements are concerned. As far as specific red lines, again, happy to review. I'd like like to see the red lines.
01:16:20.16	Vice Mayor Cox	Okay, so I'm going to ask Councilmember Kelman to find those and send them to you if she can. I in no way want to imply that I don't support the use of...
01:16:28.63	Vice Mayor Cox	of the updated template
01:16:30.82	Vice Mayor Cox	in general as a starting point for all
01:16:33.86	Vice Mayor Cox	professional services agreements, but at the same time,
01:16:36.38	Vice Mayor Cox	we should customize them to the extent appropriate on a case-by-case basis. So thank you for your willingness to undertake that effort.
01:16:43.09	Director Pips	Thank you, Vice Mayor.
01:16:44.21	Mayor Sobieski	Any other questions?
01:16:46.42	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you, Director Phipps. Can we open public comment, please?
01:16:49.84	Jeffrey James	We have Jeffrey Chase.
01:16:52.32	Mayor Sobieski	Mr. Chase.
01:17:05.16	Jeffrey Chase	Hello, Mr. Mayor, again.
01:17:08.91	Jeffrey Chase	So I got 7% of the vote last time. I'll be talking to...
01:17:13.52	Jeffrey Chase	the mayor and Melissa and
01:17:16.05	Jeffrey Chase	your opponents to see who wants that 7% and
01:17:19.78	Jeffrey Chase	Consultancy.
01:17:21.77	Jeffrey Chase	We just learned...
01:17:23.42	Jeffrey Chase	not only
01:17:25.82	Jeffrey Chase	$100,000 a month, it's gone down now, but $25,000 in case they have to hire more. There's nine planning officials in Sausalito that are working for the city of Sausalito. There are dozens in Marin County working for the county.
01:17:44.40	Jeffrey Chase	It is an appearance of intense corruption.
01:17:48.53	Jeffrey Chase	The cost of government in Marin,
01:17:51.81	Jeffrey Chase	has gone up 100% since 2010.
01:17:57.43	Jeffrey Chase	By attending these meetings, I find out why.
01:18:02.35	Jeffrey Chase	So with the lead of the Anchorage, which will have an election,
01:18:08.58	Jeffrey Chase	the people who do not contribute,
01:18:11.50	Jeffrey Chase	as much climate change as some of the people there on the dais, maybe all of them.
01:18:18.54	Jeffrey Chase	They do not contribute to the corruption of hiring consultants and doubling the budget.
01:18:23.90	Jeffrey Chase	We will elect five member board of directors as the government has failed us.
01:18:30.82	Jeffrey Chase	We appreciate the honesty of these agendas, of describing what the consultants do and don't do.
01:18:39.85	Jeffrey Chase	We understand that this is the process.
01:18:43.55	Jeffrey Chase	But...
01:18:45.52	Jeffrey Chase	What we have to do, as the houseless people can do for Sukkot, which is observed by the Muslims,
01:18:54.45	Jeffrey Chase	Three pilgrimages.
01:18:56.56	Jeffrey Chase	By the Christians and the Jews, everybody that is described as houseless builds a booth to live in for one week.
01:19:05.33	Jeffrey Chase	That's religious law and cannot be disobeyed by.
01:19:07.90	Jeffrey James	or,
01:19:07.95	Mayor Sobieski	Yeah.
01:19:09.94	Jeffrey Chase	Me. Thank you.
01:19:11.44	Jeffrey Chase	All right. Thank you.
01:19:14.46	Mayor Sobieski	No further public comment. All right, we'll close public comment, please. Any discussion or a motion on this item?
01:19:20.76	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
01:19:20.77	Council Member Austin	You can start.
01:19:21.16	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
01:19:21.48	Mayor Sobieski	Go ahead, Councilmember Austin.
01:19:22.80	Council Member Austin	I.
01:19:23.27	Council Member Austin	I really want to just give immense kudos to the Community Development Department and the work of Brandon and your team. And this is a perfect example of how you are reducing costs and improving efficiency. So I am really pleased to see that we are at this point only down to one Fort Leif employee and have significantly decreased our consultant costs. And we'd like to continue to do that as having folks in-house with institutional memory and who we can monitor on jobs and otherwise is great. But I am fully prepared to make a motion in support of the approval of the four leaf contract.
01:19:59.53	Mayor Sobieski	Any other comments?
01:20:00.34	Vice Mayor Cox	I'd like to just go ahead and enunciate a motion that incorporates our comments so that we can then discuss it. So I recommend that the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement for planning and building services before LEAF, effective July 1, 2024, not to exceed $330,000 through June 30, 2025, with the proviso that the Community Development Director
01:20:22.47	Vice Mayor Cox	review and incorporate
01:20:26.10	Vice Mayor Cox	relevant comments from the last four leaf contract provided by councilmember kelman and
01:20:33.01	Vice Mayor Cox	that the community development director make an effort to specifically identify those four-leaf employees who will serve as Sausalito's employees.
01:20:46.77	Vice Mayor Cox	building official wherever possible.
01:20:50.83	Mayor Sobieski	There's a motion.
01:20:51.73	Jill	Thank you.
01:20:51.78	Jill	Excuse me.
01:20:52.62	Jill	I'm wondering if we can do, if I can offer a friendly amendment.
01:20:59.54	Jill	might alleviate a lot of angst and be clearer later if we acknowledge in the motion that the not to exceed amount also takes into account the true cost including the salary set off offset and the pass-through amounts and i think brandon you had that or director phipps you had that in your motion so
01:21:22.78	Jill	I mean, I'm sorry you had that in your presentation. And so I wonder do you remember which slide that's on I have it up here, but now I can't find it
01:21:31.67	Sarah Silver	And counsel in light of some of the feedback you do have in your packet resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the professional services agreement, I would suggest that you.
01:21:41.81	Sarah Silver	Approve that resolution with a modification that you authorize the city manager to execute the professional services agreement.
01:21:49.56	Sarah Silver	in a form approved by the
01:21:49.81	Katie Thau-Garcia	form.
01:21:51.77	Sarah Silver	City Attorney.
01:21:53.00	Sarah Silver	and direct the city attorney to
01:21:55.65	Sarah Silver	review the agreement with the
01:21:58.82	Sarah Silver	conditions that you will have addressed in your comments, including the prior red lines.
01:22:07.97	Babette McDougall	See you.
01:22:08.59	Vice Mayor Cox	In reviewing the draft resolution in our packet I'm fine with that I think that what Councilmember Hoffman
01:22:16.59	Vice Mayor Cox	is requesting is that
01:22:19.90	Jill	Bye.
01:22:20.14	Vice Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:22:20.68	Vice Mayor Cox	Well, I don't know that it goes in the agreement, though. This is direction to staff in terms of
01:22:28.34	Jill	Yeah, in the resolution, but in the resolution it would be
01:22:34.28	Jill	Okay, so on slide five, it says, based on the above, only $220,000 of the total contract is paid directly by city funds. But let me just ask a follow-up. Is it less than that, including the offsets from reimbursement? Do you have a final number on that? Let me just make it clear so that it's...
01:22:54.01	Jill	We expect that even though it's $330,000 for the contract, we expect, is it $110,000?
01:23:01.02	Director Pips	That would be the amount that is taken up by pass-through payments, borne by the applicant, passed through the city, and given to Fourleaf. So the number of 220, that's purely reducing the 110 from the 330. If we factor in the buffer that I had of $30,000, that brings us down to 190. If we factor in the revenues that accrue to the city as a result of our keeping 25% of the building plan check fees, that reduces further to $163,000. Now, you know, how exactly we want to parlay the salary savings into that number, I'm not exactly certain. It's more of a narrative, frankly, for us to understand the meaning of the total contract amount.
01:23:47.11	Jill	Let me follow up on that. I think the expectation in the presentation today is that that's the expectation. Even though we're approving $330,000, the expectation is the true cost is going to be something around $160,000.
01:24:00.17	Vice Mayor Cox	the true city paid cost, but we still have to approve the contract in the amount of $330,000.
01:24:05.98	Jill	30,000.
01:24:07.11	Vice Mayor Cox	I would suggest that we direct staff to provide us quarterly reports on how we're stacking up in terms of so that you can manage the –
01:24:16.07	Jill	i'd like it i think it should be called out somehow in the resolution i don't and i agree that it's it's approved the contract that the resolution needs to be clear that the expectation of the council as based on the presentation today because if we don't clearly put it in the resolution then it yes i believe customer kelvin has a solution
01:24:31.59	Council Member Kelman	I believe you.
01:24:33.67	Council Member Kelman	That may be in the resolution on the now therefore resolve not to exceed $330,000. And then a separate sentence that says this number is with the expectation that at least X percentage will be recouped in cost recovery or however you like to articulate it.
01:24:53.01	Vice Mayor Cox	So I believe they're two separate topics. This resolution authorizes the city manager to enter into a contract.
01:24:59.76	Vice Mayor Cox	PB Sarah Silver, If we want to give staff direction, not to spend more than blank out of the city's coffers, then we can do that separately, but I'm not sure that belongs in this. PB Sarah Silver, And I.
01:25:10.98	Sarah Silver	And I will agree with our vice mayor on that point. Typically-
01:25:16.14	Council Member Kelman	What if it's in the whereas, however? Why don't we put it in the whereas as a statement that this contract is being, or this resolution is being signed with the understanding that this is part of a cost recovery mechanism? Yeah.
01:25:27.10	Sarah Silver	Yes. And I, I, I'm okay with that from a legal perspective, just in terms of the way this contract is paid for. Um,
01:25:34.89	Sarah Silver	You know, it is paid for out of the city's building permit fees, which the city has to follow a specific process to set.
01:25:40.70	Sarah Silver	And, you know, that process is not before you tonight. I think staff are expecting to bring back before you a revised fee study to reset the city's building permit fees to also increase the amount of cost recovery that you may be
01:25:55.97	Vice Mayor Cox	You may not.
01:25:57.13	Sarah Silver	getting for this contract in the near future.
01:25:59.46	Vice Mayor Cox	So I amend my motion to include another
01:26:03.32	Vice Mayor Cox	requirement that the resolution be
01:26:07.24	Vice Mayor Cox	revised to include a whereas clause that reflects the anticipated level of cost recovery that comprises the total of the expenditure.
01:26:17.99	Jill	And is there, there's an amount that I think our director, Phipps, can provide. I don't know if he can provide it right now. No.
01:26:25.08	Vice Mayor Cox	No, I'm not asking for it right now. I'm asking that. So what we've said is that the city attorney is going to revise the resolution to address these three requirements in our motion of approval.
01:26:36.55	Jill	the three or
01:26:36.97	Vice Mayor Cox	One is that we identify specific staffing. Two is that we incorporate the appropriate red lines from the prior four-leaf contract. And three is that we include a whereas clause that memorializes the amount of the total that's expected to be recaptured through cost recovery.
01:26:57.70	Jill	Okay, and that amount is going to be included in that? And that amount will be included, correct. Okay, thanks so much. May I have a second?
01:27:00.14	Vice Mayor Cox	be included. Okay.
01:27:05.61	Mayor Sobieski	All in favor say aye.
01:27:06.86	Vice Mayor Cox	Aye. Opposed. Thank you.
01:27:09.53	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you very much.
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01:27:31.51	Sarah Silver	I will be covering this item.
01:27:33.25	Mayor Sobieski	with the city attorney.
01:27:34.57	Sarah Silver	Yeah. So the city currently allows medical cannabis and adult use cannabis deliveries within the city. Since the Prop 64 was passed and since the city adopted its present ordinance, um,
01:27:49.00	Sarah Silver	The Medical Cannabis Patients Right of Access Act was passed and that caused us to
01:27:55.39	Sarah Silver	look back at the existing language in the municipal code. There is some language.
01:28:01.89	Sarah Silver	that exists in this ordinance which requires some cleanup
01:28:06.19	Sarah Silver	All of this is non-substantive.
01:28:10.19	Sarah Silver	The proposed ordinance before you tonight would remove mention that the city prohibits transport of cannabis under state law, the city cannot ban the transport of cannabis through the city.
01:28:21.70	Sarah Silver	Additionally, it would remove some duplicative language that discusses
01:28:29.66	Sarah Silver	how medical cannabis can be delivered.
01:28:33.77	Sarah Silver	And additionally, it updates the existing references to refer to the current state laws regarding licensure of businesses that can conduct deliveries. So with that, I do recommend that you update the city code to reference the current state laws.
01:28:50.35	Sarah Silver	If you have any questions, I'm available to answer them.
01:28:53.26	Mayor Sobieski	Any questions for our city attorney?
01:28:57.49	Mayor Sobieski	Seeing no questions, we'll put out the public comments.
01:29:00.68	Jeffrey James	Um,
01:29:01.26	Jeffrey James	See none.
01:29:03.31	Mayor Sobieski	We'll close public comment. Is there any discussion?
01:29:09.17	Mayor Sobieski	It seems like a matter of fact updating of our secret.
01:29:11.18	Vice Mayor Cox	I appreciate the city's attorney in keeping us updated to the most current version of this law that continues to evolve throughout the state of California. And with that, I will move.
01:29:25.64	Vice Mayor Cox	that we introduce by title only and waive first reading of Ordinance No. 07-2024, an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sausalito, amending Chapter 10.47, Marijuana Regulations of the Sausalito Municipal Code.
01:29:39.61	Council Member Austin	So I can...
01:29:40.66	Mayor Sobieski	Motion's made and seconded. All in favor say aye.
01:29:43.22	Mayor Sobieski	Bye.
01:29:44.15	Mayor Sobieski	Opposed? Motion carries unanimously.
01:29:46.75	Mayor Sobieski	We'll now move on to item six communications. This is the time for members of the public to provide any comment for items not on the agenda. If you would like to make a public comment, please return a speaker card to our city clerk or raise your hand in the Zoom application.
01:30:04.08	Mayor Sobieski	Mr. City Clerk, do we have any?
01:30:05.67	Jeffrey James	We have Ray with you.
01:30:14.15	Jeffrey Chakeson	Good evening again.
01:30:16.23	Jeffrey Chakeson	I submitted a memo to you.
01:30:21.11	Jeffrey Chakeson	I'm sure you've read everything I've submitted. I've submitted a memo to you with a request that the city manager, in his report to you tonight,
01:30:33.17	Jeffrey Chakeson	address certain misinformation that is circulating throughout our community.
01:30:40.53	Jeffrey Chakeson	Now, I want you to know, in particular, one council member to know, this was a very painful memorandum for me to write.
01:30:52.28	Jeffrey Chakeson	The issue at hand is that
01:30:56.16	Jeffrey Chakeson	There's now throughout the community
01:30:59.36	Jeffrey Chakeson	Accusations that are being made.
01:31:01.96	Jeffrey Chakeson	that the city staff
01:31:05.37	Jeffrey Chakeson	possibly some of you who are on finance committee.
01:31:09.64	Jeffrey Chakeson	manipulate it.
01:31:12.12	Jeffrey Chakeson	A process, city process.
01:31:14.97	Jeffrey Chakeson	and used city funds.
01:31:18.28	Jeffrey Chakeson	to manipulate this election. We're in election season. I'm used to it. There's all kinds of noise going on.
01:31:25.44	Jeffrey Chakeson	But when our city's death,
01:31:27.55	Jeffrey Chakeson	is directly accused
01:31:29.72	Jeffrey Chakeson	of issuing misleading information, influencing elections,
01:31:34.99	Jeffrey Chakeson	And in particular,
01:31:36.32	Jeffrey Chakeson	publishing unaudited financial statements, which are just routine.
01:31:42.18	Jeffrey Chakeson	I believe the city manager, even though he probably doesn't want to get involved,
01:31:47.03	Jeffrey Chakeson	needs to update you with the facts about what our audit process is, how it works, and what our routine financial reporting is.
01:31:57.72	Jeffrey Chakeson	So that's my request to you. I put detailed questions in that I would like the city manager to answer. And I realize...
01:32:06.97	Jeffrey Chakeson	I'm putting him in a difficult position.
01:32:09.40	Jeffrey Chakeson	Thank you.
01:32:10.09	Jeffrey Chakeson	So, sorry, Chris.
01:32:15.76	Jeffrey James	Anyone else, Mr. City Clerk? We have online, we have Babette McDougall.
01:32:24.58	Mayor Sobieski	Go ahead, Ms. McDougall.
01:32:26.32	Babette McDougall	Thank you. Can you hear me?
01:32:28.04	Mayor Sobieski	Yes, go right ahead.
01:32:29.14	Babette McDougall	All right. Thank you.
01:32:30.29	Babette McDougall	So first of all, I'd like to say,
01:32:32.78	Babette McDougall	Every now and again, I always enjoy listening to Ray Withy because
01:32:36.24	Babette McDougall	In my opinion, he can knock it out of the park when he wants to. This is a good example of that as well.
01:32:41.68	Babette McDougall	There is a lot of misinformation that is floating around our community.
01:32:45.78	Babette McDougall	And I agree that because we're in this...
01:32:49.03	Babette McDougall	critical phase running up to our November election.
01:32:52.53	Babette McDougall	that if anybody should make proactive efforts to nip misinformation in the bud,
01:32:57.34	Babette McDougall	It should certainly be all y'all on the council.
01:33:00.26	Babette McDougall	as well as attended by the city staff themselves.
01:33:03.19	Babette McDougall	Because as Mr. Withey points out, it does seem to be viewed in many respects as just one big gelatinous organic product.
01:33:11.07	Babette McDougall	miss.
01:33:12.12	Babette McDougall	So it would be nice to see some cleanup in action. Now, with regard to misinformation items, it's true that there's a lot of confusion about the way the finances are handled. And this alphabet soup approach to the consent calendar only exacerbates that problem. So be clear about that.
01:33:29.33	Babette McDougall	Number two,
01:33:30.58	Babette McDougall	Misinformation in general over the last several days was very discouraging to hear so many people get on their telephones and texts to talk about how there are yet another disinformation campaign lodged among candidates running for office against other candidates.
01:33:48.42	Babette McDougall	Now, this is really abhorrent as far as the way that Sausalito
01:33:53.53	Babette McDougall	Sausalito doesn't normally conduct itself this way. And the idea that certain candidates are spending huge sums of money to employ communication consultants and everybody else so that they can look better, sound better, get the sign bouts that they're looking for.
01:34:09.70	Babette McDougall	you know, sending down these
01:34:11.33	Babette McDougall	gadgets to take photographs that have not been authorized by the general public.
01:34:15.11	Babette McDougall	As far as I can sell, there's nothing on plan with the city.
01:34:18.13	Babette McDougall	So there's a lot of tightening up that needs to be done. And I think starting here, starting now would be a great time to get going on it.
01:34:25.29	Babette McDougall	Thank you.
01:34:29.10	Jeffrey James	No further public comment.
01:34:30.03	Mayor Sobieski	Okay, we'll close public comment and then move on to council member committee reports. Anyone on the dais wish to provide a report?
01:34:39.11	Vice Mayor Cox	Sure. I will report that I attended a Finance Committee meeting on October 4, 2024, and we saw a couple of documents at that meeting. One was the Treasurer's Report, which we approved for a second time tonight, and the other was an audit update dated October 4 from our Director of Finance. During the meeting,
01:35:06.80	Vice Mayor Cox	during public comment during the meeting,
01:35:09.01	Vice Mayor Cox	a member of the public accused the finance committee
01:35:13.84	Vice Mayor Cox	of manipulating its agenda in order to somehow influence the election.
01:35:21.41	Vice Mayor Cox	However, there is absolute precedent for the receipt by the Finance Committee and then the City Council of first of unaudited
01:35:34.71	Vice Mayor Cox	financials
01:35:36.97	Vice Mayor Cox	in October, so in 2020.
01:35:41.40	Vice Mayor Cox	They were presented to the City Council on the consent calendar on October 26, 2021.
01:35:49.06	Vice Mayor Cox	In 2021, they were presented to the Finance Committee on October 8.
01:35:54.61	Vice Mayor Cox	This year it was October 4.
01:35:57.06	Vice Mayor Cox	2020 and then to the City Council on October 27
01:36:01.43	Vice Mayor Cox	2020. And so
01:36:03.64	Vice Mayor Cox	As part of the Finance Committee, we requested that the Director of Finance bring back
01:36:10.54	Vice Mayor Cox	the audit update once it was finalized to a subsequent city council meeting and i'm hoping that will occur if not at the end of this month at the first meeting in november and that's my report
01:36:24.32	Council Member Kelman	Thank you.
01:36:26.37	Mayor Sobieski	That's when we're coming.
01:36:27.63	Council Member Kelman	I was wondering maybe my apologies I did miss the sewer committee meeting but you were able to attend you want to give a report.
01:36:33.94	Jill	Yes, so I am the newly appointed council representative to the sewer committee.
01:36:40.83	Jill	And
01:36:43.60	Jill	We talked mainly about the
01:36:47.66	Jill	Combined services.
01:36:49.42	Jill	It's not a consolidation. It's combined services between the Sausalito-Marine City sewer district and the city of Sausalito and Sausalito.
01:36:59.90	Jill	Thank you.
01:37:00.94	Jill	merging the systems. I don't know. They don't want to say consolidation, but combining for
01:37:06.11	Jill	So anyway, that's moving forward. We hope to have an agreement at some point in the near future, maybe by the end of the year in principle.
01:37:16.45	Jill	We hope.
01:37:18.09	Jill	And we're working on an area on the south end of town to bring those group of houses, a group of residences into compliance that are close to the water. So that's a project that's been ongoing for a long time. So that's good news, great news, in fact, that we're almost done with that project. Yeah, and since there's been a couple comments from public comment about an email that I sent out to my private email list recently, and if anybody would like to have that or me send it to them, you can send me an email at my city council or my Jill at Jill for
01:37:59.50	Jill	Um,
01:38:00.24	Jill	email account, and I'm happy to share it.
01:38:06.62	Unknown	Thank you.
01:38:06.96	Unknown	Yeah.
01:38:07.48	Council Member Austin	I just wanted to share I was asked to serve by supervisor Mary Sackett on her special committee that's focused on the future of safety for ebikes and primarily we're looking at ebike regulations for.
01:38:18.20	Council Member Austin	for kids and teens and how do we move forward with that and what is the county's approach to e-bike safety in light of the new regulations that are being passed and also of course the numerous requests we've had from members of the public to take action. So that committee is going to be meeting once a month so we've had our first committee meeting in September which we'll be meeting again this month and it's composed of a number of representatives both supervisorial and then staff from state level and some council members so that's an interesting group and just wanted to share that out.
01:38:48.34	Council Member Austin	Thank you.
01:38:48.37	Council Member Kelman	and I think this is sort of related to the sea level rise task force, or maybe I was just asked to go, but Galilee Harbor has received a grant from Marine Community Foundation to examine putting a wave attenuation mechanism adjacent to their docs, and so they're actually working with ESA associates that are part of the project team for Sausalito as well. And so we met to look at the scope, and they are very keen on moving something forward and integrating it with a larger project. So there's nothing for me to do, but it's reporting to you that they received this money and they're very excited to do something.
01:39:25.53	Council Member Austin	I just want to share one more thing just for full transparency is that a neighborhood group that many of us heard from at the Housing Element Committee meeting last week had asked for me to come and meet with them and answer some questions about the Housing Element. And I invited Councilmember Cox to join me since she was a member of the Housing Element Advisory Committee. And they had submitted some questions in advance, which Community Development Director Phipps provided some great answers for. So there was a little bit of a town hall engagement. And so I think we've shared what most of their comments were, but happy to share that email as well with any members of the council of just the questions and the response from Director Phipps so you're all aware.
01:40:03.30	Mayor Sobieski	Any other reports?
01:40:04.83	Mayor Sobieski	I had one of my own, as many of you know, I was on the board of Meals on Wheels of San Francisco for many years.
01:40:10.84	Mayor Sobieski	really a sophisticated organization to help seniors age in place. They have a new innovative CEO, and I'm still on the honorary board. I've connected them with Sybil Boutier and Tricia Smith to explore the possibility of doing a pilot program in Sausalito to help alleviate loneliness and isolation.
01:40:28.79	Mayor Sobieski	So that project's ongoing at May.
01:40:31.06	Mayor Sobieski	be appropriate for the city council to
01:40:33.38	Mayor Sobieski	passed a resolution in support and
01:40:35.91	Mayor Sobieski	there'll be more updates as that evolves, but it could be a, um,
01:40:40.47	Mayor Sobieski	exciting addition to the good work that
01:40:42.41	Mayor Sobieski	the Associated Village test.
01:40:46.06	Mayor Sobieski	Mr. City Manager.
01:40:52.08	Chad	Yes. Time for city manager report. Thank you, Mayor and Council members of the public. I do want to provide an update on city infrastructure, in particular park infrastructure. The city council approved $347,000 this past year to fix Marinship Park. As many of you know, that's the park with tennis courts and lights and the only lit tennis court park in our community. so with that $347,000 of city funds that we are investing in this particular part of our park system there's going to be repair of the tennis courts repair of the parking lot repair of the fencing the tennis courts are going to be configured to allow for pickleball. And at the same time, you know, as all this is happening, we expect to reopen the park in January. In that same vicinity, you have the beloved Varda mural. We've had conversations with the folks that care about the mural, about how to protect it so that it isn't misrepresented.
01:40:52.42	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
01:40:52.45	Mayor Sobieski	That's it.
01:40:57.58	Katie Thau-Garcia	update on.
01:41:57.96	Chad	mistreated. And then at the same time, you have the green space that's out there that has been fenced off that will be reopened. And there's some conversations that have been ongoing with a group out of Mill Valley to talk about a potential contribution by them in lieu of or in return for use of the fields. That's an ongoing discussion. It's gone through the Sustainability Commission. It's gone through the Parks and Recreation Commission. It eventually needs to come to city council to see if there's an appetite to do this. But the concept is they would come in and provide a chunk of money for field preparation and then field usage. The debate has been around artificial fields versus natural turf. And so all of those conversations are happening around the marineship. But the good news is it's going to open again in January to the public.
01:42:48.79	Mayor Sobieski	That's remember coming.
01:42:49.87	Council Member Kelman	Yes, Mr. City Manager, that's a lot of great work, and thank you for that report. I have one of my top five questions people ask me, so thank you. It's also a lot of paved area, and after sitting in an all-day workshop around climate resilience and heat events, I am wondering if you would be open to me offering myself up to explore some grants for climate resilience to either have paved areas that are sequestering carbon or reflecting in terms of the type of material. or some grants for climate resilience to either have paved areas that are sequestering carbon or reflecting in terms of the type of materials that we utilize. And I'll just say that there's an extreme heat and community resilience program from the governor's office at OPR. And if you don't mind, I'd love to communicate with Katie about it.
01:43:29.56	Chad	You're speaking about the potential of an artificial turf field.
01:43:33.39	Council Member Kelman	No, sir, I'm talking about the actual paving of the parking lot, the paving of the tennis courts. This is a great opportunity for us to actually do this in a way that is climate resilient as possible.
01:43:42.11	Chad	Yeah, my thinking on that, Councilmember, that horse may be out the gate, and the materials may have already been bid and spec'd. And, you know, I'm not sure that it's – given the advancement in the contract, it seems to me like we've missed that opportunity.
01:43:59.93	Council Member Kelman	May I ask that it be considered in future such opportunities? And also there is paint as we restripe and such that actually helps to reflect and it can be quite effective.
01:44:10.23	Mayor Sobieski	I mean, I get on that same point. I think what you're saying is whenever we look to repave something, we all think about
01:44:10.48	Chad	I mean,
01:44:17.57	Council Member Kelman	For sure.
01:44:17.90	Mayor Sobieski	design detail of how we're doing it. You just put asphalt on it, or did you use some of the techniques that Council Member Kelman may be aware of and other designers to do something that achieves more than just one goal? That's also a potential...
01:44:18.11	Adrian Brinton	Thank you.
01:44:19.66	Adrian Brinton	doing.
01:44:19.85	Council Member Kelman	Thank you.
01:44:32.27	Mayor Sobieski	stormwater treatment,
01:44:34.48	Mayor Sobieski	device, I don't know how else you'd characterize it, but that could be a
01:44:37.87	Mayor Sobieski	Does that even need to be a future agenda item as a policy direction for public works?
01:44:41.16	Council Member Kelman	Oh,
01:44:42.27	Council Member Kelman	I think it's good business practice, particularly since you have a better chance of finding a grant and have someone else pay for it.
01:44:47.81	Chad	that.
01:44:47.88	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
01:44:47.93	Chad	Thank you.
01:44:47.96	Chad	Thank you.
01:44:48.28	Chad	Thank you.
01:44:48.65	Mayor Sobieski	Yeah.
01:44:48.97	Chad	Thank you.
01:44:49.02	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
01:44:49.04	Chad	Thank you.
01:44:49.07	Mayor Sobieski	It's a fundamentally friendly.
01:44:49.73	Chad	material.
01:44:50.03	Mayor Sobieski	That's what I'm hearing.
01:44:52.77	Mayor Sobieski	Any other questions for Mr. City Manager? All right, we'll take public comment then. Oh, no, future agenda items, and then we'll do public comment. Sorry.
01:45:00.01	Mayor Sobieski	Any other future genomes?
01:45:02.62	Vice Mayor Cox	I would like us to discuss, if necessary, or else just direct staff, that when asked to approve expenditures, we identify from which budget the expenditures will be paid.
01:45:18.60	Vice Mayor Cox	many municipalities do that.
01:45:21.66	Vice Mayor Cox	I think.
01:45:23.08	Vice Mayor Cox	you know,
01:45:24.17	Vice Mayor Cox	as we have been
01:45:26.54	Vice Mayor Cox	rebuilding
01:45:28.16	Vice Mayor Cox	the ranks of our staff in each department. That's been a more challenging task, but now that our departments are becoming more fully staffed, I believe it's time to undertake that effort to provide more transparency to the public regarding how we are funding the various expenditures that we are approaching.
01:45:48.88	Mayor Sobieski	I second that. I think that can just be a consensus direction to the city staff. A bunch of nods up here, so please just take that as direction for future staff reports referring to Ms. Bushmaker's comment on
01:46:00.10	Mayor Sobieski	identifying the source of funds for any expenditure.
01:46:03.91	Mayor Sobieski	future agenda item is yeah maybe
01:46:04.02	Council Member Kelman	future.
01:46:05.23	Council Member Kelman	Yeah, maybe I've changed my mind. There's a community called Pacoima.
01:46:09.26	Council Member Kelman	that you may be familiar with outside of Los Angeles, P-A-C-O-I-M-A, and they had
01:46:14.33	Council Member Kelman	a cool pavement case study, and they showed significant heat reduction. So I got out of an all-day workshop on climate resilience, but it's,
01:46:24.52	Council Member Kelman	I think something we can do for our community that would be really interesting. And so again, I don't know if you want to.
01:46:30.29	Mayor Sobieski	I would love to add that as a future agenda item because I think we could all, I could stand with some education about state of the art on this question. And obviously the cheapest thing to do is just to repay what's there.
01:46:36.79	Council Member Kelman	Okay.
01:46:41.95	Mayor Sobieski	some of the techniques you're talking about would probably require direction to our director of public works to do things differently.
01:46:48.67	Council Member Kelman	I'll share this slide deck from today. The other thing, Mr. Mayor, that I'd like to request, sorry, lots of things open.
01:46:56.97	Council Member Kelman	We have the GAD on this list, and then a potential to form the Hillside Ordinance. So I just shared with you a bunch of questions I had asked. I asked the city attorney to share a bunch of questions I had asked that were forming my assessment of where we sat fiscally. And I asked the question about the status of the geologic hazards report. My understanding is that RFP is out. We expect proposals on 10-30-2024. And then the consultant has 120 days to develop the plan. I'd like to request that we separate that from a hard look at the Hillside and ordinance, because I do think that they are somewhat different
01:47:34.85	Council Member Kelman	One is sort of the overall structural integrity, I think, of the community that includes the historic landslides and fault lines and things like that. And then the other, I think, could maybe have some early crafting and legality around feasibility of being able to construct on certain hillsides, Sonoma, Napa, Redwood City, all of hillside ordinances. So maybe just some preliminary research from the city attorney on the topic to get the ball rolling.
01:48:02.46	Mayor Sobieski	Okay, did you get that Mr. City Clerk?
01:48:05.36	Mayor Sobieski	Any other future agenda items? Okay, we'll close that and we'll take public comment, Mr. City Clerk, on all the items.
01:48:12.99	Mayor Sobieski	Nope.
01:48:14.66	Mayor Sobieski	No public comment on all these items. Yes. City Council member reports the city manager information and future agenda items. Is there any public comment from anyone in the audience? We do have some online.
01:48:25.93	Jeffrey James	about my place.
01:48:26.66	Mayor Sobieski	Thank you.
01:48:28.30	Mayor Sobieski	Go ahead, Ms. McDougal.
01:48:32.58	Mayor Sobieski	Okay.
01:48:32.85	Babette McDougall	Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
01:48:35.60	Babette McDougall	You know, first of all, I would like to say that I'm really grateful. Maybe it's because it's a little earlier in the evening than normal.
01:48:42.34	Babette McDougall	to actually spend some time
01:48:44.43	Babette McDougall	diving into these various reports that you folks have faithfully offered at the end of every council meeting.
01:48:51.04	Babette McDougall	because you're really talking about some really juicy stuff that's relevant to Sausalito. So I'm really glad, and I just want to tip my hat to this more thorough and engaged, and to borrow from Kelman.
01:49:03.11	Babette McDougall	More rigorous discussion.
01:49:05.61	Babette McDougall	Isn't that the word you use?
01:49:07.02	Babette McDougall	rigorous, or maybe it's not. You have one that I love.
01:49:10.25	Babette McDougall	And I'm trying to work on incorporating it for myself.
01:49:13.08	Babette McDougall	But with regard to these overarching problems,
01:49:17.39	Babette McDougall	I want to just say thank you, Ms. Weiss-Mayer.
01:49:20.83	Babette McDougall	for acknowledging the comments that Sandra Bushmaker made and trying to put it out there front and center for everyone, that the expenditures and redouling how we submit these agenda items going forward could stand some improvement. And I really want to thank you for picking up on that. And I also would like to say...
01:49:42.75	Babette McDougall	that
01:49:43.86	Babette McDougall	despite the disagreements in policy directives that we frequently engage in,
01:49:49.69	Babette McDougall	each other in.
01:49:50.90	Babette McDougall	And I don't mean just myself personally, but broad speaking in terms of citizens.
01:49:56.30	Babette McDougall	but also just because Sausalito is really its own kind of personality.
01:50:02.09	Babette McDougall	So this upcoming election season, when we are all trying very hard to do our best to convince the citizen voters
01:50:10.26	Babette McDougall	that we all, each of you, deserve another crack at the bat or a first-time crack at the bat, whichever it may be. I would like to again implore you.
01:50:19.45	Babette McDougall	to employ what has been traditional in Sausalito, which is a very balanced, respectful, fair game.
01:50:27.65	Babette McDougall	And with that, I shall close and thank you for your time.
01:50:32.82	Mayor Sobieski	you
01:50:32.83	Jeffrey James	No further public.
01:50:34.03	Mayor Sobieski	comment okay we'll close public comment and that brings us to the end of the evening thank you very much we'll adjourn and see you again on october 29th good night
01:50:41.76	Vice Mayor Cox	We're nice to go.

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