City Council Sept 3, 2024

Sep 3

City Council Meeting Summary

Time	Item	Item Summary	Motion Summary	Comment Summary
00:00:02	None: None	The meeting is a special session held on September 3, 2024, in the council chambers at 420 Little Street. Staff and the public are participating via Zoom, and the meeting is broadcast live on the city's website and cable TV channel 27.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:00:19	I: CALL TO ORDER, APPROVAL OF REMOTE PARTICIPATION BY COUNCIL, ROLL CALL & ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION – 6:00 PM	Mayor McGowan called the meeting to order, noting Councilmember Kalman's absence. The City Clerk conducted the roll call. The Mayor announced the three items to be discussed in the closed session: real property negotiation at the MLK school site, real property negotiation at 558 Bridgeway, and anticipated litigation. Councilmembers Hollweg and Blaustein recused themselves from the MLK property and 558 Bridgeway items respectively due to proximity to their residences (00:01:04) (00:01:11). The floor was then opened for public comment, before adjourning to closed session and resuming at 7 p.m.	No Motion	1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
00:01:47 Stephen Woodside was Neutral: Asked about the timeline for a comprehensive view and policy regarding real property negotiations, as previously discussed by Councilmember Hoffman. The City Manager responded that the report is coming back on September 17th (00:02:29).
00:03:26	II: RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION - 7:00 PM	Mr. McGowan calls the meeting to order, noting there are no announcements from the closed session. The meeting proceeds with the Pledge of Allegiance. Then they move to the adoption of the action minutes from the previous meetings on June 25th, July 6th, and July 30th. (00:04:12)	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:04:23	2: ACTION MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS	Vice Mayor Cox requested two revisions to the minutes from the July 16th meeting. First, to add a statement indicating why she attended the meeting remotely, similar to what was done for the July 30th meeting. Second, to correct the closed session minutes to accurately reflect that she recused herself from the first item. (00:04:24) Councilmember Hoffman requested to continue edits to the July 30th meeting to the next meeting (00:05:34). She needed to review her notes regarding language for the ferry landing resolution that was not included in the minutes or resolution. (00:05:42)	Motion to adopt the minutes from June 25th and July 16th, as amended by Vice Mayor Cox (00:07:06). Seconded (00:07:18). Motion passes 4-0 (00:07:23).	1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
00:06:22 Babette MacDougall was Neutral: Babette McDougall stated that the July minutes may be incomplete. The July 30th minutes were the worst. She stated that without an accurate transcript, it calls into question whether it is a legal public meeting. (00:06:39)
00:07:27	3: CONSENT CALENDAR	The council is considering the consent calendar, which includes multiple items ranging from grant acceptance to parking regulation amendments. Item 3P has been removed due to errors in the staff report (00:07:27). Mayor McGowan recused himself from voting on item 3N due to living in the B zone (00:11:33). Councilmember Hollweg recused herself from item 3Q due to proximity of her residence to the property at issue (00:11:45). Councilmember Hoffman clarified with Officer Kwan about resident permits and guest passes (00:11:58). Officer Kwan clarified that each resident is limited to two transferable guest passes annually from October 1st through September 30th, costing $50 each, available through the police department (00:12:57). Councilmember Blaustein brought up parking issues in zone C, particularly for low-income housing and senior housing, suggesting accommodations for economic hardship (00:29:45). Officer Kwan confirmed there isn't a specific program for hardship but mentioned an employee reduced parking program (00:31:20).	Motion to approve the consent calendar, excluding items 3N and 3Q (00:32:14). The motion was seconded and carried unanimously four to one, without considering item 3Q (00:32:47). Motion to approve item 3Q (00:32:59). The motion was seconded and passed three to zero, with Vice Mayor Cox recusing herself (00:33:05). Motion to approve consent calendar item 3N (00:33:16). The motion was seconded and carried 3-0, with the mayor recusing himself (00:33:26).	9 Total: 2 In Favor 3 Against 4 Neutral
00:13:45 Carolyn Revell was In Favor: Carolyn Revell from Sausalito Beautiful expressed support for repaving the tennis courts at Marinship Park (item 3C). She recommended a comprehensive review of city park facilities and involving a design team from the start for the rest of the site. She cited issues at Southview Park due to the lack of consistent landscape architectural oversight. 00:15:48 Jeffrey Chase was Against: Jeffrey Chase criticized the lack of public comments before the meeting. He raised concerns about item Q, a $601,000 risk assessment related to a past incident. He claimed obstruction regarding a public election and stated his intention to run for city council again. 00:18:20 Adrian Brinton was Neutral: Adrian Brinton commented on the C-zone permit changes (item O), noting the impact on businesses and employees around Caledonia. He suggested the council needs to look at and adjust the C-zone permit to better accommodate the businesses in that area. 00:19:09 Damien Bergen was Neutral: Damien Bergen spoke about the history of Marinship, emphasizing the lack of representation of Black families' accomplishments. He urged the council to include more of this history in future Marinship improvements and display the truth about Black folks and why they landed in Marin City. 00:21:27 Babette MacDougall was Neutral: Babette MacDougall expressed concern about roads being licensed away and emphasized the importance of facilitating employee parking to support local small businesses. 00:22:14 Sandra Bushmaker was Against: Sandra Bushmaker commented on the onerous nature of having 17 items on the consent calendar, especially after a holiday. She noted the expenditures totaling $1.3 million without public discussion. She recommended shorter, more manageable consent calendars in the future. 00:24:39 Fred Moore was Against: Fred Moore raised concerns about items 3E and 3F, specifically the on-call traffic services contract. He argued that the contract was too broad and lacked specific details, potentially leading to wasted money. He also pointed out that both companies are based in Berkeley, and he didn't see an exclusion for travel time. 00:26:37 Bonnie McGregor was Neutral: Bonnie McGregor, a Princess Street resident, discussed issues with parking in Area B (item 3N). She highlighted the inability to find parking despite paying taxes and an annual fee for an Area B sticker. She stated that the current proposal is a start but doesn't solve her parking problems on Princess Street. 00:28:39 Aaron Mato was In Favor: Aaron Mato, a Bulkley resident, commented on item 3N, emphasizing the worsening parking issues in his neighborhood. He noted that restaurant workers and patrons often park for free in the area to avoid paying in city lots. He is excited about the proposed changes and hopes they will be approved.
00:33:42	4: PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS	The council is conducting a public hearing to consider vacating Tracy Way in El Puertal to Anchor Street, pursuant to the California Streets and Highways Code Section 8320. (00:33:42)	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:33:55	4.A: Conduct a Public Hearing Pursuant to the California Streets and Highways Code Section 8320 et seq. and Adopt a Resolution to Vacate Tracy Way from El Portal to Anchor Street	Kevin McGowan, Public Works Director, presented the item regarding the vacation of Tracy Way, a small roadway connecting El Portal to Anchor Street, abutted by Parking Lot 1 and Vina Del Mar Park (00:34:48). Tracy Way was acquired in 1955 from the Northwest Pacific Railroad (00:35:01). The Planning Commission adopted a resolution in June 2024 noting the vacation complies with the city's general plan (00:35:25). The City Council approved the Ferry Landside Improvement Project in July 2024, repurposing Tracy Way as a pedestrian promenade (00:35:35). Utilities were notified in August 2024, and no known utilities are affected (00:35:47). Notices were posted and published in compliance with the Streets and Highways Code (00:36:48). The city owns all parcels fronting Tracy Way, maintaining underlying ownership (00:37:08). Councilmember Hoffman questioned the calculation of Ordinance 1128 and its effect on the current ferry landing plan (00:38:30), and requested a revenue report from the parking meters (00:39:34). Chad from the finance department provided an estimate of $4,200 for the peak season parking revenue (00:40:30). Councilmember Blaustein reviewed the dates and process for the vacation, clarifying the Planning Commission's role (00:42:11). Councilmember Hollweg questioned if Tracy Way was governed by Ordinance 1128 (00:44:19). City Attorney Todd Leachlin stated they don't have a definitive answer (00:45:47). A discussion ensued regarding whether Tracy Way was part of Lot 1 when Ordinance 1128 was adopted (00:46:21).	Motion to approve the resolution of the city of Sausalito, approving the public right-of-way vacation of Tracy Way between El Portal and Anchor Street, which is attached to the staff report (01:17:14). Motion Carries 3-1.	16 Total: 13 In Favor 3 Against 0 Neutral
00:53:18 Bonnie McGregor was In Favor: Expressed support for the project, noting the area's improvement over time and the importance of closing Tracy Way (00:53:18). Highlighted the benefits of the expanded pedestrian area (00:54:13) and urged the council to sign the resolution to get the project going (00:55:00). 00:55:50 Peter Van Meter was In Favor: Stated the issue has been discussed extensively and the plan was approved including the closure of Tracy way (00:55:50). Addressed Ordinance 1128, arguing the impact of removing the spaces is de minimis (00:56:17), and urged the council to move forward. 00:57:08 Gail Shell was In Favor: Reminded the council of the widespread support for the project and urged them to get it done (00:57:08). 00:57:46 Hank Baker was In Favor: Claimed misinformation was being spread to derail the project (00:57:46). Stated Tracy Way is used for bicycle parking during the high season and contributes no parking revenue (00:58:01). Highlighted the addition of 47 spaces in the Sausalito Yacht Harbor lot (00:58:28). Urged the council to stay on course and adopt the resolution (00:59:24). 01:00:05 Jacques Allman was In Favor: Shared an experience from Nîmes where removing cars from downtown created a calm and happy environment (01:00:05). Noted the tension in downtown Sausalito and emphasized the importance of creating a pedestrian downtown (01:00:44). Urged the council to approve the project. 01:01:30 Adrian Brinton was In Favor: Reiterated the technical nature of the vote and the unanimous support the project has received (01:01:30). Highlighted the net gain in parking with the addition of spaces in the Yacht Harbor parking lot (01:01:59). Emphasized the importance of creating a place where people want to spend time. 01:03:15 Christian Walsh-Lego was In Favor: Expressed admiration for the detailed consideration given to the topic (01:03:15). Recounted the history of federal funding for the ferry landing and the importance of not losing the current grant funding (01:03:49). Urged caution not to risk losing momentum. 01:05:17 Linda Fosh was In Favor: Stated the proposal helps reclaim public spaces and creates a downtown that works for residents (01:05:17). Highlighted downtown has become more visitor focused than resident focused. 01:05:56 Fred Moore was In Favor: Encouraged a yes vote and looked forward to seeing holiday cards of residents enjoying the waterfront plaza (01:05:56). 01:06:48 Alice Merrill was Against: Expressed opposition to the project. Suggested that the bike parking lost will affect parking in Lot One (01:06:48). Highlighted Sausalito is already a beautiful and unique community (01:08:11). 01:09:01 Babette MacDougall was Against: Expressed concern about the process and highlighted Jack Tracy's relevance to the town (01:09:01). Urged the council to contact the Sausalito Historical Society and revisit the record of when Tracy Way was dedicated (01:10:27). 01:11:16 Sharna Brockett was In Favor: Thanked the council for sticking with the project and stated it is supposed to be a formality, a procedural vote (01:11:16). Highlighted the strong community support and urged the council to create a downtown where people can be together (01:11:59). 01:13:03 Sandra Bushmaker was Against: Shared the history of Jack Tracy and his contributions to Sausalito (01:13:03). Expressed concern about the erasure of Tracy Way and the lack of a tribute to Jack Tracy in the proposal. 01:14:26 Scott Thornburg was In Favor: Encouraged the council not to settle for what's good enough and to prioritize pedestrians over parking (01:14:26). Suggested retaining Tracy Way as part of the name for the new promenade (01:15:11). 01:15:44 Doug Hill was In Favor: Stated Sausalito deserves a world-class plaza and Jack Tracy can be memorialized (01:15:44). Urged the council to pass the bill. 01:16:20 Daniel Daneloff was In Favor: Suggested naming the plaza after Jack Tracy to address concerns and expressed approval for the Ferry Plaza project (01:16:20).
01:27:25	5.A: Adopt a Resolution Approving an Encroachment Agreement for the location of 19-seat parklet, and new signage, balcony, wall lights, and awnings that would project into the public right-of-way, and authorization to serve alcoholic beverages in the publi	Neil Toft from the Community Development and Economic Development Department presented the item. The Planning Commission approved an amended design review permit in July for a project to allow a new second-story addition and exterior modifications to Fish and Chips. The revised project lowers the first floor to sidewalk level, eliminating the need for an entry landing and wheelchair ramp, allowing more room for pedestrian passage and retention of street lamps and trees (01:28:38). The project includes an encroachment agreement request for a 19-seat parklet, signage, balcony, wall lights, and awnings. The project has undergone extensive review since 2017. The commission unanimously approved the current design (01:32:16). The council is asked to approve an encroachment agreement and alcohol beverage service in the right-of-way (01:32:34). Staff finds the revised project presents a superior solution. The use currently has a permit for sidewalk dining and alcohol service (01:33:09). The draft encroachment agreement limits alcohol sales to 10 PM (01:33:37). Operational standards are included to ensure clean conditions and safe public passage. There were concerns about tables on the sidewalk with the parklet and increased crowds. Staff reviewed the project relative to the draft Parkland and outdoor dining program. The applicants insist on retaining sidewalk dining and alcohol service for financial viability (01:36:27). Staff recommends adopting the resolution approving the encroachment agreement for the parklet and related improvements. Councilmember McGowan asked if there are issues with table and chairs on the sidewalk if there is a future congestion issue, is there an ability to modify that, and Neil Toft replied in the affirmative (01:37:32). Councilmember Hoffman asked to see a schematic of where the tables will be against the building, and where the doors are (01:38:06). She then found the schematic on slide 6 (01:39:25).	Vice Mayor Karen Hollweg moved to adopt a resolution of the Sausalito City Council approving an encroachment agreement for the location of a 19-seat parklet, new signage, balcony, wall lights, awnings projecting into the public right-of-way, and authorization to serve alcoholic beverages in the public right-of-way at 813-815-817 Bridgeway (01:42:50).	2 Total: 1 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
01:40:28 Babette MacDougall was In Favor: Appreciates the efforts to refine the venture and encourages moving forward, noting the location is popular with locals and visitors. 01:41:02 Alice Merrill was Neutral: Shared a historical anecdote about the restaurant's establishment and the subsequent need for public garbage cans in Sausalito.
01:43:44	5.B: Adopt Public Official Reimbursement Policy Required by Government Code § 53232.2	The council is required to adopt a public official reimbursement policy as mandated by state law AB1234. Acting City Attorney Todd Leachlin explains the policy requires the city to formally adopt a policy stating what expenses are allowed as necessary in performing their official duties and to set standard amounts for those expenses. Councilmember Hollweg raises concerns regarding Section 11, specifically the potential for civil penalties for unintentional errors and suggests adding the word "intentionally" to address this (01:47:22). Councilmember Blaustein questions the limited authorized activities, initially only Cal Cities. There is a discussion about the council's role in determining authorized activities and ensuring transparency in spending (01:47:45). Councilmember Hoffman explains that the current draft was a starting point and the intent was to discuss and amend the policy as needed (01:56:32). Councilmember Hollweg continues to question several provisions, including the lack of specific limits and the deficit budget clause (01:58:11). The City Manager provides data showing travel expenses have been about $3,000/year total, with most councilmembers using personal funds for some or all expenses (02:07:32).	Motion by Councilmember Hoffman to accept edits from the Vice Mayor and add to item 3D: "No reimbursement for city officials will occur for expenses incurred during periods where the city council approves a city budget with a deficit, absent city council approval" (02:23:27). The motion was seconded and carried 4-0 (01:43:28).	1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
02:09:26 Babette MacDougall was Neutral: Expresses disappointment that the policy doesn't tie back to the strategic plan and city goals. Believes customizing the policy to reflect the city's values would engender public trust.
02:24:55	5.C: Introduction and Waiver of First Reading of Ordinance No. 05-2024 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	The council is considering Ordinance 05-2024, which repeals and replaces Chapter 3.30 regarding the purchase of supplies, equipment, services, and procedures for public works projects. Vice Mayor Hollweg, a public contracting lawyer, recommends changes to align with the public contract code and previously adopted provisions. She suggests taking public comment and continuing the item to the next meeting to confer with the city attorney. The council agrees to open the item for public comment and continue it to a future meeting. (02:25:58) Mr. McGowan states there is consensus to follow the Vice Mayor's lead. (02:26:03)	Motion to continue item 5C to the September 17, 2024 meeting, moved by Vice Mayor Hollweg and seconded by Mayor McGowan. The motion passed. (02:26:36)	1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
02:27:10 Babette MacDougall was Neutral: Expressed concerns about the lack of democratic representation in the council chambers, citing the absence of reliable transcripts for the July council meetings due to damaged video.
02:27:39	6: COMMUNICATIONS	During the communications section, two public comments were made. The first commenter, Babette MacDougall, raised concerns about the city's video recording system and the lack of redundancy, which she believes threatens the viability of public records. She also criticized the council for not engaging in open democratic debate with constituents and mentioned a pending public records request that has not been fulfilled. She questions if the council is aware that much of the globe is under authoritarian rule. The second commenter, Damien Bergen, expressed his concern that the new school superintendent has not presented to the community or the council. He emphasized the importance of the superintendent's presence to inform the public about the upcoming tax measure on the ballot and allow the council to ask relevant questions. He hopes the superintendent will come and present to the council and community.	No Motion	2 Total: 0 In Favor 1 Against 1 Neutral
02:27:39 Babette MacDougall was Against: Expressed concerns about the city's video recording system, lack of redundancy in place and the lack of open democratic debate with constituents. She also mentioned a pending public records request that has not been fulfilled. She also questions if the council is aware that much of the globe is under authoritarian rule. 02:29:22 Damien Bergen was Neutral: Expressed his concern that the new school superintendent has not presented to the community or the council. He emphasized the importance of the superintendent's presence to inform the public about the upcoming tax measure on the ballot and allow the council to ask relevant questions. He hopes the superintendent will come and present to the council and community.
02:31:28	7: COUNCILMEMBER COMMITTEE REPORTS	This agenda item covered reports from councilmembers on various committees and upcoming events. Councilmember McGowan reported on the Risk Committee's work, particularly regarding risk reduction policies and procedures for the upcoming 'Taste of Sausalito' event (02:31:32). Councilmember Hoffman discussed her and Councilmember Kuhlman's trip to Sacramento with the Cal Cities executive group, highlighting meetings with elected officials to discuss local priorities (02:32:27). Councilmember Hollweg announced a special city council meeting on September 9th to welcome a delegation from Sausalito's sister city, Viña del Mar, Chile, and noted their collaboration with Southern Marin Fire and the County Office of Emergency Services on emergency preparedness (02:34:04). She also mentioned a sea-level rise workshop on September 7th (02:35:38), which prompted a discussion about noticing such events as special meetings under the Brown Act to allow for full participation by councilmembers (02:35:58). The City Manager added that pre-registration for the sea-level rise event was at 90 attendees, demonstrating high community interest (02:37:05). He also highlighted a $768,000 Economic Development Administration grant for addressing sea-level rise issues in Marin City (02:37:05). He concluded by stating that he would provide a document regarding councilmember's travel expenses (02:37:05).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

02:39:28	8B: Future Agenda Items	Councilmember Blaustein requested a consideration of a parking policy that accounts for economic hardship, especially for those living in lower-income housing and for seniors or others who might need discounts or free residential parking permits (02:39:36). Councilmember Hollweg requested to adopt a practice of adding future agenda items at the end of the evening, referencing Alice Merrill's concerns regarding Caledonia Street parking permits, revisiting the general fund reserve policy in December, and ensuring items from the July 30th minutes, including Vice Mayor Cox's request to invite the SAUSD leader, make it onto the future agenda items list. Finally, she requested adding an item to consider purchasing a backup hotspot/recording system (02:39:51). Councilmember Hoffman suggested exploring the idea of a written transcript, potentially an unofficial one generated by AI, to improve searchability and accessibility (02:41:38). Councilmember Blaustein requested to agendize the naming of specific roadways or stairways (02:42:23). The city manager announced a city council candidate orientation on September 18th, including information on the municipal budget, code, audits, MADI list, and Measure L primer (02:42:57).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

02:44:10	8C: PUBLIC COMMENT on Items 8A-8B - limited to 2 minutes/person	This agenda item is for public comment on Items 8A and 8B. Damien Bergen was the only person to speak. (02:44:17) He stated he had an important announcement regarding sea level rise and read a paragraph from the US Army out of DC. (02:44:30) He stated the Army announces civil works investments in small disadvantaged communities.	No Motion	1 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 1 Neutral
02:44:17 Damien Bergen was Neutral: Announced information regarding sea level rise, quoting the US Army's investment in civil works for disadvantaged communities.
02:44:37	8C: PUBLIC COMMENT on Items 8A-8B - limited to 2 minutes/person	This agenda item was for public comment on items 8A and 8B. Damien Bergen spoke about Marin City being one of 12 communities selected for a federal pilot program focused on investing in disadvantaged communities, highlighting Terry Green's work on the application and Congressman Huffman's support (02:44:37). Babette MacDougall sought clarification on the upcoming city council candidates' event, confirming it's an orientation by city staff, and mentioned a separate candidates' debate sponsored by the Sausalito Little Women's Club (02:46:35). Sandra Bushmaker reminded the city manager about the Sausalito Village's 'Get to Know the Candidates' evening on the 18th at the First Presbyterian Church (02:48:05).	No Motion	3 Total: 1 In Favor 0 Against 2 Neutral
02:44:37 Damien Bergen was In Favor: Expressed excitement about Marin City being selected for a federal pilot program that will bring investment into the community, noting the historical lack of such investment. He thanked Terry Green and Congressman Huffman for their work and support. 02:46:35 Babette MacDougall was Neutral: Sought clarification on the nature of the upcoming city council candidates' event, distinguishing it from a separate debate organized by the Sausalito Little Women's Club. 02:48:05 Sandra Bushmaker was Neutral: Reminded the city manager about the Sausalito Village's 'Get to Know the Candidates' evening, providing details about the event.
02:48:32	9: ADJOURNMENT	The meeting is adjourned in honor of Jean Fidler, who passed away on August 14th, just shy of her 92nd birthday. Mr. McGowan shares a tribute to Jean, highlighting her vibrant personality and deep love for Sausalito. She was born in Birmingham, England, raised in Tasmania and acquired her nursing degree in England before traveling the world as a nurse and a flight attendant. Settling in Sausalito in 1972, she became a familiar face at city council meetings and was involved in various community organizations, including the Sossated Women's Club, Christ Church, Episcopal Church, the Sausalito Historical Society, the Library, and Sausalito Village. (02:49:43) Mr. McGowan notes a shift in her later years, including her relaxed approach to the pronunciation of her name. He mentions her enjoyment of rides from the Sausalito village and the cars program after giving up her keys and car in October. (02:50:09) In accordance with her wishes, she was cremated.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

City Council Meeting Transcript

Adrian Brinton

City Council Sept 9, 2024

Time	Speaker	Text
00:00:02.85	Unknown	This special meeting of September 3, 2024 has been held in council chambers located at 420 Little Street.
00:00:09.50	Unknown	Staff and members of the public are also participating through Zoom. This meeting is being broadcast live on the city's website and on cable TV channel 27.
00:00:19.22	Mr. McGowan	Thank you, Mr. City Clerk. So we will call this meeting to order. We have one absence today. Councilmember Kalman will not be joining us at today's meeting. Could you please call the roll, Mr. City Clerk?
00:00:31.37	Unknown	Councilmember Blossstein.
00:00:32.85	Mr. McGowan	here.
00:00:33.05	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:00:33.73	Unknown	Councilmember Hoffman
00:00:35.20	Karen Hollweg	Here.
00:00:35.40	Unknown	Thank you.
00:00:36.01	Unknown	Councilmember Kelman, as noted absent. Vice Mayor Cox. Here. And Mayor Sobieski.
00:00:39.57	Karen Hollweg	Here.
00:00:41.51	Mr. McGowan	Here, there are three items on the closed session i'll just go over the titles and then there are a few cruisels that will be announced, the first is the conference with real property negotiator. property site is the mlk school site, the second is real property negotiation the property is 558 bridgeway and the third is conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation there's some accusers that wanted to be announced.
00:01:04.64	Karen Hollweg	Thank you, Mayor. I will recuse myself from item one regarding the MLK property due to its proximity to my residence. Thank you.
00:01:11.89	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you, Mayor. I will be recusing myself from item 25585 Bridgeway due to its proximity to my residence.
00:01:18.42	Mr. McGowan	Very well, those are the two recusals. And we will now open the floor to public comment. Are there any public comment on the closed session?
00:01:23.88	Unknown	Yes, we have Stephen Woodside.
00:01:27.51	Mr. McGowan	History Woodside?
00:01:29.59	Mr. McGowan	Is his microphone on?
00:01:31.78	Mr. McGowan	I don't think we'd like to put it.
00:01:33.10	Daniel Daneloff	there.
00:01:47.95	Unknown	I'll start over. Mayor Sobieski and Vice Mayor Cox, I'm only here to ask a question about the real property negotiation items. I know from prior history, it was brought up by...
00:02:01.78	Unknown	Member Hoffman that there should be a comprehensive view of all of these things, and then further that there be a policy applicable to the real property negotiations. I'm just curious whether there's a date where that is likely, either of those are likely to come back.
00:02:23.05	Mr. McGowan	That being thanks. Okay. City manager, maybe can give something like that. That's a staff item that's being worked on.
00:02:24.31	Unknown	Okay.
00:02:29.09	Unknown	Yeah, that promise was made to come back to the city council six months, six months to the day of September 12th, 15th, 13th. So we're coming back on the 17th with that report.
00:02:39.31	Unknown	Thank you very much.
00:02:39.97	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:02:42.34	Mr. McGowan	Any other public comment?
00:02:44.16	Unknown	See you then.
00:02:45.22	Mr. McGowan	We'll close public comment, adjourn to closed session. We'll resume at 7 p.m. here. Thank you.
00:03:26.23	Mr. McGowan	everyone good evening
00:03:28.74	Mr. McGowan	Good evening.
00:03:35.36	Mr. McGowan	All right, we are calling this meeting to order. We'll begin, there are no announcements from closed session.
00:03:43.00	Mr. McGowan	Has the recording started? Yes.
00:03:44.15	Mr. McGowan	Thank you. And we'll begin our meeting today with the Pledge of Allegiance.
00:03:50.26	Sandra	of the United States of America, and to the world which is and to the world which is and to the world and to the world
00:03:51.35	Unknown	Thank you.
00:03:51.39	Mr. McGowan	I play.
00:03:54.90	Unknown	Welcome.
00:03:55.64	Unknown	Thank you.
00:04:00.72	Unknown	in the future.
00:04:05.51	Mr. McGowan	As I said, there are no announcements from closed session. We will...
00:04:12.95	Mr. McGowan	I proceed with the agenda and it starts with the adoption of the action minutes from the previous meetings, June 25th, July 6th and July 30th.
00:04:23.45	Karen Hollweg	Mayor...
00:04:23.86	Mr. McGowan	please.
00:04:24.43	Karen Hollweg	Mayor, I had a recommended revisions to the minutes for Tuesday, July 16.
00:04:30.89	Karen Hollweg	Two revisions.
00:04:32.17	Karen Hollweg	First at the beginning of the meeting, right under
00:04:34.64	Karen Hollweg	the list of attendees
00:04:36.88	Karen Hollweg	We should add the statement Vice Mayor Cox stated the circumstances on why she attended the meeting remotely.
00:04:42.38	Karen Hollweg	We did that for the meeting on the 30th, but we didn't do it for the meeting on the 16th. And I think we need to.
00:04:48.10	Karen Hollweg	And then
00:04:49.29	Karen Hollweg	Under closed session, it says vice, it's not ringing.
00:04:56.85	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:04:56.90	Sandra	Thank you.
00:05:01.01	Sandra	Thank you.
00:05:01.05	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:05:01.81	Sandra	Thank you.
00:05:02.41	Unknown	you
00:05:05.54	Karen Hollweg	It should say Vice Mayor Cox recused herself from the first closed session item I think maybe the items are listed in a different order than they were on the agenda, but it turns out that it was the first item.
00:05:17.06	Unknown	Okay, I'll make that revision.
00:05:19.09	Unknown	Thank you.
00:05:19.10	Karen Hollweg	Also, is your mic on?
00:05:20.86	Karen Hollweg	Yes, my mic is on. Sorry.
00:05:22.38	Unknown	Sorry.
00:05:22.97	Mr. McGowan	not.
00:05:25.99	Mr. McGowan	The gain seems to be low and staff is adjusting the gains.
00:05:29.13	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:05:29.16	Karen Hollweg	Okay, thank you.
00:05:30.11	Mr. McGowan	Any other edits?
00:05:30.65	Karen Hollweg	Those are my only edits.
00:05:30.70	Mr. McGowan	Yeah.
00:05:31.03	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:05:31.05	Mr. McGowan	That's what I'm saying.
00:05:33.11	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:05:33.87	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:05:33.89	Councilmember Hoffman	Hoffman. Hoffman.
00:05:34.95	Councilmember Hoffman	I know. Yeah, I have some edits to the July 30th meeting, but I need to look at...
00:05:42.98	Councilmember Hoffman	I need to look back at my notes from that meeting. I looked at the resolution and I emailed the city clerk.
00:05:48.65	Councilmember Hoffman	about the resolution for the ferry landing. We had some language that we were going to introduce. I didn't see it in the minutes or in the resolution. So I think I need to go back and look at that.
00:05:57.41	Councilmember Hoffman	So I think then I'll move week.
00:05:59.03	Karen Hollweg	continue
00:06:00.36	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:06:00.38	Karen Hollweg	Well, let's take public comment and then we'll just pull that. Yeah. Continue it to next meeting. Okay. Thank you.
00:06:00.95	Councilmember Hoffman	I'm not sure.
00:06:01.02	Councilmember Blaustein	I would have.
00:06:06.59	Mr. McGowan	I think that's a good question.
00:06:07.79	Mr. McGowan	public comment on the agenda.
00:06:11.70	Jacques Allman	Uh-uh.
00:06:12.18	Mr. McGowan	The minutes of the previous agenda...
00:06:14.33	Mr. McGowan	Ms. McGregor, please search.
00:06:22.81	Babette MacDougall	Thank you, Babette McDougall-Sasalito. So the July Minutes.
00:06:28.36	Babette MacDougall	I don't think it's really a server issue, as might have been suggested to me at one point, because I tried more than one kind of service provider. But I found that the two July official records
00:06:39.24	Babette MacDougall	are not 100% intact. In fact, the July 30th one is the worst of all the two. But this 15th one cuts in and out as well.
00:06:48.41	Babette MacDougall	what to do about that, but I just wanted to add that to
00:06:51.49	Babette MacDougall	reflection because without an accurate transcript,
00:06:54.19	Babette MacDougall	It's a legal public meeting. I mean, what are we going to do without an accurate transcript?
00:06:59.53	Babette MacDougall	Thank you for your consideration.
00:07:03.86	Mr. McGowan	Any other public comment?
00:07:05.75	Mr. McGowan	See you then.
00:07:06.87	Mr. McGowan	All right, we'll close, cover, comment, and we will move to adopted limits into June 25th and July 16th.
00:07:14.81	Karen Hollweg	As amended.
00:07:15.96	Mr. McGowan	as amended by Vice Mayor Cox.
00:07:18.22	Karen Hollweg	Second.
00:07:19.57	Mr. McGowan	All in favor?
00:07:20.72	Karen Hollweg	Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.
00:07:21.63	Mr. McGowan	Bye.
00:07:23.15	Mr. McGowan	All right. Adopted unanimously, 4-0.
00:07:26.39	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:07:27.02	Mr. McGowan	We will now move on to the consent calendar, and at the request of SAP, a last-minute change, item 3P, as in Paul.
00:07:35.59	Mr. McGowan	is being removed from this consent calendar. There's some errors in the staff report that are gonna be fixed. So this is 3P as in Paul. Otherwise, the consent calendar is made up of a variety of items. 3A is adopt the resolution accepting a grant from the US Economic Development Administration in the amount of $768,000 for Gate 5 Road. I wanna make a special shout out to our absent colleague, council member, former Mayor Kellman,
00:08:02.42	Mr. McGowan	made large efforts in regards to attaining this grant as well as our staff, including our sustainability, Dr. Katie. 3B, adopt a resolution declaring certain phone equipment surplus. Item 3C, adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a construction contract for the 2024 Marinship Tennis Court Reconstruction Project to Drico Construction in the amount of $347,065 and a construction contingency for the project in the amount of $33,935. It authorizes an additional appropriation of $26,803 from Measure L funds to support the project and determines the project to be exempt from CEQA.
00:08:46.35	Mr. McGowan	Item 3D, which is adopt a resolution approving the fourth professional
00:09:01.53	Mr. McGowan	4th professional services contract for BKF engineers with construction services related to the Ferry landside improvement project. 3E, adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the professional services agreement with parametrics to develop a traffic and engineering survey related to speed enforcement in an amount not to exceed $41,900. item 3f adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the professional services agreement with parametrics to provide on-call traffic engineering services in an amount not to exceed Item 3F, adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the professional services agreement with parametrics to provide on-call traffic engineering services in an amount not to exceed $60,000.
00:09:33.24	Mr. McGowan	3g adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a professional services agreement with bureau veritas technical assessments to perform a building facility assessment study of city properties in an amount not to exceed 124 684
00:09:49.00	Mr. McGowan	3H, receive and file library Q4 report for fiscal year 2324. 3I, review and file the treasurer's report for June 2024. 3J, adopt a resolution approving an encroachment agreement for exterior improvements in the public right of way adjacent to 215 Main Street.
00:10:05.96	Mr. McGowan	3k adopt a resolution amending parking regulations to enforce a no parking zone fronting 115 3rd street and adopt a resolution amending parking regulations to establish a no parking zone opposite the driveway of 101 prospect avenue 3l waiver of second reading and adoption of ordinance 4-24 and ordinance of the city council of the city of sausalito amending municipio sausalito municipal code section 2.58.040 relating to residency requirements on city boards commissions and committees three city of sausalito amending municipal sausalito municipal code section 2.58.040 relating to residency requirements on city boards commissions and committees 3m approval of updated job classifications for administrative aid one that's the police 3n adopt a resolution to expand existing residential parking permit program b zone restrictions to include a no parking restriction from 6 30 pm to 7 a.m on designated streets within the existing b zone address including bulkley harrison portion of princess street and santa rosa avenue adopt a resolution to expand existing residential parking permit program c zone to include gerard avenue between litho and filbert
00:11:08.37	Mr. McGowan	And three, two,
00:11:10.12	Mr. McGowan	consideration of the city council approval for an amended and restated lease for the city property at 100 ed five avenue
00:11:15.98	Mr. McGowan	and sauce leader to the new village school including specific
00:11:19.47	Mr. McGowan	property for an initial term beginning September 1st of 2024 to June 30th of 2029 with five six-year options. So I'm just reminding myself that I would ask that we vote on all the items except
00:11:33.34	Mr. McGowan	3N, which I will not vote on as I live in the B zone.
00:11:38.54	Mr. McGowan	And so out of an abundance of caution, I just won't vote on that.
00:11:41.96	Mr. McGowan	Any other changes or polls or comments on the consent calendar?
00:11:45.91	Karen Hollweg	Thank you, Mayor. I will recuse myself from item 3Q due to the proximity of my residence to the property.
00:11:52.95	Karen Hollweg	at issue in that item.
00:11:54.67	Mr. McGowan	Okay.
00:11:56.17	Mr. McGowan	Any other comments? Councilmember Hawley.
00:11:58.32	Councilmember Hoffman	Mayor, I have a I'd just like to clarify something with the police based on the question that was posed to me. Is that okay? The question was, and I see our
00:12:09.03	Mr. McGowan	have a game towards the fan.
00:12:12.29	Mr. McGowan	You got it.
00:12:14.33	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:12:14.43	Sandra	Thank you.
00:12:14.47	Sandra	Thank you.
00:12:14.48	Mr. McGowan	That's
00:12:15.04	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:12:15.07	Mr. McGowan	So,
00:12:15.12	Councilmember Hoffman	Oh my God, it's genius, right? I see our police officers in the back. I even see Wayne back there at Kwan. Okay, so here's a question. We have resident permits, but if a resident needs someone to come and assist them with whatever, with medical things or with physical therapy or something, they can use, it looks to me like they can get two guest passes.
00:12:15.56	Sandra	Oh my God, it's genius.
00:12:42.12	Sandra	Yeah, I'm sorry.
00:12:43.42	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, I'm sorry, Wayne, you got to come here.
00:12:43.83	Wayne Kwan	All right.
00:12:45.72	Wayne Kwan	That's correct.
00:12:46.66	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:12:46.68	Sandra	No, I
00:12:46.93	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:12:46.97	Sandra	You can.
00:12:47.17	Councilmember Hoffman	like,
00:12:47.46	Councilmember Hoffman	I don't know.
00:12:47.52	Wayne Kwan	Thank you.
00:12:47.54	Mr. McGowan	Come up to the microphone, Mr. Kwan. I mean, yeah, we can hear you. But your answers can be on the record.
00:12:47.56	Wayne Kwan	Yeah.
00:12:47.69	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:12:47.73	Wayne Kwan	it's.
00:12:49.95	Councilmember Hoffman	I mean, yeah, we can hear you, but it's interesting.
00:12:55.08	Mr. McGowan	So this is a clarification.
00:12:56.82	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah.
00:12:57.04	Wayne Kwan	So,
00:12:57.31	Wayne Kwan	Yes, that is correct. Each resident is limited to two
00:13:01.29	Wayne Kwan	Yes.
00:13:02.14	Wayne Kwan	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
00:13:02.93	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay. And they get those through the police department?
00:13:04.85	Wayne Kwan	That's correct.
00:13:05.65	Councilmember Hoffman	And those are like temporary, right? They hang on the windshield, as I recall, something, they hang on the, on the,
00:13:10.86	Councilmember Hoffman	Um, rear view mirror or they're on the dash or something.
00:13:12.97	Wayne Kwan	It's not temporary. It's an annual cycle from October 1st through September 30th. There's no pro rate. It's $50 each.
00:13:20.66	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, yeah, but you have a, it's a fungible guest pass, right? So if you have different guests on different days, you can,
00:13:25.56	Wayne Kwan	It's transferable. It's a hand tag that you can move from car to car.
00:13:26.76	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah.
00:13:27.58	Councilmember Hoffman	that you can move
00:13:28.85	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay, thanks. Okay, thank you. Thanks for explaining that. You're welcome.
00:13:31.72	Mr. McGowan	You're welcome.
00:13:32.43	Mr. McGowan	Thanks for that clarification. Is there any other requests concerning consent agenda?
00:13:37.25	Mr. McGowan	If not, then I'll move that we approve all. Thank you very much for the reminder from the audience. Let us please open up the floor. We'll start with Carolyn Revelle.
00:13:38.45	Wayne Kwan	the approval.
00:13:39.02	Jeffrey Chase	Thank you.
00:13:39.04	Wayne Kwan	Thank you.
00:13:39.14	Jeffrey Chase	public comment and
00:13:41.15	Scott Thornburg	Thank you.
00:13:45.79	Carolyn Revell	We'll start with Carolyn Revelle.
00:13:50.32	Carolyn Revell	Good evening. I'm Carolyn Revell representing Sausalito Beautiful.
00:13:50.43	Mr. McGowan	evening.
00:13:53.61	Carolyn Revell	And we're pleased to see the plans
00:13:55.83	Carolyn Revell	Is this working? We're pleased to see the plans for repaving the tennis courts at Marinship Park, item 3C.
00:13:57.82	Unknown	Thank you.
00:14:03.05	Carolyn Revell	We're pleased to see the plans going forward to the construction contract stage.
00:14:07.29	Carolyn Revell	Regarding the remainder of the site, we have two points.
00:14:10.35	Carolyn Revell	First, we believe plans for the rest of the site should derive from a comprehensive review
00:14:15.27	Carolyn Revell	of facilities and needs in the city's entire park system.
00:14:18.99	Carolyn Revell	Sausalito Beautiful is developing an inventory of our park facilities with recommendations for the city to consider.
00:14:25.23	Carolyn Revell	We hope this will help.
00:14:26.53	Carolyn Revell	in setting capital improvement priorities.
00:14:28.98	Carolyn Revell	based on needs assessments and long-term management and maintenance projections
00:14:33.62	Carolyn Revell	Second, based on recent experience, we strongly urge that the city involve a design team
00:14:38.98	Carolyn Revell	From inception to completion,
00:14:40.87	Carolyn Revell	to ensure the best possible part for the remainder of the site.
00:14:44.28	Carolyn Revell	At Southview Park,
00:14:45.70	Carolyn Revell	If a landscape architectural firm had been retained throughout the project,
00:14:49.17	Carolyn Revell	The grades could have been set in a way that did not require the intrusive fences
00:14:53.26	Carolyn Revell	that partially obstruct the magnificent views for which the park is named.
00:14:57.02	Carolyn Revell	The plans would have included essential landscapes
00:14:59.54	Carolyn Revell	rather than
00:15:00.40	Carolyn Revell	separate plan having to be developed afterward and extra funding.
00:15:04.11	Carolyn Revell	To conclude, we strongly recommend that the city hire
00:15:07.40	Carolyn Revell	a landscape architecture firm to develop a concept plan for the balance of Renship Park
00:15:12.73	Carolyn Revell	and be retained throughout all development stages.
00:15:15.65	Carolyn Revell	A design professional can integrate the Vardis sculpture into the park,
00:15:19.75	Carolyn Revell	and address environmental concerns such as stormwater management, sea level rise mitigation, and other aspects of climate change.
00:15:26.71	Carolyn Revell	Such an approach will be cost-effective
00:15:28.80	Carolyn Revell	and ensure a park that best serves the community. Thank you.
00:15:33.35	Carolyn Revell	Thank you.
00:15:36.19	Unknown	Next speaker, Jeffrey Chase.
00:15:48.54	Jeffrey Chase	Shalom, Melissa. Hello, Mayor, City Council,
00:15:55.76	Jeffrey Chase	City Clerk Walfred.
00:15:59.26	Jeffrey Chase	City Manager.
00:16:00.81	Jeffrey Chase	And a bunch of people in the house
00:16:05.03	Jeffrey Chase	Sausalito remains the only
00:16:08.83	Jeffrey Chase	venue, the only town,
00:16:12.30	Jeffrey Chase	including the county that does not have
00:16:14.88	Jeffrey Chase	public comments before the meeting.
00:16:20.43	Jeffrey Chase	There are many, many, many hundreds of thousands of dollars
00:16:25.62	Jeffrey Chase	that are being spent from our pockets on the consent calendar.
00:16:32.15	Jeffrey Chase	Mr. Mayor, you seem to go through it very quickly.
00:16:39.17	Jeffrey Chase	Item Q is $601,000 for a risk assessment.
00:16:44.58	Jeffrey Chase	of what happened when the police came in front of my eyes and beat a black journalist. And Sausalito's insurance was henceforth taken away.
00:16:55.42	Jeffrey Chase	It was called the Black Swan event.
00:16:57.73	Jeffrey Chase	Bye.
00:16:58.61	Jeffrey Chase	The mayor here?
00:17:00.95	Jeffrey Chase	Now my friend, the Admiral calls it Purple Swan. I like that a little bit better.
00:17:06.99	Jeffrey Chase	So now a risk assessment, what is that?
00:17:10.18	Jeffrey Chase	That means a bunch of people in an office exchange a bunch of papers,
00:17:14.76	Jeffrey Chase	and it's going to cost you $601,000, and there's no discussion here.
00:17:19.26	Jeffrey Chase	Mr. Walfred has obstructed
00:17:21.61	Jeffrey Chase	A public election?
00:17:24.22	Jeffrey Chase	I'm running for city council again. I didn't plan on this, but as soon as someone tells me I can't, that makes me want to.
00:17:32.44	Jeffrey Chase	So Timothy McCloud and myself arrived at his office
00:17:35.88	Jeffrey Chase	A few minutes before 5 o'clock, I moved my boat to the Sausalito side. I had $25, and he continues to obstruct.
00:17:45.13	Jeffrey Chase	Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad, and Shema Palestine as well, that we are about bigger issues
00:17:57.10	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:17:57.11	Jeffrey Chase	you
00:17:57.18	Mr. McGowan	Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
00:17:57.77	Jeffrey Chase	Thank you.
00:17:57.79	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:17:57.82	Jeffrey Chase	That the money now is not being discussed.
00:18:01.46	Jeffrey Chase	I can't do that.
00:18:03.66	Jeffrey Chase	Please don't disrupt the election, okay? I'll be in federal court tomorrow.
00:18:09.82	Jeffrey Chase	We have witnesses.
00:18:12.27	Unknown	All right. Next person is Adrian Britton.
00:18:20.60	Adrian Brinton	Adrian Brinton, South City resident. This won't be nearly as exciting. I just wanted to make a comment on O, the C-zone permit changes. So I just wanted to call out that
00:18:30.10	Adrian Brinton	The CJL and permit changes have had a lot of impact on the businesses around Caledonia, both for their employees,
00:18:35.30	Adrian Brinton	and also for customers. Um, so it's a lot harder to go down there and park, say, to go to dinner. Um,
00:18:41.04	Adrian Brinton	And the employees are having to move their cars every two hours. So I don't have an answer for it, but I think it's something we do need to keep on the table and look at it and try to figure out how we can adjust the C-zone permit to better accommodate the businesses in that area. Thank you.
00:18:56.55	Unknown	Then we have Damien.
00:19:00.12	Unknown	Bergen?
00:19:09.67	Damien Bergen	Good evening.
00:19:10.60	Damien Bergen	Regarding the marine ship improvements,
00:19:16.20	Damien Bergen	You know, there's a lot of history in Marinship. Many Black families, including my family, obviously before I was born, moved west for a better life, more opportunities. But as we know, Black folks were redlined, not able to buy a home.
00:19:37.38	Damien Bergen	in Sausalito, Mill Valley and further. What I'm getting at is Marinship, the
00:19:45.82	Damien Bergen	is you don't see much history regarding
00:19:49.31	Damien Bergen	the black
00:19:50.85	Damien Bergen	accomplishments.
00:19:52.37	Damien Bergen	You don't, you don't see much about Thurgood Marshall.
00:19:56.35	Damien Bergen	who represented Jesse James.
00:19:59.03	Damien Bergen	here, the black union workers who obviously were treated horribly, obviously, you know, there's not much about that.
00:20:08.16	Damien Bergen	kind of
00:20:09.43	Damien Bergen	alarming to me. I'm hoping that as we improve Marinship, whatever the plans are for the next 5, 10, 20 years, that you include more of history. The ugly history that has happened is still our history, is our story. Marin City, the community I grew up in, is still going through a lot of craziness, gentrification, racism, no investment.
00:20:37.05	Damien Bergen	There's projects that are coming up on the horizon that I sent you a text few days ago that you saw what the Army is coming in soon.
00:20:44.60	Damien Bergen	with the
00:20:46.20	Damien Bergen	the great work of Terry Green, as you know, and many others.
00:20:50.48	Damien Bergen	um,
00:20:51.48	Damien Bergen	So, Marineship.
00:20:53.84	Damien Bergen	display the history.
00:20:56.17	Damien Bergen	The ugly mystery that it is.
00:20:58.37	Damien Bergen	Display it. Talk about it.
00:21:01.67	Damien Bergen	Put it up. We want to see it. People want to know the truth about Black folks, why we landed in Brandon City. We love it. Not because we necessarily wanted to. We couldn't buy a home. My grandparents couldn't buy a home in Sausalito.
00:21:18.30	Unknown	Babette MacDougall.
00:21:27.93	Babette MacDougall	I feel so short.
00:21:29.15	Babette MacDougall	Thank you so much. So actually, I think you may have covered my question in the open discussion, but I just want to say that I certainly am sorry that so much of our roads are being so licensed away. And I'm very mindful of the people in my neighborhood who work down the hill.
00:21:46.60	Babette MacDougall	but are very faithful about coming and making sure that their vehicles are never in anyone's way.
00:21:51.74	Babette MacDougall	So whatever we can do to help facilitate employee parking so that it doesn't take a big bite out of the small businesses in town, I'm all for it. Thank you.
00:22:07.10	Unknown	Okay. And then on Zoom, we have Sandra Bushmaker.
00:22:14.02	Sandra Bushmaker	Good evening, counsel.
00:22:15.47	Sandra Bushmaker	I just wanted to comment that the 17 items on the consent calendar seemed very onerous for the day after a three-day holiday.
00:22:24.19	Sandra Bushmaker	And it seems that there are a number of items on this calendar that could be of interest to the public for discussion.
00:22:31.06	Sandra Bushmaker	Just out of curiosity, I added up the expenditures
00:22:35.11	Sandra Bushmaker	on the consent calendar tonight. And they're $1.3 million without discussion, without controversy. I find that
00:22:44.91	Sandra Bushmaker	basically impossible.
00:22:46.62	Sandra Bushmaker	I think that the public had they known
00:22:49.00	Sandra Bushmaker	There would be this many items on the consent calendar and actually was eight were able to digest all of them.
00:22:55.34	Sandra Bushmaker	would have comments on such an expenditure.
00:22:58.21	Sandra Bushmaker	Thank you.
00:23:00.49	Sandra Bushmaker	Wait, one more thing. I just wanna make sure that
00:23:04.57	Sandra Bushmaker	I would like to recommend that in the future, the consent calendar be short enough to be manageable.
00:23:09.54	Sandra Bushmaker	What's been happening historically is that
00:23:13.33	Sandra Bushmaker	the large consent calendars have ended up having items continued to dates
00:23:20.62	Sandra Bushmaker	uncertain or to
00:23:23.14	Sandra Bushmaker	God knows where they go.
00:23:24.42	Sandra Bushmaker	But in any event, I think a more manageable consent calendar would benefit everybody, including
00:23:29.11	Sandra Bushmaker	the council and the public. Thank you.
00:23:33.13	Karen Hollweg	May I ask a question?
00:23:34.73	Karen Hollweg	Sure.
00:23:35.79	Karen Hollweg	Um,
00:23:36.76	Karen Hollweg	Ms. Bushmaker, I would invite you to apprise us of which items you had wanted to comment on and felt that you lacked the ability to meaningfully comment because they were on the consent calendar.
00:23:49.68	Councilmember Hoffman	Mr. Mayor, I don't think public comment or consent items is time for...
00:23:54.49	Councilmember Hoffman	question and answers from
00:23:56.33	Councilmember Hoffman	people that call in,
00:23:57.76	Councilmember Hoffman	for comment, and I would say that we veered off what we should be doing up here.
00:24:02.03	Karen Hollweg	I frequently ask
00:24:02.98	Councilmember Hoffman	ask questions of people who make public comment. I am uncomfortable with that. And I'm saying that right now.
00:24:09.04	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:24:09.07	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:24:09.73	Councilmember Hoffman	you
00:24:09.76	Mr. McGowan	All right, thanks.
00:24:12.11	Mr. McGowan	I will point out that
00:24:13.34	Mr. McGowan	we did remove the 600,000 item of 3p and the other largest item was a $768,000 grant and uh
00:24:22.25	Mr. McGowan	And so.
00:24:22.30	Karen Hollweg	And I saw no public comment in writing on any consent item.
00:24:27.82	Mr. McGowan	So let us thank you for the comments. I believe there was another comment from the audience. Someone was walking up to the table. Maybe they left.
00:24:35.19	Unknown	Yes, we have Fred Moore.
00:24:36.10	Fred Moore	Thank you.
00:24:36.56	Mr. McGowan	more.
00:24:39.46	Fred Moore	Good evening, council members. I hope I'm not that guy who comes up and wants to talk about every item that's before the city, so I apologize, but...
00:24:46.36	Fred Moore	I appreciate you indulging me.
00:24:48.25	Fred Moore	I specifically wanted to mention about 3E and 3F, 3F being an on-traffic services, $60,000 contract. I'm concerned about two things. One, if you read the description of what they're going to be doing, traffic assessment, transportation planning, preliminary design work, pedestrian bike path, it's not specific. And I think a problem when you don't have a specific contract, but it's on call, that you end up wasting some money and don't end up with a product that's positive for the city. So I would consider whether you not take that off, don't approve it, wait for the engineering staff and the city to come up with a specific project where the staff is not qualified and they need to hire third-party experts and then enter into a contract with a specific proposal. Also, the companies in Berkeley, both for 3F and 3E in Berkeley, I didn't see an exclusion for travel time on the 3F, and travel time at $390 an hour beats up about $1,000 just getting here and back, or more if there's traffic. With respect to 3E, I'd also consider whether or not you actually need all of that versus just taking the portion of the contract that deals with hiring the traffic counts plus to come up with the information, the data that then city staff can look at and determine if the data isn't overwhelmingly obvious what should be done. And if it's not, then enter into a second contract for the actual analysis that that engineering company was offering to do for the contract. Okay.
00:25:06.16	Unknown	as if you're not.
00:26:20.44	Fred Moore	Thank you very much for listening.
00:26:25.35	Mr. McGowan	Please.
00:26:30.04	Unknown	Thank you.
00:26:37.55	Bonnie McGregor	I'm Bonnie McGregor, a long-time resident of Sausalito. I live on Princess Street. And I'm not sure why we had trouble hearing in the room why item 3N is not being considered tonight. Because we definitely... Is it?
00:26:51.96	Mr. McGowan	Nancy
00:26:53.16	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:26:53.20	Bonnie McGregor	Thank you.
00:26:53.21	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:26:53.23	Bonnie McGregor	as in Nancy.
00:26:53.97	Mr. McGowan	is on the agenda. The only item removed was 3P as in Paul because of errors in the staff report.
00:26:59.93	Bonnie McGregor	Okay, this is the area parking on...
00:26:59.96	Mr. McGowan	Okay.
00:27:03.31	Mr. McGowan	On Boakley?
00:27:04.15	Bonnie McGregor	Yes.
00:27:04.20	Mr. McGowan	Yes. Yes, that is being heard. Okay.
00:27:05.84	Bonnie McGregor	Okay.
00:27:06.31	Mr. McGowan	That is part of the consent calendar.
00:27:08.45	Bonnie McGregor	I guess I'll be back.
00:27:09.84	Mr. McGowan	Well, no, you can make your comment. This is your time to make comments. Okay.
00:27:11.89	Bonnie McGregor	Okay.
00:27:12.97	Mr. McGowan	All right.
00:27:13.77	Bonnie McGregor	All right.
00:27:14.02	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:27:14.04	Bonnie McGregor	Yeah.
00:27:14.19	Mr. McGowan	THE FAMILY.
00:27:14.36	Bonnie McGregor	I have a few things to read about.
00:27:16.25	Bonnie McGregor	Yeah.
00:27:17.78	Bonnie McGregor	There's several issues with it.
00:27:19.49	Bonnie McGregor	And I'm glad to see some action is going forward.
00:27:22.20	Bonnie McGregor	I hope it's done with leaving an open door at the end for future.
00:27:26.96	Bonnie McGregor	um,
00:27:27.98	Bonnie McGregor	Considerations.
00:27:29.70	Bonnie McGregor	The main issues here now are the inability to find a parking spot in the area where the resident pays taxes and an annual fee.
00:27:36.41	Bonnie McGregor	for an Area B sticker.
00:27:38.89	Bonnie McGregor	Visitors are paying the city nothing towards keeping the roads they use repaired.
00:27:43.33	Bonnie McGregor	as they are not paying for parking when they're parking on those streets.
00:27:47.21	Bonnie McGregor	The city already recognizes that parking is a problem by setting up specific areas with identifiers.
00:27:52.85	Bonnie McGregor	excuse me, Area B, for example, and charging residents a fee to display a sticker.
00:27:58.94	Bonnie McGregor	This is supposed to give them priority. It's not working. Fifteen years ago, my wait for a spot was 10 to 15 minutes several times a week on Princess. Today, I wait an average of 45 minutes to an hour.
00:28:11.45	Bonnie McGregor	several times a week.
00:28:13.64	Bonnie McGregor	If a meter after six o'clock is open and I still have a final place to park, I go park at a meter for the night, knowing I'm going to have to move the car in the morning.
00:28:22.68	Bonnie McGregor	And the current thing that's being proposed is a start, but it certainly doesn't solve my problems on Princess Street at all. Thank you very much.
00:28:33.05	Unknown	Aaron Mato.
00:28:39.98	Aaron Mato	Good evening. I wanted to also make a comment on three and I've been a resident of Sausalito for over seven years and lived on Bulkley that entire time. Parking has always been an issue, but it's gotten considerably worse over the last few years, similar to what Bonnie was saying. As you guys may be aware, almost all of the residents on Bulkley don't have driveways or garages and so we're forced to park on the street.
00:29:05.92	Aaron Mato	The issue has gotten particularly worse as both restaurant workers and patrons park for free in that area to avoid paying in the city lots. And I understand there's a program that the city of Sausalito provides so that workers can have a discounted rate, and I would encourage them to use that. I'm excited that this item is on the agenda, and I'm hopeful that the worst time to park is usually between 4pm and midnight. And I am excited to see it and hope that it gets approved. Thank you.
00:29:40.34	Mr. McGowan	or any other public comment.
00:29:42.76	Unknown	Seeing none.
00:29:43.60	Mr. McGowan	You'll close by a comment. Do you have a comment? Yeah.
00:29:45.54	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, I just had a comment on the parking issues, something that came up, and I wanted to see if it could be considered or mentioned. But especially in area zone C, we have some low-income housing in that particular zone, and we don't have any sort of program for economic hardship for people who might be living within zone C who otherwise can't afford the $70 permit or the $50 permits for guests such as caregivers. We have a senior housing facility there as well. So I don't know that we need to include it tonight, but I would like to see us consider or have an addition so that there isn't a accommodation made for economic hardship, especially in senior housing and otherwise.
00:30:23.44	Mr. McGowan	don't want to pull it off, could I ask you to repeat that at future agenda items and we'll get on our list? Sure. I mean,
00:30:28.45	Councilmember Blaustein	Sure.
00:30:29.74	Councilmember Blaustein	I mean, if I pull it off, would we be able to add that this evening? It's not agenda specifically, so...
00:30:35.20	Mr. McGowan	a little bit. Oh, no, it might be complicated.
00:30:39.05	Councilmember Blaustein	That would be a city attorney question, but I can
00:30:43.64	Mr. McGowan	How much wordsmithing would it be to you?
00:30:46.16	Karen Hollweg	We didn't notice.
00:30:47.88	Karen Hollweg	Okay. So, but I, and I think it's a worthwhile conversation for not just that zone, but for Yeah, absolutely.
00:30:48.60	Mr. McGowan	I think it's perfect.
00:30:49.24	Mr. McGowan	I like that.
00:30:53.45	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Okay. I'll mention it again at future agenda items. I just wanted to make sure it's considered. Thanks.
00:30:55.17	Karen Hollweg	I'm sorry.
00:30:55.20	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:30:59.45	Mr. McGowan	Any other comments? Councilmember Hoffman.
00:31:01.12	Councilmember Hoffman	I, this might be another question for Officer Kwan. I believe we do have programs for a reduced fee for parking permits based on economic hardship.
00:31:17.34	Councilmember Hoffman	You might as well just stay up here.
00:31:18.72	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:31:20.53	Wayne Kwan	Regarding your question regarding hardship, we currently do not have a program for hardship.
00:31:26.98	Wayne Kwan	However, we do have a
00:31:27.43	Unknown	Thank you.
00:31:30.08	Wayne Kwan	employee reduced parking program
00:31:33.41	Wayne Kwan	There's daily fee at $6 a day or a monthly fee at 160 per quarter, I'm sorry, per quarter for an L permit. So any employees that work in the area,
00:31:47.73	Wayne Kwan	that's looking for a parking solution,
00:31:50.15	Wayne Kwan	They're happy to contact me and I can offer them the options that we have available.
00:31:54.18	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, thank you. But that doesn't just to clarify, that doesn't include specifically folks living in perhaps senior housing or lower income housing, there isn't yet a provision for that. So it's a
00:32:04.10	Wayne Kwan	For the low income housing, we currently do not have programs.
00:32:07.24	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
00:32:08.49	Councilmember Blaustein	So.
00:32:09.15	Councilmember Blaustein	I would say add that to your
00:32:11.11	Councilmember Blaustein	Exactly. Yes. Thank you.
00:32:14.68	Mr. McGowan	So we will, hearing no other comments from the dais, we'll do a motion, and I guess I'll make it to approve the consent calendar, excluding items 3N and 3D.
00:32:29.70	Mr. McGowan	But who's the other exclusion?
00:32:33.13	Mr. McGowan	3Q. 3P is removed, so we're going to vote without 3N and 3Q, so we can all vote together, and then we'll do separate votes on the last two items. So consent calendar excluding 3N and 3Q.
00:32:43.32	Mr. McGowan	I move they be approved.
00:32:44.69	Karen Hollweg	Second.
00:32:45.09	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:32:45.55	Mr. McGowan	All in favor?
00:32:46.53	Karen Hollweg	Bye.
00:32:47.71	Mr. McGowan	Opposed carries unanimously four to one without consider item three Q that the vice mayor is not participating in. I'll move the first week you.
00:32:55.55	Councilmember Blaustein	Can we do three-end first?
00:32:59.00	Mr. McGowan	Is there a second to approve item 3Q?
00:33:02.25	Councilmember Blaustein	Seconded.
00:33:03.21	Mr. McGowan	All right. All in favor, say aye.
00:33:05.56	Mr. McGowan	I recuse. So that passes three to zero with Vice Mayor Cox recusing herself and then I'll let you do the honors for it.
00:33:05.76	Councilmember Blaustein	Hi.
00:33:15.26	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:33:15.31	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:33:15.35	Mr. McGowan	of their pine nuts.
00:33:16.60	Karen Hollweg	Thank you, Vice Mayor. I move we approve consent calendar item 3N.
00:33:21.79	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:33:21.96	Councilmember Blaustein	Second.
00:33:22.22	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:33:23.55	Karen Hollweg	All in favor?
00:33:24.88	Karen Hollweg	Bye.
00:33:25.00	Councilmember Blaustein	I am.
00:33:26.48	Karen Hollweg	And that motion carries 3-0 with the mayor recusing himself. All right. And we will now move on to our public hearing item.
00:33:32.15	Councilmember Hoffman	Mr. Mayor, sorry.
00:33:33.54	Councilmember Hoffman	I think I missed this, but 3P, the resolution for the city manager, execute professional services. We removed that. Just removed that thing. Okay, gotcha. Sorry, thank you.
00:33:42.01	Mr. McGowan	in the room.
00:33:42.72	Mr. McGowan	We will now move on to the public hearing item. Conduct a public hearing pursuant to the California streets on Highway Code Section 8320 and adopt a resolution to vacate Tracy Way in El Puertal to Anchor Street.
00:33:55.00	Mr. McGowan	Mr. McGowan.
00:33:56.20	Kevin McGowan	Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council. I'm Kevin McGowan, Public Works Director for Sausalito.
00:34:01.21	Kevin McGowan	I'm hoping Ms. Hernandez can bring up our presentation. It has a bluish background. There we go.
00:34:13.68	Kevin McGowan	All set. Thank you so much. So item 4A before you this evening is related to the vacation of Tracy Way. Next slide, please.
00:34:25.07	Kevin McGowan	The actions recommended by staff this evening include conducting a public hearing pursuant to the California Streets and Highways Code, Section 8320 and 8324.
00:34:37.58	Kevin McGowan	And following
00:34:39.99	Kevin McGowan	holding the public hearing staff recommends adopting a resolution to vacate Tracy way.
00:34:45.39	Kevin McGowan	Next slide.
00:34:48.33	Kevin McGowan	Tracy Way is a small roadway which connects El Portal to Anchor Street. The road is abutted by Parking Lot 1 and Vina Del Mar Park.
00:34:57.86	Kevin McGowan	which are both owned by the city of Sausalito.
00:35:01.29	Kevin McGowan	Tracy Way was acquired in February 1955 from the Northwest Pacific Railroad, and parts were granted from the state pursuant to Chapter 791 Statutes of 1957.
00:35:17.93	Kevin McGowan	This roadway is shown on the County Assessor's parcel map shown on this slide.
00:35:23.02	Kevin McGowan	Next slide, please.
00:35:25.72	Kevin McGowan	In June 2024, the Sausalito Planning Commission adopted a resolution noting that vacating Tracy Way complies with the city's general plan.
00:35:35.97	Kevin McGowan	The City Council approved the construction of the Ferry Landside Improvement Project on July 30, 2024, which repurposes Tracy Way as a pedestrian promenade.
00:35:47.75	Kevin McGowan	In August 2024 DPW staff notify notified known utilities of the city's intent to vacate the right of way.
00:35:56.55	Kevin McGowan	No known utilities are located within this section of the roadway such that vacating this section
00:36:02.97	Kevin McGowan	does not impact any utilities that we know of.
00:36:07.22	Kevin McGowan	DPW reached out to emergency services as well, and access to this area can still be achieved from city property,
00:36:15.03	Kevin McGowan	and the roadways on either side of Tracy Way.
00:36:18.39	Kevin McGowan	Next slide.
00:36:20.67	Kevin McGowan	Just a quick little glance back in time from July 30th.
00:36:24.41	Kevin McGowan	This plan shows work proposed for the Ferry Landsite Improvement Project, which includes Tracy Way to vehicles. That's on the lower section of the screen.
00:36:34.56	Kevin McGowan	Next slide, please.
00:36:37.09	Kevin McGowan	With Tracy Way no longer being utilized as a roadway for vehicles, the right-of-way should be vacated per the California Streets and Highways Code Section 8320.
00:36:48.53	Kevin McGowan	Staff posted notices two weeks in advance of this meeting at the site in compliance with this code section.
00:36:55.99	Kevin McGowan	In addition, notices were also published in the Marin Independent Journal two consecutive weeks prior to this meeting in compliance with the Streets and Highways Code. Next slide.
00:37:08.58	Kevin McGowan	As mentioned before, the city owns all parcels fronting Tracy Way, and as such, the underlining ownership of the roadway is still maintained by the city based on Civil Code 831.
00:37:21.47	Kevin McGowan	If in the future, the city needs to reestablish this area as a roadway, it may easily do so since this since it has the underlying ownership of the of the roadway itself. Next slide.
00:37:36.89	Kevin McGowan	There we go. This exhibit, which is included with your board packet, shows the recommended area of vacation.
00:37:45.09	Kevin McGowan	This exhibit is in conformance with the proposed improvements for the Ferry Landside project.
00:37:51.20	Kevin McGowan	And next slide, please.
00:37:53.58	Kevin McGowan	So that concludes my presentation, and staff welcomes your comments and questions at this point in time. Thank you.
00:37:59.49	Mr. McGowan	Thank you very much, Director McGowan. Are there any questions for Director? And I've heard stuff that people can't hear my microphone.
00:38:07.93	Mr. McGowan	It's just me, huh? It's just my problem.
00:38:08.62	Unknown	huh?
00:38:10.02	Mr. McGowan	Well.
00:38:11.00	Mr. McGowan	I'll just speak louder then. Apologies, tell me if I'm too loud. Other questions please from my colleagues.
00:38:17.28	Mr. McGowan	We can hear it.
00:38:25.34	Mr. McGowan	Are there any questions here from the dice?
00:38:29.04	Mr. McGowan	Councilmember Hoffman.
00:38:30.64	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you, Director McGowan. I appreciate that. One question that we've addressed throughout this process is the calculation of 1128, Ordinance 1128, which prohibits the loss of public parking in the downtown area. We had an early calculation of that in one of the earlier iterations of the overall plan. But has there been a calculation of how 1128 would affect the current ferry landing plan, including removal of Tracy way as a public?
00:39:00.05	Kevin McGowan	Straight.
00:39:01.45	Kevin McGowan	Mr. City Manager, do you want to?
00:39:03.21	Councilmember Hoffman	I'm not asking for the calculation. I'm just asking, has there been a calculation done that's public?
00:39:10.41	Kevin McGowan	And shared with the public?
00:39:11.83	Councilmember Hoffman	Yes.
00:39:13.08	Kevin McGowan	No, not for the recent one.
00:39:15.48	Kevin McGowan	Okay.
00:39:18.84	Councilmember Hoffman	that.
00:39:21.40	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay, I think I have, that's fine. I have some more comments later, but I think that's my only question.
00:39:25.11	Mr. McGowan	I think that's my only question. Thank you. Austin, raise your hand first and then- Go ahead.
00:39:28.34	Councilmember Hoffman	Go ahead.
00:39:29.77	Councilmember Hoffman	I can go after you guys.
00:39:29.86	Mr. McGowan	Yeah.
00:39:30.97	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:39:31.31	Councilmember Hoffman	Look.
00:39:31.44	Mr. McGowan	Go ahead, Councilor Harrell.
00:39:32.42	Councilmember Hoffman	Sorry, I had more questions.
00:39:34.16	Councilmember Hoffman	I noted, too, in the staff report that the fiscal analysis for the closure of Tracy Way was there was no fiscal loss. There was no monetary loss. But I note that there are 12 parking meters on there, and something I've asked in the past is for –
00:39:50.54	Councilmember Hoffman	that calculation to be added into the reports there is revenue from those meters i understand there's an issue about you know if there's open parking spots you know does it matter that there's revenue from those uh and i understand that argument but i think it still needs to be part of the analysis i know that information is readily available it's
00:40:11.82	Kevin McGowan	I believe there are 10 spaces along Tracy way. That's what I counted at least today. And we do have our police department here as well, if they want to talk a little bit about the revenue and things that you had just mentioned.
00:40:24.95	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, okay.
00:40:25.96	Councilmember Hoffman	Do we have that number?
00:40:26.88	Unknown	Actually, it's our finance department that can provide that information. Sorry about that.
00:40:30.84	Chad	Hello, Mayor, Council, Council members and the public. So based upon our initial analysis, when we were looking at lot one, we looked at all of the data and we came up with a value of about $4,200 for the peak season of parking.
00:40:46.32	Chad	So that would be the value that I would assign for a comparable parking spot on Tracy way. Based upon the count, there are 10 parking spots in that those spots are currently closed during our peak season for bike parking.
00:41:03.82	Chad	the
00:41:05.06	Chad	The lost revenue from those parking spots during non-peak season, I think, is negligible. But the moving bike parking to lot one, that's where the lost revenue would come from, would be taking up additional parking spots in lot one if we choose to move bike parking there. Depending upon the number of spots that bike parking takes up, I would put in a value of about $4,200 per parking stall.
00:41:30.61	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay, I understand that calculation, Chad, and thank you for that analysis.
00:41:35.45	Councilmember Hoffman	Um,
00:41:37.73	Councilmember Hoffman	Sorry.
00:41:38.59	Councilmember Hoffman	But
00:41:40.25	Councilmember Hoffman	But I know that there is a value. I mean, we do actually have revenue in those. That's what I was just asking, was a straight revenue report from what we got. You can, you know, average it over three or four years. I just wondered what that number was. So, and I would ask that that be provided.
00:41:55.05	Unknown	That can be done, Councilmember. I think when the finance director said he termed it negligible, that was the rationale behind fiscal impact not being reported, but we can provide that information to you as a follow-up.
00:42:08.06	Mr. McGowan	Oh, thank you. And then council member, vice mayor.
00:42:11.67	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you. And thank you, Director McGowan. Nice to see you again on the topic of the ferry landing. I will surely miss this when we have completed tonight's item. And just on that point, I wanted to review because we have certainly been here before. Could you go back to the slide that shows the dates and the process for the vacation? I think it was the second slide that you put up. It had July 19th, July 30th.
00:42:38.72	Councilmember Blaustein	No, before that one, before that one. There we go. There you go. Previous process. Nope. Yep. There we go. Okay. So just to clarify as well, no, go back.
00:42:47.97	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, no.
00:42:53.92	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, great. Thank you. Okay. So just to be clear, and just correct me if I'm wrong at any point, but I just want to make sure that we're going through the process and taking the appropriate steps here. So we, on June 12th, the Planning Commission heard this as direct direction from the city council regarding the vacation of Tracy Way per our vote, correct? Yes.
00:43:11.96	Kevin McGowan	Yes.
00:43:12.34	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay. And that was a required process for vacation of, of Tracy way per the California highway patrol, California highway, sorry, California highway standards.
00:43:18.44	Kevin McGowan	It's...
00:43:21.51	Kevin McGowan	Yes, per the Streets and Highways Code, I believe the Planning Commission does need to weigh in on that.
00:43:27.02	Councilmember Blaustein	And then on the 30th, we authorized the city manager
00:43:29.95	Councilmember Blaustein	to move forward with the contract, which included the cost of the proposed vacation, the proposed improvements to Tracy way. Correct? Correct.
00:43:37.63	Councilmember Blaustein	And those improvements came in within the budget, if not under, correct?
00:43:41.76	Kevin McGowan	Yes.
00:43:42.22	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, so there's no anticipated new cost for the vacation of Tracy Way, less the consideration for parking as mentioned by Councilmember Hoffman.
00:43:48.87	Kevin McGowan	No, not at this time.
00:43:50.32	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, and on the 30th, we also that we agreed that we were going to move forward with that agreement. So this process is simply a requirement of the California highway standards, but we as the city council have already given direction to approve moving forward with Tracy way correct.
00:44:05.29	Kevin McGowan	Yes, it's part of the Streets and Highways Code.
00:44:08.04	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, so we're just formalizing and completing our process on improving the ferry landing this evening. That's correct.
00:44:13.54	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay. Thank you very much, Dr. McGowan. I appreciate it.
00:44:16.73	Mr. McGowan	Vice Mayor.
00:44:18.28	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:44:19.26	Karen Hollweg	um i received some inquiries regarding the impact of this decision on our ordinance 1128 or vice versa so i just wanted to ask a couple of questions in that regard um ordinance 1128 was adopted um
00:44:35.38	Karen Hollweg	in December of 1997. Is that your understanding? Yes.
00:44:40.17	Karen Hollweg	And at that time, Tracy way was not a part of lot one. Is that your understanding?
00:44:44.76	Kevin McGowan	Is that your understanding?
00:44:45.70	Kevin McGowan	That's correct.
00:44:46.90	Karen Hollweg	And so,
00:44:48.74	Karen Hollweg	We didn't start
00:44:52.22	Karen Hollweg	Collecting revenue.
00:44:53.69	Karen Hollweg	for Tracy Way.
00:44:55.31	Karen Hollweg	as part of lot one until
00:44:58.26	Karen Hollweg	Um,
00:44:59.76	Karen Hollweg	a resolution adopted by the City Council in
00:45:03.44	Karen Hollweg	2012 is that right?
00:45:06.41	Kevin McGowan	Yes, I think it was April 2012.
00:45:11.08	Karen Hollweg	Oh, I think it's April 2nd, 2013.
00:45:15.25	Karen Hollweg	Oh, no. The meeting date was April 2, 2012.
00:45:18.86	Unknown	Yeah.
00:45:19.35	Karen Hollweg	but the
00:45:20.57	Karen Hollweg	Resolution says adopted.
00:45:22.68	Karen Hollweg	April 2nd, 2013. So...
00:45:25.46	Karen Hollweg	Regardless,
00:45:26.57	Karen Hollweg	That was long after
00:45:28.70	Karen Hollweg	1128. And so...
00:45:30.89	Karen Hollweg	Would it be your opinion that Tracy Way is not governed by Ordinance 1128?
00:45:37.39	Kevin McGowan	You know, it might be best to have our city attorney who has that legal background weigh in on that.
00:45:43.55	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:45:47.92	Todd Leachlin	Mayor and Council, this is Todd Leachlin with Best Best in Krieger, the city attorney.
00:45:52.76	Todd Leachlin	And based on our review of the documents, we don't have a definitive answer to that question at this point. We'd have to look into it further.
00:46:03.55	Karen Hollweg	Can I ask a follow-up question though? Can you repeat that? So you looked at the resolution, you looked at ordinance 1128, and you still are not clear that Tracy Way is not part of-
00:46:16.81	Karen Hollweg	um,
00:46:18.75	Karen Hollweg	Ordinance 1128.
00:46:20.68	Hank Baker	Yes.
00:46:20.74	Karen Hollweg	Yes.
00:46:21.76	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:46:21.77	Hank Baker	That's what I'm saying.
00:46:21.79	Karen Hollweg	So at the time, so can you give me a little more background on that because certainly at the time that ordinance 1128 was adopted Tracy way was still.
00:46:39.07	Karen Hollweg	At that time, it was actually known as Park Avenue and Park Street. And it was a parking meter zone. Would you agree with that?
00:46:51.07	Todd Leachlin	Vice Mayor, it's clear that at the time that ordinance 1128 was adopted,
00:46:55.57	Todd Leachlin	The Tracy Way spaces were not part of lot one.
00:46:58.91	Karen Hollweg	That's all I'm asking you to confirm.
00:47:01.06	Todd Leachlin	Yes, it's clear that when 1128 was enacted,
00:47:04.67	Todd Leachlin	Tracy Way spaces were not included in Mont 1.
00:47:07.03	Councilmember Blaustein	Bye-bye.
00:47:07.79	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, thank you. Can I ask a quick follow up question to that point. Just as you can see on the screen on June 12th, the planning commission adopted resolution saying that the vacation of Tracy way was consistent with the general plan. So the ordinance 1128 was considered within the confines of the general plan correct.
00:47:27.37	Councilmember Blaustein	Someone, anyone?
00:47:29.86	Councilmember Blaustein	Is that a city attorney question or a director McGowan question?
00:47:34.08	Kevin McGowan	I don't think that's in my realm to
00:47:37.02	Kevin McGowan	To discuss that.
00:47:37.56	Councilmember Blaustein	A regular city attorney is taking a well-deserved vacation. So, but-
00:47:42.98	Karen Hollweg	I mean, Councilmember Blaustein, I'll just point out that policy CP-2.2
00:47:48.68	Karen Hollweg	of our general plan refers to downtown parking and makes reference to Ordinance 1128.
00:47:55.06	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, and the Planning Commission and the City Council still concurred that it was in accordance with the general plan, as we can see above. Okay, thank you.
00:48:06.13	Mr. McGowan	Council Member Hoffman.
00:48:07.11	Mr. McGowan	Oh, I wasn't quite finished.
00:48:07.34	Karen Hollweg	I wasn't quite finished.
00:48:08.68	Karen Hollweg	I had one. I was just gathered. I had one more question. So regarding revenue.
00:48:08.73	Mr. McGowan	I apologize.
00:48:08.96	Bonnie McGregor	Sorry.
00:48:13.49	Karen Hollweg	UM,
00:48:14.63	Karen Hollweg	for Tracy Way. Isn't it true that we closed
00:48:17.87	Karen Hollweg	and maybe this is for the finance manager, we closed Tracy Way for a portion of the year
00:48:23.22	Karen Hollweg	tip we typically close Tracy way for a portion of the year each year.
00:48:26.75	Karen Hollweg	to accommodate
00:48:27.83	Karen Hollweg	Bicycle Parking.
00:48:30.43	Chad	That is correct.
00:48:31.44	Karen Hollweg	And so we're not
00:48:33.28	Karen Hollweg	reaping revenues from those parking spots during that period of closure, correct?
00:48:42.14	Chad	That is correct. Not from leasing it to cars.
00:48:45.33	Karen Hollweg	And the police department does have a bicycle return program, but the revenues collected or spent on that program are variable from year to year. Would you agree?
00:48:58.22	Chad	They are variable, yes.
00:49:00.40	Chad	Thank you.
00:49:00.41	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:49:00.79	Chad	Thank you.
00:49:00.87	Chad	Thank you.
00:49:01.18	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:49:01.21	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
00:49:01.24	Councilmember Hoffman	So,
00:49:01.28	Karen Hollweg	that.
00:49:01.36	Councilmember Hoffman	that can
00:49:01.97	Councilmember Hoffman	That includes.
00:49:02.19	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:49:02.22	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:49:02.24	Mr. McGowan	questions.
00:49:02.95	Mr. McGowan	Thank you Councilmember Hoffman did you have anything else?
00:49:05.76	Mr. McGowan	I did.
00:49:06.54	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
00:49:07.05	Councilmember Hoffman	Do you know Director McAllen
00:49:09.90	Councilmember Hoffman	This fan moves, just so everybody knows. It does. Do you know, was there any analysis given as part of the Planning Commission review of the
00:49:13.68	Linda Fosh	it.
00:49:13.85	Linda Fosh	THE FAMILY.
00:49:14.51	Unknown	Thank you.
00:49:15.35	Unknown	Um,
00:49:23.52	Councilmember Hoffman	the effect of this plan, including closing Tracy way in the entire fairy landing plan on how that would affect 1128.
00:49:32.78	Kevin McGowan	So I did not present that to the planning commission. I'll have to review the tapes to find out if there was some discussion of that item.
00:49:43.67	Councilmember Hoffman	And so again,
00:49:46.25	Councilmember Hoffman	There hasn't been a report made public
00:49:50.40	Councilmember Hoffman	that includes a calculation of whether or not this plan, including the overall ferry plan,
00:49:57.34	Councilmember Hoffman	And the closure of Tracy Way violates 1128.
00:50:02.50	Kevin McGowan	It hasn't been made public. That's correct.
00:50:07.46	Councilmember Hoffman	And
00:50:08.54	Councilmember Hoffman	as we go back through the chronology that's up here on this slide. And thank you so much for chronologies are always very helpful.
00:50:14.18	Councilmember Hoffman	Um,
00:50:16.69	Councilmember Hoffman	We approved the
00:50:20.96	Councilmember Hoffman	the overall plan on July 30th, but we did not include an analysis of how that plan would be affected by 1128 or how that plan would affect 1128.
00:50:34.00	Kevin McGowan	I'm not sure I understand the question. You asked earlier if we had made a report regarding the recent plan and whether it complied with 1128. We have done some work on that but haven't made it public at this point in time because there are some ambiguities associated with Ordinance 1128, specifically associated with what is considered as downtown parking.
00:51:02.95	Kevin McGowan	Those those number of parking spaces have to be included into the total percentage. And it's unclear of what that area is specifically. So there's there's a lot more detail that goes into it. And so that's why we haven't necessarily filed it because it's not terribly clear of what 1128 is referencing.
00:51:23.36	Kevin McGowan	Mr. Mayor, if I may, I'd like to.
00:51:25.03	Unknown	interject a little bit. Yes. Because I think you're skating into an area that may be a little tricky. On February the 2nd of this year, the city attorney sent an attorney client privilege letter to the city council regarding 1128 and some analysis. And on February, July the 30th, he sent a follow-up to that. So I think that if you're going to talk about that in open session, you might run into some problems. You probably want to ask advice from your attorney about whether or not you want to delve any deeper into this. That would be my advice to you, to the city attorney, to have that review.
00:51:54.80	Mr. McGowan	That would be.
00:52:00.07	Unknown	Okay.
00:52:00.15	Mr. McGowan	Okay.
00:52:00.62	Unknown	Thank you. Any further on this?
00:52:00.64	Mr. McGowan	Thank you. I think from Councilmember Hoffman was was that part of the report and I think you've already answered the question that's not part of the report. It was not. So question has been asked and answered on the record.
00:52:12.10	Councilmember Hoffman	Right. The other questions?
00:52:15.25	Councilmember Hoffman	If I could have just a second.
00:52:18.53	Councilmember Hoffman	And this is the first time that the city council has specifically addressed the closure of Tracy Way in the format of,
00:52:30.81	Councilmember Hoffman	The motion to under the under the state ordinances in the whatever highway streets and highways.
00:52:39.69	Kevin McGowan	Yes, this is the first time I've had to deal with vacating a public roadway.
00:52:43.96	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you.
00:52:46.86	Mr. McGowan	All right, we'll now take public comment on this topic.
00:52:50.02	Unknown	Should we say the words open the public hearing and then go?
00:52:55.11	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:52:56.36	Unknown	Thank you.
00:52:56.38	Mr. McGowan	I will open the public hearing officially and we will take public comment. It's part of the public hearing. Thank you, Mr. City Clerk.
00:52:58.55	Unknown	you.
00:53:04.97	Unknown	Okay?
00:53:05.47	Unknown	First person we have is Bonnie McGregor.
00:53:08.90	Unknown	is that.
00:53:08.97	Mr. McGowan	that's not.
00:53:09.09	Unknown	Thank you.
00:53:09.12	Mr. McGowan	I don't know.
00:53:09.19	Unknown	Gregor.
00:53:09.52	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
00:53:18.06	Bonnie McGregor	Once again, Bonnie McGregor, a long time Sausalir resident. I'm a little surprised that we're having this type, this level of detail of questions coming up at this stage of the game. When the whole project was approved several months ago, including the vacating of Tracy Wade.
00:53:35.61	Bonnie McGregor	And I had a bunch of funny comments to make about this, but I can't find my notes in my fancy phone.
00:53:43.17	Bonnie McGregor	So I'll do it off the cuff.
00:53:46.60	Bonnie McGregor	I do agree that what we currently have looks a heck of a lot better than it did in the 40s when I lived here. We have railroad tracks, kind of ratty-looking docks, and some rather scuzzy people hanging around because it was a commercial boat area.
00:54:02.51	Bonnie McGregor	But it's time to bring this area into the 21st century, which this project will do.
00:54:09.80	Bonnie McGregor	Closing Tracy Way is a vital part of that.
00:54:12.47	Bonnie McGregor	Thank you.
00:54:12.59	Unknown	Thank you.
00:54:12.64	Bonnie McGregor	Thank you.
00:54:13.85	Bonnie McGregor	I currently walk Tracy way frequently because I like the trees that are coming over the pathway and it's less crowded than walking down Bridgeway and it keeps me out of the sun. So to see that expanded, I can certainly see that visitors, politicians, merchants, residents can enjoy that as a rest spot for reading, watching the vistas that are available and just plain relaxing.
00:54:32.47	Unknown	and just, you know,
00:54:40.95	Bonnie McGregor	This is something we don't really have downtown now. So I think it would add a nice way, a walkable downtown aspect to town.
00:54:51.09	Bonnie McGregor	I've lived here on and off three times, accumulating over 40 years. When I was here in the fourth grade, which is right after World War II,
00:55:00.75	Bonnie McGregor	downtown area was even grimmer than I just described. As a little girl with my lunch pail walking home all the way to Second Street, I saw quite a bit that I still remember. And it wasn't all that pretty. So I'm hoping that we can get through this. And the only thing left to do tonight, as far as I'm concerned, is to sign that resolution to get this project going. We're already into September. And if you recall, the last time we got together, we were talking about having this finished before the rains come.
00:55:32.17	Bonnie McGregor	Look where we are now, September 3rd already. Thank you very much. Let's get going.
00:55:38.51	Mr. McGowan	Thank you, Ms. McGregor. Peter Van Meter. Mr. Van Meter.
00:55:50.28	Peter Van Meter	Good evening. This issue has been debated, discussed, gotten public comment, been ad nauseum over the last month after month after month.
00:56:01.67	Peter Van Meter	You approve the plan and included the closing of Tracy way.
00:56:05.11	Peter Van Meter	and a pedestrian promenade.
00:56:06.80	Peter Van Meter	This is a technical detail, according to the highway code.
00:56:10.53	Peter Van Meter	If we hadn't had an administrative glitch, this would have already been
00:56:13.99	Peter Van Meter	decided by you.
00:56:15.20	Peter Van Meter	back on July 30th.
00:56:17.68	Peter Van Meter	So please take care of it. Now regarding 1128,
00:56:21.49	Peter Van Meter	even in the most adverse way of interpreting 1128,
00:56:25.51	Peter Van Meter	the 1,000 to 1,500 square feet
00:56:28.65	Peter Van Meter	A parking.
00:56:29.61	Peter Van Meter	area in these spaces that you'd be taking away on Tracy way.
00:56:33.16	Peter Van Meter	are de minimis.
00:56:34.35	Peter Van Meter	compared to the hundreds of thousands of square feet that would be the denominator
00:56:38.28	Peter Van Meter	in that calculation.
00:56:39.84	Peter Van Meter	So the 5% rule with 1128,
00:56:42.84	Peter Van Meter	This removal of these spaces would have virtually no effect whatsoever on that computation.
00:56:48.53	Peter Van Meter	So you may want to get a report sometime, but that will be the answer.
00:56:53.14	Peter Van Meter	So.
00:56:53.81	Peter Van Meter	I think you can just rely on that tonight to move this forward. Thank you.
00:56:59.87	Unknown	Gail Schell.
00:57:08.76	Gail Shell	Hello, Council. I'm Gail Shell. It's nice to see you again. I've been following this pretty much the beginning, or at least the last year, and I too thought we had moved beyond this. But I guess I'm here tonight just because I want to remind you of all the people who have showed up
00:57:22.97	Gail Shell	at all the meetings and told you they want this. And so a little detail as a man just referenced, let's do it. Let's get it done. You've got a lot of people behind you who want it. Thank you.
00:57:37.77	Unknown	Hank Baker
00:57:46.11	Hank Baker	Hank Baker, a resident and business owner in downtown and a member of the EDAC.
00:57:50.78	Hank Baker	The no birds are at it again.
00:57:52.55	Hank Baker	attempting to derail Tracy Way closure with incorrect information.
00:57:56.59	Hank Baker	If anything else, their misinformed supporters will kill Sausalito's golden goose.
00:58:01.90	Hank Baker	Tracy Way is used for bicycle parking from May through October every year and not available for vehicle parking.
00:58:08.99	Hank Baker	During the high season, Tracy Way contributes no parking revenue. In the off-season, Saasio has excess parking capacity with little need for the 11 spots available on Tracy Way.
00:58:19.48	Hank Baker	The $60,000 in annual lost parking revenue cited by the haycitycouncil.com website emails is significantly incorrect.
00:58:28.73	Hank Baker	Their suggested $300,000 in annual loss revenue due to parklets is equally a highly suspect calculation.
00:58:35.77	Hank Baker	We are all entitled to our own opinions.
00:58:38.49	Hank Baker	We are not entitled to our own facts.
00:58:41.34	Hank Baker	With the addition of the 47 spaces in the Sassado Yacht Harbor lot,
00:58:45.34	Hank Baker	Downtown will have more parking capacity than in the past.
00:58:48.85	Hank Baker	The downtown parking committee is presently working with the city on parking recommendations that will include new parking equipment that will both dramatically increase downtown parking capacity and parking revenue.
00:59:00.56	Hank Baker	Pending city, sending city council approval to acquire this new equipment. We hope to have many of these recommendations in place by next summer.
00:59:09.80	Hank Baker	Finally, yes, the city is using parking revenue funds to balance an already slimmed down budget. So instead, let's all proactively spend our time and energy to support new ideas to increase city revenue that will not only fund
00:59:24.66	Hank Baker	annual operating costs, but also fund the approximate $50 million in unfunded pension costs and deferred public works projects that will be needed over the next 10 years. City Council members, please stay on course regarding the approval of the ferry landing project and adopt the resolution to close Tracy way. Make Sausalito a people place, the evolved ferry landing plaza.
00:59:48.40	Hank Baker	will make this a beautiful community.
00:59:50.47	Mr. McGowan	Amen.
00:59:53.49	Mr. McGowan	Mr. Oman.
00:59:58.49	Unknown	And Jack Coleman is going to be followed by.
01:00:03.72	Unknown	Adrian Britton.
01:00:05.49	Jacques Allman	Jacques Allman, resident for 54 years. This summer, I was in Nîmes with my wife, and we were in the downtown area around the Maison Caille and the arena there, wandering the streets that had absolutely no automobiles, and we felt good and calm, and everyone seemed really happy there. My relatives there explained to me that the town for 20 years had been working on removing cars from downtown and dealing with all the various problems of parking and so on, and they resolved it. And it was absolutely beautiful. And it made us realize that in Sausalito,
01:00:44.39	Jacques Allman	There's a lot of tension when you walk around South Slido, particularly around the Vina del Mar area. The pavements are varying. You have curbs to trip over, and it's just sort of a mess. And that tension really was a concern. And so for many years, many of us have worked on the dialogue and design work to take care of this. And we now have created a plan that would create a wonderful pedestrian downtown. Decating Tracy Way is an essential component of that.
01:01:22.51	Jacques Allman	And so let's do it for heaven's sakes.
01:01:27.79	Unknown	Okay, Adrian Britton.
01:01:30.68	Adrian Brinton	Adrian Brinton, South City resident.
01:01:32.97	Adrian Brinton	Thank you.
01:01:33.24	Adrian Brinton	Yeah, I just want to reiterate kind of what everybody's been saying. This is a technical step in the process of an approved project that has been getting five to nothing votes through the entire process. So let's get this done. Let's finish it.
01:01:45.92	Adrian Brinton	on the parking, you know,
01:01:47.50	Adrian Brinton	A huge amount of effort has gone into the parking and the situation on parking on this. There's a lot of changes happening. There's a deal on the table today to lease 47 spaces in the Yacht Harbor parking lot that are massively underused.
01:01:59.65	Adrian Brinton	That is such a huge opportunity. And by adding that, we have a net gain in parking, even taking the bike parking into account. We gain six spaces net on our peak days and even more on the non-peak days. So we can do this. You know, there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of,
01:02:16.21	Adrian Brinton	Looking at one parking spot and really looking at every single parking spot. We got to see the bigger picture. How are we going to fill the parking lots? We're going to fill the parking lots by making a place people want to go where they want to spend time.
01:02:28.59	Adrian Brinton	You know, think of the historical society and we've got Jack Tracy,
01:02:32.36	Adrian Brinton	you know, is named after Tracy, is named after Jack Tracy, the founder of the Historical Society. We have the Ice House leading straight into Tracy Way.
01:02:39.71	Adrian Brinton	What a great opportunity, right?
01:02:42.04	Adrian Brinton	Could you imagine a Historical Society event leading into Tracy Way, showing the entire history of that area from the trains dropping off, you know, to it being the Jack Tracy Memorial bike parking lot that it is today, and then becoming a beautiful pedestrian promenade. You know, what a great opportunity. I would go downtown for that. I think a lot of people would as well. So let's get this done. Thank you.
01:03:04.43	Unknown	Kristen and Wolf's Lego?
01:03:08.70	Unknown	I probably mispronounced that. Christian Walsh-Lego.
01:03:15.91	Christian Walsh-Lego	Hello, good evening.
01:03:17.89	Christian Walsh-Lego	I have not been at one of these meetings in quite some time, but I decided to come this evening, first to tell you all that I am
01:03:27.37	Christian Walsh-Lego	I admire all of you deeply for the detailed consideration that we've been given this topic.
01:03:33.39	Christian Walsh-Lego	And certainly due diligence is critical.
01:03:36.51	Christian Walsh-Lego	for something like this. And I'm not claiming to have all the details, but I trust that you and city staff do have them. So I'm here today to just chime in and offer my perspective.
01:03:49.27	Christian Walsh-Lego	It was about 12 years ago when I moved to Sausalito and was appointed to the Sustainability Commission.
01:03:56.31	Christian Walsh-Lego	At that time, we were discussing revitalized ferry landing.
01:04:01.19	Christian Walsh-Lego	And at that point, it was...
01:04:03.72	Christian Walsh-Lego	11 million dollars of federal funding that was directed to the Golden Gate Bridge District for a complete rebuild of the ferry landing. It also included the land side improvement project that we are largely discussing today.
01:04:18.75	Christian Walsh-Lego	And, um,
01:04:20.76	Christian Walsh-Lego	After considerable back and forth, that funding was forfeited and the project did not go forward.
01:04:27.38	Christian Walsh-Lego	And earlier this year, for the first time since I have lived in this town ferry service,
01:04:33.23	Christian Walsh-Lego	had to stop for a period of time due to failed infrastructure.
01:04:37.26	Christian Walsh-Lego	And I can't help but think what if that would have happened if we had had the opportunity to rebuild the landing. Now, again, I recognize that we're talking about land side improvements today, but I just want to bring up a theme of
01:04:50.21	Christian Walsh-Lego	just being careful not to risk losing federal, losing the grant funding that we have for this project and not to risk losing the opportunity and the momentum
01:05:00.05	Christian Walsh-Lego	that's been underway, lest we repeat what happened
01:05:05.16	Christian Walsh-Lego	12 years ago.
01:05:06.49	Christian Walsh-Lego	Thank you very much.
01:05:09.48	Unknown	Linda Fosh followed by Fred Moore.
01:05:17.97	Linda Fosh	I think it's all been said, but I just want to note that in the 40 years that I've lived here, they've seen downtown Sausalito.
01:05:26.34	Linda Fosh	become more and more
01:05:28.84	Linda Fosh	focus on visitors as opposed to residents. And I think that turning Sausalito into more of a walking community
01:05:36.39	Linda Fosh	really helps our town.
01:05:37.96	Linda Fosh	This proposal is not just about reclaiming our public spaces. It's about creating a downtown that works for us. And I encourage you to vote for it and move it along.
01:05:49.46	Unknown	Fred Moore followed by Alice Murrow.
01:05:56.38	Fred Moore	Good evening again. I don't want to repeat what everybody said, but I encourage you to vote yes tonight and allow the Ferry Landing Project to move forward. I think the Traceway Promenade is an integral part of that. I think it will be a great enhancement amenity for the residents to enjoy, like most people have mentioned already. And I've sent you various emails over the last couple of days expressing some other opinions. I hope you had a chance to read those. And I'll just kind of summarize with one of them that after your yes vote tonight, which hopefully occurs and the project going forward, I look forward to seeing all the holiday cards of Saucelito residents enjoying the Waterfront Plaza.
01:06:34.09	Fred Moore	pedestrian promenade with their family and friends while eating ice cream.
01:06:38.41	Fred Moore	Because I'll guarantee you, I'll be down there with my grandson and he'll be on our holiday card. Thank you.
01:06:48.50	Alice Merrill	Hello, everybody.
01:06:50.61	Alice Merrill	I'm Alice Merrill.
01:06:52.38	Alice Merrill	I am all for Tracy Way, staying as it is.
01:06:57.06	Alice Merrill	Um,
01:06:58.93	Alice Merrill	I'm not sure.
01:06:59.64	Alice Merrill	Partly because it's so, you guys are struggling to,
01:07:04.70	Alice Merrill	justify what this is. And in the first place, I thought it was already done. I thought it was a done deal that you had taken Tracy Way away and added.
01:07:15.22	Alice Merrill	it as a promenade and a place for
01:07:18.40	Alice Merrill	people to play their guitars, but if it's not actually the case,
01:07:23.26	Alice Merrill	So now you're asking for
01:07:26.89	Alice Merrill	ways to justify it.
01:07:31.18	Alice Merrill	So, um,
01:07:33.81	Alice Merrill	I know that people think that I don't want anything to change in Zaselito, which is not entirely true. I've seen a great deal of change in my day.
01:07:43.60	Alice Merrill	Um,
01:07:45.40	Alice Merrill	Uh,
01:07:46.43	Alice Merrill	There is a loss of revenue. There was parking for bikes. Where's the bike parking going to go? That's going to go...
01:07:52.27	Alice Merrill	in the lot one where more parking is going to go away.
01:07:56.32	Alice Merrill	Is it possible that that Saucedor Yacht Harbor thing, I've heard...
01:08:00.42	Alice Merrill	Is it eight years that it's good and then it's no longer good? Is that true or is it in perpetuity?
01:08:09.43	Alice Merrill	Um,
01:08:11.26	Alice Merrill	So.
01:08:12.56	Alice Merrill	A.
01:08:13.42	Alice Merrill	We have a beautiful community here.
01:08:16.61	Alice Merrill	People are saying, let's make this a beautiful community.
01:08:19.64	Alice Merrill	It is a beautiful community.
01:08:21.89	Alice Merrill	It's a wonderful place to live. People say it constantly. Aren't we lucky? Isn't it gorgeous here? It's just a wonderful, wonderful place to be a part of. With all the odd birds and all the, you know, the hill people and the waterfront people and the boats and everything about it is really a cool place. It's different than any other community and maybe except maybe Point Re Station.
01:08:46.96	Alice Merrill	In Marin.
01:08:48.31	Alice Merrill	So,
01:08:48.80	Bonnie McGregor	Oh, oh.
01:08:50.96	Unknown	About what people?
01:09:00.14	Babette MacDougall	Thank you.
01:09:01.54	Babette MacDougall	I don't disagree with anything that's been said either for or against. There are two points that I would like to make.
01:09:07.67	Babette MacDougall	First of all, if our July transcripts were capable of being viewed in total,
01:09:13.34	Babette MacDougall	you would know that even on July 15, I asked for an audible message.
01:09:18.08	Babette MacDougall	summary of just exactly you were talking about with regard to Tracy Way, because on the one hand,
01:09:23.95	Babette MacDougall	Early on, there was this expectation set that it was going to come up for a public
01:09:28.22	Babette MacDougall	referendum.
01:09:30.35	Babette MacDougall	And quietly, we're sort of dedacting, adapting something, something with the budget, sort of quietly making a space for just getting on with Tracy Way.
01:09:39.28	Babette MacDougall	Now, I'm not opposed to changes, however,
01:09:42.36	Babette MacDougall	Speaking from the point of view of a historian, someone who really loves supporting the Sauslio Historical Society,
01:09:49.11	Babette MacDougall	The truth of the matter is Jack Tracy's name is relevant to this town.
01:09:54.02	Babette MacDougall	It's the first authoritative tome to actually be written
01:09:58.45	Babette MacDougall	correctly. In other words, it's not a fictional account.
01:10:02.11	Babette MacDougall	So.
01:10:02.87	Babette MacDougall	That matters.
01:10:04.13	Babette MacDougall	The other thing that I would just like to call your attention to is what Wallace Stegner, if any of you enjoy reading about.
01:10:11.22	Babette MacDougall	great authors. Wallace Steiner wrote something about a sense of place.
01:10:16.72	Babette MacDougall	Now,
01:10:18.17	Babette MacDougall	Alice and I did not rehearse this, but I will tell you that it is exactly this unique sense of place that we so far enjoy.
01:10:25.38	Babette MacDougall	and would like to continue to enjoy.
01:10:27.57	Babette MacDougall	And part of that has to do with celebrating our past. We should not be selective that it's okay to make a big stink about one part of town, that that's old town, and then not make another stink about just summarily removing a reference to Jack Tracy and all that Tracy way is meant to represent.
01:10:46.07	Babette MacDougall	So I would suggest that the Sausalito Historical Society be contacted.
01:10:50.32	Babette MacDougall	and that the record of when Tracy Way was, in fact, dedicated in the early 90s be revisited before we completely redesign it out of existence. Thank you.
01:11:03.43	Unknown	uh,
01:11:03.99	Unknown	Sean Devitt?
01:11:08.14	Unknown	Oh, Sharna Brockett. There we go.
01:11:11.41	Unknown	Thank you.
01:11:16.12	Sharna Brockett	So I think this is like the fifth or sixth time that we've all showed up around this. I think it started in December.
01:11:22.97	Sharna Brockett	And here we are. And I'm so excited for this. Um,
01:11:27.40	Sharna Brockett	Thank you so much for sticking with it. And I hope you go forward with adopting the resolution. It's supposed to be a formality, a procedural vote. This has been a really long journey. I was looking through the public comments and the letters and we've had
01:11:42.68	Sharna Brockett	You know, I know it's definitely probably close to 200 comments that have wanted, that have expressed support for this over the last six months. And a lot of people are showing up again today because we're very excited about this. We want this to see, to see this go over the finish line.
01:11:59.07	Sharna Brockett	Um, I just want to say, you know, it's so much easier to tear things down than to build something. And, um,
01:12:05.47	Sharna Brockett	You know, there's so many people committed here, the local professionals group that have just shown up time and time again in support of building this. So let's get this thing done.
01:12:13.82	Sharna Brockett	Um, I'm super excited to enjoy Tracy way. I lived in Europe for a lot of my twenties. That was a while ago, I'll admit, but, um,
01:12:22.74	Sharna Brockett	You know, there's just a lot of beautiful streets that they've closed down that you can walk along. There's cafes, there's just community. And I think
01:12:30.98	Sharna Brockett	These things are important, especially as we've all been reading in the newspaper that people are suffering from loneliness. There's a loneliness epidemic. So let's create
01:12:40.26	Sharna Brockett	A downtown where people can be together, where there's benches and they can
01:12:44.58	Sharna Brockett	come together and enjoy the space. So please get this over the finish line. Thank you so much for your diligence on this over the last six months.
01:12:55.36	Unknown	All right, we have Senator Bushmaker.
01:13:03.65	Sandra Bushmaker	Hi, everybody.
01:13:05.24	Sandra Bushmaker	Um,
01:13:07.60	Sandra Bushmaker	Let me start with saying in 1999, I believe that was the year we dedicated Tracy Way to honor Jack Tracy. Jack Tracy, as many of you know, and some of you don't, wrote moments in time,
01:13:18.80	Sandra Bushmaker	He was the founder and first director of the Historical Society. He was a leading proponent of historic preservation and was responsible for the designation of the original business area as a certified historical district, one of 12 in California.
01:13:34.45	Sandra Bushmaker	Jack attended UCSF.
01:13:36.44	Sandra Bushmaker	He lived in Sausalito for 40 years before his death in 1992. He was named Citizen of the Year in 1977, and was a leader of the restoration of the fountain at Pina del Mar.
01:13:48.47	Sandra Bushmaker	and construction of the gazebo at Dunphy Park. He was a great citizen. Let us not forget Jack Tracy. I saw nowhere in the paperwork.
01:13:57.62	Sandra Bushmaker	Any further
01:13:59.14	Sandra Bushmaker	a tribute to Jack Tracy.
01:14:01.50	Sandra Bushmaker	but rather just an erasure of Tracy Way. And I think we owe it to this citizen
01:14:07.13	Sandra Bushmaker	to honor him.
01:14:08.74	Sandra Bushmaker	in this proposal.
01:14:10.66	Sandra Bushmaker	And I would like to see some sort of tribute to him.
01:14:14.78	Sandra Bushmaker	and remembrance of him as a great citizen of Sausalito. Thank you.
01:14:21.43	Unknown	Okay, Scott Thornburg.
01:14:26.78	Scott Thornburg	Good evening, Council. I hope you all enjoyed your August break. I just wanted to say that it makes me sad that some people can't see the vision of what something could be because they are just, you know, happy with the way things are.
01:14:41.69	Scott Thornburg	And I too think Sausalito is wonderful. And I think it can be better. And I think this would make it better. I would encourage you.
01:14:48.85	Scott Thornburg	not to settle for what's good enough, but to believe in what's possible and move forward with the closure of Tracy Way. I really would encourage you also not to prioritize parking over pedestrians. By moving this forward tonight, we can really turn Tracy Way back over to the community.
01:15:05.72	Scott Thornburg	and create a space that we're all proud of.
01:15:09.62	Scott Thornburg	not just parking spaces.
01:15:11.61	Scott Thornburg	And I also want to acknowledge some of the comments that have been said.
01:15:15.07	Scott Thornburg	While it wasn't necessarily included in the plans, I do think
01:15:18.82	Scott Thornburg	that as part of your council direction tonight, you could
01:15:21.59	Scott Thornburg	encourage that we retain Tracy Way as part of the name for a new promenade. I think that would be really well received by the community. So I would just encourage you to consider that as a part of your plans this evening. Thank you.
01:15:37.18	Scott Thornburg	Doug Hill.
01:15:37.94	Unknown	Thank you.
01:15:44.13	Doug Hill	Hello, council. Thank you for your time. Sausalito has an amazing world-class beauty. It has world-class citizens. It deserves a world-class plaza. If you build it, they will come. Jack Tracy can be memorialized. And I think he would look down upon a thriving plaza with its citizens, recreating, taking their time, and enjoying their beauty. Thank you very much. Please pass the bill.
01:16:09.46	Unknown	We have Daniel Daneloff.
01:16:20.19	Daniel Daneloff	Good evening.
01:16:21.51	Daniel Daneloff	And someone's already suggested it, but it seems to me that Jack Tracy's memory was more than a street, and perhaps the plaza should be named after him. And I think that would solve the issue with the historical society and those people that are against the project. And I totally approve of the project, the Ferry Plaza project. Thank you.
01:16:50.11	Unknown	No further public comments.
01:16:52.31	Mr. McGowan	Okay, we will close public comment. I'm going to bring it back up here for discussion. Maybe just...
01:16:58.92	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
01:16:59.95	Mr. McGowan	I think we should have a motion on the table to approve the resolution that's attached to the staff report. And if there's a second, then we can begin discussion on that.
01:17:09.84	Unknown	One moment, do we have to see the attorney, you have to close the public hearing too?
01:17:14.06	Mr. McGowan	We will close the public hearing, bring it back. Thank you very much, city clerk, for dotting the I's and crossing the T's. Bring it back up to the dais for discussion and action. I'll put a motion on the floor to approve the resolution of the city of Sausalito, approving the public right-of-way vacation of Tracy Way between El Portal and Anchor Street, which is attached to the staff report.
01:17:32.06	Mr. McGowan	That's it.
01:17:32.13	Councilmember Blaustein	I can't.
01:17:32.16	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
01:17:32.25	Councilmember Blaustein	you know,
01:17:32.30	Mr. McGowan	you
01:17:32.84	Mr. McGowan	Okay, motion's made in second and it's on the floor. Is there any?
01:17:35.88	Mr. McGowan	Discussion and please councilmember
01:17:40.28	Mr. McGowan	Boston.
01:17:40.87	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you. I appreciate all of the public comment we received and have received consistently on this topic again and again. And I understand that this is a procedural measure to...
01:17:52.03	Councilmember Blaustein	finalize our
01:17:54.34	Councilmember Blaustein	prior approval of this project. So of course, I'm supportive of that. I also really want to honor the consideration of Jack Tracy. So I would welcome and would be open to an idea or discussions for how we might do that as part of the direction we provide in in approving the resolution. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate, but if it's separate direction, but that that that would be my comment. Obviously, I'm fully supportive of the fairly ending improvements. And I'm really excited to see a plaza in our downtown.
01:18:21.79	Mr. McGowan	Thank you, Councilmember Blastin, Councilmember Hoffman.
01:18:25.98	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you. You know, I'm happy that we're here as well. I disagree that this is a pro forma rubber stamp, especially when we're talking about closing the city street.
01:18:36.20	Councilmember Hoffman	This is another step in the process that we talked about when we approve
01:18:40.96	Councilmember Hoffman	any type of public project.
01:18:42.45	Councilmember Hoffman	Just like we did for all four of the public parks that we did, including MLK, Dumpy, Southview,
01:18:48.37	Councilmember Hoffman	and Robin Sweeney.
01:18:50.40	Councilmember Hoffman	There are edits and additions every step of the way, and this is one of those steps in the way. The other thing that I'm really very, very concerned about is that there we don't have the calculation of how this plan overall affects ordinance 1128 and especially given our current.
01:19:10.24	Councilmember Hoffman	liability issues, our current insurance issues related to lawsuits. I don't think that we should take any action until we have a public discussion about
01:19:18.95	Councilmember Hoffman	of whether or not this plan violates 11-28.
01:19:23.05	Councilmember Hoffman	And I am very concerned that we as a council are
01:19:26.98	Councilmember Hoffman	and as a staff have not made this information public. So I would ask that before we take action in order to safeguard our, ourselves against any type of challenge that we make sure that based on the best practices,
01:19:41.53	Councilmember Hoffman	information that we have.
01:19:43.42	Councilmember Hoffman	publicly and privately that this plan together does not violate
01:19:48.62	Councilmember Hoffman	ordinance 1128. And there's also another aspect that I don't believe this plan has addressed that also is covered by 1128 because I looked at it today.
01:19:59.89	Councilmember Hoffman	is that V&L Mar Park is also covered by 1128. That hasn't been part of any of our discussion today.
01:20:06.55	Councilmember Hoffman	And I'm disappointed that that hasn't been part of our discussion because we've all been working on this.
01:20:11.92	Councilmember Hoffman	for years. And I myself worked on a subgroup
01:20:15.63	Councilmember Hoffman	for at least 18 months on this to bring it to fruition. So section two of 1128 specifically says,
01:20:30.10	Councilmember Hoffman	The city shall retain ownership of Gabrielson Park and being a Del Mar Park. They shall not sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the parks.
01:20:38.31	Councilmember Hoffman	They shall not be changed from their presently existing condition
01:20:42.52	Councilmember Hoffman	and they must
01:20:44.49	Councilmember Hoffman	be maintained in the presently existing condition without voter approval. So
01:20:50.78	Councilmember Hoffman	We have not been provided with the legal analysis on that either. And I think, unfortunately,
01:20:57.13	Councilmember Hoffman	That's something that was missed up until this meeting.
01:21:00.57	Councilmember Hoffman	So I also have to take issue with
01:21:03.86	Councilmember Hoffman	the claims that no one's downtown. I go downtown every Friday night for Jazz by the Bay. And that park is packed. And that park is packed by almost everybody sitting in this room because I'm looking out over the room and I see them down there every Friday night. I also go downtown during the summer from April, you know, to November. Well, let's just call it October.
01:21:27.91	Councilmember Hoffman	through, you know, I can tell you that there are lots and lots of people downtown. So I don't disagree that we need to upgrade that area. I'm fully supportive of that. I voted for the plan.
01:21:39.43	Councilmember Hoffman	last week, but that doesn't prevent me from
01:21:42.44	Councilmember Hoffman	bringing up and addressing issues as I see them
01:21:45.53	Councilmember Hoffman	in my responsibility as a city council member and ensuring that the actions we take
01:21:50.22	Councilmember Hoffman	are
01:21:51.69	Councilmember Hoffman	are legally defensible.
01:21:53.14	Councilmember Hoffman	Um, I do not want to have, uh,
01:21:56.33	Councilmember Hoffman	an unintended consequence with regard to this plan when we can make some minor adjustments now to safeguard us later. And I think that would be imprudent and irresponsible for this council to take that kind of action tonight. What I would suggest is that.
01:22:10.20	Councilmember Hoffman	We direct our staff and our city attorney to prepare a staff report that includes this information on 1128 with an analysis of how we might adjust.
01:22:20.61	Councilmember Hoffman	the current plan if it doesn't comply with 1120 that we adjust the plan and whatever revisions we need to do it and that it come back at our next city council meeting for a closed session for that discussion and that we put it on the agenda
01:22:34.19	Councilmember Hoffman	for the September 17 city council meeting. So I would suggest that that's the prudent and responsible course of action for the city council. Thank you.
01:22:44.50	Mr. McGowan	Any other comments, Bryce Mayer?
01:22:47.10	Karen Hollweg	Sure. Thank you.
01:22:49.09	Karen Hollweg	um
01:22:49.97	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
01:22:50.06	Karen Hollweg	I actually believe that we already approved the closure of Tracy Way as part of our approval of the Ferry Landside Improvement Project in
01:22:58.54	Karen Hollweg	on July 30, 2024.
01:23:01.02	Karen Hollweg	No one has asked us to reconsider that decision.
01:23:04.64	Karen Hollweg	At that time, we asked staff to return to us with the required materials to consider
01:23:09.36	Karen Hollweg	vacating Tracy way between El Portal and anchor street,
01:23:13.23	Karen Hollweg	the action needed to carry out the previously approved
01:23:16.52	Karen Hollweg	Ferry Landside Improvement Project.
01:23:19.22	Karen Hollweg	In advance of this meeting, I too was worried about the implications of ordinance 1128 on the proposed vacation of Tracy way. I asked I did the research and then asked the questions this evening to make it clear that ordinance 1128 was adopted in December 1997 at that time.
01:23:41.34	Karen Hollweg	Tracy Way was not a part of Lot 1.
01:23:45.34	Karen Hollweg	It is questionable to me today, looking at ordinance 15.20.010, which defines our municipal parking lots, whether Tracy Way is even a part of parking lot one today. In any event, it certainly was not part of lot one at the time that ordinance 1128 was adopted. And 1128 specifically applies to
01:24:12.49	Karen Hollweg	according to Section 1, municipal parking lots 1, 2, 3, and 4.
01:24:18.43	Karen Hollweg	And that's the extent.
01:24:21.33	Karen Hollweg	Yes, it does address Viña del Mar, but this very landside improvement plan does not affect Viña del Mar Park. And so I think the whole 1128 challenge is a red herring.
01:24:35.09	Karen Hollweg	and something that does not merit further research or discussion.
01:24:43.49	Karen Hollweg	And so I'm prepared to
01:24:47.37	Karen Hollweg	Um,
01:24:49.24	Karen Hollweg	adopt this resolution endorsing the action taken by the planning commission. I like council member Blaustein would like to
01:24:57.48	Karen Hollweg	In addition to adopting this resolution to give direction to staff to undertake
01:25:02.07	Karen Hollweg	whatever process is necessary to rename
01:25:04.48	Karen Hollweg	Tracy way.
01:25:05.66	Karen Hollweg	to Tracy Way Promenade or Tracy Way
01:25:08.53	Karen Hollweg	plaza, whichever may be appropriate. Thank you.
01:25:11.98	Mr. McGowan	Thank you, Vice Mayor. So I agree with that direction about preserving the name Tracy, the Jack Tracy way, Jack Tracy pedestrian promenade, Jack Tracy promenade, I hope we'll do that.
01:25:24.94	Mr. McGowan	And so thank you. I'd like to call the question.
01:25:26.62	Councilmember Hoffman	I have a follow-up question first before you call the question.
01:25:29.39	Councilmember Hoffman	and this is to...
01:25:30.62	Councilmember Hoffman	Vice Mayor Cox. Are you rendering a legal opinion tonight that
01:25:34.74	Councilmember Hoffman	This plan does not violate 1128 because that seems to be what you
01:25:38.76	Councilmember Hoffman	are saying, but that information has not been made public.
01:25:41.86	Karen Hollweg	I am not rendering a legal opinion. I happen to be a lawyer well qualified to issue a legal opinion. But I'm speaking tonight as a council member who undertook her due diligence.
01:25:54.25	Karen Hollweg	which happens to be backstopped, that I am a municipal lawyer well familiar with these types of issues, to satisfy myself that we are not violating Ordinance 1128 so that I could vote in favor of this action that we're taking this evening.
01:26:07.31	Councilmember Hoffman	May I respond to that, Mayor? I, too, am an attorney. I'm not a municipal law attorney, but I certainly understand creating legal issues
01:26:14.14	Councilmember Hoffman	that may lead to litigation at a time where we're losing our insurance coverage because of the high
01:26:19.34	Councilmember Hoffman	litigation costs that we have.
01:26:21.21	Councilmember Hoffman	I also understand that there's some information that has not been made public that is
01:26:25.87	Councilmember Hoffman	not consistent with the conversation up here this evening.
01:26:28.67	Councilmember Hoffman	And I,
01:26:30.17	Councilmember Hoffman	do not agree that we should proceed down this path until that information is made public.
01:26:35.86	Mr. McGowan	Thank you for your comments. So I will call the question. All in favor of the motion on the table, say aye.
01:26:42.51	Councilmember Blaustein	Bye.
01:26:43.51	Mr. McGowan	Those opposed? No. Motion carries three to one. Thank you very much. We will now move on to the first business item of the evening. That's item five a, adopt a resolution approving an encroachment agreement for the location of 19, a 19 seat parklet and new signage, balcony walls, lights, and awnings that were projected to the public right away. An authorization to serve
01:27:06.61	Mr. McGowan	Alcoholic beverages in the public right of way, 18, 13, 15, and 17 Bridgeway. Let's give everyone a moment. In fact, let's just take a, yes, let's take a five-minute bio break. We will reassemble at 8.30. But please.
01:27:16.66	Kevin McGowan	be aware.
01:27:25.68	Mr. McGowan	Now we get to hear you. I'm sorry again about the other night where we made you stay. Oh. All the way to the end.
01:27:29.08	Neil Toft	Oh.
01:27:30.48	Mr. McGowan	No problem.
01:27:31.48	Mr. McGowan	But welcome back. If you'd kindly...
01:27:33.56	Mr. McGowan	begin this item item 5a adopt a resolution approving an encouragement agreement for the location of a 19 seat parklet signage balcony wall lights awnings projecting the right-of-way and authorization to serve alcoholic beverages in the public right-of-way at 13 15 17 bridgeway
01:27:49.76	Mr. McGowan	Please go right ahead.
01:27:50.99	Neil Toft	Okay, good evening, Mayor Sobieski, members of City Council. I'm Neil Toft, a principal planner here with Community Development and Economic Development Department.
01:28:02.70	Neil Toft	And this past July, the Planning Commission
01:28:05.96	Neil Toft	approved and amended design review permit
01:28:08.84	Neil Toft	to a project approved last year
01:28:11.41	Neil Toft	to allow a new second story edition
01:28:13.97	Neil Toft	and exterior modifications to the restaurant, commonly known as fish and chips. The project included, amongst other permits, a use permit allowing expansion of the restaurant use to provide food and beverage service on the new second level.
01:28:31.39	Neil Toft	As now revised, the project would primarily lower the existing
01:28:35.91	Neil Toft	first floor level to the
01:28:38.09	Neil Toft	sidewalk.
01:28:39.10	Neil Toft	Um,
01:28:40.16	Neil Toft	and this is how it's proposed on this,
01:28:42.69	Neil Toft	plan and in doing so,
01:28:45.02	Neil Toft	This revised project would eliminate the need for an entry landing.
01:28:49.21	Neil Toft	including a wheelchair ramp,
01:28:51.47	Neil Toft	and seating and steps originally approved to be
01:28:54.83	Neil Toft	located on the sidewalk in front of the building facade.
01:28:58.79	Neil Toft	This will allow more room for pedestrian passage.
01:29:01.95	Neil Toft	and the retention of the street lamp and street trees
01:29:05.14	Neil Toft	along the sidewalk and relocation
01:29:08.21	Neil Toft	replacement of the street lamp actually proved me
01:29:10.96	Neil Toft	Quite.
01:29:11.84	Neil Toft	complicated after that approval.
01:29:15.19	Neil Toft	the youths would continue to utilize the three tables and six chairs
01:29:21.15	Neil Toft	for sidewalk dining along the front of the building as approved in 2006.
01:29:26.52	Neil Toft	The project does not significantly modify the approved floor layout.
01:29:31.19	Neil Toft	where the interior seating
01:29:33.25	Neil Toft	The revised project does include some additional minor modifications to the exterior facade.
01:29:39.17	Neil Toft	And you can put up the approved plans that are proposed.
01:29:44.35	Neil Toft	uh,
01:29:45.45	Neil Toft	including tramps and windows above the doors and fixed wooden shutters above the second floor.
01:29:51.63	Neil Toft	No changes were proposed relative to the exterior finishes, colors, or lighting.
01:29:56.93	Neil Toft	And the resulting project now includes an encroachment agreement request for a new
01:30:02.11	Neil Toft	19-seat parklet.
01:30:04.30	Neil Toft	New signage.
01:30:05.62	Neil Toft	the balcony and wall lights and awnings that would project into the public right of way.
01:30:11.39	Neil Toft	Now, in terms of the background, as we outlined in the staff report, this project has had an expansive
01:30:18.00	Neil Toft	um,
01:30:18.74	Neil Toft	the basically the project to expand and refresh this site.
01:30:22.74	Neil Toft	has gone through an extensive review process going back to 2017.
01:30:27.82	Neil Toft	and many hearings before the planning commission since that time.
01:30:32.19	Neil Toft	And I'm not going to walk you through the whole background, but
01:30:35.48	Neil Toft	It is worth noting that the most recent iteration of the plan that was
01:30:39.74	Neil Toft	reviewed last year,
01:30:41.56	Neil Toft	actually composed of two different
01:30:45.27	Neil Toft	somewhat challenging issues trying to address how to get the
01:30:49.24	Neil Toft	and
01:30:50.52	Neil Toft	access to the first level, which is 18 inches above the sidewalk.
01:30:55.16	Neil Toft	And the applicant had proposed
01:30:57.39	Neil Toft	initially to put a platform
01:30:59.77	Neil Toft	on the sidewalk that would contain a ramp
01:31:03.58	Neil Toft	outdoor seating and stairway access.
01:31:06.89	Neil Toft	to the front and in place of having
01:31:09.02	Neil Toft	A parklet would actually
01:31:10.99	Neil Toft	move the sidewalk around the platforms.
01:31:15.98	Neil Toft	They also did provide the option of putting in a parklet.
01:31:20.26	Neil Toft	But that also included
01:31:22.67	Neil Toft	a small ramp and front entry landing in the sidewalk. So you had a limited
01:31:27.97	Neil Toft	sidewalk between the parklet and the
01:31:31.48	Neil Toft	entry ramp.
01:31:32.91	Neil Toft	And I do have those plans available if you'd like to view them.
01:31:37.15	Neil Toft	But I'm trying to be careful not to confuse issues too much here.
01:31:41.67	Neil Toft	So the plan that you're looking at, which was
01:31:45.04	Neil Toft	proved.
01:31:47.20	Neil Toft	was ultimately approved on a
01:31:50.34	Neil Toft	five zero vote.
01:31:52.50	Neil Toft	two options that were looked at.
01:31:55.14	Neil Toft	were very challenging. The commission was very split on which options. They both had pros and cons. And in fact, they voted in favor of the parklet option on a three to two vote.
01:32:08.72	Neil Toft	But now with this design, bringing the
01:32:11.67	Neil Toft	main level down to the sidewalk.
01:32:14.17	Neil Toft	The Commission did approve this design.
01:32:16.80	Neil Toft	unanimously.
01:32:18.96	Neil Toft	So the matter before the city council at this time is approval.
01:32:22.54	Neil Toft	of an encroachment agreement for the parklet
01:32:25.46	Neil Toft	the facade projections into the right of way,
01:32:28.72	Neil Toft	This is per Sausalito Municipal Code 10.56030C.
01:32:34.42	Neil Toft	and approval of the service of alcohol beverages in the right of way.
01:32:38.25	Neil Toft	including the park light and the sidewalk.
01:32:40.56	Neil Toft	tables, and this is per Section C.
01:32:43.80	Neil Toft	10.44220C5.
01:32:48.71	Neil Toft	Now, as discussed in the staff report, we find
01:32:52.19	Neil Toft	Staff finds a revised project
01:32:54.65	Neil Toft	by lowering this first floor level resolves many of the problems that were proposed or
01:33:00.15	Neil Toft	presented by the two options and
01:33:03.01	Neil Toft	it really presents a superior solution to that design.
01:33:06.89	Neil Toft	In regard to the service of alcohol,
01:33:09.27	Neil Toft	And right away, we note that the use currently has a permit for sidewalk dining
01:33:13.59	Neil Toft	and a permit for service of alcohol drinks.
01:33:16.46	Neil Toft	the Planning Commission's approval of the CUP
01:33:19.49	Neil Toft	To expand the use was inclusive of the outside dining and the parklet.
01:33:24.69	Neil Toft	So included the tables and chairs and the parklet.
01:33:28.69	Neil Toft	So staff has
01:33:29.97	Neil Toft	Thank you.
01:33:30.21	Neil Toft	provided a draft encroachment agreement
01:33:32.56	Neil Toft	requiring that the sales of alcohol
01:33:34.97	Neil Toft	for outdoor consumption and at 10 o'clock
01:33:37.58	Neil Toft	That's consistent with the current approved permit for alcohol service.
01:33:41.99	Neil Toft	And as such, all required eating and drinking activities outdoors
01:33:46.56	Neil Toft	can cease by 1030 as required.
01:33:49.21	Neil Toft	under the approved conditional use permit.
01:33:52.59	Neil Toft	The draft encroachment also includes operational standards
01:33:56.31	Neil Toft	for sidewalk dining and encroachment
01:33:58.83	Neil Toft	Excuse me, sidewalk dining and to ensure clean and orderly condition and safe passage of the public. And those are standard that go with standard conditions that go with encroachment agreements.
01:34:11.40	Neil Toft	In the previous council meeting, there was some concern raised that
01:34:16.21	Neil Toft	The plan includes the tables on the sidewalk along with the parklet.
01:34:20.60	Neil Toft	and that the service of alcohol would potentially increase crowds and queuing in the area.
01:34:26.37	Neil Toft	And as sidewalk dining and sidewalks can't be very crowded,
01:34:31.03	Neil Toft	In that area, it was suggested that the tables and chairs be removed.
01:34:35.09	Neil Toft	from the sidewalk as the parklet can provide for outdoor dining.
01:34:39.70	Neil Toft	Now staff, we recognize that
01:34:42.50	Neil Toft	sidewalks around the downtown can become very
01:34:45.73	Neil Toft	routed, particularly due to the combination of tourism and good weather.
01:34:50.85	Neil Toft	We did review the project relative to the draft
01:34:54.04	Neil Toft	Parkland and outdoor dining.
01:34:55.88	Neil Toft	program.
01:34:57.30	Neil Toft	which simply states alcohol services allowable with an ABC permit and with city council approval. This is in line with our municipal code.
01:35:07.14	Neil Toft	um
01:35:07.90	Neil Toft	Thank you.
01:35:08.32	Neil Toft	As we've noted in the staff report, the use as enjoyed service of alcohol consumption
01:35:13.13	Neil Toft	at the tables and chairs for several years now.
01:35:16.40	Neil Toft	The applicants are not proposing any change to the number of tables and chairs currently provided on the sidewalk.
01:35:22.97	Neil Toft	Further, the draft program allows sidewalk seating in concert with parklets
01:35:28.30	Neil Toft	As long as the tables and chairs have at least
01:35:30.73	Neil Toft	five feet of clearance.
01:35:32.91	Neil Toft	to the curb.
01:35:34.36	Neil Toft	and at least a four feet of path, four feet clear path of travel. So that's path of travel to get around any obstacles like tree and light poles. So my brief survey,
01:35:45.98	Neil Toft	And the project certainly provides that and well more than five feet of clearance to the curb.
01:35:52.47	Neil Toft	My brief survey indicates many of the existing parklets,
01:35:56.38	Neil Toft	along Caledonian Street and in the downtown also are complemented with tables and chairs.
01:36:02.27	Neil Toft	And I do have some photos of those sites. You're probably very familiar.
01:36:06.49	Neil Toft	with them.
01:36:07.72	Neil Toft	So while these tables and chairs might constrict the flow a bit more than if they were not present,
01:36:13.83	Neil Toft	The applicants have been very insistent with staff
01:36:16.93	Neil Toft	that both the retention of the sidewalk dining and the allowance of
01:36:20.38	Neil Toft	consumption of alcohol service for the outdoors
01:36:24.26	Neil Toft	is critical to the financial viability
01:36:27.89	Neil Toft	of this project and the proposed use.
01:36:31.02	Neil Toft	And I certainly can't.
01:36:33.02	Neil Toft	speak to their financial pro forma, but I would say
01:36:36.73	Neil Toft	I would,
01:36:37.13	Neil Toft	venture to
01:36:38.57	Neil Toft	to gas that
01:36:39.85	Neil Toft	By lowering this floor, that part of the project,
01:36:43.16	Neil Toft	redoing the foundation, loading the floor is certainly going to be a sizable expenditure for this project. And it does result in a much better presentation.
01:36:55.31	Neil Toft	to the street and the sidewalk.
01:36:57.59	Neil Toft	So,
01:36:58.28	Neil Toft	Conclusion, we recommend the council adopt the resolution
01:37:01.94	Neil Toft	that we've drafted approving the encroachment agreement for the new parklet.
01:37:06.19	Neil Toft	and related improvements.
01:37:07.93	Neil Toft	within the public right-of-way abutting 813 through 817 bridgeway
01:37:12.30	Neil Toft	including permission for sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption,
01:37:16.30	Neil Toft	and the public right of way.
01:37:18.63	Neil Toft	And with that, do you have any questions?
01:37:20.69	Neil Toft	So.
01:37:21.13	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
01:37:21.19	Mr. McGowan	Questions, please.
01:37:23.49	Mr. McGowan	my spare you want to start nope i guess i just have a question uh if you if we have uh
01:37:30.10	Mr. McGowan	that issue at the table and chairs on the sidewalk.
01:37:32.65	Mr. McGowan	it's a conditional use permit, right? So we can only, if in some future date, if there's some big issue with congestion or jam or whatnot, there's an ability to modify that, I presume.
01:37:43.59	Neil Toft	Yes, that's correct.
01:37:45.01	Neil Toft	There's both a conditional use permit and it is the encroachment agreement as well. So you have
01:37:50.47	Neil Toft	sort of double jeopardy of control over that those issues. Thank you. That was my only question.
01:37:55.01	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
01:37:57.64	Mr. McGowan	If there are no other questions, we can go to public comment.
01:38:00.56	Mr. McGowan	I will comment, please, Mr. C. Oh, sorry. I'm very sorry, Councilmember Hoffman. I missed your hand. All right.
01:38:05.59	Councilmember Hoffman	No, thank you.
01:38:05.63	Mr. McGowan	No, thank you.
01:38:06.77	Councilmember Hoffman	I'm just trying to find in the presentation a schematic of where
01:38:13.76	Councilmember Hoffman	how the tables against the building where they're going to because I'm looking at this schematic there's three big windows with doors all across the front I just don't I just don't see a schematic where it shows where the windows are and where the tables are do I
01:38:26.48	Neil Toft	I think the best one is a ground floor diagram.
01:38:27.65	Councilmember Hoffman	Sure.
01:38:31.85	Neil Toft	Can you tell me what slide is? And I'm hoping to get it up. I'm getting a nod from Maria over there.
01:38:32.22	Councilmember Hoffman	Can you tell me what size?
01:38:43.10	Unknown	I'll stop any more.
01:38:43.97	Unknown	Thank you.
01:38:49.92	Neil Toft	Oh, it's a big file, by the way.
01:38:52.81	Hank Baker	Is it that?
01:38:54.63	Neil Toft	It is.
01:38:55.44	Hank Baker	Okay.
01:39:00.47	Neil Toft	It is a bit unwieldy.
01:39:02.87	Neil Toft	I've tried to compress it.
01:39:04.67	Jeffrey Chase	Yeah, I know it's hard.
01:39:07.25	Neil Toft	them.
01:39:08.65	Councilmember Hoffman	Please don't show the tape.
01:39:09.90	Karen Hollweg	Well, I do think there's an excerpt in the staff report itself
01:39:19.91	Neil Toft	But essentially.
01:39:21.01	Councilmember Hoffman	Oh, wait, hold on. I think I found it.
01:39:23.56	Neil Toft	Yeah, so if you go down to...
01:39:25.19	Councilmember Hoffman	I got it. No, I got it. It's ground floor plan and it's slide six on the presentation that we have attached to our, so.
01:39:35.32	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay, I think that's clear, I think. Okay, thank you. Unless somebody else has got a better story.
01:39:39.23	Unknown	Okay, thank you.
01:39:40.85	Neil Toft	I think you've passed it, but it's on there.
01:39:44.56	Neil Toft	And they fit between the
01:39:48.72	Neil Toft	There's three.
01:39:49.96	Neil Toft	Thank you.
01:39:50.62	Neil Toft	There's three doors and they fit between three of the doors and ones at the end, at the north end.
01:40:00.31	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, that's what I'm looking at. OK, thank you. For anybody watching, it's slide six of the presentation.
01:40:09.81	Mr. McGowan	There were no other questions.
01:40:12.83	Mr. McGowan	If there are no other questions, then let's take public comment on this item. Mr. City Clerk.
01:40:19.41	Unknown	So we have Babette McDougall.
01:40:28.35	Babette MacDougall	Good evening and thank you.
01:40:29.82	Babette MacDougall	I just wanted to say that I appreciate all the diligent efforts that have gone into refining this particular venture, but I would still like to encourage you to move forward with it.
01:40:40.44	Babette MacDougall	This is one of our
01:40:41.62	Babette MacDougall	most popular spots along Bridgeway for locals and visitors alike. What's not to love about this? Thank you.
01:40:50.24	Mr. McGowan	No further public comment. I think Ms. Merrill wants to comment.
01:41:02.09	Alice Merrill	I just have a little bit of history for you guys.
01:41:05.38	Alice Merrill	That place was built when I was a teenager.
01:41:09.95	Alice Merrill	And we did not have any garbage cans in Sausalito.
01:41:14.32	Alice Merrill	And suddenly we had a takeout restaurant and there was garbage everywhere.
01:41:19.70	Alice Merrill	And Sausalito put up garbage cans.
01:41:22.71	Alice Merrill	I remember that.
01:41:28.36	Unknown	All right, no further public comment.
01:41:30.76	Mr. McGowan	Okay, well, nothing online. Then we will close public comment and any discussion here on the desk. Vice Mayor?
01:41:38.00	Karen Hollweg	As reflected in the staff report, I did ask to pull this item.
01:41:43.62	Karen Hollweg	and i have spoken with mr lapper thank you for being here uh and apologized i did not realize it would not be heard uh in july when it was pulled but our meeting ran late and so we ended up moving it to today and i apologize for that delay my concern was primarily you know i was involved is as a planning commissioner in initially drafting our parklet ordinance, which had this constraint that if a business has a parklet,
01:42:14.40	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
01:42:14.60	Karen Hollweg	outdoor dining next to the building would not be allowed. And I forgot until I saw it in the staff report that
01:42:22.50	Karen Hollweg	the provision unless it was shown that the five-foot clearance can be maintained at all times.
01:42:29.30	Karen Hollweg	I also had met with architect Michael Rex a couple of years ago with a prior plan
01:42:36.13	Karen Hollweg	and was not clear on the revisions that had been made between that prior plan and the current plan. And so with the current plan,
01:42:45.16	Karen Hollweg	With the work done by Mr. Toft and Mr. Toft, thank you so much for your...
01:42:50.97	Karen Hollweg	really thorough staff report and analysis of the issues of concern. I am prepared to move that we adopt a resolution of the Sausalito City Council approving an encroachment agreement.
01:43:05.34	Karen Hollweg	for the location of 19-seat parklet and new signage, balcony, wall lights, and awnings that would project into the public right-of-way and authorization to serve alcoholic beverages in the public right-of-way at 813-815-817 Bridgeway, Fish and Chips.
01:43:24.02	Councilmember Hoffman	Second.
01:43:24.34	Mr. McGowan	Okay. The motion's made and seconded. Is there any discussion?
01:43:28.44	Mr. McGowan	We'll call the question all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed motion carries unanimously 40 zero.
01:43:31.19	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:43:31.21	Karen Hollweg	Bye.
01:43:35.36	Mr. McGowan	Congratulations, Mr. Lappert.
01:43:36.88	Karen Hollweg	And thank you, Mr. Lappert, for everything you do for our town.
01:43:40.97	Mr. McGowan	Now we'll move on to Adam, here to serve.
01:43:43.53	Karen Hollweg	Serve.
01:43:43.97	Councilmember Blaustein	Ma'am.
01:43:44.44	Mr. McGowan	Item 5B, adopt a public official reimbursement policy required by California Code 53232.2.
01:43:52.93	Mr. McGowan	Mr. City Manager, are you giving this? The city attorney will introduce this item and speak to it, and then we'll answer questions. So, Acting City Attorney Todd.
01:44:00.93	Todd Leachlin	Thank you, Mayor and Council. The item before you
01:44:04.35	Todd Leachlin	is the adoption of
01:44:07.02	Todd Leachlin	a reimbursement policy. This is required by state law, AB1234.
01:44:12.39	Todd Leachlin	that enacted government code section 53232.2.
01:44:18.33	Todd Leachlin	And it requires the city to formally adopt a policy stating what expenses are allowed as necessary
01:44:24.54	Todd Leachlin	And that's in quotes.
01:44:26.26	Todd Leachlin	in performing
01:44:27.62	Todd Leachlin	their official duties.
01:44:28.98	Todd Leachlin	and to set standard amounts for those expenses.
01:44:32.10	Todd Leachlin	You have some proposed amendments before you.
01:44:36.03	Todd Leachlin	And
01:44:37.23	Todd Leachlin	With that, I leave it to you to discuss those amendments.
01:44:42.14	Mr. McGowan	Okay, questions, Councilmember Advice, Mayor Cox.
01:44:45.01	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
01:44:46.96	Karen Hollweg	Section 11 of the proposed ordinance says that use of public resources or falsifying expense reports in violation of this property, of this policy, may result in any or all of the following. Is that language from some template, or is that language drafted by BBK? Because I would prefer to start that provision with the words falsifying expense reports. So can you shed light on that provision?
01:45:17.86	Todd Leachlin	David Daley' I don't know the answer to your question and I don't see a problem with starting a sentence there. Are you talking about just switching the order?
01:45:23.55	Karen Hollweg	No, I'm talking about removing the words use of public resources because...
01:45:27.95	Todd Leachlin	No, I don't think you can do that.
01:45:27.99	Karen Hollweg	No, I don't think
01:45:30.59	Karen Hollweg	Yeah, I agree. So in other words, if someone submits a travel voucher for an expense they believe is covered, and it turns out not to be, we're going to assess civil penalties of $1,000 per day and three times the value of the resource used. I think that's the problem.
01:45:47.60	Todd Leachlin	No, that's not what that would necessarily lead to.
01:45:49.25	Karen Hollweg	necessary.
01:45:51.71	Karen Hollweg	Excuse me?
01:45:52.66	Mr. McGowan	Can you just speak up a little bit? We're having a little bit of trouble hearing you
01:45:57.23	Todd Leachlin	That's not necessarily the result in that scenario.
01:46:03.74	Karen Hollweg	That's how I read the provision. That's my concern about the way that that's drafted. So where did that language come from?
01:46:10.07	Todd Leachlin	Thank you.
01:46:10.87	Karen Hollweg	Okay, I'm not familiar with that being a part of the FPPC and so
01:46:16.40	Karen Hollweg	Or or.
01:46:22.75	Karen Hollweg	uh,
01:46:24.15	Karen Hollweg	Government Code Section 53232.2. So I would just like to, again, I would like to,
01:46:31.47	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
01:46:31.54	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
01:46:31.96	Karen Hollweg	reserve this type of
01:46:36.26	Karen Hollweg	remedy for someone who falsifies expense reports. I don't think...
01:46:41.90	Karen Hollweg	you know
01:46:42.81	Karen Hollweg	prosecution,
01:46:45.81	Karen Hollweg	civil penalties of $1,000 per day are
01:46:50.02	Karen Hollweg	appropriate if someone makes a mistake in submitting
01:46:54.51	Karen Hollweg	a request for reimbursement.
01:46:57.78	Todd Leachlin	It sounds like the
01:46:58.61	Karen Hollweg	Yes.
01:46:59.67	Todd Leachlin	Concern is not with the conduct, but with the intent.
01:47:04.90	Todd Leachlin	you've mentioned makes a mistake.
01:47:08.21	Karen Hollweg	Right. That's why falsifying expense reports, obviously that entails intent.
01:47:13.10	Todd Leachlin	So do you just need the word intentionally to resolve your concern?
01:47:17.37	Karen Hollweg	Sure.
01:47:22.21	Karen Hollweg	I would say if you add the word intentionally at the beginning, that would resolve my concern. Intentionally using public resources or falsifying, that would absolutely address my concern. Thank you so much.
01:47:22.53	Sandra Bushmaker	I would-
01:47:41.48	Karen Hollweg	That's my initial question. I might have more.
01:47:43.73	Mr. McGowan	Any other questions?
01:47:44.84	Councilmember Blaustein	you
01:47:45.10	Councilmember Blaustein	I had a question on on 3A, where we determine authorized activities. How did we come to decide that Cal cities was the only authorized activity or was the authorized activity?
01:47:58.83	Unknown	Thank you.
01:47:58.88	Unknown	Thank you.
01:47:59.24	Unknown	I can respond to that. I don't believe that's an answer that Todd would be privy to because Sergio worked on that. He introduced it. He created a template for it. He brought it to the city council. City council punted it. They went to the agenda setting committee meeting. And then at that point in time, the recommendation was to have the city attorney work with Councilmember Hoffman to draft language for this particular item. And so Todd was probably not know the answer to that. It would be Sergio that may know the answer to that, or Councilmember Hoffman.
01:48:31.25	Councilmember Blaustein	I just, there are two members of our city council who sit on the board of Cal cities so i'm just want to make sure that we're. You know, being thoughtful about how we're deciding what we participate in or what is or isn't approved. And that the same consideration is given to any sort of professional development organization that we might be members of such as the National League of cities or the Conference of Mayors or others.
01:48:43.69	Unknown	Sure.
01:48:53.19	Unknown	Yes. You know, what the council does on city time and city resources and the interest of furthering city interest, that's part and parcel of what you can determine. The law about how reporting and all these things happen is one thing, but where you go, how often you go, when you go, all those things are council decisions. there's something that you all should determine, not city staff. You want to go to those things are council decisions not they're not there's something that you all should determine not um city staff you want to go to these things you believe they're important to to go that's one thing if other people in the council filled it they're not that important that's another thing we'll take direction from you in however way you want to do this so um i don't have um any real um issues with you know things that are happening in the state that involve our city, League of Cities and Towns, or the Marin County regional bodies or the state bodies, and even the Conference of Mayors. The one question that has come to me is, are people using city funds to travel exorbitantly or into foreign countries? And my answer is no.
01:50:01.72	Unknown	That's not happening. And if it were to happen, it would have to be with city council permission. But some of the little things that involve
01:50:09.72	Unknown	you know can the city council go to this event or that event i would rather be not restrictive i would rather have you go to those events to learn about what is going on in other parts of the world or validate what is going on in your community but again that's a reasonableness question and i think some of these things that are being proposed that the city council does go to or wants to go to. I have not seen an unreasonable request in Sausalito yet. And at the same time, I want to say that the amount of money being spent on travel in this community, I can do an audit for you, but it's probably four or $5,000 a year total.
01:50:47.72	Councilmember Blaustein	But in fact, you did do an audit, right, of all the spending by all the members of the council for just, I think that the public should be aware and should have access to that so that it's clear what city funding is being spent on what.
01:50:58.31	Unknown	Yeah.
01:50:58.50	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
01:50:58.59	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
01:50:59.02	Unknown	for that.
01:50:59.35	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
01:50:59.40	Unknown	uh
01:50:59.73	Councilmember Blaustein	If you could pull that up, because I think you've shared it with some of us. Do you have it?
01:51:02.75	Unknown	Yeah, no, I have an audit that's incomplete. One of the things that I did was I looked at it, and there are some expense categories that are assigned for certain people on the council. For instance, you know, a membership is assigned to an individual. It's not accurate. You know, if you stay in a hotel room, we pay for your registration to a conference, your airfare.
01:51:25.05	Unknown	your meals, that's accurate, but we don't have an accurate audit yet. I'm working on it. I have a draft one, and I'm happy to provide that to you all, and I think you'll be surprised on
01:51:34.55	Unknown	you know, how little bit of money people in Saucyut will spend on
01:51:37.89	Unknown	you know, government training at an elected official level.
01:51:41.63	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, I mean, I think it would be important for everyone to see that. And the reason I bring that up is just because I think that there's a lot of value in organizations like Cal Cities and National League of Cities. And I would welcome a conversation on each item together and have as much transparency as possible. I just didn't understand how we one off decided Cal Cities as the organization without having some sort of comprehensive conversation or opportunity for consideration for other types of conferences, especially for.
01:52:06.41	Councilmember Blaustein	when, for example,
01:52:08.36	Councilmember Blaustein	you know,
01:52:09.29	Councilmember Blaustein	Some of these, some folks attend these conferences every year, others don't, that kind of thing.
01:52:13.88	Unknown	That's why it's in front of you tonight, Councilmember.
01:52:15.97	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay, well, I guess we can discuss what that looks like in terms of how we might consider what an authorized activity is and what it isn't.
01:52:23.99	Councilmember Blaustein	That was some of the things I had.
01:52:24.26	Todd Leachlin	Mayor and Council, if I may, while I was not privy to those conversations between staff and
01:52:30.98	Todd Leachlin	Counsel and Sergio
01:52:32.71	Todd Leachlin	the city attorney, I do work in this space a lot and I've
01:52:38.05	Todd Leachlin	No.
01:52:38.99	Todd Leachlin	I know that often, because the city attorney originated this request or this proposal, we don't start with a long list. We start with kind of...
01:52:50.74	Todd Leachlin	The obvious choice, Cal cities, maybe it's obvious. Most cities want to include that. And so we start with that, with the idea that the city would then make its own policy decisions about
01:53:03.39	Todd Leachlin	how it might want to grow the list. So by no means did we intend to imply that it should start and stop with CalCities only. So I apologize.
01:53:13.20	Todd Leachlin	if we gave that impression. This is a starting point. It's a matter of policy. You can and might want to add to that list. And then, and it doesn't have to be comprehensive. A lot of cities will have an enumerated list and then say,
01:53:27.17	Todd Leachlin	and
01:53:28.01	Todd Leachlin	we will pay or reimburse for
01:53:31.20	Todd Leachlin	other events that are brought to the council and approved by a majority.
01:53:37.09	Todd Leachlin	so that you have that flexibility of going to that
01:53:41.31	Todd Leachlin	organization event that
01:53:43.39	Todd Leachlin	nobody thought of when you were making the list.
01:53:44.55	Councilmember Blaustein	making that list.
01:53:46.04	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
01:53:46.05	Todd Leachlin	Thank you.
01:53:46.07	Councilmember Blaustein	For what it's worth.
01:53:46.14	Todd Leachlin	For what it's worth.
01:53:47.03	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
01:53:47.23	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, that's great. I just think it's important of as much transparency as possible around this, because obviously, if you're traveling, and you're invited, and it's not paid by the city, that's a very different conversation. But if you're spending city dollars, then we should have a discussion together about it. I just, again, was was curious as to how Cal cities was the only organization. So I would welcome some sort of language that would allow for consideration of other professional development organizations of which we have received funding or been a member or otherwise.
01:54:16.12	Mr. McGowan	Okay. During discussion, I think we can absolutely add things. This is the Q&A portion. Are there other questions?
01:54:18.82	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay.
01:54:22.25	Councilmember Blaustein	I'll go ahead.
01:54:22.99	Councilmember Blaustein	No, you go ahead.
01:54:23.97	Karen Hollweg	you first.
01:54:24.46	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
01:54:24.53	Mr. McGowan	Do you have any other questions? I don't want to take the floor. Are you not done? Okay, vice chair.
01:54:28.48	Karen Hollweg	Again, Todd, you did not draft this, but there are two other provisions that I question why they are in here. So one is no reimbursement for city officials will occur for expenses incurred during periods where the city council approves a city budget with a deficit.
01:54:41.98	Karen Hollweg	What is the purpose of that?
01:54:44.86	Karen Hollweg	you know, if we're truly spending
01:54:47.70	Karen Hollweg	you know, $4,000 a year, and it's advancing
01:54:52.07	Karen Hollweg	and enhancing the ability of
01:54:54.67	Karen Hollweg	Council members to perform their duties, particularly new council members who have not served before the Academy for mayors and council members is absolutely invaluable. And so what is why do we have this provision? No reimbursement. If we approve a city budget with a deficit, I mean, we could approve a city budget with $100 deficit, and this would prevent us from encouraging our public officials to.
01:55:22.00	Karen Hollweg	attend
01:55:23.12	Karen Hollweg	uh, training seminars.
01:55:24.32	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:55:24.74	Councilmember Hoffman	So I think I can answer that because I helped. The mayor asked me to work on this. Mayor Sobieski asked me to work on this. So I think the thought was it was to mirror –
01:55:36.06	Councilmember Hoffman	I think the city manager put a moratorium last year or year before last on all city travel because we were in deficit. And so I thought that if that was a policy or if that was a practice for the staff, that that should also be a policy or practice with regard to the city council as well.
01:55:55.31	Councilmember Hoffman	um,
01:55:56.38	Councilmember Hoffman	So we can put modifying language in there, certainly. I agree, actually, with the news council members and mayors training. I think that's, if you're a new council member, that's absolutely essential that you go to that training. And so, I mean, I'm happy to modify that except for blah, blah, blah, or whatever modifying language we want to put in there, but
01:56:16.83	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, when we're in a deficit of the magnitude that we are this year,
01:56:21.15	Councilmember Hoffman	And I'm not saying to apply it this year either because we've already made some commitments to attend
01:56:27.14	Councilmember Hoffman	the Cal cities conference or we can, or we can extend it this year. I don't really care, but, um,
01:56:32.68	Councilmember Hoffman	Anyway, I think some modifying language is fine. This was a starting point to talk about these issues. I think CalCities is in there because that's just the most obvious tight connection between what's going on in order to do that.
01:56:49.55	Councilmember Hoffman	legislatively and informationally
01:56:52.77	Councilmember Hoffman	in our state, right? And we are a city, and Cal Cities is a lobbying group that we actually pay to help us. And so that just made sense to me, and that was already in the draft when I got it. So to me, that seems like
01:57:06.49	Councilmember Hoffman	the focus right now this is the first time we've had an ordinance we've always sort of gone to the calc's conference when we when we can i mean all of us are busy professionals so sometimes we make it sometimes we don't but um i that was just a low-hanging fruit there is a provision in here um you know to uh other i think other travel is authorized by the city council. So to mayor or sorry, council member Blousey's question about why not other, you know, I think that merits a discussion, but the balance is always, you know, we're a small city, we're a small budget. We have to, you know, we have to look at things in that context always. So that, that was the thought process.
01:57:49.81	Karen Hollweg	Thank you. A couple other questions. Both C, both 3C and 4 at the end say that the city, you know, the public officials may use personal funds to pay for expenses that exceed and reimbursable rates and
01:58:05.62	Karen Hollweg	The city will not reimburse public officials for expenses that exceed budget limits for the category of expense.
01:58:11.77	Karen Hollweg	Where are those limits enunciated? Because I'm not seeing what...
01:58:18.90	Councilmember Hoffman	I think those are actually an analysis set when you're looking down under four unauthorized expenses, especially transportation and what you're going to be reimbursed for. So those are...
01:58:36.51	Councilmember Hoffman	You know, you're looking at unauthorized expenses. Clearly, those aren't going to be reimbursed. But like meals per day, for example.
01:58:39.32	Karen Hollweg	But like,
01:58:41.43	Karen Hollweg	example.
01:58:41.90	Karen Hollweg	Yeah.
01:58:42.50	Karen Hollweg	We don't have any limit, but we're saying we won't pay if they exceed the limits. And so...
01:58:48.05	Karen Hollweg	We need to. Where are you looking at what what paragraph. It's at the end of four right above section five. The city will not reimburse public officials for expenses that exceed budget limits for the category of expense and.
01:58:48.17	Councilmember Hoffman	I think we need to.
01:58:51.00	Councilmember Hoffman	It's a reference.
01:59:01.55	Karen Hollweg	3C says public officials may, if they choose, use personal funds to pay for expenses that exceed.
01:59:06.46	Karen Hollweg	reimbursable rates.
01:59:07.98	Karen Hollweg	Most cities have, you know, will pay mileage at this, you know, at the, at the, at the,
01:59:15.59	Karen Hollweg	US approved mileage rate we will pay $10 for breakfast $15 for lunch $20 for dinner most cities adopt a
01:59:26.44	Karen Hollweg	a schedule of limits for reimbursable expenses.
01:59:31.59	Councilmember Hoffman	I think that's under seven, meals and incidental expenses, overnight trips, A, and then it goes into GSA.gov, which I believe gets the per diem rates, which I change annually. And then it goes into the per diem, you know, there's further discussion about the per diem rates and when it's going to be reduced in that section. So that's when you were talking about per diem. I think there's reimbursable, same thing for-
01:59:55.56	Councilmember Hoffman	Reimbursable.
01:59:57.96	Councilmember Hoffman	Gas, I think there's a calculation there, somewhere there was,
02:00:01.99	Councilmember Hoffman	Parking, taxis, shuttles.
02:00:03.55	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:00:04.12	Councilmember Hoffman	Car rental.
02:00:05.54	Councilmember Hoffman	I mean,
02:00:06.13	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:00:06.53	Karen Hollweg	I just think that this is difficult, not user-friendly. I think it would be helpful if we just had a table that
02:00:12.88	Councilmember Hoffman	Oh, that's fine. Yeah. But the table's going to change annually. So that's why there's not a table in there. It's just the website, the GSA website. Because it's always a difference. So I wouldn't.
02:00:13.77	Karen Hollweg	Yeah.
02:00:21.48	Karen Hollweg	So I wouldn't.
02:00:22.36	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:00:22.40	Karen Hollweg	the questions.
02:00:23.14	Councilmember Hoffman	I wouldn't put a table in there because it'd be confusing. It's going to change.
02:00:26.02	Karen Hollweg	and share.
02:00:26.66	Karen Hollweg	And then my last question is concerning 3B.
02:00:29.48	Karen Hollweg	It says expenditures incurred in connection with activities not listed in this policy
02:00:34.19	Karen Hollweg	That's fine, require prior proof. But it also says, and not listed in the approved city budget.
02:00:39.10	Karen Hollweg	And so if the...
02:00:41.21	Karen Hollweg	Finance director makes a mistake and forgets to include in the approved city budget the
02:00:47.07	Karen Hollweg	travel
02:00:48.30	Karen Hollweg	expense for cal cities and for the planning commission academy etc what that what this language means is that we now have to bring this item to city council and and actually
02:00:59.12	Karen Hollweg	It requires prior approval by city council, which how would someone know until they submit an expense and the finance director says, oops, I forgot to include it in the budget.
02:01:07.89	Karen Hollweg	So I am wondering if it would be possible to just remove the words and not listed in the approved city budget.
02:01:14.57	Karen Hollweg	because really this is intended to govern
02:01:17.61	Karen Hollweg	the conduct of public officials
02:01:19.77	Karen Hollweg	not a gotcha
02:01:21.59	Karen Hollweg	if there happens to be a mistake made by city staff.
02:01:24.33	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, I see what you're saying there, but usually our travel, the city council travel is a budget item. And so it's, I think it's in there. I mean, again, love Moses language. I did not, you know, I edited from what we started a few months ago, but I'm,
02:01:37.84	Councilmember Hoffman	The, you know, we almost, we always have budget, our travel budget. And I think city manager don't, it's, is it in there this year? I forgot. I know I asked you this, but now I can't remember it.
02:01:48.83	Unknown	Your travel budget is as it was last year.
02:01:51.51	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, so we're already budgeted, right? That's correct.
02:01:54.18	Unknown	Correct.
02:01:54.38	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:01:54.65	Councilmember Hoffman	you
02:01:54.72	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
02:01:54.75	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah.
02:01:55.02	Councilmember Blaustein	re-budgeted director has can you check on that
02:01:59.14	Councilmember Hoffman	Are you saying that you don't think it's in there? No, I'm trying to- And I just know we were serious to know how much is in there. Yeah, because- It's probably to cover, I would guess, the usual rate for the Cal Cities Conference.
02:02:00.52	Unknown	That's it.
02:02:01.03	Councilmember Blaustein	And I just know we were significant. How much is in there?
02:02:08.74	Mr. McGowan	Just to keep some order, let's have one question at a time. Those are the end of the.
02:02:09.03	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:02:11.39	Karen Hollweg	Those are the end of my questions. Those questions are the reason I pulled this from the consent calendar, because I thought it was important to address those issues. Thank you for clarifying.
02:02:21.99	Mr. McGowan	So Councilmember Blavstein, did you want to ask your clarifying questions?
02:02:25.70	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:02:25.72	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, I just wanted to know what it was in the budget now, just because it also might be helpful to have a set cap to make sure that we don't go over it ever in the event of a deficit to be respectful of our spending. So I'd just like to know so that we're aware of that as well. Not just...
02:02:41.01	Mr. McGowan	Mr. Hess, do you have an answer to that question?
02:02:51.52	Mr. McGowan	Director Hess still.
02:02:51.96	Councilmember Blaustein	I guess while we wait for him, I just want to reiterate that at some point, whether it's on the consent or otherwise, I would like to see a published of the amount reimbursed by the city for spending generally for the council members.
02:02:52.94	Mr. McGowan	THE FAMILY.
02:03:01.49	Mr. McGowan	generally for
02:03:02.49	Councilmember Hoffman	THE FAMILY.
02:03:02.56	Mr. McGowan	with the
02:03:02.64	Councilmember Hoffman	COUNCIL.
02:03:02.84	Mr. McGowan	just let's one one person right at a time let's do discussion for the discussion part this is q a part
02:03:07.99	Councilmember Hoffman	All the stories.
02:03:09.97	Councilmember Hoffman	This is the Q&A part. As well as all of the requests for reimbursement.
02:03:15.67	Mr. McGowan	Yeah, we can provide that. And so are we waiting for Mr. Hess?
02:03:16.87	Councilmember Hoffman	And so are we waiting for Mr. Hess or are we just going to keep moving?
02:03:20.04	Mr. McGowan	I have a question. Can you see if... He's not online. He's not online. Okay, I'm afraid he's not. Can we just see if he can come back? Okay.
02:03:26.62	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:03:26.64	Councilmember Blaustein	OK, well, we can.
02:03:27.40	Mr. McGowan	to answer Councilmember Blasin's question. I had a question, which is if we wanted... Oh, that's true.
02:03:35.35	Mr. McGowan	If we wanted to have something, and it's a question for whoever can answer it, if that's Councilmember Hoffman or
02:03:40.64	Mr. McGowan	Vice mayor or Todd
02:03:43.28	Mr. McGowan	We wanted to have a catch all like he was talking about. Someone mentioned where the city council is able to approve
02:03:51.38	Mr. McGowan	unexpected expense for someone. So three months from now, someone gets invited to do something from the city council and the city council wants to approve the expense. What's the mechanism within this policy to accommodate that?
02:04:05.26	Councilmember Hoffman	I think the city council has the authority to do that, and you would agendize it, and you would consider it.
02:04:10.43	Mr. McGowan	So it would just be an agenda item on the agenda that says, authorize Jill Hoffman to go to the White House to meet the president.
02:04:19.12	Daniel Daneloff	Right.
02:04:20.30	Councilmember Hoffman	Something like that.
02:04:20.35	Mr. McGowan	Something like that. And that would then be able to be done within the policy. Wouldn't require amendments.
02:04:24.18	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, does somebody have that invitation now? Because that sounds cool.
02:04:26.00	Mr. McGowan	Can I change the nail?
02:04:28.21	Councilmember Hoffman	But, um,
02:04:29.07	Mr. McGowan	Yes, no, but that would then be within the policy. It would just be an item on the agenda. You wouldn't have to modify the policy.
02:04:36.40	Councilmember Hoffman	That's a great, okay, you make a great statement. And I think,
02:04:40.08	Councilmember Hoffman	I think yeah I think that you would just agendize it right it would be a future to deny them and you would you would get on the City Council as you would any other item.
02:04:47.87	Councilmember Hoffman	But a lot of times when you have these sorts of
02:04:53.12	Councilmember Hoffman	Bill, you know sorts of things that you put some guardrails on it, in other words, that's show close connection to you know the actual benefit to the city so the benefit of the city has to be articulated the direct benefit to the city and the people of Sausalito has to be directly.
02:05:09.12	Councilmember Hoffman	um,
02:05:10.13	Councilmember Hoffman	Called out in the request that you fill out, but we can we can fix that with the form or some kind of form request right.
02:05:16.38	Councilmember Hoffman	So, you know, you want to go here. What's the direct benefit to the people of Sausalito for this, the city council's, you know, consideration, how much does it cost, all that kind of stuff.
02:05:25.56	Mr. McGowan	My question was a narrow legal ones, not being a lawyer. I'm at a disadvantage made for Todder. It's just the vice mayor brought up a few things in the policy that could be gotchas about whether something was budgeted, for instance, and language that requires it such. I guess I'm just asking if six months into a year, there is some desire to spend some money on a city council member doing something. Does the city council still preserve its supreme authority? Yeah.
02:05:50.28	Mr. McGowan	to authorize that expense.
02:05:52.84	Mr. McGowan	Mayor and Council, if I may.
02:05:52.93	Todd Leachlin	JOHN MUELLER, if I may.
02:05:56.27	Mr. McGowan	I'm sorry.
02:05:58.51	Mr. McGowan	Does it preserve its supreme authority to authorize that expense? Could it be a consent calendar item, for instance, just approving XYZ for council member? Why?
02:06:11.83	Mr. McGowan	I'm Todd.
02:06:12.96	Todd Leachlin	Thank you.
02:06:14.44	Todd Leachlin	Mayor and Council, I thought I heard the city manager starting to answer, so I wanted to wait. I'm happy to answer that question, Mayor. It's a great question.
02:06:23.57	Todd Leachlin	the, um,
02:06:25.04	Todd Leachlin	There's a principle of equal dignities. I assume that you're going to be adopting the policy by resolution.
02:06:30.59	Todd Leachlin	the council could
02:06:32.35	Todd Leachlin	act by resolution to
02:06:34.51	Todd Leachlin	either amend the policy expressly or to approve something as an exception to the policy or in addition to the policy.
02:06:42.30	Todd Leachlin	But it does make for good governance, just to keep every
02:06:46.69	Todd Leachlin	for transparency and frankly for
02:06:49.78	Todd Leachlin	for predictability.
02:06:51.25	Todd Leachlin	to consider adding a line
02:06:54.71	Todd Leachlin	to the policy if it's not already there.
02:06:57.73	Todd Leachlin	that creates the possibility of that catch-all. That just says, in addition to anything else in this policy, the council may.
02:07:06.06	Todd Leachlin	authorize reimbursement
02:07:08.95	Todd Leachlin	for expenses. And if you want to put guardrails, this has been suggested, you could define those guardrails there.
02:07:15.70	Todd Leachlin	But really, it's a matter of
02:07:18.85	Todd Leachlin	The council acting.
02:07:21.00	Todd Leachlin	by the same method in the future to make changes or exceptions.
02:07:26.58	Mr. McGowan	Thank you, sir.
02:07:28.47	Mr. McGowan	Are there other questions before we take public comment?
02:07:30.45	Unknown	Thank you.
02:07:31.09	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:07:31.10	Unknown	Mayor, if I could.
02:07:32.02	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:07:32.03	Unknown	Yes, Mr. City Manager. One last thing. What I'm hearing is this is about the public's confidence in how you spend their tax dollars. And I want to assure the public that there isn't an abuse of tax dollars in terms of travel and reimbursement of that travel. I don't have, I have to get the fine-tuned numbers, but I have the aggregate number of 10,650.
02:07:32.07	Mr. McGowan	as Mr. City Manager.
02:07:53.21	Unknown	$64 and change. What I want to say to you is that's over three years.
02:08:01.06	Unknown	That's over three years. And that doesn't include the vice mayor. The vice mayor has...
02:08:06.00	Unknown	10,000
02:08:08.90	Unknown	654.39 cents.
02:08:12.69	Unknown	And you said it does not include the vice mayor. It does not include the vice mayor. That is the mayor. I don't ever suppose.
02:08:14.07	Karen Hollweg	Don't they're not?
02:08:16.01	Karen Hollweg	I don't know.
02:08:16.97	Karen Hollweg	expenses.
02:08:17.46	Unknown	Yeah.
02:08:17.48	Karen Hollweg	Yeah.
02:08:17.78	Unknown	for.
02:08:17.83	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:08:17.92	Unknown	Yeah, that is the mayor, Councilmember.
02:08:20.47	Unknown	Councilmember Blau and Councilmember Kelman's tally over the last, since 2021,
02:08:27.23	Unknown	So what we're talking about is something that is definitely a part of the public's trust. But in terms of financial impact, I would call $3,000 a year on a $20 million budget, something that the public should know isn't excessive. The council has been very judicious in their travel. There hasn't been trips to far-flung places that the city paid for or the taxpayers have paid for. and I think that needs to be said because I think underlying all of this is the understanding that the public know that they're not the city paid for or the taxpayers have paid for. And I think that needs to be said, because I think underlying all of this is the understanding that the public know that, you know, they're not using city dollars to, you know, do things that aren't in the city's interest. It's not happening.
02:09:03.61	Mr. McGowan	Thank you. Thank you very much, city manager. That can't be emphasized enough. And I appreciate you're going out of your way to highlight that fact. So thank you. Are there any other questions before we take public comment? All right, Mr. City Clerk, please open public comment. Abbot Montego.
02:09:26.73	Babette MacDougall	Thank you for acknowledging me.
02:09:28.71	Babette MacDougall	So regarding this reimbursement policy, there's a couple of things
02:09:33.80	Babette MacDougall	I have to apologize because when I read the current draft, I didn't realize that was a custom-made draft that was supposed to be relevant to our town. I guess I was expecting to see something like what Council Member Kellman brought up.
02:09:47.15	Babette MacDougall	at the end of the last fiscal cycle,
02:09:49.51	Babette MacDougall	that she had hoped would help catapult the current fiscal cycle, which is tie everything back to the strategic plan
02:09:56.97	Babette MacDougall	and those stated goals and objectives that are supposed to be the Council's priorities.
02:10:01.85	Babette MacDougall	So it seems to me that if we're going to customize a policy as we ought to,
02:10:07.93	Babette MacDougall	and we should,
02:10:09.61	Babette MacDougall	It needs to be organically reflective of what the city is all about.
02:10:15.11	Babette MacDougall	And in that way, I think this is how we engender public trust
02:10:19.25	Babette MacDougall	That's how we know that we are.
02:10:21.43	Babette MacDougall	working with equal dignity,
02:10:23.57	Babette MacDougall	And some of these other phrases that I thought were particularly poignant for a policy such as this.
02:10:29.12	Babette MacDougall	the people's perspective seems to be lacking
02:10:32.17	Babette MacDougall	so far.
02:10:33.37	Babette MacDougall	And this is something that I would like to see addressed. And I thought perhaps Kellerman's ideas about making sure it loops back to the strategic plan was one way to engender a sense of confidence that the public's trust is always at heart. Thank you.
02:10:49.94	Unknown	No further public comments.
02:10:51.98	Mr. McGowan	Thank you very much. Any discussion here on the dais as we're bossing?
02:10:57.84	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, thank you. I would really like to see us add some language under item. First of all, I appreciate that we're having this conversation. I really appreciate the city manager's comments. I think transparency around the spending and the reimbursement requests and otherwise are really important. I know all of us sitting on the dais have used our own expenses to travel on behalf of the city, including each of us have been to our sister cities on our own dime, and that should be acknowledged. And I appreciate that we really only engage in using the public funding when it's for pure city business. But to that end, again, just to weigh item 3A around actual and necessary expenses, I would like to see some language that just said incurred while engaging in city business activities. Generally authorized businesses include
02:11:12.51	Unknown	and I know.
02:11:46.68	Councilmember Blaustein	Instead of naming out specific conferences, they could say something like conferences such as Cal Cities or Nash. I just want to leave space to have a conversation from the dais about what does and doesn't engage there. And maybe Council Member Cox as a municipal attorney would have an idea of how we might do that. And I would also be supportive of your considerations around language around the budget. And I also would like to have a discussion about if we want to have a cap generally on travel, I would welcome that as well just to consider our fiscal responsibility, given that we don't know what the budget item is right now. But I would welcome that too. I know other cities do. So, and other cities have no limits. So I don't know what would make us most transparent and make the public most comfortable, but would be open to those ideas.
02:11:57.92	Unknown	doesn't.
02:12:32.36	Mr. McGowan	I, are there other comments? I'm sympathetic to your comments. And I would add, I would like to add what the acting city attorney said, which is a catch all ability for a city council to simply authorize expenses at its discretion so that it is, that's transparent, it's open and it's flexible.
02:12:58.77	Mr. McGowan	So I would turn to him for the specific language, but like that.
02:13:03.00	Councilmember Blaustein	I would also like to ask, too, I don't know if this is in direction for this policy, but that we publish annually the spends of city council members so that it's transparent and everyone is aware of what municipal funding goes directly to this because it is very important. So if we want to publish annually as part of our budget or if we want to just have as part of a transparency conversation, I think that that's something we should be doing as well.
02:13:23.91	Mr. McGowan	Are there other comments?
02:13:25.63	Karen Hollweg	I'll just reiterate the issues that I raised during questioning. So for I would eliminate the words and not listed in the approved city budget from item 3B. I would eliminate 3D.
02:13:43.47	Karen Hollweg	I would include a list of per diem
02:13:55.60	Karen Hollweg	caps that can be updated periodically as
02:13:59.96	Karen Hollweg	necessary rather than simply referring to
02:14:03.13	Karen Hollweg	the
02:14:04.14	Karen Hollweg	GSA website.
02:14:06.37	Karen Hollweg	because...
02:14:07.65	Karen Hollweg	It's not.
02:14:09.09	Karen Hollweg	easily
02:14:10.64	Karen Hollweg	It's not easy to look at this policy and see what you're allowed to spend.
02:14:15.06	Karen Hollweg	And.
02:14:16.90	Karen Hollweg	you know,
02:14:17.88	Karen Hollweg	If you make a mistake, you're subject to civil penalties of $1,000 a day and three times the value of the resources used. And so it's important that you not make a mistake when putting together your expense report. And then I would add the language to Section 11.
02:14:33.60	Karen Hollweg	I would just add the words intentionally using
02:14:38.80	Karen Hollweg	at the beginning of that sentence.
02:14:40.93	Karen Hollweg	to replace the word use at the beginning of that sentence. Those would be my, and I endorse the comments of,
02:14:49.79	Karen Hollweg	Councilmember Blaustein about expanding the
02:14:56.20	Karen Hollweg	Um,
02:14:58.56	Karen Hollweg	list of permissible activities.
02:15:03.20	Karen Hollweg	of authorized activities in Section 3.
02:15:05.97	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:15:06.17	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:15:09.33	Mr. McGowan	So member Hoffman, did you have any comments?
02:15:11.08	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, I would say with regard, so item 3D, that's the deficit acceptance.
02:15:21.65	Councilmember Hoffman	No reimbursements for city officials will occur during periods when we're in deficit.
02:15:29.33	Councilmember Hoffman	Bye.
02:15:30.54	Councilmember Hoffman	Why would you eliminate that?
02:15:32.43	Councilmember Hoffman	You think we should travel a little more deficit?
02:15:34.47	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:15:34.51	Karen Hollweg	or at least consider- I think the city manager can do just what he did two years ago, which is place a moratorium on all travel
02:15:41.43	Karen Hollweg	by city staff or officials as appropriate.
02:15:44.78	Karen Hollweg	rather than
02:15:46.03	Karen Hollweg	Um,
02:15:46.93	Karen Hollweg	having a de facto
02:15:49.20	Karen Hollweg	a portion of a policy
02:15:51.08	Karen Hollweg	again, using the example, if we have a $500 deficit, that means, whoops, no travel for our new council members
02:15:58.74	Karen Hollweg	no participation in the Cal City's new council members and mayor's academy. I just think including the tuition.
02:16:10.60	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:16:11.04	Councilmember Hoffman	What if we added no reimbursance, you know,
02:16:18.50	Councilmember Hoffman	with the approves a city budget with a deficit comma absent city council approval. And that way, because I don't think the city manager could say, well,
02:16:28.32	Councilmember Hoffman	The city council can't travel. We put a moratorium on. We went along with it.
02:16:28.51	Unknown	the city council.
02:16:32.67	Councilmember Hoffman	But I don't think he can direct us not to travel. It's up to the city council.
02:16:37.35	Unknown	I concur, Council Member Hoffman. I got in trouble with my aunt, the mighty mayor, when I said I'm freezing travel for city employees. And she thought I said freezing travel for everybody. And she reminded me that the tail doesn't wag the dog. And I said that was never my intention. I don't restrict the council, but I can restrict city staff. So I would not relish that role of trying to restrict council travel. I think you should police yourselves.
02:16:59.79	Karen Hollweg	I just don't think it's necessary. You know, given our track record,
02:17:04.08	Karen Hollweg	I'm really looking to have this not be, again,
02:17:08.57	Karen Hollweg	If this is in here and somebody doesn't realize that we're in a deficit, we haven't, you know, earlier this year, we didn't know we were in a deficit. So someone submits an expense report and then all of a sudden in July, we're in a deficit for the year.
02:17:22.20	Karen Hollweg	Now that person is again subject to
02:17:24.99	Karen Hollweg	They have now intentionally
02:17:27.38	Karen Hollweg	used public resources in violation of the policy, subjecting them to civil penalties of $1,000 per day and three times the value of the resource used.
02:17:36.06	Councilmember Hoffman	That's not how that would work. It's an intentional...
02:17:39.25	Councilmember Hoffman	violation. If you're authorized to go, you're authorized to go.
02:17:43.15	Councilmember Hoffman	And if we later find out we're in deficit, then we would have to take action as a city council.
02:17:47.62	Councilmember Hoffman	That's why I would say comma absent city council approval. I think that's, I don't think there's anything wrong with acknowledging when we're in a deficit budget. We need to look at that and see how far we're in deficit and then whether or not we want to go forward with our budget that year and authorize unnecessary travel around, you know, because we're trying to.
02:18:06.89	Councilmember Hoffman	we're trying to tighten our belts across the board. You can't just say...
02:18:09.69	Karen Hollweg	And again, you're saying unnecessary travel. I think going to the mayor's and council members academy is absolutely vital.
02:18:16.25	Councilmember Hoffman	you
02:18:16.29	Karen Hollweg	We agree on that.
02:18:17.38	Karen Hollweg	Well, we agree on that, but they're inconsistent. So 3A and 3D are internally inconsistent.
02:18:17.40	Councilmember Hoffman	Well, we agree on that.
02:18:22.97	Councilmember Hoffman	inconsistent. That's not. When you add comma, absent city council approval. And I would say that I agree that if you're new on the council, then yeah, you need to go to that first, the new mayors and council members. It's essential. We'll see how people...
02:18:36.13	Karen Hollweg	but.
02:18:38.51	Karen Hollweg	Vote.
02:18:38.97	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:18:39.25	Karen Hollweg	So what was
02:18:39.66	Councilmember Hoffman	What was the other one? So you had some other change too. Oh, okay. So here's the problem with the,
02:18:44.91	Councilmember Hoffman	With.
02:18:46.14	Councilmember Hoffman	publishing the table of expenses with, it should be just an annual expense chart will be published as an attachment annually. Awesome. Right? Totally agree. So I'll just put that in.
02:18:55.54	Karen Hollweg	Totally.
02:18:59.35	Aaron Mato	So.
02:18:59.79	Mr. McGowan	I think to try to bring this to the closure, since there are a variety of, we're gonna apparently wordsmith it from the dais, which let's do it to get it done.
02:19:07.87	Mr. McGowan	Let's have a motion.
02:19:09.19	Mr. McGowan	for the
02:19:10.56	Councilmember Hoffman	I'll make the motion.
02:19:11.62	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:19:11.79	Mr. McGowan	thing as is.
02:19:13.41	Mr. McGowan	And then.
02:19:14.45	Mr. McGowan	make a like a, you know, right. Exactly. A competing emotion with the additions. And if we have to do a third one and we'll work our way back.
02:19:23.79	Councilmember Blaustein	Council Member Cox, what language would you use to adjust 3A to include a variety of conferences or, you know, do you just add per council approval or?
02:19:36.88	Karen Hollweg	I would add a...
02:19:43.02	Karen Hollweg	At the end of one, I would say, and at such other conferences as may be approved annually by the city council.
02:19:54.75	Councilmember Hoffman	Well, I think, if I could just add, I think that 3B covers that, right? Expenditures incurred in connection with activities or events not listed in this policy.
02:20:04.54	Councilmember Hoffman	And then you wanted to take that and not list it in the city budget.
02:20:08.93	Councilmember Hoffman	Um,
02:20:10.09	Councilmember Hoffman	Expenditures incurred in connection with activities or not listening to this policy require prior approval by the city council. So I think, doesn't that fix it?
02:20:18.46	Councilmember Blaustein	I don't know, because I think it's for consideration of things like the National League of Cities, which is directly in line with the California League of Cities. And if we're trying to assess the value of each directly to residents, it probably deserves the same level of consideration and should be part of 1A.
02:20:33.62	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:20:33.63	Councilmember Hoffman	So you want to add that language
02:20:35.03	Karen Hollweg	in there.
02:20:36.03	Councilmember Blaustein	I want to add the language as suggested by Councilmember Cox.
02:20:38.93	Karen Hollweg	the language is to add at the end of a quote, and at such other conferences slash events as may be approved annually by the city council.
02:20:48.85	Karen Hollweg	Yeah, I agree with that. That's fine.
02:20:51.49	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:20:53.24	Karen Hollweg	Okay.
02:20:53.38	Mr. McGowan	Okay, so we start the march here.
02:20:55.86	Karen Hollweg	There's.
02:20:56.30	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:20:56.33	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:20:56.41	Karen Hollweg	For B, I would remove and not listed in the approved city budget. I would remove those words.
02:20:58.08	Mr. McGowan	And
02:21:02.49	Mr. McGowan	So to put it on the record,
02:21:03.00	Karen Hollweg	on the records.
02:21:04.11	Alice Merrill	See you.
02:21:04.34	Karen Hollweg	you
02:21:04.48	Alice Merrill	Do you?
02:21:05.39	Karen Hollweg	And I would remove these.
02:22:49.10	Daniel Daneloff	I already did it.
02:22:50.52	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:22:50.56	Unknown	it.
02:22:50.71	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:22:50.86	Mr. McGowan	Are we back on? Great.
02:22:55.16	Mr. McGowan	All right. Apologies to everyone for that interruption, but we will pick up where we left off. I believe Council Member Hoffman was about to make a motion.
02:23:05.71	Councilmember Hoffman	I do. And my motion is that I accept the edits from the vice mayor and add to item
02:23:20.75	Councilmember Hoffman	Wait, hold on. 3D, sorry.
02:23:24.16	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, 3D.
02:23:27.40	Councilmember Hoffman	After deficit, absent city council approval. So the sentence would read, no reimbursement for city officials will occur for expenses incurred during periods where the city council approves a city budget with a deficit, absent city council approval. So that's my motion.
02:23:42.75	Mr. McGowan	Okay, second. Motion is made and seconded. Any discussion?
02:23:50.29	Karen Hollweg	I am not sure I enunciated the change to item seven. I am proposing to add item 7H city staff will annually publish an overview list of per diem rates for commonly used reimbursable expense categories.
02:24:09.70	Karen Hollweg	Will you accept that friendly amendment, Councilmember Hoffman?
02:24:14.53	Mr. McGowan	Okay.
02:24:16.72	Mr. McGowan	Okay, well, I think, oh, no, no, no.
02:24:17.16	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:24:17.18	Councilmember Blaustein	No, no, I think it's been called to question.
02:24:19.08	Mr. McGowan	No, we didn't call the question. It was just a motion that's made and seconded.
02:24:21.11	Councilmember Blaustein	We'll make a motion in a second. That's fine.
02:24:22.93	Mr. McGowan	But do we want to...
02:24:24.25	Mr. McGowan	uh,
02:24:25.07	Mr. McGowan	If there are any other additions?
02:24:25.68	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
02:24:25.70	Kevin McGowan	Thank you.
02:24:25.72	Councilmember Blaustein	It's a...
02:24:27.98	Mr. McGowan	I think you wanted to list some particular conferences.
02:24:29.46	Kevin McGowan	some particular conferences..
02:24:31.62	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
02:24:34.15	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah.
02:24:34.61	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay. All right. For item 3A. You can call the question.
02:24:38.42	Councilmember Blaustein	Well, I don't think that's my job, but okay. I'll call the question. What was the end of D?
02:24:42.94	Mr. McGowan	Hang on, there's one clarifying bit of language for the city clerk.
02:24:46.66	Mr. McGowan	Oh, okay. All right. The question's been called. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. Motion carries four zero.
02:24:50.59	Sandra	Bye.
02:24:51.03	Karen Hollweg	Bye.
02:24:55.97	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:24:56.09	Karen Hollweg	Um,
02:24:56.11	Mr. McGowan	Um...
02:24:57.10	Karen Hollweg	And mayor, for the record, I'm going to hand my handwritten annotated notes to the city clerk for his ease of reference. Okay.
02:25:03.67	Mr. McGowan	Okay, excellent.
02:25:05.79	Mr. McGowan	I think that was part of the record. So moving on to item 5C, the introduction and waiver of first reading for Ordinance 052024, 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.
02:25:23.87	Mr. McGowan	Are you taking this, Mr. C?
02:25:25.52	Karen Hollweg	Mayor Mrakas- Mayor may I. Mayor Mrakas- Mayor Mrakas- I.
02:25:28.39	Karen Hollweg	state, I
02:25:30.09	Karen Hollweg	Of course, you know, I'm a public contracting lawyer and I've noticed a couple of
02:25:31.86	Councilmember Hoffman	Yes.
02:25:34.68	Karen Hollweg	Um,
02:25:35.53	Karen Hollweg	recommended provisions in this that I would recommend we change to comport with the public contract code and
02:25:44.84	Karen Hollweg	and
02:25:46.04	Karen Hollweg	provisions in the public contract code previously adopted by the city, so I would like to recommend that we take public comment and then continue this item to our next meeting, so that I may confer with the city attorney who actually drafted this.
02:25:58.76	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:25:58.78	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:25:58.81	Mr. McGowan	There's a proposal for that. Is there any objection to that course of action from my colleagues?
02:26:03.86	Mr. McGowan	All right, there's consensus for that. So we will follow the vice mayor's lead and open this to public comment with the idea that it will be continued to a future meeting in a modified form.
02:26:12.97	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:26:13.11	Mr. McGowan	It's Mr. City Clerk.
02:26:14.29	Unknown	About MacDougall?
02:26:16.03	Unknown	Mrs. McDougal?
02:26:19.27	Mr. McGowan	Okay. She's deferring her public comment. Is there anyone else making public comment, Mr. City Clerk?
02:26:24.57	Unknown	Yeah.
02:26:25.19	Mr. McGowan	No one here in the room, anyone online?
02:26:27.40	Unknown	No, see you then.
02:26:27.43	Mr. McGowan	No, see you then. All right, we'll close public comment, and we will take a move that we defer this to a future agenda item. Is there a second?
02:26:36.50	Karen Hollweg	Well, I move we continue this to our September 17, 2024 meeting. I see.
02:26:41.05	Mr. McGowan	I second that all in favor.
02:26:42.98	Karen Hollweg	Aye.
02:26:43.19	Mr. McGowan	Aye. Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Item is continued to September.
02:26:48.51	Mr. McGowan	uh,
02:26:49.76	Mr. McGowan	So we will now move on to
02:26:53.98	Mr. McGowan	the public comment for items not on the agenda. So are there any comments from the public for items not on the agenda?
02:27:02.11	Unknown	Babette McDougall.
02:27:03.53	Mr. McGowan	It's like Google.
02:27:10.97	Babette MacDougall	Thank you.
02:27:12.78	Babette MacDougall	I would like to generally express some concerns that there is still no viable
02:27:19.53	Babette MacDougall	democratic representation in this council chambers, according to how I and many others also feel. So for example, the month of July, there is no
02:27:31.07	Babette MacDougall	reliable transcript of the two council meetings in the month of July.
02:27:35.47	Babette MacDougall	because the video
02:27:37.57	Babette MacDougall	is damaged.
02:27:39.69	Babette MacDougall	And
02:27:41.08	Babette MacDougall	It's not that it's not a bad thing to have a damaged video, but if we don't have any redundancy built into our system,
02:27:47.81	Babette MacDougall	then we don't have a viable public record
02:27:50.51	Babette MacDougall	And we're already a little too close to the rails, in my judgment. I really liked it for a while when our city attorney was becoming a bit more conservative and mainstream in how he interpreted things.
02:28:01.24	Babette MacDougall	But you know, that sort of lasted a really brief period of time.
02:28:05.50	Babette MacDougall	And I can see that none of you are particularly interested in what I have to say. Everybody's busy reading or doing something other while you're here on official business time. So I just want to close. Why shall I sit here and talk if you're not going to pay attention? That's the whole idea of public input, isn't it? Which is what you seem to be steadfastly against last year. I still have a pending public records request asking for a copy of the very policy that you say you're following
02:28:32.50	Babette MacDougall	by not engaging in an open democratic debate with your own constituents. And I still have not received anything.
02:28:40.09	Babette MacDougall	And I ask about it periodically and I'm just told, oh, we're still working on it, whatever that means, it. I don't know.
02:28:47.61	Babette MacDougall	But I don't know that you want to sit on the side of
02:28:52.78	Babette MacDougall	sitting out democracy in today's world, especially now.
02:28:56.47	Babette MacDougall	I wonder if you're aware that over 70% of the globe is currently under authoritarian rule, and you'd like to see the United States of America follow suit?
02:29:06.73	Babette MacDougall	You would like to live somewhere other than this place, for example?
02:29:12.59	Unknown	Damien.
02:29:22.51	Damien Bergen	Thank you.
02:29:23.49	Damien Bergen	Thank you. Good evening again.
02:29:25.97	Damien Bergen	Thank you.
02:29:26.26	Damien Bergen	before I get into the tax measure from the school district or
02:29:31.07	Damien Bergen	tax proposal or whatever the proper term is terminology.
02:29:35.93	Damien Bergen	We have a new superintendent who's in her second year. No fault of yours, of course. I imagine you reached out over the last year plus.
02:29:46.04	Damien Bergen	But historically, the
02:29:48.60	Damien Bergen	School superintendent has come here
02:29:51.25	Damien Bergen	and has presented to the community for the community to understand where we are
02:29:55.81	Damien Bergen	to ask questions, to be more informed.
02:29:58.37	Damien Bergen	So that hasn't happened, but just as important, there's a tax measure on the ballot and me being
02:30:06.50	Damien Bergen	Born and raised here. I have many friends here in town. This is my town too.
02:30:10.49	Damien Bergen	um
02:30:11.87	Damien Bergen	regardless of where I live. And we talk about education often. Education is a very important
02:30:18.35	Damien Bergen	part of life, obviously. And many people don't know who the new superintendent is.
02:30:24.56	Damien Bergen	let alone they'll know that there's a tax measure on the ballot
02:30:30.91	Damien Bergen	And they're asking me questions and I'm not.
02:30:34.40	Damien Bergen	informed enough to ask these questions. And more so, you know, you're obviously a very talented, I mean that sincerely, a very talented counsel. And you guys ask very good questions to, like, superintendents.
02:30:47.51	Damien Bergen	And
02:30:49.22	Damien Bergen	When they come here, the questions that you ask, people learn from.
02:30:53.35	Damien Bergen	And I think it's very important that the superintendent of our school comes here and presents to you, presents to the community, talk about the tax measure.
02:31:04.05	Damien Bergen	and the implications.
02:31:05.36	Damien Bergen	So,
02:31:06.38	Damien Bergen	I'm hopeful that
02:31:08.17	Damien Bergen	The superintendent will come and present so I can learn more.
02:31:12.33	Damien Bergen	The community.
02:31:13.52	Damien Bergen	We'll learn more about what's on our ballot and who she is.
02:31:18.65	Damien Bergen	I'm assuming...
02:31:19.96	Damien Bergen	You're attempting to, but it's very important. Thank you.
02:31:26.05	Unknown	I know for the public comments.
02:31:28.55	Mr. McGowan	Okay, we'll now go to Councilmember Committee reports.
02:31:31.98	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:31:32.23	Mr. McGowan	I would just say, the Vice Mayor and I are on the Risk Committee, and we meet weekly. And as you saw, there was an item on tonight's agenda that's been pushed to the next one regarding a risk manager. That's part of the process that we are helping shepherd. In addition to that, we've taken a deep dive into the upcoming and exciting and
02:31:53.48	Mr. McGowan	Awesome taste of Sausalito event. But learning from last year, we want to be doubly sure that we anticipate potential liabilities to the city by that.
02:32:05.00	Mr. McGowan	potentially large public event. And I'm pleased to report that we believe the city staff is on the ball and is examining numerous risk production policies and procedures for that upcoming event.
02:32:18.59	Mr. McGowan	Are there other reports? That comes from the hospital.
02:32:22.57	Councilmember Hoffman	Yes.
02:32:27.90	Councilmember Hoffman	The Cal City's executive group went to Sacramento last year, I think. Our North Bay representative started organizing lobby days for us to meet with our elected officials in Sacramento and talk to them directly about issues that we were facing in our particular town. So it's a
02:32:51.66	Councilmember Hoffman	an effort and an ability for us to meet them and their staffs in their offices and talk to them about
02:32:57.18	Councilmember Hoffman	highest priorities for our town and our region. So it was a very effective day. I think we met with
02:33:02.88	Councilmember Hoffman	Assemblymember Connelly and we met with
02:33:07.93	Councilmember Hoffman	uh our president pro tem who's also our state senator um mike mcguire and so it was a really great day we talked about legislation they were in the middle of a legislative um session and so we were able to talk about what bills were coming up what the hot issues were um and then give feedback on the highest priorities and challenges that we were facing in our cities, which is what Cal cities is there for. So it was a, I thought it was a very effective day, both myself and, um, council member Kuhlman were able to go. Sometimes we're not both able to go to most things, but, uh, luckily we were both able to go and it costs the city nothing because we paid our own travel up there and back. So, and we carpooled.
02:33:51.01	Councilmember Hoffman	So we got double the work done because we had conference with each other the whole way up there and the way back. And we talked about city issues the whole way. So anyway, that was, yeah, that's a report.
02:34:01.73	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:34:03.50	Sharna Brockett	Yeah.
02:34:04.06	Councilmember Hoffman	that.
02:34:04.51	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:34:04.75	Karen Hollweg	This is not necessarily a committee, but I wanted to remind us that the delegation from our sister city, Vina del Mar Chile, will be visiting us next week. We have scheduled a special city council meeting for September 9th.
02:34:20.68	Karen Hollweg	at 9 a.m. at which we will be presenting a proclamation. There has been an amazing synergy. We will not only have the delegation from Viña del Mar, but we'll also have members of Southern Marin Fire, and I believe the county...
02:34:35.14	Karen Hollweg	Office of Emergency Services, all of whom have been collaborating for over a year in terms of educating and assisting Viña del Mar in its emergency preparedness and resiliency plan, which proved particularly apropos following their disaster earlier this year. So I hope that the majority of us will be able to attend and look forward to welcoming the delegation at that time.
02:35:05.61	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, if I could just piggyback on that too. As a sister city liaison. As a sister city liaison. Yeah, but that's up. Thank you for bringing that up. Just so you know, when people see the special meeting on the agenda, that's what it is. So just, you know, there's not going to be any special votes so far.
02:35:09.61	Karen Hollweg	Yeah.
02:35:23.52	Councilmember Hoffman	far as I know, anything other than that, we scheduled, as I understand it, was told by the city manager, we scheduled the city, the special meeting so that we could all go and there would be no issue with Brown Act or anything else. So that's why.
02:35:38.67	Karen Hollweg	And then I will note that there is another special meeting being held Saturday, September 7th at the Spinnaker at 10 a.m. It's a sea level rise workshop. And again, that is being noticed as a special meeting because at least three city council members are intending to attend that meeting.
02:35:58.79	Mr. McGowan	That's very blessing.
02:35:59.58	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
02:36:00.31	Councilmember Blaustein	I just wasn't aware that had been noticed as a special meeting. So good to know.
02:36:03.50	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, it has, but if we can all attend, we just can't all
02:36:07.02	Karen Hollweg	Participate, right?
02:36:07.97	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:36:08.00	Karen Hollweg	you
02:36:08.12	Councilmember Hoffman	you
02:36:08.19	Karen Hollweg	True. And I think the city attorney has sort of adopted a policy that if we're all going to attend and may want to participate, we notice it as a special meeting so that we can.
02:36:18.21	Karen Hollweg	And participation may be as simple as saying, thank you, great presentation.
02:36:23.48	Karen Hollweg	In the past, when we haven't noticed such things as special meetings, only two of us are allowed to talk. But if we know.
02:36:29.08	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay. I'm just saying.
02:36:30.78	Councilmember Hoffman	If we notice it as special meeting, don't we have to follow all the Brown Act? Like, here's the agenda. This is what we're going to talk about and report outs and action by the city council.
02:36:39.08	Karen Hollweg	Thank you.
02:36:39.54	Karen Hollweg	I mean, essentially the agenda is,
02:36:39.74	Councilmember Hoffman	No.
02:36:41.53	Karen Hollweg	you know, sea level rise workshop, Spinnaker, 10 a.m. to noon.
02:36:46.26	Karen Hollweg	Okay.
02:36:47.51	Karen Hollweg	Okay, that's my understanding. And the agenda setting committee did have a brief conversation with the city attorney regarding this kind of
02:36:47.81	Councilmember Hoffman	Anyway.
02:36:55.00	Karen Hollweg	updated policy for ensuring transparency in the manner in which we conduct our business.
02:37:02.24	Unknown	Any other reports?
02:37:03.10	Mr. McGowan	you
02:37:03.27	Unknown	.
02:37:03.69	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:37:03.76	Unknown	City Manager.
02:37:05.46	Unknown	Yeah.
02:37:05.75	Unknown	Thank you for stealing my thunder there on that meeting, but appreciate it. It's okay. It's good. What I want to add to it is that the pre-registration for that event is 90 right now. So that tells you there's great community interest in our C-level vulnerability. And I'll take this opportunity to, you know, talk about something on the agenda that was consent. And that's the $768,000 Economic Development Administration grant that was worked on by then Mayor Blaustein, Council Member Kelman, Katie Tho Garcia, Kevin McGowan, and our consulting team, grant consulting team, successfully. So that's a good one because gate five is a problem for our community as well as the community of Marin City to begin to get technical resources to actually start to address that is, you know, a good omen for hard money coming for real infrastructure dollars, which it looks like will take significant. And the fact that, you know, there's city ownership of property around there and private ownership of property around there, and there's significant impact to those that own property there, you know, it's long overdue that, you know, we get some real money, put some real effort behind us. So we're really happy that that item was approved by the city council tonight, because that's all part of sea level rise vulnerability and work to try to deal with what's changing in our community on our coastal coastal waters. I could report on my vacation of eight days I don't think I will but I thank you all for allowing me the time off to um do the things that you do as a human being so i don't have a long report tonight but i will have one next meeting uh involving um the requested information uh for you uh regarding travel expenses uh provided or um by council members, but I want to vet those with you to make sure that I don't put something in there that is wrong. So I will be sending you out a document that you all can take a look at and tell me, yep, this looks like right. I was there at that day, this time, this is the amount of money I spent, this is what I was reimbursed. I don't want to miss on that. So that's why I was hesitant today when Councilmember Blausin asked me about it. It's almost done, but it really needs one last look by all of you that have been involved in the training and travel that has taken place for you as city council members. So I'll provide that at the next council meeting for sure. And that concludes my comments, Mayor and Councilman.
02:39:28.98	Mr. McGowan	Thank you, city manager. So future agenda items, council member Glastine, would you like to rearticulate what you started at the beginning of the meeting?
02:39:36.07	Councilmember Blaustein	Yes, I'd like a consideration of a parking policy that accounts for economic hardship, especially for those living in lower income housing and for seniors or others who might need discounts or free residential parking permits.
02:39:49.87	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
02:39:49.91	Councilmember Blaustein	Thank you.
02:39:49.94	Mr. McGowan	Okay. Thank you. Anyone else?
02:39:51.59	Karen Hollweg	Karen Hollweg, Yes, I would like to reiterate and city clerk i'm i'm going to hand you a list but i'm going to ask that you. Karen Hollweg, adopt a practice of adding these to our list of future agenda items whenever we enunciate these at the end of the evening, so we preview we heard tonight from Alice merrill regarding caledonia street parking permits, so I did hear from our.
02:40:17.50	Karen Hollweg	police department that we do have employee parking permits for
02:40:22.41	Karen Hollweg	$6 per day. I don't know if that addresses her issue. So until we know the issue has been addressed, I'd just like to memorialize this as Caledonia Street parking permits. At our first meeting in July, we adopted a general fund reserve policy. We promised to revisit that in six months. So I'd like to see that on our December agenda.
02:40:45.59	Karen Hollweg	On page 18 of, sorry, on page five of our minutes for July 30th, 2024, there were three items.
02:40:56.43	Karen Hollweg	Karen Hollweg, Including an item from Vice mayor Cox requesting that staff invite the sauce leader marine city school district to make a presentation, I want to make sure that those items make it on to the future agenda items list and finally i'd like to add an item to consider. Karen Hollweg, um.
02:41:15.40	Karen Hollweg	purchasing a backup hotspot
02:41:18.75	Karen Hollweg	slash recording system so that if in the future we lose internet, we don't have to or lose
02:41:26.79	Karen Hollweg	the power for the internet, we don't have to
02:41:30.79	Karen Hollweg	suspend our meetings. Thank you.
02:41:34.79	Mr. McGowan	We will go ahead.
02:41:38.51	Councilmember Hoffman	I don't, I don't know exactly city manager, city clerk. I don't know if this is specifically a future agenda item, but I do. I do want to explore the idea of a written transcript. And I think with AI, it could be an unofficial written transcript, just easier to search, easier to look at. And I believe zoom gives you the ability to do a written transcript. So that might be a really easy quick fix, an unofficial written transcript. Right. So yeah.
02:42:07.49	Councilmember Hoffman	I think that would should be and I'm just thinking about the expense on that, too. So as the unofficial part. So I don't know if that's a agenda item or if that's just a administrative thing, but I think that would make it much easier for all of us.
02:42:21.97	Mr. McGowan	Okay, and Council Member of the House, Dean.
02:42:23.74	Councilmember Blaustein	Yeah, one more thing I wanted to add. I would like to, at some point, agendize naming of specific roadways or stairways or otherwise, given the conversation about Jack Tracy and the commemoration of some folks I've received correspondence about potentially, so just for the agenda setting committee to consider.
02:42:43.85	Councilmember Blaustein	Okay.
02:42:44.14	Mr. McGowan	naming of public rights away.
02:42:46.24	Mr. McGowan	in honor.
02:42:46.54	Karen Hollweg	on her.
02:42:46.81	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:42:47.70	Karen Hollweg	naming policy for roadways and stairways slash facilities.
02:42:51.23	Councilmember Blaustein	and stairways.
02:42:51.97	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:42:51.99	Councilmember Blaustein	their
02:42:52.26	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:42:52.33	Councilmember Blaustein	.
02:42:54.89	Karen Hollweg	public facilities.
02:42:57.79	Unknown	City manager, you had something else you wanted to do. Yeah, I apologize. Mayor and council in public, I forgot one important item. The city clerk and the city intern and I are working on and city council candidate orientation for September the 18th. I'll be sending out an invite to everyone that's qualified for the ballot to ask them to come to city hall and have city staff provide information to you, answer questions in a way that is consistent for all candidates. And as a prelude to that, you know, we're going to provide information, including our municipal budget or municipal code, our city audits, our MADI list of people that are on boards and commissions, and the last survey that the city sent out that was received with Measure L as primer. That's all primer for you. So that will be the afternoon of September the 18th, following the September 17th city council meeting. So I'll make that announcement again on September 10th at the meeting that is being hosted by the chamber of commerce for the candidates to reiterate that, but I'll send it out an invitation to everybody that's a candidate in the next two days.
02:42:59.26	Karen Hollweg	Yeah.
02:44:04.57	Unknown	Thank you.
02:44:06.00	Mr. McGowan	All right. And so is there any public comment, please, on any of these items?
02:44:10.10	Unknown	Damien?
02:44:12.48	Mr. McGowan	Mr. Morgan?
02:44:17.90	Damien Bergen	Damien here, a very important announcement regarding sea level rise. I'll read something to you briefly as a paragraph from the US Army.
02:44:27.52	Damien Bergen	out of DC.
02:44:30.02	Damien Bergen	Army announces civil works investments in small disadvantaged communities.
02:44:37.61	Damien Bergen	One of 12 communities across the nation
02:44:41.69	Damien Bergen	is Marin City, one of 12 across the US. Michael Connor, assistant secretary of the Army of Civil Works announced today, which was a couple of days ago, during a visit to the,
02:44:56.14	Damien Bergen	I
02:44:58.38	Damien Bergen	somewhere in Arizona, that 12 communities across the country will be the first to participate in a pilot program specifically designed to make federal investments in small or economically disadvantaged communities. Funding is being provided by the bipartisan infrastructure law signed into law by President Joe Biden.
02:45:27.85	Damien Bergen	This is huge, big. As you know, Marin City has had zero investment into the community. I'm born and raised there. It's been absolutely almost, I can say, zero going back decades. This is a big...
02:45:44.96	Damien Bergen	big thing moving in the right direction. As you know, Marin City, for whatever reason, not because of our fault, working with the county is hostile. We just want to be treated
02:45:56.80	Damien Bergen	with respect and to be
02:46:00.87	Damien Bergen	environmentally and a healthy community also. So this is a big, a lot of work being done by Terry Green. Terry Green has got the application done, put it in, been very patient, working alongside Congressman Huffman. I've been in a few of those meetings. Sorry, Terry and I knocked on Huffman's door a couple years ago, and he's been very helpful. Thank you.
02:46:24.82	Mr. McGowan	Thank you.
02:46:25.81	Mr. McGowan	Anyone else?
02:46:26.15	Damien Bergen	else.
02:46:26.39	Mr. McGowan	you
02:46:26.86	Mr. McGowan	I bet.
02:46:27.18	Unknown	Thank you.
02:46:35.41	Babette MacDougall	Thank you. So if this round of public comment can be addressed to the committee reports we just heard, I just want to make sure I understood what the city manager said.
02:46:45.61	Babette MacDougall	Did I understand that you mentioned the upcoming city council candidates debate?
02:46:54.82	Unknown	not a debate. It's an orientation by city staff on city things that people should know, budgets, audits.
02:47:01.87	Unknown	things of that nature. All right.
02:47:01.94	Babette MacDougall	Yeah.
02:47:02.26	Unknown	Thank you.
02:47:03.73	Babette MacDougall	Thank you.
02:47:03.86	Babette MacDougall	Thank you. I just wanted to be sure of that because, of course, we do have one coming up, date to be determined, always sponsored by the Sauce Little Women's Club. I understand it'll be at the Spinnaker.
02:47:14.36	Babette MacDougall	Alice Murrow.
02:47:16.88	Babette MacDougall	And the League of Women Voters runs it.
02:47:19.52	Babette MacDougall	by the book.
02:47:23.80	Mr. McGowan	So here at the end of the evening, I just want to highlight that I was
02:47:28.33	Unknown	Oh, sorry, we have Senator Bushmaker.
02:47:32.25	Unknown	about that.
02:47:34.85	Karen Hollweg	Is our camera function not working this evening, Walfred, for-
02:47:38.41	Unknown	We use the...
02:47:40.91	Unknown	We use the webinar version and part of the safety thing is that they don't come out on video.
02:47:45.80	Sandra	Okay.
02:47:46.22	Unknown	That's all it's good.
02:47:46.86	Sandra	Other. Okay. Okay.
02:47:53.93	Unknown	Sandra.
02:48:00.62	Sandra	Adieu.
02:48:05.09	Sandra Bushmaker	There we go. I didn't get my unmute...
02:48:08.16	Sandra Bushmaker	permission until just now. Just wanted to remind the city manager that
02:48:12.53	Sandra Bushmaker	From 4 to 6 on the 18th, the Sausalito village is having their
02:48:19.21	Sandra Bushmaker	They get to know the candidates evening at the First Presbyterian Church.
02:48:24.76	Unknown	Ours is at one o'clock.
02:48:26.64	Sandra Bushmaker	Okay.
02:48:28.59	Sandra Bushmaker	Thank you. How long will that last, by the way?
02:48:32.75	Unknown	no more than an hour and a half.
02:48:34.65	Sandra Bushmaker	Perfect. Thank you.
02:48:38.84	Unknown	Right.
02:48:38.87	Unknown	Right?
02:48:38.94	Unknown	All right, no further public comment.
02:48:42.47	Mr. McGowan	Okay, I went to agenda meeting in honor of a
02:48:48.17	Mr. McGowan	Yes, well, Jean Fidler passed away on the afternoon of August the 14th, just shy of her 92nd birthday. Jean was a force of nature, a true Sausalito legend with a deep love of her adopted town.
02:49:03.58	Mr. McGowan	She was born in Birmingham, England, raised in Tasmania,
02:49:08.44	Mr. McGowan	and acquired her nursing degree in England before traveling the world as a nurse and a flight attendant.
02:49:14.55	Mr. McGowan	By the time she settled in Sausalito in 1972,
02:49:18.16	Mr. McGowan	She brought with her a vibrant and uniquely her own personality.
02:49:22.39	Mr. McGowan	Though she never married, she shared a decade-long relationship with her beau, David, in the 1970s. David was by her side at the hospital before she passed.
02:49:32.38	Mr. McGowan	Jean had a strong connections with, with the Sossated Women's Club.
02:49:36.65	Mr. McGowan	Christ Church, Episcopal Church, the Sausalito Historical Society, the Library, and Sausalito Village.
02:49:43.08	Mr. McGowan	For many decades, she always attended city council meetings, always vibrantly dressed and always with a comment or two.
02:49:50.39	Mr. McGowan	For those who knew and loved her, they noticed a shift as she entered her nineties. Most notably, she no longer insisted on the French pronunciation of her name,
02:49:59.16	Mr. McGowan	and even allowed herself to just be called Jeannie.
02:50:02.15	Mr. McGowan	She also declared she was finally swearing off men, except for her daily dose of cowboys on gun smoke.
02:50:09.78	Mr. McGowan	In October of this year, she reluctantly gave up her keys and car, but soon embraced receiving rides from the Sausalito village and the cars program.
02:50:19.18	Mr. McGowan	She enjoyed meeting new volunteers and appreciated the attention from those she hadn't seen in a while. In accordance with her wishes, she was cremated and she will always be in our hearts and in our town. We adjourned this meeting in her honor.

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