 I think we're timing. We're there. Okay. We'll call the meeting to order the Capitola City Council for Thursday, May 10th. May I have a roll call, please? Council Member Harlan. Here. Council Member Bertrand. Here. Council Member Peterson. Here. Council Member Rafter. Here. Mayor Termini. Here. Would you please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Tonight our meeting is Cablecast Live on Charter Communications, Cable TV Channel 8 and ATT Uverse Channel 99 and is being recorded to be rebroadcast on the following Wednesday 8 a.m. and on Saturday following the first rebroadcast at 1 p.m. on Charter Channel 71 and Comcast Channel 25. Meetings can also be viewed live at www.capitola.org and as usual our technician tonight is the great Lynn Dutton. Thank you very much. Make sure the camera's kind to me, Lynn. And please turn your cell phones off and we'll start with Public Service Week Proclamation. Is someone receiving this or am I only reading it? Well then... Of our officers here. Capitola is the finest up here. Okay, this is Public Service Recognition Week and I'm particularly proud to do this each year because I have a great deal of gratitude for all the people that I've come to know working in the City of Capitola. It goes beyond just a job. Whereas the week of May 6th through May 12th has been designated as Public Service Recognition Week to honor the employees of local, state and federal government and members of the uniform services and whereas public employees take not only jobs but also oaths and whereas those who work in government each and every day help find solutions to our problems, assist those in need, keep us safe and advance our local, state and national interests and whereas without these public servants at every level community would be impossible in a democracy that regularly changes its elected officials. These unsung heroes do work that keeps our nation running smoothly and whereas the 66 employees of the City of Capitola provide invaluable service to both residents and visitors every day by keeping our city safe and clean, providing information, helping guide its future development, assuring that tax payer dollars are appropriately spent and more and whereas public servants include the record keepers, safety inspectors, mechanics, teachers, doctors, nurses, scientists, police officers, firefighters, engineers, accountants, administrators and city managers day in and day out they provide the diverse services demanded by the American people of their governments with efficiency and integrity. Therefore I, Michael Kateryne, am the determining mayor of Capitola to hereby proclaim May 6th to 12th, 2018 as public service recognition week to thank the people who work for us all. Thank you. Gentlemen, do you have anything to say to us? You're on camera. I see I'm on camera. This is very good. I like it. Thank you once again. You all do a great job. Thank you. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is the presentation of a check from the Capitola Public Safety Foundation to support the scholarships for Junior Guards. Who has our giant check? Is there anyone here from Junior Guards? Seeing none, where is the giant check? Let's hold it up. We have two board members from the Safety Foundation here. Why don't you hold it up right up here for the camera? There's the camera. Every year the Capitola Public Safety Foundation donates $2,000 to the Junior Guards in order to support families that cannot afford the cost of the tuition to Junior Guards can still send their children to our amazing program. Thank you, Capitola Safety Foundation. Mr. City Attorney, do you have a report on closed session? Yes. Thank you, Mayor Termini. Members of the City Council, this evening's closed session commenced at 6 p.m. in the City Manager's Conference Room. There was only one item on the agenda. It was labor negotiations pertaining to all bargaining groups, and there was no reportable action. Thank you. Are there any additional materials? They were previously distributed. We had three public comment emails for item 9a, and we had revised text for the ordinance for 9e. Perfect. We'll now go to public comment. This is the time when anyone from the audience can come up and make a comment on items not on tonight's agenda. Is there anyone who would like to make public comment? Seeing none, we'll move on to City Council, City Treasure, and staff comments. Staff, any comments? Oh, I'm awfully sorry. Welcome. Good evening. It is your show. Well, my name is Tony Lazarini, and I live up on, I believe what they call Cherry Hill. There are several homes up there, and I'm requesting to finally get a street sign, because Cherry Avenue is below all the houses, the several homes, and when we try and get Uber or order food to be delivered, everyone goes below, and no one can find where we live. They're always down below, and I think that our street should be named Cherry Lane, and I think that's what they on some of the GPS's, they call it Cherry Lane, and I also would request the council to maybe walk up there and look at our streets, because they are in dire assistance, and I appreciate your time. And I hope you consider my request. Thank you. And will Public Works, can you look into that? Yeah, I do know that's a unnamed alleyway. There's no addresses that actually tie to that alleyway, so I'll work with the building department, see if we can come up with a name for it, and what formal process we need to go through to actually name it. We will get your pizza delivery and your ambulances should be needed. No, we heard that. Agreed. That one came through, and sometimes you don't think about that. You just think of Uber, but I appreciate that. Got it. Thank you. Okay. Don't push them down the stairs next time, but okay, good. Well, he just doesn't listen. Anyone else like to address the council? Welcome. Hi, I'm Marcos Vascovi from Topaz Street, so I'm happy to be back here with you guys. Anyway, just to let you know that we, residents of Topaz Street, we continue to be mobilized to try to improve the situation on the street. The traffic there is not getting any better. We had at least one email that you guys might have received from Matt on one case of someone being hit. It happens. I didn't send an email on my side from things that I see happening, but maybe we should. And I would like to say that we today, we, we, we are a little surprised when you make the decision for revoking the barricade, and we understood it because we saw a lot of people were not happy with that. But we didn't, we didn't see any substantial reason for that. They didn't, we were expecting to hear from the other residents who were unhappy. Looks like the only reason they had is that they don't like to, to drive across or go around the block. And so we didn't, we were expecting something more substantial to go against. But anyway, that being said, we understand that you asked Steve for something that is less impactful, more only on, on Topaz Street. And what we did together, we came up with one suggestion that is much less impactful yet, we think may make a difference on Topaz. We have sent an email to, to Steve, and just want to see if it makes sense to maybe touch base with you before you present your solution or, you know, but that's where you're at. So just wanted to, you know, let you know what's going on our side. Thank you. And we did, we were planning on holding that item tonight, but we, the staff were, wasn't quite fleshed out enough. So we're not, we haven't dropped the ball. We're just, we're working on it. We wanted it to be right and it wasn't quite ready yet. So next meeting. Great, great. And Steve, do you think we should touch base with you? Are you going to respond? Is there a, a little bit of dialogue we can have? Very nice. Thank you. I love living in a small town. This is, this is the best stuff in the world. We'll go on to Treasurer Comments. Termini. First of all, I'd live near the people who are on, on the alleyway there. It's also a problem with the mail. The mailman constantly gets lost. So just another thing to think about. A couple of, a couple of numbers that are kind of interesting. I had a quick discussion with our finance director, Jim. And I asked him about something that Jamie said. I think the last meeting, which is we have a sales tax shortfall. And I want to know what that number was. He said, it looked like it was around 70K, which is not devastating, but it's not insignificant. And the concern is that, is that a trend? Is it going to get bigger? As we're going to see that every, every year. And so it's a, so it's a little bit of a concern. And then coincidentally, we talked about the cannabis sales. And I'm not sure how that came up, but the typical sales for a distributor is apparently a $4 million. So you figure 6% tax on that. You got one little outfit on 41st Street is more than going to cover the shortfall. So I don't want to make any moral judgments about a syntax, but it will cover the deficit that we're seeing. Thank you. Thank you, staff. Any comments? I think the only point I would make is, is that look for your budgets tomorrow? I will be going to press tomorrow as well on the budgets and hopefully have it up on the internet for those folks who are interested at home. Steve? I'd just like to announce that we have two workshops for public works next week on Monday evening. We're going to have a second workshop on the wharf project, the measure F wharf project. We have a presentation from the architect on some ideas of what the buildings could look like and love any community input we can get on that. And then on Thursday, we will be holding another workshop on the Park Avenue sidewalk project. Perfect. Thank you. Council, Stephanie, what do you have for us? Jacques and I are going to the annual queer youth leadership awards Saturday night at Soquel High School. And if anyone would like to join us or anyone in the community would like to join us. The students are going to be there with their families getting the awards. They're giving some community awards. They're giving some awards that they call for their allies. They have a lot of partnerships with a lot of different community groups and so they will be there also. So it should be, I've never gone to it before, but it should be a wonderful thing. I have it. It is great. I can't make it, but it's excellent. Thanks for putting out about the public community. Steve, I appreciate that. And as I said to you last week, on the flowers ready, I'll be glad to distribute those. And I guess Monday I could pick them up. Thanks. Kristin? Nothing? Ed? I have nothing. I would like to call everyone's attention to the latest art and cultural project being installed this week in front of Bellaroma Cafe. We were responsible for that lovely artistic railing and there's another two sections at each end up the ramp that still need to be installed, but it is as wonderful as we thought it would be. It was a perfect timing because Public Works had a project to replace that railing. We saw a need for more public art in that area. So the Public Art Fund was able to supplant the Public Works budget and take that on as an art project. So we'll wait for its completion and everyone loves it. And also, Steve, while you're there, while you're sitting up here, I received a letter from the Homeowners Association President at Brookvale Terrace. They've been having their share of PG&E issues and they have transformers catching fire in the ground. And I know there are dual subsurface transformers throughout that park and they'll get one that catches on fire and they'll just replace that one and not replace the other, but having three in a several month period seems like life in limb. And maybe we can reach out and help them as well. I'd be happy to contact the government liaison for PG&E and share the letter with them. And speaking of the outreach for the Wharf, the architect, the chosen architect after meeting with a panel, after sending out RFP, we went through an exhaustive process, but the folks across the street at Fuse were the architects for the buildings and I might draw attention to the building they were doing, but it would be truly a remarkable piece of architecture, so thank you Fuse architects. Moving on, we will go on to the Consent calendar. These are items taken on a single vote. We have regular council meeting minutes, mid-management employees outline job description and we have a slurry seal project. Does anyone want to pull any of these items? I just have a question. I think we were going to maybe change the and the slurry seals. There's an item that lists capitol of court. Is that a private road or is that a public street? It appears to be unknown at this point and I'm looking into it before we move forward with it. Certainly we have what I've been told historically, we have maintained it although it appears to be on private property. So we'll look at it before we proceed. Thank you very much. I think that was a great catch on Stephanie's part but if it is private maybe they would like to pay the fee so it's a unified seal going up to capitol avenue. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? I so move. Second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. We'll move on to general government public hearings and the first item is finalized the scope of work for the JETI rehabilitation project. Very exciting, Steve. Don't get better than this. No, it's the truth. One of the three measure F projects that we're working on to try and accomplish is rehabilitation of the JETI just to make sure everybody's oriented. Obviously an aerial looking at the beach here's the Esplanade. So the JETI is this rock structure on the eastern end that is very responsible for the beach we have without it there is no beach here. Very small one right in front of Zelda. So it was originally built in I believe 1969 since that time it has settled. I think a significant settlement has occurred over the last five years. No real reason for that. I think it's become more noticeable. The project is to restore it to its original configuration. We've had conversations with the coastal commission about it. We did do a sand study that has been the focus of our work of how sand transports around it and the effects extending it's rebuilding it will have on that so we've completed that study. The next thing we also talked about when we scoped out this project originally was to add a walkway out onto it so that an ADA sidewalk for lack of a better term could be built out to go somewhere in nature but certainly much smaller than the one on the Santa Cruz that goes out to the lighthouse there. This would be an eight foot wide concrete sidewalk that would be at the same grade that it is now. So as part of our outreach on the measure F projects we've held some community meeting already on it and we've had some conversations with members of the public. Here's some zoom in and looks at what it would look like. You can see it would tie into the Esplanade here. This is toward the smaller jetty in the upper Esplanade park. It's the last opening in the head wall come out and you can see it kind of traverse right along the sandy beach here to tie into the rock jetty itself. At the workshop we presented two alternatives. One is to rebuild the jetty as it is without the walkway or to include the walkway. As you can see here each dot represented a vote of people in attendance and not including the rockway was an 11-2 favorite at that meeting. That was consistent with individual conversations we've had with members of the public. There's been very little support about building that way and I think the main reason is that's probably the most popular part of the beach. The swimming hole over here on the east of the jetty is a great place for surfers to go out and smaller kids to play it certainly has a lot less surf than the main part of the beach. The main entrance coming off of Esplanade park is right here and it's just this is a very crowded area and to put a concrete walkway and across there it's just not popular. So let me move here Our goal is to begin construction this winter and be done by this time next year so as we're rolling into summer we're done with our construction on the beach. We're also going to do the rehabilitation at the same time. We're going to do that as one project and like I said we want to get them done before May 1st in order to do that we have to have applications it's going to take Corps of Engineers permits and Coastal Commission permit and regional water quality control permit so we need to start that process probably July 1st is our target date to start that. So we need to finalize the scope of that project now like I said public input and we've received both at the workshop and individually have been against the project mainly because of the busy beach Concern was raised about ongoing maintenance and repair costs certainly we all know that Jetty itself gets battered by waves it's not as high as Santa Cruz so we could anticipate some repair costs to keep it open over the years and risk management so our recommendation is to approve the Jetty Rehabilitation project scope that does not include the addition of a walkway at this time and direct staff to proceed with the final plans and permitting. Steve question for you I think we're talking about some potential grants that might help us with this especially since we have some of our tax measure money to match is there anything on the horizon can we get any applications out to help us with this one? On the Jetty project I don't see it I mean we're talking a small portion of measure F at this point we are feverishly looking for grants for our wharf project I think that's a much better candidate to be honest with you because that has a bigger impact on everything we do but I don't think there's nothing in the pipelines now that we're running across and in order to get this built I don't think we have the time for him to wait for a grant for the Jetty itself but during the course of this is there a possibility that some miscellaneous large pieces of rock could accidentally fall on our second sand groin and help that not go away? I didn't hear that. So I did go to the public meeting and I heard the comments about why the pathway wouldn't be a good idea so I support listening to the public but there were some pretty good comments so I think you reported that quite accurately there was another comment that came up which you didn't know the answer of you may not at this point and that was after you put out the plans of the as built Jetty which was approved some time ago the questions came up from a lot of people there did it actually get built to that specification and the wisdom was that well that's what was approved but it still was sort of hanging in the air because what was planned did not quite look like what the Jetty is today of course it's left and all that but really didn't suggest what was actually planned. So the centerline the concrete spine that goes down the center appears to be the right length and all that the rocks get stacked to the right height and spread out you know we don't have answers the plans are stamped as built that's what we're designing to is it going to look exactly of the plan show when we're done probably not but it'll be close and the big thing is the height and the length will be what was there before or what was what was designed before and that's what influences the sand right okay yeah thanks any other questions staff? Steve I'm just curious why the range I probably could have refined that some that is the range because they hadn't surveyed it and to see how much rock we need to import to bring it back yet I just pulled that off of their proposal that they did when the engineer we hired the engineer right now it looks like it's about a $300,000 repair without the walkway thank you question I just curious to know if there's a rough cost differential between sidewalk and no sidewalk how much more for the sidewalk putting the pathways about $125,000 on top of placing all the rock I'll open this discussion up to the public anyone would like to speak on this subject step right up hold it hold it stop pause step up to the microphone even though I know who you are tell everybody else who you are and then you got three minutes and it's your show I'm going to be faster than that my name is Jack Dabe and I live at the Lawn Way which is on top of El Toro Bravo directly across from where the proposed sidewalk is and I think that the beach allows for handicap access and I think that's evidenced by the recent operations surf where disabled veterans are allowed to come to the beach and be there so I think that our beach is handicap accessible and I don't think that the sidewalk is a really good idea and I love to go to the beach every day and walk on the naked sand sidewalks I know they're not all entirely natural but you know I build concrete structures and that's part of the value of my home is that right in front of my door I can meet with in nature and there's no more sidewalks and I think that's just the value of my home thank you anyone else like to speak to us on this subject seeing none we'll bring it back to the council Stephanie you start I'll move to staff recommendation motion by Councillor Harlan second by Councillor Bertrand any other comments any comments Jock any comments Mr. Ed just real quick originally when we started talking about this the idea of the walkway was enticing I think it was a great thing to possibly deliver for ADA access unfortunately because of the way that works out construction wise it's not prudent to do this because I can see we would probably be repairing it over and over and over again like I said when we first talked about this and the idea came up that's why we were even talking about it it would have been a nice feature to have it's just the way that the JETI connects to what we have doesn't make it possible so for those people that were in favor of it the reason we're not going to do it is not because of the cost I think just because in the long run it just would become a maintenance problem and it takes away I think there's more there's less to gain than there is there's not as much to gain as it would be to lose having an ongoing problem so just for those people that were in favor of it just want to make a mention that I think the prudent decision is to just rebuild it as is and forego the sidewalk so I concur with the motion okay and we have a repeat, Jacques is taking another bite yeah I'm a repeat I'm sorry carry on I would like to comment the meeting was well run and there was quite a few participants I don't think everyone actually put their dot on the the survey but there was a lot of discussion the survey sort of encapsulated some of the ideas so it sort of focused everyone's thoughts so I think it was well run and I thank you for that okay we have a motion and we have a second all in favor aye opposed so moved unanimous thank you council we'll move on to our next item which is the introduction of an ordinance amending chapter 13.02 pertaining to water conservation plumbing fixture retrofit requirements are life overflows with excitement really quick in 2003 the city adopted an ordinance to require retrofit of plumbing fixtures and properties at time of sale they have to put in you know water conservation fixtures the two water districts that service the city both city Santa Cruz water district and Soquel Creek had requested that we put in a section of our code that requires it the code actually specifies that they're in charge of implementation Soquel Creek has recently decided they no longer want to implement it because they have achieved diminishing returns on it they feel that 90% of their plumbing fixtures have been retrofitted and the cost of running that program exceeds the benefit at this point so we also contacted the city Santa Cruz they are interested in continuing to enforce it for a couple more years until 2020 so our recommendation tonight is to amend chapter 13.02 simply to remove any reference to Soquel Creek and Soquel Creek service area from it and it will only apply to the city Santa Cruz water service area in 2020 or when we get notified from the city of Santa Cruz will return and repeal the entire ordinance Steve what would be the ramifications of us just taking out the word Soquel Creek and just letting it go so that it baffles me that in this time of water being a concern that we would ever take away any requirement to not retrofit plumbing fixtures we release that and that requires tracking when property is sold going out doing inspections there's quite a bit of staff time involved in managing that that would be a burden on the city at this point to implement if we could have an ordinance that we don't do and that's something maybe we consider in 2020 but that's our concern one of the things to keep in mind though is this has this is a requirement on the resale property and you know how title companies are so it's a situation where having an ordinance that maybe isn't enforced actively could become problematic in the sense that we could end up with situations where people are banging on our front door saying my title company won't let me close escrow my house until you sign off on the inspection so there's certain cases where we definitely have items in our ordinance which are not the best priority for enforcement but when it deals with real property I think we want to make sure that we have a pretty tight tight control or the language that we have is actually what we can enforce given the real estate market in capitol how many closings do you think we have in a week in capitol if we had one I'd be surprised especially given the housing stock in capitol for sale if I may note we do receive the capitol or the Santa Cruz record and there are I would say an average of three properties in capitol each week that's listed in that three properties change hands each week my impression because we check it each week for other things I mean keep in mind it's the water districts job we have a water district rep here if you have any questions but it's their job to make sure that they're using their funds effectively to make sure that they're using the water prudently and they've made the decision that it's not an effective use to their resources to continue to implement this program so I think for us to keep it on our books I'm just concerned with what the implications would be if we had this ordinance on the books and we don't really have a mechanism by which to enforce it could they get a note from their plumber that's said only partially but I'm saying it seems pretty simple just because SoCal Creek may not have the resources to police something like this it is it's a clear and present concern to the whole community with water I just feel uncomfortable releasing anything having to do with this especially the number of old houses we have in capitol I don't know how do the rest of the council wait do we have anyone from the public who would like to speak to us please come on up welcome I'm Shelly Flock I'm the conservation manager and I'm the public water district and the reason why we are exiting from this program is not just staff time but diminishing returns we've executed this program in the city of capitol and the portions of the unincorporated county within our service area for 15 years and we've replaced thousands of toilets and shower heads and urinals through the ROS program and the retrofit on sale program we've also been offering toilet and urinal and shower head rebates since 1997 and again we've done thousands of replacements of fixtures to the standards that are called for in the retrofit on sale ordinance over those years we've also required all new development since 2003 to offset at least two times the amount of water that they're expected to use and what we've been accomplished is through again thousands of fixture retrofits we're basing our decision on the fact that we've already accomplished we've succeeded with this program and there's very few non-compliant fixtures left in our service area so that's really the nugget of it in fact a lot of our programs our rebate programs and our water demand offset program we're going beyond the minimum efficiency standards in the ROS ordinance as well as the California Green Building Code requirements for fixtures so we're on to the next generation of fixture retrofits through most of our conservation programs. Well that was going to be my next question is there another level of technology that's taken place in the last 20 years that we could put into our ordinance in 2020 to say you know now you have to do this kind of plumbing fixture yeah I mean it's possible the lowest that we would recommend for residential toilets is .8 gallon per flush those are considered ultra high efficiency toilets they're not really recommended for commercial settings because of the higher frequency of use and the fact that you don't have as much drain flow carry from things like showering and clothes washing and you know dish washing so you know I think you've just succeeded in this program and carried it out to the extent where we're getting very few returns for the amount of staff time that it's taking to go out and verify compliance so that's really what we're facing and we're looking at expanding some of our other programs with that staff time and is our requirement in the existing ordinance for the .8 gallon per flush it basically says that if you have a 1.6 gallon per flush or greater toilet we'll focus on that because that's the biggest water using fixture in most homes if it's 1.6 or greater you have to replace it with a 1.28 gallon per flush toilet but if it's already if the existing toilet is a 1.6 gallon per flush that's compliant under the code ordinance as well as the county ordinance so 1.6 is being allowed to remain and they don't have to be replaced with 1.28 gallon per flush it seems like we have an opportunity if not tonight that in 2020 to push this to the next level and I think that that's significant enough when you talk about those kind of numbers and you talk about the many thousands of toilets in the city it could make a difference I know there's concern at sanitation because we're actually not pushing as much liquid through the system and it actually is a problem for them but that's another issue so I'm reluctantly going to agree with you but I'm still very very nervous with regard to releasing any kind of water conservation let me just ask is there anyone else in the audience like to speak to us on this seeing none we'll bring it back Stephanie I share your concern about changing any water regulations and we probably do have a bunch of old toilets in the old homes but the people buying them are going to tear them down and remodel so on that hand I think we're in pretty good shape that's another piece of the the equation is that since 2014 there's been point of sale regulations that have said you can only sell 1.28 gallon per flush toilets in the state of California the building code also requires when you remodeling to replace fixtures that meet the building code which is 1.28 gallon per flush and 2 gallon per minute for shower head so there's other naturally occurring things in addition to the district's conservation programs that are taking care of these fixture replacements understood thank you for that yeah I'm not willing to micromanage the water district I think if they've said they've reached their goal that's good enough for me and I really don't want another ordinance on our books that we're not going to enforce so for that reason I'm going to make a motion to approve staff recommendation second as a first reading of the ordinance okay Kristen any comments Jacques any comments come in the water district for having this program to begin with thank you okay it's been moved and seconded all in favor aye opposed unanimous thank you very much Madam City Clerk we'll move on to recreation division report Mr. Mayor members of the council this item is on your agenda this evening at the request or at the request of council member we're trying during last year's budget cycle to take a look at the recreation division so you attach your packet is a pretty comprehensive report that was prepared by our recreation manager bit of background in 1997 the JPA which is joint powers authority a partnership between the school district and the city to provide recreation services within our boundaries dissolved at that time the city began providing recreation services we've done it ever since and our recreation supervisor has worked for both the JPA and for the city continuously for the entire time Elise has announced her retirement she will be leaving us shortly so it is certainly a time of change and probably a good time for us all to be looking at this so in summary the recreation division is housed out of the community center at jade street manage the softball field the soccer fields at both Monterey park as well as the jade street the division is staffed by the recreation supervisor two recreation coordinators recreation assistant and then the recreation facilities custodian in addition we have a whole bunch of part-time seasonal staff that come on board each and every summer to help out with junior guards and camp capitol four major programs in recreation we have the classes we have the sports rentals sports and rentals camp capitol and junior guard the classes so the classes are taught by contract employees to the city they're not taught by city employees we have a public site specialist that will come in and teach a class through our program we have about 75 classes per session we have 40 different instructors around 10 to 15 percent of the classes that we offer in any given session are usually new being offered for the first time looking at the demographics which is included in the report the things that jump out at me is number one is we draw classes for women than we do for men and predominantly our class participants are between the ages of 40 and 70 sort of an older demographic most classes are held community center but some off-site facilities are sometimes used so the rental and sports sports and rental division they manage the rental of the community center for private special events and then the sports the fields for sport use sport leagues in addition then we have the sport leagues and one of the things to keep in mind about the sport leagues is a long term trend that's really become pronounced in recent years is that current generation of adults is not participating in sports leagues the same way that baby boomers did that there are just fewer sort of company softball teams there were fewer broom ball leagues throughout the country enrollment has significantly decreased over time we do continue to still offer adult softball jade street park and then one of the real sports leagues that are used frequently is the tennis courts on our brand new well-surfaced courts at jade street Camp Capitola I think everyone's familiar with Camp Capitola we have four sessions of camp every summer ages 6 to 11 takes place out of the community center we hire more than 20 seasonal employees to help out with the program each summer we've seen enrollment declines in Camp Capitola particularly in recent years that coincide with the swim center Simkins is it? the boys and girls club boys and girls club have offered some additional day camps in our area and we've seen sort of the additional competition from Simkins I believe and from the boys and girls club we've impacted the enrollment at Camp Capitola and so staffs looking for a way to attract more participants but we don't have a pool which is one of the real the real things that Simkins certainly does have Junior Guards is our most popular recreation program we capped it out as you'll recall recently the thousand participants max total between the ages of 6 and 18 we have two morning and one morning and one afternoon session and then two sessions a summer so there's four total opportunities sort of chunks of Junior Guard time a summer we host an annual competition here and then we participate in both local and regional competitions with our Junior Guard program and we have between 25 and 30 seasonal employees that can hire to the Junior Guard program to help run it so you'll recall that over time there's been increased challenges that we've had associated with the Junior Guard program and the fact that our Junior Guard program was different from other Junior Guard programs around the state in that our program wasn't run by lifeguards our program was run by folks that were experienced water men and women but not necessarily lifeguards so we have been morphing our program and in 2016 it really came to a head in that we weren't we didn't have our own local chapter of a California surf lifesaving association and essentially we were told that we would no longer be able to compete at regionals unless we had a chapter so two years ago council directed us to basically do what it would take to get our own chapter and we've done that we shortened the first week of camp to give more time to train the instructors we have a beach captain on staff each summer now and actually our chapter is going to be considered by the USLA very shortly to find out whether or not we actually get our own chapter and those changes we talked about at the time that those changes were going to increase costs and reduce revenue we estimated around a hundred thousand dollars it's been more than a hundred thousand dollars of increased costs and decreased revenue so it hasn't come cheap so thinking about kind of the future challenges of the recreation division is that one of the things to think about is 20 or 30 years ago if you wanted to do a class or you wanted to start offering a class in your community the only place to turn was the public recreation department or at least the barriers to entry were certainly far lower through a public recreation program than there would be any other way simply because it was hard to get your name out, it was hard to find clients today if you wanted to set up a yoga studio it's relatively easy to find available office space or old retail space put that on the market and put it out on the internet put up a Facebook site do your social media marketing and you can get your space and get yourself operating so there's a lot more competition from the private sector than there used to be for these sort of recreation classes and then what's happened is that that means that a lot of the facilities that get opened up specialize whether it's a dance studio that's got I don't know the terms for the dance studio the swallows, the springy floors the bars or the rock climbing gyms there's a lot more of these specialized facilities where today we have our community center which is getting longer in the tooth and relatively tired it's difficult to have multiple classes going on at the facility so there's increased competition from the private sector both in the technology and in terms of the infrastructure as well looking ahead we have a challenge in front of us with Elise leaving us but there's also an opportunity so this challenge is going to be getting through this summer we will be overseeing the recreation department with existing resources Larry has picked out a couple pairs of shorts and and he's going to be spending time up there I think this summer we will be looking at extra hours for our rec staff up there as well we will be getting recruitment very soon for a new recreation supervisor and then once we have a new recreation supervisor on board I think it's a real opportunity to take a hard look at our program and evaluate what is the future of capital recreation and how do we focus our resources to best provide services in our community City manager is Elise a department head or does she work under a different department she works in the city manager's department okay is there any thought about restructuring that whatsoever any savings your time city time all around is it just right the way it is that's what I'm trying to get to no it's not just right the way it is it's not just right the way it is I think that we need to look at that whether it's whether it moves to a different department whether the reporting structure is to a different piece of the city manager's department I think those are open questions that we do need to need to look at because I mean I I have a lot on my plate and spending time up at the rec centers just it rarely rises to the level of a priority that it probably should be so I think that we could provide better oversight through other mechanisms are there any questions of staff then I'll open this up to the public I'd like to speak to us on this item Peter has asked a question is that a salaried position yes do you want to tell me I'll look I'll ask later and let me just to note even though we have lost revenue and increased costs for junior guards it still remains more or less self funded as far as charging for it at least those are the numbers that we were brought by the junior guard parents at some point that junior guards does is self funding well I think that the numbers that you were presented were were not entirely I mean yes the cost of hiring all the instructors is covered by the fees that are collected but the infrastructure around having the program in the first place in other words the all the back of house staff the recreation supervisor the recreation coordinators all those staffs and once you start taking saying that that's 25 percent of our recreation work the overhead yeah the overhead it doesn't cover the overhead okay I just want to establish that anyone want to think that we're just slicing $100,000 out of the general fund it's close it's a lot closer now and we may be to the negative rather than to the positive we'll have the opportunity to take a look in the pending budget here I want to bring it back to council I don't know if there's any action except receiving the report to ask for this report what was the thrust of the report I mean what did you hope to gain from it and what is the eventual outcome you're looking for Jacques so thanks for doing the report and Larry understood you did a lot of the work also so basically we're considering spending a lot of money on the building at J Street Park and so I think in terms of expenditure of city funds do we have a recreation center there that's meeting the needs of the people of capitol in the broader area because we also have programs that go to the Soquel School District that's our broad area so as you noted in the report recreation districts or the offerings from cities has changed and the whole environment has changed and so I'm glad you brought that out so what I wanted to do was have a chance create a chance to relook at what our recreation department is and actually reach out to the city residents in the broader area Soquel School District if we can to find out are we meeting their needs are there things that the public would like to see us provide that would be more in concert with what they actually would like to see from recreation department I'd like to do that via community committee people in this town to actually design a program to reach out to actually have hearings to get input from people so that we could get some real data and try to see if we could come up with programmatic changes that would try to meet those new ideas or those new directions or threats one that particularly bothers me is I don't think we're doing enough for the children in this area so as your report brought out most of the people that are taking classes are 40 to 70 so I think we're missing possibly huge swaths of the democratic excuse me demograph thank you very much that really bothers me and you know I'm involved in a couple of committees that are focused on children and I realize that one of the main problems that children have as they grow older is there's not significant number of activities for them they're the healthy activities that keep them from getting in trouble and I was talking to Mike about this and there's a little idea that I think that should be thrown in there and one of them is that children parent activities as you know I was on the trustee of a school district in San Lorenzo Valley and we noted that parent participation was excellent when the kids were young but then waned and dropped off as they went to high school the needs of kids probably get even more dramatic as they reach ages like between years and stuff like that they really need parent participation so that's one thing that concerns me so I'd like to see that we make an effort to reach out to the community which is hard to do I realize but as your report pointed out the whole area of recreation has changed and so I'd like to make sure that when Capitola spends its money on providing a recreation program that it's actually spending its money well thank you and meeting the needs of the community to me that's the most important thing we provide services and I want that money spent well to provide a good service for our community thank you Jacques, Stephanie we could put an article in the newsletter and give the city email address and ask people to send us emails about what kind of activities that we're not having that they would like to see great idea anyone else have any comments then we'll consider the report received thank you very much we'll move on to the next item which is consider a resolution opposing the re-backed tax fairness transparency and accountability act of 2018 which is a very egalitarian name for a very devious proposal could give me a alright we're on I have a relatively short presentation for you this is as the mayor noted a resolution opposing an item that's out for signature now I believe it's still out for signature that's backed by the California business round table the it's called the tax fairness transparency and accountability act of 2018 it would have a number of really significant impacts should it pass voters in November specifically it would eliminate the 50% general taxes that the city have any ability to pass so all new taxes would require a two thirds vote in addition it would require two thirds of the city council or fifths really because we don't round off to two thirds very nicely of a council to put any item on a ballot and in addition there's also another piece of the puzzle is that it would narrow the threshold legal threshold to challenge one of our fees that are set for things like fence permits or tree removal permits from actual costs to a reasonable cost so just because we do a fee study and we show that it costs us $150 to issue some type of permit somebody could challenge us and say well that's not reasonable so there's another potential issue with it as well ironically enough if this were to pass all it requires is 51% of California voters if it makes the ballots pass and it applies retroactively so anything that would pass this year would be null and void unless it includes a very specific language in the ballot measure and recedes two thirds support from the voters this measure is very clearly backed by the American Beverage PAC it's a PAC that represents the soda industry they seem very concerned about soda taxes and the number of cities that have implemented taxes on sugary drinks where consumption of sugary drinks has significantly decreased which is achieving the public health benefits that I think many of the authors of those bills intended but has certainly alarmed the beverage industry they are the by far the largest funder of this Anheuser-Busch has contributed to the Wine Institute and then the California Business Round Table PAC has also contributed to this am I correct in assuming that if this should pass it would require our cannabis tax to go to two thirds that's correct okay any questions staff let's go to the audience no one here to speak on this let's come back motion to adopt resolution oh really I thought that I thought that I knew the cannabis thing would sell it but I just thought that there was a certain heartfelt vote just to make the anti-tax message come through no sorry will the city clerk please note that there was four seconds who do I put down all in favor I opposed magical no I'm very disappointed we're doing the right okay we'll move on to you know we go from one exciting thing to another let's talk about yellow curbs shall we this is a public works dream recent council meeting the council approved some changes to the curb markings on capitol avenue by bay avenue one of them was to approve a new loading zone there it was noted at that time that our current code had rather specific requirements of a yellow zone or rules for a yellow zone that there was a loading zone from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. only and from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. reverted to either parking meter or two-hour parking public parking at that time I think it was well identified that that probably is not the best use of a yellow zone up at that location so there's a request to come back into amend the ordinance to allow some flexibility just to make sure there was a ordinance making an amendment that was put in the original agenda and then we send out a revised ordinance that kind of was a little cleaner language what you see up here right now is the ordinance that went out on the revised one on Monday except for the part in red I'm going to ask you to yet again make another revision the part two refers to the two-hour parking restrictions that we used to have in the village obviously it has now three-hour and rather than less three-hour my recommendation is that we change two to read between hours during which loading and unloading restrictions are not applicable parking meter and or posted time restriction shall apply so basically this amendment will still have the one to eight or during such hours as the superintendent streets post on the street those will take control so that's it and staff recommendations to pass for the first reading is there any questions of staff is there anyone in the audience would like to speak to us Stephanie you want to say anything even a motion to approve anything nothing I just want to thank staff for bringing this back I did request this because I want this to be successful we've made a big effort up there to kind of solve this parking problem and if that loading zone were to be compromised during the day then it wouldn't be useful for the next couple of weeks so thank you for doing this I think and thank the city attorney for adding the language to make sure that it works but I think this is part of that whole process any idea when we're going to start re-striping up there again we'll put the yellow zone and we're kind of waiting for this to go through and we will do it it may be after the beach closes because our crews are rather busy the next couple of weeks and Steve while you're sitting up here for the night have they done anything to better all yellow all the way up I apologize but they have not gotten to that that's okay that's okay because it's the pain it's on there it's on their four quarters no it's the pain started to flake off the face so I apologize okay no it's yellow it's a loading zone I don't think we voted on this yet so all in favor opposed another unanimous vote this is a record night I only have about an hour of comments left hang on a second I'm only kidding batten down the hatches summer's coming our concerts will be coming in a few weeks the car show will be here in a few weeks it's nothing but fun and it makes us happy to live in Capitola so remember Capitola be nice to each other good night well done