 Thank you. I think I'm going to give the clerk a little time before we get to the roll call. Thank you Mayor Story. You're welcome. Are we ready for the roll call? Yes. Council Member Bertrand. President. Council Member Brooks. Peter. Council Member Peterson. Vice Mayor Kaiser. Here and Mayor Story. Here. Thank you. Now let's go to the slides of the legions and I was going to ask if Council Member Brooks will lead us in the slides of the legions. My pleasure. I have this slide right behind me. 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. Thank you for doing that. Next I'm going to go a little bit out of order and next go to item number four, which is the legions and the legions to the agenda. Yes. Thank you Mayor Story. This evening unfortunately we need to cancel or reschedule the introduction of our new employee. It turns out that he had a conflict this evening and will be able to attend. Okay. Well, since it's a presentation, do we need a motion to delete this from the agenda? Yeah. Okay. So then that brings us to presentation and we'll have an update now the newly adopted state and county new district being mapped. Thank you Mayor Story and Council. Give me one moment to get set up here. Thank you for delaying slightly at the beginning of the meeting. I appreciate it. You're welcome. Moderator Larry, is everything looking okay? Yes, it looks great. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you Mayor Story. Thank you Council for your patience as I got set up. This will be a brief presentation as the Mayor said on the new maps that were adopted locally in November and statewide at the end of the year at the end of December. So an overview on redistricting as you may know this takes place every 10 years after the census is done and there's new data. The intent is that all districts locally and statewide have the same amount of people in them and the federal government has many roles one of which they shouldn't be discriminatory based on race or ethnicity and in California we also benefit from the Fair Boat Act which has even more roles and stipulations and one of them being that there should be attention paid to maintaining communities of interest within the same district. An example locally of a community of interest might be the Santa Cruz Valley rural communities. So moving through there are four different district types that we'll touch on tonight and how and if Capitola's representation is changing based on the new maps. So there's the Supervisorial District very proud that I pronounced that correctly here the state senate district state assembly and then our congressional districts statewide. So very locally our Supervisorial Districts while they did slightly change our representation for the city does not state senate districts again our representation doesn't change here in the city however for state assembly and congressional districts there are a few changes that will go over this evening. So moving to our state assembly districts there was actually quite quite a big change I would say you may remember in November council met to direct the mayor to sign a letter actually kind of opposing what did end up going through and being approved in the proposed maps that basically the big picture of the change is Santa Cruz County as a whole is split between three districts moving forward rather than two which is how it's set up currently. So we're going to have the three new districts 28 29 and 30 that our county sits within. Capitola will be in the new assembly district 30 currently most of our county including the city of Capitola is in district 29 under Mark Stone's representation with Watsonville and the rest of the county under Robert Revis in district 30. So moving forward there will be new assembly district 28 29 and 30 which Capitola is in and the incumbent representative for the new district 30 is Jordan Cunningham who currently represents district 35. So that is quite a change and I am going to show you what I'm talking about here are some images we have the big map here I think you can see my mouse you can see this is 30 which we're apart of so it goes quite quite down south and then in the blow up here you'll see what I mean when I say we're split across the three if you can envision kind of like the county here within those three so district 30 again Capitola right here the rest of the county and then north county where I live the valley up here in district 28. So that is the new state assembly map and this is just district 30 here again kind of an odd elongated shape. For Congress a very big picture change is that the state of California will move forward only having 52 seats in the House of Representatives and only 52 congressional districts which for the past 10 years we've had 53 so that is a change more locally our county will continue to be split between two however it'll be the new districts of 18 and 19 so that is a change they look quite different which again I'll show you momentarily currently most of our county including the city of Capitola is under Panetta's representation in district 20 and the rest including like the whole city of Scott Valley and more northern county again with on SU in district 18 but that is shifting um the new district 18 will be some of Santa Cruz County more inland and Capitola and the rest of our county will be in new congressional district 19 and it's kind of an odd like very L shaped along the coast all the way down to San Luis Obispo um so entire city of Santa Cruz Scott Valley much of Watsonville all of Capitola will be in district 19 and the incumbent for that district will be Jimmy Panetta so here I will show you the new map as you can see like I said much of um north county here or excuse me all in north county all the way down the coast and then inland kind of a sharp turn inland and here's a nice picture you can see all of the mountain communities here bordering with scatos Scott's Valley here we are Capitola some of Coralitas all the way down bordering district 18 that new 18 and if you're interested on SU will be in district 16 no longer representing any of Santa Cruz County so that is quite a change just kind of more big picture um so that is the new congressional map again here is just district the new district 19 and he takeaways I would say just a reminder you know these maps will take effect soon but not until the upcoming election so we have the primary in June and then of course our general election November 8th and as I mentioned on the local level not much has changed certainly not for Capitola with our board of supervisors for our county and at the state senate level that really remains quite status quo for us here but the change to our district lines and potentially for representation will come with the election for state assembly members and congress that is the conclusion of the presentation thank you so much for your time thank you the council members have questions seeing none um connect you once again and Chloe I realized that we didn't get an opportunity to do your announcement uh leading into the council meeting oh thank you I'd be happy to do so as the mayor um referenced this meeting is not physically open to the public in accordance with California senate bill 361 we are as you can see meeting via zoom and there are several ways for the public to watch and participate information on how to join the meeting using zoom or a landline mobile phone along with how to submit public comment during the meeting tonight is available on our website city of capitol.org and on the published meeting agenda the public can also live stream the meeting on our website or on youtube as always the meeting is cablecast live on charter communications cable tv channel 8 and is being recorded to be rebroadcast on the following wednesday at 8 a.m and on saturday following the first rebroadcast at 1 p.m on charter channel 71 and Comcast channel 25 and our technician this evening is Melissa thank you so much Melissa thank you mayor storage yeah thank you Chloe and yeah thank you Melissa um and I I wanted to give the attendee a head up if they wish to participate in public comment using email which is public comment at ci.capitola.ca.us and that you may want to go ahead and stop the fan of emails now so they can be ready to submit when we get to that item pretty pretty good what they have so with that that brings us to item three additional material do we have additional material for the meeting? yes mayor storage council did receive one additional material it was a public comment email regarding item 8b that is the lifeguarding update item thank you thank you and yeah we've already done item four which will bring us now to oral communications from members of the public this is the opportunity for members of the public to comment on items that are either on the consent agenda or not on tonight's agenda then you may do that you'll have a you'll raise your hand soon um the moderator will let you in and you will have three minutes to speak um you can also come in and I believe that we have up on the screen now the direction of how to participate um as well as the email address um so Larry do we have anyone that wants me to speak in public comment sorry I do see one person so far um it is Berge good evening uh can you hear me yes okay uh my name is Serge Kagnum uh good evening mayor and city council um I am on the county's mental health advisory board I'm a secretary and I tried to send for public comment um sent you a flyer of our upcoming meeting um it's uh we have presentation by one of the co-chairs of a nationally recognized report called roadmap to the ideal crisis response system um it's a pretty long report it's about 200 pages it's about assessing the behavioral health crisis system in a county with all of the different jurisdictions municipalities police departments nonprofits community getting together to do an assessment and look finding the gaps in the system and then after finding the gaps which are easier to agree on um than the solutions then going from there um I've reached out to different city councils and they're in different representatives I think somebody from your police department just confirmed today that they would be able to come so there should be a flyer you can google the mental health advisory board for Santa Cruz and find our next um meeting but it's February 17th three to five p.m. and the presentation will start around three thirty or four we're hoping that this is just going to be as you know like a brown act a presentation kind of meeting with some input but that we'll be able to find the players who want to continue on with meetings and we can create a work group and decide our format at a meeting after that so if you're available or if you can send a representative we would very much appreciate it and we would welcome you to our meeting at the mental health advisory board thanks yeah thank you search for that announcement um if I may ask um will this presentation be available over soon uh it's it'll be a team meeting um and uh the flyer has uh the short link for it um the agenda will come out a couple days before okay so people can find the link um on the flyer yeah yeah right there's also a call in if that's the way that people want to do it and it'll be recorded if people miss it and they still want to be involved right okay thank you for bringing that to our attention okay thank you very much have a great night um are there any other um letters to the public of which to see you can get a public comment Mayor Story I do not see any attendees with their hands raised on this item and we haven't received any emails okay with that um I think we'll move on to item six then which is uh I'll start with uh staff comment thank you Mayor Story I think we have two comments for you this evening we'll have mickey kick it off first with nothing fake from recreation good evening Mayor Council members uh so the recreation division is going to experience a brief pause in our ability to register individuals online as we are starting up with a new registration system that is in the process of implementation and it will we expect it to be online by the beginning of March and it will definitely be up and running in time for summer registration um but right now the state and its individuals are looking to register for an activity that is occurring in March um we ask for payment and registration old school registration paper form um with cash or check payment or um they can also just wait until March and um most of our activities are currently operating and the things that begin in March we should have our system up and running for it at that quick thank you thank you for that announcement thank you um any other staff comment okay thank you thank you Mayor Story uh just a quick update similar to Nikki um you may have noticed at the beginning of the year our agendas and agenda packets look a little bit different that's because staff has been working very hard to move over to a new agenda management system and I have to say overall we're very pleased it's been going really well you may also have noticed that the website interface is slightly different regarding how to access meetings agendas packets and videos from the main webpage so everything is there the route is slightly different and we're still kind of working out kinks to make sure the public they have access as it is but just that it's as easy and as clean as it can be so if anyone on council is asked that's the situation and if anyone has any suggestions or questions please always feel free to call me email me let me know what could be improved and we will make that change so thank you very much thank you for that announcement I think the council members have any suggestions about the agenda yeah please let's follow you now um which will now bring us to item seven it's um oh excuse me um this is an opportunity I wanted to see if uh council members had any comments and I'll I see that council member Peterson has their hand up so go ahead thank you Mayor Story I just wanted to briefly remind everyone that Capitola is having the Capitola Leadership Academy coming up in March and April the deadline to apply is February 25th and there's more information on the city website and it's a great opportunity to encourage civic participation and help residents better understand how the city works and the city's role in the larger community so I encourage anyone who's interested to check that out on our website it's a really great program and then the other thing I wanted to mention is today was the first meeting of the Cal City's transportation public transportation communications and public work policy committee long name and this is my first year on that committee I spent three years on like the community services committee and then transferred over to this one and I just wanted to share a little bit um about what the work plan item that we spoke about today um this committee in particular is going to be focusing on uh obtaining funding for sustaining and improving critical infrastructure and that includes streets highways bridges transit but then also broadband and other uh economic development um items uh bridging the digital divide improving the water grid and uh focusing on efficient and cost-effective project delivery so no small task lots of really exciting and important stuff I believe we're going to be meeting four more times throughout the year uh as we work to advocate uh on behalf of our city and all cities throughout the state of california to obtain funding through a state government sources so stay tuned for more on that thank you very much thank you councilmember leadership uh thank you mayor and uh yeah I want to echo what christen said about the leadership um opportunity just to learn more um and understand more about our awesome town and christen to us for being on yet another board I honestly don't know how you do it um but also I just wanted to do a little shout out for our our central fire and our first responders capital PD and everything for our our little um brush fire that we had recently right near the trestle and near our museum which um I know is probably a scare for most people in city hall obviously but thank you everybody for just putting forth your best work and communication um it it means a lot and I know that it makes us all feel really protected living here and that's that's a huge colleague's life for me personally so I can only imagine it is for most people but thanks to our city and um hopefully we can keep keep up the good work on that friend thank you so much thank you vice mayor um any other council members um have coming seeing none um I wanted to report out that uh mayor still not committed met on january 22nd uh just this past um and uh and part of the actions that they took were to one confirmed capital is being a regular uh city member of uh of black black coast with top valley being the alternate um we did uh a firm uh council member brooks as our as the regular uh representative from capital to continue in that role um at black coast um and uh john ellen was appointed as um the alternate uh from scott's palace um we as well uh appointed um jack billard to um the monorail bay area uh resources district um as well as the uh consolidated uh redevelopment over time for and and those were um the actions that were brought uh through the estimators select committee oh the the lack of terms um start on may 22nd um of this year and we'll run to may 4th of 2026 i also want to report um last dc night the arts uh commission met and um it is um a report out that they have confirmed a schedule of 12 fans for the uh twilight hunting series to start on June 15th um you know the summer um so we look forward to uh having to win the mad concerts back in um in full um form um so that will include um my updates for the council and which will now bring us to the consent item and uh i wanted to see if any of the council members looks to hold a consent item for further discussion um seeing none i'll entertain a motion to approve the consent item you can make a motion to approve the consent item a second is there a second yes um we have um a motion by vice mayor texan and second by councilmember feederson um and so uh please can we have a roll call vote please councilmember britchand i agree councilmember brooks hey councilmember peterson hi vice mayor kaiser i mayor story hi this will bring us to item eight which is general government for the city um and um the first item is page a which is a presentation on highway one i'm thoroughly displaying and bus on shoulder project between bay avenue port of street and state park drive um we'll have a presentation from the rc3 and um and there are things looking to us to provide input on certain aesthetic uh elements of that project so can i ask for a staff report yes good evening mayor and council um the item before you as you mentioned is a presentation on a the highway one project that's going to stretch from the bay porter avenue interchange down to state park drive um it includes uh adding off lanes in the area and it also includes uh a bus bus on shoulder aspect the project has gone through preliminary design and environmental review and now it's all been approved already and the uh proponents of the project which is the regional transportation commission south france county and capitol has been involved commenting on the project has gone through um on some aesthetic um features of the project and they're looking for info like that so with that i'd like to introduce sarah christensen from the regional transportation commission and kira casale from mark thomas and associates is the consultant on the project uh i think sarah is going to pick up the presentation and um go from there sarah great thank you steve my good evening mayor and council members um my assistant in i'm with the san jose county regional transportation commission i managed the highway one project for the rtc and um like steve said we have kira casale here uh she's our uh professional engineering consultant with mark thomas um um next slide please kira thank you here we go okay so we have um three projects in our development i just want to give kind of a high level update on these three projects so the first one is um between stokell and 41st and that project um is complete with the design and will be advertised any day now and um construction is expected to begin this year um the project that we are talking about today is the one in the middle the phase two project and this project is um in the final design phase we are planning to finish design this year and go to construction next year and then finally the last uh segment of auxiliary lanes of bus on shoulder is the phase three project that will bring it all the way uh to freedom below bars uh next slide all right so here's a project we're um here to talk about today we have auxiliary lanes in both directions between the base quarter and park interchanges as well as park to state park drive there are two bridges proposed as part of this project one is the replacement of the capital avenue over crossing and the second is the new pedestrian bicycle over crossing at marvis to drive the schedule year we finished the environmental phase in 2020 we're currently finishing up the final design and right of way phases and uh planning to begin construction in uh 2023 next year here's just kind of an overview of the additional auxiliary lanes that are proposed is one of the main components of the project so there will be a rising on both sides of the highway um and as well as in the median um this project is going to provide significant benefits to traffic operations on the three way um and also the main part of it is obviously the replacement of the capital avenue over crossing and i just want to say thank you to um the city of capitol and and to have staff uh involved with the um the project development team it's been really helpful to um have such a great partnership through the development of these projects and um i'm going to hand it over to kira to talk about the um aesthetic um opportunities for the project that we're looking at great thank you sarah and thank you uh naya story and council members um so i'm just going to uh highlight some of the aesthetic features as sara mentioned um there has been studies done or input that's been received for the corridor wide aesthetics so i'm going to start with that in order to provide consistency along the highway corridor we're proposing similar features all through uh the segment of the project um so starting with some of the hard state features um we're proposing the staining of the median concrete barrier um aesthetic treatments on the down walls this uh down walls that are proposed similar to aesthetics that are on the existing corridor as well as um the staining and stamping of the core treatments at the entrances of the freeway the entrances and exits of the freeway there's also going to be proposed staining at the midwest guardrail system along the corridor in addition to some of the hard state hard state features um there's also uh landscapes and components of the project and so we're proposing native species to replace some of the vegetation that's being removed as part of the project um that will include both trees and shrubs as well as signs at the down wall location and again these elements are in order to retain consistency on the highway one corridor so um now we just want to highlight that um we are looking for community feedback as feedback as mentioned um and I did want to note that there is currently a video and a survey on the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission website and at the end of this presentation I'll show a QR code that will link you directly to the website as well as the survey so starting at the Capitola Avenue over crossing um as Sarah mentioned the bridge will be replaced um and so some of the features that we're looking for we're looking for feedback on five different features um the first one being the poth on the bridge and there's two options that we have um Sarah down to uh Franklin Gothic Demi and Angela Love-Stanz and as you can see that's proposed at the center of the bridge of the new bridge the next feature that we're looking for uh community feedback on is a metal plated cutout as a community identifying image um we have starting at the top an option for a sea creature or sea star the middle option shown is a palm tree and then there's also the option to just not um you know propose any terminal uh fence decoration the third feature that we're looking for community feedback on is uh there are retaining walls proposed on the northbound and southbound sections of the freeway near Capitola Avenue um and those extend both north and south and so looking for a feedback on the coloring either a tan new core sandstone or Santa Cruz uh limestone like a gray um the next feature is the possibility of proposing our feature at the bridge entrance um the orange arrow is identifying approximately where that would be located and then there's also a few different options that are um what the the bridge entrance column could potentially look like so that concludes the five aesthetic features that we're looking for um feedback on at Capitola Avenue um we are also as oh sorry now there's one more feature um surprise so the fifth feature that we're looking for feedback on is um either whether or not to have the inside of the bridge painted and that would be a part of the pedestrian experience um a blue wave or to not have that that concludes the uh aesthetic features for the Capitola Avenue overcropping um the project is also as Sarah mentioned uh mentioned the proposing a pedestrian and bicycle overcropping at Marvis S and um back in fall of 2002 2020 not 2002 that was a long time ago uh the project team presented three uh concepts in 2020 and received community feedback on those aesthetic features and based on community feedback the misty redwood aesthetic was selected um so today we're looking for feedback on the bridge named font um the three options are shorini extra bold alp the brocanic bold italic and 4k and this concludes the aesthetic feature presentation again here's the qr code that i promised we would provide at the end of the um presentation and so if you want to use your phone to connect to it or as i mentioned you can visit the project website on the Santa Cruz county regional transportation commission website and i'll leave this slide up but um that doesn't include our presentation if there are any questions or discussions i just like to add really quickly if i can if there is a flyer in the agenda packet that also has this qr code and we will be putting pushing that out on social media through the city in the next couple days also to get people uh access to the the project survey thank you yeah well yeah thank thank you chair thank you sarah thank you steve and i'm glad we found another feature because i thought i miscounted uh so um i guess i wanted to ask if council members have questions um about the presentation at this time um i'm seeing none of you know hand stuff um i i i wanted to ask um i'm just out of curiosity i noticed that the font options for apoc were three um and for capcala only two um and they seem to be different fonts and i was just wondering um if there were more fonts available the option for capcala um we only proposed two because we actually struggled with this as a as a project development team um one of those fonts was really inspired by um the i guess the capitalists sign the big c um and that was really the theme that we weren't i guess inspired by um we've also received some comments about consistency of the fonts we've actually received um quite a few email comments not specifically uh from you know uh city capitol of folks that just in general i think there's some desire for consistency but um if you'd like to see another font um feel free to yeah there we go that's the inspiration um but if you want to see another font you can feel free to um give that input to steve and pass it on to the pbt yeah it comes from there i think it has some weight so um so councilmember brick train you had a question you're up you're on the news councilmember so thanks very much there um so our city symbol is the begonia and you were asking for art suggestions i was wondering if that could be put out there also um however i like the idea of stars like something relating to our beach and you know i don't know what the public would think in general but you know traditionally we've been identified by the begonia um another thing is at the start of the bridge like a capital avenue we mentioned there was a possibility of some art work there yeah so we have an art commission which sham is on maybe we could um you know work with them to try to come up with something typically we do a contest and maybe we could do something that is inspired by the children in our schools there's a contest and yeah because um new bright middle school is definitely in capital and you know they over the years produced a lot of artwork of one of which my daughter has participated in so if they all look nice and a good thing about it is the kids all remember it and when the grow older they bring their kids by and show them so that's a good suggestion i appreciate that thanks thank you chumple and the great grand um are there any other chumple members that have questions on this presentation um seeing that i'm going to take this up to the public and if the public enough to use the way in um on the progress and the design element so um yeah on your screen you should see um ways to uh specific and that they're just likely have one hand up now yes ma'am sorry we have a hand up it is uh Samantha group speak Emily okay go ahead Samantha i believe she's so beautiful yeah um Samantha if you can hear me if you're on mute right now i'm sorry we'd like to actually retract that um we're a little bit sorry about that oh no no problem that's fine um Larry is there anyone else um that has their hands up or called in or submitted an email i don't see any attendees with our hands up and we have not received any emails okay um i'll bring it back to the council uh council member retrain did you still have your hand up or okay that's left over um and i'll look like that's all council member Peterson um you want to start it off sure thank you uh thank you sarah and kiera for that presentation i'm really excited for this project um i just want to throw my two cents in i i love the idea of the sea stars uh on the overpass is art i think it really fits in with some of the other um ocean scenes art that we have in capitola we have the uh fence around the top lot at the library that was meant to look kind of like reed uh there's a walkway on capitola avenue this made a metal that looks like kelp we have the sea lions in the village that are bronze so i think it would really kind of tie together nicely with what we already have um and then along with that having that wave painting on the pedestrian uh again kind of ties into that overall sea life uh ocean theme that i i really appreciate along with the art features and then my thought on the um the limestone i like the stanikers limestone because it's gray and if we're going to have the metal and the concrete and it kind of all is cohesive rather than having um kind of a clay color just kind of thrown in there with all the other silver and gray so i'm just throwing my two cents in there uh i like to be angela love sam's font um and i'm really excited to see this project together thank you or come together thank you so much for all of your work on this um really appreciate it yeah thanks mayor president thank you mayor i definitely want to echo what uh uh councilwoman peterson said about um the stanikers limestone and the wave part on the overpass i also like the star shapes as well um i definitely if possible would love to incorporate some local art um whether it's uh students or just somebody that um either applies or something i know the art and cultural commission has done a lot of things like that in the past where they sort of um go through different applicants um i think that would be awesome and i i did like as i said the star is the best but i kind of like the all cap for the word capitol um i don't know if that really matters or not but this kind of is basically maybe that with the stars but again just that's my two cents but i'm also very excited about this and thank you guys for all your hard work much appreciated thank you vice mayor any other council members um have their hands up um well this is just a presentation um and um so i wanted to thank sarah and kira for um showing us um the you know the aesthetics of the project and uh i think it's um and the vegetation i think it's wonderful to add those elements into the highway and um i know whenever i go um underneath the the base as they order there are those uh archaeological digs and you know i've always been drawn to them and i think that was a really wonderful element um certainly appreciate doing the public outreach and doing the survey to give members of the public the opportunity um to weigh in um and give their you know aesthetic sensibility to uh the project um and um i'm hoping that we can maybe kind of support their effort in that and having a link on our website that uh links to this rpc survey in the video to get more public input and also i will certainly relay this information to the arts commission and whether they individually or maybe collectively may want to make some recommendations uh to remove the work that we're doing so um thank you very much for um you know really bridging uh unifying um you know the project and i think it's going to be a wonderful addition um so um with that i think we will there's no action to be taken on this item so i will move us on to item 8b which is the lifeguard services update and this is the recommended action is to approve a resolution uh amending the hourly and seasonal salary schedule and modifying the studio capital of each lifeguard unit are constructed uh descriptions and this will authorize the management of the five letters to the lifeguard service agreement with the city of sanctuary and increasing the amount of the agreement to 110,019 and three who received a report regarding seasonal staffing funding so this summer of 2020 and can we have a staff report to start us off? yes thank you mayor council members um i'm going to take a minute to share my screen and confirm that it's all so mr moderator is everything look good and sounds good on the public end? thank you all right so so council members the item before you this evening is um a report on the capital lifeguard services now this is an introduction for this item um since the lifeguard services in capitol are involved several agencies in there are several um moving parts to it i wanted it to just frame this a little bit and um bring your attention that the items that are requiring action this evening there's there's three of them adjustments to the hourly fee rate additions to the job description for our um beach lifeguard junior lifeguard instructor positions as well as our contract with the city of sanctuary so as i go further to the report there's a lot of details kind of within the story of this report but just to kind of frame that that a lot of these all these proposed changes are are presented to you to ensure a successful recruitment for this summer as well as um in hopes for creating a solid foundation for the retention and development of next summer so a little bit of forward thinking so moving to our background uh the lifeguard tower services in on capitol beach have been provided by the city of janitor's fire department um since about 2012 they um staff our lifeguard tower and the current contract that we have is we entered into for a two-year term and that contract end is set to end um this september also uh the central fire district has been providing our junior lifeguard instructors the staff that run our junior lifeguard program they have been providing training services and since 2019 and when we had entered into that agreement an aspect of that was uh for central fire to begin a lifeguard program in which they would in lieu of the city of janitor's began to provide lifeguard services on our beach and that uh target that we had identified through our recent contract um was to begin in 2023 um also uh we just in in december in preparation for this uh annual work like the plan of state minimum wage increase uh council heard an item where the hourly piece of goals were adjusted in order to meet that minimum wage increase now just recently uh it has come to that attention that neighboring jurisdictions have have increased the uh their pay rates for beach lifeguard junior lifeguard instructors um but that it is is greater than what we had originally planned and so in order to be competitive um staff is recommending to adjust the junior lifeguard beach lifeguard position um this adjustment will cost an additional $15,000 over an entire summer and um i want to bring council's attention that they're in the body of the texas staff report there wasn't an error and the appropriate dollar amount is $15,000 which is the correct dollar amount that was later in the reporting go chart um now the city of Santa Cruz has um came to the came to us requesting an increase to the contracting which they provide uh lifeguard services um they had also experienced a hourly employee pay rate increase and the city of Santa Cruz provides the service to us um just at direct cost of staff and so the the request is to increase the contract by $19,000 which would total um for for the entire service of uh starting from memorial day to liver day um a 101,119 i didn't say that right so the um additionally um the city of Santa Cruz has also offered to provide leadership training for um our lifeguard staff and counter experience for our lifeguard staff as we prepare for future summers uh this would be training that would be equivalent to training that their uh lifeguard lieutenants or beach lifeguard twos would um typically experience in their organization uh central fire will also be participating um in this leadership training as well um so central fire and our has been providing that training program for us and it's also been in the process of developing a strategic plan within their really merged vision space and therefore is unavailable to identify a timeline in which they would be able to start a beach lifeguard program within their organization and provide power services on Capitol Beach um so in thinking about how we can move forward for the future um one of the uh recommendation is to adjust the beach lifeguard junior lifeguard job description um enabling us to have a little bit more opportunity within that recruitment pool there are two changes that are being proposed the first one is to change the age requirement for employment currently the job description identifies that as 18 years of age or older now the usla is an organization that outlines a lifeguard standard or training standard for open water lifeguards and they have identified the minimum age for an open water lifeguard is 16 years of age um and so what I would be requesting is that we modify our job descriptions who identify that an individual can be 17 years of age by July 1st for the applying year or 16 years of age having received captain within our Capitol Junior Guard program as well as a recommendation from the junior lifeguard coordinator um and second change to the job description includes the doonies of tower surveillance currently our job description primarily describes um our beach lifeguard junior lifeguard instructors as just junior lifeguard instructors and this is adding the duties of beach and water surveillance uh for a primary predominantly safety oriented perspective so we would recommend adding that to our job description as well um and finally to again position ourselves into a uh long term plan for next summer as well as capable advantage of the city of Santa Cruz's offer um to provide additional leadership training and given tower experience uh staff is proposing an additional hire of an assistant coordinator as well as um three beach lifeguards this would be approximately $40,000 more of expense in wages over the entire summer now the summer season um it exists within two budgets as uh the first part of it is then ending in June and then the next um when we begin for the next fiscal budget begins in July so for the rest of this budget our current budget that we are in um these increasing pay rates as well as the addition of four staff members increases or adds a total of $27,000 um at this moment staff is not recommending that in a budget amendment as this projected cost is can already be covered under the planned expenses within the budget but over the long over a full year cost for the program the the full year cost is $74,000 and the staff would be including the full year cost in the next budget proposal that council will be hearing um next month so um the recommended action for this evening is to approve a resolution amending the hourly and physical salary schedule and modifying the city of capital of each lifeguard junior lifeguard instructive job description and authorize the city manager to execute a first amendment to the lifeguard services agreement with the city of Santa Cruz increasing the amount of the agreement to 110,000 and 119th um and again i want to draw council's attention that since the um release of the packet there has been a change in language um for the amendment and that it is to execute a first amendment and not a sidebar um so with that i'm available for questions questions by council members uh the uh council member retract thank you mayor um niki you mentioned something about um the standard organization lifeguard association i believe and the extra training that you're contemplating including um ocean surveillance etc um so we can develop our program can you comment a little bit about how we will stand in terms of the standard practices like in comparison to what they do in Santa Cruz i know an issue at one point was our comparison in terms of standards in terms of safety etc uh compared to other programs like just want to get a better understanding of that since i'm new to this thank you yes thank you for the question so the since we have started partnering with um central fire staff our junior lifeguard staff have been trained under u.s. ally staff so they um which meet or exceed those expectations now central fire is has has a field set in order to train us but our partnership with the city of Santa Cruz where they actually are operating um a lifeguard program and have done so respectfully on our beach as well as their own beaches um they are bringing providing to us this summer an opportunity for um a greater level of experience and training with the operation side of that kind of program and so this summer the plan would be that we would work alongside the city of Santa Cruz taking advantage of the training opportunities that they would be providing to their own leadership staff and um having that be extended to us and also that that our would be able to get power service experience so that we would have an opportunity to take this experience hopefully retain that experience through um next summer and be have a good foundation and i would also want to point out that chief odious on if any audience should you want to direct any questions there as well thank you so my main concern is still to be able to provide good service and um so this training is going to elevate our level of expertise together um okay um so Santa Cruz running the program i understand they provide a lot of equipment do we have that kind of equipment that um is used for water rescues and inside that are we deficient in that would that require another investment um so the equipment that is used both by the city of Santa Cruz as well as our own junior lifeguard staff that is all of equipment there um there are supplies that are used throughout the summer and um we have been in a relationship with the city of Santa Cruz where we would they would bill or we would purchase it's changed from year to year in order to make sure that the appropriate amount of supplies are there and then in the event that there was something that um we needed the city of Santa Cruz had communicated that to us in the past that this item of equipment um was need to be replaced for however you know it worked out so the we do have um a bit of equipment and it is something that does need replacing there's an appreciation to that and so every year we do an annual inspection of any equipment that might need to be replaced. Thank you. Any other council members have questions? Um saying none um Nikki I had a question uh about the long term plan um for I guess adding to our available staff and I wonder what what is the turnover rate for uh the lifeguards and lifeguard training and you know on how likely are them to be available to us within a year or two years down the line um and and in the event that central fire should move forward with their planning and develop a program uh will this be um wasted money? Thank you for asking those questions. They're great questions so um the so the first one I'll answer you back is that no this um this wouldn't be wasted money this whoever whoever is ultimately starting this um lifeguard operation on our beach next summer whether it be central fire whether it be the city whether it be Santa Cruz um it is bringing a pool of staff that will have experience and be and have an ability to be retained and um and that's very valuable each year it is typical that any uh any organization summer hourly positions you have about a 50 percent retention um some years are better some years not one of the challenges that we're working with is that the past two summers we have been operating in a lifetime program due to COVID but so we had a much smaller staffing pool um and last summer it was only about 10 and and this summer we would be our goal would be to hire about 27 individuals 28 individuals and so um we're already starting at a deficit with that retention as though the idea here is was just to get get more individuals trained in our favor um so that we would have a good foundation for next summer whoever is ultimately doing higher great all right thank you um seeing no other uh helpful questions I'm going to take this out to the public and see if there's any members of the public that would like to comment on this item um if you would please raise your hand um are all the instructions are coming up on the screen now should be able to see them um Larry do we have anyone wishing to speak on this item your story I do not see any attendees with their hands raised to this item okay I'll bring this um item back to the council for further deliberation and uh possible motion uh it is here again that we think it would be a three-part motion um and then I'll just open it up with respect to one of the council members yeah council member Trent you're you're still on me as council member there you go my hands shakes that's the problem um yeah I you know my my sense that you're planning for the future is um you know many scores we have to expand the program and this uncertainty who's going to provide the services whether central or center crews or or self-season so expanding our offerings in terms of training um you know looking forward to the future um thanks very much for doing that um obviously all the support that the program and that's so important to see the capitol um the issue of maintenance excuse me a turnover that Sam brought up um I I know that our program offers a lot for respect to people who want to eat in the fire departments and you know if there's great fraud there is this still you know it's another question but is this still sort of an awkward current that you see you know that helps make this program successful because as you plan to go forward is this something we could stress is that a helpful thing for you guys um yeah I do I do think that many individuals that come through our program are interested in entering um fire or emergency response um I've known individuals that have gone into nursing through through this experience as well so there there is um some of that some of them are interested in that they have a or they're here because they've had a passion for it that they've grown up through the program and that really they just want to get back to the community as well um and so you know it's a little bit it's a little bit of both but it's definitely the there there is a dedication to our program and a hope for it to have a valuable experience no matter what I don't know if this is the right time to make a motion but I'll wait for further comments no I think this is an appropriate time to make a motion we'll see if that's in it and we can have further discussions on the motion okay thank you mayor so I'll read from the agenda here item one is to approve a resolution amending the hourly and seasonal salary schedule and modifying the city of capital beach lifeguard junior lifeguard instructor job description the second part of the motion would be to authorize the city manager to execute a first amendment to the lifeguard services agreement with the city of Santa Cruz and increase the amount of the agreement to 110,119 dollars that's my motion I can second that I mean five feet of so the third the third part of the action just to receive the report regarding the state's most happened plan I will amend the motion to include receiving the report thank you very much vice mayor I can second that amendment if necessary I think so we have a motion and the second on the floor is there any further deliberations by councilman seeing none before I talk to the both I did want to recognize and I think appreciate maybe separate to I think maybe be prepared to be our own lifeguard program you know we've been fortunate enough just to have central fire and have the city of Santa Cruz fill in for us but you know as we look forward it may be I think I'm coming upon us to be self-sufficient and we start developing our own programs on you know just and that that this may be out of that I think that that even though it's an investment I think it's an important step forward that ultimately maybe eventuality so with that I'll ask for a roll call though one more question excuse me one more comment may sure go ahead yeah I'd like to echo your comments Nikki and her attention to the program I as I recall this was one of the first things that was thrown in her lap when she got hired and she did exception well then and it's you know I really I think again this is so important the capital so thank you very much for keeping this program going and the attention that you give to it so that's successful each year thank you with that I'll call for the vote council member Bertrand I agree council member Brooks hi council member Peterson hi vice mayor Kaiser hi mayor story hi motion passes unanimously thank you Nikki now we'll move on to item eight feet which is the alignment of the proposed pedestrian pathway from the upper beach and village parking lots in Monterey Avenue there's a recommended action which is to approve a new proposed route for the pedestrian pathway from the upper beach to the village parking lots in Monterey Avenue and Steve you're going to lead us in this I am again I'm the sharing stranger so the greatness moderator it looks great thank you so the item before each night is continuing to look at the proposed pathway that we have between Monterey Avenue and upper beach and village parking lot it's been on the books for about years now keeps kind of changing as the project along the rail trail changes so we finally come up with a new alignment I think that's well to move forward so see some quick background 2016 the city received a grant to construct this pathway from the RTC it wasn't a defined pathway at that time it was envisioned we were going to try and separate people walking up to Monterey Avenue uh from the the traffic right now they're they're forced to walk in the in the roadway itself people do it every day especially crowded out of staying the summer when we have much weather initial plans towards each reverse up the slope of the the rail trail up the slope of the railroad property and actually tie in uh up on the the grade the rail grade and follow that up to Monterey Avenue we drafted a plan some through review with the RTC came up with a proposed plan which then kind of hit some skids because the county started working on segments 10 and 11 so what we found in working trying to put this project on the rail trail itself or on the rail corridor was that there's a lot of work involved in assessing potential pollutants mitigating them um councilor members back since March we approved an agreement that said if there's a pollutants in there that needs to be mitigated regardless of the pathway that the RTC would take care of it if there was pollutants that only need to be mitigated because of the pathway then in our responsibility as part of our project the county which is working on segments 10 and 11 which do does the pacifola was trying to do this on a more global scale we were hoping to piggyback along with them that they were completing these environmental reviews and mitigation measures they're also looking they're still looking at how the pathway is going to align in relationship if there's going to be rails not going to be rails you all know all those issues and probably better than i do but they're they're still design and doing the environmental studies and we're still we're still several years away and rather than wait for them to complete that work we sat down with them and talked about proposing a new alignment for just our segment our little pathway we will that first tie the parking lot and whatever goes on on the corridor the rail corridor eventually we came up with the idea of essentially building a sidewalk along the existing road the advantage of this of new alignment is that it is predominant like outside the rail corridor rail property it's not any area of expected pollutants and very confident that we would not have to do any mitigation along the way it reduces the amount of retaining walls when if that's looked we're going to have some sense of retaining walls to do and it's has been cleanly with the crosswalk at honoree avenue to the east side on the east side part of the project always included kinds of trying to dress that up it went from just doing simple landscaping to tying it into a a trail at that point and come back and forth as we work with the RTC at this time we were proposed down and going back to our original plan which was to put some curb and gutter in there trying to keep cars from going up there and parking and then also doing some landscaping up there very simple if they're used to that property changes in the future from RTCs use the property it wouldn't be a big loss to change what we put in there but it would dress up that corner and stop it from being a parking lot at certain times so this is a pretty broad overview of the the proposed line so here the orange line here this is the original one it was going to go along the base of the road and then cut up to the rail level and then go to Monterrey Avenue tie in to be here to go across the street what we're proposing now is obviously just following the curb line yeah two dash lines because there's two uptrees here where have not done any studies about how to minimize the impact on those so we found two options are each side of the oak tree let's still go across and here you can see the the little small improvements that were proposed here on that side I have some pictures here that'll give you a better idea you can see we would put a curb ramp here giving access to scrollers, wagons, wheelchairs, everybody to get on this sidewalk and fill out and they would be separated from the vehicles going through here looking at from the other direction the same thing and here we kind of just run into this tree and we need to figure this out obviously the impact on the oak trees here is significant I don't think we'd have to remove them but I've got some pictures here that show so the first thing is one of the trees that we've always identified them to be a problem that's giant cyclist tree that had been there unfortunately for the tree being good for the project was suffered significant damage about two months ago with a large branch fell and put a large scar into the trunk itself we consulted Arborus and they just say it needed to be it was going to be spent plenty of weekend where that branch came off and they recommended removal and I believe it was removed only about two weeks ago at this point so removes the significant hurdle to be honest with you looking at the other way so the cypress stump is way down here you can see I've numbered the oak trees that are along the way and I have another picture that shows them all the better coming up so but there are six oak trees here that will potentially be impacted if we got the original route there was six to eight oak trees that were going to impact it that were in some of the same trees so we're hopefully reducing the impact on the oak but they're not still significant so there's another picture of the oak trees the cyclist tree is just off the picture here when we orient you so these two trees if we had started the pathway going up these two trees would have been removed on the pathway going up through the rail corridor as they sit now we're not certain whether we can build the cycle up here we are trying to look at whether we can move this curve line out away from the trees give us more room we get space around the other trees but this is what needs to be looked at as we move forward under the old alignment these trees we're going to have to be removed because we are meeting a 5% it was very gradual slope and it just kind of just ran up here this oak tree was most likely impacted and those trees will not be impacted with what we're going forward with now these next two trees I think are far enough away but only time will tell if we move forward with the design whether we can save these two and then I'm going to go back one slide this pick this tree number one and there's a tree hidden behind it you can see these branches right here are going to be the toughest one just if they weren't there it'd be very clean just to run up here and sign to this curve right there and we have continuous sidewalks here if we go around them we are starting to encroach back onto the RCC property the rail border properties we back away we go behind these trees so one of the thoughts is we do a bulb out here and if we have enough width here you know we we need to lay that out the things these trees are we're either going behind them and probably digging on top of the roots or potentially removing them so I just want to be kind of it's a difficult project to get in there but we do think it's worthwhile um re-aligning that halfway there's less impact on the trees there's uh reduced savings and the project costs that we will not be having mitigation and the chemical concerns that we do we work up on the rail border itself both the county and the RTC who are kind of taking the leads on 10 and 11 throughout the segments 10 and 11 have reviewed this and they concur that this realignment makes sense it provides the the necessary link to whatever projects they came up with but it doesn't hamstring them at all as they report that they're designed um so our recommended action tonight is to approve the proposed route and then do proposed routes with pedestrian pathways from the upper peach and village parking lot to Monterey Avenue and with that I'd be happy to answer any questions council member brook take your mayor's story Steve are there is an exploration of the funding that we're trying to utilize um it's the RTC money and I do not believe there's an exploration data for fun and is it specific to the use of this particular project that we have to utilize it was RTC funding it was awarded for a connection to a rail trail as well and the parking lot it's a possibility we could shift it to another project similar similar thing but it was granted for this project and then for clarification for the the recommended action um by moving forward today is this um is will this come back with the plan and then we would vote on the actual plan at a later time and I'm just concerned about the trees and not really having a good gauge of it so there's two actions you could take um one recommended action that would be just to tell us to proceed we would kind of go through the design process and come back to you when we're ready to take the project out a bit um and alternate with the to ask us to do some preliminary design and impact on the trees and come back at that stage which would be before we would ask for a project approval thank you Steve that's all my question any other uh yeah council member we're trying do you want to be a council member i'm trying to be good i'll stay off the mute okay um yeah you mentioned uh section 1011 and the design process this is nowhere complete and certainly hasn't gone through RTC and do you have any sense of our um necessity to break the plan forward at this point in reference to what's being you know i think matt's involved in this not the shadows so uh do you have any um sense of timelines here because you know basically he just you waste a lot of effort this is such a moveable thing on RTC's side i think well what we're after is trying to improve the safety of people walking up from the parking lot up to Monterey out in the back we know it's a major we have strength forward or um everybody parks with that end of the parking lot comes to you up there we're trying to get that built um and not wait for all these other decisions that needs to be made by the county of the RTC and everybody else to figure out how best to pilot it in i think this project gives us the ability to provide that safety measure now in the near future and not wait and then once they once those plans become finalized we can still build connections to the route forward or if i need it um that would spur all of it um and i don't see that that changes up a lot but it gives us the opportunity to build something while they're going through their process the other question is um we're putting a sidewalk in is this going to narrow the pathway sufficient excuse me the driveways sufficiently that we're going to parking where is it wiped out this one so that's one of the things we need to study is that you know especially around the some of the other things can we push it out maintain lanes of travel that are safe without creating problems between the parks we need about 10 feet really close to some of the areas whether we can push the curb out six inches and gain that six inches separation from the old trees but that's part of the preliminary design work that will be done okay yeah because you know if we could save the trees and maybe lose a parking spot or have the orientation of the parking a little bit differently we might be able to accomplish what you're talking about saving the trees and also providing the safety which i think you know i completely agree that's a paramount issue thank you you have a question on the report uh it's not all um thank you to members of the public and if um any attendees would like to comment on this by then it's so uh please raise your hand or you can um dial in or you can send a email Larry could you put up the there we go can you see that okay no it's black on my screen something happened to it so let me uh make sure the other side so let me just um how about that a little bit there there we go yeah okay so um um yeah um any members of the public that would like to uh comment on this by then sorry i do not see any attendees with their hands raised okay um i'll then bring this back to the council for for the deliberation and um and action um who would like to begin i see council member brook thank you mayor story um i'd like to uh make a motion to request staff to return what they preliminary design for the pedestrian pathway from the upper beach and village parking lot to moderate um to moderate avenue uh with showing the least amount of um effect on the trees in that area oh second that yeah and um if i make a comment yes we'll have council members but yeah just to sentiment this um council woman brooks is talking to is i think very critical you know when i walk up that trail and i've been walking up that trail for with 20 plus years those oaks are really wonderful and i like the canopy of them the sort of a i've been in several places like that and i wish i could see you know the overarching of oaks to make such a wonderful place to walk but you're right now we have to make this safe um i haven't heard of any complaints but you know it is an issue that could come up and so we have to address it and if you could come up with other ways that would protect the trees and you know if we possibly have to sacrifice some of the parking arrangements just to do that um i'm i was welcome to see a design to do that and so that's why i'm seconding it and i think uh council woman brooks completely got the sense of our discussion and concerns okay thank you i just wanted to confirm i want to make sure i understand i'm looking at the staff report and it says that the the impact on the oak trees on the new route the one that we're considering is less than the original route that we already voted on so if we hadn't had to bring this back there there we would have we'd already determined that we would be using those trees or could potentially lose those trees already is that correct uh yes there's the there's certainly more trees that absolutely would have had to bend your vote on the free only you know current route and then the proposed route kind of in the unknown land right now whether we can save enough of the oaks going on the new route okay um and then however many we potentially might have to take out we'll have to replant correct absolutely we would do now probably using our first recommendation on on how best to plant new oak trees in that area i won't say number two to one is our requirement but if three to one works or if he says one in apple one or whatever we would follow that recommendation to try and reestablish that canopy in there okay great no i'm glad to hear that okay i will uh i will be supporting this motion as we move forward thank you okay um let's see um open up the pipe of like next i think if you want to weigh in uh thank you yeah i um i'm pretty much on board with what everybody else is saying um definitely want to minimize it you know involving too much teardown of any of the oaks um and i do think that this is a priority as far as pedestrian access and pedestrian safety and keeping it on that side of the lot which is closest to the the train tracks and the stop at monorail i think that's important rather than um involving the other side of the entryway of the parking lot um so i i want to see this move forward however we can make it work the best for what we have on our plate i understand that it's a difficult um sort of roundabout way so i'm looking forward to moving this forward and if we can um come back to it once more information is is figured out based on the trees and whatever we need to do to keep it just safe and and environmentally sound is is right up our alley i think so see thank you so much for all the work and and i'm looking forward to making this more of like just i think it visually to be really cool and more and open and accessible to everybody so it's awesome thank you help member brook did you have your hand up again i just wanted to add that i'm sure this is something that you do already i know there's a person second it's just additional comments for myself here um that i believe the trees act almost as a sound wall for the neighbors for the house is there i lived in that place for 10 years so i know personally um and so that's also one of my biggest concerns about the impact on the neighbors um and the visual aesthetics for them that they they've lived they've had there for you know 60 seven years since owning those those properties there so i just i know that we have to replant and that's a piece of an element of it but i i think that it's really important to you to understand it does impact more than just that and to uh council member for transplant you know everyone's lost that and i think we've kind of had our own anecdotal observations of the gosh it's really annoying not to have a sidewalk but that's just kind of been our presumptions i don't know that we've had any real issues or um other than our own internal complaints of not having a sidewalk so moving this project forward i i guess it's it's an exclusive thing to do but i to account to agree with council member trans i i agree that there hasn't really i haven't seen or heard to council that there's really been an issue here um that we're we're really doing with that's been brought to a council attention um so those are my comments i appreciate uh the thoughts from other council members thank you yeah thank you and i think even i think you bring up a really good point about it not being um the direct issue being brought to council but i i think we all have the luxury of being able to walk through there but a lot of people don't and they're parking there and then bringing their family and kids and dogs to the beach or wherever which can be chaotic or like very spread out you know i know i don't always have my things together when i'm doing that kind of stuff so i think um it's not necessarily the issue of complaint or people bringing this to our attention but it's actually something that we might be able to get ahead of in case something weird happens and like i think it's maybe just a it may seem low in the totem pole but i think in the long run it could benefit in a way that we're not even really sure of yet at this time that's your council member for trying to be up for the summit yeah i do um it's a little off the subject but it's it's sort of begs the question i think we need a sidewalk on the the lower end to you know the least do capsule avenue and you know the people take their wagons down that just as much as they do going up and i think more people do that in terms of you know going down some people walk up but when they have the wagons they rarely take it up that's my observation and um those cars come through there fairly fast sometimes in the wrong direction which is not expected so maybe we need a sidewalk on the other side going down to capsule avenue in terms of safety just uh put that out there before i talk to the boat um maybe add steve uh do everything you can to save the tree um and so and then uh look at the sign when it comes back there thank you so with that i'll call for a roll call vote thank you ma'am story i i wanted to clarify because the motion is different than the recommended action that the motion is to request staff to return with the preliminary design for the project showing the least amount of impact on the trees in the area and i will call for the vote councilmember bertrand i agree councilmember brooks you lucky me hey councilmember peterson hi vice mayor keiser mayor story hi and the motion passes unanimously um thank you steve now we'll move on to item uh 8d which is to consider a letter in support for california senate bill 843 regarding renters tax credit the recommended recommended action is to direct the mayor to sign a letter in support of senate bill 843 uh with what increased california renters tax credit can we have a statute for yes thank you mayor story moderator does everything look okay look great thank you thank you so much thank you council and mayor story as the mayor said this is a quick report um based on a request from council previously on california senate bill 843 so the background on this bill is that it would increase the renters tax credit for primarily low-income california renters uh if the bill were to move forward and to pass single households making around 43 000 or less annually would receive a 500 credit and joint filers making together about 87 000 a year would receive a thousand dollars in credit something i think that is notable is that single parents would receive the same as joint filers not single households under the new bill and just in comparison currently the offset is now 60 for single filers and 120 dollars for joint filers so this is the first time um the tax credit for renting would be raised since 1979 and is intended to kind of acknowledge um inflation among other other things that have changed with the times and it is a very well supported bill um more than 40 california legislators including our um state senator john laird who is a co-author of the bill very um much of my partisan supported bill as well just something to think about locally our senate district currently almost 40 percent of residents are renters here in san jacuz county more than 40 40.7 percent our renters um in base in 2019 i think that number has likely gone up since then and uh in capitol 46 percent of lived in housing units are occupied by renters and the monthly average monthly rent in capitol is more than 2000 so the recommended action this evening is to direct the mayor to sign a letter in support of california senate bill 843 a draft of which was included in the packet and you know if that is to be what council desires the letter would then be mailed to the author of the bill steven glacer thank you i'm available for any questions don't remember that question seeing none i'm going to um active members of the public would like to comment on this item so um you should see instructions to raise your hand like al star nine i'll send it to the email very big anything first story i do not see any attendees uh with their hand raised top on this item and we do not have any emails okay with that i'm going to bring it back to council for further deliberation and um an action some way to like to make a motion yeah councilmember britrand yeah i moved as we support this bill and send a letter to the author um with an amendment can we also send it to our representative layers since uh he's in our area um is there a second to the motion i'll count on everything yes i'll uh i'll second that and if i could make a friendly amendment or an addition um if we could also uh have this sent to the committee on agluse the committee on budget and central review i think is where it's going to be going um so that the so that the committee members who will be you know considering um this bill we'll see it and not just the author who's actually um presenting it i think that's a good point so this vision is still in committee and so that's we um come out of committee for so yeah i'll accept that thank you oh thank you thank you just to clarify um what do they request that um the budget and uh fiscal review committee and uh assembly member layer ccd on the letter that's fine yeah yeah that's the idea right you get class fifth and on that um so there's any other uh some members that have comments on the motion before seeing that i think before i call for a road i if i say i can't believe that this hasn't uh been uh increased since 1979 um and so it's something that's uh well it would be um so with that i'll call for a roll call vote thank you mayor's story so to clarify uh you're directing the mayor to sign the letter which will then be sent to the committee on budget and fiscal review as well as ccd senator laird and senator glazer councilmember brechant i agree councilmember brooks hi councilmember peterson councilmember peterson hi vice mayor keiser mayor story hi thank you and the motion passes unanimously thank you slowly and um with that that brings us to item nine which is adjournment so i will adjourn this this meeting um until our next regular scheduled meeting on february the 24th um at 7 p.m. with that thank you everyone thank you staff um and if everyone be kind to yourself and to each other and good night capital thank you good night good night