 Okay, so by the clock on the wall, I call this a session of city capital regular meeting on October 24th roll call and pledge allegiance Councilmember story here councilmember Peterson here councilmember Brooks here councilmember Potter here and member John Here, so I'd like to call upon Mark Stone to leave the pledge of allegiance Thank you. It is my honor everyone would rise Salute and pledge a 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 so with that we have a presentation By the same assembly member mark son. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Mayor and council members I'm happy to be here report a little bit on the state of the state and take your questions to the extent that I can answer them I am happy to do so so this last year was pretty interesting We had a new administration come in even though the legislature now has been fairly stable as far as membership Goes over the last number of years and has learned its business under the tutelage of governor Brown When Newsome's Administration has come in Some a lot of lots the same and some differences Overall the health of the state is pretty strong fiscally. We have now Set up because of the rainy day fund and this notion of trying to make sure that we are Where we have excess revenues we're collecting them and not spending them But ideally putting them into reserves to minimize the impact of the next downturn And that's been a pretty constant theme It was something that governor Brown was very interested in and the legislature truly adopted it and embraced it So at this point the state of California has more in reserve than I think it's 38 states have in their general funds So we're of course, we're a very large state and have a lot of impacts But that what hopefully that means is as we go into the next downturn Because cities and counties are so reliant on the state given the revenue structure and the tax structure That there will be less pain that the state will be causing that is my hope I know that is your hope to local jurisdictions as we go through those next steps so the notion of the rainy day fund in the reserves is to stop sort of the the deep troughs and To clip off a little bit at the of the high end take those revenues and and store them away It also lets the state pay down some of the long-term obligations even before they come do and help future Governors and future legislatures sort of manage some of the pension issues and some of the other things in a in a much more rational way So we're paying down some of the debt paying down some of the long-term obligations and California's debt picture is actually very strong Every jurisdiction wants to carry some debt including the state of California in order to have a strong bond rating in California Now has a very strong bond rating the sort of mythical wall of debt just doesn't really exist We do have some debt in terms of some of the bonds that have been put into place The big concern of the long-term obligations and the ability of the state in out years to meet those obligations That's that's ultimately the challenge, which is why as we have money We've been using that to pay down some of those long-term obligations and make the state's general fund that that much stronger Especially if we head into an economic downturn, which is always being predicted I think Jerry Brown always said oh this year is going to be the year so we can't spend any money That was how we started the budget process this year governor Newsom is looking a little bit more cautiously at this point at next year's budget So we'll have to see what that means with what he puts together But that's not to say the state hasn't been investing We've been setting aside quite a bit of money for a number of different initiatives and a lot of these are things that Governor Newsom is interested in for example children and young families for the first time We're the legislation especially the assembly has been very interested in early childhood education very interested in child care and Expanding our education opportunities to the youngest and education Opportunities for the youngest also means support for those families to get those kids and those families ready for school and break some of the cycles of poverty and violence and and abuse and we know that if we invest in those families that Incidences of child abuse and spouse abuse go down over time That's definitely the the goal that we're playing towards and so governor Newsom is is very willing to do that In fact, he put a we now have a surgeon general Nadine Burke Harris in the state of California and her expertise is as a pediatrician and with respect to adverse childhood experiences the more we understand Aces adverse childhood experiences and use that to inform us on decisions whether it's education or support for families The better off those families are and the stronger our communities are That's a big shift away from that the Brown administration had not been interested in this administration definitely is and The legislature has been very interested in those kinds of of investments as well There's also been as you've probably seen a real push on housing California is short about three and a half million units across the state and There's a lot of input is to push local jurisdictions to do more and more and more and when Newsom gave His inauguration speech and some of this was in the state of the state his first day of the state last winter He talked about carrots and sticks. Well, so far. We've been pretty good about trying to put some of the sticks in place But not a lot of the carrots and I have honestly pushed back on some of that because I know the struggles that you have You are constrained from resources RDAs were taken away from local jurisdictions under prop 13 You have very limited ability to raise and manage taxes Which is why we typically with local jurisdictions talk about some parcel taxes or sales taxes or things that are Especially sales taxes that are regressive and very difficult for a lot of people to manage So I think it's incumbent on the state if we want to push local jurisdictions with respect to housing policy To put money on the table to let you do exactly that and we've been even though There's about two and a half billion dollars for housing and homelessness that we set aside in the budget Very little guidance on how that's ultimately going to get spent and how we get that down to local jurisdictions that are indeed Struggling and struggling to meet the obligations as you struggle to meet the housing needs of of your own community So that's something that we will we will continue to work on budget process with the new administration was interesting Because they were we were of course as a legislature trying to hold our ground and say nope We're in charge of the budget process that new governor comes in says nope We're in charge of the budget process So there's a little bit of tussling but hopefully that's been worked out as we go into this next budget year I'm hoping that will be a little bit smoother As we move through that process but this governor is very ambitious with some of his goals and some of the things that he wants to accomplish and That should be good, but I do worry about some of the implications like that that we're putting on local jurisdictions I know you're also very interested in PG&E and sort of the things that are going on because they're actually threatening more power shutoffs this coming weekend That's that's what we understand and the legislature has pushed back a bit on PG&E and PG&E's demands And frankly, I think they made certain business decisions over the last ten years about what they were going to do with respect to upgrading their infrastructure and They rolled the dice on what might be happening and it turns out they lost so they were spending spending more money on shareholder equity and Return on those investments then upgrading their infrastructure And one of the things that I want to point out is that San Diego gas and electric for example after the fires in San Diego Ten plus years ago. Well, these are 12 15 years ago almost now woke up to the risk that the fires were causing and Every time I talk about how good SDG&E is I get comments from my colleagues from San Diego who say yeah Not quite so much, but in this instance, they were much better They put together a risk assessment plan and they implemented it They've been doing some of the same kinds of public safety power shutoffs that we've been seeing now with PG&E And they've been doing it for a number of years Those don't hit the newspaper Why don't those hit the newspaper? It's because they're doing them surgically PG&E seems to want to come in with the largest hammer possible and just shut everything down So they haven't really thought this through they haven't didn't come up with a good strategy for how to get to reenergize the lines And put things back on and they have not invested in the fast switching and ground fault switching Line insulation that SDG&E did San Diego gas and electric That makes the their system stronger Safer and more able to deal with some of the fluctuations that that are there. So the power shutoffs are a bit dramatic and In some ways, I'm not we have asked a lot of questions about They're justifying the the broad scope of the power shutoffs and they have come through after the last power shutoff They are now showing some pictures and some examples of damage to some of the power lines Well, okay that that happened during the storm Was that a good thing that then that they shut down those power lines because of the damage? Well, we've done a little bit of research and we're starting to notice that some of the damage that they're claiming happened in the storm Actually happened before the storm so the veracity of the data that they're showing us seems to be a bit suspect We're still trying to figure out what's going on So even though the legislature is out of session right now There are a number of bills floating around that I've been talking some of my colleagues about that will hold PG Need a higher standards We wanted to give them tools to keep the public safe and not have the the scope of the wildfires that we'd seen before That's laudable, but we gave them a Strategic tool that they seem to be using almost as a weapon against everyone else and that part is very frustrating So we're gonna have to Legislate again Pull the reins in on make them responsible and try and find a way and governor's been very verbose about this as well Find a way to make sure that if they're shutting down the lines and especially without the justification that They're claiming that there are consequences to that action a lot Remains to be seen as we go through this will learn more if they shut down again The PUC for the first time in a long time has been highly highly critical to a public utilities Commission the current president of PG&E and their actions which was a bit refreshing to see as opposed as opposed to beings an Organization that just kind of backs the public utility the investor owned utility They're being highly critical of some of those actions So if the PUC will do their job the administration will push back and the legislature will push back Then I think we have a much better chance of raining in these actions, but We will have to see is that as that moves forward, but hopefully that everything from your standpoint has been been functioning I know there were power outages across the county again. We're going to continue to ask questions push hard pretty hard on PG&E for the justifications and if they can't answer up to it There will be consequences as we go into next year That's a bit of the the updates or the highlights of some of the things that we've been working on I continue to work especially in the juvenile justice system and the child welfare system the foster care system And as I talk about both of those systems, I hope will eventually go away We know that they won't because kids struggle family struggle But we overutilize some of those systems and by changing attitudes and making the systems more humane and Focusing on outcomes for children that I think we as a state can do much better But back some of the reforms that we've done in the child welfare system put California in the lead with some of the federal Legislation that is coming down being able to implement that which means we'll have a better chance of drawing down federal funds To help those children that are most at risk in our communities so we're working quite a bit through there the administration fairly recently has put in place secretary of health and human services have a new secretary of the Social services and pretty soon. We will see a new secretary of the Department of Health Care Services. I'm looking forward to Kind of new attitudes and ideas in those organizations as we look to for next steps with Performing those systems to benefit our our kids and our children on an environmental standpoint Which I know you're interested in a bit of a mixed bag this last year There were some significant attempts to reduce plastic in the environment that were ultimately not successful And a bill that was hopefully going to protect California against federal rollbacks in the Clean Air Act Clean Water Act endangered species act was Didn't sit with the governor didn't sit with his favor and he vetoed it But we are going to continue to work on those issues and make sure that California is able to protect our own Values with respect to the environment what we see and how we want to make sure that we are protecting it sea level rise is going to be an issue Coastal adaptation and building that is in is a coastal city That's going to be a large question that you're going to be dealing with and the state is probably going to be asking you To deal with both on a regional and a very local level and again I don't think we should be asking you to do those things if we're not willing to put money on the table so we've been talking about a Resilience resource bonds and I'm pushing the administration to help us find pots of money so that you can do planning Monitoring and the regional coordination that's going to be necessary for us to truly build a resilient California So as those start to look like mandates and if they come down They might be but if they're backed appropriately with money, we should be able to be your allies ultimately in helping you Build a better at a resilient Capitola and deal with some of the changes that we know are coming down So that's a bit of highlights. I'm happy to take your questions Sure Questions I just have a quick comment You know you and you finished on the coast and how it's affecting us And I just wanted to take a minute to say, you know, we you know that we passed measure f a while ago to raise money at tax measure to help us rebuild the wharf and The cost of everything that's done on the ocean is expensive And I think this is a great opportunity for us to say thank you to you for the money that you've got for us for Million dollars towards that wharf is going to come in very handy when we rebuild that so we genuinely appreciate that effort Sure No, that that is absolutely my pleasure that is my job getting money out of the budget though can be a bit dicey and as the Administration is starting to be a little bit worried about the future the timing for this need was Appropriated and was good for last year for us to be able to get and a specific ask like that Through the legislature and through the budget process. Those are things that take a little bit of shepherding behind the scenes and just Sort of asking folks don't don't look under that rock Let's just let that move forward and don't worry about it. It's a it's a good thing So those are always a bit of a question But that much more satisfying when we can get things through and again knowing how much you struggle to raise money Do the meet the infrastructure needs that you have and especially something that's as iconic to you as the wharf I Was happy just to play a little bit apart in it. You guys you have a hard work to do Thank you very much for that effort. Oh, my pleasure Thank you so much for being here tonight. I I appreciate you mentioning the the new approach to recognizing how important Early education is and really highlighting that that's really important to me I currently sit on the children's network, which is a requirement You know, we're all appointed to different boards and commissions And I think you might have a representative come visit every once in a while, right? And there's several Bills that we're currently looking at and I just wanted to mention them to you this evening there's AB 24, which is the targeted child tax credit and the AB 123 which is the ECE state preschool program access standards. So those amongst several others are going to be Talked about at the children's network And I just wanted to make you aware of that because it's just so important that we continue moving in that direction of supporting our Arche nose from birth on so and that's the reason we were able to pass a number of years ago They're earning income tax credit for example We're trying to make sure we're putting real money into the pockets of underserved communities Communities with families and be able to take those stressors off and too often the stressors that families deal with are Generational and if we can break those cycles and give them the support they need especially with the young children Then we have much much better outcomes within the family and within the community We know this this is what the science but we haven't always been willing to invest and that's what you're starting to see is Is a more of a willingness to really put some money in and support those children and those families? So thank you for the work you do. Yeah, thank you. I Don't have any questions, but thank you for being here and for your work for our community. Thank you And thank you as well for taking the time and come give us a report In your presentation you mentioned in housing in terms of the carrot in the stick and It seems that we've seen a lot of the stick in terms of State preemptions over local zoning you know lot sizes density coverage areas parking In particular with ad use are there more legislation that you're seeing that may be coming down on us That we should be preparing for and okay. Yeah, because it's it's very popular in the legislature right now And because the need is so great. So our focus on housing is very very important But sometimes it's how we do it not just what we do and for example, there have been some bills that Want to so with with ad use because that is a better It's better encapsulated. It's sort of a known bit of development There have been bills to to set fees and to do various things that that do tie your hands it trying to in Allow ad use to be accessory dwelling units to be built more readily. There also are Bills that have come through and one that got passed that limits your ability to raise fees and in sets Determinate when a an application is deemed complete So it is removing your ability to do certain levels of review And if things changes and which things do especially on the larger projects you might be under this bill precluded from being able to go back in and And address the changes that had been coming down and and I think that is a bit problematic Because on the one hand so the the planning of building apartments now are fee based They have to be because you can't support them out of your general fund. They're supposed to pay for themselves So if the state now comes in this is my objection to it If the state now comes in and shuts off your ability to charge those fees to be able to To ask the questions do the review and do the things that you need to do especially for the larger more complex projects How do you fund that we're not giving you the money to fund that so we're saying we're gonna ask you to limit fees But we're not gonna put money on the table to let you run those organizations to your standard I think that's a problem and that's some of the the push-pull Getting jurisdictions and we don't recognize those jurisdictions that are in fact Meeting their regional housing needs assessment goals that are doing the right kinds of things with respect to the housing needs in their community We're treating everyone the same and putting artificial limits on what you can and can't do without backing that up so you're What are you gonna have to do you're gonna have to dip into your own sparse general funds to do some of the work that your constituents might ask you to do with respect to planning review and Holding contractors or developers accountable to what they want to do So the system has worked now and with the legislature sort of messing with it if we're going to do that My view is that we need to be complete and make sure that we are very sensitive to your Resource constraints and recognize that and and honor that so I we can't be keep doing the the sticks Without the carrots and that was with the governor promised, but again, we've been doing more sticks very good care Yeah, well, thank you, and it's encouraging to hear that you identified that for some communities These mandates are much more impactful particularly The ones like capitola who are already, you know built out and particularly and and not to dismiss the need Everybody agrees the need is great, but if we're doing our fair share There should be some recognition of that and allow us to try to Manage, you know the impacts in our own community. So and I appreciate you recognizing that they are diverse impacts You know throughout the state so and we have to be careful I think we have to be in Santa Cruz County rethink our fear of the word density because that's really where we're going But if you look at some of the legislation that gets proposed Originally some of that legislation would have with respect to certain areas that have higher transit throughputs potentially 10-story buildings That's not capitola. That's not Scott's Valley. That's not Santa Cruz So what I tell cities is make sure you have an approved housing element because the administration is very interested in those And to make sure that you are doing what you can with respect to the housing needs that are here And yes, it's painful and yes, it's difficult But the more all the jurisdictions are working together and trying to do that that makes it easier for me to push back And help frame the because there are cities and especially a number in the Bay Area that are just refusing to do much of anything And those are the ones that build the ire of the legislature San Jose is a good example San Jose has been doing more building putting more housing in that a lot of the surrounding cities and they're getting kind of tired of it because There are adjacent cities who are not doing their share in a it's a that's a different market because that's the south Bay Area there But when one jurisdiction takes that responsibility and others don't that's where some frustration builds So we're all better off and each city is better off really taking a hard look at What your housing needs are and doing your best to address them? Then that gives me the ability to push back on some of these bills Ask for exemptions or exceptions or find a better way to craft language to not Unnecessarily penalized cities that are doing and really trying to do the right thing Thank you. Thank you Mark Stone, I always look forward to your coming here and Doing a presentation and explaining to us what's going on behind the scenes and answering our questions Thank you so much So Newsome has initiated an effort to try to get a senior strategy to move forward on legislation and working with the The California in general now Brown did not fund a lot of different things in the past So is there an element like mellow that's in the ledge that may be starting to think about how to fund some of these Elements that may be coming up when the strategy is developed. Absolutely. We'll see and this was the good news when Newsome in his inaugural address really focused on the aging populations and put in place and because and even though the Surgeon general is a pediatrician and focused on that. She knows that her job is to look across the spectrum and Governor Newsome has put in place Some groups task forces organizations to really look at the challenges for our seniors across California, which is Poverty housing food Ability to live in our communities. We don't have enough skilled nursing facility beds. We don't have enough memory care beds We don't have enough beds to serve our communities across the board And when the state a number of years ago got rid of and appropriately some of the mental health facilities that getting rid of the large institutions was something that I think was Well-deserved and inappropriate at that time But it wasn't backed with making sure that we have the beds in our communities to support those who need that Assistance and need those helps so we got rid of one problem and created another by not backing it And that's that's gonna have on the disability community That's that's what we're struggling with the disability community But also has a big impact on aging seniors and those seniors who need more help and more support so the this governor's willingness to take a hard look at what resources we need and don't need is Really a breath of fresh air for our seniors in California because he's doing that He will be I'm hoping also building in budget components to this we've often asked for Some help and put some budget requests on the table in in our legislative budget the assembly budget for example And those have often been negotiated away in the final deal But if the governor is interested in this and really funding it and putting some money on the table to help our most vulnerable populations at Who are the youngest and sometimes our oldest as well as developmentally disabled than others if we can focus on those of Our constituents who need to help the most and really fund those with with appropriate numbers of beds appropriate levels of services I think we can build again That's about building stronger communities and this governor seem to be very interested in it. We have to yet to see what he'll be willing to do with respect to the budget but his Rhetoric and his desire and his which is a true desire. He wants to help solve this problem. So I'm pretty actually pretty optimistic So it's it's heartfelt. It's good to hear that he's trying to address these problems from an overall strategy And think it out ahead of time. Yes, which I really think is great Like to move on to one other thing and that is recycling as you know major companies that have been accepting recycled objects glass plastic have moved out of the market and That's a problem you mentioned earlier that we need to work a little bit more on reducing our use of plastics Another issue that's come up to me is the rise in petty theft that may be driven by the fact that there aren't recycle Centers or redemption centers and I'm starting to hear a little bit about that So I think that we need to address and I would like to know what you think about this a Re-look at our fee that we're paying the agency that is running the program Right now. It's been you know trying to teach or you know put the message out there that we need to recycle Well, we can't recycle anywhere now So I think this is something that needs to be looked at. Is this being addressed. Is it something across your desk? I'll say at this point. Yes or no the crisis in the recycling and plastic center environment all of these are Have have seemed to be a priority of the administration certainly been a priority of the legislature When we tried to put certain bills on governor Brown's desk He kept forestalling even though some of the bills were trying to kind of chip away and do what we could with some of the recycling issues He wanted the bottle bill is is a system that was put in place And that's the bill that has the CRV and that right that collects money on bottles Well, that goes back to the 80s right and the system even though the state's sitting on a lot of money They're not spending the money because the system is is not self-supportive and it's kind of collapsing and they don't know what to do so we've been trying to address that and Brown wasn't that willing to to Really be Help us solve that issue. I think he recognized the problem governor knew some seems to be and in fact We just had a I had my environment annual environmental breakfast this morning and the secretary of Cal EPA was there And he is very interested in dealing with some of the plastics We had a bill in the legislature that did not get brought up on the last day of session which is Senate bill 54 and That is a bill that is attempting to look at the plastics in our environment and share the Responsibility among producers manufacturers distributors with respect to packaging plastic content in products single-use plastics that stalled that Was a pretty ambitious bill But one of the components that was going to be very helpful Was it was a framework to to push Cal recycle to do exactly this to fix the recycling system? so of course we hit the crisis a couple of years ago when China which was our destination for all of our dirty plastics we as we told ourselves we were recycling we weren't we were shipping off Most of the dirty plastics off to China who was happy to take them They realized that they have such an accumulation of dirty plastics in their own country. They weren't going to take other countries Trash so they stopped accepting and in fact said some of it back That's what created the the crisis because California did not have all of the infrastructure pieces in place to take those materials deal with them and put them into Form back into plastic pellets for example that can be put into products and now you're using Post-consumer material into new products and we've tried to set standards to require more of it but without that in that infrastructure to be able to collect manage and Process those plastics. There's a missing component that we don't have in our ability to recycle So it is a complex kind of multi-layered issue. We recognize the crisis I'm very disappointed that we weren't able to take up that Senate bill even with some of its flaws But the governor is very interested in that and I'm assuming and hoping that come January February We will be or even now starting to address the challenges that were in that bill and giving Cal recycle The authority and the teeth to be able to solve this problem Yeah, I think this is going to become weighing more on people's minds It it well it already is and people are frustrated that they're paying the CRV Right and and knowing that things are not getting recycled. There are recyclers around the state that are stopped that are now telling their Constituents their customers. There are certain types of plastics. They're no longer willing to take recycling rates in California have gone down right and That it should be a statewide embarrassment and and we have to come up with some better solutions So as I said, we've been attempting to on a Smaller scale and then with a couple of bills It was a Senate bill and assembly bill that went through last year that were identical going through the process that ultimately were the place to capture this and when Cal recycle finally did engage and Layed out what they needed to take those steps. That's what where I was hopeful that that this bill will move forward So look hopefully for solutions early next year if we can get that passed and start to clean up The the the crisis that we're in but we do know it's a crisis the mission Oh, this is a worldwide crisis across the country, etc. It is it is but most Western countries were in the same boat right when they were shipping in boats Shipping it off to China and Southeast Asia and those countries said yeah enough We're not going to take your trash anymore and they weren't necessarily doing anything responsible with that anyway They were incinerating it or they were just dumping it and that's one of the things that's led to the amount of plastics in our oceans That are coming out of Southeast Asia and some of these other places that were just collecting all this stuff and Didn't necessarily know what to do with it So that's we have to and that's why in California The the companies who are producing single-use plastic bottle and all this plastic packaging and such so much plastic Content and especially in single-use items They're trying to convince us that it's our responsibility to recycle well They have responsibility in this to reduce the amount of plastics It's there putting some money on the table because they're making all the profits off of these products They need to be helping us be able to fund the infrastructure to be able to recover And then they need to be responsible about the percentages of post-consumer product or pros consumer plastics that are in their products And we as Californians can't look at recycling as the panacea. We have to reduce we have to reuse Ben recycle and That's how we get out of this, but we all Are take need to take responsibility for that in our consumer habits as well How much are what what products are we picking that could reduce the use of plastics? I'm glad there's no single-use plastic bottles up there because you have all of those That's great, but still I mean meetings that I go to and at the state level. What do they hand out? They hand out water in little plastic bottles. Well That's not helping Yeah, it's not only you have the generation of plastic and recycling Yeah, our Dumps are going to be filling even faster and that's a problem around here. I mean, there's so many Issues I'd like to ask are there any other questions maybe from staff or no The City Council rarely does this but Mark Stone rarely comes here Are there any questions from the audience that you've come here and I'd like to entertain at least one or two questions? Okay, one question, please Thank you. And for the benefit of the The TV and the record that the question the statement was about housing housing for seniors Housing for some of our most vulnerable population and and yes that I think we owe it to our community to be able to Do a better job and and take some of the hard steps and Some tough political decisions sometimes to make sure that we are taking care of those who need us the most Thank you, we're working on it. We're working on it. All right. Thank you before you leave You've immensely helped Capitola and helping to fund our redo of the wharf as many of us know We think of the wharf in many different ways and you know, it's iconic It's part of capital many things are but that's one of the first things you see when you come here I've gone all the way around the Bay Area and go to fishing places You know offer various wharfs and I say where do you like to go to fish and invariably? Capitola comes up people come from all over. It's just one of the places and so you've because your contribution and working for that contribution and has helped us tremendously so that we could say that wharf and I'd like to present something to you and I'm sorry. I can't hold this at the same time This is a wonderful painting excuse me a picture a photograph, right? Again, it also talks about a part of capitol We had a hotel a long time ago which burned down and we may get another hotel won't quite look like this But we want to present this to you. Oh I Little embarrassed. Thank you. No, you should not be because this is I'm just doing my job trying to help you are doing your job the state does things but this is Actually really cool Love some of these old photographs of Santa Cruz County the different cities Capitola as as our area took shape and This is absolutely beautiful and amazing and you know even having that Ship sort of stopping by on work and and I you know the picture that sits behind you as we All get to see that as you do your business. It's just this is very Capitola. So thank you Great honor to give this to you and you're right. We are doing our job Everyone up here is doing their job, but sometimes something special happens. Thank you Thank you. Okay, sure sure Just for the record, it was two million you got us not one. So I just want to get that on the record So now truth be told my staff will probably fight over this whether it goes in District office or capital office I might take it to the capital because I always love to show my colleagues and anybody who comes in the capital office What the district is really all about and make them envious Look forward we'll look for our office either in the capital or in the district. We'll look for it. Thank you. Thank you So with that we have a presentation about our local government academy. It's going to be introduced by staff Jamie, okay, great Mr. Mayor members of the council, I'm pleased to announce that we are going to be kicking off our 2020 local government Academy session here The local government Academy is a series of evening workshops. It's intended to help local Local residents learn a little bit more about Capitola. We've been doing them since around 2003 I believe and generally every two years usually around the election cycle and the program is really intended to give residents and participants a better understanding about how the city works how we work with other local governments and really promote civic participate participation Really the goal is finding folks that want to become members of our larger community and help out with the city We have a tentative draft schedule at this point This draft schedule has been honed over the years by feedback from participants at the different sessions We turn start out with a big picture and we go under the hood a little bit more of the administrative side of the city Then we hit the streets with public works and the police department and wrap it up with we call it the team effort when we Bring in folks from our other Partner agencies like central fire and the library districts and folks like that who also provide services in our community And then it culminates with the recognition at the city council Our plan is is that this would be taking place through January and February of 2020 What we always hope to achieve out of this is get more folks who are interested in coming to our public meetings Volunteering for the city whether it's our VIPs program or helping out at the museum or even helping out of other allied allied non-profits or other agencies Maybe have some folks who are willing to volunteer to serve on a board or commission And sometimes we get folks who run for public office after serving on going through the academy So if you're interested anyone who's interested you can check out information on our website will be a Accepting application through December 13th. You can always call it City Hall or email lower Larry and his email address is up there Did you go back to the first slide please sure? Where you list the different sessions, sorry. Oh These are tentative. This is using the format that we use last time So I think we probably will tweak it based on availability, but this is sort of the general framework that we like to operate with him Are there any I have some comments, but are there comments from other board members? I Just think it's fabulous. I really enjoyed participating in it I think it was put together really well the amount of time really worked for me, you know I think a lot of people who attended had Work and other things going on so I really thought it Was just really well put together So I'm excited to present it to some of my networks and hopefully get the information out if you can please email Information to us Okay, wonderful, or even just like a flyer of some sort that I can push out to our network. Okay. Thank you Okay, I echo you bet comments I'd like to change it up a little bit and the reason why is I Spent a lot of time talking to people in the city here about why don't you run, you know, and why don't you get involved and You know, there's a lot of time. This is I don't know what to do, you know Whole many different assortment of things But one thing that keeps coming up and this is what I'd like to consider having included in this is Is what does it really mean to be on city council? Or what does it really mean to take a leadership role if you're going to be on fact or city planning? This is something that isn't often within everyone's experience You have many different things that we do in our life, but to actually stand in front of the public and Take a leadership role Give it yourself to the community To express ideas that you think might have some traction in the city that you love That you take on a role of listening to people your constituents Did you take on a role of trying to become an advocate for things that you hear the members of the public? Feel are important That you take on a role to try to balance the issues of how to run a city from a staff's perspective All the legal framework The fact that we live in a community Some of these things aren't normally within the realm of experience of an individual person Who's actually props wanting to be involved? So I'd like to put out there that I think we should have a session Incorporate something in our community Come we won't call it Academy. Excuse me that actually tries to address that so you're right I would like people who come to this Academy to volunteer to perhaps run To seek appointment on various committees. I think this is what makes our community of capital is strong I really do but I want to help them make that decision Because they could see better how to do it and so I Think we have some time to try to figure out how to do that I know there's people out there that actually give courses and try to help people Learn how to be leaders in their community. I think this is something we could ferret out and reach out to the community in general I Think it's important to give people not only a chance to see how we function in terms of all the bricks and pieces The the framework of our city But how do you operate within that framework? So those are my comments and if there's any response from other city council members, I appreciate it I've mentioned this to Jamie already and Maybe staff could think about this if I get support from the city council here I think this would be something worthy to bring back to us and give us a sense of how you would like to do it I Think it's a worthy goal because I think it will help make our job better in terms of responding to the community and Being also an effort that makes maybe a wider breath or a rider selection of members of our community feel Hey, I could do this I'm gonna comment on that for you know, if you don't mind No, I'm asking for the city manager want to talk. I'm gonna cut them off there I'm a little confused because what I look at this is I don't necessarily look at this as a Training ground for how to be a city council person to be in a committee I think with the intent of this again that Academy is is to open up to citizens that have an interest About you know, what the underside of the city looks like Just as a resident it's not I don't I think we're looking at apples and oranges here What I'm getting from you is more of a you know How to train to be a on a committee or how to train to be you know a future city council person or politician? And I think the intent of this Academy of the city manager and correct me if I'm wrong Was just to allow people from the city to come and see how their city that they live in works and those Components that takes to run a city and with that I'll turn it over to the city manager So I'm I'm not really in support of modifying this. I think that we're talking about two different topics. So The intent behind this program is really to sort of peak people's and peak people's interest in Capitola Understanding what we do and how we do it as a city It's really you know at the end of the day and four nights You're not going to learn how to be a city council member, right? That takes that takes years of practice and training and and so I think really the intent is to get people excited about Learning about opportunities to serve, you know, that's one of the things we definitely touch on is about what are the boards and commissions? What are the opportunities to serve? How do we do things as a city and how they can become involved now one one? Mechanism maybe to address Something the mayor brought up would be we have I think we have done this in the past Is invite the mayor at the time to come give kind of an overview and kind of a kickoff to the front end and talk a Little about experiences as a as a city council member, and I think that that could be a valuable addition to this I can Well, put me right on the spot Which I don't mind doing but Okay, any other comments Sam I may be wanted to contribute on the leadership aspects There is a group county why I call leadership Santa Cruz at least I believe there used to be and I believe it's still Existence and and I'm sure the staff as a part of this process could help tap people Into that which would give them the bigger scope and training about Developing those leadership skills throughout the county, but I view this I mean as Jamie mentioned is these are kind of the nuts and bolts the fundamentals of how Capitola works local civic government works And I think that this would be a good starting place and Then depending on I think the turnout and what? The graduates at that point may be prepared for and maybe want to move into then we can maybe look that we assist Them go into leadership Santa Cruz or refer them in other ways or maybe develop You know phase two Later on but maybe then Jamie could come back to us if there were really interested individuals and and a sufficient Numbers of them to warrant it. So that's my contribution Okay, I'll be glad the parts is paid Several cities around here do something about what I'm saying. Oh scanners is probably one of one of the best examples I could think of so Let's move on. Are there additional materials? Okay, at this time, I'd like to say that Ben Johnson is running our communication version from Cablecast live on charter communications and it could also be seen on cable TV channel 8 And it's also being brought Recorded for rebroadcast. So we also have it on our website Any additions and deletions to the agenda? Staff has no changes. Okay. So this is a time for public comments Anyone who would like to speak On any item that's not on the agenda, please come forward and you could give your name And it'll be recorded for the minutes. You have three minutes and the clerk is recording. Excuse me setting the timer Thank you for coming That's okay, this is a public meeting Resonant I love Capitola, but now I'm not I'm gonna have to leave it Representing five units of a ten-unit building in Capitola that includes 29 residents and 10 children We've read a lot about Capitola's commitment to homelessness and affordable housing And so that's why we're here I've lived in this apartment for 24 years. The others have lived there between three and 12 July 19th, the building was sold On August 1st, we received increases taped to our door between 29 percent and 70 percent I was the lucky 70 percent, which was an increase of eight hundred and forty five dollars on September 27th Myself and the other tenant that's on section eight received a 90-day infection notice and The reason that was selected was because we were on section eight On October 8th knew some God bless him signed AB 1482 that will stop these abuses October 16 the rest of the residents Received eviction notices and which and everybody has to leave and they said the reason for that is That they're gonna do massive renovations. The building's now up for sale It's not rocket science to figure out that they did this before January 1st, I know that there's two apartments and Santa Cruz and one in Watsonville with the same thing the entire building has been let go Los Angeles County did an ordinance 186 340 and This protects their citizens from this very abuse that's happening now And we saw that it was gonna happen like AB 1482 of course this was gonna happen So our question to you guys is What ordinance has capital had done to protect us for citizens, do you have one coming and if not why not and Our last question is how will this council help us? I have a copy of this you guys can have the ordinance if you haven't read it or seen it I won't answer a question, but after you leave we do have some programs to Help in terms of rent support and moving support, and I don't know of all the extent of what we have in that regard That's something we're prepared to talk about right now. Well, it's not on the agenda for this evening, but certainly we Should get in touch with a community development director who can help point them in direction of city services Okay No Right, that's the issue and I'm soon to become homeless as well as all the other families Right, how can you help us with that? And I'm talking about legislator Lee For gonna say Los Angeles did a thing and we knew this was coming This wasn't gonna be a surprise. Okay, so you made your comment We're not prepared right now to deal with it and we hear what you have to say so the recommendation is to come to our community development director and We'll see what can be done right now for you And I think this because you brought it to us is gonna help us try to figure out how we could respond to Something in the future so that we could be prepared For the situation you're in at this point I'm not sure of all the things that we have available to help you in your situation But we do have programs to do that Thank you very much for your comment Brenda. May I yes, Sam? I Just wanted to one. I think that's horrendous. What's happened to you? I wanted to encourage if you haven't already gotten legal counsel to seek legal counsel go to CRLA Okay, so I mean that that's good that you've done that and I really appreciate, you know Bringing your plight to our attention, right? But unfortunately even if we were to pass the ordinance we could not apply it retroactively to You know fix your situation But right it would only be looking forward And I think that you have alerted us the to these kind of situations and and state actions that cause local impacts So I just wanted to say that, you know, we hear What you're going through and I certainly feel for you And I hope and that we can do what we can to Provide you connect you with resources that are available in terms of rental assistance and housing assistance and Any other local services through our network of community programs So I didn't want you to just walk away feeling that we're ignoring or abandoning you, you know Keep in touch And and work with you know, you're with your attorney to See what they could do for you. Okay, so thank you. Yeah, thanks for coming down Also Yes And also if if you can find my contact information on the city's website And I don't know if the situations are similar or the same But I know that there is an organization working with people in Watsonville that are going through this same thing It's the same. Yeah, so I don't know if we can put you I don't know if I would be able to put you in touch with the organization that's helping those tenants I don't know if they would be able to help But if so if you could email me or contact information, I will try to make that connection. Oh You did okay. Well, I will check that out Interesting, okay, I will check that would that go to me personally or the whole city council me personally, okay I will go back through it Interesting Huh, okay, I will go back through my email and check that again. Thank you for reaching out Just for the council's information I'm assuming that what the speaker was referring to was the city of Los Angeles enact an urgency ordinance to essentially bridge the gap between the passage of the state legislation and the Effective date of this of the state legislation to avoid evictions from landlords who knew that they would not be able to evict Under the new state legislation So where does that leave us in terms of potential action on our part? Well council member story is correct that certainly anything that you do now would not be reactive, but it Any council can consider an urgency ordinance somewhere to the city of Los Angeles. Is there a is there a way to find out? There's any other Apartments or anything else in our area that might be affected and if so could we have an item come back to us regarding that? So, you know, I was this particular Apartment complex the only one that was affected and if not could we bring something forward? My guess is that that apartment complex is not unique and so that there certainly would be other residents Who would be potentially subject to the same situation? So we can bring forward an urgency ordinance I you know whether or not that can that can happen by the 14th of November that would be the first date that we could do that Right, so we would need it on the agenda again before then so that the council could discuss it I mean, this is sort of a We're not this is a this is a non agendized item for this count for this council meeting So my suggestion if the council were interested would be to bring it back to agendize a discussion of an urgency ordinance And then we could if the council wanted an urgency ordinance We could pull it together quickly so we can ask for that to be done on the next agenda Well, just outside the box and we can we have a special meeting for that if we deem so You could have a special meeting to discuss it. You could not pass an ordinance at a special meeting, right? Okay, so what's the best way to proceed here if we want to take action, which I think we do If you would like we can put it on the November 14th discussion as a discussion item as the city attorney suggests It will be we're gonna be talking about them all That evening so it's gonna be a late night. It'll come up later in the evening, but it's probably appropriate We can bring it back on the 14th So that's not in time for the 14th Deadline, right? I'm getting a little computer. We can put it on the 14th. We can put it on the next meeting. Okay, so let's do Concurrence of everyone on the board here. Yeah, okay. Yeah, let's please do that Thank you very much, Sam And I just I know they left but I would want to publicly thank the folks that were here presenting today Because this definitely enacted some action tonight. So, oh, yeah, I definitely thank them. It was hard for them to come so In a sense that city council comments or let's go to city council comments Okay event well in the spirit of what you were talking about earlier mayor About leadership and opportunities for people interested in running or getting more involved There is a 2020 campaign hacks workshop taking place on October 26th at 9 30 in the community room at the Santa Cruz police department It's Hosted by the breaking the glass ballot initiative And a couple of local Pioneer women here from the city of Capitola. So if anyone's interested I Invite all of you to attend Yes, if I may I did want to report from back from the last arts commission meeting on October the 8th and there had been a request from the city council to the arts commission whether they would Take on the responsibility of reviewing and approving The BIA banners that were proposed to go up and I know Jamie had sent us a report to us in his Regular Friday updates, but I didn't want to announce publicly that the arts commission has agreed to accept That role and that responsibility. So whenever the BIA is prepared to move forward The arts commission will be reviewing the banners great, I Did go to break in class last time and I was probably one of the only guys Sarah, but I found that a great discussion and Totally totally support that effort. So any comments from staff? Not at the stock. Okay So moving on we have the consent agenda So at this point is anyone on the city council wanting to pull an item or anyone in the public that would like to pull an item I'd like to pull item math Okay, so do you want to do it at the end of the meeting or have it discussed right now? Well, I was The quick comment suggesting that well, it's more than a quick comment But I was maybe Going to request that we maybe handle it first under general government business in case there's someone in the audience That's here for that item. Okay, so can I just confirm real quick? That item is just to schedule the appeal hearing correct not to actually discuss the correct, okay Okay, so can we schedule that quickly so we could do eight a And just move everything down how's that you're gonna do that first yeah, we'll do that first Okay, so f is moved to eight a and everything else has moved down so we get an 8d and an 8e So is there a motion motion to adopt consent calendar? Okay, any discussion from those in the audience on the consent? No, okay bring it back. Is there a motion motion do it? Okay, all those in favor hi hi hi Okay, let's go move on to general government and we will have eight a which is the former f under seven We need to schedule an appeal of the Plain Commission to now of a tree removal permit So and yeah, I asked to have that poll then because I wanted to discuss the scheduling not until January of 2020 My reading of the staff report. This is a health and safety manner And and especially with the winter coming I think it's more appropriate for us to consider it sooner Of course, I know that now that's just been compounded by what we just added to the November meeting But the November 14th meeting, but I would maybe like to request and That the maybe the first meeting after or after the November 14th meeting that we bring this and consider it Instead of waiting until the end of January. So that's why I brought it up Okay, Katie. Do you have any comments on this place? I do I wasn't in the direct conversations when the scheduling was taking place But it was my understanding the appellant was not available to meet prior to a January hearing. So that is My understanding we can There was the possibility of I understand of December, but that is There are other problems with December But they my understanding is they also they were out of town for November. So that was the applicant was not available So they're not available November didn't take We received the original application The original appeal in early summer and it did take us until October to get them to hearing because I do believe They're very busy and Couldn't meet our schedule. So this was one of the earliest dates, but we could Check in with them and maybe continue this item Okay, he was just in conjunction with them and giving going back and forth with them And I just want to make sure it is we were trying to set the date with them first We landed on the first meeting in January and then decided to push it back So I think the earliest my understanding meeting that they could attend would be the second Thursday of January. I Would concur with the Councilman story and try to like to have this meeting in December So if you could pass that I mean, I would just like to make that recommendation And normally I would just okay. They asked for it later, but What I'm hearing this is not just about their property in their home It's about limbs following on sidewalks and pedestrians that may be walking by and so that gives me a greater sense of urgency and instead of just you know waiting until Through the winter season Before we hear this and so I'd say if we could schedule this to be heard in December That would make me feel more comfortable and if they want and if the applicant wants to submit a written Statement prior to that Or send a representative I think that that that's the way it should be handled There's an additional challenge around the December meeting at this point Unfortunately, I don't believe that we're going to I think we're going to be talking about moving the December date So at this point we don't have a December date that we can offer to the applicants We were going to have an item on the next meeting's agenda to talk about rescheduling that December meeting So we can certainly continue this and have a further conversation with the applicant about what dates might work for them But I do suspect I know that our staff was sensitive to the needs their needs and our needs And this was the date that they landed on is the most appropriate But we can certainly continue this if council would like to see if there's a possibility of getting in in December Well, I'll move that we continue it for further discussions with the applicant and with staff working to Find a date that's sooner. I'll second that second. Okay Any discussion from the audience? Okay, seeing none. All those in favor. All right. So passes. Thank you very much Thank you mayor and council members. Sure. Thanks for that item, I did read the letter from the neighbor or the The petition petition and and I was very moved by some of the things you said so on to consideration of after-school program scholarships staff report, please Mr. Mayor council members the item that I have for you this evening is to Consider a after-school rec club scholarship program. So we started the capital of recreation's after-school rec club at New Brighton Middle School for a fee of $12 per day for residents which is residents includes the city as well as the so-called union elementary school district or $14 per day for non-residents Recreation has responded to public inquiry about scholarship opportunity available, which there is none at this time Looking at similar scholarship programs in the county they reference the federal income eligibility guidelines as a measure for who would receive those benefits the California Department of Education using the same Income eligibility guidelines also awards free lunch to any persons who are already receiving Cal fresh and Cal works benefits So using this information This is a suggested application form and I'm going to dial in get a little closer here for you, but so Using this application process families would be able to register or would be able to request Scholarship for the remaining of the school year. So this would include four of the four remaining sessions for the school year we would not be requiring proof of income and The participants would be required to pay a registration fee that would not exceed a twenty five dollars. So After submitting basic contact information the number of sessions that they would like to apply for for benefits they would be referencing the Income eligibility guidelines reporting the their household size and their household monthly income or indicating that they are already receiving Cal fresh Cal works benefits and At the bottom of the application Would come to a point where they would sign indicating that they That indeed their income is at or less than the what the scale Shows or that they receive the Cal fresh Cal works benefits This application would need to be submitted five working days before the start of registration and Any applicant that receives benefits would receive it through their California recreation active net accounts so they would receive it as credit that would be then spent in their registration process and Any funds that were left remaining at the beginning of a session would be returned to the fund and Reallocated to additional applicants so staff would be Managing this process and awarding benefits that applications would be coming on a first come first serve we would be reviewing them on a first come first serve basis and With the recommended amount this would address at least 15 percent of the participants for each session As enrollment varies day by day it could go to a larger number of individuals or but at least 15 percent and This scholarship fund would very specifically be addressing the after-school rec club. It would not be for other Programs that are offered by recreation So the recommendation before you tonight is to approve the scholarship program for the recreation division and To authorize a budget amendment that would allocate $4,000 from the dedicated early childhood and youth programs fund and accept a 4,000 matching contribution to the scholarship program from the Soquel Union elementary school district and I am available for questions You work with at the elementary school district Soquel elementary school district. I'm sorry. Who'd you work with? Who is our partner in this regard? for the matching yeah The school board the school board and so you brought this right you came to the school board last week I think I did go to the school board last week to present them as an update We were not discussing the scholarship match at that time But we were definitely discussing the success of the program so far. Okay, great so, you know, I helped run a Program for soccer and one of the most embarrassing things was people not being able to participate because they couldn't pay the fees so I totally support this and Is there any discussion from those in the audience? Bringing back to the board. Is there a motion? And if I can just add one comment Nikki, can you come back to us? Whether it's being utilized or not in the future I don't know what the timeline or by the end of the school year. I'm sure you'll do a report out But if it's actually being utilized for this particular population Because I'm worried that there might be a gap of Folks not being able to apply for the scholarship and we're missing some of those kiddos Yeah, I would be happy to do that. Thank you. Okay, so there's been a motion in a second all those in favor I so passes moving on to item 8c Introduce an ordinance emitting chapter 1504 the capitol municipal code pertaining to building and fire model codes Hi Hi as our building official gets herself set up. I did want to let you know that staff identified a Small error in the ordinance that was included in your packet It has a section one which reads chapter 15.4 is amended to be titled building and fire codes And that is a holdover from the last time. It's already titled building and fire codes So for the second reading we will remove section one and renumber sections two through four To reflect that change our city attorney did say that this falls into a very, you know a minor Category so it's you know didn't require Republishing or any discussion in that manner, but we do want to let you know That we will be making a slight change when you see it the next time. Okay. Thank you. So clear Okay Good mate. Good evening mayor and city council Every three years the building code Plumbing mechanical electrical energy Green building and fire code and other associated codes and standards are updated to include the most current construction and engineering principles and practices Under the purview of the California Building Standards Commission the newly revised California Building Standards codes are Published for required local adoption The process is to ensure that the latest construction engineering and life safety techniques become standard practice throughout the state The last code update was in 2016 and the mandatory effective date of the 2019 California Building Standards code is January 1st, 2020 amendments to the city's building regulations of that of Title 15 of the municipal code are proposed to recognize the adoption of state building standards codes The city is permitted to adopt amendments to these building standards The significant amendment to the building codes includes deletion of concrete construction standards, which had been carried over from previous code adoptions These construction standards are replaced by current code language We are also adopting the 2019 California fire code as amended and adopted by the central fire protection district the significant changes to the 2019 state building standard codes include in the California Building Code part 2 New changes to this building standard codes are to revise and clarify structural provisions in the California Building Code as an example CBC section 1510.7.2.1 provides additional information regarding seismic and wind design Requirements rooftop solar panels and references new sections added to ASEE 7 This amendment also allows DSA the Department of the State architect to accept industry Standards to ensure compliance of solar panel attachments after recent solar panel attachment failures The other another change in the California Building Code is Accessibility provisions in chapter 11b were updated to align with federal ADA standards and incorporate Incorporate fair housing accessibility guidelines and state assembly bills the California Mechanical Code was changed for Minimum filter efficiencies to align with the energy code and the California Energy Code Has in updated to include domestic hot water solar preheat becoming a prescriptive measure Increased third-party's testing will be required for insulation installation, that's a nice tongue twister and HVAC systems may require Increased duct sizing which will in fact construction to allow increased space for larger ducts The non-residential and commercial construction requirements in the energy code Which includes new multi-family residential structures? Will have new requirements for interior windows and doors that lead to un-conditioned space and CO2 monitors will be prescriptive to help control troll outside airflow Part 11 is the California Green Building standards code Which will now require EV or electric vehicle charging infrastructure for new parking areas and additions to existing parking It also requires shade trees to provide 50% of new surface parking areas and additions to surface parking areas within 15 years and Shade to 20% of landscape areas and hardscape areas within 15 years The recommendation is that the city council adopt the 2019 California building standards code title 24 and amend title 1504 of the capitol a municipal and zoning code Central fire protection district fire marshal Mike DeMars is available to answer any fire code questions And I'm available to answer any questions Any questions Sam Yeah, thank you for that report I had a question about the ordinance itself and on the agenda packet page 86 the new section 3 There was just The language there was kind of perplexing to me Referring to seismic design categories D sub 0 D sub 1 D sub 2 Method GB is not permitted And the use of method PCP is limited to one-story single-family dwellings and accessory structures I just wanted somebody could interpret that for me and then Following below it it refers to add the e-foot note notation in the title of table or 602.1 to 0 I don't know if you see where I'm reading I do yeah, I you know what I wasn't able to interpret that And know what it means and it seems like this and our ordinance is they maybe should be you know like self-explanatory This the I can explain this to you the seismic design categories D0 D1 and D2 apply to our seismic zone area. It used to be required. I mean a What's the word I'm looking for it used to be called zone for seismic category I think you might be familiar with that They have changed this in the residential code. We are in seismic zone category D2 in this area What that means is there are certain provisions in the code that require Wall bracing in structures and there the method GB is the use of gypsum board PCP is Portland cement plaster. This is The nomenclature that's used in the building code and those two methods what they have found are not effective in this area But because the California building code has been adopted from the international building code This was part of the international building code and locally These are not effective methods of bracing buildings to To survive seismic events so Well, the professionals who are going to pay attention to this are going to know what this means absolutely And even the reference to the footnote e Yes notation It's part of the table in the residential code that addresses braced walls for seismic construction Okay. Thank you I had a couple of questions. I left my notes at home. I took a different set of notes There's an issue there in trying to provide egress So another way to get in and out of a building and I was wondering what that was about I was thinking of ADUs, but you know like an internal ADU, but I was wondering what that was about in the in the coded option Yes, let me take a look. I'm glad you're able to flip through this Moments notice. Sorry that I didn't prepare you and I should have that's all right When it went in addition very often additions to single-family dwellings do not require a second exit So it it's a clarification of an existing code section. It doesn't change the code section Okay, so now we have to have it. Okay Another one in that was in section 11 I think and it was Mentioned here in your presentation connected with the EV charging stations and so now we have to Provide more tree coverage that was also in that section. Yes, that's part of the green building code for new construction of new parking lots In addition to parking lots Three shading has a great deal to do with Providing shade keeps temperatures down right and of course with global warming They're finding that shading these areas Provides a lot of temperature reduction How's that different than our current code because we do put a lot of trees like in out in the mall for instance that kind of thing I Honestly and cannot tell you how it compares with the zoning code because that's where our tree Requirements would come in right this is mandated by the California green building code So it might be something that the zoning code needs to take into consideration. We're gonna have to update. Yeah, okay great I do have a question for the Individual from the fire department No, that's okay Come on up. So while you're working coming here So I was very interested to find out that and this is probably unfortunately necessary you have the power to I guess Use force to get something done sometimes and you have to do that in conjunction with the police department Sure, if necessary Can you explain that I absolutely we have the authority to enact police powers to enforce the code code is law So we do have the the power to act as law enforcement officers to an to enforce the code If for some reason someone does not follow the code However, many of us are not Sworn peace officers. So what we would do is we rely on local for law enforcement agency to assist us Whether it be capital PD or sheriff's department depending on what part of the district we're in at the time Okay, my sense is that people comply with the fire department's request I've never had to use police powers in my 30-something years. Yeah, there's a big surprise to me. So, okay, I Scare them I guess. Yeah, I guess so That was my main question and you know, I sort of blurred out when I started looking at the fire requirements So I'm sorry about that, but I did pick up on that one. I apologize. I was answering another question. No, no He has a lot of questions. I have to that. So I like talking with so what I get some answers. It's always fun. Thank you very much Okay, any questions from the audience Seeing none bring it back to a city council for motion and I just want to make a quick comment for a motion I just said first Mike before you leave I you've probably been here doing your job long enough remember city capitol I've always resisted adopting the fire code and I'm glad that we're way past those years and we're down to just Updating and modifying and and with that I make a motion for staff recommendation with the changes Reddent. Oh That's okay Yeah, I know you are. Thank you for that. You were patient. Go ahead. So your motion would be To adopt the staff recommendation with the changes read into the record by the city clerk. Absolutely. Thank you for that clarification Second with the Options, okay, good all those in favor. Hi. Hi, okay Sorry, who was the second? Kristen, okay So now we're on to introduce an ordinance emitting capital municipal code chapter 2.1 to Plain Commission And this item is a follow-up from our September 26th meeting As you will recall From that discussion at one point there was some language in the municipal code addressing Residency requirement for either the planning Commission or all boards and committees. However, that was removed in 2000 and at last month's meeting the Council directed Staff to come back with an ordinance adding specific language for the planning Commission only Asking that are requiring that all applicants be Either residents of the city or the sphere of influence as defined by the local area Formation Commission Here is the map of what that actually means the green areas are the city limits And the red is the sphere of influence so as you can see that the main extension is on toward the Pleasure Point area so as Recommended previously by council anyone within the red area would be able to apply To serve on the planning Commission and the way that takes shape within the code We placed it. We didn't add another section. We just amended section 2 12 o 10 deleting that it was only referencing number and added the sentence Describing the residency requirements as indicated in the red language so that is the entire Change that we are bringing forth today So the recommended action is to approve this first reading of the ordinance Any comments any questions? I'm sorry No questions, okay any questions from the audience members of the audience Okay, I see nodding bring it back to city council for discussion I So moved to Approve the first reading of the ordinance amending section 2.1 to regarding planning Commission membership to require that commissioners reside within the city limits Or the sphere of influence. I have some comments because I'd like to readdress this Ordinance and maybe ask for a friendly amendment So I read some of the comments from members of the public and I agree that this is a great compromise The thing that bothers me though is I don't want to end up with a situation where everyone's in the sphere of influence But not in the city of capitol There's some other comments that Lafko may expand or contract You know, I'm not too worried about that But I am a little concerned if we get too many members who are not in the city of capital who live in the sphere of influence and To me that's going to weigh it in a direction that I'm not too happy about So I'd like to have a friendly amendment that we limit that to one person Outside the city of capital within the city of within the city's sphere of influence. I hear crickets I didn't make the motion. I made the motion So I'd like a second if we could get that Well the The maker of the motion would need to accept it as a friendly amendment. That's why I'm asking, you know, I Don't want to be in a situation where a Majority or even the whole planning commission is outside the city of capitol and they're Yes, they're within the sphere of influence So I want to limit that to one Or maybe two, but one is what I'm starting with at this point At our last meeting we talked about bringing back the removal of Planning commissioners as well because I think that's really important to think about because The emails that we all received were pertaining to whether or not the planning commissioner was Going to be making the right decisions for that was that was the real issue was they were concerned that our Appointments were not going to be making the best decisions on behalf of the city or for the city and So I think with that It's really important to put into place a mechanism to remove somebody that all of us as counsel with the majority vote to put something in place in that sense because These are our appointments. This isn't you know one person or another I think what for me The removal of someone that isn't necessarily doing the job is more important than Questioning our individual appointments I have to I hear what you're saying If you have any Response to that if you don't feel that to adequate enough to put something in place like that Well, you've been the person on the city council that I've talked to you about this turns a brown act and I totally agree with Your prerogative or any one of our members here to a point whom they feel is is the best person And I've supported you on that and I support the idea of Extending to the sphere of influence and that was your motion last time and I still support you on that And I promise to give that support to you If we ever get to a situation where we're Considering removing someone from city council, excuse me from city planning That's usually after a sequence of events that reach such a stage That you know, we just can't take it anymore. And so we we decide that we need to take some action Um, I'm a little confused. Are we talking about a different topic because I'm I'm not I'm answering events I understand but I guess I probably should have said something then because I'm the question and we're talking about is the ordinance about Extension of one person and now we're talking about Something else completely different and I don't know if are we within boundaries talking about that. Is that Allowable under this I think you are at this point. My understanding is the discussion is about the mayor's Request for a friendly amendment to council member Brooks motion and so council member Brooks asked for more information about another portion of the appointment and removal procedure that will be coming back to the council which I assume Would meet council member Brooks? Concern and perhaps give her information about whether or not to accept the friendly amendment Yeah, I'm trying else. Thank you for that explanation, right because I come I understand What what what you're you're trying to do mayor and I and I appreciate that and I appreciate you trying to find some balance with my original motion, I believed of us finding good balance in listening and to our community and and also finding the middle ground I Don't want to add any more Confusion or nuances or restrictions to something that I feel should just be straightforward And so I'm I'm not going to accept your your amendment your friendly amendment Okay, with that there's a motion and a second. Let's have a roll call vote, please councilmember story To be consistent with our discussion last time I'm gonna vote no Councilmember Peterson. Hi councilmember Brooks. Hi councilmember bot twist. Hi and member trans no Okay, so let's move on to an ordinance accepting Oh, excuse me prove the sole source contract with CSG consultants for on call building division and contract services Good evening mayor and council before you tonight is a request for a contract with CSG consultants The reason for this is within our building division. We're trying to maintain the high level of service. We've always provided to our customers that come in for their building plans to be Reviewed and approved as well as keeping our services in the mornings of building inspections and counter hours open in the afternoon And also to provide our staff members with the training They need when they when we hire new hires and make sure that they're able we're able to give them the time they need in order to get trained into the position and Maintain again our level of services. So in 2018, I'm going to give you a quick overview of where we've been We changed the setup of our division Previously there was a building official and a building inspector We changed the model to have 2.5 employees one being the building official at half time shared with scott's valley The second was a full-time building inspector and third a development service tech which also Administers our affordable housing program. So with that new Set up we We unfortunately we had everything planned perfectly and then one of our building inspectors decided to take a new opportunity which Through a wrench in our in our plans. So with that in we lost our building inspector in June of 2019 in July of 2019 we reached out to CSG consultants for a contract of $25,000 to keep our services Up to par So CSG came in they helped us with building plan check. They provided us with building inspectors and Also counter help one of the advantages of CSG is that scott's valley also uses CSG. So our building official Robin Woodman was able to You know know her employees know who she's working with in this contract position and it was It was an easy fit for this while we were doing our recruitment process as of right now. We have $1,300 left remaining in the fund and with our new hire we actually we need to invest in our new hire I think it's going to be a two-year process to bring us back up to speed to where we were previously and being able to do all Of our plan checks in-house. So with that I've put together a two-year goal the first year will be considerable training for cat thrasher our new building inspector and Continuing to rely on CSG consultants for our plan review while Robin Provides training to cat I've also planned in there 60 hours of a building inspector to come in house while cat is There's different building inspector training sessions that she can go to and because we have a part-time building official It it's not reasonable to have your building official to fill those shoes During her 20 hours that she is at Capitola during the week. We also have utilized consultants For engineering review when it's a more technical project in your commercial areas and So I've built in a $5,000 buffer for that for that. So Currently and then for the fiscal year 2021 I plan to decrease the amount of plans by 50% that would be sent out to CSG So hopefully at that point building inspector thrashers Has more training less plans are going out and then hopefully when 2122 fiscal year comes up. I won't be asking for the continuation of the contract. We'll be doing these things in-house. So I Do anticipate 60 hours again for having a building inspector for those times that our building inspector is out of office And also the ongoing need for engineering consultant This modification Requires a modification to our approved budget. I had budgeted $8,000 for the year For outside consultant fees and that was really for those engineering needs that we run into every year of meeting an outside consultant to review with the $25,000 that has already been Contract with CSG That leaves in the $8,000 that was budgeted that leaves a deficit of 17 $13,000 from that previous contract and then with the additional services I'm asking for through the end of this fiscal year of $61,300 that brings the total budget amendment up to $78,300 I do anticipate additional revenues this year I would like to mention that with the mall plan in and the amount of contracts that we are managing right now and the additional fee that we the 21% fee to cover administrative costs of The mall project. I do think that we're not going to cut Cut even on this, but there'll be probably a 50% coverage of these additional costs that I meant that I'm requesting this evening So with that staff is recommending that the City Council approve the sole source contract for CSG consultants for on-call building division contract services Thank you. Any questions? Sam On the matter of the sole source contract, I noticed it justified because they have acquired Extensive background over the last two months when they were originally hired. Did they go through a formal RFP process? They did not at that time We were in a position that we we had to get somebody in fast in order to keep up on our level of service So we did not go through a formal RFP process for that contract amount. Oh, that was kind of an urgency manner. It was and Also, I was a little on the budgeting There's a now 41,700 in the negative And you mentioned that some of that would be recovered to the mall redevelopment Is that is that not already in our budget for? 1920 it is not we were not in Not having gotten the application before the budget year began and knowing the extent of the contracts and what would be before us That was not budgeted. Okay, great. Thank you Probably for the city manager. Where's this additional revenue going to be coming from? Well at this point is the community development director alluded to we do have some additional revenue coming in is because the mall project is now in But at this point, we're looking at fund balance for the remainder. Okay, I Do have a question any other questions? So you mentioned 65% of the actual charge is what the contractor would receive from for their payment Since we have to charge for what we actually Expend in terms of our staff time and stuff like that. I was just trying to understand that so 35% it's a little bit higher. I think than what we normally Take for a staff time. Isn't that correct? so we follow a standard practice in the building field of When a permit comes in it's based on valuation and square footage And then for the valuation the typical fee of an outside consultant is at 65% of that fee So of our square footage fee CSG for a leaf the other building consulting groups we've used in the past. It's a standard formula Okay And that ends up paying for our staff time 35% pays for our staff administration Mr. Mayor one point that I think it's worth Worth considering in response to the council member stories question about the RFP the city attorney and I were just discussing If if the mall project moves forward under the schedule, we believe it will They could be looking at building permits potentially in 2021 or 2022 That's going to be such a large project that I think at that stage It's going to make a lot of sense for us to consider a specific RFP for those services because I can easily imagine a situation We're talking about it, you know million dollar plus contract And I'm going to want to make sure that we have somebody on board who is really focused on just getting that done for us So, you know, I don't know that it helps this decision necessarily, but in that context There's clearly I think an RFP for these services coming up Right that well I that makes certainly a lot of sense and especially of that scope And I'd hate to I mean see a sole source Be built from stage to stage And kind of get grandfathered in So I think that that would be good and maybe you could bring that back to us when that happens I have one more question. We talked about this a little bit earlier in terms of the training I just want to get a better idea of how we go about training Thank you. As far as training goes. There are several organizations the International Code Council and California building officials that have ongoing training throughout the year In December, we will be sending cat to some I think there are two plan check classes that she'll be taking their day-long classes. They they will get her started I have a long background in Long-term background in plan checking. So I when I am in the office I do take we are going through plans and she's getting started with the concept of plan check It's not something she's experienced before But we will we have continuing education that comes up and there is online training as well that she can go through Okay, thank you Any questions from the audience back to City Council for motion Motion to approve staff recommendation second Second Sam seconds. Okay. All those in favor aye aye. Okay, so moved Okay on to consider adding streets within the jewel box neighborhood to be slurry sealed Yes, councilmember story. Did I hear you want to add that as a future agenda item or is that going to come back as a RFP? I just don't know if we need to know Well, I didn't ask for it because I wasn't sure when that was won But I mean I did ask if the city manager would be sure to bring that back to us when that came up And hopefully it will be in the record and yeah, yeah, he'll keep good notes And it's we wouldn't be at that stage at this point in the project It may be a year out But like the other RFPs and contracts we brought forward to the council this would be You know, I I did actually cover that point with Katie because I had some questions about this and she talked to me about that as An eventuality also. They've already planned on doing this. So Steve An evening mayor and council item before you is to add additional streets to the county slurry seal or county sewer project Where they will be performing a slurry seal on a majority of the portion of the jewel box neighborhood This item was originally scheduled for our last council meeting which got cancelled because of the power outage So as we're all aware the county's been going through the jewel box and replacing sewer lines Including Warf Road 47th 48th Avenue and through the jewel box down Warf Road and including Cliff Drive The installation of the sewer pipe is now complete manholes have been built concrete's put in place and The final stage of this project is to slurry seal all the roads that they trenched in 2018 when the city did a slurry seal we did a city white service the whole project we became aware of this project and Actually removed 45th 49th Avenue from the our project so that that's slurry seal wouldn't just be destroyed You know, they weren't trenching and 49th It just that the traffic increased construction traffic on there. So we pulled that out With the intent of adding it Is an additional work into this project? And when we came to Identifying the streets we realized that if we added 47th Avenue 45th Avenue and topaz and a few small sections of Emerald and Jade there We would essentially complete a slurry seal on this entire neighborhood, which I think is a key element to try and do so we Requested the contractor give us a price. They held their pricing for the majority of the additional seal slurry work that they gave to the county and Added ask them to give us a price for adding the green streets here. So the price for that is 84,750 dollars Now originally a lot of this work was intended. We had hoped to pay for out of the 2018 slurry seal budget Unfortunately those prices came in higher than we anticipated. So there's only 21,000 dollars in change remaining in the slurry seal project So we're also recommending that we take additional funding from the 38th Avenue Rehabilitation project that was completed in 2018 which has 72,000 and change left in it So our recommendation tonight is to authorize the public works department to reimburse the county of Santa Cruz up to 84,750 dollars for their additional streets to be slurry sealed as part of the jewel box sewer project and Authorize a budget amendment in the amount of 93,750 dollars Which takes the two Fund balances in the 2018 slurry project and the 38th Avenue project and puts them into a new project We will not spend all that money, but it puts it all the remaining balance in one project that will be then available for A future budget transfer when we need money in another project. So before we close this a full disclosure here 45th Avenue and topaz are on the project list that you're approving tonight due to Multiple communication problems with the contractor that's doing the sewer work in the county Those work was completed today Sorry to tell you that but it's good that was done I on Tuesday was left with a position of Either taking this these two streets off of the project list and not completing them or time and clean them today I made the decision to proceed and Gave them authorization to proceed today So here's the full schedule All the work and it's kind of hard to read but all the work will be done by a week from tomorrow And that'll be the end of that sewer project There'll be some striping, but the major inconveniences will will then so that is my report and I'd be happy to answer any questions Sam and then Chris will comment then the question one you made a very good decision and the second one, you know when the Sanitation district was putting in their pipes and we got comments from residents about the detours Are we able to maybe control that better with this project that's going on since There's This will be sugarcute that there's not going to be there's gonna be major inconveniences during this There will be traffic, especially when they do Warf Road coming down the hill Traffic is gonna be put on 47th Avenue. There's just not another good detail. We're out Fortunately, it's the end of the project. So okay, hopefully won't have to do that again Okay, and hopefully it'll go quickly. Yeah, this is me. Yeah For sorry saying the end of October and November. We're getting Wonderful weather for sorry ceiling. So Yes Thank you. I Had a similar question my understanding that there's a this will be done pretty quick and in the next seven days That there's probably not time for any kind of full public notice But is it already on our website or can it be put on our website or emails go out to any anyone? Who's you know contacted us before about the detours just to let them know that this is gonna continue and it'll be done in a week So the county has done quite a bit of public outreach on their own on this So I'd be happy to put the schedule and talk about that on our website, too But a lot of communication has gone between the county and the residents there and I've relied on them since it is Primarily their project. Okay. Thank you Yeah, I just want to echo Sam's comment that this was a great decision to make especially in light of the fact that our last meeting We were supposed to deal with this and we would have I'm sure passed that so to not take that opportunity I have one question though We took some of the money from 38th and I happen to notice that they're just tearing up 38th Avenue What's what's going on over there? That's the county has discovered they had another failing line in 38th Avenue so One of those things where we try and get all the utilities done before we pave and I know you did that That's why and I thought we had had that so that it was not going to be dug into but anyway, I just saw that today So thank you for that unfortunate. So what happens if we don't reimburse the county now? So yeah, I went out to look at 49th And you know, I was looking at the redwood tree, too But I was looking at 49th and someone came running down the street and I stopped him I said you're not supposed to be on here right now. It's supposed to be curing, right? Well, apparently there wasn't some Ballards or signs or something like that way down near I Guess East Clifter somewhere in that direction. So I don't know what we do on that Maybe they came out of the mobile home park or something like that I don't know why they came down, but anyway, there's a screech mark We'll have the sorry company take care of that. There's a speech mark. Yeah, okay near the redwood tree that we've been talking about Okay, any questions from the audience? Okay, bring it back here for emotion ocean to approve staff recommendation second Okay, all those in favor. Hi. So pass. Thank you council in the meeting. Thank you mayor before we adjourn Okay, I just want to note that I think this is the fastest public works project delivery ever So I want to commend Steve on that Maybe faster than would be wise but nevertheless very fast Second I just want to let everybody know that I got a PG&E text during the meeting alerting us that we may be Experiencing a public safety power shutoff starting on Saturday. So just pass it on to your constituents We'll be putting information on the web But probably I would expect that the same areas that were affected with the last shutoff would likely be the ones to be affected Again, although I can't I can't guarantee that Yeah, and I just like to make one statement Steve Thank you for working with sanitation and coordinating this project I think you know what we're getting out of this because that coordination and your effort is Much better jewel box and obviously extending to the toolbox area. Thank you very much Can we just make sure that gets walked to the residents at the senior center across from The at knob hill. I know that our police officers knocked on doors And since we have a bigger a longer timeline if we can make sure that happens again Yes, we will use the same protocol we did last time Okay with that meeting adjourned. Thank you