 Okay. Hello and welcome to this capital city council meeting in accordance with the current Santa Cruz County shelter in place order and the governor's executive order end 2920 This meeting is not physically open to the public Council and staff are meeting via zoom and there are several ways for the public to watch and participate as always the city council meeting is a cable cast live on charter communications cable TV channel 8 and We'll be rebroadcast on the following Wednesday at 8 a.m And on the Saturday following the first rebroadcast at 1 p.m. On charter Channel 71 and Comcast Channel 25 Len Dunton is our technician this evening. Thank you Len If you are watching on community TV and would instead prefer to join the zoom webinar Please visit the city of Capitola home page and click on city council Under upcoming events as you can see here on the screen as a webinar attendee Your microphone is muted for the entire presentation Unless you request to be unmuted during a public comment period You do not need a microphone camera The internet or a computer if you only want to listen to the meeting as this meeting is accessible by landline or mobile phone To join the webinar using a telephone only dial any of the following numbers now shown on the screen The webinar ID is also provided To make a public comment The mayor will announce the public comment period for each item If you are a zoom webinar attendee you can raise your hand as a participant and wait to be unmuted by our moderator If you've called into the zoom webinar with your phone Just hit star nine to raise your hand and you will be unmuted by our moderator You can also send an email to the address displayed on the screen Please remember that the mayor will announce the public comment period for each item One comment verbal or emailed not both per person per item is allowed If you send more than one email about the same item the last received will be read and displayed You may not speak an email about the same item Comments received outside the public comment period will not be included in the record Thank you for joining us, and I'll turn this over to mayor Peterson to call the meeting to order Thank you so much Absolutely councilmember Batworth councilmember Bertrand Councilmember story Vice mayor Brooks And mayor Peterson Here, thank you. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america And to the republic for which it stands One nation Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Thank you very much We're going to move on to a report on closed session Do we have a report out from our closed session from our? Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to unmute Closed session was held on the item on the agenda and direction was given staff Great. Thank you Do we have any additional materials for tonight's meeting? No, all right Uh, do we have any additions or deletions to tonight's agenda? The only stat change staff proposes is item 8e which is to continue the zoning code discussion That's on your agenda with a recommendation for a continuance And you may want to just remove it from the agenda at this time Thanks. I think so. Yes Yeah, yeah, I'll make a motion that we have continue that item and remove it from tonight's agenda Great We have a motion from council member story a second from council member brettron. We have a roll call vote, please. Yes council member vatworth All right council member brettrand five council member story vice mayor brooks mayor peterson Hi Motion carries unanimously. Thank you Oh, we're going to move on to public comment Now is the time for members of the public to address the council on any item not on tonight's agenda We will begin with uh, we'll have our moderator Larry letting us know of people who have their hand raised. They would like to speak We will have our staff in the chambers running the Timer for three minutes and then after we've heard from those joining the meeting In person we will go to email to see if there's an additional public comment Again, this is for items not on tonight's agenda and you will have three minutes to speak and i'll turn it over to you larry Yes, mr. Peterson. I have at this point two hands raised the first person to talk is phone number ending at 854 feel Okay, yes, honey. Good evening mayor and city council members. My name is lisa burkowitz And i'm the program director for meals on meals of program of community bridges I'll be making comments later on in the evening during the budget discussions But I did want to however take the opportunity During public comment to ask the council to please Consider the use of cdbg funding to offset some of the recommended funding cuts to community programs In these challenging times the services being provided have become true Lifelines for so many capital capital residents Uh, thank you very much for your consideration Thank you And now I have one community bridges Hi, everybody. This is ray cancino from community bridges. Uh, eo Just wanted to echo um similar sentiments as what lisa uh briefly described around cdbg funding I know that you had a discussion at your last meeting Concerning how to best use those resources We wanted to advocate uh consideration of having a preferential treatment for existing service providers in your community to have a preference point in terms of and now analyzing what you might receive in terms of cdbg funded project And to use that as an opportunity to kind of safeguard existing essential services that are currently being proposed to be cut in your fiscal year 2021 Budget and so, uh, we would like to just ask that The council consider that and the staff consider that and how they Do an rfp for those funding resources locally Thank you Larry i'm going to turn it back over to you. It looks like we maybe have one more Public comment. Sorry. I'm sorry. I muted myself. Uh, kurt ancy. Sorry. You're available Yes, uh, good evening mary council members. This is kurt gantz. I'm the program director for lifelines Program of community bridges. We're also the designated consolidated transportation service agency for santa cruz county I'd like to thank you for all the years of funding to lifeline over two decades that i've worked for lifeline We've always gotten funded through the city of capitol, which is helping us greatly to provide services to seniors and individuals with disabilities to medical appointments and access to meals Thank you very much. That's gone a long ways and last funding period Through the city of capitol lifeline In a sense gave money back as we were receiving $50,000 in funding prior years And we got additional funding through measure d so we took the opportunity to say we've got Extra funding now we'd like to give some back to capitol so they could use it for other service program as social service programs or as they seen fit and Of course, we could always use the money as bad on stuff But we we thought it would be good that we thought it was the the right thing to do and right now lifeline Is looking at almost a $600,000 deficit for next fiscal year So i've had to go in and trim the budget as much as i can and we just started layoff process so we're laying off approximately 29 percent of our Our workforce and this is a time when we could really use some funding So maybe if it's not even the full amount some of it could help provide additional rights to those that need essential services medical appointments And mills and we've stepped up to the plate. We're working with great plates now Delivering mills for that program as well as mills on wills And mills on wills contacted me today. It looks like there's a need to increase what we could do So we'll be looking at that, but thank you very much. You want to encourage you to look at the CDBG funding see if there's any possibilities there. Thank you again very much Thank you Turn it back to you. I've got Karen Delaney Good evening council members. It's Karen Delaney from the volunteer center I do not see the budget later on this evening So if you like, you know because I do want to address the budget Is is there a specific agenda item later about the budget? The budget is item 9b on tonight or 8b on tonight's agenda Okay, great and if those who have their hands raised could hit the button to lower your hand So that as we move forward we'll be able to tell if you're speaking on a new item or or not But thank you so much for your public comment Seeing that we have no email public comment. We will close Um general public comment now and move on to city council Uh and staff comments. Does staff have any comments tonight? I think our community development director is going to give us a little update Greetings Mayor Peterson and council. This is Katie Harlehy your community development director I just want to bring the council up to date that our ad hoc committee met yesterday to discuss CDBG funding Then notice the funding availability was posted last friday and capitol will be receiving approximately $80,000 in funds That combined with our $88,000 in program income brings us to $168,000 approximately in funding As discussed at prior meetings Two prior meetings with our resolutions passing The funds will be going towards public services Housing facilities for homeless and economic development. There are going to be three rounds for cbg funding During the first round, we're going to focus on this is what came out of our ad hoc committee is public services and economic development During the next round we'll broaden that to include the funding for the homelessness There are some things we need to work out as with the county um regarding previous partnerships we've had there in the past to to contribute to our regional efforts So I just wanted to bring you up to date on that and So that will include under public services housing assistance and food and under economic development Forgivable loans to businesses So that's my update for this evening Great. Thank you. Is there any additional staff comments? I think that does it for this evening. Thanks. All right We'll continue with council comments And I see that we have three council members with their hands up Before we go to additional council comments. I'd like to start us off if If that's appropriate, no one mind And I would like to start with the um With the acknowledgement of the service and the tragic loss of life of one of our Santa Cruz sheriff sergeant Sergeant Damon Guestweiler He was a 14-year veteran of the sheriff's department And according to sheriff jim heart He was and I quote a picture of community policing And sir, excuse me sergeant guesweiler lost his life tragically this past weekend In an act of senseless violence And I would like us to take a moment, please Of silence to reflect on his service to our community and the loss To our sheriff's department to our law enforcement community to his family Um and take this moment to honor him And and all those who are are protecting us and and looking out for our public safety during these times So if we could please take a moment of silence Thank you We will move on now. I see uh all of our council members have their hands up for comment So I'll start uh, we've been in the chambers. I've started one end and moved down to the other So we'll start with council member story Thank you, mayor peace and um You know, I well Wanted to pay tribute to sergeant Damon Guestweiler You know, who was tragically killed last saturday jim sixth in the line of duty You know, and it's another, you know stark reminder of how our Um personal responders and our safety officers put their lives on the line Um every day, you know, wouldn't they go out to serve the community? And I just wanted to take this time to acknowledge that to to them And let them know how much we appreciate Um, they're taking on that risk and and in this case They also must sacrifice that was made And I wanted to send my uh, condolences to sergeant guestweiler's family And as a sergeant heart and to all Of the officers in our county sheriff's department I know they they have gone through a lot and will continue to go through a lot as they grapple with this tremendous law And I hope that we as the council and the city can Reach out to the sheriff heart and the sheriff's department Um, to let them know that we're there for them and share, um, you know, in their loss And um, and I would I would also maybe ask mayor if we could maybe Hold this meeting in honor of sergeant guestweiler. Thank you for allowing me to speak Thank you councilmember story. I think that's um, um A great idea and a good way to honor his memory to hold tonight Um, tonight's meeting in his honor and in his memory. Thank you for this comment We'll move down the virtual dias to council vice mayor brooks Thank you, mayor peterson. I just want to echo what councilmember story has just shared as well as you mayor peterson Might be just condolences to the family. Um This is an absolute tragedy and it It's it's just really really raced my heart um I also want to say that in addition to that i'm deeply saddened and i'm told by By lots of things happening in america right now Excuse me, and i'm compelled to speak up um What I wanted to share also was um that As as an aside to the protest regarding the black lives matter As a leader in our community I feel it is necessary to to use my voice to express my support and sympathy of the many lives that have been lost As a community we must practice anti-racism in order to shift the paradigm Our county and local police officers do an exceptional job And have participated in pacifist and the escalation training. However racism is real and it exists everywhere even in capitol Therefore, we must take action to be part of the solution I will continue to exercise my privilege as an elected official to speak Severely and with cause and I will continue to remind our community of my message that every city council meeting until The protests have ended When I look back at this time, I want to be proud of our history and changes that were made during my service I want to be part of the solution and I hope our community does too Thank you Thank you vice mayor brooks appreciate your comments Um, let's see we're moving on down. We're going to go to councilmember ritron Thank you mayor, um I think Sam and Yvette, you know who's expressed very eloquently what I feel Certainly about the loss in the sheriff's department the families that they have because they're fellow sheriffs and their personal families um What's happening around the world not just around this nation gives us pause When we think about what we consider Our government and our society really is And that's something we have to think about very deeply So i'm not going to go and talk about what I think it is I think the main thing is everyone that's listening you have to have that conversation with yourself Your family with the peoples that you hold dear And the whole idea that we're in a community Is considerably important When you when you think about what is your role in that community? So what you see right now you want that to be reflective of the community that you feel comfortable in The other thing I'd like to talk about is You know I've read letters Especially about our lack of funding for community services And one of the things that's coming out of the discussions right now around our country Is the fact that The services that we've defunded are often the essential services that help society function The services that we've defunded Are going to cause great pain to many many people This is something that we don't take lightly I don't think the agencies want to hear that but we're in a dire situation So I'd like to remind our board Kept all the city council of our commitment to continue our process to make the decisions that we need to make What kind of community services are we going to fund? What is going to be our sense Of how we're going to support this community And make this community a better place through our sense of Through through our contribution to the city of capitol As we move forward to that process I'd like to remind everyone on the city council The capitol has traditionally been very generous We've traditionally given a lot to the community services that this whole broader community depends on So I just want to end with that reminder. Thank you Thank you councilmember vitran And finally, thank you for your patience councilmember botch or we'll come to you Thank you madam mayor. I first want to concur with all the comments by the mayor and all the city council members Each touching on a different area but yet carrying a common thread Uh, I agree with all the comments that were made. I support each one of those positions I have more of a just for an issue. I'd like to bring up those relating to some of some local business for us I just want to share that in my early years on the council there was sometimes a A disconnect between the planning commission and the city council This disconnect caused confusion to citizens and led to many appeal decisions Under the direction of city manager a series of meetings were held and both groups worked together to create a better cooperative relationship The city operates more efficiently when that relationship is stable A planning commission that supports the goals of the city's council and applies the city's existing ordinances makes for less confusion Two weeks ago. I watched the planning commission meeting and I was dismayed with the discussions on numerous items on the agenda In my opinion four out of five commissioners strayed outside of their role By definition the planning commission's primary role as this name applies is to plan A planning commission is a body of citizens that serve within a local government Acting on it as an advisory group to the municipal governing body Are issues and policies relating to planning land use regulation and community development As was mentioned, we are very sensitive times right now where many different public platforms are being used or misused for improper communication We recently created a social media policy just to address that topic Planning commissioners should not use their own personal politics in their comments That is left up to the city council They should acknowledge any personal relations they may have with community members if they feel it may impact their vote They should not offer personal opinions relating to the city's agreed expenditure plans in their decisions We already have a finance committee that advises the city council on those matters I appreciate the planning commission and I invite and encourage any member of that planning commission body To attend the city council meeting and share their personal opinions on any topic they choose I also invite them to bring it as a body to bring forth any idea That they feel may improve our city But bar in any ordinance changes their role is to apply the current problems and ordinances in their decisions Thank you madam mayor Thank you councilmember bosworth All right, uh with that we've come to the conclusion of council city council and staff comments We're my tender and we will move on to uh item seven our consent calendar Items on the consent calendar are enacted by one motion in the form listed on the agenda Unless any member of the public or any member of the council would like to pull an item for separate discussion I'll go first to uh the public to see if there's any member of the public that would like to pull an item from the consent calendar And i'll turn it over to our moderate our moderator rather larry to let us know Looks like there might be a handout, but i'm not sure if it's to remove an item from consent or not I i don't know um i'll find out Julie were you asking to uh remove an item from consent or were you wanting to talk about another item on the agenda? That was done by mistake. So I apologize. Okay. I'm just listening in. Okay. Okay No problem. All right. Um Oops, sorry. Go ahead larry. I was just seeing if there was a no there's no emails either Okay With that we will turn it over through the council. Are there any members of the council? That would like to pull an item like three hands up and we'll start with council member brooks Right mayor brooks, this is me Thank you, mayor peterson. Um, I have a question about item 7c and a question about item 7d Okay, do you want to pull them for a separate discussion after we vote on a and b? Please um, so we're pulling item c and item d for separate discussion Uh, okay, everyone's up ahead. Let's just work on down the line Council member brooks on it. Did you have an item you wanted to pull? Uh, no, I don't want to pull an item. I just want to comment on an item Was it item c or d? It's um the minutes And it's not c and d. Okay So my comments, um, I thank you for the clerk in putting in starting a new tradition That when a member of city council has an item for the agenda that it's actually noted. Thank you Great. Thank you Council member story Oh, you're still you're still muted council. There we go. Excuse me. I must do it twice um I I didn't necessarily want to pull an item, but it's my I'm speaking in reference to item 7d um And just letting and reporting that um, I would refuse myself from that item since I am a member um That would be a subject to that assessment the bia assessment So, um, but if that's going to be discussed separately, um, I'll just refuse myself at that time. Thank you Great. Thank you. Council member bachler Uh, thank you Have a correction to the minute because I don't know how you want to do that Uh, council member bachler Council member bachler if I'm not sure if it's just on my end, but you're cutting out a little bit there I know sometimes when you turn your video off it it makes it a little bit, uh, easier on the internet so you can try again and Maybe with camera without camera, but um, if you could repeat what you just said, I'm not sure we caught it Sorry about that. I'll try again. I had a collection to the minute and I could make that correction if you'd like Sure on page, uh nine of the packet I don't I don't want to pay for this 10 years from now. I said council member botter said that he loves the idea of closing the Esplanade And I what that what it should have said is council member botter said that people love the idea of closing the esplanade so And so the city I did listen to that video and it was very gargly So I'm sure the city clerk had a terrible time trying to decide for that But if you could just change the word from he the people that would be great. Thank you Absolutely all right Okay, so we uh are going to so at this time we will entertain a motion to approve Consent calendar item 7a with the Requested changes and item 7b and that will be our consent calendar And then we will come back and discuss b and d Separately so do we have a motion? I move item 7a and 7b 7a with corrections I'll start here Motion by council member vatron second by council member botwork. We have a roll call please roll both. Yes council member vatrand I council member botwork All right council member story I Vice mayor brooks mayor peterson I Motion carries unanimously. Thank you Okay, so now we'll go to a consent calendar item 7c Um council vice mayor brooks you wanted this item poll Yes, please. Um, my question was It the way I write it was that we were adopting this resolution based off of the The budget that we're approving tonight Um, it's how I write it. So I just wanted to speak some clarification It just kind of seems like we were approving something Approving this before we've actually approved the budget So I'll I'll ask our finance director jim mauber to respond And jim if you could just give us maybe a 10-second kind of overview on what the item is so the public's aware of what we're talking about That would be helpful. Thank you Sure. Good evening mayor and council. Um, so the the gandlin was enacted back in 1979 following uh prop 13 And it was basically designed to put a limit on the amount of tax revenues that we could appropriate each year And we're required to go through this Calculation and we get the factors directly from the state and basically what it does is it takes our our Tax base from 1979 80. I think it's been modified once or twice And we're allowed to grow that by population growth and um inflation And so each year we have to go through this calculation and then adopted by resolution That sets our appropriation limit on tax revenues So what we do is we do the calculation We put it in there and then we add the information about this year's proposed budget just to demonstrate That we are well below the gandlin it so we're not They're tied together, but You're not adopted the gandlin limit is separate from the budget and that you're setting that limit And then you're adopting the budget later so having them on the same agenda is good And then I think the takeaway from the gandlin it shows that over the last 30 by 40 years We have not kept up with inflation not even halfway with inflation because we're below 50 of what our gandlin that is allowed You know, that's helpful I don't think you've answered my question though. Um, is it okay to approve this before we approve the budget? Yes, you're approving the limit right now So we're just showing you the limit is what you're approving that we will not spend more than 31 million dollars in tax revenues That's all you're approving is that we won't go over that threshold The proposed budget event is just to show you that we're only out about 10 million this year I was going to say can we clarify that we don't collect 31 million dollars in tax? Okay, all right, uh councilm uh vice mayor brooks did that cover your Yes, okay Okay, so that was item 7c And if I could get guidance from staff quickly from our city manager or city attorney since these items were both cold Can we address them both now and then vote on them together as if they had been on consent calendar Do we need to vote on them separately now? You should vote separately. Okay All right, so um, it sounds like vice mayor brooks had our questions answered for item 7c Um, so we will entertain a motion I so move to approve item 7c Second All right, uh motion by vice mayor brooks second by uh, I can't tell if that was councilor goxworth or councilor bertrand It was bertrand, but that's none. Okay Motion by brooks second by bertrand. Uh, we have a roll call vote. Yes councilmember bertrand's I councilmember botthorff I councilmember story I vice mayor brooks mayor peterson Hi, motion passes unanimously. Thank you Uh, next is consent calendar item 7d, which was also told. Uh, you had some questions vice mayor brooks Yeah, it was um, thank you It was recording the the number that was presented in the staff report. Um Um, there were agencies that were represented here that teams have closed or maybe closing and um, I was just curious about that because we'll be approving the numbers here but for this for this under this item, I was curious if we should be approving that or the The actual updated numbers I'll refer this to jim mauber again Jim if you have any questions that you think would be more appropriately answered by the bia if they're on the call as well And we could refer something to them and jim could you give us a little summary on what this item is about? putting the public hearing date to do the assessment levies for the business improvement area down in the village And each year we prepare this roster at this point and we need to list all the businesses as best we can Each year businesses close and new businesses come in so it's never a perfect science This is just simply kind of a snapshot in time and I did reach out to a car and hawn about this question and She said basically her approach is When a business closes Once they move all of their belongings out of an office and they're removed from the list But we have cases where a business says it's going to close Then they actually open back up then they Continue to do business so we don't pull them off of the roster until they're actually empty spaces That answers but I could I could say car and is on the call as well as The bia president Anthony gohar will Now that makes sense to me. Thank you all right um Okay, so if there's no additional questions from the council on this item, we will uh entertain a motion and a second I'll sound move item 7d for approval all second Moved by vice mayor brooks seconded by councilmember botch work. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Yes councilmember bertrand I councilmember botch work I councilmember story Recuse Thank you And uh vice mayor brooks mayor peterson Motion carries uh with four in favor and one recusal Thank you We're gonna move on to our general government items now. We'll start with uh item 8a an update on the city's pandemic response And I will turn it over to staff for staff reports All right madame mayor members of the council It's gonna take me a little moment here before I can start sharing my screen. Please bear with me Okay, it's my screen. Uh, can people see that? I will take that as a yes So this is I think the sixth update we've done on the covid 19 emergency declaration for the city of capitolah This is some of our updates from our regional case counts from santa cruz county health office You will notice that um, we saw relatively nice declines in through towards the end of may and then after mother's day There was a spike in cases cases came back down and recently We uh just yesterday we saw our high high number of new cases was eight reported yesterday and I believe there was actually four the day before so 12 came in yesterday So that's that's an item of a bit of concern. Um, certainly don't like to see those case numbers climbing So we'll have to watch that carefully in the next week or two This is some more data that we pulled from the uh county of santa cruz and it shows where santa cruz county sits in terms of the other counties around the state This is showing. Um, the further down you are in this chart. It's the fewer cases you have per capita So santa cruz is doing better than most counties in terms of fewer cases per capita And the flatter your line is the better your county is doing the steeper line for example here where you see marin marin is having case load growing relatively more quickly Well, our case load is growing relatively flat. So our case numbers look quite good It's certainly better than other places where you can see much higher levels of the uh of the virus Statewide though the numbers certainly don't look super promising We have new cases continuing to grow and a relatively at this point looks like a linear scale In addition the deaths per day has remained relatively stubbornly the same it's through the middle of may and about The peeking out each week at about 100 deaths per day Which is obviously concerning as we begin to open up more of the economy Will this trigger these numbers to continue to grow or are we going to sit here through the summer at these levels? Uh regionally in on may 30th the state approved our variance for santa cruz county That's actually the county's variance to move into the later stages of phase two Which is allowed in person dining and restaurants to open up uh and I believe some hair salons um And then on june 9th our health officer issued an updated health order that really aligns our local orders with the state resilience roadmap And that means that coming up. I believe it is tomorrow hotels and short-term vacation rentals allowing tourism that'll begin Be allowed in our county movie theaters with significant restrictions on occupancy museums galleries aquariums Those can open as well again with restrictions And same thing with gyms pubs wineries and swimming pools The order that maintains the beach closure and the uh facial covering requirements continues at this point Through july 6th that beach closure as people are aware Closes our beaches to public use between 11 and 5 o'clock each day Although the water remains open. Um at other times of the during all times of the day On your agenda this evening is to ratify emergency order for 2020 This order was issued since our last meeting when council gave direction to establish a process by which to allow over-the-counter permits to Allow businesses to have more outdoor dining particularly in the right-of-way in the capitol of village In addition allows over-the-counter permits for other activities to take place in private parking lots Outside of normal uses like parking and parking lots. It also creates a temporary Sorry a over-the-counter permit for takeout windows So emergency order 2020 was issued and on your agenda this evening is to ratify that order Um, there were a few other elements to order uh for 2020 It reinstated the three-hour parking limit in the village opened up the upper and lower beach parking lots and allows for Staff and PD to enforce 15 minute parking zones in the village for curbside pickup So outdoor dining our staff has been working really hard with members of the bia and businesses down there to get this set up No, this is a picture. I believe from today on the esplanade There's been somewhere in the order of a hundred custom stanchions to hold the ropes that designate the dining area is built The flower pots have been um all the have been installed We've had a local volunteer Nells westman has built 10 accessibility ramps our public our building inspectors have gone out and inspected them to make sure that They're up to snuff public works department really Put the pedal to the metal this last two weeks and getting the benches and getting everything set up for the outdoor Dining as well as building up the beach this week And then planning now had an all hands on deck moment last week and everybody was out there in the field going door to door Um working with each individual permit to get the administrative agreements in place so that they could open up And the city attorney's office helped and created a liability waiver so that if people wanted to use the benches Not just as traffic barriers, but as seating that we would have that liability waiver in place as well um We also have put in place some Just done it this week some Handouts and gone door to door with the businesses about how to sort of set this up and comply with social distancing requirements Gave direction to restaurants to space the edges of the tables nine and a half feet apart Put marks on the ground where the tables are to ensure that if the tables get moved that people can see and move them back And helps people understand the six foot separation and facial covering requirements that are in the health order So that's proactive work that our staff is doing to try to help get better compliance In the village. I will also note that we have Banners on order. I expect they'll be up in the very near future that encourage people to wear banners well in the capitol of village As a summary of where we stand with our facilities at this point city hall and police department city parks Are all open the place structures remain closed the wharf is open and the beach parking lots including drift drive are open Closed facilities are the beach during the days from 11 to 5 as I mentioned earlier the community center and the museum for the time being Although we will be looking at the the state resilience roadmap and figuring out what it takes for our museum to open up this summer As we get ready for that And so with that i'm available for council questions Have again so I can see what's going on councilmember story. It looks like has a question Thank you, mayor Jamie on the total case updates Do we have any information about cases in capitol and Would that data even be possible to think? So I just went back to look that data is available and it is on the county health department website I believe our case number is currently eight um If I remember correctly, I believe it may have been six at our last meeting and five the meeting before but that's off memory So our case number I do believe is eight when I saw today. It's on the next next dashboard That's I unfortunately did not clip for tonight's meeting. Um, yeah, thank you for that reference to But I think it would be good as we get regular updates that we kind of Focus then if you could give us information On the capitol the cases and how they're trending You know, my other question is concerning The um social distancing protocols. I noticed in the last order that The public health officer now has deemed those to be voluntary and not mandatory um and um But at the same time the beach restriction um, and the distancing requirements Including the wearing of face masks Are still mandatory Um, that seems like a mixed message and I wonder um Are our businesses uh posting the protocols? Do they have those employees? um And will they continue to do so? um And and then what and I was wondering what are the ways are we? um trying to get the message to um, you know, the visitors particularly to the village that it's still necessary for them to social distance to wear face masks And also frequently You know wash their hands So I'll answer the first part of the question and then I think I'll turn it over to katie hurley for the second part The first part of the question What we have planned at this point is to to do the banners uh over cap av and monoray That encourage people to wear the face masks We also have our existing signage that's out in the village That talks about social distancing and the need for it We've been in regular communication with the businesses about how they're asking people to socially distance and the notices that they have And katie, I think I'll turn it over for you for about what what the businesses are doing about how they're Informing people of the masks and what you know on that katie yes, so um, thank you jamie and uh councilmember story The businesses each have a business to have a covet 19 plan that are required to post the other entryway So any restauranters that is open or store? They have a plan in place, but they might that they need to follow most And within that there is a requirement to post that um wearing masks is required as part of the Protocol that was put out by the county so each of the businesses are supposed to have a sign That says you must wear your mask to cut to enter and then as Our city manager stated we did go around this week and Was actually yesterday and today handing out to the businesses To the restaurants and I can take that to the next step We've actually posted on our website as well those safety protocols that we've put in place because um Just so that it's easy for staff and members of the public to to see by seeing an x under a table That um restaurants are adequately facing their tables Um, they we've also requested to ensure that they have signs up for wearing a mask on entry And also to require that all of their staff people are wearing masks as well And then um for lining up also we've asked for The businesses to put down tape or some type of visual queue for um visual Um through tape or chalk to show that they're queuing correctly and keeping parties six feet apart Or having the option of having a hostess who will take down a phone number and suggests that any patrons continue to Walk and then come back to the establishment If there's not available errors in queuing to come back once they've been called once their table is ready And council members story, um, if I could just add to that I'm not sure if this was built into your question or not But the order is a little confusing But the way I read it is that social distancing requirements are still in place But restaurants or businesses just don't have to post them And they don't have to cut they don't have to fill out or post them on the forum that the state initially circulated Yeah, I thank you sam. I I actually read that in the order, but that was the best to seem contradictory to me Just say that these are required, but you don't have to tell people that they're required Which is I think creating some of the disconnect Down in the village, but yeah, thanks for that clarification All right, uh, looks like health committee over tron has a question I do um So I noted a lot of enthusiasm when the Stations were put out and the ropes were put out and I saw shan Working with BIA people, but I was wondering um I was wondering Can you jamey? He was a better idea how many people from staff and what they actually did you you make some mentions Mostly community development. I I kind of like to shout out to all those that did work and supported the bia Boy, that's a good question. I'm going to miss somebody if I try to think about it. Um Katie you want to go through your staff and steve you can acknowledge the folks on public works that have played a role here Within uh, we'll start with public work. So the public works team overall. I think everybody contributed um a few days before It was Earlier in the week. I'm going to guess about last wednesday or so that they began Bringing out the benches. So public works team Placed all the benches around the village to section off different areas And then on friday, it was really an all hands on deck effort down in the village with uh Danielle you harry it Kind of leaving the effort to let's get out and work in the field and go door to door to these businesses um from our staff We had folks from public work the bia was up in our yard putting together the stanchions with the posts pouring cement and staining and as they were as they were ready to go. We had public works folks bringing the stanchions Down to the village. I know that there was uh, many of the businesses were involved in the village, especially the capitol candy um, the capitol wine bar and building these stanchions and spending multiple days working on that um So all of public works was busy as well as our planners Sean was instrumental in helping go door to door to the businesses As well as anytime we had a free moment You could see him moving stanchions out in the field and lining things up Matt Orback was back in the office helping print off paperwork as it came in and delivering it to us in the field um our building official Robin Woodman was instrumental in making and Helping a guy how the ramps had to be designed. So it was really a um collaborative effort and Nells Westman a local capitolian who was worked in the building industry for years. He was he volunteered and Made all of the ramps for the businesses. I think there are about 10 in total and I I hear there's more demand out there So it was truly a public work director Steve just bird was down in the field as well Helping out. Um, so just a great collaborative effort by all And it never appreciate that And I want to just take a moment also it would really have never happened without katie She was really the the quarterback driving all this and coming up with the ideas and Pulling everybody together. So big kudos katie for getting this thing done Great, thank you, um So vice mayor brooks, did you have a question or did I come to you already and No, I have a question. Um Hold on. Okay. I have a five-year-old in my ear. I'm so sorry. Um There you go. Um We've received several emails regarding safety and I know council member story Asked a few questions about that Um, what are the additional protocols? Um, other than the banner? Are we able to implement to ensure that folks can be safe out there? Are there has there anything um, has there anything been In addition to the banner that has been discussed yet And then my second question or my my follow-up to that is when will the bia be reporting out? We ask that they come back monthly and um, when will that be on the agenda? So I'll take your second part first the bia will be on the agenda next meeting Um, and it'll be on a general gov and then they'll be presenting their work plan and their budget for next year So I think that's a good opportunity to get a report on how this is going um And then the second piece of the puzzle we've we have been working with first alarm uh to get first alarm out um on the esplanade to try to help with the beach closure enforcement because frankly If people aren't if we don't have people there on the beach enforcing it During the closure period if you leave for 15 minutes, there's 100 people on the beach So the only way we've been able to get even substantial compliance has been by literally having somebody there So we have been contracting with first alarm for the last four or five days to have them help Our officers to try to keep the beach actually closed Terry, I don't know if uh chief mcmanus if you have anything to add in terms of our efforts to try to help With social distancing and compliance in the village. It's it's certainly it's not an easy thing. You know people people um You know people don't follow the rules. We can't be nannies for everyone and it's certainly a challenge Yeah, thank you jamey for the opportunity and you touched on a lot of them We're repeating. I think the batters are going to be effective. That was uh a good idea bringing those forwards really important those um Being up soon The bia's role specifically in gaining compliance in their establishments We think it will go a long way as long as they remain proactive and have personal need to As key is mentioned to fulfill that role The security component that we just started on saturday Is working out really well a little bit of um destruction on saturday because of the tragedy that's all of you have spoken of The sheriff's office and i want to thank you for your your kind words With regard to that that trend to death of Starting with that school But security is working well We're we're having a little bit of struggle to make sure that the staffing that we need preferably three bodies three officers Uh, but they're pretty thin right now with all the requests throughout the county public services So we're working through that and then in addition to the village and um Along the Esplanade as we go forward with more outdoor dining more of these houses opening up we have committed to a Level of control that needs to be required uh, certainly On the front side and then throughout to just engage with the public to monitor their vehicle flow and the monitoring flow We do have the ability and we will based on monitoring Temporarily close the Esplanade to vehicles that gets to a point where there's too many vehicles and too many pedestrians Uh, in addition to the dining that's just a little bit too dangerous We have the ability we've done it The last couple once a few times to slow slow down the Esplanade to clear the vehicles And so we'll we'll continue to monitor that The sergeant's will and then regular and I want to mention all the people that we've talked about all of your talk about props to all of those I want to make Particularly mentioned a couple of my staff, of course the officers our role is to to maintain Uh, a level of compliance and enforcement as required to be all we only want to talk about And specifically captain dally hasn't designated Is between our department and the bia as well as the ad hoc can be led by our next shield With regard to police important posture and our world board I want to make mention of the indies role And then sarah ryan sergeant sarah ryan We all know as well that has been for many years the la has done with the Restaurants in the businesses and bars in the village specifically from an abc angle But also as it relates to these changes that are going forward for our villages So those two in addition to all their other duties are doing quite a bit of work to try and make this as best We can hope that answers your questions It looks like We don't have any additional council questions So with that we will bring this item to public comment So now is the time for you members of the public to address the council on this item specifically And there's this oh all right No, I do not see anyone with a hand up at this time Okay, oh, I see uh, I see it looks like karen has her hand up now Yes, let me turn it all on you to allow you to talk. Hey, can you hear me now? We can hear you karen. Okay. Um, I just want to a couple of things. I want to thank the city um, especially public works and planning for really, um, busting their bus to hurry this thing along. Um And also the the people in the bia and volunteered all the labor To get things done quickly and I'm hoping that the restaurants follow suit And get their tables out there quickly too because I think it's going to look really well on the the subject of compliance and our visitor compliance It's terrible and uh, a lot of areas are not Requiring map and what we have found in participant in my store is that we had Catching we had a colorful little sign with catching graphics. Please wear face covering sanitize your hands and You know did nothing we have now gone to you know 72 point font Black and wear face covering before entering Four signs in the front door a table. They have to walk around with hand sanitizer on it and believe me They'll still scoot around that table and we have to point it out to them So any graphics that we do in the future. I hope will be extremely bold Um, because people just are completely unaware and you know, the the statistic out there Is if 65 of the population wear face masks The virus will die out You know a big goal, but um, you know, I just think we have to stress that more than anything else And I think that when the when when residents clean when you see Restaurants that are that are violating that aren't having people where they're to wear their mask So they're seated at the table and I think that everybody should advise the city if they are seeing anybody that Is not doing probably the proper protocol And I hope the city will write letters to these people telling them that they have to because it's our lives out there and um, you know You know, I know you know and I'm just asking the city to be tough with the businesses Um, and I appreciate I appreciate everything you've done so far. Um, oh, that's the good graphics Cool Yeah, that's good. Mask up for capitol. I love it. They're covering save lives Perfect. Thank you so much over and out Thank you karin Um, let's see. It doesn't look like there's any additional public comments from the public I don't see any and I don't see any emails either Okay, all right. So we will let me mark it that we went to public comment. Okay Uh, we will move on to council comments Uh, I would just like to to first say thank you to all the staff and all their hard work. They've done on this um, and It's just thank you so much for all the hard work you've done in supporting our businesses and getting these, um Applications done administratively you've just all put in so much work and I also want to acknowledge Um, all the work of the members of the bia Um, I'm sure there's more work that went on behind the scenes than even I saw but I will tell you that last weekend when I went for a walk at eight o'clock in the morning Uh, karin and rod knee from capitol a candy company were down there loading Uh, uh soil and flowers and setting it all up. Um at eight o'clock in the morning and and um, it was It was very impressive. So thank you to to the bia also. This was truly a community effort to make this all work Um, so we'll move on to other council comments I see that council over story has his hand up Yeah, thank you mayor. Actually, I was going to try to um ask karin a question. Um, I don't know if she's still there but Um, maybe this is a question and a comment. Um, I I think it would be a great opportunity of our great, um, you know service Some of the businesses are ones could actually sell mass at An inexpensive price So that a lot of people, you know, maybe they come they don't have them But when they see the signage that there's a supply of them or we can point to one of the merchants That may be able to sell them and so Karin if you're there, um, maybe you could um um Use that opportunity or maybe the staff could make that suggestion to some of the merchants to You know get the mask out there. Thank you Thank you council member story I do know I know that some of our merchants are selling masks Like cloth masks that I know that capitol liquor on the corner of Stockton and capitol that sells a um A pack of 10 for $13. I think it is or something along those lines But that's a that's a great idea ensuring that there's opportunities for those who don't have masks to get them so they can be in compliance Uh council member trodden. I see you have your hand up Yeah, I have a little comment. Um I was just wondering maybe it's a question for steve Um, I was talking a couple of merchants. Uh, we did steam cleaning on the sidewalks So one comment was uh, it wasn't done in front of the bread and I don't know if lower Monterey is getting steamed clean So maybe they missed it or I'm just wondering about that And in general the whole idea of the street being cleaned up I think, you know, we're trying to put our best foot forward and you know, I hope that we can do More in that regard work with the da and maybe our Streets guys could help I'll see I'm not sure how that's being intended to so those are my two questions Steam cleaning and general cleanup around the village Mayor and council member Bertrand, can you hear me? Yes, I can. Okay Um, so we did do some steam cleaning when we initially put the benches out in front of the restaurant We did that last thursday And the bridge at that time has set up anything in front of their restaurant or the other places Um, and then this week has been dedicated to the beach And trying to get that grading done. So we will be returning next week Talk to the the owner of Britannia arms. We're going to try and clean that area Generally, we're continuing our cleaning this week's been a little different because of the beach work But we will be doing our regular Uh, grabbing the street sweeper through blowing it out and doing what we can to keep it clean So behind the benches where the restaurants are that's going to become their responsibility to keep that clean There's no way for us to get in there With any of the equipment so once they take it over It's going to become theirs for to maintain That's great. Thanks, Steve. And you know, it's really great to see the uh sand being groomed Starting that process I do want to add though and and steve you can correct me if i'm wrong I do believe that our normal contract For steam cleaning sidewalk cleaning was cut this year as part of our budget cuts So the level and the amount of cleaning that I think we're going to be seeing this summer is not What we would have seen in the past I want everyone to be prepared for that Along with our contract with hope services for the trash pickup So we will do what we can but I need everyone needs to be aware that these budget cuts don't come without Some implications. So I just wanted to add that And steve, please correct me if I'm if I'm misremembering the budget Now look that the statements are correct those items were cut in the budget Thanks for that clarification, chairman All right, vice mayor brooks also has her hand up Thank you, mayor peterson so My my comment is regarding the cleanup I'm not sure how much of it is required by the county in terms of like what really gets rid of the virus So I would be interested in seeing if that isn't an even a necessity in terms of like what should be Actually done to kill the virus Maybe cd could speak to that now or maybe bring that information back on The protocol that that would allow for this virus to be killed, you know, if it's it's living on tables Then is it then of course you would have to disinfect it? But I know some some new information has come out. So I'd be interested in hearing more about that Are you are you asked? Oh steve? Do you want to take this? Well, I can tell you in the bathrooms. We do have Especially the astronaut bathroom protocol and disinfectants that we use there on the street I have to admit I'm not aware of any protocols or cleaning techniques for killing the virus on sidewalks and streets We are the cleanup we do is mainly trying to keep the sand and trash levels Under control. That's a primary focus during the week and during the summer in the beach environment I'd be happy to investigate whether there's more we could do regarding Killing the virus on the streets and if there's a code of help for that Yeah, I just didn't want it to get mixed up in terms of like the cleaning the lights Our our city manager stated, you know that we're make where those cuts we're making those cuts But if it I didn't want to get those two things confused Yeah, I think the cuts are you know, the health services did trash pick up Along the astronaut and the beaches Public works crews will be We'll be picking up that as much as we can they cuts to Steam cleaning the sidewalk is something that We we don't have the equipment if you have to recycle the water to do that That is something that I don't think that's a a COVID-19 issue as much as a cosmetic issue. Thank you Also member Patron, did you have your hand raised for a second time for comments or is that from last time? No, I'm trying to I hit the wrong button. I'm trying to regain Controller on my computer. So no, I did not okay Accountant from the crossword has his hand up I'll make a motion to approve staff's recommendation Second All right, uh motion from councilmember botorf second from vice mayor brooks Uh, can we have a roll call vote, please? councilmember birchand I councilmember botorf I councilmember story I vice mayor brooks I mayor peterson I Motion carries unanimously. Thank you Uh, let's move on to item 8b Uh fiscal year consideration of fiscal year 2021 budget and capital improvement programs in the city of capitol and we'll move it to uh, uh over to staff You're muted jim. Oh, there you go. Yes guys. Thank you, mayor. Um and council Hello again, I'm going to start sharing my screen. I have a couple of slides to share with you Okay, let's do that one. Yeah, we can see it. Okay. Thank you. So, um, as you just mentioned, this is the fiscal year 2021 proposed budget and just to give you a catch up on how we got here today The proposed budget was distributed on may 1st We've had uh, six meetings that should start at just before the first three finance advisory committee meetings on April 28th, May 5th, and again this past Tuesday Additionally, we've had three city council budget hearings on May 6th, May 21st And last week we did a special meeting on June 3rd And at the May 21st meeting council provided direction to return to make the resolution for budget adoption Um To recap the budget revisions from the May 21st meeting as council director We are now utilizing 14,800 of early childhood and youth restricted t o t revenue for recreation programming That's going to be allocated based on needs. Those four four categories list of their scholarships supply of transportation and contracts From our special meeting on June 3rd council gave us additional direction to increase public works contract services by 17,000 in the current fiscal year 2019 20 and additional 26,000 in fiscal year 2021 And that is for closing the creek Grading the lagoon and then doing the required creek monitoring once we have the creek closed off In order to cover those costs Council gave further direction to transfer 43 thousand dollars From the park avenue sidewalk capital improvement project to the general fund And we're able to do that because we anticipate that project coming in about 54 thousand dollars under budget A couple of different additional budget revisions since the May 21st meeting is we've added in a recreation event Budget this is for food truck events Which increased our recreation revenue by 14,000 which consists of 9,000 in sponsorships And it also increased the recreation expenditures by about 12,500 With thought we've had that budget kind of sitting there for a while and the thought to adding it at this point is If uh, if and when those events are allowed it takes about a month to get those going and as we get into our summer summer schedule We can be delayed quite a bit what I can't commit to is that When those events are allowed we will not put on an event until we've secured enough in sponsorships to cover the cost So the goal is to be revenue and cost neutral on the free truck events at this point Um, we also updated the liability insurance. I got the final premium amount from and Asia And it was about almost $6,300 less than what I had estimated I'm cleaning up the community grants. I had a bad number in the last budget, but um What I wanted to to demonstrate is we all are aware we've had the community grant programming for fiscal year 2021 But with the plan is to return the community grant program to full funding of 275,000 as we did last year With 249,500 coming from the general funds and 25,500 coming from our early childhood and youth restricted COP revenues I've also cleaned up the contingency reserve. So the last draft you saw a transfer from contingency of 165,000 Through some of the uh other amendments that we made prior to May 21st We no longer need that transfer But I do still show a transfer of 800 low over a generous of 79,000 in balance out fiscal year 21 22 We had talked about not including that this year just because there's so many unknowns With our department fiscal management policies require that we do a proposed as well as a plan So as of right now I need to show that that's balanced. So that's why that transfers there We will not Be presenting a proposed budget next spring that far out of balance. That's just kind of Balancing it out right now until we get more information to get that number tighter On a general fund and reserves. So our fiscal year 2021 operating budget is balanced We're estimating beginning the year july 1st with about 154,000 dollars in the general fund We have programmed about 141,000 of that into Different expenditures throughout the year with an estimated ending fund balance on June 30th of 2021 of about 13,500 And again, I mentioned I don't think I have a plan on this But we'll be coming back to the council at a minimum on a quarterly basis as we get TNT and sales tax revenue. So those numbers will tighten up each time and make sure that everybody's fully aware of where we're sitting on the fund balance Jim, can you speak up? Jim, can you speak up? I didn't hear that last part. I mean, I had a trouble hearing you Oh, sorry I just had said that we will be coming back to the council at a minimum on a quarterly basis and each time we do We'll update where our fund balance position is at that time Um on the reserve balances our contingency currently has a little over two million dollars our emergency reserves 1 million 1.36 million and our first contingency that's an april 30th balance I was going to tell you that it's probably significantly higher a little bit higher than that But the market took a little dive today. So that's probably a pretty close balance of $889 So as far as key dates and follow-up items Sales tax revenue is the one that we will be watching even closer this year than we normally do And the key dates the first one is august 20th We will learn what the amount is of our final fourth quarter fiscal year 1920 payment is Which is the quarter we're in now so on august 20th We'll receive notification from the state on what our sales tax total is for the quarter And then on november 20th We'll find out what that amount is for the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, which is july through september Um, and then we will be coming back to council and updating council on those numbers As they come through TOC we received the tent of each month Which was yesterday and I can tell you it's a little better with months than last month But pretty low as hotels and motels are really just going to start opening up tomorrow, I believe Officially The other Revenue item we'll be watching is the cannabis tax. This is a new revenue source from the city. We had thought that it would kick in January 1st of this year took a little bit longer But our first retail store opened in april and actually got their second cannabis tax payment today And then deep thought the second store still scheduled to open in the fall So we'll be keeping an eye on that and making sure our estimates on that are close And then as always cal first cost We will get our actuarial reports come out in august And I don't have it on the slide, but I grant some data So, um, what we'll be watching is I don't anticipate a big jump in our ual or Not it is a big jump, but not an unexpected jump Calhurt has told us last year that next year's ual fiscal year 21 22 will go up by about 13 and a half percent From the 1 million 750 that it's at this year this year 2021 going up to 1 million 983 And then they have estimated that we will see an increase in fiscal year 22 23 of about 8 percent Taking us up to 2.1 million. That's the one I'm going to really be watching because that the members are driven off of Calhurt's performance out of June 30th of this year So we'll be watching that We'll have kind of a two-year advance morning, but um, I'm anticipating that member to be quite a bit larger than what the original has to look for As far as recommended action The recommended action is to approve the resolution adopting the fiscal year 2021 operating budget and council improvement program And direct staff to cancel the special city council meeting budget hearing next to winstage June 18th And that concludes my presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions Thank you, Jim Uh council members. Are there any questions on this item? It's the vice mayor brook has her hand up. Thank you, mayor Peterson. I was hoping that Katie could Speak to the cdbg cv grants that we're getting She's mentioned it earlier, but I think it may be more applicable at this time to discuss those incoming funds and she mentioned something about three the three Waves of the dollars coming in Thank you council member Brooks This is Katie Hurley the community development director. And yes, um, I've been working closely on the cdbg grants And we passed a resolution last month over the course of two meetings Towards how we were going to utilize the cdbg funds for different activities. So I'm sorry. I don't have a slide for you, but what we have for cdbg funds We have 80 000 that's going to be in this first round Of funding and then we also have eighty eight thousand in program income So for the first round of cdbg grant funds that can be used towards COVID-19 we have 168 thousand dollars to work with this is the first round of cdbg funds And there'll be two more rounds They're anticipating the second round to be larger amounts from the first round for the 80 000 dollars that we're getting in this first round They're anticipating second round will be larger the third round. I have no expectations of what the amount will be um And the second round is supposed to happen soon, so they're saying That funding should follow pretty pretty closely after this first round um What we what we decided during our initial resolution was to fund public services Which is made up of housing assistance. So Rental assistance can be covered in that as well as food. So different nonprofits or entities that Provide food services to the public cdbg funding. It has to be tied to low and moderate income households So there's a tie back there Also the other activities that we put in place was housing facilities for the homeless And economics development the fourth category health first health care facilities is not applied to capitol That would be if say we had transferred jade street into a COVID-19 medical facility that luckily we haven't had that experience here. So the three activities or public services housing facilities for the homeless and economic development and during our recent meeting that we had with our uh, or our recent ad hoc group meeting which comprised of the mayor and vice mayor The two items that we'll be focusing on for this first grant distribution is public services So again, that's your housing assistance and food as well as economic development. Thank you. You're welcome And the that we'll be making we'll be publicizing For the food portion of that to have groups come in and For the public service portion of that to Let us know if they're interested in providing those services to capitol and I think during our initial public comment period We did hear some interest in that so that will be happening shortly. It's not posted on our website yet. We're working out First out We're focusing getting our application in to the State but we'll also be posting that as we're waiting for funds to come in Thank you Questions from the council Seeing none, uh, we will now open public comments For this item and I will pass it over to our word my 10 go and I will pass it over to our moderator Larry to call on Those who would like to address the council on this item Uh, you will have three minutes to speak And I will rely on our staff and chambers to keep our time for us Mayor Beerson, we have a couple of comments so far Raymond can see now is first Thank you council. I appreciate your time. Uh, and pretty interesting to see a city council on zoom. I always enjoy These things because it's a different perspective. It almost seems like you guys are the Brady bunch on my screen. So Um, just wanted to first, uh, thank you all for your continued efforts I know this is a very difficult time in which you are trying to balance the budget My concern lies in really a lack of conversation around Increasing revenue opportunities that could be helping to offset the unfortunate and devastating budget cuts to social service funding and critical Funded essential services in our community So I'd like you to consider proposing a very similar Proposal that we've been working on with the city's anarchers of increasing a parking Amount of close to a dollar additional an hour And making that an isolation specifically for social service programming that helps support the citizens of Capitola I think it's an opportunity for you to look at your revenues and your parking revenues in a different way And look at that as an opportunity for increased revenue generation. Uh, the second point I'd like to Point out is that I I understand Everyone's prior comments saying that these decisions aren't easy and they're not You know taken lightly. Uh, I do want to point out though that it's really hard when the record states Um, you know a a funding action To support a museum that is essentially losing $45,000 a year Not only is the total revenue For the museum $7,000 made up of fundraising and only $2,600 of box revenue It shows, um, that unfortunately your priorities are for museums instead of food for seniors for seniors health care for For family child care for families and support services and the well-being of our community That that is just what the record is stating based on the budget approval You have in front of you in addition to that you have over $35,000 in art and events Of contracts to contractors to do events and public activities that are important But I still go back to the question of is that more important than taking care of our seniors that have built this community? Is that more important than taking care of the mom and the fathers and the families that are potentially at risk of eviction? Um, those are the questions that I would ask and if I was in your seat Unfortunately, I would disagree with you and I would be making a different decision So, um, thank you for your consideration I look forward to further conversations where we could look at revenue generation and not just cut And look at that as an opportunity for us to be partners to try to rally the troops and have the community discussion In order for us to take advantage of what capital it has Which is if a destination everybody across the world wants to come to capital And it's really an opportunity for us to take advantage of it. So, thank you. Thank you for your comments Larry Yes, we we have uh, the last number of eight five four Yes, hi. Thank you very much. Um, good evening again mayor and city council members This is lisa burkowitz community bridges meals on wheels And I want to thank you for all the past support you've provided for capital seniors Your health has made a tremendous difference in the so many lives And I understand and I know that the decisions you're having to consider regarding funding Are extremely difficult um During more normal times meals on wheels is out there fighting food insecurity and social isolation for capital of seniors And in these extraordinary times of cobit 19 The essential services that meals on wheels provides have taken on an even more critical role The seniors being advised to stay at home to protect their health and life Many of the calls to start new service for capital seniors were from folks Who had called on meals and wheels in the past to help them out They knew by simply picking up the phone and making that call the meals on wheels that we would be there to deliver meals No questions asked and regardless of their ability to donate towards the cost of the meals They knew they could count on meals on wheels The past few months have been very tough and many a phone call has ended with a senior in tears And a heartfelt thank you for knowing that meals would be delivered Our dedicated staff and our amazing volunteers Didn't hesitate to take on the challenge in the high risk environment we find ourselves in Countywide we're serving thousands more meals to hundreds of new seniors since the shelter in place began At the end of february. We were serving an average of 395 seniors home delivered meals We are now serving over 650 seniors By the end of june we'll have served over 5500 meals the isolated capital of seniors Almost all of them living alone with the youngest senior being 66 and the oldest senior Being 93 years young The capital of seniors depend on us to be there to provide meals delivered to them when needed And meals on wheels depends on funders like the city of capitol is to help bridge the funding cap So on behalf of the seniors we I respectfully request that you consider revising the recommendations For the complete elimination of funding for next fiscal year Thank you Thank you for your comments I've got Karen Delaney Thank you very much for the opportunity. Um I was really moved to hear the passion At the beginning of this meeting and really the anguish over What we're faced with I too am committed in this moment to talking about Not settling to doing things differently If we really want to make a pivot on equity on racism It requires us To live with our discomfort And to put our personal feelings and actions aside and be courageous enough To look at the data and be judged by the impacts of our results not by our words and so I want to say when I look at Not the words But a budget is an expression in numbers of our priorities And what next year's budget of capitol us is communicating clearly Every single function of government is a higher priority than the needs of not all residents But some residents the usual suspects who are always Moving to the back of the box. I hear words about we have no choice Because of the circumstances we are in and yet there are four city budgets I've read all four of them In the exact same climate and two are making a very different choice Only capitol us and scott valley Are saying to those people that always get sent to the back of the bus No money for you so What does that say about capitol us that those are the inarguable facts I hear that capitol was in a unique situation From a data point of view There are two big ways that capitol and scott valley are unique in local jurisdictions One is their wealthier. They're the wealthier of the two of the four cities And you have healthier reserves And yet the other two cities who have poorer residents and less reserves Are coming to a radically different Value-based decision than you are asked to do What does that say about us? What does that say about capitol? What does that say to the residents you're saying next year? Go to the back of the bus get off the bus be thrown under the bus. I pray That we do Thank you for your comment. We appreciate it Larry are there any additional it doesn't look like there's any additional public comments on the zoom meeting anyway I don't see any other hands raised. We do have a few comments from email I will try and get those going via a shared screen Okay, give me a it's always fun. So let's give it a shot um, you see that screen audio I simply want to speak on behalf of our families and children receiving counseling survivors of child sexual abuse Seniors struggling through this crisis with issues of aging Callers to our suicide prevention hotline residents of care facilities isolated and at great risk of infection and women fighting cancer who are already medically compromised Why would you completely abandon them at this hour and under these conditions? We can't be partners in serving capitol residents only in the good times We understand the magnitude of the fiscal challenges faced by the city We ask that you share the reductions and do not defund community programs and thus shift the burden of serving your vulnerable residents to someone else David Bianchi executive director family service agency of the central coast 104th walnut avenue sweet 208 santa cruz, california 95060 831 423 9444 engine 204 831 port i will try and share the next one leah samuels executive director of the human care alliance here I hope you all received read and considered the letter we sent It appears you still intend to make a complete cut to the grant funding historically provided to nonprofits and matched by federal funds To add to that letter I wanted to refer you to a study in 2018 conducted by a sociologist at nyun cited by numerous others including the brennan center for justice and the new york times Research found that in a city of 100 000 that each new nonprofit community organization lead to a 1.2 percent drop in the homicide rate 1 drop in violent crimes and 0.7 percent reduction in property crime The study concluded and I hope you consider that crime reduction is difficult without addressing problems stemming from chronic poverty We have all enjoyed the five years of declining crime in santa cruz county I hope you will do your part to keep that going What communities like capitolah do right now to address inequities in funding and demonstrate how they view public safety will be critical to achieving unity in our currently fractured country Thank you for your time best leah samuels human care alliance executive director Dear capitolah city council Please consider my comments as my input regarding proposed budget cuts for social services as well as cdbg funds I work for community bridges as the chro and have worked at community bridges for 27 years because of the variety of vital services Our agency provides to so many in the community Including the frail and elderly Our elderday adult daycare program supports numerous families to provide vital services to frail and elderly community members Which in turn helps the families that are involved to keep them employed and prevent caregiver burnout As well as improve the lives of our participants keeping them from nursing homes or worse likely out of the county Please prioritize the social service and csbg funds for programs such as elderday Meals on wheels and all the other important family resource and nutrition programs that community bridges provides I know that mr. Story has supported our mission for years and intimately knows how important it is to fund such life changing services to our community We appreciate his support and would ask for your support as well to support our mission and vision We have 200 dedicated employees who work tireless hours to provide these much needed services each day Thank you for your consideration and support up front respectfully Julie Julie rake ilbertson ph r s hr mcp chief human resources officer community bridges looks like this is The same is before should I should I read it or I think it's the same message as we had before Yeah, it looks like the same one I do not see any other emails Any updated public comment email it was time great All right, uh, thank you. With that we'll close public comment on this item and bring it back to council for discussion in a boat Um, I would like to start by saying thank you to those who have commented and reached out We certainly hear your concerns and understand them I'd like to share some information and also address some of what was mentioned in public comment um Capitola of the four cities as mentioned um It has the smallest budget of all of the four cities in this county And I think that that's one of the things that we really need to consider Is that other cities have different opportunities within their budget that we as a smaller city do not have Um, we have to make difficult decisions and I know that as mentioned no one wants to hear that that these are difficult decisions because When our difficult decisions aren't necessarily um in any one uh Organization or communities benefit that it seems like it wasn't a difficult decision that we have as one commentor said thrown people under the bus um Several of us on council have worked for non-profit agencies or served on their boards and still do and To be quite honest, it's frustrating to hear the suggestion that we simply don't care about those in our community And that we're throwing them under a bus These are very difficult decisions. In fact, if I remember correctly I don't remember if it was last fiscal year the one before that capitol It was the only city to provide a cola adjustment in our community grant program And I can be fact-checked on this one But if I remember correctly, we are also one of the cities that provide The largest percentage compared to our small budget in our community Grants program So we have always been committed to this and we remain so and it unfortunately is just that we have to make unfortunate and difficult decisions this year That being said as mentioned by several of our Public commenters and and those in the community that I've discussed this with We are receiving cdbg cb grant funding through the cares act There will be three rounds of that funding and with the total of those three rounds We will potentially be able to provide more To community programs than we ever would have been able to with our typical budget Now that won't necessarily go to all of the same organizations or in the same way But we are committed to ensuring that the funding that we do receive in those Cares Act funds and the cdbg funds through the care act rather We'll go back to our community to address those. They're most Vulnerable to In this experience of coven 19 and those most directly impacted by it So please if the idea is that we are just going to cut our funding and do nothing to try to assist I ask that you you please Reconsider that mindset because we are doing what we can with what we have where we are right now With that I will move on to other council members if anyone has any comments and then we will Deliberate and go to a book Do any other members of the council have any comments? I'm not seeing any if there aren't any. Oh, there's two of jock now That's interesting. Okay, uh ed. We'll go to ed and then just spam All right counselor brought to work and then the council member story Yes, thank you mayor. I I think you expressed the uh, well, I feel to be the opinion of the council very eloquently um You know, I This is something I've never had to deal with. I you know all my years in the council As you mentioned capital has been generally Very generous with giving you community grants Um, I think we've tried to help as many as possible But the concept of trying to pick and choose right now. What is a priority? We were looking at, you know Trying to deal with our employees services possible layoffs Uh, you know, this is real It's affecting everybody The decision we made uh to pick to keep the museum open for 13 000 dollars I think it was very difficult for us. But I but what I fall back on is is, you know, we we here represent 10 000 people in this town And we try to all bring to the table what we feel matters to the community and I think that uh, you know They're the ones that attain the property taxes They're the ones that are contributing the largest portion of the money into our revenues And so I I think we owe it to them to try to make sure that we you know, listen to what they want us to do And even though over the years they've given great direction for us to support community grants Uh closing of the library with these with the museum outside museum Would be something that you know, I think that that's not how they want little outside to the local So, I mean, I struggle with that, you know, we we struggle it again to open up junior guard Uh, and again, I think it's something that matters to the community and it doesn't just because something matters to the community Doesn't mean that something doesn't matter to the community And and the truth of it is is we just don't have the money to even try to Parts what out and and I appreciate you mentioning that our budget is the smallest and our revenues our reserves Are definitely in no comparison to the city of tannisters in Washingtonville. So With that I'm compared to make a motion to approve the staff recommendation on the budget We have a motion on the floor. Do we have a second? Jock if you're a counselor patron if you're speaking you are muted There we go Can you hear me now? Yes, we can Okay, we have a motion If it's if it's comments about this item there, of course, uh, we can continue speaking But right now we have a motion on the floor So we need either a second or for the motion to die at the lack of second and then we'll continue What I gave those seconds. Oh, you did. Okay. That's what we didn't hear. Okay. So we have a motion in a second We'll continue for conversation Yeah, um Okay, go ahead. Jock and then we're going to go to Sam because he had his hand up Part of our budget you have to look at it from a standpoint. We are trying to support portions of our population that Are very critical and the one I'd like to point out is initially we weren't so sure about um junior guard and the And the activities that we supplied supplied our friends for for kids And so we made that decision that that was a very critical one because kids often don't get that kind of support And we're sort of swinging over into that that's led by our newer members on the city council And it's been long going it's been long I think we've we've missed that opportunity and now we're thinking about that a little bit more Um, some people criticize our support of the museum Um, the museum has been a very long going organization in capitol. Most of the members are seniors It's a sizable number of people. I'm not too sure how many but you know, close to a hundred people And this is a very important social aspect where the members of that That part of capitol So we're doing things on this level And trying to focus on people like ed said That are part of capitol and we're holding that community type by supporting the things that we feel are important to them It is true that we're going to be getting some money through Various grants and such like that and those are being directed to some of the most critical people who don't have homes Some people just housing Challenge and also delivery for food So some sometimes in this particular situation We're being forced to make Choices for people that we feel are very important for the community And this is capitol. So it's reflective of who we are Thank you very much Thank you council member try and we'll go to council member story Thank you mayor Peterson You know, I just wanted to explain when the boat comes up and to restate at this time that and so that everyone clearly knows that On the community programs aspect of the budget I am recused from participating In that conversation and in that boat because my wife Works for one of the recipient agencies and therefore I'm viewed to have a financial interest and therefore Can not participate and that and So within the context of the motion which is dealing with the budget as a whole I will approve it, but I hope the record will show that I am not making a comment Or a statement about the community programs funding and the cuts to that funding I think if anybody Knows me in my history in sanatrix county They know where my values are But I wanted to just state that for the record So that that is clear Thank you Thank you council member story Council member botwork. Do you have your hand up again? Or is that left up from last time? I just want to make sure I don't overlook if there's additional comments. Sorry, mayor. I just took a scale. No problem of Vice mayor brook We can carry on with with the vote. Thank you. Okay Any additional comments from council? Seeing none. We have a motion and a second motion made by council member botwork Second by council member retron. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Yes council member vertrand Council member. Okay Hi, thank you council member botwork Hi council member story Um, I and we use on the community programs. Yes. Yes. Thank you and vice mayor brooks Hi mayor peterson Hi Motion carries unanimously. Thank you We're going to move on to item 8c receive My apologies. We're going to move on to item 8c a community survey result We have a staffer for it We do give me a second here So i'm going to be running this power point for gene bregman gene. Are you on the line? Great I can hear you. So we will put this slide show up. Can you see the slides gene? Great. All right, gene the ball is in your court Council member is mayor. Um, we're going to give you a report today survey that we did as you recall several weeks ago Spending to do a hundred and fifteen hundred seventy five interview During the week after memorial day It is both by phone and Go through quite a few questions and in so i'll try to go through these Expert questions afterwards. Um Ah, there we go chart one first question and the question we've asked in the last two polls We did for the city. How would you rate capitol as a place to live? Ah, everybody still loves it here 95 and 97 percent now that's six percent. There really isn't too much more to say about it except People like living here. This is not a space Anybody who knows the area? chart two The overall job being done by epicola city government to providing services and taking care of the needs of local risk vendors Again very high marks A little changed really over these six years Excellent good with seventy eight percent and seventy nine percent seventy three percent That's all pretty much the the same place if there's any change at all It's a little bit more in the apartment fair Who they dropped in a couple of the others, but really that's when you have three quarters of the people Uh spending that The city Good job or an excellent job. Um, you've got a good base of support among your voters Chart three Uh, again, there's another study question we asked back to all three studies One of the jobs is the sprinkling managing its budget and finances and here you get a lot more people have no opinion Now that they think you're doing a bad job, but we have in all three times it is four percent four But the excellent bill is fifty eight fifty three forty nine all pretty reasonably close just around half the people at excellent to good slightly more on the no opinion this side this time um The people who um are over the age of 60 are a little more likely to say you're doing an excellent good job Which is always nice Part four summarizes Two of the that was the poll of these Charts are just seeing plus and at the third one We have on top the overall job being done by capitol the city government excellent. They're good at seventy three percent Then the jobs team is doing managing the sprinkling finances. They can go 49 and this one Which is what kind of the job in the city been doing responding to the corona virus crisis? and again, that's Just the superb result at excellent good 67 percent um Again single did on poor response You know as follows everything else now that people like living here. They like The way that the city is run Just from top to bottom Okay, next chart We start getting more specific. This one. We only have the last two surveys Is there a need for more money by the city of capitol in general is there a great need some need a little near no real need Remarkably consistent with what we had four years ago The combined great need and some need 55 and 54 percent um A little bit more this time in the no opinion then on the no need Less of a response of having a great need or some need among the younger respondents those Under the age of 40 And they come up again and other questions. We'll see shortly and then we And had three questions asking people on the effects of the corona virus have been first one was How concerned are you with the effects of the corona virus on the local economy? 61 percent say that very concerned 91 percent were the very or somewhat concerned not to and not at all concerned with the other choices They only have concern with you with the impact of the corona virus on the health of you and your family Very concerned was 42 Very somewhat concerned still three quarters of people were at least somewhat concerned About the health issues personally for them And then the last one was how concerned are you with the impact Of the corona virus on your personal financial situation Fewer people are very concerned, but still two-thirds were just somewhat concerned not as much as the general Concern for the local economy as we saw on top of 61 and 91, but still at 68 saying very or somewhat concerned um It's still an issue out there for a lot of people um The uh Interestingly that the top one the local economy we had very concerned was Higher among the people With who are over the age of 40 and people who are under 40 the younger people were a little less often very concerned about on the local economy but on the other hand the Renters more concerned With the corona virus effect. I'm going to personal financial situation and then we've our last one of the corona virus questions was uh Well, I can next the last one was what is your personal expectation for your financial situation a year from now And the plurality People said they'd be about the expected to be about the same as it is now 31 percent So it would be better 16 percent expected it to be worse um, that's like slightly optimistic group um Two-thirds of those over the age of 60. So it would be about the same It's not really terribly surprising And now here is that really is our last question. I think on the effect of the corona virus and we answered Will the corona virus? the effect much of an effect Or will there will it be on the budgets and services provided by each of these? and we Asked for very serious somewhat not too or not much at all fact 67 percent Thought the effects on the state of california would be very serious 60 percent on the county 58 percent about the same on the city And lower for local hospitals and local public schools on the very concern um Now on the other hand if you add a somewhat concern They're all very hot Yeah, the ones with the lower very concerned make up for it with a somewhat concern And interestingly people who are the younger people Are less likely to say That the effects will be very serious on all of these Younger meaning under 40 in this case And then we get to our Our votes our first vote one of the tasks For this poll was to assess how people felt about a utility user's tax um And we read people a paragraph. I think council members you have the actual questionnaire there Similar to what you actually see on the ballot. We started by asking how would you vote? Elections were held today on a seven percent utility tax 35 percent. Yes Now brains is only we only need a half a majority 50 plus one nonetheless 35 percent is awfully low We go up to five percent We're at 40 percent saying yes And we do pass the 50 percent out of three percent tax But I would caution Everyone to take that with a grain of salt or several grains of salt Because you always by the time you get to that last vote There are a certain number of people who are saying yes either just because it's better than what they've heard before or Just maybe to stop you from asking the question and Asked about the five and the three percent only if they hadn't said yes to the seven They were asked by the three only if they hadn't said yes to the five these are cumulative totals then our next three Sets of bars are at the end of the survey after or later in the survey after people heard why Those support and those who oppose it about how the programs will be supported and now how would you vote? and we actually have a drop-off in the seven and five percent the 31 and 36 percent yes is from 35 and 40 and still the same at the Three percent, but again, you know that that cautionary note reiterate that um Generally speaking in the the first The the difference is there's a little more support among people over the age of 60 And and and in the last notes and there's a little Less support among younger people he wants under 40 Now that my my conjecture is that just in general tax situation now in the general economic situation is a little more tenuous for uh The younger people is for the older ones remember the older ones 60 70 percent of the economic situation would be pretty stable a year from now you know In between those two sets of votes we have a couple questions the first question Was in chart 10 next chart Whoever's moving along for me. There we go um And we asked people We gave them this list one at a time and we rotated it so there was no Order bias to it And he has to be one of these programs that would be supported by the utility tax very important somewhat important Not to or not at all important these percentages are Just those who said very important The top box and we always look at that because that's the kind of Level of support that you might see influenced by these items on voters So the top two were maintaining the city's infrastructure and maintaining the high quality of our police services at 41 and 39 percent um Then it drops down the rest of all in the 20s 20 to 29 percent um 40 years ago We have Similar to not exactly the same list of items Five of the items were the same the important point though is When we asked this question then Our range was not 20 to 41 as it is today The range was 37 to 67 percent Saying it was very important for various programs to be supported and I think that is a direct reflection of The last time we were asking about an extension of The sales tax which people were very supportive of and here we're asking it and it's tied to the utility tax Which people are not so supportive as you would expect People who are opposed to the tax increase are less likely to say any of these are very important It's interesting. You're the only one actually Maintaining the city's infrastructure whether they're asking both studies and those came out to be about the same But anything else that was asked the same as much lower in health than it was four years ago We then we then followed this with two questions And we read paragraphs which I think you probably have there in front of you First block that we rotated us and half people saw the reasons to support the utility tax First and half the people Were read or read they did online themselves reasons to oppose the utility tax first And We asked in each case how convincing are these arguments To vote either four against as the case may be Very convincing somewhat or not convincing And you can see further evidence of the Of where we are the reasons to support only get 58 percent and only 20 percent Who say they're very convincing? Where are the opposition? 81 percent Say the opposition arguments Are convincing reasons to vote in opposition's utility tax including 45 percent find it very convincing Older people People without kids Democrats Homeowners wrote a little bit more Act to say that the reasons to support were convincing But we're still in a A downward end here Comparing the two and then from that we followed up with the with the later votes That that I already saw whether the votes actually dropped for the first two utility taxes So we also wanted to take a look at How people would react to a vote on increasing the sales tax From nine to nine and a quarter percent And in this case 9 percent say they would vote in favor 36 percent of polo the six percent undecided Clearly if If there's a sense that people Have a Interest or willing To support something it certainly would be much more likely on the sales tax increase than the utility tax increase But again younger voters are less supportive of this too and the older voters are more supportive Surprisingly people who who are supportive of the utility tax are also more likely to be Of this tax as well We then followed this with two questions related to three statements About the utility and the sales tax and asking sort of comparisons the first ones From the first of you see the first ABC and we asked people to do generally agree or disagree with each one um And the first one what it boils down to says I prefer the sales tax because it's more fair and equitable than taxing utilities the second one be given COVID-19 crisis Unemployment downturn the economy we cannot afford any tax increase And the last one was sort of the rationale for the utility tax Which is it's the only one that will really raise enough money to really make a difference in city services and programs In the agreement side We had 76 percent agreed With the argument in favor of a sales tax Of course at the same time 65 percent also agree that this isn't a good time for a tax But only 40 percent agreed With the statement that the utility tax was a a better way to go We followed that up and at the bottom part of this chart is asking people to choose Which one do they prefer among these three statements? 45 percent said they prefer the sales tax increase 11 percent prefer the utility tax and 34 percent said we just can't afford any tax increase now the good news on this Is that you've only got an entrenched 34 percent who Probably won't support anything that you put on the ballot But you do have a 56 who might be open To supporting something and our last question was the last issue that we were asked to hold on Which was opinion of a tax measure with different tax measures that different Solely dedicated for projects the slow erosion of the bluffs overlooking the ocean as a general without putting any kind of specific tax on it 31 percent would be in favor 46 percent would be opposed You know a quarter would have no opinion, but again not a lot of Summit or interest in in this tax just this purpose So that's our last chart. I think It's pretty clear Utility taxes are always very difficult And that's certainly true here And I I could not recommend that you That you go for utility tax even at the lower three percent level I think it would be a real up-to-date battle to try to get that passed As far as increasing a quarter-cent increase in sales tax I'm not sure And jay me to talk to that momentarily about the effectiveness Of having that in place if it were to pass, you know, we didn't do the kind of detailed Research on that question here, but the indications are certainly of it Certainly a lot better chance of passing back into whatever utility tax questions Mayor peterson if you'd like I think I have a couple more slides And I can just talk a little bit about how much money each one of these options raises If that would be helpful before we go into questions wait until you're the next couple slides I'll do it quick So very quickly we pulled on three three questions around the utility tax the utility tax at three percent five percent seven percent The this is how much we estimate that it would raise a three percent utility tax raise about seven hundred thousand dollars a year All the way up to a seven percent utility tax raising about 1.6 million a year You can see that in general the utilities tax split approximately 50 50 from between residential users And commercial users And then to remind council, uh, this is how much we get from our actual district taxes You can see it has been relatively flat over time. I think we hit that was around the high in 16 17 We've seen minor declines since then and then obviously the impacts from the coronavirus so um The district taxes are around at this point had been around a million dollars Looking at mid-eighths right now with coronavirus And the utility tax at the low lend the three percent is the seven hundred k And that's that's all I had and now um gene and I are available for questions All right, uh, it looks like council member story has his hand raised for questions Yeah, thank you mayor, um Jane I was curious, um of the time frame in which you um made, uh, you know the call or Or got the email. I noticed it says may 19th on the Results, but that was the main idea that that was the date that we finally like the questionnaire We actually started interviewing on the 27th And then finished up on is either 31st or the first Okay, so basically the end of may Right when you were contacting Okay, um You know, I'm the sales tax results where it shows that 59% Said yes um, it's in your experience that there may be a delta between How many people may say yes in a poll, but then ultimately will vote yes and the privacy of you know Valid or Sorry, are What they're both? Generally speaking it's Based on how good a campaign is run I mean that that Now in this case, um I am Low to give you Uh You know full steam ahead recommendation Because This vote was taken after people spent a bunch of time on the utility factors. They didn't like So there's a certain amount here of this is better than the others. So I'll vote yes on this. It's hard to quantify that um Nonetheless, I mean if if the situation is such that you Desperately need additional money even if it's not what you would hope for it might be worth taking a shot at this Okay, thank you The additional questions from council Any hands up so with that it will bring us to uh public comments I'll turn it over to you. Larry as our moderator There appears to know I do not see anyone with their hands raised Nor do I see any emails at this time Okay So at this time we're closing public comment on this item We'll bring it back to council and I see councilmember botch work has his hand raised. Uh, thank you madam mayor Well, you know, it's um gene. I want to thank you for the report You know, I I do put a lot of credibility into it. Uh, it's been a good uh guide In the past giving us uh some kind of you know anticipated direction that might go Although I do remember one Tax where we scored over 81% And it still failed and I think the one key comment that you made is resonated with me What depends on how we do the campaign and instead of keeping in mind, we're not really Allowed the campaign. I think that I I was uh self-appointed camp for almost all the tax initiatives over the last seven years And uh, it really boils down to the opposition and I think what's going on You know in addition to virus is just a general tax to keep Uh, and maybe a lack of trust where the money's going. So you get to or you have to have a an earmarked tax measure Of two-thirds, you know to direct the money before you have you gain some credibility with uh with the public but um, you know, I I I feel like, you know, clearly the The utility tax is in my opinion is not worth the effort I I I I definitely know that the city needs the money I don't feel like we're crying wolf But I can feel from the from the from the ballot that there's just not enough support for it One thing that was really important to me and I'm I'm glad that the city council allowed the question to be on the The questionnaire about, you know, what would you know, how important is it for you to save the bluff? because You know, since I've been in the town, you know, the uh, We've hit us the losing of grand avenue To the point now where uh, we're pretty much going to end up with some dead end streets and we've already lost a portion of our walkway And I don't know that it's inevitable But unless we do something which it sounds like it's not going to happen The rest of that walkway will fall into the ocean and sooner or later probably maybe not in my lifetime, but Homeless will follow that also and and I know that the city had a chance to vote on this item about 15 years ago actually voted not to do anything and here we come to the Citizens and say hey, it's your town. Is this how you want to spend your money? And I know when they come back and say no, we don't want to do that And I guess, you know, that sends a strong message that everybody's comfortable with the inevitable direction of the bluff Um, as far as back to the city with the fail tax, um, I'm not even convinced that there's enough of a percentage there to pursue that quarter percent and and uh Yeah, I you know, I find it to be an accurate report. I just find it to not to be you know, what we had hoped for I know we spent money to have the survey done and as I look at it now You know, every dollar that we spend is so critical And now we have to make a decision about spending more money to put it on the ballot Although it's not a a large amount of money because uh, you know, it is an election year um I guess, uh, you know, I'm not prepared to make any motion right now. I I'm I mean I would rather wait on this and see uh, you know If the public was watching this and if they're paying attention to it And if there's a different feeling out there from the public that they realize that our situation is grayed and you know, just by the fact of the decisions we made with the budget and uh So I'm not we're ready to make the recommendations tonight on on any tax measures. Thank you down there Thank you council member Bautore any additional comments for discussion from the council And if not, uh, does have a motion that they would be uh, oh council member story you have your hand up Yes, madam mayor, um, I just wanted to follow up with uh councilman Bortoff and um, and also confirm that you know, the results of This survey and polls are not encouraging to me And I think the only one that would have any hope Of being successful would be the sales tax um but um 59 percent is not a comfortable enough margin to move forward with um, I reflect back when we did a poll It was about 10 years ago now and maybe you're oh um, and we got the results And it came back at like 68 69 percent of the residents supported a sales tax entry And when the election actually happened though, it's barely passed. I think it passed like in the very low 50 um So that gives me a lot of cause for you know caution um, and I'm also concerned now with the talk about a second wave coming in the fall of of how You know trying to ask the tax measure to play against that if that were to happen. So I think for those reasons um, we should just you know, maybe take this information and um And shelve it for the time being. Thank you Thank you council member story Council member Bertrand. I see you have your hand up. So we'll call on you for some comments I'm definitely just to grab my computer charger so that it does not die in the middle of our meeting Council member if you're trying go ahead with your comment You know, I had to step away for a charger also um Yeah, I was a bit of disquiet to hear the results um, I remember when I heard the results for the um library measure You know, it was very close But the thing that carried us over was the enthusiasm for the the measure You know just almost on bridal enthusiasm across the county to put a measure on to support our our libraries And then the other thing to contrast On the opposite way is recently we've had a lot of measures for schools that have lost and I think this is our reality right now and um so I believe capital is left to its own devices right now How we're going to manage our budget and how we're going to come to decisions on what's important for the city and its residents Those are my comments Thank you council member Bertrand. Um, do we have any additional comment? Madam mayor Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you I just did want to just toss out a couple of different ways to think about this for the council based on the comments that I just heard I think I'd have two options as a suggestion for how to proceed I think one would be if the council at this point is firm that we're not going to do a ballot initiative Then let's just say that and we can move on past that alternatively Uh, it's another option for motion would be to continue this item to the next meeting in two weeks And we could see if we have more feedback and then make the decision But uh, I think that that would be helpful to know because for staff standpoint Putting together the package for a ballot initiative does take some time And we only have two meetings between now and when when it would be due So I think it would be helpful to either make the decision that we're done with this Or continue it to next meeting and then that would give us the time we need Either way All right. Thank you. Mr. City manager. I say vice mayor broke her hand up Yes, um, I'm prepared to go with the first option our city Manager just shared with us that we will not be putting this on the ballot for this year I'll second Okay, we have a motion by a vice mayor Brooks and a second from councilmember story um Councilmember Bertrand is your hand still up from your previous comments or do you have a new comment? No, I'm trying to figure out how to do this. Um, my hand is on Okay, no problem. If you hit the right hand button and then you're done there the same button should then say lower hand and then it'll make it go away No, um, so it looks like we don't have any Additional comments. We have a motion and a second Uh, so we have a roll call vote, please Yes councilmember Bertrand Five councilmember botwork Thank you councilmember story vice mayor Brooks Hi, and mayor peterson Hi Motion carries unanimously. Thank you All right Thank you all. I'm sorry. I didn't have better news for this time No worries. Thank you so much for the presentation and for your work on this gene. We appreciate it Not my pleasure. Well, thank you For tonight item 8d consider fee scheduled for fiscal year 2021 turn it over to staff for a staff report Thank you mayor councilmember. So this is the fiscal year 2021 fee schedule for your consideration Oh, sorry, let me share my screen. Hopefully correctly this time. Okay, that should be better this time So just by their background, uh, this is our annual review of the fee schedule as part of the budget process Our current fee schedule was adopted november 24th 2015 And at that time the consultant recommended that we do an annual review and a consumer price index increase Since 2015 those fees have been increased each year by the san francisco bay area CPI rate, which for fiscal year 2021 Is 3.31 However, at this time staff is recommending that we do not implement a CPI increase on july 1st And that the only changes were put in some minor fee amendments in the recreation fees And just by way of what we've done the last few years. You can see We've been anywhere from 3 to 3.87 on our increases So, uh, I mentioned that there's a cost of service fee study that was completed in 2015 and best management practices recommend That you do that every five years. So we're we're due for one this year and we actually began that process in january anticipating that we would be coming before council In at the end of april with recommendations for adjustments going into effect july of this year But due to fiscal impacts from the coronaviruses pandemic, we slowed that process down First to allow residents and businesses to continue your services without increasing fees while we're in these unprecedented fiscal times And second to just allow city staff and the community to better understand the full fiscal impact associated with covid 19 We do still plan on uh, we are still working on the copy And uh, we anticipate completing that towards the end of summer early fall and being before council in october With any fee adjustments tentatively going into effect january 1st of 21, which would be the earliest I think we need either 45 or 60 days Lead time for land-based fees So that's why I get jealous but we can when we get that point we can decide if january 1st is the appropriate date or not As far as uh proposed fee amendments for this year We'd like to remove four weeks from the junior dart resident and non-resident fees This year we'll be running a two week we'll be running a two week session But due to staffing requirements and social distancing protocols Our two week sessions are going to be basically as expensive as four week sessions Just the way we have to stop it and keep everybody separate We'd also like to include a junior leader of programs the i think included $6 This is a program that we've offered for a number of years that this year is going to be a little more formal offering job training skills such as ctr and first aid certification And the fee really is to just recover the city's direct cost of that enhanced program And finally, we'd like to add a late picket fee of $1 per minute We already have this fee with the after school program And this would just make the junior guards and camp capital programs consistent And the reason is to encourage parents to pick up children in a timely manner as I mentioned the Staffing requirements and social distancing protocols makes a little more challenging this year to deal with late pickets so So consistency and then just encouraging The participants to be picked up in a timely manner So our staff recommendation is to conduct the public hearing that we're doing right now and adopt the resolution Adopting the amended fee schedule for fiscal year 2021 as well as the animal services fees as set by Santa Cruz county And that concludes my presentation Thank you, Jim any questions from council Vice mayor Brooks has a question Yeah, um this may be for Katie or if I said that the um The the permit for folks who want to open up a child care facility in capital of these waves Is that in this is that reflected in this report or is that some something else? um For that I believe we worked on a policy for the waiver for um Child care and that that is that is in our fee schedule currently Okay, so I wouldn't either do I need to make mention of that for this particular fee schedule or So So the fee schedule does include a note that says if budgeted funds are available that the fees for The planning fees for child care facilities can be waived Um, so that that is included in the budget. I don't think there's any changes taking place I don't believe there was any draw of those funds last year And I think our finance director could confirm that that those funds were made available I'm sure that we still have that in place for 2021. Thank you Any additional questions from council members? Say none. We will now open public comment on this item. Are there any members of the public that would like to address the council? I do not see any People raise their hand and zoom er peterson and I do not see any emails on this item All right, with that we will close public comment for this item bring it back to council for discussion and a vote any comment or Discussion that we approve the recommended action for the fee schedule for 2021 All second We have a motion by vice mayor berks and a second if council member retron If there's no additional comments, we will uh, I will request a roll call vote, please Okay council member bertrand Council member You're muted. There you are Thank you council member botthorff council member story Vice mayor brooks Hi, mayor peterson Thank you motion carries unanimously um, because we moved item, uh, 8e to the city council meeting on july 23rd and we're moved it from tonight's agenda That brings us to the end of tonight's meeting. Uh, so I will call this meeting adjourned Thank you so much for everyone who participated. Thank you to all the council members all of our staff bia residents um Please take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Have a good night