 So the council reviewed the item on the listed closed session agenda and took no reportable action. Great, thank you. And some additional materials. Staff distributed and uploaded additional materials related to item 7A. The minutes for the special meeting held on the third were updated. There are copies for review on the dais and copies were made available as a part of the agenda packet online. On to item 5, which is oral communications by members of the public. These would be on any comments on any of the consent items, not on or any other items that are not on the regular general government agenda. Do we have any members of the public? Yes. Did you sign ahead of time? Sure. Thank you. My name is Susan Gibbs Bennett. And we have a quick question. We have a home on Grand Avenue. After losing a portion of the wooden fence from Cliff erosion, the city has put up a cyclone fence. We would like to know what the city has planned for the walking path along Grand Avenue. And when would the cyclone fence be possibly removed? Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Hi, my name is Gordon Klobic. I live here locally in Santa Cruz County. I want to thank the Capitola Police Department and one sheriff's deputy who responded to an emergency at 41st Avenue McDonald's one time. It was maybe two or three days ago where a dog was being abused at the Capitola Public Library by a disabled veteran. I myself served in the army, so I know he should not be doing that to a poor animal. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you very much. Good evening. My name is John Hacon and I live at Cabrillo Mobile Home, the state's in Capitola. As you can see, there are quite a few number of concerned residents from that mobile home part in the audience for you to see. As the council is well aware in March, our landlord gave us notice that starting June the 1st, our monthly rent will increase by $358 from $641 to $1,000. That's over 55% increase. It turns out that the landlord also wishes to pass through any and all government assessments. If this includes the park's property tax, that could add another $90, $100 a month, making the raise more than 70%. This is to be determined whether that's true or not, but it looks like it could be a possibility. Approximately 50% of the residents of the park, myself included, are senior, are amongst fixed income. We will struggle with such a huge rent rise. For every $100 rent is increased in the Bay Area, the home resale price is typically decreased by $10,000. So in our case, our properties have just been devalued by $35,000. The 68 spaces in the park with a $350 month rent increase is amounts to over $285,000 a year. That money could have been spent locally, something for you to consider. And in the future, further rent increases will also reduce any amount that's been spent in Capitola. Us residents have formed an HOA, met with and initiated negotiations with the landlord. We've also been meeting with the City's Community Development Department for guidance on resources and programs that could exist. Thank you for your time. Thank you. I'm going to briefly say any other comments about the Cabrillo Mobile Home Estates can be taken during item 8B during the general government portion of this evening. Is there any other public comment that has to do with either the consent item or anything that is not on general government this evening? Seeing none, here do we have anybody online? There are no hands raised on Zoom here. Okay, thank you. Okay, that'll take us to staff or city council comments. I think we have some from staff. Yes, we do. Good evening, Mayor, council members. I would like to let council as well as the public know that recreation is currently doing recruitment for rec leader 1 and 2 for positions that would be working in our summer camp program. And so we encourage anybody to help get the word out. We are actively looking for those talented individuals that want to help make a summer camp experience wonderful for the youth of our community. So thank you. Great, thank you. And I think we have one other announcement here, Director Hurley. Good evening, Mayor and council. I just wanted to announce that the housing element went live yesterday and is on our website at cityofcapitola.org and under the community development page. So the 30 day public review is now open and we're looking forward to getting comments submitted by the public. We also have a community meeting next Tuesday at 6pm via Zoom and there's a link online for that as well. And at the next planning commission meeting and city council meetings, the first two meetings in June, June 1st and June 8th, we'll be focusing in on the update and hoping to get more public comment then as well. Just piggybacking off of what our community development director spoke on. There is also a more of a county-wide housing conversation being had, which Katie and I had the pleasure of being able to participate yet just on Zoom. So we will be recorded, but other mayors from the county will be speaking tonight with Lookout Santa Cruz. So if anybody's interested, I think it'll probably be able to be viewed after the fact as well. Great. So we'll move on to item seven, which are the consent items. They'll be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. No more separate discussion on these items and we can go with a motion and a second. Second that. Great. First and a second. Maybe we have a roll call please. Council Member Clark. Council Member Peterson. Aye. Vice Mayor Brown. Aye. Vice Mayor. Aye. That passes unanimously. We will move on to item 8A, which is the much anticipated wharf resiliency and public access improvement project. Right now, the recommended action is to approve the plan specifications and estimate for construction for the capitol resiliency and public access improvement project, which is part of the phase two and as a public work staff to advertise for construction bids and design and engineering for the wharf rehabilitation project phase two. We have Ms. Kahn here to put us through. And Kayla, I'm sorry. Good evening, Mayor and Council Members. We are pleased to bring you the capitol wharf resiliency and public access improvement project. Just up top, I wanted to say this project is a very long time coming. I will say every single department in the city has touched this project in some way. So it's been a really big collaborative effort and the Department of Public Works is just really proud to be a steward of this project. I will be tag teaming this presentation today with myself and our Public Works project manager, Kailash Muzamdar. A lengthy presentation just to give you the full scope of this project. We'll start out with the background. Kailash will give us the full scope of the project, which is quite significant and substantial. We'll go into funding, schedule public outreach and wrap it up with the recommendation for authorization to bid the project this evening. So a bit of background on this project. The city acquired the wharf in 1979 and did their last major renovation in the 1980s. In 2015 was really the birth of this current project with the Conditioned Assessment and Resiliency Study by Bob Fitton Neckle. The purpose of this study was to look into how to make the wharf less vulnerable to storm actions and breakage and to inform and strategize goals for funding of a future project. From that, the city commissioned a 10-year plan for this project. And then in the same year was the initial approval of Measure F. So with this Measure F funding, the city commissioned a design also with Muffin and Neckle for the design of the wharf, and flume, and jetty projects. And from those concept designs in 2017, there were also surveys, preliminary design, environmental and public outreach regarding this wharf project. That effort led into our project of design alternatives, which took into account a lot of different alternatives for the wharf, including raising the wharf, the full elevation, just partial the elevation, full wharf replacement with different materials. The city ended up having a subcommittee of council members and staff to really go over this project alternatives report to really consider what method to go to to ensure the future of our wharf. Next slide, please. So with that, we landed on our current design in this current resiliency project, which is to primarily widen the trestle at its current elevation, using pilings that will be able to be raised if desired in the future. Raising the full wharf ended up being about double the cost of this initial project, and that's why it wasn't pursued. And it's not being pursued at this time, but the way we are building it will allow to raise it in the future. So with that, a full scope and plans were prepared. The project initially went to the planning commission in 2020, which Kailash will go into later on in our presentation. That year we also received a grant from the California Coastal Conservancy of $1.9 million. The following year, ahead of the phase two project that we're speaking about today, phase one project was completed. It replaced some pilings under the wharf that had been damaged that needed immediate repair prior to having all the funding to do this larger project. And honestly, that project saved us a lot of damage from last winter's storm, doing these repairs prior to the overall project. Then as you all know, in December of 2022, we received a federal grant of $3.5 million, which rounds out our funding for the wharf and all the amenities that come with it. Next slide. And also, as you all know, there's a giant hole in the wharf right now, so we had some significant damage in January of 2023. So this project will not only repair that damage, but also do the whitening of the wharf that we had intended on all along. Initially, staff had intended on fitting this project for a start time in fall, just to meet our permit requirements from the Coastal Commission to not interrupt our summer programming that we have out on our beach and wharf. However, since there is no access to the wharf right now, we're able to start a few weeks sooner. And with that, I'll hand it off to Kailash to go over the scope of this project. Great, thank you, Dr. Kahn. Yeah, I'm excited to kind of bring this to you. It's been years in the making and happy to have the opportunity now to rebuild this wharf. Unfortunately, we did have this damage, but the damage does highlight exactly why we delved into this full effort back in 2015. Next slide, please. So this slide provides the overall picture of the repairs and improvements that we'll be making to the wharf, starting at the outward or ahead of the wharf. We have damage that was sustained during this most recent storm event. We lost a lot of railing there. That will all be repaired. The entire wharf itself will have all-new decking and any of the damaged piles, stringers, and all the elements of the existing wharf will be repaired in addition to the widening portion that is highlighted in yellow there. As you move towards the north there, we have a section that there are going to be a new bathroom installed there, and there's a slide later that will go into more detail on that restroom. As you move towards the now narrower section of the wharf, we reference as the trestle. At the outward end there's a security gate that's currently in place. The new gate will be matching in design and style, but just be added in width to accommodate the new width of the wharf. The narrow trestle section of the wharf was identified as the weakest section of the wharf in our resiliency study and alternatives analysis. The effort we will have here is all the piles in that segment will be fiberglass or composite piles that will be much stronger from a damage and impact aspect as well as being able to be built vertically off of down the road if there were plans to raise the structure. As you may have seen in some of the photos, the damage that we've sustained in the wharf comes both from wave action and oftentimes from large debris that ends up coming kind of at that angle with the wave, so this further strengthens that area that is the most subject to damage. Moving down towards the foot of the wharf, we have the kind of iconic archway that says Capitol Wharf. That's the entry or decorative gate. That gate will remain as is, but we move closer to the foot of the wharf because its current width won't accommodate the future width, and so that'll match with the immediate entrance of the wharf and be placed there. And then there also near the foot of the wharf will be another bathroom that will go into more detail at a further slide. And this is the overall project and now we'll get into a little bit more detail as we go through the slides, so if I could go to the next slide please. This slide highlights the damage that we did sustain this January. There at the head we had quite a bit of damage to the decking as well as a loss of almost all of the railing at the head of the wharf. Overall we lost more than 30% of all the railing on the wharf as a result of the storms that we observed in January. And then there highlighted in green is the area that was lost where we were, you know, the obvious gap in the wharf right now, where we lost approximately, I think, eight piles in the neighborhood of 100 linear feet of damage, both to the decking, stringers, piles, everything in that area was damaged, and so all of those areas will be repaired in addition to the widening work. So overall the scope of this project really didn't change too, too much as a result of the storm damage. We had, we grew, but it was not outside of, we didn't have to do any redesign. We really were able to keep marching forward with the design that we have proposed because it was designed to address this very problem that we observed happening this year in January. Next slide please. So going back to the steps that we've gone through from the Planning Commission side, back in 2020, prior to going forward with the Phase 1 project, we brought the project to Planning Commission to review all the design elements. And at that meeting, the main things that the Planning Commission weighed in on were the need to maybe review the entrance gates, the security gate, and the restrooms because at that time we hadn't had full design plans completed and didn't have all of those fully flushed out. And so Planning Commission asked that we come back to them prior to bidding the project when those elements of the project would be addressed. Because the Phase 1 project only addressed piles, we did not go back to Planning Commission prior to the Phase 1 project, but now going into this Phase 2 project which is the overall restoration of the wharf, we did need to come back to Planning Commission. And so last week we had a meeting with Planning Commission, had a lot of good input from the Planning Commissioners, and I think next slide please. Oh, we did go, so they wanted to review as well, I forgot to mention the pile type itself. And so during our permitting process with the project, we had to go through historic evaluation of the wharf. And one of the elements that was identified as kind of a key component of the wharf was made, it's a wood-framed structure. And there was some concern initially identified with the new pile type being something that would stick out and be too different and maybe cause a change in the overall look of the wharf. But as you can see here, those piles that are used right there at the landing, right behind that yellow boat, are the exact same piles that we plan to utilize in the widening and repair effort that we've brought to you here tonight. Those piles are made of fiberglass and are filled with either sand or a concrete to provide additional strength and also they can, as far as the building vertically off of them, you can put a platform on top of them because they're designed to have that structural load. The issue with the existing wooden pile, you can't build vertically off of those because they don't accommodate that additional load that would be placed upon them. So in our historic evaluation, it was settled upon that these piles would be acceptable to be used, wouldn't change the overall look and structure. And in addition, we've found that after they've been in place for a few years, they do start to generate the different sea life that clings to the piles and it has that classic look of having barnacles and things like that when we'll see otters pulling barnacles off there and that still takes place now. So it doesn't change too much, it just kind of gives us a new material that will last much longer and further fortify the wharf. Next slide please. And then here we have showing you the two locations for the gate. So there's the entrance gate which is more of a decorative gate and our security gate. The way that these gates work in operation, the security gate was installed around 2000 and it was installed as a result of lots of different things that were taking place out at the far end. We were having issues with vandalism, fires, breaking in of the buildings and just overall public safety. We did look into the origination of that gate and reviewed this with our PD staff as well and from all angles we see this as a very necessary element for the security of the buildings and facilities out at the head of the wharf. The entrance gate was done as a decorative piece to somewhat match the transition from the niche and cord area onto the wharf and I did speak with the architect who designed this structure ensuring that moving it and placing it at the very entrance to the existing wharf would not be problematic and we shouldn't have any issues with that as far as it's conflict with our existing utility or anything else and we'll be able to still have people take their pictures there at Capitol Wharf standing on the decking and still have that nice view behind them. Next slide please. Here we have a rough rendering of what the location is going to be for that existing entrance gate so it's going to be pushed forward to be just near the entrance probably about seven feet it's I think we're about seven feet back from the corner so it allows those gates to typically be open as they are in most conditions except when we close the wharf when we know there's either large storm events coming where we know there might be some danger to have pedestrians and people out on the wharf or if there's any other events that we need to have the wharf closed those gates will be closed but otherwise they're open to allow this to be open to the public. Next slide please. Here's another angle of that same area showing which direction we're going to move that existing structure this also gives us an opportunity to take a look at where the new restroom is going to be so in that top left corner is the space that we're planning what we currently use for a porta potty comes out seasonally and it's quite heavily used in the summer months and we'll now have a permanent restroom there with three stalls and providing restroom facilities for the public both using the wharf and Hooper's Beach and that portion of Capitol Beach and as you probably know the only other public restroom is all the way over by the Esplanade Park which is quite a distance if you're a beach gardener over here so this is a facility we really think is going to provide a lot of use and benefit to the community. Next slide please. Here again just as a picture to show you where that existing security gate is and this angle gives you an ability to see where that widened section is so on the bottom left side that corner is approximately the width of the new trestle segment so that will extend all the way back and so the width will be wider necessitating us to have a larger security gate that gate will be exactly the same as in design just wider to match the new width. Slide please and here's a quick picture of what that is from the plan drawings. Slide and moving on to the two restrooms. So these restrooms are two different types of prefabricated restrooms and they had a few different constraints that we had when we were needing to select these so starting with the one at the head of the wharf it's quite a tight area you have the two large dumpsters that are placed there as well as three parking look stalls and so in order to provide a public restroom in this location we had to have something that was fairly compact but still had all the amenities we were looking for so this bathroom does provide ADA access it has a baby changing table and is well suited to be out in the marine environment as far as being able to weather the weather and then also for cleaning and maintenance purposes is quite a utilitarian bathroom from that standpoint we have observed this in different locations from staff and our design team has investigated these bathrooms and everyone seems to think this is a great fit for what we have out there the reason why this bathroom was looked at to be an independent structure was that back in 2018 or 19 when we were directed to move forward with this project the two buildings were omitted from the project design so we needed to provide a restroom facility that was independent of those two buildings next slide please here we have a zoom in of the location of where those bathrooms are going to go and what you have here is on the plans we have the plan to plum for two restrooms but only planning to install one at this time if it does turn out to be that we feel like there is a disneral need that way it will be much easier to install that second restroom and so the design you see there kind of has one a little bit more ghosted to represent where it would be if we decided to put it there but otherwise just the one on the left will be the one that will be installed next slide please here we have kind of a picture showing all the interior if you wanted to take a closer look at how the inside is laid out and how the door operates at Planning Commission they did ask that this get revisited for any aesthetics that could be added to it changing potentially the sign on the door itself can be wrapped in a different photo you can have, we've seen a lot of different options for how this can be artistically enhanced on the exterior and so that will be part of the secondary process before these get ordered that we'd be able to have that incorporated into the wharf design next slide please here we have a rendering of that first bathroom at the foot of the wharf that's going to have three stalls this is kind of an angle to show you where it would be and a mock-up kind of where its proximity is in the plan drawings it's actually a little bit further back against the railing and the ADA landing that will be in front of it to accommodate those stalls will be in line with the railing there so it doesn't jut out into the area that we've deemed being the vehicle access point so we'll have vehicles staying on the left side of the wharf having the right side in this picture be the pedestrian ways and that also provides further separation of those activities enhancing kind of the user experience so if you've been out there when a car drives out there you kind of feel like you've got to hug up against the railing and this will then provide further separation and allow that to kind of transition more smoothly next slide this is the zoom in of the diagram of that bathroom at the base there's a three-stall bathroom the first stall is an ADA compliant bathroom that also has a baby changing station and the other two are single stalls and all of them would be ADA accessible so Planning Commission last week what they asked for us to do is approve this final design that we have here for you tonight with the condition of asking to re-look at the Portland Lou which is the name for the brand that's out at the head of the wharf to see if we could make any enhancements aesthetically to the exterior of it and likewise for the Exaloo which is at the base of the wharf to make sure that there are further look at the exterior facade that can be added to that restroom just to match with the overall design that we will be working on for the entrance to the wharf with additional signage that will be required as part of our grant process and then also just to provide a more cohesive and pretty looks as you come onto the wharf and then lastly they did ask that we investigate the needs for that security gate I think we've done a pretty good job of looking back at the history of that and speaking with those that were around when that was first initiated and why it was here and feel very confident that it's a definite need that we need to continue to move forward with and our recommendation tonight is to bid this project as presented to you tonight with the restrooms, gates and railing replacement as they are I wanted to highlight the extensive permitting process that we did have to go through over the last handful of years we've already checked back in with all the agencies, Army Corps of Engineers Fish and Wildlife Service, Regional Water Quality Control Board Coastal Commission, Fisheries Service and the Marine Sanctuary to make sure that our project though it grew to a small amount by adding the damage we're still in compliance with those permits and can move forward as we have them now and with that I think we'll move on to pass this back to Director Khan So to address some of those concerns the Planning Commission had staff proposes to run that into the scope of the Capitola Wharf Enhancement Project this is an independent project of the Wharf project it would not infect at all the bidding or construction of the project we're speaking about tonight but it will include extra public outreach to complete a design for ancillary improvements to the wharf potential scope may include enhanced lighting, seating and entranceway and other VISTA amenities the City intends to collaborate with a private funding group to do fundraising for this project so the Council and the community will have more opportunity to comment on this portion of the project for visitor serving amenities Next slide please As far as Costco's also included in the recommendation for this evening is an amendment to the Moffitts and Nickel contract they've been with us since the beginning the most recent revision to this contract was intended to bring us all the way through construction however due to the storms and having to do additional permitting and additional design work there is another amendment needed for this contract I will also note that the first two phases of this contract the conceptual plans preliminary engineering also included the flumen jetty projects from their concept plans to completion so this isn't all just for the wharf but it is all under one contract Next slide please Funding for this project is coming from a lot of places so in addition to a measure from general fund there are the two state and federal grants that we mentioned before also insurance money the city will be receiving due to the damage on the wharf the wharf is one of the city's insurable items our expenses so far include the Moffitt and Nickel contract in that phase one construction project that we mentioned previously so total incurred expenses about $1.6 million with this project anticipating to be $8.9 that includes bid alternative items those bid alternative items are utilities and a few extra piling improvements these are not essential to the success of this project or the safety or repair of the wharf however it would utilize economies of scale so that is the intention that if there is funds available to do these additional improvements that we would do them at this time rather than waiting 10 to 15 years when they're completely deteriorated we intend on bidding this project assuming that we get authorization this evening in the next few weeks I will say that there are only a few outfits who do this kind of work and that bidding has been really volatile in general in public works land here in the past year and a half so we will see what we get when we get there Next slide please so our tentative project schedule we are here today to ask for authorization to bid with the intention of awarding a contract in summer of this year probably in July from there we anticipate an 8 to 9 month construction period that includes a lead time to obtain materials with a hopeful opening in summer of 2024 Next slide please so you can't read it from here but that nice little banner there also has the same schedule this is currently out on the wharf this is part of our public outreach in the corner of that banner there's a QR code that directs people back to the public works page of this project Thanks Julia so yes it provides just general information and a rough schedule of the project but you can click on it or scan the QR code and get all the details you would ever like about this project Next slide please so that is part of our general public outreach which also includes information out on the city's website and social media city staff has been in direct communication with organizers of projects or of events that usually go around the wharf such as the mermaid triathlon and other events where they like to swim around the wharf to try to accommodate their needs for this year during construction other project outreach includes direct communications with residents in close vicinity of the wharf in that parking area where they'll be continued to be in contact with them prior to the project and throughout the construction of the project Next slide and with that I have the recommendation up on the screen and we are happy to answer any questions you may have I will also say that Brad Porter of Moffat and Nickel, our design team is on the phone if you have any burning technical questions about stringers or piles or anything that's for it Thank you so much for that presentation I know everybody is waiting for all the lovely information Do we have any questions? Yeah The scope of work, I don't remember which slide it was on, but it includes the railings and the piles It didn't include the decking I'm assuming the decking is going to be replaced as well, is that part of the scope of work here? Correct And then the construction timeline Does that eight to nine month period include any buffering time for any storms we might face this winter? Or is that just assuming that storms don't hit us the way they did this time? It'll take eight to nine months It does consider the fact that it is being built over winter, it does not anticipate anything catastrophic So yes, the project will be weather dependent, but it did take into account the fact that the project will be under construction during winter months So like in a summer construction season, maybe it would have been six months or winter, so we're thinking eight to nine Great, thank you I just had one, two, sorry What's the status of the buildings that are on the wharf? So that is slightly unknown, we have been out on the wharf once or twice They are not in a condition where they're going to fall on anyone, but as soon as we have access to get someone safely out there to do a full investigation The city intends on having someone come out and do that evaluation And then I was curious, for the restrooms towards the end of the wharf, why are we thinking just using one stall to begin with? Is that just budgetary or just wait and see? Yeah, that was the intent, just to provide a restroom Initially, when we kind of proposed this, there wasn't any demand for more than just one restroom, but that's why we did in advance decide to plum for a secondary restroom And so that's, yeah, that's how Yeah, okay, I was just wondering, but yeah, good idea to plum for both Okay, great, those were my questions I noticed one of the bathrooms, one of the restrooms was one restroom unit, but it had three stalls, correct? And the other one is just one stall? Correct Okay, okay, great, thank you One quick question, and we're going to continue to have the restrooms in the restaurant Yes, yes, if so, that's correct, the restrooms that are there aren't being removed, but there would be then the opportunity for the tenant to modify the layout interiorly and to change the location of that restroom Is there any public comment on this item? The Desco Capitola, with due respect to everybody in the room, I don't think anybody knows more about the wharf than I do Being a past owner, being a kid that redacted when Tom Shanahan had it And I have some concerns, but the main one is that the engineering company has errors in emissions insurance because the wharf currently is about 150 feet shorter than it was designed to be And the reason for that was the engineering company, Brown and Caldwell, from wherever they were, missed so much rot and damage that the city ran out of money because of all the pilings and structure that had to be redone I'd hate to see that happen again, so if it does happen and the engineering company misses all this stuff I'd like to have the city be able to come back and recoup from them the extra money that's lost That was one thing Another thing, I talked to Jessica months ago about the wharf, she's in public works About buttressing the front of the wharf, very similar to what Santa Cruz Wharf has Santa Cruz Wharf, as it comes up, all of the piles are put together with timbers So you don't get the rocking like we've had, they put in batter piles, they've done all this other stuff But I think the bow of the wharf, that's what you want to call it, should be buttressed more The other thing is coming down the wharf, the area where the wharf is broken historically is where the wharf always breaks It doesn't break forward, it doesn't break towards the street, it always breaks right there because of the backwash off the cliff And in this construction part, I would like to see that area of the wharf, about 100 feet of that wharf be sacrificial The deck would be sacrificial, in other words, the pile would be there, two straps to the pile cap, and maybe even put fasteners from the pile cap to the stringers Because right now I believe it was 40 something years ago, I think that the stringers are just pinned, so the whole wharf of the water is under there will just come up And that should remain the same in that area, the rest of it they can fasten down But I think that there should be a sacrificial area for the deck, so when that side wash comes and hits the top of the wave and brings the wave 6 feet higher than it is Then just the deck will explode and come off, not the pile caps, pilings won't break and stringers will remain, pile caps will remain and all we have to do is re-deck it and fix the railing Another thing that I was wondering about is if there's enough fall in the new restrooms at the foot of the wharf for them to have fall out to the sewer line Or we're going to have to install another pressurized forced main sewage to get it from the bathrooms down to the sewer world have fall into the county Anyhow, I can go on, but that's about it Thank you so much My comment is simply to express on behalf of the businesses on the wharf, our utmost appreciation for the staff and the councils getting us to this first step We're very anxious as you could imagine to resume our operations and I just wanted to say thank you Thank you so much My name is Stephen Woodside I about two hours ago got out of the water right next to the wharf It was a little chilly but I took another look at it and I wasn't thinking about this at the time But Mr. Tedesco made a comment that reminded me that that rebound effect creates some tremendous waves particularly at a high tide And hopefully the engineers are taking that into consideration I don't know what the solution is I don't have one to propose But it does break there, there's a photo from the 20s I think A pretty famous photo that we've maybe all seen So that should be taken into consideration The other thing I want to say is kudos to your staff Not only for this project but for all that they did in the village to bring Capitola back I'll switch to speak Don't see any, do we have anybody online? We do not have any speakers with their hands raised on Zoom We can bring this back for council deliberation I say I'm really excited for this project I know we all arts It's going to be a really exciting moment this time next year hopefully when we're Breaking a, cutting a ribbon or whatever we're doing I don't know what kind of ceremonial things you do for a wharf But it's going to be really, open the gates, it'll be really exciting So with that I'll make a motion to approve staff recommendation I'll second Great, that is a motion and a second And I do just want to say thank you so much for all of the hard work And the public has spoken as well that you guys really are doing an amazing job And I also just want to comment too I love the poster in front with the QR code I think that's killer And I think it's helping us kind of stay on top of things with the public And for anybody else that is curious when they come to visit So that being said maybe we have a roll call Council Member Clark Aye Council Member Peterson Aye Vice Mayor Brown Aye And Mayor Kaiser Aye Passes unanimously Thank you so much We can move on to item 8B Which is the 930 Rosedale Avenue Cabrillo Home Cabrillo Mobile Home Park Update I don't know what I was trying to say And the action tonight is just to receive the staff presentation Can you hear me okay? Now can you hear me okay? This evening I'm here to present an update on the Cabrillo Mobile Home Estate Part And an update on the lease negotiations as well as AB 1035 And as you know there's many residents in the audience this evening So a little background on this In 2011 the Cabrillo Mobile Home Estates entered a long term lease with their With the park owner In February of this year the residents received a letter from the park owner Notifying them of a rent increase And in response to that the residents got together and formed an HOA And also hired legal services On April 13th, 2023 the City Council authorized a letter of support Regarding AB 1035 And the pending item coming up is the May 31st In a few weeks there the mobile home lease will expire Next slide please So first I just wanted to go over what is Assembly Bill 1035 It would have enacted statewide rent control on mobile home parks There would be rent increases would be limited to CPI plus 3% Or 5% whichever is lower And it would have been applicable to rents as of January 1st, 2023 So it would have been retroactive if adopted on January Implemented January 1st, 2024 Unfortunately the last legislative hearing on April 19th This was supposed to be heard The author asked for it to be cancelled And my understanding is it's due to some litigation that they're working on And this is likely to return next year Next slide please So the Cabrillo mobile home park is located at 930 Rosedale Avenue And there are actually 68 mobile home spaces Sorry that's a typo The HOA estimates that more than half of the residents in the Cabrillo home park Or would qualify as low income Earning less than 80% of the Santa Cruz area median income Which currently is 107,350 annually for a family of three And just to go over that 2011 lease Which is in place to the end of this month Rent started at 475 per month It's the space rent The residents typically own the coaches on top of the space The rent will get increased with the consumer price index annually And the current rent is $641 per month A new lease is proposing to increase the rent to $1,000 per month So where are we today? So today we're the residents today So they've formed an HOA and they're working with an attorney On their lease negotiations I've been meeting with the president of the HOA And a couple other residents on a weekly basis So during those meetings the HOA provides me updates On where they are in their lease negotiations My understanding right now is that they've The latest is to draft a response to the park owner And they'll be submitting their concerns And asking for certain things in their negotiations So on behalf of staff What we've been doing is we've provided information On local legal resources that are available Also rental assistance that's available There is a program through the county Through families and transition is the nonprofit That's administrating that I've put the park owner in touch with families in transition Families and transition has their contact information They have to make an agreement before the residents can utilize it There's quite a bit of paperwork involved It's also given them resources Such as the local mobile home resources for Santa Cruz County I've looked into state programs Today I had a call with HCD There's an old program that's been revamped For manufactured housing opportunities And revitalization programs for the war This is a pretty exciting program My understanding is there's $67 million available In this program The NOFA is out there So we can apply for money here And it can be utilized for acquisition of a mobile home As well as at the same time rehab So you can get funding to rehab the park Rebuild the infrastructure in the park Help the residents in the park Rehab their units, their coaches as well So it's a great opportunity The one thing with acquisition is that The owner has to be willing to sell So we have not had those conversations With the owner directly at this point We've also discussed with the HOA The potential for a non-profit to come in And acquisition the park So working with the owner This is something that's happened on 38th Avenue Where Castle Mobile Home Park is And it's amazing The rents are low and are stable But at this point The owner has not shown any interest in selling unfortunately So the money through more would still be available If we were to reach an agreement on some type of If they're willing to sell And if not rehab funding is available through that So our recommended action tonight Was to accept staff's presentation on the So I had one question on the So you said rehab would still be available So the city would apply for that type of funding And then if we don't acquire it It's still possible that we can Reach an agreement with the property owner To help with rehabilitation And my understanding is because it's a state program It's a lot easier than the CDBG program Which goes through the federal government Which we had a rehab program in the last decade That was really difficult to administer Because of funding and how it's set up through CDBG But in talking with someone from HCD They said they're really trying to make this Easier to utilize and you don't need to get Three bids for every item And there was just a lot We can take it out to public comment on this item Anybody in-house wish to speak? And for the council members to listen Ideally buying the park would be the ultimate solution Other alternatives exist, the rehab program But for us in the park Capping the rent would be a good second place Thank you for so much Good evening, my name is Charlotte And I live also on Cabrillo Mobile Home Estates And it's not that easy to ask for help But I'm not only asking it for myself I ask for everybody here Because it is really a very scary moment at this time Young and old and retired and handicapped people We all are in this together And we bound together And we really want to have this solved We have to put $1,000 down Plus the utilities Plus the rest for living It's not that easy We are fighting for a fair rental solution But we want to afford this all So that we can keep our house This is all we have It's our house And we can't sell it Because suppose that We don't know what the homeowner Or the owner of the park Will put on the next rent So you sell your house And maybe the next person has to pay $1,500 So nobody wants to buy our house It's going to get more and more expensive We need something like a rent cap Like John said We are all very terrified What is going to happen And we have no idea I don't think that the park owner Is really very negotiable to us And you know We are trying what we can I'm very happy we have a good lawyer And I hope he can help us And that you can help us also Thank you very much Thank you Hi Douglas Castle Also resident of Cabrillo, Moana States I'm not sure Charlotte quite said it But I just want to put out the idea That if nothing else works Such as buying the park Capitola City has an opportunity To right a wrong that was done in 2011 When rent control from our own parks went away There was a coalition of people I believe with a lot of lawyers And litigation on their side To convince Capitola City To give up that fight But at this point I believe our park owner Might be the one holdout Where there isn't either ownership By members of the community in the park Such as co-op Where they own the land Or there's some other rental agreement That's set up AB 1035 essentially When you review that slide later But those numbers on the CPI For rent increases Or 5% which is ever lowest Is similar to what state law And the mobile home residency laws Offers for most Or for many mobile home parks Throughout the state Where you're not in a Where you're in between two jurisdictions For example It doesn't hold to like Capitola City Where local ordinances Or rules Have to do that So there is an opportunity For us to Capitola City To take action on that And match What the MRL already has And what AB 1035 Wants to do We don't have to wait For AB 1035 And to see what the fate of that is Capitola can actually Help this community At this time By proposing rent Not freeze But caps on future Increases So that residents can have stability And can know what to expect And to have some kind of housing security So I propose that The City Council consider that To some degree And be willing to Maybe talk with us And look at drawing up a plan Around how that might look Because those numbers are exactly The same at the state level Or at the You know Both for AB 1035 And the mobile home residency law And that's all we would ask for We're not asking for You know Park manager Not to be able to make a living And increase rents Do well We're just asking for Some limitations So people can have reasonable Expectations around their housing So thank you very much My name's Dave Denise There are certain instances Where you go through And you don't want Government interfering I'm a capitalist But I have a moral compass And it's when somebody Doesn't have a moral compass Sometimes When government has to get involved They're slamming They're slamming these people I don't It's not good It's not a good thing It's really a shock So I just Just want you to know How I felt And how many people here feel I used to work in class neighborhood In a nice area You know We could use some help Really good Swish to speak Is there anybody online? Sorry We got one more here Um I'm actually not a resident Of the community But I am a long-term resident Of Santa Cruz County Capitola Soquel I was lucky enough to grow up here And go to school here And I am here to speak On behalf of many of my neighbors Who want to convey the value That having affordable housing Invades to the community And also speaking On behalf of these neighbors of mine To allow them to stay in their homes Um I want to be clear here In case it hasn't been stated Or in case you don't know The landlord or property owner Of this estate Of the Mobile Home Park Is one of the people who sued To get rent control ended In 2011, the first place And so he is enacting The exact goal Of having rent control ended Increasing rent as soon as it was possible As soon as their lease ended Immediately, right? After a 12-year lease In addition, this is a person Who has many properties And is located in Santa Clara So he is not a local community member He is not somebody who is invested In keeping residents here And allowing people to live In Santa Cruz and Capitola Or wherever, you know, in this area No matter what their income is And I consider myself incredibly lucky To be staying here and grow up here In fact, one of the residents in Mobile Home Park Worked at my elementary school 20 years ago And I can't tell you what an impact it is To be able to see my neighbors around town And recognize faces As I grow up and get to live here So I'm just asking you To do whatever it is in your power To allow these residents to stay here And that's what matters most to us Or to me and I think many of my neighbors Thank you Thank you So first I want to say thank you Thank you for coming to Figure out whatever can be done To help support us My name is Ginger and I'm one of the residents In the Mobile Home Park And I just want to re-emphasize that I'm very worried about many of my neighbors I'm a healthcare worker and I can work Another day a week We have many neighbors that are On social security and we may lose their homes I'm very worried about them And then I also want to point out That it's not just the rent But he's also proposing a contract To us that as it is right now In this initial contract It stated he can still raise the rent Every 90 days is a one year lease So we are all terrified that if we sign Leslie even if we don't sign it He could raise our rent again 50% In next year So the idea of a rent cap If there is anything this council could do To help us with that We would all be so grateful to you Thank you Thank you Good afternoon and thank you Really very much for supporting my community My name is Kayla and I'm a President at Cabrillo Mobile Home All of us are fighting Really hard against this gentleman But what happened is for example Some people like me I bought the house two years ago Thinking that was a dream for my mother I'm having three jobs To make possible to raise the rent And when I get the house He just says sign here, sign here And I think at least Supposed to be kind of conscious From him to say in two years The contract will expire And he didn't And now it's a surprise for me To pay a lot of money on top of What I'm paying for the mortgage So I will really appreciate you Do something not only for me My mother is 80 years old And many of the community are Elderly and we really appreciate You can do something for us And I really appreciate all the people Behind us that are supporting us And keep supporting us And thank you very much Thank you I think there was somebody that had their So there is one speaker I'll go ahead and allow Laura Tucker If you can please unmute yourself You'll have three minutes Hello We can hear you Okay great Well I I don't want to repeat anything That anyone has already said But I agree with all of the things That everyone has been saying And I really wanted to Thank council member Brooks For asking for this report And council member Kaiser And I hope I'm pronouncing that Correctly For asking the question about the More program And Katie Perlehy And George Have been really great And meeting with us Every week In regards to the legal resources Available CRLA Which is the California Rural Legal Assistance Are prioritizing flood victims right now Which obviously makes sense You know they only have so much staffing And there's a lot going on right now I don't know if there's any help Available possibly in the future With them senior legal services Said that they would only represent Individually and we just went ahead And pulled our money together And hired a lawyer and are paying out of pocket So we have some time But we don't have deep pockets like Via enterprises Via enterprises When they bought the mobile home park It was under rent control And they were aware of that When they bought the mobile home park And so I think that there's There's a lot going on And it's hard for the residents who were Had expectations of paying low rents Because it was under rent control And you know Many people are paying mortgages So when we say we own the mobile home That doesn't mean you know That they necessarily own it outright And I believe several of them Are paying mortgages to Via enterprises I don't know that we've gotten much help From the Santa Cruz County mobile home Commission as yet In regards to families in transition I was able to get through to them And they said that they only served Families with children under the age of 18 And I There was Possibly a misunderstanding about that And the person that I was speaking with And that there may be something in the works With this M-O-R-E program So I was happy to hear you ask about that We're in a crisis situation At this point Our rent is going up in two weeks And so As far as nonprofit Resources I mean really It's nothing is really panned out so far But I do I'm you know Kind of desperately optimistic That things That something might come through So I'm hoping that you might consider Some kind of a stop gap measure Just so that the lowest income Of people in the park At least have some form of rental assistance While we are trying to Secure our community We have Our community has deep roots In From the wharf Which I'm very excited about It was hard not to get distracted But I'm all for those fiberglass Peers and widening it and all that At any rate I just wanted to Really thank you for your concern As I know Voters are watching And a lot of them are renters too Or they have family members Who are renters Or they care about renters They care about our mobile home park And the children that are growing up there And here And going to capitol schools And So I'm looking forward to Seeing what comes next And I want to thank you for Getting together as city council members And Making up with some action That will help us as soon as possible Great, thank you Thank you so much Is there anybody else online? So the next speaker on Zoom Connor, if you will unmute yourself You'll have three minutes to speak Okay, thank you Hi, good evening city council I'm not a resident of Cabrillo mobile home park I'm a community member And I just want to express my whole heart At support for the residents of this mobile home park Against this unjust and exploitative Rent increase This is a housing justice issue And I think a major duty of city government Is to protect your residents from Predatory profit seeking actions like this So please do everything in your power To act on behalf of these residents Thank you so much Thank you No other hands raised on Zoom Okay, great, thank you so much We'll take this back to council So starting with some questions about the presentation Has the conflict resolution center been involved in this? At all, to my knowledge Can staff, I don't know if the city attorney Or others on staff speak to The legal allowance of what the city is allowed to do And if there was a will of the council Through a vote to enact some kind of Hap on rent increases What a timeline for something like that Would look like in terms of creating an ordinance Getting it in effect, etc If this particular park is going to have Rent increases on June 1st What would it need to look like To meet that deadline? Is that what I'm saying? Sure, the council could enact rent control We could enact an urgency ordinance Which doesn't have to go through the standard To reading process and take it Would become effective immediately So we could in theory do that On May 25th meeting I thought it was the right question The reason I pause isn't because Certainly my office can put it together That was also part of my question Not just when it would become effective But I don't know the process of writing these I don't know how much work goes into it So if we did it on May 25th Would that be a reasonable timeline For your office and what not Or would it be more likely That we would need a special meeting next week? I'm not following because next week is before May 25th Oh, I'm sorry, I mean... Yes, exactly, that's what I'm saying If we were to bring this to the May 25th meeting That only gives you one week Until their rent increases would go up on June 1st Right So... Oh, okay, I see what you're saying You would need to write the ordinance before our May 25th meeting Because then we would consider it the meeting It would become less We would bring it to you for adoption At the May 25th meeting Okay, I see Okay, so then is that a realistic amount of time Or would we... You know, for... The council drew access to do it, we'll do it Absolutely If the council drew access to bring you an urgent ordinance That's what we'll do And that could include... We would be able as a council To determine what the... Conditions of that are Right, it wouldn't have to be Set to something the state did It wouldn't have to be exactly... We would determine the conditions on that Correct Yes One of the... One of the caveats about proceeding quickly Which is often the case when... I'm not trying to talk you out of this I'm just saying this is a caveat with proceeding quickly With any urgency ordinance Is... It's sometimes difficult To make a lot of changes on the fly Because I haven't had an opportunity To research them and properly apprise you at the risk And so what I would recommend If the council is interested in doing that Is interested in an urgency ordinance You have a couple options You could discuss it tonight And kind of figure out what you would like The contours of that ordinance to be You could tell me You could give me direction To draft an ordinance That is consistent with the law And pretty basic ordinance That caps rental increases at X amount Or you could have a special meeting Between now and the 25th To give direction You could... We could have a meeting on the 25th And then if you wanted to give... If you wanted to have changes That we couldn't make on the fly at the meeting We could have a special meeting on the 30th and the 31st That's not a fantastic option So I think your options are really Realistically to give direction tonight And... If we need a special meeting between now and the 25th To give further direction we can do that But I don't know that it Would be that complicated So you might just give a direction tonight And if I feel like I need more direction I can communicate with the city manager And we can do it so specially If it's challenged If what we choose to do in our rent If we... if the council votes To do some kind of rent The word I'm looking for We've been using this whole night Control, thank you And it's challenged And it essentially just goes away Correct? Well... No, it depends It really depends on What... The court could strike it down Yes, the court could strike it down If it is challenged the court could strike it down And also if it is challenged In advance of that challenge The city could negotiate a settlement With the challengers It really depends on what the ordinance looks like And what the challenge looks like So that's something... That's sort of what I mean I would want to advise you on that Specific to the ordinance So once we have kind of an idea Of what the ordinance will look like I can either... I feel like there are specific risks I can send you a confidential memo I can give you more information Until we know what the ordinance would look like But in general, yes If the ordinance is challenged The city would be To settle in advance of the challenge And if we lose the challenge The court could strike it down I don't want to be dismissive Of the expense Of fighting a challenge Is it possible for us To have staff speak with the park's attorney With some ideas And then have that plausible I have spoken with their attorney The park's... The HOA's attorney And I do have some Suggestions that he provided To me previously And I could share that with our city attorney A little bit of an awkward position for staff Because it sort of puts the city Into the position of being In some ways an advocate Or a private residence The city's authority Is really regulatory Right? And so your authority Is to Inact rent control To use your regulatory authority To enact rent control Or if you had the money By the park and then you could regulate it But really sort of us negotiating Is... I'm not saying it's impossible It's just a little tricky What Vice Mayor Brown suggested Might be an option Which is a third party mediator Involved running Between the park owner and the residents And the city would not be involved in that Somebody speak a little bit about The last rent control and what happened with that And the likelihood Of being able to successfully Pass the rent control I came to the city in 2008 At that point the city was embroiled I think it was Three maybe four lawsuits With various park owners around the city's Rent control ordinance The time we were using outside council And it was costing The city A lot In two months we were more than 100,000 We were getting hit with public records Act requests and then legal challenges Around the public records act request They were doing basically a full court press On the city This was the owners of the castle The Brio and Sir from San They were all basically Leveling their legal Legal sites on the city So at that point The city ultimately decided That it needed to get out of rent control Various solutions negotiated for each park We helped buy Passable all the states In partnership with the non-profit We helped ensure that the folks At surf and sand were offered long term leases Those with low incomes And everyone in Cabrillo got these 12 year leases And then the city stepped back For rent control That's how we got to where we are today I think that was a speaker mention That happened in 2011 I think that's exactly right It was a tough history It was a tough time to go through that For sure The city was facing a situation where We were spending more money on legal fees And maintaining our parks and our roads combined Whether that's a likely outcome now I don't know There certainly are fewer park owners Who would be Able to gang up and sue the city There's just one versus Three that we were dealing with previously Since we're sort of Talking a little bit about the risk There's one more I should mention The risk of the city being challenged For the ordinance Direct legal challenge Which we would either settle or litigate The other risk is the possible referendum Which is essentially Anytime the city takes a legislative action Which is including passing an ordinance Anyone in the public Can challenge it And call for an election To rescind the action So I feel as though those challenges Are somewhat rare but it is Out there and to answer your question About the possibility Of rent control passing that would be up to Five of you It would be an ordinance that the council would consider Oh I see what you mean Rent control is legal So I think We could certainly write an ordinance That If it were challenged We could defend a challenge I can't speak to whether it would be challenged Because People sue all the time Regardless of their chances of winning But certainly When my office drafts an ordinance It is a lawful ordinance So we will draft you a lawful ordinance In two weeks if that is your direction Whether it is sued And we have to litigate Even though we believe it's lawful I can't speak to that unfortunately I'm not trying to be cagey I'm just Did I give you a complete answer? Okay But I don't think I need any research to answer your question I think Perhaps I'm not understanding Sorry, yeah I have more questions that I believe would require Research I'm just kind of curious There are other similar examples In recent histories And how those unfolded In fact that you would have the answer to that at this time I probably Do you mean in terms of challenges To rent control for mobile home parks? Yes That I I don't know And it would really depend on the actual ordinance And the type of I don't know I don't know that That would be difficult to find If I'm not mistaken The state of California in 2019 Has their own Rent increase Limit That they passed That's no more than Up to 10% 5% plus local CPI Or 10% whichever is lower And again I don't think that There should be a Complete Moratorium on allowing property owners To increase rent or that It should be entirely unallowed 5% is unbelievably outrageous And I just can't justify Not trying to do something About that as a city So procedurally There's nothing on the agenda For us to vote on tonight So if I were just to say That I wanted this to come back To council at the next meeting For the entire council To consider A mobile home rent control ordinance That includes that Limit of annual rent increase To no more than 5% plus local CPI Or 10% whichever is lower Is that all I have to do Is say I would like that to come back To council with that words And then council would determine At that time if they're okay with that At all So my advice would be That other council members weigh in To be a pretty significant Sprint For my office which we will do But it's going to cost the city some legal fees And so I would want to make sure That fellow council members Are on board Before expending that That would be my recommendation And you can do with that what you'd like But because of the timing If you want to Because of the timing if your aim Is to get something in place by June 1 We need to bring you a fully baked Ordinance for adoption On May 25 And so we would bring you An urgency ordinance Notice as an urgency ordinance For adoption on that date So if that's what you want me to draft I would appreciate Especially if other council members Have different ideas of what it should look like So we can bring you something as close To what you want on that date To Tell me if they are for Or against This kind of run control in our city Tonight But To Share if you would be Open to this coming back to the council Next time When the full council is here We could have a more in depth discussion With the research that we might be asking For And a fully formed ordinance with that Language that I just used About limiting annual rent increases For us to consider At that time That's what I guess my colleagues Tonight is to weigh in on if you're okay With us weighing in on that And it is fine to clarify Even though there's no action on the agenda It is fine to give me direction Tonight so you need to vote on it But certainly you can Give me direction without it being agendized Absolutely So this would no longer be considered The urgency ordinance or It would still fall within It would be an urgency ordinance A regular ordinance requires a first reading And passage and it takes at least 60 days Generally to have a regular ordinance take effect An urgency ordinance Can take effect immediately If we can make certain findings So just to clarify sorry So if we bring it back next meeting And we all vote on it Then it isn't acted right on that Correct it would be effective the next day I think it would be effective upon passage Right okay Yes of course And so when we're talking About this rent cap or rent control We're really just considering Mobile home parks This isn't like a overall That's what I'm suggesting Okay That being said I have a question I don't know if we have the means To answer this right now But there is mention of Other rent increases possibly Because this owner also owns Some of the individual coaches And things like that So that sounds like really messy And I don't know how Like would this How do we control that If he also then owns Each individual Are you asking if it would be an ordinance Like a poll to just this mobile home park Or all mobile home parks No just I'm trying to think I'm trying to wrap my head around Each individual that Each individual resident If he owns the Coach himself And this person is paying their mortgage to him Or the rent directly to him On top of the space rent On top of the utility rent Whatever else he's trying to accrue Are that it will this And we fit it in this ordinance To make it that Those people are also included In the cap I don't know if I'm like Really getting in the weeds or I understand I think what you're asking And maybe I can clarify So in general mobile home rent Control laws deal with situations Where there's an arc owner who owns the land And an individual owns their coaches So the situation it sounds like you're describing It's where an arc owner owns the land And is renting that coach to somebody to live in That would be much more analogous To somebody living in an apartment complex Where they're renting an apartment complex So my experience I've seen those as two separate things Some cities have historically had rent control On an apartment complex But much more common cities will adopt Rent control ordinances that deal with the situation Where there's an owner of the land And there's an owner of the coach And they're not the same Which creates this sort of This challenge, right? Because you have a mobile home that doesn't move And you're subject to whatever rent Property will charge you So I don't know if that helps at all I think that So I am envisioning that this would be an ordinance That would just PAP the rents of the space Not the coaches themselves Okay, thank you Different if that's the council's direction But that is what it seems to me That was trying to differentiate Okay, thank you I have one more salient bit of information To add, which is that an urgency ordinance Requires a four fifths vote to PAP Are there any other questions on this? Not a question But I just wanted to say I'm in support So Could you ask me that question again, please, mayor? So basically I think what we are Has also stated that He is Grants with councilmember Vice mayor Brown, sorry Also in support Is that enough? Yes, so what are you Looking This is frankly the easiest thing to change on the fly But, hear me What is the cap that you are looking to impose Are you looking to impose a cap That is consistent with the state legislation I think it's called like the anti-rent gouging act Or something, the state legislation Which is a ten percent increase Five percent plus CPI Or as director Hurley He just pointed out to me Assembly bill 1035 Is a little Assembly bill 1035 imposes A lower cap than The state legislation opposes On all other rentals 1035 Which has not passed And may not, we don't know Imposes increases Limited to CPI plus three or five Or the rose lower I mean I'm inclined to want to go with The ten percent because it's already a state law And I feel like it's easier to justify Something the state already has In law as opposed to a bill That is currently tied up That's just my Particular thought on it You know what I could do? I could draft it to be consistent with the state law And we could say that if 1035 passes It defaults to 1035 I'm super into that So I would like to thank you for being The first time ever an attorney Has gotten a round of applause So just to confirm because I'm Just to confirm That hasn't changed anything tonight This has to come back to us next time And four fifths of the council Has to approve it for it to move forward And then we'll face whatever challenge comes after that Four fifths doesn't approve We could potentially Right. You could bring it back As a regular ordinance It would take longer to implement But it would only require a three fifths vote Thank you. That's what we need I appreciate it Thank you all for speaking tonight Here's here item 8c This is the City Hall needs assessment And alternative analysis The recommended action tonight Is to authorize staff to issue a request For proposals for a city hall needs assessment Alternatives analysis report Thank you mayor and council Before you is the city hall needs assessment And alternatives analysis Next slide please So we're here tonight at 420 Capitola Avenue It's a seven acre site It houses the capitol city hall Our police station The capitol history museum The police annex and then lower An upper pat cove parking lot That the city owns Currently Our building is aging And it's older And we're nearing a stage in which Significant investment will be Necessary to maintain functionality Next slide please In last year in March The city council identified as a goal For a city hall needs assessment To be completed and allocated $50,000 towards this Towards the current budget cycle That we're in For the update to city hall And the police station Next slide please So tonight I'm going to give you An overview of what we've put together For an RFP And just want to make sure that this Is in line with what the city council Was envisioning before we publish it So really just want to make sure we're Capturing what was envisioned Next slide please So the first part of this will be A needs assessment phase one And it'll outline the existing conditions It'll look at the site and the structures It'll provide a visual assessment Of the buildings Not opening the walls Or getting too deep into the Structure itself It'll also look at functionality And workspace standards So looking at current measurements And how they're utilized within The different buildings And the space that we're in today As well as the community room And how it functions for the public And then also doing a Qualitative analysis of the site And looking at environmental constraints And hazards And from that First overview report It'll also include a 20 year projection Of what are the needs for The site growing staff And also for the public Meeting space So phase two We'd bring phase one To the city council And then Phase two would be At the council's discretion to tell us To move forward So based on the findings of phase one Would move forward if directed by council To start identifying goals for the future Of city hall In the staff report we mentioned That a study was done about a decade ago And This time around we're really We're focused on Let's get the public input on this In the beginning And hear what the goals are And have a community input meeting And identifying goals really get the word out About community engagement strategies That's part of that RFP is making sure That they submit a community engagement strategy And then once we've gone through That process with the community On identifying goals for the site We would bring it to city council To provide a long list of goals That came out of that process, the public process And the consultant would present That to the city council And then during that meeting The city council would work to narrow down Those goals based on Your understanding of the first study That was published and the community's goals So really getting that list Shortened, next slide please And the Third part of this is an alternatives analysis So from the goals that the city council Puts together The consultant will create alternatives And within this We The There'll be at least Three alternatives That will be Created By the consultant for the city council To look at Prior to giving direction Next slide please So within those alternatives There'll be a written description of each alternative There'll be a conceptual site plan So a drawing showing Like how things could be The new layout on the site Also quantitative data on the breakdown Of the area of proposed use and function Cost estimates And then qualitative analysis Of the strengths and weaknesses Of each alternative Next slide please So the next slide of schedule is we'll publish this In the Next couple weeks And then The goal here would to have a complete Phase one by December of this year And then in January Present to the city council And get direction on phase two Next slide please So tonight we're looking for Authorization For staff to issue the RFP For the city hall needs assessment And alternative analysis Report so And any changes that you'd like to see in that process Would be great to hear this evening Where If you like the process that's laid out We're also looking for direction Thank you Good evening, I'm David Fox I've lived in the city for 47 years And I've really enjoyed it One of the things I see going on More and more in Not only this city But the county and everything Everybody wants to hire Some outside Party to take Do a study for us For the amount of money that you may be spending You could pay her Or another staff person To do a report Our buildings are just not that big That we need to go to somebody else To do a study for us Thank you There are no hands raised Thank you We will come back to council Any deliberation Just to clarify, is that what you were looking for input on Is just the timeline and the steps Yeah, is this the process you were envisioning When this was put on the budget last year And Just want to make sure The way we're going about this Is supported What were the findings 10 years ago My understanding was the findings were We did need a new city hall The only problems that were happening With the people arguing back and forth So I will say When I arrived at city hall To capitol it was one of the first public meetings I ever attended and it was People were not that Excited about what the report had to say And I think The number one thing we were hearing Is that there should have been More public input up front And I think it was a different The approach was a little bit different We were approached the city On possibly doing a hotel development And there were more pieces to it That Were more of a proposal as well So this is Let's take a step back Let's hear from the public first See what the goals are That the public comes forward with And then if it's something If the city council wants us to pursue it further Based on that input Then we'd go to the next step To issue a request for proposals For a city hall needs assessment And alternative analysis report Council Member Clark Council Member Peterson Vice Mayor Brown And Mayor Keiser So that'll take us to item nine Which is adjournment Lots of great stuff worked out tonight So thank you everybody for attending And have a great evening Just a reminder to the city council We have a budget hearing next Thursday May 18th At 6pm On your calendars That's our next meeting