 The volume, I think it's filled with more more noise. I'm going to ask you to come to the special meeting of the Capital City Council in accordance with the California Governor's Executive Order and 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. Information on how to join the meeting using Zoom or a landline mobile phone, along with how to submit public comment during the meeting tonight is available on our website cityofcapitola.org and on the published meeting agenda. The public can also live stream the meeting on our website. As always, this meeting is cable cast live on Charter Communications cable TV channel eight and is being recorded to be rebroadcast on the following Wednesday at 8am and on Saturday following the first rebroadcast at 1pm on Charter channel 71 and Comcast channel 25. And our technician this evening is Alice. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, we're gonna go ahead and move item one. May I have a roll call please? Here. Councilmember Peterson. Here. Mayor Brooks. Here. Okay, so you can please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Now we move on to item two additional materials. Do we have any additional materials this evening? Great. Thank you so much. Now moving on to item three additions and deletions to the agenda. Staff has no changes to the agenda this evening. Thank you. And on to item four for public comments. This is an opportunity for the audience to send in any comments of items not on this evening's agenda. We'll start with the attendees. Do you have anyone with their hands raised? Mayor Brooks, I do not see anybody with their hands raised for public comments. And I do not see any emails. Okay. Thank you very much. We're going to move now on to item five for staff and city council comments. I'll begin with staff. I don't think we have any announcements this evening. Okay, great. Thank you, any from council. And now we're going to go ahead and move on to item six, our consent calendar. This item is taken with one motion and a second. Can I have a motion to approve our consent item? I can motion. We'll have a motion to approve our consent item a to have a second. I'll second that. For the first and the second may have a roll call please. I agree. Council Member Kaiser. Aye. Council Member Peterson. Aye. That item passes unanimously now, moving on to our item this evening, item seven eight, this is a presentation of the proposed 2021-22 fiscal year budget for the City of Capitola General Fund and the Capitola Successor Agency. Go ahead and turn this over to staff for their presentation. Thank you, Mayor Brooks. So this evening we have a presentation for you tonight. We're following up on a number of items that you asked about it. This is our first budget hearing. This is our second budget hearing. And then Jim and I will be sort of tag teaming our way through those present that presentation. And then Public Works Director Jasper will be sharing with us some ideas for the CIP for next year. So with that, Jim, do you want to share your screen? Kick this off. Thank you, Jim. Here we went. Moment here. Can everyone see that? Okay. Looks good. All right. So I'm going to start with a quick summary. So as you recall, our proposed general fund budget is structurally balanced, and we are estimating to end this year, 2021-22 with 1.4 million in the general fund. In addition, we have $600,000 that is still set aside as our COVID reserve that is also in the general fund. So between the two, we have about $2 million, which gives us the potential to utilize some of that fund balance during the upcoming fiscal year. As a reminder, we are utilizing measure F to balance in the future years. So not only are we showing a structurally balanced proposed budget, but also the five-year forecast is structurally balanced over that entire time. And this time around, I've added in the American Rescue Plan funding of $1.8 million and that is programmed towards the work project. Excuse me. So this is, I believe you saw this last time, it's showing measure F going to operation. It has all the percentages, I'm sorry, for our revenues and what our assumptions are to build our revenue assumptions and those projected numbers. It shows a beginning in next fiscal year, $400,000 of measure F revenue going towards operations, leaving a balance of just over $579,000 that could be programmed to operations, CIPs, council goals, whatever the council's direction is on there. And then that slowly builds up as far as the measure F going to operations from $400,000 to $750,000 over the five-year forecast, which reduces the balance going remaining for operations or the other programs from $579,000 down to $309,000. Again, in that impact, it shows on the bottom there that we are basically zeroed out. We're structurally balanced for this year, as well as the five forecasted years. The only difference, I show this summary at the last meeting. The only difference from our last meeting is you'll see an increase in intergovernment revenues on the revenue side in the proposed fiscal year, 21-22 when planned, 22-23. So those are each going up by roughly $900,000 in each year. On the expenditure side, the increase equal amount, $900,000 into other financing uses. And that's showing the money that once it comes in, this revenue going out into the work project. The impact and budgetary fund balances remain the same as last time, as well as we still have the $600,000 that's designated. So we have the, as COVID, so the $600,000 there and then just under $1.4 million for just general fund balance. In the intergovernmental revenue change, Jim, that's the American Rescue Plan federal funding coming into our budget this year next, correct? Correct, correct. So the areas that we're going to be looking for feedback this evening are on funding for frozen and vacant positions, early childhood and youth program funding, the general fund balance, as well as capital improvement program funding. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to city manager, Jim Goldstein. All right, so I'm going to bounce through these first ones pretty quickly because I think, I think we're honing in on potential direction so we can mostly focus on the CIP stuff this evening, which I think is going to be the most interesting part of the conversation. So as a reminder, we have seven and a quarter positions that have been vacant and frozen through the pandemic, which results in savings around $600,000. As you can see, we're balanced as we are and we're not balanced if we have $600,000 of additional costs. So we're not proposing to fill all those positions at this time. And we did talk about $100,000, really just sort of stabilize some of the staffing deficiencies that we have. We talked about that at the last budget hearing. We talked about a number of different ways in which that could be funded over the next couple of years. We'll get to that here. Let's go to the next slide. Those different ideas were staff that suggested potentially using fund balance. Councilmember Story suggested that we could reorganize the expenditures by potentially reducing some contributions into the ISF, the Internal Service Fund. There was another idea from Councilmember Peterson about using the COVID stabilization account. And then, alternatively, at the bottom there, you see the idea of using some of the fund balance. This was reviewed by the Finance Advisory Committee the night before last. And they actually ended up recommending using $100,000 this year from the Equipment Fund to fund this, because there is a fund balance there. Now, the Equipment Fund, the way we fund it, is actually, we have a target funding level for every individual year. And what we do is we look at all the pieces of equipment we have. And that's like all the cars, the trucks, the street sweeper, loaders, everything. And everything has a depreciation schedule. So what I mean by that is, imagine we bought a $30,000 truck and we think it's going to last us five years. That means that each year we think we need to be saving $6,000 a year for its replacement. So that's kind of how we get to the Equipment Fund contribution. We do have a balance in there right now, so we could do this. I don't think in the long term it really will probably end up putting the money back. And that was what the FACS recommendation was. And they also recommended at this point just holding on to the COVID stabilization account and then re-evaluating that at mid-year. And I'll be honest with you that overall, the difference between the COVID Fund and the General Fund and re-jiggering ISF, it's mostly semantics. At the end of the day, it's still the expenditure. And we've kind of siloed off this money. But at the end of the day, council retains full discretion, whatever pot it's in, the spending. So I don't think this is a real sort of make or break thing. So right now, I think staff is just recommending what the Finance Advisory Committee said, which is to use the ISF this first year. So then the next one was the ECYP funding. That's the little carve-out out of the TOT, the hotel tax, that is voter restricted to go towards early childhood and youth programming, in educational purposes. We had suggested at the last meeting $30,000 be put into a grant program for non-profits to apply for, specific to ECYP uses. Mayor Brooks suggested making that $33,000. And then in addition, we were talking about some other, oh, and then in addition taking the remaining $30,000 programming and into the Recreation Division for ECYP type activities. There was also related to this, a conversation at the last meeting about using maybe $50,000 out of the ECYP fund for a van that would support the Recreation Program so that we can move kids around now that we have year-round programs for youth. And Mayor Brooks suggested that we could use $50,000 from the American Rescue Plan for the, for that program. And so the Finance Advisory Committee supported basically ever the discussions that took place at the last Council meeting. And so that was increasing the ECYP grant funding to $33,000, programming the $30,000 into the Rec, the Rec Division, and then utilizing $50,000 at the American Rescue Plan funding for a small passenger van for the afterschool program and other youth program. So then we also talked about the fund balance. So you will call that Jim mentioned that we had about $1.4 million of projected fund balance. And we talked about a goal of $750,000 as a probable good place to be. That's higher than we've used in the past as a target, but I think everyone just want to be in a place where we're confident that where we're going is a good, in a good direction coming out of the pandemic. So the thought was to use, take that balance down to about $750,000, which would leave $650,000 available. And the Finance Advisory Committee looked at that between kind of balancing debt reduction versus near-term projects. Historically when we've had decent size allocations out of our fund balance, we've tried to do both of those things at the same time. The Finance Advisory Committee looked at the different types of debt that we hold. We have two different debts held by one by the state of California, what's called the Infrastructure Bank and another one with Santa Cruz County Bank. Both of those have extremely favorable interest rates and so they didn't suggest repaying those. And then we also have our PERS UAL, which is a really a, that's our unfunded liability for our pension. And that's a tough nut to crack because it's such a large number. We do have a million dollars set aside to help offset that. But at the end of the day you can get to the next slide, Jim. The Finance Advisory Committee essentially said they think that the city's in an okay place from a debt standpoint and they suggested taking the $650,000 and allocating it towards CIP projects with council goals. They broke it and said 400 for CIP and 250 towards council goals that could include CIP. So I really interpret this to mean is 650 towards council projects. And we have some recommendations about how to do that coming up in the next couple of slides. So one of the last things that we're following up on from the last meeting was a question by council members' story about how much additional measure F funding could be made available because for the war and that's looking at the future measure F revenues. So earlier Jim showed us what the next five or six years of measure F was going to look like as we started to draw more of that in for operations and less was available for the war. And so we'll take a look at what that means on the next slide. But here I just want to remind everybody what kind of the funding for the war looks like right now. So I recall that we had think it's a probably a five to seven and a half million dollar project. To a large degree we do control the project cost in the sense that there's the project can be done in pieces and we don't have to do every single component of the war at the same time. So we put in about one point two million dollars of measure F into the war. We have a balance now about nine hundred thousand dollars remaining after spending design costs permitting costs. We have the one point nine million dollars from the state. Mark Stone's office that he helped us get. The American rescue plan that we're recommending putting that into the war project. And then measure F funding this next year which we'll be making a decision on that tonight. We're suggesting should be programmed entirely into the war. Which brings us to funding just shy of six million dollars. That puts us in the ballpark kind of in the middle of the project cost. Now we can jump to the next one Jim. So if we look at the future looking at the future fiscal years there's another two point eight dollars two point eight million dollars of measure F funding between this budget we're in now and then the end of measure F. But obviously we don't have that. And so we would either save up and then do the project in seven years which doesn't make any sense because the work will be falling apart in seven years and project costs will be going up the whole time. So we don't want to do that. So other options would be to do some sort of short term financing. Which isn't easy. You know there are a lot of short term financing options for a two million dollar debt issuance for five years. This isn't really a product that's out there. On top of that when you get into these small debt issuances there's often a lot of cost to issue it. You know in other words you're paying 20 30 40 thousand dollars to get the money. So if we wanted to do that I think we would want to look into internal borrowing. And what I mean by that is maybe like utilizing the purse trust to pay some of the first cost one year and then utilize measure F to pay that. And then using that savings into the wharf and then using measure F to pay back first trust over time. So we could do that if we want to. I think that decision honestly can be punted until until we get the time to really permit or approve the war. And at that point we're going to have a real good idea of what the costs are. And if we say boy we would really like to get another 500k into the project. We can present options to do that. So it's not a decision you have to make the budget. There also is another 1.4 million dollars that congressman Panetta has submitted for consideration in the federal budget. We won't know whether that gets funded until probably later this summer maybe fall when the federal budgets approved. But that would obviously bring us up to the high high range in terms of our overall project cost estimate if we are able and successful to get that funding. Right so that takes us to I think the meat and potatoes of tonight's agenda which is the capital improvement program. So with that I'm going to turn it over to director Jesper. We want to lead us you as far as the presentation please. Good evening council and mayor. Happy to be with you tonight. Review the capital improvement program. We'll start with the goodness. These are the projects that we completed within the last fiscal year. We have the capital avenue sidewalk and retaining wall. The flume rehabilitation and the jetty rehabilitation project. Can I kind of jump in Steve? You also have one other big project up on Warf Road that I think we just handed over the keys to somebody on too. Yeah today I am happy to announce this is the temporary occupancy it doesn't show up on the camera. Temporary occupancy to the library which kind of signals we're at 99 percent complete on that project. The library can formally move in and we'll have the key. So it doesn't show up here but that's a big project to get off and taking a lot of good portion of our time here. So anyway these are the projects that are completed and Jim you want to move forward please. Thank you. These are the projects that have been on the books and are not completed yet and with their funding sources and existing fund balance I'll just go through them really quick. First is the Clairs Warf traffic calming which we want to get moving. We know it's important especially at the library opening Kailash and I are working on that trying to get together a workshop here in the next sometime in June that will allow us to move forward with that project. We're anticipating it's about a $200,000 project and this will add pedestrian crossings at 46th and 42nd and also make improvements to the intersection of Warf Road and Clairs. Right now we have sufficient funding for that project. Next project is the 41st adaptive signal control. This is funded by primarily or completely by an air board grant. We've been working on this for many years trying to bring in the Caltrans intersections at the ramps. We remain unsuccessful in getting Caltrans cooperation and we're continuing to do that. We do anticipate taking a project out to bid on this for the city traffic signal so that's from Clairs Street south to Jade-Bromer intersection and then if we can bring in the Caltrans intersections at a later date we will. That project is also currently funded. The Monterey Avenue death stream pathway that's the pathway from the upper parking lot behind City Hall City Hall up to Monterey Avenue. It's a project that I know we talked about in agreement several council meetings ago that we entered into with the RTC, but at this point we are continuing to kind of hold on it to see if we can tie in with the county's environmental work and also what the scope of our project is going to look like. There's a bottom moving piece is that if the county moves forward with a project to build a trail along it, it may or may not tie into what we built so we want to make sure what we make works. If they do move forward with that it's possible we could save $30,000 to $50,000 by dependent meaning on their environmental work. So we know it's important. I think we're going to try and look and see if there's a way we can build a sidewalk up there without going into the railroad property which would make us independent of that. That we're not sure if that's how feasible that is and it may involve quite a bit of tree removal, but we'll be looking at and continuing to work on that. Next is the risk and park. As you all know we have applied for a grant from state parks to complete the funding on that project. We anticipate getting that grant a response to our grant application by the end of the summer at which time we can make some further decisions on how best to proceed. If we get the grant funding we're at a full speed ahead to wrap up the plans and go out to bid. If we are unsuccessful then we'll be back talking about how to fund the shortfall here. Next is around about a tap app in Bay Avenue. We've been on the books for a while. We did some preliminary design work and realized we had to do an under grounding project. We had the PG&E funds to do an under grounding project and that's been our primary objective over the last three years at least to get the utility under grounding project completed. Again that's a PG&E project that we kind of we pay a little bit into. It's about a two million dollar project and it's on their it's on their scheduling which is difficult to tell as we learn from the library project. So right now we know they are talking to contractors and getting final prices. There's still some maybe some right away acquisitions and other design issues that need to be resolved. I think PG&E has an earmark to go out for construction this winter. We'll keep you posted on that project. Right now because I think we are responsible for right away any right away acquisition that's needed and the installation of street lights. We anticipate that to be somewhere around a hundred thousand dollars. So we're about ninety seven thousand dollars short of our portion of that project at this point and later on we will be addressing that issue on that funding shortage. And the last project here is the payment management program last year we allocated four hundred and forty three thousand dollars to it. We've been working on it trying to develop the correct program to move forward a combination of addressing the worst streets and also trying to save the streets that aren't failed. At this point we're recommending that we combine it with the this year's allocation of funding and we'll address that in a minute and create an even larger project that allows us to get even better pricing. And the final project here is the work improvements. Jamie kind of went through this funding already depending on what project we have with the existing funding we have about nine hundred to short of nine hundred thousand dollars in existing funding that we'll be carrying forward on this. Thank you Jim. So looking at the appropriations we're recommending for this year Jamie's talked about these and some of them we talked about previously but all this got through them. So the payment management program as I just mentioned we're recommending the RTC Measure D in the state SB1 funds about four hundred forty three thousand dollars I'll be remarked for payment management. That'll give us eight hundred thousand dollars as just Measure D and SB1 money. I think on the last council meeting you gave us authority to move forward with an emergency power project at City Hall. That's a three hundred thousand dollar grant and a ninety thousand dollar allocation from the facility fund to complete the funding for that project. And then once again the work project we're recommending that the this year's or next year's the twenty twenty two measure F funds go to the work project. The straight grant from the coastal conservancy of one point nine million dollars go to the work that's new monies can come in this year so it's in this year's budget. And then the recovery act money one point eight million dollars of the recovery act money going into the work that will give us a total funding of new funding coming in at four hundred four million six hundred sixty thousand dollars. And on next week's agenda council city council agenda is the final notice of completion for the flumen jetty project. It looks like we will have a fund balance of one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars in that from that project from what was budgeted and at this time since it's all measure F and measure F each project we're recommending that that fund balance also be transferred to the work project. So again you can see we have a point point six million and projects five to seven million dollars. So I don't know if I'll take Jamie do you want to take this you want me to talk about it. I can take it. Okay. So as a reminder we we think we you know based on the facts recommendations and the conversation we have council for the first budget here and we have about six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to allocate from fund balance. And this is this is a staff proposal on how to do it and council a total discretion on how to change it or shift these funds around. But we wanted to give some sort of proposal and suggestion on how best to allocate. So number one is is we're suggesting a hundred thousand dollars to the utility undergrounding project which Steve shared with you moving forward and this is for the right of way in the lights our portion and then there's about two million dollars worth of PG and E costs which which they will be paying another hundred and fifty thousand dollars into pavement management. I think that would take the whole project balance a little bit north of a million dollars that we have available for pavement management which is slurry ceiling fixing roads that are really in disrepair and we should be getting a presentation from public works about that coming up here in the next couple meetings about what streets we can do with that budget once we know our budget. That is suggesting a potential new CIP project which we park avenue traffic calming whether this is called park avenue traffic calming or park avenue bike lane enhancements I'm not sure exactly but it's really there's not a lot of opportunity to do traffic calming in the sense of like speed bumps or something since it isn't arterial but we do think that there's a possibility to use maybe strategic bits of green paint some separators between the bike lane and the road there's obviously not a ton of width to work with but there's been some projects that we've seen in the city of Santa Cruz crop up recently which we think would be a good model. So we think a hundred thousand dollars there then we try to see what kind of project we can develop would be a good idea. We're also suggesting starting to put some money into the Bay Cap-Ab round about recognize that it's a million dollar project and the two hundred thousand dollars is just to start but do keep in mind that we have the COVID reserve that we can be talking about hopefully later this fiscal year as well as potentially some federal funding for infrastructure projects. We don't know any details about that at all. I just do believe that there's going to be more federal support for cities than we've seen in the past coming up here in the next 18 months. So we think that potentially having that funding could help put us in a position to get more as we move forward. We're also suggesting maybe twenty five thousand dollars to look at a design for Kennedy Drive. Sidewalk down there sort of lower Kennedy before it runs into park. This was something I think councilmember Bertrand suggested at the last meeting. Just to let Cliff Wood-Hykes residents walk down toward the intersection of park and Kennedy McGregor there. We're also suggesting a relatively small allocation of funding into sort of a moderate park, new Brighton Middle School joint school district field project. At this point the school district has been paying for some preliminary design work. They haven't asked us to put anything in the project at this stage but we do think that if we had some resources it would demonstrate sort of our good faith effort to kind of partner with them on this and it could be potentially working on grants but this is really just a bit of seed money to kind of kick this project off. We were also suggesting sixty five thousand dollars for kind of other programs which would include the community grant strategic plan which has been a long-running council goal and we really think that getting people who work in this field on a professional basis involved and get them really resources they need to help us get it done would be wise. The moderate park picnic benches for something councilman with the CRAN I think mentioned during the goal setting session permanent hygiene products in all of our public restrooms is something Mayor Brooks mentioned and then potentially five thousand dollars to enhance our our sort of public outreach efforts maybe another newsletter that we could do on send all residents. So that's that would basically this is it you know frankly a stocking horse it's just a proposal but it puts on paper sort of some of our ideas about how best to use the sixty six hundred fifty thousand dollars in fund balance. Next slide. So if we did that your next question is going to be where does that leave us on various projects and so what it would mean is that the Claire's Wharf traffic calming project remains funded. You have funding that we think that would we get that project out to bid. The 41st Avenue project we expect to be able to bid with the funding we have. The the Monterey and Park pedestrian pathway the one we talked about recently that goes up on the RTC right away. We didn't propose funding mostly because there's just there's so many different moving pieces right now with the rail trail that we're thinking it may be best to just hold back a little bit at this stage and if we're able to figure that out we could suggest moving maybe some of the COVID reserve in mid-year into that if if essentially it's something we want to do. The other really important project I think to keep in your mind for the COVID reserve is the Brisbane Park. When we find out about the grant if the grant comes in we're good we even get I think a refund out of that project if it doesn't come in I think if I were if I were in your shoes I would earmark maybe some of that COVID reserve to get the Brisbane Park project bit and built. By the roundabout cap they would be you still be looking for another seven or eight hundred thousand dollars for it. Utility undergrounding would be fully funded we'd have a little bit north of the million dollars for pavement management. The Park Avenue traffic calming project we'd have a budget of a hundred thousand dollars to see where they go as well as the other two projects that I mentioned earlier. And if we took all the actions that we recommended around the Wharf we would have five point seven million dollars budgeted for the Wharf at this point pending I think no I think that that would be fully budgeting all the funds we've identified. So with that a recommendation essentially near the finance advisory committee's recommendations for the first three bullets around the frozen position ECYP funding the RF recovery act funding splitting it between the Wharf and then the recreation man. And then again following the finance advisory committee and the council's recommendations reducing the general fund balance for 750 and then we talked about all the CIP projects we would allocate it to we had that all summarized on the next slide putting the 65k of the council goals that I just went through and then the decision for this evening will be whether we want to continue the deliberations into another budget hearing or if the council will be prepared to direct us to prepare the documents for final adoption cancel the remaining hearings and we would come back at a regular meeting with all the information that you'd need to to adopt the budget and with that oh so then yeah so if you want to see all the different CIP things because they can imagine that went by pretty quickly we put them all here in one place so these would be the recommendations we would have about how to allocate the funding and with that I think we're available for questions unless I'm missing something Jim or Steve all right great back to you Mayor Brooks and council all right there was a lot there do we have a final slide on recommendations so that through it's the three facts and the record thank you okay so questions from council council member for Trent yeah in terms of the roundabout I think I've heard talks of the arid district wanting to give us money for that sort of like they've given us money for the signal sequencing that's that's correct I don't know the status of the funding Steve do you have any updates on the roundabout funding so the airport is interested in funding roundabouts I think we need to be in a position when we're ready to go to construction on it before we apply time it out a little better they are very short windows to spend their funding and they also like to kind of be the final 10% of funding or something like that so at this point I do not recommend that we apply at this point just because we could still be a year at least a year to two years away before that project moves forward but that is something we'll keep an eye on is there any funding possibility from RTC being that it would help in traffic movement right now there is no allocations or grant programs that I'm aware of that that I can check and keep a monitoring map that right now I'm not aware of any grant programs that they have that we could apply for yeah maybe some of their staff okay thank you is this that we're so far we're not too far along on the roundabout right clear we have a long way to go still yeah thank you we do have a long way to go but I you know we do have the COVID reserve especially and if we're able to free up the funding from the wrist and project that's another chunk of money I'm still hopeful that we're going to see some of our contingency returned on the library which is right another chunk and then if we do get to a more normal economy we could potentially talk about additional fund balance so it's not as it's not as hopeless as it seems I mean there's a fair number of pots of money that could become available in the next six to 18 months I think mayor if I may just a quick follow-up you're reminding me about the potential return from the library fund what kind of amounts are we thinking at this point I would put it in the I'll get quoted on this I think it's going to be in the four to five hundred thousand dollar range okay and is there a timeline on that so there's still punch list items and there's still some extra costs that need to be put into the project we anticipate issuing a notice of completion which will identify all those final cuts probably going to take us the better part of the summer to wrap that up so it'll probably be July or August before we get to that point would there be any clawbacks you know for other facilities like the Santa Cruz library that's still in planning no so we would be we would be returning general fund money the city put in to the project that's what I thought I just want to make sure yeah in addition Steve correct me if I'm wrong the money you're talking about is money that we would get out of the contingencies in addition you will call that we've had a bit of a disagreement with the architects regarding the delay costs that were associated with the utility lines right that's moving forward on a separate process and the city has estimated that our delay costs that we incurred were between nine hundred and a million dollars so we control the contingency at this point the first part of money Steve reference yes okay I just want to make sure thank you Council Member Peterson thank you I agree with the staff recommendations I just have a quick question there was mention of the wrist and park project and I know that we received or excuse me one of the issues that we've had at wrist and park previously is the invasive plant species and we received an email this morning about potentially investing some of our funding into mitigation of those invasive plant species not only at wrist and but along Soquel Creek so I'm just wondering that when we talk about the funding that we may be using towards wrist and property are we considering using any of that for that kind of plant invasive plant removal or if not is that something that we may be considering down the line as we continue to look into other ways to support that property and the Soquel Creek in general so the wrist and park project does not have any riparian restoration plans to it at this point so there's no funding included in the project costs we keep showing you for that project for removal and invasive species we did have a report prepared using our tree fund to identify the amount of invasive species over there and give us some costs and I think the email we received today asked for money to remove the IV I'm kind of hesitant to move forward with that recommendation at this point just because to remove the IV involves quite a bit of work probably $50,000 but then you can't just remove it and go away because it'll grow back very quickly if we need to have a detailed plan and put plants in there that will keep the IVFA overall the estimate for the entire riparian restoration for the wrist and property is almost a half million dollars so that's such a small part of it and it would inquire quite a bit of permitting and other issues so I think if that's a council goal is to move forward with that project we should start talking about it make it a you know start banking some money or identify it for future funding but at this point I wouldn't recommend moving forward with just an IV removal project and leaving it at that that makes sense thank you otherwise I think these are great recommendations I'm especially excited about the the roundabout that's something that we've been talking about for a long time as council member of Bertrand Bertrand mentioned still got a long way to go on that and I think Park Avenue traffic calming bike lane improvements whatever we're going to be referring to it as are also really promising projects that we've been hearing about from from our residents for quite a while so if this is the would it be appropriate at this time for me to make oh no we need to go to public comment first okay yeah public comment so we've got time for questions council member Kaiser did you have some questions this may be more of a comment but I guess it goes along the lines of is is there a way to sort of go over these in more of a prioritizing list like I would say hey put the sidewalk from the PacCove up to Monterey on the back burner if we may be able to get funding versus maybe then we could put more efforts into the sidewalk to Kennedy things like that is that necessary to do or is that just something that would happen systematically I would say if there's high priority projects that would be great which would be identified we try to work on all the projects and get them done obviously some projects take a lot more work and we like the work projects is taking a lot of time in the library projects over the last year but and I know Clairs is the highest priority that we're probably working on that time closely called by pavement management but if there's other projects that are less important like you mentioned the the sidewalk up to Park Avenue that would be good to know so not that it's like less important but I just feel like if there is the potential to get additional funding that wouldn't necessarily put us on the line for I feel like that's something to explore more so than just getting the project done and we've identified the projects that we are you know waiting for funding decisions on that we're probably not working on as much as we're waiting for funding okay all right just wanted to make sure the efforts are going the right direction thanks well said Council Member Kaiser thank you for bringing that up Council Member Ruchan do you have a question I have a comment if I may Council Member Ruchan with just that question you'll have your chance for comment in a second I just want to make sure we go out to public comment or public first and then we'll bring it back for for our deliberation and comment so let's do that real quick and then we'll come back do we have any other any public comments at this time Mayor Brooks I do not see any attendees with their hands up and oh let's see I do actually have a an email on this item I'm going to try it again the sharing of the screen and the reading so give me a second and I will can you Jim can you unshare your screen thank you we'll give it another shot here we go comment and do you see that okay you don't see this screen oh wait did I not share it all the way all right no sharing again all right how about now that's coming on okay all right so we are going to try the read aloud oh it's from Peter that's it it's a bad idea that has not been benefited by the public nope then from my iPhone do we need to read it or is that okay so for the public who's just listening and if yep let me let me do that I forgot to share uh you got to share sound too when you do this and I did not we'll try it one more time this time with okay sharing sound public comment okay now we'll try the the read aloud the roundabout is a bad idea that has not been vetted by the public sent from my iPhone is that her could you hear that yep okay thank you okay so do we want to check in or refresh just see if there's any other comments coming in from the public I do not see anybody with their hands up and I do not see any additional emails on this item I'm just going to give it one more minute unfortunately I know better to Google any joke I've earned my lesson last time because it just comes up as the same one just don't repeat them yeah I'm glad I have this career instead of the comedians yeah yeah we're sit down comedians that's actually funny I don't see any additional emails on this item okay right let's bring this back to council for further deliberation and a recommendation for our staff here any council member Bertrand you had some comments to make yeah so Kristen reminded me something about what came up at the RTC ITAC meeting which I attended today and the reason why I attended because there were several items that were of interest to capital of one was RTC decided to do a study to see about pedestrian walking across the our trestle see you know how much that would cost if it was feasible but that's not my main point another thing that came up is RTC is going to be doing a demonstration project for protected bike lanes and you know Kailash was there he could probably give a full report on that so that's actually going to be out there and we'll be able to see what it looks like and if it would fit into something on Park Avenue and then the other thing in support of roundabouts I understand what Peter Wilk is talking about but it's been out there for a long time I don't know if Steve's ever had a public meeting on it but I've sat for over an hour at the intersection there of Bay and capital road excuse me capital avenue and the traffic is horrible especially going in and out of Gales and then when you consider the the parents picking up or the kids that are driving home you know from school it's a horrible intersection so a roundabout I think has been proven to really help for situations like this and then also I've talked to the owner and some of the people that work at Grady's and they're constantly telling me about near accidents and people crossing the pedestrian walkways I think I shared something with Jamie about that no he shared something with me about it those intersections are very hard for pedestrians and then the car is moving around I don't know how many accidents have actually occurred there but it is something we we should address because it's a known problem problem intersection those are my comments okay any other comments from council council member Kaiser thanks I had I guess actually I should have asked this question the newsletter I know we did receive in an email is that going to be like an electronic newsletter or is it in the mail sorry that would have actually been a good good item for me to mention during staff comments at the beginning so the city city has historically done a newsletter called Capitola Current and we usually produce it twice a year and it gets mailed to every resident in town and I think each edition is like around five grand you know by mailing not many different individual copies that's a fair amount of staff work putting together these sort of large printed newsletters our city clerk has taken the initiative to help develop an e-newsletter that we're calling Capitola Ways there are some great jokes and the impact behind that is it'd be far more freaking we'd be distributing it every two weeks after council meetings and summarize what happened at a recent council meeting and then we take just sort of little snippets for what's going on in the east department it's going to be a lower quality production we're not going to do as much editing on it we're hoping we can just get them out every two weeks and then so that's what we're talking about there's really no new costs associated with the digital one Capitola Ways but then the $5,000 we would look into maybe having a third newsletter in the year or our city clerk has so many ideas about public engagement that you may come up with a better idea about how to utilize more funds for public engagement yeah which I I think my I guess my comment on that would be less things in the mail like the actual mail I mean me personally like receiving stuff in the mail that just is like to current resident or ever isn't something that I necessarily would like hang on to but I think and Chloe's already like ventured on to doing more for like the website and the social media side of things and I think if that's the route we're going on that's kind of a better a better standpoint to take than like a paper newsletter or something that just me personally I mean I don't know if that's how other people feel about I I just want to respond really quickly I actually would have the same reaction as well I do know that when we've been doing we've done community surveys where we'll survey you know several hundred community residents residents about different things about the city and Steve you've been here and you've seen many of our community survey results and correct me if I'm wrong but I always remember that the when we ask people how do you get information about the city it is a very high number of people that say the city newsletter it's always surprises me and I'm sure that's changing over time you know right like how current was that would you say our last survey I think we did or we did it before last election right when we were looking into the UUT okay I mean that's good to know and I'm just this is just me coming from like my demographic and but I'm glad to hear that that's happening that's super cool my last comment would be about the roundabout I know I've kind of talked to Jamie about it but I also have like a ton of reserves around it and aesthetics and pedestrian access through a roundabout concern me and so I'm not like super 100% behind that getting that project on the way but those are my comments thank you Councilmember Peterson thank you I just wanted to take a quick moment to address the concerns about the roundabout I've been on I've been the city's representative to Ambag the Association of Monterey Bay Area Government since I was elected in 2016 and one of the the things that that Ambag does is a project list regional transportation plan project list and the draft 2045 regional transportation plan financially constrained project list includes Bay Avenue traffic calming and bike and pedestrian enhancement which include buffered pedestrian facilities and bicycle treatments such as those painted bike lanes bike boxes bike signals to address speed and consistency between bicyclists and vehicles and then it also does include multimodal improvements to an intersection including a roundabout at Bay Avenue and Capitol Avenue those projects are both partially constrained and partially unconstrained which in this case just means partially funded we have identified funding and partially unidentified funding but I do just want to point that out that it's part of our regional transportation plan to make these kind of improvements to the Bay Avenue intersection and really Bay Avenue from Highway 1 all the way to Monterey and I'm correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that before we kind of break ground on anything like this it would have to come back to council again and that the council meeting itself would serve as a public kind of community workshop or something of that sort for this project is that correct Council Member Peterson yeah I think we anticipate actually holding several public workshops on the roundabout show how it would work how they work in other jurisdictions that would probably be one of the first phases we would undertake if we move forward with this project we talked about doing in the past but the project was so far out in the future we didn't think that would be as productive so we've been waiting and that would be something we would do so we would have some workshops and then come back to council with the results of those workshops perfect thank you I just wanted to address the concerns about there not being any opportunities for community feedback because that's definitely important so thank you and other than that I would say I'm prepared to make a motion to accept the staff recommendations as it pertains to if we could go back to that slide but essentially as it pertains to the capital improvement project the fund balance usage and what was the other one the early childhood and youth program funding my motion would be to accept yeah the staff recommendations there I see we have a first and council member Kaiser before we move on to you do I have a second for the motion that's on the table I'll second that do we have a first and a second council member Kaiser yeah I want to agree as well and then just say that yeah I think some public information and out input output would be great on the on the run about just because I feel like I don't know enough about it and I was surprised to see it as one as a project so and just from not having any background so I think that would be good kind of like the art project the stair project I think it'd be a good thing to try and get out there and get more visibility for the public would be great but yeah I I'm down with the budget as well thank you okay council member the chance so one last comment around about so I'm a little skeptical at first but let's see I think the closest roundabouts here are in marina near the what is it the just one of the it's near the library in marina so there's two roundabouts that one comes off go off the highway you hit another roundabout when you're going to the library so those are the closest you can see what they're like if you want to have a boardwalk yeah this is Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Santa Cruz and a depot park okay yeah well these are pretty big the boardwalk is like so many people it's like crazy yeah so you're right about that yeah okay so those are two that seem to work well and I think Steve has some designs already it's not a circle it's sort of a a lopsided circle we have options non circle event then we do have one for a circle too and you know I will say as far as pedestrian crossings the crossings now are especially along across Bay Avenue are very long crossings and take a long time and that's very hard for pedestrians because motorists are notoriously impatient right and with the roundabouts the crossings will be one lane at a time and with protected pockets in the middle so there they will be much shorter and much safer for pedestrians and as far as bike safety I think studies have shown that bikes are very comfortable going around and around going through a roundabout with the vehicles because there's such those speeds in the intersections so you know we'll move that forward but that's the information I know that they actually improve bike and pedestrian safety great thank you yeah I just uh I I'm new when it comes to roundabouts so definitely need more information so all is appreciated thanks guys all right so before we move on to a vote I just wanted to add a couple comments because I want to talk about the roundabout too have a chance real quick so I'm not sure that I am on board with this vision quite yet but I appreciate that this process and procedures too moving on with such projects I just want to be sure in what we're approving in terms of the allocations I don't know if there was on the it was at the next slide what was what is it next slide 200 000 for what exactly or what was it I can't remember Bay Avenue Capitola Avenue roundabout so you know what I would just say and if it's just for optics you know this is something maybe that we're saying is a this this funding will begin the process of as Steve said of community input and will be utilized for those steps in place I feel like so we're not superseding process and procedure so I don't know if that by us just saying that if that's the takeaway or should we be more clear about where these dollars are going to I know it's a million dollar project and more than like this would just be used for those first steps but I just I'm wondering if it's better for for our community to see like this is us just exploring this as an option for our community I don't know what council thinks about that there's already a motion and a second but I'm just wondering if anyone would be open to being a little bit more and if that has any recommendations as well on how we could offer some more clarity to be able of behind what this is for Mayor Brooks if I may please yeah I'm I'm very comfortable and agree with your concerns there and I think we could change the name of that allocation to the Bay Avenue roundabout preliminary design and public workshop so that we're very clear that that's all we're going to proceed with at this time I don't envision spending all that money on that effort so from that standpoint it's the beginning of a fun thank for the larger project but adding that we're only going to complete preliminary design and public workshops that are public input at this point I think it's completely appropriate okay so I know we have a first and a second if Councilmember Peterson would be agreeable to that amendment just for that language update I'd like your input if that would be okay you're just looking for an amendment to essentially for that part of the recommendation to say Bay Avenue cap Avenue roundabout preliminary design and community outreach just to add three words that's fine with me okay so we have a first and a second with that amendment Chloe are you comfortable with the motion is that clear okay so we have a recommendation to move forward with that amendment and that language and the recommendations seen on the screen which are I'm not going to read them all I think we've got it so can I have a roll call please all right this item passes unanimously thank you everyone that was the fastest meeting ever we've seen I think he has it I do have we do have one other little cleanup item so oh am I not done I'm sorry we we're just the last bullet there with that direction I'm assuming that this means that you're prepared for us to come back with the the documents for final budget adoption and that we will cancel the upcoming budget hearing I think that's with the vote yes I'm seeing nothing across the board I think Council is agreeable great thank you I just wanted to make sure we were all clear all right all clear all right everyone thank you so much great to see all of your faces great work tonight nice I'll see you all soon good night goodbye