[20:08] >>> if everyone can please take a seat and
[20:09] quiet down, we're going to start the meeting here
[20:10] momentarily.
[20:28] >> good evening, everyone,
[20:30] and welcome to the regular session
[20:31] of the martinez city council.
[20:33] it is wednesday, july 16th, and it is 7:03 p.m.
[20:39] please rise and join vice mayor howard for the pledge of
[20:40] allegiance.
[21:04] >> vice mayor
[21:05] howard, can you please confirm that you
[21:07] can hear me?
[21:08] >> I can hear you.
[21:09] >> okay. Great. Thank you. I couldn't
[21:10] hear anyone giving the pledge
[21:12] of allegiance. I just wanted to make
[21:13] sure audio was
[21:16] working. All right. Wonderful.
[21:18] so, quickly, before roll call, I just
[21:19] wanted to let
[21:21] everybody know I'm calling in remotely
[21:22] tonight
[21:24] as many of you know. All of the council
[21:25] do have day jobs so
[21:26] I'm calling in tonight from rhode
[21:28] island. I'm presenting at a
[21:31] society of wetland scientists conference
[21:32] this
[21:33] week, so thank you for your patience as I run the meeting
[21:34] remotely.
[21:37] so, clerk, please
[21:40] call the roll.
[21:41] >> mayor brianne
[21:42] zorn.
[21:43] >> present. >> vice mayor jay
[21:44] howard.
[21:45] >>
[21:46] present.
[21:47] >> councilmember greg young.
[21:48] >>
[21:49] present.
[21:50] >> councilmember
[21:52] satinder mahli.
[21:53] >> present.
[21:55] >> councilmember
[21:58] debbie mckillop.
[21:59] >>
[22:00] present.
[22:01] >> we have two proclamations
[22:02] recognizing the service for two of
[22:03] our planning commissioners.
[22:04] vice mayor howard, would you please bring
[22:05] the council
[22:07] down to present to tracey and sean?
[22:33] >> this is an exciting day for all
[22:34] of us.
[22:37] I would like to
[22:40] read the proclamation for tracey casella.
[22:42] whereas tracey casella has been a
[22:43] resident of
[22:45] martinez since 1984, whereas she has
[22:46] actively
[22:49] served her community and whereas tracey casella
[22:52] was appointed as an alternate to the
[22:55] planning commission in june of 2016,
[22:57] and whereas tracey casella was appointed
[22:58] as a
[23:01] regular planning commissioner on may
[23:04] of 2017, and whereas tracey casella
[23:06] was elected vice chair of the planning
[23:07] commission in
[23:10] february of 2020 and whereas her
[23:13] nine-year tenure on the
[23:16] planning commission, casella has
[23:18] played a pivotal role in assisting
[23:19] the city to
[23:20] reach notable accomplishments, such
[23:22] as the adoption of the general
[23:25] plan 2035, the 2023
[23:28] to 2031 housing element, the waterfront
[23:29] marina
[23:31] land trust use plan, the general plan
[23:32] amendment for the vine
[23:34] hill subdivision, and the amendment
[23:35] to the
[23:37] commercial cannabis regulations. Whereas
[23:40] martinez community has greatly
[23:42] benefitted from casella's service
[23:43] and the city
[23:44] of martinez will be forever grateful,
[23:46] now, therefore, be it
[23:47] resolved that the city council of
[23:49] the city of martinez
[23:51] does hereby recognize and express
[23:52] appreciation and gratitude
[23:55] to tracey casella's service on the
[23:56] planning commission and her commitment
[23:58] to serve the martinez
[24:01] community. In witness, I
[24:04] hereunto set my hand and cause the
[24:07] city of the
[24:08] seal of the city of martinez to be
[24:10] affixed hereto.
[24:11] >> thank you. >> yeah.
[24:21] >> it's been an honor, really, it has.
[24:22] >> you're welcome.
[24:25] >> okay. >> that's it.
[24:41] >> we've got
[24:43] one more. We've got this handsome
[24:44] gentleman sitting up
[24:46] here, so we're going to recognize
[24:47] sean trambley.
[24:49] whereas sean trambley has been a resident
[24:50] of
[24:52] martinez since 1984, where he has
[24:54] actively served his community and
[24:56] whereas sean trambley was appointed
[24:59] as an alternate to the planning commission
[25:02] in april of 2017, and
[25:03] whereas sean trambley was appointed as
[25:05] a regional
[25:08] planning commissioner in july
[25:11] of 2017, and whereas sean
[25:13] trambley was elected vice chair of
[25:14] the planning
[25:16] commission in january of 2019, and
[25:19] whereas sean trambley was elected
[25:20] chair
[25:22] of the planning commission in february
[25:26] of 2020 and whereas during his eight-
[25:29] year tenure on the planning
[25:31] commission, trambley has played a
[25:32] pivotal role in
[25:34] assisting the city to reach notable
[25:35] accomplishments, such as
[25:38] the adoption of the general
[25:41] plan 2035,
[25:43] the 2023-2031 housing element, the
[25:44] waterfront
[25:47] marina trust land use plan,
[25:49] general plan amendment for the vine
[25:50] hill
[25:53] subdivision, and preventing
[25:55] approval of a downtown gun range,
[25:56] and
[25:57] whereas the martinez community has
[26:02] greatly benefitted
[26:03] from trambley's service and the city
[26:05] of martinez will forever be grateful,
[26:07] now therefore be it resolved that
[26:08] the city council
[26:11] of the city of martinez
[26:13] does hereby recognize and express
[26:14] appreciation and
[26:17] gratitude for sean trambley's service on
[26:18] the
[26:19] planning commission and his commitment to serve the martinez
[26:20] community.
[26:23] in witness
[26:26] whereof, I have hereto set my hand
[26:29] and used the seal of the city of martinez
[26:30] to
[26:31] be affixed hereto this 16th day of july.
[26:32] congratulations, sean.
[26:33] >> thank you very much.
[26:35] thank you. [ applause ]
[26:41] >> I'll also keep it brief
[26:43] because people are here for a lot
[26:44] of other reasons, but thank
[26:46] you. It has been an honor, and I look
[26:47] forward
[26:48] to continuing to serve martinez in
[26:49] a myriad of ways. Thank you all.
[26:50] >> thank you, sean.
[26:56] >> thank you again. >> thank
[26:58] you, sean and tracey.
[26:59] >> another photo op.
[27:20] >> thank you guys. >> thank you.
[27:44] >> all right. Our
[27:47] next item on the agenda is public
[27:49] comment, and I know that we have a
[27:50] really big agenda tonight, and a
[27:53] lot of people are here in attendance for
[27:54] the presentation
[27:55] about potential plans for the marina.
[27:56] the public
[27:59] comment right now is for non-agendized
[28:00] items only. I understand that we have
[28:02] one, two, three,
[28:05] four, five speaker cards. By a show
[28:06] of
[28:07] hands, vice mayor howard, can you
[28:08] check to see how many people in the
[28:10] room want to speak on non-agendized items.
[28:14] >> can you raise your hand?
[28:16] >> that have not submitted -->> I
[28:17] have three, four, five.
[28:20] four. Three.
[28:26] four.
[28:27] >> okay, so, we have a total
[28:28] of five plus
[28:29] four and then maybe a handful on virtual audience?
[28:30] >> give or take.
[28:32] >> okay. So, because we have so much
[28:33] we
[28:35] need to cover this evening, I am
[28:38] going to just reduce the public comment
[28:41] time to two minutes so that way we
[28:42] have an
[28:43] opportunity to get through the public
[28:44] comment tonight.
[28:47] so, with that said, vice mayor howard, you
[28:48] can
[28:50] start by reading the names
[28:52] and calling people up. For those people
[28:53] who did not already submit
[28:55] a speaker card, you can queue up once
[28:56] the folks
[28:58] who did submit a speaker card have
[28:59] finished speaking.
[29:00] >>
[29:01] please come to the podium if you want
[29:02] to speak on
[29:05] nonagendized items.
[29:06] >> but we're going to start with
[29:07] karen collins.
[29:24] >> good evening.
[29:25] thank you for the opportunity to speak.
[29:27] my name is
[29:29] actually christine friel. I'm sharing
[29:30] with karen collins.
[29:33] first, we want to
[29:34] sincerely thank the city council and the
[29:35] public works staff for completing
[29:36] the water project in
[29:38] muir oaks. They improved water pressure
[29:40] and additional hydrants have made
[29:41] a huge difference for safety and peace of mind
[29:45] in our neighborhood. And we really
[29:47] appreciate your commitment to infrastructure
[29:48] that serve
[29:49] our community. But we also would like
[29:50] to bring to your attention tonight
[29:51] an
[29:52] issue that's becoming increasingly
[29:54] urgent, and that's the condition of
[29:57] our private roads. These
[30:00] roads were designated as
[30:01] private decades ago before most of
[30:02] us lived in the neighborhood and any
[30:06] of you were on the board. And
[30:08] today, maintaining those roads has
[30:09] become financially unmanageable. Really.
[30:14] and engineering assessments estimate the
[30:15] cost of
[30:18] repairs at over $1
[30:19] million, and at the current rate of
[30:21] dues collection, we are
[30:24] literally never going to meet
[30:25] that need. So, we're here tonight to ask
[30:27] the city to meet with us to
[30:29] come up with a plan that's sustainable
[30:30] for our
[30:31] roads. Thank you. I'll pass it over to karen now.
[30:33] >> thank you.
[30:36] >> good evening.
[30:38] thank you for the time. My name is
[30:39] karen collins.
[30:40] I have been a resident in martinez
[30:42] for almost 15 years, and
[30:44] most recently, that last eight years, in
[30:45] the development
[30:46] known as muir oaks just south of highway 4.
[30:51] I think falls under debbie mckillop's jurisdiction.
[30:54] area. Yeah.
[30:57] the road
[31:00] issues go far beyond
[31:02] inconvenience and is a public safety
[31:03] concern at this point. Our
[31:05] roads serve not just residents but
[31:06] also fire
[31:09] services, police, and city
[31:12] maintenance vehicles. Their
[31:14] deteriorating condition affects everyone's
[31:15] access and
[31:18] emergency response times. What
[31:19] complicates matters further is that
[31:21] the legal status of our
[31:22] roads remains to be very unclear.
[31:27] even the city, county, and
[31:28] residents of the neighborhood have
[31:30] different
[31:31] understandings, which has created
[31:32] inequities and legal gray areas that leave us
[31:33] struck.
[31:39] we are also seeing new
[31:41] development approved in muir oaks,
[31:42] bringing additional revenue to
[31:43] the city, but none of that revenue
[31:45] helps maintain the
[31:46] roads that these new residents also depend on.
[31:51] we respectfully ask that the
[31:54] city meet with us to find a more
[31:57] workable and equitable path
[32:00] forward, whether that involves
[32:01] clarifying jurisdictions, exploring
[32:03] legal options,
[32:06] or helping us create a
[32:07] sustainable funding model. We are
[32:09] here looking for help. And partnership.
[32:15] we're ready to collaborate and find
[32:16] a
[32:17] solution that supports the long-term
[32:18] safety and
[32:19] accessibility of muir oaks and the greater martinez community.
[32:23] I really want to stress my thanks
[32:24] for your
[32:26] time and attention to the development and
[32:27] to this issue. Thank you.
[32:30] >> thank you.
[32:36] >> good evening. I
[32:37] don't normally come to these meetings,
[32:39] but I had a
[32:41] request, and I just walked in and
[32:42] somebody said, this is
[32:43] the period you speak something not
[32:45] on the agenda.
[32:51] >> I'm sorry, did you submit a speaker card?
[32:54] >> you
[32:56] know, I came in, and there were so
[32:57] many people here, I didn't
[33:00] see a card.
[33:01] >> would you mind --
[33:02] the clerk and the vice mayor are reading
[33:03] out the people
[33:05] who submitted cards, and then you
[33:06] are more than welcome
[33:08] to come back after those folks who submitted cards
[33:09] speak.
[33:12] >> get a card here. >> yes. >> that
[33:14] would be great. Thank you. So sorry to
[33:15] interrupt.
[33:16] >> thank
[33:17] you, mayor. Next, we have declan archer.
[33:39] >> hi, hi namename
[33:41] declan archer and I am 8 years old.
[33:42] I
[33:43] live in martinez and I love playing soccer.
[33:45] when I grow up, I want to be a professional
[33:48] soccer player. I'm here to ask the
[33:49] city to
[33:51] think more about soccer when building
[33:53] and taking care of parks. Right now,
[33:54] a
[33:57] lot of parks have baseball fields
[33:58] and basketball
[34:00] courts, but not many have
[34:03] soccer fields or with goals.
[34:05] even the ones --there's a big --even
[34:06] when there's
[34:09] a big grass area, the grass
[34:12] is too long, and the ground
[34:15] is very dangerous to play on because
[34:18] of gopher holes. And there are no
[34:19] goals
[34:21] to use. The
[34:23] city maintains these parks, watering
[34:24] the grass and
[34:27] mowing the lawns, but it's done in
[34:30] a way that makes the areas useful
[34:33] as grass lawns, not quality soccer
[34:34] fields.
[34:37] for example,
[34:39] hidden valley has a big field, but
[34:40] no
[34:43] goals, and the grass is rough.
[34:49] yancy boyd park has no goals.
[34:51] mountain view park has flat grass but
[34:52] no goals, and the
[34:54] grass is too long. Waterfront park
[34:55] has
[34:58] a big grass area, perfect
[35:00] for soccer, but they're not set up
[35:01] for soccer
[35:03] either. The waterfront soccer field
[35:06] has goals, but they're often locked
[35:07] up
[35:10] oror have nets. The grass is
[35:12] also kept long and the field is full of
[35:15] gopher holes. A few weeks ago, the
[35:16] pine
[35:18] meadow park opened just up the street
[35:19] from
[35:22] our house. Like many other
[35:25] parks, it is --it has a large
[35:27] grass area, but the grass is kept
[35:28] long,
[35:30] and there are no soccer goals. It
[35:31] feels
[35:34] like soccer gets
[35:36] left out. Baseball fields are clean
[35:37] and ready to use.
[35:39] basketball hoops have nets, but for
[35:40] soccer,
[35:41] it's harder to find a place to play.
[35:49] [ applause ]
[35:51] >> thank you, declan. I really appreciate those
[35:52] comments.
[36:01] >> thank you, young man. You are clearly
[36:02] after
[36:03] our jobs in the future. That was nicely
[36:04] done.
[36:07] thank you.
[36:08] >> yes. Next
[36:10] up, we have william
[36:11] frolich.
[36:12] >> mine should probably go with
[36:13] the agenda.
[36:14] it should probably be moved to the agenda item.
[36:19] >> okay. If you can see
[36:21] me here in a second. All right, next, we have matt
[36:22] reagan.
[36:23] >> agenda item too.
[36:25] >> okay.
[36:27] all right. Next is richard anderson.
[36:28] and just for the
[36:30] record, those two names I called, they
[36:31] are changing their comments to an
[36:32] agendized item.
[36:36] richard anderson, you can come up, sir.
[36:55] >> I'm not going to be as entertaining
[36:56] as the
[36:58] young people,
[36:59] but I have been requesting that the
[37:01] city of martinez do a
[37:03] building code inspection on my property,
[37:04] my rear of my
[37:07] property, for quite some time.
[37:08] the city council and everybody, well,
[37:10] a good number of people
[37:12] in attendance right now have documents
[37:13] that I submitted
[37:15] again by email. What I would like to
[37:16] do
[37:19] is to have a code enforcement inspection
[37:22] of my property, looking at city ordinance
[37:24] violations, building code violations, penal
[37:25] code violations,
[37:27] health and safety code violations,
[37:28] whatever is
[37:30] possible. I would also like to have
[37:31] the chief building official be the
[37:34] person doing the actual inspection,
[37:35] but if
[37:36] he's not available, then whoever the
[37:37] city might be willing to
[37:39] come up with is satisfactory with
[37:40] me. I
[37:43] would also like to have officer
[37:45] budda with the martinez police department
[37:46] present as
[37:48] a witness. That's all I can say is
[37:49] I really don't
[37:52] have much more to say. Since
[37:54] I submitted this andand everyone that I
[37:55] would
[37:58] be here tonight, has there
[38:00] been any decision made as to whether
[38:01] or not a building inspection,
[38:03] even if I have to pay for it, on my property can be done?
[38:10] >> we don't answer questions during
[38:11] public
[38:12] comment. You have 46 seconds left if you
[38:13] have any further comments you would like to make at this time.
[38:16] >> well, since I'm hard of hearing, I didn't hear a word
[38:17] you said.
[38:19] >>
[38:22] we don't answer questions during public
[38:23] comment.
[38:25] you have about 30 seconds left if you have any
[38:26] final comments
[38:28] you would like to make.
[38:29] >> okay, using
[38:30] my 30 seconds,
[38:31] I submitted to the city of
[38:33] martinez the reports of four expert
[38:34] people, all licensed
[38:37] by the state of california, regarding
[38:40] structures that do not exist in my
[38:41] rear yard. I would
[38:43] like to be contacted by anyone, the
[38:45] city manager, chief building official, anybody.
[38:46] I cannot
[38:48] get any response from anyone, and thank you
[38:49] very much. Have a nice evening.
[38:50] >> thank you.
[38:51] >> thank you.
[38:55] >> I have no
[38:58] further cards. For those who still
[38:59] have public
[39:01] comment for nonagendized items, if you
[39:02] can please
[39:04] line up at the microphone, and we can proceed
[39:05] in taking the comments.
[39:16] >> am I good? Hi. My name
[39:18] is bernadette fernandez, I'm a business
[39:19] owner and downtown resident.
[39:21] now that we are in mid summer, I would
[39:22] like to again stress the
[39:25] importance of healthy trees to
[39:28] the wholistic well-being of our downtown.
[39:30] trees reduce temperature, they beautify
[39:31] the space, they
[39:33] deeply affect the mental health of
[39:34] the people visiting downtown, as
[39:37] well as the people who call downtown
[39:40] home, whether they are on our streets or
[39:41] in a home.
[39:44] the
[39:46] lack of trees that will mature into
[39:47] shade-
[39:48] providers impacts everything from
[39:50] public well-being to our
[39:52] recent parking discussions. Nearly
[39:54] every issue downtown could be solved
[39:56] by
[39:57] fostering a safe, shady environment
[39:59] that allows people
[40:01] to use the farther away parking spaces, as well
[40:03] as safely spend their afternoons in
[40:05] our downtown.
[40:08] rather than
[40:09] leave immediately if they're at risk of heatstroke.
[40:17] I know
[40:18] that this issue has been previously
[40:20] addressed, but I would like to request
[40:22] that its priority is moved up. We
[40:23] work really
[40:25] hard on fostering a really nice community
[40:29] downtown, and that's almost
[40:32] impossible to do when
[40:35] the very, like,
[40:37] structure of downtown means that you
[40:38] can not spend more than ten minutes outside.
[40:41] our hottest months
[40:43] are coming up, obviously. A tree can't
[40:44] grow
[40:46] to maturity in a couple weeks, but I
[40:48] would love some transparency into what
[40:50] is being planted, when it
[40:53] is being planted, and what
[40:55] the care looks like. Even the trees that
[40:56] are
[40:57] currently, like, outside of my store,
[40:59] outside of main street arts
[41:02] gallery, they look
[41:03] terrible. Their leaves are a little
[41:05] curled up, sad trees.
[41:07] so, yeah. I just request that that
[41:08] priority is moved up and
[41:10] maybe that we could get some information
[41:11] about when
[41:12] that's going to happen and when that'll
[41:14] change. Thank you.
[41:15] >> thank you.
[41:22] >> final call for nonagendized item comments.
[41:26] okay.
[41:28] no one left in the chambers. I'm going
[41:29] to move to the virtual
[41:31] audience. For those attending virtually,
[41:32] if you would like to make
[41:34] a comment on nonagendized items, please use the raise hand
[41:35] feature now.
[41:41] all right, I
[41:42] only have one hand. Jason, I'll ask you to unmute.
[41:47] >> can you hear me? >> yes.
[41:50] >>
[41:52] hi, this is jason. These new updated
[41:53] hours of
[41:55] 8:00 a.m. To 8:00 p.m. Of pickleball have
[41:56] been
[41:59] miserable. It is the
[42:01] exact same high-pitched sharp sound that I
[42:02] have to listen to for 12 hours every day.
[42:05] it gives
[42:06] me headaches and really affects my sleep.
[42:08] to
[42:10] add pickleball courts, especially
[42:11] eight of them,
[42:13] right next to homes, was a terrible
[42:14] idea.
[42:16] this has really decreased the liveability and enjoyment of my
[42:17] home.
[42:20] I
[42:21] do understand that as a homeowner, I
[42:23] have the
[42:25] right to an environment that gives
[42:26] me the ability to enjoy my home.
[42:29] martinez
[42:30] has failed miserably at providing this.
[42:34] no one listens to the encouragement of quiet
[42:35] equipment.
[42:38] it is
[42:41] always loud pops. In addition, no
[42:42] one listens
[42:44] to these pickleball
[42:46] ambassadors. For example, I watched
[42:47] a pickleball
[42:50] player park their van on
[42:52] glacier court. An older woman went over to
[42:53] correct them.
[42:56] this took a lot of courage, and
[42:59] I do appreciate her efforts.
[43:02] when she went to tell him to move
[43:05] the van, he replied with, "thank you"
[43:06] and
[43:07] had no interest in following suggestions,
[43:08] which
[43:09] have done absolutely nothing to improve
[43:11] the life of the homeowners.
[43:14] people understand
[43:15] that all these are, are weak suggestions with
[43:17] no enforcement.
[43:20] we actually have a
[43:23] public health issue that myself and
[43:24] my neighbors
[43:25] have stated many times in past meetings.
[43:29] these 90-day pilot periods
[43:31] are way too long, and I recommend
[43:32] completely
[43:34] closing the pickleball courts and
[43:35] moving them far
[43:37] away in a park where the noise production is not an
[43:38] issue to homeowners.
[43:41] these courts need
[43:43] to go back to tennis, because that
[43:44] is what they were before, with zero
[43:47] complaints.
[43:48] thank you for allowing me to speak tonight.
[43:50] >> thank you.
[43:55] next we have brooklyn stout. I'll ask you to unmute.
[44:05] >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> thanks
[44:07] for taking my comment. I'm actually
[44:08] at work, so I'm glad I
[44:10] can do this. My family had the opportunity
[44:11] to go to
[44:13] pine meadows park the other day, and it
[44:14] was quite lovely. I like that
[44:16] it's brand-new, very accessible, very
[44:17] nice park. The
[44:20] bathrooms were great. One thing that
[44:21] would
[44:23] be definitely helpful, I think, for
[44:24] everyone is
[44:26] shade over the tables. And that can
[44:28] just be a pergola. Doesn't have to
[44:31] be fancy canopies. It can just be
[44:32] a normal type of,
[44:34] you know, like a picnic cover that
[44:35] you see at other
[44:38] parks. It was only 85 that day,
[44:41] but I think we were only there for 30
[44:42] minutes just because everyone was hot.
[44:45] so, it would be
[44:48] great if that
[44:49] >> thank you.
[44:51] I have
[44:52] no further comments. That completes public comment.
[44:57] >>
[44:59] thank you, kat. Let's move on to the
[45:00] consent
[45:03] calendar. We have items --
[45:05] well, on my screen, I have 2 through 11.
[45:06] would anyone on
[45:09] council like to --
[45:11] >> this is the city council public
[45:12] comment.
[45:14] >> brooklyn, you're still off mute.
[45:15] can you go on mute? Thank you.
[45:21] all right. So, we have consent calendar
[45:23] items 2 through 11. Does anyone on
[45:24] council want
[45:25] to pull any of these items for additional discussion?
[45:33] >> none for me.
[45:34] >> okay. All right, seeing none, I'm
[45:36] going to open up
[45:39] the consent calendar items to
[45:40] public comments. So, if anyone in
[45:42] the room or in
[45:45] the virtualvirtual has comments
[45:48] on consent calendar
[45:49] items 2 through 11, please raise your hand now and approach the
[45:51] podium.
[45:57] vice mayor howard, is
[45:58] there anyone in the room who appears
[45:59] to have a public comment?
[46:00] >> no. >> no?
[46:01] okay. How about the virtual audience?
[46:03] >> for those
[46:04] attending virtually, please use the raise
[46:06] hand feature.
[46:13] I have no hands.
[46:14] >> all right. Excellent.
[46:15] back to council for a motion, please.
[46:18] >> yeah, I'd like to make a motion
[46:21] to approve
[46:22] the consent calendar items 2 through 11.
[46:26] >> second. >> all in favor, please --
[46:27] oh, no.
[46:29] can I have a roll call vote since
[46:33] I'm remote?
[46:34] >> mayor brianne
[46:36] zorn. Vice mayor jay howard.
[46:38] councilmember greg young. Councilmember
[46:42] satinder mahli. Councilmember
[46:44] debbie mckillop. Motion passes. All
[46:45] ayes.
[46:46] >> thank you
[46:47] so much. Moving on to our first general
[46:48] business item, the
[46:50] item of the evening, receive a presentation
[46:51] from
[46:53] tucker sadler on a proposed vision
[46:54] for the
[46:56] revitalization of the martinez marina and
[46:57] waterfront.
[47:03] lauren, will you be --great.
[47:04] >> I'll take
[47:05] it from
[47:06] here, mayor. So, good evening, mayor
[47:07] and
[47:08] council, members of the public and members who are joining us
[47:09] online.
[47:12] this evening, we're bringing forward
[47:13] a significant opportunity for the
[47:15] future
[47:17] of our waterfront and marina, one
[47:18] that builds on
[47:21] years of community conversation, council
[47:23] direction, and a shared desire to
[47:24] transform the marina
[47:26] into a safe, vibrant, and sustainable
[47:27] public space.
[47:30] tonight's presentation marks
[47:33] an early but important step, a
[47:36] conceptual vision presented by
[47:37] tucker sadler that begins to explore
[47:38] what revitalization could look like.
[47:42] it is important to note that while we
[47:44] are asking the council to consider
[47:45] a motion to
[47:48] enter into negotiations with tucker
[47:51] sadler, with the intent to come
[47:54] back with an exclusive negotiation
[47:55] agreement, this
[47:56] is by no means a final decision for
[47:57] development.
[48:00] it is
[48:03] merely a first step in exploring the vision and a
[48:04] partnership with our developer.
[48:08] should the council authorize this
[48:09] next step,
[48:11] there will be many months ahead of
[48:12] working with the city
[48:14] council and the community to collaborate
[48:15] on how to make
[48:18] the marina and the waterfront a destination
[48:20] that serves all of our residents and
[48:21] tourists alike.
[48:25] we understand that the community will
[48:27] have a lot of questions. We've actually received a lot so
[48:28] far.
[48:33] and there will be public
[48:34] comments where those questions are going to
[48:36] be shared. We encourage them all.
[48:38] now and of course ongoing. We will
[48:39] not be able to
[48:41] answer everybody's questions tonight,
[48:42] and so I just
[48:45] please ask for folks' patience. We will
[48:46] be tracking
[48:48] all of your questions, and we
[48:51] do hope in due time, in future conversations,
[48:52] which
[48:53] there will be many more public conversations,
[48:54] that all of your
[48:56] questions will get answered. Please
[48:57] note
[48:59] for folks that folks here tonight in
[49:01] the
[49:03] chamber, we have an faq that's over
[49:04] to --
[49:07] right behind me on the
[49:10] table near the
[49:11] entrance. So, please feel free to
[49:12] take one before we go. I'm just going
[49:13] to
[49:14] hold it up so you can kind of get a feel for
[49:16] what it looks like.
[49:18] tomorrow morning, we'll also have
[49:21] a dedicated web page up, and there, you
[49:22] can
[49:23] find information about the project,
[49:25] and then we'll also
[49:27] have an interest form, so if you want
[49:28] to continue to follow
[49:30] along, get updates, I would encourage you.
[49:31] and
[49:32] again, this will be tomorrow, front, you
[49:34] know, on
[49:35] the city website, city of martinez.org.
[49:38] can we turn to the next slide? Thank you.
[49:43] okay, so, before I
[49:46] turn it over to community and
[49:47] economic development director jill
[49:49] bergman, I want to
[49:50] start first with, you know, what we've
[49:52] all envisioned for a
[49:55] long time. So, the
[49:57] marina and waterfront revitalization has
[49:58] been a
[50:00] longstanding goal of the city council
[50:01] over many
[50:03] decades, and that really continued
[50:04] with this city
[50:05] council over the last couple years.
[50:07] so, one thing I just
[50:08] want to share with everybody here
[50:10] tonight, and folks in the audience
[50:12] might not know, but the last couple
[50:13] years at
[50:15] our city council retreats, we've started
[50:16] the
[50:19] retreat off with an
[50:21] icebreaker that is titled "what do you
[50:22] want the
[50:23] headline for martinez to be in the
[50:25] next three to five years?
[50:27] " and it's a fun exercise, because
[50:28] we get lots
[50:31] of innovative,
[50:32] creative headlines, but what seems to
[50:34] stick out the last
[50:35] couple years is that it always tends to be about the marina.
[50:40] so, I
[50:41] just put a few options up here. These
[50:43] are pulled exactly from
[50:44] the notes. Martinez welcomes new waterfront
[50:46] and marina.
[50:47] martinez secures funding for waterfront restoration.
[50:51] newly renovated martinez marina opens to the public.
[50:55] so, I just thought I'd
[50:57] start there. Again, reinforcing that this
[50:58] is just been
[51:00] a long vision for us to bring you --
[51:01] bring forward an opportunity to revitalize the
[51:02] marina.
[51:04] so, with that said,
[51:05] I'll go ahead and turn it over to jill
[51:07] bergman.
[51:10] >> thank you,
[51:13] lauren. Good evening, mayor
[51:14] and councilmembers and the public.
[51:15] thank you for joining us tonight.
[51:16] we're going to start
[51:18] with why this project matters and as we
[51:19] all know, the
[51:20] marina and waterfront are key community
[51:22] assets, and the council has
[51:24] been committed to really making them
[51:25] safe, vibrant, and welcoming for all.
[51:28] and one of the things that I
[51:30] would like to share with the community,
[51:31] if they are not aware,
[51:33] is there is a senate bill, which is
[51:36] senate bill 1424, which was enacted
[51:37] specifically
[51:40] for martinez, and to support the
[51:42] revitalization of the waterfront while
[51:43] ensuring that the public
[51:46] trust principles, which is
[51:48] providing public access, recreation,
[51:49] commercial
[51:52] uses, and environmental stewardship,
[51:54] remains central to how these state
[51:55] lands
[51:57] are used. So, that's kind of what we
[51:58] look at when we look at
[52:00] anything that we do at the marina moving
[52:01] forward.
[52:04] so, tonight, we're going to
[52:06] have a discussion about a lot of items.
[52:07] we're going to
[52:10] be starting with the
[52:11] infrastructure deterioration, how
[52:13] that's really rapidly outpacing
[52:15] the improvements that we have. Talk about
[52:16] our long-term fiscal
[52:18] sustainability for martinez's future.
[52:19] we will
[52:21] also acknowledge a pivotal changes
[52:22] that have
[52:24] happened in 2024, and how that really led us here tonight.
[52:31] we will then see
[52:32] the vision that tucker sadler will
[52:33] be presenting, followed by having
[52:34] a conversation
[52:36] about what we're asking this evening
[52:37] about the exclusive negotiation agreement
[52:39] and the council making a motion to
[52:40] enter into one, and then
[52:42] we'll talk a little bit about the
[52:43] benefits -- the fiscal benefits of this project.
[52:48] so, right now, with the current conditions, I don't
[52:49] think it's any
[52:51] surprise to anyone about the challenges that
[52:52] the marina faces.
[52:55] this
[52:57] infrastructure was built in the 1960s.
[52:58] it was
[52:59] a very valued asset at that time.
[53:01] but we all know it's beyond the
[53:03] useful life. Typically, marinas last
[53:04] about 30 to 40 years. We're reaching about 65.
[53:10] in addition to that, a lot of the
[53:11] infrastructure that was
[53:13] developed on the land, you have seen many closures
[53:15] or removals over the years of some
[53:16] key facilities.
[53:19] the restaurants, the bait shop,
[53:21] the amphitheater, dock f and actually,
[53:22] recently, this week,
[53:25] we are in the process of decommissioning
[53:26] dock d
[53:28] and e. There has been longstanding
[53:29] deferred
[53:30] maintenance in the marina, and a lot
[53:31] of it comes back to, you
[53:33] know, having the financial resources
[53:34] to be able to continue
[53:37] to maintain it in terms of what revenue
[53:40] comes in. For those that don't know,
[53:41] the
[53:42] marina is a private enterprise fund,
[53:43] which means the revenue
[53:44] that's generated through the boats that are
[53:45] out there and anything through the
[53:46] leases and so forth
[53:49] is what is put back into the operations of this --
[53:50] of the marina itself.
[53:55] and at times, we have to look
[53:58] towards the general fund,
[54:00] which lauren will touch upon. There
[54:02] are also a great
[54:03] amount of environmental challenges.
[54:05] with sea level rise, we
[54:08] are seeing much
[54:11] more saltation come
[54:12] into the marina, as well as more flooding.
[54:13] we have king tides, as well as a lot
[54:14] of negative tides as a result of that
[54:16] as well. That creates a significant
[54:19] stress on the infrastructure, as well as
[54:20] dock access.
[54:22] right now, the picture to your right
[54:23] is an example
[54:25] of this past year, the f3 has taken
[54:26] the
[54:28] liberty to try and create a temporary
[54:29] dock to
[54:31] be able to raise the elevation, so
[54:32] during these
[54:34] flooded times, the --so that boaters
[54:35] could
[54:37] actually access their boats four more
[54:38] hours a day just by that one
[54:41] simple thing. Where a lot of
[54:42] times, the boaters would have to time
[54:43] whether they're going in and out with the tides.
[54:50] other
[54:53] things that
[54:56] we experience. Our
[54:59] public works team --the tremendous
[55:00] amount of illegal dumping that happens
[55:02] at thethe at this point. We want
[55:03] to touch on the future maintenance.
[55:05] we know that the seawall
[55:07] needs to be replaced. It's too short because of
[55:08] the
[55:10] sea level rise, as well as the break
[55:11] water needs to repair.
[55:13] it's in deterioration. And again,
[55:14] a lot of the general
[55:15] dredging, there's a lot of expectations
[55:16] as to when that's going to happen,
[55:18] and there's a tremendous amount of
[55:20] funding that comes with it. Our last
[55:21] dredging cost a million dollars, and
[55:23] it only covered
[55:25] the main dock fairway out to the ocean and a little bit of the
[55:26] slip areas.
[55:31] we have been in the process the last few
[55:32] years, trying
[55:35] to secure grant funding to be help
[55:36] with the repair walls for the seawall, as well
[55:38] as the replacement, but a lot
[55:40] of those have fell short. As you know,
[55:41] there's a lot of changes
[55:42] when it comes to federal funding now,
[55:44] so limitations and access to grant
[55:47] funding is getting very slim.
[55:49] general operations also become a major
[55:51] stress with continual improvements that have to be
[55:53] made daily.
[55:55] I'm going to just go through this --
[55:58] this one, I'm hoping I can --can you
[55:59] hit the button
[56:00] to make this go? There we go. Sorry.
[56:04] so, this is just an example of, in
[56:05] photos,
[56:06] the deteriorating buildings, the closure
[56:08] of some
[56:10] of the infrastructure we have. Shows you a lot of
[56:13] the illegal dumping that's happening,
[56:14] things that people may or
[56:15] may not see each day, the flooding
[56:17] that occurs daily, and this is really
[56:20] a good example of all the
[56:23] saltation that is
[56:24] in when you hit low tide, as well
[56:25] as infrastructure that's no longer
[56:29] being used. It really gives you a
[56:30] snapshot
[56:31] of behind the marina part as well.
[56:38] so, we
[56:41] have daylighted
[56:43] over the fiscal year 25-'26 budget
[56:44] process but
[56:45] also in the last fiscal year's mid
[56:47] year conversation, the
[56:49] financial challenges of the status quo at
[56:50] the marina.
[56:53] and really, the message has been
[56:55] how there is a significant growing
[56:56] strain the marina is
[56:58] placing on the city's general fund.
[56:59] for those who might not
[57:01] know, the general fund is what provides
[57:02] our core
[57:05] services, police, park maintenance, all
[57:06] the
[57:08] nuts and bolts. So, the marina enterprise
[57:09] fund
[57:11] is currently has a structural
[57:14] deficit. The, you know, what is
[57:16] a structural deficit? It means that
[57:17] over a long period of time,
[57:20] there's a trend where expenses
[57:23] are exceeding revenues. For
[57:24] those who have been in martinez many
[57:26] generations, many years, you might
[57:29] know that at one point, revenues
[57:31] were coming in and it could fund things
[57:32] like utilities
[57:34] and operations, but that hasn't been the case for a
[57:35] long time.
[57:38] in addition,
[57:41] over $1.7 million has
[57:44] been used
[57:46] from the reserves, a transfer from reserves to key
[57:47] projects, and this is stemming over
[57:48] really the last
[57:50] few fiscal years. Those key projects,
[57:51] most
[57:52] notably, have included the dredging
[57:53] that we did in fiscal
[57:56] year 2023, along
[57:57] with numerous other key and critical repairs.
[58:02] but this fiscal year,
[58:05] and into the future, we just adopted
[58:06] our fiscal year
[58:08] '25-'26 budget, and that
[58:11] included a --just over a half million
[58:12] dollar
[58:14] loan from the general fund to the
[58:15] marina enterprise fund,
[58:17] again, to cover operations, utilities,
[58:20] maintenance and repairs.
[58:23] but going beyond into the next fiscal
[58:25] year and for many more fiscal years
[58:26] to go, at least over the next ten
[58:27] years,
[58:29] if we do nothing, we're looking at
[58:30] $650,000 a
[58:32] year out of the general fund, and
[58:35] what does that look like if we keep
[58:36] doing
[58:38] that? We are looking at going below
[58:39] our reserve goals by 2027.
[58:45] and the challenge there, and
[58:46] this is what we have been trying to
[58:47] communicate over the last few months, is
[58:48] that what
[58:49] happens when you go below reserves?
[58:51] we have to start cutting into
[58:54] core services. So, positions,
[58:56] job freezes, starts to affect park
[58:58] maintenance, public safety, because
[58:59] we just can't afford those basic services.
[59:03] one thing I
[59:04] will call out that even if nothing's
[59:06] done over the next
[59:07] couple years, regardless, we already
[59:09] have to make an
[59:12] estimated $1.2 million
[59:13] in budget cuts over the next few years.
[59:15] so,
[59:18] again, just the --what we're trying to communicate here
[59:20] is just a very challenging fiscal
[59:21] picture for the city.
[59:24] the status quo cannot remain, and
[59:27] frankly, without putting us in a very
[59:28] difficult position, but most importantly, we have a
[59:30] revenue problem.
[59:33] so,
[59:35] even if you somehow cut off the --
[59:36] or we
[59:38] no longer have to loan the marina
[59:39] any
[59:41] money, and let's just say that somehow
[59:42] went away,
[59:43] we still are in a structural deficit because we
[59:45] have a revenue problem.
[59:51] so, there's still a need
[59:53] for us to go out and generate new
[59:54] revenue.
[59:55] >> so,
[59:57] what changed in 2024?
[1:00:00] in 2024, the trust land use
[1:00:02] plan that is required by the senate
[1:00:03] bill 1424 was approved by
[1:00:04] the council and subsequently approved
[1:00:05] by the state lands commission and that
[1:00:09] was in june. At that same
[1:00:11] time, almar management, they gave
[1:00:12] their 60-day
[1:00:13] notice. They were managing the marina
[1:00:15] for over 20 years and got bought
[1:00:16] out by sun tech, and so they were
[1:00:18] looking at liquidating some of the
[1:00:21] things they were doing so
[1:00:23] that, unfortunately, really abruptly
[1:00:24] provided us
[1:00:25] the --where we had to take over the
[1:00:27] management operations.
[1:00:30] one of the things
[1:00:32] that that provide was us to be able
[1:00:33] to gain a
[1:00:36] clear view of the structural needs and
[1:00:37] the
[1:00:38] issues that were out there, not only
[1:00:39] with how things were being operated
[1:00:41] but just kind of getting a bigger
[1:00:42] picture of, what do we
[1:00:43] have ahead of us and how do we move forward?
[1:00:47] and then, as well as, understanding
[1:00:48] that we're not in the
[1:00:50] position to run a marina, so we needed to
[1:00:51] be able to start the
[1:00:53] search to be able to find a marina
[1:00:54] management partner.
[1:00:56] while I enjoyed being a harbor master
[1:00:57] for four months, I didn't
[1:01:00] want to do it any longer. So,
[1:01:01] the search for the marina management
[1:01:03] began, and f-3, one of our
[1:01:06] partners, who's also in
[1:01:09] the audience, the harbor master,
[1:01:11] they were selected to come on and
[1:01:12] stabilize the operations
[1:01:14] and if you have been out there lately,
[1:01:15] they're doing a wonderful job
[1:01:17] with refreshing and doing their best
[1:01:18] to keep the marina going forward.
[1:01:21] but as part of this operator outreach,
[1:01:22] there's a
[1:01:23] lot that we learned, because part
[1:01:24] of this process was just
[1:01:26] initially, again, trying to find someone to
[1:01:27] be an operator.
[1:01:29] well, we reached out to about ten
[1:01:30] firms, five that
[1:01:32] really kind of were viable and interested
[1:01:33] in
[1:01:35] having conversations, and they ranged
[1:01:36] from being just
[1:01:38] marina operators to also marina operators
[1:01:39] and developers,
[1:01:41] and through those conversations, much of
[1:01:44] the information we received was about
[1:01:45] the marina
[1:01:46] itself. There was concerns about,
[1:01:48] oh, you
[1:01:51] know, taking on that type of a liability
[1:01:52] and
[1:01:53] responsibility where they weren't
[1:01:54] interested at that point. They were
[1:01:55] interested when we
[1:01:57] started looking forward to maybe potentially redeveloping it.
[1:01:59] a lot of this led to conversations
[1:02:00] like, okay, what would
[1:02:03] that look like? Is this something
[1:02:04] that
[1:02:05] your company would be interested in
[1:02:06] doing?
[1:02:08] and we received a wide range of feedback
[1:02:09] related to the
[1:02:11] financial feasibility and that primarily
[1:02:12] was really led back to
[1:02:14] the seawall and the break water and
[1:02:15] the dredging. You
[1:02:18] know, with that project being 25 to
[1:02:19] $30
[1:02:21] million to really, truly do all of
[1:02:23] that, it was something that a development
[1:02:24] partner couldn't take on.
[1:02:26] that would be something that the city would
[1:02:27] have to be responsible for in some
[1:02:28] way for
[1:02:30] them to entertain the idea of moving
[1:02:33] forward. There was also a discussion
[1:02:34] about
[1:02:35] the trust land use plan itself and
[1:02:36] how it really had
[1:02:38] a limited scope. There was just a
[1:02:41] minimal amount of commercial, so when
[1:02:42] you typically are going in
[1:02:45] and putting a $50 million new marina
[1:02:47] in, I want landside development that's
[1:02:48] going to support that activity and be
[1:02:51] an attracter for people want to come here.
[1:02:52] with that
[1:02:53] feedback, that really was eye-opening
[1:02:54] for us, and
[1:02:57] it continued kind of some of the conversations.
[1:03:00] one of the operator
[1:03:02] and developer for water marina development
[1:03:03] was safe harbor, and
[1:03:06] they expressed the most initial interest,
[1:03:08] even when they were out visiting another
[1:03:09] property. They chose to come down.
[1:03:12] they met with city staff. We looked at
[1:03:13] the property
[1:03:14] together with them, talked through the
[1:03:16] trust land use permit. Or
[1:03:18] excuse me, plan. Talked through, just
[1:03:21] in general, the community, the assets that
[1:03:22] are already down
[1:03:23] there, how we wanted to really look
[1:03:25] at how can
[1:03:27] we, you know, build in with these
[1:03:28] assets and also be respectful of everything.
[1:03:33] and they showed initial interest and
[1:03:34] went back and did
[1:03:35] a pro forma. They said, let's take
[1:03:37] a look
[1:03:38] at it, we'll evaluate it and see if
[1:03:39] it's something we can do. When they came
[1:03:40] back to
[1:03:41] us, they really said, you know, this
[1:03:43] property is a spectacular
[1:03:45] gem, but we really can't make it work
[1:03:46] with just
[1:03:49] the marina alone. It needs
[1:03:50] landside development, and they said
[1:03:52] that's something we don't do, but we
[1:03:54] have a partner that we have done that
[1:03:55] with, and that
[1:03:57] is where the introduction to tucker
[1:03:58] sadler began. And so, we
[1:04:00] said, all right, let's have that conversation.
[1:04:01] so,
[1:04:03] we, again, that was -- it was all
[1:04:04] kind
[1:04:06] of this organic, you know, process of
[1:04:07] trying to find out
[1:04:08] more information to see where we're
[1:04:10] at, see what asset we had, and see
[1:04:12] where we could potentially go with
[1:04:13] the vision for the marina.
[1:04:15] so, with meeting as we met with tucker sadler,
[1:04:16] same
[1:04:17] thing, they kind of looked at everything
[1:04:18] and said, you know, this is just a
[1:04:19] spectacular gem as well.
[1:04:24] but they wanted to really study it
[1:04:25] further.
[1:04:26] they wanted to study the community, they
[1:04:28] wanted to study the plan, give
[1:04:31] an honest assessment
[1:04:34] back to the city. So, they took everything
[1:04:35] to heart, and several months later,
[1:04:36] came back to the city and said, we have
[1:04:37] a vision.
[1:04:38] we have something to present to you.
[1:04:40] it's not necessarily what was
[1:04:42] outlined in the trust plan. It takes
[1:04:43] into account all
[1:04:44] the things that were incorporated in
[1:04:46] the plan, and it builds on
[1:04:47] them, and it builds on, you know,
[1:04:49] a vision that we see for this
[1:04:52] community that we think would work
[1:04:54] perfect for the community and being
[1:04:55] size appropriate for the community
[1:04:56] and
[1:04:57] creating a transformational opportunity.
[1:04:58] with
[1:05:01] that, we kind of evaluated
[1:05:02] it and knew it was time to bring it
[1:05:03] forward to the council. With that,
[1:05:04] we went
[1:05:05] forward to the council in a closed
[1:05:07] session to
[1:05:09] have that discussion, and then the
[1:05:10] developer did a presentation to
[1:05:12] share with the council. That's one of
[1:05:13] the reasons why
[1:05:16] we're here tonight.
[1:05:18] at that particular meeting, the council
[1:05:19] was very
[1:05:21] much about transparency, wanting to make
[1:05:22] sure the community was involved as
[1:05:23] part of this process and didn't want
[1:05:25] to continue on the conversation with
[1:05:28] the closed session. So, that
[1:05:31] really allowed us to, you
[1:05:33] know, move forward and tonight is
[1:05:34] pretty much that
[1:05:35] where we are moving forward to kind
[1:05:37] of share that vision
[1:05:40] with
[1:05:43] the community. And also talk about
[1:05:44] what
[1:05:45] a public-private partnership would
[1:05:46] look like and why
[1:05:48] it's important. We all know the marina
[1:05:49] is beloved, and the waterfront is
[1:05:51] beloved, and it's declining. So, what
[1:05:52] can we do
[1:05:54] to really enhance that? We know that
[1:05:55] the status quo is
[1:05:57] unsustainable, and it really does
[1:05:58] create a burden for the general plan.
[1:06:01] the city cannot fully revitalize this
[1:06:02] on
[1:06:03] our own with grants or bond measures.
[1:06:04] that's something
[1:06:07] that is just, as we all know, that
[1:06:08] takes a
[1:06:09] lot of time and typically is piecemealing
[1:06:10] things, and given
[1:06:12] the scope of this project and the
[1:06:13] decay on the infrastructure, it's not
[1:06:16] something we can do on our own.
[1:06:18] and the council was very much, as
[1:06:19] part of we were going through the
[1:06:20] budget
[1:06:21] process, kind of recognized that as
[1:06:22] well, and that's why we
[1:06:23] started talking through the conversations of
[1:06:25] public-private partnership.
[1:06:28] and really, what that does,
[1:06:30] it helps offer a way forward for the
[1:06:31] community. It
[1:06:34] brings investment, activation, and there's a lot of
[1:06:35] long-term benefits that
[1:06:36] are associated with it. As well as
[1:06:40] private funding. One of the things that
[1:06:41] was very
[1:06:42] attractive about the conversations
[1:06:43] we had
[1:06:44] was this is something that would be a
[1:06:45] private investment. There would be
[1:06:46] no city
[1:06:48] subsidies, initially, and that's a
[1:06:49] very rare thing to have when
[1:06:52] it comes to a partnership. As I mentioned
[1:06:53] earlier, about a
[1:06:55] lot of the conversations of the city
[1:06:56] wanting to --coming
[1:06:58] up with a lot of funding to help offset some
[1:06:59] of the cost, this
[1:07:00] allows us to go forward with a process where
[1:07:01] we're not having to come up with the upfront
[1:07:02] parts.
[1:07:04] it also reduces the
[1:07:07] risk and keeps the public benefit at the
[1:07:08] center of the
[1:07:09] project, which is really what is required
[1:07:10] under the
[1:07:13] senate bill 1424 that granted us
[1:07:16] this lantd in
[1:07:17] d in the first place. It's always important for me to
[1:07:18] share that with folks because many people
[1:07:19] think that we own the land
[1:07:21] outright and we can do whatever we want
[1:07:22] with it. We don't. It's been entrusted
[1:07:25] to us. So, with that, and why everyone
[1:07:28] is here tonight, I would like
[1:07:31] to turn this overover
[1:07:35] tucker sadler.
[1:07:37] greg mueller. And have him walk you
[1:07:39] all through the vision which he shared
[1:07:40] with us and wants to share now with the community.
[1:07:53] >> we can't -- thank you. >> there we go.
[1:07:58] mayor zorn, council members, city
[1:07:59] staff,
[1:08:02] and community members, it's a
[1:08:04] pleasure to be here tonight to let you
[1:08:05] know
[1:08:08] what our vision is for the marina,
[1:08:10] but I have to pause, and I have to
[1:08:11] say that the
[1:08:12] vision has changed as early as about
[1:08:14] ten minutes ago.
[1:08:17] and that vision
[1:08:20] has changed because two
[1:08:21] young men walked up and said they need a soccer
[1:08:23] field.
[1:08:26] so, we got to figure out how to get these kids a soccer field.
[1:08:32] so, that is the type of partner we are.
[1:08:38] we are here to be
[1:08:39] part of the community. We're not here
[1:08:41] to impose something on
[1:08:42] the community. We're here to create
[1:08:44] something that is
[1:08:45] going to be successful for all of us.
[1:08:47] and that is what we are looking to do.
[1:08:52] I want to be very clear about one
[1:08:56] thing and that is, this is
[1:08:59] a partnership, and we are not
[1:09:05] owners.
[1:09:06] we will not be owners of the land.
[1:09:07] the land stays with the city because
[1:09:08] the city has it in
[1:09:10] trust. We will be long-term leaseholders.
[1:09:11] as we're talking about this,
[1:09:12] and as you're thinking about this,
[1:09:14] we will not
[1:09:16] be owners. Not of the marina, not of
[1:09:17] the development.
[1:09:18] we are the ones that are going to
[1:09:20] develop it. We're going
[1:09:23] to operate it through a lease. That's
[1:09:24] how this whole partnership will work.
[1:09:29] tucker sadler,
[1:09:32] I am the ceo, design principal
[1:09:34] and owner. I'm accompanied tonight
[1:09:35] with
[1:09:38] my partner and wife, diane
[1:09:40] mueller. I have the privilege of being
[1:09:41] in a
[1:09:43] company that's been around for 68
[1:09:44] years. I've owned the company for 23.
[1:09:49] with my other business partner, art
[1:09:50] castro, who has
[1:09:51] been with the firm for 48 of the 68 years.
[1:09:56] longevity is important in our firm,
[1:09:57] and it's because of
[1:09:59] the way we handle all the projects
[1:10:00] that we take on.
[1:10:10] we have development experience on waterfronts throughout the
[1:10:11] country.
[1:10:14] we helped reshape
[1:10:16] the naval shipyards in washington, d.c.,
[1:10:17] into
[1:10:20] what it
[1:10:23] is today. And the progress
[1:10:24] we made out in washington, d.c. , all of a
[1:10:26] sudden, the
[1:10:29] nationals put their stadium next to
[1:10:30] our
[1:10:31] development. It spawns other things
[1:10:32] to happen. And that's
[1:10:34] what we are trying to do here is be
[1:10:35] a
[1:10:38] catalyst for the future of
[1:10:41] martinez. We've
[1:10:43] worked from one area --one side of
[1:10:44] the
[1:10:47] country all the way
[1:10:50] to hawaii and as well as here in california.
[1:10:53] we are used to working with
[1:10:56] government agencies. Whether it's
[1:10:57] fish
[1:10:59] and wildlife or park
[1:11:04] districts, the city's understanding how we have to be
[1:11:05] partners in everything that we're
[1:11:08] doing. We are advocates
[1:11:10] for the community, and we want to
[1:11:11] be a partner in the development.
[1:11:16] our design approach is something that
[1:11:17] we look at
[1:11:19] from a standpoint of economic stability.
[1:11:20] we
[1:11:23] want to look at what is
[1:11:25] going to be sustainable. Sustainable
[1:11:26] in two ways.
[1:11:29] one,
[1:11:31] being environmentally friendly. We're
[1:11:32] going to
[1:11:35] be proposing a development that is
[1:11:36] going to be as close to net zero as we
[1:11:38] can get. We're going to
[1:11:41] create ourour energy to help
[1:11:44] run this project. We
[1:11:46] think it's important. We're also going
[1:11:47] to employ some new things that
[1:11:50] help clean up the bay water.
[1:11:53] as part of the redevelopment of the marina.
[1:11:54] those are
[1:11:56] things that we take to heart, because
[1:11:58] those are the things that make it
[1:11:59] be sustainable from
[1:12:01] an environmental standpoint. But from
[1:12:02] an economic standpoint, we need to
[1:12:05] be able to put something forward
[1:12:08] that creates an engine that supports
[1:12:09] the
[1:12:10] community, that supports the things
[1:12:11] that need to be
[1:12:13] maintained over the length of the development.
[1:12:14] and gets to a point where
[1:12:16] we don't have a marina that we're
[1:12:17] all sitting here talking about how do we keep it from closing?
[1:12:20] and
[1:12:23] unfortunately, we're in a position
[1:12:25] where if we don't do something --
[1:12:27] well, actually,
[1:12:29] everything that's in there right now
[1:12:30] is going to have
[1:12:33] to come out in a couple years.
[1:12:36] I already broached on some of
[1:12:37] this, our experience in working on the
[1:12:39] waterfront. We are
[1:12:42] the architects for the
[1:12:45] rady shell in san diego. That
[1:12:46] was a 17-year partnership working with
[1:12:48] the city,
[1:12:50] the port, the state, to turn a public
[1:12:51] park
[1:12:52] into a performance venue, and if any
[1:12:53] of you guys have had the chance to
[1:12:54] be
[1:12:56] down to san diego to listen to a concert,
[1:12:57] I
[1:13:00] suggest you go and listen to it.
[1:13:03] there's things that we incorporated for
[1:13:05] the community to allow for a no-cost option
[1:13:06] for people to hear the concert.
[1:13:09] there is no
[1:13:12] high fences around that
[1:13:14] performance venue so that you can
[1:13:15] walk around
[1:13:16] the venue as the performance is going
[1:13:17] on, and you can see the performance and
[1:13:18] hear the performance.
[1:13:24] as part of the agreement we made
[1:13:25] with the coastal commission to allow us
[1:13:27] to have that out on
[1:13:29] the water. Those are the agreements
[1:13:30] that we make with
[1:13:32] the agencies to make sure that the
[1:13:33] public gets
[1:13:36] access and it's
[1:13:39] not just one contingency of the
[1:13:40] public that has access to it, that everyone
[1:13:41] has access. That's important to us.
[1:13:51] safe harbor is the reason why
[1:13:52] we're here. They came out and took
[1:13:53] a look at the marina, made an assessment.
[1:13:54] they asked me
[1:13:55] to come look at it and confirm their assessment,
[1:13:57] which I did.
[1:14:00] which means the
[1:14:02] marina needs to be a total redo, as well
[1:14:03] as
[1:14:05] the seawalls. Now, part of the reason
[1:14:08] why we have the silt infiltration is
[1:14:09] because the
[1:14:11] way it's designed, it actually brings
[1:14:12] silt
[1:14:13] in, and that's why the dredging now
[1:14:15] is going to happen and we're looking
[1:14:17] at ways that we can redo the seawalls
[1:14:18] to avoid that in
[1:14:20] the future, to give the longevity and a
[1:14:21] better boating experience to the marina.
[1:14:26] but in order for the marina to be
[1:14:27] successful, there's got to be a reason to be there.
[1:14:30] and that means development.
[1:14:32] and so, they asked me to come take a
[1:14:33] look,
[1:14:36] which I did. And started to look at
[1:14:37] different plans, which is what I'm
[1:14:38] going to show you tonight is what we
[1:14:39] came up with.
[1:14:42] this is the
[1:14:45] type of thing that will get a developer like
[1:14:46] safe harbor to come out and invest
[1:14:48] money in redoing the marina.
[1:14:53] why is it important to have a design-
[1:14:54] led team that's also a developer?
[1:14:57] I'll go right to
[1:15:00] the bottom line. We
[1:15:01] know how to gain consensus through participation.
[1:15:12] we shoulder design charets. We'll
[1:15:13] be
[1:15:14] doing that to show you how we can
[1:15:15] incorporate everything and
[1:15:18] be respectful of all the issues with
[1:15:19] the
[1:15:20] environment and trails and how we
[1:15:21] connect and
[1:15:23] how we weave this into the site that is out there
[1:15:24] currently.
[1:15:30] now the fun stuff.
[1:15:42] there's a very rich history
[1:15:44] here, and when I very first came here
[1:15:45] and sat and
[1:15:48] had lunch in downtown, it
[1:15:51] reminds me of the town I grew up in
[1:15:54] during the summers in minnesota. Spent
[1:15:55] time in battle
[1:15:56] lake, minnesota. It has the same cultural
[1:15:57] feel. It
[1:16:00] has the same warmth, the same
[1:16:03] vibe that makes you want to stay and have fun and linger.
[1:16:06] and that's what martinez has.
[1:16:09] and it's got a rich historyhistory
[1:16:12] sports, with joe
[1:16:15] dimaggio. It's politically connected
[1:16:18] with the way that john muir and
[1:16:21] his writings and
[1:16:24] his contributing to
[1:16:27] what we have
[1:16:29] nationally, and you've got great,
[1:16:30] great roots, and we want to build
[1:16:32] off of that. In fact, I want to figure
[1:16:33] out a
[1:16:36] way to get
[1:16:38] the jolting joe displayed down at
[1:16:39] the new marina. It
[1:16:41] needs to be down there, down by the
[1:16:42] water. It needs to be here in martinez.
[1:16:48] we start out by taking a look,
[1:16:50] and we look at our market, and we
[1:16:51] look at what is
[1:16:53] available to us. Where are connections?
[1:16:54] how can we get
[1:16:57] transportation to happen? Is there a
[1:17:00] way to get a ferry service here that
[1:17:01] could
[1:17:02] connect to the marina? That's important to me.
[1:17:03] as you look
[1:17:06] at a marina, and you look at the land and
[1:17:07] you look at where activities
[1:17:09] come from, if we can draw
[1:17:12] people into martinez by having a ferry
[1:17:16] system, it will be more
[1:17:17] successful to martinez, to our waterfront,
[1:17:20] to our downtown, to everything that
[1:17:22] is in the
[1:17:25] future of martinez.
[1:17:27] we also take a look at what is around
[1:17:30] from hotels, amphitheaters, performance
[1:17:32] venues, things that are operating and
[1:17:34] where's the hole and what can we
[1:17:35] fill to make this be successful? We
[1:17:37] don't want to
[1:17:39] put something down there that is being
[1:17:40] done somewhere else.
[1:17:42] we want to make --we want to make
[1:17:43] creative
[1:17:46] and have that opportunity
[1:17:49] to really tie together
[1:17:51] a successful place for martinez. Not
[1:17:52] just the waterfront, but for
[1:17:55] martinez.
[1:18:01] when I first came across the bridge,
[1:18:03] I flew in from sacramento and drove
[1:18:04] down from sacramento.
[1:18:05] this aerial that is there, when I
[1:18:07] drove
[1:18:08] across that bridge, and I saw this
[1:18:09] marina from the bridge, I said, this
[1:18:10] is
[1:18:13] the calling card.
[1:18:15] this is a successful place to do a
[1:18:17] nice development that really is the
[1:18:18] calling card for martinez. Come see
[1:18:22] us, come be down here. You
[1:18:24] can see it so clearly, and it's going to
[1:18:25] be
[1:18:27] an attraction that won't even need signage.
[1:18:28] people
[1:18:29] will just turn off the road and come
[1:18:31] down there because of
[1:18:32] that great view and the ability to activate the
[1:18:34] waterfront.
[1:18:37] you got
[1:18:38] to remember, one of the things with
[1:18:40] state lands is our responsibility is
[1:18:42] to activate the waterfront by bringing
[1:18:43] people to the water. That's what we're going to do.
[1:18:46] we're
[1:18:48] going to find ways to bring all ages
[1:18:51] down to the waterfront. We want to
[1:18:52] activate this because
[1:18:54] when we activate it, it becomes some
[1:18:55] place that's
[1:18:58] safer, more fun,
[1:19:01] and enjoyable for the entire population of martinez,
[1:19:04] region, and the state.
[1:19:06] and I say the state because we want to
[1:19:07] do some things that are
[1:19:10] going to draw
[1:19:13] people here and make it
[1:19:15] available to have the sport fields,
[1:19:16] which we're not going to touch
[1:19:18] in this portion of it, except I do
[1:19:19] have to figure out
[1:19:20] how to get a soccer field out here.
[1:19:25] but
[1:19:27] understanding that what regionally can happen and what
[1:19:28] can happen at
[1:19:31] a state level, to have tournaments
[1:19:33] out here. I mean, most of the kids
[1:19:34] play club sports now. We want to
[1:19:37] be able to draw from nevada, from
[1:19:38] arizona,
[1:19:39] have tournaments out here on these
[1:19:40] ball
[1:19:43] fields, which are phenomenal.
[1:19:44] but have a development that will support that.
[1:19:46] and that's what
[1:19:48] we're looking at doing. We want to
[1:19:49] make it be the place for
[1:19:52] people to come. We
[1:19:54] did take a look at the tulip, and
[1:19:57] we looked at the development opportunities
[1:19:58] with it, and we started putting numbers
[1:20:03] and if you look at this, you can see --
[1:20:04] and I'm going
[1:20:07] to advance to the next slide --actually,
[1:20:08] you
[1:20:09] know what? I take it back. I want to back up one slide.
[1:20:15] when we look at this from an aerial
[1:20:19] view, and you look at
[1:20:20] the great natural preserve that is
[1:20:22] to our right and to our left
[1:20:25] of
[1:20:27] this marina, that is phenomenal that we
[1:20:28] have that already on
[1:20:29] the water. There's trails and things that
[1:20:31] we can connect to.
[1:20:34] but what --if you look at this
[1:20:35] and how it's highlighted, and you
[1:20:37] look
[1:20:39] at martinez, this is where the downtown touches the
[1:20:40] water.
[1:20:43] this is the
[1:20:45] one spot in here where we actually
[1:20:46] get
[1:20:49] to touch the water. That's important
[1:20:50] because we're surrounded by nature.
[1:20:52] we're going to engage nature,
[1:20:54] and we're going to touch that water,
[1:20:55] and that's important. That is
[1:20:58] one of the things that I was
[1:21:01] so impressed with is that here's an opportunity.
[1:21:02] surrounded by
[1:21:03] nature, and an opportunity that we're
[1:21:04] saying, here, this is where we want
[1:21:05] to
[1:21:06] touch the water. This is where we want to have
[1:21:07] responsible development.
[1:21:13] so, when we looked at the
[1:21:16] tulip and looked at what
[1:21:19] was
[1:21:22] available, there's not enough
[1:21:25] buildings out here to support the
[1:21:28] redevelopment of a
[1:21:31] marina, to support bringing people
[1:21:32] out
[1:21:34] here for --to activate your
[1:21:37] ball fields. We need to have
[1:21:40] a little bit more to attract people.
[1:21:43] that the developer of the marina can have
[1:21:44] an --
[1:21:45] have amenities there that attract
[1:21:46] new boats,
[1:21:49] new
[1:21:52] boaters, bringing back fishing tournaments,
[1:21:53] things that
[1:21:54] are going to make the marina active.
[1:21:55] they need more
[1:21:56] down there than just what we have.
[1:21:58] this is a great starting point. It
[1:21:59] hits all
[1:22:00] the elements that we wanted to talk
[1:22:01] about or wanted to touch on.
[1:22:02] we just have to do it at a bigger level.
[1:22:08] and we need to
[1:22:09] take some of these parking lots and
[1:22:10] reshape them and reuse them in a different way.
[1:22:19] the things that I took from the tulip
[1:22:22] as well is that we want to be engaging.
[1:22:23] engaging in
[1:22:24] the community, engaging in people
[1:22:26] coming down there. We want
[1:22:28] to engage the waterfront. Again, it's
[1:22:29] about
[1:22:30] engaging the waterfront. That is one
[1:22:32] of
[1:22:33] our responsibilities of this tidal
[1:22:35] land is to be able
[1:22:36] to touch that water and bring people
[1:22:38] down there, give them
[1:22:39] access to the water. That's what we're trying to do.
[1:22:43] we want to elevate it. We want to
[1:22:44] elevate the experience
[1:22:46] to a point where people are drawn
[1:22:47] here to come here,
[1:22:50] to have festivals here, to enjoy
[1:22:53] this marina and
[1:22:54] really celebrate the asset that marina
[1:22:56] gives to martinez.
[1:22:59] we want to be
[1:23:02] playful. We want to provide opportunities
[1:23:05] for all ages, whether it's through
[1:23:07] pickleball, paddleball, bringing the
[1:23:08] kids down.
[1:23:09] I know --I heard somebody complain tonight about the noise
[1:23:11] of pickleball.
[1:23:16] I agree with you. It needs to be in
[1:23:17] a spot where
[1:23:19] the noise isn't going toto interrupt people's daily lives.
[1:23:24] but there's another sport that's out
[1:23:25] there that is taking the world by
[1:23:26] storm,
[1:23:29] and it's called paddle.
[1:23:30] it's played with a tennis ball. It's
[1:23:32] played
[1:23:34] in a court that's surrounded by glass
[1:23:35] walls so
[1:23:36] the noise didn't go out of it and
[1:23:38] it's a softer
[1:23:40] sound. I think what we're going to
[1:23:41] see is we're going
[1:23:42] to see pickleball start to move to paddle.
[1:23:44] it's played on the same-
[1:23:45] size court. It's almost identical.
[1:23:47] it's just a better
[1:23:48] sound, and it's more friendly to the
[1:23:49] environment and to the community.
[1:23:56] we want to find
[1:23:57] playful playful for the kids to be
[1:23:59] down there and all ages to be down at
[1:24:00] the
[1:24:01] water by activation. Whether it's
[1:24:02] just
[1:24:05] sitting in
[1:24:07] an adirondack chair in a beach that
[1:24:08] we'll create that is next to the
[1:24:09] water that you can sit next to and enjoy
[1:24:11] the setting
[1:24:14] or a restaurant or
[1:24:17] spend a night, do a night in
[1:24:18] martinez, even though you live here.
[1:24:19] come spend a night down at the marina.
[1:24:23] we want to activate this marina.
[1:24:29] this is how we believe we're going to be able to do that.
[1:24:32] we are going to need to
[1:24:35] reshape the things that are
[1:24:38] out there.
[1:24:41] the yacht club and the sea scouts and
[1:24:43] the boat maintenance area, we're going
[1:24:44] to need to redo them.
[1:24:46] we are going to find spots for them to
[1:24:47] be
[1:24:48] relocated, and if you look on the
[1:24:50] map,
[1:24:52] number 5 is the sea scouts and yacht club.
[1:24:53] we're going
[1:24:56] to combine them together. They belong together.
[1:24:59] that's where we're teaching
[1:25:02] kids how to use boats and be a part
[1:25:05] of a
[1:25:07] yachting experience, and it has direct
[1:25:08] access down to the docks to the water.
[1:25:11] we
[1:25:14] are going to also create
[1:25:17] a boat storage area, which
[1:25:20] is number 25, which is a
[1:25:23] unique opportunity. It stacks the
[1:25:25] boats that are in the marina that
[1:25:26] may not get used all the
[1:25:28] time, but need to be --want to still
[1:25:29] be down there. There's a
[1:25:32] place to store them above and out of
[1:25:33] the water
[1:25:34] so they're not deteriorating in the
[1:25:35] water, but they're there so
[1:25:38] when somebody wants to activate
[1:25:41] them, they call, we take the boat off
[1:25:42] the rack, take it
[1:25:44] down, and we put it in the water for them and
[1:25:45] have it sitting at
[1:25:46] the dock, waiting for them when they
[1:25:47] get down here. We
[1:25:50] keep the boats from deteriorating in
[1:25:51] the water,
[1:25:52] and we have them in an area that can
[1:25:53] be stored next to
[1:25:55] a renovated maintenance facility,
[1:25:56] so the maintenance
[1:25:59] people can actually help maintain the boats in the
[1:26:00] marina.
[1:26:05] as we take a look at --as we
[1:26:08] start to go down towards the entry, you
[1:26:09] can
[1:26:12] see that we've repositioned the
[1:26:13] road coming in. We've widened the loop going
[1:26:15] towards the water.
[1:26:18] we are
[1:26:21] going to put a amphitheater in
[1:26:23] the middle. We have taken a look at
[1:26:24] the market.
[1:26:27] the market
[1:26:30] would support a amphitheater. We have
[1:26:32] partnerships with promoters that are
[1:26:33] interested in
[1:26:36] being out here. We want --if we
[1:26:39] do it right, we will be
[1:26:40] able to create a --an experience that
[1:26:42] can be
[1:26:45] used throughout the entire
[1:26:48] year.
[1:26:50] the amphitheater also provides an
[1:26:51] opportunity at lunch. If you
[1:26:52] want to go down there and sit in the
[1:26:53] amphitheater and have your lunch,
[1:26:54] and
[1:26:55] somebody happens to have the notion
[1:26:58] to get up and put on a little concert
[1:27:00] and play
[1:27:03] their guitar or put on
[1:27:04] music, it's an opportunity for the
[1:27:06] community to have
[1:27:08] an element that can be activated on
[1:27:09] their own, not
[1:27:12] just by the concerts, but have an
[1:27:13] opportunity to be involved in that.
[1:27:15] there will be restrooms in
[1:27:18] there. There will be
[1:27:20] spots for restaurants that will serve
[1:27:21] both the development around, as well
[1:27:24] as the amphitheater.
[1:27:27] as we go through the amphitheater
[1:27:30] towards the marina, you can
[1:27:32] see that that there a u-shaped buildings,
[1:27:33] three
[1:27:35] of them. And they're that way from
[1:27:36] a standpoint
[1:27:39] of what we're trying to do is brace
[1:27:42] the energy coming off the water and it's in
[1:27:43] an embrace as if you're getting hugged.
[1:27:46] if you think about somebody embracing
[1:27:48] you, their arms come out.
[1:27:50] that's what we're doing. We're embracing
[1:27:51] that opportunity.
[1:27:54] we're embracing that energy.
[1:27:55] we're bringing that into the development.
[1:28:03] our connections to the pathways around in
[1:28:06] the nature walks are going to be coming
[1:28:07] through, right through this new
[1:28:09] boardwalk. We're going to create
[1:28:11] a boardwalk. There isn't a boardwalk
[1:28:12] currently. We're
[1:28:15] looking at 25 to 30 feet
[1:28:18] of boardwalk that people can go walk
[1:28:19] next to
[1:28:20] the water, look at the boats, enjoy
[1:28:24] the boats, sit
[1:28:25] and have fun on the waterfront without doing anything.
[1:28:28] there will be restaurants. There will
[1:28:30] be shops.
[1:28:31] there will be things that support the marina, but
[1:28:32] there will be things that support
[1:28:33] the life
[1:28:35] of martinez, and that is what we're
[1:28:36] trying to capture all in that energy.
[1:28:39] those elements
[1:28:42] that create that hug are the
[1:28:45] hotels. We have a full
[1:28:47] service hotel that will have meeting
[1:28:50] space, ballrooms, opportunity for
[1:28:51] people to have events down there.
[1:28:54] we have two
[1:28:56] extended stay hotels. The purpose
[1:28:57] of that, having extended
[1:29:00] stay hotels, is
[1:29:02] that there are workers that come here
[1:29:03] every week that go
[1:29:06] to a neighboring
[1:29:07] community to stay. We want them to
[1:29:09] stay right here. Martinez
[1:29:11] has something to give these workers
[1:29:12] besides just a
[1:29:14] job. This is a place to live and play,
[1:29:15] and we want to
[1:29:17] make sure that they stay right here,
[1:29:18] and we have that opportunity.
[1:29:21] and then, on the weekends, here come
[1:29:22] those tournaments. Here they come.
[1:29:24] we're going
[1:29:26] to bring people in here for tournaments.
[1:29:27] we're going to get them to stay here.
[1:29:30] the basketball courts just got
[1:29:32] redone. The volleyball opportunities
[1:29:33] are right here.
[1:29:34] we have camps. If you're going to
[1:29:36] have camps, you got to have places
[1:29:37] for families to
[1:29:39] stay. This is an opportunity. There are
[1:29:40] not
[1:29:42] currently a lot of hotel rooms
[1:29:45] in martinez. We need to fill that
[1:29:46] void, and we believe that this will be
[1:29:48] that void.
[1:29:50] we are also putting in what we call
[1:29:51] the plunge. If
[1:29:53] any of you guys have been down to san
[1:29:54] diego, there's an
[1:29:55] opportunity on the waterfront called the plunge.
[1:29:57] lot
[1:29:59] of people don't like to get in the ocean.
[1:30:00] they don't like to get in there, but
[1:30:02] they like to be down by it. This is
[1:30:03] a
[1:30:06] indoor/outdoor facility that has
[1:30:09] a swimming pool in it that does
[1:30:12] swimming lessons, junior lifeguard
[1:30:13] training,
[1:30:16] but then it also has a
[1:30:18] unique recreational opportunity inside.
[1:30:21] it's got an obstacle course with blow-
[1:30:23] ups that kids run up and down around
[1:30:24] it and have fun and you can never
[1:30:25] get in the place because it's always booked.
[1:30:28] it's always
[1:30:30] bringing people down there. The walls
[1:30:31] of this building
[1:30:33] open up so we have fresh air flow
[1:30:34] through it.
[1:30:37] it opens up to
[1:30:39] sand lots that are on the outside.
[1:30:40] they
[1:30:43] have
[1:30:47] adirondack chairs. They could have pickleball
[1:30:49] or paddle ball
[1:30:52] courts adjacent to it.
[1:30:58] this all
[1:31:01] is made
[1:31:04] possible by trying to
[1:31:07] understand what economic driven
[1:31:08] responsible development is act. And
[1:31:10] that's what we
[1:31:12] are proposing. I'm going to show you one
[1:31:13] other
[1:31:15] item, and I can --I can't quite read.
[1:31:16] I think it's 12 on the
[1:31:19] bottom.
[1:31:20] that is another sand beach. That is
[1:31:21] away from the plunge. This is more
[1:31:23] by the park. This is a beach that
[1:31:25] allows you to
[1:31:28] sit next to the water
[1:31:31] in an adirondack chair.
[1:31:32] maybe there's another beach volleyball area
[1:31:34] there, but it's more of
[1:31:35] a passive beach that allows you to
[1:31:37] have your own time down there.
[1:31:38] we want to provide activities that are
[1:31:40] both passive and
[1:31:43] active, so we can handle all the
[1:31:45] needs of the community. One of the
[1:31:49] things I
[1:31:50] want to point out is that this is 70
[1:31:51] acres that we are looking at, and we are only looking
[1:31:52] at
[1:31:53] touching the part of the waterfront that has already been
[1:31:55] developed.
[1:31:58] it happens to be a parking lot
[1:31:59] now. Or buildings that are being torn
[1:32:01] down and removed. We're not
[1:32:02] going out into the preserve to touch that.
[1:32:04] we are going to
[1:32:06] actually augment the trails that are
[1:32:07] in there
[1:32:09] and make it more accessible. But we
[1:32:13] are only touching the part that has
[1:32:14] already
[1:32:16] been touched. And we're only
[1:32:19] doing it on 22 acres worth
[1:32:22] of development. That's 32%.
[1:32:25] we're
[1:32:28] leaving almost
[1:32:31] 60% of the property -- I mean
[1:32:32] 70%. Sorry. Almost 70% of the property in
[1:32:34] open space.
[1:32:37] that's what we're trying --that's
[1:32:40] what we're doing. We're not trying to
[1:32:42] be --we're not trying to overdevelop
[1:32:43] this. We're trying to be something
[1:32:46] that is an asset to martinez.
[1:32:49] the events that can
[1:32:51] happen out here in the amphitheater can
[1:32:54] be festivals that also touch downtown.
[1:32:55] we want to be a
[1:32:58] partner to downtown. We want to have
[1:32:59] things
[1:33:00] going back and forth where we're having
[1:33:01] festivals in downtown
[1:33:03] and at the waterfront and they're
[1:33:04] two different elements of the same
[1:33:07] festival. We want
[1:33:08] to promote martinez from the marina
[1:33:10] side and
[1:33:12] downtown. We want to be very good
[1:33:13] partners because
[1:33:15] one, if it's good for one spot, it's
[1:33:16] good for both.
[1:33:18] if downtown's having a festival, it's
[1:33:19] going to be good for the
[1:33:20] waterfront. If waterfront's having
[1:33:21] a festival, it's good for downtown.
[1:33:25] and vice versa. If we
[1:33:27] can have more people be here on the
[1:33:28] weekends and stay here, it's good for all of us.
[1:33:38] when we talk about access, what you're
[1:33:40] seeing in
[1:33:42] magenta is the access of how the cars
[1:33:43] are moving through there.
[1:33:46] the light blue
[1:33:49] is the pedestrian paths that are going
[1:33:50] through.
[1:33:51] you can see that there's arrows going
[1:33:52] in underneath.
[1:33:55] we are going to take care of sea level
[1:33:57] rise in a different way, in a way that I
[1:33:58] have successfully done
[1:34:01] it up and down the coast, by one --
[1:34:02] we're going to create a little bit
[1:34:04] of dirt so
[1:34:07] it comes up. We're not taking the
[1:34:08] dirt off
[1:34:09] site. We're going to use it, and then
[1:34:10] we're
[1:34:12] going to put a parking garage that
[1:34:13] provides the
[1:34:16] opportunity to lift the development up.
[1:34:18] a parking garage that will not get
[1:34:19] flooded like the parking areas that are out there now.
[1:34:25] those are the ways
[1:34:28] that we develop in an environmentally
[1:34:31] sensitive way. So we create
[1:34:34] ways toto take unneeded trips of dirt
[1:34:36] and hauling things away from the site,
[1:34:37] but finding ways to use it
[1:34:40] and keep it on site, keep
[1:34:42] it where it is. The other thing that
[1:34:43] we're going to be looking at, and
[1:34:46] it's something that concerned me and
[1:34:48] mainly because my son-in-law is a fire
[1:34:52] chief down in san diego.
[1:34:55] access out here. If there's a train and
[1:34:56] the
[1:34:57] access is cut off and there's something that
[1:34:58] happens, whether we're
[1:34:59] having an event at the fields or down
[1:35:01] owe marina,
[1:35:04] and we can't safely get
[1:35:06] there, that's a crime. So, we are
[1:35:07] going to find
[1:35:10] a way to have a full
[1:35:12] access at all times to this waterfront
[1:35:13] so we don't
[1:35:16] get cut off. It's important to us.
[1:35:17] it's
[1:35:18] important to the safety of the bay
[1:35:19] front for
[1:35:22] martinez, as well as all the activities that
[1:35:23] are on the other side of that
[1:35:25] train track.
[1:35:32] we don't do
[1:35:34] anything without using artists, and we
[1:35:35] want to get
[1:35:38] public artists involved. We
[1:35:40] want to create opportunities to display
[1:35:41] things,
[1:35:44] whether it's a visual
[1:35:47] art, whether it is a art that is
[1:35:49] done through planting. We want to
[1:35:50] find
[1:35:51] different ways to have different elements
[1:35:53] throughout the development,
[1:35:55] and we have our own art walk that
[1:35:56] people can
[1:35:57] come down. If you come down at noon,
[1:35:59] just walk through the art and enjoy
[1:36:00] your lunch and sit in the amphitheater.
[1:36:05] we want to create --or sit at
[1:36:06] the beach and watch the water. We want to
[1:36:08] create an opportunity to involve the
[1:36:10] local artists. There's a great group
[1:36:11] of artists
[1:36:12] in this area, and we want to get them involved.
[1:36:14] it's important to us.
[1:36:17] art,
[1:36:20] culture, that brings energy. That's
[1:36:21] what we're wanting to include in this development.
[1:36:25] this is what the marina looks like today.
[1:36:29] you can see that one of
[1:36:30] the docks is going in. This is an
[1:36:32] older aerial, because there's more docks that are in
[1:36:35] the water right now.
[1:36:38] and you see a slew of parking.
[1:36:44] we want to create that
[1:36:45] and make that be something that is
[1:36:47] more active, and this is what it
[1:36:50] would look like. From the water
[1:36:52] aerial, you can see how the hotels
[1:36:53] embrace that
[1:36:55] energy. The boardwalk is wide. Everything
[1:36:56] is stepped
[1:36:59] back from the water. To allow
[1:37:01] for us to have better access for more
[1:37:02] people at
[1:37:05] the water.
[1:37:06] and the connections to the preserves
[1:37:07] on both sides, you can see the development
[1:37:10] steps away from that to allow that
[1:37:11] connection to happen near the water.
[1:37:14] this is looking
[1:37:17] at it from an --another view.
[1:37:20] looking the opposite direction.
[1:37:25] this is what it would look like from the other side.
[1:37:26] the amphitheater,
[1:37:29] the hotels,
[1:37:32] the plunge, you can see
[1:37:35] how it
[1:37:38] very sensibly touches the
[1:37:41] property and allows there to be more opportunity
[1:37:44] for open space. You know, we
[1:37:47] concluded somethingsomething
[1:37:48] the development squaresquare that
[1:37:49] is really, truly open space, and that is the
[1:37:50] amphitheater.
[1:37:53] that amphitheater's really
[1:37:55] open space. It's actual grass. It
[1:37:56] just means
[1:37:59] that it is an active
[1:38:01] and an opportunity for somebody to activate an open
[1:38:02] space in a different way.
[1:38:05] so, if we
[1:38:08] take that out of what we're touching,
[1:38:09] we're over 70%
[1:38:11] of open space.
[1:38:17] nothing is set in stone. This
[1:38:19] is not meant to be --here's what it
[1:38:23] is. This is our first blush of what
[1:38:25] this could look like. You're looking at
[1:38:26] the boardwalk.
[1:38:27] you're looking at some of the shops that
[1:38:29] are going to be down near
[1:38:31] the boardwalk that support the marina, some
[1:38:32] of the
[1:38:33] restaurants, the hotels in the backdrop.
[1:38:38] underneath the canopy, the one
[1:38:41] building you're seeing, that is
[1:38:44] reimagining the
[1:38:46] boat master's building. We want to
[1:38:47] make that into a building that's
[1:38:48] accessible to the public through --
[1:38:50] whether it's
[1:38:53] a restaurant or
[1:38:54] another opportunity, but we want to
[1:38:55] reuse that building because it's out
[1:38:56] over the water.
[1:38:58] we think it needs to be something
[1:38:59] that more people can
[1:39:01] be out over the water, because it's
[1:39:02] the only one that we have
[1:39:05] that currently breaks
[1:39:07] that barrier and is out slightly over
[1:39:08] the water. We want to reuse
[1:39:09] that, and we want to celebrate it with
[1:39:11] everyone.
[1:39:14] this is a view from the marina
[1:39:17] looking back. That new
[1:39:20] envisioned restaurant is on the left-
[1:39:21] hand
[1:39:23] side. You can see that there's multiple
[1:39:24] decks. There's
[1:39:25] multiple places to view the water,
[1:39:26] to view
[1:39:29] the development, to view up and
[1:39:32] down the martinez coastline.
[1:39:35] the reimagined marina
[1:39:37] a little bit further out. You can
[1:39:38] see the plunge. You can see the
[1:39:41] hotels. You can see the things are
[1:39:42] stepping
[1:39:43] away from the water, that the buildings
[1:39:44] near the
[1:39:46] water are lower scale, and the higher
[1:39:47] buildings are
[1:39:48] placed behind them. Setting a backdrop up.
[1:39:55] little bit further down, going out to
[1:39:59] the jetty, that is going to
[1:40:01] be improved. That boardwalk's going to
[1:40:02] be improved all the way down there.
[1:40:03] there will be a fence that we are
[1:40:05] going to put in there because we do
[1:40:08] not want people climbing down into
[1:40:09] the
[1:40:11] new rivetment that's going to be in
[1:40:13] there to hold the newnew up. We don't
[1:40:15] want people climbing down
[1:40:16] in there and getting hurt, so we want to
[1:40:17] be able to provide the opportunity
[1:40:18] to see it, to
[1:40:21] walk by it, but protect and
[1:40:22] be mindful of all people that are
[1:40:24] out there, because as
[1:40:25] we get more people out there, it's
[1:40:27] about accessibility,
[1:40:28] and it's about accessibility to people
[1:40:30] with all abilities.
[1:40:33] which means
[1:40:36] if there's somebody out
[1:40:37] there that is blind, there's a barrier
[1:40:38] so they do not go beyond where they're supposed to
[1:40:39] go.
[1:40:43] those are the things that we think about.
[1:40:44] those are the things that we want
[1:40:45] to make sure are included
[1:40:48] in what we're doing.
[1:40:52] this is an idea of the amphitheater.
[1:40:54] you notice
[1:40:57] the boat shape of it. It's
[1:40:59] taking the boats, stacking them three
[1:41:00] together to
[1:41:02] create an amphitheater. This is a
[1:41:03] marina
[1:41:04] that brought us here, and we're going
[1:41:06] to celebrate that marina in
[1:41:08] a way of a form that will produce
[1:41:12] sound, energy, fun,
[1:41:15] excitement, hopefully
[1:41:17] get the shakespeare festival to come back here
[1:41:18] and be
[1:41:19] a part of this amphitheater throughout the year.
[1:41:27] I was talking
[1:41:28] about how we make the parking work.
[1:41:30] this is a quick
[1:41:31] cross-section through it where you
[1:41:33] can see we've
[1:41:35] already lifted the earth all the way down
[1:41:36] by the water.
[1:41:38] we've got to lift everything up to
[1:41:39] get it out of
[1:41:41] the sea level rise, and then we use
[1:41:42] the parking to
[1:41:45] help create some of that lift
[1:41:47] and that's what we're doing, and the parking goes
[1:41:48] beneath the hotels.
[1:41:51] that's
[1:41:52] important, because when you put something
[1:41:54] below, it gives you
[1:41:57] an opportunity to do something
[1:42:00] above it. It gives you the
[1:42:01] opportunity to have more activities
[1:42:03] above, and the cars are
[1:42:04] no longer in your sight and they're
[1:42:06] no longer an
[1:42:07] impediment to what we, as a community, want to be able to
[1:42:09] do.
[1:42:16] this is the video. I'm going to be quiet and let
[1:42:18] this play.
[1:42:57] >> this is just
[1:42:58] reimagining what that waterfront can
[1:43:00] be and how martinez can start to touch the
[1:43:03] water.
[1:43:15] I want to end the presentation. I know
[1:43:16] I'm
[1:43:17] getting a little longwinded, but I'll
[1:43:18] tell
[1:43:20] you, I'm excited about the opportunity.
[1:43:21] I'm excited to be here.
[1:43:24] I'm excited about
[1:43:27] the way that this community engages
[1:43:28] one
[1:43:30] another and the way
[1:43:32] that they look out for what's best for
[1:43:33] the community, and that
[1:43:36] was true today when those two young
[1:43:37] men
[1:43:39] came up. Huge.
[1:43:42] I wish more young young men stand up and ask for the things
[1:43:43] they need.
[1:43:48] that's part of the benefits of what we
[1:43:49] are
[1:43:50] about. We're about getting something
[1:43:51] for all ages. We're
[1:43:54] about creating things that are equitable,
[1:43:56] accessible. We're about creating opportunities that
[1:43:57] are
[1:43:58] going to create revenue for the city.
[1:44:03] to have the ability to have
[1:44:06] more safety, more police, more
[1:44:09] fire, more access, more
[1:44:10] activities that really celebrate what it
[1:44:12] means to live here in martinez.
[1:44:18] we're going to be stewards
[1:44:19] of nature, because we are going to
[1:44:21] find a way to
[1:44:23] work together, and as we touch the
[1:44:24] water, touch those
[1:44:27] parks that are next to us in a way
[1:44:29] that creates better access and better
[1:44:30] opportunities to really
[1:44:33] enjoy that preserve that has
[1:44:35] already been done on the water. Compliments to you for already
[1:44:36] having that in place.
[1:44:40] innovation. Innovation through the
[1:44:42] way that we create energy. Innovation in
[1:44:43] the
[1:44:45] way that we store boats that are more
[1:44:47] environmentally friendly and softer
[1:44:48] and make it be more viable.
[1:44:51] we are going to
[1:44:54] be able to have
[1:44:57] future-ready infrastructure in place
[1:44:58] and make this be the place it needs to be.
[1:45:04] this is just a start.
[1:45:09] the na is just an engagement of us
[1:45:11] talking with the city as to how we
[1:45:13] get through this process.
[1:45:19] it's been described to me
[1:45:21] as, we like each other, so okay, let's
[1:45:22] talk about dating a little bit.
[1:45:27] let's see if we really like each other
[1:45:28] before we get married, and
[1:45:29] that's really what it is. That's really
[1:45:31] what this is all about. It is an
[1:45:33] opportunity to see if we can find
[1:45:37] a way to work with the community,
[1:45:39] work with the city, to come up with
[1:45:40] something that is going to be
[1:45:41] viable for all to get this done. It's
[1:45:43] going to take three to five
[1:45:44] months to get there. During that time,
[1:45:46] we're going to start doing
[1:45:48] all of our studies on the environmental side.
[1:45:49] there's a bunch of studies that have to be done.
[1:45:52] and we will
[1:45:54] begin doing that from the transportation
[1:45:55] side of
[1:45:57] it, which includes the ferry, but
[1:45:58] also includes
[1:46:01] how we get access
[1:46:02] across and over to the --over to the water side.
[1:46:07] and then, we want to be ready to
[1:46:09] have, as we get our development agreement put
[1:46:13] together, we want to get our plans pulled together
[1:46:15] so that everything's reaching the
[1:46:18] point at the same time that we can pull
[1:46:19] a building
[1:46:20] permit and get started immediately.
[1:46:25] we are privately funding
[1:46:27] this, and the one thing I know about
[1:46:28] private money is it does not
[1:46:31] like to sit still.
[1:46:33] that's why it will move faster. We
[1:46:34] don't have to
[1:46:35] wait for a grant to come in. We don't
[1:46:37] have to wait for the state
[1:46:38] to decide on whether or not we're going to get that
[1:46:40] grant.
[1:46:42] the private money wants to be put
[1:46:43] in place, because it wants
[1:46:44] to go to work, and that's what we're going to be doing.
[1:46:52] I want to thank you
[1:46:55] guys, mayor, council,
[1:46:58] city, and the community, for letting
[1:46:59] me present tonight, and thank you
[1:47:01] for the opportunity.
[1:47:12] >> thank you. So, what happens next?
[1:47:16] greg
[1:47:17] mentioned about the exclusive negotiating
[1:47:19] agreement and what that means. This
[1:47:20] kind
[1:47:21] of gives you a little bit of an idea
[1:47:22] of what that means. It
[1:47:24] really grants the developer exclusive
[1:47:25] rights to negotiate for the city,
[1:47:26] so
[1:47:27] we're not going to be going out and talking
[1:47:28] to
[1:47:30] anybody anybody else. It would be
[1:47:31] us having the conversation together.
[1:47:32] it's important to know it's not a
[1:47:34] final deal. It is just the first
[1:47:35] step to exploring whether this public
[1:47:36] partnership will work, and it's feasible and can happen.
[1:47:40] and
[1:47:41] typically, what's in an ena is it
[1:47:43] establishes
[1:47:44] the preliminary roles, the responsibilities,
[1:47:47] the deliverables and the timelines
[1:47:49] that both parties have to
[1:47:52] agree upon. Its
[1:47:53] also requires both parties to negotiate
[1:47:55] in good faith. It sets clear
[1:47:58] milestones but does not obligate the
[1:47:59] city to move forward with the final
[1:48:01] project and typically, like greg
[1:48:03] had shown in the last slide with the
[1:48:06] timeline, then after that is signed and
[1:48:10] agreed upon, there's that time frame between them
[1:48:11] before you get to
[1:48:12] the development agreement and that's
[1:48:13] been going through the environmental
[1:48:14] process and going through all those
[1:48:15] things to say, all right, is this
[1:48:16] going to work? Until
[1:48:17] you get to the development agreement,
[1:48:19] and that development agreement
[1:48:21] really is the next phase of negotiating,
[1:48:22] and
[1:48:25] it defines all the specific project
[1:48:26] terms, the
[1:48:28] public benefit,
[1:48:30] the long-term commitments, and what
[1:48:31] would be in the operating
[1:48:33] lease in which would be managed for
[1:48:34] this property and the
[1:48:37] expectations the city would have holding
[1:48:38] the developer and leaseholder responsible for that
[1:48:40] in the future.
[1:48:42] so, that's something that comes a little bit later.
[1:48:43] it's important
[1:48:45] to note that as part of this whole
[1:48:46] process,
[1:48:49] like we had mentioned throughout this
[1:48:50] presentation,
[1:48:51] that should the council make a motion
[1:48:52] to go forward
[1:48:55] with exclusive negotiating, the community will
[1:48:57] be a part of this whole process throughout the entire process.
[1:49:01] we're just at
[1:49:04] the beginning. And as you can see, it's a very
[1:49:05] exciting
[1:49:06] beginning, but we're just at the beginning
[1:49:07] and there's still a lot of unknowns
[1:49:09] and ways in which we need to move forward with that.
[1:49:13] go ahead.
[1:49:16] >> there's a
[1:49:18] good reason why I brought my partner
[1:49:19] with me, because she
[1:49:21] goes, you didn't mention the unions.
[1:49:27] we do so much work on the waterfront that it is, to me,
[1:49:28] it's second nature.
[1:49:31] we
[1:49:32] can't do anything on the water without the unions.
[1:49:34] everything
[1:49:38] that we do is going to have
[1:49:39] union labor. It's going to have agreements
[1:49:41] with the unions,
[1:49:43] and martinez is a union town. There's
[1:49:44] no way we are going
[1:49:45] to come in here and not do it with
[1:49:47] unions.
[1:49:48] I apologize for not mentioning that,
[1:49:50] but I think
[1:49:52] my partner for reminding me that, hey,
[1:49:53] you
[1:49:54] didn't say anything about the agreements we're going to have
[1:49:55] with the unions. So, I apologize.
[1:50:05] >> and I appreciate you
[1:50:06] saying that, because it also, I mean,
[1:50:07] again, as part of the conversations,
[1:50:08] these
[1:50:09] are things, when we talked about this with
[1:50:11] the developer, about what's important to
[1:50:12] our community, and this is a union
[1:50:14] town, and that was something
[1:50:16] we brought up really early on and
[1:50:17] it didn't
[1:50:20] faze greg at all.
[1:50:22] it's something that is expected. And that was
[1:50:23] the same when
[1:50:24] we talked about all the other leaseholders that
[1:50:25] were out there. How do we embrace
[1:50:26] it
[1:50:27] and pull it together? Thank you for pulling that
[1:50:29] together or mentioning that.
[1:50:32] I know greg touched upon a
[1:50:34] lot of the fiscal impacts but it's
[1:50:35] supposed to be benefits.
[1:50:37] he talked about the fiscal benefits
[1:50:38] that cities receive from
[1:50:39] things like this. A couple ways in
[1:50:41] which this helps, really, with the
[1:50:43] revitalizing and how it benefits our
[1:50:44] community even
[1:50:46] more is really eliminates our debt,
[1:50:47] eliminates
[1:50:48] the debt that we have currently to
[1:50:49] the city. Allows us to pay ourselves back
[1:50:50] for that debt.
[1:50:53] which is super critical, because then
[1:50:54] that money can be redirected to the
[1:50:55] other things that we love and appreciate
[1:50:56] within the community.
[1:50:59] the
[1:51:01] developer, you know, would fund the
[1:51:04] full marina and waterfront reconstruction,
[1:51:05] and that includes the dredging and
[1:51:06] the seawall, and then we'd work out
[1:51:08] through our
[1:51:09] agreement the terms of what responsible
[1:51:11] share the city would take on
[1:51:13] later and what that means is typically
[1:51:14] what happens is
[1:51:15] you --they put everything up front
[1:51:17] and then as part of that process,
[1:51:19] as part of our lease terms, we give
[1:51:20] them --we give
[1:51:21] reduced rent to allow them a little
[1:51:22] bit of time to make some of that money back.
[1:51:23] it's
[1:51:25] a way in which the city is being financially
[1:51:26] responsible, not having to
[1:51:27] put that money up front. It comes at the end.
[1:51:31] to be able to be our commit and our share toward something like
[1:51:32] this.
[1:51:35] one thing
[1:51:37] that's very important for our community is it
[1:51:38] generates
[1:51:41] new revenue for this city. Like lauren had
[1:51:42] mentioned, we are really at a point
[1:51:44] where we do not have new
[1:51:45] revenue and it is not in the interest
[1:51:46] of the council to be going back and
[1:51:47] taxing the voters more.
[1:51:50] so, this
[1:51:52] really --it generates a revenue source
[1:51:56] and it comes through the source
[1:51:57] of transient occupancy tax for the
[1:51:59] hotels, sales
[1:52:01] tax, possessory interest tax, and then the lease payments
[1:52:02] as well.
[1:52:05] and this,
[1:52:07] again, if you know of all these taxes,
[1:52:08] they also have
[1:52:11] help augment other types of uses
[1:52:12] when it comes to, like, our county and our fire and so
[1:52:14] forth.
[1:52:17] it also will support,
[1:52:19] like I mentioned, the loan repayment of
[1:52:21] the $1.7 million state loan that we have had for years.
[1:52:29] that we
[1:52:30] really want to be able to take care
[1:52:32] of and be fiscally responsible. Another
[1:52:33] thing the revenue
[1:52:34] helps is it allows us to look at the
[1:52:35] core services in
[1:52:37] which we provide. We hear a lot about
[1:52:38] wanting more ability to
[1:52:41] have more police, have more officers that
[1:52:43] are going to be downtown, be more
[1:52:44] proactive, you know,
[1:52:46] maintaining our parks and our infrastructures
[1:52:47] and so
[1:52:50] forth. When you have a source of revenue coming
[1:52:51] in like
[1:52:52] this, it really allows the council and
[1:52:53] the community to look forward and how you can program that.
[1:52:56] and
[1:52:58] it really will also foster future economic vitality
[1:52:59] throughout martinez.
[1:53:02] typically, these
[1:53:05] types of transformational catalyst
[1:53:06] projects will
[1:53:08] spur more interest in
[1:53:11] our property owners downtown, revitalizing their property.
[1:53:14] the vacant lots getting built on.
[1:53:16] it also will spur a lot of interest
[1:53:17] in retailers that we want to attract
[1:53:18] to this community that people have
[1:53:20] been asking, for trader joe's and
[1:53:23] certain ones to come. There has to
[1:53:24] be a
[1:53:25] "there" there for certain companies
[1:53:26] to come, and they
[1:53:28] have certain profiles and segments.
[1:53:29] these lead
[1:53:30] to opportunities for our community and
[1:53:32] the future of our community and not
[1:53:33] just for us.
[1:53:34] when we look at these types of things,
[1:53:35] we're not looking at what's in it
[1:53:36] for us now? We're looking at it for the
[1:53:37] generations that are still yet to come.
[1:53:41] so, this is an opportunity, as part
[1:53:42] of this transformational
[1:53:44] project, to really look at that. So,
[1:53:46] with that, the recommendation that we
[1:53:47] have tonight is
[1:53:49] to ask the city council to make a
[1:53:50] motion to authorize
[1:53:53] the story enter into negotiations
[1:53:54] for an
[1:53:55] exclusive negotiating agreement with
[1:53:56] tucker sadler.
[1:53:59] and at this time, we
[1:54:01] are available, both staff as well
[1:54:02] as tucker sadler is available for
[1:54:03] any questions you might have.
[1:54:06] as before
[1:54:07] you go into public comment and then
[1:54:09] just kind
[1:54:10] of reiterating what lauren had mentioned.
[1:54:12] I know there's going to be a
[1:54:14] lot of excitement and questions and
[1:54:15] comments that are --we're
[1:54:16] not going to be able to answer tonight.
[1:54:18] we have eve, who's going to
[1:54:19] be transcribing everything for us,
[1:54:20] so it will be something that we can
[1:54:21] have as part of this process when we start this process.
[1:54:24] the qr
[1:54:25] code leads us to the website, so we
[1:54:27] would definitely encourage
[1:54:30] you to share the website with others
[1:54:32] should this motion go forward. We will have
[1:54:33] a website that will
[1:54:34] be dedicated to this effort so that everyone will always know
[1:54:36] what's happening.
[1:54:39] and so, I'll turn it back over to the council.
[1:54:42] and the
[1:54:43] mayor.
[1:54:44] >> great. Thank you. Thank
[1:54:45] you, jill and lauren
[1:54:47] and greg for your participation and
[1:54:48] the presentation this evening.
[1:54:51] I know that the
[1:54:53] council chambers are full this evening
[1:54:57] of members of the public listening in, and
[1:54:58] I assume many of them have questions.
[1:55:00] we will follow
[1:55:02] the normal process of what we do on
[1:55:03] all
[1:55:04] of our council meetings. We'll start
[1:55:06] with questions from the
[1:55:08] council, and then I'll open it up
[1:55:09] to public
[1:55:11] comment, and then we'll come back to the
[1:55:12] council for thoughts and general comments.
[1:55:18] I did want to reiterate the one thing that
[1:55:19] was brought up kind of at the very
[1:55:20] end of the presentation, and so I wanted to
[1:55:21] reiterate that.
[1:55:24] as we're asking
[1:55:26] questions, as we're providing comments, I
[1:55:27] wanted to
[1:55:29] remind everyone what is on the table
[1:55:30] this evening, what's on
[1:55:32] the agenda this evening, is to consider
[1:55:33] a motion
[1:55:36] to authorize the city to enter
[1:55:37] into negotiations for an exclusive negotiating agreement
[1:55:39] with tucker sadler.
[1:55:42] you are, of course, welcome
[1:55:43] to ask questions about the design.
[1:55:45] you're welcome to ask questions about
[1:55:46] any phase of the project but I want
[1:55:48] to make sure it's very clear to everyone,
[1:55:49] we're
[1:55:51] not approving a design tonight.
[1:55:54] we're not approving a
[1:55:55] development agreement tonight. We are only
[1:55:57] potentially approving that staff can
[1:55:58] move
[1:56:00] forward with negotiating an
[1:56:01] exclusive negotiating agreement. So,
[1:56:03] so, we're very early on in the process
[1:56:04] and this is just the first of many steps before we
[1:56:06] get to what you see today.
[1:56:09] so, with that
[1:56:11] said, would anyone on council like
[1:56:12] to kick off questions for staff or tucker
[1:56:15] sadler?
[1:56:18] >> sure. I just have a comment.
[1:56:20] and a couple of questions. I don't want
[1:56:21] to hog all the time.
[1:56:22] I really want to hear what everybody else
[1:56:24] has to say, but I really want
[1:56:27] to thank the staff, because that was
[1:56:29] a very straightforward report, and
[1:56:30] they did all
[1:56:33] the heavy lifting as far as daylighting all
[1:56:35] the information and getting it out
[1:56:36] there and getting us
[1:56:39] educated and bringing a lot of you
[1:56:40] into
[1:56:42] city hall to get you educated on
[1:56:45] what we want to do and all the
[1:56:48] different options. I
[1:56:51] really want to thank greg and diane
[1:56:54] for being here, especially diane bringing
[1:56:56] up that this is uniontown, usa, so
[1:56:57] I really want to thank you
[1:56:58] for making that important. There's
[1:57:00] a lot
[1:57:02] of stuff that I would like to ask
[1:57:03] questions about, but really, as the
[1:57:06] mayor just stated, what we're here
[1:57:09] for today is to go into an
[1:57:12] ena, right? And if you read --I hope
[1:57:13] all
[1:57:15] of you got a little --
[1:57:17] right? And I just want to read it
[1:57:18] one more time,
[1:57:19] just because it's super clear and very easy to
[1:57:21] understand.
[1:57:24] what does an ena do?
[1:57:27] it outlines preliminary terms, roles,
[1:57:30] responsibilities, and deliverables
[1:57:33] for each party. Establishes key milestones,
[1:57:34] so that's
[1:57:36] super important, and a timeline for
[1:57:37] negotiations, which
[1:57:39] you guys all saw the slide, I think it
[1:57:41] was 21. I'm not sure. But it commits
[1:57:42] both parties
[1:57:44] to a good faith negotiation but does
[1:57:45] not
[1:57:47] obligate either side to enter into
[1:57:48] a
[1:57:50] final agreement. Right? So, I think
[1:57:51] as greg was so
[1:57:54] good and eloquent about talking about
[1:57:55] this
[1:57:58] project, it feels, like he said,
[1:58:00] it changed ten minutes into us, and it's
[1:58:01] a
[1:58:04] living, breathing
[1:58:05] plan, right, that we are all going to
[1:58:07] have
[1:58:09] a part of and input on. So, I think that
[1:58:10] is one of
[1:58:11] the most important things to remember
[1:58:15] as a third-generation martesian, I have
[1:58:16] been dreaming
[1:58:17] about something like this. I didn't
[1:58:19] even
[1:58:20] imagine something this spectacular,
[1:58:22] but for at least
[1:58:23] 30 years, and I think one other point
[1:58:25] that I really
[1:58:28] want to make is that to do
[1:58:31] nothing, to do nothing will
[1:58:32] cost us $20 million. So, get your head around that.
[1:58:37] this is --
[1:58:40] this enterprise fund
[1:58:41] is bleeding money. Since I have been
[1:58:43] on council, I want to
[1:58:46] say it's $1. 7 million. Now,
[1:58:49] if it continues this way, I want the
[1:58:50] person to stand up who is going to
[1:58:51] be prepared to start laying off police officers.
[1:58:55] right?
[1:58:56] so, I don't mean to be dramatic, but let's think about that.
[1:58:58] that's really all I have.
[1:59:04] >> thank you.
[1:59:05] >> thanks. Go ahead. >> I'm sorry?
[1:59:10] bueller? Bueller? Can I talk?
[1:59:12] >> yes, of course. I'm sorry. I was
[1:59:13] trying to let you talk.
[1:59:14] but you guys --
[1:59:15] >> I will defer to
[1:59:16] you. You have something?
[1:59:17] >> no problem.
[1:59:18] >> okay.
[1:59:19] >> no, go ahead. >> okay.
[1:59:22] now that we've got all
[1:59:25] that worked out,
[1:59:28] first, I want to commend greg
[1:59:31] and diane and the team
[1:59:34] at tucker
[1:59:37] for the amazing presentation.
[1:59:43] I still have
[1:59:46] the same emotional
[1:59:49] reaction that I had when we
[1:59:51] first saw this in closed session.
[1:59:58] and I had the
[2:00:00] emotion because we've lived here 24 years,
[2:00:03] and it's always been the marina, the
[2:00:04] marina, the marina.
[2:00:05] we need to do something about the marina.
[2:00:10] but nothing was ever done.
[2:00:12] and nothing ever seemed to really
[2:00:13] be
[2:00:16] moving in that direction to
[2:00:19] revitalize
[2:00:22] this jewel that we
[2:00:25] have and have a significant amount
[2:00:28] of pride over. So,
[2:00:31] to see the
[2:00:34] presentation and the possibility and
[2:00:37] what this could be
[2:00:40] like for for new families coming
[2:00:43] in to martinez, for many of our
[2:00:46] children and grandchildren to
[2:00:49] be able to
[2:00:51] experience and benefit from this in
[2:00:52] their own
[2:00:55] hometown without having
[2:00:58] to drive to monterrey
[2:01:01] or saucalito
[2:01:03] or tiburon or any other place that
[2:01:04] has a marina but can do it right here right
[2:01:05] now.
[2:01:10] it evoked emotion,
[2:01:13] because it's almost
[2:01:14] like this thing could really happen.
[2:01:19] after all this time.
[2:01:22] so, thank you all. Thank you to
[2:01:25] the --our
[2:01:28] staff for your due diligence
[2:01:31] and willingness and
[2:01:33] commitment to also seeing the vision,
[2:01:34] and I want
[2:01:36] to remind folks, again, and it's been
[2:01:37] said, and
[2:01:40] it's going to be said throughout this
[2:01:43] evening, this is not final.
[2:01:45] this is not something we're etching in stone tonight.
[2:01:51] this is the very beginning stages.
[2:01:55] so, it's a vision.
[2:01:58] and the beauty of visions is you think
[2:01:59] big, and you think large, and you think out of the box.
[2:02:04] but then you fine-tune.
[2:02:06] you narrow it down. Because I'm sure some
[2:02:07] of you out there
[2:02:10] are, like, oh my god, that's too many hotels.
[2:02:11] okay.
[2:02:12] this is the beginning. Maybe it's one.
[2:02:13] maybe it's two.
[2:02:16] maybe it's none.
[2:02:18] so, don't --you saw a vision. You saw a concept.
[2:02:24] but this thing is going to, if it
[2:02:25] goes forward, it's going
[2:02:28] to evolve with your
[2:02:31] input, with your feedback. With your historical knowledge.
[2:02:37] so, again, this is a very
[2:02:40] beginning, but it's a vision.
[2:02:44] it's doing something that,
[2:02:45] for so long, folks have said something needs to be done.
[2:02:50] but nothing's
[2:02:51] been done until now, and we're on this --
[2:02:56] we're on this
[2:02:59] critical precipice,
[2:03:02] because to do nothing is going
[2:03:05] to be devastating to the
[2:03:07] city on the trajectory that we're
[2:03:08] going now,
[2:03:11] and putting money
[2:03:14] into a marina that
[2:03:16] is not sustainable in this current structure.
[2:03:20] so, I would just
[2:03:22] ask all of us, and you notice I said
[2:03:23] all of
[2:03:26] us, to
[2:03:29] be open
[2:03:35] minded, community-
[2:03:38] focused, family-focused,
[2:03:39] and collaborative. Because if we do
[2:03:41] this thing
[2:03:44] thing right, if we get this
[2:03:45] right, this will be transformative to
[2:03:47] this community.
[2:03:50] this will be a
[2:03:53] true legacy that we are leaving
[2:03:56] for future
[2:03:57] generations that will be unique to
[2:04:01] not only martinez but contra costa county.
[2:04:02] the bay area.
[2:04:08] so, again, thank you,
[2:04:10] staff. Thank you, greg and diane, for
[2:04:11] bringing this forward.
[2:04:17] >> all right. Thank you very much.
[2:04:23] and I too would like to acknowledge
[2:04:25] staff and tucker sadler. Thank you very much for
[2:04:26] the
[2:04:28] very informative presentation. I'd
[2:04:29] also like to
[2:04:30] thank all of you, ladies and gentlemen,
[2:04:32] who have joined us
[2:04:33] here in the audience tonight. Both in-person and virtually.
[2:04:38] I think this speaks volumes to
[2:04:40] the fact of how much our waterfront
[2:04:41] and our marina
[2:04:44] is a beloved
[2:04:46] asset. And I very much just appreciate
[2:04:47] folks taking time
[2:04:49] out of their evening to join us here
[2:04:50] tonight.
[2:04:53] I think this is something
[2:04:56] that, quite
[2:04:57] frankly, I think at least certainly in
[2:04:59] the four-plus decades that my
[2:05:00] family and I have been living here, we have
[2:05:02] been kind of waiting for.
[2:05:05] and
[2:05:07] I really do want to acknowledge the efforts
[2:05:08] that
[2:05:11] have went in
[2:05:14] here, building off the tulip that many
[2:05:15] in the community did participate in,
[2:05:17] but also recognizing that there
[2:05:18] were shortcomings there, and we need to acknowledge that.
[2:05:22] that the status quo, as was said, is simply not sustainable.
[2:05:26] and I'm glad that we're
[2:05:29] having this conversation now and not
[2:05:30] in a
[2:05:31] few years from now where we're trying
[2:05:32] to scramble and trying to figure out,
[2:05:35] oh my god, how are we going to
[2:05:38] avoid devastating service
[2:05:41] cuts that we are seeing in other communities
[2:05:42] throughout the bay area and the state
[2:05:44] taking place now.
[2:05:47] so, I did want to just pick
[2:05:49] up on something that my colleague,
[2:05:50] councilmember
[2:05:52] young, mentioned. This is a starting point.
[2:05:53] it's not the
[2:05:56] be-all, end-all, right? And
[2:05:59] so, the concept that we have
[2:06:00] seen here tonight is just that. It's a concept.
[2:06:08] and it's one that is going
[2:06:11] to change, and so, again, I just want
[2:06:13] to really emphasize thatthat this is
[2:06:14] an
[2:06:16] iterative process. It needs to be
[2:06:17] done in partnership with
[2:06:20] the community. That's
[2:06:22] why, when we were first made aware
[2:06:23] of this, I was like, all right, time-out.
[2:06:26] we're not doing anything more
[2:06:27] until we get all of you involved in this process.
[2:06:29] it's really, really important.
[2:06:32] and so, that's my --
[2:06:34] that's our commitment. As a council.
[2:06:35] we want to make sure
[2:06:38] that we're being transparent, open,
[2:06:40] collaborative. We want that input.
[2:06:41] we can't do this
[2:06:44] alone, nor should we.
[2:06:45] this needs to be done in partnership with the community.
[2:06:50] so, that being said,
[2:06:53] I do have some
[2:06:56] questions for staff and for the representatives from tucker
[2:06:57] sadler.
[2:06:59] if it's appropriate,
[2:07:01] mayor, if I may ask those questions at this
[2:07:02] stage?
[2:07:11] so, the presentation
[2:07:13] mentioned that a construction timeline
[2:07:14] of three to five years for all phases.
[2:07:17] assuming everything goes
[2:07:20] on time, there's no delays, what have
[2:07:23] you, but the staff presentation at
[2:07:24] the
[2:07:26] outset did paint somewhat of a dire
[2:07:29] financial picture. And my question
[2:07:30] is, even in
[2:07:32] the best case scenario, let's say
[2:07:33] we get all the
[2:07:36] ducks lined up in a
[2:07:39] row, we reach an
[2:07:42] agreement, aware still looking
[2:07:44] at three to five years before there's
[2:07:45] any
[2:07:46] type of revenues that are being generated.
[2:07:48] so, what
[2:07:51] is the plan in the interim to
[2:07:52] help us tide us by, no pun intended?
[2:07:59] do we have any thoughts? How would
[2:08:00] we
[2:08:03] begin to address that
[2:08:04] financial shortfall? That was one question that I
[2:08:06] had.
[2:08:09] do you have any insights on
[2:08:11] that?
[2:08:12] >> so, you know, first of all,
[2:08:13] we don't --we
[2:08:14] haven't worked out the details and timeline of
[2:08:15] said construction.
[2:08:18] should
[2:08:21] we move forward. And certainly,
[2:08:24] one of the elements of
[2:08:25] negotiations and putting together
[2:08:27] milestones
[2:08:29] and start dates and putting shovels
[2:08:30] in
[2:08:32] the ground is around closing things
[2:08:36] down, right? So that construction
[2:08:39] can start. So, that's kind of an element, I
[2:08:42] would just say, is undefined right
[2:08:43] now to the extent that there will
[2:08:45] be, if things go
[2:08:48] forward, based on that timeline, there
[2:08:51] will eventually be a closure of things
[2:08:54] down at the marina. Up until
[2:08:57] then, however, to be
[2:08:59] very clear, before construction starts,
[2:09:00] before we start to kind
[2:09:02] of decommission things down there, we
[2:09:06] have to continue the
[2:09:09] loans from the general fund
[2:09:12] until, again, with hope that eventually we get to pay the
[2:09:15] general fund back.
[2:09:18] so, I hope that's clear, but as long as
[2:09:21] we're preconstruction, we still have
[2:09:24] to loan the general
[2:09:25] fund money.
[2:09:26] >> I appreciate your candor on
[2:09:27] that.
[2:09:29] so, I just want to make sure that
[2:09:30] we're going in
[2:09:33] with eyes open on that, that there
[2:09:36] is still going to
[2:09:38] be financial challenges ahead, but if
[2:09:39] we do
[2:09:40] nothing, the financial challenges will be even greater.
[2:09:45] so,
[2:09:48] that's why it's important that we
[2:09:49] begin to take
[2:09:51] the steps necessary to, you know,
[2:09:52] keep that --the worst case scenario
[2:09:54] at bay.
[2:09:57] so, thank you for that, lauren.
[2:10:03] so, for our
[2:10:05] friends at tucker sadler, couple of
[2:10:06] questions that came to my mind.
[2:10:09] if I may.
[2:10:15] so, the proposal, as you have presented
[2:10:18] it here tonight, is
[2:10:20] calling for up to -- it looks like three hotels, if I
[2:10:21] understand correctly.
[2:10:27] and candidly, I think that's just
[2:10:28] a little ambitious, at least at the onset.
[2:10:32] and you know, one of the things that
[2:10:33] kind of
[2:10:35] gives me pause, at least here, and I don't
[2:10:36] know what the situation is like
[2:10:39] down in san diego, but
[2:10:42] certainly here within the bay area,
[2:10:44] post-pandemic, we've actually seen a number
[2:10:45] of
[2:10:47] hotels falter for whatever reason.
[2:10:48] they've gone
[2:10:49] into insolvency. They've been taken over.
[2:10:54] I'm just kind of
[2:10:56] curious, you know, what sort of data
[2:10:57] or
[2:11:00] market analysis do you
[2:11:02] have which would support such an ambitious development?
[2:11:03] and
[2:11:06] so that we don't meet the
[2:11:09] fate of other hotels that
[2:11:11] we have seen in the east bay and the broader bay area.
[2:11:15] >> we've
[2:11:18] done our own
[2:11:21] little demand study, and the demand
[2:11:23] for martinez is actually greater than what we've presented.
[2:11:27] we will do a deeper
[2:11:28] dive demand study that will support that.
[2:11:33] whatever that study comes back at, that
[2:11:34] is
[2:11:36] where we're going to
[2:11:37] end up from the standpoint of rooms,
[2:11:38] because we will only develop what we believe can be
[2:11:39] supported.
[2:11:42] in regards to the
[2:11:46] pandemic,
[2:11:47] and having different hoteliers go
[2:11:49] down
[2:11:51] the state. It is not just in state,
[2:11:52] it's
[2:11:53] in several different states that that's happened.
[2:11:55] we're on a cyclical curve
[2:11:58] that's going the opposite
[2:12:00] direction now wrote where you're going
[2:12:02] to start see --in fact, we have two
[2:12:03] new hotels going up in san diego right now that
[2:12:05] are coming up because the funding
[2:12:07] is now there. The support is now there.
[2:12:08] there's people are traveling again.
[2:12:13] and that is what supports the
[2:12:14] room demand. And businesses are traveling
[2:12:16] again.
[2:12:18] that was one of the things that really
[2:12:19] hurt
[2:12:20] the hotel industry is that businesses were not
[2:12:22] traveling.
[2:12:25] they were doing everything
[2:12:28] remotely, and everybody was through
[2:12:30] the internet and teams and zoom meetings.
[2:12:32] that's what happened, and that's why there
[2:12:34] was such a bad crash
[2:12:35] in the hotel market. That's starting
[2:12:36] to change. It's going back the other
[2:12:37] direction now.
[2:12:40] >> okay. Thank you for that.
[2:12:43] I appreciate that. I
[2:12:46] look forward to seeing some
[2:12:47] more of that data moving forward.
[2:12:52] one of the other questions that was
[2:12:54] touched upon in your presentation,
[2:12:57] greg, was that --and you did --and
[2:12:58] I
[2:12:59] do appreciate you acknowledging that,
[2:13:01] that currently, the
[2:13:03] main entry and exit into the waterfront
[2:13:04] area is
[2:13:06] the ferry street railroad crossing
[2:13:07] down there by the amtrak station.
[2:13:13] which is notorious
[2:13:16] for backups caused
[2:13:17] by the union pacific rail cars, which, to
[2:13:19] be fair, has gotten somewhat better
[2:13:20] over the years, but it's still an issue.
[2:13:24] so, it sounds like, based on your
[2:13:25] presentation here
[2:13:27] tonight, you don't quite have a silver
[2:13:28] bullet in
[2:13:31] terms of how we overcome
[2:13:33] that barrier, because it is a concern.
[2:13:34] it's a
[2:13:36] longstanding concern of how do we
[2:13:37] move
[2:13:40] both people and first
[2:13:41] responders down into that area seamlessly and without
[2:13:43] delay?
[2:13:46] so, just wanting
[2:13:49] to see if you had
[2:13:50] any additional thoughts in terms of,
[2:13:52] how do we overcome
[2:13:53] that? How would we go about doing
[2:13:55] that? And the
[2:13:56] costs associated with that, whether
[2:13:58] that's an overpass
[2:14:00] or some alternate access point, is
[2:14:01] that something
[2:14:03] that would also be fronted by you all?
[2:14:06] >> so, it needs a lot more studying.
[2:14:10] we
[2:14:12] have not had the time to deep dive into how that works yet.
[2:14:18] I did mention we would be doing a
[2:14:19] full transportation study to get a
[2:14:21] full understanding of what the actual
[2:14:22] cost to do what we think we need to do is going to
[2:14:23] be.
[2:14:25] at that point in time,
[2:14:27] we'll look at how we get it funded,
[2:14:28] because I do think
[2:14:31] it needs to be done at the same time as we
[2:14:32] do our development.
[2:14:34] and we need to be
[2:14:36] able to open safely. So, we'll find a
[2:14:37] way to get
[2:14:39] it funded. I don't know what that is
[2:14:40] yet, so
[2:14:42] it can't commit to what that's going to be yet, but we
[2:14:43] will find a solution.
[2:14:45] >> okay. From my vantage point, that has
[2:14:46] to be a priority.
[2:14:51] all of this is moot if we can't move people in and out of that
[2:14:52] site safely.
[2:14:55] >> I think you heard me
[2:14:58] say in my presentation that my son-in-law is a fire chief.
[2:15:04] access for them,
[2:15:07] access to get first responders
[2:15:09] in to a spot to be able to help people
[2:15:10] out, help
[2:15:13] out if there's a fire, if there's
[2:15:14] an
[2:15:15] accident, if there's something that
[2:15:16] happens at an event and
[2:15:18] we need to get help down, we need to have that
[2:15:19] access. I agree with you 100%. It is a priority.
[2:15:22] >> okay. Thank you.
[2:15:28] and
[2:15:31] then, you
[2:15:34] know, pivoting to
[2:15:36] your stated commitment commitment
[2:15:37] environmental
[2:15:38] stewardship, conservation, and what
[2:15:43] have you, so, this site, no
[2:15:46] doubt, will generate some
[2:15:49] significant
[2:15:51] energy usage. You mentioned, I believe, at the
[2:15:52] outset of your presentation, your
[2:15:53] goal
[2:15:55] is to try to get it as close to net zero as
[2:15:56] possible, so is
[2:15:58] the way that you do that -- are we
[2:16:00] incorporating solar, wind energy?
[2:16:01] what are thoughts there? As I
[2:16:05] was looking at the
[2:16:06] design, do the hotels have solar panels
[2:16:08] on them? Do any of --
[2:16:09] like, help me better understand how
[2:16:11] we get close to
[2:16:14] net zero.
[2:16:15] >> so, solar is a
[2:16:16] mandate by the state. Any new project
[2:16:17] has to have
[2:16:19] solar on it. But we're going to use
[2:16:21] new modern technology that's been
[2:16:23] used for
[2:16:25] many years in europe where they actually use
[2:16:28] the glass of the buildings actually
[2:16:32] have small little solar cells in
[2:16:34] them that you don't see, but it creates energy.
[2:16:35] we're
[2:16:37] doing that currently in some apartments
[2:16:38] that we're doing down in
[2:16:39] san diego. We're using that glass.
[2:16:40] we will continue to use that glass as one element.
[2:16:44] the
[2:16:45] other thing that we have abundance
[2:16:48] of up here is wind. And it doesn't
[2:16:50] take a
[2:16:51] large wind wind turbine to do it.
[2:16:53] they're small.
[2:16:56] wind-
[2:16:57] generating turbines that are also --
[2:16:59] I mean,
[2:17:01] the size of a baseball that are put on
[2:17:02] the
[2:17:05] side of a building that are spinning that are creating
[2:17:08] energy. There's
[2:17:11] the ability to have smaller
[2:17:12] turbines that are 18 inches high,
[2:17:14] about a foot wide,
[2:17:15] that create the same amount of energy as seven solar
[2:17:17] panels.
[2:17:22] one of the ther elements we're working with,
[2:17:23] we're working
[2:17:24] with universities currently, and we're
[2:17:25] going to be deploying, at the maritime
[2:17:26] museum down
[2:17:29] in san diego, a pilot
[2:17:32] project that
[2:17:35] takes a --a tidal flow
[2:17:37] in a safe manner that allows us to
[2:17:38] create the energy with
[2:17:39] movement of the water. There's a lot
[2:17:41] of movement of water here.
[2:17:43] it's constantly moving. We want to
[2:17:44] capture that energy
[2:17:45] that's part of the energy that the bay
[2:17:47] is giving
[2:17:50] us. We want to
[2:17:51] use it. We're looking at those three
[2:17:53] things to really
[2:17:55] capture the energy and create it into
[2:17:56] something that gets us to the net zero.
[2:17:57] >> okay.
[2:18:03] appreciate that. With respect to the
[2:18:05] rising sea levels, the
[2:18:08] king tides, which do,
[2:18:10] as we saw from the photos, they come
[2:18:11] and visit
[2:18:14] us every
[2:18:17] year, how --so, is your proposal
[2:18:19] here, is it to --will this -- all
[2:18:20] of
[2:18:23] these proposed facilities, will
[2:18:25] they be raised a certain amount off
[2:18:26] the ground so even as
[2:18:27] the sea levels begin to rise, the
[2:18:29] king tides come
[2:18:31] through, that the facilities would
[2:18:32] be
[2:18:35] immune from any type of flooding?
[2:18:38] help me better understand that.
[2:18:41] >> that's one of the things
[2:18:42] that we have to solve. When I was out
[2:18:44] there for the first time, one of
[2:18:46] the parking lots was full of water.
[2:18:47] so, can't have that.
[2:18:49] we can't have a development that's full
[2:18:50] of water. Part of
[2:18:52] the problem that we have is the infrastructure
[2:18:53] going into the bay and the
[2:18:56] way that it
[2:18:57] feeds back and forth allows for that
[2:18:59] water to easily flow through
[2:19:00] so that'll be corrected when we do
[2:19:02] the seawall. We have to
[2:19:05] raise the seawall up, because it's
[2:19:06] currently
[2:19:07] below where it needs to be. In order
[2:19:08] to get us
[2:19:09] up out of the sea level rise, we need to lift
[2:19:11] that up a little bit.
[2:19:14] the way that we do the parking
[2:19:17] garages, the way that we handle that, we'll
[2:19:18] be immune
[2:19:19] to water going into them. So, those
[2:19:20] are all things that we're
[2:19:21] going to do to help protect the development.
[2:19:26] >> okay. >> because
[2:19:28] remember, ultimately, these are your assets.
[2:19:35] we're going to be asees of
[2:19:37] these assets. We're going to operate them
[2:19:38] through a lease, but
[2:19:39] ultimately, these are all going to be assets
[2:19:40] for the city of martinez.
[2:19:41] >> okay.
[2:19:44] thank you for that.
[2:19:47] the last question I
[2:19:50] had, and I do
[2:19:53] appreciate the inclusion of our labor
[2:19:54] and
[2:19:55] the recognition that martinez is a
[2:19:59] longstanding union town, and
[2:20:02] providing good union jobs has been
[2:20:03] a
[2:20:04] long priority for me and many on the
[2:20:05] council.
[2:20:07] and you know, I am excited about the
[2:20:11] prospect in terms of the jobs aspect
[2:20:14] of this, both during the
[2:20:17] construction, but also the jobs to
[2:20:18] be
[2:20:19] provided once the project is fully completed.
[2:20:23] and so, can you speak --
[2:20:26] I mean, you did mention
[2:20:27] it, that you have experience working with
[2:20:29] labor unions.
[2:20:33] can you talk a little bit
[2:20:34] about, you know, how have you been
[2:20:36] able
[2:20:37] to bring consensus within labor, who
[2:20:39] may not always necessarily see
[2:20:40] eye to eye on particular projects?
[2:20:45] you know, I know just
[2:20:46] here, candidly, I mean, we have had
[2:20:48] some
[2:20:49] discussions around project labor agreements
[2:20:51] here in this
[2:20:54] chamber, that there are --
[2:20:56] there is not a unanimous decision
[2:20:57] in terms of
[2:20:59] how those agreements should be shaped
[2:21:01] and so I'm just kind of --I would
[2:21:03] like to hear a little bit
[2:21:05] more in terms of your background working
[2:21:06] with
[2:21:08] labor unions, because candidly, our
[2:21:09] city,
[2:21:11] our sister city here, concord, has
[2:21:12] also --was also
[2:21:15] looking at a very large project
[2:21:16] at the former naval weapons station
[2:21:18] site. They have had
[2:21:21] to go through multiple
[2:21:24] developers and one
[2:21:26] developer came in, promised a lot
[2:21:27] of things
[2:21:30] and turned
[2:21:32] around and said, I can't do this project
[2:21:33] because I can't reach an
[2:21:34] agreement with the unions. So I just
[2:21:36] want to know, is this
[2:21:37] something that you are committed to,
[2:21:39] we're going into this eyes wide
[2:21:42] open, like you are prepared
[2:21:45] to work with ourour partners to
[2:21:46] reach an agreement at the outset?
[2:21:48] that's something that's really important
[2:21:51] for
[2:21:53] me.
[2:21:54] >> absolutely. I was given the
[2:21:55] opportunity to
[2:21:56] meet with several of them to start
[2:21:57] the conversation
[2:22:00] to talk about
[2:22:03] our commitment.
[2:22:05] and we'll have conversations to iron
[2:22:07] everything out. One of the things we do
[2:22:08] is all our general contractors are
[2:22:09] union
[2:22:12] to begin with.
[2:22:13] so, they automatically start to get the
[2:22:15] unions behind them.
[2:22:16] >> okay. >> it's
[2:22:17] a matter of getting consensus as to
[2:22:18] what --
[2:22:20] who's doing what, what unions are
[2:22:21] handling what trades.
[2:22:24] it's getting everybody to be on the same page
[2:22:26] and understand that one big project
[2:22:28] with everybody getting fair wages is
[2:22:30] better for everyone.
[2:22:33] and that's what we're going to do.
[2:22:34] we'll
[2:22:35] building consensus. That's what we do.
[2:22:36] >> okay. Thank you very much.
[2:22:37] those are all the questions that I had at this time.
[2:22:42] I'll turn it over to my colleague,
[2:22:43] councilmember
[2:22:44] mckillop. Thank you.
[2:22:45] >> I want to
[2:22:46] say thank you
[2:22:48] to greg and diane for your vision
[2:22:49] and for coming to martinez with this idea.
[2:22:54] and thank you to the staff for bringing
[2:22:55] it to
[2:22:56] the council at the closed session, and
[2:22:57] I just
[2:23:00] want to say that all the council was
[2:23:01] united at closed session when we saw
[2:23:03] this.
[2:23:06] we said, as satinder said, stop right now.
[2:23:08] our community --this is a community
[2:23:09] asset. This is
[2:23:11] part of martinez, and so we wanted
[2:23:12] to make sure
[2:23:15] that all of you understood what this
[2:23:16] was
[2:23:18] and that we're here tonight so that you can
[2:23:19] understand
[2:23:20] what this is. This potentially could
[2:23:21] be
[2:23:24] a legacy project, as
[2:23:25] my fellow council members have mentioned.
[2:23:26] I love all your comments. This is
[2:23:27] something that we really
[2:23:28] have to think about. This is something
[2:23:30] not just for
[2:23:32] us, but for the future generations
[2:23:33] of martinez, for
[2:23:35] our youth, for the survival of our
[2:23:38] city, financially, for the type of
[2:23:39] life we want to have in martinez.
[2:23:41] we want to have a safe community.
[2:23:42] we
[2:23:44] want to have good police officers
[2:23:45] that protect our community. We
[2:23:47] want to have enough revenue to be
[2:23:48] able to support the lifestyle
[2:23:50] that we have in martinez, and this
[2:23:51] is an
[2:23:53] opportunity to think about how this could piece that together
[2:23:54] for us.
[2:23:57] so, I wanted --
[2:23:59] just I want to really stress how much
[2:24:00] time and attention
[2:24:02] our city staff have put together over
[2:24:03] the last month or so to be
[2:24:06] able to get this out to our community.
[2:24:07] I know
[2:24:08] they met with many community groups.
[2:24:09] many of you out
[2:24:11] here tonight, to let you know about
[2:24:12] this, so that we could encourage people
[2:24:15] to come here tonight, either in the
[2:24:17] council chambers or online. I think
[2:24:18] earlier, we
[2:24:20] had over 85 people listening. This
[2:24:21] is a
[2:24:24] really, really big and monumental
[2:24:25] decision
[2:24:27] for the city
[2:24:29] of martinez, and it's not just us up here.
[2:24:30] this is your city. This is your marina.
[2:24:36] this is your decision as well. I know
[2:24:37] a lot
[2:24:38] of you waited a long time. We have been
[2:24:39] here for several
[2:24:42] hours, and I know you have questions
[2:24:43] and concerns. This is
[2:24:44] a lot to wrap your head around, and you may have future
[2:24:45] questions and concerns.
[2:24:48] and we will continue to have outreach
[2:24:50] to our community so that everyone
[2:24:51] is
[2:24:53] apprised of what is happening and
[2:24:54] no
[2:24:56] surprises. This isn't something that's
[2:24:57] going to be, you
[2:24:59] know, a surprise. This is something
[2:25:00] that if you are engaged and you want
[2:25:01] to know
[2:25:02] about your city and you want to take
[2:25:03] part in something revolutionary, this is the
[2:25:04] opportunity.
[2:25:08] I can't think of anything larger than
[2:25:09] this that I can think of in
[2:25:11] the history of martinez other than
[2:25:13] maybe when the bridge
[2:25:15] was created, when ferry service was
[2:25:16] retired and we had
[2:25:18] a bridge, and that was in the 1960s.
[2:25:19] I think it
[2:25:20] opened in '62. I think that was the year I was
[2:25:22] born. Long
[2:25:25] time ago.
[2:25:28] this is something really amazing
[2:25:30] and it's not going to just touch the
[2:25:31] city of martinez, it's
[2:25:32] going to touch the entire county and
[2:25:33] beyond. Even the state. People will
[2:25:34] come
[2:25:35] here because this is going to be an
[2:25:37] amazing --if we decide we want
[2:25:39] to go in this direction, an amazing jewel for this area.
[2:25:46] we've wanted ferry
[2:25:47] service for a hundred years and people
[2:25:49] want to take the ferry
[2:25:50] and go to the city, take the ferry
[2:25:52] and go places.
[2:25:53] this is a potential way to get there.
[2:25:55] this is going
[2:25:56] to revolutionize martinez and downtown martinez.
[2:26:04] I know a lot of
[2:26:05] my council members have had great
[2:26:06] words to say. I want to hear what you
[2:26:07] have to
[2:26:09] say. I want to hear. You have public
[2:26:10] comment. You have lots
[2:26:11] of questions and concerns, so I would
[2:26:13] like
[2:26:16] to make sure we can turn this over
[2:26:17] to you, both in the council chambers
[2:26:19] here tonight and online so that
[2:26:20] people can ask questions. I'm sure
[2:26:21] people have concerns. This is a big, big deal.
[2:26:22] a big deal.
[2:26:25] so,
[2:26:28] I'm going to allow everyone
[2:26:31] now to have their opportunity to ask questions.
[2:26:34] take it away, vice mayor.
[2:26:39] >> I had some questions before we
[2:26:40] move
[2:26:43] to public comment.
[2:26:44] >> of course,
[2:26:45] bri.
[2:26:46] >> I didn't ask any at the beginning.
[2:26:47] sorry, jay, to cut in line.
[2:26:48] >> thanks, bri.
[2:26:49] >> it's going to my seat.
[2:26:52] so, most
[2:26:54] of my questions are for greg. Before we
[2:26:55] open this up to public
[2:26:56] comment, I just wanted to clarify
[2:26:58] a few items from
[2:27:01] your presentation. So, you did make
[2:27:04] reference to a safe harbor. My understanding
[2:27:07] that safe harbor would be your partner
[2:27:10] that would do the marina
[2:27:11] infrastructure repairs. Where along
[2:27:13] the project timeline would
[2:27:16] the marina
[2:27:19] repairs
[2:27:25] occur? Do you anticipate all
[2:27:27] of that parallel?
[2:27:28] >> it would be parallel.
[2:27:30] the development will happen in a parallel
[2:27:31] track. It has to
[2:27:33] happen in a parallel track because of
[2:27:34] the way that we
[2:27:36] have to raise the site up. The marina improvements have to
[2:27:37] be done at the same time.
[2:27:40] >> okay.
[2:27:43] and then, the many
[2:27:45] of my colleagues have made comments
[2:27:46] about this being
[2:27:49] conceptual design, a vision. The
[2:27:52] ena process is not really
[2:27:54] going to have much comment on this
[2:27:55] design, but if the
[2:27:58] ena process goes smoothly, and
[2:28:00] we approve moving into a development
[2:28:03] agreement, in your experience, in
[2:28:04] other
[2:28:07] cities, how much does a conceptual
[2:28:10] design change from your vision to when
[2:28:13] you finally finalize that development agreement and start
[2:28:14] moving forward with permitting?
[2:28:19] >> I have never had one
[2:28:22] get
[2:28:24] developed exactly how I started out with it, the
[2:28:25] vision.
[2:28:26] >>
[2:28:27] okay.
[2:28:28] >> like I said, when I walked
[2:28:29] up tonight, it changed
[2:28:30] when those two young men asked for
[2:28:31] a soccer field.
[2:28:32] >> already changed.
[2:28:33] right. Got you.
[2:28:34] okay. We already have
[2:28:36] a soccer field. It just needs some improvement.
[2:28:37] it's just around the corner from the baseball field.
[2:28:40] noted.
[2:28:43] noted, declan. The
[2:28:45] one question --I know we've sort of
[2:28:46] talked about sea level rise a
[2:28:48] little bit. You've talked about building
[2:28:49] up the
[2:28:51] seawall and for clarification, sometimes
[2:28:52] we use the
[2:28:54] word seawall to refer to the marina
[2:28:55] infrastructure, the
[2:28:58] outside, but you're referring to actually,
[2:29:00] like, the rip rap. That's the seawall you're
[2:29:01] talking about building
[2:29:04] up, right?
[2:29:05] >> yeah, the rivetment.
[2:29:07] stone edge. Yeah.
[2:29:08] >> okay.
[2:29:09] so, I have had some people since the
[2:29:12] agenda went live talking about the
[2:29:14] stability of building a hotel down at
[2:29:16] the waterfront, you know,
[2:29:17] people are concerned about sea level
[2:29:19] rise, so can you
[2:29:22] just speak to the
[2:29:23] geotechnical nature of the design that
[2:29:25] you do? This is clearly
[2:29:28] conceptual now, but what kind of geotechnical
[2:29:30] input do you get when you build something down at a place like
[2:29:31] our waterfront?
[2:29:34] >> we will
[2:29:37] go to full
[2:29:39] geotechnical reports on it. We have
[2:29:40] preliminary stuff given
[2:29:42] to us and looked at. We need to get
[2:29:43] better information
[2:29:45] to have and understand what that is.
[2:29:49] more than likely we
[2:29:50] will end up with caissons and a matte
[2:29:52] foundation to support it and be able
[2:29:55] to handle
[2:29:58] the seismic activity in
[2:29:59] the area. Very similar to what we
[2:30:01] have to do everywhere along the coast
[2:30:04] of california. So, all
[2:30:05] of that will be in the next phases
[2:30:07] as we start doing our due diligence
[2:30:10] further. As we go through the
[2:30:14] ena, we will get better information
[2:30:16] is what we need to do. The foundations
[2:30:17] will be secured. They will be seismically
[2:30:19] to code
[2:30:22] and we are looking at the
[2:30:23] new codes coming out so we will always
[2:30:25] be current with regards to our
[2:30:28] seismic response.
[2:30:31] >>
[2:30:32] do you have to do anything special
[2:30:34] for an underground parking lot? I
[2:30:35] feel like that was one of the components
[2:30:37] of the questions I received from folks.
[2:30:39] >> so it is the way in which the lower
[2:30:40] level of the
[2:30:43] parking lot is handled.
[2:30:45] and the way we do not let the water
[2:30:46] infiltration come up from the
[2:30:49] ground because it's
[2:30:52] liquefaction which is
[2:30:53] what oppresses up on that. It's a
[2:30:55] matter of having enough weight on
[2:30:56] top
[2:30:57] of it to hold it down so we do not
[2:30:58] have a look faction pushing a.
[2:31:00] we waterproof it in a way that will
[2:31:01] not allow water to
[2:31:04] come through.
[2:31:05] >> only a few more questions.
[2:31:07] so the
[2:31:10] had mitigation
[2:31:13] and restoration of the dewatering
[2:31:14] ponds
[2:31:15] as part of the assumption of the plan.
[2:31:19] so, can you just speak to what your
[2:31:22] assumptions are , the dewatering ponds
[2:31:23] is
[2:31:25] the area
[2:31:27] you are not proposing, the open space
[2:31:28] you are not proposing to develop.
[2:31:29] are
[2:31:31] you anticipating that be
[2:31:32] an independent project or are you
[2:31:34] looking at that
[2:31:40] as a mitigation project for your project?
[2:31:41] does
[2:31:42] that question makes sense?
[2:31:43] >> yes
[2:31:44] it does. I am
[2:31:45] not sure at this point if it will
[2:31:46] be a full
[2:31:47] mitigation project for what we need.
[2:31:49] we will have some influence
[2:31:52] on that. We will be contributing
[2:31:55] to some of that as well.
[2:31:57] during this negotiation we are going
[2:31:58] to
[2:32:01] find out
[2:32:04] what
[2:32:06] our full mitigation needs to be. We
[2:32:07] have to go through that full eir
[2:32:09] process to find out what we have to
[2:32:10] mitigate. So it will be determined
[2:32:15] through that process, and if it comes
[2:32:16] out that that is our mitigation and
[2:32:19] we have to improve it.
[2:32:20] >> thank you.
[2:32:24] lastly, the one thing you mentioned
[2:32:25] near the end of
[2:32:27] your comments was with respect to
[2:32:31] these hotels, this infrastructure
[2:32:32] that
[2:32:33] would be part of this project would
[2:32:34] be something that your organization
[2:32:37] would lease from the city was how
[2:32:38] you worded it.
[2:32:40] what is your expected timeline? I
[2:32:41] realize
[2:32:43] we are still in vision mode,
[2:32:52] but in the future, when your lease
[2:32:53] from
[2:32:54] the city, you decide to break that,
[2:32:55] would that look like for martinez?
[2:32:58] we would
[2:33:00] just out right on the hotel and we
[2:33:01] would operate it, how does that
[2:33:03] work?
[2:33:04] >> during the lease there are
[2:33:05] certain things that we will be
[2:33:06] required to do. And that will be the
[2:33:07] way we have to maintain.
[2:33:09] we have to invest money over the time
[2:33:10] of the lease to make sure that
[2:33:13] the asset stays at a high level.
[2:33:16] if we get to a point where
[2:33:19] ending our lease
[2:33:22] , let's just throw out a number, let's
[2:33:23] say it's
[2:33:25] a 50 year lease, and in 50 years we decide
[2:33:33] , we have operated the hotel long
[2:33:34] enough, we are not
[2:33:35] interested in operating anymore, still
[2:33:37] in very good condition, still great
[2:33:38] asset, we would
[2:33:40] help you find a suitable operator
[2:33:42] to come in and start operating the
[2:33:43] hotel and take on a new lease.
[2:33:46] >> okay.
[2:33:49] those are all of my questions right
[2:33:50] now. Now I'm
[2:33:51] going to go back to what councilmember
[2:33:52] mckillop said,
[2:33:58] take it away,
[2:34:00] vice mayor howard, if you would like
[2:34:01] to call out names of people from
[2:34:02] the public who submitted speaker cards
[2:34:04] or you can call on people by name
[2:34:06] and they can come out, depending on
[2:34:07] how many speaker cards were submitted.
[2:34:10] >> I have
[2:34:12] one question before we jump into speakers.
[2:34:17] earlier in your presentation, greg,
[2:34:18] you mentioned the configuration of
[2:34:19] the actual marina.
[2:34:25] there has been criticism over the
[2:34:27] years that the way we configured our
[2:34:28] marina, the opening facilitation comes
[2:34:29] in and there
[2:34:31] has been a lot of talk about the positioning
[2:34:32] of the
[2:34:33] opening of the marina, the mouth,
[2:34:35] where boats actually should be entering
[2:34:38] . And having been
[2:34:49] in an italian family that did fishing,
[2:34:50] I
[2:34:51] am fifth-generation italian, they
[2:34:52] all came here from sicily and fished
[2:34:53] all these waters
[2:34:54] and there people here in the audience
[2:34:55] who fished in these waters that know
[2:34:56] the
[2:34:57] waters, that no the way the currents
[2:34:59] flow and it's part of their dna of
[2:35:00] being a artesian. That is something
[2:35:01] I have been asked about and there
[2:35:02] was
[2:35:03] concern we don't want to make the
[2:35:04] same mistake again. You did mention
[2:35:05] you're studying
[2:35:07] that and that you had, or maybe not yourself,
[2:35:11] but safe harbors was aware.
[2:35:13] I want to make sure we don't overlook
[2:35:14] let and
[2:35:17] look into
[2:35:20] or tapping into
[2:35:21] some of the expertise that is here
[2:35:23] in martinez the could talk about some
[2:35:24] of the natural flows of the water
[2:35:26] in the river. We have the creek,
[2:35:27] and how that comes together so we
[2:35:29] don't make a mistake
[2:35:34] and affect the environmental makeup
[2:35:35] of
[2:35:36] the geography here in a way that would
[2:35:38] contribute to some sort of future
[2:35:39] problem
[2:35:41] in the marina access again.
[2:35:42] >>
[2:35:43] that is one of the studies we would
[2:35:44] be doing. We
[2:35:47] do have a maritime engineer
[2:35:50] that we employed to do the studies
[2:35:53] and
[2:35:54] hydraulic studies to look at the flow
[2:35:56] of the water, look at where it
[2:35:57] needs to be. We do that in conjunction
[2:35:59] with safe harbor because
[2:36:02] it means a lot to us
[2:36:05] on the land side as well.
[2:36:08] we are
[2:36:09] providing the access to the boats
[2:36:10] with the understanding of exactly
[2:36:11] how we're going
[2:36:13] to do that and how to do it safely.
[2:36:14] and again, good point, we want
[2:36:16] to make sure we avoid another type of
[2:36:17] catastrophic
[2:36:20] event happening.
[2:36:22] so, during these opportunities we have
[2:36:29] the ability
[2:36:30] to reach out to the community, we
[2:36:31] definitely would like to hear from
[2:36:32] the fishing industry
[2:36:33] here. And those that know these waters.
[2:36:35] they can give our engineers insight
[2:36:38] to
[2:36:39] things that they may not be able to
[2:36:41] see just on maps and just through
[2:36:43] some of their studies that they do. But
[2:36:44] we
[2:36:45] will definitely make sure that is
[2:36:47] addressed.
[2:36:48] >> okay, thank you, I
[2:36:50] appreciate that.
[2:36:51] >> okay, we're going to start with
[2:36:53] the speaker cards that were submitted.
[2:36:56] first up we have beverly.
[2:37:02] >> hello, and beverly,
[2:37:08] I am one of the owners of power
[2:37:09] sports which is the basketball facility
[2:37:10] adjacent to the marina. I'm extremely
[2:37:11] excited
[2:37:14] about this as we host
[2:37:17] tournaments weekly
[2:37:20] , every weekend, pretty much
[2:37:21] through the year. That range anywhere
[2:37:23] from basketball tournaments to gymnastics qualifications,
[2:37:32] these
[2:37:33] are things that people rent out and
[2:37:35] people come from all over the country.
[2:37:37] and they need a place to stay. And
[2:37:38] right now we are sending them to
[2:37:40] the creek. It be great to have them
[2:37:41] in our backyard. And,
[2:37:44] in between
[2:37:55] pretty much when the people come they
[2:37:56] are here for the entire weekend
[2:37:57] and they are looking for something
[2:37:59] to do in between their competitions.
[2:38:00] or their
[2:38:01] games. It would be nice to be able
[2:38:02] to send them over to the marina
[2:38:03] to walk around on the boardwalk, go
[2:38:05] to the restaurants. Shop. Keep them
[2:38:06] local, keep
[2:38:07] the money here. So I am excited about
[2:38:08] it. The only thing I agree
[2:38:10] with the you mentioned, it would be
[2:38:11] great to have an alternate way to
[2:38:12] get
[2:38:13] over to our area because that is always
[2:38:14] a concern. So, thank you.
[2:38:15] >> thank
[2:38:17] you. Next I have tim.
[2:38:32] >> all right, good evening. Honorable mayor,
[2:38:33] vice mayor,
[2:38:34] council members and staff, and the
[2:38:35] executive director of the contra costa
[2:38:36] construction trades
[2:38:37] council. I want to speak tonight in
[2:38:38] favor of the council moving forward
[2:38:39] with
[2:38:41] the ena.
[2:38:46] it was an exciting presentation, I
[2:38:47] think the benefits are
[2:38:48] evident, the potential evidence have
[2:38:50] been well articulated. Both the project sponsor,
[2:38:52] your staff and several of you have
[2:38:53] commented, obviously this is step
[2:38:55] one in a long process, that has already
[2:38:56] been mentioned,
[2:39:01] but the benefits are evident. I think
[2:39:02] what is also evident when
[2:39:04] you look at the project is all the
[2:39:05] various components, a lot of
[2:39:08] different components a lot
[2:39:10] of different areas of work that need
[2:39:11] to be done.
[2:39:13] and our members of our 20 affiliates,
[2:39:14] other members of
[2:39:17] the contra costa
[2:39:20] building trades stand ready to do
[2:39:21] that
[2:39:22] work. We are excited to hear the commitment
[2:39:23] that was made tonight
[2:39:26] by tucker sadler and your support
[2:39:28] as well of union labor. The other
[2:39:29] issue
[2:39:34] referenced was working with carpenters.
[2:39:35] we already reached out to them and
[2:39:36] look
[2:39:37] forward to having a good partnership
[2:39:38] with them. Working on a collaborative
[2:39:39] nature on
[2:39:40] an agreement with the project sponsors
[2:39:46] and all of you. And working shoulder
[2:39:47] to shoulder with them on this project.
[2:39:49] it does take skilled hands to build
[2:39:50] a project of this nature. I think
[2:39:51] speaking
[2:39:52] directly to councilmember young's
[2:39:54] comments this has the potential
[2:39:57] with union labor
[2:39:58] on it and the benefit and input of
[2:40:00] the community of being not just
[2:40:03] a crown jewel for contra costa
[2:40:04] county but really the entire bay area.
[2:40:06] we are excited to be part of the
[2:40:07] process and look forward to working
[2:40:09] with all of you. Thank you.
[2:40:10] >> thank
[2:40:12] you. Next is desmond.
[2:40:18] >> thank you. Desmond.
[2:40:23] I came up here to read something for
[2:40:26] kevin bacon, he is a member of the
[2:40:27] marina and
[2:40:29] a long-term resident of martinez.
[2:40:34] he is not here, he's flying for work
[2:40:36] right now.
[2:40:39] I will go for it. Some of
[2:40:40] what has been talked about today has
[2:40:42] already been covered.
[2:40:43] but this was already written and I'm
[2:40:45] not going to edit it on the
[2:40:48] fly. So,
[2:40:51] my name is kevin bacon, am and
[2:40:52] longtime martinez resident, boat owner
[2:40:53] and am on the board of directors for
[2:40:57] the martinez
[2:41:00] sportsmen's
[2:41:01] clubs. Since I'm out of town I'm sending
[2:41:02] this written letter in support of
[2:41:03] exploring
[2:41:04] the prospect joint venture between
[2:41:05] the city and a private developer to
[2:41:06] reform the
[2:41:07] marina area into a more prosperous
[2:41:08] economic water recreational destination.
[2:41:20] contra costa county encompasses 716
[2:41:21] square miles. It is home to
[2:41:22] 19 cities with a population of over
[2:41:23] 1 million residents making it california's
[2:41:24] ninth
[2:41:27] most populous county.
[2:41:30] out of the 15 cities in
[2:41:31] the central and west county, only
[2:41:33] one city has the benefit of
[2:41:36] the marina. With gateway access
[2:41:37] to california's largest rivers, bays
[2:41:38] and even the pacific ocean. That one
[2:41:39] being the
[2:41:42] city of martinez. With its boating marina
[2:41:45] that has been around since
[2:41:48] the 1920s,
[2:41:50] of the 15 cities in central and west county,
[2:41:51] of the
[2:41:54] ninth most populous county
[2:41:57] in california, only martinez has
[2:41:59] existing commercial recreational waterfront infrastructure
[2:42:03] and is the only city eligible
[2:42:06] for any of the marina
[2:42:09] grants offered. Transforming
[2:42:11] a marina into a thriving economic
[2:42:12] hub involves
[2:42:15] a multifaceted approach balancing
[2:42:17] economic growth with the environmental responsibility
[2:42:21] --
[2:42:22] >> time is up.
[2:42:24] >> but that's not
[2:42:26] even the first page.
[2:42:27] >> [ laughter ]
[2:42:33] >> I'm sorry. >> you can
[2:42:35] get submitted for the record.
[2:42:36] >> the
[2:42:37] given the time, he did send it
[2:42:38] in. On my behalf, thank you for all
[2:42:39] of your effort, it's very exciting.
[2:42:41] time to be a martisian. Thank you.
[2:42:45] >> next I have connie miller.
[2:42:57] >>
[2:43:00] connie miller. Thank you for
[2:43:03] the council and is it greg,
[2:43:06] for your presentation.
[2:43:11] I have lived in martinez for 46 years
[2:43:12] and I spoke 20
[2:43:15] years ago to a council about,
[2:43:18] you know, we were supposed
[2:43:21] to revitalize martinez
[2:43:24] and we
[2:43:25] had people from other cities talking
[2:43:27] against it. They shouldn't have any
[2:43:28] say because
[2:43:29] they don't live here. But when I scan
[2:43:30] the qr code there
[2:43:33] it said
[2:43:36] martinez, bay area's hidden gem. That
[2:43:38] is exactly what it is. I used to say
[2:43:39] it's a diamond in
[2:43:40] the rough. And it shouldn't be hidden.
[2:43:42] this is our chance. I think you all
[2:43:43] agree
[2:43:45] that we definitely want to make
[2:43:48] our community
[2:43:54] a place that draws people
[2:43:56] here. Because like he said, and I
[2:43:57] have always said that, we are the
[2:43:58] only
[2:43:59] community that has water, of all these
[2:44:00] cities, danville, orinda, we have
[2:44:02] the water. But we don't polish it.
[2:44:09] we
[2:44:11] don't take care of it. And yes, the
[2:44:12] train problem, I have waited over
[2:44:14] an hour many times either on one side
[2:44:17] or the other. If you have a heart
[2:44:18] attack on the side
[2:44:20] of the tracks you are dead because
[2:44:21] are not going to fly a helicopter
[2:44:23] over to get you. That definitely needs
[2:44:24] to be fixed. When I
[2:44:26] moved here in 1979 I believe there
[2:44:27] was a restaurant boat
[2:44:29] in the marina. Someone who lives here
[2:44:30] probably knows.
[2:44:33] yeah, there was a
[2:44:34] boat on the water the people could
[2:44:36] go dying, tiburon
[2:44:39] has that restaurant on the water
[2:44:41] the people flock there and it's fun
[2:44:42] on
[2:44:44] a nice sunny morning to go for brunch
[2:44:45] or something.
[2:44:51] so yeah, I think everyone is for
[2:44:53] it. This is the best idea. Finally,
[2:44:54] maybe I will live long enough to see
[2:44:57] it happen.
[2:44:58] >> next is stephen.
[2:45:02] I apologize if I pronounced steven's
[2:45:03] name wrong.
[2:45:04] >>
[2:45:06] good evening mayor and city council.
[2:45:09] and residents. Am a proud resident
[2:45:12] of martinez and a journeyman
[2:45:31] of local 34. I am here to
[2:45:32] voice my strong support for the proposed
[2:45:33] marina project including the hotel,
[2:45:34] retail, recreation space
[2:45:35] and marina facilities. This project
[2:45:36] isn't just another job site, it's
[2:45:37] a chance to
[2:45:38] build something meaningful in our
[2:45:39] own backyard. For work is like me
[2:45:40] working close to
[2:45:41] home means, this means no more long
[2:45:42] commutes or working out of town. It
[2:45:44] means spending more time with family,
[2:45:45] being present at the moments that
[2:45:46] matter in doing
[2:45:47] work I love. Union jobs on this project
[2:45:48] will offer minimum wages, full family
[2:45:52] healthcare, retirement security,
[2:45:53] the kind that let people buy a home,
[2:45:55] raise kids and stay rooted in
[2:45:58] their communities.
[2:46:00] these are just paychecks, they are
[2:46:01] pathway to
[2:46:02] better life. This is more than just
[2:46:03] a waterfront development, it's a real
[2:46:04] opportunity
[2:46:05] to control the --grow the workforce.
[2:46:07] it will create hands-on training for apprentices
[2:46:10] working
[2:46:11] side-by-side with seasoned journeyman
[2:46:12] who can pass down the knowledge, skills,
[2:46:14] standards and that define our trade.
[2:46:16] that is how you build a
[2:46:17] strong workforce through real experience
[2:46:19] and union values.
[2:46:20] we have a responsibility to make sure
[2:46:22] these opportunities
[2:46:25] that are open for everyone
[2:46:31] . This project gives us a chance to
[2:46:32] bring more women into construction,
[2:46:33] a field where they historically have
[2:46:34] been underrepresented. But
[2:46:35] where they belong. It gives veterans
[2:46:36] a path forward. When they return home.
[2:46:37] a
[2:46:40] career where there discipline,
[2:46:46] work ethic
[2:46:47] and teamwork and thrive. It opens
[2:46:48] doors for people of color who deserve
[2:46:49] a
[2:46:50] fair shot of high-quality jobs that
[2:46:52] offer growth and security. The marina project
[2:46:53] will be a place where people from
[2:46:55] all walks of life come together
[2:46:58] to build, grow and succeed.
[2:47:00] and we create long-term jobs, only
[2:47:01] during construction
[2:47:02] but in the hotel, retail and marina
[2:47:03] operations. Generating academic activity
[2:47:04] that stays right
[2:47:07] here in martinez.
[2:47:09] is a union member --
[2:47:10] >> time is up.
[2:47:12] >> I urge you to support this project.
[2:47:13] >> [
[2:47:16] applause ]
[2:47:19] >> next is chris.
[2:47:31] >> I will raise is up. Good evening,
[2:47:34] mayor, vice
[2:47:35] mayor, staff, members of the community.
[2:47:39] my name is chris and I'm a local resident.
[2:47:42] I am also proud member of northern
[2:47:43] california
[2:47:46] carpenters union,
[2:47:48] local 34, the martinez waterfront
[2:47:49] project is an
[2:47:50] exciting opportunity for the city
[2:47:52] of martinez new york I asked the council
[2:47:54] to approve the exclusive shooting
[2:47:55] agreement with tucker
[2:47:58] sadler. Nql for your service.
[2:47:59] >> [
[2:48:01] applause ]
[2:48:02] >> thank you. >> next
[2:48:04] is william.
[2:48:10] >> hi,
[2:48:13] and bill,
[2:48:22] I'm going to modify my statement a
[2:48:23] little
[2:48:24] bit based on the presentation. Am
[2:48:25] a california licensed geologist and
[2:48:26] engineering geologist. I'm not
[2:48:27] looking for work. But, we did talk
[2:48:28] about sea level rise and that
[2:48:31] is real. In 1850,
[2:48:32] 1852 and again in 1860s there were
[2:48:34] major floods
[2:48:43] . About 1 billion cubic yards of sediment
[2:48:44] washdown from
[2:48:45] hydraulic mining. The waterfront used
[2:48:46] to be at about the train tracks. It
[2:48:47] is now
[2:48:49] about where we see it today.
[2:48:51] they have added extra sediment. Those
[2:48:52] sediments are considered under consolidated.
[2:48:53] they are compacting under their own
[2:48:55] weight. So it's not like typical
[2:49:03] payment. This is sediments deposited
[2:49:04] later. So a
[2:49:05] significant portion of this relevant
[2:49:06] project will need to consider these
[2:49:07] sediments. If you just build
[2:49:09] a nice foundation but don't address
[2:49:10] the underlying sediments
[2:49:16] that land is sinking under
[2:49:17] its own weight. You had buildings,
[2:49:19] that will continue to cause it to
[2:49:20] sink even
[2:49:21] more. So you kind of have two things,
[2:49:22] what are coming up and land
[2:49:24] going down. So that will be a very
[2:49:25] significant how to address the land
[2:49:26] surface
[2:49:27] actually subsiding under its own --
[2:49:28] that was one of the main things. The
[2:49:30] other, I'm going to pitch. At a small
[2:49:31] boat launch, a small kayak launch
[2:49:32] and
[2:49:34] maybe for kayaks and paddle boards.
[2:49:37] maybe sunfish
[2:49:39] side sailboats, that would be a nice
[2:49:40] addition to the waterfront. That's
[2:49:43] it.
[2:49:44] >> [ applause ]
[2:49:49] >> next is matt.
[2:49:52] >>
[2:50:01] mayor zorn, council members, I'm here
[2:50:02] representing the
[2:50:03] bay area council an organization comprised
[2:50:05] of the larger employers
[2:50:07] in the area. Our mission is to make
[2:50:08] this region
[2:50:09] the best place in the world to live
[2:50:11] and work. Our office is actually
[2:50:12] on san francisco bay in a 100-year-old
[2:50:19] ferry boat, you're welcome to visit
[2:50:20] us. It is public
[2:50:21] access as part of the bay trail. We
[2:50:22] are very excited about this project.
[2:50:23] I'm
[2:50:24] not a martisian myself but I look
[2:50:26] over my back fence into martinez.
[2:50:27] I am particularly and personally excited
[2:50:29] about this project.
[2:50:31] one thing we as an organization are
[2:50:32] very bullish on is ferry
[2:50:34] boat service. We created the water
[2:50:35] transit authority and
[2:50:38] over the years and it's
[2:50:39] getting the site connected to the
[2:50:42] regional ferry service is mission critical.
[2:50:50] it has been described as
[2:50:51] an economic engine, this is the fuel
[2:50:52] that will get the engine going. So
[2:50:53] we
[2:50:54] would urge that whatever the project
[2:50:56] ends up being, that there is a physical
[2:50:57] component to have eight ferry terminal and
[2:51:01] a part of the financing mechanism
[2:51:02] to subsidize
[2:51:05] the ferry
[2:51:06] operations, that is required as part
[2:51:08] of the ferry expansion
[2:51:11] plans. I don't know if
[2:51:16] councilmember molly remembers, I was
[2:51:17] on vacation, texting
[2:51:20] photographs saying
[2:51:25] this looks like martinez. Except it's
[2:51:26] full of
[2:51:27] tourists and their hotels in the waterfront
[2:51:29] is activated.
[2:51:30] >> I do remember that.
[2:51:32] >> dude, you got to see this place.
[2:51:33] it
[2:51:34] is what martinez could and should
[2:51:35] be and will be if this project moves
[2:51:36] forward. We approve the agreement
[2:51:37] and hope this comes as fast as possible.
[2:51:38] thank you.
[2:51:41] >> thank you.
[2:51:44] >> next is
[2:51:47] joey.
[2:51:50] >>
[2:51:53] 33+ year resident. I just want
[2:51:56] to say I really want you
[2:51:59] to embrace this ena , take care of martinez
[2:52:02] , it has brought
[2:52:05] so much joy to the community to have
[2:52:08] this waterfront , you know,
[2:52:11] I don't know how to
[2:52:14] say it, it's going to bring so many
[2:52:15] jobs
[2:52:17] and so much
[2:52:20] needed money to the community
[2:52:25] that we can enjoy. I just want to
[2:52:26] say, my vote
[2:52:28] is yes, please do it.
[2:52:29] >> [ applause
[2:52:30] ]
[2:52:31] >> thank you.
[2:52:32] next I have samantha.
[2:52:44] >> hi. Before I begin,
[2:52:47] I am
[2:52:49] with the sea scouts and one of the
[2:52:50] entities that will be probably
[2:52:51] most affected by this development
[2:53:01] phase. I was hoping to be so bold
[2:53:02] as to
[2:53:03] ask for the full three minute allotment,
[2:53:05] totally okay if it's no. Something
[2:53:06] to
[2:53:07] ask for an extra minute.
[2:53:08] >> unfortunately
[2:53:09] we cannot.
[2:53:10] >> I will talk
[2:53:11] quickly. My name is sam, and with
[2:53:12] the sea scouts and the
[2:53:14] key adult
[2:53:16] leader. For those in the room the
[2:53:17] don't know what
[2:53:18] sea scouts are we are specialized
[2:53:20] branch of scouting america the focus
[2:53:21] is on
[2:53:22] teaching today's youth safe recreational
[2:53:23] boating, maritime trade skills and
[2:53:24] life skills. For 93 years
[2:53:25] our proud institution has martinez
[2:53:26] and the greater community about safe
[2:53:27] boating
[2:53:28] and maritime trade in our mission
[2:53:29] is to continue the legacy for many
[2:53:30] years
[2:53:32] to come.
[2:53:41] many of the youth leave our program
[2:53:42] pursue a career
[2:53:43] in the maritime field and for those
[2:53:44] that don't they leave as a lifelong
[2:53:45] passion
[2:53:46] for the water and important skills
[2:53:47] the better the world community. Those
[2:53:48] trade skills we
[2:53:49] teach directly translate into a wide
[2:53:50] variety of blue-collar jobs and as
[2:53:51] you know
[2:53:52] blue-collar jobs helps make the world
[2:53:53] go round. Our program
[2:53:55] has shipped many youth into adults
[2:53:56] with experiences in a wide
[2:53:57] variety of trades such as maritime,
[2:53:58] law, engineering, construction, coast
[2:53:59] guard and more. I cannot
[2:54:00] stress enough the importance mariners
[2:54:02] have on the global trade as well as
[2:54:03] importance
[2:54:05] of her blue-collar workers.
[2:54:16] you may be asking yourself, why am
[2:54:17] I talking about the maritime industry and
[2:54:18] community when we are really talking
[2:54:20] about the martinez master plan and
[2:54:21] the two are
[2:54:22] one and the same. We all in this room
[2:54:23] have a shared and vested interest
[2:54:25] in the water and the different industries
[2:54:26] it serves, recreation and business.
[2:54:27] we understand
[2:54:28] as part of this change we may be asked
[2:54:29] to move to make way
[2:54:31] for industry and tourism in our ask
[2:54:32] a simple. Let us be part of the
[2:54:33] change. Retained the valuable space
[2:54:35] where we grow great people. And if
[2:54:36] it's a plan
[2:54:38] to move us to make way for the changes
[2:54:43] it's of vital importance we retain
[2:54:44] our training center for our
[2:54:46] youth wherever we move too. And a
[2:54:47] place where they can learn things
[2:54:48] such
[2:54:49] as welding, engine work, woodwork,
[2:54:50] a place where they can have class
[2:54:51] centers and
[2:54:52] teach about important skills. Time
[2:54:53] is a.
[2:54:54] >> thank you. >> [
[2:54:56] applause ]
[2:54:59] >> if you cannot complete your
[2:55:02] comments you can email them.
[2:55:05] I will make sure it gets to the city
[2:55:06] council and
[2:55:07] staff members. You can take one of
[2:55:08] the city clerk cards on the table
[2:55:09] over
[2:55:10] to the side. Next we have kelly webster.
[2:55:18] no kelly?
[2:55:24] >> I can be
[2:55:26] very brief. I think this is a great
[2:55:27] idea. I
[2:55:28] love it. The one thing I noticed in
[2:55:30] the pictures,
[2:55:38] and granted those are not exact buildings,
[2:55:39] is that we
[2:55:40] have a beautiful historic town and
[2:55:41] I would like to see the materials
[2:55:42] used to
[2:55:44] create the buildings reflect that
[2:55:45] in some way so
[2:55:46] that when you come from downtown into
[2:55:48] the marina it's not like a
[2:55:50] time jump from a beautiful old town
[2:55:51] to a
[2:55:54] super modern waterfront.
[2:55:57] that's all I have to say.
[2:56:00] >> [ applause ] >> thank you.
[2:56:03] next is
[2:56:06] r. Robertson.
[2:56:09] thank you.
[2:56:12] >> read robertson. Yes,
[2:56:15] a couple of things,
[2:56:17] to greg, I actually have been to the
[2:56:18] national stadium
[2:56:21] and to the peer you designed
[2:56:23] and the district of columbia and it's beautiful.
[2:56:27] I took the ferry over I think
[2:56:30] to virginia
[2:56:31] down the potomac. Very nice work.
[2:56:33] I can endorse greg for that. My
[2:56:36] second thing,
[2:56:38] I guess, you brought it up, my mom
[2:56:41] is one of the contractors the built
[2:56:42] the concord martinez
[2:56:47] station 30 years ago. I remember being a
[2:56:48] much younger kid
[2:56:49] walking around in a hardhat thinking
[2:56:51] this should be a nice place to
[2:56:54] build houses. You can just be here
[2:56:55] and
[2:56:56] walk and go to the city. And there
[2:56:57] has been nothing there.
[2:57:00] the concord city
[2:57:03] council demanded
[2:57:05] I believe a wall-to-wall contract
[2:57:14] labor agreement and it drove the car so
[2:57:15] high nothing was
[2:57:17] built in the thing is going to be
[2:57:18] built there. People have lost their
[2:57:19] political careers because of that.
[2:57:21] the recent one was the mayor. I mean,
[2:57:22] I'm
[2:57:23] not saying anything bad about the
[2:57:24] unions, I'm just saying
[2:57:28] you need to extend extreme caution
[2:57:30] with that. Because they have nothing
[2:57:31] there. And there is nothing coming.
[2:57:32] eatable job in virginia. And just
[2:57:36] kind of, that is my
[2:57:39] cautionary tale.
[2:57:40] >> [ applause ]
[2:57:42] >> next
[2:57:45] is rick.
[2:57:51] >> good evening
[2:58:00] mayor zorn,
[2:58:01] council members and staff. My name
[2:58:03] is rick, I am with carpenters local
[2:58:04] 152 of
[2:58:05] the norcal carpenters union presenting
[2:58:06] roughly 2800 members here in
[2:58:09] contra costa . I'm here to express
[2:58:10] my support
[2:58:11] for the city to enter into a negotiating
[2:58:12] agreement with
[2:58:13] tucker sadler to design the future
[2:58:15] of the martinez arena and waterfront.
[2:58:20] for far too long the city has had
[2:58:21] to utilize the
[2:58:22] general fund to cover the cost of
[2:58:23] marine operations. And much needed
[2:58:24] minutes. Just to
[2:58:27] keep it afloat. Especially after
[2:58:29] elmar management left their post as
[2:58:30] operations director's. The area is
[2:58:33] no longer sustainable and is in dire need
[2:58:36] of a complete restoration. According
[2:58:37] to
[2:58:38] the developer the proposal requires
[2:58:39] no city
[2:58:42] subsidies are nip city
[2:58:45] necessary with all improvements funded to
[2:58:46] private investments along
[2:58:48] with federal funds.
[2:58:51] tucker sadler has verbally
[2:58:52] committed that the construction of
[2:58:54] the project will be done using some
[2:58:55] type of labor
[2:58:56] agreement ensuring that the construction
[2:58:57] will be done by union trains
[2:59:00] people bringing
[2:59:03] much-needed work, opportunities, to
[2:59:04] the unionized residents of martinez
[2:59:05] and throughout contra costa county.
[2:59:06] an agreement of this type
[2:59:09] makes it a
[2:59:12] win
[2:59:14] win win for the developer, the city
[2:59:15] and its residents. I urge you to enter
[2:59:16] into an exclusive negotiating agreement
[2:59:18] with tucker sadler to start the design
[2:59:19] for
[2:59:20] the future of a fleet revitalized
[2:59:21] martinez arena and waterfront.
[2:59:24] thank you.
[2:59:33] >> next is dennis mccarthy.
[2:59:39] >>
[2:59:42] good evening, I am one of
[2:59:45] the managers
[2:59:48] of universal sports academy which
[2:59:49] is a
[2:59:50] city-owned facility on the other side
[2:59:51] of the tracks, I guess one of the
[2:59:53] first things I would say is that additional
[2:59:54] access to that area would be
[2:59:57] much needed for a variety
[2:59:59] of reasons. The other thing I would
[3:00:00] say is I have been a high
[3:00:03] school soccer coach at la habra for
[3:00:06] seven years. I also have been on the
[3:00:09] board of the
[3:00:12] soccer association and young
[3:00:14] santiago that spoke earlier is not
[3:00:15] wrong, there
[3:00:17] is desperate need for additional facilities
[3:00:18] in
[3:00:21] martinez and I think that , sort of
[3:00:22] a revitalization
[3:00:24] of the waterfront
[3:00:28] , bringing in hotels, revitalizing
[3:00:30] the whole area would be great for
[3:00:31] the city. I
[3:00:32] can tell you that I have spoken to
[3:00:37] lauren multiple times,
[3:00:38] we have people believe our facility
[3:00:39] at 8:00, 9:00 and 10:00 at night and
[3:00:40] there
[3:00:42] is nothing to do. I also, it is a beautiful
[3:00:46] hidden gem of the city and
[3:00:47] people are looking for things to do.
[3:00:48] so the more that can be brought to
[3:00:51] the community I think a better. I
[3:00:52] would also
[3:00:55] say that there is a massive
[3:00:58] sports travel organization
[3:01:01] groups that come in.
[3:01:03] three hotels would be nothing to fill
[3:01:06] for those events. I think it would
[3:01:07] bring a lot
[3:01:10] of dynamic energy to what is
[3:01:12] really a beautiful city. Reminiscent
[3:01:13] of the
[3:01:16] east coast which is where
[3:01:17] I'm from but I've been here for 17
[3:01:19] years, you can
[3:01:23] do me now, I live in pleasant hill,
[3:01:25] but spend about 85% of my life
[3:01:26] in martinez. Thank you for the time
[3:01:28] and I'm looking forward to this project.
[3:01:31] >> [ applause ]
[3:01:34] >> I have no further speakers.
[3:01:37] >> did they all booed
[3:01:39] him for being in pleasant hill?
[3:01:40] >>
[3:01:41] there was no booing.
[3:01:43] >> we love
[3:01:46] everybody.
[3:01:47] >> just checking.
[3:01:54] >> I have no further speaker cards.
[3:01:55] if there are additional
[3:01:56] people here in the chambers tonight
[3:01:57] that would like to make a comment,
[3:01:58] please go
[3:01:59] ahead and start lining up to the microphone.
[3:02:01] >> good evening
[3:02:03] everyone. Great, having met you. And
[3:02:07] of course, --
[3:02:10] I cannot stress how much
[3:02:13] this project excites me.
[3:02:19] too often this whole
[3:02:20] idea of revitalizing the marina has
[3:02:22] been something we have all talked about
[3:02:25] and have yearned for.
[3:02:27] and the moment I saw your timeline and it
[3:02:28] said three to
[3:02:29] five years, I told sarah, my god,
[3:02:31] I could still be alive!
[3:02:34] apart from that, I cannot
[3:02:37] , I cannot
[3:02:40] support samantha's comments more as
[3:02:43] a see scout mom whose son went on
[3:02:44] to join the navy and now works for
[3:02:46] military sealift command.
[3:02:49] yes, the see scout's offer an enormous
[3:02:53] amount of opportunity for young people
[3:02:55] to go into highly skilled
[3:02:57] trades at the completion of their involvement,
[3:02:58] so keep
[3:03:00] them there and thank you so much.
[3:03:04] >> thank you.
[3:03:10] >> hello.
[3:03:13] vice chair of the martinez
[3:03:20] diversity and cultural commission.
[3:03:22] I wanted to say, from a cultural perspective,
[3:03:23] I
[3:03:24] am in full support of this. I think
[3:03:25] it's a fair proposal.
[3:03:27] the money we are hemorrhaging as a
[3:03:28] city, there's a tendency to think
[3:03:29] let's plug the gap. Good enough. I
[3:03:31] think there is time for good enough
[3:03:34] and time for admission.
[3:03:39] it seems like this is time for admission
[3:03:40] judging by the amount of
[3:03:41] people we were able to bring out.
[3:03:43] I think the presentation we received
[3:03:44] was one
[3:03:45] of ambition. So, I voice my support
[3:03:46] and voice my hope that we continue
[3:03:47] with that ambition and look to make
[3:03:49] this the hidden jen we know martinez
[3:03:50] to
[3:03:52] be. Thank you.
[3:03:57] >> you want to take the rest of her
[3:03:58] time? Just getting.
[3:04:01] my name is joseph burton. They are
[3:04:02] pretty much
[3:04:04] good what they do.
[3:04:10] I am so happy to be here tonight.
[3:04:11] I want
[3:04:12] martinez to thrive in every single
[3:04:13] way possible. We can't be ignorant
[3:04:14] and say
[3:04:16] that we can't do things, city council
[3:04:18] is right, we have to do things. We
[3:04:19] have to grow. We have to
[3:04:22] economically build in our city
[3:04:25] , but we can't be ignorant of the
[3:04:28] things we are already facing, like
[3:04:29] we have
[3:04:30] a homeless problem, we have a litter problem,
[3:04:34] I know it's not a famous and popular
[3:04:35] thing and
[3:04:36] we have people that may not agree,
[3:04:46] but with this development will come
[3:04:47] more people, which is okay, because
[3:04:49] we want people to come to martinez. We
[3:04:50] want people
[3:04:51] to experience the waterfront, but
[3:04:52] what about the protection of the waterfront?
[3:04:54] what about the birds of the air and
[3:04:55] things that a lot of martinez love
[3:04:59] to experience.
[3:05:00] one thing I don't like to see on the
[3:05:02] ground is litter. I don't like
[3:05:03] to see a trashy city. Actions speak
[3:05:05] louder than words
[3:05:20] . A man
[3:05:21] without a vision will definitely parish. But
[3:05:23] what I want to ask
[3:05:24] is, as people come in and we build,
[3:05:25] I am down for this, I love amphitheaters,
[3:05:26] I
[3:05:27] love people, some of you might know
[3:05:29] me already, I'm joseph. A people person.
[3:05:30] how are you going to protect the waterways?
[3:05:32] when we already have a
[3:05:33] problem detecting our waterways. As
[3:05:34] we continue to expand and grow people
[3:05:35] come into
[3:05:36] the city, 27 seconds, was going to
[3:05:37] be responsible for cleaning up the
[3:05:38] plastic,
[3:05:39] the micro plastics, the more people
[3:05:41] to come in, we don't have
[3:05:44] that mindset are
[3:05:45] just going to throw plastic on the
[3:05:47] ground right next to the
[3:05:48] waterways. Is going to be responsible
[3:05:50] for that?
[3:05:52] that is one of my questions for them.
[3:05:53] who is
[3:05:54] going to pick up the trash? Because
[3:05:55] obviously people are not responsible
[3:05:56] it comes
[3:05:59] to these things.
[3:06:00] >> time
[3:06:01] is up.
[3:06:02] >> that is all I've got to say.
[3:06:05] >>
[3:06:08] cheryl grover.
[3:06:09] lifetime resident of martinez and
[3:06:11] I will
[3:06:14] tell you
[3:06:17] that is 75 years but
[3:06:19] then you would know how old I was.
[3:06:20] nevermind. Okay. I do want to
[3:06:21] say I fully support the comments made
[3:06:23] about making sure that their areas,
[3:06:24] at
[3:06:25] least some part of this hotel structure that
[3:06:29] resonates with the historical
[3:06:32] martinez theme the we have
[3:06:33] spent many years building on that
[3:06:35] team. And had billboards
[3:06:38] that said it and so
[3:06:41] forth. But also, in my travels I have
[3:06:42] been
[3:06:44] envious of the hotels
[3:06:47] in other beautiful cities, especially
[3:06:49] historic ones, where they have rooms
[3:06:53] and areas for weddings.
[3:06:56] we are at the county seat
[3:06:59] . And one thing you can get is a
[3:07:00] marriage license, and if you want
[3:07:02] to get married
[3:07:04] in downtown martinez, you stand on
[3:07:05] the corner in
[3:07:08] the little bush,
[3:07:10] it's like, it's not what it should
[3:07:11] be. It would
[3:07:13] be really nice to have a beautiful area
[3:07:22] that would also, in a hotel, that
[3:07:23] would be for the guests, for the
[3:07:24] reception, for the wedding itself.
[3:07:26] if you're
[3:07:28] going to do that let me know how long
[3:07:29] I have to keep waiting
[3:07:31] for him to bring me down the aisle.
[3:07:32] >> [ applause ]
[3:07:35] >> hello,
[3:07:38] thank you mayor,
[3:07:41] council members, city staff.
[3:07:44] everyone is supporting it so that
[3:07:45] is wonderful. So
[3:07:46] I will not go on and on, just quick,
[3:07:47] but I would
[3:07:50] be remiss
[3:07:53] not to stand up here and tell you
[3:07:54] do you have
[3:07:55] full and strong support of downtown
[3:07:56] martinez, we could not be
[3:07:58] more excited about this. I know the
[3:07:59] small businesses and all of the people
[3:08:02] who work downtown are just very excited
[3:08:10] , we have people close to tears when
[3:08:12] they are finding out this week.
[3:08:13] I think it's important to share and
[3:08:15] make sure you know you
[3:08:16] have our full support and that we
[3:08:17] want you to move forward with this.
[3:08:18] thank you.
[3:08:21] >> [ applause ]
[3:08:27] >> hi, my name is colleen
[3:08:28] and I have been a resident of martinez
[3:08:30] for 27 years now. My husband was
[3:08:31] a teacher at the high school. I'm also
[3:08:33] an employee at the chamber of commerce.
[3:08:34] I have been begging anyone who would
[3:08:36] listen to me for the last 13
[3:08:38] years to please bring a hotel down.
[3:08:39] so three of them
[3:08:40] is awesome. I am so excited and they
[3:08:42] couldn't support this more. Thanks.
[3:08:45] >> [ applause ]
[3:08:48] >>
[3:08:54] hi, bri.
[3:08:57] miss you. If you don't know,
[3:09:00] I'm tony.
[3:09:02] also known as the kite man of martinez.
[3:09:06] born and raised in minnesota
[3:09:09] . You betcha. For
[3:09:12] 25 years
[3:09:15] I have cleaned up
[3:09:16] a little chunk of sand or dirt you
[3:09:18] want to turn into a volleyball court.
[3:09:21] my heart broke and there's a
[3:09:22] puddle thereby stand whose cleaning
[3:09:24] it up. I challenge you
[3:09:26] , come out and fly with me. Fourth
[3:09:30] of july
[3:09:32] the last 10 years I go to the city
[3:09:33] of alejo because they invite
[3:09:35] me to fly the kites for the city of
[3:09:36] alejo's mad
[3:09:38] hatter parade . I put up a big display
[3:09:39] of kites along with
[3:09:40] vendors and food vendors. Cool. I've
[3:09:42] been approached by
[3:09:45] bri as one of the people to do
[3:09:48] a kite festival here.
[3:09:50] not enough space, really. In three
[3:09:51] weeks, for the third
[3:09:53] year in a row I go to san mateo as
[3:09:54] their lead
[3:09:56] kite flyer. To put on a kite festival
[3:09:57] in san mateo.
[3:10:00] right there on the water.
[3:10:02] why can't we do that here? Instead
[3:10:03] of turning my patch
[3:10:06] of ground that I've been flying kites
[3:10:09] --it looks cool for flying kites on
[3:10:10] their, I give kites away to people
[3:10:12] and it's fun to see
[3:10:15] people come back with their kids
[3:10:17] 10 years later saying, I remember you.
[3:10:21] it's like, my legacy,
[3:10:24] I had an unhoused individual ,
[3:10:27] gave him a kite couple years ago
[3:10:30] saying it will bring you
[3:10:31] happiness. When year later he came
[3:10:33] back and says,
[3:10:35] thank you for that kite, I lost all
[3:10:36] my stuff but I still have
[3:10:39] my kite. You know, things
[3:10:42] like that. Look up google,
[3:10:46] kite man of martinez.
[3:10:48] is part of martinez. Don't get
[3:10:51] rid of me. I will take you
[3:10:54] kite flying. Night kite flying.
[3:10:57] okay?
[3:10:58] >> your
[3:11:00] time is a.
[3:11:01] >> thank you.
[3:11:04] >> conceptual.
[3:11:07] easy fix
[3:11:10] for a kite facility.
[3:11:12] >> I totally encourage you to go night
[3:11:13] flying, night
[3:11:16] kite flying with tony.
[3:11:19] --it's amazing.
[3:11:22] >> hi, how's it going?
[3:11:25] my name is keith,
[3:11:28] I'm a resident here in martinez.
[3:11:31] fairly new by
[3:11:34] martinez standards. 13 years I.
[3:11:38] I own states coffee that has been
[3:11:39] 10 years. Also knew. Anyway, didn't
[3:11:40] even
[3:11:42] think I would be here tonight, my friend
[3:11:46] , we
[3:11:48] were on his boat about a week and
[3:11:49] half ago, fell in
[3:11:50] love with the community, we've been
[3:11:52] friends for a long time. I ended up
[3:11:53] buying
[3:11:55] a boat a couple days ago. Wish
[3:11:58] me luck. Anyway,
[3:12:01] the downtown,
[3:12:05] the marina, it's very exciting to
[3:12:07] develop, I think we are really excited
[3:12:09] about that. I echo what everyone is
[3:12:10] saying, it's been a long
[3:12:13] time coming. Being a family man
[3:12:16] to two boys, raising
[3:12:19] them here, just my knee-jerk reaction is
[3:12:22] the public access,
[3:12:27] I think, you said it's a moot point,
[3:12:28] I agree with you 100%, I
[3:12:30] just feel compelled to say that has
[3:12:31] to come with
[3:12:34] it. An overpass has to come
[3:12:37] with the deal.
[3:12:40] to meet that is a make
[3:12:43] or break, it can't
[3:12:45] be, we are going to do this and develop
[3:12:46] it and figure it
[3:12:50] out later. They go hand-in-hand.
[3:12:59] all the other things, the hotels,
[3:13:00] all this other stuff, that's all going
[3:13:02] to get ironed out in the community
[3:13:03] is going to rally together and we're
[3:13:05] going to have many meetings, we all
[3:13:06] rallied together and the last time
[3:13:08] you saw me here was about the gun
[3:13:09] range. So we're going to have many
[3:13:10] more conversations. Have no doubt.
[3:13:11] all the council
[3:13:12] people here are doing fantastic job,
[3:13:17] mayor
[3:13:18] zorn, big fan. Thank you for your
[3:13:20] time. Again, that access has to come
[3:13:23] with this deal.
[3:13:25] is very important.
[3:13:26] >> time is a. >>
[3:13:27] thank you.
[3:13:34] >> good evening city council, my name
[3:13:38] is mike.
[3:13:40] I am with sea scouts, you've been
[3:13:41] hearing a lot of
[3:13:42] sea scouts tonight. It's because we
[3:13:43] have been entrenched in martinez for
[3:13:44] 93 years. What
[3:13:47] I would ask , currently we have
[3:13:50] a space that is 223.7
[3:13:53] feet by 160.
[3:13:57] the minimal training size
[3:14:00] we require for
[3:14:01] our youth. The development physically
[3:14:03] and mentally
[3:14:05] within that zone helps these kids.
[3:14:06] we put out quality
[3:14:08] youth the go into the maritime industry
[3:14:12] , but we also have our oddballs the
[3:14:13] become
[3:14:14] doctors and lawyers. But at the same time,
[3:14:15] we
[3:14:18] are developing that need, right now,
[3:14:21] in the nation, for
[3:14:24] seaworthy vessels and programs
[3:14:27] ,
[3:14:30] is there for that purpose,
[3:14:32] it's a great job. Please invest in
[3:14:33] their youth. Please invest
[3:14:36] in their future. Thank you.
[3:14:39] >> [ applause ]
[3:14:45] >> I am erin,
[3:14:46] president of the martinez chamber
[3:14:48] of commerce. I just want to
[3:14:51] echo sarah's sentiments that the
[3:14:53] excitement level we feel for this
[3:14:54] project is boundless. And, I
[3:14:57] know that
[3:15:00] together we are going to do the best
[3:15:01] we can
[3:15:02] to make sure the business community
[3:15:03] rallies behind this concept and whatever
[3:15:06] it becomes
[3:15:12] . We will put everything into helping
[3:15:13] make this successful.
[3:15:14] we can't wait. We are so excited for
[3:15:15] this. Thank you.
[3:15:18] >> anyone else in the
[3:15:20] council chambers for comment on this item?
[3:15:27] okay. I have no one further. I'm going
[3:15:30] to move to the virtual audience.
[3:15:33] I'm going to call for a
[3:15:34] show of hands, only once. For those
[3:15:36] who wish to make public comment on
[3:15:37] this item, please
[3:15:39] use the raised hand feature now.
[3:15:42] all right, they are streaming in.
[3:15:45] while they come in we will start with ann.
[3:15:52] >>
[3:15:54] can you hear me?
[3:15:55] >> yes. >> this is
[3:15:56] ann
[3:15:57] mobley. It's a very nice concept and
[3:15:58] I hope
[3:16:01] it happens in my lifetime.
[3:16:02] I have a few comments I have to make.
[3:16:04] one is, how do state
[3:16:07] parks come into this? As
[3:16:10] martinez gave half of the land in
[3:16:11] the marina are they part of the agreement?
[3:16:13] the other thing I wanted to
[3:16:14] say is the sea scouts and martinez
[3:16:16] yacht club should not be in
[3:16:17] the same building. We love the sea
[3:16:19] scouts but the kids are the
[3:16:22] sea scouts
[3:16:24] and the adults are it martinez yacht
[3:16:25] club and I think
[3:16:26] they should be two separate buildings
[3:16:27] and two separate entities. I wanted
[3:16:28] to
[3:16:30] know also has the railroad been contacted
[3:16:31] regarding development near their
[3:16:33] tracks? Also, has the contra costa
[3:16:34] water district
[3:16:37] been
[3:16:40] contacted about providing
[3:16:41] water for the new development? I know
[3:16:43] contra costa water sells raw water
[3:16:44] to martinez water and I'm wondering
[3:16:46] if this might require
[3:16:49] a new water treatment plant. Is very
[3:16:52] high limit for hotels regarding
[3:16:54] the airlines and their routes? Again,
[3:16:57] talking about the overpass, we need
[3:16:58] the overpass is
[3:17:01] a must. I heard
[3:17:02] the gentleman talk about a museum honoring
[3:17:07] joe dimaggio. It would be great
[3:17:08] if you could build a museum for us.
[3:17:10] also I like the idea of
[3:17:13] the harbormaster
[3:17:16] building is a restaurant. I
[3:17:17] been saying that friday how many years.
[3:17:19] also I'm not sure about hotels near
[3:17:20] the railroad because they're also
[3:17:22] lots and lots of noise
[3:17:23] with that. But, overall I'm hoping
[3:17:25] this can be
[3:17:27] and this can happen, it is been way
[3:17:28] too long.
[3:17:33] and martinez needs something like
[3:17:34] this. I just
[3:17:35] hope it's not all talking pictures I
[3:17:37] hope it really happens. Thank you
[3:17:38] so
[3:17:40] much.
[3:17:41] >> thank you. >> next I
[3:17:43] have amy. I will ask you to unmute.
[3:17:49] >>
[3:17:52] hi, my name is amy.
[3:17:55] can
[3:17:57] you hear me?
[3:17:58] >> yes. >> great. I have
[3:17:59] lived in martinez for about
[3:18:00] eight years. I love this town. As
[3:18:01] many of us do. A
[3:18:03] couple of things, I just want to add
[3:18:07] some comments food for thought for future,
[3:18:10] for future planning discussions, a
[3:18:13] lot of the talk has me thinking about
[3:18:16] our community
[3:18:19] and some of the things
[3:18:20] sound really expensive in terms of
[3:18:22] you have this new boat
[3:18:25] marina
[3:18:28] with
[3:18:29] stacking votes, you have shops, you
[3:18:31] have concerts going to potentially partner
[3:18:36] with an outsourced promoter, I just
[3:18:37] wanted to make sure we keep in
[3:18:40] mind our community the currently lives
[3:18:41] here
[3:18:42] in making sure we are not going to
[3:18:43] be priced out of what
[3:18:46] is happening.
[3:18:49] and eventually happens down there
[3:18:50] and that we
[3:18:51] think about the people who live there
[3:18:52] currently. And the we don't just
[3:18:55] make it a super fancy place that none
[3:18:56] of
[3:18:57] us can really afford to go down into
[3:18:58] that. Also,
[3:19:00] maybe consider not putting a bunch of
[3:19:07] chain restaurants or chain
[3:19:09] shops in there. One of the things
[3:19:10] that makes us unique is are downtown,
[3:19:12] are small businesses. We want to do
[3:19:13] things that are going to connect
[3:19:16] the marina with main street and what's
[3:19:18] happening downtown because it's blossoming
[3:19:19] , and trying
[3:19:22] to thrive. Yeah I know it has it struggles.
[3:19:25] those are my main things .
[3:19:28] just trying to keep in mind
[3:19:31] our current
[3:19:33] community. All of it sounds super
[3:19:34] exciting, I always thought there was
[3:19:35] so much
[3:19:37] unused potential down at the waterfront. I
[3:19:38] just hope it
[3:19:39] reflects the community. Thank you
[3:19:40] so much.
[3:19:41] >>
[3:19:43] thank you. Next I have
[3:19:46] iphone 152,
[3:19:50] I will ask you to unmute.
[3:19:53] >>
[3:19:56] good evening. My name is matt,
[3:19:59] I am the owner
[3:20:00] of the albatross or was the owner
[3:20:02] of the albatross,
[3:20:05] the longest restaurant
[3:20:08] at the marina. Unfortunately
[3:20:11] it doesn't exist anymore.
[3:20:14] I
[3:20:15] have a few concerns, I'm very excited
[3:20:17] about having this project, the only
[3:20:18] thing
[3:20:20] is because
[3:20:26] I was at the
[3:20:27] albatross for 17 years, the biggest
[3:20:29] problem is the train. You need to
[3:20:30] put
[3:20:31] the overpass before you start the project.
[3:20:32] we had two incidents I
[3:20:34] remember, maybe greg should think about
[3:20:38] some sort of medical emergency with
[3:20:39] that project
[3:20:40] because you bring in three or four
[3:20:41] hotels with 280 rooms,
[3:20:45] you're probably looking at close to
[3:20:47] 500 to 1000
[3:20:50] occupancy. And
[3:20:53] then the regular people, you have
[3:20:54] over 2000
[3:20:55] people and sometimes the train that
[3:20:56] is over 20 minutes to half
[3:20:58] an hour. It would be life-threatening,
[3:20:59] so you need to
[3:21:02] think about that. Secondly, I'd like
[3:21:04] to mention to you, my job now I work
[3:21:05] as a supervisor,
[3:21:11] I
[3:21:12] do advise different businesses, since
[3:21:14] martinez is my town and I've been
[3:21:15] here 46
[3:21:16] years, I think it's a very ambitious plan,
[3:21:19] is one of the councilmembers said,
[3:21:20] this project probably be
[3:21:23] have a billion-dollar project , at least,
[3:21:26] four to $5
[3:21:29] million and you need usually
[3:21:32] 45% cash. I hope the city will
[3:21:34] verify that money before signing a
[3:21:35] contract for 50 years
[3:21:38] and finding themselves entangled for
[3:21:40] at least if the job is not done. I
[3:21:41] hope the job gets
[3:21:44] done and eventually having
[3:21:47] a beautiful marina at the
[3:21:50] waterfront. I wish
[3:21:52] you the best of luck, greg. I hope
[3:21:53] the city does their own
[3:21:56] due diligence to make sure there is financing.
[3:21:59] and talk about the financing
[3:22:02] a little more. We know the job can
[3:22:05] get done,
[3:22:09] they're not going to start a job
[3:22:10] and that be able to finish it. Thank
[3:22:11] you very much. Have a good night.
[3:22:12] >>
[3:22:15] thank you. Next is craig.
[3:22:21] >> okay, thank you.
[3:22:26] I hate
[3:22:30] to be
[3:22:32] debbie downer here tonight, I always
[3:22:33] seem to
[3:22:37] be debbie downer
[3:22:43] in public
[3:22:44] comments whatever the issue is, to
[3:22:46] be perfectly honest, following these issues with
[3:22:48] the marina over the last several years,
[3:22:49] 90% of what I
[3:22:50] heard and saw in this presentation
[3:22:51] tonight is pie in the sky, completely
[3:22:52] unrealistic. The reason I
[3:22:54] say that is, we went through a long
[3:22:55] process of, a visioning process
[3:22:56] of a marina and developing the land
[3:22:58] trust plan
[3:23:01] and multiple public meetings, we went
[3:23:02] through the idea
[3:23:03] of the hotels and amphitheaters, we went
[3:23:07] through why the previous amphitheater
[3:23:09] failed and we went through the pros
[3:23:10] and cons and feasibility. That was
[3:23:11] a
[3:23:12] years long process when the community
[3:23:13] was heavily involved,
[3:23:16] now we are basically being
[3:23:18] told, were going to throw that out,
[3:23:22] we're going to bring some guy from
[3:23:23] san diego who
[3:23:24] doesn't north city and he's got everything
[3:23:26] figured out.
[3:23:27] is the impression I got from the presentation.
[3:23:29] he has it all figured
[3:23:30] out. We are going to have pickleball
[3:23:32] despicable courts, some fun things
[3:23:34] here. I'm sorry, martinez is never
[3:23:35] going to be a
[3:23:36] regional destination the way this
[3:23:38] plan envisions it. I remember 20
[3:23:41] years ago
[3:23:42] when antioch and pittsburgh were doing their
[3:23:44] marina stuff and they
[3:23:46] were like, pittsburgh is going to
[3:23:47] be a
[3:23:48] regional destination. We are going
[3:23:50] to build a bed-and-breakfast
[3:23:52] . We were laughing, I was in journalism
[3:23:53] at a newspaper
[3:23:54] and we were laughing about it, it's
[3:23:56] pretty is going have a bed and
[3:23:57] for some people are going to flock
[3:23:59] here. I don't think there is a
[3:24:01] bed-and-breakfast, I googled it and
[3:24:02] couldn't find it.
[3:24:03] what we focus on having a functioning marina
[3:24:06] with some simple basic amenities to
[3:24:08] get us started
[3:24:09] to stop the drain on our budget and
[3:24:11] go from there. Because what
[3:24:14] I am seeing
[3:24:17] is
[3:24:18] pie in the sky stuff that is not at
[3:24:20] all realistic. That is how
[3:24:22] I see it. Every time I hear about
[3:24:27] ferry, I know people aren't realistic
[3:24:29] because of her that 30 years.
[3:24:31] >> time is up. >> be realistic, thanks.
[3:24:32] >> thank you. Next I
[3:24:33] have abby stinson. I will ask you
[3:24:35] to unmute.
[3:24:44] >>
[3:24:46] hello, can you hear me?
[3:24:47] >> yes. >> yes,
[3:24:48] I
[3:24:50] am abby, I happen to live
[3:24:52] down at rangers wharf which is on
[3:24:53] the
[3:24:56] marina side
[3:24:59] of the railroad tracks. So well watching
[3:25:00] this presentation and fully understanding
[3:25:02] that we do need to do something
[3:25:03] as increasing revenue streams and revitalizing
[3:25:08] all of the marina areas ,
[3:25:09] I can't help but also be slightly
[3:25:11] cautious because I am
[3:25:13] marina adjacent and what would be
[3:25:17] the east bay regional park side.
[3:25:20] and the traffic is very much an
[3:25:22] issue. People coming and going, they
[3:25:23] already get confused,
[3:25:24] they already get backlogged trying
[3:25:26] to get in
[3:25:29] and out of the marina. I am on the crossing.
[3:25:32] are crossing gets blocked
[3:25:35] substantially more than the
[3:25:38] ferry street crossing.
[3:25:41] that is a big concern. Also in talking
[3:25:42] about
[3:25:44] obviously they need to lift the
[3:25:46] land on the marina side, that then,
[3:25:50] water displacement, if we are not
[3:25:53] addressing or having the east
[3:25:54] bay regional park side of the marina
[3:25:56] be addressed, I live on
[3:25:59] the creek
[3:26:02] kevin bacon is
[3:26:04] my neighbor, he is on the creek and
[3:26:05] I am across the street.
[3:26:06] things like this is we are addressing
[3:26:08] future flood plans and every thing
[3:26:09] else, I
[3:26:10] feel like I need to also be cognizant
[3:26:11] of the fact that we do
[3:26:13] have residents who live not only at
[3:26:14] the marina but down
[3:26:16] here at the waterfront and although
[3:26:22] we are not being factored into this
[3:26:23] part of the plan, these
[3:26:25] are things that do need to logistically
[3:26:26] be addressed. I think it
[3:26:29] is great, very ambitious.
[3:26:35] and I get pie
[3:26:37] in the sky and then you work back
[3:26:38] down, shoot for the stars or
[3:26:40] shoot for the moon and land among
[3:26:41] the stars. I would need some
[3:26:44] additional reassurances
[3:26:47] that we are going to be dealing with
[3:26:48] the traffic
[3:26:49] and we are going to be dealing with
[3:26:50] the transients and were going to be
[3:26:51] dealing with as another person said
[3:26:53] the letter.
[3:26:54] >> time is a. >>
[3:26:55] thank you.
[3:26:56] >> next I have deborah white.
[3:26:59] >>
[3:27:02] hello mayor, city council,
[3:27:04] good to see all of you, even though
[3:27:05] you can't see me. I
[3:27:07] think this is a wonderful thing. I
[3:27:08] am the director of
[3:27:11] grace episcopal church up the
[3:27:14] hill in martinez. My folks are all
[3:27:15] very
[3:27:16] excited about this. The only thing
[3:27:20] , I just wanted to make sure I remind everyone
[3:27:21] that
[3:27:23] one of the values expressed
[3:27:26] in the presentation was equity, accessibility,
[3:27:29] and reflection of the social goals
[3:27:32] of the city and committee of martinez.
[3:27:33] those
[3:27:35] goals include making sure that
[3:27:37] everyone is included and that there is
[3:27:38] housing
[3:27:42] available for everyone. And
[3:27:43] so my hope is that this revitalization
[3:27:45] will also
[3:27:49] keep the city council and mayor accountable
[3:27:51] to all of the wonderful
[3:27:54] and faithful agreements you
[3:27:57] have made to be a leader
[3:27:58] for everyone. And to include thoughts
[3:28:00] about that
[3:28:04] if this moves forward. And I thank
[3:28:06] you for always having that
[3:28:07] faithfulness and kindness. And for
[3:28:09] this proposal.
[3:28:11] blessings, everybody.
[3:28:12] >> thank you.
[3:28:18] >> next I have jillian.
[3:28:24] >> hi. This is been
[3:28:25] a really interesting evening and,
[3:28:30] mayor zorn, you are really impressing
[3:28:32] me. I do have a few questions. I know
[3:28:33] this is
[3:28:35] a public and private partnership.
[3:28:36] I am wondering, first,
[3:28:41] what funds we are talking about since
[3:28:44] a lot of funding that was available
[3:28:45] before the big
[3:28:47] bill are not going to be available now
[3:28:48] . Grants
[3:28:50] and other kinds of funds are not available.
[3:28:54] I am curious what happens
[3:28:57] if we
[3:28:58] don't get federal funding or state
[3:29:00] funding that we are going to
[3:29:03] , that we are
[3:29:04] counting on. Second, I want to know
[3:29:06] , I
[3:29:07] am sure you will be looking at, I
[3:29:09] am trusting you will be looking at
[3:29:10] what
[3:29:11] the city of martinez is on the hook for
[3:29:12] if there
[3:29:15] are economic downturns
[3:29:24] or things don't continue to go as
[3:29:25] planned. And the third thing is, am
[3:29:26] curious why we would go to somebody
[3:29:28] in houston rather than somebody in
[3:29:29] california. California has a lot of
[3:29:30] very specific
[3:29:32] things like and a lot of requirements.
[3:29:41] so I am curious about why you would
[3:29:42] do that. I think if
[3:29:43] this turns out really well it will
[3:29:45] be a real gift to the community.
[3:29:47] but I have seen communities really suffer
[3:29:50] if they haven't really taken care of
[3:29:51] themselves fiscally.
[3:29:53] thank you so much and good luck.
[3:29:54] >>
[3:29:55] thank you.
[3:29:57] >> next is
[3:30:00] constance.
[3:30:06] >> hi,
[3:30:09] I'm wondering if everyone can
[3:30:12] hear me?
[3:30:13] >> yes. >>
[3:30:14] evening. Two points I wanted to bring
[3:30:15] up for the
[3:30:16] city council to remember. Currently
[3:30:18] are parking at the marina
[3:30:21] is free.
[3:30:24] with a parking garage, I am assuming
[3:30:25] there will be parking fees. Wondering,
[3:30:27] for residents here who really enjoyed
[3:30:30] the marina daily
[3:30:34] and frequently, what that will look
[3:30:36] like for us, driving down there and parking.
[3:30:39] obviously I get it, we need the
[3:30:42] revenue, there probably will be
[3:30:45] parking prices. But to kind of
[3:30:46] keep that in mind for residents here
[3:30:48] who enjoy it.
[3:30:51] another
[3:30:53] thing I was thinking that came across
[3:30:54] recently, we just had the fourth of
[3:30:55] july,
[3:30:56] at this town we enjoy our fireworks.
[3:30:57] what does that look like with
[3:31:00] this agreement
[3:31:03] is something I would like the council
[3:31:04] to
[3:31:05] consider as well. And discuss. And
[3:31:06] note that the city really enjoys that.
[3:31:07] and we hope we would be continuing
[3:31:09] enjoying that in the future. Thank
[3:31:10] you so
[3:31:11] much for your time.
[3:31:12] >> thank you.
[3:31:13] next I
[3:31:15] have trevor race.
[3:31:21] >> hello, can you hear me? >> yes.
[3:31:22] >>
[3:31:24] thank you.
[3:31:27] I just wanted to say I have some conflicted
[3:31:28] thoughts
[3:31:29] about the presentation we saw this evening.
[3:31:33] on one hand I'm very excited, but
[3:31:34] in reality
[3:31:35] I'm excited about the excitement I
[3:31:36] heard from the community. And honestly
[3:31:37] not so
[3:31:38] much about the development vision.
[3:31:39] I think it is concerning to
[3:31:42] me that
[3:31:45] there was
[3:31:47] such a lack of use of the significant
[3:31:48] amount of public input we have already
[3:31:51] seen envisioning for the marina.
[3:31:53] I am honestly not concerned about
[3:31:54] the development in general. But
[3:31:57] by the lack of how the vision presented meets
[3:32:06] the special nature of martinez and
[3:32:07] what
[3:32:08] this community is interested in seeing
[3:32:09] out there. I think there are ways
[3:32:10] to do
[3:32:11] balance and responsible development. And I
[3:32:12] just didn't see that in this particular
[3:32:13] vision.
[3:32:14] I'm not saying we can get there I
[3:32:15] think there are definitely some concerns
[3:32:19] I have.
[3:32:20] for a designer that spoke of valuing
[3:32:22] public input,
[3:32:24] the multiyear public engagement process,
[3:32:27] that doesn't seem to make sense to
[3:32:28] me. There
[3:32:31] was a market lack
[3:32:34] of a number of components
[3:32:40] that were such a big deal to
[3:32:41] so many community members. Small boat
[3:32:42] facilities. Public interpretive educational
[3:32:43] elements. The cultural facilities.
[3:32:44] green
[3:32:45] infrastructure, ecosystem restoration.
[3:32:51] and for the development itself there was no mention
[3:32:52] of how the
[3:32:53] hotels and retail would be designed,
[3:32:54] built, or partnered with in ways that
[3:32:58] would match
[3:33:00] what makes martinez special. Where
[3:33:01] were the historical
[3:33:02] elements, the recreational elements?
[3:33:04] finally, the last
[3:33:06] thing I will bring up, chicken is further down
[3:33:10] the line, the vision was well
[3:33:13] vetted by
[3:33:15] regional regulators. It's concerning to
[3:33:16] me I heard no
[3:33:18] mention of whether this vision is likely
[3:33:19] to meet the requirements of the state
[3:33:22] commission, how --
[3:33:23] >> time is a. >>
[3:33:25] thank you.
[3:33:26] >>
[3:33:27] last hand for the night is donna.
[3:33:31] I will ask you to unmute.
[3:33:36] >> hello, can you hear me? >> yes.
[3:33:40] >> actually I am glad I followed
[3:33:43] the person that I just followed.
[3:33:51] am a resident of martinez for over
[3:33:52] 50 years. I background is
[3:33:53] all in planning. City planning. I
[3:33:55] was the first project planner on the
[3:33:56] public-private partnership in contra
[3:33:58] costa county with the bart system.
[3:34:01] so I am well aware of that. This is
[3:34:04] a good vision
[3:34:07] . But, it's not unlike several prior
[3:34:08] visions that
[3:34:10] we have had for hotels and restaurants
[3:34:13] and amphitheater and all of the like.
[3:34:16] so, I would like
[3:34:19] to see in any
[3:34:22] future reviews a summary
[3:34:24] of what was presented in the past
[3:34:28] and why it didn't fly.
[3:34:31] I think that would be important.
[3:34:37] obviously the access to the site
[3:34:43] will have a major effect on the development
[3:34:44] of
[3:34:46] the property.
[3:34:54] my last question is, I would like
[3:34:55] to know, I heard
[3:34:57] a lot about southern california developments.
[3:34:58] but I would like to
[3:35:00] know if there is a development in
[3:35:01] our area
[3:35:04] , in the bay area, that we can go
[3:35:05] to
[3:35:06] that we can see that these people
[3:35:07] have done.
[3:35:13] that is it for me.
[3:35:14] >>
[3:35:16] thank you. I have no
[3:35:19] further hands.
[3:35:22] ringing it
[3:35:25] back to mayor zorn.
[3:35:28] >> apologies, I
[3:35:31] couldn't unmute. Thank you so much
[3:35:32] for all of
[3:35:35] the comments. I felt like
[3:35:41] ,
[3:35:42] it felt like a very good conversation,
[3:35:43] even though I recognize it was a one-sided
[3:35:45] public comment. But I just want to
[3:35:47] voice my
[3:35:49] appreciation to everybody. We had
[3:35:50] almost all
[3:35:53] positive comments.
[3:35:55] and for those that were not 100% positive,
[3:35:59] they were supportive
[3:36:02] with very well thought
[3:36:03] through critiques. So I just want
[3:36:04] to thank everyone who had those very
[3:36:08] good critiques.
[3:36:10] they are all constructive criticism,
[3:36:11] they are all things
[3:36:12] I think we will be able to discuss
[3:36:14] and incorporate is
[3:36:17] the process moves forward, if we
[3:36:18] are to vote on this, if we vote in
[3:36:20] favor this evening. I think they
[3:36:21] are all very valid questions and comments
[3:36:25] that I am interested in getting answers too.
[3:36:26] I did
[3:36:29] want to open this backup
[3:36:31] to a few comments from council. There
[3:36:32] were
[3:36:34] a lot of great comments from the community,
[3:36:35] and so,
[3:36:38] if anyone on council wanted
[3:36:49] have tucker sadler respond to any
[3:36:50] specific questions you heard, please
[3:36:51] let
[3:36:52] me know. I can see all of you, by
[3:36:53] show of hands does anyone
[3:36:54] have follow-up russians they like
[3:36:56] to hear an answer on? Yes, debbie.
[3:36:58] >> go ahead. >> so, thank you all
[3:36:59] for the comments. A lot
[3:37:01] to reflect on. One of the biggest
[3:37:07] concerns we have is a council and
[3:37:08] as a community
[3:37:09] has stated the access . I know you
[3:37:11] mentioned there was going to be
[3:37:14] thought and
[3:37:15] decisions about creating some sort
[3:37:17] of remedy for the access.
[3:37:19] I know you probably have a lot of
[3:37:20] the
[3:37:22] things you can share, or maybe can't share.
[3:37:28] but I think to make everyone feel
[3:37:30] a little more reassured that that
[3:37:31] is a critical element, I'm looking
[3:37:32] for maybe some
[3:37:35] sort of
[3:37:37] , I don't know, something you can
[3:37:38] share with
[3:37:39] us about different possibilities,
[3:37:42] different things you have considered.
[3:37:44] what has worked in the past, just
[3:37:45] brainstorming so we have an idea you
[3:37:47] are considering some feasible alternative
[3:37:50] for transportation over
[3:37:53] the tracks.
[3:37:56] >>
[3:37:57] will I don't have a solution I can
[3:37:59] provide tonight. We
[3:38:01] are committed to finding a feasible
[3:38:04] solution to having a permanent access
[3:38:05] across
[3:38:07] the tracks. It's important, it's imperative,
[3:38:08] to
[3:38:11] the success of the project. And as
[3:38:14] we have heard,
[3:38:19] those who already have operations
[3:38:20] on the other side of the
[3:38:21] tracks, it's imperative for them to
[3:38:23] have that as well.
[3:38:24] >>
[3:38:26] with the mrc property be something
[3:38:27] we could
[3:38:29] potentially discuss that with is another
[3:38:31] partner since they own a lot of land
[3:38:32] along the shoreline? That would be
[3:38:34] the refinery at the marina vista exit.
[3:38:38] just to throw that out, a lot of land
[3:38:39] there.
[3:38:41] that potentially could be
[3:38:42] utilized for transportation methods.
[3:38:44] >> we
[3:38:46] would be open to all types of partnerships.
[3:38:47] looking at the best way,
[3:38:50] the most
[3:38:52] feasible way to get it done, yes,
[3:38:53] absolutely.
[3:38:54] >> I will
[3:38:56] add on that that is an area when
[3:38:59] we're looking at the options, we have
[3:39:00] kind
[3:39:01] of looked at that is a consideration because
[3:39:02] we
[3:39:04] will come up with a creative solution,
[3:39:05] >>
[3:39:08] thank you.
[3:39:11] I know that in years past there was
[3:39:12] some discussion, I think many years
[3:39:14] ago, about having access to some of
[3:39:15] that
[3:39:17] land so that sort of the s turn
[3:39:20] in the
[3:39:22] way we currently enter into the downtown
[3:39:23] could be different. I think
[3:39:26] outside
[3:39:27] of the box, maybe other alternatives
[3:39:29] we are not considering that we need
[3:39:32] to consider, all types of strategies to
[3:39:33] look
[3:39:35] at transportation needs thank you, greg.
[3:39:41] >> anybody else have any questions?
[3:39:42] I
[3:39:44] have just one
[3:39:45] or two follow-ups from public comment
[3:39:47] this evening.
[3:39:50] go ahead.
[3:39:51] >> thank you very much. Again,
[3:39:53] I want to sincerely thank everyone
[3:39:55] who took the time to be here tonight
[3:39:56] for your comments
[3:39:59] here tonight
[3:40:01] and for your critiques. We need that
[3:40:02] input. In order to make this
[3:40:05] a successful project. But,
[3:40:08] I do have one question,
[3:40:10] I just want to offer some additional thoughts,
[3:40:13] it has been talked about, martinez
[3:40:14] being a hidden gem, we
[3:40:16] have been hidden a little too long.
[3:40:17] and
[3:40:20] so this is our opportunity,
[3:40:23] this is a once in a generation transformational
[3:40:24] project that
[3:40:26] is before us here. And,
[3:40:29] it deserves every consideration
[3:40:32] . And,
[3:40:34] you know, I have been fond of saying to
[3:40:36] folks in
[3:40:38] the community who I regularly come
[3:40:39] up
[3:40:42] to me, you know,
[3:40:46] yes, we have our challenges, just
[3:40:48] like any community does. But
[3:40:49] here's the thing, if you get so fixated
[3:40:51] on challenges
[3:40:52] you lose sight of the opportunities
[3:40:54] right before you.
[3:40:57] and ladies and gentlemen, this
[3:41:00] is a huge opportunity for us.
[3:41:03] I will make no
[3:41:05] apologies for dreaming big. Because
[3:41:09] we owe that
[3:41:11] to not only our current residence,
[3:41:12] but
[3:41:15] those that are to follow.
[3:41:18] and, years from now
[3:41:20] , I believe, in my heart of hearts,
[3:41:24] this process the
[3:41:25] we are embarking on here tonight will
[3:41:27] be a pivotal
[3:41:30] turning point for the better
[3:41:32] in our community. I do generally believe that.
[3:41:36] now it is not to say
[3:41:39] that there
[3:41:40] are some hurdles that will need to
[3:41:42] be overcome. And we can do
[3:41:45] that. That is what
[3:41:48] martisian
[3:41:49] do best. We come together when we
[3:41:51] have to figure out a solution.
[3:41:54] and, I believe that
[3:41:57] greg and his team
[3:42:00] will come forward in good faith and
[3:42:02] that we at least owe it to ourselves
[3:42:06] to at least explore this idea
[3:42:09] a little further.
[3:42:12] we are not saying again to what
[3:42:14] the mayor said at the outset, we are
[3:42:15] not making a decision here
[3:42:18] tonight that this is done, we
[3:42:19] are having a groundbreaking ceremony
[3:42:21] next week. That is not what we are
[3:42:23] doing. What we are saying is that
[3:42:27] , do we
[3:42:30] want to take a little further?
[3:42:33] you know? Based on
[3:42:34] everything I have heard here tonight,
[3:42:36] and the comments I
[3:42:39] have provided
[3:42:41] and been provided, I like to explore
[3:42:42] that a little further.
[3:42:47] but I will definitely have some questions.
[3:42:48] I'm going
[3:42:49] to pose hard questions along the way.
[3:42:51] and I will just say this
[3:42:54] right now, we need to figure out
[3:42:56] the access point issue. For me, that
[3:42:57] is a dealbreaker.
[3:43:00] we've got to figure
[3:43:02] that out. Because the rest of it is
[3:43:03] secondary. As far as
[3:43:06] I'm concerned. It is
[3:43:09] really, really important.
[3:43:11] and so I just want to be transparent
[3:43:12] and up front.
[3:43:15] right now.
[3:43:17] I hope that, I take you at your word
[3:43:18] that you
[3:43:20] are committed to putting forward and
[3:43:21] coming up with
[3:43:23] a viable solution that works. I think what
[3:43:27] councilmember mckillop mentioned
[3:43:30] here, reaching out to the team at
[3:43:31] mrc
[3:43:32] is something that should absolutely
[3:43:33] be on the table.
[3:43:36] and then,
[3:43:41] to some of the comments, some of the
[3:43:42] commentators here
[3:43:44] tonight, I do also believe that the project
[3:43:45] does need
[3:43:48] to reflect the historic
[3:43:51] character of our city.
[3:43:54] we are ,
[3:43:56] you may or may not know this, but
[3:43:57] we are
[3:43:59] celebrating our sesquicentennial,
[3:44:00] 150 years
[3:44:03] since our city
[3:44:06] was incorporated.
[3:44:09] and,
[3:44:10] that is a huge source of pride for
[3:44:12] many in our community because we are
[3:44:14] and historic waterfront community.
[3:44:15] and the development
[3:44:18] that takes
[3:44:20] place, whether in the immediate downtown
[3:44:23] whether it's here, should honor that
[3:44:24] history and it should
[3:44:25] reflect that. I definitely would like
[3:44:27] to see
[3:44:33] , I think there is ways to blend
[3:44:34] some of that historic character in
[3:44:36] the fa?ades in the way the buildings
[3:44:37] are designed.
[3:44:38] works for san diego and what worked
[3:44:41] for you down there may not necessarily
[3:44:42] work for us.
[3:44:45] and so, I really appreciate what you
[3:44:46] said
[3:44:47] at the outset about how your approach
[3:44:48] is
[3:44:51] really one that is really rooted in
[3:44:54] committee dialogue and honoring
[3:44:57] the history
[3:45:00] of the town.
[3:45:06] and so, that is something that is really
[3:45:07] important to me
[3:45:08] because I think for too long in our
[3:45:09] community you know, any type
[3:45:12] of development
[3:45:18] , it's kind of an either or proposition,
[3:45:19] right?
[3:45:20] it's kind of like, when we look at
[3:45:21] the downtown for instance, it's always
[3:45:23] like, going to build these huge monstrosities. Well
[3:45:24] no, you can do
[3:45:27] good development responsible development projects
[3:45:33] ,
[3:45:35] mixed-use, but you can design the
[3:45:36] fa?ades in a way that honor the
[3:45:37] historic character of the community.
[3:45:45] and I don't, I reject this notion
[3:45:46] that
[3:45:47] it's either or. You can do that, a
[3:45:48] lot of small towns have figured that
[3:45:49] out.
[3:45:50] only income for --california other
[3:45:51] parts of the country. So that is something
[3:45:53] I really want to emphasize here. To
[3:45:55] please understand
[3:45:57] that this is a town that does deeply
[3:45:58] value
[3:46:01] its history and I appreciate
[3:46:03] the comments that were made by cheryl
[3:46:07] on that. And so, again,
[3:46:10] my sincere thanks to all
[3:46:13] of you.
[3:46:15] and folks, this is going to be the
[3:46:16] start of
[3:46:17] a process. Like what councilmember
[3:46:19] mckillop said,
[3:46:22] we need you as part
[3:46:23] of this. That is why we felt it was
[3:46:25] so important
[3:46:28] , we are
[3:46:29] going to engage this community, we
[3:46:31] wanted to be an open
[3:46:33] and transparent process. And committed
[3:46:34] to it. I know all
[3:46:35] of us up here are. There's going to
[3:46:37] be a lot of time for
[3:46:39] that input as jill and lauren stated,
[3:46:40] at the outset.
[3:46:42] we're going to have a website up.
[3:46:45] there's going to be ample opportunity
[3:46:46] for public input.
[3:46:51] and lastly, I would just say, I too
[3:46:52] share the concerns about
[3:46:53] the the were expressed because, yeah,
[3:46:55] we went through that process
[3:46:58] , it was a good process.
[3:47:01] but unfortunately,
[3:47:06] as we saw here tonight, and as was
[3:47:07] said, we
[3:47:10] have a revenue problem. And the
[3:47:13] t-lip incorporates
[3:47:14] a lot of wonderful elements I hope
[3:47:16] will make it into
[3:47:18] the final design. And again, I want
[3:47:19] to
[3:47:22] stress that,
[3:47:25] I do want to brush it
[3:47:26] aside, I know your presentation talked
[3:47:27] about some of those elements. But
[3:47:28] there is
[3:47:29] seriously something in there I want
[3:47:31] to see
[3:47:33] , having an education center. Something
[3:47:36] that recognizes the contributions
[3:47:37] of the indigenous peoples
[3:47:39] who inhabited this land long before
[3:47:40] any of us were
[3:47:43] here. We need to have that.
[3:47:46] I don't want it to be just completely dismissed.
[3:47:49] but, we also have to face the reality
[3:47:52] that, again,
[3:47:54] we have a serious revenue problem here.
[3:47:58] and we don't have any other
[3:47:59] viable options before us. That is
[3:48:01] just the reality.
[3:48:04] I am at least willing
[3:48:06] to tonight at least give the green light
[3:48:07] to it
[3:48:10] and say, hey, let's see if we can
[3:48:11] make
[3:48:13] this work. I think we
[3:48:15] owe that to ourselves and to future
[3:48:16] generations of
[3:48:26] martisians. Those are my thoughts.
[3:48:28] thank you very much.
[3:48:29] >> you have any
[3:48:30] follow-up questions
[3:48:31] for staff or tucker
[3:48:32] sadler?
[3:48:33] >> no follow-up questions,
[3:48:34] just a couple of comments.
[3:48:40] and I appreciate all of
[3:48:41] the comments this evening. Here, and
[3:48:43] online, I appreciate the concerns
[3:48:45] that have been expressed. Like my fellow
[3:48:49] councilmembers stated, they're going to
[3:48:52] be challenges.
[3:48:55] but let's look at the upside. Because here's
[3:48:58] the thing. As
[3:49:01] tucker was going through the presentation,
[3:49:04] I wasn't really
[3:49:07] necessarily thinking about the end product
[3:49:10] of the waterfront.
[3:49:13] what I was thinking about
[3:49:16] was that because we have this waterfront,
[3:49:19] our businesses on main street
[3:49:21] are thriving. There is so much activity
[3:49:25] in our immediate downtown
[3:49:27] because of the waterfront. Businesses
[3:49:28] are booming.
[3:49:31] the vacant buildings
[3:49:34] that we are so comfortable in seeing
[3:49:37] are now occupied.
[3:49:40] and it's so busy downtown
[3:49:42] I don't even have time to go over
[3:49:43] to
[3:49:45] the waterfront. Because restaurants
[3:49:46] and music
[3:49:49] and things are popping.
[3:49:52] that is what this is about.
[3:49:55] this is not about abandoning
[3:49:58] our core. But it's
[3:50:01] about enhancing the overall
[3:50:04] community
[3:50:07] yeah, we've got to figure out access.
[3:50:10] but we
[3:50:13] are going to get there.
[3:50:16] but the time is
[3:50:19] now. This is a can that has been kicked
[3:50:22] , again,
[3:50:24] I've been here 24 years, and that
[3:50:25] can has been kicked
[3:50:27] and I am sure the can was kicked prior
[3:50:28] to me.
[3:50:31] the time is now.
[3:50:34] and I challenge everybody
[3:50:37] for all of the reasons why
[3:50:40] we can't and we shouldn't
[3:50:42] be doing this, come up with a reason
[3:50:43] why we can
[3:50:46] . And I'm going to
[3:50:48] tell you the reason why we can is
[3:50:49] because if we don't,
[3:50:51] we are going to be on the news for
[3:50:52] a bad reason
[3:50:55] because we are a bankrupt city.
[3:50:58] none of us
[3:51:01] want that. And we
[3:51:05] can talk and
[3:51:07] we can say, this is --but at the end
[3:51:08] of the day,
[3:51:11] if we don't have services,
[3:51:14] we don't have a city. If we
[3:51:15] don't have safe communities, we don't
[3:51:17] have a city.
[3:51:20] if we don't
[3:51:23] have services,
[3:51:24] we don't have trees, we don't have
[3:51:25] beautiful signs saying welcome to
[3:51:26] martinez.
[3:51:29] and I am reminded
[3:51:31] , when I was campaigning and I was
[3:51:32] walking in
[3:51:35] my district, I met this family,
[3:51:38] brand-new to the committee, two
[3:51:40] small children, I said, what brought
[3:51:41] you here?
[3:51:44] they said, we were living
[3:51:46] in sunnyvale. We were on our way to
[3:51:47] napa
[3:51:50] and stopped in martinez
[3:51:53] and fell in love.
[3:51:58] and we moved here. And by the way,
[3:51:59] we are still commuting to
[3:52:01] sunnyvale. To work. But we came here
[3:52:05] because we love the city.
[3:52:08] it seems and feels like a place
[3:52:10] for us to raise our families and raise
[3:52:14] our children. That is what
[3:52:17] we want.
[3:52:23] we don't
[3:52:24] want to just talk about a marina,
[3:52:25] because we have been talking about
[3:52:26] a marina
[3:52:27] and people come down and say, the
[3:52:29] marina? We want people to come
[3:52:31] and say, oh my gosh, how have I missed
[3:52:32] this? So
[3:52:35] just think about the upside.
[3:52:38] we can always come with reasons why
[3:52:40] we can't. We've got to start looking
[3:52:41] at the class
[3:52:43] have full. And I have been here long
[3:52:47] enough where folks
[3:52:50] thought about
[3:52:53] not wanting a downtown
[3:52:55] , pleasant hill. And what has happened?
[3:52:59] it is bustling. I remember
[3:53:02] when folks
[3:53:03] in the old walnut creek was opposed
[3:53:05] to the new
[3:53:08] walnut creek across mount diablo because
[3:53:10] that was going to kill her businesses.
[3:53:13] what did it do? It created foot traffic.
[3:53:17] for those businesses on the
[3:53:18] other side of mount diablo. So it
[3:53:20] can work.
[3:53:23] but we have to be open
[3:53:28] and thoughtful. And yeah, we can challenge
[3:53:29] and push and
[3:53:31] pull but at the end of the day, it
[3:53:32] benefits all of us.
[3:53:38] not just council, all of you. We want
[3:53:40] your input. We want to hear from you.
[3:53:41] you want to
[3:53:44] say that yeah, it's important
[3:53:46] we maintain the character of our wonderful city.
[3:53:49] yeah, we want you to say we need access
[3:53:50] points. We
[3:53:53] didn't say is, I want us
[3:53:56] to be , I want us to be the bocce
[3:53:59] ball capital of the world.
[3:54:02] where we are international, where
[3:54:03] people come from all over the world
[3:54:05] to compete. Think about that.
[3:54:09] think about hotel occupancy. Think
[3:54:11] about revenue. Thick
[3:54:14] about restaurants. Who benefits from that?
[3:54:17] all of us.
[3:54:20] so, I am in support of moving
[3:54:23] down the road and beginning
[3:54:25] these discussions and negotiations
[3:54:29] and pull and push.
[3:54:31] because it's for the betterment of
[3:54:32] all
[3:54:35] of us, everybody will win from this.
[3:54:38] this
[3:54:41] is an and conversation.
[3:54:44] it's not an either or. It's
[3:54:47] not us versus them.
[3:54:49] it is an and conversation. It is all
[3:54:50] of us in this together to
[3:54:53] make our city better. Thriving.
[3:54:56] a destination point
[3:54:59] for us and people outside of
[3:55:02] our community.
[3:55:04] we have got a couple thousand county
[3:55:05] employees down here
[3:55:08] every day. They don't always stay.
[3:55:11] but guess what,
[3:55:20] if they have a reason to
[3:55:22] stay they are going to stay. Going
[3:55:23] to take their clients out. The going
[3:55:24] to
[3:55:25] have cocktails. They are going to
[3:55:26] shop. The shopping, someone brought
[3:55:27] up retail, I
[3:55:28] want those retail locations at the
[3:55:29] waterfront to be filled with local
[3:55:30] business owners. I'm
[3:55:31] not talking about bringing in eight
[3:55:32] ruth chris. I want local is is is
[3:55:35] down there benefiting from that.
[3:55:38] just like downtown right here.
[3:55:41] so it is
[3:55:44] a visionary.
[3:55:46] some folks are going to feel uncomfortable.
[3:55:50] but, the
[3:55:53] beauty of visionaries ,
[3:55:54] often times folks can't always see
[3:55:56] the vision.
[3:55:59] but if you just
[3:56:01] lean in, and you see the outcome,
[3:56:02] and it's like, oh,
[3:56:05] I got it.
[3:56:08] wow, this is beautiful. Wow,
[3:56:11] look at my kids.
[3:56:14] playing and engaged. Look at the community.
[3:56:17] look at our fireworks, they
[3:56:20] are now on steroids out there. So
[3:56:21] let's think
[3:56:23] outside of the box. It's okay. We
[3:56:24] will
[3:56:26] get there. But
[3:56:29] it will be to the benefit of all of us.
[3:56:35] >> that is wonderful. I want to piggyback on
[3:56:36] what my colleagues
[3:56:37] have been talking about, the access.
[3:56:38] honestly it's very important. If we
[3:56:41] came in
[3:56:44] from marina vista and then went down into
[3:56:47] the ballfields area, that area, we
[3:56:48] are
[3:56:49] starting out at an elevated plateau,
[3:56:51] just
[3:56:52] a thought I wanted to throw out there.
[3:56:54] it's interesting
[3:56:56] because my phone is absolutely blowing
[3:56:57] the. All these
[3:57:00] people watching right now are
[3:57:03] adding all these great ideas.
[3:57:12] and, yeah, I've got
[3:57:13] to agree with everybody, the historical
[3:57:14] park is so important to this town.
[3:57:15] another thing
[3:57:17] I really want to ask all of you is,
[3:57:18] you have to be are
[3:57:19] ambassadors. You have to go out into
[3:57:20] the public and help us sell this.
[3:57:24] because not everybody
[3:57:25] is getting to see this message. So
[3:57:27] we need you to be
[3:57:28] are ambassadors, we need you to spread
[3:57:30] the word. Go to your
[3:57:31] bocce ball teams until everybody about
[3:57:33] it because
[3:57:42] this is very exciting for our
[3:57:43] town. Like I said we have been waiting
[3:57:44] decades for something like this. I
[3:57:46] can't wait to push this forward. I
[3:57:48] do kind of want to lift up all
[3:57:49] of the other council members and mayors
[3:57:53] and all the fighting they have done
[3:57:54] over the
[3:57:55] years trying to do something. I feel
[3:57:56] very grateful that this is landing
[3:57:57] in our
[3:58:00] lap and this is organically
[3:58:03] found
[3:58:04] us. It did happen through some strange circumstances.
[3:58:06] right, and then all of
[3:58:07] a sudden omar went away and all of
[3:58:09] a sudden we realized this whole
[3:58:11] marina is 30 years past its shelf life.
[3:58:15] I do want to thank everybody.
[3:58:17] and it's time I like debbie to make
[3:58:18] a motion
[3:58:21] if she would like to,
[3:58:22] being our longest serving councilmember.
[3:58:24] I think it would be an
[3:58:27] honor and, thank you again.
[3:58:33] >>
[3:58:42] before, debbie, if you're comfortable
[3:58:44] making that motion, before you do that
[3:58:45] I just had one
[3:58:46] quick follow-up question I wanted
[3:58:47] to make sure got said tonight before
[3:58:48] everyone went home.
[3:58:49] we got a couple of questions about
[3:58:51] the tlup approved in the past
[3:58:54] and how
[3:58:55] this design is not completely aligned with
[3:58:56] the tlup that was approved before.
[3:59:00] jill or lauren, can you
[3:59:01] speak to your understanding of conversations
[3:59:03] you have had
[3:59:04] with california state lands and east
[3:59:06] bay regional park's, have they
[3:59:08] had an opportunity to look at this
[3:59:09] , have
[3:59:12] they given you any feedback?
[3:59:13] >>
[3:59:14] thank you, mayor. The proposal has
[3:59:15] not
[3:59:18] been shared
[3:59:20] with them except if they are online
[3:59:21] tonight, we did provide
[3:59:23] them with a link to be able to watch
[3:59:24] this. He also did reach
[3:59:25] out to have conversations prior so
[3:59:27] we made sure
[3:59:30] we were kind of asking all the right
[3:59:31] questions
[3:59:32] as we were going along. To make sure
[3:59:34] some things are being proposed would
[3:59:36] be acceptable. Some of the
[3:59:38] things we learned were that , the
[3:59:39] trust land-use
[3:59:54] plans are easy to amend.
[3:59:55] they are and initial guiding documents
[3:59:57] it happens all the time where documents need
[3:59:58] to be
[3:59:59] amended especially with visionary
[4:00:00] type plans. For this very reason when
[4:00:01] you look at
[4:00:02] things that comes down to the economics
[4:00:03] and these things can actually come
[4:00:04] to fruition.
[4:00:05] so they are aware, we have been in
[4:00:06] contact with them. As well as
[4:00:07] east bay regional parks, they were
[4:00:08] one of the stakeholders we reached
[4:00:09] out to
[4:00:10] because we were mindful insensitive
[4:00:11] to the parks surrounding this property.
[4:00:12] and their
[4:00:15] team was
[4:00:25] supportive of the vision and supportive
[4:00:27] of what is happening. They were excited
[4:00:28] to
[4:00:29] be included and definitely wanted
[4:00:30] to --their goal was to get people
[4:00:31] to the
[4:00:32] parks. Get people to the water. That is
[4:00:33] kind of what they communicated to
[4:00:34] us,
[4:00:35] anything that does that, this is fantastic.
[4:00:36] we will definitely be working with
[4:00:37] them
[4:00:38] closely as well.
[4:00:39] >> by the way, one
[4:00:40] of the things, again, this will
[4:00:42] be a later conversation,
[4:00:45] but
[4:00:47] that greg has talked with us about is
[4:00:48] that east bay regional park
[4:00:49] district will actually benefit from
[4:00:50] this project because there will be more
[4:00:51] connections built
[4:00:54] and also
[4:00:56] improvements to the trails, especially
[4:00:57] those around the bordering areas.
[4:00:58] that was something the very much peaked
[4:01:00] their interest. One more thing I will
[4:01:02] say too is that we spoke with every
[4:01:03] official from federal
[4:01:08] , state to local, we did that outreach.
[4:01:09] as you know those are the
[4:01:11] folks that often opus advocate at
[4:01:12] the state level when
[4:01:14] we are trying to champion our projects
[4:01:15] .
[4:01:17] and across the board everybody was
[4:01:21] in support of this project, even
[4:01:23] though some could make it here tonight,
[4:01:24] they absolutely were very interested
[4:01:27] and supportive.
[4:01:30] >> great, thank you. With that,
[4:01:35] I will hand this over to my colleagues.
[4:01:36] if anyone would like
[4:01:39] to make a motion.
[4:01:40] >> I will gladly make
[4:01:42] a motion that we enter into an exclusive
[4:01:45] negotiation arrangement with
[4:01:48] tucker sadler.
[4:01:49] >>
[4:01:51] debbie can you restate that. We are
[4:01:52] entering
[4:01:54] into negotiations --we don't actually have
[4:01:57] --
[4:01:58] >> so, I
[4:02:00] will say that again.
[4:02:03] make a motion to authorize
[4:02:05] the city to enter into negotiations for
[4:02:06] an exclusive negotiation agreement
[4:02:09] ena, with tucker sadler.
[4:02:10] >> I will
[4:02:11] second
[4:02:12] that.
[4:02:13] >> >> mayor zorn. A roll
[4:02:15] call vote.
[4:02:16] >> vice mayor howard.
[4:02:18] >> yes. >> councilmember young.
[4:02:21] >> yes. >> councilmember malhi. >> >> aye.
[4:02:23] yes.
[4:02:24] >> councilmember mckillop. >> aye.
[4:02:27] >> motion pashas.
[4:02:39] all ayes.
[4:02:40] >> [ applause ] >> based on
[4:02:41] my
[4:02:42] understanding the outcome of this vote
[4:02:43] is that staff will begin negotiating
[4:02:44] with tucker
[4:02:45] sadler . We have a meeting in july and
[4:02:46] we are actually taking the
[4:02:48] month of august off as
[4:02:50] we every year do. We should expect
[4:02:51] a draft
[4:02:54] coming to us probably
[4:02:56] at a september meeting, is that the
[4:02:57] approximate schedule the people
[4:03:00] should expect?
[4:03:01] >> possibly.
[4:03:04] it's doable.
[4:03:06] september or october.
[4:03:07] >> okay. Great.
[4:03:10] thank you. All right,
[4:03:17] thank you, everyone, for participating.
[4:03:19] I know it has been
[4:03:20] a very late evening. I want to remind
[4:03:22] everyone I am three hours ahead
[4:03:23] of use with later for me. But that's
[4:03:25] okay. So thank you for joining us
[4:03:26] this evening. I would like to take
[4:03:27] a five-minute break before we go into
[4:03:29] our last few items on the agenda.
[4:03:31] it is
[4:03:34] 10:45, let's regroup a
[4:03:37] few minutes before 11:00.
[4:03:40] thank you.
[4:10:22] >> can everyone begin to take their
[4:10:23] seats?
[4:10:24] I'm not sure if anyone can hear me,
[4:10:26] but if you can, let's get ready
[4:10:28] to take on last few items on the agenda.
[4:11:45] >> everyone, please take a seat. We're
[4:11:47] going to resume the meeting.
[4:11:59] >> let it show for the record,
[4:12:02] vice mayor howard is ready.
[4:12:07] >> we are not able to start until
[4:12:08] we have a quorum on
[4:12:11] the dais.
[4:13:05] >> you may start. >>
[4:13:08] oh, good, it still recording?
[4:13:10] excellent, thank you. Hold on one minute.
[4:13:22] all right, our next item, general
[4:13:23] business item number two, adopt a
[4:13:24] resolution approving
[4:13:26] a general obligation bond
[4:13:28] tax rate for fiscal year 2526 property
[4:13:29] tax roll.
[4:13:35] june,
[4:13:37] I see you on camera. I assume you
[4:13:38] will be leading off today?
[4:13:40] >> actually I'm going to turn over
[4:13:41] to my accountant, courtney butler
[4:13:42] for
[4:13:44] this item.
[4:13:45] >> good evening,
[4:13:47] mayor and council members.
[4:13:50] I am presenting the recommended general
[4:13:51] obligation
[4:13:53] tax bond rate for fiscal year
[4:13:56] 25/26 property tax roll. In 2008
[4:13:59] voters passed measure
[4:14:05] h which allows
[4:14:07] the city to issue up to $30 million
[4:14:08] in bonds to improve our parks, library
[4:14:09] and
[4:14:10] swimming pool. Since then the city
[4:14:11] has issued three sets of bonds and
[4:14:12] refinanced
[4:14:14] two of them to reduce interest costs.
[4:14:16] these bonds are repaid through the
[4:14:18] property tax base
[4:14:22] on the value of each property. In
[4:14:23] fiscal year 25/26 to cover the cost
[4:14:27] of the debt service payments of
[4:14:29] $1.3 million the tax rate is 0.0167
[4:14:33] four
[4:14:36] $100 of assessed property value.
[4:14:42] tonight's action is for the city council
[4:14:43] to approve this tax rate and authorize
[4:14:44] staff to submit this tax rate to contra
[4:14:47] costa county. And now I am here to
[4:14:48] answer any questions.
[4:14:54] >> that is
[4:14:56] great. Thank you for the presentation.
[4:15:00] it was even
[4:15:01] shorter than I expected. Does anyone
[4:15:02] on council have any questions for
[4:15:03] courtney?
[4:15:12] I'm sorry, I can't see if
[4:15:13] they were shaking their heads, were
[4:15:15] there any questions?
[4:15:16] >> know the were
[4:15:17] not.
[4:15:18] >> all right, I don't have any
[4:15:19] questions. Let me open this up
[4:15:20] to public comment and we will see
[4:15:21] if there is anyone in
[4:15:24] council chambers. Vice mayor howard,
[4:15:25] let me know if there is anyone raising
[4:15:27] their hand to speak.
[4:15:28] >>
[4:15:30] negative.
[4:15:33] >> we you check the virtual
[4:15:34] audience please?
[4:15:35] >> please use the
[4:15:36] raise hand feature if you like to comment on
[4:15:39] this item.
[4:15:42] I have no hands.
[4:15:43] >> okay, all right,
[4:15:44] let's
[4:15:45] bring that back to council
[4:15:47] for a motion.
[4:15:48] >> I like to make a
[4:15:49] motion to pass
[4:15:50] a resolution as the city council of
[4:15:51] the city of martinez approving
[4:15:54] the general obligation bond tax rate
[4:15:57] for the fiscal year 2025 through 2026,
[4:15:58] property
[4:16:00] tax roll
[4:16:01] in directing submittal to contra costa
[4:16:03] county.
[4:16:04] >> second.
[4:16:06] >> roll call vote please.
[4:16:08] >> mayor zorn. >> yes. >> vice mayor howard.
[4:16:09] >> yes. >> councilmember young. >> yes.
[4:16:11] >> councilmember malhi. >> aye. >> councilmember mckillop.
[4:16:12] >> aye.
[4:16:20] >> motion passes. All ayes. >> wonderful,
[4:16:21] thank you courtney
[4:16:23] and jen. All right, we have one more item.
[4:16:26] we are now convening as the board
[4:16:27] of directors
[4:16:28] of contra costa county sanitation
[4:16:30] district number six.
[4:16:32] full public hearing for contra costa
[4:16:33] este six
[4:16:35] adopting the resolution of the written
[4:16:36] statement and
[4:16:42] district diagram and
[4:16:43] assessments for fiscal year 25/26.
[4:16:44] who will be presenting on this this
[4:16:45] evening?
[4:16:48] >> public works director.
[4:16:51] >> good evening
[4:16:54] , mayor and council members.
[4:16:57] and member of the audience.
[4:17:03] this procedural requirement in order to levy
[4:17:04] assessments on the
[4:17:06] tax roll is to hold the
[4:17:09] public hearing for the
[4:17:11] contra costa county sanitation district
[4:17:12] number
[4:17:15] six . The rates have
[4:17:18] not changed. For the last
[4:17:21] three years
[4:17:24] we adopted an ordinance three
[4:17:27] years ago that said the rates at
[4:17:32] $24.50 per year. This will be the
[4:17:33] last year those
[4:17:34] were assessed. Total amount assessed
[4:17:36] for the upcoming year is
[4:17:39] $150,100.
[4:17:42] so by holding the public
[4:17:45] hearing and then subsequently adopting
[4:17:48] of the confirming resolution,
[4:17:50] we will allow the levy of the assessments and
[4:17:51] next year's
[4:17:54] tax roll. Open for
[4:17:57] any questions after the hearing.
[4:17:58] >>
[4:18:03] have we received any protests or
[4:18:05] any comments about this?
[4:18:06] >> no. There
[4:18:07] is no increase
[4:18:09] in rates so there is no
[4:18:11] protest to vote on this.
[4:18:12] >> I see.
[4:18:15] gotcha. Okay, and then,
[4:18:17] I am still concerned and I'm going to
[4:18:18] read to
[4:18:21] you what you wrote in the fiscal impact
[4:18:24] that
[4:18:26] there is no impact toward general
[4:18:27] fund. If
[4:18:30] the proposed rate. If the
[4:18:32] resolution authorizing on the county
[4:18:33] property tax bills is
[4:18:36] not improved
[4:18:38] and alternate funding source would
[4:18:39] be required. I am
[4:18:41] reading that to mean if there is a
[4:18:42] major failure or something of the
[4:18:45] infrastructure in
[4:18:47] este six the rate of $24.50 is not sufficient
[4:18:48] or
[4:18:51] I'm sorry,
[4:18:53] $150,100 per year is not sufficient
[4:18:57] to make any major changes. Is that
[4:18:58] a correct reading
[4:19:00] of that statement?
[4:19:01] >> it is. >> okay.
[4:19:03] this is definitely something I know
[4:19:06] we had multiple years
[4:19:09] of protests because we tried
[4:19:11] to raise it. So I'm just acknowledging
[4:19:12] the staff report
[4:19:16] and acknowledging
[4:19:21] that you have alerted us that this
[4:19:22] is an issue. I also
[4:19:23] recognize that the community is not
[4:19:24] interested in raising the rates. But,
[4:19:25] I just want to acknowledge that this
[4:19:28] has potential
[4:19:31] moving forward.
[4:19:33] any council members have any questions
[4:19:34] or comments?
[4:19:43] hearing none, is one
[4:19:46] person in the audience
[4:19:48] have any comments on this item?
[4:19:49] >> negative.
[4:19:55] >> any one in the
[4:19:56] virtual audience have any comments
[4:19:58] on this item?
[4:19:59] >> please use the raise
[4:20:00] hand feature. I have no hands.
[4:20:01] >>
[4:20:04] go ahead.
[4:20:07] I like
[4:20:09] to make a motion to pass the resolution of
[4:20:10] the city council of
[4:20:11] the city of martinez. Constituting
[4:20:13] the board of directors of
[4:20:20] contra costa county sanitation district
[4:20:21] number six approving the annual written
[4:20:22] statement and confirming
[4:20:23] the diagram an assessment for the
[4:20:24] collection of sewer service charges
[4:20:25] on the
[4:20:26] county tax roll for the 2025 through
[4:20:28] 2026 fiscal year.
[4:20:29] >> second.
[4:20:31] >> mayor zorn. >> yes.
[4:20:32] >> vice mayor howard. >> yes. >> councilmember young.
[4:20:34] >> yes.
[4:20:37] >> councilmember malhi. >> aye.
[4:20:38] >> councilmember mckillop. >> aye.
[4:20:49] >> motion passes. All ayes.
[4:20:50] >> great, thank you so very much.
[4:20:52] we now reconvene is acidic council is
[4:20:54] the city of martinez in the next is
[4:20:55] a report from the chief of
[4:20:57] police. Do you have any updates?
[4:20:58] >>
[4:20:59] thank you,
[4:21:00] mayor. Just one update, council member
[4:21:01] malhi requested an update
[4:21:03] regarding concerns of traffic issues
[4:21:04] on ambra
[4:21:07] and c
[4:21:08] street. The police department has
[4:21:09] conducted extra patrols out there
[4:21:10] between
[4:21:13] april 17
[4:21:15] and june 30. There was a count of
[4:21:16] 133 incidents of us responding
[4:21:19] out there.
[4:21:23] eight of those resulted in traffic
[4:21:25] stops. There were four citations issued
[4:21:26] and
[4:21:27] four warnings were issued. So we do continue
[4:21:33] to patrol in that area regarding the
[4:21:34] concerns that
[4:21:35] had been raised. And we are also collaborating
[4:21:36] with public works regarding longer-term
[4:21:39] engineering-based solutions.
[4:21:40] >> I
[4:21:41] am
[4:21:43] sorry, can you clarify, alhambra
[4:21:46] and c street
[4:21:49] is, which intersection
[4:21:51] are we referring to?
[4:21:52] >> it's a crosswalk
[4:21:53] intersection with a rapid flashing
[4:21:54] be
[4:21:55] could lights. It's by
[4:22:01] the hospital.
[4:22:02] >>
[4:22:03] when people get off the bus and walked
[4:22:04] to the hospital. When people call
[4:22:07] you the police are
[4:22:10] able to in real-time respond that
[4:22:11] quickly
[4:22:12] and then issue citations? Can you
[4:22:13] give an example of what you're talking
[4:22:14] about?
[4:22:15] >> I didn't explain it. We've
[4:22:16] been doing extra patrols based
[4:22:19] on concerns. It's not responses
[4:22:20] to it. It's because they been out
[4:22:22] there doing the extra patrols to look
[4:22:23] for violations.
[4:22:25] >> I see. Thank you for the
[4:22:28] report out.
[4:22:30] council member malhi, I appreciate
[4:22:31] you asking for
[4:22:34] that. I would like us to circle back
[4:22:37] --if you have another
[4:22:38] question, I'd like to circle back
[4:22:40] on this because I think that crosswalk
[4:22:43] seems problematic and I am
[4:22:46] not sure
[4:22:49] --I am not sure
[4:22:52] that citations
[4:23:00] will necessarily produce the outcome we
[4:23:01] are looking for. But I will happily
[4:23:02] be proven wrong. So, chief, if you
[4:23:04] can give us regular report outs and
[4:23:05] if
[4:23:06] it turns out that increased surveys,
[4:23:07] or increased patrols don't
[4:23:16] show a reduction in issues, then maybe
[4:23:17] we can circle back and identify some
[4:23:18] other solution for that crosswalk.
[4:23:19] it's the
[4:23:21] only crosswalk that looks like that in
[4:23:22] martinez. That's why I am
[4:23:25] a little nervous about it.
[4:23:28] >> yeah, just to clarify, as I understand
[4:23:29] it from
[4:23:31] the city engineer, that location
[4:23:34] is already set for an engineering-based study
[4:23:35] is one
[4:23:36] of the safe streets for everybody
[4:23:37] or safe streets for everyone grant.
[4:23:40] I think the next update will be, what
[4:23:41] is the result
[4:23:43] of that.
[4:23:45] and obviously enforcement continues
[4:23:46] to be and then of
[4:23:49] course education which I think
[4:23:52] is being taken care
[4:23:54] of in part by the committee case with
[4:23:55] the hospital. I believe there's also
[4:23:56] a
[4:23:57] sign posted out there reminding the
[4:23:58] strings of their duties when crossing.
[4:23:59] it takes everybody
[4:24:00] working together. The driving as well
[4:24:01] as pedestrians.
[4:24:04] >> great, am glad to hear, I
[4:24:05] had forgotten that was identified
[4:24:07] as part of the
[4:24:12] safe streets for everyone. That is
[4:24:13] exactly what I was going to suggest
[4:24:14] being our
[4:24:15] next step. But we have already done
[4:24:16] it, that is great. Did you have a
[4:24:18] follow-up question?
[4:24:19] >> thank you.
[4:24:20] thank you, chief,
[4:24:21] for that update. I do appreciate it.
[4:24:22] I just wanted to, you know,
[4:24:25] the resident who initially
[4:24:28] flagged this concern
[4:24:31] , has, I believe,
[4:24:36] they work at the county hospital,
[4:24:37] but she did reference
[4:24:39] that one of the doctors at the county
[4:24:40] hospital was actually hit by
[4:24:43] a vehicle
[4:24:46] and that apparently, this is not an
[4:24:47] isolated incident.
[4:24:48] apparently there have been other incidents. Chief,
[4:24:49] you have
[4:24:52] any data to support that? Are you aware,
[4:24:57] have pedestrians in fact been
[4:24:58] >>>
[4:24:59] there? Have we had first responders
[4:25:00] go out in response?
[4:25:01] >> there have
[4:25:02] been collisions there
[4:25:04] but in terms of it being attributed
[4:25:07] to one particular issue, that hasn't
[4:25:09] been established. I'm sure is part
[4:25:10] of the
[4:25:13] engineering study it will make available
[4:25:14] to them whatever
[4:25:15] data they want and they will be able
[4:25:16] to look at it and determine what
[4:25:19] recommendations they may have.
[4:25:20] >>
[4:25:21] yeah,
[4:25:22] I would very much like
[4:25:24] to get some continuous updates on this.
[4:25:28] given it's a very highly trafficked
[4:25:29] crosswalk that
[4:25:31] is used not only by residents, but also
[4:25:36] , you know, county employees, those
[4:25:37] that work at the hospital, patients.
[4:25:40] and I believe it is also next to the
[4:25:41] teamsters hall
[4:25:44] as well.
[4:25:49] so there may be --and also its adjacent
[4:25:50] to the
[4:25:51] high school. So there is a good mix
[4:25:53] of folks who are traversing that
[4:25:54] area. I think it warrants our attention
[4:25:55] and I look forward to getting some
[4:25:59] additional updates as far as
[4:26:01] proposed solutions. Very much appreciate
[4:26:08] , chief, the work
[4:26:09] of pd to at least get out there and
[4:26:11] step up patrols in that area
[4:26:12] while recognizing the fact that there
[4:26:13] are some traffic calming mitigation
[4:26:17] that can potentially be
[4:26:20] undertaken there. So thank you.
[4:26:30] >> great, next up is update from the
[4:26:31] city manager. Acting city manager,
[4:26:32] do you
[4:26:33] have any updates for us?
[4:26:34] >> there
[4:26:35] are none.
[4:26:36] >> great. Since I know
[4:26:37] how involved you were in setting up
[4:26:38] meetings and
[4:26:39] doing outreach for tonight, thank
[4:26:41] you very much for all of
[4:26:43] your efforts, I was really happy to
[4:26:44] see how
[4:26:47] many folks divided input
[4:26:50] from, not even
[4:26:51] people here tonight, but people who
[4:26:53] met with you earlier
[4:26:54] to answer some questions about the
[4:26:56] agenda and all that kind
[4:26:59] of stuff. We just got a lot of
[4:27:00] really positive feedback so thank
[4:27:01] you for all of your efforts. All right,
[4:27:04] no appointments. We do have a few subcommittee
[4:27:08] report outs.
[4:27:09] one is the sustainability subcommittee
[4:27:11] the debbie and I
[4:27:14] serve on.
[4:27:19] debbie, any chance you have the agenda
[4:27:20] in
[4:27:21] front of you? Because I can't remember
[4:27:23] all the things we talked about.
[4:27:24] >> yes, I do have the agenda. The
[4:27:26] first item was a presentation from
[4:27:27] the contra costa county climate leaders
[4:27:29] which was --
[4:27:32] >> that's right. >> told us
[4:27:33] how we fared in the assessment of
[4:27:35] our climate leadership.
[4:27:38] then we also had a report out
[4:27:41] from the
[4:27:42] eco-awards programs. And their plans
[4:27:44] for doing additional
[4:27:45] recognition for individuals and businesses
[4:27:47] that do
[4:27:50] good work in sustainability.
[4:27:54] and then we also heard a staff report
[4:27:56] on the
[4:27:59] bag and food
[4:28:01] wear accessories and condiment update.
[4:28:05] those are the three evidence.
[4:28:10] --items.
[4:28:11] >> just a quick update on
[4:28:12] the last one
[4:28:13] for this meeting, we had, right before
[4:28:17] the
[4:28:22] vacant to vibrant workshop, so we
[4:28:23] got cut a little
[4:28:24] short at the end. And so the discussion
[4:28:26] of single-use plastics
[4:28:28] and what was the other freezing in
[4:28:29] that item?
[4:28:30] >>
[4:28:31] food wear accessories.
[4:28:32] >> food wear accessories,
[4:28:41] we just barely scratched the surface
[4:28:43] and so we asked for carrie and michael
[4:28:44] to bring that up at
[4:28:45] a subsequent meeting. We will talk
[4:28:46] about that again, we didn't make much
[4:28:47] progress on
[4:28:48] that topic. That's great, thank you.
[4:28:50] anybody have any outside agency or
[4:28:51] subcommittee
[4:28:52] report outs not listed on the agenda?
[4:28:53] >>
[4:28:56] I attended the
[4:28:59] transpac meeting
[4:29:02] last
[4:29:05] thursday, july 10, one of the items
[4:29:08] that was shared was the
[4:29:15] contra costa transportation authority
[4:29:16] integrated transit plan. This was
[4:29:17] a presentation
[4:29:20] really designed
[4:29:23] , the plan
[4:29:24] was designed to provide technical
[4:29:25] and planning guidance with a clear
[4:29:26] vision
[4:29:29] for delivering
[4:29:31] a robust transit network that connects
[4:29:32] all major activity centers
[4:29:34] and regional hubs in contra costa
[4:29:35] county. So,
[4:29:38] we were shown plans across
[4:29:41] our five
[4:29:46] counties. Central county action plan,
[4:29:47] tri-valley, so across contra
[4:29:50] costa county and timelines, so
[4:29:52] far the discussion was looking at improving
[4:29:56] our arterial ways
[4:29:59] , connecting mobility hubs in our counties.
[4:30:04] increasing express lanes, part-time transit,
[4:30:10] so having buses during certain designated
[4:30:11] times. Have the ability to go on the
[4:30:14] shoulders, like the 680.
[4:30:16] gave a full-blown presentation and then
[4:30:20] next steps , as I'm getting to the
[4:30:21] end of this, getting
[4:30:23] input from
[4:30:25] transpac and then coming back with
[4:30:26] policy proposals to suggest
[4:30:29] action plans based on
[4:30:31] the different regions and corridors
[4:30:32] . And then
[4:30:35] delivering an integrated transit
[4:30:38] plan. Countywide.
[4:30:41] that was the majority of the
[4:30:43] time last week. That's all I've got.
[4:30:44] >>
[4:30:50] thank
[4:30:51] you for representing martinez at the
[4:30:52] mayor's conference this past week.
[4:30:53] much appreciated.
[4:30:54] >>
[4:30:55] yes, thank you. That was a spirited meeting.
[4:30:59] >> all right, the last item is city council
[4:31:03] comments. What we go
[4:31:13] --actually, I know, debbie, are you
[4:31:14] still interested in closing at the
[4:31:16] meeting this evening?
[4:31:17] >> yes. >> how
[4:31:18] about I will start and we will
[4:31:19] go down the line and then debbie you
[4:31:21] can have the last comment. I
[4:31:22] will pass the gavel to you and you
[4:31:23] can adjourn the meeting after your
[4:31:24] comments.
[4:31:25] so I just wanted to thank st. Peter
[4:31:27] and paul church, they had the
[4:31:28] mediterranean festival over the weekend.
[4:31:30] thanks for coming out. I want
[4:31:32] to thank you for initiating that contact
[4:31:33] a year
[4:31:35] or so ago because it wasn't totally
[4:31:37] on my radar before. I really appreciate
[4:31:42] the we have
[4:31:43] now started this tradition for council
[4:31:45] to go to that festival. It was great.
[4:31:46] and really fun. And the food was great.
[4:31:48] I wanted to
[4:31:53] only comment at the very, very beginning
[4:31:55] of this meeting, we had some folks
[4:31:56] from comment that they would like
[4:32:02] to have some conversations with staff.
[4:32:03] I understand staff
[4:32:04] have already been in touch with one
[4:32:06] of the women who spoke. And so
[4:32:07] I just wanted to check with staff
[4:32:09] and make sure you are good to
[4:32:12] continue those conversations
[4:32:15] with those folks and don't need
[4:32:16] any additional guidance from council.
[4:32:18] >> that
[4:32:21] is correct.
[4:32:22] >>
[4:32:23] okay. All right, great, that is it
[4:32:24] for me.
[4:32:25] >> that
[4:32:27] is great. So
[4:32:28] the one thing I wanted to talk about
[4:32:30] is, let's all remember it
[4:32:33] is coyote season.
[4:32:35] until the end of august. If you love
[4:32:36] your cats and
[4:32:39] dogs keep them inside at night.
[4:32:40] >>
[4:32:42] just again, I want to say
[4:32:45] thank you to the staff for the marina
[4:32:48] revitalization plan.
[4:32:51] again, you all brought
[4:32:54] this forward
[4:32:57] and now
[4:32:59] it looks like we are at least in the
[4:33:00] beginning stages
[4:33:03] of having
[4:33:04] some real conversations about transforming
[4:33:06] the marina. So again, I can't
[4:33:08] thank you all enough, this is a heavy
[4:33:09] lift. The
[4:33:10] exciting part is the work is really
[4:33:12] going to start to begin.
[4:33:14] thank you all for making it happen.
[4:33:18] >>
[4:33:21] thank you very much.
[4:33:24] just a couple of quick
[4:33:27] shout outs, the pine meadow ribbon
[4:33:29] cutting ceremony and fourth of july
[4:33:30] ,
[4:33:33] thanks to staff and all of the
[4:33:36] volunteers who helped
[4:33:39] make those events successful and possible.
[4:33:41] very much appreciate that. Another great
[4:33:42] parade
[4:33:45] , so thank you very much.
[4:33:48] and, I did want to
[4:33:51] also just highlight,
[4:33:54] for my colleagues and staff in
[4:33:57] the community, for those of you who
[4:33:58] may not
[4:34:00] be aware,
[4:34:03] safeway/albertsons
[4:34:04] and kroger have been in negotiations
[4:34:06] with u of cw including
[4:34:08] you of cw local five here in martinez.
[4:34:09] yesterday
[4:34:11] and informational eating was held
[4:34:15] at the safeway in pleasant hill.
[4:34:18] and,
[4:34:21] so, it is certainly my hope and
[4:34:24] I know
[4:34:27] those of you, that the safeway will
[4:34:28] negotiate
[4:34:29] in good faith and pay their workers
[4:34:30] a good living wage. With
[4:34:32] benefits. I hope that an amicable
[4:34:36] solution can be reached in the near
[4:34:37] future
[4:34:39] to avoid a strike . No
[4:34:42] doubt we have
[4:34:45] two locations in our community.
[4:34:47] will certainly be impacted by that.
[4:34:51] I definitely
[4:34:53] do not want to see that happen. I
[4:34:54] encourage safeway
[4:34:57] to do
[4:34:59] their part and do right by their workers.
[4:35:00] that is really, really important.
[4:35:03] other than that,
[4:35:05] I don't have any further updates.
[4:35:08] one question I did have about an upcoming
[4:35:09] meeting, it's my understanding
[4:35:12] the council will be
[4:35:18] in the meeting, lauren, with the diversity and
[4:35:19] cultural
[4:35:20] commission? Is that still on the books?
[4:35:21] and if so, do you
[4:35:23] have any information in terms of what
[4:35:24] that is going to look like?
[4:35:25] >>
[4:35:27] yes, so I will look over to eve,
[4:35:29] jump in if I am miss communicating
[4:35:30] this. So our joint
[4:35:32] council and diversity and cultural
[4:35:35] commission meeting is next thursday,
[4:35:36] the 24th,
[4:35:39] at 7:00. 6:00. 6:00.
[4:35:42] it will be facilitated training
[4:35:48] and kind of getting
[4:35:50] to know one another. This is a new
[4:35:51] commission reporting directly to the
[4:35:54] council. We are still kind of determining
[4:35:55] the location because
[4:35:56] we wanted to have more of a unity
[4:35:57] center feel,
[4:36:00] but we unfortunately, the
[4:36:03] senior center
[4:36:09] --tbd on location.
[4:36:11] we might have to stick here. But yeah,
[4:36:12] it will be a facilitated discussion
[4:36:13] around
[4:36:15] the principles of diversity, equity,
[4:36:16] inclusion and belonging
[4:36:17] is a new commission really kind of
[4:36:18] starts to take off from here.
[4:36:19] >>
[4:36:22] thank you so much.
[4:36:27] >> here we are at the end of the evening.
[4:36:28] we have
[4:36:29] one person in our audience. Thank
[4:36:31] you for sticking around.
[4:36:34] I just wanted to say
[4:36:35] that tonight I think we did something
[4:36:39] miraculous. I think that we set the stage
[4:36:44] for an amazing future for martinez.
[4:36:46] I am proud to be
[4:36:49] part of
[4:36:50] this, with all of you, with all the
[4:36:52] staff. And they just want to
[4:36:53] thank the staff for your outreach
[4:37:00] and your dedication to this. It has
[4:37:01] been
[4:37:02] quite a journey. And we just started.
[4:37:04] and so I am looking forward to
[4:37:05] the adventure. And the journey. I'm
[4:37:07] very excited about developing
[4:37:09] our waterfront , both land and sea.
[4:37:13] very exciting. I also attended
[4:37:16] the mediterranean festival.
[4:37:18] I went there late but it was amazing.
[4:37:19] I actually was
[4:37:21] dancing late into the evening. It
[4:37:22] was a lot of
[4:37:25] fun. It was great. But on a more
[4:37:28] serious note,
[4:37:29] I have the honor this evening to close
[4:37:31] the city council meeting in the
[4:37:33] memory of harriet bird. I brought
[4:37:34] with me
[4:37:37] a picture
[4:37:40] of harriet, I wanted
[4:37:42] to put that out there. So people can
[4:37:43] see her.
[4:37:49] and I had something prepared, partially
[4:37:50] from her obituary and partially a
[4:37:52] little history about
[4:37:55] harriet bert.
[4:37:57] she was a longtime martinez resident
[4:38:00] and integral part of our community.
[4:38:13] so harriet bert, very proud
[4:38:14] and active resident of martinez, california,
[4:38:15] passed away peacefully on may 6, 2025
[4:38:18] in san antonio, texas, she was 85.
[4:38:19] she was born
[4:38:21] in alameda to harold and jean bert,
[4:38:22] both
[4:38:25] devoted schoolteachers
[4:38:28] . Harriet inherited
[4:38:29] a lifelong passion for education,
[4:38:30] civic engagement and public service. Harriet
[4:38:37] began her
[4:38:38] teaching career in martinez jr. High
[4:38:40] school in 1962. She was hired
[4:38:42] by principal john spade, many of us
[4:38:43] might remember him from junior
[4:38:46] high, he hired harriet
[4:38:49] to replace a longtime educator
[4:38:56] , mary gillespie. And the funny thing
[4:38:58] is, harriet was a graduate of fresno
[4:38:59] state university where she roomed
[4:39:00] with her fellow roommate, sheila,
[4:39:01] another longtime martinez resident
[4:39:03] and that was the connection of how she
[4:39:04] kind of
[4:39:05] found martinez's to her roommate.
[4:39:15] and john spade came down and hired
[4:39:16] her. She spent 16
[4:39:17] years at the martinez jr. High. A
[4:39:18] couple years she went to australia
[4:39:19] and
[4:39:20] taught. The last 10 years of her teaching
[4:39:22] she taught u.s. History to many, many
[4:39:25] of us martisians and a
[4:39:26] lot of kids remember miss harriet
[4:39:28] bert. In 1978 she moved
[4:39:30] into the school administration and
[4:39:31] she
[4:39:34] continued to
[4:39:45] lead the administration with clarity
[4:39:46] and compassion
[4:39:47] until 1980. And then she began a new
[4:39:49] chapter as an educational consultant
[4:39:50] traveling across
[4:39:51] the u.s. In canada for 15 years and
[4:39:52] she taught classroom management and
[4:39:53] behavioral
[4:39:55] workshops to fellow educators.
[4:39:58] harriet also shared her
[4:39:59] talents as a journalist with the martinez
[4:40:01] news gazette. Many of us remember
[4:40:02] we
[4:40:03] had a newspaper in town called the
[4:40:04] martinez news gazette. She wrote with
[4:40:05] sharp insight
[4:40:07] and wit that was
[4:40:22] --endeared her
[4:40:23] to so many in our community. Later
[4:40:24] in her career harriet brought her
[4:40:25] intellect and dedication
[4:40:27] to public service and she served on
[4:40:28] this city council. She was a
[4:40:29] city councilmember, planning commission
[4:40:30] member, she worked with the california
[4:40:31] public utilities commission and her
[4:40:32] commitment
[4:40:33] to improving our community never,
[4:40:34] never wavered. She was deeply engaged
[4:40:35] in our community.
[4:40:37] she was in active member
[4:40:40] of many civic organizations
[4:40:41] including the american association
[4:40:42] of university women, the boys and
[4:40:43] girls club,
[4:40:58] the optimist club, the martinez education association,
[4:40:59] kiwanis, lions club, and the martinez
[4:41:01] historical society. And that is just to
[4:41:02] name a
[4:41:03] few. You can see how active she was
[4:41:04] in our community. She will
[4:41:05] be remembered by her incredible intellect,
[4:41:06] her razor sharp wit, her larger-than-life
[4:41:07] presence, her lifelong commitment
[4:41:08] to education, equity and civic life
[4:41:10] leads a lasting legacy that will continue
[4:41:11] to
[4:41:13] inspire generations to come.
[4:41:16] and we had a celebration and of her
[4:41:17] life
[4:41:18] this past sunday and the family has expressed
[4:41:19] the request
[4:41:21] instead of flowers that you make a
[4:41:22] contribution to the
[4:41:28] martinez historical society or local
[4:41:29] educational nonprofit
[4:41:30] in her honor. With that, I want to
[4:41:31] say thank you to harriet for
[4:41:33] all that you gave over the years to martinez.
[4:41:37] and we are closing this meeting in
[4:41:38] your honor.
[4:41:40] and in your memory.
[4:41:45] >> this meeting is adjourned. Thank
[4:41:46] you so much and have a
[4:41:49] lovely evening.