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Good evening. Good evening. Mayor and city council tonight's meeting of October 21, 2025 is being held here at 420

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Lithel Street City Hall Council Chamber. It's also being broadcast live on cable TV Channel 27 on zoom and on our city's website.

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Okay,

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we're going to take a five minute break all of them

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we're ready there. All right, thank you will resume

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Welcome to the regular meeting for the City of Sossalito for Tuesday, October 21st,

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2025 the time is 506 p.m.

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City Clerk will you call the roll?

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Council member Blouse Dean.

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She is still not here yet.

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She will not be attending this evening. She was married this past weekend.

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and so she is on a mini moon and will not be attending our meeting this evening and congratulations

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to her and Dave Sachs.

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Council Member Huffman.

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Here.

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Council Member Rousal Biosky.

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Vice Mayor Woodside.

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Mayor Cox.

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We did have interviews on our agenda originally but we had several cancel and so we will be conducting

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those interviews next week.

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I do have several announcements that I'd like to make.

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I'm going to break my own rule, which is praise in public and reproove in private.

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That's something I learned in the military, but I did speak with the City Manager offline.

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I'm going to repeat my requests of him publicly.

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It is becoming the standard and not the exception that we have technical difficulties with these meetings.

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And so I am making a public request to the City Manager.

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It is rude to our public.

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It is rude to those who tune in.

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we pay people extra to be here early to set up and to ensure that our IT issues are all straight forward.

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City Clerk, I would like you to be here at least 15 minutes before the meeting starts with the closed session ready to go with the public meeting already started.

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So that, okay, I see you rolling your eyes here, I'm happy with my request.

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I have no issues.

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Okay, so I'm making these specific requests because time after time we're having these technical issues that affect our ability to conduct our business publicly for the public.

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We serve the public, and so I'm asking that we put in safeguards to ensure that we can timely, efficiently, and effectively serve the public.

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I've, we've made requests offline, they have not been addressed adequately and tonight, you know, we started the meeting and then we had to reboot that should not be happening.

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All reboots, all start-ups, all testing, all of that should be done and you should be ready to go.

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We should be online 15 minutes before we actually convene the meeting.

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So that's my request moving forward.

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If things improve, you know, perhaps staff can adopt different procedures, but that's my request moving forward.

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For the record, we did start at 3 p.m. doing the set up and we continue to

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share some check up for the mayor.

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Mayor, let me respond, please.

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The city manager is responsible for the staff.

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The counter is responsible for the city manager.

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I feel like the coach of the 49ers or something goes wrong

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at a game.

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The fans are upset.

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The owners upset.

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People are upset.

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And that should not be happening.

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I apologize to the residents.

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I apologize to you, Mayor and council for this happening.

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we will do better, everything that you said we've noted, so again, except our apologies and we'll

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see what improvements we can make as we are trying to make sure that our time is valued,

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the resident's time is valued, and certainly the council's time is valued, so I apologize,

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but we'll do better. Thank you, City Manager, I greatly appreciate that. All right, I also want

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folks to be aware that on Halloween night, October 31st, of course,

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Rosalita will have it stand.

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Allowing parade, we will have tables out on the basketball court to welcome our trick or treators. We'll have our dog, costume, contests, and our other festivities.

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But in addition to what we're doing here in Salito, there will be a performing star's big celebration on Halloween Night in Mil Valley.

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We, the city of Sossalito through our partnership with the city of Marin City and our ongoing

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collaboration has, we are sponsoring a table at the Celebration and Mill Valley, so we invite

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you to attend as many celebrations as you can on Halloween evening.

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And with that, we will turn to a special presentation from Southern Rhinfire regarding emergency

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preparedness, including the Spencer Fire Station and Defensible Space Home Hardening, and I see

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some of our tried and true members of Southern Rhinfire here this evening to share our presentation.

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Mayor, were they're setting up Chief Hill your and the Fire District will provide information

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and that will be followed by information from myself on the Spencer Station status at this time.

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Good evening, Mayor Cox, City Council, staff, and the Greater Public of Sossaleta.

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Thank you for having us here.

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We're excited to be here.

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We have some report out to you that regarding our defense of the space and home-artening

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program and vegetation management, short presentation by Deputy Fire and Marshall now who runs

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our vegetation portion of it, and then I'll follow up with talking

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about our trianial code cycle, which happens every three years in the adoption of the

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fire code, which I've been doing for the City of Sossolido since the annexation.

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So with that, Captain Now.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Well, Council members.

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Thank you.

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Members of the public.

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Again, my name is Marshall now.

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I'm the Deputy Fire Marshal for Southern Remfire District and I run our vegetation

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management in our defense space and woody programs.

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The good and next slide.

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The first thing we want to cover real quick is just a really brief update.

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Anyone who's familiar with Firewise USA, these are individual sites throughout the country

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and that give special benefits to certain communities.

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We have a number of minor districts.

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We have a couple in Sossolido.

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This is another program.

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It's an overlay.

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So it's not taken away from what Firewise USA is, but this is the fire risk reduction community

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list.

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It's held by the state.

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It will be approved once everything's done, but we have applied for this across our entire district so naturally

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Sossolido falls within that and we're expecting that if the list goes through appropriately

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July of twenty twenty six will the list be approved and this will be to be another layer

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services like the the list or

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Firewise community. This allows for residents to take any advantages to those programs

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typically line up with insurance discounts and other things around those.

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So we'll keep you informed as we move forward.

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Obviously there's a good eight or nine months before we know,

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but we'll keep you up to date on that.

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Next slide.

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So mainly today, I'm talking about our defenseable space program that we run seasonally

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as well as our vegetation management programs that we also run throughout the season.

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So we can skip a couple of slides as you write to there, there we go.

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So first thing we're going to touch on is just a three year snapshot.

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We call it 2023 to 2025 as a three year snapshot for a couple of reasons.

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Primarily, because 2023 is when the Marin Wilde, if I

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have mentioned authority, or I'm going to be PA,

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worked with Southern Marin Fire for the first time with utilizing

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our digital reports.

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And he resident at this point, and there's an open their digital report,

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should know that they do have a report available for them online,

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and they can reach out to our offices for them.

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But this snapshot also highlights the fact that we pledge

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for in a three-year window to complete an entirety of our acquired district.

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This included obviously the city of San Toledo.

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This is a snapshot of our achievements specifically in San Toledo.

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So over that three-year window, we've completed over 300,

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and sorry, 3,283 properties, and then it breaks it out to acres,

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along with some reinspections on those properties.

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We can move forward to the next slide.

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This is going to look at more of a year-to-date figure.

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One, the four thousand, that's year-to-date in our district.

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So naturally our district covers much more than just the city of

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So we have over 4,000 inspections conducted this year, and then I don't know why we made so small, but at the bottom you see 825 inspections completed here today in the city of San Toledo.

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And that's an important number for us because that's what we calculated that was required to finish our first objective for the year, which was

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A hundred percent compliance. So if we go to the next slide, that's where we talk about some of our goals and metrics of what we're aiming for for that three-year window and what we were trying to wrap up this year.

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So, as of this year, we have blanked it our entire district for the first time to be in that digital platform.

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That digital platform helps with a number of things, not just providing information back to our residents, but it also gives us the ability to use the data that we collected to inform our residents as well as inform ourselves for future projects.

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and precise allocation of funds in order to see that the goals of the Marine wildfire

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prevention authority are MWAPA. With that, as of September 2025, we were

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happy to report that the district had completed 100% of those wild land urban

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interface inspections on properties. Some level of digital report is available, like

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said, for all those residents as of right now. In addition, this year has been

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unique. We also had an update to our local response areas from the state. This

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enhanced and changed to the layout of our fire severity zones, primarily in the city of

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Sossolito, but also in the city of Movalena, with that we added a little over 150 properties

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that had never been inside of either a wildland or been interface footprint or a severity zone

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footprint.

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So these homes have never received any level of information around a defensible space outside

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of just typical mailers that might come through and across their radar.

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We decided to get it on top of it, and as of actually this month, we went through and

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respect and all of those, as well as we're concluding the ones in no value. So at the end

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of this month, we'll have been able to say that 100% of those new properties, we had about

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500 new ones throughout our whole district, have had their digital inspection reports completed

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and are available waiting for the residents to open them.

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The 65.3% of our cover in right here, this is one of the first metrics that we're working

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on moving into the next year. We're already working on it. We actually started a campaign in

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Saoselito about three months ago to try and boost this number. These are how many people

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obviously physically open the reports. They may have walked with us, they may have gotten the

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hanger on their door, but they may not have actually physically opened the digital report.

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Some we mail out directly to people, but right now we're driving that number up. The next part

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is that number should not go down, and we're going to keep pushing that until we get a higher and higher.

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So again, we started a mailing campaign about 20 letters a week, go out to residents,

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very specific and targeted on people who have not opened the reports, gently asking them to open

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report, look at it because we can see on our end as soon as they open it and we'll just keep

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driving those numbers up as we enhance that data quality that we get. In addition to that,

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we talked about a three-year cycle for doing those inspections. We realize that now that we've finished,

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we get to start over and do inspections again. But we don't want the residents that just got their

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inspection now to wait three more years to get another inspection. So we're trying to bring it down to

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two-year. We believe that we know exactly how to do that. Moving forward with the exact same

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progress that we've made, that 4,000 number that we saw that we did this year.

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That is significantly higher than past year, so if we continue that momentum, we should

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be able to complete our entire district, which means in theory half of Sossolido a year,

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moving forward every two years.

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So you'll have kind of an odd and even rotation on those homes being done.

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And then additionally, all of this develops a better target hazard inspection list,

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and that's something that the county collectively is using a lot of this data

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in the CWPP for the community wildfire

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potential CWPP, the community wildfire

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prevention plan that will give us

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much more accurate data on where we can

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provide community impact, community feedback,

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a lot of our direct assistance programs,

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it will guide us on a lot of those things.

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So, next slide.

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That was the bulk of everything.

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So, I'm going to breeze through the next few

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really quickly and open up any questions.

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These are just some of the events and numbers that we have.

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We provide an on-demand chipper program in 2025.

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We calculated that over 26 people did take advantage of that on-demand chipper program.

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We offer all year long, it's on-demand, so all you have to do is put in the request form online.

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And we work within a week, same cruise out to your house, to take away your pile.

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We do work in groups, so that 26 may be more like 30 or 40 homes, specifically there's

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2 to 3 in each group.

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We also started a pilot program, which did utilize Marine Investors, which is our newest

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fire-wise community and our district.

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In June of 2025, we serviced someone between 18 and 20 homes, primarily focusing on

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Juniper removal, as well as measuring and outfitting homes with additional events and other

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home-hardening elements.

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It was a pilot program.

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We felt it was very successful.

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We learned a lot from it, and we have now rotated that same program on a quarterly rotation

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where we had a summer between 15 and 25 homes a quarter in that same fashion and we just

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move around our district and in clumps primarily in bio-ized groups and yet so multiple

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residents remove the juniper of that marine vise homeowner's association we look at coming

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back probably to saw salido in the next quarter. I think of two more slides left so again direct

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assistance we covered that about 10 properties a month.

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I think that's been adjusted to reflect what we're doing in San Salito primarily. We're looking

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at 20 across our whole district. Public outreach with large landovers. That's a part of our

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community fields management program. There's a lot of larger parcels that are falling unkempt, and

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we have an opportunity to step in and help them. And then the photos here show quite a bit that was

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done very recently along the GGRA land where we finally got some approval. We actually got three days

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The bonus approval to work on their land just before the shutdown occurred so that we

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were able to keep this project going before we lost the oversight that was required for us

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to maintain it and we're still continuing to work.

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So that's a very delicate relationship and we're really building upon it.

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And then again, we continue to work within the city on a lot of other programs that we've

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mirrored in the city of Movali, like things that we work around with SLPs.

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And I think the last slide is, again, just a couple of big highlights, I think I've talked

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But most all of these, we have hazardous her removal, where we've worked in the past with different

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communities.

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Marina Visto had a really big program that they were pushing forward with their HOA

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And we were able to work in conjunction with what they were doing to continue to remove

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a lot of material away from the trees that they were removed.

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We continue our Sossleto Forest Health Fuel Break along the perimeter of the city, jumping

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between city, on land, private, on land,

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couch, on land, and, obviously, the engineering land.

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We have started 3D modeling, all of our field breaks.

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This does two things for us.

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One, it gets us into some of those areas

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that we can't get to until we've done work.

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So now we can see the density of the field.

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And we can also see the fruits of our labor,

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what's been removed after we've done it.

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But on top of that, we can refly over it

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on 60-eight months intervals, and we can track the regrowth.

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And we can give data metrics on exactly how much volume vegetation we removed initially and how

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aggressively it's growing back and that should help to drive us to be able to be more precise

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and accurate with our funds so we can spread it appropriately across the entire district more accurately.

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So we've got our first 3D modeling coming back from some of our field breaks and we're going to continue to

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just build upon that as we go but really really interesting stuff there.

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And then, again, our relationship with GDNA and the NPS that we'll continue to grow and we'll continue to foster that.

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Naturally, we have a lot of their land with us.

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It's not just here in San Toledo.

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We run all the way up to Panorama Highway, so we have a number of spots I think we are actually working on two locations.

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Obviously, outside of the city, but we're continuing to work with them, even through the shutdown luckily.

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So, I believe that should conclude my portion of the report, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

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Since the next to last slide showed property right outside my house, I want to say to everyone, this really works.

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The GGRA and your group have cooperated to do a lot of clearing in the underbroke underneath the forest that surrounds us.

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And when I say us, it's the whole town.

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And I just want to compliment you for that cooperation and give a shout out to then Mayor Sovi Eski who I think wrote the telling letter that got everybody together and cooperating in a very nice way.

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So thank you number one. And number two is really to underscore and to ask you what more can we do to get the word out to people that these services are available because they are, they don't cost anything.

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the Chipper programs, et cetera, the inspections, they are extremely helpful, they will save lives and property if people take advantage of them.

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Can you think of what more we can do to get the word out?

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Just any opportunity you have to direct them, we offer an on-demand home assessment service where they can book out online.

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We offer all your long, we have full time inspectors dedicated to that service.

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That's really your entry point to everything that we have to offer as free services as well as the NWAPA.

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And then I'd like to add to you with the newly revised disaster preparedness committee that we're also involved in with the city.

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This is an avenue for us to also get this word out and we're working with them to look for ways to communicate for, you know, disaster preparedness but also wildfire preparedness.

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So, a lot of this will also be in conjunction with that committee.

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Thank you.

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So, what's our, what's our trajectory from now, you know, for the rest of the year,

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for the rest of the calendar year, rest of the year, whatever.

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I mean, I think we're sort of entering the what season now.

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So, what should people be doing through, you know, as we're going forward through the year.

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And I, and I did have a follow-up question too on the ordinances that we have later in the, on the agenda.

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Are you guys, because some of those have to do with Southern modifier, are you guys staying for that presentation?

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Correct. Correct. There will be second-around questions in chief earlier. We'll be happy to answer those, the ones that are related to the code adoption.

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It's a benefit for my first question. Yeah, naturally this time of year, normally we're not getting rain, we're waiting at bay to breath for the winds to pick up and then die down.

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Could very well still come. Obviously, all the defensible space that you'd want to do would normally be done before now. But our seasons never end. Before we know it, we'll be right back into it all. So take a look at your landscape.

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To try and decide how you're going to prepare for next spring, take action on anything remaining now that's safe to do so.

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As we work through the very last months of the season hopefully last weeks or days.

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But yeah, preparing for next season.

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We're already going into winter mode.

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A lot of that stuff is planning on how we're going to move forward.

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We continue our inspections all year long.

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Our seasonal program will die out probably in the next by the end of the month.

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So we'll remain on with all of our full time staff continuously doing inspections.

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and continues to offer in our services because there are certain things within the landscape

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that have only been done during the winter anyhow.

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So, yeah, take a look around your house.

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They'll be afraid to walk in in every corner of your yard and think what can change.

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So, and call us out.

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Hi.

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Thanks for your service.

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I have a question about the home inspection report.

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I've promoted that to the homeowners in San Salito, and I've gotten a fair bit of pushback

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from people who are concerned about two things.

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One is that there are things that are found

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that their fire insurance rates might go up

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or get dropped altogether.

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And the second is that if they choose not to remediate

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something that you find that that becomes a disclosure item

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if they sell their property.

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Both of those stem from the fact that I believe

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your reports are public and accessible by anyone.

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And I'm wondering if those concerns have merit

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and if there's any way to address that.

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Well, the report aren't readily available to the public.

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Naturally, everything could be available to the public,

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but they're not readily available to the public.

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The code that accesses the report is only provided with you,

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the tenant or the homeowner upon the inspection being conducted.

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If they're requesting it,

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we verify that they're the same person as well.

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Otherwise, there's natural processes that would follow.

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As far as the insurance element,

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But the insurance companies don't have access to that data.

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They don't request it from us.

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They have their own models and measurements.

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So individual findings in a report are only going to help to develop a no-one risk

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work to the resident that they can hopefully work to bring down.

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In the report, there's three different kind of risk scores that are put there.

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Only one is based on findings.

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The other ones are based on like topography and placement of the structure, which no one can

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eliminate.

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And those are the two biggest factors of why we're so focused on

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defensible space.

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And those are the two factors that the insurance companies really look a lot at.

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Naturally, how you keep your property is another big factor.

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But those are things that you can actually take a media action on,

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whereas the location of your home and the placement of it,

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and the more permanent building materials,

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those are what the insurance companies really looking at,

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and it doesn't really have anything to do with our report.

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And then lastly, the AB38 inspections for resale,

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pertain to first oscillator, just a very high fire severity zones, and yes, those are required

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to be disclosed during a real state transaction, no different than anything else related

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to the sale of a home.

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So it's no different that if you had mold or something else in your property, you're just

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required to be either disclosed that you're not in compliance or that you have gotten

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in compliance with the fire department, but that was the state bill that was passed a couple

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years ago, and we provide the service so that we can get everyone to that and easier

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fashion. Okay, that's news to me. I didn't know the report was not public and password

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protected. So you might consider adding the word confidential to the report or something

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to at least to attend to some people's concern. I know people have been saying that to me

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when I've been encouraging. There's a disclosure agreement put on there by MWAPA that talks

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about how they're signing into a document that's part of their property. The document exists

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either way. It's just whether or not they want to access it and review it. Again, they can

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request us to print and send it to him as well. They don't want to access the original program.

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Doesn't change the findings. They're still there. They still exist. The benefit is that we can

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educate around it and then work towards some level of understanding the need for it. Also,

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not everything on there is a compliance requirement. Nothing that we do around the building structure

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itself right now is a compliance measure. That's more recommendations to harden your home.

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Okay, with that, we'll go into the next part of this presentation, which is the 2025 California Fire Code and the Wild End Urban Interface Adoption.

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Next slide please.

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So,

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So, every three years, I come to you, and since 2010, I think was the first time I came to you.

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Actually, you may have been before that annexation, because I was your fire marshal before the annexation.

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So, but we come to you as this part of the State of California's Triennial Code cycle adoption. It includes the fire code, the building code, the green code, the residential code, and several other codes.

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And what it does is the state goes out and they have through the International Code Council.

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They have a model code that they look at and then through the code program through the state.

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They look at areas within the state that they modify these codes.

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Basically what we're doing this year is we're adopting generally the same type of fire code and ordinance

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that we did last year with the caveat that the state is now removed several chapters out

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of the building code and the fire code, which are related to, while then, urban, it will

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wildfire prevention, okay? So what they did is they took chapter 49 out of the fire code.

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They took chapter 7A out of the building code and they took chapter 337 out of the residential

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code, they put it all in the one code, and they called it the 2025 California Wildener

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Miner Faze code. It's actually really good that they did this, in my opinion, because

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now it's condensed all that information into one source. It's very common for us in

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these, in, in, in fire code and building codes that we cross reference. So, for instance,

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chapter 10 out in the building code is the same chapter 10 in the fire code, which is means

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that way we share the same responsibilities between fire and between building.

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Next slide please.

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So again, it's every three years.

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The previous cycle, we had a single adoption.

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We just had one code, one fire code,

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that the fire district was adopting.

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And then this year, we for the first time, we have two.

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Because we also have the wild end urban interface code.

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We're adopting those simultaneously into one code.

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Next slide please.

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One of the things that has come up in this code cycle which came very abruptly was this AB 130 which was a trailer bill to the state budget.

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And essentially it took certain sections out of a previous bill and it put it in to a single bill and it requires us it would require us to make adjustments before October.

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If of 2025, to make any significant changes to our residential or residential requirements.

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Moving forward, AB 130 would put a more Tory amount for residential requirements.

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And that's a more Tory amount of six years.

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So, for the next six years, whatever we have now currently, or have adopted before October 31st,

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when it's just related to residential construction, would apply.

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With a caveat, that the State Farm Marshal could also say that there are certain items within the code

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that he deems as immediate and necessary for a wildfire prevention.

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So, for right now, we did not make any code adjustments before October 1st because the previous code has the same

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ordinance requirements as the code that we're adopting.

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So, there's not going to be any significant changes to us as the Southern Fire District and the City of

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anywhere between what we currently have and what we're moving forward with.

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Next slide, please.

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So just to support that, the California Wildlife and Urban Interface Code has, they put

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in some code requirements in there that we already had.

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So we, honestly, I think it's, we're saying that we're kind of the tip of the sphere when it

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comes to why then urban interface and wildfire preparedness in the county as a whole.

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Outside of the county districts and city departments have not taken the steps that we've

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taken locally with our current why then urban interface ordinance that we've had for I think

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about six years now. So they're catching up. So right now moving forward, we're not going to

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see a lot of change in the way.

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May that we govern the, or govern the codes, with the exception of possibly the zone zero, which

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is coming pretty soon. Next slide, please. So, with the adoption process in the schedule,

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this is what it looks like. So, September 24th, the Southern Red Fire District heard the

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first reading by title only announcing that we were going to open up our codes. We've since

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then had worked when we were working with the city's building department on, you know,

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code and code adoption.

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We had it first published and noticed on the 26th with the independent journal, and with

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other social media resources, October 8th, we also published it.

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And then coming up here on the October, sorry, tomorrow actually, we're holding the public

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hearing during the board meeting for the final ratification,

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or sorry, the final adoption of the code.

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So after tomorrow, we'll actually have this code,

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as long as it gets packed, as long as the board adopts it.

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It'll be the final draft.

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It actually does not go into full enforcement

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and full infect until January 1, 2020, 6.

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But between tomorrow and hopefully either in November

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or December, the City Council, like in years past, would review it and would ratify the

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ordinance so that it would become effective in the City of Salito prior to January 1st.

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And then, of course, we file it, we have to file it before January 1st with the Building

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Standards Commission and the Housing Community Development Agency before it goes into effect

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anyway first. And with that, I'm happy to take any questions.

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I'm going to just reach out to our city attorney.

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Sergio, can you just confirm that we're able to meet this timeline

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to ratify the code that will be adopted by Southern Rhinfire tomorrow?

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Fire should be able to be ready for it.

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So there are different requirements in a different process for the city to adopt

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It's building codes and our department to file with the building standards commission.

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My understanding is with the ratification, the Southern Marine Fire Protection District's ordinance.

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We go into effect immediately upon ratification by the city.

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So as long as the council hears that in December or sooner, I think we should be in the check.

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And then they normally file it with HCD rather than the building standards commission after passage.

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And Chief Hillier said that it's his understanding.

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We can just place this on consent to ratify.

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we don't have to like you only have to ratify it by resolution you don't have to pass an ordinance

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okay so we can just put this on consent at our next meeting it could be at our next meeting

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surges since they're adopting it at southern ryn fire tomorrow evening or tomorrow yeah i

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seen a reason it can't as long as they transmit it to us all in passage and then we just put it on

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our agenda okay wonderful thank you so much and i did supply the city already with a staff report for

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that. So, as soon as it gets adopted, I could send over the final copy of that.

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Wonderful. Okay.

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All right. City Manager?

437
00:33:35,390 --> 00:33:41,170
Yeah, City Manager. Can you put this slide, Joe? Please. Well, thank you very much, Chief.

438
00:33:42,810 --> 00:33:51,310
You know, we're here because this is a really important talking about new codes and services that are provided to prevent disasters.

439
00:33:52,070 --> 00:33:59,110
Because fire threat is real in Sossolito, earthquake threat is real in Sossolito, sea level

440
00:33:59,110 --> 00:34:04,130
rise is real in Sossolito, and the devastation and tragedies in Los Angeles and other

441
00:34:04,130 --> 00:34:09,250
fires in this part of the state remind us that we need to put our shoulder to the harness

442
00:34:09,250 --> 00:34:17,490
and do some work. And again, as we understand, there are new fire maps that went into effect

443
00:34:17,490 --> 00:34:23,170
past year that also point to the need to be prepared, so this is really important and we spend

444
00:34:23,170 --> 00:34:28,450
the time telling the community in the council, getting direction from the council, working with

445
00:34:28,450 --> 00:34:34,370
the district and other partners to actually move the needle in a way that Reddy's Sossolido

446
00:34:34,370 --> 00:34:36,690
for an event next slide,

447
00:34:57,770 --> 00:34:59,890
please. I can add a lib. Okay.

448
00:35:01,740 --> 00:35:11,160
So again, the idea of working with partners to collaborate, to improve community readiness to threats, that's something to counsel, and the community and ourselves demand of ourselves.

449
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:19,760
I spoke briefly about the fire maps that create areas of very high severity in San Salito, so that creates more urgency next life, please.

450
00:35:22,390 --> 00:35:51,530
So, one of the ways that we can work on being better at preparing for an emergency is to use resources that the city and the district have when the transfer of the fire department to the fire district occurred, one of the things that happened was the

451
00:35:51,530 --> 00:35:59,570
opportunity. But let's just be clear that it hasn't been unused. The city council knows that

452
00:35:59,570 --> 00:36:07,090
we keep a lot of our records there. The cell and communication facilities that are essential

453
00:36:07,090 --> 00:36:14,710
to communication in that part of the city are there. And so all of that is really important for us to

454
00:36:14,710 --> 00:36:20,810
to understand that in addition to having it not being used for over a decade, there are

455
00:36:20,810 --> 00:36:25,210
some things that we have to consider besides fixing to building next slide, please.

456
00:36:27,390 --> 00:36:31,930
So the City Council has given us direction and positive direction and resources.

457
00:36:33,010 --> 00:36:38,590
Number one, you asked us to assess all city facilities and certainly the Spencer Fire Station

458
00:36:38,590 --> 00:36:43,970
former Spencer Fire Station was one that's been assessed in terms of what's needed to

459
00:36:43,970 --> 00:36:51,090
it up to a usable status. And at the time that that was done, we weren't contemplating a reuse

460
00:36:51,090 --> 00:36:56,330
as a far-facilly. It was we just need to keep that building in shape because it is a city asset.

461
00:36:56,850 --> 00:37:03,930
The second thing that you've done is you approved a $300,000 contract with MCCI. I believe

462
00:37:03,930 --> 00:37:09,270
the name of the company for records management. The city is legally required to keep some

463
00:37:09,770 --> 00:37:21,810
and a good practice to keep important records, and so that is going on as we speak so that we can, in fact, have options to present to the council and the community and the district for potential use of that facility.

464
00:37:23,150 --> 00:37:38,930
I want to note that our city clerk has been working diligently with our Human Resources Director and not an army, but I don't know there are 789 interns out there trying to gather all of the dusty paper that's been there to make sure we keep what we need to keep.

465
00:37:38,930 --> 00:37:40,550
and digitize what we don't,

466
00:37:40,710 --> 00:37:42,390
and work with the company that's doing that.

467
00:37:42,550 --> 00:37:43,490
So that's important.

468
00:37:43,770 --> 00:37:45,470
We anticipate we'll be done with that while

469
00:37:45,470 --> 00:37:47,890
for it by the end of December, is my understanding.

470
00:37:49,390 --> 00:37:50,330
So that's important.

471
00:37:50,890 --> 00:37:51,330
Next slide, please.

472
00:37:53,490 --> 00:37:56,290
In the meantime, in March of this past year,

473
00:37:56,770 --> 00:37:58,170
we started discussions with the Southern

474
00:37:58,170 --> 00:38:00,290
Renn Fire District about partnerships

475
00:38:00,290 --> 00:38:03,390
in potential activation of that facility

476
00:38:03,390 --> 00:38:06,690
for emergency services, not just fire services,

477
00:38:06,790 --> 00:38:07,590
but other services.

478
00:38:07,590 --> 00:38:15,370
So the approach that the district presented to this city staff was one that involved, you know,

479
00:38:15,550 --> 00:38:21,870
phasing and the first phase involved resources from the fire district that would set up

480
00:38:21,870 --> 00:38:28,150
what they call a hand curve, which would be staged at this station and she's Hillary can speak

481
00:38:28,150 --> 00:38:33,690
to it more definitively than I can but as I understand it, there would be 10 persons staged

482
00:38:33,690 --> 00:38:36,010
there from time to time, they would go out there

483
00:38:36,010 --> 00:38:38,450
and look at vegetation, fuel reduction,

484
00:38:39,070 --> 00:38:40,210
and actually be on site.

485
00:38:40,970 --> 00:38:43,410
And then whenever there's a situation where information

486
00:38:43,410 --> 00:38:45,930
is brought to this community into the district

487
00:38:45,930 --> 00:38:48,950
that there is a threat red flag event,

488
00:38:49,670 --> 00:38:53,390
then at that time, the district could also utilize the facility.

489
00:38:54,070 --> 00:38:57,570
So let me be clear, it's not a 24, 7, 365 day

490
00:38:57,570 --> 00:38:58,410
year operation.

491
00:38:58,930 --> 00:39:02,870
This would be the first phase that would involve the district

492
00:39:02,870 --> 00:39:09,130
and its current resources and the city using its resources to ready that facility for that partnership.

493
00:39:09,990 --> 00:39:10,470
Next slide please.

494
00:39:12,850 --> 00:39:16,910
So what we believe is we'll be done with all the records by the end of December.

495
00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:22,150
We have a parallel community or facility improvements that need to be done.

496
00:39:22,210 --> 00:39:28,290
Some that are part of their toss report, others that are important for a rehousing of

497
00:39:28,290 --> 00:39:32,230
firefighter personnel and equipment and so that needs to be done as well.

498
00:39:32,230 --> 00:39:36,850
We anticipate being done by that in the early quarter of 2026.

499
00:39:37,670 --> 00:39:42,890
In the meantime, I feel very positive that we are working at the Council's direction

500
00:39:43,870 --> 00:39:50,130
to enter into a new negotiation, negotiated, at least for the property that would involve

501
00:39:50,130 --> 00:39:51,490
the use of the district.

502
00:39:53,030 --> 00:39:58,770
So I'm very grateful for the support that Chief Tubs and his team have given us as we've

503
00:39:58,770 --> 00:39:59,570
had these conversations.

504
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:18,760
We've engaged the property managers. We've hired to help us in that least negotiations. They're currently on going with the city council, so the public needs to know that we are not sitting on our hands that we are actually getting ready to try to activate this facility for the emergency preparedness good of this community.

505
00:40:19,740 --> 00:40:27,440
But very clearly, it's not going to be a fire station as it was before it was shut down. That is a longer term.

506
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:34,580
conversation and more financially involved conversation and requires that the district work within

507
00:40:34,580 --> 00:40:41,660
its resources to determine what's viable for them because I think as I've spoken to personal

508
00:40:41,660 --> 00:40:48,400
at the fire district, they can fund a hand crew, they can roll up equipment and people for a

509
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:55,280
red flag event within the current budgetary resources they have but to actually staff that 24-7

510
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:59,520
through in a 65 days a year as a different financial conversation that needs to be had.

511
00:40:59,620 --> 00:41:05,100
But as a start, we want to let the community know that we are actually making significant

512
00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:10,520
progress and trying to get ready to have that facility operational by the end of the first quarter

513
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:19,140
in September of 2026. Next slide. If anyone has any questions, Baron Council, I'm happy to

514
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,540
Thank you very much for that very comprehensive report.

515
00:41:27,740 --> 00:41:30,080
I think we're making great progress.

516
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:36,080
In moving towards gold endorsed by a large chunk of our community.

517
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:47,140
And thank you to Southern Marin Fire for your collaboration with us in this really important undertaking to ensure all of our residents throughout town are protected,

518
00:41:47,140 --> 00:41:50,760
but especially in light of the updated high-fired hazards

519
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,780
own maps that came out earlier this year.

520
00:41:58,660 --> 00:42:03,420
All right, in my haste to start the meeting,

521
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,440
it's been pointed out to me that I neglected to host

522
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,220
the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as to approve the agenda.

523
00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:13,200
So let's go ahead and undertake the Pledge of Allegiance.

524
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,440
I would like to pledge of the United States and America

525
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,960
and to the Republic for which it stands.

526
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:30,640
one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

527
00:42:35,580 --> 00:42:37,960
May I have a motion approving our agenda?

528
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,300
So moved.

529
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:40,940
Second.

530
00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:42,480
All in favor?

531
00:42:43,220 --> 00:42:43,420
I.

532
00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:45,220
That motion carries 40.

533
00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:46,700
Okay.

534
00:42:46,860 --> 00:42:49,080
We will now turn to communications.

535
00:42:49,740 --> 00:42:55,960
This is the time for the city council to hear from citizens regarding matters within the jurisdiction of the city council that are not on the agenda.

536
00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:04,440
except in very limited situations, state law precludes the council from taking action on or engaging in discussions concerning items that are not on the agenda.

537
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:09,480
I have no speaker cards, City Clerk, do we have anyone,

538
00:43:14,380 --> 00:43:16,320
oh, all right, Fred Moore.

539
00:43:23,070 --> 00:43:23,730
Welcome, good evening.

540
00:43:24,650 --> 00:43:27,770
Thank you for all your efforts in getting the measure J and K on the ballot.

541
00:43:28,450 --> 00:43:32,990
Obviously, measure J must pass to preserve all the hard work you've done with the state,

542
00:43:32,990 --> 00:43:38,650
mandated housing elements in housing residents, numbers that we need to meet.

543
00:43:39,410 --> 00:43:43,390
As for measure K, unfortunately, much falls information about the density and height limits

544
00:43:43,390 --> 00:43:45,670
for potential development have been circulated.

545
00:43:46,150 --> 00:43:49,690
As you know, the density is 50 and the maximum height is 32 feet.

546
00:43:50,490 --> 00:43:55,810
I hope their residents will not fall victims of relying on false information, but rather conduct

547
00:43:55,810 --> 00:44:01,350
their discussions on the facts about the measure and have debates on their legitimate concerns

548
00:44:01,350 --> 00:44:04,690
and not on the false information and flyers being circulated.

549
00:44:05,770 --> 00:44:09,810
As you move into the new year with new challenges for the city, I hope that you were able

550
00:44:09,810 --> 00:44:12,930
to tackle the benefits of repealing ordinance 1022.

551
00:44:14,050 --> 00:44:19,010
With the repeal of 1022, the council will have the opportunity to revitalize the northern

552
00:44:19,010 --> 00:44:25,350
portion of our city and allow a blend of maritime, residential, commercial, retail and

553
00:44:25,350 --> 00:44:30,870
industrial uses to replace the dilapidated and crumbling infrastructure improvements

554
00:44:30,870 --> 00:44:37,170
and vacant parcels that currently exist, is time that we embrace and improve the

555
00:44:37,170 --> 00:44:42,530
marinship as a city gem for all our residents to enjoy. Appreciate your time, thank

556
00:44:42,530 --> 00:44:43,330
you very much.

557
00:44:46,510 --> 00:44:53,570
Thank you. Next, Mike Eastafani and City Clerk is our clock working.

558
00:44:53,570 --> 00:44:59,390
Yeah. Good evening. My name is Mrs. Stefani at 27th Central Avenue.

559
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:16,180
I'd like to draw your attention to a claim against you that are submitted on October 2nd. You're referring to my dining room addition as an illegal construction. However, you fully permitted my proposed edition and the project was completed accordingly eight years ago.

560
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:27,640
Your demands for partial demolition is based on an illegal six month later pill with a misleading view impact claim by your former colleague.

561
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:39,120
You exerted at least $15,000 for me in form of fees for retroactive design review while my addition is exempt from design review.

562
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:45,400
Besides, no neighbor's primary view is impacted by my addition.

563
00:45:46,380 --> 00:45:56,660
You are violated numerous municipal and state laws, including several aspects of the Brown Act, to keep this highly controversial case for public attention.

564
00:45:56,660 --> 00:46:04,700
The planner is guilty of libel and slander by corrupting public records and deceptive photography.

565
00:46:05,580 --> 00:46:12,600
You illegally revoked my permits and are constitutionally constitutionally seizing my property

566
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,600
by demanding parts of the demolition of our dining room.

567
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:22,840
You are destroying our one and only room facing San Francisco

568
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:28,200
So, well, evidently it did not negatively affect the neighbor's property value.

569
00:46:28,820 --> 00:46:34,040
In good faith, I already improved the neighbor's view last month by trimming my trees

570
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:38,400
and removing bulky guardboards for my roof.

571
00:46:38,780 --> 00:46:45,440
I respectfully ask you to reconsider and reinstate my fettered property rights and permits

572
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,500
by November 16th, 2025.

573
00:46:49,220 --> 00:46:50,120
Thank you.

574
00:46:50,860 --> 00:46:53,840
So, I commented on this at our last meeting.

575
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:59,180
This is a matter under litigation and so we will not be making any public comment.

576
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:04,200
Regarding this, we will address this as appropriate through the appropriate channels.

577
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,020
All right, our next speaker is Linda Roberts.

578
00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:12,500
Good evening, Council members.

579
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,340
I'm here to give a positive shout out to the farmers market.

580
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:21,920
And thank those in the city who brought this market to Salito.

581
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:34,980
I know the market's been in town for a while, so I'm a little bit late to the party because I've only started going in the last month, but it is a lot of fun, and it's just a fantastic way to spend a Sunday morning.

582
00:47:35,100 --> 00:47:47,720
There's music, and the vendors, and the produce stands, it's all really fantastic, and plus I'm excited to be able to support area farmers and producers.

583
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:54,040
and this market just gives the whole north end of town a feeling a nice feeling of community.

584
00:47:55,440 --> 00:48:04,820
So I just encourage everybody in the vicinity even if they don't live in Sossolido to support the market so that it'll continue to thrive.

585
00:48:05,700 --> 00:48:12,440
So whoever is responsible in the city for bringing this to to us. Thank you very much. It's a lot of fun.

586
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:17,440
Thank you, it's so nice to hear some pleasant news, sometimes during our communications.

587
00:48:20,420 --> 00:48:21,840
Just a quick comment.

588
00:48:22,500 --> 00:48:27,180
As a city clerk, I'd like to thank Linda Roberts for her years as a register for the county.

589
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,100
Yes, thank you, Linda.

590
00:48:35,020 --> 00:48:36,080
City clerk, anyone online?

591
00:48:36,340 --> 00:48:37,000
Beth McDoodle.

592
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:40,140
Thank you.

593
00:48:42,890 --> 00:48:46,090
Well, good evening, and I'm so glad to see the technology up and running.

594
00:48:46,250 --> 00:48:46,930
Thank you.

595
00:48:46,930 --> 00:48:54,730
You know, they say somebody famous said there is a time for every season and a purpose under heaven.

596
00:48:55,110 --> 00:49:04,210
And I think the fact that Melissa Blaustine has had this wonderful wedding that from what I'm told was a wonderful example of bringing community together.

597
00:49:04,970 --> 00:49:12,070
And so in that spirit I think we do deserve to take a moment to put aside whatever the differences are, the hammers and the tongs.

598
00:49:12,070 --> 00:49:19,830
There's always a lot to argue about. That's what the town does. Okay, but I also want to say shout out to Sossilito.

599
00:49:19,930 --> 00:49:26,930
I had such a great time on Saturday. I thought we really looked great and the thing that everybody said,

600
00:49:27,030 --> 00:49:35,270
it got the biggest bounce. I don't know what you heard, but I heard that our public safety stood out big time, big time.

601
00:49:35,270 --> 00:49:42,210
And, you know, like the no penalty, breathalizer thing, that just knocked people socks off.

602
00:49:42,850 --> 00:49:47,210
And I just, and everything was just such a wonderful spirit of community.

603
00:49:47,950 --> 00:49:52,130
And I have to really say a shout out to Parks and Rec, Ryan and his team.

604
00:49:52,410 --> 00:49:54,410
They really made Solito look great.

605
00:49:54,570 --> 00:49:59,650
I just, I'm calling it the Caledonia Festival because it's like the original thing.

606
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:28,680
Only really great now. Thank you so much. And the Southern Marin fire, I'm just so sorry I'm not in the room. These are some of my all time favorite people. And they're working so hard and so well. And they're getting everyone to be realistic about where we're, where we are, how fine I we are. Imagine they're making PG&E out that come to terms with PG&E refuses to acknowledge oscillators of fire risk. It's just not on their list. But I believe they're being brought around.

607
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:33,800
little by little. That matters. And that's what you do when you just dig in and deal with what you've

608
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:39,440
got and these are the utility people. So we must work with them. Onward and upward. Thank you.

609
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:41,680
City Clerk.

610
00:50:45,110 --> 00:50:47,430
Learn on you, Lynn. Welcome, Lorna.

611
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:57,860
Lorna, we're not hearing you.

612
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:08,980
Hello, my name is Lynn. I have 30. Oh, yes. Yes. You can hear me. Hello, my name is Lorna,

613
00:51:08,980 --> 00:51:12,820
I'm a 33-year resident in homeowner in Sicilito.

614
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:14,340
I love it here.

615
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:15,500
I'm a senior.

616
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,300
I believe in affordable housing for seniors,

617
00:51:18,420 --> 00:51:20,940
an affordable housing, which is very hard in California.

618
00:51:21,980 --> 00:51:22,440
I'm fortunate.

619
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:27,960
I worked very hard, and I purchased my home after working 20 years

620
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:28,880
in the corporate world.

621
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,120
But for 23 years, I've had a small business in Sicilito.

622
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,260
And three years on Bridgeway,

623
00:51:36,260 --> 00:51:46,380
And then when that rent would have tripled, I moved to the MLK bus barn, and it's been almost 20 years that I've been a tenant of the City of Salito.

624
00:51:47,140 --> 00:51:54,240
So I was just made when it was noted on a yes and K player.

625
00:51:54,700 --> 00:51:58,120
Only the dilapidated commercial building will be replaced.

626
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:08,880
That is my, where my studio has been for almost 20 years, I've taught children adults for 23 years in

627
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:09,540
San Salito.

628
00:52:09,740 --> 00:52:16,640
I've donated it just about every nonprofit in town, and there are people in that building,

629
00:52:17,220 --> 00:52:20,840
Artisans, the antique restoration has been there, 33 years.

630
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:27,220
They're photographers who have been there 25 years in that building and a total of 45 years

631
00:52:27,220 --> 00:52:28,440
in the MLK property.

632
00:52:29,580 --> 00:52:31,740
So we're the working MLK.

633
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,480
And I understand there's a big coalition

634
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,160
because the working waterfront,

635
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,880
I don't, there's 78 acres there.

636
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,360
I really feel that there should be an area,

637
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,360
and it's been proposed before the Carly Bird,

638
00:52:47,700 --> 00:52:49,500
he wanted to do a memory care there.

639
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,280
So it's just about working all together

640
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:56,080
and not taking something that really has been a treasure.

641
00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:00,940
And if it's dilapidated, it's because the city has not maintained it.

642
00:53:00,940 --> 00:53:01,740
It is deplorable.

643
00:53:02,060 --> 00:53:06,420
But I love it there, and I have a two-minute walking commute, and I would hesitate

644
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,440
to, I'd be devastated to lose my studio.

645
00:53:09,660 --> 00:53:10,180
Thanks, Lana.

646
00:53:10,260 --> 00:53:11,160
Your time is up.

647
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,020
Thank you so much for your public comment.

648
00:53:15,260 --> 00:53:16,180
No further public speakers?

649
00:53:16,700 --> 00:53:17,100
All right.

650
00:53:18,540 --> 00:53:21,300
With that, we'll move on to the consent calendar.

651
00:53:27,380 --> 00:53:28,760
City Clerk, I have an old agenda.

652
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Can you tell me what items are on the,

653
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:37,460
how many items for A through, through what?

654
00:53:37,660 --> 00:53:38,020
Through what?

655
00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:39,760
For H. Okay.

656
00:53:43,460 --> 00:53:46,800
And we're going to remove item 4c,

657
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which is approval letter and supportive mascots.

658
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So I'm going to ask that we remove that.

659
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,820
I'll make a brief public comment about that.

660
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:05,940
So, we're going to consider items for A through 4H, for A is adopt the draft meeting

661
00:54:05,940 --> 00:54:11,820
minutes from October 7, 2025, for B is receive and file proclamation honoring contributions

662
00:54:11,820 --> 00:54:14,160
of Caledonia cleaners in 40th year anniversary.

663
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:19,720
For D is adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute transportation authority

664
00:54:19,720 --> 00:54:26,300
of Marin agreement A, fiscal year 2612, funding agreement between the transportation authority

665
00:54:26,300 --> 00:54:32,800
in the City of South Florida, in the amount of 1-817-444, to be received from Measure A.A. funds

666
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:37,900
for City Street Improvements. For E, a doctor resolution authorizing the City Manager to

667
00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:42,400
execute professional services contract with Consor for construction management and inspection

668
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:48,580
services for the Dunfi Park Improvement phase, two projects in an amount not to exceed 1-4261-8,

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and authorize additional 4261-8 from General Fund to support the project. 4F, South Florida Police

670
00:54:54,980 --> 00:54:58,440
Department, Crime, and Traffic Report calendar year 2025,

671
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third quarter year today.

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State report. 4G, adopt a resolution ratifying the surrendered and abandoned vessel exchange, save grant agreement.

673
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For 2025 to 2027 with the California Department of Boating and Waterways, and appropriate save grant funds in the amount of 13,500.

674
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And 4H receive and file a report on short-term rental metrics and code enforcement.

675
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I'm going to remove items for C and I'm going to ask a couple of questions regarding for

676
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H. Although I'm not asking that we don't approve it. So any other requests or questions

677
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:41,680
regarding the consent calendar? Seeing none, I'll open it up to public comment on the consent calendar.

678
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:54,000
All right, so briefly regarding 4C, Council member Sobi Eski and I and the City Manager met with

679
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Tam, is that Justin? I'm going to ask him questions in just a moment.

680
00:56:02,620 --> 00:56:05,740
Brandon, I've already, okay, Brandon knows.

681
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:19,300
And it was a very productive meeting we learned, however, that they've already made up their mind about what routes they're going to remove and what routes they're going to modify.

682
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:25,950
There will be an article in the currents giving a heads up to members of the public regarding what those are.

683
00:56:25,950 --> 00:56:35,610
We've voiced our objections and we are to a couple of their proposed moves that could have an adverse impact on residents of Sossolito.

684
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But because the action is already a fate of complete, what we're going to do is schedule more customized meeting just with Marin transit and the working group for the city of Sossolito and staff to discuss how best to

685
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to address some of those needs moving forward.

686
00:56:59,150 --> 00:57:03,990
All right, the other item that I wanted to discuss is item 4H.

687
00:57:03,990 --> 00:57:05,710
I just wanted to ask a couple of questions.

688
00:57:06,350 --> 00:57:10,630
From the staff report, it appears that we have not yet

689
00:57:10,630 --> 00:57:16,030
started imposing fines, although we have an ordinance in place

690
00:57:16,030 --> 00:57:18,510
that allows us to impose fines of $1,000

691
00:57:18,510 --> 00:57:23,350
for the first violation, $3,000 for the second violation.

692
00:57:23,350 --> 00:57:34,030
And we recently adopted updated ordinances, because it's more difficult to impose fines

693
00:57:36,810 --> 00:57:40,970
when people are listening, but we can't prove that the homes are being rented.

694
00:57:41,250 --> 00:57:49,450
And so the Council will recall that we recently adopted revised code enforcement ordinances

695
00:57:49,450 --> 00:58:02,130
That now make it an infraction, just to list a Sossolito home on a home sharing network such

696
00:58:02,130 --> 00:58:07,930
as Verbo or Airbnb, and that would subject them to the fines.

697
00:58:08,210 --> 00:58:13,650
My understanding is that the second reading of that ordinance occurred at our last meeting

698
00:58:13,650 --> 00:58:17,410
on October 7th, and so just and I just want to confirm.

699
00:58:17,410 --> 00:58:32,410
Thank you for being here that we will start a program for communicating and finding residents who list their homes at short-term rentals for a period of less than 30 days.

700
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:36,200
Yes, that is correct.

701
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:43,660
You're understanding and it actually really highlights how important this changes to the code.

702
00:58:43,660 --> 00:59:00,540
The number of residents that have been advertising short-term rentals that have actually received citations is not reflected on the current report because we've issued these.

703
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:04,700
And it's interesting how many different ways people have to

704
00:59:06,750 --> 00:59:09,490
refute our claims.

705
00:59:09,490 --> 00:59:36,490
And so, right now, I'm working through probably six or seven different properties where we have sent out citations and we have received several different manner of communication stating we are no longer doing a short-term rental or our rental term is more than 30 days and these take time and a lot of energy and effort to confirm, which is why our new ordinance is really going to help in these situations.

706
00:59:36,490 --> 00:59:41,790
Some folks have gone even so far as to send screenshots of cancellations.

707
00:59:42,230 --> 00:59:47,250
So we'll get a report back from host compliance saying they've completed two rentals this month.

708
00:59:47,730 --> 00:59:48,750
We'll send out a citation.

709
00:59:50,130 --> 00:59:52,930
The property owner will then send us a screenshot which says,

710
00:59:53,110 --> 00:59:58,090
Look, here it says my account's been suspended and I canceled two reservations.

711
00:59:59,230 --> 00:59:59,970
It's very easy.

712
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,780
We need to fake something like that. It's very easy to actually do that and have it be true. We really can't verify either way.

713
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:12,080
And host compliance will continue to say it's a short-term rental. They completed a rental.

714
01:00:12,700 --> 01:00:18,500
But to give them due process, we have to only work off of facts and things that are completely provable.

715
01:00:19,100 --> 01:00:23,900
The new ordinance is really going to help with this. It's going to allow us to say, you advertise it.

716
01:00:23,900 --> 01:00:26,500
We see that it says there's been a rental completed.

717
01:00:27,180 --> 01:00:28,580
Even if you've canceled that rental,

718
01:00:29,220 --> 01:00:34,320
we now have the means going forward to be able to take some of our time back

719
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:39,720
and investigating these claims and say it's the advertising that you're being fine for now.

720
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:44,920
And I'm personally and really excited about that because this has been one of those

721
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,120
holes in our enforcement of just.

722
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:50,780
We spit at our wheels, put in a lot of energy into it.

723
01:00:50,780 --> 01:00:59,680
And then we get pushback and we don't really have any way to move forward or to actually prove some of these rentals have been completed.

724
01:01:00,180 --> 01:01:03,680
And so I'm excited to see how these numbers change moving forward.

725
01:01:04,340 --> 01:01:05,020
Thank you so much.

726
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:06,740
Thank you for those efforts.

727
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:12,980
I did want to just seek that clarification because your report was clear that there's a high number of violations.

728
01:01:12,980 --> 01:01:28,080
So moving forward, even if someone says it was canceled, the mere fact that they listed it is caused for an infection and for an appropriate fine, depending on how frequently the infection occurs.

729
01:01:28,740 --> 01:01:32,920
Absolutely, and that is, that's going to be one of the major defining changes there.

730
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:38,820
One other thing I just like to mention is, host compliance is only one of the tools that we use.

731
01:01:38,820 --> 01:01:47,680
We also receive sometimes a phone call from a resident, and those are also claims which may take a little bit longer to investigate.

732
01:01:48,940 --> 01:01:58,120
And so we will still see a little bit of squishiness on the numbers going forward when we have reports that are not documented with advertising.

733
01:01:58,620 --> 01:02:02,700
But I do believe that our new fine schedule will also help with that.

734
01:02:02,700 --> 01:02:07,140
Thank you. Vice Mayor. Yes, just quickly you say there's a little

735
01:02:07,140 --> 01:02:11,560
squishingness to the numbers and I appreciate that. One in particular I just

736
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:17,950
wanted to clarify. You have a number it's either 65 or 79 short-term

737
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:23,040
rentals identify depending on how they're discovered if you will. And then you

738
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:28,920
also have another number considerably larger 164 short and long-term. Is it

739
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:35,300
possible that some of those will rent for short-term and also long-term, or how should I interpret.

740
01:02:35,380 --> 01:02:48,220
Again, that's where having a prohibition on the advertising really comes into play, because with a lot of the rental platforms you are allowed to set a minimum amount of nights a day.

741
01:02:48,820 --> 01:02:53,000
And some folks will set it at a number that's really, really close to 30 days.

742
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:59,100
So they may say something like 28 days stay so they're looking at four weeks.

743
01:02:59,540 --> 01:03:05,840
Host compliance will look at that as a short-term rental in violation of the city code.

744
01:03:06,620 --> 01:03:11,300
And it's the type of thing where, again, we'll contact those folks that are doing that

745
01:03:11,300 --> 01:03:15,940
short-term rental and they'll say, well, I have it up there because four weeks is just

746
01:03:15,940 --> 01:03:21,720
what we happen to select and getting those things adjusted so that they're doing a 30-day

747
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:26,580
rental or more is really part of the conversation that we have with those residents.

748
01:03:27,180 --> 01:03:32,160
Host compliance, their record is fully historical.

749
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:39,160
So if last week somebody was renting something and it said 28-day rental and we've communicated

750
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,020
with them and they've said, oh, so sorry, we want to be in compliance.

751
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:48,420
They'll change it to 30 days, but host compliance only goes through and scrapes the site

752
01:03:48,420 --> 01:03:49,360
every so often.

753
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:52,420
So they're not looking at it every day, hour by hour.

754
01:03:52,620 --> 01:03:57,400
They essentially will send a robot out to the site and the numbers get updated,

755
01:03:57,700 --> 01:04:03,020
but they're not immediate. So sometimes it'll be a week or two before we see the changes in their

756
01:04:03,020 --> 01:04:10,660
interface and that accounts for some of that little squishingness between their rentals short term,

757
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:17,060
but a lot of them at this point are meeting our requirements and we will also see a little

758
01:04:17,060 --> 01:04:22,760
missionists because people frequently take down their listing and repost with a new title or new photos

759
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:28,700
and those will be identified as a second listing but often we'll be able to look at that with human eyes

760
01:04:28,700 --> 01:04:35,320
and say these two were the same listing same host but it'll show up as multiple short-term rentals

761
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:40,980
but really what we're looking at is one property owner with one unit that they're renting under different

762
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:46,680
advertisements. Thank you. Sure. Thanks very much.

763
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:59,740
Absolutely. Thank you so much. All right with that I will entertain a motion to approve items for A through 4 B and 4 D through 4 H of the consent calendar Mary a question. I fall a question.

764
01:05:04,300 --> 01:05:13,100
We're talking about routes for the bus routes. Are we going to have a follow up meeting on some kind of information put out on changes to bus routes?

765
01:05:13,420 --> 01:05:22,180
Yeah, I said it's going to be in the currents. Okay, we got information last night and the city manager has shared it with our editor and it's going to be in the currents.

766
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:23,320
Okay, thanks. Sorry.

767
01:05:23,740 --> 01:05:25,020
Thank you so much.

768
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:28,160
So are you asking for a motion?

769
01:05:29,540 --> 01:05:34,580
I so move for a and b and then for d to h.

770
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:35,980
Thank you.

771
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:37,880
All right.

772
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:38,680
All in favor?

773
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:39,620
I.

774
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:41,880
That motion carries for zero.

775
01:05:43,580 --> 01:05:45,180
We'll now move on to business items.

776
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:48,280
The first is six a introduction and waiver.

777
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,480
A first reading ordinance number 09-2025.

778
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:59,520
An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sossoleta repealing 2022 building California Building Standards Code and Penalty provisions.

779
01:06:00,540 --> 01:06:06,900
Sossoleta municipal code chapters 8.028.048.088.088.08.

780
01:06:07,500 --> 01:06:15,640
I think it's actually 8.108.128.168.128.28.

781
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:20,960
And enacting 2025 California Building Standards Code and Local Amendments there, too, into

782
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:24,200
Soss of the Municipal Code Chapter 8.02.

783
01:06:25,740 --> 01:06:30,320
And I have our Assistant City Manager listed here.

784
01:06:32,700 --> 01:06:34,380
Brandon, are you listening to this?

785
01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:35,880
Can you come back in?

786
01:06:35,900 --> 01:06:36,180
Sergio.

787
01:06:36,980 --> 01:06:38,840
I saw some communication back in 4th this, too.

788
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:40,340
Who's going to take the lead on this?

789
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:41,540
Is it going to be you or Brandon?

790
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:46,820
I mean, I'm happy to go through the basics here.

791
01:06:48,340 --> 01:06:55,820
So, until Brandon can show up, so the city is required by state law to update its building

792
01:06:55,820 --> 01:07:02,180
standard codes every three years following the adoption by the California Building Standards

793
01:07:02,180 --> 01:07:04,780
Commission of the New Model Codes.

794
01:07:05,380 --> 01:07:11,400
These new Model Codes by Operation of State Law will go into effect January 1, 2026, so accordingly

795
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:18,960
the city must update and re-adopt any local amendments that it has to be effective with those

796
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:29,320
new state codes. This ordinance would primarily carry forward all of your prior local amendments

797
01:07:30,540 --> 01:07:37,360
adjusted to what the new model codes are. So there are certain provisions where our local

798
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:44,920
amendments are no longer as restrictive as the state law requirements are, and so those

799
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:54,840
are no longer necessary. Additionally, we have a number of our codes in various chapters.

800
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:59,540
This proposed ordinance would combine all of those into one single chapter for ease of use

801
01:07:59,540 --> 01:08:00,320
review.

802
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:08,160
Importantly, as was mentioned by the Southern Marine Fire Protection District, the Governor's

803
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:17,020
budget trailer bill, AB 130, did effectively adopt a building code freeze. And so local governments

804
01:08:17,020 --> 01:08:22,300
are allowed to carry forward their prior amendments to the building codes as long as there's

805
01:08:22,300 --> 01:08:26,900
substantially equivalent to changes or modifications that were previously filed with the building

806
01:08:26,900 --> 01:08:30,380
Standards Commission, prior to September 30, 2025.

807
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:38,700
Alternatively, you can also adopt additional modifications that are deemed by the Commission

808
01:08:38,700 --> 01:08:41,660
of Emergency Standards necessary to protect public health and safety.

809
01:08:42,380 --> 01:08:49,480
You can adopt new local amendments that are related to home-hardening, so this is additional

810
01:08:49,480 --> 01:09:01,840
fire safety requirements. You can also adopt modifications to a building co-standards that are adopted

811
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:09,820
to align with a general plan approved prior to June 10, 2025 as intended to incentivize all

812
01:09:09,820 --> 01:09:14,440
electric construction as part of an adopted greenhouse gas emission reduction strategy.

813
01:09:16,660 --> 01:09:16,940
As long

814
01:09:16,940 --> 01:09:22,280
those modifications permit mixed fuel residential construction consistent with federal law.

815
01:09:23,300 --> 01:09:28,660
So the ordinance that's before you tonight primarily just carries forward the city's existing

816
01:09:29,260 --> 01:09:33,560
local amendments, as mentioned by the Southern Marine Fire Protection District, they are working on

817
01:09:34,580 --> 01:09:38,560
specific requirements related to home-hiredening and fire protection measures that they will be

818
01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:42,840
adopting and the city will be met ratifying. So you'll be getting a second ordinance in addition to

819
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:48,380
this one. And then additionally, we are working on a third ordinance under that provision

820
01:09:48,380 --> 01:09:58,460
of AB 130, allowing you to adopt strategies that incentivize all electric construction

821
01:09:58,460 --> 01:09:59,960
as part of an adopted greenhouse gap.

822
01:10:01,260 --> 01:10:14,920
So, typically, this would be your reach code kind of requirements. So, those will be coming forward for you ad in the next council meeting, where you will be having this ordinance before you for public hearing and adoption.

823
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:28,920
Importantly, the state law process for adopting codes by reference is a little different than your typical process for adopting ordinances and that you do a first reading, and then you schedule a secondary public hearing for the second reading under state law.

824
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:36,520
So, but that, I will turn this over to our building official,

825
01:10:36,940 --> 01:10:41,260
who I believe is also here and ran fifths with additional comments.

826
01:10:42,480 --> 01:10:44,300
Good evening, Mayor Cox and City Council.

827
01:10:44,300 --> 01:10:46,300
This was Gary West of the acting building official

828
01:10:46,300 --> 01:10:47,660
for the City of San Toledo.

829
01:10:49,100 --> 01:10:50,640
Should we say welcome City Manager?

830
01:10:53,850 --> 01:10:54,770
Should we say welcome?

831
01:10:55,030 --> 01:10:55,750
Is this our new?

832
01:10:55,750 --> 01:10:56,530
No, no, no, no, no.

833
01:10:56,530 --> 01:10:57,450
He's our contract.

834
01:10:57,450 --> 01:10:59,390
in the interim bill that you're in.

835
01:10:59,390 --> 01:11:01,530
And to them, okay, got it, all right.

836
01:11:01,770 --> 01:11:02,270
Nice thing about.

837
01:11:02,270 --> 01:11:02,950
Can say welcome.

838
01:11:03,230 --> 01:11:03,850
You can say welcome.

839
01:11:04,410 --> 01:11:05,810
Welcome to you as well, sir.

840
01:11:06,350 --> 01:11:08,490
Nice thing about following the fire services.

841
01:11:08,630 --> 01:11:13,470
They've tested a lot of the stuff that we were not going to go over in a way to save time

842
01:11:13,470 --> 01:11:14,230
for the city council.

843
01:11:15,230 --> 01:11:19,770
But we do have all the codes that for the 2025 that are going to be adopted.

844
01:11:19,830 --> 01:11:20,770
This is the first hearing.

845
01:11:21,010 --> 01:11:25,550
As Sergio said, the second hearing will be following up at November date.

846
01:11:25,550 --> 01:11:39,310
And some of the modifications that we had, the codes have changed, so we've actually deleted some of our local ordinances are now written into the code, so it's saved us a little bit of sections on our municipal codes.

847
01:11:43,900 --> 01:11:55,680
When we get into the different codes and the adoptions, as the fire department said, they've kind of parlaid some of the different code sections, and now they have the woe code, which is an entire new chapter that they're going to be adopting.

848
01:11:55,680 --> 01:12:02,640
But we tried to work with the fire district to compare their ordinances compared to ours so they were similar and they were matching.

849
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:09,480
There's there wasn't any differences in there and Sergio worked really well with that reviewing that information.

850
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:14,160
If you have any questions or any further comments,

851
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:21,500
but these building codes address all the building facets from building letter mechanical plumbing covers all the new trades,

852
01:12:21,500 --> 01:12:30,300
including low voltage and the energy efficiency, the energy efficiency is what we're always trying to strive for.

853
01:12:32,500 --> 01:12:33,000
Questions?

854
01:12:33,860 --> 01:12:35,080
Yes, Council Member Hoffman.

855
01:12:36,140 --> 01:12:51,480
I noticed, do we have a copy or a document in our, in the agenda or attached to the agenda that has a red line version or something that we can reference about what our old ordinance said and what the new ordinance said?

856
01:12:51,480 --> 01:12:54,840
I didn't see that, and I'm wondering if I'm missing that somewhere.

857
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:57,380
Well, we do not have a red line.

858
01:12:57,940 --> 01:13:01,940
In part because this ordinance combines, I think.

859
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:03,500
Let's take a look.

860
01:13:04,340 --> 01:13:10,060
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 chapters of the existing municipal code.

861
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:15,900
Additionally, this ordinance repeals the international property maintenance code.

862
01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:20,420
This is not a code that is typically used by the city for code enforcement purposes.

863
01:13:20,420 --> 01:13:23,180
It's also not part of the California Building Standards Code.

864
01:13:23,340 --> 01:13:26,300
It's an international model code, which is mostly

865
01:13:26,300 --> 01:13:29,540
typically a duplicative of state housing law.

866
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,460
So in consultation with our code enforcement staff

867
01:13:35,180 --> 01:13:37,480
and our interim building official,

868
01:13:38,860 --> 01:13:41,720
we thought that it may make more sense simply just to

869
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:43,960
repeal it, since it's not typically used by the city.

870
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:47,000
And additionally, the enforcement provisions of that

871
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,840
international model code conflict with California State

872
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:55,580
which requires that all building code enforcement be subject to appeal to a building

873
01:13:55,580 --> 01:13:59,700
Board of Appeals, which if the city doesn't have it, it is the city council

874
01:13:59,700 --> 01:14:04,780
by default. So that is also another question for the council to consider is, do you

875
01:14:04,780 --> 01:14:07,540
folks want to delegate that authority to either the Planning Commission,

876
01:14:07,860 --> 01:14:12,860
creative building Board of Appeals, or would you like to have staff continue to

877
01:14:12,860 --> 01:14:17,840
bring all building code interpretation issues and appeals of

878
01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:21,560
to stop our quarters and things like that to the council for your attention.

879
01:14:23,620 --> 01:14:24,140
So, sorry.

880
01:14:24,440 --> 01:14:25,960
So, what we're essentially doing is our bill.

881
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:29,960
Old building code is out and we just wholesale brought a new building code in.

882
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:32,720
So, this is not a wholesale new building code,

883
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:45,540
because state law actually says that you cannot adopt new provisions that are not substantially equivalent to what you have with some limited exceptions for home hardening and for additional greenhouse gas production strategies.

884
01:14:45,540 --> 01:14:52,560
This ordinance just carries forward your existing building code standards into the next building code cycle

885
01:14:53,440 --> 01:14:56,540
And just to overview what those are

886
01:14:56,540 --> 01:14:58,620
We are carrying forward

887
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:12,740
Requirements that masonry and stone fences in excess of three feet require building permit. Additional requirements for building permits related to sidewalks above adjacent grade.

888
01:15:14,180 --> 01:15:21,640
Requirements that substantial remodels of existing construction be subject to the 2025 building code standards, the new ones.

889
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:24,540
Let's see what else.

890
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:30,700
Requirements for sprinklers and residential construction and other occupancies are being carried over.

891
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:35,460
Smoke alarm requirements are being carried over.

892
01:15:36,660 --> 01:15:41,660
Prohibition on use of wooden retaining walls, where they're supporting a building search

893
01:15:41,660 --> 01:15:43,420
charge or roadway.

894
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:48,660
Requirements for additional hydrostatic pressure testing of the swimming pools.

895
01:15:49,340 --> 01:15:55,720
Additionally, those requirements for guarding demolition, additional requirements for guarding erosion controlled during the wet season.

896
01:15:57,020 --> 01:15:57,440
Let's see.

897
01:15:58,100 --> 01:16:09,660
And for the most part, sprinkler requirements for town homes and single family residences, additional roof hardening requirements for class A roofs.

898
01:16:12,300 --> 01:16:19,780
And beyond that, the further home hardening and fire protection requirements are going to be in the southern wind fire protection district ordinance this time.

899
01:16:24,650 --> 01:16:27,510
So, people that, sorry, oops.

900
01:16:29,270 --> 01:16:41,650
My concern is, and my concern for me and for other people that might operate in this space, you know, they're going to want to know and have a quick reference for what the old ordinance said and what the changes are.

901
01:16:41,650 --> 01:16:45,630
And so, there's really no way to do that because we don't have a red line version.

902
01:16:47,150 --> 01:16:50,810
So there's no way to compare the old ordinance to the new ordinance.

903
01:16:52,130 --> 01:16:57,890
So I don't know, I mean, I see what your point is, right, because there's been, there's

904
01:16:57,890 --> 01:17:00,810
a new version and it's substantially different.

905
01:17:02,470 --> 01:17:09,670
But I mean, I can talk to you offline, I guess, about how to, you know, how to highlight

906
01:17:09,670 --> 01:17:14,090
that, but usually it's you have a new, you know, if you're doing a

907
01:17:14,090 --> 01:17:18,330
amendment to code, you know, you have a document where it's visible, and

908
01:17:18,330 --> 01:17:26,630
you can see where the changes are. So I will say that our staff report does

909
01:17:26,630 --> 01:17:33,210
say most of the revisions are to add. It says, you know, this is, you know,

910
01:17:33,330 --> 01:17:39,650
section 104.10 is added to read as follows. Section 104.11 is added to

911
01:17:39,650 --> 01:17:47,610
read as follows, section, you know, another section is amended to read in entirety as follows.

912
01:17:48,070 --> 01:17:55,890
So it's pretty clear from reviewing the detailed revisions that are attached to the draft

913
01:17:55,890 --> 01:18:02,050
ordinance that's attached to our staff report, what the revisions are. It doesn't say,

914
01:18:02,890 --> 01:18:08,370
I'll talk to the attorney offline, but it's a five page staff report in a 23 page new ordinance.

915
01:18:08,370 --> 01:18:10,830
So we're going to trigger it.

916
01:18:11,410 --> 01:18:31,810
For reference by the Building Standards Commission in particular, because we do have to prove to them that this new ordinance is substantially the standard of the substantially equivalent of what we had before in the ordinance there is table two, which is reference to our ordinance 1291, which was our modifications to the 2022 building standards code.

917
01:18:31,810 --> 01:18:38,310
So, I think to address your concern council member, I think we should have added ordinance

918
01:18:38,310 --> 01:18:43,090
1291, which is the prior ordinance, to allow people to do a compare and contrast.

919
01:18:44,170 --> 01:18:50,990
I mean, certainly it would be nice to have a red line, I agree with you, but given how

920
01:18:50,990 --> 01:18:56,710
we previously structured our code, I think it would be very hard to prepare a red line for

921
01:18:56,710 --> 01:19:00,610
this particular ordinance, but we at least have a cross reference table for where you can

922
01:19:00,610 --> 01:19:02,390
find the prior language?

923
01:19:03,950 --> 01:19:06,890
OK, well, let's talk before the next meeting

924
01:19:06,890 --> 01:19:10,150
and see if we can figure out better reference

925
01:19:10,150 --> 01:19:14,210
and just someone going and having to pull out two different,

926
01:19:14,670 --> 01:19:16,470
and trying to compare them.

927
01:19:16,690 --> 01:19:18,370
That's incredibly difficult to do.

928
01:19:18,430 --> 01:19:19,530
I know except how to do it.

929
01:19:19,950 --> 01:19:23,290
So OK, all right, thanks to both of you, appreciate that.

930
01:19:23,830 --> 01:19:27,370
OK, if there are no other questions of staff,

931
01:19:27,530 --> 01:19:29,150
I'll open it up for a public comment.

932
01:19:29,150 --> 01:19:35,630
City Clerk. We have a few people online. First one is Matt S.

933
01:19:39,740 --> 01:19:44,860
Good evening, Council. I want to briefly comment on the proposed amendment to Section 503-1

934
01:19:44,860 --> 01:19:49,940
of the building code. Under the Health and Safety Code and the new restrictions in AB 130,

935
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:56,640
any local modification to the California Building Standards Code must cite the specific state provision

936
01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:59,820
being amended and include express finding showing.

937
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:08,360
While that changes necessary due to local climatic geologic or topographic conditions, the proposed language

938
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:16,080
in section 5031 doesn't appear connected to any such findings or evidence in record. Nor are

939
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:23,820
there any actual linkages between the proposed amendment and any permissible basis in AB 130, adopting

940
01:20:23,820 --> 01:20:29,780
it without that linkage renders the amendment unforceable and exposes the city to challenge. I

941
01:20:29,780 --> 01:20:36,900
respectfully urge the Council to remove or defer section 503.1 until those findings are properly

942
01:20:36,900 --> 01:20:37,300
made.

943
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:38,560
Thank you very much.

944
01:20:38,900 --> 01:20:40,560
I yield the rest of my time.

945
01:20:42,260 --> 01:20:44,940
CD Attorney, I'm okay.

946
01:20:47,660 --> 01:20:53,420
So 503.1 as amended is on page 6 of our ordinance.

947
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:56,540
CD Attorney, can you comment on that concern?

948
01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:01,660
Yeah, I mean, the language reads, the provisions of this code do not authorize construction,

949
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:05,580
otherwise prohibited by the city of Sauselido General Plan, any specific planner zoning

950
01:21:05,580 --> 01:21:09,000
ordinance which will take precedence with respect to any building height, building

951
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:12,980
storing limit, or building area requirements in the scope of conflict they're with.

952
01:21:13,440 --> 01:21:17,760
The building standards commission has basically stated that when you have provisions that

953
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:21,460
are administrative and nature rather than substantively modified what the building

954
01:21:21,460 --> 01:21:25,760
code requirements are, they are not required to, you are not required to make those findings.

955
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:33,100
Now, the city has had this language and it's building standards previously, and it's intended

956
01:21:34,440 --> 01:21:40,800
to basically state that the building code does not authorize any construction that's prohibited

957
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:43,380
by the zoning ordinances or the general plan.

958
01:21:44,220 --> 01:21:49,160
I actually don't think that this language is strictly necessary to have in there because

959
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:54,540
your zoning ordinances and general plan will normally trump and you can still enforce those

960
01:21:54,540 --> 01:21:56,420
regardless of what the building cuts us.

961
01:21:56,980 --> 01:21:59,840
So I'm happy if the council wants to simply remove this language.

962
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:02,020
I do think it's not strictly necessary,

963
01:22:02,300 --> 01:22:04,760
but it's helpful as guidance to people

964
01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:06,380
who are filing for building permits

965
01:22:06,380 --> 01:22:08,820
that they also need to consider zoning code requirements.

966
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:13,320
So, and do you believe that retaining this language

967
01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:15,280
requires us to add additional language

968
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:17,500
as suggested by our speaker?

969
01:22:18,480 --> 01:22:21,840
No, and I think I believe one of the city previously adopted

970
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:23,600
this in prior building code cycles,

971
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:27,080
if did not do so and the building standards commission did not raise an issue with it.

972
01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:28,900
All right.

973
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:29,720
Next speaker.

974
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:31,040
City Clerk.

975
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:31,980
But, but my Google.

976
01:22:36,980 --> 01:22:39,240
Well, thank you very much for allowing me to speak.

977
01:22:39,340 --> 01:22:45,880
Let me just say, in response to the city attorneys input, I say the best way to remain

978
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:49,640
and he's good at this, you know, you just knock that straight down the middle of the lane

979
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:51,540
and that's how you assure a strike.

980
01:22:52,220 --> 01:22:54,980
I mean, if you like to bowl and I do, you fuck off.

981
01:22:55,340 --> 01:22:55,560
All right.

982
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:59,380
On other fronts, I just want to say I'm so glad that we have lawyers that know had

983
01:22:59,380 --> 01:23:04,280
a drill down on this, and thankfully we have two standing members of the bar on our

984
01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:04,780
diets.

985
01:23:05,300 --> 01:23:09,840
So I know the citizens are looking to you for how to make sure getting down on these weeds,

986
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:11,440
make it work for the people.

987
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:18,430
And thank you for acknowledging earlier, Madam Mayor, your commitment to the residents who live in

988
01:23:18,430 --> 01:23:42,450
that matters a lot. I'm going forward. I'd like to invite you since we're talking about codes. I propose every new build going forward. The ground floor is made available to the city and a team, however, we're going to define it, to decide what our special needs, whether it's senior housing, ground floor, every new build going forward, ground floor.

989
01:23:42,450 --> 01:23:48,110
Seeing your housing, first responders and other valu, I mean absolutely essential personnel,

990
01:23:48,510 --> 01:23:54,530
we are flanked by bridges. We are so cut off. The fact that we have this chance to focus on how to

991
01:23:54,530 --> 01:24:01,490
survive really matters, let's make it count. First floor, going forward, all special needs. Hey,

992
01:24:01,710 --> 01:24:07,730
I might need to be on the ground floor. I'm 43 steps to the front door thank God. All right,

993
01:24:07,730 --> 01:24:12,630
Let's little outside of the box thinking this is our moment to really look creatively

994
01:24:12,630 --> 01:24:19,530
Instead of just being petrified by the amount of density heading our way. I yield back my time. Thank you.

995
01:24:19,550 --> 01:24:20,870
Thank you. City Clerk.

996
01:24:23,570 --> 01:24:24,650
Mark Palmer.

997
01:24:25,970 --> 01:24:34,330
Hi Mark. I'll just tell you off the bat we're going to undertake in reach code consideration at us at a subsequent meeting.

998
01:24:34,950 --> 01:24:40,770
Well, very good. Can you hear me? Yes, we hear you. Good evening, Mayor Cox. Council Member

999
01:24:40,770 --> 01:24:45,990
staff. I'm members of the public. Mark Palmer, Sustainability Commission. Tonight's action

1000
01:24:45,990 --> 01:24:52,470
to adopt the baseline 2025 California Building Standards Good, including Calgary and is an important

1001
01:24:52,470 --> 01:24:57,630
first step and I want to thank staff for their careful work. I also want to express strong

1002
01:24:57,630 --> 01:24:59,970
support for the future hearing mentioned by the city.

1003
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:17,340
And in the staff report, to consider adopting Cal Green Tier 1 measures. Why does this next step matter? California's climate goals for local governments involve a lining with statewide targets to reduce emissions another 80 percent by 20.45.

1004
01:25:18,340 --> 01:25:29,900
Incessantly, it will nearly a third of our greenhouse gas emissions come for buildings. Many climate scientists agree that modern building codes are the most impactful tools local governments could use.

1005
01:25:29,900 --> 01:25:32,220
reduced climate pollution.

1006
01:25:33,140 --> 01:25:38,540
Tier one measures like low carbon concrete, drought, tolerant landscaping, and improved indoor

1007
01:25:38,540 --> 01:25:43,760
air quality provide resource savings, healthier homes, and real climate leadership.

1008
01:25:44,700 --> 01:25:48,200
Tier one applies only to new construction, not existing homes.

1009
01:25:48,940 --> 01:25:51,860
Seven other marine communities have already taken this step.

1010
01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:58,260
Our general plan calls for a green building ordinance that exceeds state standards, and

1011
01:25:58,260 --> 01:26:03,700
Our climate emergency declaration directs us to make sustainability part of every decision.

1012
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:08,820
When the tier 1 amendment comes forward, the state ability commission will strongly support

1013
01:26:08,820 --> 01:26:11,340
it and encourage council to do the same.

1014
01:26:11,940 --> 01:26:16,860
Because this is about clean air, safer homes, and keeping the socialrito ready for the future.

1015
01:26:17,420 --> 01:26:18,380
Thank you.

1016
01:26:18,480 --> 01:26:18,920
Thank you.

1017
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:19,840
City Clerk.

1018
01:26:20,620 --> 01:26:21,700
No further public comments.

1019
01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:22,400
All right.

1020
01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:28,960
With that, I will move that we introduce and read by Title O'Lean Wave, reading a ordinance

1021
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:35,040
number 09-2025, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sossolita, repealing

1022
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:40,900
2022 California Building Standards Code and Penalty provisions, and enacting 2025 California

1023
01:26:40,900 --> 01:26:46,140
Building Standards Code and Local Amendments there, too, into Sossolita Municipal Code

1024
01:26:46,140 --> 01:26:55,320
after 8.02 that we direct staff to notice a public hearing for November 4, 2025, and that we authorize

1025
01:26:55,320 --> 01:27:01,080
a summary of the ordinance to be published five days in advance of the second reading and 15 days after its adoption.

1026
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:03,060
Second.

1027
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:04,900
All in favor?

1028
01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:06,780
Aye.

1029
01:27:06,780 --> 01:27:06,980
Aye.

1030
01:27:07,220 --> 01:27:08,620
That motion carries 40.

1031
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:15,920
We'll now move on to item 6b introduction and waiver of first reading of ordinance number

1032
01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:22,540
10 dash 2025 and ordinance of the City Council of Sossilita repealing Sossilita municipal

1033
01:27:22,540 --> 01:27:29,340
code chapter 18.12 entitled sewers welcome Andrew Davidson.

1034
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:31,280
Thank you.

1035
01:27:31,580 --> 01:27:36,680
Good evening mayor council members city manager I'm Andrew Davidson senior engineer near

1036
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:43,120
Department of Public Works. Kevin McGowan, your Director of Public Works, is not able to attend tonight's meeting.

1037
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:50,820
So, I'll be giving a short presentation on your agenda item 6b, which is the first reading of ordinance 10-2025,

1038
01:27:51,180 --> 01:27:58,720
in order in three peeling Sossolito Municipal Code chapters 18.12 sewers. There is a presentation, but

1039
01:28:01,340 --> 01:28:02,100
just continue.

1040
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:08,980
Sosolido has approximately 21 miles of sanitary sewer collection system pipes along with

1041
01:28:08,980 --> 01:28:10,420
manholes and other structures.

1042
01:28:11,260 --> 01:28:15,740
These are used to collect sewer effluent from the city and deliver to the Sosolido

1043
01:28:15,740 --> 01:28:20,180
Marin City sanitary district's pump stations and wastewater treatment plant which is

1044
01:28:20,180 --> 01:28:21,640
located just south of your city.

1045
01:28:22,480 --> 01:28:26,040
Until recently the city owned and maintained the collection system.

1046
01:28:26,940 --> 01:28:30,960
Over the last several years the city has been working with the district to transfer

1047
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:37,680
the collection system to the district. Through a collective effort by the council, district board

1048
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:43,500
members and staff of both agencies, this transfer was completed on August 22nd of this year.

1049
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:48,460
When the mayor signed the bill of sale transferring the collection system to the district,

1050
01:28:48,780 --> 01:28:49,800
we've been slight three.

1051
01:28:53,100 --> 01:28:56,420
The Sossolita Marin City Sanitary District is governed by a five-member

1052
01:28:56,420 --> 01:29:01,880
board of directors, provides wastewater collection conveyance and treatment from Marin City,

1053
01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:07,280
provides wastewater conveyance and treatment for Tamil Pious Valley Community Services District,

1054
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:13,800
provides wastewater treatment for other areas in southern Marin, and now provides wastewater collection

1055
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:16,000
conveyance and treatment for Sossoleto.

1056
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:21,560
As you know, the district operates many very technical facilities, their wastewater treatment plant,

1057
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:25,260
and their pump stations within Sossoleto, and within their district boundaries.

1058
01:29:25,260 --> 01:29:30,020
These are strict also provide service to approximately 18,000 folks.

1059
01:29:30,360 --> 01:29:31,280
Next slide please.

1060
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:39,920
Since August 22nd of this year, the responsibility to manage and maintain the

1061
01:29:39,920 --> 01:29:43,160
collection system has been transferred to the district.

1062
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:50,060
With this, it is necessary to repeal Solido Municipal Code Chapter 18.12

1063
01:29:50,060 --> 01:29:55,640
Sewers as the duties outlined in this chapter are no longer the cities to perform.

1064
01:29:56,860 --> 01:29:57,460
Next slide please.

1065
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:06,960
Moving forward, city staff will be coordinating efforts with the district regarding permit review and capital projects.

1066
01:30:08,180 --> 01:30:19,620
City staff continues to review the sewer collection system documentation to determine if there exists easements that were dedicated to the city's oscillado for the sewer collection system.

1067
01:30:20,300 --> 01:30:28,720
While only about a third of the way through that research, we have not found any easements specifically dedicated to the city for the collection system.

1068
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:35,120
It's taken 10 years or more to get to this point with a lot of collaborative effort by many people,

1069
01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:38,940
all who have worked on this deserve recognition and thanks.

1070
01:30:39,620 --> 01:30:40,320
Next slide, please.

1071
01:30:42,870 --> 01:30:47,990
Now that the district owns and maintains the Sanitary sewer collection system within the city limits,

1072
01:30:48,710 --> 01:30:51,530
staff is recommending that the Stossy Municipal Code,

1073
01:30:51,570 --> 01:30:55,470
Chapter 18.12 Sewers, be repealed.

1074
01:30:55,810 --> 01:30:57,230
And that is it, thank you.

1075
01:30:57,230 --> 01:31:00,630
Thank you, any questions of Mr. Davidson.

1076
01:31:02,170 --> 01:31:04,690
I see none. I'll open it up for public comment.

1077
01:31:04,830 --> 01:31:07,790
I see no one in the Chambers City Clerk.

1078
01:31:08,650 --> 01:31:09,630
We have Bat McDougal.

1079
01:31:10,030 --> 01:31:10,550
All right.

1080
01:31:15,680 --> 01:31:21,520
Well, I just wanted to add that I'm very much in favor of moving forward on this venture.

1081
01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:27,360
The only thing I would like to keep reminding us of is that over the years you know we have nine,

1082
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:35,420
We're nine, six, five, area, say of influence neighbors, like the G.G. and R.A. and all those wonderful organizations out there.

1083
01:31:35,820 --> 01:31:42,220
I know that they're responsible for themselves, but I know there's been a great deal of cooperation throughout these,

1084
01:31:42,220 --> 01:31:46,280
I don't even know how many years of Anne are not were available. She would know.

1085
01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:52,740
The truth is, I just want to make sure we're not accidentally leaving anybody behind. Thank you.

1086
01:31:52,940 --> 01:31:55,440
And you'll back my time. Thank you, city clerk.

1087
01:31:56,180 --> 01:31:57,760
No further public comments.

1088
01:31:58,020 --> 01:31:58,200
All right.

1089
01:31:58,400 --> 01:31:58,740
I'll entertain.

1090
01:31:59,620 --> 01:32:01,440
Actually, I will make a motion.

1091
01:32:13,690 --> 01:32:14,310
I move.

1092
01:32:14,590 --> 01:32:19,150
We introduce by title only and wave first reading of ordinance number 10-2025.

1093
01:32:19,970 --> 01:32:22,290
An ordinance of the City Council of Sossilita repealing

1094
01:32:22,290 --> 01:32:26,350
Sossilita municipal code chapter 18.12 sewers.

1095
01:32:27,390 --> 01:32:27,910
Second.

1096
01:32:28,990 --> 01:32:29,670
All in favor?

1097
01:32:30,430 --> 01:32:30,990
Aye.

1098
01:32:31,210 --> 01:32:32,950
That motion carries for zero.

1099
01:32:36,020 --> 01:32:47,420
With that, we'll move on to City Manager Reports Council Member Reports, City Council appointments and other council business, City Manager, any information for the council this evening.

1100
01:32:48,520 --> 01:33:05,520
Yes, I do have some information. I wanted to take a moment to really thank the Public Works Department, the Police Department, the Chamber of Commerce and certainly our community services department for the

1101
01:33:07,320 --> 01:33:14,420
We'll get a recap of what happened, how we fared with numbers and finances and so forth.

1102
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:18,520
But I think someone called it the Caledonia affair.

1103
01:33:19,280 --> 01:33:23,360
Well, it actually does benefit the entire community, but it's certainly benefits Caledonia.

1104
01:33:23,540 --> 01:33:30,960
So I really want to give my thanks to Brian Vittali for his leadership on this important event.

1105
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:43,780
And then also to note that they stay busy in that department because we have the Halloween event coming up in a couple of weeks, so that's important.

1106
01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:56,460
The other thing is I'd really like to thank and let the public know that Brandon Fips and Kathy Nikita have been working really hard to build our staff and the community development department.

1107
01:33:56,460 --> 01:34:00,980
And one of the items that has been lingering is our building official.

1108
01:34:01,720 --> 01:34:05,720
And so when Gary came up to the answer, I am the interim building official.

1109
01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:10,700
I had conversation with the mayor and a couple of you about actually

1110
01:34:10,700 --> 01:34:16,460
landing a building official who will be reporting to the city in the next couple of weeks.

1111
01:34:17,260 --> 01:34:19,300
But that has been a long, long process.

1112
01:34:19,580 --> 01:34:24,160
We've advertised not once, not twice, but three times and struck out.

1113
01:34:24,160 --> 01:34:32,420
This is the fourth time we're in and I believe fifth time and you assisted that process by allowing us to

1114
01:34:32,760 --> 01:34:39,700
modify the salary schedule and so forth so that we could attract a person it was qualified and this position

1115
01:34:39,700 --> 01:34:45,520
the building official has specific legal requirements for certain certifications and so important that

1116
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:51,260
we get those done and not anybody can be a building official it takes a person that's trained and learned.

1117
01:34:51,260 --> 01:34:59,960
So, I'm happy to report that to you and then I wanted to say that yesterday's meeting with...

1118
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:06,980
With the transit folks, I want to thank Supervisor Moulin Peters and Deringon Art for pulling together

1119
01:35:08,040 --> 01:35:17,300
four major entities, Tam, the Marin transit, Golden Gate Bridge District, and missing one mayor,

1120
01:35:17,520 --> 01:35:22,920
but there were four of them there. And they truly provided a bunch of information. I thought that it's

1121
01:35:22,920 --> 01:35:27,420
important for the community to know that Council Member Sobioski attended, and Mayor Cox were there

1122
01:35:27,420 --> 01:35:32,800
along with the chief and I and the mayor and the council members spoke specifically about some

1123
01:35:32,800 --> 01:35:37,980
of the approaches that could harm our residents in terms of some of the modifications that

1124
01:35:37,980 --> 01:35:38,720
are being made.

1125
01:35:39,320 --> 01:35:43,840
So to follow that up, I was reminded that we need to get something in the currents.

1126
01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:47,460
Our new editor has already working on that.

1127
01:35:47,540 --> 01:35:53,280
We'll see how soon that Mrs. Sullivan, Catholic Sullivan, from our intransit can provide

1128
01:35:53,280 --> 01:35:55,640
that information and then we certainly will get that in the currents.

1129
01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:58,100
That concludes my report, Mayor.

1130
01:36:00,610 --> 01:36:01,590
Thank you, City Manager.

1131
01:36:02,110 --> 01:36:04,730
City Attorney, any information for the Council this evening?

1132
01:36:06,630 --> 01:36:07,070
None.

1133
01:36:07,710 --> 01:36:08,470
Thank you.

1134
01:36:08,810 --> 01:36:09,670
All right.

1135
01:36:11,510 --> 01:36:13,190
Council Member reports is next.

1136
01:36:13,730 --> 01:36:18,730
Tomorrow evening is the meeting of mayors and council members of Marin County in San

1137
01:36:18,730 --> 01:36:19,230
Rebell.

1138
01:36:24,750 --> 01:36:29,270
And the City Manager and I already reported on the meeting yesterday evening.

1139
01:36:29,270 --> 01:36:32,210
So I'll turn it over to others for any reports.

1140
01:36:35,050 --> 01:36:35,930
Yes, please.

1141
01:36:36,990 --> 01:36:40,710
We had a really great church, Japan,

1142
01:36:41,270 --> 01:36:45,810
with the sister city council and with the US,

1143
01:36:46,210 --> 01:36:48,930
Japan conference for sister cities,

1144
01:36:49,030 --> 01:36:53,190
and it was a group of about 2015 to 20 other cities.

1145
01:36:53,230 --> 01:36:57,490
So it was a broader group that we normally do with the,

1146
01:36:57,490 --> 01:37:00,870
with the Japan U.S. such a city association.

1147
01:37:01,330 --> 01:37:02,930
So it was something new, I think they've done it

1148
01:37:02,930 --> 01:37:03,770
and they've done this before.

1149
01:37:03,990 --> 01:37:05,790
But it was highly successful.

1150
01:37:07,670 --> 01:37:09,050
And it was a three city tour.

1151
01:37:09,370 --> 01:37:12,490
It was to Osaka, Japan, and we were able to go to the world

1152
01:37:12,490 --> 01:37:14,070
expo while we were there.

1153
01:37:14,990 --> 01:37:20,970
And Yamanashi prefecture, which is where the Mount Fuji is,

1154
01:37:20,990 --> 01:37:23,190
and then on up to Tokyo at the UN University

1155
01:37:23,190 --> 01:37:24,190
is where we ended up.

1156
01:37:24,830 --> 01:37:27,290
And I have to say it was an amazing trip

1157
01:37:27,290 --> 01:37:28,370
and great time.

1158
01:37:28,590 --> 01:37:31,830
They're great ability to network with not only our own sister city,

1159
01:37:31,950 --> 01:37:35,290
because I went there first for a day, well actually 12 hours.

1160
01:37:37,110 --> 01:37:41,070
And then we were able to talk to other cities

1161
01:37:41,070 --> 01:37:44,670
around California, but also many other cities in Japan

1162
01:37:44,670 --> 01:37:46,030
who came to all those events.

1163
01:37:46,290 --> 01:37:48,990
So I'm sorry, I didn't, wasn't able to get,

1164
01:37:48,990 --> 01:37:52,110
we have a gift to us from the city of Cicada,

1165
01:37:52,490 --> 01:37:53,610
who sent that back.

1166
01:37:54,070 --> 01:37:57,230
And then other pictures and things.

1167
01:37:57,230 --> 01:37:58,650
and I'll bring it the next city council meeting.

1168
01:37:58,750 --> 01:38:04,570
I just couldn't get together for today and I have to say the biggest gift that was

1169
01:38:05,130 --> 01:38:10,210
the biggest hit overall of any gift, I didn't believe me there was lots of competition throughout

1170
01:38:10,210 --> 01:38:10,950
the three days.

1171
01:38:11,470 --> 01:38:17,430
But the biggest hit was the baseball hat from Sossleto Public Works.

1172
01:38:20,290 --> 01:38:27,750
I have a picture of the governor of Tokyo who has it on her.

1173
01:38:28,270 --> 01:38:29,770
So anyway, I'll bring that at the next meeting.

1174
01:38:30,010 --> 01:38:32,730
And a very beautiful wind chime from the city of Chicago

1175
01:38:32,730 --> 01:38:33,910
to the city of Saoselida.

1176
01:38:34,110 --> 01:38:35,590
So we can put that with our collection of,

1177
01:38:36,690 --> 01:38:38,790
and a picture of, I think, I have a picture

1178
01:38:38,790 --> 01:38:40,770
giving of the gift that you sent.

1179
01:38:41,010 --> 01:38:42,490
And he was very appreciative of that too.

1180
01:38:42,650 --> 01:38:43,010
So I think.

1181
01:38:43,130 --> 01:38:43,870
Thank you so much.

1182
01:38:43,870 --> 01:38:46,570
And thank you for, you do such a great job of representing

1183
01:38:46,570 --> 01:38:52,310
us with all of our sister cities you just I have watched you in action and I am in great

1184
01:38:52,310 --> 01:38:59,960
admiration so thank you so much for so capable you are presenting us all right next on our agenda is

1185
01:38:59,960 --> 01:39:11,320
appointment you're right on to it I miss my time so you're going to talk about appointments so

1186
01:39:11,320 --> 01:39:12,120
Yes, okay.

1187
01:39:13,260 --> 01:39:23,880
So the previous members of the Finance Committee were myself and Council Member Sobioski

1188
01:39:25,690 --> 01:39:30,260
with great reluctance, but with great confidence in the leadership ability I am passing

1189
01:39:30,260 --> 01:39:36,500
the baton to my vice mayor, Stephen Woodside, who will now, so the Finance Committee will now

1190
01:39:36,500 --> 01:39:42,260
be comprised of Vice Mayor Woodside and Council Member Sobi Eski, who bring unique talents and

1191
01:39:42,260 --> 01:39:47,060
abilities to address some of the agenda items that I believe will be addressed in the upcoming

1192
01:39:47,060 --> 01:39:48,180
finance committee meetings.

1193
01:39:48,860 --> 01:39:53,420
And so the Finance Committee meeting will, the Finance Committee will meet there will then

1194
01:39:53,420 --> 01:39:56,820
be a council meeting regarding some of the items discussed.

1195
01:39:57,580 --> 01:39:59,960
So thank you both so much for volunteering.

1196
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:02,100
During your time for these important tasks.

1197
01:40:05,820 --> 01:40:16,120
All right. Future agenda items are attached to the matrix city clerk I forwarded an updated list

1198
01:40:16,120 --> 01:40:20,200
in the agenda matrix. If you can make sure that goes on our next meeting, that would be great.

1199
01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:25,800
It actually is more accurately reflects those items that we will be addressing in the remainder of this year.

1200
01:40:25,800 --> 01:40:45,560
So it's attached under future agenda items to our agenda matrix and I guess we don't have any minutes from board's commissions in committees, no other reports of significance so at this point I'll take public comment on items 7A through 7C and 7E through 7G seeing none here in the chambers city clerk.

1201
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:47,540
We have Lorna newlin.

1202
01:40:47,620 --> 01:40:49,140
All right.

1203
01:40:49,800 --> 01:40:50,640
Welcome back Lorna.

1204
01:40:53,260 --> 01:40:55,080
Thank you.

1205
01:40:56,020 --> 01:41:05,940
I wanted to tag on to City Manager, Chrisapata's comments about the toast to Sussan Lido.

1206
01:41:06,700 --> 01:41:12,600
This was my second year participating there, and Kudos to Brian Vitali and his entire

1207
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:18,880
park in Rack, and all the people that Chris noted, it was just an excellent event.

1208
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:21,240
I personally, I wish you could have been longer.

1209
01:41:23,120 --> 01:41:25,160
I can't remember when I said it.

1210
01:41:25,340 --> 01:41:27,240
It was the second year that I have shown there.

1211
01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:28,460
It was the third year overall.

1212
01:41:28,940 --> 01:41:34,320
It brought everybody out in just happiness.

1213
01:41:35,480 --> 01:41:40,120
There were no political booths.

1214
01:41:40,780 --> 01:41:43,200
And I had people coming into my booth

1215
01:41:43,200 --> 01:41:45,680
where I was selling my pottery from Chicago.

1216
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:49,200
So they'd gotten off the fair, the fairery, and they heard about it.

1217
01:41:49,600 --> 01:41:55,500
People from San Francisco, and my only problem with it is I was so busy.

1218
01:41:55,820 --> 01:41:59,940
I did not even get a chance to walk the street and see what was there.

1219
01:42:00,440 --> 01:42:03,540
And greet other artists who were selling.

1220
01:42:04,140 --> 01:42:09,260
And there's something else that's about, and thanks to the lady earlier who talked about,

1221
01:42:09,260 --> 01:42:12,240
well, it's not that, anyway, about the farmer's market.

1222
01:42:12,240 --> 01:42:19,360
It's bringing people out in Sicilito and then upcoming on this coming Saturday is the art

1223
01:42:19,360 --> 01:42:25,340
Sicilito art and harbor days and is put on by the gentleman who does a farmer's market,

1224
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:31,920
it's going to be on Tracy Way between 10 and 2. Unfortunately, I can't show at this one,

1225
01:42:32,060 --> 01:42:36,140
hopefully I will in November. I'm going to be swimming the Golden Gate Bridge with the Dolphin Club

1226
01:42:36,140 --> 01:42:43,360
that day. But I'll come see it towards the end. And the more we have things going on in town,

1227
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:49,640
especially with what goes on at the SCA, it's all great. And happy Halloween. I'll be seeing

1228
01:42:49,640 --> 01:42:54,660
people unsusually go that night. It's one of my favorite. One of my favorite events here. Thank you.

1229
01:42:55,380 --> 01:43:01,820
Thank you so much. And thank you. And thank you to you and to all of the artisans and other

1230
01:43:01,820 --> 01:43:11,200
businesses that contributed both the vice mayor and I were able to visit the celebration

1231
01:43:11,200 --> 01:43:17,200
this weekend, and it was just marvellously attended. Everybody seemed to be having a great

1232
01:43:17,200 --> 01:43:21,440
time, and we were blessed with brilliant weather. So, thank you.

1233
01:43:21,780 --> 01:43:23,420
Next speaker, Bobbette Magdou.

1234
01:43:28,500 --> 01:43:34,180
Thank you. I actually, interesting that Lorna made the comment about no obvious political

1235
01:43:34,180 --> 01:43:42,340
stuff going on because as you know, Parallel on Bridgeway was the no King's thing and it was

1236
01:43:42,340 --> 01:43:48,980
really well populated and what I found because actually I was counting one and four people on

1237
01:43:48,980 --> 01:43:55,580
Caledonia and I'm not talking people who could be paid participants as was suggested but actually

1238
01:43:55,580 --> 01:44:01,200
their neighbors because we walked down the hills together so I'm in the noise out more. These are the

1239
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:06,900
people wearing very discreet but clear, this is not the government we have in mind for ourselves

1240
01:44:06,900 --> 01:44:12,640
kind of messages. So, you know, it's been said that what goes on nationally is not the

1241
01:44:12,640 --> 01:44:18,440
business of the local council, but how could it never be more true than now? So we don't need

1242
01:44:18,440 --> 01:44:24,000
any miniature models of the way they're trying to reinvent the world in Washington DC, that's

1243
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:29,860
for sure. So I would just implore each of us to think carefully if we don't stand together

1244
01:44:29,860 --> 01:44:37,040
As the 949-65 area of influence, then God only knows what kind of attack will face.

1245
01:44:37,620 --> 01:44:44,160
I'm very much in favor of Obe no illegal orders, and any time somebody figures out a go around

1246
01:44:44,160 --> 01:44:50,060
to send him the National Guard, and they go, that's an illegal order being obeyed.

1247
01:44:50,800 --> 01:44:54,180
And I think we have to be realistic that this is not a drill.

1248
01:44:54,820 --> 01:44:56,280
Thank you, I yield back my time.

1249
01:44:59,050 --> 01:44:59,890
It's not for the public.

1250
01:45:02,900 --> 01:45:16,780
Mayor and Council, I neglected one item that I haven't spoken to all of you about and certainly not Councilmember Blowstein, but that's the performing stars are having their 35th annual gala in Mill Valley on Halloween.

1251
01:45:17,360 --> 01:45:30,660
The city has been a partner with performing stars. They've given us six seats at that table, and so I understand that the vice mayor is probable in Councilmember Serbiuski is maybe

1252
01:45:30,660 --> 01:45:33,020
and the mayor, maybe maybe a councilmember Hoppin.

1253
01:45:33,140 --> 01:45:34,620
I don't know what your schedule is at night,

1254
01:45:35,440 --> 01:45:39,600
but Felicia Gaston and her team are very excited about it.

1255
01:45:39,640 --> 01:45:41,600
And want to make sure this sauce of it gets the love

1256
01:45:41,600 --> 01:45:42,920
it deserves for being supportive.

1257
01:45:45,980 --> 01:45:47,240
Wonderful, thank you.

1258
01:45:47,880 --> 01:45:52,620
All right, with that, we will move on to closed session.

1259
01:45:55,340 --> 01:45:58,020
We have seven items on our closed session agenda.

1260
01:45:58,180 --> 01:46:02,620
The first is C1 Public Employment Discussion

1261
01:46:02,620 --> 01:46:04,820
of the transition of the City Manager.

1262
01:46:05,640 --> 01:46:08,120
C2 is conference with real property negotiator,

1263
01:46:08,240 --> 01:46:10,040
property old city hall,

1264
01:46:10,540 --> 01:46:13,160
negotiating parties Jean Hiller and the City Manager

1265
01:46:13,160 --> 01:46:13,920
in City Attorney.

1266
01:46:14,700 --> 01:46:17,000
C3 conference with real property negotiators,

1267
01:46:17,140 --> 01:46:18,600
property 300 Spencer,

1268
01:46:19,380 --> 01:46:21,860
agency negotiator City Manager in City Attorney

1269
01:46:21,860 --> 01:46:24,860
and Southern Marin Fire Protection District.

1270
01:46:25,520 --> 01:46:28,260
C4 conference with real property negotiators,

1271
01:46:29,560 --> 01:46:31,740
property 558 Bridgeway,

1272
01:46:31,740 --> 01:46:36,760
Negotiating Party City Manager City Attorney and Bridgeway 5x8 Royal Property LLC.

1273
01:46:37,200 --> 01:46:41,440
C5 Conference with Legal Council Existing Litigation, Con versus City of

1274
01:46:41,440 --> 01:46:46,260
Sossalito at all. C6 Conference of Legal Council Anticipated Litigation,

1275
01:46:46,500 --> 01:46:52,280
Initiation of Litigation 1 Case, and C7 Conference of Legal Council Anticipated Litigation

1276
01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:59,040
Significant Exposure to Litigation 1 Case. The agenda says that we will reconvene to open

1277
01:46:59,040 --> 01:47:07,640
we actually will not do that. We will be adjourning to our next meeting, which is scheduled for November 4 at 5 p.m.

1278
01:47:08,140 --> 01:47:15,480
And we will not return to open session tonight so that we can excuse our city clerk and our other staff who are here.

1279
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:16,280
Staffing our meeting.

1280
01:47:16,820 --> 01:47:17,380
And with that.

1281
01:47:17,380 --> 01:47:23,740
Mayer, a quick question for you that as a reason is so public comments on items that are listed in the close session agenda.

1282
01:47:24,500 --> 01:47:25,640
When will those be heard?

1283
01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:29,380
We can do that at the beginning of our next meeting.

1284
01:47:29,860 --> 01:47:30,660
So we are adjournable.

1285
01:47:30,660 --> 01:47:33,560
I just have the current now on the items on tonight's agenda.

1286
01:47:33,940 --> 01:47:38,540
Well, I first announced the items and then I take public comment on the items.

1287
01:47:38,940 --> 01:47:41,440
But we also allow public comment when we return.

1288
01:47:42,140 --> 01:47:43,500
Oh, yes. Yeah, that's fine too.

1289
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:47,640
So is there any public comment on closed session items?

1290
01:47:47,940 --> 01:47:48,760
Seeing then.

1291
01:47:48,800 --> 01:47:51,240
All right. With that, we will adjourn to close session.

1292
01:47:52,200 --> 01:47:53,160
Thank you.

1293
01:48:03,020 --> 01:48:05,400
Is it, are you, did you already turn off?

1294
01:48:07,600 --> 01:48:07,640
Yeah.

1295
01:48:08,120 --> 01:48:09,600
Well, he can just send that to me.

1296
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:10,100
Is it like so?