[0:14] Good evening. Good evening. Mayor and city council tonight's meeting of October 21, 2025 is being held here at 420

[0:21] 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.

[0:31] Okay,

[0:47] we're going to take a five minute break all of them

[1:16] we're ready there. All right, thank you will resume

[1:20] Welcome to the regular meeting for the City of Sossalito for Tuesday, October 21st,

[1:26] 2025 the time is 506 p.m.

[1:31] City Clerk will you call the roll?

[1:33] Council member Blouse Dean.

[1:35] She is still not here yet.

[1:37] She will not be attending this evening. She was married this past weekend.

[1:41] and so she is on a mini moon and will not be attending our meeting this evening and congratulations

[1:46] to her and Dave Sachs.

[1:49] Council Member Huffman.

[1:51] Here.

[1:51] Council Member Rousal Biosky.

[1:54] Vice Mayor Woodside.

[1:55] Mayor Cox.

[1:58] We did have interviews on our agenda originally but we had several cancel and so we will be conducting

[2:03] those interviews next week.

[2:06] I do have several announcements that I'd like to make.

[2:09] I'm going to break my own rule, which is praise in public and reproove in private.

[2:15] That's something I learned in the military, but I did speak with the City Manager offline.

[2:20] I'm going to repeat my requests of him publicly.

[2:24] It is becoming the standard and not the exception that we have technical difficulties with these meetings.

[2:30] And so I am making a public request to the City Manager.

[2:34] It is rude to our public.

[2:36] It is rude to those who tune in.

[2:37] we pay people extra to be here early to set up and to ensure that our IT issues are all straight forward.

[2:48] 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.

[2:58] So that, okay, I see you rolling your eyes here, I'm happy with my request.

[3:04] I have no issues.

[3:05] 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.

[3:18] 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.

[3:28] 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.

[3:38] All reboots, all start-ups, all testing, all of that should be done and you should be ready to go.

[3:44] We should be online 15 minutes before we actually convene the meeting.

[3:48] So that's my request moving forward.

[3:51] If things improve, you know, perhaps staff can adopt different procedures, but that's my request moving forward.

[3:56] For the record, we did start at 3 p.m. doing the set up and we continue to

[4:00] share some check up for the mayor.

[4:02] Mayor, let me respond, please.

[4:04] The city manager is responsible for the staff.

[4:07] The counter is responsible for the city manager.

[4:10] I feel like the coach of the 49ers or something goes wrong

[4:12] at a game.

[4:14] The fans are upset.

[4:15] The owners upset.

[4:16] People are upset.

[4:17] And that should not be happening.

[4:18] I apologize to the residents.

[4:20] I apologize to you, Mayor and council for this happening.

[4:23] we will do better, everything that you said we've noted, so again, except our apologies and we'll

[4:30] see what improvements we can make as we are trying to make sure that our time is valued,

[4:37] the resident's time is valued, and certainly the council's time is valued, so I apologize,

[4:42] but we'll do better. Thank you, City Manager, I greatly appreciate that. All right, I also want

[4:49] folks to be aware that on Halloween night, October 31st, of course,

[4:58] Rosalita will have it stand.

[5:00] 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.

[5:11] 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.

[5:19] We, the city of Sossalito through our partnership with the city of Marin City and our ongoing

[5:26] collaboration has, we are sponsoring a table at the Celebration and Mill Valley, so we invite

[5:34] you to attend as many celebrations as you can on Halloween evening.

[5:42] And with that, we will turn to a special presentation from Southern Rhinfire regarding emergency

[5:48] preparedness, including the Spencer Fire Station and Defensible Space Home Hardening, and I see

[5:56] some of our tried and true members of Southern Rhinfire here this evening to share our presentation.

[6:04] Mayor, were they're setting up Chief Hill your and the Fire District will provide information

[6:09] and that will be followed by information from myself on the Spencer Station status at this time.

[6:18] Good evening, Mayor Cox, City Council, staff, and the Greater Public of Sossaleta.

[6:25] Thank you for having us here.

[6:26] We're excited to be here.

[6:28] We have some report out to you that regarding our defense of the space and home-artening

[6:36] program and vegetation management, short presentation by Deputy Fire and Marshall now who runs

[6:43] our vegetation portion of it, and then I'll follow up with talking

[6:48] about our trianial code cycle, which happens every three years in the adoption of the

[6:55] fire code, which I've been doing for the City of Sossolido since the annexation.

[7:00] So with that, Captain Now.

[7:07] All right.

[7:07] Thank you.

[7:09] Well, Council members.

[7:10] Thank you.

[7:10] Members of the public.

[7:11] Again, my name is Marshall now.

[7:12] I'm the Deputy Fire Marshal for Southern Remfire District and I run our vegetation

[7:15] management in our defense space and woody programs.

[7:19] The good and next slide.

[7:20] The first thing we want to cover real quick is just a really brief update.

[7:24] Anyone who's familiar with Firewise USA, these are individual sites throughout the country

[7:28] and that give special benefits to certain communities.

[7:33] We have a number of minor districts.

[7:35] We have a couple in Sossolido.

[7:38] This is another program.

[7:39] It's an overlay.

[7:40] So it's not taken away from what Firewise USA is, but this is the fire risk reduction community

[7:45] list.

[7:46] It's held by the state.

[7:47] It will be approved once everything's done, but we have applied for this across our entire district so naturally

[7:52] Sossolido falls within that and we're expecting that if the list goes through appropriately

[7:58] July of twenty twenty six will the list be approved and this will be to be another layer

[8:02] these

[8:03] services like the the list or

[8:07] Firewise community. This allows for residents to take any advantages to those programs

[8:12] typically line up with insurance discounts and other things around those.

[8:17] So we'll keep you informed as we move forward.

[8:19] Obviously there's a good eight or nine months before we know,

[8:22] but we'll keep you up to date on that.

[8:24] Next slide.

[8:30] So mainly today, I'm talking about our defenseable space program that we run seasonally

[8:34] as well as our vegetation management programs that we also run throughout the season.

[8:40] So we can skip a couple of slides as you write to there, there we go.

[8:45] So first thing we're going to touch on is just a three year snapshot.

[8:49] We call it 2023 to 2025 as a three year snapshot for a couple of reasons.

[8:53] Primarily, because 2023 is when the Marin Wilde, if I

[8:56] have mentioned authority, or I'm going to be PA,

[8:58] worked with Southern Marin Fire for the first time with utilizing

[9:01] our digital reports.

[9:03] And he resident at this point, and there's an open their digital report,

[9:05] should know that they do have a report available for them online,

[9:08] and they can reach out to our offices for them.

[9:10] But this snapshot also highlights the fact that we pledge

[9:13] for in a three-year window to complete an entirety of our acquired district.

[9:16] This included obviously the city of San Toledo.

[9:19] This is a snapshot of our achievements specifically in San Toledo.

[9:22] So over that three-year window, we've completed over 300,

[9:25] and sorry, 3,283 properties, and then it breaks it out to acres,

[9:29] along with some reinspections on those properties.

[9:32] We can move forward to the next slide.

[9:34] This is going to look at more of a year-to-date figure.

[9:37] One, the four thousand, that's year-to-date in our district.

[9:40] So naturally our district covers much more than just the city of

[9:43] 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.

[9:53] 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

[10:00] 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.

[10:10] So, as of this year, we have blanked it our entire district for the first time to be in that digital platform.

[10:17] 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.

[10:29] and precise allocation of funds in order to see that the goals of the Marine wildfire

[10:35] prevention authority are MWAPA. With that, as of September 2025, we were

[10:40] happy to report that the district had completed 100% of those wild land urban

[10:44] interface inspections on properties. Some level of digital report is available, like

[10:48] said, for all those residents as of right now. In addition, this year has been

[10:52] unique. We also had an update to our local response areas from the state. This

[10:57] enhanced and changed to the layout of our fire severity zones, primarily in the city of

[11:02] Sossolito, but also in the city of Movalena, with that we added a little over 150 properties

[11:06] that had never been inside of either a wildland or been interface footprint or a severity zone

[11:11] footprint.

[11:12] So these homes have never received any level of information around a defensible space outside

[11:17] of just typical mailers that might come through and across their radar.

[11:21] We decided to get it on top of it, and as of actually this month, we went through and

[11:25] respect and all of those, as well as we're concluding the ones in no value. So at the end

[11:29] of this month, we'll have been able to say that 100% of those new properties, we had about

[11:32] 500 new ones throughout our whole district, have had their digital inspection reports completed

[11:37] and are available waiting for the residents to open them.

[11:40] The 65.3% of our cover in right here, this is one of the first metrics that we're working

[11:44] on moving into the next year. We're already working on it. We actually started a campaign in

[11:48] Saoselito about three months ago to try and boost this number. These are how many people

[11:52] obviously physically open the reports. They may have walked with us, they may have gotten the

[11:57] hanger on their door, but they may not have actually physically opened the digital report.

[12:00] Some we mail out directly to people, but right now we're driving that number up. The next part

[12:05] is that number should not go down, and we're going to keep pushing that until we get a higher and higher.

[12:09] So again, we started a mailing campaign about 20 letters a week, go out to residents,

[12:14] very specific and targeted on people who have not opened the reports, gently asking them to open

[12:19] report, look at it because we can see on our end as soon as they open it and we'll just keep

[12:23] driving those numbers up as we enhance that data quality that we get. In addition to that,

[12:28] we talked about a three-year cycle for doing those inspections. We realize that now that we've finished,

[12:33] we get to start over and do inspections again. But we don't want the residents that just got their

[12:37] inspection now to wait three more years to get another inspection. So we're trying to bring it down to

[12:42] two-year. We believe that we know exactly how to do that. Moving forward with the exact same

[12:46] progress that we've made, that 4,000 number that we saw that we did this year.

[12:50] That is significantly higher than past year, so if we continue that momentum, we should

[12:54] be able to complete our entire district, which means in theory half of Sossolido a year,

[12:59] moving forward every two years.

[13:00] So you'll have kind of an odd and even rotation on those homes being done.

[13:04] And then additionally, all of this develops a better target hazard inspection list,

[13:09] and that's something that the county collectively is using a lot of this data

[13:12] in the CWPP for the community wildfire

[13:16] potential CWPP, the community wildfire

[13:20] prevention plan that will give us

[13:22] much more accurate data on where we can

[13:26] provide community impact, community feedback,

[13:29] a lot of our direct assistance programs,

[13:30] it will guide us on a lot of those things.

[13:33] So, next slide.

[13:35] That was the bulk of everything.

[13:36] So, I'm going to breeze through the next few

[13:38] really quickly and open up any questions.

[13:40] These are just some of the events and numbers that we have.

[13:44] We provide an on-demand chipper program in 2025.

[13:47] We calculated that over 26 people did take advantage of that on-demand chipper program.

[13:51] We offer all year long, it's on-demand, so all you have to do is put in the request form online.

[13:55] And we work within a week, same cruise out to your house, to take away your pile.

[14:00] We do work in groups, so that 26 may be more like 30 or 40 homes, specifically there's

[14:06] 2 to 3 in each group.

[14:07] We also started a pilot program, which did utilize Marine Investors, which is our newest

[14:11] fire-wise community and our district.

[14:14] In June of 2025, we serviced someone between 18 and 20 homes, primarily focusing on

[14:20] Juniper removal, as well as measuring and outfitting homes with additional events and other

[14:25] home-hardening elements.

[14:26] It was a pilot program.

[14:27] We felt it was very successful.

[14:28] We learned a lot from it, and we have now rotated that same program on a quarterly rotation

[14:33] where we had a summer between 15 and 25 homes a quarter in that same fashion and we just

[14:38] move around our district and in clumps primarily in bio-ized groups and yet so multiple

[14:44] residents remove the juniper of that marine vise homeowner's association we look at coming

[14:48] back probably to saw salido in the next quarter. I think of two more slides left so again direct

[14:57] assistance we covered that about 10 properties a month.

[15:00] I think that's been adjusted to reflect what we're doing in San Salito primarily. We're looking

[15:05] at 20 across our whole district. Public outreach with large landovers. That's a part of our

[15:11] community fields management program. There's a lot of larger parcels that are falling unkempt, and

[15:16] we have an opportunity to step in and help them. And then the photos here show quite a bit that was

[15:20] done very recently along the GGRA land where we finally got some approval. We actually got three days

[15:28] The bonus approval to work on their land just before the shutdown occurred so that we

[15:32] were able to keep this project going before we lost the oversight that was required for us

[15:36] to maintain it and we're still continuing to work.

[15:39] So that's a very delicate relationship and we're really building upon it.

[15:43] And then again, we continue to work within the city on a lot of other programs that we've

[15:47] mirrored in the city of Movali, like things that we work around with SLPs.

[15:53] And I think the last slide is, again, just a couple of big highlights, I think I've talked

[16:00] But most all of these, we have hazardous her removal, where we've worked in the past with different

[16:05] communities.

[16:06] Marina Visto had a really big program that they were pushing forward with their HOA

[16:09] latch earlier this year.

[16:12] And we were able to work in conjunction with what they were doing to continue to remove

[16:15] a lot of material away from the trees that they were removed.

[16:18] We continue our Sossleto Forest Health Fuel Break along the perimeter of the city, jumping

[16:24] between city, on land, private, on land,

[16:26] couch, on land, and, obviously, the engineering land.

[16:30] We have started 3D modeling, all of our field breaks.

[16:33] This does two things for us.

[16:35] One, it gets us into some of those areas

[16:36] that we can't get to until we've done work.

[16:38] So now we can see the density of the field.

[16:41] And we can also see the fruits of our labor,

[16:43] what's been removed after we've done it.

[16:46] But on top of that, we can refly over it

[16:48] on 60-eight months intervals, and we can track the regrowth.

[16:51] And we can give data metrics on exactly how much volume vegetation we removed initially and how

[16:57] aggressively it's growing back and that should help to drive us to be able to be more precise

[17:01] and accurate with our funds so we can spread it appropriately across the entire district more accurately.

[17:07] So we've got our first 3D modeling coming back from some of our field breaks and we're going to continue to

[17:11] just build upon that as we go but really really interesting stuff there.

[17:15] And then, again, our relationship with GDNA and the NPS that we'll continue to grow and we'll continue to foster that.

[17:23] Naturally, we have a lot of their land with us.

[17:25] It's not just here in San Toledo.

[17:26] 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.

[17:32] Obviously, outside of the city, but we're continuing to work with them, even through the shutdown luckily.

[17:36] So, I believe that should conclude my portion of the report, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

[17:45] Since the next to last slide showed property right outside my house, I want to say to everyone, this really works.

[17:54] The GGRA and your group have cooperated to do a lot of clearing in the underbroke underneath the forest that surrounds us.

[18:01] And when I say us, it's the whole town.

[18:03] 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.

[18:16] 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.

[18:30] the Chipper programs, et cetera, the inspections, they are extremely helpful, they will save lives and property if people take advantage of them.

[18:40] Can you think of what more we can do to get the word out?

[18:44] Just any opportunity you have to direct them, we offer an on-demand home assessment service where they can book out online.

[18:53] We offer all your long, we have full time inspectors dedicated to that service.

[18:56] That's really your entry point to everything that we have to offer as free services as well as the NWAPA.

[19:04] 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.

[19:12] 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.

[19:22] So, a lot of this will also be in conjunction with that committee.

[19:28] Thank you.

[19:34] So, what's our, what's our trajectory from now, you know, for the rest of the year,

[19:39] for the rest of the calendar year, rest of the year, whatever.

[19:42] I mean, I think we're sort of entering the what season now.

[19:45] So, what should people be doing through, you know, as we're going forward through the year.

[19:50] And I, and I did have a follow-up question too on the ordinances that we have later in the, on the agenda.

[19:56] Are you guys, because some of those have to do with Southern modifier, are you guys staying for that presentation?

[20:00] 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.

[20:06] 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.

[20:16] 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.

[20:29] 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.

[20:36] As we work through the very last months of the season hopefully last weeks or days.

[20:40] But yeah, preparing for next season.

[20:42] We're already going into winter mode.

[20:43] A lot of that stuff is planning on how we're going to move forward.

[20:47] We continue our inspections all year long.

[20:49] Our seasonal program will die out probably in the next by the end of the month.

[20:52] So we'll remain on with all of our full time staff continuously doing inspections.

[20:57] and continues to offer in our services because there are certain things within the landscape

[21:02] that have only been done during the winter anyhow.

[21:05] So, yeah, take a look around your house.

[21:06] They'll be afraid to walk in in every corner of your yard and think what can change.

[21:10] So, and call us out.

[21:14] Hi.

[21:14] Thanks for your service.

[21:15] I have a question about the home inspection report.

[21:20] I've promoted that to the homeowners in San Salito, and I've gotten a fair bit of pushback

[21:25] from people who are concerned about two things.

[21:29] One is that there are things that are found

[21:32] that their fire insurance rates might go up

[21:34] or get dropped altogether.

[21:36] And the second is that if they choose not to remediate

[21:40] something that you find that that becomes a disclosure item

[21:43] if they sell their property.

[21:46] Both of those stem from the fact that I believe

[21:48] your reports are public and accessible by anyone.

[21:52] And I'm wondering if those concerns have merit

[21:55] and if there's any way to address that.

[21:58] Well, the report aren't readily available to the public.

[22:01] Naturally, everything could be available to the public,

[22:03] but they're not readily available to the public.

[22:05] The code that accesses the report is only provided with you,

[22:09] the tenant or the homeowner upon the inspection being conducted.

[22:14] If they're requesting it,

[22:15] we verify that they're the same person as well.

[22:18] Otherwise, there's natural processes that would follow.

[22:20] As far as the insurance element,

[22:22] But the insurance companies don't have access to that data.

[22:26] They don't request it from us.

[22:28] They have their own models and measurements.

[22:31] So individual findings in a report are only going to help to develop a no-one risk

[22:36] work to the resident that they can hopefully work to bring down.

[22:40] In the report, there's three different kind of risk scores that are put there.

[22:43] Only one is based on findings.

[22:44] The other ones are based on like topography and placement of the structure, which no one can

[22:49] eliminate.

[22:49] And those are the two biggest factors of why we're so focused on

[22:53] defensible space.

[22:54] And those are the two factors that the insurance companies really look a lot at.

[22:57] Naturally, how you keep your property is another big factor.

[23:00] But those are things that you can actually take a media action on,

[23:03] whereas the location of your home and the placement of it,

[23:06] and the more permanent building materials,

[23:09] those are what the insurance companies really looking at,

[23:11] and it doesn't really have anything to do with our report.

[23:14] And then lastly, the AB38 inspections for resale,

[23:17] pertain to first oscillator, just a very high fire severity zones, and yes, those are required

[23:22] to be disclosed during a real state transaction, no different than anything else related

[23:29] to the sale of a home.

[23:31] So it's no different that if you had mold or something else in your property, you're just

[23:35] required to be either disclosed that you're not in compliance or that you have gotten

[23:39] in compliance with the fire department, but that was the state bill that was passed a couple

[23:43] years ago, and we provide the service so that we can get everyone to that and easier

[23:47] fashion. Okay, that's news to me. I didn't know the report was not public and password

[23:52] protected. So you might consider adding the word confidential to the report or something

[23:57] to at least to attend to some people's concern. I know people have been saying that to me

[24:01] when I've been encouraging. There's a disclosure agreement put on there by MWAPA that talks

[24:06] about how they're signing into a document that's part of their property. The document exists

[24:15] either way. It's just whether or not they want to access it and review it. Again, they can

[24:19] request us to print and send it to him as well. They don't want to access the original program.

[24:24] Doesn't change the findings. They're still there. They still exist. The benefit is that we can

[24:28] educate around it and then work towards some level of understanding the need for it. Also,

[24:33] not everything on there is a compliance requirement. Nothing that we do around the building structure

[24:38] itself right now is a compliance measure. That's more recommendations to harden your home.

[24:48] 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.

[24:57] Next slide please.

[24:59] So,

[25:02] So, every three years, I come to you, and since 2010, I think was the first time I came to you.

[25:10] Actually, you may have been before that annexation, because I was your fire marshal before the annexation.

[25:16] 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.

[25:27] And what it does is the state goes out and they have through the International Code Council.

[25:33] They have a model code that they look at and then through the code program through the state.

[25:41] They look at areas within the state that they modify these codes.

[25:46] Basically what we're doing this year is we're adopting generally the same type of fire code and ordinance

[25:53] that we did last year with the caveat that the state is now removed several chapters out

[26:00] of the building code and the fire code, which are related to, while then, urban, it will

[26:05] wildfire prevention, okay? So what they did is they took chapter 49 out of the fire code.

[26:12] They took chapter 7A out of the building code and they took chapter 337 out of the residential

[26:19] code, they put it all in the one code, and they called it the 2025 California Wildener

[26:24] Miner Faze code. It's actually really good that they did this, in my opinion, because

[26:31] now it's condensed all that information into one source. It's very common for us in

[26:37] these, in, in, in fire code and building codes that we cross reference. So, for instance,

[26:41] chapter 10 out in the building code is the same chapter 10 in the fire code, which is means

[26:46] that way we share the same responsibilities between fire and between building.

[26:53] Next slide please.

[26:56] So again, it's every three years.

[26:58] The previous cycle, we had a single adoption.

[27:02] We just had one code, one fire code,

[27:04] that the fire district was adopting.

[27:07] And then this year, we for the first time, we have two.

[27:10] Because we also have the wild end urban interface code.

[27:13] We're adopting those simultaneously into one code.

[27:16] Next slide please.

[27:19] 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.

[27:32] 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.

[27:47] If of 2025, to make any significant changes to our residential or residential requirements.

[27:59] Moving forward, AB 130 would put a more Tory amount for residential requirements.

[28:06] And that's a more Tory amount of six years.

[28:08] So, for the next six years, whatever we have now currently, or have adopted before October 31st,

[28:16] when it's just related to residential construction, would apply.

[28:21] With a caveat, that the State Farm Marshal could also say that there are certain items within the code

[28:29] that he deems as immediate and necessary for a wildfire prevention.

[28:34] So, for right now, we did not make any code adjustments before October 1st because the previous code has the same

[28:46] ordinance requirements as the code that we're adopting.

[28:51] So, there's not going to be any significant changes to us as the Southern Fire District and the City of

[29:04] anywhere between what we currently have and what we're moving forward with.

[29:10] Next slide, please.

[29:15] So just to support that, the California Wildlife and Urban Interface Code has, they put

[29:22] in some code requirements in there that we already had.

[29:27] So we, honestly, I think it's, we're saying that we're kind of the tip of the sphere when it

[29:32] comes to why then urban interface and wildfire preparedness in the county as a whole.

[29:38] Outside of the county districts and city departments have not taken the steps that we've

[29:44] taken locally with our current why then urban interface ordinance that we've had for I think

[29:50] about six years now. So they're catching up. So right now moving forward, we're not going to

[29:58] see a lot of change in the way.

[30:00] May that we govern the, or govern the codes, with the exception of possibly the zone zero, which

[30:07] is coming pretty soon. Next slide, please. So, with the adoption process in the schedule,

[30:15] this is what it looks like. So, September 24th, the Southern Red Fire District heard the

[30:21] first reading by title only announcing that we were going to open up our codes. We've since

[30:27] then had worked when we were working with the city's building department on, you know,

[30:32] code and code adoption.

[30:35] We had it first published and noticed on the 26th with the independent journal, and with

[30:40] other social media resources, October 8th, we also published it.

[30:45] And then coming up here on the October, sorry, tomorrow actually, we're holding the public

[30:54] hearing during the board meeting for the final ratification,

[30:59] or sorry, the final adoption of the code.

[31:02] So after tomorrow, we'll actually have this code,

[31:07] as long as it gets packed, as long as the board adopts it.

[31:10] It'll be the final draft.

[31:11] It actually does not go into full enforcement

[31:14] and full infect until January 1, 2020, 6.

[31:18] But between tomorrow and hopefully either in November

[31:23] or December, the City Council, like in years past, would review it and would ratify the

[31:31] ordinance so that it would become effective in the City of Salito prior to January 1st.

[31:39] And then, of course, we file it, we have to file it before January 1st with the Building

[31:44] Standards Commission and the Housing Community Development Agency before it goes into effect

[31:49] anyway first. And with that, I'm happy to take any questions.

[32:02] I'm going to just reach out to our city attorney.

[32:05] Sergio, can you just confirm that we're able to meet this timeline

[32:10] to ratify the code that will be adopted by Southern Rhinfire tomorrow?

[32:20] Fire should be able to be ready for it.

[32:22] So there are different requirements in a different process for the city to adopt

[32:25] It's building codes and our department to file with the building standards commission.

[32:30] My understanding is with the ratification, the Southern Marine Fire Protection District's ordinance.

[32:35] We go into effect immediately upon ratification by the city.

[32:38] So as long as the council hears that in December or sooner, I think we should be in the check.

[32:43] And then they normally file it with HCD rather than the building standards commission after passage.

[32:48] And Chief Hillier said that it's his understanding.

[32:51] We can just place this on consent to ratify.

[32:54] we don't have to like you only have to ratify it by resolution you don't have to pass an ordinance

[32:59] okay so we can just put this on consent at our next meeting it could be at our next meeting

[33:05] surges since they're adopting it at southern ryn fire tomorrow evening or tomorrow yeah i

[33:13] seen a reason it can't as long as they transmit it to us all in passage and then we just put it on

[33:18] our agenda okay wonderful thank you so much and i did supply the city already with a staff report for

[33:24] that. So, as soon as it gets adopted, I could send over the final copy of that.

[33:28] Wonderful. Okay.

[33:34] All right. City Manager?

[33:35] Yeah, City Manager. Can you put this slide, Joe? Please. Well, thank you very much, Chief.

[33:42] You know, we're here because this is a really important talking about new codes and services that are provided to prevent disasters.

[33:52] Because fire threat is real in Sossolito, earthquake threat is real in Sossolito, sea level

[33:59] rise is real in Sossolito, and the devastation and tragedies in Los Angeles and other

[34:04] fires in this part of the state remind us that we need to put our shoulder to the harness

[34:09] and do some work. And again, as we understand, there are new fire maps that went into effect

[34:17] past year that also point to the need to be prepared, so this is really important and we spend

[34:23] the time telling the community in the council, getting direction from the council, working with

[34:28] the district and other partners to actually move the needle in a way that Reddy's Sossolido

[34:34] for an event next slide,

[34:57] please. I can add a lib. Okay.

[35:01] 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.

[35:11] 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.

[35:22] 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

[35:51] opportunity. But let's just be clear that it hasn't been unused. The city council knows that

[35:59] we keep a lot of our records there. The cell and communication facilities that are essential

[36:07] to communication in that part of the city are there. And so all of that is really important for us to

[36:14] to understand that in addition to having it not being used for over a decade, there are

[36:20] some things that we have to consider besides fixing to building next slide, please.

[36:27] So the City Council has given us direction and positive direction and resources.

[36:33] Number one, you asked us to assess all city facilities and certainly the Spencer Fire Station

[36:38] former Spencer Fire Station was one that's been assessed in terms of what's needed to

[36:43] it up to a usable status. And at the time that that was done, we weren't contemplating a reuse

[36:51] as a far-facilly. It was we just need to keep that building in shape because it is a city asset.

[36:56] The second thing that you've done is you approved a $300,000 contract with MCCI. I believe

[37:03] the name of the company for records management. The city is legally required to keep some

[37:09] 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.

[37:23] 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.

[37:38] and digitize what we don't,

[37:40] and work with the company that's doing that.

[37:42] So that's important.

[37:43] We anticipate we'll be done with that while

[37:45] for it by the end of December, is my understanding.

[37:49] So that's important.

[37:50] Next slide, please.

[37:53] In the meantime, in March of this past year,

[37:56] we started discussions with the Southern

[37:58] Renn Fire District about partnerships

[38:00] in potential activation of that facility

[38:03] for emergency services, not just fire services,

[38:06] but other services.

[38:07] So the approach that the district presented to this city staff was one that involved, you know,

[38:15] phasing and the first phase involved resources from the fire district that would set up

[38:21] what they call a hand curve, which would be staged at this station and she's Hillary can speak

[38:28] to it more definitively than I can but as I understand it, there would be 10 persons staged

[38:33] there from time to time, they would go out there

[38:36] and look at vegetation, fuel reduction,

[38:39] and actually be on site.

[38:40] And then whenever there's a situation where information

[38:43] is brought to this community into the district

[38:45] that there is a threat red flag event,

[38:49] then at that time, the district could also utilize the facility.

[38:54] So let me be clear, it's not a 24, 7, 365 day

[38:57] year operation.

[38:58] This would be the first phase that would involve the district

[39:02] and its current resources and the city using its resources to ready that facility for that partnership.

[39:09] Next slide please.

[39:12] So what we believe is we'll be done with all the records by the end of December.

[39:17] We have a parallel community or facility improvements that need to be done.

[39:22] Some that are part of their toss report, others that are important for a rehousing of

[39:28] firefighter personnel and equipment and so that needs to be done as well.

[39:32] We anticipate being done by that in the early quarter of 2026.

[39:37] In the meantime, I feel very positive that we are working at the Council's direction

[39:43] to enter into a new negotiation, negotiated, at least for the property that would involve

[39:50] the use of the district.

[39:53] So I'm very grateful for the support that Chief Tubs and his team have given us as we've

[39:58] had these conversations.

[40:00] 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.

[40:19] 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.

[40:27] conversation and more financially involved conversation and requires that the district work within

[40:34] its resources to determine what's viable for them because I think as I've spoken to personal

[40:41] at the fire district, they can fund a hand crew, they can roll up equipment and people for a

[40:48] red flag event within the current budgetary resources they have but to actually staff that 24-7

[40:55] through in a 65 days a year as a different financial conversation that needs to be had.

[40:59] But as a start, we want to let the community know that we are actually making significant

[41:05] progress and trying to get ready to have that facility operational by the end of the first quarter

[41:10] in September of 2026. Next slide. If anyone has any questions, Baron Council, I'm happy to

[41:23] Thank you very much for that very comprehensive report.

[41:27] I think we're making great progress.

[41:30] In moving towards gold endorsed by a large chunk of our community.

[41:36] 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,

[41:47] but especially in light of the updated high-fired hazards

[41:50] own maps that came out earlier this year.

[41:58] All right, in my haste to start the meeting,

[42:03] it's been pointed out to me that I neglected to host

[42:07] the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as to approve the agenda.

[42:10] So let's go ahead and undertake the Pledge of Allegiance.

[42:18] I would like to pledge of the United States and America

[42:22] and to the Republic for which it stands.

[42:24] one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

[42:35] May I have a motion approving our agenda?

[42:38] So moved.

[42:40] Second.

[42:41] All in favor?

[42:43] I.

[42:43] That motion carries 40.

[42:46] Okay.

[42:46] We will now turn to communications.

[42:49] 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.

[42:55] 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.

[43:04] I have no speaker cards, City Clerk, do we have anyone,

[43:14] oh, all right, Fred Moore.

[43:23] Welcome, good evening.

[43:24] Thank you for all your efforts in getting the measure J and K on the ballot.

[43:28] Obviously, measure J must pass to preserve all the hard work you've done with the state,

[43:32] mandated housing elements in housing residents, numbers that we need to meet.

[43:39] As for measure K, unfortunately, much falls information about the density and height limits

[43:43] for potential development have been circulated.

[43:46] As you know, the density is 50 and the maximum height is 32 feet.

[43:50] I hope their residents will not fall victims of relying on false information, but rather conduct

[43:55] their discussions on the facts about the measure and have debates on their legitimate concerns

[44:01] and not on the false information and flyers being circulated.

[44:05] As you move into the new year with new challenges for the city, I hope that you were able

[44:09] to tackle the benefits of repealing ordinance 1022.

[44:14] With the repeal of 1022, the council will have the opportunity to revitalize the northern

[44:19] portion of our city and allow a blend of maritime, residential, commercial, retail and

[44:25] industrial uses to replace the dilapidated and crumbling infrastructure improvements

[44:30] and vacant parcels that currently exist, is time that we embrace and improve the

[44:37] marinship as a city gem for all our residents to enjoy. Appreciate your time, thank

[44:42] you very much.

[44:46] Thank you. Next, Mike Eastafani and City Clerk is our clock working.

[44:53] Yeah. Good evening. My name is Mrs. Stefani at 27th Central Avenue.

[45:00] 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.

[45:16] Your demands for partial demolition is based on an illegal six month later pill with a misleading view impact claim by your former colleague.

[45:27] You exerted at least $15,000 for me in form of fees for retroactive design review while my addition is exempt from design review.

[45:39] Besides, no neighbor's primary view is impacted by my addition.

[45:46] You are violated numerous municipal and state laws, including several aspects of the Brown Act, to keep this highly controversial case for public attention.

[45:56] The planner is guilty of libel and slander by corrupting public records and deceptive photography.

[46:05] You illegally revoked my permits and are constitutionally constitutionally seizing my property

[46:12] by demanding parts of the demolition of our dining room.

[46:17] You are destroying our one and only room facing San Francisco

[46:22] So, well, evidently it did not negatively affect the neighbor's property value.

[46:28] In good faith, I already improved the neighbor's view last month by trimming my trees

[46:34] and removing bulky guardboards for my roof.

[46:38] I respectfully ask you to reconsider and reinstate my fettered property rights and permits

[46:45] by November 16th, 2025.

[46:49] Thank you.

[46:50] So, I commented on this at our last meeting.

[46:54] This is a matter under litigation and so we will not be making any public comment.

[46:59] Regarding this, we will address this as appropriate through the appropriate channels.

[47:04] All right, our next speaker is Linda Roberts.

[47:11] Good evening, Council members.

[47:13] I'm here to give a positive shout out to the farmers market.

[47:17] And thank those in the city who brought this market to Salito.

[47:22] 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.

[47:35] 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.

[47:47] and this market just gives the whole north end of town a feeling a nice feeling of community.

[47:55] 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.

[48:05] So whoever is responsible in the city for bringing this to to us. Thank you very much. It's a lot of fun.

[48:12] Thank you, it's so nice to hear some pleasant news, sometimes during our communications.

[48:20] Just a quick comment.

[48:22] As a city clerk, I'd like to thank Linda Roberts for her years as a register for the county.

[48:28] Yes, thank you, Linda.

[48:35] City clerk, anyone online?

[48:36] Beth McDoodle.

[48:39] Thank you.

[48:42] Well, good evening, and I'm so glad to see the technology up and running.

[48:46] Thank you.

[48:46] You know, they say somebody famous said there is a time for every season and a purpose under heaven.

[48:55] 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.

[49:04] 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.

[49:12] 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.

[49:19] I had such a great time on Saturday. I thought we really looked great and the thing that everybody said,

[49:27] 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.

[49:35] And, you know, like the no penalty, breathalizer thing, that just knocked people socks off.

[49:42] And I just, and everything was just such a wonderful spirit of community.

[49:47] And I have to really say a shout out to Parks and Rec, Ryan and his team.

[49:52] They really made Solito look great.

[49:54] I just, I'm calling it the Caledonia Festival because it's like the original thing.

[50:00] 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.

[50:28] little by little. That matters. And that's what you do when you just dig in and deal with what you've

[50:33] got and these are the utility people. So we must work with them. Onward and upward. Thank you.

[50:41] City Clerk.

[50:45] Learn on you, Lynn. Welcome, Lorna.

[50:56] Lorna, we're not hearing you.

[50:59] Hello, my name is Lynn. I have 30. Oh, yes. Yes. You can hear me. Hello, my name is Lorna,

[51:08] I'm a 33-year resident in homeowner in Sicilito.

[51:13] I love it here.

[51:14] I'm a senior.

[51:15] I believe in affordable housing for seniors,

[51:18] an affordable housing, which is very hard in California.

[51:21] I'm fortunate.

[51:22] I worked very hard, and I purchased my home after working 20 years

[51:27] in the corporate world.

[51:29] But for 23 years, I've had a small business in Sicilito.

[51:34] And three years on Bridgeway,

[51:36] 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.

[51:47] So I was just made when it was noted on a yes and K player.

[51:54] Only the dilapidated commercial building will be replaced.

[51:58] That is my, where my studio has been for almost 20 years, I've taught children adults for 23 years in

[52:08] San Salito.

[52:09] I've donated it just about every nonprofit in town, and there are people in that building,

[52:17] Artisans, the antique restoration has been there, 33 years.

[52:21] They're photographers who have been there 25 years in that building and a total of 45 years

[52:27] in the MLK property.

[52:29] So we're the working MLK.

[52:32] And I understand there's a big coalition

[52:35] because the working waterfront,

[52:38] I don't, there's 78 acres there.

[52:41] I really feel that there should be an area,

[52:44] and it's been proposed before the Carly Bird,

[52:47] he wanted to do a memory care there.

[52:49] So it's just about working all together

[52:52] and not taking something that really has been a treasure.

[52:56] And if it's dilapidated, it's because the city has not maintained it.

[53:00] It is deplorable.

[53:02] But I love it there, and I have a two-minute walking commute, and I would hesitate

[53:06] to, I'd be devastated to lose my studio.

[53:09] Thanks, Lana.

[53:10] Your time is up.

[53:11] Thank you so much for your public comment.

[53:15] No further public speakers?

[53:16] All right.

[53:18] With that, we'll move on to the consent calendar.

[53:27] City Clerk, I have an old agenda.

[53:28] Can you tell me what items are on the,

[53:32] how many items for A through, through what?

[53:37] Through what?

[53:38] For H. Okay.

[53:43] And we're going to remove item 4c,

[53:48] which is approval letter and supportive mascots.

[53:52] So I'm going to ask that we remove that.

[53:55] I'll make a brief public comment about that.

[53:59] So, we're going to consider items for A through 4H, for A is adopt the draft meeting

[54:05] minutes from October 7, 2025, for B is receive and file proclamation honoring contributions

[54:11] of Caledonia cleaners in 40th year anniversary.

[54:15] For D is adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute transportation authority

[54:19] of Marin agreement A, fiscal year 2612, funding agreement between the transportation authority

[54:26] in the City of South Florida, in the amount of 1-817-444, to be received from Measure A.A. funds

[54:32] for City Street Improvements. For E, a doctor resolution authorizing the City Manager to

[54:37] execute professional services contract with Consor for construction management and inspection

[54:42] services for the Dunfi Park Improvement phase, two projects in an amount not to exceed 1-4261-8,

[54:48] and authorize additional 4261-8 from General Fund to support the project. 4F, South Florida Police

[54:54] Department, Crime, and Traffic Report calendar year 2025,

[54:59] third quarter year today.

[55:00] State report. 4G, adopt a resolution ratifying the surrendered and abandoned vessel exchange, save grant agreement.

[55:08] For 2025 to 2027 with the California Department of Boating and Waterways, and appropriate save grant funds in the amount of 13,500.

[55:16] And 4H receive and file a report on short-term rental metrics and code enforcement.

[55:21] I'm going to remove items for C and I'm going to ask a couple of questions regarding for

[55:28] H. Although I'm not asking that we don't approve it. So any other requests or questions

[55:35] regarding the consent calendar? Seeing none, I'll open it up to public comment on the consent calendar.

[55:41] All right, so briefly regarding 4C, Council member Sobi Eski and I and the City Manager met with

[55:56] Tam, is that Justin? I'm going to ask him questions in just a moment.

[56:02] Brandon, I've already, okay, Brandon knows.

[56:07] 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.

[56:19] There will be an article in the currents giving a heads up to members of the public regarding what those are.

[56:25] 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.

[56:38] 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

[56:55] to address some of those needs moving forward.

[56:59] All right, the other item that I wanted to discuss is item 4H.

[57:03] I just wanted to ask a couple of questions.

[57:06] From the staff report, it appears that we have not yet

[57:10] started imposing fines, although we have an ordinance in place

[57:16] that allows us to impose fines of $1,000

[57:18] for the first violation, $3,000 for the second violation.

[57:23] And we recently adopted updated ordinances, because it's more difficult to impose fines

[57:36] when people are listening, but we can't prove that the homes are being rented.

[57:41] And so the Council will recall that we recently adopted revised code enforcement ordinances

[57:49] That now make it an infraction, just to list a Sossolito home on a home sharing network such

[58:02] as Verbo or Airbnb, and that would subject them to the fines.

[58:08] My understanding is that the second reading of that ordinance occurred at our last meeting

[58:13] on October 7th, and so just and I just want to confirm.

[58:17] 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.

[58:35] Yes, that is correct.

[58:36] You're understanding and it actually really highlights how important this changes to the code.

[58:43] 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.

[59:00] And it's interesting how many different ways people have to

[59:06] refute our claims.

[59:09] 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.

[59:36] Some folks have gone even so far as to send screenshots of cancellations.

[59:42] So we'll get a report back from host compliance saying they've completed two rentals this month.

[59:47] We'll send out a citation.

[59:50] The property owner will then send us a screenshot which says,

[59:53] Look, here it says my account's been suspended and I canceled two reservations.

[59:59] It's very easy.

[1:00:00] 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.

[1:00:07] And host compliance will continue to say it's a short-term rental. They completed a rental.

[1:00:12] But to give them due process, we have to only work off of facts and things that are completely provable.

[1:00:19] The new ordinance is really going to help with this. It's going to allow us to say, you advertise it.

[1:00:23] We see that it says there's been a rental completed.

[1:00:27] Even if you've canceled that rental,

[1:00:29] we now have the means going forward to be able to take some of our time back

[1:00:34] and investigating these claims and say it's the advertising that you're being fine for now.

[1:00:40] And I'm personally and really excited about that because this has been one of those

[1:00:44] holes in our enforcement of just.

[1:00:47] We spit at our wheels, put in a lot of energy into it.

[1:00:50] 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.

[1:01:00] And so I'm excited to see how these numbers change moving forward.

[1:01:04] Thank you so much.

[1:01:05] Thank you for those efforts.

[1:01:07] I did want to just seek that clarification because your report was clear that there's a high number of violations.

[1:01:12] 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.

[1:01:28] Absolutely, and that is, that's going to be one of the major defining changes there.

[1:01:33] One other thing I just like to mention is, host compliance is only one of the tools that we use.

[1:01:38] We also receive sometimes a phone call from a resident, and those are also claims which may take a little bit longer to investigate.

[1:01:48] 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.

[1:01:58] But I do believe that our new fine schedule will also help with that.

[1:02:02] Thank you. Vice Mayor. Yes, just quickly you say there's a little

[1:02:07] squishingness to the numbers and I appreciate that. One in particular I just

[1:02:11] wanted to clarify. You have a number it's either 65 or 79 short-term

[1:02:18] rentals identify depending on how they're discovered if you will. And then you

[1:02:23] also have another number considerably larger 164 short and long-term. Is it

[1:02:28] possible that some of those will rent for short-term and also long-term, or how should I interpret.

[1:02:35] 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.

[1:02:48] And some folks will set it at a number that's really, really close to 30 days.

[1:02:53] So they may say something like 28 days stay so they're looking at four weeks.

[1:02:59] Host compliance will look at that as a short-term rental in violation of the city code.

[1:03:06] And it's the type of thing where, again, we'll contact those folks that are doing that

[1:03:11] short-term rental and they'll say, well, I have it up there because four weeks is just

[1:03:15] what we happen to select and getting those things adjusted so that they're doing a 30-day

[1:03:21] rental or more is really part of the conversation that we have with those residents.

[1:03:27] Host compliance, their record is fully historical.

[1:03:32] So if last week somebody was renting something and it said 28-day rental and we've communicated

[1:03:39] with them and they've said, oh, so sorry, we want to be in compliance.

[1:03:42] They'll change it to 30 days, but host compliance only goes through and scrapes the site

[1:03:48] every so often.

[1:03:49] So they're not looking at it every day, hour by hour.

[1:03:52] They essentially will send a robot out to the site and the numbers get updated,

[1:03:57] but they're not immediate. So sometimes it'll be a week or two before we see the changes in their

[1:04:03] interface and that accounts for some of that little squishingness between their rentals short term,

[1:04:11] but a lot of them at this point are meeting our requirements and we will also see a little

[1:04:17] missionists because people frequently take down their listing and repost with a new title or new photos

[1:04:22] and those will be identified as a second listing but often we'll be able to look at that with human eyes

[1:04:28] and say these two were the same listing same host but it'll show up as multiple short-term rentals

[1:04:35] but really what we're looking at is one property owner with one unit that they're renting under different

[1:04:42] advertisements. Thank you. Sure. Thanks very much.

[1:04:46] 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.

[1:05:04] 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?

[1:05:13] 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.

[1:05:22] Okay, thanks. Sorry.

[1:05:23] Thank you so much.

[1:05:26] So are you asking for a motion?

[1:05:29] I so move for a and b and then for d to h.

[1:05:34] Thank you.

[1:05:37] All right.

[1:05:37] All in favor?

[1:05:39] I.

[1:05:39] That motion carries for zero.

[1:05:43] We'll now move on to business items.

[1:05:45] The first is six a introduction and waiver.

[1:05:48] A first reading ordinance number 09-2025.

[1:05:51] An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sossoleta repealing 2022 building California Building Standards Code and Penalty provisions.

[1:06:00] Sossoleta municipal code chapters 8.028.048.088.088.08.

[1:06:07] I think it's actually 8.108.128.168.128.28.

[1:06:15] And enacting 2025 California Building Standards Code and Local Amendments there, too, into

[1:06:20] Soss of the Municipal Code Chapter 8.02.

[1:06:25] And I have our Assistant City Manager listed here.

[1:06:32] Brandon, are you listening to this?

[1:06:34] Can you come back in?

[1:06:35] Sergio.

[1:06:36] I saw some communication back in 4th this, too.

[1:06:38] Who's going to take the lead on this?

[1:06:40] Is it going to be you or Brandon?

[1:06:44] I mean, I'm happy to go through the basics here.

[1:06:48] So, until Brandon can show up, so the city is required by state law to update its building

[1:06:55] standard codes every three years following the adoption by the California Building Standards

[1:07:02] Commission of the New Model Codes.

[1:07:05] These new Model Codes by Operation of State Law will go into effect January 1, 2026, so accordingly

[1:07:11] the city must update and re-adopt any local amendments that it has to be effective with those

[1:07:18] new state codes. This ordinance would primarily carry forward all of your prior local amendments

[1:07:30] adjusted to what the new model codes are. So there are certain provisions where our local

[1:07:37] amendments are no longer as restrictive as the state law requirements are, and so those

[1:07:44] are no longer necessary. Additionally, we have a number of our codes in various chapters.

[1:07:55] This proposed ordinance would combine all of those into one single chapter for ease of use

[1:07:59] review.

[1:08:03] Importantly, as was mentioned by the Southern Marine Fire Protection District, the Governor's

[1:08:08] budget trailer bill, AB 130, did effectively adopt a building code freeze. And so local governments

[1:08:17] are allowed to carry forward their prior amendments to the building codes as long as there's

[1:08:22] substantially equivalent to changes or modifications that were previously filed with the building

[1:08:26] Standards Commission, prior to September 30, 2025.

[1:08:31] Alternatively, you can also adopt additional modifications that are deemed by the Commission

[1:08:38] of Emergency Standards necessary to protect public health and safety.

[1:08:42] You can adopt new local amendments that are related to home-hardening, so this is additional

[1:08:49] fire safety requirements. You can also adopt modifications to a building co-standards that are adopted

[1:09:01] to align with a general plan approved prior to June 10, 2025 as intended to incentivize all

[1:09:09] electric construction as part of an adopted greenhouse gas emission reduction strategy.

[1:09:16] As long

[1:09:16] those modifications permit mixed fuel residential construction consistent with federal law.

[1:09:23] So the ordinance that's before you tonight primarily just carries forward the city's existing

[1:09:29] local amendments, as mentioned by the Southern Marine Fire Protection District, they are working on

[1:09:34] specific requirements related to home-hiredening and fire protection measures that they will be

[1:09:38] adopting and the city will be met ratifying. So you'll be getting a second ordinance in addition to

[1:09:42] this one. And then additionally, we are working on a third ordinance under that provision

[1:09:48] of AB 130, allowing you to adopt strategies that incentivize all electric construction

[1:09:58] as part of an adopted greenhouse gap.

[1:10:01] 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.

[1:10:15] 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.

[1:10:28] So, but that, I will turn this over to our building official,

[1:10:36] who I believe is also here and ran fifths with additional comments.

[1:10:42] Good evening, Mayor Cox and City Council.

[1:10:44] This was Gary West of the acting building official

[1:10:46] for the City of San Toledo.

[1:10:49] Should we say welcome City Manager?

[1:10:53] Should we say welcome?

[1:10:55] Is this our new?

[1:10:55] No, no, no, no, no.

[1:10:56] He's our contract.

[1:10:57] in the interim bill that you're in.

[1:10:59] And to them, okay, got it, all right.

[1:11:01] Nice thing about.

[1:11:02] Can say welcome.

[1:11:03] You can say welcome.

[1:11:04] Welcome to you as well, sir.

[1:11:06] Nice thing about following the fire services.

[1:11:08] They've tested a lot of the stuff that we were not going to go over in a way to save time

[1:11:13] for the city council.

[1:11:15] But we do have all the codes that for the 2025 that are going to be adopted.

[1:11:19] This is the first hearing.

[1:11:21] As Sergio said, the second hearing will be following up at November date.

[1:11:25] 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.

[1:11:43] 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.

[1:11:55] But we tried to work with the fire district to compare their ordinances compared to ours so they were similar and they were matching.

[1:12:02] There's there wasn't any differences in there and Sergio worked really well with that reviewing that information.

[1:12:11] If you have any questions or any further comments,

[1:12:15] but these building codes address all the building facets from building letter mechanical plumbing covers all the new trades,

[1:12:21] including low voltage and the energy efficiency, the energy efficiency is what we're always trying to strive for.

[1:12:32] Questions?

[1:12:33] Yes, Council Member Hoffman.

[1:12:36] 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?

[1:12:51] I didn't see that, and I'm wondering if I'm missing that somewhere.

[1:12:55] Well, we do not have a red line.

[1:12:57] In part because this ordinance combines, I think.

[1:13:02] Let's take a look.

[1:13:04] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 chapters of the existing municipal code.

[1:13:10] Additionally, this ordinance repeals the international property maintenance code.

[1:13:15] This is not a code that is typically used by the city for code enforcement purposes.

[1:13:20] It's also not part of the California Building Standards Code.

[1:13:23] It's an international model code, which is mostly

[1:13:26] typically a duplicative of state housing law.

[1:13:31] So in consultation with our code enforcement staff

[1:13:35] and our interim building official,

[1:13:38] we thought that it may make more sense simply just to

[1:13:41] repeal it, since it's not typically used by the city.

[1:13:44] And additionally, the enforcement provisions of that

[1:13:47] international model code conflict with California State

[1:13:49] which requires that all building code enforcement be subject to appeal to a building

[1:13:55] Board of Appeals, which if the city doesn't have it, it is the city council

[1:13:59] by default. So that is also another question for the council to consider is, do you

[1:14:04] folks want to delegate that authority to either the Planning Commission,

[1:14:07] creative building Board of Appeals, or would you like to have staff continue to

[1:14:12] bring all building code interpretation issues and appeals of

[1:14:17] to stop our quarters and things like that to the council for your attention.

[1:14:23] So, sorry.

[1:14:24] So, what we're essentially doing is our bill.

[1:14:26] Old building code is out and we just wholesale brought a new building code in.

[1:14:30] So, this is not a wholesale new building code,

[1:14:32] 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.

[1:14:45] This ordinance just carries forward your existing building code standards into the next building code cycle

[1:14:53] And just to overview what those are

[1:14:56] We are carrying forward

[1:15:00] 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.

[1:15:14] Requirements that substantial remodels of existing construction be subject to the 2025 building code standards, the new ones.

[1:15:21] Let's see what else.

[1:15:25] Requirements for sprinklers and residential construction and other occupancies are being carried over.

[1:15:33] Smoke alarm requirements are being carried over.

[1:15:36] Prohibition on use of wooden retaining walls, where they're supporting a building search

[1:15:41] charge or roadway.

[1:15:44] Requirements for additional hydrostatic pressure testing of the swimming pools.

[1:15:49] Additionally, those requirements for guarding demolition, additional requirements for guarding erosion controlled during the wet season.

[1:15:57] Let's see.

[1:15:58] And for the most part, sprinkler requirements for town homes and single family residences, additional roof hardening requirements for class A roofs.

[1:16:12] 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.

[1:16:24] So, people that, sorry, oops.

[1:16:29] 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.

[1:16:41] And so, there's really no way to do that because we don't have a red line version.

[1:16:47] So there's no way to compare the old ordinance to the new ordinance.

[1:16:52] So I don't know, I mean, I see what your point is, right, because there's been, there's

[1:16:57] a new version and it's substantially different.

[1:17:02] But I mean, I can talk to you offline, I guess, about how to, you know, how to highlight

[1:17:09] that, but usually it's you have a new, you know, if you're doing a

[1:17:14] amendment to code, you know, you have a document where it's visible, and

[1:17:18] you can see where the changes are. So I will say that our staff report does

[1:17:26] say most of the revisions are to add. It says, you know, this is, you know,

[1:17:33] section 104.10 is added to read as follows. Section 104.11 is added to

[1:17:39] read as follows, section, you know, another section is amended to read in entirety as follows.

[1:17:48] So it's pretty clear from reviewing the detailed revisions that are attached to the draft

[1:17:55] ordinance that's attached to our staff report, what the revisions are. It doesn't say,

[1:18:02] I'll talk to the attorney offline, but it's a five page staff report in a 23 page new ordinance.

[1:18:08] So we're going to trigger it.

[1:18:11] 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.

[1:18:31] So, I think to address your concern council member, I think we should have added ordinance

[1:18:38] 1291, which is the prior ordinance, to allow people to do a compare and contrast.

[1:18:44] I mean, certainly it would be nice to have a red line, I agree with you, but given how

[1:18:50] we previously structured our code, I think it would be very hard to prepare a red line for

[1:18:56] this particular ordinance, but we at least have a cross reference table for where you can

[1:19:00] find the prior language?

[1:19:03] OK, well, let's talk before the next meeting

[1:19:06] and see if we can figure out better reference

[1:19:10] and just someone going and having to pull out two different,

[1:19:14] and trying to compare them.

[1:19:16] That's incredibly difficult to do.

[1:19:18] I know except how to do it.

[1:19:19] So OK, all right, thanks to both of you, appreciate that.

[1:19:23] OK, if there are no other questions of staff,

[1:19:27] I'll open it up for a public comment.

[1:19:29] City Clerk. We have a few people online. First one is Matt S.

[1:19:39] Good evening, Council. I want to briefly comment on the proposed amendment to Section 503-1

[1:19:44] of the building code. Under the Health and Safety Code and the new restrictions in AB 130,

[1:19:50] any local modification to the California Building Standards Code must cite the specific state provision

[1:19:56] being amended and include express finding showing.

[1:20:00] While that changes necessary due to local climatic geologic or topographic conditions, the proposed language

[1:20:08] in section 5031 doesn't appear connected to any such findings or evidence in record. Nor are

[1:20:16] there any actual linkages between the proposed amendment and any permissible basis in AB 130, adopting

[1:20:23] it without that linkage renders the amendment unforceable and exposes the city to challenge. I

[1:20:29] respectfully urge the Council to remove or defer section 503.1 until those findings are properly

[1:20:36] made.

[1:20:37] Thank you very much.

[1:20:38] I yield the rest of my time.

[1:20:42] CD Attorney, I'm okay.

[1:20:47] So 503.1 as amended is on page 6 of our ordinance.

[1:20:53] CD Attorney, can you comment on that concern?

[1:20:57] Yeah, I mean, the language reads, the provisions of this code do not authorize construction,

[1:21:02] otherwise prohibited by the city of Sauselido General Plan, any specific planner zoning

[1:21:05] ordinance which will take precedence with respect to any building height, building

[1:21:09] storing limit, or building area requirements in the scope of conflict they're with.

[1:21:13] The building standards commission has basically stated that when you have provisions that

[1:21:17] are administrative and nature rather than substantively modified what the building

[1:21:21] code requirements are, they are not required to, you are not required to make those findings.

[1:21:25] Now, the city has had this language and it's building standards previously, and it's intended

[1:21:34] to basically state that the building code does not authorize any construction that's prohibited

[1:21:40] by the zoning ordinances or the general plan.

[1:21:44] I actually don't think that this language is strictly necessary to have in there because

[1:21:49] your zoning ordinances and general plan will normally trump and you can still enforce those

[1:21:54] regardless of what the building cuts us.

[1:21:56] So I'm happy if the council wants to simply remove this language.

[1:22:00] I do think it's not strictly necessary,

[1:22:02] but it's helpful as guidance to people

[1:22:04] who are filing for building permits

[1:22:06] that they also need to consider zoning code requirements.

[1:22:10] So, and do you believe that retaining this language

[1:22:13] requires us to add additional language

[1:22:15] as suggested by our speaker?

[1:22:18] No, and I think I believe one of the city previously adopted

[1:22:21] this in prior building code cycles,

[1:22:23] if did not do so and the building standards commission did not raise an issue with it.

[1:22:28] All right.

[1:22:28] Next speaker.

[1:22:30] City Clerk.

[1:22:31] But, but my Google.

[1:22:36] Well, thank you very much for allowing me to speak.

[1:22:39] Let me just say, in response to the city attorneys input, I say the best way to remain

[1:22:45] and he's good at this, you know, you just knock that straight down the middle of the lane

[1:22:49] and that's how you assure a strike.

[1:22:52] I mean, if you like to bowl and I do, you fuck off.

[1:22:55] All right.

[1:22:55] On other fronts, I just want to say I'm so glad that we have lawyers that know had

[1:22:59] a drill down on this, and thankfully we have two standing members of the bar on our

[1:23:04] diets.

[1:23:05] So I know the citizens are looking to you for how to make sure getting down on these weeds,

[1:23:10] make it work for the people.

[1:23:12] And thank you for acknowledging earlier, Madam Mayor, your commitment to the residents who live in

[1:23:18] 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.

[1:23:42] Seeing your housing, first responders and other valu, I mean absolutely essential personnel,

[1:23:48] we are flanked by bridges. We are so cut off. The fact that we have this chance to focus on how to

[1:23:54] survive really matters, let's make it count. First floor, going forward, all special needs. Hey,

[1:24:01] I might need to be on the ground floor. I'm 43 steps to the front door thank God. All right,

[1:24:07] Let's little outside of the box thinking this is our moment to really look creatively

[1:24:12] Instead of just being petrified by the amount of density heading our way. I yield back my time. Thank you.

[1:24:19] Thank you. City Clerk.

[1:24:23] Mark Palmer.

[1:24:25] 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.

[1:24:34] Well, very good. Can you hear me? Yes, we hear you. Good evening, Mayor Cox. Council Member

[1:24:40] staff. I'm members of the public. Mark Palmer, Sustainability Commission. Tonight's action

[1:24:45] to adopt the baseline 2025 California Building Standards Good, including Calgary and is an important

[1:24:52] first step and I want to thank staff for their careful work. I also want to express strong

[1:24:57] support for the future hearing mentioned by the city.

[1:25:00] 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.

[1:25:18] 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.

[1:25:29] reduced climate pollution.

[1:25:33] Tier one measures like low carbon concrete, drought, tolerant landscaping, and improved indoor

[1:25:38] air quality provide resource savings, healthier homes, and real climate leadership.

[1:25:44] Tier one applies only to new construction, not existing homes.

[1:25:48] Seven other marine communities have already taken this step.

[1:25:52] Our general plan calls for a green building ordinance that exceeds state standards, and

[1:25:58] Our climate emergency declaration directs us to make sustainability part of every decision.

[1:26:04] When the tier 1 amendment comes forward, the state ability commission will strongly support

[1:26:08] it and encourage council to do the same.

[1:26:11] Because this is about clean air, safer homes, and keeping the socialrito ready for the future.

[1:26:17] Thank you.

[1:26:18] Thank you.

[1:26:19] City Clerk.

[1:26:20] No further public comments.

[1:26:22] All right.

[1:26:22] With that, I will move that we introduce and read by Title O'Lean Wave, reading a ordinance

[1:26:28] number 09-2025, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sossolita, repealing

[1:26:35] 2022 California Building Standards Code and Penalty provisions, and enacting 2025 California

[1:26:40] Building Standards Code and Local Amendments there, too, into Sossolita Municipal Code

[1:26:46] after 8.02 that we direct staff to notice a public hearing for November 4, 2025, and that we authorize

[1:26:55] a summary of the ordinance to be published five days in advance of the second reading and 15 days after its adoption.

[1:27:02] Second.

[1:27:04] All in favor?

[1:27:06] Aye.

[1:27:07] That motion carries 40.

[1:27:09] We'll now move on to item 6b introduction and waiver of first reading of ordinance number

[1:27:15] 10 dash 2025 and ordinance of the City Council of Sossilita repealing Sossilita municipal

[1:27:22] code chapter 18.12 entitled sewers welcome Andrew Davidson.

[1:27:29] Thank you.

[1:27:31] Good evening mayor council members city manager I'm Andrew Davidson senior engineer near

[1:27:36] Department of Public Works. Kevin McGowan, your Director of Public Works, is not able to attend tonight's meeting.

[1:27:43] So, I'll be giving a short presentation on your agenda item 6b, which is the first reading of ordinance 10-2025,

[1:27:51] in order in three peeling Sossolito Municipal Code chapters 18.12 sewers. There is a presentation, but

[1:28:01] just continue.

[1:28:03] Sosolido has approximately 21 miles of sanitary sewer collection system pipes along with

[1:28:08] manholes and other structures.

[1:28:11] These are used to collect sewer effluent from the city and deliver to the Sosolido

[1:28:15] Marin City sanitary district's pump stations and wastewater treatment plant which is

[1:28:20] located just south of your city.

[1:28:22] Until recently the city owned and maintained the collection system.

[1:28:26] Over the last several years the city has been working with the district to transfer

[1:28:30] the collection system to the district. Through a collective effort by the council, district board

[1:28:37] members and staff of both agencies, this transfer was completed on August 22nd of this year.

[1:28:43] When the mayor signed the bill of sale transferring the collection system to the district,

[1:28:48] we've been slight three.

[1:28:53] The Sossolita Marin City Sanitary District is governed by a five-member

[1:28:56] board of directors, provides wastewater collection conveyance and treatment from Marin City,

[1:29:01] provides wastewater conveyance and treatment for Tamil Pious Valley Community Services District,

[1:29:08] provides wastewater treatment for other areas in southern Marin, and now provides wastewater collection

[1:29:13] conveyance and treatment for Sossoleto.

[1:29:16] As you know, the district operates many very technical facilities, their wastewater treatment plant,

[1:29:21] and their pump stations within Sossoleto, and within their district boundaries.

[1:29:25] These are strict also provide service to approximately 18,000 folks.

[1:29:30] Next slide please.

[1:29:35] Since August 22nd of this year, the responsibility to manage and maintain the

[1:29:39] collection system has been transferred to the district.

[1:29:43] With this, it is necessary to repeal Solido Municipal Code Chapter 18.12

[1:29:50] Sewers as the duties outlined in this chapter are no longer the cities to perform.

[1:29:56] Next slide please.

[1:30:00] Moving forward, city staff will be coordinating efforts with the district regarding permit review and capital projects.

[1:30:08] 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.

[1:30:20] 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.

[1:30:30] It's taken 10 years or more to get to this point with a lot of collaborative effort by many people,

[1:30:35] all who have worked on this deserve recognition and thanks.

[1:30:39] Next slide, please.

[1:30:42] Now that the district owns and maintains the Sanitary sewer collection system within the city limits,

[1:30:48] staff is recommending that the Stossy Municipal Code,

[1:30:51] Chapter 18.12 Sewers, be repealed.

[1:30:55] And that is it, thank you.

[1:30:57] Thank you, any questions of Mr. Davidson.

[1:31:02] I see none. I'll open it up for public comment.

[1:31:04] I see no one in the Chambers City Clerk.

[1:31:08] We have Bat McDougal.

[1:31:10] All right.

[1:31:15] Well, I just wanted to add that I'm very much in favor of moving forward on this venture.

[1:31:22] The only thing I would like to keep reminding us of is that over the years you know we have nine,

[1:31:27] We're nine, six, five, area, say of influence neighbors, like the G.G. and R.A. and all those wonderful organizations out there.

[1:31:35] I know that they're responsible for themselves, but I know there's been a great deal of cooperation throughout these,

[1:31:42] I don't even know how many years of Anne are not were available. She would know.

[1:31:47] The truth is, I just want to make sure we're not accidentally leaving anybody behind. Thank you.

[1:31:52] And you'll back my time. Thank you, city clerk.

[1:31:56] No further public comments.

[1:31:58] All right.

[1:31:58] I'll entertain.

[1:31:59] Actually, I will make a motion.

[1:32:13] I move.

[1:32:14] We introduce by title only and wave first reading of ordinance number 10-2025.

[1:32:19] An ordinance of the City Council of Sossilita repealing

[1:32:22] Sossilita municipal code chapter 18.12 sewers.

[1:32:27] Second.

[1:32:28] All in favor?

[1:32:30] Aye.

[1:32:31] That motion carries for zero.

[1:32:36] 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.

[1:32:48] 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

[1:33:07] We'll get a recap of what happened, how we fared with numbers and finances and so forth.

[1:33:15] But I think someone called it the Caledonia affair.

[1:33:19] Well, it actually does benefit the entire community, but it's certainly benefits Caledonia.

[1:33:23] So I really want to give my thanks to Brian Vittali for his leadership on this important event.

[1:33:30] 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.

[1:33:44] 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.

[1:33:56] And one of the items that has been lingering is our building official.

[1:34:01] And so when Gary came up to the answer, I am the interim building official.

[1:34:06] I had conversation with the mayor and a couple of you about actually

[1:34:10] landing a building official who will be reporting to the city in the next couple of weeks.

[1:34:17] But that has been a long, long process.

[1:34:19] We've advertised not once, not twice, but three times and struck out.

[1:34:24] This is the fourth time we're in and I believe fifth time and you assisted that process by allowing us to

[1:34:32] modify the salary schedule and so forth so that we could attract a person it was qualified and this position

[1:34:39] the building official has specific legal requirements for certain certifications and so important that

[1:34:45] we get those done and not anybody can be a building official it takes a person that's trained and learned.

[1:34:51] So, I'm happy to report that to you and then I wanted to say that yesterday's meeting with...

[1:35:00] With the transit folks, I want to thank Supervisor Moulin Peters and Deringon Art for pulling together

[1:35:08] four major entities, Tam, the Marin transit, Golden Gate Bridge District, and missing one mayor,

[1:35:17] but there were four of them there. And they truly provided a bunch of information. I thought that it's

[1:35:22] important for the community to know that Council Member Sobioski attended, and Mayor Cox were there

[1:35:27] along with the chief and I and the mayor and the council members spoke specifically about some

[1:35:32] of the approaches that could harm our residents in terms of some of the modifications that

[1:35:37] are being made.

[1:35:39] So to follow that up, I was reminded that we need to get something in the currents.

[1:35:44] Our new editor has already working on that.

[1:35:47] We'll see how soon that Mrs. Sullivan, Catholic Sullivan, from our intransit can provide

[1:35:53] that information and then we certainly will get that in the currents.

[1:35:55] That concludes my report, Mayor.

[1:36:00] Thank you, City Manager.

[1:36:02] City Attorney, any information for the Council this evening?

[1:36:06] None.

[1:36:07] Thank you.

[1:36:08] All right.

[1:36:11] Council Member reports is next.

[1:36:13] Tomorrow evening is the meeting of mayors and council members of Marin County in San

[1:36:18] Rebell.

[1:36:24] And the City Manager and I already reported on the meeting yesterday evening.

[1:36:29] So I'll turn it over to others for any reports.

[1:36:35] Yes, please.

[1:36:36] We had a really great church, Japan,

[1:36:41] with the sister city council and with the US,

[1:36:46] Japan conference for sister cities,

[1:36:49] and it was a group of about 2015 to 20 other cities.

[1:36:53] So it was a broader group that we normally do with the,

[1:36:57] with the Japan U.S. such a city association.

[1:37:01] So it was something new, I think they've done it

[1:37:02] and they've done this before.

[1:37:03] But it was highly successful.

[1:37:07] And it was a three city tour.

[1:37:09] It was to Osaka, Japan, and we were able to go to the world

[1:37:12] expo while we were there.

[1:37:14] And Yamanashi prefecture, which is where the Mount Fuji is,

[1:37:20] and then on up to Tokyo at the UN University

[1:37:23] is where we ended up.

[1:37:24] And I have to say it was an amazing trip

[1:37:27] and great time.

[1:37:28] They're great ability to network with not only our own sister city,

[1:37:31] because I went there first for a day, well actually 12 hours.

[1:37:37] And then we were able to talk to other cities

[1:37:41] around California, but also many other cities in Japan

[1:37:44] who came to all those events.

[1:37:46] So I'm sorry, I didn't, wasn't able to get,

[1:37:48] we have a gift to us from the city of Cicada,

[1:37:52] who sent that back.

[1:37:54] And then other pictures and things.

[1:37:57] and I'll bring it the next city council meeting.

[1:37:58] I just couldn't get together for today and I have to say the biggest gift that was

[1:38:05] the biggest hit overall of any gift, I didn't believe me there was lots of competition throughout

[1:38:10] the three days.

[1:38:11] But the biggest hit was the baseball hat from Sossleto Public Works.

[1:38:20] I have a picture of the governor of Tokyo who has it on her.

[1:38:28] So anyway, I'll bring that at the next meeting.

[1:38:30] And a very beautiful wind chime from the city of Chicago

[1:38:32] to the city of Saoselida.

[1:38:34] So we can put that with our collection of,

[1:38:36] and a picture of, I think, I have a picture

[1:38:38] giving of the gift that you sent.

[1:38:41] And he was very appreciative of that too.

[1:38:42] So I think.

[1:38:43] Thank you so much.

[1:38:43] And thank you for, you do such a great job of representing

[1:38:46] us with all of our sister cities you just I have watched you in action and I am in great

[1:38:52] admiration so thank you so much for so capable you are presenting us all right next on our agenda is

[1:38:59] appointment you're right on to it I miss my time so you're going to talk about appointments so

[1:39:11] Yes, okay.

[1:39:13] So the previous members of the Finance Committee were myself and Council Member Sobioski

[1:39:25] with great reluctance, but with great confidence in the leadership ability I am passing

[1:39:30] the baton to my vice mayor, Stephen Woodside, who will now, so the Finance Committee will now

[1:39:36] be comprised of Vice Mayor Woodside and Council Member Sobi Eski, who bring unique talents and

[1:39:42] abilities to address some of the agenda items that I believe will be addressed in the upcoming

[1:39:47] finance committee meetings.

[1:39:48] And so the Finance Committee meeting will, the Finance Committee will meet there will then

[1:39:53] be a council meeting regarding some of the items discussed.

[1:39:57] So thank you both so much for volunteering.

[1:40:00] During your time for these important tasks.

[1:40:05] All right. Future agenda items are attached to the matrix city clerk I forwarded an updated list

[1:40:16] in the agenda matrix. If you can make sure that goes on our next meeting, that would be great.

[1:40:20] It actually is more accurately reflects those items that we will be addressing in the remainder of this year.

[1:40:25] 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.

[1:40:45] We have Lorna newlin.

[1:40:47] All right.

[1:40:49] Welcome back Lorna.

[1:40:53] Thank you.

[1:40:56] I wanted to tag on to City Manager, Chrisapata's comments about the toast to Sussan Lido.

[1:41:06] This was my second year participating there, and Kudos to Brian Vitali and his entire

[1:41:12] park in Rack, and all the people that Chris noted, it was just an excellent event.

[1:41:18] I personally, I wish you could have been longer.

[1:41:23] I can't remember when I said it.

[1:41:25] It was the second year that I have shown there.

[1:41:27] It was the third year overall.

[1:41:28] It brought everybody out in just happiness.

[1:41:35] There were no political booths.

[1:41:40] And I had people coming into my booth

[1:41:43] where I was selling my pottery from Chicago.

[1:41:45] So they'd gotten off the fair, the fairery, and they heard about it.

[1:41:49] People from San Francisco, and my only problem with it is I was so busy.

[1:41:55] I did not even get a chance to walk the street and see what was there.

[1:42:00] And greet other artists who were selling.

[1:42:04] And there's something else that's about, and thanks to the lady earlier who talked about,

[1:42:09] well, it's not that, anyway, about the farmer's market.

[1:42:12] It's bringing people out in Sicilito and then upcoming on this coming Saturday is the art

[1:42:19] Sicilito art and harbor days and is put on by the gentleman who does a farmer's market,

[1:42:25] it's going to be on Tracy Way between 10 and 2. Unfortunately, I can't show at this one,

[1:42:32] hopefully I will in November. I'm going to be swimming the Golden Gate Bridge with the Dolphin Club

[1:42:36] that day. But I'll come see it towards the end. And the more we have things going on in town,

[1:42:43] especially with what goes on at the SCA, it's all great. And happy Halloween. I'll be seeing

[1:42:49] people unsusually go that night. It's one of my favorite. One of my favorite events here. Thank you.

[1:42:55] Thank you so much. And thank you. And thank you to you and to all of the artisans and other

[1:43:01] businesses that contributed both the vice mayor and I were able to visit the celebration

[1:43:11] this weekend, and it was just marvellously attended. Everybody seemed to be having a great

[1:43:17] time, and we were blessed with brilliant weather. So, thank you.

[1:43:21] Next speaker, Bobbette Magdou.

[1:43:28] Thank you. I actually, interesting that Lorna made the comment about no obvious political

[1:43:34] stuff going on because as you know, Parallel on Bridgeway was the no King's thing and it was

[1:43:42] really well populated and what I found because actually I was counting one and four people on

[1:43:48] Caledonia and I'm not talking people who could be paid participants as was suggested but actually

[1:43:55] their neighbors because we walked down the hills together so I'm in the noise out more. These are the

[1:44:01] people wearing very discreet but clear, this is not the government we have in mind for ourselves

[1:44:06] kind of messages. So, you know, it's been said that what goes on nationally is not the

[1:44:12] business of the local council, but how could it never be more true than now? So we don't need

[1:44:18] any miniature models of the way they're trying to reinvent the world in Washington DC, that's

[1:44:24] for sure. So I would just implore each of us to think carefully if we don't stand together

[1:44:29] As the 949-65 area of influence, then God only knows what kind of attack will face.

[1:44:37] I'm very much in favor of Obe no illegal orders, and any time somebody figures out a go around

[1:44:44] to send him the National Guard, and they go, that's an illegal order being obeyed.

[1:44:50] And I think we have to be realistic that this is not a drill.

[1:44:54] Thank you, I yield back my time.

[1:44:59] It's not for the public.

[1:45:02] 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.

[1:45:17] 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

[1:45:30] and the mayor, maybe maybe a councilmember Hoppin.

[1:45:33] I don't know what your schedule is at night,

[1:45:35] but Felicia Gaston and her team are very excited about it.

[1:45:39] And want to make sure this sauce of it gets the love

[1:45:41] it deserves for being supportive.

[1:45:45] Wonderful, thank you.

[1:45:47] All right, with that, we will move on to closed session.

[1:45:55] We have seven items on our closed session agenda.

[1:45:58] The first is C1 Public Employment Discussion

[1:46:02] of the transition of the City Manager.

[1:46:05] C2 is conference with real property negotiator,

[1:46:08] property old city hall,

[1:46:10] negotiating parties Jean Hiller and the City Manager

[1:46:13] in City Attorney.

[1:46:14] C3 conference with real property negotiators,

[1:46:17] property 300 Spencer,

[1:46:19] agency negotiator City Manager in City Attorney

[1:46:21] and Southern Marin Fire Protection District.

[1:46:25] C4 conference with real property negotiators,

[1:46:29] property 558 Bridgeway,

[1:46:31] Negotiating Party City Manager City Attorney and Bridgeway 5x8 Royal Property LLC.

[1:46:37] C5 Conference with Legal Council Existing Litigation, Con versus City of

[1:46:41] Sossalito at all. C6 Conference of Legal Council Anticipated Litigation,

[1:46:46] Initiation of Litigation 1 Case, and C7 Conference of Legal Council Anticipated Litigation

[1:46:52] Significant Exposure to Litigation 1 Case. The agenda says that we will reconvene to open

[1:46:59] we actually will not do that. We will be adjourning to our next meeting, which is scheduled for November 4 at 5 p.m.

[1:47:08] And we will not return to open session tonight so that we can excuse our city clerk and our other staff who are here.

[1:47:15] Staffing our meeting.

[1:47:16] And with that.

[1:47:17] Mayer, a quick question for you that as a reason is so public comments on items that are listed in the close session agenda.

[1:47:24] When will those be heard?

[1:47:27] We can do that at the beginning of our next meeting.

[1:47:29] So we are adjournable.

[1:47:30] I just have the current now on the items on tonight's agenda.

[1:47:33] Well, I first announced the items and then I take public comment on the items.

[1:47:38] But we also allow public comment when we return.

[1:47:42] Oh, yes. Yeah, that's fine too.

[1:47:45] So is there any public comment on closed session items?

[1:47:47] Seeing then.

[1:47:48] All right. With that, we will adjourn to close session.

[1:47:52] Thank you.

[1:48:03] Is it, are you, did you already turn off?

[1:48:07] Yeah.

[1:48:08] Well, he can just send that to me.

[1:48:09] Is it like so?

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