>>> good evening, everyone.
so
today is january 14th, tuesday,
2025, and the --
meeting to order.
let's have a pledge of allegiance first.
>>> I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the united states of
america and to the republic for which it
stands one nation under god indivisible
with liberty and justice for all.
>> thank you.
and the councilmember
morada is
participating
remotely pursuant to government code
54953b.
his meeting location was posted under
agenda, and the agenda was posted
as a conference location 72 hours before
the meeting. All
votes during the conference conference
will be conducted by the roll call vote.
hi, john.
>> good
evening, madame mayor.
>> thank you
for
participating remotely. And let's
have a general item three, presentations
and proclamations. 3. 1,
presentation and a poem reading from
the city
of dublin poet laureate.
>> good
evening, mayor and councilmembers.
tonight the
city's newly appointed
poet laureate richard deetz will read
an original
poem called "water, water everywhere.
"
>> madame mayor and city council members, thank
you for this opportunity to
share of the literary arts. We are
so proud of dublindublin of the
support you give to the arts.
and tonight I'd like to
share with you the poetry that I have
written for dublin.
water, water everywhere.
mother earth's soul tine tain
yum hard, begged for
relief. Blue bells,
dublin hills wilted in summer's oven.
lightning flashed. Thunder pounded.
exploded.
crack,
boom, clash. Clouds burst tossing
sunshine asunder. Rain bucketed
down on hills
in bullets. Pitter, patter, pitter,
patter, pitter, patter.
water, water, clear, cool water everywhere.
puddles plate, dragonflies
appeared from nowhere, seemingly everywhere.
dublin hill
flowers unfurled like monarch
wings rising.
thunder rumbled east and water
faded
into musical chimes,
glistening angel tears,
pitter, patter, pitter,
patter, pitter,
patter. Children puddled in
puddles. Water,
water, clear cool water everywhere.
the sun slipped
through clouds,
casting slanted beams over hills.
a painted arc bridged the
skies. A child puddling in
puddles, shrieked.
rainbow, look at the pretty rainbow
over dublin. Beauty is
nature's signature. Rain
her perfect touch. Water,
water, clear cool water everywhere.
thank you very much.
>> wow.
>> thank you very much.
a really, really beautiful poem. I'm
so touched.
I really like this water, clear cool
water everywhere.
especially right now. We need the water in southern
california.
excellent choice.
yeah, right,
we need water everywhere. We need
that. Thank you. So let's
go ahead to have a
item 3.2. New
year proclamation.
>> mayor and councilmembers,
lunar new year
marks the beginning of a new lunar
calendar year and
symbolizes renewal, hope, and the
promise of prosperity and good fortune.
2025 is the year of the snake which
is characterized
by wisdom, transformation and adaptability
and
introspection. This proclamation recognizes
january
29th, 2029 --january
29th, 2025 as the commencement
of lunar new year 2025
in the city of dublin. We have kathy
szu from the
asian american association here to
receive the proclamation this evening.
>> come forward.
kathy, you have a speech you want to give to us?
>> thank you, mayor and
councilmembers.
>> go to the microphone,
please.
>> thank
you, mayor, and the
councilmembers, for giving me this chance
to talk about the
chinese lunar new year, yeah.
I'm kathy szu.
I have been living in dublin for over eight
years
now. This year the
lunar
new year, festival, is january 28th,
yeah. It's the year of the snake.
it's a celebration of the
arrival of spring and marks the start
of
a new year on the lunar calendar.
it's the most important
hollywood in china and for the chinese community all over the
world.
the festival is
14 days and full of wonderful traditions,
like spending time with family
and the friends, enjoying big
meals, watching fireworks and attending
the parade and parties.
leading up --leading up to
the new
year, you will see decorations everywhere.
red
colors symbolize happiness and good luck in chinese
culture.
and it's a big part of the celebration.
one tradition especially is receiving the red envelopes with
money inside.
it's something they always look forward to.
the holiday kicks
off with new year's
reunion dinner where family come together to welcome
the new year.
it all
wraps up on the 13 day
with the lantern festival, which is
a beautiful way to end the celebration.
before I wrap up,
I like to introduce
the silicon
valley association.
we started to build a strong support
here in the inclusive community for
asians and the
asian americans in silicon
valley. We will have exciting
lunar new year spring
festival celebrations in
february.
thank you.
>> thank you.
and we have proclamation for
you. And I will we just want to say
the
city of dublin appreciates the
many contributions of our our asian
american communities and in enhancing
the fabric
of our city's rich cultural diversity.
and with that said, I want to present
a proclamation to you and your team members.
come over.
yeah. Congratulations.
>> thank you.
>> one more. >> the official.
>> thank you.
so you can
tell, we the wear the red color for the celebration of
the new year.
so let's proceed to item
number 3.3, 2024 sponsor recognition.
>> good evening,
honorable mayor, city council members.
thank you for
the opportunity to present the sponsor
recognition for the city of dublin
in 2024. My name
is lauren marriott, a rec creation
coordinator
for the city under the parks and
services department. In 2024, the
city of
dublin received tremendous support
from local businesses and individuals.
we are pleased to announce that the
city secured
106,150 in cash
sportsmanship and 12,990
in kind sponsorships. This sponsorships played
a
crucial role in producing special
events and maintaining
city programs and facilities. In the
next few slides, we'll
go through the 2024 programs and events
and
the impact of these amazing sponsors, some of which
are here today.
we lucked out with some beautiful
weather at
the 2024 st. Patrick's day celebration as
we celebrated the
40th anniversary with a 200-drone
light
show. You'll see some of our sponsors
provided activities for
our attendees to add to what was
already provided at the festival.
spring extravaganza was
held in march at dublin heritage park
and
museums. Over 600 children participated
in arts and
crafts, some of which were provided
by
our sponsors and had their pictures
taken with our springtime bunnies.
the farmers market was bustling this
year with
the most producers and vendors we
have seen since
covid. Sponsorship involvement increased
tremendously,
and we saw nine brand-new sponsor
partnerships this year.
the picnic
flix sponsors brought the fun to the
outdoor movie night series by hosting
a variety of games and
activities for families to participate in
while waiting for the movies to begin.
we celebrated the end of summer with
the
splatter festival. The community flocked
to emerald glen park
to enjoy over 30 food vendors, live
music, and the 250 drone light show.
this is
also the most sponsorship that we have seen in
the past five years.
the
annual harvest fair was held at dublin
heritage parks and museums last october.
families
participated in good old-fashioned
fall fund with
lots of pumpkin-themed
activities, tractor rides
and
historical brought to us by one of
our sponsors.
we rang in the holiday season at the
annual tree lighting
and breakfast with santa events. Our
sponsors helped
us out by providing festive activities,
including decorating holiday trees
and providing arts
and crafts for our attendees.
the senior center had
a variety of events in
2024 including the informational fair
that provides information to
seniors and the holiday craft boutique where
local crafters can show off their talents.
we extend
our heartfelt gratitude to all the
businesses and individuals that have
contributeded to the city of dublin in
2024. Your
support is instrumental in making the
community vibrant and ensuring the
success of our programs. At this
time we'd like to invite all the businesses
in attendance to
come forward
and join mayor hu and the councilmembers
in
attendance. You'll receive photo and
passes
to the wave will be provided. Thank you
once again for your
time.
>> we invite all the sponsors,
if you are here
today, please come forward. We would
like
to appreciate you and recognize
your contributions. Because of you,
our
city has such a beautiful and diverse
events throughout the year, and whatever
the age
group we are and we can always find something
we enjoy. And thank you so much.
thank you so much.
thank you. Thank
you. Great job. We really appreciate it.
thank you so much.
thank you.
hi.
>> thank you.
>> thank you. >> thank you for the
contribution.
thank you.
let's figure out way to have a picture.
we'll
just figure out our space here.
>>
you guys
are find. We're used to arranging
ourselves back here.
>> okay, thank you.
so our
next agenda item, 3.
4, recognition of
the mount cruisers car club for
their donation to the public police
services.
>> happy new year to you. It is my
pleasure to introduce ken and
retired dublin police sergeant behind
me from the altamont cruisers car
club.
for years they've been tremendous supporters of youth
programs in the tri-valley. Their
generosity and fundraising efforts
have raised nearly $1 million, though
ken tells me it's over a
million now. Is that correct? For local
charities and
youth programs. The mod
motto of their club is cruisers for youth
and
local charities. In 2023 the club
supported over 20 charities
including dublin police services and
our very busy crime prevention unit.
this year the
altamont cruisers have again shown
their generosity by donating
$3500 to the crime prevention unit.
this will support our purchase
of operating supplies for our
year-round community events. Please
recognize me in recognizing
ken, steve, and the altamont cruisers
for their
generosity, dedication and support of dublin police
services.
>> thank you so much.
so please
come forward. I want to present
this certificate of recognition
to you and in special recognition
and
appreciation for your generosity
of donation of
$3,500 in support of the dublin police
services crime prevention unit.
thank you so much.
>> thank you. >> thanks.
all together.
>> you don't have to do that.
you don't have to do that.
thank you.
>>> so
3. 5, recognition of
the 2024 holiday
home decorating contest winners.
>> good
evening, honorable mayor and city council
members. I'm
jennifer la marzi with the parks
and services department. I am tonight
excited to
present the 2024 deck the homes holiday
home decorating contest.
this festive event continues to bring
our community together
and showcases the incredible holiday
spirit of our
residents. Key highlights for the
deck the homes
contest, this is the seventh year
of our residential
home decorating contest. The winners
were selected by a panel
of judges including commissioners from
the parks and community services commission
and the public.
the winners
were determined at the december 16th,
2024 parks
and community services commission
meeting, and the winners
received a yard sign, a certificate
of recognition, and a gift card to a local business.
this year,
we had 19 individual homes participating
across
six categories. These categories allowed
for a wide variety
of decorations from music and technology
to creative use
of inflatables. Here is a quick look at
the categories. This year,
we had a new award. It was the people's
choice award. It included public voting.
we also brought
back the spotlight award, which is
judges' choice and the dashing debut for first year
participants.
for the
map, here is the map showcasing all
the contest
participants. This map was shared
across social media and featured on
the city's website so the community
could easily find and enjoy
these festive homes. We are grateful
for the enthusiasm of all of our participants.
now let's take a moment
to congratulate our winners for each category.
first we had people's choice award.
the
winner of this new category voted
on by the community is
the
bruland-glimcher family at
7951 peppertree road. Next we had win
it
wonderland award, the
grymonprez family at
8645 ardmore place for their impressive
use of music and technology to create this
spectacular display.
we had the spotlight award, which is
our judges' choice
award. The bonato family at
7574 sutton lane took home this award for
their stunning overall
display. And I believe they're here
tonight, if
they can come down, and we have a
certificate for them, if
they could take a photo.
>> yeah,
please come forward, and congratulations.
it's amazing. You make
our dublin wintertime spectacular.
thank you.
>> congratulations. >> thank you.
>> are you new to lighting? >> technology.
thank you.
>> thank you, bonato family.
and
3. 6 employee introduction --oh, sorry.
>> we have
a few more. We have
over inflated mccormack
family, 6815 ione way.
the deck the halls at
aviano way. They were recognized
for their beautiful decoration of
an a condo
doe apartment space. And dashing debut
award,
the
bruland-glimcher family again one,
won this for being first-time participants
in the contest. Thank you
to all our participants for making this
year's a great success,
and a special congratulations to all
of our winners. Your
creativity and holiday spirits really
shine and bring
joy. This concludes my presentation
for tonight. I'm happy to answer any
questions. Thank you.
>> yeah, thank you. Do we have
them here today?
>> I believe that the
bonato family is the only family that
is here this
evening.
>> invite them come
over. So we already gave the present.
thank you so much
for putting this together and the contest
together.
>> thank you.
>> mayor,
before we do employee introductions, I think
we have
a technical issue problem with
councilmember morada, if you don't
mind if we could take
a couple-minute break.
>> let's take
a break and we'll work
on this technical issues. We'll come
back maybe a few minutes.
just a few minutes, yeah.
>> meeting on break, 7:25.
>>> so we'll continue our
meeting.
we're at agenda item
3. 6, employee introduction.
>> good
evening, honorable mayor
and council, and your public working
department, and it's my pleasure to
introduce you to your
new assistant civil engineer, robert
magno. Robert
has been with us for about a month now.
before joining dublin,
he was an engineer with the city of san
leandro.
and prior to that, he worked in the
private
sector doing residential and commercial
development projects throughout the bay area.
when not at work, robert
is at home with his wife, daughter,
and two dogs.
he enjoys exploring the local
food scene and spending time with
family and friends. City
council, please welcome robert magno.
>> good evening. Thank
you, mayor, city council members.
I want to say thank you for the warm
welcome, and I am
looking forward to collaborating with
my
city of dublin colleagues on various projects throughout the
city.
thanks again.
>> thank you so much,
robert, and welcome to city
of dublin. And we're so happy to have you
here.
and especially you have a lot
of experience in the private sector
and also other cities.
I'm sure you will enjoy
working with your colleagues here
and we'll
enjoy you as well. And we
do have --what do you
call this? A pin to present to you, to
welcome you to the city.
welcome.
>> thank you very much. >> thank you.
>> so next we'll have a public comment.
at this
time, the public is permitted
to address the city
council nonagendaized items. Please
step
to the podium and clearly state your name for the
record.
comments shall not exceed the three minutes.
>> mayor,
we have four speakers here in the
chamber. Our
first speaker for public comment is mike grant.
>> mike, please come forward.
>> good evening. Mike grant,
unlimited firearms training in dublin,
and I want to put a thanks to
colleen for being so proactive on what I'm
going to talk about tonight.
with these fires in l.a. That we've
had going down there, the west hills
of dublin and the
east hills are really in a fire
danger about june or july for
this district. And my concern is
the ranchers. Shortly
probably within may, I'm going to
be cutting firebreaks on
my ranch up where I train people to
shoot at. And I'm
cutting 50 feet out. I want to know
if there is an ordinance for
that, a county ordinance, a city
ordinance, things like this to cut
back, because the fields, the fence
lines,
we've got houses that back up on the east
and west side. I've already talked
to oes. They have no rule. They have
nothing set up for
that in the city, which is fine. It's
the county. But we
have no evacuation plan at all in
the city. Colleen
is going to be working on that, I'm
sure, which is great.
I think we need to have a road map
of something off these hills
to get where we need to go.
they make road signs. I've sent stuff
again to colleen. I thank her very
much for being
proactive on this, that lead these
people off
the hills where we're in the smoke.
if you've ever driven in fog, it's pretty
bad
at night. You can miss an exit real
quick.
so I know we have camp parks.
they have a fire department. You know,
I come back to where
is the evacuation centers could be.
you know, this
kind of stuff needs to be put up on
the
dublin web page or maybe we have the
app, the emergency app. I believe it's
a county app.
but I suggest that we --I'd like to
see
us put some kind of a task force or
a workshop together controlled by
the city to go over that and invite
people in to talk about this.
we got until probably june, maybe
may. It depends
on the weather. If we get more rain,
we'll be
okay. But just today, I was up
in the dolland park, and the
nielsen cattle have come down. There
are no more pigs.
they're right down to the fence line right
here. That's obviously a
canal that goes all the way up the
hill.
and underneath those trees just in
the park, I think
the city needs to start looking at
some of this stuff. There is a
lot of vegetation under these trees,
and especially with the
bark. And you know it in the l.a.
fires, it's
been bouncing from house to house
to house. It just wasn't the
weeds burning. It just jump-started
the
houses and took out the neighborhoods.
and there is a good chance we
could have something like that in
dublin. And I just think we need to
be proactive. Thank you. And again, thank you, colleen.
>> thank you, mike. I know we
have already talk about
we will do some update about
this fire next agenda item.
>> mayor and councilmembers, I want
to thank mike for being
in contact with me about his concerns,
and we've heard
from some other community members.
we will
have a presentation from the fire
department.
it's currently planned for the second meeting
in february, february
18th. So I've heard the
concerns, and we'll address them then.
>> okay, thank
you. I know we have another speaker?
>> yes, mayor.
the next speaker is shirley lewandowski.
>> good evening. My
name is shirley lewandowski
and a long-term resident of dublin.
a
primary concern of many candidates
this last election
wasn't in regards to public safety.
in light of the awful tragedies of
fires happening in southern california,
I'm wondering if our neighborhoods
are
all --have all proper evacuation paths
to
safety. According to cal
fire, the california department of
forestry and fire protection,
dublin is considered to be in a fire
hazard
area. Dublin falls within the fire
hazard severity zones. These zones
classify
areas based on potential wildfire.
and dublin
is categorized as having a high
fire hazard severity. Cal fire states
it is important
to take precautions if you live near
or
in dublin, such as maintaining
defensible space around your property
and having an evacuation plan in place.
the diablo winds in our area
are just like the santa ana winds
in the l.a. Area. There
are recorded instances when the diablo
winds have
reached as high as 80 miles per hour.
so we are vulnerable.
I
ask in the next city council meeting,
which mike beat me to it, but I'm asking
for it to be in
the next city council meeting that
the fire department present a current
and transparent assessment
and map of all the evacuation paths
in
the city so residents are aware where
the areas are good
and areas where it needs improvement.
it is important for us to be more
proactive now to ensure dublin residents
are well
prepared and informed as much as possible
and not reactive
to impending danger should an
overwhelming catastrophic fire situation
occur as sadly happened in southern california.
thank you.
>> thank you, shirley. And we are working
on
this. Thanks. Next?
>> yes, mayor, the next speaker
is john cameron.
>> hi, john
cameron, long-time resident. More of the same
for me. I didn't know it was
going to be like this here tonight.
but the last time I
spoke here, one of the things I brought up
was the possibility of
a firestorm here in dublin. With recent
events, I
feel compelled to speak out once again.
dublin has been overdeveloped.
this body has been a vessel in creating
a developer's
paradise. The density of structure, for
example, east of dougherty and south of
camp parks
is where a firestorm could really
thrive. Aging
infrastructure in west dublin with
above ground utility
lines and the tense warm winds blowing
make the threat
very real if few other conditions
are met. Last time I was
here, this council approved yet another
development and
was discussing changes for an escape
route where
cars could exit the area in an orderly
manner.
I don't think you've ever been in
a firestorm. I would like
to point out some reality about conditions
in a
firestorm. Visibility, for one. Almost
none.
sound, overwhelming, engulfs you.
smell, you can't breathe most of the
time.
extreme heat like you've never felt
before.
and it's right under your skin. You
can feel it.
chaos and mass panic. You saw all
the
cars that were piled up. They had
to use bulldozers to get them
out. That's what happens. People lose their head.
few keep their calm. Frankly, I don't
have a lot of confidence
in our city's government through my own
personal experiences.
I don't believe you consider our input
or have much respect for what
many residents think, feel, or want.
virtually every
neighbor I know thinks dublin is vastly
overbuilt,
and it seems like every time something
comes
down, high density structures go up
in its place, which developers happen to profit the most from.
that's
coincidence, I guess. Instead, maybe
next time a
big park with trees would be nice,
and would benefit all of us.
it's irresponsible to the point
where --oh, wait, I'm sorry. Have I
one more thing to say about
the potholes. I mean, this city
can't even fix the pothole that's
been here
since july 4th over in front
of sprouts. I have pictures of it.
july 4th.
six months. This has been going on for six
months.
I've seen this out here. So
if we can't fix this, what makes us
think
that we can do other things that are
much bigger? Like the extension we had
on dougherty that
took as long as pretty much the bay bridge to
be built. I watched
that thing for years
take flight, and it just never seemed to get done.
so
I don't have much confidence.
I don't think we should extend out
to livermore. I think
that's a big mistake financially.
I think it's going to
cost us somewhere, somehow, some way.
I don't think we've thought that through
at all.
and I
thought that the
eye eye initiative was disingenuous.
frankly deceptive for most people.
they wouldn't vote on it if they really knew.
I know my time is up. Thank you. Oh,
city manager,
would you like these pictures?
>> thank you, john.
>> you can reach out. >> thank you.
>> mayor, the next speaker is angela tucker.
>> honorable mayor,
councilmembers and city staff, happy new
year to all of you and
good evening. My name is angela tucker.
I'm a 15-
year resident of dublin. First of
all, thank
you all for what you do for us here
as residents. And my
comments are on a similar topic on
fire preparedness. Having watched
the news and social media reports
of the
fire disasters unfold down in l.a.
, I've
been really struck by how many of
the
contributing factors to the firestorms
were previously identified in the
paradise
camp and the lahaina fires, but clearly
not addressed by
the l.a. City government six years
after paradise and almost two
years after lahaina. I have
a lot more confidence in you
all, having met many of you, than
I have
in the l.a. City government, but I
am
similar to other speakers. I was also
going to
request an agenda item and one of
the next city council meetings. So
I appreciate that
you're already scheduling that. It would
be nice to see
updates to the fire management plans
and
to review many, many of the factors
that
are known already like
water supply to the
hydrants, do
our hydrants actually work when there is no
electricity, vegetation, clearing
schedules with firebreaks,
code enforcement, weed abatement.
I can maybe
talk to mike a little bit about weed
abatement in district 1.
then it seems pg&e does not always
deenergize the lines. Do we have a process
where that can
be confirmed with them when we have
our next high wind
event. And
finally, two points about arson.
it seems certainly that l.a. Really
has suffered from a
lot of arson. We've seen that over
the
hills in the oakland area also. A
lot
of arson there, not just recently.
other things that we could do for
some
kind of surveillance over the
nighttime so that arson fires could
be caught more
quickly. And then something that I
found
deeply depressing reading about paradise
was that
in paradise, as low as
5% of residents got notifications
from
their evacuation warnings.
shocking, in some areas, and even
in areas where people
had signed up for emergency
notifications as low as 25% of people got notifications.
so I would ask if we could
perhaps review for
our residents, older residents, residents
with handicaps, how we could ensure
that
they will be notified in the case
of
any emergency situation. Thank you
very much for your
consideration.
>> thank you, angela.
thank you.
and thanks for all the comments. And
we are working on this
fire preparedness, and we'll get
things to the residents. And let's
move
to the next
agenda item 5, consent calendar.
so consent calendar are typically
noncontroversial in nature and are
considered
for approval by the city council with
one single action. So I want to ask
my councilmembers do you have questions
about any items in the
consent calendar?
and I actually
have a question about 5.2.
>> madame mayor -->> I have
public comment for 5.2 as well.
>> okay.
any other comments or
questions?
>> yes. Madame mayor? >>
yeah, please.
>> I
do have questions on 5. 6
and 5.7.
>>
5. 6 and?
>> 5.7.
>> oh, 5.7.
questions or comments?
>> questions.
>> questions? Okay.
so questions of this too.
I have a comments for
5.2.
>> want to move the remainder of
the calendar?
>> okay. >> make a motion to move.
>> in
a second.
>> the remainder of the
calendar for 5.
6, 5.7.
>> and 5.2.
>> second the motion. >> okay. >>
so we have
a first and second. And let's have a roll call.
>> councilmember morada?
>> hi. >>
councilmember m ccorriston?
>> iowa. >> councilmember
quadry.
>> aye. >> mr. Hill.
>> motion passed. And we'll come back
to agenda item 5.2, annual proclamation.
so marsha, you said you have comments on
that too,
right?
>> I have a speaker slip on
that, public comment.
.
>> we'll get a speaker first?
>> yes. Okay. So brent
sanji will make a public comment on this item.
>> hello. So the list of proclamations
is incredibly long. There is one for
the month of june
about raising a flag, and the flag
is considered controversial.
so you know the consent calendars
for items that
are considered noncontroversial in
nature. So you need to
remove that item from the consent
calendar and
make it its own separate agenda item.
there is two
council meetings in the month of may.
so you can pick one of those days to do
it.
for the whole history of our
city, up until 2019, we always flew
three flags.
no resident ever had a problem with
it. Nobody
complained about it and requested to fly
another flag.
everything changed in 2019. There is a
small group of residents who wanted
to fly their
flag. It immediately became controversial.
our city was on the news. We
got attacked. We were smeared. They
said all these
bad things about it. Mostly it was
not true at all. So I don't
know why we're doing this flag. We
should make the three
flags the policy. That's what we did for
the longest time.
everyone agreed on it. And then we
introduced this new
thing. Not everyone agrees on it, and
it's controversial. So if you want
to do
it, make it its own separate agenda
item and tell us
why you want to do it and allow the
public to speak on
it. Thanks.
>> thank you for the comment.
I have a comment is
I want to see if we
can have a recognition for the cricket
game, because
our cricket teams students have done
excellent job in
the city of dublin and the tri-valley
area. And as a matter of
fact, right
now we have girls to play
in the international games in
malaysia representing the u.s.
u-19 team. And we're so proud of them.
so I
want to propose
we make july as a month for the
cricket, because the cricket is special
for us, and
also I checked withwith
cricket coach, and
july is a month have
international games for cricket and
also it's a
good time to celebrate. So I just
talked to
the coach of the cricket
and that is the month we think is good for
cricket.
so I want to make this comment
here, not for today, but
maybe we'll come back for the next
time.
that's my comment I want to make.
>>
mayor?
>> if
I might, I agree we should be recognizing cricket in the
city of
dublin when we have a tournament win,
when we have our youth that are appointed
to
the national team and things like
that. But the proclamation 245s are
on
here are typically months that
are recognized either nationally
or by organizations specifically around
a
date that
is meaningful beyond the city
for, you know, the city recognizing
national awareness month and things
like that. For me personally,
I would rather not pick an arbitrary
month for cricket and rather celebrate
the accomplishments of
dublin residents that are active
in cricket at the time that it makes
sense for them when
they get pickford the team, or when
the team has just won a tournament,
and do it not at this time because
when we put them
on here, we don't necessarily make
the presentation to them. It goes
on consent, and we move
along with it. So I would personally
rather we don't add it as
a month and celebrate it individually
when it's appropriate when they win
a tournament or a student gets recognized
to the national team. I think that
would be more meaningful,
in my opinion. So I would rather we don't add
it as a month of july.
>> I
heard your question about the date
or the
month. So july is
the height of international cricket
season, especially it's
a --it's an
international cricket season.
and also, the reason why the coach
talked
about making these as a new recognition,
he has a plan and
we talk about this is making a game.
july have a game will invite
people's who have never played cricket
and to play. And
it will train the people and make the
game
happen, and we
also talk about have this with
baseball games together because they
can share the ground. If we make a
month, we make a day, and we'll always
make
that like a cricket month for the
city to always havehave showed interest
and
have never played before
or eempb you want play again, to invite
them to do this. That's a discussion we have.
>> mayor, I might make
a suggestion we approve the item
as is and get closer to july, we work
closer to the youth groups so we know
what's happening in
dublin. If there is some significance
to july with international tournaments
or play that dublin citizens are interested in
or we
attract a tournament here, then we
can work with that group
to recognize. Whether it's a proclamation
or a
certificate of recognition, happy 20
do that.
>> okay.
>> mayor? So I'd also
like to explore. I heard both.
and there is rationalization for acknowledging
sports in
general. So I don't want the get too
general
on this, but maybe we
can look a little deeper in this,
and acknowledge the
different sports and identify a certain month for all sports.
and taking into consideration
councilmembers' thoughts on special
designations or
special acknowledgments as well. I'm
just throwing my thoughts in
here on this. And we'll --I'm sure
we'll talk
about this later.
>> that makes sense too.
>> okay.
>> having grown
up playing cricket, I have a certain
affinity to
it, and I think it's a great idea
to have more
engagement and more exposure, awareness
to cricket as
a sport. I'm not sure I agree with the
timing around july.
from a seasonal
standpoint, it might make sense.
we also don't have full agendas the way
we
normally do. And so maybe it's not the right
time.
I
would agree with councilmember josey
and that we make it more
time-based and appropriate when there
is
a milestone accomplishment or something
worthy
of that. But I'm happy to explore it at a
later date as well.
>> thank you.
so john, do you have any comment?
>> nothing different than councilmember
qaadri and councilmember josey. I
too come from
a family of athletes, and
just picking one month for one particular
sport makes me want to have further
conversation.
>> excellent.
so we will approve
this agenda item as is for today.
and for the recognition
of the sport in general, not only
picking
one sport, and we'll have a further
discussion in the future. Sounds good?
okay.
so we want
to go through all the agenda items
and
to see if we want
to pass vote, or do we
want --okay. So let's take a motion
on 5.2.
can I have a first and second?
>>
I'll move item
5. 2 as it stands.
>> I'll second.
>> so
we have a roll call.
>>
councilmember morada?
>> aye.
>> councilmember mccorriston? >> yes.
>> councilmember josey? >> vice
mayor qaadri?
>> aye.
>> mayor hill?
>> aye. >> passed unanimously. So
we go to item number 5.6.
5.6 is alameda county fire training center.
so
you have a presentation?
>> I think
we are just
going to take the question.
>> okay.
so
john, you have questions?
>> yes.
good
evening, madame mayor and fellow councilmembers.
the
question I have for city staff
are twofold. One is
at a strategic level, and the other
is a procedural level.
so the first question I have is
for context. And this is for context
of
me as a new councilmember. Could somebody
share with me where this development
of the
facility sits in the priority list of
acfd's strategic business plan.
>> good evening, honorable
mayor, I'm gaspar with the planning
division. Tonight I also have
the county of alameda here. The fire chief can help answer
>> good evening, council, and thank you
for having us tonight,
where it's always a privilege to be here
with our partners in the city
of dublin. I believe I heard your
question as
where does this sit in the
priority
acfd, is that correct?
>> sure. >> you
may not know,
but we've outgrown
our space in san leandro. We have
been working on developing
a new training site to train our next
generation of firefighters.
we found a spot here in dublin that
we felt met the needs of our
priorities. So we've actually been working
on this for at least five
years to transition from san leandro
to
dublin. And so it rose all
the way through our priority list
of a concept,
an idea, and actually now to fruition
to be
here tonight to present our training
tower.
so in terms of our priority
within acfd, it's number one of
our priorities. We need to train our
next generation of firefighters to
make sure they're
ready, and not only our next generation,
but our
current firefighters. This will provide that platform
for us as we move forward.
>> thank you for that explanation.
and by the
way, I understand given the current
situation, it's
imperative that we continue to train
the
next generation with the latest technology
and the latest skill and capabilities to be responders.
my next question is more procedural
comment, or question. Question, sorry,
not
comment. In the review of the materials
provided, there was a statement
or an attach ment with
the 2004 governor's office of planning
and research. In clause
2a of the document, it does
note that an mnd, which is
a mitigated
negative declaration allows the lead
agency to revise the
project prior to circulating the document for public review.
the question is, where
is that document for public review?
and when
was it posted so we would have access to review
that?
>> sure. Thank you. So
we worked with the alameda
county general services agency, and
they're our
lead agency in running this project.
so we
entered into
sequa agreement with them political
2 1/2 years ago.
we went through the whole sequasequa
process. We posted our findings as
required to review,
and ultimately it
was determined to be a mnd
process. So we have what we believe
has gone through the proper process
of
sequa, and currently we do have a
link that could
be accessible for anyone that would
want to review that
sequa document. And if I miss anything,
I've got my
gsa partners here to sort of guide
me. So let
me just confirm that that's accurate.
>> yes, that's great.
>> good evening. My name is patrick
lamb, and I'm with
gsa capital programs. So whoever wants
that link, I
can send it over to you
guys, and if you have any questions,
feel free to contact me.
>> okay, thank you.
and any more questions from
you, john?
>> not at this time. Thank you.
>> excellent. Do we have any discussions
we
want to do?
>> two questions, if you
don't mind.
I had two quick questions.
>> you have
question.
>> if
you don't mind. Just a couple of quick
questions.
could you describe
the hours of operation and any
potential impact
on traffic as well as
noise and any mitigation you have planned
for that?
>> thank you. It's a really good question.
I think one of our
major concerns is what impact is it
going to have on our residents, how is
that going to play into
roll role. We believe we're in a strategic
location sort
of being in that zone area where there
is
similar type buildings. To answer
your question specifically, typically
we do training monday through friday,
8:00 to
5:00 and that is the routine cadence
for training.
most of it will be inside the classroom.
you see an 8000 square-foot classroom
where a lot of
the education is endorse. When we
transition outside to the training
tower we strategically
placed the classroom in the front
on gleason to help mask the
noise and the
fire engines to the training tower
. We
do have, every two years, a
nighttime training
in the fourth quarter which is typically
the darkest quarter.
we do want the firefighters to actually experience
what it's like to train at night.
those are from 6:00
to 9:00. It is once every two years
. We only do it on wednesday nights.
we are trying to be
as respectful as we can to citizens
and constituents that live close
by. Again, to answer
your question hours of operation
are 8:00 to 5:00
monday through friday. We don't really
see weekend training because
it is
off on weekends.
>> any medication
or potential impact of traffic?
vehicular in particular
.
>> are
you talking about the fire engines
or vehicles?
>>
probably more of the fire engines.
>> typically on the training
what we call the task force training.
when you see some
engines coming together it is no more
than five apparatus. What we
anticipate is we would be ready to start,
get
to gleason
and only be training on the site within
the
grounds and then leave. We do that
twice a day one from 1:00 to
noon and
1:00 to 4:00. I would anticipate
no more than 5:00 in the morning and
5:00 in the afternoon on
any given day.
>> thank you.
>> mayor hu,
I do have a follow-up after councilmember
qaadri
's question.
>> go ahead.
>> the question I have parleys
off the comment about the timing of
the apparatus from gleason.
8:45
to 9:00 is approximately the time parents
are traversing away
from fallon middle school .
it is a tale end but certainly there are
more cars than normal .
is a: 45
to 9:00 is set in stone time?
would you be open to considering the
traffic pattern to see if
the time could be adjusted?
>> I use
the term pretty loosely.
one, our first response
is emergency response. Typically we
try to shoot
for 9:00 but most of the time we are
on calls and
we do not start the training on time.
I guess firefighters
are known for not being on time unless
we get call to
an emergency. I would say that is
a loose number
at best. One of the things, twofold,
we are always respectful of vehicles,
traffic signs
and speed.
I also think it is good for the public
to see our apparatus in
the streets training and being
part of the community. First and foremost,
we are always respectful of schools, traffic,
and making sure
we are there. I also think it is important
that our citizens csl training and
being part of the community.
>>
we are not talking about five fire
trucks with
lights and sirens
screaming through rush-hour traffic.
we are talking about people
basically communicating
--commuting
to a training session. Five vehicles
at a to the traffic at that time,
arriving not together
in a caravan. Arriving from different
stations happening to get there.
we are talking about five different
vehicles that will
show up sometime in a 15 minute
or half hour span.
>> you
nailed it. You
want a job at the fire department?
>>
I personally do not see an issue with
the traffic hundred.
>>
thank you. Any
more questions or comments? We are good?
>> can I
just really say thank you to the
city staff, their time on
helping develop the project. It takes
a mountain to move something
like this.
our partners and your team have
been outstanding to work with. We
are almost at the finish line
to where we can see the project come
to fruition. It will help
your city be successful in these events
we are
talking about
with wildland firefighting because
it is one small step in this overall
bucket.
it also leverages us
for a lot of opportunities where we
can do regional training,
we can get other pieces of equipment
to come to
the classroom, to show that we are
not only a leader
in the city but a regional partner
that looks to
try to explore different opportunities
of where we may
need out
evacuation routes and to know that
the water supply is
secure. These fundamental blocks where
we have a classroom
and a training tower built the next
level for us to be
the death --successful department
that represents
the city of dublin.
it's with us having
a wonderful partner in the city that
helps us work through
these ideas and make public safety
a reality. I just wanted to
let you know that this goes on notice
to our members that currently protect
the city.
thank you.
>> we also want to express our gratitude
to you and
your team. I have been in one of the
training and
first-hand experience how tough the
work was and how
severe
you guys are and how much
you have put yourself out there to
protect
our safety. I
have a lot of gratitude and also welcome
you
to have your training center in the
city. We are proud
of that. Can we
have a motion and a second?
>> I
would like to make the motion
to move the site as presented to us
and also highlight
the interagency cooperation between
l.a. County and the city
--alameda
county and the city. I'm happy to
move that
as written.
>> can we have a
roll call?
>> councilmember morada?
>> aye. >>
councilmember mccorriston.
>> aye.
>> councilmember josey. >> aye.
>> councilmember qaadri.
>> aye. >> mayor
hu.
>> aye .
that item passed unanimously. We have
the acceptance
of the tobacco grant
program. I believe
councilmember morada has a question.
>>
I do.
>> please go ahead. >> thank you, meta-mayor.
good evening, chief fox.
in my opinion this program
definitely contributes to item
2 bravo and our strategic
plan. Congratulations to you and the
city. I
do have a
a few clarifying questions. If
you can help me understand a little
more context the process by which
this
program would execute within the city limits.
chief, the first question
I have for you is more from the
perspective of , how with this program
impact businesses
considering there is a
component that
would impact businesses.
if you could share with me your thoughts
on,
for example,
do you find this based on prior research
or even
from precedents that the effectiveness
of this
in terms of public safety does not
have a major implication
on businesses within the city in which
the grant
was given.
>> thank
you for that question. To answer
your question, this program will
impact the 22 establishments
in the city of dublin that are licensed
to
sell tobacco. Those ,
that is the target audience.
those businesses that are licensed,
the crime prevention unit works with
them to provide education
among responsible tobacco sales
. They are doing on-site
inspections to make sure
the business is selling things they
are supposed to sell.
they are not
selling flavored tobacco and things
that are prohibited. It also provides
an enforcement component for us to
do enforcement. That includes the
shoulder chap operation and minor
decoy operation. It will not affect
any
other businesses.
>>
thank you.
I would like to follow up with my
second question parlaying off of the
process. You
had mentioned the shoulder chap process.
me
being somewhat of a new councilmember,
can you explain what that is and how
that
would be done?
>>
a shoulder chap operation is what
we do to
make sure
minors are not getting
tobacco products.
the typical operation is what is called
a minor
decoy operation. A minor goes into
a business and
they present their own I.d. Or ask
for a product.
the target is the business owner or
the clerk. A shoulder
chap operation the decoy will be placed
outside of the establishment and solicit
patrons to purchase products,
either alcohol
or tobacco that they otherwise would
not be able to purchase. Typically
they
will tell that person I'm underage,
the decoy will look underage and they
will ask
them to get
them tobacco or alcohol. If they do,
then they are detained and issued
a citation
.
>> thank you. I better understand
that
process now. Again, looking into that
a little
bit deeper, there is no point
at which a shoulder chap operation
would
be performed outside of the present
--premises of a commercial business?
you would not have the decoy standing
on the corner of a neighborhood and
try to it happen
adult to go purchase? It has to be
somebody at least
visible to the premise of the tobacco facility?
>> in this case tobacco,
those operations are strictly
conducted on-site where it is
the license is held.
>> the last question I
have a somewhat procedural and somewhat
tactical so
forgive me for diving
a little bit too deep into the operations,
but if I may
ask, how would an officer
or officers be selected
to be
part of the program? What are the
qualifications? Is there
a task force that gets created? Just
tell me
understand how somebody becomes part
of this program.
>> basically we have a unit
within the police department that
manages the grant.
in our case it's
the community policing use it as a
unit. The
resource officers manage the inspections,
providing education materials. There's
no qualification
special to be part of the unit. Typically
it's the
officers that are assigned there.
they receive training, they go to classes
to get educated on proper tobacco
sales.
>> so everybody does. Anybody could
qualify? Is that correct?
>> we are basically enforcing city
ordinance is
and business and profession codes
that they learn in the
police academy and through their career.
>> very good. I am all for sharing
knowledge. That was the intention
of the question. I have no
further questions.
>> thank you. We
will look
for the motion and second.
>>
I make
the motion that we accept the recommendation
for item 5.7.
>>
first and second. Can we have roll
call.
>>
councilmember morada.
>> aye. >> councilmember
mccorriston.'s
>> aye. >>
councilmember josey.
>> aye.
>> vice mayor qaadri. >> aye.
>> mayor hu.
>> aye.
>> that finishes the consent agenda.
let's move to
item 6. Public hearing. 6.1.
housing
implementation zoning ordinance amendments
four 020-2024.
>> good evening mayor and city council members.
kristi wheeler
interim assistant community development director.
the item before you tonight are a
series
of zoning ordinance amendments to
implement the recently
certified housing element. For background,
the
housing element is one of seven
mandatory element
of the general plan and the only one
that requires certification
by the department of housing and community
development. The housing element is
updated every eight years to
demonstrate how the city will meet
existing and projected
housing needs.
in november, 2022 the city council
approved
the draft housing element . In january 2024
it was finally certified
. The housing element includes a number
of programs that require implementation
by the city.
the proposed project is
city initiated amendments to
zoning ordinance which would implement
the following housing element programs. First,
review and revise the density bonus
ordinance to ensure
continued compliance with state law.
amend the site development review permit
findings
to remove subjective language
and ensure objective standards
and compliance with senate bill 35.
program b 11
would amend the ordinance goodbye
is got to
comply with state transitional and
supportive
housing as residential use by right.
program b 12
requires us to review the permitting
procedures for
single room occupancy unit to remove
potential constraints to
developing
a diversity of housing types in the
city. Program b 17 but allow
community care facilities in all zones
allowing residential use
and also would revise the definition
of family
to eliminate constraints to persons
with disabilities.
program d 3 requires
review and amendment to the emergency
shelters ordinance to ensure consistency
with
government code and also amend the
zoning ordinance to comply
with ab 139 parking requirements. Finally,
t 6 will criers mend in the zoning
ordinance to comply with requirements established
in ab 2097. For the most part the
programs we
are implementing tonight
are required by recent legislation
or state law. Those that are not specifically
related to that are programs that
would encourage
a diversity of housing
and remove barriers to housing development.
the first
set of amendments our chapter 8.08
definitions . The
amendments would remove reference
to small
and large in the definition of community
care facility supportive housing and
transitional housing and ensure
those definitions are consistent with
the
government code . We would update
the definition
of family and single room occupancy unit.
in chapter 8.12, this
is a chapter that includes
a land-use matrix that identifies
uses that are permitted by
right, require additional use permit,
or not permitted. We would remove
reference to small and large
facility for supportive housing and
transitional housing,
allow by right those uses
and residential districts. We would allow
in commercial
zoning districts
the community care facility supportive
housing and
transitional housing with a conditional
use permit. We
would allow by right an sro in the
c 2 district. In
chapter 8.16,
8.20 and 8.24, we
would make amendments to provide
consistency with the amendments that
are proposed
to the land-use matrix. Chapter
8.45 would remove
development standards that are inconsistent
with state law for emergency shelters.
chapter 8.46 would allow sro
in the c 2
district .
8.47
and 8.50 would remove
reference to small and large supportive
housing
and transitional housing and update
were supportive and transitional housing
uses are permitted by right or where
they had
require approval of cup, conditional
use permit.
eight point 52 would remove
adverse impact to the physical environment
as
a reason to deny a request for a concession
or incentive or waiver or modification. This
is the only recent change
in state law that we needed to
comply with.
8.76, we would
add an exception
to the offstreet parking requirements
for projects located within one half
mile of public transit. You
will recall we did this in the downtown
dublin plan so we are amending the
zoning ordinance to make
sure we are addressing that requirement
and other parts of the city
that have public transit.
the chapter would also be amended
to what date
offstreet parking requirements for
community
care facilities, supportive housing
and transitional
housing to ensure
they are the same as would be applied
to other uses. Finally, we
would update the offstreet parking
requirements for
emergency shelters. Chapter
8.104 we would add
an exception
to two site development review findings
to clarify they
would not apply to housing projects
subject to ministerial review
under sb 35 which was the affordable
housing streamline review act. The
last amendment would
be chapter 8.116 which
would add
sro units as
a project type that requires ministerial
review of the zoning clearance. On
december 10 the planning commission
held a
public hearing and considered
the proposed amendments and unanimously
recommended approval to the
city council. Tonight we are asking
you to waive
reading and introduce the ordinance
approving the proposed amendments.
that concludes
my presentation. I am happy to answer any
questions.
>> thank you. Does anyone have questions?
>>
thank you for the presentation. Welcome back.
I am happy to hear that
the housing element was
finally certified. Could you talk
about
the relationship between these ordinances
or
amendments here and the impacts
to the housing element.
I assume they are two separate things
but
can you clarify that a bit.
>>
the zoning ordinance amendments would implement
the housing
element so there's no conflict.
>> perfect. That's what I assumed.
you made a
comment on
8.52 with the density bonus regulations.
I did not catch
the comment that this is the only
one.
>> the program required us to
take a look at recent changes .
it is one of the parts of state law
that changes all the time.
we went back and reviewed
our ordinance against the most recent
changes.
we only identified the one change
that is proposed
to remove some language
that would , we could no longer used
to deny a request for a concession
or
waiver.
>> thank you. Those are my
only questions.
>> john, do you
have a question?
>> I do. Just a very simple question.
thank you, ms. Wheeler,
for the presentation. Very simple
question
just for clarity. The request this evening
is to update
the current policies. We are not taking
any particular action to rezone anything?
>> we are
amending the zoning ordinance but
not rezoning any particular properties.
the regulations and the zoning ordinance
are
being changed.
>> by making this change that brings
us current?
>> it provides compliance for
the city with the housing element.
>> thank
you so much. That was my question.
>>
thank you so much. Do we have any
public comments on this?
>> we do need
to open the public hearing first.
>> let's open
the public hearing on agenda
item 6.1.
>> I have two speaker slips. The
first is shirley lewandowski.
>> please come.
>> hello
again. Shirley lewandowski. To me
it is
distressing that this agenda item
and the next two all seek exemption
from
ceqa.
exempting the environmental quality
act for many development projects
undermines the fundamental purpose
of
environmental protection and sustainable development.
ceqa ensures that all environmental
impacts are thoroughly accessed and
mitigated promoting transparency and
accountability in decision-making process.
without
ceqa we risk irreversible damage to
our natural resources, public health
and overall quality of life. Quality
of life is really key for me.
I know it is for you also but
I hope
it is present when you make decisions.
it
is crucial to maintain ceqa requirements
for all development projects
to safeguard our environment and for
current and future generations.
mother nature and climate change are already
giving us enough red flag warnings
when we circumvent
and eliminate guardrails like ceqa.
>>
the second speaker.
>> good evening,
mayor and council members. I am
here speaking on behalf of of
carpenters local 713 representing
thousands of working carpenters in
alameda county, many
who live and work in the city of dublin.
we appreciate
our productive conversation with staff
in anticipation of the zoning updates today.
the carpenters union has worked closely
with state
and local government to streamline
housing production
to meet our
growing needs while guaranteeing strong
labor standards, apprenticeship
requirements and healthcare
for the men and women that build the
housing. Recently passed
a distillation --legislation
all enable ceqa development while
uplifting workers
in the process. We look forward to
working with you on future zoning
changes, plans and the next process
to ensure that as the city of dublin and
develops we protect our strength,
the men and women that told our future.
>> I have no more speaker
slips. We will closely hearing.
any questions
or comments?
>> I have a couple of
follow-up
questions. Is this a project?
>>
the housing amendments
are considered a project
under ceqa. In light of the fact
that there is no physical development
that would result in the
housing amendments, we found the project
was exempt
from ceqa. Any future project that
would come forward for any of
the types of development that are
part of the amendments would be subject
to ceqa at
the time and we would review potential
impacts.
>>
does that include pyrite projects?
>> it does not.
>> the state law says we have to allow
these housing types by
right which is why we are making these
changes. Correct?
>> correct. >> state law does not
allow us
to impose any additional ceqa requirements
on those projects
, correct?
>>
correct. While I agree with the
speakers that we want to mitigate any
impacts to the environment,
our hands are a little tied
. The things that we are doing with
this project tonight
are not things that we
have decided we want to do. They
are things we are doing to comply
with recent state laws and
to ensure that hcd continues to
certify our housing.
>> correct.
>> thank you.
>> excellent. Thank you.
any more
questions from anybody? Any comments
or questions?
we will invite
a motion and second.
>> motion to introduce the ordinance
approving amendments
to the municipal code chapter
8.12 districts and permitted uses
of land, 8.16 agricultural
zoning district,
a point to cut residential zoning
districts. 8.24
commercial zoning districts.
emergency shelters. 8.46
single room occupancy units.
8.47 supportive housing.
8.5 transitional housing.
density bonus
regulations. A .76 offstreet
parking and loaded regulations. Site
development review and
8.116
zoning clearance.
>> good job.
second?
>> I
will second.
>> we have
a first and second. Lease to the
rollcall.
>> councilmember morada
.
>> aye.
>> councilmember mccorriston. >>
aye.
>> councilmember josey.
>> aye. >>
vice mayor qaadri.
>> aye. >>
mayor hu.
>> aye . >>
item passes unanimously. Next
rezoning.
>> that one is mine
also.
>> similar to the housing element,
zoning ordinance amendments this item
is also an implementation measure
for the
housing element. I will skip the background.
the proposed project
is a city initiated rezoning
of four residential properties from
plant development to
multi family residential.
all four of the properties
are currently
have general plan land use designations
for residential development.
the rezonings would implement
program b .18 which I will talk about
more
in a minute. These are the properties
. They are all located
here. They range from one acre to
12 1/2 acres.
like I said,
they all have a medium
density residential land use designation.
three also have either
open space or
corridor designations. We
are not proposing to change the zoning
on those portions of
the properties.
I know that the maps
are little bit small, but the map
on the left is
the general plan land use map . The
parcels are located here , here, here,
here, and here.
the zoning map
is on the right. These are the parcels
and the zoning.
these properties were zoned many
years ago
as part of an annexation up for
--effort when they came into the city.
they
never had any extensive
development proposed.
they each have a single-family home
except for the fourth parcel
which has an equestrian center.
this program
pertains to the development of property
with zoning which requires legislative
action
the city council and is viewed as
a constraint to residential development.
this came directly
from hcd. Staff
was required under the program
to review
vacant and underutilized residential
properties with existing zoning
for residential use
and rezone those parcels to a residential
district with
established development standards.
under the current zoning
there are no development standards
so setback,
building height, lot coverage,
those sorts of things would all have
to be established
if those properties were proposed
for development.
the
proposed rezoning would ensure that
it is not mandated on the residential properties
. Property owners
would still have an option to pursue
zoning if they desire greater flexibility
for standards which a lot of developers
prefer. They are
able to be a little more flexible
and creative with how
it is laid out. Rezoning would
benefit property owners providing certainty
without requiring further legislative
action. It would remain
an option
as I said. I think it is important
to note the
proposed rezoning would not result
in any additional housing
that would not be allowed under the
general plan. This is
the proposed rezoning map.
you can see the portions of the
properties with open space or streambed
corridor would remain
and the remaining portion would be
rezoned to multifamily residential
. On december 10
the planning commission held a public
hearing and considered the
proposed
rezoning and unanimously recommended approval.
we are
asking you to waive the reading and
introduce
the ordinance and
rezoning the properties from plant development
. That
concludes my presentation. I am
happy to answer any questions.
>>
if you
have a question, go ahead.
>> I just have a couple of questions.
it took me a while,
maybe two years of being on council
before I
understood the difference between zoning
and land
use designation. I'm going to
ask this as do I have this
right question. The current zoning
is
plan development,
but we had designated these parcels
to be for the
land use. They have a land use designation
of multi family residential now
and a couple of them have open space
within them
with plant development overlay
on top of them as part of the eastern
dublin specific
land. Do I have that right?
>> I think maybe a way to say it is
the general plan
comes first. Land use designation
gets set first and then
we follow with zoning. We make
sure it is consistent with the general plan.
in
the case of these properties we overlaid
what we sometimes call and
in the
. It does not have development standards
and would require
a new one if it remained. Instead,
we will
give the properties some
actual development standards that
would allow
a
project to move forward without legislative
action.
>> I get that part.
when that eastern dublin plan went
through
ceqa, these parcels were studied
for multifamily residential.
so they have undergone some
environmental study at the
densities we are looking at right now.
the intent of
what we are doing is to put design standards
, the already vetted design standards
on those properties so that
if the property owners eventually
wanted to put the housing on those
parcels
that was contemplated in the general plan,
they could do so should they choose
with the
existing standards that are attached
to the multifamily residential
zoning. Correct?
>>
development standards and multifamily
residential design standards. Yes.
>>
if they chose to do something slightly different
. If they wanted us to put
new zoning on those parcels, that
would trickle --
trigger additional ceqa?
>> it would.
>> those were
my questions.
>> questions?
>>
one of the things that is pinch
my I
that seem to be worked around. How
would you envision
any developments working around? It
is probably a small area
. How would you
envision something like that in the plan?
>> we get that one for next month.
I guess it would
probably be the easiest to develop.
it is
a very large area for development.
the two smaller parcels are fairly
constrained by the open space
and corridor. There is development potential
. Fairly small. We would
only look at that portion of the lot
which has
the general plan land use designation and
the zoning for
multifamily residential.
>>
thank you.
>>
any questions from john?
>> yes. Thank you,
mayor hu. Ms. Wheeler, thank you
for being here again. Just
adding to the questions asked
by councilmember josey, thank you
to clarify
some things I was going to ask.
the one question I have is what was
the result of the original ceqa analysis?
I am very particular
about seen on the
diagram a creek running through the
three
lower properties . I am curious to know
what was the analysis with
regard to development because of the
creek?
>>
I cannot say specifically what
that analysis was. There was an
eir prepared for the specific plan.
that document has
had a number of addendum's for other
developments that have occurred in
the specific
plan area . When there
is a specific development proposed
as councilmember josey
alluded to, any future development
on those parcels would be reviewed against
ceqa and
the previous document to
ensure there would not be any impacts
to the corridor or any other sensitive areas
on those four sites.
>> thank you. No further questions.
>> okay. We will open the
public hearing.
>> mayor,
I have no speaker slips.
>> we will
close
the public hearing and have comments.
any comments? Any comments from
you, john?
>> not at
this time.
>> okay.
do we have a motion and second?
>> to I need to read the whole
thing? Okay.
let's go where we are here. Hang on
a
second. Can somebody put that up there?
that would be an ordinance amending
the zoning
, mapping rezoning property located
at 5378, 5868, 6060, 7440
from plant development to
rm. Anything else I am missing on that?
>> I will second.
>> let's have a roll call. >> councilmember
morada.
>> no. >>
councilmember mccorriston.
>> yes. >>
councilmember josey.
>> yes. >>
vice mayor qaadri.
>> yes.
>> mayor hu. >> yes. That
item passes
4-1. Agenda item 6.3,
amendment to the general plan to update
the economic development
go ahead please.
>>
good evening, mayor, city council members.
rhonda
franklin with the office of economic development.
to provide some background,
the
update of the economic development strategy
which is directly related
to the economic development element
was approved by city council october
1, 2024. The strategy includes seven goals,
each with specific strategies, policies,
action items and
implementation measures. Staff has developed
an in progress workplan and will provide
progress on the updates as we work
on
the plan.
once the updated strategy was approved,
it became necessary to also up date
the economic
development element to
ensure it remains consistent with
the updated strategy.
on december 10, 2024,
the planning commission recommended
city
council approval of the updated element
with comments.
those comments that they made were
addressed in the staff report
for the item.
it is important to note that the foundation
of the
element is the strategy. The element
is a high-level summary of the strategy
and provides guidance for the general plan.
the element should remain consistent
with and
reflective of the strategy and should
also mirror
and maintain the same goals, strategies, policies,
and implementation measures as the strategy.
to review
the seven goals that are in the updated strategy
and the element, they are
innovation growth, promote
infill investment, greenfield development,
retail vitality
, hospitality expansion,
small-business support, and
workforce opportunities.
before I welcome our consultant
to provide a presentation on
the project,
I just wanted to provide a point of
clarification. In
the staff report under the environmental
determination section,
staff is
recommending that the city council
rather than the planning commission
find
the project is exempt from ceqa requirements.
I just wanted to make that point
of clarification. I would like to
turn
it over to derek with strategic economics
who is the consultant
on this project. After his presentation
I will be happy to answer
any questions you have on the project.
>> good evening , mayor,
council members.
I am derek
braun with strategic economics. It's
a privilege and pleasure to be back
before you
today. I will provide a little more
context about the economic development
and
the process although
rhonda did a good job covering some
of the details
of how we got here.
I think I will move past this information.
rhonda has done a great
job covering that. I do want
to emphasize a few key points here.
the economic development element is
an optional component of the general plan.
it
is just as valid and has the same
standing of any
other element.
,
we welcome any questions or comments you.
>>
the environmental determination section
in the staff report, we
erroneously put we are requesting
planning commission approval
when it should have said city council approval
.
>>
thank you.
>>
john has questions.
>>
thank you. Rhonda,
thank you very much and also derek.
I do have a question
as well on the common that was made about
the ceqa requirement being waived.
it seems to me we are doing
an economic development plan update
to be
more competitive.
if that's the case and there's a policy update
why are we bringing ceqa into the
commentary or is
it saying
that the planning commission is asking
to have the ceqa waived so it can
be more competitive?
my brain is not connecting the two
points. If
you could just clarify that for me
please.
>> councilmember morada,
I will take that question. Similar
to the two previous items,
the update to the economic
development element is a project under
ceqa.
when we took a look at it
we determined it qualified for what
is known as the
common sense exemption under ceqa.
and that it can be seen with certainty
there would
be no potential significant effects
to the environment.
if there is a project
that is proposed that would implement policies
and
the economic development element
we would do a review at that time.
>> I think you have an additional
question.
>> I do.
thank you. Not a question
so much as a comment. I am starting
to feel some moral dissonance
with these continuing requests
for ceqa waivers. I am making a general
comment
that it is starting to weigh on me
a
bit. The amount
of these waivers we are requesting.
to follow behind
resident lewandowski's comment it
is there for a reason.
I am just making a
comment here that I'm going to pay
a little
more diligence to these
continuation of waiver request.
>>
can you help to address this comment?
>> I can make some brief remarks.
ceqa
applies to almost every action the
city council takes.
there are certain exemptions the legislature
has
made available. We evaluate to what
extent
we are required
to do environmental review, prepare
eir,
mitigate negative declaration
and those kinds of things. We do those
with
every project
. There's an environmental statement
in almost every staff
report you see that reflects
the review. I would not call
it a ceqa waiver. We are complying
and identifying exemptions
that apply and making
the staff best recommendation.
in particular,
these last few
projects do not have the particular physical
impact on
the environment . Staff has identified that.
we can spend some time with the councilmember
and explain the staff perspective.
occasionally there will be situations where
the staff and council and
members of the public may disagree
about particular issues but these
exceptions, I think they very clearly
apply to these projects that have
just
been discussed.
>>
thank you. We are good with questions
>> first
of all, thank you for the hard work
and the fact
that we are implementing policy
and putting in place policy
to implement strategies
this
is about identifying incubator space
for potential business and innovation incubators.
we have that listed in the downtown
dublin section. I would love to
see that up a level
or two so that
clearly it
is a goal for us,
not necessarily in the downtown. We
want to make sure
we have that somewhere. We
have a pretty wide area
. It could be there, it could be at
sierra court. For me personally I
would like to see and implementation
measure of identifying the space.
I'm
not sure that I love it underneath
the downtown area. That would
be my only question
is why are we continuing to put that
in the downtown area
instead of a little bit higher level,
maybe under and filled development
or higher development in general.
>> we have
targeted the downtown area. However,
that
is something we will be looking at
citywide as we will doubt
other areas. Of course, we will look
to identify incubator spaces there
as well
in any
other place within the city that can
provide the benefit.
we listed it under downtown but it
is something that
we plan on being aware of as we continue
to
build out the city and come across
opportunities to place
incubator spaces in the city.
>>
thank you.
we will open the public hearing for
this agenda
item 6 .3 .
>> I have no
speaker slips on this item.
>> we
will close the
public hearing . Any more comments
on this
agenda item?
we can have a motion?
>> I will move
that we
adopt a resolution approving a general
plan amendment to up date
the economic development .
>> I will
second.
>> with have
a roll call.
>> councilmember morada
?
>> aye.
>> councilmember mccorriston. >>
aye.
>> councilmember josey.
>> aye. >> vice mayor
qaadri .
>> aye.
>>
mayor hu.
>> aye. >> I did
not hear from john?
>>
he said yes.
>> that passed unanimously.
agenda item seven.
unfinished business.
update the dublin boulevard extension
project. An agreement
for
project services.
>> good evening, marianne council
members. I
am the transportation and operations
manager with public works. Tonight
I will be
presenting an update on the dublin
extension project
. This project extends dublin
boulevard from its current terminus
at the intersection of
fallon road
passing through unincorporated alameda
county connecting to
the intersection
of north canyon parkway in the city
of
livermore. This extension
has been planned since 1984
and it is included in the general plan as
well as the general plans for the
cities of livermore
and alameda county and several other
mining documents. The
city of dublin, livermore
are the project partners. In
may 2020,
the city council approved a cooperative
agreement between the
three partners . We
are closely working with the city
of livermore as
well as alameda
on the design phase of the project. This
table shows the current project status
and schedule . The 95% design
is currently in process
and is anticipated to be completed
by
summer 2025.
the final design is anticipated to
be completed
in 2026.
environmental mitigation and right-of-way
will move with the
final design . A portion of
the project and construction will start
once all of the funding has been identified
and all
implements have been granted as
well as the right-of-way acquired.
just some more background in terms
of the
design changes. In spring 2023,
the project was presented
to alameda county by the
advisory committee. Through this process
various revisions were identified
including to address comments
as well as to make the project consistent
with latest policies and
guidelines, especially related to
the multimodal
elements and make sure the project
is competitive
in terms of grant applications
and future funding opportunities.
city staff worked
with the fallon east group and
worked on the design of access points
as well as
the properties. This resulted in
a substantial amount of design changes
and required an amendment
with the alameda contract .
in september, 2024 the commission
approved a contract amendment in
the amount of $1.3 million
to allow us to continue to
move forward with the design.
the project does have direct
and indirect impacts on the environment.
construction will start
only when we
have the various environmental permits
that are needed
to mitigate the impacts. With that
in mind, in
february 2023 city council approved
an agreement to prepare
mitigation package to address
the mitigation requirements. Work
on this
mitigation package is currently
in progress and is anticipated that
the mitigation package will be presented
and submitted
to the resource agency is one plans
are completed. In
terms of project costs,
preliminary
engineering is about $153.6 million.
the cost sharing
assumes that
the cost for the project will be shared
between the cities
of dublin and livermore based on the
roadway
in each jurisdiction as well as the assumption
that there will be a
cost sharing for a portion of the roadway
in unincorporated
alameda county. And also assumes that
the half-mile section of the roadway
stays as county land. Based on those
assumptions,
the estimate for dublin
is $126.1 million
and livermore would be 27 point $5 million
--$27.5 million.
the plan,
once it is complete will allow us
to have
a more accurate cost estimate.
the estimate will be updated at
that time. Currently the city
has
$76 million
in funding including $63 million coming
from the feed
. In march, 2023
, the city council approved a plan
that was
presented to advance
eastern dublin the funds using internal
city sources.
staff created a general fund reserve
the project
to act as a cash flow
advance. The general fund would be reimbursed
as development occurs and money comes
in in terms of development fees.
the current balance in the general
fund reserve for
the project is 59 point $5 million.
the remaining is anticipated to be
designated by the
end of the year. Staff is continuing
to work with alameda
and look at future grant opportunities
to identify the
needed funds for dublin's share
of the unfunded cost. With that, I
will pass
it over to the deputy city manager
who was on the phone.
>> hazel weatherford, deputy
city manager. As a point of reference
I have included a map of the development
zone including
approximately 285 acres
amongst five company owners.
you can see how the parcels are laid out.
stinnie staff
--city
staff continues to hold meetings where
we discuss topics from the schedule,
mitigation efforts, right-of-way,
development agreements
and valley
link. The last meeting was december
12 where we provided
an update on the contract amendment
which was
just recently spoken about.
as it relates to the ballot measure, that
was approved
either voters and the city council
certified those election results december 17.
the measure amended the plan
to allow future approval for limited
commercial development.
I would like
to briefly address the topic of future
potential annexation in relation
to the measure which contemplates
development along
the roadway. It's an horton to know
any future
annexation would. The required
direction and approval from the city council
and is not
part of tonight's action.'s draft
will continue to collaborate
with livermore as we have been doing.
I want
to clarify that the project in annexation
are entirely
two separate matters. At this time
staff is not proposing
any changes to the current approach.
the focus remains on advancing the
project in alignment city priorities.
the project is a highly complex infrastructure
undertaking that involves coordination
across multiple jurisdictions,
agencies and funding sources in
addition to addressing significant
education requirements. Public works
and of city
manager's office have collaborated closely
to advance this project. However,
with my
expanded oversight responsibilities
to include the finance department
and communications, there
is a need to adjust resources and secure
project management
support to assist the public for team
.
the agreement will provide the team
with additional resources and expertise
to ensure the successful progression
of the initiative.
grable and scott is a professional
consulting term with more than 40
years specializing in transportation
and collaborating with regional agencies
and getting addressing
complex mitigation efforts. The firm
has significant
experience with hctz
-- a.c.t.s . Notably
the principal is a former deputy executive director
of the implementing agency for
the dublin boulevard extension project
and brings
invaluable expertise
having led the team currently overseeing
the project.
building on
the expertise and leadership, the
portfolio projects demonstrate their ability
on similar initiative.
a few that I
have called out were listed on the screen.
the union city lakes project.
state route 92.
the white street interchange project.
san mateo express lanes and city
of hayward. This concludes the staff presentation.
we are available for questions
as well as a consultant who has joined
us
this evening.
>> thank you very much.
do we have questions?
>>
I am going to keep with my
theme of ceqa for a couple more minutes.
this project, the dublin boulevard
extension project is
undergoing extensive ceqa? Correct?
>> that is correct. The process was completed
a few
years ago.
>>
any future development on
any of these parcels the road will
go through would also be subject
to additional regardless of the road itself?
development projects would be required
to go through
as well?
but none of that is what we are talking
about. I'm trying
to clarify for the public that has
been concerned that
they are tying this together
with the lack of for insufficient
ceqa . The roadway
itself has had quite significant
ceqa. Part of what we are asking
is to help us with the implementation
of some of the measures that
were identified. Is that correct?
>> that
is correct.
>> thank you.
to further separate with what we are
trying
to do tonight is that no actual development
is contemplated. If down the line
council took some action to annex
that parcel into dublin
and further action was taken to rezone
any of
that property and we eventually
allowed some limited development that
would also be subject to
ceqa .
>>
that is correct.
>> thank you.
I have no other questions at
the moment.
>> easy questions for
you. I think we all understand
your resource constrained
and that is why you decided to seek
consulting services.
that makes a lot of sense. I would
like
to understand, maybe you can provide
me with a little more color.
you certainly have a great resume.
they have been involved in
a lot of like projects.
what was the process you went through
in determining
that
this was where you wanted to go. Did
you talk to anybody else? How are
we
getting to this point?
>> this
is all a product of
timing. I became city manager in a over.
the deputy director retired
in december and went
to work for this firm
which
has done countless large transportation
and infrastructure projects. I have reassigned
hazel and given her larger duties
in the
organization related to finance and
communications. Looking at what I'm
expected to deliver on , one of
the projects is the dublin boulevard extension.
I believe the
project needs
more resources. It made sense with
the timing
of everything happening that we could
take someone who
has recently worked on the project
who has
the relationships with the property owners
and understands mitigation efforts
and worked on
the road when he was employed here
for the city of
dublin. That is the perfect fit for
us. I wanted
to
take advantage of the timing and get
him on board.
the city of dublin will not be
his only client. This will be one
of his many projects. Can be
honest and say I do not know how much
we are going to use
him. We have a three-year contract
.
he will certainly take over the duties
hazel had. He will coordinate with
the
property owners
. My primary purpose is to deliver
this project.
I expect him to be a resource
in helping them do that also.
>> that
is a good segue
to my next question. There's a three-year
term in this agreement.
the amount one could say in relation
to the whole amount we will be spending
on the
project evidently, it is small but meaningful
. It made me focus on the contract
itself. How do we ensure that
gary
or whomever will be working on this
is meeting certain
goals along that ?
there is no
evaluation. Are you
starting to think about metrics? Goals
and achievements?
how do we hold them to making sure
they
are successful in meeting your goals
so the money is
well spent?
>>
my expectation is we deliver on the
schedule we showed you tonight.
some of those things take a really
long time to work out because
you are dealing with property owners.
regulatory agencies are not easy to
work with. He saw the
amount of time it took us to work
with the bicycle and pedestrian
group to ensure they are happy with
the project. This
is really long-term in nature. As
long as we
are sticking to the schedule I'm satisfied
we are getting the
work done. I expect that between us
we
will continue to work closely both
with the
public
works amnesty resource to be sure
we stay on track
>> so you will set up some kind of
a plan with
specific goals and achievements?
>> it will be similar
to the plan hazel had for
the project. We
are not going to change the approach.
we are just adding resources.
>> with the understanding things shift
but
something that moves along. You are
monitoring the process.
no further questions at this point.
>> thank
you. I just have two questions . Most
of the
other questions I had have already
been answered. You mentioned the
ceqa analysis regarding
dublin boulevard extension and
could you give us some timing in terms
of when that was
last conducted?
>> I think it
was around 2019. The preliminary design
started around 2016 that
was followed by
work on the environmental phase of
the project
and more recently we also did clearance
of
the project.
>> okay.
next question is probably an
easy one but to kind of highlight
this project
in relation
to the open space initiative,
could you just add some context or
color to that?
>>
the project itself has little to do
with
the open space initiative.
what the open space initiative said
was in a certain time we
would study whether
the area that is currently in unincorporated
alameda county
would help fund the extension. That's
how they are related. I do not have
any direction
from the city council
. I have not been in front of you
to start analyzing that option. When
we do that it will
be in collaboration with livermore
and we will
conduct that process in an open and
transparent fashion.
>> my last question is just around
the cost
. I'm just trying to
reconcile the total amount, total
estimated amount
is $153 million.
if I understand correctly the
city funds have $76 million. The
remainder would come from future grants for
what are
you thinking in terms of that?
>> the shares $126 million which leaves
us with rough the
about $50 million that would need
to be identified
through other sources
.
transportation development fees only
cover
$76 million there's 26 point $5 million
within that $153.6 million
. That is dependent,
it assumes
that portion of the roadway and county
land stays in the county .
>> okay. The idea
is to identify those funding sources
and have that all
lined up?
>>
that is correct.
>> thank you. John,
do you have questions?
>> no further comment from
me. I am satisfied with the update.
>> I do have a few questions here.
I heard
comments about
four lanes and six lanes. I also hurt things
up why we would choose to do six
lanes. Part of the reason is we want
to have
bike lanes
and pedestrian lanes so we have a
better chance to
gather funding. Can you elaborate
on that?
>> the six lanes
is vehicular lanes within the city
of dublin up to the intersection
. That has been identified through the
ceqa process and the environmental
traffic analysis that was
done as part of previous studies.
than the
road narrows to four lanes
in the unincorporated alameda county
portion
as well as towards livermore.
I do want to emphasize it's not just
vehicular
lanes. There is a bike
path included in the design and being
planned as part
of the project. The reason
design changes I referred to in response
to
comments include
the change from having class
ii bike lanes to protect the
likely in san intersection
. That was done to make it better
in terms of
the multimodal connectivity to position
ourselves better for funding.
>>
I would just
want to point that out. Another thing
is this road
has been here for 30 years.
it was livermore was always a great
extension project. Yesterday we
received a letter from the mayor
of livermore. I have this
in front of me. He said,
the city of dublin and livermore have
been working collaboratively
for a number of years
on the dublin boulevard extension
project. Livermore
is working with us,
collaboratively on
this project.
with that said, that is all
my questions. We will open public comments.
>> I do have
speaker, surely lewandowski.
>> please go ahead.
>> back again.
I understand this topic was not really
about measure ii but I'm taking advantage
of the fact that you mentioned that.
I
wanted it noted and recorded
for the sake of the public to remind them
and let them be aware that there is
pending litigation on
measure ii . I
wanted to make sure that
was recorded in the public is aware
that the
effort is still moving forward.
>>
we will close
. Thank
you for the public comment. Let's
come back to
any additional comments or questions?
>> is this for discussion purposes?
>> if I may lead off.
I am very
much in favor of ringing in a consultant.
it makes a
lot of sense
. I know how
hard the city works . They have a
lot
of responsibilities and they are
resource constrained. I think
the term of the agreement, the amount
is
high. I am not against it but I would
like to
see maybe a little more oversight
into
so that . I would like to make a proposal that
we have annual reviews of this
.
what that
does is measures
progress.
the services that
are going to be provided here are
very critical. It's a
very complex situation. I would advocate for
making sure that the goals are achieved
. I do
not see any issue in my head
with coming back once year and looking
at that and extending the contract.
you see
these and other contracts also. You
have a commitment amount but you also
have
renewal within. It's not uncommon.
that
is what I would propose . Something
like that.
>> we do that where we have an initial
term
and then we have an additional extension
with the option to extend
we usually don't have one year for
a
consulting contract on a project
this side --this size. This
is a not to exceed contract
. I am actually
comfortable with the way it is. I
do not want to burden staff with
having to do additional . I believe
we
have oversight because it is task
based and not
an open-ended contract where
we have tons
of just go work because the scope
of work is quite detailed
with specific tasks and
additional possible as needed tasks
that are also under the cat.
I am comfortable with the way it is.
I think we
have a some sufficient
oversight. We can ask at any time
how much we have spent
.
>> I cannot support that.
>> more comments?
>> I appreciate your comments. I am
happy to come back to the
city council. I would like to be in
front
of you more often with this project.
if it is a question of being back
in front of
you after a year
and explaining what everybody worked
on and the progress we made
in putting the I have no problem
with that.
>> I am
a big proponent of hiring
consultants when needed. I'm also
a big opponent
of key performance indicators
. Having the regular check-in and
status of dates
on a project of this magnitude,
I think it's important to get that
visibility and
line of sight. It
sounds like it is a new vendor
. I think just given that
and the importance of the project
and seeing it
to fruition I think the chickens are
a great idea.
>> john, any comments?
>> no.
I do have some operational thought
.
I can refer that to colleen later
but I am
a 17 year consultant myself so I
understand how these things go so
I do not
object to any of the
comments made.
>> thank you. I also appreciate how
the city operates.
we do use a lot
of great consultants who share their
expertise with
us. Actually,
I think in some ways it's a very efficient
way to
do the work
. I
know that many cities have when wearing police
then we would have for the
same size of population but
we were able to manage our
city expenses through
the very great way using consultant
and contractors and
we were able to operate very efficiently
and
I feel comfortable
with what we have today and I also appreciate
you want to bring in this project
once a year. I appreciate
that. With that said I will look for
the motion
.
>> the motion would be with
the addition.
>> can we
add this? Who wants to do
a motion.
>> I
will make the motion that we add annual reviews
to the amendment
as stated
.
that is really at. We can determine
how it is going to
be annual evaluation and progress.
>> madam mayor,
the motion is to move the staff recommendation
with
that addition .
>> exactly.
>> we have a motion and
second. What avitable call.
>> councilmember morada . >> aye.
>>
councilmember mccorriston.
>> aye.
>> councilmember
josey.
>> aye. >>
vice mayor qaadri.
>> aye. >>
mayor hu.
>> aye .
the measure
passes unanimously. Next item
the army 250 anniversary
celebration
in collaboration
with camp parks.
>>
that evening, once again. The recreation
coordinator with the parks and community
services department. I am here to
present the 250th
anniversary celebration event held
in collaboration with
parks reserve force training area
known as
camp parks.
the event will be saturday, june
14, 2025 which is the
actual date of the army's 250th anniversary
from 10:00 a.m. To
3:00 p.m.
the purpose of the event is to honor
the service
and sacrifice of the u.s. Army
, celebrate the history and traditions
of the military, foster
community spirit among residents, veterans,
and military personnel.
encourage public engagement and awareness
in the military role in the history
of supporting and safeguarding freedoms
and highlight the importance
of camp parks
in dublin. The event will be open
to all including
active military, residents,
and the entire tri-valley. We will
highlight the
important relationship
between camp parks and the city of dublin.
the
celebration will be filled with ceremony on
historical elements.
that is
followed by a 250th birthday cake cake
cutting featured with the
youngest and oldest soldier present together.
attendees will also
enjoy drill team performances, uniforms
and a
variety of display showcasing
historical military vehicles over
at
the park.
the event is designed to be family-friendly,
offering activities that will educate
and entertain of all ages. Someone
include carnival games,
face painting, rockclimbing,
bounce houses. Demonstrations for
the children
and military display is.
additionally we will have several
booths to provide resources and give
community
members a chance to engage
with organizations that support military
personnel and veterans.
there will be
a variety of food and beverage vendors
offering meals and snacks for purchase.
it is not a party without music. The
celebration
will feature the 191st army band that
will provide
live entertainment through the event.
five and drummers will
entertain guests as they explore the
park. As
previously mentioned, this will be
a
joint effort. Camp parks will contribute
by helping to organize many
of the family oriented act entities
providing resources
and supporting the ceremonial and
historic components. The city
will take the lead in managing the
overall
exit mission including securing contract services
as outlined in the report,
obtaining necessary
permits and supporting the marketing
and promotional efforts.
thank you for your time. Any questions?
>> thank you. Any questions?
>>
I looked at
the data on here. I am very
supportive of this. I
think it is perfect. The venue is
perfect. I was wondering if you could
comment on the budget for this . Some
of this seems high. Maybe
you can give
a little my cover. Staff can give
a little more color
on the expectations.
>> of
course. As you saw,
a majority of the cost will go
to tenting and staging services we
need to bring into the park.
don bittle park does not have a lot
of shade. Given
that the event is in june it gets hot.
we will be bringing in large tents
to
vote --so folks can
enjoy the event comfortably. Stages
for the performers
and the ceremonies . Sound services,
like that as well as security
when we ring in large generators and
equipment acted
set up the night before. We like to
be sure that is
secure. So when we arrive everything
is where we left it.
>> if I
could add to that,
there are some padding in
the budget. We want to be sure we
have enough for what we want
to do and we
did leave some room. We've never really
done one of these
one off celebrations. We've always
just had
the big two events. I do not expect
we will spend
that much. Really,
the biggest expense like
lauren indicated his shade, set up,
there's no electrical out there. We
have to sort of create something out
of nothing. We do
the same for splatter.
that is three times as expensive
and longer in duration. We did
not really know
how this was going to go . We are
still flushing it out . It is certainly
not going to
go over 50. We thought it is appropriate.
you don't have a 250th birthday party
every year.
you have one every 250 years. It is
a cushion
budget.
>> I appreciate the analysis.
>> thank you for
the presentation. The question is,
how much
of this
do you think will go towards this
particular event.
a bulk of those activities will be
held on
that one. Some of the more ceremonial aspects
except
for that
. The historical vehicles will be
held through the
picnic areas. We plan to use the whole park.
>> perfect. I was going
to make a comment
that it seemed low.
I am excited about the partnership.
I am excited about
the event itself. I
hope you have parking considering
we have
the
bridge opened.
>> I know that
john has questions.
>> yes. Think you. This
is exciting. My grandfather is a
for me army
--former army veteran of this
is amazing. A few questions with regard
to public safety.
the first one being the parking
lot can accommodate only so many. I
presume part of those spaces will
be taken
up by trucks delivering or trucks
that have to unload.
there are complaints around the parking spots
being taken . Is that walked to
the event or make a healthy event
. Can you share thoughts
on that?
>> similar to how we handle that because
don
bittle park is so close we
can partner with
b.a.r.t. Encouraging folks
to take b.a.r.t. .
we can also notify
that we will be utilizing the space
to expect additional
traffic. We work with dublin police
services to make sure that we
are not overbooking anything.
>> thank
you. One more question and then
--
given what happened in new orleans
, what are your thoughts around
remediating
or that something like that could
happen
to mark
>> again, prior to
every large event I meet
with dublin police services to look
over traffic plans,
event layouts, we are
briefed on attendance expectations
and we work with them to make
sure that we do plan to have them
on site. Public safety is always number one
when it comes to our events?
>> any thoughts on
barriers we would put to the road
or sidewalk?
>> we
will take all precautions into consideration.
>> I see the chief
standing up . I do not think
we have discussed that yet. We will
when we get the final layout.
here he comes.
>> I am in trouble.
>> we have
access to numerous heavy-duty vehicle
barricades to use for the event to
mitigate any vehicular threat.
>> okay. Chief,
as we get closer to the date we will
have you provided a date on what that
would look like.
>> I
can do that.
>> thank you. Last question
the history of
camp parks is not solely army.
we have multiple services that have
in part
of camp parks. The anniversary for
the navy is october 13,
1775. Is there something similar
being requested from the navy
because of their affiliation?
>> we have not been approached for
anything
other than this event in june.
>> thank you. No further questions.
>>
thank you. Thank you all the great comments
. I do have a few questions. How
many people do you expect will attend
this
event
>>
>> as with any brand-new event,
it is hard to anticipate in advance.
based on the
marketing efforts it will be similar
to what we do with splatter
or saint pats. The more the merrier
as opposed to
just advertising
to residents. We will do our own marketing efforts
to active military and veterans
. We anticipate large numbers.
>> excellent. Another question I
have, this is a very important part
,
the army ,
our history.
I want to ask,
are there any specific
history related
--any activities like that planned?
>> yes. In the meetings I
have had thus far we have discussed
having informational booths that
focus specifically on what camp
parks does as well
as working with the city historian
and all of that
to ensure that we are
accurately
representing and celebrating the history.
>> I am really excited for this event.
we want to
see how this goes
and maybe possibly to think something
for an event
like splatter, the parade or something
. That is what I
am thinking.
>> we are thinking about all kinds
of different ways to celebrate . Especially
on
our mind is cultural events. You expect
dave report
back on that so we can talk about event
as we approach them during that item.
>>
thank you. Now do we have
public comments on this?
>> I have no speaker slips for this
item.
>> any additional comments?
>>
other than
this venue previously was not ready
for prime
time and now it is.
>> motion?
>> this is informational. We do not
need a motion.
>> perfect. Thank you
so much. With that said,
we have finished
the unfinished business.
we have
no new
business. We will come to item 9,
city council and city manager reports.
>> I
just want to highlight that alameda
county fire department has sent
27 people to assist with
the situation in
los angeles county. I have been talking
to the chief
. We are still fully operational and
staffed. I just want the
community to be aware that we
are assisting where we can but we
remain safe
. We have heard all the comments
from the community and we will be
back
in front of you with the fire chief
to talk
about how we might respond to something similar.
that is
all that I have.
>> thank
you so much. John, do you
want to give an update on what happened
in the past
several weeks
and what is the future events for you?
>>
certainly. I would be happy to. Thank
you for the opportunity.
first of all, happy new year to everyone
I apologize
I'm not there in person.
my past week was actually getting
to attend the aba energy committee
. That was very informational. I was not
on any particular subcommittee at
but I was able
to participate and listen in. Tomorrow
is the
official board meeting where I will
be sworn in
so that is really it
in terms of commissions. I would
like to simply state my gratitude
and thanks to
city staff for assisting me in on boarding
and all the questions that I asked
. Thank you so much. I really appreciate
everything you do so thank you again.
that
is it.
>> thank you, john. We will
look at
,
councilmember josey.
>>
I wanted to thank
councilmember mccorriston for attending
in my absence last thursday. A
lot of good things going on. Some
grant
funding opportunities
for nonprofits and other organizations
in the area
for food waste recovery and other opportunities.
if we have anybody listening
wants to explore those
they can look on the website or contact me.
the committee meeting is ongoing
and the tri-valley transportation
commission meeting is coming up.
>>
thank you. Councilmember mccorriston
.
>> not a lot to report.
stop waste,
I will let you talk about the services
that we all attended.
next week will be a little bit
easy for me.
>>
vice mayor qaadri.
>> happy new year's
everyone, happy lunar
new year for those who celebrate.
one big item
which was the mosquito abatement district
meeting . That was a
lot of fun. I will let you talk about
the celebration
of life for our first mayor.
>> happy
new year. It has been
a busy start of 2025. I would like
to share
a few of dates. We do have a mayors
conference that is once a month
for mayors and city managers
to get together.
we had that in hayward last week.
we also
had the mayors report with tv 30
that is about every
two weeks.
if
you tune into the tv you can see the
mayors report.
also board meetings once
a month. I have already attended
two board meetings
so we talked about at the
last meeting we talked about high
school students,
how they
heart and with the industries to gather professional
experience. Last week,
it's a topic that many
of us the city
manager and councilmember mccorriston
and councilmember qaadri were there
with me
as well and many other people. We
celebrated
the life for our first mayor
.
we designated our
council chamber, this is his chamber
as
the peter slider council chamber in recognizing
his contribution
for founding the city and also
a lot of great decisions for
the city. I know one of the things
he did was bring the b.a.r.t.
station to dublin. We appreciate that.
lastly,
I want to say for the next two weeks
we will be busy. I will go to washington,
d.c. For the
mayors conference and then
john morada and me are going to sacramento
for the mayors and council members
academy
provided by cal cities.
we will be busy in the next two
weeks. Also, we want to thank
everyone for being here. We might
to also make
sure you understand
the city council prioritizes
safety and
we work on disaster fire preparedness
and we will bring
in a day to you. With that said, I
will think
everybody and get my. -- goodnight.