City Council Meeting: June 13, 2022

mayor and council we are live. Afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the JUNE 13th twenty twenty two meeting of the city council and we will begin with calling the call to establish a quorum. Thank you, mayor councilor hampton. Glad to be here. Casamayor kennedy here. COUNCILMAN Madison MR. Madison. I didn't hear it but I see you turn on your mic here. Ok, there you go. Thank you. Council member massouda here, COUNCILMAN Riva's here, council member williams here. Vice mayor wilson is absent for this meeting. Mayor gordo here there's a quorum of the council present and mr rudd, will you leave us to the pledge of allegiance please? Place your right hand over your heart ready begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation, one nation under GOD, indivisible with liberty and justice for all ok with that we do have one ceremonial matter and I'll ask the city to I'm traveling so I'm not in the council chambers but alas the city clerk to go to the public speaker podium to present the following proclamation. This is related to elder abuse where the state and we have manuel carmona from the health department deputy director of the health department in the chambers to receive the commendation and the commendation reads as follows is older adults are valuable members of our community and deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. The pastor, the public health department and personnel elderly and dependent adult liaison committee are concerned about the risk to our senior residents who suffer from neglect or victims of financial ,emotional, sexual or physical physical abuse. Abuse of older adults is a tragedy inflicted on seniors in all socioeconomic groups and is not limited to race or gender. It is our collective responsibility to prevent elder abuse so that seniors can continue to serve as leaders, mentors, volunteers and important active members of our community on behalf of the city council, I am pleased to proclaim JUNE fifteen twenty twenty two in pasadena as elder abuse awareness and encourage everyone to commit to building a safer community for our older residents so that they can continue to live an independent as possible and contribute to the life and vibrancy of pasadena. MR. Carmona and members of the or yes mayor, thank you so much for this this evening I'm joined by members of the pedro committee here with me tonight is co-chair israel del toro, deputy chief fire deputy chief himself and our long term care ombudsman rachel tate. And on behalf of the committee we want to thank the city council for their dedication to raising awareness about elder abuse, helping folks recognize the signs of elder abuse and encouraging everyone in our community to report it when it's seen. Thank you so much. Thank you, MR. Carmona. With that we'll move on to the consent calendar and I will. MR. Clark, did you want to report or on any communications related enceladus? Thank you, mayor for consent item two we received the city clerk's office received one letter in support of the staff recommendation, advocated for staff to amend the ada regulations for item ten, the city clerk's office received one letter in support of the staff recommendation and for item twelve the city clerk's office received one letter in opposition to the city imposing on street dining fees for restaurants in the playhouse village. Those letters were distributed to the council posted online and are part of the record for this item and I'll check to make sure to see if we have any speaker cards for this for any consent items as you second there is one speaker card for item thirty mayor. Yes. Where we go ahead and take that now. Uh, yes. Or is he ready? Ok, the motion for the remainder of the consent calendar for the motion there are a couple for item number seven so holding back items seven and thirteen MR. Hampton do second motion. Yes I do. ok, let's take a roll call on those items and then we'll circle back starting with seven and then thirteen. Ok, so to approve all consent items except item seven and thirteen make sure you didn't MISS Anybody here. Great. Uh, COUNCILMAN Hampton. Yes, councilor kennedy. Yes. COUNCILMAN Madison. Yes. COUNCILMAN Massouda. Yes. COUNCILMAN Reavis. Yes. Council member williams. Yes. Vice mayor willson's absent mayor gordo. Yes. The motion is approved without opposition MR. Hampton turning the item seven year question. Yes, I do have a question. The first question I have are there no companies within the city of passey that offer these services and then I have my the question I have about the contract council member hampton . There are two companies we were able to locate just two trophy companies remaining in pasadena. We used to have several more but there are currently only two and they decided not to they decided not to bid on this one chose not to. We personally called them and asked them to and they chose not to the other did bid. However, MISS Williams to be company. He's asking about item seven which is six item seven. oh, I apologize for crossing guards apologize. Let you switch gears the crossing guards no there is not a company in pasadena who provides the service ok and I do know that that a lot of times and residents are offered these jobs so will that be the same or will the crossing guards at work existing will they be transferred over to the new contract we are awarding to the same company? So we are assuming that they will continue to utilize the same employees. Ok, my questions of the process because I've received lots of emails and in the past two years about crossing guards sorry trying to pull my questions here just crossing our locations are selected based on factors such as values, traffic, pedestrian times that's what it says and staff report don't mean please go over it. So and I think what's the process determining locations? Is it p usd? When I was a school board member I remember that we would give suggestions of places but I want to know if that still occurs that it does still occur . We work very closely with posti in identifying locations. We also take suggestions from parents and others who work at the schools so we are very open in how we determine the list of schools or locations rather that would have a crossing guard. Ok and so p as v is recently closed some school site is this no consistent with the amount of I mean so I because school size you MAY have a few fewer crossing guards is this no consistent with the closures of schools are we adding more crossing guards across the city ? This number is consistent with the remaining open schools. One of the things we did do was enter into a three year contract with two one year extensions. We could have actually entered a longer contract but because we don't know what might happen with school enrollment and other factors, we chose to go with the with the three years. But the list of current locations are all schools that are open and as far as we know will continue to be open. Ok, and your office has been extremely helpful with the emails I have received as relates to washington and other school sites and crossing guard. So thank you so much for that. I just want to make sure within this contract if there is a need for additional crossing guard we have budgeted for that. So it doesn't have to come back to the full city council for the safety of our our young people because these type of things we should do as quick as possible. Yes. And we do have room in the contract for that purpose. Those are my questions. Thank you so much, brenda. Thank you for the help that you've provided my district the city as it relates to crossing guards, the safety of our children's most concern one of my most concern so thank you for that and the motion to move approval of the crossing our contract. Thank you, MR. Hampton. I was there second was seconded by MR. Kennedy roll call. Thank you, mayor to the staff recommendation for item number seven by council member hampton said by council member kennedy customer hampton yes. Councilor kennedy yeah. COUNCILMAN Madison yes. COUNCILMAN Masuda yes. Customer service yes. Councilor williams. Yeah. Vice mayor wilson is absent mayor gordon yes. Motion is approved without opposition that completes the consent calendar. Actually we have a still item thirteen get the thirteen to get the public comment you no problem. We'll bring in brian wallace. MR. Wallace, you have two minutes. Go ahead. Good evening. Mayor and city council brian was the playhouse village on item we understand that support the need to bring the outdoor dining program to its next logical phase. I think we can all agree that we want to attract a distinguished look and feel that reflects capacity now but I think we also all value good outdoor dining can do for our city and would not want it to fail. So as we think about how we go from here, I would ask you consider a few things. one, not all restaurants are created equal. Most of our merchants in playhouse's village are small business owners who've lost most of their daily customers due to the slow recovery of our office buildings and entertainment venues. Please think about them particularly as some of the proposed sidewalks. These will triple under the new proposed fee schedule. The combination of these design guidelines, ongoing covid concerns and operational challenges will likely mean that very few merchants will be able to meet all of the proposed changes. We don't have firm numbers but our feedback so far pessimistic having a city initiated plan for providing improved outdoor dining spaces like glendale has done would help. But that is not something currently proposed. Three outdoor dining is a hallmark of cities and downtowns worldwide and our weather should mean we could boast of more than anyone because we value but outdoor dining can do for our village we are very likely to sponsor improvements that will satisfy the new design guidelines to give our merchants more time to settle into a senior position. But this MAY mean that some dining areas will become public space for a time rather than privately occupied space or one restaurant. So we ask you to consider waiving fees for such area so we can continue to provide the public benefit and keep outdoor dining a viable part of our economy. In short, we're excited about the prospect for the next phase of outdoor dining. I hope you're able to take these things into account as we create and MR. Wallace, your time has expired so don't leave please. I'd like to ask MR. Wallace the question of yes. Thank you, mayor. MR. Wallace, as you know, this is public rodder and it belongs not to the council. It belongs to the whole city and what your strongest argument other than what you've already shared as to why we should wait any be given that it's been negligible to no cost to any restaurant here to for and do you have an alternate position than the one already articulate articulated that is a lesser amount than what the city is proposing. Thank you COUNCILMAN Kennedy. I don't have specific dollar in mind. I think our approach is that the fees most likely that the staff have come up with assuming that the council agree with their justification are likely appropriate. I think what we're asking is that if we operate any dining area for public benefit rather than for private restaurants use that as public use. We would ask for the fee waiver on same condition might apply in old pasadena or some areas that they have as well. Well, public seating as opposed to restaurants dedicated restaurant spaces. What do you recommend mayor? if I say let's go let's turn to the city manager kishi might have a reaction. Thank you. I'll separate the comments that we've heard if it comes to the actual fees that were recommended, I would really suggest that we talk to members of the edtech committee. They reviewed the fees and made some adjustments in staff recommendations which we fully support but they looked in great detail into the cost of what we are proposing and against what market is and what we could propose. There was a second part of the comments that we heard playhouse district representative though and that was have no fees for spaces that are just used for public seating. I will fully say that we developed these fees with the idea that they would be for a business that was doing revenue generated use of them. We did not look at spaces that are not leased but that a district might want to keep to just have a place for people to sit. We have some of those in alleys. We don't have any of those in the public right of way. What I would suggest the council might consider this evening is adopting the fees for revenue generating facilities and direct the staff to meet with the two districts about what they want to do in the spaces that no one is really leasing but they want to keep for just public seating. We just heard about this 48 hours ago when an email went out on friday. So we've really not had conversations about it. There are costs if these are on colorado boulevard we're not sure if they would consider paying for removing the rail that at new year's because the lease costs were to cover those and we would need to look at how we would cover those costs and we're also not sure about design guidelines that are being recommended. So if we could bifurcate it and if the council with ed text recommendation was willing to move ahead on the fee schedule, we'd be glad to meet with old pasadena and the playhouse village and see if we can come back to the council with a different recommendation for spaces that are not for revenue generating use but for public seating and how we might deal with the costs associated and the design guidelines associated with them. And I'm willing to have that discussion at edtech for that. But I do think that we should move with these. Yeah, I think that's a great thing to think about and I think it's a good suggestion. You know the the issue of using the public right of way for seating or for outdoor dining or both that's not dedicated to a business becomes all the more complicated. You know, city manager points out some of the concerns related to design and other issues. But keep in mind maintenance who's going to be responsible for liability? those are all issues that have to be run to ground. And so I think the suggested path forward from the city manager bifurcating the two is the appropriate way to proceed and we can revisit not just for playhouse districts but revisit the issue or visit the issue of how we use the public right of way creatively while addressing the design guidelines, the maintenance and the appropriateness when we do determine if we determine that we should use a public right of way and decouple it from in from a the dedicated use for business so important questions. Thank you MR. Wallace for raising it and I think we'll have more discussions at the beginning that I related to this issue. Thank you mayor. Again, I want to thank brian wallace for bringing this to our attention and I want to thank the city manager for her way forward which I support that. So that's the second to MR. Hampton's motion which will get mayor. Ok, so we'll proceed with the tech recommendations and ask the staff to work with the various districts you and look really at the issue citywide of public right of ways and where it might be appropriate to utilize public right of ways as far as outdoor seating areas as areas where they might augment dedicated space outdoor space that is dedicated to a business or a restaurant. But again the issue liability, the issue of maintenance, the issue of design also the use of materials, all of those issues come into play so it's a little more complicated and will maybe be different in different parts of the city. So we'll we'll get that direction motion in a second roll call. Thank you. Mayor catsa hampton. Yes. Councilor kennedy customer madison yes. Customer massouda yes. Customer service yes. Customer williams vice mayor wilson is absent. Mayor gordo your yes motion is approved without opposition. This suggests that we ok so that now that completes the consent calendar. I'm going to suggest that we take up the ordinance is out of place and begin with item twenty to the second reading of I'm sorry first reading of would have an item twenty you. Yes ok uh so first item twenty one uh before I read the ordinance title the city clerk's office received one letter in support of the proposed ordinance related to the city's military equipment policy and one letter expressing concerns with the passage into place pasadena police department's inventory of military equipment, especially the 50 caliber rifle . Those letters were posted online distributed to the council are part of the record for this item. And as for the ordinance, this is an unclassified ordinance of the city of pasadena adopting a military equipment policy if I can, ma'am. Ok, just someone wish to offer it was oh no this is a first if offered by the customer service and city manager kurtz has uh wants to say something I was just going to we had pulled this last time so we could add additional language. I was just going to note for the council that language was added under category eight, the 50 caliber rifle under a purpose to meet council's requirements from the last time this was discussed. Ok, and uh, tragically we've all been reminded recently of the need to ensure that police departments and police officers have the tools necessary to respond to horrible situations, tragic situations and and I think we've discussed that as a part of this matter. But again, tragically we've been reminded of the need to have a well-prepared and equipped police department. So with that roll call. Thank you, mayor COUNCILMAN Roehampton. Yes. Cats kennedy casamayor. Kennedy yes. Kousser madison yes. COUNCILMAN Massouda. Yes. Customer service yes. Cast member williams. I'm sorry you were muted. Yes. Sorry my cat muted my uh no problem. Vice mayor wilson is absent mayor gordo. Yes. Uh, motion the ordinance has been conducted for first reading unanimously. That's not a problem that occurs with dogs. So next we'll move to item twenty three twenty two I'm sorry twenty two. So this is so this was an ordinance introduced by vice mayor wilson. This is an ordinance of the city of pasadena many amending title five parens business licenses and regulations of the city of pasadena municipal code to limit sorry to increase the time allowed a secure permits we do not have any speakers on this item and we don't have any correspondence to report out so should I go with the roll call or there's a hand raised? MR. Massouda? Yes, ma'am. I have a question. Yes, please. What's the limit on the time that we're extending for the permit when you're when you thanking their rockumentary local our hampton yes. Casamayor kennedy. Yeah. Karlstrom madison yes. COUNCILMAN Massouda yes. Customer rivas yes. Cast member williams no. Vice mayor wilson is absent and mayor gordo yes. The ordinance is adopted unanimously no seven oh sorry my apologies seven one yeah. MISS Williams six to one today let me try that again. It was it was adopted six in favor one against MR. MR. Vice mayor wilson did offer but I guess we can't count that. No we came to the uh so we are on to item twenty three. We do have a speaker card on this item. I can read the ordinance title and then we could go to the speaker please. Ok, this is an ordinance the city of pasadena amending various sections of title seventeen in perens zoning code of the city of pasadena municipal code to implement implement the e colorado specific plan update and amending the official zoning map established by the zoning code chapter seventeen point to zero section seventeen point to zero point zero to zero to modify the boundaries of the e colorado specific plan redesignate zones within the specific land area and redesignate zones for parcels located outside of the specific plan area and that was introduced by vice mayor wilson. I believe the city attorney's office wants to make one statement before we turn to the public speaker MR. Ed just wanted to call for the council's attention. The format of the ordinance is a little different than went to first reading on can you you broke up the format of the ordinance is a little different than went to the council for first reading on MAY twenty third. There's no change in the substance of the ordinance. The part of this ordinance requires an entire chapter the zoning code be repealed and replaced after first reading on MAY twenty third staff learned from the publishing company that they need a complete red line of the entire chapter in order to repeal it so that they can be clear in what's actually published so what we have for a second reading now it includes that red line, the substance doesn't change at all so the ordinance can be presented for a second reading there that and then this public comment speaker is ariah talk in talking MR. Talking you have two minutes. Go ahead. Like to make the following comment regarding the proposed changes to the colorado public plan on page eighteen item p dash eight herald unit mix it states that for projects west of hill avenue with fifty units or more inclusive of any density bonus at least twenty percent of the total number of units to have a minimum of three bedrooms. I believe that this requirement for twenty percent to be three bedrooms or greater will have an adverse impact towards housing and affordable housing . Under this language teacher projects would have to provide additional parking to accommodate for the additional bedrooms required bedrooms. Additionally, since the specific plan limits the floor area ratio for new projects, a larger three bedroom footprint would potentially limit how many units could fit within the envelope allowed within the specific plan. The unintended consequences would thereby reduce the total number of units and subsequently the total number of affordable units which can be provided within a given project. I would urge the council to review this item and remove any unit break any unit makes restrictions within the updated specific plan. Thank you. Thank you for any other public comments. No mayor ok and so this is also introduced by bass player wilson rockhall. Thank you mayor council member hampton to adopt yes. Councilor kennedy. Yes. Councilor madsen. Yes. Councilor massouda yes. Customer service no council member williams abstain. Mayor wilson absent mayor gordo yes. The motion passes five in favor one against one abstention. Er I'm wondering since we're on a roll item twenty four is a ppr for a three two home residential project in my district. Apparently ppr is required but I would just move that we received file that report and that any questions or comments can direct it offline to staff . Ok moved and seconded questions or comments on local well since this is a received file we can do it by consensus but I'll do the roll call just to expedite councilor hampton. Yes, kasper kennedy. Yes. Councilor madsen. Yes. Customer massouda yes. Customer service yes. Councilor williams yes. vice mayor wilson is absent. Mayor gordon yes. Uh the information is received in filed and so this brings us back to item sixteen continued public hearing and this is the fiscal year twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty three recommended operating budget as you all know we took a different approach to the budget this time around sending budget discussions to committees with jurisdiction over departments or subject matter jurisdiction over issues and that process seemed at least from my perspective work well I'll be interested in comments from council members, feedback from council members going forward as we prepare for next year's budget. Please let me know how you think it worked out, particularly those the chair committees. But all of you who have heard from the public or your constituents, our constituent or maybe have an idea of how to improve the process, the intent of the process is to allow the council in the public to undertake more of an order to have the opportunity to look closely at the budget, how we spend our dollars and then also be able to provide the staff an opportunity to present more substance and not just numbers so that people understand exactly where their tax dollars are being spent and how they're being spent. So again, I think it works well but I do believe there are some improvements to be made and I'll communicate that directly with the council and the public by way of weekly letter and with that I think we MAY be ready to adopt the budget. MADAM City manager, did you want to highlight or present any specific issues? We're actually not adopting the budget tonight. This is a continuing public hearing and the adoption that we will request will be next week. Our finance director is here. If there are any questions but from the council but otherwise you could just proceed directly the public comment portion of the item I thought we were ready to adopt given the work we've done we actually are but we didn't notice it that way. So I think that will continue till next week. All right. So we could sowmya we did receive a number of letters through the budget process that we are incorporating into this public hearing and if you indulge me, I'm going to read through some summary of those letters for the city attorney's office budget. We received one letter advocating for additional funding to support the community police oversight commission's training for the health department. The city received seven letters advocating for additional funding for non police violence intervention and prevention, mental health and support services for the housing department nine letters were received advocating for additional funding to provide additional low cost rental assistance in terms shelter tenant and tenant protection services for the parks recreation and community services department. Three letters were received advocating for additional funding to provide youth summer employment programs and summer camps as well as support passantino veterans day program for the passing of police department eight letters expressing concerns the increase to the police department's budget and advocating for accountability and transparency related to ped's budget for the public works department seven letters advocating for additional funding for watering of public street trees for the rose operating company 19 letters were received expressing concerns with the rose bowl deficit and advocating for the city to not provide additional funding towards the rose bowl debt. Three letters advocating for transparency and a complete analysis related to the rose bowl operating company's budget and or eliminating the cap on the rose bowl admission tax 23 letters in support of the rose bowl stadium advocating for the city to identify long term funding sources to support the ongoing operating and maintenance of the rose bowl. One letter in opposition to the rboc signifier gantley altering the rose bowl stadium which is a national historic landmark for the transportation department. One letter was received advocating for the city to provide funding for noncom carbon fueled transportation 15 letters advocating for the city to request additional funding for the arroyo link a proposal to create a multiuse path from downtown pasadena to the arroyo seco using measure r projects money and then one letter sorry for the water and power department one letter expressing concerns with the city allocating funds toward the arroyo seco canyon project . It was a total of 98 letters received through the process. All the letters have been posted online, distributed city council and are part of the public hearing record for this budget item. In addition, we do have one public commons speaker for this item sonia bern's. If you're ready to hear from the public comment, yes please MR. Good evening. Community members have researched, organized, submitted letters given my comments and done what we could to advocate for our poor and marginalized residents during committee budget discussions. Each of you are responsible for reading the many letters submitted. We have pointed out the severe underfunding of departments that provide services specifically for our poor and struggling residents such as housing and public health departments. We have pointed out that the police department proposes an increase of nearly four million dollars in general fund appropriations this coming year when the public health department would receive no general fund appropriation in the housing department very little and the ppd personnel concept proposed for fiscal year 2023 is nine point four million dollars more than that spent on personnel in fiscal year twenty twenty one just two years ago. How is that sustainable? Now it is up to you spray that you will find compassion for those most vulnerable residents in our city who had so very little and have no voice. You have the power to make their lives better by improving substantially more funding for programs that would benefit them than it proposed in the fiscal year 2023 budget when last seen at last week's council meeting, some on the council apparently misunderstood my comments related to reported increased revenues the rose will brings in into pasadena. I support no agreement that would take money from the general fund nor divert local taxes it rightfully belong in the general fund. My point was that hotel operators, restaurant owners and other private operators are seeing very substantial revenues from events at the rose bowl. A portion of these private sector revenues should be used to pay toward the debt on the roads but we cannot take money from or divert money from our general fund to pay rosebowl debt whether through a revenue sharing agreement or other mechanism. thank you. Thank you MR. So I just want to I think it was mentioned at the last meeting but you realize we have a transient occupancy tax that all the hoteliers have to pay in on. Absolutely. And I think I know the middle of exactly all it was was. So MR. Hampton, did you ever do deals and then we also get a tidbit from those also the hoteliers and restaurants they on that. I just want to understand you know, I guess maybe it wasn't clarified that we do get general fund dollars. Nothing that we should use the general fund to, you know, make the rosebowl the greatest. But I'm saying we do they do pay in so my friends, my considerately atmosphere is this is this is not a debate I apologize but thank you for your comments. We make your your club misprints comments are in the record and I think the mr hampton what you're pointing out is the dollars generated by the rules are in fact general fund dollars and that's the basic misunderstanding that some people have. So when the rose bowl generates dollars they are general fund dollars and that's where the concept of a revenue sharing agreement came into play and I think we're saying the same thing. I think misprint I won't speak for her but I think the idea that at least that that I interpret from the comments is a good one and those are general fund dollars that could be shared with the entity that's generating the dollars is the point to help generate more general fund dollars that can then be utilized in other services to the city and evidence ok, consider it an investment back into a revenue generator is what I would say. So I stand corrected and we will come back next week to adopt the budget hopefully and continue this public hearing to JUNE 20th. So we need a motion to continue to JUNE 20th. Twenty twenty two at five pm yeah I heard mr hampikian motion and a second roll call continue in the public hearing to JUNE twenty twenty two at 5pm councilor hampton yes councilor kennedy yeah. Catherine madison yes. Catherine massouda yes. Cast member service customer service euphronios customer I said I said yes ok it's like my internet right now ok that's ok basem wilson is absent mayor gordo. Yes come one mark yes yeah ok anya I I thought I captured it but I'm ok thank. It was unanimously approved to continue the public hearing. Thank ok so that brings us back now to item 1717 and this is a fairly routine matter this is the funding application for the chebeague block grant home investment partnership act two and we undertake this I believe annually we'll turn it over to that mr wong bill I'll open the public hearing mayor this is the time and place for the public hearing on the approval of the annual action plan twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three and related funding applications for the community development block grant home investment partnership act and emergency solutions grant programs on MAY 12th and JUNE 9th. Twenty twenty two the public hearing loss was published in the past in a press and pasadena journal and no correspondence was received regarding this item. Thank you mr clark. Thank you. Out again now with that do we need a presentation? I think we're all familiar with this or MADAM City manager mr wong did you want to say a few words or should we proceed to approval? I would just say this is bill wong housing director. I would just say that this approval of the annual action plan is our opportunity to gives us the authority to apply for our entitlement funds which we get every year. Mayor, I'm very aware of this and I know that we see this every year in the dollars are really important and I think you know, even if they just did a high level presentation of some of the biggest things to come out of it even if it's a brief presentation, I think it's good for the community to hear that the request of mr hampton mr wong here. Thank you. We'll turn it over. I'll turn it over to randy matheson who's the program coordinator of the program and who's prepared the the annual action plan. randy, you and welcome. All right. Thank you. There we go. All right. Good evening to uh testing a residente randy ok. Cameraman yes. No all right. So speak closer to the mic. Uh, good evening to the mayor uh, council persons and the city of pasadena residents again this is the annual action plan for twenty twenty to twenty twenty three. Uh, this is a plan that we submit every year. Could you speak, randy, if you could bring the microphone closer to you? It's on mute all right to move places but can you hear me now? Microphones. Microphones ok, all right. So this is the annual document that we our plan that we put together every year to receive our entitlement as bill alluded to is a list of our eleven projects that we're going to fund through cbg. Uh, we have four public service projects that we're funding and a few handful of cities set aside projects uh, the one that I want to highlight was see the ada accessible push buttons from the public works department. We have a couple of projects that they're doing and this is the second phase of this uh ada uh push button project where they'll put audible push buttons at intersections throughout the city and we're planning to spend just over two point one million dollars for chebeague for that for all of our eleven projects. Next we have our home investment partnership uh, entitlement funds just uh just over a million dollars um, we'll set aside some of those funds for affordable housing projects and then we have our emergency solutions grant which is our homeless funds uh just above one hundred and eighty thousand we're going to use for homeless prevention emergency shelters and our mobile integrated services team. This is the third year of our five year annual action plan or a consolidated plan. So uh, this is a summary of all of the the goals that we have for this year with the various products that we plan on funding 14 units from our single owner-occupied single family rehab programs. We have a tenant based rental assistance program that we're launching. We expect to assist over five hundred persons, at least five hundred persons through our public services for homeless uh counselor and our homeless uh goals infrastructure improvement. Seven thousand persons will assisted through our sidewalk projects and we have two facility improvements. That's including the ada bathrooms, the public health department and also um our last one. Randy, I'm not it's just on my own but you seem to be breaking up. Can you give me a little clearer now? That's better. All right. so these uh this is basically our our total two point two million dollars program funding that we have for the total project funds and this is a summary of all the available funds that we have from all of our entitlements including program income that we receive from previously uh previous projects that were awarded from chebeague that produce some profits for us. So in total we expect to have available just over three point three million in entitlements and here's our recommendation uh, fiscal impact pretty much has none. We'll just be submitting our application and here's a summary of the recommendations and this concludes the presentation. Thank you. Questions come in. I'm glad. Thank you, MR. Hampton for the suggestion. You think you're correct that it's important for people to know that the city is dedicating its cbg dollars to really to supporting community efforts or efforts to support our community both internally as well as the efforts of groups like the flynn foundation as well as boys and girls. And so I commend our staff for a comprehensive approach in utilizing these limited chebeague dollars questions, comments or is there emotion? I'm approval echoed by mr hampton seconded by mr massouda roll call to close the public hearing first. Yes, I'll take that as the same motion for mr hampton MR. Messenger to close a public hearing. Yes yes sir. Yes councilor hampton to close yes. Councilor kennedy. Yeah sir. Madison yes. Casamayor massouda yes. Cast riva's yes. Councilor williams yes. Vice mayor wilson absent mayor gordo yes. The public hearing is closed unanimously and then motion a second to approve the staff recommendation from mr hampton and seconded by mr massouda customer hampton first and foremost thank you to the housing department for representation. Yes councilor kennedy. Yes. Councilor madsen. Yes. Councilor massouda yes. Cast member eavis yes. Casimira williams yes. Vice mayor wilson is absent mayor gordo yes. The motion is approved unanimously. Thank you. Next we will go to item eighteen and this is also a public hearing designating the dose of house the shakespeare club of pastilla that one seventy one s grand avenue as a historic monument. Mr clarkesville opened the public hearing. Thank you mayor. This the time and place for the public hearing on the house on the designation of the josephine p. Everett house shakespeare club of pasadena one seven one s grant avenue as a historic monument on MAY twenty seven point twenty two twelve copies of the public hearing notes were posted two hundred and seventy five copies of notes were mailed. The city clerk's office received one letter in support of the staff recommendation which was posted online distributed to the council as part the record for this item. Thank you was cleared beautiful buildings to MR. Madison's district. MR. Madison. Thank you mayor. Yes, I really appreciate it. The staff report like probably all of us I have visited this site many times. I've spoken there a number of times but I really enjoyed reading about the history and the significance subsidy and I'm grateful to the current owner, the shakespeare club for bringing us forward and I'd be prepared to move to close public hearing and move the recommendation. I don't think it's controversial that you don't know if staff were the owners to amplify on the record at all or not. But thank you mayor and mayor, before I do that vote we do have a public comment card on this item. So before we take the vote we would we would let the comment do you want to do that now provided only that it's in shakespearean? I can't promise that. But we will do our best. Ellen yenny masini you are being asked to do it in shakespeare. Go head you have two minutes. I'm sorry I'm not going to do this in iambic pentameter. Say my name is ellen yadi and I'm the current PRESIDENT Of shakespeare club. Oh we are celebrating our fiftieth anniversary of being in the josephine everett house which we refer to as the shakespeare club we are have been renovating this house over our history and in this location we are still as I said, we're celebrating our fiftieth anniversary. Well, when we celebrated our fifth one hundred and thirty at the anniversary of the founding of the club, we applied for and received landmark status for the building because of our golden anniversary we are now applying for a monument status for our lovely club. If you have any questions I'll be glad to answer them. No questions comments to this is a great building. Lots of great performances. Their recent appearance by elba's presley there is part of the shakespeare club fundraiser so let me buy you all to visit there. I should have mentioned that the members of the club are every bit as charming and elegant as the the venue itself. So I MISS You. Any further comments? You're welcome. With the republican moved close the public hearings. We have a motion a second close to public hearing caspar hampton. Yes, kathleen kennedy. yeah. Customer in madison. Yes. Customer yes. Customer service yes. Customer williams yes. Vice mayor wilson is absent. Mayor gordo yes. Public hearing is closed and then we had the staff recommending and it was seconded by MR. Hampton I believe that to the staff was a good uh customer. Hampton yes. Councilor kennedy. Yes. Councilor marcin yes. Councilor massouda yes. Customer service. Yes. COUNCILMAN Williams yes. Vice mayor wilson is absent. Mayor gordo yes. Motional was approved unanimously again congratulations and really thank you to all members of the shakespeare club for renovating and working on this very important building in our city and keeping a vibrant for for all of us and for the benefit of fastenal residents. Thank you and for the benefit of the arts community as well. Ok, that completes that matter and we'll move on to item nineteen and this is a public hearing, MR. Clark. Thank you, mayor. This is the time and place for the public hearing on the consideration of granting nonexclusive solid waste franchises, the adoption of resolution setting minimum insurance requirements for franchisees on MAY 19 twenty twenty to the public hearing notice was published in the past in the press and the passing a journal no correspondence was received regarding this item and we do not have any public comment speakers on item nineteen. Ok and we're not adding or deleting any franchisee's is that correct? We're MADAM City manager this is that that is correct. Mr mayor this is tony almost public works director. Yeah thank you MR. This is simply renewing the franchise list essentially questions comments are moving their scene on its move by mr asuda and seconded by mr williams roll call to the public hearing mayor I would take the motion in the second from mr masuda mr williams to close the public hearing as well. Yes, yes of hampton yes councilor kennedy yeah. Councilor masuda madisen yes. Customer massouda yes. Customer service yes. Councilor williams yes. Vice mayor wilson absent mayor gordo yes. A public hearing is closed unanimously and then on the motion to approve the staff recommendation by mr massouda seconded by council member williams casamayor hampton yes . Yes. Customer kennedy yes. Customer madison yes. Councilor massouda yes. Customer service yes. Customer williams yes. Vice er wilson is absent mayor gordon yes. The motion is approved without opposition. Ok thank you. Next we go to whole business and this is a matter that's on to municipal services committee and this direction to prepare the preparation of an ordinance amending chapter eight of the municipal code requiring the electrification of buildings in certain specific categories. Surveyor sorry for this item. I just wanted to report the correspondence if that's ok. Ok, the city clerk's office received fifteen letters including one letter from sixteen individuals representing local organizations in support of a comprehensive all electric building code for new construction including single family homes and accessory dwelling units in pasadena one letter in support of the staff recommendation and one letter requesting information related to the impacts of electricity and natural gas. Possible blackouts in the city's ability to generate electricity this quarter these correspondences letters were posted online, distributed to the council and is part of the record for this item. We have about ten cards submitted for this item so I just wanted to note that although not all the individuals are checked in for the meeting ok, why don't we turn it over to mascot's and I believe mysterious I'll turn it directly to mr reyes. Ok mr is due to make some opening comments or give us representation but very briefly before I turn it over to mr ron takiguchi and as mayor you might recall that we brought this item to you several months ago and there was a request that we bring it to the icac which we did and I think as as mentioned by mark just moments ago, there is a lot of support for what we're proposing. Many speakers and folks that we spoke to including icac wanted us to go one step further and again that step being to apply it to new single family homes and new way to use the staff approach really remains that we would like to start with the commercial and multifamily and then come back within a year and apply it to eddie use and single family homes after we've got the program up and running. And so with that I'll turn it over to mr ron takiguchi. Thank you director rayas. Good evening mayor gordo and city council members. My name is ron takiguchi. I'm a city building official with the department of planning and community development together with colleagues from both planning and community development and the department of water and power. We are presenting our proposals for building electrification and as director raila's mentioned following our last city council meeting on APRIL 4th twenty twenty two and a subsequent meeting with the environmental advisory commission on MAY ten twenty twenty two tonight we wish to share our findings that were discussed with the commission and present to council our latest proposal for building electrification. we recommend that council consider a staff proposal and direct staff to return to city council with the proposed ordinance and we have a presentation this evening for this item which I'd like to introduce a new management analyst for with the department of planning and community development. This is welcome. Thank you. Good evening, mayor and city council members. The recommended action tonight by staff is to adopt the environmental determination that proposes the project is exempt from the california environmental quality act pursuant to the guidelines. Sure little too low. I apologize the recommendation tonight by staff is to adopt the environmental determination that this ordinance is exempt from the california environmental quality act. We also recommend to direct city attorney to prepare an ordinance and return within 60 days amending the pasadena municipal code adding this ordinance to title eight health and safety requiring electrification of buildings in certain specific categories and our third recommendation is to consider the proposed electrification ordinance as recommended by staff in this report. So a bit of background on this ordinance. The proposal for building electrification were first presented to the city council on APRIL 4th. Twenty twenty two at that meeting the city council directed staff to solicit additional input from the environmental advisory commission and then return with input as well as with the report from the department of water and power. The city council also indicated that the ordinance should be adopted after and after one year when the ordinance goes into effect that staff should return to consider including single family and accessory dwelling units as part of the required electrification categories. Later on MAY 10th staff presented the electrification requirements to the environmental advisory commission and although the eoc does support the ordinance, they recommend to include newly constructed single family residence and accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units meaning that those categories of new construction would be required to be built all electric. The report. The proposed ordinance will require electrification in lieu of natural gas and certain specific categories of new construction specifically the following newly constructed multifamily buildings greater than three units newly constructed mixed use buildings ,newly constructed commercial buildings and existing commercial buildings with new additions where the additions add 50 percent or more of the existing square foot area. In such cases the entire building must be converted to electrification staffs recommendation. So although the eoc recommends that the required be expanded to include single family use, this is not staff's recommendation and this is based on the following reasons . Number one, multifamily and commercial projects are most often designed and constructed by industry professionals who have experience in designing and permitting and are more adaptable to new requirements. Second, the city did receive a grant from the southern california association of governments that grant is to assess the city's aidoo permitting processes with the goal of removing barriers to accelerate aido production. So what we want to do is make improvements where we can to help at helping and encourage aids to be constructed and for to avoid any conflicts with this program. Use should be exempt from the additional regulations until the completion of this project with which is anticipated for fall of twenty twenty two and also there are updates to the energy code by the state of california and those requirements will go into effect JANUARY 1st of twenty twenty three. The new code updates will require newly constructed homes to be electric ready meaning that it is constructed so that it can be converted to all electric. Should this be the choice of a homeowner staff receive four questions from the city council at the APRIL 4th city council meeting. The questions as shown on the screen pertain to the capacity of the utility system and future demand impact of electrification on utility bills, impact of electrification to the carbon footprint and the expected construct and construction costs or construction savings bank by requiring electrification responses to questions one through three were prepared by the department of water and power and response for your question number four was prepared by the planning committee development department. I'll go over each of the responses briefly. Question one is how will electrification affect the projected demand on utility systems overlain building electrification the anticipated contribution to the power delivery master plan peak load projection shows that the contribution of building electrification is nominal and can easily be accommodated by the department of water and power power system without modifications to the master plan question to what would be the rate impact for a family of four based on the data provided all electric appliances using heat pump technologies are more efficient and have the potential to match the total annual operating costs of natural gas appliances question three what will be the change in greenhouse gas emissions if we adopt this ordinance? do lustration shows that greenhouse gas reductions are significant in comparison to status quo and will continue decrease as the grid gets cleaner and question for what are the construction cost implications for all electric construction? Local developers have indicated that construction cost and cost savings are difficult to quantify and they vary from project to project. But overall they agree that it is expected there are expected to cost savings in design and construction of electric buildings. The city of morgenthal morgan hill found that avoiding the installation of gas pipelines into a development can save approximately seven dollars per unit in construction costs. And pasadena water and power has several offerings to help alleviate the cost electrifying new and existing buildings including no cost direct install programs for residents and small businesses. Appliance rebate programs and developer incentives. And this concludes our report. We would be happy to answer any questions that you have. Thank you mr why don't we turn first to misreadings then mr williams mr hampton and then public comment. Thank you mayor and thank you so much for the presentation of the report. I have a question I think MAY be better addressed. The city attorney I'm not sure but I notice that the staff report for the presentation is to provide 60 days of training to come back with the ordinance and then the ordinance will go into effect until 60 days after second reading to things like a lot of time I was wondering what the reasoning was for those and if it would be possible to shorten those in any way. COUNCILMAN Rhys's driven right from city attorney's office. I believe normally the if the ordinance is not penal it'll go into effect immediately and I think if the if it is penal and I don't know specifically with this ordinance then it would go into effect thirty days after I do know our lawyers have been working with staff on this to the extent we can come back before the sixty days is directed by the council will definitely try to do so. I think at the very end of that please to bring the ordinance back it sounds like you'd be able to do it quicker than because you all are already working on it. My understanding that I what what I'm saying is I to the extent we can come back quicker than the sixty days will definitely try to do so. Our lawyers have been working with staff as this has been moving forward through the committees so to the extent we can come back quicker we definitely will bring it for first reading. Got it and then for the back end or the other end when it would go into effect. Did I read that incorrectly? No recommendation of be sixty days after it's adopted. I'm sorry sorry this is david reyes. you're correct that was the staff recommendation. The council doesn't need to follow that if council didn't follow it MR. Had stated correctly that the ordinance would go into effect thirty days after publication which is basically about three days after the second reading and in other words if you just did nothing that's that's how it would go. Staff was just looking for some additional time in terms of developers but you're correct that's at your discretion as counsel to not have it go into effect with any delay. All right. Thanks for clearing that up, mayor. That was my only question for now. I do want to ask more of you hear from my colleagues and also a couple of comments first, thank you. Thank you, MR. Davis. MISS Williams shrimpton. Thank you, mayor and thank you council member leaders. I agree that did look like some of the long period of time and if if we can do education instead of notification to people so they know it, it's coming maybe that will allow us to get to implement the ordinance quicker. I didn't have a lot of questions. I love charts and graphs and the attachments that talked about our our energy system and also compare the cost of the different appliances. I thought that was really, really helpful. So I don't have a lot of questions at this point. I think staff did an amazing job of answering our questions really coming back with the right data and information and creating a balance because of the other legislation that's coming down the pike and the grant that we got for to use. So I'd be happy to support the staff motion at the appropriate time. Thanks, mayor. Thank you, MR. Hampton. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation . I agree with councilor williams. There was a very thorough in the staff report this great my only question is if there's brand new construction are outdoor kitchens exempt outdoor kitchens like new new construction, new single family or new like new multifamily without starting new construction, new single family and I guess also multifamily I'm interested in knowing is outdoor tensions are exempt. I've noticed that there are some outdoor kitchens at some of our worksheets, some of the apartment buildings in the city ,some of the newer ones they have like grills on the outside and then their gas and then there's also four resident homes. I mean a lot of people are now building outdoor kitchens, single family homes certainly exempt and turning over to mr takiguchi on the multifamily. Thank you for the question. Council member hempton for exemptions they are presented in the staff report an attachment a currently we do not have an exemption for outdoor say barbecue grills for either single family or multifamily. I do want to make that clear with the goal that we are trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So whether the burning of fossil fuels is inside the building or outside the building we are trying that is part of our climate action plan but certainly we could staff could undertake that and consider that should there be any reasons single family homeowners desire that or should there be a minimal effect if you had gasparini on operations outdoors, you know that is the interesting to me because I think that there are a lot of early on in my neighborhood a lot of people have recently been installing outdoor kitchen areas and outdoor outdoor kitchens. So I'll just call that a barbecue grill. But they're all gas is most people that I know have gas and then there are some charcoal pellets which I guess is now popular but seems like it has there been any studies around emissions from charcoal or wood burning? Celtel remember if if the council is would go along with the staff recommendation we can talk about that later obviously to get there. But I think this is something that we would we would study when we come back with the actu and single family within one year and we can have that discussion then and we could consider potential exemptions for the outdoor barbecue areas and hopefully that will come with the multi-family as well. Yes, sir. Year because there are a lot of multifamily that have outdoor grill. We will add that to our yeah I think the the important issue here is that it applies to multifamily three units or more and so de facto single family units are exempted as our duplexes and produce and so that's that's the distinction here. No, I understand the mayor but there's also multifamily major developments that have outdoor kitchens. We will definitely add that to our list. I just haven't seen an electric barbecue pit quite well but I'll have to tell us. Yes, sir. Thank you. Well, I mean the I get it so for but for single family it's not an issue for duplexes is not an issue to use. It's not an issue. So the question would be you know, what is the technology for an outdoor kitchen at a commercial and or multifamily is defined here three units or more. Is there technology to be able to provide for that not go to ron takiguchi again? Yes, or is it's not quite the same as flame cooking. However, technology with electric cooking is advancing and staff could take that under advisemen