Folsom City Council Regular Meeting

>> okay. >> go study for finals now. >> you can stay for the rest of the meeting. You're welcome to do that. put you through some real things. >> your next item, next presentation will be proclamations claiming May 24th as stroke awireness mon. John and whoever else can meet me giout front. welcome. >> welcome ladies. This is a proclamation from the mayor of the city of folsom claiming May 2014 as stroke awareness month. Every 45 seconds someone in america experiences a stroke. About 700,000 americans will suffer a stroke this year. This is our number 3 killer and leading cause of severe %xv ? R8[&I]}0@6cj% this is a cardiovascular disease that affects the arteries in the brain. The stroke occurs when a blood vessel is either blocked by clot of burst. When that happens the part of the brain cannot get the oxygen or blood it needs and starts to die. A stroke is one of the most preventible, only about 5% of the patients arrive at the hospital to receive the life saving treatments because most don't know the warning signs t.Warning signs of stroke are sudden numbness, weakness of face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body, trouble speaking, trouble understanding, sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination, confusion, sudden headache. Stroke awareness month urges you to take charge of your life by. Adopt a healthy lifestyle. I terry hall, mayor of the city of folsom do here by program the month of 2014 as stroke awareness month in the city of folsom to prevent the awareness. Proclaimed this 13 day of May, 2014. This is my good friend john aberrant think and his lovely wife deb. >> thank you. Members of the city council, we're pleased to be here and make you aware of this disease. our group meets the second and fourth monday of each month at 1301 east bid well on the 4th wednesday and everyone is wednesday. We have caregiver and stroke survivors. We appreciate the support of the council and hope everyone is aware. Sue has been the leader of our group since 19 -- >> [Bo inaudible] >> I have not try today find anybody else. >> you must be doing a good job. >> [Applause] >> we appreciate it and encourage you to attend one of your meetings to see what you can do to help. Thank you. >> with that we'll ~~move on to sacramento yellow mosquito control regarding district action and services relating to mosquitoes. >> thank you very much. We appreciate the mayor and council for inviting us out. I'm gary good man tnew district manager. David brown retired tat end of the year t.Council gave a wonderful resolution honoring him. I've been with the district for the past 10 years and have taken over as district manager. I wanted to show you the new face. I want to talk about some of the issues we're facing this upcoming season and future years in terms of mosquito control. We cover sacramento and yellow counties. We have an office in oakland grove and woodland. We serve almost 2 million citizens. Our focus is quite different because the difference between the 2 counties is yellow county has the agriculture areas. When your district was formed in 1946, they were bright in the fact of combining the two in recognizing that mosquitoes don't follow borders. We're the dual district that covers that. Mosquito life cycle, a female mosquito bites and take the blood meal to produce the protein to produce the eggs. Mosquitoes lay eggs, 150 to 200 eggs at a time, typically in the water surface. They go through metamorphosis and emerge. We try to get and target them in the aquatic stage in the water so we can eliminate the 200 mosquitoes from becoming adults. Here is a few photos of what the egg wraps look like f.You see some of these things in the water, weapon want to know about that. feel free to give office call t.Larva is wigglers. When you see possible standing water, flower pots, byrd baths, you'll see the wigglers in the water and those are the things we're trying to target a.Lot of the habitat that we have, we are a large agriculture area so we have a lot of rice fields. We have about 50,000 acres of rice which is perfect mosquito habitat. we have a lot of pastures that produce mosquitoes. These are easy to go out and see in b`the rice fields but difficult to see some of the other sources. We have the yellow Ecbypasses, wetlands, preserves, fish and wild life, all of these areas we monitor spw?8wthroughout the year. With the down turn in the market that happened a few years ago, housing started to fall through, we saw a lot of green swimming pools and we worked closely with code enforcement and it was very aggressive and they communicated with us on issues with green pools and these types of things. A lot of other sources we see in people's backyards and this is part of our education progymnastics, to make sure that people know what might be produce the mosquitoes in the backyard. Bird baths, tire swings. These are perfect thing that is we forget about. We want folks to go around once a week and look for the standing water type of issues that May be in the backyard. the mosquito life cycle takes about 7 to 10 days, especially in the summer. Will is a lot of toys and barrels and things like that and the catch basins. Storm drains are design today drain water and we have leaves and people mow their lawn and walk that down in the gutter and ythat is a breeding ground. Water management is a big message, making sure we work with wetland managers, land owners, to make sure they're not producing mosquitoes on their properties. we ask the res denies to look in their backyards to make sure they're managing their water. A lot of folks are looking at trying to conserve water by reusing the gray water with the drought. They May collect water and use that to water plants. they collect that in a bucket and put that in a backyard and now it's stagnate water and it's a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Put a cover over it, a lid or a mesh screen to make sure they can't get in there. we do use an integrated mosquito an image. Efforts. We work strongly with the media to try and get the message out. We're a public agency and we do a lot of presentations like this, we go to the fair, a lot of neighborhood association meetings as well, to try to make sure residents know what to do to protect themselves. We have a series of traps set up throughout the district to get a population of what's happening, like a problem in one area vs. Another. We look to see if the numbers are rise ng a particular area. If they are we go out and try to take care of those issues. We ahave physical control. This is working with land managers to make sure they're not producing mosquitoes on the land. We have equipment to help land owners and maybe clean out drainage areas. Those are some of the things we provide. Our biological control program, we're the largest mosquito fish producing facility in the state. Typically that's in rice fields, ditches, backyard swimming pools. They do a good job of trying to control the mosquito population. We have 24 ponds dedicated to breeding these fish. Larva control, we try to target them in the larval stage and's using materials that are specific to killing them. Of course the last measure is adult mosquito control. when we have infected mosquitoes, we want to make sure we're doing adult mosquito control. Those are the popular ones. We've done that off and on over the last few years since west nile virus has come to california. West nile virus activity, in 05 we had 179 cases of west nile virus. It started in 1999 with new york and moved across the country. A lot of folks thought we'd see a big number at the beginning and start to fall off. 2012 and 2013, we've had 479 and 372 cases respectively. We feel the fxq)S j0bm2are under reported. Some vzof the symptoms can be just simple flu like symptoms. You don't feel good for a couple of days and then you recover f.You have a flu like that you May not go to the doctor to report it. We feel there are quite a number of more infections not being reported through the doctors and not reported to us. we want to stress the severity of west nile virus. It can kill, it can paralyze and can be debilitating. A study was done by the department of health back in 06. they did a survey of folks stricken with west nile fever and showed that over 50% of them are still experiencing some level of symptoms one year later. Some say it's the flu and you'll get over but some are dealing with it on a long-term basis. >> do you have an explanation for the drop in 09-10? >> we'd like to say very good mosquito control. Part of the issue, I think, is better education going out to folks. People are drain the sources. I know for us, for those years, we just didn't have or didn't find it well. It's a bird disease and carried by birds. Mosquito bites an infected bird and carries it from there. >> strangely, that's the peak of the foreclosure. >> we were very active with the pools. >> there must have been a lot of [Inaudible] >> will it be a bad year this year? Part is climate variation. you think if we have less Howater we'll have less mosquitoes. Pastures are going to be down as well because they don't have the water to flood the properties. Same thing with the state and wetland properties that.'s a good thing in terms of abundance. Some of the literature suggest that in a drought year the virus tends to be more. You have the interaction between bird and mosquito. Possibly, we May have a hotter spot this upcoming year in a drought year because of the greater interaction between the birds and mosquitoes. Hopefully the technicians will know where that is and keep knit a local spot. a mosquito abundance, it affects tree squirrels and horses. Will is a vaccine for horses. We encourage horse owners to get them vaccinated. Weapon want to stress the importance that it's not just a mild disease. We do have a few new threat issues that we want to bring up. Species of mosquitoes. We have about 24 of them here in our area. Not all transmit disease. They are all a nuisance. we have invase civil species. The asian tiger mosquito came in a tire shipment and many the lucky bamboo. They have water in the bottom of it and it's a perfect breeding ground. They used to fly them in and they didn't have water. then they put them in concheran stainer ships and put them in water. They started to find this down in southern california. These are invase civil species that are not supposed to be in california. We're finding them now. they are very yq@defficient vectors of dingy. We get about a dozen or so imported cases. People that travel to the areas where it's indem mick, they experience the symptoms and we have the mosquito that can transport it. Prez no, mafusz der are a and san mateo they found a couple of mosquitoes. they're very specific with their stripes and sharp contrast colors. This one is also a very efficient transmitter and chicken gunya that came from the caribbean. That is essentially on our door step. This is all along the east coast. The fact that we're starting to see some of these mosquitoes in california tconcern for us, because we want to avoid local transmission of either of these viruses. We ask the public to follow the 7 d's. draining the standing water. Look for anything that's holding water. Dawn and dusk. They're the most active at that time. Dress in long sleeves and s pants. that's hard when it's 100 degrees. Put on a good repel laboratory. Deet is the gold standard. Make sure that you're read the label directions. Doors and screens. Make sure -- some times we get the delta breezes but make sure your screens are in order. District personnel f.You see mosquitoes, you're have agriculture problem, you have a green pool in the neighborhood, we want to know about it to take care of Ntv=the problem. Our website, fightthebitepontenet. plauffenowthatyou'vemademeitc hy. you'retheonlyonethatfindsthem interesting. >> hesaidbeautyful. Thankyouforcomeingout. >> our next item is proclaiming national police week. If you don't mind, I'm going to read this from here. Okay. This is a proclamation proclaiming national police week. May 11-17, 2014 peace officers memorial day. Where as the congress and President Of the united states adod public law designated May 15 as peace officer's memorial day in recognition of law enforcement officers nationwide. Public law 85:54 designates the week in which May 15 falls in recognition of those provided by federal, state and local law enforcement officers. Ill's important that all citizens know the duties, responsibilities, hazards and sacrifices of this profession and to keeping our community safe and where as folsom police officers and officers throughout the state and nation maintain peace and protect the lives and property of our citizens and since the attacks of the world trade center, the demand risk have placed on the >hg ( offers increased significantly. They provide a vital public service safeguarding the citizens of this city. I, mayor of the city of folsom program the week of May 11-17, 2014 as national police week. may 15, 2014 shall be peace officer's memorial day and the flag will be flown at half staff at all city offices, proclaimed this 13 day of May. >> thank you for the nice proclamation. This is a day to remember the officers who made the ultimate sacrifice in protection of their fellow man. There will be a ceremony in washington D.C. And 105 names will be etched for those who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2013. Ten of them were california state officers and one was our own kevin tine. I'd like a moment of silence to remember kevin, his family and all officers who lost their lives in 2013. Thank you very much mayor. >> thank you and I want to thank all the people in your department for their service. I'm also going to add in that they did an unbelievably good job in making sure that everything went well yesterday. i wish they would've interviewed rocky in sacramento. >> rocky the horse was quite the star sunday in sacramento and monday here as well. Commander rick hillman put a vast amount of time into an event coordinating all of the wonderful caps and police officers who worked that day. >> as well as the officers from the other agencies t.Motorcycle parade was impressive. >> wonderful regional participation. We were quite pleased. >> thank you. lydia will get you the proclamation. Thank you again. Next item is presentation from the utility director regard the water supply condition. Marcus. >> mayor, members of the city council, environmental water resources director. I wanted to provide a current update on the water conditions for the city. Some of the conversation actions underway issued stage 3 on 23rd of last year of December. We've been going to several state water resource board meetings. The governor provided two drought proclamations, one in January and one tat beginning of April. Some of the actions that we are doing is 1. Protecting our city water rights. I'll get into more of that on the next slide. we provided, and thanks to mayor howe for attending last tuesday. Congresses man bear's office was there, beth gaines office was there and senator jim neilson was there to speak on the city of rose ville, city of folsom last tuesday. out of that outcome, reclamation was required to follow-up the plan. [Inaudible] To develop a plan past September and November of last year. We have meetings coming up that will set the tone and target that is we're comfortable working towards. As we get the information we'll bring it back before you. Theta announced their allocations and american river contractors received 50% of their central valley allocations. We do have our pre 1914 water rights this. Is one thing we'll have to continue to push forward and build out and continue to develop within the city's east area. That's where the water can be used. Although it's not a huge impact, we have to make sure that we continue to use the water and increase the water. That's how they'll decide what the allocations are. A note of good news, arrow jet turned on their ab facilities and are producing non-poetable water for the cooling process. They've been able to reduce the demand from the city for about a month and a Lp [Y } we're working with their staff to continue to monitor that process. Good news coming out. >> that's a big reduction. that's great. >> yeah, that's one thing we've noted. About a week and a half ago they got it online and working through technical ties to get it running full-time. Information from the drought, governor social security trying to get them to go quicker to be able to move water around. Those that are without water, make some of the hoops they have to go through a little less. He was proclaim agriculture 20% reduction. He's asking for a state wide 20% reduction for all agencies and water suppliers whether you fool with water rights, water supply, water delivery. They're asking for everybody to do 20%. They did issue a letter on potential curtail. Of water right. The way they'd do that is on a priority system based on the water rights, given the cities dated back to 1851 there is quite a list to go through to get to that point. We're continuing to work with them to make sure our pre 1914 rights remain as strong as they are. We want to maintain the protection of the city's pre 1914 water rights. (We need to be prepare today take every legal precaution here because the minute they crack that door, it's going to be a big problem. Southern california is strong and very well financed and they want that water. We have to make sure we fight very, very hard to protect that. >> that's a very good point. We have one of our legal teams monitoring that for us daily and preparing documentation we need which includes letters we submitted to go on record with our water rights and seniority of those rights. Reduction categories, cleaning sidewalks, driveways, etcetera, which we have in the municipal codes. Limit vehicle washing at home. they stress going to a local car wash. Watering 2 times per week which is the stage we're in and water at restaurants being served upon request. Some of the items don't have an affect on the city. these were issued by the governor. We, the city, are current imprep meaning. >> I was able to address some with the members of the state board when they said we need to j6 think about looking at this. I said we did this in December. It's cavalier to assume we have not been doing our part with respect to conservation. I also explain today them ex -- to them that this is not something with can work outweigh out of. We need to reduce the amount of out flow of the lake. >> that's great point. A couple of slides touch on that item. Here is 2014 survey that was completed. as you can see, just by the charts, we're far below average for April tbegin of April which was the last survey at the beginning of April. No new news there. This is the water supply in the resevoir going into the summer or spring going into the summer that.'s where mother nature left us. This is the conditions of folsom resevoir back at the beginning of January. You can see the projected decline that we're at given there are some changes to reduce the flows in January. Agencies were able to get that line to flatten out. Here is about the time it start today flatten out. We got rain to increase. Back Mncup into the 566,000-acre foot range which is where we are. close to 200,000-acre feet below historic average. We know we're not near where we've been in, in the past. That's another -- I know we need to continue to address this on future operations. I know this is a lot of information. What I please want to point out, if you look at these columns, these are evaporation losses. If you come across to this column here, you see evaporation is twice as much poetable water that we use on a daily basis. I took a weekly average so i didn't have four months of data t.Percentage of water here that folsom uses compare today the total demand of the resevoir. We're anywhere from 1.4% up to 3.4, 3.5% at the high. The big picture tcity of folsom use as small amount of water coming out of that resevoir. As the mayor suggested, there is sometimes more water evaporation than what we use on a daily basis. i just wanted to show how much water the city actually uses and if we were trying to conserve more than what's suggested by others, maybe we should limit to no watering at all maybe 3 to 2.6 or 2.4% out of 16, 1700 out of that resevoir. It's a small amount that would be conserved. This is just a graphic of those -- >> marcus, they went from severe reduction and they cut it to almost 500. >> January. >> where are they now? >> about 900. >> about 950 cfs. They're starting to increase the flows. They suggest going into the summer peaking. in June, about a third less that where they were June of last year. Part of this is to identify a plan that takes us beyond September. What we get in October, November and December, if we have the same type ophiuras last year what do we do? we work with the fishery agenesis and those identifying the flows. This is just a graphic to show you, as a visual, how much of a difference there is in total demand. This second red line here is what the city uses. Just a comparison in total volume, you see where we were in November, 1691 and slowly wyatt everhart reducing each month. Slow uptake in March and April as we got out of the rain and into warm periods. I'll show you a graphic of that on the next slide. South american river and ashland. If you look at 2014 compared to the average, 2008-2012 was the average. We were using about 7% of -- 74%. The first metered year compare today the first four months of this year, we had about a 21% reduction f.You compared February through March of that same time period, given maybe the month of January after we issueed the conservation stage to allow people to reduce or get adjust today the new schedule, we're getting close to the 30% reduction compared to those same numbers 3 to 5 years ago. We are see agriculture reduction through tout city which is great and in the ashland area we're getting almost 39 to 40%, 35% here. What we're doing is working and what our customers are dog, again, I have to give them a lot of credit for dog what they've done given the circumstances we're all in. Again, this is what our customers can p`do on >a daily basis. Follow the 2 day per week watering schedule. We know it's going to get warmer and people are going to want to drink more water, kids playing sports going into the summer, a lot more water use. Try to follow the mandatory water restrictions. Resews shower time, fix leaks, salt fRGd fficient pitchers. Only wash full loads of laundry, dishes and if you have water waste concerns contact our water conservation department. With that, I'll take any questions. >> I'd just like to restate, kind of in lay terms, what of the points mark made. the current operations plan for folsom resevoir leaves it 90,000-acre feet lower this year than last year. That's why it's important for us to work with the federal government representatives to ensure that they're doing whatever they need to do in order to prepare for the potential dry winter of 2015 and so we want to be sure that we're doing everything we can to preserve our water resources here, knowing that we can't conserve our way out of this, as a small city, when we literally use a hh:drop of hk93\#wwater in the fire hose. Critically important efforts as we continue to lobby the federal government. >> you have a question for marcus? >> I have '~a quick question. I assumed eye knew this answer, but for the park and turf area and our city maintained landscaped areas and commons right away stuff and areas maintained by home owners associations, are all of those areas assumed to be on the 2 days per week watering schedule. >> everybody is unless they submit a variance and that will ask, let's just say they'll use a thousand units but they say they're going to use 800 but they want to do it over 3 days for various purposes or because the watering day falls on the weekend and this relates to those who don't have the personnel to come out on the weekend. They can submit a variance but they still have to meet the 20% reduction requirement. We're working with parks and recs to identify some of those. We don't want the parks to feel wet if they're starting to play soccer and baseball season is wrapping up. >> that makes good sense. We have a lot of eyes on these issues now so they notice things like how often the watering is being conducted. >> correct. It gives our staff and others half the response time if it's happening during the week. >> you have a question? >> thanks, marcus. >> our next presentation is regarding fire prevention which I presume is chief phillips. >> good evening, I'm ron phillips, fire chief of the city. If you'll bare with me I have a power point. i'll try to keep it brief. A dry winter followed by a small amount of rain in the spring has led to what we are concerned about this summer which is higher than average risk of wildfires here in the city so, with that, I thought i'd cover a few subjects. >> the fire season officially started today? >> May 5th here locally. There were some areas, in the bay and coastal areas announced today but for us it was sooner. I thought I'd cover a few subjects here. i want to talk about the spring last year and talk about what the federal and state fire agency forecasts are this summer, specifically in northern california and the sacramento area. We'll talk about a few planning and actions that the city is underway doing now to help prepare for this potentially dangerous firen and what the home owner accounts do themselves and answer any questions you May have. A look back to 2013, we had 33 wildfires here in the city of follow so. 217 acres of land were damaged here locally. Three neighborhoods under went evacuations. We had about $50,000 in damage to homes and residential properties as a result of the fires. We had one significant wildfire that damaged some commercial property, specifically a solar rays farm that caused extense civil damage to that equipment. >> I actually call thad fire in. >> you were one of the reporting parties, I do recall. We also suffered 3 firefighter injuries last year as a result. That was our history last year. What are we going to look like this year? as mayor howe eluded to, we've officially entered the fire season effective May 5th. We began our prepare process as of that date t.Drought has worsened fire season. Traditionally, the fire season doesn't ramp up till mid June. we really didn't see the first fire activity until July but with the drought condition causing significant stress on our local vegetation and the fact that we're already seeing wildfires locally, we had one yesterday, we're projecting that fire season is underway which is about 4 to 6 weeks seen than average t.Forecast from the predicted services agencies that look at long-term weather modeling are projecting that we'll see an above average warm period from June till august here locally. We'll be facing that. Over all tprediction here in northern california and that includes sacramento and folsom, there is an above average for large wildfires occurring here locally. some of the action that is the city has taken to mitigate that, we brought forward a wildfire protection plan which sets out specific goals to reduce the threat of wildfires here in the city. You adopt thad plan last july and we've been implementing provisions of that plan ever sin. We've increased fire planning and training of the staff. We really don't start preparing until later on this mon. We've ordered all field personnel to start to begin the training and checkout their equipment and make sure they're adequately prepared starting May 5th. We increased our inspections. We sent out 400 notices last week to property owners of vacant land remining them to have work done prior to June 1st. We enhanced public education with ready, set, go. These are steps that you can take to be prepared for that potential. That potential is readily available here locally for many neighborhoods t.Length of that program is listed there on the bottom. This entire power point will be on the city's website tomorrow. What are some of the things home owners and property owners can do? We have to space zones we focus on and all of those areas are within 30 feet of your home. You can see the diagram, it's 30 feet. Wildfires have a very nasty habit. You May think your home is not readily expose today a fire because you don't face an open space. Wildfires produce large plebbiers that travel upwards to a mile and land in communities and neighborhoods and on properties. Just because your home doesn't front an open space area doesn't mean you're not as risk. We urge you to remove the grass and vegetation, keep the gutters and eves and porches and decks clear of combustible debris and remove fire wood tax, box and debris piles within that 30-foot zone. From 30 to 100 feet out from the home, we recommend to create a horizontal and vertical spacing between plans that.'s depending on the topography of your property. we'll work with you on how far apart they should be. Finally, we encourage property owners to remove ladder fields which are tree limbs hanging on the ground and the grass and everything around that. When you can do that safely and we, obviously, have certain trees that require preservation around them. That concludes my presentation. I did list the website for the folsom fire state council. If anyone would like to learn more about the subject you can go there. The staff is also able to answer questions at 984-2220. >> I have a quick question. I think it was 8 or 10 years ago we had an early season and there was talk at that time, never followed through, that the state might actually declare like a safe fire work zone for state where now it's a county and city based jurisdictional thing. have you heard in talk about that this season? >> you're correct. There was talk about ban the fireworks statewide when governor arnold schwarzenegger was in office. >> have you heard other things like in sacramento, folks like that, any talk about considerations of that nature? >> I have not had any direct talks any of the local fire agencies about that subject. I know they're all concerned about the fire season and the potential of what it can bring but no direct talks about a limited ban. >> these are kind of rhetorical in a way, but as you've always done in the past, remind the folks in our community that we will, if somebody uses these in a proper way and causes damage in the community whether it's open space, somebody elses property, we'll pursue prosecution to recoupe the cost. I always felt that's a real deterrent or a gad incentive to use those in the manner they're supposed to be used and not in try areas and things like that. I encourage you to get that word out. It's a serious issue. >> we'll get that word out. We do also have enforcement teams out during the fire work sales period. >> if you're using fireworks, even if you're using them in general accordance of the recommended use of the fireworks and it gets out of control, you're going to be liable for it. >> most definitely. We do go after cost recovery. >> I think the biggest problem is the fireworks potential booths people, you never know what can happen. You have to be careful as far as getting ready for the fireworks. Something could come up and you have to say no go. The biggest problem we rdhave qis v illegal fireworks that f~come in over nb[Ta9@border. You can say all you want, you can't sell it here but people km bring it ryin. Most of your work here is chasing down the n^m llegals. >> that's right. >> I happened to be `.YXl n the city manageress office today when we got an indication about the insurance rates going up relative $yto fireworks. You never know what might happen. The groups that got the fireworks display, I wouldn't be writing no l heck yet. Thank you. Thanks, ron. >> our next item is bicity I manageress }vg"year, third quarter financial report for 2013. >> mayor, members of the council, jim francis, chief financial officer. I'm going to give you the third quarter financial report for this fiscal year. just to start off, first of all, the report covers July 2013 through March of 2014 and our projected numbers for this year are that rene news will come in at 68 please.2 million, expenditures at 67.4. That gives roughly $850,000 surplus. Adding that to our fund balance bring that is up to $6 million, which is 8.9% of our expenditures that.'s a;vgood?} news story. To show the fund balance a little more, we're, again, projecting $6 million at 8.9. This is the third year that we each had a fund balance and been able to add the fund balance that.'s a very good trend. Sense our low point, which was the end of fiscal year 11, we were roughly at $4 million. We've roughly added about $2 million to the fund balance. We have a ways to go to get to the 15% target. to be at that number we need about 10.1 million dollars. We're certainly headed in the right direction. In terms of the revenues themselves, we're coming in at 68 please.2 million and that's roughly just over 100% of our projected number so we're about a little over $500,000 over that. We have two area that is we're really kind of not in sync, our sales tax, 17.7 million and coming in around 19 licenses and permits which we had at 7 coming in at 17.9. >> jim, what was your break down of the sales tax for the third quarter t.National figures came out and it said it was down significantly. >> weapon don't have that yet. >> let me know when you get that. >> we are projecting that to be down somewhat, like everybody else although we've been doing fairly well. To go over the reasons in terms of the difference of what we budgeted and projected, point of sale, we had it at a 5% increase at 15.6 and we're at about a 7.5% increase to 15.9 that.'s within the norm we'd expect t.Big difference was in the state and county pool and difference there is that this year we've been getting money from the internet agreement that the state had made and in that agreement, right now, internet sales tax is going to the state pool and chaired. In the future that will go to, excuse me, the immunity that is have the big box stores for amazon and will not be shared statewide. That's going to be several years we get advantage and then we'll lose that advantage. That was a the big difference. >> get in amazon. >> they don't have one plans, quite yet, for here@?Yt.Other difference is in the triple flip and's 25% of what we take in on the point of sale that. Went up as result of this going up. the tax coming back to us was an over estimation by the county. We talked about that during budget that it's going to be high next year and we'll lose that going forward that. Really makes tup difference between the 17 not 7 and 19 million. The other area that we had differences was licenses an permits. About $170,000 more in the licenses than we projected. Primarily, we've had more permits as you CQu}see. We had a little over 2500 and we'll be at about 2600 this year for the projection. Part of it, the more important part of it, the evaluation has gone way up. We were at about 120 million an we're going up to about 155 million in terms of value for those permits. that's a significant increase. That's where the increase in revenue came from. On the expenditure side, we're a little under the budget. We're going to come in under budget at about half a% and that's a little over $300,000. Distribution by department and there were some, obviously we have vacancies that created surplus and we also had irrigation cost up due to the metering that we're now doing. We had some temporary labor cost that went up and [ Inaudible]. If we break that down mwug by bigger expenditure categories, you'll see that we're a little bit over on the salary that is we're budgeted 8 but there is an offset rom the oes reimbursment. Weapon don't budget for that. That is covered. The benefits are down and that's simply because, again, the vacancies we Vahad during year. We didn't have to pick those up. The rest of the cat gears, operations and maintenance are right on budget or a little less. Insurance is great on the number and capital out lay is up slightly and that was due to the resolution passed. >> oes refunds and salary increase, is that 8g,!Ke hat it was? >> it was oes that -- >> [Inaudible] >> weapon don't budget that revenue. We get full recovery from that. if we go to the water fund, the revenue is up slightly, a little less than 3%. Will is going to be an operating income game, mainly because }of the capital expenses being down a little bit. we just have not realizeed the expense yet. Same with waste water. Again, operate agriculture number is fairly flat. It will have an operating income gain and the same reason we had for the lung jit for capitol and we have not had the expense yet. The numbers are right on in terms of revenue, flat. They have an operating income. We had a multi year in purchasing replace the trucks. We have one more year to go but that's reflected thabeet number. We saw the transit break even. We're usually on a -- they make up in the following year what we May be over or under. Two funds where we're having deficits, the comp and leave fund. We're anticipating adding 438,000 or reduce the deficit by 438,000 this year which bring that is down to 1.4. We were up to about 3 million at one point. We anticipate this is going to go away in the next two years. Willow creek, we're going to reduce that deficit by about 139,000 down to 746. We anticipate, at the end this, number will still be down around 300,000. On the capital projects, will is 18.5% expenditure that.'s a little low but that's not unusual. Remember this is only through March. We're coming up on an active part of the season. We have, with capital projects, a number of things completed, folsom boulevard improvements at 1.3, island improvements, community center, restrooms put in, aquatic shape structures finished, park building completed. Street over lay, we did 1.6 million and still working on street over lay projects. Pavement manage. Program will be in next mon. Radio park restrooms completed and johnny cash is ongoing with the number of phase that is are still under construction. You'll notice the tower is up now. >> one of them is. >> one of them is, yes. So, in summary trevenues are exceeding budgets slightly by 100%. We're coming in under 98.5. Expenditures to increase. Utilities are all showing operating gains. the deficit fund, we're going to reduce those deficits during this fiscal year and we've had several capital projects that's been completed. I mentioned those before. that's a quick version. >> anybody have comments or questions for jim? >> couple of quick comments. I think this does reflect that we're still struggling coming out of the reception but you guys have done good yacht letting it triple. I think we'll see bigger revenue next year. Nice way of controlling cost and continuing to get projects completed that need to be done. also continuing to stock money away for the rainy day. Nice work. >> thanks, jim. >> thank you. >> good news to hear that the general fund reserves are going to be increasing more than we anticipated. Apparentlily, somebody is shopping in folsom and I hope it's our residents and all of our neighbors are welcome to come shop. We'll move on to business from the floor. first is ben and then chris. No card for madeline. Madeline good today? Great! Good evening ben. >> good evening. i live at 306 scott street in he is torr rick folsom. I'm here tonight to remark on your final mens after last council's meeting in regard to earnings request to revisit the historic district parking problem. Pretty disappointed in all of you. As I recall, when we were going through the entertainment district's hearing, maybe tib at that time would correct people and say don't comment on parking, we'll comment on that layer. twice he said that at two different meetings. At that time, not one of you said hey, steve that's a bad idea or I don't agree with it. At the end of this meeting last time, note a very big agenda, your comments, anything we needed to revisit, each of you said no. I was puzzled. I heard your excuses and your reasoning. Kerry asked if he'd like to revisit ordinance 1106. I took time to review that from the 2008 meeting. what I found interesting in this meeting was before that there was a historic district parking update and in that they had good suggestion that is could fall into what we've been going through with the parking problem. one was a parking advisory committee that mark had recommend thad the city do. It would meet quarterly and it had stake holders involved in it and it would review parking problems throughout the city. In addition to that there was also a mention of a parking enforcement officer. I know that position has not been filled. >> we do not have a parking position. >> one of the things that dips pointed me, too, was when steve commented that people choose to live where they live. Actually, that was pretty innocencetive for long time residents like myself. When I moved here in 1977, nobody parked in front of my house for the first 15 years t.City has grown and been successful. Along with that is responsibility. You're to listen in the citizens in that area and help us solve problems. I feel what you guys did is deceptive becoming out with the negative comments and not encouraging the group to go forward with the discussion and come up with constructive solutions to our parking problem. These things have not gone away. [Inaudible] Said he'd like to see the results of the entertainment district ordinance after a period of time t.Only problem is who is taking statistics and reporting on it? Me? I'll tell you right now, there are still people parking in front of my house late at night, talking loud, sunday morning with a lot of trash. fortunately, I'm lucky enough that one of the club owners hired someone to pick up trash in the street. It's a regular ongoing thing. It's not going away. You folks said, or at least maybe you didn't say but nobody disagreed with the mayor at that time that we'd revisit this and I'm disappointed in this. >> thank you. I'm only going to comment that will is data being gathered. As soon as we have it we'll make it available. Chris? >> mayor, council, thank you for having me tonight. Excuse me. The reason I'm here tonight rather than my mountain bike ride is to express my gratitude for bringing [Inaudible] To a great city. As a resident and someone that works here, I'm thrill thad you did that. On behalf of a lot of pipe friends and family here yesterday, they had a phenomenal time. i want to express gratitude for the city and the -- >> and fire. >> pd and all the other city services for femoral nominally vent. That was the most fun I've ever had. it was fantastic to have the start and finish where it was. I'm sure it was not without issue but it was extremely well organized and I encourage the city to bring it back and if there is something I can do to help, call me. Lastly, I imagine there are numbers gathered on the economic benefit -- >> it May take a while for us to know the effect it had. We can talk to the business owners on sutter street and i expect the people that sell libations and food were quite busy. We'll see, over the longer term, if this leads to an increase in tourism or overnight stays. Obviously you probably didn't see the nbc coverage but after the first couple of minutes with the helicopters flying over, the british announcer who, according to what -- >> bill legal get is the voice of cycling. >> this is a beautiful city, why have we not been here before. >> the fact it was televised, we May not know the results immediately, but that man, voice of cycling for 30 years, that alone, tell viced in 200 countries should have an impact. That alone tcoverage was phenomenal on nbc, if you had the opportunity to see it. The tourism bureau advertising was strategic christmas eve placed. It was extremely well done. what we ended up paying to have this event in the city, we could never pay the amount of advertising we got for the city. >> I know it's hard to capture, but if we can capture and share with residents and businesses in folsom, that's great. >> another indicator of how successful is I had 0 complaints in my e-mail this morning. I thought with the traffic problem that is could have been created, give the city staff credit for the warnings out in advance. they knew what would be closed and all, but the fact that I had no e-mails complaining this,'s great. >> I got two e-mails, one from orange ville. >> my children go to a charter school in orange ville and they sent out e-mails about this so I imagine the city reached out to them. We heard about it -- >> what time were you guys coming to drop off the kids? >> 8:20. The road was open and I went back. >> what time did you have to go back to get them? >> my wife picked them up at 20:40. She went down ray zelle to 2040 -- hazel to get there. [Inaudible] More traffic than usual but -- >> we were being blamed for the traffic jams on highway 50. That contradicts the other information I got. Thank you for your comments, chris with that we move on to the consent calendar. >> I move items a-h. >> second. >> 7 a has been revised. >> morin yes shelbin yes, mar see yes, howl a. >> yes. >> 8 action. This is having been continued from April 8, 2014 and -- >> mayor and council members, as soon as I can remove the [ inaudible] Information, I'll bring it up. We'll get to that. This item before you mayor and council members is an appeal by a neighborhood resident of a -- actually it's an appeal of a planning commission, action by the proponent, the person who owns the residence where the action was taken. this was a design review application for single family residence a.Little bit of history and then we'll get to the actual application. As you'll find, in your staff report, in 1993, this subject property had a single family residence, 2400 square feet built. Since that time, there has been some activity in the property that necessitated some work on the part of our code enforcement folks with respect to parking and with respect to having too many borders according to our ordinance that regulates what you can and cannot do in single family subdivisions. There also was, prior to my coming here, and this was back in 1999 I believe, there was reports in 1998, reports by code enforcement of an illegally converted garage. We brought you the ordinance to prohibit conversion of garages. we didn't have that at the time this occurred but this would've required because of the exterior change of the building. We had a review committee that would've done it. I wasn't here at that time but, as I understand it, the community development department approved and issued the building permit for the conversion of the garages and they were being operated as a day care center and that was permitted with within the zone. That particular conversion was approved. When it was aproducinged there was to be additional parking and additional driveway provided which would service the side of the house because they had taken out the parking they had in the 3 car parking garage. So we'll look in a minute and I'll show you where that was to occur. That never did occur. It was a fence, a shed, some other things placed where the parking would've gone. There was no driveway installed or means to get to the parking. In fact, when we looked tat site plan, we can see there is a light standard right where the driveway would be and it would be impossible to put parking there without substantial improvements. Subsequent to that period of time, we found this was operated as a boring house. We met with the applicants and brought it back into compliance. They've gone through two different design review applications. The one that is currently in front of you, we'll walk through in the presentation. This is the residence we'll talk about. You can see the car parked in the driveway area and these are the -- this is where the 3 car garage was. That's all been demised internally with tenant improvement and no longer available for parking. There was to be access through this part of the yard and parking made available for the displaced parking here and to accommodate those additional car that is come in with the borders. None of that improvement was ever made. So, this summer -- >> that was a condition? >> that was a condition. This summer I did background of the current application. There was a design review application for a 1503 square foot addition on this particular resident. The conditional approval that rerecommended would've turned the garages back into opeyemi raible garages. Obviously there are problems with boarding and boarding continues and we don't have the parking originally planned, would make sense, if they're coming in for another entitlement, to iturn the garage into the original. If you have a conversion garage you have to do that. That's consistent with what we recommended reallilier. We did recommend that in the community development approval. This is an administrative approval. That was appeal bide the property owner to the planning commission and has gone to -- the res debs in the area were not happy with the decision either because they didn't want the additional square footage given the history. If you look at the square footage, this is the survey of the square footage of homes in the area. this is one of the largest in the area. With the expansion they're asking for, we can't find any other home that has anywhere near that square footage. Well thought, since it met all the coverage requirements, set back requirements, everything we had in the zone, that as long as they followed the recommendations we had and on the application there was a spiral staircase on the side of the home that went up to the second floor and another one on the rear of the home. We recommended against the spiral staircase on the side of the home. We thought the one in the rear was all right. It serviceed the backyard, couldn't be seen out front. We've been of through these issues and have had guidance from city council. When this got to the planning commission on February 5th, they heard testimony from the residents and, in their opinion, they felt the square footage of the building was not typical of other homes in the area and, therefore, they denied the appeal and they took action saying none of the expansion would be allowed, ie. Leigh it as is. It's just like bit is. That was the action of the planning commission. That particular action has been appealed by the property owner and the reason I mentioned our original approval is to give you the full choice of different decisions you could make. You can support the planning commission and leave it as it is. I'm sure the property owner will want all of the improvements they've asked for. The way we dealt with that is to say if you want to expand and meet the requirements, weapon don't want the side staircase but we want the garage back in operation to get cars off the street. If you do that we felt it was okay after all the neighborhood presented. I think they felt the expansion was too large and you'll hear it tonight they're not trusting of this having more borders than allowed. We've done our best, within the means we have, to find out what the arrangements are and brought it back into compliance. That's the history of this. I'll go through a couple of slides. This bis the history. This is the application. About 1385 square feet on the rear part of the house. you can see the project details t.Front of the house does have a second story element. Most of the addition is the second story element on the rear of the house. decisions ton rear. They asked for two spiral staircases, one to the left of the drawing on the side of the house and the other on the back. The one to the left of the build single enclosed at the second level only. There was facade improvements to reposition the front door and hard scape improvements this driveway will remove some of the landscaping out there and given the neighborhood, I earnly and my staff, does not think that is a good idea. >> I'm sorry, so the appel lant does not want to convert the garages which I felt was a condition of the previous approval. How do you get around the conditions of the previous approval? >> what we would do, say tonight you'll take an action. >> this is the second addition. >> we will engage in code enforcement to make sure what's going on, to make sure additional parking would be made available. that means they have to have some way -- >> hold on. You're missing my point. So we have, from my perspective, I understand. What's before us is the design. Correct me if I'm wrong but I want to know what we're doing with the failure to comply with the first one. One of the conditions was to provide the parking. That was not done. >> without even considering what we're doing tonight, there has to be additional parking put in. so now, if you're telling me, we're permit today -- what the commission below us did is of no concern to us. Let's say they did comply with their first condition today and they put that hard scape or whatever they're going to put in there tpaving, are they proposing now with the addition that they'll basically concrete the rest of the front yard for parking and not convert the garage? >> that's what they want to do. >> that's what I'm asking. I just want to be sure I understand. >> our ragge natural recommendation was to convert the garages back to their original condition in exchange for what they're looking for and eliminate the exterior staircase on the side. We thought that would work. >> most of the addition, you're telling me, if you're looking at it from street level, most of it is not from street level. You have to be around the side of the house. if we ended up with the planning commission, if you afforded that, we still have to do something. I recommend turf lock. You can't discern that from the lawn. I would suggest turf block up to that area and they park along the side of the house. From the standpoint -- >> except, davi6tthat then it looks like there is cars parked on the front lawn. >> no, you don't allow them to park on the driveway t.Spice has to be 40 feet deep tat fence level back. they can gate it and park behind it. >> you're not talking about the front. >> they never came with a solution for us to approve. >> I thought the code required covered parking. I thought the new ordinances required a garage. >> it does. That. >> that's why you're saying convert the garage facebook a garage. >> right. That shows you what the series of recommendations were. What you have before you now -- >> let me go back. I'm still missing something f.Your original condition, which they're in violation of, was to convert -- are they require today convert the garage -- not as part of their original condition. >> the original condition was to get the parking on the side of the house. >> you're going to have to have the covered spaces. That's where your recommendation comes in. >> I think what david is saying is that the original approval that was not complied with for quite some time was after the initially illegal conversion of the garage into whatever it was being used for. they got an approval after the fact and they were suppose today install 2 parking spaces on the side of the house. That's never happened. Since that time we changeed the city's ordinance with respect to that previous garage conversion. >> I understand that. >> I just want to clarify that for those in the audience. >> this stuff happens and we don't do anything about it. We approve projects and they have condition and they're not doing them. You have to enforce this stuff. If we had a commercial building out there we'd shut the building down. >> during whole time of this we've pressured for that and the result was applications we had to deal with at the same time. This looks at the recommendation of the planning commission that I just mention today you. i wanted to be able to go through that and show you what we recommended. We did not want to see the spiral staircase on the side of the house. We found it did not meet the coverage. We wanted to see the garage operational again and they had the proper driveway as they originally had to go up to the 3 garage stall. >> david, is it your -- if we sat here today, are you guys say fieldgoal they convert the garage back to a 3 car garage, would you permit the expansion? >> we recommended the expansion without the one spiral staircase and if they put the garage back in. This kind of summarizes the reposition of the entrance. You can see a little bit of the expansion on this side of the second floor. On the rear elevation you can see the new deck and the new second story here and you can see the rear staircase on both ends of this. >> no problem on clearances on the upper right? >> they met all the set backs and everything from the codes. These are the major issues and I'm sure we'll hear them tonight. We'll try to summarize them. We did receive many, many e- mails on this. i think steve banks was kind enough toe respond but these are the things they brought up. They were concerned about multi family boarding home nature of the residence. Concerned about neighborhood safety. Concerned regarding parking impact, corn relating to vehicles parking on the side yard and I would have that same concern but it was an original condition of the approval. Concerned about expense civil hard scaping of front yard. Concerned with respect to design come pat built of the project. You'll find, in the findings from the planning commission, they felt that the scale of the home was exceeded t.Neighbor had had enough that they felt it wasn't in character. >> what's your concern about vehicles parking in the side yard if it was an original condition and lots of residents park rv's on the side of the home. >> they're going to have to express that to you but I would think noise, closing of doors, trunks, thing like that would be a problem. concern regarding the number of exits, entrance. We eliminated one of them. Concern with the spiral staircases and we eliminated one of them. This is the recess deps are the street front now. As I indicated earlier, if you were to try to get your vehicle up here you have things in the way. >> I'm trying to figure out why anybody recommended doing that in the first place. >> I tried to. I wasn't here then and I hope i would've dealt with it differently. When somebody -- >> is there, physically, enough room to do that? >> there is, but the problem is, down at the street level, you have to come up and then straighten it out. We're forward the planning commission recommendation to deny the appeal by the property owners which would, from the planning commission, the recommendation is to design the design review application for the addition. We've given you the history to give you options and show you the whole picture. Any questions? i'm sure there are plenty to present testimony. >> do we have questions for david before we explain how this is going to be done? >> Madam Mayor and members of city council, the review tonight is a quasi appeal and this choirs the following timeframe. This has been a city staff presentation and it's follow id by the appellates presentation and they will have 10 minutes. They May des