Folsom City Council Regular Meeting

>>> were going to reconvene this . Were going to call to order the regular meeting called for tuesday, August 28 will call that order. Council members. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Good evening everybody. I would like to remind everybody that if you have a cell phone turn it to silent or vibrate so it is not distracting. For my colleagues appear please do the same. We have a long meeting as of right now we have at least 12 requests first beaking on the general plan . We have at least two to -- 22 2 1/2 hours of speaker time. -- to want to make sure all of your comments are heard and thought out. With that if clerk plea calls -- please calls the next item. The next item is your agenda updates. 9b has been updated. It will be available to the public at the back table. The next item is your business from the floor. Your first speaker will be mike bomb barn -- mike bomb barn -- >> if you hear your name in your next up please step up and be ready. We will continue to call the next speakers. Good evening mike. >> I had the grassroots organization downtown 916. Just as a reminder to everyone in the room and watching the replay on channel 14 back in mid June, specifically on father's day on June 17 reasonable -- regional transit extended hours to the gold line system to include evenings and late nights and that is seven days a week. Monday through saturday service is the last train back to sacramento that would be at 1130 at night. -- 11:30 pm at night and on sundays and holidays it's at 9:30 pm at night. You have a handout that I gave to the officer in the city manager prior to your coming to order tonight and the handout is the 2018-2019 sacramento kings regular seasonal sent -- schedule. It does not include the preseason schedule which includes home games on October 8 and October 11 at 7 pm. We think this schedule is a great tool for the residents of the city of folsom to use and take advantage of the new hours on the gold line. They would not be special trains but they are regular train services. whether or not there is a game, or a concert or anything, it is a great thing to take advantage of now that there is something in writing as to what can I use the service to go to. And speaking of the kings schedule or a related note, I have a special guest tonight but I would like to introduce to you. Please welcome from the city of sacramento on tuesday, September 4, the honorable desmond harrington . Desmond was a key staff member in the discussions during all of the golden one updates. He is a principal consultant now to the city of sacramento. Desmond will be part of your staff starting tuesday as a principal planner with the economic development department. I would like to ask everyone to please welcome desmond and his expertise from sacramento to the city of folsom. Thank you. >> is he here? >> yes. >> welcome desmond. >> I'm very excited about the opportunity to be here. >> welcome. We will get you a little later in the meeting as well. >> I hope you enjoy that and I will come back for 9b when you call it. >> your next speaker . good evening I'm a folsom resident and business owner. Thank you for the opportunity to share some feedback tonight. Before I share my thoughts on an important topic I want to say that I love the use of social media. I love that it brings people together and you can easily find out what is going on throughout the community. I appreciate public forums on facebook such as full some chat. -- folsom chat. It's important that councilmembers communicate information to the public that is true and accurate. On July 25 there was a post that inaccurate information posted about the level of service that was posted by the -- one of the councilmembers. After several days of watching the post, I realized how irresponsible it is to have information coming from one of our councilmembers to the public. I ask that you please have 100% understanding the topic before to shared with the public. To myself and the other residents that are watching I strongly recommend that the information you read on social media effect check. Thank you. >> the next speaker please. >> there is some paperwork and passed down. High. -- hello. I spoke last June 24 regarding the two hour parking reese diction on linworth dry. At the time my main issue was where to park our rv while we packed for a trip. Mr. Mayor, thank you for helping us out on that issue. Again, we are taking another trip leaving on September 10, so I will be parking my rv on the street again before really. I have written you twice regarding this issue and I've also corresponded with other members. During the last meeting, you tell me someone would get back with me, now the rest of the story, they never got back to me. I had to call and leave a voicemail. We talked twice on thursday and he said he could not even -- email any thing to confirm that it was okay to park overnight but it was okay to do it anyway. >> I did not give you permission to park there. I said you brought up a good -- let's talk about it. If you read and watched the city council email, I never gave you permission, however I did direct mark and pete to talk to you right away because there needed to be a compromise since it's temporary for you to load and unload your rv. And I know that in a mobile home park there is nowhere for you to park. Please, let's be accurate and none of the five of us can grant permission. We don't have the authority. But I agreed with you that evening that said you are absolutely right that we have to find a way to have a little bit of consideration for your mobile park and the others in your surrounding area. >> okay . >> I'm happy to continue to support you but I cannot give you permission. >> neither mark nor pete could give me anything to put in the vehicle to say it's okay to park there which sort of bothered me. However, I did put that sign in on the window and on monday, July 2 when we were on our vacation I did get a call from pete telling me that we get back do not put the sign up it is not what we do. >> we feel that somebody of influence is being appeased to the detriment of the seniors living in the mobile home park. If you look at the lower right side of the picture, you will see a red dot near the intersection of linwood and van winkle. A van is been stored on the street there for over six months and I have pictures to prove it. Well before the two hour parking band was put on -- ban was put on. Mark's letter to me said that the parking restriction was put on the street because they were violating the ordinance. In order to all residents be treated equal, the precedents has already been set. If you think that is ridiculous, then why is the parking restriction on linwood more stringent than any historic district. The full some municipal codes already addresses the consequences of parking in excess of 72 hours. Why was the two hour parking restriction necessary in the first place? Other than May be overkill. Our neighbor is disabled and she used to park her extra vehicle on that street at night. Now the closest legal parking place she has is one half mile from her house. I have discussed this issue with an attorney who believes that the city May be unlawfully discriminating against two protected classes, senior citizens and disabled people. The mayor and the council need to investigate this matter because there is more to it than what is apparent at the surface. Something is not right. All we want to do is park our car overnight on the street in front of our park. >> I will direct the traffic sip -- safety committee to look at this again. There has to be happy median someplace -- medium someplace but we do have issues with people blocking other people's yards by parking. In your particular case, at least in the rv side, there has to be a happy medium that we can investigate to see other can happen. But as far as illegality, I'd like to comment on that. would remind you that the five of us don't need to talk about it since you're talking to an attorney. We have to and that discussion now. I just directed mark to put that on this most available agenda. I'm going to be out of town through the 10th through the end of November. >> let him know. From now until the end of November. Then your residents are going to be happy because it won't be heard till you get back. >> okay. >> we want to work with you to participate. Just communicate that to mark. To we are taking an 85 mile loop around the country. >>> have a safe drive. >> thank you. >> our next beaker -- speaker. good evening. I fully rely on public transportation I do not have a car of my own. I've spoken about this before and I know there has been some theory or potential -- potentially more than eight theory for the stage on becoming more. I am here to continue the request of increased frequency on the number 10 line . I think even more relevant now that we have increased frequency and longer hours of the light rail because you still have a dilemma of your full trip time if your bus is the bottleneck. That is one item I'd like looked at. I believe if you find that this -- if the service was increased you probably have increased ridership as well. It would be a service that would be very useful. The other thing is, this is completely off the rails , excuse the pun. For a very long time I have wondered whether it would ever be possible and I know this is fiscally probably nonsense but to have a light rail stop at blue ravine. There is a lot of businesses and things happening there and they have been plenty of times that I wish I could have stopped there. But the distance between glenn and historic is pretty far and it is a big walk to get to blue ravine if your business to do there. in the future, when there is double track expansion maybe that can be discussed. Thank you. >> thank you. That's a good point. >> next speaker please. >> good evening. I am a full some -- folsom resident. I'd like to address some concerns I have . I'm the first person who would take my two-year-old to an aquarium because it would run off a lot of energy. And unfortunately, I have been to a facility in fort worth texas and the conditions we saw there were appalling. There was an iguana missing part of its face, enclosures were incredibly small and there was no even allusion of a habitat. There was just concrete and pvc pipe with fake iv that they were stapling -- fake plants that they were stapling to the walls. The water was so murky in that touch tank that you couldn't even see into. There was a monitor lizard escaping the habitat. And these animals are being kept in frankly horrifying conditions. So I would ask that if this facility does go forward that we the community would hold them accountable. Hopefully they would observe the standard set by the animal welfare act at least when it concerns animal care. These animals do not have a choice to interact with people. There was nowhere for them to go but to be right in with these people, that's a highlight that is interact div, but not to that extent. Thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening. I am here on behalf of thousands of residents that are predominantly from folsom and who have signed a petition and are concerned about the opening of c qwest aquarium. The ceo has been in the news repeatedly regarding his aquarium currently there are two ongoing investigations being conducted. It was just announced days ago that they are being called out in florida stating in a lengthy letter that I just passed out to that the aquarium has violated the animal welfare act and is asking the usda to investigate all locations. Two months ago they purchased and put on display a sloth and other animals without obtaining proper paperwork. They failed animal safety violations just a few days after their grand opening and as a result were issued a cease and assist warrant. Their solution was to hold the animals illegally, in somebody's garage. One of which was a teenage boy the 50 excess birds were sold and there being investigated by the department of agriculture. Hundreds of animals dying before opening day and 11 stingrays dying in one night or alleged by past employees. They have no that's on site and rather than rehabilitating animals they are a prophet entity buying animals online . Other concerns around the safety . Customers have reported that they have contracted scabies from the touch tank. Californians take pride in their ethical standards involving their environment. Seaquest claims that they will be fostering a safe place for people and animals to come together but in practice that is not been the case. They have shown disrespect for the animals and their care. West city council to do the right thing and revoke or refuse permits to this company for operation in the city as I know myself and the residents do not want to take folsom's reputation on a company that has proven himself to be incapable of fulfilling the duty they took on. >> thank you. >> we have no further speakers. >>> that's it from business on the floor. a. Presentation regarding intelligent transportation systems in folsom. >> thank you Mr. Mayor and members of the city council. This evening we are pleased to welcome matt weir from kimley-horn associates. Mr. Weir and his company has been involved with developing -- he is here to provide us with an up date on the status of the city's intelligent transportations systems project and to give us some idea what it would take to get our major arterials to a fully functional smart corridors. Also with us is Ms. Abraham who is the ips manager overseeing the smart region sacramento project. She is also a resident of folsom. She has also been very valuable in aiding in this program. >> thank you very much mark. Good evening Mr. Mayor and council members. Thank you for having me this evening. You've already heard one key acronym or buzzword on this general topic. Intelligent transportation systems or ids. another term you're going to hear every day is literally the term smart city. I will touch on both of those terms as we move through this brief presentation. Let's first talk about the environment in which the city is currently required to operate. It is an environment that is full of disruptive technologies. Disruptive technologies shake up the industry and in some cases create a completely new industry. Some of which are depicted on the slide. The disruptive technologies are creating a paradigm shift and incorporating a new way of thinking. Frankly what is starting -- startling to our industry is that it is no longer adequate to look backward to find the future. Historic data is no longer the single indicator of future behavior. So the challenge for the city right now is to make order of this disruption and plan or define a path forward. So the combination of these disruptive technologies come together to create a smart city and I'm using air quotes when I say that. A troop -- smart city -- a true smart city incorporates what is on the slides as well as many others. Traffic control is just one of the components and is the focus of the remainder it -- of this presentation. Traffic control supporting a much more broad smart city movement. The slide accomplished -- a comp lushness -- accomplishes a few things. All the way back in case you weren't aware in 2004, we developed an interim plan which was subsequently updated in 2015. Regionally, but we have is that caltrans is leading the U.S. -- us 50 integrated corridor or management project which has been presented to you. The city of sacramento is going through a smart mobility strategy which aligns or coincides and is intended to inform the mobility element of their general plan. And then is mark mentioned, they are developing a smart region plan. One of which is being prepared for the city of folsom. It is essentially an update of the 2015 plan that is shown here. Here is a snap shot of the current or existing conditions related to traffic or transportation operations infrastructure in the city. A few highlights, they are just shy of 100 signals, 10 of those traffic signals their controllers are what we would call advanced or smart. That will soon be 20. there are plans to retrofit another 10 in the future. And a longer-term plan to retrofit up to 20 a year. Third 10 closer for -- close circuit television monitors. 11 miles of fiber into a half miles of wireless cable. The current existing network is a patchwork and has multiple communications media which is lacking consistency and we hear from city staff at its difficult to maintain. There are multiple signals, controller vendors and products. The equipment is remotely accessible from the makeshift transportation yard. They have very clearly expressed the desire to improve system automation and reliability merrily through the use of automated performance measures as well is remote diagnostics and operations. So before we moved to the ultimate decision for that same network, just a few images to make this a little bit more tangible. This is a picture of the current traffic signal controller that is smart , so the opposite of that would be dumb. This is one of the older controllers that the city has roughly 80 to 90 of the existing signals. And what is shown here is one of the brand-new smart controllers that is operational. other smart technologies, fiber optic cable , high-speed communications, close circuit television cameras and video detection. And then I just added this because it's interesting, we certainly are not envisioning a future network that has that concentration of video cameras. Here is the ultimate conditions and I will give similar highlights. This current draft of the ultimate includes another 26 traffic signals, 19 additional close circuit television cameras. 16 total changeable message signs and another 35 miles of fiber a dick cable. Some additional highlights include a fully functional traffic up -- operations center here at city hall. A complete and redundant communications network and now the price tag to get from where the city is today to this ultimate condition. It is more than $30 million. Some highlights of that large price tag include about 16 1/2 million to up grade corridors, another 11 million to up grade secondary corridors and there is additional cost that are specific to connected and automate of vehicles to enable the system to accommodate them . And that runs more than half $1 million. Rather than leave you there, we also look at more tangible, near-term chunks of this ultimate condition or near-term project that could be considered and could be a high priority for the city to pursue. They include, improvements along key corridors. 2.2 million on iron point road. 1.8 million on blue ravine. 1.3 any spit will and another 550,000 on folsom boulevard. -- to expand your -- the outcome for expanding to become a smart city. There is improved efficiency gained. Its has been demonstrated to produce average delay. Those are really powerful , meaningful metrics when you consider peak hours. If you are able to take 10% of a delay off you can experience tangible results. And the investment of technology is often the place of capital investments. There are some log -- large dollar amounts that I mentioned, they are far less than some other intensive capital improvements. It makes it a bigger bang for the buck. Especially when you consider the peak periods. what were you saying about the peak periods? If you're looking at a delay and not just you had to stop at a late -- light. But if you're looking at a delay that would reduce it to -- three seconds. these are average numbers that we are using. >> I just wanted to clarify. >> it's worth noting to expound on that. That price tag is the fully functional and operational system which includes communication that enables the city to remotely operate and manage and maintain all of the devices. There is an operations and maintenance side as well is the obvious benefit to the user. I understand, I wanted to clarify that were talking about a 10% to 20% reduction in the delay. if I May, currently if you go back at the current infrastructure how it is laid out, I didn't see anything here as far as options on segmenting the upgrades . You could's dart patient you could start phases. It varies depending on which component you're talking about. The signal controllers that matt pointed out are still functional, but they are limited in their function. The new kobolds that we are adding to the system offer us a lot more ability to do the performance measures and analytics to make the system more operational. They all have long lives. They are fairly simple electronic components that can be repaired readily, the technology is always advancing. We had a couple of false starts with products that we thought were good and didn't do it we needed. Fiber optic has been a long-standing component and does not seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Most of the other devices are also fairly simple luck tronics that have a long shelf life. have we played with any wireless solutions? Are we only looking at fiber optic? we do have a few wireless bridges in town that are stopgap measures but simply do not move data as having a large trump line of fiber. >> back to the first question with the vms. Is there a migration pack that we could start with a solution or platform to limit that exposure to costs. With current operation costs and replacing what is there. Is there something for that? >> I don't think we really have that level of economic analysis. We simply decided to make the leap from individual controls at 98 signals to advanced controls in a central processing center. That has just been assumed as part of our capital improvement program. We have not frankly done the analysis of what would happen if we did not do that and maintained the status quo. Is that the question? >> in my professional life I did security. If I took this is a building, I would literally look at each one of the intersections of the camera and I would develop a solution that is a goal -- go forward in the hub. Instead of replacing with the older version or whatever that was. I would look at a solution that I could grow into to mitigate cost and then we get to this level of analytics where we could reduce it by 20%. So six exit -- six seconds per car. I'm looking for that kind of fine-tuning we talk about a smart city. I have not had the experience . I would look at it from instead of guiding and blowing it up, and sing 30 million I would look at it from the standpoint of sectioning it out. >> and that is a strategy that is laid out in the master plan that we work down with kim lee horn. -- it might not be the highest priority in our network but because it is a new signal or a signal that is been destroyed through a traffic accident it needs to be updated we find a way to tie that new controller back to our center. As matt pointed out, miles of communication line that needs to be laid back first two are traffic operations center and then we have already built the line that leads from the corporation yard to city hall. Now we just need to build the center here city hall. We have the master controller software that runs the system. We are focusing on major corridors like east bidwell street in the near term. Matt mentioned that there are 10 new of the cobalt will be online. We already have the communications along east bidwell to tie it back to our center. And we also just received several flow monitors from a vendor at a very reasonable price. So we will set up flow monitoring and data collecting along that corridor so we can start diving into performance measures and analytics. >> just beef -- just to be fair I have not seen the master plan. >> you can have my copy at the end of the meeting sir. >> I would love that. >> the brains or the centrals -- central system that runs is expandable to communicate and run with all of those in the future . That is a long term vision. And that is part of the reason they selected the vendor they did years ago. >> I have a quick question. I think you touched on this mark. Every new signal that goes in has what we need. i'm not talking with fiber because that is a different animal. Every new signal goes in has what we need to get to kind of the highest stage we are looking for. Cement generally speaking that is correct. We tend to prioritize major intersections over minor intersections. For example, the work we are about to do has six signals on empire ranch road. We will have a full suite of smart technology at the key intersections at easton up -- natoma whereas the other signals such as l maddow and richie will not have connectivity, they will have the communications but they might not have the full suite of video detection and monitoring and flow monitoring for example. >> so in getting to the fiber up to -- optics . The south of highway 50 growth area are we going to be all stubbed in with fiber where we need it? >> yes that was a condition on the folsom ranch development that they put in. And all of the signals will have the technological components that we need. i don't think they have done anything else yet. >> will they be required to put the fiber in? >> I believe they are. >> any further questions? Thank you gentlemen that was a great update. We do have one request to speak on this item. the speaker please. >> the speaker has declined. >> I see no further. And the next item. To make your next item this evening is consent calendar. >> anyone wishing to pull anything off the consent? >> motion and second. Go ahead and call the role- plays. Councilmembers. >> call next item please. New business. 8a. Resolution no. 10166-resolution to approve and adopt a city-wide pay schedule as required by the california public employees' retirement system (Calpers). >> Mr. Mayor and members of the council, jim francis your assistant city manager and human resource erector. For this issue. This issue is that pers requires you to adopt a salary schedule for all positions in town. This is listed here and most have been approved through collective bargaining prior to this. And it requires this any time we change salaries within the city. In addition, the state legislation however requires that in regards to local agency executives that you shall get an oral report on any changes in salary, salary schedules and compensation. If those are paid in the form of fringe benefits. I am here to give you that report. >> fire away. >> since the last time you adopted the schedule. >> before you get started can you just explain the sentence as to why this is now required by the state of california? >> in the oral report? yes this is required basically because of the city of -- >> the city of bell replete -- re --- produce this legislation. what is happened since the last time you adopted this. Were for promotions a city manager was promoted. You had a promotion into the assistant city manager position, the police chief position and you have a library director promoted. The city attorney, the fire chief , the director parks and rec, the directive community development and the developer of water resources in the communications manager audit 2 1/2% merit increase. The city clerk and the communications manager were given tuition reimbursement as compensation in the form of a fringe benefit. The assistant city attorney was given a market adjustment at two and half present cola. And the legal analyst, secretary and sport specialists were all given marketed justice -- adjustment in addition to 2 1/2 cola. And that is my report lets you have any questions. >> any questions? I will move the resolution. >> I will second. Call role-plays councilmembers. -- call roll call please . >> next item is new business item 8 b. 8b. Ordinance no. 1288-an ordinance of the city of folsom amending certain provisions in chapter 9.69 of the folsom municipal code pertaining to use of skate parks. >> good evening I'm the director for the city's aquatic program. Tonight I'm here to answer any questions you might have regarding the amendment of certain revisions. You have the municipal cold and provisions were provided to you in a staff report along with the redlines and the new ordinances. I will entertain any questions or thoughts you have . >> any questions? >> I want to make a comment. It is a well documented ordinance and something we needed for quite a while. The skate park just did not happen, it had over five years of comprehensive study at the annual california conference part -- of part commissioners. And what we did for five years as we watched everybody else that were building skate parks to see what was good and what was bad. From that, we formed the skate park in conjunction with a professional skate board organization down south. They came up and up to this time, since the skate park existed, many other skate parks in the area because they did not follow what we did have closed . We have had a number of testimonies from moms and dads that they feel safe dropping their kids off at the state park because we have supervision and we enforce safety. I know old-time skateboarders don't like the helmets and pads because they are indestructible. And many of them are. One of the emphasis is of making the skateboard park was to get the kids out of the shopping center . It caused a great hazard. We had made a choice do we charge or not charge? And we decided to charge only because at that time we wanted a supervised person on the scene that could respond and keep safety a primary object. I think in our experience we've had a few accidents , but it's pretty good for that kind of injury. The safety we have was not made overnight. Looking at other people's good and bad, and trying to take all the goods and eliminate the bad. I think this is a very good document, I commend all of you that put it together. >> thank you. >> ernie is right, it did not happen overnight and it took a lot of work and effort. Everyone is grateful to have them. It is a gem for not only skateboarding but scooter ring and all of the other extreme sports. The issue I have with it is that in 99 I lobbied as a junior in high school to get the skate park because I was always getting ticketed by folsom pd. We lobbied and folks like ernie put the effort forward and as a city leader heard the lobbying and thus the skate park. The problem I have is that I could go anywhere I want play basketball and not get a ticket. But yet I have hours to do that. Extreme sports are the only sports but those are the only ones that you get ticketed. The problem I have of the skate park and I agree every person under the age of 18 should be required to wear a helmet and pads. I think that is appropriate. Every skate park except for one in this general vicinity I would go past this record is one in sacramento. The only one that requires fees or for-profit parks. We make no profit on our part. We put in will more than we get back. My recommendations are if they are over 18, no requirements because they are adults at that time . They take the liability on themselves. And also the hours, we extend those hours to replicate other sports parks. So if a basketball court is open from dawn to dusk, the skate park should also be open those same hours. We limit those hours, we push those people that are looking for creative measure to do there sports onto the streets. It becomes more of a nuisance and a headache . I was a big advocate for removing the fee for the skate park, there is no pad requirement for the bmx park. There is a lot of chatter on those folks saying they want to have some ability to restructure that park and move it around. I've some emails on that. I would like to see the requirement for pads and helmets not for over 18 and I would like to see the hours adjusted to where they match the other parks. No I will defer to our state attorney here but I do believe we are complying with state law by complying with state law provides the city in case something happens out there. We want to make sure that we have the protection of the state. State law requires that anyone no matter what age is required where pads in any monitored facility. I would like to expand on what you just talked about. When someone is legally an adult but they're still using a facility within our jurisdiction monitored by one of our employees. >> we have been sued for adults that have been sued on bikes. I'm all in favor of complying in state laws. I don't think the park should be monitored. Ironically, I still rollerblade. I might be the last one of my breed in the city and I still go out when I can. That park is littered from trash that comes from the concession stand. It seems like it's kind of a waste. I know that will meet charge for the fee where actually open for some liabilities because we charge. That was one of the issues of why we decided that that was correct. There is no other park in the region that has a requirements that are park has and it reduces folks even using it. >> thank you Mr. Mayor and members of the city council. I hear council member gaylord is concerns. not to require safety equipment be worn by over 18 and monitoring the park. It's up to you what you want to do with monitoring , supervising or no supervising. Or ask denting the hours. With respect to over 18, there's no distinction to over or under 18 using skateboard park must wear required helmet, elbow pads and knee pads. >> can I add to that? So the helmet is the requirement, the elbow pads and knee pads are not. >> all three are the requirements. >> why are they not on the bmx park? >> that is not a skateboard park. This requirement are only applicable to a skate board park. >> is the differentiator the monitored portion of the park? So what are the other parts of why other parks in the area almost all have zero requirements. for equipment? >> there is nothing. Smacked they are not complying with state law. >> they are not complying with state law. we have to go with state law. If we allow them not to wear those three safety equipment items we cannot operate the park. >> I would like to make another comment to balance roger's approach. The reason we were very strong on this do we have a person on status are not. We did it because of safety and to keep the gangs out of the parks. Most of the times of the skateboard parks there taking over by gangs if there's no supervision. We don't have any significant gangs that I'm aware of in this town but they will come in this town if they can do it. And that is exactly why and if they do come in, we call the police and there outta here. That's why you can drop your kids off at that park and feel pretty much safe. We don't allow bad things. I know when I was on the commission for 20 years that was our goal was to be better than everyone else. We are not going to be average were trying to be above average. I'm not knocking the regions because I won't do that. Constraints are constraints. I think our skateboard park was designed for the right reason. We invested the right money . We had the police department go out and give out free passes . In order to get over the fee, we gave them the passes and got them out of the shopping centers. We still have some people grinding on benches unfortunately. But is no excuse now there was no excuse back in his day because we had no park. >> we have a park the campy use add a lot of hours in the day. I -- it's important because I get a lot of feedback and when the fee was removed, people were rejoicing. Now the emails are, we can't use it at certain times and a monitored part if the state required pads I was not aware of it. Maybe we are being compliant. . We have controls in our other parks. >> I'm talking about other state parks but I'm not going to argue that part. But the monitor piece in the hours I think they should be the same as the park hours. You go walk your dog, bmx or play basketball. If you go by there at sunday at 7 pm when it's close, there are folks climbing over the fence. We are opening up ourselves to more liability. you can't have free of everything. There has to be some controls. I just can't agree with you at all roger. let me jump in. Look at the main body of what were supposed to be doing this evening. Were talking about hours. My suggestion would be maybe consensus from the five of us to send that question to the park and rec commission because that is what they are task to do. I think it's appropriate. The other answer to you on the other skate parks. The other jurisdictions could be private . We have additional restrictions as a public entity, perhaps. I don't know those other jurisdictions. To me, I like what you guys have done and what -- that we are staying on top of state regulations for public owned facilities. I would like to make a recommendation that the two items that Mr. Gaillard brought up the brought back to the parking racks. >> I agree with that. >> I have no objection to having it go back to the commission at all. But I would assume that they sent it to us. >> I'm just talking about the two questions. >> mayor I will move the item with your suggestion aced on rogers discussion. >> second. >> call role please. Call the roll. Seem -- if you get that on there fairly quickly we would appreciate it. Let's call the next item please. >> old business item 9a. Council member gaylord -- 9a. Report back regarding janitorial maintenance services and video surveillance options at various city of folsom facilities. >> good evening Mr. Mayor and council members. I am reporting back regarding the janitorial . In the last report we had a few factors that led to unsatisfactory conditions with regard to the restrooms in the overall cleanliness of the facility. Among them was the contractors assigned to cleaning crew and staff's oversight of their work. As detailed in the staff report, that situation has been remedied with removal and replacement of that previously assigned crew. And a more aggressive oversight of their work. I wanted to show you a few pictures of what the facility is looking like right now. We've done a lot of renovation work over there and. >> quick question, is that damage done by skateboards? we have done some repainting on that and the restrooms that we had we've done a lot of painting inside of their we painted the inside and the outside we've made some improvements to the paper towel dispensers by putting automatic air dryers in their. One of the things I want to highlight is this picture shows the interior of the door . It's a bathroom door. Was just painted four years ago and you can see already that there is already dirt and kicked mark around the bottom of the door and the handles and that was just painted four weeks ago. What we are finding is that we have a painting and renovation cycles with a 3 to 5 year cycle. We are finding out that the usage of the facility has increased to such a point that we have to change the cycle. We are going to have to paint almost once of year -- once a year in this facility. Regarding the usage of the facility there are abuses happening with different groups hanging out in the facility creating vandalism and graffiti issues. And the parks and pd are working together to communicate on those issues and the incidents within those parking structures and we detailed that within the staff report. >> as a part of improving conditions at the parking structure we looked at the camera system and upgrades. It is not the intent of this staff report to take action on the upgrade. Our initial look into the matter puts the figure in about the $100,000 range. So we want to look and see and read talking $20,000 to do upgrades? It's in the hundred thousand dollar range. So that concludes my report. thank you to you and your staff I raise the concern prior and going in there a few times after. It looks amazing now. went in there twice. One time right after than a week after and it looked great. I appreciate that. I took a peek at the scope of for the camera stuff and there is some things that I hope that we could solidify and set a standard going forward for the city to operate. It tied back into the first subject we were talking about in regard to the smart city. There is some open architecture solutions that basically play in the same field and do different things that we can look at. This was just a mention of it and I jumped all over it but I like that we are looking at it. There is a standard that needs to be achieved. >> and that was the intent of getting that quote. We wanted to integrate with the city solution. >> iva, and also. -- I have a comment also. I would recommend when you put in the systems I want to be sure we can see who is doing this. That way we can prosecute them if we catch them. I don't want to go cheap, because we have a limit on something. Were talking about a multimillion dollar investment to build that parking garage. And when you're talking that kind of money you want to be able to catch the people that are doing it. I think it is well worth the investment. I have been over there recently using the garage. I find it nice to find a spot most all the time. But I think that garage should be safe . Sometimes you walk in and it's pretty dark and you never know. Especially for what I woman. -- especially for a woman . Be sure we get the bang for the buck but don't hesitate to come to this counsel or whatever councils and operation when you go to the rfp. If you need more to do it right the first time then, ask. >> -- then, ask. >> I wouldn't be a huge advocate or I think it's a easy place to get the return on investment for surveillance. It they pay for itself. I am one councilmember that would be supportive of at least some initial investment and surveillance in and around that structure. in part, I know I bank there and I have been witness to tons of kids up there on skateboards in the afternoon and that is a problem. >> to they have pads and helmets on? I could not see them that closely. >> thank you jim. Weary are moving onto the net -- we are moving onto the next item. Your next item is old business item. 9b. 2035 general plan approval.. Give two resolutions before you. I. Resolution no. 10147-a resolution approving the 2035 general plan environmental impact report (Sch no. 2017082054), findings of fact and statement of overriding considerations. And ii. Resolution no. 10148-a resolution approving the 2035 general plan. >> kim we asked people to let us know -- can we asked people to let us know if they live in folsom. Rack good evening mayor and members. Pam johns. I'm going to give a brief introduction to the project and then I'm going to ask the engineering manager to talk about traffic level of service . After the presentation along with the city's project manager scott johnson who is our planning manager and the consultant team led by chelsea payne would be happy to answer any questions. As a reminder to the city council, we are at the final stage of the city's six-year effort to update the general plan which was currently adopt did, thank you steve I got so excited that I forgot to start queuing. So we have an almost 30-year-old general plan document and there has been a lot of work and effort into getting to where we are today . We have talked about that at many meetings with the city council, the public , stakeholder groups and commissions that recommend and advise to the city council. I have a slide that is just a reminder of those meetings over the last two year period. In early 2017 we released the first draft general plan after a series of meetings and key issue discussions. And since that time, we have been vetting that with the city's advisory and ultimate decision makers with the public input in mind. A brief summary, we heard over 253 formal written comments and I think councilmember sheldon can attest to that these have been incorporated into the plan. We also had nine written comments on the eir documents and we have formal responses to those. That is all part of your record. In addition at the meeting that we have held these final hearings with the city council we received about half a dozen written correspondence that have come before you and public testimony. Before you tonight, is the final document that represents the culmination of all that input and certainly the direction and guidance of the city council. At your last meeting in July, July 24 specifically, we talked about comments and direction from the city council at the June 26 the meeting. Counsel confirmed approval of the minor edits and corrections and responses to the questions and comments that had come up at that time. And then council member gaylord also asked that the council considered maintaining the current level of fee and consider cost implications of doing so. At the -- since that time we have been meeting with council member gaylord and providing information back to the city council and we intend to summarize that this evening so you can consider the request. With that I'm going to asked mark to get up and go through a series of slides. >> thank you pam, good evening mayor and council. As pam mentioned to get us all on the same page I have a few slides. In the traffic level of service the average traffic delayed in intersection is primarily focused on vehicular delay. The analysis methodology summarizes the volume of traffic when traveling through a given intersection making various turn movements. It does take into account bicycles, pedestrians and trucks in the traffic flow. You arrive at a calculated average delay for that hour and then there is a corresponding table which I will show you in one second that assigns a letter grade to various ranges of average delay. This is normally loot used -- used for your worst traffic time. >> can you repeat that again. >> primarily we use it looking at the peak hours, generally 5 pm to 6 pm monday through friday and again generally, whether it's 7 am to 8 am or 6:30 am to 730 A.M. Depending on whatever -- what the actual peak is. >> to clarify further when you say it is the peak hour, more often than not that peak hour happens in the morning and the afternoon. But as an out -- an example, it May be that the peak hour at fulton middle school is drop off time for kids and when the kids get out of school. And I want people to understand that it is whatever the one hour a day is, that 60 minute time period that has the highest volume at a given location. and that is a great point. Schools peak at different times than the commute period. What is interesting about the school since we are on that topic is that they generally have a period of 15 to 20 minutes of intense traffic that is exceeding the capacity of our system. And then after all of the parents leave and students drive away, the traffic reverts back to nominal traffic flow if not excellent traffic flow. So if you average that out over the entire hour, you get an except double level of service. For that 20 minutes, and we have all been through it it is terrible. >> one other thing, I think there has been incorrect information that is been talked about in a variety of different locations. I want people to understand that this level of service does not account for the fact that you May have to wait 45 seconds or one minute or sometimes a little more than a minute depending on the timing of the signal. This is delay over and above the fact that you had to stop at a light because someone in front of you wanted to turn left or because someone on another street wanted to drive across the street that you are on. That is very important because it is not simply that I had to listen to half of a song on the radio that I don't like. >> this is the corresponding chart that I just mentioned once you calculate the average delay for that hour for the intersection you're looking at, these are the ranges of average delay. Seconds per vehicle that equate to a letter grade. A showing the lowest . And emphasizing the use of the term average delay, you can have an intersection of the four leg intersection you have left turns, with 12 possible movements. You can have an intersection that has 11 movements moving with minimal or no delay, but one movement that is experiencing massive delay because of the conflicts with those other movements. That particular movement is considered poor level of service and that is the letter grade , or that is what affects the average delay. We all see iron point, the right turn movement onto east bidwell backs up and that is one particular movement that has a very bad level of service. Just as an example. Pam mentioned our document is 30 years old. This is our first real opportunity to bring this into consistency like others in the region have already done. It also gives us a chance to catch up with regulatory and policy issues that have changed over the last 30 years. So for example you will see here there are some cities that just adopted a flat out level service fee policy which is saying that your system is operating at capacity. The volume of traffic you are moving is almost exactly hitting the capacity that you are providing. Not the ideal solution, but this is reality that a lot of agencies have confronted. Others that you see have adopted see, -- c . Roseville has a level c and they have over 100 intersections and speaking with air traffic engineer they have about 12 intersections that are operating at the different levels consistent sleep -- consistently. There are others where there are exceptions where your near freeways or river crossings. Trying to acknowledge those are chokepoints in your transportation system because there are so few interchanges along the highway and so you river cross or bridges that the traffic concentrates at those points and he hits the capacity very quickly. This chart compares the current level service fee policy in the 1988 general plan versus our proposed looking forward to the year 2035 -- 2030. The analysis done on the current general plan we have seven intersections that don't meet level c. And for that do not achieve level d. There's three that are chokepoints in the system that are failing. Looking forward to the year 2000 and 35 -- 2035. >> what is is a 2030? >> human error. >> and nine intersections that would fall below d. This is before mitigations would apply to these intersections. >> the mitigations are based upon funding? >> summer straightforward mitigations and very -- summer multi-millions. -- some are in the multi- millions. we have four or five of those nine intersections that we could get to d or possibly 2c with mitigation. But there are four or five that will not come down to either letter c or d without extraordinary measures. I think will touch on that in a little bit. Some other points again, as councilmember gaylord pointed out, funding is key here. The ability to fund improvements is harder when you're maintaining a higher standard. You have to implement more measures to try to maximize the flow of the system. That also leads to higher maintenance costs over the lifespan of what other measures you billed. regional competitiveness I pointed out earlier that we have not updated the standard in 30 years and all the other agencies in our region has. We are not competing regionally for state and local funding sources. Folsom is always at a disadvantage with a lot of these funding sources because we are an affluent community, we don't compete well with social justice policies, economic disadvantage policies. We already have kind of one arm tied behind our back when we are competing with several at -- other agencies. This will lead to more infrastructure and more technology and we are putting our self up against other agencies that don't have to demonstrate such a high infrastructure cost, again, we tend to lose out because we are asking for more to build a larger thing that is inconsistent with active transportation goals . Again, these are all the fact others that have contributed to this request to modify the policy. The cost of maintaining levels that pam mentioned that we do need to -- we would need to do a very robust analysis of the system asking our consultants to dive back into the document and re-analyze the network assuming a level service c policy. Mr. Weir mentioned the -- focusing on some of the arterials and the total for that near-term solution was about $6 million-$8 million. We are moving forward with some elements of that. I have a couple examples to show the cost of level service c versus accepting d. Here is one example . The intersection is east natoma at green valley. We all see it today, the very large, long left turn lane primarily in the afternoon commute. Clearly the reason it is there today is because we need to finish our transportation infrastructure which will alleviate much of that congestion. Not all that. And the congestion will continue to grow in our city but also in el dorado county as they grow and plaster county gross. Most of the movement doesn't have a trip and, it is regional traffic going around the corner of the lake. The one movement that clearly fails at this intersection is that eastbound left turn. And as Mr. Weir and I pointed out earlier, we are already accounting for technological solutions to maximize the efficiency of our assistant -- system. That alone will not make the capacity problem go away that would be to widen and at a third left turn lane. Because of the constraints and all the other corners, this is just a preliminary design, one concept, but it would be to widen into the northwest quadrant of the intersection using our standard lane widths . We could fit the roadway with an without impacting the building directly. That's the little retail structure where there is a goodwill and a haircut and other small businesses. But you will see that there be no room for a sidewalk in the building would no longer being compliance. Therefore, there is a possibility that we have to acquire some if not all of that center. On the in set you will see that I have laid out some rough costs and what it would take to plan and design and construct the intersection. Those alone or in excess of $2 million. If we had to take the property, it's estimated that it would be about eight $6 million property acquisition not to mention the loss of jobs and businesses available to the community and the sales tax revenue associated. These are the concerns that we have when it comes to trying to maintain a level service c standard accepting level service d and improving the quality of life in the community. We can focus on those four or five intersections that truly demand the most attention. Another example that I will go through briefly. This is folsom, auburn and greenback. One of the initial concepts the consultant team won up with -- came up with was to do some minor widening and narrowing lanes to create three through lanes through the intersection in both directions and a dual left onto rainbow bridge. This project would be fairly minor widening, fairly minimal impacts to adjacent development. With a signal modification and a widening, it's probably a $2 million-$3 million project. That get you to level service d. In order to get to level service c, we have not analyzed that yet. That's part of that cost analysis. We would have to have the consultants do it but it is very likely that we would have to start talking about a grade separation where one road goes over the other. You can imagine the right-of- way implications to the gas stations on the corner into the open spaces there adjacent to the bridge. Finally, I wanted to compare for everyone's information this current policy which says describe for level service c. We can allow for temporally early -- we cannot provide for higher- level if the road improvements of not been made. Until it is 100% developed, we cannot accept temporarily -- higher levels of service. We have roadways that have not been widened out to what the 1988 general plan assumed, and then we've had changes in land use and regulatory policies over the last 30 years. The new policy is emphasizing striving for level service c. We lay out levels -- where the scale of the improvements created detriment to the bicycle and pedestrian environment or to the quality of life in the community. And that concludes my portion of the presentation. I will turn it back over to pam unless you have any questions for me right now. >> we didn't -- it should say existing not exiting. we have a sheet that is a typo . we still have more presentations from staff. thanks mark. Just one other comment enclosing before I remind you of our recommendation. That is, we always say general plans or general in nature. And we have not updated hours in 30 years. We have taken a good long look and refreshed the document and made sure we are in compliance with relevant laws. That is a very basic minimum and we have spent a lot of time massaging the language. At the end of the day there are dozens of documents that implement this policy. So the general plan is general in nature because the details are worn out and lots of implementation plans. I want to name a few of those for the council and members of the public to remind you about that. A lot of these come before you more often than every 25 or 30 years. You're looking at zoning code amendments, parks master plans, something that was discussed earlier this evening, the intelligent transportation master plan. There are dozens of plans and they are all outlined in the implementation portion of the policy document. It directs regular creation and update of these documents that go into more detail that is intended to implement the vision and policies of your general plan. I will just keep that in mind and I will ask you to keep that in mind as we are talking about the general plan up dates this evening. And remind you that staff and planning commission by a vote of 4-3 approved to adopt the general plan and certified the environmental documents. Where available to answer any questions. >> give any questions? Thank you. Before I open to public hearing we do have 13 request to speak . You do get three minutes. I'm going to request very strongly that if you want to speak on this item, I'm going to give you a three minute window right now. I'm going to call a three minute recess to put your requests in and after we come back from a three minute recess than we are not going to accept anymore because I'm going to need to obviously balance the time and the schedule so that we can hear everybody. That we have to have time to deliberate and answer questions. Were going to take a three minute recess. Turn it in now please >>> ladies and gentlemen were going to restart the city council meeting. Please take your seat. Let's go ahead and get restarted. Pam is there a further things you want to point out? Before we start taking public testimony I know my colleague vice mayor sheldon and council member gaylord wanted to throw some things out to you here. Vice mayor. first of all I want to think that colleagues for giving me some more time to read this. I'm tired of caring this thing around I can tell you that. I considered a workman comp claim against the city for making me carry this around. I will postpone that for later. By having another chance of going through one area stood out more than anything else in the -- is the area of the river district that promotes basically came out of the chamber. I attended all of their sessions and I think they did a professional job. I did want to ma