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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/20/19781 City Council Minutes February 14, 1978 - 7:30 P.M. Page.3 On motion of Mayor Schwartz, seconded by Councilman Jorgensen, that Measure F be approved and included in the alternate ballot. Motion carried. MEASURE G: Shall the proposed alternate Section 1102 of the Charter making the establishment of a Personnel Board mandatory be.adopted? On motion of Councilman Petterson, seconded by Mayor Schwartz, that Measure G be dropped from consideration as the City.Council had this authority at the present time and does not need to go on.the..ballot. Motion lost, Councilmen Jorgensen, Dunin and Settle.voting no. City Council then approved Measure G with the.wording as approved,in the original Charter that the Personnel Board would be "advisory only." . . There being no further business to-come before the City Council, Mayor Schwartz adjourned the meeting at 9:00 P.M., to 12:10.P.M., Monday, February 20, 1978. APPROVED: March 21, 1978 Fit2rfatrick, City Clerk _ -----------------------------------------=------------------------------------ M I N U T E S ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1978 - 12:10 P.M. HEARING ROOM, CITY HALL Roll Call Councilmen PRESENT: Councilmen Dunin, Jorgensen, Petterson, Settle and Mayor Schwartz ABSENT: None City Staff PRESENT: J.H. Fitzpatrick, City Clerk; R.D. Miller, Administrative Officer; Roger Neuman, Police Chief Gail Sorenson, Chairperson for the Human Relations Commission, introduced the members of the H.R.C. and staff that were present and also members of the Human Needs Assessment Committee who were present at the meeting. 1. The City Council met with the Human Relations Commission and the Human Needs Assessment Committee to review their report findings and recommendations. Orloff Miller, H.R.C. Coordinator, presented to the City Council, staff and others present additional information to complete the report of human needs in the City of San Luis Obispo: Gail Sorenson reviewed for the City Council the highlights of the report being submitted for Council consideration. She stated that in April, 1977, the Human Needs Assessment Committee was formed by the Council for the purpose of under- taking an assessment of the unmet human needs in the City of San Luis Obispo. She stated that the reports of the human needs assessment committee consisted of the following: City Council Minutes February 20,.1978 Page 2 1. The Committee's assessment of the unmet human needs in the city in order of their rank as reflected by the extent of the severity of need; 2. The report to the committee on the part of the committee's technical assistance team of Michael C. Robinson and Associates; 3. The results and product of the needs assessment activities and tasks; and 4. Additional information and appendices including the assessment model for HEW,.result of neighborhood meetings and public hearings, results of the participation of the academic humanists and the data collected during the project. She continued that the.Human Needs Assessment Committee was assisted in their assessment by the Technical Advisory Committee made up of selected group of human service providers representing agencies and organizations from both the public and private sectors and from such jurisdictions as the county and the state and in addition, by-a group of academic humanists who participated in the project under a grant.from the California Council for the..Humanities in Public Policies. These scholars were from California-Polytechnic State University and Cuesta College. She stated that the assessment was undertaken by a group of informed citizens who made the best use of available information in order to make judgments on the extent and severity of unmet human needs. In this respect, the project parallelled the democratic process where an informed citizen must make judgment on public policy based upon the information that is available to-them.- The Committee attempted to obtain information from many source, however, they recognized that a collection of information is a continuing thing and therefore this effort . should be construed more as a beginning than an end. Finally, it should be stated that the needs assessment was made possible, in part, by a partnership grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare of the U.S. Government. She then reviewed that portion of the report dealing with the Ranked List of Needs. She felt that this was one of the most important processes and that the system should be understood by all those reading the report. She said the purpose was to provide a list of needs in.order of their importance and severity. She felt the needs assessment and its ultimate ranking would mirror.public opinion in terms of the values and perspectives that public opinion might apply to the judgement of rank and severity. She said that ranking established a degree of concern of importance to the unmet needs with respect to one another. However, it was an extremely relative value system. In an absolute sense it made no sense to rank health needs over housing needs and employment over recreation, etc. as each was an absolute need, one that one could not do without. She said that in their case the ranking was done from the perspective of the city. For the purpose of the needs assessment the city was defined more or less as follows: 1) The City had a limited tax base and therefore -a limited resource to deal with any significant human service problem; 2) Traditionally, the City was the jurisdiction least involved with the human services when compared to the private sector of the county, state or federal government or special districts such as school or health districts. 3) The area of human services the City must be concerned. with were safety, sanitation, transportation, and to a lesser degree, recreation. A minimum allocation of resources must go.to police, fire, street maintenance and repair, sewage and parks and recreation. If the City made these responsi- bilities under the Charter it could function as a City. Other responsibilities might not fall so easily into a category that fits the concept of the City. 4) A city could assume a number of responsibilities for meeting unmet human needs including: A) making policies or changing them to eliminate barriers to addressing needs; B) getting advice or acting as an advocate to other juris- diction, agencies and services; C) administering or managing human services as done in the police department, or in a less ordinary sense as was done by Grass Roots; D) operate.programs as did the police, the Human Relations Commission, Park and Recreation Commission, etc. (lack of resources might militate against other areas of service operations); and E) provide support to other agencies while working in the field. City Council: Minutes February 20, 1978 Page 3 She continued that ranking process measured two values: 'l) the'rank order of importance or concern that. the city should view the need; and 2) the relative severity of the identified indicators of the unmet needs. She urged the City Council and others to read very carefully the section in the report dealing with the ranked list of needs and the methods arrived at by the committee so that the reader could understand how the various rankings were arrived at. Finally, after all the work was done by the committee in ranking, fifteen needs which seemed to be unmet in the community (not necessarily in order) were in the areas of: 1) housing; 2) education; 3) crisis intervention; 4) legal aid services; 5) equal opportunity; 6) child care; 7) employment; 8) resource develop- ment and management; 9).:justid.ei. protection and safety; 10) health care maintenance; 11) transportation;'12) mental healtfi.care and maintenance; 13) rehabilitation; 14) recreation; and 15) nutrition. The City Council then discussed with the H.R.C. and H.N.A.C. members and the humanists present, various aspects of their study and how the recommendation in the report could be implemented, particularly.clarifications of some of the points brought out by Ms. Sorenson in the ranking process. Michael C. Robinson, consultant to the committee's work, stated that the con - sultant's role was to support and provide technical assistance to the Human Needs Assessment Committee in performing their tasks. Specifically, it was to design the process and provide information and assistance with respect to using the process. In addition, the consultants, acting as a technical assistant team, were a liasion between the H.N.A.C. and the Technical Advisory Committee of key human service providers. Finally, the Technical Assistance'Team was responsible for preparing the reports of the.committee and interpreting its actions and recommendations. He stated that the needs assessment formed the basis for the city to pursue a rational and realistic approach to meeting unmet human needs and defining a role for developing the field of human services.. He used a list of ranked needs to establish the human needs target. The next step was largely to set goals, write objectives and establish priorities. The per- formance of these activities would culminate in a plan of action for the city relative to human services. Such a plan of action would serve to define the limits of the city's activities with respect to the nine classifications of service, provide service status for all jurisdictions to try and meet, and become, if so desired, a.social element to the General Plan. He stated that to develop such'a plan, the following activities would probably be necessary: 1) - restructure the functional relationships;.2) set.human need.goals; 3) write objectives; 4) establish priorities; 5) adopt goals, objectives and priorities; and 6) compile the plan. He concluded his presentation by stating that there were six major . products of the SLO Needs Assessment. In order they were: A) concensus of human needs; B) resource inventory; C) functional relationship dictionary; D) funding source document; E) proceedings of the public hearings.to determine the human needs; and F) a community survey. The City Council then discussed with Michael Robinson and with members of the H.R.C. and H.N.A.C. some of the comments presented by the consultant. Finally, Orloff Miller, Coordinator for the Human Relations Commission, felt the City Council should now direct the H.R.C. or the H.N.A.C. and service providers to review and sift the information in the human needs assessment report and that specific recommendations be made for the City Council's action or for action by other agencies in the County. Joe Turner, Chairman of H.R.C. (1978), felt that the human needs report should be kept as a viable document and should be kept current. He also felt that the H.R.C. should make recommendations to the Council to implement and mitigate the needs.listed, based on information received from the agencies. Gail Sorenson, Chairperson of H.R.C. (1977), agreed with Joe Turner and Orloff Miller that the H.R.C. should be the lead agency in the area to make recommend- ations to the City Council on human needs. She felt the H.N.A.C..should also be kept organized-to support and continue investigations for the H.R.C. findings. City Council Minutes February 20, 1978 Page 4 On motion of Councilman Settle, seconded by Mayor Schwartz, that the City Council designate the H.R.C. as the lead agency to'study and make recommendations to the City Council on what could be done to mitigate the human needs in the community on a priority basis. Also that the H.R.C. study and make recommendations as to the need to retain the H.N.A.C. as an advisory group to the H.R.C. Motion carried, all ayes. There being no further business to come before the City Council, Mayor Schwartz adjourned the meeting at 2:25 p.m. Approved: March 21, 1978 Fitzpatrick, City Clerk -----------------------------------------------=-------------------------- - - - - -- M I N U T E S REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1978 - 7:00 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL Pledge Roll Call Councilmen PRESENT: Ron Dunin, Jeff Jorgensen, Steve Petterson, Allen Settle and Mayor Kenneth E. Schwartz ABSENT: None City Staff PRESENT: J.H. Fitzpatrick, City Clerk; Allen Grimes, City Attorney; R.D. Miller, Administrative Officer; Henry Engen, Director of Community Development; Dan Smith, Senior Planner; Terry Sanville, Planning Associate; Wayne Peterson, City Engineer; Rudy Muravez, Director of Finance; Elton Hall, Fire Battalion Chief; Jim Stockton, Director of Parks and Recreation; Roger Neuman, Police Chief; D.F. Romero, Director of Public Services A. Councilman Petterson, on behalf of the Council Subcommittee, recommended that the City Council appoint William Henry Parker, II, to fill a vacancy on the Design Review Board to complete the term of Michael Brady who,had resigned. On motion of Councilman Settle, seconded by Councilman Dunin, the recommendation of the Subcommittee was accepted and William Henry Parker, II, was appointed to the Design Review Board for the term expiring June 30, 1981. 1. The City Council considered the extension of Interim Ordinance No. 729 (1977 Series), an ordinance declaring a moratorium on the issuance of building permits for the construction of structures at 3750 Bullock Lane. Allen Grimes, City Attorney, informed the City Council that under provisions of the Government Code, the city could continue an interim ordinance for an additional period of eight (8) months and that, as the present ordinance expired on March 1, 1978, the Council should proceed if they wihhed to continue the moratorium. Terry Sanville, Associate Planner, explained to the Council that at the time the decision was made to place a moratorium on the five acre parcel at 3750 Bullock Lane, the General Plan designated this area as R -2, but during the public hearings, it was urged that the area should remain A/C until further 1 C 1