HomeMy WebLinkAbout9/21/2021 Item 7b, Christian / Hermann - Staff Agenda CorrespondenceCity of San Luis Obispo, Council Memorandum
City of San Luis Obispo
Council Agenda Correspondence
DATE: September 21, 2021
TO: Mayor and Council
FROM: Greg Hermann, Deputy City Manager
Teresa Purrington, City Clerk
Kevin Christian, Deputy City Clerk
VIA: Derek Johnson, City Manager
SUBJECT: ITEM #7b – 2021 ADVISORY BODY HANDBOOK AND BYLAWS
UPDATE
The purpose of this memo is to add a City Council sub-committee recommendation to the
Jack House Bylaws, and to correct an error in the staff report related to the Administrative
Review Board and Architectural Review Commission.
1) Jack House Bylaws Recommendation - modify the bylaws as follows:
3. One member of the horticulture or landscape architecture faculty, current or
retired, of California Polytechnic State University College of Agriculture, preferably a
horticulturist.
Background – The Jack House Bylaws are dictated by the Jack House Deed which
states, “The committee shall serve without pay and consists of city residents including:
7.(c) One member from the Ornamental Horticulture faculty of the California
Polytechnic State University.”
Due to reorganizations at California Polytechnic State University, the Ornamental
Horticulture department was absorbed by the College of Agriculture. A previous Jack
House bylaw update modified the language to the current, “College of Agriculture,
preferably a horticulturist” version. Further reorganization has placed it in the College
of Architecture and Environmental Design. The above proposed bylaw modification
supports the intent of the Jack House Deed sections (below) and is hoped to avoid
the need for modification if there are further school reorganizations.
1. To keep, preserve and use: said real property and the residence situated thereon
in a manner which maintains, enhances, and celebrates its place in the historical
development of San Luis Obispo.
4. To care for and preserve existing trees and shrubbery, and to return the gardens
as much as possible to the appearance of the gardens as illustrated in photographs
circa 1910 – 1920 provided by the Grantors.
2021 Advisory Body Handbook and Bylaws Update Page 2
2) Staff Report error correction:
In the Advisory Body Bylaws section of the Staff Report the staff recommendation that
meeting frequency be changed from monthly regular meetings to, “held as needed”
was inadvertently placed under “Architectural Review Commission, Staff Analysis”
and should have been placed with the “Administrative Review Board” Staff Analysis.
However, it is correct as reflected in in the legislative draft (item attachment B).