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Home My WebLink About07-16-2024 City Council Minutes 1 Council Minutes July 16, 2024, 5:30 p.m. Council Chambers, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo Council Members Present: Council Member Emily Francis, Council Member Jan Marx, Council Member Michelle Shoresman, Vice Mayor Andy Pease, Mayor Erica A. Stewart City Staff Present: Christine Dietrick, City Attorney, Deputy City Manager Greg Hermann, Teresa Purrington, City Clerk _____________________________________________________________________ 1. CLOSED SESSION (4:00 - 5:30 PM) 1.a CALL TO ORDER Mayor Erica A. Stewart called the Closed Session Meeting of the San Luis Obispo City Council to order at 4:00 p.m. in the Council Hearing Room with all members present. 1.b PUBLIC COMMENT FOR CLOSED SESSION ITEMS ONLY None 1.c PUBLIC EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE / DISMISSAL / RELEASE Action: Mayor Stewart reported the Council met in Closed Session with outside attorney David Fleishman regarding the Personnel matter and there was no reportable action taken. 1.d CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS Action: City Attorney Christine Dietrick indicated Council met in Closed session regarding Real Property Negotiations as listed on the agenda and there was no reportable action taken. 1.e ADJOURNMENT Closed Session adjourned at 5:05 p.m. to the Regular Meeting of July 16, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. 2 2. CALL TO ORDER A Regular Meeting of the San Luis Obispo City Council was called to order on July 16, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, by Mayor Stewart with all members present. 3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Council Member Marx led the Council in the Pledge of Allegiance. 4. PRESENTATIONS 4.a CITY MANAGER REPORT Deputy City Manager Greg Hermann provided a report on upcoming projects. 5. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA Public Comment: Dane Sense David Yohe Carolyn Krueger Jeffery Specht Andrew Gould Robert Skinner Paige Anderson Louise Justice Jackie Bassim Wahhab --End of Public Comment-- 6. CONSENT AGENDA Council Member Shoresman requested that Item 6f be pulled from the Consent Agenda. Public Comments: Item 6e Bernadette Bernardi Ilene Brill Chelsea Ruiz Jack Lahey ---End of Public Comment--- 3 Motion By Council Member Shoresman Second By Council Member Marx To approve Consent Calendar Items 6a to 6e. Ayes (5): Council Member Francis, Council Member Marx, Council Member Shoresman, Vice Mayor Pease, and Mayor Stewart CARRIED (5 to 0) 6.a WAIVE READING IN FULL OF ALL RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES Waive reading of all resolutions and ordinances as appropriate. 6.b MINUTES REVIEW - JUNE 24, 2024, JUNE 25, 2024, JUNE 26, 2024 AND JULY 2, 2024 COUNCIL MINUTES Approve the following minutes of the City Council: • June 24, 2024 - Special Closed Session • June 25, 2024 - Special Closed Session • June 26, 2024 - Special Closed Session • July 2, 2024 - Regular Meeting 6.c AUTHORIZATION TO ADVERTISE THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT OZONE CONTAINMENT IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, SPECIFICATION 2001026 1. Approve the project plans and special provisions for the Water Treatment Plant Ozone Containment Improvement Project, Specification Number 2001026; and 2. Authorize staff to advertise for bids; and 3. Authorize the City Manager to award the construction contract for the bid total if the lowest responsible bid is within the available budget for the Water Treatment Plant Major Equipment Maintenance Project; and 4. Authorize the City Engineer to approve Contract Change Orders up to the available project budget and find the Project categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15301 and 15303. 4 6.d AUTHORIZATION TO ADVERTISE MID-HIGUERA BYPASS PROJECT, SPECIFICATION NO. 2090649 1. Approve the project plans and special provisions for the Mid- Higuera Bypass, Specification Number 2090649; and, 2. Authorize staff to advertise for bids; and, 3. Authorize the City Manager to award the construction contract pursuant to Section 3.24.190 of the Municipal Code for the bid total, if the lowest responsible bid is within the Engineer’s Estimate of $9,400,000; and, 4. Authorize the City Engineer to approve Contract Change Orders up to available project budget and up to any amended budget subsequently approved by the City Manager up to $200,000; and, 5. Appropriate $225,000 in Zone 9 County funding to the project, as recommended by the Zone 9 Advisory Committee and adopted in the County FY24/25 budget; and, 6. Adopt Resolution No. 11509 (2024 Series) entitled, “A Resolution of the City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo, California, authorizing appropriation of Capital Projects Reserve Funds to support the Mid-Higuera Bypass, Specification Number 2090649” to authorize the following: a. Authorize the Finance Director to appropriate up to $1,000,000 of LRM funds from the Capital Reserve of the Capital Outlay Fund to Mid-Higuera Bypass (Account 2090649) upon award of the construction contract; and, b. Authorize the Finance Director to transfer up to $1,000,000 of LRM funds from Roadway Sealing 2024, Project Account 2000615 to Mid-Higuera Bypass (Account 2090649) upon award of the construction contract; and 7. Authorize the City Manager to execute cost sharing agreements, utility relocation agreements, service fee agreements including payment of services with SoCal Gas, PG&E, and Telecom Services within available project budget; and 8. Authorize the Mayor to execute Public Utility Distribution Easement Agreements with PG&E in a final form satisfactory to the City Attorney. 5 6.e CONSIDERATION OF THE 2024-25 HUMAN SERVICES GRANT NEW FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS 1. As recommended by the Human Relations Commission, approve the 2024-25 Human Services Grant funding allocations in the amount of $150,000 based on City Council’s direction provided May 21, 2024; and 2. Authorize the City Manager to execute agreements with each grant recipient. Pulled by Council Member Shoresman 6.f APPROVE PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL OPIOID LITIGATION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH KROGER CO. City Attorney Christine Dietrick responded to Council questions. Public Comments: None ---End of Public Comment--- Motion By Council Member Shoresman Second By Council Member Francis 1. Approve City participation in the nationally negotiated opioid related settlement agreements with supermarket pharmacy Kroger Co. (“Kroger”); and 2. Authorize the City Manager and City Attorney to execute documents as needed to participate in the settlement agreement; and 3. Authorize the City Manager and City Attorney to elect disposition of Kroger settlement funds (deferral of settlement funds to the County or direct allocation to the City); and 4. Direct the City Manager and City Attorney to conduct an evaluation of the aggregate national opioid litigation settlement amounts and administrative burdens of direct allocation, and, if warranted, authorize the City Manager to change the distribution election for all settlements, with notification the Council. Ayes (5): Council Member Francis, Council Member Marx, Council Member Shoresman, Vice Mayor Pease, and Mayor Stewart CARRIED (5 to 0) 6 7. PUBLIC HEARING AND BUSINESS ITEMS 7.a INTRODUCE AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADOPT A RESOLUTION MODIFYING THE DANA STREET PARKING DISTRICT Public Works Director Matt Horn, Deputy Director of Mobility Services Jennifer Rice and Parking Program Manager Donna King provided an in- depth staff report and responded to Council questions. Public Comments: Kim Janas Mary Mitchell Ursula Bishop ---End of Public Comment--- Motion By Council Member Shoresman Second By Vice Mayor Pease 1. Introduce Ordinance No. 1737 (2024 Series) entitled, “An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo, California, amending Municipal Code Title 10 Chapter 36 regarding Stopping, Standing and Parking for Certain Purposes or in Certain Places” to remove exceptions for the Dana Street Residential Parking District; and 2. Adopt Resolution No. 111510 (2024 Series) entitled, “A Resolution of the City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo, California, modifying the Preferential Parking Permit District for the Dana Street Area of the City, authorizing the Public Works Director to make temporary modifications to the Dana Street Parking District” until the completion of construction of the Cultural Arts District Parking Structure including, but not limited to, adjusting the district boundaries, the eligible properties within the boundary, the number of permits issued to those properties, and imposing or modifying hours-of-use restrictions, with the following change shown in bold italics: • SECTION 5. Approval. The Public Works Director or their designee is authorized to make temporary modifications to the Dana Street Parking District until the completion of construction of CADPS including but not limited to adjusting the interior boundaries within the district, the eligible properties within the 7 boundary, the number of permits issues to those properties, and imposing or modifying hours-of-use restrictions. Ayes (5): Council Member Francis, Council Member Marx, Council Member Shoresman, Vice Mayor Pease, and Mayor Stewart CARRIED (5 to 0) 8. STUDY SESSION 8.a SLO TRANSIT SHORT-RANGE TRANSIT PLAN UPDATE STUDY SESSION Public Works Director Matt Horn and Mobility Services Business Manager Alex Fuchs provided an in-depth staff report and responded to Council questions. Public Comments: Barry Rands ---End of Public Comment--- ACTION: The City Council provided the following consensus comments: • For routes 1 and 3, look for alternatives that don’t have as big impacts i.e. eliminating stops but if there must be stops eliminated then extensive outreach needs to be done prior to the changes being made. • Pursue year round with a possible implementation in the summer of 2026. • The Capital Plan will have midlife rebuilds for buses, bus shelter improvements and maintenance and possible refresh of the current transit center and/or preliminary exploration of a consolidated transit center in the future. • Micro transit needs to be better defined and once it is defined provide specific alternatives of what it could look like. • Look at the 4a service frequency and then look at all of the “a” routes for possible increase service frequency and have a phased approach for implementation. • New route that would make the connection between Broad and Higuera and service the Avila Ranch area or possible changes to an existing route that would service the same areas. 8 9. LIAISON REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS Council Member Pease attended the LOSAN meeting and participated in Fiesta Latina celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Latino Outreach Council. Council Member Francis attended in LOSAN meeting and visited the SLO Museum of Art's new installation. Council Member Shoresman attended the Police Department's promotions ceremony, the Fiesta Latina, the Jack House tour and ice cream party, and volunteered at Concerts in the Plaza. Mayor Stewart attended the Cal Cities Legislative Update, the CARE community briefing, the Cal Cities Board meeting paid for by the City and Cal Cities. She also presented a Proclamation at Fiesta Latina. 10. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 9:57 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the City Council will be held on August 20, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo. The Regular Meeting on August 6, 2024 will be cancelled, as approved by Council on November 14, 2023 during their annual review of the 2024 meeting calendar. APPROVED BY COUNCIL: 08/20/2024