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Home My WebLink About01/12/1999, - GOALS4 l WETING AGENDA E �' 3-�9 ITEM # Qcals T 53 Chorro St. San Luis Obispo, Ca. 93405 January 27. 1999 Mayor Allen Settle Council Members 990 Palm St. San Luis Obispo, CA. 93401 Dear Mayor Settle and Council Members, Couxi4v- I am writing this letter to express some concerns regard- ing my neighborhood block on Chorro St. First of.all we are happy to see that handicapped curbs are being installed on Chorro st., they will be a definite asset for all. City workers are now working at the Murray - Chorro street intersection, and we are assuming that Chorro and Meinecke will be next in line. As you can see by the attached sheets, dated January 28, 1991, four way stop signs were installed on the corner of Chorro and Meinecke.A study was tc.be made in a year, to install bulb outs and .textured cross walks at the intersection involved. I don't think this was ever done. Handicapped residents from Casa da Vida, the Greenhills school student body and teachers often cross to go to the park, employees of the medical building and Urgent Care Center, seniors and many students going to and from school all cross this area. Cars don't always stop for pedestrians. The bulb out would help slow the traffic down, especially cars that don't stop, before making a right turn onto Chorro. My husband and I have lived two doors from Meinecke St. for 45 years. We and some of our neighbors have a difficult time trying to exit our drive ways, due to the fact that cars and large trucks are parked along the curb, a lot of times overlapping our driveway. This makes for poor visibility of oncoming cars, especially if a car is turning left onto Chorro from Meinecke. Cars turning right onto Chorro often don't stop at the stop sign. We have many near misses of being rear- ended. It takes two of us to look to be sure there is clearance to back up. Many years ago curbs on either side of our driveways were painted red. The curb on the east side of Chorro was painted red about 20 to 25 feet back from Meinecke. We would like to request that all four corners at this intersection be painted red 20 or 25 feet back. J& W 9 41999 CITY COUNCIL DIR BORN DIR 1F'FIRE CHIEF FErCDD 'i' C-PW DIR RIG POLICE CHF AM 1"EC DIR 0 r1 WUTIL DIR Aa P- Q'PER5 Couxi4v- I am writing this letter to express some concerns regard- ing my neighborhood block on Chorro St. First of.all we are happy to see that handicapped curbs are being installed on Chorro st., they will be a definite asset for all. City workers are now working at the Murray - Chorro street intersection, and we are assuming that Chorro and Meinecke will be next in line. As you can see by the attached sheets, dated January 28, 1991, four way stop signs were installed on the corner of Chorro and Meinecke.A study was tc.be made in a year, to install bulb outs and .textured cross walks at the intersection involved. I don't think this was ever done. Handicapped residents from Casa da Vida, the Greenhills school student body and teachers often cross to go to the park, employees of the medical building and Urgent Care Center, seniors and many students going to and from school all cross this area. Cars don't always stop for pedestrians. The bulb out would help slow the traffic down, especially cars that don't stop, before making a right turn onto Chorro. My husband and I have lived two doors from Meinecke St. for 45 years. We and some of our neighbors have a difficult time trying to exit our drive ways, due to the fact that cars and large trucks are parked along the curb, a lot of times overlapping our driveway. This makes for poor visibility of oncoming cars, especially if a car is turning left onto Chorro from Meinecke. Cars turning right onto Chorro often don't stop at the stop sign. We have many near misses of being rear- ended. It takes two of us to look to be sure there is clearance to back up. Many years ago curbs on either side of our driveways were painted red. The curb on the east side of Chorro was painted red about 20 to 25 feet back from Meinecke. We would like to request that all four corners at this intersection be painted red 20 or 25 feet back. J& W 9 41999 CITY COUNCIL 1* -2- I have talked to Jim Hanson of the Engineering Dept. about having the curbs on either side of our driveway painted red. He has informed me that we probably will be issued a permit in the near future to paint the curbs ourselves. Having the red curbs will give some clout, when we have to ask cars to move, because they are parked in the red or overlapping our driveways. Our children, grandchildren, friends and relatives visit often. Usually they have to park in the driveway. When they leave, very often one of us has to stand on the curb to signal when there is a traffic clearance, so that our visitors can exit our driveway safely. We ask that you give us some help with our street problems, and that our concerns will be addressed at the workshop budget session. Sincerely, l cO.��xf-a- �l.�fi�•� -i'� Eleanor Craveiro (805) 543 -0965 543 -2233 Resident San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 T Dear Resident: Per City Council directive, the City will be installing stop si7 c at t::c follc:.ing locations: Broad Street just North of Ramona Broad Street just South of Meinecke Chorro Street at Meinecke These intersections were targeted for stop control as a result of resident input during the neighborhood meetings for the traffic and circulation study of the Broad /Chorro /Meinecke neighborhood. Upon completion of the stop sign installation, the City will review the traffic situation for the neighborhood. If it finds that the installation of stop signs has not caused.any traffic problems, then it will complete the project by installing textured crosswalks and bulbouts at the intersections involved. If you have any questions, please contact John Rawles at 549 -7190. Sincerely, WAYNE A. PETERSON CITY ENGINEER '•r.. John Ra les Engineering Assistant /Traffic Attachment: Environmental Finding ER27 -90 Jrt/stop by -b- ER 27 -90 Installation of stop signs, bulb -outs, and textured paving at the Meinecke - Ramona -Broad and Meinecke - Chorro intersections; installation of textured paving at Chorro- Lincoln intersections Three intersections on Broad & Chorro The following measures are included in the project to mitigate potential adverse environmental impacts. Please sign the original~ and return to my office as soon as possible. A. Do not install a bulbout on the northwest corner of the Ramona -Broad intersection. B. Monitor traffic (do traffic and turning movement counts) on all affected intersections prior to installation of stop signs. Install stop signs at the two Heinecke intersections, but not bulbouts and crosswalks. Monitor traffic levels on Broad, Chorro, Meinecke, and Murray for one * �� , _..:...... .. year,. with one. of. the counts done as close as, possible .to the , same _date _ the'pre -stop sign'counts+ were taken. 'If increases in traffic levels on Heinecke are not significant (no greater than the average increases in the vicinity), install bulbouts and textured walkways. If traffic levels increase by more than the average, continue monitoring, and report findings to the City Council. Since pedestrian and bicycle safety is an issue for the residents, it is recommended that the stop signs be installed first, followed'by the bulbouts. 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Imo+ _ .._..�ry, Y,A•' __ ..Cfr 1 ^ � ,S ,V ^y .�._I _,r, —�•. 5 L { t y YY i. �• .' 1 Yee - -. _a:L..•.1..c�1..v.�.��i.M -.�'!. M.•v'�'vn -tom -r .��ti..�ii.�.....- We, the undersigned, users of the c °n Luis Obispo City Senior Center ask tb °t the San Luis Obispo City It Council include a NEW CITY Si OR CENTER in the two year budge, x under consideration. The current center is too small to provide for our needs! It lacks an adequate kitchen. It has no space for a safe exercise program. It is too small to accommodate those who would use it for bridge, bingo, computer classes and many other activities. There is no on site parking-, and the street parking now available, is not acceptable. It should include a warm water pool for those who suffer from arthritis. It should be in a location accessible to gQpd public transportation service. A new renter should be one that meetc the needs of the senior nonulatio,_ who wish to use it! l s J r S i� ✓ I � � .;.M r� az z3 -2 % Z 'S z(l �2_7 2g zq 30 3r L 7� is r� 4s' ri We, the undersigned, users of the S uis Obispo City Senior Center ask th- '•e San Luis Obispo City Council include a NEW CITY SEMOR CENTER in the two year budget n..., under consideration. The current center is too small to provide for our needs! It lacks an adequate kitchen. It has no space for a safe exercise program. It is too small to accommodate those who would use it for bridge, bingo, nuter classes and many other activities. There is no on site parking; and the street parking now i ` _ :table, is not acceptable. It should include a warm water pool for those who suffer from arthritis. It should be in a location accessible to a guad public transportation service. A new Center should be one that meets the needs of the senior Mpulation who wish to use itl C " a � _ J CL #� /'- / A, JJ / 1 •� I `7 I . 3 Z. C� We, the undersigned, users of the ',an Luis Obispo City Senior Center ask t' "' t the San Luis Obispo City Council include a NEW CITY : IOR CENTER in the two year budge w under consideration. The current center is too small to provide for our needs! It lacks an adequate kitchen. It has no space for a safe exercise program. It is too small to accommodate those who would use it for bridge, bingo, computer classes and many other activities. There is no on site parking; and the street parking now available, is not acceptable. It should include a warm water pool for those who suffer from arthritis. It should be in a location accessible to gQQd public transportation service. a new Center should be one that meets the needs of the senior populatioi who wish to use it! 63 yy .G. 9' � S yy-rol dE too lot 70 1^ - oZ r' /off 73 r ' ' /e7 -77 / /ok 7& / °y /7/0- t' // o //7 0P i19 /]-c V. 0 We, the undersigned, users of the - in Luis Obispo City Senior Center ask " -t the San Luis Obispo City Council include a NEW CITY S"' QR CENTER in the two year budgo jw under consideration. The current center is too small to provide for our needs! It lacks an adequate kitchen. It has no space for a safe exercise program. It is too small to accommodate those who would use it for bridge, bingo, computer classes -id many other activities. There is no on site parking; and the street parking now available, is not acceptable. It ,ould include a warm water pool for those who suffer from arthritis. It should be in a location accessible to a gQQd public transportation service. A new Center should be one that meets the needs of the enior pop ,IL.ation who wish to use it! / � L 12-S "� r ' X31 i�z r ;z 14,3 /3S /ioe 136 1�7 137 1z^ i69 ,3 1.7a �(0 /7/ r 41 172-- q, r 73 1 �/3 / 751 177 /Y7 17Lf / qi 17y. 4-3 iSs �p6 /dp 7 --71- AUTING AGENDA JE L-30-21 ITEM # OaA 5 MEMO January 29, 1999 / L O C i'l To: Mayor Allen Jo hn Dunn, CAO C FIRE CHIEF From: 4Se Ken Sch ZY rtMGMT O PW DIR Co ies: P Council M an, Marx, and Romero AM EAM O POLICE CHF O REC DIR on 13 UTIL DIR Re: Saturday's Goal Setting - your memo of 1 -18 97 PER8 D ' I confess to having great difficulty in grappling with this goals setting workshop given the approach which is being recommended - I guess I have a large hang up. First a couple of fears: (1) The time allowed for Council discussion is severely limited even by the programmed time limits. If the public are to be permitted to re -hash requests that are already on the record rather than limited to presenting new requests, I think we could well go on forever. Somehow the public needs to understand this or we mast agree right off the bat that we will continue our work to another date. I don't think that time constraints should force us into ill considered decisions. (2) We have `marketed" this exercise in terms of two-years - What Are the Most Imortant Tikes for the Citv to Accomplish Over the Next Two Years? I really object to this; we have boxed ourselves in. I think our goals and our budgeting have got to be longer than two years. My statement of goals is extensive because most are unachievable in a two year time frame and I tried to show a step by step extension. (3) No distinction is made between budgets and hence what are the priority rankings to be under, say, the water fiord, the sewer fiord, the general fluid, etc. Shouldn't the public be made to understand that certain goals are unrealistic given our money constraints? But on we go ..... I have been reading a few pages in Getting to Yes. Fisher and Ury's book on negotiating that was given to us at our recent workshop at Kellogg West. Beginning to page 10 and going on into the next chapter they write about `principled negotiation" or `negotiation on the merits" and proceed to discuss People, Interests, Options, and Criteria as the key components to good faith negotiation. I thought that they made a good case and was particularly taken by the "Criteria" component - they say: 'insist on using objective criteria." I woke up at 4:00 am this morning thinking about this and I would like to suggest some criteria we might use (subject to negotiation, of course, provided you remember I'm a tender analyzing type.) These are ranked in priority order as I see them: RECEIVED JAN 7 9 1999 SLO CITY COUNCIL Does the proposal before us: 1. Maintain or otherwise enhance the city's operational infrastructure? 2. Demonstrate the potential to expand the city's revenue base? 3. Represent an on -going request for funds at the 1998 level for which performance has been judged satisfactory? 4. Maintain and enhance the city's `lean and mean' operational performance? 5. Represent a project to be found in any of the city's several plans which have been adopted after M public hearing scrutiny? (e.g. land use plan; bicycle plan, circulation plan, downtown plan, park and recreation plan, etc.) 6. Constitute a project for which there will be significant citizen labor and monetary contributions therefore requiring minimal city contributions of staff time and money? 7. Requests for fiords over and above the 1998 awards. January 27, 1999 Mayor Allen Settle City of San Luis Obispo 990 Palm St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Mr. Mayor, 111W nuu DATE 1- ± iITEM # Cled-C 1— As you enter your final deliberations for the City Budget and how to distribute the funding to the various City Agencies I hope that you and the council will accept this letter as my suggestion to be taken under advisement. WHAT: I would suggest increased funding for Tourism Promotion through an increase of funding for the PCC. WHY: The 2nd largest generator of revenue for the city, we have been told, is the Transient Occupancy tax. In the 12 months ending October 1998, the Hotels/Motels in the city have generated $3,101,640 in TOT for the city. This relates to $31 Million spent in Hotels/Motels by the tourist that came to the city. Using a very conservative number of 3 times that this money circulates through the community that would result in tourism generating a minimum of $62 Million. The majority of this money is generated during just 3 months of the year. With additional funding to the PCC, both the Chamber of Commerce and The Visitor and Convention Bureau and Film Commission could increase their efforts at generating more tourist dollars during the other 9 months of the year. Increased tourist dollars mean increased dollars for everyone. HOW: I have been informed that originally 20% of the TOT was allocated to the funding of the PCC. In the process of 1995 -97, the formula for funding the PCC was replaced with another method. During the 1997 -99 budget process, I believe that the monies designated to PCC were only 13% for funding of Arts & Tourism. Both Santa Barbara and Monterey Peninsula spend $1.2 million each for tourism. Monterrey County also spends another $1.3 million to market the county and area for tourist dollars. These are very.mighty sums compared to the $518,000 that the County VCB spends. I would strongly recommend that the City of San Luis Obispo increase the funding to the PCC so that the Tourism generated revenue can be reinvested to generate even more clean revenue dollars for the community. Thank you for taking the time to consider a proposal that will benefit the entire community from sports, to children, to seniors, to the basic economic vitality of the Central Coast. Sincerely Yours, FRECEIVED Roger Corwin General Manager N 7 R 1ggq C: Jan Howell Marx, John Ewan, Dave Romero, Kenneth Schwartz, Sandy Baer SLO Cry COUNCIL Best Western Hotels are independently owned and operated 05 1 MEETING AGENDA ITE I -30 - I ITEM # �� oa.l s SAN LUIS OBISPO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY January 15, 1999 Honorable Mayor and Council Members City Of San Luis Obispo S'COUNCIL ®'CDD DIR 995 Palm Street 0-FIN DIR San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 E ACAO ErFIRE CHIEF [r1TTOWY E3-PW DIR I1rC:.cRK10RIG Q'POLICE CHF O EGMT TEAM E"REC DIR Ca'_ iron C �d'P PE R DIR �C. omin Z- WP DIR Dear Mayor Settle and Council Members: On behalf of the San Luis Obispo Friends of the Library, I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to participate in the budget planning workshop you held to solicit community input last week. I hope the Council sees the importance of continuing to fund open hours on Wednesday nights at the Library. Since we have been able to stay open, many people have started to use the Library services at this time. Accompanying this letter is a Thank You card from the Friends of the library, and signed by residents who use the Library on Wednesday nights. Sincerely, r � i 1 Mary Gamlin President JAN 9. R 1999 SLO CITY COUNT P.O. BOX 1135 • SAN LUIS OBISPO. CA 93406 • 1805) 594 -8962 STRONG PLANNING SERVICES ROB STRONG, A.I.C.P. January 14, 1999 RE: 1999 -2000 Goal Setting: Specific Planning Programs Dear Mayor Settle and Council Members: From experience as Community Development Director for the City of San Luis Obispo, I realize how difficult it is to be proactive and initiate specific'planning when development review requires constant staff attention. And, I appreciate that the City is already committed to completion of several important specific plans such as the Airport Area, Margarita Area, Mid - Higuera Area and Railroad Historic District. Nonetheless, recent development proposals and apparent opportunities persuade me that the City should initiate at least two additional specific planning programs at this time: 1) The Auto Park Area near Los Osos Valley Road and Freeway 101 interchange is clearly in need of public - private cooperation for annexation of additional undeveloped properties and coordinated open space acquisition and commercial development. I discussed a conceptual work program with the City administration approximately six years ago, involving possible property owner and auto - dealer participation in funding a Specific Plan and EIR but jrecent regional relocation proposals clearly make this an important priority- p O planning program. Expansion of the Auto Park appears critically needed to retain or "grow" this sector of the retail sales tax income that the City has � V historically enjoyed from this source. 2) The Santa Barbara Street /Broad Street /Railroad corridor from Railroad Square out to at least Orcutt Road is currently planned as a service commercial -light industrial use area, bisecting the City's Central and Johnson Avenue neighborhoods. Developments such as Villa Rosa, plans such as the Railroad Historic District and applications such as Albertson's Shopping Center reveal a major opportunity to reconsider this corridor as a mixed -use connection 444 HIGUERA ST., STE. 201 • SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401 • PHONE /FAx (805) 542 -9150 TAO ACAO 10FIRE uD DIR N DIR Mayor Settle and Council Members ATTORNEY CHIEF W D ►R CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO CLER►(/ORIG L103 �GMT TEAM ❑POLICE CHF City Hall, 990 Palm Street f7 AEC DIR �TIL DIR San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 t!r O PEAS DIR RE: 1999 -2000 Goal Setting: Specific Planning Programs Dear Mayor Settle and Council Members: From experience as Community Development Director for the City of San Luis Obispo, I realize how difficult it is to be proactive and initiate specific'planning when development review requires constant staff attention. And, I appreciate that the City is already committed to completion of several important specific plans such as the Airport Area, Margarita Area, Mid - Higuera Area and Railroad Historic District. Nonetheless, recent development proposals and apparent opportunities persuade me that the City should initiate at least two additional specific planning programs at this time: 1) The Auto Park Area near Los Osos Valley Road and Freeway 101 interchange is clearly in need of public - private cooperation for annexation of additional undeveloped properties and coordinated open space acquisition and commercial development. I discussed a conceptual work program with the City administration approximately six years ago, involving possible property owner and auto - dealer participation in funding a Specific Plan and EIR but jrecent regional relocation proposals clearly make this an important priority- p O planning program. Expansion of the Auto Park appears critically needed to retain or "grow" this sector of the retail sales tax income that the City has � V historically enjoyed from this source. 2) The Santa Barbara Street /Broad Street /Railroad corridor from Railroad Square out to at least Orcutt Road is currently planned as a service commercial -light industrial use area, bisecting the City's Central and Johnson Avenue neighborhoods. Developments such as Villa Rosa, plans such as the Railroad Historic District and applications such as Albertson's Shopping Center reveal a major opportunity to reconsider this corridor as a mixed -use connection 444 HIGUERA ST., STE. 201 • SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401 • PHONE /FAx (805) 542 -9150 rather than a barrier between neighborhoods. Substantial office, retail, residential and historic resources could be combined in this transitional area rather than promoting conversion to service commercial and industrial uses exclusively. I had hoped to propose these specific planning programs in person at your goals setting community meetings but conflicting commitments required that I submit them by letter. Please consider these priority programs during the 1999 -2000 budget sessions. I would welcome the opportunity to further explain my professional opinion of the importance, possible scope of work and budget ramifications if these priorities are shared by others in the City, particularly the City Council. Sincerely, Rob Strong, AICP RS /ms Economic Vitality Corpora of San Luis Obispo Cour ErATTORNEY E(CLERKIORIG O MGYT TEAM January 13, 1999 Board of Directors Wayne Longcrier, Co -Chair Robert Schiebelhut, Co -Chair Mr. John Dunn City Manager Ray Johnson, Vice -Chair City of San Luis Obispo Carlos Reynoso, CFO 990 Palm Street CKOD DIR [-F'PIN DIR O FIRE CHIEF MlW DIR C3 POLICE CHF a RAC DIR 1$13TIL DIR O PIERS DIRT Stan Cherry, Secretary San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 -3249 MEETING AGENDA T I -.30 q, n M # dia-d6 JAN 2 01999 city Of S.L.O. Administration Susan Cotler, Past Chair Re: Council Goal Setting for 1999 -01 Dick Nock Richard Woolslayer Dear Mr. Dunn: C.R. Lara Norte Placak Please accept this letter on behalf of the Economic Vitality Corporation as our input in to the Council Goal- Setting process for 1999-01. Hassan Miah Tom Sullivan As a service provider to the City for economic development services, the EVC Supervisor Mike Ryan Executive Committee took action at their January IS" meeting recommending that the Walt Macklin EVC simply request from the City that you continue to budget funding for our Halldin organization for the 1999 -01 period. Matt Masia In addition, the EVC would like to request that the City consider matching economic Vic Sterling development sponsorship funding at the same level of $15,000 per year as provided Ron Johnston by the City of Atascadero. Elizabeth "Biz" Steinberg The EVC will continue to strengthen our business expansion & retention program and Rodger Anderson our business attraction program in partnership with the City of San Luis Obispo in Bob Reed order to respond to the goals set through the community forum and Council goal Dodie Williams setting workshop for 1999-0 1. Carrol Pruett Pat Mullen Charlie Richardson Ted Hall Michael Cannon Michael Fuller President David Spaur c: EVC Board Sincerely, Wayne Longc,�ie Co-Chair I A " 9 n tg99 FOUNDING SPONSORS: �►� /� /�� City of Atascadero • City of San Luis Obispo • County of San Luis Obispo • GST /Call America • The Hearst e�WY�tIW 1 T `jouNC'L Mid -State Bank • Pacific Gas & Electric Company • Seagate Software i999sponsorship.doc P.O. Box 5257 • San Luis Obispo • California 93403 • Phone: 805 - 782 -9156 • Fax: 805 - 781 -6193 _C January 19, 1999 MGMT TEAM 10'11N DDRR Retain this document for t] BRE CHIEF future Council meeting i2" DIR I-310—IN CHF • DIR p'B Date, if agcrdized t8 L DIR . Dear Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council: From: Garth Kornreich, President San Luis Obispo Property Owners Association Re: Business Coalition Input for Goals for the 1999 — 2000 City of San Luis Obispo Budget Cycle I want to apologize for submitting our letter so late in the day before the first budget cycle session on Tuesday. Because it was so late, it wasn't included in your pre- meeting packet and we felt it was important to resubmit the letter to make sure it was included in your packet for this Saturday's session. In the letter, our emphasis is on a very focused and highly managed business recruitment program in addition to our business retention program. These preplanned economic development programs will assist the City in achieving many other long -term goals such as open space acquisition and improving our streets. We are in no way pushing for unrestricted growth, but rather a very focused look by the City to find the type of businesses you would want to relocate here and that fit the image of what makes San Luis Obispo such a special place to live and work. You have already identified the types of businesses you would like to see here in your Targeted Industry Cluster Committee Final Report. Please take another look at our document. A lot of time and effort went into bringing this diverse group of business people together and I hope you will seriously consider our goals in your upcoming goal and budget setting session. Sincerely, Garth Kor President, 0 Luis Obispo Property Owners Association 6 N 2 0 1999 SLO CITY COUNCIL January 11, 1999 To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the San Luis Obispo City Council From: Members of the San Luis Obispo Business Coalition Regarding: Input for the Goals of the 1999 — 2001 City of San Luis Obispo Budget Cycle In our continuing efforts to address "Local Economic Development Policies ", the Business Coalition has recently met to reconfirm our long -term commitment to this goal. As you know, the Business Coalition was instrumental in bringing the issue of economic development to the forefront in 1992. We have met and agreed upon specific economic development related "Goals" that we would like the City Council to adopt as part of their next two -year budget and goal setting cycle. The entire San Luis Obispo Business Coalition wants to congratulate the City of San Luis Obispo for their encouraging economic development related efforts to date. We recognize that the City has made significant progress since 1993 and many local economic programs are just now really getting off the ground. Given that fact, the Business Coalition has identified the following economic related requests: At the foundation of economic development is the availability of adequate local resources and infrastructure. We need to keep the Nacimiento Alliance together and at the same time pursue the Santa Margarita Lake expansion and not allow our option on it to expire. We also need a current supply of a minimum of 75 to 100 acres of pre -zoned available land suitable for business expansion, retention and relocation. We need an adequate housing stock to eliminate the pressures of commuting and a streamlined planning and building permit process for continued business growth that will accommodate the targeted industries that the City has previously endorsed. The Business Coalition respectfully requests the City of San Luis Obispo make significant strides to accomplish the above items within the next two -year budget period (1999- 2001). 2. We request that the San Luis Obispo City Council reaffirm its long term commitment to economic development through the implementation of the previously adopted goals and policies as set forth in the "Targeted Industry Cluster Committee Final Report" (Dated August 1997). 3. It is the responsibility of not only the City Council and staff, but the members of the business community to continue to get the word out that we are in fact "open for business ". We request that the City continue to remove the lingering "fear factor" that the business community has of the City's perceived bureaucratic image 4. We request that the City be proactive rather than reactive with local business retention and recruitment of targeted industries as previously endorsed by the City Council. We need to utilize the established business recruitment tools such as the "Success Naturally Brochure ", the web pages and the local business testimonials. We need to deliver these materials to the City's targeted industries (clients) and "take the orders ". We then need to commit to continued monitoring and follow -up of potential leads to ensure a higher probability of recruiting success. 1 J 5. We request that the City continue to fund the position of the Economic Development Manager based on a pre - defined level of expectations as defined by an outside over -sight body composed of members of the business community. This over -sight body shall continue to meet with the Economic Development Manager and any potential new business prospects. 6. We request that the City continue to fund and support the Economic Vitality Corporation (EVC) because we are part of a larger economic community. The City should encourage the EVC to pursue active regional recruitment of desired businesses compatible with the desired targeted industries the City has previously endorsed. 7. We request that the City Council and Commissioners be more responsive to new and existing businesses based on their relative direct and indirect economic benefits to the City. 8. We request that the City Council and staff work closely with the existing broad -based business coalition to define and resolve economic policy related issues and potential long and short term economic related conflicts facing the community. Please also see the attached summary of the opinions and minutes of the Business Coalition meetings. Respectfully Yours, Participating repres tatives of the Member Organizations of the SLO Business Coalition: 'Garth KorrVeich, San Luis Obispo Property Owners Association Steve Aarasch, San Luis Obispo Property Owners Association Charlie Richardson, SLO County Economic Vitality Corporation (subject to board approval) Dan Lloyd, 0dildinglfiddstry Association of the Central Coast Central CA Coast Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Debora Holley, Downtown A>Isociati Jo)fn 61 ibW San Luis Obispo Association of Realtors November 24, 1998 Business Coalition Meeting: III. Discussion of SLO Business Coalition Member's Evaluation of current City Economic Development programs. A. City of SLO Economic Development related marketing and public relations efforts: • City still needs to define their long -term strategies for business growth. • We need to be aware of the "will of the people" concerning controlled growth and reasonable water and sewer fees. • There needs to be an education effort made that addresses the issues of controlled growth, the need to have adequate water supplies and other issues of business and residential growth. • Education is very important so that the public understands the need for additional water sources, the airport annexation, etc. This is more important than politics to the success of the programs. • People want controlled growth, not a community open to just anyone. Our rural atmosphere is what attracts business to the area. • How do you present the issues in a positive way to people in SLO that must foot the bill for new water sources to meet the 56,000 build out population? • The business group must maintain pressure on the City and County to "balance" out the efforts of those opposed to business expansion. • We need to work with staff instead of against them in our efforts to make this City more business friendly. • We need to change the attitude of the City with regards to the positives of selective business recruitment. The City and the County need to be congratulated for their economic development efforts so far. We need to recognize that we have come a long way since 1993 and that many programs are just now really getting off the ground. • The City is paying for the Airport Annexation specific plan to show trust and how serious they are about the annexation process. • The good times help us to see where we need to work the most on issues and areas that don't work. B. City of SLO Business retention related efforts: • Business retention and expansion of existing businesses is key to obtaining business growth without an extended effort of business recruitment. The City and Chamber business visitation program should continue in order to continue awareness of local company's needs. • The City's new economic development recruitment materials are being used by private sector business for their own recruitment efforts and have been well received. There is active personnel recruitment going on in a number of manufacturing/software companies, and the City is assisting by providing materials on request at a nominal cost. Sees good cooperation. Business Coalition Meeting November 24, 1998: Business Coalition Member's Evaluation of SLO Economic Development Programs Page Two C. City of SLO Business recruitment and business outreach efforts: • Business recruitment must be done by a team and should not be the sole responsibility of the City (i.e. Diane Sheeley). The team should consist of the City, the Chamber of Commerce, the EVC, SLO County and other Cities and private businesses. • There needs to be an effort to anticipate the needs of the businesses that are looking to locate here. • An average of one business a month comes into the Chamber looking to locate here and can't find an adequate lot or building to make it work. • Corporate planning is a five year process and we have to anticipate this. • City is trying to create inventories of available commercial space but is meeting with some resistance from the realtors. • We need to keep working on changing our image as a "non- friendly" City to do business. This can only be achieved through concrete efforts and not just talk. • You still hear from people from outside of SLO that this town is perceived as a "no growth" city. • We need to let the word out that we are "open for business ". • We need to be careful to "not give away the store" in our recruitment efforts D. Targeted businesses appropriate for the City and County of San Luis Obispo: • We need to go after the "Targeted Industries" that will be a good fit with San Luis Obispo such as high technology, value added agricultural business and tourism and its related industries. Use very selective recruitment efforts. • We should use the studies done by the Target Industry Cluster Committee to identify the compatible businesses we would like to see in SLO and go after them. Business Coalition Meeting November 24, 1998: Business Coalition Member's Evaluation of SLO Economic Development Programs Page Three E. Related issues to business retention and recruitment: The infrastructure should be a priority of the City. Obtaining proper water supplies to satisfy the build out population is paramount. • Need to be aware of the costs of water and other City services with the proposed airport annexation. • We need to have something (adequate land, buildings ?) to give to the business looking to relocate here. • We should take another look at state water as a possible water source. • We need to take a look at our housing element and how that affects businesses looking to relocate or expand here. There needs to be more of an effort to balance the jobs and housing in San Luis Obispo and build "affordable" housing that will allow our children to be able to afford to live here. • The City should look into alternative types of low income housing and alternatives to the cap on resale of the units such as a lottery system of distribution. • We need to avoid inclusionary zoning. • The City needs to provide incentives for low cost housing. • The City should lower the fees on housing to help lower the cost of housing. • We need to address the problems of litigation from homeowner associations against the developers of high density housing. • We need creative ideas for higher density housing rather than urban sprawl. • We need more high density zoning but no one wants it in there own backyard. We need a more pedestrian and public transit based community. This is more easily achieved with higher housing densities. We need to push the concept of compact urban form. • We are in favor of the concept of "compact urban form" and encourage developers to mix densities within individual developments. • Outlying communities must drive to SLO to work, thereby creating pollution, traffic problems, urban sprawl, etc. • The City should be congratulated for contracting its time to issue permits. • The County Planning department process needs to be more intuitive to the person trying to develop property and more responsive to the public that goes in with questions. • The County Planning and Building department needs to work condensing the time it takes to obtain a permit. The County Land Use Ordinance is a very difficult document to work with. 1 :ErCAO 60UNCIL EMD DIR ®'FIN DIR Retair+ this 0 Iimeni for T EF1RE CHIEF TTORNEY OWN DIR Mayor Allen Settle tuture Cou.x+ii fneeling LERIVORIO C�1"UCE CHF City Hall I— .30 _ (� p �iM EAM L4REC Dlfl San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 DatA, it ?q;r.d;7ed BvnL DM eo January 15, 1998 QPER9 DIR Dear Mayor Allen Settle, Thank you for hosting the Council's Goal- setting meeting at the Forum on January 12�. Due to time constraints I deferred to my fellow Old Mission Social Justice committee member, Robert Inchausti, when it came time for us to present our ideas for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. My wife daughter and I would like to take this opportunity to expand on the concept. Much of our interest in affordable housing comes from the large number of service sector workers in our congregation. Also, a dialysis patient who died last summer inspires us. His name was Sam He was an immigrant from Lebanon who studied at Cal Poly in the early `70's. His kidneys failed while he was still a student. He was a loving husband and father who even after being on dialysis finished school and worked at Vandenberg. In his final years, he was divorced and without many assets. Despite his physical setbacks and incredible suffering, he was a very gentle and giving person. I tried to assist him in finding housing in San Luis so he would not have to drive from Santa Maria three times a week for his dialysis. I suggested the Housing Authority. However, then — 3 years ago — as today the Housing Authority does not even take names because the waiting list is so long. There are no exceptions made even for terminally ill people, like Sam. Fortunately, Sam did have barely enough funds to live in San Luis for a short time. This made his final days more comfortable. Unfortunately, he felt badly that he had to spend these funds on himself rather than assist his daughter who is attending graduate school in the East. Remembering Sam and his fighting, loving spirit we want you to work to establish a $10 million dollar Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Your own Inclusionary Housing Task Force made up of some of San Luis Obispo's finest citizens recommends this Trust. Furthermore, we endorse George Moylan's suggestion that an increase in the transient occupancy tax and a property transfer fee be initiated as additional revenue streams. We want this Trust fully funded as soon as possible so that its work might begin soon. As part of the agreement on new revenue streams we suggest that once the Trust is capitalized for $10 million dollars the fees be reduced or eliminated. Grants for housing would be made from the interest only. We know that special interests in the city will oppose such new taxes. We ask you to look at the overall benefit to the community. Since so many of the special interests objecting to such new taxes benefit from low income service workers, we see this as only a matter of justice. If workers labor here, why cannot they be included in our neighborhoods? As the millenium approaches many religious congregations are discussing the year 2000 as a jubilee year. In the Hebrew Scriptures there is a tradition of jubilee justice whereby every 50 years debts were forgiven, land was redistributed and fields were allowed to He fallow. This was the Hebrew way of dying to rectify injustices in an imperfect economic system We recognize the value of capitalism, but it is not perfect. We believe this Trust Fund to be an incremental adjustment for economic justice. It may not be a politically safe issue. It may not be popular. But we think it is a grave matter of conscience. Isn't it the right thing to do? For the many people like Sam we ask you to actively support this concept and work for its full implementation. 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(saowoS m0 anpS) SOS uo st sf L earg eisoo of du; jaisogiaplg ljaam oeni a puaile of ,W*V aqi ut ino gu>Ag an am se aiou ,,4seq tiaA p si sigl :pounoo aqi pue ojuoS io[ieyg na(I dlasilim Uo ' . a 6661 '91 �uuf ela a3� vival illovi + dH0 33110&& �JIy01A1310,0 �0 # W311 NIO Md�7 ),3Nki011� • • -- _ -- 131 d31H0 3klld.E] OV01t� MEETING AGENDA .TE -20-9 ITEM #�� Er COUNCIL GMAO GMCAO GlITTORNEY p- CLERKIORIG O MIGM7 TEAM W, Ll ErCDD DIR IN DIR FIRE CHIEF WPW DIR WPOLICE CHF O'REC DIR D'UTIL DIR _ D•5tiee-te� LIMITED AQUATIC RESOURCES CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO JAN .1 5 1999 SLO CITY Prepared by : Rick Graves Submitted on January 25, 1999 LIMITED AQUATIC RESOURCES A PROPOSAL • Letter submitted at the Community Forum • Proposal • Increasing the aquatic opportunities within the community. • Upgrade the Existing SLO Swim Center • Additional Swimming Tank • New Buildings, Storage Space, and Improved Aesthetics • Increased Programming • Increased Revenue into the City • Public Safety • Funding • Reopen Nuss Pool • Place an aquatic facility in the south east (Laguna Lake) portion of town • Partnerships with other community concerns and special interest groups • Swimming Community and Senior Community • Increasing Sinsheimer Park to create a Sports Complex • Photos • Diagrams • COMMUNI t AQUATIC NEEDS Al ,J CONCERNS The focus of the letter and discussion is to increase the aquatic offerings in our community. In many of the presentations to this council, there is an underlying theme of managed growth for the community but these speak almost exclusively to the siness community and very infrequently do we deal with the recreational outlets to the residents in the community itself. Aquatics: including swimming, diving, water walking, water polo, synchronized swimming, and wateraerobics is the largest component of recreation in the United States. USA Swimming is the largest registration youth sporting groups in the country. Additionally, more and more people begin having an aquatically based fitness program as shown by United States Masters Swimming, the fastest growing adult sporting organization in the country. These are a few of many examples of how the aquatic world is very dominant in our society. The aquatic arena has a very large interaction with the health of any community. Many people simply use the pool to improve their quality of living. Likewise, many people use a pool to rehabilitate themselves after accidents or use the facility to deal with chronic arthritic pain. Most, however, simply to rejuvenate themselves during or after a hard day. The current aquatic opportunities in San Luis Obispo do not meet the needs or demands of our existing community. Simply, the carrying capacity of the aquatic facility is not large enough for the existing population of SLO. San Luis Obispo, a growing community, has one very specific swimming tank to service the entire community which in- cludes recreational swimmers, competitive swimmers, high school teams. community lap swimmers, swimming instruction, water aerobics, therapeutic swimmers... This tank is nice in that it is placed in town and can be accessed by all on bike by community bus or private vehicle. However, because of the singular tank, some problems arise. When this tank is out of service (as it was on numerous occasions over the summer and during the recent extended closure for repairs), there is nowhere for the community to go when desiring an alternate location. "n additional tank at the facility would allow for more aquatic opportunities to the community such as a wanner pool to ;ommodate the youth and elderly, a year round lesson program, additional competitive programs, as well as an alternative tank on site if the primary tank is closed for any particular reason. There are many other very positive reasons to add a tank to the existing swimming facility in Sinsheimer Park. Along with an additional tank at the SLO Swim Center a few aesthetic changes could be made to drastically improve the experience of those that use the facility. These changes include additional storage space, creating an amphitheater style area on the grassy hill to the east of the facility, and adding some color in the way of vegetation or flags/banners in and around the pool. Not only does a swimming pool provide for the health and recreational needs of the community but it also presents many tourism and dollar opportunities to the community. As it stands now, swimming brings in about 7500 visitors to the commu- nity on a yearly basis. Much of this travel occurs during the off -peak season. This figure could triple if an additional tank was put in at the SLO Swim Center. This simply means more dollars back to the city. There has been a recent commitment to the youth and adults in our community with the provision of ball fields in order to meet the demand placed on the city by the competitive field sports. Now lets match that with a commitment to the aquatics arena, one that satisfies noncompetitive, recreational, health, and competitive needs. I am proposing the following: the city look into finalizing the original plan for Sinsheimer Park and place an additional therapy style tank at the SLO Swim Center, improve the aesthetic appeal of the existing facility, investigate the cost of reopening Nuss Pool at San Luis Obispo High School, and look into placing a swimming tank in the Laguna area. °espectfully, VRick Graves 14 Allen Settle, Mayor City of San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo CA 93401 Re: Limited Aquatic Resources: City of San Luis Obispo Dear Mayor Settle and City Council Members, Rick Graves 730 Humbert Street - Unit D San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (805) 549 -8640 January 22, 1999 This letter is a follow -up to an issue presented at the community forum earlier in the month. Before I continue, I would again like to thank you for giving your community the opportunity to present issues that are impor- tant and should be considered in the budgeting process for the period 1999 -2001. I presented the concern of limited and insufficient aquatic resources in our community. I am presenting this issue to you not only on behalf of myself but as a representative of the San Luis Obispo Swim Club, the competitive swimming team in town. I represent the competitive swimmers and also the many actual and potential community users of any and all aquatic facilities in San Luis Obispo. For the past 5 years I have been the head coach of the Seahawks and through that time I have been able to work with both youth and adults in the community. I have come to realize that there is a large sector of our population whom we are missing and this sector can be better served with increased aquatic opportunities. San Luis Obispo, a community of over 40,000 residents, has only one swimming pool to satisfy all types of aquatic needs. These needs include the recreational adult lap swimmer, the youth competitive swimmer, the adult competitive swimmer, the high school athlete, the youth water polo team, the aqua walker, the ac aerobics user, the swimming lesson patron... This list goes on and on. When the one available pool is n.,. open, there are no other opportunities for the residents of SLO to use in order to meet their needs. The recent 3 month closure, as well as numerous day long closures last summer, highlight the magnitude of this issue. Simply put, pool water is a highly used resource in our community, and the carrying capacity of the existing facility is much lower than the demand placed by the community. I understand that in a cosmopolitan com- munity such as ours any improvement project needs to have the ability to meet the needs of many special interest groups father than just one specific group. Pools can be used for many purposes, such as education, therapy, health, and recreation, and if properly planned, all of the needs can be met through one action from the city. Following are some suggestions to further meet the City of San Luis Obispo's aquatic needs. There will be 3 issues presented and then a way to combine 2 additional issues presented at the community forum. In an attempt to follow the forum format, concerns will be addressed in the "what, why and how" terms used earlier in the month. This will be done for all issues presented. I will first address the large issue presented at the forum, and all the smaller issues that make up the large concern. I will then address the ways this chal- lenge can partner up with other challenges expressed by additional community members. Photos and dia- grams are included at the end of this document with the hope that the many small issues presented are better understood with the additional display materials. What: Increasing the aquatic opportunities within the community. Why: The needs and demands based on the demographics of our community dictate a higher level aquatic opportunities. How: Three independent avenues - 1. Upgrading the existing SLO Swim Center, 2. Reopen Nuss Pool, and 3. Place an aquatic facility in the South East (Laguna Lake) portion of town. Y I . Upgrading the existing SLO Swim Center What - Modifications to the existing aquatic facilities Why -To provide increased programming to community, improved facility function and aesthetics, increased revenue to cin• and local businesses, and increased public safety. How - This is rather long and follows. The issues of what type of improvements as well a fioiding issues are addressed. Modification of the swim center should include the addition of a new multiuse swimming tank, new buildings and storage units, an altered entrance to the parking lot, and a redesign of the pool area to increase patron options. Additional Swimming Tank The current facility has a 25 Yards x 50 Meter swimming tank, commonly referred to as an "Olympic Size Pool ". Because of its large volume, this pool can be used for many purposes. However, this type of pool is designed specifically for racing purposes and many other types of program needs are not truly met by using this pool. A pool of this kind is deeper in nature and kept at a temperature that allows for people to exercise at high levels and still remain comfortable. For those in the community that require such parameters, this pool is fabulous. However, these same specifications cause problems with those at either end of the age range, the youth and seniors, as well as those with physical handicaps, who cannot tolerate the lowered temperature. Along with the large tank there is also a small and very shallow "tot pool" but the depth and size of this pool essentially makes it the largest and cleanest bird bath in town. It is used primarily for splashing and jumping around by very small children. I am proposing, in line with the original Sinsheimer Park Plan, placement of another swimming pool at the existing facility. This would increase ability to satisfy the aquatic needs of the community. The type of pool should be a zero entry (pool with entry ramps), warm water, 25 yard, 3.5 ft. deep pool. These specifications would meet the needs of the disabled, those that require warmer water, an additional training area, as well as a site to have swimming instruction. The cost of such a pool can vary tremendously, but the range is from $150,000 to $850.000. Please see attached photos and diagrams for location suggestion. New Buildings and Storage and Improved Aesthetics Expansion of the existing buildings, removal of nonworking equipment, and moving a fence or two with some regrading and the placement of a few retaining walls would give the facility greatly enhanced function and more overall appeal to the patron. Extension of existing buildings to accommodate new machinery is essential with the addition of a pool to the site. These buildings can include additional multipurpose rooms for all users, the addition of a true locker room, as well as bleacher style seating placed on the roofs to allow for viewing of the pool by spectators at meets, families during lessons, and visitors to the area. This can be achieved by taking the fence on the east side of the facility and moving it back 80 feet (± a few feet) to incorporate the hill created by the fill dirt from the existing tank. This hill can then be groomed and filled with sod to have a nice grass hill to both view the pool and take in a bit of sun. Removal of the solar collectors, which are both uneconomical, currently nonfunctional, and not even hooked up into the system, could add to this grass hill idea to actually create a grass amphitheater for the users to truly enjoy the pool. Many people come to the pool to have a quick dip and then sit in the sun. Finally, cutting into the hill and placing a retaining wall in the South East comer of the facility would allow for increased storage space. As it is now, there is not any easily accessed storage for the lane line reels or the pool cover reels. These are kept on deck at all times which creates a danger to the user and simply takes up available deck space of the patron. I am unaware of what the cost of the above items may total. However, in order to meet the growing needs of the growing community, it is a small price to actually pay in the long run. Please refer to photos and diagrams for further information. Increased Programming Programming such as senior walking, increased availability of swimming lessons , and more pool space for users can increase revenue brought into the city while at the same time increasing the programs offered to San Luis Obispo (which is directly in line with the mission statement of the SLO Parks and Recreation Depart- ment). Currently, there is not an aquatic program in San Luis Obispo designed for seniors, disabled, or the very young. The swimming instruction sponsored by the city is only offered in the summer and could be offered throughout the year in a warmer pool. Finally, additional programs can be offered to many youth in the community with additional pool space. Increased Revenue into the City The addition of another tank would allow for the community of SLO to host a number of large aquatic competitions that would bring in a large volume of sport tourism dollars to the business community. Many of these competitions occur during the non -peak tourism season which is always nice for our community. These events have the potential to bring in over 15,000 first time visitors to SLO annually. Public Safety Placement of a new pool can lead to the need to realign the entryway to the park itself. This type of change would greatly increase the safety of those who use the swim center or any other facility in the park. Southwood Drive is the only road that accesses the park, swimming complex, and the San Luis Coastal School District Bus Barn. This traffic is not only detrimental to the air quality for the morning users of the pool, but, as we were reminded of recently, there is the chance of a terrible accident when people and large volumes of auto and bus traffic are present. The actual entrance into the park is at the end of about a 1/3 mile stretch of straight light industrial - residential roadway with slight downhill grade at the very end. This road configuration leads many drivers to excessive speeds when entering the parking lot. This speed itself poses a danger to any and all users of the facility park. Placement of a new pool would lead to a need to adjust the entrance to the park which will increase the safety of the park users. Creating a roundabout drop -off where Southwood meets the park entrance, and making parking lot access via the existing bus barn road where the access road meets with the edge of the baseball diamond would solve this problem. Funding Funds for any and all of these projects can be raised by a combination of partnerships with local business. nonprofit funding organizations, grants, private donations, a bond issue, and city revenue. The cost for changes of this magnitude is not known but there are many people in the community who support these ideas and would offer their services by providing much of the required labor involved. 2. Reopen Nuss Pool What - Reopening Nuss Pool Why - A relatively inexpensive way to add to the community aquatic needs. How - Follows Another possible avenue to use in meeting the aquatic needs of the community include forming a partnership with the San Luis Coastal School District to reopen the Nuss Pool on the campus of San Luis Obispo High School. This pool could be used during the school year in both physical education classes as well as to augment their extracurricular athletic teams. This pool could also be used by the general public in the off - school hours. Swimming instruction and lap swimming could be offered throughout the summer as well. Reference should be made to the decade old study by Rodney Levin regarding the costs and avenues of reopening this pool for the community. 3. Place an aquatic facility in the South East (Laguna Lake) portion of town What - Aquatic opportunities in the Laguna Lake part of town Why - No current facility of easy access to city members in this portion of town. How - Follows A growing part of our population in the Laguna area of town has no convenient swimming facility to use for their benefit. In order for people in this section of town to swim, they must take the very non- direct route to the existing facility. Access by bicycle to the pool from this section of town is not only difficult but rather dangerous. Potential sites include but are not limited to Laguna Middle School, Vista Lago Park, and Laguna Lake Park. Funding for this facility can be sought by similar means to that of the SLO Swim Center improve- ments. What: Partnerships of many community concerns Why: A way to satisfy many city members and saving money at the same time. How: Follows After hearing the concerns of others at the community forum, I realize that my concern regarding limited aquatic resources could partner up with other important issues in the community. What follows here is a way for many in the community to have their needs and concerns met in partnership fashion. This will do many things for the community, such as provide allocation of resources to meet the needs of many concerned citizens, bring many within the community together for increased community awareness of various groups (community strength enhancement), and a long term saving of city funding. What: Partnership between swimming community_ • and Senior Community Why: Multiple use of funds How: Follows After listening to the concerns of the senior citizens and interested parents in the community, I am convinced there is a way to partner up on a few concerns and add services to the community at the same time. This can be done by adding a senior center in or near Sinsheimer Park with the addition of a therapy /warm water pool at the SLO Swim Center. The potential placement of a newer senior center in this part of town seems rather sensible with the large number of assisted living centers for the elderly near the park itself. An additional grass relaxing area can be placed in the space located between the proposed Senior Center and the swimming facility. Placement of a community art project can also be added. A full scale diagram including the proposed Senior Center is attached. 6Vhat: Increase Sinsheimer Park to create a Sports Complex LVhv: Multiple use of finds How: Follows Another way to meet the multiple proposals is to create an entire sports complex to the Sinsheimer Park area that includes all types of ball fields, a theatre area, a senior center, and a swimmins complex. Relocation of the bus bam and placement of a few multiuse sports fields can allow the city to have an easily accessed center for many different types of activities for those in the city. This may be a feasible way to end many of i accusations that the recreational opportunities for the residents of SLO lag behind the city growth rate by about 10 to 12 years. A diagram is attached. It should seem obvious that I have spent a good deal of time considering options for enhancing the SLO Swim Center. This is because I am at the facility at least 50 hours a week, and in some weeks I am there for more than 60 hours. This time investment as well as my interaction with other communities and their aquatic programs has led me to the following conclusions: SLO has great aquatic potential as a community, 2. More programs need to be offered and combined to keep people interested in aquatic fitness. 3. More pools need to be available to the community to service the needs of all residents, 4. All secondary schools need to have some sort of aquatic facility on or near their campus to augment the extracurricular activities for the youth, 5. The very young and senior population need to have a pool that is designed to meet their specific needs, 6. With the right facility large scale televised meets /events could be hosted in our community. I have addressed a few of these concerns and challenges to San Luis Obispo. I look forward to working with you and others in a partnership any to make these proposals a reality. In conclusion, I would like to thank you for your time. If there are any questions or comments regarding these proposals, please contact me at the above address, or I can be reached at my office, 543 -9515. Respectfully, Rick Graves n !_ 1 i' 1 c" �--4' Hs ^ti f :"„r %t:• *r•+ _ may. `., 2. • r Proposed of 1 Pool � r r >t , mo• /' • �R ..i7 1 •. _ �. li Y �Y' �V AV 1 • � Y[SYr^ iyl 4 \ ./ ......... p✓D �- +: 0.V � � ,� �,��', Y1,- iI i / rl. �; �' I 't +•; `:t� .� S ��• .fix 1 � �, '•' C r _ r h l G(_ fl '- •�.�!•y�' .ref '��_(J�pI��1 �� T'�' � \•..a_L �_ +�_ \.• Y` M — � .� �� I •nh.rr VN' } Tr' _ r h l G(_ fl '- •�.�!•y�' .ref '��_(J�pI��1 �� T'�' � \•..a_L �_ +�_ \.• Y` M :771 ITEMS REFERENCED IN PROPOSAL Fill Dirt Hill - Proposed Site of Off -Deck Storage a Fill Dirt Hill ITEMS REFERENCED IN PROPOSAL Proposed site of Senior Center from exisinting fill dirt hill. I Proposed site of Senior Center from existing park entrance. I ..;, ,,�— ,. �::.. 4 a ®_ I ' � Concrete Bleachers m a P, I I > r j+ Storage k ,I a rk ri r� is Iu V'I t;t J I e Park with '" • community art project t r T I , r C F n t '�S.Il�^lf(j�yt I J 4 � uGi I � We ask that, if you are not already knowledgeable about the Santa Rosa's center condition, pl' ease, make a point to visit the center before January 30. We submit this letter hoping that in two years we all can be pioud of anew S emor Center* and 10ve it as much as we all love San Luis Obispo. Thank you for your attention to this very important matter. ;iAN tqqq SLO CITY COUNCIL :ATE 1ITL. Ll0 ad 6 January 26, 1999 Paul LeSage, Director Parks & Recreation UNCIL p CDD DIR @'FIN DIR City of San Luis Obispo AO WIRE CHIEF 1341 Nipomo Street TORNEY FG� WW DIR ERKIORIG CrPOLICE CHF San Luis Obispo CA 93401 TEAM ®- REC•DIR ron CLrVTIL DIR cr*PER S DIR Paul, _ .. _ ., Enclosed is a proposal I submitted to the City Council yesterday for your review. It encompasses needs expressed by the community at the forum earlier in the month. I am sending a copy to Ken Hampion as well as John Dunn. I have had meetings with Bill Storm of the Senior Citizens Coalition and Cindy Whitaker or the Arthritis Foundation. The new community group formed for youth sports has also been given a copy. I actually envision a greater scale goal for the city by taking the bike trail and connecting the Sinsheimer complex with the projected Marigold Fields. Extending this idea a bit further and acquiring the 11 acres of land the old Vons held and placing both an indoor complex as well as outdoor fields would allow the member of the city to have three major activity centers connected by a mile of bike /fitness trail. I hope these concerns and proposed solutions meet your approval. I realize these are challenges to the city but I also feel they are very helpful in meeting the needs for a large percentage in the community. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for your time. Sincerely, Rick Graves cc: Allen Settle John Dunn Ken Hampian AN 9 6 iggq SLO CITY COUNCIL Sun Luis Obispo S%N im Club. PO Box 142. San Luis Obi.po, CA 9 ?-;06 -- (805) 54, -9515 o MEETING 30 9 9 AGENDA B ITEM # ._ 1111410111IM11 council mEmonanbum January 28, 1999 - TO: City Council�j FROM: Allen Settle, Mayor, and John Dunn, City Administrative ice SUBJECT: Suggested Approach to Saturday Goal Setting The good news is that in preparing for Saturday's workshop, Council members did their homework quite well — in fact, extraordinarily well! In contrast to past years, Council collectively submitted 23 pages of suggested goals. The major reason for the length is that some goals were prepared with several specific and detailed suggestions for how to achieve them. After reviewing the material this morning with Don Maruska, it is suggested that on Saturday we focus on identifying the major goals resulting from the many ideas submitted by Council members. Similar to the approach used in the past, Mr. Maruska can help guide the Council through a process of developing consolidated goals, relatively few in number and understandable. The goal criteria will be helpful in achieving this (Attachment 1). The resulting Major City Goal statements will then be rated by the Council. In terms of format, the final product that will appear in the budget document should look similar to the attached 1997 -99 example (Attachment 2). Regarding the more detailed suggestions, they can be referred to staff for consideration in drafting proposed "Work Program Descriptions" that support the Major City Goals. The adopted Work Program Description format requires the identification of "action steps ". The descriptions will be reviewed by Council in early April. Attachment 3 provides an example of a Work Program Description approved in 97 -99. In addition, if a suggestion made by a Council member does not achieve Major City Goal status, it can be considered by staff for inclusion in department or division level budget objectives, which Council will review as a part of the overall budget adoption. The goal setting process, most fundamentally, is a process of focus and prioritization, so it is beneficial to stay focused on the major goals on Saturday. However, the process — both short and long -term — will allow for the inclusion of some ideas that may not "make the cut" on Saturday. Attachments 1. Goal Criteria 2. 1997 -99 Major City Goals 3. Sample Work Program Description ❑ RKIDRIG ❑/ GODD DIR O-PIN DIR ❑- rz CHIEF ❑-PW DIR ❑-MLICE C4F ❑IMC DIR 13"t1TIL DIR ["M5 DIR Criteria for Major City Goals ■ Be legitimate to our beliefs (real, supported). ■ Agreed upon by a Council majority. ■ Reduced in number for comprehension, communication and focus. ■ Set forth in one document —the Financial Plan. ■ Be clear and understandable. ■ Established as a high priority and a real commitment. ■ Translated into the objectives of employees at all levels of the organization. ■ Created within a supportive atmosphere where participants are not afraid to state their suggestions for improving goals or objectives. ■ Accepted to the point where resistance to them is reduced or eliminated. G: 1999 -01 Financial Plan/Council Goal- Setting/Major Goal Criteria 1 0 POLICIES AND OBJECTIVES MAJOR CITY GOALS — SUMMARY Public Utilities ■ Long -term water supply development Meet the City's long -term water supply needs by: reaching agreement with North County cities on the Nacimiento pipeline and Salinas reservoir projects; and completing phase 1 of the water reuse project. Transportation ■ Street and sidewalk maintenance. Complete an inventory of current street and sidewalk conditions, update the City's pavement management plan as needed, and continue ongoing maintenance of City streets and sidewalks. ■ Flood protection. Adopt and begin implementing flood management plans for creeks, open channels and storm drainage systems. ■ Transit service. Maintain existing level of service provided by the City's transit system. ■ Parking system improvements. Begin building the Marsh street parking garage expansion. Leisure, Cultural & Social Services ■ Youth athletic fields. Develop a sports facilities complex, subject to resolving neighborhood and environmental concerns. ■ Parks and recreation element implementation. Continue implementing the parks and recreation element of the General Plan, emphasizing neighborhood parks, at -risk youth, youth and seniors. Community Development ■ Airport area annexation. Prepare the prerequisite specific plan and related infrastructure master plans in order to implement the General Plan goal of annexing the airport area to the City. ■ Madonna plaza and central coast mall revitalization. Proactively work to revitalize Madonna Plaza and the Central Coast Mall. ■ Economic development Continue implementing the economic development program, including focused business recruitment efforts consistent with the results of the targeted industry cluster study. ■ Neighborhood preservation. Continue neighborhood preservation efforts relating to noise, traffic and maintenance; continue to support efforts encouraging additional "on-campus" student housing; and evaluate ways of improving neighborhood participation in the development review process. General Government ■ Long -term fiscal health. Protect the City's long -term fiscal health by maintaining a balanced budget, an adequate capital improvement plan and an adequate unreserved fund balance. ■ Community partnerships. Encourage creating non - profit corporations for projects such as open space acquisition and adobe preservation. 009 B -21 / POLICIES AND OBJECTIVES MAJOR CITY GOALS — PARKS AND RECREATION ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION OBJECTIVE Continue implementing the parks and recreation element of the General Plan, emphasizing neighborhood parks, at -risk youth, youth, and seniors. DISCUSSION Background. In May of 1995, the Council adopted a comprehensive revision to the General Plan Parks and Recreation Element/Master Plan (Element). The Element provides for a parks and recreation system that identifies and addresses community needs. A key portion of the document is the identification of unmet needs. Included are: Facilities ■ Youth athletic fields for practice, games, and tournaments ■ Gymnasiums ■ Neighborhood parks Recreation activities ■ Prevention and intervention programs ■ Increased programs for children and teens ■ Senior citizen programs Issues we will face in achieving this goal. Additional parks and recreation services clearly are desired by the community; however, given the fiscal constraints of this budget period, this goal will need to be addressed using existing resources. Neighborhood park needs include: ■ renovation of Mitchell Park ■ park for the Las Praderas area ■ identification of a park site in the area south/west of Foothill Boulevard and Chorro Street The issue for park development will be available funding. The likely source of revenue for Mitchell Park are park in -lieu fees, specifically in -fill housing projects. Funding exists for Las Praderas Park, but the site is on San Luis Creek and must be stabilized prior to any construction. Identification of a Foothill -area site will be difficult. There are potential locations, but neighborhood consensus will be necessary. This may be difficult to achieve as Foothill Boulevard itself separates this area into two parts. It is unlikely that significant funding will be available for new recreation programs. Therefore, creating a non- profit foundation with a recreation mission is an option in addressing the need for new recreation activities. A foundation will let the City apply for and receive program grants. It will also allow program participants to keep activity fees low through fundraising and volunteer service. The costs and benefits of establishing such a foundation will be evaluated as part of this work program. B -39 ':3 POLICIES AND OBJECTIVES MAJOR CITY GOALS — PARKS AND RECREATION ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION ACTION PLAN ■ Staff continues implementation of at -risk recreation activities. 7/97 ■ Staff continues to award scholarships to at -risk children for participation. in all recreation activities without revenue reimbursement. 7/97 ■ Board of Directors is formed for the Parks and Recreation Foundation. 7/97 ■ Determine feasibility of a park site in the Las Praderas neighborhood. 10/97 ■ Start site selection process for a Foothill -area park. 11/97 ■ Contract recreation instructors agree to add at -risk scholarship students to their programs. 1/98 ■ Working with Administration, review costs and benefits of establishing a Recreation Foundation and develop policy on community partnerships. 1/98 ■ Staff participates with the Mayor's Task Force on Youth in developing new, grant- fimded, at -risk programs for the summer. 5/98 ■ Begin Mitchell Park playground improvements. 7/98 ■ Site is selected for a Foothill-area park. Funding for the project will be included in the 1999 -2001 Budget. 11/98 RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT Parks and Recreation will be responsible for the implementation of this objective, with the exception of capital improvement plan projects, which will be managed by the Engineering Division of the Public Works Department with input from Parks & Recreation. FINANCIAL AND STAFF RESOURCES REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL Continued implementation of the Parks and Recreation Element is the primary mission of the Parks and Recreation Department. The goal can be achieved within existing resources. Funding for the Las Praderas Park Project has been previously approved. The Mitchell Park improvement project was originally approved in 1994. It has been postponed due to lack of finding from park in -lieu fees. Once the funding is available, the project will commence. The project cost is $130,000. Depending on other priorities, this amount should be available by the end of 1997 -98. OUTCOME -FINAL WORK PRODUCT Continued implementation of the Parks and Recreation Element, which will allow the City to satisfy identified needs throughout the community. B-40