Pinole City Council meeting, 6-20-23

Today, 6-20- Regular City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the agenda packet here.

There are 2 closed session items- a performance evaluation of the city manager, and a conference with labor negotiators for all represented unions. I wouldn’t expect the meeting proper to start before 6 PM.

Then there’s proclamations in honor of Independence day, the county poetry champion, the state speech association student of the year, Pinole Valley High School (PVHS) boys soccer, PVHS boys tennis team, PVHS girls softball team, and the state best girls athletic director.

There’s then consent calendar items- a contract for a broadband opportunities assessment (apparently there’s a system that richmond’s running that we could hook into because it has fiber running through Pinole already (page 60)), a contract for a water reuse opportunities assessment (which the contractor is highly skeptical will be viable (pages 80,81)), a resolution to provide a montly stipend to high school council interns, approval of a drone policy for non-police uses, a resolution of support for a proposed constitutional amendment to the state constitution that would permit felons to vote while incarcerated, a contract for initial improvements to the tennant/pear/plum intersections, a resolution updating the levy of the assessments for the pinole valley road lighting district, liens for unpaid waste collection charges, adopting the FY 23/24 appropriations limit,

adopting the FY 23/24 Operating and Capital Budget (Of note is that the one-time expenditures have now been added into the operating and capital budget, and the full expense of capital projects is encumbered in the first year, so the general fund will be going from an unreserved fund balance of $9,848,344 to $1,061,259 this upcoming fiscal year (page 179)),

a resolution approving the new tri-city dispatch agreement, and finally approval of the 5 year Capital Improvement Plan.

And after that, we get to public hearings. There’s a public hearing of an ordinance which would allow the city manager or designee to waive hours of construction bans for all types of construction to expedite construction.

Finally, for new business we have updating the city’s procurement policy to require using union shops for city print work (which staff thinks will not significantly increase costs, page 566), and discussion on how the city wants to engage with regional and higher legislative bodies.

You can join the meeting by zoom direct link here, entering the webinar ID 893 3500 0272 into zoom directly, or calling +1 (669) 900-6833 or +1 (253) 215-8782 or +1 (346) 248-7799, then entering the meeting ID 893 3500 0272#. Once in the meeting by phone, you can raise your hand by pressing *9, and unmute by pressing *6 once called on. You can also attend the meeting in person at Pinole City Hall, 2131 Pear St.