Pinole City Council meeting, 11-7-23

Tonight, 11-7- Regular City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the agenda packet here.

To start, there are 3 closed session items- conference with labor negotiators on interim city manager, public employment on city manager, and conference with legal counsel on litigation with MVP construction.

For proclamations, there’s United against Hate Week, Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Shelter in Place Education Day, Native American Heritage Month, Sikh Awareness Month, and World Town Planning Day. There is also a presentation from CA vs Hate Initiative which you can find here.

Then there’s the consent calendar- There’s the normal minutes and warrants, a resolution authorizing the city manager to buy 2 new patrol cars ($105k), reports on the first quarter status of the Capital Improvement Plan projects, the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, the Fiscal Year(FY) 2023/24 Q1 Financial report, the FY2023/24 Q1 investment report, a determination of public convenience or necessity for selling alcoholic products at the shell store located at 1401 Fitzgerald drive, and finally declaring various end of life vehicles as surplus.

There is one old business item- adopting a Project Labor Agreement with the Contra Costa Building and Construction council.

There are 2 items under new business- Long-term financial plan strategies (or, how we can start to deal with the 100 million dollar net deficit Pinole will have in its general fund balance by 2040 (page 213 of the agenda packet), including a presentation on those strategies you can find here. The last item is considering adjusting the Mayoral rotation on the council- how exactly is unclear.

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.