Tuesday, 12-17- City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the
agenda packet at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/76/files/agenda/752 .
There are no closed session items- so you should expect the meeting to start at 5.
There is one presentation, from Friends of the Pinole Creek Watershed on the possible establishment of a new Creekside Park (pages 7-21).
Then there’s the consent calendar- There are the normal warrants, along with the minutes for the November 19th and December 3rd city council meetings, a resolution to accept a 2-year policy fund grant from the partnership for the bay’s future (to develop an affordable housing fund policy guide, design and implement a social impact bond and rehabilitation program, and redesign and launch rental registry program (pages 79-80, with more detail on pages 80-81)) (staff report pages 78-82, resolution pages 83-4, memorandum of understanding pages 85-100, letters of support pages 101-6),
second read and adoption of an ordinance amending chapter 10.56 “speed zones” of the Pinole Municipal code, which seems like it is different than the previous resolution- looking at pages 113-114, where the text of the ordinance is, it shows Pinole Valley Road between Tennent and Granda (I assume spelling error for Granada there) at 25, Pinole Valley Road between Granda Court and Simas Avenue at 30 and Pinole Valley Road between Simas and south city limit at 30 as previously, along with San Pablo avenue between Oak Ridge Road and Sunnyview Drive at 25 and San Pablo Avenue between Sunnyview and the west city limit at 30 as previously. However, it strikes the old speed limits for Appian Way, Fitzgerald Drive, and Pinon Avenue (page 114), which seems odd because the report in the December 3rd agenda packet (which you can find at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/64/files/agenda/739) explicitly calls out all of those except Pinon as being areas where the city was keeping those speed limits (page 148, December 3rd agenda packet). However, the ordinance in the December 3rd packet does have the same limits listed (pages 196-7 December 3rd agenda packet), so it seems as though the report is out of line with the ordinance.
There is another consent calendar item to amend the consulting services agreement with R3 consulting group with regards to the solid waste franchise agreement negotiations to add $25,000 to the total cost to pay for a nexus fee study (page 116, also notes funds coming from Solid Waste Fund budget) (staff report pages 115-16, resolution pages 117-19, amendment text page 120).
There are several linked resolutions (as a single consent calendar item) to adopt the sales tax passed by measure I (staff report pages 121-2, though I think there would be substantial financial impact if these resolutions were *not* adopted, administrative agreement pages 123-9, preparation payments agreement 130-1, duplicate staff report pages 132-3, resolutions pages 134-7), another consent calendar item accepting and declaring the results of the canvass of the November 5th 2024 Municipal election (staff report page 138, election results pages 139-162 (with the relevant results for Pinole being on pages 161 for measure I, 151 for city council, and 152 for treasurer), the certification on page 163, and the resolution on pages 164-5), and for the last consent calendar item, a resolution to adopt a rate increase of 2.39% for Republic Services waste collection as per their contract (pages 166-7 for the staff report, 168 for the rate sheet, 169 for the letter from Republic Services).
This will be followed by the Council Reorganization- a presentation to Mayor Toms, remarks by Mayor Toms, Selection of the new Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem (which per tradition and resolution should be Cameron Sasai as Mayor and Anthony Tave as Mayor Pro Tem, see item 10C on page 170, with the new Mayoral Rotation on page 173 and the relevant resoluton on pages 174-5), administering the oaths of office to the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem, and transfer of Gavel and comments by the New Mayor. There will then be a recess for a reception.
Finally, there will be one item under new business- nominating council members to serve on Boards and Commissions (with the staff report being on pages 177-8). The current assignments are listed on pages 179-181, and the draft proposed assignments are on pages 182-4.
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Rafael Menis for Pinole City Council 2022 