Tuesday, 12-16- Pinole City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the
agenda packet at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1025/files/agenda/1028 .

There is one closed session item- appointing an interim city manager under government code section 54957. This will go until 7 PM according to the agenda packet.

There are no proclamations or presentations this week.

Then there’s the consent calendar- There are the normal warrants, along with the minutes for the December 2nd city council meeting, adopting a resolution to increase minimum wage rates to align with state law (staff report pages 59-60, fiscal impact cost of $2685 page 60, resolution pages 61-2, salary schedule and redlined version pages 63-6),

a resolution to enroll all city accounts in MCE’s Deep Green electricity program (staff report pages 67-69, fiscal impact annual cost of $53,000 one-time gain of $4000 page 68, resolution pages 70-1, deep green cost analysis pages 72-4), adopting a resolution accepting $309,910 in grant funding from the California Department of Justice tobacco grant program for FY 2025-26 (staff report pages 75-6, fiscal impact nil because already accounted for in budget page 76, resolution pages 77-8, grant application pages 79-88, award letter pages 89-90, summary of award pages 91-4, budget detail pages 95-7),

second reading and adoption of an ordinance adding Chapter 2.68 to Title 2 of the Pinole Municipal Code restricting the use of city owned or controlled property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities (creating an “Ice-free zone” page 101) (staff report pages 98-9, resolution pages 100-103), and finally approval of a second amendment to the consulting services agreement between the city and West Yost for additional service associated with the development of the storm drain master plan (staff report pages 104-5, fiscal impact $102,756 funded from Measure S 2014 page 105, resolution pages 106-7, amendment pages 108-9, scope of work letter page 110-17).

There are no public hearing items.

There is a new segment unique to this meeting- Council Reorganization. It will have presentations to Mayor Cameron Sasai, Remarks by Mayor Sasai, Selection of Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem, Administer Oaths to Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem, and Transfer of Gavel and Comments by the New Mayor. As per the staff report and established procedure, Anthony Tave will become Mayor and Devin Murphy will become Mayor Pro Tem (staff report page 118, resolution pages 119-20, rotation list page 121, resolution governing the mayoral selection process pages 122-4).

There are no old business items.

There is one new business item- nominating council members to serve on  regional boards and city subcommittees (staff report pages 125-6, draft council assignments pages 127-9, current assignments pages 131-3).

You can join the meeting by zoom direct link here <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89335000272&gt;, 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.

Tuesday, 12-9- Special Pinole City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the
agenda packet at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1113/files/agenda/1018.

There is exactly one item on the agenda, a closed session discussion of appointing an interim city manager under government code section 54957. My assumption is that the council will appoint Chief Klawuhn as Interim city manager following their appointment of her as Acting city manager at the last council meeting.

You can join the meeting by zoom direct link here <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89335000272&gt;, 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.

Tuesday, 12-2- Pinole City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the
agenda packet at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1012/files/agenda/1013.

There are two closed session items- Conference with labor negotiators between Human Resources Director Stacy Shell, Finance Director Markisha Guillory, and Gregory Ramirez with IDEA negotiating with the Pinole Police Employees Associations (PPEA) under government code section 54957.6. The second is a public employee appointment under government code section 54957 to appoint an acting city manager.

There is one presentation on the Contra Costa County Regional Alternative Compliance System Overview (to meet stormwater permit requirements) (pages 6-23)

Then there’s the consent calendar- There are the normal warrants, along with the minutes for the November 18th city council meeting, an application/execution of a grant from the Ocean Protection Council for completing a Pinole-Hercules Multi-jurisdictional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (which removed a citizen data component (page 60) but otherwise kept most of the initial application) (staff report pages 58-61, fiscal impact gain of up to $736,370 page 60, resolution pages 62-3, grant application pages 65-89, resolution template page 90), 

second reading and adoption of a ordinance to adopt the 2025 California Building Standards Code, update the city’s building and fire codes, and a resolution to support findings for local modifications to the code (staff report pages 91-2, resolution pages 93-102, ordinance pages 103-160), 

approving a resolution to fund one Full-time Equivalent (FTE) Information Technology (IT) technician using funds freed up from the end of the existing IT contract (page 163) (staff report pages 161-3, fiscal impact one-time expense reduction $63,000 to fund role for 5 months, ongoing expense reduction of $151,650 through contract termination and removing unused services in Financial Year (FY) 26/27 page 163, resolution page 164, cost savings analysis page 166),

a resolution to accept the FY 2024/25 development impact fee report (staff report pages 167-170, resolution pages 171-2, development impact free report pages 173-186), 

a resolution initiating formation of a new landscape and lighting district for the Appian Village project at the intersection of Canyon and Appian, and ordering preparation of the required engineer’s report pursuant to the landscaping and lighting act of 1972 and Section 4 of Article XIIID of the California Constitution (staff report pages 187-190, fiscal impact cost of engineer’s report $10,555 offset to district on creation page 190, resolution pages 192-3),

receiving a report on the status of the city’s IT plan from FY 2022/23- FY 2025/26 and development of the IT plan FY 2026/27-FY 2031/32 (staff report pages 194-5, 2022 IT plan pages 196-224), and finally approval of an agreement between the city and Diablo Roofing Inc to replace the Public Safety Building’s roof under project # FA1702 (since it’s actively leaking (page 225) (staff report pages 225-6, fiscal impact cost of $518,528 paid from growth impact funds page 226, resolution pages 227-8, construction services agreement pages 229-245).

There is one public hearing item- public hearing and introduction of an ordinance adding Chapter 2.68 to Title 2 of the Pinole Municipal Code restricting the use of city owned or controlled property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities (creating an “Ice-free zone policy” page 247) (staff report pages 246-8, resolution pages 249-52).

There are no old business items.

There is one new business item- discussion of process for establishing a directly elected Mayor (staff report pages 253-5, fiscal impact cost of $30,000 to place measure on ballot page 255 plus potential unknown costs, 2010 resolution establishing current mayoral rotation pages 256-8).

You can join the meeting by zoom direct link here <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89335000272>, 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.