Tuesday, 2-17- City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the
agenda packet at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1102/files/agenda/1098.



There is one closed session item- CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS Gov. Code § 54957.6 Agency designated representatives: Human Resources Director, Stacy Shell, Finance Director, Markisha Guillory, and Gregory Ramirez, IEDA Employee organizations: The Pinole Police Employees Association (PPEA). This item was continued to a future meeting.



There are three proclamations, recognizing Japanese Day of Remembrance (page 6), Lunar New Year (page 7), and Pinole Historical Society (page 8).
There are also two presentations- City Manager Executive Search Kick-Off — Bob Hall & Associates by Joe Gorton (pages 9-17), and Pinole Community TV Performance Dashboard (pages 17-27).



Then there’s the consent calendar- There are the normal warrants, along
with the minutes for the February 3rd city council
meeting, a resolution approving a grant application for community flood monitoring funds (Whale Tail) (staff report pages 76-77, fiscal impact potential gain of up to $50,000 if grant gained page 77, resolution page 78, grant application pages 79-95), the Fiscal Year (FY) 25/26 2nd quarter investment report (staff report pages 96-8, general portfolio pages 99-100, 115 trust report pages 101-2),

and finally placement of liens for unpaid waste collection charges in FY 25/26 2nd quarter considered in an administrative hearing on 2-4-26 (staff report page 103, resolution page 105).



There are two public hearing items- the first, introduction and first read of an ordinance amending the city council meeting start times (moving it from 5 PM to 5:30 PM) (staff report pages 106-7, ordinance pages 108-9).

The second is Conduct Public Hearing And Adopt A Resolution Confirming
The Community Services Master Fee Schedule, which will increase fees for Tiny Tots programming and reserved fields and facilities (page 112) (staff report pages 110-12, resolution pages 113-14, new fee schedule pages 115-19, redlined fee schedule pages 121-8, cost of service analysis pages 129-152).



There are no old business items.



There are two new business items- the first is the FY 25/26 2nd quarter budget review and adjustment, which has a decrease in revenue of $90,500 for PCTV due to loss of sponsorships (page 187, because the summaries are unclear), an increase in general fund expenditures of $99,366, increase in equipment reserve fund revenue of $68,747 and expenditures of $89,819, and solid waste fund increase in revenue of $1,156,000 (page 154) (staff report pages 153-4, fiscal impact page 154, resolution page 155, summary of adjustments page 156, financial report pages 157-196).

The second is approving an employment agreement for Garrett Evans to become the Interim City Manager for the City of Pinole (staff report pages 197-8, fiscal impact $22,744.36 per month offset by attrition from the current vacancy page 198, resolution pages 199-201, employment agreement pages 202-6).

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Tuesday, 2-3- City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the
agenda packet at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/980/files/agenda/1083 , and the associated presentations and written comments at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/980/files/agenda/1084.

There are three closed session items- a conference with real property negotiators under government code subsection 54956.8 for the parcel 401-230-016, with agency negotiators Community Development Director Lilly Whalen and City Attorney Eric Casher, and negotiating parties Patrick Donovan, Project Manager, On Air Communications Inc. Authorized agent of Crown Castle. Second, conference with labor negotiators under government code subsection 54957.6 with agency designated representatives City Attorney Eric Casher and Human Resources Director Stacy Shell, the unrepresented employee being the interim city manager. And third, conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation, under government code subsection 54956.9(d)(4) for initiation of litigation on one potential case.

There is one proclamation, recognizing Black History Month (page 6). There are also two presentations- the first on the current state of City AI use and policy by Fiona Epps (pages 7-27), and the second on a unified community request portal by Fiona Epps and Melissa Klawuhn (presentations, pages 21-36).

Then there’s the consent calendar- There are the normal warrants, along with the minutes for the January 20th and January 27th city council meetings, a Resolution to Surplus Vehicles from the Police Department (staff report pages 69-70, resolution pages 71-2, list of vehicles pages 73-4), Fiscal Year (FY) 2026/27 Budget Development Process and Timeline (staff report pages 75-8), and finally Approve The Municipal Pooling Authority Joint Exercise Of Powers Agreement (JPA) For Providing Property, Workers’ Compensation, Public Liability And Other Insurance Coverages To The City Of Pinole (staff report pages 79-81, resolution page 82, JPA text pages 83-92).

There are two public hearing items- the first, a Resolution Calling For Special Election And Submitting Question Regarding Office Of Elected Mayor To Voters (staff report pages 93-5, fiscal impact cost of $37236-$55854 page 95, resolution pages 96-100, ordinance (if adopted by voters) pages 101-3; presentations, pages 37-45 for the presentation).

The second is Conduct Public Hearing And Adopt A Resolution Confirming The Community Services Master
Fee Schedule, which will be continued.

There are no old business items.

There are no new business items.

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Tuesday, 1-27- Special City Council meeting, 6 PM, Hybrid. You can find the agenda at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1121/files/agenda/1067 .

There is one closed session item on the agenda- Public Employee Appointment under Government Code subsection 54957, Title: City Manager.

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Tuesday, 1-13- Special Pinole City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You
can find the
agenda packet at
https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1117/files/agenda/1046.

There are three closed session items- First, 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. Second, a conference with labor negotiators for
the title acting city manager, under government code 54957.6. Thirdly, a
conference with labor negotiators for the title Interim city manager,
under government code 54957.6.

There will be 3 proclamations- Honoring Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Day (page 6), National Day of Racial Healing (page 7), and Holocaust
Remembrance Day (page 8). There will be one presentation by Republic
Services on their post collection agreement and 2026 rates (pages 9-21,
average rate increase for residential customers 2.3-3.2% page 17,
average rate increase for commercial customers 1.38% page 18).

There will be one consent calendar item- Adopting a resolution approving
the engineer’s report, declaring intent to form Appian Village
Residential Lighting Assessment District and Levy and Collect
Assessments for Fiscal Year 2026/27, and setting January 20th 2026 as
the date for the public hearing (staff report pages 22-4, fiscal impact
gain of $33,311.33 offsetting city costs of $52,952.10 if approved by
property owners in the proposed district page 24, engineer’s report
pages 25-58 and again on pages 59-92. I suspect one of those copies was
intended to be the resolution, which is not attached as of the time of
this message).

There will be no public hearings, old business, or new business.

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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).

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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.

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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).

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Tuesday, 11-18- Pinole City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the
agenda packet at  https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1024/files/agenda/998.

There are two closed session items- Conference with labor negotiators between the city manager Kelcey Young, 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 interim city manager. The mayor pro tem estimates the council will return from closed session at 7 PM.

There is one item under mayoral and council appointments- reappointing George Pursley to the Contra Costa County Library Commission (staff report page 6).

There is one proclamation, recognizing Family Court Awareness Month (page 7).

Then there’s the consent calendar- There are the normal warrants, along with the minutes for the November 4th city council meeting, the Financial Year 2025/26 (FY 25/26) 1st quarter Financial Report (staff report pages 58-9, financial report pages 60-97), the FY 25/26 Q1 investment report (staff report pages 98-100, investment report pages 101-3), the FY 25/26 Q1 strategic plan status report (staff report pages 104-5, strategic plan pages 106-12), and an update on capital projects, inspection and permitting, and maintenance (staff report pages 113-118).

There are no public hearing items.

There is one old business item, an update on implementation of the residential health and safety rental inspection ordinance (Pinole Municipal Code Chapter 8.30) and Adoption of Administrative Regulations, which would shift to an annual fee and registration cycle (while maintaining a 3-year inspection cycle), create an online database and enrollment process, and hire a full time inspector and set appropriate fees to fund that position (page 124) (staff report pages 119-26, fiscal impact none at present, cost of new employee to be offset by fee adjustments page 126, resolution pages 127-8, regulations pages 129-31, presentation pages 132-55).

There are two new business items- the first being review of a Republic Services Credit Memorandum of Understanding (staff report pages 156-7, memorandum pages 158-60),

the second being Approve a Memorial Renaming Bayfront Park and Sign Installation in Honor of
Ohlone (Rename Bayfront Park to “Rookoš Park”) (staff report pages 161-5, fiscal impact $11,000-17,000 depending on sign type from parks budget in measure S 2014 page 164, resolution pages 166-7, application pages 168-74, vendor proposal pages 175-8). There is also a presentation at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1024/files/agenda/1000 on pages 321-34.

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