CITYOF  CITY OF. JACKSON City Council Meeting Minutes July 25, 2022  JACKSON ALIFORNIA  Mayor and Council Members Robert Stimpson, Mayor Max Godde, Council Member Steve McLean, Council Member Chad Simmons, Council Member Connie Gonsalves, Vice Mayor  John Georgette, City Clerk Staff Members: Josh Nelson, City Attorney Yvonne Kimball, City Manager Bree Wilder, Public Works Superintendent Chris Mynderup, Police Chief  ABSENT:  Mayor Stimpson called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG. Mayor Stimpson led the Pledge of Allegiance. 1. APPROVALOF AGENDA.  Motion to approve the City Council Agenda dated. July 25, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember Simmons, seconded by Councilmember Godde, and carried by a 41 to Oroll call  vote:  AYES: Stimpson, Godde, McLean, Simmons  NOES: None ABSENT: ABSTAIN: None 2. REMOTE MEETING FINDINGS.  Gonsalves  Motion to approve the Remote. Findings dated. July 25, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember McLean, and seconded by Councilmember Godde and carried by a 4t00roll  call vote:  AYES: Stimpson, Godde, McLean, Simmons  NOES: None ABSENT: Gonsalves ABSTAIN: None    Council Meeting Minutes - July 25, 2022.  Page 2  3. PUBLIC MATTERS NOT ONTHE AGENDADiscussion items only, no action will be taken. Any person may address the Council at this time on any subject within the jurisdiction oft the City Linda Gonzales came to the Council meeting to discuss the upcoming 100-year Anniversary of the Argonaut Mine Disaster. The Kennedy Mine Committee is planning ai month-long commemoration for 8/27-9/25. There will be a banner installed on Main Street on 8/25 through 9/25. The Committee is requesting a waiver ofthe $100 banner install/removal. Ms. Gonzales is asking the City Council to draft and sign al Proclamation to recognize the anniversary and commitment for the community to come together. Ms. Gonzales said there are approximately 138 miners and/or rescuers from all over the US and as far as Serbia, coming to this commemoration. The travelers will be utilizing our hotels and restaurants for their stay in Jackson, which will bring money to Jackson. There will be 2 days of Cemetery services on 9/22 and 9/24( (100 years to the day), held at all 3 cemeteries. Also, there will be a community event at the Kennedy Mine and a shuttle service to the Argonaut mine, which will have a machine shop, electric demo, and music events. Docents will also be there doing Living History and a re-creation ofthe Vaudeville Show. The final event will be a concert on Sunday at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre. Ms. Gonzales is asking what we need to do for the traffic control through graveyards and the shuttle service from Kennedy Mine to Argonaut Mine. The Council responded that the event will need to be coordinated with both Law Enforcement and Public Works. Council directed the request being  Council. Please note - there is at three (3) minute limit.  placed onto ai future meeting as appropriate. Paul Jones- Offered prayers.  Mel Young, 1016. Jackson Gate Rd. came to the podium to speak. She said that they live by Mr. McDaniel's, who was at the last City Council meeting speaking about the Brights Alley Way. She said that Mc Daniel's had spoken to her and her husband about the fence he was building in the alley way and that they have no problem with it. They. just want all neighbors to get along. Mayor Stimpson stated that the Brights Alley Way has been resolved and thanked them for their John Georgette, ai resident of Jackson, spoke next. Mr. Georgette commented that when he first saw that Ampine. Fire started, he was conçerned that the historical Argonaut Mine might be on fire. He said he appreciated Jackson's historical sites, including the Argonaut Mine, Kennedy Mine, Cemeteries, Museum and Pitt St. Bridge. Mr. Georgette continued on to express his concern about the future Pitt St. Bridge project. He was concerned that the project would replace the bridge without enough consideration ofits historical background and charm.  input.  4. CONSENT CALENDAR.  Items listed on the consent calendar are considered routine and may be enacted by one motion. Any item may be removed for discussion at the request ofa Council Member. 1. Approval ofthe. June 27, 2022 and July 1, 2022, Meeting Minutes. 2. Approval of Expenditure Report in the amount of $305,627.08. 3. Approval of Payroll Expenditure Report in the amount of$343,380.96. 4. Receive Jackson Fire Department Monthly Report for. June 2022.    Council Meeting Minutes -July 25, 2022.  Page 3  5. Receive Jackson Police Department Monthly Report for. June 2022. 6. Receive Building Department Monthly Report for. June 2022. 7. Resolution 2002-13 Budget extension. services forl FY21/22, FY 22/23 and FY 23/24.  8. Authorization ofCity Manager to enter into agreement with Smith and Newell.for: auditor 9. Appoint a (council) alternate to the TOT grant award selection committee. Motion to approve the Consent Calendar dated July 25, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember McLean, seconded by Councilmember Godde, and carried by a 4 to Oroll call  vote:  AYES: Stimpson, Godde, McLean, Simmons  NOES: None ABSENT: ABSTAIN: None 5. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS. is expected to be taken by the Council. Interim Fire Chief. Dale Fishback to miss the meeting. Public Works, Bree Wilder  Gonsalves  This section is to provide staff an opportunity to present oral status reports on issues. No legal action  Not present at this meeting as hei is out on the Ampine Fire. He expressed condolences that he had  Wea are finishing up the street striping. converter on one ofthel PW trucks. Broadway and we will fix it. and it was a $3500 repair.  There was al break in at the Corp Yard. Someone cut the fence, tried to steal the catalytic There was a water leak on Schober St., which is now fixed. Another water leak is now on Truck #9 went out on a late on-call at night and hit a deer. The truck had to go to the shop Question from CM Simmons, can we paint Main St. with stripes including crosswalks and all  else on Main St? Bree replied "Yes, that is what we are doing".  Police Chief, Chris Mynderup  3rdo ofJuly Fireworks, was a good show. Although, prior to the fireworks show there was talk of drug use in the restrooms. Officers checked and didn't find any drug paraphernalia. Wel had a call ofa U-Haul in Jackson Creek at Bart's Bend. Tow truck came and took care Report of1 10 subjects fighting by the Post Office. PD turned on lights and sirens and that After the fireworks show, Sgt. Del Rio, at Main St &4 49, saw about 5 people shooting projectile fireworks near the Hillside, at Hill St. and Mattley. He noticed that 4 small fires  of.  made the people disburse.    Council Meeting Minutes -July 25, 2022.  Page 4  were starting to burn on the hillside. He radioed out to. Jackson Fire to come out and they put it out and no structures were damaged. CM Godde asked if anyone was arrested and Chief Mynderup said not yet, they are still trying to track down the suspects and they have leads. July 4th, Electra Fire. Itexted Sheriff Redman to ask whatever he needed; we will do. Redman pulled the big red handle on 7/5. Most ofour personnel reacted and headed out to help with the evacuations. Kudos to Sheriff'sl Dept. for their quick action, and major kudos June 11-Iattended the Historic Jackson Business Association Meeting with CM Godde. They talked about parking enforcement issues, happy there are less skateboarders on Main July 14-Iattended a school safety meeting, along with Sheriff Redman, Chief's from the other 2 cities and along with School Superintendent, Tori Gibson. Obviously, the Uvalde, Texas shooting is heavy on the school's mind. We want to get an early start on training teachers and staff on the newest procedures, ifthey have an active shooter. We talked about doing another active shooter training at one oft the High Schools. We also have a lot ofnew administration in the School District. We will be scheduling some campus walk throughs, as we try to get al hold on weak points in the schools, in case ofa fire, active shooter or other Wel had a subject overdose on Fentanyl last Friday. He was out on his own recognizances from being charged with sales of Fentanyl and while out, he overdosed. He was ordered to show up to Probation this morning for a drug test and of course he didn't show up. So, several officers went to his residence and he was arrested for possession of11 grams of Fentanyl. Fentanyl is up here. It's everywhere and it's very dangerous. We will be doing Wel had the Ampine Fire this afternoon and Officer Tollett and Ia assisted with traffic control at Industry and Hwy 49, until some Officers came to relieve us. Luckily the FD was able to Mayor Stimson asked ChiefN Mynderup if we have any flash bangs. The Chiefreplied, "we do not.. I can speak for us in. Jackson PD. Ifwe hear shots, we are not waiting, we go to take  too our Fire Department who put it out quick.  St.  natural disaster. We will be doing this, this coming week.  safety training with staff on how to deal with this drug. get the grass fire out and are making sure it's contained.  out that threat." City Attorney, Josh Nelson  Legislative process is moving forward with the Governor making decisions. Iwill bring  back to the Council a full report, when available.  City Manager, Yvonne Kimball  General plan update, we: received draft updates from Consultants. Sutter St. extension project isr making progress and hopefully in August they will have a model sO we can envision how Wel have sent out 4 RPF's for the following Federal Aide projects: Pitt St. Bridge, French Bar Bridge, South Avenue Bridge and Highway 49 lighting project. Funding is passed down Wastewater treatment plant-National pollutant discharge elimination permit is due next year. 5-year permit. We lost al lot ofsewer plant capacity when we did this last time. Moving forward this year we will work toward not losing a lot ofc capacity while doing the testing. The wastewater treatment plant has been working hard to not have any noticeable violations.  the round-about will work.  by Caltrans. We are getting a lot ofinterest on1 the RFP's.  We have not been fined.    Council Meeting Minutes - July 25, 2022.  Page 5  Sutter Pines, mobile home park has reached out to the City to talk about their water system. They havel had many fines. The possible solution they came up with was to be able tol hook to the City sewer system. There is a grant available, and staffi is researching it. This will be Budget- We have been working on the budget. I'm waiting on the Mayor and CM Simmons to get together to talk about this. Meanwhile I'm helping, with accounting, to sort it out on The City received a $320,000 grant, from DTSC (the Dept. ofToxic Substance Control), to doi investigation work for the Oro De Amador property. This grant will help us to get the studies done and Molimelicertifications, to move forward on this property.  brought back to the City Council, once the analysis is complete. year end and we have 20+ grants that we need to get going.  6. COUNCIL REPORTS.  This section is to provide Council members an opportunity to present reports on their activities and  to request item be placed on future agendas. Council member Simmons =  7/3 with Jackson Lions Club, we did al kids and community play day at Detert Park.  ACRA meeting last week. Council member Godde little better.  Historic Jackson Business Owners Association. We discussed on how to make Main St.a  7/13lattended the Cemetery meeting. 7/20lattended the ACRA meeting. Creek Circus at the Italian Picnic Grounds.  Ialso wanted to let you know on 8/4-7 Amador Council ofTourism is hosting the Flynn  Council member McLean maps and projects.  Amador County Transportation Meeting. Ridership analysis for the count with new egress Iattended, in Vice-Mayor Gonsalves place, a' TOT Meeting Committee which was very interesting. Paul Molinelli Jr. and City Manager Kimball were there also.  Amador County Commission Meeting. Chamber of Commerce Meeting on Friday.  Mayor Stimpson  Nothing to report.  7. DISCUSSION CALENDAR.  Fort the record: Action minutes provide the necessary documentation ofCity Council actions and audio recordings are retained for those desiring more detail on agenda item discussion. These audio    Council Meeting Minutes- - July2 25, 2022.  Page 6  recordings provide an accurate and comprehensive backup ofCity Council deliberations and citizen a) Public hearing to discuss possible Adoption ofl Resolution 2022-14 Approving Rate Increase for City Manager Kimball stated that we, tonight, are going tol have al Pubic Hearing for ACES Solid Waste rate increases for the next 3 years. We sent out the 218 letters inl May 2022. So far, we have received 5 protest letters in the mail and tonight a gentleman brought in 1 protest letter. We sent out over 2,000 letters and in order to defeat the proposed rate increases, we would have had to have 1.000-+ protest letters. At this point we are far below that threshold. Att the City Council's discretion if you would like to propose al Motion to adopt the rate increase. It'sa3 3-year proposed increase as follows: 1St year is 6.98% increase and both years 2 and 3 are up to an 8% increase. All are effective ACES Waste Services, Paul Molinelli Jr. said that the 3-year rate will cap the rates at 8%. Ifcosts don'ti increase dramatically, then prices in 2023 and 2024, may not be 8%, but just al little less than that. Costs for gas, transportation and employee wages have all increased. Ifwe could make routes Counsel Nelson announced that now is the time to submit a written protest, ifthere are any. Mayor Stimpson asked ift there are any written protests or any comments. Hearing none, seeing none. Ashley Young, Jackson resident, said that they used to live in Fair Oaks, CA and they moved to Jackson because living expenses were: more reasonable. Now everything is going up even here. Itis  discussion.  Aces Waste Services (218 letters out by May 24).  August 1sofyears 2022, 2023 and 2024.  more efficient, with less people per route, that would help also.  hard for a lot of people. Mayor closed public hearing.  Attorney Nelson stated that we. have received 6 protest letters and we are well below the threshold and  the Council can move forward to a motion.  Motion to approve rate increase for Aces Waste Services on July. 25, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember Simmons, seconded by Councilmember Godde,  and carried by a 4 to 01 roll call vote:  AYES: Stimpson, Godde, McLean, Simmons  NOES: None ABSENT: Gonsalves ABSTAIN: None  b) Cemetery Committee request for TOT funding of up to $5,000 over two years to implement a beautification project of Jackson Historical Cemetery [Councilmember Godde request] CM Godde asked Debbie Collins, from the Cemetery Committee, to come forward.  Debbie Collins- I'm here representing the Cemetery Committee. The $5,000 that we are asking fori is    Council Meeting Minutes -. July 25, 2022.  Page 7  for the many things that we are working on. We are going to purchase markers for the unmarked graves, which will be put in cement. Wel have rod iron fencing to be repaired. Headstones to be fixed.  We are asking for $5,000 over the next 2 years. Mayor Stimpson asked for public comments on the issue.  Tracy Towner- Asked ifthere is al budget for the Cemetery? City Manager Kimball stated the Committee has a small budget to do the work they need to do. Tracy suggested to budget aj portion from the TOT budget for the Cemetery Committee each year, instead ofhaving them come and ask each year for money. $5,000 a year would be al better investment each year for the Cemetery CM Godde stated that, the public donates to the cemetery and reminded everyone that Adam Dalton City Manager Kimball added that, Supervisor Pat Crew donated $1000 to the Cemetery Committee for  Committee. She also suggested that City repair the damaged grave sites.  donated 156) yards of gravel to cemetery.  beautification.  Mayor Stimpson asked for any other public comments. Hearing none, he asked forar motion.  Motion to approve Cemetery Committee request) for TOTf funding of up to $5,000, over twoyears, to implement a beautification, project of Jackson Historical Cemetery Councilmember Godde request on July. 25, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember Godde, seconded by Councilmember Stimpson, and carried by a 41 to 0  roll call vote: NOES: None ABSENT: Gonsalves ABSTAIN: None  AYES: Stimpson, Godde, McLean, Simmons  c) Possible authorization for the FY 2021/22 TOT Grant awards. City Manager Kimball gave an introduction to the TOT Grant awards.  She said the City Council decided to allocate 30K for TOT grants and received 5 proposals. The TOT Committee met on 7/13/2022, in which CM McLean and Paul Molinelli, Jr are on the committee. Four oft the recommended proposals were chosen to receive funds: Amador County Chamber of Commerce $5,000; Council ofTourism $5,000 (they asked for $8,000); D'Place Entertainment $7,000 (they asked for $15,000); Historic. Jackson Business Association $10,000 (they asked for $18,000). So all together, we awarded $27,000 in grant awards. We have brought this to the City Council for CM Simmons asked City Manager Kimball, "Have we given money to private business before?" Both  approval.  City Manager Kimball and Mayor Stimpson said' "yes, we have."    Council Meeting Minutes -. July 25, 2022.  Page 8  Kimball added that D'Place Entertainment's plan ist to reopen the. Jackson Cinema, but we will not award them funds until we: receive information that they have signed plans to re-open the Cinema. CM Simmons had a question for Attorney Nelson. He said his company does a lot ofwork for Bart and Maura Gilman and Maura Gilman is one ofthe owners ofthat theatre. Most likely P'II be doing some work out there. So, should I abstain from this discussion? Attorney Nelson stated that in an abundance of caution that CM Simmons abstain from the Council discussing this matter. The rules  are, you need to leave the room while Council is discussing. The rules are, you need to leave the room while Council is discussing.  CM McLean stated some TOT grant proposals did not make the cut. The good thing about this is, now wel have the Historic Business Association, Chamber of Commerce and the Visitors of Amador County all in Jackson now. This is a great opportunity for them all to work together. CM Godde had a question on D'Place deadline, to see ifthey are actually going to open the theatre and receive the grant award. CM McLean responded, "We willl have to discuss with D'Place and find out when they have an answer on establishing the new Cinema. There will be no money granted to  them, until wel have proofthey have the deal to open the theatre." Mayor asked, "Any public comment on this?" for public comment.  Lana Vukovich- Iam ai former owner ofthe. Jackson Cinema, but the owner oft the DMV bldg., the Holiday Inn, which gives you' TOT, and the new theatre owners and the State ofCA has requested of me to fix the road between thel Holiday Inn and the DMV because it's quite torn up. Ifsomeone wants to tell me the procedure ofhow I can get some money to fix this I would like tol know. Mayor Stimpson asked, "So, we are talking about Shopping Dr.?" Lana Vukovich replied "Yes". Mayor said Lana has been on me for a while and I've talked to City Manager Kimball about this. Mayor asked City Manager Kimball, where are we at with any SB1 dollars for this? City Manager Kimball replied, the City Council has adopted ai resolution for SB1 money to fix Mattley St. slope. SB1 money that we received is about $23K a year, which you can't do anything with that amount. Although, we are now receiving about 70-80K this year and 90K next year. We have been saving it up, and adding some transportation funds to dol Hoffman, Stasal, Court St. and Summit St. We really need to fix Mattley St. slope as it has a drainage safety issue. Wel have other funding for transportation concerning the priority for road repairs. We have a PCI (paving condition index), that looks at the condition oft the roads. Idid not see Shopping Dr. on the list being a priority. Ifthe City Council directs us, to make Shopping Dr. aj priority, we could use TOT and/or  American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA).  Mayor asked for any other Public Comment. None heard or seen. Mayor Stimpson requested a motion for the TOT Grant awards.  Motion to authorize for the FY2 2021/22 TOT Grant awards, on July 25, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember Godde, seconded by Councilmember McLean, and carried by a 41 to  Iroll call vote:    Council Meeting Minutes- - July 25, 2022.  Page 9  AYES: Stimpson, Godde, McLean,  NOES: None ABSENT: Gonsalves ABSTAIN: Simmons  8. REGULAR MEETING ADJOURNMENT.  Mayor Stimpson adjourned the regular meeting at 8:13 p.m.  9. CLOSED SESSION.  CONFERENCE WITHL LEGAL COUNSEL - EXISTING LITIGATION  (Paragraph (1) ofsubdivision (d) ofs Section 54956.9)  Name ofo case: Hooper V. City ofJ Jackson, Amador Superior Court, Case No. 22-CV-  12697.  10. CLOSED SESSION ADJOURNMENT.  ATTEST:  825/2022 Date Approved  git