Cityof JACKSON  Incorporated 1808  Jackson City Council Minutes  Monday, August 22, 2022-7 7:00 PM Regular Meeting  Mayor and Council Members Robert Stimpson, Mayor Connie Gonsalves, Vice Mayor Max Godde, Council Member Steve McLean, Council Member Chad Simmons, Council Member  John Georgette, City Clerk Staff Members: Josh Nelson, City Attorney Yvonne Kimball, City Manager Bree Wilder, Public Works Superintendent Dale Fishback, Interim Fire Chief Chris Mynderup, Police Chief  ABSENT:  Mayor Stimpson called the meeting to order at 7:01pm PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO' THE FLAG. Mayor Stimpson led the Pledge of Allegiance. 1. APPROVAL OF AGENDA.  Approval of agenda for this date; any and all off-agenda items must be approved by the City Council Motion to approve the City Council. Agenda dated. August 22, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember Simmons, seconded. by Councilmember. McLean, and carried by a 5t00roll  (pursuant to $54954.2 ofthe Government Code).  call vote:  AYES: Stimpson, Gonsalves, Godde, McLean, Simmons  NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None  2. REMOTE MEETING FINDINGS.  Approve findings for remote meetings under AB: 361 that social distancing is recommended by state and local health officials and that meeting inj person presents imminent risks to the health and safety of Motion to approve the Remote Findings dated August 22, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember Godde, seconded by Councilmember: Simmons, and carried by a 5 to Oroll call  attendees.  vote:  AYES: Stimpson, Gonsalves, Godde, McLean, Simmons    Jackson City Council Agenda  Monday, August 22, 2022  NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None  3. PUBLIC MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA.  Discussion 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 Council. Please note -1 there is a three (3) minute limit.  Paul Jones- Offered prayers.  Dwayne Keckley, President of American Legion Post 108 motorcycle riders- He said he discussed the Veteran's s Parade special event permit with thel Police Chief. He requested funding from the City to fund the event. He said the Legion usually spends about $6,000 each year to put on this event and I would like to ask if the City Council can help with the porta-potties and Ledger advertising costs. Mayor Stimpson responded that it sounds that the request is about $1,200 and that he feels that the Council would probably be able to help with that. Mayor directed the request to be added Vice-Mayor Gonsalves stated that she and Chief of Police Mynderup and I have been in correspondence regarding a camper that has been on City property a long time. VM Gonsalves asked Attorney Nelson and PD ChiefMynderup, ifthere is any type of ordinance that the City can impose on the public property for no more than 72 hr. parking? Attorney Nelson responded that hc's looked at anti-camping ordinances and the gth Circuit came down with the Boise decision, which prohibits us from banning those. We did a modified ban at certain important infrastructure areas, last year. Chief Mynderup responded, the City has the72-hr. ordinance, but sometimes PD tries to help individuals out. At this time, the Dept. is trying to help this individual out by getting his van out ofthere. ChiefMynderup gave more details ofthei individual and his situation and said that the city can impose the 72-hr. ordinance ifthe Council chooses. The individual is a citizen of the County. Attorney Nelson suggested to avoid un-agenda discussion, this issue can be added toa John Georgette, Jackson resident, said he's here regarding the Pitt St. bridge. He referred to Cal- Trans inspection reports. (Mr. Georgette brought copies to the Mayor and Council Members). He continued, that at the November 20, 2021, Council Meeting, the Council was requesting the City Engineer tol bring back some options to fix the bridge. Mayor Stimpson stated that the City Engineer is looking to see ift they can keep the same look ofthe Pitt St. Bridge. Council directed to add this Atul Patel, the owner ofHoliday Inn Express in Jackson. He said, his hotel collects a lot ofTOT funds for the City. A few years ago, he had requested the City to consider repaving Shopping Dr. which is adjacent to our property and it's also common access for DMV and the Jackson Cinema. He continued, that he just purchased another property on the circle, and will develop it into 6-8 multi-family properties, which will bring more residents and more revenue to the City. He urged the City to pave Shopping Dr. and take care of all city streets as it creates a nice environment for  to the next meeting agenda.  future agenda.  to future agenda for discussion.  everyone.  2    Jackson City Council Agenda 4. CONSENT CALENDAR.  Monday, August 22. 2022  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. a. APPROVAL ofthe. July 25, 2022, Meeting Minutes. b. Approval ofExpenditure Report in the amount of $224,361.65.  Motion to approve the City Council Consent Calendar dated. August 22, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember McLean, seconded by Councilmember Godde, and carried by a 4t0  Iroll call vote:  AYES: Stimpson, Gonsalves, Godde, McLean, Simmons  NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN:  Gonsalves to abstain on item "a", as she was absent from the 7.25.2022 meeting.  5. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS. expected to be taken by the Council. Public Works Superintendent, Bree Wilder  This section is to provide staff an opportunity to present oral status reports on issues. No legal action is  GIS for cemetery that Trevor was working on. Itis on our City website and people can do a search Cameras for Petkovich Park have been installed. We have cameras pointing up toward City Hall, Wel have been doing a lot of preparations at the Cemetery for the upcoming 100th anniversary of I'm working on getting a quote from a pest control company to deal with the squirrel issues in the cemetery and at Detert Park. Vice Mayor Gonsalves, mentioned that the Council received a letter from a citizen, to alert us to the ground squirrel problem at the cemetery and asked Bree tol keep the Ispent a lot of time working on the sewer grant and combined with the WWTP. We are trying to  by name and can find plots for the people who are buried there.  Hwy 88, the park, and Main St.  the. Argonaut Mine Disaster Day, which is coming up on 8.26.2022.  citizen informed.  get funds together and replace some sewer lines out there. Things have been relatively quiet for the last few weeks. have been out 15 days now, working 12hr night shifts.  Interim Fire Chief, Dale Fishback  We still have our engine 6331 out on a strike team, it should be returning to us tomorrow. They CM Simmons talked to. Jim Guidi recently, who stated that he was concerned about the tower where we usually burn. CM Simmons asked the Fire Chiefifwe are going to be able to burn this year. ChiefFishback replied, we aren't going to look at that until October. P'lI have Jesse go take a look  ati it, but we haven't seen it as a1 threat.  Police Chief, Chris Mynderup  8/10 attended an 8 hr training on Senate bill 2, which is the new erificatomdecetication that  3    Jackson City Council Agenda  Monday, August 22. 2022  begins for police officers on 1/1/2023. All brand-new officers will have to be certified by post and they will need to be certified by their probation period, which in. Jackson is 18 months. Officers can be de-certified for serious misconduct, which is defined as dishonesty, abuse of power, physical abuse, sexual assault, demonstrating bias, acts that violate thel law sufficiently egregious or repeated, participation in a law enforcement gang, failure to cooperate with an investigation with police misconduct and failure to intercede. This will go into effect 1/1/2023 and we will have 10 days to report any conduct that is defined above. PlI keep you apprised at how this new system works. Last week wes sent 21 reserved officers tot their 2-year post mandated perishable skillst training. Topics can include hazardous materials handling, CPR/First Aid, driving skills, firearms, domestic violence updates, tactical communication, and defensive tactics. They successfully completed that that those We had a meeting with Linda Gonzales regarding the Argonaut Mine Disaster Centennial Event activities are planned int the City and we will providing traffic and crowd control for the ceremonies planned at the cemeteries and the Main St. Amphitheater. We are aware of the bells that will be ringing this Saturday evening and hopefully the City will get lots ofn notice out to the residents. Regarding the Argonaut Mine Disaster activities, Public Works told City Council that they are coordinating in the ceremonies and City staff has been working to promote the event. City has also City Hall is going tol be closed on Friday, September gth, Monday 12th and maybe Tuesday 13th, due to moving back to our original facility. The phones and emails will not be available. The public Acitizen, Chet Moody, has reached out to me. He has sent me al heartfelt letter to express something that happened 39 years ago, in 1983. He has requested that we include the letter in the meeting  officers are with their post mandates.  City Manager, Yvonne Kimball  published the press release for the event on the city website.  can use the drop box..  minutes. Ihad agreed to make mention ofit in the meeting tonight.  City Attorney, Josh Nelson  The Legislature's deadline to pass bills for this legislative cycle is the end of this month, sO september/October we will have an idea of what bills ofinterest are moving forward and I will  report this to the Council. 6. COUNCIL REPORTS.  This section is to provide Council members an opportunity to present reports on their activities and to  request items be placed on future agendas. Council member, Simmons Ihave no report. Council member, McLean  Iattended a Chamber ofCommerce event at the Kennedy Mine. lattended the Amador/Tuolumne Community Action Agency meeting.  Imissed the Chamber of Commerce Board Meeting, as I was up north at other meetings.  Council member, Godde  8/10lattended the Jackson Cemetery meeting. The meeting was basically talking about preparing for the 100th year anniversary oft the Argonaut Mine Disaster. Iwanted everyone to know that this  4    Jackson City Council Agenda  Monday, August 22, 2022  Saturday, August 27 is going to be our next clean-up, starting at 8am, at the. Jackson cemetery. Iattended the Chamber ofCommerce meeting. They discussed different ways for them to improve Chamber involvement in the County, like possible SBA financial forums, help restaurants with Health Dept. compliance and such. The next Chamber Mixer will be at the College Connect  Also, the headstones for the unmarked graves have been ordered.  Building, which is across the street from the bowling alley on Sutter Hill.  Vice Mayor, Gonsalves  Iattended to the activities with the Fire Safe Council and included Fire ChiefFishback and Captain Greathouse on some projects that the Fire Safe Council is doing, which will encompass some oft the. Jackson properties for another fuel break that will help with the Kennedy Field break that we have done before and watching out for proper. Jackson. I've shared all that correspondence with the Chieftoday and hopefully that this is something the department can be of assistance with or at least be aware of. The Fire Safe Council, with the fire wise communities, extends to the Running Gold subdivision. Itwill encompass about 8 acres and it was supposed to be a $100,000 grant thru PGE, but it wound up being a! $25,000 grant, sO the project was scaled  back to approximately 8 acres and. Jackson will definitely benefit from it.  Mayor, Robert Stimpson Noi report.  7. DISCUSSION CALENDAR.  a. Possible adoption of Ordinance 726 Adding Chapter 17.28 to Title 17 of the Municipal Code Relating to an Expedited, Streamlined Permitting Process for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations City Manager Kimball stated that this is the 2nd hearing and recommended adoption of this mandated  (possible adoption of ordinance; first hearing on August 8, 2022)  ordinance.  Mayor Stimpson asked for any public comment. Hearing none.  Mayor asked for a motion.  Motion to approve adoption of Ordinance 726, adding Chapter 17.28 to title 17ofthe Jackson Municipal Code Relating to an. Expedited, Streamlined permitting process for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations on. August 22, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember McLean, seconded. by Councilmember Godde, and carried by a5 to Oroll  call vote:  AYES: Stimpson, Gonsalves, Godde, McLean, Simmons  NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None  b. Adoption oft the FY 2022/23 Budget  1) Resolution 2022-16 City Council Setting an Appropriation limit for FY 22/23 2) Resolution 2022-17 Approving the City Operation Budget and Capital Improvement  5    Jackson City Council Agenda  Monday, August 22. 2022  Budget for FY22/23  3) Resolution 2022-18 Authorizing Positions for FY22/23  City Manager Kimball gave an introduction. Some highlights: we will continue to see a surplus in the General Fund. Public Safety is always going tol be aj priority. Both the PD and FD: are both getting new vehicles, which are funded by special funds or grant funds. Under the general fund, the insurances keep Staffing costs also included a few new positions: Permit Technician for Building Dept., PT Administrative Assistant and 1FT Firefighter (under the measure M fund). There'll be a 5% COLA Utility fund- the sewer fund is doing well. The sewer rates are a 3-year cycle which will expire 6/30/2023. The City will need to considera a new rate study and modify the rate.  going up and some are doubled. We can balance the general fund.  increase for employees on January 1,2 2023.  The water fund is not as solvent, as we had hoped for. Many reasons led toi it, including the drought and Moving on to the pool fund, no matter who is doing the managing, the pool fund is not self-sufficient, Regarding the special funds, Kimball said the City has al lot of grant funded projects. Grants require al lot of work by staff. City Manager Kimball is thankful for the City Council, Citizens who attend the Mayor Stimpson asked for any public comment, inj person or online. None heard or seen, the Mayor Motion to approve adoption of City Council Resolution 2022-16Setting an Appropriation limit for FY22/23, Resolution 2022-17Approving the City Operation Budget and Capital Improvement Budget for FY22/234 and Resolution 2022-18. Authorizing Positions for FY 22/23 on August 22, 2022, as presented. Moved by Councilmember Simmons, seconded by  an AWA rate change.  which requires a General Fund subsidy.  meetings and give their input and to all the City ofJ Jackson staff.  asked for a Motion.  Councilmember Godde, and carried by a 4to Iroll call vote: AYES: Stimpson, Godde, McLean, Simmons  NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: Gonsalves vote on the below motion.  Note: Vice. Mayor Gonsalves, who was on the video conference, had connection issues and was unable to  . Resolution 2022- 19 Certifying Sewer Sanitation Management Plan  City Manager Kimball introduced the resolution for certifying the sewer sanitation management plan. She praised staff for making noticeable progresses to the sewer system comparing to 5 years ago. She noted that the City has made significant strides; the city has not seen fines lately, the sewer plan is  6    Jackson City Council Agenda  Monday. August 22. 2022  working well; the sewer fund is. She also said that this year's SSMP was conducted by in house staff Motion to approve adoption of City Council Resolution 2022-19 Certifying Sewer Sanitation Management. Plan, as presented. Moved by Councilmember Godde, seconded by  instead ofhiring a consultant.  Councilmember McLean, and carried by a5 to Oroll call vote: AYES: Stimpson, Gonsalves, Godde, McLean, Simmons  NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None 8. ADJOURNMENT.  Regular meeting adjournment at 8:09pm.  ATTEST:  929/2027  Date Approved  3 Apk  7