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A year ago, tonight there was an attack in Israel by a terrorist organization called Hamas that led eventually to the death of 1200 people in Israel. Over 40,000 people have now died in Gaza. And you take those numbers and you double them and you've got roughly the number of casualties in this area. The UN calls this a humanitarian disaster. There are millions of people without food, without water, and there's no insight to the conflict there. To say that our hearts are with you, almost rings hollow. There's no words to describe the horrific things which are going on in the Middle East. We know that people in this community in Mulvalley have got friends, they've got family in the affected area. It sounds trite, but our hearts are with you, our thoughts are with you. We hope for a speedy end to this conflict. Simultaneously also outside of the city of Mowali and outside of the county of Marin in the last two weeks there's been devastation in the southern eastern portion of the United States. Seven states have been affected by Hurricane Halene, Hurricane Milton, which is a category five hurricane, is now bearing down. Over 260 people have died already from Helene. It is the third deadliest hurricane in US history. If you go back and you look at all of the category five hurricanes that have taken place in the history of the United States, this is the astounding thing between 1950 and 2016. That's 66 years. It was basically a hurricane of that size every four years. We've had a hurricane of that size every single year since 2016. This is a pace which is accelerating. One of the things that we're talking about tonight is climate change and the things that we're doing in this area for climate change. Nothing brings it home more readily than the events that are taking place in the South-East and portion of the United States. Again, I know that there are people here in this community with family in this portion of the United States. I certainly have family in Tennessee and in Florida. They are being affected by this. I'm sure that's not unusual in this city. Again, it always sounds trite to say, our thoughts are with you, our heart's bleed for you. It's the truth. It's not sufficient. It doesn't express how we really feel. So I wanted to just comment on both of those things right at the outside here. And then start our meeting. So I'm calling this meeting to order for the good of the order. I'm noting that everybody is here, action out a closed session. There was no closed session, so there was no action. We are supposed to start with Damon Connelly, who doesn't appear to be here. I think we all recognize him. He's not here. He will be coming here. So with that note, can we get approval agenda order and we will slot him in as soon as he shows up. So moved. Second. Great. All in favor? Aye. Okay. Motion carries five zero. We'll start with item two, which is a proclamation recognizing ageism awareness day, which is coming up on 9th of October. And am I turning it over to staff for a presentation or a read going right into the proclamation? We are going right into the proclamation. I have asked council member Joachim to please read the proclamation. This is an area where she is the council lead. Thank you, Caroline. You're welcome. Proclamation of the Mill Valley City Council declaring October 9, 2024, ageism awareness day in the city of Mill Valley. Whereas ageism is a form of discrimination rooted in stereotypes, prejudices and negative attitudes toward people based solely on their age. And whereas, Mill Valley is experiencing significant demographic shifts with an aging population making up a growing portion of the community. Mill Valley's median age has risen from 41 years in 1990 to over 50 years today, well above California's median of 37 years. And the average resident now lives over 85 years, among the longest and healthiest lifespans in the state and nation. Despite this vibrancy, older adults in our community continue to face the harmful effects of ageism. And whereas, ageism can profoundly impact the health, financial security and overall quality of life for older adults, making it essential to address and prevent age-based discrimination across key areas, including housing, culture, employment, education, and health care to benefit the entire community. And whereas, the City of Movalley is committed to combating ageism and enhancing the lives of older adults through efforts such as senior focus programs offered by our Recreation Department and the Library. The new Live Well Moavalli Initiative, working across departments and in partnership with county, state, and national organizations, seeks to build a community that embraces and supports older adults and individuals with disabilities, thereby improving the quality of life for all residents. And whereas creating an inclusive community by preventing ageism and education, employment, housing, culture, and healthcare, benefits not only older adults, but all residents, reinforcing the need for mutual respect and recognition of older adults as capable, valuable, and integral members of society. And whereas raising awareness of ageism and actively working to prevent it, will improve the quality of life for all Mavali residents, fostering a more inclusive, supportive and age-friendly community for people of all generations. And now, therefore, be it resolved that the Mavali City Council joins the American Society on Aging and communities across the nation in proclaiming October 9th, 2024, as ageism awareness day in the city of Mill Valley. We call upon all residents to join us in recognizing the contributions of older adults and in supporting a future where age is respected, valued and embraced as part of a vibrant and inclusive community. Great, thank you, Caroline. Christy, do you wanna make some comments? Christy is our representative on ageism.ism on your commissioner on aging for mill Valley and chair the commission on aging for the marine county As usual Caroline has taken all the words out of my mouth. I Really want to thank you for making this proclamation. I think it's meaningful for so many of us of every age that's here and As you said, ageism is ubiquitous. No matter how old you are, I did have a little mose on the nose today, and I was talking to you a couple of the nurses, and they were in their 20s. And I was saying, well, do you ever experience ageism? And I said, well, yeah, people just don't pay much attention to what we think, or they don't think think believe what we know. And I looked up a little bit more about ageism and younger people and other young people they experience job discrimination, infantilism, if I pronounce that right, or just not being taken seriously. And does that ring a bell for anybody here? Like older people too, or we're all experiencing that? So sometimes I think it's easier to fall back on the ism, racism, sexism, ageism, than it is to understand what each one of those things are about and just be more mindful of it as we go forward. Some of the things I was going to go around the room but we don't have time to hear what you say about what you think is ageist. Could be geyser, old fart. I'm having a senior moment. How many of us have done that? Young at heart. You don't look your age. You don't need to retire, Jim. I'm actually, I'm getting a little tired at comedians and I've tried to track down John Oliver and some of the other ones. When they're making fun of Joe Biden, we all may agree that he made the right decision, but how he walks and how he's talking, that's ages and being really blatant and it's really unfortunate. What about the golden bachelor ret? Have you seen her? I mean, she is gorgeous, my God. Airbrush to perfection. And so I think what are the things that I'm proud that the county is starting to do right now is they're starting a program on ageism and ableism so that we can start accepting each other more. And one of the things that I learned was there used to be ugly laws from 1860s to the 1970s. The first ugly law, civic code, was passed in San Francisco. People who are diseased, this has come from the Chicago civic code in 1981. People who were diseased, named, deformed, and unsightly and disgusting were forbidden to expose themselves to public view. I guess I couldn't go out today. and discussing were forbidden to expose themselves to public view. I guess I couldn't go out today. As Caroline mentioned, one of the live well mill valley objectives is to create longevity awareness throughout our community where we support everyone's life transitions and keep learning about life throughout. So I've talked to you guys sometimes about the five Gs of aging, gratitude, generosity, gumption, grace, and goofiness. We do have to laugh sometimes about ourselves. But I'm going to add a new one with a P, purpose. We all need purpose no matter what age we are. We can only be enriched by understanding each other's purpose no matter whether we're young or older in the middle. So thanks again for recognizing October 8th as age awareness day. And let's just make it that way every day. Thank you. Thank you. And hey, Christopher, before you take off, does anybody on the council want to make a comment? Well, Christie's here. I just want to recognize that you recognize me as a young person. So that was pretty nice. Yeah, for aging? Yeah, that's an opinion of one by the way. So there you go. I'm jealous of his back packing. Yeah, right. It's true he acts like a young person. Yeah, okay, anybody else? Thank you, Christie. I'll just make a comment. Last last week I wearing my day hat job attended the Sonoma County master plan on aging Unveiling and lunch and what stood out to me and that was that everyone is aging regardless of their age At the beginning they had everyone raised their hand if they were aging and everyone chuckled realizing yes We all are and we're all at different points in the spectrum. So thanks for all the work you're doing Stephen anything to add? Ellie Quinn is always, thank you. Yeah, I just wanna thank you for your work. I also wanna say that today's October 7th, and it's my father's 99th birthday. He is alive and kicking. I'm no doubt he's going to sail through 100. Maybe I'll get him here for our meeting next year on this event. And we can talk to him about what it means. But your comment about purpose is absolutely applies to him because he's a guy's constantly confer purpose. So, and I think what has changed is what it means to be an older person. It used to be, you know, when you're 70s or you're 80s, you were considered an older person. I spent a little bit of time over at the Redwoods and there are a lot of people there that are in their hundreds. And I think how we define age and old age has really changed a lot in our lifetime. And that's a good thing. It's nice. So thank you very much for all your work. And thank you also for addressing climate change and the needs assessment survey of older adults in Marin, climate change was right at the top. So thank you. Caroline and I spent the afternoon at the Redwoods today, and I can attest the fact that climate is a big issue for them. So on a happy note, our friend Damon Connelly, our state assembly member, has walked into the room. He was top of the batting order. He's now second on the batting order, which is almost as good. So come on up, Damon. And there's an opportunity for Damon to update us on what he's working on. He is a front, I think, to all of us here on the City Council. We're all super impressed by what you've accomplished in kind of a brief period of time, but you've been busy. So look forward to hearing what you have to say. Thank you, Marin Council staff community. It's great to be here. And certainly a privilege to represent Assembly District 12, which is all in Marin County and Southern Sonoma County as well. Appreciate the opportunity to stop by. I wanted to give a brief update on what's happening in Sacramento. And importantly to remind residents if you have any state issues, whether that's a bill idea and we'll kind of get into that a little bit in a minute. An issue with the DMV or employment, development department. How the state can be functioning better. Better please reach out, particularly now. We actually just finished the legislative session, so which was my first two year rookie season, so to speak. So I'm back full time now kind of taking meetings, entertaining ideas and the likes. So please reach out to our district office at any time. So it was an eventful session. A lot of twists and turns. We actually have a special session still going on now relating to oil supply at the stage refiners and how price potentially can be stabilized. I'll be heading back up there again next week to be voting on that. So more to come on that. Overall, I think we've hit the ground running in Sacramento, not one to just get up there and buy time we actually were able to get 13 bills signed into law over the first two years and even in a, shall we say, difficult budget climate right now. We were also able to get some important budget wins from my perch on the budget committee as well as other assignments. So let me just run through a first year five bills were signed, five million dollars secured for the district of local note and that the theme you'll hear a lot is a lot of the work we're doing stems from the district. And by the way, great to continue to work with all of you on a regular basis. A lot of our ideas, a lot of our impetus, a lot of the budget items have a local flavor. $1 million brought back to repair and build a new playground at Golden Gate Village in Marin City. $1 million for the College of Marin's science station, Adam Bolinas, which is really popular. So we were able to shore up a funding shortfall there, $530,000 for West Marin Emergency Management Services, including a new ambulance, other lifes saving equipment. And in the second year, we didn't slow down. We actually in this year, a lot of the effort was to kind of prevent harmful cuts. We actually were able to save $2 million in state money for the Marin Mammal Center in Saasalito, which is a huge regional asset. That was on the chopping block. We in addition to getting eight bills signed this year, I was on the working group that came up with the climate bond, which is a $10 million bond that voters will now be able to consider as proposition four on the November ballot. The largest of its kind in state history and I specifically worked on sections dealing with wildfire prevention, $1.5 billion dollar statewide toward that, and particularly was able to secure an allocation for $135 million for structural and home-hardening grants that can come back to local homeowners, communities that are stepping up and doing the right things as as we know we are in Marin like fire-wise communities. Probably the single biggest issue I'm working on right now is wildfire insurance and home insurance more generally. We had a bill on that topic specifically to strengthen what's called the Safer from Wildfires program. If you are a resident, you're hardening your home, your managing vegetation, this program enables you to get discounts on your insurance coverage. I'd like to take it even a step further and say, if you're doing all the above, you should not be losing your home insurance, which is happening too often now. So that bill made it up to the end of session. It will be taken up again next year, early in session, and seems like we have some momentum behind that as well. Also worked on the nature-based solutions portion of the climate bond. And again, I think that'll be a unique opportunity for voters to decide. Is that something we want to go forward with this year? A couple other state budget wins. Active transportation program, which is huge here in Mowalley, our bicycle and pedestrian. Priorities believe it or not in the Governor's May revision, so-called ATP programs were on the chopping block for $559 million. We were able to go to bat with a lot of local support as well as stay wide, preserve that funding. So that ATP funding is still intact. The issue of developmental services, the providers of those important services in our community met with some locals last spring. They identified the fact that there was a proposed cut to a promise that had been made a couple budget cycles before to actually increase wages. For those service providers, there's a huge issue now of attracting and retaining that work force. The deal called for wages to increase the budget this year was calling for that to not happen. So we went to work, we were able to preserve a lot of the promised increase and I think we'll continue to be on track to recruit really good people to that profession and continue that important work. So again, an example of, which I think we're blessed with here in Marin and Sonoma, people who are involved in these issues, they bring it to our attention and we fight together to get results. Couple quick notable legislative items amongst the eight that were signed this year. Who would have thought this was the main topic on everyone's mind this year, but sometimes you can't pick the issues. Youth writing e-bikes in town, right? So we came up with a lot of local input with AB 1778 and this relates to this throttle e-bikes that are really kind of front and center and everyone's mind right now. It authorizes a pilot program for electric bike enforcement in Marin County. It was originally broader. It's now going to be a pilot. Under AB 1778, youth under the age of 16 years will be prohibited from riding a class to e-bike. And the bill also requires helmet use, importantly. I think we're seeing too many folks now. Back in our day, right, so to speak, you had your scraped knee, bruised elbow, now now it's fractures, major contusions. We had one young woman who actually ended up testifying for the bill who was in a coma locally after one of these very severe e-bike crashes. Luckily, she's on her way to improving right now. So the governor signed that bill. I know there's a lot of work locally to come up with a program. It's an opt in. I'd like to commend Chief Navarro for his leadership on this issue, recognizing this was a growing issue back in even 2021. So I think we brought that across the finish line. One other bill that was signed in a law was AB 2968 on school wildfire evacuations. What was notable about this bill is it came about through our ought to be a law contest that we do every year where we open it to the public to come up with ideas. I'm thinking about renaming it to be careful what you wish for initiative. Because we got over 300 ideas from our beloved constituents this year. All were really good, but we had to pick one. So this was a gentleman named Max and Fairfax. And he came up or observed the fact that in school districts and high wildfire severity areas, there were not school evacuation plans built in. So this bill calls for that, went through the whole process and it too was signed into law by the governor. So you can't tell me that a citizen out there, a resident out there with a great idea, can't get something through the state legislature. We were able to do that. I mentioned the climate bond. We're hoping that in the event that that is passed, one of the big roles in the upcoming year two will be oversight on that, making sure that money is coming back to our community. As I mentioned a couple other issues to highlight coming up will include the homeowners insurance issue and also utility rates. I'm also hearing a lot understandably about folks who are kind of alarmed about how quickly and high utility rates are rising. One of the more wonky issue, a lot of the work I do is around climate and environment. We will be looking at reauthorization of a program called Cap and Trade, which is one of the state's main greenhouse gas reduction strategies that were employing so much more to come on that. Obviously, homelessness, affordable housing, all the issues that you deal with throughout the year, still front and center, public safety issues, we will be continuing to work with all of you on that as well. So really, I mean, conclusion just noting that our doors always open. We look forward to continuing to partnering with our local government officials and can't thank you enough for all the great work you're doing. MoValley is doing amazing right now. Our community, please stay engaged. And again, I just want to say thank you for the opportunity to stop by and visit this evening. Thanks. Any questions? Yeah, I'm sure we've got tons of questions. And first of all, thank you for coming here. I think this is the first time, least in the four and three quarter years that I've been on council that you've been here. So we got to make this annual thing. So if that works for you, it does. So by smart, do you have questions for someone? Just to extend the baseball matter for going eight for 10, pretty good. Yeah, not bad. Pretty good. Yeah. One of the topics we've talked about and I'd like to have the opportunity to sit down with you maybe early next month. As we work to meet our arena requirements, we're working in a variety of ways that are not explicitly, what's the word, registered by HCD for example? In terms of housing the workforce without necessarily building new housing to do it. So how do we get credit for that and other towns that are making similar efforts as we make the good faith effort towards fulfilling our rena commitment in parallel. Yeah, thank you, Council Member Burke. I mean, that's been a long standing issue. I recall my own local government days when we have been for years now trying to, you know, allow some flexibility on how do we meet what are fairly high arena numbers for each of our communities. So I think you're talking about situations where it's not necessarily new constructions, but it might be reuse or rehabilitation. Frankly, I believe a huge part of the strategy we need to do. I believe some progress has been made on that and a change of law, but I would like to see even more. So I'm happy to talk with you about that and then continue to push on that. So I think there's a lot of like-minded folks out there. I think the train has kind of left the station in terms of there's a lot of momentum around, you know, accountability. We could argue about how that even looks, but within that, let's make sure we're staying flexible and having scenarios where communities can come up with creative ways to actually have meaningful, affordable housing while meeting these numbers. So I'm with you on that. Wonderful. And to echo Irving's comments, it's just, it's very gratifying to have you come share your track record with us and also what you're planning to do. So thank you. Thank you. Yeah, others. Yeah, thank you very much for the presentation and excellent work. Just a question on sea level rise. We applied for and received a grant from the Ocean Protection Council, which we're very excited about. That's basically going to do kick off some work around studying the Bay Shore from the community center on down to include. Right. Right. School and critical assets. As we look ahead for funding that's out there, where should we be looking? Because my understanding is the budget cut a lot of the sea level rise funding. If the climate bond passes, there'll be additional dollars in that. But should we be looking for there, should we come to your and the Pro Tems office for specific budget requests? How to kind of navigate that? Because obviously this initial study is going to be critical, but then hopefully we'll have these shovel ready projects so to speak that we can go and pursue funding for. Yeah, I think all of the above, you're right. I mean, the legislature was able to create a lot of new climate-oriented monies over the last several years. Some of that got cut back this year. So there's still money to tap into. On top of that, the plan at least with regard to the climate bond was to recoup some of that and look at specific needs like sea level rise. But I wouldn't stop there. There's unprecedented federal money now available, particularly through the so-called inflation reduction act. And I know that money is being tapped into. And don't forget about regional as well. Voter stepped up several years ago, passed measure AA. So a lot of these projects, because we know they're big and they're not cheap, it's all about tapping into a number of different sources of money. I think our shoreline in particular should be able to track a lot of that money. So it's a skill to work and keep figuring out what parts of money are out there to do it Great and then on the e-bike issue In terms of the pilot right we're gonna let's say we implement this with the 11 jurisdictions in the county Marin in the next year right are you looking at additional legislation? next year on e-bikes or is kind of the strategy, pause for a couple of years, see how Marin does and then expand that to the state. In terms of can we expect additional regulations coming down or is that kind of what we focus on for next year? There's several moving pieces now and my legislation was not the only bill this year. There was another pilot in San Diego. There's a bill that passed that kind of further makes it unlawful. It already kind of is, but around how bikes are modified to give faster than they're supposed to. So specific things on that. Interestingly, the federal government is also looking at regulations from a consumer standpoint around these products. Right now I actually testified recently with some other local officials before the federal consumer protection board. So I think there's a lot of different things going on. The backdrop is currently based on a bill that passed, I think, two years ago, there's an ongoing study right now around e-bike safety statewide. Again, the trend is we're seeing a lot more serious injuries and number of incidents. That's why public health officials are in strong support of my bill and others but to get more data. That's also actually a part of my bill. We can get local data as well. So hard to say whether we'll get additional next year but I think there's a lot of things in place now that over the next few years you'll be seeing a lot of activity. The biggest request I got in my bill was from other jurisdictions, hoping to join in, because they're now seeing their future and see some issues they want to address as well. Thank you so much for your work. I'm a number of issues that you already talked about our issues front and center in our community, especially e-bikes. So I just wanted to commend you on getting a pilot program done. There were a number of months where we were hoping for some action and leadership at the state level. And so I'm really proud that you're the one to do it. So I'm looking forward to more action on that. Do you know what the timing is of if the consumer protection agency is going to take any action with respect to e-buy? Let me follow up and I'll circle back with you on that. My senses they want to take action. So I'll find out kind of the time frame. And then the other one is I echo council member Berks issue with respect to how we can get credit for the arena numbers as we tried different strategies in meeting that mandated number and also fulfilling our needs here, which is with respect to affordable housing options. So I'll be interested in what comes out of that. Let's try to do something up for next year, maybe. So the time to talk about that's right now. I agree. And I would be, I support that one. And then also, just if you can keep me in the loop on the home hardening grants. There are a number of residents who approached me about losing their home insurance. I personally did too. I was able to get other insurance, but it was at a higher cost premium. And there was no avenues for appealing or any mitigation. So any more information on that, I would welcome that and love to share it with other people here in the community So there'll be a lot of activity on that coming year So thank you very much for everything you're doing Well Damien you've been a great representative on the board of supervisors saying course It's nice to have you in assembly. So you're a great partner with us The bill is great for the e-bikes. I'm just looking forward toward the policy on how we're going to be enforcing laws and hopefully there's some funding coming in, education-wise, because we both know that it sounds great on paper, but implementing a new policy is difficult. And that's why Marin's going to be the testing ground. As I have grandkids now, have e-bikes and go to TAM and it'll be interesting but you're doing great job and as you know I have three more meetings I'm gonna reach out so we can sit down at bar and I could talk about the real stuff about Mill Valley but thanks again. I'll be able to watch these for down the line. Thank you. Actually, you've got four meetings, but leave that by the way. So there's that. So thank you so much for all of this. A couple of things. One, we want to get the word out to the community. And there's a couple of things I think that would be particularly valuable to get the word out to the community. One is on the home insurance because that's just a big topic, right? And many people are being dropped. So we need to follow up with you. What people should be doing in our community to get insurance and to get discounts. I think that would be really good. Secondly, we're super proud of the work that our amazing chief has done with eBike safety. We're really excited by what you've done. As you know, Mill Valley was the first city to have an e-bike ordinance. So we want to be tip of the spear on AB 1778 also. So hopefully you'll think about us as kind of a way to kind of roll this program out and to get it established in the community. So that's made that we want to be involved in. We are also here raising funds we hope for protection of our community, fire, flood, landslide, all the things that you talked about with respect to Proposition IV. So we are really, really interested in that work and how that's going to impact our ability to fund many of these same initiatives in our city. So I think that's gonna be a particular thing that's gonna be something that we're gonna to follow up with you after the election. Right. I think there's two other things. One, Bafa, you know, died and maybe it's not completely dead, but it died. And getting funding for affordable housing is really the key, right? I mean, it's a three-legged stool. You have to build a deal with planning, which they've done. You have to build a deal with litigation, which they have still an outstanding issue. And then the third leg of the stool is funding, right? So if we have funding, there's a lot we can do. Without funding, it's very hard to get a lot work done, right? And so we can be major instigators, but we need a source of funding to do that. Boffo is one way of doing it, perhaps another source of funding that you might be aware of. That we say it has to step up as a partner and contribute. Correct. And I think we've got some very specific ideas based on the work that we've done in our community. Where we can really leverage, we can multiply money and leverage it 20 times to really produce housing. And I think that's the right way to do it. Those are some ideas I think we'd like to talk to you about. And then I think also, at least two of us here would like to talk to you about volunteerism. Because I know that volunteerism is a big statewide effort that the state is undertaking, try to get harness the local community to get things done. And volunteerism is a huge part of what we try to get, how we try to implement policy in the city of Melvalleg. And again, we had Josh Friday here a year ago talking about this and we said, hey, look, you know, we'd like to be a pilot city for you, right? Things that you want to get done with volunteerism as a way of getting that going. And maybe you've got ideas. Anyway, those are two topics. I think which would be particularly interesting to follow up with you on, get your ideas about what we can be doing on those things. We would love to. Yeah, okay. Awesome. We're going to find a time to do that. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Have a great week. Thanks, Damon. All right. Okay. Okay, well there's more proclamations to be read and this time we are going on to item number three on the agenda Which is the great shakeout earthquake drill and Michelle Terrell is making her way. She's got a proclamation to read Maybe some comments to be made as well Thank you. Thank you mayor Proclamation of the Mill Valley City Council declaring October 17, 2024, the great shake-out in the city of Mill Valley. Whereas Mill Valley lies within 10 miles of significant fault lines, including the San Andreas, Hayward, Rogers Creek, and San Grigareo faults, all of which can produce damaging earthquakes. And whereas, an updated seismic hazard assessments from the United States Geological Survey indicate a 72% probability of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake in the Bay Area by 2043, making preparedness essential for communities like Mill Valley. And whereas, major earthquakes could cause ground shaking, landslides, liquid faction, and fires in Mill Valley, with potential for severe damage to homes, infrastructure, schools, and public services. And where us, the annual great checkout provides an important opportunity for community members to practice, drop, cover, and hold on, review emergency plans and check emergency supplies to ensure they are prepared for an earthquake or other disaster. And where us, the City of El Valley recognizes the importance of enhancing community resilience to earthquakes, thereby reducing human suffering, property damage, and economic losses caused by such an event. And whereas the city has a responsibility to permit earthquake preparedness and effectively plan for earthquake related disaster. And whereas the preparedness of families, schools, community organizations, businesses, faith-based organizations, and government agencies is critical for enhancing Mill Valley's resilience to earthquakes and other disasters. And where us, the Mill Valley City Council endorses the participation of the City of Mill Valley in the 2024 Great Shakeout earthquake preparedness drill. Now for, now, therefore it was, be it resolved that the Mill Valley City Council proclaims October 17th at precisely 1017 AM as a great shakeout and encourages everyone to participate. Thank you. Thank you. Starting with former Mayor Wickham, any questions? I was around 1989 as a police officer, Mill Valley. That was the last big one we had and that shook us and woke us up and it could happen. I'm just calculating I'll probably still be alive in by 1946 or 2046 or whatever. Maybe I don't know. I would just encourage everybody if you haven't already, please sign up at alertmurin.org and also on readymurin.org there's a list of things that should be in your to go back so when you do the great shakeout and you're looking at your bag and need to put replacement items in there they have a great list online so please check that out. Be ready. I was also going to mention alert Marin. But I'll likewise mention, NICSL is a great place to get alerts for things that aren't county-wide. So for example, road closures, things of that nature that could be really critical. And in the case of a big earthquake, is how to unavigate around the city. And the easiest way to get on NICSOL is to simply text 94941 RZIP code to 888-777. So that's the easiest way to get on NICSOL and do that in addition to alert Marin. You want to do both. We have an EPC person in the audience who would like to come on up here. We have one of our commissioners that works hard on EPC. Can I make a quick comment? Yes, of course. I want to give a shout out to Josh and someone else. So as a companion to this great shake out proclamation, I'd like to introduce Josh. He's one of our emergency preparedness commissioners. He lives downtown with his family. I'm glad to have him in my immediate neighborhood and he's been a dedicated member of the EPC for two years. Today he's going to share details about the EPC's Go Bag program. It's an initiative and implemented this year with support from the city manager. This program equips all staff and our city council members, each with a go bag to enhance your preparedness. Sorry, static key there. But before handing it over to Josh, I want to give a shout out to Matt Kramer. Matt Kramer is a lifelong mill valley resident and he served on our EPC many years ago. Several months ago he came to our EPC meeting, talking about a go-backed program that he developed over 20 years ago for the Marin Municipal Water District. It was a great success. He then came to our city manager, Don Hunter, and suggested, hey, can we implement this here in Mill Valley? Don Hunter got go-bags for every single staff member in Mill Valley. And then he invited Matt to come to the Marin County Governor of Go-Bags for every single staff member in Mill Valley. And then he invited Matt to come to the Marin County City Manager's monthly meeting. Within several months, every single city employee in the County Marin had a city supplied Go-Bag. 20 years later, that program kind of slipped in all of our communities. And our EPC is going to bring it back thanks to the partnership of our city manager. Awesome. That's very good. Thanks, Michelle. Council members, thank you for having me here tonight. And as Michelle said, I'm representing the Emergency Preparedness Commission to discuss our new Go-Bag program. I also certainly appreciate how emergency preparedness is one thread that ties together several things that we've discussed tonight, including the changing age demographic, climate change that'll be discussed, and the great shakeout. So, appreciate it. A famous economist once said, crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought. The same is true for natural disasters like earthquakes, wildfires, and floods that can catch us off guard and escalate rapidly. That's why the EPC's goal is to prepare our community by raising risk awareness, offering safety education, and advocating for ongoing preparedness. It's also why in partnership with the city, we've designed and distributed or are distributing, continue to distribute, go bags to all full time city employees. I'm pleased to report that we've already reached 120 out of 141 of our employees, providing them with essential life saving supplies and safety training as well. These go bags include hygiene kits and tools that will enhance our employees' resilience as disaster service workers. Our employees are the backbone of our community and thus their preparedness is critical to us all. We hope this program also becomes a model for neighboring communities to replicate and we've kind of packaged it to make it easier to do so. This project wouldn't have been possible without many people's support, so I just want to take a minute to thank several folks. City Council for one for being role models, preparedness role models specifically. Todd Kuzmono and Michelle Terrell for their leadership and support in the project. Matt Kramer, who Michelle mentioned, whose idea sparked this project 21 years ago. The EPC members for their unanimous backing and especially our chair Leah Curtis and Vice Chair Tara Huffman for spearheading the project. Lastly, our city department heads for their commitment to rolling this out so quickly. To the public, when it comes to preparedness as James Cameron said, hope is not a strategy. After a disaster, homes may be uninhabitable, and having a go bag like these ones here could be critical during those first uncertain hours. Everyone can take small steps now. Start by setting aside some food and water. You don't have to have a fancy bag or a pre-made turnkey expensive bag begin with the basics and you can always build it over time. A challenge everyone, each and every one of you, to be a role model for your neighbors by showing them what preparedness really looks like. Thank you. Happy to take any questions. Yeah, you're about, hey, so tell us a little bit more about your efforts to roll this out countywide to the other cities around us because I think that's exactly right. You know, you've got a great idea. You've done a lot of work on this. Every city should be able to leverage what you've done. Tell us where you are in that process. Yeah, thank you very much. It's a great question. So one of the criteria that we use throughout the whole planning process of this project, including procurement and what went into the bags, was making it as easy as possible to be both scalable and easy to administer internally for our city, but at the same time, packaging it up, those things help package it up to make it easy to replicate elsewhere. So everything from the beginning of how we worked with our city manager through to the vendor that we used that we made sure we chose one that would be around for a long time and balanced good quality with a price that made fiscal sense. So that specifically to answer your question about working with other cities, that will happen. We'll kick that phase off in earnest once we have fully rolled it out. So we still have one more department to get the bags out to and get our safety education out to them. And then we will be able to start to share what we've done. Great. Thank you. Questions? Comments? Comments, okay? Questions and comments. Great. Thank you. Questions comments comments, okay questions and comments. Okay. Just a comment. We may appreciate the smallness of the bag. I know that's a strange comment, but Go bags I've seen that are ready made including one that I have in my home are decently large and so we ask folks to keep an extra one and their trunk of their car we ask them to keep an extra one and their trunk of their car, we ask them to keep another one under their desk if they work in an office, right? And it's hard when they're really big. So I actually like the the smallness of them because as we're rolling it out to employees, they can keep them on the job side or in their car readily available. So just a a note of appreciation for that. And then secondly, as you're kind of going into the next phase, one idea that just came to me right as we were talking is rolling out as we did with the diversity, equity and inclusion training for sports teams through our Park and Rec Commission, maybe partnering with them and seeing about accessing the sports teams via them. And then similarly maybe with the library patrons trying to incorporate some emergency preparedness education with the library board and library staff. So impressed. Thank you so much to you and the Emergency Preparedness Commission for doing this work and then rolling out to the rest of the county. I think it's fantastic. Yeah, very good. As you know, from the police department, beyond EPC, one thing I thought about is communication. So we do the go bags great. We have a big earthquake. Self-sites internet goes down. You know, loved ones try to find out what's happening. So how do you communicate people? Well, I do spend a lot of time in the backcountry and I have the Garmin Mini 2 tied to my cell phone and I can talk to anyone in the world by text, by satellite. And I'm just thinking that might be something to add in for communication with families. The level one says, how can you communicate, even emergency services, these floods we have here, your stock, how do you get a whole 911? You can't, but through the Garmin Salate Network, you can. And I'm just thinking, that's one little area that EPC can also identify. It's some cost involved, but we're in Mill Valley. But just a good job. I love the bags, so thank you very much. Keep it up, good work. Thank you. Thank you Josh. I just want to thank one more person This is always the the risk of thanking folks is chief Navarro also for his leadership of the EPC and help with Everything including budget great. Thank you so much. Okay, yeah Okay, until item four, climate action plan update. Grace and Daniel are making their way to podium. More sitting down. Or both. Combination. One standing, one sitting. No, both sitting. All right, well. Yeah. Oh,, presentation. Presentation with slides. Very good. Yeah. There's a presentation with slides but no proclamation. So slightly different than the other presentations. Good evening everyone. Just want to appreciate the acknowledgement of climate change with all the past items and how prevalent it is in all of our lives even right now as we speak we are sitting through a very long and tough heat wave which is out of the norm and will continue to be the norm, unfortunately. So yeah, I just really appreciate all the acknowledgments it is, in fact, everywhere. But this is going to be a hopefully, a beat, hopeful presentation about climate action efforts locally. This is going to be be for the most recent quarter what's been going on in MoValley. So we are currently at 28% to our 47% target. So our climate action 2030 goal is 47% below 1990 levels. You'll see on that graph that little red bar is 2022, which is our most recent missions data. And it shows where we are in terms of our 2030 goal, which is that gray dotted line and the 2045 state goal, which is the yellow dotted line. We also recently were awarded a BEAKIN Gold Award and a full platinum spotlight award from the Institute of Local Government for our efforts in community greenhouse gas reductions, energy savings, best practices, and this built on our previous awards. It's just a really wonderful honor for the city to have. And you can see our progress is that little yellow bar that's in the valley compared to all local jurisdictions as well. Hey, before you turn that slide, what is that bar graph with the yellow? Yeah, so Mill Valley is highlighted yellow and all the other jurisdictions in Marin are also located so you'll see that we are number two in terms of getting our emissions. So we're losing the court of Madera? So who is number one? It's not a good egg. Well, climate change isn't a competition. But it's ever played. Dirt restrictions are different. There's different sectors and impacts. But we're doing pretty good. So they were just super bad. And now they're catching up Is that the story here is that why? Yeah, they do a new city hall. Okay. Got it. Thank you. That's a good chart. Love to see that chart Right on that's what they did. Yeah, thank you Todd So but of course, there's still work to be done as we are not at our 47 percent goal yet. Over half our emissions continue to be transportation, which is followed closely by building, which is mainly natural gas, followed then again by waste and water. And our climate action plan is written to identify those things, especially with transportation and building. So we have the 54 cat measures and as we know, education and behavior change is key to reducing these emissions. We need a community buy-in. So I'm going to go through some of the sectors briefly of what's been going on. Transportation, as you know, we applied for that Department of Transportation grant. We haven't heard back. We have also been awarded technical assistance from the Metropolitan Transportation Committee commission, commission for EV Fleet and Infrastructure Planning. And we're currently looking at for production and government operations and inventories. Education and outreach is always ongoing with transportation. Again, we need our community members to be involved in this process by partnering with our local agencies, having events focused on incentives and resources for our residents, and also looking at a regional scale. We're really trying to focus on other charging solutions, especially with multi-family and workplace, which seems to be a more equitable approach versus just focusing on single-family home charging. For our building, we have our Tier 1 Cal Green Building Code, and there was a Code Cycle Update in July of this year, which had heightened requirements for EV readiness that were now implementing specifically for multi-family. As we know, also electrification is a little tough right now with the night circuit decision, but we are working on a regional level where a lot of conversations going on on alternatives and alternative methods to encourage residents, contractors, everyone in the design world on how to get on board with electrification and reduce emissions of buildings. And something just to be aware of too, the Triennial Building Code update is coming up for the 2025, 2026 year. There's currently some progress underway at a regional county level to start making model reach codes and those would be implemented in 2026. And again outreach and education are very important. One big thing I want to highlight for everyone including our residences on October 24th, there's the Marine Green Home Tour, which is a virtual event that will tour five homes in Marin and give highlights about the transitions they made, resources they used. It's a really fun event. It's MCD by another sustainability coordinator. She does a great job. We also have a lot of resources on our city website and that are shared through our outreach channels how to electrify resources and tools on how to reduce your home or your buildings emissions and Again ongoing regional collaboration is really important with that model ordinances and just Building off one another not reinventing the wheel with our progress is and Focused on streamlining and making things easier for everyone. And SB 1383 is ongoing. This is this composting regulation that's come down from the state. There's ongoing outreach and enforcement especially with our businesses. The city is actually going through the compliance evaluation process with Kawra Psycho currently, we have submitted our implementation record formally earlier in August. I haven't heard anything back yet, but hopefully it's all good things. Our usable food were ordinances, obviously still in effect. It's been very positive. Most businesses who are food vendors are compliant. Residents have very positive things to say, and it's kind of snowballing to something bigger, where, you know, our community members are going to eat. They see these compostable items. They see these changes being made, and it causes them to look more deeper into sustainability initiatives, either in their personal life or locally. Also attached to council policy, there is now a drafted environmental preferable procurement policy that will be with the council update, which outlines some of our shared goals with procurement and sustainability. And again, outreach and education. Really, though with waste, we rely a lot on these regional entities and partners to help us. It is a really big lift. So, Zero Waste Marin has been wonderful. They have attended a lot of local mill valley events. We do give them money, so it's not necessarily free. It's a great resource that we can utilize. Especially with these events, they bring in portable waste bins of compost, trash, and recycling. That way, there's an adequate shortage of waste at our bigger events. They also provide education, materials. That way, we're meeting people where they are. I have my Sustainability Newsletter, which highlights a lot of items, especially based around time of year. So with holidays or events, focused on how to reduce waste tied to those things. And also, the county has been helping a lot with the enforcement of our ordinances, of the foodware ordinance and the plastic bed ordinances, which are also very important. And behavior change is key to my Valley's success. That's the overarching theme is just we need our community members to be part of this process. Our website has a How to Reduce Your Carbon Footpage, which is broken down similar to our cap. So it's broken down by sector and all resources and tools are shared within those links. I again have my newsletter which only, I say only, but it has 170 subscribers which is great. And for more important items that are more relevant or have a bigger bang, I will also include them and be connected with the help of Lynn. And I also have my office hours which are virtual every Tuesday morning for both the Tiburone and Mulvalley. And it is for the popular I do get some people coming in. And most common questions I get are about waste reduction, how to reduce waste at home, adequate composting, questions about ordinances, and how to home improvement or best practices for households. And collaboration and partnerships is just a wonderful resource that I continue to utilize. So the Marine Climate Energy Partnership, where I am still current chair, we now have an outreach subcommittee, which is focused on broad and just similar outreach. I'm trying to, I had a word, I completely blanked similar as the best I come up with. So that we're all sharing the same message to all our community members. It's an equity focus. And that way everyone's on the same page. Climate change isn't, you know, there's not a competition who gets it done first. We want everyone in Marin on board. And there's a lot of sharing of resources locally and regionally, either through the state or the county. Also, thinking of the state, it's important for us to think about, the state has their climate action plan goals too. And these coincide with our climate action plan. Some of these are ongoing, as we know, like SB 1383, but some are upcoming and we'll line with our 2030 climate action plan. So specifically with things like equipment and appliances, these will help take the burden off of local policy because the state will be enforcing a lot of sale bands, which will cut it off at the market instead of us having to enforce back end, which is really helpful. Countywide collaboration, again, Marine Climate Energy Partnership. All of our climate action plans are very similar, countywide. It makes sense for us to be working together on a lot of these items. Some things that we talk about ongoing is compliance with existing and new state regulations. These state regulations we can utilize for our own benefit but there are still some requirements that we as immunosipality need to meet. Model ordinances again not reinventing the wheel what's already out there in the state or in the the United even, and what can we take from that, what can we learn from it, so we're not starting from square run. And just sharing of opportunities, especially with grants and incentives to engage our residents. And we talk a lot about streamlining how to make things easier, more approachable, more understandable. And really focusing on equity, as part of our considerations. A lot of this is equity is a big part of climate change as we know there's a lot of disadvantaged communities who are going to be and continue to be impacted unevenly by climate change and so it's important for us to consider that in our implementation and we also really love our community advocate groups that we partner with. So, resilient neighborhoods has been around since 2011 thus far 152 Mill Valley residents have participated which is about 109 cars off the road. And they are also this upcoming year they are really putting an emphasis on equity and multi-family residents and solutions for them. It's a lot easier for single family home residents to switch out appliances and, you know, subscribe to marine clean energy, but multi-family residents is a lot harder. So I really am excited to have their focusing more on that. And as we talked about during the last update, we have painted bins and the public waste receptacles that are at three locations. And what's really great about this program is that this art, that's displayed on these bins, is changed annually. So it's going to be ongoing education, especially with our youth who will continue to push these values forward, especially with their family and their loved ones. And I just want to say thank you. It's always a pleasure to be here. This tiny URL link is for the newsletter. I would please encourage you to sign up. It is a little more in depth than Mill Valley Connectment. It comes with sustainability. And of course, if you have any questions or need more information, you can always reach out. Thank you. Thank you so much. I had a couple questions. So you said sort of by saying that we've done 28% of the 47% reduction is that correct correct and Is that tracking well towards our 47% it is tracking well so that number is based in our 2022 data We are hoping to get the 2023 data soon. There was unfortunately some backlog with that with PG&E We get our energy watch partnership, provides a lot of that data for us and analyzes it for us even through MCP. There was just a change in admin stuff that made it a little more difficult. But we should be getting the 2023 number soon, and I can hopefully update you with a better number. Yeah, I think that's a really good step for everybody to understand. What is behind that? What is the big thing or big things that are behind that already 28% trending towards 47%. That's a great question. A big part of it is actually energy. And some of it is beyond our municipality's control. Energy is becoming more efficient. PG&E and Meringlian Energy are taking a lot of action and our residents, actually Meringue Energy has said a presentation. We have a lot of community members who are really engaged in energy efficiency. It's one of the easier changes you can do as a single family homeowner. There's a lot of benefits, there's a lot of money saved, so that's been a big change. And then transportation, people have been opting for EVs or utilizing micromobility, public transit a lot more. So those are the big, two big drivers of our recent drops. So VMT down more EVs and home electrification as well? Yeah, say energy efficiency and home electrification. Okay, so that reads me to my second question, which is, and I see Patrick is here, so maybe he has a comment on this, but my data is now dated, right? But when I was a planning commissioner and we had a new, either a significant remodel or a new construction, it was never difficult to get the homeowner to say, I'll go 100% electric. You basically ask them in the course of the meeting and they would say yes. I'm wondering if that's still the case. You don't have to come on up being not yes or say, you know, you can say no, that's not the case any longer, but or you can definitely come up and make a comment on that. But I think it's really interesting to know because my experiences that people here understand how important it is when they're doing significant Yes, it's not only a nod, but through the commission's leadership, now architects are coming in with a page that is all about sustainability. It's not just EV, it's PV, it's heat pumps, it's systems, it's the way to capture the water. It's also even just being environmentally friendly with how you run off. So it's comprehensive and that's what's coming in with designing the applications. So building code is one thing but the fact that homeowners want to do it anyway kind of makes it superfluous to a certain degree. And that ties in with the state regulations coming down the line too with these sale bands, especially with appliances that are commonly in homes, with this is communicated, you know, I'm going to buy a new water heater. Well, you know, in 2027 you're not going to be able to buy those anymore, so why not make the switch now? So you again, that's kind of an example of being able to utilize state legislation to our advantage and you know kind of takes the burden off the city for having to have policy that's really enforcing that. You said that we've got 54 cap items. What are the big things that the council and the community should be expecting in the next one to two years? You know some big items that are coming out that we should be focusing on. That's a great question. So when I look at the cap and think about big items coming up, I always break it down by biggest impact. And of course, that's transportation and buildings. And I think that coming up, you're just expecting more resources for community members in those two sectors. That's something that we're really focused on. And I've been really focused on. And again, making it also more accessible to all community members, I think we're kind of getting our footing a bit more now just outside of single family residences with EVs especially in building electrification, homologification. Like you said, there's a lot of buy-in from people that want to do that. And some people can't do that because they don't have the resources available to them. And that's something that we really recognize and see and hear all the time. And so through the regional level, that's what we're working on the most is how can we bring this to everyone and not just those who know about it or interested about it. Even people who aren't interested in it should have the opportunity to say yes or no, hopefully yes. But that's what I would say is coming down the line. And also with waste, you know, waste is continuing to be a really big part of everyone's lives. And I think that's one of the really main things that people can control. It's a very easy decision, you know, put things where they belong and I think as we, as these state regulations come down to and on top of our current existing regulations, there'll be more, let's put word I'm looking for. It'll be stricter. It'll be harder for producers to put plastic in your face, which is awesome. But it also require consumers to take that step further and think, okay, now what can I do? Personally, I don't have plastic single use plastics as much anymore. So how we promote reusable, how we promote lowering consumption in general? So those are, I say those are like the bean things coming down the line. Okay, so my last question is on that note, right? How do we reduce more than recycle, right? That's the first thing in the little triangles actually reducing. So is there, and to the point of countywide communication, is there an effort about getting people to drive less? Because EVs are one thing, but actually just getting people to drive less is the most impactful way of, and we know that we drive too much already. So, is that part of the communication strategy that's going to be coming our way? Yes, for sure. So, that's something that we've recently really talked about. We don't want to put all of our eggs into the EV basket. It doesn't make sense. And cars are the main enemy. We want to have less reliance on our cars. EVs I think are a wonderful solution and just reducing our emissions. But if we really want to reduce the vehicle miles traveled, micromobility, increased transportation, public transportation. And so on a regional county level, we're really working, especially with partners like Tam, on how can we incentivize people to get out of their cars? How do we incentivize businesses to give these benefits to their employees to work from home or have alternate commuting times, car pooling? It's just more, because there's always, oh, do that thing, but there's no support to leverage. So we're really trying to think, how can we fund to incentivize community members to take those actions? So on that last topic, you might think about doing a presentation or giving information to the team act, because that's what they're trying to do as well, right? They're trying to get people out of their cars drive less, right, as a way of reducing traffic in the city. So just something to think about. With Marin commutes and first last mile, so that's something that we can coordinate as part of that. Awesome. Thank you so much. Fantastic work. Thanks, guys. Thanks for your time. I had two questions, but he addressed one of them on trip reduction and coordinating with the team act. So I think that's a very healthy step. My other question was just efforts to make outreach to the schools and the students to take your 170 subscribers up to 1700. Any efforts there or anything we can help you with? You know, schools are really interesting and I've been in contact with a few of the local high schools and middle schools because some of them do have like green teams and stuff But I will say it's not they're not very big clubs or groups and Teacher staff really pull a lot of that weight, which is really I can't thank them enough, but schools are Totally agree schools are a wonderful resource and getting the youth more involved and I will have to follow up because I did have a lot of coordination with some of the schools been kind of fell off. So I will follow back up. But it was a very good point. Good. Thank you. Great presentation, Grace. And thank you for all of your end in the elsewhere to on all of this. One thing they came to mind, actually, with the Vice Mayor Burke's comment in terms of the schools is leveraging Vice Mayor Burke and I are the liaisons to the school board. So reaching out by our liaisons on the school board and then also looking at the PTAs, I'm also sitting next to a former PTA president, right? And also the sports president, right? And also the sports teams, right? I think, you know, we have access by our city channels into folks who are interested in city business. And there's a whole world out there and folks who, while we wish they tuned into our meetings, try some on, just don't, right? And they might not be on MV Connect or they might think it's more more general and not applicable to them, right? So it's a similar sort of, you know, how do you get beyond just the preaching to the choir of, okay, yes, there's 170 people. I know it's just any bullmo valley has 200 and something people on their email list, right? Well, how do you get beyond those 200 people, right? So happy to aid in any way that I can, and I'm sure, speak for my colleagues in this similar vein. Another idea, and I'm always, I always hate to put things on your workload, because I know your guys are very busy. But another idea is to develop a presentation that is more what can individuals and organizations take on? That maybe highlight some of these key areas, but makes it more user friendly for specific groups, and then do a road show. Get in front of the rotary, get in front of different organizations in town that cut across different demographics, and then via those presentations, right, all those folks hopefully would sign up for the email list, right, and get engaged that way. So that was a suggestion. That's a great idea. And, you know, I hinted at it during the presentation, but meeting people where they're at is the biggest thing. A lot of people are, as you know, I don't know where, or just not super engaged in this topic yet, but there's a lot of potential. And thinking about in that sort of engagement, I think that's also a really great opportunity for that subcommittee, through MCP that's focused on outreach education, because why limit ourselves to one city when we can do a presentation that can be shared with everyone in Marin. And I know that my other colleagues would really respond well to that too, so I appreciate it. Great. And just for colleagues to know, Carol and I met with Grace and Danielle and Patrick last week and talked about some of the ordinances in the cap and bringing some of those to our retreat if the mayor might be interested in bringing that when we're talking about the work plan and analyzing it. So. Sounds good. Yeah, so Caroline might have some follow-up questions on that I'm not sure, but I think we covered it. You definitely did. I covered it. But I wanted to say it was a great presentation. I mean, there's a lot to get through. I had a similar question about partnership with schools, outreach to kids. Green teams, they were robust when my kids were going through it and incentivizing them with ice cream is always a big plus. So if you need help with that, I can piggyback on with Steven and Max. But also sports leagues, we have existing relationships with the sports leagues here in town. That's another way to reach the kids. And then Mulvah Roadery actually has a great speaker series. So that may be put it on your list of things to do and that's another great source. But other than that, just happy to help wherever we can and amplify your message, I am signed up for your newsletter. So I appreciate that and all the work that you're doing. So whatever we can do to further support your efforts, work here for you. Just reach out. Appreciate it. Thanks, Grace. No, Grace, thank you very much for playing. You know, all the work you've done. I think when we brought you one, that's really helped us out the next step. Personally, I'm not going to dump anything on you. It's going to let the city manage your work if you have staff wise on how we can move forward in some of these initiatives. But thank you very much. You've done a great job. Thank you all very much. You had any additional questions? Thoughts? Please don't hesitate to reach out. I'm available Not only on Tuesday morning, but I will yeah, I have that time blocked regardless Thank you both great Moving on to item five on the agenda, which is a presentation by sonic internet provider Which is something that we're all excited about. Okay. Great. Very good. Just say it. Yes. I'll actually sit there on my pass. Okay. I'll continue to stay. So just wanted to thank everyone. Mayor, council members, city staff as well. Sonic is excited to be coming to Mill Valley. I have a quick presentation I can give you guys with some background. Feel free to ask any questions at any time. So just to his sonic, we've been around for 30 years now. Actually we just celebrated our 30th birthday this year, so that is exciting. We've been basically on the next slide, I'll go through it, but here are some of the communities that we're serving. We're serving close to 50 cities in the Bay area at this point. And that's with our Fiber service. And we are expanding beyond that at this point. We're also expanding into Southern California. I want to just play a very, very quick video. My name is Dane Jasper, and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Sonic. Sonic started with dial-up internet access, a few phone lines and a couple servers in a small house in Santa Rosa. And it has grown and evolved as the technology has changed from dial-up to DSL to being a telephone company and building our own fiber optic networks. So I'm very excited about where that technology has gone and what applications people can access over the internet and how it changes the things that they do in their households. My name is Dan Ja. So just from that, what I want to take away from that, this is kind of a unique story to Sonic. We were founded in 1994. And as you can see from that timeline that our co-founder, now our chairman, he's handed over the CEO duties just very recently, went through, was all the different phases we went through and not to give a huge history of telecommunications, but back in 1984 there was divestiture. Then in 1996 came the Telecom Reform Act, which is what brought competition into the markets. We were formed in 1994. And the point I want to make there is the unique story of Sonic. We actually went through every one of those steps of competition. So first it was some reselling of the service, just competitive local exchange service. Then it became, if you wanted to continue in that effort, deploy your own equipment, put DSL equipment at the central office, and lease out that facility, that copper loop. And as that came along, many companies fell out. And then over the last few years as the legislation has evolved, basically we felt we had to get into fiber and build our own fiber networks. So the reason I mention all that and just the quick history of it is, Sonic is a very unique story. We have over 150,000 residents served on our fiber network right now. That's customers that are subscribing to our service. And I don't know of any other company that actually went through all of those steps and are at this point right now. We were ranked number one overall by consumer reports for best overall customer satisfaction from a service provider. So this is everyone in the nation. Now we are just in the Bay Area, but this is ranking everyone in the nation. So you can see where we rank. We put our major competition over there, but you can see that Google Fiber is second and Metronetta, Midwestern company is also on there that has a similar model to Sonic, but did not go through all those steps, I'll just say. Some of the other awards that we won, just usually the speed awards that we get. And obviously the overall number one ranked in customer service and overall service. So what is our service and how does it compare to the competition? Main competition, 18-teen Comcast. We provide 10 gig service. So everyone gets the same service and it's 4,9,99. Free installation, no hidden fees, and basically we just have the keep it simple model. So we don't even do a credit check. We want people to sign up for their service. We want to provide that top service. We don't want you to have to call us back every year and play games of, hey, you need to get a new subscription service. We want to keep you happy for 30 years and that's our business model. So everyone gets that exact same service. 10 gigs up and down. Any questions on that? What's your upload flow of downloads? 10 gigs, 10 gigabits per second, both ways. So digital equity, I'd like to say on this slide usually, obviously this is a big issue with cities and with us as well, that we go beyond digital equity. We're actually digital equality, so we don't offer these different tiers of service to everyone. We offer everyone that exact same service, keep our business model simple, and also assure that everyone is getting that top tier of service. We don't have to worry about giving the wrong tiers of service as well. So everyone's getting that same service. The Affordable Connectivity Program, that's a federal program that came into being post-pandemic it evolved out of the EBB program which was a $50 credit. This is now a $30 per month credit for if you meet the qualification so 200% of the federal poverty guidelines and there's a bunch of other things if you're in a certain school district you may apply. There are some cities where everyone who had someone in that school district was basically qualifying for the ACP program. So this was a $30 credit. Unfortunately, we're not seeing renewal of this program. We're still hoping that there will be renewal of this program. Sonic did sign up for it, but Sonic actually took an extra step within this program, where if you signed up for the ACP service, we reduced your rates. So you had to sign up for the service, but then we reduced your rates to $2,999. You had to go through a few steps for that. So basically, if you qualified for ACP, signed up for ACP, you get a free 10 gigabit service up and down for free. So I'll also mention this did come out of a pandemic and some of the laws that were passed. When the pandemic initially started, we worked with some communities specifically Berkeley in the Berkeley School Board, where we offered six months of free service to every student in Berkeley. That then involved into federal programs which we could roll into in this being one of them. If you have any lobby efforts, please push that ACP can be continued because we put a lot of effort into supporting that program. Here's just some of our milestones of when we started our fiber deployment. So back in 2012, it's really when we took that step to deploy fiber. We worked with the city of Brentwood to do a public-private partnership, so they actually did build their own underground city. This is not usually the way we did it, but we took over that network and basically worked with them so we could provide fiber services to 8,000 different households there, launched our San Francisco service and just to get to the bottom there in 2021, we moved from one gig to 10 gigs. So what we deploy usually is the aerial. So we will go on the poles, those PG&E poles, work in the telecom space and lease it from AT&T, just the logistics of how it works and work with your permitting department to do whatever necessary there as well. In terms of expanding our service, there's also microtrenching. work with your permitting department to do whatever necessary there as well. In terms of expanding our service, there's also micro-trenching. So there has been a Senate bill passed SB 378, which basically said micro-trenching should be allowed within every city and every city should be come up with its own micro-trenching spec with certain guidelines there. We definitely want to look at that, but for our expansion within the city once we go beyond aerial, we look to do micro-trenching as well. Here is specifically Mill Valley. So the highlighted blue area are the areas we intend on doing in the first phase of the project area. And that will cover a good portion of the city. So about 5,700 out of 7,200 homes within the city. So we have a very good coverage. Just some of the stuff we look for with our partnerships, we want to make sure we can access all polls and what we had there is basically what we're looking at for the front easement polls, I'll call them. If there are rear easement polls within backyards, for instance, we tend to avoid those in the first phase. And really we look to partner with the city to see if we can make sure we can gain access to those rear-resement poles easily. So we do have every right to gain access to the rear-resum poles, we can get the permits for it. We're not asking for anything there. But we do find that sometimes it takes a few visits, which kind of hurts our business model, let's just say, to get into them. So we want to be assured before we design it and plan to build it that we'll have a decent success rate of getting in there. And sometimes that is just coordination with the city, letting the public know, and potentially even getting an escort to go there. Allow 10 polls. So this is basically, we assess all the polls. So this is required of us when we're permitting. And we go to AT&T for the permits on those PG&E polls. So we assess all the polls. Some of those polls are going to be out of spec. So what we, so we inform AT&T and PG&E, these polls are out of spec, but in the meantime, we put up a tempo there to deploy our network. Once they take out their poll, we will remove the tempo and put our facilities back on their poll, we will remove the 10 poll and put our facilities back on their poll. But we will not basically put our facilities on an unsafe poll. And that's an out-of-spec poll already. So when we do the assessment and this is a timing issue of they only have to check their polls every 10 years. But if we want to get on their poll, we got to check it right before we get on it. So we say, hey, this is an unsafe poll. We're not going to connect. You guys are on the clock to replace the poll. And here's our time poll. Streamlining process for permitting and offer blanket permitting. So we can do it anyway. We prefer, obviously, if we can get blanket permitting. We find that easier for both parties, but however you guys choose to work we can do that. It's just usually a lighter lift on both our hands. I mentioned the micro-trenching previously and just as a final point to kind of throw in there, we'd love to know any public works projects you guys have going on. If you're digging in the ground, if we can piggyback off of something or work with you over there, we would love to know that. And I am getting a time check here. So that is pretty much it. I just had some pictures in here of some of the stuff we did. Here's the micro-trenching pilot project that we did in Petaluma. Questions? Stephen, questions? Thank you for sharing that picture of the micro-trench, because one man's micro-trench is another one. This is a flight and not too many times. As you probably know, Mill Valley is undergoing a lot of corrective work by PG&E tearing up our freshly paved streets. So I think that there might be some, from my side, there's a little bit of reluctance to consider a blanket permit. Because if you can cover 75% of the homes in Mill Valley with the aerial solution, then you can work with our friends at PG&E to get that done. But another shovel in the ground for me is a bit of a challenge. So I guess the question then is when, what's your time frame? What typically how does this process roll out for you? So mill valley? You're announcing your interest tonight. No, we're going. We're ready to go. Like we've started the process, we have the approval to build Mill Valley. We've had some initial meetings. So now it's us doing the final design work and submitting for the permits and actually presiding up some customers hopefully and making the residents aware of it. So hopefully, don't hold me through this, but go live, I have the project manager at theirs gonna get mad at me, but mid-year next year is when we this but go live. I have the project manager at Therese going to get mad at me but mid-year next year is when we hope to go live. And I can understand but we are doing this area. This is our thing of how we move. Initially read. Yeah and you know I'm saying June a bit later that. And those are actually honestly timelines we should find it. Okay, thank you. Thanks. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for the presentation. So we, just so I understand, we have customers currently, what's on it? My mom uses you guys, and she's in the hills of Mill Valley. She's not using fiber, she's using Wi-Fi, like what, explain, because you currently have customers in Mill Valley. So those are legacy customers that we would sign up reselling that old service. So back when I talked about the Telecom reform act and being able to lease lines from an AT&T, we did a little bit of that in different areas. So that was a legacy customer that did sign up for that service and sometimes we'd say, oh, that would be an assessment of, we had a lot of people sign up in this area, let's go build that city next. But that is not the service we're talking about. We're talking about pure fiber service and moving forward, those are our services, actually, AT&T did something interesting where they increase the rates ridiculously on that to try and get us out and either way we were moving in that direction so it's not that big a deal but that is a previous service that's not the fiber we're referring to okay and maybe a question for our city manager, but just thinking, right, there's competitors, right, Dessonic, are we gonna in a year after we have a bunch of micro-trenching, gonna get a similar presentation from AT&T, and then they're gonna, you know, is this like every year for the next five years as each company comes along? Can we kind of combine them into one go? We are talking to all the cell carriers now about just the cell sites and cell coverage and this discussion. So they have this opportunity upfront. And if they miss it, then it'll be a more difficult conversation formed on the road. But everybody's being engaged. I mean, they're not coming for us for permission. They have the right to come in here. And they follow the process that all our utilities go through. And we stay neutral on the whole thing. I mean that's basically what we're out on this. But in terms of it for offering an incentive, which is- No, we're not offering anything. So Sonic is here- Oh, they had a request for Drinking permitting. Yeah, well that's something you have to go through the police department. They said utility like all the other utilities we deal with, water, we're here for policy only. with water. We're here for policy only and this is a good presentation and now it's coming to MoValley and we're going to staff in the permitting process. And the residents too on easements everything else. You got to market it. Yes. Right. And we're not marketing it for you. Correct? Yeah. And that's kind of my interest, right? As staffs working with companies, as they're coming forward, right to the vice mayor's point that we're trying to limit the tearing up of the road. So how can we kind of combine them? So just like that, before we go, we're not talking about tearing up the road just yet. We want to work with the city on their micro-trench spec to make sure, first of all, that's economical to us because tearing up the road is a lot more money as well, no matter what But in this phase of it we're not talking about the micro trench We'd like to talk about that is the next phase to fill out mill valley and make sure it makes sense for both sides Well if micro trench is not we just just can't serve those areas because the regular trenching was too expensive. The SB378 was passed to make something affordable that we could actually serve in a trenching way. But as was mentioned, I think everyone has a different definition of micro-trench. So different cities, basically, if we can agree definition of micro-trans, so different cities Basically if if we can agree on a micro-trans fact then we could build out the rest of the community Sorry my question the only question I have for you was the timing because it wasn't part of the presentation But since Council Member Burke asked so I don't have any questions Thank you for the presentation Good luck Thank you Yeah, I'm excited because a couple years ago it was the only concast and I said to you before the presentation That I used to look up Sonic and to see if you were here. You weren't here. So I'm excited I will say however that Verizon beat you to it, right? So Verizon is already in the market, and they're pretty ubiquitous, I think, right? And just FYI, they're about half the price, so, you know, I think the consumer's gonna win in the long run on this one, which is good. Yeah, no, and we have no problem with the competition. We just want an equal playing field and be able to compete on that level. So we are excited to be in Mill Valley and believe we will be success. Great. Well, good. We'll keep us informed on your progress and when you, we can expect your service. So thanks so much. Thank you. Thanks, pal. All right. See? Okay. So we have made it to page two on the agenda, which is good news. And we have the consent calendar. Is there any member of the city council that wishes to pull an item from the consent calendar? I just have a quick question with respect to the meeting minutes. Okay. So let's just anybody want to pull an item? Caroline's got one question. I had a question on which is the League of California cities. Caroline's representing us and it was indicated that we're providing her direction, but then it's on consent. So I wasn't sure what that was. Okay, so Caroline, since Caroline went first, something we got two questions. You want to fire away? Sure. I went first, something we got two questions, you want to fire away? Sure, it was so it's item number six and it's just if we're going to approve the meeting minutes from September 5th, just having in the record that I abstained. I'm sure you want abstained too. Because we weren't there. Yeah. Yeah, okay, right. Okay. And Max, did you have a specific question you want to ask? I'm happy to stay on that, but yeah, just the question on, I think it was the next item, which was. Number 10. Caroline's going to be representing us at the League of California cities and the item indicated us providing her direction on how to vote on an item. And so, but it was on consent. So I didn't know if what the staff idea was on that item. Yes, we threw it on consent, but we wanted to give out the community and the council an opportunity. If there's something you wanted to give feedback to Caroline on, that you could pull it and give it give that direction. If not, it's set for the consent calendar and you're delegating authority to her. I'm trust my colleague completely. Just how it was written, it seemed like it was going to be a discussion. That's fine. I think there's opportunity to give our representative feedback before it takes off. Maybe even while she's there. So, okay, good. So, sounds like everybody else is fine. Any member of the public wish to pull an item from the consent calendar? Seeing none, anybody online? Okay, can I get a motion to approve the consent calendar with the noted addendum? Yes, motion to approve the consent calendar within noted addendum. There you go. Okay, all in favour? Say, okay, all in favour? So motion here is 5-0. Okay, public favor say. Hi. Okay, on favors. Here's 5-0. Okay, public open time. So this is time. Yes, I see you. It's good to see you by the way. So this is a time for things to turn not on the agenda. So we've got a couple more things on the agenda here. So yeah, no, hold on a second. So yeah, so it's an opportunity for you to come on up. How many people here have something they want to talk about in public open time? One, two, that's it? Okay, good. So come on up, we'll give you a couple minutes each to do that. And you're gonna come up to the podium, you're gonna speak your say your name and your address. And we'll see if we can't answer your question or at least listen to your comment. Thank you very much. I was melting. Yeah, I bet. So thanks for being patient. Where do I stand? No, yeah. There's a microphone right there. You can put your stuff down and... All right. Okay. Yes. So I am... You want me to start now? Or... Oh. Yeah, fire away. So I am, my name is Lydin Trashnell. The people here that I've taught their children Nomi as D for many years. I've lived at 28 Eucalyptus Nol for 35 years in teaching him in a ballet, MOVALA 534. I live in a multi dwelling in your old going, oh God. I live in a multi dwelling in your old going old God. I live in a multi dwelling unit that falls under code 720.20, which addresses smoking both tobacco and marijuana. And I have made copies of that code because there's been some confusion in the place department in the city about what the code actually says. And it does in fact,, just going to quickly say, because it's going to come up, do complexes, apartments, condos, and townhouses from tobacco and marijuana smoke. So it does specifically say condos. But I received something from this city that said, no, it doesn't apply to condos. And in fact, it does. But I just want to say, and I would only know that because I've been suffering so much that I've been turning over every stone and rock to try to get help. And I've been unable to do that. So over the past nine months, smoke has been literally pouring into my unit from the unit above. Guests, including overnight, have been affected in cough while there. All towels, lenders, reek, and need constantly laundered, at least twice a week. I have severe asthma, and unfortunately, underwent a serious long surgery a year ago. I continue to travel to Stanford, for test and treatment, the constant inhalation of heavy and consistent marijuana smoke into my home at Eucalyptus Null, is making breathing difficult, and now I have a chronic cough. After months, it's starting to make me really sick. I have headaches, cough, I'm nauseous. It's so overwhelming in my condo that my guest left who had come to see me from back east. It's overwhelming that there's no more book club. I don't see clients anymore. I used to see teenagers in Mill Valley. I can't see them in my home because of the marijuana. And it's not just once in a while, it's all the time. So I've contacted the city in person I came in, and then I actually filed a complaint, which they suggested I do on the code violation. I was recently sent a letter from the city, and I have it here, said they would could do nothing. I made two police reports. The owner upstairs in her partner responsible for the smoke, refused to answer the door when the police came. So then the police called and she said to the second policeman who didn't come out even when there was a guest and the place was filled, she said it's incense, which it clearly is not. I wouldn't be getting this sick nor in my guest from that. And I was born in 1950. I was in the 70s. I know that's not in sense. Just saying. Okay. So when the police come by they deny it. They don't answer the door when they call they deny it. It continues to command. The police then called the owner of the BMR that she got working for the city, actually. And said, yeah, she's saying it's in sense and she's saying she doesn't have to go to the door. Ironically, she works with the city and knows the code. The Homeowners Association spoke with her and find her, which is denied to the police. Each agency, rather than actually address the violation, sends me to another agency, which sends me to another agency, which sends me to another agency. And meanwhile, my health is suffering. I plan to harm exchange. It's a no-go. So I can't go see my son in New York to a home exchange, no one could be there. So I'm trying to hurry, you guys, I know it's my time. So I guess what I want to say, if you want to see the letter from the city, at some point I'm happy to share it. It says something a little condescending, like no police officer is going to wait outside your unit to see if someone's smoking and give them a hundred dollar fine. It's just not the way it works here. So. Okay. When it's a health issue, it's a health issue. And it could be your baby, it could be your seniors. More seniors are living and staying longer in their condos and homes and before because they are getting sicker. And when you're in your home longer and you have a lot of seniors and you have someone that doesn't care, it's a problem. So I'm just saying, hopefully, I I'm over. I'm sorry. So Lynn, can you raise your hand? So Lynn, Walsh is our Deputy Director of Admin Services. Can you meet with her in the back and chill? Get your information in any correspondence you have between the reference candidate and we'll facilitate it for you and get back to you quickly. Thank you. Thank you. And I'm sorry. I don't want to go on. So toss up. We'll figure it out. Thank you, Dean. Good to see you. All right. Where's that one? Thank you for taking care of that. Come on up. Hello, Mayor Camel, Carmel Council community. I just want to say I'm really glad to listen and be able to speak at the very end because I have a chance to hear all these amazing things that the city is doing including, oh, we're definitely going to be part of the great shake out and climate change and the rotary and the EPC. But the reason I'm coming out today though is I want to reach out because I don't know where else to turn. But it is hopeful that perhaps within your positions fellow councilmen, council members, Caroline, and Mayor. You might be able to help bring together and facilitate an early transition for a tear marines school as we prepare to vacate our property, vacate from the low 70 lm drive. My name is Wendy, I'm the founding head of a preschool called tear mandarin in tear marines school. Unfortunately, the attorney's representing Mille Valley has been extreme, Mille Valley school district. Not the... Very different, definitely different. Actually, I wanted to tell you that the energy when I feel in this room is that I hear a lot of joy, a lot of things that you're really moving ahead. You're helping people, you're changing the community, and eventually the Marin landscape. In fact, I feel that you're leading Marin into a better landscape. So what I'm talking about is very different and I want to make that distinction. But it seems that their focus, the Mill Valley school district focus, is on pushing the matter to trial, my situation to trial, to claim victory rather than finding a fair and applicable solution. After investing over 2.3 million in the Nomida Drive Building, it is heartbreaking to witness the level of hostility. Despite these challenges, we are committed to moving out, hopefully by November 1st, and we're asking for your help to facilitate that smooth and orderly transition for our preschool families. Thank you. I am hoping that with your influence as the community of Mill Valley, you could help calm the situation with the Mill Valley school district. And they're refusal to engage in civil discussions, negotiations, or even consider a piece for resolution has been disheartening. I respectfully ask for your assistance in helping me navigate through this difficult situation. I know their next meeting is in, is this Thursday, October 10th. So I'm hoping to reach out to them and tell them that we're trying to move out before they take me to court, which they already serve papers. And it's really hard that they're not bringing schools, children into this building. So thank you so much for your consideration. I hope you would offer me some type of advice or amicable facilitation. Thank you. Great, thanks. Vice Mayor and Council Member Perry. Sorry, you are our representatives to the school district. Would you be willing to talk to Wendy after tonight's council meeting or give her a call. It's kind of updater on your discussion. I'm happy to have a phone call. So Maxwell reach out to you. Is that right? And I thank happy to have a phone call. So Max will reach out to you. Is that right? And I thank you for your messages to me. I literally returned to the country 24 hours ago and have been on the go ever since. But you're in good hands with Max. Welcome back, Mayor. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you, Perry. Yeah. Thanks. Okay, good. Anybody else here doesn't see none? Anybody online? Okay, so we're closing public open time, which means that we can move on to council staff announcements starting with the former mayor. Things to report on, been busy. You've got only four meetings left. You must be maximizing that time. I am. Getting every last thing done. I am. I'm trying to keep the. Yeah. Yeah. No. I think it's done good. And nothing report out. I did mention the RBRA that Stephen would be taking over. Yeah, to be meeting November and you could come with me or after the first year. So peaceful transition. Peaceful transition. It'd be a very peaceful transitional. It's good. It's great to hear. Thanks. You know what? That's a far, first of all, right? I know you are out of town, but we did attend the art, the film festival. Oh, yeah. It's exciting to see Mo Valley again. I know most of us here went to the opening night party and the event and downtown's been hopping. So I think all the things we talked about community-wise last 10 years have really come together or we're having even this hotout but it's still a great community to be downtown and enjoy the atmosphere and we're moving in the right direction. So I'm looking forward to stepping down becoming a resident and enjoying this great community as I age out of my I aid. Very good. Okay thanks for that speech. All right well I just have three announcements community in action. Neighborhood chat and Scott Valley happened on the evening of September 4th we had a great turnout and then the following night of September 4th. We had a great turnout. And then the following night on September 5th, I attended the city's United Against Hate Reception at the community center. It was a very well attended event, 210Ds. We gathered together to watch the city's video, a short film, I should say, from the United Against Hate campaign. And it was then it was followed by a panel discussion by members that were in that short film. It was very impactful. Also impactful was having art all the way around the room that was created by kids. So my thanks to the Mill Valley School District Art Teachers and Kitto for putting together that exhibit. I think the only downside is that that art was taken down that same night. There's so many people that really enjoyed it and actually had wanted to buy some of the pieces. So we've a very talented school group here. And I just want to say it was just really wonderful to see their interpretation of love. It affected a lot of people who were there. And then I also want to thank both Tammy Herndon and Michelle Terrell for organizing this event. I think that the attendees were really impressed with what was said and want to continue the conversation. So I hope that they do continue throughout the year. The other event that we had was the beautification crew was out and about this past Saturday. We cleaned up the triangle on East Bladell which is in front of the gas station with the kiosks. We're planning to plant that area on October 19th. So that is happening. I would just want to thank you to all the volunteers are out there as well as Doug Nelson who created the plan for us and we have some upcoming projects including we're working on rehabbing the Firewise Garden that's next to the public service building and then if there is anybody that has suggestions for other projects. Please let me know or Michelle Terrell. And then next up we're gonna be focused on our media. So that'll be a longer term project. But one that this community wants to see happen. So we're gonna make that happen. And that is all for me. Like exciting, very good. Max, yeah, just a couple of notes. One also enjoyed the film fest opening night. Not attending the closing as it's a horror film and I'm a whip. However, couple of items. One, I was vice chair this year of the League of California City's Environmental Quality Committee. Been selected as chair next year. As part of that role, I serve on the executive committee for the North Bay Division of the League, with the various folks selected by MCC and their equivalent counties and the other counties in the North Bay. And they asked if I would facilitate a conversation today around adapt Bay Area. So this is the plan from BCDC that's looking at the shoreline across the entire region and basically what they did is they appointed two folks from each county. So in Marin it was Mayor Kate Collin from San Rafael and Janelle Coleman, who I think was mayor at the time in Saasolido and they have been working to do outreach around the dot Bay area and to provide input to BZDC. I will say both of them have not been shy about not being excited about how BZDC has gone about the outreach and they're preparing a joint letter that we'd be invited to sign on to if we wanted, providing public comment on the plan. I think there are main issues, there's less about the plan and more about the process, but basically a joint comment letter. I connected with Todd today who shared that Craig and DPW has been working on our own letter, so maybe we can see how ours differs and add in or do our own depending on what makes sense. We also they'll be having a BZDC commission meeting coming up once all of the public comments are submitted and are rep to BCDDC to their executive committee from Marin is Pat Eklund who is on the city council in Nevada. So if folks have interest in getting involved in that talk to Pat, talk to Mayor Kate, talk to Janelle happy to help connect you to those folks. The other update is supervisor Mary Sett, who's been a cheerleader on e-bike regulations has put together in response to the Grand Jury report that we all responded to a task force. Youth e-bike task force. I'm one of the three City Council members appointed to it. I'm Melissa Blasdian, Sosolito and Rachel Kirkson, San Rafael and the others. And Chief Navarro is on it as well. So we're having our second meeting on October 31st and the main topic on that is to talk here and update on a model ordinance that reflects AB 1778, which Assemblymember Connolly discussed tonight. And the idea, if everything goes according to plan, 78, which Assemblymember Connolly discussed tonight. And the idea, if everything goes according to plan, is we do some education this fall, and that the model ordinance, we come to the county probably in January, and that the cities would follow suit. So, Supervisor Sakit asked that none of the cities go ahead of that schedule, but that through this task for us, right, we're all preparing to bring it forward soon after the county. Maybe February, maybe March, somewhere in that all parking. So those are my updates for tonight. Great. And so part of that was going to be a communication strategy out to people about what it is and a positive message about how they can still get around in a clean and effective way. Awesome. Perfect. I definitely look forward to that. And you should definitely coordinate and communicate that with the TMAC because, again, keep part of what they're trying to do as well. So this is like a very pivotal to our own traffic reduction efforts in the city. And yeah, so thank you and it may be the chief and I could could attend a future team act meeting and see if supervisor sakit wanted to join as well and get some input that could be yeah could be good and I see the chief notiness at it. Okay good all right all in agreement vice mayor. Two updates and a gift. Our friends at the Community Housing Foundation of Mill Valley have refreshed and updated their website. And it's wonderful in the messaging and the description of their focus which is really on working with home match and working with the city to facilitate workforce housing placement and the shallow rent subsidy program that they've raised almost half a million dollars to support to date. So I just want to encourage people to go to CHFMV.org, Community Housing Foundation of Mill Valley and find a way to donate, find a way to participate. And they had an event coming up. They've postponed it. Yeah, and that's going to be in the new year or is that the idea? Probably in November. Oh, okay, good. So this is going to be their coming out party. Exactly. Okay, awesome. Yeah. Fantastic. I served on the board of the Marin Wildfire Prevention Agency and got a great update from our team and Southern Marin Fire, Madison Meads update. So the Mill Valley sheltered fuel break, there's two projects really going on right now. I just want to highlight. Treatment has been completed on fairway drive, Heatherway and Tartner Road. We are now moving over to Sarah Drive, Vistilinda, Sheridan Court, and Magdalena, as we continue to monitor and maintain the previous established areas of our fuel break. So there may be some activity in those neighborhoods, just be aware of it. Those are your tax dollars at work. The second is a Mill Valley Hazardous Tree and Vegetation Removal Project, which is basically addressing some of the hazardous cypress trees by Edgewood, and that project is ongoing. And it's a fairly complex one because it involves public and private land and communication and all those sensitive things. But we appreciate the work that specialists meet and the team are doing and look forward to more great clearance. My gift is this. A couple of weeks ago I was at the Depot a little early for a meeting, wandered into the bookstore, and this book was on the shelf, and it leapt off the shelf at me. It's called Kind of Close to Heaven, essays on a hometown. And this is Joyce Kleiner's compiled articles from the Mulvalley Herald between 2007 and 2012. And what was interesting for me is that it's far enough in the past that you kind of go, oh, did that really happen? But it's within our lived experience here, like there was a Blumathon. Now there's beautification. And this book has really interesting vignettes, profiles of people who are still with us and people who have left us. Institutions ranging from 142 Throck Morton to the library. She writes beautifully about the library and what it represents and what it does for our town and that's still true today. And she just has some insights that I think, especially for those who are out in the community doing the community chats and things. The last chapter is ten thoughts on being a good citizen that I think is worth reading and reinforcing both in our own behavior and that of our friends and peers. So I went and bought several copies and I wanted to give one to you. Thank you. Did you autograph this by chance or like put a dedication? So I'm going to get a third autograph for five. I'm going to call you with her tomorrow with or like put a dedication. So I'm going to get a third autograph for time. I'm having coffee with her tomorrow. I'm having a fancy coffee. Wow. It's nice. Nice. That's so nice. Do you know what this beautiful home is? I don't. But I'll find out. So anyway, that's my update. Oh, that's very cool. I hope you enjoy it. Yes, Thank you. Thank you very much. That's very exciting so I know I know A ticket a ticket for where review parks hopefully okay, so So we have businesses which are opening or reopening as it were so safe way is having their grand opening I know that we're all excited about that October 9th. Yeah, Safeway. Yeah, they've they've remodeled Camino Alto. Yeah, yeah, so come on down Tober 9th I think it's early in the morning. I think it's 8 a.m. Anyway, Felis' fat burger is finally going to be replaced with Mama's luncheon-it, starting on October 20th. Winter 20th. October 20th. This is a highly touted San Francisco eatery. So it's Halal, burgersers, right, and Raps and Burritos. So, yeah, people are very excited. SFEdery is a blog, and they are super excited about this, and it's coming to Mill Valley, which is awesome. Also on October 19th, this is your second and final warning on this, is the Kelly Brush Foundation ride. That's going to be taking place on our completed depot. Right, we're all in that construction site in place. That will be it. And I hope everybody can make it. This is a great fundraiser again for people that have suffered a disability and need, but are adaptive athletes. So that's on October 19th. I'm doing an interview with Kelly on Thursday on ABC Bay Area. So look for that exciting interview. And we've got some infrastructure, initiative presentations coming up. So, next Monday, I will be at the Redwoods. I am trying to encourage Council Member Joachim to join me at 330 to give them an update on the infrastructure. And then on Tuesday, we will both be at the rotary giving them an update on Measure L and answering questions. And that evening, I will be meeting with the Library Foundation Board to give them an update also on that. So that's that city manager. Yeah, look and welcome back. Looking forward to spend some quality time this week. Yes. I'll save my updates and send them via email. Just had a respective everyone. But I do want to share a funny story. I blamed the mayor for this. I was leaving City Hall today and my phone rang. I was at the intersection here. And I know that we've been asking mobile police departments who enforce traffic laws and cell phone violations and such. And I did see the police vehicle to the right of me while my phone was ringing and I picked up my phone and hit answer and then I put my phone down. And then I started driving and I was talking with my hands. I was on the speaker phone and they were behind me and I'm just like, I wonder who the officer is, you know? And Urban Nyer catching up, we haven't talked in a couple of weeks and next thing I know the lights go on and I'm like, I got to go on being stopped and so I was stopped by one of Mildali's finest, one of the newer officers, Officer Wieland and she walked up and I said, well, I have an officer Wieland, you know, so, you know, and you're on a body camera and I'm like, well, let's see how this goes. So she said, hello, sir, my name's Officer Reelin, and do you know I stopped you? And I'm like, wow, but you know, well, yeah. License registration proof of insurance. So I gave it to the officer and she looked at it and recognized my name. And again, we had this really funny interaction, but she's very professional. It was nice meeting the officer and I really appreciated her giving me a warning. But I did tell her that, hey, do what you have to do and accept responsibility. But she was kind enough to give me a warning and move on. And I think she's just going to be a great addition to our team. And I'm looking forward to working with her. And yeah, she was quite and it's your fault, Mr. Mayor. So we got like go bags and nice books. You got a ticket. So all is fair in the world. Okay. Old business. Consideration of city council work plan update. For the third quarter. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. Lin Walsh is going to help me with this. Lin did summarize our staff report. and we have an executive summary which I really appreciate, which you can kind of follow the work plan as a whole. And we also have a chart to kind of give you some initial discussion with this. You have the entire staff and team here so if you have specific questions on a project, we're happy to go over it. But from a high level, I wanted to share with you, as you know, we meet staff meets with the council every January. We set the work plan and we move it forward. And council at council direction staff gives you quarterly updates. So this is the update, third quarter, ending and going into the fourth quarter. And what you'll see here, you have 56 work items on this. And these aren't items where they're just simple items. and what you'll see here, you have 56 work items on this. And these aren't items where they're just simple items, where we're gonna deliver an ordinance, or we're gonna do this thing, and you check the box. These, as you'll see, these 56 items are ongoing. They're big, big, big projects. Out of the 56 projects, what I'll tell you, is a lot of them are completed or ongoing, set to be completed by the end of the year, 49 of those 56 projects will, they will be considered completed and staff's recommendation will be to remove it entirely from the work plan. With that, I want to go into, and that's 87% completion. There are a couple items, the noise ordinance specific has not been initiated yet and we'll talk about it but its work staff is tying that in from a process standpoint right now. It's under business and economic vitality under your executive summary. Tonight the council approve the second reading of the plaza discussion and so that's really key when you think about noise and so that is help your new staff, your new city manager specifically to see who's really key when you think about noise and so that is help your new staff your new city manager specifically To see who's really sensitive to noise especially around the bowl and what we're doing with the help of Michelle Trel is Developing kind of a manager's working group as we go through and we think about the noise ordinance and we think about The plaza specifically in other areas within the city being thoughtful and really bringing that good neighbor policy to practice, and giving report out to the council of how we're doing. The noise ordinance between now and January staff through the city manager will give you some comparisons and recommendations of areas of the noise ordinance we should probably look at. It's in need of some updates, but we want to be thoughtful on that and get some community feedback and I'm going to use my manager working group for that and what I want to do is go into the if it's okay with you the January retreat and have a discussion over the noise ordinance of what I think I'm hearing and any recommendations for you to consider something tied if you touch the noise ordinance, we're going to have to do a CEQA evaluation and with that comes cost process and it's just you're going to have to evaluate is it worth the effort or not and obviously has budget implications. What I'm more excited about is really the plaza discussion allowed us to engage the community in the good neighbor policy and I'm really, it's because in real time, we can make change. And that's going to probably be my recommendation to you coming in to January. But we are working on that as we speak for discussion. There's a few things on here. Again, you have the planning team. I'll allow them to speak to it. But under land use, you have the update on land use and parking regulations. That's underway. Our director of building and planning has given you an update before, but that is underway and he's happy to discuss what we are in the process and when you can expect to see something coming your way. And then we have two that he can speak to as well as the amendment to the ADU ordinance, SB9, lot split ordinance. There's some pending state legislation that, you know, staff in the council is currently monitoring and we wanna see how that plays out and work with legal council on next steps. A couple others that I just wanna highlight for you. Again, most of these ongoing, if I don't cover them, there's for all the sense of purposes, you can consider them completed and it's just going to be into our operational work plan on the outgoing years. The Green Building Code Ordinance is another one that we've talked to you, you got electrification and some things tied to that. Council Member Prey has been working closely with staff, some discussions with that. And again, I'll leave that to the planning team to discuss a lot of these conversations as we spoke earlier. We're going to carry the analysis and some feedback to the council to consider on this upcoming 2025 work plan. Anything we touch we'd like to do at once. But there may be some that we want to do it twice. We might want to do something in advance and so we just want to have that analysis for you to have that discussion and for you to give us some feedback of how we move forward with what's with these highlighted for planning planning items. The second page again a lot of the quality of life issues on parks and rec we had a council meeting that was really all parks and recreation. Those are all ongoing staff is off and running. The events on the plaza, again, it shows pending on this, but we've delivered that. And now what we'll do with staff is we're going to engage, and it's just going to be a weekend, a weekend conversation with the working group, and then just how we're doing, and we're going to fine tune that good neighbor policy as I talked about. Under diversity, equity, inclusion, community engagement, I'm going to tie them all together. and the community and the community and the community and the community and the community and the community and the community and the community and the community and the community and the community and how should we set our team up to deliver that. I think it's been extremely successful. It has actually been really it's been fun but it's also been challenging as well but this these two things are forever conversations they don't go away but it really got us back to where I think we need to be as a city and then now it's like let's be better every year right let's just better every year, right? Let's just continue the process. So thank you to staff and the council, just a huge accomplishment in the quality of life, diversity, equity, inclusion, community engagement. I'm just really proud to be part of the team on that. The town operation, cybersecurity, that is forever ongoing, but our task of where we need to be, that limited expectation of the best practices within our risk pool, we met that mark, and now we're, again, we're gonna build into our budget and staff work plans moving forward, and just continuing that. We've hit our marks on employee wellness, it's a forever conversation, but we hit the marks that we needed to, the strategic workforce planning, I think we've just the directors and the admin team have just done a really good job of what are the traits that we're looking for in our team and how do we go get them? And once we have them, how do we keep them? We do a great job of orientating someone into the workforce, but we don't do a good job maintaining them through their time with us and when they leave us. And so that's a huge, huge plan for us. And again, as we talked about before, it goes into that enhancing the cross department collaboration. The big one is, how can we do things more effectively and efficiently and save money? And in those savings, where do we put that savings? We can have a discussion of how we do that. And so the admin finance team, how we merge them with HR training, admin finance, how how we merge them with HR, training, admin finance. How did we do that? And how do we have that cross collaboration across all departments of like, having that core training program across board and being consistent. The other one, admin finance is a great example. Our fire annexation is a great one. Southern or in fire district has such a deep bench. And they're really outstanding. When we lost Tom Welch, that was a big loss for us because we went to one person and he just got it done, right? We didn't see what was behind the curtain. Well, the bench on Southern Marin Fire District was how he was getting it done. And so this is a year of first. And so with Chief Tubbs our team we're trying to get together, learn the teams and like this is the year first so how should we think about this, who should we go to and where the you know how do we collaborate and work together so the excitement is the deep bench, the challenge is how do we help Southern Run Fire District, how does Southern Run Fire District help us and so that's going on now. Councilmember or vice mayor Burke is part of those discussions with the rent wildfire prevention authority and it carries over to this discussion on the next item of the MST to measure C of again how should we be using that money? How do we set that work plan going into the next year? How do we evaluate it during the year? How do we evaluate it at the end of the year? We're going into a discussion in 25, 26 of what do we do with the MST, and what should that be used for? We know we want to continue with streets and roads, but what should it be from a fire safety standpoint? And so you're going to hear from tonight, he's outstanding, our Deputy Fire Marshal Marshall. He's over here next to the Chief Tubbs, and he just has a really, he's been attending our neighborhood meetings with us, but he's really thoughtful, and one of the things I'm excited about, he's thinking about efficiencies. Everything's getting more expensive. How should we think about it? How do we do it more efficient? How should we spend MST funds to measure C funds? How do we have those one-off projects, what you'll see today? Last year we spent 277,000 approximately on vegetation management. This year you'll see it's over 500,000. There were a lot of one-offs that we had to think about, and he was the key to really developing that. And so I think it's a great story. It's a great service to the community. But I think as we go this year, with the Vice Mayor, soon to be the mayor, your city staff and the Southern Run Fire Team of just developing what should that process look like for us? And so we can move in one piece, united. The other thing that I just wanna point out, we're looking at efficiencies of when you think about quality of life and services, these are huge, it's a bullet point and it doesn't do it justice, but when you think about quality of life, our library, our golf course, our arts, parks and recreation of taking the teams from the top and thinking about streamlining and being more efficient, and then how do we methodically have a conversation of just improving service delivery over the long term. And so that is one that the Mayor and I I when we talk to the Board of Trustees with the library kind of sharing that vision of what we mean when we talk about that. What does it look like and what does a process look like because at some point it's just not staff. It'll be a council member or two. It'll be the Board of Trustees. It'll be the Parks and Rat Commission and all of us are part of this discussion. Change is scary for staff, we don't like change. But I think when you start to tell the story of what we're trying to do and be different than everyone else, and just be the best version of government that we can, it's really exciting. And so with that Parks and Recreation Library golf course, it's also the Public Private Partnerships. It's the owners of, you know, you have theater and arts in our city. You have our, you know, the friends of, you know, the fields and the friends of Park and Rec and the library and the foundation. There's an opportunity there for us to facilitate some really amazing stuff within our city. That really got us to this point, right? Just following history. And so there's a lot of work to be done with the council and staff and I'm excited if that's ongoing it's going to carry into next year. And then the last piece is SASM and Public Works operation. Thinking about succession plans at all levels of those two departments and where the opportunities to be more efficient and just provide the best service delivery for staff. When you think about these changes and I say efficiency, it's not about necessarily saving a dollar amount, right? It's not about cutting services, it's about actually maintaining and proving services more efficiently. And when you do that and you look at this, it's a kind of a visual discussion, but you really see efficiencies through attrition in the $6,7,800,000. And it goes back then to services that we're dying for, of like having an expert, maybe on the planning building side or in sustainability, or wherever, right? Or on the public work side delivering projects if measure L passes. So there's a way to like reset our assets and our mission. And so that's a big task, and I tell you that, because it's on our work plan. But if you hired any new leadership in a city and you gave them that task, that's a five-year plan. And the only reason why you're doing it is because you have a really amazing team and you have a council that's supportive, that's willing to go through that process. And so this work plan, again, it's the council, it's the staff, a lot's going on, and I'm just really proud. I can't say enough to sit here right now to tell you in October that we're 87% check the box is really remarkable, but still a lot of work to do. But I also wanna share some things that aren't on here, because of the ones that you never expected. I never expected I've issues with PG&E utility from the electric to the gas to vegetation, right? Of, of, and tied into all of our projects and really building that relationship and putting a best practice in, two steps forward, two steps back, some of its our faults, some of its theirs, whatever, just trying to fix that and engage has really been a two-year process and a lot of work and I really give the public works team a lot of kudos for their patients but staying on it because it's critical to our success in the city. The problem solving efforts of the Council and staff, you know I can't emphasize enough, these want, I call them one-offs but at any point I've said this with council. On a good week, there's three, on a bad week, there's 15, and there are things where we have to put our heads together as a staff and council and community members of decisions that were made in the 1930s that do not work today. But then you're trying to problem solve infrastructure in that of how do you get someone to yes and make them successful from a customer service standpoint, from a city standpoint, for doing the right thing but with public funds and something that's fair, fairness of how do you treat everyone equal and help them is really, I've never seen anything quite like it. It's challenging but it's ongoing and again, I can't emphasize that enough. It's at any point on these, you have five departments that are dealing with a multitude of problem-solving issues and the council as well, because the council has lived here a long time, really smart in your own right in the private sector, but also came up through the boards and commissions and from a historical context, putting our heads together of how do we get people to be successful. The school district we never anticipated the school district and so when you think about the school district over an eight-week period it was all hands on deck. We had 35 staff members that were you know led by Lynn and the team putting our heads together on a day-to-day basis with legal counsel and the counsel of how do we navigate to save Friendsfield? Like there was no opportunity where we were going to lose Friendsfield. But with that came the next step. And once you had that, it's an agreement. And so we're close to an agreement with the help of again, enter on this one in the team. We're just going to say it's a 30 to 60 day window. I'm being ultra conservative. There are no barriers at this point. We've gotten through anything that would catch on fire. We're in agreement. We're in a relationship building. We're going to get there, but we're just some final reviews and just being really thoughtful because it carries over into other fields, into other uses. And so we want to be really thoughtful, but legal counsels worked really hard to get there. I can tell you right now that it's with certainty we will have an agreement. We just want to be thoughtful in dotting the eyes and crossing the teeth. The last piece, and again, I want to thank the council and the entire council, and our council liaison with the school district, now it's a time of healing and it's time to rebuild our relationship and spending at a staff level, a council board level of okay, we agreed to disagree, but now let's move forward. It's in our best interest, the community expects that of us. How can we help you? A lot of efforts, they're going through their construction project right now. Pretty soon they're gonna need chambers to hold their board meetings and we've offered that to them moving forward. And again, we're providing a variety of services for parents and the community for the schools. And so again, it's the user agreement that comes into play. So again, there's a lot of things that you just never planned that you would do. But it was all, think about on this work plan for too much. You lost all your core leadership working on this. And we still, and it just, it's an effort, I've never seen a staff, and I may have said this before, but I've never seen a staff that you don't have to like, follow hours or worry about them. They work seven days a week. They're always, and when they come in on Monday, it shows, because they're just ready to go. Sundays, they're like setting the stage for the next process and evolution of decision making and with that it goes back to employee wellness and so on this work plan moving forward I feel like we've gotten it's like the sustainability coordinator we didn't have a sustainability coordinator in 2010 that was the last time we had it now we have one it's like the whole like multiple decades of just getting to where we need to be hitting all the unfunded mandates now let's go diversity equity inclusion we had Lynn to be, hitting all the unfunded mandates, now let's go, diversity equity inclusion. We had Lynn, you know, look at all the planning stuff of the forward long-term planning. We just had Danielle, right? And then everything else, we're geared 90% of what we do is day to day, is 90% of how the team is set. And so now we've built a bandwidth and those efficiencies of what I talked about earlier are going to get us where we need to go. Just a couple of last things, customer service. Customer service is the first and foremost. So if I have something on this work plan and even if I know it's going to get me fired, if there's a customer service issue and someone is unhappy and they're like they need help, I'm going to use every resource in my box to help them. And at the end of the day, if I'm standing in front of the council, and I have to articulate why I swung the way of a resident to help them, or someone that wants to have a business in our community, so be it. And that's the way we've approached this. And that's, again, I think a huge success that really doesn't show on this work plan. E-bike safety, you never planned on it, right? The chief didn't, but look where we got. And he's had a number of kudos for it. The next evolution is, and we talked about it tonight, is we're gonna take that. It sounds like the county wants to go first, but we'll go into that retreat in January, ready to go. And we'll tell you how we can do it, and the best way to do it, it out to me today that really has my attention. It helps the schools. It helps the schools with that permit program. And if you do that, it gives them what they need to do, what they have to do. And that is really a key piece to all of this, I think, as we go forward. So I think my tone has changed a little bit from that grand jury discussion. I think there's a way to do it. And I do want to support a legislator that supports us, he's trying to give us tools. So that'll come back to you, we'll be ready at the retreat to talk about that. Something else not on the work plan is cameras, something Elizabeth the superintendent did at the Mill Valley schools, she approved in this controversial and with the district. And in Mill Valley historically, she got cameras up in that school, the safety's number one. And so we actually could have access to that. We can also have access to over, God, I don't know how many are in our community in Millvall, in Marin County now, but I think it's over 200 cameras are going up. We're looking at bringing something to you for approval to put four cameras up and our entry exit points in the Millvallee. And what that does is it gives access to all the other law enforcement agencies. We'd have access to the school districts in ours, and it gives us real-time information on a license plate reader recognition standpoint of just keeping our community safer, giving us some tools to investigate crimes in our area. So we're gonna bring that to you. There's a best practice policy that was set by the county of Marin and the other jurisdictions of how that data can be used. And so you may have heard about some of it in the past of concerns. We think we've met that. We think we can get the council to consider yes based on that policy. So that's that'll be coming to you soon just for discussion and give us some direction. The other one are just the one off events. A number of one off events I appreciate Ashley and her team from Parks and Rec, you know, Kelly Brush. We talked about it. We found out about that and it was just like, we're inspired. We're like, let's make that happen. Well, with that comes a lot. And so it's helping them get to us, waving our fees, helping them get there, you know, something Ashley's been doing with her team right now that I never even thought of when they leave Mill Valley, they're taking a number of bikes, a lot of them to other jurisdictions. And so getting approval for that path through the County of Marin, through their whole path. And so she's taking the lead to do that. And I just think that's just a great service. The 125th anniversary, which the council's aware of, staff is on board and there's a lot with that there's going to be a budget a budget discussion and policy discussion coming to you quickly to basically make it have city support so we'll build a budget a number of it it'll be reimbursable but to get your approval to the soft cost the staff time to support the 125th team you know you only have a handful of volunteers it's a big task and we want to support them. So I want to help them of how they take the donations, how it goes out, just all the processes to protect them and to help them. So we're going to bring that item. It'll just be, it'll be a budget amendment. We're expecting it to be cost-reimbursable, but again, it's 125th something they're planning on doing too is giving a gift to the city moving forward. I thought one of the nice, one of the potential options too outside of the gift, which doesn't have a monetary value, but pretty special would be to freshen up our logo and help, you know, they're doing a lot of work with that and there may be an opportunity through that process to do something like that. So I just appreciate the volunteers and staff for making that happen. The last ones claims and litigation. We have a great council. I spent a lot of time in close session of how thoughtful and new problems solve and we have our sleeper and in land use litigation with council member Joacum who's been really helpful in the things that we need to think about and be proactive but not just thinking about claims and risk management, but also lessons learned. So we had that, the case we talked about on Miller, and so for us, not to be victims moving forward, we actually, this year, effective January 1st, I'm sorry, effective July 1st of this year. Before we had that 5050 cost share on litigation. We were responsible for the first 750,000 of an inverse claim, so landslides flooding, things caused by weather. We were responsible for the first 750,000 and then we had coverage up to 2.3 or 4 million dollars and then it comes back to us. What we have now is we're responsible for our retention limit which is 250, million and then it comes back to us. What we have now is we're responsible for our attention limit, which is $250,000, and then we have $11 million in coverage moving forward. And so I share that with you then what comes with it as a best practice. And so these are unlimited claims. So if we were to have a really terrible weather event or something like that, we have some protections. Now it doesn't make us feel like we're safe, but from a litigation standpoint, it does give us tools in the toolbox of something where to happen instead of letting it get to litigation, we could say, hey, we've had $ 10 million and have support from the risk pool to go be proactive and fix that hillside immediately for those residents or business owners, which is huge. And so there's going to be a lot of discussion moving forward too of how do we early warning systems of planning for those weather events when we get a claim having council available quickly with staff of how we problem solve that and move forward. But I think it's a great, it's great coverage for the city, but it's also great coverage for our residents that if something were to happen, they don't have to file a claim and go through eight months of back and forth and then litigation for three or four or five years, right? We can like solve it in real time. And so some great lessons learned and things have come out of this last year that don't show up on this work plan. That are just really remarkable and I'm just like really proud of it because we've taken this leadership role. We talk about it all the time but like you get a chance to tell the story and it's just I'm just really proud and again it starts with you council. I'm looking forward to see what you come up with in 2025. But maybe we tone it down a little. So with that, I'll stop there. I know you might have some questions with a couple of planning projects, but regardless, we plan on going anything that is not done, we'll take it to you in the retreat in January with the analysis of why it didn't get done. And what our recommendation is for 2025 on a schedule. Okay, well, thank you so much for that. So this is an item that we're just discussing. There's no action to be taken. So I'm going to flip this around. We're going to combine questions and comments. It's an interesting time. Is there anybody in the public that wants to make a comment? Saying none, anybody online? Okay good. So we're going to close public comment on this item I had a couple things I wanted just ask real quickly. So first of all I think when you say you've got You know 87% you are once again being modest because as you pointed out in your commentary Friends field use agreement was not something that we had on the plan you have to include that that's basically done wrapping up all of the litigation that we've had is a huge item, right? That's been accomplished. That was not part of the work plan. These, this SLR grant, which we received, again, not something that was on the work plan, but something which has been accomplished. The safe passageways to school and other improvements. There's a number of grants that we've got out there that was not something part of the work plan. So my point is that there's a lot more that's been accomplished than what's just on your work plan and several of the things which are outstanding or related. And I guess my question is about those things. And either you or Patrick, if you want to make a comment about them, has to do with SB9, 80 use the green code. Those things specifically, I don't know if you want to make a comment about like where we are, maybe highlight a little bit for council what the issue is. And you know, a lot of these things relate to what's going on at the county level, right? So I think that might just be helpful for everybody as to hear a little bit about how this relates to what the county is doing. Go ahead. Yeah. Sorry to put you on the spot, but if you're comfortable doing so, I think that would be helpful. Well, currently SB 9 has been on hold in light of legislative changes and we're coordinating closely with the Oligo Department on how to roll out or create an ordinance. We have the SB 9-2 unit ordinance in effect, but we do not have the SB 9 lot split ordinance. And quite frankly, the one that we received, we turned the state law. So not a loss with respect to implementing state law. It's best to have a local implementing ordinance, but at any rate, if we were faced with the SB 9 application, we uphold state law working closely with Andrew and her team. And we look forward to the legislative changes to begin to implement SB 9 ordinance and that's forecasted for 2025. Okay, ADU. ADU? Yeah. ADU ordinance is also another round of legislation. I don't want to say legislative changes or legislation, but the governor signed some new laws that are now and have been signed. They'll take effect in January. So we do know that we need to update our ordinance, but we also don't want to update it twice. So it's not efficient. So we anticipate, again, first quarter, having the conversation with Council on the broader work program and how we'll manage everything. But it's competing demands here on two ordinances alone But we do know that it's the ordinances is definitely in need of a local amendment just based on our experience Implementing the 80 ordinance, but also in light of state law that there's a need to update it to reflect state law as well Okay, good and then the Green code is that part of the 2025 kind of building code update that we're going to be doing in any case. So it remains to be seen as far as the extent of the answer question yes and those code amendments will be forthcoming by between now and June of 2025. But we can't wait. We know we understand the critical importance to move forward and we're doing that with respect to an EV ready type menu of options as Council Member Paray has really promoted. So we're doing that. We're doing the research. And having these conversations with our colleagues in Murin County, we will turn to state legislation on the new, not legislation, but the new code amendments to this next code cycle. And really then begin to identify what, if any, changes are made to end up with a new reach code. Not every marine jurisdiction has a reach code, so we also turn to our county as well as other marine jurisdictions on. And that's also, you know, from the planning side but also the building official side as well. They had their monthly meetings to identify policy. So that's forthcoming. Great. Great. Thank you so much. And my overall comment is that you guys have done an amazing job. And I'm just very grateful for all the hard work that you guys have done. I mean, you guys have crushed it this year and we still got the fourth quarter to get a couple more things done. So thank you, the manager and your staff for an amazing job. Common question. No questions that Todd, you did overlook one really challenging and onerous item which was trying to locate the staff holiday party and the amount of effort that went into that. And I ain't joking No, I echo the mayor's comments. It's been a remarkably productive year Across the city there's a lot to be proud of There's been the culmination of things that took two or three or four years and there, at some point we need to pause and celebrate that and recognize it because sometimes that gets lost as you press on to do the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. So I just want to commend staff, you know, we talked about measure L, but the amount of work that went into measure L, right? The amount of coordination, the amount of thoughtfulness just in that one. The curve balls that were thrown at DPW by various friends and sovereign nations coming into our town to do things. Just the unexpected, the way that staff has been able to handle the unexpected and you touched on several big ones while maintaining focus on executing against the commitments here is really outstanding. Thank you. Echewin the comments, Todd and staff great job. I think we, as Steven said, had a backlog of items that predate many of us and you guys managed to catch up. I think COVID was an incredibly difficult time and a lot came our way that we weren't expected in that time. So we're pretty much caught up. I mean, that's what I'm seeing, right? And that's awesome, because now we can start to plan ahead with the housing element, with the climate action plan. Sure, there's an adaptation plan and other things coming. But more or less, right? We've a lot of the planning pieces have been wrapped up, right? And we have a list of items to get to on the cap which we've talked about on the planning side with the housing element which we've talked about right so that's super exciting so I'll just leave my comments at that. I don't have any questions I just when I came on board on joint council and I first saw the work plan it was overwhelming just the number of action items that were listed. And just so impressed with how staff and how you have executed. So it's easy the last couple of weeks have been out in the community talking about it and all the progress that the city has made. And I think we do have a lot to be proud of. And frankly, I don't think we do a good enough job singing our praises in terms of the successes and what you and the staff, those one-offs every day. You have to take your eye off the ball and deal with that. I don't think you guys get enough credit for that. And it's just, it's amazing how well- run this city is and maybe that's the testament that people don't know that because we just get it done. So anyway, I'm very proud to be part of this council and I look forward to doing more work. So thank you very much to everybody. Doing a good job there. I mean, so the work plan, right? It comes from us, city council. Were you involved in this? Thank you. I mean so the work plan right that comes from us city council You were you and father's I know so we we we we this is a plan staff has to implement it correct and Hopefully we stay out of it. We just sort of you know help them along don't you know Cause back logs, but I look forward to you guys come to the new work plan for 2025 but a staff is done an excellent job and I have a plan to take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the process and I will take the From past councils, get to involve, and then that causes us to break off. And I think you guys in the future stay in focus. So that's all I'm going to say. Yeah. I think Stephen wanted to make one more comment. But. I think Stephen wanted to make one more comment. But um... Okay. No, no, we've got one more item. Got MST. Tell me about it. I'm like dying here. It's like five o'clock in the morning. So, um, I will say though, just to kind of riff on what you guys said. I think maybe Caroline said. It's like, it's really important. You know, it's really important that we show in this year that if you give a work plan that you work on together, everybody on the council worked on, delivered to staff, and then kind of get out of the way is really the most effective way of getting things done, right? Because when we get involved, sometimes we just slow progress. You wanted to make one more comment and I was filling time while you. Thank you. Well, Phil and Buster. Okay, there you go. Exactly. I should have made this observation earlier when Grace completed her presentation, but that's a great example of taking an idea and a person and integrating them into the operation of our city and having almost immediate impact. When the position was first proposed and approved, I'll be honest, I was a little skeptical about what the real substance was going to be. And she presented three years of results in a three month recap. In part, based on the work that others have done in prior years to lead up to this point where she can then apply for a grant or an award or other such things, right? And the great mentorship from Patrick and Danielle and Lynn and everybody on the team who brought her in has made her instantly effective, which can be applied in other areas as we go forward and look at how the city evolves and where we grow and where we invest. So I think it's a great case study and gives me confidence in the judgment of our management team. So thank you. Okay, good. There you go. There's your feedback. Thank you everybody. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Lynn. Okay, good. And with that, we come to item 12 on the agenda, which is the municipal services tax. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. So I know it's late, and I know it's tired. I just, again, want to give kudos to Southern Runfire for, I know for. I know for sitting through the whole meeting, but. Andrew poster and Marshall now helped draft the MST report we give an annual report we're happy to answer any questions if you want to go in depth one of the key messages here is as we go to 2024 measure C now has been in place for a number of years and we're really starting to figure out what we should be doing and the work that needs to be had moving forward, again, catch up over decades of not doing anything. And so we're finally at that point now where we can start the forecast moving forward. Same thing with the MST. Which of the MST look like moving forward? And so Marshall has really over the last couple of years taken the lead on this of how we build our plan, how we spend our monies. He's here to speak to it. If you want to ask him any questions or have him give you an overview, you have sat all for hours waiting. But again, I think just hearing him speak multiple times, if you have a question, we're happy to do it. We've been focused on tonnage and that might not be the best metric. I really focused on it last year because it was the most we've ever done. At some point you start to peek and the way we've been, we're a little bit challenged that I think Marshall can speak to it. Now that we've been, you know, again, when we're doing the vegetation from our public right away as our streets, we're doing it multiple times, we're taking away less tonnage, work consistently, right? And it's also becoming more expensive. So then that's where Marshall can speak to efficiencies and how we can better do it. But when you look at the amount of work that is being done, it's getting better and better every year. And I think again, we're at this stage now after this analysis to then go, okay, we're spending about 1.5, 1.6 million a year on the MST if you go back from this fiscal year, going back five years, on average, we spend anywhere from two to 300,000, this last on vegetation management, this last year, it's over 500,000, as you'll see. A lot of it starts to go to the one-off, so a lot of like, you know, hey, trees are dying, we need to do something, things like that, building a budget to be thoughtful of how we hit our SLPs in those one-offs where it just comes up and we have this report and we need to do something or help a neighborhood. And so that's why you see that increase. What we want to do now going into the end of this fiscal year and heading into the next is to grab the vice mayor, Marshall, myself, Andy and his team and start to talk about what is our pot, what are our pots of money for safety and how should we be spending it and being a little bit more forward thinking and giving you the report in advance. Here's how we're going to attack at this year. Right, having a little bit back and forth with the council. So again, that's the year at first, that's what we're working on, but with that I'll stop, you have Marshall, anything you wanna add to the report, or if you wanna ask him any questions? Why does it go impartial? You want to add anything to report? And I won't ask some questions. I mean, there's not really much to add to the report. Beyond what Todd's already really expressed. expressed and I mean, obviously, MST is an annual maintenance budget for reoccurring items, city lands, roadways, community requests based on ship or program. So to quote former fire chief chief Welch, he was always focused on tons breaker removed from the hillside, specifically as how he captured a constantly pound of that into us. It's all about removing tons breaker because that was effectively fuel that wasn't going to burn in the event of a wildfire and that was what was going to give our fire suppression crews the leg up and that's how he tried to convey it. So over the years, monitoring the budget and monitoring the items, the metrics captured for MST, that's evolved from, I think in the, the parking lot is sometimes, because some years we've, or in past years, is monitored by number of parcels, then it converted to tons, and that's what Todd references, is moving forward we want to be not only more efficient with how we're doing things, but also how we're capturing that data, how we're presenting those metrics, so that we can be a little bit more on point with exactly how that's evolving over time. We're seeing heavy increases in cost and labor for these fuel-reducing crews, and we're looking at different strategies on how to implement it, while also overcoming some of those challenges. And then obviously all the one off. So you know, the intense wind storms that we see that bring down a lot of trees. The buckets that we see here are primarily fuel breaks. But within those buckets are also individual items. Within those fuel breaks, trees will die and all of a sudden they'll fall down in these big wind storms. Large rain events, we have to do a roging control measures post treatment. So we have to factor in all those elements in order to continue to safeguard our projects in our community. So we have to factor those in and that's what we're hoping to as we move forward is be able to capture those within our metrics as well. Instead of just doing 167 parcels we treated you know actually focusing on you know this many tons per acre per parcel we're actually treated with you know follow measures planned and forecasted that level of data collection is being implemented actually on a countywide scale within some over on WPA projects and we're looking at implementing that in within them sorry MST projects as well so short of speaking all night for you, I think that kind of sums up what we're looking at, but I'm happy to answer any questions. Great. Why don't we do questions and comments simultaneously? Former mayor, nothing, Caroline, nothing no comments, nothing, max, no comments and questions. Oh yeah. Okay. Can MST funds be used to clear private property? Not to my knowledge currently. We'll use MST funds for private property is once the vegetation has been removed from a parcel, it's left on the roadway as the Program touches the private property, but you don't go on property. No. Is that governed by the language of the tax measure itself? No, I'm not explaining why I'm asking. So I live in a neighborhood with a large number of elderly residents with poorly maintained properties that are huge threats. They don't have the financial resources or the energy to address some of this. Going to MWPA and trying to get the grants and the subsidies and those sorts of things is also, it's become easier and there's more funding available but it's still several hurdles. Similarly there are properties that have large stands of eucalyptus that everybody knows are a problem but they don't want to pay to take them down. So I'd like to encourage us to think about how you're going to run out of fuel-break areas to clear in the next few years, as will MWPA at some point. And then it'll become maintenance and coming back to it and reducing growth and that sort of thing, which is all good. But there are these pockets of private risk, if you will, that maybe could be addressed more creatively or in partnership with other funding sources to help further subsidize what residents need to do. Is that out of bounds? No, absolutely not. I think you're right on point and it's definitely a need that we've acknowledged, absolutely not, I think you're right on point. And it's definitely a need that we've acknowledged, I think, countywide for a while now, especially how the grants and direct assistance have evolved within NWPA. Last year during our work plan, going into our local and D space funded projects within both the city of Bill Valley and the Southern and Fire District, because we are still separated, even though we've consolidated in the lens of MWPA. We saw that as a need and we also had additional funds that had carried over a year after year, both on the lowly side and on the southern-burn side due to a number of different factors. And what we realized were that the ability to go on and do that directs was key. And another piece of evidence that we saw last year with, as you mentioned, the county processes become easier, but still a little challenging. It's also a countywide pot of money. So those that are more apt or efficient at getting those funds seem to get them a lot quicker. So we acknowledge that we still support the NWPA Grant and Direct Assistance Program, and we have been working in that direction to funnel residents that direction. But we are also working to stand that up, so we put forward those projects locally, so we could do that. So we're working on piloting some of the initial phases of that locally, so we have those funds towards it, and that's kind of what Todd was referencing when he said, we have these pots of money. What's the most efficient way to utilize them? So if it's, you know, transitioning to Chipper out of MST and rolling that in with MWPA because those types of elements have already been funded and finding another solution within MST to solve either a fuel break project. There are certain parameters that come with MWPA focused projects that are different than MST because it's a locally kind of governed program versus MWPA, which is on a county stage. So the MWPA actually writes a lot of those guidelines that we follow when it comes to presenting projects. Just for the benefit of my fellow council members, over the next year, year and a half, MWPA will complete a fairly impressive, a very impressive survey of high risk areas down to the residential level. Through a combination of the site surveys that are done, plus some very, very powerful software programs to analyze things. And I would just suggest that we begin to think about how to target money at the highest risk private parcels, especially in areas where one house going up could take down 200 if the winds are in the wrong place. And whether that's through MST or MWPA or some combination, I just I feel it's worth thinking about. So that's gonna be powerful. And that's what we're talking about. So the MST Lynn and I were just talking about it today and she. That's going to be powerful. And that's what we're talking about. So the MST, Lynn and I were just talking about it today, and she reminded me it has to be really specific. And well, it's a two-thirds vote, right? It's specific. So this will be an opportunity to use data. And then go, what are the pots of money? How do we want to spend it? And which of that language? We're a renewal and we choose to renew it. We can change the language. Absolutely, and that's our window, right? Right. Yes. It's already there, Jim. Non-Kidding. I know. I know. But the most important thing for MWP, or the Measure C renewal, is going to be how individual residents feel about the impact on their safety. And so over the next four or five years, that agency has got to move from doing giant projects up in the hills, which are super important to, I think, transitioning more money directly to residents to get things done. And then I have another bugaboo, which is the cost of clearance variability is so vast that you go out to get a quote to get some work done and you can get just such a wide range of numbers. And a lot of consumers and residents just throw up their hand and say I'm not doing it. So anyway, thank you very much. Absolutely. I was just going to add to the conversation when I was on our emergency preparedness commission. We, this was in 2019 when Jim was mayor and the council was discussing the three foot ordinances as you may recall. We had offered a similar sort of suggestion to the council that if they were to adopt such an ordinance that we put together kind of a hardship fund or a match or something along those lines, this keep in mind was premeasured, right? But I'll dig up that letter and share it with the vice mayor, former chair, Michelle Terrell. It took the lead on that, so it's not in the audience anymore, Pat. Yeah. Do you want to share it with them? Do you want to share it with them? The answer to insurance? Great. Thank you. Thank you, you guys. Thank you so much. Excellent work. Thanks, Marshal. Thanks. Appreciate it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Excellent work. Thanks Marcel. Appreciate it. Okay good So sorry public comment on that item from here city clerk anybody online Just making sure you know got to do things the right way here, right? So Nope, okay good. Okay, so that item is now done. Council requests, ideas for discussion? Seeing none? Okay. Can I get a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. On favor. Aye. Motion carries. Five zero. Thanks. Everybody? Yes. All right. And we'll. Yeah. Thanks. It's great to be back. Next meeting, October 21st. you I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. you Thank you.