January 22, 2019 Joint Meeting of Mountain View City Council and Shoreline Regional Park Community

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[00:00:00] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Agents. Thank you, NFR city clerk could announce the attendance.

[00:00:25] City Clerk: All council members are present, except council member McAllister, who is absent. He was planning to teleconference to the meeting. It's been noticed as a teleconference meeting, but he's actually no longer going to teleconference, so he's going to be absent.

[00:00:37] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Thank you. Okay, first item on the agenda is the consent calendar, and these items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the councilor audience wishes to remove the item for discussion. Are there any items that a council member would like to pull?. Are there any items that anyone in the audience would like to pull? Okay. Then, um, motion is in order for the consent calendar. It's moved by... Vice mayor Abbe Koga.

[00:01:20] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. I think I have to read something. Yes. So I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent calendar, including 4.1, and increase in appropriations, not to exceed. Oh, my goodness. I can't. $80,000 in the police department budget for recruiting and hiring a consultant to complete a comprehensive organizational staffing study on the Central Operations for the Police Department. 5 votes required for that item.

[00:01:49] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. So it's moved by Vice Mayor Abikoga, segmented by council member. I think that was Clark. We can vote. That is unanimous with Council member McAllister, absent. Next item is, um, oral communications, and this portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the council on any matter not on the agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic for one 3 minute period during this section. State law prohibits the council from acting on non agenda items. So if you can be sure to also fill out a card so we can get your name right in the minutes, that would be great. But thank you. Go ahead.

[00:02:36] Sue Graham: Good evening, I'm Sue Graham. I'm here from the League of Women voters. Los Altos and Mountain View. Um, and I'm here tonight to introduce Max Beckman, Harned. He's going to be our observer, and he's replacing Lucas, who's now on the council. The observer's role is to listen to, but not participate in the proceedings. Through our observers, the league stays informed of community. issues and trends, and is better able to fulfill its aim of increasing political responsibility and interest in government. And while I'm up here, I would like to thank Lucas for his many years of observing and fine reports that he submitted to us. So, Max will be coming and listening in. Thank you so much.

[00:03:23] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[00:03:28] Jackie Kashin: Jackie Kashin, you all kind of know me by now. Tonight, I actually want to speak more generally about the whole idea of the displacement and everything going on. I know the city council is planning its goal setting meetings in about a month. And one of the things I would like the city to consider in that, although I believe I'll probably be there and a lot of the rest of us will be too. is trying to figure out how to do a better job of coordinating. I mean, the displacement is going to happen for some of us and there's just no way around that. And I think we need to do a better job of coordinating that displacement for people. When I sit down with the people from 2005 Rock Street, something that always comes up is this sense of, you know, we're supposed to get this, we're supposed to get that, auto temps comes in. The developer might, but there's no sense of being able to go one place to get what we need. And I would like the city to consider whether it's time to develop an office of, I'd prefer to call it an office of dislocation, but really relocation or even an ombuds office. One of the things we all keep asking each other is that it says in the city charter for people who are the rent control charter that we're all entitled to 3 months of a subscription service to one of the, but none of us has any idea how to get that. I assume it's paid for by the developer, but we don't know who provides it to us. I have neighbors who are elderly. I doubt they own a computer. They need a place they can go where someone can be there to help them look at Craigslist. We've talked about listings being on Craigslist. We've talked about the possibility of members of the city. landlords who are here, offering places that they have to people who are being displaced. And finally, whether we would like to admit it or not, there is going to be some somewhere along the way, there is probably going to be some inappropriate, unethical, or perhaps even illegal behavior around these displacements. You know, there may be someone who wants to put pressure on their tenants to go or whatever the situation might be. We should have an office we can go to. We should have an ombuds person and say, hey, this is what's going on. Some of us would know to just throw something into the city council email box, but a lot of people wouldn't have a faintest idea where to go. If they know, if the 1st thing they get when they're being told that, you know, their project is going up, is a letterhead that says, if you have any questions, this is where you go, if anybody is trying to pressure you to get out sooner, then you've been told you have to, this is where you go. Developer funds. I mean, God knows we should be getting plenty of those over the next few years. And that seems like a good place for that kind of money to be going to help the people who are being displaced. Thanks.

[00:06:29] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Anyone else want to address the council on items that are not on the agenda? Okay, seeing none will close that portion of the meeting and move on to new business. And the 1st item is the process for establishing council's 2019 2020 and 2021 major goals and project work plan. And the presenter is our assistant city manager and chief operating officer, Audrey Seymour Ramberg. Thank you, Audrey.

[00:07:02] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Good evening, Madam Mayor, members of the council. As many of you have participated and others are aware, the council's recent practice is to conduct a goal setting process every 2 years. These goals are broad, high-level priorities that establish a focus for the city's efforts and alignment of resources and a real focal point for communications as well. They're not easily accomplished in the short term. And therefore, council has chosen in the past to continue certain goals from one 2 year period over to another. Of course, it is council's prerogative, each two-year process to decide whether to keep amend or discontinue any of its goals. Usually this process is guided and helped by the work of the council goals subcommittee that did meet in late October of last year, at which point it was suggested that the current goals, which are addressing the issue of housing, quantity, diversity, and affordability, the issue of transportation, the issue of environmental sustainability, and also of protection of vulnerable populations. that those would likely still be important in the community and would also likely still have project work that would not be completed by the end of this current fiscal year. And so it was suggested at that meeting that rather than the typical agenda which staff had brought forward to the committee that, um, dedicates a significant chunk of time, I believe, um, over 2 hours to a very open in the discussion by the council with individual council members putting forward, um, a brainstorming of general ideas for, um, potential, high level, broad, um, goal areas that could then be discussed and prioritized and grouped and then turned into goal statements, that instead there be a check in on those goals to determine their appropriateness for carry forward, either as is or with changes, and then more time be provided at that agenda, to allow individual council members to suggest specific projects that could be undert to help accomplish those goals, which would be an earlier point in the process for council members to have such input than what we have had in past processes. Given the timing of seating of new members and the importance of this process to the full council. It was our decision to put this on the agenda today for the full council's approval. or consideration for change. And also in the staff report. We've explained the rest of the process. what's coming forward in that 1st study session, which is on February 28th, is, as I mentioned, an opportunity to confirm the goal setting, to brainstorm potential projects. And then there's a series of input gathering with the advisory bodies and the departments, and then I return to council in April for council to identify some priorities amongst the potential projects, and then for staff to do some final analysis about what could feasibly be implemented for that to return back to council in May for adoption. So the item before you is the overarching process for establishing goals as well as a suggested agenda for the February 28th 1st study session of council. And it is your prerogative to um, there's some suggested times for um, the different items on that agenda and it's your prerogative now and also in that meeting itself to decide to spend more or less time um, on either of those parts of the agenda process.

[00:11:21] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. We'll take council questions, then we'll open up to the public and then come back for council discussion. So are there any questions from the council on the process as laid out here? Vice Mayor Abbe Koga?

[00:11:39] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Um, so in the introduction section of the the, agenda for the 28th. When we talk about our, I guess, updates to the council goals, does that include, um, an update of where the projects tied to those goals are?

[00:12:04] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Yes. Yes, indeed. So we have a work plan of projects associated with each of the goals, and we will be talking about how many are completed, how many are expected to be completed by the end of this fiscal year, and therefore how many are expected to continue on.

[00:12:22] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: So that'll include then the capacity staff capacity piece to it then.

[00:12:27] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Correct. And we often make the case, as you know, that there's capacity for project work, which is significant things above and beyond day-to-day responsibilities and try to put that all into perspective around the capacity of staff.

[00:12:46] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Well, we get, receive these, um, items in our staff report packet beforehand that so we can review a lot of this to try to...

[00:12:59] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: You'll actually get it 2 different times. It is our practice to provide an update on the goals, work plan as part of the mid-year budget, which I believe is February 13th, if I'm correct. And but without any kind of analysis or context around it. It's just an attachment, but then I will be working with Melvin and preparing a report for the February 28th goal setting study session that does the analysis and puts that work plan status report into context.

[00:13:34] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Perfect, great. Thank you.

[00:13:35] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: You're welcome.

[00:13:37] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Council member Clark.

[00:13:39] Councilmember Chris Clark: I just wanted to ask the I haven't seen sort of general meeting calendars beyond March. So I was just wondering why the gap between March and April 23rd. Is it just scheduling with council meetings or I was just wondering why it couldn't be earlier in April?

[00:13:56] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Because we allow the entire month of March for the advisory bodies to place the item on their agendas, they can't get started until you guys have had your February 28th workshop, and then generally, you know, each of them meet at least once during during the month, but some of them won't get it done until late into March.

[00:14:19] Councilmember Chris Clark: Okay, and then and then I guess the gap between that and April 23rd is the is staff needing time to review all that.

[00:14:26] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Correct.

[00:14:29] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Council member Hicks.

[00:14:33] Councilmember Alison Hicks: I have a process question. I do believe that these 4 goals are ones that the community is most likely still behind. And I also say that, you know, many of the projects under these goals are not completed, many, if not most, at the same time, I think the election showed to some degree that there's some interest in livability projects, and part of the goal, and I don't see that that fits neatly under any one of these 4 goals. So I guess my my question is, I would like to tweak those goals. I think that we can keep those goals and add livability in some way. But I'm just wondering where is the, I don't want the time to do that to pass me by. When is the time to do that? Would that be tonight or at some other meeting?

[00:15:23] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: That would be at your February 28th, um, goal setting, study session. The 1st item on the agenda is to, actually, it's agenda item two. And it's called goal setting, and there's 45 minutes currently allotted for that, but you could take more time if needed. And what I would see for that process is each of you being able to weigh in to identify whether there's any of those goals you would not want to continue and whether there are any elements of those goals that would need to be changed to reflect your view of the current priorities of the community. So there's absolutely the opportunity to revise and change those goals as needed during the February 28th study session.

[00:16:22] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Any other questions from council? I just have one. And if I recall correctly, the council did not prioritize, like once we knew the projects that the staff was going to work on over the next 2 years, we didn't prioritize like any sort of order. Is that correct?

[00:16:46] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: No, council did not have immediate and direct input on the order, but I do believe that in the staff analysis where we came to council with our recommendation of which of your priority projects were achievable within the 2 years. We looked at a number of things. One of those was, you know, who's the lead department and which other departments are involved. And what the level of effort was that would be required for the project. And then based on the workloads of the departments and any other kind of things that naturally would impact the timing of the particular project, we put forward an estimate of when we believed that project would be either started or completed within the two-year time frame. But, um, the thing that the council itself adopted were the projects, the project list and not the timeline.

[00:17:45] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Would there be any way for us to provide input on that, I can imagine it would be incredibly challenging, but is there a way we could provide input on that? Maybe just by year or something?

[00:17:56] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: I think Dan would like to weigh in.

[00:18:01] City Manager Dan Rich: First caveatas, you have to be very careful about getting in the weeds of operational and organizational capacity issues. The longer answer is, I believe last time you actually, within the category is prioritized because we had to drop some of them. So when you do your prioritization, that's certainly a factor will keep in mind as we're scheduling. If something's your 1st priority, we'll try to get to it 1st or as soon as possible, but as Audrey says, there's a lot of different factors that impact who's working on it, you know, what preliminary work has to be done, whether the attorney's office has 7 different things on our plate or only 2 it's usually 12. So there's a lot of different factors, but I think when you go through the prioritization process, that will give us a clue of what's most important to you.

[00:18:51] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Okay, thanks. Any other council questions? Okay, we'll open this up for public input. And if you could come up. Is there anyone who does want to provide us with input on this? If you could fill out a card and leave it with the city clerk so we get your name right, that would be great. It looks like there's not too many, so we'll, you can have 3 minutes. Yeah, you can fill it out after.

[00:19:19] Carol Whittaker: Well, good evening, Mayor Matachek. Council and staff, my name is Carol Whittaker. I'm here as a member of Livable Mountain View. We would like to congratulate you all. Mayor and the 3 new members of our council. We look forward to working with you to help Mountain View become the most livable city in California. Livable Mountain View indoors 2 council candidates based on their views, concerning livability issues. Those two candidates are now seated on council, which I think you would all agree reflects that livability is a highly valued commodity by the citizens of Mountain View. Mayor Matachek, you yourself mentioned that during your swearing in speech that livability was an important part of your vision for governing Mountain View's future, and we couldn't agree with you more. Mountain View's population is estimated to grow from 80,000 to 130,000 in the next 5 years. That level of growth is exciting and staggering. How will that density affect the lives of our current residents and our future residents? Will we begin to decide it's too much of a hassle to go have dinner on Castro Street anymore? Because our friends can't park on our parking lots or sidewalks would be too narrow or too crowded to walk upon. Will we settle for grubhubs, lukewarm overpackaged meals being delivered to us as we screen binge? And how will we share our life experiences with our neighbors? How will our children learn to appreciate diversity? And sharing that occurs outside of the classrooms? Will the 4 walls of our living rooms become our only sense of place? Social scientist warn us that social isolation negatively impacts our health. Well, our speed to grow lull us into developing a city of sameness, leaving plaques where our historic buildings were allowed to deteriorate, only then to be destroyed or relocated out of the context of their history. And what about our green spaces? Will we continue to tear down trees to put up those proverbial parking lots? Livable Mountain View encourages council to add livability as an important addition to the 2019, 2021 goals. Livability must be considered along with density. If it's not, it's simply too late to recover or too expensive. After years of livable mountain view speaking with many mountain view residents about the changes that come with growth, especially in our downtown area, we feel confident that you would have the community's support. Please consider adding livability as an important goal, or at least list it as part of the sustainability goals. as we move forward in hopes that Mountain View can be the most livable city in California. We appreciate your time. Thank you.

[00:22:08] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. I just want to remind folks, we're talking about the process here tonight. And so be sure to, I would say, sent us that input or come back when we're talking about the actual goals as well. Next please.

[00:22:26] Public Speaker: So again. So, I think the current goals are honorable and admirable. But in November, I think the voters sent a clear message, and now we have three new members on the council. And I think I speak for the voters of Mountain View when I say, We wouldn't want the council to just adopt the previous council's goals without having some discussion about what the new council wants to achieve. And there's plenty of other admirable goals. And I agree with the livability. So, um, I'm hoping that that there is some discussion about that. And just as an aside, in the transportation section, I'm hoping that the transit center is high on the list, because I don't think I've seen it discussed previously in that goal. But it might have been. So thank you.

[00:23:40] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Is there anyone else who wants to address the council on this topic? Okay, seeing none will bring it to counsel for discussion about this. Anyone want to jump in there? Council member Clark.

[00:24:04] Councilmember Chris Clark: Since we're just talking about the process tonight. I initially, when I read this over the weekend, It's been 2 years, so maybe I've forgotten. It just seemed like there was it was a little bit more drawn out than I thought it should be initially, but then when you actually walk through each one of them, you realize that, you know, we really do want to get the input from the advisory bodies on the project lists, and staff as well, and then make sure those are vetted and we have some sense of the amount of resources that each one will take. So I'm okay with the overall process. And I can make a motion that we adopt a staff's recommendation here.

[00:24:47] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Is there anyone else, council member Ramirez?

[00:24:50] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. Um, and first, I appreciate the work that you've put into this and support all of the revisions that you're proposing. Um, I did want to see if the council would be comfortable with uh, with a 2nd or a relatively substantial revision. One of the challenges that I've observed with goal setting is oftentimes council members will come in with a great number of great ideas. And oftentimes, you know, have difficulty, I think, sort of articulating a scope for each of those great ideas in the context of, you know, a lot of a lot of the pose projects that are floating around. And I would be curious to know if there would be interest in allowing individual council members to submit ideas in advance of the meeting. You know, that could be included with the agenda packet, that would at least give us a chance to provide, you know, some background, some, you know, a preliminary scope. And I think the advantage to would be to allow members of the public to review the ideas, you know, allow staff a chance to vet them, again, in a very preliminary way. And then, you know, have us come in, I think, with a better sense of, you know, where each of us are. Um, you know, and particularly for projects that have great complexity or comprehensive scope, you know, just give a sense of here's what we intend to achieve with this project. You know, I'm not suggesting any particular parameters. I would want to defer to, you know, to the mayor and city manager and the members of the subcommittee, but just, you know, want to gauge the level of comfort with this idea.

[00:26:50] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Anybody have any comments on that one?

[00:26:52] Councilmember Chris Clark: I think... I know in I know in the past on not goal setting, but other things, you know, you can circulate information in advance of the meeting, you just do it through the city manager and so that we don't end up, you know, debating it, email or something. Um, uh, And then, but I mean, if you, I think the real question here is, you know, do you want it included as part of the packet or not? And, um, I don't have any issues with someone circulating a list of ideas via the city manager, the city attorney or the city court in advance. And then if you want that to be made public in the agenda packet, that's fine. I just, as long as you don't expect all of us to do that, because I'll probably come up with my ideas over the weekend well past the agenda. Some of them, some of my bright ideas over the, after the agenda packet deadline. So I don't, but I don't have a problem with that. We have some precedent for that. It's just we usually don't include that in the packet, but if you want yours included in the packet, that's fine.

[00:27:51] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Uh, Vice mayor, I'll be cocoa.

[00:27:54] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Yeah, I was gonna say the same. But I would actually like to see the staff report and look at the issues of staff capacity and so forth and sense we get that. It would be too late to submit after. So, um, you know, and, and we, I think there's a, there's something to be said about having a, just a dialogue at, at the meeting, and, you know, listening to the, to everyone incoming formulating the project list and so forth together. Um, but, yeah, my concern was really about staff capacity, and I'd like to see that 1st um, before I send in. a huge list of projects that, you know, I'm told later are not possible because there's not enough staff capacity for instance. So if you want to do that, that's fine, but, um, you know, I would I personally will probably reserve, um, my ideas until the meeting that we have.

[00:28:56] Councilmember Chris Clark: So I'll just accept a friendly amendment too, just direct staff it. If a council member wants to circulate a list of ideas or information for us to review as part of the packet and they authorize it to be put in the packet, then I don't have a problem with that. So.

[00:29:15] Mayor Lisa Matichak: And does the 2nd term? Okay. Any other comments? Council member, come A.

[00:29:23] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. So I just wanted to comment. When I looked at this item, I felt like it was more a process. Um, so I look forward to February 28th when we can, um, you know, discuss more. But for me, one of the lenses that I'm taking to looking at council Coles is, um, something that we've all mentioned, which is, you know, quality of life, and that's the lens I'll be bringing to, um, on the, on February 28th. Um, so, and I'm, uh, will be supporting the friendly amendment. Thank you.

[00:29:59] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Any other comments? Mr. Rich?

[00:30:03] City Manager Dan Rich: A few comments, if I could, to council member Ramirez's suggestion, but we can certainly do that. I just want to remind all of you that the 1st session on the 28th is really just a brainstorming. So, whether you provide us the ideas in advance, which certainly is helpful in letting people think about them, or you provide them that night, the intent is not for you to really be debating them in that night, and while we'll give you a rough scope of capacity that night, We're also not going to be defining capacity, then. That won't come until later in the process when we have both your ideas and advisory bodies and staffs, we have the master list, and then you prioritize them, and only after you prioritize them, and we've assessed, you know, this one's a 200 hour project, and this is a 50 hour project. We can get through the top 6 or only the top 3 or whatever. So, you know, the full scope of that won't come until later, but we'll certainly let you know kind of, but still on our plate earlier in the process. So I just wanted to make sure everyone understands that, you know, whatever is brought up on the 28th is really just the first cut of the list, and it won't be finalized until later in the process.

[00:31:16] Mayor Lisa Matichak: So, from my perspective, what was really important to me is to have counsel being earlier in the process, in terms of providing our suggested projects. And so that's why we have this proposed change. And I'm very open to, if folks want to send in the projects that might be very important to them ahead of time. I don't think it helps to be able to think about them a little bit. I'm not sure I'll get to that, like Council member Clark said, but I will try. Um, Council member Ramirez.

[00:31:47] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. And I appreciate the friendly amendment and the concerns and sort of approach that the council members who have actually participated in goal setting before have shared just for a quick question about sort of the desired outcome of this. because I can't quite remember how it's worked out in the past. Do we have, will we end up with sort of a much longer list of projects then with the proposed revision to the process, then we could, then we know we could realistically take on, and then we vet it down in future meetings, or will there be some, you know, like majority support from the council for like preliminary acceptance?

[00:32:28] Unknown Speaker: Not in that February 28th meeting. Yes, generally, especially with this being a brainstorming of potential ideas, you won't necessarily need to be prioritizing your own individual suggestions, and you certainly, we certainly aren't suggesting within that meeting process that you, as a group, prioritize. In fact, that list will then get commented on and possibly get larger when departments and advisory bodies look at it and determine what, if anything, they feel is missing, that would be important to accomplish the broad goals. And, um, that in our past experiences has been, I think we had 82 maybe, um, goals at that stage in the process. And then you will be engaged in a prioritizing exercise, and then even after that, we still won't have a clearer idea of where the line gets drawn as to what is achievable within the 2 years until staff does that final analysis of the resources needed and the interdependencies across departments and the timing.

[00:33:46] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you very much. Any other comments? If not, I think we're ready to vote on this. And that passes unanimously with council member McAllister absent. Thank you. The next topic is the downtown valet parking pilot program, and business development specialist Tiffany Chu, and Acting Community Development Director Wayne Chen are our presenters tonight.

[00:34:31] Business Development Specialist Tiffany Chu: Good evening, mayor and city council. Tonight, we are reviewing the downtown valet parking pilot program. As a reminder, downtown is a diverse commercial district with a mix of residential and commercial uses public amenities and a multimodal transit station. The downtown is supported by 11 public parking facilities, 2 parking structures, and 9 surface lots, for a total of 1584 off street parking spaces. To manage the operations of the parking facilities. It is funded through the parking district. To manage the daytime parking demand, the city administers a downtown parking permit program for property owners, businesses, and residents within the parking district. And for reference on the map, that the valet parking program is currently at lot 11. It's shown in red. In March 2018, the valet parking program was launched at lot 11 for a 12 month timeframe on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday during the lunch and dinner hours. The purpose of the program is to help the downtown parking demand by increasing the number of available parking spaces within an existing parking lot. Attendant assist valet is where parking attendance are stationed throughout the parking facility to direct vehicles to specific parking spaces within the lot and assist vehicles when leaving the lot. The city contracts with parking company of America to operate the valet service. Staff monitored and tracked the program's usage over the past 10 months. At the beginning of the program, there was a 4 month ramp up period with a daily range of 12 to 22 cars parked per day. Program usage increased during the summer and peaked in August with 30 cars per day. Then, the usage dropped in September and grew modestly from October to December. In total. In the past 10 months, there was 131 days of valet service provided to the community and 2917 vehicles who used the service. Tonight, staff recommends continuing the program at no cost to the driver through the end of next fiscal year, with changes to the hours of operation from a lunch and dinner time operation to a continuous operation. Current parking demands continue to exceed the parking standard, practical capacity of 85%, and the program will continue to provide additional parking spaces. Also, changes to the operation hours will provide flexibility to drivers who are parking within the time limit, but not within the program hours. To increase program utilization, staff will develop additional marketing strategies and continue to partner with the Central Business Association and the Chamber of Commerce. The pilot program was funded through the downtown parking district. The 1st year of the program cost the city approximately $81,000, including valet service staffing, minor repairs to lot 11 and signage. To implement the 2nd year, city council would need to appropriate 105,000. The increased costs would allow the city to expand the program through the end of the next fiscal year and transition to a continuous hour of operation. In addition, staff continues to explore additional parking options for future parking demands when parking lots 4 and 8 and 12 highlighted and read in the map before you will be taken offline while the lots are being developed. Staff has leased the Calc Farm property at View and Villa Streets as a site for future public parking, and we'll explore opportunities for parking at the private parking lot across some lot 12. And in addition, there's a potential expansion of the valet program at the Kaiser parking lot. When the new development projects are completed, the projects will replace existing public parking with underground public parking, while the Hope Street lots will add a net new 76 parking spaces plus an additional 160 parking spaces through a shared parking agreement. In addition, city council is scheduled to hold a study session on the paid parking study in March of this year. There are 4 alternatives council could choose to implement tonight, modify the program options, provide other direction on the program, or discontinue the program, or provide other direction. And tonight, there are 2 recommendations for city council. Approve continuing the program with changes to the hours, and appropriating funding to continue the program through June 2020. Staff will continue to evaluate the program if changes are needed, and will return to council with recommendations. This concludes staff presentation. Thank you.

[00:39:38] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Are there any council members who have questions? Mayor Abbe Koga.

[00:39:48] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Um, so, I had one question, I know it mentions here, um, the hours 11 to 10 p.m., and, um, I guess my concern was on the weekends, um, we have a lot of, um, guests in our downtown until usually the 2 a.m. Um, and I know you mentioned you're looking for an after hours pickup. So is that likely or if we don't, if you're not able to, would you potentially come back and look at extending the hours at least on the Friday, Saturday weekend days.

[00:40:29] City Staff: At this point through the 1st 10 months, there was there after 10 PM, the demand for the program decreased because the demand for public parking decreases after 10 PM, it becomes a different crowd. So staff believes that if we keep it from 11 AM to 10 PM, we will catch the core crowd of the downtown.

[00:40:50] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Okay, great. All right. Thanks.

[00:40:53] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Any other questions from council members? Okay, seeing none. We'll open this up for public input. If you have any input on this topic, please come up to the microphone. Okay, saying none. It's kind of a quiet audience tonight. We'll bring it back for council, comments, and deliberation. Council member Hicks.

[00:41:26] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So, I support everything in this report. My only comment is whether you could look into additional ways to publicize the valet parking because I know, I've spoken to people who don't know anything about it. And I'm also wondering, um, so I under, I did ask staff a question earlier about where you publicized it. I'm wondering if there's more social media that you could use. And I don't know whether you could even partner with restaurants to advertise that they could come and have valet parking or even in newspapers, you know, neighboring newspapers from neighboring cities when people want to go out somewhere different. But that was my only comment to explore other ways to let people know that this is available.

[00:42:16] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Council member Clark.

[00:42:19] Councilmember Chris Clark: I appreciate the data and the feedback is really helpful. I'm glad we got feedback from the downtown businesses on ways to improve it. And I think it's a, I think it's a good, a good plan overall to move to a continuous model and it isn't, it isn't that much more expensive overall. So I think it's worth giving it a try and seeing how things go. So I'll move the staff recommendation.

[00:42:46] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Any other comments?

[00:42:49] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Are you trying to cancel my book, May? I was just trying to switch my screen so that I could request. Sorry about that. Um, so I, let me pull up my, my notes that I can remember. Um, so, uh, I'll be supporting both the change in hours and the other year of funding. Um, I, one thing that I know, wasn't reflected in the staff report, but I know initially, um, staff in the previous council had been trying to tackle was, um, the topic of rideshare. And so I know off of Castro. There are the white curves for people to use for the rideshare. I, at another point, would just be curious on if we would be able to see the utilization of that. I often see people putting their hazards on while on Castro, which I find a bit dangerous. Um, and so while I know that we try to, you know, encourage more pedestrians, cycling, public transit, that we will get people, um, who come to visit, um, so the valet program is is of use, but I'd also be interested to see if we can, uh, perhaps provide some education to the rideshare to, uh, utilize, uh, those, uh, white curves. That's my only comment. Thank you.

[00:44:07] Unknown Speaker: I have a question about those white curves, because the signs were the signs taken down, but the curves are still painted.

[00:44:15] City Staff: Correct. The signs were taken down, but we can check on the curbs.

[00:44:21] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Okay. So I'm very supportive of extending this. I think it sounds like a great idea, so I'm happy you took a look at it. The one thing I would like to see is when we talk about CIPs for next year, it'd be great to have taking a look at Castle Farms area in Lot 12. Both of those to make sure we are increasing parking capacity sooner rather than later.

[00:44:57] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Vice spare, I'll be Koga.

[00:44:59] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Sorry, I just remembered I had a question. Um, I know this is a pilot program that will extend and my, um, my question is, you know, what are we trying to achieve, um, a piece of this to me is the question of whether it becomes a paid service. So would that be a part of the paid parking study or discussion we're gonna have, or is it something where we will wait in another year to see the success of this program and then come back to that question?

[00:45:37] City Staff: Part of the purpose of this program is to create additional parking spaces leading up to the development lots for and eight, we will lose, we and 12. We will temporarily lose those parking spaces and then need to replace them. So valet parking is the way to implement, create new parking spaces without having to build new parking spaces. But as part of the long term goals of this program, yes, the financial costs related to it will need to be considered in a potential fee will have to be considered at some point.

[00:46:12] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: And do you expect to talk about that separately from the paid parking discussion or will it be a part of that?

[00:46:20] City Staff: I believe that the discussion with the valet parking piece and a fee should be kept within the pilot program.

[00:46:26] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Alright, great. Thanks.

[00:46:28] City Manager Dan Rich: Just to add to that, I mean, the paid parking study is separate. If the council chooses to go to paid parking, that will certainly raise the issue. It would be illogical to have paid parking and free valet parking. So I think depending on what you do on paid parking, we would then revisit that. Regardless of what you do on paid parking. If long term, you want to continue valet parking, we would obviously need to think about the financial model for that.

[00:47:00] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Okay, I don't see anyone else in the queue, so we have a motion by council member Clark. A 2nd by Vice Mayor Abbe Koga. I think we are ready to vote on this one. And that passes unanimously with council member, McAllister, absent. Thank you very much. Okay, on to item 7.3, which is state route 237 and Middlefield Road, Interchange Improvement Project. This is project approval, and environmental document, and final design, and create a midyear CIP. And our presenter is, our presenters are, associate engineer, Joy Houghton, and assistant public works director, civil engineer, Jacqueline Solomon.

[00:47:57] Associate Engineer Joy Houghton: Good evening, Mayor and council members, we are here tonight to take the next steps to deliver the state Route 237 and Middlefield Road Interchange Improvement Project. Just to give you some background information, in 2005, VTA finalized the Valley Transportation Plan, our VTP 2030, which is a long range plan to deliver. to develop and deliver transportation projects for Santa Clara County. And in 2006, city MVT entered into a co op agreement to produce a project study report, which included the Middlefield Road in 237 interchange, which is located in the East Westman area of the city. The project study report is the 1st step in identifying and evaluating improvements proposed with the state high within the state highway system, including interchanges. And in late 2012, the PSR was completed and was approved by Caltrans early 2013. Improvements to the State Route 237 and Middlefield Road were discussed in the PSR due to the problem relating to the multiple signalized intersections at within the short segment of Middlefield Road. The preliminary scope of work of the project addresses the challenges facing the interchange by simplifying the configuration, the proposed improvements, including realigning the westbound off ramp, um, to intersect Middlefield Road and line up with Ferguson Drive. It also includes eliminating the left turn movements from the westbound middle field onto the westbound on ramp by closing the median island, and providing a loop ramp for the westbound traffic on Middlefield Road to access the westbound highway 237. What is not shown in this exhibit are improvements, relating to bike pet, um, access, and staff will be looking into opportunities to include those in the next phase of the project, which is the project approval, and environmental document and final design. As mentioned earlier, the PSR was completed in 2012, and approved by Caltrans in 2013, approval of and completion of the PSR enables the next phases of the project, which is the project approval, environmental document, and final design to be fast tracked, once local, state, and federal funding becomes available. Improvements to the interchange are identified in the Caltrans Project and Development list, which means that Caltrans staff is available to work on the project at this time. It's also identified in the Valley Transportation Plan 23rd, 2030. And most importantly, in the 2016 VTA measure B highway program, which makes the project eligible for measure B funds, that's allocated $750 million towards highway interchange projects. In order to move on to the next phase of the project, the city will need to enter into an agreement with VTA, and if council approves, the agreement terms are the following. VTA will be the lead agency responsible for activities relating to preliminary engineering, environmental clearance and final design of the project. The city is the project's sponsor, responsible for funding, public outreach, stakeholder engagement. The city will be providing up to $4000000 to VTA, and this is to count towards the local match requirement for measure B funds. City and VTA are to collaborate and project delivery, and the project approval and environmental document and final design phases have a targeted completion date of March 2022. Part of the city responsibility is to provide project funding, and just a few months ago, November 2018, city council accepted $11 million of LinkedIn community benefit funds, of which half is to be paid this month as part of the phase one of the LinkedIn project at that time. This project, the 237 Middlefield Road Interchange was listed as a potential candidate for these funds. And staff is recommending to allocate these community benefit funds to be used towards the next phases of the project, which is the project approval and environmental document and final design. The fund will also be used to cover project management and city administrative costs, contingencies, and the remaining balance could be used towards the next phase, which is construction. Once funding is secure and the agreement is executed, the next steps will be for VTA to begin work early this year and complete the final design phased by March 2022. The city will take the lead on the public outreach process and continue communicating with the impacted property owners and businesses in the area. And the city will work with VTA to obtain measure B funds for construction of the project. In order to get us to the next step, the staff has the following recommendations. Approve a mid-year capital improvement project, appropriate funds in the amount of 5.500000 to the new capital improvement project and authorize the city manager to execute a funding agreement with VTA. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

[00:53:43] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Um, Council member Clark.

[00:53:47] Councilmember Chris Clark: So, I have to ask, um... I was excited about reading about this, because I think it's a great project, but then I got the part where, like, I was like, oh, oh, 2022, except that's just design. Like, they'll have completed design when I'm, or maybe construction when I'm two decades older. So, um, I, just for my own knowledge, like, is that a function of, because of all the different agencies involved, or is it a function of VTA, taking the lead, or what creates sort of that long design, a rule process?

[00:54:22] Associate Engineer Joy Houghton: There is a process that, um, we need to follow when improving, um, interchanges or anything within the state highway system, and the preliminary engineering and environmental clearance is a phase we need to complete before we can even move on to the final design.

[00:54:42] Councilmember Chris Clark: Right. So it's because Caltrans is involved, really, is what it comes down to. Okay.

[00:54:47] Associate Engineer Joy Houghton: Yes.

[00:54:50] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Vice mayor, Abbe Koga.

[00:54:51] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. So, um, in terms of funding, the $4000000 our shared, then Met is, I think, is it 20% of the total cost of the project? So including construction, are we looking at about $20 million? And if that's, and then is the rest of it included? Is it all included in measure B or just a part of it?

[00:55:18] Associate Engineer Joy Houghton: The final, um, I, and Dawn might step in. I think the final match in that kind of determination hasn't quite been decided yet. decided yet. And so... This gets us towards our, towards our match, I'll let John finish.

[00:55:35] Assistant Public Works Director Dawn Cameron: Don Cameron, assistant public works director. VTA has said a minimum match of 10% of total project costs. However, there are far more projects than can be funded. So when local agencies overmatch, we're more successful in getting the measure B funding that we need.

[00:55:53] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Got it. All right, great. Thank you.

[00:55:57] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Any other questions from council members? Okay, we'll open it up for public comment. If anyone has any comments on this item,

[00:56:21] John Carpenter: Uh, John Carpenter, Mountain View, I'm concerned about that high speed loop from a little, that makes a right turn from a middle field to the, uh, freeway. Uh, I think that is a deprecated design, the... The, uh... policy designed for cow trains is that you have a regular street intersection interfacing with the free word. So you have to, part of the loop, that comes onto Melfield, it has to come up regular, city street, right, right angles, or for pedestrian bicycle safety.

[00:57:06] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Anyone else who wishes to comment on this item? Okay, saying none will bring it back to council for discussion? If there is any? Thank you. Uh, Vice Mayor Abbe Koga?

[00:57:27] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: If there's no other discussion, I'd like to make a motion to appropriate funds in the amount of $5.5 million to the new Capital Improvement project to be funded by LinkedIn Community Benefit Funds, 5 votes required.

[00:57:43] Unknown Speaker: Second.

[00:57:46] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Any other comments on this one?

[00:57:49] Unknown Speaker: I'll just add that, and I've said this before, I think this is a great project, and I'm really happy to support it. This is an intersection that really needs some improvements, or intersections that really needs some improvements. So I'm really glad this one is before us tonight.

[00:58:06] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Any other comments? Varsity attorney?

[00:58:10] City Attorney Jannie Quinn: I think we might have confused you a little bit with how we drafted some of the script for this evening, but there's actually three parts to staff's recommendation, and I just wanted to clarify, I think when there's a 5 vote requirement, we call that out to your attention. Or just clarify that you're moving staff's recommendation.

[00:58:31] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Yes, so I am moving staff recommendation points one, 2, and three.

[00:58:36] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Thank you. Okay, any other comments? If not, we will vote on this one. And again, it's unanimous with council member McAllister absent. Thank you very much. you. The next item on the agenda is 7.4 proposed federal legislative priorities and issues for 2019, and our presenter is Christina Gilmore, who is the assistant to the city manager.

[00:59:31] Assistant to the City Manager Christina Gilmore: Good evening, Mayor and Counsel, Christina Gilmore, assistant to the city manager. The item you have before you this evening seeks the council's approval of federal legislative priorities and issues for the annual Council, Washington, D.C. trip for the National League of Cities Conference in March. To draft this report staff for 2019, staff has conferred with all departments to ensure needs are met. Based on the adopted priorities, staff will make requests for meetings with relevant federal agencies, for the council members attending the conference. It should be noted, however, that due to the current federal government shutdown, If it extends beyond January, it may be challenging to set up meetings with Singer Trump administration officials. Staff recommends that council focus on the following federal issues, which are consistent with the city's existing legislative and council priorities while in Washington, DC. Preserving federal funding to cities, affordable housing, transportation and infrastructure funding, supporting NASA programs targeted to aims, promoting environmental sustainability, protecting vulnerable populations, and supporting FAA action to minimize airplane noise. As noted on the previous slide, maintaining funding for affordable housing continues to be a major goal, specifically for community development block grants and home funding and programs that address eradicating homelessness. Like many other metropolitan areas, Mountain View continues to be faced with severe traffic congestion. Significant resources are needed to implement new and innovative approaches to transportation with an emphasis on improving connectivity, enhancing safety, public transit, last amount connections, and rail. The city continues to have an interest in the development of surplus federal properties within our sphere of influence. So specifically, the developments planned for the NASA Ames Housing, Shenandoah, Shenandoah Housing and Orion Park development. Environmental sustainability continues to be a key council goal and priority. The city is committed to supporting legislation, direct funding, and tax incentives that invest in clean energy, green jobs, and facilitates the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Public safety. The city supports funding for public safety grants and support for 911 service enhancements and that continues to be a city priority. The city supports comprehensive immigration reform incorporates bipartisan that incorporates bipartisan solutions to address the DACA program, as well as supporting legal efforts to ensure a complete and accurate count of the 2020 federal census. Other federal issues that are included in your staff report include urging the FAA to work closely with Congress, to be transparent, and inclusive, and working with the newly created Santa Clara, Santa Cruz County's airport community roundtable, and developing solutions to mitigate airplane noise within the region. Supporting the maintenance of federal funding appropriations for libraries and museums, and supporting federal funding appropriations that support recycled water, and clean water projects that help ensure the security of water supplies to the Western United States. Staff recommends approval of these legislative priorities and issues that are provided in detail in the staff report and highlighted in this brief report. Alternatively, the council does have 3 alternatives that you have for your consideration this evening, which includes non-approving the federal level priorities and issues as presented this evening and in your staff report, modifying the federal level priorities and issues, and providing other direction on federal level priorities and issues. This concludes the presentation, and staff is available to answer any questions. Thank you.

[01:03:36] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Are there any questions from council members on this topic? Council member Hicks.

[01:03:50] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So I wanted to start by thinking you for putting this together. I was particularly glad to see the reference to the Green New Deal and to housing and homelessness, and I'm not going to list everything I was glad to see in here. And I thought maybe you could add displacement to housing and homelessness as a concern. Um, my only question was, there on, uh, let's see, page 3 of 11. There was a list of federal funding opportunities, and one is, uh, from empty C for modifications to Castro Street, and, um, from the surface transportation program for El Camino, uh, real streetscape plan. Can you just give, like, a one sentence on what each of those are, or would be?

[01:04:39] Assistant to the City Manager Christina Gilmore: I'm going to refer to Don Cameron to answer those questions.

[01:04:41] Dawn Cameron: Thank you. So the modifications to Castro Street is actually a completed project now. That was the addition of the protected bike lanes between El Camina Real and Merramonte that you see out there today in front of the middle school. The El Camino Real streetscape plan is currently underway. What this is doing is looking at applying the standards and developing them further, that was developed part of the El Camino Real precise plan, and looking precisely at looking at exactly what that means for the future of El Camino Real. In particular, we're looking at studying how we get a bike facility in on El Camino, as well as making pedestrian improvements. You will be having a study session on this later this year.

[01:05:35] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Uh, Vice Mayor, I'll be Koga.

[01:05:40] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Um, I think it was over the weekend. I thought I read somewhere that, uh, there was a, um, a court ruling on the census that the question and a sentence census that it is not going to be, or cannot be included. Is that correct?

[01:05:58] Assistant to the City Manager Christina Gilmore: I believe last week there was a lower court ruling regarding the census, and by still, my understanding, as of today, is that it still has yet to be resolved. So it's still an outstanding issue.

[01:06:10] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Okay, great. Thanks.

[01:06:13] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Any other questions from council members? Okay, we'll open this item up for public input. If you'd like to address this on this topic, please come forward. Okay, saying none. We will bring this back to council for discussion, vice mayor Abi Koga.

[01:06:34] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: So yes, I wanted to echo Council member Hicks and thanking staff for this very comprehensive list of priorities and issues. I think this is great. I think these are the top federal issues for our city. I guess in preparation or of our going to DC for the league of cities and then potentially having meetings. My, frankly, you know, I guess, you know, my question, my own question, my mind is, and for discussion is how fruitful are the, would these meetings really be at this point? I was actually even thinking that some of these issues are a little touchy right now. And, you know, I'm on the air district board as well as clean energy. And when we talk about what the state is doing, and even locally the Bay Area is doing on environmental sustainability efforts, we're so far ahead of what the federal government is doing. And, you know, we hear that federal government may want to try to, like, roll us back. I don't know if I really even want to bring these topics up to them, to be honest, because if we can stay under the radar and keep going, you know, on our speed, I'd much prefer that than to raise the flag and, you know, catch their attention. So that would just be my concern is that I don't really know, to be frank, maybe NASA would be helpful. Transportation might be helpful, but the others, I don't, in terms of even how much funding we get from, like, you know, department JOJ. I don't know if it's really worth the effort. It takes. I know it takes a lot of effort to even schedule these meetings and then they get canceled at the last minute oftentimes and then try to coordinate whoever is going here. Maybe we just really limit it to it'd be great. I think if we can meet with Congresswoman Ashu if she's there. That's probably the most fruitful meeting, although I know she tells us we can meet her with her here in the district. But, you know, if we're there and she's available, that would be great to do. And maybe, yeah, DOT and NASA, but, um, I think to me, that would be sufficient. Council member Clark.

[01:08:53] Councilmember Chris Clark: I agree. I think, you know, putting together our overall priorities, I think this is great. I think when you're focusing on meeting scheduling and, um, and those sorts of things. Well, number one, assuming the government is even open when we're there, which has been a question in years past as well. I would focus on, I think the most fruitful discussions will be around, you know, if the NASA meeting is actually usually pretty helpful, because they get a sense of of, you know, what our priorities are for the year, and they can provide some more information about, you know, what they're doing right now with Google and others and just provide a general update there. And then I think the other meetings in the past that have been really for four, typically at the Pentagon and discussing sort of the lands out, both Shenandoah and then out around NASA Ames. So, I think those, and then, you know, the, I think on the legislative front, our best hope might be for an infrastructure bill, but that would be, that would be the congresswoman issue. I think that would have to run from from the house. So I think I would just say those 2 things. And then I don't know about the Department of Transportation, whether that would be fruitful or not. But I think the NASA and the Pentagon meetings in the past, having that yearly touch base has been helpful.

[01:10:23] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Any other comments? So, um, I just have a couple comments. I do want to make sure we coordinate who's going to what meetings if they get set up. Um, I think it has worked well. I've seen, or I've heard about, where, you know, we kind of have a point person for a given topic, but others should obviously go along to the meetings because it's good to have more than just one person there. Plus, we need more people to know about these topics. But I'd like to find out, you know, over the next period of time, who's going and when you're going and when you are planning on returning, because we need to be able to count on you for being there if we have these meetings set up. So, um, Maybe if folks could let me and, um, our city clerk know that would be great so then we can coordinate with Christina. I do have concerns about, as the vice mayor said, about how fruitful these meetings will be. I know I've had some very frustrating, not very satisfactory meetings in the past. You know, I know we can skip the FAA. Yeah. And I do want to clarify, on the ad hoc committee for Southflow arrivals at San Jose, we asked FAA to come back to us with an evaluation of all of the recommendations, but we actually don't want them to implement any of them yet, until the community has had the opportunity to understand the implications, and that's where we're hoping the new round table can pick those up, and then work with the FAA on the ones that we want implemented. But I don't think that would be a very productive conversation at this point with the FAA. But if others feel like, I think I've heard, um, definitely NASA, and then, uh, DOT and the Pentagon, any other comments. And then, I feel like, if Congresswoman issue is available, and has time great, but I don't want her to change her calendar, to accommodate us, because we can always meet with her here. Did you have a comment?

[01:12:41] Unknown Speaker: That was gonna be the only thing that I was gonna add. Um, but, um, I think that you all, my colleagues have summarized my thoughts as well. Um, but I think it's really important to have the federal legislative priorities listed and have them out. Um, and show our support for these important issues.

[01:13:05] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Great, thank you. Any other comments?

[01:13:10] Councilmember Chris Clark: I'll just make a motion that we accept the staff recommendation of the priorities is listed. and then just incorporate our the feedback tonight in terms of scheduling meetings and priorities.

[01:13:23] Mayor Lisa Matichak: And our city manager has... Clarify that feedback for night.

[01:13:26] City Manager Dan Rich: I think what we heard, the mayor summarized, the meetings we would shoot for would be NASA, DOT, the Pentagon, and Congresswoman issue. Is that correct?

[01:13:37] Mayor Lisa Matichak: That goes, yeah. If she's available, and it's convenience.

[01:13:39] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's gonna be a parade of cities people that whole day on the hill, so it's...

[01:13:47] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Okay, so we have a motion by council member Clark, and a second by council member, Kameh. I think we're ready to vote on this one. And that is unanimous with council member McAllister absent. Thank you very much. Christina. Wow. We're not even going to get to take a break tonight. So we are on to, um, let's see, item nine, which is council staff and committee reports. If anyone has anyone. Any? What? None? Oh, there. Okay. Council member Hicks.

[01:14:40] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So, I went to the League of Cities meeting in Sacramento with some of my colleagues, and got a lot of interesting information, both on recent legislation, how to work with your city manager, and some ethics training.

[01:15:01] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you, Council member Ramirez.

[01:15:03] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you. And likewise, I attended the same conference, and learned a lot, and appreciated the opportunity to get to know council members, Hicks, and Kumay, and the city manager a little bit more.

[01:15:17] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Council member Kamei.

[01:15:18] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. So, uh, in attending the League of Cities, I did miss my 1st board meeting for Avenidas, which I'll be, um, the representative for, um, but looking forward to the next one. And tomorrow I will be going to my 1st meeting for Czech, where I will be the representative there. Just wanted to let the rest of my colleagues know. Thanks.

[01:15:45] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Vice mayor, Abby Koga.

[01:15:47] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Last, I can't remember, it was the day we had the big storm. I was up in San Rafael all day for Bay Area air quality management district and some of the things that we have a lot of things we're going to be trying to cover, but one area specifically is in regards to the wildfires, we are developing a comprehensive plan. When it happened, like, was it last year, we had this makeshift. We all got a 1000 masks and that was pretty much all we had planned for that time. And so in light of that, and, you know, it's becoming not a question of if, but when these fires will happen, the air district will be working on a more comprehensive plan, including, we're looking at trying to get some introduced legislation, to, um, air, air, clean air centers. So looking at community centers, schools, like public facilities where people can go when there is a high AQI day, where there's clean air available. So, um, this is something that, um, the air district hopes to be able to partner with local cities and schools to identify these locations and then, um, we're trying to figure out the funding piece to that. But that's something that hopefully will have legislation. passed and can move towards building down the road. So something that the city might be. we can start thinking about, um, when hopefully this all all occurs. But that's going to be one of our big pushes for the coming year. Thanks.

[01:17:40] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Any others? I don't have anything to report under that topic. So, for our city attorney? Is there a closed session report?

[01:17:50] City Attorney Jannie Quinn: We do not have a closed session report this evening.

[01:17:54] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Okay, then. We will adjourn this meeting to the next city council meeting to be held on Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 at 330 p.m. in the Mountain View Public Library. First floor program room at 585 Franklin Street, and we're adjourning at... Actually, I can't see what time that is. It's 747. Good number. What the heck?

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