City Council - Regular Meeting

Call this regular meeting of Marysville City Council to order. Madam Clerk, roll call, please.

Council Member Rollins? Here. Council Member Gilchrist? Here. Council Member Hudson? Here. Vice Mayor Butta-Cavoli?

Here.

And Mayor Branscombe.

Yes, ma'am, and please join in the pledge. Madam Clerk, do we have any changes to the agenda?

We do. Items B and C on the presentation will be presented together.

We can handle that. Well, let's get right to presentations. Who is the head presenter in charge? Someone step forward. first is the swearing in the what the swearing in oh excuse me i thought a b c and d excuse me lieutenant i apologize would you please announce to the assembled what we're doing here chief

Yes, this is a swearing-in of the new lieutenant, Christopher Shippen. He's got 26 years in law enforcement. He comes to us first from the Sacramento Police Department, where he served as a sergeant, and he served on, I think, a couple different task force over there. And he was also lieutenant for Chico State Police Department. We're wearing him in right now.

If you could raise your right hand.

I, repeat after me, I, state your name, solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance To the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California, that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter.

Bravo.

And who's doing the honors, Chris? Hi. I want to.

Wow. This is too fancy, Stevie. Okay, so right now we're getting a presentation regarding the RFI, which is a request for information for the city of Marysville. We followed and combined with a presentation by our drone instructor here, Jeff Patsy, and some of the students as they did all of the drone mapping for this RFI, and they're going to have a demonstration of the drone mapping that they do. And we have a lot of visitors here, Mayor, from Marysville, the core charter school so you know today are you guys ready for now yeah i'm gonna i'm first going to demonstrate the rfi i'm going to show you the rfi And for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a request for information that we will be sending out to developers. Here we go. Technology. You can always count on it, right?

Sure. Is that better?

sorry we didn't bring the popcorn this evening yes okay so I'll start the presentation like I mentioned this is a presentation on the Marysville opportunity sites this is a presentation regarding our requests for information that we'll be sending out to developers this is done in conjunction with core charter school their drone class who actually took all of the photos in this presentation so I pay particular attention to the quality and the great photos that were done in this class and they will again follow up to this presentation with a demonstration of their own okay next slide please basically we have completed a general plan after since we did the first one since 1985 that the city of Marysville completed It's an award-winning general plan, actually, and some of us will be actually receiving an award through the APA in Sacramento in October for the quality of the general plan compared to general plans created throughout the state. So this is all, yeah. We're actually very proud of this, and it was done at the direction of this city council, and it's something that took four years to develop altogether, and it was complete. In the middle of this, the city will send this RFI out to several hundred developers. We're coordinating this outreach with our partners at the Greater Sacramento Economic Council, and we're going to invite local developers as well, and we'll submit ideas so that they can describe their interest. It's important to note that this is a request for information, so we're not here selling the properties. This is just a request to get ideas for the properties. I also want to note that October 22nd, not yet no i want i do want to note though the mayor is sponsoring a development luncheon on october 22nd there are some developers in this room right now and others have already received invitations we have rsvps from over 20 at the moment and we expect a really good turnout for a developer's luncheon where we're going to invite developers to share ideas, learn about Marysville development requirements, and so on. And then December 31st is when the request for information responses close, and January, February, staff and city council will meet to review the respondents and identify any concepts. Okay, next slide. There are 11 city-owned properties that we did identify for this project. So it's basically just an exploratory process. It's designed to invite developers to tell us what ideas they have and what opportunities that they see. So you can see that we explore the possible uses for development concepts. We test the interest, which sites attract credible attention, and then inform future city discussions and next steps. Okay, next slide. process for the rfi alone is one review the sites the developers take a look at the sites two they develop concepts and ideas that they bring to the city three they submit information to the city and this is preliminary information this is about whatever concepts or ideas that they have they submit whatever development team and experience that they have and they bring those ideas to the city we'll take any ideas so that we're not going to discriminate against any ideas we'll take a look at anything then and then the fourth part of the process is a city review and that will happen in January February and again staff will compare ideas for feasibility any community benefit and alignment and council goals staff may request clarification at that time as well and then the number five and the process will be a follow-up discussion and staff may invite respondents to come so that we can ask questions and probe further into their ideas and hopefully we come up with some really good ones and we can pursue them for there from there I'm going to quickly go through the sites. I'm not going to give long descriptions of each site. I just really want to kind of show off the drone photos done by our students over here. But again, all these shots were taken by our drone class. The first site is what we call a prime commercial corner, which is at 1005th Street. which is 5th and J. It's .270 acres. It's in the Medical Arts District. It's medical services, professional office, retail or dining or hospitality could be potential concepts to explore there. Site number two is located at 209 3rd Street. it's a small site but it's 0.056 acres it could be combined with the site next door it's 2 456 acres it's at the b street core it's in the b street corridors the zoning and concepts to explore could be .056, 2,456 square feet, sorry, yes. Yeah, ground floor retail, mixed-use residential, professional office, restaurant, or potentially boutique. That would be a very small boutique hotel, but those could be considered in the B Street corridor zoning, okay? The third site is what we refer to as the rail platform. For those of you who aren't aware, in 2031, the San Joaquin Valley line is targeted to have a railroad line that runs from Sacramento to Chico. It's supposed to run five times a day. The city of Marysville is targeted to be one of the stops. We don't know if it will happen in 2031, but we're hoping that does happen. The city owns 13 acres. or 5,666, 280 square feet, and it's basically open space. And we would be trying to recruit a rail platform with supporting development, say shopping center or something around the rail area. The open space is what you currently see around the sewer area and the old sewer ponds, and part of the sewer ponds as well. Okay, next slide. this is the 1400 block of yuba street also referred to as east lake it's 4.746 acres 206 823 square feet it's open space we're looking for residential concepts neighborhood parks trails and open space preservation Okay, and number five is what we refer to as Hollywood. Some of you know it as Hollywood Park. This is 25.792 acres owned by the city of Marysville. Its zoning is open space. We'd be looking to do an RV resort or campground, say KOA-style campground here on the riverfront where we could have cabins or glamping or waterfront recreation, something you don't even imagine happening in Marysville, but it really could. So we're looking for vision. We're looking for ideas from developers, okay? Number six is one they're all aware of. It's the old Hotel Marysville site. This is at 425th Street, .438 acres, or 19,000 square feet. Not very large, right? But we're looking for hotel, mixed-use, lodging, Shake Shack facilities. is what i had an order for from anissa today but uh residential restaurants entertainment retailer or office but we'll see we'll see what ideas we get from these developers okay site number seven as a site we refer to as 308 c street used to be the old nakagawa grocery store and adjacent to that is the city-owned lot on the right side here of the slide it's 0.132 acres or 5782 square feet We have received plans previously that were accepted by this council to build 18 apartment units on this site, and we'd really like to recruit a developer who might be interested in doing more residential back on this site. And this is in the downtown mixed-use zoning. Yes? That's our property. Correct, yes. Correct. Yeah. Correct. Yes, Mayor. Mm-hmm. And then this slide shows the Packard Library, and this is located at 301 4th Street, .579 acres, or 25,236 square feet altogether. It's also in the downtown mixed-use area. We've had quite a bit of interest from different developers and different ideas for this facility, including a potential boutique hotel, but there are other ideas that could be utilized in this space, and we'll wait to see what kind of responses we get from the multiple developers that will be shown these slides. Veterans Square is another possibility. Again, we are just looking for concepts and ideas. We wouldn't remove Veterans Park by any means, and that's not the intention. It's just that the zoning opened up the opportunity to develop a portion of or a small piece of Veterans Square And it's in the parks and open space. And this is something that the council can consider once a developer or developers come with housing concepts or community park concepts or open space concepts that could go here. Potentially even veterans or senior housing on part of the park. Okay, next slide. Washington Square. This is also opened up as a result of the zoning. This is a neighborhood mixed use location. It's 1.195 acres. It could be mixed use, residential, retail, boutique, hotel, again, events, dining, or public gathering space. All could be considered. Again, we'd be just looking for ideas from developers. And then finally, number 11 site that we have is Yuba Park. And Yuba Park is a very attractive site. It's 4.223 acres or 184,012 square feet. It's also open space. So we can look at recreation improvements, community programs, sports facilities, also housing improvements. and mixed use concepts could go on this park as well so those are the 11 sites i would take any questions that you like now but i just wanted to basically share what we're doing with the rfi again this will be shared with over 200 developers within a short time We have a developer luncheon. The mayor's developer luncheon will be hosted on October 22nd. And we'll be sharing a lot of information about our opportunity sites at that point. But we'll be meeting with a lot of developers prior to that as well. And then the RFI will be due from developers by the 31st of December. And these are just photos of us doing the drone footage. So with that, I would like to introduce my friend here, Mr. Jeff Patsy, who is the drone, what's your title?

Drone pilot teacher, I guess.

CTE instructor, yes, for Core Charter School.

So welcome, Jeff.

Career Technical Education.

Yes. Before I begin, as Dan mentioned, I am Jeff Patsy, and I'm one of the commercial drone instructors at Core Charter. That's a picture of our class. And before I talk about what we do at Core, the two students that are here with me today made a short little video. So as you can tell, when Dan asked us to go out and fly a bunch of sites, I had no idea what he wanted. But he came out with us. He showed us what he wanted. And we got, I hope, everything he wanted. And we took a lot of extra footage. And Josh and Brendan put together all those snippets together to make that video. So well done. Yeah. Questions?

Thank you.

Thank you.

I would be happy to do that. Okay, we will camp out until it gets really bad. Yes. Yes.

So then 10th Street, which you're crossing over the top of the railroad track. We are looking to get a grant, a $700,000 grant, and right now the signals are looking good to get that, which would be planning for an active transportation underpass under the railroad tracks connecting East and West Marysville, bicycle, walking, what have you. There's gonna be a new grocery store, in fact, not ahead of me, it's in being, if you will, right here.

interesting property, maybe we'll stay at a dollar store. Of course, the hotels can go here. It opens up the city.

And anyway, that's why I wanted to see this one again. That's a hot project. It's in the works in terms of the application with Caltrans, 700,000, which takes us a goodly portion through planning. Is that right, Dan? Yes. But the traffic problem, people, when I was first running for mayor in 2020, every other house asked me about a bypass. We're not going to see a bypass. I'm on the transportation board at the Sacramento Area Council Government State Park. And State policy is such that if it doesn't put you on a bus or a bicycle, they don't want to do it. And that's probably a billion and a half to two billion dollar project. But doing that 20 to 70 connectors, 100 million, which doesn't sound like a big number after, say, two billion, right?

Right.

And so the county has had this laying fallow for a while, and we've now... We're activating it in terms of just mindshare, and we want to get some evidence, and we want to start selling the concept of having somebody fund that for us. Absolutely.

This would be very helpful. Absolutely. We could get a meeting together, talk to Jeremy, see what you guys need, and we'll definitely do that for you.

And talk to Vance. He'll know when the traffic is the worst. Good deal. Anyway, sorry, I wanted to take the time to bring that up.

No, no, it makes sense. And it's more things for us to do, so I'm happy to do it.

Let me finish with it.

All right. Okay. That's all right.

That's all right. All right.

Thanks, Chris. Dan, are you done? He's not done. Oh, okay, good. I got one more thing to say.

I'm just going to talk a little bit about Port Charter in our program. As we said, it's a commercial drone CTE program, and it's a multi-year pathway that provides high school students an opportunity to get hands-on and real-world training. Our first years, they start by getting a strong foundation and learning about drone safety, flight operations, FAA regulations, all in the purpose to get their Part 107 certificate pilots, remote pilot licenses. This is a, which I think is a good thing. So the program is designed to let students learn about aerial photography, like you saw in the video, photogrammetry, which you'll be seeing shortly from Josh and Brendan, large area mapping, which you've already seen, ground control surveys, and data collection. Our advanced students learn by work-based learning. They, in that pathway, they take on all the skills that they've learned and they go out into the real world through internships, job shadowing, and other career-connected opportunities with our community and industry partners.

What skills? What's the demand for those skills in the marketplace right now?

Next slide. Okay. That is seven of our graduates who are working for a utility company doing line inspections and doing power quality assurance so that we can keep our power grid safe. And those are seven of our more current students who are working right out of high school. Basically, that is our ultimate goal. The ultimate goal to our program is to prepare our students to operate, not only operate drones, but to help them become career-ready professionals that can enter the workplace right after graduation. And that is proof of, thanks Josh, that is proof that it's working. These are some of the 3D maps that we did of the sites for Dan's presentation. And I'm gonna have, I'm gonna introduce Josh and Brendan. They're gonna tell you a little bit about how they did this.

Go ahead. Does this work? Okay. Hello, everyone. My name is Brendan Kolb, and I'm a recent graduate of Core Charter School, and I was in the drone pathway that Mr. Patsy mentioned. So what I'd like to do is show you all one map in particular that we took. So essentially what we did is, so this is the proposed map rail station site. And so every single one of those red dots represents a photo. If you were to zoom in, it would be a lot more actually. We took a total of 2,100 photographs using drone technology and put them into a 3D mapping software to create a 3D map, 3D model that can be used by the city, by developers. And I would like to pass it to Josh for more details. Thanks Brendan.

So my name is Josh Pachel. I was a student in the drone program for the past two years. Before I was given the opportunity to collaborate with the city on this project. What you guys are looking at right here is a 3D model of the proposed site for the Marysville train station. As you saw from Brendan's presentation, each of those dots was an individual photo that was used to make this 3D model. Because of how evenly aligned they were when we took, when we went out and captured that data, we have a very accurate model. This model in particular is accurate to about plus or minus one centimeter. For reference, satellite images, like the one on that wall over there, are accurate to about 15 centimeters at its best. This information is extremely valuable to developers because you can, they can just manipulate the map, the model, and they can see the high points, they can see the low points, such as this one right here. They can see the change in elevation of the levee. And all of these, because of the accuracy, they could draw a line from one point to another and they could get a very accurate measurement. All of these tools together combine and make developers more planned when they're walking into a project, which in turn helps them save a ton of money. And so that's why our work in creating these models is extremely important. Yeah, and so I'll hand it back to Mr. Pasi to close out this presentation.

Thanks, Josh. As you can tell, those two are amazing graduates from Core Charter, and we're very proud of them, so thank you. I have one more conclusion slide. Next slide. Oh, how'd that get in there? So that is Dan and I in college in London in 1986. We both went to different grad schools, so we kind of lost touch. And then 40 years later, I run into my old friend in a small, wonderful town, Marysville. So I just thought I'd throw that in there for a little fun. Yep. See, 40 years hasn't changed us one bit. And we're working on getting that to grow that program.

Yeah, we'd like to start using them to map out the schools for emergency responses. But yes, we do use them also for SWAT operations and things of that nature.

Well, I don't think if there's an emergency call someplace, the fastest thing there is going to be a drone.

Yes.

If you don't have helicopters, do you have a drone?

Yep, there you go. Well, that's it for my presentation.

Before City Council goes up, I'm going to need some air.

They think it's worth recording these meetings, so forget this.

Joshua, we have some certificates of appreciation. Just what you're doing for the city, what you're doing already is significant. Joshua, certificate of appreciation. You did a nice job.

Nice frame, beautiful. And I hope to do more for you in the future. Thank you, sir.

Okay. Brendan? Brendan? Same thing. In recognition of your dedicated service and valuable contribution to the city of Marysville Momentum. Marysville Momentum is a big thing right there.

And continued economic development. Sir, I'd like to present you with this certificate of appreciation. You bet.

Okay, and Jeremy Saltman, instructor slash visual officer. We haven't heard from you yet, so you're going to have to speak now. You're in the back right here now. What do you do?

I'm a CT instructor. Is it fun? Oh, it's a lot of fun.

How great. Well, here's recognition of everything you do. We're hoping to do more with you. Thank you. Okay, Jeff, I know you're not shy.

Jeff, again, it's the same thing.

This is a real wonderful resource. And I'm impressed by how, once I saw the 3D, I was impressed. I mean, I was impressed before I saw it and then doubly impressed because the value, as you said, you understand your market. You're talking about a developer can do this. There's going to be other applications. Know your market. Know what they're looking for and tailor your product. You guys are doing great.

I'm proud to present this to you. Thank you, man. You bet. Sir. Thank you.

We're going to get We the People.

Let's get over here.

Yeah, we'll screen.

Thank you.

The rest of this may not be as exciting as what we just saw, but we'll do our best. We now come to the community consent calendar forum, and this is an opportunity to speak on any matter on the consent calendar or on any matter not on the agenda. It's a nominal three minute limit, but sometimes I cut it short, sometimes I let it go long, we'll see. Madame Clerk, anybody want to speak?

Yes, tonight we have Sandra Villanueva, sorry, here to talk about Recology Reroute coming up October 12th, 2026. And you should have a flyer at your seat.

My God, what are you doing?

Hi.

You're going to change the collection day?

That is what we're doing. My name is Sandra Villanueva. I'm a Waste Zero Specialist for Recology Yuba Sutter based out in Marysville. I am here this evening to announce our plans to implement service day changes for the majority of our customers effective the week of October 12th. The Yuba-Sutter region has experienced continued residential growth, resulting in corresponding increase in the number of customers requiring collection services. Yuba County continues to experience steady growth, particularly in communities of Linda and Plumas Lake, while Yuba City has also seen a significant residential housing development. To best accommodate This continued growth while prioritizing the safety of the public and our employees. An overhaul of our current routing structure is necessary. Specifically, City of Marysville customers will be moved from Thursday to Friday. This change will only impact residential and commercial customers who use toter carts. Customers with metal dumpsters will not be impacted by this change. To ensure all our customers are informed and prepared, we will be implementing a comprehensive communication and notification campaign, including a dedicated mobile-friendly online tool allowing customers to verify their new service day, a QR code signage, an October billing invoice notice, social media and radio advertisements including outreach through spanish and punjabi language stations phone calls automated text messages and email notifications will be going out as well an individual postcard will be mailed to customers identifying their new service days if they are impacted through this and then presentations to local service clubs. For any customers that forget or did not acknowledge any of these changes, we will be providing courtesy go-backs on Saturday, October 17th. And our goal is to make this transaction as clear and seamless as possible for all our customers while ensuring that our collection operations can continue to safely and effectively serve a growing community. So yes, basically certain areas are going to be impacted, but not everyone.

Well, you just said everybody in Marysville is going to go to Friday.

Yes, in Marysville, so Marysville and Yuba City is one of the ones that- What's your name again? Sandra.

Tell you what, people just love change. This is going to go swimmingly.

Right. Yeah, but we're going to be doing the best we could to go ahead and spread the word. Anybody that is going to be going.

So I don't have to go online to figure it out. If I live in Marysville, it's going to be Friday, not Thursday.

Most likely. Yeah, but if you want to double check, there is a QR code on all of your guys' desks.

I thought you said everybody in Marysville except for the big cans.

yes so as long as you have a toter if like certain commercials um one of those things on the wheels the one you wheel out yeah so the big metal ones that are mainly like at our restaurants businesses that will not be changing it's only um if it's an actual toter so certain commercial businesses do have toters so those service days will be changing as well

We normally don't engage in conversation with people making a presentation, but any comments or questions?

Thank you, Mayor. So through the Chair, you're saying that my particular business has the large dumpster, also blue waste and green waste. So I now need to take the trash out two separate days.

Um, well, so for, so you have the metal bins and the toters.

Yes.

Toters will be a different date.

Yes. Thank you. But there will be no change on the metal. Big ones.

Yeah. And we'll be sending out. So anybody that will be getting changed will also get a postcard and it'll show up on your invoice that you guys get monthly as well.

So if I may, one more real quick. So you're saying it's going to change to Fridays for the Toters, correct?

Yes, so it's going from Thursday to Friday.

So early Friday mornings they'll be picked up.

Yeah, and so certainly sometimes you're used to the driver coming around a certain time. We do just recommend to take them out since 5 AM in case that service time changes as well.

Sure, I just don't want to leave them out Friday night with my patrons.

Right.

to the chair i have one question you said monthly invoice we get billed quarterly quarterly so on your quarterly bill the upcoming one you will be receiving a notice in october thank you yes change garbage well this is good i'm sure i'm certain this will go well you'll just have an initial bad reaction then everybody will get used to it yeah well thank you for coming in thank you thank you

And I overlooked something on the agenda. Mr. Chapman Lane, I was not intending to offend you. And if I did, please accept my apologies.

No problem.

And you have something to share regarding the confluence walking trail.

Yeah, that's correct. And pulling up the presentation. All right, so tonight we wanted to share with the full council and the public, a project staff has been working on the Confluence Loop Trail. And a little bit of background how this came together is that area, it's about 50, right around 50 acres, sits behind closed lock gates. pretty much 100% of the time. There's a pretty substantial access road through there. But aside from really illegal camping activity in there, the rest of the city really doesn't utilize it. And so over the past year that I've been here, just through the multiple cleanups we have to do out there, because at the same time, that illegal activity That is somewhat protected by our own fences. So while folks get in there, that area is kind of out of sight, out of mind. And so Public Works spends a substantial amount of time, as well as PD and code enforcement, cleaning this area up. So staff got together, had this idea that we could really reactivate this area. Next slide. And really bring a positive use out there as well as that additional activity.

Describe where it is on that. Go back to the prior slide.

Yeah, so it's the triangular portion on the south. On the bottom of that. Bottom there. Yep. Right where the two rivers come together. So. As I mentioned, it's a pretty substantial access road that's already in place. And then the unique overlook of the confluence of the two rivers is something that we believe a lot of people will enjoy as well. It's about a 1.2 mile loop going all the way around.

And then... Jeremy, you started off talking about all the homeless folks down there, and now we're talking about... the good citizens of the community using as a walking trail.

Yeah.

How do we disconnect those two topics?

Well, we've already made good progress. There's less and less of that activity with the regular cleanups and those types of things. and what we hope to do right now is number one get the get any other comments or or concerns from from council and then really bring this forward and and later or uh sometime mid month next month get the signage between now and then get the signage put in uh get take all the measures to finish the project and really get it out there that this this is something for the community to use you can announce that civilization has arrived yeah Exactly. And really, it's just changing that approach. We could continue to leave it locked, fix the fences that get cut, clean up the areas, or with about the same investment, we could open it up, put in the proper signage, and really activate the area. So that's what we're... We're hoping to accomplish with that. It's also adjacent to the softball fields that have been taken over by the new operator. They feel like there's an opportunity there as well. They have tournaments and things that people can get out and utilize it in between games, just take a walk, see the riverfront and those types of things as well.

It's interesting because on the right, that's water coming in from the Sierra Nevadas. And on the left, water coming from the Cascade Range.

Yeah, yeah. No, it is. It really is a unique vantage point. And that's really what caught our eye. Dan and I ourselves were out there one day looking at something and just asked ourselves that same question. Why don't we have this opened up and utilizing it? And it is a pretty substantial area. Like I said, 50 plus acres, right around 50 acres. Okay. And there's been expressed, you know, other interests or opportunities in the future we could continue to look at, similar to what Dan mentioned with his presentation and some of those other areas. We believe there is future opportunities.

What's the timing on this?

So we actually have, and this came about because the South Yuba Citizens League wanted to do a cleanup somewhere along the river. And so they're working with us to target that area this weekend, as well as the boat ramp area. So they have a substantial amount of volunteers that we're going to get out and clean up that that area this weekend and then our city crews will continue to implement everything we need to get it opened up we're going to reach out and find a date we're eyeing mid-october next month to get this opened up so and i understand there's a protected species of plant The elderberry beetle. There are elderberry bushes in there. Not a huge amount of them, but they're here and there.

Are we protecting the plant or the beetle?

The beetle, but the plant is where they live. So it's their habitat. But like you said, it's spread out through there. It's not a massive amount, but it is something that we will have to keep an eye on. Yeah. really with that that's we can go to the next slide and kind of get a visual of it as I mentioned that access road is already in place on this legend you'll see some emergency markers that some of the signage we need to put in that if somebody does have an emergency out there they need to call EMS there will be basically some short paddle markers show you know that they can relay to dispatch or whoever where they're at on that loop trail. It's pretty wide, pretty visual. They should be able to be found pretty easily. And then the other signage is the entrance gate. And then really the only other improvements are some additional trash receptacles out there. So, you know, so that cleanup, so people aren't just throwing trash out there.

So 1.2 miles, a very brisk walk would be maybe 20 minutes.

Yeah, yeah, 1520 minutes something. Oh, it wouldn't be 15. You have to job. But yeah, it's nice. It's it also, you know, we have the the other trail system in that area. This one gives the opportunity of really a really flat and and maybe users that are looking for for a shorter, a shorter hike and something really level and and you know, easy, easy to walk, you know, not so not so challenging.

And you're right next to the river.

Yeah.

Rivers. Awesome. Thank you.

Yeah. And so with that, yeah, any questions, comments?

Yeah, Jeremy, I'm just curious. You said the existing aggregate surface is the route. Does it actually make a loop, or will we need to configure it to a loop?

No, nothing is needed. It's a substantial AB, compacted AB road. It's in great shape all the way around. Perfect. Thank you. And it's same for emergency services. If there is any issues out there, it has full access to get through there. To the chair.

Could we have the training zone do a 5K as a ground opening for this?

We can talk to them.

Do we know anyone in the audience that might be able to assist us in that? That's just an idea. I know who to reach out to. Just a thought, thank you.

Yeah, yeah. And we do have one more slide and it just kind of covers that proposed schedule that I mentioned. And then we can go to one more just for that. I'm sorry, one more. Just the overlook. And again, that's really what inspired this.

But yeah, if there's no other questions or comments.

How'd the idea come up?

It came up from just spending the time out there during the cleanups. And then, you know, Dan and I were out there. I forget what exactly. I think I had mentioned it. I think we started talking about that. His, you know, his presentation and opportunity sites. And we took a drive out there one day and started talking about it further.

Far out. Thank you. Thank you very much.

All right. Thank you.

We will now return to the community consent calendar forum. Of course. Yeah, yeah. On this topic?

Yeah, I just wanted to comment on this idea for the city's having on the confluence loop. Great, smart idea, guys and girls, whoever, because it's mostly already done. I walked out there. Beautiful place. Not mentioning seeing the river, walking in nature, a place we can walk in nature in downtown Marysville. That's huge. I saw sea otter, or not sea otters, river otters are out there. Birds. Great. I just love this idea. And also, didn't you mention, is there the cleanup? Can anyone come?

did you want to say more on that yeah and uh yeah i'll go ahead and put that out there i know there was some uh flyers put out we're also adding it to our website but yeah this saturday september 19th uh if there any volunteers anybody that wants to attend uh it's from nine nine a.m to 11 30 a.m and really just uh recommend bringing some some gloves uh a bucket to help collect and uh we're gonna get out there and we're like i said we're gonna hit the area around the boat ramp, as well as that loop area. And I believe we have quite a few volunteers already. A scout troop, I believe, is helping, too, that's going to, I believe, focus on the boat ramp area. And, yeah, it's going to be a great community event, and we'll see you out there. I'll be attending as well, and with some minimal city staff is going to be out there helping get things hold off. So the meeting point, it's on the flyer and on the website, but there's going to be two meeting points, one at the boat ramp and then one at the- Basically where biz Johnson comes down right after it comes down the hill on the south east corner there where There's kind of a dirt parking lot, but we'll get we'll get something out there. We'll get some cones and some sort of Signage out there to make sure folks know where they're going on Saturday morning.

So All right, thanks Now if I may community consent calendar form anybody else to speak I

I don't think so.

Okay, the consent calendars, items that are typically approved on one motion unless a member of the council or the city manager wishes to remove that item. What is the will of the council? Moved to approve. Moved to approve. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Unanimous, Madam Chair. Okay, we move to the discussion and action calendar. All matters here will be dealt with separately and acted on by the council. The public will have an opportunity to speak after the matter is presented. First matter is item number six on the agenda, and that's the award of a contract for City Hall window retrofit project. This is a paragraph long. I'll go real fast. Recommendation, pass a motion to Just a moment.

To the chair.

We have a conflict of interest.

I think at this point I'll recuse myself.

Sir. Vice Mayor Buttigiegoli's name will be heard, although not in direct ownership, what have you. Bruce's son owns and operates the Buttigiegoli window. And you'll understand why I left the room. Anyway, pass a motion to determine that the bid submitted by American Window and Door Systems Inc. is non-responsive because the bidder did not demonstrate compliance with the installer qualification requirements of the bid documents. 2. Award the City Hall Window Retrofit Project to Butta Cavoli Window and Door Inc. in the amount of $235,201.71 as the lowest responsive and responsible bidder. 3. Approve a 10% construction contingency in the amount of $23,520.17 For a total project authorization of $258,721.88. Four, authorize the city manager to execute the construction contract and related documents subject to approval as to form by the city attorney. And authorize the city manager to approve contract change orders within the approved project authorization in minor. non-substantive changes as necessary for project implementation. And our contact, again, is Mr. Chapnall of Public Works. And first of all, just to clear things up, there is no actual conflict with Bruce. The fix isn't in is what I'm trying to say here. No, there isn't.

No, there is not. We've vetted this quite carefully, and Mr. Budacavoli does not have an ownership or an interest in the business at this point.

And the other bid, they just weren't qualified. They came in with a number that was a little bit lower, but they weren't qualified to do it.

We had very specific qualification requirements in there. We had spec'd out mill guard windows or a city approved equivalent. Everyone submitted a bid using the mill guard product, but we did ask for those bidders to have a couple of options but essentially were a certified dealer from by mill guard or they had to meet certain mill guard prescribed installation requirements or uh industry equivalent and after much discussion with the low bidder they were not able to produce those qualifications whereas the second lowest bidder barakoli was able to produce those qualifications in fact they produced qualifications for both being a certified dealer as well as the installation requirements so that was the reasoning for rejecting the low bid and awarding it to the second lowest bid which was a difference of about ten thousand dollars thank you sir i think it's important to get that out on the table thank you very much mr chapter lane

Yeah, so following up on what our city manager provided there, really the project overview and the scope is to replace all the windows in City Hall and the majority of the windows in the police department with retrofit. historically correct windows. So the architecturally they've been designed to meet the character and the original design of the building the best we can with the modern materials. And with that, we did include, make sure to include We want to get the most qualified installers to do that. So as the city manager mentioned, we didn't include those higher level certifications that were included in the bid announcement, in all the bid documents, and were submitted by the number two bidder, but not with the lowest.

What are the advantages of the new windows?

So the advantages are the energy, the sound, the insulation factor on them right now. Just about everything goes right out these windows when we're running the heat or the AC. These were original in what year? Uh, 1939. Okay. Yeah.

So it's going to say 80 plus years, 85 years. Yeah. Yeah.

They're pretty bad shape as you walk around the building and there's many that will not even close all the way. Um, it's, uh, they've definitely, uh. Or beyond their life. Due for a change, due for a change. So with that, we put this out to bid with the bid documents we mentioned. We received the three bids back on August 13th. Out of the three bids, number one and number two were right within each other, within the $10,000 range. And then we went through, reviewed all the qualifications, and had quite a bit of back and forth with the low bidder. Actually extended their time, gave them more time to provide the responsive documents, and they just never produced them. And so that's why the recommended action tonight is to go with number two, to award the Butta Cavalli window and door. They all had to meet the same requirements, but Cavoli turned around those documents from the manufacturer. That's what we asked for, that they were verified from the manufacturer within a matter of hours versus the multiple weeks. We could not receive them from the number, or the low bidder.

Thank you, sir. Yeah. Thank you. Then of course, anybody from the public wish to speak on this?

Not on this item.

My fellow council people, what do you think? Any questions, comments?

No comments.

I have no comment and I move to approve. We have a motion to approve.

Oh, I want to make a comment. Oh, good. Oh, yeah. And I'm right behind you on making a motion to approve. Oh, yeah. So we worked on these windows. Oh boy, did we work on these windows. Ladies and gentlemen, we also asked for a prototype, which is crucial when you are working on an historic building. And you want to maintain the integrity of that building, and that is my objective always. So I have a question, who provided the first prototype, which we rejected? Was it just Milgard?

It was Milgard that provided all of the prototypes. Through? And they did that at no cost.

So we actually had window samples created and raised by city staff in place to see how these windows would look. We grieved over how to maintain all of the existing mullions versus newer mullions. We looked at why Milgard needed to do certain things. We've worked this to death. So I am just wanting to remind everyone that we, not as a committee, but as a very concerned council, finally getting these windows finished so we can conduct a meeting without having a motorcycle or a train interrupting our thoughts. So I'll leave it with that. Second.

We got a first and a second before I call for the question. The city hall, ever since it got repainted, really looks good. Wait till you see it with these new windows. It's going to be a big change. Black frames?

Absolutely. Yes. Yes.

Black frames. Fabulously, there's actually one up in somewhere around the building. Very back. We can't see it very easily. It's going to be smashing. That's when you want to take a picture of this building. So we have a motion and a second. Call the question.

One more comment. Also, this came in $50,000 or $30,000 under my original estimate when we started this process, under bid, up to my estimate. I think $50,000 under with the contingency added. Awesome.

Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? No opposed, no abstain? Madam Clerk, we can- Is he coming back? On the phone? Item number six passed. You bet he will. City will appreciate it. Okay, item number seven, short term rental facilitator reporting ordinance. Okay, recommendation, pass a motion to waive the full reading. and introduce an ordinance adding section 3.12.065 to the Marysville Municipal Code to implement the Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2025 and require short-term rental facilitator reporting. Mr. Shad, would you please share with us?

yes this item is to allow the city to identify short-term rentals through the typical online platforms And you're probably most familiar with the terms Airbnb, VRBO, those are the short term rental platforms we're talking about. It does not impose a new tax, but it allows the city to identify those who should be paying the existing TOT, transient occupancy tax. This was made possible just recently by a state senate bill 346, which allows us to now request from those facilitators information on who is doing short term rentals through their platforms. if passed the next step would be that the city would then request the data from those facilitators and they would be obligated to provide that information and then we can begin the tax collection process so once again it's it's allowing us to easily get information on those short-term rentals so that we can collect the appropriate 10% TOT.

Thank you, sir. Madam Clerk, do we have anybody from the public who wishes to speak on this?

Not on this item.

Thank you, madam. Anyone from the council?

To the chair, sir, this is crucial and I'm grateful. This is here. I've been asking for this. For 5 years, so this is awesome. Thank you.

Thank you. My other comment is that we have a, we have existing hotels. And we have a new hotel that you're going to see. Unless something happens that is completely out of the scope of everything I understand now, the new hotel on B Street will be going vertical in construction before the end of the year. And that company is going to be paying the hotel tax, TOT tax as it's known. Not real fair for them to have to pay and for the other folks who are in the same business, certainly on a smaller scale, not having to pay. So I think this is a worthy item. What's the will of the council on this?

I'll make a motion.

Second. Good and second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? None noted.

Madam Clerk.

okay last item on the discussion action calendar number item number eight amendment to development agreement with b street hotel llc for the hyatt studios hotel project and the recommendation is to adopt an appropriately numbered resolution approving a four-year transient occupancy tax reimbursement for the Hyatt Studios Hotel project and approve the related amendment to the development agreement with B Street Hotel LLC. That's the company building the new Hyatt. Subject to final approval, asked to form by the city attorney and authorize the city manager to execute the amendment and any related documents necessary to carry out the city council's agenda. Mr. Dan Flores.

First, I want to thank the audience for sticking in with us tonight. We rarely see this. It's great to have you here.

Are a lot of you folks here from an association with CORE?

Yeah.

That CORE is a fabulous, fabulous institution. It's an amazing school, yeah. I've only visited it once and sat in classes and what have you, but then to see everybody out here today, those young fellows and the teachers, I'm impressed.

Yeah, they do a very impressive job, and Mayor, we'll be bringing a project that they're going to be constructing a building soon, and we're going to be bringing that to you within a short time.

Thumbs up. Already approved. Okay, there you go. Good job.

Okay. so uh mr mayor and council uh the hotel developer as you mentioned uh has requested an agreement to be or the agreement their agreement to be amended to include a limited transient occupancy tax reimbursement during the hotel's initial operating period the proposed reimbursement is intended to assist the project during its ramp up period only while preserving a substantial share of all new TOT taxes. So basically, the proposed amendment is going to provide for a four year reimbursement funded solely from the transient occupancy tax generated by the hotel. During the first two years, the city would reimburse three percentage points of the 10% tax collected, and the city would retain an effective 7%. During years three and four, the city would reimburse two percentage points and retain an effective rate of 8%. The hotel operator would continue to collect and remit a full 10% of the tax to the city before any reimbursement happens. is also conditioned on the developer commencing vertical construction on or before December 31st of this year. So those are the basic terms of the agreement that will be signed. I'm here to entertain any questions.

Anything from the public first, Madam Clerk?

Not on this item.

Thank you, ma'am. Anything from the council?

So through the chair, you're saying per the agreement and then this new amendment, they're still saying they're going to start December of this year?

Yes. On or before? On or before the end of the year, correct. And we had word this evening that they feel fairly positive they'll be beginning in October or November.

And as the agreement stands, that's a 14 month project?

14 months from the day the agreement is signed, they'll have to complete the hotel construction in order to obtain the discount that we've allowed here.

Of this amendment right here? Correct, yes. And this is just for the hotel, not the other project on the site?

This is just for the 114-room Hyatt Studios Hotel.

Thank you for the clarification. The financing is always the last hoop in starting a project. And any real estate project is done with credit financing a lot of credit financing debt financing the developers are putting a substantial amount of their own cash. They have already invested a substantial amount of their own cash. Hyatt Hotels is putting 3 point something million. 3.7, Mayor. 3.7, almost $4 million of their own cash into this project. They really believe in it. It's a new product. Most of the rooms are set up for a long-term stay, which accommodates a lot of the folks who are contractors out of Beale and what have you. But they're all regular rooms, too, but perfect for just an overnight.

It also has a 250-room event center.

250-person event center? Person, yeah.

Sorry.

Who's going to be the – what has been teed up for the pad in the middle?

So they're working with multiple drive-thrus at the moment. They haven't locked in any in particular.

Okay. Anyway, the same property has the new grocery, the same general property has the new grocery.

Yes, and the grocery outlet will be opening on November 1st. It will be opening day.

Well, anyway, the arrangement that we're discussing here was to help get some of the final matters across the finish line. And this bank that they're working with has financed four of this group's hotels before, so the odds of having signed documents real soon and things happening out there that we can all see happening, real high right now.

Okay.

What is the will of the council on this matter?

I move to approve. I second.

Motion's made and seconded. All in favor? Aye.

Any opposed? None abstained?

Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Okay. Committee reports, comments, requests? Why don't we start there? First, I'd like to thank Stevie for helping out today.

It seemed like things went a lot smoother and we could hear. Thank you for your time. And I attended the meet the foot patrol that the chief put on. That was very nice. I'm sure you're getting some positive feedback from the committee or from the community about that, I hope. Good. And I attended the Salem dinner at Bryant Field. It was a great evening honoring our community partners that give back to our city. And I also attended the Yuba City Fire Association's 9-11 Remembrance event. It was encouraging to see how many cadets are enrolled in the fire academy. And they all knew Mr. Hudson as he is their teacher. And it was also amazing that they they weren't born even when 9 11 happened 25 years ago the majority of them so it was really a nice presentation put on by yuba city fire association i want to thank staff for everything you do for us as always stuart i have no committee reports at this time but i would like to thank the marysville police department

And our fire department, and all of the services that helped out all of the businesses that were affected by the fire in one of our more historic apartment buildings on D Street. And thank you for clearing the way so that Sissy's Attic could reopen and everyone could go back to business. It's really important that this happens. And thank you, Public Works. You now have a new piece of equipment. And you are filling up all of these crazy little spots that have not been completed for years, up and down B Street. It's great to see all of this work occurring right now, so thank you very much. And thank you, Jim Shedd, for your management. This is excellent. This is your team. Thank you.

Mr. Hudson, so Councilman Gilchrist will alarm my thunder, so we'll just go. But I do want to thank you, Lieutenant, for being part of Marysville. Thanks for being here, and Chief Vance for your leadership of that department and so forth, and our new HR, which I know is the second time sitting in the seat. So we have a good team, and I am too pretty excited about the fact that we do have some new equipment to fix a lot of the potholes in the town. And so thank you, Jim and Jeremy, for working with the crew to make that happen as we are still fixing roads, not just sections of potholes. We got a lot to do, but it's nice to have a pothole or two taken care of. and yes our fire department in conjunction with all the local fire departments did a really good job on doing a good stop on that uh structure fire and the taxpayer third story and the building still stands and it's it's repairable so i think jim and all the staff for all the work that you guys do and just making our meetings happen fluidly and just giving us the information appropriately so we can make decisions and move forward so thank you for everything you guys do mr vice mayor

No committee reports at this time. I would like to thank, I believe there's somebody here from Habitat, isn't there? Oh, he left. For donating the trailer for our riverfront park to house a security person. And I wish John was here. I'll call him and tell him. But I wanted to thank them for that. This month is September is Childhood Cancer Month. Unfortunately, we lost somebody recently, a good friend's child. And so it makes it a little more important or a little closer to our heart this year. And the police walk. Great little get together. And I mentioned to you already, Chief, but for the first time, I mean, I've literally had mainly women come up and say thank you for getting that going. And they all appreciate it very much. So thank you for putting that together. And thank all the staff for everything. We appreciate it very much. Thanks.

You bet.

I, too, attended the Say Love Gathering at Bryan Field. That was a nice gathering. And this past Friday night, Sodbusters, which is an annual event put on by the Marysville Rotary Club to raise money for wonderful purposes, charity. Your law partner. She's something else. She puts that together. Nicole Rosser. And then we had the opening. It was Friday morning. Police officers put patrol in the morning downtown. Community policing, I think they call that.

No, they don't.

And it was interesting, the day before, the afternoon before, I'd been in the Save Mart grocery store picking up a few items. And there's Officer Beck in uniform, he's got a car outside, just popped in to pick up a few things. And it dawned on me how neat it is to see an officer. not just driving by, you know what I mean? And I'm not, there's no criticism, there's no criticism here, it's just community policing, it's fine there, and I chatted with Chief Nabetta and suggested, and I spoke with one of his sergeants also, why not when you're out in East Marysville, pull over and go through the grocery store, just walk through, You're not really checking up. You're showing a presence and showing you care, right? And connecting. And I'll bet a lot of new friends could be made doing that. There's Save Mart, Union Lumber, any place where the public goes. Get out of the car, stretch your legs for a few minutes, walk around and... It's a good feeling. It's a good feeling. It was wonderful seeing Officer Beck that day, and then the next morning to see the officers pounding the beat in the mean streets of Marysville, right?

Anyway, it was all good.

Madam Clerk, do we have any council correspondence?

Not tonight, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor.

To the Chair.

Oh, sir. I missed something that I'd like to throw out. Please, please. This past week, My mother had an accident, a kind of extreme one, and out of that, though, I want to really throw a thank you out there to, I don't know, are we still the Marysville Fire Department or the Marysville Slice Linda?

We're the Marysville Fire Department part of the Linda Fire Department.

Okay. So I want to thank them. They showed up, did a great job. great job handling her and taking care of her. And then going into Adventist Emergency, where we hear nothing but complaints most of the time, they did an excellent job Friendly, efficient, took care of her unbelievably. So I will say, unfortunately, having to be in that emergency a number of times, Adventist has always done a wonderful job for our family anyway.

So thank you. Thank you. Quickly on Adventist, I'd forgotten something I'd written down here, but quickly on Adventist. My every experience in that emergency room, and I've been there when, sadly, when an officer was killed, but also when officers were in accidents, and the work there is first rate. I mean, on the job, wonderful people, nice people. Our district attorney, Yuba County District Attorney, has been sitting in the gallery today, and I have not acknowledged him, and I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for waiting so long. Mr. Clint Curry, it's so good to see you and your boys. Can you tell us what's going on? Bless you how grand well, I'll always support you. Mr. District attorney curry is aces absolute aces Glad to see you here, sir Mr. City Manager, what do you have to share?

I kind of have a couple of themes here, so bear with me. We have quite a few projects moving forward. The D Street lighting project, softball fields, the windows awarded tonight, and our bathrooms are one of the latest. Just a lot of questions on the bathrooms. ETA looks to be about mid-December to complete both bathrooms. They should be very well done and hopefully we'll have them for a Christmas present. But I did want to point out on those projects,

Wait, let's start some rain again. Everybody's running outside. I'll tell you what, you'll have those guys working 24-7.

The tile is in?

To hell with the budget. Get her done.

So nothing happens without some sacrifice. But one point I wanted to make is that the awards for these contracts, most all of them have gone towards local contractors, which I think is great for the city's local economy. And I know they'll all do very good work. The item I want to talk about was a different theme, and as somebody mentioned, Stevie's here tonight. And Stevie runs the Institute of Rock, and he teaches young people, maybe some older people too, but teaches them music. and it's a great youth activity and is a contribution to the community core charter school teaching many things but teaching our youth drones tonight. We heard a lot about that. And then I also heard Fire Academy. Mr. Hudson teaches out at Yuba College and teaches those youth to be firefighters. So it's very impressive to see the community and the instructors, the students, all getting an education of some sort and working towards a career of some sort. I think that's very important to the community. And I also wanted to think, I'm guessing there's quite a few parents out there and i want to thank you folks for supporting your your kids in moving them forward in into their education and later on their career i think that's very commendable and it's great to see you not only not only see your kids but see you attending tonight i think it's very important for the community as well and then the only the the last one i want to mention the trailer uh donation that was discussed i just wanted to give a little more background to that we have two of these trailers already in place within the city limits one is at the cemetery the historic cemetery and there's a night watchman there that mans that cemetery trailer and we have one at the packard library to to provide not night watchman service at the packard library The third one we're talking about is going out to Riverfront Park, and we will have a third night watchman. All of those night watchmen have come from some difficult times in the Twin Cities Rescue Mission has provided two of those night watchman's to us. These are typically people that experience homeless or addictions and are trying to turn their life around and so they play a very important role in our community and now that they're manning these trailers and uh basically keeping an eye out so that if there's some illegitimate activity they can relay that to our police department and we can deter those types of activities so Lot of good community related efforts, and I think it requires not. It's not an option. It requires parents. Community members, business owners, our staff to make this community work, and so I just wanted to thank everybody for that.

Aaron at the rescue at the mission. He's. He's so impressive, and his leadership of that group of men is first rate. I've been to their fundraiser where all the servers are from the mission.

Great people, great people, great people.

I'm looking forward to working with y'all, or the city working with y'all, and fashioning a story. And the county is interested in this, too. Fashioning a story in support of connecting Highway 20 to Highway 70 because of the stress created on the city of Marysville. And I think we might get some help from the aggregate companies out there in the county who want to move their product a little faster.

It would be real interesting work.

this has been a great meeting our next regularly scheduled meeting is tuesday october 6 2026 at 6 p.m thank you all for being here we're adjourned