City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. This is the regular joint meeting of the Oakley City Council, the Oakley City Council acting as a successor agency to the Oakley Redevelopment Agency and the Oakley Public Finance. This meeting is called to order at 6.30. Will the clerk please call roll?

Item 1.2, Pledge of Allegiance. Today we have the honor of having Chandler, who's involved in the Mustang managers' leadership and is in the gate greeting for Almond Grove School. Chandler is a very social person. He always has conversations with friends. When he's not together in person, he enjoys laughing over FaceTime. In his free time, Chandler enjoys golf, bowling in a league, playing basketball, baseball, reading, and of course, little fortnights. He dreams of becoming a pro golfer.

Item 1.3, proclamation honoring Ashley Hopwood for earning her Girl Scout Golden Award. If Ashley can meet me up front at the podium, please.

Congratulations. And all those hours into the community and what you've done, you should be very proud in the city council. We're very proud to have you as a resident of Oakley. Item 1.4, Oakley Library Update.

Any questions from council? Thank you very much for the update.

Item 1.5, California Main Street update.

Councilmember Williams You mentioned that in order to become accredited there has to be a full-time person dedicated I know like Downtown Brentwood coalition they started out as an all volunteer force So does that full-time person have to be a paid employee or could it be a volunteer? Who's just focused on the Main Street portion of things? I?

Thank you very much for your presentation.

Item two, public comment. We will now receive public comment on items on the consent calendar and items that are not on tonight's agenda. I currently do not have any speaker cards. If you wish to speak, there are speaker cards in the library, the blue cards. You can fill one out there. A reminder to the public that it's limited to three minutes. There's a timer in front of my seat. At one minute, there will beep, and the light will turn yellow, and as it turns red, there. Also, if you're remote and you wish to speak in public comment, please raise your hand. Do I have any public speakers? I ha

I will close public comment. Move to item three, council members' comments. I do not see any council member comments. We'll move to item four, consent calendar. Does anybody wish to remove anything from this consent calendar? Otherwise, I'll look for a motion. I move approval of the consent calendar. So we have a first and a second. Can we have a roll call vote, please?

Item 5, no public comments tonight. We'll move to the regular calendar, Item 6. Item 6.1, adopt resolution appointing one planning commission to fill a two-year vacancy expires February 28th of 27. And our community development director.

Any questions for staff before we get started?

Thank you for explaining my sheet for the challenges in the room.

I'll do one. You're doing one? Okay, what do I have? You have two. Two? Okay.

So we'll go ahead and call the first applicant up. Good evening. Good evening. So we'll start off with the first question. What motivated you to apply for appointment to the Planning Commission?

And how do you envision Oakley developing over the next 5, 10, and 15 years?

All right. What is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner should bring to this role?

If appointed, how would you define your role and responsibility as a planning commissioner? And do you have any scheduling conflicts that could affect your ability to regularly attend planning commission meetings which are scheduled for the first and or third Tuesday of each month at 6.30 p.m.?

How would you define your role and responsibilities as a planning commissioner?

That includes our questions, so you can either stay and listen to the other interviews or... We'll get through the next two.

Hi. Thanks for your time. What motivated you to apply to be a planning commissioner?

How would you describe the city's current direction regarding development and growth? And how do you envision Oakley developing over the next 5, 10, and 15 years?

All right, what do you feel is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner should bring to this role?

All right. Mine is a two-part question, so bear with me. If appointed, how would you define your role and responsibilities as a planning commissioner? And do you have any scheduling conflicts that could affect your ability to regularly attend planning commission meetings, which are scheduled for the first and or third Tuesday of each month at 6.30 PM?

Thank you. And you can either stay in the audience or step out of the room while we do the third interview. Okay. Thank you.

What motivated you to apply for the appointment of a planning commissioner?

Thank you. How would you describe the city's current direction regarding development and growth? And how do you envision Oakley developing over the next 5, 10, and 15 years?

What would you say is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner can bring to this role?

OK, I have a two-part question. If appointed, how would you define your role and responsibilities as a planning commissioner? And do you have any scheduling conflicts that could affect your ability to regularly attend planning commission meetings, which are scheduled for the first and or third Tuesday of each month at 6.30 PM?

So we'll call the meeting back to order. And then we're going to get the tally from city clerk, please.

So at this point, I'll need a motion to approve.

Item 6.2, appeal of the Planning Commission decision on 5279 Neroli Road. And we'll receive our staff report from our associate planner, Evan Gordon.

Do we have any other public speakers for this item? Do we have anybody online for speaking on this item?

And I'll bring it back to council for deliberation or a motion.

Vice Mayor Meadows. I would prefer to move forward with item two, review the record and decide.

Could I just ask a question? If we're reviewing the record and deciding, no new evidence can be introduced, right? It's just reviewing?

OK. Thank you. I just needed that clarity.

If it's OK, let me ask, when did The general plan changes to light industrial.

Do we know when the property was purchased?

I'm assuming after 2002? 22? OK, thank you.

I'm just having a hard time, because I was leaning towards the second public hearing. And the reason for that is because I think we should take anything that has to do with people's property very seriously. But that was a good question that you just brought up, because that does make a difference. The zoning was already light industrial. So I don't know if I can be the tiebreaker yet on this one, though.

Yeah, I'm leaning towards number two as well. I have reviewed all the documents as well as gone back and watched the video of the Planning Commission meeting driven by the location. And I think I have enough information to make that determination.

I feel for you. You assumed you were going to be buying a house that you could live in and do whatever you want with. But when you're buying a property, you've got to do investigations. And you've got to find out what you're buying, what the zoning is, what you can do with it. And it's unfortunate that you didn't And that's all we're looking to get. Well, yeah, but I'm not done expressing it. I mean, I feel for them, but it's also zoned light industrial. And so that means you can't go and expand a house. And you can't add ADUs, which I don't even know why we're talking about ADU on here, becau

So we have a first and a second. We'll go for a roll call vote.

Move to 6.3, adopt a resolution superseding resolution 36-26, updating remote Public participation guidelines and public comment time limits. And this will be a staff report from our city clerk.

Thank you. Questions for staff? Not seeing any questions for staff. I do not have any public comments. Does anybody wish to make public comments on this item? Do we have anybody online?

And I'll bring it back to the council for deliberation.

Second. We have a first and a second. Roll call vote, please.

Item number seven, reports. 7.1, city manager's report.

Questions for the chief? Also, remember, we're working on...

it might not just be for the chief it might be just a general um because i know you've been trying to make that domestic violence stat go down um maybe we could invite one of those organizations to come down for i mean a presentation i know you know the audience isn't always packed with people but hopefully through all of our channels we could get people to pay attention so i don't know if we just have them come give a presentation to us at account at a council meeting or maybe we can Talk about doing something like what we did for the fentanyl awareness, but just something to get a little bit

You kind of mentioned in the presentation about it, but, I mean, pushing information out through our social media,

Yeah, I know that he did that they did a lot of that last year because we were getting a lot of questions too about it So yeah, I mean I think all the things we can do for sure just like how you were saying You're all gonna step up like the DUI enforcement, right? I think when when it's presented to people maybe the they can see and know that there's some options out there so

And you said we did last year, but I think it's something that just needs to be on a rotational basis every so many months. And not that I run the social media, but. Thank you, Chief.

Any questions? Thank you very much. Great report.

We'll move to 7.2, City Council acting and successor agent reports. Council Member Shah.

Since our last meeting, I attended at Cal City's East Bay Division Board Legislative Day in Sacramento, where we got to meet with senators and assembly members to talk about local control and things that are affecting the cities. And then I had a Josh Harder Day. We did the Staff Appreciation Lunch at Freedom, hosted by Rotary, but always great to partner with all of them. the organizations that serve the same residents that we do. On the 19th, I went to Hot August Nights at Studio 55. And later that afternoon, Oakley Optometry Ribbon Cutting. I have my new glasses on today. And then on the 20

All right. Aaron wants me to take up some time. I attended coffee with the principal at Freedom. He did provide really interesting data regarding fights on campus, GPA goals, enrollment numbers, state testing outcomes and goals. And he was also highlighting the partnership and what a good partnership he has with the city. So I don't think he was just saying that because I was there, but maybe he was. I went to Studio 55 hot August nights, the ribbon cutting for Oakley Optometry. All right, Tri-Delta Transit. So we had a discussion of SB 63, as always, and a review of the expenditure plan. Tri-

I also attended the Mayor's Conference and that was a great presentation by the President of the college I went to. I was at the Rotary Lunch at Freedom. for a while. Since the last meeting, I've also attended the planning committee meeting, CCTA. I had a trans plan meeting. I had a MCE meeting. I was at the swearing in today for our newest officer. I did the ribbon cutting for a wine tasting, which looks great. And Julie DelBarbera did a great job of remodeling the women's club. I attended a CCTA TEP meeting discussing the future transportation expenditure plan. Today I met with Rashidi Barne

And since our last meeting, attended Iron House Sanitation District, Studio 55's Hot August Nights, Friday Night Bites, the Homecoming Parade, and like everybody said, that was a home run, and Mayor's Conference. We'll move to 7.2.b, request for future agenda items. Council Member Williams.

In light of the fireworks presentation that we just got, I don't know if this needs to be a future agenda item, but can we discuss some of the recommendations from our police department?

I think I need a second. Yeah, for what? Recommendations for fireworks or something else?

Yeah, sorry. The recommendations that Lieutenant Morris gave us for firework follow-up stuff.

If we need to bring it back, I'll second it.

With that... Item 8, work sessions, we have none tonight. Item 9, closed session, we have one closed session. Item 9.1, conference with legal counsel, anticipate litigation, initiate litigation pursuant to paragraph 4, subsection D, section 54, 95, 56.9, one potential case. We will adjourn the meeting after closed session. So thank you, everybody.