City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, and welcome to this, the July 13th meeting of the Livermore City Council. I call the meeting to order. City Clerk, would you please call roll?

Here. Would you please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

Thank you. We have no proclamations or presentations tonight. We have no advisory body appointments. I'll ask the city clerk to please explain how people can participate in the meeting tonight. This is our first hybrid meeting. So please be patient. We're sort of juggling the technology here.

Okay, do we have anyone else to speak at open forum?

If you could speak into the microphone, please. I'm sorry? If you could speak into the microphone, please.

Thank you. We actually do. The police department is coming up. We have a training program and an education program. In fact, our next one, I believe, is August 25th. We have a training program for both children and their parents. But we also have a video program as well. So thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Okay. In that case, I'm going to close the open forum. We'll move on next to the consent calendar. Is there anything that anyone wishes to pull for comment and consent? Council Member Barrientos? 6.8 and 6.9. Okay. Is there anyone else that wishes to pull anything for comment? Okay.

No speakers. All right. In that case, I'm going to close the public comment period for consent. You had 6.8 and 6.9. Any questions?

What we're doing, I think it's good for them to know more about these two items.

The contract, yes. Amazing how fast time flies. 6.8 is what I do. A couple of questions, just some clarifications. So the water system in Livermore is an enterprise fund. So no general fund dollars go into this. This is all paid for by the users that are using the water system.

And Within the last couple of weeks, we've had some episodes where the water had kind of an off odor to it. And I heard from a number of people that were concerned about that. And it turned out that the State Water Project had to do some repairs and some maintenance on the South Bay Aqueduct. And that was the switching of the systems. But according to our agreement, at all times, the water that Zone 7 delivers must meet the primary drinking water standards, which are related to public health and safety. They're nodding yes.

Okay, great. There was a fair amount of language in here about the independent quota, which is something that water agencies are allowed to pump a certain amount. But Livermore doesn't own any wells. So the independent quota was more important for Pleasanton, but it doesn't really impact Livermore.

Okay. I was surprised to see, but I imagine it's probably just the boilerplate that they produce. And similarly, for agencies that have their own wells, if they pump beyond their independent quota, they have to pay a recharge fee. That does not affect Livermore because we don't have a recharge fee or we don't have wells. Okay, great. This has always bothered me. 6.9. Anybody can talk to anything to the council as long as it's in the subject matter jurisdiction. We have a number of people here that speak on things that are beyond the subject matter jurisdiction of the city. But in order to enco

Okay, great. Thank you. So with that, if there's nobody that has any other comments on the consent calendar, I'll entertain a motion. I'll move consent. Okay, Councilmember Branning moves consent. I'll second. Seconded by Councilmember Dunbar. Any discussion on the motion? If there's no opposition, it passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Moving on to public hearings 7.1. This is the authorization to negotiate a development agreement on a development agreement and stand. Yes.

As I'm an employee of Gillig and have been for 10 years, I will be recused from this item. Okay. Very good. Thank you very much.

Okay. Is there anybody else that wishes to comment?

Okay, I'll open the public hearing then.

OK. In that case, I'm going to close the public hearing, bring it back to the council. Does the council have any questions?

Thank you. Mayor Mrakas, The comments are considered very intense vice mayor.

I we may not know the answer to this yet, because since we haven't actually started negotiating but i'm just curious if we know whether they plan to still allow their employees cars to go through, or will it strictly will it just be completely closed to vehicles.

Okay, so you're not expecting them to be driving through during the day. Okay. Thank you. And then just also thinking ahead, let's say at some point in the future, Gillick sells off one side of the street. Does that street revert back to the city or is that still their street?

These negotiations are, this is the beginning of the negotiations and there's additional studies and analyses that are going to be going ahead during those negotiations. So we certainly welcome Mr. Franklin's comments and additional input as this process is starting now. And this is a process that will continue. So we certainly appreciate that. your comments and they will be heard. Certainly appreciate the partnership that we've had with Gillig for a number of years and it's been 13 years. That's astonishing. But again, looking forward to making this work for everybody. If there's no further c

seconded by the vice mayor. Any discussion on the motion? If there's no opposition, it passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Get Council Member Dunbar back. All right, matters for consideration, this is a resolution approving the executive management management confidential and confidential compensation plan.

Any questions for staff? Do we have any public comment?

We have no speakers at this time. Okay. We have no speakers. Okay. In that case, we're going to close the public hearing and bring it back to the council. Is there any questions or comments? I'll entertain a motion. Okay. Moved by council member Berrientos. We have a second.

I'll second with a note that thank you for all the work to put this into one document. Thank you very much.

Seconded by a council member Dunbar. Yeah. There's a discussion on the motion if there's no opposition. Thank you very much, thank you. Okay, bringing it back to the Council for. Matters initiated and Council. Oh, are there any online, there were no. In the beginning okay.

So there are no speakers online. In that case, I'm going to close the public comment period for the online portion of the open forum. With that, bringing it back to the council, council reports and matters initiated. Council Member Dunbar.

Nothing to initiate, and one I will highlight on the report was just how I felt like the traffic management at the airport went much better this year, in part thanks to the buses. I thank everybody for their patience to get out there. I know sometimes we were at a wait, but overall we had much better access for emergency response to the airport if anything were to happen, so I was really impressed with staff's work and coordination with LAFTA on that item, so thank you.

And we had eight buses altogether. So it was quite a success.

I remember last year, the traffic backing up on airway all the way to 84 and that becoming a problem. So I was really happy to see this year.

I forgot that. I did attend the Teen Academy graduation. And the other thing is on July 18th, we call the Vasco Summer Festival over on the north side of the tracks for 580. And the whole idea is to try to get more people to see more Livermore and to increase business over there on that side of town. I need to talk to Chief Lacey, too. That's it.

I want to echo the appreciation for our city staff and for Wheels and all the community members who participated in putting on a Great Fourth of July celebration. And especially want to thank Wheels for having backup buses ready that they put right into service when the crowds got big and really reduced wait times. And I got so many texts from friends who rode Wheels for the first time and thought it was a great experience. So... And I was one of the people that waited 45 minutes last year just to turn from 84 onto the airport. So I thought it went really great this year. Saturday, I joined th

Friday, five to eight, I believe. But if you don't already know how to play, I'm teaching at 430. Okay. It really takes about 10 minutes to learn. It's very easy. The Hong Kong version, at least.

All right. Very good. Thank you. Again, I've got to give a shout out to the 4th of July at the airport. What an amazing event. There were literally thousands of families, thousands of children. There were, we had the Alameda County helicopter was out there. We had the sheriff's helicopter there. We had the Veterans First Program from Las Positas College. The police and fire departments were out there. We had the only flying Marine B-25 in the world was out there. It flew in. We had one of only six Japanese Zeros in the world fly in. We had the F-6F Hellcat. which was actually the first plane t