Remarks by Dale Byrne
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Those were all good statements. I don't really have much to add to it, except I really want to say how incredibly successful this was when we In January, if everybody remembers, there were, what, 10 ad hoc committees? And we basically decided to clear them all out. And then this was the first one I think that came up. And we originally agreed to have it for six months. And then we decided to keep it through the whole budget season, which I think was a really good thing to do. It's probably on the borderline of how long ad hocs should last. But our city attorney said it was OK, so it was OK.…
And there's going to be some payback at the other end. So I have a question for the two of you and all of you. Who should be on that committee? We have some really unbelievable finance people in this town that have tremendous track records. Should we have people from outside the city on that committee too to add their expertise?
Can can standing committees consist of a people other than council members?
All right. Well, that's easy. So we just encourage those smart people to show up at the meetings and participate as public comments. All right. Sounds like we have pretty unanimous support for a standing committee for better or worse for staff.
Might I suggest that first of all, I think it's probably logical to start with that the two existing members of the stewardship committee become the charter members of that committee. I might also suggest that we have a final meeting of the stewardship committee to wrap it up. And maybe at that meeting, you could help define some of these guidelines and bring it back to us at the next meeting. I mean, they seem to be the most qualified. Yeah, that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I'm going to look to your colleagues.
So how much do we need to do tonight? How much can we do at the next meeting when they come back with the framework?
Okay. I think Bob and Hans are going to agree to be on the committee. Are you okay with that?
What other, do you need us to vote? Do you need us to do something besides say, here are the two members, they're going to have a wrap-up meeting for the stewardship committee?
Okay. Do you have everything you need then?
Thank you, that was excellent. All right, I think you've got your marching orders.
Okay, thank you. Great discussion, thank you so much. All right, so we have a really exciting one next, from my perspective anyway. Resolution 2026.060 authorizing the city administrator to execute a construction contract with Silcon Constructors for the beach access 12th and 10th Avenue stairway. Repair Project Carmel Beach Coastal Protection and Access Improvement, bid number 2526007 for a total not to exceed amount of $364,417.13, including base bid $223,149.70, add alternate $80,531.24, and contingency $60,736.19. Staff report. I don't know, do you want to do a presentation, Shari?
Can you, if I could ask a question? Please, yeah. Could you tell us exactly what this includes?
So I don't know who they are supplying. Different markets.
Jeff, I appreciate the light of thinking you're going down, but we need to get this contract approved. How many of you are willing to approve it as written? I do have one question, though. Go ahead.
I think the discussion was valuable that we just had, and it might have brought up some things that we want to pay more attention to on the next project like this. But I'm looking for a motion to approve.
It's been a long time. I forgot all about it. But I do that once in a while. Public comment, please. That was a lot of questions. No public comments.
Anybody online before we stop that? Sorry. There's no hands raised online. Okay, good. Go ahead. I'm sorry, I don't want to do a full public comment.
Congratulations. We're gonna get new beach stairways. There was a cheer from the audience and the whole city. But we're just sort of tired, so we're not going to do it. All right, so now there are two items left, and we don't have the closed session anymore because we did it. There was a suggestion from the dais to do item number five first. thinking that it was a simpler one to get out of the way. And then we'll have a discussion about what to do with item four. So if that's okay with everybody?
I want everybody to be happy. Don't have to. Yeah, I mean, I'll go with the flow. Okay, so we're gonna do item five, provide direction regarding a potential urgency ordinance addressing home hardening and wildfire safety regulations citywide.
OK, I'm going to start with Hans since he's our fire expert.
So you recommend all four of these and participated in creating this policy?
So you and others, you were part of that team? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Alessandra?
Just trying. Okay. Thank you. Any questions now that we've heard from our fire expert? Anybody from the public want to make a comment? Thank you, Nancy. Are there any hands online? No.
Thank you. Kelly, were you going to make a comment? Come on up.
Perfect. Thank you, and thank you for your work in the committee. All right, we'll continue our deliberation that I prematurely started.