City Council - Special Meeting

Recording in progress. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the city council special meeting this Monday evening, April 20th. City clerk, can you please call the role? Certainly. Mayor Lorraine. Council member Diaz Nash here. Council member Sphere Gaditzki here. Deputy Mayor Fernandez here. Mayor Lorraine here. Council member Newsome here.

Thank you and welcome. We are excited to be here in person with options for those who choose not to be in person to still participate virtually. Thank you for your cooperation and for helping us maintain an efficient and accessible meeting environment. There are several ways to participate today. For those attending in person, you may complete a yellow request to speak slip and hand it to the city court. If you're participating remotely, you may use the raise your hand feature in Zoom and you can be called on at the appropriate time. If you're calling in via phone, you may press star 9 to raise your hand and when called upon, press star six to unmute. These options for public comment will remain available until I close the public comment period for each specific item. For members of the public who may be watching us on YouTube, if you wish to provide live public comment, please note that you must join the meeting through the Zoom webinar using the access information listed in our agenda. It's available on our website, city of samonteo.org. And with that, we have uh a close session item to begin our special meeting tonight. Uh council will be uh convening in conference room C for conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. Before we begin, city clerk, are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item before we convene into close session? Mayor Lraine, we have not received any requests to speak on close session items either in person or in our virtual environment.

Okay, then I will close public comment for the close session. We will convene in close session and then return for a study session item. Thank you.

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Okay, good evening. Thank you for your patience. We have returned from close session and can now begin the study session item 2026 to 2031 capital improvement program plan preview. We have a presentation from Matt Fabri, public works director, and Jamie Perez, business manager.

Yeah, good evening, Mr. Mayor and council members. Pleasure to be here to present a preview of the 20 26-31 capital improvement plan. Uh, I am joined by uh Jamie Perez behind me as our business manager from public works. Um, I'm also joined by parks and recreation director Joan McGrreeny, who's going to help me with the presentation. Um, and I do want to quickly say that putting together the 5-year CIP is a large effort that involves a lot of staff. Um, and uh my thanks uh to all the staff that have been involved, especially uh Jamie on on our side and Susette Silverman on parks and recck side and we've got Andrea Chow out in the audience who has been helping to manage this entire process as we went through it. So, thanks to the whole team that put this together. Um, so tonight we're going to talk about the projects uh that are proposed in terms of the five-year CIP uh by type. We're going to look more specifically into some of the uh different funding uh sources that we use to fund these different projects. We'll talk about projects that are coming out of the general fund, measures SNCC, as well as the capital reserve fund. We'll talk about park impact fees, um some of our special revenue funds, our enterprise funds. We'll hit on the list of unfunded projects and then we'll uh close out with uh some of the future studies and assessments that we're uh either underway or will be doing in in the near future that will have an impact on the future uh capital improvement program. So when we look at the overall 5-year CIP uh we have about $350 million of project proposals that'll be going forward to council as part of the the five-year CIP. This shows the categories that those all those requests are in with the vast majority of those being in the category of sewer. Um with a lot of that being wrapping up clean water program, but it's also continuing to upgrade and maintain our collection system and our uh the old part of our treatment plant. Uh the next big category is our streets and transportation projects followed by buildings and facilities. Um storm water projects, parks and playgrounds,

miscellaneous projects, and some uh bridge projects. So the total is about 350 million. Again, this is the total for the 5-year uh program. So, when we break it down year by year for the 5-year program, you can see that we're asking uh we'll be asking council for somewhere between 66 million and fiscal year 2627 up to uh 72 million. So, roughly 66 to 70 million for the five years. You can see the breakdown in terms of the cost amounts in those different categories. Again, uh when we look at what's just proposed for fiscal year 2627, which is a reminder to council, that is what you actually adopt is the the first year's um budget and then the rest of the years is a uh plan. Uh we can see that we've got again the same breakdown of of the categories in terms of where the biggest pots of funding are. So, we've got about $40 million worth of sewer projects, $11 million of streets and transportation, just under 10 million for buildings and facilities, 3.2 million for storm water, 2 million for parks and playgrounds, and so forth. So before we jump into projects that are uh requesting funding in the 5-year CIP, I do want to remind council that there are projects that are ongoing um that have been approved with funding in prior years that may not be requesting funds this year, but that doesn't mean that they aren't still moving forward. And we wanted to highlight three of those right now. Uh one being the Central Park playground that uh has a total of uh we anticipate the total project cost to be around 11.3 million. We are going to be wrapping up the wastewater treatment plant flow management upgrade and expansion project which is our biggest project $63 million and then uh again moving for forward on completing the East Hillsdale playground project at $3 million. So those projects are not requesting funding in the 5-year CIP, but those are examples of ones that are

still moving forward and you'll see um uh progress and completion on those in the coming year. So moving on to project requests and things coming out of the general fund measures S and CC in the capital reserve. You can see in the top portion of this chart is what the uh resources are that are available um from those different funding sources in the different years. We have typically a certain amount that comes out of the general fund and measure S towards capital projects. So that's why you see that in each of the five years. And then measure CC uh is typically been applied uh in the last two years in terms of where there are special needs for projects and there's availability that that's been added into the uh proposed budget. And then this year we have uh requests actually proposed to come out of the recently created capital reserve as part of when council uh revised the overall city reserve policy. Uh so for the 2627 we've got 10.885 million proposed to come out of these different funding sources with the the majority of that coming out of the capital reserve and I'll talk about those projects in a few slides here. Um you can see that we have less being allocated from both general fund and measure S in year 2627 and that's given based the based on the availability of dollars in those uh different funding sources. Um there's been more significant um you utilization of measure S in the past couple of years and so we've reduced the amount that's proposed to come from measure S uh in the next year to allow that fund balance to recover. Uh but typically you'll see that there's 4.25 million has been allocated from the general fund to capital projects each year and 1.75 is what we're anticipating uh going forward to be available from measure S. You can also see in terms of at the bottom of the the chart what the project requests are in each of the five years. So you can see um that we are uh proposing or or we've got in the plan more uh

requests than there is potentially available revenue. Uh again the years uh two through five are a plan and so we will be revisiting uh each of those on an annual basis as we go forward. And so we will need to bring future requests into alignment with the available funding when um when we move forward with the next year's five-year plan. So, just highlighting some of the projects that are being funded out of these uh funding sources. We've got citywide facility roof replacements. This is continuing uh to move forward on the roof assessment that was done at our city facilities a few years ago. And so, we'll be moving forward with additional roof replacements. We continue to move forward on modernizing our elevators at our various facilities. Uh we continue moving on our quick build mobility program that allows us to get out and make rapid safety improvements uh throughout the city. Uh we've got updates to the skate plaza that includes lighting uh improvements at the skate plaza. Um we are going to be asking for some additional money to get us to the finish line on the marina library structural improvements to address that that facility in terms of of getting it stabilized from sliding into the lagoon. Um and then the next four projects are ones that are coming uh to proposed to come out of the capital reserve. So the uh first one here is comprehensive recreation and aquatic facility study that uh director McGrreeny will talk about later in the presentation for 250,000. Uh we're going to be doing a downtown parking analysis for another 250,000. And then we've got more significant amounts proposed for um the pre-construction design work for a new fire station 27 at 2.2 million and phase one uh design work for the King Recreation and Swim Center. So, this would be $4 million towards a uh new pool, new locker rooms, and the nervous system for a resiliency center at the uh facility. So, this would get us through the design phase for those pieces. Moving on to our special revenue funds.

These are generally our transportation funds. Um you can see these are the typical amounts uh that are coming uh to the city for these different funding sources. And I'll just quickly explain what each of those are. Um the top and bottom ones, gas tax and RMR, that stands for road maintenance and rehabilitation account. Those are both uh sources of funding that come from gas taxes. Um measures A and W are half cent sales taxes that are administered uh through the county transportation authority and SAMR. And then measure M is the uh countywide vehicle license uh or vehicle registration fee that is administered through city county association of governments. So we get roughly nine somewhere in between 9 and $10 million a year that is dedicated for transportation purposes. So when we highlight what our proposed uh amounts are for the different categories, the vast majority of of what is used in or how these funds are used is really our pavement maintenance and rehabilitation program. So that's the funding that goes towards maintaining our roadways and maintaining a high pavement condition. Um, we've got a certain amount that goes towards our traffic uh projects, bike and ped projects, and some uh bridge uh improvement maintenance projects. So, just highlighting some of those. These are uh fiveyear total project costs um or or five-year project requests. So, we've got the citywide street rehabilitation program is the vast majority of these funds. 44 million over the five years. That's, as I said, the money that goes towards our annual pavement rehabilitation. We've got local roadway safety plan implementation um at just over $3 million, which does include uh $600 something thousand in grant funds that are going towards improvements um that we've talked about with council previously on on Humbult and some other locations in the city. We've got an additional $150,000 that we're requesting to go towards the Peninsula Delaware intersection improvements to address safety concerns

at that intersection. Um, and I did want to mention quickly before I turn it over to Director McGrreeny that um, we also typically budget a certain amount of um, traffic impact fees that come from development for our transportation projects. However, uh, Director McGrini is going to talk about this similar situation with park impact fees. But we have challenges with the way those funds are uh, now allocated from developments in terms of the timing of when we get those funds. And so with our traffic impact fee, um the the timing of receiving those funds is not aligning with what we have planned in terms of projects. And so we've had to back off on um projects that have been proposed in the past for those funds. And so um we aren't proposing anything for 2627 with the traffic impact fee to give us time to have uh funds come in from developments and gradually replenish that pot. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Director McGriny, who will talk about the same situation with regard to park impact fees and then park and and playground projects.

Thank you. The parks and recreation revenue fund serves as the city's primary funding source for park improvement projects. This fund is largely supported by the impact fees collected from residential development projects. These fees are assessed on new developments uh and to help offset the increased demand that additional residents place on park facilities and amenities. This slide illustrates the fund's revenue trends over the past eight years. As shown, the revenues fluctuate from year to year, primarily due to variations in development activity. In years with higher levels of residential construction, the city collects more impact fees resulting in increased revenue. Conversely, during the periods of slower development, revenue declines. The this variability is an important consideration for long-term planning as it can affect the timing and scope of park improvement projects funded through this source. Various recently adopt state housing laws limit how and when a city can assess and collect fees on new housing developments. Under Senate Bill 330, applicable fee formulas are established at a time at the time a preliminary application is submitted, which occurs earlier in the development re review process than um under prior procedures. Senate Bill 937 permits housing developments to defer the payment of impact fees until project completion. Previously, the city collected the these fees at the time of bu building permit issuance. This change significantly delays the timing of the impact fee revenue collection for the city. Staff are predicting that the fund will not generate any revenue any new revenue over the next 12 to 18 months. So to address this temporary funding gap, staff are proposing a strategic reallocation of funds from projects that have already been completed and have remaining or unspent balances. By redirecting these uh residual funds, the

city can continue to support park priority uh improvement efforts without relying on new revenue. In addition, staff have intentionally structured the capital improvement program to remain flexible during these periods of revenue uncertainty um with several projects in the development phase so that um they can be activated depending on when fees are collected. Here are some of the projects we'd like to highlight for the upcoming fiscal year. Synthetic field replacement at Los Praos Park. There's approximately 210 square ft of synthetic turf currently in place at Los Praos Park. Originally installed in 2015. Given that the typical lifespan of synthetic turf fields is approximately 10 years, these surfaces are due now for replacement. The fields are heavily utilized um serving as a primary venue for youth soccer, baseball, and softball league activities. Trento Park serves as home to the American uh little league, and it features a uh 2800 square ft of dedicated playground space, which was originally installed in 2004. An allocation of $50,000 is proposed for upcoming fiscal year to initiate planning and scope development phase. This would be followed by an additional 500,000 in the subsequent subsequent fiscal year to fund the replacement of the existing playground equipment. And finally, Washington Park and the Shore View neighborhood recently underwent resurfacing of the basketball court. The park also includes approximately 9,200 square ft of park and playground space, which was originally installed in 1997. An allocation of 50,000 is proposed for the upcoming fiscal year to support the planning and design phase and then would be followed by 900,000 in the subsequent fiscal year to fund the replacement of the equip playground equipment along with associated pathway improvements.

All right, then moving on to our enterprise funds, which are our sewer uh funds and our storm water funds. Uh you can see our five-year proposed um project needs in these different categories. With again the vast vast majority of those being in in the sewer fund, but thanks to uh property owners approving the community flood and storm protection fee, we do now have the ability to start funding uh capital projects out of that storm fund. So highlighting some of these projects, um we've got our annual sanitary sewer rehabilitation at just over or just under 47 million dollars over the five years. So this is our uh basin bybasin program that we do each year to um assess and upgrade our sewer collection system and correct any deficiencies within the system. Uh we've got our clean water program wastewater treatment plant annual major components projects which is a group of projects that are fixing things around the wastewater treatment plant that um have not been part of the overall upgrade and expansion uh of the treatment plant. Um and then the wastewater treatment plant daft replacement. That's the dissolved air flotation tank, which is a critical piece of our solids processing um facilities is an example of where we're headed in terms of the clean water program wrapping up this calendar year. We're now moving into what we call the post clean water program period. And as a reminder to council, although we built a brand new amazing wastewater treatment plant out there, it is only a liquids processing facility. And so we still are relying on our old solids processing facilities at the old part of the plant. And so we have identified significant needs at the treatment plant in terms of upgrades on the solids processing facilities. This one being one of the most critical in terms of replacing this facility. And so we do have uh projects proposed in the in the 5-year CIP that are moving us in the direction of upgrades to the solids uh processing facilities. Um, we've got high priority storm water

improvements proposed and this is really drawing on the uh updated storm drain master plan that is currently out for public review and will be coming back to council in the coming uh month or two. Um, and this is really focused on getting getting started on design efforts on some of the highest priority projects that are identified in the storm drain master plan. We also uh inconsistent consistent with council's direction is that we have money allocated uh on an annual basis to be able to address some of the more minor uh ponding and neighborhood flooding type issues that don't rise to the category of being a significant capital project that's needed to address overall uh drainage and flood control needs. And then we do have a regulatory mandate from the state water board that says that we have to implement a certain amount of green storm water infrastructure to treat a certain amount of acreage within the city by certain dates. And so we have money allocated from the storm fund to be able to allow us to do that and stay in compliance with the regional storm water permit. Uh moving on, uh that sort of summarizes all of our um proposed requests in terms of asking council for funding uh to implement projects. But then we have a lot of identified project needs that don't have funding or there aren't available uh sufficient available resources uh to fund all these projects currently. So you can see the different categories. Um I will say that you know the parks and playgrounds um is topping the list at over $110 million of total needs. A big part of that is the Central Park uh finishing the Central Park uh master plan. Um, but we have, you know, a large number of buildings and facilities. And this number really only reflects sort of the highest priority building facility needs that were identified through the comprehensive facilities assessment. We haven't added every single project that came out of that assessment to the list. We've added the high priority ones. Um, we've got significant storm water needs that will

continue to be updated as we finalize the master plan. So some of these numbers for storm water still reflect um older unfunded identified needs from the storm water. So we will be updating that when we get the storm drain master plan finalized. Um we do have a certain amount of bridge uh efforts that are needed. The good thing with bridges is that there is state and federal funds that are typically available to do a lot of the bridge uh maintenance projects and then a certain amount of streets and transportation needs uh especially when it comes to uh completing implementation of the bike master plan and doing some of those uh additional types of safety projects and and transportation traffic engineering type projects. So we've got a total of 289 million shown here. uh the number is probably you know significantly higher when you add everything into it but this gives a sense of the magnitude of where we are in terms of unfunded needs. So just highlighting some of the um things on here. So priority unfunded projects as I mentioned we've got Central Park um phases 2 through four is about 60 million in terms of estimated need. We talked about the King Recreation and Swim Center. So, we do have money proposed to get going on phase one, um, which we said was the new pool, new locker rooms, and the nervous system for resiliency center. Um, we don't currently have budgeted or requested money for the actual construction of phase one. And then phase two would actually move into further uh complete upgrade of the of the recreation uh center facilities there. So, um, that unfunded need for both those, you know, remaining phases would be 16 million. um larger scale marina lagoon dredging. Uh we've got in the in the unfunded and this this number is representative of one approach to doing larger scale lagoon dredging as as council may recall when it comes to doing a full-scale dredging and having if we had to dispose all of those soils at a landfill it could be over $80 million is what was estimated for large-scale lagoon dredging. I do want to highlight that we

are moving forward on the spot dredging. Uh we did have a rebid with bids um were submitted last week. So, we should hopefully be bringing something forward to council with a construction contract soon. Um, we did, as I mentioned from the capital reserve, we have 2.2 million proposed for the design effort for a new fire station 27, but we don't currently have uh programmed in the actual cost for construction. So, that's remains on the unfunded list for now. Um, 28th Avenue gap closure is a construction or the construction of that is one of our transportation um priority projects. And then we have, you know, a significant number of bike master plan projects that remain on the unfunded list that, you know, a total upwards of $13 million. And then, as I mentioned, we've we've put the highest priority um facility infrastructure improvements from the comprehensive facilities assessment on the list. And that's, you know, for a total of 44 million, but if council recalls, the total that we identified um from the comprehensive facilities assessment was significantly greater than that in terms of the total needs. And so we'll close with just some uh highlights of some of the studies that are ongoing or will be going forward in the future that will have an impact on future capital needs. And so I'm going to let Director McGrreeny take the first two bullets. So, as previously mentioned, $250,000 will be requested from the capital reserve fund to update the park department uh 2016 study of facilities with a focus on the Barisford park complex of facilities, the senior center, joinville pool, and the Shoreview recreation center. Recognizing that the MLK uh center and pool is being addressed separately, and the Central Park res uh recreation center is planned for removal as part of the master plan. Um and Lakeshore um has uh the city has secured $1.2 million in federal funding to support the expansion um of full day preschool for low-income families in San

Monteo with potential renovations to the Lakeshore Center. A feasibility study is currently underway to assess the options for the facility, including provision of licensed full-time child care and the potential for a public private partnership. Anticipated improvements may include upgrades to plumbing and electrical systems, expansion of administrative space, installation of air conditioning, compliance with ADA standards, and staff anticipate presenting the findings and recommendations of the feasibility study to the city council in fall 2026.

And then uh moving on, citywide bridge assessment. As I mentioned, we are um completing a bridge assessment um that will give us a a prioritized um look at what we need to do in terms of the city's bridges. The good thing, as I mentioned, is that there are funds out there usually to implement these projects. We don't know what the magnitude of that is yet, but we should be finishing up that assessment and hope to bring something to council this summer in terms of what we find with that. We are in the midst of doing a corporation yard best use study that is looking at um future options for the existing site on Pacific Boulevard in terms of our corporation yard. And this will cover concepts such as an improved corporation yard, a civic building, and various types of mixed use or multiszone subdivisions. Uh and will serve as a basis for generating more ideas and gathering public feedback on on what we could do with the courtyard site. We've got, as we mentioned from the capital reserve, 250,000 proposed for the downtown parking study that will look at all of our um downtown parking uh availability, what the needs are, um looking at some of the um operations activity and future demand for publicly operated parking facilities. We'll also be looking at the potential relocation of city hall to a more centralized downtown site that could be located on an existing garage property, recognizing that we have a couple of garages that are are in in not great shape in terms of the the long-term viability of those facilities. Um, and additional recommendations would be looking at things related to parking rate structures and and things like that. Um, we've got a main library master plan that is looking at um updating a master plan that was previously conducted in 2017, which is really focused on identifying underutilized spaces in the main library that could be renovated to uh meet current community needs, which would include uh places like the teen lounge, the computer lab, jobseker space, the cafe, periodical storage area, and the business library. Um, we've talked to council previously about the storm drain master plan, so I won't say much about that other than it's out for public comment right now and we

expect to bring that back to council soon for potential adoption. Um, and as we're moving out of the clean water program, uh, we are in the process of getting a consultant on board to do an updated sewer collection system master plan. So, this would really be focused on our collection system as opposed to the treatment plant facilities and looking at updating our our hydraulic modeling after we've done all these great improvements for the clean water program to make sure that we have updated modeling, but also to look at um our force mains, which are our pressurized pipelines to determine if we need upgrades for those as well as revisiting our pump stations and the system overall. Um and then we are in the middle of doing a bio gas and bioolids evaluation at the treatment plant that really looks at our solids processing facilities but also looks at do we have opportunities to do more with our bioolids or our bio um our our solids digesting process where we generate bio gas. Could we use that gas for energy recovery and potentially to help offset our operational costs out at the treatment plant? So that uh study is underway and should be done um probably this uh this calendar year. So those will all potentially have impacts on future capital improvement pro programs and 5-year budgets. Um so we want to make sure council's aware of those. And with that, that concludes our presentation and we'll be happy to answer any questions at the appropriate time. Thank you for the presentation. At this time, I'd like to open up public comment on this item. If you are in city hall and you wish to give a public comment, please uh bring forth or fill out a request to speak slip. If you're on Zoom, please raise your hand in the Zoom webinar.

Thank you. Um, as Mayor Lraine mentioned, we are now moving to public comment. If you wish to speak on this item, please either provide me with a request to speak slip or raise your hand now. We'll give you just a few more moments to do so. And at that point, we will be calling the name of the final speaker on this agenda item, after which we will not be accepting additional requests to speak. So, if you do wish to speak, please raise your hand now. and Mayor Lorraine, that is a total number of five requests to speak with the final speaker in our virtual environment being Adriana. Um, and for council adopted rules and procedures, we would set the timer at 3 minutes per speaker. Thank you.

So, we'll take our first speaker and chambers. We'll start with speakers and chambers. If I call your name, if you could please line up to my right, um, that'd be greatly appreciated. Our first speaker will be Jennifer Plattenburg, followed by Lisa Teer and Sonia Tapan. All right. My name is Jennifer Plantenberg. I am a pastor at Community Baptist Church on Humbult and I have lived on Idaho Street since 2006 with my husband and we have two children. And my two kids have been blessed by being able to go to uh the Martin Luther King Center for preschool when they had that available there. And uh we have loved living in this neighborhood. And as part of the Koshlin Fellowship Group um that I have been so blessed to be a part of the last several years. Um, I am here to help advocate for the use of $4.5 million towards uh the King Center and just uh I know there are not a lot of people from that neighborhood who are here to speak, but I want to speak um to say for that neighborhood and for that community what um an important piece that is that the Martin Luther King Center is for the u the neighborhood, how valuable it is. and uh I would love to see the money and the the energy put towards that and so I appreciate all of you considering that. Thank you so much for your time and I yield the rest of my time. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next two speakers will be Lisa Taylor followed by Sonia Tapen.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members, uh city manager and staff. Uh my name is Lisa Teeler, pronoun she, her. I'm the executive director of the Bay Area Community Health Advisory Council. In addition to that, I'm also a coach and fellow for the North Central San Monteo. Um I think you've received our petition that we had various community members sign. Um and we really regarding the repairs, the muchneeded repairs for the King Center. Um I do want to thank you for your previous support. I want to thank the staff for their recommendation of $4 million, but I also want you to urge for an additional $500,000 for much needed repairs to the King Center. As you just previously heard, this center has uh been, I would say, um neglected for decades and it is um in desperate need of repair. those people really need that facility and um I hope that you consider it and thank you for your time.

Thank you. Our next speaker will be Sonia Tapen.

Hello and good evening. Thank you Mayor Lorraine and city council members and staff for taking this item on the agenda. I am a long-term resident of Sonte on Foster City and I absolutely love the King Center. Um, amazing memories there from swimming, playing in the park, meeting friends. It is the center of the community. It is the center of great memories including going to preschool there. It is hard to remember some of the gems that we have in our community, especially as we grow older and realize that we no longer use those facilities. But that doesn't mean that they're not still important to our community and the next generation. I urge you to continue to see the gems that we have in our uh district and continue to allocate funds to ensure that they are there for generations to follow. Please support this measure and um this uh agenda item and ensure that we can continue to use the MLK center. Thank you.

Thank you. Moving to our virtual environment where our first speaker will be Mike Swire. Mike, please unmute your mic. Yeah. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes, we can.

Awesome. Thanks so much, uh, Mayor Lorraine, members of council, Martin, etc. Um, quick comments. Uh, first of all, I want to echo everybody's support for additional money for the King Center. Uh, seems like that would be a great use of funds for North Central. Uh, then I just had a couple questions that I wonder if council could pass along to staff. Um, it's really hard to decipher the total spend on safer streets. There's a lot of buckets and I understand a lot of funding sources, but my key question is, are we spending more or less from internal money? Not just grants. I understand we're maybe doing a little better with grants, but are we spending more or less than we did 5 years ago, 10 years ago? Um I really hope that it's more um because if it's not, then it really signals to the community that the current level of um crashes and traffic violence is okay. So, I just want to confirm that. Um, and I know there was some discussion on what goes into the unfunded bucket and I think there was a mention of only 13 million in bike and pedm projects that were uh included, but that seems very low. I don't know. What about uh ped focus projects uh LRS uh P projects? What about the Hillsdale Bike Bridge? I mean, that's $30 million at least on its own. um on the 28th Avenue project. Um that sounds like it's unfunded, but didn't we already get grant money for that or was that maybe I'm confusing it with 25th because I know there was a project that we needed to extend the grant money for. Um and I'm disappointed also to see that the measure S money is going to be lower this year. I know that a lot of that money in the past has been spent on the studies and meetings uh uh regarding removing the bike lanes on Humbult. So I'm hoping that we can move forward with more productive uses in the future. Thanks so much.

Thank you. And our final speaker will be Adriana. Adriana, please unmute your mic. Hello. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Yes, we can.

Okay. Thank you. Um, good evening, Mayor Lorraine and members of the Satel City Council. My name is Adriana Fernandez Aria, a longtime resident of North Central Sonteo. Growing up in North Central, the King Center has played a key role in my upbringing. I was the first in my family that learned how to swim. Thanks to the King Pool, I was able to complete my homework thanks to to the help of the homework center and take take classes thanks to the reduced fee. However, as I continue to visit the King Center, the infrastructure feels old and outdated, as if nothing has changed since I first started visiting the place in the early 2000s. And I'm here, that is why I'm here to urge you to set aside the $4.5 million in city capital reserves for phase one of the King Center pool and resiliency center project. I now have an eight-month-old who you heard and is currently sick. Um, that's why I'm doing this online. And I want him to have access to a working pool, safe playground, and a resilient community center. As you may know, North Central San Monteo is the most impacted when it comes to climate change. And unfortunately, our homes are not up to date to keep up with the changing climate, which then leads to increased health effects like heat strokes, lack of access to medical equipment when power goes out, and flooding, which can leave some families displaced. And climate change is already happening, and it's not going to slow down. Therefore, the King Center is positioned to function as a resiliency center. and keep our community safe. This is why I continue to respectfully urge you to set aside the $4.5 million for the heart of the North Central community. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor Lorraine. That concludes public comment.

Thank you. In that case, I'll close public comment and ask my fellow council members if they have questions or comments. Deputy Mayor Fernandez. Um I want to thank everybody for coming out to uh to listen to the report and thank you to Matt and team uh for that a lot of information. Very grateful. Um and I am grateful for the support of the King Center. Um so it it is a little bit unfortunate that that misinformation has been spread that the in the community about the MLK center. Um, I was wondering if you could talk about um what we have appropriated for the MLK center, which I do believe might be the highest amount that has ever been appropriated for in in by a recent council.

So, currently, I believe, and I'll look to our finance director or our public works director, I believe that we have $1.25 million allocated towards the King Resiliency Center uh project. This includes $850,000 um in federal earmarks from Congress member Mullen. And then in addition in November of 2024, I believe there was about another $400,000 uh that the council appropriated when we had a pool study session uh for the pool program as well. And then this council in I believe it was the spring of 2025 um established a reserve policy, a capital reserve. And so it freed up $25 million uh to look at our capital needs because of our aging infrastructure. And so under the direction of this council, we came back with a facility assessment program update to the council. I believe it was in November of 2025, uh where we went over details of 300 plus million dollars worth of uh funding needs for our facilities uh throughout the city. And the council during that meeting directed staff to come back as part of the development of our capital improvement program to allocate $4 million uh in addition to the $1.25 million that we currently have allocated to this project to get to about $5.25 million in total for phase one which would be a new pool, brand new pool, um updated locker room facilities and the resiliency nervous system for the King Center. So what I mean by the nervous system is basically all electric basically be able to sustain this community during a natural disaster or heat events or smoke events um and be upgraded kitchen facilities. Basically we could turn the center into well it's called a resiliency center and so people can hundreds of people can

stay there. We can go ahead and uh take care of our community members. It would be the central hub uh for the community during a natural disaster or a big event. um overall and so with that we have I think 16 million that we've budgeted to get phase one and phase two because we can't get to the phase two part which is actually um as part of the facility assessment the King Center itself it has really strong bones that's what we found out in all this and so knocking it down would not make financial sense but to gut or even look at any type of um you know just to make sure that it meets the needs of the community today and into the future um because the design right now does not meet the community's needs as you heard from the community here. And so wanting to do uh wanting to make sure that we're meeting those needs. Um we're working at phase one to get the new pool and the resiliency center. And then phase two uh which would have to come at a later date would be to really gut the gut the King Center and you know build it to you know what our needs are for the next 50 60 years uh moving forward. And so with the if the council moves forward with the 4 million and the 1.25 million, we're more than halfway there for phase one. For making this type of investment as your city manager, I recommend we get get phase one done. You cannot go back once you make this decision this evening. We're going forward uh to get a new pool, a new locker room, and also a resiliency center nervous system. Cuz if you're putting that type of money and we're going to go and expend funds moving towards that, I don't see how you would want to do a U-turn on that. And so we would have to come up either through outside grants or other funding uh funding streams within our city uh budget to go ahead and fund the full amount of phase one. And Matt, I'm looking at you and I think phase one's probably at the 12 million. Is it total of 12 million? Probably. I think the total estimate for the entire

doing everything was 20 million and I think phase phase one was I I think it was I thought it was 8 million but it's it's somewhere

well it's doing the majority we're going to get there for phase one done and so we'll get the uh more information and this is just a plug so this council already hired the project management team and the architect for this uh project to move phase one forward I believe you guys did that back in March and so our first community engagement is going to happen in May and we're actually going to work with the Koshline fellows and I say thank you to them for helping us uh engage the community and then we also on tap right now we've already put it in your guys's uh council meeting calendar for a meeting with this council to go over the community feedback and the results and kind of really final direction in August of this year. So, we're trying to work fast on this as well. Thank you very much and thank you to the community for caring about the center and thank you to my colleagues for um helping us appropriate that money as we make our way to rebuilding and restoring the MLK center to uh what North Central deserves.

Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Council member Diaz Nash over. Thank you very much, mayor, through the mayor, and thank you to director Fabri and director McGriny and all your staff who worked, I know, very hard on this. Just a couple questions. The Measure S money, is that predominantly going forward to start paying back the monies that have that were advanced to Measure S to be able to pay for the the safe streets in the early years.

A portion of the revenues that come in from measure S are dedicated to debt repayment on that. So the money that is available that we showed in the presentation would be the the piece of the revenue that is available to go towards capital projects. Okay. So the other part Okay, great. Yeah. So I think we bring in about $7 million a year with that. And so this is the amount that's left over after all the other pieces that come out of measure S including the debt repayment. So still the vast majority of Measure S funds are going to go for helping our streets and maintaining our streets.

Yes. Well, I mean we are finishing up the smooth streets program. We didn't ask for any additional money because we have all the money we need to get that done. So, we will be done with the smooth streets program at the end of this calendar year. It doesn't mean that we fixed all of our failed streets. Uh so, there could be more. There could be a smooth streets phase two at some point in the future. Um but yes, we are finishing with with that. And so, but the the measure s ongoing allocations do help us with our annual pavement rehabilitation that is just is not the fixing the failed streets, but it's maintaining the ex the existing pavement

which is what most people experience. So, thank you for that. That's very important. We continue to fund that at suitable levels. Um, and then the monies going out in future years, are they today's dollars or are you assuming like the amount of money we're projecting for year four and five? Are they in year four and five dollars? um in terms of the project requests just in in all the high levels in the budgets and the project requests

we we generally try to escalate to future dollars in ter terms of escalating for the project costs. Um so I I can't say that 100% of everything has been escalated but that's generally what we try to do with the project requests is make sure that we're escalating as we go forward. So, as things continue to stay on the list and get pushed out to future years, if other priorities come up, we have to escalate those costs and recognize that there's, you know, a six to 7% increase in the cost to do things from year to year as things get deferred,

right? But that's just smart fiscal management doing that escalation. So, thank you. And then finally, what are you using as a trend for gas tax given the fact that more and more people have electric vehicles, you know, whatever. Um, I may see if I don't know if Jamie or Abby has an answer for that. I don't know to what extent we're trending that or if if we're just getting our allocations from the state. I know that people are looking that, but I don't have that answer off top. So it does

well I mean I I haven't I was going to just say we do get estimates from uh the state that we use. We are keeping a close eye on it because like you said it it we do have some impacts based on how uh usage of gas vehicles is and although there's a you know certain taxes that try to offset that we're not quite there yet. But in terms of the growth in revenues I think we're pretty moderate in our estimates. I'm guessing I think we do about a 2% growth rate on that because we want to keep an eye on it. Great. Thank you. Those are my questions.

Okay. Thank you. Um I am noticing that we are already past 7 o'clock. Um so if people have a a quick question uh council member Sparoki, I have two quick questions. Um just on the dredging. So that's definitely going to happen before October.

The spot dredging is moving forward. Well, I haven't uh confirmed with staff. I know we got multiple bids. We have to go through the process of reviewing those bids to make sure that they're responsible and responsive bids, but presuming they are, then we should be coming to council with a a construction contract. So, I don't want to say 100% in terms of because we have had multiple times now that we've had challenges with the bids, but I think hopefully we'll be good with this. And so, assuming that we can get a construction contract, then that will definitely be happening this summer. And then in the scenario like if we get a shovel in the ground but the permit expires the end of October, we can still continue or it has to be done by Yeah, it has to be done. It has to be done by the end of I think it's by the end of October based on our permit. So

Okay. Um and then I didn't see anything about the levy project. I know we've talked about it, but is that just work ongoing in the background in terms of sea level rise adaptation? Correct. Yes. I mean, we're working on the adaptation plan. The city manager's office is leading that effort. Um, but we are not far enough far enough along in that effort to even know what the solutions are to have any kind of cost estimates or things like that to put into the capital program. Thank you, Council Member Nome.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, a couple quick questions. Uh, the observation I had was the park impact fees in 2024 were significantly higher at 8.2 2 million and then dropped back down to 1 million in 2025. Do we know why the impact park impact fees were so high that year? Yes. Um we collected fees from the Peninsula Heights construction being completed.

Okay. Thank you. Um heard that we are replacing a synthetic field. You know, San Francisco recently had some lawsuits um from public group coming forward about playing on synthetic fields. Are we looking at our fields and weighing out what the what the costs are for synthetic fields versus natural grass and then the cost of install versus upkeep? Yes, staff are taking all of those things into consideration and we'll bring forward a recommendation um when we come back to you with the project.

I'll I'll just jump in. natural grass will cost us millions more um to go ahead and operate and maintain. And the type of synthetic field material that we're using uh that we're looking at is from an environmental standpoint and from a human standpoint is a lot safer than what they used to be in the past. And so we'll bring back more information on this. Um, and so I know that just from a co cost perspective, it's not without a doubt it's way cheaper and for us to operate and maintain and have more usage um, overall for our community.

Yeah. And it might be that the the compromise is the playing fields are synthetic, but we try to maintain more grass in our in our park areas that you know. Thank you. And then the last thing was I know we're looking at a lot of the playgrounds, but you mentioned one of the playground projects that the playground equipment was over 29 years old. As part of our assessment, are we looking at our playground equipment?

Yes, we had a project for our parks um uh amenities and playgrounds um that we pushed out in order to prioritize the wreck facility uh conditions assessment. But we're constantly evaluating um what um you know what kind of maintenance needs are necessary at the different park locations. Some of the manufacturers um are not able to get us parts and pieces. Um so that's why we're prioritizing certain parks over others. Okay, it's amazing how much those costs are going up. So thank you. That's all the questions. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you and thank you for your presentation. Um when you mentioned uh we want to have measure S funds uh build back. Is is that because it's uh like effectively overdrawn or or too like depleted somewhat like the traffic impact fees? I think maybe I'll let finance director respond to that one. Sorry, can you repeat the question?

Sure. Um in the presentation we we talked about measure S. um not taking as much from measure S to let the the fund build. I just want to make sure it's like in line with the same idea of the traffic impact fees, park impact fees. Have we like depleted through projects already?

It's what's slightly different in this case. So for the measure S fund and actually I will be doing a little overview for all of y'all later tonight when we look at the operating budget. Um but for the measure S monies um specifically for those um now I'm just my train of thought is going off. Um for the projects that we did the previous two fiscal years. So we budgeted about 3 million and 3.7 million in Measure S funds the previous two fiscal years and that's a little bit higher. We typically budget around 2.1 to 2.5 million. So, because we kind of overbudgeted those two years, we need to underbudget this year in order to build that balance. And that'll get us back to being able to have about a 2 million available. Um, and so it's and we don't have a negative uh cash balance. It's really we have a $10 million fund balance. It's just we haven't spent all the measure s capital funds. So, we want to make sure that we have only budgeted what we have. Um, and that's why we're working to reduce that a little bit this year.

Thank you. Um, is is it so that we uh are applying for grant funding for the 28th Avenue Gap project and that's why we're maybe not allocating funds at this time. We do have a grant that allowed us to do the design for that, but we do not have construction funding for that project yet. I see. Um, and just checking on the I saw 1 million for quick build um in your presentation. I think in the admin report I saw about one and a half million allocated in in sort of the bike site program. Are these two figures distinct?

Yeah, they're they're two separate programs that we budget for. So yeah, is that the the question? Right. So it's it's not it's not 1 million of those one and a half million is going to quick build. It's two separate. Very good. Yeah. Um, and just as a reminder, if this is the preview of the CIP, can can we be reminded the next time we'll have uh an opportunity? So, the next time you'll have the opportunity is the study session in June uh where we'll bring back the operation buddy or operation budget along with the CIP budget.

Very good. Thank you. And I believe uh that will conclude our item tonight. I appreciate the presentation. Thank you to those who came and gave public comment.