REVISED 5/25/2023 AT 3:45 PM
City of Capitola
City Council Meeting Agenda
Thursday, May 25, 2023 – 6:00 PM
City Council Chambers
420 Capitola Avenue, Capitola, CA 95010
Mayor: Margaux Keiser
Vice Mayor: Kristen Brown
Council Members: Yvette Brooks, Joe Clarke, Alexander Pedersen Regular Meeting of the Capitola City Council – 6 PM
All correspondence received prior to 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday preceding a Council Meeting will be distributed to Councilmembers to review prior to the meeting. Information submitted after 5 p.m. on that Wednesday may not have time to reach Councilmembers, nor be read by them prior to consideration of an item.
1. Roll Call and Pledge of Allegiance
Council Members Yvette Brooks, Joe Clarke, Alexander Pedersen, Kristen Brown, and Mayor Margaux Keiser.
2. Additions and Deletions to the Agenda
3. Presentations
Presentations are limited to eight minutes.
4. Additional Materials
Additional information submitted to the City after distribution of the agenda packet.
A. Correspondence Received - Item 8A
5. Oral Communications by Members of the Public
Please review the Notice of Remote Access for instructions. Oral Communications allows time for members of the Public to address the City Council on any “Consent Item” on tonight’s agenda, or on any topic within the jurisdiction of the City that is not on the “General Government/Public Hearings” section of the Agenda. Members of the public may speak for up to three minutes, unless otherwise specified by the Mayor. Individuals may not speak more than once during Oral Communications. All speakers must address the entire legislative body and will not be permitted to engage in dialogue. A maximum of 30 minutes is set aside for Oral Communications.
6. Staff / City Council Comments
Comments are limited to three minutes.
7. Consent Items
All items listed as “Consent Items” will be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There will be no separate discussion on these items prior to the time the Council votes on the action unless members of the City Council request specific items to be discussed for separate review. Items pulled for separate discussion will be considered following General Government. Note that all Ordinances City Council Meeting Agenda – May 25, 2023
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which appear on the public agenda shall be determined to have been read by title and further reading waived.
A. Consider and Approve 5/11/2023 & 5/18/2023 City Council Meeting Minutes B. Approval of City Check Registers Dated April 28, 2023, and May 12, 2023 Recommended Action: Approve check registers.
C. PG&E Proposed Monterey Park Gas Facility
Recommended Action: Authorize staff to develop an easement agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric for the installation of a district regulator station in Monterey Park.
D. GreenWaste Annual Rate Adjustment
Recommended Action: Adopt a resolution approving the contractual rate increase for collection and disposal of garbage, recycling, organics, food waste, yard waste, and construction and demolition debris, effective July 1, 2023, according to the Service Rate Schedule formula of the Franchise Agreement with GreenWaste Recovery, Inc.
E. Business Improvement Assessments for Fiscal Year 2023-24 Recommended Action: Adopt a resolution providing notification of the City’s intent to levy business improvement assessments for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-24; receiving the annual report and proposed budget of the Capitola Village and Wharf Business Improvement Area (CVWBIA); setting the date for a public hearing to be held on Thursday, June 22, 2023; and outlining noticing requirements.
F. Mid-Management Employees Bargaining Group and Updated Salary Schedule Recommended Action: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute a side letter agreement to the existing Memorandum of Understanding with the Mid-Management Employees Bargaining Unit; and 2) Adopt a resolution approving the updated salary schedule, effective May 28, 2023.
8. General Government / Public Hearings
All items listed in “General Government / Public Hearings” are intended to provide an opportunity for public discussion of each item listed. The following procedure pertains to each General Government item: 1) Staff explanation; 2) Council questions; 3) Public comment; 4) Council deliberation; 5) Decision.
A. Mobile Home Rent Stabilization
Recommended Action: 1) Consider adoption of an urgency ordinance adding Chapter 2.18 to the Capitola Municipal Code establishing mobile home park rent stabilization; and 2) Consider introducing, for first reading only, waiving fully reading of the text, an ordinance adding Chapter
2.18 to the Capitola Municipal Code establishing mobile home park rent stabilization.
B. Public Art Proposal
Recommended Action: Approve the Tree Stump Public Art Project and Contract with artist Anthony Heinz May in the amount of $5,500.
C. Extra-Help Limited Duration Retired Annuitant
Recommended Action: Adopt a resolution for exception to the 180-day wait period per Government Code Section 7522.56 & 21224 and approve the appointment of Robin Woodman as an extra-help-limited-duration retired annuitant.
9. Adjournment
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Notice of In-Person & Remote Access
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