City Council
City of Fort Bragg
Meeting Agenda
416 N Franklin Street
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
Phone: (707) 961-2823
Fax: (707) 961-2802
THE FORT BRAGG CITY COUNCIL MEETS CONCURRENTLY
AS THE FORT BRAGG MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
NO. 1 AND THE FORT BRAGG REDEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR
AGENCY
Town Hall, 363 N. Main Street
and Via Video Conference
Monday, May 23, 2022 6:00 PM
CALL TO ORDER
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
ZOOM WEBINAR INVITATION
This meeting is being presented in a hybrid format, both in person at Town Hall and via Zoom.
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When: May 23, 2022 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: City Council Meeting
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AGENDA REVIEW
1. MAYOR’S RECOGNITIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
2. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON: (1) NON-AGENDA, (2) CONSENT CALENDAR & (3)
CLOSED SESSION ITEMS
MANNER OF ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL: All remarks and questions shall be addressed to the City Council; no discussion or action will be taken pursuant to the Brown Act. No person shall speak without being recognized by the Mayor or Acting Mayor. Public comments are restricted to three (3) minutes per speaker.
TIME ALLOTMENT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS: Thirty (30) minutes shall be allotted to receiving public comments. If necessary, the Mayor or Acting Mayor may allot an additional 30 minutes to public comments after Conduct of Business to allow those who have not yet spoken to do so. Any citizen, after being recognized by the Mayor or Acting Mayor, may speak on any topic that may be a proper subject for discussion before the City Council for such period of time as the Mayor or Acting Mayor may determine is appropriate under the circumstances of the particular meeting, including number of persons wishing to speak or the complexity of a City of Fort Bragg Page 1 Printed on 5/24/2022
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particular topic. Time limitations shall be set without regard to a speaker’s point of view or the content of the speech, as long as the speaker’s comments are not disruptive of the meeting.
BROWN ACT REQUIREMENTS: The Brown Act does not allow action or discussion on items not on the agenda (subject to narrow exceptions). This will limit the Council's response to questions and requests made during this comment period.
WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENTS: Written public comments received after agenda publication are forwarded to the Councilmembers as soon as possible after receipt and are available for inspection at City Hall, 416 N. Franklin Street, Fort Bragg, during normal business hours. All comments will become a permanent part of the agenda packet on the day after the meeting or as soon thereafter as possible, except comments that are in an unrecognized file type or too large to be uploaded to the City's agenda software application. Public comments may be submitted to City Clerk June Lemos, [email protected].
3. STAFF COMMENTS
4. MATTERS FROM COUNCILMEMBERS
5. CONSENT CALENDAR
All items under the Consent Calendar will be acted upon in one motion unless a Councilmember requests that an individual item be taken up under Conduct of Business.
5A. 22-233 Adopt City Council Resolution Making the Legally Required Findings to Continue to Authorize the Conduct of Remote "Telephonic" Meetings During the State of Emergency
Attachments: RESO Authorize Continuing Remote Meetings
5B. 22-234 Adopt City Council Resolution Confirming the Continued Existence of a Local Emergency in the City of Fort Bragg
Attachments: RESO Declaring Continuing Local Emergency
5C. 22-235 Adopt City Council Resolution Cancelling the Regularly Scheduled City Council Meeting of August 22, 2022 to Accommodate Summer Vacation Schedules
Attachments: RESO Cancelling August 22 Council Meeting
5D. 22-240 Receive and File Written Report Pursuant to Government Code Section 65858(d) on Behalf of the City Council Describing the Measures Taken to Date to Alleviate the Condition Which Led to the Adoption of Urgency Ordinance 981-2022
Attachments: 05232022 ORD 981-2021 Cannabis Moratorium Report 5E. 22-241 Adopt City Council Resolution Establishing a City of Fort Bragg Master Salary Rate Compensation Plan Confirming the Pay Rate/Range for the City Manager Classification
RESO Comp Schedule - City Mgr FY2022-23
Exhibit A
Attachments:
5F. 22-243 Approve City Council Letter in Opposition to AB 2011 (Wicks) Affordable City of Fort Bragg Page 2 Printed on 5/24/2022
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Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022
05-23-2022 Oppose AB 2011
ACTION ALERT AB 2011 (Wicks) 05.17.22
Public Comment 5F
Attachments:
5G. 22-223 Approve Minutes of Special Closed Session of May 5, 2022 Attachments: CCM2022-05-05 Closed Session
5H. 22-232 Approve Minutes of May 9, 2022
Attachments: CCM2022-05-09
6. DISCLOSURE OF EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS ON AGENDA ITEMS
7. PUBLIC HEARING
When a Public Hearing has been underway for a period of 60 minutes, the Council must vote on whether to continue with the hearing or to continue the hearing to another meeting. 7A. 22-231 Conduct Public Hearing, Receive Report and Consider Adoption of City Council Resolution Adopting Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring Plan for the Raw Water Line Replacement Project, City Project 2019-02
05232023 Raw Water Line Staff Report
Att 1 - Project Map
Att 2 - CEQA IS/MND
Att 3 - Agency Comments
Att 4 - Mitigation Monitoring Plan
Att 5 - RESO Adopting IS/MND
Att 6 - Public Hearing Notice
Public Comment 7A
Attachments:
7B. 22-237 Conduct Continued Public Hearing, Receive Report, Consider Introducing by Title Only Ordinance 979-2022 Amending Sections 18.22.30, 18.24.30,
18.42.055, 18.42.057, 18.42.059 and 18.100.020 of Title 18 (Inland Land Use and Development Code) of the Fort Bragg Municipal Code, and Consider Adoption of City Council Resolution Certifying the Initial Study/Negative Declaration for Ordinance 979-2022
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05232022 Cannabis Ordinance 979-2022
Att 1 - Ordinance 979-2022 - Final
Att 2 - RESO PC05-2022 signed
Att 3 - Draft Cannabis Ordiance - Redline
Att 4 - Initial Study - Negative Declaration
Att 5 - RESO Neg Dec for Cannabis ILUDC Amendment 5-2022 Att 6 - Public Comment on Draft Cannabis IS-ND
Public Comment 7B
Attachments:
8. CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
9. CLOSED SESSION
9A. 22-239 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE APPOINTMENT, Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957(b): Title: City Manager
ADJOURNMENT
The adjournment time for all Council meetings is no later than 10:00 p.m. If the Council is still in session at 10:00 p.m., the Council may continue the meeting upon majority vote.
NEXT REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING:
6:00 P.M., MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2022
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I declare, under penalty of perjury, that I am employed by the City of Fort Bragg and that I caused this agenda to be posted in the City Hall notice case on May 18, 2022. _______________________________________________
June Lemos, MMC
City Clerk
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:
DISTRIBUTION OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOLLOWING AGENDA PACKET DISTRIBUTION:
• Materials related to an item on this Agenda submitted to the Council/District/Agency after distribution of the agenda packet are available for public inspection upon making reasonable arrangements with the City Clerk for viewing same during normal business hours.
• Such documents are also available on the City of Fort Bragg’s website at https://city.fortbragg.com subject to staff’s ability to post the documents before the meeting.
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