GRASS VALLEY
City Council Regular Meeting, Capitat lmprovements Authority and Redevetopment "Successor Agency"
Tuesday, March 08, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Councit Chambers, Grass Vatley City Hat( I 125 East Main Street, Grass Vattey, Catifornia Tetephone: (530\ 274-4310 - Fax: (530\ 274'4399
E-Mait: [email protected] Web Site: www.citYofq rassvatteY.com
MINUTES
AGENDA APPROVAL -
Motion made to approve the agenda as submitted by Council Member Hodge, Seconded by Vice Mayor Arbuckte.
Voting Yea: counciI Member Branstrom, councit Member Hodge, CounciI Member lYy, Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Mayor Aguitar
CALL TO ORDER
Meeting catted to order by Mayor Aguilar at 7:03 pm.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Ptedge of attegiance ted by Potice Chief Atex Gammetgard.
ROLL CALL
PRESENT
Councit Member Bob Branstrom
councit Member Hitary Hodge
Councjt Member Tom lvy
Vice Mayor Jan Arbuckte
Mayor Ben Aguitar
REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
INTRODUCTIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
1. lntroduction of new police K9, Romeo, and acceptance of funds from the Rudiger Foundation.
2. Music in the Mountains Presentation.
PUBLIC COMMENT -
Attached.
CONSENT ITEA{S .
Pubtic comments attached.
Motjon made to approve consent as submitted by Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Seconded by Council Member Eranstrom.
Voting Yea: Councit Member Branstrom, Councit Member Hodge, Councit Member lvy, Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Mayor Aguitar
3. Approvat of the Regular Meeting Minutes of February 22, 2022.
Recommendation: CounciI approYe minutes as submitted.
4. Locat Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19)
@!!b!!g!: Continuance of Novet Coronavirus (COVID-19) proctamation dectaring a LocaI State of Emergency
5. Locat Emergency Proclamation (Winter Storm of December 27th, 202'l) Recommendation: winter Storm of December 271h,2021 proctamation declaring a Locat State of Emergency
6. LocaI Emergency Proctamation (Drought Conditions)
Recommendation: Drought Conditions proctamation dectaring a Local State of Emergency
7. Public Works Restructuring (Streets and Parks Divisions) Recommendation: That Counci[ 1 ) review and approve the proposed reorganization of the Pubtic Works Department; 2) approye rectassifyjng two Maintenance Worker lll's to Senior Maintenance Workers; 3) approve downgrading an existing vacant Senior Maintenance Worker position to lv{aintenance Worker l; 4) approve revisjng the aLtotted/authorized City positions to reftect the Pubtic Works Restructuring; and 5) authorize the Administrative Services Director to make any necessary budget adjustments and/or amendments to comptete this action.
8. Modjficatjon to the Bujtding Officiat satary range and approvat of a job description for a Senior Building lnspector/Ptans Examiner.
Recommendation: That CounciI approve the increase in the salary range of the Bujtding officiatjob class and approve the job description and satary range for a Senior Bujtding lnspector/Ptans Examiner.
9. Heatth and Safety Code Section 13146.4 Report on Fire lnspections Recommendation: That Council adopt Resotution 2022-08 which accepts the Grass Vattey Fire Department report pursuant to Heatth and Safety Code Sectjon 13146.4 annuaI inspectjons.
ITEMS RE {OVED FROIA CONSENT CALENDAR R DISCUSSION OR SEPARATE ACTION AND /
OR ANY ADDED AGENDA ITEMS
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ADIAINISTRATIVE
11. Consideration of a temporary fee deferrat agreement to attow BrewBitt to pay wastewater impact fees tied to the phasing of the project. @:Thatcouncitapprovethetemporaryfeedeferra[agreementand authorize the City Manager to sign the agreement subject to tegat review.
Tom Last, Communjty DeveLopment Director, gave presentation to the councit.
Public comment attached.
Motion made to approve the temporary fee deferraI agreement and authorize the Cjty Manager to sjgn the agreement subject to [ega[ revjew by Council Member Branstrom, Seconded by CounciI Member Hodge.
Voting Yea: Council Member Branstrom, CounciI Member Hodge, Councit Member lvy, Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Mayor Aguilar
12. FY 2021-27 Mid-Year Budget Review
Recommendation: lt is recommended that the City Councit, by MoT|oN, approve the Mid-Year Budget Review and recommended revisions.
Andy Heath, Finance Director, gave presentation to the counciI Pubtic comment attached.
Motion to approve the Mid-Year Budget Revlew and recommended revisions by Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Seconded by Councit Member Branstrom.
Voting Yea: Council Member Branstrom, CounciI Member Hodge, Council Member lvy, Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Mayor Aguitar
BRIEF REPORTS BY COUNCIL IAEMBERS
Councitmember lvy had nothing to report. Councitmember Hodge attend an ERC meetjng, want to warn about the poison oak on the Buttermitk Trait, and wants to congratulate Ben on his win of the St. Pirans trophy. Councitmember Branstrom is enjoying having pubtic in City of Grass Valley, CA AINUTES March 08, 2022
PUBLIC HEARING
10. Update to Municipal Code Section 8.16 miscettaneous Fire Contro[ Regutations Recommendation: That Council: 'l) conduct the pubtic hearing; 2) introduce the ordinance which amends the Grass VaLtey Municipat Code Section 8.16.230 and 8,16.24; and 3) waive the reading of the ordinance in its entirety and read by title onty.
Mark Buttron, Fire Chief, gave presentation to the councjt.
Motjon made to 1) conduct the pubtic hearing; 2) introduce the ordinance which amends the Grass Vatley MunicipaI Code Sectjon 8.16.230 and 8.16.240; and 3) waive the reading of the ordinance in its entjrety and read by titte onty by Vice Mayor Arbuckte, seconded by Councit Member Hodge.
Votjng Yea: Councit Member Branstrom, Councjl Member Hodge, CounciI Member lvy, Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Mayor Aguitar
the meeting, he attended ERC meeting, and the opening of Nevada County Camera Ctub exhibit, the St. Piran's Day pasty toss, and a visit to Buttermitk trait at Bridge Port. Vice Mayor ArbuckLe attended the League of Cities board meeting, the Nevada County Law Enforcement Councit meeting and farewetl to two officers leaving the force, attended a GVDA board meeting, the 5t Piran's day cetebrations, and leaves this weekend for the League of Cities Summit in Washington D.C. Mayor Aguitar visited the Lobster Truck, attended the LAFCo meetjng and finatized the annexation of the Southern Sphere, was a judge of the Lions speech contest, and won the 5t Parjans trophy for Grass Vattey this year.
ADJOURN
Meeting adjourned at 8:52 pm.
ilar, Mayor Taytor ,DE City Clerk
City of Grass Vatl.ey, CA MINUTES March 06, 2022
1 Taylor Day
From: WIRELESS CALLER
Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 1:56 PM
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Yes, my name is oral Stallings. I live at 16392 Lisa Lane. That's Grass Valley 95949. I'm past commander of the American Legion Post 1:30. I understand that the Boy Scout Lodge at Memorial Park is not being reopened for the use of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. I'm in the process of getting a petition signed by all of our veterans here in Nevada County. I'm asking the Council to please respond to the request. It's putting a problem in terms of financial to our Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, but not being able to utilize the Boy Scout Cabin, which is by Memorial Park. So I really ask you to please consider getting this back into the hands of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Nevada County. My phone number is 530-559-2329, once again, Oral Stallings past Commander of American Legion Post 130. Thank you. Bye.
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From: Sarah Whittaker
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 10:59 AM
To: Public Comments
Subject: Re-open Scout Lodge
We would love if you re‐opened the Scout Lodge by Memorial Park! Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
3 Taylor Day
From: Khadidiatou Aw
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 2:25 PM
To: Public Comments
Subject: Scout lodge
Hi there ,
Please , reopen the Scout lodge.
Thank you
Khadidiatou Aw
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From: Stephanie Facchini
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:28 PM
To: Public Comments
Subject: Scout Lodge
Please reopen the Scout Lodge. I have two Girl Scout Troops and we are having to pay monthly for the school facility that we are using for our meetings. It is frustrating when there is a Scout Lodge that is used for that purpose. I am also in charge of a Girl Scout function that typically would happen at the Lodge. Again, we are having to rent another facility.
Our girls are anxious to get back to our “old” meeting place, a building with lots of history and so convenient at the park.
Thanks
Stephanie Facchini
1 Taylor Day
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Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 8:19 PM
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Yes, Taylor, could you ask Andy during his presentation how much money is set aside for a lawsuit, settlements from the city for people that fall on the sidewalks and other lawsuits against the city? Is that actual amount, or is that considered lumped in with the emergency situation and is battle fluctuating amount or same amount they put in each year forecasting that the looks like the liability insurance has gone way up? And I'm wondering if that's something you do with that. Could you speak to that, please? Thank you.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 7:47 PM
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Matthew Coulter public comment on the Spring Hill brewery. They're not a startup. It's an established company that is looking for a handout. I'm more concerned about where all the waste product is going to go into Wolf Creek. Like all the other businesses along Idaho, Maryland that just dump all their waste product into Wolf Creek We start at one end. Work your way all the way down through Grass Valley and you can count the dozens of businesses that use Wolf Creek as their personal sewage trough to dispose of any liquids and more that they want to get rid of. You can drive up the street tomorrow and see it. It's not hiding. And this is a lot of waste products going to be dumped into the Creek untreated. But you're all excited about getting wasted, so enjoy it. Drink up.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 7:06 PM
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Matthew Coulter public comment on #8 on the agenda item. For inspectors and their salaries and relating to that, I think they should all be fired because if you can't. Move around in this town and see so many violations of grading, pushing dirt into creeks right along the roadsides. I'm not talking in people's backyards. You don't need a drone.
You don't need anything. They're right along the roadways. All kinds of violations going on. And if citizens are the ones reporting this stuff like Loma Rica ranch that totally killed every living thing in Wolf Creek when it blew out, then we got a problem with their inspectors because they are not doing what they're supposed to be doing. There's still not doing what they're supposed to be doing, and I hope that they're all freaking fired because there is just no way that they are doing the right thing. The building next to the library in Grass Valley. Go look at the side of it. Look at the wires hanging around and stuff. Is that code? Really. Wow. Really frightening. What you guys are letting pass for, inspected stuff. And what about all the stuff that is being put in there? It's not even being permited. There's tons of that. Who's inspecting that stuff? What about the Airbnbs? You said there'd be 90, there's over 300. Who's inspecting those? Who are these inspectors? Fire them. Public Comments.
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Yes, Matthew calls for public comment on #7 Public works restructuring. We all know public works need to be restructured, but do we really even have a public works at this point? No one seems to be doing anything in the parks. Broken glass stays on the ground for months on end in children's playgrounds, and piles of leaves are all over the parks, killing the grass. Maybe we can hire some private contractors, come in and do a once over to clean stuff up because public works obviously isn't capable of using a rake or a broom or a shovel, or really any long handled tools that I can tell. All they can do is push stuff around and make dust, and they do like to play video games sitting in their truck. So that's pretty cool. So that's my public comment for the public works restructuring and I very much like new light bulbs put on the American flag at Memorial parks as we know, Public Works director was fired over that debacle over the light bulbs there that need to be replaced on the American flag at the Veterans Memorial, which Public Works has the keys supposedly. Thank you.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 7:01 PM
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Public comment City Council meeting, Grass Valley, CA, March 8th, 2022. Matthew Coulter calling public comment on several things, one being the Boy Scout Girl Scouts building they would like to get back into their building to utilize it in Memorial Park because they're having to pay for rent, have their gatherings in other places due to something about COVID closing the building so they would really like to get back in there. Picking up the leaves in Memorial Park, it's a fire danger. I've wrecked a lot of piles of leaves. The city scatters them around with the blower out of the piles, refuses to pick the piles up until the grass dies. So I keep moving the piles of the grass doesn't die. I wish they'd pick him up. Today I was at Billy's funeral, who was killed in the crosswalk on Church St, South Church and Dalton. There. Yeah. Crosswalk right by the two mayors houses That crosswalk really needs some lights as well as the one on coal, fax Ave and Oak Street by Memorial Park. Very, very dangerous crosswalk. The city building more and more and improving more and more things to be put in without adequate facilities or infrastructure is just causing more fatalities. Just like the fatality on 49 today. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. You can fill every vacant lot with the track house, but should you? Probably not, but you should have a warming shelter in Grass Valley on the cold night so people aren't underneath tarps all over Mill Street and underneath the overpasses and in doorways. And like that, because the Nevada city shelter is in Nevada city and hospitality houses in a warming shelter. So Grass Valley really needs to step up with that regard for the homeless in Grass Valley. Public comment.
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