GRASS VALLEY
City Councit Regutar Meeting, Capital lmprovements Authority and Redevetopment "Successor Agency"
CALL TO ORDER
Meetjng catted to order by Mayor Aguitar at 7:02 PM
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Mark Buttron, Fire Chief, ted the ptedge of altegiance.
ROLL CALL
PRESENT
CounciI Member Bob Branstrom
Councit Member Hilary Hodge
Councit Member Tom lvy
Mayor Ben Aguitar
ABSENT
Vice Mayor Jan Arbuckle
AGENDA APPROVAL .
Motion made to approve agenda by Councit Member Branstrom, Seconded by Councit Member Hodge.
Voting Yea: CounciI Member Branstrom, Councit Member Hodge, CounciI Member lyy, Mayor Aguilar
REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
No ctosed session.
INTRODUCTIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
PUBLIC COMMENT .
ln person pubtic comment by: Robin Davis from GVDA and Greater Grass Vattey Chamber Virtuat Pubtic comments attached.
CONSENT ITEMS .
There was a change to jtem number 9 and a reduction to the CPI from 7% to 5%.
Tuesday, Juty 26, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Council Chambers, Grass Vattey City Hatt | 125 East Main Street, Grass Vattey, Catifornia Telephone: (530) 274-4310 - Fay (5301274'4399
E-Mait:[email protected] WebSite:www.citvoferassvatlev.com
MINUTES
Motion made to approve consent with the noted change by Councit Member Branstrom, Seconded by Councit Member Hodge.
Voting Yea: Councj( Member Branstrom, Councit Member Hodge, CounciI Member lvy, Mayor Aguitar
'1. Approvat of the Regular Meeting Minutes of Juty 12, 2022. @$14!9n: Council approve minutes as submitted.
2. Assembty Bitt 361 Resotution
Recommendation Adopt resolution R2022-62 authorizing remote teteconference meetings of the City Council. and other legistative bodies of the City pursuant to government code section 54953(e)
3. Local Emergency Proctamation (COVID-19)
Recommendation: Continuance of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) proctamation dectaring a Locat State of Emergency
4. LocaI Emergency Proctamation (Drought Conditions)
Recommendation: Drought Conditions proctamation dectaring a Locat State of Emergency
5. Local Emergency Proctamation (Winter Storm of December 27th, 202'l) Recommendation: Winter Storm of December 27th,2021 proclamation declaring a Local State of Emergency
6. Revision to Resotution No. 2022-44 That calted for the consotidation of general etection with Nevada County.
Recommendation: Adopt Resotution No. 2022-61 that revises Resotution No. Z0Z2-44 to inctude the reimbursement of the County of Nevada for the services performed on behalf of the City for the General Municipal Election on Tuesday, Novembet 8,2022, for the etection of two City CounciI Members.
7. 2022 Fueting Station Construction Project- Authorization to Award Contract Bggg!09!Cg!!9!: That Council 1) award a contract for the 2022 Fueting Station Construction Project to GEMS Environmentat Management Services, lnc, 2) authorize the Mayor to execute the construction contract, subject to tegal review and, 3) authorize the City Engineer to approve construction change orders for up to 10% of the contract amount.
8. CaIOES Funding Agreements - Approve Authorized Representatives Recommendation: That Councit adopt a resotution designating the City Manager and City Engineer as the authorized representatives to engage with the Catifornia Governor's Office of Emergency Services (CatOES)
9. Annuat Approval of the Consumer Price lndex (CPl) Adjustment to the Speciat Emergency Medicat and Fire Response Tax.
Recommendation: That Councit 1 ) Approve a rate increase to the Special Emergency Medical and Fjre Response fax of 7-0% based on the December 2021 CPl. 2) Adopt Resotution 2022-64 requesting that the Nevada County Auditor ptace the adjusted special tax on lhe FY 22123 property tax rotts.
Cjty of Grass Vattey, CA MINUTES July 26, 2022
10. Second Reading of Ordinance #817, Amending sections 9.08.030 of Chapter 9.08 of Tjtte 9 of the Grass Vattey Municjpat Code regarding offenses against Pubtic Peace and Decency
Recommendation: Hotd a second reading by Titte Onty and Adopt Ordinance #817, Amending sections 9.08.030 of Chapter 9.08 of Title 9 of the Grass Vattey Municipal Code regardjng offenses against Pubtic Peace and Decency 1 1. Grass Vattey Management & supervisory Professional & Confidentiat Emptoyees - Unit 'l Memorandum of Understanding - July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023 Recommendation: Ado pt Resotution No. 2022-66 approving the Labor Memorandum of Understanding for a one-year period beginning Juty 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 between the City of Grass Vattey and the Grass Valtey Management / Supervisory Professional & Confidentiat Employees Group (Unit 1).
ITEMS REA{OVED FROM CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION OR SEPARATE ACTION AND /
OR ANY ADDED AGENDA ITEMS
REORGANIZATION RELATED ITE/TIS
PUBLIC HEARING
12. CDBG Memoriat Park Pubtic Facitities lmprovement Project - Program Amendment for Program lncome Expenditure lncrease.
Recommendation: That CounciI convene a public hearing and authorize a Community Devetopment Btock Grant (CDBG) program budget amendment to altocate additionat Program lncome (Pl) towards the CDBG Memoriat Park Public Facitities lmprovement Project and adopt Resotution 2022-65.
Lance Lowe, Principal Ptanner, gave presentatjon to the councit.
Councit ctarified that the amount of this project has not changed this js just freejng up Measure E funds.
Virtual PubLic comment attached.
Motion made to convene a pubtic hearjng and authorize a Community Devetopment Btock Grant (CDBG) program budget amendment to aItocate additional Program lncome (Pl) towards the CDBG MemoriaI Park Pubtic Facitities lmprovement Project and adopt Resotution 2022-65 by Councit Member Hodge, Seconded by Councit Member Branstrom.
Voting Yea: Council Member Branstrom, Council Member Hodge, CounciI Member lvy, Mayor Agujtar
ADAAINISTRATIVE
'13. Consideration of a Schoot Resource Officer agreement with the Grass Va(tey Schoot District
Recommendation; Approve the agreement between the Grass Valley School District and the Grass Vattey Potice Department to provide Schoot Resource officer services ALex Gammetgard, Potice Chief, gave presentatjon to the counciI and Andy withers, the Superintendent of Grass Vattey Schoots was avaitable for questions.
City of Grass Vattey, CA MINUTES July 26, 2022
councilmember Branstrom, lvy, and Mayor Aguitar discussed the benefits of a schoot Resource Officer but atso what could the cjty do to hetp the disadvantaged homes outside of schoots. Councit Member Hodge does not tike the idea of putting an armed officer jn Schools and think the resources shoutd go into counsetors and phycotogists.
Virtuat pubtic comments attached.
ln person pubtic comment from Robin Davis.
CounciI decided to continue the discussjon to a meeting in August.
14. Countywide Sales Tax for Emergency Services
Recommendation: That Councit 1 ) discuss the proposed countywide sates tax increase for emergency services, focusing on vegetation management, and 2) provide direction to staff.
Tim Kiser, City Manager, and Mark Buttron, Fire Chief, gave presentation to the councit. Trisha Tittitson, Craig Griesbach, and Ariat Lovett from the County of Nevada were avaitabte to answer questions,
Councit discussed the tack of pubtic invotvement and discussion, the amount the City would be receiving, the lack of acknowledgement to the need to address Fire responses issues that our county is facing, and the green waste program. ln person Public Comment: Terry McAteer, Robin Davis, Scott Beastey 5 minute break taken at 9:08 pm. Meeting resumed at 9:14 pm.
Vlrtuat Pubtic comments attached.
Council woutd Like to see a Sunset period of 8 years, Proportionate tax to poputation, a Citizen oversight committee and woutd like to have a fixed amount of money that witt be utiLized to hetp support the fire agencies districts.
The Councit woutd atso tike to request a joint town hatt meeting with atl boards to discuss in a pubtic forum the proposed tax prjor to the board of Supervisors meeting on August 9th.
BRIEF REPORTS BY COUNCIL AAEIABERS
Councit Member lyy had nothing to report. Council Member Hodge attended Thursday Night Market and urges everyone to continue to shop (ocat. Council Member Eranstrom visited Costa Rica, attended a Chambers Community Affairs Committee meeting, and attended the Thursday Night Market. Mayor Aguitar gaye a presentation at the Suns of Retirement meeting, and attended the Mayors Manager Meeting, a Ground breaking for Habitat for Humanity. He $/itt be tooking forward to the Nationat Night out on August 2nd.
ADJOURN
Meeting adjourned at 9:34 pm.
Ben Aguitar, Mayor y, Deputy City Cterk
City of Grass Vattey, CA AAINUTES
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July 26, 2022
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My name's Terry Gallagher. 135 Main heart Dr Grass Valley, CA 95945. I'm calling and I I'm what I'm doing is I have a petition to slow down the traffic and get wide speed bumps for main heart drive and we have a petition. We had the whole neighborhood sign. It's been over six months. This is the second one that we have done. What is the hold up? We also it's a freeway we have, it's it. We don't want this to be a truck route. If these guys don't know how to drive these big trucks like the dump trucks then they don't need to be behind the wheel. I can say that because I've been a professional driver, truck driver and cement truck driver and worked for Caltrans for many years. We're talking over thirty plus years so it's overkill with super dumps. Who is going to pay for our pipes when they get busted? We all know we already have. We've already had our sewer pipes broken because of the overloads. We don't want any trucks over and no fifth wheel or gooseneck trailers with backhoes on them. We just need the traffic to slow down.
We have kids, we have animals and we're really concerned about it. If you want, you can always give me a call 530- 368-3034. Also, what can we do about 130 main heart drive? The garbage is horrendous. The guy doesn't pay for garbage. It smells like death out there. It's an eyesore and he is a homeowner. I mean it's. And he has somebody living in his basement. I guess that's so-called tenant and doesn't have parking for him. So they park in front of our place or block our driveways. I guess that's it. Let me. Thanks. And I'll see you at the next meeting. Have a great day.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 8:22 AM
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Yes, my name is Ginger Whitehead and I live at 100 Boden Ave in the beautiful city of Grass Valley. I'm an active member of the Washington Hill Neighborhood Fire Coalition. I would very much like you to support putting, placing the half cent tax on the ballot to help with fire mitigation projects, and that would be to the Board of Supervisors meeting that you would support our initiative, this initiative, and I will be sending an e-mail today that has a few more specifics of why I think this initiative is so important. Thank you so much.
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From: Susan Rogers
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2022 5:42 PM
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Subject: Public Comment on Agenda Item #14, July 26 City Council meeting [You don't often get email from [email protected]. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ]
Hello, this is a public comment on item number 14 on the July 26 city council agenda, titled Countywide Sales Tax for Emergency Services.
My name is Susan Rogers, I live at 640 Charlene Lane and I am the coordinator for the Glenwood‐Maidu‐Charlene Firewise Community. We have more than 60 households located within city limits behind SaveMart shopping center, off Nevada City Highway.
Please support this sales tax measure and direct your city staff to also support it, especially prior to the County Board of Supervisors meeting where this will come up on August 9.
Our neighborhood is on the edge of the boundary between the city and the county. There are heavily forested areas within this neighborhood and immediately adjacent to us. Anything that helps the county in terms of fire preparedness and reducing fire risk is also going to help city residents. Obviously, fire don't care where they start and where they're going.
I also think we have a higher risk in the Glenbrook Basin because of illegal campfires. Part of the County's plan for use of the sales tax revenue is to put more effort towards reducing these illegal campfires and addressing the population that tends to cause them.
The year‐round free green waste disposal will also be a big help. In our neighborhood, we have many long‐time, older residents who often can do the clearing work but can't afford the dump fees.
Please support this measure and direct staff to support it. Thank you. ‐‐
Susan Rogers
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Measure V Campaign Committee (Western County)
Terry McAteer, Chair
Cheryl Dell, Past Publishe( Sac Bee, Vice Chair
Doug Moon, Save Bridgeport Bridge, Treasurer
Bruce Boyd, Architect, NSJ Fire Dept
Ed Sylvester, Community Business Leader
Julia Amaral, Community Civic Leader
Tom Cross, Past Prez LWW
Paul Matson, Mr. Nevada City
Wyn Spiller, NC Winery
Laura Duncan, County Planning Comm
Marty Lombardi, Community Volunteer
Bicki Heck, NID Director
Tom lvy, GV City Council
Charles Brock, Coldwell Banker, Realtor
Cheri Flanagan, Community Civic Leader
Diane Robertson, Community Civic Leader
Richard Baker, Architect
Don Scoble, Prez, ln-Concert Sierra
l\,4ike Bratton, State Farm lnsurance
Susan Rogers, Fire Wise Community
Jeff Peach, Fire Wise Community
Lorraine Gervais, Civic Leader, Fire Wise Leader
lvlark Johnson, GV Business Owner
Tom Achter, Pres, LOP HOA
Kurt Lorenz, Fire Wise Community
Carol Scofield, Community Civic leader
George Olive, Pres, SYRCL
Jamie Jones, Executive Directo( Fire Sate Council
Peter Van Zant, NC Planning Commission
Nancy Campbell, LWW Board member
Pat Leach, Fire Safe Council
Bob Long, Fire Safe Council
Cristine Kelly, Owner, Fix Creative
Kathy Dotson, Graphic Arts
Lisa Macrina, Fire Safe Community
Barbara Getz, Sierra Cinemas
Andy Burton, Business Owner, NC Transpoftation Comm
Diana Gamzon, Nevada County Cannabis Alliance
[,4elinda Booth, Executive Director, SYBCL
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Hi, this is Matthew Coulter calling on the school Resources officer comment and at the schools that are becoming so thrashed, the children's playgrounds are so thrashed. If the members of the City Council would do a walkthrough of the one at Hennessy school Grass Valley Charter and see how destroyed that playground has gotten in just two years, all the smaller kids, musical instruments are gone and destroyed that were bolted in there. It's just a shame that there's a group of kids that aren't being talked to and just let run amok and graffiti and do these things in town.
The resources are being put into those kids, obviously, but I know that they are being saved for the juvenile and adult justice system locally here, for job security. So my question is, where is our youth center in Grass Valley, even part-time? Where is it? It's not out there. They wanted to put it way out on mccourtney. Now it's up at Litton. So where is the one for Grass Valley, along with the Senior Center for Grass Valley? Thank you.
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Yes, I'd like to make a public comment during this open hearing on Memorial Park Pool and let the Council members know that many of the Veterans historical monuments have been damaged during the process, some completely removed. Also, a large amount of the petrified wood has been stolen, carefully chiseled out. The only thing carefully done during the project was done first. Left reasons. So I would like inventory of all these items that were stolen from the park. Now I do have pictures, all of them before and after and during their theft. So I would like the park do somehow get with historical group and figure out what used to be there and where did it go during this past year or two years because it's a lot of it's gone. Please error this comment on this open hearing, Matthew Coulter, Grass Valley, CA. 50 plus years.
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Hi I'm calling about consent agenda item number 14, this is Matthew Coulter about vegetation management. Could the city please clean their properties? The city owned properties are very much a fire hazard as well as the Howard's old house there mid block on South Church has been just abandoned. I just don't understand how the city can let the fire hydrants be engulfed where you can't even find them. So there's a lot of work to be done right within the stones throw from City Hall with your vegetation management and that would be great if the city could lead by example instead of pointing the finger at people and saying do what we say not as we do Memorial Park. Last year's fall leaves are still in a pile over there on Colfax Ave Storm damage is still off the side of the hill. Against the tennis courts on Colfax Ave, it is unconscionable that the city has the balls to want to find people and invade their properties to tell them what to do when the city's not even doing it. At the very least. Not even a year can be wait for these leaves to be picked up. These dry leaves with homeless sitting in them and smoking. So have a good time.
Maybe we can have a volunteer day with some people, with some Rakes in the city. Folks could also help. That would be great. Thanks.
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Yes, Matthew Coulter calling on the consent calendar for the City Council meeting. #13 School resources officer. I couldn't find anywhere in the packet what we're the city of Grass Valley is being paid by the school district, or we just giving an officer to them as a freebie. I couldn't really find that in there. No numbers related to this because what is this? Officer make what duties can't he do when he's doing that? Versus all the kids that are down at the Thursday night market causing chaos, no one seems to be managing them or resourcing them, so hopefully something can be done about that. Thank you.
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Matthew Coulter calling on item consent agenda #12 for the City Council meeting public comment number 12.
Memorial Park. How much more money are you putting in the Memorial Park? And if you are putting so much more money into it, can somebody please make the contractor follow the basic air and water quality standards and maybe get him a restroom so they don't have to pee out in the open for everyone to watch them? Maybe there can be some kind of management to what's going on over Memorial Park. Just today the police were out back on Memorial Lane with me watching the dust cloud just today. So they're starting work at 6:00 AM, which they never used to start before 9:00. So I guess they're in a hurry now. But I'd like to hear more about how much more the Memorial Park project is costing, how much it was projected to cost originally, what it is costing now. And it's not even near being finished. So I'd like some explanation to that number 12. Thank you.
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Yes, on the consent agenda, public comment on item number 10, I'd like somebody there to read that ordinance or law or whatever is being put in place because I think you're violating the Constitution with this, but. Nice try. So I'd like somebody to read it because I can't seem to find it anywhere. It's not in the packet, it's not anywhere. I'll call back on number 12. Thank you.
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Yes, this is Matthew Coulter calling back with comments on the consent agenda for the Grass Valley City Council meeting. #8 I'd like to pull through the agenda and have more discussion about that, about these people that are representing us at the EOS, the same people that are committing state and federal fraud over the sinkhole on Freeman. So I think it's odd that they are representatives since they are liars. That's #8. I'll call back on number 10.
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Hi, this is Matthew Coulter calling in to public comment. Grass Valley City Council meeting. Public comments relating to things that are going on here in town. They are of interest to the citizens of Grass Valley. Obviously, they're not of the interest to our elected officials or appointed officials because nothing really seems to be getting done about the dust that's going on at Memorial Park, the dust and water pollution that's going on at Lamerica Ranch, the homeless fires that are engulfing our area and circling our area. And the common theme with that is all the folks are living on developers land that they hope as speculators to become rich on. But in the meantime, just like at the Dorsey marketplace that fire the other day there, and multiple fires that are happening from these camps that we just keep pushing people into the bushes farther instead of having a legal place for people to camp. It would benefit everyone. Also, three bicycles were hit in two days. One was killed in Idaho, Maryland. I hope that we can do something about the pedestrian fatalities going on here in town non-stop. You do have the power to do something.
Believe her. And doing nothing is doing something. That's my public comment. I'll call back on number 8101213 and 14 on the consent agenda. Thank you.
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