GRASS VALLEY
City CounciI Regular Meeting, CapitaI lmprovements Authority and RedeveIop ment "Successor AgencY'
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Council Chambers, Grass vatley City Hatt | 125 East Main Street, Grass Vattey, Catifornia Tetephone: (530) 274-4310 - Fax: (530) 274-4399
E-Mait: [email protected] Web Site: www.cityofq rassvatLey.com
CALL TO ORDER
Meeting catled to order at 7:02 pm by Mayor Agui{ar
PLEDGE OF LEGIANCE
Ptedge of attegiance was led by Potice Chief, Atex Gammetgard.
ROLL CALL
PRESENT
Councit Member Hitary Hodge
Councjt Member Tom lvy
Vice Mayor Jan Arbuckte
Mayor Ben Aguilar
ABSENT
CounciI Member Bob Branstrom
AGENDA APPRO'YAL .
Motion made to approve the agenda by Council Member Hodge, Seconded by Vice Mayor Arbuckte.
Voting Yea: Councit Member Hodge, Councit Member lyy, Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Mayor Aguitar
REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
Nothing to report.
INTRODUCTIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
PUBLIC COMA4ENT .
Attached.
CONSENT ITEIAS .
Pubtic comment attached.
Motion made to approve the consent by Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Seconded by Councit Member Hodge.
Voting Yea: CounciI Member Hodge, Council Member lvy, Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Mayor Agui[ar
MINUTES
'l . ApprovaL of the Regutar Meeting Minutes of August 9, 2022 Recommendation: Council approve minutes as submitted.
2. Approval of the Special Ctosed Door Meeting Minutes of August 5, 2022.
Recommendation: Councit approve minutes as submitted.
3. Assembty Bitt 361 Resotution
Recommendation: Adopt resotutjon R2022-70 authorizing remote teteconference meetings of the City Councit and other legistative bodies of the City pursuant to goYernment code section 54953(e)
4. Locat Emergency Proctamation (COVID-19)
Recommendation: Continuance of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) proctamation dectaring a LocaI State of Emergency
5. Locat Emergency Proctamation (Drought Conditions)
Recommendation: Drought Conditions proclamation dectaring a Local State of Emergency
6. Local Emergency Proctamation (Winter Storm of December 27th, 2021) Recommendation: Winter Storm of December 27th,2021 proctamation dectaring a Local State of Emergency
7. Grass Vatley Management & supervisory Professional & Confidentjal. Employees - Unit 'l Memorandum of Understanding - Juty 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023 Recommendation: Adopt Resotution No. 2022-69 approving the revised Labor Memorandum of Understanding for a one-year period beginnjng Juty 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 between the City of Grass Val.tey and the Grass Vattey Management / Supervisory Professiona[ & Confidentiat Employees Group (Unit 1).
8. Pubtic Works purchase of Sewer Easement Machine at a Totat cost of 556,523.93 Recommendation: CounciI to authorize the Utitities Director to purchase a PipeHunter sewer easement machine from Texas Underground lnc,
9. Appointment of lndependent Auditor for Fiscat Years 2021-22 and 2022-23 Recommendation: 'l ) Authorize the City Manager to execute an addendum to the contract with Smith & Newett, CPAS for independent audit services for the City for Fiscal Years 2021-27 and 2022-23, subject to finat tegat review 2) Authorize the Finance / Adminjstratiye Seryjces Director to make any necessary budget adjustments / transfers; and 3) Approye Smith & Newett, CPAs as a sote-source contractor. ,l0. 2022 AnnuaL Measure E Street Rehabititatjon Project - Authorization to Award Contract Recommendation: That CounciL l ) award a contract fot the 2022 Annual Measure E Street Rehabititation Project to JV Lucas Paving lnc., 2) authorize the llayor to execute the construction contract, subject to [ega[ review and, 3) authorize the City Engineer to approve construction change orders for up to '10% of the contract amount.
ITEAAS REITIOVED FROI,I CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION OR SEPARATE ACTION AND /
OR ANY ADDED AGENDA ITEMS
REORGANIZATION RELATED ITEMS
City of Grass VatLey, CA MINUTES August 23, 2022
PUBLIC HEARING
11. Ptanning Commission Recommendation of Devetopment Code Amendments.
Recommendation: The Ptanni ng Commission Recommends that the City CounciL approyed the Devetopment Code Amendments, as presented, or as modified by the City Councit, which inctudes the foltowing actions: 1) Determine the project Statutority Exempt, as the appropriate [eve[ of environmental review, in accordance vrith the California Environmental Quatity Act (CEQA) and Guidetines; 2) Hotd the first reading of an Ordinance Approving the Devetopment Code Amendments as Presented by titte onty; and, 3) Adopt Findings of Fact for the Devetopment Code Amendments as Presented.
Lance Lowe, Principle Ptanner, gave presentation to the councilCouncjt asked if there a way to remove the timit of not aLtowing accessory dwetling as a short term rental, but it was discussed that per state guidetines for accessory dwetting units they are not intended to be attowed as short term rentats.
Pubtic comment attached.
CounciI requested that staff took at different cities potjcies of AirB&B cap and to look at setting up a joint meeting with the planning commission. ldeas about looking at doing a percentage of the available hosing jn the city timits for a cap and possibty looking at puttjng a cap on vacation rentat homes and not necessarjty the hosted rentals. They atso discussed took at putting a timit of radius that the owners woutd have to live within that area.
Motion made to 1) Determine the project StatutoriLy Exempt, as the appropriate leveI of environmental review, in accordance with the Catifornia EnvironmentaI Quatity Act (CEQA) and Guidetines; 2) Hotd the first reading of an Ordinance Approving the Devetopment Code Amendments as presented by titte onty; and, 3) Adopt Findings of Fact for the Development Code Amendments as presented by CounciI Member Hodge, Seconded by Vice Mayor Arbuckte.
Voting Yea: CounciI Member Hodge, Councit Member lyy, Vice Mayor Arbuckte, Mayor Aguitar
ADA{INISTRATIVE
BRIEF REPORTS BY COUNCIL AAEIABERS
councitmember lvy had nothing to report. Councitmember Hodge wants to Thank everyone for continuing to shop tocat and attended the opening of the Nevada County Fair. Vice lrlayor Arbuckte attended a Nationat League of Women in MunicipaI government conference, GVDA Board Meeting, opening of the Nevada County Fair took a tour of smatl pattet homes, witl be attending the League of Cities Conference and, discussed 58'1100 Mayor Aguitar attended the Mayors & Managers breakfast, the opening of the Nevada County Fair and update on Mitt St.
ADJOURN
Mayor Aguitar adjourned e meeting at 8:05 pm.
Ben Aguilar, Mayor uty City Clerk
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City of Grass Vattey, CA August 23, 2022
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1 Taylor Day
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I just threw out 1%. You could say 2%. More than multiple apartment buildings have been sold in town for Airbnbs, including the one that I live in. You guys really need to get out and look around. Like after your meeting tonight, maybe drive on the street you haven't been on and look at it. You'll be amazed because you're killing us with this Airbnb stuff even though.
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Hi Matthew Coulter. I'd like the city manager and the city planner and developer to explain how they don't know how many houses are in Grass Valley. Jingle residents and backyard houses as well as apartments. It's just odd that your guys are guessing place isn't that big, guys. Squat and count.
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3 Taylor Day
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 7:19 PM
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Yeah, Lance, when's the last time we had a development review committee meeting? Because they keep getting cancelled every month for years, so there doesn't seem to be one anyway. So you keep saying remove them. We're not even allowed to have them. And great, I've got some great idea for murals of a big middle finger. What do you think? Will that go? Art is subjective, isn't it? Thank you, Matthew Coulter, by the way.
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Yeah, hi. Matthew Coulter, like Lance explained, who is keeping track of all this? Who is going to people and saying that's an illegal unit? You can't rent that out because they're all over town. And so I'm just wondering about the enforcement angle of all these changes that you're making and when all this is going to be available to the public and when it's all going to be changed in the code books and the library and all these different things that go along with this changes things that are don't need to be changed. So that's a major concern going on that people can't keep up with all this stuff. You guys can't keep up with that, so you just pass it automatically and that's not cool. You guys need to do your homework and see how many rental units are actually out there. Move around it at night.
What's going on? I think you guys don't have a clue of what is happening in this town and a lot of aspects. And you allow the city management to tell you what's going on and they don't know because it's all based on greed and money. For those folks, this is sad truckies literally having car camping and tent camping for workforce housing because they've lost all their workforce housing. That's happening here, has happened here, continues to happen here. Stop doing it. Thank you. Specifically adding that provision in accordance with state law. Also with respect to Table 3.3 speaks to parking. Currently short term rentals require one parking space per room and two parking spaces for the owner. Landlord, considering that these combinations, everybody knows everybody, they know each other We think that could be handled through tandem parking. So instead have two side by side parking outside the front yard set. We have parking that backs up to one another. They know each other. It's typically not at issue. So we believe we can allow that fire issue. Also we've had a number of requests for short term rentals and multiple family zones. Aren't you in R3 zones currently short term rentals are allowed in the R1 zone exclusively specifically excluded short term rentals and multifamily zones for obvious reasons. That's where the bulk of our rental housing resides.
OK. However we have situations where the good example to all the street where we have.
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Hi, Matthew Coulter on the agenda items #5 #8 #9 #10 #11. I have some questions on these items. On #5 the question be, if we have a drought emergency, how come you're watering the street outside my house every night for hour and a half the pavement? Have asked repeatedly for you guys to adjust the sprinklers. You can't seem to do it #8 the sewer easement machine. I'd like to hear some more talk about what a sewer easement machine is for $60,000 and what it does and who is trained to use it most of all. Also, #9 the independent auditor for a non independent group to pick an independent auditor seems a bit odd, but I look forward to hearing what independent auditor? Maybe it's financial, maybe it's sewage, I don't know, it's some kind of independent auditor is going to help us in some way shape or form. I really look forward to that and #10 the measure, any St rehab situation, I'd like to hear more about that. That's really exciting and I think the public would like to hear more about the measure E street rehab. JV Lucas Paving, incorporated. And some of their projects they've done. #11 the lingo change? I don't think we need to be changing the lingo to get the public to get the Planning Commission off the off the hook because they're making some poor decisions. OK. Thank you.
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Yes, hi, this is Matthew Coulter calling with public comment. I'm trying to find out how I can watch the meeting.
Can't seem to find it anywhere. I wanted public comment. I wanted to mention our error situation here in town. The fact that the first time in the history of air quality control of Northern Sierra, which covers 4 counties, they issued a stop work order and that was for the project by the city contractors at Scott and School for the dust permeating the grade schoolers. And it's really sad that this city is in such a that they're destroying everyone's health in the process. I have to take a lot of different medications now, temporarily, I hope, because of what's going on next door. And the air quality things in Memorial Park also, including burning rubber over there the other day. And it just happened to be the other people called it in, too. Wasn't just me. There's been a lot of complaints. So you guys continue to do this. You continue to go with restraining orders after me from the contractor, from the park with Officer Herrera.
Also, the mayor of Grass Valley will see you in court on your restraining order. You want on me, Hillary, I hope you're enjoying your restraining order you have on me and all you folks. They've tried so hard to keep me from running from her office or Grass Valley City Council for the November 8th vote. Incredible. 8 restraining orders and thrown in jail in the two months prior so you guys could keep me from running. That's some pretty dirty pool, so we'll see how it all plays out, but I encourage you to freaking look in the mirror. Thank you.
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