GRASS VALLEY
City Council Regular Meeting, Capital Improvements Authority and Redevelopment "Successor Agency"
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Council Chambers, Grass Valley City Hall | 125 East Main Street, Grass Valley, California Telephone: (530) 274-4310 – Fax: (530) 274-4399
E-Mail: [email protected] Web Site: www.cityofgrassvalley.com
MINUTES
Mayor Hilary Hodge, Vice Mayor Haven Caravelli, Councilmember Jan Arbuckle, Councilmember Joe Bonomolo, Councilmember Tom Ivy
CALL TO ORDER
Meeting called to order at 6PM.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Pledge of allegiance led by Mayor Hodge.
ROLL CALL
PRESENT
Councilmember Jan Arbuckle
Councilmember Joe Bonomolo
Councilmember Tom Ivy
Vice Mayor Haven Caravelli
Mayor Hilary Hodge
AGENDA APPROVAL
Motion made to approve the agenda as submitted by Councilmember Arbuckle, Seconded by Vice Mayor Caravelli.
Voting Yea: Councilmember Arbuckle, Councilmember Bonomolo, Councilmember Ivy, Vice Mayor Caravelli, Mayor Hodge
REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
INTRODUCTIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
1. Emily Rary, Community Engagement Chief for Beale Air Force Base, to give presentation on the upcoming Beale Airshow on June 7 & 8 2025.
2. Christine Newsom, presenting as a representative from the Nevada City Rotary Club, in regard to their plastic film collection project and their challenges to continued functioning.
3. Nevada County OES Representatives will provide overview of the Nevada County Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
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4. Duane Strawser, the City of Grass Valley Community Risk Reduction Manager, to give brief presentation to Council.
PUBLIC COMMENT
Public Comments #1-9 & 11
CONSENT ITEMS
Motion made to approve the consent items by Councilmember Ivy, Seconded by Vice Mayor Caravelli.
Voting Yea: Councilmember Arbuckle, Councilmember Bonomolo, Councilmember Ivy, Vice Mayor Caravelli, Mayor Hodge
5. Approval of the Regular Meeting Minutes of January 28, 2025.
Recommendation: Council approve minutes as submitted.
6. Tablet Command Mobile Incident Command and Response Solution Purchase CEQA: Not a project
Recommendation: That the Council 1) Approve the Fire Chief to enter into an agreement, subject to legal review, with the County of Nevada for the reimbursement of funds related to the purchase and integration of Tablet Command for the Fire Services in Nevada County; and 2) Authorize the Finance Director to execute any necessary budget adjustments or fund transfers to facilitate this process.
7. Nevada County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan CEQA: Not a project as defined by the Public Resources Code section 21065 and CEQA Guidelines sections 15060 and 15378.
Recommendation: That Council adopt Resolution 2025-01 to adopt and approve the draft Nevada County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan and authorize staff to make necessary changes if required by FEMA
8. Adopt Resolution No. 2025-02 Declaring Equipment Surplus and Authorizing Disposition of Equipment.
Recommendation: It is recommended that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 2025- 02, declaring the listed vehicles as surplus and authorizing their disposition.
ITEMS REMOVED FROM CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION OR SEPARATE ACTION AND /
OR ANY ADDED AGENDA ITEMS
REORGANIZATION RELATED ITEMS
PUBLIC HEARING
ADMINISTRATIVE
9. Introduction of an ordinance amending Chapter 5.56 of Title 5 of the Grass Valley Municipal Code regulating Tobacco Retailers.
Recommendation: Introduce the attached ordinance, waive full reading, and read by title only
Alex Gammelgard introduced Officer LaFerriere with GVPD who presented to Council.
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Tyler Hill, Chief Medical Officer for SNMH spoke to the medical implications of tobacco and nitrous oxide we see in our local community.
Public comment: Sean Johnson, Bill Lawrence, Graham, Brandon Gates, Kristy Cates, Robin Galvin-Davies, & Don Frazer.
Motion made to introduce the attached ordinance, waive full reading, and read by title only by Councilmember Arbuckle, Seconded by Vice Mayor Caravelli.
Voting Yea: Councilmember Arbuckle, Councilmember Bonomolo, Vice Mayor Caravelli, Mayor Hodge
10. Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant CEQA: Not a Project
Recommendation: That Council approve the submission of a Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant in collaboration with the Fire Safe Council. The grant will support efforts to strengthen critical infrastructure, implement hazard fuels reduction using nature-based solutions, assist with hazard tree removal, expand the home hardening retrofit program, enhance the green waste program, and provide community education initiatives for the Grass Valley area.
Tim Kiser, City Manager, presented to Council.
Public Comment: Sean Johnson, Patrick Johnson & Robin Galvin-Davies.
Motion made to approve the submission of a Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant in collaboration with the Fire Safe Council by Councilmember Ivy, Seconded by Councilmember Arbuckle.
Voting Yea: Councilmember Arbuckle, Councilmember Bonomolo, Councilmember Ivy, Vice Mayor Caravelli, Mayor Hodge
11. Historical Commission Quarterly Update
CEQA: Not a project
Recommendation: That Council receives quarterly update from Historical Commission.
Terry McAteer, Chair of the Historical Commission, gave quarterly update to the Council. Theresa Poston, Historical Commissioner, spoke to the Heritage Home brochure sales.
Motion made to form a subcommittee comprised of Vice Mayor Caravelli and Councilmember Arbuckle to meet with two members of the Historical Commission that will sunset before this items comes before Council again by Councilmember Arbuckle, Seconded by Vice Mayor Caravelli.
Voting Yea: Councilmember Arbuckle, Councilmember Bonomolo, Councilmember Ivy, Vice Mayor Caravelli, Mayor Hodge
BRIEF REPORTS BY COUNCIL MEMBERS
Councilmember Arbuckle attended a a meeting with Maria's regarding improvements, a Sac Valley Division League of CA Cities Board Meeting, Small Cities, spoke about WIFI for this region, met with the Hospital Foundation, and spoke about the master plan on aging.
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Councilmember Bonomolo met with Joy Porter with the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce and attended an ERC meeting. Councilmember Ivy announced that Pioneer Community Energy will be working with the County of Nevada, attended the NCTC meeting and a Biomass demo on La Barr Meadows and introduced a motion to agendize a a ceasefire resolution on the February 25th City Council meeting. Vice Mayor Caravelli spoke with the City of Santa Rosa about street closures. Mayor Hodge thanked the Nevada County Arts Council for their ongoing offerings to the community.
Motion made to agendize a ceasefire resolution on the February 25th City Council meeting by Councilmember Ivy, Seconded by Councilmember Bonomolo.
Voting Yea: Councilmember Bonomolo, Councilmember Ivy, Vice Mayor Caravelli, Mayor Hodge
Voting Nay: Councilmember Arbuckle
CONTINUATION OF PUBLIC COMMENT
Public Comment # 13 & 14
ADJOURN
Meeting adjourned at 9:03PM.
______________________________ ___________________________ Hilary Hodge, Mayor Taylor Whittingslow, City Clerk
Adopted on:_____________
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Hello, my name is Rob Katzenstein. I live on North Auburn Street in beautiful Grass Valley. And I wanted to comment about the plastics presentation that's going to occur this evening. And wanted to thank the city for hosting these good folks who are trying to do a really great thing by collecting and turning shrink wrap plastic into a usable building material by the trucks company. I collected plastic from a number of businesses in Grass Valley for over a year, from the Nevada County Food Bank, Hills Flat Lumber, Platte Electrical Supply, CED electrical supply and occasionally B and C and a couple other places. So I'm very experienced in this mode. I collected over 750 pounds of plastic and brought it to the Safeway store on Brunswick where they trucked it back to their distribution center and then it was trucked in bulk to the trucks company located outside of Reno, Nevada. I was doing this for the Nevada County Food Bank mostly, and under a program for nonprofits, the food bank received a nice trucks bench, which is outside their headquarters up there on Railroad Avenue. Anyway, I wanted to encourage the city to help collect shrink wrap
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