CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APRIL 23, 2024
DOCUMENTS RECEIVED AFTER
PUBLISHED AGENDA
Agenda Q&A Log
AGENDA QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
MEETING DATE: April 23, 2024
Consent Item CONS 24‐214
Adopt a Resolution Awarding a Contract to MCK Services, Inc., for the FY24 Pavement Improvement Project, Project No. 05242, in the Amount of $12,365,204.50 and Authorizing an Administrative Change Order Budget of $969,795.50
How many total street miles will be redone in the 125 street sections?
The sections totaled approximately 41.2 lane miles out of the City’s total of 682 lane miles of roadway, or a total of 19.6 centerline miles out of a total of 292 centerline miles. This information will be included in all future staff reports for this project.
ITEM #9
WS 24-009
HHTF Continuation: Work Session
Regarding the Term of Homelessness-
Housing Taskforce (HHTF) (Report from
Director of Development Services Buizer)
1 Lilia Corral
From: Miriam Lens
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Subject: FW: Comments for Agenda Item 9 WS24-009
Hi Lilia
Could you please add the following to Documents Received After Published Agenda?
Thanks
Miriam
Miriam Lens, City Clerk
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Agenda Item 9 -Public Comments
Homelessness Housing Task Force
April 23, 2024
In reviewing the Staff report on the Pros and Cons of creating a standing committee or letting the HHTF lapse, it’s clear the HHTF has been underutilized.
The existence of the HHTF, and hopefully a future standing committee, does not impede the desire of the City Council to receive detailed input on housing related items. If anything, it expands and enhances that detailed report by having been opened to public discussion prior to going before the full Council.
2 On important and urgent issues, the HHTF should include a recommendation, rather than be informational, to help guide the full Council and expedite the decision-making process without slowing down action on the item.
Community participation will increase as items are designated for Committee/HHTF recommendation and the Committee meets routinely with more prominent public notice as a standing Committee.
Preparatory staff work for the HHTF/Standing Committee will save staff time when the items go before the full Council and, on complex items, likely prevent delay and referral to a subsequent Council meeting.
Full review of action items at a HHTF/standing committee would likely shorten some full Council meetings with the same housing issues on the agenda.
States and Cities are not winning the battle against Homelessness. Voters are frustrated that our elected leaders are not prioritizing resources to win the battle and solve this critical problem. Some governments are resorting to criminalization of the homeless and blaming the victims for governments’ poor planning, lack of vision, and unwillingness to stand up to development interests. I urge the Council to transform the HHTF to a permanent standing committee, and become a model for other governmental entities.
Ro Aguilar