CITY COUNCIL MEETING
DECEMBER 17, 2024
DOCUMENTS RECEIVED
AFTER PUBLISHED AGENDA
Item#10
CONS 24-652
Security and Infrastructure
Repairs to Old City Hall
Located
From: BC4AD
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 7:49 PM
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Subject: Agenda Item 10 Repairs to Old City Hall
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Dear Honorable Mayor and City Council,
On behalf of BC4AD, I am writing in support of the much needed repairs. I would also like to express my gratitude for the City's continued commitment towards beautification and preservation of historic resources. I would like to ask the City to explore applying to register the building to the State's Historic Register. Many grants are available for restoration for buildings that get certified.
Perhaps a study could be done with modern technology it could be feasible to relocate the building to either Hayward Heritage Park or the parking lot across from the Greyhound Station.
Grant options:
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/grants-and- incentives.htm#:~:text=Limited%20Federal%20grants%20through%20the,rehabilitating%20incom e%2Dgenerating%20historic%20buildings.
https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Member-Engagement/Professional- Departments/Community-Services/Overview-of-Historic-Preservation-Resources.aspx https://www.federalgrantswire.com/national-register-of-historic-places.html Best,
John
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Item#13
WS 24-038
Let's House Hayward
Strategic Plan
December 17, 2024
Mayor MarkSalinasandMembersof theHaywardCityCouncilCityof Hayward777BStreetHayward, CA94541 Subject: Resignationas Chair of theCommunityServices Commission Dear Mayor SalinasandCityCouncil Members,
Ihopethisletter findsyouwell. Iamwritingasacommunitymember toensurethatyouhaveaccesstoimportant datathat maysupport your effortstoaddresshousingandhomelessnesschallengesinHayward. WhileIcurrentlyserveontheHaywardUnifiedSchool District (HUSD) Boardof Education, Iwritetodayinmypersonalcapacity, andmyviewsdonot reflect official stancesor policiesof theHaywardSchool Board.
Thisissueisdeeplypersonal tome. Asachild, Iexperiencedhomelessness, andit wasthroughtheunwaveringsupport of anextensivecommunity—manyof themcompletestrangers—that Iwasabletoovercomethosechallenges. Their compassionandassistanceprovidedmewithstabilityandhope, allowingmetothrive. Today, Ifeel aprofoundresponsibilitytoensurethat nochildor familyinour communityfacesthesechallengesalone.
OnDecember 16, 2024, theHUSDBoardreceivedapresentationontheCaliforniaSchool Dashboard(2024) andHUSDResults, whichprovidecritical dataonchronicabsenteeism, academicperformance, andother indicatorsdisproportionatelyimpactingunhousedstudents. ThisinformationdirectlyconnectstotheCity’sLet’sHouseHayward! StrategicPlanandhighlightstheimportanceof coordinatedeffortstoaddresshousinginstability.
Iwantedtoensurethat theCouncil hasaccesstothisdata, asit mayinformfuturedecisionsandpartnershipsaimedat supportingour unhousedstudentsandfamilies.
BRUCKNERCARRILLO.COM1775PANDAWAY, #111, HAYWARD, CA94541PAIDFORBYAUSTINBRUCKNERCARRILLOFORHAYWARDUNIFIEDSCHOOLDISTRICT2024, FPPC1463359
Mayor andCityCouncil Page2 December 17, 2024
Thereport isavailableontheHUSDDistrict websiteat:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/174vHe1keAw3ZR8BYM9j90CgFSNt4ga9J/edit#slide=id.p1 Asoutlinedwithinthegoalsof theCity’sLet’sHouseHayward! StrategicPlan, thesechallengesrequireacollective, cross-jurisdictional approach, andIstandreadytoassist inanywayIcan. I’veaskedthat HUSDstaffcomebackbeforetheBoardat anupcomingmeetingwithapresentationtooutlineour strategytoaddresschronicabsenteeismamongour unhousedstudentsandother frequentlyabsent studentpopulations. It ismyhopethat movingforward, HUSD’sstrategytoaddresstheseissuesincludesadditional collaborationwithexistingprogramsandservicesavailablethroughboththeCity, CountyandCountyOfficeof Education.
Thankyoufor your dedicationtoHayward’sfamiliesandyouth. Pleasedonot hesitatetoreachout if therearewaysIcanassist inadvancingtheseefforts.
Sincerely,
AUSTINBRUCKNERCARRILLOTrustee/Clerk, HaywardUnifiedSchool District Boardof EducationFormer Chair, Cityof Hayward’sCommunityServicesCommission Cc: Dr. AmyCole-Bloom, ActingDirector CommunityServicesDr. JasonReimann, Superintendent, HaywardUnifiedSchool DistrictAll Members, HaywardUnifiedSchool District Boardof Education From: Glenn Kirby
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 8:22 PM
To: List-Mayor-Council
Cc: Miriam Lens; Amy Cole-Bloom; Christina Morales
Subject: From Ro Aguilar: LHH Strategic Plan-City Council 12-17-24 CAUTION:This is an external email. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe.
Below are my full comments on the LHH Strategic Plan.
City Council Meeting
December 17, 2024
I want to commend the Council and staff on Let’s House Hayward Strategic Plan initiatives, and my suggestions:
Continued operation of HEART; this program would be more successful and effective if the City had access to hotel rooms for clients. A staff person could navigate relationships with non-profit housing developers, County, and landlords to work with the city on creation of hotel conversion projects by community-based entities, thus also addressing the lack of action on Rapid Rehousing Program facilities and opportunities. A Rapid Rehousing phase 1 could focus on youth as a high priority.
Support for development of St. Regis Campus (70 units); great accomplishment for 2024/25! is the City staff planning a similar rehab for next year? Collaboration on Depot Apartments (125 SROs). Great for low and very low income; still need more for homeless with no or minimal income.
Cross-departmental and Cross-jurisdictional collaboration efforts, such as Scattered sites housing (35 beds) Let’s amp up efforts with neighboring jurisdictions in the coming year so each city and county is addressing housing their homeless.
Continued staff participation in regional efforts. Why not form a JPA or some regional organization to hold accountable those cities that are not housing homeless or building affordable housing.
ID zoning barriers in the Municipal Code and the AHO to incentivize development of low and very low-income households, hopefully inclusionary! Continue to pursue a Shallow subsidy program pilot; consider implementing a security deposit assistance program in 2025 to assist with housing on front end.
Refer the one-time revenue policy to the HPRC for evaluation as a funding source for the Rapid Housing model, using the lens of social justice.
In closing, I encourage the City staff to develop more statistics and accountability for tracking how many homeless will be housed by this Plan in the coming years.
Ro Aguilar
Hayward resident
Item#14
LB 24-030
Electrification Reach
Code
From: BC4AD
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 6:06 PM
To: List-Mayor-Council
Subject: Agenda Item 14 Electrification Reach Codes
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Dear City Clerk, please enter into the public record and circulate to City Council and confirm receipt of this email.
Dear City Council,
My name is John and our group BC4AD is a coalition of residents seeking common sense in government. Many of us live and work in Hayward and spend a lot of time in the city. The reach codes come from a good place but have received bad guidance. We all want to be good stewards of our environment. However, we must be careful that we do not fall into the trap of taking everything the alarmists claim at face value.
Left out of the greater discussion is the science that has proven to show that climate change as presented is exaggerated. I have included the
2011,
the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(NIPCC) published
Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report,
a 400-page report containing
summaries and analysis of scientific research published since the original 2009 edition of Climate
Change
Reconsidered.
While not as comprehensive as the 2009 report, the
Interim Report
contains
reviews of nearly 1,000 new research studies covering subjects including computer models, forcings and feedbacks, paleoclimate and recent temperatures, and more.
According to the report, “natural
causes are very likely to be [the] dominant” cause of climate change that took place in the twentieth and at the start of the twenty-first centuries. “We are not saying anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) cannot produce some warming or have not in the past. Our conclusion is that the evidence shows they are not playing a substantial role.”
https://climatechangereconsidered.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Full-Interim-Report.pdf I am also including the 2009 Report: http://weather.missouri.edu/gcc/CCR2009FullReport.pdf 880-page rebuttal of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), three years in the making, was released in June 2009. Coauthored and edited by
S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., and
Craig Idso, Ph.D.
and produced with contributions
and reviews by an international coalition of scientists, it provides an independent examination of the evidence available on the causes and consequences of climate change in the published, peer-reviewed literature examined without bias and selectivity. It includes many research papers ignored by the IPCC plus additional scientific results that became available after the IPCC deadline of May 2006.
The reports must be taken into account as it regards public health & safety in the realm of changing the fundamental fabric of the city. The reach codes are too restrictive in the sense that they are being used in attempting to bypass the 9th Circuit Court ruling by making gas use expensive and effectively prohibiting it. Natural gas is vital to national security and implementing codes that will try and diminish its use is bad public policy.
Also, builders will be burdened with additional costs, inflation has already done a lot of damage in the construction industry with material prices skyrocketing. The additional costs will force builders to build elsewhere, or they will cut corners somewhere else, which historically has been on the design.
The will build cheaper and uglier than before. The prime example is the "new" housing in South Hayward on Mission Blvd. that already has peeling and fading paint that was destroyed by light rain.
There are also visible surfactant leaching spots. So all these codes will do is proliferate and create blight.
See article:
https://www.constructiondive.com/news/construction-input-prices-april-2024/716119/ Finally, electricity is way too expensive. Many in our group are already paying in excess of $900 monthly in PG&E and PG&E keeps getting rate increases passed every quarter from the CPUC already on their 4th. This is a burden on working class families & people on fixed incomes. Basic economic theory & common sense tell you that increasing competition results in cheaper prices for the consumer. However, mandating and cornering a market is effectively creating a monopoly by legislation which has downstream & upstream effects in the supply chain & places the less fortunate with the decision over heating vs eating.
See articel:
https://abc7news.com/post/pge-rate-hike-california-public-utilities-commission- unanimously-approves-6-monthly-increase-electricity-
bills/15296646/#:~:text=SAN%20FRANCISCO%20(KGO)%20%2D%2D%20For,an%20average%20bill% 20a%20month.
Sincerely on behalf of BC4AD,
John
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Agenda Q&A Log
AGENDA QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
MEETING DATE: December 17, 2024
Consent Item CONS 24‐636
Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Amend and Extend an Agreement with the Alameda County Probation Department to Provide Delinquency Prevention Network Services, and to Accept and Appropriate $140,065 from Alameda County to Fund the Extension Can the pu
blic safety committee review the outcomes of these
programs as well as a plan to address the events that happened over the summer involving teens?
I am also interested in reviewing partnerships with groups and businesses as potential partners for younger kids to see a path prior to age 13 as we are seeing thi
s age if not younger getting recruited for
criminal activity.
We are happy to present on program outcomes at the direction of the Council Public Safety Committee. Assuming the events over the summer is a reference to homicides, there were 4 in a relatively short peri od of time involving victims from 15‐19 years of age. None of these incidents were connected and several involved victims and offenders who were not from Hayward. I have been involved in County level conversations with our law enforcement partners, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, the Alameda County Public Heal th Department, and community‐based organizations specific to the impact of gun violence on our youth. There are multiple efforts underway, including the ongoing Gun Violence Prevention Meetings held periodically at Glad Tidings and the development of the Alameda County Public Health Department’s Office of Violence Prevention, which seeks to e nlist public agency and community support for understanding the scope and impacts of violence as well as the development of violence prevention/intervention strategies. This work is ongoing and we will continue to be an active participant as well as continue to explore ways to partner for community safety.
The contrac t going before Council for approval tonight is just one of many contracts and programs that YFSB has, several of which work with kids younger than 13. That said, we are always happy to explore new partnerships and opportunities to support our younger youth.
Consent Item CONS 24‐652
Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Transfer and Appropriate $128,150 from the General Fund to the Facilities Capital Improvement Fund Project No. 07222, for the Security and Infrastructure Repairs to Old City Hall Located at 22738 Mission Boulevard
Can staff bring this item to Infrastructure or Economic Development regarding next steps for this building? What is recommended? What can we fiscally achieve besides this item to activate near this location to prevent vandalism? What is the goal ultimately?
These questions have been pondered at the staff level for quite some time with more vigorous discussions taking place for as long as I (Dustin Claussen) have been Interim City Manager. Not at my urging, but at the increase in service calls relating to access, fires (multiple significant fires this summer) and vandalism found in, on and around the building. What we are doing is a band‐aid to harden the building and prevent further injury to community members who may illegally access it and our employees who respond to service calls as the structure is unsafe.
Any work of significance on the building will be incredibly costly. As you know it is located directly on or above the Hayward Fault. Placing anything for public use would be very limited and require significant earthquake proofing. It is also unknown what hazardous materials may exist in the building and/or on site and what the remediation of said materials may be should the building be repurposed or demolished. At this point no long‐term recommendation can be appropriately made by staff.
Work Session Item WS 24‐038
Let's House Hayward Strategic Plan: Implementation Update and Discussion of Next Steps
Project Project Department Lead Budget Amount Status Update RP080 Community Agency Funding
Augmentation City Manager’s Office $500,000.00
This supplemental funding was allocated during the FY
2022‐FY 2023 Community Agency Funding process and
will be supporting job training programs for Downtown
Streets Team, Inc. and Love Never Fails, and will be
supporting the Hayward Public Library's Family
Education Program.
RP090 Extend Hotel Annex Program City Manager’s Office – Community Services $3,000,000.00
The creative utilization of these ARPA funds enabled
the extension of this critically needed resource offering expanded non‐congregate interim housing capacity
during the pandemic for an additional two years.
Effectively doubling the capacity of the existing Nav
Center bed count and creating much‐needed interim
housing for individuals with medical conditions that
create increased vulnerability to COVID‐19, this
program was able to serve 102 individuals to date thus
What is the target number we are trying to address for Let’s House Hayward?
I am also interested in what other cities are doing for future discussions, how much are they spending and how many people were served in the same time as our PIT our numbers were received. If there
was a reduction in a local jurisdiction I would like to know what programs were successful and how much was spent.
Can we have a breakdown of the $9 million?
Staff will research.
Staff will research.
Please see chart below.
far this fiscal year, supporting more than 75% of those who’ve exiting the program to transition into
permanent, stable housing.
RP100
Expand Winter Warming
Shelter Year‐Round, including
Daytime Hours
City Manager’s Office –
Community Services $2,000,000.00
The City of Hayward used ARPA funding to expand a
temporary Winter Warming Shelter into a yearly
shelter open from 6:30pm until 7am and provides
dinner and breakfast to guests. Funding also provides
daytime program as part of the expansion. From
October 1st, 2021 ‐ December 31st, 2021, 310
individuals received shelter services through the South Hayward Parish Winter Warming Shelter; an additional
240 individuals were served in the quarter from
January 1st, 2022 ‐ March 31st, 2022. First Presbyterian Church of Hayward dba South Hayward Parish was also
able to hire the first staff member of its new medical
team, bringing deeply‐needed clinical levels of care to shelter/Resource Center guests. Several guests were
referred to high levels of medical care that they would not have received otherwise. Two other guests
successfully transitioned to permanent housing, with
an additional guest transitioning to
temporary/impermanent housing.
RP110 Shallow Subsidies for
Homelessness Prevention
City Manager’s Office –
Community Services $1,500,000.00
The RFP for a program operator is currently open and
will close on May 20, 2022. An operator will be
selected and enter into contract before the close of the FY.
RP120 Hayward Navigation Center
Contribution
City Manager’s Office –
Community Services $1,000,000.00
ARPA funds where a vital resource in the Navigation
Center being able to continue operations during the
pandemic and maintain occupancy numbers by
expanding the living quarters to support a third
communal living bungalow on the site. This allowed the
site to safely maintain the level of residents living on site at one time and maximize the impacts – enabling
the center to serve 115 individuals thus far this fiscal year with the critical wraparound and re‐housing
services associated with the program.
RP130 Foreclosure Legal and Financial
Assistance
City Manager’s Office –
Housing $1,000,000.00
This program is also funded through CDBG‐CV and was
launched in December 2021. The City has partnered
with Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA) to
provide services through this program and to date,
HERA has provided default and foreclosure prevention
services to 22 Hayward residents. They have also
hosted four workshops on a variety of foreclosure
prevention topics in multiple languages.
RP140 Relocation Assistance for
Displaced Tenants
City Manager’s Office –
Housing $250,000.00
Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance Regulations
are completed, creating the guidelines and structure
for implementing this program. As of May 3, 2022, two
apartment fires have displaced eligible several tenants.
Since starting the program in March 2022, $99,846 has
been allocated.
RP170 Hotel Vouchers for
Encampment Abatements
City Manager's Office /
Maintenance Services /
Police Department
$175,000.00
This project has served 12 households for a total of 161 shelter nights. Staff from Maintenance Services, Police, and Fire have referred households into the Hotel
Voucher program. Staff has issued an RFP and has
selected a hotel to work with.