CITY OF HEALDSBURG
CITY COUNCIL/REDEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR AGENCY
REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
May 31, 2022
City Hall Council Chamber
401 Grove Street, Healdsburg
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CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL
Mayor/Chairperson Jimenez called to order the concurrent meeting of the City Council and Redevelopment Successor Agency of the City of Healdsburg at 3:30 p.m. with the following Council Members present:
Present: Council Members/: Hagele, Kelley, Mitchell and Mayor Jimenez Board Members
Absent: Council Members/: None
Board Members
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
On a motion by Councilmember Hagele, seconded by Vice Mayor Kelley, approved the May 31, 2022, City Council Special meeting agenda as submitted. The motion carried on a unanimous roll call vote. (Ayes 4, Noes 0, Absent -None)
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Barbara Wollner commented on the Arts in Healdsburg and advocated for more art and keeping the fully funded Arts and Culture Master Plan in place.
Gale O’Sullivan expressed her support to see Council continue to fund arts in Healdsburg and commented on the Healdsburg Jazz Festival.
Kathy Birdsong, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, urged Council to support additional funding for the Arts and Culture Master Plan in Healdsburg.
Nicole, Vice-Chair Healdsburg Center for the Arts, commented on how important art is to the community of Healdsburg.
Jessica Martin commented on the Arts and Culture Master Plan and encouraged Council to support arts in Healdsburg.
Claire O’Neill commented on the petition being circulated in support of the arts in Healdsburg.
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Mary Watts, Board member for Raven Performing Arts, commented on what art brings to the community.
Mark McMullen thanked Council for supporting arts in Healdsburg and encouraged Council to fund the hiring of a new Arts and Culture Director.
Asherah Weiss encouraged Council to support funding for arts.
NEW BUSINESS – FY 2022-23 AND 2023-24 BUDGET WORKSHOP
City Manager Kay introduced the budget item and noted, staff has added a few slides at the end to address arts funding in Healdsburg.
Administrative Services Director Sturmfels provided an update on the budget items addressed since the May 9, 2022 meeting. Director Sturmfels stated the action this evening was to provide direction to staff on the proposed FY 2022-23 and FY 2023-24 budgets for Enterprise Funds, Internal Service Funds and the Capital Improvement Plan.
Enterprise Funds
Director Sturmfels provided information on the outside impacts affecting the Enterprise fund.
Director Sturmfels reviewed the water fund revenues, proposed expenses, the water fund balance and the water capital fund balance. Director Sturmfels further reviewed the wastewater fund revenue estimates, wastewater fund proposed expenses, wastewater fund balance, the wastewater capital fund balance, electric fund revenue estimates, electric fund proposed expenses, electric fund balance, electric capital fund balance and the drainage fund balance.
In response to Council’s inquiries, Director Crowley provided information on where the grant money received to assist with utility bills would appear in the budget.
Internal Service Funds
Director Sturmfels provided information on the insurance fund, drivers of insurance cost increases, vehicle services fund, noting in FY2022-23, staff has re-budgeted vehicles that have been ordered but not yet received and are creating a vehicle replacement fund. Director Sturmfels further reviewed the building maintenance fund, current building maintenance projects, the IT Services fund and current IT projects.
In response to Councilmember Mitchell’s inquiry, Director Sturmfels provided information on the safety committee for the City.
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Other Fund Highlights
Director Sturmfels provided information on the L&M Village budget, and the Landscaping and Lighting Assessment District budget.
In response to Council’s inquiries, Director Sturmfels reviewed the funding source for the L&M Village project.
Capital Improvement Plan
Administrative Services Director Sturmfels reviewed the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) highlights, including leveraging grant funds and developer funding. Director Sturmfels further provided information on the CIP project summary for the next five years for streets, water, wastewater, electric, community services and the airport.
Public Works Director Zimmer provided information on the Ward Street revitalization plan project, the Citywide Bike System Improvement project and the Healdsburg Avenue/Mill District project.
In response to Council’s inquiries, Director Zimmer explained how the CIP projects are categorized.
Council discussion ensued on CIP projects and upcoming grant funding opportunities.
Arts Funding
City Manager Kay provided information on ongoing funding for the arts in Healdsburg, and the funding proposed to be added to begin with the implementation of the Arts and Culture Master Plan. City Manager Kay reviewed the options to increase funding for the arts over the next two years including maintaining the current level of funding, increasing the amount of funding going towards implementation or converting the proposed funding for the Park Maintenance Worker and creating a position to assist with arts implementation.
Councilmember Mitchell expressed interest in hiring a position to assist with the implementation of the arts in Healdsburg.
Vice Mayor Kelley was in favor of looking at the overall arts implementation plan before moving forward with funding an additional position to supports the arts.
Councilmember Hagele was supportive of a clearly defined plan on how to address arts in Healdsburg and was supportive of staff’s recommendation from May 9, 2022, and not making any changes at this time.
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Mayor Jimenez was supportive of arts in Healdsburg but was not ready to support funding a position to support the implementation of the Arts and Culture Master plan.
In response to Council’s inquiries, City Manager Kay provided information on the current proposed funding for the arts in Healdsburg, the timing of hiring a new Recreation Manager and the role of the Recreation Manager in the arts.
Council discussion ensued on staffing in the Community Services Department, moving forward with hiring a Parks Maintenance worker, allocating funds towards community convening to find out what the community would like to see regarding art, agendizing a discussion on the implementation of the Arts and Culture Master Plan and the next steps and increasing the art implementation funding.
There was Council consensus to move forward with a future discussion on the implementation of the Arts and Culture Master Plan, the Enterprise Funds, Internal Service Funds and the Capital Improvement Plan budgets as proposed by staff.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further City Council business to discuss, the special meeting was adjourned at approximately 5:40 p.m.
APPROVED: ATTEST:
_________________________________ __________________________________ Osvaldo Jimenez, Mayor Raina Allan, City Clerk