Date Posted: 11/10/2022
REGULAR MEETING of the Larkspur City Council
Wednesday, November 16, 2022: 6:30 p.m.
Larkspur City Council Chambers
400 Magnolia Avenue, Larkspur, CA
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Scot Candell
Kevin Haroff
Dan Hillmer, Mayor
Gabe Paulson, Vice Mayor
Catherine Way
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REGULAR MEETING 6:30 P.M.
1. ROLL CALL & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
2. PUBLIC COMMENT (Only for matters not listed on the agenda) This is the time for members of the public to address the City Council regarding items that are not on the agenda or that are listed as part of the Consent Calendar. Please approach the podium, and state your name and city (optional). Individuals have 3 minutes to speak; 5 minutes if representing a group. The Council is not permitted to take action on matters that are not on the agenda. It may engage in limited discussion, refer the matter to staff, or direct staff to place a matter on a future agenda. It may also add a matter to the agenda if it can be demonstrated to be of an emergency nature or the matter came to the City’s attention after the posting of the agenda and requires immediate action. (Gov. Code §54954.2)
• Public Comment – Fox
• Public Comment – Williams and Rawlings
3. PRESENTATIONS/PROCLAMATIONS
None
4. APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR
All matters listed on the Consent Calendar are considered to be routine and will be enacted by a single vote of the Council. There will be no separate discussion unless specific items are removed from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion and action. Any Councilmember may remove an item from the Consent Calendar and place it under Business for discussion.
4.1 Approve warrants.
4.2 Approve minutes of the November 2, 2022, regular meeting.
4.3 Adopt Resolution 82/22 changing the regular meeting time for the December 7, 2022, meeting of the Larkspur City Council.
4.4 First reading of a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Larkspur and the Larkspur Miscellaneous Employees Association (LMEA), the Outline of Salaries and Benefits for the Management Unit of Employees, and the City Manager’s Employment Agreement.
• Corrected LMEA MOU Pay Rates for July 2023 – June 2026
5. CITY MANAGER’S ORAL REPORT
6. COUNCILMEMBERS’ ORAL REPORTS AND COMMENTS
7. PUBLIC HEARINGS
7.1 MARIN SANITARY SERVICE RATES FOR GARBAGE AND RECYCLING COLLECTION FOR 2023
Council to conduct the public hearing and adopt Resolution 83/22 approving the rates for garbage and recycling collection.
• Presentation
7.2 REMOVAL OF THE CROSSWALK ON THE NORTHSIDE OF THE MAGNOLIA
AVENUE AND CREEKSIDE DRIVE INTERSECTION
Council to conduct the public hearing and adopt Resolution 84/22 authorizing removal of the Magnolia Avenue & Creekside Drive intersection crosswalk.
8. BUSINESS ITEMS
8.1 INTRODUCE AND WAIVE FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE 1062 AMENDING SECTIONS OF TITLE 15 OF THE LARKSPUR MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT BY REFERENCE AND AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE 2022 EDITION OF THE CALIFORNIA BUILDING STANDARDS CODE, TITLE 24, CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS; CHANGING ALL GENDER SPECIFIC PRONOUNS IN THE MUNICIPAL CODE TO USE THE SINGULAR “THEY” AND ITS OTHER GRAMMATICAL FORMS AND REPLACING REFERENCES TO “PLANNING DIRECTOR” WITH “COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR”; REDUCING
THE CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS DIVERSION
REQUIREMENTS IN SECTION 15.26.050 TO 65% TO BE CONSISTENT WITH CALGREEN AND MODIFYING SECTION 15.26.040 TO ALLOW
CERTIFICATION OF FACILITIES THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THAT REQUIREMENT; RENAMING CHAPTER 15.28 “HOUSE NUMBERING” TO “ADDRESSES” AND INCORPORATING NEW REGULATIONS FOR
ADDRESSING; AND ADOPTING NEW CHAPTER 15.56 WITH
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROGRAM REGULATIONS ON GATE SAFEGUARDS Council to consider introducing, waiving first reading, and setting a date for a public hearing for the adoption of Ordinance 1062.
• Public Comment – Kerr
• Public Comment – Hermann
• Public Comment – Mann
8.2 INTRODUCE AND WAIVE FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE 1063 REPEALING AND RE-ENACTING CHAPTER 14.04, ADOPTING THE 2022 CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE AND APPENDIX A OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL WILDLAND-URBAN
INTERFACE CODE WITH AMENDMENTS SUPPORTED BY LOCAL FINDINGS
AND SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR ADOPTION OF THE ORDINANCE Council to consider introducing, waiving first reading, and setting a date for a public hearing for the adoption of Ordinance 1063.
8.3 UPDATE ON THE COMMONS PROJECT
Staff to provide a presentation about the status of the project to move the library to a new building at the Commons – the City’s parcel at Rose Lane and Doherty Drive.
• Presentation
• Public Comment – Allecta
8.4 OPTIONS FOR LOCATION OF CITY OFFICES
Council to review a feasibility matrix and discuss options for the future location of City administrative offices.
• Public Comment – Gesmer
• Public Comment – Allecta
9. ADJOURN
Regular Meeting of December 7, 2022
NOTICE IS HERE BY GIVEN: If you challenge any item on this agenda in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing herein described, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk at, or prior to, the public hearing. [G.C. § 65009 (b) (2)]
In the interest of time, the City Council has established time limits. Public Hearings: applicants and /or appellants shall make their presentations within 10 minutes and will be allowed a 3-minute summation period. Public participation shall be limited to 3 minutes per speaker per topic. These time limits may be waived by a majority vote of the City Council. [G.C. § 54954.3].
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