PREPARED BY: Katy Nomura
Assistant Town Manager
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● (408) 354-6832 www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
MEETING DATE: 05/07/2024
ITEM NO: 13
ADDENDUM
DATE: May 6, 2024
TO: Mayor and Town Council
FROM: Laurel Prevetti, Town Manager
SUBJECT: Review Polling Results, Authorize the Town Manager to Execute an Amendment to the NBS Agreement to Include Phase 2 in the Scope of Services to Prepare a 1/8th Cent Sales Tax Measure for the November 2024 Ballot and Increase the Not to Exceed Amount to $105,000, and Authorize an Expenditure Budget Adjustment in an Amount of $60,400 from the Available General Fund Capital/Special Projects Reserve
REMARKS:
Attachment 2 contains public comment received after 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 3, 2024, and before 11:00 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2024.
Attachment previously received with the staff report:
1. Draft Amendment to NBS Agreement
Attachment received with this Addendum:
2. Public comment received after 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 3, 2024, and before 11:00 a.m.
Monday, May 6, 2024.
From: Phil Koen
To: Mary Badame; Matthew Hudes; Rob Rennie; Maria Ristow; Rob Moore Cc: Linda Reiners; Gitta Ungvari; Laurel Prevetti; Ashby Monk; Andrew Howard; Joseph Rodgers; Gabrielle Whelan; Wendy Wood
Subject: Agenda Item #13
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2024 8:29:08 AM
Attachments: Doc - May 5 2024 - 7-50 AM.pdf
Doc - May 5 2024 - 7-50 AM.pdf
[EXTERNAL SENDER]
Dear Honorable Mayor,
The Staff report for Agenda Item #13 – Review Polling
Results stated the Finance Commission had the option to consider the polling results prior to Council consideration.
The Vice Chair and I were first made aware of this option on Tuesday April 30.
Given the Finance Commission is under a tight timeline to make a recommendation to the Town Council regarding
the FY 2025 budget and there is considerable work still outstanding, the Vice Chair and I made the decision it was more important to focus our time on gaining a complete
understanding of the operating and capital improvement
budgets. To be clear, the Finance Commission has many
unanswered questions and is struggling to fully make
sense of the draft budget.
Furthermore, since this was an offer to review polling
results which the Council had decided to undertake, we
did not believe any input from the Finance Commission
ATTACHMENT 2
was needed. The polling results are the results.
We did however inform Staff that if the Town Council wants to explore a tax increase based on the polling results, the Finance Commission should take that matter up.
I have attached the email correspondence between Staff
and me on this matter.
I also note that as of this email, the polling results are not available online for anyone to review. The Staff report states that the results will not be made available prior to the Town Council meeting.
It is curious to me that if Staff was offering to make the polling results available to the Finance Commission for its meeting on May 6, why not make the results available to everyone prior to the Town Council meeting so residents would be able to offer input and comments.
Thank you for the opportunity to clarify this matter.
Phil Koen
Chair of the Finance Commission