MINUTES
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 5:00 P.M. Open Session
SPECIAL STUDY SESSION
MARINA CITY COUNCIL
THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD IN PERSON AND VIRTUALLY (HYBRID).
Council Chambers
211 Hillcrest Avenue
Marina, California
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1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL & ESTABLISHMENT OF QUORUM: (City Council, Airport Commissioners, Marina Abrams B Non -Profit Corporation, Preston Park Sustainable Communities Nonprofit Corporation, Successor Agency of the Former Redevelopment Agency Members and Marina Groundwater Sustainability Agency) MEMBERS PRESENT: Brian McCarthy, Kathy Biala, Mayor/Chair Bruce C. Delgado MEMBERS ABSENT: Jennifer McAdams (Excused), Mayor Pro -Tem/Vice Chair Liesbeth Visscher (Excused)
5. MOMENT OF SILENCE & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (Please stand)
6. STUDY SESSION:
a. Receive presentation from Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects regarding proposed new City Facilities and Potential Locations and receive direction from Council.
Public Comments:
• Grace Silva-Santella – Commented on the definitions/terminologies of the community center, Civic Center, City Hall used in the surveys. Important to know the timing to the Marina sports center building structure. Important to know how marina station will be part of this relative to a fire station. Commented on Busby Lane walkability. • Alex Stewart – In favor of keeping Locke Paddon Park as an open space and see’s positives for the other sites. Lives near Locke Paddon and DiMaggio and not in favor of having 114 people walking by his home during a break.
• Jeff Markham – Spoke about consultants compressed their normal time doing this type of analysis and asked what did we as a city give up during that compression ? Asked what a property owner would have to pay on a hypothetical $62.5 Million bond at the current interest rate per assessed value of their home?
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• Jenny McAdams – Speaking as member of the public. Asked is there a 10% to 15% contingency built into the numbers? Need to make sure the funds and the projects are equitable. Fond of the Reservation Road it has multiple uses and public access. Likes the conversion of the Hillcrest into a recreation space. Agrees Locke Paddon should remain as open space.
• Liesbeth Visscher – Speaking as member of the public. E xpress support for the Reservation Road site. Preference for locating the police station next to the future fire station at Cypress Knolls for future growth. Does not think Locke Paddon should be considered for a civic center.
Council Direction:
To conduct more meetings with the council and the public compressed, to come back and flush out some of these scenarios a little bit more and come back with some different iterations by the end of May or the first part of June.
7. ADJOURNMENT: The meeting adjourned at 7:47 PM
Anita Sharp, Deputy City Clerk
ATTEST:
Bruce C. Delgado, Mayor