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Approved May 21, 2024 CCM-2024-05-07 Regular Joint and Closed
MINUTES
Pismo Beach City Council
Pismo Beach Public Financing Agency
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Regular Joint Meeting—5:30 p.m.
Council Chamber, City Hall, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, CA 93449
The City Council and Public Financing Agency of the City of Pismo Beach met this date in a regular session with Mayor/Chair Waage presiding.
CALL TO ORDER: 5:30 p.m.
1. ROLL CALL:
City Council:
Present: Absent:
Mayor Ed Waage None
Mayor Pro Tem Mary Ann Reiss
Council Member Marcia Guthrie
Council Member Stacy Inman
Council Member Scott Newton
Public Financing Agency Board:
Present: Absent:
Chair Ed Waage None
Vice-Chair Mary Ann Reiss
Board Member Marcia Guthrie
Board Member Stacy Inman
Board Member Scott Newton
Staff Present:
Nadia Feeser, Administrative Services Director / Treasurer Scot Graham, Community Development Director
Benjamin Fine, Public Works Director/City Engineer
David Fleishman, City Attorney
Jorge Garcia, City Manager / Executive Director
Erica Inderlied, City Clerk / Secretary
Mike James, Assistant City Manager
Jeff Smith, Chief of Police
Other staff present as noted below
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2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Administrative Services Director Feeser led the Pledge of Allegiance.
3. ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA
No requests to reorder the agenda.
4. PRESENTATIONS
Item 4.A: Proclamation: Recognizing May 2024 as National Foster Care Month (San Luis Obispo County Department of Social Services)
Presented to Leann Eddy, San Luis Obispo County Department of Social Services, and Lilly Green-Williams.
5. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
Call for public comment: No comment.
6. CITY MANAGER’S REPORT
City Manager Garcia commented on various topics.
7. CITY ATTORNEY’S REPORT / CLOSED SESSION REPORT
City Attorney Fleishman commented on various topics.
8. COUNCIL COMMITTEE REPORTS
The Council reported on recent and upcoming meetings of various external bodies:
Council Member Inman:
Pismo Beach Conference and Visitors Bureau (CVB) Board / Lodging Business Improvement District (LBID) Advisory Board.
Council Member Guthrie:
San Luis Obispo County Homeless Services Oversight Council.
Mayor Waage:
Friends of Price House Board.
League of California Cities Coastal Cities Group, Sea Level Rise Working Group.
San Luis Obispo Council of Governments (SLOCOG) Board / Executive Committee.
San Luis Obispo County Community Fire Safe Council.
San Luis Obispo Regional Transit Authority (SLORTA).
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9. CONSENT CALENDAR
Call for public comment: No comment.
Action: Adopt Consent Calendar.
Motion: Newton
Second: Guthrie
Vote: The motion passed on the following vote (Items 9.A through 9.F):
Ayes: 5 Newton, Guthrie, Inman, Reiss, Waage
Noes: 0
Absent: 0
Abstain: 0
Recused: 0
Item 9.A: Adoption of Meeting Minutes (Inderlied)
Recommendation:
Adopt Minutes of the April 16, 2024 Closed and Regular Meeting.
Item 9.B: Payroll Register and Register of Demands (Feeser)
Recommendation:
1. Approve the Summary of Payroll Register for April 7, 2024 and April 21, 2024;
2. Approve the Register of Demands for April 5, 2024 and April 12, 2024.
Item 9.C: Monthly Investment Transaction Report of the City’s Cash and Investments for March 2024 of Fiscal Year 2024 (Feeser)
Recommendation:
No action recommended; for information only.
Item 9.D: Fiscal Year 2024 Third Quarter Financial Status Report (Feeser)
Recommendation:
No action recommended; for information only.
Action: Consensus to direct staff to return at the time of the next mid-year budget adjustment to allow the City Council to consider allocating funding for the Ventana Sports Courts project, if revenues exceed projections, or if expenditures are lower than projected.
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Approved May 21, 2024 CCM-2024-05-07 Regular Joint and Closed Item 9.E: Quarterly Investment Report for the Three Months of January through March 2024 – the Third Quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 (Feeser)
Recommendation:
No action recommended; for information only.
Item 9.F: Approval of the 2022 Paving Project for Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account Funding (SB 1); Making a Determination of Exemption under the
Environmental Quality Act (Feeser)
Recommendation:
Adopt a Resolution approving the 2022 Paving Project for proposed Senate Bill 1 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account funding for Fiscal Year 2025 and making a Determination of Exemption under the California Environmental Quality Act.
Legislative Record: Resolution R-2024-027 adopted.
10. ITEMS PULLED FROM CONSENT
None.
12. BUSINESS ITEMS
This item was reordered.
Item 12.A: SLOCOG Regional Safety Action Plan—Road to Zero (James)
Recommendation:
Receive a presentation from SLOCOG on the Regional Safety Action Plan.
Presenting staff:
Jorge Garcia, City Manager
Guest presenters:
Stephen Hanamaikai, San Luis Obispo Council of Governments
Supplemental material submitted into the record.
Call for public comment: No comment.
Action: No action.
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11. PUBLIC HEARINGS
Item 11.A: City of Pismo Beach and Pismo Beach Public Financing Agency Authorization for Issuance of 2024 Lease Revenue Bonds to Finance the Public Safety Facility Project (Feeser)
Recommendation:
1. Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Pismo Beach making required findings authorizing the execution and delivery of documents relating to the sale and issuance of not to exceed $48,500,000 Pismo Beach Public Financing Agency Series 2024A Lease Revenue Bonds (Public Safety Facility Project) to finance construction of a Public Safety Facility Project and authorizing and directing certain actions in connection therewith;
and
2. Adopt a Resolution of the Pismo Beach Public Financing Agency approving the execution and delivery of documents in connection with the sale and issuance of the Pismo Beach Public Financing Agency Series 2024A Lease Revenue Bonds (Public Safety Facility Project) in a principal amount not to exceed $48,500,000 and authorizing and directing certain actions in connection therewith.
Presenting staff:
Nadia Feeser, Administrative Services Director
Jorge Garcia, City Manager
Supplemental material submitted into the record.
Guest presenters:
Wing-See Fox, Urban Futures
Holly Vocal, BofA Securities
Public Hearing / Call for public comment: No comment.
Action: Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Pismo Beach making required findings authorizing the execution and delivery of documents relating to the sale and issuance of not to exceed $48,500,000 Pismo Beach Public Financing Agency Series 2024A Lease Revenue Bonds (Public Safety Facility Project) to finance construction of a Public Safety Facility Project and authorizing and directing certain actions in connection therewith.
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Approved May 21, 2024 CCM-2024-05-07 Regular Joint and Closed Motion: Reiss
Second: Inman
Vote: The motion passed on the following vote:
Ayes: 5 Reiss, Inman, Guthrie, Newton, Waage
Noes: 0
Absent: 0
Abstain: 0
Recused: 0
Legislative Record: Resolution R-2024-028 adopted.
Action: Adopt a Resolution of the Pismo Beach Public Financing Agency approving the execution and delivery of documents in connection with the sale and issuance of the Pismo Beach Public Financing Agency Series 2024A Lease Revenue Bonds (Public Safety Facility Project) in a principal amount not to exceed $48,500,000 and authorizing and directing certain actions in connection therewith.
Motion: Reiss
Second: Newton
Vote: The motion passed on the following vote:
Ayes: 5 Reiss, Newton, Guthrie, Inman, Waage
Noes: 0
Absent: 0
Abstain: 0
Recused: 0
Legislative Record: Resolution PFA2-R-2024-001 adopted.
12. BUSINESS ITEMS
Item 12.A: SLOCOG Regional Safety Action Plan—Road to Zero (James)
Recommendation:
Receive a presentation from SLOCOG on the Regional Safety Action Plan.
This item was reordered and heard prior to Item 11.A.
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Approved May 21, 2024 CCM-2024-05-07 Regular Joint and Closed Item 12.B: Residential Sidewalk Policy (Fine)
Recommendation:
Provide staff direction and clarification on a residential sidewalk policy.
Presenting staff:
Scot Graham, Community Development Director
Benjamin Fine, Public Works Director/City Engineer
Jorge Garcia, City Manager
Jeff Smith, Chief of Police
Supplemental material submitted into the record.
Call for public comment:
Erich Shaefer commented.
Bill Isaman commented.
Gary Goldhawk commented.
Heidi McIntire commented.
Dana Hunter commented.
Don Kasper commented.
Action: Majority consensus to provide the following direction to staff:
Return with a resolution allowing the City Council to adopt a Residential Sidewalk Development Policy, as follows:
1. Require the development of residential sidewalk in the following cases:
A. New development, or
B. 50%-or-more remodels;
2. Require the development of residential sidewalk in the above cases only if, on a per-block basis, the street frontage on one side of the street has 50% or more existing sidewalk, in which case continued development of sidewalk along the same side of that block will be required;
3. Do not require the development of sidewalk along blufftop streets;
4. Do not require that substandard sidewalks be brought to current standard;
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Approved May 21, 2024 CCM-2024-05-07 Regular Joint and Closed building permits, so that any such project conditioned to construct sidewalk shall be administratively relieved of that requirement;
6. Provide that for any project with a building permit, issued November 1, 2022 or later, the scope of which includes the construction of residential sidewalk, the project applicants may submit revised drawings for plan check to eliminate the sidewalk from the scope of the project;
7. Direct staff to prepare an update to the Shell Beach Design Guidelines that reflects the revised sidewalk policy, as applicable, for the Planning Commission’s consideration;
8. Direct staff to reflect the revised sidewalk policy, as applicable, throughout the current General Plan / Local Coastal Program update.
In support: 5 Guthrie, Inman, Newton, Reiss, Waage
In opposition: 0
Absent: 0
Abstain: 0
Recused: 0
13. CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS AND REQUESTS
No action.
14. ADJOURNMENT
At 7:53 p.m. to the scheduled Closed Session meeting.
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Approved May 21, 2024 CCM-2024-05-07 Regular Joint and Closed Special Closed Session—Immediately Following Regular Meeting City Hall, 760 Mattie Road, Pismo Beach, CA 93449
The City Council of the City of Pismo Beach met this date in a special closed session with Mayor Waage presiding.
CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Waage called the meeting to order at 7:54 p.m.
1. ROLL CALL:
Present: Absent:
Mayor Ed Waage None
Mayor Pro Tem Mary Ann Reiss
Council Member Marcia Guthrie
Council Member Stacy Inman
Council Member Scott Newton
Staff Present:
David Fleishman, City Attorney
Jorge Garcia, City Manager
Mike James, Assistant City Manager
2. ANNOUNCEMENT OF CLOSED SESSION ITEMS
City Attorney Fleishman announced the Closed Session item listed below.
Item 2.A: Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation (Paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Government Code §54956.9) Name of Case: V. Lopez Jr. & Sons General Engineering Contractors, Inc. vs. City of Pismo Beach
San Luis Obispo Superior Court Case No. 20CV-0652
3. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
Call for public comment: No comment.
4. CLOSED SESSION
The Council retired to Closed Session to consider the above items.
5. CLOSED SESSION REPORT
City Attorney Fleishman reported that there was no reportable action was taken on the above item.
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6. ADJOURNMENT
At 8:32 p.m.
APPROVED: ATTEST:
________________________________ ________________________________ Ed Waage, Mayor Erica Inderlied, City Clerk
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