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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 1996-10-09 Mayor Jack Drago Council: Joseph A. Fernekes Eugene R. Mullin --John R. Penna Robert Yee MINU_TE~ City Council Municipal Services Building Community Room October 9, 1996 CALL TO ORDER: (Cassette No. 1) ROLL CALL: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: INVOCATION: PRESENTATIONS CDBG Update - CDBG Coordinator Fragoso Beautification Awards - Commercial Category AGENDA REVIEW City Manager Wilson Requested: - Continue Item No. 9 so modifications may be made to ordinance, have meeting with property owners and bring the ordinance back to Council. - Motion to add fire negotiations to the Closed Session. ACTION TAKEN 7:35 p.m. Mayor Pro Tem Fernekes presiding. Council Present: Mullin, Penna, Yee and Fernekes. Council Absent: Drago. The Pledge was recited. Rev. Neeley, Grand Avenue Baptist Church, gave the invocation. PRESENTATIONS CDBG Coordinator Fragoso gave a slide show on the Home Investment Partnership investment in the downtown area through painting and improving facades of buildings. She stated $750,000 was expended, 20-30 buildings have been completed and property owners have been assisted. She stated the City has leveraged monies from private owners and the Redevelopment Agency is involved with an expenditure of $34 million in the downtown. Beautification Committee Chairwoman Peterson presented the following awards: Commercial Cate- gory - Exxon Corp., 2296 Westhorough; Residential - John and Alice Ghiggia, 105 Cuesta Dr., Mary Rivenbark, 1 Capay Circle and James and Hazel Outlaw, 22 Escanyo Drive. AGENDA REVIEW So ordered. M/S Mullin/Penna - To add fire negotiations to the Closed Session, Item No. 10. Carried by unanimous voice vote. 10/9/96 Page I AGENDA ACTIQN TAKEN ,-,~'~ ORAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNITY FORUM CONSENT CALENDAR 1. Motion to approve Minutes of the Regular Meeting of 9/11/96 and Regular Meeting of 9/25/96. 2. Motion to confirm expense claims of 10/9/96. Motion to approve plans and specifications and au- thorize advertising the Airport Boulevard Storm Drain Improvement Project for construction bids. ,.~tY~'t9 4. Resolution authorizing a capital improvement budget ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Mr. Phil White, Principal of Westborough Middle School, invited everyone to attend Netday II on Saturday, 10/12/96, at El Camino High School, Parkway Heights Middle School, Westborough Mid- dle School, Hillside Elementary School, Junipero Serra Elementary School and Skyline Elementary School. He asked for volunteers to pull wires to attach computers to the web. Dr. Diane Kline, Principal of El Camino High School, also invited everyone to attend and intro- duced Greg Gutierez, one of her brightest students and President of the Student Body. Mr. Greg Gutierez related the following activities at El Camino High School: 9:00-11:00 a.m. complete the pulling of wires; 11:00-12:00 p.m. lunch with a BBQ; 12:30 p.m. ceremony in the library with dignitaries; 1:00 p.m. unveiling the web page; 1:30- 3:00 p.m. will be hands on work on the network. COMMUNITY FORUM Councilman Mullin reminded the audience to attend this weekend's festival at All Souls. Mayor Pro Tem Fernekes stated there will be an urban design study on the BART Station with two community workshops to be held on 10/14/96 and 10/29/96 at the MSB between 7:00-9:00 p.m. He invited everyone to the Italian Cultural Exchange dinner on 11/1/96 at the MSB Social Hall and stated he had tickets to sell, as well as tickets being avail- able at So. City High School. CONSENT CALENDAR Councilman Mullin wanted the word "bill" changed to read "build" on page 7, 4 paragraphs from the bottom, on the minutes of the 9/25/96 meeting. Approved in the amount of $2,107,113.46. Approved. 10/9/96 Page 2 AGENDA ACTION TAKEN CONSENT CALENDAR t. Resolution - Continued. amendment for ADA upgrades for Americans with Disabilities Act Play Area Renovations. A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM BUDGET, CIP NO. 97-4, ADDING FUNDING FOR THE ADA IM- PROVEMENTS FOR PARK PLAY AREAS Resolution authorizing a grant agreement for the Downtown Commercial Rehabilitation Program with CDBG funds for the Bertolucci Building at 600 Lin~_ den Avenue. ,.%0 A RESOLUTION APPROVING A BUDGET PRO- POSAL FOR THE BERTOLUCCI BUILDING AT 600 LINDEN AVENUE AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF GRANT AGREEMENT 6. Motion to approve the concept of the proposed pro- __ gram and budget for the Liberty Hotel at 421 Cypress Avenue. ~Oa~ Motion to approve the concept of the proposed pro- gram and budget for the Liberty Hotel at 421 Cypress Avenue. , LIBLIC HEARINGS /. Public Hearing - Consideration of amending the land use traffic generation for the Oyster Point o~5'//~' CONSENT CALENDAR RESOLUTION NO. 150-96 RESOLUTION NO. 151-96 Removed from the Consent Calendar for discussion by Councilman Mullin. M/S Mullin/Yee - To approve the Consent Calendar with the corrected minutes of 9/25/96 and the ex- ception of Item No. 6. Carried by unanimous voice vote. Councilman Mullin noted this was a deferred loan with a twenty year period and questioned if the loan period could be shorter. CDBG Coordinator Fragoso replied: through Fed- eral regulations it could be any amount, however, twenty years is the life of the redevelopment area, but it could even be for forty years. M/S Mullin/Yee - To approve the concept of the proposed program and budget for the Liberty Hotel at 421 Cypress Avenue. Carried by unanimous voice vote. PUBLIC HEARINGS Mayor Pro Tem Fernekes invited anyone wishing to speak for or against the item to step to the dais, no 10/9/96 Page 3 PUBLIC HEARINGS Public Hearing - Continued. Overcrossing Formula; Public Hearing opened 9/11/96 and continued from two meetings; hear testi- mony, close Public Hearing and adopt resolution. A RESOLUTION ADDING ADDITIONAL LAND USES FOR THE OYSTER POINT GRADE SEPA- RATION CONTRIBUTION FORMULA ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS Se Status report and recommendation from the S.S.F. Conference Center on the San Mateo County Con- vention & Visitors Bureau's funding and supplemental program. .5'~ R TAKE~ PUBLIC HEARINGS one did and he closed the Public Hearing. City Manager Wilson stated the prospective developer of the Shearwater had not come for- ward to discuss this item and he was recommending Council adopt the resolution as drafted. Councilman Yee questioned how the repayment plan was being addressed. City Manager Wilson stated he will come back with a separate amendment for adoption. M/S Yee/Mullin - To adopt the Resolution. RESOLUTION NO. 152-96 Carried by unanimous voice vote. ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS Mayor Pro Tem Fernekes asked that the item be continued to the next meeting for action to be taken, after the staff report was given, so that the full Council can be present. He talked to Mayor Drago and he wants to be present when the Council acts on funding for the Bureau, as well as on this item. Conference Center Authority Executive Director O'Toole stated Chairman Jones was also present for the presentation and recommendation of the Author- ity for consideration by Council. She related: the process leading up to the recom- mendation began when Councilman/Authority Mem- ber Penna explained the circumstances regarding the Bureau's funding by the County of San Mateo; the Councilman also reviewed S.S.F.'s funding level to the Bureau and the return on the City's investment; the Authority requested its hospitality industry mem- bers to review with the S.S.F. Hotel Assoc. the effectiveness of the Bureau's programs in S.S.F. and recommendations to improve the benefits; the Au- thority recommends a second program in the event the Council is going to reduce funding to the Bu- reau; the second program would provide a mecha- nism to supplement the sales and marketing pro- grams of S.S.F.'s hotels and Conference Center through generation of workable, corporate market 10/9/96 Page 4 TAKEN ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS Status report - Continued. 10/9/96 Page 5 ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS leads only for S.S.F. and with a promotional oppor- tunity for the hotels through Web Site advertising; the Authority recommends Council continue the membership at some level for there is some value in the leads the Bureau provides; the program is to hire a leads generator, Pat Berg of Conference Resourc- es, for corporate market business as an independent contractor; a one or two year program would supply statistics to evaluate leads from the County and leads from Pat Berg; the second part of the program involves designing specific hotel pages as part of the Conference Center's Web Site construction and they are working with Total Video/Total Net in the de- sign of its Web Site with complete information on the Center's meeting spaces, services and prices; there will be an individual page for the 10 conven- tion hotels with more detailed information also being recommended; cost of the program is $32,300, leads generator $22,200, one time start-up marketing research $600, expenses/contingency $3,000 and detailed hotel Web pages - 10 @ $650 cost $6,500; doing this for two years would give specifics on the two sources of leads and their benefits to the City. Discussion followed: Councilman Mullin asked if the $26,000 was contingent on the reduction of funding to the Bureau, so if we continue at the $113,000, then the Director would withdraw her recommendation for that position; Executive Direc- tor O'Toole replied in the affirmative and apologized for that information not being in the staff report; only $55,000 in T.O.T. can be traced to the Bureau's leads and at the same time the City paid $290,000; this City has made greater contributions than any other city; Councilman Yee questioned, if this second program has merit why didn't the Con- ference Center come forward with it irrespective of funding to the Bureau; the request came because if the Council was going to spend money it should be directed to something returning more benefits to the City; this recommendation came from the Subcom- mittee and the Hotel Association for money the Council had already allocated; Councilman Yee stated, politically, this is taking from Peter to pay Paul, because if you have a project that is justified then do it; Councilman Mullin asked, shouldn't the hotels pick up the $6,500 expense for the Web pages, for the hotels get the greater benefit; the hotels are parts of franchises and the Corporate AGENDA ACTION TAKEN ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS Status report - Continued. 10/9/96 Page 6 ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS Headquarters will not pay for a single location; the Web page is being correlated with the Chamber's; the benefits of having a Web page; the Conference Center will be paying for their own Web site page; Councilman Mullin agreed with Councilman Yee, if it has merit, let's do it regardless of the Bureau's funding; Mayor Pro Tem Fernekes stated that will be coming forward at the next meeting, as well as looking at the quarterly funding for the Bureau; the Bureau's funding is normally done quarterly, but staff does not have the funding yet, however, the full amount was allocated and that is why the report is being done tonight; the two items will be agend- ized for the next meeting. Councilman Penna reported on a retreat he had attended on Tuesday; it was from 8:00-12:00 p.m.; 26 Bureau members were present which included Executive Director O'Toole; there was discussion of the S.S.F. benefits received from the Bureau vs. the dollars spent and the reduction of funds from the County; this City has been contributing to the Bu- reau for the last 25 years, was one of the original signers and has contributed $2 million which is more than any other city; at the time we joined the Bureau we had the bulk of the hotel rooms and the T.O.T. worked well for a time; this City has been consis- tently questioning looking at the number of rooms booked through the Bureau and the resultant T.O.T. which seems to be less than 1% of the T.O.T. we receive and yet, we are giving the Bureau $111,000; the Bureau has to come up with a better marketing program to have this City continue its funding; Millbrae and San Mateo only contribute $50,000 a year; during the retreat they suddenly realized they could measure the results and the Facilitator was clever to turn things around so they will do more promotional work for the County and 24 members said they could focus on tourism which makes it more difficult to measure the results of the work; next they tried to get the Bureau to talk about fund- ing to pay for the tourism work and they decided they didn't want to talk about it; they left us still asking how they substantiated the funding and they said don't ask, keep contributing. Conference Center Chairman Jones stated it was not the Authority's intention to come and ask for mon- ey, but if the Council is going to throw the money AfiENDA ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS Status report - Continued. LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS Motion to waive reading and introduce an ordinance on nuisance abatement and report on Willow Gardens - continued from the 9/11/96 and 9/25/96 meetings. AN ORDINANCE ADDING CHAPTER 8.26 TO THE SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO ABATEMENT OF NEIGH- BORHOOD NUISANCES FEMS FROM COUNCIL ACTION TAKEN ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS away, then it would be better to go in a different direction and we would get more money coming in. He thanked Councilman Penna for his efforts in bringing this to a head. He stated the Conference Center is not in trouble, they have not been in the red since the Center opened. The Center supports itself on its own. Councilman Penna stated he pointed out to the Bu- reau that this City's contributions come from the General Fund, because that is where T.O.T. lodges. His point is that all cities would be hard pressed to explain how they contribute funds to a Bureau that refuses to tell us how they can increase our business and show us their efficiency when those funds can be used for the seniors or for salaries or whatever. One Councilmember is on record saying, we con- tribute, but not that much because we don't get that much out of it. The Bureau should be made to respond like any other marketing program is made to respond. Mr. Cal Post felt it was very logical what the Di- rector was asking, Councilman Yee and Mullin brought up good points, however, through the Web people coming to the Center will have sufficient information before getting here. Councilman Mullin noted that the 14 page Bureau Visitor's Guide of Bay Area attractions does not mention S.S.F. LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS City Manager Wilson asked that the item be contin- ued off-calendar to allow him to meet with the affected folks. M/S Mullin/Penna - To continue the item off-cal- endar. Carried by unanimous voice vote. ITEMS FROM COUNCIL No one chose to speak. 10/9/96 Page 7 GOOD AND WELFARE CLOSED SESSION 10. Closed session pursuant to GC54956.9(c), initiation of litigation - one case and (as added under Agenda Review) negotiations with the firefighters. RECALL TO ORDER: 11. Motion to adjourn the meeting to Tuesday, 10/22/96, 7:00 p.m., City Council Conference Room, City Hall, 400 Grand Avenue, for a study session to dis- cuss: Scavenger Recycling Program, preferred resi- dency for employees and a Closed Session pursuant to GC 54957.6, to meet with its designated representa- tives - City Manager, Interim Director of Personnel and City Attorney on labor relations for the Station- ary Engineers (changed from firefighters under Agen- da Review). ,DJOURNMENT: GOOD AND WELFARE No one chose to speak. CLOSED SESSION Council adjourned to a Closed Session at 8:55 p.m. Mayor Pro Tern Fernekes recalled the meeting to order at 9:43 p.m., all Council was present, no action was taken and direction was given. M/S Mullin/Yee - To adjourn the meeting to Tues- day, 10/22/96, 7:00 p.m., City Council Conference Room, City Hall for the above mentioned agenda item. Carried by unanimous voice vote. Time of adjournment was 9:44 p.m. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, APPROVED. Jack Dr~ ~City of South San Francisco Barbara A. Battaya, City Clerk ~ / City of South San Francisco The entries of this Council meeting show the action taken by the City Council to dispose of an item. Oral communica- tions, arguments and comments are recorded on tape. The tape and documents related to the items are on file in the Office of the City Clerk and are available for inspection, review and copying. 10/9/96 Page 8