HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 1997-04-03 Mayor Joseph A. Fernekes
Council:
James L. Datzman
Eugene R. Mullin
..... tohn R. Penna
Robert Yee
MINUTES '~ -
City Council
Municipal Services Building
Community Room
April 3, 1997
273
AGENDA
ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING
CALL TO ORDER: (Cassette No. 1)
ROLL CALL:
1. McLellan Nursery property/Greystone Development
Project and Alta Loma Park (triangle). ..~'t9 ~
ACTION TAKEN
ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING
6:02 p.m. Mayor Fernekes presiding.
Council Present:
Council Absent:
Datzman, Mullin, Penna, Yee and
Fernekes.
None.
Director of Economic & Community Development
Van Duyn related: he and the Director of Parks,
Recreation & Community Services will present
overviews on the proposed residential development
and Alta Loma park; this is to acquaint the Council
with the project before it goes to the Planning Com-
mission, for the Council is the authority for land use
entitlement in a redevelopment area; the site consists
of approximately 31 acres in an irregular shape just
south of Hickey Blvd. and across from the proposed
BART station; the proposal will consist of three
neighborhoods - Grove - 116 detached homes,
Meadows - 63 detached homes, and below market
rate rentals - 33 units; the project nets out at 29
acres; the development is located adjacent to the
10.8 acre park site owned by the City which was
bought from the School District which continues to
operate the adjacent Alta Loma Middle School; the
applicant has given the Council reduced copies of
the site plans of the actual park and improvements;
this is being brought forward because staff wants the
applicant and staff to conduct neighborhood meet-
ings after the Council is fully briefed on the devel-
opment and park; because it is in a redevelopment
area there must be 15% of the units set aside for
low income people which will consist of 33 below-
market rate rental units developed by Mid-Peninsula
Housing Coalition along E1 Camino Real that will
have separate access and run 900 to 1,500 sq. ft.;
lot sizes will be 3200 sq. ft. and the homes run from
1500 to 1800 sq. ft. on 5,000 sq. ft. lots; a spine
will provide access to a small lparking lot that
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will terminate at the park itself, but it cannot be
used with the subdivision to the north; etc.
Director of Parks, Recreation & Community Ser-
vices Nagel exhibited a conceptual drawing that was
developed last year, even before Greystone, for they
knew the property would be developed and staff
wanted to have a plan in place if a developer came
forward; this was part of the acquisition of the
School District property under the Naylor Act with
the Avalon property and it was packaged for 25 % of
fair market value; staff has proposed two ballfields,
so the teams can play back to back; it will be a
multi-purpose park with picnic tables, play areas and
basketball courts; staff's concern is access, for the
main point of access is Camaritas and staff wants
surveillance throughout the entire site; they put in a
parking lot, for parking is always an issue on certain
days and there will be access to Alta Loma School
for an overflow of parking; there is enough room
for soccer to be played; there is existing residential
in the area and staff does not know how they will
react to this; there will be security lights, but not
night lights to play, so people are not playing bas-
ketball to the early hours of the morning or hanging
around loitering; etc.
Discussion followed: why not have one tennis court
and one basketball court; there can be problems in
one neighborhood with the loitering and not in
another; there is a problem in a neighborhood with
late night playing and swearing; Director of Eco-
nomic & Community Development Van Duyn stated
the developer is willing to build the park and will
pay for the construction as part of the overall devel-
opment; Councilman Datzman noted the street is to
be called McLellan and is envisioned as a private
street; he questioned the width of the street,
how it would compare with the other streets and
would it be privately maintained; it would be pri-
vately maintained with sidewalks only on one side,
but if that was altered then the number of units
would be reduced; Councilman Penna stated it
would affect the lot size, but not the number of
units; Councilman Yee expressed his concerns on a
prior development on private streets vs. public
streets to Council; he does not have any data as far
as what kind of potential problems there will be for
the homeowners to be responsible for the public
improvements to maintain the main street; he won-
dered why a public street has to be a particular
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1. McLellan Nursery property - Continued.
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standard, yet if you deviate from that standard it
becomes private; if Council allows this neighbor-
hood to be a private street, in the future you are
going to have a problem because if they are under
taxed they will have a problem with the maintenance
costs which have not been discussed; it was brought
up by the engineers, but not discussed; it will
meet construction standards whether it is for private
use or not which includes the trade-offs on a portion
of the project; Councilman Yee also has a problem
with sidewalks on one side only, and he is not sure
the Council, as the decision makers, should accept
that if that is all we can get in this development;
Vice Mayor Mullin concurred with Councilman Yee
that it seems substandard historically in the City,
because of the size of the lot and a big house, the
standard street width of 36 feet is a small right-of-
way; he wanted a brief explanation of the City
acquiring the park as it is right now; he talked to
Barry about this earlier on whether consideration
was given to a JPA with the School District of
sharing the site they have right now; he talked to a
number of people with respect to the City taking this
parcel through the Naylor Act and is looking for the
genesis and how we got to where we are.
Director of Parks, Recreation & Community Ser-
vices Nagel related: this goes back a number of
years and none of this Council was on at that time;
there was a proposal for several ballfield sites, there
were public meetings and lots of interest for a
ballfield complex and to pool all the resources for
many ages through the peewees; from that point
forward there was the master plan and it became a
top priority to acquire this under the Naylor Act and
develop it; so, this was phase 1, and maybe we
could get a joint thing with the School District
and make a interconnect during school to utilize all
of this and you would have a very large complex; so
Council said let's let El Rancho go and put our ener-
gies up here and add a ballfield.
Mayor Fernekes stated it was brought up in one of
the joint meetings with the School Liaison to extend
the idea of the park and have it all developed and
share it, for there is no real park in that area. So,
the master plan called for acquiring that space.
Mr. Jim Keegan, 1244 Crestwood Dr., stated what
Barry described of the complex was contemplated,
but it was not on the Alta Loma site. He stated the
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1. McLellan Nursery property - Continued.
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proposal was made for the complex on the existing
Alta Loma green space at the time you were talking
about the School District, and the Council locked
into negotiations on the Alta Loma triangle. They
wanted to sell it and the stumble was the City part at
the end of Camaritas. There were several sugges-
tions to swap the property with the City. One
of the suggestions was to swap a piece of property at
El Rancho, but the different size didn't make sense
and it was the worst of times to sell land. So,
that is not the picture he remembered and he was
deeply involved in it.
What we are talking about is a neighborhood park,
and you are putting it into a ten acre site, and then
extending it to the school property. Where is there
a neighborhood park that is twelve acres. What he
thinks has happened here, there are two cases of ill
luck - the School District is a loser as is the City.
This was purchased for a steal, it was under ap-
praised because the School District just got through
selling six acres of the green space for access and
they got $46,200,000, that is $200,000 an acre.
The School District sold it for primary residential
land. He reiterated his concerns that the City and
the School District lost on the deal but, if the land
was put together as the School District was trying to
do twelve years ago - if it was done today, there is
no reason to assume they would not get $700,000 an
acre and the City owned 1.3 acres of that. So, if
the City put it on rewind and started again, then
today it would be worth almost a million dollars.
The alternative to that, and we have talked about the
park, recreation and open space in the Master Plan
that was put out on Orange Park - that it was a
priority. What you are seeing was supposed to be at
Orange Park and it was in four phases, some of the
money that was floating around could satisfy those
phases in this plan they are talking about by
Callendar & Assoc. What he is suggesting now is
do what Callendar said should go into that area and
you put this on rewind and start over and the School
District gets back money and gives it to the City and
the School District would be richer and needs the
money. He stated there could be a neighborhood
park and a joint powers agreement that could be put
on the existing green space for less.
He related: under the Quimby Act he has to build it
over donated land; we went through that with
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1. McLellan Nursery property - Continued.
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Terrabay, but he didn't give us anything; with the
Quimby Act we can still do the other park; we paid
for the Plan and should do the things Callendar
suggested for the park and recreation system; he
urged the Council to agendize the matter.
Director of Parks, Recreation & Community Ser-
vices Nagel related, at the request of Councilman
Datzman: what the School District and the Council
were discussing twelve years ago was they would
put the two pieces of property together and divide
up the proceeds; the School District wanted the
property developed; the property was sold for
$700,000+ an acre.
Discussion followed: Councilman Penna is not
happy with only one entrance and exit and backyards
fronting up to the street; he would rather see
Camaritas opened up to that area and have the
homes turned around and see a better flow of traffic
into Camaritas; he said the biggest thing is the seg-
regated housing with the Mid-Peninsula site and
would prefer a more integrated plan; Vice Mayor
Mullin stated he is an employee of the School Dis-
trict and thought it inappropriate for him to suggest
a Subcommittee; it was in his mind all day to call
the City Attorney because the School District would
be the direct benefit if a change occurred; this may
not be a conflict of interest, but he wanted the City
Attorney to rule on it; City Attorney stated he did
not believe there would be a problem, but he would
concur, Vice Mayor Mullin could not because this is
a work session; Mayor Fernekes stated he and
Councilwoman Teglia were the Subcommittee that
looked at this issue to proceed, develop the park and
work with the park so it would be one consecutive
park; the Subcommittee talked about appraisals when
the Alta Loma triangle was purchased, but over the
years the value of the properties has gone up; there
were legally binding appraisals and it was not stolen,
but bought at that value; Council does have a Sub-
committee that meets with the School District and
has talked about it; the Mayor likes the concept
with the ten acres and if it is sold we don't have ten
acres and the use of the Naylor Act; the City tries
not to sell property and pay for it twice and it is
supposed to be used for recreational purposes and
was given to the City for recreation; the Mayor
remembers talking about this as a School Board
Member, that the property was to be used for that
purpose or it goes back; when we first talked about
AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
1.._~. McLellan Nursery property - Continued.
2__:. Fire consolidation study.
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it the land was landlocked and we talked about pur-
chasing a piece on DelMonte so the road could go
through, because the property was landlocked be-
cause one piece was owned by the City and that was
the process; the Mayor remembers it well, because
he was on the Board at that time; the park site is the
same size as Buri Buri Park and the City can get
another ballfield; Mr. Keegan disagreed with the
Mayor and asked the City Attorney to research the
purchase of the 1.3 acre site from Mr. Botieff for a
park, for if it was not used for a park it was to be
given back to him for that was part of the deal; the
City Attorney looked into it and came back to the
ruling that was not true, there is nothing in the
agreement that it had to go back and in his opinion
the money could be used anywhere; any type of
money like that with the Quimby Act can be used
anywhere; Mayor Fernekes directed the City Attor-
ney to look into that; there are engineering concerns
on topography, some of which have been worked
out and others are still being argued and they have
problems with the single loaded streets; the appli-
cants are present and sensitive to Council sugges-
tions; Director of Economic & Community Devel-
opment Van Duyn reiterated, this came to Council
not for great detail, but to familiarize them with the
project and let them know of the opportunity to
build a park and have exposure to the site; Mr.
Keegan asked the City Attorney to investigate one
more item in reference to the Botieff deed, if the
City and School District resold the two properties
together, then the money could be used elsewhere in
the City; Mayor Fernekes pointed out that in-lieu
fees have to stay in that area, however this is not
the item on the agenda; City Attorney Mattas stated
he noted Mr. Keegan's comments, it is on the re-
cord and he will get back to the Council; Ms. Jan
Smith, School District, stated negotiations were done
in good faith and property values have increased
greatly, however, the City jointly got the appraisals
and jointly accepted that; they were disappointed and
the real choice is how you sell it; the School District
was able lately to sell property at a higher rate and
she wanted it a matter of record, it was in good faith
and there was a process.
Fire Chief Stark stated the purpose of the agenda
item: feasibility of merging the management teams
of the four fire departments into a single shared
resource organization; a brief slide show; the part-
nership will consist of Brisbane, Daly City, Pacifica
AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
2. Fire consolidation study - Continued.
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and So. San Francisco; Colma has not expressed an
interest and the same is true for San Bruno; Colma
has a volunteer fire department and San Bruno's fire
department is fully paid; he described fire personnel
vs. population and the number of fire stations in the
various cities; the concept is to combine the man-
agement team, eliminate fire chiefs and consolidate
dispatching to result in enhanced services and a
reinvestment of savings back into the system; there
appears to be political interest on each Council and a
need for more information; a subcommittee was
formed with two Councilmembers from each City,
the four City Managers and four Fire Chiefs who
met on January 23rd; the group separated into two
subcommittees and had many meeting which resulted
in a draft JPA, bylaws and a draft budget; they
developed a set of goals and responsibilities for the
team; the removal of the fire chiefs would come
from attrition and a phase in approach and recom-
mend that the four dispatching centers become one
and S.S.F. was the most logical site; they developed
standard operating procedures and boundaries and
the drawbacks to doing it; the benefits are reduced
costs, overtime and removing higher paid levels and
creating down the ladder the carrying out of the
support functions necessary for such an operation;
the JPA structure insures local control through the
document itself, for it delegates, limits authority and
the budget process would assure local control as
would local participation from each city.
Discussion followed: how can you have a JPA and
have local control; the only part of the operations
that would be a single entity is the management team
that would do the MOUs, but in the administration
level nothing would change; each city would be
responsible for the budget and service levels it wants
to provide in the boundaries; Mayor Fernekes had
the same concerns over lack of local control; it is
almost like a United Nations Security Council;
certain cities have very little assets and other cities
like us have greater assets, so there shouldn't be the
same vote; the bulk of the fire dept. budget would
be retained under the direct authority of the Council
because all those assets are for the service of that
community; Councilman Penna is bothered, because
we have a good paramedic program and was bother
by how this would be affected by the shared re-
sources, as well as the full service training; not
every city has the broad spectrum of skills this city
has; the Fire Chief stated the cities would share the
AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
2. Fire consolidation study - Continued.
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cost of training and perhaps consolidation of dis-
patching and other services could be looked at even
if this city does not pursue this; Pacifica plans to
close their station on the earthquake fault which will
affect our responses; this would be shared by S.S.F.
and Daly City; would we be servicing a greater area
with less people; everyone now has mutual response;
the next level is agreement from the local line level;
eliminating the upper levels and creating middle
management to handle the logistics and provide
growth opportunities for people to learn and move
up in the organization; the downside is a lack of
labor support and that goes across all of the fire
department tiers, mid-management and the other is
the wide spectrum of service levels throughout the
north County; S.S.F. clearly provides the highest
level of service and Daly City is closest, but not the
same and the others are below; he realizes enhance-
ment, management opportunities create a more effic-
ient organization; this could create a marketing
problem in moving forward and the other thing is
there is the significant distrust issue of the political
and management levels throughout all levels of the
organization of the Fire Fighters Union which the
Fire Chief thinks insurmountable; last year the other
cities avoided the issue because it was an election
year and from the labor units there are MOUs and
all are concerned on how this would affect their
salaries and benefits; even though now there is an
opportunity that won't exist for long, it is a real
issue for the other cities and there is a real fear of
moving forward quickly to satisfy their timing con-
cerns and not thinking this through; Fire Chief is
looking for direction to proceed or deny or pursue
other avenues.
Councilman Datzman noted the agenda item read,
fire consolidation study, and if you look at the items
from the four cities it is different, which says a lot
to him all by itself - in terms of where this thing
started and where it ended up, and why it started
occurring. But, it wasn't long before there was
evidence of concern so, the idea of a shared re-
source concept was one that was accepted, but when
you talk about a full consolidation in terms of Colma
and San Bruno, well, he thought they would go
ahead and invite them in later.
Discussion followed: Councilman Datzman ques-
tioned Daly City having less personnel than S.S.F.
when they are twice our size; the service level dif
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2. Fire consolidation study - Continued.
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ference, a good portion of that is in the cost of the
paramedic program, plus the Chief and includes the
Building Division and Code Enforcement in the
count which is not included in Daly City's count;
paramedic program generated $46,000 in revenue
and the Building Division is revenue generating;
Daly City does not provide a paramedic program;
City Manager Wilson said this came to Council at
their request for more information to determine how
it will impact this City, do you want to be a player
and an active participant or is there any part you
want to be a player in; Councilman Datzman stated
this would not be the first time that time was spent
and Council found it doesn't go anywhere, but there
was some confusion about the political will and its
strength; he did not want to spend months on the
item only to find out we have spent a lot of time
spinning our wheels and he does not want to alter
local control; Councilman Yee stated the whole
concept is to save money and you can use the dol-
lars and are we giving up control - if the Subcom-
mittee is not comfortable, then we should not talk
about it; Councilman Datzman was confused because
he asked if it was to save money and they said no
we can use that; Mayor Fernekes agreed, they said
the money could be used in the future; his concern
is also local control and felt uncomfortable to put it
into a JPA; S.S.F. enjoys having a very good Fire
Department and you start comparing apples to apples
on this item and we have our ambulances and para-
medics and response time that far exceeds other
cities; he strongly wants to look at maybe joint
dispatching that doesn't have to be a JPA; he
feels we have an excellent department and he does
not want it to go down in any way for our ambu-
lance and paramedic program were here long before
the County started with the Baystar ambulance ser-
vice and 201 legislation; the 201 rights rest with
the City that provided the service and joining the
JPA would not impair that right, but would not
confer that right on the other entities; Mayor
Fernekes, as one member of the organization, rec-
ommended the City withdraw and devote our atten-
tion to our own issues, for they had already spent
many hours on this; Councilman Penna did not
disagree and said maybe they could contract with
other departments as we were prepared to do with
Brisbane; Mayor Fernekes stated he was only refer-
ring to the JPA and the consolidation of the four
cities departments; he and Councilman Datzman
talked of four fire departments consolidating -
AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
2. Fire consolidation study - Continued.
3. BART comprehensive agreement.
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which he opposes; Councilman Penna still did not
disagree with that, but if it were to happen it should
be with Brisbane as they are the only other industrial
city for the others are residential; Mr. Keegan asked
if the one Chief would make more than the four he
was replacing and/or would those four become
deputies; Fire Chief Stark stated the four would
retire, there would be a savings in salary and bene-
fits and no one would replace them; Mr. Keegan
pointed out the good relationship this community has
with its Fire Dept. because most know the firemen
and grew up with them, however, the Police Dept.
is different; Mayor Fernekes was looking at the
service level to this community and that is why he is
opposed; Councilmember Datzman stated it was
pretty clear at the last meeting that this city would
be doing the other cities a favor and they could not
proceed without us, if you want to talk about shared
resources, but the idea of consolidating is not in our
interests and we have to say that; that is correct, for
we have a Subcommittee to look at this in depth and
it looks like they spent a lot of time and he con-
curred; Councilman Penna concurred; Councilman
Yee stated it was whatever was decided; Mayor
Fernekes asked the City Manager to forward the
decision to the cities; etc.
Senior Planner Kalkin related: the construction
impacts will be a big impact on City facilities;
BART has assured us it will be in a subway buffer
and will be in the agreement; the City wants to be
assured it will have adequate time to review the con-
tract and be reimbursed by BART; on the first go
around staff was given a box of documents and
drawings; staff wants to be sure that any facilities
that are damaged are reconstructed; it wants assur-
ance that parking impacts will be mitigated once the
project is up and running; that they will provide the
bike trail; give us the specifics of construction,
closing of streets, the noise impacts and we have
two schools that are special zones that the City has
concern for those uses; the City is concerned about
the dust factor for there are a log of houses along
that line that will be affected; that the station guide-
lines will be used by the station architect and we
will still have approval of the station and other
issues are covered in the document; and she is look-
ing for further comments from the Council.
City Attorney Mattas related that he and the Senior
Planner had meetings with the Manager and raised
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3. BART comprehensive agreement.
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particular concerns which the Manager shared and
the document was changed, but the changes were
minor.
Councilman Penna related: he is opposed to BART
going to the Airport and will vote no; at the last
meeting he acted wrongly and the Mayor told him
he was out of order and he apologized to the Mayor
and the City Council for his actions were inappro-
priate.
City Attorney Mattas related further changes to the
summary: it would pertain to not only would the
City have the specific right for plan checkers, but
they can also have contract checkers that BART
would have to reimburse.
Councilmember Yee listed some of his concerns:
that there is no cost to the City, which he thinks the
City Attorney has taken care of; at one time BART
was supposed to say, Hickey Blvd. is a City street
and you construct and pay for it, but that is not the
case and he wanted to make sure it is in the docu-
ment, for he thinks they have to dedicate a street to
the City; and to City standards which is four lane
arterial and we want to make sure it is a specific
standard, for there was a cross section somewhere
along the way; a signal at both ends and a signal
where the exit comes out and there is no signal;
etc.
Discussion followed: should we insist on a signal;
yes, if it is justified; it is a major route; if we have
follow up on the other concern on the extension of
Hillside; the City has been persistent that Hickey
should be extended from Mission Road and right
now it is not, yet the City and BART are in discus-
sions with the County without a commitment; we
should find out when a commitment was made to
extend Hickey from Mission Road to Hillside; we
should put pressure on to do this, otherwise they
will use Evergreen; there were discussions that the
Hickey Extension be called something else because it
jogs onto El Camino because people get confused;
Councilman Yee suggested we could call it
McLellan Blvd. or McLellan Extension; there is
going to be a major improvement on Colma Creek
because of the station; Councilman Yee questioned
who it was going to be dedicated to because no one
wants to maintain, and he felt the Council should
insist it be dedicated to the Flood Control District;
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3. BART comprehensive agreement - Continued.
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there is a box under the BART station, for the Flood
Control District ignores that; City Manager said the
Flood Control District is responsible for the mainte-
nance; it still should be conveyed to BART that we
think the District should accept it; the project is too
big for one employee to inspect, for there are going
to be all kinds of complaints and Councilman Yee
thinks he should be a professional; City Manager
stated he and the Director of Public Works talked
about having some capital projects going on and
they will be coming back to Council with a contract
with a professional firm to bring people out as pro-
ject directors; Councilman Yee felt they could have
some control on the construction phase, in other
words, we could not allow them to open up more
than 500 feet at one time, so they don't open up all
of S.S.F.; BART has talked about picking two loca-
tions and go in both directions and S.S.F. concerns
would be focused on any where there are crossings;
concern about cutting Chestnut and Spruce and the
whole thing is separated into two segments for two
years; Director of Public Works stated BART has a
plan, but staff has to look at it; didn't they also
indicate any of those cross streets would always
have one lane open; staff is taking the position, to
always keep the lanes open for two way traffic; the
second concern is how long do we have to allow
that to happen, we have to say put it back in two
weeks, not six months; we have to control it so the
public is not inconvenienced; the Mayor and Coun-
cilman Yee discussed negotiating a linear park when
BART put back the dirt and he remembers they
promised we would get a linear park, trees and
shrubs and we told it to the public, but it is not
in the document, for it is a commitment, yet all
Councilman Yee sees is the bike/pedestrian trail;
Councilman Yee was the Mayor at that time and
said they would have a nice linear park; the discus-
sion was with Frank Wilson; if they say they don't
have money, they are not going to do the linear
park; is there going to be a separate agreement with
Samtrans and the City; that relates to the ownership
of the lines; what recourse does the City have if
BART does not fix the streets or whatever, can we
make them put up a bond; if we do not require
bonds the City ultimately get a breach of contract
because we would be damaged; it would be prudent
to discuss this with BART on the issue of bonding;
BART may have one bond covering all cities; we
can look at being a beneficiary on the bond, so
BART isn't required to go out and get another;
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3. BART comprehensive agreement - Continued.
Councilman Penna Left the Meeting at 8:15 p.m.
4. Closed Session, pursuant to GC 54957.6, labor nego-
tiations for Operating Engineers.
RECALL TO ORDER:
ADJOURNMENT:
unless it being for a fixed amount of time, the City
Attorney could put a fixed date like six months or a
year so staff does not have a problem; Director of
Public Works Gibbs asked that the period be twelve
months; is reimbursement for plan checking and
inspections commonplace when San Bruno may have
the same request; they are all making the request;
City Manager Wilson stated city staff, of all the
agencies, have met and talked about commonalities
in the document; will the Planning Commission be
involved in the final design; if it is the Council's
desire, yes, but normally it would go to the Council;
this policy is within the Redevelopment Agency and
the Council has the ability within the Redevelopment
Agency to take primary review and it comes to the
Council directly and the project does not go to the
Planning Commission; there are timing issues in-
volved so if the Council retains that authority it will
eliminate that step; it is the Council's guidelines, but
they should be sent to the Planning Commission for
input; early on someone on BART should be avail-
able to us 24 hours a day; before the project starts
the staff, whoever that may be, is going to met with
BART and call it a pre-construction meeting; there
has to be a process to give BART the opportunity to
act; it's not BART, but the contractor; "shall be
coordinated with the City's Cultural Arts Commis-
sion'' means what; that there will be some avail-
ability for public art and staff wants them to be part
of that art; then they make the recommendation and
it comes to the Council; shouldn't it go through the
City Manager; change it to read the City Council;
etc.
Council entered a Closed Session at 8:45 p.m. to
discuss the item noticed.
Mayor Fernekes recalled the meeting to order at
9:07 p.m., all Council was present, no action was
taken and direction was given.
M/S Mullin/Datzman - To adjourn the meeting.
Carried by unanimous voice vote.
Time of adjournment was 9:08 p.m.
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AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
Barbara A. Battaya, City Clerk
City of South San Francisco
APPROVED.
Jose~ A. ~ernekes, ~r
City~f South San Francisco
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