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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 2020-01-22 @7:001 s.t ,p MINUTES REGULAR MEETING F w n U O CITY COUNCIL cgllFOT, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO Meeting held at: MUNICIPAL SERVICES BUILDING COUNCIL CHAMBERS 33 ARROYO DRIVE SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020 7:00 p.m. CALL TO ORDER 7:00 p.m. ROLL CALL Present: Councilmembers Matsumoto, Nagales, and Nicolas, Vice Mayor Addiego and Mayor Garbarino. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE San Francisco Host Lions Club members led the pledge of allegiance. AGENDA REVIEW No changes. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM STAFF None. PRESENTATIONS 1. Presentation of a proclamation recognizing February as Black History Month. (Richard Garbarino, Mayor) Vice Mayor Addiego read into the records a proclamation recognizing February as Black History Month. Personnel Board Commissioner Luster accepted the recognition on behalf of the African American Community. She thanked Council for their support. 2. Presentation of a Certificate of Appreciation to San Francisco Host Lions Club for their dedicated community service through hosting free health fairs and flu clinics in South San Francisco since 2007. (Buenaflor Nicolas, Councilmember) Councilmember Nicolas read into the record a Certificate of Appreciation to the San Francisco Host Lions Club for their service to the community. PUBLIC COMMENTS Patrick Belding of the U.S. Census addressed the Council to share job opportunities available for members of the community including paid training and flexible work hours and locations. The goal is to ensure that all members of the community are included in the Census 2020 count. Interested applicants can find additional information at www.Census202O.gov/jobs. Roy Earnest of Foster Grandparents Program of Sutter Health/Mills Peninsula Hospital addressed the Council to request assistance with recruitment efforts. He provided an overview of the program and encouraged Council and the community to participate. COUNCIL COMMENTS/REQUESTS Councilmember Nagales participated in the Game Special Edition for new Councilmembers to share his experience as first year Councilmember. Councilmember Nicolas thanked staff for their hard work in organizing and coordinating the City Council retreat. Councilmember Matsumoto requested clarification on the City's Warrant Disbursement review and inquiry process. City Manager Futrell indicated that due to cyber security concerns, moving forward Council would receive an emailed link to access warrant registers. City Attorney Woodruff inquired if her question related to expense categorization then staff could address. Councilmember Matsumoto inquired about consultant expenses paid out of the City Manager's budget, and pension benefits. City Manager Futrell provided an overview of the City Manager's budget and indicated that at the request of Council, a separate budget created for the Communications Director. Finance Director Salisbury will provide Council with additional information pertaining to $1 million dollar payment for medical health care expenses paid to Blue Shield. Vice Mayor Addiego thanked staff for their work in organizing the Council retreat. Mayor Garbarino invited the community to attend the South San Francisco Police Association's 181h Annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner on Sunday, March 8, 2020 at the South San Francisco Conference Center. Additional information available on the City's website. CONSENT CALENDAR The City Clerk duly read the Consent Calendar, after which Council voted and engaged in discussion of specific item as follows: Items # 4, 5 and 6 pulled for further discussion. Item #4: Councilmember Matsumoto inquired about the Library's outreach efforts for the Census 2020. Library Director Sommers stated that staff would coordinate outreach efforts. Item #5: Mayor Garbarino inquired about tenant improvements for the Miller Avenue Parking Garage. Deputy Director of Economic and Community Development Selander provided an overview of the process. REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 22, 2020 MINUTES PAGE 2 Item #6: Councilmember Matsumoto requested clarification on the location. Economic Development Coordinator Barnard provided an overview of the property location and sale proceeds including revenue distribution of Education Revenue Augmentation Funds (ERAF) to the South San Francisco Unified School District. City Attorney Woodruff provided an overview of the ERAF. Vice Mayor Addiego complimented Mr. Low and his team for their proposal and indicated that it would be a nice improvement to the downtown. 3. Motion to approve the Minutes for the meeting of November 13, 2019. (Rosa Govea Acosta, City Clerk) 4. Report regarding Resolution No. 10-2020 authorizing the acceptance of $8,000 in grant funding from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) to support the South San Francisco Public Library's 2020 Voter Engagement project and approving Budget Amendment 20.032. (Valerie Sommer, Library Director) 5. Report regarding Resolution No. 11-2020 making findings and determining that the disposition of the City of South San Francisco -owned property located at 323 Miller Avenue, in the Residential Core District is in conformity with the South San Francisco adopted General Plan in accordance with provisions of State Planning Law (Govt. Code Section 65402) (Heather Ruiz, Management Analyst) 6a. Report regarding Resolution No. 12-2020 approving a Purchase and Sale Agreement with Baden Developments LLC for the sale of 432 Baden Avenue for $1,100,000 and authorizing the City Manager to execute the agreement. 6b.Report regarding Resolution No. 13-2020 making findings and determining that the disposition of the City of South San Francisco -owned property located at 432 Baden Avenue in the Downtown Residential Core conforms with the adopted South San Francisco General Plan in accordance with provisions of State Planning Law (Govt. Code Section 65402) (Julie Barnard, Economic Development Coordinator). Motion—Vice Mayor Addiego/Second—Councilmember Nagales: to approve Consent Calendar items 3-6. Unanimously approved by roll call vote. ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS 7. Presentation of an education and outreach campaign to ensure a complete, fair, and accurate count of the South San Francisco population in the 2020 Census. (Sheri Boles, Community Programs Manager) Communications Director Arroyo presented an overview of the Census Outreach and Education Campaign. She indicated that the U.S. Census Bureau is mandated to count every person residing in the United States every 10 years. The decennial census is the cornerstone of our democracy, ensuring equitable political representation and fair allocation of resources at all levels of government. Ensuring an accurate count of all county residents in the Census 2020 is essential. She discussed several new and significant challenges facing the Census 2020. In addition, San Mateo County was identified as Hard to Count/Least Likely to respond with 14 out of 20 Cities that include metrics in the California -Focused Hard -to -Count Variables. Furthermore, five portions of the City of South San Francisco, amounting to nearly 25,000 REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 22, 2020 MINUTES PAGE 3 individuals or more than 26 percent of the total population of South San Francisco have higher indexes of being Hard to Count/Least Likely to Respond, which makes education and outreach even more challenging. To overcome these new and significant challenges, the City of South San Francisco proposed to provide supplementary outreach and education efforts beyond those provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, State of California, and County of San Mateo in order to achieve a fair and accurate count of the City's population. The U.S. Census Bureau (Census Bureau) serves as the administrator in the nationwide questionnaire, providing support to each state and all counties within each state, by helping to recruit and hire Census Bureau workers and providing webinar trainings and workshops of data collection to respective states and counties. She indicated that the overall strategy for the census count in South San Francisco is one of "layering." The first layer is the effort made by the federal government, followed by the layer provided at the County level, followed by the part-time, grant -funded local layer provided by the Community Ambassadors, and finally a full-time local team, which makes sure no individual living in South San Francisco on April 1, 2020, is left behind in the count. The total budget for the City led efforts is $200,000, as detailed above. Sources of identified City funding include $100,000 from the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 General Fund surplus and $100,000 from the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 General Fund budget. Staff will submit a separate Council action request to fund the City's census effort, pending direction from City Council. Councilmember Nagales suggested hosting several kick-off events to engage increase community participation. He inquired if the immigration status question was no longer included in the Census survey and applauded the City for their efforts. Councilmember Matsumoto inquired on the process of counting individuals in the homeless shelters. Vice Mayor Addiego inquired about the process of identifying homeless individuals on census day. City Manager Futrell provided an overview of the Census 2020 count rules. 8. Report regarding Resolution No. 14-2020 audited financial statements, including the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and approving Budget Amendment 20.027. (Janet Salisbury, Director of Finance) Director of Finance Salisbury thanked Budget Standing Committee members Vice Mayor Addiego and Councilmember Nicolas for their time and participation in reviewing the audited financial statements, including the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. The information and recommendation herein was reviewed and accepted by the Budget Standing Committee of the City Council on January 6, 2020 She presented the report and provided an overview of General Fund Overview, the General Fund Variance Analysis (Budget v. Actual), Other Fees, Developer Impact Fees and Reserves. The General Fund is the City's main operating fund, where the bulk of the essential services delivered by departments such as Police, Fire, Library, Parks and Recreation, Economic and Community Development and City Administration are budgeted. The General Fund accounted for 41 percent of all operating revenues and 34 percent of operating expenditures in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-19. REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 22, 2020 MINUTES PAGE 4 As noted in the General Fund Summary, in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-19, the City received $121.9 million in General Fund operating revenues, which was $12.7 million or 11.6 percent above the amended budget of $109.2 million. Including carryover purchase orders, General Fund expenditures were $114.3 million, a favorable variance of $377 thousand, or 0.3 percent. Including transfers in and out, the net change in fund balance was approximately $21 million. She noted the numbers do not include any Measure W activities. In compliance with the City's Reserves Policy, $2.05 million of the surplus is necessary for additional contributions towards General Fund reserves. In addition, after all outstanding set -asides for open purchase orders, transfers to capital improvement programs already approved by Council, and other accounting treatments taken into account; $11.1 million is available as unencumbered General Fund surplus. Staff recommends transferring $10.9 million to Infrastructure Reserves, and the remaining $200 thousand split respectively between the Summer Jobs for Youth Program and community outreach for the Census 2020. She indicated that Property tax revenues, one of the City's primary recurring General Fund revenue sources, totaled $38.7 million in FY 2018-19. Revenues came in 9.4 percent, or $3.3 million higher than budget, primarily due to the former RDA property tax allocation, which was $2.3 million over expected budget. In addition to RDA property tax allocations coming in higher than budgeted, the secured property tax came in higher than anticipate by $700 thousand. The FY 2018-19 budget assumptions for current year secured property tax are a combination of information from the County of San Mateo Assessor's office, which estimated the annual increase in assessed value, and known developments in South San Francisco would be added to the City's property tax roll for FY 2018- 19. In addition to the General Fund, Staff reviewed the financial results of other funds, used to account for the resources needed to provide various services to the community. The fund summaries presented to Council include notable budget variances. She presented the City's numerous developer impact fees in place to ensure that new development pays its fair share of the impact to the City's infrastructure and capital needs. In FY 2018-19, General Fund revenues, excluding Measure W, were $121.9 million. In keeping with the City's Reserve Policy of maintaining 20 percent of operating revenues, the City's reserves levels will need to increase by approximately $2.0 million, from $22.3 million to $24.4 million. Finance Director Salisbury indicated the General Fund has $11.1 million in surplus equity. She indicated that staff recommended that the City Council authorize transfer of $10.9 million to the City's Infrastructure Reserve Fund to support future infrastructure needs with $100,000 be appropriated for Census 2020 and $100,000 be appropriated for the Jobs for Youth Program. The surge in development and strength of the larger Bay Area economy has helped fuel the health of the City of South San Francisco's financial position, as reflected in the FY2018-19 CAFR Vice Mayor Addiego requested clarification on the allocation of $100,000 for Census 2020. Finance Director Salisbury provided an overview of the funding allocation. Councilmember Matsumoto requested clarification on the General Fund Expenditures including Developer Impact Fees. Finance Director Salisbury indicated that all costs were included and provided an overview of the Developer Impact Fees (East of 101 traffic) use. She indicated that the Nexus Study Report drives the fees; staff is in the process of reviewing the report. City Manager REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 22, 2020 MINUTES PAGE 5 Futrell indicated $9 million dollars have been allocated for ongoing projects; staff does not budget for it in advance. Councilmember Matsumoto expressed her support of the Jobs for Youth program but shared her concerns. Human Resources Director Lockhart provided an overview of the Jobs for Youth and indicated that the program. She inquired about the City's pension liability (OPEB), ratio of outstanding debt by type, and City Capital Personal Income. Finance Director Salisbury will provide additional information for Council via a Thursday memo. Motion—Councilmember Nicolas/Second—Vice Mayor Addiego: to approve Resolution No. 14- 2020. Approved by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmembers Matsumoto, Nagales and Nicolas, Vice Mayor Addiego and Mayor Garbarino; NAYS: None; ABSENT: None; ABSTAIN: None. ITEMS FROM COUNCIL – COMMITTEE REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS None CLOSED SESSION Entered into Closed Session: 8:47 p.m. 9. Closed Session: Conference with Real Property Negotiators (Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8) Property: Hotel Site at Oyster Point (APN 015-010-970) Agency negotiator: Ernesto Lucero, Alex Greenwood, and Nell Selander Negotiating parties: City of South San Francisco and Ensemble Investments Under negotiation: Price and Terms of City property disposition 10. Closed Session: Conference with Real Property Negotiators (Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8) Properties: Willow Gardens (APNs: 011-270-200, 011-270-100, 011-270-120, 011-271-100, 011-270-170-1, 011-270-300) and Greenridge Developments (APN: 010-440-670) City Negotiators: Deanna Talavera and Nell Selander Negotiating Parties: MidPen Housing Corporation Under Negotiation: Review of Price and Terms Resumed from Closed Session: 10:05 p.m. Report out of Closed Session by Mayor Garbarino: Direction given. No reportable action. ADJOURNMENT Being no further business Mayor Garbarino adjourned the meeting at 10:06 p.m. Respectfully submitted by: /10% A.4 osa Govea Acosta, CMC, CPMC City Clerk Approved by: � Ric and Garbanno Mayor Approved by the City Council:Q� /2-5 / 2020 REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 22, 2020 MINUTES PAGE 6