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S SPECIAL MEETING
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CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
P.O. Box 711 (City Hall, 400 Grand Avenue)
South San Francisco, California 94083
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2021
3:00 p.m.
Teleconference via Zoom
Housing Standing Committee conducted this meeting
in accordance with California GovernorNewsom's
Executive Orders N-25-20 and N-29-20 and COVID-
19 pandemic protocols.
Call to Order. Time: 3:04 p.m.
Roll Call. PRESENT: Councilmember Nicolas and
Mayor Addiego.
AGENDA REVIEW
No changes
REMOTE PUBLIC COMMENTS
None.
MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION
Motion to approve the Minutes for the meetings of July 27, 2020 and August 3, 2020.
Motion - Councilmember Nicolas / Second —Mayor Addiego: to approve the minutes. The motion
carried unanimously.
2. Report regarding the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for fiscal year ended June 30,
2020, mid -year update for fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, and additional appropriation
considerations. (Janet Salisbury, Director of Finance)
Director Salisbury stated this report was meant to be more of a discussion with the presentation slides as
a guide for the Budget Standing Committee. The presentation covered the fiscal year 2019-2020
Financial Highlights, General Fund Overview, 2nd Quarter Financial Update, Reserves and other
considerations.
Mayor Addiego asked which categories were in Other Taxes under the General Fund revenues. Director
Salisbury advised it included business licenses and commercial parking which had been on a steady
decline over the last three years. She added that $2,000,000 of that was business license and the other
$2,500,000 was a combination of commercial taxes and commercial parking taxes.
Mayor Addiego inquired whether the property tax $1,500,000 increment was done annually. Director
Salisbury confirmed that it was and advised the amount was a snapshot of this fiscal year and will take
that into consideration of new buildings coming online.
Mayor Addiego queried whether the hotel operators were indeed paying their Transient Occupancy Tax
(TOT) that was due. Director Salisbury confirmed that they were. She added there were a couple of
hotels within the City that were permanently closed which does impact the budget.
Mayor Addiego asked whether the Library were creating jobs for the people that were involved in the
2020 Census. Library Director Sommer advised there were census navigators that were excellent
bilingual -bicultural. There were some languages that the Library wanted to find people to hire such as
Spanish, Tagalog, Mandarin and Cantonese for answering questions and connecting residents with the
social service agencies. Their goal was set to make more solid connections with local agencies to know
who to call or refer residents when there was a housing or food issue.
Budget Standing Committee members discussed the Library Community Navigator position and the
importance of hiring professionals and compensating them properly to ensure they stay as employees.
The Budget Standing Committee members believed if the employees were not paid properly, there was a
chance they would look for other opportunities and the City would lose the relationships they built with
the residents. Mayor Addiego suggested hiring a college student that was currently working on their
studies for social work.
3. Presentation regarding financing the Civic Campus and Street Paving Program. (Janet Salisbury,
Finance Director, and Matthew Ruble, Principal Engineer)
Director Salisbury advised the item before the Budget Standing Committee members was an overview of
Measure W funds and then going to focus on the Civic Campus financing and then also speak on the
options for a Streets Paving Program.
Budget Standing Committee members requested contractors to provide architectural renderings of what
the panels looked like installed on the buildings before they move forward with the project.
City Manager Futrell suggested they increase the size of the bonding by $4,000,000 to install the solar
panels and advised staff would continue to research solar with renderings and will present it as part of the
February 10, 2021 City Council meeting discussion.
Capital Projects Director Gilchrist stated he would have a conceptual return on the investment by
February 10, 2021. He recommended that as they go through the design of the solar array, he advised to
be sensitive to the overall architecture of the buildings.
Mayor Addiego stated that the Street Bond Program was a great idea but was concerned about some of
the signage was not clear to residents. He recommended for staff to be careful especially on a program
that disrupted a great amount of residents.
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ADJOURNMENT
Being no further business Vice Mayor Addiego adjourned the meeting at 4:27 p.m.
Submitted by:
Gabriel Rodrigue , puty City Clerk
City of South San Francisco
Approved by:
Mark Addiego, Mayor
City of South San Francisco
Approved by the Budget Standing Committee: q / 2co / 2ro2 k
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