Regular City Council Meeting August 2, 2016

El Cerrito City Council Chamber · 9 minutes · adjourned about 7:05 p.m. · 18 caption units

Council: Greg Lyman, Mayor · Janet Abelson, Mayor Pro Tem · Gabe Quinto · Mark Friedman

Absent: Jan Bridges (excused)

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A brief meeting held on the evening of National Night Out, with Bridges absent. Two speakers support the library bond ordinance, and the Council adopts it on the consent calendar at its second reading, 4–0, submitting a general obligation bond for a safe modern library to the voters. The Council then adjourns to go back to National Night Out.

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Contents

4 sections
  1. 01A PG&E rate notice that no longer applies
  2. 02Support for the library bond ordinance
  3. 03Consent: the library bond goes to the voters
  4. 04A seat on the Family Justice Alliance, and off to National Night Out

01 A PG&E rate notice that no longer applies captions 1–4

0:03:16order the regular city council meeting of the city of el cerrito for august 2nd uh 2016.

0:03:23um if you let the record show that uh council member bridges was has an excused absence and all other are present um if you'll join me please in a moment of silence or the pledge of allegiance of the uh pledge of allegiance to the flag thank you i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

0:03:44united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right um item two is council and staff communications seeing no staff communications let me check because i put a couple of things in here

0:04:08that one was for later i received a notice of application of pacific gas and electric companies 2017 general rate case mayor jones used to bring these routinely and complain about pg e raising rates and i was so happy to see this one is about energy and i was so

Mayor Lyman opened the brief meeting, held on the evening of National Night Out, with Bridges excused and the other members present. He pointed out a notice of PG&E's 2017 general rate case application, the kind former Mayor Jones used to bring forward to complain about rising rates, and said he was happy that, with the city now in MCE, this one about energy no longer affects it.

02 Support for the library bond ordinance captions 5–10

0:04:31happy to get this because we're with mce and this doesn't affect us anymore so i just wanted to point that out and with that we'll move on to item three oral communications from the public and we have three speakers i'm sorry two speaker slips al miller followed by tom

0:04:48panis great thank you good evening mayor lyman council members city staff i'm al miller i live at [address removed] and here in el cerrito and i share your joy about being in mce but as more and more of our community neighboring communities join mce i would never underestimate pg e and the pucs ability

0:05:15to figure out some way to save quote-unquote pge the expense of losing us as customers more importantly i want to say how much i enjoyed your opening of the el cerritos first beer garden at barney mcbears social club i think it is the old sky lounge on san pablo avenue probably most

0:05:38important i know in my position as the current president of the el cerrito library foundation i want you to know that we support the ordinance that you're having your second reading tonight and we thank the for the progress the city is making on the library project

0:05:57uh so as a non-profit we can't advocate for it but we as the foundation will continue to support the city's informative campaign up to whenever it cuts off for the election thank you good evening mayor limber member of the council and city staff my name is tom panis and i live at [address removed] in el

0:06:27cerrito i'd like to thank the staff for the presentation on a safe modern library proposal last week and i'd like to thank the council for taking last meeting and thank council for taking that action and urge that you do the same this evening on the second reading

Al Miller shared the joy about MCE but warned never to underestimate PG&E and the state utilities commission, praised the opening of what he called El Cerrito's first beer garden on San Pablo Avenue, and, as president of the El Cerrito Library Foundation, said the foundation supports the library bond ordinance at its second reading that night and, as a nonprofit that cannot advocate, would support the city's informational campaign. Tom Panis thanked staff for the previous meeting's presentation on a safe modern library and urged the Council to adopt the ordinance.

03 Consent: the library bond goes to the voters captions 11–14

0:06:38thank you for your time great thank you any other speakers seeing none we'll move on to item four which is presentations which we do not have any this evening that brings us to item five we have uh four things on item five which is our consent calendar which we have approval of the minutes

0:06:59from june 21st we have an ordinance submitted submitting a general obligation bond to the voters for a safe modern library project we have 5c which is quarterly cash and investments report for period ending march 31 2016 and 5d quarterly cash and investments report and period for period

0:07:19ending june 30th 2016. we have adoption of the consent calendar second we have a motion by ableton seconded by quinto to approve the doc to adopt the consent calendar seeing no discussion we'll move on to call call the item all those in favor please say aye aye

0:07:40do we need to question do we need to have a roll call vote no okay um so i'm going to assume that you said i correct okay and i let the record show that that passed four zero four four and no no one opposed or abstaining that brings us to item six public hearings none item seven policy matters

The consent calendar held the June 21 minutes, the ordinance submitting a general obligation bond for a safe modern library project to the voters, and two quarterly cash and investment reports, for the periods ending 31 March and 30 June 2016. Abelson moved and Quinto seconded; no roll call was needed.

Outcome Carried4–0Consent calendar, including the library bond ordinance, adopted 4–0, Bridges absent.

04 A seat on the Family Justice Alliance, and off to National Night Out captions 15–18

0:08:03none item eight uh council assignments and liaison reports and i have one if no one else has anything in the packet that you received for this meeting there was a communication from the contra costa family justice alliance this was handed out at the last mayor's

0:08:23conference this thursday we i will be going to the mayor's conference again and if any of you are interested in filling this seat this would be a great time for you to let me know and potentially submit an application to fill the seat the um they're looking for

0:08:45members and the mayor's conference does get to a point one of their 13 seats so i just wanted to remind you all that you did receive that in your packet and and that will conclude item eight council assignments and liaison reports brings us to item nine which is

0:09:05adjournment we get to adjourn this regular city council meeting to go back to national night out and we will meet again at our next regularly scheduled city council meeting which is tuesday august 16th at 7 pm here in the city chambers we're adjourned you

Lyman reminded the Council of a communication in its packet from the Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance, which is seeking members; the mayors' conference appoints one of its 13 seats, and he asked anyone interested to tell him before that Thursday's conference. The Council adjourned to go back to National Night Out, and to meet again on 16 August.