Regular City Council and Special City Council Meetings February 21, 2017

0:03:09so member fidelity here councilmember lyman here mayor pro tem quinto and i'm recording the council mem that mayor abelson and councilmember pardewa gomoto are absent thank you can you please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag or observation of moment of silence

0:03:28council member for delhi i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with the liberty and those council staff and communications oh come back to me i gotta i gotta remember

0:03:55what i did um i attended the trees committee meeting uh recently for the first time and i as an alternative to the mce committee for el cerrito as an alternative with greg lyman attended that in san rafael this last week and i want to thank one of our local businesses olon dance

0:04:25held two performances this last weekend at the el cerrito high school and this is a she teaches chinese dance traditional chinese dance and uh i attended on sunday and it was beautiful and it's beautiful to see a business uh this is i think this is about the fifth or sixth time that i

0:04:48have attended this dance and the evolution of uh maturity that the this company is um doing is is stunning the some of the dance numbers that they choreographed were most impressive and i and i want to give a special on um recognition to our business our local business for um the

0:05:10performance in the work that they're doing in the community to get uh dance including chinese traditional chinese dance uh through our community so and that's i do have a liaison report that i'll give later but that's certainly the what i want to acknowledge at this time thank

0:05:27you oral communications from the public all persons wishing to speak should sign up with a city clerk remarks are typically limited to three minutes per person the mayor may reduce the time limit per speaker depending on the number of speakers kindly state your name and city

0:05:47residents for the record comments regarding non-agenda presentation and consent calendar items will be heard first comments related to items appearing on the public hearing or policy matter portions of the agenda are taken up at the time the city council deliberates each action that item

0:06:06individuals wishing to comment on any closed session scheduled after the regular scheduled meeting may do so during this public comment period or after formal announcement to the close session and with that we have two requests to speak vice mayor uh cordell hindler followed by judith

0:06:26tannenbaum good evening mayor quinto council members uh city staff i am cordell handler richmond what i just passed around is a new show called a well and it is really a well it's going to be a well-attended performance and the tickets are only 11 so please come at

0:06:45any time and then the second thing is um on the consent calendar i don't know on the massage establishments i have reached out to the richmond addicts association uh and i spoken with the with the vice presidents uh and they had some concerns you know regarding the

0:07:00establishment so there was like they were not too thrilled with the with the outcome so i had to tell them personally so that's number two and then the third thing is um i ha at our la and my neighborhood association mean we had we had a discussion about the the jail expansion

0:07:15so i just hope that and we voted against it because it's not it's not good for the city and we're trying to bring in some revenue so those are three things and then lastly as um at the el cerrito when the el cerrito stars a group came la a few months back i i got really

0:07:31impressed with the uh with it with how they uh they can achieve so much on me not only in the classroom but uh working in a work environment i find that very inspiring so hopefully that the ec stars will be we'll be moving forward as uh in the in the in the in the months ahead so that's

0:07:48number three and then finally uh what else um there was another item um because i was looking up on the el cerritos website now and we're trying to get more people to come to participate in these committees because right now there are a bunch of committees that

0:08:00need some that needs people to join because we're trying to like put el cerrito back into into the quality of life so so hopefully that these ideas as you move forward that we need more people to join because we need to get some some generation to participate because it's important that they

0:08:16participate in their civic duty so i'm hopefully that some generation will come through in the in the months ahead to the so they can fill these gaps on these committees so i'll pass it on to the next speaker thank you hi um thank you for this opportunity to address you so i know that you know that

0:08:37sheriff livingston i'm sorry your name please i'm sorry your name judith tannenbaum sorry um so as i say i know that you know that uh sheriff livingston has a proposal for expansion of the jail in the west county and also a contract with ice and that the board of

0:08:54supervisors voted a couple weeks ago to approve that proposal and that it was only and that that of their approval included a commitment of funds um toward the project and then annual funds you know subsequently from um and that it was only our supervisor john joyah who voted against that

0:09:17and um i'm also sure you know that john joyah wrote an op-ed piece about his reasons for the opposition and i have a in case one of you hasn't read it i have a copy that i'll give to karen and cheryl um and writing that a a co-writer on that op-ed piece was claudia jimenez of the contra

0:09:40costa county racial justice commission coalition um and i went to their meeting last wednesday which was focused on opposition to the jail expansion and one of the people at that meeting was melvin willis from the richmond city council and he mentioned now i'm not

0:09:57sure i have the details exactly right about this but i he mentioned i think that he was writing a letter or a letter was being drafted anyway that i think that the richmond city council is voting on tonight that as a body they would write to the board of state and community corrections

0:10:13which is the state entity that the sheriff's proposal is going before because they're the ones who give the monies out to the county for jail stuff so my understanding is that the likelihood is that the richmond city council is writing a letter in opposition to that

0:10:29expansion even though the board of supervisors voted for it and melvin willis also indicated that he or somebody had been in touch with you as a count the del cerrito city council um hoping that you would write a similar letter and that's why i'm here urging you to write a letter like that to the

0:10:47board of um state and um community corrections uh opposing the jail expansion in the three minutes i don't have time to list all my reasons for that but really john joy is op-ed piece pretty clearly um you know his his reasons are very much my reasons and lastly in in this regard i spoke

0:11:07with tony thurman's office today had a long talk with abel pineda and he indicated pineda did that um the thurman's very opposed and is also writing letters and that all the staff is so um so again that's what i and i have the address of the vscc my understanding of

0:11:27the letters have to go out thank you thank you so much there's no presentations uh adoption to the cassette consent calendar sorry if you're ready i can make a motion yeah adoption of the consent calendar items 5a through 5e approval of the minutes a approval of

0:11:57the february 7th special city council closed session and regular city council meeting minutes e amendment of el cerrito municipal code chapter 8.10 massage establishments adopt an ordinance amending el cerita municipal code chapter 8.10 massage establishments by repealing it in its

0:12:18entirety and replacing it by adding and adopting el sarita municipal code chapter 8.10 massage businesses including a modification to the ordinance introduced on january 17th to allow affected businesses to close at 10 pm housing-related parks program grant for

0:12:38fairmont park adopt a resolution authorizing submission for an application for state funding through the department of housing and community development's housing related parks hrp program grant in an amount not to exceed 230 000 to provide additional funding for the fairmont park

0:12:57improvements project d amendment of west coast west coast code consultants agreements adoption of resolution authorizing the city manager to amend the professional services agreement between the city of el cerrito and west coast code consultants wc3 in the amount

0:13:16not to exceed 75 000 bringing the total contract to the amount not to exceed 100 000 and to extend the term extend the term to the agreement through december 31st 2017 each economic development committee appointment approve an economic development committee recommendation appointing laura maurer

0:13:38to the economic development committee affected february 21st 2017.

0:13:45i'll move items 5a through 5e as read by the vice mayor i second that okay all in favor see six resume commission interviews status and appointments we will do this after our meeting so and seven adjourned regular city council meeting our next council meeting uh

0:14:13regularly scheduled city council meeting is tuesday march 7 at 7 pm in the city of el cerrito chambers thank you have a good night you