Special and Regular City Council Meetings August 20, 2019

0:02:22okay

0:02:23is my mic on no now i can hear it okay

0:02:27council member fidelity here mayor pro

0:02:30tem lyman president mayor pardue okimoto

0:02:33present council member abelson present

0:02:36council member quinto

0:02:39all right we will start off with a

0:02:41pledge of allegiance to the flag or a

0:02:43moment of silence by council member or

0:02:45mayor for tim

0:02:47lyman allegiance

0:02:50of the united states of america and to

0:02:52the republic for which it stands

0:02:55one nation

0:02:56under god

0:02:57indivisible with liberty and justice for

0:03:00all

0:03:05do you have any communications from the

0:03:07staff

0:03:08nothing tonight your honor thank you

0:03:10communications from the council

0:03:16i have a few um i'll try to be quick

0:03:20uh there was a really interesting

0:03:22display out in the lobby that i thought

0:03:24i would just mention

0:03:26uh and folks might want to check it on

0:03:28their way out it's on

0:03:30um

0:03:32emergency

0:03:34preparation

0:03:35in a variety of ways and you can get a

0:03:37water container

0:03:40if you

0:03:41order it it will be delivered to the

0:03:44corp yard or recycling center i forget

0:03:46which

0:03:47and um

0:03:49so it's if there's a whole series of

0:03:51those and i would just

0:03:53suggest to people that they check it out

0:03:55out there

0:03:57and then i attended

0:04:00a number

0:04:01of

0:04:04sessions i went on a tour

0:04:06of the berryessa transit center

0:04:10which for those of you who don't know

0:04:11yet it's one of the new bart stations

0:04:15being developed on the way to san jose

0:04:19a really interesting station

0:04:23on october the 2nd which is a wednesday

0:04:26from 9 30 in the morning till noon

0:04:30at the el cerrito community center

0:04:32there will be a senior resource fair

0:04:35which if you're interested in such

0:04:37things is really

0:04:39fantastic they've got all kinds of

0:04:41displays on all kinds of senior related

0:04:44topics and it's followed by a free lunch

0:04:48so i highly recommend it if you're

0:04:50interested in that kind of a

0:04:52thing i attended

0:04:54a community

0:04:56workshop

0:04:58on

0:04:59library assessments

0:05:01which was

0:05:02well attended and

0:05:04very

0:05:05interesting

0:05:07i

0:05:09and i'd like to add one thing

0:05:13that i actually would personally like to

0:05:16start as a new item

0:05:18of interesting books you've read

0:05:20recently

0:05:22and um i was thinking that we could

0:05:25share interesting books that we've read

0:05:27recently and this is one i've almost

0:05:29finished reading and it's totally

0:05:31appropriate for

0:05:33today

0:05:34um and it's called the uninhabitable

0:05:37earth life after warming

0:05:41and it's by david wallace wells and it

0:05:44it's very up to date

0:05:47even talks about things

0:05:49that happened last

0:05:51fall

0:05:52and i found it very interesting it's on

0:05:55you know about how serious

0:05:57the climate issue is

0:05:59right now so i recommend it and

0:06:02i would like to start doing such

0:06:05recommendations and encourage others on

0:06:07the council to do such a thing

0:06:10um

0:06:11will there be a test

0:06:12no okay

0:06:14i haven't actually quite finished

0:06:17but i am so excited about

0:06:21in it you might say a negative way

0:06:22really about the book that um

0:06:25i just wanted to share while it was so

0:06:28fresh

0:06:29um

0:06:30and um

0:06:32i think that's enough for me from me for

0:06:35today

0:06:36council member kinko thank you mayor um

0:06:38good evening i um was in los angeles on

0:06:42august 9th

0:06:44as president of the api caucus of the

0:06:46league of california cities

0:06:48we were working in partnership with

0:06:52the los angeles county division

0:06:54and we had a talk on

0:06:58international trade in los angeles and

0:07:00california with guest speaker stephen

0:07:03chung who is the executive vice

0:07:06president of

0:07:07the los angeles economic development

0:07:10corporation and president of the world

0:07:12trade

0:07:13center in la he's also in charge of the

0:07:16port of los angeles and

0:07:19there we had

0:07:21the chair of the la county division

0:07:24and

0:07:26mayors and council members from los

0:07:28angeles county

0:07:30looking at the future of international

0:07:32trade

0:07:34steven mentioned that

0:07:36it doesn't look good in the future

0:07:39if this continues with tariffs and

0:07:42what

0:07:43they're doing in the federal government

0:07:45uh so uh there are uh areas outside of

0:07:49california that want to take out take

0:07:51away business

0:07:52and uh they're doing their part uh in

0:07:55areas in the south and in the east

0:07:59to

0:08:00stop business from flowing here in

0:08:02california so

0:08:04they asked for elected officials to uh

0:08:08be in contact with our congress and let

0:08:11them know how they feel about all this

0:08:14this is going to take away lots of jobs

0:08:16in california if they continue to do

0:08:20work with the tariffs as our ports in

0:08:22california and the west coast

0:08:24do business mainly with asia

0:08:27so it's very troubling

0:08:29they are already

0:08:31laying off people

0:08:33and they're not at 100 in los angeles

0:08:35and long beach

0:08:37because of the competition with other

0:08:39areas and with

0:08:41the the super tankers that are and ships

0:08:44that are going through the panama canal

0:08:46that cannot stop in oakland anymore

0:08:48because it's too big so they're going as

0:08:51other cities and states to do this trade

0:08:53now so it's a very troubling for

0:08:56california because we were always the

0:08:58center of

0:08:59international trade here

0:09:01so the next day i was with

0:09:04my api caucus with a it was a training

0:09:09for young people and i was honored to

0:09:12give out scholarships

0:09:14with congresswoman judy two

0:09:17and uh assembly member

0:09:20chao

0:09:21in los angeles and and it was great to

0:09:24be down there um and to see

0:09:27uh

0:09:28so many young people that are interested

0:09:31in running for politics and and studying

0:09:33in college and

0:09:34we might get some here so i'm really

0:09:36excited about that so um i also attended

0:09:40uh the national night out and and i want

0:09:43to give a shout out to the folks

0:09:46i believe it was like 42

0:09:48block parties i was able to attend three

0:09:51or four of them

0:09:53uh with uh

0:09:55officer caputo and i just want to say

0:09:57thank you to uh

0:09:59our staff for setting all that up i was

0:10:01able to check out uh one of the new adus

0:10:06that's being built

0:10:08on the north side of town i was very

0:10:10impressed by that

0:10:12and i i see many more being built and

0:10:16my

0:10:17concern is is the the

0:10:19again materials uh materials are getting

0:10:22more expensive because of the tariffs

0:10:30okay and then um last week i attended

0:10:33the hazardous materials commission

0:10:34meeting

0:10:36with

0:10:37our

0:10:38county supervisor john joya

0:10:41and we did discuss

0:10:43things that are going on

0:10:45dealing with

0:10:46the shoreline dealing with

0:10:50air monitoring with eb i believe that

0:10:53617

0:10:55and what's going on in the cities of

0:10:57richmond and san pablo and north

0:11:00richmond where

0:11:01they have

0:11:04monthly monitoring

0:11:06the different neighborhoods to check on

0:11:09the quality of air and those areas have

0:11:12the highest concentration of asthma so

0:11:15i'm proud of john joya setting that up

0:11:18and

0:11:19we also dealt with

0:11:22dealing with

0:11:24the gas lines and oil lines that go

0:11:27through the county

0:11:28especially in the iron horse trail

0:11:31area where it goes through neighborhoods

0:11:33and

0:11:34very near and close to schools as well

0:11:38and

0:11:39i have had the honor of attending the

0:11:41rotarian meeting

0:11:43the other day and

0:11:45my colleague denise dennis who

0:11:48is here

0:11:50spoke on the climate emergency and as

0:11:53president as

0:11:55executive committee member of the sierra

0:11:58club

0:11:59uh i appreciate denise

0:12:01speaking to the el cerrito rotarians and

0:12:04i did encourage them to uh

0:12:07instead of el cerrito please go to san

0:12:09pablo panel and hercules where they

0:12:12don't have an environmental committee

0:12:14and

0:12:15i'm proud to say that el cerrito is the

0:12:17greenest city in contra costa county we

0:12:20have a state-of-the-art

0:12:22recycling uh so it's it's the other

0:12:25cities in west contra costa uh but i

0:12:28appreciate my sierra club members i i

0:12:31see uh dave mccord over there and hari

0:12:34from the west county group uh thank you

0:12:36for being here and uh um and that's it

0:12:40thank you

0:12:42council member fidelity yes

0:12:44um

0:12:45i too want to thank our staff and our

0:12:47fire and police departments i

0:12:50uh held a national night out at my house

0:12:54in don carroll neighborhood and we had

0:12:55the greatest hits of the fire chief the

0:12:57city manager and even mcgruff the dog

0:13:00showed up so thank you very much for

0:13:01that

0:13:02also my daughter and i

0:13:04participated in the green team cleanup

0:13:06at baxter creek this last saturday

0:13:09along the richmond el cerrito gateway

0:13:11into our city thank you

0:13:13um i have two items one is a climate

0:13:16related item

0:13:19as part of my responsibilities for

0:13:22mce or formerly known as marin clean

0:13:24energy which is our

0:13:26community aggregation

0:13:28i

0:13:29learned that time of use is for

0:13:32residential customers is coming

0:13:35uh this is where the uh cost to operate

0:13:39electrical things between 4 pm and 9 pm

0:13:427 days a week will cost you more than

0:13:45operating it at other times of the day

0:13:49the

0:13:50final transition will occur in april of

0:13:522021 so that's 18 months from now

0:13:55however you can opt into this this rate

0:13:59where it costs you less to operate

0:14:01things

0:14:02outside of the 4 pm to 9 pm time frame

0:14:06at pg e go to pg e.com

0:14:09and

0:14:10look for the rate request a rate change

0:14:14to the rate of tou which stands for time

0:14:18of use

0:14:19c3 which is the ability for you to

0:14:24begin

0:14:25recognizing that

0:14:27you can reduce your cost you can reduce

0:14:30your environmental footprint by reducing

0:14:32the amount of energy you use once the

0:14:35sun goes down the wind stops blowing so

0:14:38time of use is coming to residential

0:14:40users you can actually get that

0:14:42activated on your property before april

0:14:44of 2021.

0:14:46the other item that i would like to uh

0:14:49bring up was at the mayor's conference

0:14:51and it's about the census

0:14:542020 census is coming

0:14:57in contra costa there's a campaign that

0:14:59says count me in contra costa

0:15:03the reason this is important in contra

0:15:05costa is that 42 percent of the county's

0:15:08funds come from state and federal

0:15:11sources and

0:15:13that's determined by our census by our

0:15:16population

0:15:17a 5

0:15:19under count

0:15:215

0:15:22under count

0:15:23would represent between

0:15:25500 million and 1.2 billion dollars of

0:15:29lost revenue to contra costa county

0:15:32five percent under count

0:15:34so it's important that everyone is

0:15:36counted that you're counted once only

0:15:39once and in the right place

0:15:41that's that's their theme

0:15:44so

0:15:44they've asked us to do things like

0:15:46appoint a council member uh to um be a

0:15:49point of contact

0:15:51uh

0:15:52add the contra costa census 2020 to our

0:15:55web page

0:15:57uh facilitate meetings

0:15:59identify trusted messengers in the

0:16:01community to reach out to make sure that

0:16:04all of our community understands the

0:16:06importance of being counted

0:16:08there are

0:16:10types of kiosks that could potentially

0:16:12be

0:16:14installed within our community

0:16:16and most importantly

0:16:18hold a public event near the date of

0:16:21april 1st 2020 that's essentially going

0:16:25to be the

0:16:26start of the census the big push for the

0:16:29census

0:16:30so that's

0:16:32there will be additional information

0:16:33that comes from contra costa but that

0:16:35essentially is the importance of

0:16:38the census to us and to contra costa

0:16:41thank you

0:16:42thank you and thanks for pointing that

0:16:44out

0:16:46we had a session

0:16:49previous to

0:16:52this meeting and we made a few

0:16:54appointments and so i'm going to go

0:16:56ahead

0:16:57and do that

0:16:59for the arts and culture commission it

0:17:01was bill nichols bill nichols for arts

0:17:04and culture commission we appointed bill

0:17:06nichols

0:17:08and then we also had the tenant

0:17:09protection task force

0:17:11where we made uh an appointment of four

0:17:14tenants and four landlords so for our

0:17:18tenants it will be

0:17:21buddy akacic

0:17:24isis bastet

0:17:27richard bell

0:17:28and george gager

0:17:31our landlords it will be

0:17:33norman leforce

0:17:35peter pan

0:17:37elizabeth thorne thor'sness and tyra

0:17:40wright

0:17:43so thanks for all that applied to all of

0:17:46those

0:17:47[Music]

0:17:48commissions and task force and we look

0:17:51forward to you serving thank you very

0:17:53much

0:17:56so next we have oral communications from

0:18:00the public

0:18:01[Music]

0:18:02at this time anyone wishing to speak

0:18:04should bring a speaker card to the city

0:18:07cork

0:18:09typically we have three minutes but we

0:18:11have an unusually high volume tonight so

0:18:13we are going to limit it to one and a

0:18:16half minutes

0:18:17and at one minute the red light will go

0:18:21on and that will be your 30 second

0:18:24indicator to wrap up

0:18:26um comments regarding non-agenda

0:18:30and consent calendar items will be heard

0:18:32first comments related to all other

0:18:34agenda items will be heard at the time

0:18:36the city council deliberates on them

0:18:40when you come forward please speak your

0:18:42name

0:18:44city of residence for the record

0:18:47well the clerk please i i'd like to pull

0:18:49an item is this the time to do it no

0:18:51this is oral communications from the

0:18:53public

0:18:55oh okay sorry

0:18:57okay

0:18:58there are 32 speakers

0:19:01and the first three speakers tonight

0:19:03will be um i'll just go in groups of

0:19:05three

0:19:06cordell hindler

0:19:08ronnie polonsky

0:19:10and tracy rosenberg

0:19:12thank you oh good evening uh mayor pudio

0:19:15kimono council i'm caudeline the

0:19:17richmond so hang on is the microphone on

0:19:21okay thank you

0:19:24so good evening uh mayor purdue okimoto

0:19:26council i am cordell handler richmond so

0:19:29i do want to thank the council for

0:19:31having the folks from pg e come last

0:19:33month um it was really uh an

0:19:36amazing uh presentation so i want to put

0:19:38that on record so that's one then number

0:19:40two is um if you recall at the last

0:19:43meeting when i um when i was doing some

0:19:45some analysis on commercial property

0:19:48around el cerrito and here here's a

0:19:51shock

0:19:52i i was disappointed that one of our

0:19:54former businesses the dollar tree they

0:19:57they were gone because it's like it

0:19:58hurts the community at large i live

0:20:01right near uh the site and when i heard

0:20:03that they that the dollar tree was gone

0:20:05i was like

0:20:07unbelievable we lost another business

0:20:10in this community

0:20:11and now they're gonna put it like you

0:20:12know

0:20:13a successor of of the dollar tree i do

0:20:16not think so we want businesses to come

0:20:19to el cerrito but now now that adidas is

0:20:21going to come in i guarantee you um i

0:20:24say give about two months notice because

0:20:26they're going to be out of here just

0:20:28that quick because it's only it's

0:20:29hurting the community that have been

0:20:31shopping at the dollar tree for a long

0:20:33time and for other new businesses that

0:20:35come into el cerrito they don't want to

0:20:37come in there and invest their money um

0:20:40in our commercial property because it's

0:20:42like as a as a business owner per se

0:20:45i would not invest not one cent of my

0:20:47money

0:20:48in el sorto don't get me wrong i love el

0:20:50cerrito but the high cost of

0:20:52running a business is getting too pricey

0:20:55you got people in other other cities

0:20:57like berkeley and lafayette their rent

0:20:59is like is less than you would pay in

0:21:01here so

0:21:03i'm

0:21:03i'm totally uh happy about you know

0:21:06bringing want to bring more businesses

0:21:07to el cerrito but

0:21:09but putting another another knockoff uh

0:21:12the dd's i'm not i'm not so convinced

0:21:14about that because you got a number of

0:21:16people that have been shopping over

0:21:17there for a long time so it's been one

0:21:19and a half minutes thank you so ronnie

0:21:21it's all yours

0:21:23ronnie polanski okay

0:21:26are you going to be um

0:21:34okay thank you go ahead i'm ronnie

0:21:36palonsky and i live on lexington avenue

0:21:40um i guess i'm here tonight for my

0:21:42neighbors or should i say my ex

0:21:43neighbors debbie and diane debbie lives

0:21:46in the house across the street for 25

0:21:48years with two children there alone and

0:21:51diane raised her two daughters in the

0:21:52house next door to daddy's where she

0:21:54lived for 17 years

0:21:56both homes are owned by the same

0:21:58mom-and-pop landlord and both were

0:22:00evicted neither one was offered a chance

0:22:02to pay increased rent and both are gone

0:22:04leaving two big empty houses across the

0:22:06street from me it is unbelievable to me

0:22:09that the city council reports to

0:22:11represent renters as well as homeowners

0:22:13in the city of 41 renters not only did

0:22:16you not stand up to the august park

0:22:18residents who failed to stand up for any

0:22:20protections for renters in this city the

0:22:23just cause ordinance that you actually

0:22:24asked was toothless and only covered a

0:22:26minority of residents it offered

0:22:28landlords full eviction protection for

0:22:30any illegal activity nuisance failure to

0:22:32pay when property destruction is better

0:22:36without rent stabilization here the

0:22:38landlord could still remove any unwanted

0:22:40tenant by raising the front high enough

0:22:41to cause them to move i'm frankly

0:22:44disgusted by this council's computer

0:22:46will stand up to the california

0:22:47apartment association's thirty thousand

0:22:49dollar effort to repeal this ordinance

0:22:51if we had thirty thousand 000 we could

0:22:53have gotten that many signatures too

0:22:56this will not go away despite the

0:22:58millions the apartment association will

0:22:59continue to spend to hurt the most

0:23:01vulnerable in our cities thank you

0:23:03thank you

0:23:05tracy rosenberg please hold your

0:23:07applause

0:23:08thank you

0:23:11um good evening council members tracy

0:23:14rosenberg i'm here on behalf of oakland

0:23:16privacy which is a

0:23:18regional citizens group that focuses on

0:23:21increased

0:23:24transparency and regulation

0:23:27around the use of surveillance and

0:23:29spying

0:23:31equipment

0:23:32i'd hope to have three minutes to give

0:23:34you a little bit of detail but i'll have

0:23:37to kind of cut to the chase

0:23:39um i've been working with el cerrito

0:23:41progressives and also with your police

0:23:43chief

0:23:44regarding the possibility of bringing

0:23:46some surveillance equipment regulation

0:23:49here this kind of regulation which is in

0:23:51effect in san francisco and oakland and

0:23:53berkeley and davis and palo alto and

0:23:55bart basically focuses on the

0:23:58appropriate uses of surveillance

0:24:01equipment and also

0:24:03defining

0:24:04what kinds of equipment uses might be

0:24:06inappropriate or

0:24:08undesirable in your town

0:24:11i've had some great meetings with your

0:24:13police chief he suggested a couple of

0:24:15changes we made them all of them as far

0:24:17as i know and now we're a bit stuck

0:24:20nothing has happened in several months

0:24:23so i'm basically coming here to ask you

0:24:25guys what's up and what do we need

0:24:28to do to bring this to the council for

0:24:30your consideration i think it's good

0:24:33legislation it's been proven in cities

0:24:35and counties all over the bay area

0:24:37as you know technology is marching

0:24:40faster and faster and faster there have

0:24:42been conversations in oakland and san

0:24:44francisco about things like facial

0:24:46recognition science fiction type style

0:24:49technologies which are right in in front

0:24:51of us now so it's an important subject

0:24:53and i hope that we can do something to

0:24:54sort of break this clock jam and start

0:24:57to have this conversation here thank you

0:24:59thank you the next three speakers are

0:25:01kathy hanville

0:25:03buddy

0:25:06and terry

0:25:07tapen kaplan

0:25:13hi my name is kathy hanville and i've

0:25:15lived in el cerrito for 15 years

0:25:18i'm following up on what tracy said

0:25:20about the um the need for el cerrito to

0:25:22have a surveillance ordinance

0:25:24as she stated technology has changed at

0:25:27lightning speed

0:25:28this means the abuses of technology are

0:25:30also increasing for example how ice uses

0:25:33these surveillance databases

0:25:35to help them round up immigrants in our

0:25:37community

0:25:38i also recognize that many in our

0:25:40community feel safer with some

0:25:42surveillance in places such as cameras

0:25:44on the bar path

0:25:45so acknowledging that there is both a

0:25:47lot of potential for abuse and a lot of

0:25:49people

0:25:50that support use of surveillance

0:25:52technology for safety where's the

0:25:54balance

0:25:55what we are asking for is an ordinance

0:25:57to establish procedures for how such

0:25:59technology is brought into our community

0:26:01this ordinance would formalize a process

0:26:04similar to the one chief keith used when

0:26:06ecpd brought in body-worn cameras

0:26:08it would require that there be a public

0:26:10hearing for discussion and that the city

0:26:12council would approve any new

0:26:14technologies

0:26:16as tracy said san francisco oakland and

0:26:18berkeley have all passed such ordinances

0:26:20oakland's being one of the most

0:26:21stringent in the country san francisco

0:26:24also subsequently passed a facial

0:26:26recognition ban thank you for your time

0:26:28thank you

0:26:30next speaker is buddy akka sich

0:26:39i've got all kinds of stuff really

0:26:41cogent and persuasive

0:26:43and like which which part do i leave out

0:26:47but

0:26:48six if you ever take those tests like

0:26:50you

0:26:50read these six things and pick out

0:26:52something that doesn't belong

0:26:54okay these six things

0:26:57honor gardens

0:26:59el cerrito city hall

0:27:02police department

0:27:03the fire department

0:27:05life in christ church

0:27:07midtown activity center

0:27:09now i had a conversation with flavio

0:27:12following up from what we did before

0:27:14and i presented him with that document

0:27:16with

0:27:17his words that i typed up

0:27:20and when i hand it to him for him to

0:27:22check it out he's is that a sales

0:27:24document

0:27:25he's ready to go

0:27:28the other thing he said that i thought

0:27:30was really interesting was uh it said

0:27:32flavio

0:27:34it looks to me like you're essentially

0:27:36serving 18 people for two hours once a

0:27:38week

0:27:40and he said well that's not entirely

0:27:42true

0:27:43how could it be

0:27:45but it's not far from the truth

0:27:55i've got so much other stuff for you

0:27:56guys but i'm going to sacrifice my time

0:27:59to give it to somebody but i'll get back

0:28:01to you thank you

0:28:03thank you

0:28:05the next speaker is terry taplin

0:28:14good evening i'm terry uh yeah i live in

0:28:17berkeley um

0:28:18i am on the transportation commission

0:28:21for the city i am uh

0:28:23running a next year's election i'm right

0:28:24there on san pablo i am your neighbor

0:28:27um

0:28:28[Music]

0:28:29um i i think that

0:28:31[Music]

0:28:33to repeal just cause um i think is a bad

0:28:36idea i think as a region um

0:28:39even though the city is quite small um i

0:28:42think all of our decisions

0:28:44up in downtown pablo are going to

0:28:46ricochet throughout the region

0:28:48um i certainly think of you all often

0:28:51i think that it is

0:28:53behooves us

0:28:54climate wise to keep people in the homes

0:28:56they are they've grown up in i myself

0:29:00am fortunate to have a very close

0:29:02uh familial tie with my own landlady um

0:29:06and i grew up

0:29:07in a tight-knit community um and we were

0:29:10all able to uh learn from each other and

0:29:13i think that allowing uh

0:29:15landlords to evict people

0:29:18um without just cause

0:29:20uh will kind of disrupt

0:29:22a lot of the beautiful things we've been

0:29:24able to kind of create together as uh

0:29:26sister cities i've been downtown pablo

0:29:28thank you

0:29:29thank you

0:29:30the next speaker is matthew

0:29:34and actually the next three speakers are

0:29:36matthew ali leahy and ann oganowski

0:29:47good evening uh honorable mayor and city

0:29:49council members my name is matthew i'm a

0:29:51proud member of east bay dsa

0:29:54i have a lot of experience working on

0:29:55affordable housing um actually writing

0:29:57my uh my undergrad thesis on affordable

0:30:00housing i've served on the board of

0:30:02pretty large affordable uh housing

0:30:03nonprofit as well um and so it's

0:30:06extremely disappointing to me um and

0:30:09frankly unacceptable um you know reading

0:30:11the minutes from the last council

0:30:12meeting and seeing that this council

0:30:14overwhelmingly decided to stand with

0:30:17landlords over

0:30:19over renters

0:30:21who are often just being priced out and

0:30:24unable to afford to to live in the east

0:30:27bay um this or this um

0:30:30um this just cause a vixen protects an

0:30:33ordinance it's not even that strong of

0:30:35an ordinance the uh you all should not

0:30:37be voting to repeal you should be

0:30:39putting it on the bout the only

0:30:40acceptable reason to to repeal the

0:30:42ordinance would be if you were because

0:30:44you were instead going to send a

0:30:45stronger measure and i didn't see any

0:30:47discussion of that in the minutes from

0:30:49the last meeting it's frankly unex

0:30:50that's frankly unacceptable

0:30:52to not to not stand with people who are

0:30:54being priced out um

0:30:56vote to places on the ballot don't vote

0:30:58don't vote to or put a real ordinance on

0:31:02the ballot i was like say i'm the berry

0:31:03regional director for the california

0:31:04young democrats young dems will remember

0:31:06which members of the city council stand

0:31:08with with young folks being priced out

0:31:10and widths of you stand with landlords

0:31:12profiting from the crisis as i know will

0:31:13dsa so remember that when you're up for

0:31:16um re-election be it next year or in uh

0:31:182022.

0:31:20i'm sorry you're your place of residence

0:31:22um i'm live in berkeley where i'm also a

0:31:25proud former member of the housing

0:31:26advisory commission so another one of my

0:31:29many experiences on affordable housing

0:31:31thank you next speaker ali leahy

0:31:36hi there my name is ali leahy and i'm

0:31:38the co-chair of the housing committee

0:31:40and on the steering committee of the

0:31:41east bay democratic socialist of america

0:31:44representing 2 000 members across the

0:31:46east bay it's an outrage that a

0:31:48corporate landlord group the california

0:31:50apartment association can drop in and

0:31:52spend 30 thousand dollars in the span of

0:31:55a few weeks to gut just cause eviction

0:31:58ordinance this is not the first time

0:32:00this has happened in the east bay

0:32:02corporate landlord interest groups have

0:32:03historically dropped into cities like

0:32:05richmond and concord to defeat basic

0:32:07tenant protection ordinances from

0:32:09passing

0:32:10why is big real estate so interested in

0:32:12repealing these protections corporate

0:32:14landlords have one interest in mind and

0:32:16that's being able to freely evict

0:32:17tenants as they please in order to make

0:32:19a higher profit

0:32:21just down south in alamedia in alameda

0:32:23the media has reported an elder a

0:32:26holocaust survivor who has been recently

0:32:28who's recently been a target of eviction

0:32:30for the explicit purpose to make more

0:32:32money for the landlord

0:32:34as city council you should be answering

0:32:36to the working people of your district

0:32:38and not corporate landlords desperately

0:32:40shelling out campaign cash to maintain

0:32:41the ridiculous profit margins in the

0:32:43city so i urge you to take this off the

0:32:45consent calendar vote no on the repeal

0:32:47and fight for this eviction protection

0:32:49for the tenants of el cerrito thank you

0:32:51excuse me your place of residence please

0:32:54i'm in oakland thank you

0:32:56next speaker is ann oganowski

0:33:04and i live in el cerrito

0:33:06the last 20 years

0:33:07just

0:33:08an invitation and announcement

0:33:11to alert people to the fact that the

0:33:12friends of five creeks of which i am a

0:33:14member and a board member and a

0:33:16volunteer for over 20 years

0:33:19host uh educational series throughout

0:33:21the school year

0:33:23on the second tuesday of every month at

0:33:25st albums parish hall

0:33:27this is these are not political talks

0:33:29they are informational and educational

0:33:32our

0:33:33september october november talks will be

0:33:36on seaweed

0:33:38various uses of seaweed on sustainable

0:33:41energy

0:33:42and

0:33:44the islands in the san francisco bay

0:33:47so this just to invite you to come to

0:33:49these and i've got postcards with the

0:33:51dates on them i don't know if it's

0:33:53appropriate to leave them

0:33:55outside but if you

0:33:57tap me on the shoulder i'll give you as

0:33:58many as you want

0:34:00uh thank you

0:34:01thank you

0:34:03next three speakers

0:34:05are kelsey waldron

0:34:07david hall

0:34:08and shellen wells

0:34:16members

0:34:17my name is kelsey waldron i'm an oakland

0:34:19resident

0:34:20attendance rights attorney in the east

0:34:22bay and i'm also a member of the east

0:34:24bay democratic socialist of america

0:34:27i would like to read a statement from an

0:34:28el cerrito resident and an east bay dsa

0:34:31member who could not make it here to

0:34:32speak to you today

0:34:34arlene joyce is a disabled resident of

0:34:37el cerrito and she wanted very much to

0:34:39be here today to speak to you

0:34:42however she's disabled and walks with a

0:34:43cane very slowly so she understandably

0:34:46could not make it here to speak to you

0:34:48this evening here is her statement

0:34:50my name is arlene joyce i live at [address removed]

0:34:54norvelle street here in el cerrito

0:34:57i have lived in el cerrito for 42 years

0:35:00i was a tenant for the first 16 years

0:35:03before becoming a homeowner

0:35:05i also purchased a rental property in el

0:35:08cerrito and rented it out for 20 years

0:35:11before selling it

0:35:12i strongly believe that tenants should

0:35:16be evicted only for just cause

0:35:19i support the ordinance as written and

0:35:21ask that you not repeal it

0:35:23ms joyce myself and east bay dsa ask

0:35:27that you remove the ordinance to repeal

0:35:29just cause protections from the consent

0:35:31calendar today

0:35:32and that the decision to be put to about

0:35:35to a ballot to be voted on by the

0:35:37residents of el salvador thank you

0:35:40thank you next speaker david hall

0:35:48good evening my name is david hall

0:35:50although i live in berkeley i did live

0:35:51in el cerrito for many years while i was

0:35:53in law school and thereafter until i had

0:35:55to move in to take care of a terminally

0:35:57ill relative

0:35:59i am a tenants rights attorney at the

0:36:01east bay community law center and i've

0:36:02been practicing in this area for over 10

0:36:04years i'm also a homeowner and i have

0:36:06family members who are landlords that

0:36:08said i strongly encourage the calendar

0:36:11the council and request that the

0:36:12ordinance to repeal the just cause

0:36:14ordinance be taken off the consent

0:36:15calendar and be given separate

0:36:17consideration the just cause for

0:36:19eviction ordinance should stay on the

0:36:20books and be decided by the members of

0:36:22el cerrito at the ballot measure at the

0:36:24voting booth

0:36:26i practice in cities with just cause

0:36:28protection like oakland and berkeley and

0:36:30i practice in those without them like

0:36:31concord and richmond and it is night and

0:36:33day in terms of the displacement of the

0:36:35most

0:36:36the most

0:36:38a vulnerable residence of cities without

0:36:40eviction protections without just cause

0:36:42for evictions families with children the

0:36:44elderly people with disabilities

0:36:46these people are easily evicted when

0:36:49they do not have to be caused the people

0:36:51who are evicted sometimes have to leave

0:36:53the city

0:36:54the region sometimes the state some of

0:36:56these folks will end up homeless i

0:36:58myself have had clients who are evicted

0:37:00and died on the streets

0:37:02there is a housing crisis i think that

0:37:04goes without question and i think just

0:37:06to clear up a misconception this is not

0:37:08saying that tenants should have carte

0:37:09blanche to stay in a place forever just

0:37:12cause eviction just means if you

0:37:15have to have a cause to evict someone if

0:37:16you didn't pay the rent if you violated

0:37:18the lease it's very very simple this

0:37:21should be decided at the ballot box

0:37:24thank you

0:37:25next speaker shalane wells

0:37:30good evening council my name is shaolin

0:37:32wells i'm an albany resident and i'm an

0:37:34attorney at the east bay community law

0:37:36center

0:37:37tonight i'm asking that the ordinance to

0:37:39repeal the just cause ordinance be taken

0:37:41off the consent calendar and given

0:37:43separate consideration

0:37:44the question of whether the just cause

0:37:46ordinance should be repealed should go

0:37:48to the ballot to the people who will be

0:37:50affected the people who stand to be

0:37:52displaced in this housing crisis

0:37:55and as my colleague mentioned these are

0:37:56people who are paying rent who aren't

0:37:58violating their release the whole point

0:38:00of just cause is to have a reason to

0:38:02evict someone these are people for whom

0:38:05this ordinance may be the only thing

0:38:07standing between them

0:38:09and housing stability or homelessness

0:38:13they're being put to a choice between

0:38:15being homeless in the east bay where

0:38:17they've been living for 42 years 17

0:38:20years

0:38:21all these things that people have said

0:38:23or housed maybe outside of the bay area

0:38:26or outside of california

0:38:28all that we ask is that people be able

0:38:29to vote on whether or not their landlord

0:38:32should have a just cause a reason to put

0:38:34them out of their homes

0:38:35this question is dire in a climate where

0:38:37affordable housing and stable housing is

0:38:40difficult to find and long-term

0:38:42residents are being pushed farther and

0:38:43farther out of the bay and into poverty

0:38:46uprooted from their home from their jobs

0:38:48children taken out of schools for no

0:38:50cause

0:38:51thank you thank you

0:38:54the next three speakers are robin

0:38:56mitchell

0:38:57will shattuck

0:38:59and tim

0:39:01kessnich

0:39:03kesnick

0:39:06so my name is robin mitchell i'm an

0:39:08illustrator resident and i guess i have

0:39:10one question because i was going to

0:39:12speak on

0:39:13the consent calendar item 4b which is

0:39:15the climate emergency resolution if

0:39:17that's going to be pulled and discussed

0:39:19separately i would want to make my

0:39:21comment then but i don't know if there

0:39:23will be no separate discussions this is

0:39:26going to be all the comments for all of

0:39:27the items okay great thanks

0:39:29so i want to thank you at city council

0:39:31for acting so quickly to add el

0:39:33cerrito's voice to the climate emergency

0:39:35resolution movement that is emerging in

0:39:37the bay area and around the world i know

0:39:39it's difficult to shift paradigms and

0:39:42understand there needs to be fundamental

0:39:44change in how we as a species conduct

0:39:46our lives this is a start i hope you

0:39:49will act as quickly as possible to

0:39:50update the climate action plan which is

0:39:52the vehicle you are using to address the

0:39:54climate emergency i'd like to read an

0:39:56excerpt from a very powerful poem called

0:39:58the hieroglyphic stairway by drew

0:40:00dellinger written in 2003.

0:40:04it's 3 23 in the morning and i'm awake

0:40:07because my great great grandchildren

0:40:09won't let me sleep

0:40:12my great-great-grandchildren asked me in

0:40:14dreams

0:40:16what did you do while the planet was

0:40:18plundered what did you do when the earth

0:40:20was unraveling

0:40:22surely you did something when the

0:40:24seasons started failing as the mammals

0:40:27reptiles birds were all dying

0:40:30did you fill the streets with protests

0:40:32when democracy was stolen

0:40:34what did you do once you knew thank you

0:40:48[Music]

0:40:50next speaker is will shattuck

0:40:54uh good evening mayor council my name is

0:40:56will shattuck i use they them pronouns

0:40:59and i am born and raised in oakland

0:41:01california and i was evicted from my

0:41:04rental property two years ago i missed

0:41:06us getting just cause eviction

0:41:08protections by about three months

0:41:11uh i'm also the social housing co-chair

0:41:13of the east bay democratic socialist of

0:41:15america and you've heard a lot of

0:41:16powerful stories from tenants and

0:41:18activists here tonight and i want to

0:41:20provide a little bit more context for

0:41:23who we're up against

0:41:25right

0:41:26global real estate is worth

0:41:29216 trillion dollars it is worth 36

0:41:33times the amount of gold ever mined in

0:41:36human history it is no coincidence that

0:41:39donald trump is a real estate developer

0:41:42these are the people who are buying up

0:41:44our cities and destroying the lives of

0:41:47tenants and low-income home owners like

0:41:49they did in 2008 and continue to do to

0:41:52this day

0:41:54i would urge you

0:41:56to stand with tenants and support this

0:41:58just cause eviction protection pull it

0:42:00off the consent calendar and stand with

0:42:02it we're put in a position where it is

0:42:05people

0:42:06versus profit

0:42:0737

0:42:09of all home sales in the us in 2016 were

0:42:12to absentee investors these homes are

0:42:15not going to new owners they're going to

0:42:17absent corporations and landlords making

0:42:20a quick buck

0:42:23it is the question of do we stand with

0:42:26those who are most vulnerable in our

0:42:27cities and our communities or do we

0:42:29stand with billionaires overseas thank

0:42:32you thank you

0:42:34next speaker is tim keshnik

0:42:40hi my name is tim kieschnick i'm a

0:42:41resident of el cerrito

0:42:43and i want to thank the council and the

0:42:45city for the work that you've done in

0:42:46the ongoing work with regard to climate

0:42:48change

0:42:49and i encourage you to take the next

0:42:51step tonight with the declaration of a

0:42:53climate emergency i think it deserves

0:42:55your support for three reasons

0:42:58the first is the more visibility we give

0:42:59this to this the better

0:43:02the second is that it

0:43:04challenges us locally as a community

0:43:07to take our work with climate change to

0:43:09the next level both in terms of the

0:43:12speed and urgency and with regard to how

0:43:14far we take it

0:43:15and the third is that the declaration

0:43:17positions this as

0:43:19a community action that takes place

0:43:22in a larger world with our partners in

0:43:25other cities at the state level and the

0:43:27federal level so i strongly encourage

0:43:29you to support the resolution when it

0:43:31comes up in a few minutes thanks

0:43:34next three speakers are kathy durbin

0:43:37mallory cremin

0:43:48good evening mayor and city council

0:43:49members my name is kelsey durbin i live

0:43:51in berkeley but i work with 350 bay area

0:43:52which has a number of members here in el

0:43:54cerrito

0:43:56first of all i want to thank you for

0:43:57your leadership in staring down the

0:43:59climate crisis and looking at how you

0:44:02can strengthen and mobilize el cerrito's

0:44:04response resolve an action on climate

0:44:06change locally

0:44:08and work with others around the bay area

0:44:10to promote strong and equitable climate

0:44:12solutions

0:44:13all of us wish we were not facing

0:44:17this global climate emergency

0:44:19our children youth and future

0:44:21generations

0:44:23wish that they did not have to grow up

0:44:25facing this

0:44:27growing crisis

0:44:29vulnerable and developing countries

0:44:31island nations and indigenous

0:44:33communities around the world who have

0:44:34contributed almost nothing to our rising

0:44:37temperatures and

0:44:39rising sea level wish the same

0:44:42but here we are

0:44:44we know that el cerrito has been working

0:44:46on a number of efforts

0:44:48the way we see it cities and community

0:44:50members around the bay area

0:44:52need to rise up

0:44:55together as never before

0:44:57except perhaps doing work during wartime

0:44:59efforts for we are in a climate

0:45:01emergency if you lived lived

0:45:04in paradise or santa rosa or napa or

0:45:07ventura or santa barbara

0:45:09you are in a climate emergency and

0:45:12responding to it today

0:45:14and i would include in that

0:45:15a few miles from here the people that

0:45:17live in the shadows of the oil refinery

0:45:20thank you

0:45:22so um regional efforts the way to go

0:45:24please join us we look forward to

0:45:26working with you okay thank you

0:45:28next speaker mallory

0:45:30kremen hi i'm mallory kremen i'm in el

0:45:34cerrito

0:45:35and thank you for all that you do

0:45:38for us

0:45:39we are in a climate emergency

0:45:41um

0:45:42there's nothing more important than the

0:45:44health of our planet if we do nothing

0:45:46global temperatures are going to rise

0:45:48above four degrees

0:45:49whereas if we do everything incred we

0:45:52possibly possibly can we could stave it

0:45:55off at maybe one and a half degrees and

0:45:57then heal from there we need our leaders

0:46:01to help us do this so i appreciate

0:46:04you listening to our plea um we're

0:46:06addicted to carbon we need leaders to

0:46:09get us off of it i'm addicted to carbon

0:46:10i drove here you know um

0:46:13so as a mem i'm also a member of

0:46:15citizens climate lobby i advocate for a

0:46:17carbon tax

0:46:19uh and dividend 100 back to the people

0:46:22but i um and i think anything any small

0:46:25and big possible thing we can do to

0:46:29curb global warming to reduce our use of

0:46:32carbon

0:46:34is

0:46:34is is going to benefit everybody so um

0:46:38so we need you

0:46:40i'm asking you to lead us to the

0:46:42solutions

0:46:43i'm asking you to declare a climate

0:46:45emergency film thank you thank you

0:46:48next speaker bob mcdonald

0:47:04can you move the microphone a little bit

0:47:05closer

0:47:07that's better

0:47:09we need to start

0:47:10taking very seriously threats posed by

0:47:13global warming

0:47:14and i have uh

0:47:17sort of my own personal

0:47:19keeping track of what is going on

0:47:23more and more serious

0:47:24aspect of

0:47:27problems with global

0:47:30warming

0:47:31i've kept papers for the last two years

0:47:34um articles that have actually

0:47:36show

0:47:39that things are getting more serious

0:47:42so

0:47:44you have to do something about it

0:47:48i'll say this i'll say something a

0:47:50little bit different

0:47:57let me ask the question what what is el

0:48:00cerrito going to do

0:48:02facing this change in the seriousness of

0:48:05climate change

0:48:08well

0:48:09i went to the

0:48:102030 13

0:48:13climate action plan

0:48:15and discovered that there are only four

0:48:19actual

0:48:20hearts

0:48:21to

0:48:23um

0:48:24the participation of

0:48:27people in in this this

0:48:29class

0:48:31um i'm sorry but your time is up 30

0:48:34seconds

0:48:35that was that was it the light was 30

0:48:37seconds and now it's the time is up

0:48:42okay

0:48:43what we need to do is to

0:48:45certainly pass

0:48:47this

0:48:50form on

0:48:52the emergency but also i would have

0:48:55everybody

0:48:56take a look at these brochures which are

0:48:59on the table

0:49:02[Music]

0:49:05okay thank you very much

0:49:10the next speaker next three speakers are

0:49:13david mccord

0:49:15evan starr

0:49:16and miguel espino

0:49:24i'm david mccord i live in el cerrito

0:49:29and i'm really happy that we're doing

0:49:31the declaration

0:49:33of climate emergency

0:49:35and mobilization

0:49:37tonight

0:49:40and the declaration

0:49:43recognizes that this is a global problem

0:49:46and i've got a story

0:49:48in 2011 i visited

0:49:52new zealand

0:49:53and stood on the moraine

0:49:55of the largest

0:49:57valley glacier

0:49:59200

0:50:00300 feet below me it was a meltwater

0:50:03lake

0:50:04an interpretive sign beside me said 100

0:50:08years ago i would have had to climb onto

0:50:10the glacier at that point

0:50:13that made an impression

0:50:16and the millions of people around the

0:50:18world

0:50:19depend on

0:50:24on

0:50:26on melt water from glaciers being there

0:50:29in the summer to grow their crops

0:50:33thank you

0:50:35next speaker is evan starr

0:50:42hello thank you all um i am a el cerrito

0:50:45resident and i'm also a soil scientist

0:50:47and climate change researcher and i

0:50:49would just like to urge you to accept

0:50:52this declaration of a climate emergency

0:50:54and not stop there

0:50:55this this is actually going to be much

0:50:57worse than we think it is and it's only

0:51:00going to get more troubling and more

0:51:03difficult from here thank you very much

0:51:05thank you

0:51:07next speaker miguel espino

0:51:23good evening

0:51:27my name is miguel espino and i'm an el

0:51:29cerrito resident

0:51:31of

0:51:32over 20 years

0:51:35i here to talk about greed

0:51:39and

0:51:42greed

0:51:43has surfaced its ugly head in el cerrito

0:51:47reed is hurtful

0:51:49it's divisive

0:51:52and exploitative

0:51:54much like the things that are done in

0:51:56the nation's white house

0:52:01i spell greed

0:52:03with his acronym caa

0:52:06california

0:52:09apartments association

0:52:12the caa has lied and misled

0:52:16el cerrito residents and collecting

0:52:18signatures to overturn the el cerrito

0:52:21council's decisions and policy making

0:52:25including

0:52:26our tenants

0:52:28so i come here tonight

0:52:30both haven't been a tenant for

0:52:3440 years

0:52:36um

0:52:36and now a property owner know what

0:52:38that's like as opposed to having to pay

0:52:41rent

0:52:42um

0:52:44to stand up for the 9 000

0:52:48tenants

0:52:49who currently reside in el cerrito

0:52:52that's 9 000 tenants who vote

0:52:55on election day

0:52:57thank you for your comments

0:53:03the next three speakers are howdy gowdy

0:53:06denise dennis

0:53:08and javonka beckles

0:53:14good evening mayor and council members

0:53:16my name is howdy gowdy i live in el

0:53:17cerrito so first i want to

0:53:20strongly uh

0:53:24support the climate emergency

0:53:27declaration

0:53:28that you're adopting i'm very happy that

0:53:30you're doing it

0:53:32and i hope that

0:53:33i appreciate the the strong language to

0:53:35you know

0:53:37improve

0:53:38our

0:53:39our climate action plan and i hope that

0:53:40you will

0:53:42put the resources behind doing that and

0:53:44and move very swiftly um

0:53:47i'm

0:53:48slipping on that just because i am

0:53:50really heartened by all the speakers who

0:53:52have come and and talked about the just

0:53:55cause ordinance as you know i've been

0:53:57before you many times here but i think

0:53:59this is a great grassroots showing that

0:54:01was not paid by a business organization

0:54:04to

0:54:05gather signatures they showed up because

0:54:07they're community-minded people who want

0:54:09the best for their community and they're

0:54:11asking you who have the power to do

0:54:13better for your community to actually do

0:54:15it and i ask you to reflect on your

0:54:18responsibility to just put this on the

0:54:21ballot that's what every signature that

0:54:22was gathered as misleading as they were

0:54:25they were asked do you want to vote on

0:54:27this and that's what you should give

0:54:28them the opportunity to do let them vote

0:54:30let the community speak and do not be

0:54:33beholden to you know a minority special

0:54:36interest thank you next speaker is

0:54:39denise dennis

0:54:44good evening mayor and city council

0:54:46members my name is denise dennis and i'm

0:54:47a volunteer with 350 east bay and 1 000

0:54:50grandmothers for future generations and

0:54:52i live in osarido

0:54:54thank you for considering the climate

0:54:56emergency resolution and supporting

0:54:57local and statewide emergency

0:55:00mobilization efforts to restore a safe

0:55:02and stable environment the city is

0:55:04indeed to be commended for past

0:55:06leadership for decreasing

0:55:08greenhouse gases

0:55:10the climate emergency that we are now

0:55:12facing requires a much stronger urgent

0:55:14approach to address climate change the

0:55:17current climate action plan was adopted

0:55:19six years ago which in the science was

0:55:22may as well be 100 years ago

0:55:25is inadequate to get us to the new

0:55:27california goal set by the

0:55:29governor's 2018 executive order to

0:55:32achieve carbon neutrality

0:55:34no later than 2045. the un

0:55:37intergovernmental panel on climate

0:55:39change reported last fall that we have

0:55:41just 12 years which is 11 years now

0:55:44to maintain the global temperature

0:55:46increase below 1.5

0:55:48degrees to avert the worst possible

0:55:52outcomes

0:55:53and that we must

0:55:54do this decrea to we have to decrease

0:55:57our greenhouse gas emissions by 50

0:55:59percent in just 10 years by 2030. well

0:56:02updating the climate action plan is an

0:56:04important step waiting for the plan to

0:56:06be completed prior to action

0:56:09may set us back for at least another two

0:56:11years i urge you to take the climate

0:56:14emergency seriously

0:56:16and support citywide emergency actions

0:56:18as soon as possible thank you for doing

0:56:21the right thing for our city for our

0:56:22youth and for the world we're all going

0:56:24to be needed to fight this thank you

0:56:26thank you

0:56:27the next speaker is jovanka beckles

0:56:33mayor council members my name is and i'm

0:56:36a richmond resident

0:56:38and

0:56:39why why should i care what happens in el

0:56:42cerrito

0:56:43why should any one of these

0:56:45speakers who are from oakland care what

0:56:48happens in el cerrito why should anybody

0:56:50else who doesn't live here care

0:56:52because an injustice to one

0:56:55is an injustice to all of us what

0:56:57happens in el cerrito absolutely affects

0:56:59us in richmond it affects oakland it

0:57:01affects all of the neighboring cities

0:57:03because when

0:57:04when renters are evicted for no cause

0:57:07for no reason

0:57:09we will continue to see

0:57:10the homeless population

0:57:13increase

0:57:14and we all are seeing that happening

0:57:17every day

0:57:18it's getting worse and it's your it's

0:57:20your duty and you're up you know an

0:57:21obligation

0:57:22that we stand here to ask you to let the

0:57:25voters decide

0:57:27you know the california apartment

0:57:28association they did the same thing in

0:57:30richmond because it's the same game plan

0:57:32you go and you lie to people and you get

0:57:34them to sign these uh petitions

0:57:37and then you

0:57:38you you bully your way to the councils

0:57:41and the local

0:57:42elected and say you can't compete with

0:57:45our money because we're gonna we're

0:57:46gonna kill you no you can't compete with

0:57:49our money

0:57:51but there are some things really that

0:57:53money can't buy really and that's

0:57:55fairness and that's the that's the the

0:57:57right for everyone to be housed

0:58:00and so i ask you to do this because we

0:58:03they did the same thing they lied right

0:58:06and they got our our ordinance uh

0:58:09uh repealed thank you but we took it to

0:58:12the voters and the voters

0:58:14won we won

0:58:16thank you

0:58:17the next three speakers

0:58:19thank you

0:58:20the next three speakers are peter pan

0:58:23mary marcella

0:58:25and steve barton

0:58:32hi my name is peter j penn i'm a

0:58:35hospital resident i support the repeal

0:58:37of the

0:58:38just cause division

0:58:40it's simply that the money we don't have

0:58:46we

0:58:47spend a lot of money to put this

0:58:51bond measure

0:58:52to borrow six hundred thousand dollars

0:58:54for our pools on the ballot

0:58:58and

0:58:59giving that the fact that you know we

0:59:01might have fifty percent chance

0:59:03so actually we are almost like spending

0:59:0560 30 cents for a dollar to borrow so

0:59:08money is not cheap

0:59:10we just can't afford it

0:59:13and as to the global warming and all

0:59:15this emergency

0:59:17if you feel so strongly i i really have

0:59:20you know i support the declaration but

0:59:23if you want to commit a city's resource

0:59:26to social engineering

0:59:28and

0:59:29global warming

0:59:31well only i urge carson because our

0:59:34small city government's job is policing

0:59:38fire safety street lighting public

0:59:41facilities

0:59:42not social engineering or reversing go

0:59:45over me

0:59:49next speaker is mary marcella

1:00:05good evening good evening mayor and

1:00:07council members my name is mary marcella

1:00:09i am a resident of richmond california

1:00:12i am a renter and i've also been a

1:00:14landlord

1:00:15i'm currently i'm also a teacher

1:00:18and um our building was just recently

1:00:21purchased

1:00:22and um it's being renovated and um it's

1:00:24being done in such a way that

1:00:27of course the rents are going way up we

1:00:29might have to end up paying for it in

1:00:31part and even with rent control

1:00:34um and i want to say that i

1:00:37anyway and also the renovations are

1:00:38being done in such a way as to

1:00:41kind of without

1:00:42not subtly but

1:00:44a way of irritating us to the point

1:00:47of um

1:00:48us wanting to leave but there's nowhere

1:00:50else for us to go i would love to live

1:00:52in el cerrito i can't afford it so i ask

1:00:54that you not repeal ordinance

1:00:562019-04

1:00:58it's really important to have

1:01:00those protections there for renters

1:01:03and i don't think they're unreasonable

1:01:05at all i did read them and yes why would

1:01:07i care i live in richmond it doesn't

1:01:09affect me directly it does not but it

1:01:12does affect as from as area

1:01:16next to you know one city next to

1:01:17another city in condra costa county if

1:01:20we don't see consistent rules

1:01:22we're more vulnerable and i feel

1:01:24extremely vulnerable as a teacher um and

1:01:27as someone who rents i cannot move at

1:01:29this point to any other place in the bay

1:01:31area from where i live now

1:01:33and that's the truth

1:01:36next speaker is steve barton

1:01:43good evening

1:01:45um

1:01:45so i'm steve barton

1:01:4814-year resident of el cerrito

1:01:50long time though inactive member of the

1:01:52berkeley democratic club long time

1:01:55active member of the democratic

1:01:57socialists of america

1:02:00so you can declare a climate emergency

1:02:02but it seems like you can't manage to

1:02:05declare a housing emergency

1:02:07now i know you're all good people

1:02:10and yet

1:02:11you know that tenants are being

1:02:13displaced from their homes

1:02:15they're being pushed into poverty by

1:02:17rising rents they're being bankrupted

1:02:20so the question for you is

1:02:23are you going to let the california

1:02:25apartment association push you into

1:02:28moral bankruptcy

1:02:30or are you going to put something decent

1:02:32on the ballot the only reason

1:02:35that would be acceptable that would be

1:02:38reasonable that would be moral

1:02:40for repealing the good cause for

1:02:42eviction ordinance is to put real strong

1:02:45rent control with good cause for

1:02:47eviction on the ballot thank you

1:02:50thank you

1:02:51the next three speakers are sherry

1:02:53dropner

1:02:54eleanor's seraphina jodh

1:02:57sarafina john

1:02:58and mayna young

1:03:01good evening

1:03:02um i'm here to say goodbye to a few

1:03:04things today uh just yesterday the

1:03:07people of iceland

1:03:08farewell to a glacier that's now fully

1:03:11melted into a lake

1:03:12and um in this area they placed a plaque

1:03:16and it was really telling what it said

1:03:17it said

1:03:18you know we knew what had to be done and

1:03:21they're wondering when people look at

1:03:23this plaque 200 years from now the

1:03:25question is the question is

1:03:27you will know if we did it

1:03:30well i'm also going to say goodbye or

1:03:32farewell to this

1:03:35so-called rent ordinance

1:03:37that lasted for a nanosecond

1:03:40and goodbye to tenant protections that

1:03:43were aborted with thirty thousand

1:03:44dollars of outside money from the

1:03:46california apartment association

1:03:49and farewell to the residents who are

1:03:50vulnerable to unjustifiable rent hikes

1:03:53and farewell to residents who have to

1:03:55choose their medicines over their rent

1:03:58and other things

1:03:59so displacement is real

1:04:02and you all know what needs to be done

1:04:04and when we look back maybe two years

1:04:07from now the question will be

1:04:09well you know you will know if we did it

1:04:13thank you

1:04:14the next speaker is eleanor sarah

1:04:16finnegan

1:04:24i'm a long time resident of el cerrito

1:04:26since 1971 that makes the 48 years

1:04:30one of the

1:04:31people with the red shirts here tonight

1:04:34and i've enjoyed living in el cerrito

1:04:36and we have a very special way of life

1:04:38here and i want to thank the board the

1:04:40council for pat for passing the

1:04:42ordinance uh ordinance number 20 1904

1:04:46uh i was very dismayed see all these red

1:04:48shirts come in tonight because these

1:04:50people by and large don't live in el

1:04:52cerrito and they don't know what life is

1:04:54like in el cerrito maybe i don't think

1:04:56we have a housing emergency in el

1:04:58cerrito

1:04:59and

1:05:00at any rate one of the gentlemen

1:05:02mentioned that a lot of people are

1:05:04selling their homes to large

1:05:05corporations it's because of things like

1:05:08this all we hear about is tenants rights

1:05:09we don't hear anything about landlords

1:05:11rights one by one they're being stripped

1:05:13away

1:05:14and if this continues this is i will

1:05:16probably sell to a large corporation too

1:05:18who won't give a damn about their

1:05:19tenants

1:05:20uh we my husband and i both worked our

1:05:22butts off in the early years to acquire

1:05:24two rental houses in el cerrito we have

1:05:27a ream of documents thanking us from

1:05:29previous tenants for the wonderful time

1:05:32they had living as our attendance we

1:05:33were always fair

1:05:35and so i don't think it's fair to just

1:05:37punish all of us if once in a while we

1:05:39have a bad egg if we want to pick

1:05:41someone for what we feel is just cause

1:05:44you know

1:05:45that's we never have done that but at

1:05:47any rate i want to thank the board i

1:05:48hope you won't be influenced by outside

1:05:51influences trying to change your minds

1:05:52on what i think you did the right thing

1:05:54thank you so much

1:05:57next speaker is maina young

1:06:05my name is mayna young and i hear a lot

1:06:07of

1:06:08speakers saying how just cost is going

1:06:11to help

1:06:12keep the people in place and

1:06:15stop the rent from going up or you know

1:06:18something like that and as we can see

1:06:20from san francisco berkeley and oakland

1:06:22do we see those things uh helping i mean

1:06:25stage the just cost is not helping any

1:06:28of those people in those cities

1:06:30actually it's quickening gentrification

1:06:34making it harder for the vulnerable to

1:06:36find a place to live and making the cost

1:06:39of living higher

1:06:41in those cities

1:06:43and homelessness is one of the worst

1:06:46things in those cities

1:06:47we want el cerrito to become like that

1:06:51studies after studies

1:06:53and in reality just cost and rent

1:06:55control does not work it's only making

1:06:58things worse making costs higher

1:07:01making people's housing situations

1:07:03uncertain

1:07:04people who provide housing have

1:07:06uncertain risks actually is bottomless

1:07:10when the lawyers become vultures to hawk

1:07:14on you all the time and

1:07:16and looking for every nit and queenie to

1:07:19try to make money out of you so

1:07:22a lot of landlords no longer want to

1:07:23rent out in those places with just costs

1:07:27so

1:07:28we want to thank the council

1:07:30for repealing it and and please

1:07:33stay with the repeal of the just cause

1:07:36thank you

1:07:38the last three speakers on this item are

1:07:40eva drew christian roman and franklin

1:07:44leong

1:07:50thank you mayor and council members my

1:07:52name is eva chao and

1:07:54i in 2016 i brought in a homeless person

1:07:59to live at my place

1:08:00for almost 10 months and in that period

1:08:03i tried to i saw

1:08:05i saw a potential in him and i in that

1:08:08period i try to encourage him

1:08:10by working for me

1:08:12met to manage the properties and stuff

1:08:15so i definitely understand that housing

1:08:17is a human need

1:08:19but i do not believe that housing is a

1:08:22human right

1:08:23rights is something that you

1:08:25you earn

1:08:27and here in el cerrito

1:08:29like i wanted to ditto with this

1:08:3274 year old woman who's lived here since

1:08:341971 has said we do not see i don't know

1:08:38what

1:08:39these tenants rights group from other

1:08:42cities are talking about because in el

1:08:44cerrito i've seen that the rents have

1:08:46dropped 10 since three years ago

1:08:49and

1:08:50also um when i when we talk to

1:08:54people i mean we need to get the data on

1:08:57this at the county level

1:09:00on anything that's being you know filed

1:09:03lawsuit-wise but to just go on

1:09:05ideologies from other neighboring

1:09:07counties neighboring cities the reason

1:09:10why we're having

1:09:12a problem

1:09:13in the region is because

1:09:15just cause evictions and also rent

1:09:17controls in other counties are making

1:09:20things worse we've seen it firsthand in

1:09:23san francisco oakland berkeley and when

1:09:26you introduce this to a city that

1:09:28currently doesn't have any problem

1:09:30you're bringing problems here so i urge

1:09:32you to repeal

1:09:35uh to stay with your vote on 20

1:09:381904 thank you

1:09:41next speaker is christian roman

1:09:44hi hi council my name is christian roman

1:09:46i live in el cerrito i've been here for

1:09:47about 12 years

1:09:49i started out as a renter and now a

1:09:51proud homeowner

1:09:53home owner up on julian court and

1:09:56i'm here to support the just cause

1:09:59eviction

1:10:01ordinance because

1:10:02mostly just i don't

1:10:04appreciate the deception by the caa

1:10:07the people that came around our

1:10:08neighborhood and asked us to sign the

1:10:10ballot

1:10:11or sign the measure

1:10:13were extremely deceptive and i know

1:10:16after talking to over 100 of my

1:10:18neighbors 15 of us who signed it did not

1:10:21agree with what it ultimately turned out

1:10:23to be and

1:10:24we don't know how to get our names off

1:10:26and i have to believe that we're not

1:10:27alone in the city that this has got to

1:10:29be a bigger problem than just

1:10:31with just a small number of 15 people

1:10:34in my neighborhood alone it's got to be

1:10:36bigger in our whole nei in our whole

1:10:38city so i'd urge you to

1:10:40at least put it on the ballot and get it

1:10:43out there and really

1:10:44make this a legitimate uh repeal and not

1:10:48just one that's influenced by frankly

1:10:51one that i questioned the veracity of

1:10:52that

1:10:53all those names on that ballot thanks

1:10:55thank you

1:10:56and next speaker and last speaker is

1:10:58franklin leyong

1:11:08mayor and council members

1:11:11i've been

1:11:13making a rental business in about 40

1:11:16years

1:11:16in el cerrito and i live in el cerrito

1:11:21on july 2019 a tenant did not pay rent

1:11:25for 10 days

1:11:26so i gave him a three-day notice

1:11:30i received a phone call from the tenant

1:11:33he said if i don't take the three-day

1:11:35notice back

1:11:37i will hurt you

1:11:39i was scared

1:11:41because in july there were so many

1:11:43shooting

1:11:45i told my wife that night and i told my

1:11:49attorney the next day

1:11:52please tell me don't worry

1:11:56is there an adopted el cerrito municipal

1:11:59code

1:12:00one just caused a fiction prohibition

1:12:04prohibition on the restaurant on

1:12:06property owners

1:12:09if not why not

1:12:11worth the equality

1:12:13please please repeal that ordinance

1:12:17and

1:12:19i i don't know this

1:12:21this thing is going

1:12:24i heard too many of them

1:12:27tonight and last time

1:12:29last time most of the tenants were not

1:12:32here

1:12:34and

1:12:35thank you

1:12:38all right

1:12:40okay thank you everyone for your

1:12:42comments and now we will move on to the

1:12:45adoption of the consent calendar

1:12:48a approval of minutes b

1:12:50declaration of a climate emergency

1:12:54c ordinance to repeal

1:12:57ordinance

1:12:582019-04

1:13:01d cash investments report for the

1:13:04quarter ending june 30th 2019

1:13:07and e amendment to extend exclusive

1:13:10negotiating right

1:13:12agreement for

1:13:1461111 avenue

1:13:16and 113

1:13:19san pablo avenue

1:13:21and i will be pulling items b and c

1:13:32is there anything else that would like

1:13:33to be pulled

1:13:36or a motion to

1:13:38so i'll move approval of items 4a 4d and

1:13:424e second

1:13:45motion by lyman second by abelson all in

1:13:48favor

1:13:50goes opposed

1:13:52motion carries

1:13:56so first the

1:13:58climate emergency um i'd like to bring

1:14:01forward

1:14:02will provost

1:14:04where he will give us a

1:14:06short presentation on um

1:14:09on some of the things regarding the

1:14:11resolution

1:14:13yes good evening mayor city council and

1:14:15members of the public my name is will

1:14:17provost i'm the acting operations and

1:14:18environmental services division manager

1:14:21so just to provide some background to

1:14:23draft the resolution declaring a climate

1:14:25emergency city staff reviewed similar

1:14:27declarations from berkeley oakland

1:14:29petaluma hayward richmond davis and san

1:14:33francisco

1:14:34we received guidance from the city

1:14:35manager based on directions she received

1:14:37from council and we spoke to members of

1:14:39the community

1:14:40we then worked to craft a resolution

1:14:42incorporating all the feedback that we

1:14:44received

1:14:46we also wanted to recognize that we are

1:14:47already doing many things here in el

1:14:48cerrito to combat climate change and so

1:14:51this resolution is meant to recognize

1:14:53our current efforts as well as what we

1:14:54will we will be doing in the future

1:14:58the el cerrito city council has already

1:15:00approved of six resolutions ranging from

1:15:02improving the city's climate action plan

1:15:04in 2013 and setting reduction targets to

1:15:07supporting the global paris climate

1:15:09agreement

1:15:10for our efforts the city is in tips

1:15:12anticipate anticipated to receive a

1:15:14prestigious statewide award this year

1:15:17for achieving demonstrated reductions in

1:15:19greenhouse gas emissions

1:15:21and for our overall effort to address

1:15:22climate change

1:15:25some highlights from our climate action

1:15:26plan implementation include adoption of

1:15:29the transit-oriented san pablo avenue

1:15:31specific plan

1:15:32our complete streets plan urban greening

1:15:34plan and active transportation plan

1:15:38joining mce and then subsequently opting

1:15:40up to 100 renewable energy for all city

1:15:43facilities

1:15:45authorizing pay for pace financing

1:15:47programs for solar and energy efficiency

1:15:49improvements throughout el cerrito

1:15:52collaborating with non-profits and other

1:15:54agencies on sun shares and other

1:15:55programs to promote solar installations

1:15:57and electric vehicle use

1:16:00implementing the real property transfer

1:16:01tax rebates for energy efficiency and

1:16:03environmental improvements

1:16:05installing an electric vehicle charging

1:16:07station here at city hall and leasing

1:16:09evs in our in our own fleet

1:16:12and making improvements to reduce energy

1:16:14water and natural gas use across the

1:16:16city

1:16:17these initiatives have helped the

1:16:18community reduce greenhouse gas

1:16:20emissions by 14 city-wide and help the

1:16:23city reduce its own emissions by 25

1:16:25percent

1:16:26outpacing the goals outlined in our

1:16:28climate action plan

1:16:30this resolution presented before you

1:16:32reaffirms the city's commitment to

1:16:33addressing climate change while setting

1:16:35an ambitious goal for the city to strive

1:16:37for zero ghg emissions citywide in the

1:16:40forthcoming climate action plan update

1:16:43is also a call to action not just for us

1:16:45but for the state nation and region to

1:16:47take action on climate change let me

1:16:49know if you have other questions

1:16:51you have any questions from the council

1:16:53or any comments maybe i have what is

1:16:56maybe a question maybe a comment pardon

1:16:58me if i don't know the difference

1:17:01my fear

1:17:03um in what you said

1:17:05because i don't i don't know the

1:17:07totality of what the new climate action

1:17:10plan was contained yet of course

1:17:13um but my fear is whatever it is won't

1:17:16be fast enough to save our planet

1:17:20that's that's literally my current

1:17:22feeling on the subject feeling if you

1:17:24want to call it that

1:17:26and um

1:17:28so what i'm hoping the climate action

1:17:31um

1:17:32or the climate uh what are we calling it

1:17:34the climate

1:17:36emergency

1:17:37uh

1:17:40resolution will do

1:17:41is say hey it's it's it's like

1:17:46you know we barely got any time left on

1:17:48our universe

1:17:52unless we do something significant

1:17:54to make a really significant

1:17:57change

1:17:58do you think it says that

1:18:00yes well i think this what this says is

1:18:02it provides direction from council to

1:18:04staff to update our climate action plan

1:18:06to continue implementation of our

1:18:08current current climate action plan and

1:18:10really strive for zero greenhouse gas

1:18:12emissions as quickly as possible uh in

1:18:14the climate action plan those strategies

1:18:17to get there will have to be fleshed out

1:18:19we'll have to outline uh you know how

1:18:21we'll get there and the budget and

1:18:22resources behind it but this provides

1:18:24direction to start looking into that

1:18:26okay well i i feel like we need to get

1:18:29to go further than looking into it

1:18:32we need

1:18:33our climate action plan today uh sets

1:18:36targets for one percent reductions every

1:18:38year and we're outpacing those

1:18:39reductions

1:18:41um

1:18:43i i just want to have i just want to

1:18:45impart what i consider to be my sense of

1:18:48fear

1:18:50that there won't be any there's no time

1:18:53so we have to make it happen really fast

1:18:57and

1:19:00so this is not what i would call

1:19:02business as usual in in the previous

1:19:04work that we've done and

1:19:06personally i've instigated a lot of that

1:19:09stuff

1:19:10so

1:19:12maybe it was my fault it wasn't done in

1:19:14a way that was

1:19:16serious enough

1:19:17if you want to call it that

1:19:20but

1:19:22it seems like things have gotten so bad

1:19:24if you look you know like this book i

1:19:25was just reading that i referred to

1:19:28earlier you know that you know that we

1:19:30just don't have any time left because uh

1:19:33we're having a

1:19:35a rise in the temperature

1:19:38that's occurring much faster than we

1:19:39thought it was for example

1:19:42and

1:19:43plants aren't going to grow right

1:19:46and we're not going to have things to

1:19:48eat and things like things like that are

1:19:51going to be happening in in the in the

1:19:54not too distant future

1:19:56unless we do something that re nothing

1:19:58else will matter

1:20:00because there won't be any of us around

1:20:04for it to matter to

1:20:05is i guess

1:20:06what i am concerned about

1:20:09and i just want to impart

1:20:12that information so that it

1:20:15if it isn't already part of this that it

1:20:18is so because i really don't want us

1:20:20doing

1:20:21business as usual i want us to change

1:20:25what we're doing in this regard i'm

1:20:27really really concerned anyway thank

1:20:31any you comments i agree with my

1:20:34colleague councilmember abelson and but

1:20:36i want folks to realize that uh you know

1:20:39as executive board member of the sierra

1:20:42club uh that represents the 30 000

1:20:44strong members here in the four counties

1:20:47of the bay area san francisco marin

1:20:49alameda and contra costa

1:20:52and as a member of the environmental

1:20:54committee of the league of california

1:20:56cities and before me it was a council

1:20:59member greg lyman mayor pro-tem lineman

1:21:00for many years

1:21:02who has been part of the environmental

1:21:04committee

1:21:05for the league of cities

1:21:08our region and especially our colleagues

1:21:12in richmond berkeley emeryville

1:21:14we're out in the forefront

1:21:16every time we have a meeting up in

1:21:18sacramento and we meet about

1:21:20environmental concerns so

1:21:23in my opinion we are doing that and then

1:21:25some

1:21:27and if you look at our city

1:21:29transit first city

1:21:31our city our residents take use public

1:21:34transportation like bart more than most

1:21:36people in the bay area so i'm very proud

1:21:39of what our citizens do here our

1:21:41residents in el cerrito and i'm very

1:21:43proud of the work

1:21:45that our environmental quality group

1:21:46does and but know that

1:21:49as a small city

1:21:51we are doing our fair share and then

1:21:53some

1:21:54and i encourage uh activists here to

1:21:57please go to other cities where they

1:21:59don't have any resolutions on anything

1:22:02dealing with the environment we have

1:22:04them next door on san pablo and the city

1:22:06of san pablo panel and hercules go to

1:22:09the other cities in contra costa um you

1:22:12know el sarita we're far ahead of what

1:22:15most cities are doing so i'm very proud

1:22:17of our residents and uh proud of our

1:22:19council here for being in the forefront

1:22:21of that

1:22:24mayor i'll move the resolution with i

1:22:26have comments oh okay yeah

1:22:28all right

1:22:29go ahead council member fidelity

1:22:31um

1:22:32there is nothing more important than

1:22:34dealing with

1:22:35climate

1:22:36change there is nothing more important

1:22:39than dealing with climate change

1:22:43there is nothing more important than

1:22:45dealing with climate change let me say

1:22:47it one more time

1:22:50there is nothing more important than

1:22:52dealing with climate change

1:22:55and i'm glad all of us up here the city

1:22:57council suggested that this resolution

1:22:59for

1:23:00dealing with the crisis come forward in

1:23:02our city

1:23:04um

1:23:05i personally can't sleep at night

1:23:08i put this issue follows all of us i

1:23:11can't sleep at night

1:23:13i know the robin mitchell's poem

1:23:15was heartfelt

1:23:17and it hit me because

1:23:22my 25 year old daughter and i had a long

1:23:24conversation late at night

1:23:27she doesn't know what to do

1:23:30what are her goals

1:23:33why should she plan for the future if

1:23:35there will be no future

1:23:38it was a may for tv movie episode and

1:23:41she's i don't don't have answers for

1:23:43other than we can just do the small

1:23:45things that we can do

1:23:50we're living a nightmare

1:23:53right now

1:23:55and there are some people that have said

1:23:56we all do our small things this is a

1:23:58small thing that we will be doing we

1:24:00can't kid ourselves this is a small

1:24:02thing

1:24:03the big thing we can do is remove this

1:24:05president that we have right now

1:24:08whenever we can as soon as we get rid of

1:24:11him we can move on it will be the

1:24:13biggest thing that we can do

1:24:15and just last week endangered species

1:24:17act pulling back what are we talking

1:24:20about here

1:24:21so let's not kid ourselves we're in a

1:24:23delicate

1:24:25time

1:24:26and this is the least we can do but

1:24:28together we can we have to do this and

1:24:30move forward

1:24:32thank you

1:24:33thank you

1:24:34um i want to thank

1:24:37all of the cities that have already

1:24:39passed a climate emergency

1:24:42resolution thanks for your leadership on

1:24:44that

1:24:46it's something that i know i've been

1:24:47thinking about

1:24:48ever since i heard that other councils

1:24:51had been doing it and i'm really honored

1:24:53to be

1:24:54sitting here as mayor as we uh take our

1:24:57vote today

1:24:59um

1:25:01for me

1:25:03this

1:25:04resolution

1:25:05has been a wake-up call to myself

1:25:08i mean i i see myself out here as you

1:25:11know a young

1:25:13young ish getting gray but a youngish

1:25:16woman

1:25:17with with children that i worry about

1:25:19the future and sometimes we're so busy

1:25:23just getting homework done

1:25:25that you know i don't have those

1:25:27deep conversations yet with my kids

1:25:29about the future because i will start

1:25:31crying

1:25:32and i don't want to burden them at ten

1:25:34and six with what might happen to the

1:25:37planet

1:25:38yet i'm here tonight

1:25:41i feel as

1:25:43i feel justified

1:25:44i feel justified being here being away

1:25:47from my children when i give myself all

1:25:48the guilt trips that i give myself for

1:25:50not spending enough time with them

1:25:52but they're gonna watch this someday and

1:25:54they're gonna know that mommy tried as

1:25:56hard as she could

1:25:57and i can sleep at night because of that

1:26:01so

1:26:04i look at myself you know and we do pat

1:26:07ourselves on the pack for all the great

1:26:08things that we've done

1:26:10you know we've insult we've installed

1:26:12solar panels on our house we have one

1:26:14electric car

1:26:16but yeah i still drive a gasoline car

1:26:18and i turn on the gas in the morning to

1:26:21you know heat up my tea and

1:26:23cook my meals and

1:26:26and it's a wake-up call to me that i

1:26:28need to do everything possible and i

1:26:30might have to do some things that are

1:26:31uncomfortable

1:26:33and i might have to have some

1:26:34conversations with my friends and family

1:26:36that are uncomfortable and we might have

1:26:38to do we might have to have a pace

1:26:41that is uncomfortable because right now

1:26:43i feel like we've been kind of moseying

1:26:44along

1:26:46and we have to really change

1:26:48really change what we're going to do and

1:26:50i think that's what this resolution is

1:26:52saying

1:26:53and for those people that have said you

1:26:55know this is great but it's not enough

1:26:57you know we hear you

1:26:59we hear you and

1:27:01i personally

1:27:04will commit to joining the regional task

1:27:07force

1:27:08and

1:27:10that's that's my

1:27:11i know it's one more meeting away from

1:27:13my kids but

1:27:14i'm going to do that so that we can come

1:27:16up with solutions together

1:27:18i would like to have more specific goals

1:27:21i would like to say this is going to be

1:27:23um you know 50

1:27:24by 2030 and zero by 2045.

1:27:28um it's not going to be in there but i

1:27:30did fight for uh changing the language

1:27:34in here to

1:27:35to give that sense of urgency that we're

1:27:38not going to wait until

1:27:39the climate action plan is done in 2022

1:27:42or whenever it's going to be finished to

1:27:45hurry up

1:27:46we need to hurry up now

1:27:48and

1:27:49i just want you to know that we hear you

1:27:51as council members that we need to hurry

1:27:53up now and the staff hears that we need

1:27:55to hurry up now and that yes we are

1:27:57doing fantastic and we we're going to

1:27:59strive

1:28:00to our best ability to do it faster

1:28:05finally

1:28:06yes we need to mobilize

1:28:08and

1:28:09that is one of the things that as i

1:28:11reviewed our climate action plan i was

1:28:14like this is a great plan wouldn't it be

1:28:16great if everybody knew about it you

1:28:18know

1:28:19so i mean we've we really need to get

1:28:21our message out there we have a great

1:28:23plan i know it needs to be faster i know

1:28:25it needs to be bigger goals but we need

1:28:26to let each individual in el cerrito and

1:28:29beyond know what they can do now

1:28:31to help reduce greenhouse gases because

1:28:33sometimes i think people just don't

1:28:35realize what it is they need to do

1:28:38so i commit myself to all of these

1:28:41things and i and i really hope that the

1:28:43council is with me and i do believe that

1:28:45they are

1:28:46and with that i will ask for a motion

1:28:49sure there are some edits that were made

1:28:51to the motion uh we have a revised

1:28:54version here at the dias it inserts into

1:28:59the first the second resolved clause

1:29:03the words and participate in

1:29:06so so that the

1:29:08be it further resolved reads the el

1:29:10cerrito the city of el cerrito endorses

1:29:12and will support and participate in

1:29:14climate emergency mobilization and

1:29:15collaboration efforts

1:29:17to reverse global warming at the city

1:29:19region state national and global levels

1:29:22in the next uh further resolved clause

1:29:26this

1:29:27it's edited to insert further

1:29:30and the word active to read

1:29:33uh be it further resolve the city of el

1:29:35cerrito reiterates its commitment to

1:29:37further reducing greenhouse gas

1:29:39emissions through active implementation

1:29:42of the city's climate action plan

1:29:44with those edits i move a

1:29:48resolution of the city of

1:29:50of the resolution of the city council of

1:29:52the city of el cerrito declaring a

1:29:54climate emergency and endorsing

1:29:55emergency mobilization efforts to

1:29:57restore a safe and stable climate i'll

1:30:00second that and can i ask let me ask a

1:30:03question first

1:30:04um

1:30:05the

1:30:06thing that to me looks the most

1:30:09potent on this document is

1:30:12where it says

1:30:13reduced targets of 15

1:30:16below 2005 by the year

1:30:182020 and

1:30:2230 percent below 2005 by 2035.

1:30:26it seems to me those could be made a

1:30:29little stronger your your correct

1:30:32council member those are the ones we

1:30:34passed in 2013.

1:30:37um those are not what we're proposing

1:30:39now

1:30:40the

1:30:41well i just read it from the document

1:30:42now though

1:30:44correct that's saying that that's what

1:30:45we already have that's a recognition of

1:30:46what awareness of the whereas that's

1:30:49awareness sorry therefore

1:30:50okay that's the problem with getting a

1:30:52document

1:30:54on the diet so where does it say

1:30:56anything better than that

1:30:58it says in the fourth resolved clause it

1:31:01says the city of el cerrito supports an

1:31:03increases in our city-wide greenhouse

1:31:05gas emissions reduction rate so that's

1:31:07an increase in our rate that hasn't said

1:31:09anything and we'll strive for zero

1:31:12greenhouse gas emissions city-wide as

1:31:15quickly as possible within the

1:31:17forthcoming climate action plan

1:31:20neither that hasn't said anything

1:31:22specific i was thinking of specific

1:31:24wording

1:31:26um

1:31:27rather than

1:31:29as soon as possible is a little vague

1:31:32yeah the specific targets we want to

1:31:34have time to flesh out the actual

1:31:35strategies and just do our due diligence

1:31:37so that when we're updating the climate

1:31:39action plan we can really assess our in

1:31:42our inventory where we've been and set

1:31:44those targets accurately uh so that we

1:31:46know exactly how where we want to go and

1:31:48how we'll get there and we're expecting

1:31:50to start up on that in the spring but

1:31:52the see that's the that's the beginning

1:31:54of what to me is the problem

1:31:56the spring is a long time away

1:32:01um

1:32:02from my point of view

1:32:05um right how many months is that

1:32:08think about it it's a few we have other

1:32:10things in the pipeline we're working on

1:32:12right but the the point is

1:32:15that i think we need to

1:32:18we could say maybe we i mean i i i could

1:32:23be willing to come back you know to have

1:32:25a subcommittee of this council come back

1:32:30i would be willing to work with

1:32:31councilmember lyman on that for example

1:32:34and come back and say the next meeting

1:32:37and suggest something

1:32:39but

1:32:40the idea of waiting until then to even

1:32:43talk about it

1:32:46at the council level maintain our

1:32:47current climate action plan which as i

1:32:49said we're making progress what my

1:32:51concern is is that we don't have time

1:32:54to

1:32:56we need to make changes now

1:32:59is my concern is

1:33:03because otherwise we don't

1:33:05have time

1:33:06and i have children and i have

1:33:08grandchildren

1:33:09and i'd like to think that they have a

1:33:12life

1:33:13too

1:33:14i i agree with you um and that was my

1:33:17concern and i raised this um

1:33:20earlier with staff and

1:33:23um

1:33:25i think the problem with setting

1:33:28specific goals in this resolution this

1:33:30because this is a resolution

1:33:32and it's a statement of values

1:33:35versus

1:33:36policy so i made a suggestion about

1:33:38coming back

1:33:41you know having a council subcommittee

1:33:43and coming back

1:33:44and i suggested council member lyman

1:33:46because of course we always doing stuff

1:33:49like that

1:33:50and with some actual specific numbers

1:33:54but um

1:33:56i these numbers are are just weights

1:34:00they're not really significant in terms

1:34:02of what

1:34:03the way the world is now yeah we i think

1:34:06that everyone

1:34:07appeared agrees with that and i believe

1:34:09many of the people in the audience also

1:34:11agrees with that

1:34:13um

1:34:14what we were more concerned about is

1:34:16that setting arbitrary goals that aren't

1:34:19going to be measurable

1:34:23within a

1:34:24resolution which is a value statement

1:34:27would not do

1:34:29us any good okay but i was suggesting

1:34:31another method which is a subcommittee

1:34:33coming back with recommendations for a

1:34:36policy statement on greenhouse gas

1:34:38emissions on on the percent reductions

1:34:41by

1:34:42a specific date

1:34:44yes

1:34:47is there anyone else on the council that

1:34:50so uh

1:34:51councilmember abelson i'm more than

1:34:53willing to serve on a subcommittee with

1:34:55you however

1:34:57for me the biggest issue is our

1:35:01and it was stated earlier

1:35:03it would need to

1:35:05also

1:35:06establish a budget by which we would

1:35:09need to

1:35:10supplement staff in order to get this

1:35:12done more quickly

1:35:14so

1:35:15we're not in a position tonight to set

1:35:18budgets aside

1:35:19right i understand that

1:35:21are you suggesting that we don't pass

1:35:23this resolution tonight no i'm

1:35:24suggesting that we go ahead and pass

1:35:27this resolution

1:35:28and that we form this

1:35:31subcommittee

1:35:33that comes back in the very very near

1:35:36future

1:35:37having looked at literature current

1:35:40literature on the subject of how long we

1:35:42have

1:35:45on our planet

1:35:48and

1:35:48making a recommendation of what our goal

1:35:51needs to be and then what our

1:35:53what we need to do then is to figure out

1:35:55if we can uh

1:35:57if we're able

1:36:00within our means to do that

1:36:02i'm going to talk to council

1:36:04is that something we can do tonight that

1:36:06wasn't necessarily agendized would we

1:36:08have to put that on a future meeting

1:36:11this was a consent item that didn't

1:36:13necessarily cover a subcommittee um

1:36:17i don't mind agendizing it for the next

1:36:19meeting yeah

1:36:20that's where i think i'm going to i

1:36:21think that's where we're going is i

1:36:22think i i mean while it would be

1:36:24comprehended within the subject matter

1:36:26it would probably be better to agendize

1:36:28it for a fuller just for a fuller

1:36:29discussion at a future meeting i think

1:36:31also because then it would provide the

1:36:33staff with an opportunity to

1:36:35talk in more detail about what their

1:36:38work plan is i think that um

1:36:41what council member abelson is proposing

1:36:43um you know is absolutely meritorious i

1:36:46just think that it's important for the

1:36:47council to make a decision about

1:36:48something like this understanding what

1:36:50the staff intends right now um so that

1:36:53so that

1:36:54the work can be complementary and the

1:36:56council has a can make a decision with

1:36:58the full understanding of what's already

1:37:00in the pipeline

1:37:02yes

1:37:03so

1:37:04i would agree to that okay

1:37:07well

1:37:09agenda a future agenda where we talk

1:37:12about um the subcommittee and the

1:37:14policies that would influence the

1:37:16climate action plan and then we would

1:37:19actually come back with a recommendation

1:37:21from the subs

1:37:23if that subcommittee gets formed correct

1:37:25right

1:37:27okay

1:37:28so i still have a motion on the floor

1:37:31with a

1:37:32motion by lyman and a second by quinto

1:37:35all in favor

1:37:37those opposed

1:37:39motion carries

1:37:42all right so

1:37:45next we have

1:37:49c

1:37:50ordinance to repeal ordinance 2019-04

1:37:57there any comments or questions

1:37:59from the council

1:38:06yes

1:38:10thank you for all the speakers who came

1:38:11tonight

1:38:13matthew

1:38:14i see you still are here so i'll let you

1:38:16know that you need to go back and

1:38:18actually watch the video

1:38:20um yes the minutes do not necessarily

1:38:22say

1:38:22we were going to come back with a

1:38:24stronger ordinance but i would recommend

1:38:26that you go and listen to the video

1:38:29because

1:38:30that was stated

1:38:33i in my

1:38:34explanation for my vote change i

1:38:37explained that this was a compromise and

1:38:40as a result of a compromise it was not

1:38:42nearly

1:38:43as far as i would like it to go

1:38:47it was a compromise to avoid the

1:38:49situation we got into

1:38:51and

1:38:52since the apartment association

1:38:55pushed our hand

1:38:58i think it's better for us to repeal

1:39:00this and come back with

1:39:02something that is more comprehensive and

1:39:04i'm looking forward to the task force to

1:39:06develop that

1:39:08so i will if there's no other comments

1:39:11i will uh

1:39:14i'm gonna make yeah councilman

1:39:16um

1:39:18as someone who made the original uh

1:39:22motion for for just cause i'm not happy

1:39:24about having voted to repeal

1:39:28i'm going to let my previous comments

1:39:30stand too if people go back and look

1:39:34i think

1:39:36an election in this city would be a

1:39:38costly exercise for a less than adequate

1:39:40ordinance

1:39:42and i just want to remind a lot of

1:39:44people

1:39:46sign their name to a petition

1:39:49for something they thought they would

1:39:51like to vote on

1:39:53and that's not what we had before us

1:39:56i just want to remind that we do have a

1:39:58task force and tonight we

1:40:00named various people to talk about

1:40:03these issues and we specifically sent

1:40:06the task force

1:40:08the assignment to consider a just cause

1:40:12ordinance coming back to us hopefully

1:40:14some agreement could happen there so

1:40:16we're trying to listen we're trying to

1:40:18work through things on a very difficult

1:40:20issue

1:40:23i just like to add that

1:40:25i do believe that there is a housing

1:40:28crisis occurring uh throughout the bay

1:40:31area and beyond

1:40:33and that i don't believe that somehow

1:40:36our little city of el cerrito is special

1:40:38and

1:40:39not affected by it i believe that it is

1:40:42a problem here and that various people

1:40:45are being affected by it in a very

1:40:46negative way

1:40:48um

1:40:50i

1:40:53am absolutely disgusted by what i've

1:40:55seen from the apartment association

1:40:59to see people

1:41:01go around and put forth something that

1:41:04was a lie

1:41:07and

1:41:08to really betray the trust of

1:41:11our residents was despicable

1:41:15and that is why i voted

1:41:18no

1:41:20on repealing it

1:41:22although i agree

1:41:23that it did not go far enough and that

1:41:26it did not protect enough people and

1:41:28that we needed to expand it

1:41:30and if there is a silver lining to not

1:41:33uh taking it

1:41:35to the people to decide is that it

1:41:38wasn't good enough

1:41:40and that something stronger needs to be

1:41:42put out there

1:41:44so with that i will ask for a motion

1:41:48i'll move an ordinance of the city of el

1:41:50cerrito repealing ordinance

1:41:522019-04 which adopted el cerino

1:41:55municipal code chapter 10.300

1:41:58just cause for eviction and prohibition

1:42:00on harassment of tenants

1:42:06second

1:42:07ocean by lyman second by abelson all in

1:42:12favor

1:42:14those opposed

1:42:16no

1:42:18motion carries

1:42:27next finally we have our presentations

1:42:31which i know he's been calmly and

1:42:33waiting for thank you so much for

1:42:35waiting um

1:42:36from the contra costa transportation

1:42:38authority ccta

1:42:40briefing on the initial draft of the

1:42:42transportation expenditure plan

1:43:00good evening madam mayor and council

1:43:02members i appreciate the opportunity um

1:43:04to be able to give us the opportunity to

1:43:06speak about our upcoming initial draft

1:43:08transportation expenditure plan my name

1:43:10is tim hale the deputy executive

1:43:12director of contra costa transportation

1:43:14authority

1:43:15and

1:43:16i want to talk a little bit about who we

1:43:18are in terms of ccta we are a

1:43:20a self-help county as was known in

1:43:22california it's a sales tax authority

1:43:25that manages a half cent sales tax for

1:43:27transportation improvements in contra

1:43:29costa county and we are currently

1:43:31managing

1:43:32uh measure j which is a current half

1:43:34sales sale tax that will end in

1:43:362034 and this half cent still tax goes

1:43:39to a lot of many things in for

1:43:42transportation in contra costa county

1:43:44including pedestrian

1:43:46uh

1:43:47bicycling basic biking in contra costa

1:43:49county are your local roads and streets

1:43:51major corridors such as i-80 and other

1:43:54freeway corridors in contra costa county

1:43:56as well as

1:43:57transportation demand management

1:43:59strategies such as carpool

1:44:01and

1:44:02more incentives to ride transit and also

1:44:04we fund bart and transit operations in

1:44:07contra costa county

1:44:10so one thing we're really proud of proud

1:44:11of at ccta is our ability to leverage

1:44:14local dollars and bring them forward and

1:44:16advance them to realize a high rate of

1:44:18return sooner rather than later in

1:44:21bringing those transportation benefits

1:44:23to

1:44:24the residents of contra costa county

1:44:26the way we do that is we bond future

1:44:29revenue and bring that and bring that

1:44:31capital forward and we'll realize better

1:44:33rates of return as well as

1:44:35better construction prices etc and so

1:44:38based on this strategy we've actually

1:44:40had the ability to deliver measure j

1:44:43within about 10 to 15 years rather than

1:44:45the full 25 years of the total life of

1:44:47the measure we also just received an

1:44:49award from the contra costa county

1:44:51taxpayers association

1:44:54one of our main mottos is promises made

1:44:56promises kept and so here's a

1:44:57highlighting a few major projects out of

1:44:59measure j this is the fourth bore of

1:45:01caldecott tunnel ccta funded this

1:45:04project and brought tremendous amount of

1:45:06benefit to contra costa county

1:45:09we also worked with alameda county

1:45:11transportation commission in caltrans on

1:45:13delivering

1:45:14the i-80 smart corridor bringing in

1:45:16technology to improve traffic flow on

1:45:18the 80 corridor

1:45:20during traffic incidents and reducing

1:45:22accidences in the corridor something

1:45:24else we're proud of is delivering ferry

1:45:26service out of richmond

1:45:28this is the first ferry service in

1:45:29contra costa county and it's turning out

1:45:31to be the most successful ferry service

1:45:34in the bay um it's already have met its

1:45:36project projected ridership for the last

1:45:39in terms of five-year projections and

1:45:41it's already uh water emergency

1:45:43transportation authorities also

1:45:44requesting additional funding to expand

1:45:46service in the weekend and more frequent

1:45:49service

1:45:50we also fund

1:45:52multimodal improvements so we look at

1:45:54local improvements that directly benefit

1:45:57your community so an example of that is

1:46:00the i-80 central avenue interchange and

1:46:02so we looked at developing a complete

1:46:03streets project as well as

1:46:07improvements to del norte bart

1:46:10station so we looked at the 2017 2017

1:46:14ccta approve a county-wide

1:46:15transportation plan which identified

1:46:17about 10 billion dollars of

1:46:18transportation needs of transportation

1:46:20projects until the year 2040.

1:46:22and so through those tremendous amount

1:46:24of needs in the short availability of

1:46:26transportation funding and the growing

1:46:28population in contra costa county we

1:46:30also have an uh growing aging population

1:46:33and so we want to have the ability to

1:46:34maintain that quality life for all as we

1:46:37move into the future years

1:46:39for for for the population and contra

1:46:41costa

1:46:42and so with that being decide uh

1:46:44um at the forefront the ccta decided to

1:46:47move forward with developing another

1:46:49transportation expenditure plan to help

1:46:50fund that need and so right now we are

1:46:53in the august time frame on this on this

1:46:55schedule so tomorrow the authority board

1:46:58will be acting on adopting a draft

1:47:00transportation expenditure plan and

1:47:01bringing it to the 19 cities and county

1:47:04board of supervisors for your support so

1:47:06i will be back here again in september

1:47:08october seeking your support on this

1:47:10expenditure plan and half cent sales tax

1:47:12measure and then the authority board as

1:47:14long as it gets approval of the majority

1:47:16of the cities in contra costa county the

1:47:18authority will then adopt a the sales

1:47:20tax in october

1:47:22and then move it to the crown and border

1:47:23supervisors to place on the ballot in

1:47:25march 3rd of 2020

1:47:27so why are we doing this because

1:47:29based on our public opinion research we

1:47:32still find the public understands

1:47:34there's a greater need for

1:47:35transportation funding in contra costa

1:47:37county we also heard learned about the

1:47:40growing needs of you know relieving

1:47:42congestion relief making sure that it's

1:47:44very outcomes based and oriented making

1:47:46sure there's reliable transit system

1:47:48making sure there's a good maintaining

1:47:49quality life and reduce and improving

1:47:51air quality in contra costa county as

1:47:53well as making sure that we're being

1:47:55held accountable for every expenditure

1:47:57that we are doing in transportation to

1:47:59make sure that every dollar that you

1:48:00that you're putting in or in sales tax

1:48:02is benefiting directly benefiting your

1:48:04community contra costa county so with

1:48:06that we've been developing an

1:48:07expenditure plan which is a 30-year

1:48:09measure half cent sales tax which will

1:48:11generate about 3.06 billion dollars

1:48:14over that period of time and so measure

1:48:16jm as i mentioned is our current sales

1:48:18tax measure it is sunsets in 2034. this

1:48:21measure would begin july 1st of 2020 and

1:48:23end in june 30th 2050. there will be a

1:48:2614-year overlap between measure j

1:48:29and this new this new sales tax really

1:48:33providing one cent sales tax for 14

1:48:35years in contra costa county to help

1:48:37meet that 10 billion dollar demand or

1:48:39need of transportation improvements so

1:48:41with that we we developed the

1:48:42transmission plan based on guiding

1:48:44principles i'm not going to cover all of

1:48:45these but

1:48:46some interesting things that we found is

1:48:49making sure that we're using transit

1:48:50first principles and developing our

1:48:52expenditure plan and local roads and

1:48:54infrastructure projects also making sure

1:48:56that we're protecting the environment

1:48:57this plan is designed to meet the state

1:49:00state state goals for greenhouse gas

1:49:03emissions by the year 2050. so that

1:49:05means reducing greenhouse gases by 80

1:49:08percent of 1990 levels by the year 2050

1:49:11also it's performance oriented

1:49:13to make sure that we're funding the best

1:49:15project by using performance criteria

1:49:17and evaluation for every allocation in

1:49:19the expenditure plan so with that being

1:49:22said based on what we know in the county

1:49:24and some of the bottlenecks and

1:49:25tremendous amount of travel times

1:49:27commutes in contra costa county we've

1:49:29designed and crafted the expenditure

1:49:30plan into these three major corridors um

1:49:34in your case enhance the i-80 and 580

1:49:37corridor and bart corridor to help

1:49:39really improve the congestion relief on

1:49:41i-80 we all know the i-80 is a one of

1:49:44the

1:49:45worst commutes in the bay area

1:49:49so this is the expenditure plan overview

1:49:51because we keep on hearing a much

1:49:53greater need for transit mode shift and

1:49:55reliable transit services we actually

1:49:57are looking to put in 53 of this total

1:50:00measure for transit and alternative

1:50:02modes um 22 for highways and freeways

1:50:05and 25 is going to be directly

1:50:07invested into your communities and local

1:50:09benefits

1:50:11so el cerrito is what's in what we call

1:50:14the west region of of contra costa

1:50:16county so west region we do we actually

1:50:18are very um um

1:50:21our goal is to have sub-regional equity

1:50:23that's equal among all of our

1:50:24sub-regions based on proportionally the

1:50:26population within that sub-region so

1:50:28west county is is going to be receiving

1:50:31712 million dollars out of this

1:50:33expenditure plan based on your

1:50:35population and so the first categories

1:50:37we're leaving congestion on the highways

1:50:39interchanging roadways at 1.3 billion

1:50:41and i'm not going to cover all the

1:50:43quarters but i do want to spend time on

1:50:44something that's really close to home

1:50:45for you and that's really improving

1:50:47transit reliability on the i-80 corridor

1:50:50so looking at ways to look at dedicated

1:50:52transit lanes on i80 improving the hov

1:50:55lane we're really working with um

1:50:58strategies to enforce the hov lane so we

1:51:01don't have violators so we have more

1:51:02reliable um

1:51:04travel times in the in the carpool lane

1:51:07so that way transit and express bus can

1:51:09also utilize the carpool lane to get

1:51:10where they're going also looking at

1:51:13improving traffic flow and congestion

1:51:16relief at richmond st alpha bridge

1:51:18in on i-580 we all know there's a

1:51:20tremendous amount of q at the toll plaza

1:51:22so we're looking at strategies to

1:51:24extending the carpool lane to bypass

1:51:26that traffic provide dedicated transit

1:51:27lanes as well as removing the toll plaza

1:51:30and creating a more open road tolling

1:51:34concept at the at the at the toll bridge

1:51:36another aspect of this is improving

1:51:38traffic flow on your major roads which

1:51:40means you know continuing on those

1:51:42improvements on i80 central and looking

1:51:44at other critical

1:51:45corridors like san pablo avenue and the

1:51:47san pablo avenue multimodal corridor

1:51:49project that's bringing in brt on san

1:51:52pablo avenue and this measure is

1:51:53designed to fund projects dust light

1:51:55just like that and continue to enhancing

1:51:57that ferry service enrichment and

1:51:59expanding it to other areas in west

1:52:00county such as hercules

1:52:04and richmond

1:52:07so this is the other category state

1:52:08right 240 warrior high for highway 4.

1:52:10i'm not going to spend too much time

1:52:11here but this is really looking at the

1:52:12684

1:52:14interchange and congestion on highway 4

1:52:16between martinez and pittsburgh

1:52:19and then modernizing the i-680 so this

1:52:21is really funding our innovate 680

1:52:23program which is our seven prong

1:52:26approach to looking at how to really

1:52:28change people's travel behaviors in the

1:52:29corridor and if successful we would use

1:52:32this same approach on the i-80 corridor

1:52:36so this is the county-wide programs we

1:52:38have modernize local roads and improve

1:52:40access to jobs so we realize that job

1:52:43housing and balance is really critical

1:52:45in contra costa county and so this

1:52:47measure as much as ccta cannot directly

1:52:49fund housing we can fund transportation

1:52:52improvements that can be for affordable

1:52:54housing and transit hubs in contra costa

1:52:57county to provide better access for

1:52:59areas like that and also improve your

1:53:01walking and biking and this product this

1:53:04expenditure plan is very transit centric

1:53:06and so we're contributing 187 million

1:53:08dollars directly into west county to

1:53:10improve frequency and ridership on

1:53:12express bus service in con in west

1:53:14county and west contra costa

1:53:16and another important aspect and i'll

1:53:18kind of cover the last two

1:53:20is safe transportation for youth and

1:53:22students making sure we have safe

1:53:23transportation and continuing with the

1:53:25with the transit pass program that you

1:53:27already have in west county to make sure

1:53:29that we have safe routes to schools and

1:53:31solve congestion at our local schools

1:53:33and then also reduce emissions and

1:53:35improve air quality so contra costa

1:53:37county is our ccta is committed to

1:53:40meeting the the governor's goals in the

1:53:43year 2050 to reduce greenhouse gas

1:53:45emissions and by doing that we're

1:53:46looking at we just completed an electric

1:53:49vehicle blueprint county y which looks

1:53:51at what is the infrastructure required

1:53:53to improve to really have a 58 percent

1:53:55turnover and elect in fleet turnover

1:53:57with electric vehicles and gas and gas

1:54:00automobiles as well as

1:54:02this

1:54:04expenditure plan will also develop one

1:54:06of the first in the state vmt reduction

1:54:08mitigation programs

1:54:10to really look at how can we how can we

1:54:12mitigate projects that are increasing

1:54:14vmt so that way we can meet those

1:54:16greenhouse gas gold

1:54:18with this expenditure plan

1:54:20so with that being said i i'm going

1:54:22pretty quick here but happy to answer

1:54:23any questions but um

1:54:25so first and foremost the expense plan

1:54:27was really to make sure we're relieving

1:54:29congestion on our core on our heavily

1:54:30commuted corridors as well as providing

1:54:33a reliable connected transit system and

1:54:35making sure that we provide affordable

1:54:36accessible transportation for the

1:54:38growing aging population and in making

1:54:40sure we have a seamless connected

1:54:41paratransit service that can get you

1:54:43from west county to east county in one

1:54:46unified customer experience versus to

1:54:48have to deal with you know moving from

1:54:50provider to provider as you're moving

1:54:51across the county with paratransit

1:54:53service and and i've already talked a

1:54:55lot about it but improving the air

1:54:56quality is one of our most important

1:54:58goals with this expenditure plan so in

1:55:00order to achieve this there's obviously

1:55:02some key policy considerations we've had

1:55:04our successful growth management program

1:55:06and urban limit line policy and we will

1:55:08continue to utilize those moving into

1:55:09this measure but because this product

1:55:11this expenditure plan is very

1:55:13transit-centric we are developing a

1:55:15transit policy which really got governs

1:55:17and guides the transportation expense

1:55:20transit expenditures and making sure

1:55:22that we have a seamless integrated

1:55:24transit network in contra costa county

1:55:26so that way when you get off bart the

1:55:28bus is waiting for you you're not

1:55:29waiting for a bart or waiting for a bus

1:55:32making sure that that you have reliable

1:55:34transit service that's going to be there

1:55:36every 15 minutes

1:55:38the advanced mitigation program i

1:55:39already mentioned the vmt mitigation

1:55:41program that we're going to be

1:55:42developing out of that program and then

1:55:44making sure that we're planning all of

1:55:45our infrastructure and street

1:55:46improvements for all in terms of riding

1:55:49walking biking transit as well as other

1:55:51modes of transportation and then the

1:55:53last one which kind of hits the

1:55:54accountability piece is really the

1:55:56taxpayer safeguards and accountability

1:55:58this measurable would create a public

1:56:00oversight committee to make sure that

1:56:02we're being held accountable for every

1:56:04expenditure by doing annual reporting as

1:56:06well as make maintenance of effort to

1:56:08make sure that no other local revenue

1:56:10sources are being supplanted by this

1:56:12local sales tax revenue so that way we

1:56:14know that every single dollar is going

1:56:16to transportation and i already

1:56:18mentioned the performance-based review

1:56:20criteria that would be developed out of

1:56:21this accountability and the the rigorous

1:56:23evaluation and monitor that will happen

1:56:24with the expenditure plan to make sure

1:56:26that every dollar is going to benefit

1:56:28people's commute

1:56:31so this is a summary of the west county

1:56:32improvement 713 million dollars

1:56:37and this is some of the direct benefits

1:56:38to el cerrito so kind of what's in it

1:56:40for me so right now el cerrito is

1:56:42receiving 410 000 a year out of measure

1:56:45j and as i mentioned within that 14-year

1:56:47overlap this potential measure would

1:56:49provide 383 000

1:56:51and so that combined would be a a total

1:56:54of 800 000 dollars um over the period of

1:56:5714 years and then 383 thousand for the

1:57:00remaining part of the measure to 2050.

1:57:03and here's some of the benefits i've

1:57:05already been kind of talking about them

1:57:06but first and foremost improving transit

1:57:08reliability in west contra costa on the

1:57:10i-80 corridor san pablo avenue also

1:57:12looking at ways to better connect

1:57:14transit between richmond

1:57:15ferry service rich del norte bart

1:57:18station richmond bart as well as up to

1:57:20contra costa college and looking for

1:57:22opportunities to do that and also again

1:57:24making sure we improve

1:57:26traffic flow on the 80 corridor and

1:57:28making sure there's greater access to

1:57:30bar i didn't really mention this measure

1:57:31really focuses on first and last mile

1:57:34concepts so it's looking at on-demand

1:57:35shuttle service share mobility hubs

1:57:37making sure we're giving everyone

1:57:39opportunities for different modes of

1:57:41transportation so we're encouraging

1:57:42people to get out of their car and use

1:57:44other alternative modes so we can get to

1:57:46that vmt reduction and meet those

1:57:48greenhouse gas goals

1:57:50so that concludes my presentation happy

1:57:52to answer any questions

1:57:53thank you questions

1:57:55questions

1:57:57thank you mayor uh thank you for being

1:57:58here and i uh thank you for your

1:58:00presentation um a couple of questions um

1:58:03the city of fremont ac transit had a

1:58:08this test

1:58:09to see

1:58:10they may still have it still

1:58:12sort of like a dial-a-ride

1:58:15to

1:58:16neighborhoods from bart

1:58:18to the neighborhoods and i spoke to

1:58:21chris peoples and and other ac transit

1:58:24directors about the possibility of

1:58:26bringing that to contra costa

1:58:28and

1:58:29alameda county had that chance and it

1:58:31would be great to

1:58:33test that here in west county such as el

1:58:35cerrito i'm always getting emails from

1:58:38folks saying what happened to our

1:58:40neighborhood bus lines

1:58:41and

1:58:42especially when we're dealing with the

1:58:44future and the possibility of transit

1:58:46oriented development i would like to

1:58:49have those routes back because many

1:58:51folks took it i took it growing up and

1:58:54we have a lot of retirees that

1:58:57that don't want to drive but they have

1:58:59to drive because

1:59:01there's no bus down there that will take

1:59:03them to bart so i'm hoping that we could

1:59:04look at what other cities were able to

1:59:07do i think uh uh that particular

1:59:09dial-a-ride thing and it's a small van

1:59:12and and it's it's first come first first

1:59:15serve uh chris people swears by it and

1:59:18he likes that

1:59:20so i'm hoping we can

1:59:21look at that as well another thing is

1:59:23that we're always late when we have to

1:59:26drive over to

1:59:28central county for meetings and if we

1:59:31can only get the projects that those

1:59:33other cities have been waiting for 20

1:59:35years now uh on better uh service on the

1:59:39i-80 flyovers that'll take the buses

1:59:42across from from

1:59:45the the hov lane all the way to

1:59:48highway 4 and and to take that to their

1:59:51where they park the cars that would help

1:59:53a lot of the gridlock going on there and

1:59:56there's things that they've done in los

1:59:58angeles that that we should have done a

2:00:00long time ago and we're not doing so uh

2:00:03appreciate your advocacy and making sure

2:00:06that we've catch up

2:00:08looking at

2:00:09my colleagues in pinol san pablo and and

2:00:12hercules they're always telling me how

2:00:14horrible it is that they have to beg and

2:00:17scrape and they can't get any votes to

2:00:20help them with their projects so i'm

2:00:21hoping because this affects el cerrito

2:00:24residents as well

2:00:26who

2:00:27have to do errands or have to go to the

2:00:29doctor up there so

2:00:30you know i'm hoping that very boat

2:00:33from

2:00:34hercules happens and that train station

2:00:38the flyovers that that will all help and

2:00:41uh and here for el cerrito

2:00:43i have residents emailing me and asking

2:00:45me about what can we do to have more

2:00:48safety for our bicycles in san pablo

2:00:51avenue so

2:00:52i hear what my colleagues are doing in

2:00:54berkeley and emeryville and i'm hoping

2:00:56we can

2:00:57do the same here in el cerrito um we've

2:01:00had we've seen so many uh accidents and

2:01:03deaths and and some of our former

2:01:05council members have gotten uh hit by

2:01:08cars ball on the bike and i want to make

2:01:10sure that that doesn't happen to our

2:01:12residents so but

2:01:13so i appreciate everything that you're

2:01:15doing on that and uh but we can do

2:01:18better here in el sarino

2:01:21further questions

2:01:23i

2:01:24i have an opportunity

2:01:26every month so i i'll let you folks take

2:01:29the time

2:01:31yeah there you go yep okay go ahead

2:01:33thank you thank you for this and thank

2:01:36you for the theme about reducing

2:01:37congestion i think overall in the county

2:01:39i think that's really critical um

2:01:42so we've heard all the goodies and all

2:01:44the the money numbers um and we've had

2:01:48uh elections uh votes on rr and sb1 and

2:01:52the

2:01:53capital and rm3

2:01:55are there any poll numbers from central

2:01:58and west county which seems to be the

2:02:00concern on some of these voting measures

2:02:03yes so we actually did publicality of

2:02:06yeah we did public opinion research and

2:02:08we actually did formal polling and

2:02:09basically it's pulling in at 75 percent

2:02:12in in the center

2:02:14in contra costa county whole county in

2:02:16the whole county i'm not talking about

2:02:18west county i'm talking about to get

2:02:19this done we need to get their votes

2:02:24i have that number hold on okay

2:02:29the whole county is what matters

2:02:31yes

2:02:33and that's why i'm asking about the ones

2:02:34that don't like to vote for

2:02:36transportation money

2:02:40i can get that information for you i i

2:02:42just with so many elections uh it i'm

2:02:46just hoping the effort

2:02:48will be fruitful

2:02:50also on the bart uh i i understand that

2:02:53the quality of life issues will be

2:02:55addressed

2:02:56i know

2:02:57ebart trains

2:02:59cars are important but

2:03:01over in the west side and going into san

2:03:03francisco and is that true the quality

2:03:06of life issues so that is one aspect of

2:03:09this measure we we call it cleaner safer

2:03:11bart and so it's basically looking at

2:03:13opportunities to

2:03:14clean and modernize

2:03:16our existing bart stations as well as

2:03:20deal with fair evasion air gate okay

2:03:23barricade evasion and so we're basically

2:03:24looking at ways to improve the gate so

2:03:27there's less fair evasion

2:03:28i do have those numbers by the way

2:03:31so in central county

2:03:33it was polling at 73 percent and west

2:03:36county was pulling at 77 percent sounds

2:03:38good

2:03:40um so on the bart quality of life we

2:03:42we're going through a process here of

2:03:43remodeling our

2:03:45renovating our del norte station and

2:03:47that gets a lot of the brunt of

2:03:49unquality so i'm hoping that some of the

2:03:51money we can see it registered here as

2:03:54we move over the next two years to open

2:03:55that station and and finally um

2:03:58is there any money in there or any is it

2:04:01a separate pot of money for the mtc san

2:04:03pablo avenue study that has been

2:04:07so in and decided on that wick tack and

2:04:10cc yeah so basically in the approve

2:04:13traffic flow for major roads

2:04:15that there there could be a a set aside

2:04:18or or funds from that category that

2:04:20would partially fund the san pablo

2:04:22avenue multiple contra costas

2:04:24yes okay thank you very much

2:04:28thank you tim for

2:04:29coming tonight and staying

2:04:31this late i will hopefully get you out

2:04:33of here soon

2:04:35this is a tax measure does it fund

2:04:38operations

2:04:40i hear you say that they could fund

2:04:42things like what the council member

2:04:43ables or council member quintus talked

2:04:45about which is that last mile uh ride

2:04:48share or van

2:04:50so it can't fund he's nodding his head

2:04:52for those that are so i can yeah i can

2:04:54comment on that so we do have opera so

2:04:57the 187 million dollars that's dedicated

2:05:00for west county is both for capital and

2:05:02operations primarily operations there's

2:05:04all there's other dollars in there for

2:05:06actual transit capital

2:05:08um and then there's also money in there

2:05:10dedicated the seamless connected

2:05:12transportation option category is

2:05:14actually dated to designed to do

2:05:16on-demand shuttle service

2:05:18and so there's a couple on-demand

2:05:20shuttle services already happening in

2:05:21contra costa county um east county untie

2:05:24delta transit is doing try my ride

2:05:26that's an on-demand shuttle service uh

2:05:28county connection in central county is

2:05:30doing an on-demand shuttle service to

2:05:32supplement some of the lines that they

2:05:33just removed and they're planning on

2:05:35expanding that

2:05:36in fact the program that you're

2:05:38referring to the go dublin program is

2:05:40actually going to be expanded into the

2:05:41southern part of contra costa county and

2:05:43we are looking to do this in west county

2:05:45as well because we realize that

2:05:47on-demand shuttle service is really the

2:05:49way to make sure we can get people from

2:05:51their homes down to these feeder

2:05:52services

2:05:53and fix route services

2:05:56yep and and um i was going to talk about

2:05:58the first and last mile you know in el

2:06:00cerrito the first and last mile

2:06:02is typically

2:06:04pretty easy for the first half mile it's

2:06:07that last half mile where

2:06:10it gets very vertical and and buses are

2:06:12not necessarily

2:06:15made well to to take that last half mile

2:06:17so

2:06:18um certainly these the ride shares or

2:06:20the vans or the funding operations that

2:06:23may be

2:06:24creative and innovative on how to get

2:06:26people

2:06:27that last half mile would be very useful

2:06:30i'm going to channel a little and chang

2:06:32and ask about

2:06:34transit oriented development and passes

2:06:38to

2:06:38promote that transit oriented

2:06:40development and get people out of cars

2:06:42at that transit-oriented development

2:06:45there's programs that they

2:06:47that are exist out there to

2:06:49offer residents uh you know unlimited

2:06:51transit passes is this something that

2:06:53could go towards that funding of those

2:06:55types of programs yes so there is a

2:06:57number of areas where we've noted

2:06:59incentive programs to help support

2:07:02people get into transit and other

2:07:04alternative modes of transportation

2:07:06okay

2:07:07um you said vmt a lot and i just want to

2:07:10make sure it goes on the record that

2:07:11that's vehicle miles

2:07:12traveled sorry

2:07:14yeah exactly um and that when obviously

2:07:17reducing vehicle models traveled is is

2:07:20one of the significant goals and that's

2:07:24typically individual vehicles is what

2:07:26you're trying to reduce so getting

2:07:27people out of a car and into a ride

2:07:30share or one of these shared vans or

2:07:32buses or ferries or

2:07:35um

2:07:36bart is all different ways that vehicle

2:07:38miles travel will go down again you're

2:07:41not on tv so that is correct yep

2:07:44um the last question i have for you is

2:07:46increasing frequency of of the buses so

2:07:49the headway between buses is obviously

2:07:50something that

2:07:52people pay attention to especially when

2:07:54they're not on up on san pablo avenue

2:07:56which is our major route if they're on

2:07:58one of our other collector routes or or

2:08:01uh feeder routes they're 15 minute to 20

2:08:04minute

2:08:05headways is is are there any plans to

2:08:08use some of those funds to potentially

2:08:10reduce headways on some of our less

2:08:12travel bus routes

2:08:14so that's a really good question so the

2:08:16transit policy

2:08:18because this measure is so

2:08:21transit centric

2:08:23um

2:08:24we are going to develop what we're

2:08:25calling an integrated transit plan

2:08:28and so what this integrated transit plan

2:08:30would do is we would work with the four

2:08:32transit operators in contra costa county

2:08:34including um on top of that including

2:08:37bar and the water emergency

2:08:38transportation authority we did operate

2:08:40the ferry service and we would do a hard

2:08:43look at you know what how is transit

2:08:46operating existing today in contra costa

2:08:48county where can we optimize that

2:08:50existing service and then where can we

2:08:52add additional service

2:08:54to better serve the people and the needs

2:08:56of all in contra costa county for

2:08:58transit

2:08:59and then once you develop this

2:09:01what i'm calling a core transit system

2:09:04in contra costa county then you would

2:09:06look at first and last mile concepts to

2:09:08bring people down into that core transit

2:09:11system and so yes the answer question is

2:09:13it's not gonna it may not be fixed route

2:09:15service

2:09:16but there will be some potentially some

2:09:18additional service whether it's on

2:09:20demand shuttles or some other types of

2:09:22service to help get people from their

2:09:24homes down to

2:09:27um these these this core transit network

2:09:29and so we're we're using this this term

2:09:33that's called share mobility hubs

2:09:35and so with the share mobility hub it's

2:09:37it's we're actually doing a study right

2:09:39now on the 680 corridor

2:09:41that we're planning on using as a model

2:09:43to expand into contra costa county and

2:09:45what this share mobility hub concept is

2:09:47is that if you can create a network of

2:09:49share mobility hubs to get people around

2:09:50in contra costa county without using a

2:09:52car in other words if you could have

2:09:54someone have the ability to walk from

2:09:55their house you know less than a half

2:09:57mile

2:09:58to a share mobility hub and have

2:10:00essentially a suite of mobility options

2:10:02available to you that fit your needs and

2:10:04we call those personalized mobility

2:10:06options and so those personalized

2:10:08mobility options could be anything from

2:10:10walking biking you know ride share car

2:10:13share so being able to check out a car

2:10:15and bring it back and so forth and then

2:10:17also adding on that on-demand shuttle

2:10:19piece on top of that and that also could

2:10:21be curbside management for rideshare

2:10:23services like uber and lyft and so so

2:10:25you're using all of these things that

2:10:27are combined

2:10:28right

2:10:29so that way people have the right

2:10:31mobility option they want to take and

2:10:33then if you have a network of this then

2:10:35this is the solution that we're seeing

2:10:37to first and last mile to bring people

2:10:38down to this core transit network and

2:10:42that share mobility hub system

2:10:44you know could be

2:10:46essentially a network in in could be

2:10:48spread out within a mile or two miles of

2:10:50each other you know to really help

2:10:52service that first and last mile issue

2:10:54great thank you very much

2:10:57thank you do you have any speakers on

2:10:59this yes there's one cordell hindler

2:11:04so um

2:11:05so good evening uh mayor purdue okimoto

2:11:08council switching from

2:11:10housing to transportation so thank you

2:11:13uh tim for that wonderful presentation

2:11:15so

2:11:16as someone who uses transportation to go

2:11:19um

2:11:19to different places so i kind of agree

2:11:21with councilmember quinto said you know

2:11:23it's supposed if i had to go to a if i

2:11:26would go to a different city for um for

2:11:28whatever uh i have to deal with it was

2:11:30like you know groceries and things of

2:11:32that nature so

2:11:33i'm thinking that this part this

2:11:35presentation is very helpful so i like

2:11:38it because then because i ride part like

2:11:41occasionally

2:11:42and i i take buses like you know where i

2:11:45have to go uh occasionally so these are

2:11:48the types of things that i deal with

2:11:49like you know on a regular basis so

2:11:51and as far as like you know like the

2:11:53waiting time for uh

2:11:55for a train it's like it it gets very

2:11:57you know um time sensitive because it's

2:11:59like i have to wait at

2:12:0115 to 20 minutes for another train and

2:12:03i'm like

2:12:04i don't i can't wait this long for

2:12:06another train so i have to

2:12:08figure out the other option so

2:12:10as far like you know car sharing you

2:12:12know i think it's a good idea because

2:12:14you know you got people that live um

2:12:16whether it's like you know east county

2:12:18central county or west county

2:12:20it's a good idea um

2:12:22to use a ride share you don't like to to

2:12:25get where you have to go you know

2:12:26whether it's like work or somewhere else

2:12:28so

2:12:29i'd say and i and i know the the first

2:12:31mile last mile um matter personally i

2:12:34know them because it's like it's an idea

2:12:36that came to me so

2:12:38i think this presentation has a lot of

2:12:40got a lot of potential because you know

2:12:42like i write bar occasionally so

2:12:45i do want to thank the presenter for

2:12:46this

2:12:47informative presentation

2:12:52any further questions or comments

2:12:57i just had one

2:12:58looking at the total

2:13:00funding expenditure plan overview

2:13:03um how

2:13:05maybe you said it in your presentation i

2:13:06just missed it how were the different

2:13:08percentages decided on where the funding

2:13:11was going are you talking about

2:13:12sub-regionally between west

2:13:14east and center oh it says like uh seven

2:13:17percent for bart that's the one that

2:13:18kind of stands out to me i was like

2:13:20seems like bart is kind of kind of

2:13:21getting a small piece of the pie

2:13:24so the way that's determined is that um

2:13:28on pages two and three of the

2:13:30expenditure plan

2:13:32actual plan we don't have the actual

2:13:34plan itself

2:13:36and

2:13:38i usually have my copy just ready and

2:13:40handy so i don't know what happened to

2:13:41it

2:13:43there it is nope that's nope that's not

2:13:45it but on page two and three there's an

2:13:46actual chart that shows every line item

2:13:49for the expenditure plan and then on the

2:13:50right hand side there's actually those

2:13:52modes and then we have dots of where

2:13:54we're going to be funding each of those

2:13:56different types of modes relative those

2:13:58expenditures

2:13:59and so those dots then line up and they

2:14:01go down to the 35 the 7 and the 11 and

2:14:05the 22 and the 25 and that's how we

2:14:08formally form formulaically come up with

2:14:10those percentages based on the

2:14:12expenditures by mode

2:14:14and then answer your question about bart

2:14:17so there was when we did our public

2:14:19opinion research in 2016 bart passed

2:14:22measure rr which is about a four billion

2:14:24dollar expenditure plan for for bart

2:14:27and so based on the public opinion

2:14:28research it was interesting to us and we

2:14:30were very shocked that people were um

2:14:34not interested

2:14:35in actually putting additional dollars

2:14:37into bart

2:14:39because of the addition because of the

2:14:40amount of funding that they actually

2:14:42already have

2:14:46i find that personally disappointing

2:14:48particularly after the climate action

2:14:50emergency

2:14:52requirement emergency that we just

2:14:54passed um to see seven percent here

2:14:57going to bart

2:14:59is just i think personally a pity the 35

2:15:02goes to transit yeah no i know but if

2:15:05you look it's kind of like half go

2:15:07according to this pie chart i can

2:15:09elaborate on this on the bar issue so

2:15:12on the bar issue um what people are

2:15:15looking for is cleaner safer bart that's

2:15:17what we got at the public opinion

2:15:18research was their main

2:15:20issue when we did public resource

2:15:22cleaner safer bars so making sure that

2:15:23the stations are clean modern and safe

2:15:26that was number one foremost issue

2:15:28the other one was can we increase the

2:15:30capacity of bart yeah that's what i

2:15:32would have thought so right now bart

2:15:35operates roughly about 700 and some odd

2:15:37cars in in contra costa or in in the

2:15:40entire bart network so what's

2:15:42interesting is that in in order to

2:15:44increase the capacity and add more cars

2:15:46bart actually has to fund their train

2:15:48control system that's a 400 million

2:15:51dollar investment at a measure rr

2:15:54and so until the train control system is

2:15:56actually funded and complete we cannot

2:15:58add additional cars okay and so where

2:16:01are they with that so that there might

2:16:03the estimate is another 10 years

2:16:07that's a long time so we've

2:16:09we've designed we've we've we have

2:16:11designed this expenditure plan to be

2:16:14flexible enough to where we can do if if

2:16:17the train control system is built

2:16:19we can actually go do a what we call

2:16:22periodic review or expenditure plan

2:16:23amendment to redirect potential funds to

2:16:26additional capacity because

2:16:28we at ccta know that bart is really the

2:16:31the the main component of transportation

2:16:34in in terms of transit i mean they're

2:16:36moving the most people in contra costa

2:16:38and it is a lifeline for contra costanz

2:16:40and so so we are making sure we have the

2:16:42ability that when that train control

2:16:44system's in place we could potentially

2:16:46direct funds to add additional capacity

2:16:48that's good to know thank you

2:16:50anymore

2:16:53you know when you had your last tax

2:16:54measure

2:16:56i can't tell you how frustrated it was

2:16:58to have

2:16:59other people on my sierra club board

2:17:02from other counties telling us that

2:17:04contra costa is not doing enough so i'm

2:17:07hoping like when you have this ready

2:17:10take the show out and and come to the

2:17:12mayor's conference the league of cities

2:17:14and and and promote this because uh

2:17:17you're going to have the same people on

2:17:19those same boards saying why should we

2:17:21help contra costa because they're not

2:17:24doing they should be doing more and it's

2:17:26not enough so uh i had that endorsed

2:17:30from the bay chapter and we had san

2:17:32francisco and alameda county people

2:17:34telling us it wasn't enough and and they

2:17:37uh changed their mind on this because of

2:17:40certain people like pat pirus and uh

2:17:43people that that think that contra cosa

2:17:45is not doing enough when it comes to

2:17:47transportation so

2:17:48definitely we want to make sure that it

2:17:50passes this time and and uh you have

2:17:52surprise support here in the council so

2:17:54thank but i i think that the um

2:17:57part they would complain about is

2:18:00what on the chart that same chart that

2:18:03has the seven percent it's the blue part

2:18:05of the chart that they would complain

2:18:08about

2:18:08they wouldn't complain about the buses

2:18:10bikes or pad

2:18:12projects

2:18:14which is

2:18:15combined with bart is 53 percent what

2:18:18they would complain about

2:18:20is the

2:18:22highways and freeways right

2:18:25and um they probably i don't know i'm

2:18:28guessing

2:18:29complain about local roads and streets

2:18:31maybe i don't know would they

2:18:34um you know they they were uh adamant

2:18:36about not passing it

2:18:38right but there was a reason and and i

2:18:41think the reason

2:18:43what they thought wasn't good enough was

2:18:45that there was too

2:18:47much on the highway side well i'm not

2:18:49going to knock down our

2:18:51friends in the other parts of contra

2:18:52costa county and telling them how they

2:18:55should live their their life out in the

2:18:57suburbs there so i know we're doing our

2:18:59share and i appreciate that but you have

2:19:01any further comments yeah i just wanted

2:19:03to

2:19:04follow up for the mayor uh and tim i'm

2:19:06sure you know

2:19:07bart had some good news a couple months

2:19:09ago from the fta and actually the trump

2:19:11administration giving 1.8 billion

2:19:13dollars for core capacity so that was a

2:19:17major they needed to get that and there

2:19:18was a lot of thought that that money was

2:19:20going to go away so that is coming to us

2:19:22and we can add that to other capacity

2:19:25control system yeah and and i didn't

2:19:28mean to knock bart but it's um the

2:19:31existing fleet they're actively doing

2:19:33things to do the train control system

2:19:35turn over the existing fleet to 700 cars

2:19:37to get those cleaner make cars safer

2:19:39cleaner i mean there's a lot of things

2:19:40that bart is doing in order to make

2:19:42their system work and they are

2:19:43definitely in a fix it first mode

2:19:46to get the existing system up to par

2:19:48with some of the other nationwide

2:19:50systems and building the cars now in

2:19:51pittsburgh they're building the cars in

2:19:53pittsburgh they're upgrading and

2:19:54modernizing the stations i mean there's

2:19:56a lot that they're actually doing but to

2:19:58answer your question by capacity that

2:19:59train control system is the critical

2:20:01path and they're also doing the

2:20:03extension

2:20:04to san jose which may sound remote and

2:20:07far away

2:20:08but if you think about the fact that

2:20:10there's all this congestion going

2:20:13south from here

2:20:15that you know a certain part of it i

2:20:18mean i know a lot of people who work for

2:20:20apple that live here

2:20:22so you know that's

2:20:24and they're going getting here from here

2:20:26to there

2:20:27in a car

2:20:29so you know

2:20:32building bart to san jose

2:20:35and which is happening and is not being

2:20:37paid for

2:20:38by

2:20:39us it's being paid for by santa clara

2:20:42county that's my understanding is that

2:20:45right vta is paying for yeah

2:20:48that's santa clara county right

2:20:50yeah valley transportation yeah right i

2:20:52mean that's santa clara county right yes

2:20:55their tax yeah their taxes are paying

2:20:57for that yes so uh that should help

2:21:01um and it's getting pretty close i don't

2:21:03know how many

2:21:04more years but um

2:21:07they've got two stations going in right

2:21:09now i know because

2:21:11i'm in the process of touring

2:21:14thank you very much for your

2:21:15presentation welcome look forward to

2:21:16seeing you next month thank you thank

2:21:18you very much thank you for coming

2:21:21thank you for waiting

2:21:23all right now you didn't have a choice

2:21:24but thank you anyway

2:21:26[Laughter]

2:21:28now we will move on to public hearings

2:21:30uh public hearing or fire hazard

2:21:33abatement

2:21:37please have the staff report let's see

2:21:42madam mayor members of the council dave

2:21:44gibson your fire marshal

2:21:46tonight we come before you with a list

2:21:48of properties uh i want to make sure

2:21:50that you have the

2:21:51amended list with today's date on it

2:21:55okay

2:21:56uh we did put uh present that tonight to

2:21:58you um

2:22:00with properties that between the time we

2:22:02put the packet together and tonight that

2:22:04have

2:22:05since cleared their properties or have

2:22:07come into compliance and we wanted to

2:22:08make sure that they were removed

2:22:11the list tonight

2:22:13is a hybrid

2:22:15so to speak

2:22:16in that the first 21 properties

2:22:20from our

2:22:21july 16th meeting

2:22:23when we presented you the amended list

2:22:27somehow

2:22:28the those properties

2:22:30were inadvertently left off the amended

2:22:32list

2:22:33we wanted to

2:22:35write that

2:22:36and

2:22:38give those properties the additional

2:22:40time so we in a sense we extended

2:22:43their abatement time

2:22:45we did seek a

2:22:48direction from council on how to do that

2:22:50we sent an additional letter to those uh

2:22:53properties explaining that there was an

2:22:55inadvertent error

2:22:57um that the properties were not on that

2:23:00amended list and we wanted to make sure

2:23:02that

2:23:03we were being more you know we were

2:23:05being fair with them and by extending

2:23:08uh their time um

2:23:10again as well as always with the

2:23:13original 992 letters that went out uh