HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-05-21 City Council Summary Minutes
Regular Meeting May 21, 2001
1. Resolution 8052 entitled “Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Expressing Appreciation to Al Rogers Upon
His Retirement”.............................................134
2. Utilities Strategic Implementation Plan and Associated Changes to the 2001-02 Proposed Budget......................134
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS..............................................140
APPROVAL OF MINUTES..............................................142
3. Ordinance 4697 entitled “Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Amending the Budget for the Fiscal Year
2000-01 to Accept a $52,234 Grant from the Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo and to Provide an Additional Appropriation for the Community Services
Department of $52,234.”.....................................142
4. First Amendment to the 1996 Measure B Management Program
Cooperative Agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority...................................................142
5. Contract Between the City of Palo Alto and Trugreen
Landcare in an Amount Not to Exceed $125,000 for Fiscal Year 2001-02 Stump Removal Project..........................142
6. Contract Between the City of Palo Alto and DES Architects & Engineers in the Amount of $90,786 for Design Services for Improvements to Three Baylands Parking Lots and Improvement
of Harbor Road, Capital Improvement Program Project 10003...143
7. Finance Committee recommendation re Gas Rate Increase.......143
8. Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Amending the Budget for Fiscal Year 2001-02 to Create Capital Improvement Project No. 0121, Natural Gas Back Up Generator Project, in the Amount of $4,353,539........................143
9. COUNCIL COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS..............145
10. Conference with City Attorney -- Existing Litigation........146
ADJOURNMENT: The meeting adjourned at 9:15 p.m...................147
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The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this date in
the Council Chambers at 7:05 p.m. PRESENT: Beecham, Burch, Eakins, Fazzino, Kleinberg, Lytle, Mossar, Ojakian (arrived at 7:12 p.m.)
ABSENT: Wheeler SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY
1. Resolution 8052 entitled “Resolution of the Council of the
City of Palo Alto Expressing Appreciation to Al Rogers Upon His Retirement” Director of Public Works Glenn Roberts said it was not often the City recognized someone with 42 years of experience. Al Rogers
had knowledge of the City’s infrastructure, some of which did not exist anymore. Mr. Rogers worked in many areas of the City, was well respected by his fellow workers, had a positive attitude, and mentored a number of the younger employees. MOTION: Council Member Fazzino moved, seconded by Mossar, to adopt the resolution.
MOTION PASSED 7-0, Ojakian, Wheeler absent.
Al Rogers thanked the City Council and the City of Palo Alto.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS 2. Utilities Strategic Implementation Plan and Associated
Changes to the 2001-02 Proposed Budget
City Manager Frank Benest said the report was the work of a team of stakeholders in the success of the utilities, and it was the first concerted effort to create a specific plan of action for the Utilities Strategic Plan (the Plan). The team included the Assistant City Manager, the Director of Utilities, several
Assistant Directors of Utilities, Utilities Advisory Commission (UAC) Members, and Council liaison Bern Beecham. When the strategic planning process began, knowledgeable people thought
utilities faced a future in which there would be intense competition among suppliers to get customers. Less than one year
after the adoption of the Plan, the current situation was the opposite in which customers competed for limited supplies. The proof of the Strategic Plan was whether the Utilities Department had been able to react appropriately to the unanticipated and radical change in the energy industry. The four objectives of
the Plan served as constant touchstones to judge Utilities’
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actions. The City was on the right path if the action would
enhance customer satisfaction, develop the appropriate infrastructure to deliver reliable service, provide superior financial performance for the City and its customers, and maintain the unique advantages of municipal ownership.
Director of Utilities John Ulrich said in late 1999, the City looked at what the City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) Department should be responsible for. Staff came to Council in November
2000 with a Strategic Plan that was in concept form. Council approved it after UAC review and asked staff to put together an
implementation plan. Staff’s objective was to prepare for the competitive forces unleashed by deregulation. The Plan fit nicely in a radical change from deregulation to the current situation. Staff had been following the Strategic Plan closely and developed strategies that were responsive and flexible,
involved key stakeholders across the organization to create a broad ownership. Staff created the Plan to be understood by the professionals and the public. The Plan could be meaningfully referenced and could stand the test of time. The objectives of the Strategic Plan were to enhance customer satisfaction by
delivering valued products and services, to invest in utility infrastructure so that reliable service could be delivered over
a long period of time, to provide superior financial performance and competitive rates, and to identify and maintain the unique advantages of municipal ownership. The CPAU wanted to operate
the distribution systems in a cost-effective manner, preserve a supply cost advantage competitive to the market price,
streamline and manage the business processes to allow CPAU to work efficiently and cost effectively, attract and retain employees with critical skills and knowledge, introduce new
careers in the fiber optic business, continue the general fund transfers and maintain financial strength, and implement
programs that improved the quality of the environment. The Implementation Advisory Team reviewed design team submittals, directed additional efforts, prioritized initiatives, prepared the Plan report, advocated the application of the Strategic Plan to the governance process, identified the strategic activities
which should be performed in functional areas, developed detailed information about strategic activities including cost benefits, and scheduled strategies and objectives supported.
There were ongoing activities of distribution system improvements, financial planning, energy efficiency programs,
dark fiber leasing, customer product planning, and commodity supply planning. Key new initiatives that were identified were local distributed generation, expanded customer service, web access, load management, load curtailment program, fiber to the home, and extensive energy risk management program. CPAU was
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working on selecting appropriate performance measures.
Investigating governance options was on hold to determine if current governance was suited for competitive enterprises. Nothing was certain in the California utility industry. With a well-crafted plan, CPAU could be flexible and responsive to take appropriate actions to meet the new challenges.
Mr. Benest said staff presented 11 initiatives, 6 of which were ongoing and 5 were new. The Strategic Implementation Plan
described a responsible plan of action with respect to the recent energy crisis and other challenges facing CPAU. In a year
or less, the CPAU staff would return with a report on the execution of the Plan and how the staff had done in terms of the goals and objectives set forth in the Plan. Staff recommended that Council approve the Implementation Plan, acknowledge the inclusion of key items in the proposed 2001-2002 Budget that was
being considered by the Finance Committee, and request annual reports of progress on the milestones. George Bechtel, Vice Chair of the Utilities Advisory Commission, said the UAC enthusiastically endorsed staff’s recommendation
for the Plan. The UAC worked with CPAU staff to put together the recommendations. The Plan supported the right short- and long-
term goals. Having a long-term plan would allow the UAC and the Council to deal with more strategic issues rather than review every item year by year. He and UAC Member Rick Ferguson were
part of the Implementation Advisory Team and saw first hand how staff put together the Plan. Staff did a great job of bringing a
list of recommendations, which the Team reviewed and prioritized. The Plan was put together in the face of many crises.
Council Member Kleinberg referenced the minutes of the UAC
meetings and said there was discussion about how much and how often reports would be submitted to the UAC and the Council. Reports would be twice a year to the UAC and once to the Council. She was interested in having the reporting elevated to the level of a City Council report and seeing reports to the
Council more than once a year. It was a matter of public record and public confidence. She asked if it would be burden or would have a financial impact on the CPAU Department.
Mr. Ulrich said it would not be a problem. The purpose of the
reports was the measures. He clarified that Council Member Kleinberg wanted the reports to be more of a discussion about the activities.
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Council Member Kleinberg said that was correct. She asked about
the key strategies for the next five years listed on the last page of the staff report (CMR:223:01). Mr. Ulrich said the key strategies were from the Strategic Plan that Council approved in November 2000.
Council Member Kleinberg said Strategy 7 was to “Implement programs that improve the quality of the environment.” She asked
if the principle of sustainability could underlie that approach to the Plan because she did not see it called out anywhere
particularly. Mr. Ulrich said he left out a couple of matrices that were in the Strategic Plan. Many of strategies covered the same area. For example, the aggressive conservation program fit not only in
Strategy 7 but also in Strategies 6, 4 and 2. Council Member Kleinberg said she did not see it in the text but understood the matrix. She reiterated the hope that the Plan would be flexible enough to dovetail with any of the
sustainability program measures that would be developed.
Mr. Ulrich did not believe many, if any, of the strategies would change, but the programs and plans would be flexible.
Council Member Burch said the City did not want to lose sight of things like the bulb exchange and encouraging people to use
solar panels and photovoltaics to reduce load and conserve. Mr. Ulrich believed that in future staff reports and
communication from CPAU, Council would see how they would fit in the strategies.
Council Member Lytle asked whether the CPAU would be able to pull language from the development of the sustainability effort into the Plan so the language would match.
Mr. Ulrich said the CPAU would attempt to do that. It was important that everybody understood what the CPAU was doing.
Council Member Mossar said she attended a meeting of the National League of Cities (NLC) Energy Environment and Natural
Resources Committee in Richmond, Virginia. One of the priority topics was energy, and she learned that people from states all across the nation were concerned about energy issues. Conservation was a very controversial topic, and a council member from Oklahoma thought of conservation as government
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action to demand that people behave in certain ways. That was a
different perspective but was relevant to the current conversation because the Council had to understand the broader spectrum as well. She said the focus of most council members at that meeting was on cost. Many were from communities where residents struggled to make a living. There were high ideals and
visions of sustainability for the future, and Council would be making decisions and moving forward in a context in which the CPAU staff had to manage and provide utilities using all the
guidelines set. However, the rest of the nation was not particularly interested in the direction the City was going,
which was going to affect options over time. She encouraged the Council not to lose sight of what was important while knowing the realities of people in other states on the energy issue. Council Member Fazzino complimented the CPAU staff and the UAC.
He referred to Page 13 of the Strategic Plan where there was mention of the water issue. The water issue was not discussed much, and there was no suggestion of alternatives. It was important that the City played a leadership role on water issues both at the regional and state levels in identifying alternative
sources and looking at the possibility of changing the contract with the San Francisco Water Department (SFWD) to benefit the
City. Mr. Ulrich said the water issue was high on the priority list.
There were meetings happening to discuss the issue and initiatives to get the SFWD to move quickly.
Council Member Fazzino referred to Page 15 of the Strategic Plan and the e-mail regarding the permitting issue with respect to
solar or other renewable sources of power. He believed it would be very useful to have a sentence or two in the section devoted
to permit streamlining for solar and other renewable sources of power. Mr. Ulrich said he and the Director of Planning and Community Environment Ed Gawf had several discussions and saw the
shortcomings of the Plan. Improvements could be made. Council Member Fazzino referred to Page 17 of the Plan and said
he wanted to see a clear articulation of the City’s role in telecom and what the City was really trying to accomplish. He
wanted to know what the purpose of Fiber to the Home (FTTH) was and when the appropriate time would be for the City to back away based upon alternative telecom services available, such as affordable high-speed access. He would include the staff retention suggestion at the beginning of the Plan and not focus
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it solely on telecom. The primary purpose of the telecom venture
should not be to provide career development opportunities for staff. Staff retention and career development were a philosophy that should pervade not only the Plan but also the City Manager’s entire organization.
Mr. Ulrich said there was no implication that the telecom area was the only place for staff retention and career development.
Mayor Eakins referred to Page 2 of the staff report (CMR:223:01) and said there was mention of the addition of a Senior Resource
Planner for the need to focus on increasing the City’s influence in the legislative, regulatory and outside agency arenas to meet reliability, pricing and industry governance objectives in electricity, gas and water. She asked where that was in the Strategic Plan and how it was located in the matrices.
Mr. Ulrich said the initiative was listed on Pages 13 and 14 of the Strategic Plan. The risk management and commodity purchasing had become very volatile. The CPAU would become deeply involved in ways to provide additional generation and reliability in the
transmission area. Most of those areas would require significant influence and communication and involvement of many agencies
before the CPAU would be able to come up with a plan for either sighting a facility or making decisions about what would be best in the City’s long-term interests. The biggest area for the
Senior Resource Planner position was in the regulatory and legislative advocacy. It would mean working with a number of
organizations, such as environmental groups and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC).
Council Member Beecham referred to Page 17 of the Strategic Plan regarding establishing a business case for FTTH. The experiment
of FTTH was coming up, which would take care of many of the technical issues. In addition to that, the CPAU needed to define the business case of what the City was really providing and how it fit into the marketplace. Defining the business case would come back to Council, and Council needed to accept and buy into
it. He also referred to Page 9 of the Strategic Plan, where the item of using bond financing was mentioned and was an example of items that were in process. Using bond financing would be
submitted to the Finance Committee and the City Council for approval. Staff did an excellent job overall of combining short-
and long-term requirements. Many of the initiatives cut across a number of the objectives. Objectives of competitiveness, environment, and reliability were taken care of by demand side management, by conservation, by the COBUG, and by resource planning. They were interlaced with the long-term plan of what
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the City’s core business was, which was being addressed by
looking at the distribution system and ensuring that the City had the wires needed in the long run. The business procedures would be looked at to make sure that they were what the City needed to be a competitive organization. The Plan also included elements of the water issue. The City was working with the City
of San Francisco and other Bay Area water users that used Hetch Hetchy water. Staff brought to Council in the past the long-term plan to upgrade the Hetch Hetchy system, which was a multi-
billion dollar program. The City would be sharing the significant cost, and there was no other way to ensure the
City’s long-term reliable supply of water. MOTION: Council Member Beecham moved, seconded by Mossar, to 1) Approve the City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) Strategic
Implementation Plan, 2) Affirm inclusion of the resources required to implement the strategic initiatives introduced in the document CMR:223:01 in the Proposed 2001-02 Budget, Exhibit B, and
3) Direct the City Manager to make semi-annual progress reports
on the performance of CPAU in meeting the objectives of the strategic plan.
Council Member Mossar said there was a movement in Washington, D.C., to take telecommunications out of the hands of local
government. That needed to be watched carefully, and the City should take preemptive action to make sure that it was not put out of business after investment.
Council Member Beecham said there were some threats at the
national level on the City’s ability to do telecommunications. As an example, the City and other agencies it worked with within the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) called their representatives in Washington, D.C., to ensure that they understood the importance of local efforts and how they would be
affected by other initiatives. Mayor Eakins said it was ongoing watchdog activity, which would
be one of the roles of the Senior Resource Planner. MOTION PASSED 8-0, Wheeler absent. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
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Terry Gibson, 921 Elsinore Drive, spoke regarding single story
overlay for Tract 1371. Teen Makowski, 950 Elsinore Drive, spoke regarding single story overlay for Tract 1371.
Mayor Eakins asked the City Manager if there was a response that could be sent to the neighborhood group.
City Manager Frank Benest said the Planning Department worked with the neighborhood, and there was conflict. The Planning
Department tried its best to work with the neighborhood to create a proposal that would have the overwhelming support needed for Council approval. The item was scheduled for a Council meeting, but recently, the Planning Director wanted another effort to work with the neighborhood. If the Planning
Director believed there was an opportunity to move the process forward, the item would be scheduled on the Council agenda. Council Member Lytle asked what the percentage of support was for the single-story overlay.
Mr. Gibson said the current support was 69.1 percent. The
remainder did not support it or did not vote. Council Member Lytle believed a lower percentage was used in the
past to indicate overwhelming support.
Mr. Benest said he would discuss the item with the Planning Director. The goal of the Planning Department was to come forward with a plan that had an overwhelming majority of
support.
Council Member Mossar wanted staff to let Council know if the process had been followed and the criteria had been met. Wei Wang, 3054 Price Court, spoke regarding Winter Lodge.
Stiv Ostenberg, 994 Loma Verde Avenue, spoke regarding alternative power and building permits.
Council Member Kleinberg mentioned an article in the paper about a neighboring community that decided to forgo permits for those
who wanted to install solar energy for their homes. Council Member Burch asked who at Palo Alto Hardware informed Mr. Ostenberg about discouraging customers from obtaining a permit for solar panels.
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Mr. Benest said the City would follow up with Mr. Ostenberg. APPROVAL OF MINUTES MOTION: Council Member Mossar moved, seconded by Ojakian, to
approve the Minutes of April 9, 2001, as submitted. MOTION PASSED 8-0, Wheeler absent.
CONSENT CALENDAR
MOTION: Council Member Lytle moved, seconded by Burch to approve
Consent Calendar Item Nos. 3-7. LEGISLATIVE
3. Ordinance 4697 entitled “Ordinance of the Council of the
City of Palo Alto Amending the Budget for the Fiscal Year 2000-01 to Accept a $52,234 Grant from the Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo and to Provide an
Additional Appropriation for the Community Services Department of $52,234.”
4. First Amendment to the 1996 Measure B Management Program Cooperative Agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Transit
Authority
Ordinance 4698 entitled “Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Amending the Budget for the Fiscal Year 2000-01 to Accept Revenue from the State Traffic Congestion
Relief Fund and to Provide an Additional Appropriation of $438,395 to Capital Improvement Project (CIP) Number 9630,
Street Maintenance” Contract Between the City of Palo Alto and Granite Rock Company, d.b.a. Pavex Construction Division in the Amount of $3,335,200 for the 2001 Street Maintenance Capital
Improvement Program Project 9630 ADMINISTRATIVE
5. Contract Between the City of Palo Alto and Trugreen
Landcare in an Amount Not to Exceed $125,000 for Fiscal Year 2001-02 Stump Removal Project 6. Contract Between the City of Palo Alto and DES Architects & Engineers in the Amount of $90,786 for Design Services for
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Improvements to Three Baylands Parking Lots and Improvement
of Harbor Road, Capital Improvement Program Project 10003 COUNCIL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION 7. Finance Committee recommendation re Gas Rate Increase to
approve: 1) a 67 percent retail gas rate increase effective June 1, 2001 to offset higher wholesale natural gas costs and to build up the Gas Rate Stabilization Reserves; 2) a
Budget Amendment Ordinance providing an additional appropriation in the amount of $1.58 million for Gas Fund
commodity purchases; adjusting gas sales revenue by a net $536,000; and transferring $1.04 million from the Supply Rate Stabilization Reserve and the Gas Fund Conservation Loan Reserve; and 3) raising the Cap of the Commodity portion of the Large Commercial Core Gas Service rate
schedules G-3, G-11, and G-12 to $2 to reflect the gas market conditions.
Ordinance 4699 entitled “Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Amending the Budget for the Fiscal Year
2000-01 to Provide an Additional Appropriation of $1,577,000 for Gas Fund Commodity Purchase Costs”
Resolution 8053 entitled “Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Amending Utility Rate Schedules G-1, G-2,
G-3, G-7, G-10, G-11, and G-12 of the City of Palo Alto Utilities Rates and Charges Pertaining to Gas Rates” MOTION PASSED 8-0, Wheeler absent.
ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS
8. Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Amending the Budget for Fiscal Year 2001-02 to Create Capital Improvement Project No. 0121, Natural Gas Back Up Generator Project, in the Amount of $4,353,539
Herb Borock, P.O. Box 632, said on Page 2 of the staff report (CMR:240:01), the project description indicated that one of the purposes was to occasionally provide relief from spiraling costs
during periods of peak electricity demand. He tried to attend the Utilities Advisory Committee (UAC) and the Standing
Oversight Committee meetings and to read the minutes, but he was unable to. Staff consistently stated the cost basis was not one of the reasons and that the only reason for the generator was as a backup when capacity was not available elsewhere. Also, he did not recall data presented to either the UAC or the Oversight
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Committee to enable them to make a recommendation on whether the
generator should be leased or purchased. The whole idea of having a UAC was to have people with expertise advising Council. Richard Cassel, 621 Wellsbury Way, worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) laboratory and dealt with 50-megawatt
loads all the time. He understood what it meant to put in a 5-megawatt generator. If it were for a hospital or for safety, it was a good idea. However, it was only 3 percent of the load,
and blackouts were 5 percent of the load. When the generator was presented, it was not known if the power lines could handle it.
He suggested that a better approach was to have companies that used large amounts of power put in their own generators, keep them up to date and use them whenever they could. The City could pay the companies to run the generators during blackouts. Unless the generator was part of an overall long-term goal, 5 megawatts
was too low. MOTION: Council Member Beecham moved, seconded by Mossar, to 1. Approve and authorize the Mayor to execute the attached
contract with Planergy International in the amount of $4,253,539 for the purchase of 5-Megawatts (MW) of natural
gas-fired back up generators and related engineering, installation and support services.
2. Approve the attached Budget Amendment Ordinance (BAO) in the amount of $4,353,539 from the Electric Supply Rate
Stabilization Reserve to create Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Project 0121, Natural Gas Back Up Generator.
Council Member Beecham said it had been an issue that was well discussed before the Council and the community. There was broad
support for it. The generators were environmentally sound, and the avoidance of blackouts was a key priority for the City. Council Member Mossar reaffirmed the Utilities staff’s professionalism and attention to detail, which gave her
assurance that staff had thought the project through very well and that it would be implemented in a way that was a benefit to the community.
Council Member Lytle supported the motion. She had the same
concerns Mr. Cassel had about the generator when Council adopted the direction to move forward with the item. She understood that the usage of generators by individual companies would actually be a more polluting outcome.
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Ordinance 4700 entitled “Ordinance of the Council of the
City of Palo Alto Amending the Budget for the Fiscal Year 2001-02 to Provide an Appropriation of $4,353,539 for Natural Gas Back-Up Generators Capital Improvement Project, Number 0121”
Contract Between the City of Palo Alto and Planergy International in the Amount of $4,253,539 for the Procurement, Installation and Start Up of a 5-Megawatt Back
Up Natural Gas Generator System MOTION PASSED 8-0, Wheeler absent. 9. COUNCIL COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Council Member Burch reported that he attended a Police Memorial
service in San Jose last Friday for officers in Santa Clara County killed in the line of duty. The featured speaker was Police Chief Pat Dwyer. Council Member Mossar encouraged the Council to attend the Santa
Clara County Cities Association bocce ball tournament on June 14, 2001, in Los Gatos.
Council Member Lytle commended Mayor Eakins and City Manager Frank Benest regarding the Peninsula Interfaith Action (PIA)
meeting on housing. She suggested a proposal to agendize the discussion of the zoning ordinance to focus on housing.
Mayor Eakins asked if the housing element update would begin in June.
City Manager Benest said the timing was July in terms of staff’s
involvement in the housing opportunities issues as part of the zoning ordinance. He would discuss Council Member Lytle’s proposal with the Planning Director. Staff planned to return to Council with a study session discussion about the housing element and issues.
Council Member Kleinberg spoke regarding National Public Works Week and the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
Council Member Mossar stated that she was uncomfortable with the
City Manager’s going forward with the affordable housing issue and agendizing the discussion of the zoning ordinance to focus on housing.
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Council Member Fazzino gave credit to the Mayor and City Manager
for their presentation on housing at the PIA meeting. He spoke to affordable housing for city workers. Council Member Kleinberg thought that all Council Members should forward their questions to the City Manager regarding affordable
housing. Council Member Mossar stated that there was not consensus to
direct staff to work on the project.
Mayor Eakins noted that in her State of the City address, she called on everyone to speak to the issue of housing. Council Member Lytle stated that the intent of her memo was to demonstrate that the policies were already in existing policies.
Mayor Eakins noted that she was a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) San Francisco Bay Crossing Policy Committee, and a survey had been taken that supported one or more new bay crossings either north or south of the San
Francisco airport.
Mayor Eakins explained that the figures for housing from the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) were based on the fair share of the state’s growth.
CLOSED SESSION
10. Conference with City Attorney -- Existing Litigation
Subject: Marilyn Van Gastel and Anastasia Blenio v. City of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Humane Society, SCC #CV787006
Authority: Government Code Section 54956.9(a) Herb Borock, P.O. Box 632, said the Council just had a discussion on housing that should have been an agendized item
under the Brown Act. There was no reason for Council to discuss it at all, and he believed it was out of order.
The City Council adjourned to closed session at 9:10 p.m.
The City Council met in Closed Session to discuss matters involving Existing Litigation as described in Agenda Item No. 10.
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Mayor Eakins announced that no reportable action was taken on Agenda Item No. 10. ADJOURNMENT: The meeting adjourned at 9:15 p.m.
ATTEST: APPROVED:
City Clerk Mayor
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