This is one of the most packed agendas I’ve seen in a very long time.
We start the meeting with two closed sessions. The first looks like it involves our annual consideration of compensation for the City Attorney, one of the two employees that Council directly manages. The second involves “anticipated litigation” (and your guess is as good as mine on that one).
The general session starts out with recognition of Parks and Recreation Month. The consent calendar is pretty huge, apparently including our laundry list of “get it done before the fiscal year ends” items. We’ve got approval of NOVA as the operator for the NOVA Workforce Development area. There is a grant for improving the timing of the Caltrain crossing at Mary and Evelyn. There’s an agreement for modifying Remington at Sunnyvale-Saratoga for a traffic improvement that is part of the development going in on the NE corner of that intersection. There’s an amendment to our agreement for dredging the Water Pollution Control Plant ponds. We’re giving our PSOA and PSMA employees their annual raise based on the salary survey, per the Memorandum of Understanding. There’s a budget allocation to rent a backup generator for the public safety building, to tide us over until the permanent fix can be put in place. We’re allocating $250k towards the Fair Oaks Park all-inclusive playground (which we were planning on budgeting for next year, but which needs to be accelerated because the work has been done). And there’s a change to a traffic signal maintenance contract.
Item 2 has us amending a contract for outside legal services related to redevelopment agency dissolution.
Item 3 is the big item – adoption of the FY 2018/19 budget.
Item 4 is an interesting one – approving a resolution opposing the administration’s separation of immigrant families. We don’t normally do this sort of thing.
Item 5 is our annual consideration of utility rate increases.
And somewhat related, item 6 is our annual resolution related to customers who haven’t paid their utility bills. Out of the whole city, the total amount of delinquent utility bills is $3100. That’s pretty good.
Item 7 has us considering adopting an ordinance to increase the voting requirement to sell park land from 4 to 5 councilmembers.
Item 8 is another big one – selecting a preferred housing study for amending the Lawrence Station Area Plan.
Item 9 has us considering this year’s applicants for community and neighborhood grants.
And the final item, item 10, is our annual resolution for the Downtown Parking Maintenance District.
We should finish all this by some time around 3 a.m…
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