Again, a long and diverse meeting.
We start the meeting with no less than three closed sessions. One apparently involves ongoing litigation over Sunnyvale’s Measure C gun control initiative, the other two involve performance evaluations of our City Manager and City Attorney.
No special orders or presentations, so we get straight to business. There’s a good-sized consent calendar, including a recreational soccer contract, (re)appointing a VTA BPAC representative, a contract related to a Sense of Place plan for the Lawrence Station Area, a water tank refurbishment contract, a landfill gas pump contract, a purchase order for services to repair sewer lines, another legal contract amendment, and second reading of an ordinance.
Item 2 involves an appeal of a Planning Commission decision involving the Blue Bonnet Mobile Home Park site. The current park residents have appealed the PC’s decision regarding redevelopment plans.
Item 3 has us discussing giving the City Attorney a 6% raise.
Item 4 is an official city response to a Grand Jury report regarding police responses that involve the mentally ill. The Grand Jury took a look at how all county law enforcement agencies prepare for incidents that involve the mentally ill, made some recommendations on how to better prepare, and requires cities to review those recommendations and provide responses (agree, partially agree, disagree, already implemented, won’t implement and here’s why, etc.).
Item 5 has us picking a name for Sunnyvale’s newest public park, an 0.8 acre park at Duane and DeGuine. Note that the Parks & Rec. Commission is not recommending we go with “Parky McParkface”…
Item 6 is our biennial progress report on Sunnyvale’s Climate Action Plan 1.0. In short, our goal was to reduce Sunnyvale’s GHG emissions to 1990 levels or below by 2020. We met that point in 2014, we were at 12% below 1990 levels in 2016, and we’re estimated that the addition of Silicon Valley Clean Energy reduced us to 28% below 1990 levels as of last year.
Item 7 has us calling for a November election to vote on our charter amendment ballot. This will include discussion of how to handle the ballot arguments.
Item 8 has us calling for a November election to vote on increasing the Transient Occupancy Tax.
Our final item, item 9, has us placing unpaid administrative citations on the tax rolls for collection. All told, there is some $36k of unpaid fines (plus interest) from eight different entities.
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