MEETING NOTICE
City Council welcomes you to attend the meetings electronically or in person at the City Hall Council Chambers, located at 125 E. Main St., Grass Valley, CA 95945. Your interest is encouraged and appreciated.
This meeting is being broadcast “live” on Comcast Channel 17 & 18 by Nevada County Media, on the internet at www.cityofgrassvalley.com, or on the City of Grass Valley YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAaL-uwdN8iTz8bI7SCuPQ.
Members of the public are encouraged to submit public comments via voicemail at (530) 274-4390 and email to public@cityofgrassvalley.com. Comments will be reviewed and distributed before the meeting if received by 5pm. Comments received after that will be addressed during the item and/or at the end of the meeting. Council will have the option to modify their action on items based on comments received. Action may be taken on any agenda item.
Agenda materials, staff reports, and background information related to regular agenda items are available on the City’s website: www.cityofgrassvalley.com. Materials related to an item on this agenda submitted to the Council after distribution of the agenda packet will be made available on the City of Grass Valley website at www.cityofgrassvalley.com, subject to City staff’s ability to post the documents before the meeting.
Please note, individuals who disrupt, disturb, impede, or render infeasible the orderly conduct of a meeting will receive one warning that, if they do not cease such behavior, they may be removed from the meeting. The chair has authority to order individuals removed if they do not cease their disruptive behavior following this warning. No warning is required before an individual is removed if that individual engages in a use of force or makes a true threat of force. (Gov. Code, § 54957.95.)
Council Chambers are wheelchair accessible and listening devices are available. Other special accommodations may be requested to the City Clerk 72 hours in advance of the meeting by calling (530) 274-4390, we are happy to accommodate.
CALL TO ORDER
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
AGENDA APPROVAL - The City Council reserves the right to hear items in a different order to accomplish business in the most efficient manner.
REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
INTRODUCTIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
PUBLIC COMMENT - Members of the public are encouraged to submit public comments via voicemail at (530) 274-4390 and email to public@cityofgrassvalley.com. Comments will be reviewed and distributed before the meeting if received by 5pm. Comments received after that will be addressed during the item and/or at the end of the meeting. Council will have the option to modify their action on items based on comments received. Action may be taken on any agenda item.
CONSENT ITEMS - All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are to be considered routine by the City Council and/or Grass Valley Redevelopment Agency and will be enacted by one motion in the form listed. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless, before the City Council and/or Grass Valley Redevelopment Agency votes on the motion to adopt, members of the Council and/or Agency, staff or the public request specific items to be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion and action (roll call vote).
CEQA: Not a project
Recommendation: Adopt Resolution No. 2024-64 approving the Labor Memorandum of Understanding for an eighteen (18) month period beginning July 1, 2024, through December 31, 2025, between the City of Grass Valley and the Grass Valley Management / Supervisory Professional & Confidential Employees Group (Unit 1).
CEQA: Not a Project
Recommendation: Adopt Resolution No. 2024–64 & 2024-63 approving the Labor Memorandum of Understanding for a 3-year period beginning July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027, between the City of Grass Valley and the International Union of Operating Engineers, Stationery Engineers, Local 39 (Unit 2 and Unit 3).
Recommendation: That Council appoints Mayor Arbuckle as the voting and Council Member Branstorm as the alternate for the 2024 League Annual Conference on October 16-18, 2024.
Recommendation: (1) The Council approve procurement and installation of open space surveillance cameras for Memorial Park, Condon, Par, & Elisabeth Daniels Park funded by Prop 64 grant funds, pursuant to the attached GSA Contract scope of work agreements; (2) authorize the City Manager to sign necessary agreements, subject to legal review; and (3) direct the Finance Director to make appropriate budget adjustments and payments as may be necessary
ITEMS REMOVED FROM CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION OR SEPARATE ACTION AND / OR ANY ADDED AGENDA ITEMS
PUBLIC HEARING
CEQA: The project is exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by the “common sense” rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment.
Recommendation: That council 1) Conduct the public hearing under the requirements of Tax and Equity Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). 2) Adopt Resolution No. 2024-65 approving the issuance of the Bonds by the California Municipal Finance Authority (CMFA) for the benefit of Eskaton Properties, Incorporated, a nonprofit, public benefit corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California and an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Code (the “Borrower”), to provide for the financing of the Project, such adoption is solely for the purposes of satisfying the requirements of TEFRA, the Code and the California Government Code Section 6500 (and following).
ADMINISTRATIVE
CEQA: Categorically Exempt – Section 15301 “Existing Facilities”
Recommendation: That Council 1) approve the findings that the project is categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); 2) provide direction to Staff on several design proposals; and 3) authorize the advertisement for bids.
CEQA: Not a Project.
Recommendation: That Council 1) review the proposed initial expenditure plan confirmed by the Citizen Oversite Committee for Measure B; 2) approve the expenditure plan; 3) approve any necessary budget transfers or amendments to the Fiscal Year 2024/25 Budget to implement the approved portion of the Expenditure Plan funding; 4) authorize the City Manager to move forward with implementing the proposed expenditure plan in accordance with City requirements.
BRIEF REPORTS BY COUNCIL MEMBERS
ADJOURN
POSTING NOTICE
This is to certify that the above notice of a Special meeting of The City Council, scheduled for Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 6:30 PM was posted at city hall, easily accessible to the public, as of 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 20, 2023.
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Taylor Whittingslow, City Clerk