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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-10-1983 Adopted CC MinutesREGULAR MEETING - JANUARY 10, 1983 A regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Dublin was held on Mondayf January 10, 1983 in the meeting room, Dublin Library. The meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Mayor Peter Snyder. ROLL CALL PRESENT: Councilmembers Burton, Hegarty, Jeffery, Moffatt and Mayor Snyder. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The Mayor led the Council, Staff and those p~esent in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. CONSENT CALENDAR On motion of Cm. Burton, seconded by Cm. Moffatt, and by unanimous vote, the following were approved: Minutes of special meeting of December 7th, regular meeting of December 13th, and adjourned regular meeting of Decem- ber 14th; Warrant Register in the amount of $121,386.77; Treasurer's Report and Financial Report for the period ending November 30, 1982; Authorization for City Manager to execute agreement with Consultant to provide engineering services related to Dublin Boulevard/Silvergate Drive and approval for budget transfer of $4,400 from General Contingent Reserve to General-Fund Capital Improvement Account. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Mayor Snyder asked that any delivery to the Council be limited to 5 minutes under Oral Communications. If more time is needed, the person or group should request a spot on the agenda. ANIMAL LICENSING & RABIES VACCINATIONS br. EVans, who runs the Parkway Veterinarian Hospital on Village Parkway, addressed the Council, stating his concerns related to rabies vaccines, and future animal licensing practices within Dublin. Dr. Evans stated that throughout the United States, rabies cases are on the rise, yet vaccines and licenses are on the decline. CM-2 -1 Cm. Burton suggested that Dr. Evans work together with Staff in order to study the situation and see what the options are related to costs and services. The findings will be presented to the City Council as an agenda item at a future meeting. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REQUEST - CITY BEAUTIFICATION The Dublin Chamber of Commerce has requested that the City Council give top priority to the improvement of the San Ramon corridor by allocating funds with which to prepare a master plan and improvement program for this corridor. Len Magnani .and Rodger Coupe were present in the audience, representing the Economic Development Committee of the Chamber. Mr. Magnani addressed the Council, explailning that they hear time and time again of the concerns related to improvingI this image of Dublin. As a Committee, they looked at ways to go about improving this image, in order to make the City more appealing to the market. The location of Dublin, with all the growth going on in the valley, is really a key location. The. business community would really like to see priority given to improving the image projected on San Ramon Road between 1-580 and Silvergate Drive. Realizing that the solution is not a simple one, Mr. Magnani stated they simply wished to spotlight this issue for Council consideration. Cm. Burton felt that due to the fact that no outside person is going to come in and solve our problems for us, this Committee should come up with several suggestions and ideas to present for consideration, with recommendations as to what they visualize for this corridor. Mayor Snyder explained that because several items related to this matter were on the agenda for later in the meeting, Mr. Magnani and Mr. Coupe were encouraged to stay for the discussion. The new City Engineer has requested direction with relation to priorities. CITY SEAL Copies of the revised conceptual drawings were presented to the Council for further direction. Consensus of the Council was that colors should be green and gold, the cow depicted in one of the four leafs should be changed to a plow, and the shamrock should be reshaped to more accurately depict a shamrock'rather than a clover leaf. JOINT MEETING BETWEEN CITY/DSRSD DSRSD has provided Staff with several dates that a joint meeting could take place. Council consensus was that the date of February 8, 1983 would'be best for the meeting. CM-2-2 Topics were discussed. City Council felt that it was imperative for the Council and Board of Directors to discuss how the communication and working relationship between each body could be improved. The Council also suggested as topics for possible discussion: 1) Annexation and Sphere of Influence, 2) Location of a City facility, 3) Sewage problems, 4) Parks & Recreation services, 5) Dial-A-Ride services, 6) Refuse collection on City streets. The City Manager was directed to contact Paul RYan in order to identify any other items appropriate for discussion at this joint meeting. TRAFFIC STUDIES Now that the City has selected a City Engineer, a list of those traffic study requests and projects involving traffic studies which were tabled are being presented for clarification with respect to priorities. Staff's recommendation was that the Council establish a priority of either San Ramon Road or Dublin Boulevard. After discussion, consensus of Council was that San Ramon Road studies will take priority, specifically, San Ramon Road from 1-580 to Contra Costa County line. Staff was directed to prepare engineering cost essimates, and present to the Council at a future date, the suggested parameters of the study area and estimated cost of conducting the study. FEDERAL AID URBAN PROGRAM The Federal Aid Urban (FAU) Program, as part of the Federal Highways Act, provides funds to States, Counties, and Cities for improvements to streets and highways which are on the FAU system of streets. Prior to Dublin's incorporation, the County had designated certain FAU projects within the Dublin area and included those projects on the County's Transportation Improvement Plan. The City Manager explained that the FAU funding system is a very complex system. The City of Dublin has an almost $280,000 allocation. The City can spend this on any project on the list that it wishes. The 1982,/83 allocation, however, can only be applied for and spent on projects that are partially funded. This means that if Livermore or Pleasanton wanted to come in with a project that they had not completely funded, they could make application as well as Dublin for a project that we only have partially funded. A series of committees will then decide who would get the allocations or how the allocations might be split between the 3 Cities. On motion of Cm. Jeffery, seconded by Cm. Moffatt, and by unanimous vote, the C~uncil adopted a resolution approving the Dublin Federal Aid Urban Program Project Priority List. CM-2-3 RESOLUTION NO. 1 - 83 APPROVING THE DUBLIN FEDERAL AID URBAN PROGRAM PROJECT PRIORITY LIST OTHER BUSINESS Revenue & Taxation Committee Meeting Cm. Jeffery recently attended a meeting and informed the Council re draft of proposed constitutional amendment on special tax definition, property tax override for pension debt, and reimbursement for mandated costs. A 'committee is being asked to review this draft outline and recommend a League position to the Board of Directors, who will be meeting, on January 21-22. As far as cities are concerned, the outline proposes: (1) Stable source of local government funding. - cities' major state subvention (vehicle in lieu, cigarette tax, business inventory reimbursement, homeowners' reimbursement) would be frozen into the Constitution at the level of funding for FY 1981-82. - city share of property tax revenues could not be shifted to schools, counties, or others without a two-thirds vote of Legislature in a bill which includes no other provisions. - no other change in local revenues for cities is proposed. (2) Locally-approved increases in revenue. - proposal would neither protect nor reverse current city authority to raise non-property tax revenue under San Francisco v. Farrell or property tax revenue under San Gabriel v. Carman (pension debt). (3) Home Rule Powers. - general law cities would be granted the same home rule powers as charter cities. - constitutional protection against mandated costs would be strengthened in an unspecified way. (4) General Obligation Bonds. - two-thirds for property'tax rate to repay voted G.O. bond debt would be reinstated. Advantages: This gives cities, counties and schools a definite and permanent funding source guaranteed by the State Constitution that the State Legislature cannot interfere with. It also gives cities the same home rule powers as charter cities and implies the cities power to exercise the Farrell decision. (This is a draft and will be refined and made more explicit in the final documents to be presented to the Legislature for enactment. Should the Legislature fail to enact this -it will be submitted as an initiative on the ballot.) CM-2-4 Goldwater Bill ~2172 Cm. Burton mentioned an article appearing on back of League Bulletin. Bill #2172 by Goldwater has really stirred up a lot of people. While it didn't pass in the last session, it apparently will come up again and it has been suggested that we address and keep track of it. Basically what this bill will do is pre-empt the local franchise contracts, as far as revenues from franchise fees. Cable TeleVision Advisory Committee Cm. Burton presented a draft copy of the methods of operation for this committee. A final copy will come to the City Manager for distribution to the City Council. It has been agreed that the Committee will have 3 representatives from Dublin, 3 from Livermore and 3 from Pleasanton. There will be one representative from each Council, Marshall Kamena from Livermore, Frank Brandes from Pleasanton, and Cm. Burton from Dublin, who are not voting members. Each City Council will select the 3 people to serve on this committee. The meetings are held the first Thursday of each month. The committee will be dealing with franchising/refranchising agreements, federal and state legislation concerned with cablevision, public access and community service programming needs, state of the art technology, community information and promotional techniques, and other matters as may be directed by the City Councils Cm. Burton requested that this matter be an agenda item at the next City Council meeting. Bay Area Rapid Transit Bob Allen from BART wrote to the City and Cm. Burton commented on the concerns expressed related to the LPX update proposal. Cm. Jeffery felt it very unfair that we have paid the BART tax for so long and have yet to see any service to our area Mayor'Snyder stated that at the'recent BART anniversary celebration, they stated publicly that their commitment in the next 10 years is the extension to Livermore and the extension to Antioch. The Council directed the City Manager to send a letter to Mr. Allen congratulating him for watching out on our behalf and coming up with some good ideas. East Bay Division League of California Cities By-Laws Cm. Burton indicated a copy of the League's By-Laws had come to him and he requested that copies be made for the Council. CM-2-5 ADJOURNMENT ~ There being no further business to come before the Council, the meeting was adjourned at 9:30 p.m. CM-2-6