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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcc min 1984/01/26 MINUTES OF AN ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA Thursday, January 26, 1984 City Hall 4:00 p.m. Council Conference Room ROLL CALL Councilmembers present: Mayor Cox, Councilmembers Moore and McCandl i ss ( Counci 1 man Scott arri red 1 ate} Councilmember absent: Councilman Malcolm Staff present: City Manager Goss, City Attorney Harron, Director of Management Services Thomson 1. SERVICES PROVIDED BY SANDAG Deputy Director Ken Sulzer and Paul Kavanaugh of Technical Assistance representing SANDAG explained the services offered by that organization. Mr. Sulzer stated there were two kinds of services provided: a Regional Planning and a Regional Forum in order to solve issues coming before the jurisdictions of each County. This would include such projects as emergency public safety, offshore drilling, water quality and others. The second service is the Technical Assistance Division. Mr. Sulzer explained that 5 or 6 years ago, SANDAG realized it had a lot to offer the cities such as information data and ways to apply it to local and regional problems, so they designed a Technical Assistance Division. They have produced a slide and have presented it to different cities informing them about this particular service. Another service being offered by SANDAG is a non-profit corporation called "Source Point". Mr. Sulzer explained the board and staff memberships geared primarily to provide the mechanism to the public and private sectors so they could take advantage of the information offered by SANOAG. They are serving a number of clients at this time which brings in revenue for this division. Paul Kavanaugh, Director of the local Technical Assistance Division (LTA) explained Chula Vista is entitled to $1,000 worth of staff time by being a member of SANOAG. The Division provides census data, transportation analysis, land use, planned use parcels systems information, impact models (impact on developments), layout and graphic services, housing information, criminal justice evaluation team and computer services. Council discussion followed regarding the City's use of the services, the cost of the tapes of the various census tracts as it relates to Chula Vista and the services now being used by the City. Director of Planning Gray stated he will list the services his department now uses and will route this information to the City Council. COUNCIL CONFERENCE - 2 - January 26, 1984 Director of Management Services Thomson, noting the next item on the agenda was Public Technolog~v, Inc. asked Mr. Sulzer if there is any duplication of services offered by SANDAG and PTI. Mr. Sulzer indicated there are no duplication of services - SANDAG's concentration is on the data base primarily in the San Diego area. 2. CITY MEMBERSHIP IN PUBLIC TECHNOLOGY Director of Management Services Thomson explained the City has $5,000 budgeted this year for this particular service. He introduced Mr. Bill Mascenik, Manager of the Western Operations of PTI. Mr. Mascenik explained this is a non-profit, private corporation with headquarters in Washington, D.C. employing 60 people 30 of which are technical people. He explained the operation provided was "an answer service". When a City calls in or writes i n for information, the division searches for that information and submits the reply on the answer service sheet. Mr. Mascenik showed the Council several examples of this particular service such as a reply to the City of Sunnyvale's request for abuse of sick leave information, Pasadena's request for a legal ordinance banning smoking. Cities can use this answer service as often as they wish and for as many topics that come up. The second program is the electronic mail system; however, there is a limit on the use - four hours of computer time. A monthly newsletter is al so published which gives information that has been researched during the past month. PTI also conducts workshops throughout the country. In response to Councilwoman McCandliss' request, Mr. Thomson stated the City would be in a position to take full advantage of the service and the responsibility for monitoring this would be the person designated by the City Manager. In answer to Council's queries, Mr. Mascenik stated there is a 2-4 week delay for the answers to calls coming from various cities. However, i f there is an emergency, an answer to the request could be forwarded sooner. The only additional cost to the service would be if they needed additional computerized time. City Manager Goss spoke in favor of the City's membership in this organization indicating it would give an "edge" in the Analysis Division in getting out reports to the Council. MSUC (Cox/McCandliss) to accept the staff recommendation: to authorize staff to expend the currently budgeted funds for a one-year membership in Public Technology, Inc. 3. REPORT ON THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA BICYCLE ROUTE FACILITIES (City Engineer/Planning Director) City Engineer Lippitt stated in 1980, the City received a $20,000 grant in the Local Transportation Fund (LTF) monies to conduct their bicycle facilities study. A contract employee was hired to do the study which was reviewed by Engineering and P1 anning Departments. The allocati on (which is 2% of the LTF funds) i s given to the region and administered by SANDAG. In 1975, the City Council adopted the bike route element of the General Plan. This element designated various streets as suitable for bicycle travel, but it did not specify the class of the facility to be implemented on each street. COUNCIL CONFERENCE - 3 - January 26, 1984 Associate Civil Engineer, Roberto Saucedo, supervising this particular project, referred to the bicycle route facilities report issued in October 1981 by Patricia Willcocks contract employee retained to prepare this study. Mr. Saucedo stated the goal of the entire study was to establish a safe and functional system of bikeways that would provide convenient access to important activity centers rather than recreational trips. He presented graphs showing the proposed route systems and those existing both within the City of Chula Vista and regional area. Mr. Saucedo noted in the bike report, priorities were given to the proposed bikeway projects. He defined priority No. 1 as those projects deemed important to public safety and rated among their group in terms of need and/or ease to implement. Priority No. 2 were projects rated in terms of need but difficult or too costly to construct. Priority No. 3 were those projects having a moderate rating in term of needs. Further presentation by Mr. Saucedo included the difference between a bike route and a bike lane, how the program study was put together and the method of determining the bike routes. As to the staff recommendations, Mr. Saucedo stated staff is recommending the Council (1) adopt the report as intermediate guidelines for the implementation of bike routes element of the Chula Vista General Plan; {2) direct the City Planning Department to include the report's diagram of proposed bicycle routes in the bicycle route element of the General Plan as "a suggested proposal" and as a replacement for the element's existing map; (3) direct the City Planning Director and the City Engineer to consult with the Planning Commission and the Safety Commission prior to implementation of future bike route facility improvements. In answer to Councilman Moore's question, Mr. Saucedo stated that an annual allotment of LTF funds for maintenance and improvement of the bike routes is available from~ SANDAG. MSUC (Moore/Scott) to accept the report and the recommendations. Mayor Cox asked if any consideration was given to extending the bike route along the old Coronado right-of-way and whether this would receive any further consideration with Caltrans. MSUC (Cox/Moore) for staff to prepare a letter to MTDB to encourage them to work with Caltrans to provide the right-of-way along that vacated spur line and also to write a letter to Caltrans, requesting their cooperation and participation in completing the South Bay bike route so it would no longer utilize the Palm Avenue surface street but would provide a separate right-of-way which would go along the old rail road spur line - copies of this letter to be sent to the four South Bay cities which are involved in this project. 4. CITY ~U~NAGER'S REPORT (None) 5. MAYOR'S REPORT a. Mayor Cox said he met today with representatives of various school s and organizations concerning the Greg Roger's house. They visited the house and explored the possibility of what could be done to preserve the house in the short time-frame available. Mr. Zogob, who owns the house, stated he would like to have it removed by February 15. Involvement would be COUNCIL CONFERENCE - 4 - January 26, 1984 with the elementary school district which could possibly place it temporarily on one of their school sites. Mayor Cox questioned whether the City could use Block Grant funds to renovate the facility for a Community Center. The Historical Society and SOHO could be involved. There is al so some potential that the Del Rey High School could use it for their facilities or for their programs. MS (Cox/McCandliss) to direct staff to (1) prepare a letter to the elementary school district asking them if they would be willing to provide for the temporary storage of the house at the Feaster site; (2) to direct staff to come back to Council on February 7th with a report on the availability of using Block Grant funds for the possible move and restoration of the Greg Roger's house; (3) to develop a schedule regarding when and if Block Grant funds could be programmed for the move and temporary storage of the house and for whatever environmental documents are necessary; (4) to develop a schedule of taking bids on quotes to move the building and to provide the Council with a recommendation as to whether the Community Block Grant funds can be used for this project. Councilman Scott voiced his concerns about the restoration of the building indicating it would cost a small fortune and it might turn out to be a "white elephant". Councilwoman McCandliss stated she could support the motion since it does involve one last effort to restore the historical facility; however, she does have reservations about following through on this project. She felt the City should not bear the entire expense to move the house and to renovate it indicating the school district could come up with some educational grant to finance the program. Councilman Moore commented there are a number of projects going on in the City to be completed, and it would stretch the time and talent of the staff in the City to accomplish this particular project. City Manager Goss noted the deadline of February 15, commenting there wou1 d be many questions the staff would not be able to answer during that time frame. 6. COUNCIL COMMENTS a. Councilwoman McCandliss referred to the funds allocated to the Hallelujah Corporation at the last Council meeting. MSUC (McCandliss/Moore) to ask the Hallelujah Corporation to provide the City Council with a budget for Chula Vista activities for the first year of their operation. b. Councilman Moore discussed a position of the exterior walls of the Parking Structure which is turning white due to weather conditions. He investigated this and found out that if the building is not weatherproofed or sealed, it would appear white (sweating). They are getting ready to sandblast the building and if it isn't sealed, then this deterioration will occur. City Manager Goss stated he will investigate this. COUNCIL CONFERENCE - 5 - January 26, 1984 c. Councilman Scott referred to the newspaper articles concerning the Convention Center which is to be built on Port land at the cost of $95 million dollars. According to the news articles within the past few days, the City of San Diego is indicating they would be hard-pressed to construct the facility at that price. Councilman Scott added Chula Vista has a critical interest and should take some stand and alert it's Port Commissioner. He added the Port District was under no obligation to go ahead and fund any more than the $95 million dollars. The project is for the City of San Diego which is being helped by the Port District and to go beyond the $95 million dollars would hurt the coastal cities in a very meaningful way. Mayor Cox suggested this topic be brought up at the Redevelopment Agency meeting scheduled for next Thursday. MSUC (Scott/Moore) to send a letter to the City's Port Commissioner stating the Council is very much concerned about any additional expenses from the Port District and that it will be taking up this matter at next Thursday's meeting and would like whatever input they can give us on it. ADJOURNMENT AT 6:00 p.m. to the Council meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 2, 1984 following the Redevelopmerit Agency m~e eting and to the regularly scheduled meeting of Tuesday, February 6, 1984 at 7 p.m.