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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcc min 1997/10/30MINUTES OF JOINT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND SWEETWATER UNION HIGII SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF CIIULA VISTA Thursday, October 30, 1997 7:35 p.m. 1. ROLL CALL: PRESENT: ABSENT: CALL TO ORDER C(Itlllcil CentSfence Roein Admirestraiten Building Padilhl, Rindone. Salas, and Mayor th>rton Cartmill, Chapman, Griego, Pr,vencio, and Chair Sandoval Moot BUSINESS 2. THE FUTURE OF THE COMMUNITY a. Otay Ranch - Status nf Annexation; Status of Ownership; Expected Development Processes Durin~ the Next Two Years; Population Projections; Etc. (City) Rick Rosier. Principal Planner, stated that the City Council adopted the Otay Ranch Plan in October 1993. On March 20, 1997, the City was sncccsslhl in completing the annexation of 9100 acres of the Otay Valley parcel which is a m~jor portion of the Otay Ranch project. /Thc catire prt~iect c{Ins~sts uf 23,000 acres). The urban portion of the Ranch was divided into twelve villages: each one of the villages will have an elementary school. A centrally Incated high school site of 40-50 acres is planned for in Village 7 as well as a junitlr high school site. A second high school site is planned in Village 11. The first specific plan prnpnscd by Village Development was in Villages 1 and 5. Th~s will generate approximately 600 middle school students and 1140 high school sindents. During the prllccssing of the specific plan. the City is reqnired to put in place a Public Facilities Finance Plan. Staff worked closely with the school staff to idcntil~ the high school and middle school needs. One {if the things discovered was because of th~ growth in the community~ the high school was going to be needed shenee than Village 7 could providt1 it. So~ the City has required the first developer to amend the General Development Plan to include a high school site by moving it from Village 7 to either Village 2 or Village 6. Stall is currently working on that amendment. b. Phasing of Development in the City's Eastern Sector, und Its Impacts on Public Facilities, Including Overcrowding, of Public Schools (City) Duane Bazzel, Acting Assistant Director of Planning, stated that dcvcl,pnlcnt p,Ucctions h~r the eastern portion of the City are: Rancho del Rey Units 1 and 2 are almt~st built out, hut Rancho del Rey Unit 3 is currently trader construction. Terra Nova still has some units to cnnstrnct. McMillin Development is redosigning the corner at'ca of Village 5 and then they will develop Village 6, 7, the eastern urban center, and the freeway commercial p{~rtion. EastLake Development Company is half way through devch~ping EastLake Greens and is cnming in with Minutes October 30, 1997 Page 2 a redesign of EastLake Trails and EastLake IIl General Development Plan area. San Miguel Ranch prl~iect is proceedsng allcad with their plans. EastLake, San Miguel Ranch, Otay Ranch have fhtnre SR-125 running through it. That is also a process our staff is currently working with Caltrans anti California Transportation Ventures to deal with alignment issues as well as on ramps, off ramps. and traffic mitigation measures. Rolling Hills Ranch Salt Creek Ranch) is cnrrently grading and will be developing in the western portion of their prqject. Bonita Long Canyon is essentially huilt otlt. Bonita Meadows is anticipated to come in shortly. Sunbow II is a vital link t,,1 the transportation system and a west to east development pattern. They are also in fi~r deveh~pment ill the first phase of theil pr<~Iect. New Millennium Homes will be starhng their specilic plan tier their portion of Village 11 in about six months. Mr. Bazzel stated that we expect SR-125 to begin cl~nstruction near the end of 2001. We expect about: 6300 dwelling units (hoth multi-fmnily and single finnily) by the year 2000. Another 7400 nnits bet~veen 2000 and 2005, An additional 6500 dwelling nnits by 2010, and By the year 2015 we will he approaching build out. What will happen in the County between the years 2005 and 2015 is that most of the development land especially residential development in the north county will be used np, and a ntnnber of these projects will be built lint with the exception of the Otay Ranch. That pr~lect will carry us into year 2015 and probably beyond as fhr as prnviding housing and ,3ther appropriate land uses. This is an overview ill all of the development that is occurring. There are significant issues with everyone of theln such as multiple species planning. the greenbelt trail system that we are trying to put into place surrounding the City, growth management Iss',les to deal with, i.e. parks, schnols, sewers, etc. c. Higher Education Proposals Offered by UCSD und SDSU (City) Duane Bazzel, Acting Assistant Director of Planning, stated that the City has had a goal li~r attracting a major four- year university since the General Plan update in 1989. The City submitted an applicatinn to the State of California to try to attract an additional University of California in the South Bay. Back in the early '90s, the State pulled back due to the dow'n turn ~n the econ{,ny and fi>cused on a Central California site in Merced which was selected in 1995 and that they hope to ripen by 2005. In the meantime, the City of Chtda Vista, San Diego State, UCSD, and Southwestern College all have gotten together tll discuss the potential fk~r a joint siting of facilities on a single campus ti~r a higher education center. The concept is one that has been tried in a number of places. One that we have identified and presented has been the Higher Education Center of Denver, Colorado, where the community college nf Denver, the Metropolitan State College, and the University of Colorado located on approximately 130 acres. It took ab,,lut 20 years to get that established. and they now have about 33,000 students. The initial tbcus which has been identified in the prelinUnary stages of discussion has been academic programs that would support Minntes October 30, 1997 Page 3 vocational, educational. and training m the areas of high technology, biotechnology. and other technical fields. Discussion has also involved programs related to international. environmental. and commerce issues. Some of the issues that we are faced with establishing a center of this magnitude arc siting of the thelilly. financing iff the facility, trade-offs in terms of local quality of lil~, and ecnnomic benefits and costs. There is alsn an Environmental Science Institute that has been discussed. It is a related but slightly different approach tn addressing higher education dealing with the possibility iff a Center for Eco-systems studies in management tied to the Preserve planning in the eastern area of the City. The Council has indicated that while these are somewhat unrelated, they would like to see a linkage between the two. 3. COMMUNITY/SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS a. Youth Issues (afterscooll recreation program us discussed at the Youth Summit: impact uf the new "Y" facility; Otay gym; and competitive swim team) (City) Jess Valenzuela, Director of Parks and Retreatiota stated that over th~ past filur years, the department in cooperation with many of the youth serving agencies has cl>ordinated a Youth Snmmit. It was basically to ask the youth what they think their most impln'tant issues are that afl~ct them as opposed to institutions or service providers saying this is what you need. Some of the questions that we ask the youth are: what is your ideal conlmunity: what do you want to accomplish; how do you want to accomplish it; who carl help you do this; when do you want to do this; and where do you want to accon~plish it'? One of the m~ior thehies that came out of these various questions is the fact that the ynuth in the commnnity (it~nior high scbool and high schl~ol aged youth) want a sat~ place to go. We had cooperated with South Bay Community Services a conpie of years agn to provide a Teen Night Club which has met with son~e satisfi~ctory results. Also m response to this, the City Council decided to put together a high school happenings program. Part of the high school happenings program is interconnected with other junior high school programs which the YMCA runs called Pride Program. The City has filnded those programs. Another thing which came out of the Youth Summit was the Middle School aged children were asking was. where can we go to "hang out" that is a safe place. We are trying to provide this at the first model alter school program at Chula Vista Middle School. What the City wlluld like to do is eventually expand this program to all Junior High School sites. Regarding the impact of the new YMCA facility. he stated that these set~, of pools will assist the City in meeting an already overtaxed municipal pool need. We cnrrently have two pools in the City: one ~s a 15 meter olympic size pool that acconunodates the competitive swnn programs at Loma Verde and a smaller pool about 25 yards in length at Parkway. W~ need more ponls. He has assured the Cl~uncil that the City will be able to accommodate the competitive swim programs this year'. However, we are met with the dilennna of budget cnnstraints. and we are looking to the District to assist us in h>oking at an tlld a:2reement where we chalged $10.50 per hour in hopes to at[just that f~e so we can recovcl some of those t~perational costs. We see tile YMCA as a way of mitigating an impact that we have on the existing municipal thetittles. We do have language m the agreement with the "Y" that tries to benchmark the cost o1 swinl services with City swinl services s{i that no one ~s really costed out ol the market that live around tile Rancho del Rey community. On the clmlpetltive swim end of it. ;re are working to sec if we can get mitre teams using the pools at the YMCA once it ns built. The City is very proud of the Otay Gymnasium project, a 16.000 square t~3ot gymnasium nn Main Street in the Otay community which is ac~jacent to the Otay School. We will probably spend about $3.2 million on the pr{~iect which will include property acquisition, street improvements. as well as the construction of the thcility and parking lot and other ancillary amentries. We wonld like to talk witb the School District staff in the |hturc about how we can have joint uses going on with that l~cility. b. Yule Purade/Winter Band Review Scheduliug 1998 und Beynnd (School Board) Dr. Brand, Superintendent of the Sweetwater Unified High School District. stated that over the last several years there has been sonle difficulty in schednlmg the school's participation in the Yule parade hased upon the hot that Minutes October 30, 1997 Pag~ 4 their hind raiser liar the hands and band programs have been held at the same time. He was pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement with the Downtown Business Association that beginning in December 1998, they will be holding their band per~rmance durin~ the afternoon on the first Saturday in December, so they will be able to participat~ in the Yule Parade. They believe it will be called the Chula Vista/Sweetwater Yule Parade and between thirteen and fiIleen schl~ols will be marching. c. Joint Use Agreements Expansion, Parks, Libraries, Creative Learning Environments (School Board) - Item nnt discussed. 4. WELFARE REFORM - hnpuct nu Schnnls/City Pam Smith, District Manager, Social Security Administration, stated that welfare reform will have a huge impact on the west side of i~ur clm~munity. In August 1996, when the federal legislation was passed in Washington, locally we started thinking ablmt it. For our 12,000 head of h,,mseholds in the South Bay, 80 to 82 percent are women who ar~ going to have to get a job in a very short timeflame, The number of children inw~lved will be over 20,000. This dims not Ihll equitably with east side and ,.vest side, because on the west side we are really talking about is 40 to 50 percent. The more we can do to plan, organize, and h~lp this impact, the more likelihood we have being successfi.fi. One of the things we know with onr welfare recipients is that it is very difficult for them to keep a job. If we transition them and they get a job, and then three n~onths later they are lint of a job, we may be worse off. We will have increased hunger, increased hom¢lessness, increased transition which is a problem we battle in schools all the time with hmilies moving in and out of schools, and increased domestic violence because of the stress. If wc as a community can collie together c}n this issue and work cnllahoratively, we could see a much improved community of tiunilies that have hccome self sufficient, because they have been given this extra helping hand. They will c~rtainly have an incentive with this law to get a job, go to work, and break some cycles and habits that they have been living with. It will take a lot of work on our part. The difficult thing will be the transition. In the lhture, an individual will be toId that we have some temporary assistance fi~r you until we can get you employed. The name of the priggram is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Th~ problem starts in ablmt two years when we have to transition about 12,000 people to work. There is a lot of work to do. Last fall the Human Services Council had a [in'um and identified the ti~lhlwing key issues: 1. Job issue. Are there going to he 12,000 jobs available in ~he South Bay'? 2. Child care issue. There will he 20,000 children impacted which is in addition to the children we already have in child care and after school programs. 3. Health issue. There will be transitional Medi-Cal available h~r awhile, then they will lose it. Most of these people will be working at minimum wage jobs and will not have a benefit package. So we may be transitioning thousands oI' children off health care into nothing. A group called Solution South Bay is developing a plan fbr our cnmmunity. That task force has been meeting regularly. The Child Care Committee has been working to get every child care provider working together on this issue called "Chula Vista Six to Six" which means 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. -- twenty-fonr hour child care. She urged the Council and Board to: (1) Actively participate in any way in these general areas of work and child care. But also to look at these issues internally. She has asked the Elementary School District that we form an internal task filrce to say how can we internally fit into this and what is our role. (2) Be aware nf how we can cl~llaboratively work together. Sally Hazard Dias, Chula Vista Elementary School District Community Collaborative Director, Vista Square School, stated that welfare reform is here: AB-1542 has been signed. If you are new t,3 the welfare prograin, you will have eighteen months to find a job: if you are an existing applicant on weH~.re~ you have twenty-lbur months. At the Minutes October 30. 1997 Page 5 end of those timeframes. the County of San Diego must certit~, that there is no cn~ployment available to you, and the only way you can continue yonr benefits is to do community service. You must sign personal responsibility agreements and accept any ,job that is ofl~red and participate in the parenting of your child. etc. This will impact 12,158 cases in the South Bay as of July 1. 1998. That is 20,000 children that are not currently in a system of child care. There is a big group of children, the inlhnts to 6 years. where people have been able to stay at home in the past, but will now have to go to work once their child reaches the age of three months. The community has an answer to this problem in the context of prevention, wdlhre retilrnl, Ihmily preservation, and economic development in solving these child care issues. They have been meeting and have developed some plans. She t~lt that the systems they were pntting in place were the kinds of systen~s that they will be able to deal with the growth of our issue of child care and the growth of the newly defined jobs. Phms are on the table. and the policy makers' support is needed. AB 1610, 1612 - Fiugerprinting (School Board) - Item not discussed. Workforce Employers Regional Center (WERC) (City) Item m~t discussed. 5. CITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES (City) - Item m~t discussed. 6. EL NINO (City/Sch,ml Board) - Item not discussed. 7. OTHER BUSINESS ® Counciimember Padilia suggested that we ~neet on some type iff a regular basis to keep the ~lrmal dialogne between the lifil bodies going. · Member Chapman stated she had received a call trom one td the high schools. and they were not prepared filr El Ni~o. She Iblt we needed to go after them sinc~ the schools will be used in case tff a disaster. · Member Griego suggested that each organization come up with a couple of issues and have the respective staffs prepare reports and then give each body a presentation at one of one regular lneetings. Then tmr joint meetings cotlid be left to discuss the sl}lutions or actions that result from those presentations. We could get more done if we already have the infimnation. Mayor Horton replied that staff tried to provide some backgr{mnd infi,rmation. That is probably what we need tbr every item. so that we are all more ~dly prepared. · Mayor Horton asked tbr snggestions when tll schcdn[e the next meeting. Consensus was to set the first Thnrsday of February, Febmary 5, 1908, tbr the next meeting. · Councihnember Rindone stated that on the itmn, City Council Priorities. the City Council would like input from the Board of Trustees regarding any of those seven prit}rities or any others that might not be on the list that they think are ones which the Council should fi>cus ORAL COMMIJNICATIONS Minutes October 30. 1997 Page 6 The meeting a4journed at 9:32 p.m. ADJOURNMENT Respectlidly submitted, Beverly A. Authelet, CMC/AAE City Clerk