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Home My WebLink AboutMinutes 06/22/1987V., 23 .P .: 218 June 22, 1.987 MINUTES OF A REGULAR ADJOURNED . PETALUMA CITY .COUNCIL MEETING JUNE 22, 1987 ROLL: 3:00 P.M. PRESENT: Davis., Sobel, Woolsey, Cavanagh, Balshaw, Vice Mayor Tencer, Mayor Hilligoss ABSENT: None TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX After some discussion it was moved by Lynn Woolsey and seconded by Michael Davis to ask staff to prepare an ordinance raising the Transient Occupancy Tax one (1$) percent, changing the rate from 7o to 8%. AYES: Davis, Sobel, Woolsey, Cavanagh, Balshaw, Vice Mayor Tencer, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: None ABSENT: None .. ,.~.. REQUEST FOR TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX ° Council agreed to donate 500.00 of the Transient Occupancy Tax to the Miss Sonoma Pageant, Councilwoman Woolsey dissented. ° Petaluma Area Pilots Association (PAPA) . It was Council consensus that 7,500 should go to PAPA. ° Petaluma Old Adobe Association was granted their request for $1, 000. ° The Petaluma Swim Club was granted a request for $2,150. ° It was moved by Jack Cavanagh and seconded by Lynn Woolsey the Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County should be granted $4, 000 . AYES: Davis, Sobel, Woolsey, Cavanagh, Balshaw, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: Vice Mayor Tencer ABSENT: None ° Petaluma Worlds Wristwrestling Championship . There was some discussion, and concern among Councilmembers that this is a profit making venture, and that the organization did not submit sufficient financial data to answer the questions the Council had asked with reference to the source and use of funds for this particular event. There was discussion of looking into the City's Recreation Department assuming responsibility for the event. It was moved by Jack Cavanagh, seconded by Michael Davis to support the request of $5, 000 .for the wristwrestling contest and that the Finance Director look at the accounting after this years event to verify the figures. AYES: Davis, Cavanagh, Balshaw, Vice Mayor Tencer, Mayor Hilligoss NOES : Sobel, Woolsey ABSENT: None 1 1 June 22, 1987 V.23 P. 219 ° Don Bennett and Terry McCrae -from the Chamber of Commerce presented their request for $118, 614.00. The Council discussed their desire to have some measurement of the increase~•in sales tax through the Chamber promotional efforts. Don Bennett ~ suggested a Chamber Committee sit down with a Council Committee to work out some legitimate way, mutually agreed upon, to develop these statistics. It was moved by Lynn Woolsey, seconded by John Balshaw to appropriate the $118,614.00 requested: . AYES: Davis, Sobel, Woolsey,: Cavanagh, Balshaw, Vice Mayor Tencer, Mayor Hilligoss NOES : None ABSENT: None ' ° Cinnabar Theatre - Mr . Marvin Klebe requested the Council consider appropriating 5, 500 for the Cinnabar Theatre to be used for advertising in the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper. It was moved by• Jack Cavanagh, seconded by Michael Davis to appropriate $5, 500 for the: Cinnabar Theatre. AYES: Davis, Sobel, Woolsey, Cavanagh, Balshaw, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: Vice Mayor Tencer ABSENT: None ° Sonoma County Convention and Visitors Bureau. It was, moved by Vice Mayor Tencer and seconded by Brian Sobel to appropriate $12,000 of the Transient Occupancy Tax to the Sonoma County Convention and Visitors Bureau. AYES: Davis, Sobel, Woolsey, Cavanagh, Balshaw, Vice Mayor Tencer, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: None ABSENT: None ° Petaluma Historical• Librar ~ and Museum. It was Council _ consensus to approve 2,500 of Transient Occupancy-Tax for the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum . ° Main Street Program. Bill Gabbert, President of the Main Street Association, addressed the Council requesting they consider appropriating $20, 000 of .Transient Occupancy Tax for the Main Street. Program. It was moved•'by John Balshaw and seconded by Brian Sobel to appropriate the $20, 000 with the condition it is not to be used for local retail promotion . AYES: Davis, Sobel, Woolsey, Cavanagh, Balshaw, Vice Mayor Tencer, Mayor Hilligoss NOES : None ABSENT: None ° Burbank Center for the Arts addressed the Council requesting $10, 000. It was Council consensus if the City had sufficient funds available they would consider this request favorably, however, ~ there will be no funds from the City of Petaluma for the Burbank Center for the Arts this fiscal year. V. 23 P. 220 :Tune 22, 1987 ° Television Channel 22 (public broadcasting) requested $4,000 to develop four 4 . to six promotional spots on Petaluma was approved on a motion introduced .by Brian Sobel and, seconded by Lynn Woolsey. , AYES: Davis, Sobel., Woolsey,, Cavanagh., Balshaw, ~~Vice Mayor.. Tencer, Mayor Hiiligoss NOES : None ,, ABSENT : .None The Council asked that this project be headed by .the Petaluma Area , . Chamber of Commerce Promotions per-son.. , ° Petaluma Seniors Involved had requested $900 and that had been .placed in the Recreation Department budget. ~ . ANNUAL COMMITTEE RECRUITMENT , AB103 Committee.. ; The City Manager advised that the AB10:3 Committee is going through a process of change in connection with their efforts of ~ he Main Street Association and they will be coming back to the City Council. at a later date for recommendations of the restructuring of that committee:. The recommendation of staff is to ,defer recruitment for membership_ until the reorganization presentation has been heard: ... , The City Manager also suggested the Council not consider changing Personnel Board memberships until. after a ~particula.r personnel matter 'has been resolved . This may take up to 6 months . . :.l , 5:00 P . M , Recess to Dinner Reconvened at 7:00 P.M. . ,,k ANNUAL COMMISSION SEAT RECRUITMENT .;~~_ Council directed staff to recruit for the remaining commissions'., that being SPARC, • Recreation, Lucchesi Senior Center., -Sonoma County Cultural Arts . Council, HistoricalLibrary • and Museum . .Committee. Deadline for applications is 5:00 p.m. July 10,,. 1987. Council will consider the appointments on July 20, 1987. PLANNING.:COMMISSION APPLICATIONS , -. ' r. •~ Council consideried the following persons. .for .appointment to the seat being vacated by~ Glenn Head on the Planning Commission .. Phyllis Rankin,. :Lewis Larsen, Charlotte' Hottinger, Robert Groh., ,James Geagan, Kathleen Doyle and William Brotman. •`c The Council's vote is as follows Kathleen Doyle -Lynn Woolsey, Larry Tencer, Michael Davis;, John Balshaw James Geagan -Brian Sobel ~ . William Brotman -; Jack Cavanagh ~ .. ~ ,~ Robert Groh -Mayor Hilligoss~ ~ ,.~: June 22, 1987 V.23 P. 221 A .resolution confirming the appointment of .Kathleen Doyle to a four (4) year term on the Planning Commission will be presented to the Council on the next agenda. BUDGET The Council continued their consideration of the department. budgets. ° Community Development and Planning Department. The City Council asked staff to put the Planning Commission annual commissioners meeting back into their Meetings budget. The City Council asked for more information about using contract help in order to expedite the approval process . The Council agreed to allocate $100, 000 and asked staff to come back with recommendations on .improving the "tiining- sensitive" things in the approval process and to provide more time in the daily process to do long-range planning . Included should be suggestions as to how the building industry might participate in this cost and suggestions they may have for accomplishing those goals. The Planning Director, Warren Salmons, was asked to prepare a supplement to his Supplemental Budget to include the foregoing . The meeting recessed from 8:35 to 8:50 p.m. ° Director of Public Works and Engineering . Regarding the Corporation Yard budget, the Street Superintendent advised that an employee has developed software to keep track of corporation yard processes. It was moved by John Balshaw, seconded by Larry Tencer to add money to the budget in order to purchase that software. There was no vote . U. S. HIGHWAY l0I CORRIDOR There is a local effort to obtain Federal funding to purchase the Northwest Pacific Railroad right-of-way to use for transportation purposes. It appears the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District is earmarked as the body to control that funding . Vice Mayor Tencer expressed concern that Sonoma County's interests are not sufficiently ~~ strong on the Bridge Board, and we should encourage a joint powers agreement between various authorities for handling the funding for this transportation improvement project. He asked that the City Council go on record stating that we have a more active part and greater control over the right-of-way in Sonoma County. Staff was asked to contact the cities of Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park to ask them to pursue the same. end. AIRPORT COMMISSION LIAISON John Balshaw noted that the Airport Commission is again trying to change the procedures to have morning meetings. It was Council consensus the Airport Commission should continue to have evening meetings . V. 23 P. 222 June 22, 1987 At 10:15 P.M, the meeting was adjourned in memory of Ken Wightman, a former member of the Petaluma Library Board. and a dedicated civic worker. • ATTEST: ~ , atricia ~ ernard, City Clerk .. ~~. 1 1 1