Regular Meeting eAgenda July 16, 2002

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AGENDA

 

BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING

 

TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2002
 

Roll Call: 7:00 p.m.

Comments from the City Manager: The City Manager may make announcements or provide information to the City Council in the form of an oral report.   The Council will not take action on such items but may request the City Manager place a report on a future agenda for discussion.

Comments from the Public: A total of 30 minutes is scheduled.   Each speaker is limited to a maximum of 3 minutes.

Council Action: The City Council may take action related to any subject listed on the Agenda.

The Council will consider removal and addition of items to the Consent Calendar prior to voting on the Consent Calendar.   All items remaining on the Consent Calendar will be approved in one motion.   Items removed from the Consent Calendar will be held over to the next meeting unless the City Manager requests action due to priority.

1. Restrictions on Barbecues and Fires on Public Property (PDF, 301 KB)
   From: City Manager
   Recommendation:Adopt the first reading of an Ordinance adding Berkeley Municipal Code (BMC) Chapter 6.15 entitled “Restrictions on Barbecues and Fires on Public Property.”
   Contact: Manuela Albuquerque, City Attorney 981-6950
2. Contract: Legislative Representation Services (PDF, 201 KB)
   From: City Manager
   Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract and any amendments in an amount not to exceed $49,970 with Lynn Suter & Associates to provide the City with legislative representation services in Sacramento from July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003.
   Contact: Phil Kamlarz, City Manager 981-7000

3. Contract: The Berkeley Alliance (PDF, 570 KB)
   From: City Manager
   Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract and any amendments with the Berkeley Alliance for $80,000 to provide administrative support and project services for this partnership endeavor with the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) and the UC Berkeley (UCB) campus from July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003.
   Contact: Phil Kamlarz, City Manager 981-7000

4. Contract: South Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation (PDF, 633 KB)
   From: City Manager
   Recommendation:Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to amend a contract with the South Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation (SBNDC) by increasing the amount of the contract by $24,835 to $98,670 for the period August 3, 2001 to December 31, 2003 and to amend the Scope of Services to provide for the SBNDC’s planned activities by its Board and Executive Director for Fiscal Year 2003.
   Contact: Thomas Myers, Economic Development, 705-8180

5. Contract: Economic Revitalization and Community Development, Telegraph/Southside (PDF, 950 KB)
   From: City Manager
   Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract and any amendments in the amount of $54,000 with the Telegraph Area Association (TAA) to support economic revitalization and community development in the Telegraph/Southside neighborhood for Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2003.
   Contact: Tom Myers, Economic Development, 705-8123

6. Contract: Bank of the West (PDF, 1 MB)
   From:City Manager
   Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to increase the contract amount for banking services with Bank of the West in an amount not to exceed $383,000 for a term ending June 30, 2003.
   Contact: Fran David, Finance, 981-7300

7. Contract: Energy Efficient Products (PDF, 560 KB)
   From: City Manager
   Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a sole source contract and any amendments with the Ecology Center for marketing services related to the bulk purchase of energy efficient products and materials in the amount of $40,000 for the period June 1, 2002 to August 31, 2003.
   Contact: Stephen Burton, Housing, 981-5400

8. Purchase Order: Temporary Employment Services (PDF, 116 KB)
   From: City Manager
   Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution increasing the purchase order by $17,000 with Volt Service Group for a total amount not to exceed $42,000 for temporary employee services for the Police Department.
   Contact: Dash Butler, Police, 981-5700

9. Grant: Computer Equipment for Police Department (PDF, 131 KB)
   From: City Manager
   Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to accept $62,144 in grant funding from the State of California, California Law Enforcement Equipment Program (CLEEP), to purchase computer equipment.
   Contact: Dash Butler, Police, 981-5700

10. Parking Prohibited in Marina Areas (PDF, 137 KB)
    From: City Manager
    Recommendation: Adopt first reading of Ordinance amending the Berkeley Municipal Code (BMC) to add section 6.20.255 to prohibit parking of all vehicles and trailers between 2:00 A.M. and 6:00 A.M. daily on designated streets in the Berkeley Marina area.
    Contact: Peter Hillier, Transportation, 981-7000

     

11. Maintaining a Fire Break along Buffer Zone (PDF, 94 KB)
    From:Councilmember Olds
    Recommendation: Send a letter to the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) requesting they immediately restore a program to maintain a fire break along the buffer zone between Berkeley and Tilden Park.
    Contact: Betty Olds, District 6, 981-7160

     

12. Map of Berkeley Footpaths on or Linked to City Website (PDF, 84 KB)
    From: Mayor Dean
    Recommendation: Refer to the City Manager the expansion of the City Website to include the newly published map of the Berkeley footpaths by the Berkeley Path Wanderers Association.
    Contact: Shirley Dean, Mayor, 981-7100

13. Support AB 2739: Multilingual Services (PDF, 132 KB)
    From: Mayor Dean
    Recommendation: 1) Support AB 2739 requiring the provision of cultural and linguistic services to limited English-proficient patients (LEP) of Healthy Families and Medi-Cal (Patients) and by every provider contracting with the State to provide Healthy Families and Medi-Cal services (Providers), such as Kaiser and Blue Cross; and 2) ask the City Clerk to notify the bill sponsor, the City’s Sacramento legislators and lobbyist.
    Contact: Shirley Dean, Mayor, 981-7100

14. Recycling of Radioactive Waste into Household Items (PDF, 561 KB)
    From: Councilmember Spring
    Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution, and prior to the end of the comment period on July 29, 2002, send a letter to the Secretaries of the US NRC, US DOT and US DOE, Representative Lee and Senators Boxer and Feinstein,
    1) expressing great concern and opposition to the proposed rules that would
    a) deregulate radioactive wastes and materials, b) allow the deliberate dispersal of radioactive materials into raw materials, products, the market place and our surroundings, and c)   weaken domestic nuclear transport regulations; and
    2) requesting the US and international governments prohibit release of radioactive waste and materials from nuclear power and weapons into the marketplace.
    Contact: Dona Spring, District 4, 981-7140

15. Arctic Wildlife Refuge (PDF, 739 KB)
    From: Councilmember Spring
    Recommendation: Refer to the City Manager a selective purchasing resolution requiring the City to refrain from knowingly purchasing goods or services from a company that purchases, leases or develops oil fields in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; 2) request that the City Manager write a letter to the head of the four companies that want to drill in the refuge informing them of the Council’s opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and
    3) send a letter to Berkeley’s federal elected officials urging them to support the Arctic Refuge Wilderness bill and designate the coastal plain as a protected wilderness area.
    Contact: Dona Spring, District 4, 981-7140

16. Grant Funding Recommendations for the Arts (PDF, 345 KB)
    From: Civic Arts Commission
    Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution approving the Civic Arts Commission funding recommendations authorizing 61 grants to various organizations to support arts and cultural activities during FY 2003 in the amount of $257,716.
    a.        From: City Manager
    Recommendation: The City Manager concurs with the Commission report.
    Contact: Mary Ann Merker, Secretary, 705-8183

17. California Statewide Pedestrian Bills (PDF, 242 KB)
    From: Transportation Commission
    Recommendation:   Adopt a Resolution supporting the California Statewide Pedestrian Bills AB 1886, AB 1058, SB 1636, SB 1555; opposing SB1918 and federal Bill SB 2024; and communicating to the California State Legislation the importance of supporting pedestrian-related safety bills.
    a.        From: City Manager
    Recommendation: The City Manager concurs with the Commission report.
    Contact: Peter Hillier, Transportation, 981-7000

     

18. Transfer of Cable Franchise (PDF, 10 MB) (held over from 6/25/02)
    From: City Manager
    Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution denying ‘local consent’ to the transfer of control of the AT&T cable franchise to AT&T Comcast.
    Contact: Phil Kamlarz, City Manager 981-7000
    
    

19. Telegraph Property and Business Improvement District (PDF, 1 MB)
    From: City Manager
    Recommendation: Conduct a public hearing, and upon conclusion, adopt a Resolution confirming the Annual Report on the Telegraph Property and Business Improvement District for Fiscal Year 2002 and levying assessments in the District for Fiscal Year 2003.
    Contact: Tom Myers, Economic Development, 705-8123
     
20. Elmwood Theater Business Improvement Area (PDF, 471 KB)
    From: Advisory Board for the Elmwood Theater Business Improvement Area
    Recommendation: Conduct a public hearing, and upon conclusion, adopt a Resolution confirming the Annual Assessment Report for the Elmwood Theater and Business Improvement District for Fiscal Year 2002 and levying assessments in the Area for Fiscal Year 2003.
    a.        From: City Manager
    Recommendation: The City Manager concurs with the content and recommendations of the Commission’s report.
    Contact: Dave Fogarty, Secretary, 705-8184
    
21. Planning and Development Fees (PDF, 1 MB)
    From: City Manager
    Recommendation: Conduct a public hearing, and upon conclusion, adopt a Resolution amending Chapter B of Exhibit A of Resolution No 61,578–N.S. to include: 1) fees for General Plan and Specific Plan amendments, re-zoning/ reclassification requests, Waterfront Master Development Plan permits and dedicated project review of Use Permit applications; 2) language clarifying the administration of these fees: permitting progress billings, requiring prompt payment and describing the possible consequences for failure to pay; and 3) corrections to the hourly rate for Use Permit applications and Design Review projects valued over $5,000,000 and the description of the fee for preparing and Environmental Impact Report (EIR) or Expanded Initial Study.
    Contact: Carol Barrett, Planning, 705-8105

22. Final Environmental Impact Report and Use Permits: 3000 Shasta Road Fire Station
    • EIR Part 1 (PDF, 8.5 MB)
    • EIR Part 2 (PDF, 9.5 MB)
     
    1. Appeal filed by Mr. Sanford M. Skaggs, Attorney, representing Mr. And Mrs. Cukor (PDF, 3 MB) of the Zoning Adjustments Board decision of March 14,2002, approving the project.
       Contact: Sherry M. Kelly, City Clerk, 981-6900
       
       
    2. Appeal filed by Irene Winston (PDF, 121 KB) of the Zoning Adjustments Board decision of March 14,2002, approving the project.
       Contact: Sherry M. Kelly, City Clerk, 981-6900
       
       
    3. City Manager Report of June 11, 2002 (PDF, 3 MB)
       Attachments:

       3 (PDF, 5 MB) 4 (PDF, 2 MB) 5 (PDF, 1 MB) 6 (PDF, 12 MB)

       7 (PDF, 9 MB) 8 (PDF, 5 MB) 9 (PDF, 2 MB)

       
       Recommendation: Set a public hearing on the Zoning Adjustments Board decision to approve the following permits: 1) Use Permit to construct and operate a fire station in the R-1 Single Family Residential District; 2) Use Permit to allow parking within the required front yard; 3) Variance to allow an approximately 36 foot wide driveway at the property line at 3000 Shasta Road.
       Contact:   Carol Barrett, Planning and Development, 705-8102
        
    4. City Manager Report of July 16, 2002 (to be delivered)
       Attachments:

       1 (PDF, 3 MB) 2 (PDF, 2 MB) 3 (PDF, 2 MB)

       4 (PDF, 11 MB) 5 (PDF, 5 MB)

         

       Recommendation: Conduct a public hearing, and upon conclusion, adopt a Resolution to: 1) certify an Environmental Impact Report; 2) approve Use Permit to allow parking within the required front yard; and 3) approve Variance #01-10000057 to allow an approximately 36 foot wide driveway at the property line at the 3000 Shasta Road fire station
       Contact: Carol Barrett, Planning, 705-8105
       
       

    5. Communications Submitted for June 11, 2002 (PDF, 2.2 MB)
       1.        David and Marilyn Nasatir
       2.        Barbara Gilbert
       3.        David J.Ourisman
       4.        Alyce Tom
       5.        George Leitmann
       6.        John Panozzo
       7.        John and Jane Dang
       8.        Julie Stokstad
       9.        Katharine Young
       10.        Marie Wilson
       11.        Patricia Scott
       12.        Lawrence and Vivian Talbot
       13.        Robert Flasher
       14.        Tom & Marge Madigan
       15.        Harold Wilensky and Mary Sharman
       16.        Joanne Kerbavaz, Alameda & Contra Costa Counties CA Native Plant Society
       17.        Annie-May de Bresson
       18.        Polly Robbins White
       19.        Lauren Armstrong
       20.        Collin Murphy
       21.        Vonnie Gurgin
       22.        Priscilla Birge
       23.        Louise Larson
           
           
    6. Supplemental Communication Submitted for June 11, 2002 
       • Part 1 (PDF, 5 MB)
       • Part 2 (PDF, 4 MB)
         
       24.        Eric Rakowski, Yen Trac
       25.        Professor Erwin and Natalie Hahn
       26.        Laurie Stevens and La Dell Dangerfield III
       27.        Roger Hamilton
       28.        Frank Norick and Donna Garaventa
       29.        Helen Lewy
       30.        Austin Olson
       31.        Sibyl Donn
       32.        Surinder Brar
       33.        Betty and Frank Saarni
       34.        Gay Rose Soque
       35.        Nancy Brenner
       36.        Cary and Denise Lapidus
       37.        Robert and Barbara Allen
       38.        Jerome and Joy Carlin
       39.        Hung-Hsi Wu
       40.        June Jirhirin
       41.        Thom Seaton
       42.        Patricia Wong
       43.        Baird and Mary Ann Whaley
       44.        Geraldine Stokes
       45.        Genevieve Dreyfus
       46.        Jane and James Ware
       47.        Bruce Smith
       48.        Ralph and Bessie Gish
       49.        Alice Kahn
       50.        Barbara and Ray Addicott
       51.        Lynn Richards
       52.        Thomas and Jeanne Olson
       53.        Rita Friedman
       54.        Ruth Maguire
       55.        Juliann Beckendorf
       56.        Thomas Cline and Barbara Meyer
       57.        Richard and Linda Scheffer
       58.        Margareta and Carlo Sequin
       59.        Alan and Sharonn Gittelsohn
       60.        Gerd Rosenblatt
       61.        Bruce Ackerman
       62.        Nirmal Das
       63.        Hildegarde Wilson
       64.        Mary Lou Chapman
       65.        Steven Beckendorf
       66.        William, Suzanne and Bradford Berry
       67.        Jack Washburn
       68.        Lawrence Stark
       69.        Zvezdelina Stankova
       70.        Kuniko Weltin-Wu
       71.        Stanley Michael
       72.        Alison Greene and Don Moats
       73.        Pat Wadleigh
       74.        David Baer Tierkel
       75.        Robert and Barbara Allen
       76.        Catherine Dower
       77.        Victoria Belco
       78.        John McCarthy
       79.        Marc and Jan Rieffel
       80.        Joan Lester
       81.        Sidney and George Ferrell
       82.        Natalie and Ferdianand Leimkuhler
       83.        Nelson and Kathy Graburn
       84.        Charlotte Rieger
       85.        Cathy and Jack Romanski
       86.        Edgar Knobloch
       87.        Ruth Gorevin
       88.        Jean Atthowe
       89.        Betty Parsons
       90.        Lucy Campbell
       91.        Harry and Kathleen Heckman
       92.        Frank and Bliss De Natale (2)
       93.        Harold and Amy Bush
       94.        Paul and Marnie Peterson
       95.        Howard Gruber
       96.        Alice Gruber
       97.        Rex Dietderich
       98.        George Leonoff
       99.        Audrey Sabol
       100.        Elizabeth Pulling
       101.        Jim Lunt
       102.        Georjana Barnes
       103.        David Drubin
       104.        Jeanne Mueller
       105.        Barbara Hirschlee
       106.        Patricia DiRubbo
       107.        Ted Johnston
       108.        Ehtel and Wallace MacMillan
       109.        Wosene Worke Kosrof
       110.        Jacque Ensign
       111.        Jay Claiborne
       112.        Nancy Steele
       113.        Joseph Deuere
       114.        Elizabeth Deuere
       115.        Penelope Hanan-Dahmen
       116.        Gloria Bowles
       117.        Jeanne and Joseph Landisman
       118.        Rhea Garboos
       119.        Winston Thomas
       120.        Kirk Mitchel
       121.        Harold and Amy Bush
       122.        Carol Shon
       123.        Kate Frankel
       124.        Casey Drubin
       125.        Dr. Glen Keator
       126.        Wayne Curt Huber
       127.        Milton and Dorothy Mozen
       128.        Sun Family
       129.        Beatriz Manz and Harley Shaiken
       130.        Reiko Weltin
       131.        Judith and Joseph Workman
       132.        Bill McClung
       133.        Katherine Rendahl and Donald Rio
       134.        Clarence and Carol Weinmann
       135.        Fire Safety Commission
        
    7. Communications Submitted for July 16, 2002 (PDF, 1 MB)
       136.        Pauline and John Velton 
       137.        Lynn and Donald Glaser 
       138.        William Craig 
       139.        Robert H. and Frances V. Whitman 
       140.        Sally S. Senior 
       141.        Holly Wilson.
       142.        Janice Thomas, President-Panoramic Hill Association           
       143.        Collin G. Murphy 
       144.        Jo Ann   and Tom Moseley 
       145.        Austin C. Olsen 
       146.        Professor Charles S. Chihara and Professor Carol J. Chihara 
       147.        Kevin Hurley 
       148.        Alan and Sharon Gittelsohn 
       149.        Sylvia Rock 
       150.        Edith McClusky Zinn and Donald S. Zinn 
       151.        Stephen Jong 
       152.        Kirk G. Mitchel 
       153.        Diane Dowall
       154.        Peter Johansson 
       155.        William and Virginia Baker 
       156.        Mina and Jim Jenner 
       157.        John Armitage
            
            
    NOTICE CONCERNING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS: If you object to a decision by the City Council to approve or deny a use permit or variance for a project the following requirements and restrictions apply:
    1) No lawsuit challenging a City decision to deny (Code Civ.Proc. '1094.6(b)) or approve (Gov.Code '65009(c)(5)) a use permit or variance may be filed more than 90 days after the date the Notice of Decision of the action of the City Council is mailed. Any lawsuit not filed within that 90-day period will be barred.   2) In any lawsuit that may be filed against a City Council decision to approve or deny a use permit or variance, the issues and evidence will be limited to those raised by you or someone else, orally or in writing, at a public hearing or prior to the close of the last public hearing on the project.
     

    Communications (PDF, 4 KB)

    Council rules limit action on Communications to referral to the City Manager and/or Boards and Commissions for investigation and/or recommendations.

    Page No.

    1. Traffic Calming
       1.        Kelly Hammargren and Hank Clayton
       2.        Rachel Beckett and Dari Gordon
       3.        Petition from inhabitants of Bancroft Way - between Sacramento and Martin Luther King Jr. Way (66 signature)
           
    2. Buffer Zone Using Goats
       1. Letter from Summit Road Neighborhood Association (29 signatures)
           
    3. Skateboarding as Transportation
       1. Jillian Doke-Magruder
           
    4. Home at Last
       1. Alan Katz, Home at Last
           
    5. General Plan Policy T-20 Correction Request
       1. Kate Nichol
           
    6. Pledge of Allegiance
       1. Roger Phillips
           
    7. Anti-terrorism Legislation
       1. Barbara Boxer
        

    Adjournment