City Council Chamber, Los Altos City Hall One North San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Regular City Council Meeting TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2012 7:00 P.M. – REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING City Council Chamber, Los Altos City Hall One North San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California ROLL CALL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT SPECIAL PRESENTATION Presentation from Shelley Wolfe, Executive Director of KMVT Community Television PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA CONSENT CALENDAR 1. Council Minutes Recommendation to approve the minutes of the May 22, 2012 study session and regular meeting Council Minutes 2. Joint City Council-Los Altos School District Meeting Minutes Recommendation to approve the minutes of the May 29, 2012 joint meeting with the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees Joint City Council-Los Altos School District Meeting Minutes 3. Resolution calling for a General Municipal Election on November 6, 2012 Recommendation to adopt Resolution No. 2012-13 calling for a General Municipal Election to be held on November 6, 2012 for three City Council seats and consolidating said election with Santa Clara County Resolution calling for a General Municipal Election on November 6, 2012 4. Request for exception to Section 5.08.020 of Los Altos Municipal Code Recommendation to grant a one-time exception to Section 5.08.020 of the Los Altos Municipal Code regarding leading of animals in commercial, professional and administrative zones as defined in Section 5.08.030(B) and require Carriage De Corriere to indemnify, hold harmless and name the City as an additional insured file:///Users/...20Meeting/Agenda%20for%20TUESDAY,%20JUNE%2012,%202012%20-%20Regular%20City%20Council%20Meeting.html[6/12/12 2:25:30 PM] Regular City Council Meeting Request for exception to Section 5.08.020 of Los Altos Municipal Code 5. Financial Audit Services Selection Recommendation to authorize the City Manager to execute a contract for financial audit services with Burr, Pilger & Mayer, Inc. (BPM) in an amount not to exceed $40,000 up through year three of the contract Financial Audit Services Selection 6. Trunk sewer main rehabilitation Recommendation to award the Base Bid and Add Alternate No. 1 for the Sewer Collection System Upgrade, Project 12-10 and Annual Sewer Main Repair, Project 12-04 to Insituform Technologies, Inc. for $781,339, and authorize the City Manager to execute a contract on behalf of the City Trunk sewer main rehabilitation DISCUSSION 7. 40 Main Street Recommendation to deny a Mitigated Negative Declaration and deny design review and use permit applications per the listed findings 40 Main Street (May take a while to load) 8. KMVT request for funding Recommendation to direct staff regarding KMVT's request for use of City's Public, Education and Government (PEG) funds KMVT request for funding 9. Webcasting of Los Altos School District Board of Trustees Meetings Recommendation to direct staff regarding Los Altos School District's request for Public, Education and Government (PEG) funds to be used to establish webcasting capabilities and first year maintenance costs Webcasting of Los Altos School District Board of Trustees Meetings 10. Downtown beautification efforts Recommendation to approve Los Altos Village Association's request for $32,724 from the Downtown Parking Fund for the downtown flower pot plantings Downtown beautification efforts 11. Application of Sewer Rate Inflation Adjustment Recommendation to adopt Urgency Ordinance No. 2012-385 and introduce and waive first reading of Ordinance No. 2012-386 adjusting the Sewer Service Charge Application of Sewer Rate Inflation Adjustment 12. Commission appointments Recommendation to appoint commissioners to fill vacancies on the Design Review Commission and Environmental Commission Commission appointments file:///Users/...20Meeting/Agenda%20for%20TUESDAY,%20JUNE%2012,%202012%20-%20Regular%20City%20Council%20Meeting.html[6/12/12 2:25:30 PM] Regular City Council Meeting 13. Meetings of Los Altos City Council, Los Altos School District (LASD) Board of Trustees and Bullis Charter School Board of Directors Recommendation to discuss the May 29, 2012 joint Council/Board meeting and subsequent meetings of LASD and Bullis Charter School, and provide direction to staff as needed Meetings of Los Altos City Council, Los Altos School District (LASD) Board of Trustees and Bullis Charter School Board of Directors COUNCIL REPORTS AND DIRECTIONS ON FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ADJOURNMENT SPECIAL NOTICES TO PUBLIC In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Altos will make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. If you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk 72 hours prior to the meeting at (650) 947-2720. Agendas, Staff Reports and some associated documents for City Council items may be viewed on the Internet at http://www.losaltosca.gov/citycouncil/online/index.html. Council Meetings are televised live and rebroadcast on Cable Channel 26. On occasion the City Council may consider agenda items out of order. All public records relating to an open session item on this agenda, which are not exempt from disclosure pursuant to the California Public Records Act, and that are distributed to a majority of the legislative body, will be available for public inspection at the Office of the City Clerk’s Office, City of Los Altos, located at One North San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California at the same time that the public records are distributed or made available to the legislative body. Any draft contracts, ordinances and resolutions posted on the Internet site or distributed in advance of the Council meeting may not be the final documents approved by the City Council. Contact the City Clerk at (650) 947-2720 for the final document. If you wish to provide written materials, please provide the City Clerk with 10 copies of any document that you would like to submit to the City Council for the public record. If you challenge any planning or land use decision made at this meeting in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing held at this meeting, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public hearing. Please take notice that the time within which to seek judicial review of any final administrative determination reached at this meeting is governed by Section 1094.6 of the California Code of Civil Procedure. For other questions regarding the City Council meeting proceedings, please contact the City Clerk at (650) 947-2720. file:///Users/...20Meeting/Agenda%20for%20TUESDAY,%20JUNE%2012,%202012%20-%20Regular%20City%20Council%20Meeting.html[6/12/12 2:25:30 PM] en-- Importance of Community Television and Government programming over the airwaves: *Community Television provides governmental transperancy and provides information of issues to the local community while also utilizing Granicus and online streaming. *Community Television brings issues and people together that might never ordinarily bump into each other though they live side by side. * In the state of California, 66% of households have high speed Internet access in their homes and 34% do not. *51 % of American Adults cite television as their primary source for news and information KMVT- Provides local public access * KMVT has six current shows produced by Los Altos residents totaling over 1000 episodes since 2001, plus a number of occasional producers *We provide training to 75-100 residents yearly *These producers have been the recipients of multiple National and Regional video awards * KMVT provides and runs the community access channel & local community message board KMVT staff also covers: *Local League of Woman Voters * Election & debate coverage * State of the City Address *Candidate statements * High School Sports *MV I Los Altos Girls Little League Softball *Los Altos ~-iigh Graduation (past) Please click to view: KMVT Promo Who Is KMVT?mp4 - YouTube Youth Camps KMVT Studio Camps - YouTube KMVT Channel KMVT - YouTube Local Programs State of the city Los Altos/Los Altos Hills State of the Cities - YouTube AAUW AAUW Connections - KMVT15 Community Television - YouTube New Horizons New Horizons -A New Media Project - YouTube League of Women Voters Recommend - YouTube Suzzane's Studio Suzanne's Studio - Zayra Yves - YouTube The Jennylynn Show The Jennylyn show - Interview with Los Altos Chief of Police; Tuck Younis - YouTube 2010 Candidate Debate Los Altos 2010 KMVT Candidate Debate - Part 1 - YouTube Television: It's Still 20 Times Larger Than Every Internet Video Channel (Combined) Tota:1 Hours Viewed} 2011 450,000,000,000 ..,-,-------------------------- 400,000,000,000 -+1-----------------, 350,000,000,000 -+1-----------------· 300,000,000,000 -+1----------------· 250,000,000,000 -+I----------------~ 200,000,000,000 1 1 150,000,000,000 -1-1------------------1 100,000,000,000 -1-1------------------1 50,000,000,000 -1-1----------------1 InternetVideo Ov;:~n':Jl Tt"1!ldmort<lJI' TV (broadcast, cable, iate!Hte; What Los Altos currently gets for $140,823 a year Services Provided Professional Cost KMVTCosts 90+ High School Sports games $3240 per game*90=$291 ,600 $1860 per game*90=$167,400 (includes TrucklEquipmentl6 volunteers and 1 tech) Local Monthly Producers (includes monthly show, equipment, volunteers and 1 tech ($300+$275+$290+220)*84=$91,140 ($70+$75+$290+84)*84=$43,596 - excludes specials) Government Program & Support (cable casting of meetings, scheduling, monitoring, 270*$65=$17,550 270*$45=$12, 150 supervisory mgmt., preventative