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Down at Fresno City Council March 19th, 2020. Not sure what order they are going to go and if regular meeting will happen Open Session: Consider emergency amendments to FMC Article 5, Emergency Services Ordinance

Closed Session:
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - PUBLIC SECURITY -

I am watching online (hopefully) from home via @CMACTV @BryanHarley

Among the Consent Items to be considered:
1-B Consent Calendar amendments to the Fire Department's fees for Fire Inspection and Prevention and related services

1-D Actions pertaining to the 2017 Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Agreement with the Self Help Enterprises for the Annadale Mode Shift Project totaling $343,000

1-E Declaring property located on the southwest corner of West Herndon and North Brawley Avenues (APN 507-03-048ST) to be surplus and directing staff to comply with the Surplus Land Act

@MiguelArias_D3 Announces they will begin with Closed Session first. @PaulCaprioglio is phoning in for the council meeting. Pastor Brad Liebe from People’s Church leading the invocation

Remainder of Some Consent Calendar items: 1-F Revising the City's Ticket Distribution and Disclosure Policy of Complimentary Tickets and Passes pursuant to Fair Political Practices Commission Regulation

1-P Approve the appointment of Diana Rice to the Capital Oversight Board nominated by
Councilmember Bredefeld
1-U Approve the appointment of David (DJ) Criner to the Planning Commission

1-V Actions pertaining to FATforward, Fresno Yosemite International Airport's expansion program (Council District 4): 1. Adopt the FATforward Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration dated January 27, 2020, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act 2. Approve

Phase One of a Progressive Design-Build Contract with Q&D Construction to provide design services related to the terminal expansion at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in an amount not to exceed $8,450,000 3. ***RESOLUTION - 39th Amendment to the Annual Appropriations

Resolution (AAR) No. 2019-133 appropriating $8,850,000 to Fresno Yosemite International Airport for the Phase One Design-Build terminal expansion contract and related work

City Council back from Closed Session now. @D7Esparza Councilman Esparza also calling in this morning. Arias jokes Esparza is the millennial and why he hasn’t called in yet Esparza says “I can hear you!” 😜Waiting for Caprioglio to re-connect via phone

1-S, Closed Session items 5-A and 5-B are being pulled. @GarryBredefeld would like 1-B regarding Master Fee Schedule due to some citizens are still calling their councilmembers on this. Other Councilmembers concerned we don’t know when next Council meeting will occur and it

would be better to get this done now. Other councilmembers vote 6-1 to keep it on schedule. Agenda is approved. Moving to Councilmembers Reports. Caprioglio is at home for protection of others. Esparza says important to be unified. Bredefeld says shelter in place yesterday

Produced 75 calls from people who are confused or scared. There Are 70 categories of businesses deemed to be non essential. Many will lose jobs. Pain is real. He asks media to cover this real pain as much as they covered yesterday’s press conference. Wonders why Assemblyman

Joaquin Arambula was here yesterday and not Jim Patterson. Why Arambula criticized Board of Supervisors needlessly. Why doesn’t Arambula work on Prop 47 Etc ? That would do more for public safety. Yesterday was more about Criminalizing those who doesn’t shelter in place. PD

and City Manager was smart not to sign that or enforce it if it was signed in. We have our people into pain and leading people to go to Clovis for goods. We need more data first. Media needs to breathlessly follow those in pain from yesterday’s decision as much as they covered

yesterday’s press conference.” @Esmeralda_Soria thanks City Employees working from home; grocery stores allowing seniors to shop first; our school districts;

Will be sanitized at least once a day; renters have to tell landlord first ; City Staff is encouraged to apply for any available federal funds; @TaubGVWire says there is a need for transparency. Next: Sam Frank City Employee Rep would like to hear that employees would be

reimbursed if they had used personal leave time. Ordinance passes 7-0. Council begins Regular Council meeting now. Take roll again.

1-S, Closed Session items 5-A and 5-B are being pulled. @GarryBredefeld

Soria’s staff is still working hard for their constituents even though they are working from home. Call our offices, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook to continue to connect with us” @District5Chavez the decision yesterday was made using data with CDC info. Trump said today that

there are 10,000 known cases in USA. Tents are created at hospitals because they know there is a surge coming. Chavez would rather over react than not enough with deaths will occur. We are relying on data. Chavez has largest per capita of food processors thus we need those

employees healthy as they will provide food for rest of USA. It is vital they remain there and working. We will assess this again in two weeks. “ @MiguelArias_D3 says Trump initially said there was no problem. Next blamed it on immigrants. Then Market Crashed. Then he declared

an Emergency Declaration. Today he says 10,000 cases. Governor Newsom made executive orders. As much as Arias wants to work with other local entities but he was elected to represent the city of Fresno. “

@Esmeralda_Soria would like to pull 1-D. Bredefeld would like 1-B (again) and 1-F. Karbassi pulled 1-J. Council approves remainder of consent calendar. 1-B is up first. He understands need to increase some of these fees. He does says the increase on Firework stands should allow

public to weigh in on that more. Bredefeld wants to assure these fees if approved goes to Fire Department only. Bredefeld says some of these fees are doubled or tripled. Any department can be more efficient and perhaps that should happen first for Fire Department. Soria knows

That previous councils have kicked these fee increases for a decade. Fire Chief would like to charge whatever the cost is to perform these on for profit companies. We shouldn’t be subsidizing for profit companies. Time test studies is needed.

Bredefeld makes motion to approve this if Firework Stand remains the same AND all fees collected go to Fire Department. Arias agrees as long as we apply for federal dollars for more fire personnel. City Manager Quan cautions that applying for grants will put a huge strain on

General Fund as we need to match funds. Chavez: First Responders needs manpower to fight coronavirus. He feels there will be help from federal level. @PaulCaprioglio via phone (hard to hear his comments )@D7Esparza how much are we losing by not increasing the fee on firework

stands ? Fire Chief Donis says it will cost $54,000 a year not to have it. Donis says $2.2 million is total amount all fees would increase. Firework stands not a large percentage of total. Public: spiritual leader Of Four Wind Lodge says he hopes Fourth of July is normal this

year and a chance to honor our Veterans. Firework stands also help non profits provide homeless with blankets, water and food. Non profits help where City of Fresno cannot. Tripling the license is too much. “ Council approved 6-1 with Caprioglio voting NO. Next 1-E

1-E *Declaring property located on the southwest corner of West Herndon and North Brawley Avenues (APN 507-03-048ST) to be surplus and directing staff to comply with the Surplus Land Act Soria: what is size and history of acquiring it initially? A:15 acres. History is there was

litigation with SkyPark and City had to purchase it says PublicWorks Director Scott Mozier. Soria would like to table this. Airport Land-use Commission limits this to office only and 1/3 not available. Arias:did owner know there was an airport nearby? And five acres couldn’t be

be used due to airport commission? Staff: I assume so. Soria: would’ve liked to know this history before. Would like this delayed a meeting. This could be valuable land. Karbassi: there is very little Brahe can be done with this property and faster we get rid of it the better.

Council approves 5-2 with Esparza and Soria voting NO. 1-J Next: purchase 30 sets of police vehicle hardware for $505,000 from Lehr in Sacramento. Karbassi wonders why local firm Cooks can’t be used ? A: we do use Cooks but they can’t do as many as Lehr. Approved

1-F Revising the City's Ticket Distribution and Disclosure Policy of Complimentary Tickets and Passes pursuant to Fair Political Practices Commission Regulation Approved with little Discussion

10 AM *HEARING to consider the vacation of a portion of East Palo Alto Avenue, west of North Fresno Street (Council District 6) 1. ***RESOLUTION - Ordering the vacation of a portion of East Palo Alto Avenue, west of North Fresno Street Motion to approve with No discussion.

3A RESOLUTION - Staying implementation of City employee security protocols due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) A delay in security protocols for employees. Hard to stay 6’ apart with these protocols. Sam Frank encourages approval. Approved 7-0

Arias says we are trying to improve technological issues with Councilmembers calling in by phone. Next: unscheduled communications “how can those without computers find out about these changes at City Hall? Many public access computers are down “

NEXT MEETINGS
APRIL 9, - 9:00 A.M. MEETING  APRIL 23,  - 9:00 A.M. MEETING
Concludes this meeting at 10:45.

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