City Council April 9, 2020 The Home Edition! Among the items today are Multigenerational Community Center; MOU between City and County regarding homeless and Coronavirus funding; Electric Charging Stations; Among the Consent Calendar Items:
1-C Declaring the results of the Consolidated Direct Primary Election held on March 3, 2020; 1-D Actions pertaining to the summary vacation of access right restrictions on a portion of the west side of North Weber Avenue, south of East Belmont Avenue
1-F Actions pertaining to the City of Fresno Electric Vehicle Charging Pilot Program 
1-G Actions pertaining to the Romain Park Challenge Course Project (Bid File 3704) (Council District 7) 1. Adopt finding of a Categorical Exemption pursuant to Sections 15301(e)/Class 1 and 15303/Class 3 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 2. Award a
construction contract with American Paving Co., of Fresno, CA, for $365,708
1-K Actions pertaining to the Kings Canyon Apartments affordable housing project located at the 5100 block of East Kings Canyon Avenue: Approve a Grant Agreement between the Cesar Chavez Foundation and the City of Fresno to execute Council’s previous budget action to provide a
1$500,000 grant; *1-U Authorizing the Director of Transportation to request allocation and accept funding from the California Transit Commission for the purpose of completing bus stop improvements along and intersecting the Shaw and Cedar Avenue corridors within City of Fresno
*1-V Low Carbon Transit operations Program for bus service operating support, installation of solar lighting at bus stops, and the planning and design of accessibility improvements to ADA bus stops, execution of grant award documents if awarded, and execution
1-W Actions related to the award of a consulting services agreement with The LeFlore Group, LLC, of Whittier, California, in the amount of $198,500 1. Affirm the City Manager's determination that The LeFlore Group, LLC, is uniquely qualified to develop the Department of
Transportation Zero-Emission Bus Rollout Plan; 1-AA Approve Access Agreement with Saint Rest Baptist Church for public green space in an amount up to $58,000.
1-BB Approve a Memorandum of Understanding between City of Fresno and County of Fresno implementing the joint COVID-19 homeless response plan under the COVID-19 Emergency Homelessness Funding program which include allocations to the City of Fresno ($1,012,869.44); and County of
Fresno ($382,080.59); Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Fresno
*1-CC Consider Extension of Exclusive Negotiation Agreement for 887 Fulton Street between Noyan Frazier Capital LP and the City of Fresno a municipal corporation and in its capacity.
*1-CC Consider Extension of Exclusive Negotiation Agreement for 887 Fulton Street between Noyan Frazier Capital LP and the City of Fresno a municipal corporation and in its capacity.
City Council meeting is setting up via Zoom due to the shelter in place order by State and City Council orders
@D7Esparza has elected to use City Hall as his Virtual Background despite it is raining outside 😝
I am not getting any sound so there may be a delay in getting started this morning to the Council Meeting.
Public can comment remotely using a variety of ways : e-comments; join online via zoom;
1-W Actions related to the award of a consulting services agreement with The LeFlore Group, LLC, of Whittier, California, in the amount of $198,500 1. Affirm the City Manager's determination that The LeFlore Group, LLC, is uniquely qualified to develop the Department of
Transportation Zero-Emission Bus Rollout; 1-AA Approve Access Agreement with Saint Rest Baptist Church for public green space in an amount up to $58,000
1-BB Approve a Memorandum of Understanding between City of Fresno and County of Fresno implementing the joint COVID-19 homeless response plan under the COVID-19 Emergency Homelessness Funding program which include allocations to the City of Fresno ($1,012,869.44); and County of
of Fresno ($382,080.59); As Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Fresno
*1-CC Consider Extension of Exclusive Negotiation Agreement for 887 Fulton Street between Noyan Frazier Capital LP and the City of Fresno a municipal corporation and in its capacity
*1-CC Consider Extension of Exclusive Negotiation Agreement for 887 Fulton Street between Noyan Frazier Capital LP and the City of Fresno a municipal corporation and in its capacity
They are having some Zoom technical problems with today's Council meeting. Seemed to be due to sound. Unsure when it will begin.
Council appears to be in Closed Session and not a technical delay.
Council appears to be back from Emergency Closed Session at 10:40 am. Taking roll. All members via Zoom. Check earlier posted rules on four ways of commenting on today’s meeting.
The 10:05 item on Multigenerational Community Center will have Hmong and Spanish translation available.
Invocation is skipped as no one was able to lead it. Pledge of Allegiance Done. Changes 1-BB item removed entirely. 1-a,1-F,1-M, 1-cc removed for discussion by Council. Motion to approve bulk of consent items. Every vote today will be a roll call vote
Council Comments @PaulCaprioglio thanks those at front line fighting Coronavirus. @Esmeralda_Soria also thanks all the essential workers especially those who are here at City of Fresno. Farmworkers who are bringing us produce during this crisis. @kmkarbassi thanks residents of
Fresno dealing with this crisis. Apply for aid if you are a small business, employee etc. to lessen impact of this. @D7Esparza Thanks all those that are keeping us going. This is a global problem but we will adjust. He would usually have town halls at this time of year but
will work on a different way of reaching out. @MiguelArias_D3 will have a Facebook Live meeting this Friday to reach out. Consent Items now : Public comment Brandi Nuse- on sweeps of homeless. This is dangerous when they should be sheltering in place.
Carol Kim: clinical social worker Homeless population needs basic shelter provided before they can move to job training , mental health help etc. Nunes calling them “zombies” doesn’t help. Dez Martinez: been to 100 homeless camps in area. Seen Gun fights there. As Council are
fighting which district will have to take the homeless shelters there is trauma going on. Approve remainder of Consent Calendar approved. 1-A Consider Changes to Council Rules of Procedure Pulled by @GarryBredefeld
He says rule is to provide a way for us to continue to meet such as we are doing today. We are not allowing our public to fully meet with us. Other places allow public. We are only allowing 1 minute to comment. Bredefeld is alone in Council Chambers today. We can have them meet
here providing people sit 6 feet apart , face masks etc. We can follow guidelines and still meet in public. We are limiting the public. He will vote against it. @MiguelArias_D3 says we have 56 participants on Zoom now. Soria is holding a watch party right now too. She does want
Public input to be longer than one minute long @Esmeralda_Soria And will make motion to allow 3 minutes to speak for public. @kmkarbassi we are in bubble here. Seniors are at risk. Democracy has to continue despite. We need to know how public feels. We need to allow physical
Space available. @MiguelArias_D3 building is closed to public and thus Chambers are closed too.City Manager Wilma Quan had a qualifying comment from p. 14. City Attorney says only change today is electronic meeting. Manager wants time certain items noted.
Caprioglio would like time lint to Chartered Officials too. Fails to get others to agree. Item is approved. Next: 1-F Actions to Fresno EV Charging Pilot Program. Soria would like a presentation for public.
Cost recovery fee only. These would be on city property only such as Al Radka and Woodward Park , Zoo, Fresno Art Museum. Downtown has emphasis due to lack of EV Chargers there. Air Board providing money. Level 2 chargers. ADA compliance required.
This will come back to Council to adjust Master Fee schedule but this today will allow local company Turn Key construction to start building.
Soria: No RFP announced. Staff: no time as Grant expired in October 1st with next grant opened in November. Soria: happy to have EV Chargers. Wish there were more close to City Hall. Concerned that locations are not transferable.Placing some EV stations behind Irene’s restaurant
in Tower District would have been helpful if we had a heads up on that location. Merchants have concerned. Staff: had to be public owned parking lots due to grant requirements. Only public owned spot. We are not obligated to build though.
Soria: perhaps Olive Streetscape project could’ve absorbed some EV spots. Staff: grant required ADA compliance and on street doesn’t work. We also could not hook EV Power to light pole. Soria: perhaps inspiration park could have been selected. She only got one EV location in her
District otherwise. Staff: three phases is just to help us to keep project organized. Soria will not vote in favor. @kmkarbassi feels differently than Soria. This will help with carbon emissions. He also only gets one EV spot in his district. (Fig Garden Loop).
He is glad we are taking sustainability and climate serious. Soria: location of EV Chargers is her largest concern. None west of 99. Hopefully more grants. @MiguelArias_D3 what happens if a location doesn’t work out? Staff: hood the course at these chosen spots due to grant
We can petition to move a location though. Money will go back into pot and others in line for grants will get it. Approved 6-1 with Soria voting NO.
1-CC pulled by Bredefeld. Soria is refusing herself. Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Fresno
*1-CC Consider Extension of Exclusive Negotiation Agreement for 887 Fulton Street between Noyan Frazier Capital LP and the City of Fresno a municipal
*1-CC Consider Extension of Exclusive Negotiation Agreement for 887 Fulton Street between Noyan Frazier Capital LP and the City of Fresno a municipal
corporation and in its capacity as Housing Successor. Three vacant lots. ENA Will expire April 11. Parking is an issue. Spiral Garage parking came off line for this project but now it is available. Nov 20 is deadline and phase 1 has to begun. Mehmet Noyan available to speak too
@GarryBredefeld this project began in 2016 and hasn’t started. Can’t we just put this out as surplus land and up for bid. Marlee Murphy says firm has put $50,000 into it so far. Worth $700,000 in as is condition.
What is purpose of this project asks Bredefeld. Murphy: RFP attracted interest from developers as this is in a poorer part of town. This is First extension for ENA. Bredefeld: these developers had audit. We never got to see issues from that. Assistant City Manager asked why that
Audit is pertinent in this project ? Counsel: legally connected. Arias: perhaps this is better for closed session. Bredefeld disagrees. Has the audit Been addressed? Counsel: audit showed some issues on lack of some documentation. No lawsuit but a claim made. No legal connection
between claim made by developer and this project request today. Approved 6-1 with Bredefeld voting NO.
10:05 ***authorizing submission to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of a $7.5 million Section 108 Loan Application for the construction of a Multigenerational Community Center;
Bredefeld: commends Caprioglio for making this MultiGen Center. This takes $7.5 million from HUD but also general fund. Jennifer Clark: CDBG funds and loan. Bredefeld: we have closed businesses down due to Coronavirus and we will see loss of sales tax etc soon.
We may need to lay off City employees soon as well. Taking $2.5 million from General Fund at this time for this project that is irresponsible. He won’t support it without taking that amount out. Caprioglio says District 4 has no community center and would like continued support.
Karbassi: agreed it will be crunch time in budget soon. However unique need in District 4. Our Reserve Fund will hell soften the blow of this economic downturn. Arias: this is in current budget. Public assets are needed in times of crisis. This Coronavirus is showing that we have
a dearth of public assets. Approved 6-1 with Bredefeld voting NO.
10:15 HEARING to Consider Rezone Application pertaining to 0.44 acres of property located on the east side of North Arthur Avenue, south of its intersection with West Shaw Avenue
Approved with No Discussion. Council adjourn for lunch and return for Closed Session at 1:30 pm.
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2020 CITY COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE
APRIL 16, 2020 - NO MEETING APRIL 23, 2020 - 9:00 A.M. MEETING APRIL 30, 2020 - NO MEETING
MAY 7, 2020 - NO MEETING
MAY 14, 2020 - 9:00 A.M. MEETING MAY 21, 2020 - 9:00 A.M. MEETING MAY 28, 2020 - NO MEETING
APRIL 16, 2020 - NO MEETING APRIL 23, 2020 - 9:00 A.M. MEETING APRIL 30, 2020 - NO MEETING
MAY 7, 2020 - NO MEETING
MAY 14, 2020 - 9:00 A.M. MEETING MAY 21, 2020 - 9:00 A.M. MEETING MAY 28, 2020 - NO MEETING
