WHAT: City Council Meeting, City of Carmel-by-the-Sea
WHEN: Meeting commences today, Thursday, April 3, 2008 @ 4:30 P.M. Since the Carmel, Monterey and Pacific Grove Fire Departments Consolidation is not on the Agenda, the time for members of the public to speak is during Appearances, near the beginning of the meeting.
WHERE: City Hall
E/s Monte Verde St. between Ocean Av. & 7th Av.
Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.
WHY: The City’s $110,000 annual “headquarters” contract with Pacific Grove expired in November 2007; the City is currently attempting to negotiate a new contract with Pacific Grove and Monterey. The City terminated full consolidation negotiations in January 2008 and since that time has yet to place the Carmel, Monterey and Pacific Grove Fire Departments Consolidation on a pubic hearing agenda for the purpose of informing Carmelites and receiving input from Carmelites. It is the professional judgment of our Carmel Professional Firefighters that full consolidation is in the best interests of Carmelites; the alternative is a properly staffed stand alone department, which the administrative setup would cost close to $1 million annually. The mayor, city council members and city administrator are against full consolidation. Ergo, only our Carmel Professional Firefighters are acting in the best interests of Carmelites and deserve our support by informing the city council of our concerns, et cetera.
HOW: Only with an overwhelming outpouring of vocal public support of our Carmel Professional Firefighters and full consolidation will the mayor, city council members and city administrator change course and resume negotiations with the Monterey and Pacific Grove Fire Departments on full consolidation, which would go into effect July 1, 2008.
REFERENCE:
Special Meeting
Thursday, April 3, 2008
4:30 p.m., Open Session
City Hall
East side of Monte Verde Street
between Ocean and Seventh Avenues
Hearing assistance units are available to the public for meetings held in the Council Chambers
The City Council welcomes your interest and participation. If you want to speak on an agenda item during its review, you may do so when the Mayor opens the item for public comment. Persons are not required to give their names but it is helpful in order that the City Clerk may identify them in the minutes of the meeting. Please keep remarks to a maximum of three (3) minutes, or as otherwise established by the City Council. Always speak into the microphone, as the meeting is recorded on tape.
I. Call to Order
II. Roll Call
III. Pledge of Allegiance
IV. Extraordinary Business
Recognition of Officer Rachelle Lightfoot as “2007 Officer of the Year”
V. Announcements from Closed Session, from City Council Members and the City Administrator.
A. Announcements from Closed Session.
B. Announcements from City Council members. (Council members may ask a question for clarification, make a brief announcement or report on his or her activities).
C. Announcements from City Administrator.
• Receive update on fire hydrants
VI. Appearances
Anyone wishing to address the City Council on matters within the jurisdiction of the City and are not on the agenda may do so now. Matters not appearing on the City Council’s agenda, per the Brown Act (Open Meeting Law), will not receive action by the Council at this meeting but may be referred to staff for a future meeting. Presentations will be limited to three (3) minutes, or as otherwise established by the City Council. Persons are not required to give their names, but it is helpful for speakers to state their names in order that the City Clerk may identify them in the minutes of the meeting. Always speak into the microphone, as the meeting is recorded on tape.
1 comment:
Fire Chief Andrew Miller gave a presentation on the fire hydrants. There were so many discrepancies between what we had been told before and what he said at this meeting, it left some of us in the audience taken aback.
As this blog has pointed out, this was originally scheduled to be on the Oct. 2007 council agenda. On the April 2008 agenda, the public just got 9 of 33 fire hyrants still out-of-service and no concrete plan from Cal-Am as to the replacement of water mains for the 9 out-of-service fire hydrants.
The out-of-service fire hydrants after all this time, no immediate plans for water main replacements and the lack of movement on the consolidation lead me to think fire safety is problematic in Carmel.
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