“MINUTES”
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
June 2, 2009
VII. Consent Calendar
These matters include routine financial and administrative actions, which are usually approved by a single majority vote. Individual items may be removed from Consent by a member of the Council or the public for discussion and action.
F. Consideration of a Resolution of the City Council amending the agreement with Denise Duffy & Associates to prepare an Environmental Impact Report for the Flanders Property in an amount not to exceed $77,572.
G. Consideration of a Resolution authorizing the City Administrator to enter into an agreement with CB Richard Ellis Consulting, Inc., for completion of the final economic analysis, appraisal and Phase II of the Flanders Property in an amount of $23,000 plus expenses.
H. Consideration of a Resolution accepting a proposal from Nichols Consulting Engineers for traffic and classifications counts and an update to the Construction Truck Impact Fee Study in an amount not to exceed $11,600.
Council Member TALMAGE pulled Item H.
Council Member ROSE moved adoption of Items A through G, seconded by Council Member HAZDOVAC, and carried unanimously.
Council Member TALMAGE expressed his dissatisfaction with expending $11,600 towards a Study; he preferred to adopt the Construction Truck Impact Fee without a Study. City Attorney Don Freeman stated that an analysis was required in order to support an impact fee.
Council Member ROSE moved adoption of Item H, and carried unanimously.
IX. Ordinances
B. Consideration of an Ordinance to revise the Municipal Code and Zoning Ordinance/Local Coastal Implementation Plan returning all design and land use responsibilities to the Planning Commission (First reading).
Mayor McCloud opened the meeting to public comment.
Jonathan Sapp and Keith Paterson, both of the Design Review Board, voiced their support for maintaining the Design Review Board.
Mayor McCloud closed the meeting to public comment.
Council Member TALMAGE took responsibility for putting this Item on the Agenda due to “new” information; he spoke of his concerns with recent retirements, the “loss of institutional memory,” lack of planning staff and lack of revenue to budget for the work of the Design Review Board and the Planning Commission. Mayor McCloud spoke in support of the elimination of the Design Review Board mainly due to anticipated retirements of Planning Commissioners. Council Member SHARP spoke in support of maintaining the Design Review Board. Council Member HAZDOVAC expressed concerns about whether or not there is evidence for any cost savings with the elimination of the Design Review Board; the City Administrator had no data on the matter. Council Member ROSE supported TALMAGE and McCLOUD for the elimination of the Design Review Board. City Attorney Don Freeman spoke about the history and reasons of the formation of the Design Review Board and the desire to have an unanimous decision.
Council Member ROSE moved approval of an Ordinance to revise the Municipal Code and Zoning Ordinance/Local Coastal Implementation Plan returning all design and land use responsibilities to the Planning Commission, seconded by Council Member TALMAGE and carried by the following roll call:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: ROSE, TALMAGE & McCLOUD
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: HAZDOVAC, SHARP
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: NONE
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: NONE
XI. Orders of Council
B. Consideration of recommendations from the Green Building Committee and the Planning Commission regarding a draft Green Building Ordinance.
Sean Conroy, Planning & Building Services Manager, presented the recommendations from the Green Building Committee and the Planning Commission.
Mayor McCloud opened the meeting to public comment.
Libby Barnes, of Carver Schickentanz Architects and U.S. Green Building Council of Monterey Bay Branch, spoke in support of the Green Building Ordinance. Carla Ramsey, Carmel resident, spoke in support of a resolution, not an ordinance; she expressed support for voluntary, not mandatory compliance. Barbara Livingston spoke to 60 points required as being "easy to achieve." Brendan Connolly, Local Builder and Green Building Committee member, spoke about "awareness" and "education" about Green Building.
Mayor McCloud closed the meeting to public comment.
Council Member ROSE spoke in support of the Green Building Ordinance. Council Member HAZDOVAC voiced her appreciation to the Green Building Committee. Consensus of Council Members in support of the draft Green Building Ordinance.
(Source: Archived Videos, Regular City Council Meeting, June 2, 2009)
3 comments:
Ken Talmage sees himself as the mayor in waiting. It does not matter he might have a long time to wait. According to his reading of the situation, he cannot alienate the mayor because her support would be crucial for him to become the next mayor. So he tries to make us believe there is new info when all of the info he cites was known at the time he wanted to wait until we knew how many Carmelites were interested in being on the DRB or PC.
In Carmel we used to pride ourselves as being different from everyone else, but in Ken we have a shameless politican willing to mislead and lie with the best of them.
I support the two DRB members and their comments in support of keeping the DRB and PC. Keith had it right when he said all of the so-called reasons for doing away with the DRB are red herrings.
At least Karen and Paula did not go along with the other three council members.
Before the recession, the city had money to hire a planning director and chose not to do so, but that does not stop them from using this red herring as an excuse to cite not enough staff to axe the DRB even though the less of a workload argument was not supported with any facts by the city administrator or anyone else.
Sue has a well deserved reputation among knowledgeable individuals of being a control freak. She has a pathologically compulsive desire to exert control over situations and people. Beyond being a controlling woman, she sees being mayor of Carmel as a means to pursue her own personal agenda and personal achievements. For instance, she alone championed the completion of renovation work on the Forest Theatre by 2010 (where is McCann’s Schematic Design anyway?), she alone orchestrated the installation of SCC over the objections of knowledgeable and experienced members of the public, she alone, with her enablers, have sabotaged the proposed Fire Protection Services Agreement between the Cities of Carmel-by-the-Sea and Monterey, she alone has championed the sale of the Flanders Mansion, she alone wanted the DRB dissolved because she found it difficult to control the members like she could not control the members of the Community & Cultural Commission to a resulting similar dissolution of that Commission. Her self-regard and self-preoccupation are greater than her regard for the position she currently occupies making her a terrible public official. Worse still is the example she sets for the other 4 council members who more often than not enable her to the detriment of us and our town.
In my opinion, this charade of a city government cannot end soon enough.
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