During FY 2000-2001, the Council
decided to contract with a courier service to provide home mail delivery to residents
“who are physically unable or who for some other reason cannot obtain their
mail on a regular basis from the post office located in Carmel-by-the-Sea”.
The Council implemented the home
mail delivery service in 2001 in response to public demand for mail delivery
for those were physically unable to retrieve mail at the Carmel-by-the-Sea post
office.
CITY
OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
CITY
COUNCIL
Staff
Report
May
1, 2018
ORDERS
OF BUSINESS
TO: Honorable
Mayor and City Council Members
SUBMITTED
BY: Sharon Friedrichsen, Director of Budget and Contracts
APPROVED
BY: Chip Rerig, City Administrator
SUBJECT:
Consider Continuing, Modifying, or Eliminating Home Mail Delivery
Service Provided by the City.
Nearly two years later, the March 3, 2020 CITY
COUNCIL Staff Report SUBMITTED BY Sharon Friedrichsen, Director of Budget and Contracts and APPROVED BY Chip Rerig, City Administrator
stated:
:
The rationale for imposing
disability as a criteria is that it correlates to the program’s intent of
assisting “residents that are physically unable to visit the post office”. In
order to impose this criteria, the City would require the submission of a
disability exemption waiver form.
As stated within Resolution
2003-91, the purpose of the City contracting for home mail delivery service was
to provide “as an essential community service for those residents that are
physically unable to visit the post office or who, for some other reason,
cannot obtain mail on a regular basis”. Council may wish to consider what
constitutes “other reasons” for not being able to obtain mail on a regular
basis, determine whether such reasons justify the use of public funds for the
service and impose associated criteria.”
NOTE: Resolution
2003-91 not included as an ATTACHMENT
CITY
OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
CITY
COUNCIL
Staff
Report
March
3, 2020
ORDERS
OF BUSINESS
TO: Honorable
Mayor and City Council Members
SUBMITTED
BY: Sharon Friedrichsen - Director, Contracts and Budgets
APPROVED
BY: Chip Rerig, City Administrator
SUBJECT:
Receive a report on options related to the home mail delivery
services program and provide direction to staff
:
One month later, the April 7,
2020 CITY COUNCIL Staff Report SUBMITTED BY Sharon
Friedrichsen, Director of Budget and Contracts and APPROVED BY Chip Rerig, City Administrator
stated:
As stated within Resolution
2003-091, the City contracts for courier service to provide home mail delivery services
“as an essential community service for those residents that are physically
unable to visit the post office or who, for some other reason, cannot obtain
mail on a regular basis.”
The rationale for establishing
disability as a criteria is that it correlates to the program’s intent of
assisting “residents that are physically unable to visit the post office”.
WHEREAS, the City of
Carmel-by-the-Sea contracts for courier service for home mail delivery with the
intended purpose of providing “an essential community service for those residents
that are physically unable to visit the post office or who, for some other
reason, cannot obtain mail on a regular basis” as referenced in Resolution
2003-91;
NOTE: Resolution
2003-91 not included as an ATTACHMENT
CITY OF
CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
CITY COUNCIL
Staff Report
April 7, 2020
CONSENT AGENDA
TO: Honorable Mayor
and City Council Members
SUBMITTED BY: Sharon
Friedrichsen - Director, Contracts and Budgets
APPROVED BY: Chip Rerig, City
Administrator
SUBJECT: Adopt Resolution
2020-027 affirming modification to the home mail delivery program to
include the use of eligibility criteria and provide direction to staff.
Contradicting
the City’s narrative that the “intended purpose” of contracting with a courier
service for home mail delivery was “for those residents that are physically
unable to visit the post office or who, for some other reason, cannot obtain
mail on a regular basis as referenced in Resolution 2003-91,” the July 1, 2003 CITY
COUNCIL AGENDA CHECK LIST, including Guillen
staff report dated 6/24/03 and Resolution No. 2003-91,
which states in RESOLUTION NO. 2003-91:
WHEREAS, the City Council has
determined that continuing full mail delivery is an essential community service
for those residents who desire this service.
CITY COUNCIL
AGENDA CHECK LIST
MEETING DATE: 1 JULY 2003
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Guillen staff report dated
6/24/03
2. Resolution No. 2003-91
Moreover, the CITY COUNCIL
Minutes of Meeting 1 July 2003 state:
COUNCIL MEMBER ROSE RETURNED TO
HIS ORIGINAL MOTION TO ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 2003-91 AS SUBMITTED. THE MOTION
WAS SECONDED BY ELY.
THE MOTION CARRIED ON THE
FOLLOWING ROLL CALL VOTE:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Ely, Rose,
McCloud
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Hazdovac
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
Livingston
City Council Minutes
Regular Meeting
1
July 2003
X. Resolutions
A. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION
No. 2003-91 AUTHORIZING MODIFICATION OF
THE RESIDENTIAL HOME MAIL
DELIVERY SERVICE PROGRAM FROM THREE TO SIX DAYS EACH WEEK AND INCREASING ANNUAL
PROGRAM FUNDING FROM $24,000 TO $40,000.
Pages
10-11
To
corroborate CITY
OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION NO. 2003-91 stating, in part, WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that continuing full mail delivery is an
essential community service for those residents who desire this service, specifically with respect to the intent of the RESOLUTION, the following excerpts from
The Carmel Pine Cone regarding home mail delivery:
City council
learns the price of private home delivery
By TAMARA GRIPPI
CARMEL PINE CONE
2001-01-05
2A The Carmel
Pine Cone January 5, 2001
Several
council members expressed hope at recent meetings that a private courier
service will be the compromise to settle the year-long mail debate begun by
home-delivery activist Joe Steinfeld.
Carmel
officials are trying to strike a balance between preserving Carmel’s tradition
of no mailboxes while satisfying those who
either require or request home delivery.”
Guillen
will present his report at the council’s Jan. 9 meeting, which begins at 3:30
p.m.
Council ready to
pick up the post
By TAMARA GRIPPI
CARMEL PINE CONE
2001-01-12
2A The Carmel
Pine Cone January 12, 2001
THE CARMEL City
Council approved, in theory, a compromise that will provide home delivery to
anyone who wants it,
while still defending the city against an onslaught of mail boxes and street
addresses.
Voting
4-1, with councilwoman Barbara Livingston dissenting, the council authorized
city administrator Rich Guillen to negotiate a contract with The Carmel mailbox
to provide door-to-door delivery.
Guillen
advised the council to enter into the contract for one year and then revisit
the decision in 2002. The city
administrator also recommended that the council implement the service on July 1
– the start of the next fiscal year.
Carmel’s elderly
taking advantage of home delivery
By TAMARA GRIPPI
CARMEL PINE CONE
2002-06-07
5A The Carmel
Pine Cone June 7, 2002
CARMEL’S
GREAT mail delivery debate, which dominated the talk at nearly every city
council meeting with activist Joe Steinfeld stoking the fires, is now hardly
mentioned.
Nearly
a year ago, the Carmel City Council began paying a private courier to provide
home delivery to residents requesting it, so the rest of the town could
continue the Carmel tradition of making a daily trek to the post office.
Peninsula
Messenger Service, the courier hired by the city to handle the door-to-door
delivery, is currently taking mail to 140 residents, which reflects a bit of an
increase since the service began last July.
Ron
Campbell, owner of Peninsula Messenger Service, said most of his clients are
elderly. “Some are handicapped people,
though certainly not the majority,” Campbell said. “But 85 to 90 percent are
elderly at the very least.”
City-sponsored
home mail delivery clients hold steady
By
MARY BROWNFIELD
Published:
March 25, 2005
CARMEL
PINE CONE 2005-03-05
3A The Carmel Pine Cone March 25, 2005The city implemented home mail delivery to settle the debate between those who favor street addresses, mailboxes and traditional mail delivery and others who hold the daily trek to the Carmel Post Office as a sacred tradition.
“Anyone who lives within the city limits, who has a post office box and who would like to have their mail come to their home can request it,” city administrative assistant Stephanie Pearce said. To limit the service to disabled or homebound residents would be unlawful.
Most of the residents who have signed up are seniors or disabled, according to Campbell, though
some able-bodied citizens take advantage of the convenience, too.
SOURCE: INTERNET ARCHIVE
Harrison
Memorial Library
bit.ly/carmelpinecone
ADDENDUM:
Pursuant to a Public Records Act
request submitted to the City on February 27, 2020, Britt Avrit, MMC, City
Clerk, responded on March 16, 2020 with RESOLUTION NO. 2003-91, SIGNED by SUE
McCLOUD, MAYOR and ATTESTED by Karen Crouch, City Clerk, stating, in part, as
follows:
WHEREAS, the City Council has
determined that continuing full mail delivery are an essential community service
for those residents who are physically unable to visit the post office or who for some other reason cannot
obtain their mail on a regular basis.
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. 2003-91
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA AUTHORIZING MODIFICATION OF THE RESIDENTIAL
HOME MAIL DELIVERY SERVICE PROGRAM FROM THREE TO SIX DAYS EACH WEEK AND
INCREASING ANNUAL PROGRAM FUNDING FROM $24,000 TO $40,000
The aforementioned “WHEREAS…” is
not supported by the 2003 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA CHECK LIST including Guillen
staff report dated 6/24/03 and Resolution No. 2003-91 and the CITY COUNCIL
Minutes of Meeting 1 July 2003. Nor is
it supported by the contemporaneous reporting in The Carmel Pine Cone.
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