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CITY OF SANTA MONICA
PARKING AUTHORITY MEETING MINUTES
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
A special meeting of the Santa Monica Parking Authority was called to order by Chair McKeown
at 8:55 p.m., on Tuesday, February 25, 2020, at City Council Chambers, 1685 Main Street.
Roll Call: Present: Chair Kevin McKeown
Chair Pro Tem Terry O’Day
Agency Member Gleam Davis
Agency Member Sue Himmelrich
Agency Member Ana M. Jara
Agency Member Greg Morena
Agency Member Ted Winterer
Also Present: Executive Director Rick Cole
Agency Attorney Lane Dilg
Agency Secretary Denise Anderson-Warren
CONVENE On order of the Chair, the Parking Authority convened to a joint meeting
with the Redevelopment Successor Agency and Housing Authority at
8:55 p.m., with all members present.
REPORT ON MEETING
COMPENSATION
Pursuant to State law, Agent Secretary Denise Anderson-Warren
announced that members will receive $50 meeting as the Parking
Authority.
MINUTES 8.A. Minutes for Housing Authority, Parking Authority, and
Redevelopment Successor Agency meetings, were presented.
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the:
1. Housing Authority approve the minutes of the November 12, 2019
and December 10, 2019 meetings; and
2. Parking Authority approve the minutes of the November 27, 2018
and June 25, 2019 meetings; and
3. Redevelopment Successor Agency approve the minutes of the
November 12, 2019 meeting.
Motion by Vice Chair/Chair/Mayor Pro Tem O’Day, seconded by
Commissioner/Authority/Agency Member Davis, to approve minutes for
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the Housing Authority, Parking Authority, and Redevelopment Successor
Agency meeting. The motion was approved by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner/Authority/Agency Members Jara, Winterer,
Davis, Himmelrich, Morena, Vice Chair/Chair/Mayor Pro
Tem O’Day, Chair/Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ADJOURNMENT OF
MEETING WITH THE
REDEVELOPMENT
SUCCESSOR AGENCY
On order of the Chair, the joint meeting with the Redevelopment
Successor Agency adjourned at 8:56 p.m.
MIDYEAR BUDGET
Chair Pro Tem O’Day left at
8:57 p.m.
8.B. Financial Status Update and FY 2019-20 Midyear Budget,
was presented.
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council, Housing Authority, and Parking
Authority:
1. Appropriate FY 2019-20 midyear revenue and expenditure
budget adjustments and approve corresponding adjustments to the
FY 2020-21 budget plan (Attachment A).
Staff also recommends that the City Council:
1. Receive the FY 2019-20 through FY 2028-29 Financial Status
Update;
2. Adopt Resolution No. 11227 (CCS) entitled “A RESOLUTION
OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
ESTABLISHING NEW CLASSIFICATIONS AND
ADOPTING SALARY RATES FOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
OF TRANSIT SERVICES, CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER –
AIRPORT DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ADMINISTRATOR, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MANAGER, CUSTOMER
EXPERIENCE AND INNOVATION ADMINISTRATOR, EMS
COORDINATOR, TRANSIT MAINTENANCE MANAGER,
UNDERGROUND UTILITY SAFETY COORDINATOR, AND
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR.”;
3. Adopt Resolution No. 11228 (CCS) entitled “A RESOLUTION
OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
SETTING FORTH THE ADMINISTRATIVE CITATION
SCHEDULE OF FINES FOR CERTAIN VIOLATIONS OF
THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE, SETTING CIVIL
PENALTIES FOR PARKING VIOLATIONS AND FOR THE
LATE PAYMENT OF PENALTIES, SETTING FINES FOR
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POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONSES TO
EXCESSIVE FALSE ALARMS, AND SETTING FINES FOR
THE SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY”;
4. Adopt Resolution No. 11229 (CCS) entitled “A RESOLUTION
OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA, CALIFORNIA, ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF
A REPORT ON THE STATUS OF STATE MANDATED
ANNUAL FIRE INSPECTIONS IN THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND
SAFETY CODE SECTION 13146.4.”;
5. Authorize the City Manager to accept a grant awarded in the
amount of $250,000 from Metro’s Open Streets Grant Program
2020 Mini-Cycle for the City of Santa Monica’s 5th annual
COAST Open Streets Celebration on Sunday, September 20,
2020;
6. Direct staff to proceed with research and analysis on various
potential tax revenue measures;
7. Award RFP 255 to TBWBH Strategies, a San Francisco-based
company, for strategic advisory and communications services for
the Finance Department;
8. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement
No. 11004 (CCS) with TBWBH Strategies in an amount not to
exceed $165,000 over a five-year period, with future year funding
contingent on Council budget approval; and
9. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a sixth
modification to agreement 10141(CCS) in the amount of $62,000
with Goodwin Simon Strategic Research (GSSR) for polling for
Santa Monica’s potential revenue measures. This will result in a
five-year amended agreement for a total not to exceed $385,800,
with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
Members of the public Denise Barton, Caron Block, Kim Sidoriak, and
Dominick Bei (time donated by Walter Gonzales) spoke on the
recommended action.
Questions asked and answered of staff included: do we have to go to the
voters for any Tax Revenue Measures; the business license tax, is there
any thought about creating a package to get a better result; is there any
sense on where we will fall in the best, baseline, worse scenario; any idea
why the large taxpayers have left; are we actively recruiting businesses to
replace those big companies when they leave; how do we consider
growth in the corporate sector; have there been a consideration as how the
proposed taxes would impact businesses and tourism; is there a proposal
for an additional retailers business license tax; regarding parking, has
there been a look at the correlation between what is being charged for
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parking and the impact it has on businesses; how is the CIP budgets get
considered; should we be seeing the budget more often; what is the
maximum service tax being charged; what areas other than services are
we not capturing for taxing purposes; is there any thought that maybe
we’ve reached the point of saturation with hotels; how do we raise some
of the revenue without hearing from the public; for the vacancy rate, has
there been any thought on increasing the commercial tax; would it be
possible since we’re doing a rate study for RRR that we incorporate the
possibility of returning to that extra $110,000 a year for Stericycle which
spread among all of our users would not be that much of an increase; is a
carbon tax being looked at separately as part of sustainability, and is that
being considered; and, who is going to access the funds that are supposed
to go to the Police Officers.
Considerable discussion ensued on topics including, but not limited to:
public safety is high on the list to the community; going through the list, it
is obvious that outreach needs to be done to the public to explain the
budget process; taxes should be increased; and, concern about a parcel
tax.
Motion by Commissioner/Authority/Councilmember Winterer, seconded
by Commissioner/Authority/Councilmember Himmelrich, to appropriate
FY 2019-20 midyear revenue and expenditure budget adjustments and
approve corresponding adjustments to the FY 2020-21 budget plan. The
motion was approved by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner/Authority/Councilmembers Morena,
Himmelrich, Davis, Winterer, Jara, Chair/Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: Vice Chair/Mayor Pro Tem O’Day
Motion by Councilmember Jara, seconded by Councilmember Davis, to
receive the FY 2019-20 through FY 2028-29 Financial Status Update and
to adopt Resolution No. 11227 (CCS) establishing new classifications
and adopting salary rates for various positions (Attachment B) and
approve the position and classification changes (Attachment C). The
motion was approved by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Morena, Himmelrich, Davis, Winterer,
Jara, Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Pro Tem O’Day
Motion by Councilmember Morena, seconded by Councilmember
Winterer, to adopt Resolution No. 11228 (CCS) setting forth the
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administrative citation schedule of fines for certain violations of the Santa
Monica Municipal Code, setting civil penalties for parking violations and
for the late payment of penalties, setting fines for Police and Fire
Department responses to excessive false alarms, and setting fines for the
Santa Monica Public Library. The motion was approved by the following
vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Jara, Winterer, Davis, Himmelrich,
Morena, Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Pro Tem O’Day
Motion by Councilmember Jara, seconded by Councilmember
Himmelrich, to adopt Resolution No. 11229 (CCS) acknowledging
receipt of a report on the status of state mandated annual fire inspections
in the City of Santa Monica pursuant to California Health and Safety
Code Section 13146.4.
The motion was approved by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmember Morena, Himmelrich, Davis, Winterer, Jara,
Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Pro Tem O’Day
Motion by Councilmember Winterer, seconded by Councilmember Jara,
to authorize the City Manager to accept a grant awarded in the amount of
$250,000 from Metro’s Open Streets Grant Program 2020 Mini-Cycle for
the City of Santa Monica’s 5th annual COAST Open Streets Celebration
on Sunday, September 20, 2020. The motion was approved by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Jara, Winterer, Davis, Himmelrich,
Morena, Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Pro Tem O’Day
Motion by Councilmember Himmelrich, seconded by Councilmember
Jara, to: direct staff to proceed with research and analysis on various
potential tax revenue measures; award RFP 255 to TBWBH Strategies for
strategic advisory and communications services for the Finance
Department and authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute an
agreement with TBWBH Strategies in an amount not to exceed $165,000
over a five-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council
budget approval; and, authorize the City Manager to negotiate and
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execute a sixth modification to agreement 10141(CCS) in the amount of
$62,000 with Goodwin Simon Strategic Research (GSSR) for polling for
Santa Monica’s potential revenue measures. This will result in a five-year
amended agreement for a total not to exceed $385,800, with future year
funding contingent on Council budget approval. The motion was
approved by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Morena, Himmelrich, Davis, Winterer,
Jara, Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Pro Tem O’Day
ADJOURNMENT: On order of the Chair, the Parking Authority meeting was adjourned at
10:36 p.m., with Chair Pro Tem O’Day absent.
ATTEST: APPROVED:
Denise Anderson-Warren Kevin McKeown
Agency Secretary Chair
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