Pretty diverse night. We start the evening with a special council meeting. The Countywide Redevelopment Successor Agency Oversight Board is a body that makes decisions about how redevelopment agencies wind down and dispose of their assets, and it is comprised of representatives from the various entities that have an interest in the issue (the County, schools, the cities, etc). We need to appoint a new representative and alternate for the cities in the county, which will be decided by the Cities Association of Santa Clara County. Since Sunnyvale is one of the few cities left with outstanding redevelopment issues, we have a strong interest in being represented on this body. So we’ll be discussing who we intend to put forward as a nominee.
After this, we have a study session involving our solid waste franchise. Currently, this is Specialty Solid Waste. This franchise expires in 2021, meaning we’ll soon have to choose a franchise to serve Sunnyvale before that time. And the City Charter places restrictions on how this can happen. So we’re strategizing and planning for what will come next.
The general session starts with the swearing in of our new board and commission members. The consent calendar is quite long. There’s the resolution calling for our November election. There’s a contract for youth sports classes and camps. There’s a county grant for funding an EMS patient data system. There’s an agreement with Airbnb that will improve our collection of TOT from short-term rentals. There’s a PO for supporting financial software. And we’re being asked to reject two lone bids, one for Fair Oaks bike improvements, one for rehabilitating Storm Pump Station #1.
Our first item is actually a joint meeting of the City Council and the Sunnyvale Financing Authority (basically the same people with different titles). This is for our annual public hearing for next year’s budget.
Item 3 is our annual review of proposed changes to next year’s schedule of fines and fees.
Item 4 is approving the sale of the Unilever Margarine Plant property to a private party. This is an industrial property that we took possession of after a very long lease a couple of years ago.
Item 5 is consideration of a proposed office project in Peery Park on North Mary.
Item 6 is considering giving raises to our unrepresented employees. These are employees who by the very nature of their work (access to classified information, access to legal information, etc) cannot belong to a union or representative association. So they don’t get to negotiate for their raises the way other employees do.
And item 7 is considering the creation of a Deputy City Manager position. We currently budget for two Assistant City Managers, with one position currently vacant. The City Manager is proposing downgrading that position to a Deputy City Manager position.
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