Lots of different stuff going on tonight.
We start the evening with a closed session to discuss what appear to be terms to sell the City’s property located at Charles/Iowa/Mathilda/McKinley to an affordable housing provider. For those of you who haven’t been following this, the City owned four detached parcels on that block, which we decided several years ago to finally resolve. We had the choice between simply selling those properties or trying to buy the properties in the center of the City’s parcels, forming one contiguous and potentially useful chunk of about 1.6 acres. We opted to try and buy, and we did manage to buy those parcels. The City has been trying to find an affordable housing provider interested in a project at that 1.6 acre site, and it looks like that may be what’s up for discussion.
The consent calendar is pretty small – a contract related to storm drain rehabilitation, our FY 2018/19 fiscal year policy, another contract amendment for outside legal services, and the second reading of our ordinance restricting some firearm sales to people 21 and older. Oh, and we’re rejecting a bid regarding bike lanes on Maude from Fair Oaks to Mathilda – the resulting bids were higher than estimated.
Item 2 is a continuation from our previous meeting – an appeal of a design review of a single family home on a large lot. This had to be continued because of a noticing error, as I recall.
Item 3 is a proposed amendment to the General Plan regarding the Lawrence Station Area Plan. The owners of Intuitive Surgical want some of their properties included in the Plan.
Item 4 is a Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Cities Association of Santa Clara County regarding funding an airplane noise roundtable. Our various congressmembers asked the Cities Association to take the lead in creating a body to discuss ongoing issues regarding airplane noise, and the Cities Association is doing so, including 21 jurisdictions. But this body requires funding, particularly for technical expertise necessary to make sure the body’s recommendations are valid best practices. Sunnyvale’s share of those costs is $35,000/year.
Item 5 involves a potential change in management structure between the City and the operators of the Sunnyvale Golf Course restaurant, in order to keep it operating. We’ve had ongoing challenges with the fiscal viability of golf-related services.
Item 6 has the city adopting a city Suicide Prevention Policy.
And Item 7 is creating a new position of Budget Manager and increasing the Assistant Finance Director’s pay range. We’ve recently had some staffing losses, including the Assistant Director’s position, and this is proposed to keep the position competitive among other cities.
That’s it.
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