This is a pretty simple meeting, it looks like. It was supposed to be longer, but the large item planned for tonight had to be pushed back. We can cancel meetings when there isn’t much on the agenda. However, we’re required by the City Charter to hold two meetings per month, and this is the second one, so however light, we have to hold this one.
We start the evening with a closed session to consider aspects of a proposed sale of the Unilever property. I don’t know the details here (and probably couldn’t tell you if I did), but I note that there are multiple unrelated negotiating parties listed in the public notice. The closed session is followed by a public study session regarding the update to the El Camino Real Specific Plan.
The general session starts with two orders of the day, one of which recognizes a Sunnyvale student for accomplishments, the other recognizing Older Americans Month.
There’s a good-sized consent calendar, with one meaty item right off the top. The statewide gas tax which voters approved is supposed to pay for road repairs at both the state and local level. Staff estimates that Sunnyvale will receive $2.5m for its local share, which must be spent on road repairs. So stafff is proposing a list of roads to be repaired with this money. The list is larger than the available funding, but it basically consists of all Sunnyvale street segments with a Pavement Condition Indicator (PCI) of 80. Several years ago, we set 80 (“very good”) as the target PCI for Sunnyvale’s streets, largely because achieving 80 makes for great roads, and our returns diminish sharply as we try to achieve more than an 80 PCI.
There’s a purchase order for water meters. There’s a contract for investment services (the City has in excess of $200m in funds dedicated for long-term capital replacement, which we invest while we wait for the projects to come due). Staff is asking to reject bids for resurfacing Washington Park’s playground surfaces and put it back out to bid (the low bidder was non-responsive, the second bidder exceeded estimates for the project). There’s a 3-year agreement with the county for household hazard waste disposal and resulting revenue. There are five on-call pavement rehabilitation contracts. And there’s the second reading of our wage theft ordinance.
The sole piece of general business is our annual public hearing regarding the renewal of the Business Improvement District (the Sunnyvale Downtown Association).
Following this, we have a joint meeting of the Council and the Redevelopment Successor Agency, to perform a step necessary to transfer ownership of Plaza del Sol from the RSA to the City.
And that’s it.
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