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| Items 5 and 6: Ford F350, 3 of these |
City Council Agenda, 11/13/12. Items listed below may include embedded pdf documents, illustration and photographs of interest.
A. Closed session, 6:30 pm. Agency labor negotiator, Ann Ritzma report. "Employee organizations: Pacifica Pollice
Oficers Assn.; Pacifica Police Supervisors Assn.; Police Management
Local 350; Pacifica Fire Fighters Local 2400; Teamsters Local 856
Battalion Chiefs."
B. Open session (7:00 pm)
Consent Calendar (pass through)
1. Approval of cash disbursements, 10/1/12-10/22/12, fiscal year 2012/2013.
2. Approval of Minutes, city council meeting, 10/22/12.
3. Proclamation confirming existence of local emergency, continued since 4/7/10.B. Open session (7:00 pm)
Consent Calendar (pass through)
1. Approval of cash disbursements, 10/1/12-10/22/12, fiscal year 2012/2013.
2. Approval of Minutes, city council meeting, 10/22/12.
5. Approve purchase contract for one new Ford F350 utility truck, $32,574.68. Previously budgeted in Vehicle Replacement Fund 72.
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| Item 7 Ford Escape, one of these |
7. Approve purchase of one new Ford Escape truck, $25,488.64. Previously budgeted in Vehicle Replacement Fund 72.
8. Establish the job description for the city's waste water collection system and treatment program, coordinator Operator III, confirm salary range $5,931-$7,767 monthly. Required as part of the Regional Water Quality Control Board settlement.
9. Salary adjustment for Director of Wastewater Collections and Plant Operations, from $11,200-$12,800 per month to $12,920-$14,767 per month, "plus an additional 2% increase in benefits." See agenda link, page 80.
Special presentations - Ecology Action - Lorna Fear
Public Hearings
10. Adoption of Resolution approving the required by State law General Plan Housing Element update.
Consideration
11. Request for proposals (until 12/7/12, 1:30 p.m.) to study study cost effective and efficient police service strategy (necessity, efficiency, staffing, funding, responsiveness to citizen need). Consultant cost, $35,000-$40,000.
12. One Bay Area Complete Street grant application (roadway networks, pedestrian and bicycle network, public transportation, parking), request of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
13. Designate a councilmember to participate in consultant selection for the Economic Development Plan.
14. Create a Beautification Task Force Advisory Committee of 9 citizens.
15. Designate 2 city council members as a subcommittee to form a Responsive Government (to our community) Communications Plan.
16. Direct Staff to proceed with formation of a Fireworks Task Force of 9 citizens.
17. Recruit a citizen (advertising, letters and scheduled interviews), to fill the San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control Trustee vacancy through 12/31/13. John Curtis resigned 10/18/12.
Adjourn.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
38 comments:
I thought this city was broke? Buying new trucks and giving a raise??? Sweet!!
I'll sell the city my used Subaru Forester for $4000. I need to buy a new one, anyway.
With all the agenda items, guess someone thought no one would notice the $1700 per month raise for the Director of Wastewater they're trying to slip in.
Dose Pacifica really need a Director (?) Couldn't someone at the sewer plant just report to Public Works.
Another case of two many chiefs, not enough Indians.
Is it too soon to see some changes at city hall? I mean what's the hold up now? Maybe start with items #5 through #9 and #11? This kind of stuff makes a lie out of council's claims of city poverty. Don't spend that money on new vehicles! Leave it where it is or if possible re-allocate it to where it's really needed. And those salary increases at the WWTP. Are you kidding? Where does it end?
Re Items for Consideration...I don't think council's real effectiveness and honesty will be measured by the number of committees and projects they can create. Pacificans aren't fooled by that. How about doing something that matters...revamp the Planning Commission asap. ASAP! And, it would seem you can finally clear the air on this police outsourcing fiasco. Release the info to the public. You work for us not the police dept.
It's never too soon to change things for the better.
WTF, you're raising the sewer plant supervisors salary and they're already making up to $180,000 base salary?
What the F kind of negotiations is that? What is Ritma doing? She think this is Bell? Is this what she did with our other negotiations? Every other city is cutting wages. WTF!
New council please set a tone that will start bringing down costs not increasing them.
Agree totally Anon 401. Stop buying 100's of thousands of dollars in trucks unless its an out and out emergency. STOP IT!
Yes REvamp Planning commission ASAP. Give Campbell the boot immediately. His ideals and goals are not what most Pacificans have shown they want by the last election.
Stop with the committees and consultants. We elected you to make decisions.
Yeah Hutch, but not just Campbell. That would just look vindictive and political. We need to send a message that Pacifica is open for business. Put out the welcome mat. Release all 7 commissioners, set new goals, add development to the title, and ask for applications. Open the process to all, including former members. Look for qualified people with can do attitudes, truly relevant skills, and a committment to progress.
I believe that Ritma's pay scale is tied to the highest pay each department head gets. Something like a percentage number above the highest department head. Hell, I'd negotiate to the limit since she gets to retire at her highest pay scale. Criminal? Should be.
what would it take to get some of you talkers to actually go to council and demand the planning commission be disbanded? donuts? cookies?
Are there any pro-developement people on the planning commission?
If so we should keep them and get rid of anyone who says they're for "smart growth."
Oh that's just one of many dirty little secrets found in government employment particularly at the local level. Remember Dejarnatt's pension and how many people claimed council doesn't get pensions? You gotta ask the right question! The worse thing is that after years of talking about this and trying to find the truth, we still have no proof that any city employee is making less than before (or even the same). Is council even committed to that goal? I don't think so. They'll cut jobs and service before they cut an individual salary. Look at the WWTP agenda item. Just a lot of grinnin' and spinnin' about the deep cuts to payroll and benefits. Looking forward to that state controller's report and some changes!
"study study cost effective"
Really? You're going to spend another $35,000 to STUDY the STUDY we have already done but is being kept secret from the voters?
Study the study. You can't make this crap up.
Sue Digre is written all over this nonsense.
It's not necessary. Many ways to get the message to them. Lots of people find council meetings too often a circus and not the place to air a serious concern or question.
@649 The open for business message comes thru loudest and clearest if they all are released. They can all re-apply. Of course this council will require a consultant, task force, several study sessions, a back rub and a ouija board to do this. What the hell, let's be optimistic!
Thats funny Serramonte Ford has acres of slightly used trucks for 10k-15k dollars off
With a full warranty.
Does this city know they are broke?
Steve Sinai said...
I'll sell the city my used Subaru Forester for $4000. I need to buy a new one, anyway.
November 8, 2012 1:58 PM
A couple months ago, you said you drove a new Hummer!
17. Recruit a citizen (advertising, letters and scheduled interviews), to fill the San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control Trustee vacancy through 12/31/13. John Curtis resigned 10/18/12.
Adjourn.
John Curtis, the lead engineer of the city being broke busted dirty and bankrupt resigned because he was caught shoplifting at Pac N Save in South San Francisco.
This is the guy Sneaky Pete Dejarnatt, claimed to talk to 3 days a week. Who asked Sneaky Pete Degarnatt to appeal the Human's project on Palmetto. Yes, the same Palmetto that is going to be the crown jewel of Pacifica. The shiny new downtown.
You know with 200,000 dollars worth of new streetlights that show blue when its foggy. Home to nothing and no reason to go to Palmetto.
Ha, this city is really dumb and dumber
Oh Hutch they all love their studies, consultants and task forces more than life itself. They're hard-wired for it. Look at their occupations--it's how they make decisions. Very cautious, academic approach, careful bunch. Ervin probably even more so. O'Neill may be the only wild card. Maybe.
Bring in the clowns.
Oh if only we could raze and demolish Palmetto from one end to the other and the blocks near the pier and start over. Not as a mainstreet--beyond dumb idea for a town made up of little villages-- but as a tourist area. Make it super schlocky, rides, a theatre, seafood places, a mini-Fisherman's Wharf. They'd love it.
Anon@8:25 PM, I drive the Hummer on special occasions only. Like when I'm driving to Candlestick to sit in the owner's box as a special guest of Jed and Trent.
Otherwise I drive the Forester, as do all members in good standing of the Pacifica Bloggers Guild.
When are new council sworn in? Or better, when is Pete's last day?
I think his last day was about 3 months ago
When are new council sworn in?
The swearing in of the new councilmembers and new mayor usually occurs at the end of the last Council Meeting of the year. The new Council would then sit beginning in January.
Can't happen soon enough.
John Curtis = The Hamburgler
I thought we had fired him? I guess we let him SAY he resigned kind of like how we let Vreeland do the same before he was removed.
Steve Sinai said...
Anon@8:25 PM, I drive the Hummer on special occasions only. Like when I'm driving to Candlestick to sit in the owner's box as a special guest of Jed and Trent.
Otherwise I drive the Forester, as do all members in good standing of the Pacifica Bloggers Guild.
November 8, 2012 11:20 PM
Just say No! Just say NO!
10/18/2012 he quit
17. Recruit a citizen (advertising, letters and scheduled interviews), to fill the San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control Trustee vacancy through 12/31/13. John Curtis resigned 10/18/12.
Adjourn.
Oh please, anonymous, not the facts! Anything but the facts. We don't know how to make a point without hyperbole, innuendo, distortion. It's not that the points we're trying to make are faulty, it's that our arguments are. How very Pacifica-ish.
Steve Sinai said...
Anon@8:25 PM, I drive the Hummer on special occasions only. Like when I'm driving to Candlestick to sit in the owner's box as a special guest of Jed and Trent.
Otherwise I drive the Forester, as do all members in good standing of the Pacifica Bloggers Guild.
November 8, 2012 11:20 PM
You do know, the authorities institutionalize people for saying things like this? Right?
Curtis was arrested but never charged. leave the man some dignity . . . and a cheesburger if you're nice.
Anonymous said...
Curtis was arrested but never charged. leave the man some dignity . . . and a cheesburger if you're nice.
November 9, 2012 8:08 PM
John Curtis deserves shit! He bankrupted the city and took millions of dollars out of the city treasury. He screwed every taxpayer in the city.
The taxpayers are wine'ng and dining him, and paying for his apartment and health care.
F*ck Him!
The number one issue right now is the total mishandling of the police outsourcing issue.
I like most people would want to keep our police here but we're being kept in the dark under false pretenses.
Our city attorney has failed us. She is totally wrong in assuming police outsourcing has anything to do with union contract negotiations. And that is what has allowed her to hold secret meetings and keep the consultants report from us.
All you have to do is look to Millbrae and other cities that have let the sheriff take over their PD to see that it has nothing to do with contract negotiations.
It's just like if you want to sell your company. You don't have to ask the unions permission first. You just sell it and the union contract goes to the new owner.
As long as the offer from the Sheriff is as good as the current contract the unions will have no problem with it. And from what we see from other cities the working conditions are better.
Now they are saying we might have to wait 2 or 3 years for the next contract negotiations before they can put police outsourcing on the table again. That will be too late.
We need to fire this attorney and release all the numbers including the consultants report immediately.
The can was kicked down the road. The report was paid for by the taxpayers who get the shaft every time, but this existing council decided to kick this over to the new council.
The new council will probably be the council who gets to vote on the city going broke.
Having the County Sheriff take over will probably work out much better. Direct access to the crime lab more detectives and more money go out and bust and close down the meth houses around town.
The police officers will just move over and work for the county and get a raise. Keep in mind Pacifica PD are the lowest paid in the county. It is tough to have good moral in a department and city like this with the total assclown group of city council members.
The guys with time in will probably just retire.
But I have not heard no complaints in Half Moon Bay and Millbrae.
Anonymous said...
Steve Sinai said...
I'll sell the city my used Subaru Forester for $4000. I need to buy a new one, anyway.
November 8, 2012 1:58 PM
A couple months ago, you said you drove a new Hummer!
November 8, 2012 8:25 PM
You have never had a hummer!
Steve Sinai said...
I'll sell the city my used Subaru Forester for $4000. I need to buy a new one, anyway.
November 8, 2012 1:58 PM
I will put in a motion they offer you $500 bucks.
I heard we have had 2 officers leave recently. I'm sure there will be more if opportunities come up.
This new council needs to hop on this sooner than later.
And why not hop on it? The election is over and the next one's two years away. Now's the time to get on it! Stop hiding behind the excuses you had the attorney find for you. Do the job you all were elected to do. Just once. And Ervin and O'Neill, the bar has been set so low by your colleagues that you wouldn't have to do much on this issue to earn the gratitude and respect of Pacificans--regardless of the outcome--people deserve the truth and open government.
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