Friday, March 20, 2015

City Council meeting, Monday, March 23, 2015


Attend in person, 2212 Beach Boulevard, 2nd floor.  Or, view on local television or live feed Pacificcoast.TV, (formerly pct26.com).  If you miss civic meetings, view on  PCT 26 You Tube!  The city council meeting begins at 7 p.m., or shortly there following.  City council updates and archives are available on the City website. 

Image result for Sharp Park Golf Course, Pacifica, CA photograph
Item 6. Support for Sharp Park
Golf Course improvement

Closed Session - None.
 

Open Session, 7:00 p.m.  Call to order, roll call, salute to flag, Closed Session report.
 
Consent Calendar
1.  Approval of disbursements, FY 2014-15: 
2/25/15 - 3/5/15.
2.  Approval of Minutes:  
3/19/15.

3.  Resolution: Notice of Completion, of the Linda Mar Pavement Rehabilitation Project, FY 2014, completion 1/26/15.
4.  Authorization to purchase a Waste Water Treatment pump from Gierlich-Mitchell, Inc., sole source, $68.473.80.  Purchase agreement, pdf pages 9.
5.  Authorization to purchase a new Centrifuge Unit for the the Waste Water Treatment plant, award contract to Centrisys Corporation, $285,580. Purchase agreement, pdf pages 25.

Special Presentations
Proclamation:  Volunteer Recognition Month - Donna Northrop.
Proclamation: National Service Recognition Day.

Public Hearings - None.  Council Communications - Oral Communications.

Consideration
6.  City support letter for the City and County of  San Francisco Sharp Park (Golf Course) Pump House Project (infrastructure improvement, maintenance, habitat restoration), presented by San Francisco Public Golf Alliance/ Richard H. Harris, Jr.  Background information, pdf pages 13.  City Manager letter.
7.  Wastewater Equalization Basin Site Feasibility Evaluation.  Final Report, pdf pages 65.
Adjourn.
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Related - Item 6. San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate/John Wildermuth, 1/16/14. "Sharp Park Golf Course project to move ahead. Commission approves work at golf course in Pacifica despite environmentalists' complaints." Note:  photograph/graphic from Mike Wallach (MW) mobile blog. Also see recent Mike Wallach articles on Fix Pacifica:  Dispatch from the EssEff Golf War, 3/9/15, and "To be moot or not to be moot. That is the Sharp Park lawsuit question," 3/13/15. 

Posted by Kathy Meeh

20 comments:

Tom Clifford said...

Item #7 Wastewater Equalization Basin site Feasibility Evaluation,Final Report. The Linda Mar park"n" ride is the #1 choice.

With the closing of fresh & easy and all the empty storefronts in the Linda Mar Shopping Center, I think anything that has the potential to further damage the businesses in that area would be the last choice not #1.

Anonymous said...

Watching Sue Digre and Keener vying for the "greenest council member" title at last night's meeting was painful.
Is Sue even capable of a putting together a cohesive sentence or a cogent argument?
Keener trying to re-write Tinfrow's letter to Coastal Commission was laughable.
Thank goodness O'Neil had the maturity to find a compromise in all that stupidity and end the embarrassing display.
Lancelle is waiting in the wings.
God help Pacifica.

Anonymous said...

Agree with you Tom. There must be some secret oath taken by all our city councils to use any and all means to block revenue-producing development. Someday, someone may have wanted to revitalize LM (and Pacifica!!) with new stores, condos, restaurants--you know, a modern and attractive shopping area in a great location. A highly visible gateway to LM and Park Pac. Well, people, we can't have that. Let's take a dump on it. Then have the artistes paint a feel-good mural on it.
Why worry about who's the greenest council member of them all when they're all making decisions that will keep Pacifica poor forever? All of them. And, like it or not, that's the real Pacifica.

Anonymous said...

@919 Baby all you need to know is that Digre is capable of getting elected 4 times, with I think more votes each time and the biggest vote-getter by far this last election. She may very well be the Keystone Species for Pacifica politicians.

Anonymous said...

Just like W was for our country, Digre is a very sad commentary on our little town.
Stupid is as stupid does.

Anonymous said...

209 Whatever you were peddling, nobody was buying. No one wants "your" Pacifica--and that's mostly because of the tone-deaf presentation. Pacifica voters will choose that small town vibe over change every time. The enviro cause naturally! taps into that while you're flailing around calling people stupid.

Anonymous said...

Not understanding that no revenue equals no future for Pacifica speaks to your level of intelligence.
Small town vibe is wonderful but it still has to be paid for genius.

Anonymous said...

525 Tone deaf as usual, utterly and profoundly so. And snarly. Oh my!

Anonymous said...

well, let's do some basic math. Beach blvd stalled. No revenue kickers on the horizon. Police/fire pensions skyrocketing to 50% in 3-4 years. Not a matter of tone deaf. We can't pay for our appetite. Myths and fancy talk don't pay the bills folks.

Anonymous said...

What's the plan for generating enormous amounts of revenue?

Anonymous said...

Tone Deaf? NO
Snarly? Yes (regrettably)
Why Snarly?
I've had it up to here with the dishonest, disingenuous, happy talk and faux-environmentalism that has brought Pacifica to it's economic knees and is threatening to destroy human habitat for tens of thousands of people.
Wake up Pacifica.

Anonymous said...

More money wasted on Consultants!!

1 29452 $4473.20 03/05/15 03430 0 MOUNTAINTOP INSIGHT CONSULTING OUTSTANDING
4473.20 01.200210.52800.0000.000 WORKSHOP AND AIRFARE 02-23-15

Anonymous said...

9:25. that was the council goals session

Anonymous said...

Oh, well then, council's goals session, spare no expense. And I don't want to hear that this year's consultant just recycled goals from a prior year. Pick a year, there's plenty to choose from and they all have pretty much the same furking goals.
Our cutting-edge, connected council and staff have the book on how-to-set-goals down pat. Is there a book out there on how-to-achieve-the goals-you-set? Wait a minute. Does that require another consultant?

Carpetbagging Consultants in a red cross circle said...

Pacifica needs to hire Pacificans to do it's consulting, or at last bay area people. Sadly, Ms. Tinfow has followed the tradition of her predecessor in hiring consultants from the pacific northwest. Let's keep pacifica money in pacifica! Enough of these carpetbaggers. There oughta be a law! Woulda! Coulda! Shoulda!

Kathy Meeh said...

130 PM, Huh? Government level Consultants have qualified expertise in the specific field for which they are hired. That's why a City (any City Manager) would hire them.

Who are you suggesting should be hired from Pacifica for what purpose to analyze what project, or to provide what service? Should this city have non-competitive bids from locals? How about paying for otherwise free NIMBY "expert" opinions on Economic Development projects. Or, how about hiring volunteers (treated to a Rock band and Barbecue) to pave our roads (if the city had money to pave the roads).

"..Carpetbaggers..???" Give us a clue.

Anonymous said...

My expertise is bbq and rock bands and I'm local. Hire me!

Tom Clifford said...

I've been giving the City free advice for years.Maybe if I charge for it they would listen. Nah, they have paid for dozens of reports that just sit on a shelve.

Anonymous said...

Uh, Tom, something else may be holding you back from boarding that gravy train. Didn't you make not too veiled reference to a member or members of the city council as a political hack? I think it was when you left the planning commission. Never had the chance to say you were right so here goes... Tom, you were right. You're still right. And life's too short to mess with that muck.

Kathy Meeh said...

Tom 407, some of those "information" reports are shelved, and of course most of them should not have been moved forward in the first place.
A somewhat recent example: a few years ago, a Consultant reported to the Economic Development Committee that the quarry should be developed, duh. City Council shelved that report.
But, there have been so many other reports or skilled services that require a level of expertise outside the skill set of City Staff. There is a process for those job and service bids, (and in follow-up the approvals from that process appear in the City Council Meeting Agendas).