Revised
City Council Announcements
April 9, 2013
(Updated information in bold)
Information Needed by Council Staff 8:53:23 PM
A. Locally Owned/Small Business
Council Member Love would like the Council to consider adopting a Legislative Action that would require any project which uses City loans/money, to set aside a certain percentage of the space for locally owned/small businesses at reasonable rental rates. This policy would be adopted by ordinance.
This would support locally owned/small businesses by helping them to secure properties that would maintain lower lease rates. It could also be designed to assist locally owned/small businesses buy their space.
Council Member Love would also like to ask the administration to research other incentives and tools that would help local businesses to buy their building space, and what incentives are available to developers that would encourage them to set aside a small part of their projects for local/small businesses.
This initiative relates to the Economic Health of the City and Neighborhood Quality of Life priorities. Council Members Penfold and Simonsen said they would support the legislative action so it could be forwarded to the Administration.
B. Budget Amendment #4 (Attachment)
Budget Amendment #4 includes (re-submitted) a request to fund the upgrade of the five (5) electric charging stations to fast charge stations. The cost is estimated at $26,000. The City is aware of a grant from Clean Cities that will allow for the reimbursement of 50% of the cost or approximately $12,700. Catch is, the project needs to be completed by the end of the month. We will need an appropriation to make the upgrade. Facilities can float the cost now, if there is some expectation that the amendment will be come through.
Ø Could the Council pre-authorize the amendment expenditure? A majority of the Council was in favor. Councilmember Simonsen said approximately three years ago the Council had a legislative intent related to setting up charging stations by which this was created. He said one of the legislative intent items was to update the Citywide parking ordinance to encourage or even require the inclusion of parking stations in private lots similar to what was done with handicapped and rideshare parking. He requested an update from the Administration on the current status of that issue. Ms. Gust-Jenson said she would follow-up.
C. July Council Meetings
Although the Council has discussed the schedule for July meetings already, there is still some confusion on the best dates to meet, because of potential conflicts for Council Members. It would help staff if the Council could take a straw poll on availability for the following dates: A majority of the Council was in favor of July 9th and July 16th.
July 9 - Yes
July 16 - Yes
July 23 - No