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Home My WebLink About05-24-1994 City Council Minutes MINUTES SARATOGA CITY COUNCIL TIME: Tuesday, May.24, 1994 - 7:30 p.m. PLACE: City Hall Administration Meeting Room, 13777 Fruitvale Ave. TYPE: Adjourned Regular Meeting - Jt. Meeting with Youth Commission and Continued Jt. Meeting with Finance Committee 1. Roll Call Councilmembers Kohler, Monia and Vice Mayor Burger were present. Councilmember Anderson (who arrived later as noted below) and Mayor Tucker were absent. Staff members present were City Manager Peacock, Recreation Director Pisani, and Recreation Person Tucker. Youth Commissioners present were Tsai, cohn, Smith, Gujral, He, Gloege, Berardo, Adams, Lee, Behnke, Chu, Cristol, Wasserman, Breitenbach, Yamada, Azad, Ing, Tappan. 2. Report of City Clerk on Posting of Agenda Pursuant to Government Code 54954.2, the agenda for this meeting was properly posted on May 20. The notice of adjournment from the May 18 Council meeting was properly posted on May 19. 3. Joint Meeting with Youth Commission A. Car Pooling - Cooperation with College - not discussed. B. Commission Reports 1) Poppy planting - Amanda Lee reported that poppies had been planted along Saratoga Avenue and wildflowers in front of the Community Library sign. The flower seeds were donated by Billy Gloege. 2) Adopt-a-Highway - Shiasta Azad explained the program for next year - clean a two-mile stretch of Highway 85 several times next year. Don't know where as yet. 3) Training - Chad Berardo reported that training covered two days this year at Mariani vineyards for team training. Brought group close together. Overnighted at Warher Hutton House. Next day viewed videos on how to conduct meetings. Training for next session will be in late August. 4) Toga Palooza - Sean Adams reported that the concert put on for Saratoga High School students was very well attended. Three concerts/dances held each with more · people. Over 500 attended the last concert, which grossed $1100. 5) Celebrate Saratoga Parade - Doug Tsai reported that the Commission had entered a float last fall; theme was saving the environment. Float was pulled and pushed by members, not towed by trucks. Received first prize award for the float. 6) Music Fest 1993 - Connie Ing said that the Fest was held last September 11. Featured local bands, raised over $500 for the commission, promotes commission as kickoff event of the year. Attendance was 600-700. 7) Interaction with other groups - creek cleanup committee of Parks & Recreation, youth court. 8) Ski Program - Doug Breitenbach reported on the Bear Valley Trip, Utah Trip, discount cards, grossed $14,000 on all trips. 9) Disneyland Express - Nicole Behnke stated that 28 kids went at cost of $178 each for two day trips - grossed City Courtoil Minutes 2 'May 24, 1994 $4,912 from trip. Travelled by plane this year. 10) Art Show - Sydney Cohn reported that the show had been held November 26, 1993, during Village Open House at Pacific Western Bank featuring ten youth artists. 11) High School Dance - Ali Tappan said the dance would be this Friday at Community Center. 12) Middle School dances - Chip Yamada said that the Commission had held two at Community Center; attended by 300 each. 13) Warnet Hutton House - Lynn Wasserman reported there were fifty regular members - $4780 earned in fees. 25 kids also drop in each day. New vending machine making $125-150 per week. New student open house scheduled for June 3. 14) Coupon Books - Lisa Cristol said the books sold for $10 each and $245 worth were sold. 15) Fund Raising - Janet Chu reported on the Carnation sale, cookies and lemonade at family concerts; raised over $2,000. 16) Youth commission Appointments - Keyin Ho thanked Council for its decision to limit number to 12 to 15- for next year. Recruitment for this year has been highly publicized. Would like to do more outdoor activities as they believe events will be better attended. Current noise issues limit possibilities. AnOther problem is finding enough adult chaperons to handle th~ events. Maybe some of the older kids could take some of that burden. Can work for middle school functions but much harder for high school functions. What's the feeling about the School Resource Officer? The Los. Gatos situation has created problems recently, but he has made a big difference. Perhaps as the Los Gatos situation calms down, things will pick up again. Sheriff still needs to understand that they often overreact. Need more Atlas and Downey types to deal with youth situations. One new opportunity is a trip to the new ice arena in downtown San Jose. 4. Joint Meeting with Finance Committee (continued from 5/10) Councilmembers Anderson, Kohler, Monia and Vice Mayor Burger were present. Mayor Tucker was absent. Finance Committee Members present were Hilton and Koen. Committee Members Raiswell (who arrived later as noted below) Low, and Ousley were absent. A. Privatization study prepared by the Committee Bob Hilton presented his strategy for dealing with limited resources and still providing services by considering privatization of more City services. One cost to avoid is the cost of layoffs, unemployment leaves, insurance coverage. Look at landscaping and park maintenance and street maintenance but as a general policy Council wants all new services to be considered for contracting as a first option., This should be an ongoing process, but unless savings are significant City should consider keeping services in house. B. Compensation study prepared by the Committee City Council Minutes 3 May 24, 1994 Phil Koen presented the report for Charlene Low and James Ousley, who were not present. Compared salaries for six management and twelve non- management positions. Peter Raiswell arrived at 9:33 p.m. The Council asked that corrections be made and that comparison be done by population as well; since this will be part of the City records, it should be accurate. The Committee recommended review of the compensation program. Councilmember Monia looked at page 11 and said that the spread between Saratoga and the Survey is about 32%. Then this should be studied in greater detail. Anderson suggested the City do a professional study to provide an independent analysis of compensation. Others agree that a study is in order to look at the whole issue of compensation and salaries. Agendize for June 1 meeting. Focus on Codes Administrator, Assistant to City Manager, Recreation Director. C. Impact of giving up retail zoning to housing Councilmember Monia asked the Council to have the Committee consider this as a project for the next year. Rest of Council agreed. D. Economic Development staffer or contractor - report prepared by City Manager City Manager presented a brief outline on the model process normally followed and how a program was put together by the City of Los Altos. E. Comparative Revenues study prepared by the Committee Phil Koen presented his study on comparative analysis of revenues between Saratoga and five comparable cities. Mr. Koen passed out his written comments on the budget. 5. Discussion of Whether to Take a Position on Statewide Smoking Initiative ANDERSON/MONIA MOVED TO OPPOSE THE INITIATIVE AS A MOVE AGAINST LOCAL CONTROL. Passed 4-0. 6. Resolution declaring weeds and brush a public nuisance and setting hearing ANDERSON\MONIA MOVED TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION. Passed 4-0. 7. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 10:4'5 p.m. to a closed session for the purpose of meet and confer instructions to the City Manager in Meeting with the Saratoga Employees Association. Respectfully submitted, Harry R. a City Clerk