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Hayward Planning Commission Meeting April 10, 2025
Transcript I think we’re waiting for Nick. We’re good to go. Recording in progress. Good evening, and welcome to the City of Hayward Planning Commission meeting for 04/10/2025. We We are holding a hybrid meeting with some participants in the council chambers and others who have joined virtually via Zoom. This meeting is being webcast on Comcast TV channel 15 and live streamed on the city’s YouTube channel and on the city website. Per Assembly Bill 2 4 4 9 and pursuant to government code section 5 4 9 5 3, the meeting will include a teleconference location at Starbucks located at Box located at 400 East Ocean Avenue in Lompoc, California. Planning Commissioner member Goodbody will participate via teleconference. The agenda has been posted at the teleconference location, and the public will have an opportunity to address the planning commission. This meeting is called to order at 07:02PM. Can we please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance? Miss Allen, would you please call roll? Good evening. Commissioner Franco Closson, absent. Commissioner Goodbody? Present. Commissioner Hammond? Present. Commissioner Lowe? Here. Commissioner Myers? Present. Chair Hardy? Present. So we will now open public comments on any non agenda items. The public comments section provides an opportunity to address the planning commission on items not listed on the agenda. The commission welcomes comments and requests that speakers present their remarks in a respectful manner within established time limits and focused on issues which directly affect the city or within this jurisdiction of the city. As the commission is prohibited by state law from discussing items not listed on the agenda, your item will be taken into consideration and may be referred to staff for further action. Speakers shall not use threatening, profane, or abusive language, which disrupts, disturbs, or other wise impedes the orderly conduct of a commission meeting. The city is committed to maintaining a workplace free of unlawful harassment and is mindful that city staff regularly attends commission meetings. There are no public commenters. Commissioner, There are no public commenters. Commissioner Goodbody, are there any members of the public who wish to make a comment at your location? There are none here. Thank you. I will now close public comments. So item number 1 tonight is an action item. For this item, the planning commission may make a recommendation to city council. Item 1 p h 2 5 0 1 5 is a public hearing for the recommended fiscal year 20 26 through fiscal year 20 35 capital improvement program. Does staff have a presentation for this item? Thank you, and good evening, madam chair and commissioners. I’m Alex Amiri, public works director for the city. Staff is pleased to be here this evening to present the city’s FY26, FY35 ’10 year capital improvement program. The development of the CIP has been a process involving many staff from various departments over the past several months. Public works and utilities team have been managed by senior management analyst, Ellie Lowe, and the process has been led by management analyst, Michael Wolney. As always, engineers, planners, and other staff in various divisions and departments have been involved and contributed to the process. Staff recommends that the commission finds that FY ’20 ‘6 ’30 ‘5 CIP is consistent with the city’s 02/1940 general plan and recommend its approval to council. I now turn this over to Michael Worny to kick off the staff presentation. By the way, Michael is at City Hall, but stayed stayed in his office to make use of his multi screen, setup. Thank you. Michael? Good evening, everyone. Can everyone hear me and see the presentation? Yes. We can hear you. Great. And, do you see the presentation? Okay. Perfect. Yes. Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, planning commission, members of the public, and city staff. My name is Michael Wolle, and I am the management analyst in the public works department. This is the fiscal year 2026 to 02/1935 recommended capital improvement program presentation on how projects within the CIP are consistent with the 02/1940 general plan. Just for reference, the photo that you see here in the background is the completed phase 1 of the STAC Center, which I’ll mention again in some later slides. This is the fifth year that the CIP has been developed in the online OpenGov stories format. OpenGov stories is an online budget book development tool designed to increase the user friendliness and ease of navigation within a complex budget. It’s also intended to help increase the depth with which community members, council members, and other stakeholders can explore a budget. I will now open up the online book to provide a quick tutorial on how to navigate it. 1 moment while I switch screens. Okay. Can everyone see the CIP web page on the city’s website? Yes. Perfect. Okay. Scrolling down on the CIP web page, the public will see a blue bar, which will take the user to the online version of the CIP. This is the recommended viewing experience for the CIP because it includes a number of interactive tables and charts. If the public would like to view a printable version of the CIP, they can click the second blue bar here to view the entire CIP document in PDF format. There’s also a section on the website which includes the fiscal year 20 25 CIP semi annual progress report where users can view status of current projects. Now I’m going to scroll back up and click the first link to take you to the OpenGov platform. Here, you’ll see the home page. If you scroll down, you’ll see 4 main sections of the CIP. First, the introduction introduction section includes more information about the city’s elected officials and and organizational chart. Second, the strategic priorities includes an overview of the city’s strategic priorities and some featured projects that support these priorities. Third, the explore the budget section is the heart of the CIP, where the public can get key budget insights, such as the total proposed budget amounts, as well as information on various projects within the CIP. Lastly, the table of contents page will allow users to navigate within the CIP, which I’ll go over later. First, let’s look at explore the budget. As you can see, this page summarizes the fiscal year 26 budget at a high level. The recommended fiscal year 26 budget is a hundred and $61,000,000 and the total 10 year budget is at 1,300,000,000.0. Below that section are other key insights such as the total fiscal year 26 general fund transfers to CIP funds, which amount to approximately $3,000,000. The total fiscal year 26 internal service fees are approximately $3,900,000. And the total identified but unfunded capital needs portion is approximately 709,000,000. If the public would like to see further details on the projects that comprise these 3 amounts, they can click the links to the right side that say click here to learn more. Scrolling down, the user can choose either to view the CIP by fund or by category. I’ll start by clicking the fund link. Here, the public can see an overview of the city’s fund portfolio. If they click down into the table into the, carrots on the left, the public can view the total recommended budget amounts for specific funds. If the user, keeps scrolling down the page, they’ll see a description of each fund and every underlying text is a link to a new page that will show the various projects within each fund. For example, if I click on the fund 2 10 gas tax fund, I’ll be taken to a separate page dedicated to fund 2 10 projects. As you can see, I can click on each caret, and, it will show a short list of featured projects with each having their own project number and project page. If I scroll down, beneath the table, there’s also a short list of featured projects that have their own page. For example, if I click on the fiscal year 26 pavement rehabilitation project, I will see an image and description of the project along with an overview of revenue sources that contribute to this project, as well as the expense budget for this project. Now I’m gonna go back to the explore the budget, category page. And once again, the public, if I click on the total budget by category this time, the public will, again, will see a pie chart with the fiscal year 26 total budget, but this time broken down by category. Just like the fun page, the public will see a type table that populates a pie chart and allows the user to see the projects within their total budgets or organized by category. If the user continues down the page, they will also see the page’s, links for each category. For example, if I click on the livable neighborhoods link, I’ll see a description of what the category is and then another table and the projects and budgets that are in this category. Similar to viewing by fund, the bottom of this page will also show all of the featured projects within this category. In this case, parks and buildings, traffic calming, pedestrian and bicycle improvements, etcetera. Now, I’m going to go back to the Explore the Budget page 1 more time. And I would like to point out 2 helpful resources. First, starting with Appendices. If the public is looking for a specific project budget, but aren’t sure of how to find this budget, or excuse me, how to find this project, the user can click Appendix A for all project budgets by category. The Appendix A page will show an extended view of every project and its budget. The public can search for keywords using the control or command f function. For example, if I wanted to search for pavement, I can click control f, type in pavement, and then find all projects with the word pavement in the project title. On the other hand, if the user is looking for a specific project description and aren’t sure where to start, the best source would be Appendix B. So going back to the Explore page, I’m going to click Appendix B. On this page, the search functionality is actually built within the table. Again, if we wanted to search for pavement related projects, I can type in pavement into the project title search bar, click Okay, and this table will bring up all projects with the word pavement in the title. The easiest way to reset your search is to refresh your browser, like so. If you are ever lost or want to start over, the bottom of every page should have a table of contacts link. When the public opens the table of contents, the user will see an overview of the structure of the CIP to links to every single page in the CIP. This is the best way to navigate to a particular section or page quickly. The 3 main sections featured on the homepage are also here: the Introduction, Strategic Priorities, and Explore the Budget. The other 2 subsections of the CIP, by Fund or by Project Category, are also here. This allows the user to view project budgets and descriptions by fund or category, like we just went over. The last section, for other, shows the appendices as well as the CIP PDF link. The semi annual report for fiscal year 26 will be linked later this year as projects make progress. That concludes our tour of the online CIP book. I will now return to the presentation. 1 moment while I switch screens. Okay. And just 1 more check. You can see the PowerPoint presentation? Yes. We can see it. Great....
Hayward City Council Meeting April 15, 2025
I don’t know why I bring this. I never look at it. Oh, I guess I need it for the Recording in progress. Progress. Good evening, everybody. Good evening, everybody. Wanna welcome and good evening to you too. I wanted to welcome everyone, to a special joint, meeting of the city council and Hayward redevelopment successor agency board. Today is 04/15/2025. I like to call a meeting to order. And if I could ask, council member Bonilla to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Absolutely. Please stand if you’re able. Thank you. Madam city clerk, if you can please take the role. Yes. Thank you very much, mister mayor. Good evening. Council member Andrews? Present. Council member Bonilla junior? Present. Council member Goldstein? Present. Council member Roach? I understand she’s running a few minutes late. Council member Syrup. Present. Council member Sir Menon. Present. Mayor Salinas. Present. Thank you. Moving on to we have a special presentation, this evening. This is annual National Public Safety Telecommunications Week. And, I know we have the police chief here. Do we have anyone else from the dispatch dispatcher? Dispatch is here. Thank you. Let’s give our dispatcher a big round of applause, you know. Thank you. If I can have Councilmember Bonilla hold that up. And then, I’ll read the proclamation and then we’ll take a picture up here. And then, if you have a few a few words, you can always deliver those if you want. Okay. Proclamation. Whereas, emergencies that require police, fire, or emergency medical services can occur anytime. And whereas, when an emergency immediate response of police officers, firefighters, and paramedics is critical to the protection of life preservation life and preservation of property. And whereas the safety of our police officers and firefighters is dependent upon the quality and accuracy of information obtained from residents who telephone the 911 communication center. And whereas public safety telecommunicators are the first and most critical contacts our residents have with emergency services in times of distress. And whereas public safety telecommunicators provide information to and ensure the safety of our police officers and firefighters by monitoring their activities by radio. Whereas the members of the Hayward, where whereas the members of the Hayward 9 1 1 communication center have contributed substantially to the apprehension of criminals, suppression of fires, and treatment of patients. And whereas each dispatcher has exhibited compassion, understanding, and professionalism during the performance of their jobs. And whereas the, whereas the city of Hayward, OSE, you debt a gratitude to the dedicated men and women of the Hayward Police Department 9 1 1 communication center who dedicate their lives to answering calls from residents experiencing intense personal crises and during community wide disasters and who serve as the main points of contact for those persons seeking relief during an emergency. Now, therefore, I, Mark Salinas, mayor of the city of Hayward, do hereby proclaim the week of April 13 to the nineteenth 20 25 as National Public Safety Communications Week. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give our dispatchers a great big round of applause. This is where we, we we break Instagram right here. Yep. It’s gonna turn fire. There you go. You hold it. Okay. Oh, yeah. She’s coming. Yeah. There you go. Perfect. Perfect Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. If you wanted, you can say a few words. Mister mayor, council, thank you very much. This is an honor to be here. I just wanna recognize our emergency dispatch center. We have the best of the best. 247, our team is on duty here to help the citizens of Hayward when they have an emergency or a bridal, And I’m very proud of our team and, the amazing work that they do every single day, and you should all be proud too. So thank you very much for this honor. Thank you. Also, I wanted to, I wanted to acknowledge, a special student today. Her name is Giselle, Sanchez, who is an intern for the city clerk’s office, and she’s from the rising leaders program. Where’s where’s Giselle at? Is she here? Thank you very much, mister mayor. She’s actually on her way here. Oh, she’s Because she can’t find parking. So Oh, she’s parking. Okay. Good. That’s you. Alright. Well, she comes from the rising leaders program. And, when, when she comes into the room I’ll do this whole whole bit all over again to make sure she hears it. But she’s, you know, she’s a young student who’s, trying to, get her way into local government. And so, it’s always good to see students, starting young and, early. So good. Save your applause. We’ll applause her when she gets in. Okay. Let’s see. Next is public comment. Next is public comment, and this is reserved for people who would like to make a comment on something on the agenda or not on the agenda. I do have 1, 2, 3, 4. I have 6 comment cards, and let me see if there’s anybody online. Okay. I will start with lehi me start with online. Is it Ariana Castellanos? Hi. Is this the time to comment on the consent or anything on the agenda? If if it is something on the consent calendar, I will, ask for public comment on on the consent calendar when that comes. So if you wanna wait, you can wait. I’m hoping to comment on something on the work session agenda. Should I wait or Yes. To comment now? Yes. Why don’t you wait and then I’ll, I’ll I’ll call back and I’ll be Okay. No worries. Thanks. Just checking. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Okay. Next speaker is, Elizabeth Lisonbee. Welcome. Thank you. It’s interesting being on this side. Good evening, mayor and council members and city manager Alvarez. I’m Elizabeth Blanton. As most of you know, I’m a senior planner here in the development services department. I wanted to come to public comment tonight to tell you that I’ve been with the city for almost 7 years now, and I’ve really enjoyed my time working here. A major reason for that is that I’ve always felt that the city has valued me not only for the services that I provide for our community, but also as a whole person with a life and responsibilities outside of my job. Specifically, this was demonstrated when following the COVID pandemic, when it was time for our temporary work, flexibility to end. The city progressively decided to establish a permanent hybrid work policy with options for remote work. In the development services department, where I work, many of us were able to benefit from this hybrid work schedule, and this has led to better work life balance. It’s boosted our employee morale. And while still allowing us to fully cover our permit center, our general inquiry boxes, and our e permits portal, which is open 24 7. For me personally, I being able to work from home for part of the week has cut my commute time. I live in Richmond, so that’s 10 plus hours a week if I was coming in every day, down to 4 to 6 depending on the week. It’s also allowed me to use my lunch break to walk my dog or handle chores at home, things that would normally fall to a weekend activity. So then when I am here, I can be fully a weekend activity. So then when I am here, I can be fully rested, present, and able to serve our community. So as a as a result, I was disheartened to receive an email from the city manager yesterday directing all staff, to come back into the office full time. The decision was made without consulting staff. And from the email that was sent, it’s unclear why this significant policy change is necessary, and moreover, why a 1 size fits all approach is appropriate. Hayward’s decision to entirely eliminate remote work also goes beyond what many other Alameda County jurisdictions are doing and even what beyond what the state is requiring. So, doctor Alvarez, you’ve told us on numerous occasions that you are driven by data and that you welcome feedback and collaboration. Staff would be happy to provide you with data demonstrating our effectiveness in serving the community when working from home. We also would be happy to partner with you to identify areas where we could improve our service, and develop tailored strategies for doing so. But in order to do that, we need to be invited to the table. We all have a shared goal here to provide the Hayward community with the best service possible, and there’s no reason why this needs to be at odds with the city allowing for work life balance for its employees....
