HomeMy WebLinkAboutFinal Minutes June 23MINUTES OF PATHWAY MEETING on June 23rd, 2003
Attendees:
- Dubose Montgomery (DM)
- Dick Cassam (DC)
- Mike Kamangar (MK)
- Charlene Geers (CG)
- Ginger Summit (GS)
- Bob Stutz (BS)
- Chris Vargas (CV)
Absent:
- Nancy Ewald (NE)
- Fred Fallah (FF)
- Jorge Fernandez (JF)
Meeting called to order at 6:00pm
Review of Minutes of May 19th meeting. Approved unanimously.
New Business:
- 13800 Templeton Place. Motion (CV, BS) to restore 2B path along Templeton
and create a retaining wall by installing interlocking, colored concrete blocks no
more than 3 feet high. Total cost to the owner is not to exceed the equivalent
impact fee. If it does, the remaining funds to come from the Pathways Capital
Improvements budget. To be built to the satisfaction of city engineering. Motion
unanimously approved.
- 11885 & 11888 Francemont Drive. Review of the Kerns proposal to provide two
alternate access paths into the Conservation area. CV requested clarification
that Rhus Ridge lookout easement offered continues at least as far out to the
point before the steep drop-off; Bill Kerns confirmed it does. Additional
discussions ensued. (GS, DC) Motion to table the discussion until next month
due to lack of information and need to walk the paths. Motion unanimously
approved.
- Team agreed to visit the Kerns property Sunday July 6th @ 9am at the bottom of
the driveway. There are four possible access paths being considered: 1) Near
the mailbox and up parallel to the Stark household; 2) create switchbacks behind
the mailbox area up in the Kerns property and connecting higher up to the
Conservation easement area; 3) create an entry path that begins further up the
driveway, past the first bend at the end of the asphalt and enters the
Conservation area; 4) at the top of the driveway, below the house, going parallel
to the front of the house. CV, DC, MK, GS, NE, Les Earnest available to visit
onsite.
- Dot Schreiner briefed the committee on the current status of the Pathway Map
Committee. Requested that at least one Pathway Committee member be
present at each Planning Commission and Council meeting, to ensure
appropriate pathway dedications are requested and in place. Council Meetings
are 1st and 3rd Thursday; Planning Commission is 2nd Thursday.
- Group discussion on process of July elections. Dubose explained the process
for submitting nominations & voting. Discussion ensued. Action to see how we
can conduct the meeting by teleconference call. Dubose to take care of logistics
of setting up the conference call.
- Discussion on Capital project budget prioritization. Reviewed the cost of
Westwind barn capital project estimate. Committee expressed concerned at how
estimate spiraled upwards from $15K (initial) to $61.5K (current). DC took an
action to contact Budget Committee and confirm if we can use remaining funds
from this year’s OPEX budget to fund the project. Agreed on the following
ranking of our top priorities:
1. Westwind
2. Burke & Old Altos
3. Miranda
4. Manuella
- Continued discussions on prioritization of capital spending. Agreed on the
following next order of priority:
5. Black Mountain to Elena connector. Secure the final segment of the Black
Mountain – Elena offroad path. Agreed on action for Ginger to contact Mike
Scott and ask if he would consider donating a 5ft wide easement alongside
27844 Black Mountain so the path could be completed. Ginger to write a letter
requesting this asking if he would sign in agreement and send back to Ginger;
provide this to Mintze Cheng.
6. Wildflower to Newbridge connector. Agreement to have Chris contact Twinky
Lyman and ask if she can give access to their driveway to create an access path
to the back side of her house, and complete the connector. Also verify location
of the easement and see if she knows where it is. Agreed this is the 6th priority.
7. Summerhill.
8. Moody road, stretch from Elena to Duvenecks property
9. Agreement to reduce priority of Hilltop to Medium.
10. Agreement to reduce priority of Page Mill & Moon Lane to Low.
PRESENTATIONS FROM THE FLOOR: Dot Schreiner (noted above).
ADJOURNMENT AT 8:45PM.
Chris Vargas
Acting Secretary