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Home My WebLink About01/06/2000 Minutes of a Regular Meeting January 6, 2000 Town of Los Altos Hills City Council Regular Meeting Thursday, January 6, 2000, 6:00 P.M. Council Chambers, 26379 Fremont Road 1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Mayor Dauber called the Regular Meeting of the City Council to order at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Town Hall. Present: Mayor Dauber and Councilmembers Casey, Finn, Johnson and • Siegel Absent: None Staff. City Manager Mark Miller, City Attorney Sandy Sloan, Planning Director Curtis Williams, Public Works Manager Jim Rasp and City Clerk Pat Dowd Press: Leslie Martin, Los Altos Town Crier 2. APPOINTMENTS AND PRESENTATIONS 3. PLANNING COMMISSION REPORT 4. CONSENT CALENDAR Item Removed:_ 4.10 (City Manager) MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by Casey, seconded by Johnson and passed unanimously to approve the Consent Calendar, specifically: 4.1 Approved Minutes: December 2, 1999 (Regular Meeting) 4.2 Approved Warrants: $751,180.72 (11/24/99— 12/31/99) January 6, 2000 Regular City Council Meeting 1 • 4.3 Accepted grant of conservation easement,Lands of Kumar, 11972 Rhus Ridge Road—Reso #1-00 4.4 Accepted grants of conservation and pathway easements, Lands of Green Earth Engineering, 27168 Moody Court—Resolutions#2-00 and 3-00 4.5 Accepted grant of conservation easement, Lands of Yeh, 24055 Jabil Lane— Reso #4-00 4.6 Adopted ordinance#406 amending the Zoning Code to allow an additional conditional use in the R-A Zone 4.7 Approved and authorized execution of agreement between the Town of Los Altos Hills and Curtis Williams and Associates—Reso#5-00 4.8 Approved the revised memorandum of agreement for the Santa Clara Valley Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention Program, and resolution to reapply for reissuance of the Los Altos Hills Municipal Storm Water NPDES Permit—Reso#6-00 4.9 Authorized contracts with Wilsey Ham for Capital Improvement Project Designs (Purissima Road Pathway Improvements, Elena Road Culvert Crossing and Elena Road Pavement and Storm Drainage Improvements) • 4.11 Approved final map, subdivision improvement agreement and conservation easement, Lands of Denny, 25400 La Loma Drive—Resolutions#7-00 and 8-00 Item Removed: 4.10 Amendment of maximum contribution to coverage employer health premiums— g Reso # The City Manager asked that this item be continued so that staff could provide additional information on the issue. PASSED BY CONSENSUS: To continue Item 4.10 to a later meeting. 5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 5.1 Approving and authorizing execution of a sanitary sewer reimbursement agreement between Nino Cefalu and the Town of Los Altos Hills—Reso # The City Manager reported that there was a correction to the documents before Council. The owners of 11198 Magdalena informed the Town that they were already connected to sewer and therefore should not be on the list of future users. Mr. Cefalu had been advised of this • development. I January 6, 2000 Regular City Council Meeting 2 • MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by Dauber, seconded by Casey and passed unanimously to adopt Resolution#9-00 approving and authorizing execution of a sanitary sewer reimbursement agreement between the Town of Los Altos Hills and Nino Cefalu, with the correction to Exhibit C deleting the owner at 11198 Magdalena and leaving the decision to Mr. Cefalu as to whether or not to recalculate the numbers. 5.2 Update on Goals and Objectives MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by Johnson, seconded by Finn and passed unanimously to accept the City Manager's second quarter status on goals and objectives dated January 6th. 6. NEW BUSINESS 6.1 Request for recommended nomination of a councilmember to serve on the Solid Waste Commission of Santa Clara County Dauber reported that appointments were also going to be made to the following: ABAG Executive Committee, Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the Local Agency Formation Commission. The Council did not have any recommendations for nominations to these agencies. • 7. REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES, SUB-COMMITTEES,AND COUNCILMEMBERS ON OUTSIDE AGENCIES 7.1 Emergency Operations Meeting Johnson reported that he had attended an Emergency Operations Meeting on behalf of the Mayor who had a conflicting library-related meeting. Johnson reported that it was basically an organizational meeting but one interesting note was that the cost to the County for Y2K related issues was $32 million. 7.2 Webpage Johnson reported that a meeting of the subcommittee on the webpage was scheduled for Tuesday, January l It at 10:00 a.m. at Town Hall. 8. STAFF REPORTS 8.1 City Manager 8.1.1 Y2K • The City Manager reported that there were no Y2K problems. January 6, 2000 Regular City Council Meeting 3 8.1.2 E-mail The City Manager reported that there had been a problem the last few days with the Town's email and a new email provider would soon be in place. 8.2 City Attorney 8.2.1 Report on email guidelines PASSED BY CONSENSUS: To accept the City Attorney's report on email guidelines dated 12/17/99. 8.2.2 Los Altos Garbage Company The City Attorney stated that she had spoken with Bill Jones, General Manager of the Los Altos Garbage Company, about the amendment to the contract concerning additional driveway distance charges. He had requested that this be brought back in conjunction with the annual CPI rate request. Council agreed that these issues related to the Los Altos Garbage Company agreement would be brought back at one time for Council discussion. • 8.3 City Clerk 8.3.1 Report on Council Correspondence Casey asked that the letter from Westwind requesting designation of Westwind as open space and agricultural use be agendized for discussion at the next Council Meeting. Finn asked that the recommendation from the Finance Committee on investments be agendized for the next Council Meeting. Dauber reported that the letter from Mr. Reiser had been taken care of by staff. 9. COUNCIL-INITIATED ITEMS 10. PRESENTATIONS FROM THE FLOOR 11. PUBLIC HEARINGS 12. CLOSED SESSION: PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: Government Code Section 54957—City Manager The City Council adjourned to a Closed Session regarding personnel at 6:20 p.m. and reconvened at 7:30 p.m. Council returned to open session to report, if necessary, any actions taken. January 6, 2000 Regular City Council Meeting 4 13. ADJOURNMENT There being no further new or old business to discuss,the City Council Meeting was adjourned at 7:30 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Patricia Dowd City Clerk The minutes of the January 6, 2000 City Council Meeting were approved at the January 20, 2000 City Council Meeting. • • January 6, 2000 Regular City Council Meeting 5