The council voted to approve the Measure D Five-Year Pavement Preservation Program for the budget year from July 2024 to June 2025, and let staff prepare construction plans, specifications and estimates and ask for bids for the budget year 2024-25 Pavement Preservation Projects.
Yes
Howard, Ross, Zorn, Malhi
Absent
McKillop
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Why Measure D money, approved by voters in 2016 to fund road projects, requires the city to prioritize and list streets for paving each year.
The council voted to hear public comment, skip the full reading, and take the first of two votes on changes to Chapter 5.29, the city's cannabis rules, that would: change site security rules; require diversity, equity and inclusion steps in applications; ban cannabis billboard ads citywide; ban temporary cannabis events; require on-site health information postings; ban on-site cannabis use; change distances from sensitive places; require delivery businesses here to hold a Commercial Cannabis Operating Permit; and stop deliveries to parks, playgrounds, daycare centers, homes on school campuses, trucking or transport workplaces, and transit centers.
The council voted to let the City of Martinez take part in the Institute for Local Government's Beacon Program.
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Why The program helps the city share best practices for saving energy, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and building more resilient, sustainable communities.
The council voted to put off deciding on the Universal Design and Accessibility Regulations, without discussing them, to the City Council meeting on March 6, 2024.
The council voted to put off deciding on the Waterfront Marina Trust Land Use Plan, without discussing it, to the City Council meeting on March 6, 2024.
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Why The State Lands Commission requires the city to submit the plan for its land, after the city was granted the Martinez Marina and its landside parcels in September 2014.
The council voted to find that the budget year 2023-24 (July 2023 to June 2024) Surface Seal Project No. C1076-1 and the same budget year's Pavement Rehabilitation Project No. C1076-2 need no further environmental review under category (c) of the state's environmental rules, and let the City Engineer file that finding (a Notice of Exemption) with the County Clerk of Contra Costa County.
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Why These projects qualify for lighter environmental review because they only repair and maintain existing streets with minor changes.
The council was asked to hear a report, discuss it, and tell staff what to do about possible changes to the city's rules for lunch wagons.
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Why The city enforced its 1997 food truck rules against Five Suns Brewing's food truck downtown, then reversed that decision after public pushback, and the council asked staff to look at changing the rules.
The agenda does not say what changes to the lunch wagon rules the council might make.