WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.190 --> 00:00:23.270 On this week's episode: Burbank's City Council approves a contract for a new central library, an Oakland committee backs a shorter extension of a parking ticket contract, and San Francisco's Planning Commission approves a seven-story building on Shipley Street. 2 00:00:26.614 --> 00:00:32.974 Five minutes on this week's decisions from the local governments CivicFM covers in California. 3 00:00:33.734 --> 00:00:42.334 This episode is made with AI from each government's own show, which reports from the public recordings of its meetings. Sources are in the show notes. 4 00:00:45.677 --> 00:00:58.992 Our top story this week: a new central library for Burbank. On Tuesday, the Burbank City Council voted five to nothing to approve a design-build contract with Clark Construction for a new library and civic center. 5 00:00:58.992 --> 00:01:00.592 What does it cost? 6 00:01:00.592 --> 00:01:31.557 The contract is estimated at a hundred fifty-five million dollars, and the whole project at about a hundred eighty-five to a hundred ninety million. Construction would be paid for with a bond repaid from the city's infrastructure fund. The council also required Clark to negotiate a project labor agreement with the building trades before construction starts. The finance director put that added cost at roughly three point one to four point six million dollars. Staff report back on costs in January, and the target opening is spring 2029. 7 00:01:34.901 --> 00:01:39.381 Next, Oakland, and the contract behind its parking tickets. 8 00:01:39.381 --> 00:01:57.276 On Tuesday, Oakland's Finance and Management Committee took up the city's contract with Modaxo, which runs its parking citation system. The contract ran out in April, and the vendor has kept working since. Staff asked to extend it to March 2028, for up to about five point three million dollars. 9 00:01:57.276 --> 00:01:59.116 So what was the objection? 10 00:01:59.116 --> 00:02:24.181 Members objected to a thirty percent collection fee that staff said is added to tickets at day sixty-one. The committee voted three to nothing, with one member excused, to recommend extending the contract only to June 30, 2027, paying the outstanding invoices, and having staff come back as soon as possible with other vendor options, including privacy protections for license plate data. It's on the full City Council's consent calendar this Tuesday. 11 00:02:27.765 --> 00:02:45.620 Our third story: new homes in San Francisco. On Thursday, the San Francisco Planning Commission voted seven to nothing to approve a seven-story, thirteen-unit building on a vacant lot at 173 Shipley Street in SoMa, under the state density bonus program. 12 00:02:45.620 --> 00:02:47.780 Didn't neighbors want changes? 13 00:02:47.780 --> 00:03:20.245 Those who asked the commission to use its discretionary review power didn't seek to stop the project, but wanted conditions on foundation work in a liquefaction zone, fire access on narrow Shipley Street, glare, and neighbors' windows on the property line. Staff said the project is code compliant and that those structural and fire issues are reviewed by the Department of Building Inspection at the permit stage. Commissioner Mike Chen recalled that in 2018, after the commission tried to redesign a density bonus project, the state sent the city a warning letter. 14 00:03:23.588 --> 00:03:25.668 Now a quick trip around the state. 15 00:03:25.668 --> 00:03:41.713 The Pasadena City Council voted five to three on Tuesday to replace the artificial turf fields at Villa Parke and Robinson Park with new turf rather than grass, after twenty-six public speakers. Villa Parke's field is funded; Robinson Park's will need funding later. 16 00:03:41.713 --> 00:03:57.468 Also in Oakland on Tuesday, the Community and Economic Development Committee voted four to nothing to send the full City Council a plan allocating up to fifty million dollars in Measure U bond money to affordable housing programs, contingent on the bonds being sold. 17 00:03:57.468 --> 00:04:12.003 San Jose's City Council, meeting jointly with the Valley Water board on Tuesday, directed city staff to work with Valley Water on a risk-ranked list of flood hotspots ahead of a strong El Niño, ideally reporting back before the rainy season. 18 00:04:12.003 --> 00:04:23.588 And the Los Angeles City Council voted thirteen to nothing on Wednesday to move twenty million dollars within the Fire Department's budget to cover a projected shortfall in sworn overtime, sending it straight to the Mayor. 19 00:04:26.932 --> 00:04:30.412 That's the week around California. See you next time.