Recommendation to adopt resolution establishing the “Gann Appropriations Limit” (Limit) for FY 16 pursuant to Article XIII (B) of the California Constitution.  (A-9)
Item 1.9. And finally for this evening, recommendation to adopt resolution establishing the GAD appropriations limit for fiscal year 16 pursuant to Article 13 B of the California Constitution. There's been a motion and a second. Is there any public comment? Seeing none. Please cast your votes. Richardson. Councilmember Richardson. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Mr.. To the jury, do we need a motion to move the other items forward to the next meeting? Or we can just leave the hearing as is. I think he limousine and bring him back as the next budget hearing at the next week. Okay. So we'll resume at the budget hearing for next week for the other items. Councilwoman Mango. Mr. GROSS, would it be better to discuss the parking fee next week? I know that it's technically general fund. I know that it's confusing, though, when people know that partially is being passed, but not the whole fee structure. Do you mean the the local neighborhood parking fee? Yes, sir. I think I think tonight would be okay. I'll defer to Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Is that okay? Yes. Could we hear that staff report now? Mayor. Members of the council. I believe you've already adopted the master. The math just continues. We only adopted the component that's relative to the special funds, not the general fund. I believe you adopted the entire resolution, the master fee and charges schedule for specified city services and citywide fees and charges. Then I may have misunderstood because I thought we started with we're only approving things tonight that are not general fund because Councilmember Urunga is not here. No, I think the question was if you wanted to change either the mayor's proposed recommendation, the Budget Oversight Committee recommendations, obviously the council could take action on the entire budget if they wish. But I think they decided to have a breaking point at item nine so that you could adjust your budget items later. But the master fee resolution could be discussed. Still, you could do a motion to reconsider, vote on it, open it up again and have another motion. And and excuse me. So Councilman Mongo is still going to want to have a staff report so that that would. Put the community can know the outcome. Yeah. And if there is public comment, would we be able to take that again? Absolutely. Okay. So city staff. Yeah. There's no there's no motion to reconsider. This is just a staff report on the item first. To Mr. Chair. Councilwoman Mongo at the last. Time that the master fee and charges schedule had come up. We had received a request from Councilwoman Mango to explore changing the preferential residential parking program. And right now what it is, is it's 30, $33 per permit. And the question was whether or not it made sense for it to be $33 or some amount for the first permit in some amount lower for the second, third or fourth permit for each vehicle. The staff did look into that request. We did find that while it was a slight savings to process the second, third or fourth permit per residence, overall, the program was not covering its full cost. And so it would just great it would increase the subsidy to the general fund to change the fee. In addition, when we looked at the other benchmark cities that we we had looked at, not a single one had actually had a reduced fee for each subsequent permit. In fact, one city had a more regressive or a it cost more for the second, third or fourth permit, in fact, to decent disincentivize residential parking permits. So for those reasons, we did not recommend changing the fee structure at this time. Thank you. I appreciate you having met with me and my office to discuss the report and the detailed study you went into. I think it's important for residents to know that the current parking neighborhood parking permit program is subsidized. And with that, I'm still comfortable with my vote. Thank you. Okay. The rest of the budget hearing is has concluded. And we'll go to we'll go to those items at the next next meeting. So I want to go ahead and now go back to the regular agenda. We did the first hearing. We're going to go now, I believe, to. Is it? Is it 2021? Is it? Okay, Madam Clerk.