Update & approving poll for a potential sales tax extension & increase on Nov. 2018 ballot
The Board will receive a report relating to possible extension and increase of the retail transactions (sales) and use tax for Santa Clara County. The Board will approve the Second Amendment to Agreement with EMC Research, Inc., relating to public opinion research and user survey services increasing the maximum contract amount by $220,000 from $300,000 to $520,000, and extending the agreement for a six-month period through June 30, 2019, that has been reviewed and approved by County Counsel as to form and legality.
Where: Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
When: 4/3/2018, 9:30 AM, Board of Supervisors’ Chambers, County Government Center, 70 West Hedding Street, 1st floor, San Jose, CA 95110
Link to item: http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=SplitView&MeetingID=9946&MediaPosition=&ID=90133&CssClass=
Link to agenda: http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=9946
City of San Jose
NEW MEMOS from Council Members Khamis, Rocha & Supplemental: Approve Liccardo recommendations for Private Development Workforce Standards and Community Workforce Agreements
Memo by Council Member Khamis rejects a number of the points laid out in Liccardo’s memo.
Memo by Council Member Rocha requests that polling for a potential capital projects GO bond include a poll option with an additional $92M for deferred maintenance of the worst condition roads.
Supplemental staff memo reports on inability to negotiate a PLA under City Council’s Oct. 2017 direction, and responds to a number of questions from Council Member Khamis regarding average number of bidders & amounts of winning bid over the last several years.
Original item: Council will consider approving Mayor Liccardo’s recommendations on Private Development Workforce Standards, Capitol Bond Measure, Best Value Contracting, and Community Workforce Agreements.
The recommendations would direct the City Attorney and the City Manager to take the following actions:
- Private Development Workforce Standards: Direct the City Manager and City Attorney to draft an ordinance requiring specific workforce standards for construction employment on private development projects, in those circumstances where the City is subsidizing the project. Those workforce standards will include provisions mandating prevailing wage, as well as goals and process requirements for apprentice ratios, the hiring of local workers, and targeted hiring from underrepresented subpopulations City action may trigger such requirements where it commits a subsidy of land or money, or in narrow circumstances, where it grants a fee or tax reduction for reasons other than those fee reductions necessary to make a subcategory of projects financially viable. Investments by the City for such purposes as affordable, rent-restricted housing, or for nearby, public-serving infrastructure (e.g., traffic signals or off-ramps) will not trigger such requirements.
- Capital Bond Measure: Direct the City Manager to identify a set of the highest-priority capital projects that the Council should consider placing before the voters as a bond measure during the November, 2018 election. Until better informed by polling and project evaluation, the bond measure should target an aggregate project valuation of $300 million. The City Manager shall further include such a measure in City-funded polling conducted this Spring, and return to Council in late May with a preliminary proposed list of such projects for discussion and public review.
- Best-Value Contracting: Direct the City Manager and City Attorney to review Charter provisions that mandate “lowest-cost bidder,” and evaluate what language would best supplant that mandate to enable the City to have better flexibility to avoid hiring poor-performing contractors on city capital projects, similar to other California cities. The City Manager shall further include in City-funded polling this Spring, the testing of a measure required to extract “lowest-cost bidder” requirements from the City Charter.
- Community Workforce Agreements: Direct the City Manager and City Attorney to negotiate with all affected labor unions a Community Workforce Agreement to apply to City-funded capital contracts greater than $3 million—increasing annually with CPI—but excluding all City Capital Maintenance Projects, which typically involve maintenance work, such as street repaving.
Where: San Jose City Council
When: Tuesday April 2, 2018 1:30 PM, San Jose City Hall 200 E. Santa Clara
Link to item: https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3427970&GUID=7F09158C-0099-44B1-BB4C-D2DFD52AAB33&Options=&Search=
Memo: https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6027786&GUID=3B907277-D1A3-4360-8E2D-6E284E8CD33E
Memo from CM Khamis: https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6166706&GUID=9A0253B7-67A1-4920-A22C-44103D0038BD
Memo from CM Rocha: https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6166709&GUID=16E3C810-DD9A-4A57-963C-145A22EC9354
Supplemental Memo: https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6165796&GUID=65741136-0F4A-4473-A0EA-36F2A43A9C1E
Letters from the public: https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6166690&GUID=605E3596-87E2-4D5B-B44A-8B1094A8D573
Link to agenda: https://sanjose.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=594706&GUID=FC9E3422-4A2E-4125-AFDD-8BAD77DF9202&Options=info&Search=
NEW MEMO from Staff: Update on SCC RFP for ambulance services & potential impact on current Emergency Medical Services agreement
Council will consider accepting the status update on Santa Clara County’s RFP for Emergency Ambulance Services and its potential impacts to the 911 Emergency Medical Services Provider Agreement between the City of San Jose and the County. The report will provide the City Council with a status update on the County’s RFP for ambulance services and how the RFP process and ultimate contract could affect San Jose residents. This is one step in a process, in which the City’s ultimate goal is to protect the health and safety of San Jose and County residents.
Santa Clara County’s EMS program includes advanced life support (ALS) services provided by municipal fire departments and fire districts. The County has established nine 911 Emergency Medical Services Provider Agreements with local fire agencies including Gilroy, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, San José, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, South Santa Clara County, and Sunnyvale. Under these agreements, fire agencies respond to emergencies and provide ALS to the injured or ill 911 patients, however the fire agencies do not provide ambulance transportation of patients to the hospital emergency rooms. In Santa Clara County, that service is provided by the authorized emergency ambulance provider. The current emergency ambulance services provider is Rural/Metro (owned by American Medical Response, an Envision Healthcare company).
Santa Clara County’s EMS program model integrates public agency first responder services and private (for profit) emergency ambulance services. In this integration model, first responder agencies are required to meet minimum response times of 7:59 (7 minutes and 59seconds) in urban areas and the ambulance provider must meet minimum response times of 11:59. If the first responder agencies providers or ambulance provider do not meet the required response times, they are penalized for non-compliance and monetary damages are deposited to the County EMS Trust Fund. For 2017-2018, San José has been allocated approximately $1.26 million in Category A funds and $1.84 million in Category B funds for a total of nearly $3.1 million in available funding prior to liquidated damages.
The current RFP for Emergency Ambulance Services by Santa Clara County includes a number of omissions and unknowns for the nine first responder agencies (including San José) that are authorized currently to provide ALS in the County. Since this issue was last before the City Council, staff has been working, in line with Council’s prior direction, towards a goal of making the EMS system in Santa Clara County more balanced between the public sector first responder agencies and the private sector ambulance transport contractor. The County’s RFP is a critical opportunity to reverse the current inequities in funding, under which public first responder agencies (and the taxpayers who pay for their service) are subsidizing the work of a for-profit, private sector ambulance provider.
Where: San Jose City Council
When: Tuesday April 3, 2018 1:30 PM, City Hall 200 E Santa Clara St
Link to item: https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3380327&GUID=E978CB11-5333-411D-A355-1C5BD3386DD0&Options=&Search=
Memo: https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6156257&GUID=96D4A6E1-B297-4458-A239-9CBF1007FCDB
Link to agenda: https://sanjose.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=594706&GUID=FC9E3422-4A2E-4125-AFDD-8BAD77DF9202&Options=info&Search=
Creating a new Affordable Housing (AH) Combining District to allow affordable housing on commercial sites near transit
This report transmits a proposed ordinance intended to encourage affordable housing production by adding a new chapter to Chapter 18.30 (Combining Districts) of Title 18 (Zoning) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC). The ordinance would create a new combining district (also referred to as an “overlay zone”) that would provide flexible development standards for 100% affordable housing projects located on commercially-zoned sites within ½ mile of major transit stops and ¼ mile of high-quality transit corridors.
The new Affordable Housing (AH) Combining District would not apply to any specific sites unless a separate legislative action is taken.
This overlay concept was developed following an August 28, 2017 prescreening discussion by the City Council about a site owned by Palo Alto Housing at the corner of El Camino Real and Wilton Avenue. Based on the Council’s discussion that evening, staff developed the proposed combining district ordinance (Option 1), which would allow any property owner (including Palo Alto Housing) to apply for a site-specific zoning map amendment if they wish to make use of the new combining district to build a 100% affordable housing project. A zoning map amendment is a legislative process subject to additional public input, Planning & Transportation Commission (PTC) review, and Council’s approval.
The PTC considered the AH combining district ordinance at their meetings of February 14 and March 14, 2018. An ad hoc committee was formed and met several times between the two hearings; their recommendations were ultimately supported by a majority of the commission. That recommendation (Option 2) would direct staff to develop a Planned Community (PC) zoning ordinance in conjunction with a development agreement to advance an affordable housing project on the El Camino Real and Wilton Avenue site and directs staff to continue work on the combining district and other policy initiatives.
Where: Palo Alto City Council
When: April 9, 2018, 7:15pm
Link to item: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/64347
Link to agenda: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/64339
West Valley-Mission College Community District
Approval of $698M general facilities bond ballot measure for November elections
The Board will consider action to set the bond amount and election date for a Proposition 39 Facilities Bond for the November 2018 General Election ballot
The Board has previously received presentations describing potential bond projects and project cost estimates. Those presentations were the culmination of a comprehensive evaluation of existing planning documents, instructional and student service facilities requirements, and project cost estimating and served as the basis for determining the size of a future facilities bond. The total cost of $698 million for all identified projects is recommended as the amount of a 2018 Facilities Bond ballot measure.
The bond projects will be incorporated into the ballot language and necessary Board resolution to place the item on the November 2018 ballot.
Where: West Valley-Mission College Community District
When: April 3, 2018/ 7:00 p.m. /Mission College TAV130
Link to agenda packet: https://www.wvm.edu/trustees/Public%20Documents/180403A.pdf
Santa Clara County Office of Education
Approval of Discovery II Charter Petition Renewal
Staff reviewed the renewal petition for Discovery II Charter School and recommend approving the Renewal Petition subject to the conditions agreed to in the MOU. The renewal period is July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2023.
The charter for Discovery II expires on June 30, 2018. Discovery II delivered a renewal petition on Jan. 2, 2018, but withdrew it on January 11, 2018, to revise its petition to be clearly in compliance with the new sections of the 47605 which came into effect on January 1, 2018. Discovery II resubmitted its renewal Petition on February 14, 2018.
Discovery II is seeking approval for a school serving students in grades TK-8 for a renewal charter term of five years beginning in July 2018. Discovery II currently serves 556 students and is located in San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD). Discovery II was initially approved on March 6, 2013, and opened in August of 2013.
On March 7, 2018, the Santa Clara County Board of Education (SCCBOE) held a public hearing on the Discovery II Charter Renewal Petition.
As per Board Policy 0420.4, Discovery II and SCCOE developed a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) which addresses SCCOE’s Standards of Excellence and best practices regarding the respective fiscal, operational, and administrative responsibilities, and legal relationships. AThis MOU was signed by the petitioner on March 22, 2018.
It is the recommendation of the Charter Staff to approve the Renewal Petition subject to the conditions agreed to in the MOU and specified in the Staff Analysis and Proposed Findings of Fact,
Where: Santa Clara County Office of Education
When: April 4, 2018/ 5:00 p.m. /Santa Clara County Office of Education
Link to agenda: https://www.boarddocs.com/ca/sccoe/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=AVWRDW6C17B1
Link to item: http://www.boarddocs.com/ca/sccoe/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=AUA8CP00CBA9
Public Hearing on the Eureka! Inclusive Charter School Petition appeal
On March 7, 2018, the Charter Schools Office of the Santa Clara County Office of Education received an appeal Petition for the Eureka! Inclusive Charter School, a TK-8th grade charter school which is proposed to serve 160 students in year 1 and grow to 239 students by year 4 and will be located in San Jose Unified School District. Eureka! Inclusive was denied by San Jose Unified School District on February 7, 2018. It submitted its petition to the SCCOE and plans to open its doors during the fall of 2018. This item will be placed on the May 2, 2018, board agenda for decision on the petition.
Where: Santa Clara County Office of Education
When: April 4, 2018/ 5:00 p.m. /Santa Clara County Office of Education
Link to agenda: https://www.boarddocs.com/ca/sccoe/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=AVWRDW6C17B1
Link to item: http://www.boarddocs.com/ca/sccoe/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=AWQ37E0051B4
Spark Charter School will present before the Advisory Commission on renewal denial
The Charter Schools Update provides information to the Board related to the charter schools authorized by the Santa Clara Board of Education (SCCBOE) and items related to the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s (SCCOE) role in oversight and monitoring. The County Board of Education has twenty-three (23) authorized charter schools which serve approximately 10,000 students.
Spark Charter School has appealed its renewal denial to the State Board of Education. They will present before the Advisory Commission on Charter Schools on April 10, 2018.
Where: Santa Clara County Office of Education
When: April 4, 2018/ 5:00 p.m. /Santa Clara County Office of Education
Link to agenda: https://www.boarddocs.com/ca/sccoe/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=AVWRDW6C17B1
Link to item: http://www.boarddocs.com/ca/sccoe/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=AW92V97849EF
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