The City Council is busy this week with an agenda that includes adopting an 8% tax on cannabis, extending the City Manager's contract by two years, a $500,000 partnership for a trial of autonomous shuttles, and reconsidering a $2.8 million nonprofit resilience fund agreement.
City Council will consider approving $7.1 million for new fire and service trucks, approving a $6.525 million CalTrans-funded sidewalk project in La Sierra, and designating the home of Miné Okubo an official City Landmark.
City Council does not meet this week. Instead, other boards and commissions will provide input on proposed spending and project plans.
Agendas are light and several meetings are cancelled this week due to the Fourth of July holiday. Council will consider updating pension contracts for Police leadership retirement cost sharing, and the Transportation Board will consider eliminating two permit-required street parking zones.
City Council is set to approve the City's next two-year budget, which, if approved, will take effect next Monday, July 1, 2024.
City Council will consider approving $8.6 million in federal HUD funding for housing and homelessness projects, $6.3 million for a quiet zone project at the Cridge St. railroad crossing, and $775,000 to kick off a five-year project for the beautification of Victoria Ave.
City Hall agendas this week include new student housing and the retail project behind the Mail Library Downtown, a workshop of State-licensed sober living homes in residential neighborhoods, and options for offering smaller residential trash bins at lower monthly rates.
City Council does not meet this week. The Transportation Board will discuss plans for a potential valet parking service downtown.
This week, the City Council will discuss a preview of the City's 2024-2026 budget, an increase in illegal fireworks penalties from $1,000 to $1,500, and the potential return of pedal boats to Fairmount Lake.
A visit to Hunter Hobby Park and an extended discussion on the City's move to "reinitiate, without delay, the complete construction and operation of their portion of the Riverside Transmission Reliability Project" are part of City Council's agenda for the week.
The new Council sits for its first full meeting, which includes reallocating $7 million during a budget update and considering a 22-unit affordable housing complex at Five Points.
City Council will receive an update on the trash department's financial status now that new utility rates are in effect and will consider the sale of Downtown Parking Garages 1 & 2.
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