The Novato City Council convened on December 10, 2024, at 6:00 PM for a regular meeting that included the administration of the oath of office to newly elected and re-elected councilmembers, the reorganization of the council to select a new Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore, and the approval of a consent calendar. The meeting also featured public comments criticizing a recent camping ban ordinance passed with 24-hour notice, and farewell remarks to outgoing Councilmember Susan Wernick.
Good evening, everyone. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Navado City Council meeting of December 10th, 2024. I like to ask if you can all rise to uh do the Pledge of Allegiance with me. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. There was no uh I'm sorry, if we could please do the roll call. Councilmember Eklunds, present, Councilmember Farack, present, Councilmember Warnick, present. Council Mayor Pro Tem O'Connor. And Mayor Milberg. Present, thank you so much. So now just to announce that there was no closed session this evening, and we do not have any ceremonial matters, presentations other than what we will do later. So the first uh agenda topic will be approval of the final agenda. Can I ask for a motion and a second to approve the final agenda, please? I'll move. A second. Motion and a second. Could you please call the vote? Councilmember Eklund. Aye. Councilmember Farack. Aye. Councilmember Warnick. Aye. Mayor Pro Tem O'Connor and Mayor Melbourne. Aye, that passes five to zero. Thank you. So now we're gonna move to the council reports from the city council and city manager. I'd like to start with our city manager, Amy Cunningham. Good evening, Amy. Good evening, Mayor, members of the council. I have no comments tonight. Thank you. Thank you. So uh move to the city council reports. Uh start with Councilmember Eklund, please. Uh thank you very much. Uh, first of all, um want to wish everybody a happy holidays. And uh in that light, I did attend the Margaret Todd Senior Craft Fair, which was outstanding. And I really want to thank all the artists uh who made their goods and and uh sold a lot, which was kind of fun. And also I want to thank uh also the tree lighting committee. Uh tree lighting was a fantastic event and really appreciate that as well. Um for work side, um the we did have a North Bay watershed meeting, and um I also we also had the first uh countywide sea level rise governance meeting. And um I was uh a little concerned about the this new group, and I've had some discussions with Stephanie Moulton Peters um uh about why we just don't continue Bay Wave, which is gonna be something that we're gonna hopefully be looking at because they were talking about the structure of the group rather than talking about the issue, really. What is the issue that we need to solve? Santa Fel's already started their sea level rise. Um we haven't uh had ours, but we don't know if we're gonna do it by a city or by a county, so we have to have some of that discussion. And also um Ren County Mayors and Council members uh every month, um most months anyway, the mayors and council members in the county get together, and we did um in um in late November. The issue I wanted to spend a few minutes on is the I serve on the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, which is a statewide commission, and uh we adopted the regional shoreline adaptation plan, which sets out the requirements for all cities in the county on how we are to address sea level rise on our shoreline and our um streams or rivers.