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Welcome to the Planning Commission meeting of May 11th 2026.

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Peter Tiernan's not here tonight, by the way.

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Commissioner Griggy.

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Commissioner Roche.

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Commissioner Stuckenbroker.

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Commissioner Griggy.

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Abel.

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Commissioner Roche.

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Stockenbroker.

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Harov.

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Commissioner Griggy.

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Commissioner Havel.

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Commissioner Roche.

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Mr.

Stuckenbroker.

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Commissioner Haroff.

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And Commissioner Droop is an aye.

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Alright, we're just gonna get right into the general business.

Uh, it's gonna be the uh consistency report, the general plan, capital improvements.

Well, thank you.

Good evening, everybody.

Um that was probably the speediest kickoff to a meeting I've ever witnessed, so thank you for that.

Uh my name is Chris Benini, I'm the public works director for the city of Nevado, and tonight we are here to talk about the uh capital improvements program and uh review it for general plan consistency.

And so what we have tonight is a list of projects that public works plans on doing for the next fiscal year.

And uh it's set up.

Is a requirement that we do in the city.

Public works brings a list forward every year uh to the planning council and commission, sorry, that uh you guys review for consistency with general plan.

It's driven by government code sections 65401, 65402.

You can see the two paragraphs uh really set out.

Public works brings the plan to you, and you review it for general plan consistency, and then uh it is then taken to city council.

Uh and so the ask tonight is to adopt a resolution uh reporting to city council that the proposed capital improvement program projects for the next fiscal year are consistent with the general plan.

Um, so broad strokes overview.

Wanted to go over what we do.

What is public works?

What do we bring it forward?

Uh a capital improvement program is uh five-year outlay of projects and broad brushstrokes.

It's it's our roadmap for what we're prioritizing in the future.

We look at a lot of different things, could be anything from resources to staffing to needs across the community.

You know, it's uh data driven.

Uh what we're trying to shift our focus to is a lot of you know, criticality, consequence of failure analysis, really looking uh hard across all of our different asset types to measure you know what we should be working on first.

Um, and so this year one of our major themes was we had a recent tax measure, measure M, and it was really uh savior in a lot of different ways for the city, but we got a lot of capital influx of funds that we are actually able to bring more projects forward and get the support we need to actually move infrastructure projects uh forward.

So, seeing that this is the only item tonight, I did want to take one liberty to talk about a few projects we're working on currently.

This doesn't have to do with what we're approving tonight, but these are projects that planning uh commission approved in prior years.

So it's almost like a little update.

You you saw them in their planning phases, and so just the next five slides.

Just wanted to roll through very quickly and give you guys some you know broad brushstrokes overviews.

Um this is probably the largest project uh that the city has seen, but the Nevado Boulevard improvements from Diablo to Grant.

We're ramping up for construction this summer.

Uh the private utility companies are wrapping up their work in the next month or two.

Uh but now Nevado Sanitary District, the North Marine Water District, and Novato are all collaborating to spend the next 24 months continuing to make Novato Boulevard a mess.

But this will be the final phase, and what we're focusing on is the finish line where we'll have a new three-lane wide road with bike lanes and sidewalks, which is a major major improvement for the community at that location.

It's a major win for traffic safety.

Also, we're making movement on the Hamilton Amphitheater Playground.

Just the picture on the left kind of gives you a little bit of the magic behind the scenes.

This is what playground design looks like.

Every structure we put in a playground, there's a fall zone.

So we don't want kids on swings intersecting with kids on slides, and vice versa.

So it's a small project on the playground, but there's also gonna be restroom ADA improvements, uh, parking lot, ADA improvements, and a lot of really a lot of concrete work around the site to reduce trip and fall hazards.

Another roadway winding project is the Olive Avenue phase three, which is uh, if you look at that diagram at a striping plan.

Uh, this is to the southeast of where Trader Joe's is, uh, where the railroad crossing is on Olive Avenue.

Just to kind of let you know, okay, what are we doing?

What are these engineers drawing up?

It's stuff like this.

This is one of the final phases of the construction we'll be putting striping down, and what you're seeing is a modified uh format of how traffic will be flowing and how there actually will now be a sidewalk on the north side of the road.

So uh it's gonna be great for folks who like to walk to uh Trader Joe's.

Right now, there is no railroad crossing for pedestrians or bikes.

Uh folks just have to go for it.

So this is a major, another major safety one for the city.

Uh lastly, it's the Novato Police Department HVAC project.

Uh our HVAC on our police department is largely the original design.

It's uh what we like to call a Frankenstein system.

It's been piecemealed together for the last 30 40 years, and uh it's it's barely holding together.

So we have design going on right now and uh a lot of analysis to tee up construction and other fiscal year.

And actually now, lastly, uh the annual payment rehab project.

Uh last year we just completed the 25-001, which was a lot of small full rehabilitation uh roadways, and 2601 is what's going to be teed up this summer.

This will be late summer, into the fall, we're going to be doing Redwood Boulevard from Roland Avenue almost all the way up to San Marin and Atheranton.

It's going to be a combination of slurry ceiling and full digouts.

Uh, just a lot of a lot of work, new striping along the entire corridor, and also uh class four bike lanes on the southern end from Roland all the way to Diablo.

And so this is what we're here for tonight.

So, without further ado, uh getting into uh we're gonna have three slides uh to talk about the 10 projects.

Categorize them first up is transportation and drainage.

Uh so in the next fiscal year, we're hoping to begin with the 2027 Annual Pavement Rehab Project.

Um that is something where we don't have the roads identified yet.

However, there is going to be analysis.

There's gonna be a new uh it's called a PCI pavement condition index analysis.

There's a basically a van that drives around the city, has LIDAR scanners, looks at all of our roads, says, okay.

These are where the part holes are.

These are our worst roads, and that'll help us prioritize uh for the 2027 uh roadway selection.

And uh it serves in the general plan.

Uh, what you're gonna see is the pattern in these bullet points is we have each project and then the uh general plan objectives that we found that we're consistent with.

So public facilities objective number one is management of public facilities and infrastructure, managing city facilities and infrastructure in a safe, functional and well-maintained manner as practical.

And that goes for all four projects on this slide.

Additionally, mobility objective 2022 or 22 is creating an accessible circulation system that is consistent with guidelines established by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

And the next project is storm drain pipe replacement.

This is a project that's going to be main uh maintained from our operating crew out of the courtyard.

So it's uh our streets team does both street work and stormwater work across the city.

So $50,000 is giving them the capital influx of funds to do about one to two pipe replacements a year.

So they see the worst of the worst, they see pipes when they fail, and this is something to give them the capital needs that they can actually act and follow through on major repairs.

And this serves uh, like I said before, public facilities objective number one, but also safety haver safety and hazards objective two, which is reducing the risk of loss of life, personal injury, and property damage resulting from flooding by properly maintaining storm drainage systems, natural flood control channels and waterways, and regulating runoff from new construction and development projects.

Third on the list is Measure M Pedestrian Safety Project.

This is something that uh was we were given the opportunity to bring this project forward by the council.

Uh it was late in the year, but we added this capital project to address major deficiencies or or even minor deficiencies.

But this in this case, it's four different crossings across the city where we know we can have positive impact on pedestrian safety.

I have a slide in a second, I'll show you what it is actually about.

Um, but it satisfies the mobility objective number one, which I mentioned before, but also number five, which is the uh providing a safe, convenient and integrated network of facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists, and mobility objective 20, which is promoting and providing and maintaining a safe and convenient pedestrian system, including consideration of lighting, sidewalk condition, road surface conditions, roadway crossings, access points, signage, shade landscaping, and street furniture.

Last on the list, Samarin drive corridor improvements.

This is a new project that is actually the consolidation of four prior projects along San Marin Drive, and this $350,000 is for a roadway corridor study.

It's a comprehensive major study that is gonna focus on Samaran Drive the entire length from where it terminates at Atherton all the way to Naval Boulevard.

And I've already talked about mobility objective one and five, but also mobility objective 21.

Uh collaborate with schools to identify and prioritize transportation improvements that strengthen pedestrian and bicycle safety for students traveling to and from schools.

This has a major impact on San Marin High School and San Ramon Elementary.

So there's already collaboration between Novato and the Nevada Unified School District on this project, and so we really hope to make some major improvements for the students in that area.

And so the third bullet point on the pro slide was measuring pedestrian safety projects.

It's improving three crosswalks with rectangular rapid flashing beacons.

It's those little spots where you hit the little button on the side of the road, and you have the orange flashing signs really to improve uh crossings along along the major corridors, but also behind Nevada High School, we're gonna add a new crosswalk on Washington Street at Gardner, which is right now it's just kind of along a blind corner, and kids are popping out along the road, and this will help make it safer.

And like I mentioned with the San Marin Drive Corridor improvements, it's a consolidation of these four previous CIPs.

They all were from an outsider's perspective, it looked random.

There was four different projects, different intersections, some random safety improvements.

What our goal is to consolidate, have a communist scale, and come up with a cohesive plan for the entire corridor and really make it something that's going to be usable and actually better for the future.

The graphic on the left really is only conceptual.

I'm not going to be advocating for traffic circles now or future.

We're going to let the traffic engineers tell us what the safest formatting would be, but uh initial preliminary studies show that at uh San Marina High School a traffic circle would be better than a four-way red, you know, signalized intersection.

Okay, moving on to parks and recreation and community services.

So here we have the Hamilton community pool and play structure replacement.

The existing pull-and-place structure, it's beyond its anticipated useful life.

This $50,000 is to do a study and asset condition analysis of the pool itself to make sure that when we replace the structure, it actually meets ADA requirements and is actually gonna last into the future.

And that satisfies public facilities objective number one, which is managing the management of public facilities and infrastructure, uh city facilities and infrastructure that is safe, functional, and well-maintained as manner as much as practical.

Practicable, sorry.

Second on the list, downtown rec center turf.

The downtown rec center, there's a little pocket park on the north side of the building, and it's all spring, has been lost in the turf.

There's drainage problems.

So we need to do analysis of the stormwater drainage, uh, replace the underlying material for the turf in order to make it more practical for kids to play on, and potentially open up a can of worms to figure out how to actually make a dream better.

So that's preliminary study and some initial site work.

And that is spotlight size, also public facilities, objective number one, and mobility objective 22, which is accessibility improvements, creating an accessible circulation system that is consistent with guidelines established by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Marin Highlands Park, which you can actually see that's a picture on the left.

It's an aging park with a lot of wood structure.

Uh so the playground structure and the surface is hopefully going to be replaced as part of this capital project.

And it involves two of the objectives that we've already talked about, but also living well objective two, which is community and neighborhood parks, providing a network of community and neighborhood parks within walking distance of all neighborhoods to the maximum extent feasible.

And fourth on the list is Marion Park, and this is a satisfies all the same objectives as Marion Highlands Park, but uh very different projects.

Marion Park is a lot of play fields, and it involves a lot of gopher abatement, about 150,000 out of 200,000 is for gopher abatement and reconditioning the ball fields, and then 50,000 is for ADA improvements.

It satisfies those the objectives, public facilities objective one, mobility objectives 22, and living well objectives two.

Uh, and that this is a lot of small projects.

It's ADA enhancements at anything from pocket parks to major parks, and it's a lot of little things spread across the entire city.

And the last project, uh, municipal buildings and the rooftop solar module replacement.

We are dedicating $50,000 to do a study of uh it's the solar systems at the Hill Gymnasium, Margaret Todd Senior Center, and the Downtown Recreation center.

All those solar systems are aging.

Uh they have multiple inverters that have broken down.

So we have solar systems that are not fully functioning, and so it's to hire an electrician to do a full analysis to see: okay, should we be replacing the inverters?

Should we be moving forward with these projects, or should we be doing full uh full-on replacements?

And that satisfies public facilities objective one, which is facilities and infrastructure, managing city facilities and infrastructure in a safe, functional and well-maintained manner as practical.

And environmental stewardship objective 235, increasing energy and water efficiency and conservation and city buildings equipment and operations, promoting energy and water conservation and building upgrades to the community.

And that is the end.

I am available for any questions.

Wonderful, thank you.

Bringing it back to the commission for some questions, then I'll open it up to public comment, and then we'll bring it back around for a final recommendation.

So Commissioner Griggy, any questions from you?

Yeah, just uh just a quick couple of questions.

Um, on the pedestrian improvements, uh I might have missed it.

Um it's just those like handful of projects that were on the slides, correct?

Am I or am I missing that there might be like additional, or is it like the uh the road the road improvements where some of the projects haven't been identified yet?

I just wanted to confirm.

So what is what was presented tonight?

The last four slides are all new projects.

The city has ongoing capital projects in the past.

I think you might be referring to other things that you know around the city, but um, it would be so this is what you're referring to.

Yeah, I uh going forward a slide, just wanted to confirm that those are the four projects that uh, so these are the four small locations that are part of the Measure M safety project.

Um so it's 250,000 uh out of for this coming fiscal year, it's about a 20 million dollar budget.

So we got a lot more going on than just these four locations, thankfully.

Perfect.

Just wanted to wanted to make sure.

And then on the Samaritan Drive improvements, uh, do you have are there any?

I was a full disclosure, I was uh I'm an alumnus of Samurai High School, so I know the pedestrian challenges there well.

I have seen many a former classmate almost get run over at uh San Marin Drive and San Carlos kind of going between the high school and like the across the street towards like the the church across the street.

Are there any improvements envisioned for that intersection?

Or uh I mean the idea of a roundabout, I think is really intriguing for that intersection because that's often the source of traffic there.

Um but just I'm just kind of curious.

Uh so yeah, San Carlos is uh an intersection that we do want to have a lot of improvements.

Uh it's current state, it's a low condition.

Uh it's not a complete failure, but as far as intersection goes, we do need to do work on it in future years.

Uh this corridor study, that intersection is part of it.

Uh so prioritizing whether it'd be Nevada Boulevard, um, yeah, there's uh Samaran at San Andreas, has a major ADA improvements that we want to do.

So there's there's a lot of different projects that are gonna stem out of the study.

Uh, can't tell you what the prioritization is, but we're gonna let traffic engineers kind of give us input and say, okay, which is the gonna be the highest safety impact uh that we can attract you know basically attack first.

Excellent.

And then my my final question uh late last year we had a number of residents from uh the neighborhood off of Davidson Street um testify in front of the planning commission about like pedestrian safety challenges in the neighborhood.

Uh is there any plan I I didn't see any mention of that here, but like in the short term like medium term of making improvements in that neighborhood.

So Davidson rings a bell, but just to give you a lay of the land, how things come into Webbook Works and how we prioritize them.

Every single traffic safety issue that's presented to public works, we run it by a traffic engineer.

Uh there's everything from speed monitoring to traffic warrants to stop sign analysis to sight line considerations, and they go through the litany of all the different measurements and ways that we can improve the road.

Then from that, it either goes on a list of quick repairs, emergency repairs to long-term fixes.

And while I can't tell you offhand what what we're focusing on as far as road by road, we do have a another uh committee.

It's the C Spock, and they periodically work with the engineering department to create a long list of projects.

It's the bike imped plan, and it was recently amended in 2023 with new projects.

So all these requests that go to our traffic engineering team are they're put on lists and it's brought to our committee that uh they look at it, they prioritize it, they come up with ideas for different safety projects across the city, and so if it's if Davidson is not already in uh the bike imped plan, it might be living in a list that's going to be taken to C SPOC for a future addendum.

Excellent.

Thank you so much.

Uh those are my questions.

Uh, really excited about the stuff that is before us tonight.

Thanks.

Some really exciting projects.

Great questions.

Uh Commissioner Haber.

No questions, thank you.

Wonderful.

Commissioner Roach.

So I have a few questions.

And I know this is just a sip, but look, if we can't get it now, when do we get it?

Um couple of questions silent way back to the projects that have been gone, going Novato Boulevard in particular, between DeLong and 7th.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Okay.

Um is that going to be completed this year?

No, sir.

Okay.

I have a really hard time that we can't even get some sidewalks in for people that need them more than anybody.

I see people, ladies, uh pushing their kids in strollers, and the city comes across, as far as I'm concerned, is indifferent to their needs between 7th and DeLon.

It is nothing but a danger spot for people that don't have access to be vocal and advocate on their behalf.

I have to ask the city to even come over and uh trim the hedges on that thing.

It's not my job to do that.

It's really base.

When is that going to be done?

So right now, the private utility companies are coming to the end of their undergrounding portion of the project.

So by when I say private utility companies, that's PGE, who's been leading the charge, but also the communication company.

So Frontier Comcast, you know, you have a ATT.

They've installed a shared utility box down the middle of the road where and where all their lines are going to be underneath the road.

So that's been installed all the way up until DeLong.

They're going to be doing work in the intersection within the month to wrap up their project.

And then once that's done, the city, the water district, and the sewer district are gonna start our part of the project, and we are doing a joint.

Do we see any more houses being taken or not?

To my knowledge, it's been frontage along houses.

I don't know of any houses themselves that have been taken.

But I could be wrong, I've been with the city for six, seven months now, so please correct me.

It's not directed to you, but it's it's just nuts as far as I can see it.

Um that's really how I stand.

On that three-way, we're talking about three lanes.

Is there going to be an island with um curve in the middle, or is it just gonna be flat?

And if we're talking about bike paths, is that gonna just be uh line painted on the road, or is there gonna be a designated path there?

Same thing holds true for sidewalks.

So I mean, this is years on.

I've lived in this city for 15 years.

I lived on the corner of Pine and Nevada Boulevard, I know it.

And um I I just don't get it, and it's frustrating to tell you the truth.

Sure.

The to answer an earlier question, I think you you said what's the anticipated timeline, so 24 months is the anticipated timeline for two more years.

Our phase of the project.

The center lane, it's gonna be the two-way turn uh with no raised curve in the middle.

So it's gonna be, you know, if anybody makes a 10 turn line, you turn into the center lane, it has the you know the opposing turn arrows, when going this way, one going that way.

Right.

Um the bike lanes, due to several things.

It was space, uh, but it was also residential driveways.

It's gonna be a painted uh bike lane on the side of the lane of traffic, and that's to ensure to make space for you know, people pulling in and out of the driveways, and the less barricades and barriers that we have for drivers to see people pulling in and out of driveways.

That was a safety consideration that we made.

So elementary school kids ride their bikes on that road to school in the morning.

Okay, I just don't get it.

Um, it's that's where I stand with it.

Um two years.

Wow.

I tell you what, six months should have been done.

Um where are we going jumping forward?

There is there were three other outstanding ones.

How long has this been in play?

For 10 years, is it?

When did it finally get going and when was the study?

And I tell you what, when I heard all these commitment we're gonna do a study for $300,000, another study for $300,000 when I was listening to this, and I'm thinking, wait a minute.

Are all of those studies for $300 $300,000, or is that also including some corrections or improvements at the point in time?

I don't know if we were using that word loosely.

So the San Marin Drive uh corridor study is $350,000, and it is one study, one time cost for the entire corridor.

So I referenced a lot of different intersections.

Here we are.

Um, so all the way from the highway to Nevada Boulevard, it's one study, $350,000 to get the analysis done and preliminary you know design concepts for the entirety of it.

Part of the plan, part of the reason we're doing this, is that there's an outside project that is kicking off.

Marin water has the potential to install a pipeline in the entirety of San Marin Drive.

So we're ill-advised to do any work in the right way now because it is just gonna be torn up in the next you know, one to two years.

I think construction for the it's the last bullet point right there.

It's the Marine Waters proposed atmospheric river capture project ARC, ARC project for short.

And the construction phase for the ARC project is um 2027 to 2028, is when they're planning on doing their work.

And so at this point in time.

And is that where the road narrows to one lane?

The entirety of Samaran Drive.

Oh, but okay, so that with the atmospheric river that you're talking about there.

We're holding off because what that would be the impact what you're talking about there is all along there, or where where are we going with this?

If you could help me out a little bit, geographically.

So, do you know the east terminus of San Marin Drive is at U.S.

Highway 101?

Yeah.

Um Redwood Boulevard goes through it right there.

Sure.

Um, the ARC project is going to be coming onto San Marin Drive at that point.

There's an aqueduct that comes from uh Sonoma County and to Marine County supplies a lot of water.

It would then, for you guys, I'm gonna pretend like you're looking at the map.

Uh Redwood Drive going south, heading due west on Samurai Drive, and it would go the entirety of San Marin Drive.

Okay, in the right of way.

We don't know yet, it's still in early early design phases.

We don't know what part of the road, but it's going to be a 36-inch pipe, which is a major endeavor to run down a corridor, and so any improvements that we do now are likely to be torn up.

So, with that said, is it asking too much that we have to wait for this study, a $300,000 study to get crosswalks at San Andreas and San Marin?

That that is just so base.

And is that going to hold up even taking these most basic and elemental measures to make common sense approaches to that street?

So the intent to do a quarter of study now is because the best thing we can do while we're forced to wait is come up with a plan.

And so the intent is as soon as the quarter, as soon as the R project is finished, we will have designs.

We will have plans.

We will have action ready to go.

Right.

So it's just in like a crosswalk.

That's not asking too much.

It just come on, man.

Okay.

Um that's where it's at.

Big picture, I get it.

But Simmons, there's the study.

Um I don't see $300,000 to remedy the obvious, and it sounds like we're not going to have anything happen at a basic intersection, which is San Andreas and San Marin that we're talking about.

We're talking about high school and stuff, let alone the people that would need to cross that road, which is a very wide road.

And I don't think that has to be included in a SIP program to do the common sense solution.

And that's what I'm advocating for here tonight.

I don't want to come across negative mean spirited, but boy oh boy, guys.

You know, we need to do some common sense stuff.

And I don't need $300,000 to figure that one out.

There we are.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Roch.

Oh, sorry.

There we go.

Thank you, Commissioner Roche.

Commissioner Steggenbroker.

I do have one question.

You say the Samaran and Simmons corner right there.

If you were to put a roundabout in there, how is that going to affect the two houses or three houses that are right there on the corner?

Will it, I mean, will they be able to get in and out easily, or are they gonna be tied up in traffic?

Nevada Boulevard at San Marin Drive.

Simmons.

The San Marin Simmons.

That one.

The intent would not be to be removing houses.

Yeah.

Well, no, there um the driveway of one of the houses is almost to the corner of Simmons and San Marin.

So I'm just curious, it's somebody I know.

So I'm just kind of curious how it will affect them in the future, is if it would if you kneel, but it's okay.

Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for that tonight.

Uh essentially the goal is always to work with the space we have.

But then there can be times where we negotiate for frontage along properties.

Okay.

Alright, that was it.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Uh Commissioner Haroff.

Uh no questions.

I'm here mostly to learn and listen.

Wonderful.

Alright.

Um, only question for me was um I saw, I think I've come to a few hearings, or maybe they brought to us, but I think it would do some council hearings where the um the parks master plan was presented.

I'm just curious, everything that's in the parks master plan, does it is it all of that happening simultaneously, or does it, or do one of those items have to make it into the CIP list and then be presented here tonight, for instance, some of the park improvements that I saw tonight.

So unfortunately the answer is yes to both of those questions.

There's nothing either or so the parks master plan, it comes up with different programmatic suggestions, which the our PRCS department handles those internally and is not part of the capital projects.

There are small projects that we identify and we just address through operations.

Okay.

So, so you know, flush valve is out and it made it into the parks master plan.

Let's just hypothetically.

There's a lot of small things that we do address just annually, they're weekly, whatever it might be.

Do like a maintenance fund or operations fund, not a big deal, but they don't need to make it onto this list per se.

Precisely.

But the big ones I assume would have to make it onto this list, right?

Exactly.

So the public works and PRCS uh collaborated, collaborated two years ago to start adding those projects to the capital program.

And so right now we are at phase three.

Uh so there are it's a lot of different ADA improvements at different parks, uh, such as the amphitheater park, which I believe is uh coming up.

No, I lost it.

The Hamilton Amphitheater Park, we're redoing that, and there's a lot of AD improvements to that to the tune of $700,000.

That was part of the parks master plan.

I see.

Okay.

Is there a cutoff money-wise that makes it or just if we can't fit any operations this year, but we think it's really important.

So that's the question.

So we at the city do not have a written policy for a cutoff.

Okay.

Um, mostly because there are some projects that are one-offs.

You do it, you're done, you move on, but we also have programmatic um uh projects, such as the that $50,000 for stormwater pipe replacement.

That is a new $50,000 every year to continuously replace pipes from now until hopefully forever.

And we'll just keep on replacing pipes because they age out.

Um, so we don't have a dollar threshold for that reason.

Understood.

And then just for uh Commissioner Rose's stake, and by the way, his response reminds me of some former commissioners we've had where everyone kind of starts weighing in on uh different capital improvement uh plans that you have.

I'm curious, you know, how do these come about?

How do you prioritize them?

Because you hear a lot of folks that are saying, well, hey, why, you know, and by the way, it's not just Commissioner Roche, many members of the public uh over the years have all come forward and you know had complaints about well, you know, why not why this capital project and not that one?

And if you wouldn't mind just kind of explaining a little bit on how you guys go about this.

Sure.

So every year uh it's same process over and over again, and so data comes first.

We take in all the information that we can, it the data could be in the form of PCI ratings, like pavement condition index saying, okay, where are reverse roads?

It could be uh service requests.

So when somebody calls the city, emails the city, puts in a request online, uh we keep it on record.

We keep it in tables and we log it and we you know prioritize operationally on spot, but for the larger projects that we have to budget for in the long term, they're added to the list.

Um then you have maintenance costs.

We track how much it costs to run a building.

And so if the HVAC costs are rising over time, that's usually a sign that the HVAC system is on the fritz.

It's getting worse and worse and worse.

Um number one offender being our police department, is the oldest and the most expensive HVAC system that we're running right now, and we really want to get it uh replaced.

Uh the new one that was added to the list this year was the DRC HVAC replacement.

That was the those were the rising costs of the HVAC repairs.

We took that into account for prioritizing.

Um, and so there's anything from assessment reports, um, there's a some it's kind of a hot phrase or some some people love it, some people hate it, but criticality and consequence of failure.

It's analysis we're getting into, and at this stage in Novato, it's early adoption.

But you look at an asset, whether it be a roadway, a pipe, uh, you ask what's the criticality?

You know, how important is it?

How close is it to a hospital?

How close is it to a school uh to you know an energy provider?

The closer it is, the if it's a one-way in, one way out, let's just say Pacheco Valley, one road going in and out of Pacheco Valley for all those residents, it's a fire hazard, it's a fire road.

We need to keep that road clear and operating.

So we look at criticality and then consequence of failure.

How long will it be down if it fails?

If and once something fails, there's it's basically a formula.

We multiply them together, you have really a good way to understand, okay.

These are the things that are most important from an asset weight standpoint rather than real-time, you know, hey, what's failing?

So it's very objective.

It sounds like there's a lot of data being aggregated, you're running numbers, and this is the stuff that's percolating to the top based on the amount of complaints or the criticality, the dangers that it could be to the public.

I think the goal is to be as objective as possible.

At the end of the day, I think there's a lot of subjective input into the system when we do.

We depend on our residents, our elected officials, our volunteers to be our eyes and ears throughout the community.

So we listen, and you know one argument.

So you listen to everybody, it becomes objective, but it is you know, a lot of people giving subjective input, and we do want to listen to everybody and take it all in account.

So that does have a weight on the pairing process.

And traffic studies are behind everything that you were talking about here when it comes to roadway safety that people are typically most passionate and concerned about.

I'm assuming that's that's what's going on this actual engineers, traffic engineers, looking at this, walking through it, and understanding how what needs to be done and what the safest thing to do is, correct?

Correct.

And I'm glad you brought that up because this goes beyond just the city of Nevada.

We are strong partners with the Transportation Authority of Marin, who do a lot of these studies, they take regional funds, national funds, and do countywide assessments.

Um, and same thing goes for safe routes to school.

It's one of our strongest partnerships that we have in public works, uh, where a lot of these safety projects are recommended, they're vetted by safe routes to school.

They have teams of engineers that come to the city and they're paid through Transportation Authority of Marin, but they'll do an analysis of different roadways.

Um, for example, we have something cool coming up.

Uh Safe Russes School is partnering with the city to do a quarter study of um boy, center road to the point of kids walking to school.

Uh it's it's near and dear to all of our hearts.

We can't fix every road, but center road is the highest priority for Safe Russes School across the entire county right now because Lou Sutton uh is right there, and there's a lot of deficiencies.

So, what we're doing in May is we will be doing a walk audit where traffic engineers, hopefully some representatives from our police department, myself, team members will walk to school and we'll look at every intersection, every curb, lifted sidewalks, the whole nine yards, log it, turn it back to SafeResses School, and they'll do analysis and they'll come up with they will come up with safety recommendations based on that.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Thanks for walking us through that.

Um, I think that's all the questions from us.

I will open it to the public hearing.

Any public comments?

Please come forward and fill out a card when you're when you can.

Thank you.

Uh, any commissioners, uh, Jeff Gordon, uh, the post development project.

200 Samaran Drive, which is at the corner of Samaritan in San Andreas, so one of the intersections we were just talking about.

Um, just here to express uh support for the Samaritan corridor study, um, just talking to neighbors and others in the community.

I think there's a lot of excitement about the opportunity that's there, as you mentioned, opportunities to improve safety.

Uh it's a hundred-foot wide boulevard, which uh, you know, there's opportunities for traffic improvements and bicycle lanes and things like that.

So you know, look forward to participating in future sessions and thank you for doing that.

That's it.

Wonderful, thank you, sir.

Not seeing anyone else in the crowd, I will close the public comment.

Period.

Okay.

I'm gonna bring it back to the commission.

Um, if you want me to go down the row, I can unless anyone wants to make a motion or everyone wants to say anything.

Um, finish anything off.

Commissioner Grigie, anything to say?

It's quite all right if we just say it's like we're good.

Oh, I know.

Um, he's up next.

I was gonna make a motion.

Okay.

Well, I was I was yeah, we're if we're all good, I'll all right.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, can I have a motion then?

Yeah.

I will move that we adopt the resolution reporting to the city council that the proposed new CIP projects for fiscal year 26-27 are consistent with the Nevado General Plan.

Happy to second that.

Wonderful.

All right, I will take a roll call on it.

Uh, Commissioner Griggy.

Aye.

Commissioner Havill.

Aye.

Commissioner Roche.

Aye.

Commissioner Stuckenbroker.

Hi.

Commissioner Harov?

Aye.

Commissioner Derby's an aye.

Wonderful.

Passes.

We recommend you.

Take it on up to the council.

Okay.

Anything else on the agenda tonight?

No, just note that we will not be having a planning commission meeting on May 25th.

And we're looking at our next one on June 8th.

We're trying to get some zoning ordinance amendments pulled together for that meeting.

Some what?

Sorry.

Sorry, zoning ordinance amendments.

Hopefully have those done and ready for commission review.

It's an aggregate of zoning across the whole city amendment.

Yeah, so it's it's looking at zoning changes to implement uh aspects of the general plan as well as the housing element.

Uh so we're trying to take these in sort of uh phased approach where every um four to six months we do a batch of of upgrades or amendments to the code, if you will.

And so we're just getting through our first batch.

It's a pretty lengthy one and uh hopefully done and ready for review here pretty soon.

Wonderful.

Any update on the firemen's fund?

Is the tentative map?

Uh tentative map is still in process.

Uh the developer is uh discussing um submitting a design review application for the actual design of the homes that would go on the lots created by that subdivision.

Uh so that's ongoing.

Uh I think we've all noticed the third and final building is now fully gone from the site.

And I believe what's left to do in terms of demolition is uh more asphalt and concrete recycling across the site.

Wonderful.

That's great.

See something soon.

Um, anything else from the commission?

Or can I call it?

Move to close the commission hearing.

So, they're out.