City Council on 2024-07-29 5:30 PM - SPECIAL MEETING

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What opening remarks and procedures start the special City Council meeting?

Pat Showalter 1:15

Well, good evening everyone. Welcome to the special meeting of the Mountain View City Council of July 29th, 2024. We'll start with a Pledge of Allegiance. Everybody stand and join me.

Pat Showalter 1:47

Thank you, the next item is roll call.

Unknown 1:50

Council Member Hicks.

Pat Showalter 1:52

Here.

Unknown 1:53

Council Member Kamei. Here. Council Member Ramirez. Here. Council Member Ramos. Here. Vice Mayor Radicek. Here.

Who was present for roll call and was a quorum achieved?

Unknown 1:59

Mayor Showalter. Here. You have a quorum with Council Member Abacoka absent.

Pat Showalter 2:03

Excellent, thank you. We have, so we'll move on to item four, new business. And 4.1 is amendment of resolution submitting a revenue measure to the voters to correct exhibit A to the resolution. And our city attorney, Jennifer Logue, is with us tonight and she will speak on this item. If you are interested in speaking on it, now is a good time to submit a blue card to our clerk. And we will have speakers after her presentation. Okay,

Jennifer Logue 2:38

so. Attorney Logue, take it away. Thank you. Good evening, Council Members, Jennifer Logue, City Attorney for the City of Mountain View. We are here tonight to make an amendment or to recommend that you amend Exhibit A to the resolution that you passed on June 25th, the last City Council meeting before we went on recess, which called an election in November 2024 for the purpose of putting a revenue measure on the ballot for consideration by the Mountain View voters. Exhibit A to that resolution was a full copy of Chapter 29, Article 5 of the Mountain View City Code. and that exhibit is intended to show the voters how that chapter will change if the ballot measure passes. Can you go to slide one of the, currently,

Jennifer Logue 3:41

This is how the Mountain View Code looks. I have it color coded so I can help you trace exactly how the changes will work. So the Mountain View Code currently looks like this. It has two paragraphs for section 29.63, which is imposition of the tax. And this is the primary section that will change if the ballot measure passes because it will increase the amount of tax for property transfers exceeding $6 million. Can we move to slide two, please? This is how Exhibit A looked when you adopted the resolution with Exhibit A. So it showed section 29.63 with the appropriate language stricken and the new language that is supposed to go in underlined. But if you notice, Exhibit A is missing all of the blue language that was in the prior slide.

Jennifer Logue 4:37

If you can move to slide three. The corrected Exhibit A now looks like this. It shows the language that is being stricken, the new language that is being added, which is gonna change the tax rate if the ballot measure passes, and the blue language is unchanged. It's just supposed to be there, it was never intended to be modified, and it was just missing from Exhibit A, so your new Exhibit A now shows that second paragraph.

What amendment to Exhibit A is the City Attorney explaining?

Jennifer Logue 5:08

We did some investigation after I discovered this missing paragraph to try to figure out what happened. And when we are making amendments to muni code sections, I have to download or staff has to download that muni code section from the muni code website. and it downloads and it converts it into a Word document. When we downloaded that or when it was converted, you can also download it into a PDF and then convert it into a Word document. But the end result is it needs to be in a Word document so that we can do the strike through and underline to make the changes. the earliest version of the document that we can find that I started working on to show the changes does not have paragraph B. And so the only thing that I could figure out was that in the conversion process from the online version of muni code into a word version, this paragraph B did not convert.

Jennifer Logue 6:07

We've reached out to muni code to Work with them to make sure that there's not something wrong with our system and now that you know I'm aware that this type of thing that can happen We will pay closer attention to make sure that everything has converted over. It just wasn't something that was anticipated When we were working on this initially, so we have taken steps to ensure that this never happens again Thank you all if you have any questions