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April 9 East County Council Previews

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While there is nothing that could be considered “earth shattering” tonight at any of the City Council meetings in East County, each city has a few interesting items on tap in terms of information being provided to the public.

The most interesting item I saw was the Brentwood Crime report which highlights an increase in crime by 17.9%. There is also talk in Oakley regarding the fountain project and an additional loan to Carpaccios.  Meanwhile, Antioch has provided a nice update/breakdown on a variety of water issues that relates to the City.

Here is a quick overview of each City and what will be discussed tonight. I encourage you to review the staff reports.

Antioch

  • Lone Tree Golf Course will be allowed to continue to defer two construction loan payments. This includes a parking lot improvement loan of $222,165 and a Clubhouse construction loan of $900,000.
  • Consideration of Bids for the Lone Tree Way Intersection Improvements. The low bidder was Bay Cities Paving and Grading Inc., for $1.47 million
  • Receive and file a staff report regarding Antioch’s Water Issues and ON-Going Delta Activities.  The staff report actually gives a nice breakdown of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, Delta Stewardship Council Delta Plan, and State Water Resources Control Boards Flow Criteria Proceedings.

Antioch Agenda:
http://www.ci.antioch.ca.us/CityGov/agendas/CityCouncil/2013/agendas/040913/040913.pdf#page=87

Brentwood

  • Appointment of Earl Medeiros and Catherine Palestro to a term on the Brentwood Advisory Neighborhood Committee
  • Look at fees for Parks and Recreation and creating a fee schedule.  Currently, residents are charged “at cost” to use a facility and based on market priced for like facilities. This new schedule would apply to the following: Non-resident fee would be 10% above resident rate; commercial fee would be 30% above resident rate; non-profits would be charged a fee 30% below resident rate.
  • Verbal update on the General Plan will be provided
  • Police Benchmarks Report which is a nice document that highlights response times for police officers. For priority 1 emergency’s, response times were 4:50 in 2012 while priority 2 were at 5:32 minutes.  The current trend for Brentwood is a spike in residential burglaries. According to the report, crime increased by 17.9% or by 276 incidents.

Brentwood Agenda
http://brentwood.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?view_id=35&event_id=60

Oakley:

  • PG&E will be on hand to discuss its Pipeline Replacement Project. This would be a good time for residents to seek out answers on why Oakley’s roads are a mess after construction was completed.
  • A public hearing will be held to introduce a Permanent Ordinance Regarding Internet Cafes—neighboring Cities have already implemented similar policies.
  • Adopt change orders to Bay Cities Paving & Grading. This contract amount increases by $1.56 million ($5.35 million total).
  • Carpaccio’s may be getting a loan modification which increases the loan by $160k on top of the $1.2 they originally loaned the business.
  • The fountain will be discussed yet again where three designs will be looked at and costs will be presented since they were left off the staff report.

Oakley Agenda:
http://www.ci.oakley.ca.us/subpage.cfm?id=1215262

Bethel Island

Bethel Island will be hosting its meeting tonight.
http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/25862

 

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3 comments

Julio-Antioch Apr 9, 2013 - 11:55 am

Antioch also has two emergency meetings posted for 4/10 at 9AM to 5PM and 4/11 at 5Pm both in the meeting room at the Water Park. The north-west corner of the building. The meetings are called Special Meeting/Workshop Agenda. There is no real Agenda posted and how this is considered an “emergency meeting” is beyond me.

JimSimmons42 Apr 9, 2013 - 12:21 pm

Julio, that is very true. I wonder why in the world Antioch needs 3 city council meetings in one week unless they are hiding something. Hope people go to see what thy are really up to.

Oakley Watchdog Apr 9, 2013 - 2:06 pm

Oakley looks like the class clowns of East County

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