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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSupplemental - Questions from Schelly SustarsicDana Engstrom From: Jill Ingram Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 2:30 PM Cc: Executive Team; CSteele@mglaw.com; Steve Bowles; Dana Engstrom Subject: Council Meeting Questions - Sustarsic Attachments: Questions for 3.26.18. City Council meeting.pdf BCC: CITY COUNCIL Please see questions from Council Member Sustarsic and staffs responses attached. Please call if you have any additional questions. Thank you, Jill Jill R. Ingram, City Manager City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562( 431-2527, Ext. 1300 For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: htto://www.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. -----Original Message ----- From: Schelly Sustarsic Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:03 AM To: Jill Ingram Subject: My questions for tonight's City Council meeting are attached Thank you. Schelly Questions for 3/26/18 City Council meeting Schelly Sustarsic Warrants: Check # 5325: City of Huntington Beach $25,081.59 Is this for the 1-405 water line project by West OC Water Board? That is correct. Specifically this expenditure is for funding the reserve account as required per the agreement. Check #5330: County of Orange $30,936.83 What is this for? This expense is for the City's Annual National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) per agreement with the County. Check # 5359: Mission Landscape Companies $ 2,750.00 Leisure World Entry signs Is the City paying for these signs? This expenditure is for the use of Council Discretionary funds from District 2 and District 4. Check #5424: Digital Map Products 3 charges for $6,000 each What are these for? This expense is for the City's annual subscription (allocated to Water/Sewer/General Fund) for the citywide GIS system (GovClarity). Item G: Parking Vehicle Replacement: Two existing Jeep Wranglers are being replaced in the Fleet Management Plan with 3 Ford Escapes (2 replacements and 1 new)? Are we hiring another parking enforcement person? Unfortunately our parking enforcement team has been underutilized working with the existing fleet of three vehicles. A fourth vehicle should have been added to the fleet several years maximizing efficiency and effectiveness to the existing parking management program. The fourth vehicle is even more critical to our new UPR program. During the week, our parking enforcement team conducts both street sweeping and routine parking enforcement in our beach and municipal parking lots, on Main Street and in Old Town as well as other parking/ traffic issues as needed. When street sweeping is enforced, we will often deploy two parking enforcement units to conduct enforcement leaving one unit in the field. It's important to remember that although we are integrating license plate reader (LPR) technology; street sweeping enforcement will continue using traditional methods. If one of our existing three vehicles is removed from service for maintenance, it may be possible that both remaining parking vehicles are assigned to street sweeping leaving our staff unable to conduct additional parking enforcement thus hampering our ability to properly utilize our parking enforcement staff. Our parking enforcement team has been criticized for deploying two parking enforcement officers in one car when a vehicle is out for service. Although not an efficient use of our resources, there aren't additional parking vehicles available for use. As we move forward with the LPR enforcement technology, it's an imperative we have a minimum of three enforcement vehicles available for deployment at any time. Our Jeeps are out for maintenance more than we would like. I believe there are two reasons for this — the quality of the vehicle and the amount of wear and tear placed on the vehicle being utilized day in and day out. Our staffing model will also be modified when the new parking program rolls out this spring. It's our goal that enforcement will be conducted between 7am and 10pm daily. Our current parking staffing model does not allow for evening enforcement. Adding the fourth vehicle will allow for the proper rotation of parking enforcement vehicles to be driven during the day and the evening and will promote the longevity of the parking fleet as opposed to running the same vehicle daily from 7am until 10pm. We are in the background process of three new parking enforcement personnel. We have hired behind the passing of CSO Shannon Allen and have added two additional parttime police aides to fill anticipated upcoming vacancies. It's our goal to hire two additional parttime police aides to assist in the evening enforcement period. In short, the fourth vehicle is needed to ensure that our parking program and fleet are properly maintained, our staff is effectively deployed, and enforcement remains consistent. • Allows fora full deployment during the summer and special events • Allows fora vehicle, if in need of repair, to be temporarily rotated out without loss of efficiency. If a vehicle is out for service or repair, another LPR equipped vehicle is needed to properly conduct enforcement. • Allows for vehicles to "rest" and not be utilized day and night properly managing the longevity of our fleet. (Similar to our police can that are purposely rotated through shifts to allow for maximum life of the patrol vehicle).