Meeting
AGENDA PACKET
Town of Atherton – Joint Meeting
City Council, Audit & Finance Committee &
Planning Commission
May 03, 2023
SPECIAL MEETING – STUDY SESSION
4:00 PM

Council Chambers
80 Fair Oaks Lane, Atherton, CA 94027
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Remote Public Comments
Meeting participants are encouraged to submit public comments in writing in advance of the meeting. The following email will be monitored during the meeting and documented for the record.
Email: [email protected] 

This Agenda may not reflect the actual order of items.  The order of items is subject to change based on Council action.
SPECIAL MEETING - STUDY SESSION
 
ROLL CALL –
City Council: Holland, DeGolia, Lewis, Vice Mayor Hawkins-Manuelian, Mayor Widmer
Finance Committee: Scolnick, Patil, Hill, Sleeth, Walker
Planning Commission: Polito, Lerner, Narancic, Lamb, Lane
PUBLIC COMMENT – Public Comments can be emailed directly to [email protected]

As a Special Meeting, Public Comment is limited to items that are on the Agenda. Speakers’ time is limited to three minutes. Speakers may also speak when the item comes up on the Agenda during the meeting.
STUDY SESSION
1.
STUDY SESSION TO DISCUSS CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THE ACCESSORY DWELLING ORDINANCE AND ASSOCIATED MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS.  
Report: SUNG H. KWON, TOWN PLANNER
RecommendationStaff recommends that the City Council and Planning Commission discuss and consider changes to the Accessory Dwelling Unit Ordinance and associated Municipal Code Sections. Staff requests that direction regarding changes be provided to staff. 
Description: Discussion and direction regarding changes to the Town’s Accessory Dwelling Unit Ordinance. 
CEQA: This Study Session is statutorily exempt from CEQA under Section 15262, Feasibility and Planning Studies.

 
2.
REVIEW OF THE FY 2023/24 SPECIAL REVENUE, INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
Report: ROBERT BARRON III, FINANCE DIRECTOR
RecommendationReview, discuss, and provide feedback Special Revenue, Internal Service Funds and Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for FY 2023/24.
Description: This item is a Study Session on the Town’s 2023/24 Budget. The discussion will include a report on the various Town Special Funds, Internal Service Funds, and the planned Capital Improvement Program(CIP) for FY 2023/24 and the 5-Year plan for other projects. Discussion to also include out years financial planning.

 
COUNCIL REPORTS/COMMENTS
 
ADJOURN
 
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

If you challenge a Town zoning, planning, or any other decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this agenda, or in written correspondence delivered to the Town at, or prior to, the public hearing.  Judicial review of any Town administrative decision may be had only if a petition is filed with the court not later than the 90th day following the date upon which the decision becomes final.  Judicial review of environmental determinations may be subject to a shorter time period.

Copies of all staff reports and documents subject to disclosure that relate to each item of business referred to on the agenda are available for public inspection by 5:00 p.m. the Friday before each regularly scheduled City Council meeting.

Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (650) 752-0500.  Notification of 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.  (29 CRF 35.104 ADA Title II)

 
AB 2449 & AB 361:

AB 2449 reiterates standard Brown Act teleconference rules, re-codifies the rules set out in AB 361 for times of declared emergency, and also provides for relaxed teleconferencing rules when a member of the legislative body needs to attend remotely for an emergency, or other reasons supported by “just cause.”
 
Teleconference Rules Available January 1, 2023

A legislative body may hold a “hybrid” (partial teleconference, partial in-person) meeting without having to comply with certain procedural requirements (post agendas at teleconference locations, identify teleconference locations in the agenda, make all teleconference locations open to the public) in the following limited circumstances:
  • One or more members of the legislative body (but less than a quorum) have “just cause” for not attending the meeting in person (childcare or family caregiving need, contagious illness, physical or mental disability need, or travel while on official public business); or
  • One or more members of the legislative body (but less than a quorum) experience an “emergency circumstance” (a physical or family medical emergency that prevents in-person attendance).
The legislative body will continue to have the option to meet via teleconference by following traditional Brown Act rules of identifying, posting, and opening up their teleconference locations.