The City Council had a huge list of items on its agenda Monday,
ranging from finalizing details of a new contract agreement with
firefighters to deciding whether to spend money to fence Gilroy’s
demonstration garden.
The City Council had a huge list of items on its agenda Monday, ranging from finalizing details of a new contract agreement with firefighters to deciding whether to spend money to fence Gilroy’s demonstration garden.
“It’s going to be a midnighter, for sure,” Councilman Bob Dillon said.
Among the items on the agenda, the council will review language of an agreement that it hammered out last month with International Association of Fire Fighters Local 2805, which represents Gilroy’s firefighters. Provisions of the new contract include cheaper retirement plans for new hires and staffing requirements that allow the department to maintain three firefighters per engine rather than four.
The council also will meet in closed session in an attempt to settle on an agreement with the Gilroy Police Officers Association, as the city’s police contract expired July 1.
In other police-related matters, the council will review a request by the Gilroy Dispatch to obtain 911 tapes related to a Feb. 17 pit bull attack that caused a 70-year-old Gilroy woman to fall and break her arm and hand. The Dispatch appealed the case to the city’s Open Government Commission, which forwarded the matter on to the council when it met June 9.
The council also will consider the following matters:
– Deciding whether to spend money on a wrought-iron fence, estimated to cost $17,000 to $28,000, to protect Leadership Gilroy’s community demonstration garden on the site of the future city cultural arts center at Eigleberry and Seventh streets
– Adoption of changes to the city’s alarm policy, allowing the city to charge annual fees for alarm users and increase penalties for false alarms.
– Final approvals of zoning changes and architectural plans to allow Village Green to build a skilled-nursing facility, outpatient surgery center and community garden at Hecker Pass Road and Santa Teresa Boulevard.
– Adoption of a new policy that would allow “shovel-ready” in-fill projects to be exempt from the city’s Residential Development Ordinance competition.
– Final approval of a 29-lot project at Ronan Avenue and Bosque and Brazos streets in north Gilroy.
– Adoption of a law that would regulate panhandling.
– Final approval of two hotels and a restaurant building planned for the northeast corner of Leavesley Road and Forest Street.
– Consideration of various online utility billing options
– Responding to a Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury report that states that cities must rein in unsustainable employee costs.
– Consideration of a parking survey related to the future library.
