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Committee defers storm-drain outreach plan until November pending Measure K results
Summary
The Municipal Rates and Utilities Committee voted to delay formal approval of its storm drain outreach plan and directed staff to return in November with edits tied to the outcome of Measure K. Members cited staff capacity and tight tax-roll timelines as reasons to postpone implementation.
The Municipal Rates and Utilities Committee voted to defer formal approval of a storm drain outreach plan and asked staff to return in November with a revised plan contingent on the outcome of Measure K. A staff presenter told the committee the plan had been initiated with an October start for background work but that full community outreach would require additional staffing or consultant contracts.
A staff member said, "We initiated the beginning of the outreach plan to begin in October, but that's just more of the legwork, not necessarily the actual outreach into the community," and warned that staff were busy with Measure K outreach. Committee members repeatedly cited the tight timeline for getting information onto the county tax roll as a reason to delay implementation until the committee could evaluate Measure K results.
The motion to bring the outreach plan back in November was moved by a committee member and seconded; the committee voted in favor during a roll-call vote with the chair absent. Members emphasized the need to balance readiness for next-year tax-roll deadlines against the practical limits of staff capacity and the possibility of scaling the work back if Measure K failed.
