The City Council meet tonight in the council chambers at 225 W. 2nd St. You can watch it all here.
The council will meet in closed session at 5:15pm to discuss possible future litigation in two unspecified cases. The council will also hear a report from City Manager Jeff Parker and Assistant City Manager on labor negotiations with the City's employee organizations.
The regular session begins at 6:30pm. We don't have time for an in-depth breakdown, but you can read the regular session agenda here. The specific reports for each agenda item are here.
A few items of interest from tonight's agenda:
- Discussion of parking standards for Institutional Districts (i.e., the Claremont Colleges).
- The new water conservation ordinance.
- Consideration of a proposed traffic signal at Indian Hill Blvd. and 10th St. (in response to the pedestrian accident there).
- An economic development report for Fiscal Year 2008-09.
Some grim news here, as might be expected. Claremont's projections for the city's share of sales tax revenues in FY 2009-10 are down about $1.9 million or 38.7 percent, and it's been difficult to attract news businesses in this recession. And when you look at real numbers - total 2008 sales tax generated in Claremont versus 2007 - that number was off 49 percent. All of that loss seemed to come from auto sales and transportation, which underscores Claremont's long over-reliance on the Claremont Auto Center's sales.
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