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Home My WebLink About10/16/2013 - STAFF REPORTS - 00 cD,"L C� cc - 7L0— u h draft �® uitz C n Wa Rog �-- ®� Tahq y Y September 30, 2013 xxxxx m AMERICAN HEAT 2013 0 Motorcycle Festival o October 25 - 27 ° a Palm Springs, CA G G � 0 Ec m Event Hours: a> 5 Friday: Noon -10:00 pm Saturday: 10:00 am - 10:00 pm Sunday: 10:00 am -6:00 pm X Vendors Vendors X Arenas Road x 0 •00 7�0 Designates Soft Closure M Village 0 Designates�Hard Closure Green m G O G Registration ` T-Designates trash Re g ) P-Designates Porte Potty H-Handicap Porte Potty S-Designates sink G-Designates Generator X Vendors P H S X Baristo Road LT-Designates Light Tree No Beer Gardens u1 O C Participant&Vendor check-in Thursday, October 24, 1 - 5 pm Friday, October 25, 6 am - noon G -mg-elG Village Green LT P H S LT 219 S. Palm Canyon Drive rn Rite Aid Y � � Nl711 p = W 1 � = = _ , Z wZZ m W a ? > LL Contacts: Jason-775-772-3704 XXxxX Randy—775-690-2035 �-- W Ramon Road uR October 16, 2013 Palm Springs City Council Meeting Public Comments Good Evening Mr. Mayor and Members of the City Council: My name is David Powell and I represent the homeowners at Center Court Condominiums at 355 N Avenida Caballeros, immediately adjacent to the proposed Dolce Hotel project. I would like to thank the Council for postponing your public hearing from October 2Id due to insufficient public notification, particularly to the affected neighbors. However, I am here to express my concerns to how this project is progressing, since there has been a lack of communication between us,the immediately adjacent neighbors, and the city and the developer. Prior to the meeting two weeks ago, the developer said that there were going to be updated view studies and sun/shade studies presented at that Council meeting. When the item was postponed, I asked the developer's rep, Ms. Kibbe, if she would share copies of any reports or studies prior to any future meetings so we had time to review and understand them. To date, we have not received any information or communication. Also of issue is the lack of communication between the city and the homeowners. I learned only this morning about next week's Planning Commission meeting on this subject. Although the city may have met the "letter of the law" by mailing notification 10 days prior, it was postmarked on a Saturday prior to a Monday postal delivery holiday. Our on-site homeowners received notification late Tuesday night, roughly one week before the meeting. Further, my outreach last week to the planning department to learn the date of the commission meeting did not get a timely response, thus again delaying our notification. Finally, I sent the council and city clerk an email today asking if next week's planning commission public hearing should fall under Ordinance # 1829, adopted September 18`h (last month) and is effective on October 18`h of this month—two days away. As the public hearing is being held after the effective date, and since the planning department was well aware of its upcoming implementation, should community notification have been provided utilizing the new procedure, which also includes signage at the project site? Again, it may be the"letter of the law" but not quite the"spirit of the law." We would like to request postponing the Plannin¢Commission public hearing until their meeting on November 13th, AFTER we have received and had time to review any planned changes, and the updated project studies that were to have been completed two weeks ago. Optimally, we would like to have a discussion with the developer and the planning department about the results. 1 We do not know if the developer took ANY of our concerns into consideration for any potential revisions to the project. Again, no outreach by the developer and no communication with us. This project in its current form, and in past forms, will greatly affect us and our neighbors. We are not anti-development on this parcel or within Palm Springs. What I would like is for any project in any part of our city to follow the established laws and procedures, to provide ample opportunity for the community to obtain information and provide comment, and have our concerns listened to and addressed by the city AND the developers prior to the approval process. All community parties working together is an example of how a government works with and for its people. Thank you. David Powell 2 P,ilni Springs Unified School District PSUSD Fast Facts 2013-14 Financial History *_ Total PSUSD General Fund Expenditures Facilities 2008-09 Actual $198,594,944 The community supported our general obligation bond on 2009-10 Actual $186,948,997 the February 2008 ballot authorizing $516 million to build 2010-11 Actual $180,838,726 schools, renovate existing facilities and purchase land for 2011-12 Actual $177,357,889 future sites. Recently completed projects include: Rancho Mirage High School, Palm Springs High Performing Arts 2012-13 Actual $179,065,456 Building, Cabot Yerxa Elementary School, Painted Hills Middle School, the District Service Center, Cathedral City High School stadium improvements, Nellie Coffman Middle General Fund Expenditures continue to lag behind School renovation and Phase 1 district-wide playground those in 2008-09 due to the state budget crisis. improvements. Major education finance reform was approved Current projects include Bella Vista Elementary School, with the 2013-14 State Budget and is expected to Edward Wenzlaff repurposing project and phase 2 and 3 of bring more dollars to California's most needy stu- district-wide playground improvements. dents. The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) is expected to provide an additional $10 million in Accountability fiscal year 2013-14 to Palm Springs Unified with additional increases over the next 8 years. Federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires all students in the 2013-14 Budget U.S. to be proficient in math and English Language Arts. This is a benchmark that every student must meet. If ♦ What is the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)? To even one subgroup of students does not meet proficiency learn more, you can tune into the LCFF Channel at targets, districts are considered as failing to meet the tar- http://lcff.wested.org/lcff-channel to view short videos on get. PSUSD increased proficiency in both of these areas, California's major education reform. though some subgroups of students have not met ♦ How will LCFF effect our budget? Current projections "proficiency" levels required by NCLB. This places the indicate that Palm Springs USD will receive$85 million district in "Program Improvement."This designation re- over the next 8 years. This amount is referred to as the quires an outside agency to monitor and assist with our funding gap which is the difference between the LCFF progress in these areas. We are continuing to work with target and our 2012-13 adjusted base funding. the Riverside County Office of Education. ♦ How will the funds be allocated? LCFF contains 3 major State components: 1)A Base Grant; 2)A Supplemental Grant The State of California requires 5% growth per year and and 3) A Concentration Grant. Regulations are not yet expects all schools and districts to have a score of 800 on available defining how these dollars can be spent. The a scale of 1-1000. Our District API is 751. Ten of our State Board of Education is expected to provide this schools met or exceeded API targets in PSUSD in 2012. guidance in January 2014. Cielo Vista Charter is our first school to reach over 900 (903). Eight schools are over 800. 21st Century Skills Community support makes a critical difference! Help ensure that all PSUSD students have the resources to reach their full potential by making a tax-deductible contribution to The Pinnacle Fund,the non-profit charitable foundation for PSUSD. The Pinnacle Fund supports technology as well as fine arts programs and projects that give students the skills and creative capacity needed to succeed in the 21"century. The Foundation also heads up our naming opportunities program for district programs and facilities. To learn more, visit our website at www.pinnaciefund.org or call (760) 416-8455. RSVP Volunteers City of Palm Springs Current Hours Served # Site #Volunteers 1/1/13-8/31/13 Value Added Comments 1 Agua Caliente Cultural Museum 1 0 new volunteer starting in October 2 Cahuilla Elementary 2 0 3 Cielo Vista Elementary 3 14 4 Desert AIDS Project 0 0 5 Desert Blind and Handicapped Assoc. 9 391 6 Desert Regional Medical Center 1 300 7 Mizell Senior Center 34 5,910 8 Palm Springs High School 1 0 9 Palm Springs International Film Festival 3 0 10 Stroke Recovery Center 23 2,906 11 The Center 3 390 Total current RSVP Volunteers 80 9,911.00 1 $245,297 How many Palm Springs citizens are RSVP Volunteers?l 76 Population 43,976 50- 64 11,505 65 and over 11,432 RSVP Coachella Valley Lori Weathers Phone: (760) 771-0501 Program Manager-RSVP Director Fax: (760) 771-6267 Riverside County Office on Aging 78-900 Avenue 47 Ste 200 e-mail: (weathers@co.riverside.ca.us La Quinta, CA 92253