Politics & Government
Napa Gov't Summit: Council, Supes Meet Jointly Tues.
City and county to discuss upcoming state budget cuts and the possibility of the two government bodies sharing office space downtown.
The and the will hold a special joint meeting Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the council chambers at , 955 School St.
But while the two municipal bodies will be joining together for the mutual session, their posted agendas differed somewhat before the county’s was updated Monday.
The joint meeting was initially just one item in the agenda for the supes’ regular meeting, which starts at 9 a.m. in their third-floor chambers at the county administration building:
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“Recess to a joint meeting with the Napa City Council (Napa City Hall) to discuss: County and Community Impacts of State Public Safety and Health & Human Services Budget Cuts.”
But on Monday afternoon the county issued a supplemental agenda adding
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“A joint County-City effort to examine consolidation and co-location options for City and County operations and services.”
The supplemental county agenda corrects an earlier mismatch with the city agenda for the special meeting, in which the budget session is listed as second to:
“City/County Facility Consolidation Plan: Council authorization for the City Manager to finalize agreement with the County of Napa to develop a conceptual site plan of joint City/County Administrative facilities and evaluate opportunities for co-location and consolidation options for City and County operations and services.”
The county’s proposed “,” a four- to five-story complex along Third Street, has significant local opposition for its size and proximity to the historic .
Napa City Council members Juliana Inman and Peter Mott told the Association of Napa Neighborhoods last month that the city’s own “superblock,” which includes City Hall, police and fire headquarters and Fire Station No. 1, is larger than the county’s and offers an alternative to the Third Street proposal.
Co-locating county services on the city’s property to the northwest of the current county building would “relieve the pressure on the historic neighborhood,” Mott said.
Napa City Council meetings are streamed live on the CityofNapa.org website.
