Tuesday’s City Council meeting — 7pm at City Hall — packs a punch…

• Additional tree cutting at Duck Pond Park (there will be virtually no Eucalyptus trees left standing). Cost: $39k.
• Continue to outsource police dispatch services to Pinole. Cost: $420k.
• Eliminate left turn from Lucky on Sycamore Avenue. Cost: $23k.
• Loan to Bio-Rad for tenant improvements. Cost: $2m.
• Lighting design for Sycamore Downtown. Cost: $30k.
• Civil design of John Muir Parkway extension and Refugio Creek restoration. Cost: $96k.
• Additional civil design work for planned auto center. Cost: $17k.
• Cost-benefit analysis for Hercules Bayfront project. Cost: $75k. (This is sort of ironic.)
• Disbursement of tenant improvement funds for Sala Restaurant at the restored historic Civic Arts Building. Cost: $230k.

The Council will also vote to symbolically support a constitutional convention. (Hear ye.)

The Council will revise the City’s political sign ordinance and no longer allow signs in the San Pablo Avenue median but concentrate them on the northwest corner of the intersection with Sycamore (I hope they mean the southwest corner, where signs currently are placed almost in perpetuity; there is little reason to tarnish the opposite, wetlands side), and no longer allow signs along Sycamore Avenue in the future Duck Pond Park parcel, but will permit signs at the former Walmart property.

The complete agenda is available on the City’s website.

UPDATE — I was correct. Political signs will be limited to the southwest corner of Sycamore and San Pablo (not northwest). The City Clerk will update the proposed revised ordinance accordingly.