padres de nuestros estudiantes de roslan universidad preparatoria que por favor rechazen la propuesta del dispensario de marihuana que se quiere poner en el lugar de cien sebasto polró Quiero un futuro libre de drogas para mis hijos Y no se diga para los estudiantes de roslan No quiero drogas no quiero que se exponga A los estudiantes ante esta situación Un dispensario de marihuana sería lo peor que nos pueden traer a nuestra comunidad Traiganos educación Traiganos entretenimiento Pero no drogas Pueden utilizar ese lugar para música por ejemplo Los estudiantes quieren estudiar música y cuesta caro o inclusive la biblioteca En la biblioteca de roslan no se ha puesto porque no encuentran un lugar Actualmente está en frente de Lo que era Dollar Tree Un edificio pequeño Porque no ponen la biblioteca ahí Es un lugar grande Por favor traiganos educación entretenimiento pero no drogas No drogas a nuestra comunidad de roslan Alrededor hay varias escuelas y eso lo expone a los jóvenes Por favor Y hablo en nombre de muchos padres Que están indignados por esta situación Gracias Good evening council I've come to ask Uh in front of in representation of Parents of our schools at Are the students at roslan prep That you reject the proposal of the marihuana dispensary In at the location of 100 sepultable road I want a future free From drugs and i'm not just saying that for the roslan students But I don't want drugs nearby and I don't want the students exposed to drugs A dispensary is the worst thing it could bring to our community Please bring us education. Please bring us entertainment but not drugs We could use the location for music instead for example if students want to study music But it's expensive So we could spend money there or even the library that hasn't been Built yet because we haven't had a location There was a small building in front of I think the dollar tree. Why not put a library there? But we just don't want drugs in the roslan community. There are many schools around and it puts kids at risk So I'm speaking on behalf of many parents that are discussing with this Thank you Thank you, virginia. We'll go to ricarta followed by lisao I apologize if I messed that up Good afternoon everyone. My name is ricarda suarez a student at roslan university prep I am here to demand that you the city council uphold the appeal to the old school cannabis dispensary You have the power to improve the heart of rosland We demand that the location in question the former home of roslin university prep that served as a learning center for youth Be repurposed as a location that will provide desperately needed resources to our community Such as a permanent location for the rosland library A multicultural center child care center or a resiliency hub Roslin has been asking for a place like such mentioned before for over a decade You make me wonder why our needs have not yet been met Youth will youth well-being will be heavily impacted after the approval of this proposal Our health and safety should not should be prioritized As vice mayor alvarez stated it is an honor to serve you at this capacity We now hold you and the city council members accountable to your word and request that you support your youth activism and uphold the appeal We are part of santa rosa. We too need to be heard. Our needs must be met I've I've just heard you all listen to fund distribution and as we are all aware that this is a huge There's a huge fund to which you should focus a portion of this to um giving back to our community to our working class Because let's face it roslin is full of working class people their children majority latinx So we are not being heard That's why we stand here today um We too deserve a place of safety and wisdom Uh numbers show we don't numbers show we don't stand alone It's not just those in this room today. It is roslin as a whole who expects one Expects each and every single one of you to uphold this appeal. Thank you Thank you, rickarda lsao followed by veronica or excuse me veronia Okay, so Hello council. Um speaking again this time. Um going against the marijuana dispensary I just wanted to say that I think it's inappropriate to build a dispensary in a place of education um it goes against it goes against everything that that school stood for and While the verdict is out on whether drugs are good or bad the fact of the matter is that a Building used or a building that was for the public is now being privatized and being used as a for-profit uh business And we should do something that will further benefit the community such as a community center multicultural center A park something that the community can still look to as a place of hope and to build themselves Thank you. Thank you Veronia We'll come to daniel next My name is veronica. I'm a current student from rosin university prep And just like many other people in our community Our parents immigrated here for education for our future And this school rosin university prep was a place for education for those in that community and I wish to go against to I feel the marijuana dispensary to add A place where we could continue this education for our future and for our community that many of them parents focus on giving their Children opportunities to learn an education like culture like a culture center To go more and deep within their culture and other cultures And a library because not only a library Gives opportunities to the youth but even to Parents such as when I went to a library once They would have classes for parents to learn English as their second language to be able to help their Children with homework or to be able to communicate with their teachers And not only that but citizenship I've seen classes where they give help to people and parents who want citizenship and I feel like Continuing this place that was an education would bring more love more hope and more union to our community because in rosin There's not really A place of education anymore They just barely put a library there and I wish the library could be More bigger to give these opportunities such as such as the library here that's Really big and gives so many opportunities. I wish Rosanne could have the same opportunities and That's all All right. Thank you Veronica. We'll go to Daniel followed by april. Hello. My name is Daniel I am also a student at rup and like all my classmates here. I'm here to ask you all The council to reject The marijuana dispensary that's trying to be built on sabbatical road Um, I found out that it was going to be built during school And not once the people on my street find that I live one street around boy street That's like a block or so away from where the dispensary is going to be built Not once the people on my street find out That that transparency was going to be built there So and to top it all off the information that was provided wasn't in spanish So the people of the rosin area where it's going to be built They didn't know that it was going to be built there and How can we expect? that the rosin community is to be Included in decisions that affect them when they aren't even being informed That things that are happening in their community And right here in my hands. I'm holding all the signatures of the people that do not want this place to be built So I ask you all to please Listen to us for once Thank you Thank you. Daniel. We'll go to april followed by ermah Hello. Good afternoon everyone I just want to give a quick shout out to event minor event minor was the person Who took the extra step to demand language justice to demand that the first planning commission be Um have a translator and be provided in spanish And that is this those are the kinds of steps that we need to see from city council as well We need to see action not just words Um, I'm here to support the students Of roseland. I currently work in an afterschool program. It's a social emotional learning program And I think I speak for myself and also for other people that provide social services um People that the like the teachers that are here today When they they say that this is going to negatively impact their students. They're speaking from experience They're speaking because it's what they deal with every day and what they try to combat every day Um, I have some facts. If you guys just bear with me I have a lot of notes in my phones. I kind of have to search through it But I also just want to say I'm really proud of all the students that came out here today They did an action They helped organize this action. So when you're asking for equity They're actually meeting you here at the table and they're taking the initiative when the dispensary didn't go to them Didn't provide any information We call that bako del agua and that reeks of corruption and I'll let the interpreter interpret that for you guys but that reeks of corruption so These students took the initiative to come with you to you with with valid information With information directly from their community And if you're seeking equity and if you're seeking equitable justice and equitable decisions and community input for decision making They're here They're here and they made that effort It's six o'clock at night and they're they're here and they're at high schoolers and they made that happen And they're not getting paid so, um I did want to kind of go over real quick If I could just find it I'm sure you guys have already accessed the roseland specific plan It was the final report published in 2016 If you haven't referred to it, please refer to it all of the needs of the community still stands since 2016 and have yet to be met um, I also wanted to also encourage you guys to visit The Sonoma county prevention partnership plan um a big part of their 20 20 To 2025 prevention plan indicates that policy is the most impactful aspect on the spectrum of prevention So your decision today is going to have the most impact in terms of prevention for these students and for the youth of roseland in terms of In that in that spectrum your environment or what is in your surroundings Is basically one of three major factors that are critical In public in the public health model for substance abuse problem prevention So I encourage you guys to make the most equitable decision Which is to stand by the people of roseland today Thank you, april. We'll go to ermah followed by daisy Just as a quick point of clarification This is on the agenda for next week for action I just wanted to make sure that folks listening in the public know that it's next week where we'll we'll be discussing this ermah followed by daisy I'm bringing this letter because one of the boys gave it to me It's not my words, it's the words of these boys And I ask myself If we the adults are the ones who make decisions Because our young people who don't have a voice or a vote can't vote yet to tell us what they need I think we are the ones who can listen to our young people That's what they really want And then we have to support them So that they can maybe take care of those places that you guys are Because tomorrow they'll take care of those places and what examples we're giving them I just want to tell you that we can't make decisions without asking the community And I took a full day To interview and ask A lot of people And all of these people They were in favor of removing it, removing the dispensary One day I just dedicated For all of the people to give that answer My question is now How many people have you asked to give permission for that dispensary It's very important that they represent us And if we're here to make our voice count They should support it because it's their job And we're here to help them Here we are doing that job, those hours After our job, leaving our families, our children To come here to help them, what our community needs What our young people need I want to see our young people at the university I want to see them there, sitting in that place Where are our Hispanics? Are we intelligent? Give us the opportunity and listen to us. Thank you Charles, can you please restate that comment, the speaker's comments? Thank you So I'm bringing this letter You know the the young men actually brought up. These are not my words. It's their words So I ask myself if we The adults are the ones making the decisions then why do our kids come To this place the ones who don't have a voice yet who can't vote yet They're the ones that come We are the ones who Should listen to the youth and see what it is that they really want and we must support them Because maybe in the future they'll need the places that we are in right now So maybe tomorrow they'll need those places And I want to say that We can't make decisions without asking the community I took I took a full day to interview and ask Many people around the area how they felt And all of those people were in favor of removing the dispensary Just one day is all I dedicated to asking and I received these as answers So how many people did all of you ask for permission to place that dispensary? If we are here To make our voices heard then you should support us because it's your job We are the ones who went out and worked those hours after getting out of regular work After leaving our children and families at home. I want to see our youth Going to university. I want to see them sitting in those places And so where are our Hispanic people?  So please hear us Thank you. Arma We'll go to daisy Roslan No, I need to Que la ciudad apoya la la aprobación para llevar a cabo el dispensario de cannabis En esta área ya que esto traerá muchos problemas de salud Y de drogas que es lo que queremos arrear en radicar en nuestra comunidad Queremos que este edificio que ha formado jóvenes profesionales Se ha conmemorado Con un centro de para nuestros jóvenes y nuestros hijos y así podemos construir una comunidad más preparada No lo queremos que sea un edificio que destruya más nuestra comunidad Díganlo al dispensario Escuchen a estos jóvenes que sólo buscan el futuro Ustedes tienen el poder de cambiar una comunidad Representa una de muchas madres que son la voz de jóvenes Y de una comunidad que no quiere un dispensario en roslan roslan Es más que un dispensario es unidad es cultura Raíces y una comunidad con ganas de salir adelante. Gracias Charles, can you please restate the speaker's comments? Thank you My name is daisy currinho I'm a resident of rosland and rosland has not been heard for many years and we want that to change Roslin doesn't approve of a dispensary in the area and it will just bring health and drug problems to the community And we want the youth center to be commemorated and used for Services that will benefit the kids Not just a building that destroys the community even more Say no to the dispensary Listen to the youth the youth who are only looking forward to the future You have a chance to change the community And the community voice says that it does not want the dispensary in roslan it is more than It is more than Oh the dispensary is not needed there and the cult with it. We need a location for culture To learn about our roots and somewhere with a desire to move forward All right. Thank you daisy Julie did we have anybody that was left outside? Because of capacity issues that wanted to speak Michael you're up And I want to thank everybody for being here tonight I know it was a a long wait to get here. We'll see you next week as well. But just thank you Okay, I happen did michael hilber Southwest san rosa area I happen to agree that uh with the opposition to the dispensary on sabbatical road, but I'm going to go off on a different direction I see, you know san rosa got a problem of Being too friendly to the drug-using Uh constituency And one of the main problems is that we give them too much money And that's why we see all these uh guys around the off ramps around Um Cottingtown and intersections like west third and stony point, you know collecting cash with the cardboard signs I've been told that you can realistically, you know, if you got a good spot you can bring in two or three hundred dollars a day collecting cash from uh, you know Left turn lane or off ramp, you know, if you got a cardboard sign You know, I find that really easy to believe Let me give you an example and you might be offended by it, but I will tell you that I saw a mexican come out of a liquor store With a 30-pack case of beer And a crackhead was out front asking for cash Mr. Hilber, I'm going to ask you to just be respectful of people. Yes, I am No, but please with your language be respectful of me. I am Okay, so he set the beer down And took out his wallet And handed over several bills to this guy Now, let me tell you If you see a privileged white male asking you for money Do not be flattered Because what you're doing is giving cash to a drug user to buy drugs You know, there's nothing flattering about that And there's nothing being generous by doing that.  You know collecting cash from people Here's an example of a sign Done by a guy Who makes a new sign every single day And he plants his backside next to a fast food place Every single day collecting cash And he's obviously a drug user And he should be told to You know pick up and leave He should be run out of there Because this is pathetic for a grown man To spend his time making these phony signs Kindness and compassion anything helps Give me some money to buy drugs Tell them to you know quit loitering And remove himself from the property All right That's the end of public comment for in person in the chambers. I'm not seeing any hands on zoom Madam deputy city clerk. Did we have any voicemails? Mayor I did not receive any voice message public comments for non-agenda matters But I did just see a hand pop up via zoom. Okay, let's go to Paulina on zoom Good evening. Can you hear me? Yes, we can Hi, good evening. My name is Paulina Lopez. I am a commissioner for the human rights commission And I'm just popping in here to say that as a commissioner of human rights I I support the Roslyn families and the students And if I can please recommend you to meet with them before you vote on this next Tuesday, that would be amazing And just hear their voice out their voices out and do what's best for them. Thank you Thank you Paulina All right, we'll go ahead and close public comment for our non-agenda items. Thank you everybody for being here we will move on to item 15.1 And just so that the public is aware sort of how the rest of the meeting will flow We'll have item 15.1. Take a quick dinner break come back for 15.2 And then finish up with item 14.2 Mayor rogers and members of the city council item 15.1 is our first public hearing of the evening The matter before the council is the redistricting of city council districts under the fair maps act This is the first of four required public hearings on this matter Sue Gallagher our city attorney Stephanie Williams our city clerk and k Mont play sir With redistricting partners will be joining the presentation this evening Good evening, mr. Mayor and council members. I will give just a very brief introduction and then we'll hand it over Redistricting under state and federal law as you know the city must review and update council district boundaries every 10 years Following the city's receipt of updated population data From the federal decennial census So this review ensures that all of our council districts remain in compliance with constitutional and federal and state requirements So the city has initiated this uh this process. We've done that uh, I think you began in october commonly referred to as redistricting And under state law as we've mentioned before it does require at least four public hearings one of which may be Conducted as a community meeting The first of the public hearings must be held before any proposed maps are drawn And this first public hearing gives a community an opportunity to give us input As to preferences and criteria for the composition of the revised districts And that is before we set a pen to paper in drafting the maps So today is that first public hearing And with that I will hand it over to k mont play sear Of the redistricting partners to give the presentation. So thank you very much Thank you. Hi, my name is k mont pleasure. I am a project manager with redistricting partners And we are going to talk about at length about communities of interest And how they affect the redistricting process so we can go ahead to the next slide So welcome and let's go over the agenda So first we're going to cover redistricting basics We're going to talk about the redistricting commission Go over our traditional redistricting principles Really going depth on communities of interest what they are What they're not We are going to do a mapping tool demonstration online We're going to talk about how you can give public testimony on your community's interest And then we will go over our public hearing schedule So first we'll talk about what redistricting is It's the process of adjusting district lines every 10 years after the release of the u.s census So when people usually think of redistricting they think of congressional and legislative redistricting But the cities and counties and special districts also have to go through this process And so the city of santa rosa district did a few years ago But we have new census data from 2020 and we have to make sure that we are using that to Create equal and balanced districts And beyond creating districts of equal population We are also focused on empowering local communities and preserving voting rights So there are traditional redistricting principles In order to prevent districting from becoming a gerrymandering So there's a number of criteria that have been used nationally and upheld by courts The first of these is that districts have to be of relatively equal size And when we say equal size we mean all people not just citizens or voters They also have to be contiguous and contiguous is really only a word that we use in redistricting And what it means is that districts should not top or jump. So in other words, each district has to be drawn with only one line Next we maintain communities of interests, which is really what we're here to talk about Tonight communities of interests are A group of people that have common policy interests and we'll get into that a little bit more on the next slide Next districts have to follow city council and local government lines And finally, we need to make sure that we're keeping districts compact in both appearance and function And so what we mean by compact and appearance is I'm sure that when you all think of gerrymandering you think of those long Snakey districts We want to make sure that our districts don't look like that that we're not bypassing Areas that are populated for other areas To make sure that they are compact And so we that's compact in appearance, but we also want to make sure it's compacted function and by that On a map on paper Sometimes a house can or a neighborhood can look like it's right next to another neighborhood But it might be separated by a freeway or a river or even a mountain pass So we want to make sure that our communities and our districts are compacted function as well We can go ahead to the next slide So I mentioned oh you can go back Thank you So communities and interests just to get a little bit more in depth on what a community of interest is It's a neighborhood a community or a group of people with common policy interests that would benefit from being maintained in a single district And when we talk about communities of interest, they're really defined by you the community members So another way of understanding the community of interest is it's a way for a community to tell its own story It's history and why it should be maintained together And we can go ahead to the next slide So communities of interest are building blocks of your districts. They can include ethnic and language minorities But they can also include many other groups. They are subjective An open ended to be as inclusive as possible Um, there are communities that are covered by the voting rights act these communities are latinos asians and african americans We can go ahead to the next slide And so importantly here while communities of interest may include race It cannot be race can't be the predominant factor when drawing district boundaries So here we have a list of some examples of community of interest and uh, like I said, communities of interest are subjective So this is just a small list of what they could be Um, so for example here, we have homeowners or renters We have a community who speaks the same language a community that shares geographic features Neighborhoods are a big community of interest For a lot of people going through this process Um historical communities and uh many many more So we can go ahead to the next slide So we went over what a community of interest is but it's also important to know what is not a community of interest So the fair maps act 2019 explicitly prohibits the following groups from being considered as communities of interest The first of these is political party affiliation um incumbents and political candidates And when you're redistricting, um, it's not prohibited by the fair maps acts But it is really difficult almost impossible to uh, draw groups of similarly minded people who don't share a similar geographic location It's really just too broad and hard to uh, kind of contain that into a single district So we we try not to consider that as well We can go ahead to the next slide So when talking or thinking about what your community of interest is there are three, uh, big questions That we can ask ourselves. So first does your community have a shared culture shared characteristics or a bond? so When we think of communities of interest our personal stories are really the most powerful So we want to find community members willing to share examples of Things that residents share in common and what makes your community unique So does your neighborhood share certain celebrations or traditions? Are there important places where your community likes to gather? Um, it's just your community have a history of how you came together Really asking yourself. Uh, why why is my community unique and why should my community stay together? Um, next is the community geographic in nature And is it able to be mapped like I said in the last slide? It's really hard if we have a community that's city-wide because uh, you know, we have to draw districts So uh making sure that it is, you know compact and and we can actually draw it on a map And finally describing the community's relationship with the jurisdiction and how it's affected by policy decisions made by elected official So most communities get involved in the most community members get involved in the redistricting process Because of policy issues and because of elected representation So highlighting community issues and personal stories and written narratives Really helps demonstrate the importance of having elected officials Looking out for your best interest And we can go ahead to the next slide So now that we talked about what community's interests are and what they're not we're going to go through a couple examples Um, which you all can kind of just think to yourselves while we go through these Um, if there are community ventures or not So first up we have a group of renters who lives downtown and they testify to the city Would this be considered a community of interest? And we'll go to the next slide Yes, this is a community of interest. Um, this group of residents can easily be mapped They're in a distinct area downtown and they share a common policy interest, which is that they're all renters Um, and that can be addressed through legislation or public services because they have uh policy issues that they all care about We can go ahead to the next slide So there's a part of town that has a historic nature Are there is a former hub of business community or is an area that has been discriminated against through redlining or racially restrictive Covenants should the city prioritized this historical area when drawing their maps We'll go to yep. Yep This is a community of interest. Um, it should be prioritized historical Historical communities and areas with historical discrimination can and should be recognized as a community of interest We'll go to the next slide All right, so now we have a statewide group of fans of the san francisco giants and they testify to the city of san rosa Would this be considered a community of interest? No, this is not a community of interest. So it's a statewide group. Uh, it's Really hard to draw on a map Um, it overlaps throughout this whole state and it's also unlikely that the city of san rosa Has any say over the issues that they care about We'll go ahead to the next slide So, uh, now we'll talk about how we can submit uh testimony on community's interest So input can be provided in public hearings like the one we're having tonight Or by using the community of interest survey form on the city's website You can go ahead to the next slide And so there are two types of online map submissions That we will have on our online mapping tool called district r.org And there are two expected types. First of these is community of interest maps Which we will do a demonstration of after this presentation And the second is district plans based on the 2020 census data We'll go to the next slide And like I said, the city of san rosa will be using uh district r.org as a public mapping tool It's a really user friendly tool And we will be showing you a demonstration of that after this presentation is over And there will also be laminated paper maps that we call at redistricting programs. We call them placenats For the public to use to draw their own community of interest at public meetings in person Go ahead to the next page So here we have our timeline. So tonight is our first public hearing Our, you know, community outreach and we are going to have another community outreach meeting in january January 25th, we will have our draft maps And then after that going through final passage and then finally adopting final maps And we can go to the next page And you can find all of this information at srcity.org slash redistricting Where you can find that community of interest form and when the district or page is up It would be on that website as well And i'm happy to take any questions now or go straight to the district or presentation for demonstration I think go ahead and show the presentation and We can do questions from council after And that's if you want to do district r.org slash california That'll bring us right to it One moment while I pull it up Fantastic. So this is district r.org And as you can see, this is our home page for california And we're going to talk about drawing our communities tonight. So um, you're going to go underneath the big california It says draw communities. We're going to click on that And right now since we don't have our santa rosa page up yet We're going to do statewide so you can click on that red button that says california So this takes you right into the map and so you can zoom in and if we want to just zoom in to santa rosa Which you can do either scrolling Or by using in the upper left hand corner the plus and minus signs And then in order to move around if you actually want to go up in the right hand corner, you can see a hand If you want to click on that That will be you'll be able to kind of move it around You can keep coaching me through it. This is what our public's gonna go through so they need to hear it too So we can uh, we can kind of we can zoom in as much as we want Really anywhere just a random uh place. It doesn't it doesn't matter where we go But we can zoom in a little bit more And it's a little delayed on my end. So i'm just uh I think this is uh, perfect Okay All right, so say that this is our community here We are going to go ahead and click on the paintbrush in the upper right hand corner And then once you have the paintbrush if you just go over and you don't click on the map You can see that these census blocks all um, you know, these are all our census blocks And they kind of light up in like a shadow. So you can click on it And then that marks your community of interest Perfect. Maybe even let's get the high school in there Fantastic. So this is our community of interest And if you made a mistake, there is an eraser that you can use To get rid of anything that you accidentally put in there perfect And so then once you have your community of interest feel good about it Um, we can start uh describing it. So first you're gonna want to name it Under areas of interest You can name your community, uh, whatever Fits whatever whatever you like some people like to name it their neighborhood Or write community e that works as well And we also want to describe your community So when we describe our community something helpful to put here is those three questions. So What does your community happen in common? What are the characteristics or bond of your community? What is the Geography of your community? Obviously, we can see it on the map But if there are important geographic points, that would be helpful too And finally, what are the issues important to your community? So all of these are really helpful to put in your submission And also at the bottom we can see important places and slow me down if i'm going too fast So if we click on the new button under important places And then we go on to our map. We see that it's changed into that little plus sign So if we say let's put it on the high school We mark the high school and we click on it And it creates a little red dot So as you can see there's you can't see it that well But there's a little red dot right over the high school and you can mark that as an important place You can name it you know high school And describe why it's important to your community And that you want to be kept in you know the same community as this important place And so now we've drawn our community of interest we marked our important places And next we can really look at our data layers and population So if we want to go over to Up where it says drawing next to that it says data layers and evaluation Do I need to save click save? No, we're still we're still going to be in the same page Great question So if we can we can click on population divide race or coalition builder and we can Show all of our you know different demographics And really kind of look at the makeup of your community So you can look you can click on show population or show voting age population Or the check marks right above that Yeah, perfect. Um, so then if you go over to the map hover over the map So I'm sorry. I'm in the wrong one. Um, if we go into excuse me the So that this kind of will show us let's go into the uh magnifying glass excuse me. I forgot the word for it Up by the hand Then we can see what our blocks are made up of With the different demographics are here Which isn't necessary to look at for our communities of interest But it is interesting to kind of look at the makeup of your community And when drawing district lines It's helpful to look at that as well So now that we have our community of interest And we've described it and marked our important places We can go ahead and save it and it will publish to our public gallery. So we click save And then we so when we have our santa rosa Page it's going to save to the santa rosa public gallery and you can either choose to Just save it to the public gallery and then all other community members And the council can see it or you can save it as a draft and it saves as a draft on the public gallery and you can come back and work on it And so here you can copy your url and you'll be able to do this in the santa rosa page as well Save it so you can share it with other community members Or you can just save it for your own files And then there is going to be a special santa rosa tag on each of the santa rosa maps as well And that is district r. It's a really, you know, simple tool It's once you get in there and kind of play around with it. It's really Intuitive And i'm happy to answer any questions that you all have All right So first and foremost Council and i know i don't need to remind this body One of the things that i want us to be really intentional and mindful about is that redistricting is about the constituents Not about the elected officials So let's try to be intentional when we talk about the different districts to not say my district The vice mayor's district Let's talk about them based on their numbers and based on the populations that we serve and the communities of interest that Reside within each of the districts I'll start with the vice mayor and see if you have any input I have I have more of a question mayor in regards to the Operation of the computer I do see that we're having or holding a session for community outreach in on the computer as well as in person And i'm wondering if we're doing any of these classes in spanish or if we're collaborating with c collected or or even our outreach Team such as with my galley bayis to help assist with that Councilmember alvarez. This is uh, stephanie Yes, we are coordinating with our community engagement Office to help us with outreach And we are planning to have interpreters at the meeting That is required of us. So yes all of that That you asked will be taking place Thank you, uh, city clerk steve williams A second question as as one of the Council members am I able to assist In this process on that meeting or because of the the perception of swing It was it more advisable for me to allow the process to happen without my My assistance or input Or without the input for really the assistance I'll jump in vice mayor My expectation is that all council members are working with the community to gather the input Whether it is helping folks to understand the districting tool Helping to facilitate communities of interest being brought to the full discussion And and then we can all work together to sort of piece it together and sort through it But our role I think largely is gathering that that input and make sure that folks in the community know what tools They have available to them to try to draw maps or to articulate what their district should look like Thank you Councilmember rogers Hi, okay.  Um the first meeting so For the the tool, um, I went to a technology high school, but I'm not tech savvy. It's been a long time Is there a way to plop down what our districts the lines our districts? Already hold and have someone just kind of move those lines according to um For census purposes For numbers or do they have to reinvent? The whole shebang Yeah, so uh when santa rosa Uh gets its own district or page We will have uh, you'll be able from that home page with california You'll be able to just go to city santa rosa and it'll bring you state straight to santa rosa with the district lines already So it will be the whole district and then you can put your community interests wherever. Um, and then you'll also be able to draw um community maps of uh Even if we want to click on a city just to show you what it'll look like All right Like size city I think if you go I think if you go to the sonoma county map under counties that might be More readily understood for community members since we are very aware of the area And uh, madame city clerk. Did you have something you wanted to add before we go to that? I did. I wanted to just clarify if k could clarify for us I know that there are other cities listed once the santa rosa map is available People can just click on cities and find santa rosa. Is that correct? They don't have to click on the statewide then drill down To county and then to city can they just click on the cities there? And then find santa rosa Yeah, and um, it should also be that uh Redistricting page on the website. It will also be linked there So you don't even have to start at district or work. I can just start at the santa rosa website Great. Thank you I'll go to councilmember Fleming really fast and then let's pull up the sonoma county map I have a question about communities of interest and how that interplays with districts having just advocated on behalf of district four In a districting process at the county level when we approach this here at the city level Does does any particular district qualify as a community of interest or ought we to approach this as a blank slate? Or is that a matter of discretion? Yeah, so um A community of interest, uh, it could be district wide. Um, it could be Uh, you know, we try we have traditional principles and the fair maps act We we cannot consider, you know, certain things like where incumbents live but we can consider Communities that want to stay together and if that's a whole district Then a community member can absolutely advocate for that and testify on behalf of the districts that they have currently um, so Yes, that's that can be a community of interest And we we can consider that as well Thank you for the clarification and if I if I may mr. Mayor um also A note that when we went through the redistricting went through the initial districting process in 2018 Certainly, we were also basing that on communities of interest And not necessarily that the entire district was a single community of interest But that within each district we tried to retain The integrity of each community of interest. So that does underlie even the existing maps And it's and I believe that it's pretty clear that that was the intention even though I wasn't a participant. I think that it was well done I'm popping up Sonoma county and walk me through it Yeah, so it's um, you know Pretty much is the same page that we showed you earlier, but we can see I guess, you know, if you want to go towards The edge the boundary of the district we can show you that you can't really draw past it So you're not going to accidentally put a bunch of a different city in a district so Yeah, if uh, you know, we won't be able to Here we can't draw in another county. We're only in Sonoma county here And and I think to the previous question If you go to data layers if you click on that There's a Current districts under the boundaries there that if you click on that it shows the existing So I think to the question Earlier that will be a useful function when we start to dig into what are the existing districts? Uh in santa rosa and then allowing folks to sort of build around that and with that Should they choose? Oh, yeah, I would also like to add That for those um residents who are who don't have access to a computer A paper map or pdf Will be provided they can request it from the city clerk's office We will also be providing the paper maps at our community meeting So it's not just The opportunity to submit maps isn't going to be just by through the website right and just as a Matter of process with the public engagement that's happening Will the community engagement department and our dei Folks be engaged in those discussions and help facilitate Yes, they will perfect. Thank you Councilor are there any other questions? Council member rogers Sorry, k one one more question. How do you um add everything up?  Because we want to try to make everything equal right or as close to equal as we can with the districts How do you add all those communities of interest? up after you have selected Oh, sorry after you have selected them Yeah, so um just going back to the Those redistricting principles that we talked about We have a lot of things that we consider when drawing draft maps drawing district maps Some of these are the district maps of the community submits And also we want to think about communities of interest and making sure that every All of our districts are of relatively equal size and so Without getting too much in the weeds on how we look at our equal population is we want to get Um and within a 10 percent deviation of each of the districts within the city of san rosa So we don't have to have it be completely equal because then we wouldn't be adhering to our other principles But we just need to make sure that our districts don't deviate over 10 percent And so when we talk about deviation we have an ideal number of how equal a Each district is in population and so When we talk about deviation being over 10 percent We mean that it is Far enough away from that ideal number either to underpopulated or too overpopulated So we want to get to an equal population within 10 percent deviation But we're also considering our other principles keeping things compact Making sure that we're keeping communities of interest intact, which usually You know gets us under that 10 percent But doesn't make our districts completely equal I hope that answered your question and if it didn't I Did not although it was very valuable information. My question is does this tool have a way of adding? um Mayor you have the answer because yeah, if uh madam deputy city clerk if you could pull your screen back up And just draw anything Now click on the population tab And it shows how many people you captured for for that color If you switch colors and do the same thing it'll show you for the different color separated from it Does that answer your question? Yes, I just know once we get off people are going to be wanting I mean people are going to want to play around with the the tool and so these are questions that are probably going to come up A great question vice mayor Thank you, mayor From madam city clerk you said that we might that we will have paper copies. Is there a date that those will be available for the public? um, I believe the community of interest form is already on our website and we are Waiting to get the map from redistricting partners. Um, hopefully we will have that by tomorrow So anybody who would like a map they can certainly contact me city clerk at srcity.org Or call me at five four three three zero one six, and I'll be happy to mail them a map if needed Thank you very much Are there any other questions council? All right If not, I will go ahead and open the public hearing we can hear from the public Either any questions they have any communities of interest any input that they would like the council To take into account as we journey down this process If you're interested in providing comment go ahead hit the raise hand feature on zoom I see none and I will say in our experience doing this a couple of years ago It is difficult to give comment until we start to see draft maps Then people really start to be able to visualize it Dina did we have any pre-recorded voicemails? We did not mayor. Okay. I will close the public hearing I'll bring it back to see if there's any comments or questions from council members I have one question Council member Fleming is this map live or is this tool live? And if not one will it be Um, so we do not have a santa rosa page yet districtor is a little backed up with a lot of Redistrictings right now So I believe that it should be up Within the next couple weeks, but that's something that I'm gonna have to get back to you on because I'm not totally sure on I apologize. I couldn't hear you said what was the amount of time you said? um, hopefully uh within the next two weeks But uh, not totally sure on that. It's uh, kind of out of our hands. Okay. Thank you for letting me know But as a point of clarification, we'll make sure the page is up before we do our community input session That shows folks how to use it correct Any other comments council? All right, that's it for our study session then. Thank you so much k We'll be talking with you a number of times over the next couple of months And with that council, we'll take a quick dinner break. Let's come back at 7 30 Uh to resume our meeting with item 15.2 Chamber your mic is unmuted and we're back madam city clerk. Can you please call the roll? Yes, thank you mayor councilmember tidbits here councilmember schwaith-helm here councilmember soyer councilmember flimming here councilmember rogers president vice mayor alvarez president mayor rogers here Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of councilmember soyer All right. Let's go on to item 15.2. Please Mayor rogers as members of the city council item 15.2 is our second public hearing in the evening the matter before the council Is the adoption of the sonoma county multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan and update to the city's existing local hazard mitigation plan This item was continued from the november 30th 2021 regular meeting Sherry meads our city planner and amy lile a city planner will be presenting this item Good evening mayor rogers vice mayor rogers member of the council My name is amy lile and it's my privilege to be able to supervise our long-range planning team Tonight we're presenting and recommending adoption of a multi hazard mitigation plan And this serves as an update to our local hazard mitigation plan as well, which actually expires in january So sherry meads city planner with our advanced planning team will be doing the bulk of tonight's presentation And then on the call. We also have neil bregman our emergency preparedness manager paul lo and thall assistant fire marshal jesse oswald chief building official and also bart spencer with tetra tech, which was the consultant that helped prepare this plan Dean a next slide, please So we just wanted to start with giving you a primer and a framework of what this document is Hazard mitigation plan is a technical policy document It includes short term and long term policies and mitigation activities And it's its main purpose is to reduce the impacts of natural disaster through coordinated approaches So this multi jurisdictional approach is a little bit bigger and broader than what we've done in the past And so we'll get into a little bit more about that This plan also aligns with our general plan safety element and other locally adopted plans such as the community wildfire protection program Next slide, please So the first hazard mitigation plan was adopted in 2012 and our current one was adopted in 2017 Interestingly, this is one of the only policy documents that we are actually required to update every five years Which is why the one we have expires in in january So this iteration Was brought about due to a grant that the county of sonoma received in 2019 Sherry and others on her team have been part of a Working group and a steering committee to prepare this in a multi jurisdictional fashion And she will be getting involved in and working through the pieces of the document in that way We've also done a fair amount of outreach with this Planning effort so including a story map to communicate the variety of severity of hazards facing the county as a whole There wasn't a robust online survey And then we participated in roughly 10 community presentations and workshops So Lastly the other interesting tidbit about this planning effort. That's a little bit different Is that this plan must be approved by cal oes and fema? And so that approval process will actually occur after your review and potential adoption So um with that i'm going to turn it over to sherry to carry you through the rest of the presentation And dina if you'd like to go to the next slide i'll pass it on over Thanks amy So the multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation planning process brought together a diverse stakeholder group of governmental and non-governmental agencies who shared a Common goal to create a resilience in oma county for the whole community And that mission served the planning partners In their efforts to create goals and objectives and a community outreach strategy for the plan A volume one all five hundred and forty four whopping page is worth everything in that Volume one deals with sonoma county in its entirety not just the planning partners Who participated in the process but everyone in sonoma county? um The planning partners were the county of sonoma the town of winsor the cities of sonoma and katati Several open space and preservation districts and six fire districts um Volume two Contains an annex which is also kind of a fancy word for saying chapter for each of the participating partners an in volume two where our annex lives is a look at city specific vulnerabilities and mitigation action items that will address the hazards That are present in our community next slide please so Any federally approved hazard mitigation plan has to have risk ratings performed for each of the hazards of concern And those hazards of concern Area-wide are included in volume one and there was a risk assessment done for each of those Volume two includes our risk ratings and ranking and that's what you see on this slide here So it's based on all of the risk rating information And from this information staff You know in our large working group with members from all departments Developed and prioritized 35 mitigation action items to address And potentially mitigate the effects that local hazards have natural hazards have on life Property and natural systems Next slide please So this slide speaks to what happens next as ab mentioned We've received an approved pending adoption letter from FEMA, which means that after council adopts the plan We resubmit it and that's how we receive final approval from FEMA And as she also mentioned that the multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan and local hazard mitigation plan information will be incorporated into the general plan update And also other planning Mechanisms as appropriate. We'll try to integrate it into as many things as possible There will be an annual review of the multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan and and local hazard mitigation plan to basically Take a look at how we're doing on Achieving the mitigation action items that we have in the plan And this will be submitted every year to FEMA And it's also a time where we can add to Delete change any of the mitigation action items that are currently in the plan now And as I mentioned we have a great city team that work together to develop help develop this annex our our chapter in the plan and we'll continue meeting regularly and Analyzing the plan seeing how we can make it better and you know, improving mitigation action items is necessary also the City will continue to look for multi jurisdictional opportunities for mitigation plans You know planning projects and grant opportunities Next slide please So the original notice for this item, which was continued from last week was posted at city hall was advertised in the press democrat and Information was posted to the dedicated hazard mitigation plan website and promoted via social media and the city's newsletter No additional notification is required when an item is continued. Next slide please So the the adoption of the mitigation hazard Multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan and local hazard mitigation plan are considered exempt from the california environmental quality act Next slide please And with that it is recommended by the planning and economic development and fire departments that the council by resolution adopt volume one of the Sonoma county multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan dated october 2021 And update the local hazard mitigation plan by adopting the city of san aroza annex to volume two of the Sonoma county Multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan dated october 2021 And the appendices to volume two of the Sonoma county multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan dated october 2021 And that ends the presentation. We have multiple, as Amy mentioned, subject matter experts and I'm also available and happy to answer any questions or receive any comments you have about the plan. Great. Thank you so much, Sherry. Council, do we have any questions? Council Member Spudel. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Sherry, for the presentation. Excuse me. On slide five, but I just have a question. Could you, the ranking of drought as number seven, low category, can you talk a little bit more about why that's so, I don't know, to consider it so low of an impact or so low of a threat? Can you explain a little bit more about why that is so low? Absolutely. So when we look at drought, well, when we look at any hazards, we look at things such as the damage to property, risk to life, human life, and that type of thing. So while drought is very prevalent, it won't have the same level of impact to, you know, to the community as earthquake or wildfire would. Okay. Thank you. So again, it's impact to the community versus from a health and safety perspective. First, I mean, because obviously drought is affecting us all in. Right. Here, I can address that a little better. I have some notes here. So drought can have a widespread impact on the environment and the economy, although it typically does not result in loss of life or damage to structures as do other natural disasters. So that's kind of a more formal way to put what I said. Thank you. That clarifies it. Thank you. Any other questions, Council? All right. Well, this is a public hearing. So I'll open the hearing and we'll see if there's any comments from the public. If you are interested, hit the raise hand feature on your zoom. And I'm not seeing any Madam Deputy City Clerk. Do we have any voicemails? We do not, Mayor. Okay. I'll bring it back. Council Member Tibbets, I believe this is your item. Yes, it is. I move a resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa to one, adopt volume one of the Sonoma County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan dated October 21 and two, update the local hazard mitigation plan by adopting the City of Santa Rosa annex to volume two of the Sonoma County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan dated October 2021 and the appendices to volume two of the Sonoma County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan dated October 2021 and waive for the reading of the text. Second. Motion by Council Member Tibbets with a second from Council Member Rodgers. Are there any additional comments? All right, let's call the vote. Council Member Tibbets. Aye. Council Member Schwedhelm. Aye. Council Member Sawyer. Council Member Fleming. Yes. Council Member Rodgers. Aye. Vice Mayor Alvarez. Aye. Mayor Rodgers. Aye. That motion passes with six ayes with Council Member Sawyer absent. All right. Thank you. Sherry, Neil, Paul, and everybody else who's been participating on that, we really appreciate the work. Mr. City Manager, let's go to Item 14.2. Mayor Rodgers and members of the City Council, Item 14.2 is a report item. The matter before the Council is the appointment of a City Manager, approval of the City Manager Employment Agreement and introduction of an ordinance setting the City Manager's salary. Amy Reeve, our Human Resources Director, will give the staff report on this item. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council Members. I'm Amy Reeve, the Director of Human Resources, and I'm pleased to present the appointment of City Manager Mara Kiesha-Smith this evening and request your approval of the City Manager's Employment Agreement, an introduction of an ordinance setting the City Manager's salary. Next slide, please. The Prior City Manager, Sean McGlynn, resigned on June 28, 2021, and after a nationwide recruitment and selection process and candidate interviews, the City Council announced on November 12, 2021 their attempt to appoint Mara Kiesha-Smith as a City Manager, subject to reaching satisfactory terms and conditions for the employment contract, and also authorizing the Mayor to negotiate an employment agreement on behalf of the City. Next slide, please. It is recommended by the City Attorney and the Human Resources Department that the City Council, by resolution, formally appoint Mara Kiesha-Smith to the position of City Manager and approve the Employment Agreement authorizing the Mayor to execute that agreement on behalf of the City. It is further recommended that the City Council introduce an ordinance establishing the salary of the City Manager in the amount of $22,500 per month, effective January 3, 2022. Next page, please. That concludes my presentation, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Amy. Do we have any questions from Council? Let's go to public comment and see if anybody would like to provide an input on this item. Do we have any voicemail public comments? We do not, Mayor. All right. I'll bring it back. I believe that this is Councilmember Fleming's item. It's interesting, is when I was looking at the assignments, I thought what a great item to have, and I thought how lucky Natalie is that she gets it. So I will pull it up, but I do not think it's my item. It says here from Dina Manus, item 14.2, appointment of City Manager Natalie Rogers. Would you like me to still do the item? That must be an older version. Let's go to Councilmember Rogers. We'll go to one of you for a motion, if you would. I have the pieces of legislation here, if you need that. This is the privilege of having been the vice mayor. All right. I got it. I propose, unless you do you have it? Okay. So go to your resolution for the item, Legislator. We'll go to Councilmember Fleming. I'm greatly excited and hopeful, and it's the beginning of a new era. So with that, I proudly introduce an ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa establishing salary and other compensation and benefits for the City Manager and waive further reading of the text. Second. It says a motion from Councilmember Fleming and a second from Councilmember Tibbets. Are there any comments that Councilmembers would like to make? May I ask a point of clarification, Sue, do they need to adopt the resolution prior to introducing the ordinance adopting the appointing the City Manager? I think you're muted, Sue. I got it. Thank you. Okay. Here we have the resolution. Resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa appointing a city manager and approving an employment contract for the City Manager. Waive for the reading of the text. Second. So a motion from Councilmember Fleming and a second from Councilmember Schwedhelm. Let's go ahead and we'll take the votes, and then if anybody would like to make comments after the votes, we'll go ahead and do so. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Tibbets. Aye. Councilmember Schwedhelm. Aye. Councilmember Fleming. Yes. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Vice Mayor Alvarez. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. That motion passes with six ayes with Councilmember Sawyer absent. And now for the ordinance. There's still a motion on the floor for the ordinance. Would you like me to read it again? Yeah, to keep it clean, let's go ahead and do a separate. I will withdraw my earlier motion and place another. An ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa establishing salary and other compensation and benefits for the city manager and waive further reading of the text. Second. Motion from Fleming second from Schwedhelm. Let's call the vote. Councilmember Tibbets. Aye. Councilmember Schwedhelm. Aye. Councilmember Fleming. Yes. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Vice Mayor Alvarez. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. That motion passes with six ayes with Councilmember Sawyer absent. All right. Now I'll see if anybody would like to make some comments. Councilmember Fleming. I think I made most of them earlier. However, I do. If Miss Smith is watching, I want to say a really warm welcome. We are excited to have you here. I believe this is the beginning of a new chapter in our development of our city and our organization here at the Council.  So cannot wait to see you in person. Let's go to Councilmember Schwedhelm. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Yes, I am thrilled to support this and our new city manager. I also want to thank all the people that helped put this process together from city staff to some of the other sub-matter experts that helped us get to this point. I really want to thank the other candidates. It was a deep candidate pool. Very qualified candidates. There's a bunch of, in my opinion, win-wins. But Mary Keesh, I think, really rose to the top. And I'm looking so forward to her coming to the city. As the Vice, the former Vice Mayor mentioned, seeing her Saturday at a community event already in Santa Rosa just speaks volumes for the type of person she is. I'm really looking forward to start this new chapter in the city of Santa Rosa. Councilmember Rogers. I don't know. I'm super excited for multiple reasons. I'm excited to see where she takes us as a city. I'm excited to follow her lead and just excited to see where she, what she brings to the table and how we can collaborate and really drive Santa Rosa to the next level and make us number one in many of the areas where we've kind of fell back and out of that number one spot. So, Mr. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Well, Santa Rosa won. And I'm ever so appreciative for all the candidates that did step forward to want to lead us forward. And with that being said, I'm excited to see what tomorrow brings. Thank you. Councilmember Tibbets. Yeah, I just wanted to give my warm welcome as well. And as Tom said, thank the candidates that put themselves out there and joined this process. I think we had a lot of great choices. Yeah, and I'll completely agree. We had a very deep pool of folks who have been serving and will continue to serve both our community and the broader community. Marrakeesha did rise to the top. I'm very excited to see her around City Hall. I was really heartened to see her out at the can food drive this weekend. I think it does say a lot about who she is as a person and how she intends to lead and embrace that role within the community. I also want to give a quick thank you to Jeff and I know we'll be able to get to you next week as you say goodbye for the second time, though I'm not ready to say last time from City Hall for helping to step in and to help lead this process to really get Santa Rosa. A team that I believe in is going to be able to deliver for the constituents. So Marrakeesha, we're looking forward to having you here. That will move on to our last public comment for non-agenda items. Excuse me, I should also take some public comment. No, I apologize. We did that. Marrakeesha, we'll get this running like a tight ship. Let's move on to our non-agenda items. Item 17 on our agenda. There's nobody in the chamber and I do not see any hands. We already asked for voicemail public comments earlier. So those are done. Well, with that council, we are adjourned.