facebook pages so thank you very much all right thank you vice mayor a number of things since it's been a couple of weeks since we've met i did want to really thank all of our public safety staff who and park and rec staff who participated and planned the trunker treat event uh was a huge success when i went by there were literally thousands of people who were waiting to get into the the vets hall to be able to participate uh wanted to thank the chamber of commerce and their partnership uh with their halloween event that they did as well i had a chance to be a judge for the the costume contest my personal favorite was a little eight or nine month old who was dressed as a smore which i thought was a pretty clever costume and again another shout out to our team who partnered with our youth and a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our two-day day of the dead event that was on the square last week a couple of working items uh did want to give a brief update uh on our long-term financial policy and audit committee we did begin to talk about uh the pension stabilization fund uh that we've talked about here from the day as we talk about our long-term finances the full council should see that item coming forward sometime soon uh we've had two different meetings on the aca seven working group that's the constitutional amendment that i've mentioned to council before that would allow local ordinances to override statewide statewide bills related to land use ongoing and i'll continue to update councils we have something further and then finally yesterday we had our sonoma county transportation authority and regional climate protection agency meeting uh the urban land institute has released a report after working with many of our folks here in santa rosa and across the region on uh long-term sustainability and in particular looking at our land use practices and how they relate to resiliency and wildfires there's 40 recommendations in that report all council members will be getting that report from scta staff and i would really encourage you to read at least the executive summary as it really is based on our experience with wildfires in our in our community uh and will be really critical for moving our county forward in terms of resiliency move on to item 11 actually let's go ahead we'll do public comment on council members reports if you're interested in providing comment go ahead to hit the raise hand feature on zoom not seeing any oh we've got gregory yeah i just wanted to ask a question um was the merit awards taped and if so would you please put it up on your website so we can all see and if it wasn't taped god what a missed opportunity thanks thank you gregory so we uh i could answer that we actually have split the merit awards into two different weeks uh so the vice mayor council member sweat helm and i had an opportunity to do the first half this last sunday taking photos and looking at information and congratulating the winners on their projects that will all be released via social media i believe following this coming sunday when we have the second batch of folks who are coming in and meeting with us meeting with council members taking photos and getting their awards i know staff has been really cognizant of being covet safe and obviously we had to cancel the awards last year so this year it's an opportunity for us to take that in get that good feeling from such an incredible event in our community and then yes it will all be shared via social media and congratulating the winners on that let's move on to item 11 we have five sets of minutes august 24th august 31st for both the special and the regular september 14th and september 28th uh were there any amendments to any of those minutes okay seeing none we'll see if there's any public comment and i do not see any did we have any voicemail public comments we do not mayor great that we'll show those minutes adopted as presented without objection and show council member soyer as abstaining from items 11.2 and 11.3 mr city manager let's go on to the consent calendar mayor rogers and members of the city council we have 18 items on the consent calendar this afternoon so please bear with me as i read the titles item 12.1 is a resolution for the approval of the issuance of a purchase order to day management corporation doing business as day wireless systems for the purchase of 130 bendix king portable radios and required accessories through bkm slash re lm naspo value master agreement number 0 6 9 1 3 be the state of california participating addendum number 7 dash 16 dash 58 dash 15 item 12.2 a resolution making required monthly findings and authorizing the continued use of teleconferencing for public meetings of the city council and all city boards commissions and committees pursuant to assembly bill 361 item 12.3 a resolution approving a design build contract award for public safety building generator replacement located at 955 and 965 sonoma avenue item 12.4 a resolution authorizing the purchase order for the 2022 forward police interceptor hybrid suvs item 12.5 also a resolution regarding the acceptance and appropriation of grant funds from the state of california alcoholic beverage control and office of traffic safety item 12.6 a resolution for the adoption of a memorandum of understanding with unit 5 police officers represented by the santa rosa police officers association effective july 1 of 2021 through june 30 of 2024 item 12.7 also a resolution for the adoption of a memorandum of understanding for units 4 support services unit 6 professional and unit 7 technical represented by the international brotherhood of teamsters local union 856 effective july 1 2021 through june 30th 2024 item 12.8 a resolution for the adoption of a memorandum of understanding for unit 3 maintenance represented by the operating engineers local union number 3 effective july 1 2021 through june 30th 2024 item 12.9 a resolution for the adoption of a memorandum of understanding for unit 13 mechanics represented by the operating engineers local union number 3 effective july 1 2021 through june 30th 2024 item 10 point i'm sorry 12.10 a resolution for the adoption of a memorandum of understanding for unit 16 utility system operators represented by operating engineers local union number 3 effective july 1 2021 through june 30th 2024 item 12.11 a resolution for adoption of wages hours and other terms and conditions of employment for unit 10 executive management effective july 1 2021 through june 30th 2024 item 12.12 a resolution for adoption of wages hours and other terms and conditions of employment for unit 11 middle management and unit 12 confidential effective july 1 2021 through june 30th 2024 item 12.13 a resolution for adoption of a memorandum of understanding for unit 9 police safety management represented by the santa rosa police management association effective july 1 2021 through june 30th 2024 item 12.14 a resolution for adoption of a memorandum of understanding for unit 18 miscellaneous mid management represented by the santa rosa management association effective july 1 2021 through june 30th 2024 item 12.15 a resolution regarding a request for summary vacation of 3 25 foot by 3 foot unused public utility easements located at 2900 and 2934 mcbryde lane and 1142 state farm drive assessors parcels numbers 015-492-019 015-492-017 and 015-492-006 file number vac 21-003 item 12.16 a resolution for approval of a master agreement administering agency state agreements for state funded projects item 12.17 an ordinance adoption and ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa amending title 20 of the santa rosa city code to incorporate zoning code interpretations made by the city's zoning administrator and other technical corrections file number st 21-001 and the final item 12.18 an ordinance adoption and ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa amending title 9 of the santa rosa city code by amending chapter 9-12 refuse in sanitation and chapter 9-14 construction and demolition debris by adding provisions and requirements of senate bill 1383 short-lived climate pollutants organic waste reductions that concludes the consent calendar thank you mr city manager councilor are there any questions on that very long long consent calendar all right let's see if there's any public comment we'll start with gregory thank you mayor for indulging me my name is gregory farron i just would like to have somebody maybe it's your long-term finance committee report but it'd be nice to know what the cost of 12.6 through 12.14 is i suspect it's probably a consent calendar that tops every every decision you've ever made financially and i'd just kind of like to know what those mo use cost us thank you all right that's the only hand that i see there do we have any voicemail public comments consent items 12.2 duane duwit from roseland these meetings that you've been holding for over a year and a half of um you call them teleconferencing they could be helpful to the city but they're not as helpful to the community unless perhaps you explain how the community can maximize their efficiency for a citizen it would be wonderful if you continue to do this perhaps because then you don't have to have everybody down at the city people can call in people can send messages but one would hope you would allow for the people who do attend the meetings in person to actually be given the courtesy to have their concerns and comments first and then those folks that are zooming or calling and have theirs after that would just seem to be polite although i know often politics isn't polite it could be nice on these other resolution items all of the arganine units appear to have made agreements now it looks like they run through to the 30th of june of 2024 and it looks like people will be feeling okay with their financial packages that they wouldn't agree so i'm hoping now you'll get to the next thing and that's allow the public to participate in some discussions about the hiring of the next city manager perhaps allow public members to be at the interviews although i've been told you already finished everything and you're just waiting to hire the person that you chose without even really involving the public that's the case that's a sad state of affairs they call that business as usual blah blah hopefully we won't have that hopefully you'll get a new city manager that won't tolerate the malfeasance that's gone on in the past in the city thank you kindly mayor that concludes public comment and item 12 consent great mr. city manager there was the question about the total cost of the mo use that were presented today um i don't know if you've got that number or the number that is of the mo use that have been approved overall because we did a couple in another day but i think it's instructive so just so we're clear with the public we still have four units that are still involved in negotiations for contracts that have not been resolved yet so of the ones that were approved tonight uh the impact to the general fund on an ongoing basis is about nine point two million dollars per year the total cost for all employees including the enterprise fund employees is about twelve point two million dollars per year great thank you so much council are there any other questions or comments all right i just want to take a moment and thank all of the bargaining units that we do have our mo use on for today for not just continuing to serve the community but really serving the community at a difficult time and working with us to make sure that your members get what they need to to feel valued and also understanding that we're not in the financial condition that we would like to be in to really be able to show that as much as we feel it so we'll continue to work on that through the long-term finance committee through all of our different discussions uh and really it just can't be stated enough how much we appreciate the hard work that everybody does um around here that let's go ahead and see if there's a motion vice mayor i move items 12.1 through 12.16 and wait for the reading of the text second let's call the vote okay i have a note that council member schwedhelm was abstaining from item uh 17 and 18 okay not on consent uh 12 12.17 12.18 okay thank you that was council member Sawyer seconding all right council member schwedhelm i'm sorry mental clerk before i before you go forward with me um abstaining from um i'm sorry never mind i i just disregard thank you sorry if i confused you no it's okay no not a problem i confused myself okay so council member schwedhelm hi council member Sawyer hi council member Fleming yes council member alvarez vice mayor rogers hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with six eyes with council member tippets absent i would also like to move items 12.17 and 12.18 and wait for the reading of the text second motion by the vice mayor and a second from council member Sawyer let's call the vote council member schwedhelm oh i'm sorry i abstain thank you council member Sawyer hi council member Fleming yes council member alvarez vice mayor rogers hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with five eyes with council member schwedhelm abstaining and council member tippets absent okay well council we have to take a two minute break while we wait for the five o'clock hour when we come back we will just keep rolling through our agenda and do public comment for non-agenda items and then finish up with our public hearing we'll be back in just a minute and we're back madame clerk can you call the the roll please thank you council member schwedhelm here council member Sawyer here council member Fleming here council member alvarez present vice mayor rogers president mayor rogers here let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of council member tippets okay let's see if we have any comments for our non-agenda items this is an opportunity for the public to bring up issues that aren't on today's agenda we can't get into a back and forth but it is certainly something that we can get some questions answered or get back to folks outside of the meeting if you're interested hit the raise hand feature on zoom all right if you want to come up to the podium thank you mayor vice mayor council members staff for your time and your ongoing commitment santa rosa's betterment it is really appreciated uh last week the sacramento b ran an editorial entitled pg&e has destroyed enough california communities it's time for a public takeover two days previous to that congress member ro cana from silicon valley had gone on kqed radio to say that pg&e has pushed things beyond the tipping point and we need a public takeover but santa rosa doesn't need to wait for the dismantling of the conglomerate santa rosa city can invest in public power so what is public power public power utilities are one of the three primary types of electric utilities that serve customers in the united states public power utilities are not for profit community owned and locally controlled all in all there are already 52 municipalities in california that provide public power to the residents and businesses according to public power dot org and not for profit that tracks these things one in seven americans are served by a public power utility more than 2000 communities in 49 states and five u.s. territories have public power utility so if you live in a public power community it means that you own your electricity your electric utility and and can participate in running it it means you benefit from affordable energy better service and a utility that cares about the overall well-being and growth of your community a couple of more statistics residential customers of public power utilities pay 11 less than customers of investor owned utilities outside of major adverse events like storms customers of a public power utility are likely to be without power for less time 62 minutes a year compared to 150 minutes a year for customers of private utilities my friends in southern california ask me why do you pay so much for electricity and the answer is because we are still beholden to p g&e and we don't have to be if one of the council members would a champion public power and get santa rosa out from under the destructive and usury thumb of p g&e that council member would be a hero to all santa rosans thank you for the for your time i really hope that the city council will take public power seriously as so many other communities in california already have thank you thank you saying nobody else in the chambers i see no hands via zoom do we have any voicemails leader mayor my name is barbara phillips and i'm calling about agenda item number 13 i specifically would like to address lighting along the santa rosa creek trail at night um there's been a few incidents with a group of bike cyclists that i ride with and um not to blame the homeless because they have they need some place to go that they're out there without lighting of any sort and we had to run in just last week where someone had sustained in our group sustained a minor injury if there had been lighting along the way would have seen the obstruction and been able to avoid it so i'd like to encourage some lighting along there for safety purposes thank you hi this is eris weaver from the sonoma county bicycle coalition and i'm speaking to agenda item number 13 um as we are moving into this darker time of the year um safety of driving and cycling at night is really important and i'd like to bring your attention to one particular issue and that is the lack of lights on our class 1 bike paths like the santa rusa creek path um there have been uh reports that i've been getting of minor collisions between folks cycling on the path and the folks sleeping or hanging out there in the dark um and even though the folks riding did have headlights on they were still not entirely able to um see the folks who were staying there so having some light on those pads would make it a lot safer for everyone involved and possibly make them um more better used through more of the time those of us who use the paths for transportation and not just for recreation sometimes you know it's dark when you get off work and you need to be able to get home in a safe way so it's either right on the street um where you're worried that cars are going to see you or ride on a path where you're worried that you're going to smack into somebody because the path isn't lit so we would really appreciate your attention to that matter thank you public comment on non-agenda matters item 13 duane dewitt from roseland i wanted to thank you you hopefully the council because of the peers at southwest community park some of that open shillings that was there has been moved or uh some new methods are being placed there to keep people from uh urinating and defecating in public on the eastern side by the parking lot that'd be a great spot for one of those porta potties that our parks over here are so famous for and the more porta potties the better i think it's better having those people out there in public view or the school kids conducting that how school can see them taking their dumps and pain in the bushes that's sad that shouldn't be happening but one has to wonder are you folks going to perhaps really get into utilizing the facilities the taxpayers have paid for when restaurants are built i know at the olive street park that restroom is open and the one across from city hall on santa rosa avenue is open plus that new quarter million dollar uh portland new as you call it has been open there is a need for a greater oversight at the parks in santa rosa you've gotten some money you're uh discussing how you'll spend it your way what the employees want i'm not involved with the people from rosen to talk about how qualified census track it's the most disadvantaged i've ever served an overburdened in the entire community could have an opportunity from the arpa funds the america rebuilding program that would be wonderful for rosen but nobody i know has heard anything about it but we do know that you have an office of community engagement now maybe some of those people can come over here and talk to the longtime residents and taxpayers i haven't seen i haven't seen that lady that got hired a year and a half ago it's not once it's pretty whole on the end of the age to feed that with men there tom schvill that was outside never seen her over here in rosen so how about you folks spend some time helping the folks in this disadvantaged area of rosen which you heard and created county island 25 years ago and made it worse during all those years the four years we've been in the city all we've heard about is all the survivors from the fire what about the survivors from the racism and discrimination and the other problems that santa rosa politics and city employees forced on the people of rosen here that concludes public comment on item 13 non-agenda matters okay we have no report items tonight let's move on to our first public hearing item 15.1 mayor rogers and members of the city council item 15.1 is a public hearing the matter before the council is the density bonus ordinance and possible amendments and andy gustafson our senior planner is going to be presenting the staff report on this item. thank you very much and good evening mayor rogers and members of the council like to present a ordinance amendment to the density bonus and other incentives developer incentives this ordinance was amended last by city council in january of 2019 and tonight we have an amendment that basically will implement some key changes in state law that have occurred over the last year next slide please so in 20 january 2021 state law was changed to implement a number of changes that have come out of several years of legislative activity in the housing arena and the state density bonus law has been subject of a number of provision changes that are mandated by the state i'll go through those changes individually but i also want to note that those changes in state law also affected our supplemental density bonus program which is a program that the city instituted to further encourage density bonus incentives here in the city and then finally there are some technical changes so what is a density bonus a density bonus is an incentive that the city and other jurisdictions use to help to encourage developers to include affordable housing in residential development this is an idea that's been around for decades and basically the idea is that when a developer commits to providing a percentage of the total allowed units that would be permitted according to the zoning or the general plan if those are committed to affordable housing we reward or incentivize the developer by allowing them to build beyond the number of units that would be ordinarily allowed this incentive or this bonus also includes waivers from development standards so that developers who do commit to providing low and very low income housing in their projects can also get reductions in setbacks and height and other development standards next slide please so the main areas of the new state law that was changed in january of 2021 was that the threshold or the level of affordability that a developer needed to commit in a project was lowered so it made it easier to qualify for density bonuses made it more available secondly the maximum amount of density bonus allowed by the state was increased from 35% to 50% so now a developer can get nearly half as much housing on a site than formerly was would have been allowed into the general planner zoning and then finally a new provision was added to reward developers of 100% affordable projects which allow them which now allows them 100% density bonus nearly doubling the number of units that are allowed on site and also for the first time moderate income rental units may be included in in the density bonus mix this this helps with project affordability next slide there were several other changes by state law and I'll go through these quickly part of the feature or or framework of the density bonus law was that it also provided incentives and as I mentioned to reduce development standards those previously were not limited in terms of number that could be claimed now they've been limited to four the city does have the ability to grant more if it's so wishes secondly the density bonus provides a number of remedies or excuse me parking reductions and such when they're located within a half mile of a major transit facility that access or that radius had to be unobstructed and the terminology for obstructed was clarified in this new law and then this new update to the density bonus that by the state eliminated parking for age restricted rental housing that lie within that half mile radius of a major facility where that is served by paratransit next slide so all these changes in particular the increase of the density bonus law to allow now 50 bonus impact that our local density bonus program recall in January 2019 the council adopted a supplemental density program with with the idea that in specified areas of the downtown downtown station area plan and also in the north station area plan we would allow more of a bonus beyond what the state would allow up to 100% or twice what would otherwise be allowed by the general plan this ordinance amendment does not increase the total number we still keep the cap that a project that uses the supplemental density can achieve there so we don't change the absolute number of of units that could be built on the site under the density bonus supplemental density bonus but we do change the the entry threshold or the point at which the supplemental density bonus is triggered so we can see here at this chart that for the 100% or the the sites that are designated for the maximum supplemental density bonus there would be the the developer would have to first exhaust the state's 50 density before they can go into the supplemental density bonus and limit it at it still be limited at 100% i'm happy to talk about this program how the state's density bonus and the supplemental density bonus work together but we've just basically made the adjustment to ensure the current maximum density that can be achieved under a supplemental density bonus this remains the same next slide the environmental quality act does require review of a project and an ordinance amendment such as this and at the time the council adopted the environmental document for the amended ordinance in 2019 it was established that the project would not have any significant impact and thus a negative declaration was adopted this amendment that's before we before you this evening does not require subsequent environmental review because in this case there was no increase in any previously considered impact that might result from the density bonus and also there was no new environmental circumstance or effect that has come into place in the city or areas affected by the density bonus that would change the conclusions of the council's original adoption of the negative declaration of 2019 so next slide so it is recommended by the planning commission and staff that the council approve this ordinance to amend the city code chapter 2031 density bonus another developer incentives to be consistent with the state code section 65915 density bonuses and other incentives i'm available to answer questions um thank you so much all right thank you so much do we have any questions from council okay seeing none i'll go ahead and open the public hearing if you're interested in providing comment on this item go ahead to hit the raise hand feature on zoom and i see none madam deputy city clerk no public comments there are no uh advanced public comments okay then we will go ahead and close the public hearing bring it back to council are there uh any comments all right council member swedhelm this is your item thank you mr mayor i'd move an ordinance of the council of the city of san rosa to amend city zoning code chapter 20-31 density bonus and other developer incentives to be consistent with state government code section 65915 density bonuses and other incentives file number re-z 21-003 and waive further reading the text second motion from council member swedhelm second from the vice mayor let's go ahead and call the vote council member swedhelm hi council member soyer hi council member fleming yes council member alvarez vice mayor rogers hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with six eyes with council member tibbet's absent great thank you so much andy we appreciate all the good work thank you we'll move on we have no written communications let's see if we have any additional hands for our last public comment period of the night and i am not seeing anybody raise their hand we already did voicemails so we will go ahead and adjourn thank you everybody