y need to report and assume a new role As an in-person worker in most cases during a disaster So it is our Approach that this would apply to all city employees regardless of their work location Or remote work status Thank you so much Councilmember alvarez Thank you, mayor. Is the doctor still with us? Thank you for being here Yeah, my question for you in regards to the latinx population is specifically district one What have you noticed has worked? What have you noticed? We might Been or done better and looking towards a feature where where cove is still a reality What what are the plans for the feature in in san rosa or sonoma county as a whole really? Well, I think we have lots and lots of different strategies to outreach to the latinx population In fact, um, nopal gullison who's Lead of our uh communications unit to the pao's office is here and paul I don't know if you want to speak a little bit to all the different ways in which we've been Trying to outreach to different populations including latinx to increase vaccination rates Yes, uh, thank you Dr. Mason, thank you councilman. It's a very important question for our community and We we've seen from the very beginning the importance of Of uh, have an equity approach in trying to get our messaging out and the importance of vaccinations and We've really been targeting A number of our communities particularly our latinx communities and with our with our messaging we've extended We've we've done everything from Door hangers and some neighborhoods and and outreach through our community-based organizations We continue to work closely with our community-based organizations in some of these key targeted neighborhoods um, we've had Messaging in english and spanish Radio ads we have regular members of my staff weekly As sometimes multiple times during the week on spanish language radio pushing our messaging And offering sharing the same much of the same information. Dr. Mace was just sharing We find the most effective tools have been working with trusted community leaders, whether they are community-based organizations Faith-based leaders whoever it may be and trying to get communications Our our pediatricians obviously have been very effective And getting the message out of the very trusted we find um, we've also now, uh, we've had we do weekly live streamed community briefings providing Information on covet and and whether it's related to schools or business And we've also been offering those in english on wednesdays at four and then we have a same information the following day And thursdays at four in spanish and that is pure and we've gotten some really good traction on that so The numbers have shown we've we've we've made some great progress in our And the lowest quartile in our In our community, but we still have a lot of Work we want to continue to do in those communities and and it's reaching those those a lot the long last mile of Community members Getting the messaging out is is is tough But we are continuing to make progress as you've seen in the community at a rate of about 1% a week so In some of many of these measures including the one you're considering today are proving to be very instrumental in in getting people vaccinated A follow-up question when we when we say that we've reached out to the community Have has there been any effort to reach out to the business community there for example and in roseland sabbatical road or perloma hill road where where we know our community shops and Spends our money and also it could be as a one-stop shop. How have we approached? the business community We have had some good interactions with the The business community we've worked with that that had some interaction with the Hispanic chamber of commerce and we've done we've done some actual fliers going door to door and passing out Um Flyers and posters in those communities. We could always be doing more. There's no question We've also worked with our community-based organizations Our alcoa project has been working with the businesses. I know And have been a resource to many businesses and Our economic development board has been a real resource for businesses who have had questions in those areas, but I'll check into more on that and But I know there's always more we could be doing But uh, I I appreciate that that input encouragement Absolutely, and I'm my air service of shady need those contacts Great what I what I would hope to hear is that we have set up vaccination sites at a grocery store there in the neighborhoods Is what I hope to see uh as again, those are the the locations where we know our community Visits and and is available there. So so I'm definitely at your service, sir Yes, and and any any other ideas we do have the as you know Councilman the the the site in roseland now is operating Pretty much seven days of it is operating seven days a week To late in the evening and it's the traffic there has been very good We also still have pop-up clinics said like the andes Andes community park and other locations in some of these targeted Neighborhoods so that we could bring the vaccine to them. So we're very much. I'm looking for locations that people That are going to get high traffic areas Thank you and a general question if I if I could for a person who was vaccinated early on And did not keep their card. Is there a An office a location where they could access and prove that they have been vaccinated There is a site through the state through cdph where they they can they can go online And you can get the qvc code that shows the dates that you were vaccinated And uh, so you uh, I don't have that site I I can share that with you and you can share with others. I'll try to put it Well, I I'll I'll try to find that exact site for you, but it is through the state has a That site where you can check those And if there's any issue with that Some of our county health team does help has been helping people work through some of the problems they have with that And in getting those specific dates are when they're vaccinated Thank you very much Councilman alvarez Asked part of my question the second part of that would be um, so I They're the effectiveness of The different vaccines There's a I guess percentage of effectiveness What is the harm in getting a second vaccine based on the the name or the Brand of the the vaccine doctor maize and and thank you for being here. I'm sorry. I should lead with that Yeah, thank you councilwoman. I you mean getting a different vaccine like if I if I receive Johnson and Johnson and now I'm like I'm going to get Moderna. That's better What is Well, the clinical trials didn't do that, right? So in other words when you had all those people that were um Signed up for the clinical trials, which is the data That gives us the basis for what we're doing. They gave the same dose as the previous dose So we wouldn't be able to say how getting a different one Would react at all in an individual likely not much But it may not be that effective either. We don't know. They're different vaccines Slightly because they're different manufacturers. So anyways, um, whenever possible. We like to give, you know, the same vaccine But that's how it was studied. That's all that makes sense Can you say that? Yeah, are you hearing me? Are you hearing me? Okay? Not not really. Can you say it a little slower one more time? Sure so When they did the studies with Pfizer and Moderna and j and j They gave a second dose of the same vaccine for Pfizer and Moderna to the patients that they enrolled In the clinical trial So we know that all the data we have on efficacy and safety and all that stuff Is based on giving it in that manner So there's no recommendation for giving a different vaccine after you've gotten The first shot with the single vaccine because there's no data From people from the clinical trials on doing it that way. That's all so the recommendation is to give the same shot Okay, perfect. Thank you Dr. Mase I had a question that was sent to me by an employee that I'm hoping you can weigh in on as well the employee basically asked if If folks who are vaccinated can still carry the disease the delta variant and still help spread it Why would the testing be deemed effective if it was only applied to those who are unvaccinated? Well, the likelihood of getting covet is much greater five times greater as we saw from even our own data In the unvaccinated population than the vaccinated population So the reason to test unvaccinated individuals on a weekly basis Is because that's where the money is in other words, that's where you're going to find your cases of COVID Even in asymptomatic or symptomatic. That's where you'll find them on the other hand If if an entity or organization wanted to test everybody, that's fine, too That's outside of the health order However, any business or You know governmental entity that wants to test everybody that's fine if the resources are there But I think really if you want to hone in on Where you're going to have the most benefit of testing it will be the unvaccinated So the the short answer is it's a cost-benefit analysis Well cost benefit and it makes a lot of sense because the likelihood that fully vaccinated persons are going to get coveted so much less And the people who get really sick with cover who are fully vaccinated are Or have underlying conditions or are much older Paul do you want to add anything to that or I just Just to as As you were saying, there was a report out by the CDC last week which showed That Unvaccinated people were 20 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID Then then vaccinated and that's certainly a cost-benefit Got cost-benefit analysis in there some as well. So And if I may just to follow up on on councilman Alvarez's question I just wanted to share that the official site for Confirming your vaccine record at the state is my vaccine record.cdph.ca.gov My vaccine record.cdph.ca.gov and you can go on and and they will uh, They will have show you your record. You can take a picture of that Great. Thank you. And then dr mace uh getting back to councilmember tibitz's question About herd immunity and about the percentage of of folks that you shared that have been vaccinated Was that number based on eligible populations vaccinated or was it a percentage of the total population? Including Newborns to 12 year olds who can't yet get it or folks who have a qualified medical exemption When we talk about herd immunity and when you also talk about vaccination percentages Where does that number sync up? It's the total population, but keep in mind that kids are less likely to spread COVID Adults or any other respiratory disease simply because they don't have that same cough Copping and that kind of response And so even with most respiratory illnesses kids are less infectious having said that herd immunity is definitely based on the whole population Okay, thank you councilor. Are there any other questions? All right seeing them. We'll go to public comment if you're interested. Mr. Mayor Yes, madam city attorney. Mr. Mayor, I wondered if before we go to public I Clarify something. Yeah, absolutely Thank you As I said from from our perspective from my perspective the You have the legal option of going either With a vaccination testing a soft mandate Or a or a hard mandate that would require vaccines But I did want to mention and I should have earlier Is that the soft mandate the vaccination or test or weekly testing? That has already been confirmed by the courts so that the legality of that is is Pretty firmly established and I think is recognized both by Those that might challenge The wisdom of the of that man soft mandate But the legality I think is has been well established There have not been cases at least that we're aware of yet court cases that have confirmed the vaccine The hard mandate So although we believe that it is legal. I just wanted to clarify. We don't have court cases yet to rely on so All right. Thank you And mr. City manager have we already done meet and confer with our labor organizations on this question We are still in the process of meeting and conferring particularly with the general employees We have completed the process with our public safety fire police And disaster shelter workers Okay, is taking any action tonight put us in any precarious position for those discussions No, in fact, I think it helps us advance the process This way we will be able to clearly inform them of the direction that we're going and that will help them identify any Job related impacts that they wish to meet and confer with us on Okay, great. Thank you. We'll go to public comment then If you are interested in speaking hit the raise hand feature on zoom We'll start with rigel Hi, can you hear me? Yep, go ahead Awesome. Um, so I just wanted to make it real quick. I am a little bummed out that we're even having this conversation. Um, I feel like people that have chosen to work for the city um and serve their communities, but like might push back on protections for the immunocompromised and the children that are under 12 who cannot get the vaccine The city shop should be more than willing to be vaccinated on or be subject to texting. Um, but yeah, that's it Really important. I I yield my time. Thank you All right. Thank you so much ragel I see no other hands So I'll go ahead bring it back and see madam deputy city clerk. Are there any pre-recorded voicemail public comments? We receive no voice message public comments on this item Okay, I'll go ahead and close public comment on it then And I'll bring it to councilmember tibets For a motion and discussion Thank you mayor before I make a motion I'd like to ask a follow-up question for miss reeve miss reeve Would it be possible for your office to establish a system where? Uh, testing if somebody is immunocompromised and is not eligible for the vaccine that they could submit reimbursement to you for reimbursement from the city of santa rosa Yes, I think that's something that we could look into and incorporate into our testing procedures We do intend to pay for time and testing as people go through this surveillance testing process Okay, great because uh to the council before I make a motion I I want to kind of air out when what i'm thinking for this I kind of came into today's meeting wanting to do the hard mandate requiring vaccinations across all eligible employees across the city I just have a feeling like if you're working for the city of santa rosa If you are working in the public health space, there's I think a higher standard that you have to meet To take care of the population because we're public servants. That's what we're charged with doing The one thing that gives me a little bit of pause however is that well, it's two things one is We are we do seem to be close to herd immunity 74 percent according to the data suggests people have double vaccines and then there's another eight percent That's I have had one And then I I tried to apply that same kind of figure to the number of employees We have the city of santa rosa and if my memory serves We have about 1600 So if I just apply that ratio and I recognize this isn't great math But it's the best I can do with the information I was able to obtain from today That's about 256 unvaccinated people at the city of santa rosa Now my my concern is this, you know, I I think too that Being in the united states is part of about freedom and that we really should have the freedom to choose when it comes to the health of our bodies and some people may really Be fearful of what a vaccine can do and and I just I kind of want to acknowledge that But what drives me nuts is the idea that the city of santa rosa if we just use that ratio that rough estimate And the testing costs of 150 dollars a test done weekly. So four weeks a month Could cost the city up to 150 000 a month and testing these employees who do not want to quite frankly Get with the program and help this city and this country recover from this pandemic So what what I'd like to propose is that we do require the vaccines However, people can opt out of that But they are required to cover the costs of their own weekly tests And then they have to submit those tests to their supervisor or to whoever the appropriate person in the city of santa rosa is Whether it's the hr department or their supervisor And then for people who are medically compromised who do not have the choice to get a vaccine or not They just don't have access to it That they can provide a doctor's note to the hr department and then receive reimbursement for their tests To me that sounded like the most fair approach that respects people's choice It pushes our city in the direction it ought to be going for vaccines And it recognizes the needs of the medically compromised. So mr. Mayor that would be my motion Okay, and mr. City manager you look like you wanted to weigh in And I'll ask our city attorney and hr director to also voice their concerns I believe we have some OSHA requirements That will make it difficult to implement the specifics of the motion I don't believe we can require Employees to pay for their own testing I believe the state mandates that if we implement a testing program The employer is required to pay for the testing and to pay For the employee's time in order to get the test completed We also Will build in and have planned to build in two possible exemptions under both a soft and a hard mandate One of those would be for medical reasons As a council member tidbits outlined with a doctor's note or report that they've got a medical issue that would Be compromised by receiving the vaccination The second Would be a religious exemption And we would need a similar kind of note from a pastor or a religious leader explaining that they have that Religious Exemption and and cause and I would simply that Way in just to agree with the city manager That there are questions as to whether we could Legally require An employee to pay for their own testing So i'm taking I wanted to ask a follow-up question Is this an interpretation or or something we're seeing in play in other areas because for example I read that one of the healthcare providers is Basically, if you're a work for this company, you have to pay Half of your medical insurance costs and they instituted that policy. So I assume we couldn't do something like that Could we institute a penalty like a monthly fine for people who didn't get Vaccinated which then could help us recover some of the expenses associated with testing Councilmember tidbits, we are subject to collective bargaining agreements with Nearly all of our employees And in those cases in order to impose that kind of a plan we would need to Meet and confer and bargain with those employee Organizations in order to implement that kind of a policy Okay Well, I I guess my motion is going to stand. I recognize that you um It's not going to be feasible to implement one of those points But for the sake of discussion and listening to my colleagues, I want to put that forward Okay, can you repeat the motion councilmember? Yes, I can it uh requires Uh vaccination Uh, it's well, let me back up. You can either Get the vaccine or be tested But the employees are required to shoulder the cost burden of testing and submit Uh weekly test results to their supervisor or the hr director or her office Um, and then the exemptions will include the medically compromised visa via doctor's note And religious exemption visa be a religious uh pastor or clergy person Let me see if there's a second and then we'll go to Director reeve I'm not hearing a second for the motion councilmember. So we'll go to the director and then we will Come back to see if there's an additional motion that can be made Thank you, mayor rogers. We have looked at this issue and we interpret The laws to say that if the employer is requiring the testing Then they should be compensating the employees for both the time and the cost of the test We've explored different avenues as the city manager explained And so we are still in the process of looking at some potential Program or reimbursement to assist us with the costs Um, whether that be FEMA or through the state program And we are working with a variety of potential testing resources and vendors in the meantime in the short term The county has provided us with some self-administered tests, which is how we will initially do the rollout Um In terms of talking about whether or not like for instance, um insurance could cover the cost of this testing They will they would cover the cost if someone um was exhibiting symptoms potentially But this again is a surveillance testing program So it would not be covered by insurance and I just wanted to give that context an additional explanation All right. Thank you councilmember tippets um Mr. City manager, how long would it take you to do collective bargaining on some sort of a penalty fear assessment placed upon folks That's something that could be accomplished in a week or two I frankly think it's unlikely that we could accomplish it in a week or two. Um there are several different steps and uh, you know a um You have to make a legitimate effort to bargain fairly And that would take time to complete that process And I'd also like to note that that we do have legal concerns about imposing a penalty So we would need time to do more research on that point as well Again, not tested yet in the courts And we do have serious concerns Okay, then I will throw out a substitute motion and that will be the soft approach Vaccine and testing the city will pay But I think that the city of santa rosa staff should bring it back to the council Once that additional eight percent Of our population that has been vaccinated Bring that back to the council the reason why I bring that up is at some point this has to be released um If the city is going to shoulder these costs of testing um That's going to become I think pretty financially burdensome Uh So if we hit the herd immunity figures and again, I'm going off of the 80 percent that I heard dr mace Talk about and dr mace if I miss heard you please correct me Um, but that's that's where I'm going with this that we would suspend this ordinance or this rule Once we hit I guess what would be 82 percent of the population I just interject really quickly first of all that's the um Population that is eligible for vaccine right now. So that 80 percent Um is coming from that figure. So we do have the you know the proportion of kids Under 12 for example, they're not included in the denominator. So it's a little lower than that And I also want to point out that if you look At sonoma county geographically There are zip codes or census practice that are much less vaccinated And those that are much more vaccinated So the point I was making there is simply that when you have that kind of um differences In geography, you can't say you have heard immunity because There's some areas that actually there's a lot of transmission that's going on amongst people who aren't vaccinated so um You know, I just want to Clarify that I don't think are quite at herd immunity even if we are at the 82 mark for fully fleshed partially vaccinated Well, I think we we need to pin this down doctor mace because because again, I You know unless the staff has a recommendation We can't keep paying for this level of tests for an indefinite amount of time There needs to be some sort of I think a goal a finish line. And so do we know what san Do we know what santa rosa's? vaccination rate is currently among eligible population Great question. I do have my uh, that my lead epidemiologist on the call kate that kate We do we have that breakdown by city the percentage of people vaccinated? I'm not sure we're at that level of specificity that kate, do you know? um, we have data on the website that is by um zip code I can look and see if I can find something that's more specific to santa rosa Um, I don't I don't have that vaccination proportion city specific rate in front of me, but I can see what I can find and Come back to you That would be great. Um this pack. I think where I'm going with this is if if 80 percent is the number doctor mace of the eligible population For herd immunity, then that's what I think we should establish the Finish line as now you can tell us what that population size looks like and I'm willing to make a motion that encompasses your expertise But I just like the city to do The man the excuse me the vaccines and the soft testing that we pay for until that number is reached And I would like the motion to reflect that number. That's what I'm trying to work towards I mean it's hard because it's not um It's a moving target the number of what herd immunity is So some people might say 70 percent others 90 having said that having just santa rosa city at that percentage Isn't going to help all of Sonoma county because it's a county as a whole because people travel readily In santa rosa rosa de petaluma de windsor to you know, wherever so it's um When you have this kind of a respiratory pathogen that's easily credible. We're looking for overall sort of herd immunity as a nation but definitely as a state As a bay area As the 11 counties, so it's a little bit hard. I think you folks in one city because you're going to get a lot of folks coming in and out I understand that dr mace, but our jurisdiction is is restricted to santa rosa. I'm afraid Now the county could you refresh my memory? I believe they did the vaccine plus the They took the soft option plus testing. Am I or am I mistaken? Sorry, I didn't unmute there So we as a county have opted for the soft mandate and please understand that that is an encouragement also for people to get vaccinated The soft mandate of vaccine verification and testing has two objectives One is to find people who have coded early on Even when asymptomatic and get them isolated out of the workforce. So there's not greater transmission but the other is to You know for people who are kind of on the fence or just haven't had time to get the vaccine That perhaps, you know, they would opt to get the vaccine rather than be tested So there's two options. I know that even in some of our subjects right now Some of our law and fire groups have said they've had an increase in vaccination since the policy came out For the soft mandate. I know that in the healthcare amongst healthcare workers Kaiser has told me for example that a lot of the healthcare workers that are not vaccinated Are asking now, which is the best vaccine to get that kind of thing because they know But that's a hard mandate, of course Kaiser is under a hard mandate of September 30th Having said that I think um Along with the soft mandate should come education about vaccines and why it's important to get vaccinated So I'm going to give the mayor a motion real quick mayor. Sorry for Going in circles a bit, but I really want to make sure that I'm being thoughtful here My motion is to go with the soft option and get in line with the county Have staff bring this back to us to either discontinue Or continue once our zip codes hit 80 percent So council member, I also have the city manager who wants to weigh in Again, it looks like Thank you mayor members the council I I think we share an interest in being flexible and Adaptable we have learned that lesson time and time and time again during this pandemic It's not as if we started this a year ago And knew exactly how this was going to progress We have amended our approach and policies. We have State in close contact with the county and frankly the state And look to them for recommendations and actions And we'll continue to do that as we move forward If we see an opportunity Or the lack of need to continue the program I think we would be the first to be back in here and recommend that we change the policy And discontinue the testing requirement on the other hand if it's not effective And we still are having increasing covid rates I would anticipate that our own county health department is going to recommend a harder mandate and approach They're not going to stick with a policy that is ineffective. So I'd urge consideration of flexibility recognizing that We share the council's concern about costs at the staff level And we want to coordinate closely with the county at the same time protecting The health of our own employees And our community which is our primary goal and has been throughout this whole pandemic Councilmember i'm going to make a suggestion if i can i think the herd immunity percentage As a as a marker might be hard for us to actually find some Moving target with How about and i'm making this i guess as a as a friendly amendment How about we go with the soft approach being recommended by staff until such time that the state either passes a Potential bill that's been working its way through to allow for it to become a requirement across the board Or the county of sonoma does the same mandatory requirement or When maderna and johnson and johnson also receive their full fda approval Then you've got specific metrics That gives the city manager authority to go with the more hard approach As opposed to us carrying the burden of the the testing and then in the meantime while there's still some uncertainty Legally on what is permissive. We're in the soft soft mandate territory Yeah, yeah, that's that's fine with me chris. I I'd still want 80 hurt immunity if we're going to be tacking on exit points I still want 80 percent immunity herd immunity in our zip code as a part of that It just adds flexibility for staff, you know to if that's our impetus. So I'd like that to remain Um, it's I will say though with a comment. It's just disappointing that we cannot Have our employees pay for this or Institute some sort of a fine. I find it very very frustrating that the taxpayers are going to be shouldering this testing That's mayor um, I'm not sure if kate from the county is still on but I was going to ask what the 95407 with the percentage of vaccination is on that side of town because I thought the Previously that was like the highest rate when we had covid And I was wondering if it would be the lowest rate of vaccination. And if we were going to look at um A zip code That maybe we would strategically look at a zip code where Historically we see that people are not Uh engaged, I guess in in treatment or services as much idea Looking at that zip. It looks like 78.7 percent of the residents in that zip are fully vaccinated But as I was we don't have the the question earlier about vaccination rate by city I don't have that figure handy, but I think it would make more sense for decision making to look at Zip or even census tract because even within a zip code you can have variability variability by census tract in terms of unvaccinated pockets um, so And we do have um census tract Level information available if that's something that would be of interest to you to kind of understand what's happening in all of the different areas of Sand Rosa and again, it's important to remember that this is based on the 12 plus population currently eligible So any percentages are out of that total I would like that. I would like that information member Fleming Yes, couple things one is a point of order is that I don't think we have a motion on the floor um, and the other is that You know, we're talking about population metrics. Um, when you know, our employees Commute from all over the bay area including from counties Like Solana with much lower vaccination rates than in in Santa Rosa or or or in Sonoma County, so One is I I'd like to Find out if we have a second for the motion put forward by Mr. Tibbetts and then hold my comments. Um for for that point All right looking to see if there is a second to council member Tibbetts's Motion that includes the 80 threshold I am not seeing one Is there a council member who'd like to make a separate motion? Yeah, I would go ahead council member Fleming Yeah, I would like to um suggest that we require employees to become vaccinated Fully vaccinated by october 31st Barring medical Or religious exemptions Is there a second for that motion? I'm not seeing a second. So that motion will die Councilmember Schweitham, did you have a motion? Thank you, mr. Mayor, and this is uh after hearing our city manager Which I really appreciate those comments, mr. Colon Um, but I make a motion that we direct the city manager to adopt a policy requiring all city employees To provide proof of vaccination or submit to weekly testing by october 1st Uh, 2021 I like the second There's a motion and a second Councilmember would you entertain a friendly amendment that provides flexibility to the city manager? Based on what the county and the state do that allows him to go for a hard mandate When permissible For me, that's assumed. I again, that's why I made the comments what mr. Colon said absolutely This is not a static one time one and done If the county changes we have a new public health order There's so many different variables my expectation of our city manager We doing what's in the best interests of the community and the organization like he stated earlier I mean without having to come back to council for that separate conversation Because I think given the current motion or what was being proposed by staff If the county changes their rules or if the state changes their rules I believe the the city manager would have to come back for authority from the council What i'm suggesting is providing him the flexibility that when those rules change Rather than having to come back for approval. He's able to just implement. Thank you for that clarification. Absolutely. I'd support that Vice mayor and uh, I don't think he said the health the health and religious at that Did you say that health and religious reason I heard comments from the city manager that will be incorporated in the policy as We directed yes Okay, so there's a motion and a second and to make sure we're clear It is a requirement for employees to show proof of vaccination Unless they have a religious or health exemption Otherwise they have to do weekly testing To show that they they're not carrying it And also providing the flexibility to the city manager that if state law or if the county's health orders change You're permitted to then implement a mandate That that is clear direction For staff and appreciated Okay, are there any additional comments on the motion or discussion vice mayor comment. Um, so in the case that an employee misses They're testing What occurs at that time city manager So i'm i'm going to ask our human resources director to respond to this. She's she's been working with our public safety departments thus far And I think can probably provide the clearest explanation of what happens If an employee misses their regular weekly testing appointment in other words They are reporting to work for their next scheduled work period And they do not have test results Thank you We are in the process of finalizing our policies to this end and we will require that employees come back to duty with A valid test in hand And we are looking at resources that will allow us to have a turnaround time of no more than 24 hours so scenarios we have Thought of include if someone is out on vacation or a scheduled leave of absence They would need to arrange testing at least 24 hours in advance of the start of their return shift And let me follow up if they did not do that uh Would they be placed on paid leave or unpaid leave until they were able to obtain a test result They would be placed on unpaid leave until they were able to obtain a test result unless they did not have opportunity In other words 24 hours notice To get the test in time I'll go to council member sweat help when we can come back You're asking for comments correct. Yes. All right. Thank you. Um, you know for me with this ever since COVID entered our life I've been relying on a sub-matter experts. It's not my wheelhouse Um went to several different briefings from dr. Maze and other county officials Because that's what I have to rely on and we do that in other areas Of we can't be experts in everything So I was listening to the sub-matter experts Additionally doing additional research over the last couple weeks knowing this item was coming forward going to the fda site county public health kalosha federal eeoc And one of the things again, this is somewhat new for me, but on the fda website about their approval 27 pages. Do I understand everything and all these different tests and cross checking? But I sell these doctors names there and what I do understand is this sentence the review committee recommends approval of this product Right, so go to the sub-matter experts. That's their conclusion. I'm going to trust them. That's what I've been doing from day one Also letting data drive my decisions. Dr. Maze showed us a whole bunch of data that shows we need to do something Right and I'm relying on her subject matter expertise to guide us through these challenging times I'm also not asking anyone to do anything that I haven't done myself It's not like oh, yeah, this is what you should do, but I'm not going to do it No, I'm trying to walk the talk. I let the data drive my decisions and based on all that My conclusion is that it's in the best interest of this community and this organization that we go with this policy So that's why I'm fully supportive of what staff is presented And thank you, mr. Colon and the rest of the city staff because this is challenging and the vice mayor brought up some great questions We're learning as we go here But it's that bottom line. We're doing what I think is in the best interest of our community and our organization Councilmember alvarez. Thank you, mayor What I'm hearing is that we're going after a fine approach. What if we went after a reward approach? Uh, according to the numbers of councilman tibets, we would be spending about $150,000 a month if I'm not mistaken What if we took part of that funds and actually created a incentive program? Which would in turn lower the the the funds needed for the following month if that's possible So we we have not addressed that question directly We have seen some or other organizations offer various incentives days off cash payments give certificates, uh, you know Cash cards, uh, etc I am not familiar with the results of those efforts Um, and I I guess I just turn to anybody else that's Participating if they have any data about the effectiveness of those efforts I I would add that uh, one of the things we are also arranging is for an onsite vaccination program We're working with the county to provide a vaccination clinic onsite here at city hall So that it is very convenient for employees who have not yet had a chance to get a vaccination to do so Uh here at a city work location councilmember tibets I turn to the subject matter experts kind of more broadly for the population But anecdotally anecdotally in our homeless shelters eddie We see really good results with incentive programs to get the vaccine In fact, we increased probably our vaccination rates by about 60 percent through incentives so I don't personally like doing it because it makes me angry that we are Feels like buying people off who Uh didn't get with the program early on when everybody else was a good faith actor But I reluctantly say it does work Nice mayor Does that mean because I already got my vaccine. I don't get a gift card Yeah I don't like that program Are there any additional questions on the comments on the motion? Councilmember alvarez. Thank you, mayor Ultimately, I will reiterate that I would like to see some type of incentive program if I'm here and that 60 percent Is the participation level that that councilman tibets has experienced 60 percent of 150 000 the following month I believe those are that would be a great reduction the expense that we'd be facing councilmember flooding Yeah, I um, I think that you know, we're councilmember tibets work So the very specific population One that may be more Open to to these types of things. We're working with fairly high paid And well compensated collectively bargaining folks And I think that we're kind of getting away from the question at hand And I'm getting real close to calling the question here But I'll I'll hold off but I think it's time for us to make a decision And I'll go to our city attorney who raised her hand as well Yeah, I just simply wanted to say there are some legal questions that get raised for governmental agency to to give incentives because of concerns about potential claims of discrimination for those that are unable To get vaccines either for medical reasons or religious reasons. So Law is not clear on that point yet, but I just want to raise that concern with respect to incentives by a governmental agency For its own workers for its own workers All right. Thank you My comments will be very brief. I'm going to echo a lot of what council members what helm said When you look at the data, it's not folks who are having side effects from the vaccine that are clogging our icu's and our hospital beds It's it's people who are unvaccinated. It's people who are continuing to help perpetuate it throughout our community Allowing new variants to spread that are more effective At knocking people down that spread easier that go to our populations that can't get a vaccine whether it's kids or immunocompromised folks I I totally understand people Wanting to to be able to make all of those medical choices for themselves And at the same time we're talking about community health and This is just another step in that process of us trying to protect Our overall community. So I'll be supporting the motion Madam city clerk. Can you please call the vote? Yes, thank you mayor councilmember tibbet Hi councilmember schwedhelm hi councilmember flimming hey councilmember alvarez hi Vice mayor rogers hi Mayor rogers hi that motion passes with six eyes with councilmember so you're absent All right. Thank you council That was item 14.2 We have no public hearings tonight. We have no written communications We will jump back to councilmember reports That's item 10 that we skipped specifically so that we could see How our consent calendar would play out? Are any council members interested in providing a report tonight? councilmember fleming Yes, I would like to take this opportunity to appoint three individuals to the charter Review committee. I'll be appointing gen close christ mizia and jasmine gudino Okay Are there any other council members councilmember alvarez? Thank you, mayor, and I'll take this opportunity to appoint danie martinez to the charter review committee councilmember tibbet Yes, I'd like to appoint adriana adrizon to the charter review committee All right anybody else tonight Okay, we have the first five members of the charter review committee. We still have 16 to go Can I claim the gold star mayor? For for being the first to do all three Yeah Oh, I thought you were going to give me a gold star for doing that math quickly in my head after a while No, no, no, no, no, no, no you got guy fingers on each hand and each foot All right councilmember tibbet, do you have anything else to add or is your hand just still up? We'll move on to public comments for non agenda items This is uh, both item 13 and 17 on our council agenda If you are interested in providing comment to the council on a topic that has not been discussed tonight Go ahead hit the raise hand feature on your zoom Uh, I see one hand, but I think it might have been lingering from our last discussion. Let's see with reigel And the hand went down Great. Thank you so much reigel Don't see any other hands. We'll go and see if we had any voicemail public comments tonight We received no voicemail public comments on non agenda matters All right, we'll go ahead and bring that back then and that was the last item on our agenda So we'll adjourn for this evening. See you all next week


Hello and welcome to this presentation of the STM32L4 Ciclic Redundancy Check or CRC Peripheral. All the features of this unit, which is used to generate an error-detecting code, will be presented hereafter. CRC stands for Ciclic Redundancy Check. The CRC calculation unit is used to get a CRC code on 8, 16 and 32-bit data using a configurable generator polynomial value and size. The CRC-based techniques can be used to verify data transmission or storage integrity. The CRC calculation can also be used to compute the signature of the application software during run time to be compared with a reference signature generated at link time and stored at a given memory location. Thanks to the full configurability of the STM32CRC peripheral, software overhead is reduced to a minimum. Additionally, DMA can be used for back-to-back CRC calculations over a large block of data, while the CPU is performing other tasks or put in sleep mode. The CRC peripheral integrated in the STM32 features a fully programmable odd-value polynomial with a programmable size of 7, 8, 16 or 32 bits. The initial value is also fully programmable, allowing for very flexible run time CRC code generation. The peripheral can be configured to support the big or little endian formats of the input and output data for support of various communication protocols. The CRC peripheral is connected to the AHB bus interface for an optimal performance. It contains a single 32-bit register, which is used for both writing and reading by either the CPU or DMA peripheral. The initial value, input-output bit reversal and polynomial coefficients are configured by the software during the initialization phase before starting a new CRC calculation. The CRC computation engine will hold the result of any previous CRC calculation, which then becomes the initial value for the next calculation, thus allowing a new CRC computation of data block. The input and output format is fully configurable to reduce the software overhead. It allows applications to manage different endian schemes. The input data can be reversed and performed on 8 bits, 16 bits and 32 bits, depending on the rev in 1 to 0 bits in the CRC CR register. For example, input data 0x1a2b3c4d is used for CRC calculation as 0x58d43cb2 with bit reversal done by byte, 0xd458b23c with bit reversal done by half word, or 0xb23cd458 with bit reversal done on the full word. The output data can also be reversed by setting the rev-out bit in the CRC CR register. The operation is done at bit level. For example, output data 0x11223344 is converted into 0x22cc4488. The CRC data register includes an input buffer, which allows for immediate writes by the CPU or DMA peripheral of a second data word without waiting for any weight states due to an active CRC computation. The CRC data register can be accessed by word, write-aligned half word and write-aligned byte. The duration of the computation depends on the data width. For AHB clock cycles for 32-bit, two AHB clock cycles for 16-bit, and one AHB clock cycle for 8-bit. DMA can be used for writing to the CRC engine. This offloads the CPU for other tasks and can be used for back-to-back calculations for verifying code or data integrity. This shows a summary of the power modes in which the CRC peripheral is available. The CRC peripheral needs the main AHB clock to operate.