Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to today's meeting. We're just going to take a couple of minutes here before we get started. Make sure that we have a quorum of council members, but we'll start the meeting in just a few minutes. All right, Roberta, I just got a message from a council member that they're just running a few minutes late. So we'll go ahead and get started here with our informational items only until we establish a quorum. We won't be able to pass anything or give formal direction, but especially at the beginning of the meeting, we can go ahead and get started and get things rolling. So we'll show that the other two, the other two council members will be joining later. And we'll start our meeting. I'll call us to order here at 406. I'll start our meeting here with our public comment for non agenda item. So if you are part of the public and you'd like to give comment on items that are not on today's agenda, but within the purview of our climate action committee, go ahead and hit the raise hand feature on your zoom. See, we'll start with Chris. I'll ask the host to share her screen for the three minute timer and give Chris Gunther permission to speak. Co host for able to share your screen. It looks like it might be having some technical difficulties. I'll just allow Mr. You can go ahead. Hi there. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Excellent. Well, hello, Mayor Rogers and others. My name is Chris Gunther. I live with my wife and two sons in the Montgomery Village neighborhood. And I just wanted to, to speak quickly to say I listened in last week to the city's presentation of possible traffic safety improvements along Montgomery street and the fourth street corridor. And I support many of the proposed changes and appreciate the work that went into generating proposals. But I wanted to say I was discouraged by what I saw as an overly narrow approach to street planning. Not only was the working group charged with investigating only a few stretches of our city's roads, ignoring the stretches that have injury and fatality rates just as high or higher. But they were also tasked with updating the roads only for safety purposes. Left out of this analysis where the potential equity and climate impacts of reforming our streetscapes. And this is really contrary to recent statements from city leaders that we should consider climate impacts and equity outcomes and all the decisions we make. As one example, they took the number of cars on the roads under this understudy to be a fixed quantity. And therefore a constraint they had to work within rather than starting from the premise that good street design can actually help to reduce the number of cars on the road. Secondly, they took the preservation of for street parking spaces on Harmon Road, just north of a parking lot is more important than dedicating a couple feet of roadway to allow for a buffered bike lane. In Santa Rosa we have streets that make it easy and convenient to get from point A to point B only if you drive a car. This is a choice in our urban design the choice that drives up our injury rates increases our greenhouse gas emissions, and really disadvantages those who cannot drive whether because of their age economic means disability status or other. And I think until the city starts making different choices, meaning until we start making it safe to get from point A to point B on bike foot or bus will simply not meet our climate commitments or equity commitments or our traffic safety goals. And I wanted to just say it's it's really time to start building our streets for the future. This is a coalition of Santa Rosa residents from all over the city who want to see the city strive for a step change in urban transportation specifically by investing in a quick build low stress bike network integrated with pedestrian and bus infrastructure to make it possible for anyone to get where they need to go in town safely and conveniently without a car. Thanks to your attention tonight because in your roles as climate stewards on the city council, I hope you'll actively champion these ideas to your fellow council members, and in the future include them in any directives to staff who work on issues of street design. All right, thank you for the comments Chris and I can definitely take that back and work with staff. Let's see if there are any other hands for public comment for non agenda items. Mr like up to talk, go ahead and can you. Can you hear me. Oh, thanks so much for your time. I just want to dovetail on the comments that previous speaker gave. I'm a lifelong cyclist and member of the snow my county bicycle coalition and we even if you look at them revived 2018 updated master plan. There's really no continuity and bike trails. The example he gave was for the changes on four street and Montgomery street. And in the text that was at that meeting the goal was to create comfortable, convenient and common bike paths. Well, what does that mean means different things to different people. So all the multitude of surveys regarding what would make more people get on their bikes and ride them for utility purposes. 75% plus indicate protected bike lanes is really key to that. As I see it, all good investment in bike infrastructure is good but why invest monies in our existing bike lanes as they are but you're just supporting the existing riders and we're not bringing more riders along to scale that we really need to mitigate the issues and vehicle miles traveled so I couldn't agree more with looking at our problems more holistically you draw an urban designers engineers fire police. They sit at the same table you come with a solution and they go. Okay, how can we make this work. Now each department has their agenda and they say well this won't work because there's always a qualifier. I'm going to leave it at that and I know you've probably heard this before, but this is so vital to get more people on bikes of all levels that I offered to low cost strategies to start with to north and south to east and west protected bike lanes that would really do the job and never got any feedback on that so thank you for your time. I don't see any other hands. So I will note that we've established a quorum with Council Member Natalie Rogers joining. Let's move on to item number three that's our departmental reports. Thank you Mr Mayor, I have no reports night other than that I will be serving as your staff liaison instead of Tasha right wash was on vacation. Alright I appreciate that Peter I will note that I think Tasha still watching the meeting. So hopefully she's enjoying her vacation somewhere while watching. Move on then to our new business item 4.1 star gas station prohibition prohibition ordinance update. So bring on Amy. Thank you Mayor Rogers and Council Member Rogers and members of the public good afternoon. I'm going to go ahead and share my screen. Sorry about that. Is everyone able to see the slideshow presentation. Okay, great. Yes. Okay, so the presentation today will focus on a draft gas station prohibition ordinance and my name is Amy Nicholson I'm a senior planner with the planning and economic development department. Before we review the existing regulations and some proposed changes, I wanted to touch on the history of this effort so far. As the subcommittee and members of the public will likely recall we did have a study session on this item back in May of last year. And at that time the subcommittee gave direction for staff to pursue a draft ordinance to prohibit the construction of new gas stations within the city limits. We did have last year the regional climate protection authority, also known as RCPA and its board adopted a resolution supporting jurisdictions to prohibit the construction of new gas stations. And then over the fall and winter of this last year, planning stuff coordinated with RCPA staff to map the locations of the gas stations within the city limits. So we would like to overlay that information with the city's equity priority populations and areas. So the purpose of today's presentation is just to report out on what what we've learned proposed some amendments and then hear from the subcommittee and members of the public. So this slide includes a map of the city of Santa Rosa and we see the city limits shown in the pink color. The locations are shown as the orange circles, and there are a total of 46 within the city limits. They're primarily concentrated around Highway 101 and Highway 12, and then many of the regional streets which intersect with those highways. The blue areas on the map represent census groups with the highest concentration of people of color within the county. This is the top 25%. And then the yellow areas on this map represent households, the highest concentrations of households in poverty within the county. The green areas on this map are considered equity priority areas because that's where these two demographics intersect. So we can certainly see here that there's really I think 44 of the 46 gas stations are either within these areas or they're right on the border, which we know is an environmental justice issue as gas stations contribute to poor air quality. Thank the trees. She's a planner in our department who's been doing a lot of equity work and so she was able to help provide us with this information, which is really important as we're making policy decisions. So this slide here shows what's currently in the zoning code and this is just a refresher so that we can see what exists now and what would change should this ordinance be adopted. So these gas stations are a defined land use within the zoning code, which is what regulates all land use and development within the city. And the zoning code defines a process for these gas stations and where they are allowed. So they're currently allowed in the majority of our commercial zoning districts and then two of our industrial zoning districts by a conditional use permit. So this is a discretionary approval, which requires planning commission action, and then a conditional use permit may be appealed to the city council. The zoning code also has specific standards for gas stations and they're shown here on this slide but to summarize gas stations need to be cited on parcels that are of a certain area and dimension. They can be located next to residential zoning districts or residential uses, and then there is a concentration requirement, although there are exceptions to that. If the gas stations are located within 50 feet of highway 101 or highway 12 intersections. There's also a requirement for the physical removal of a gas station. If it becomes non conforming and is abandoned. And so I just wanted to take a moment to talk about what non conforming means because that's an important part of today's presentation and discussion. So what non conforming means is when land is being used in a way or structure was constructed in a way that was legal at the time. And it's been maintained, but now the zoning code has changed and that use or structure doesn't meet the requirements. So in this case under our current regulations, a gas station could become non conforming if a residential project developed right next door. And then if that gas station were abandoned for a period of six months or 365 days within a two year period, it would be required to be removed. This slide shows a screenshot from the zoning code, which is a land use table for our commercial zoning districts. And this table shows a variety of different land uses and the different zoning districts and then if that land use is allowed. And if it is how it is allowed. In this case we currently show CUP which reflects conditional use permit. And so, looking to the draft ordinance, if we want to prohibit the construction of new gas stations, we would show a straight through line here which would indicate that the use is not allowed. The column on the right hand side reflects those specific use regulations that I referenced on the previous slide, and we would recommend keeping that in the table as it relates to the gas stations that are currently existing. This slide shows or references that specifically in use section. And really here the change would be simple we would want to ensure that it was clear that the current standards in the zoning code would apply only to existing gas stations, just reinforcing that new gas stations would no longer be permitted. So back to the non conforming use discussion. If these amendments are made to the zoning code and the 46 gas stations become non conforming uses. We would want to make sure that it's clear what modifications if any would be acceptable. I've suggested language here that an existing gas station and associated infrastructure may be modified for certain purposes, aesthetic purposes safety or environmental purposes. So long as those modifications didn't intensify or expand any of the fossil fuel infrastructure. So this slide is intentionally blank, but it includes a number of topics that I would appreciate feedback on as we move forward in drafting this ordinance and so I'm going to raise a few questions. And I would love to come back to the slide after this presentation just to focus today's discussion. So one is permitted modification so I just talked through some allowances for the existing gas station so aesthetic safety or environmental modifications. I would appreciate feedback on if that seems appropriate if if any of those should perhaps be removed or if there's anything that should be added in as acceptable. And then you know to go further into this. A fuel pump breaks at an existing gas station. Would we allow that to be replaced, or would we say no, because that's not technically an expansion, but it is. It would relate to the fossil fuel infrastructure. The question relates to the removal requirements so I spoke earlier about the requirement to remove an abandoned gas station. If it if it's abandoned for a period of six months or 365 days in two years. So given that these gas stations would become non conforming. Would we want to adjust that number in any way, or does the six month or 365 day time frame still seem appropriate. During the May subcommittee meeting I heard that there was not any interest in adding language related to electric vehicle charging. And I just like to confirm that that is still the case. And as it relates to the effective date, we did have some discussion about pipeline projects so that would be an application that's currently being reviewed by the city, and how a draft ordinance would affect that that project. So as, as we currently go through the ordinance adoption process it takes 31 days from the second reading by the city council. And so any project that is processed after that effective date would need to comply with the current zoning code standards. We do have the option to add in some language if that's of interest and just to provide a little bit of data we have one gas station application under review currently. And then the last piece relates to community outreach and we tailor our community outreach depending on what the proposal is and what the policy is. This is obviously a citywide effort, and we would certainly like to engage the community as we can and so I would appreciate if the subcommittee has any specific recommendations as to how they would like to see community outreach occur for this ordinance. So this last slide here just reflects next steps. This subcommittee meeting will help us to get all the details to complete the draft ordinance. Following that draft, we would move forward to the planning commission for a public hearing and following the planning commission recommendation would take this item to city council for action. That concludes my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions. And then we can go back to the feedback slide if that helps for discussion. Okay, thank you so much Amy and thank you for all your work on this. I have two primary questions. One is just about the process. Is it anticipated that with direction from the subcommittee today that you'll be able to then have your next step at the planning commission, or was your intention to bring it back to the subcommittee one time for review of the draft ordinance. I think we can get enough detail today just because our questions are focused to proceed to the planning commission without returning to the subcommittee. I think that was that was my hope. So I'm glad to hear that the second for the one application that's pending. If you could just let us know or remind us where is it being proposed and does it fall into one of the equity priority equity areas. Yeah, I, I can. This gas station is located at the intersection of highway 12 and middle rink and and I can what I can do on the side is just put that plug that into our mapping system and make sure that I have the location right with our equity priority layer and report back in just a few minutes. Yeah, I don't, I don't think it was. And I think it is not one of them, but I just wanted to confirm for the discussion and maybe what we'll do is after Natalie gets a chance to ask any questions she has maybe we'll go to public comment first and you can look during the comment period as well. Sounds great. Natalie any questions. No questions, just ready when we do the feedback. Okay, we'll go to public comments then. So if you are interested in providing comment hit the raise and feature will start with Woody, and we'll go to Michael. And co-host are you able to share the timer screen. Who has the screen. The amador is our co-hosts. She was having some technical issues but I have a time on my phone to contract that way so Mr. Hastings I'll allow you to speak and go ahead and unmute. Okay, can you hear me. Okay. Okay. Hi, thank you. My name is Woody Hastings. And I am here representing the coalition opposing new gas stations thanks for the opportunity to speak. I'm glad this is back on the agenda I know you're juggling a lot of priorities so really appreciate it being back on the agenda. Thank you so much for the presentation it looks like things are generally on the right track, you know, a prohibition and a prohibition of expansion of fueling facilities at existing gas stations. I do want to just mention that there's actually two we track gas station proposals in Sonoma County really closely. There are two proposals within the city of Santa Rosa the other one is that correct the one is at 43 middle rink and road it's an existing and existing 711 and they want to put gas pumps in there the other one is at 874 north right road at the far other end of the city on the west side. Okay. I think the Congress actually has an appeal filed on the on that on that proposal from the subdivision subcommittee in the planning division from December 2019. Anyway, I'm moving on. I'm wondering is, can the city do what both Petaluma and runner park did which was to adopt an urgency ordinance, imposing a moratorium on any new applications coming in that really gives staff and the city council and other stakeholders a good time to craft a good, you know, a good ordinance on that works for that works for everyone and, you know, I just think that that might be a good idea it's what Petaluma did is what runner park did on January 25. So I think that all other points really quick here from some of the things that were raised I think you know the removal of gas stations is a very, there's a lot to that and remediation of the leaking underground storage tanks that typically do leak those underground storage tanks. So that's a big part of that regarding EV charging. The only thing I'll say about that is that nothing in the city's code I think should impede the expansion of EV charging and the places where they make sense where people are already parking for, you know, a length of time. And I think that is everything I wanted to say. So thank you very much. Woody, before you're completely gone. And I'll ask if other people want to address this as well. One of the questions Amy asked that we'd like the public to give feedback on is things such as the replacement of the broken infrastructure that's technically not an expansion but it but it is a replacement. So, I'll give you a chance to answer that would if you want and then for folks who have your hands up if you have an opinion. Feel free to share that in your comments. Thank you. I had thought about that. And, you know, I don't think that we would really oppose. I don't think that that is something that should be in the city's code to prohibit replacing a broken pump. The concern would be is if there's some kind of gas station reconstruction where they're talking about installing underground storage tanks that that are specified to last for 40 years. It seems like a that kind of magnitude of a of a change would be something that would be problematic. And of the 46 gas stations operating I'll bet you a lot of those underground storage things are leaking and so there might be a project to replace those and I think that would be a really bad idea. I think that a broken pump is something that we probably would not, you know, suggest should be prohibited in the code. Okay, thanks buddy. We'll go to Michael followed by Jenny. Can you hear me okay. Thanks so much for your time again. I just want to reiterate what would he said I think that it's so obvious when the Council passed climate emergency resolution, a little over two years ago. It's really incongruent with your climate objectives to really permit new gas stations on its face it's it's so obvious. So, and I also agree with setting some sort of moratorium while you're getting the final draft and order. So we don't see a big rush for new permits. As the word gets out. I think that's really important piece. And lastly, it's both a question and a comment and that is, you know, for the non conforming and broken gas stations that are abandoned. The new pays for remediation. Often it falls back on the taxpayers. And, you know, that that I think has to be fixed and a quick example of that is, I had in, it's not in center Rosa but in in San Francisco had a medical office building on South Main Street empty lot next to me, nor be about the property to build live workspaces, which I really was behind and advocated. In the process they found hidden gas tanks. They had to dig down 40 feet, had a mound of dirt, at least that high and my whole building was always full of dust, and spent months to kind of clean it up then the city and county comes to me as a next door neighbor and says, we'd like to put in a monitoring table in your parking lot. And, you know, I do environmental medicine, and I had no clue this was going on that perhaps it can reach into my property, because the ground tables water ground table and so basketball is pretty, pretty high. So we asked, they monitored for three years post cleanup and still found toxic loads that really impeded my ability to sell my property devalued my property because of that. It's just a backstory it's not nobody's problem but I'm sure there are many other folks out there who've had a similar experience so the cleanup who pays for it. And long term, you know, if we're going to save this planet, we can have gas stations. They're great ideas about converting those to electric charge stations aesthetically, a whole variety of things so thank you for your time. And we'll talk to you later. Alright, thank you Michael will go to Jenny followed by Mark. Mr Mayor, I have a copy of the timer to try to share my screen and run it. Hello, can you hear me. This is Jenny. Okay, thank you very much. Yeah, Jenny Blaker I'm also co coordinator of the coalition opposing new gas stations. Thank you very much for bringing this back. Thank you so much to Amy Nicholson for her presentation and doing all the background research. I would say I have four specific comments one is to keep it simple and clear and focused on no new gas stations, and no expansion of existing gas stations, i.e. no new infrastructure like new pumps, etc existing ones. EV charging has nothing to do with it. Don't mention it. EV charging should be where people already park their cars for any length of time, like where they live where they work with shopping centers, medical center, sports centers. Nobody wants to be charging their electric car while they sit in a gas station breathing in the fumes and we don't want any link between the two. It's a completely different thing. I would say if some sort of replacement of something broken like a broken pump is needed for safety and environmental protection, then yes it should be fixed. But what we don't want to see as Woody mentioned is something like a new tank being installed, which is designed to last 40 years and prolong the life of that gas station for another 40 years. I would call that was expansion into the future, so I hope I hope that helps with some of the comments and I think that a lot of people. We have a lot of people on our congas mailing lists and I believe from the discussions we've had with our steering group and others that pretty much everyone we've spoken to would be in line with, you know, with what we're saying. And I'd say, sooner it can go to the planning commission the better. But if it would be a good idea to have an urgency moratorium right now as soon as possible to give staff time to work out the exact wording and details for a permanent prohibition. That would be great. Again to stop to stop sort of last minute applications sneaking in just before you, you pass the prohibition the permanent prohibition. Thank you very much for all your work on it and the time to comment. That's it. Thank you for joining us Mark, followed by Alexa. Thank you. Oh, ready. Thank you. Yeah. Good afternoon. And thanks for the opportunity. My name is Mark Mortensen district five resident. I'm going to keep my mark short because I don't want to be repetitive here, but I just wanted to thank the committee for placing this resolution gas station prohibition ordinance on the on the agenda. And I urge the committee to prioritize the city councils adopting this gas station prohibition ordinance as soon as possible. For all the reasons that have been given so well by public and, and others. Maybe, you know, the intent for the eventual ordinance could be more quickly accomplished by, I guess, like Jenny said, adopting an urgency ordinance such as Petaluma and I think Ronan Park it was such an ordinance could place a moratorium on the city accepting any new gas station permits applications. As the full ordinance is being developed. I'm wondering if at some point here we could get a rough timeframe for the proposed ordinance. Lastly, I guess I just suggest that in order to expedite expedite action here that the city council stay focused on the prohibition of new gas stations and not get into into how existing gas stations could be modified. And so on, except to limit expansion of increased feeling. I think the market will probably dictate how gas stations eventually where which way they go. So that's all I wanted to say. Thank you very much for your time. So much Mark, go to Alexa followed by Steve. Hi everybody can you hear me. Yes, again. Thanks so much for your time today and thank you Amy Nicholson for that very clear presentation and for all the work that went into compiling that data. This is a, this is a step that the city could take that's really important to my family and especially to my very climate concern children who are looking to leadership from the, you know, from their city leaders to help transition to a more sustainable future. I especially appreciate the intersectionality here of racial equity economic equity and climate equity, and I appreciate the mapping you did to show the local impacts but I also just wanted to remind everybody that the inequitable impacts of gas go down in Richmond are fueling stations there's a trail of environmental injustice with the refining and the drilling as well and I'm sure our neighbors down in Richmond, many of whom I work with on community organizing would appreciate not having their air spoiled by the refineries as well so this is a long term transition that we need to make for an equitable society. I just wanted to mention that I support what people said before about a urgency moratorium on accepting new applications until the city council has had a chance to finalize whatever is going to be finalized. And in respect to your particular question Mayor Rogers. You know I appreciate what a gray area that creates about like okay what about this, this part of the pump or you know like, what exactly can you replace and I'm wondering if there's anything that could be done around like case by case. You know, update applications or if that would be overly complex, I think I would prefer getting it done over making it overly complex, but if there was a way to say you can replace this much of the gas pump but not an underground storage tank, etc, or if there would be an appeals process for you know if there was an environmental hazard with a tank, obviously you don't want to leave that untreated so that would be my concern there. Thank you so much for your time and you're really good work on this. Let's go to Steve followed by Mike. Thank you Mayor Rogers and Natalie. I really want to commend the work that's going into this, both by the staff and by witty and Jenny. I have walked around all these issues. I think enough. It's time to move forward. And I just want to affirm what you're doing and move as quickly as possible to get it done. Thank you. Mike, followed by Christian Tom. Hi, this is Mike Turgeon I represent the Friends of the Climate Action Plan. I won't repeat anything. The, the speakers have covered the issues quite well. We are in full support of moving this forward as quickly as possible. And, but I also would like to say how much we've appreciated the last few months with the sub committees work in that casting forward agenda items has been quite helpful and helping us prepare for comments and issues as they come up so we really appreciate that. Thank you so much. And I'm going to go to Chris and Tom. Hello, this is Chris Thompson. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Okay. Yeah. Hi, thanks. Hello, everybody. I live out here in Oakmont in Santa Rosa. And I do support adoption of the ordinance. And I do support consideration of their urgency ordinance to impose a moratorium on the city, accepting any new permit. I do want to say, let's stop building new gas stations. We in California know what it means to witness and suffer in the teeth of the climate catastrophe. We have personal experiences with fire, flood, wind storms, heat and drought. We bring the power of our pain and the courage of our recovery to this planetary crisis. As we go forward, we must lead by sharing with the world real solutions wherever and however they exist. And this is one. Thank you. And I'll just say, I think my wife said it better than I could. How we feel about this. I'm Tom a model also live at Oakmont. The only thing I would add is if you look at the map with all the gas stations. It almost looks like, gee, you don't have enough gas stations on the our side of town, but the reality is in Oakmont, I could drive five minutes in either direction and be at a gas station. And you're using that that crowded. And then like to go to the gas station that's proposed to 12 admission, I go by a third gas station so it's like, we have more gas stations that we need. So why would build more and again, I think this is my wife was pointing out sends helps to create momentum around we need to move from fossil fuels to to renewables. So thank you for all your time and energy you put on this. We really do appreciate the work of the subcommittee. Thank you. Thank you, Chris and Tom, plus hand I have so I'll bring it back. So, my pleasure. Do you want to kick us off with comments. And Amy, do you want to pull up that slide one more time. Yes, I'll do that now. So, for permitted modifications, I was going to say that modifications. I don't think I'm not sure about modifications, but I think that if something is broken that it needs to be able to be fixed. So, I do want to, I do want to say that. And then, removal requirements, I don't have enough expertise to talk about removal requirements, EV charging stations. I think that there should be a fast EV charging stations at gas stations. And I think that that is for convenience for people who are traveling especially on certain corridors, I think that it's important. But that's just, I don't have enough expertise to talk about that either. That would just be my own personal like if I'm traveling somewhere. That would be convenient to get the fast ones if I'm not parked somewhere effective date, I would say as soon as possible. As soon as we can get it put in place correctly. And until then, I think if we can get something to stop anything else from going through that would be great. Because this has been pushed. The back burner isn't really a great phrase to say but it has been pushed back a little ways. And community outreach. I would say education education education indefinitely education around alternative means of transportation in different different ways so for me not necessarily talking about gas and gas stations but also what can you use in lieu of different rebates and things that families can use to maybe purchase alternative forms of vehicles and things like that because I think those are things that people don't know. So they don't explore things. Or they don't explore alternative alternatives than what they know. If they don't know anything else. So if we can educate the community that would be great. That's it. Okay, thank you. So for me, the permit modifications, aesthetics and safety, those are the, the no brainers from my end, absolutely don't want any type of expansion. One of our things. If the main purpose of us doing this is to make sure that we're not having folks put in infrastructure that is going to be hopefully completely phased out within 20 years. And then I get the concerns about the new storage tanks underground. And so that might be one area where we craft this to say it requires some form of level of urgency or some form of special condition to be able to do that on a case by case basis. But I'm going to leave it up to staff to make a suggestion to the to the planning commission on how we actually word that. For the removal requirements for six months or 365 days in two years. That seems reasonable to me. It seems to have worked fine so far. So I don't know that we need to mess with that portion. I'm all for easy charging stations across the whole city. I think that anxiety is definitely a thing. There's targets 110 miles to a charge. And so I get that. But I don't want to cloud this ordinance and so we'll work on the easy charge station issue separate from this. The effective date, I agree. We've had discussions at this committee numerous times. So I don't want to overload staff. So I know we're particularly busy. But my, my answer would be work with the chair of the planning commission to figure out how soon you can bring this to the planning commission and let's get this across the finish line. Would love to see it done. Before people are seeing the, the spikes and gas prices again later this summer would be great. But I don't know what staff capacity is. So I'll just say as quickly as possible. I'll work with staff if staff doesn't see any legal reason, not to, you know, with the two applications that are pending to bring a urgency ordinance to the council pending the discussion. I think that should be on the table as well. And I'm happy to work with the city attorney on that. Finally, for community outreach. I'm normally all for community outreach and continue to be. And also this one has seen so many public public hearings already from us in terms of our subcommittee. I'm great with us going to the planning commission and going through our normal outreach process through the planning commission on city wide issues. And an opportunity for folks to, to give input. But again, going back to the premise of, let's get this moving as quickly as we can. And with that, do you have the direction that you need, Amy? Mayor. Go ahead, Natalie. Clarification. Mr. Hastings, I believe it was mentioned that 874 North right road. I just wanted to ask for clarification. I believe that that gas station application had been removed or withdrawn. Is that not the case anymore? Thank you, council member for asking that. And I appreciate that was raised during public comment. It was deemed expired. And I think the latter part of the year of 2021, but they recently resubmitted. And so I was looking into that after I believe what he raised that during public comment so that that application is under review in addition to the one on middle rink and in highway 12. And I did confirm that the middle rink in site is not within any of the equity priority population areas, but the right road site is for high concentrations of people of color. Just for some background there. It just has a point of clarification on the graph. Because it is really interesting for me for the high concentrations for people of color and the high concentrations of poverty. You said that those are one of the quartiles based on county wide data in the, is this from the portrait of any revamp that was done. Those percentages come so it's census groups and then that top 25% is relative to the entire county. I don't believe the information came from portrait of synomics I know we had it prior to that being released but we actually have the trees available and she, she knows a lot more about this than I do so I'll let her speak to it. Thanks. Excellent. Just want to know how to talk about this with the public and make sure that I'm accurate in the representations that I'm making. Hi. In relationship to your question. Mayor Rogers, the information we're getting is from the census 2020 so our information is updated. I am not exactly sure if all the information from the Sonoma portrait is 2020 information I might think they have a former data set. And it can be American Community Survey 2019. That will be my, my guess because they, they took more time to finalize that report because it's way more comprehensive. But to your, to the point, I think we have very updated information. And the difference with the, with the portrait of Sonoma is that we have smaller spatial and geographical areas. We use census tracks. We're using census groups because we want it to be very comprehensive about the specific locations of not only gas stations we were not only thinking about that when we designed this work. It was thinking about policy and community outreach so it's smaller geographical area that will be the only difference with the portrait of Sonoma. That's helpful. Thank you. Any other, Natalie, any other direction. No, thank you. Cool. All right, thanks Amy we really appreciate it and we'll be looking for this on the planning commissions agenda next. Thank you so much. It's on to item 4.2. Peter you're going to take this one. Yeah, that's correct. Let me share my screen here. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Rogers and Councilman Rogers. Pleased to be before you tonight to present this item. I am providing update on some of the new requirements surrounding recently passed legislation state assembly bill 841 related to contractor certification requirements for electronic vehicle infrastructure. It was signed into law in September of 2020. It made several changes to utility repair funded electronic vehicle charging infrastructure investments and the deployment of those. It instituted new labor requirements which we'll speak about tonight for publicly funded EV charging infrastructure projects. And then it established a new program at the CEC to fund, you know, appliance plumbing and HVAC heating and air conditioning upgrades to schools using repair funded energy efficiency and centers. So, specific to the city. So, of interest to this committee that was brought to my attention are the new electric vehicle infrastructure training program requirements. It does require that after January 1 of 2022, which is this year. All projects funded or authorized in whole or by part the public utilities commission energy commission or the state airport. Essentially state funding that install a charging port supplying 25 kilowatts or more to a vehicle that at least 25% of the total electricians working on the crew for the project at any given time. And that's called what is called an EV ITP electronic vehicle infrastructure training program certification. A little bit about that certification, it is an 18 hour training with a one and a half hour in person exam. Those in person exams. My understanding are offered in two locations one in Northern California and one in Southern California. To be able to pursue the certification must be a California State certified general electrician. The course is of course 275 dollar fee for the exam course and certification. There will be some continuing education requirements, but you know, this is directly from the EV ITP website. The benefits are that it provides a safer quicker and more efficient installation of the infrastructure by having EV ITP certified contractors working on these projects. So, in terms of just what that means today. We are currently requiring project contractor EV ITP certifications for city projects, specifically where funding is received from state funding. An example is the recently approved design build contract for the EV bus electrification project that contract was awarded in April of last year with Cupertino Electric Incorporated CEI.  I should mention to that that project is funded by a program through PG&E's program it's called the EV fleet program. It's actually kind of a longer title but yeah it is a PG&E funded program that we are receiving funding for for that project. So, in preparation for this overview today, I did do kind of a cursory review of other municipalities and what they have done in terms of either adopting ordinances or policies related to these EV ITP requirements. One locally is the city of Petaluma, also the city of Maywood and the city of Carson as well. So, for an example here locally with the city of Petaluma, they adopted an ordinance recently that at a minimum one job site supervisor or job site foreman, the revised EV work would be required to be EV ITP certified. And further, a minimum 50% of the state certified general electricians on performing the work on each city funded project will be should be EV ITP certified. And then of course, records of those certifications should be made available to the city or the EV ITP program themselves upon request for the purposes of ensuring quality assurance checks throughout the projects, the life of the project construction. And then the city of Maywood and the cities of Carson adopted similar measures. They were policies, not particularly ordinance. The city of Maywood did include requirements like the city of Petaluma with one exception. It applies only to projects funded by the city that cost less than $60,000. The city of Carson, again, same requirements as city of Petaluma with one exception. The records requirement was not explicitly stated. But both are policies that are specific for contracting with the city for city funded projects. Obviously the difference is, this is going beyond the requirements at ABA 41 and applies to any city funded project, not just those that are state funded per the legislation. So yeah, just a consideration of potential policy and ordinance. You know obviously kind of the state of benefits are out there the EV ITP sets a consistent contractor training standard for new EV infrastructure installs. There was some cost considerations raised with some of the other cities when they evaluated this ordinance. Right now for instance that they're only showing eight certified EV ITP firms in the North Bay at this time, but more expected in the future. And then of course, there's a possibility that city staff may desire to receive the certification to as well. And they're pursued and oversight of various projects. You know, just as I pointed out earlier that some of the municipalities have gone above and beyond some of the requirements in AB 841 that being specifically the 25% contractor requirement or the minimum one journey level contractor requirement. They do not specify the 25 kilowatt requirement. I'm not sure if that really matters in this regard. But and then it just, you know, obviously applies to all municipality funded projects and not just fun state funded projects. So, just to note, any grant funds or state funded projects cooperative agreements from the various entities that were named in legislation would have specific ABA 41 certification requirements as part of the requirement of receiving that funding. So, you know, any kind of contractual agreement for a grant or something, of course would have this requirement built into it as well. So yeah, just I think for the purposes of what's being requested, the subcommittee today, you know, definitely giving you an intro and an overview of this legislation. And really just sort of identifying what the subcommittee would like to explore in regard to meeting this requirement long term. And, you know, I obviously work for the water part of it, I wouldn't be taking it this forward but I do have believe some folks are available to on the zoom call from, you know, both planning economic development as well as, you know, the planning official Jesse Oswald has worked quite a bit on the streamlining permitting requirements for, you know, the charging infrastructure that came around last year as well. So that concludes my presentation and I'll start to take any feedback. Great. So start Natalie do you have any questions or comments. I just think that the more the more training that people receive the better, especially if they're going to be. I mean, in this line of work, the more training that they receive the better so I would definitely be in support of exploring not only meeting but maybe expanding it to 50% of people out there that are certified. I think that that would definitely be be a good thing. It sounds like a, you know, to get people to really know what they're doing and to ensure that they are putting correctly, and it all boils down to me to safety. So to making sure that the workers are safe and also it is durable too so if the city and people are going to be using it, it is going to be durable and it's going to be long lasting so I think that if it's putting correctly that that will happen. My interest in bringing this forward is now that Petaluma has done a lot of the legwork, the legal analysis and has the drafting of the ordinance. I'm not sure we would need to bring the ordinance back to the subcommittee, but really looking to check in with the subcommittee and with the folks who'd be involved in bringing this as a as an item to the council. So I'll go ahead and go to public comment and see if we have any thoughts from the public on this. If anybody's interested in providing comments, go ahead hit the raise hand feature on your zoom, or if you're on your phone, a couple folks on their phone, go ahead hit the star nine, I believe it is. Okay, we've got one caller. The number is 4,000, it will enable you to talk. Oh, you have been unmuted so you can unmute on your. Hello. Hello there. Hi this is Bernie caught here, the National Co chair of the electric vehicle infrastructure training program. And I just called in to see if I could provide any information or resources to any of the members of the council or the staff on every IPP. I appreciate that. You've got three minutes here with our typical public comment. What I'd say is it'd be helpful to hear what the biggest benefits of increasing the percentage like Petaluma did would be. Yes. So, to address that in the short time available, I would just say that the basis of EVITP, which was put together by a industry collaborative, EVIA industry collaborative, now about nine years ago, which included the auto industry and the EV charging infrastructure companies and first responders, utilities. The interest of that consortium, which established EVITP as a non-profit, brand-neutral volunteer-based organization was safety. It's all about electrical safety, protecting the safety of the inhabitants, the workers, the people who are around EV infrastructure, and to make sure that it's installed safely. It works safely. We don't overload circuits. We don't have fires and all these problems. So the advantage of having 50% over 25 is that, first of all, the 25 is really a minimum. It just says, well, we'll at least have somebody on the job. But the more trained and certified EVITP electricians who are on the job, the safer that job is going to be, but not only that, it's going to be more efficient and we're going to get better performance and better maintenance, better durability of that equipment because it's done right. All right. Thank you so much. Do we have any other comments from the public? I think then I'll bring it back. So Natalie, it sounded like, and tell me if you disagree, it sounded like you're in favor of moving forward with Petaluma's ordinance as a model and bringing this issue to the city council. Definitely. Yes, sir. Okay. Me too. And I understand it won't be Peter, a man of many talents, but it doesn't quite follow on your portfolio. I understand that. And so we'll work with staff and we'll put together the ordinance and figure out how to bring it forward here. Yeah, I can follow up with staff that would be involved and I do have Bernie's contact information passed over to me by Petaluma. So I can provide that too as well. Perfect. Any last thoughts, Natalie? Just wanted to thank Peter because he's just such a natural, didn't even seem like this wasn't his, you know, his forte, so he's such a natural. Thank you so much, Peter. Thank you for that. We'll move on to our future agenda items. Peter, are you presenting this one as well? Yeah, so we do have a couple items coming up in March related to the update to the general plan and coordination with RCPA. We're the staff and the coordination team that supports this subcommittee are working very hard to populate out a little further on that, you know, date list as well. But, you know, definitely have some good content coming up for the subcommittee over the next few months. So cool. Any questions, Natalie? No, sir. All right. And I will also remind the public that in a couple of weeks we have goal setting for the city council and that'll help outline not just the work that we do from the council days, but also push things forward at the subcommittee level as well. So be involved in that. Let's go to public comment on the item. I see David with a hand up. OK, I'm unmuted, I think. Yep, you are. OK, well, you're bringing up priorities and I just wanted to lift up the fact that the capital improvement budget got a lot of money in it. And, you know, it's a bit of a job to look at the capital improvements and see whether they are really aligned well with our priorities. And I just want to remind the council in this priority setting in getting alignment between where we're spending the money and these goals is important. And I would encourage you to continue that evaluation to see where we're spending our money in ways that most advance our climate goals. Thank you. I appreciate the reminder. Thank you, David. I don't see any other hands with that. I'll bring it back and Natalie, anything additional to add before we adjourn? Probably just very happy that we got the gas station. So moving along. I'm really happy that that was on here and we got it moving. So. Better than that. No, no mayor. All right. Thank you again to staff. Thank you to everybody for participating and helping to push things forward. We will adjourn for today and we'll see you next month. Thank you.


What's up, guys, and welcome to 20 Updates Up our SPM birds. Now, on to the training news today is a foreign affairs CES Dr. Alfred Mutua who has revealed that some of the Kenyans living in the Middle East are selling illicit broo. Na kwa mei ni storyambai meza kutufiki ya, Alfred Mutua was having an interview at JKIL Citizen TV kwa sa mababu alesa ku reveal that a section of these Kenyans living in the Gulf are doing some of the prohibited things. And one of those things is selling alcohol, kwa sa mabu kamatuna yua, some of these Gulf countries don't allow alcoholic drinks, zikoprohibited, and now these Kenyans doing these are harming not only themselves but also putting the rest of the Kenyans living there at risk. Na ii ni storyambai Alfred Mutua meza kuhambia watu, it is paramount for Kenyans to respect the cultures of other different nations. Na kwa eza kuliza swali pali, and I quote, How can you open alcohol dance in a country where conception of any alcoholic drink is prohibited? Na kwa eza kuhambia izo actions zinafanya, In a country here to come to Kenya our passport is crippling, na ii na lose its importance. Na na eza kuhambia kuhambia, Let him stop doing this kwa sa mabu, apart from just getting deported, it affects our country in general. Kwa evo kwa pali nyumbani na you plan on travelling, this is how this particular action of selling illicit brew in the Gulf countries is going to affect you. The Kenyan passport is going to be having a lot of issues, and also the government is unable to deal with the welfare of citizens living abroad. Kwa evo nesa kua ikileta a very huge impact on the people. Na nandomana nesa kuhambia Kenyans get creative and we urge you guys to make something that is illegal. You know, just engage in legal businesses. La kini piya tu na kumbuka a while back in 2022, the third foreign affairs principal secretary li kwa na jilika na kama kama u masharia claimed that some of the Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia were not submissive. Na ini kstori ambailiku ina pelikea wa u kua mistrited. This is the reason as to why wali eza kupia na nambona wa kenya wengine wa na kua mistrited clearly submissiveness. Niki tumbia wa kenya kidogo ina sumbu wa e. And now I'm telling you the government is through the foreign affairs. Ineza kumbia in case you are mistrited, there is the number to call. Ta kwa tukiwe kele a pali in case you are our fan in the Middle East. Na una kapitia ama, you know, you never know, you never know if your future just in case. La kini tu na hopo mambu ita kuatumzuri kabisa. La kini siju istori una yonaji, you know, selling of illicit brew in the Gulf countries. Let us know down on the comments section, but in the meantime, keep it trendy updates, hapa SPM birds.


Yes, I am late to the party because GNOME45 released some days ago and the betas were available just a few days ago. So yes, I'm late to the party, but I was in vacation, I'm back now, and I just wanted to try out GNOME45 to see how it works because, listen to me, I was super surprised when I saw the announcement because I was following GNOME45 development for quite a while and instead what I got was much more than I actually knew was coming. So I didn't prepare myself well enough. Let's actually see what's new. So firstly, the obvious thing, which was teased at Gwadak. We knew this was coming, but still we have to talk about it. And it's the top left indicator for activities, which is super beautiful objectively. So I actually really like it. I've heard criticism of it as well. But before I jump into anything like that, I would still like to, you know, actually try it to see how it behaves when multiple desktops are open. Now, as you might notice while I'm doing this, the speed of this whole thing isn't great because I had multiple technical issues while trying to just open this place while trying to actually boot up GNOME45. As an example, the only destroyer that I thought of was GNOME OS, obviously, but boxes, GNOME boxes is broken on my system. So I just couldn't try that out. And why was GNOME boxes broken? I don't know, because GNOME boxes does not tell you anything about what's going wrong. You have to use a command line tool dot dash dash check, but whatever. Now, as soon as I actually get something open here, which is I'm trying, I'm trying, we can actually see how the indicators work. I've heard criticism of them as well, especially because if you're a new user out of the box, you might try fully might rightfully ask, you know, how does how do they work? Like, what's what's those weird dots on the top left? How do you actually tell the user what they do if you click on them? Because you do have to click on them to pretty much do anything. So how? Previously, you actually add a label, which was activities. And that actually expresses a bit better what happens, what is going on. That, I think, is a nice approach. But GNOME developers actually did some sort of study or research. I don't remember. And they found out that this label wasn't working. So they tried out different alternatives. And that's what I appreciate of the development process, actually trying out different things. And they saw that apparently these dots work quite well. So I'm just going to give it to them. And personally, I really like them. I know that you have to click on them to get to the overview. So whatever, I guess, I'm into them now. I'm absolutely failing at dragging this window to a new desktop.  Do it. Oh, I did it. So now I can switch to the second desktop and to the third desktop or not. Because, yes, the desktop's actually disappear when you push stuff into a new one. So forget about that. Forget about all I've been trying to do. Let me just say that, yes, switching between desktops, I do quite like how the pills in the top left look. They probably also have a super beautiful animation. But yeah, I'm not getting any animation out of this image. So second up, another thing that absolutely shocked me. Let's get back to this application. And when I first saw this image in the announcement, I thought, okay, weird, they are showcasing a third party theme into their official announcement because I thought this has to be a third party theme. Right? Well, it isn't. This is how GNOME applications look from now on, which is. Wow. Like. Firstly, this is beautiful. Objectively, this is beautiful. Now I'm a cadet developer, which means I have to complain about something here. I guess that's my role. And if I do have to complain about something, I will complain about the fact that there's no way to there's nothing that separates the header bar, which is where you can actually drag and drop your window and the actual content of the application. So that from a usability point of view is a bit of an issue. Let's be honest, not being able to know where to drag and drop from. You just have to kind of high ball it. But sure, sure, it's not that big of an issue. Come on. Let me open more applications. I'm trying. OK. Now, I actually don't know which other applications use this design. I just saw this image in the announcement and the third. Wow, beautiful. But does anything else use this kind of things? Let's let's open contacts, which usually is a very little and easy to port to new design applications. So I use these little applications to actually check the consistency of this kind of new design changes. But what I've seen from, again, and the announcement is that this sidebar is actually a lib adwaita component. And what I've seen is that a lot of things were ported from other kind of components. I don't remember exactly what to lib adwaita components, which is very nice in terms of consistency. Because from now on, whatever change you actually make, yes, just use this local address book, whatever change you make to the sidebar, which you can directly make to the lib adwaita component is going to actually reflect to all applications that use that component. Now, unless this crashes, which it might, I should be able to click this done button here at the top and see what happens. Do you have a header bar? So for applications that do not have sidebars like this welcome screen that we just saw, I did notice that the header bar, the actual header bar. Oh, yes, it does. Nice. This is happy me. OK, so, but as we're seeing for applications that do not have a sidebar because, let's be honest, not everything can have a sidebar. Then we have lost officially the header bar, like previously, view and header, title bar, whatever, were disconnected visually. Now they're all blended together, which I think was actually the odd look. I don't know if it's the odd look of Gnome, but it's surely the odd look of Kerry. So the design works really well when there's a sidebar, like it's beautiful sidebars, beautiful. Without a sidebar, not as beautiful, but if you actually manage to have everything consistent, then you know what, I'm just in. I see a comment saying, are you shaming Gnome right now? No, I'm not. Come on. I've said anything but positive stuff. No, the opposite. I've not said anything except positive stuff. So what else do they have? So another major feature that the advertiser in the announcement is a fast search. Now, interestingly enough, this fast search isn't about the search itself, but it's about the search results given from applications. So I could be, I should be able to search things very fast. Now, what I'm going to attempt is to actually do a search on this system, which, as you noticed, isn't fast. And I'm going to try to do math stuff. I'm going to do one plus one. Let's do it now. And let's see actually how much time that takes to actually show two, which is the correct result or, you know, the mathematician's lobby. And that's what they tell us. I did not manage to write two because obviously the layout is wrong. I didn't set it up. Sorry. So I don't remember where the plus key is. This one is minus. That's fine. Minus. Still mathematics. Okay. That's that should be zero. Let's see how fast that is. And that is, believe me, compared to anything we've seen before on this system, blazingly fast. So, of course, that's not a good way to check the performances of anything. But you know what, I'm going to give it a pass. We should also have a new camera application. However, I do see cheers, which is the old GNOME camera application. So this probably means that thumb thumb thumb thumb will we choose to not ship the new camera application, either that or they just didn't have time to yet, you know, party again, wanted to use GNOME OS or everything is fine. But I just couldn't. But what I am going to do is test another big feature of GNOME 45, still with cheese, which is the old again, old camera application. But in theory, if cheese is actually able to connect to a webcam, which it shouldn't because I don't have any on this computer. But if it somehow manages to do that, I should be able to see a camera is being used indicator on the top side, top panel, which is nice. So, rightfully, they say notifies is found and they are kind of correct. I do have one webcam, that one, obviously. But I guess that, you know, virtual emulation stuff is not letting the camera through, which is said. I also don't see any indicator, but I am just going to trust GNOME that there is actually one. It should appear near the quick settings, if I understood this correctly. Okay. This is a very nice, actually, privacy feature.  Not all of them do. It's an example, yet again, this beautiful thing I have in front of me does not have any way to actually tell me I'm being recorded. So thank you for that, GNOME. Fun fact, Kiri is very, you know, it's trying to do the same thing. Like, we saw Kiri developers saw that GNOME was implementing this and we thought, okay, we really should have that. And now we are also rushing into implementing the same very thing. So yeah, the indicator does work. I trust that it does. Another feature is that you should be able to, yes, I'm reading down, obviously, I didn't study for this video, I'll admit it. Another thing is that I should be able to open and close quick settings with a shortcut, which is meta or super, as they call it. Okay, so that isn't quick settings. What probably happened is that the system registered the super key, but not the S one, I guess. So let's try to exit the overview. Super S. And yet again, the review opens. And this time actually held the super key. So it's not that my, this shortcut isn't working for me, but yet again, this is probably at this point, thunder. And I cannot pronounce things today. This system that is broken. But yeah, the keyboard shortcut is super S. There's also a light system theme for GNOME. Not for applications, but for the shell itself. Now, interestingly enough, and I do want to start a conversation here, this new theme, which I'm now going to attempt. I'm going to attempt enabling. This new system is not exposed to the user anywhere, but the only way to actually enable it is to run a comment from the terminal, which sounds crazy to me, especially because this new feature is actually announced in the official announcement. They literally say, Hey, there is a new feature. You cannot use it, or at least if you want to use it, you do have to open terminal and change a setting that we do not expose anywhere in the interface. Now, that means a couple of things either this setting is meant for distributions, because of course, this distribution can change whatever, even if it's not exposed to the user. Or this is just meant for a very small amount, or actually better option. Or they're going to expose it somewhere later on, because you never introduce a major feature like this and then never actually put any button to enable it. I don't believe them. So the command is just settings set or not. Yes, I forgot about that. So that is the project. Please work now. Now we are starting the very difficult task of changing the keyboard layout in this virtual emulation machine settings. By the way, this is also a great occasion to actually great occasion to actually check how settings look, because again, settings is a super nice place where you can actually put a very nice sidebar. And it should look beautiful when you do. So I'm very curious settings. Here we are. Come on. Settings. I can click it. And now it should even open very slowly if I learned anything from the previous applications, but it should open nonetheless. So this gives me a little bit of time to read actually the chat. So it is a testing feature. They want testers to try it. Okay, so that makes more sense compared to what I said. You're right. Could be a testing, but still falls into the second category of eventually they're going to expose it. We do see the new consistent sidebar because they've thought of everything apparently. And it is actually, what can I say? Now, again, I do have one complaint, which I am going to attempt to show you, which is if you do not actually, can I? Oh, how can I resize this window? Ah, this is going to be a very long video if it keeps going like this. Please make use of the work spaces. It's going to take hours if I try. No, I just want to resize this to be smaller, please. Okay. Now, if I make this smaller, I think my point will become apparent. Okay, it almost did. Now, I just have to bring the mouse back to the sidebar. Too small for me, but whatever. Okay, I'm so sorry about this. Now, if I try to scroll, oh, finally, I did it. Finally, after all of this, I can finally tell you what my complaint is and it's none, actually, because GNOME developers are very good and managed to just strike my complaint that on the ground. So if you do not separate the header bar to the content, when actually start scrolling the content, then it will turn out that the content will be cut off, right? Because it goes underneath the header bar, but it looks like the header bar and the content is the same area. And this is why GNOME actually put this little shadow underneath the header bar when you start scrolling. I thought there was no shadow, but there is. So what can I say? Great job, GNOME. Now, let's actually change this keyboard layout because I'm not able to do anything, please. Keyboard. Okay. Keyboard. Time for a collection to get Nico better harder to run a virtual machine. The issue isn't the hardware here. The issue is that GNOME boxes doesn't work and I had to rely to a very last minute solution. So yes, I don't want English US. So let's change it. You know, what can I say? Just GNOME is good at design. Unless I'm wrong. I think I'm right. I think they changed the white of the content. I thought it was a bit more grayish previously. I don't know if I like it because it was a nicer, I think contrast between the cards, which you see now and the view behind it. But the virtual machine again is slow because GNOME boxes don't work. That's what I rely on for almost everything. This is a last second solution that is not hardware accelerated in any way. So my computer is crying really sorry about that. But yeah, it's a stress test, I guess. So English, please take a look at a new keyboard layout viewer. Sure, I can do that. I didn't know there was a new one, but you've told me. So I'm going to check. You will, however, have to wait five, ten minutes before I get to actually select something. Oh, hello, Chris. Thank you. So, OK, click English. And then I can go back to the console to show you the light theme of GNOME. Let's not forget what our end goal is. OK, good to see this window looks pretty small. OK, the Vorgug. Thank you. OK, and we got there. No, too much. OK, now we just have to move the Vorgug up and give a look to the new thing. I am not going to close the other windows because one truly make a change. Have they added a shortcut for LinkedIn yet? No, they haven't. And I do think that this is probably my biggest complain with GNOME 45. As you know, Microsoft has had this for years. I don't remember, actually, this complex shortcut of Control, Meta, Alt, Shift, L to open LinkedIn. Katie Plasma, obviously, when we discovered about this, we just immediately implemented it. There's a merge request about this. You can check it. Other developers of other desktops actually went to this merge request to say, yes, we are going to bring this to Badji as well. And I think even so, other places implementing it, I don't remember it now, but not GNOME. And that's just why not. Don't you have the manpower to just add one shortcut when it's obvious the benefit that you're going to? Yes, I'm dragging this out very long just to make sure I get to view the keyboard layout viewer. So they did add fractional scaling options. Probably. They probably added some fractional scaling. And the thing is that, first of all, I'm not going to. Oh, well, that looks nice. It's very clean. I agree. This is my first good example of an application that is not using the new sidebar because it doesn't make sense. So you can see how it looks when everything is blended together and it looks great. So just what's the chew? Why is there one chew? What happens if I click here? Does something happen? Hello? Is it some modifier? Okay. I am slightly confused, but I'm sure somebody will explain it in the comments. However, we can finally go to the terminal and start writing actually our comment. Now, this terminal, I don't remember whether it's the new one or the old one, because if you've watched my videos, GNOME recently sort of recently switched from one terminal to another. And a lot of distributions did not like the new one. And they just switched from one terminal to another. And they just decided to keep the old one. Now, I don't remember if OpenSUSE did this. I don't remember which console this one is. I could go into settings and check it out. But let's not do that. But we can see that this application still has an other bar. Now, probably it's just the old one. But if it's the new one, then it's not a good sign that some application preserve the old looking thing. So what was the comment? You distracted me. G setting? Oh, did I forget to click and apply somewhere? What happened? Why isn't this working? Man, typing in the quality layout is the worst. And I even made a typo. Or GNOME desktop interface. I now have to type dash. I have no clue where the quality keyboard puts the dash. Oh, here it is. It worked. OK, so first of all, instant apply. I use the Vorgug. That's why. Instant apply. Great. No fade in, fade out. But yet again, I'm using what I'm using. I wouldn't get any kind of animations regardless. So this is how GNOME Lite looks. So does it have any kind of transparency? The top bar, I mean. That's what I'm wondering. Because the floating dialog is completely white. Great. Looks clean and everything. They're going to redesign it, by the way. But yes, for now, that's good enough. The top bar is very gray-ish. And I do wonder whether that's gray-ish. Or if that's green-ish. Because I do see some green in it. So I'm going to attempt to find out. I'm just going to close the applications, which I don't use anymore. Which is going to take another 10 minutes of videos. I am maximizing. Okay. And then, if I had a color picker, this would be much easier. But let me actually just go and check. I still think it's green-ish. Is it just me? It's not gray. Optical illusions are so easy to do. So I should have a color picker somewhere. Let me actually try to open up a color picker. I don't have a color picker. Just shows how unprepared I am. So I'm just going to trust that it's gray.  In which case, I'm going to say that I think it's a bit too gray. I'm just going to guess it's the same gray as the sidebar. That's what would make sense, right? Sidebar gray. Let's actually put... It's not the same color, is it? Yes. I agree that the look isn't great. Personally, I use the light theme in Kiri Plasma. So I am used to light theme. But this particular light top panel... I'm not too sure about it. I should see it... Yes, completely different color. I have no idea then what color... Where was that color picked from? Thank you for the Color X. Now check me whether I checked the Color X and Color picked it. Please check if it's just gray. Or if it's tinted with some other color, please. The wallpaper is green. Yes, I know that. That's why I'm wondering. Meanwhile, let me see also some other things. GNOME pointers have a great new look for GNOME 45. I'm just going to trust that. There's new wallpapers. You can Google them because, again, this is a distribution using GNOME 45. So it doesn't have any new wallpapers. Sadly, it seems like the image viewer and camera viewer are still the old ones. Because let me give some context on this. One thing that they did with GNOME 45 was to replace the old image viewer. GNOME I, I think it was called something with I. Opened with a background. That was replaced with a new image viewer whose code name I don't remember, but it's just called image viewer in the UI. And then, and then there's the camera application as I mentioned previously. So those applications, the new two new ones I've talked about before a lot. I've actually shown the image viewer at least. And that is because we knew this was coming. It's very nice that GNOME didn't just wake up one morning and said, Yeah, sure, sure, let's change applications. But those two were actually I of GNOME. Yes, thank and loop is the new one. And it's very nice that GNOME actually went ahead and created incubator and apps within that incubator were actually being improved to be one day part of the GNOME core applications.  This is kind of the idea to avoid what has happened previously with the console, right? Something was shipped before it was ready. And the distributions just didn't pick it up. So I think I covered mostly about everything I wanted to talk about. I did want to show much more than this, obviously, but I am fighting a lost battle here. Is there anything that I should be talking about? I mean, there's a lot that I should be talking about and I haven't. Let's pretend, right? Let's pretend that I'm a good YouTuber. I think I'm just going to thank everybody. I'm just going to remind everybody very quickly that everything is changing around here. You might notice it from different things. And that also means as an example that not only do I contract an editor to edit all of the videos, but also I do have now people writing videos. So new videos are coming. I've already recorded to today. I was talking about fractional scaling. I'll get to that. I already recorded a couple of videos today. And all of this actually requires a lot of resources to keep running. Now, usually my videos are actually very prepared. All of them are scripted, researched. All of that takes time. Not this one, as you might have noticed. But if you could support me, that would be awesome. And the link should be something like this and something like... Was it com or org? I don't remember. I'll check it up. I'll check it up one second. But yes, if you could just drop in something. I also have people obviously for one time donation. And I do have liberapay, which is open source and everything. So that's better. But these two are the most popular ones. And the Ko-fi link is correct. Let me also check the Patreon one, which is also correct. True out of true. I'm great. If you want to subscribe, there's some extra content. And I'm doing a lot of changes. So I think you'll be interested. That said, let me just finish up what I was talking about with fractional scaling. I did an entire video about fractional scaling because the topic is just that complex. So on X11, we kind of had actual fractional scaling. On Wayland, we have X Wayland applications, which is kind of X11 applications running instead of Wayland through some kind of adapter, we could call it so. And those applications still preserve somewhat the actual fractional scaling. But then you actually have applications that do not support fractional scaling at all, such as JTK applications because JTK actually refused to implement the fractional scaling standard at least in Wayland. I don't recall if on X11 as well. So what currently GNOME does to achieve fractional scaling, especially in Wayland or only in Wayland, again, I don't remember, is to take a window, render it n times the size, depends on what exact scaling you set to, and then downscale it to the actual size of the window, which is very power and memory intensive, not great, but it does manage to actually scale stuff. I think it's also kind of blurry. And this also happens on Wayland for QT applications, same as JTK applications. However, recently support for fractional scaling in QT applications in Wayland was added, that may take still a bit of time to roll everything off, but for Plasma 6.0 or 6.0 something, then yes, we should get also fractional scaling, true fractional scaling there. The word of fractional scaling is a bit complex, and my impression is that GNOME doesn't want to do actual fractional scaling, and they just do the upsizing and then downsizing thing. But again, I've got a video about that which is researched differently from this one, and I could do more in the future if the situation changes. So that's everything. So thanks everybody. I think I'm just going to stop it here because it was already embracing enough as it was.


QuickBooks Desktop 2023 Comparative Balance Sheet Creation Let's do it within 2-its QuickBooks Desktop 2023 Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need then can be done on a YouTube page we also include added resources such as excel practice problems pdf files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable so once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it here we are in QuickBooks Desktop sample raw castle construction practice file provided by QuickBooks going through the setup process we do every time maximizing the homepage to the gray area the view drop down we're noting we got the hide icon bar and open windows checked off open windows on the left hand side reports drop down company and financial looking at that P&L profit and loss with the range change 010124 to 123124 then we will customize that report with the fonts and numbers change the font to 12 okay yes and okay reports drop down again company and financial again this time the balance sheet though I'm going to change the date this time this way by going to this fiscal year which is 2024 for this practice file and then customize the report again go into the fonts and numbers and change in the font up to 12 okay yes and okay that's the starting process we've been doing every time in prior presentations we've been taking a look at some customization tools up top which are applicable not just to the balance sheet but generally to all kinds of reports now we're going to continue with that process but the tools we look at this time will have a significant impact on the body of the report as we look at tools that have comparative kind of natures to them comparing one month to another month a quarter to quarter this year to last year that kind of thing as we look at these tools notice we'll use the same tool but it could have a slightly different impact depending on the nature of the report remembering there's two primary natures of the report you got the balance sheet type of reports which are as of a point in time one date and then the profit and loss or income statement type of reports which are measuring performance over a time frame you can say how far did we go almost like a distance type of thing that's why we have to have a beginning and ending date we'll focus more on the profit and loss in future presentations we're going to be primarily focused on the balance sheet here but just remember as you use these tools in different reports it could have different impacts given the fact of the nature of the reports as of a point in time or as of a time frame of beginning and an end okay so we're going to do comparative types of reports so there's a few ways we can do this first let's go to the customized reports up top and one way we can do a comparative report is we can change the date range and then change the total down here to whatever we want to be comparing so let's say we're going to be comparing October so I'm going to start from October 01-04 through November 11-32-4 and I want to show the end of October and the end of November one way we can do that is we can go down then below and say I want to go from the totals to the months I'm going to switch it to months down here and note that this is the new area that we haven't really spent a lot of time on down here we didn't really cover some of the stuff up top because it's repetitive it's already in the ribbon up top so our major new focus here with the adjustments is in this area so we're going to go ahead and say okay and so now we've got that comparison we've got October and November now note that if you did that in the profit and loss you might get October November and then a total there but that but we don't get that on the balance sheet because it's as of a point in time so this is where we stand at the end of October and at the end of November so you could do a similar kind of process if you were if you were trying to look at the last two quarters for example you can you could say okay as of 070124 to 123124 so that includes the last two quarters of the year I want to do a quarter now I'm going to break it out by the quarter and then okay so you got the quarter ended in September and the quarter ended in December notice again it's showing you as of the end of the year because it's a point in time as of the end of the frame of those two time frames if this was a profit and loss it would give us the two and then a total for the total of those two time frames and then we could do it for a year so I could say I'm going from 010123 to 123124 and then I want to bring this on back to the years and so let's go to years and do an okay and so now we've got the prior year and the current year so that's one way we can do the side-by-side comparison notice we can also use that tool to have more than two years so I could bring this on back to here and then have three periods that would be would be compared to each other so this adds a lot of added kind of complexity when you're thinking about month-end reports as a bookkeeper that you might be able to give to a client for example because when you start to do comparisons to prior month prior quarter prior year you can you can wind up with a whole lot of different reports and comparative information that you can basically put together but oftentimes we want to see a side-by-side for two months and then possibly kind of subtract out the two months so that we can see the difference where we stood from one month to another month for example so let's go to the customized report and go back to where we started which I was at from let's just do it this way let's say we go back to this fiscal year so that's back to our starting point and usually this is on totals that's going to be our starting point so another way we could do this let's say we wanted to do october and november comparison so we can customize the report now this is gets a little bit tricky to start out with but once you get the hang of it not too bad we're going to use this tool down here which says previous period so what I need to do then is type in the current period up here and then pick up the previous period so if I want to be comparing october and november I'm going to say the current period is november 11-01-2-4 to 11-32-4 the month of november then I'm going to compare it to the previous period and say okay so now we've got that comparison of november and october notice that this way it puts the most current month first that's often what happens when we do a comparison of two months for example because that puts the most relevant data the most current data kind of up front whereas when we did the other comparison type or the other format we saw that it puts the oldest one first when we had multiple months and you would read it from left to right so just be aware of the difference between those two and then of course it would be natural for us to want to see the difference between these two where did we stand as of the end of november the current month and then october the prior month customizing we can then say we'll show me the change in dollar amounts so now we've got the change in dollars of course just taking the difference and then we might want to look at the percentage change and the percentage change is quite useful because it allows us to make comparisons to other companies that we're trying to benchmark to possibly companies in our industry but they're going to hopefully make more money than us probably because that's why we're trying to imitate them and so we can't compare our dollar amounts we have to compare percentages we have to get an idea of the percentage changes in order to do that we add the percentage changes there we have it so there we have those differences now note that the percentage change is calculated just to get an idea of this percentage change noting that it's going to be the difference so you're going to take the five five oh eight five point eight four minus the seven five seven five point seven seven gives us the difference the difference divided by the prior amount which in this case is october and that's going to be the seven five seven five point seven seven gives us our percent change which you can't see because the decimal is too large but there it is two point two places over twenty seven point two eight twenty seven point three about so that's going to be the general idea now note that now we'd need to change the top here in terms of our our name to make it look nice because it's not really a balance sheet it's some kind of comparative balance sheet that we would most likely want to be putting up top and we might want to just remove this date because it's not as of one date we got kind of the dates down here so we might want to put two thousand twenty four or put the dates down here but first let's do some other comparisons let's do a couple others so you might do a year a year to year comparison so if i customize up top or a quarter to quarter comparison so let's say that you had you wanted to compare the last two quarters for example then you would put the last quarter in the last three months which is going to be 10 10 0124 to 12 3124 so october through uh december and then we'll do the same thing down here previous period let's keep the dollar change and the percent change okay and so now we've got the time frame ended as of the end of the last quarter which they only give us one date note because it's as of the as the end of the time frame and then september the end of the third quarter and then of course we could do a year by year same way customize in the report we might say that we want to have this going from 0101 to 4 to 12 3124 and then do the prior period stuff again and so now we've got 2024 compared to 2023 the change and the percentage change so let's go to the customized report again you can also compare to the previous year so let's say i did the the month of november let's say 11 0124 to 11 324 and this time compared to the previous year and so i'm going to say okay and so now we're comparing this month of november to the previous year of november that's another quite common comparison and again you can see how these comparative reports can really multiply the number of reports you might be given to someone periodically if doing their bookkeeping right now we've got okay we've got the balance sheet possibly a summary balance sheet that you can give someone all balance sheet reports is all we're talking about here we could have a comparison to the prior month we could have a comparison that has multiple months up to the year to date that we're currently at we could have a comparison to a prior quarter and then we could compare this current month and the current year to the prior month in the prior year and the current quarter the current right so it could we can go on kind of almost indefinitely with these comparative reports and so i could go to the customized report and then same thing change and change the change the difference so i could see the difference and the percentage change on a year over year change clearly we can make this instead of one month same thing we can make it as of a quarter we can make it as of whatever we want to make it whatever so that's that type of report as well so let's go back to the original one here so let's go back to checking this off and then we'll just do some customization i'm going to go to the first one and i'm going to compare november uh november and october so i'll go 11 124 to 11 30 24 there's our our comparison i'm going to say okay there is that and then i'll do a some customization i'm going to remove these items on the left hand side i'm going to remove this date field because it doesn't really make sense now that we have a comparative report and then we might want to call it a comparative balance sheet or something like that let's customize the reports and go to the header in footer and i'll call it a comparative balance sheet if i misspell anything i apologize here but just for example purposes and then the subtitles so i can remove this altogether or possibly just put 2024 i'm going to remove the date time and report basis that's going to be these the three things we could put our name in the in the footer right if we want name in the footer if we want to put something in the footer and then on the fonts and numbers if i'm going to present this to someone else i like to have the parentheses around the exempt the here and then the red numbers possibly even to make it stand out more and then i usually remove the pennies because they're usually not necessary for decision-making purposes they're just given you know kind of clouding up the report so let's make it look a nice little bit more clean and then we'll say okay so there we have a fairly fairly nice clean report that could be presented if we want to been save this report we could memorize it up top and we could save the report as a comparative balance sheet we'll talk more about how to do this in future presentations but we can save it and we possibly might want to save it for example as like reports that we use internally and possibly reports that we provide to customers and clients externally or supervisors or whatever because we might format basically based on what our needs are internally we might have different needs i might want to see the pennies and so forth internally and then externally i'm going to i'm going to remove the pennies and make it look and change the title and make it look as nice as i can for the end user so that's one way you might think about how you might memorize these reports and create categories which we'll talk about in future presentations also just note that if i go to the report drop down and the report center and we go then i'm going to maximize this to the company and financial and scroll down to the balance sheet reports so if we go down to the balance sheet reports they already have some like comparative reports down here balance sheet comparative this this report basically we could create right and by learning to create it with these comparative tools we can we can come up with a lot more variety of reports we can do a lot more stuff and dig down on the data as is needed much better by being able to make our own comparative reports so it's nice that they kind of have one here but we want to be able to construct them because then we got a lot more things that we can be constructing and data that we can get access to


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