to ask the clerk please call roll. For, sorry. Present. Present. Thank you. Our first item of day's afternoon agenda is a small business development center present to invite Bonnie Lipscomb, director of economic development. Hi, there you are. Hi, Bonnie, welcome. Chair, good afternoon. Chair and members of the council and Bonnie Lipscomb, director of economic development. And it's my pleasure today to use Brandon Napoli, who is the head of this small business development center. And they have been a long partner. I will say we've actually had a contract for all this development center at Rio College in 2008. So we're in our 14th year of partnering with STC. And I'll just say the great work of STC for our business community, for business starting up in Santa Cruz, really can't be understood from over, our contract has a minimum of 500 hours of service assisting businesses. That's the minimum. I will say on average, and you'll see that in Brandon's present today, they average well over 5,000 service hours. So it is very leveraged funding. It's a great partnership from businesses in developing business plans and evaluating whether their business can succeed in helping them take that next step, even help them apply for loans. During the pandemic help was critical for businesses being able to stay alive and survive and grow over the last year. So I could go on and on, but I won't because Brandon has a great presentation. So I will now I would be a pleasure to turn it over to Brandon now. Thank you, Bonnie, for that wonderful presentation. I wonder if that cuts into my 10 minutes, where I get to start now, but regardless, I'm very grateful to be here, Mayor, Council members, thank you for your time. I know it's precious. I'd like to share my screen and jump into the presentation really quickly. As Bonnie mentioned, we do, I think really incredible work. I have an amazing small business community here in Santa Cruz. And we've been around for over about 37 years, so we're definitely not a needle on a haystack in Santa Cruz County. And that's how we want to continue to operate. So we are hosted by Creole College that provides the wonderful back-off support, what we do. And just to get into what we do for those that are not as familiar, the Small Business Development Center focused on bringing in experts in different aspects of small business from Main Street, Tech Street, and Agriculture to focus on advising and training of small business. Our services are free. Our training sometimes comes with a nominal fee, $5 will show up, but overall, service to business owners, whether they're looking to start a business, grow a business, or even move out of business to give it to someone else. We focus on several different metrics, all are metrics captured by the reporting that we do that the business owners have to report and say, hey, you helped us actually do this. And then we're audited internally to make sure that our notes in our system match up with that support. So we're very heavily regulated. Make sure that numbers that are verified by the business owners, as well as who we report to on a lead center overall in the region, make sure we do help start businesses, increase their sales, their jobs, their access to capital as well. So getting into overall mission of the SPDC and why I'm so excited to be a part of Santa Cruz, I grew up in San Luis Obispo, grew up back in the country, went to San Diego for a cool Peace Corps in Guatemala, always served underserved business owners overseas and also in Los Angeles, New York. And then finally had an opportunity to make my way back to propose and just take a skill set with the passion and understanding of who our neighbors are to really try to help and create an ecosystem here. So the small businesses need a lot of support. That comes with encouraging that we have the capital access they need, the coaching and training we provide, connections to other resources, a culture overall that encourages people to take risks and get into business, stay in business. And overall positive for small business climate in the county and in the city. So the services, the trainings that we offer in particular, this is anything from e-commerce to changing the way things used to be, the way that things are moving to new up and coming ways of social media. We were just actually awarded the IHUB grant by the state of California. We're the only SPDC in Northern California awarded this. There are only 10 of them given out statewide to any organization and we were one of them to create an e-commerce incubator. We call it Clix the Bricks. There's several business city of Santa Cruz that we're working with to move them into this commerce marketplace. We also do advising. We help people love HR, it's a real heavy lift. Keep myself as possible in some marketing strategy and financial planning overall, these different ways that we meet businesses where they are, with the needs that they have. I mentioned relationships. We connect businesses to banks. We help to advocate for them, help to understand what their numbers really means to the banker and cut down the costs or the unnecessary declines that happen, as well as if there's any saving on software programs that we can get by being a part of the network, we provide those to business owners as well. So getting into the actual economic impact of Santa Cruz, this is overall in 2021 we were able to collect and I want to get into that story here, but again, this is reported back to this owner's 248 jobs that were created for the business. It's well created, 80 million in new capital secured that debt and equity, 30 million additional sales that were generated. As Bonnie mentioned, we go above on the amount of hours that we spend with these business owners. We love what we do and we feel like there's a huge ROI and not just the numbers here, but also what's behind the number. We throw a lot of events. Well, I'm going to get into the Santa Cruz County Small Business Summit event that we're having in downtown Santa Cruz, April 29th, right after this. Overall, one of our clients pushed into table that we were able to work with. If anyone's best picture, Kota, in a way that's what this story means to me. All those gentlemen are fully able. They don't have to sign language to get by. An amazing story that we're able to be able to tell. And Ian and Charlie wanted to change the way that the fishing industry worked for them and the economics so they wanted to go direct to consumer. And so they came to us with needing a business plan, needing to get a loan, needing to figure out how to actually connect their consumer to this new model. That's what we were able to do with them, really help them overall stay in business and create additional jobs. So we love to tell these stories. If you've ever been an opportunity to come to my office at Cropaglia, keep walking to your loss and take a left. And that's where I'm at right next to HR. But anyways, if you get inside the building, you're going to see that have no shortage of these types of success stories that we love to tell. Courage more people to get in the business, in the city, and to stay in business, do it in a smart way. So to break down the number, and I can buy this to the council afterwards, but we want to break it down. Overall, be able to fund over 100 businesses this last year, help them with the assistance. A big portion of that were the one-off programs that SBA was dealing with their idol in the PPP. I believe that our efforts here are so, we're unfortunately still dealing with businesses that did not apply for the first time and is dealing with, it's probably someone in the federal government that's just not getting the fact that they need to change something in their application. We're talking about months, months, months later. So we try to get in front of that process and make sure that committed correctly the first time. We also have very strong relationships with local banks, well, and credit unions, and PDFI here locally, Cal Postal, I sit on their loan board. Overall, we want to make sure that businesses that are getting the money they deserve and they need. At the same time, we make sure that it's not always a money problem that people really focus on, because it's an idea problem, we need to be able to separate the two and figure out how they connect with each other. Overall, our demographic, we're practically close to half and half male women, there's a portion that who's not to respond to our surveys, it is their choice, whether they want to date on the demographic side. The majority are white Asian, but there's a huge percent that she is not to respond there as well. You can see down the breakup of our business type, majority of service establishment, followed by accommodation and retail. The slide I want to end with is moving forward, and I would be happy to answer any questions. We are relaunching what was a pre-pandemic called the 80th Micro Business Summit, some of you might have attended, it was like the Imperial College Campus. We are relaunching that as a Santa Cruz County Small Business Summit. It will be downtown, starting at the mall, 8.29 to 9.00 a.m. or p.m. We'll be utilizing a couple of different businesses because we don't have a large conference center in downtown, so we're getting, I call it Creative, we're actually going to have maybe a session in an art gallery, another session at a retail shop, another session at one of the restaurants, but we're going to make it work. Super excited, I'm partnering with Event Santa Cruz to make this happen, and overall we want to encourage people to get out of what I call the pandemic paralysis, back in, engaged, moving forward in commerce in downtown, just getting that energy going again and realizing why Santa Cruz City is such a destination. Thank you again for your time, and be happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much, Brandon, for that information. You said you would send us a copy of those slides. Yeah, and I could, yes, I could do that, yes. I have one more question on April 29th, Small Business Summit at the Museum of Art and History. Is that eight or nine to four? So we're having it at nine to four right now as the program side, an hour earlier, doors open for registration, an hour later, stand around and, you know, meet a mingle, but nine to four is where the program is. Great, thanks. Okay, so Council Member Meyers. Brandon, I just wanted to thank you for the presentation and also just for the work that a mighty force in this town, I've known countless people who serve us, will provide to them. So, we're exactly right in that Small Business is what we're up to and who we are and just really appreciate the amount of work we've done and the value that you've done. So, especially thank you and see you again. Thanks again. Council Member Cummings. Just wanted to say thanks for that presentation. No number of people who are trying to start small businesses use some help and guidance and so being able to send them your way, I think will be really helpful. I just had a quick question about the Small Business Summit. I was wondering if people want to know more about that, send them to the website and then the other question is, are there any kind of like costs for registration and what's the business that's gonna really be targeting like the informational loans? Is it networking? Like what can people expect out of that? Yeah, so the latest information can be on the website, the smallbusinesssummit.org. So that would have the latest we're starting to populate the speakers and we'll start to populate the agenda. We're gonna finalize that this way. You know, overall, we're gonna have a pretty breath of information. Krista Schilling from the CEO and kind bank is gonna be the keynote speaker in the morning. We're gonna have like a lenders panel. So yes, finance, we'll have someone from a bank, credit union, the PDFI and a local angel investor all in one panel and there will be a round. We're talking about strategies to start business, especially in this, I like to call it post pandemic but whatever it's gonna be termed. So we get into strategy and marketing aspect. We're bringing in a new financial advisor for a restaurant like Michelin Star level restaurant executive chefs or we'll have someone talk about the restaurants in particular that have been really hard hit. What that model looks like moving forward is people just don't come into restaurants like they used to. There will be portion of the tech communicated as well. I think, you know, everything involves around tech these days but yeah, that's gonna be pretty broad. We're gonna have over 20 speak.  Oh, thank you. Yeah, so right now, early bird is $25. We purposely reduced it pre-pandemic. We're looking at more like 75 80. We always want people to show up, right? We have limited spot, trying to get at least like 150 for about halfway there right now. So it's pretty good that we're gonna make that number. So, but up to 200, well, and also. Any other, okay. Thank you so much for joining us and then and for sharing that and come in as well. Thank you, Bonnie Lipscomb. So I think we're ready for our next presentation. And that would be a presentation. We have our director of Parks and Recreation, Tony Elliott, who will be presenting a service award of excellence. Thank you, Tony. All right, thank you mayor. Thank you council members on behalf of Parks and Rec. I'm excited to renew our celebration and acknowledgement of Jane Mio with last proclaims Jane Mio Day in the city. And we're excited to continue that celebration today. I'd like to introduce somebody with the California Parks and Recreation Society, our state-grade organization that has acknowledged, awarded Jane this award. I'm not sure if you have anybody for us on the call at the moment. Oh, yes, I'm not seeing anybody pop up here. So let me just give a little bit of background on this board and I would actually welcome our parks superintendent Travis Beck, the work that Jane has been doing with the parks team in particular, but just a little bit of background. Again, this award is from our agency, California Parks and Recreation Society, a professional and service board called Champion of the Community. And the Champion of the Community awards or award, honors, recognizes vigils or organizations who have contributed significant effort, influence and improve the quality of their parks and recreation. This statewide award recognizes the contributions of those who volunteer and provide support and services in their community that furthers the mission and quality livery of Parks and Recreation Services programs, utilities in the community. And I think that really covers the work that Jane has done certainly over the last year and more with the Estuary Project, with the Bench Lands Paramedical Service, the best we can go on and on, but I'll send it over to Parks and Recreation and the Travis Beck here. Thank you, Tony. Good afternoon, Mayor, members of the council. Of course, good afternoon, Jane. When we learned of this award, Jane Meale really sprang to mind as a champion of the community for her ability to engage people in the stewardship of the environment. And she's done that for a number of years through the Estuary Project, doing primal restoration and planting stewardship work along the lower portion of the San Lorenzo River and through that reaching out to various volunteer groups in our community, including AmeriCorps, the Downtown Street Team, various school programs, but the Earth-to-Words Program, the Natural History Program. She was an obvious tender when we recognized and had issues, flash opportunities at the Bench Lands this summer and we reached out to Jane and she very graciously volunteered to create an entirely new program down at the Bench Lands, which would engage residents of the camps there in environmental stewardship along the river. And that program has been really successful. The protection of the river banks, even the restoration of the river banks with native planting that has been done, but perhaps more importantly than that, really positive engagement with members of the stewardship team as well as with the larger camp. And I think she's a well-known figure down there. She's devoted every weekend since last summer and many days to engaging campers in that area and making sure that everyone is taking care of the San Lorenzo River. So just wanted to acknowledge Jane all of your work and thank you very much for stewarding the environment, helping people at Santa Cruz and especially our houseless residents to engage in that. Thank you very much. Mayor, champion of the community, as far as awards, I think Jane may have those with her at her home, but there is a one-of-a-kind, mosaic plaque IRS created and a number of items Jane was also recognized at the California Parks and Recreation Society annual meeting and will be recognized video and a number of other matters to see IRS throughout the year. So the celebration in the College of Jane goes far beyond Santa Cruz and across the California to recognize Jane's work. Jane, thank you so much. Thank you so much. What a special recognition. Very, very special. I'm not sure that with today's Jane, is there anything you'd like to say? Yes. Congratulations to get this award, which I adore. I look so good on that. Unlisting the reasons why I'm so excited to get this honor of the championship, President's Access to Diverse Array, who is always willing for a championship award after an embrace of their incredible support for my Earth and San Lorenzo River endeavors, the Dias River. So receiving this award, I'm still, I'm encouraged by the best and that's a group consistent of the houses and community members. Yes. So for the last eight months, 360 participants and 711 hours later, we have outstanding results. Kept over 28 months, crash out of the river as well as predicting doing incredible experience to work all in particular, my house, this, the housing launch member. And witness how they have grown, seasoned, well-trained environment to see their engagement and create a community bond based on caring collaboration. My tears goes to all of this and I'm so proud of all of you. It's all of the Banna of Park and such a rich, rich, diverse benefit of our trip by Dublin. I didn't... Thank you so much, Jane. Community members can still meet on Sundays at 11 a.m. 11 a.m. by the shipping containers. So everybody is highly welcome to experience what it is like and feel so good. Careful. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Thank you, Director Elliott, and thank you, Travis Scott. And now we will continue with our next presentation. Give me a moment while I put that up. This is a mayoral proclamation declaring March 2020 as equal day-day for Dublin. And I'd like to read the proclamation. And I'd also like to invite Laura Nolan to turn on the camera, Santa Cruz County Branch of the American Association of University of Dublin. Welcome, Laura. Good afternoon. Nine years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, women, especially minority women, continue to suffer the consequence of unequal pay. And whereas, according to the class of the Census Bureau, women working full-time year-round in 2020 in the United States, they earned 3% of what men earned, indicating insufficient progress pay. And whereas, according to graduating to the GAP, a research report by the American Association of University Women, the gender pay gap is evident one year after college graduation, even after controlling factors known to affect earnings, such as occupation, hours worked, college minor. And whereas, nearly four in 10 mothers are primary breadwinners, in their households and nearly third are primary or secondary. Making pay equity critical to families' economic. And whereas a lifetime of lower pay means women have less income to save for retirement and less income counted in social security or pension benefit formulas. And whereas, in 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law, which gives back to employees their day in court challenges. Although the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have amended the Paycheck Fairness Act by closing loop goals and improving the law's effectiveness, continues to push the Congress. And whereas, their pay strengthens the security of families' day and eases the retirement costs while enhancing the American economy. And whereas, in March of 2022, the bill symbolizes the time in 2020 when the wages paid to American women back up ages eight to 10 from the bill. Therefore, I, Sonia Brunner, Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, do hereby propose March of 2020 as equal payday in the City of Santa Cruz. And I encourage all citizens to join me in the service. Thank you. My name is Laura Nolan and thank you for taking the time to be this afternoon, Mayor and Council Members. My name is Laura Nolan. I am a member of the local AAUW branch. I've been a member for four years. The branch here was first founded in 1905 and the AAUW has been advocating for primarily economic parity for women and girls for 140 years. The association's been involved with lots of different legislation to improve pay equity among the genders and among the different and among the races. But as you can see, we still have a long ways to go. And I think for me, the most talking information or the most pivotal information was included in the proclamation, which is that women, the pay gap follows women their entire life. It affects families, it affects retired women. And we've come a long ways. We're farther along in California than the federal government is, but the gap persists. And it's significant enough to make a difference for women throughout the fight. And I'm thankful that I have this opportunity to bring the community's attention to this circumstance. One thing that is also tracked this March 15th in points, point in time, when all women, compared to all men, the salary they make, but the pay discrepancy for black women, Native American women, and Latin women, they don't catch up the last year's similarly ethnic men until late summer and early fall. So that's a much bigger gap. And one that is also being addressed part of all the other legislation process. So I'd like to thank you for your support. I am a volunteer with association. I am not like a, I don't advocate typically. So I'm stumbling over my words, but I'm a volunteer. I do have a little more information than anyone has. Any questions from council members? Council member Kellan Terry Johnson. Thank you, Mayor Brunner for the presentation. And thank you, Ms. Laura Nolan, for the work that you do. I just, I want to acknowledge how important this issue is. Someone who's from Iran, where gender equity and pay equity is a huge issue and not acknowledged. It's just important to see you doing the work and you doing the work and bringing us to our community. So I just, and it goes beyond pay equity. There's issues around childcare, as you know, all of the barriers that are in place to keep women from being able to work in the community and serve in the community. So I really want to thank you for your work and bringing this forward. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Cummings. Echo, my appreciation, Mayor, for you bringing this forward and Laura for all the work that you do. As someone who's been working with the largest peer acknowledged background, I've been working with on diversity equity inclusion workforce development training at the university since 2015. And one question I have that's something that's come up is, you know, as we're kind of diversify workforces that are predominantly male and predominantly white and we're moving people up in the leadership positions, one concern has been that advancements in terms of pay that people have experienced in the past, whether or not we're going to see that same rate of bank pieces occurring. So is that something that you've all been tracking? Meaning that like when women get into leadership positions, do we still see the same rate of increases as we typically saw with men? Are we seeing that flatten out? Because I think that's also a concern where we're, you know, moving people up to leadership positions but then they get to the leadership position with the rate of paying kind of flatten out. So I'm wondering if you all, back that at all, so we can make sure that as we move them in and people of color into leadership, they're still seeing that rate of pay increase that men see typically in the past. So it's interesting to bring that up because in my research, that was something that did come up and what the data shows that I'll use women as an example and women of color, but when women enter a field that is male dominated, the pay scale drops and when men enter a field that is female dominated, the pay scale increases. And so it just, for me, it begs a larger societal question. I'm not certain how to address it. We certainly have plenty of legislation and we still have gap. And then also another thing that I found interesting was women that are highly educated, like with masters and PhDs, they have a gap that is similar to women that are not as highly educated. So it's kind of across all ways you look at the data, the gap. Thanks for that. If you can share any of that data with us, it'd be great as we're entering to work on these issues so that we can have strong data to back our positions for whether it's us creating policy or if we're advocating for our policies that they put at a level that we really lean on this in. So thank you for your work. Appreciate all that you do. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Brown. I just wanted to add my appreciation, Laura, for your work, for today to help us raise the issue. I want to just say, so I first met you, Laura, many, many years ago. So for those who don't know, Laura is a pressured parish member, city staff member working in finance and we work together initially on living wage, ordinance, development and implementation and so I know that your commitment to addressing equity and livable wages has been a long time happening for a long time. And I want to acknowledge and mention that California we're doing a little bit better is a structural and persistent issue in equity and it's happening in California and in other places because of the hard work of you and others and it just wouldn't be otherwise, right? It's that reality is that we fight or push for policies, programmatic things that brings us equity over time. And so really appreciate your role in all of this. Also, you're meant to do that. Thank you. I just a point of information, I retired three years ago. So I am doing this on my retirement time. So yes, I did know that but I saw that you were still listed but I thought maybe you were to come back and doing special projects. Well-deserved retirement after your 30 years. Council member Meyers. I just wanted to say, I'm in really good shape for it and I just really wanted to touch on it. Kind of the unsaid, which is that later in life on retirement, you're growing set of data that's serving about them in us or, you know, homes as they get into their older years and largely how to plan for the dam's job. And it's that part of financial world that a great overlook. In my family, you know, we've learned a lot about that just in the play understanding and actually working with women very young and they're really understanding especially during the pandemic. Other puzzle of sustainability. But retirement looks like on the savings and becoming a common thing. And so I jaded in the motion not just about wage today, but actually thank you again for your support. So we hope to see change and thank you for all your efforts. Thank you. On a related note, pensions and social security are based on wages. So if your wages are low, then your pension will be proportional. And so women, people of color, others that have that people work part-time, their pensions are proportionally lower and you know, in today's economy, that can be really a problem. Thank you so much, Laura, for joining us today for all of awareness and really appreciate it so much. Thank you, thank you for your time. Okay, so I have a few announcements and then we'll move on to our regular meeting. Today's meeting is being broadcast live on Community Television Channel 25 and streaming on the city's website, cityofsanity.com. If you wish to comment on an agenda item today, you may call in at the beginning of the item you're wanting to comment on. You're seeing instructions on this. Please mute your television or streaming device and call in and listen to your phone. Please also note there may be a delay in streaming. So if you continue to listen while your television or streaming device is on, you may miss your opportunity to speak. But it's your time for public comment. Please raise your hand either by dialing star nine or using these hand webinars. Public comment is only heard on items council is picking it and on and not regular updates for. So the items that will be open for public comment today during the meeting are numbers nine through 24 and items 27, 30, and 31 on our agenda. We will not be picking public comment on items 25, 26, 28, and are there any statements of disqualification from council members? Seeing none, I'd like to ask the city clerk to announce the additions and deletions. Seeing none. I'd like to call on this attorney for a final report on our closing. Yes, good afternoon, Mayor Brunner, members of the city council. This morning at 10 30 a.m., the council met in closed session via zoom and the following items were discussed. Item one was a conference labor negotiators involving all bargaining groups, SEIU temp, SEIU service employees, it managers, OE three supervisors, OE three fire management, buyer, IAFF police management, police officers association and executive. Item two was a conference with legal council concerning liability claims, the claim of Chris and Scott Canaro. And on that, that item, the council by motion approved a settlement of the liability claim in the amount of $170,773. Item three was a conference with legal council concerning existing litigation. The first item of existing litigation was revision versus Mott, Hansen, Geringer, and the city of Santa Cruz. On that item, the council approved a settlement agreement that has been negotiated for the court process and the details of the settlement agreement will be available upon request to members of the public when the settlement documents are finalized in exit. Item two was the matter regions of the University of California at all versus the city of Santa Cruz, pending in the Santa Cruz County Superior Court. And item three was city of Santa Cruz versus the regions of the University of California at all, also pending in the Superior Court. There was no reportable action on this. Thank you so much. Next, I'd like to call on the city manager to see if there are any updates. Manager Matt Huffman. Here in council, I've got a brief update for you, the staff. I believe Elizabeth will have a presentation here. Moment. Okay. As Elizabeth has won up the presentation, I want to also mention that I do have a couple of co-presenters this afternoon. Tiffany Wise, West, our sustainability and climate action managers provide a brief update on society news around our Blue City certification. And she'll be joined by some members of Project O that have been working with our sustainability team on that effort. And then Rosemary Menard, our water director, is going to close us out this afternoon with a brief update on our water supply forecast. A lot of us have been interested in it. Its current status and Rosemary will be talking through that and will end up today's presentation. So with that, I'll jump in. I wanted to start off with talking a little bit about our homeless response work. We continue to put a significant amount of work and effort to implementation of the Citywide Action Plan of Council March. One significant development is the completion of the contract, Salvation Army, or additional 75s shelter at the Armory. That's work that our homelessness response team and Larry and Wally have worked on for several months decided to finally get that contract over the finish line, 75 addition. As this comes online, we have also said July for the closure of the bench lines. Council will remember that this is part of the homelessness action plan. One of our major goals for the summer and we have set the timeline for July of the summer full closure as we stand up the shelter. Between now and then, staff will be working with the people who are living there to prepare them for this significant food transition. We'll be challenging for those campaign and for the city as a whole, particularly as county shelters are in the process so our shelter environment is to be dynamic. We of course are putting significant effort in identifying additional sites for county, also identify other locations outside of it. We'll continue to provide updates to the council and the community on our progress with forward sharing the full implementation plan on May 10th, our homelessness response team are working on those cells. As we speak more information. I wanted to talk a little bit about a couple upcoming meetings that bring these opportunities to mention of our community members. We have two important engagement opportunities. First, open house for the south of Laurel, downtown expansion planning effort. That meeting that's happening on Wednesday, 20th, five to eight. That's occurring at the Kaiser Permanente arena. A lot of that folks will take the time to turn out share their opinions on a really important plan. Secondly, is a community workshop on the downtown library and affordable housing project. It came in on Thursday, April 21st at 10. We are all very excited about project press. As we look out to our future council meetings, after nearly two and a half years, we're going to believe that holding our council meetings virtually, that we will finally be with council chambers on April 26th. Part of this new hybrid structure, members of the community will still have an opportunity virtually, but those that would refer also come down to the council chambers, participate in the chambers the old fashioned way that happened in June. We are in the process of that transition, and we look forward to seeing some of you on April 26th for our next meeting. And with that, I'd like to go ahead now and turn it over to Tiffany Wise-West, project co-team to talk a little bit more about that. Thank you so much, City Manager Huffaker. Good afternoon, Mayor and Councilman and the public. Today Santa Cruz is being recognized as a certified city by the city network. This is a program of the nonprofit organization, Project O. The Blue City Network is a certification system that recognizes cities and counties demonstrating a commitment to healthy oceans and waterways. This really acknowledges the work that all of our departments stay in and day out with waste, water quality, our parks and rec folks, our coast service staff. As part of this network, our city will continue to collaborate with other cities and counties and receive support from the network, and its network of nonprofit parks help us further develop programs for our next environment. Here to present the honor is Evelina Arshaki, Executive Director, and Allison Tom Ryan, City Liaison. Yeah, I'll turn it over to them. Thank you so much. Hello, Mayor Brunner and distinguished members of the City Council. We are excited to be here today to congratulate Santa Cruz as our newest certified city. Our team is very pleased to welcome your beautiful seaside town into our network. Santa Cruz's majestic coastline inspires and emperors both residents and visitors. It's not a surprise the city ranks among America's best towns. We are so proud to recognize Santa Cruz as a committed community that is dedicated to protecting the marine environment and waterways. Santa Cruz pressively scored 405 out of a possible 500 points on the certification assessment, placing them in the ocean hero tier. The certification process involves completing a detailed assessment form that evaluates the city's current and ongoing environmental initiatives and programs. The assessment is divided into four solution areas, which are waste minimization, climate protection and community resilience, water quality and efficiency, and health and healthy ecosystems. We use a data driven approach to assess each city's progress in marine environmental protections. Achieving blue city certification allows communities to incredibly and transparently track their progress towards overall sustainability effectiveness. And now I will pass it over to Allison, our chief city liaison who gave personalized support to the city throughout the certification process. She will share more about Santa Cruz's incredible accomplishments. Evelina, it is an honor to be here celebrating Santa Cruz's great success in becoming a certified city. I'd like to point out a few of the major accomplishments that assist Santa Cruz in gaining this blue city recognition, which include implementing a master recycling volunteer training program that certifies participants and encourages them to educate their community in waste and recycling, developing the very help, what those wear guide and an app helping residents and businesses with proper waste disposal, producing an innovative, key level rise, virtual reality explorer app and online bilingual story map to share the future of Santa Cruz's shoreline with the community. Establishing the city as a zero importing community quality and that 95% water comes from the surface water right and 5% groundwater collected within the Santa Cruz watershed, reducing residential per capita water use by an impressive 22% in 2013 and 2020 and also being dedicated to urban tree planting with the ongoing annual planting of 200 trees and spearheading a street trees plan where Santa Cruz offers free trees to residents to plant in front of their home. As now part of the blue city network, Santa Cruz joins a growing community of other certified in California and will continue to receive support from us and our non-profit partners to further elevate the ocean and the city's residents. Through their certification status, Santa Cruz serves the model of other cities able to assist other towns and cities looking to advance their environmental initiatives through our program. So as we wrap up, we'd like to give a special shout out Tiffany Wise West, who is our contact person for the program and who were diligently to get their certified. On behalf of myself, Evelina and the team at Project GO, congratulations again. Thank you Mayor Brunner, team manager Huff, city council members and the public listening in for your time. Wonderful, thank you so much. Thanks Tiffany and thank you to the Project GO for all the great work, thrilled to be out part of the blue city families. Thank you for your eye, I'd like to thank for it.  Good afternoon Mayor and council members. This is kind of a little bit of an annual ritual for us to tell you about where we are about this time of the year, looking forward to our dry season, although the use of the term dry season this year is a little bit out of whack with some reality. I think that takeaway message is I want to share and I'm gonna repeat these over and over again in this presentation, not ad nauseam, but at least a few times, is that Santa Cruz has one of the lowest water using communities in the state and probably in the nation. Our water levels are really superior to those that occur in most places and La Clomann is about 90% full at this time. This is a relatively recent picture and you don't see any of that unpleasant bathtub ring kind of situation like we were looking at last. Next slide please. I think that all of us know, and this is a really water aware community, so when it stops raining, as it has over the last several months, you hear about it, people talk to you about it when you're on the street or in the supermarket and you hear over here conversations, people saying, when is it gonna rain? Well, I guess the good news for us is that La Clomann is such a small reservoir that even the kind of rain we had in October and in December really helped us build that reservoir this year. So that's a good news. The bad news is the reservoir that ties annual depletion and refill based on the assumption that we're gonna get winter rains every year which is something we're not seeing in this way historically. But nevertheless, we're in good shape here and as we're so conserving as a community, I don't see any benefit to where we will be going into the next winter from implementing restrictions this year. That is why I'm not recommending it and why the water commission also not recommending council that we've received with water resources here. A little out of touch with what's going on around the rest of the state, but where our local situation does not warrant taking that action. Next slide please, Elizabeth. When I talked about where we are and where we're gonna get to, this is a process we use every year of looking at status at the beginning of the dry season and then a projection that's based on stream flow and water supply demand and what we think that it's gonna happen over the coming months and all the different factors that influence where we'll be as far as reservoir storage and we're protecting about a 70% drawdown of the reservoir by Halloween, which is kind of the turning point for us to move back into the wet season. Now at the beginning, at this time last year in 2021, about 74% was where we were as opposed to about 90%. So the worst case scenarios we'll find ourselves going into next winter roughly in the same place we were going into last year that we started last year. So I think that this is a okay place for us to be and it feels comfortable that we will be able to manage the situation for the winter of 22, 23 and then also following year given this situation. And I want to just end this by showing you something that was referred to by the project team next slide, please, Elizabeth, which is this is our particularly the light blue bars are residential gallons today. And you can see that at the 59, 61 level before 2013, at the drought of 2014, 2015, we really had a significant reduction. We were doing rationing at that time, but our community members basically adopted and integrated into their ongoing operations and the way they use water, those measures from that time we were rationing. You can see that at this point we're at about 45 gallons per person per day that indoor and outdoor with about 35 gallons per person per day as indoor use. So relatively small outdoor water used here and very consistent commitment to conservation over the last about eight. So with this kind of ongoing engagement or I don't see basically any real value of research are used or then has been adopted over the last five years. With that, I'm happy to take questions. I think there's some more slide that the other picture of for a picture of. Thank you, Rosemary. Do council members have any questions? Starting. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you so much. Those updates. Moving on, we have the city council calendar and I'd like all on the city court provide updates on the calendar. We have no updates, but just a reminder there is a special next day at 3.30. Which is, I assume, only five percent. Great, thank you for that reminder. Okay, before we continue with the agenda, I'd just like to give a few items regarding meeting efficiencies. We have a very agenda today with a lot of important business to cover and a number of items that the public put on. I've also heard comments from members of public who have claimed that council discussions and debate is being too drawn and repetitive, causing some members of the community to now turn extended debate. Also, notice that a number of attendees signed in to our Zoom tends to drop significantly during prolonged debate, which suggests that our deliberation will result in ridiculous public participation in our meetings. So based on these terms, ordered to more efficiently and effectively manage the meeting and to encourage participation by all members of this council, as well as members of the public. I will be implementing a few changes in the order of the meeting. One, following staff presentations, there will be an opportunity for council member questions or we receive a public comment. After staff presentations, council members have an opportunity to ask no more than questions before we move on to questions from the next council member in order. Once a council member has asked or they will move to the back of the line, all council members have the opportunity to have their questions answered before I recognize a council member who is already at their turn. After all council members have an opportunity to ask questions, then the process will repeat and each council member will have an opportunity to ask more questions. The cycle will repeat until all following communications from members of the public and public input. Before taking further comments or questions from council members, I will ask the council members here to move the recommended action. And if that is made and seconded, a discussion will focus on that recommended. I would also request that subsequent motions or motions will amend the main motion to use sparingly. It's perfectly acceptable to vote no on a motion before a separate motion. And requests for friendly amendments are encouraged. As with council member questions, after a council member has provided comments, all other council members will have an opportunity before I recognize a council member who has already provided comments. Encourage more participation by the full council and avoid the race or person line. The following will be used as a guide recognizing council members during discussion and deliberation. When an item has been presented by council members, those presented the item will have the first opportunity to make a motion and explain the motion and explain the basis for the recommended action. When multiple hands are raised on an item, a council member who is not spoken has a prior claim over one who has already passed. Similarly, a member who seldom generally be given preference over a council member who's not laid. I reserve the right as writing officer to call on any council member who has a hand raised, particularly if a council member was recognized first on a prior event. So avoid drawn out and repetitive discussion after all council members have had a fair opportunity provide their input, I will entertain a motion. I have emailed this information to each council member. My goal is to really ensure that we all have an opportunity to discuss the process and public input in a sufficient and constructive way that can keep us on track. Another long meeting with a lot of input. And I do see council member Brown. I do thank you, mayor. So I have two questions actually. I'll use up two of my three. The first question is whether I'd like to, so first I want to clarify is what I'm hearing that the motion in the council agenda pocket must be paid first before after those motions or another variation on that motion. Intent is you are based on past discussions being so broad is starting from a base of discussion on the recommended motion. And then we narrow that focus of discussion. So my second question is that for us. Yeah, there you are. Have these procedural rules been vetted by your office I guess vetted by your office and is this clients with our rules around Robert's rules and all the other regulations that govern the conduct public. Yes, these, this is the product of discussions that I've been having with the mayor over the course of the past few meetings. And they are based upon a review of our existing meeting rules as well as different sources of parliamentary procedure like Robert's rules or the Alice Sturges handbook on parliamentary procedure or Rosenberg's order, which are the Cal cities version. And so yes, they have been reviewed for both conformance with rules of parliamentary procedure and the requirements of the Brown Act. So just again to clarify those goals allow a body require that only the motion for the recommendation published agenda made rated upon prior trying to roll to that's all I think that's that's not how I read the rule. Council member Brown, I read the rule as I read the rule as saying that the mayor will entertain a motion from a council member who's prepared to make the motion on the recommended action. Certainly it doesn't limit the council's ability to discuss and debate alternatives, but it's designed to initially provide council members with opportunity to discuss the record action. And it doesn't limit in any way the council from considering additional modifications to the recommendation recommended action or alternative. I'm sorry, that's what I felt like I'm hearing. I'm not sure if I hear. And again, I read the rule as a request to limit use of substitute motions, but not a prohibition on substitute motions. I would just comment that the use of substitute motions and amended motions has been, I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. Has been in the last, I would say three or four years come commonplace on the council. And I don't recall that as a standard practice over the years, until fairly recently. And so I think this is an effort to sort of not restrict debate, but to keep the debate on a little less adversarial putting. Council Member Brown. Well, not really, but I don't have the time to Council Member Cummings. I guess I just expressed that because I guess I'll just express that. One of the concerns I have that, given that members of the public don't have as much engagement staff or they have as much, and sometimes they'll have engagement with council members on a certain item that when these items come to us, they have concerns that making motions to help address those concerns is how we work on behalf of people. Oftentimes staff comes with recommendations that we agree with. Oftentimes staff comes with recommendations and we hear from the public and they disagree. And I think that by just starting off with only being able to move staff's recommendation, we'll actually create more attention and create more of an adversarial process. But I'm just gonna keep my comments there because I think it's actually gonna result having more substitute and amended motions. But those are just my comments. And then I guess it would also be helpful to understand as we move to hybrid meetings, if this is gonna remain a practice and just so that we have a clear sense of how meetings are gonna be managed moving forward because it's a much different, being in person is much different than online. And also if we're hybrid, that means some people will be probably using the can raise button versus people being in chambers actually raising their hands. So if we can just have a clear process as well, I think that'll be helpful. And also it'll be helpful to know when motions should be made because I know that traditionally we have questions from council public comment and then we'll make motions but sometimes we'll make motions during questions. And so being able to have a clear process for when we're supposed to make motions would also be helpful so that we don't have more conflicts rising with council. Well. Thank you council. I did want to take this approach today. We can see how this goes. Effort for me to respond to a class for a more efficient meeting without our opportunity as a body. Our only opportunity as items is in a public setting and it's important that we have those questions but it's also important that we stay focused and stay aligned with meetings. And so like our city and church said after several meetings and talking over several about how we structure our meetings it's my responsibility to get moving and best as much aligned and time for the members of the public and for city staff, council members for us all with the items for us. So going into in-person hybrid I would hope that council members are in person in the chambers like Asian where council member will have hybrid joining us via Zoom but there will be members of the public that will also be either in-person or Zoom and we'll have to navigate that process as get there. So today I would like to try this approach. I welcome input to see how it goes and I'm not trying to radically restrict anything. I'm just trying to structure us moving as a body and full of that makes sense. Council member vice mayor Watkins. Can you hear me okay? I was having some trouble with my Zoom earlier. Yes, thank you. Okay, sorry about that. No, I just wanted to share my support for your and appreciation for your structure that you played out for us here today. I've noticed that we've had several items that have been moved or postponed and I think that's because of the packed agendas that we've had and having served as mayor I also know the challenge of trying to really balance process with action and equity of voice and also encouraging council members to have questions asked and answered in advance of the meeting to have more efficient meetings if possible and to hear from everybody. So I just wanted to offer my support and I know that it's iterative we're always continually trying to move our systems. So I'm sure we'll modify or you'll modify as it but appreciate this attempt and happy to oblige in terms of compliance as well. Thank you. Council member, sorry, Johnson. Thank you, mayor. I also just wanted to acknowledge and express my thanks to you for trying this on and my colleagues for trying this on. Of course I have never been mayor but I have facilitated many meetings that's a challenging thing to do as vice mayor Watkins has said to balance what do you have voice, process and action. So I really appreciate the approach. I've also heard from many community members that they have not been able to participate because our process has been lengthy and has excluded community engagement. So thanks for bringing this forward and I'm happy to try it on as well. Yeah, council member Meyers. Yeah, thank you mayor. I just wanted to express my support as well that just so many items and so I time out of their days and their nights to try to see us create our business for years just lateness of our meeting lasting really the next morning. I really appreciate your correction that no voting on voting no is okay. Also attempts to try to change language. So that is part of our process. A lot of that staffs also very supportive. Thank you also for clarifying it, putting it. You're welcome. But what I read, I wanted to go with this starting point and I'm so glad that the city attorney's office will help me structure some of my ideas into some of these points to help us on track. With that being said today, as I tried it adds another layer to stay on track as well and track of council member questions and how many times it will add another layer for my brain to process and track of. So I'll try my best today and I thank you all for trying this out today as happy. We will now begin our consent agenda. These are items numbers nine through 22 on our agenda for members of the public. We're streaming this meeting. Now is the time to call in if you'd like to comment on items nine through 22. Constructions should be on your screen. Please remember to mute your streaming device. Raise your hand either by dialing star nine on your phone or select these hands in the webinar polls on your phone. All items will be put upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. Are there any council members who wish to comment or pull any item? I have hands raised, council member coming. I'd like to pull 13 comment on 15 question on 16 comment on. Say that one more time because I write or I get it correctly, thank you. Sure, I have a, I'm gonna pull 13. Okay. I have a comment on 15 question on 16 comment on 17 question on 15 and a comment on 20 and a question on. Council member Brown. I have a pen on 17. Okay, council member Calentari Johnson. Thank you. I have a comment on 14, 17. Okay, so we have one item pulled item number 13. So I will go ahead and call all this up here. I will go to the comments and questions and I will go to, after that, I will move public comment on any of the items that were searched. I will start with item number 14. Council member Calentari Johnson, you've had a comment. Yes, I just wanted to thank you, Mayor Brunner and Vice Mayor Watkins for your collaboration bringing this anti-Semitism resolution forward. The resolution acknowledges the uptick in the anti-Semitism here in our community and our condemnation of these acts. And as Ramadan here in Passover converged this year, it's really important that we as the city council and we as a community stand together against religious hate and uplift the beauties of these sacred traditions. So thank you to my colleagues. Thank you. Item for comment is item number 15, council member. I wanted to express my appreciation for Mayor Brunner and council member Brown for bringing this forward. This was brought by our attention by County Supervisor Luisa Lejo. And this item is for the establishment of a new CalVet veterans home in Monterey County in order to provide skilled nursing and memory care services for aging, disabled and homeless veterans living in the central coast region of California. As we try to estimate the homeless need and understanding that veterans who make up a population of people who are experiencing homelessness and need care that our hope is that this letter will support the construction of this facility that can provide support and care for many of our homeless people. Thank you for working on this with the support of Supervisor Lejo. Thank you so much. I'll stay with you and move on to your comment on item 17. Yeah, I just wanted to express my appreciation of staff for working with the other local jurisdictions to help bring this forward. We know statewide moratorium was extended, right? But really trying to ensure that we're getting money into pockets. People who are especially renters who are struggling is really critical and want to express appreciation of staff for bringing this item forward and I look forward to hearing more about how these funds are spent, how quickly they're spent and what kind of needs there are. Council Member Brown, you've also had a comment on item 17. Yeah, I had a simpler comment, so I won't repeat it. But I would just add in addition to the station about how significant it is for low-income working families that we know that eviction prevention is our most efficient and effective mechanism for addressing and preventing homelessness and preventing the challenges along with that. So, this is a really important investment. I think staff is following up. Thank you. Council Member Calentari-Johnson, you had a comment on the item. Yes, and I'll echo my colleagues' sentiments. I appreciate this effort. I appreciate that we're moving forward with effective solutions and not working in a silo and in a vacuum and aligning our efforts with county and with other city jurisdictions to help those who are really in need of help. So, thank you to the work. Council Member Cummings, you had a comment on item 20. Yes, Mayor. I also wanted to express my support for the staff for all the hard work they've done to really start moving forward with further electrifying our fleet. Another back in 2019 when I got on council, there was a lot of discussion about why we're not investing in electric. Refuse trucks and we've moved the staff as we're working diligently to move us in that direction. Continue to carbon neutral city and just really wanted to highlight this to the community. This is high voltage portable battery charger for first all electric ref trucks. And I think that many members of the community would appreciate this, especially with our dedication to protecting the environment and also trying to continue moving in this traffic. I want to thank everyone for coming. But it's moving us in a clean and more sustained direction. Okay, now for the questions, Council Member Cummings, question on item 16, the loan consolidation and affordability term extension for St. Gimora Street Commons and La Playa residential. Thank you, Mayor. I had some community members reaching out based on the gender report, the extension of the affordability and the project is seven years. And some community members were asking, you know, is there any way that we can get this restricted portable in perpetuity? So I'm just wondering whether or not we can do that. And if not, then what are some of the questions around that? Is Director Bonnie Lipscomb or Jessica Dewitt available? Yes. Hello. Good afternoon, Council. This is Jessica Dewitt. So let's remember Cummings to speak to your question on affordability. So there's several regulatory agreements on this property. There's also several lenders of one of them being state HDD, so state housing and community development. So we're working together to consolidate. There are actually several units that are already being regulated in perpetuity. So there's sort of a mix of hybrid regulatory is going on here. So we're trying to consolidate them all. The developer Mercy Housing is actually on the call today and can probably speak to that item. I know this has been a question that has come up as to whether, you know, all of these units could be affordable in perpetuity. So that is something we're referring, but it's gonna require, you know, working with all of the other lenders to make that happen if that's a possible. State HDD being one of them. It's I guess, I don't know if the housing want to comment on the question. Oh, but I do have a follow up question. Bonnie Bush, I'm not sure if you're able to see them out in them. Yeah, so Becky Flores was Mercy Housing. Go ahead. Hello, Mayor, members of the council, can you hear me? Yes, thank you. Okay, great. Thank you for taking the time to consider this item today. And the discussion around preserving affordability and perpetuity has been brought up discussions with staff and Mercy Housing would definitely open to accommodating that request. Our goal is to come our street commons and apply a residential affordable for the long term. So we don't see any issue if that's the will of the council and the community at large in providing for that. Thank you so much. Council member Cummings. I have a question to the city attorney then. The attorney. So I'm wondering, given the information that we've heard, wondering if you want to provide additional direction that sounds like staff has an opportunity to work with various lenders. There could be the opportunity to bring this back to council. In order to designate thousand affordable and perpetuity rather than because right now we're going to put seven years extension. I'm wondering would we need to pull this to that length and how we might go about given that this item on. You certainly would want to pull it from cent. However, in terms of potential impediments to making the restrictions permanent versus a 57 year covenant. I have not had an opportunity to research that and so I'm not really prepared to comment on the viability of doing that at this point. Yeah. And the direction wouldn't be to make it in perpetuity today. The idea would be that we move forward staff recommendation to have staff return after they've had an opportunity to discuss with various stakeholders on whether or not we would be able to properly affordable and perpetuity. Yeah. I think that would be a motion that should be made separately from just acting on the consent. Looks like Becky had her hand up. Can you hear me now? Yes. Sorry about that. I would just add what Mr. Kundati referenced that if we could take action on this item and then if we make a separate motion that's the impropripity, that would be fine as well. That being said, then I'll pull 17 but we can add the additional direction. No, not 17. Item 16. 16. Sorry, I'll pull 16. Does that conclude your question first, Dean? Close. Okay, you had a question on 19 and then 22. Correct. So for the members of the public item number 19 is the UV bypass valve repair notice completion. One of the things that stood out was that additional $100,000 was required to work. Wondering if staff could just put that a little bit so that your initial bid for this project of $7,000 so it ended up costing double what it was in. I'm just wondering what happened to what happened there and why that was the case. Just to help clarify for members of the public. Yes. This was an emergency project at the wastewater plant. It's a 72-inch valve or largest valve at the nuclear plant and when we realized that the valve was not operating, we couldn't operate it and we needed to operate it and it was not a bid. It was actually an emergency project and what we do in an emergency project is basically all qualified contractors and whoever can respond fastest basically and we're comfortable and are fully competent. Industry Pacific was able to bond very quickly and then once they started the project, what happened was, it's about 12, the valve's about 12, the 13 feet deep, something like that. And once they started exploring, we ran into two high voltage duct banks that is a concrete encased conduits. One of those duct banks has 21,000 volt electricity running through it and in order to, at that point, it was very special type of excavation and shoring required to actually get down to the valve. So that's what caused basic double increase price. And in the cost, it's all time immaterial. It's a time immaterial job, so we approve their time basically approving their time that they spend on the job materials and they successfully completed the work and therefore the notice. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you for the clarification. No problem. Thank you. Item 20 is the T2 systems parking pay stations. Yeah, and so the question I had on this from the public works might be available, a question that came to me from members of the community was along the lines of, you know, there's pay stations that we use at the parking garages and then we have our parking meters. It seems like there's two different software systems that each, and so people were asking, you know, why does it have two separate systems and we don't follow it on civic kind of systems with a full, you know, for example, if you need to use it to have it to renew your parking on rather than having, say for example, two different apps on things just drop today. So that's the question that came to me from members of the public today. Okay, Nathan Yuen, are you here to speak on that? Sure. I think so. City, engineer, public works. The parking system controls, we do have a couple of different systems that are operating in our city. So in our garages, we use the park access revenue control system, so park system that's gated. So that is what we're instituting now, right now, round river front and soak health front, Teeble type equipment. The surface slots we are using, the T2 systems in which we've been using, almost the same. So that's before you at this point is replacing some of that integrated equipment. But there is a possibility that in the future as we look to upgrade parks system that we may look at trying to combine that into, you know, one vendor. So it is one more, one system. Thank you. Council member Myers, you have your hand raised. You're muted. Question, I guess now on item, I'm sorry, I didn't put it. They do have a question on item 23 now that Mr. is it, excuse me, item 23, I was wondering if I could just ask. Item 23. You said. Excuse me, that's on, sorry, I'll ask it later. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Okay. So that can comments and questions from town hall, gift items hold 13 and 16. This are members of the public that would like to, any of our items that are not pulled on our agenda. That was the time to do so. Raise your hand by dialing star nine on your phone or selecting raise hand in your webinar calls. When it's your time to speak, you'll hear an announcement that you've been unmuted and the timer will be set for first hand. Let's go to attendees. We have the name I am watching you. Go ahead and unmute. Yeah, hi. I'll be very brief. On item number 17, you're not actually saying exactly who the money will go to, surely not CAB or kind of sanctuary bank accounts, I hope the state homeless money is questionably spent on people who still live in homes that it'd be spent on homeless people. Anyway, I hope it all goes to landlords to pay back rent. No disagreement is not included. Therefore, it's big. And finally, the perpetual rent moratorium needs end and I'm not sure there's any end to it. In your mind, the state does it go over. I forget the item number, but to the cost of that electric garbage truck is now approaching a million dollars. Wow. Okay. Thanks. Okay, our next name is Brian Shields, Carpenters Local. Go ahead and unmute yourself. Welcome. All right, today. Not the night yet. I was, I had a question about 18. And so this is for the city, we say space, from 1200 specific LLC. Public comment time. So go ahead. You have three minutes to take your comment. Sure. So, but this is for the city, it's a space, correct? From. Item number 18, amend lease 1200 Avenue, specific LLC conference. There's a full title. I don't want to take a full comment. Sure. I would just ask that responsible contractor used on this project to be city money that'll be renovating the space and a responsible contractor that has a healthcare, livable wage and has been doing that for longer than just that project's duration. That's all I had to say. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for your comment. Our next fundraise is the name Reggie Meisler. Welcome Reggie. Go ahead and press start on mute. Hey guys, can you hear me? Yes. Hey, I just wanted to comment on item nine and honestly just like how it just kind of plays into the continuation of the ever continuing authorization of executive power to the city manager. No, not having meetings in person. Now we're talking about having a rule that can't make alternative motions to what city staff wants to do. You know, guys can't even meet and decide on things before the meeting because that's a brown act by the way. I mean, the power grab by the executive branch right now is just so extreme and it doesn't even make sense for you guys. I mean, you must be that rubber stamp for city staff and the city manager. Like they don't want you to talk about what they decided for you ahead of the meeting. They want you to ask them questions. They want everyone to be on Zoom so we can't have any sort of, we're tightly controlled in our communications. I mean, this is just like, this isn't how democracy is supposed to be. So I just want you guys to sort of reflect on that a little. Thank you. The next phrase already spoke. Are there any other attendees with their, with public comment for consent items nine through 20 with the exception of item 13 and, okay, I see none.  And I also remember Myers. The exception item 13. Thank you. Vice Mayor Watkins. I'm happy to see, yeah, I'm happy to see. So we have the first bite. Council Member Myers is second. Our Watkins and items like tasks are, we'll call vote. Mayor Council Member, I'm sorry to answer this. Is that coming? Vice Mayor Watkins. Aye. Mayor Brunner. Aye. That motion passes unanimously with one absolute right. It will now come back to our pulled item. The first one being item number 13. This was pulled by Council Member Keynes. Item number 13 is a resolution declaring the city council's intent regarding possible process from measure F, a sales tax and use, a sales and use tax ballot item on the June 2020 California statewide primary council member coming. Mayor and just some members of the public are aware that this is a non-binding resolution that expresses the intent of how the money could be used should the measure pass. And again, it's not holding the city to using this in any specific way. However, it is an expression of our values and what we want to support from what we've heard from the community. And I've heard from a number of members of the community regarding the resolution and wanting to have a few more provisions included. And given the language that's before us, I went ahead and tried to make them amendment proposed some language changes. So I've done is included that into the whereas on the last whereas on the last page. And I sent that over to Connie. Happy to do that once you're on this. Am I right into a motion right now or public? Not to a motion just putting the language up as I actually called the attorney and just well that there's gonna be changes made that the public see it before public comments. They can see what the new language is. So in the last whereas resolution really outlines how the revenue would help with. And so just added in, whereas the revenue generated by this measure may help with mitigating the impacts of homelessness added including but not limited to reporting services and programs that address mental and behavioral health, substance abuse prevention, safe sleeping, safe parking programs, et cetera. The need for more affordable housing, affordable and workforce housing, downtown and business support added workforce development. Actions to help address the high cost of housing and accrues added, dating and supporting programs and services, reduce carbon emissions in our climate action plan goals, mitigate the impacts of climate change and make the city more resilient to climate change impacts but not limited to reduction of wildfire risk. Maintenance of city facilities and essential infrastructure such as streets, transit parking, recreation facilities and added for all residents including but not limited seniors and prevention of reduction up to important city services and added along with supporting and expanding services to increase efficiency and promote sustainability of services and service providers. That's the language that came before, that language to come to try to capture some of the concerns that were raised by community members. So after this bill is out, public, how we're gonna manage this as it relates to the new guidance for us but we can determine how we can go forward after the bill is out. Thank you, Council Member Cummings. So are there any questions before I go out to the public to answer? And Mr. Attorney, Mr. Chancellor, or clarify the resolution of intent regarding this revenue measure, we can't, as Council Member Cummings stated it's a non-binding agreement. Yes, the measure that's on the June ballot is proposing a sales tax increase as a general tax meaning it will provide funding that will be put in the general fund and available for uses and priorities identified by the City Council and the resolution is an expression of the City Council's intention with regard to the use of the funds but it's not binding because if it were that would be a special tax, not a general tax and it would require a two-thirds majority voter. Thank you for that. At this time then I will give hands raised and so to Council Member Meyers. Add additional clarity but I know in a sense outlining of potential uses of seeds but not getting quite in proposed revised language. Okay, I think we have a close- Here, we haven't gone out to public comment yet. I know. This is kind of what we were talking about earlier in the process. One point. We're pointing that out. At this time, I see other hands raised are there questions from Council Members before I go out to public comment? Council Member Weiss, Mayor Watkins. I have a comment. I'll just wait. Okay. Council Member Calantari-Johnson. I was wondering if City staff if the manager could comment on the implications of the added language to this resolution of intent in terms of, yeah, the implication. Here, so Council Member Calantari-Johnson, Council really does have a question on all what happened. On binding, I will say that her proposal reflects revenue, budget, ad hoc, recommended. But the Council certainly has this question. Council Member Brown, you have a question? No, sorry, my question was about perspective but I got it. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to go out to public comment at this time for item number 13 on our consent agenda and I do speak to the e-mails raised. So the first hand is a phone number ending in 5542. Go ahead and unmute yourself. Press Star Stick or press Unmute Option. Yeah, Council Member Mayer, me? Yes. Ron Pomerance, the Prejudice Council Act regarding tax, falls there to emergency in order to put sales tax increase as measure F invalid. Current ongoing situation is not an emergency. The fiscal emergency started years ago or so last year. Staff said, thank you, on cost of severely harmed the budget that it was done in intervening years. Correct this situation. There's nothing in this resolution can't then address the tension. This crying wolf, United Tension, rests this finance problem. This agenda item, get in the soy, right of full voters that have sales tax these will be used for the delineated purposes based on a poll you commission. The council truly wanted to testify and locked up the sales tax to be used to have clearly and honestly spelled it out. Staff support says, Bob with this approach, get lost, requires sales tax. With these specifics, we needed a two-thirds vote of the election to be sown polling so the two-thirds vote would not pass. Then the things to say, you're worried that getting a simple majority may be a problem. Sales tax, dominantly harmed poor students, low-wage workers, struggling families, that's the stress of tax. These folks, it's the minimal benefit that kept this proportionate part of their income. For their sales tax, opposed to higher income and wealthier, the sales tax goes hand-in-hand with the highest inflation rate in 40 years, further compounding harm to their well-being. Clear violation, I'll remember, what two of the health and all policies values and requires equity as a cornerstone. This agenda item was not even placed on the agenda as a general business item. Rather, on the consent, this an attempt to fight a spirit out of public scrutiny, to quote your staff for resolution and intent in not finding why the people have a time of consideration. Thank you for your comment. Our next hand raised the name of Reggie Meisler. Welcome, Reggie. Hi, yeah, you know, I'm just wondering, why are we even discussing this, right? Like, you guys all could have talked to staff for the meeting and just figured it out. And then city staff could just get what they wanted and, you know, it can just lie through consent. Your meeting can end early. Like, no problem. You know, just chug it along, let the sort of business interests get whatever they need to get.  Nobody has to speak. Nobody has to, like, wait around for anything. So, you know, I guess it's just, that's my question. All right. We are taking public comment on item number, ICB phone number ending in 0575. Good afternoon. My name is Ken Baer. I am the city of, I'm a city of Santa Cruz worker, the president of the city of Santa Cruz chapter of FTIU 521, a lifelong resident of Santa Cruz. I would appreciate it if the city council would recognize the importance of the services that city workers provide by including us in this resolution intent for the tax sales, the sales tax measure. Throughout the pandemic, city workers worked hard to study running and at the same time to give furlough and suffering layoffs. Now that we're on the road to recovery, the sales tax keep the city running and pay the workers a fair wage. So we'll track new workers to provide services and the residents of Santa Cruz need them once. Thank you for your attention. Your comment for next fundraise is the name David to touch. Yes. Thank you, Dustin and city council for including city workers in the services that we provide the community and the resolution intent for the sales tax measure. I'm very proud to be a member of our water department live within the city just down the street off of the street. I know that both myself and my coworkers provide the essential services that this community has felt needed through the pandemic and we're facing a very severe recruitment crisis due to being underpaid and overworked. We hope that the language involved in this will prioritize, typically as can stated, our SCIU membership as an investment in the services that the work provide both for the city staff and the resolution sales tax initiative. So thank you very much. Have a good day. Thank you. Our next fundraise is I am watching you. Yeah, I'll also be brief again. I don't think that government workers suffered more than the private sector in the pandemic. I don't know what the ratio would, but I would guess it's a hundred to one the private sector suffered more. So really this item is just fluff. I mean, it's an attempt to gain support for the initiative, but it's really a simple choice for voters. Do they want to allow the government to take a bigger chunk of economy from them to spend as they please? And they have to make that choice. It's a simple choice for me. I'm gonna vote no. Thanks. Thank you for your comment. Other hands raised public comment for item number 13 on our consent agenda. We'll bring it back to council. And we have a motion that is council member Myers. Mayor, I'm happy to move resolution on the resolution to grant the city council's intent regarding the use of. Okay, and is there a second of discussion? I'm happy to. You have a first by council member Myers, Mayor Watkins and council member Brown. Have a comment? Yeah, I do have a couple of comments actually. It is comment time and I am following the rules and not comment question time. I am making comment, comment period. I actually support I am on the revenue fee and this resolution while not directly crafted by the members of the committee was based upon a discussion that suggested that we wanted to follow results of the voter poll and the priorities of from those responses. And so I think it is an appropriate exercise for us doing it puts us on record and it gives us some look forward and also look to once this measure, this ballot measure passes. And so I support that. So also support the additions that council member Cummings suggested that like included. And I think that this is an example of a council member who is not on that. Looked at the recommendation was not talk with us or talk with staff about that prior thing. And therefore is bringing this and I think they are thoughtful additions while perhaps a little bit more concrete. I think they reflect very, very important and urgent issues that are. So that's one comment. And the other comment I want to make is that we have some written communications from a couple of were able to attend the meeting today. I know many workers that and the turn about air our workforce it does not explicit graph resolution. So on this issue of the city's, the city council's view of how to address and asked to include something that's just a gust that the workers be fairly compensated at wages that are credited with other ages across. And I believe that we all are thinking and I believe that while I've heard council members talk about this kind of general concept as something that y'all post part upon. I think that we're getting these indications is workers are very concerned and they haven't that they haven't act. They have heard it in word and they are council meetings but they have or talk with visual council members but they have not had an act. So I want to be very clear that that is an absolute priority of mine. I am going to fight for that in the conversation, the ongoing conversation about the workforce issues are bargaining unit. So I just want to be really clear about that up front that's my position. I hope that is a position that is shared by my colleagues action just. Thank you council member Brown council member Cummings and then vice mayor wants. I did have a question because I brought this up and I know this is probably not related but it is a process because my understanding earlier was that out some guidelines process and the motion was made during the question for the Scott or we have to get a comment and I'm just trying to understand how we're doing or because we just had a conversation about process. Everybody said that we're supportive of that process part of which my understanding to make motions after we public but motion was made during question honored. So I'd like to have some clarification because we have a lot of items that we're going to be hearing today and some of which are very controversial and I think that it's going to lead further conflict on get that your wraps. Thank you council member Cummings. Right now we, I would like to this discussion focus to the motion that have a first and a second and then discussion on the motion and then we have a vote and then we can ask a question of process. I will, I'm prepared to make a subsequent motion and that motion will be to stop the resolution declaring the city council's intent regarding the use of central revenues generated by measure F sales tax, tax ballot item on June, 2022 California State Department primary election with the following language included that was submitted to the county clerk or the city clerk. I will go ahead and second that motion. You have a substitute motion on the floor by council member Cummings. I still want to make some comments. Say that again. I wanted to still make some comments. And a second by council member. Okay. And before I move on hands raised saying you want to make comments. Okay, go ahead council member Cummings. Yeah, I'll just say that again, when members of subcommittees and I guess more, more importantly, the Brown Act was being able to speak with one another, be able to incorporate all the things that council members want to see depending on what items for us. And at the last meeting, when it was clear that the subcommittee will be taking this up. I think there were a few comments that were made, but it was also clear that when this item came before council, we would be able to provide other resolution. When the members of the public had an opportunity to see this after it was posted on Thursday, was the public can reach out. And that's also the only opportunity that the public has to see what was conducted by the subcommittee private meeting. And as a result, we'll have, they want it to happen. In addition to that, some of the conversations I had had with members of the public were that there was a lot of what was stated was very vague. And people wanted to see examples of, when council says mitigating the tax of homeless, what does that actually mean? Because we've been trying to mitigate the tax of homeless for a decade or more. And a lot of people see that money is being spent or in the situation is getting worse. Part of this was really giving examples of when we're saying how this is spent, we have clear examples of what we mean by that. And many of these additions actually fit really well with what we want to see in our community. Workforce development, that again impacts the climate, just fire climate change in general, that we're creating, maintaining facilities for all our residents, and that we're supporting services that our city provide services. So I don't think this is a very far departure of what has been proposed, but I think it also does reflect more of what we've been hearing from the community on what the community and again, non-binding. It's really symbolic of where we are as a city and where we stand. And so that is the intent of this motion and this course. Vice mayor, what? Yeah, thanks, mayor. I was just gonna say, I think that, what I read in terms of the potential proposed substitute motion is pretty duplicative of what's written in the resolution and given what council member Cummings just said and that we have a lot of items that are big items in the forest and we're already a half hour later than usual in terms of the plan, time for the consent. I didn't think it was the best use of time given that we were kind of using the opportunity to really reconcile a lot of the same statements. Therefore, I'm prepared to just forward with the recommendation as opposed to trying to wordsmith kind of what I see as overlap, significant overlap in terms of the language. So I guess I'll just, I'll leave it there in the interest of time. Council member Myers. I would just like to apologize to my colleagues. I'm learning the new process here. I should not have made amendments offered but I do enter the solution really quite best, you know, moving into a different type of measure if you get too specific. So, just being that in mind, I apologize to my colleague for meeting your procedures and I appreciate it. So I just wanted to, not mind, I'm also just trying to continue items. Miss Mayor Watkins. Yeah, I just had a quick question in terms of the statement that Council member Myers brought up in terms of the specificity. And I know, Tony, you shared that you hadn't had a chance. I think I remember you showed you didn't have a chance to fully look at all of the language. If that's correct, I mean, I don't, I wanted to know if you wanted to weigh in on that in terms of the legality and the specificity or if it matters. I think I was referring to the other item, the 57 year term versus perpetuity for the affordability covenant. Okay. I did review the language proposed by Council member Cummings from a legal perspective. You know, it's not, it doesn't raise any legal concerns. It's really more of a policy discussion for the community. I guess another potential solution could be for the Revenue Committee to reconcile the recommendations and bring forward a more clear resolution at the next potential. I mean, if we wanted to get it written, right? Because a lot of it really is replicative in my opinion. Well, thank you. At this point, we have a Council member, Calentary Johnson. Thanks. Yeah, just what Vice Mayor Wach just expressed, I would be interested in that because the language that Council member Cummings brought forward on the surface looks good. I don't want to, that was my question earlier is what are the implications of that. I mean, I don't know, I don't know but I don't want to, that was my question earlier is what are the implications? I just want to make sure that we're not doing anything that would harm this measure or our resolution event. So if the subcommittee were open to reviewing and diving deep, making sure it's clean and clear and there's nothing duplicative and nothing that would impact negatively the sales tax measure, I would really be in support of that because I'd like to integrate what Council member Cummings has brought forward. But I just, you guys have done a lot of work. I haven't done an item that I've gone in depth as much as you have. So I would be in favor of that if that were acceptable by Council members Cummings and Brown. Okay, everyone's had a chance to speak and we have a motion on the floor. We can go ahead, oh, may I have a roll call vote? Yeah, I'm just hearing that. Other way this, so, but if we vote on it, and we're gonna go down that road of voting and dragging this out, or if there's agreement to try to work this out and back that I'm trying to. The Council member Brown, is there a staff recommendation? I think the question, Mayor, would be whether the maker of the substitute motion and the maker of the second would accept the suggestion made by Council member Watkins as a friendly amendment. I can also clarify. I can't hear you. Hearing. Now I can. I just wanted to clarify on the converter and I just wanted to remind you that action in front of you right now is the substitute motion. And Council member Cummings made a change in that substitute motion based on what's being suggested. If you want. If you ever call vote, that's the substitute motion and friendly amendment. Following that? That way you only. I mean, I think I thought I saw Council member Cummings nodding in the affirmative as to whether or not he would consider Council member Watkins suggestion of friendly amendment. The amendment would be to further the language proposed by Council member Cummings back to the revenue committee to incorporate as appropriate based on further analysis and input from Council and members. Council member Cummings as the maker of the motion. I'm willing to accept that, but I would like to hear from the subcommittee members where he comes up with that. Yeah, that means you're all gonna have to meet again and do and see whether or not the subcommittee the subcommittee is open and willing to do that. I don't see why we should hold that. I didn't understand the comment by Council member Watkins as that the resolution would come back for the council. So I just think we're fine. Vice Mayor Watkins? Yeah, I'm flexible here at this point. I think we could either take it back to revenue that the language is actually matching and cohesive or I'm personally just fine with moving forward with the original language at this point to be honest with you. It could come back. It doesn't necessarily need to. I don't know immediately what that looks like, Tony. And I think the intention is there broadly in the first one. I think there's nuances that are overlapping. So I wouldn't feel comfortable passing one that doesn't necessarily feel like it's written properly and I don't know if we want to dive into everything at this moment. Therefore, I was suggesting that we could bring it to the revenue committee for reconciliation, but does that then not need to come back? Tony, is that what you're saying? It would not need to come back if that's the direction. If that's the comfort of the council then I'm fine with that coming back. We meet anyways as a revenue committee so we could take care of it at that level. And the revenue committee I'll just add is Council Member Brown, Vice Mayor Watkins and myself. So Council Member Cummings. I just have a follow-up question then. This isn't gonna come back to council then my question is how will the members of the public know what that final, the final language will be because my understanding is that the language can then be changed by the, or is that not, if that's the intent. If that's the direction of the council then the resolution can be adopted subject to further refinement by the subcommittee. And I guess my clarification is what can then this, what can the subcommittee I guess do then in terms of the language because I think what concerns I'm hearing is that people want to see included and if we send it back to the subcommittee it's not going to come back to council then the public really doesn't know what it has. And it's not clear whether or not council pull agreement changes will make. I mean, given that concern, I guess I would just recommend that council move forward with the motion as framed and it doesn't sound like the suggestion was, was recognized as a friendly amendment. I just want to better understand. I just wanted to be clear in the process what the expectations are, that's all I'm at. So if the language was accepted as a friendly amendment then the subcommittee could refine and make changes to the language of the resolution or not. And once that's done, then the resolution is a matter of public record just like any resolution adopted by the city. Right now the question. Right now the question, right the count the question before the council is whether to accept the substitute motion. If it is accepted, then we go ahead and vote on the substitute motion. If it's not, there's the main motion for the original motion that's on the floor as well. I accept to the main amendment. Substitute motion is on the floor right now. Member Cummings. I was going to say that I'm happy to accept the friendly amendment. The understanding that final language was sent to the members of the city council and made public. And we'll see. I mean, I think that heard from members of the public, we understand the intent of the new language. And I think that we'll see what happens, I guess. But if it's dramatically different then I think there's gonna be issues that are raised because these are things that have come to my attention and by members of the public they want to have included in what, again, non-binding resolution. And should a lot of us not be included, I think that it will definitely further mistrust our community with our local government and could negatively impact revenue measure. If it is seen that this goes to a subcommittee and stripped of a lot of the language, which again is non-binding but is really reflective of our intent to support various services. Mayor, given those comments and kind of ambiguity of this process, I'm gonna go ahead and withdraw my friendly amendment and we could just take the vote and how about that? Thank you. And I just wanted to give the city clerk, I have your hand up and make sure give you an opportunity. Thank you. But my question goes away with place mayor Watkins drawing her friendly amendment. Thank you. Okay, so at this point, we have a substitute motion on council member Cummings, second council member Brown and we'll do a roll call vote to the subcommittee then. Thank you Mayor, council member Calentary-Johnson. No. Is there a holder that's coming? What, Vice Mayor Watkins? No. And Mayor Brunner. No. Okay. So now we have a motion on the floor, the original motion by council member Brown seconded by Vice Mayor Watkins. My motion is since. Council member Meyers, Vice Mayor Watkins. Yes, okay. So my understanding in terms of the Vice Mayor's friendly amendment is to provide the ability to take another look at me with some of the language I don't, I think it does commit us to certain things that, so I would accept Vice Mayor Watkins if we get resolution, any to some of the intent in that, trying to kill any of the intent of some of the things brought up in that language, trying to understand process, change, similar amendment on this motion. My question is from the city attorney, whether those changes would still have things that would still not remain resolution, also have concerns of similar conversation in two weeks. So. I think the friendly amendment would be to defer the resolution back to the revenue committee to for the limited purpose of considering the additional language proposed by council member Cummings. And if that's the direction of the council, once that analysis and any revisions are made, then that I heard council member Cummings suggestion be that once that's finalized that the resolution be distributed to the full council, that would not have to come back for further council action, but it would be distributed to the full council for as an information item, it would be available to the members of the public and council members could further disseminate resolution to their respective constituents. I think procedurally back in meeting this again, doesn't mean that we have to try to get this resource really explained to her. So. As originally stated, I'm happy to have that conversation and to do the reconciliation. What gave me pause was that if it didn't come back to the full council to approve or didn't necessarily meet a criteria that council member Cummings wanted to be met, then he wouldn't be pleased and there would be community upset. So my concern was a process, essentially saying if we don't meet an expectation, then what? So if it's not coming back for the full council to approve even if it is a reconciliation of language, then are we setting ourselves up if something that isn't in there or written the way it was wanted to be written, that would lead us to a challenging. So therefore I would approve the amendment and that was my rationale. We do have a special meeting today. Yeah, thank you mayor. I think just to have seen us to create a seat and get this, go ahead without any, I will say to my colleague, revenue issues, you know, are real, it's very important. We all really cool to other staff. This is a really pivotal comment of us to not leveraging anything over the other. We realize this is a resource that's really pivotal across many categories. So we want to just make that comment. Happy. And so for clarity, motion is being seen as originally stated and vice mayor Watkins is that under a motion and they're ready for a roll call vote. Although I see a hand up council member Cummings, just wanted to say the members of the public that appreciate them reaching out and come to address their concerns and gonna support the motion because I still, you know, agree with the, some what's included in the resolution of intent, but I think could be doing more. That being said, I think it's important for members of the public to doubt they have concerns and express their concerns to us. I do feel that a lot of city workers watching and there's a lot of community members that are watching this, maybe feeling let down by including them, especially since we've been saying for these past few years that we're all in this together.  So, I'm gonna still support that recognition. My, what I was trying to do was food, turn additional concerns raised after the report, please. But look forward to working with the community to see how we can address some of the major challenges and also where. Thank you council member Cummings. Okay, city clerk. We have a roll call vote. Council member Calentari-Johnson. Defton Cummings. Vice mayor Washington. Mayor Brunner. Hi. That motion passes unanimously. But we will now continue with the other pulled items from done. Item number 16, I believe. Yeah, 16 and this is pulled by council member Cummings, loan consolidation and affordability, firm extension for Sycamore street commons and by a residential. Yeah, so for members of the public who are just going to end after our discussion here that there is potential for discussion between staff, mercy housing and relevant stakeholders to determine whether or not housing affordability terms can be made in perpetuity. And so the additional language I sensed it Bonnie and so Bonnie put it up for the members of the public and the council can see this as we move into public as we move into the public comment period, but was to adopt apps recommendation and then also direct staff to work with mercy housing relevant stakeholders determine whether the affordability term be extended in perpetuity and second item for council consideration at the meeting. So, you know, I think that one of the things that I've heard since council is that only way to maintain affordable housing in our community is to make sure this is good. And this is an opportunity where we can secure units in perpetuity to be affordable for our community. And there's the opportunity for conversation around that. I think that would be great. And in the communities in the community would be on board with this having this discussion and you know, possibly make sure that those units are restricted in perpetuity. So, I'll just stop there. I know that this needs to go out to the public for any motion to be made. And thank you for that. Thank you council member Cummings. Is the attorney, did you have a comment on that addition? It can wait until the council considers motion language. Just have a minor clarification request. Okay, thank you. So, there are questions I have. Jessica, do you with staff and council member Meyer? And then I will go out to public comment. Council member Meyers? I just had a question for staff and I don't want to bring up their item on that. This was 100% I see reference to that in materials in the past property. I just want to make sure that we're not eating something. Jessica, do it? Yeah, so to confirm this is 100% deed restricted portable at both of these properties, we're working to extend that ability. And just to respond to council member Cummings motion. So we are barreling down a tax credit deadline, affordable housing tax credit deadline. And I think Becky is still on the line from Mercy housing and can speak to this. But I think we prefer to address that affordability now to be able to make sure that we don't lose the very majority of funding that we need to be able to make this rehab happen and keep these units affordable and in good condition. So I don't know if Becky's still around, but just that is something that we would like to, if possible, address now versus in a future meeting just because of this tax credit. I respond really quickly because I don't want it to be any, the idea is that we move forward with staff recommendation. And so you all can go ahead, get your tax credit, we'll have the 57 year date. But it sounded like from the discussion that was had earlier that the timeframe right now that is being set as 57 years. And it sounded like in the previous conversation could be the potential for that rather than it being 57 years that it's going to be. So the direction here is move forward and let's hear the affordable housing. If there's an opportunity to have that conversation, that can have that conversation, see whether or not and for having that affordable in perpetuity and then bring back. So this is in no way trying to stop if you all are doing, it's really trying to give you the support that you need to move forward with the item that's before us, but then also have this conversation if there's a potential that we can make this interesting in perpetuity. My clarifier question, well, Jessica, does that clarify? And she's there? Yeah, if I'm understanding correctly, move forward with this tax credit funding deadline, but continue discussions on making these all 100% of these units affordable in perpetuity. Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you. Council member. The units in this both of them now, alone, seven years, that is a marker on the loan restriction of, I'm just trying to understand. I take that question. Thank you. Thank you. So Council Member Meyers, the affordability period is also concurrent with the loan agreement period. So tax credits, the way the tax credit agreement works is that it's a loan for that period of time, but also a regulatory period for that period of time as well. There are, you can honestly say, I think 37, 48 items on title here. So that's, those are all agreements that are showing up on title that we are working our way diligently through that have several regulatory agreements and conditions. And so we are doing our best to combine everything. And like I said, we are moving towards trying to get to affordability and perpetuity for 100%. I just wanted to indicate that Becky Flores first housing does have a set up now. So I wanted to- Thank you. Okay. So Becky Flores first housing head and then mute yourself. Thank you. Mayor Brunner and Council Member Brown as was brought up by Ms. White, we are having to take into consideration the closing on the tax credit finance for this project. And I just want to be clear then that direction is that we could potentially take action today as was suggested by Council Member Cummings and that the imperpatuity could happen post closing. I know it could happen later, but you're okay with post closing. Okay. Thank you. Just wanted to confirm. Appreciate it. Member Calantari-Johnson. Thank you. I'm not clear how close motion is different from what is happening already with the end with if somebody could verify. Sounds like this is the works. I'm just coming from staff. Is this happening? What I heard from Jessica is that that we are working make the units 100% affordable and property. I'm sure if I'm allowed to speak here. Yes. Go ahead. Sorry. Jessica, go ahead. Thank you. Yes. So we are working with the developer mercy housing on again, it's just trying to work to get to this tax credit deadline and also sort through all these 38 agreements at the same time. Just the history of this. This is back into the 90s, I think. So just trying to sort through what who's on the hook for what and how can we move forward with, you know, 100% affordable and yes, extend the affordability and perpetuity. If we can get every lender on board with doing that. Essentially this direction motion language is solidifying what you're currently working on. Thank you. Thank you. Let's see, it looks like we have one more question. I'm going to take item 16 out to public comment time. We have items being on our consent agenda with hold. Let's see, any public comment on items not being any.  Hey, so we have a council member coming. Yeah, so I'm happy to move the staff recommendation and then in addition to that, provide the additional direction, direct staff. And we can even say support staff work with mercy housing, relevant stakeholders, determine whether the affordability term be extended in perpetuity and bring back an item for council consideration. And council member Brown. I'll second that and just want to say that while this may be redundant, some council members, what I heard in the discussion, what I heard the housing representative, that an indication from the council that that is a commitment to have is meaningful. And so I'm very happy to second this. I'll move member Brown and E. Clerk, Bonnie Bush. Thank you. Just to clarify, council member Cummings, are you going with direct or support? You're muted. It seems like the direction, staffs are removing that direction, so support. And thank you so much, Jessica Dewitt. And thank you so much to mercy Becky Flores at Mercy Housing for your comments and for work. And I do echo council member Brown's comment that this emphasis from city council traction, it weighs a lot, so thank you. And so we'll go for a roll call vote on this motion. Council member Callentary-Johnson. Aye. Third absent. Council member Cummings. Thanks, Mayor Watkins. Mayor Brunner. Aye. That motion passes unanimously with council member Boulder absent. Okay, that is our consent agenda. Did it? Before we continue with our next items, I would like to call court break. And we will turn at 4 o'clock. Is this part ready? Yeah, thanks. Okay, welcome back, members of the public for joining us resuming our agenda. We just concluded our consent agenda. And next up is consent public hearing. These items are 23 and 24 on our agenda. For members of the public for resuming this meeting, if you would like to comment on items 23, 24, now it's time to call in using the instructions on your screen. All items will be acted upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member session. Are there any council members who wish to comment on or pull any items? So the council members, council member coming? Like pull item number 24. Pull item 24, okay. So I will now then call for questions or comment from council item, council members on items not pulled. So that would be item number four. Questions? Three. Sorry, mayor. Item 24. 23. Thank you, council member Brown. Item number 23, we will have comments or questions from council members before I go out to public comment. So at this time, I will go out to the public comment for item number 23, hands raised.  Of course, select and on the webinar calls of your speaker. Not seeing any raise, so we'll come back to the call. Okay, so we're coming back to council. Council member Meyers? I was just going to, I'm not sure if I, Pete, council member Watkins, I was just going to move. Okay, we have a first by council member Meyers, item 23, and they second. I'll go ahead and second that. Five by council member Watkins. A further discussion by council members, okay. City clerk, may we have a roll call vote? Member Callentary-Johnson. Aye. Mayor Watkins. Aye. Mayor Britt. Motion passes unanimous with council member Kulder-Capsen. And now we will move to item 24. This item was called by council member Queens. Council member Queens. And mayor, for members of the public, the ordinance gives Santa Cruz repealing chapter 581, Santa Cruz municipal code and adding chapter 528, sidewalk vending, Santa Cruz municipal code. This item came with the Velocity Council meeting and since then, I've received some letters of concern. Mayor Brunner and I are briefed earlier actually, and we're both approached by a member of the public who had some concerns about this item and wanting to address those concerns, had a couple of questions for staff. I also had some legal questions to ask regarding the prohibition of vending in the area and so wanted to ask those questions as well because part of the intent of last that, in the motion I made, was to provide us some legal coverage while prohibit explicitly vending in the beach area. There is potential, I believe, in the numbers of the public also, there might be the potential that the city gets sued in that lawsuit. So the first question is one of what the number of the public we engaged with earlier today brought up was really around downtown Pacific Avenue, about street vending. One of the things that that number of the public brought up that, one, some of the spaces are really small and so it would be great to get clarity around spaces and the size of the spaces. What the member of the public expressed was that, for many of the, for many sidewalk vendors, they need tables based where they can put their merchandise. Some of these areas to then are really small. Not only that, but some of the areas that have been arcaded with little brass kind of markers, a lot of those are blue, it's not clear where those vending zones are and so they really express frustration around making sure that have a lot of issues resolved for making any action on this. So I'm just wondering if, as a first step, if staff can maybe address those concerns around the Pacific Avenue vending and marking of spaces, sizes of the spaces, there's a map that maybe we could have displayed to show where vending, or I think that might be helpful for members of the public to see. Thank you, Council Member Cummings. I think I will bring your question regarding the markers our city staff was, Smith, who has been working on this item. As we, I think I've heard from the same individual and so we have an implementation team that's working on a number of fronts to map out an implementation plan for the ordinance. One of those areas is around Pacific Avenue. Environmental changes writ large, so kind of signage to make sure that it's clear what the regulations are. How do we demarcate spaces on Pacific Avenue in a way that is clear and manageable from both the vendor standpoint and also our code plant staff's perspective to make it easy for them for everybody to understand what the rules are. And so the medallions are on our list about and replace. We have some that we can replace for the ones that were taken. But then also looking at, are we numbering spaces? How are we doing the permitting process? And so that's all new. And so it's in development right now. So as we go through the planning process, we've got some folks working on the permitting process and how that rolls out and really thinking about that two steps, environmental changes. How are we working with our code clients and CSOs to help vendors adhere to the regulations? And then most importantly, all of this will be wrapped up in an engagement and outreach, a bilingual engagement and outreach campaign that will occur over the next 30 days should the code plan pass the ordinance. So I appreciate the concerns that are coming in about specific ideas. I had a conversation this week with a member who works in the Spanish language area and they really emphasized the digital divide and how we needed to be thinking about equity and the digital divide. And so that's a new element that I'll be bringing back. So the more input we get, the more areas where we need to be paying attention and the implementation plan, that's great. Have a feel free to send them my way. And it's just a brief follow-up question maybe this for the city attorney. I'm just wondering in terms of enforced sounds like there's a lot of work that still needs to be done in terms of kind of rolling out permitting and all these other provisions that are tied to this ordinance. And I'm just curious how will the city be able to enforce this without those programs being stood up? Or will the programs be stood up before ordinance enforced? Because I think that a lot of members of the public, well, the ones that we've heard from have expressed their concern with not being ready in this timeframe. And then we move forward with the course for people who actually have access to permit sites and all those other things that are important for being able to make sure that people are fine. So I was wondering if you could speak to that. In general, I think that it will take some time for the staff to implement the enforcement and permitting scheme. But I would ask by deputy city attorney, Cassie Brunson to weigh in as she's been working more closely with the staff on the implementation aspects of the ordinance. Hey, good afternoon. I think that there is no plan to start enforcement. Like it's all one package. And I know Elizabeth has been doing a really great job in getting all of the staff on the same team and making sure that we are doing the same way. So I believe that the plan is to start the enforcement when the whole thing is rolled out, when all the permitting and all that environmental changes are rolled out. I guess the follow-up then to that is what does the timeline look like? I mean, I know that staff have a lot of things that are going on and we're just kind of curious what that timeline's looking like. And then what's the plan for kind of outreach to let people know like we have everything in place. We're gonna start enforcing on. Sure, we're meeting this Thursday where folks are bringing me their draft on the creation of free areas by outline all of the major categories work. And so we'll be pulling those together and I can give you a more specific answer today. But we are working towards the day 12 timeline, which is if you pass the ordinance today, then it would be in effect, I guess, day 13. Thank you, technically. 30 days after. 30 days. And so we have a month that we're working toward that. There are a number of systems in place that are being adapted to manage the. So this isn't a wholesale creation task, it's a evolution of the current system. So code compliance has already been out, letting vendors know about the ordinance, about what's included in the ordinance and that you all are hearing it as a second reading. They will, it is passed today, have a prior that we will be sending out on Friday. And as you recall, the, what you passed at the last council meeting was allowing for some additional hours and additional investment through the code. So they're going to be on the ground, both out on the street and in on Pacific Avenue to make sure that folks know, know, know what's going on. And then all of the channels at our disposal, including text, which we have heard is an integral, literally with. So thinking about equity and our questions, thinking about bilingual, bilingual communication and really trying to comprehensive and how we roll that over the next. And as Cassie said, you know, we'll, you know, enforcement will begin when it's equitable in the case. Thank you. I have more questions, but I've asked three. So there, nobody else has any other questions. That's my last question. I'm happy to do so. But want to know what laid out in the process. I'll ask the question. All right. Go ahead. So Elizabeth, the next question I had related to spacing. Is there any update on what the spacing is going to be in the downtown? I'm not familiar with the current sizes of those spaces, but what the vendor was explaining was that they mentioned earlier, sometimes they need a four by six table or they may need to do. And some of the spaces that are designated might not be the correct size for that. And so it's something for us to consider the sizes of the spaces in the downtown wondering the sizes of the spaces that we have located. Sure. May I share my screen? I'll share with you a map of the current, of the existing rubric for the space. And as you can see, there are some larger spaces at the top of Pacific Avenue and then some smaller spaces as you go down. I will be meeting with a council member Cummings-Alses at this time. If you'd like to share it with any of your constituents. This is the former rubric. I'm going to be meeting with our economic development and public works colleagues about what does it look like in the new iteration, especially given that we are likely going to be implementing or will be implementing a reservation system for the, with the part of it. And so it's TBD, but this is the basic rubric that we're starting. So I think that sidewalk vending by its nature has a smaller footprint than the retail establishment or that a bricks and mortar store. So we'll have to keep in mind egress ability for our fire personnel to get in and in the case of an emergency and also the traffic closed on Pacific Avenue. Because as we know, that is a concern that we have to worry about literally in our busiest. And the reason behind moving toward reserve spaces is make sure that health and safety of folks in the down. Just for clarification in one, and there wasn't answer with the size of those spaces. You know, I don't have an answer for that. I know that there are, as I mentioned, by the dots, there are two larger ones. And then what I was going back to once I've had a chance to do with my colleague in economic development, the clerks who have really been leading this in the past. And so we'll be from that. Thanks, yeah. In case we need to bring this back and, you know, take into consideration that some of these, some of these locations are really small and we're not for more like busking versus actual street vending. So we need to reevaluate side spaces. I'll definitely take a look at it and would have to follow it up with you all. And then the legal question I had was that, with regards to Beach Street, it's not fair that prohibition on Beach Street in the beach areas is directly related to public health and safety. And what I've been hearing is the perception is that it's more to support the businesses that are currently there. And no last time there was mentioned from some business owners that they understood the issue of equity and potentially having to have some funding in the beach area. But I'm really concerned because, you know, when we first moved forward with funding ordinance item city that moved a special area where we're vending to occur. That area we created the program and the business issue was there was no enforcement. So the city has been able to demonstrate that we are able to back to the beach area. And if we're going to prohibit it outright, my concern is that because we've been able to demonstrate we can do it there by prohibiting it outright. We're actually not public health and safety instead prohibiting an area because it's a preference of council or it's preference. I'm wondering if the city attorney could weigh in because, you know, if we're moving forward with this prohibiting or vending in the beach area, could be putting ourselves in a very legally liable position and I can end up actually spending more tax dollars trying to spend this for federal support.  So I'm wondering if the city attorney could possibly on the direction that we're heading in and potential for being legally liable for violating. So yes, thank you, council member Cummings for your question. I think the important thing to keep in mind with regard to the statute that is altered in this ordinance being brought forward is that in order to restrict sidewalk vending in a particular area, it is necessary to identify legitimate public health safety basis upon which to do so. That's why these restrictions will apply on a very limited basis in areas throughout the city and Beach Street in particular was identified as having extraordinarily heavy traffic during busy summer and weekend and holiday times. And it was a staff judgment that in fact, a flat prohibition would be in furtherance of public health and safety. There is, as with any legislative action that is taken by the council, the risk of litigation and we're not able to take the outcome of that with any degree of certainty. So I do think the more lax the ordinance is with regard to regulations, the less likely it is challenged based on sidewalk vending. But I think there are also other risks that alternatives raise with respect to potential dangerous condition liability and other potential liabilities. So it's really hard to pinpoint exactly where the spot is with respect to how to appropriately regulate these items. I think we've had the experience just in the past week of some health and safety issues that have arisen with respect to the beach vending in a rather unfortunate incident that occurred down there last week. And so what's the, where does the court draw the line? We don't really have enough experience in implementing the new state law to really have clear guidance on that. Thanks. Those are all my questions. Thank you, council member Cummings. I just wanted to also bring up a couple of concerned questions. And if Elizabeth Smith is still available. So thank you so much. Concern from member of the public regarding the spaces along this avenue and concern that there would not be large enough to accommodate two schools, six schools. So it sounds like there's an assessment that will be assessing all of those old proper demarcated spaces and taking in, let's count those to find large or equitable access to large schools and smaller schools that there's a possibility perhaps of creating some larger, just right now it looks like two large, seven small schools. And so would that be part of the assessment of the avenue that the court will look at? It is not something that was on our list but based on council member concerns on the public and then I'll bring and we'll look at it as a part of the implementation where also just balancing. I want to clear, we have to balance the sort of safety impacts of large, large tabling areas on the traffic flow on Pacific Avenue and the busiest of. So it's making sure that we're balancing all of those impacts but absolutely we will take a look and see if there's a possibility of additional large spaces. Great, thank you. And then the second part to that question was the reservation system. I know it's still in implementation stage and all of the operation will be forthcoming as our analyzed work through but turn over fighting over the larger more vendors and not having type of vendor conflict such as an expanse on space. There was