I'd like to use the over I'd like to ask the interpreter currently on the Spanish channel to commence translation of the meeting for those just joining the meeting live translation in Spanish is available and members of the public or staff wishing to listen in Spanish can join the Spanish channel by clicking on the interpretation icon in zoom toolbar it looks like a globe once you join the Spanish channel we recommend you shut off the main audio so you only hear the Spanish translation interpreter will you please restate welcome to those who just joined this meeting live interpretation will be available and the public or staff wish to listen in Spanish can join the Spanish channel by clicking on the interpretation icon that looks like a globe on the tool toolbar or zoom toolbar it looks like a globe once you join the channel recommend you also shut off the main audio so you only hear the interpretation in Spanish hey welcome everyone to our April 25th 2003 Santa Rosa City Council meeting it is now 231 and we will be starting our meeting I would like to welcome our madam city manager madam city attorney and our madam deputy clerk that will be filling in today thank you for that and all of my council members thank you very much seeing a quorum madam city clerk can you please call the roll councilmember Stapp your councilmember Rogers your councilmember Ocropke your councilmember Fleming your councilmember Alvarez vice mayor McDonald your mayor Rogers present let the record reflect all council members are present with the exception of councilmember Alvarez we will begin our meeting today with two closed session items 2.1 conference with labor negotiators and 2.2 public employee appointment madam city clerk may you please conduct public comment we are now taking public comment on item 2 if you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker court or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you'll have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period hello my name is Dwayne DeWitt I'm from Roseland what you see here is a copy of your agenda which I picked up yesterday and if you'll notice an item 2 it does not put in there what you're speaking about in the closed session as you know it's important that that be told before the meeting as a matter of fact the city of Santa Rosa in the past had done a settlement with a community organization to make sure that items would be put on the agenda in a timely manner even more so than the Brown Act requires the agenda that you have is called an annotative agenda this is not the one that the public gets so the public has not been informed about what you're going to talk about in a timely manner as you know because these issues come up in the past there's also been an effort to have an open government task force so that the public will be better informed about what you're going to be talking about labor negotiations are very important I found this out that this was on the agenda by asking the staff today as I came in again labor negotiations need to make sure that you keep in perspective the need of our city to have even more employees at the bottom handling the main issues of parks the main issues of roads payment repair things of that nature not just up at the top the way I saw the annotated agenda for just a moment it said there was labor negotiations and there was also 2.2 the city attorney's performance I want to point out I believe the city attorney does a good job for you the city and what she's working on at the same time because there are so many restrictions on how you folks share information with the public it's difficult for us to participate in a timely manner you shouldn't see that as a bother to you you should see the public participating as one of the mainstays of how we have a government different than many other nations this is really important especially if you remember this country fought its way out from the autocratic dictatorial monarchy of Britain to become an independent nation now we challenge other autocratic dictatorial nations throughout the world trying to make sure they'll look into the democratic approach currently there are major wars going on with autocratic dictatorial nations one of which is Russia challenging Ukraine where our sister city Tricassee is so please look at this like yes you want to make it open you want to have these negotiations be at least known about by the public because it's the taxpayers that pay the salaries not you independent people I thank you for this time today I just wanted to make sure that you'll know that this should be something you can rectify before any other closed session in the future and it's not something I'm sure that the city manager did intentionally it's something that has to be done though according to our previous settlements and form the public in an early timely manner thank you kindly excuse me no additional speakers in chambers we have no hands raised on zoom and no pre-recorded messages for this item so seeing no additional public comment we will now recess into closed session hey welcome back everyone we will now reconvene our meeting seeing a quorum madam deputy city clerk can you please call the roll councilmember staff here councilmember Rogers here councilmember O'Crepkey here councilmember Fleming here councilmember Alvarez president vice mayor McDonald here mayor Rogers president let the record reflect all council members are present we have no study sessions for today so we're going to go to item 5 which is report out on closed session items thank you madam mayor the council did not meet in closed session due to a noticing error so it will be rescheduled for another time thank you moving on to item 6 our proclamations for this afternoon our first proclamation will be read by councilmember step my pleasure thank you mayor whereas water is essential for every living creature and is a precious and limited natural resource that must be stewarded wisely for future generations and whereas because water is a precious resource wise use of water should be considered a way of life and whereas Santa Rosa water encourages citywide understanding and appreciation of the value of water efficiency and whereas the Santa Rosa community has long demonstrated a commitment to using water wisely by minister by minimizing water waste installing over 56,000 water efficient water efficient toilets and nearly 15,000 high efficiency clothes washers and converting over four million square feet of lawn to low water use landscapes and whereas due to the community's commitment to water use efficiency Santa Rosa's total water use had decreased by 14% since 1990 saving over 15,000 acre feet of water and 28,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases whereas the city of Santa Rosa is the owner and operator of the regional water reuse system producing high quality recycled water for many purposes including irrigation of parks commercial businesses and residential common areas and whereas for every drop of recycled water used a drop of potable water is saved now therefore be it resolved that I Natalie Rogers mayor of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city council proclaim May 23rd as water awareness month and encourage all citizens to do your part be water smart thank you council member step I would like to invite the representatives that will be receiving this proclamation to make a comment at this time after comments are made from the representatives receiving the proclamation madam deputy city clerk can you please facilitate public comment thank you mayor Rogers and members of the council I'd like to introduce myself I'm Claire Nordley the water use efficiency supervisor and I just want to take a minute to highlight some of our water awareness month activities so first we have obviously this proclamation and next we're going to have the presentation of the five water use efficiency awardees and then we also have the eco-friendly garden tour coming up that'll take place on Saturday May 13th and features five Santa Rosa low water use gardens so for the last 25 years Santa Rosa has offered a suite of best management practices and rebates to encourage smart water use even though we're not in a drought emergency any longer water use efficiency is still essential to all Santa Rosans so thank you for this proclamation okay we are now taking public comment on item 6.1 if you were in the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you have three minutes in a countdown time will alert at the end of that period I'm seeing no one in chambers no hands raised on zoom and we had no previous recorded messages for this item thank you I would like to invite those that are here to receive this proclamation down to take a picture with the council and then we will go to our next proclamation all right we'll be moving on to 6.2 which is our presentation for water efficiency awards as part of the water awareness month we are recognizing those in our community that have gone above and beyond to save water before we present the awards a short video will be played in honor of this year's recipients congratulations to Santa Rosa waters five twenty twenty three water use efficiency award winners for their outstanding efforts to increase water efficiency in their homes neighborhoods and businesses this year's winners are metal green number two owners association for transforming over six thousand square feet of lawn into a beautiful low water use landscape and saving nearly two hundred thousand gallons of water each year the orchard for transforming over 10,000 square feet of lawn in common areas and encouraging residents to remove an additional four thousand square feet and saving three hundred and fifteen thousand gallons of water annually Don and Beth Steffi for being exceptionally water efficient the Steffi's installed high efficiency toilets shower heads and sink aerators and only run their water efficient dishwasher and clothes washer when they are completely full they also collect rainwater and use it to flush toilets in the winter and for irrigation in the summer the Steffi's uses approximately two thousand gallons a month less than the average two-person single family household in Santa Rosa Janet Boss hard for using the water smart portal to monitor her water use online Janet uses two thousand gallons of water less each month than the average single resident in Santa Rosa one of the many ways she saves is collecting rainwater to irrigate her yard most of which is native or low water use plants Janet also finds creative ways to capture and reuse water inside her home before it ends up going down the drain Karen Mayer for being one of the first single family home residents to complete the sustained reduction rebate program Karen used the rebate to upgrade her swamp cooler to a model that does not use water this water saving upgrade saves her almost four thousand gallons a month thank you to our twenty twenty three water use efficiency award winners for achieving exceptional water savings thank you thank you I thought I was doing well but I am so inspired by the winners that we have here today so thank you very much for your contribution this is awesome I'm going to ask the recipients to come up one by one as Vice Mayor McDonald calls your name to accept your award and please stay at the front after you accept your word so that we can all take a picture with the full council I feel like we need a drum roll this way thanks Eddie the first recipient is Meadow Green number two owners Association come down here pardon me the second recipient is Don and Beth is it Steffi and the third recipient is Janet Bichard the fourth recipient is the orchard our last person is not present but we feel like we should announce Karen mayor for her service to the community and water reduction so we will now proceed to item 6.3 which is our last proclamation of the afternoon and it will be read by councilmember Rogers thank you so much mayor whereas the principle of fair housing is not only state and national law and policy but fundamental human concept and entitlement for all citizens and whereas discrimination based on race national origin gender disability familial status exclusion of minor children religion marital status and sexual orientation is illegal in California and whereas as a community we welcome all good neighbors recognizing the contributions and richness tendered by a wide variety of young and old male and female people of all colors and ethnic backgrounds religious traditions etc and whereas interested parties from both the private and public sectors will participate in a city state and national effort to promote fair housing now therefore be it resolved that Natalie Rogers mayor of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city council do hereby proclaim April 2023 as fair housing month thank you council member Rogers I would like to invite the representatives that are receiving this proclamation to make a comment at the podium after comments are made from the representatives receiving the proclamation madam deputy city clerk can you please facilitate public comment we are now taking public comment on item 6.3 if you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes as an account down timer will alert at at the end of that period hello my name is Dwayne DeWitt I'm one of the founding members of the Sonoma County Housing Advocacy Group which has been around for 27 years now we came into existence because of the dearth of affordable residential rental housing here not just in Santa Rosa but the entire county we applaud the city of Santa Rosa's efforts to move forward and we applaud the fact that you've put this proclamation out there for this month so that people will pay attention to what's possible a document was submitted to you hopefully you've had a chance to read it about what we're calling seniors and veterans extended stay suites with those would be our less expensive approach to providing housing for our elders and our veterans here in our community following a model that's been utilized by the business community for over a quarter of a century and that's where you basically go for extended stay suites approaches such as holiday and extended stay suites extended stay suites America etc you use a commercial model you build these things as quickly as possible as if you were a for-profit organization seeking to get a return upon your investment as quickly as possible if you worked with the housing vouchers that you get from the county for veterans you could make it profitable project based vouchers are used to build new projects now and that model has been successful and quicker than the typical approach the housing authority for Santa Rosa has been using for decades they take years decades to get a project done sometimes utilizing an approach where you become the advocate from a profitable entity looking at it like you're going to build these single residents only extended stay suites so they'll bring in a rent that is above market rate utilizing what's currently available here and is that market rate utilizing the vouchers you could be putting money back into your housing trust this is something that wasn't explored during the last few decades in that previous administration at the housing authority has now retired you have new people appointed on your housing authority you have new people in the bureaucracy you folks could lead the way it has to come from a directive from the elected officials from our council then our staff may follow that approach without that it will just be the same old story they call that OSDD in the military same old stuff different day and that's what's happened here for decades so I believe you folks could set the new tone thank you Kylie for your time thank you I'm seeing no additional comments in the chambers we have no hands raised on zoom and no pre-recorded messages thank you we have no staff briefings today so we'll move on to item 8 city manager and city attorneys report good afternoon mayor and council members I have no updates today thank you good afternoon madam mayor and council members here to give the monthly the report of settlements and active litigation you've received the report we do list as a settlement but it is actually a jury verdict in the matter of a mire versus city of Santa Rosa that case rose out of an accident on the Joe Rodota trail caused when a fleeing suspect turned back and pushed into a slow-moving police motorcycle causing a collision of the motorcycle with a nearby tent it was an almost two-week jury trial the jury verdict allocated 25% liability to the city and 75% liability to the fleeing suspect the jury verdict was for 87 for the city was 87,500 we had attempted to settle in advance of the case for an excess unsuccessful the two parties were very far apart and we feel comfortable with the jury verdict that that was given in terms of other litigation we have 33 total litigation matters on the list we've been kind of in that ballpark for a while now we have two receiverships we have eight general litigation matters but two of those have been settled the owner and renters rights association versus city of Santa Rosa that was the action that challenged our existing short-term rental ordinance plaintiffs have agreed to dismiss that action without prejudice for a waiver of costs the other matter that we have reached a settlement in is polio versus up a and the city of Santa Rosa we had reached a settlement earlier with the plaintiffs in the amount of $250,000 it was affirmed as a good faith settlement by the court and that will resolve the matter as to the city we have 17 personal injury cases three three of those will were dismissed in the last month or so again at either little or no cost to the city that's a Jones matter the Gilmore matter and the Karen Myers matter we have three police actions still pending and we have three Ritz pending and of course as I've always mentioned these are in addition to code enforcement matters weapons cases dog cater animal cases and other legal proceedings that our office handles so thank you thank you madam deputy city clerk can you please facilitate public comment we are now taking public comment on item 8.1 if you ran the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period I'm seeing no one in chambers I will turn it over to our zoom host we do have one hand raised on zoom I have enable your permissions and you are free to comment yes thank you very much Lauren this is Eric Frazier and my address is truth in tourism at gmail.com this of course is comment on the city attorney's report and I did want to know the aura action that was dismissed so it is interesting about that actually because in our research of the permitting process for short term rentals in the city we are seeing a number of anomalies come up and how permits are processed it appears that some permits have preferential treatment over others it appears that some of the work that's going on behind the scenes in support of the ordinance that's coming before the planning commission later this week and that you'll see in the city council I imagine the beginning of June if everything flies right also as late as sort of positioned to give competitive advantage to those people that were grandfathered in originally are in good standing are then got permits so you know we definitely see when we study other jurisdictions how regulations create corruption within that jurisdiction whether it's in the permitting process or the code enforcement process so my basic question is what did you give aura in exchange for that dismissal you said you dismissed costs but I think there's much much much more to the story and of course the work that we do in research is to prepare people for protecting their rights or preparing for litigation to protect their rights or you know to understand the civil rights abuses the due process abuses that occur especially in that short-term rental category because it's so politicized and so demonized that you know it's just really fascinating to study I think everybody who's involved with it would understand it and those among you that are just really politically powerfully hungry or you know seek inside deals for yourselves you certainly can also see where the short-term rental ecosystem provides a lot of energy for you guys to deal with so we'll be digging deeper on the aura matter it was certainly intriguing to see what's going on but thank you I appreciate your listening to me today thank you seeing do we have any pre-recorded comments we have no pre-recorded comments perfect seeing no additional comments we're going to move on to item 9 statements of abstention by council members seeing none we will move on to item 10 are there any council members that would like to report out starting off with council members staff council member Rogers very help we hopefully let me know recently that I've been droning on with my report outs so I'm gonna keep this succinct I will mention only the meeting that that vice mayor McDonald I attended last week the violence prevention partnership where we officially kicked off our strategic planning process in combination or in in cooperation with about 20 local organizations kudos to Ernesto Olivares former city council member and also the city's own Danielle garden you know who is running our city our community engagement office it was a great discussion and we're looking forward to more in the months to come I'm done thank you council member Rogers thank you mayor last week a regional climate protection authority kicked off its process of getting community input around a proposed potential ballot measure for 2024 related to addressing climate change just want to say thank you to the staff at RCPA and for everyone who's participating there's about 140 people who are on the zoom and not just the usual suspects that was great kudos to our team for our Earth Day on stage event this weekend not only was it a beautiful weekend but walking around the event and seeing our hydration station out there are firefighters our police officers in our parks and all of our different departments that were represented highlighting the things that the city is doing around protecting the environment just a great event and thank you to everybody who made that happen and then finally as a not so quick update on smart we had a smart meeting last week smart actually hit its post COVID high in terms of ridership last week including its second most utilized weekend ever this last weekend the only weekend that had more writers on it was the one year anniversary when we had it completely free but this weekend smart really promoted the Earth Day event in Santa Rosa but an eggs day in Petaluma as well as the Giants game folks taking the smart train down and then doing rail to sail to go to the Giants game a couple of things that are coming up on the smart side to keep an eye on I've already previously reported on the youth writing for free through the summer on all public transit agencies Santa Rosa City bus smart etc etc from June to August that is going to be marketed very well we got a sneak peek at the marketing materials and great job to the team we are launching a micro transit option coming in June for folks who take the smart train to the airport as those of you know right now there's a little over a mile walk between the smart station and the terminal it'll be an on-demand ride 10 10 person shuttles at a time that are all electric for $1.50 that you can actually call while you were on the smart train riding there so it's a great option and then finally coming in May smart is launching what they're calling the starlighter train also known as the date night train for Fridays where it'll run later than usual after 9 p.m. which currently it does not have so that folks have an opportunity to get out enjoy their Friday night and still get home safe on the smart train so look for that marketing material as well as it gets rolled out really excited for all of those options for the train council member Fleming thank you I wanted to just share with the council that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission is now meeting back in person of course as we all are and I've made a commitment to taking public transportation or or carpooling there and so last week ago Wednesday I got to ride and see a carpool to a ferry and then to Golden Gate transit back and I'm certainly gonna have lots of opinions on what I think we should do and I'll be sharing them with my colleague over here who sits on our regional transportation board who are hard at work making sure that everything floats or speeds along as the case might be I also got a chance to go to Earth Day which was fantastic our water department Trisha everybody just did a fantastic job and you know it's so fun when you talk to people on staff who don't necessarily know I was wearing my Beastie Boys t-shirt and pretty dressed down and I got some legit pitches as if you know like people don't know you're on the council and I love that because the enthusiasm from the staff was so palpable people are so excited and they did a such a wonderful job of curating the experience it wasn't just like any other festival or some sort of free-for-all for anybody who wanted to pop up a tent it was this great event and it was so engaging for for my daughter who got to go around on the scavenger hunt and collect one of everything and so I'll I'll expect some help sorting out all of these items at some point as you know kids will take just about anything free that anybody hands them and then finally thanks to the city manager's office for setting this up it I have this thing to read y'all clean Santa Rosa the city's cleanup and beautification program continues on Friday May 12th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the city in partnership with her ecology invites residents to participate with us to clean up sections of Mendocino Avenue steel laying corridors for details in a register to volunteer please visit srcity.org backslash clean Santa Rosa and I just want to say in particular the city manager's office did a great job of consulting with me about the parts of the district that need the most attention and a sincere sincere gratitude for this much needed project thank you councilmember O'Crepkey thank you very much I had the opportunity to attend a town hall by congressman Mike Thompson and Jared Huffman I just want to thank them for coming into our community and holding the joint town hall a lot of good information both about subjects local and abroad and also I wanted to thank Redwood Credit Union and Matt and Brett over there for hosting that event there was a great venue and a great talk I had the opportunity to attend the Northern California Engineering Contractors Association public officials night which is basically a night where not just elected officials but staff from transportation public works and engineering go to mix with and have conversations with the contractors that builds our roads bridges and other infrastructure it was a great opportunity to see everybody mingle and get to know each other introduce some people who hadn't known each other before so always a great event I also attended the mayors and councilmember's Association meeting which I'm sure will be touched upon later so I'll just leave that there and then this past Saturday had the opportunity to go to the children's cinema County Children's Museum time to wonder gala where with the help of some extremely generous donors and very enthusiastic senator Mike McGuire we were able to raise over a quarter of a million dollars for the organization that helps youth in our community learn everything there is to know about a pretty much everything the way vegetables grow outer space there's a water structure they just got in it's fascinating and great place to take children and I highly encourage everyone to visit whenever they have the possibility thank you councilmember Alvarez thank you mayor on the 13th of April I was able to sit alongside our community engagement folks as well as two members of our centers of police department with the South Park residents to discuss the future of South Park and that includes the funding that we've successfully been able to acquire for the renovation of Martha Luther King Park which I'm very happy to share with all it was a very passionate conversation which I love to see it shows how many members of South Park are committed and engaged with conversation about their own future but it was it was definitely with the idea of of the needs of the children and renovating the park with safety in mind and we also spoke about the alley the infamous alley of South Park and how it could actually be used for so many uses including a health trail that could benefit the residents of South Park so I was very happy to see the amount of people that came out to engage in the conversation that was very inspiring also on the 13th in the afternoon we were able to visit the boys and girls club and took a look at at their facility and what a gem that is going to be to Rosalind from from the front gate all the way to the back parking there's a use for every member of our of our youth in Rosalind and beyond so I'm very happy to report on that the last thing that I want to speak about was boys and girls oh earthy according to our residents 22 years since the last mayor of San Rosa to visit the Rosalind Creek Park or community park and the face of of of excitement from our community members I should say it was really a representative as really that part of town hadn't been under the jurisdiction of the city of San Rosa so I need to correct myself from the county representatives I will say and I'll point the finger over in that direction but nonetheless though how inspired my fellow neighbors were to witness our mayor at the park with with with their little bag and walking through the park and picking up trash it's it's a beautiful thing to see our community stepping stepping forward and coming together for for the good of all so I did want to end up on that note thank you thank you vice mayor McDonald thank you mayor I have a few things to report out like councilmember O'Crepkey I also attended the Northern California Engineering Contractors Association dinner and want to say thank you so much for the opportunity to break bread with all of our contractors that work so hard in our city and as councilmember staff said we had the VPP committee by Liz prevention committee work in our work groups on the strategic plan so I want to thank so much the staff and then also the community members for continuing to come to develop that strategic plan and then looking at what we're going to be doing in year one as we get the strategic plan in place I was on a tour of the Bennett Valley golf course recently and was able to hear about the much needed repairs that need to happen out there I met with officer woods the president of the police officers Association want to thank him and all of our police officers for their continued support of the community and so thank you for meeting with me and giving me an update on what's happening the zero waste meeting this month was canceled I would like to also take an opportunity to reappoint Ellen Bailey to the measure O oversight committee miss Bailey has continued to serve on this committee and has told me today that she would be willing to continue her service I just want to thank her so much for her commitment to the community we also met at the emergency operation center recently to go through a beginner's course of what we would do in the case that somebody we would have an emergency I'm saying none until I'm off council so but we did have a basic overview so that we would know what to do in the event that something did happen in the city and I do want to give a quick shout out to the Santa Rosa fire department recently I was out walking my vicious little pug and a member of my community had fallen down and she had injured herself and so I called 911 because she was quite shaken and the fire department was there within a couple of minutes they did an assessment and it was really the way that they treated her with so much respect and dignity and their professionalism that shined through to me so I made an attempt to contact chief chief West throat and and told him thank you and I got the names of the team that was there so I just want to do a quick shout out to them and thank them for their service to the community but it was captain Brian Buchanan engineer Scott Mulder Mel Tua and I may be saying your name wrong Mel I apologize and then Brett Hollister thank you so much for your service to the community and for showing up when someone was in distress and I appreciate your service thank you thank you so I would first like to start off by saying it is very great I know councilmember Rogers would like to us to keep our reports brief but to hear of all the wonderful things that we're doing in the community and that we all can't be everywhere but we all seem to hit everywhere that we need to be so it's great working with this group and also wish tomorrow our administrative professional day is tomorrow so to all of our staff that fall in that category thank you thank you thank you we cannot do our jobs without you so thank you very much for all that you do to keep us afloat for my report out over the past two weeks I've been a little busy meeting with multiple community members and other community stakeholders I was able to attend the Calcities leadership summit in Sacramento while there I was also able to meet with assembly member Jim Wood assembly member Damon Connolly state senator Mike McGuire senator Susan Eggman and senator Stephen Bradford I was able to discuss earmark funding that we've received possible future funding that we would like to receive public safety and wildfires housing homelessness water and energy resiliency and one of our top city priorities infrastructure priorities with would be our bike and pedestrian over crossing I would like to thank our communication staff for making sure I was well prepared for those meetings and a special thank you to lawn Peterson our director of communications on April 20th Santa Rosa was able to host the mayor and council members association of Sonoma County at Iron and Vine located at the our own Bennett Valley golf course and chef Matt Carvello I want to say that's how you say his name and his staff were amazing the food was prepared to perfection so again if you have not eaten there please go visit you will not be disappointed and on April 22nd I was able to celebrate Earth Day in Roseland at the neighborhood in cleaning the creek and I did have my little bag council member Alvarez but it was a very disappointing to see how quickly my little bag was filled up and so as a community I think we need to do do more and we don't have to have organized days to go out but if you're walking your dog or you're just taking a stroll in the community take a bag some gloves a little picker and we can all come together and make our community trash free more beautiful place I was also able to go down to courthouse square and go to the Earth Day event so thank you to all the sponsors performers workshop presenters and all the other that did all the other engaging activities I myself had a blast learning about our drinking water where it comes from the process and talk to some of our staff and I also enjoyed pretending to drive the bus and the fire truck that was the highlight of my Earth Day so that was very very very fun so thank you again to all the organizers and a special thank you to the community that showed up because we can have a lot of events but if the community does not show up then it is not serving a purpose so thank you to everyone that did show up and this morning I was able to welcome a hundred assessors from across California at their assessors meeting and welcome them to welcome them to the beautiful city of Santa Rosa so lastly I would like to appoint to the personnel board as Chair Lisa Maldonado and her position will be effective on April 28th and I would also like to appoint or reappoint Karen Weeks to the Planning Commission and thank both of them for their service to our community and their willingness to continue to serve and that is as chair weeks Karen Weeks as chair and thank you for their service to our community we'll now go to public home yes I was going to ask if you would like to announce in public your appointment to the ad hoc oh yes we are we will have an ad hoc committee ad hoc committee to support us in the hiring process of a new city attorney and I have a pointed council member Rogers and council member staff and myself so thank you guys very much for your willingness to sit on that ad hoc that will conclude my report madam deputy city clerk may we please have public comment we are now taking public comment on item 10 if you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period mr. do it go ahead once the once the timers up hello my name is Dwayne DeWitt I'm from Roseland I wanted to thank the mayor and our district council member mr. Alvarez for coming to Roseland on the 22nd for Earth Day it was a wonderful thing they were actually quite understated in their report out to you folks there were over 20 community members there with numerous children and those children were really glad to be there seeing their leaders actually helping with the cleanup and it was such a inspiring moment it was a beautiful day out there that was nature was the center stage and we were helping nature it was something that needed to be clarified the eastern part of McMinn Avenue and all of McMinn Avenue was in the city of Santa Rosa from the early 1990s and then it was only six years ago that the western part from the county island came in so when that mayor Mike martini came 22 years ago he sat on the eastern side of McMinn Avenue in the city limits to make sure that it was jurisdictionally correct if you will and he wasn't trampling upon the county it was a wonderful thing back then he inspired a lot of people they've stayed with our project the Roseland neighborhood and they helped to get that preserve and that's one of the biggest things it was modeled on the pollen Creek preserved from 22 years ago also up off a shunate road and so today when the mayor and Mr. Alvarez are reporting on this it's just one of those things where finally those citizens on the west side are feeling as treated as well as those citizens up in the northeast along shunate and over in the junior college neighborhood that's revolutionary that's democracy that's so wonderful then a comment was just made by the mayor at the end of these reports that made me take a moment it said to hire a new city attorney and I was curious does that mean that our current city attorney may be going elsewhere and I think that's something we'd like to hear because I like to city attorney she may not like me but it's like hey you know we got to know who the top dogs aren't what they're doing with us okay so I'm hoping you're not leaving out and if you are I wish you a good retirement and I hope they get somebody that will be as conscientious as you are some of the previous ones have been a little less than forthright with sharing information with the public and I've often kind of wondered why that is when it's the public paying the salary so thank you again for all of your reports today and especially for telling us about that board council members meeting over at the Bennett Valley golf course that sounded interesting thank you do we have any additional speakers in chambers I'm seeing none we have no hands raised on zoom and no pre-recorded messages we will now continue with item 11 approval of the minutes we have one set of minutes for April 11th 2023 council are there any corrections to the minutes I have one I would just like to say for my report out that I was able to give a report out on the WAC tack meeting and that was not included in my section so I just wanted to make that correction madam deputy city clerk can you please facilitate public comment for item 11.1 we are now taking public comment on item 11 if you're in the chamber I would like to comment but if not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you have 3 minutes and a countdown time will alert at the end of that period I'm seeing no one in chambers we have no hands raised on new on zoom and no pre-recorded messages thank you moving on to our consent items madam city clerk can you please read the consent items minus 12.3 which was pulled from the agenda item 12.1 is a resolution approval of professional services agreement for construction management and inspection services for the fire station 5 resiliency and relocation project item 12.2 is a resolution approval of a purchase order for two bandit 12 XP drum style wood shipper trailers with cow line equipment incorporated using utilizing the pricing from the source well cooperative agreement number 050 119 dash BAN item 12.4 is a resolution approval of a two-year blanket purchase order with three one-year extension options to the ADT security corporation DBA ADT commercial LLC for the purchase of fire sprinkler inspection and repair services utilizing the pricing from the Omnia partners cooperative agreement number R220701 12.5 is a resolution approval of amendment to general services agreement F002 103 two-year extension and increase in compensation with rapid express courier systems 12.6 is a resolution professional services agreement with cough and associates a division of Gallagher benefit services incorporated for a citywide classification and compensation study and an increase in appropriations in the human resources fiscal year 2022-23 budget by 450,000 12.7 is a resolution approval of third amendment to professional services agreement number F002 002 with chronic Moskovitz Tiedemann and Gerard a professional corporation thank you bringing it back to council are there any questions with consent items seeing none we will continue to public comment madam deputy city clerk we are now taking public comment on item 12 if you're in the chamber would like to make a comment but if not provide a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period hello my name is Duane DeWitt I'm from Roseland on 12.6 one of the things that's most important I believe is that you look at the bottom level entry level living wage folks that you make a point of having the most current information as to how you can get more employees at these levels with fair salaries and don't just focus at the top which typically happens one of the dilemmas about organizational situations is that those at the top garner more interest and we have a bunch of people making six sorry six figure salaries here in our community and I don't believe we need to have so much upper management I believe that we could actually do better by freezing the hiring at the upper management levels letting people get retirement packages and leaving out and hiring more people to repair our streets take care of our parks and actually re-implement our tree team we used to have one of the best street tee teams street trees are so important in our community especially as you talk about resiliency and sustainability this is something that we could bring back and become a national tree city as we once were it's only going to happen if you have a strong commitment to those types of things for our community with that in mind 12-1 is something that myself and others disagree with how much is being spent on this whole project and giving two acres to a fire station much of which will be paved over all bet for parking it's it just smacks of a bit of not just current tradition but a cognitive dissonance that you folks talk one thing and then do another this is really obvious to a lot of folks in the community but they don't take the time to come down here because they don't think you listen I actually do believe you listen as I spoke before closed session I think you pay attention at times with this in mind you've got numerous fire stations around the community that are on just a quarter of an acre maybe a half acre of Max so you got two acres up there you paid for it you got it you're gonna do this project this is where you could be saving some money cut your costs there and reinvest in Roseland census district along Sebastopol Road where the police chief and others are perhaps in negotiations to purchase buildings and land for a substation in that community thank you I'm seeing no additional comments in chambers we have no hands raised on zoom and no pre-recorded messages thank you vice mayor mcdonnell can you please make a motion thank you mayor I'd like to move items 12.1 to 12.2 12.3 is pulled and then move items 12.4 through 12.7 second we have a motion made by vice mayor mcdonald in a second made by councilmember staff madam deputy city clerk may you please call the vote councilmember staff hi councilmember Rogers hi councilmember okrepke hi councilmember Fleming hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor mcdonald hi mayor Rogers hi the motion passes with seven eyes thank you we are now moving on to item 13 public comment on non-agenda matters madam city clerk will you please take item number 13 we're now taking public comment on item 13 on agenda matters this is the time when any person may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are within the subject manager's diction of the council if you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period we'll take 12 speakers under item 13 if we have more than 12 public comments on item 13 the remaining speakers will be afforded an opportunity to speak on item 17 non-agenda matters to provide public comment I'd like to use the overhead again hello my name is Dwayne Dewitt I'm from Roseland what you see on the overhead is a 30-year-old hand drawn map which was put together when the group Roseland action was formed because of concerns with how the city was doing what was called the southwest area plan the southwest area plan was a top down almost dictatorial approach about how development would be pushed in to the Roseland neighborhood and extra land which was then annexed creating a county island around Roseland if you look at this you'll notice and I'll show these by the pen that was the one main park at that time this little park over here to the side was put there because highway 101 was run through our neighborhood demolishing houses and going forward down to the Bellevue district which is south of Herne Avenue southwest community park was put together by the county and that was for the residents of Bellevue and Roseland back in the late 80s the reason I'm showing you this map is because I also want you to see that over here this little road right here is called Roseland Avenue and at yesterday's housing authority meeting it was disclosed that there is some sort of a project going forward on Roseland Avenue with perhaps city involvement and yet no one that lives out there has heard of it I went and talked to a resident today it's just down the street from where I grow up I go by there all the time there's no signs and something's gonna be going on what the dilemma we find in being in the city is folks are so used to that kind of black box top down planning they don't see the realities of how you'll actually build better community engagement and better public involvement with these projects if you engage the community at the beginning so that there's not opposition to what you may be doing bringing this up is because on the sale of the Roseland Village shopping center many years ago to the county was done without enough public input so they didn't find out the dilemmas of the liabilities that would be incurring and they've had to wait many years to move forward on their project because the lands contaminated and we told them but they didn't want to believe some folks so they marched ahead and these projects are there and they're stuck and it's really quite sad one of the things that we have is the 2007 Sebastopol Road urban vision plan which was actually paid for by a city and county together and you folks should be looking at that because it actually pointed out the dilemmas we have there now with overburdened traffic on Sebastopol Road thank you for your time and I'll get copies of this map to you so you can see what the past brought us forward for seeing no additional commenters in chambers we have no hands raised on zoom and no pre-recorded messages thank you so we're gonna take the agenda a little out of order we'll now go to item 15 and come back up to item 14 item 15.1 is our first public hearing of the evening madam city manager thank you mayor item 15.1 is a public hearing authorizing submittal of the fiscal year 2022 2023 action plan and approval of grant agreements for public services fair housing and housing opportunities for persons with AIDS if you could just introduce yourself for the record thank you. Good evening mayor and council members I'm Nicole del Furentino the housing and community services manager for the housing trust division and today we have Julie Garen with you to present the annual action plan item. Good evening madam mayor and council members apologies for the delay my name is Julie Garen I'm a program specialist with housing and community services tonight's public hearing is a submittal of the fiscal year 2023 2024 action plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or HUD and approval of funding recommendations. The city of Santa Rosa is an entitlement jurisdiction for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or HUD. The annual action plan is required by HUD to receive community development block grant CDBG home and housing opportunity with AIDS Hapua grant funds. The annual action plan is due to meet to be submitted to HUD by May 15th of 2023. The council action requested tonight is to one approve the submittal of the plan and to approve funding recommendations. The annual action plan is the one-year plan that identifies housing and community development priorities and goals and defines how the city plans to spend the federal funds in the upcoming fiscal year. The annual action plan is based off of a template provided by HUD and is the counterpart to the larger 2020 through 2024 consolidated plan submitted every four years. The action plan presented tonight is the fourth and final year of the 2020 through 2024 consolidated plan and next year housing and community services will be bringing the 2024 through 2028 consolidated plan to you for review. So first priority goals outlined by the consolidated plan include to increase the supply of affordable rental housing for low income households to provide housing assistance support for low income households with HIV and AIDS to preserve affordable housing stock and to provide housing and services to special needs populations. Second tier action plan goals are addressed if there is additional funding from the entitlement grant awards. Those goals include to increase access to home ownership provide funding for public facilities improvements and promote economic development. So for the fiscal year 2023-2024 the total amount of HUD allocations for CDBG funds including the grant allocation from HUD and the anticipated program income equals $1,536,993. The total for home which will be the allocation from HUD and the anticipated program income is $825,722 and for HOPWA which does not include program income the total allocation is $518,964 and just as a note program income is generated through loan premate repayment from prior use of funds. So in the next several slides I'm going to go over the funding recommendations. So for CDBG funds HUD allows up to 15% of a CDBG allocation to be used for public services and historically the City of Santa Rosa has used the full 15% to fund public services. Council direction has been to provide focused comprehensive homeless services through coordinated entry. For fiscal year 2023-2024 the recommended proposals for the provision of public services that meet the council direction include 96,000 to Catholic Charities for the family center 102,000 for Catholic Charities the homeless services center and 38,874 the living room. Fair housing. Fair housing is a federally mandated program that receives annual funding. Fair housing must be responsive to the 2012 Sonoma County analysis of impediments to fair housing. Fair housing of Northern California is recommended for $45,000 from the real property transfer tax the general fund. HOPWA so the city received an allocation from HUD for $518,964 in HOPWA funds. The HOPWA allocation from HUD has increased over the past several years and in turn the recommended funding amount has also increased. Face to face is being recommended for an award of $503,395 and per HUD regulation the city may retain 3% of that for administration of the program. The city has conducted community outreach prior to today's public hearing to receive feedback and public comment on the annual action plan. The city conducted a community meeting on February 1st to initiate the annual action plan process. The notice for the meeting was sent out via the continuum of care listserv posted on social media and published in Loveau's and the press Democrat. A public hearing notice was posted for tonight's council meeting and additionally the draft annual action plan was available for review and comments starting on March 24th. It was available online and in hard copy at City Hall and the main branch of the Sonoma County Library. The draft action plan is available on the city's web page and public comment is encouraged up to and including at tonight's public hearing. Any public comments received to date and including at tonight's public hearing will be included in the annual action plan and submitted to HUD. So in conclusion it is recommended by the Housing and Community Services Department that the council by resolution one authorized submittal of the fiscal year 2023-2024 action plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and two approve the fiscal year 2023-2024 grant agreements for public services funds with the living room Catholic Charities of the DOC's of Santa Rosa the family center and homeless service center. Fair housing funds with Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California and housing opportunities for persons with AIDS Hapua funds with face to face the Sonoma County AIDS Network in the combined combined amount of 790,265 dollars and authorized the director of Housing and Community Services or their designee to execute the grant agreements and any future amendments there to for public services Fair Housing and Hapua and three authorized the city manager to execute the annual federal funding agreements with HUD and any additional forms or documents required by HUD to implement the fiscal year 2023-2024 action plan. Thank you. Thank you. That was a wonderful presentation. Council do we have any questions? Seeing none we will now open our public hearing. Madam Deputy City Clerk we are now taking public comment on item 15.1 if you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via Zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. I have Cliff Wingham signed up to speak. I was signed up to speak on item 14.1 not 15.1. Okay thank you. I would prefer to come back up here right when the after the 14.1 is completed. So I'm seeing no additional speakers in the chambers we have no hands raised on Zoom and no prerecorded messages. And we will now close our public hearing and I'll bring it back to council for any comments if they would like to make any nope seeing no comments from council council member Fleming if you would please make a motion. Thank you mayor it is my pleasure to bring forward a resolution of the council of the city of Santa Rosa authorizing submittal of the fiscal year 2324 action plan and approved grant agreements for public services fair housing and housing opportunities for persons with AIDS and way further reading of the text. Second. I'd also like to thank the staff for your lovely presentation. We have a motion from council member Fleming and a second from vice mayor McDonald are there any additional thanks or discussion. Seeing none madam deputy city clerk can you please call the vote. Council member staff. Hi. Council member Rogers. Hi. Council member of Krepke. Hi. Council member Fleming. Hi. Council member Alvarez. Hi. Vice mayor McDonald. Hi. Mayor Rogers. Hi. The motion passes with seven eyes. And thank you again for the presentation. Moving to back up to item 14.1. Madam city manager. Item 14.1 is a report resolution of intent to establish the downtown in downtown enhanced infrastructure financing district establishing a public financing authority and authorizing other actions. Good afternoon for the record race. Delarosa deputy director of economic development in the planning and economic development department and I may need some help getting my presentation up. Thank you deputy director. Can you pull your microphone forward a little bit. Yes. All right. It's been a long time but it's nice to be here in person. So good afternoon. Mayor Rogers and members of the council before I jump into a high level overview of enhanced infrastructure financing districts or EIFDs. I want to acknowledge the cadre of staff and subject matter experts we have both in the chamber and online who are available at the end of the presentation to get into details of your specific questions. Namely we have our consultant DTA which is a public finance assessment engineering and development economics consulting firm. We have our financial consultant Bob Gamble of Gamble strategies and we have Chris Lynch of Jones Hall who serves as bond disclosure and underwriters council in financings that include EIFDs. So you have a good team of people well beyond myself to help lead through this. And it's not advancing. Got it. So for this city EIFDs were first the sort of glanced at when we were working on our housing action plan way back in 2016-2017. EIFDs were established by state code in 2014 so they were very new at the time when we sort of took notice of them. But we only started thinking earnestly about the potential of an EIFD as an economic recovery tool after the Tubbs fire. That event if you recall spurred just a flurry of activity from both the city and the county which for the city was really focused on programs and policies that would best affect development opportunities and possibilities within our cities. I should say within planning and economic development this is what we focused on. And also to address the desire for a diversity of housing types that became very apparent after the fires and in talking to both residents and businesses. What took a little bit longer is the consideration of financing tools to enable and assist development. So the renewal enterprise district or the red is one obvious outcome of that time but it wasn't until more recently that we were able to establish the red housing fund for example. We also have two qualified opportunity zones with inner city limits which is another really great financing tools for developers and they've sparked some solid investments in the downtown but the life of those opportunity zones are coming to an end or sort of the opportunities around those are waning and so it wasn't really until more recently where we were able to more adequately consider the potential of pursuing an EIFD. So the results of this of these efforts despite the obvious turn of events over the past couple of years or few years I should say even without an EIFD is that we've finally begun to see actual movement in the downtown towards density infill development. So that's what this map is showing as well as this slide. So when I looked this morning we had 131 units completed in the downtown since 2016 but now have 483 units under construction with an additional 870 coming down the pike. They're in various stages of development or plan review or under construction but it is a lot of momentum in our downtown area. So this I have to say I just want to take a moment to say it's a testament to how long it can take to change the development trajectory given the market and other outside forces that are outside of our control even if you have incessant pressure combined with enabling policies such as we've had. So it did feel like a hurry up and wait kind of situation for the past four to five years but it is a long game that we're talking about and the momentum is happening. So the point of an EIFD is to be able to capture the tax increment generated by the existing one percent of the ad valorem property tax. We're pursuing an EIFD now because of the momentum I just spoke about. In order to capture the tax increment which is the graphic that you see here on the right now is really the time to do it. We want to capture the tax increment before more units get built. So again an EIFD is a financing tool using tax increment revenues from taxes already being paid by the property owner. There are no new taxes and there are no additional taxes imposed. Some of you might remember hopefully when we had redevelopment agencies or redevelopment districts this is sort of a new version of what that was however EIFDs allow more flexibility and are better situated to support sustainable growth and can serve as a or I should say can better serve as a platform for the types of policy integration that we're really looking for. So what that means is the development of interconnected transportation, housing, mixed-use projects and other such things in areas of high opportunity. So that brings us to today the formation process. The first thing you need to know about forming a district is that because Santa Rosa is the jurisdiction in which we're looking to form an EIFD even if we partner with the county it is the city council that is required to adopt a resolution of intention. By law this does have to include the proposed district boundaries and the list of projects and improvements to be constructed which will go over in a minute and that's the first resolution that you have before you today. At the same meeting today council also needs to adopt a resolution establishing a public financing authority or PFA and that's a second resolution before you. So I'm going to spend a moment on the PFA because this is important. Of the districts that we've seen and looked at and that I believe our consultants have worked on a public financing authority is typically a five-member board but it can actually be any odd number consisting of a majority of members from the legislative bodies of the participating entities so in this case the city and hopefully the county and a minimum of two members of the public chosen by the legislative bodies of the participating entities. So again what's typically seen is two city council members one county supervisor and two members of the public which is what you have in your resolution but it can be two city council members two county supervisors and three members of the public. If you do choose to pursue that and we would just have to make that change in the resolution the second resolution before you. So it is important to note that it is that body the public financing authority that will direct the preparation of an infrastructure financing plan or IFP infrastructure financing plan and lead it through public hearings. The PFA can also pull the plug at any time if it decides that it does not want to pursue this. So I noted on the slide we have plenty of input and off-ramp opportunities before formation is actually established. It is only after public hearings and any fine-tuning of the infrastructure financing plan that that is done through the public financing authority that the city council and if the county participates the board of supervisors would each adopt a resolution approving the infrastructure financing plan so they do not approve the formation at that time they approve the the financing plan. So again the public financing authority this is just the an assumed timeline process timeline nothing set in stone quite yet except for this and hopefully the appointment on of the public financing authority members on May 23rd but the public financing authority holds at least three public hearings that are at least 30 days apart after two of which the both the board of supervisors and the city council would each adopt resolutions approving the infrastructure financing plan put forward by the public financing authority. So it is possible for the city to pursue an AFD on its own without the county however it's the county's participation that provides the revenue value for the district we just do not make enough money or provide enough tax increment on our own to make it of any value without the county's participation. So for this reason it's imperative that the county see value in the infrastructure financing plan and participate in the district and I do want to note lastly that the infrastructure finance plan sort of broadly outlines projects but it also includes a fiscal impact report that also needs to be relevant to both the city and to the county. There are no election no election is required unless 25 percent of the property owners within the district protest the formation at the third public hearing and pursuit of an EIFD is totally abandoned if over 50 percent of the property owners protest the formation. Again it's the public financing authority that eventually adopts the infrastructure financing plan after the city council approves it and it is the public financing authority that approves the resolution of formation but that happens again after the city and county's action. Once the EIFD is formed the PFA can make the decision to sell bonds but only if there is a sufficient accrual of revenue to support the debt service. So thankfully we have our consultants on the line to answer any questions about bonds or anything about this but in essence the minimum debt service coverage is 125 percent and bonds cannot be sold until after some development has occurred and tax increment is generated. The key takeaway basically is that bonds are secured only by the tax increment generated within the district and not by the city's or county's general fund. The investment program of an EIFD can target a whole range of physical improvements such as transportation, street improvements, parks and open space so facilities such as that, pedestrian connectivity but it can also fund affordable housing, childcare facilities, libraries so I don't know softer things than hard infrastructure. We do have a number of potential projects that that could be culled from existing plans for example the Santa Rosa Avenue and Mendocino Avenue quarter plans as well as a downtown stationary specific plan for example but it would be up to the public financing authority to guide what would be included in the infrastructure financing plan. Also projects do have to have a useful life of at least 15 years to be eligible for consideration and the funds cannot be used to finance public services unless it involves the maintenance of facilities built with EIFD funding. So I have two maps I want to show you. The first is what was considered in the creation of the boundaries that we're ultimately recommending and the second is looking into the at the specifics of the proposed EIFD boundaries. So here's where I feel compelled to give a shout out to our two community benefit districts in the downtown because it was their intense interest that helped nudge this process along into action and it was with their assistance that we really homed in on what a district boundary could and should look like and so what informed our discussions are the considerations of both the existing community benefit districts which are shown here in green and pink as well as the downtown stationary specific boundaries which is outlined in red which coincidentally is also the qualified opportunity zone boundary and then the proposed EIFD boundary is overlaid in yellow. So looking at specifically the EIFD boundaries through the collaborative discussions we decided that we should carve out areas that are already developed with mostly low density residential development since there would be either no to to truly very modest opportunity for growth in those areas. So that's where you see the two historic districts that are carved out on this map as well as the reduced boundaries that eliminate the west third street corridor and the west end residential area from the map as opposed to the downtown stationary specific plan. Also not included in comparison to the downtown stationary specific plan map is the Roberts Road area south of highway 12 and west of 101 because this area better aligns with the potential future Roseland EIFD if we choose to pursue that. So the information on these next three slides were provided by the county assessor's office using the proposed boundary maps that you saw. What they provided us are three growth scenarios with a two percent three percent and five percent annual property tax growth assumption so this is the two percent growth assumption this is the three percent and this is the five percent. So since the five percent growth assumption is the most aggressive I'm going to stay here and dig into it a little bit more. So going back to the importance of moving forward with an EIFD while we have momentum but before missing out on the tax increment of those new developments it's you begin to see it here it's most helpful that we establish our base year as soon as we can ideally this year so that we can see the type of tax increment growth that we want and we want to be more aggressive with that. What this slide is showing is the tax assessor's EIFD revenue assumptions based on a 2023 base year less the ERAF factor. They've incorporated I'm sorry they've provided us with both a 30-year the blue box and a 45-year term based on these assumptions and we're just we're most interested in looking at the 45-year term the clock for which would not start ticking until bonds are issued and then looking at that orange box that 45 year term we are looking at if we look at the most aggressive participation commitment at 75 percent this would equate to about $363,000 a year of tax increment revenue over the course of that of the lifetime which breaks down for the city to about $140,000 per year for the city so it's not a ton but that's how you sort of read that that graph or that chart rather. So that's as far as I'm going to take you through this because I have a feeling that you're going to have a lot of specific questions and it will be helpful to have the the help of our consultants and so it is recommended by the Planning and Economic Development Department that the council adopt a resolution of intention to form the downtown EIFD and adopt a resolution to establish a public financing authority as the governing board of the district and authorizing other actions and um Madam Clerk, hopefully we have um David Taussig, Lenny Zerati, Bob Gamble, and Chris Lynch on Zoom to help answer questions. Yes they have all been promoted. Thank you Mayor um if there are any questions from council council member Fleming. Thank you Vice Mayor McDonald. My question thank you for this presentation Raisa. It's a fantastic work. I know you've been grinding away at this for many years and you've done a fantastic job in building consensus in our community. I'm curious to know when you presented this at the Rural Enterprise District or a similar presentation a couple weeks ago we heard from Hugh Futrell well we heard that we owed money on our redevelopment bonds um and we also heard a competing viewpoint that perhaps those were not um necessarily were not as liable as we thought we are. Did we ever get any further information about that? We did um we did so um firstly I think uh either Robert uh Bob Gamble or uh David Taussig can help answer this but um Bob maybe I'll I'll let you take take that. Sure uh I'll take a first crack at it good evening council members um the um there there is a provision in the EIFD law that requires that all prior commitments made under redevelopment be given priority when a new district is when a new EIFD is being established and so in this case there is there are existing commitments to the RDA so those those would continue to have priority over any future commitments made either contractually or through the bond issuance process but it does nevertheless allow that tax increment generated over and above the the RDA commitment be used for for the priorities established in the in the infrastructure financing plan so in effect it is possible to to begin to accumulate tax increment and to make additional commitments it's just important to remember that those are essentially subordinate to the existing commitments um under the um old RDA. And um David Taussig and Lenny Zerati from uh DTA have done some additional looking into this um do you have anything you want to add on your findings? Thanks for you said this is uh David Taussig I'm president of DTA so we did take a look and we talked to this accessory agency and very fortunately right now with the current level of assessed valuation this is before all the growth that Risa talked about you have about five times the coverage that you need for the debt service in other words the actual number is 492 percent so you have the certain amount of money needed for bonds that were refunded I believe in 2015 we have to pay the debt service on those bonds those have dips on all the tax increment but factually we have about five almost five times as much tax increment as we need for those bonds and that's before we've had any growth obviously we're talking about having a lot of growth and having assessed value come up and having additional increment so while every dime of that additional increment is is dedicated towards the successor agency bonds in reality we're not going to need doesn't look like we're going to need most of that money for the successor agency bonds so there is additional money available if we did sell the bonds and Robert and I have talked to Bob and I have talked about that if there is additional money available we could go out with bonds early they're called subordinate bonds and it means the bondholders know that the first dibs on that tax increment all go towards the initial successor agency bonds but the fact remains that we've got more than enough money to cover it so as long as people pay their taxes and assessed values don't drop down we do have enough money to pay for subordinate bonds if we wanted to sell them I don't believe and Mr. Lynch probably knows more than I do I don't believe anybody sold subordinate bonds through an EIFD yet but you do have that option but we do have plenty of extra money beyond what the successor agency needs for its bonds thank you that's very helpful just a couple more questions one is does the tax increment only apply to the gentleman who responded said you know people keep paying their taxes which led led me to think would this tax increment apply to existing structures or only to new development would the tax increment be applied it applies to all properties within the district that see a change in their assessment and that change is most visualized by new intensified development that makes perfect sense and then the last question is in other jurisdictions that have been successful in negotiating with their county have there been models in terms of the composition of the board in terms of having a certain number of board members or a certain number of community members or council members well again per the state code it does have to be a majority of the elected officials of the participating jurisdictions and that's generally been seen as a majority of the of the legislative body of the you know within the jurisdiction itself I will let Bob, Chris, David, Lenny any of those who have actual experience in other jurisdictions answer that a little bit more thoroughly David do you want to take that yeah so I know of of three EINFDs that have counties and cities involved and in all of them the city was the instigating agency so to speak so I believe in all three two of the members are from the city but to be honest I did not work personally I worked on one of those but was after it was formed so I don't actually know who's on the body we could easily find that out that's okay I was just curious to know if there was a best practice and I think Chris Lynch was it gonna weigh in this is Chris Lynch from Jones Hall I also have not worked personally on on a EIFD but we're a county and a city we're involved but I did look at some of the others and I think at least at least two of them had the composition that Mr. Towsley described which was two public members two members of the city council and two and one member of the board of supervisors okay thank you I I struggled maybe my understanding is a majority of the governing body that that phrase right there you know when I think of a majority of our body I think of four members and a majority of the soups is three members so am I missing something yes so um what the code actually says is got it right here hold on one second um so if a district has two or more participating affected taxing entities the public financing authorities membership self-consist of a majority of members from the legislative bodies of the participating entities so again it's a combination of both the city and the county should the county participate and a minimum of two members of the public chosen by the legislative bodies of the participating entities so what I'm saying is it could be two one two public two two three public the point is that it's three and it's always there are always more elected officials than there are public members thank you for the clarification sure that makes perfect sense okay I'm done council member rogers thank you so much so tipping my hand my preference would be that we do provide two seats for board of supervisors members as well I think we're going to be asking them to put in an equal sum to santa rosa they should have equal representation on the committee so I'll be making that as part of the motion at the end of this discussion I did get a question from somebody in the public this weekend specifically about I'll phrase it the way they did convinced me that this is going to lead to more affordable housing in downtown santa rosa so this is not just an affordable housing tool this is an economic development tool this is a tool that helps us build and bring additional private investment into the downtown we are seeing through our enabling policies the work that we've done for the past five years plus the the fruits of our labor in that way you saw that on the slide that had the number of projects developed we have through the housing action plan always taken the stance that we need housing excuse me housing of all types in all levels but that that said some of the things the programs that we're doing that that we're not touching upon here right now is for example the surplus land we have certain requirements that was identified also in the housing action plan so this is a layering tool not the only tool and in combination with all of the other policies and initiatives and programs that we put into place this will spur additional and enable additional private sector investment for the for economic development in our downtown and quickly I just want to make sure that I captured that effectively Lenny or David did you have anything to add to that I know I thought your response was perfect for things I appreciate that it's laid out very well in the staff report as well but to punctuate the point this will further housing projects but if you only look at it as a housing tool you're missing half of what the intention is here in creation of the EIFD that's correct and I have to just go back and many of you were not here when we're going through this process of not just the housing action plan but all of the other the up downtown initiatives that we had it has never ever and cannot sustainably be one over the other or one instead of the other it is a layering effect that includes financing and time costs certain kinds of policies that will that has brought us to where we are today right thank you so much councilmember staff thank you reissa this is this is a really nicely distilled um summary of a complicated issue I have two questions question number one is we've talked about the county a couple of times and we're going to have to bring them to the table um and and and show them what the benefit is for for the county to engage could you clarify what some of the benefits to the to the county's revenues long term might be sure um and again please any of the consultants who are on pop on in so the county receives the bulk of our of the property tax right the property taxes that we receive and they also benefit in other ways when you have housing so housing isn't has an economic multiplier don't ask me what that is right now I can't tell you but there is a value beyond just housing are there's a an economic value beyond just housing our residents right we also know like in this goes back to the establishment of the renal enterprise district where one of the initiatives and the reason why the the county and the city participated in this joint powers authorities because they recognize that it is within the city that the region's housing needs would most likely be met at the number that we needed to pursue it um so the county is already involved and has already shown commitment to some degree in understanding the value of downtown density infill development with santa rosa as a leader in that vein through things like the renewal enterprise district um and then going beyond that um you know again there are revenues and fiscal impacts both that are positive should be positively seen through the infrastructure financing plan anybody want to add anything to that from the team we will be doing a fiscal impact report for the city and then separate for the county so we're going to know afterwards based upon the increase in appreciation that's going to be occurring be a new zifg what portion of that goes to the county in terms of property taxes our initial numbers and i'm just going to throw it out because we around 15 percent of the 1 percent property tax goes to the county so to whatever extent we have an increment they'll be getting 15 percent of that increment and we're asking them to contribute a portion of that towards the eifd to encourage even more increment so that they will also benefit from the additional increment so financially they've got they've got that coming to them you know factually that's it in terms of the growth of the downtown being an economic engine for the county uh as a tourist attraction all that other stuff of course the county gets benefits from that too but the direct benefit would be property taxes and i want to just hone in on one thing because i think um if people remember redevelopment um they remember that it was all or nothing essentially right this is not that the the jurisdictions get to decide at what percent they are willing to participate and so anything above and beyond that goes to them so you're you're it's not it's not the same thing as redevelopment a number one and then the other thing that i will just go back and point out what david house had pointed out before over the lifespan even before the end of the redevelopment obligation for the downtown area that ends in 2035 i think 2034 we are already with those investments seeing five times what we had to what we needed to fulfill that bond obligation so you can see just through that model what those benefits are and that benefits not just us but the county is it fair to say that when we don't have when we're not optimizing either the the property development or the the commercial activity downtown then either the city nor the county are benefiting from the from the tax split but once we can kick start that as this project hopes to do then both both the city and the county are going to come out ahead that's correct thank you one of the one of the question back to looking at the map the proposed map you explained nicely why there were a couple of islands that were carved out because obviously we're not expecting a lot of development there and so they wouldn't necessarily contribute contribute much in terms of the the tax increment but in terms of the infrastructure development does this is it um does the city does this prevent the city or preclude the city from in using some of these funds to invest in infrastructure that will likely flow through those neighborhoods no that's um that's allowable it's um Chris i'm going to ask you to speak on that because i can't remember which code section that is sure hi chris prince from john salt the law is clear that you can finance facilities that are located out the outside the boundaries of the ifd as long as you can make a finding that they have a tangible connection to the work of the ifd perfect yeah perfect thank you are there any more questions from council okay seeing none we'll go ahead and facilitate public comment on item 14.1 we are now taking public comment on item 14.1 if you are in the chamber would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period first up will be cliff hello my name is cliff wiggum i'm the former of the gateway coalition which is the majority part of the roberts district the infrastructure tax finance is not new to me in 2016 i stood right here and proposed that we build the roberts underpass on roberts avenue from roberts district to railroad square using infrastructure tax financing based on a new development project i had going in the gateway coalition 10 acre of properties the environmental stood in my way it took me until 2018 to secure a grant from the epa to do our environmentals i completed environmentals november 20th 2020 the city resumed a property from its transit village 25 to 40 units per acre on january 1st 2021 and gave it the uh unfeasible unrealistic 6.0 floor area ratio no developer will touch it not in santa rosa and not in that part of santa rosa's anyway because the construction costs for that kind of density the rents do not support they said if the rents are double maybe they do it so that leaves me now this plan here excludes the roberts district and in its own language says that uh now read it to you the roberts road area south of highway 12 west of highway 101 this area is better aligned with a potential future roseland area eifd centered as east anchor of the sabbatical road corridor this corridor is a central rosalyn axis which in the past has been part of the rosalyn study area publicly desired infrastructure upgrades in the roberts road area as part of the eifd fd formation process should be examined historically within the rest of the corridor and then it goes on to say the the roberts road area was set aside for a more logical inclusion in a future rosalyn eifd when i'm asking for is you to put the zoning back to its 25 to 40 units per acre that it was from 2006 when i bought my property and was changed in 21 put it back i did all the work with the epa based on a 25 to 40 units per acre and you pulled the rug out from under our feet uh we can't accomplish the 6.0 the 40 we can on the gateways 10 acres i can get 400 units built within the next couple years thank you sir we have one additional speaker in chambers mr duit go ahead hello my name is duane duit i'm from rosalyn bigger is better now is the time to actually redraw those boundaries on what's been proposed to you today by staff look at page three the original downtown specific plan boundary and draw a line at that farthest west point up north of highway 12 in what's called the west gate area draw it straight down and make that the part of your downtown enhanced infrastructure financing district the reason i ask for this is because it will take decades to go for the rosalyn one we've been promised things over the years about we're going to do this for rosalyn it takes decades if you get it in there now you can carve it out later you can say okay we've got this downtown district you can get that financing going sabastopol road will be a commercial generator that's been the anchor the commercial corridor for over a century when there was a rail line out there one of the main things about these types of districts is you can be the ones who designate how you want to see that funding be allocated mr rogers has pointed out that's a good idea to have the county go for the seven person structure get the county the city and three members of the public get perhaps mr owen from the housing authority and numbers guy get the people that can help you apply this financing to get not just this commercial development but housing and multi-story buildings the granary out there next to the railroad tracks gives you a grandfathered in height of how high you can build up i mean it's not like anybody's going to stop you out there for what you want to do the people that are advocating to get positive things done want you to do more so go ahead and be big right now say let's get this and make the boundaries reach as far west as we can that will generate far more than you expect especially because there's projects coming forward along roseland avenue up by highway 12 so there's stuff here that you can do in a positive way working with the county in the past there used to be an adversarial approach but i believe now with mr coursey our former mayor as the district representative the supervisor working with you folks we're going to be singing kumbaya it's time to go forward it will not happen for roseland unless you make it happen here today you can bet on that i've been watching this for 30 years it's not going to go forward unless you take us in there right now and then later say well we're going to carve out a section and go bigger for roseland please do that thank you for your time seeing no additional comments in chambers i'll turn it over to our zoom host for the zoom comments thank you ronda first up by a few futral you i enabled your permissions go ahead with your comment hugh futral 523rd street i'd like to thank the council for taking this up thanks staff all on behalf of the dao which i'm the chair of as you know for working on this with so much focus and and dispatch on this this critical critical item with the aim of of getting the district formed and tax increment collected at the earliest possible time to have such a major impact on on downtown um just a quick comment about about roseland many of us involved looked closely at that issue um understanding the projects the stakeholders the timelines the the identified tax increment all of those things the all those things argue strongly against trying to integrate portions of roseland uh with this eifd but instead argue in favor of of roseland uh advocates being able to move forward with the city at a at a later date um once its needs are fully identified there's just no way that we can capture the tax increment that is being developed now within the downtown district if the boundaries are expanded you have to remember we have to remember that the infrastructure financing plan has got to ultimately contemplate the projects that will be done that requires a transparent public process of involvement uh the larger and larger and larger that geography gets the more unwieldy it gets and the the greater the certainty that things will will be delayed and will miss important deadlines um roseland does matter but there is a route to serving roseland does not require compromising this eifd um but thank you uh again council and thank you very much to staff speaking on behalf of the dao and and the downtown business community thank you very much thank you hu we are moving on to eric eric i have enabled your permissions go ahead whenever you're ready thank you very much lauren this is eric frazier and i'm with the greater cherry street neighborhood association quite a privilege to be able to add some comments right behind mr fatrell's comments and mr dowitz comments um and hearing the eifd structure i'm a little bit struck by how in essence what we'd be doing is um taking future tax revenue and basically leveraging it or marketing it for money that we can spend presently on infrastructure okay so that just diminishes our tax return for the for that tax that would be coming in we're discounting that tax okay um mr dowitz comments were i think on point and saying well why don't we include the roseland i don't necessarily buy mr futrell's argument that there isn't time or that you have to be transparent in exactly the projects that are contributing to that future tax increment uh i just need to educate myself a little bit more it may be the case but uh what i see when i study the downtown core area and thank you to councilmember step for pointing out that these infrastructure funds if there was this was to go forward could help the historic district of like cherry street district uh where the sidewalks are a mess and have been a mess for a long time as well as other infrastructure issues but when we study the downtown core issue uh you know really looking at like old courthouse square reunification where there's a lot of slight of hand about how much was actually spent on that project i'm not sure if actually all the funds and financing have been paid off we also notice that when there's economic impact analysis that's done usually it's wildly inaccurate wildly optimistic not reasonable not verifiable when we look at other numbers that are driven by special districts like for instance the san rosa tourism business improvement assessment we also see that bus buttress by unverifiable information wild claims uh you know outright lying really when it comes to visitor center attendance and so you know while this sounds like a very interesting mechanism to get money now for needed infrastructure projects i would say that there needs to be more work to really understand how this and debts people what the impact is actually in costs uh including increased taxes i saw the slide said said no new taxes but it sounds like there's a change in assessment value uh there's a lot of mystery there a lot of slight of hand smoking mirrors um i would be concerned thank you thank you eric next up we have chandice chandice i have enabled your permissions go ahead whenever you're ready pandas are you there all right i just got the notification to unmute can you hear me now we got you go right ahead good uh good evening this is uh cadence hinkle allison from the downtown district i uh i don't need to repeat the extensive benefits the staff just shared but i do want to um reiterate the tremendously positive impact this could have on our downtown and um also echo hughes comments and just express on behalf of the dao our deep appreciation to staff for their hard work in getting this here today that was such a clear presentation and really answered um a number of questions and i i think it's it's very exciting to see this finally moving forward so um keeping it brief and letting you move on but appreciate your support and look forward to participating in the process moving forward thank you so much we have no other hands raised and sound out of city clerk are there any pre-recorded messages not for this item no thank you are there any more questions from council okay with that i'll go ahead and have councilmember rogers put the resolution on the floor thank you madam vice mayor i do want to say before i move the resolution i just a huge thank you and gratitude not just to our own team but also everybody that's come in to help us with this the origins of this really were back are in early 2018 we had our build rebuild committee that was looking at not just how do we rebuild after the tubs fire but how do we continue to push forward our downtown plan and not have it get lost in the shuffle so to speak and we had a strong partnership going with with the board of supervisors as well i think this is a good opportunity for us all to work together to continue to advance these projects uh and i was uh making sure that i had the right term because it's been a while since i've looked at the report but back in 2017 i believe it was the city partnered with urban three to do an analysis of the economic value of our land assets in the city and it's a pretty stark report that shows you why investing in downtown why investing specifically in housing in an economic development is a good return on investment not just for the people who live in downtown but really across the entire county of sonoma and so i'm really excited for us to move this forward i will be making the amendment to the resolution adding a second seat for a board of supervisors member which i think also necessitates adding a third seat for the public as well to keep it as an odd number i think that it's really important for us to have equal skin in the game to move these projects forward for our constituents and really provide solutions for city center growth moving forward so with that i will move a resolution of the city council of the city of san aroza declaring the intention to establish city of san aroza enhanced infrastructure finance district downtown business corridor to finance public capital facilities and projects of community wide significance and other authorized costs and determining other matters in connection there uh there with uh with the aforementioned amendment to the resolution as well which second second it's been moved in second in are there any more questions who who made the second council member fliming thank you thank you with that we'll go ahead and do a roll call vote madam city clerk can you please facilitate that excuse me this is chris lynch from jones hall the law provides that if there are not two taxing entities contributing increment to any ifd then there should only be five members uh on the public financing authority which is the legislative body of the ifd so if you increase the number of members of the public financing authority to seven now then we need to revise section four of the resolution which addresses what happens if the county elects not to allocate property tax revenues to the ifd we would need to provide that it would reduce back down to five members of which three would be members of the city council and two would be public members that's exactly what i said thank you thank you for the clarification thank you thank you so much we'll accept that with the amendment if there's no objections council member stat hi council member rogers hi council member okrepke hi council member fleming hi council member alvarez hi vice mayor mcdonald hi mayor rogers um before i vote i would like to say you took a very difficult topic and you made it not easy but easier to understand so i would like to thank you and the consultants for your hard work in doing that for us in i the motion passes with seven eyes all right and i have a second resolution here with the same amendments that were mentioned i actually think they're in this resolution before i do i want to thank our dao partners as well and in particular hufa trail has been a huge asset to the city and has been a driving force behind this and with that i will introduce a resolution of the city council of the city of santa rosa establishing the downtown business corridor eifd public financing authority as the legislative body of the city of santa rosa enhanced infrastructure finance district downtown business corridor and wait for the reading of the text second and for clarification do we need to make the amendments to this resolution as well under item three as well as item four in this draft that's correct the changes would apply to this resolution okay i didn't know if that needed to be said in the minutes thank you so it's been moved in second and is there any questions go ahead and council member o'crapkey yeah um how are the members of the public selected for the pfa is that interviewed and selected by council appointed by the mayor or supervisor combination that's correct so we would have to follow the council policy o06 on that which requires us to post it two weeks in advance in the meantime we need to um it's a new board um with the county so we'll be working with the city manager's office to understand what the process will be for both council and the county administrative office and county board supervisors to understand how that will work and what that coordination will look like but the answer is yes we have to follow that process it would be a selection by both boards and if i might offer we actually do have one of those positions that were fairly common familiar with it's the library board appointment that is joint between the city and the county and so i imagine that it would be the same process for these members as well oops i think chris lynch um has uh something to weigh in on this as well if there's no further questions um you're on um mute oh sorry about that hi chris lynch from john sol section three of the resolution you're considering now provides that one public member will be appointed by the city council and one public member will be appointed by the board of supervisors if you increase the number of public members to three then you need to provide for how many are appointed by each of the city council and the board of supervisors because the law does require they're appointed by those two legislative bodies so my proposal to council would be similar to the library board where we each have one that we do separate from one another but then there's a third that is joint and has to be agreed upon between the the two bodies that's consistent with the law if that's what you want to do are we ready for the vote madam city clerk will you please facilitate the vote councilmember staff hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember okrepke hi councilmember fleming hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor mcdonald hi mayor rogers hi the motion passes with seven eyes thank you we are now moving on to item 14.2 adam city manager item 14.2 approval approval of the preliminary physical year 2023 2024 regional water reuse system operating and maintenance capital improvement and debt service budget and allocation of cost we're going to go ahead and take a five-minute recess while we work on our it thank you we're going to go ahead and call this meeting back to order madam city clerk could you please establish quorum again by calling roll councilmember staff hi councilmember rogers here councilmember okrepke here councilmember fleming here councilmember alvarez president vice mayor mcdonald here mayor rogers president let the record reflect all councilmembers are present thank you now that we've got our it in order we'll go ahead and move on to item 14.2 good evening mayor rogers councilmembers my name is nick harvey i'm a budget financial analysis manager with santa as a water and we're here to review the fiscal year 2023 24 regional water reuse system on m and cip budgets and hopefully secure your approval before i start the reason we're here for your approval rather than waiting until the June 20th formal adoption date is to facilitate the budget processes that our partner agencies give them time to to take their allocations through their city's processes so tonight we'll be going over the proposed budget the resulting user agency contribution allocations reviewing our cip budget and finish up with the remaining budget budget schedule and the recommendation so here we have the annual flows in million gallons at the treatment plant this is an important aspect of our budget as these are the measurements that we use to allocate our operating costs to each of our partner agencies for the purposes of this allocation we take for the purposes of this budget we take the last full years of flow measurements in this case it's the flows for the year ended June 30th 2022 expressed as percentages and use that to allocate our costs um the 21 22 flows had no material change from 2020 2021 flows uh the only real difference was santa rose absorbed 1 percent more of the flows and all of the agencies remained in their same relative position that we typically see in terms of expenditure increases uh we we are increasing our cash funded cip pursuant to an agreement we currently have with the partner agencies whereby we're agreeing to increase uh cash funded cip by one million dollars per year to keep up with infrastructure needs at the plant we also have salary increases of two and a half percent coming July 2023 per the currently adopted mo use i'll touch on the costs of chemicals and electricity and a little more detail further on in the presentation um i'm not going to speak to city overhead and vehicle costs this evening uh because those are central service costs allocated out by the finance department um and therefore uncontrollable to us and so we're absorbing increases in those line items commensurate with other departments citywide we're also adding one new wastewater operation supervisor at the treatment plant looking at the line by line operating budget our largest increase is in utilities um we're expecting fairly sizable pg and e rate increases uh on the electricity rates uh but we don't know what those are so as such um all departments have elevated their their electricity budgets by 50 15 percent rather over 22 23 figures and the reason we're this is grossed up to 36.6 in this case is because in addition to absorbing rate increases we're also expecting an increase in the quantity of electricity consumed at the plant the operational supplies that's uh 16.6 percent increase and the reason for that is that is where we hold our chemical budgets and since the start of the covid emergency we've seen increasing disruption and supply chain and supply and demand and just overall cost of chemicals and miscellaneous line item is 24.1 percent increase and that is because our department recently adopted a policy whereby we subsidize all training and certification for positions that have certifications requirements of their positions so here's an overall look at the regional fund the regional budget as a whole 72.1 million dollars and you'll notice that miscellaneous revenue number at the top shows a negative 5.3 million the reason for that is the way we calculate our overall regional budget as we calculate the total expenditures including cip operating expenses and debt service and then we budget for our revenues and the difference between those figures is what ends up being our net allocation to the partner agencies here's a look at our reserve balances i wanted to pay particular attention to the partner agency refund reserve this is the number that represents the cumulative excess of revenues over expenditures as a result of our operations and every other fund across the city this this amount sits on the balance sheet as an undesignated fund balance this differs from that amount because rather than the city wholly owning this amount these are amounts that would otherwise be refundable to our partner agencies and the proportions in which they were paid in and the reason this is useful to our partner agencies is it can be used for rate smoothing so for example if we were to calculate a gross budget increase to a particular agency of four percent that agency might choose to liquidate some portion of that reserve and only have to take a two percent increase to be absorbed by that rate payers so it's a very useful tool here are miscellaneous revenues i'll first speak to the two zero figures um that cal pine uh for several years uh we were collecting 300 000 a year from cal pine pursuant to a letter of credit and an agreement related to that uh that agreement finally expired and so we're not expecting to receive those amounts in the future and we also have dairy waste loan payments they've been winding down for several years uh but they're finally extinguished and so we see a zero there um and although we're losing out on a couple uh revenue streams our high strength waste operation has been very successful we're continuing to see increased demand and we're also applying a small escalating a small escalator percentage to the rate and so we're seeing uh we're budgeting for a 200 000 dollar increase on that line item so here's an example of the calculation that was expressed in the in the pie chart that i explained a little earlier so at the top we take our operating expenditure request of 43.8 million our cash funded cip request of 10 million and we currently have an operating reserve policy whereby we we have to hold 15 percent of operating costs as a reserve and so that 510 000 dollars is the amount that we'll need to increase that reserve by to meet that 15 percent requirement for next year going down to the bottom under agency contribution calculation you can see the the total of 15.3 expenditures plus change in operating reserve we subtract out that 5.3 million dollars expected net uh miscellaneous revenue rather to a net agency contribution of 49 million dollars uh for our cash basis expenditures and i say cash basis because this calculation does not take into account our debt service uh budget moving on to our regional partner allocations for 23 24 you can see that we allocate three different items we have the on m costs cip contributions in debt service these amounts are allocated based uh on three different methodologies so on m costs as i mentioned earlier allocated based on the pro rata flows into the treatment plant cip contributions are allocated per the term set forth in the master sub regional agreement and debt service allocations are based upon those construction projects at the plant or in the regional system as a whole that were constructed using bond principle and the reasons for those projects so i'll give you a real-world example of of what i'm getting at here uh if if santa rosa water were to go out for bond funding to pay for projects to significantly increase the treatment capacity at the plant and it would follow that those partner agencies that aren't pursuing growth would participate in the repayment of those liabilities at a much lower lesser extent because the primary driver of the need for excess treatment capacity is population growth and so taking those three figures up we get adding those up rather we get to the total contribution for each agency and so we're looking to collect a grand total including santa rosa of 72.1 million dollars a net difference of 2.6 million dollars over 23 20 or 22 23 allocations so for regional cip funding we're investing the bulk of our funding in uh restoring bolster bolstering hardening our primary plant treatment infrastructure we're also investing some money in the geysers infrastructure and there'll be a little bit more on that later in the presentation and the remainder going to master planning and study efforts so i'm going to get into some cip project highlights the first one here is the ltp filter valve replacement phase two project just as a housekeeping item on the on the project image that where it says filter cells one through 13 that should really be filters one through eight and nine through 14 on the left hand side there and so this can be a 1.43 million dollar project with design and construction in the same year being next year and it's replacing all the valves and cells nine through 14 these cells were originally installed in 1996 and uh for context phase one of this project replaced all the valves and cells one through eight those cells were originally installed in 1989 and were replaced in 2016 next project is our ltp aeration basin improvements project so this is going to install new aeration basin low pressure pipes fittings and valves refurbish the channels at a total estimated project cost of 2.3 million you'll you'll note their designs year one and two that seems a little longer than our typical design time frame and the reason for that is before construction work can begin in kind on this project we have to put in bypass pumping infrastructure to ensure continued operations of the plant during the period of construction so that's why we see a longer design period there so the final project highlight here is we wanted to highlight the investments we're making back into the geysers infrastructure this work in particular is going to address the geysers pump station electrical upgrades this aspect of the project the project initially is only going to cover condition assessment and design with a total estimated cost of 4.8 million dollars not initial work taking place in year one just for your information there are two additional phases planned for this project in the future those being the replacement and repair of components that were identified by way of that condition assessment and design and third aspect being the development of a standardized methodology for ongoing assessment and maintenance needs on those pumps and finally our remaining budget schedule a city council you you all be looking at this information at the study sessions we all know that's actually may 9th and 10th so sorry for the typo there with final adoption on June 20th and with that it is recommended by the board of public utilities the sub-regional technical advisory committee in the and center is a water that the council by resolution approved the preliminary fiscal year 2023-24 regional water reuse system operating and maintenance capital improvement and debt service budget and allocation of cost for the purposes of notifying the regional water reuse agencies of their allocation of such costs by may 2023 and with that i'm available to address any questions or comments thank you for the presentation are there any questions from council council member step just one quick one so it's a pretty big bump this year i'm not unexpected is there are we expecting similar size increases in the years to come or do we have any sense of what that with the future what the future jumps will be it a lot of it really comes down to energy needs where pg and e rates land where our chemical costs ultimately land if we write out these market fluctuations and a lot of it's also contingent on our debt service repayment that's a little harder to plan for because unlike a 30-year mortgage that we all go for it's you have steady you have the same amount every year for 30 years when it comes to debt issuances or repayment schedules are much more complex for the purposes of managing cash flows and so it's really kind of hard to project that and so a big driver of that is going to be future debt issuances that we may go for and we may need to issue debt for projects are unforeseen at this time so that piece of the budget is kind of a wild card in a sense but in terms of operating and cip we know the cip is going to increase by million dollars a year over year and o and m costs we do everything we can each year to to minimize increases there and make strategic investments that's a very helpful answer thank you any more questions madam city clerk will you please facilitate public comment we are now taking public comment on item 14.2 if you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period i'm seeing no one in chambers no hands raised on zoom and we have no pre-recorded messages there's nothing further council member staff we put the resolution on the floor please i'd like to introduce the resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa approving the preliminary fiscal year 2023 2024 regional water reuse system operating and maintenance capital improvement and debt service budget and allocate allocation of costs second thank you it's been moved and seconded by council member rogers will you please call the vote hi council member rogers hi council member okrepke hi council member fleming council member alvarez hi vice mayor mcdonald hi mayor rogers hi the motion passes with seven eyes thank you so much for your question sorry about that we're now moving on to item 16 written communication we had one written communication item 16.1 in support of sb 23 cabrillo water supply and flood risk reduction projects madam city clerk will you please facilitate public comment we are now taking public comment on item 16.1 if you are in the chamber would like to comment but i've not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period seeing no comments in chambers we have no hands raised on zoom and no pre-recorded messages thank you and we are at our last item it's number 17 for public comment on non-agenda matters madam city clerk will you please facilitate and public comment on non- agenda matters we are now taking public comment on item 17 non-agenda matters this is the time when any person who has not previously addressed the council under public comment item 13 may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council if you are in the chamber and would like to make a comment but have not provided a speaker card please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period i'm seeing no one in chambers i'll turn it over to our zoom host for our zoom comment thank you ronda we have one speaker with a hand raised eric i have enabled your permissions to speak go ahead whenever you're ready yeah thank you very much i i very much appreciate that hello again city council one quick comment i wanted to make just about the last presentation we really do look to these larger organizations and government like your public utilities to for consumers to understand what's going on with electricity rate increases as well as gas rate increases there's been a number of initiatives as you guys are well aware that have been thrust on the public to electrify to go to electricity and i don't think that there's a lot of people that are really prepared for the mandates that will restrict um appliances for instance uh in the relatively near future and so you know understanding where those rates are going are very much important to the conversation the rest of my comments i want to just review what's coming up on thursday with the planning commission and the short term rental ordinance amendments that are proposed so i'm going through the document pack and first of all i see a lot of misleading things the document package itself is missing attachments some of the attachments don't appear to be complete as i get into the staff presentation on this i see a lot of misinformation being published including misinformation about when the process started for the urgency ordinance uh the misinformation about the number of permits that were issued and the number of permits that are active for instance in the non-hosted category which is the focus of a lot of discussion a lot of non-hosted permits were issued to addresses that are not lodging short term gas or are hosted operations but we're in good standing one preserve the rights with a non-hosted permit where some of the most egregious problems occur though is in uh the reporting from code enforcement as to complaints about strs it indicates serious problems in how code enforcement handles complaints how unfounded or non-founded or vexatious complaints are solicited by the city purposely against non-hosted strs and how that then is amplified in the dialogue in the in the narrative about how non-hosted strs might be detrimental to a community this is all very outrageous behavior and really quite frankly seems like we're in some other type of country like some sort of soviet you know russia or some sort of banana republic so i i would hope that there would be cleaning up over this data certainly will address it but i'm sure you've fomented so much distrust in the public that we'll see how far that goes but thank you very much for my thank you thank you eric there are no other hands raised in zoo and we have no pre-recorded comments thank you lauren we'll now move to item 19 to adjourn thank you