ossible option. We look at, it takes about just over two FTEs to do full janitorial litter pickup. I'm sorry, full janitorial on the bathrooms and litter pickup in the parks. We have four groundskeeper FTEs within the organization. The reduction of two of those FTEs, we have to choose something tangible that allows us to reduce the amount of effort or the amount of hours that we're gonna put into the service. The reduction in the number of bathrooms or bathroom stalls is seems to be the easiest direction for us to be able to go. And so while we don't believe that we'll have to impact every restroom stall, we do believe that it will be a little over two thirds of the stalls out in the parks. And so some restroom stalls will remain open. For example, at Finley Park, we currently have I believe eight individual restroom stalls. We may close six of those and leave the other two open so that the remaining two groundskeepers can pick up some of those, some of that janitorial service. But that reduced hour and reduced service level is what we're really gonna be looking for. And so, because I believe you may have been around during some of the great recessions when a lot of our parks went brown, the two FTE groundskeepers positions, what are their impact might our community members see as a result of if we choose to cut those two positions? Well, we are gonna see a greater increase in the amount of just general trash and debris.  This is different than the debris response team. Their focus is on larger products in and around our community, even in parks. But the smaller day-to-day stuff really is focused around the groundskeepers position going and trying to keep our parts looking nice and clean as well as keeping the bathrooms clean. So that'll be the primary impact. And then what role, if any, because I saw on slide, this slide here, slide 50, Measure M parks expenditure was 139K. And I saw one of the early slides, slide 13, Reckon Park Revenue was 2.5 million. I'm making the assumption a lot of that revenue is Measure M, is that accurate? That is accurate. And we will be talking about Measure M expenditure plan. As council may recall, back in 2019, 2020, council created and adopted an expenditure plan for only years one and years two of Measure M. Years three through 10, we were asked to go out to the public and return with a public-driven expenditure plan proposal. COVID derailed our ability to be able to collect all the information. We started with our first one in March of 2020 and we didn't pick up again until January of 2021. We've now concluded all of those meetings and we've now started to consolidate the data that we received. The Board of Community Services got a chance to hear that information and we expect to bring that to council. Council Member Schwedhelm, what you may hear is that the recommendation for the public may allow us to offset some of these costs but without having a defined and approved expenditure plan, I'm not willing to incorporate that in here at this point in time. I guess that's where I was going with this because I had mentioned against the many community members if they heard of the potential consequences of this level of cut, they may say or prioritize Measure M to not use those cuts. It's information they didn't have at the time. So just a thought. Yes, yes. And with council direction, even in the lieu of an expenditure plan, we could, if directed, we could incorporate that into this. And I will tell you that the preliminary information that we're hearing is that the community is okay with 50% of Measure M going towards maintenance. Maintenance is somewhat undefined at this point and that's one of the things we wanted to get more clarity before we brought to council, but this could be one of those areas where we could focus that effort. Okay. And then could you also give us an update because I know a couple of councils ago we invested in the Portland Loo. I know it's there on the structures there. Can you give us an update as to when that would be operational or would this impact the operation of that asset? So the Portland Loo project is complete. It is functional and ready to open. Council several months ago also approved an extension or I'm sorry expansion of the services provided by our janitorial contractor that services City Hall as well as the transit facility to clean that bathroom. At this point, it is not closed because it's not ready. It's closed because we have all of our public facilities closed as a function of COVID. So when we are prepared and ready to reopen our public bathrooms, the Portland Loo, we will develop a community oriented ribbon cutting or opening event and we will set that in motion. That particular facility would not be impacted by this staffing change because we are utilizing contract services and council already approved that expenditure. Great. So again, if I heard you correctly then as the rest of the city's facilities are opening up the Portland Loo would also be included in that grand opening or whatever we wanna call it. That's correct. Great. All right. Thank you so much for those answers. Councilor, are there any other questions? Okay. Thank you so much, Jason. And I think next step is director Jennifer Burke for the storm, the Santa Rosa water proposed general fund budget. Thank you. And thank you, Mayor Rogers and members of council. The next few slides are to review the general fund portion of Santa Rosa waters budget, which is really a small piece of the stormwater and creek budget. The stormwater and creek program is also funded by the stormwater enterprise, which we will cover later on in the study session. Can I have the next slide please? So like other funds, we were asked to put together some information on uncontrollable costs. Really there are two for the general fund portion of our stormwater budget. We have an increase in the information and technology costs really related to implementation of our new asset management program city works. And then we also called out our utility costs, although this is a very small number based on actuals and rate increases, but because it is a large percentage on the next slide, we just wanted to call that out as well. So if we go to the next slide, this is an overview of the stormwater general fund portion budget. In addition to the uncontrollable costs mentioned on the previous slide, really the main driver in the increase in costs is due to salary and benefits. If we go to the next slide, please. And then here is a summary of all the Santa Rosa water funds with the general fund piece on the top row. Again, this is a very small portion of our overall budget. And we will discuss in detail the rest of the water budget when we get to the enterprise section of the study session. And so that really concludes my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions that the council may have. All right. Council member Schwedhelm. Sorry, there's a legacy hand. All right. Jennifer, I think it's pretty straightforward. My one question is just if we're anticipating any additional funds necessary because of the drought and any implementation of additional programs that we might do. So Mayor Rogers, great question. And any funds that would be needed for drought response would be coming from the water portion or if applicable to reductions and indoor the wastewater portion but would not affect the storm water budget. Okay, great. And those would come from the enterprise? Correct. That would come from the enterprise funds. Great. Thank you. I see no other hands. Thank you. Next we have community development and engagement and assistant city manager Claire Hartman will be leading off these series of presentations. Okay. First of all, can you hear me? Okay, great. Okay, great. And we have a team here today to present our budget slides. So I know they're getting on deck right now. We have a portfolio of seven divisions and we have 135 FTE. The divisions that we have in this portfolio include planning, building, engineering, development services, economic development, housing, community engagement and recreation services. So with that, we actually have three, a three part budget presentation. We've broken it up into recreation and community engagement, which Jason Parrish and Magali Taylor's will present. Then we'll move into planning and economic development, which I will present with the assistance of Kate Goldheim. And then lastly, we have housing and community services which will be presented by Megan passenger. So with that, it looks like Jason is on and hopefully Magali has made it on as well. So with that, and what we can do is we can do questions after each of these sections. So recreation and community engagement, questions if you have them, planning and economic development, stop for questions as well. So with that, Jason kick it off. Thank you very much, Claire. Please advance the slide. Mayor Rogers and members of the city council. My name is Jason Parrish, the administrative services officer for the community programs and engagement portfolio. So the first item under controllable costs is as part of the community empowerment plan is recognizing that multiple parts of the plan are currently distributed throughout the city in various different departments. And so part of the community empowerment plan is tying into the city council budget as well as the potential for community promotions budget. Please advance. So here you can see the overall combination of the recreation division and the community engagement division. The reduction shown on this slide are a piece of the total reductions as you were presented on slide number five, the recreation division had an effective reduction of $170,000 in services. This included two part-time positions that will impact the ability to rent facilities at the Finlay Community Center, as well as the ability of the neighborhood services unit to provide neighborhood-based youth services. So the overall reduction that you don't see in the salaries line is basically offsetting the other regular positions and their colas and the other increases that they would otherwise be scheduled to have. So as well, the recreation division will be closing down the snack bar at the Finlay Aquatic Center, which follows the closure of the snack bar at the Ridgeway Community Center two years ago. And so this will eliminate the need for the staff oversight as well as the attendant temporary expenditures and the other inventory control and the purchasing that has to go along to ensure that the facilities were stacked at that time. So what you can see here below is that there are significant reductions in general-funded administration as well as a modest reduction in the overall information technology costs associated with the two divisions. If you could please forward. So right now, what I'll do is turn it over to Magali Tellis if she is already on the call to be able to talk about the community engagement program. Thank you, Jason. Good afternoon, Mayor Rogers, members of the council. Thank you for the opportunity to talk a little bit more about kind of where community engagement finds itself now in terms of unfunded additional needs request. As you all know, last year we were worth $150,000, sort of get us started with the community empowerment plan. And what we found is that community responded very well and would like to continue to engage with the city and would like to continue to find ways, different ways, different modalities in person, meeting people where they are, of course, when it is safe to do so. And as well as continuing ways and electronic and virtual to continue engaging with community and hearing what they have to say. So we would like to continue implementing the community empowerment plan, continue our listening sessions, but expanded out to different neighborhoods that we've not had an opportunity to attend. And we're also looking at growing our, the Mary Lou program, which is a lowrider patrol program and expanding that into a series of speaker sessions, thinking about lowriding as an art form, bringing in community, bringing as an opportunity to educate community about not just the city, community engagement, our police department, using these different functions as an opportunity to bring information to people where they are. And we'd also love to re-implement NeighborFest annually. And the last time that program was done, we were able to reach over a thousand residents. And community has also really expressed interest for something like a Citizens Academy. And we'd love the opportunity to be able to provide as beginning for cohorts so that we can get community sort of very involved and engaged in going to taking a deeper dive into city council and policies and boards and commissions. We also have our engagement HQ program, which is called Let's Connect SR. And we're hoping to this year enroll over 35,000 community members. It has a potential to enroll everyone at the city of Santa Rosa and beyond so that community members could be, have opportunities to participate in surveys, polls, and be of today on what community engagement is working on and other opportunities to communicate with the city. So with that, I will turn it over, I think back to Jason, unless there are questions. Yeah, let's get a question from Council Member Fleming first. Okay. Yeah, thank you for the presentation. My question goes back to, let's see, I wanna say slide, or is more a question, let's see, recreation and community engagement, let's see slide 56, where we have recreation and community engagement. One of the things that I'm curious to know is why, we have these significant presentation from Fire and Police, which we're hearing about the depth to which these different departments have had constraints related to COVID. And through my work with Council Member Sawyer and now Council Member Alvarez on the Economic Recovery Task Force, it was really clear to me how much of a Yeoman's job that recreation did in terms of advancing our council priorities. So I'm curious to know, one is, was the approach to look at what council priorities are or to just say everybody needs to offer up something to cut? Because to my mind, it seems to me that we're cutting from the areas that are having the highest impact in protecting community and engaging with our goals at this time. And just wondering where, if any, there is alignment with what direction Council gave during our goal setting and these cuts in recognition of what some of these departments have been done. And I'll just add before I get your response, I'm really troubled that recreation only got a slide in here during this time and want to express a sincere thank you to all of the work they did to keep our most vulnerable families safe when school was not in session. Thank you. At this time, the instructions that were coming out from the finance department on what our budget targets were, we were looking at that very considerably in an interest of both, how do we trim our budget overall by the $171,000 in a ways that can overall minimize the impact to some of the core services that we have that the council has expressed interest in, such as the youth community services as well as the overall operating hours and ensuring the broadest availability of programs. And so in the overall strategy that we were employing was with the family aquatic snack bar was a single thing that we could remove that would allow us to both make a reduction in services but still have the core service of the aquatic center taking place. So the overall neighborhood services has been maintained at baseline as was presented earlier, I think around slide six or seven. But in this case, it really is a work that recreation is going through as we come out of COVID where we had extremely impacted services across the board when we could actually conduct our services. And now what we're trying to do is look at as we're coming out of COVID and seeking to re-imput, implement overall recreation services. How do we do that in a way that both recognizes the fiscal constraints the city is going through as well as our own desire to reinitiate all of our revenue generating services at this time? Okay, I guess where I'm going with this would just be a request that going forward, if it's not possible today that in general that we have a way that council goals are incorporated into more explicitly in the budget presentation because the budget is the greatest tool that we have to express our goals. And it's not personal to you, Mr. Parrish, but I am disappointed to see the lack of tying back to our goals in terms of that were quite clearly laid out in February. And council member Fleming, if I could just add, we do have an outline that our team is happy to share that aligns all of our proposed budget and program with the specific council goals that it aligns with. So happy to. Yes, thank you. And my comments were more specific to recreation, but I do appreciate that, Ms. Tejas. And I would just add that our budget as proposed aligns with council goals as best as we can with the resources that we have and then where we don't have them, you see them come up as additional needs or as controllable costs, where we might look for other sources of funding throughout the budget or through one-time funds. So we are trying to be creative, maximize the use of existing resources, but then also acknowledge where those resources do have a limit and we need to look for other opportunities. Thank you. Any other questions from the council? I don't see any other hands. So the final slide is just a summary. Overall, where the general fund program as we discussed previously, but as well the measure of fund for kids reflecting the overall moderation of the funding available for both the violence prevention program on the community engagement side, as well as the neighborhood services measure field services on the recreation side. So what may not always be obvious to the city council, but it has been running there for years is the change for kids fund. So this is where utility billing gives customers the option of rounding up their utility bill, which is then deposited in the change for kids. This is an extension of the activities our neighborhood services and measure programs are providing. So as we face fiscal constraints in the past with measure O, the change for kids has provided a relief valve where programs wouldn't be curtailed immediately, but could be restructured and reevaluated in a more considered way to maximize the benefit overall for the public. So the state grant funds in 1920 was a combination of two different years of reimbursements related to the violence prevention program and the supplemental activities they do working with the county's probation department. And so as far as giving kids options and additional resources to be able to maintain themselves in their neighborhoods. And I will be able to pass the presentation back along to assistant city manager, Harman, so that she could go over the permitting and economic development department. All right, council, any other questions? All right, it's all yours, Claire. All right, if we can advance this slide. You can go to, yeah, that one, great. All right, so planning and economic development. We have a FTE of 68 individuals. Again, it's building, engineering, economic development and planning. So first slide here talks about our uncontrollable costs, things that we can't control. And one of those is a revenue source that we have been relying on for the last several years to fund code enforcement staff. And this revenue source is called the admin hearing fund. And this is a revenue source that we collect through the abatement process through our progressive code enforcement process, which in the end, if the last resort is to go to admin hearing fee, that's where if we win in the case then we can collect, we have collective penalties and fines and have assessed liens. And you've seen that a number of times on your council agendas. It was in 2017, there was case law that came online and it changed everything for us in terms of how we were able to collect that revenue and also the type of revenue that we were able to collect through that process. So for example, we used to be able to assess a lien on the property and collect it at the time of property tax. So that was actually quite fruitful. And we're able to stabilize our code enforcement operation, which is otherwise just 100% funded by general fund to offset that cost, that staffing cost with admin, the admin hearing process. But what the case law changed for us is that we are no longer allowed to collect penalties or fines through that process. We can only do cost recovery of permits or the service costs that are involved in working with these individuals. So as you can see here, our revenue had been at $400,000 which was sufficient to support code enforcement. And now we're looking at a dismal $30,000 a year. We have known this since the case law came out and we knew that we were adhering to that. So we've been moving forward as quickly as we can without having to be a total shock on the general fund system. But here we are today asking for $272,000 to increase general fund to our code enforcement section to compensate for this loss of revenue. One of the things I would say is we are looking at solutions. We are interested in a master fee study and I think code enforcement should participate in should the city move forward with a master fee study. I think we should look at the fees and cost of service for processing nuisance issues. We should also look at evaluating or creating a nuisance ordinance that would also address the processing steps. And those would help offset the costs that it takes our staff to really go through the motions to abate the nuisances. Next slide. So this is our overall budget for general fund for planning and economic development. You can see here what's proposed as a $15.2 million budget. I wanna talk a little bit about cost recovery because it does come up with our department quite a bit. We are somewhat cost recovery. We're not completely cost recovery and I don't think we ever will be, but we're enough that it's worth noting and respecting and balancing with it. At best we're probably about 50 or 60% cost recovery because we do intake permits, we do plan checks and we do inspections and all those can be covered in fees. However, as you know, not all of them are up to 100% of the actual cost of service. We did a cost of service study too many years ago. We are overdue for reevaluating our fees and doing a new master fee study, but we do have some deliberate subsidies for to encourage people to get permits, for example, or permits that are beneficial to community development, beneficial to the community. And so we do try to balance that responsibility when plans are submitted to the city and they pay their fees. We have a responsibility to respond with service, right? That's what they're paying for. That's what we need to provide. But we're a general fund department, so we go through this and it's also hard to predict how many fees we're gonna get. We do our best and I think we do a pretty good job of that, but it's a balancing act. So we come before you every year and ask for the general fund to cover the cost of service that our applicants have applied for. We do have non-revenue generating aspects to our department and that's not going away and these are essential functions of planning and economic development. For example, our economic development team, they're essential in good times, they're essential in bad times. We rely on them for promotion, retention, attraction, and quite busy in these last couple of years, post-fire and during the pandemic. We rely on the front counter staff. Again, they are providing information, advice without a fee. We do entertain quite a few public record tax and we provide quite a bit of information for the public in that regard. We have our code enforcement team, which I talked about, and then we have our advanced planning section that supports our public policy and community engagement. And so there are gonna always be sections of our department that we don't have a cost recovery system for, but they're essential and we put that into the mix. So as you noticed in our last presentation with recreation and community engagement, we were not immune to the budget reduction exercise. There was a couple of exercises. First, we looked for absorbing some information technology costs, which we have. And then we were asked to dig deeper, looking at our frozen position list and absorbing some of that into reductions affected this year. So we don't have a lot to cut. So we strategically selected what we thought would be least impactful, but to be quite blunt, these will be impactful. These will be felt. So one of the first things that we needed to, one of our reduction outcomes was to eliminate a vacate. It's currently a vacant position. It's an administrative technician position. And this was to identify them. Slide five of the complete presentation that you have today. Administration technician is a position of about 100,000. And this is the lead for our department for Public Record Act. We get quite a few public records act requests. In fact, we get about a thousand a year and that's been steady. We've already beat that record this year and we don't see that slowing down. What this position does is it consolidates these requests and manages them across our four divisions. And oftentimes there's a lot of redundant searching that goes on across the division. But if you don't have the facilitating position, there's a lot of redundancy efforts. What happens as well as we start getting challenged during response times for our public records. So this is something we'll have to pay attention to because there are penalties when you are delayed in responding to Public Record Act. And we'll have to address those as they come up. In addition, that position is key to managing all our contracts because we are a tight department. We do leverage our resources with many, many contracts. These are associated with general plans and EIRs and economic programs and whatnot. So right now, just to give an idea, we have 32 contracts in play, almost $5 million for contracts. So this position is critical to helping us manage that. What happens when we don't have this position, which is what's happening right now since it's vacant, is that responsibility is distributed across all the staff and you don't have that clearing house system, that quality control that saves time and money for the city. In addition to this position, we also have looked to professional services. One thing that is very difficult to replace is our plan check, our planners, our technicians, our inspectors. There is a learning curve when you come to the city of Santa Rosa. So our last resort is to ever look at our staffing for that. So what we looked for is our professional services. So you can see that we're putting into the budget a $308,000 budget reduction of professional services and that will be felt. We've done fairly well despite the emergencies and the combining of the rebuild center with our department, but we will start to see delays that affect even our prioritized projects, our downtown projects or affordable housing projects. It just is what will happen. We only have so much bandwidth and we're doing the best that we can, but this will be felt. For example, wait times, building inspections. We anticipate increase from three to 15 days. Building permit review completion will increase from six to 12 weeks and public improvement plan review from six to 12 weeks. Subsequent review is four to eight weeks. So essentially when you start losing that leverage with the professional services, it's exponential, the performance impact. It's not incremental, it's exponential because we do try to leverage the efficiency of our plan review. One of the things that we hit early on in this pandemic was efficiency through electronic permit intake. So it's been a little over a year as we know and we have since set up an online permit center that's taken in over 12,000 permits. So that has gained a lot of support even by many customers who were new to that concept. Staff was new to that concept. We were able to make that work. That will help, but it won't solve the impact of that cut. And then just to illustrate how specific these cuts are for us, we also are reducing our planning, training and conference budget by an additional $10,000. So here we have a presentation of this budget and I'm presenting an item that is a $10,000 cut of planning training, but it's impactful. The planning staff is, this is not mandated training, it's not required training. They can work as a professional planner without training. But what the training gets you is state of the art education, annual education on community engagement, economic recovery, wildfire preparedness, land use planning, all of these things, environmental law and we are getting very, very lean in that budget. So probably with the proposed budget we're looking at having planners have training once every two to three years. Next slide. Okay, so unfunded additional needs requests. So this is, these are the needs that are not on slide four of your overall presentation, right? So these are the unfunded additional needs identified by staff for your consideration. So the first item is our enhanced infrastructure by an enhanced district. And we're looking at, this is one time money asking relationship to the question that was brought up earlier. Yes, this is directly related to council goals. And this is a important tool that we'd like to have in terms of our downtown incentive package. We have lots of tools for downtown and what we're finding is we need all of them. Most of our applicants have cited and are using the layering of our incentives. And we have applicants that are quite interested in this one as well. So that enhanced infrastructure finance district, this is something that we would work on with the county to launch it. But our next steps would be to do an infrastructure finance plan and a fiscal impact report. And these are not studies or plans that we can do in-house. If we could, we would try to find capacity. We do look creatively to do that, but these are not reports that we can do at house. So those would be the next steps. And we're ready to do this now if we can find some funding. The second item is our city's government center. So this is not the county center. This is the city wants to pursue its city government center. We would be ready for our next step. This is just a good to give you a heads up ballpark. We still have to spend a little bit more time drilling down exactly the costs. In fact, our next step for this would be a study session with the city council. We'd go over sort of the scope of services that we would expect in the next phase, the phase two. We would drill down the scope of work for each of these items and lay that out for you. And again, look for different opportunities to get it funded. So this one, the next step is a conversation with the city council, but the EIFD, we're ready to roll on that if we can find funding. Next slide. The item that we have in our portfolio that would be eligible for one time funding specifically the American Rescue Plan Act would be our Santa Rosa tourism, business improvement area assessment revenue and the loss of the revenue due to the pandemic. So our fiscal year, 1819, we received in terms of TBIA revenue, we collected $739,000. As you can see here, 1920, the revenue collected was 614,000 and then a substantial drop due to COVID. And you can see that revenue estimate at the year end, fiscal year end would be 250,000. We're thinking that it will come back up as we open back up, but it's not gonna open back up to prepare what we lost. So we will be looking at American Rescue Act funds for that. I wanted to explain a little bit about what we use this money for. This revenue does support our economic development team and it does help with our general fund costs for, what, I'm sorry, it helps fund our staffing for economic development because as we know it, this is related to the work that they do, but it's mostly for the programming of that staff, right? So our resource, our asset is the team that is in economic development, but they need programming funds and this is where they get it. In fact, about 60% of this funds is targeted to that. And it's a lot more than just marketing of lodging or tourism. They've gotten very creative about leveraging this money and they've spent it for much broader purposes. For example, in 2017, after the Tubbs Fire, we're open for business campaign. That was a concerted effort, was one of the programs that was funded out of this. The Outdoor Santa Rosa is 100% funded with this money. The Open and Out program that we supported through the pandemic was supported by this. And then it's also as broad as supporting childcare businesses because again, the relationship of supporting the lodging workforce, this is one of their number one needs and so we use that money for that. And next slide please. So this slide is basically a summary of our general fund plus all the other expenditures combined. Obviously general fund is heavy here in our portfolio, but we have some other funds and we talked about the tourism, the VIA and the admin hearing fund. And we can move on to the next slide. And I'll talk about the Art and Loo fund. So with the Art and Loo fund, what it is is, it's a 1% of total construction costs if you're developing a project that's greater than $500,000. You pay 1% into Art and Public Spaces fund. And then we collect that and we do community art programs. Projects can also do on-site art, but this revenue collection is for when they pay the in-loop fee. So Ebsen flows with development. Development has in terms of permits has been actually pretty stable. So this fund is looking quite good. In fact, we're projecting 308,000 this year, 2021-22. And then here's some examples of the things that we're looking at for this next year. So parking garage project, we have maintenance issues with our existing art and grants for temporary installations in underserved neighborhoods. So we're excited about this year because we have funding and we have a great program ahead of us. And then we've talked about the administrative hearing fund. Basically what we're looking at that is to transition from what we were relying on, which was the way that admin hearing fund was set up initially transitioning to reliance on the general fund, unfortunately. But at this time, that's what we have. And then the Santa Rosa Tours and BIA fund. Again, we need to repair the loss in revenue and we're gonna be looking at their American Rescue Plan Act funds for that. And with that, I can take questions. All right, Council, any questions? Just other than taking a longer timeline, Claire, does the position reductions put any current projects in jeopardy? Yes, I mean, that very well could happen because there's a lot of projects that are relying on layering of financing for their projects, whether it's public financing or public slash private financing. So right now, just like they're using a lot of our layering of incentive tools that we offer, they're using a layering of finance tools. So yes, I think we will be in pretty tight spaces working with our deadlines and trying to make projects that have especially affordable housing grant deadlines. There's only so much we can do. We're already challenged right now to do them, frankly. But this will, we might lose a couple. Okay, Council Member Fleming. Yeah, to follow on to that, I mean, given what a priority this is for the council and the community and how much value it brings to the economic health of our region, I'm curious to know why you're not asking for additional funding for where you need it. Because to my mind, it would seem that we should be analyzing everything through a values lens. And I don't mean like moral values. I'm talking about economic values, although sometimes those two could be intermixed here. So what would you need to not have things hold up these goals of ours? Well, it's tough because we're part of a structural budget issue across the organization. And we're not exempt from that. So we need to look somewhere. And we did make a decision. I completely disagree. I understand that we're part of a larger thing, but this is the economic driver that allows us to do the other things. And so I don't know if the instruction comes from the city manager or the CFO to do things like this. But I appreciate that you may be following orders, but it really troubles me that we're not looking at this through a values-driven lens of providing for the city what the city is asking for.  And I appreciate your comment. To my question, like what is it that you need to? We're happy to bring back additional scenarios in the hearings scenario. There's also potential to use our funding to address that. But the council is free to say, we want to add resource here. And then we would just need to know as staff where you want us to remove additional resource. We're happy to address that and take that perspective going into the budget hearing. And I do appreciate that. And so the follow-up question is, what is the resources that are necessary? And perhaps it would take time to gather an answer to that question, but I would like to see the answer to that question come forward with the final budget so that we do have the opportunity to follow through with what we said we wanted to do. We absolutely can do that, councilman. Thank you. Are there any other questions from council members? All right, saying then. Thank you for that part of the presentation. It does look like we're at 330 here. This feels like a good stopping place. Mr. City Manager, are you comfortable with stopping here today or do you want to push through through the Housing and Community Services presentation? We're comfortable stopping here and picking up at the next, at tomorrow morning. Okay, then we'll go ahead and continue the rest of this conversation until tomorrow at 10 o'clock. And council, we will take a half hour break and come back at four o'clock for our regularly scheduled council meeting. All right, Madam City Clerk, can I see a quorum? Let's go ahead and call the roll and resume our meeting. Okay, councilmember Tibbetts, councilmember Schwedhelm. Here. Councilmember Sawyer. Here. Councilmember Fleming. Councilmember Alvarez. Present. Vice Mayor Rogers. Present. Mayor Rogers. Here. Councilmember Fleming, have you joined us? Okay, let the record show that all councilmembers are present with the exception of councilmember Fleming and councilmember Tibbetts. Great, thank you so much. And Madam Zoom host, as we are going into our regular meeting, can you please remind folks how to access the Spanish portion of our listening on Zoom? One moment, Mayor, can you hear me okay? I had to switch headsets. Yep, we can hear you. Thank you. For those of you just joining the meeting, Spanish translation is available in Zoom. If you wish to join the Spanish channel, you can click the interpretation icon on your Zoom toolbar. It looks like a globe. And once you join the Spanish channel, we recommend that you shut off your main audio so you can clearly hear the Spanish translation. Great, thank you so much. As was mentioned earlier, the council met doing our brief budget overview for the day. We will pick that item back up tomorrow at 10 a.m. So we'll see folks on the Zoom at that point. We'll continue to move through our regular council meeting here now with item number six. And it's our first proclamation for water awareness month. And councilmember Schwedhelm, I believe this is you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I think a very appropriate and timely proclamation. So 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 the city of Santa Rosa is a purveyor of the water resource in the Santa Rosa community. And whereas the health of Santa Rosa's growing population and the wealth of our community depends on a reliable, high quality water supply. And whereas because water is a precious resource, why is use of water to 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 minimizing water waste, installing over 56,000 water efficient toilets in nearly 15,000 high efficiency clothes dryers and converting 3.6 million square feet of lawn to low water use landscapes. And whereas the implementation of water use efficiency programs has resulted in an annual reduction of approximately 866 metric tons of greenhouse gases and 6,498 megawatts hours of energy. And whereas the city of Santa Rosa is the owner and operator of the regional water reuse system and is one of the largest recyclers of water producing high quality recycled water for many purposes, including irrigation of parks, commercial businesses and a community garden. And whereas for every drop of recycled water used, a drop of potable water is saved and all citizens are encouraged to be your part, be water smart. Now therefore be it resolved that Chris Rogers, the mayor of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city council proclaims May as water awareness month. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you council member. And receiving the resolution tonight is Claire Nordley. Claire, I know you're queued up. Do you have any comments? Hi, good afternoon. This is Claire Nordley. Sure, I would like to just say a couple of words if that's all right. Thank you, Mayor Rogers and members of the council. I'd like to just take a minute to highlight some of our water awareness month activities. First, obviously we have this proclamation and the presentation of three water use efficiency awards which will take place in just a few minutes. We also had the eco-friendly garden tour which took place this last Saturday on the 15th and featured multiple Santa Rosa low water use gardens. We also currently have a water awareness month coloring contest for kids. The completed coloring sheets will be shown on city connections and our social media page by the end of this month. And for over 25 years, Santa Rosa has offered a suite of best management practices and rebates to encourage smart water use. This year especially, there's no water to waste. Thank you for this proclamation. Thank you so much for all you were doing. Council, do we have any additional comments? All right, I'll go to public comment and see if anybody'd like to speak on this item. And I see no hands. Madam clerk, did we have any pre-recorded voicemail public comments? We did not, Mayor Knobb on 6.1 or 6.2. Great, we'll go on to item 6.2. It's the presentation for the water use efficiency awards. Council Member Sawyer. Thank you, Mayor. And Council Member Schwedemstad, as well. This is a great time to be acknowledging the efficient use of water. Then we have three of these to award this evening. Mayor, do you know if any of the three recipients have they indicated the desire to speak to these items as yet? I will go ahead and look and see if, if I see any of them on the Zoom. Okay. Can you say Ms. Baker? Okay. Okay, so we have Ms. Baker, then that'll be the third, the third one that I'm going to read. And that's what I can do. I can take them out of order. So I'm going to first start with the Landscape Architecture Award. Certificate of Achievement and Baker Landscape Architecture. Your efforts as a lead design firm for the Sonoma Marin Saving Water Partnerships Landscape Design Template Project has helped hundreds of residents rebuild from the 2017 fires. Principal Anne Baker led a multidisciplinary team to develop beautiful front yard landscape designs that emphasize low water use and fire safer plants that meet all city requirements. Over 40% of all rebuilds have utilized these three templates and also gave generously of her time to help the city create realistic architectural renderings to show homeowners what each template design will look like once installed and is signed by the mayor on this date. Thank you, Council Member. And Ms. Baker, did you want to say a few words? Sure, I can say a few words. Thank you so much. My name is Anne Baker. I'm with Anne Baker Landscape Architecture in Petaluma and it really was an honor to work with the city and Sonoma Water on the rebuild effort. And just want to commend the project managers there for coming up with a great project that really met homeowners halfway in the rebuild experience, which was a difficult one for many people. And I also want to thank our project team from Christy Jarvis to Panoram Design Group, Equinox Landscape and Daily Acts for doing its teller job. It was a great experience all around and thank you very much for this award. I appreciate all that you do on the dais. Thank you, Anne, and good work. Congratulations. Thank you. Next, we have a certificate of achievement for the UC Master Gardener program, program that's been going for a very long time. They do great work in the community. The Garden Sense program has provided over 400 free in-person garden consultations in Santa Rosa to Santa Rosa Water customers. Your efforts provided our customers with the knowledge they need, successfully participate in our cash for grass rebate program. The master gardeners also work closely with Santa Rosa Water to provide our customers with free educational workshops in 2020. Congratulations to the UC Master Gardener program. And council member, I do see that another hand has popped up. Let's go ahead and finish the resolutions and then we'll take public comment on this as well. Excellent. And the last one, another certificate of achievement and I apologize in advance for perhaps mispronouncing this last name, but it is to Mr. and Mrs. Miracle. This award is for going above and beyond most customers to conserve water. For many years, you have participated in multiple ways of water-saving rebate programs. This includes removing your lawn, upgrading your irrigation timer to a weather-based system, installing a hot water circulation pump, buying a water efficiency washer and getting ultra low flow toilets. You now use over 50% less water than similar households in Santa Rosa due to these changes. Well done and congratulations. So I will take it to public comment. I see Leslie with your hand up. I need to unmute. My name is Leslie Hart. I'm the garden sense coordinator and I'm calling in to thank you very much for our award. Much, much appreciated. And I specifically want to thank Thomas Hare from the city of Santa Rosa who applied for us for this award. And also to Sonoma Water with whom we've had a partnership since 2013. And you can find garden sense on Sonoma County master gardener page and feel free to go ahead and apply for a free visit from us to help you reduce your water use, especially this year. Thank you very much. Great, thank you so much Leslie. Thank you council member for reading all of the proclamations and congratulations to everybody for the well-deserved recognitions this year. As the other council member said, this is definitely the year for us to be celebrating those achievements and showing folks what's possible throughout our community. Council members, do we have any other comments before we move off of item 6.2? Okay, we'll keep moving then. We have no staff briefings today. So we'll move on to item number eight on our agenda our city manager and city attorneys reports. Madam city attorney, do you want to start? Certainly, Mr. Mayor, this afternoon I do have nothing to report. So I'll pass it over to the city manager. Thank you. Thank you, Sue. And I have nothing to report either. All right, that makes it nice and easy. Do we have any statements of abstention from the council? All right, seeing no hands go up. We'll move on to item number 10. That's mayors and council members reports. Who wants to start? We'll go with the vice mayor. Thank you, mayor. I would like to appoint Henry Hunt to the cultural heritage board. Okay. Thank you so much. Council members, what help? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Well, keeping on a water theme, I did want to update council on some of the topics that were discussed on May 3rd at our water advisory committee meeting. First of all, water supply conditions. Sonoma water staff provided a water supply update. Both reservoirs remain at historic low levels for this time of year. To reserve supplies in both reservoirs, Sonoma water reported that they will be filing a temporary urgency change petition. Again, it's something you've heard this before. Many of you probably have never heard those four words put together prior to this drought condition, but we will continue to be hearing them over the course of the next several weeks and months. So we'll be filing the change petition with the state requesting to continue reduced flows in the upper Russian river, reduce minimum in-stream flow requirements on the lower Russian river, which will result in decreased releases from Lake Sonoma and committing to a 20% reduction in diversions from the Russian river compared to 2020 for the months of July through October. A reduction in diversions will result in reduced deliveries to the water contractors. Next point, Sonoma Marin Water Saving Partnership summer drought outreach campaign. The WAC received an update from Sonoma water staff regarding the activities of the Sonoma Marin saving water partnership, including the regional summer drought outreach program with the new tagline, drought is here, save water. The partnership is transitioning to an aggressive drought campaign with multimedia outreach and other events planned throughout the remainder of the year. Additionally, we talked about the 20% voluntary water conservation resolution in response to drought conditions. The WAC unanimously adopted a resolution requesting the members of the Sonoma Marin saving water partnership voluntarily reduced their water use by 20% over 2020 levels. This item will be before council today, which is item 14.1 for those of you keeping track. We also talked about the temporary allocation of water deliveries. The allocation of water during the shortage continues conditions is outlined in our agreement for water supply with Sonoma water. For the agreement, the Sonoma Water Board adopted an allocation methodology in 2006. Our water supply agreement further provides that as an alternative the WAC by unanimous vote in determine how water is allocated through the water shortage. The WAC unanimously approved a temporary alternative allocation of water use this summer should the state board require Sonoma water to reduce deliveries to the contractors. The temporary allocation is an equal reduction deliveries for all of the four month period from July through October of 2021. The technical advisory committee will continue to develop an updated allocation methodology to replace the 2006 version that accounts for historical investments by contractors in water conservation and local supplies. The updated methodology is planned to come before the WAC for consideration later this summer. As long as you know if you have any questions, thank you. I thank you, council member. Are there any questions for council members what helm on this? All right, do we have any other updates from council members? Council member Sawyer. Thank you, mayor. The economic development subcommittee held this monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 11th during which we discussed two very important topics. First with a passage of SB 93 which is the state's hospitality right to recall legislation. The subcommittee revisited our split recommendation to bring consideration of a local ordinance to the full council. Given the labor proposed local ordinance is essentially identical to what was passed statewide, we unanimously decided to withdraw our recommendation for consideration of this item by the full council. And for those of you that may be interested in the differences between the state law and the proposed local version, the state law allows for a five day notice period to employees as proposed to the 10 day whole period for employees to decide if they want to be rehired and we felt that was very, very close so we let the state prevail on that. And the second one that was proposed by the state also enforcement in the state law goes through the labor commissioner as opposed to the request that there be a city filing on behalf of employees for their option for a private right faction. So we decided this was very, very close to the state law and decided to pass on bringing in any changes or recommending any changes. The second item on the agenda was the introduction and discussion of project labor agreements. This generated a fair amount of public input which was very important. This was a very robust discussion but we came to recognize that it may be a bit premature in that the topic is not linked to council's current list of priorities. And we understand we'll be getting the new council priorities in the next month or two. So we'll hold off reconsidering this until we see the new list. That said, there was general consensus that this is not an urgent issue especially in consideration of the economic recovery programs and initiatives that staff are currently working on. Not unlike many departments in our city their plate is full and overflowing. So we will be back in touch when we have more information on PLAs. Great, thank you council member. So I have a couple of things to report out on. We had our Sedoma County Transportation Authority board meeting last week where we went over the MTC plan Bay Area 2050 plan that's available online for folks to look at if you were interested. Particular point of contention that came up in the meeting was the omission intentional omission by MTC of the projects for SMART going from Windsor to Healdsburg to Cloverdale. That's something that this council will obviously want to keep appraised on just because if it's not in the plan it's not eligible for state nor federal funding which means it would be fully reliant on the sales tax measure Q for SMART in order to get that funding and would impact pretty significantly our region. So we're working on that issue. I'll also report out that we had a climate action subcommittee meeting and one of the items that we heard was a discussion about banning new gas infrastructure gas station infrastructure throughout our community and with unanimous direction from the subcommittee we are developing what a potential program could look like similarly modeled towards Petaluma and other programs as well but the subcommittee did have a desire to continue that conversation and keep moving that idea forward. Two quick appointments here tonight. The first in discussions with staff they found that it was particularly valuable for us to have a formal ad hoc committee that focused on homelessness. So we will be reconstituting that with council member Schwethelm and the vice mayor who are already our representatives to the CDC as well as the continuum of care having the ad hoc in place will actually allow us to be a little bit more nimble as we try to stand up additional homeless services programs and collaborate with other jurisdictions. We also given the drought conditions and the potential for public safety power shutoffs this year we're also going to reconstitute our fire ad hoc and that'll be myself council member Schwethelm and council member Tibbets who will serve on that ad hoc committee and that'll be a very important part of the discussion and opportunity for staff to work with us as issues arrives going into fire season. But that will keep moving on our agenda. We have two minutes that are available April 27th and April 20th council were there any amendments to item 11 council member Sawyer. Thank you mayor it's really very minor but on the April 20th special meeting I did arrive after roll call due to some technical issues with my equipment which is not altogether unusual but I did attend the vast majority of the meeting. So the clerk can either leave it checked as absent or not and I just thought I would clarify that. Thank you. I think we can make that amendment council member. Let's go to public comment to see if there are any additions from the public. All right I'm not seeing any hands pop up. Without objection council will show those as adopted with council member Sawyer's attendance being reflected. Mr. Mayor they did the minister reflect apparently he had four minutes of technological challenges that shows he joined us at 504. Yeah we'll fix the check box. All right and with that we'll go on to consent Mr. City Manager. Item 12.1 resolution acknowledging receipt of a report made by the Santa Rosa fire chief regarding compliance with sections 13146.2 and 13146.3 of the California health and safety code. Councilor there are any questions about item 12.1? It's saying done we'll go to public comment. If anybody in the public is interested in commenting on item 12.1 go ahead and hit the raise hand feature on your zoom or if you're dialing in via phone hit star nine. Okay Madam clerk I'm not seeing any hands raised. Did we have any pre-recorded public comments? No there were no voice message public comments for item 12. Okay council I'll go ahead and bring it back. Madam Vice Mayor. Thank you Mayor. I move item 12.1 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. All right motion by the vice mayor second by council member Sawyer. Let's go ahead and call the roll. Council member Schwigam. Aye. Council member Sawyer. Aye. Council member Fleming. Yes. Council member Alvarez. Aye. Vice Mayor Rogers. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. Let the record show that the motion passes with six ayes with council member Kibbutz absent. All right thank you Madam clerk. It's not five o'clock yet so we'll come back for a public comment for non-agenda items at that time. And then said we'll go on to item 14.1. Item 14.1 report resolution requesting community wide 20% reduction of water use through voluntary water conservation measures. Jennifer Burke director of Santa Rosa water leading us off. Thank you city manager McLean and thank you Mayor Rogers and members of council. As was mentioned earlier on some previous items in recognition of drought conditions we are here today to ask the council to adopt a resolution requesting a voluntary community wide 20% reduction in water use compared to 2020. Peter Martin our deputy director of water resources and I will provide some background information including recent actions that have been taken by the state, the county and the water advisory committee for the WAC. We'll also review the programs, tips, tools and resources that we have to assist our customers and talk about next steps that may be occurring later this year. If we can have the next slide please. So thank you. As a reminder to the council and the public we do purchase 95% of our water supply from Sonoma water which is the region's water wholesaler. Sonoma water's water supply comes from the Russian river which you can see depicted on the slide here. They manage releases from our two local reservoirs Lake Mendocino which is up north by Yucaya and then Lake Sonoma. They manage releases to meet municipal and industrial water supply as well as minimum in stream flow requirements as governed by their water rights permits which are commonly referred to as state water board decision 1610. As we all likely realize we are in a second consecutive dry year with last year being the third driest year on record and this year unfortunately shaping up to be the driest year on record for our watershed. In recognition we started taking actions late last year and earlier this year. We have been coordinating closely with Sonoma water and the other water contractors and earlier this year in February Sonoma water filed a temporary urgency change petition and they petitioned the state water board to reduce flows in the upper Russian river preserving water supply in Lake Mendocino. If we can go to the next slide please. In addition to actions that Sonoma water was taking Santa Rosa water started in mid December by messaging about the dry year. We launched our multimedia dry year campaign and this effort was supported and supplemented by the Sonoma Marine saving water partnership to provide this campaign throughout the region. Since it was still early in the winter at that time there was still a possibility for rain which could have significantly changed our water supply outlook. But as we all know if we go to the next slide the rain did not materialize. As you can see from this graph these are the rainfall totals for our region. In Santa Rosa we are currently at 12.86 inches which we should be in a normal time at 36 inches. In Ukaia which is where Lake Mendocino is located we're at about 13.5 inches and the average should be 34. The rainfall typically occurs in sort of the November through April timeframe. So we're pretty much out of that rainfall period. And so as I mentioned it's looking like this may turn out to be the driest year on record. If we go to the next slide. So as the potential for rainfall got smaller and smaller there were a number of additional actions that took place in particular on April 21st. The governor came up to Lake Mendocino and he declared a drought emergency for Mendocino and Sonoma counties. And you may have heard since then as dry conditions are pervasive throughout the state additional counties have also been declared in drought conditions. If we go to the next slide please Sonoma County then followed suit on April 27th and declared a drought emergency asking for water conservation implementation and requesting additional funding assistance from both the state and federal government to help us with various drought related response. If you go to the next slide please. So both reservoirs are currently at their lowest level forever for this time of year. While Lake Mendocino is a much smaller reservoir and typically has a one year supply Lake Sonoma is a significantly bigger reservoir and has multiple years of supply. So we're really preparing for and making sure what happens if we have another dry year. So we're taking action now to preserve water in Lake Sonoma. In addition to what we're gonna be asking of the council today Sonoma water as council member Schwedhelm mentioned earlier did indeed file another temporary urgency change petition late last week asking to lower the minimum in stream flows from the current requirement of 75 cubic feet per second which is normally the requirement for dry conditions to critically dry condition requirement of 35 cubic feet per second. This will help them preserve supply in Lake Sonoma. They also asked that the reduction in the upper Russian river at 25 cubic feet per second remain throughout the remainder of this year. In addition to the request to reduce the minimum in stream flows Sonoma water also committed to reduce their diversions from the Russian river during the months of July through October by 20% compared to 2020. Once the state acts on the temporary urgency change petition which we think likely will be in June we will know what the amount of reduction in diversions from the Russian river that will be required. Once that is known Sonoma water will then allocate water to all of their contractors including Santa Rosa and then we will as staff determine the appropriate stage of our shortage plan to implement and we will be back in front of council with that recommendation likely in June, maybe in July. In the meantime, we are asking our community to act now by voluntarily reducing their water use by eliminating water waste and improving water use efficiency. So I'll turn the presentation now over to Deputy Director Martin will provide an update on water shortage information the actions of the WAC and the tools and the resources that we have to help our customers reduce water use. Deputy Director Martin. Thank you very much. Good afternoon Mayor Rogers and members of the council. As you heard, Director Burke gave a very good overview of how we got to this point right now and I'll be kind of pulling it all together and talk about how we'll be moving forward. So next slide please. Lake Minasino, I guess you all are probably very familiar with these graphics from Sonoma water at this point is currently at about 36,000 acre feet of storage or 43% of their target water storage for this time of year. At the May 3rd Water Advisory Committee meeting to Sonoma water, Sonoma water staff really emphasized the critical nature of what's going on in the situation in the Upper Russian River. We were reminded that the order that they're operating under which was filed back in January this year that allows them to reduce the releases from Lake Minasino to critical minimums expires at the end of June. So as Director Burke mentioned, if that order is not extended and paired with substantial reductions and inversions in the upper watershed, Lake Minasino could drop to minimum storage levels by October. It's notable that Sonoma water doesn't have control over the upper Russian River users for the most part, but has been part of a larger coordination with the State Water Resource Control Board and is part of discussions with the variety of diverters in the upper Russian River. It's come up with voluntary reduction agreements throughout the remainder of the summer. Next slide. Currently, storage in Lake Sonoma is about 145,000 acre feet or about 59% of their target water supply curve for this time of year. It is lower than we've seen during the most recent historical drought. But obviously they're continuing to monitor this and make actions as appropriate, like filing a new temporary agency change petition. The outflow into Dry Creek is about 100 cubic feet per second. As a reminder, the previous temporary city change petition by Sonoma water did not cover the lower watershed, but this action today will continue their, excuse me, the action this week, last week, will allow them to reduce their diversions or excuse me, releases by about a little more than half going into the summer and fall and preserving critical storage for storage for their contractors and the threatened and dangerous species in the lower watershed. Next slide, please. So in response to these critical drought conditions, being experienced throughout the watershed, the Water Advisory Committee to Sonoma Water took action at their meeting on May 3rd. A resolution was passed requesting contractors that received water from Lake Sonoma urged their customers to reduce their consumption by 20% over 2020 levels and take action immediately to help customers achieve these reductions to preserve water stored in Lake Sonoma and Lake Minnesino. Next slide. At the same time this month, we've transitioned into a regional summer drought campaign the tagline, drought is here, save water. This new campaign will be initially configured around a goal of helping customers achieve a 20% savings in their homes or businesses. Our focus at Santa Rosa water is gonna be on simple changes that can help our community save water immediately including suspending or reducing outdoor irrigation, finding and fixing leaks and replacing non-efficient water fixtures everywhere possible. There will be a multimedia radio, digital and print advertising efforts and those will be planned in bilingual English and Spanish. And of course, you will get to start to see high visibility signage and advertising throughout Santa Rosa. Next slide. Additionally, we are happy that we launched a drought webpage for Santa Rosa water. The new webpage is intended to be a one-stop shop for information on drought for Santa Rosa waters customers and the community. The latest information on conditions and conservation requests and restrictions will be centrally located on this webpage. We'll also include helpful info and frequently asked questions and leaks to tips and water use efficiency programs will also be provided. And finally, customers can directly link there to report water waste they see in their neighborhoods or out in their community. That link is srcity.org save water. Next slide. So staff of the water department have been working for quite a while but are getting some work to make sure that a message is being carried internally and our operations are consistent with the message that we're projecting to the public. We're meeting regularly with other city departments and making sure that they feel that they have the support of the water department and the tools they need to make adjustments and respond to this community-wide request. We're making full use of radio, social media and digital advertising to direct the public to resources available to them to save water now. Obviously, this aligns very nicely with Water Awareness Month. As you can see, we have the coloring activity and several other activities going on this month as well. We are coordinating with the Sonoma Water and our partners in the region, including the Sonoma Wren Water Saving Partnership to ensure consistent messaging and a rollout of conservation requests all up and down throughout the watershed. So you will start to see signs and banners with the drought is here, save water logo in the region. And a larger banner was actually just placed in the corner outside of the building where I currently reside at the Municipal Service Center South. So look for these signs to start showing up around the city over the next few weeks. And of course, one of our best communication tools is messaging that is included in customers' bills and on their envelopes. A good example is in January and February, we included bill inserts directing customers to resources to save water now. And we saw immediately a 500% increase in water use efficiency requests and phone calls after those bill inserts went out. Like the one you see before you that shows water saving opportunities to replace turf. Next slide. Other activities, the department is beginning to launch or starting to take shape to get us through this summer. We'll have a regional drought drop-by event planned through the support of the Sonoma Renn Saving Water Partnership on June 12th. This will be multiple locations in Mendocino, Sonoma and Marin counties. We'll be having one here in the city from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds where we'll be handing out buckets so people can reuse water in their shower as well as other water saving devices and tools for our customers. This month we began water waste patrols throughout the city. We're doing those early in the morning, getting out there and notifying folks that maybe have broken sprinkler heads or water running off into the gutters. They would receive what you see there, which is an hoops tag. It allows us to follow up and educate the customer about the issue as it comes up. And then of course you'll see increased visibility of campaign and resources for our community to achieve savings now. And then of course we're continuing to coordinate citywide on a drought response with parks, for instance, planning and economic development and also the fire department and others as well. Next slide. I'm very excited to announce that we have a series of garden workshops that will be coming up in the summer focused on low water use gardening techniques and implementation. We partnered with the UC master gardeners and daily acts to develop content and hopes these workshops throughout the remainder of the summer. At the moment these workshops are limited to virtual offerings but that may change depending on public health directives. Right now we do have one workshop in Spanish and are looking to expand those offerings as part of our contract partnership with daily acts. Signups will be available on our WaterSmart web pages. Next slide. And as we have been, we continue to direct our customers to resources we have available to them to use water efficiently in their homes and businesses. Customers are being asked to sort of complete a do-it-yourself water checkup in their home or business. We have DIY home checkup kits that allow customers to do an evaluation of the water use efficiency in their home, find and fix leaks and follow up with our water use efficiency team if necessary. We're asking customers to check toilets for leaks every few months. We provide free dye tabs, replace old shower heads with high efficiency models. We also provide those for free. Fix leaks quickly and replace old faucet aerators with high efficiency water aerator fixtures as well. We also continue to offer in-person outdoor irrigation checkups to help customers dial in their outdoor water use this summer. And we have a variety of water saving rebate offerings that I'll discuss more on the next slide. Customers are encouraged to visit srcity.org slash watersmart and email or call our water use efficiency team at the contact info below. Next slide. And just a reminder, we do everything we can to incentivize a customer's investment in water use efficiency by offering a variety of rebates for homes and businesses. Many of these rebates do require pre-inspection before any work is started. So customers should seek out information or consultation water use efficiency staff before starting their projects or purchasing devices in order to be eligible for a full rebate. For our business community, we also offer several targeted rebates for large landscapes, commercial kitchens and other operational process improvements in their businesses. Next slide. So I'm just gonna try to recap here. I know Director Burke had kind of went through some of these steps earlier, but I just wanna highlight some of the next steps of the regional water supply measures and what we're gonna move on throughout the summer. We're continually preparing for this critical situation as you know, and we'll ramp up our conservation messaging activities over the next few months. Today we are asking the city council to pass a resolution implementing a voluntary community-wide conservation request in line with other cities and water suppliers in the region. Santa Rosa water is working with Snowm Water and its contractors to update the water shortage allocation methodology which will better help the contractors to understand the cutbacks in deliveries this summer after the temporary urgency change petition is approved by the state water resources control board. We expect that the state water resource control board will respond to Snowm Water's temporary sea change petition that was filed last week sometime, hopefully in June. This will allow staff to better prepare to formally launch the city's water shortage contingency plan according to those essential demand scenarios and reductions from Snowm Water's deliveries. And at that time, Santa Rosa water staff will return to city council with a recommendation for the institution of a water shortage contingency plan stage and institute mandatory prohibitions and restrictions likely in June or July. So next slide. So today we're recommending by the board of public utilities and Santa Rosa water staff that the council by resolution request to cut water customers reduce their water use by 20% through voluntary conservation measures over 2020 levels. And we should go to the last slide here. Santa Rosa water of course is here to help you save water during this time. You can visit our water smart resources at srcity.org water smart or and then also we have the drought webpage which I mentioned earlier, srcity.org save water. That concludes my presentation this time. All right, thank you so much, Mr. Martin. Councilor, are there any questions? Director, I've just got a quick one for you. As I talked to folks about water in the community, the number one question that I get is about our urban water management plan and the findings that we have the water available over a 20 year period to meet our housing demands while at the same time messaging around this individual drought that we find ourselves in. Is there a resource on the website or somewhere that I can better point people to so that they can understand the difference between where we currently sit and what we see in terms of long-term development? Thank you, Mayor Rogers. That's a great question. And that is one of probably the most frequent questions we receive also in the water department. We are in the midst of updating our urban water management plan. We will be bringing that forward to the city council, I believe on June 8th for consideration. Folks can go directly to our website, which is srcity.org slash UWMP, which stands for Urban Water Management Plan, to take a look at the current Urban Water Management Plan and provide comments. Drought and water shortages are very common in the climate that we do have. And so we are always constantly looking at planning for the needs of our general plan, looking out at what the requirements are to ensure that we have enough water for our general plan. But we also have the ability to respond during shortage conditions. So long-term, based on all of our water supply portfolio and mix, we have enough supply for the general plan. During times of drought or shortage, we have our water shortage contingency plan that allows us to reduce use as needed and also requires in higher stages that developments basically have a zero net impact and bring their own water. And in some cases, two, three and four times the amount of what their new demand would be. So we definitely factor that in. It's part of everything that we're planning for. And again, I would encourage folks, if they have questions, they can definitely contact our department, but they can also go to srcity.org slash wwmp for the latest draft of our plan. Thank you so much, Director. Council, any additional questions? All right, we'll go to the public for public comment. You're interested in commenting on this item. Go ahead and hit the raise hand feature on your Zoom. All right, seeing none. Madam clerk, do we have any pre-recorded voice mails? We did not, sir. All right, then I'll bring it back to council. Council Member Alvarez, do you want to put the motion on the table for us? Absolutely, thank you, Mayor Nair. I have a resolution. Resolution of the council to see Santa Rosa with what some customers produce water used by 20% through voluntary and conservation measures. And I will wait for the reading. Second. So motion by council member Alvarez, a second by council member Sawyer. Let's go ahead and call the roll. Council Member Schwedhelm. Aye. Council Member Sawyer. Aye. Council Member Fleming. Aye. Council Member Alvarez. Aye. Council Member, I'm sorry, Vice Mayor Rogers. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. That motion passes with six ayes with council member Tibbetts absent. Right, thank you so much, Director. Thank you, Mr. Martin. We look forward to talking more about this issue on June 8th. Council will go on to item 14.2. Mr. City Manager. Item 14.2, report motion resolution and urgency ordinance, appointment of the interim city manager and establishment of compensation. I will turn it over to Amy Reeve and Sue Gallagher for the presentation. And I do believe, Madam City Attorney, that we have to make the findings of urgency for us to be able to consider this item tonight. Is that correct? That is correct. Can you explain for the public what that process looks like and then I'll entertain a motion from the council? Certainly. The issue is that the council had, there's two documents that control what can be heard by the council during a council meeting in terms of what's on the agenda. So our council's existing early agenda policy and as well as our new open government ordinance, which is not yet technically in effect, but the council has a directed staff to implement that ordinance early. Both of those require that any item be placed first on a preliminary agenda posted several weeks before the final, before the council meeting, before it is placed on a final agenda. There's an exception though, that allows an urgent item to be placed on a final agenda that was not on the preliminary agenda. If the council with a vote of at least six council members finds that there is good cause and good cause means generally that the issue that the issue has arisen come up quickly outside of the control of the council. The council did not have control over the timing and that to delay hearing of the item would prejudice either in private individual or the operations of the city. And we believe that the council can make those findings in this instance. The, we have the resignation of our existing city manager and we had the time that it took out of council's control to do a solicitation, to do a recruitment for an interim city manager. So I leave it to the council to determine whether it is comfortable making those findings and moving forward with this item. All right. Before I bring it to council, I'll go ahead and check public comment first and see if there's anybody in the public who'd like to make a comment about those findings, right? Seeing no hands. Madam vice mayor, I think you were about to speak. I'm going to try. So I would like to make a motion or an urgent item with good cause for appointment of a city manager. Can I make it a second? I'll second. All right. Motion from the vice mayor and a second from council member Alvarez. Madam city clerk, could you please call the roll? Yes. Council member Schwedhelm. Aye. Council member Sawyer. Aye. Council member Fleming. Council member Alvarez. Aye. Was that you council member Fleming? Yes. Thank you. Council member Alvarez. Aye. Vice mayor Rogers. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. That motion passes with six ayes with council member Tibbets absent. Okay, with that we have item 14.2 officially on the agenda. Ms. Reeve, do you want to take us away? Yes. Thank you mayor and council members. I'm Amy Reeve, the director of human resources. And before I go through the presentation this evening, I'd like to turn it over again to city attorney Sue Gallagher to explain a change in the adoption of the resolution this evening. Thank you, director. Aye. Good afternoon mayor and council members. Once again. We have, I would ask for some changes. We are bringing forward the council's appointment of Jeff Cullen as interim city manager. And we have two documents we'll be asking the council to consider. One is a resolution for that appointment and the second is an ordinance that will set his compensation in accordance with state law. And our charter which requires that salary have been a city manager be adopted by ordinance, I'm sorry. We are, this has been a very quick turnaround. As you know, the interviews for the interim city manager were just late last week, mid and late last week. And we have been working, we have reached agreement with Jeff Cullen, your appointee, your designated, your selected appointee. We have reached agreement with him on all the terms of his employment agreement. We are though still working with CalPERS to ensure that his start date is consistent with all of their regulations. So we, I do have some revisions to both the urgency ordinance and to the resolution, which we will, which we can address after director Reeve's presentation to address that timing issue. Ultimately, the urgency ordinance, the council may go forward and adopt that urgency ordinance with some minor revisions. The resolution can also be adopted but with some more significant resolutions with a return to council next week, I would propose on consent with the final employment agreement. Again, I wanna emphasize, this is not any dispute or any issue between the city and Mr. Poulin. That's, we've worked out all of the terms of the employment agreement is simply working with CalPERS to ensure that we are consistent in every step with their regulations. So I will hand it back to director Reeves. And then once we're ready to, once the council is ready to consider the urgency ordinance and the resolution, I will offer those revisions. Thank you. Thank you. So as Sue mentioned, the resolution and urgency ordinance before you this evening will likely come back next time via consent, but we will go through the presentation so that we can establish an intention to appoint the interim city manager and to establish the compensation for the interim city manager. But we can go to the next slide, please. So in summary, city manager Sean McGlynn has announced his resignation and the city will be conducting an extensive open recruitment for his replacement. It is anticipated that the recruitment could take six months or more and to ensure a smooth transition and uninterrupted city operations, the city council does seek to appoint interim city manager to serve in the position until a new permanent city manager is found. Next slide, please. The recruitment process for the next city manager could take between six and nine months realistically and will include significant community engagement and outreach, as well as a nationwide search for a diverse and qualified candidate pool. Jeffrey Cullen is being recommended for consideration as the interim city manager. And Mr. Cullen brings 41 years of local government leadership, including nine years previously serving the community of Santa Rosa as the city manager. With the ongoing pandemic and the recent declaration of fire season, the leadership of the interim city manager will be essential in managing the city's response to the ongoing public health emergency, the resulting impacts to the city's budget and local business community and economy. The conditions of drought, wildfire risks and ongoing city projects and initiatives and any emergencies that may arise as well. Next slide, please. It is recommended that the city council by motion find good cause under the early agenda policy and the open government ordinance to consider this item notwithstanding that the item did not appear on the preliminary agenda. Staff recommends that council find that the resignation of city manager McGlynn and the time needed for the solicitation of the interim city manager are exceptional circumstances beyond the control of the city council and that any potential vacancy would impose a substantial burden on the city's ability to conduct its business. And by resolution that the city council point Jeffrey Cullen to the position of interim city manager and adopt an urgency ordinance establishing the compensation of the interim city manager at the amount of $117.95 per hour. Under the city charter, five affirmative votes are necessary to adopt such an urgency ordinance. Next slide, please. Any questions or Sue, did you wanna add anything about the next meeting? Yes, if the, certainly if the council has any questions when the council's ready, I will offer up proposed revisions to both the ordinance and to the resolution. Okay. Council, do we have any questions? Council member Sawyer. Thank you, mayor. Madam city attorney, so I have this item. Are these are the changes that you would be making to this item? I assume that they would be lengthy enough to need some fair amount of revision to what I'm seeing before me. So we would be bringing this back next week. Are you looking for a continuance to do that? Actually, I have, thank you for bringing that up. You actually, the council actually has two options. One would be to move forward tonight with the ordinance and a revised ordinance and revised resolution, the revisions of which I would read into the record. And you may want to do that to kind of confirm to the community that yes, you have made this selection and you are intending to finalize the appointment of Mr. Cullen. Alternatively, if the council would prefer we can have the full, both the ordinance and the resolution on the calendar for next week. The one issue with that is that the ordinance itself, I believe, I'll confirm but I don't believe that it can be on consent. It would need to be on the regular calendar. The resolution and approval of the final employment agreement can certainly be on consent. So a couple of different options. One, continue the whole thing to next week to adopt just the ordinance tonight, continue the resolution to next week or adopt the ordinance and a revised resolution tonight with a separate resolution that simply adopts the, that approves the employment agreement on consent next week. So three options. So I could read the resolution as far as I have it and then have you with the additions that will be now be stated by the city attorney and then you could read the necessary additions. Yes, we can do it that way. And actually the title of the resolution is changing as well. So you may prefer to have me read the title and then you make the motion to adopt that resolution as revised. Oh, that sounds much more simple. I won't make you repeat what I said. So. All right, so director, I've got a question and it's the hourly wage is fairly specific. How did we come up with what the hourly wage is and what are the rules surrounding it for the public? Thank you. So CalPERS requires that when we have an interim appointment such as at this interim city manager appointment that we bring that individual in at the rate of pay that the outgoing employee was paid. So in other words, this is the same rate of pay. It's the hourly equivalent of Mr. McGlynn's current salary. So it was the easiest negotiation of your life? It was, yes. Councilor, are there any other questions? All right, we'll go to public comment on this item. See if there are any hands. Are there any voicemail public comments? You received no voicemail public comments on this item there. Okay, thank you. I'll bring it back. I'll just say really fast off the top. It is not lost on me as I'm sure it's not lost on the rest of the council that Mr. Cullen even prior to having this discussion tonight has been on our call listening to the entire budget meeting for the entirety of the day. So we do appreciate not only that but the willingness to step up and serve our community at a pretty pivotal time for us. I think you and I have a conversation over the weekend and I think we both agree that Santa Rosa's challenges are great but the opportunities are there as well for us to be able to do some impactful things for our community. And I just am really grateful and wanted to express on behalf of the council how grateful we are for Mr. Cullen's willingness to come back and serve the community that he currently lives in and has grown to love as well. Councilor, are there any other comments before we put a motion on the table? All right, then I'm gonna bypass council member Sawyer and I'm gonna go straight to Sue to see what the suggested language looks like. Sure, thank you, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Let's start with the resolution on the new title of the resolution. We'll read a resolution of the city council of the city of Santa Rosa appointing Jeff Cullen to the position of interim city manager and directing staff to return with an employment agreement for council consideration at the next available council meeting. That would be the title and the amendments are, and I will, there are a couple. The first is in the fifth, whereas which had a blank for the start date would be revised to read, whereas Jeffrey Cullen desires to serve as interim city manager of the city of Santa Rosa during the recruitment of a new permanent city manager. It's the end of that whereas and the end of that change. The next whereas so that's the sixth whereas that references an exhibit A which was intended to be the employment agreement. So we will simply delete from that whereas the phrase as attachment A two and instead say which will be memorialized in an employment agreement to be approved as deformed by the city attorney. And then the now therefore be it resolved is revised a little more significantly. I will read how the revised version reads it's relatively short. Now therefore be it resolved by the council of the city of Santa Rosa that the council appoints Mr. Cullen to the position of interim city manager subject to an employment agreement to be finalized and returned to the council on the consent calendar at the council's next available meeting. That is the final revision to the proposed resolution. So my response would be so moved including revisions articulated by city attorney Gallagher. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Motion by council member Sawyer second by the vice mayor. Are there any additional questions or comments from the council? All right, madam clerk, let's call the roll. Council member Schwedhelm. Aye. Council member Sawyer. Aye. Council member Fleming. Yes. Council member Alvarez. Aye. Vice mayor Rogers. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. That motion passes with six eyes with council member Tibbetts absent. All right. Thank you so much. Again, thank you, Mr. Cullen and staff. Thank you so much for your diligent work on this. Amy and Sue, I know it's been a lot for both of you and your teams and we just really appreciate the effort. Thank you. We do have still the ordinance to go. So. Okay. If I might for the ordinance, I would add to the there will be a revision to the actual ordinance language, but also two additions to the recitals. So in the first whereas after first whereas has currently four subsections, we will add a new subsection D which will read and let me clarify. These are the facts that are serving as a basis for the finding that it's an urgency to adopt this ordinance to be effective immediately. So a new paragraph D, which is current city manager, Sean McGlynn has announced his resignation period. New subsection E, new subsection E, recruitment of a permanent city manager is likely to take six months or more period. And then the current sub paragraph D turns into sub paragraph F and reads as it's currently written, which is that the interim city manager is integral to manage the city's response and then lists some of the issues that is facing the city. Then in section one of the ordinance itself is revised. The first sentence of section one is revised to read compensation shall be paid to interim city manager, Jeffrey Cullen at the rate of $117.95 per hour beginning on his employment in June, 2021 and continuing throughout the term of his employment period. The second sentence remains unchanged and that is that no other benefits incentives, compensation in lieu of benefits or other form of compensation shall be paid. The rest of the ordinance remains as written. So moved, including revisions articulated by city attorney Gallagher. Second. All right, motion by council member Sawyer and a second from the vice mayor. Let's call that roll. Council member Schwedhelm. Aye. Council member Sawyer. Aye. Council member Fleming. Yes. Council member Alvarez. Aye. Vice mayor Rogers. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. That motion passes with six ayes with council member Tibbetts absent. Okay. I'm gonna take a personal point of privilege here and I'm gonna go ahead and go to Mr. Cullen who's raised his hand to say a couple of words. I just wanted to say thank you to Mayor Rogers and the city council. I am looking forward to joining the team and working on the council's priorities, getting reacquainted with the staff and community. I have some time scheduled later this week with city manager McLenn to download a lot of information that he's gonna pass along to me. So this is an exciting opportunity for me. I look forward to working with all of you. All right, thank you so much Mr. Cullen and we're looking forward to it as well. Council, any other comments or questions? Great. We'll move on to our next item and that's our public comment for non-agenda matters. If folks are interested in speaking on non-agenda matters go ahead and hit the raise hand feature on your Zoom or if you're dialing in hit star nine on your phone. Okay, we'll start with Kathleen followed by Gregory. Good afternoon council members. I'd like to remind you that our homeless neighbors in Santa Rosa are trapped in an evolving door of perpetual misery of endless encampments that leave them with no legal option to rest. These sweeps are expensive and there's no end in sight. I ask that you stop these sweeps immediately. I'm further asking you to consider the fastest and least expensive option that can put an end to this tragic guacamole game. Transitional villages with safe parking tents and prefab units in any kind of combination can provide desperately needed stability, hygiene, medical and behavioral health services and other services such as job retraining that can help prepare residents for permanent housing whenever it becomes available. Please designate at least $1 million in new funding for homeless housing and services with a call for matching funds from the county. Our neighbors need a helping hand and I beg you to be part of the solution we need now. Thank you very much. Thank you, Kathleen. We'll go to Gregory followed by Adrian. Good evening. I know two things tonight to be true. The first is that you have a lot on your agenda and you've been working really hard for the very little money that we give you. The second is that you value public input that you really want to hear and you want to partner with the community in all the decisions that you make. So I'm really confused about the public discussion you had earlier today. It was a review of the budget and it was very valuable to listen to. I sat through the whole three and a half hours and quite a few of my friends did also but they kept waiting for the time in which they could participate and it never came. Now that's very much out of your character. That's very different from the way you conduct this meeting and lots of other meetings. So I'm really confused. I don't know whether it was just an aberration that somehow you had to move through a lot of information and you consciously said, well, we just don't have time for the public. We get their emails and that's enough. And if you think that's enough and that that's gonna become the common way of having either special meetings or even hurriedly public council meetings, then I'm gonna be even more disappointed in you. Take another look at what it took to put that agenda together and what might have failed and please don't repeat it again. You need us, we need you and we need a healthy dialogue that you have to value, please. All right, thank you, Gregory. Next up is Adrienne. Hi, my name's Adrienne Lobby. I am the president of the board of SAVE, Sonoma Applied Village Services and also the co-founder of Homeless Action. I'm gonna continue the theme of homelessness here. I got a picture today of Coffee Lane with about 10 RVs, very nice and neat, up against the curb. And they noticed that these people are slated to be removed any minute now. And I did attend the budget meeting and I noticed that the public works has over $100,000 a year that they spend in towing large vehicles. And they're looking for $34,000 increase in the coming year. Not all these are homeless people in RVs, but the ones that you do tow, you are towing people's homes away. So while you're spending money and too much money to tow everybody, you are also decreasing what you wanna have, which is more housing, more shelter. I don't have to tell you there's a crisis of homelessness in Santa Rosa. You've declared it an emergency year by year. We have 1,800 homeless people in the city and over 1,000 every night without a place to sleep that's legal and safe. We need a variety of help. We need overnight parking sites, 24-hour parking sites, RV parking sites, and we need at least one non-congregate, in other words, a non-dorm room site for people. We have plans and saves that we'd like to share with you and cost analysis for how to do all of these things. But the bottom line is, you're gonna wanna do stuff this year. You're gonna wanna do, I think, a fair amount of things because the problem's not going away, the sweeps are now incessant and very, very traumatic. They don't fix anything. So I'm gonna join Kathleen and say, please put a million dollars aside. Aside, in addition to whatever you decide to spend on Sam Jones, put that money aside for your projects, the things that you all wanna do, that you wanna plan or project or pilot to take care of things in your neighborhoods and your districts. You know, it's a moving target. We've got the PG&E fund, we've got some state funds, we've got some federal funds coming. Make sure that you have a good matching fund and a good flexible fund for the things that those funds won't fund. And let's move forward together. I am really very appreciative of all of you for your attention and your discussions and your care for the homeless people in our community. Thanks. All right, thank you, Adrienne. Madam Clerk, do we have any voicemail public comments? We received no voice message public comments on item 13 or 17 non-agenda matters. Okay. And I did wanna, I'll bring it back to the council. I did wanna just reply back to Gregory for a moment. It is, I think, just an awkward way that the meeting was scheduled where we have our budget study session that is both today and tomorrow. Tomorrow there is time that is slated for the discussion with the public for public comment on it. But it is definitely something that we'll keep in mind and make sure that we don't schedule it the same way as we move through our budget next month as well and into the future. So I think it just happened to be us trying to make sure that we had both our special meeting and our regular meeting able to have happen here today. In fact, council, we are ready for closed session. So we will go ahead and recess to our closed session. It is the last items that we have on for today. We will come back to report out at the end of it. And then just as a reminder, we'll pick back up with our budget discussions tomorrow morning. Mayor, we need to take public comment on closed session. Oh, thank you so much, Stephanie. So we will do that first. Looking for hands for anybody who's interested in speaking on our three closed session items. Okay, saying none. Do we have any voice mails? You received no voice message public comment on closed session. Great, then we will recess the open session and we will go into closed session. Thank you so much. Hi, Charles, I see your hand is raised. Do you need me to move you over to, let me move you over to the main channel in a moment. Hi, Charles, go ahead. Yeah, hi, Dina. I just wanted to make sure you still wanted the interpreters present for this portion of the session. Yes, we are in closed session. I know this is an unusual order of things, but yes, we want you to hang out. I think they are on their last closed session item. And I don't know how long it's gonna take, but yes, please stay on the line. We will open it back up to open session. Of course. I just wanted to make sure that you guys did want us to hear that. Yeah, and I should have said that. Okay, thank you.  Perfect. All right, Madam City Clerk, you there? Yes, I am. All right, I see a quorum of the council. In fact, more than a quorum of the council. Let's go ahead and recall the role and resume our meeting. Okay, council member Tibbetts. Council member Schwedhelm. Here. Council member Sawyer. Here. Council member Fleming. Here. Council member Alvarez. Present. Vice Mayor Rogers. Present. Mayor Rogers. Here. Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of council member Tibbetts, who is absent. All right, Madam City Attorney, do you want to report out on closed session? Yes, thank you. The council met in closed session and discussed three items. First was the public employment of the city manager. Council gave direction to staff. 2.2 was a conference with legal council regarding the existing litigation. Case County of Sonoma at all versus PG&E. Again, council gave direction to staff. And council finally discussed item 2.3, which is also a conference with legal council on existing litigation. In this case, in the matter of the city's petition for review of action by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board and the California State Water Resources Control Board. And again, gave direction to staff. Thank you. All right, and there's no further action on these items at this time. With that, that's the end of our meetings. We'll go ahead and adjourn. Thank you everybody for attending. We will recess, but we'll come back tomorrow with our study session. Thank you mayor. Thank you.