change, housing, and government and council reform. And clearly as the accomplishments noted, climate change and government reform and housing, you've made significant progress on each of those, as well as on the COVID priorities up above. But then we also had the future priorities that were going to have to be tended to at some point. Now on the interviews, this gets to reflecting back to use some interview results on the next slide. I have rank ordered kind of a little bit of a forced exercise. Council members will remember in the interviews, I said, okay, we have these eight priorities taken COVID as a given. So COVID is the ninth priority that's at the top because it's like Amanda, you don't have a choice on that. You have to respond and deal with it. But of these eight, I asked each council member to choose at most three that you thought we had to see visible progress on in 2021 as a community. And these are roughly the order that they came out in from the council interviews. Homelessness and housing and affordable housing, clearly being in the highest tier. Also it linked as many council members shared with me in the interviews. Piscal stability and economic resiliency are also linked in terms of your business community is successful and your residential community is employed. It helps on the tax revenue generation for the city, which helps the fiscal stability as well. So there's some linkage there and they were matched with climate change as kind of the next tier in that forced dotting exercise I made you do it orally with me. And then in the third tier was public safety priorities, DEI and government and council reform. And again, as you'll see later on as well, there was much linkage between the public safety priorities and reform and the organizational diversity, equity and inclusion and recognizing those are overlapping quite a bit. So I did want to reflect back to you that this was kind of what you shared with me in the interviews but as I was explaining to your manager and staff, it was more evenly divided amongst all of them that I typically see with the city. So it's not like homelessness, housing and fiscal stability was all of you thought those were tier one and everybody else thought the others were tier two. So it was much more nuanced between them, which to me reminded me of the discussion you all had last August, which was choosing between these is like choosing which of your kids you love the most. It's impossible to do. They're all priorities for the city. And given what we've just seen from staff, what we've used in other cities, particularly as the pandemic is continuing into year two and is driving workloads that it's often better to do within priority, priority setting than priority setting between priorities so that you scale how far you can go in each priority based on the workload and capacity of your organization. So you'll be pleased to see on the next slide, that means that we won't be doing a dotting exercise today. They're very hard to do by Zoom anyway. And based on the feedback you already gave me in the interviews, it's not an essential tool we have to use today. So what we are gonna be doing for the rest of this morning and most of tomorrow morning is we are going to walk through each of the nine priority areas starting with COVID and we're gonna review each one in order. I'll be sharing some interview results from each of those that you shared with me when we met. And then what we're really looking for coming out of each priority area is kind of your feedback in direction to staff on how do we move that priority forward in the next six months and the next 18 months. Then following the two days worth of work, staff will come back and start incorporating that direction into the budget development within the resources that are available since there are constrained resources as was lined out earlier. But then also work plans based on staff capacity in each of the priority areas with their mandates and other work as has previously been described. Staff will come back with a recommended work plan like they did after last August's retreat to bring back to you to show how staff is interpreting your direction to keep moving the needle forward on each of those nine priority areas. So that is our recommended approach. Our goal today is to get through COVID response, climate change, economic resiliency including childcare and fiscal stability, funding and services. Those four priorities today, we've allocated roughly 25 minutes for each one. Knowing some will take a little bit longer, some will take a little bit shorter but an average of 25 minutes for each item for the council to get to consensus on where staff should focus their work in the next six months and 18 months in that priority area. So mayor, that's our recommended approach. I'll just turn to make sure the council's comfortable with that before we give it a try. Yep, let's keep moving. Okay, great. And we are running about 15 minutes ahead and I've never heard of anyone complaining whenever a retreat ends early. So if we stick to the schedule and then a few minutes early I'm sure there won't be complaints but if the council needs more time to work through an issue we do have a few minutes available. So, for the first one, COVID response. The interview results are again presented typically how I always present them which is in a rough ranking of what the council shared with me in the interviews. And in this one, the economic recovery for businesses and workers was clearly the highest and mentioned by most of the council and the next three were also mentioned by council and your staff has talked a little bit about each of these already in terms of homeless services and improved relationship with the county being moved up as a priority in the manager's office to really lead that regional discussion and discourse. And it was mentioned by one member in an interview but it was also on the preexisting work plan and I did wanna highlight this that you will see on each of these charts that we've standardized for all of these priority areas. The interview comments that came from council are bolded and sourced interviews. Other items that came from the preexisting work plan that staff shared with you in January. The completed items we didn't put on this chart because we're really trying to look at the work ahead. The items that are listed such as don't cut or reduce utility services were items that were listed as future work in the work plan that staff distributed to you in January. So we've carried that forward so you don't have to be jumping back and forth between documents and you have the interview results and the pending work plan work on one slide in front of you. So this becomes the artful work of now trying to get council feedback on the priorities for staff for the first six months and for seven to 18 months. And I might just add what I've already heard from your manager is he clearly sees the homeless services and improving relationship with the county being worth that's going to start in the next six months and be quite consuming. So I would almost take that shot if you concur as a recommendation from staff to recognize of these items on this page those are probably the priorities for the first six months. Yes, absolutely. There is there and council member Schwedhelm can speak to that a little bit but there is opportunity here to move this conversation from not just being city centric to productive regional conversation because all the cities are at the table now. And I believe there's renewed interest from at least some of the board of supervisors to explore that conversation. And I do know council member Schwedhelm had to duck off for a couple of minutes here but he and I have had that conversation recently about the need for a more collaborative regional approach. And I know specifically the state auditor has come in and looked at the state's fragmented homeless services system as well recommending the same thing. So I don't want to put words in council member Schwedhelm's mouth but he is the city's representative for the continuum of care. Is just to start moving towards consensus. So is there council consensus for the homeless services and particularly in consultation with the county and the other cities being a priority for your staff for the next six months. Seeing all thumbs up on that. I think moving now to the top of the list because of the nature of our brief interviews we couldn't get into detail was economic recovery for businesses and workers could run the gamut of many, many things. And so I think trying to get some clarity from council members and your thoughts and so many of you mentioned this as a priority for the next year on what you would like staff to focus on in this area in terms of COVID response would help staff then come up with a realistic work plan to reflect back to you of what's in their capacity. So I turn it over to council members who felt economic recovery for businesses and workers was a top priority for 2021 to share a little bit what they'd be looking for for staff to consider or develop a work plan on provide a little more color to this direction. And Greg, I did wanna jump in as well and then I'll call on council members but what I did hear last night from the public comment that fit into this space as well was the right to recall or worker retention, economic recovery and business support, downtown support specifically, early childcare and education programs as well as project labor agreements and skilled and trained workforce. So I wanted to make sure that the public's comments were reflected in this segment as I'll do in the others. That I'll go to council member Tibbets. Thanks mayor, that the risk of sounding contrarian and I was what I liked about how this was phrased by Greg was trying to narrow the focus about business and workers. And so that's where I was coming from is trying to separate out things that could have a tangential nexus with it like homelessness, affordable housing, childcare and really focusing on more the direct inputs sustain our business and workers. I would say that the right to recall would be an issue that would be directly related to worker retention but issues that also I think just more specifically keep the doors of the businesses open. And I think to figure those policies out we should go speak to the businesses where they are their trade associations about what they need so that we're really addressing what their needs are. If we want to add other things, I'm all for that but I think they should come in to stand alone items in other areas of our priorities tier. All right, council member Sawyer. Thank you mayor. I agree with Jack wholeheartedly and I'm certainly would not want a conversation around PLAs get in the way of us gathering information from the business community as far as what they think is necessary right now. I mean, I think we need to gather and our economic development department will be is very, very effective and can help guide us in how to solicit information from the business community to know what they feel would give the most relief the fastest. And that's kind of what I would be looking for is input from that community and not get except well, except for the issue that mentioned around the right to rehire. What is that? That's not the actual term, but I think it's it's issues like that, but I think we need to that we could probably implement implement pretty quickly and could have some really positive effects and take some stress off of the off of the workers as we move forward. But I think we need to get fairly surgical on what we do to help the businesses. And I'm not sure that we can get that surgical until we have the right information coming back from the patient, if you will. So I would look forward to that gaining that information so to help guide our path. All right, Council Member Fleming. Yes, thank you. What I'm hopeful for is that that through the Economic Development Subcommittee that we can continue to work on work plan that includes the values of the organization, which are financial sustainability, but also diversity, equity and inclusion. And in some ways, what we do along diversity, equity and inclusion will allow us to help keep our businesses open and also support our workers and into that and things like child care and project labor agreements, right? A first recall, I think can all be prioritized within that committee and not be a huge boondoggle for the whole Council to take up each one of these things. What I'm hoping for is that we can be more. Less reactive to business or labor concerns and more proactive through that committee and set an agenda that is supportive to both business and labor and not have it be one or the other. Because when our businesses do well and our labor community is doing well, everybody is doing well together. And one of my major goals is that to reduce the tension between these two groups. And I think that that has been largely accomplished as exemplified by the emergency paid sick leave that we recently took up and how labor and business both came together and said, you know, we found a good compromise. I think that those things could be extended to write a first recall to project labor agreements and to child care where the business community and the worker community have both expressed a strong desire to do that, that work together. So I'm in favor of all these initiatives and I don't think that we can be specifically surgical when there's so many things flying at us. I think what we need to do is be intentional and strategic because there's all the conditions of covid are constantly changing and are impossible to predict. I mean, where we are right now would have been difficult to see three months ago or six months ago. And so I think that we just need to activate that resource that we have and race has been tremendous in helping us to move through that. So for me, that's a really high priority and a plug around child care. My vision here is really simple and it's not specifically for children, parents or businesses. It's that it's this the second most powerful economic driver behind housing and that it's a heck of a lot faster to mobilize. And so to the degree that we can support it through planning and economic development and code changes and anything else as well as financial support when we can come across it or partnerships with other agencies public or private and leveraging our resources. I think that we stand to make Santa Rosa a place that's more economically viable for families to live here and therefore supporting our business community as well as our labor community and our growing families. And one of the things that motivates me and has me most passionate about this issue over anything else is that it is the opportunity for us to make Santa Rosa a more inclusive place to live. And it's an issue that touches everybody pretty much in one way or another. So I think that this to me our economic future is the number one thing that I'm looking at right now that and doing it in a way that's equitable and as well as that takes into account climate change. And so if we put all of these pieces together I think that we really come to a nexus here. And so one of the things that accounts member Fleming just touched on that resonates with me and Greg I think I was mentioning this to you when you and I did our interview is really empowering our subcommittees to be a little bit more nimble with what they're hearing. And so I guess this is a question for the city manager how can we have that conversation providing the overall priorities and goals with this broad category but then empowering say our economic development subcommittee to reach out, listen to workers, listen to businesses and then bring the individual ideas that they are suggesting or that they are interested in seeing and doing some of that work at the subcommittee level prior to coming to council. Is there a way for us to do that? Well, I think this is your direction is if that's where you want to go we would come back with a proposal to meet that goal. We're not, you know, it's impot. Again, are we talking about one subcommittee? Are we talking the volume of subcommittees? Is there specific subcommittees that you want to focus on? I think those would be the things that we would follow up if that's council's direction that that's the way you would like to go mayor or the council would like to go then we would come back with a work plan to address that. So it's sort of scope and scale as Greg referenced earlier. This is for you to tell us what you would like to do and us to come back with a proposed plan and as we go through the budget process with their further adjustments for us to do to try to meet that plan, we would be happy to do so. Right now, I think that's an open question. I don't, I can't answer it right now but we would try to address the desire through the process. Yeah, and I, my intention, my hope is to empower our subcommittees to help facilitate some of that. But I think I need to hear from you and others. Does that create additional work for staff or is it the same amount of work is just bringing something straight to the council? Anytime we do outreach and organization, we need to evaluate that against the work plan say this is how we would propose getting there. I don't have a specific answer. What I'd say is if that's the direction we'll work on a plan to achieve it, right? So that's where we're at. I don't want to get, if that's the way it would just be helpful to know in general what's being elevated, what's being deferred to that committee. You know, council member Fleming has specifically said to, and you're saying, have the committee work on it be more proactive. I would go back with staff at that point and say, so how do we turn that dynamic in a different direction and what resources? And it may require us to re-engineer some of the other things that we're working on. Right now, the challenge with this is, I would say in the pre-COVID environment, some of this was easier to manage. Some of it as every time we bring one of these committees into this very dynamic environment, it sets up a whole series of challenges in terms of how do we operate? How do we make sure those things are getting posted? How do we staff that? Where's the resource? We're working on some of that, but that's why I need to know the scope and scale. And then we'll come back with the answer. All right. And I'll let other council members weigh in on this as well. Greg, you're muted. You're on mute, Greg. There, yeah, sorry. And I might just add that it's kind of why we frame the issue because particularly for the economic development subcommittee and the climate change subcommittee, there was some pretty good council recognition that the committee has done a lot of leadership work on behalf of the council, but the challenge for staffs in many cities is always to make sure a strong committee doesn't supplant overall council direction and that those are always being brought into alignment. And that's where the work plan issue becomes important. And so what I'm hearing is economic recovery for businesses and workers. Two real messages from the council so far and then there's several who haven't spoken is one, let's hear from businesses and workers what it is they need as part of the COVID response piece of that. And maybe the committee deals with it initially in terms of their overall work plan management knowing that staff has finite capacity to do it all at once and that the COVID work may take precedence over a longer term economic development task force work based on the feedback from businesses and workers. That's kind of what I've heard so far. What Mr. Larson is saying is what I believe we have been doing and what I'm hopeful in this, what we can come out of this retreat is a more formalized direction from the council to continue doing that with the knowledge that we're not setting policies, we're prioritizing evaluating and open at all times to receive new assignments from the council in general and return them back to the general council for review and implementation. So, that's it. Mayor to the vice mayor or council member Alvarez for COVID? I agree with everything that's been stated thus far. I do believe that the inclusive invitation to our business as well as our labor force is actually absolutely imperative. Last night, we heard from Juanito seeking stability in regards to the worker recall and worker retention. I would like to see that these issues move forward. In regards to separating the issues, I do see the point in doing so. So hopefully we can remove, for example, the worker recall so that staff can focus on the longer range of issues such as the climate as well as the childcare and so many of the other issues. I do believe that when it comes to the homeless issues as well as many of the housing, those are all gonna be issues that hopefully will be addressing as well as the services equity, specifically Rosalind. But I do believe that separating the issues allows us to focus on them individually. But I hope that we do not lose focus on the other issues as well. But definitely the worker retention so that our labor force understand that we are looking at post COVID. I believe that I would like to look at the right to retention. I think that that is very important that is COVID directed. And also not sure if it's here and I know the mayor had mentioned it, but PLAs, just the mentorship opportunities that we have working with the unions, getting our youth and other people involved in local employment, and also just keeping our residents employed and at a fair wage so that they can continue to live locally, I think is very important. It's something that it seems like the council has been driving towards with the minimum wage. So I just like to keep pushing that forward. And I believe we've heard from everybody who's now with us mayor. And so far I heard all thumbs up for the homeless services and improved work with the county clearly being top tier that the council fully supports where staff's going on that, that the economic recovery work, including a right to work or right to rehire and other COVID response be delegated to the committee upon hearing from businesses and workers what they'd like covered. PLA, I've only heard a couple of council members mentioned and just as I continue to watch the clock, I might want to suggest that for vaccine distribution assistance and advocacy, when we held our interviews, I'll be blunt, that process seemed chaotic and it seems that vaccine distribution is normalizing nationally and in California and the Bay Area. So I wasn't sure if that remained as high of a priority for council in terms of what the city's role was in that. But it seems as progress is being made at other levels of government, that one might drop to the bottom of the list for city responsibility. I was going to say that it's definitely something that I would still want to look at, but it seems as though the county is taking control of that and based on a meeting that we had last week, I believe it was mayor, Hopkins notified us that the state was going to be coming in and taking control of a lot of that process also. So. And I think, I think if I can jump in, I think that for me, it doesn't necessarily need to be our priority, but I want to leave the window open in the event that there are resources that come down for us to be able to do so. There's a lot of talk with the new Biden administration of direct partnerships with cities to create mass vaccination sites or to help marshal additional resources. And so there could end up being a role for the city to play that's a little bit bigger than it is currently. And I don't want us, I don't want us to end up having to scramble and overwork and overstress staff to be able to meet those mandates or to miss out on an opportunity to help. So I think that was part of why I wanted some of this on here as well. And really fast, Greg, I just want to jump back because one of the things that I was hoping for with this conversation was a very definitive, very resounding response. Yes, everybody gave thumbs up to the improved relationship with the county, but specifically the conversation around pursuing a joint civic center or some form of move in that direction that the council member Sawyer has joined me on. Mr. City Manager, can you talk a little bit about some of the direction that we're looking for here as well? So I'm not sure. I think this was COVID response and I think we're starting to drift out of the COVID response bucket. So I think there will be a place for that conversation, but this is COVID response. Okay, yeah, I do want to have the broader conversation as well and I hope we'll get some strong direction from council at that point. Two items from now under economic resiliency. Right, thank you. Sure. So maybe I might summarize what I'm hearing as some consensus is kind of the biggest bucket is to improve the relationship with the county and to structure the vaccine and homeless services discussions through that conduit of the work that the manager's already outlined. In second, in terms of economic recovery for businesses and workers to have the committee kind of own that in consultation with the business and worker communities to set priorities within staff capacity. And it sounds like starting with the right to rehire as an initial discussion focus there. That's what I'm hearing as consensus for this bucket. Is she a thumbs up from most council members? Okay, good, great. So quick process check. We're going to promote Jason now because he's going to be the staff liaison for climate change. Okay. And just as a quick process check, that's what we're going to be doing eight more times. This morning and tomorrow is hearing what the council told me in the interviews and then getting some council feedback and trying to identify a direction to your staff what to put into the work plan and how to approach it. And in this next case, Jason or the manager will always jump in if they feel there's information missing from the council's discussion or additional clarification of the council direction is needed to wrap up that item. So for the next slide, moving to climate change. Sorry for the size of the type but there was a lot on this list. Hopefully you can see it. I have taken the liberty of where the council raised interview items that were higher level and more broad and I saw work plan items that really nestled underneath those higher objectives. I've structured it that way. So the bold is primarily from the interviews while the italics flush right underneath it were the work plan items that I saw linked to the broader goal that the council had mentioned. So clearly as council member plumbing mentioned this was up one of the places where several council members said, no, the climate action subcommittees providing good leadership and seems to be balancing the workload and capacities of staff to drive issues ahead that following that approach, the next tier was to set the goal to really on what's the long term vision here of reducing the carbon footprint by 2030 and adopting the climate action plan update. It's part of the general plan update process and to really look for what are the most tangible actions to achieve that longer term goal. A newer issue that's come up from several council members was to expand the focus to include issues of equity for people of color as well in the climate change discourse to not have that be left out of the discussion. And then as your staff outlined the solid waste system improvements and changes that are being mandated by staff as a former solid waste manager. I think it's integrally linked to climate change action. Others think of climate change action more vehicle miles and energy related. I think it's all linked and that's the appropriate place in your work plan to be reflected. Then you have the municipal fleet, discussion items, street lights and then the Rosalind Creek Community Park Master Plan and Seqwa certification was also listed under this work plan and what was submitted to you in January. So that's what has come forward and given for both economic resiliency and climate action, I might ask my colleague Sam to just put on the bike rack to work with staff on what is the process for committees to drive work ahead, provide the leadership that's been so successful and to have the touchstones with council to make sure it's a council wide priority and that staff time is being reflected in there. And that's not under any one of these that's a more of a overarching process question. But let's focus on climate change. Is this a fair reflection of the work you want done over the next six months and then over the next year and a half? And Greg, I think I'll jump in again like I did on the last site and what I additionally have heard from the public both in our listening session last night but also we have recently done a listening session at the Climate Action Subcommittee to hear from folks what they'd like us to focus on is I did hear sustainability director and implementation team as a possible priority. We also have heard repeatedly for an ordinance regulating new gas stations throughout Santa Rosa and also the need for a discussion on a comprehensive carbon sequestration program. So I don't know if that's reflected in some of those elements, particularly I think the first one about following the lead of the committee staff. I think that it definitely falls into that category but I did want to make sure that the public comments were reflected here as well and for people to see where it fits in. Maybe after we hear from other council members I'll ask Jason to offer in what's kind of new and programmed work, new work versus programmed work. Other council member comment on priorities and direction for staff the next six months versus the next 18 months in the climate change realm. Looks like Jack has his hand up. Thanks, Chris. I absolutely support the climate change goals and I do believe those have to be a tier one that run tandem with a lot of the other things that we do. One thing that I saw or I did not see on that list that I strongly believe needs to be on that list and could be some of the easiest low hanging fruit in terms of cost to the city and GHG reductions and quality of life is something I brought up a few months ago now and I was told it would be referred to the climate subcommittee and that is the concept of continuing our employees, our 1600 employees or however many of them would be eligible to be able to continue to work remotely for X number of days a week. If we can get those cars off the road one, two days a week for each employee. I mean, talk about reducing our CO2 tonnage. So I hope that can be on there too. We just for clarification, we are looking at some of that. There are very different requirements throughout the organization and there are some sacrifices that we would be made in terms of teamwork work. So while we are looking at it, we can't commit at this time to understand exactly what the fallout is and it affects each agency differently. It just, for field work, it's just not possible but that is part of the continuing reopening conversation. So we are absolutely looking at that council member. That's fine, Sean. I'd just love to see it next year and I understand that public works can't go out and do it. The police can't work remote and fire, but the innumerable admin positions we have certainly could a day or two a week. Well, and that's what we're looking at. We're looking at flexible schedules that still meet team oriented goals because we're working as a team and sometimes this environment does not lend itself to some of the creativity and invigoration that come from face to face work, but we are looking specifically about flexibility and work schedules. Well, to counter that, maybe we'll get some bean bags for the city manager's office. Happy to do so. Other council comment on the climate change goal, additions, items you'd like to see earlier. Relativa prioridad entre los... Councilor Alvarez. En regards to the Rosalind Creek, which you just mentioned, Greg, I would like to know if the county is providing any additional assistance with their commitment with the pre-adiccion agreement that we had. It's more of a question, I'm sorry. Councilmember Jason, can you give me more, Fritz, when you say county and their pre-adiccion commitment, could you explain what your thoughts are there? You're muted, councilmember. I got a little excited there. In regards to the open space and preservation of the areas that we have in Rosalind, and I was thinking about the commitment that the county made to the city of Santa Rosa in regards to the shared expense as well as the expansion of preserving these open areas. Y, en cuanto a la parte carbónica de las familias que tienen que viajar en nuestro área, en cuanto a estar dentro de la misión, o la sesión de gas. Me aprecia esa pregunta. Puedemos hablar en más detalle en línea, específicamente sobre esto, pero hemos trabajado con la districta de la open space en un esfuerzo para adquirir las propiedades, y eso es el nivel predominante de su comitment. En cuanto a la conservación que la propiedad está relacionada con la perpetuidad para las usaciones recreativas y pacientes, y eso es el trabajo que estamos haciendo directamente con ellos, y se refiere a la acción climática cuando veamos a desarrollar ese parque en su futuro estandido y función. Gracias, señor. La segunda parte sería la acción, la acción, el fóclico. Y uno de los ejámenes que me gusta usar es que los capos organicos son geniales, pero el problema es que muchas personas no pueden afortunar. Y, por supuesto, esto relaciona con el aspecto económico de la acción climática y el fóclico que realmente tenemos que hacer en la districta, específicamente, en order a llevar la comunidad a un nivel financiero que pueden afortunar ese capo organico. Así que creo que un montón de esto está sucediendo en el nivel regional, y es nuestro esfuerzo en colaborar con el RCPA y el MTC en cómo podemos asegurar la distribución de equilibria de, por ejemplo, la infraestructura de agresión, y luego trabajar con la industria para aumentar y aumentar el número de vehículos disponibles. Creo que, como un ejemplo de donde podemos ser, un poco, un adecuador para intentar asegurar que estamos incorporando estas en las áreas que pueden ser deficientes, y eso es lo que creo que podemos jugar a la escala regional para intentar ser adecuados a través de nuestra ciudad. Gracias, señor. Y, Jason, estoy contento de que te lo traes, porque, a mí, esto es uno de esos topics que realmente nos mete la visión de misión y valores para nuestra comunidad. Y cuando damos que estamos llevando a El Norte Bay, esto es uno que específicamente pongo algunos de los trabajos que hemos hecho en el clima donde sabemos, particularmente, algunos de nuestros pequeños ciudadanos que estamos trabajando con, no tienen el tiempo de staff o las recursos para realmente obtener un montón de estos programas de la tierra, hasta que se vean cómo trabajan, y Santa Rosa, siendo capaz de caminar a ese espacio y crear las ordenaciones modelas que otras personas pueden adoptar o ver el data para proveer los conceptos que otros están buscando. Creo que, a mí, es también extremadamente importante como objetivo para la ciudad. Y, señor, creo que, como continuamos de trabajar por algunos de estos iniciativos, verás que el staff es realmente tomando en cuenta la naturaleza agresiva que el consejo nos está pidiendo para ponerlo en el clima. Y, si es nuestro interés en intentando agarrar la acción climática y ser los primeros para llegar más cerca para acceder a nuestros goles, o si estamos enfocando en y llevando la manera de consolidar las recursos de transporte y rendirse la mayor batería electrónica operadora en El Norte Bay, o si estamos los que van lo que posiblemente podemos con nuestras ordenaciones compostas y ordenaciones recicladas. Creo que verás como progresamos por muchos de estos métodos de trabajo que el staff está tomando en cuenta el interés de los goles y estarán presentando con el más agresivo de la acción, creemos que se acercan dentro del interés de las ciudades. ¡Gracias! ¿Mamá vice-mayor? Bueno, también quiero apreciar el tema de la acción para las personas de color. No era hasta que fui a la ciudad de la acción que me llevaron a hablar y usé la termina lenta porque no era todo el tiempo, pero las cosas que están pasando dentro de nuestra comunidad en el cambio climático. Para mí, es muy importante que nos educamos a nuestra comunidad y a las personas de color dentro de nuestra comunidad porque no ha sido algo que realmente estamos involucrados porque estamos involucrados con otras cosas como la justicia social. Así que tengo que decir que la gente de color se recicla, pero de mi experiencia no reciclamos porque del ambiente, reciclamos para dar el 5 centímetro que estamos en charge cuando pertenemos a algo. Así que para educar y ponerlo ahí, creo que el más de la vía que tenemos dentro de las personas dentro de nuestra comunidad que podemos llevar mucho más. Me aprecio, señor vicepresidente, y creo que, ya que llegamos más y más a nuestras conversaciones de D.E.I. con la colaboración de la acción, se va a integrarse a todas las iniciativas que los staff de la ciudad están trabajando, incluyendo el cambio climático. Miro, no creo que hemos escuchado de los miembros de la acción o de la acción en este tema. Sí. Se ve John adelante para que pueda ir primero. Gracias, señor. Bueno, la una cosa que estoy pensando en mi cabeza que me da un poco de preocupación que salió la noche anterior, que realmente sería maravilloso si pudiéramos tener un director de sustentabilidad, pero estoy muy cognizante de nuestra condición financiera. Así que creo que, realmente, tener un director de sustentabilidad podría generar muchos de estos problemas juntos y encontrar ways que pueden ayudar a la ciudad a seguir adelante en algunas de estas iniciativas. Pero estoy preocupado por los costos involucrados y estamos en un frío de precios ahora mismo. Y así, ninguna discusión sobre adquirir a alguien para extender o para intentar unir estos problemas juntos sería aunque alguien considera una necesidad. Ahora, me feo que sería una luxuría que no podemos afortunar. Bueno, para dar tu mente a la acción, de nuevo, esto es un asesino para nosotros para volver. Así que, si eso es algo que el consejo nos quiera explorar, nos explorarán. Hay mayores formas de financiar esa posición o elevar o crear una posición con la organización. Así que estamos buscando el consejo para dirección. Así que, si eso es lo que queremos explorar, no hay harmas en explorar en especial durante el proceso de subvención. Puede ser algunos traídos, pero podríamos educar por ahí. Así que, si eso es un deseo, podemos explorar eso. Bueno, para mí, me preguntaría si, si o no, tenemos la capacidad dentro de nuestro propio staff para tomar un cierto número de trabajo en el subcommittee sobre la acción climática o sobre todos esos issues de la situación han sido bastante afectivas. Así que, no estoy seguro de que necesariamente quiera dictar o sugerir que necesitamos un director en ese área. Habría de saber primero cuáles gafas un director puede sentir que no estamos currently cumpliendo, pero no es algo que me aprecia. Tengo que convencer que es una necesidad. Bueno, de nuevo, quiero asegurar que entiendes que estamos abiertos para que la mayoría de los consejos quiera explorar esa posibilidad. Podemos explorar esa posibilidad y llevarla de vuelta a lo que puede parecer. Así que, yo diría que es donde tienes la oportunidad de proporcionar ese impacto. Si el consejo quiera verlo, podríamos absolutamente verlo. Bien, gracias. Así que, claramente, a mi mente, el clima es lo más presionante junto con el desarrollo económico y la inequidad. Y las tres de estas cosas están allotadas juntos en una forma inextricable. Y lo que vemos es que algunos de los más grandes retrasos en nuestro fundo general tienen que hacer con wildfires y wildfires tendrán que hacer con el clima. Y así, y así y así. Así que, creo que tenemos que explorar la idea de tener un director de sustentabilidad. Y tenemos que embriar estas ideas como ser integrado a nuestra seguridad pública y nuestra welfare económica y también tener un futuro viable. Ahora, si no podemos afortunar o si no podemos figurear lo necesario para eso, esos son diferentes conversaciones. Pero creo que serán remis para no mirar la naturaleza de los tres cosas que están allotando y cómo importante son para el futuro de nuestra ciudad. Eso es lo que tengo que decir sobre eso. Jack. Gracias, Chris. Me gustaría reenforzar mi apoyo para lo que John ha dicho. No estoy dispuesto a tener un director de sustentabilidad y creo que podríamos encontrar que puede ser muy bien una posición necesaria si no estamos encontrando nuestros goles GHG. Y eso es donde voy a extender el cabillote. Creo que lo que me gustaría ver para este año es que nosotros obtenemos los goles de reducción de gas de greenhouse por nuestro plan de acción clima con el staff de greenhouse que tenemos por hacer una prioridad de acción antes de salir y descubrir una posición pensión que va a ser difícil de conseguir. Una vez que tenemos que, incluso si realmente completamos nuestros goles, así que me propongo extenderlo. Y lo voy a extender a los adecuados que están muy adecuados para la posición de directa de sustentabilidad es quizá un potencial compromiso durante este tiempo de austeridad. Y eso es, ¿puedemos ver al final de este año? ¿Puedemos dar un objetivo de reducción de GHG en términos de los outputos de la policía? Y si no conocimos, vamos a ir a comprarlo. Pero me gustaría trabajar con los goles primero y los gente que tenemos. Eddie. Y para que te diga un comentario que el consejo y el tibet se ha hecho, también me gustaría ver en cualquier exploración de un director publico colaborando con CEDE que no va a estar en la mesa. Es un buen punto, Eddie. Y también voy a explicar que hay esa acción regional que está sucediendo con la CEDE que tiene asistencia a los colegios que tal vez el modelo es mejor integración con nuestros colegios existentes con ese coordinador de sustentabilidad que tienen. Me gustaría explorar qué es el mejor modelo para Santa Rosa. Y eso puede acabar siendo nuestro propio coordinador de sustentabilidad. No lo puedo, no lo estoy seguro. Pero al consejo y el tibet y el tibet de soya, la prueba es en el pude y en las reducciones de nuestros GHGs. Y así, ¿cuál es lo mejor que llegamos ahí? Y, de nuevo, ¿cómo cogemos algunas de estas conversaciones regionales es donde mi interés está? Y si puedo contestar, señor, diré que tenemos similares conversaciones con Zero Waste Sonoma relacionadas con muchas de las iniciativas. ¿Qué ropa pueden llevar para que el apoyo de la ciudad pase? Y así, creo que el engañamiento de la CEDE en esa conversación sería una buena. Mayor, tal vez voy a entrar, estoy escuchando un poco de la dirección posible de la CEDE aquí. Primero, estoy intentando lo que sus staff compartieron con usted antes, que el trabajo solidario ha de empezar este año, así que me pido ese cajón de trabajo en el 1º 6-month column porque estás bajo una clara de estados ahí para tener ese trabajo lanzado. Y tu plan de acción clima es con el plan general y eso va a ser un proceso multi-year, así que, mientras puede ser un método incremento, y creo que he escuchado el cajón decir que están confundidos en el comité, dirigiendo eso adelante, la opción final de la plan de acción clima está probablemente en ese segundo cajón. Entonces, veo un poco de trabajo que ha salido de un número de miembros de la CEDE sobre la ciudad cuidando su propia emisión. Y es la botha de la acción que está reflejada en el plan de trabajo. Es el issue de trabajo remoto que el círculo de la CEDE y el manager de la ciudad han hablado de eso. Creo que también es el trabajo de las luces de la ciudad. Es como cómo la ciudad no solo adopte políticas y programas para la comunidad, pero sus propias operaciones. Veo que eso es un 3º método de trabajo que probablemente se cruza en las dos líneas. Y luego el 4º método es el issue de la acción clima que he escuchado que se ha hablado en un par de formas. Uno, como parte de la colaboración de la CEDE y el trabajo que está haciendo la ciudad en la ciudad, como posiblemente linked al trabajo de las líneas de la ciudad. Jason, ¿puedes tener otros comentarios sobre cómo capturar esto en términos de prioritización y tus recomendaciones para el council? No, Greg. Creo que lo capturé muy bien y me pido todo en unos buques ricos. No he escuchado any follow-up on the gas station and the carbon sequestration program. ¿Están esos problemas already in a staff work plan or further down the line as the climate action plan is developed? Yo diré que a este momento no están en la lista de prioridad. No significa que no pueden ser, pero estoy interesado en escuchar si el council no se siente. Es una prioridad sobre algunos de estos otros que están en la lista, como la VMT y la reunión con nuestro GHG emisión. ¿John? Gracias, señor. Solo quiero mencionar lo que usted dijo, Chris, y eso tenía que hacer con la acción regional. La ACPA es probablemente un gran lugar para empezar y tener una conversación sobre dónde los esfuerzos regionales están saliendo y dónde están sucediendo y intentar mencionar eso porque Santa Rosa es un país dentro de la ciudad. Y si podemos hacer todo el trabajo que queremos en el cambio climático, pero si no estamos actuando regionalmente, nuestro trabajo será dominado a un nivel muy alto. Así que, realmente quiero enforcear la importancia y concluir con usted en la importancia de una acción regional a toda nuestra misión en la reducción de gases. Y cada otro, cada otro aspecto ambiental que viene, realmente requiere ese regional. Y yo puedo decir nacional y nacional, yo sé que los Estados Unidos pueden ser un lugar hermoso, o muchos planes están en lugar para ayudar al planeta y a todos los demás que están escruyendo y no lo hace mucho mejor si no estamos alli trabajando juntos. Así que, el más que podemos hacer eso, el más suficientemente vamos a ser. Y Greg, mi respuesta a tus preguntas es que, sí, esos son importantes, principalmente porque eso es lo que hicimos una sesión de escuchar en la subcomité de acción climática para escuchar a los públicos donde estaban interesados en ese comité, y esos son las dos cosas que definitivamente hemos escuchado. Así que, quiero asegurar que ellos estén en la lista para que el público comprenda que, sí, estamos haciendo estas cosas grandes, también, pero eso no significa que no vamos a perder el sitio de algunos de sus intereses en esta conversación. Jason, creo que tenemos suficiente aquí para empezar creciendo el plan de trabajo con esta dirección de la Comunidad. He informado antes, he escuchado un poco de nuances de hacer que las estaciones y la sequestración de carbón están colocadas en los proyectos de trabajo, pero el mandatario de la orden será basado en la recomendación de la capacidad. También he negado a mencionar que el tema de la acción actualmente viene en tres formas para la ciudad sobre el cambio climático. Uno es la discusión regional, segundo es la discusión de su propia discusión, y tercero es el mandatario que su plan general necesita especialmente adrecer problemas de equidad y, desde que estás conectando a la acción climática, creo que tienes tres formas de directamente asegurar que eso está cubierto como la Comunidad, escuchando a sus colegas de la Comunidad que eso es un issue de importe. Y luego, en el tema de la acción climática, creo que el staff ha tenido un feedback general de asegurar que podamos continuar el cambio climático y la recomendación del staff que el staff necesita revisar qué es el mejor way de lograr eso. ¿Es que, por un cuerpo de consultor regional o qué? Y tu staff tendrá recomendación de cómo mejor lograr eso. Creo que podemos mover a la mayor si se ve general en esa suma de la dirección. OK. Good. Next is Economic Resiliencia. This is the other long list. Yes, manager. And we're going to promote Clare Hartman to lead this discussion with this council. And while we're promoting Clare as I looked at the work plan of your city on the existing priorities, the portfolio that Clare is overseeing is directly involved in at least four of the council's priorities. And you may recall that when she presented her portfolio's work plan she had one whole slide that was simply the work of the portfolio related to council priorities. So I think as former city manager managing the workload of this portfolio is going to be one of the more challenging issues because the council has a lot of priorities that affect this portfolio and clearly the staff is embracing the work as well from what was shared earlier. So moving on to Economic Resiliencia, it's another long list. It is another one like climate change where there were a number of council members who said, you know, we're making progress here, continue the work with the committee focus as we saw under COVID response a real desire to provide small business support particularly as we transition beyond COVID to make sure there's that focus on small businesses. And the next tier was recognizing some linkage between the economic and the housing issues while they're set, kept as separate goals now. I think the general plan process will inevitably blend those together, but there may be more immediate work the council is looking at maximizing federal funding for Santa Rosa with the new pandemic bill plus what else comes forward and a couple council members did raise the issue of starting to look at the next level of childcare services and funding beyond leadership actions you took this past year which, you know, clearly was leading the north bank to borrow from your vision. And then you have all the other work that was in the work plan that was raised previously. I'd like to maybe as we focus the discussion first if it's timely, Mr. Manager, I don't see councilmen trying to hold them back yet so maybe we hold off dealing with the city, county, civic center till he returns and we just go mayor to general comments here first and then we'll come back to that issue later in this. I don't know, Mr. Mayor Rogers if you want to do that. I mean it's you and councilmember Sawyer who were part of that conversation. So we can go ahead on that topic if you'd like. Let's go ahead and do general comments on this slide first. I know councilmember Schblatthelm is due back right around noon which is only a couple of minutes away. So let's see if he gets back in time for the discussion around the civic center. I'm looking for hands from councilmembers on where they want to start. And for this long list it might be easiest to think things that we don't want to focus on in the next six months which is kind of still in the pandemic realm versus items for the next 18 months. Vice mayor. I would say things to continue to focus on is definitely childcare with the pandemic we were able to see that the brunt of childcare and needing to take off work and not being able to go to work with women. And so just to assist with that I think that that is definitely appropriate to help to get our women back in the workforce. And that's it for right now. Okay councilmember Alvarez. Yes thank you mayor. In regards to the economic resiliency including the childcare one of the things that I really would hope that we look at contracts for our businesses primarily for Rosalind where a lot of the merchants do not have contracts nor is there any recourse for them to demand a contract from the landlord. I believe this might be a legal issue that goes way beyond my ability process but nonetheless I've seen the exploitation of fellow merchants because of again the lack of contract. This might also be a great place for a conversation of appealing where we can assure that our labor force is a local one. Again these are simply my ideas I don't know the legalities of them but I do want to think that economic development such as Raissa Rivera and the other individuals who have been instrumental into bringing up Rosalind's economic district I definitely again would like to see what expenditures the county have yet to contribute to district one with the annexation understanding that we had a couple years ago and I think that will be all for now. Alright Council Member Sawyer Thank you Mayor. Great could you or Stephanie or whomever is in charge of the slides put the slide back up again so that I can take a look at it's more important than my personal opinion I really continuing our efforts I think speaks to the success of the economic recovery subcommittee or task force at the time and now the economic development subcommittee I'm still needing other than with the childcare services which I think I learned a great deal about how important it is to have childcare on a number of levels it's almost I think to many the community it's a bit of a mystery is what is the link why is this so linked to our economic recovery and economic success in our city and so I think we have some education work to do and outreach but I think that I would need that outreach from the business community again to find out what we really need to be focusing on I mean we can pick from these we've got a long list here the long list is because there are so many issues that we have to deal with I think that ascertaining the short term and perhaps more long term needs of the business community through some I don't even know how we would do it that in itself would be probably an expensive task but I think an important one to understand what their needs are there are well we do have a retailer again and that's great they used to have everyone on the council in the old days used to be have some tie to business and that is not the case any longer and I think that we don't necessarily have a direct tie in to the business community sitting at the dais if you will so having being able to do the outreach to the business community and find out what is important to them as opposed to trying to guess at it and I think we have a pretty good idea but before I were to devote a council time to one particular issue I would need to hear from the business community both in Roseland and other areas railroads square and the downtown because they may or may not overlap but I would really feel more comfortable making a decision on that after hearing from them so I would say outreach to the business community to ascertain those what they feel are the most important areas that need to be need to be addressed in the short and long term would be very helpful to me I would be have a hard time prioritizing this without that input thank you council member and I will put on your reading list I'm about halfway through CalChamber put out an agenda for California recovery that walks through a lot of those things that you're asking about that I think is really instructive for us as well council member Tibbets exactly what John said I like a lot of the things that I'm seeing on here I really do deferrals of fees for suspension water shutoffs during COVID update of water demand fee schedule for high rise development we love the resilient city but I think until you really sit down with our local chamber and also talk with as you pointed out Chris read what CalChamber is recommending and including our labor workforce whether it's labor unions or other associations I think it's hard for us to get ahead of what the community needs I'm thinking back to there's kind of a white paper on the metro chamber provided to us right when COVID-19 was breaking out childcare was one of the things on that list there was a lot of things on this list that the city not only didn't do but kind of avoided and I think we need to probably go back to that list and go back to Peter and others like him and say hey look what do you see as being the most critically needed programs as we emerge from COVID-19 gathering that input as our number one policy goal for the moment councilmember Fleming just for sort of the edification of folks what we did do was we took the list that came from the chamber and we went down and we ticked off all the things that were state or federal things that were beyond our scope and while it's true we were not able to get to everything that was requested we did end up a bit of what was within our scope and what was requested and I think that to those points what we ought to do is we ought to have a mini goal setting within the economic development subcommittee and present our findings you know as an ongoing practice to the general council to keep council members in loop and also your suggestions I think that we ought to continue to look at because when I look at this list it is a little bit like picking children there's really nothing on this list that I don't think is really really important and you know I wish we had the bandwidth to do it all so the one thing that I would caution us about doing is remembering that when we do have these if we were to do a mini goal setting within the subcommittee we'd be really careful to keep in mind who's too busy working running their small business out of their home and homeschooling their children and you know all these different types of things to be able to reach us and make a really concerted effort to try to get those voices to the table so that we're not just responding to labor or the business community without recognizing that not everybody has the ability to get access to the tools of community organizing and so that would be my thought and then the other thing is how can we leverage our efforts so if we do something like childcare if we do something like any sort of land use thing how can we get other jurisdictions to do it so that we're not repeating but we're collaborating and amplifying our efforts in a way that makes the region more prosperous and fair for all workers and businesses. Councilmember Alvarez Mayor, I did speak but since you called me on again I did want to mention that I am assisting Rosalind in creating a business organization the name of it will be ours to really as Councilmember Fleming stated those that might not have access to have their voices heard hopefully through organization we can actually produce a unified voice with the concerns of the community thank you I see that Councilmember Schwedhelm has rejoined us here Councilmember do you have any thoughts on this slide as well sorry for missing the beginning of the discussion but the first continuing our efforts in what I heard both Councilmember Sawyer and Fleming say about the economic development subcommittee it's real important for me to have a process to actually prioritize those whether it be from the business community or any other stakeholder so just continuing in that process and I think it's great to start with this subcommittee and then if there are a list of prioritized items you know some of these that are here because again I don't disagree with any of these policy goals but where do we start our efforts as a result of the discussion from that subcommittee come to the entire council thank you thanks Councilmember and I largely agree with the comments that have been made I do specifically want to call out as I know councilmember Tibbet touched on the deferral of fees and suspension of water shutoffs due to COVID I understand that there's a priority that will come out based on our discussions as a councilmember we have to keep people safe during COVID we cannot shut off people's water so I do want to elevate that one a little bit within the ranking system and then now that we have all seven councilmembers I do want to touch on the conversation around a civic center some form of joint partnership with the county and just making sure that we elevate and provide the space needed for staff to be able to do that and I wanted to start by just calling on councilmember Sawyer who was a part of this first meeting that we had last week to see his thoughts and then look for general direction from the council thank you mayor we are really at a crossroads with the county in this conversation and we have a unique opportunity to have a conversation not only a conversation but actually have intentional work done to in the direction of bringing other than the jail and the courthouse and the sheriff's department to bring the county campus to the downtown potential it is not it's not all positive there are definitely challenges that we need to identify and how that would happen is already doing some of that work and we need to do some of that work as well and how it would actually benefit the downtown and where the challenges would be to the downtown and bringing such a large campus to our to the core of our city to the center of our city but I think we need to give it our best shot this opportunity will only happen once and it's been a long time coming and from the meeting that we had the other day we're seeing a lot of interest of caution cautioned interest and I think it's probably a a smart way to approach it both from their side and from ours as well but this is the closest and people have been talking about this as a possibility it would be a game changer for many of our businesses downtown for the downtown if done right no we have to do it right but when done right this could totally turn around the future of our downtown and change the landscape of the economic success of the downtown forever possibly so I think it's really really important that we give the staff whatever they need to do the work necessary to identify the challenges and the potential success and the positive nature of bringing the county campus to the downtown I really I support it wholeheartedly in concept but there are a lot of issues that would have to be resolved and considered so I would like to be able however possible to give the staff all the tools that they need to do that kind of exploration and I'm going to let the city manager weigh in here for a second as well just to make sure that he's getting giving us clear direction on what he needs to hear from council in terms of authority and to make that space well while I think councilmember Sawyer is correct that it is to evaluate downtown it is also to evaluate their current site and we need to keep that in mind that this is a process that they've asked to join in and potentially bring partners to that would evaluate in its totality both locations and lay out the pluses and minuses I want to make sure council understands that because it's not this is there they're trying to decide between two locations there's value needs to be a partnership and a legitimate evaluation envisioning process about both locations I don't want council to be surprised that we're looking at both locations that's the request and that would be the time commitment from staff I want to make that clear that this is not we have to commit to go in with open an openness to this conversation that was the request that was generated from the county is to help them look at both sites evaluate both sites in their totality and engage in envisioning so I just want to make sure that that is that was the request that I heard from the county contingent which included two supervisors council member Fleming I have a clarifying question for the city manager about that is the request for us to evaluate both sites for a co-location that could be part it was to look at everything and look at partnerships in the community and legitimately engage in that dialogue okay so what I'm trying to ask changes are we helping them to evaluate their current site for them only or are we looking at their current site for a potential co-location it would be it would be both and all staff would spend time looking at the value of maybe if we relocated is there additional housing development that could be stimulated downtown could we achieve our goals I'm not saying what the answer is but the request was to look at all options and that we would legitimately engage in that conversation you mentioned supervisors I'm assuming correct who are our council and staff that is Mayor Rogers and councilmember Sawyer where the representatives from the city okay and who's joining them from our staff and it's going to be a full but this is the issue it starts it started out with assistant city manager not insistent interim assistant city manager Hartman it's going to require staff from public works potentially there was discussions of a shredding and visioning process to surround this so it that and we have a July due date to look at this opportunity okay well the the only thing that I would add to that that I love about our staff is that we're really going to get into yes especially when it comes to development and you know economic prospects for our city so I'm sure we're in good hands with the mayor and Mr. Sawyer as well as the rest of the team and I'm very excited for what could come forward councilmember Schwedhelm you have a specific question other than I'm very supportive of this conversation yep I'm just going around the table to make sure that council is supportive of us going this direction with the priority here for staff time for me the unknown is that we're not completely we being the city center rows and not completely in control of this y I would just you know and maybe you and councilmember Sawyer can be the judges of this that if the county is truly looking at this as an opportunity to collaborate in the true sense of the word collaborate because if this is just an exercise to check the box that we evaluate we're going in a different direction there's other things that staff could and should be doing and again some of that I'm basing it on my experience with the annexation of Roseland both as a staff member and you know I thought mayor Sawyer at the time did excellent job negotiating and getting through that saying we're getting to yes this is going to happen and that's the whole thing that I think staff from both entities need direction our goal is this one or the other not just an exercise in having this discussion. Councilmember Alvarez. Although a bit premature I have to say that I love the idea of the county and the city sharing the space and I say that from the business of men perspective to be able to take a document and go down maybe a couple flights of stairs or down the hallway and get another signature for the collaboration is actually absolutely a dream come true so those are my two cents. Alright councilmember Tibbets. I support moving forward and vice mayor. I support moving forward I do have concern about everything that we already have in the works in our staff capability or not capability I know they're capable but the capacity that they have to do all this in the time frame that was that was set forth so that would be my only concern but I guess Sean will deal with that part. Well you have two representatives the mayor and councilmember Sawyer in that conversation but I do think it could be a fairly big lift and I want to make sure that the council understands that they have a July deadline to at least have an initial conversation we still don't know where the conversation is going there's going to be need to have additional definition meetings there's partnership meetings others have reached out to us on the state side potentially on the school district side and some of it directly responding to councilmember Alvarez's question I believe that was the statement that some of our school district representatives said it would be great to be co located so we could encourage or maybe that was the mayor who said that it encourages dialogue between these entities instead of silos and so I would say I don't have a clear answer yet on work commitment but if this is a priority there are some times where other things may be delayed to meet this July timetable but you do have two representatives sitting in that conversation who can report back to you about the progress that we're making yeah it's not I mean I don't have to repeat all the work that we have set before us that we need to start working on the things like I mean we also have a lot we already have seed collaborative on board coming in doing I mean a lot of community engagement we have a lot going on not to mention our water rates are going up we need to get that communication out to the community I mean there's just so much that we have going on right now I'm just afraid that if we take on more and not have the time frame to complete it thoroughly in the city way which is thorough complete and to get it done right and we stretch our staff to thin that that could pose a problem and it's something we'll keep a very discreet eye on and as I said I'll be relying on the communication from the mayor and the council member to keep you in the body informed of progress on this front yeah and I'm a resounding and I appreciate the city manager touching on that that council is not just prioritizing staff time on this one but also giving direction to me and council member Sawyer to also make it a priority in our own schedules in our own work as well working with council members and I'm very happy to do that I think to John's point this is the kind of thing that you only get one bite at the apple and once the decision is made it's a decision that's made for 50 years and so I'm very supportive of us not missing a window now that one has presented itself to us so I heard seven yes's for us to prioritize that in our plan Greg yep and I think we can jump to kind of the summary of what I've heard and maybe the manager or Claire will want to respond to make sure it's clear enough direction clearly number one given the short time frame and the one time consideration is the co-location opportunity with the county second issue I heard mentioned most frequently was business outreach to both Roseland and the other business centers downtown to help inform the subcommittee or the task force to come up with the prioritization of a long list of ideas to then come back to council in with a recommendation on what moves forward first the one standalone issue that I heard one council member I believe it was the mayor possibly was the fees issue and the utility that I think may have been more of a COVID related issue that how do we manage that through COVID so that might be a standalone so county issue COVID related small business support then business outreach to prioritize these issues for the long term work plan of the committee council and staff that's what I hear is the direction Sean or Claire is that sufficient clarity for you to start trying to piece it together thank you I do have clarifying question about the process for prioritization of the items this is a very nimble and efficient subcommittee so they have been able to act quickly on items which I know has been part of the success of that subcommittee and so I wanted to clarify because you had summarized that they would prioritize this long list of items and then bring it back to the council and I'm wondering if that was really the intent of that direction or rather that the subcommittee in concert with the business community have the role of prioritizing especially the short term assignments thank you for that question what I heard the council talking about most was getting input and I heard less clarity from council on whether it was the committee I heard the committee to do a recommendation the question is is the council willing for the committee to just act on that prioritization unless staff has workload concerns they need to bring to council following on the vice mayor's comment yeah so if I may mayor my suggestion and I'd be interested to hear what Mr. Sawyer or Mr. Alvarez had and I'll just reiterate it here is that the subcommittee hold a mini goal setting sorry my messages are coming through the subcommittee hold a mini goal setting and set our priorities and we bring it to the council for their input and their suggestions as well but that hopefully it'll be a fairly seamless process and that we can continue to update the council on a regular basis as to what we're doing and elicit their input so it'll be an ongoing moving target I'm comfortable with that councilmember Sawyer did you have comments I do thank you mayor and I agree I think that because of the staff the staff support that we have we may be able to come up with a prioritization and also because we have an open meeting and they have members of the community business owners and et cetera coming in to speak to us I and our with Raisa Dilarosa's finger on the pulse of the business community at a pretty high level I think we would be able to come up with a pretty good list of priorities just with the input from staff and the input from those that attend the committee meetings I think we could put a big dent in that effort just with our current representatives at the table especially councilmember Fleming in certain areas especially childcare there are other areas she is very passionate about I think we could come up with a good list ourselves and then run that by the council get kind of a nod from economic development and their input and those that decide to attend our meetings and then bring those prioritizations to the council I think we could do that councilmember Alvarez I agree thank you sir any other input from councilmembers or thumbs up if I could just add because we talked about collaboration I would just ask that if it's not already done so that the economic development the county economic development board is also participating in that conversation because again we may be able to leverage some of the same activities that they are doing we are trying to accomplish the same thing I am involved, I am good with that okay I will only voice my concern that we we are trying to work on the county collaboration I am not sure we can work on every element of county collaboration that is part of the focus here I do understand that the economic development board has proceeded in its traditional arrangement focusing Mendicino as its partner and so while there is opportunities there it is not a revolutionary change and we came into the late part of this I would just say that is where I start to get concerned is that the county continues to be somewhat fragmented in its response and if we are chasing every department within the county that could get complicated really fast I am just weighing that of the downtown issue versus the need to because raiz is going to need to be involved in the county complex conversation but we will pursue it I am just trying to manage expectations okay, any other input okay councilmember alvarez last bite at the apple no problem thank you mayor City manager is there a list of expectations that they want us to satisfy before july we don't have that this is early what came up in the meeting is that there was a very concrete certain circumstances and the conversation might not be full enough so staff has to go meet over the next few weeks on some of these issues and we will have a better sense at that time a very narrow focus in the initial conversation and I think the step forward we made was widening the scope of that conversation to be one about vision and where we could go as the mayor and the councilmember stressed where we could go and that this would be a change for 50 years and we need a vision that matches that space I think with that mayor we can move on to the last one we're going to cover today if we could have the slides come back up please and if we can promote Jan that would be great thank you and this is the fiscal stability funding and services where last year and again this year some councilmembers saw this just not so much as a priority fundamental baseline of how we approach the work I think the end of the discussion last year and certainly this year with COVID is that there's so much work that has to be done it's kind of above and beyond the norm so pulling it out and recognizing it separately as a body of work that's going to command staffs and councils time and attention is why it's been pulled out again for the council interviews continue the work of the council of the city I should say focus on stabilizing or increasing revenues and funding and this was consideration of both tax revenues grant revenues and B revenues it was kind of all encompassing couple councilmembers did mention as last year avoid difficult service cuts or layoffs to the extent possible and then all of this now in the context of the new CFOs strategies direction that was presented to the committee last week and to the council today that's framing kind of a a medium and long term body of work that needs to be done that was discussed earlier I think the appropriate way to this approach on this one would be since you're entering the budget process you have a new CFO who's laid out a plan of work already for to open it up to council mayor for any comments on things they'd like to have in particular focused on in either the six month or the 18 months that hasn't already been addressed but I think really to then have it go back to staff to take the work plan that your CFO presented earlier and turn that into a document that comes back to your committee and council so I think this could be a quicker or once around the screen for each council member to share focus areas mostly for Jan's education and benefit as she pulls together the work plan for you. Councilmember Sawyer. Thank you mayor well you know I would really like given we have a new CFO we are impressed to prioritize the work in this particular area without hearing what her priorities are for us and then have that conversation this is this is a concern I know of all the council members and the entire organization is fiscal stability and I and how they will continue to deal with their service provision so I would want to hear from our CFO and have her let us know what we need to do to help write the ship as it let us know where it's tilting and then how to stabilize it and that's where I would start Councilmember Svethel. Thank you Mr. Mayor you know for me it's we've talked about this animal of a structural deficit how do we address the structural deficit right in the third bullet point down there the avoid difficult service cuts or layoff for me any layoff or service cut is difficult but again if that service delivery or the number of employees we have is affecting our structural deficit and again I'm interested in hearing how do we get out of this address the structural deficit so we don't have to continue to have this conversation or let's talk about it this is the solution for it and if it is increasing the revenue what are our options let's make those decisions but let's address that structural deficit Councilmember Alvarez Thank you Mayor for me it's service level level equity specifically review government facilities and services where we can achieve an equal level of equity this for me includes education which speaks to one the Latinx recovery the possibilities of education and really investing into the future of San Rose Thank you Councilmember Fleming I'm with Councilmember Schwedhelm I would really like to hear from our new CFO about what she sees as a outlook here and also exploring ways that we can get revenue in order to cover our structural deficit you know when it comes to water and sewer rate setting looking at ways to make those more equitable within the confines of Prop 218 and making sure that our planes are not subsidizing our higher elevation locations so I think that there's a bunch of work to be done within this but I don't think I have enough information to set for the direction at this point Councilmember Tibbets you know just I'm coming in a half time here I apologize I had to jump on a work call briefly but looking at these policy goals and what we should do in the first six months I think definitely avoiding difficult service cuts or layoffs should be priority number one same with stabilizing and increasing revenues for funding I know that we Chris, you and I spoke many months ago about looking at our tax structure and how we're so sales tax reliant and coming up with a tax package for the voters that removes the burden off sales taxes I think we should really still pursue that so that we're a little bit more resilient to economic downturns everything else well I think the MPDES permit direction's probably got to be in the first six months by default is my guess but you know everything else on this list 7 to 18 months I'm fine with Madam Vice Mayor Thank you Mayor definitely want to increase revenue decrease the deficit I agree with Councilman Sawyer that we need to have a conversation about what is it that we can do and how provide us some insight and I am one that also would like to avoid layoffs and look and evaluate whether or not as an organization the city is top heavy and I must admit that I have not looked at that but that is would be a concern of mine if we are going to look at continuing to hold the 40 positions and or layoffs ok and I will agree with a lot of the comments from my colleagues we brought in a new CFO for a reason who has a wealth of experience and knowledge and has worked in this space a lot longer than any of the council members so I definitely want to see Jan get a chance to implement her vision for the future of the city's finances with that said I do think that there is a much overdue conversation to be had about the volatility of the revenue sources for our city and figuring out a way to make it so that we are more sustainable more predictable long term and looking at our service delivery models to make sure that we are not just doing things because that's how we've always done them or because they're the path of least resistance but really does put our community in its best position 5 10 20 years out so I think you're hearing similar things Greg and maybe I'll just turn it to Jan to see if there's a key question or additional feedback that would help her in her work in terms of preparing the budget and the work plan to come back to council any additional information that would be helpful to you Jan at this point in time or is that clear enough from council the one question I would ask because I don't know what it means is what does NPDS stand for non point discharge and elimination system I believe that is correct storm water storm water oh oh that I understand score one for the facilitator you know so couple of things I think there's this has been a really good discussion this morning you know and just from a fiscal stability standpoint I think all options and all possibilities are on the table probabilities perhaps not but you know when I think about the things that breed fiscal stability I think about economic growth I think about a thriving community where people want to get together where they want to thrive where they want to live I think about revenues I think about spending controls and I think about timeliness in how finance communicates that with the city council and the decisions the city council makes in response that's what breeds fiscal stability in my mind I didn't mention reserves but that's very much a given so I also think that we from a reserve perspective I think what is it that gives financial flexibility and we're talking about financial flexibility when things happen that are not able to control or be immediately responsive to so in California it's earthquakes and it's fires and yes I realize that it's emotional here but I think that planning for it is part of what also needs to be now and you can't set aside yes 20 million dollars just to deal with emergencies but I think part of it is we make a recommendation as to what that emergency option may look like and so those are really the sorts of things that I think about having said that one of the things that was revisited in my mind this morning as a fire chief did his presentation is are we looking at partnerships perhaps we could do within the county or within the area to leverage services that we already have that's one way I think everybody knows it in California we really don't have much control on the revenue side where we do have control is on the expenditure side now that said if you're like every other California city I personally haven't done this math but most California cities have discretionary budget costs in the vicinity of about 70-75% a year that doesn't leave a lot of discretion in a budget and what I would say as you think about where you do discretionary spending is going to matter are we going to be constructive about it or are we going to be investment oriented about how we use those resources certainly there arguments to be made for both but that's how I think about it and so the discussion is as you think about where do we go holistically what does that look like now I do want to talk about reporting some of the things that I talked about in a work plan relates a lot to reporting and the city council is usually looking to the finance organization to report but there are a lot of imports in other departments and I ask the question internally tell me what the policy is and so part of that whole framework is perhaps some policies need to be in place and that would you know they have teeth when they come back to when the city council is a part of that approval process so we're internally focused what I would say is not only do I think about sort of what we do within the city but we also have external shareholders we have bondholders who care about the overall financial performance I think we learned after the 2008 crisis that the rating agencies will weigh in whether or not you're doing a debt issuance or not and so we have some responsibility there as well thank you very much I think the direction from council was really for Jan and Sean to come back with what they recommend be done here and to advise the council on how to write the ship of state financially and Jan laid a lot of that out in the strategies discussion earlier this morning with that Mr. Mayor we're done with the substantive work for today we can go to the next slide and just recap that we've gone through four of the nine strategic priority areas we'll go through the remaining five tomorrow and then we'll have the discussion on PG&E settlement and discussion of the community advisory board composition and we'll start at eight o'clock tomorrow I will recommend mayor unless you are the council request otherwise they given the length of the morning and that you only had one break in the morning that we skip the key takeaways from today and we instead hopefully we'll have that time available at the end of tomorrow's retreat for each council member to share one or two key takeaways from the multiple days of working together I'm looking for thumbs up but I'm comfortable with that yep looks good ok with that we will stand at recess until tomorrow see you guys tomorrow


Hey I'm down here in Oakland at the Cathedral of Learning and I kind of want to tell you a little bit of some historical facts about the building. It is another one of those little hidden places in Pittsburgh unless you go to the University of Pittsburgh you really don't know about. It is a gothic style building, it is the largest university skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere and it is just really cool. It's got 30 international rooms and right now I'm in the Swedish room so I'm going to give you a little tour of the building. We're going to go inside a couple of rooms. Some of them are occupied right now with classrooms and you'll see a whole bunch of people are in there. Thanks for watching.


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