Good afternoon. I'd like to ask the interpreter currently on the Spanish channel to commence translation of the meeting For those just joining the meeting live translation in Spanish is available and members of the public or staff wishing to listen in Spanish Can join the Spanish channel by clicking on the interpretation icon in the zoom toolbar It looks like a globe once you join the Spanish channel We recommend you shut off the main audio so you only hear the Spanish translation Pablo. Will you please restate this in Spanish? for those who just joined this meeting live interpretation in Spanish is available and the members or staff wishing to listen in Spanish can join the channel Now to join click on the interpretation icon that appears in the zoom toolbar It looks like a globe Once you join the Spanish channel, it is recommended that you turn off the main audio so you only hear the interpretation in Spanish Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming today. We will now call this meeting to order and we will start with our board interview Adam City Clerk. Will you please call roll? Thank you mayor Councilmember staff here councilmember Rogers here councilmember O'Crepkey here councilmember Fleming here councilmember Alvarez Vice mayor McDonald here and mayor Rogers Let the record show all council members are present with the exception of councilmember Alvarez We're going to go ahead and invite our panelists to come down to interview at the table here We're gonna start off with our first First interview and I'm sorry, sir. Could you help me with the pronunciation of your name? Is it far-bought? What's your last name? Asap Nia Please come down. Thank you We're gonna go ahead and let you self-introduce and give us a little bit of background about yourself And then we'll dive into our questions. How's my sound good? My name is far-bought. Asap Nia I am a longtime senator was resident. I went to a school high school at Montgomery Sanders a JC, and I'm currently attending Sonoma State University as business business finance major and I am a son and family member of Immigrants and business owners here in downtown Santa Rosa Asa of Supplyance is on 4th Street We my family has been in business for many many years probably 30 some odd years and I remember growing up Going to the store downtown and seeing old staple stores of downtown like Sawyer's news the luggage store and There's a few things that I learned from my dad and my uncle running the store And is that the way they helped our community to reduce waste and also to preserve Their their precious belongings bite by repairing them and keeping them in their family So in that spirit, I am here in front of you interviewing for the finance public authority position Thank you so much. I'm gonna go ahead and start with counsel to see if they have any questions for you Thank you Councilmember Rogers Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much for for being here and shown an interest There's a lot of boards and commissions that the city has Why this one for you? What was it about this position that really spoke to you and if not this position? Ultimately, are you interested in other things in other ways to be involved? Absolutely. That's a great question Earlier this year I had an opportunity to Be a Volunteer tax preparer with the United Way serving low-income families here in Sonoma County and I would say What brings me to this point is a convergence of a few things in my life I started my career earlier and take in banking here at exchange bank locally I worked there for many years and I went on to Entrepreneurship doing what what based tech and entrepreneurship and I found my way and my love and my passion for finance and I decided to go back to school and So I'm pursuing my degree in finance So a combination of my background my education and the joy that public service brought me earlier this year I find this position to be a perfect position for me And is this the absolute only position that I could do or in qualify for no and I hope to do more in the future Councilmember Fleming. Thank you for your application and thank you for the service that you and your family provide It brings us so much joy and I'm glad that it's what a mix of our downtown to have something so practical useful and in line With our goals as a council And I hope if this is not the position that you get that you apply for many others. I'm sure we can put you to use That's good. Thank you so much. Hey, I think that concludes our questions. Thank you so much for coming today We appreciate it everyone for your time. Thanks We'll now move to mr. Ferchel We'll make sure your microphones on Good afternoon councilman Would you like to go ahead and do a self introduction for us mr. Fertrell sure, thank you very much Thank you for the opportunity to interview for this position to start start with Sporn in Santa Rosa went away to school went to University of California eventually came back here in my late 20s to work You all are generally familiar with the business that I do which is planning development building asset managers Over the years we've reoriented ourselves pretty heavily to urban development, especially in the city of Santa Rosa But along with that has come a major commitment to public service Redevelopment agency chair housing authority member city council appointed Negotiator between mobile home park owners and residents to create the rent control ordinance that was eventually created Charter review committee two terms this As a school board member three terms as school board president Variety of nonprofit organizations in the downtown area the board of main street Santa Rosa deeply involved in the committee to reunify the Cordell Square Chair of the downtown action organization Vice chair of the River square association as I as I was until January 1st And in the area of the EIFD a very very close environment Beginning with the arrangement worked out with the former city manager to provide a pro bono illustrative example of an EIFD study To show what its potential it could be and close involvement since then my commitment to Santa Rosa is Is intense and my commitment to downtown is is intense as well And in whatever way the council may judge now or in the future that I can most assist this effort I would be happy to to help Thank you so much. We'll go ahead and move to questions councilmember Rogers Thank you so much and thank you mr. Fetrell. Can you just in really simple terms explain How the EIFD works and why it's so important for downtown Santa Rosa, right? so in the state legislature Eliminated redevelopment agencies that removed a major economic development tool From cities and counties through throughout California and ultimately the legislature Decided to replace it with something that was called enhanced infrastructure financing district And that is a tool that cities or cities and counties can use to establish a district And as of a certain date the increased tax revenues that flow from the properties within that district Can be set aside For infrastructure development not to do those things which cities are already supposed to be doing Not to do those things which private developers are supposed to be doing as a condition of their projects But to do those value additive things that can make a district Rich and effective now the council's conscious that there may ultimately be one in the Roseland area as well as Santa Rosa So that's just a generic description of how EIFD's work in terms of downtown Santa Rosa One can envision a future in which the major corridors Four street from one end to the other Including in the railroad square side B Street the Santa Rosa Avenue Wilson Street are transformed into promenades lighting Parklets outdoor dining and Also, the EIFD allows dollars for affordable housing and other kinds of assistance in some respects It's a more flexible tool than even redevelopment was does not require for example the finding of blight But it does require there was a decision to allocate some of the future tax revenues to allow bonds or other financial Instruments to be issued in order to pay for those those infrastructure improvements new lighting new sidewalks Planting all those things that can create downtown as it as an attractive enlivening energetic very special place so that everyone in the community can view this as something special And if I can Councilmember Rogers, I would add one other thing. This isn't just an economic development tool This is a social community tool that ties the entirety of the community to our downtown so that it is a Dynamic place and people can feel confidence in the downtown feel good about being Santa Rosin's Care about their rootedness in our town. I think that's that's really important And that's the underlying purpose really of all this your councilmember Fleming Councilmember Rogers as he often does unfairly steals my questions and I haven't figured out the remedy for it But I'll go to you first. I'll go to you first next time Thank you for coming today, mr. Futrell my pleasure Thank you so much and thank you for that explanation. It's really helpful I think for all of us to hear as well as the public so I appreciate it and your expertise. Thank you very much We now have mr. Stanley who's going to be participating via zoom so can we promote him, please? He's coming right up. Hi mr. Stanley. Can you hear us? Okay? I can't thank you We'll go ahead and let you self-introduce and then we'll go to council for questions Okay, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be here. I'm sorry. I couldn't be in person It was my intention, but I woke up feeling pretty under the weather and thought it best I stay away at least To protect you as well as anybody else in the public so My name is Peter Stanley. I'm a principal of an architecture and planning and development consulting firm in Santa Rosa Our office has been in downtown Santa Rosa for over 20 years now I also sat on the planning commission for six years the bicycle and pedestrian advisory board. I was appointed to The mayor's open government task force I have volunteered throughout the community. I sat on the board with Hugh for the downtown action organization And I've been committed to Santa Rosa Not just professionally but also in my personal life as well with If you read my application, I don't want to go through everything that's in there but you know, I've also Volunteered and on boards and commissions throughout the community, but also Sit on the board as the vice chair now of women's recovery service, which is an incredible organization that takes women And gives them a residential recovery Option that they can bring their children to to help break the cycle of addiction and poverty and other sort of social ills that we've had to deal with I very much believe in the principle of the three legs of the stool, which I sort of explained in my application, but our social responsibility is tied to our economic development as well as the Sustainable way in which we build and I am very Focused on the downtown as well. I have a small development project in downtown that's been approved or waiting for Some sort of financial structure to change so that it becomes more affordable for us to be able to build that but My commitment to Santa Rosa's for the last 40 years when I moved here from Marin County a place in which I grew up and When I came back from the military was no longer able to afford So I came to Santa Rosa for the opportunities that were presented here and I have not been disappointed by that My commitment to Santa Rosa is definitely to get us to a point where we really should be we're a beautiful community and a beautiful region Thank you. Thank you so much. I'll look to counsel for questions Councilmember stop Thank You Peter. I'll throw out a Question a little bit of a gloss on on huge remarks. What would your goals be for the EIFD? How do you see that serving Santa Rosa? Well, as Hugh said when we lost redevelopment we lost the tool That would enable us to start putting essentially public dollars into improving Sort of the infrastructure elements of downtown Santa Rosa Based where this EIFD is I see this I don't see this is the silver bullet I don't think anybody does see this as a silver bullet This is a tool that we desperately need in order to start addressing some of the Sort of infrastructure concerns that we've had in downtown. We have so many plans that are sitting on shelves Mendocino Avenue Corridor plan the downtown plan the South Santa Rosa Avenue plan We have all these plans that don't have financed and financing mechanisms in place to implement them And obviously with the budget concerns that the city is constantly dealing with We're not always going to be able to pull ten million dollars out as we did And get the recent re-notification of Port El Square, which of course took 40 years for us to do So this is a tool in the toolbox that needs to be implemented with other tools that the city has been putting in place with fee structures and Incentivizing more dense housing in downtown and incentivizing more dense housing and Infrastructure in and around the transit station. So I just see this as sort of a beautiful Continuation of what redevelopment was supposed to be it got derailed a little bit But it could put us back on the track that we need in order to start Implementing some of these very important infrastructure improvements that we need downtown Thank you so much Thank you so much for your time mr. Stanley. We appreciate it. Thank you Okay, we'll move forward now with Don Tomasi come on down. Good afternoon. Good afternoon Although I'll go ahead and let you self-interduce to us. Okay. Thank you very much I am a third or fourth generation Santa Rosa resident you can even how you count I grew up here and Have a deep perspective on the history of as some other applicants do obviously some of the things that went wrong or Instructive in terms of how we move forward And I'm very excited for the opportunity to be considered for this Position which really has the opportunity to affect Transformative change and the potentials unlimited here pretty remarkable I've worked as an architect On a number of downtown projects over the years Including the Regenade in the museum in the square project that where we have our office that actually started out as the desire to make a change to downtown when nothing we saw nothing was happening and We found a building that was bigger than we could tackle so we brought on a certain local Developer to help us out and make it happen and he did a great job And I've been active in a number of committees and boards and so forth that are associated with downtown development design review board It was on design review board for five years including chair and active in the Downtown action organization. I'm currently I chair of the design and improvement committee So we've been really hands-on in terms of developing way finding a way finding program that's going to implemented soon And in other things I have a sort of a Feeding the ground roots in the ground if you will Knowledge of the things that that need to be done downtown. I have a lot of ideas I After museum in the square we began I moved our firm into the realm of multifamily housing because housing obviously was what Is needed to affect The get past the critical mass theory get people downtown which in turn will bring other support facilities and Basically affect the change that we need and we've designed a number of those projects and are working on some that have not been built yet and I've run a business for 37 years and so I have a lot of a lot of experience from that So I think I'll leave it at that and welcome your questions Thank you so much Now it's whenever a crepe key. Thank you very much in your opinion, why should Residents of Santa Rosa and residents of the greater Sonoma County area support an EIFD for downtown Support is using a support what? Support an EIFD for downtown Well, unfortunately, there's a negative public perception on the part of many about downtown But you know when you read letters to the editor and so forth There seems like a lot of people are trying to contribute ideas and so forth and the reasons they state for Not coming downtown are often offered up a solution that would bring them downtown. I think if they understood That what the what the again transformative potential is for this to make it safe downtown To make it exciting to be with other people and so forth. I I think they would clearly support it Any other questions? We appreciate your time today. Thank you so much for my pleasure. We're now going to go into recess and tell our meeting starts at 4 o'clock Thanks We'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. It's now 4 o'clock we had no study session today and We will go ahead and do a roll call vote, please madam city clerk. Thank you Councilmember Stapp here councilmember Rogers councilmember O'Crepke here councilmember Fleming here councilmember Alvarez Vice mayor McDonald here mayor Rogers President let the record show that all councilmembers are present with the exception of councilmember Alvarez Thank you We had no report on any closed study study sessions or closed I sorry Any study session and closed session items? We will now call items 7.1 Councilmember Fleming this is yours Thank You vice mayor McDonald It's my honor to read this into the record Whereas June 2nd 1948 mark the date that women were officially allowed to serve as regular impermanent members of The armed forces in the Army Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard and Air Force and whereas women have always played a unique role in the US military history overcoming obstacles to find ways to serve and whereas despite history sparse documentation Women have always answered the call to protect and defend our freedoms from as far back as the Civil War and Whereas it took decades for the restrictions placed on our service capacity to change but eventually women were able to participate in the armed forces during peacetime and Whereas by 1970 women's role in the military expanded finally allowing us to command roles in non-combat units And whereas it was not until 2013 that women achieved full status in the military when we were granted the right to serve in direct ground combat roles and Whereas currently there are approximately a hundred and forty five women in the state of California who are serving or Have served in the armed forces and whereas we owe an inexpressible doubt debt of gratitude Debt to our current and past service women who have selflessly served so that we may live freely Our unquestioned loyalty and value will undoubtedly inspire future generations now Therefore be it resolved that Natalie Rogers mayor of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city council Does hereby proclaim June 2nd? 2023 and I just want to add that this it's a real honor to read this I know I already said that but You know the fact that women have created a hundred percent of all of the people on the planet and that this has taken this long to come before us is You know really something so Congratulations to you and thank you for your service Those of you who are in the chamber if you'd like to go to the podium and make a comment. We'd love to hear from you now Thank you. I'm boroughs. No walk I am the vice president of redwood empire unit 77 military women across the nation our president Trisha almond was unable to be here today and my Sister in partner in crime is Kato hair Palmer. She is a She was a nurse in the Army nurse corps and served in Vietnam as a surgical nurse. I Am the dinosaur I served during the Cold War and early Vietnam. I Just wanted to mention that this past year we lost our last World War two woman veteran who resided in Santa Rosa Kathleen Kelly kitty will cut served in a Navy as a wave and passed away Shortly before her 100th birthday In addition, I just wanted to make mention that Women during the world wars served and especially World War two was a time when they never received Credit for what they did and when the war was over They received no benefits and the opportunities for them didn't come Until much later even in my era there was nothing for women veterans You served your time and they said goodbye to you More recently We've had some roles that have gotten better We had the first woman to attain the rank of admiral in the Navy's 238 year history in 2014 and in 2015 two women were the first females to earn the prestigious black and gold ranger tab of the US Army We all have a responsibility to provide service to our country regardless of race color creed or gender and We should all have the opportunity to wear the uniform and be a part of our nation's military Women Veterans Day is a tribute to a ground-breaking Day when women were acknowledged as essential to the war efforts and could serve in the regular army armed forces So today I say happy 75th anniversary to all our women. It's been a long time coming Thank you We are now taking public comment on item 7.1 if you are in chamber and would like to comment But have not provided a speaker card or your name Please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom Please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period Vice mayor, I see no hands being raised via zoom and no one approaching the podium for public comment in chamber Thank you. I'm going to look to the call at my colleagues to see if there's any comments I just like to say thank you so much for being here today and thank you to your president Trisha Alman I've had the distinct pleasure of serving with her on the commission on the status of women So she's done so much not only for her country but for our community So please extend my thanks to her today as well. We'd like to invite you down to receive your proclamation and take a photo with all of us There Rogers, I apologize. I didn't see your hand raised before would you like to say something at this time? Um, no problem. Thank you I just wanted to say that I think there is so much that we don't know about our our history and it was really nice To hear her speak on the contribution that women have made To our armed forces, so it was definitely a pleasure to have them there today to receive that proclamation Thank you, and thank you for joining with us tonight, too We'll now move on to item 7.2 Proclamation for Juneteenth and this goes to councilmember Alvarez Thank you, madam vice fair So an honor for me to present this proclamation in recognition of Juneteenth Whereas the Martin Luther King Festival was recognized or organized in 1970 by students from the Santa Rosa Junior College To continue the dream of dr. Martin Luther King Junior who was assassinated in April 1969 and Whereas the festival took on a new meaning with the recognition of dr. King's birthday as a federal holiday designated on the third Monday in January and Whereas the emancipation proclamation was signed on September 22nd 1862 with an effective date of January 1st 1863 and Whereas Juneteenth celebrates a day when those enslaved in Galveston, Texas finally received word of their freedom on June 1865 and whereas Juneteenth is observed by many communities across the country and whereas the local Martin Luther King Juneteenth Festival Was born to keep the dream of dr. King and the spirit of Juneteenth alive in San Rosa and whereas This year marks the 53rd anniversary of Martin Luther King Juneteenth Festival in San Rosa and whereas The 53rd annual Juneteenth community festival celebration of diversity and inclusion our history in our and our strength will take place Virtually on Saturday, June 17th 2023 Whereas this event is free and open to community members of all ages and will include a presentation on Diversity and inclusion from the entrepreneurs of tomorrow music a keynote speaker sharing of history and culture scholarship awards and more and whereas Organizations such as the N double ACP of Sonoma County Sonoma County Black Forum North Bay Black Chamber 100 black men of Sonoma County and peddler with blacks for community developments invite the community to celebrate with us Now therefore be resolved that our mayor Natalie Rogers mayor of the San Rosa on the behalf of the entire City Council to hear By proclaim June 19 2023 as Juneteenth. Thank you We'd like to ask event minor to come make a few words if you would like regarding the Juneteenth proclamation. Thank you Thank you My name is Nancy Rogers, and I'm the chairperson for the Juneteenth Festival committee also the president of the North Bay black Chambers of Commerce We want to thank Mayor Rogers and its City Council for this proclamation. I also would like to thank Councilman Everest for the participation for his participation in the Juneteenth Festival Juneteenth planning committee, and I are honored that the City Council members recognized June 19th as a day of Celebration and honor the influence and history of African-American community Juneteenth is a perfect example of freedom being a constant struggle and remind us of those enslaved individuals Who showed characteristics of resiliency and determination commemorating Juneteenth as an official county holiday is an important step in committing to justice For all Juneteenth is not only just a day to celebrate freedom. It is also the day to honor our ancestors for their courage and wilderness It is also a day to educate our diverse community as we celebrate Legacies and accomplishments that will be forever in grain and history and closing on Juneteenth Let us all recommit ourselves to the work of equality equity and justice and Challenge ourselves and look into the future to be an agent of change. Thank you Thank you City of Santa Rosa and Councilman a nod to our Natalie Rogers and her Representation and her leadership in our city. We really are proud For this moment to be here to receive this proclamation as we should Also, want to just give a shout out to the previous Honoree who talked about women in the military and the time that it took for Women in the military to get their just desserts and to be honored. This is a really important month. We have And I'd like to just put a shout out to The pride month here in Santa Rosa and an amazing parade that took place on Saturday and celebration We'll be doing the exact same plus more with our Juneteenth celebration this year at Martin Luther King Park the original spot that this pain to Feuillation we're really proud of this particular holiday because it has such historical significance it was in Gabelston, Texas that the slaves had not found out That they were free and it took the Union soldiers to go into Texas and say you are free That is why it is so important that we continue to strive and fight for our freedom here in these United States of America and even in our own county as we see things getting rolled back across the nation with a voter rights with voter suppression with those kinds of things that will try to keep us from Standing tall and having our rights as citizen to vote. It is absolutely Imperative so it helps us to have a city council in a city that is in line and walking in step with us I am proud to be a part of this committee I'm proud that we have members of the Juneteenth committee and we are gonna party on Juneteenth We are now taking public comment on items 7.2 if you are in the chamber and would like to comment But have not provided a speaker card or your name Please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom Please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period Vice mayor I see no hands being raised via zoom and no one approaching the podium for public comment in council chamber Thank you, madam city clerk. Are there any comments from my colleagues? Seeing none, we would like to invite you all down to take a photo with us to And receive your proclamation We're now moving on to item 8.1 the safe parking program update Give us just a minute to pull pull it up. It's been a few years since I've presented down here in the chambers Thank You Kelly. Do you mind pulling your microphone a little closer to you? Thank you so much Good afternoon mayor Rogers vice mayor McDonald and members of the council Kelly Kaikendall and Sasha Cohen with housing and community services homeless services division and we're gonna Provide you with a brief update on our safe parking program which Recently recently completed its first year of program operations next slide This slide is an aerial photo of the safe parking program The program footprint takes up the first two rows of the parking lot at 55 Stony Point Road, and it's located adjacent to the city complex there Next slide, please I'm gonna turn it over to Sasha to talk about on program overview So Sasha take it away. Hi. Yeah, so the program is operated by Catholic charities It opened in March of 2022 and has up to 50 spaces. There's 24 seven site management And they provide basic and wraparound services So the basic services include showers restrooms waste management as well as one warm-weight Catered dinner daily as well as snacks It also includes weekly laundry service with pickup and drop-off and medical services are on site twice a week Provided by st. Joseph's health and Providence The wraparound services refers to case management services that are on site Monday through Friday working with participants towards their housing goals The funding is primarily from the city utilizing ARPA funds and a portion is Reimbursed by County of Sonoma through a funding agreement that we have with them and before we jump into the year one outcomes I did want to share a success story with you and this story was shared in Catholic Charities year end report public report for 21 2021 and 2022 and it's about an individual named DJ who was homeless and living in his RV He ended up at a large encampment on Old Stony Point Road commonly referred to as the mud pit and Due to a variety of reasons and medical Health issues he ended up in the hospital from the hospital He was referred on to Catholic Charities medical respite program and then to safe parking and from safe parking He worked with his case manager and moved into permanent housing And just wanted to share this story with you because I really think it speaks to the value of the program and the importance of the safety Security and community that safe parking provides Particularly the wraparound case management services that works with participants to move them into permanent housing With that I'll turn it over to Sasha to talk about our year one outcomes So our year one outcomes we served 148 people. We have approximately 60 participants currently in the program There were 87 exits and 20 of those were to permanent housing So that's 23 percent of our exits to permanent housing, which is very close to our program goal, which is 25 percent It's higher than the 16 percent average county-wide for emergency shelter exits And we're currently evaluating other non-congregate shelter programs in Sonoma County The program has approximately 60 participants and 45 people on the wait list at this time And it's been a very successful tool for helping us to address vehicle encampments I just add to the last bullet before we jump to the next slide that in addition to it in addition to it being a Great tool to address vehicle encampments. It's been a preferred Shelter model for individuals living in their vehicle They've expressed prior to open safe parking and since a safe parking has been opened that They prefer this model over congregate shelter Next slide last slide So looking forward we have identified funding through June of 2024 We're actively pursuing funding to continue the program beyond that. We've submitted Applications to the state encampment resolution fund and we're hoping to hear from them any day If that application is successful that would secure funding for this program As well as additional outreach in the community through 2026 and As we've shared with you right now I think the program has been very successful in its first year of operations We want to build on that success and in particular look for ways to improve our housing outcomes This concludes our presentation. We've been happy to answer any questions that council may have. Thank you Thank you councilmember rogers Thank you so much and really Proud to hear the results of it. I know Many of the neighbors there that I walked around and talked to them beforehand and answered questions and Most that I have talked to since then have said that they've seen a decrease in the impact that Homelessness is having in their own individual neighborhoods right there And so just really kudos to the team for that Kelly can you remind me? What's the total cost for the program? How much do we spend over the last year? The operating budget annually is approximately 1.3 million dollars and we have budgeted funds for About two and a half years. So through june of 2024 Okay, and the 1.3 million for the 87 exits How does that compare kind of dollar for dollar to get somebody into permanent housing? Relative to some of the other solutions that we've tried or some of the other solutions that we see our partners trying It's an excellent question. And so we're currently evaluating that I don't have a cost per housing exit available this evening, but I can certainly Put that together and get it to you and as sasha mentioned, we're also looking at other State parking and non-congregate shelter programs throughout the county to see how our program Compares in terms of costs and outcomes Excellent and then 87 exits with 20 going into the permanent housing What happened to the other 67 are those folks who Were exited from the program for a behavioral issue or just found that it wasn't for them So there were 12 people that exited to temporary housing as well. So that's another 14 percent And the other 55 people it's unknown exactly where they exited to And that's really on a case-by-case basis I don't have that level of Data available this evening, but You know, it's a fair variety of reasons. They could have been exited because they weren't following program rules They could have exited on their own accord. They decided the program was not right for them. Okay. We don't track that We don't track that we do track outcomes to housing temporary housing and then there's another category We could work with Catholic Charities to dig into that a bit more to see what data we have available Yeah, I'd be really interested if it isn't too staff intensive for us to look at that over the next year So that we better understand is there's something about our policy construct That is a rule that people are just having a hard time following for whatever reason or if it's uh, You know, I know we are working with the challenging population also that It doesn't always want to follow rules But it'd be good to have a little bit more information for us to be able to have that conversation particularly with the public Thank you. Great. Thank you I just have a quick question for you. You said on the Presentation that you had a wait list how long is a wait list and why are they waiting? Is it because we don't have enough spaces or there are so many people that can be involved in each in the program at one time So the program can only fit up to 50 parking spaces So the wait list is because we're currently at capacity And the wait list is first come first serve So if there was another space available for them or another area in the county that we could actually have something like this And it would just be a matter of funding it versus actually having a space available. Would that be Correct. That's correct. Thank you. Yep councilmember fliming Yeah, thank you so much. It sounds like the program is a resounding success Thanks to you and your good work and all of our partners. I'm just curious to know If we you know, it's 52 spaces, right? That number seems You know I'm not sure how we arrived exactly at it But I guess where I'm going with this is I'd be interested to hear the next time you come back If it would be possible because I'm imagining our fixed costs our security and service providers If we might be able to add a few spaces without negatively impacting the the city So we we started out at 50 and we did within the first two rows of the parking lot We did add a couple additional spaces So I think we've we've maximized that footprint and catholic charities the operator is doing its best to Maximize that space as well so we can get as many RVs and vehicles in there as possible and and keep it safe We've not discussed at this point expanding it beyond the first two rows of the parking lot just given Capacity needs in in the parking lot frame Yeah, during the business day Is the parking lot full? You know, I don't work out of that facility. Um, and so I I can't speak to that. Um, I would you know defer To um someone someone who does or I think Jason that is here if he wants to speak to that this isn't city manager Jason that Thank you for the question council member Fleming Uh, the parking lot is generally about two-thirds fold during the course of a working day The issue is when we have a Training sessions and other activities that occur at the training center at the at the ufo at the utilities field office For example, we had police badge pinnings that occurred last week And we had folks that were coming from finley because the overflow parking lot was the only place for them to park And we do have trainings that occur at that facility on a weekly basis So that's really where the struggle is is is in order to utilize that that particular building to the capacity And the function that it was intended. We do need to have some of those parking spaces available Sure, and I I definitely understand what that we need to have some of them available But you kind of just exactly pointed out the solution right there, which is using overflow parking at our other facility, which is You know, I've had to attend Trainings there and walk over and it's not a great inconvenience in any way Um, you know, I'm just wondering if staff is explored just adding just a little bit more not taking up the whole parking lot But just increasing our capacity a bit I'm sure that the teams can work with kelly and sasha to try to reevaluate the program We did a fairly comprehensive review when we started Now that the program's functional operational and we've been able to stabilize some of our Staffing in each of the four teams that operate out of that parking lot We can determine if there's any additional room sure and i'm not looking to to break something that's working I just want to if it's working in we can do a little more You know each one of these is an rv. That's not on the street. It's a person who's safe And somebody who has a 23 chance of getting into permanent housing, which is the gold standard, right? So thanks for all your work on this Thank you. I think that I think that's the end of our questions. Thank you so much for your presentation today We'll now move on to item 8.2 community empowerment plan update Good afternoon. I'm mayor vice mayor and council Lawn peterson director of communications for the communications engagement and government affairs office I'll be providing the community empowerment update today First city manager smith has selected a new cohort for the santa Rosa police department's chief community ambassador team. It's also known as ccat Originally formed in 2021 ccat meets with chief cregan cord leap to provide feedback on current events and topics The next ccat meeting is on june 21st and more information is available as srcity.org ccat This action aligns with all three goals outlined in the community empowerment strategy Uh next up Second we have on june 14th at 9 a.m The city's independent police auditor will be presenting to the public safety subcommittee the first annual audit report On the santa rosa police department's activities Also coming up on june 20th. This audit report will be presented at the city council meeting And the next day on the 21st the oir group is hosting an in-person meeting at 6 p.m This will be taking place at the senior wing at the finley community center A participation information for this is available at srcity.org slash police oversight This Action aligns with the goal number two outlined in the community empowerment strategy Next up the santa rosa police department is hosting a community police experience It's to provide first-hand account to community members the daily responsibilities and expectations of the police department This program is a casual work stop-shot environment with hands-on experience designed to enhance The relationship and also make people for familiar With the santa rosa police departments its policy and how they operate in their practices In addition, we also have a youth community policing experience In the application for that window just closed This the youth program is focused on santa rosa teams. It provides opportunities for them to engage With our police officers learn about policies procedures and also really voice their concerns to the department This program runs july 10th to the 13th from 9 to 3 And it's really cool because lunch is provided so you can provide find out more about this program srcity.org slash cpe And on that note, there's also some really cool stuff happening this fall. They're planning Community police experience conducted entirely in spanish. So it's going to be policia. You laud Community ad it's a version of the santa rosa police department cpe program But for a monolingual or bilingual spanish speaking community members and all that's available at srcity.org slash s cpe To join the interest list For that this action aligns with goal three outlined in the community empowerment strategy And finally Just a reminder that we're encouraging the community submit funding requests for the d e i b spaces mini grant program The goal of this program is to increase opportunities for events classes workshops projects that create diversity equity inclusion and belonging Eligible applicants can receive up to $5,000 in funding to implement their projects To apply visit srcity.org slash d e i b grants Applications for this next cycle are due on june 30th by 4 p.m. To be considered. I'm simply email a completed applications to our department community engagement at srcity.org And so i wanted to point out too there's four opportunities for this particular grant The first one i'd mention is due june 30th the next one will go from july 1st to september 30th October 1st december 31st and january 1st to march 30th 2024 There's a total of $150,000 set aside for this particular program It is first come first serve and if we use it up before then then the program ends Otherwise we'll continually open it up until when we provide opportunities for the community That concludes my update happy to take questions Or comments any questions from council? Mr. Alvarez We appreciate that the dates and the different programs that are coming up before us Sometimes we find out after the fact so I really appreciate the proactive approach. Thank you Absolutely, you're welcome council member alvarez Thank you for your presentation. Okay And council i know that was a lot of information so i will send you a council fyi follow up with uh all the details Thank you Yeah, that's helpful so we can push it out on our social media as well. Thank you We are now taking public comment on the item 8.1 and 8.2 If you are in council chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card Please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand or dial star 9 You will have three minutes And a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period One one moment the first public comment is going to be uh from miss gray Oh perfect President good evening. My name is miss engame gray. I am a long time resident here in uh, santa rosa and um my comment for the For this particular part of the agenda is I just recently found out that the multicultural roots project was pulled and It came out of this initiative and my question and comment is I would really humbly like you to reconsider reinstating it because as a heritage stakeholder And there's many in this room have been here for 25. My family has been here for over over 70 years And this particular Project with highlighting Folks who have invested in this community for so long, especially the bi-pod community and um I mean, I'm really just coming from me from the heart right now It's it's been a long time coming where we were able to highlight different cultures that are underrepresented We have large amounts of Polynesian asian Ethiopian Eritrean native american hispanic it's all We have great, uh ideas and In creating what this particular project could be And coming from a heritage being a heritage stakeholder You know, my grandparents came here in 1947 and other families have helped Start and paved the way for where we are now And I pay homage to the people who are carrying the torch and continued the fight for us to have um to be seen and to be celebrated And I feel like the council is doing a really good job in trying to make that happen But I I employ you to think about the people who have invested in this community who want to highlight and see this community thrive as a whole And we can do that by highlighting and and letting people know who visits Santa Rosa that we have a rich heritage that come from amazing cultures um I want to lastly just say that it's been My pleasure working with the committee. There's some people in this room right now who have been on that committee and did amazing work I commend the um city office that was heading that for all their hard work in it And again, I just employ you to reconsider To bring it back. Thank you Thank you, miss gray the next public comment will be evet followed by dwayne Thank you city council I am happy to be here to support the multicultural roots project One of the things that was a highlight for me was reading the material about who Forged Santa Rosa in Sonoma county And right now we're experiencing some things with our young people where they're unable to identify with who they are as a person And with the multicultural roots project that gave them An onsite to who they are in community who they are as a person We're dealing a lot with what's going on with our schools And this is something that can be highlighted to show them that we are somebody right So we're here celebrating juneteenth and all the struggles that we have and we continue to have So I implore you to really reconsider the multicultural roots project It focuses on the bypop population and then whatever population we do not have within there We're able to highlight that as well And we had an opportunity to highlight the young people that was out here marching On the on the behalf of various issues So I really implore as we're talking about violence in our city as we're talking about Just mental health that this is something you should reconsider Really consider what it means to our youth. They need to have a voice They need to see people that look like them. And so with that being said Please reconsider that action. Please. Thank you Thank you. The next public comment will be from dwayne. May I use the overhead please Certainly one moment So it's turned on up here. I'm just waiting for it to come down there All right So Hello, my name is dwayne d. Witt. I'm from roseland Which some I think is the center of multiculturalism in santa rosa It's been brought into the city Recently a large section has been considered a part of the downtown specific plan So thank goodness for that. I'm here to support these folks from many different cultures Those folks that want to see the multicultural roots projects go forward.  They're basically coming here. It's not iran. It's not iraq It's not those other places. It's the united states of america Pretty good place and you know what on memorial day We were out there at memorial park Saluting those veterans that helped to keep this place free today is june 6th the anniversary of d day 79 years ago a bunch of 16 17 18 19 year old americans went and risked their lives To make sure that europe could be free from fascism Free from communism lots of americans died As a matter of fact americans have been dying all over the world to try to make sure and keep The american ideal if you will Alive and flowing i'm big on that stuff and a little while from now i'm going to go outside and get in a made in usa car A nice big old 1960s car and i'm going to go low riding with some folks downtown Where we used to be doing it 50 years ago until some politician said oh no, that's not the thing It's hurting our downtown. Well, we're here to say we're back and some of us never left We're going to be doing it. We're going to be enjoying it Waving that american flag with all kinds of people all kinds of cultures folks from the bypass community Folks from the latino community and us rosalyn rubes. Thank you kindly for your time thank you Vice mayor, there are no additional hands being raised via zoom and we received no advanced public comment on this item Thank you. Madam city clerk. I just want to address um the audience tonight and say that we understand the significance of these projects And then we'd like to um allow our staff time to restructure and align resources And to to do our initiatives. So just know that we are working on that We'll now move forward with city manager and city attorney reports Thank you vice mayor city manager has no additional reports tonight And thank you city attorney as well. I have no nothing to report this afternoon. Thank you Thank you Moving on to item 10 statements of abstention by council members Then tonight we'll move on to 11.1 mayor and council members subcommittee and liaison reports And go ahead council members japan Just a few committee report outs um some good news in the two weeks since we last met The ag and open space committee, um, I represent the council on that on that committee and as folks might have noticed in the press democrat We finalized purchased on the 380 acre chancellor ranch outside of adega bay So a big and beautiful new swath of land will be coming into what will be protected as as Open space and hopefully park space in the future um another another nice update and I saw daniel gardenio in here a moment ago But in any case the violence prevention group on which on which vice mayor on the gondola limo sit Finalized and released or didn't finalize released the draft strategic plan in which we've been working Thank you very much to to daniel and the entire violence prevention team And she's already taken that on the road. She presented last night at the local chapter of the NAACP Talking about how we how exactly we're going to work together the city will work together With schools with local nonprofits do a better job of supporting our youth and reducing violence in the community And then finally The russian river watershed board met last week and went through its advocacy plans Well review the plans from last year and also detailed the advocacy plans for the year to come A good discussion there two additional notes Jason nutt alluded to it in his comments about the full parking lot Near the near the city office up near the family center The swearing-in ceremony for the was it 30 or so new officers and staff A few of my colleagues were there as well Our council member o'crepkey mayor rogers It was it was a packed room and a packed parking lot and it was it was a Wonderful to see the new officers coming in. Oh, there you are chief cregan. Do you remember the exact count? All right, so I exaggerated a little bit and one and the canine and ghost the canine officer All right, so 21 a good ceremony in any case And then finally we should note The s or frank chong gave his doctor frank chong gave his his final address as president of s r jc And so I was glad to be in that packed room as well Frank's such a pillar of the community and s and s r jc is so important It's really it's it's um, it was fun to to Celebrate frank, but then also to welcome the new president. I'm dr. Maria Angelica Garcia So it appears that the jc is in great hands And again a nice night and it was fun to be there and that that concludes my report out Thank you council member rogers Thank you vice mayor, uh, we had our monthly snima clean power meeting last thursday Snima clean power received the community impact award for efforts related to decarbonization That's a statewide award that they received and it's a lot of Hard work from a lot of dedicated staff working on programs to try to make things easier for us to address climate change Moving forward. So congrats congratulations to them Did want to report back to the council about actually what happened at the Snima county board of supervisors meeting today This council has previously supported the public model for Ambulance services in our service area The snima county fire department was actually awarded that contract at today's meeting So I wanted to give a good shout out to chief westro 1401 and everybody else who has fought so hard for about two years now to make sure that that Went the way that it should to deliver a better service model for our community And thank you to the board of supervisors for recognizing and supporting that The last thing that I'll report out on as was mentioned before it is pride month We did have a fantastic parade put on my snima county pride this last weekend It has felt like this year was different and important And I know talking to some of my lgbtq friends that they have felt like there is Need for more allies to step up and show support and create safe spaces for folks And I know that it meant a lot to to to folks to see every single city council member marching in that parade Supporting the community this weekend. So thank you to the organizers for that. Thank you to folks who showed up And thank you to those who continue to fight the good fight councilmember O'Crepkey Thank you very much On may 24th, I was able to take my son to the city works festival uh that the city put on During the wizarding market And it was a great time To take my son out and having him do the scavenger hunt and crawl on the The vagueress vehicles and ask questions to staff about, you know, just exactly what the drone does and the giant sewage pipes and how high the bucket goes And all of those things and also eventually learning how many parks there were in the city So, uh, which is a slight dig at our assistant city manager here who provided some inaccurate information to a seven-year-old on a scavenger hunt But But it was a great time, uh, and uh, he All the kids that I saw there were were Head over heels enthralled with the event So thank you to all the city staff and departments that helped put that on Like my colleagues on the 25th. I was able to go to the center of the police department badge pinning Not much more to say other than I I want to point out just what kind of a community and department we have We had lateral transfers from chicago Anchorage spokane that want to come and work in this community and live in this community And I think that has something to say about not just our department But is the community that we are as a whole about what it's like to to live and work in santa rosa I was able to attend the sinima county farm bureau golf tournament on the second which was always a great time And then uh, like my colleagues, um all of us. I was able to attend the Pride parade on the third and Like councilmember roger said I heard a lot of great things A lot of great feedback from my lgbtq friends and family that were able to attend and seeing the city support at all levels And the one thing I would just add on to what councilmember roger says is that it's important to show this kind of support for especially in these times for Are the trans members of our community and trans teens in particular because they are under attack And it's important that we stand by them and show them that we are allies as as a city and as individuals Thank you councilmember roger Thank you madam vice mayor i'll begin with pride day uh sunday And in an ode to our former councilmember tom sholdham I packed a backpack full of candy and i'll pass it out to everyone who was present young and old And I still cannot get the song lollipop out of my head as it was being sung back to me lollipop lollipop But nonetheless, it was a great day with our community and it was a beautiful day A little bit hot for the shoes in the suit, but nonetheless that we tracked through it a little bit of a well done for at the end of that day The following day I had the pleasure of attending an event at howarth park it was a A collaboration between kids day and land paths and a couple of land trusts And they spoke of the greenway project and their energy to move that project forward and I really do want to see that gem That that that central park within the city of san rosa. So I hope we continue those efforts Later on the day filling uh center for low low rider car show And I have to share with my colleagues that the the energy Of the community in in the car enthusiast section is thrilled and I see an increased Look at their city doing for and with them and and and us So definitely I believe that we as a city are moving in the in the right direction when it comes to Inviting our our fellow residents our neighbors into our civic process and city government as a whole So I do definitely want to congratulate my colleagues on on the energy Of the projects that we have continue to move forward. Thank you Thank you I'm going to go ahead and go to mir rogers who has something to report today as well Thank you um Just wanted to report on may 24th. I was able to attend The family justice centers noma county Community summit, which was great. Um, was able to attend the first part of that um And on may 25th center of the police departments were in an informational ceremony and it's just great to see all the people that are um wanting to come and serve in our community and with our police department and We can do great things with great leadership. So I would like to give a shout out to chief cregan May 25th. I met with the spiritual leaders in district seven. Um, and we will be Working with chief cregan for our faith and believe it With more details to come and very excitingly on may 24th the coc Um board has provided us With 232,000 and that was awarded for the sam jones hall capital improvement. So yay for that And lastly, uh, june 3rd. I attended the 38th annual sonoma county pride celebration Um, and it really showed that well one there were a ton of people there, uh, which was great to see and Thank you to all the council members That were there and staff and everyone that was there. That was great. Um, but that everyone has A place here in santa rosa and they should know that there's a sense of belonging And we continue to show that through our love. So thank you very much and that's my report out Thank you, mayor And I just have a few things to report out on the sonoma county zero waste met And we just had a couple consent items Contract extension services and a short report on contract renewal with a small price increase of 4% for clean harbors who operate the hazardous Waste program at the central landfill Um, I also was able to attend the career technical education foundation event where they raised over $300,000 and that may have been reported on previously, but just wanted to congratulate them on their success I also attended a four seas event Where um, they were talking about the need to work together with all of our different community groups and in particular the city And still the high need for child care services within our city And last but not least I was really honored to be part of the pride parade and ride in a fire truck So I want to say thanks for letting me ride along With them in the fire truck and it was great to see so much support for our community specifically support for our lgbtq community, so Thank you. That is the end of my report Yes, please council member ocrapki. Um, yeah, I Usually we do these in a matter where we say what we have done but I think one thing that we need to recognize real quick is um, this Awesome woman to my right next week is being awarded a 2023 influential woman award from the north bay business journal And so I want to recognize her before she receives the award Because she's done an outstanding job in my few months here And um, I think my colleagues will agree that she's been outstanding And so if we can just give a round of applause to our city manager Good job We'll go to item 11.2 now board and commission and committee appointments Council member ocrapki is this yours All right. Um, so we have three separate Motions that we need to make Um First I will make a motion to wave sections b1 and b2 of council policy triple zero dash zero six To allow for property owners within the enhanced infrastructure financing district or eifd Who may not be residents or of or registered voters in the city of santa rosa but reside in our Registered voters in sinoma county to be considered for appointment to the public financing authority or pfa second Thank you, mayor. Should we take public comment on this item before making Um, any further motions? Yes, please. Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 11.2.1 If you're in chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name Please make your way to the podium If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand or dial star nine You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period And this is for all of 11.2.1 There are no hands being raised via zoom and no one approaching public or the podiums in council chamber mayor vice mayor Thank you. We'll go back to council members. Are there any comments or questions? Thank you Thank you. That was a motion by council member okrepke seconded by council member rogers yes Council member and i'll take the vote now council member step I Council member rogers. Hi council member okrepke. Hi council member fleming. Hi council member alvarez. Hi vice mayor mcdonald. Hi mayor rogers Hi, let the record show that vote passes unanimously All right, and then the second motion is I will make a motion to appoint hue futrell to the one city of santa rosa representative on the pfa Second Thank you. That was a motion by okrepke If I could through the chair Perhaps what might be prudent or effective is to rank our top two therefore when the mayor goes in and does discussions with the county on the joint seat if The county did not support somebody that's in our top two It gives her the chance to maneuver to make sure that we get our top two choices For clarification is that item two and three where we rank our first choices item two and and our Second choices item three the first the the next motion is for the city of santa rosa representative and are you suggesting that you have a first and second Choice for that and then on the the next yeah, what i'm suggesting is to give the mayor flexibility to make sure that Because I unless a council member has a disagreement with me I don't see a difference between the city specific seat or the county seat What we want is two good people between those two seats And depending on what the county chooses to do and who they recommend for the count for the joint seat Perhaps giving the mayor flexibility to just go after our top two in any combination between the two seats Might be the most prudent thing for us to do I would agree council member o'crapki are you Open to that amendment a friendly amendment Well, I I'll just withdraw the motion and do a new one as if that's all right all right So I'll make a motion Allowing the mayor flexibility to a point at her discretion With the rankings I don't know how to word this exactly What you want top we have to provide three So if we could have the top two On this one and then we'll provide an alternate in another motion Top two for this particular specific seat And you'll need to withdraw your original motion if you did. Oh, you did. Okay. Thank you Okay My apologies. I didn't mean to make it more complicated. I'm just trying to make sure that the mayor has as much flexibility as possible Which is fine I'm just trying to think of what the motion is going to exactly be because the motions that are in her packet are not those so I will make a motion of To a point to have the mayor be able to appoint at her discretion with One of our top two choices of number one Hugh Futrell And number two peter stanley And I will second that motion It's been moved and seconded is there any discussion from council I'll The chair note What did you I'm sorry go ahead council member funny. Thanks a bunch I'll just note that we got really high quality candidates and we will be really lucky Um if the county accepts one of those two gentlemen to serve as our shared member and You know the the service level is from these unpaid Members of the community is really going to be tremendous. So we're wearing great hands and thank you to everybody who applied Thank you Go ahead and call the vote On each one of a comment first We had opened up public comment on all of 11.2.1 at the top of the item Mr. DeWitt we opened up public comment on this item on 11.2.1 at the top of the item for all three motions Since there seems to be some confusion We'll go ahead and allow the public comment just to make sure that your voice can be heard. Mr. DeWitt go ahead and please Thank you. It's always best to wait and hear what you folks have said first To get the comment from the public to understand what's going on Dwayne DeWitt from roseland a portion of which is in downtown santa rosa I think it's a bad idea to waive this council policy I think you should definitely have a santa rosa resident as the person who's on this It's the kind of thing where santa rosa's voice needs to be specifically from santa rosa And although you think both mr. Futrell and mr. Stanley are good picks It's almost like mr. Stanley works for mr. Futrell It's like one in the same And the thing about this type of situation is we need to get someone who's a A budget hawk if you will a taxpayer kind of person Thank you for your time on this Thank you mr. DeWitt if there's no other public comment we'll go ahead and facilitate Excuse me We'll go ahead and facilitate this vote and then move to a third item Okay, just to confirm. This is the vote to include The mayor at her discretion appoint Hugh Futrell or Peter Stanley as the second option for The city of santa rosa appointment to the pfa. That's the motion on the floor. Yes For our first option councilmember stapp Hi councilmember rogers Hi councilmember okrepke. Hi councilmember fleming. Hi councilmember alvarez. Hi vice mayor mcdonnell. Hi mayor rogers Hi, let the record show that passes unanimously Jeff we're going to ask you to put a third An alternate on the floor for consideration as well On alternate for the county for joint appointment, right? I'll make a motion to nominate don tamasi as a third option For the city of santa rosa appointee on the pfa Thank you Is there any discussion called the vote? councilmember stapp. Hi councilmember rogers. Hi councilmember okrepke. Hi councilmember fleming. Hi councilmember alvarez Vice mayor mcdonnell. Hi mayor rogers Hi Let the record show that passed unanimously Thank you. We're moving on to item 12. Are there any corrections to the minutes? I see Point of order through the mayor or vice mayor I am unclear on The board of supervisors city of santa rosa joint appointment I did not hear that motion be put on the floor So If I remember rogers, I can so my understanding from the motion is We have two positions that we get to express our preference for But one of those positions is a joint position with the county They also have their own picking from the same applicant pool that they can have So what I thought we were doing and that's what it sounded like in the motion Was expressing for the mayor what our preference was and who serves And say our first choice gets selected by the county or our second choice gets selected as the Joint one that we at least are well served because our top two are there and then we have a third that we can plug in as well So my understanding was that we were making motions based on our preference And then the mayor gets to have that discussion with the chair of the board of supervisors about who slots into what specific one To maximize our preference and outcome Ultimately on the board And i'm happy to make that as a motion if that cleans it up a little bit No, so we're not necessarily waiting to appoint hours What the mayor gets to do is based on who is selected as the joint person Between the city and the county She has preferences from us on who then is automatically are she doesn't have to come back to us She's got that ranking in place Can you please provide a clean motion for us to establish in the minutes? Okay, so the motion would be That the mayor has the authority to appoint mr. Futrell or mr. Stanley to either position And in the event that the county selects one of those two our third preference was mr. Tomasi To slot in as appropriate We have a second, please Second Is there any discussion the mayor's hand? I'm sorry madam mayor Oh, I was just saying it is almost as if we are not making the decision right now and because we chose to broaden it so people from the county can Um be appointed so in that case if like chris said if the county chooses someone that we've chosen I have options Thank you, mayor Does that provide clarification for you madam city clerk? We can that can I can make that work. Thank you city attorney. Is that motion clear enough for the record? Ah, yes, thank you We can now call a roll call vote Councilmember step. Hi councilmember rogers. Hi councilmember okrepke. Hi councilmember fleming. Hi councilmember alvarez Vice mayor mcdonald. Hi mayor rogers Hi let the record show that passes unanimously We'll now move to item 12. We have three Minutes three different minutes to approve april 25th 2023. Are there any corrections to those minutes? We have may 9th 2023. Are there any corrections to those minutes? And may 10th 2023 any corrections to those? Seeing none those will be filed We'll now move on to consent Thank you. Item 13.1 resolution support for assembly bill 436 alvarez item 13.2 resolution of approval of the acquisition of the of 470 Sebastopol road for future conversion to a police substation to assumption of lease with the sonoma county library for continued interim library use And three delegation of authority to city manager to execute all necessary documents to complete the transaction item 13.3 resolution approval of intergovernmental agreement number f 002610 with the records management division of the information systems department of the county of sonoma california item 13.4 resolution blanket purchase order 164204 a One-year extension with geotab usa incorporated 13.5 resolution speed limits in the central business district 13.6 resolution second amendment to psa with mv transportation to provide ada paratransit services and deviated fixed-route services item 13.7 resolution memorandum of understanding with the sonoma county junior college district and the scj cd associated students for city bus unlimited rides programs for college students item 13.8 resolution declaration of laser fish as a trusted system Item 13.9 ordinance adoption second reading ordinance of the city or the council of the city of san aroza repealing chapter 11 dash 16 cruising prohibited within the core area of the city of santa rosa city code removing the cruising prohibition item 13.10 ordinance adoption second reading ordinance of this council of the city of santa rosa increasing the compensation of the city manager to provide one a five percent merit increase in salary effective january 1 2023 two a two and a two point five percent cost of living salary and adjustment effective july 2nd 2023 three a merit increase equal to five percent of 276 750 dollars effective december 3 2023 four a merit increase equal to six percent of 276 750 dollars effective at the beginning of the first pay period in june 2024 five an additional merit increase in june 2025 if and as needed to align the city manager's salary with the then average city manager's salary and comparable jurisdictions and six an enhanced wellness benefit of $4,800 yearly effective january 1 2023 item 13.11 ordinance adoption second reading ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa amending title 20 of the santa rosa city code by modifying zoning code chapter 20 dash 31 in sections 20 dash 36 dot 040 20 dash 50 dot 020 and 20 dash 70 dot 020 and adding chapter 20 dash 33 to bring the zoning code into compliance with state reg legislation as required by law councilmember apparatus Yes, um, I'd like to pull item 13.9, please Okay Would you like to put the rest of the consent on the floor, please? Absolutely I'd like to move item 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 and 13.8 13.10 and 13.11 without further reading of the text. Thank you I get Thank you Shall we go to public comment on those items before we move forward with our vote, please We are now taking public comment on item 13 the consent calendar if you're in chamber would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name Please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand or dial star 9 You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period Just for clarification this public comment is on everything but item 13.9. We will be taking that after our vote Thank you. The first public comment will be from chris followed by david And I just want to quickly express our collective support for 13.5 and 13.7 lowering speed limits in the downtown district I know the council knows that's a really key part of the vision zero agenda And obviously it makes a big difference to bike and pedestrian users as well So so great progress there. We're hoping to see similar moves in the rest of the city Elsewhere in the city as soon as that's practical, especially around schools And in other areas where it's possible 13.7 on the Unlimited free bus rides for college students also really really crucial Key transit users and having that as a link in the transit system Or sorry the overall transportation system is really crucial to making, you know, non motorized non single-use vehicle Transportation options viable. So really appreciate seeing those things move forward. Thanks Thank you. The next public comment will be from david Council is this 13.9 that we're unable to speak on that item This is the consent calendar excluding 13.9. We'll have an opportunity to speak on 13.9 shortly. I'll be back. Thank you If there's no other items on consent item 13.1 to 13.8 Mr. Dewitt Hello, my name is dwayne dewitt. I'm from roseland. I'm glad that you are supporting 13.1 And at the state where it's called the alvarez ordinance It's a good situation to overcome Probably 45 50 years of heavy-handed approach towards those folks that like to drive cars around a bit in their town I hope that some of you have heard a song from back in the day. It's called low rider From a band called war And back in the day we were cruising around to that tune But some folks down here in downtown thought well, you guys are slowing up our traffic here Now isn't it ironic that here today at the same time we're Celebrating this state law that allows people to have cars lower and go cruising You're slowing up the speed limits in downtown Funny how that circle comes back around. It just took us 45 years I think it's a really good thing in a way Most of those cars that you see doing that are made in america Nice low slow american metal And I know you got people saying well, we got to do the The protection of the climate and get to the electric cars But if you've never cruised around in a nice old piece of american metal You're missing something and I think you should go for a ride with the low riders after today's meeting Hop in the car with them cruise your town and see what it's like Back in the day, we'd go up and down 4th street And the reason why there's a no you turn at santa lina avenue Is because then city manager ken blackman was getting frustrated with us teenagers Turning around there and coming back into town But you know, it was a more vibrant town when we were doing that cruise Downtown santa rosa was really kind of a hoppin thing And it was kind of a Wrong decision you might say when they put the heavy hand down on the youth and said well We don't want you in the downtown And basically you've spent another 45 years trying to revitalize downtown santa rosa Where if you just let us cruise and let people be down there You'd have business people stop They get out of their cars. They talk they use the local business You know that foster freeze on four streets been there all that time And they were thriving back in the day because of this So thank you for approving 13.1. I can't stay for 13.9 But i'll just say you know what i'm gonna go out and get in my old car And hold up my old flag and we'll be doing it the american way Low riders all the best to you Thank you. This is eric frazier with the greater cherry street neighborhood association I won't take as long as the colorful mr. DeWitt and his explanation, but I do stand in support of 13.5 As a neighborhood organization, we've worked very hard to Improve our sidewalks improve the walkability We appreciate things like the taco rides on tuesday and the events that are downtown. So I'm glad to see the The common sense approach to the speed limit. I hope it doesn't interrupt the cruising aspect of it, but um, thank you very much Thank you. Seeing no additional people in council chamber providing comment. There are no hands being raised either in zoom Thank you. We will come back and see if there's any comments from or questions from council We'll go ahead and roll call vote Thank you councilmember stapp. Hi councilmember rogers. Hi councilmember okrepke. Hi councilmember fleming. Hi councilmember alvarez Vice mayor mcdonnell. Hi mayor rogers Hi Let the record show this motion passes unanimously Councilmember operas Thank you, madam mayor I would like to introduce or pat introduce uh ordinance adoption 13.9 second reading Ordinance of the council the city of san rosa repealing chapter 11 dash 16 cruising prohibitive within the core area of the city of san rosa Removing the cruising the cruising prohibition and way further reading of the text second Like that was quick. I'll go ahead and give that to councilmember fleming Is there any discussion? No questions from council. We'll go ahead and move to public comment on item 13.9 Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 13.9 If you are in council chamber and would like to comment But have not provided a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand or dial star nine You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period Uh council, my name is david ask bar and i'm part of the latin rollers car club and also part of the the sonoma county lowrider council Today is a very momentous occasion, but first and foremost. I want to acknowledge the indigenous people of the land my ancestors and The higher power that guides me in order to do the work that I do I want to really thank you On behalf of the council for the hard work that you put into The dialogue and the ongoing conversations With the with the council and the community. I want to also thank the community engagement Folks from the city and the hard work that they Put you know put forth with us and chief cregan the conversations with the chief and and the other city Folks that that is that is making this possible here today Um, I think one of the things that i'm very proud of is that the the council Had the courage to reevaluate itself and its local laws and educate itself In terms of lowriding the the lowrider culture And I think it's a good step towards listening to the community To better enhance the community engagement Piece that you have going with the city And I think it gives those of us that have been placed in a very subaltern positionality within the community to actually Begin to voice our Our perspective with when it comes to To lowriding And so it helps us become visible and it helps your efforts actually begins to create A humane environment so that we can Push forward our humanity because a lot of the a lot of the oppressions that have occurred, you know throughout the centuries Has been about eradicating humanity and today we stand with you in resurfacing our humanity as Cholos as lowrider peoples and culture and community with you to have You see us and for the community at large to To visibly acknowledge Who we are As a community on and I think it enhances the the health of our community overall For further dialogue. I also want to Suggest that you please vote on behalf of ab 436 that's coming up So appreciate your work. Thank you so much Thank you the next public commenter can come to the podium Hello, my name is Maggie par I'm a resident of petaluma in sonoma county, and I'm here as an ally Of the sonoma county council of lowriders and I have come to know many of the members of this community through my Curating and exhibition currently at the petaluma art center. I'm in the board there And I'm here to support repealing of the ordinance to allow Not only cruising especially low riders from what I understand the law has only has primarily been enforced against low riders and also Based on everything I have learned not only about the low rider community, but the history of cruising in this area It's a very popular and beloved pastime and from what I hear combined with the lower speed limit downtown It's it's I think would be good for the city and the culture and I Stand as an ally of the low riders. Thank you Thank you. Can the next public commenters step to the podium Thank you. Hello everybody. My name is Juan Roman and I want to thank you know everybody up there But first I want to you know talk a little bit about myself. My name is Juan. I grew up in Southern california my early years and I feel that Lowriding saved my life and I say this Because a lot of the neighborhood kids That weren't into lowriding. They got you know incarcerated or ended up Getting into drugs or some other some other stuff so If it wasn't for the love and the spirit of lowriding, I don't think I'd be here Um, I I grew up in the south frite district where a lot of People were getting in trouble when we you know, we were teenagers and All my time and money and love Went into the culture building my car cleaning it Shining up the chrome even though the chrome was partly rusted for me. It was gold There was years ago when I was in school I I did some research on prisons and When I think it was governor pete wilson who removed the exercise equipment From the prison system and violence went up Arnold Schwarzenegger not that i'm a fan of his but when Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know Kind of questioned that And he noticed that you know the inmates weren't occupied with exercise Well, violence, um, you know Was increased so he put the equipment back in And so it reduced violence in within the prison systems And with me if it wasn't for me working on my car me working with Other lowrider kids teenagers around my neighborhood I don't know where it would be I stand in front of you guys I'm a college professor now You know, I teach at skyline college and I also teach at the san rosa junior college If lowriding didn't exist, I probably would have been motivated to go to school to stay in school I did that and all of my research went into lowriding My capstone was about lowriding my um A lot of my undergraduate was under, you know, um Objectification of women in lowriding so everything I did in college was about lowriding.  I I'm sure some of you guys did it back when, you know When you guys were teenagers, it's just the love of it. Let's keep these kids occupied lowriding. Thank you very much Thank you. Can the next public commenter step to the podium? Thank you. Please go ahead Good afternoon. My name is Oscar Villalobos Campos again. Thank you for having us here today for uh letting us speak So I'm 22 years of age one of the youngsters here that's part of the community Lee or I'm actually the community liaison for the Sonoma County Lowrider Council And I really just want to give a scope of how The removal of this ordinance can lead the way towards assisting youth at risk youth in our communities I currently have ideas that I've been talking to with the guys about potential mentorship opportunities with youth I really do see working on cars cruising cars as a way to stay out of gangs Way to stay out of the streets At the same time staying them but in a positive way Right, so a lot of our youth here So I'll go bit into my background actually have quite a bit of a background working with youth servicing them with the city of Santa Rosa neighborhood services And uh doing a few of my own personal ventures doing school presentations on gang intervention and prevention efforts And something that I see youth really Inclining themselves towards is working on automobiles Um and the number one automobile choice that always catches their eye are those sweet candy paint jobs on lowriders those nice shiny wheels And so I really want to build an opportunity here in Santa Rosa to allow for potential peer mentorships with youth through lowriding It's been proven that lowriding can serve as community healing community unity community engagement and so Really, I'm just wanting to emphasize that here today By showing myself as a personal example Me being one of the young guys here Similar to Juan's story lowriding is something that paved the way for myself to stay out of trouble Inclined me to also further my education also completing a college degree Um, so it's really something powerful. It's more than a car You know, we all like to say there's a common saying that we all say amongst each other's Amongst each other. Sorry that we're all just one spoke on the wheel, right? And it's just one of those ways to really come together and I really hope you all can see that today And also Believe in that potential to grow within our community and those peer mentorships that I really want to work on with youth So I really hope that you all gather here today and help motion towards the repeal of this ordinance. So thank you very much Thank you. Can the next public commenter on item 13.9? Please approach the podium Thank you Good evening everyone. My name is Tristan Selma Medina. I am currently a student at Maria Creole high school Throughout these throughout the process Of the removal of the cruising ordinance. I learned about perseverance dedication being consistent And never giving up no matter how many doors get shut in front of you And I wanted to take the time to thank all the city council members For supporting the repeal of the cruising ordinance Today history will be made and I helped changed it And I can't wait to be back in In a several in several years Because i'll be sitting up there working with you guys Mishika. Thank you Thank you. Are there any additional public comments on item 13.9? Vice mayor, there are no hands being raised to be assumed when we receive no advanced public comments on this item Thank you. I'll come back to council. Do you have any additional comments or questions? We'll go ahead and call the vote Thank you council member staff I apologize. I think mayor rogers had her hand up. I apologize. Mayor rogers. I didn't see you It's okay. I just wanted to say I did not grow up low writing But when that mary lou was unveiled and I believe it was uh former chief Navarro Current chief cregan and myself. We were able to ride in the mary lou around downtown That's when I knew that we had something here and that it would be a lot of fun To do that and to see the cars and everyone was waving and it was just definitely a lot of fun So, um, I'm happy that we're going to see more low riders riding around And I will enjoy looking at all the art because I do think that each vehicle is definitely a piece of art Thank you Thank you, mayor councilmember avarez Thank you, madam mayor To my community. This is what happened when we come together. We could change things Step up be heard We're listening Thank you. We're ready for the vote now Hi, thank you councilmember rogers. Hi councilmember okrepke. Hi councilmember fliming. Hi councilmember alvarez Vice mayor mcdonald. Hi mayor rogers I let the record show this vote passes unanimously We'll now move to item 14 public comment on any non-agenda matters Madam city clerk, would you like to facilitate that for me, please? Thank you. We are now taking public comments on item 14 Non-agenda matters. This is a time When any person may address the council on matters not listed on the agenda But which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council If you have not provided a speaker card, please make your way to the podium If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand or dial star nine You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period The first public comment will be from dwayne dwitt I do not see dwayne in the chamber And there are no hands being raised via zoom for public comment on non-agenda matters vice mayor Thank you, and I apologize for the delay. I just want to let the public know we're going to take item 15.1 First and let staff do that report for us And then after that we are going to take a short dinner break and then we will be moving to the public hearing and item Item 15.1 is report zero emissions bus rollout plan Could we get some assistance? Thank you Hey, good afternoon. Mayor rogers vice mayor mcdonald and members of the council We're pleased to be here today to present the san eras a city bus zero emissions bus rollout plan With me today is urie coslyn our subject matter expert on transit fleet electrification will be co-presenting this evening By way of introduction the zero emissions bus rollout plan is a requirement of the california air resources board for All public transit agencies in the state of california And it lays out how we will meet the mandates of the innovative clean transit rule Including transition to a fully zero emissions transit fleet by 2040 This plan also meets the requirements of the federal transit administration So the city can maintain eligibility for discretionary funds. We're using to support that transition So the headline on this as we're proposing a full transition of our fixed-route fleet our 29 bus fixed-route fleet By 2035 that's five years ahead of the ict mandate And full transition of our 12 months paratransit fleet. It's not listed here, but that's the sub headline By 2037 urie's going to talk a little bit more about why that portion of our fleet will be taking a little longer Based on what we know today about the vehicle market for paratransit cutaways i'm gonna we're going to walk through each section of the plan But i'm going to go kind of quickly on the first two sections because they're pretty pro forma and just provide basic information Including the first part of the plan that just describes our agency as well as the city's Climate action as sustainability goals including those listed here on this slide The next section includes general information about our plan to transition and including our major milestones For the transition and i'll just highlight on this slide that Per this plan by 2029 when the innovative clean transit rule requires that 100 of new bus purchases v zero emissions We expect to have already converted about 70 of our fixed-route fleet So we're getting a good head start. There's some agencies that are just getting started, but we're already Pretty far down the learning curve a lot more to learn But we're we're up and running with our electric fleet already and well underway with additional purchases By 2035 we expect to have 100 of the fixed-route fixed-route fleet transitioned as i mentioned as well as 75 Of the paratransit fleet And i'm going to turn it over to urie for a few slides here to delve a little bit more into the technical parts of the plan Thank you, rachel council So this section just i try to identify What type of zero emissions bus are we going to utilize to get to 100 percent? Zebes by 2040 and with the city bus and in our location here in sonoma county Being In the same county as the largest geothermal field Arguably in the world You know our are we're trying to build off that local resource and so we've identified Battery electric buses as our primary Zero emissions bus. There is You know some some of the other Agencies across the state are using hydrogen fuel cell technology, but in for in our case The electric buses makes make more sense especially considering our Our fleet range and the the Locality of the geothermal field here, which in sonoma county We're and so we're not at this time pursuing a mixed fleet with hydrogen fuel cell, but As we continue to reevaluate What the what the market does what we'll look at we'll continue to evaluate that as an option And so we're just in this we're just building off of the history of working with sonoma clean power and Going with 100 percent battery electric buses So here's a picture of the entire fleet We're part of the requirement is you know you avoiding early retirement any buses So all of our once our buses reach their 12-year useful life. That's when we go to replace them We're not considering converting any vehicles At one point that was an option, but uh with with how the market has Progressed it makes much more sense to go to buy a new battery electric bus and that's what we're proposing There's a small error on the slide in terms of the cost estimate on those buses essentially the Fixed route fleet are about 1.5 million ish and then some of the cutaways Depending on the size is between 300 and 500 000 So essentially this is the this is our whole fleet plan here And so you we have our first the requirement from the ict is to That 100 percent of our purchases like rachel said need to be battery electric after 2029 and so the first case in which we're buying cutaways after 2029 is in 2032 um, and so that will take us to Full fleet of full fleet electrification The last purchase will be in 2036 with the with the buses arriving in 2020 2037 as a plan next slide So here's the current fleet as it exists um the two Two's will be removed Any day now they were essentially being kept until the new the four new 2022 electric buses were fully integrated in the fleet and And so we're we're kind of at that juncture. We so we have our first four electric buses that have been on the road since the first of the year and Yes, that's our current fleet move to the next slide And this is what we expect the fleet to be in about a year from now where we will be Retiring The 20 the the 2002 is the 2008's and one of the 2011's and we'll be adding an additional bus to the fleet That was funded through the affordable housing and sustainability communities grant. So you see there will be getting five new electric buses in 2032 and now in the Then the next group of buses to replace are the 20 the rest of the 2011's which have been funded through a A couple of different discretion fta discretionary Grants that our grant manager is secured as well as a number of other the tersep grant a few other Funding sources The 2013's we have There's been three grant applications one. We've heard from that We're not receiving but we have two grant applications currently out for Replacement of those so we're as you can see we're well into Funding and and identifying funding sources for full fleet electrification next slide So here's where we get into our cutaway fleet, you know, I initially stepping into this project Expected, you know, I have a leaf myself A Nissan leaf electric leaf myself and you know, you know, I get over, you know I get just under a hundred miles to a charge and with the Um With with the the paratransit fleet we have about they get about a hundred miles They do about a hundred miles, but the issue is that they're on the road for eight hours a day. So Uh, we've we've done a research. We've gone in we've looked looked at the options in between, you know, the the Gross vehicle weight ratings that require that that are limited on these vehicles and they so they can't handle large batteries to um The grant funds the purchasing mechanisms and such we're delaying the The the we're not the the market's not ready for us to be purchasing the cut the cutaway Cutaway electric vehicles for our paratransit fleet. So We're continuing the public engagement process with some of our our paratransit users And um, we know that we're on a vehicle replacement of every seven to ten years for these particular vehicles So we'll be looking to reevaluate Anytime we go into purchasing The cutaways is the market ready for us to go into Purchasing battery electrics at this point. It's 2032 is when we plan to buy the first one But we'll continue to reevaluate the market to see if we can accelerate that Next slide So now getting into the charging side our facilities You know, typically there's a couple different this is our 40 This is our yard across from the finley center On on stony point road and that's the site As you can see at the kind of the back back of the the parking area there the where Our current charges are and there's an image there on the right of those chargers We've elected there's a couple different charging mechanisms. You can do depot charging or in route charging We're due to due to how the fact that our buses sit for eight hours and our mileage We're we're doing all in depot charging at this site Next slide So here is a kind of just schematic generally of where our charging may occur We know that the kind of the green buses there. That's our kind of that's our phase one that three of those or Six of those parking spaces three chargers are at that site. We work with pg&e to And through their ev fleet program To get that first set of chargers in Now the and that's what we're calling phase one phase two and three will likely be out there in the yard a little farther and we'll be trying to bring on a Somebody who can help us really understand the engineering side of those second and third phases because it's not it's not just Implementing charge chargers at that point. We're looking at resiliency Battery storage a couple different components, which are we need some further guidance on so A portion of that is funded the kind of the five of those chargers are funded in in the second phase and we'll we'll That's kind of we're approximately where we'll go next slide So and this is a list of kind of the charging phases Like I was saying phase ones built phase twos due to be installed and that phase Sorry phase ones built phase one b is due to be installed soon phase two is funded and then phase two plus three and The paratransit Charging are Are too common to be funded Now that we've gotten through the technical stuff. I'm going to jump back in to provide a little bit of wrap up One thing that's really important to the air resources board is that Transit agencies demonstrate that they're not going to just be operating these electric buses on certain routes or in certain parts of their service areas There's really an equitable distribution of this new technology this cleaner technology So this plan will also address the location of our disadvantaged communities based on socio-economic public health and environmental hazard criteria How we're serving those communities with our system and where those electric buses will be deployed and for city bus It's really simple. We circulate all our buses across all routes So the four buses that are out there today the four electric buses are serving every part of the city And that will continue to be true as we add additional electric buses to our fleet Second to last section relates to workforce training. We have to detail how we're going to provide training to our workforce Our supervisors our bus operators and our fleet maintenance staff so they can safely and effectively operate this technology Just the highlight of this is the best method to do this right now is through the vehicle manufacturer because each vehicle is a little different the manufacturers provide very Multi-phased and very in-depth training and so we've purchased those training packages with our first four vehicles And we'll continue to do so and work really closely with fleet maintenance to make sure that our our staff is trained up To safely and effectively maintain these vehicles and you know to be honest there are some maintenance challenges Over time we expect that maintenance will become Less expensive and easier on these vehicles, but you know, we have a learning curve So there have been some challenges out of the gate, which we're working with the manufacturer to resolve And they have a field rep that spent some time here helping us Make sure we can keep these buses on the road So we're having having good success now With with getting these buses and keeping them out on the road and we'll continue to work on that Function as well with additional resources Finally, oh, I think this is the second to last. Yeah So funding quick picture within this plan We're asked to estimate what our total cost is to transition our fleet to zero emissions This includes the charging infrastructure as well as the vehicles We estimate the full transition will cost us about 55 million dollars. That's a no small amount of money to raise We have been successful in winning awards worth about 22 million dollars to date So we are well on our way and the key point here is there's no one funding source That's the sort of the magic bullet for electrification as you can see on the right side of this slide We're piecing this together with a lot of different funding sources at the local state and federal level One thing I think it's important to highlight is the funding we've raised so far about 60 has been from discretionary grants that we've had to compete for As opposed to formula allocations. So it is getting more and more competitive So we're hoping at the state and federal levels the pie will continue to grow because there's a lot more people coming to try to have a piece of the pie The final section relates to carves request that we identify anticipated startup and scale-up challenges for our zero emissions vehicle program We've identified the following four categories The first is cost this is a very costly transition as I mentioned It is very competitive out there for a lot of the funding sources There are some new funding sources coming online and we're going after every single one of them And the good news is we've had a lot of success in the last few years Resiliency is also becoming more and more important As we have up to 50 more than 50 of our fleet now funded to transition to electric vehicles We want to make sure that we have the battery storage generator Whatever we need to ensure that we have continuity of operations With a portion of our fleet in the event of an emergency or or an impact to the electrical grid since we are so closely involved in emergency response activities Yuri discussed the challenge is the paratransit fleet transition So that something we'll be watching closely has he indicated to see if there ways we can accelerate that transition But right now we're waiting on the market And finally less of an area of challenge but more for sort of further exploration and learning is around the technologies that we can employ to To make sure that we're most effectively and cost effectively operating this portion of our fleet And that includes telematics on the vehicle that'll help us really make sure we're managing the charge in the field and the range of the vehicle As well as the charge management for our our bus depot So that we're taking the best advantage of the rate that we have to charge these vehicles and minimizing our costs to fuel them So those are both areas we're doing more work in currently So with that just to summarize we're seeking counsel approval tonight of this initial zero emissions bus rollout plan with the understanding that this is a Living document and there's many factors that will cause us to bring updates to this plan Including the results of the city-wide ev master plan Changes in funding availability changes in the market around paratransit vehicles or other vehicles So we'll be continuing to Work forward to continue this transition and this will be a starting point and we're happy to take any questions Thanks Thank you for your presentation looking to counsel for questions Councilmember strap It's great to see how far along the city is and making the transition One of the one of the great benefits of evs is that in spite of the the higher startup costs You can make that up in the back end. You've got lower fuel costs. You've got lower maintenance costs Does the same hold true for for city fleets that are that are Converting the evs We think that the maintenance costs long term it's been seen by other agencies that have adopted This technology a little sooner that we expect maintenance costs to go down. There are just fewer moving pieces You know, we have a number of things in place to Warranty the batteries and other pieces to make sure that they're they're operating to spec The fuel the the fueling cost I think that remains to be seen a bit because there is so much uncertainty around electricity rates And so I think we're going to learn a lot in the coming year I think I think next year we'll we'll have a better answer to give you on that We certainly hope that over time the the cost to charge these buses will be less than we're paying for diesel fuel But it's a little bit uncertain at this time Thank you I just have one question When you go to the charging stations a lot of times cars, they have to charge out in the field when they're out and about And I understand that our buses are going to be Able to be routed to go back to the yard and and can you explain how that's going to work for us? So if i'm understanding the question correctly, um I think you want to know how so how our buses will interface with the charging station The timing of that run out of a charge if they're out on a route is I guess the question Yeah, yeah So that's a really good question because there is um on-route charging that we could deploy and we we could deploy in the future Say in the transit mall, but the way our system operates and um the mileage that we we undertake every day And the fact that we have the buses parked overnight It really provides an opportunity to do that depot charging So the buses we have and that we're ordering have the ability to do an entire 14 hour service day on a single charge Then we plug them in at night. They charge overnight That could change over time I mean as the the vehicles develop as the charging technology develops So we may take a different approach, but for now the depot charging makes the most sense Great, thank you so much for that. Is there any more questions from council? Madam city clerk, will you please facilitate public comment? Thank you vice mayor. We are now taking public comment on item 15.1 If you are in council chamber, we'd like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name Please make your way to the podium. If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand or dial star nine You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period I'm going to turn it over to our zoom host. We have two hands raised. This is for item 15.1 Thank you. Adina will be first followed by shelby Adina, I'm asking you to Go ahead when you're ready Good evening council. I appreciate this presentation on potentially switching to EV vehicles for buses and The associated cost around 55 million has the proposition. However, these narratives and endeavors Benefit the Caucasians individuals which are promoting them. There's been absolutely no mention as to how this affects minorities I'm actually a journalist for the california globe and have an article coming out about this very issue today or tomorrow The batteries that are utilized to power electric vehicles Use materials such as cobalt, which is mined in the congo by black children for two dollars a day Under inhumane working conditions the projections for these batteries are Expected to exponentially expand about 600 percent over the next few years Governor Newsom and president biden actually have proposed to do domestic Manufacturing on these materials and have not laid out a plan To facilitate that more easily accessible So again, I ask you why are we not considering fair trade how this is affecting our foreign partners and suppliers the lovely councilmember chris rogers who Has a distaste for black people as I believe he forced The former current mayor natalie rogers to retract her statements about racism. Why is this not being considered? We had a young woman in healdsburg who just had a noose put in her car And her transmission engine completely messed with because she's black and latina But there's no mention of this in the media. I write for the media. So I know so again Why are we only focused on narratives that benefit white people and we want to keep minorities in check? Please speak to this. Thank you Thank you and next will be shelby shelby. I'm allowing your permissions to speak go ahead when you're ready Thank you council Can you hear me? Yes Okay I have a couple issues. Uh, I'd like to speak on about this very matter. It's interesting to me that Again, as miss floras mentioned, there's no mention of the fact that we're putting the environment ahead of children and people I am all about The fact that the world's ecosystem needs to be protected But not at the cost of minorities and especially not at the cost of black minorities I think it's interesting that we're talking about all the things that you're going to invest in But are you going to actually source the material that this The these buses are built with are these buses affecting anybody of color? whatsoever If they are I don't see any equity in them I don't see the environment more important than people. I don't see animals more than important than people I think it's interesting that We are hearing about how this is helping the environment and no mention Of how it affects our fellow human beings If we all Live under the same roof And we all believe in god Then we understand that our time here is temporary Nothing we can do Will change the outcome There is always going to be a start and a finish So that being said I'm all about helping the environment But not at the cost of human beings We cannot move forward with Doing any kind of investment in these type of products if they are not Doing things legitimately with the material that they are using If we continue to push this agenda, it's only going to hurt my community worse than it already is Children making two dollars a day to mine the batteries so that you can sit your privileged Uh cells in your white utopic space And act like you're doing the environment a service while you're hurting us In another country The last thing you want is a war with Africa Because there's too many black people here already Please consider Taking the responsibility To do your due diligence and make sure that the materials that they are using to buy to do these This equipment is not coming from there. If it is do not buy the equipment. It's that simple You still be Next step will be jamie You're being asked to unmute go ahead when you're ready Um jamie, obviously I apologize that I missed a good bit of this meeting, but I was logging in in order to Um just give my experience Having a short term rental in sonoma county in center osa in the city center osa And we have one house that we own this We're actually on item 15 or pardon me. Yes 15 point Around 15.1. I apologize We'll be doing item 16.1. Um after we take a short break. Thank you. Thank you my apologies Okay resident calling in with the last four digits 8208 I'll be allowing your permissions Go ahead when you're ready You're being asked to unmute If you're calling in and your and your phone number ends in 8208 Go ahead when you're sorry about that. Go ahead. You can continue Yes, go ahead No, I didn't have a question. No worries. Just continue. Okay. Thank you. Jessica. You're up next I'm asking you to unmute. Please go ahead when you're ready Am I unmuted? Yes, you are go ahead um, is this where we can Say our comment about The rentals That will be coming up after This is item 15.1 We'll be taking a short break and then item 16.1 will be coming up and then that's when you would give your comment Okay, then I don't have any comment right now. I'm sorry about that. Thank you. That's okay I'm seeing no additional hands raised on zoom for item 15.1 and we had no prerecorded messages for this item Thank you ronda. Is there any additional questions from council? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and call the vote Or pardon me council member rogers. We put a motion on the floor. I'd be happy to thank you vice mayor I will move approval of the resolution of the city of santa rosa Approving the city bus zero emission bus rollout plan And just say a huge. Thank you to rachel and yuri and jason and everybody on the team who's been so focused on this And has been moving this project forward. Thank you second It's been moved in second and by council member fleming. I second his comments then And we'll go ahead and call the vote Thank you council member step. Hi council member rogers Hi council member okrepke. Hi council member fleming. Hi council member alvarez. Hi vice mayor mcdonald. Hi mayor rogers I let the record show that vote passes unanimously Thank you. We'll go ahead and take a short break. We will recess until 645 and come back for our public hearing 645 so we're going to go ahead and get started To maintain an efficient meeting and respect the public's time public comment on item 16.1 will be two minutes And then additionally if you hear a speaker ahead of your own comment that's stating your same opinion and you'd rather Restate the same or similar opinion. You can show sign of support by raising your hands and waving them like this And with that we'll go ahead and get started on item 16.1 Through the vice mayor, can we call a roll? Yes, please. Thank you Council member step here council member rogers council member okrepke here council member fleming here council member alvarez Vice mayor mcdonald here mayor rogers Present let the record show all council members are present Thank you vice mayor item 16.1 is a public hearing short-term rentals ordinance amendments And if each of you could just state your name for the record. Thank you jessica jones deputy director of planning jesse oswald chief building official sherry mead senior planner lukirk assistant chief building official Okay, thank you and good evening. Mayor rogers vice mayor mcdonald and council members As mentioned i'm jessica jones. I'm the deputy director of planning I just wanted to give a brief introduction for this item before senior planner meads goes into her main presentation The as mentioned the item before you is the short-term rental ordinance and proposed amendments to that ordinance which Lives in the city's zoning code Miss mead is going to be going into the history of the ordinance and the specifics of the proposal before you Including the planning commission's recommendation to council from their april meeting I did want to highlight that the city staff has spent a lot of time reviewing the record working with the Ordinances before you as well as hearing from members of the public both in support of short-term rentals as well as opposed to them With that in mind the proposed amendments that are before you are focused on Making the ordinance clearer and easier to administer for both the public as well staff And I did want to quickly mention that at the conclusion of miss mead's presentation I'm going to be popping back in with just a few items for council's consideration before you start your Public hearing and deliberation. So with that, I'd like to hand it over to miss meads Thank you for that great introduction jessica as she mentioned and I mentioned before i'm sherry meads I'm a senior planner in the planning and economic development department. I've been involved with the short-term rentals ordinance Development since day one So it's exciting to bring this before you and and Maybe we'll be able to finish out the ordinance tonight if not get close Jessica provided the agenda that I was going to was going to give so I'll go ahead and move on to the next slide And basically as she mentioned you're being asked tonight to review Ordinance amendments to the existing language in the zoning code Primarily, we've revised and added new definitions and some policies which I'll go over in more detail later But a lot of this incorporates technical changes like jessica mentioned We've worked with this ordinance for almost 20 months now And through that time we've realized who that would have been better in this section or that section So when we say technical changes, we're talking about grammar punctuation Organization of the ordinance itself Not substantive changes So there's quite a bit of that in these amendments as well as the addition of clarifying language That doesn't change the substance of the ordinance, but hopefully makes it more clear For those implementing and also operating a short-term rental the short-term rental program I'm going to provide a review of the community feedback that we've received I'll highlight briefly the Feedback from the original survey that we did before the urgency ordinance But dive deeper into the community feedback that we did this this time around So I'm pretty sure most of us know what a short-term rental is But just in case anyone in the audience doesn't I just want to give a brief definition That they're a type of transient lodging where a dwelling unit or a portion of a dwelling unit Is rented for a period of less than 30 days So it's important to note that if someone's renting their home for more than 30 days The city doesn't require any type of permit and any, you know Over we don't look at that. So these are just rentals that are less than 30 days And short-term rentals are further defined as either hosted where the owner lives and sleeps on site during the short-term rental Period or non hosted where the owner does not live and sleep on site during the short-term period And some folks call these airbnb's which is just a company name that does short-term rental listings or vacation rentals So now i'm going to get into a little bit of the background of how we got to where we are tonight Prior to october of 2021 the city did not regulate short-term rentals other than prohibiting accessory dwelling units That were constructed after january 2018 from being rented for less than 30 days, and we always required short-term renter short-term rental operators to remit transient occupancy tax, which is not a charge against the owners. It's a charge against the The individuals staying in the short-term rental and the the owner is responsible for remitting that transient occupancy tax And business improvement area assessments for rentals of less than 30 days That was always required and in june of 2021 the city created a dedicated email address Which many of you know as short-term rentals at srcity.org And that email address was dedicated to receiving inquiries and suggestions related to strs and potential new policies to regulate them So as you can see on the slide above, I won't go through the dates, but We brought this conversation to the economic development subcommittee in august of 2021 And september of 2021 looking for direction because we were recognizing that short-term rentals were being operated in the city without any operating standards or Regulations other than the ones i just mentioned So staff presented the economic development subcommittee with information about how many short-term rentals might be operating in the city And this was based on a third party enforcement company doing a web scrape of of the most common listing Services and they let us know that they there could have been up to as much as 375 Operating in the city So based on public testimony and the information presented committee members directed staff to draft regulations for council review and action to address short-term rentals The community compatibility public safety threats related to wildfires and other potential emergencies requiring evacuation Addressing their impact on limited housing stock and at the time the covet 19 pandemic So once we got that direction from the economic development subcommittee We wanted to reach out to the to the community as quickly as we could because we knew we were bringing back the ordinance on an urgency basis which would be effective immediately and because it was an urgency ordinance it didn't go through the the more rigorous public engagement process or Planning commission vetting prior to being acted upon Acted upon so we did put out a survey and record time. It had a huge response And so we felt good that at least we were able to reach some community members um prior to bringing the urgency ordinance back to council so on october 13th 2021 The council adopted an ordinance to add chapter 2048 to the zoning code And that established a regulatory framework for short-term rentals And during all of those meetings with the economic development subcommittee and even at the october 21st city council meeting There were certain items that didn't make it into the urgency ordinance. They didn't rise to that level of Um being able to be acted on in an urgency basis So at the time we were told hey, you know consider looking at these other things too and and some of that is brought Before you tonight and i'll explain that later so After the ordinance passed on october 2021. We worked with it for a while. We had a very large onslaught of permit applications Um, and we were very behind in in being able to enforce the ordinance due to staffing issues And also get the permits turned around as quickly as we had hoped So we went back to the economic development subcommittee in may of last year And we brought an update on you know permitting and enforcement status ongoing enforcement issues and potential ordinance amendments to be considered subcommittee members directed staff to bring forward an Ordinance again on an urgency basis to to stop accepting new applications For non-hosted short-term rentals and to clarify that code enforcement penalties apply to permit holders and Folks that fell into a category called operators and good standing They met certain requirements to have registered for t o t by the end of october and to have applied for a short-term rental permit By december 2nd So the economic development subcommittee also expressed support for establishing a short-term rental permit renewal fee And then on august 9th 2022 There we go. City council did adopt an urgency ordinance to set a maximum number of 198 non-hosted short-term rental permits to be issued citywide and to clarify that uh All the enforcement penalties apply to permit holders as well as operators and good standing the council by resolution also established a short-term rental permit renewal fee And then almost immediately after those actions staff began a very robust community engagement effort And you'll hear about the results of these efforts later in the presentation staff started meeting with industry Representatives and neighborhood individuals and groups conducted a second online public sentiment survey and hosted in-person pop-up events at various locations throughout the city and the goal with the Pop-up events was to reach community members that are not already within the short-term rental ecosystem. We have a lot of people that have been in this Short-term rental discussion from day one and they usually are very well attended at these meetings However, we wanted to reach out to as many people as we could that may not be as familiar with the topic and get their input So as part of our outreach events, we also hosted two virtual community meetings We presented to the Santa Rosa tourism business improvement area advisory board Met with members of the Sonoma county action partnership roseland community building initiative and participated in a live radio broadcast On kbbf radio 89.1, which is a little plug is the first bilingual public radio station in the us us Then just a few weeks ago on october I'm sorry on april 27th the planning commission held a public hearing to consider the proposed short-term rental ordinance amendments And staff will also be providing a brief summary of the planning commission meeting and recommendation later in the meeting So I know that's a lot, but I I think it's important to show that this conversation has been ongoing And it's been we've tried to engage with the community quite a bit and also our leaders So now i'm just going to briefly highlight the current short-term rental standards and requirements And it's important to note that in the in the ordinance itself the beginning of the chapter There's a section called purpose and the purpose of the city's short-term rental ordinance Is noted to be a regulatory framework So that short-term rental activities do not become a nuisance or threat to the public peace welfare health or safety of neighboring properties It is intended to preserve the city's limited housing stock to retain the residential characteristics of neighborhoods And to facilitate the collection of transient occupancy taxes And business improvement assessments So the ordinance establishes as you can see permit requirements Limits occupancy and parking standards Uh limits the number of guests that can visit the short-term rental during the short-term rental period general operating requirements and life safety regulations The ordinance also established a code enforcement Procedure and penalties and as you can see on the chart above, uh the ordinance Direct initial complaints to a 24-7 contact which