0-001 to the transit village residential resilient city tv rrc and transit village residential senior housing resilient city tv rsh rc district file number prj uh 20-002 and rez 20-002 and wait for the reading of the text second okay we have a motion by mr rogers second by mr alvarez any question council see none madame city clerk real call vote please looks like dick has a question do you have a question dick yeah we we talked about uh the x party meetings and i wasn't sure that it covered this one as well i did meet with uh one of the owners of this project and uh their project engineer took me on a tour just so i could see what it looked like uh but nothing that wasn't already in the public presentation yet this is still on the journey's end we have four resolutions on journey's end so we're are you speaking of the second one on yolanda yes yeah we're still on the first oh i'm sorry i'm sorry okay madame roll call vote please councilmember dowd hi councilmember tibbetz hi councilmember soyer right councilmember rogers hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor phleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes okay i will introduce a resolution of the council of the city of san arosa approving a general planned plan land use diagram amendment from mobile home to transit village medium for the property at 3575 mendicino avenue assessor's parcel number 173-030-001 file numbers prj20-002 and gpam20-001 and wave further reading of the text second okay we have a motion by mr rogers say my mr alvarez madame city clerk can we do a roll call vote please yes councilmember dowd hi councilmember tibbetz hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor phleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes all right and finally i will introduce a resolution of the council of the city of san arosa approving the 3575 mendicino avenue project tentative map located at 3575 mendicino avenue assessor's parcel number 173-030-001 and 173-030-002 file numbers prj20-002 and maj20-001 and wave further reading of the text second motion by mr rogers second by mr alvarez madame city clerk roll call vote please and me and just to confirm this is the revised as of today yep thank you councilmember dowd hi councilmember tibbetz hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor phleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes great thank you so much for all that uh congratulations and uh mr glane who will be introducing the yolanda industrial project before i go to exparte disclosures dizzy murray will be handling that okay council i'll just go around to query it if you have any exparte disclosures regarding the yolanda industrial project uh let's see mr dowd i already announced it but i'll do it again in order is that i did have a tour of this project just to see what it was uh being proposed and met with the owner and the project engineer and nothing was discussed or presented that wasn't in the package as well okay thank you mr soyer no it's partake thank you mr alvarez thank you mayor i did meet with the applicant's team and i did not discover any new information thank you mr tibbetz no communication thank you mr rogers uh no exparte communications thank you vice mayor phleming nothing to report thank you okay and i know i was at the site it was all pre-covid so i think it was 2019 uh and also uh mid november i met with the applicant and learned about the project which is all included in the public presentation so with that uh susie you're on thank you and good evening mayor schwedhelm vice mayor phleming and council members the project before you is the second project in the fall 2020 general plan amendment package yolanda industrial project next slide please the project involves a mitigated negative declaration and i want to point out that that includes the development or the changes to seven parcels general plan amendment for five parcels changing them from retail and business services and then one parcel from medium high density residential all six to light industry industry and then it also involves a rezoning for the same six parcels five of which are coming from the general commercial zoning district one from the multifamily residential zoning district all into the light industrial zoning district consistent with the general plan land use there are also other entitlements currently under review by the city to design reviews to redevelop two sites which i'll show in another slide and a conditional use permit for cannabis related uses next slide please here's the slide i said at the top of this graphic is the yolanda or yolanda avenue just to orient yourselves and those parcels all the parcels fronting yolanda avenue will be redeveloped with a new commercial building well a new commercial building and a new storage building the longer building on the right side of that graphic is a longer storage building next slide please can you hit the arrow down again so my flint there we go just to kind of give you an idea about the neighborhood context the property to the north is currently undeveloped but there's an entitled multifamily residential project to develop a 252 unit apartment complex to the west in between the project site and san rosa avenue or predominantly commercial uses as is to the south those are also commercial uses and then along the eastern order we have commercial and light industry fronting yolanda and then multifamily residential to the south of that some of the existing uses are really more appropriate for the light industrial zoning district and light industry general plan land use designation and most of those uses will remain next slide please so there's a long project history for the site i've kind of highlighted what i thought was a little bit more appropriate and probably here going back in the 2018 the applicant began meeting with both neighborhood and city staff next slide the project again went back to the neighborhood back in august of 2019 and probably most appropriate for tonight is that on november 12th last month the planning commission made a recommendation to council to approve the project or the entitlements before you next slide please here's the general plan land use diagram the image on the left and the zoning map the image on the right and this shows the current zoning and general plan land use the project site is outlined in black right the red shows retail and business services the gray portion in the northeast corner is the one parcel that doesn't require rezoning it's already got a general plan land use designation of light industry and consistent with the zoning and then there's a parcel that's in that terracotta color and that is medium density residential and we'll talk a little bit more about that as i get further into the slides the the area is also within priority development area santa rosa santa rosa avenue pda next slide please initials initial study was conducted and it resulted in the preparation of a mitigated negative declaration that document was circulated for a 30-day public review period commencing on june 30th the document also includes a mitigation monitoring and reporting program and includes measures to reduce potentially significant impacts that were identified in the project next slide please so this is where i wanted you to remember that terracotta colored parcel some of the issues that came up during staff's review the first senate bill 330 which is also known as the housing crisis act of 2019 and with that that bill doesn't disallow an agency from redesignating land from residential uses to non-residential uses but it allows those changes when those projects are reviewed concurrently with other plans that would offset that so there is no net loss in land designated for residential development this property that is part of this project could have been at one time developed with six potential residential units given its its current zoning and land use once it's developed that property would be landlocked and it's developed on all four sides would require access to through this project site from from yolanda so considering that during the review we had the offset of both the review of the downtown station area plan and the project you heard about before this one 3575 menacino those two resulted in about 5600 more housing opportunities so it substantially offsets that six the loss of those six units so another thing that came up during the the review process was a stop work order for some building that was occurring without benefit of permits permits have been submitted that that stop work order has been resolved and we're all good to go now so next slide please the project has been for this meeting uh was noticed in compliance with zoning code chapter but i wanted to point out that it's been noticed several times for neighborhood meetings or the circulation of the environmental document for the planning commission hearing and now for the city council hearing and until today i hadn't received any uh any comments i did i didn't receive a comment today i just received um a phone call from a gentleman who needed instructions on how to call in and i do hope that he made it in so next slide please so with that the planning commission and the planning and economic development department recommend that the council by resolution adopt a mitigated net negative declaration by resolution approve general plan amendments changing general plan land use designations from retail and business services to light industry or from or and from medium high density residential to light industry and introduce an ordinance rezoning from the cg general commercial or r3 multifamily residential zoning districts to the light industrial zoning district for those parcels located at zero three twenty four three twenty four that is not a typo there are two three twenty fours three twenty eight and three forty three thirty three fifty eight and three fifty and three twenty six and three sixty eight yolanda avenue which are also identified as assessors parcel numbers zero four four zero eight one zero two nine zero four four zero eight one zero two four zero four four zero seven two zero zero six zero four four zero seven two zero zero seven zero four four zero seven two zero zero eight zero four four zero seven two zero zero nine and zero four four three nine zero zero six one aisle number prj zero zero two next slide please that concludes staff's presentation i believe the applicant would also like to say a few words and i'm available for questions if you have any great thank you susie council any questions for staff on the presentation mr soyer thank you mayor i'm not a question i just have to revise my expert communication i got this mixed up with it with the next item i did have a zoom meeting with the applicant okay any additional questions for staff not seeing any um okay susie can we go to the applicant's presentation he doesn't have a presentation he's just going to be saying a few words i think all right alan i haven't able to speak in permissions and you have your time for your presentation or your brief comments thank you okay thank you mayor schwedhelm vice mayor Fleming and city council members thank you for hearing me so this this property i've had for 20 years it's kind of a dilapidated few buildings that have already industrial tenants in there and so it would it would be better if all of these parcels were all light industrial to fit the industrial use the as as as mr murray said the residential one acre parcel is landlocked and you'd have to go through two gates just to get to there so we're i plan on putting in a 17 000 square foot building multi-tenant industrial building light industrial use which will have a lot of small tenants in there and then also in the front of yolanda tearing down a dilapidated building that has a used car lot office there and putting in a nice 8400 square foot retail business there and so i will also be widening yolanda avenue doing the improvements putting in landscaping and beautifying the beginning of yolanda avenue as you turn off of santa rosa avenue so it would be helpful if i had all the parcels light industrial instead of one general commercial one medium density residential event the rest general commercial so i i thank you for your time and look forward to your votes great thank you mr henderson council any questions for the applicant not seeing any thank you very much okay i will go ahead and open up the public hearing if you'd like to make comment on this item via zoom please raise your hand if you're calling in for public comment via telephone please dial star nine madam host would you facilitate comment or the yolanda industrial project thank you mayor as you can see there is a timer before you for the convenience of those participating in today's meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged invited to speak please make sure to unmute yourself when invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown if you wish to make a comment on item 15.1.2 the second project of the public hearing the yolanda industrial project please raise your hand via zoom if you're participating by telephone please dial star nine may i'm not seeing any hands being raised for item 15.1.2 the yolanda industrial project and there were no email or e-comment received and no voice message public comments thank you very much for that okay i will then close the public hearing and bring it back to council any final questions on this project from council and mr soyer i'm assuming your hands up from the exparte there we go yes okay thank you any additional questions from council on this project seeing none uh this is back to you mr rogers i'm starting to think like this is hazing mr mayor i'm going to introduce the ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa rezoning of the properties located at three two four three two four three two eight slash three four zero three three zero three five zero slash three five eight yolanda avenue also identified as assessors parcel numbers zero four four dash zero eight one dash zero two nine zero four four dash zero eight one dash zero two four zero four four dash zero seven two dash zero zero six zero four four dash zero seven two dash zero zero seven and zero four four dash zero seven two dash zero zero eight from the cg zoning district to the il zoning district and the property located at zero yolanda avenue also identified as assessor's parcel number 044-390-061 from the R315 multi-family or multi-family residential zoning district to the IL zoning district file number PRJ19-002 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. Fabulous job Mr. Rogers and your second was also as fabulous Mr. Sawyer. So we have a motion and a second before we go to vote. Are there any questions or comments from any council on this motion? Seeing none. Madam City Clerk could we do a roll call vote please. Yes thank you. Council Member Dowd. Aye. Council Member Tibbets. Aye. Council Member Sawyer. Aye. Council Member Rogers. Aye. Council Member Oliveris. Aye. Vice Mayor Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes for seven ayes. All right I think John's job is easier than mine on this one. I'll introduce a resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa approving a general plan diagram amendment for five parcels at 324-324-328-340-330-350-358 Yolanda Avenue. Assessors parcels numbers 044-081-029-044-081-024-044-072-006 044-072-007 and 044-072-008 from retail and business services to light industry and for one parcel at zero Yolanda Avenue. Assessors parcel number 044-390-061 from medium high density residential to light industry for the Yolanda Industrial Project file number PRJ19-002 and wait for the reading. Well done second. We have a motion and a second Madam Clerk could you please do a roll call vote. Yes Council Member Dowd. Aye. Council Member Tibbets. Aye. Council Member Sawyer. Aye. Council Member Rogers. Aye. Council Member Oliveris. Aye. Council Member Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes with seven ayes. All right and then finally I will introduce a resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa adopting adopting a mitigated negative declaration for the Yolanda Industrial Project located at 0-324-324-328-340-330-350-358 and 368 Yolanda Avenue also identified as assessors parcel number 044-081-029 044-081-024 044-072-006 044-072-007 044-072-008 044-072-009 and 044-390-061 file number PRJ19-002 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. Hey we have another motion by Mr. Rogers second by Mr. Sawyer Madam City Clerk can we have a roll call vote please. Council Member Dowd. Aye. Council Member Tibbets. Aye. Council Member Sawyer. Aye. Council Member Rogers. Aye. Council Member Oliveris. Aye. Vice Mayor Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes with seven ayes. And that's all those Mr. Rogers for this item. All right we'll move on to 15.1.3 Mr. City Manager who'll be doing that presentation before I check for ex parte communication. He just popped up Andrew Treville will be doing that one for us to see. Welcome Andrew. Okay so I will check for ex parte communications on the TNL micro cannabis facility. Mr. Dowd did you have any? I did not have any. Mr. Tibbets. Not that I can recall. Mr. Rogers. Nope. Mr. Oliveris. No. Mr. Sawyer. No sir. Vice Mayor Fleming. None. And I also did not have any ex parte communication on this topic.  Great thank you Mayor Schwedhelm and good evening Vice Mayor Fleming and members of the council. The third and final general plan amendment package project for your review this evening is the TNL micro cannabis facility at 3515 industrial drive. Next slide please. The project includes a request for a general plan amendment from retail and business services to light industry and a request for rezoning from general commercial to light industrial of two parcels in order to allow operation of a proposed commercial cannabis facility consisting of cultivation manufacturing and distribution land uses. Next slide please. The project site is located in Santa Rosa's northwest quadrant is surrounded by a variety of commercial and light industrial uses including public self storage facilities occupied and unoccupied commercial retail spaces fitness health and indoor recreational facilities and wholesale merchants. Next slide please. Specifically the project site is on the northern side of industrial drive east of its intersection with airway drive at 3515 and zero industrial drive and is comprised of two assessor parcels. The approximately 1.23 acres project site was developed in 2004. Next slide please. The project fronts industrial drive and is developed with public improvements site circulation areas and surface parking and a two-story 19,500 square foot commercial industrial building. It's oriented towards industrial drive with parking along the southeast and north sides and it sets back at least 25 feet from all property lines and adjacent development. The loading area is located on the west side of the building. The site currently provides 54 parking spaces three of which are ADA compliant and city water and wastewater services including fire flows are provided. Next slide please. The building's exterior footprint is approximately 13,650 square feet. The total 19,500 square feet of internal space is distributed between ground floor and mezzanine levels. The site is currently used for furniture retail with accessory furniture warehouse. Next slide please. A required neighborhood meeting was waived by the director because no residential neighborhood would be impacted by the proposed project. No notice of application was distributed as required by the zoning code. However the zoning code allows that a defect in the notice procedure shall not affect the jurisdiction or authority of a review authority to take action on a matter. Property owners and occupants within 600 feet of the proposed project received a mailed notice of intent to adopt a mitigated negative declaration for the TNL micro project. Mailed planning commission and city council public notices have had access to onsite noticing for planning commission and city council public hearings and both public hearings were advertised in the press democrat as well as distributed through the city's email service. Next slide please. The current area general plan and zoning designations include light industry retail and business services to the northwest and south and retail and business services to the east. Next slide please. Real estate market demand studies show a less than 5% vacancy in industrial spaces in Santa Rosa with just over 5,000 square feet of available industrial space in the second quarter of 2020. A higher vacancy rate would facilitate negotiating power of leases and encourage a variety of uses sizes of operations and market mix. Amending the general plan for this property would provide approximately 20,000 square feet additional square feet of industrial zone space. With regard to the retail environment following the 2017 Tubbs fire the area surrounding the subject parcel suffered a loss of productive properties. The Kmart property once provided an economic anchor for the neighborhood as well as a retail anchor but following its destruction the neighboring retail businesses have suffered. Property owners do not anticipate that a major retail anchor will redevelop the former Kmart property. Additionally in-store retail is a less profitable enterprise. Next slide please. The project would implement a variety of general plan goals and policies. The general plan seeks to protect the industrial land supply and ensure compatibility between industrial development and surrounding neighborhoods. Conversion of existing development land in response to market demand would ensure that the industrial land supply continues to meet economic needs. Rather than promoting development to vacant greenfield sites conversion would foster a compact development pattern that reduces travel, energy, land and materials consumption while promoting greenhouse gas emissions reductions citywide. Also amending the general plan to allow for industrial uses aligns the property with its neighbors as well as the actual current intensity of the use of the building. Next slide please. The project would implement a variety of general plan goals and policies. The general plan seeks to protect the industrial land supply and ensure compatibility. Conversion of existing developed land in response to market demand would ensure that the industrial land supply continues to meet economic needs. Rather than promoting development and I may be repeating these notes so let's just go on to the next slide please. Regarding the zoning map amendment the light industrial zoning district is applied to areas appropriate for some light industrial uses as well as commercial service uses and activities that may be incompatible with residential retail and or office uses. The light industrial zoning district is consistent with the light industry land use classification of the general plan and it implements this land use designation. Resoning to a zoning district that is consistent with the general plan land use designation and implements that land use designation would be consistent with the goals and policies of the general plan. Resoning for light industrial uses would not foreseeably increase the intensity of the property's use nor have any foreseeable effect on the public health safety convenience or welfare. And finally the project as proposed in conditions meets all required development standards for the light industrial zoning district. Next slide please. The required conditional use permit for cannabis land uses was approved by planning commission on November 12th subject to city council approval of a general plan amendment and adoption of a rezoning map amendment. The applicant is required to comply with all applicable zoning code regulations governing general cannabis operations and operation of cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facilities specifically including the requirement to obtain all required permits from local county and state agencies. Next slide please. An initial study was prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act that resulted in a mitigated negative declaration. The proposed project would result in potentially significant impacts in the areas of air quality greenhouse gases and transportation. The project impacts would be mitigated to a less than significant level through implementation of recommended mitigation measures contained in the mitigation monitoring and reporting program prepared for the project. Planning commission adopted the project's M&D and MMRP on November 12th. Next slide please. No issues exist that are not addressed through mitigation or conditions of approval. Next slide please. Additionally no public comments have been received for this project. Next slide. It is recommended by the planning commission and the planning and economic development department that City Council by resolution approve a general plan amendment changing the general plan land use designation of the subject parcels from retail and business services to light industry. And that City Council introduce an ordinance rezoning the subject parcels from general commercial to light industrial. Next slide please. Applicant representative Aaron Carlstrom would like to offer brief comments to Council and staff that's available for any questions. Thank you. Thank you Andrew bring back to Council any questions for staff on the presentation? Not seeing any. So if we can have a representative of the applicant if Ms. Carlstrom will we make a presentation feel free to proceed. Thank you Mayor I have enabled Ms. Carlstrom speaking commissions. Ms. Carlstrom. Hi yes good evening. Can everyone hear me? Looking good. Well thank you Mr. Mayor and Vice Mayor Fleming council members. It's a pleasure to join you this evening remotely. I am the voice from beyond on behalf of Andrew and Tao Nguyen. They are your building owners as well as your applicants this evening. They're waving but of course you can't see them. We are also joined by Justin Witt from Relgie and Race who were our environmental consultants and did draft our initial study and mitigated NEGDEC in the event you do have any questions in that arena. We're very grateful for your staff's assistance and Andrew's efforts to get us here. Andrew has done an amicable a wonderful job describing the project and its components. So we are here. I'm not going to make a formal presentation. If you have any questions the team is here. I do want to take a moment of personal privilege to thank our two outgoing council members for your many years of dedicated service to our community. Thank you in particular to council member Oliveris with whom it was a remarkable privilege to serve. And with that I will conclude my comments unless anyone has questions of us later and thank you all for your service to our city. All right thank you. Council any questions from Ms. Carlstrom? Not seen any. I am then going to open up the public hearing for this. If you want to make comment on this item via Zoom please raise your hand. If you're calling in via telephone please dial star nine. Madam host would you please facilitate public comment for item 15.1.3. Thank you Mayor. As you can see there's a countdown timer before you for the convenience of the speaker and the participants in the meeting tonight. The first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak. What invited to do so please unmute your microphone at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the comment period your microphone will be muted. Again this is for the public hearing on item 15.1 project number three. Raise your hand via Zoom if you wish to make a comment dial star nine. There I am seeing no hands raised. Additionally we had no voice message public comments received on this item. Okay thank you. I will then close the public hearing. Council any final questions or comments on this project for this item? Seeing none. Mr. Rogers hopefully you've catched your breath. It's back to you. All right I will introduce a resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa approving a general plan land use diagram amendment for two parcels at 3515 and zero industrial drive assessors parcel number 148-050-027 and 148-041-049 from retail and business services to light industry for the TNL micro cannabis facility file number GPAM19-003 PRJ19-039 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Rogers. Second by Mr. Tibbetts. Any final comment or questions by Council? Not seeing any. Madam City Clerk can we have a roll call vote please? Councilmember Dowd. Aye. Councilmember Tibbetts. Aye. Councilmember Sawyer. Aye. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Councilmember Oliveris. Councilmember Oliveris. Aye. Thank you. Vice Mayor Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes with seven ayes. All right I will introduce an ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa amending Title 20 of the Santa Rosa City Code by reclassifying the property for the TNL micro cannabis facility located at 3515 and zero industrial drive assessors parcel numbers 148-050-027 and 148-041-049 to light industrial zoning district file numbers PRJ19-039 and REZ19-010 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Rogers. Seconded first by Mr. Tibbetts. Madam City Clerk could we have a roll call vote please? Councilmember Dowd. Aye. Councilmember Tibbetts. Aye. Councilmember Sawyer. Aye. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Councilmember Oliveris. Aye. Vice Mayor Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes with seven ayes. Is that it Mr. Rogers on this item? Yep I believe there are only two resolution or one resolution and an ordinance. Great thank you very much for that for all the presentations on this. Okay we'll now get back to our regularly scheduled agenda. Just for purpose of the break I'm going to try to get us through the consent calendar we'll take another break excuse me and then continue on item 13 public comment 14 and then item 17. So with that we've already taken the roll call. Madam City Attorney could you report out on our closed session today? Yes the council met in closed session on items 2.1 and 2.2. On item 2.1 the council gave direction to the real property negotiator and on item 2.2 gave direction to our legal council. Thank you. Great thank you. We have no proclamations. Item 7 staff briefing briefings. Mr. McGlynn any staff briefings this evening? Yes just one on 7.3 glass fire recovery update. Mr. Paul Lowenthal will be doing the presentation. One moment I just promoted Lowenthal to panelists. Good evening Mayor Vice Mayor members of the council Paul Lowenthal assistant fire marshal with the Santa Rosa fire department reporting out on the progress of the debris task force. The phase 1 is expected to be completed in all of Sonoma County by this Thursday and phase 2 is underway. We are now participating in two additional calls one with what is being referred to now as the inland branch that's being hosted by Cal Recycle and Cal OES and is Sonoma County, Napa County, Lake, Mendo and Solano because of the vast number of fires across the state they are breaking us into branches. Our branch debris is underway and they reported today that the first two official properties have been cleared so things are ramping up which is good news here locally. We're also participating in another call that's dealing with burn vehicles abatement as well as firearms that are being filled on found on properties and based on our experiences in 2017 we're actually getting an opportunity to be leaned on a little bit by some of our neighboring counties in fact Chief Navarro who was actually assigned to our debris task force back in 2017 and I actually put our heads together to help Solano County with an issue that they're experiencing regarding vehicles that was similar to what we helped kind of shape for the state back in 2017. Regarding trees the city put together a draft letter that we are addressing to PG&E regarding what we discussed last week with the tree issue. We were informed by Cal OES this morning that 11 counties now are interested in joining our efforts regarding our concerns with the lack of a wood program for our residents. Cal OES is obviously engaged in this issue. We were able to work with Adrienne and get a letter over to the county which they provided comments back today and we'll be coordinating the signatures between our city manager and the county administrator and sending that to PG&E and cc the number of our delegates and Adrienne's working on our ledge side. So everybody's in the loop and Cal OES is looking forward to seeing the letters that they can share it with the other counties. Ultimately our goal is not only to deal with the trees that are ineligible through the state's program because PG&E failed them but ultimately advocating for all of our residents in trying to bring a wood program back. We have finalized the numbers that we talked about so we do now have the full public releasable account of all of our damage destroyed residential structures and commercial properties. So we'll get that posted and we'll send it to council that is complete now and it also takes into account the county complex which is in the city limits so you'll see kind of a spike in the number of commercial structures that we had previously talked about. The MRIC at Maria Carrillo is shutting down early. It is actually closing down now tomorrow at 6 p.m. and that is because of COVID concerns. So FEMA is shutting down all mobile intake centers at the various fires that have been impacted. Residents can still register online so information to those resources can be found on our glass fire recovery page and that should do it with where we're at as far as our updates right now unless there's any questions. Thank you Mr. Lowenthal for that presentation. Council questions. Mr. Rogers. Thanks Paul. Did you say seven counties had joined us? Is that the number? 11. Okay thank you. Council any additional questions? Not seeing any. Madam Host would you please facilitate public comment on item 7.3 staff briefing. That may be. As you can see there's a timer before you for the convenience of those participating in tonight's meeting. If you would like to make a comment please raise your hand. If participating by telephone dial star 9. The first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you are invited to do so. At the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown timer your microphone will be muted. Mayor I'm not seeing any hands raised for public comment on item 7 staff briefings. Additionally we received no voice message public comments on this item. All right thank you so much. Thank you Mr. Lowenthal for your presentation. Item 8 let's start. Mr. City Manager do you have a report for us this evening? I do not. Thank you. Madam City Attorney I believe you do. I do thank you Mr. Mayor. This is our quarterly report on settlements and active litigation so I will go through this very quickly. You have the information in your agenda but over the this this is a report for the third quarter and during the third quarter we had two settlements. We've discussed both of them in the past. The first is the Iran settlement that settlement came out of injuries that were suffered during the protests last spring. The second settlement is a settlement of a case in which the city was the plaintiff. It's on the go wireless case and we were we recouped access phone charges that the city had paid in the past and we recouped almost $107,000 in that case. As to pending litigation we have about 34 pending cases in our office right now. Seven of those cases are close to settlement or close to obtaining a full dismissal of the claims. The remaining 17 are in various stages of litigation some in early pleading stages some in discovery and some getting ready for trial and it's a wide range of cases as always. The cases include matters that arose out of personal injuries. Injuries arising out of motor vehicle accidents arising out of alleged unsafe conditions on sidewalks similar kinds of accidents. We have two CEQA cases currently in the office on a challenge as you know to the all-electric reach ordinance and then a new CEQA case that was just filed recently a challenge to our downtown station area specific plan. We have the case pending on that raises constitutional challenges to police actions during the early days of the protests last spring. We also have of course our Vanucci case which raises constitutional challenges to the city's efforts to address homelessness. We have a couple of cases that involve construction and contractual disputes. We have our litigation ongoing against PG&E regarding the damages that the city suffered in the 2019 wildfires. We have a series of code enforcement and receive or ship cases and of course others as well. So we do have a very busy litigation team. We have four attorneys on our litigation team. They do other work as well not just litigation very skilled very capable and I will note that this list of cases is in addition to the more routine court hearings that they frequently attend including pitches motions weapons claims dangerous animal cases and a variety of other more routine motions. As to new claims we received seven new claims during the third quarter. We'll see if any of those evolve. We do anticipate that at least some of those will evolve into litigation matters and then I want to emphasize this is a snapshot in time. This efforts are ongoing and I will note that under the open government ordinance that is going to call for more frequent reporting of litigation matters in fact monthly reporting. So we'll gradually switch to to that schedule. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you for that report out council. Any questions for our city attorney? Not seen any. So we're now taking public comment on item 8 the city attorney's report. If you want to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand. If you're calling in via telephone please dial star 9. Madam host would you facilitate public comment on item 8 the city attorney report. Mayor as you can see there is a countdown timer before you for the convenience of those participating in tonight's meeting. First speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak. Please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so. At the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown your mic will be muted. Again this is for public comment on item 8 city manager and city attorney's reports. All right mayor I see no hands being raised via zoom. Additionally we receive no voice message public comments on these items. All right thank you very much for that. Okay on to item 9 statements of abstention by council members. Council are there any statements of abstention? Not sure how to interpret the absence of Mr. Tippett's there but we'll assume he doesn't have to. We'll move on to Mr. Tippett. Are you good any statements of abstention on tonight's agenda? Good thank you. Okay on to item 10 mayors and council members reports. Anyone wanting to make a report this evening? Seeing shaking heads I will report on two items both of which occurred yesterday. As your representative of the continuum of care I did participate in the vote and we were successful in filling all 15 spots on the new continuum of care. We'll have our first board meeting tomorrow at 2 30 and I'll report out the outcome of that very first meeting. Then additionally I participated in the city community meeting regarding the family safe social distancing. Mr. City Manager I like to really thank staff in the efforts to put that meeting on another opportunity to hear from our community about the lessons learned from the family safe social distancing site and I know we'll hear more at next week's agenda on the same topic. So with that we'll then go to item 11 both 11-1 and 11-2 were their approval of minutes from the June 23rd and June 24th council meetings. Were there any additions to or subtractions from any of those minutes? Okay we'll accept those as submitted. On item 12 the consent calendar Mr. McGlynn. Item 12.1 resolution early lease termination with sports restaurant of vented valley incorporated located at 3 3 3 0 Yulupa Avenue Santa Rosa. Item 12.2 resolution transfer a real property interest along Yolanda Avenue and relinquishment of a butters rights to the California Department of Transportation as part of the Huron Avenue interchange at highway 101 project. Item 12.3 resolution authorized authorization to utilize HGAC by cooperative agreement for two Simlin M2DH crack sealers to Simline. Item 12.4 resolution lower lower Colben Creek restoration phase two mitigation credit purchase authorization. Item 12.5 ordinance adoption of the second reading ordinance of the city of Santa Rosa adding chapter 1-10 to the Santa Rosa city code entitled open government. All right thank you council any questions on the consent calendar? Yeah I got a question about that one that sounds like the road repair could that be put in plain language please? Zach Brandt and trying to step forward. Zach transitions over to panelist site. Good evening mayor and vice mayor and council. Thanks for the question that one did sound a little odd. The product we are purchasing is replacements for a few or two asphalt crack sealing machines. The brand name of them is Kimline or Simline as pronounced and we are trying to purchase them off an HGAC cooperative contract. Thank you. Mr. Sorry you have a question? Thank you mayor I do I have actually a some comments on one question I received an email from one of the members of the open government task force and I told them that I would bring voice to their concerns so I have three items the first one actually is a question there was a mention actually by the city attorney that there were a number of items that had already been implemented and this member of the task force was curious if we could find out exactly what items that were recommended either by the first task force or the second subcommittee if those those that were already implemented could be listed or that we could be informed as to what those were they were mentioned but not listed. Secondly the member of the task force was surprised at the cost of the implementation of the various elements was not fleshed out and there was a concern that not having those items the cost of the items the various elements fleshed out could delay the full implementation of what we passed prior to our last meeting when we when we discussed it at length. And finally the member of the task force was was just made to hear that there that the supporting documents related to the preliminary agendas have not been available for some time this was a surprise to the member and that this had been a practice for many many years so the fact that this was not happening currently was was a concern to the member and that the new ordinance really was in their opinion less transparent for the public than what had occurred previously so that was that was a concern of theirs was this was the preliminary agenda and having those supporting documents available and earlier point so those so I guess the one question in here is actually two at what point should we expect the cost of the various elements of implementation or the various elements and their implementation be fleshed out I assume that's going to be happening during our budget talks and those things that have already been implemented how we can get a list of those items so that we can review them I would be curious to know as well because I'm not even I'm not sure what has already been implemented I know the city attorney mentioned it and and I've heard other people mention it as well that some things are already well on their way certainly and and we would be happy to put together that list and and get that to you and make it public I don't have it at my fingertips right now and I would be hesitant and hesitate to go based on my memory so happy to provide yes happy to provide that and then in terms of the cost of the items yes you're exactly right we're going to be looking at that as we move forward during the six months period prior to implementation and we'll be discussing those costs during the budget process thank you and remember the task force I know I'm appreciated being able to bring these concerns to the to the to the council thank you thank mr rogers hey mr mayor so it is a little dated now it's probably about a little over a year ago but there was a chart that staff did prepare that walks through every single item within the open government task force report uh and gave a status update uh like I said it's a bit dated now but perhaps that'd be a good starting point where if staff was able to update that make that public I think that this is an item of interest to the community that sounds good thank you all right any additional questions for staff not seeing any so we're now going to public comment on item 12 the consent calendar if you're calling in via telephone please dial star nine if you're want to make comment via zoom please raise your hand um madam host would you please facilitate public comment for the consent calendar item 12 thank you mayor as you can see there is a timer before you for the convenience of those participating this evening the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak please make sure to unmute your microphone when you're invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of public comment period the first public comment will be provided by Gregory Gregory have enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen yes I can thank you please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now my name is Gregory Farron and in this role I'm the treasurer of the Ben and Valley golf club one of the consent items is the early termination of legends a restaurant operator I was surprised to hear that today to read it on your agenda and I guess what we're what I'm asking since I'm also on the board of an agency that provides meals to homeless and is always looking for a better restaurant or a better kitchen in particular so I guess my question is has there any conversation taking place in the city about what you're going to use that restaurant that kitchen in particular in the 18 months before I guess you're going to put it back out to be it if you are interested in a group of nonprofits who are themselves trying to use a smattering of kitchens who could possibly build a coalition and use the kitchen well for the better use of those we serve then I'm interested in talking to you guys so if you could at least you know I'll contact the staff later but I guess I'd like you to think about not letting it sit there for 18 months being unproductive to any use thank you and I'll see my address to my time thank you Gregory in public comments for item 12 consent may I have seen no hands raised are you okay if I move along to voice message public comments yes I am thank you and there were none so there we have it hey we'll bring it back to council um mr glenn would staff be prepared to address item 12.1 in the future of that facility at this point mr furan can can reach out to the staff and we can discuss any options all right thank you very much staff or council any additional questions seeing none vice mayor Fleming you have this item sweet all right and I'll move item 12 one through 12 five second motion by the vice mayor second by mr olivera's any additional comments seeing none madame clerk could you please do a roll call vote yes council member dowd hi council member tibbetz hi council member Sawyer hi council member rogers hi council member oliveras hi vice mayor Fleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes all right thank you so much all right as mentioned before we will take uh another break we'll take a 15 minute break let's reconvene at 7 10 reconvene at 7 10 madame sirty clerk are we ready to resume yes i am okay we'll reconvene the december 8th 2020 senator was a city council many can we please take a roll call yes council member dowd here council member tibbetz here council member Sawyer here council member rogers here council member oliveras here vice mayor Fleming here mayor schwedhelm here at the record show that all council members are present all right thank you we're now taking public comment on item 13 non agenda matters is the time that any person may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are within the sub matter jurisdiction of the council if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 to raise your hand we will take 10 speakers under item 13 if we have more than 10 public comments on this item the remaining speakers will be afforded the opportunity to speak on item 17 non agenda matters to provide public comment madam host would you facilitate public comment on item 13 thank you mayor as you can see there is a timer before you for the convenience of the speaker and those participating in tonight's meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the comment period your microphone will be muted here i do not see any hands being raised for public comment on non agenda matters under item 13 are you okay if i move along to the voice message public comment absolutely thank you public comment on non agenda matters number 13 the way you do it from roseland thanks for an order to the city council perhaps or city staff who took action to get the final portion of hughes avenue finally repaved the area has been in such disrepair for so many decades people thought it would never come forward so three years into the annexation santa rosa stepped up and finished that hughes avenue repaving thank you for that also thank you to alastair blythus he was on sabastopol excuse me burbank avenue at roseland creek just a week ago taking care of trying to limit the amount of debris left by the homeless who have taken up residence in the land the city owns next to roseland creek the city has a jewel in the rough there with alastair blythus and i do hope that you'll find ways to get more staff to assist him and the city staff working to keep what parklands and open space lands the city owns from being overrun by the homeless it's really an important thing hopefully city council will direct city staff to make that a priority in the new year thank you that concludes public comment on item 13 all right thank you so much item 14.1 mr city manager you know 14.1 report 2050 santa rosa general plan community advisory board committee member selection process and organizational framework andy gufson senior planner presenting or amy lyall thank you so much i'll just be kicking this item off and then handing it over to andy good evening mayors went home vice mayor clemming and members of the council so tonight um and i know dean is pulling up that powerpoint so i'll just start off by just letting you know that this is a quick follow-up report on the formation of the community advisory committee for our general plan update so andy gufson will be presenting some information about our staff cac selection and the organizational framework so and and those um dean do you mind moving on to the next slide and for those members of the public that are on that aren't familiar with our general plan update we did kick this off back in march of this year and the general plan is a comprehensive policy document that guides development for the city over a 20 year period of time so it's a really great time to get involved and we're really excited to kick this off so a major component of the planning effort is community engagement and public outreach needs to involve a broad range of individuals and for this effort especially this effort we are trying to engage folks that were traditionally left out of some of these civic conversations so those that may be excluded due in the past due to race citizenship language age income um we really want this to be a robust conversation with all members of the community so with this general plan update we're also blessed with an infusion of grant money thanks to kaiser permanente and so we are partnering with kaiser and latino service providers on the outreach as well so your council authorized the formation of the cac as part of the acceptance of the community involvement strategy back in september 15th so the and just to note the cac members don't really have a policy advisory role so this committee is a little bit different these members are more are serving as our outreach team and will be serving as liaisons for us to get deeper into the community and into more of a neighborhood level so with that and he's going to briefly go over the staff selected cac member demographics and providing your council with information for your selection for the remaining cac members and some information on the organizational framework so i'll kick it over to andy thank you amy um and good evening uh mayor schwedhelm vice mayor phleming and members of the council so in your packet uh you have two items one is a description of our cac selection process and the other is a um organizational framework or bylaws that will govern the cac the um selection process commenced immediately after the council authorized the formation of the 15-member committee last september and there began a six-week recruitment period with applications and invitations that were sent out via social media email even referrals by individuals to people who thought might be really interested and supportive of participating on the cac the applications that were submitted were followed up with interviews with the candidates and at the end of that process in early november staff was able to come up with a selection of 18 members that represents the first stage of the formation of the committee and uh in a moment i'll describe their characteristics or the sort of the general diversity um measures that we use of those 18 the second stage of the of the cac formation will be the council selection of the remaining seven members each council member um will select one uh to the cac and we'll be asking that the council members do so by january 12th that would allow us to begin uh convening our first council uh cac meeting at the um middle or late uh january so what are the kind of things we looked at when we uh had and we can advance the slide please next slide please uh so this basically shows the two different stages or steps that i i described we had 13 excuse me we had 35 respondents um they really uh demonstrated through their applications and interviews that they were highly qualified and and came from a diverse group uh we had a very even um participation or response by male and female and uh also we had a pretty high response by people who had not been engaged in um uh civic projects before so we were very encouraged by that we partnered with latino service providers to help to ensure that we were reaching um non-english speaking community groups and the youth um and if we advanced to the next slide i'll just begin to show uh the diversity of of that uh 18 selection here we see two charts uh that compare the ethnicity and race of the of the cac members with the general population of the city shown here in that orange or red line so you can see that the two track pretty well um with our uh community with our cac members we follow the sort of the the racial mix of the general population except you can see we're a little short on the hispanic or latino group as well as the asian pacific islander group in terms of age distribution uh it's a very even track except for a little bit short on the um 56 to 70 age cohort so those are opportunities uh where council selections can help to uh better improve the diversity of the group the second next slide please this chart simply shows the reported interests and and experience or life experience of the cac members and and um here we see a lot of people interested in community neighborhood and industry or or economic vitality in the community plus a lot of people expressed you know interest in these other topic areas that we know will be vitally important during the discussion of the general plan update next slide this this uh map uh shows where the 18 selected members are located in the city they all self reported neighborhoods or general areas where they lived um we did not ask for specific addresses uh nor do we represent that here for for uh concerns of privacy um but we do show here I think that there is good distribution of the members throughout the the city with some notable gaps that I want to call to your attention in the northwest north of highway 12 and west of highway 101 there's no representative outside of the coffee park area likewise um if we look at the area in northeast center rosa the fountain grove hidden valley area we don't we're lacking probably where we should be having the representative and similarly in the benefit valley area uh we um a question did come up regarding how these uh representatives or these cac members lie in relation to the council districts we can't really uh precisely map that with the information we have but going forward we'll be able to aggregate that information in the future so we'll be able to report out if not a location precisely but we can report out account by districts next slide please so the other part of of the packet tonight is what we call the the framework it's really like the bylaws it's the um the document that governs how the cac meetings will be run and how um the cac members will conduct their activities what's really important uh is that this is a public process this group will provide the consultant well i'll say the project team a constant source of information and feedback throughout the project lifetime which is going to be approximately three years so we will be able to go back to these individuals and uh and have them feed give us comment on um the documents that are out for public review the public will be able to attend these meetings they will be conducted according to the brown act will be noticed um and what's also important uh about the uh the framework is that it outlines the activities or the guidelines of the cac members when when they are participating in these cac meetings or when they're out in the community acting as liaisons as liaisons that can be a very powerful um uh supporter or agent for the general plan update by bringing out into the community their social circles their information their passion their interest in the general plan update to the people they know and they can bring that comments back to uh to the project team in a way that that is efficient and probably we could not um uh accomplish on our own the cac will be one of the tools within the community involvement strategy um it will not be a policy advisory group but it'll help us inform policy as we develop it so that concludes the information report if we advance to the next slide um and and uh the recommendation is that you receive the report and if you have any questions i am here to help answer those thank you thank you any for that presentation council any questions not seeing any so we're going to go ahead take public comment on item 14.1 if you'd like to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine um madam host would you facilitate public comment on item 14.1 there we'll do as you can see there is a timer before you for the convenience of the speaker and those participating in tonight's meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the timer your microphone will be muted again this is for public comment on item 14.1 the general plan citizens advisory committee selection first public comment will be from Gregory Gregory have enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on the screen um i'm unmuted this is Gregory's wife Pat Cuta we're sharing a computer okay thank you for identifying yourself a public record your time begins now i just briefly want to commend the staff on the excellent effort they made on outreach and selection of a diverse um membership for the cac um Santa Rosa together is excited to work with and partner with the cac and the city and the general plan process and we think we have an excellent beginning thank you here i'm not seeing any additional hands raised for item 14.1 public comment in order to receive any voice message public comments on this item okay thank you very much mr. Dowd you have this item i'm going to have to uh please have somebody else take it if you don't mind because uh i had some computer problems and so i don't have the resolution uh available to me okay uh others on council uh mr. sorry do you happen to have it available there i do there is no resolution i'm sorry to interrupt um there is no resolution on this item it's just a call for council to receive the report okay well i can i can move that then can i bear that works for me so you make that motion we receive that report that and just provided to us yes i make that portion second and the second with mr. tidbits any additional comments from council seeing none uh madam city clerk would you please take a real call vote on the acceptance of this report yes councilmember dowd hi councilmember tidbits hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember hallowbaris hi vice mayor fleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes all right thank you so much mr city manager item 14.2 item 14.2 report fiscal year 2019-20 measure o annual reports shelly riley interim deputy director of finance and megalitaeus deputy director of community engagement uh leading off a complete presentation uh good evening mayor schwedhelm and members of the council um my god is here director of community engagement um just going to wait for the presentation to come up and in the meantime as we have the presentation uh come up here um i just oh there we go um we're going to go back there we go um thank you so much so i just wanted to thank you all for the opportunity to share the fiscal year 2019-20 measure o annual report next slide please and i also wanted to share that we are going to be going um we're going to be presenting uh in this in this order with violence prevention partnership the fire department and the police department um and i just wanted to remind our community members that the violence prevention partnership uh is housed under the community the office of community engagement and we are very much looking forward um to seeing you know um that work and where there are parallels in alignment with our community empowerment plan uh which we'll be presenting soon and i'm going to hand it off to my colleague uh jason perish mayor schwedhelm members of the city council um if you could please advance this line and one more so the current year balances as you'll be able to see uh from what we started at and what we ended with used approximately 270 000 dollars in the measure o reserves of this amount you'll be able to see in this table the 294 000 dollars that's currently encumbered for the choice grant program you could advance this line so as you can see the largest expenditure is the choice grants program as required by the measure ordinance so that we have to spend at least 35 percent of the youth violence prevention costs uh overall so the second largest uh salaries i just wanted to call your attention to as 40 percent of that six hundred and eighty six thousand dollars of that is made up of recreational seasonal temporary staff who are frequently the very youth that our participants in the program when they're younger you could advance the slide please and as you could see the neighborhood services and the violence prevention programs have been tracking with the revenues uh with a a what was a uh timing issue that can fiscal year 1415 and now i will turn the presentation over to my colleague violence prevention manager jason carter and if you could please advance the slide mayor schwedhelm vice mayor phleming and members of the council jason carter violence prevention manager for the community engagement office uh partnership staff continued to participate on both local and statewide initiatives such as the adverse childhood experiences committee california violence prevention network funder circle and health action among others to ensure the city's efforts are consistently aligned with various initiatives and strategies also as part of the gang prevention awareness month in september of 2019 the partnership hosted the violence prevention annual seminar managing trauma to build a resilient community with over 180 in attendance strategizing on how to best serve those that have experienced trauma breakout sessions included workshops delivered by san rosa police department san rosa city schools and child parent institutes with additional events including in partnership with recreations neighborhood services a youth basketball tournament with over 300 in attendance a safety media uh excuse me a social media safety training for parents that identify the many potential dangers of social media out there for their children community action south park day night festival as well as the west ninth night walk for safety with srpd and lifeworks during such a unique and critical time not too long after the jaco's park incident also during fiscal year 1920 staff began the planning stages of expanding upon the monthly model by creating the first annual violence prevention awareness series a series of events that span across the entire calendar year the year started off with the training for parents in the south park area as well as engaging cook middle school students in conversations with local law enforcement but unfortunately in march we had to table the series and definitely look forward to providing an update at next year's annual report also in the upcoming slides i'm happy to provide an overview of the choice grant program and gps referral component next slide please cycle nine of the choice grant program funded nine local nonprofit organizations that ultimately serve over 15 000 youth and families through various activities such as land paths outdoor summer programming we had child parent institutes triple p positive parenting programs and in-home mental health services for both youth and parents of all the services delivered through cycle nine 93 percent of services were provided to those zero to 24 years of age with seven percent to young adults and parents also in alignment with the strategic plan and community safety scorecard 100 of activities were delivered in areas identified as underserved with 40 of these activities in fiscal year 1920 specific to the roseland areas some of these events included early childhood education activities and support truancy prevention activities as well as career readiness workshops including paid internships also staff has been capturing some of the historical impact of measure rose since 2004 which has resulted in an impressive amount of calculating 10 million 210 000 dollars invested into local nonprofits and schools since the launch of the choice grant program as well as over 270 000 in many grants delivered to support one-time projects throughout the year next slide next slide please the guiding people successfully referral component receives referrals from probation schools various non-profit organizations where an intake and case reviews are brought to the multidisciplinary assessment and referral team also known as mdart to manage referrals for wraparound coordination of services with all measure out choice funded agencies also by leveraging local measure of dollars the partnership has been awarded additional funding over the years through the board of state and community corrections initially with cal grip and more recently with the california violence intervention and prevention grant also known as cal vip as noted in the slide through cal vip the city is able to administer additional pass-through funding to lifeworks of sonoma county to deliver bilingual family-based intervention services and also to social advocates for youth to provide intensive case management work readiness workshops and paid internships unfortunately the cal vip grant concluded in august of 2020 but through multiple conversations with sim county probation the city was able to secure funding support funding support to support gps through the end of fiscal year 2021 and as i wrap up i just wanted to share that since the launching of gps the program has provided 5718 one-on-one services through the end of june 2020 which include pro-social activities crisis intervention and various developmental opportunities for young residents of san rosa and with that i will turn it over to recreation deputy director kelly magnificent good evening council members can you hear me can you hear me thank you good evening of mayor and council members is kelly magnuson with recreation and parks presenting about the neighborhood services section of the recreation division that benefits from measure o we continue to offer programs year-round to the underserved youth in san rosa predominantly first through eighth graders but then we also have a summer team program a sports program we partner with the schools who provide us gym space and classroom space for our programs and we also continue to hire from the neighborhoods that we serve and a majority of our staff are bilingual which is very helpful so at the top of the slide there our sports programs are highlighted they go year-round we were able to provide nine sites we we had footsal basketball and cheer our most popular program our junior warriors program unfortunately was postponed last fall of 2019 because of the kincaid fire and then when we went to start it again in the spring we had the shelter in place so we weren't allowed to we weren't able to get a lot of basketball in this this last fiscal year and then coming down to our community programs that's basically our afterschool programs we have space at eight burbank housing sites and the apple valley rec room over in the apple valley neighborhood we serve about 400 youth daily during the after school hours we were able to provide homework help arts and crafts field trips community events nutrition and guest speakers and extracurricular activities next slide please when the shelter in place began last spring our staff were trying to figure out how they could help the youth in our program to with their schoolwork so we started a virtual tutoring program which became very important for some of the students that were really struggling we wished we had more time to serve more students but we were able to serve about 35 students weekly with their schoolwork remotely and then while that program was taking place our permanent staff started to plan summer so normally during the summer we have a full day program at four different sites we serve about 500 youth each summer daily but this past summer we weren't able to do that we had to regroup and we had to figure out what we were allowed to do we worked we worked with the county and we were able to offer a day camp program that only had 12 youth in each cohort lots of staff to help with sanitation taking temperatures you know the locations had to be clean constantly but we were able to pull it together and we had programs at all of the sites listed there and then about a couple weeks into the program we decided it was working really well and we wanted to bring in a couple more cohorts so we started up two more groups at Findlay Community Center and that was going really well we were able to use Rosie the trolley to take all the kids to the Findlay pool because swimming was allowed in the small groups and then we were also able to take the kids to Howard Park so they could do the paddle boat rides so they actually had a lot of fun over the summer and that that program was successful I just want to point out and commend our staff for all the work they've put into ensuring that all the youth in our program are safe during the day with the social distancing and the face coverings and the sanitations that our staff have worked really hard to provide these programs and as we go into the next slide 12 Jason Parrish will talk about how we're looking ahead but as you know we are offering the distance learning program now we have about 90 kids in our program that are benefiting from the program thanks to Measure O funding and we plan to continue that into the third quarter of the school year so I'll turn it back over to Jason Parrish at this point. Thank you Kelly. Two primary efforts there moving forward right now are updating the community scorecard which is used to aggregate community demographics to ensure all of our programs in the violence prevention partnership and neighborhood services are focused to the greatest needs in our community and recreation is also planning additional spring and summer programming to complement the school of rec support that the children are receiving in anticipation that Sonoma County will eventually ease COVID restrictions on recreation activities we hope you could please advance the slide. As you can see we started out with utilizing $270,000 in reserves last year we have a little bit over 280,000 this year and that's going to be the guy one of the guides in our budget development that starts this coming February. Both community engagement and recreation have spent significant time evaluating their main programmatic components and we'll be entering budget development in January with those in mind including what the community safety scorecard will tell us the choice grant programs and how the school of rec programs can also be supplemented if you could advance this line. Are there any questions or comments on our portion of the presentation? Thank you Jason and the rest of staff for that presentation. Council any questions on the violence prevention presentation? I'm not seeing any hands raised. Okay I do want to thank everyone specifically dealing with the things that we actually have control of there's so much with this program that we have no control of and I think City staff both in recreation parks and violence prevention done a fabulous job of doing the best in this very challenging situation so hats off to all of you so thank you. Good evening Mayor and Councilmember Tony Gosner fire chief of the city of Santa Rosa I'll start off the presentation for the fire department on the first slide and then we will work through our ASO Jim Arand who will deal with the financials and then Deputy Chief Scott Westrup will go into the operational first I just before this slide kicks off I just like to let everyone know major is a very important program for us it gives us the ability to do things that we just wouldn't be able to do otherwise and that's provide a really good service the best service possible in today's world moving forward so without major we would we would definitely not be doing as well as we are so with that I would just like to to say that major is a very important part of our department and the city in my belief with that when we go to the next slide we'll turn over to ASO Jim Arand thank you this is Jim Aaron calling and I'll go over the first slide on number 16 and we're looking at a beginning fund balance of $3.1 million we due to a drop in our sales tax revenue our expenditures exceeded our revenues by about $24,000 this year which brought our fund balance down to $3,097,545 and again as I said before that was principally due to the drop in sales tax reduction in sales tax revenues you want to go to the next slide and this one you're seeing where we're at where their actuals and our salaries and the major differences here first thing to point out is up at the top of the pie chart you'll notice that 84 percent of the expenditures we do in measure O our salary and benefit driven it will get into the details of that as we go further into the slides but it's a pretty major chunk of our of our expenditures are people driven due to that our we had some major variances on our expenditures salaries were up about $60,000 due to multi-year contract settlement that happened during 1920 our benefits were up 113,000 and that was primarily due to CalPERS going up and then we had some minor internal vehicle maintenance that went up so overall expenditures were up roughly $196,000 over the prior year the next slide here you're seeing our line graph where we've got a revenue and expenditure over time since measure O began and you'll note that this particular year for 1920 was the first time since 1415 that expenditures actually outpaced revenues and again as I said before we're down about 24,000 this time that's a planned event we we monitor things pretty closely in fire and measure O our goal is to accumulate fund balance because we've got some big expenditures planned down the road related to helping fund stations move them etc and a lot of that it's going to it's going to need some additional funding so we're very careful with what we do and that's why our fund balance is pretty healthy and it's grown to where it is right now with that I'll turn it over to Deputy Chief Westrop. Thanks Jim good evening Mayor Schwedhelm Vice Mayor Fleming and members of the Council Scott Westrop Deputy Fire Chief for the City of Santa Rosa Fire Department if we could advance to the next slide please so I'm going to go through in the next couple slides and talk about some of the operational enhancement that measure O is provided to the fire department so we could provide a better service to the City of Santa Rosa and looking at the personnel that are assigned to measure O we currently have three fire captains who are the frontline supervisors on our fire engines and fire trucks assigned to measure O we have one fire captain who's assigned to our training division it's the training manager out at the training facility on West College Avenue is assigned to measure O three fire engineers who are the apparatus operators fire engines and fire trucks and three firefighters we have one EMS battalion chief assigned to measure O 25 percent of that position is paid for by measure O and then the paramedic incentive paid for six of our firefighters who staff our truck companies to essentially upgrade our truck companies to a paramedic level service are funded by measure O as well next slide please so some of the impacts that measure O has had for the fire department is provided us with nine firefighters and training captain which we covered in the in the last slide it's applied us with three fire engines and two fire trucks upgraded to paramedic status it's enhanced our emergency medical services management through the partial funding of the battalion chief and as a lot of you know EMS or emergency medical calls account for about 65 percent of our call volume and so it's very important that we have that management and supervision in place for the EMS division it improves our response times and the deployment of our resources by adding additional stations by adding additional personnel and giving us the equipment to respond on and then it reduces fire loss for those same reason it improves EMS patient outcomes by upgrading a lot of our equipment to paramedic status and providing that paramedic level of service to our community it increases community outreach by giving us the ability to go out and engage the community and and to be part of the greater good and greater community of Santa Rosa and at finance station five construction and we talk we're talking about the station five that was on that we lost in the tubs fire in 2017 next slide please so the station the other stations that measure is funded our station 10 which serves the southwest community it's also where our fire administration is at it built station 11 which opened in 2009 which serves the junior college neighborhood it's on lewis road and then of course like we were just talking about fire station five which was completed in 2015 on new gate court and then it was lost in the tubs fire and we're currently working on rebuilding next slide please and some of the equipment or apparatus that the measure was added to the organization it's purchased two type one fire engines which is the the big engine you see on the right there that you see on a daily basis one type three wildland fire engine which is the the first picture below the text that's specifically made for wildland firefighting and unfortunately it's gotten a lot of work in the last couple years four command vehicles which you see in the center there the titles that we drive to command and control incidents and one swift water rescue trailer which you see there on the right that we hook up to one of our utilities and we bring with us to any swift water event we have during the rainy season which hopefully we will see soon with that I will turn it back over to aso erin and answer any questions at the end that you may have and you want to advance the next slide go one more while you're at it this is our looking ahead slide where we're kind of taking a quick snapshot of the 2021 budget as you can see it's a repeat except for the bigger number that we've got a negative in this case again the department strategy to recover from the use of reserves is we're going to this was this principally again due to sales tax revenues they dropped about 611 thousand dollars this budget cycle so we're looking at about a 476 thousand dollar loss for the year luckily in this case we have almost 3.1 million in fund balance so that will bring us down to 2.6 million dollars in positive fund balance that's not ideal we clearly wouldn't like to be doing that we've worked hard to build that reserve up but we're fortunate that we have it at this point and we're hoping that the sales tax revenues will maybe come around a little better than projection and that number won't be quite as dismal as it looks right now but we are thankful that we at least have the fund balance to cover it so we're not looking at any cuts per se just a hit to our planned build up for cash so we can move stations and build and build new stations so that that's a hit in itself and with that I'll open up any questions or comments thank you Jim council any questions on the fire presentation not cna thank you very much let's continue the presentation good evening uh mayor schwedhelm vice mayor phleming and members of the city council reiner navarro chief of police for the city of santa rosa uh i'm here today with pam laurence our administrative services officer to present the police department's portion of the measure annual report pam's going to go over the budget slides the first few slides that we have and then i will provide an overview of the measure impacts and how it impacts our mission which is to make our city a safe place to live work and play and how it helps us reach our vision which is to be the standard of excellence in policing measure o is vital to the work that we do in providing direct services on a daily daily level we can't we could not do what we do without measure o right now in how we provide many of the enhanced services that you're going to hear about to our community so with that i want to turn it over to pam and i'll be back in a few slides good evening mayor vice mayor and city council members and pam laurence aso so i'll be going over the financials and then i'll hand it over to raise uh chief navarro as he said and so on this side you can see that our beginning fund balance was about 1.1 million our sales tax revenues were down as um as o erin said and so we had about 3.8 million in tax revenue about four thousand dollars in interest or other revenue and with expenditures expenditures of four point two million dollars and making us use some of that reserve balance about um 382 thousand we used out of reserves leaving us with 756 thousand remaining next slide please dina this slide just breaks it down to show you how we use those funds as you can see the majority of our funds about 94 percent were spent on salaries and benefits for the 19 positions that we have in measure o 135 was spent on services and supplies which covers um three vehicle maintenance or maintenance on three vehicles um the downtown enforcement lease for that office as well as insurance and and various supplies we spent 112 thousand on general fund overhead or administration next slide please this is an overview showing you um the since inception of the program where we where our revenues and expenditures have been as you can see over time our revenues and expenditures have been um pretty even every few years or every couple of years we've had to spend some money out of our reserves um which is just due to um increased expenses and decreased revenues mostly due again to staffing increases um you can see that spike in 910 that was one time staffing for staff positions that we moved in during the downturn and then we're either later cut or move back to the general fund next slide please chief Navarro will take it from here thank you Pam so um as you see the measure o funds 19 positions within our police department that is both sworn and civilian uh who are assigned throughout the department including um a lieutenant a sergeant and nine officers who are in designated assignments which address priority issues such as traffic and homelessness we also have five civilian staff and that includes one manager in communications and uh four staff members one in records and three others who are on the streets as field evidence technicians or community service officers to address cause or service such as burglaries and assisting with traffic accidents the again these positions are vital to meeting the mission and vision of our department and then also the city council's mission of providing high quality service uh to and and cultivating vibrant and resilient city next slide please so measure o helps us enhance our patrol services in patrol alone measure o patrol officers responded to over 4800 calls for service measure allows our staff to address specific priorities based on community feedback and council priorities in the past i'll give you a few examples two years ago measure o helped us update our radio infrastructure to address our response to natural disasters such as the fires that we're having and other major emergencies we've purchased equipment such as our electric motorcycles for our downtown enforcement team which allows us to go in some of our more rural areas such as the hills and also provides better access to some of the the open open lands within the city and it also pays for our downtown office which is next to the transit mall which allows our downtown enforcement team to provide better response and more efficient response to the downtown area the measure also assists us with doing our community policing and with those efforts several of our measure o officers and staff assisted me last year in conducting five community listening sessions they were vital in the planning and preparation and implementation of those meetings where we received valuable feedback this year we've used our measure officers to work with community partners throughout the year in several of our meetings such as downtown meetings and several of our nonprofit partners in the area of homelessness and in traffic if measure o does provide the ability to increase and our traffic enforcement and maintain grants as you can see there's a couple of stats up on this slide here and it has in effect our measure o staff has arrested almost 500 people and issued over 400 citations and this isn't just when you look at this it's not just enforcement of violations criminal violations but it's also a reflection on how we're impacting the community as far as helping out helping out our victims so measure o has helped numerous people such as victims of violent crimes victims of domestic violence and also prevents tragedies through DUI enforcement that DUI crashes can bring next slide please measure o again has provided a huge benefit to addressing our local emergencies our measure o staff has directly been involved in the evacuation efforts related to the Cancay fire and the glass fire this past fall measure o has also has been very valuable to us because our measure o staff was directly involved in taking the lead at the onset of our COVID emergency our officers set protocols and maintained equipment for the safety of our staff and our community it is measure o has helped us develop strong partnerships with the Santa Rosa City Schools rosen school district and several other smaller districts within Santa Rosa we've been able to educate staff and students in a variety of topics and crisis issues if you recall back in October 2019 one of our sros was able to quickly respond to a shooting that had occurred in front of a local school and helped lock down the the school for the students student and staff safety and that that incident resulted in a very swift response and culminated in an arrest and without anybody being any additional people being injured outside of the shooting that occurred on the street our sros who are measure o they provide youth community experience or the youth community experience program to our two students throughout the the city of Santa Rosa and we are currently working on an additional one that will be virtual sometime in the future even with no campus classes right now we still get calls to assist with crisis crises that occur and the calls come directly from school district staff to to get assistance and in case there's anything going on on campuses on the closed campuses or with any students that they feel might be in danger we also have engaged with local nonprofits to mentor youth and engagement similar to our community listening sessions they've been a part of several virtual meet meetings through some of our local nonprofits local nonprofits such as chops where we've held community meetings with young people we do a lot of work with homelessness our downtown enforcement team is directly involved in that working with our nonprofits they do daily referrals to homeless services and they meet weekly with various homeless service providers to do what we can to provide services for people experiencing homelessness right now and it's also increased our customer service as a whole to again meet our vision it is vital again to our staffing and it has helped us maintain some of these enhanced services such as downtown enforcement team school resource officers motors and then meeting grant requirements in the areas of alcohol and DUI enforcement next slide please so we will we continue to have needs in the area of staffing within the police department we have needs for our facilities and and also providing innovating innovative programs to meet the needs of the community the city and the department right now as you've heard from Jim and Pam that we are feeling the financial impact of COVID right now and we are continuing to work on those and we're coming up with strategies for this next year next slide please as Pam said we have been dipping into our reserves for several years and to address some of the rising costs for salaries benefits and striving to provide excellent service we have we began our year with 7656,000 in our measure reserves salaries and benefits make up 94% of our expenditures and we no longer have the reserves due to the reduction in revenue this year due to some of the COVID issues so to address the reduction in revenue we have frozen two school resource officer positions that equates to about $400,000 in savings this decision was not made lightly we thought a lot about this and I made this decision based on the reduction in revenue the current virtual state of our schools which we have closed campuses right now and also with the increasing staffing shortages that we have within our department with that being said we will continue to evaluate our priorities for measure revenue based on both the department and city priorities in the areas of public safety emergency preparedness traffic homelessness and violence that concludes our portion of the presentation and we're Pam and I are more than happy to answer any questions that you might have thank you all right thank you chief council any questions on the police portion of the presentation uh mr rogers thank you mr mayor chief just a quick question on the budget savings that you put in there at the end with the school resource officer officers I assume that that is in communication with the school district as well and that process that's been playing out that is correct I did have direct contact with the superintendent for centers of city schools and they're well aware of that and we have we're continuing our conversations with them excellent thank you council any additional questions not seeing any all right thank you chief we're not going to take public comment on item 14.2 the measure annual report if you'd like to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 madam host would you facilitate public comment on item 14.2 thank you mayor you can see there is a countdown for you for the convenience of the commenter and those participating in tonight's meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown this is for public comment on item 14.2 the measure oh annual report the first public comment will be from Ellen Ellen I've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen thank you can you hear me I can't thank you very much please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now thank you my name is Ellen Bailey and I'm the chair for the citizens oversight can be for measure oh the public safety sales tax measure that you'll have been just talking about as stated by the staff the coc met on November 2nd and after this presentation by the police department the fire department and violence prevention partnership the coc unanimously recommended the cease the city council approval of the annual report for this fiscal year 2019 2020 I want you to know that the committee is impressed and I am personally very impressed with the work that each one of the department continues to do to enhance the services that they provide for Santa Rosa especially during this time of wildfires social unrest and a pandemic I want to thank all the staff for their hard work their flexibility and their creativity in the time of unprecedented crisis and I want to thank them for their commitment to the safety of the community of Santa Rosa in addition I want to take this time to remind the public that this sales tax measure has a sunset date of 2025 which would mean the loss of some or most likely all of these services if you if the public wants any more information about that they're certainly welcome to contact me and if I don't have the answers to their questions I'm glad to share find out the answers or send them on to the right staff person and that's basically it thank you thank you Ellen here I'm not seeing any additional hands raised for item 14.2 and we did not receive any voice message public comments on this item all right thank you very much we'll bring it back to council mr oliver as I believe you have this item thank you mayor I have this item I don't believe I have a resolution for this either I believe we're accepting this report but I do want to take this opportunity to thank the citizen oversight committee I know they do a lot of work they don't have to meet often but when they do they do a lot of they put in a lot of work to make this happen so thank you to them I also want to thank the staff from all of those that report it from violence prevention fire police this is this is a monumental task especially today with COVID we've been at this effort here locally in Santa Rosa going back to probably 2001 and we continue to go at it we were having a hard time even before COVID trying to meet the needs of a lot of our youth and families in vulnerable neighborhoods and populations throughout the city and it's made it even tougher now with COVID and not being able to interact with them directly so it had to be very creative and if I applaud their effort in doing that but I also know that it takes it takes its toll on those providing the services so I encourage the you the city to continue to work with with our providers including those that we contract with to ensure that they're taking care of themselves so that they're able to take care of those families and you thought they're in our community because this this is very hard work it's hard work because I've seen it I've done it I see it happening across the state in the nation and everybody that does this my advice of them is take care of yourselves it's so important so with that my recommendation to the council is that we accept the 2020-21 measure annual report second thank you hey we have a motion on Mr. Alvaro second on Mr. Rogers any additional comment by council not seeing any I do want to echo Mr. Alvaro's comments and the chair of the measure oversight Ellen Bailey who is spot on it's very impressive the work that's done in these very challenging unprecedented times and you know I also want to thank the voters of Santa Rosa who in their infinite wisdom past measure because we're seeing the benefits and the fruits of that labor so I look forward to ongoing conversations and providing fabulous services to the city largely do in part are largely due to the efforts of Mesero and all the staff in the non-profit providers that are also engaged so thank you all for your efforts and with that uh Madam City Clerk we do a roll call vote for the acceptance of this report please yes councilmember Dowd hi councilmember Tibbetz hi councilmember Sawyer hi councilmember Rogers hi councilmember Oliveris hi ice mayor Fleming hi Mayor Schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven i's great thank you so much all right on to our next item uh item 17.1 and let me just share the process that we're going to follow on this so we will receive the report we'll take public comment and before the vote I'll provide an opportunity uh for any council member to make any comments about uh two of our of our colleagues will be leaving this body and then we'll go ahead make the vote and move on from there so with that Mr. City Manager item 17.1 items 17.1 report declaration of results for the general municipal election held on Tuesday November 3rd 2020 for one the purpose of electing members up for four district-based offices of the city council for districts one three five and seven each for a full term of four years and two submitting to the voters measure q relating to the sales tax Stephanie Williams city clerk presenting thank you um this is to declare the results of the general municipal election held on November 3rd 2020 next slide please um as I said the election was held on November 3rd pursuant to the center as a city charter section 30 and the Sonoma county registrar voters has canvassed the returns of the elections and has certified those results next slide please following completion of the canvas of the votes and and before installing the officers the council must adopt a resolution declaring the results of the elections for council districts one three five and seven and the adoption of measure q next slide please so it is recommended by the city clerk's office that the council by resolution recite the fact and declare the results of the consolidated general municipal election held on Tuesday November 3rd 2020 for the election to the city council of eddie alvarez for district one Harrison jack tidbits for district three chris rogers for district five and natalie rogers for district seven each for a full term of four years and the approval of the santa rosa measure q city of santa rosa one half cent sales tax and adopt the ordinance adding chapter three dash 30 to title three of the santa rosa city code to impose a temporary half cent general sales tax and use tax thanks right and i'm happy to answer any questions great thank you Stephanie for that presentation and again does anyone on council have any questions about that presentation not comments just any questions for clarification not not seen any i would then like to move to public comment on item 17.1 so if you'd like to make a comment on this item via zoom please raise your hand if you're calling in via telephone please dial star nine madam host would you please facilitate public comment on item 17.1 timer before you for the convenience of those participating in the site meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown the first public comment will be from brian brian i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen i can see the timer thank you thank you brian please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now brian ling on the executive director sonoma county alliance and i also would am proud to say that uh after many years i am back a santa rosa resident official resident again for about the last month so glad to be back in town i want to say thank you to dick dowd and ornesto oliveris for their commitment to the city of santa rosa mr dowd for his one year on council but probably more importantly for his multi decade decade commitment to the bpu which preceded this year's council participation uh his reputation is outstanding and um thank you for serving this last year and and all the years for the city of santa rosa uh mr oliveris during his tenure he's witnessed and led us through the deepest economic recession the city's ever seen the worst disaster since the 1906 earthquake he served as mayor he shared the dias was by my count probably 20 other council members he's always been open for all discussions he's been calm in his demeanor he's been fair and honest his decisions we were i wish we were in person and not zooming so i could lead dick and ornesto on a standing ovation that they well deserve thank you thank you the next public comment will be from ellen ellen i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen yes i do thank you thank you please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so when your time begins down sure my name is ellen bailey and i'd like to acknowledge council member oliveris's commitment to the city you've been a council member for a very long time 12 years and before that a public servant long before that and your story is one of success that begins in mexico and then immigrating to california as a very young child your parents risked everything behind by leaving everything that was familiar to them so that your family could have a chance at the american dream and you have brought honor to your parents and their sacrifice becoming by becoming an exemplary citizen hardworking thoughtful generous public servant and of course a loving father and husband at the same time i remember clearly when your mother stood with you in city council chambers and gave you her blessing during the swearing in ceremony for the city council her pride in you was palpable as was your pride in being her son and your pride in your own heritage it was a beautiful moment for all of us to witness you have had many accomplishments and see as a city council member in all areas of your adult life you advanced to become a lieutenant in the san rosa police department you became the manager of the newly formed gang prevention efforts which is now called the violence prevention partnership and you really helped to catapult those efforts forward and then you became a city council member and ultimately the mayor and the first mayor latino mayor on the city council for the city of san rosa in addition you have served on many boards and commissions such as the memorial hospital board of trustees the luther bourbon center for the arts the life force advisory board and the united way of the wine country just to name a few you are currently the executive director for the california violence prevention network which continues to be a heartfelt mission for you to support the youth of our community and across the state i fully expect you will continue to serve our community and share your experience and your wisdom to make life better for all of us thank you ronesto for your leadership your hard work your big heart and your generosity our community is better for it thank you thank you ellen you have not seen any additional hands raised for item 17.1 the declaration of results for the general municipal election and we did not receive any written or pardon me uh voicemail public comments okay thank you for that so we'll bring it back to council again before we have a motion uh any of our council members like to make any comment on this item and or outgoing comments or outgoing colleagues so we'll start with mr rogers thank you mr mayor and i wanted to piggyback on ellen's comments there uh councilmember oliveris one of my favorite moments that i had with you over the last four years was the two of us actually doing read across america and i i came into the room as we were finishing up reading to a class and you were talking about your story and how important it was to you and how you had an opportunity to be the first latino elected to mayor and that you were going around the the room going and you can be mayor and you can be mayor and you can be mayor and to me over the last four years the thing that i think i have enjoyed the most working with you on is your willingness to prop other people up to make a difference not just in our local community but but specifically in the lives of the youth within our community to make sure that they see opportunity and that they see a better life as well and that they can be a part of of something bigger than themselves and i'll just always appreciate that near your 12 years that you put in at the city and then obviously time ahead of that so i'm looking forward to continuing to work with you in other capacities but we'll definitely miss you from the day us uh dick i just want to say thank you for for stepping up you know we've talked a lot about your 30 years on the board of public utilities and i don't know how anybody comes up to speed particularly during a pandemic and is able to meaningfully contribute to the city the way that you did over the last year just thank you so much for your service your continued service and i know that it hasn't been easy but we've all really appreciated it and i know that we'll be working together as well in the future and thank you um vice mayor phleming um thank you mr. dowd for um stepping in and for um both your exemplary attendance as well as your sincerity in your approach to all of our matters it is greatly appreciated and not lost on any of us mr. oliveris um ronesto um in the short two years that i've had the honor of serving with you i have been impressed by um that your approach to things that you come to things with um not a desire to show vote or to grandstand but to really get things done for the people and with a special eye toward people of color and women and underserved people with the idea that anybody can make it here with the right opportunities and that is our job to provide the right opportunities for people and make sure that they have them and so for that you've been an excellent partner in accomplishing many of our mutually shared goals um but i i think my favorite thing about working with you is your excellent sense of humor i'll never forget that time that you drove me um just a short cross town i hope you'll forgive me for telling this story and i told you about this great job that the srpd did in cracking this case of this guy he did a smash and grabbed my car and i showed you the picture of the apprehended suspect you just turned you're like well thank god he's white and and i was like oh my gosh this guy is hilarious and a great partner and um i'm really going to be sad to see you go so thanks for all your work on behalf of our youth and our underserved communities and the women and children of the city of santa rosa you will be missed by me thank you victoria mr tivitz thank you mayor um i i agree with what brian linguist said i wish i we were in person tonight so i could stand up to walk with you through the door and shake your both of your hands one of the thing that that just amazes me as a young person is how many years you've been dedicated to this city and public service in particular dick i i think it was 18 years on the board of public utilities or something like that and if i'm wrong i hope you'll correct me in or nesto 12 years here any lifetime of service on the police department there's public servants and then there's public stalwarts and you guys are certainly stalwarts so it's been uh an honor and a privilege to work with you and and as a young person to also learn from you it's a big change for me and i've certainly dick from you and i recognize i'm not following the rule tonight but during the big controversial hearings always wear a tie um or nesto uh i want to also just say thanks thanks to you for showing me that um sometimes being uh pensive and thoughtful on decisions um is the way to go and also to look out for your staff thank you um mr sorry did you want to make any comments on your leader liar thank you for i can do it down early we go back quite a ways lsr 13 seems like a long long time ago and it seems like yesterday as well and i remember when you decided that you were going to run for council and how pleased uh dan and i both were that you were willing to step up into that in that the uh forays of of running for office and and and then service so you know what i'm what i'm going to miss um your attitude toward governance and policy making which is what we're elected to do and almost exclusively what we're elected to do and you do it very very well your manner not only with the public but with your fellow your your colleagues over the years um i'm really going to be missing that your respect for staff um and the respect for the for your colleagues and the and the and the community as well and i agree with with victoria your sense of humor um i always call it cop humor um as there's there not everyone can get away with it and not everyone he everybody has it and you have it and i'm going to miss it um at the dais and elsewhere and we'll just have to wait for cove it to be over and we can see each other at the polenta feeds but thank you for your amazing service um and your dedication um and now and and good luck in whatever it is that you do next and and and you know you and rita can either take it easy and relax a little bit i don't think that's going to happen actually but good luck in the future my friend you take care of yourself thank you john and dick you know in my 45 years of being in in because probably because of soya's news being downtown and being at city hall a lot and hearing your name i don't remember when there was a time when i didn't hear your name and so your your service is clear your dedication is unflappable and thank you for for stepping into this position during a very very difficult time it's been an honor serving with you on the council and back to retirement assuming that that's what you're going to do but enjoy and thank you for your service thank you mr soyer um you know my comments you dick i was so disappointed that your entire time on council it's been via zoom we i know we had made plans the vice mayor and i had been making plans for the welcoming dinner and then this pandemic hit so i've really appreciated your contributions you know most recently on city council although you know we had interspersed interactions with your my understanding it was 25 years on bpu that is um i know mr galvin is a little bit behind you but i don't know if he's if anyone's ever going to make that kind of commitment on the board of public utilities you're just going to stellar job and you talk to community members from throughout our community and it's nothing but admiration and positively about your contributions so you've made santa rosa a much better place for those of us that remember you know the geysers project and i know the challenge is that the bpu was going on back in those times and look at you're still here and i just i can't thank you for your commitment to this community and organization and for your anesto um i heard you on the radio this morning and although i i'm not into the 40 years you know we first met in 1983 when i started the uh with the police department um and i've learned so much from you um one of your most recent contributions to my repertoire you've taught me how to full t-shirts uh that i learned during a uh game resistance education and training program just like others have mentioned here's ronesto we're with i think a bunch of third graders and he starts showing kids here's the way to fold a t-shirt and you're i think mayor at the time it was just phenomenal your ability to connect with all members of this community is phenomenal you really helped me at the police department in a variety of roles you made me a better cop when we started promoting through their ranks you made me a better manager you were one of the first people i reached out to when i was considering entering council um and i will say you did not tell me everything that this would be about you didn't tell me about pandemics wildfires or anything else but i do appreciate your advice because i consider you a close friend and most importantly um i think you've made me a better person because i've learned so much from you and your contributions over your 40 year career you know ellen stole a lot of the words i was going to use you know um because i'd known you that long and it's just heart to heart um we have really been blessed to have you on as a member of this community both as your professional role as a police department and on city council 12 years i'd applaud you i'd love to as someone else mentioned stand give you a standing ovation as you walk out the door but we'll have to figure out some other way to celebrate that um so with that uh go around mr. dowd it's your now opportunity to make any final comments and you can comment if you'd like on mr. alvarez i will um first of all i thank you for all your kind comments the only thing that uh i regret about my year on the city council is that we didn't have the in-person meetings because of the pandemic i found all of you to be very collegial listens to each other and we collectively came to pretty unifying decisions throughout the whole period of time and i have grown to admire all of you as a consequence of even though there's zoom meetings i still have really grown to get to know you all better and really highly respect you the interesting thing about it is mayor schradel you were right it was 25 years on the bpu 16 as chairman and i also have to look over at my colleague uh Ernesto alvarez because for most of his 12 years on the council he was the pointer of the to the bpu i had a few before him but uh he was really consistent in keeping me on the bpu and i deeply appreciate it the last thing i want to say is i want to welcome uh now that we're through with the district representation type elections and now clearly have a city council member for each of the seven districts i think it will run much more smoothly and the community will understand it much better and so i want to welcome to uh eddie alvarez alvarez for district one and natalie rogers for district seven and the continuation of chris rogers for district five and jack tibets for district three i appreciate your continuing on the council you provide a great deal to it and it's been an honor to work with all of you uh thank you very much thank you dick mr alvarez anything you'd like to comment on yes i would thank you and thank you dick for all your years of service to the bpu uh it was always a joy having you there and being that expert to do that so thank you for that uh and thank you all of you for for your comments i i it's deeply appreciated um it is it's difficult to hear sometimes uh as you know being on on the receiving end of something like this but today is a special day for me uh today is my father's birthday he would have been 103 years old had he lived as i leave my council seat i want to honor him and dedicate this moment to him and my mother who passed away seven years ago friday well our family lived third poor in mexico my parents brought us to a better life of poverty in california where we worked as farm workers as immigrants we worked hard and my father made sure we clearly understood we were guests in this country it was not ours and he expected us to behave like guests we learned to respect people around us and to be thankful for the privilege of living and working in this great country my father had an eighth grade education and my mother had no formal education at all yet they taught me much including the responsibility to help others especially the most vulnerable in time my father became more aware of the many issues facing people in this country and around the world he kept informed by reading the callous of son herald for watching walter tronkite on tv soon he no longer saw us as mere guests but as residents who must play a stronger role in our communities the playing a stronger role meant we needed a stronger voice as united states citizens my father enrolled in night classes to prepare to become a u.s citizen and to obtain citizenship for those of us born in mexico as soon as he obtained citizenship my father registered to vote and he voted then as each of us turned 18 he guided us to the ballot box as well his belief in the voting process was so strong that he took time ma from work to volunteer at his polling place checking people in as they came into vote he told us it was his civic duty it was my father's values and his and my mother's commitment to helping others that guided me to a lifelong journey of public service this was my civic duty to them i'm most grateful today i want to thank the residents and voters of santa rosa for the privilege and honor of serving them as a police officer and council member i offer a special thank you to all my board and commission appointees meeting council members not easy there are many technical and special to areas that must be considered in making sound policy decisions being surrounded by such talented and passionate appointees made my job much easier a big thank you and big hug to all my extended city family it has been a pleasure working beside you for nearly 42 years to my current council colleagues and those i have served who i've served with over the past 12 years thank you for the honor of serving beside you we have faced many challenges but together we've done some great things for our city my heartfelt thanks to all the staff and city manager's office and to stephanie and dean and city clerk's office thank you for the special gift i'll show this to you this is a handcrafted bowl made by rick bunda bundle uh from california from a california black oak destroyed in the 2017 tons fire i'm very thankful for this gift thank you all to sub-gallagher thank you to you and all your staff and the city attorney's office for keeping me out of trouble over the years the three of the strongest women i know my daughters mandy cassian desrey thank you for taking this journey with me because of the work you do i know our community's youth and their futures are in good hands i love you all very much to my grandchildren james and aura i love you both above all thank you rita my wife and partner thank you for your support and for believing in me you're always there to hold my hand to let me vent and to rant to cry and to laugh thank you for walking beside me i love you mayor and council members i have to show you that i got one of these as well from the city manager staff and i've deeply appreciated it it it's beautiful thank you cheers bye thank you sorry yeah mr so where you get to follow that okay i have a resolution first to read i will introduce a resolution of the council the city senator rosa reciting the fact of the general municipal election held on tuesday november 3rd 2020 declaring the results of such other matters as provided by law and wait for the reading of the text second we have a motion by mr soyer seconded by mr rogers any additional comments by council uh vice mayor flamin yeah i hope this is the appropriate time i cut out for a moment to um to just say that you know a heartfelt thank you to mayor schwedhelm for your service and um you know in this changeover we acknowledge you know our outgoing council members doubt and former mayor all of the varice but i also wanted to make sure that you know that we acknowledge that mayor schwedhelm has taken us through a really difficult time in our recent history and has done so with grace and honor and with thorough knowledge of the process and so for that i'm very grateful and um we'll be excited to support this motion great okay uh we have a motion to second madam city clerk uh can we have a roll call vote please yes thank you mayor council member dowd hi council member tibbetz hi council member soyer hi council member rogers hi council member oliveris hi vice mayor flamin hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes all right thank you all okay uh we'll now move to item 17 mayor uh i have an ordinance i need to read i believe okay um city attorney shakerhead yes so um move an ordinance of the council the city san aroza adding chapter 3-30 to title three of the san aroza city code to impose a temporary half-synth general transactions and use tax to be administered by the california department of tax and fee administration and repealing chapters three dash 27 and three dash 29 of the san aroza city code and wave further reading of the text second motion by mr soyer saying by vice mayor flamin uh vice mayor flamin you have a question or comment on this yeah i just wanted to uh say uh quick thank you to the voters of the city of san aroza for believing in our ability to steward your tax dollars and get us through this very difficult time thank you i echo those comments um okay any other comments from any else on council okay i think we have a motion and a second uh madam clerk could we do a roll call vote please councilmember dowd hi councilmember tibbetz hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember oliveris hi vice mayor flamin i'm mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes right thank you and i think that's it mr soyer right on this item um it is i'm i'm just curious as to when we are we are able to make our comments and thanks to you to your mayorship um why i don't see that on the agenda why don't we wait for 17 three okay um yeah i don't know um okay that's why out of an abundance of anxiety i just you know kind of went for it so hey and i started the ball rolling i i i appreciate that um so why don't we do the uh 17.2 mr city manager item 17.2 administration of oath of office to newly elected council members presentation of certificates of election and seating of the newly elected council members Stephanie Williams city clerk presenting thank you um madam host can you promote natalie and eddie as panelists so we can administer their oath and then i will administer the oath then to um councilmember rogers and councilmember tibbetz mr alvarez can you unmute um your video i am unmuted uh let me see here legal settings well i will start with um miss rogers first so please raise your right hand and repeat after me i state your name i natalie rogers you solemnly swear solemnly swear that i will support and defend that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california and the constitution of the state of California. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance. That I will bear true faith and allegiance. To the Constitution of the United States. To the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the State of California. And the Constitution of the State of California. And I take this obligation freely that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter to the city council. Thank you. Eddie, are you able to unmute your video so we can see you? Oh Stephanie, I am unmuted but the video is not able to. So is it okay if I administer his oath without being able to see? Yes, you may go ahead and administer the oath. Thank you. Okay, Eddie, please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I Eddie Alvarez, do solemnly swear, I Eddie Alvarez do solemnly swear that I will support and defend that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California and the Constitution of the state of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, against all enemies foreign and domestic that it will bear true faith and allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States to the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the state of California for your muted Eddie, and the Constitution of the state of California. the state of California. And the constitution of