Okay, so we will go ahead and start up. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the 10 30 a.m. public portion of the closed section of the August 10 2021 meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council. If you would like to comment on a closed session item. Now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. In this part of the meeting, the council received public testimony there after the public line will be closed and inaccessible. Please mute your television or streaming device once you call in and listen through the phone. There is a delay in streaming. So if you continue to listen on your television or streaming device, you may miss your opportunity to speak. All council members are participating in this meeting remotely today. I want to thank the public for staying home to view today's city council meetings. I would like to ask the clerk to please call the roll. Thank you, Mayor, Council Member Watkins. Present. Calentary Johnson. Present. Brown. Here. Cummings. Here. Boulder is absent. Vice Mayor Brunner. Present. And the Mayor Meyers. I present. Thank you. I would like to look to see if there are any members of the public who would like to speak to any items listed on the closed session agenda today. When it is your time to speak, you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted. The timer will then be set to two minutes. You may hang up once you have commented on your item of interest. I'm looking, I see I have two attendees in the audience now and I'm looking to see if either of those attendees are going to wish to speak on items listed on our closed agenda. You press star, star nine, right? Is that right? Bonnie star nine. To raise their hand. Yes. Okay. I see caller ending in 3022. You'll be unmuted and you'll have two minutes. You should just be able to, you could press star six, try to unmute yourself. Good morning. This is David corn blue on behalf of McKenna court. Great. Go ahead please. Thank you. Thank you for the. We wanted to make certain that the council was aware McKenna court does not allow any short term rentals on its properties. It only has long term leases, which expressly prohibit subletting or short or short term rentals. McKenna court was contacted by the city of a possible Airbnb rental and immediately contacted their tenants who instead of responding to McKenna court vacated the premises and terminated the lease without any forwarding address. McKenna court received no rents and no benefit of any short term rental. In fact, Airbnb will not even provide McKenna court with any information regarding any rentals at its property. No information about how many nights, if actually rented, how much rent was paid or even the name of the person on the account, allegedly using McKenna courts property as a rental. We understand that the city can enter into an agreement with Airbnb for all taxes to be collected by Airbnb and turned over to the city. McKenna court does not have any ability to collect any such fees or even learn the amount of any rent collected. The transient occupancy tax should not be used to punish a landlord who doesn't allow for short term rentals, who only has long term leases and has no way to collect the tax if a tenant illegally uses the property as a rental. Again, here we have a landlord who's trying to and be a good citizen of the city and has no ability to protect itself. And we request that McKenna court be reimbursed for the taxes and penalties it has paid in the amount of $37,961. Thank you. I see another caller named Catarina. Are you intending to speak today on the closed session items? Please raise your hand by pressing star nine. Go ahead, please. You press star six. You should be unmuted. Yes, we can't go ahead. I'm David Cornblos associate. I was just sitting in. Thank you though. Thank you. Okay, with that, we will go ahead and adjourn the meeting and the council will now go into its closed session. Council Member Golder is absent. Vice Mayor Brunner. I think actually international and national award from the western chapter of the international system. Arbor culture and I don't think it's Leslie here and I know Tony and Travis may have some comments as well. I just want to but I will start this off. So today I would like to recognize Leslie Keady who is the city's arborist long time city arborist who has received board of commendation from the western chapter of the international society of this year. The purpose of the award of commendation is to recognize an outstanding effort in promoting the purpose of the western chapter of the international society of arbor culture which is to foster a greater appreciation of the benefits and value provided by trees through promoting research and education in order to advance the professional activities of arbor culture. Leslie was recognized in a ceremony for her 20 plus year career with the city for overseeing the recent Cal Fire Urban Forestry Grant and the planting of 500 trees throughout the city of Santa Cruz. Leslie brings a collaborative approach to her work and regularly works with the public works planning and fire departments on tree related issues. She has engaged numerous school and community groups in the planting and care of her trees. In fact, her downtown tree walk is one of the most popular annual events in Santa Cruz and was recently held just this past few weeks. And again, it's very popular and is always a really enjoyable event to do to learn about all the amazing trees around Santa Cruz. We'll go ahead and hand this off to Tony Elliott and see if Tony has additional words and just want to reach out myself to Leslie and just congratulate her. I've known Leslie for a long time. She just does amazing work and she is so well regarded that I actually received many emails in the past day from folks around the city who and we also received a written letter accommodating just the work and the experience that every resident has with Leslie when she comes to look at their trees. So congratulations Leslie on this award and Tony I don't know if you have any additional comments. Thank you so much, Mayor. And I'm actively texting Leslie here. I'm not seeing her on the call but hopefully she can see the very least. So now we're very lucky to have Leslie within Parks and Recreation but Mayor, I think you said it really well. Leslie is really representative across the city and is really a leader in many ways for the Fire Department and partnership with them with the Planning Department, Public Works. All right, good. We got Leslie. There's Leslie. Good morning. We are very lucky to have Leslie on board and I think a lot of this award as you said Mayor is really geared toward the community engagement aspect, engaging the community in planting of 500 trees and I have personally learned a lot from Leslie in planting at least a couple of those trees. So her involvement with the community again it's great as part of the service and brand in a way of Parks and Recreation but far beyond that as well. The Fire Department, Planning Department, Public Works and just her continued outreach with the public. So we appreciate it. I know Leslie appreciates it but definitely want to send it over to Leslie if she has any words to share as well. Let me put you on the spot here. You might have to press star six Leslie. If you have anything to say try star six. You yourself. There you go. Can you hear me now? Yeah. I'm Leslie Keady. Thank you all very so much. So this is the award. If you can see it it's on Alderwood and it was really big surprise that I was even nominated by any of my peers. You just come to work and you do what you do and you don't really feel that it's above and beyond but to get this award after everything I've been through over the last year with the CZ fires and everything is just a really great thing. And you know I do work a lot with the community. I love working with volunteers and I think that's really what impressed the person who nominated me was he said very few city arborists actually get in with shovels on their hands and knees. And dig and plant with seven year olds and adults and everything. So it was just very impressed. He said not very many city arborists that he's ever even seen in the western chapter actually are that hands on with their types of efforts. And this upcoming 21st of August we're actually doing another tree planting with the climate action group on the San Lorenzo River. We're installing 12 Buckeye trees which are California native. So I've invited the Santa Cruz Sentinel. We're doing a little media thing on that. So if any of you want to come and join that group we have brownies and adults and all kinds of people coming to that planting as well. But thank you so much for recognizing me at council level. That always feels very good to feel appreciated. So thank you. That's enough. Are there any council members that would like to say or recognize Leslie at all. We got a couple extra minutes here. I'm happy to. Yeah, go ahead. Council member Brown. I just wanted to say thank you to Leslie for all you do and how you do it. And I also want to commend you and tell you that I'm quite impressed that in a community that has very, very strong opinions about trees and tree health and how to address heritage trees in particular that you have been able to navigate that in a way that is just really amazing. And you know people just have nothing but respect for you. And so I wanted to call that out as well. Thanks for everything you do. Thank you Leslie and congratulations and hopefully we'll see some of us will see you on the 21st. So see you around our trees in the city of Santa Cruz. Thanks again for everything you do well deserved. We will now move on to our next item. And this is a mayoral proclamation declaring August 19th as Jason Hydrick day in the city of Santa Cruz fire chief Jason Hydrick began his public safety career is a state junior lifeguard and became a state lifeguard. While working simultaneously as a paramedic in Lake Tahoe until 1996. Afterward he went on to become a paramedic field training officer in Santa Cruz County for American medical response until 2002. And whereas fire chief Jason Hydrick began his firefighting career with the city of Santa Cruz in 1999 as a firefighter quickly rising through the rain to captain battalion battalion chief division chief and fire marshal and was ultimately named fire chief in 2019 during this time he was the first fire captain assigned to the marine safety division where he expanded and developed many of the ocean rescue practices that are now used today. And whereas as a division chief and the fire chief Jason Hydrick led the efforts to reestablish the Santa Cruz County fire investigations Task Force which has been instrumental in the arrest and successful first prosecution of numerous arson suspects. And whereas fire chief Jason Hydrick has responded to a variety of major incidents throughout the state leading strike teams on major campaign fires and heading numerous overhead positions in incident management teams, including the Gilroy garlic festival shooting in 2020 and the CZU lightning complex fire of 2020. And whereas fire chief Jason Jason Hydrick has been a leader in the firefighting profession, a valued and respected colleague in the city of Santa Cruz and many of his contributions will be impactable both for the fire service and the Santa Cruz community for years to come. And whereas fire chief Jason Hydrick has been a consummate professional who enhanced the capabilities of every city department. He undertook understanding and managing the cities in us to COVID-19 during the time of great uncertainty and fear, while also leading the city through the unprecedented threats of the CZU lightning complex fire, breaking down the silos between police and fire by leveraging the strength of each department to improve the capability of the public safety functions throughout his tenure. As through hundreds of emergency crisis fires, natural disasters and a worldwide pandemic fire chief Jason Hydrick has led the Santa Cruz fire department with a steady calm and dependable manner. His good nature, passion for public safety and commitment to the people of this community has been a reassuring force in Santa Cruz County for over 22 years. And whereas on August 19 2021 fire chief Jason Hydrick is retiring after 22 years of faithful and selfless dedicated service to the city of Santa Cruz and its residents. Now therefore I, Donna Myers, mayor of the city of Santa Cruz do hereby proclaim August 19 2021 as Jason Hydrick day in the city of Santa Cruz encourage all citizens and his coworkers to join me in expressing heartfelt appreciation for his 22 years of dedicated and exemplary service to the Santa Cruz city fire department and the city of Santa Cruz and wishing him the very best in his retirement. And Jason I think it was hard to get through that without a little tear and a little, a little, a little something in my throat. You're, you are a big loss for our community and but we absolutely understand your desires to live your life and, you know, look forward to seeing you around town. And you've been through a lot in the last few years and I also just want to recognize that you helped us when the aloha our rigor races I wanted to put that in the proclamation but he was definitely a critical part of the team so again the 2019 team will go down three cents. We'll see how soon we can get you back down here for that but congratulations Jason is well well celebrated and happy to hear some words from you and I'm sure Council would also like to say words as as as folks would like to. He ties it. Well, thank you Mayor and City Council. It's been a interesting ride. And go for it. You know, I'm really happy to have been part of this. And I may be getting recognized now but I really have to say that all of those things would not have happened without the men and women and the department within the city. It truly is a group effort and I look back to all those people that input into what I've done and supported me and those who will come after me and I have full faith in them and so I feel like I'm being recognized. For the work that people do on a daily and nightly basis, whether it's a fire, a medical, a water rescue, working with Parks and Rec, working with public works, working with water department, working with the police department. I feel like I'm being recognized for the work of a lot of other people. And I just want to make sure that they're recognized as well. The fire department is a collective very much. So, very happy for what I've been allowed to participate in. I hope I've made a difference. And thank you. It's been good. And I'm working on a, I don't want to call them a ringer, but a good replacement for battling and hopefully 21 is a success in 2019. Thank you, Chief. Council members, anyone wish to, yeah, go ahead, Council Member Watkins. I just wanted to say, you know, thank you, Jason, for your years of service. I really enjoyed working with you. I feel really honored to have worked with you, especially my year as mayor and just really want to see how I've learned from you in terms of your leadership. And your approach to commitment to public safety with humanity and humility and compassion really truly outstanding. And I know that you have dedicated so much of your life to this community. And I wish you and your family be asked the best in your journey into retirement. Council Member Compton. Jason, for all your work, I have only gotten to work with you this last year. And I've been so just impressed and taken back by your commitment to the community, your responsiveness to every level of community concern. And tension you put behind everything that you do. So thank you so much. I hope that we cross paths in our community and I'm sure you'll stay active and I wish you all the luck. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Brown. Yeah, Chief Heidel, I just wanted to add that I really appreciate your not only your responsiveness, but the way that you approach dealing with really chronic challenges and some acute challenges in disaster moments, but the ongoing challenges that we face in our community and doing that with such clear intention and communication.  So I guess it's happening now. And I just wanted to say thank you for everything. And we hope to see you out and about. And I hope you find a ringer for that team. That sounds great. Thank you. Council Member Cummings. I'll just add on to what people are saying to express my gratitude for the commitment to the community and and and also just getting to know you over the past few years and community. It was really good to see your leadership shine through, especially last year when as mayor and for many of us on Council, we're going through the CZU fires to really see a calm and steady approach as to how the city's, what the city's role was during that and also during the recovery was just really impressive to be able to work with you and see how city was able to respond during the time of crisis. So I really want to thank you for everything you've done over the years, but, you know, in particular during such a really critical time, your role as a leader in our community. And and and yeah, I look forward to hopefully seeing you more over the years and hopefully we can reach out to you if we ever need your advice. And Vice Mayor Bruder. Thank you so much, Jason, as a new Council Member already within the first, the beginning of onboarding you reached out and you were just a wealth of knowledge and information, and it was clear that you deeply cared and had it meant to our city to our community and the public safety. Thank you so much. I wish you the best with your family and please keep in touch. Thank you. And City Manager Martin Bernal. Thank you. I also wanted to just really thank Jason for his years of service and his leadership and just to highlight that beyond his leadership and the fire service. And in his profession, he's been really been a critical leader also overall in the city's executive and leadership team. He's been greatly missed by his colleagues on the team because he really has taken a role in leading the city, not just in the environment, but in all the issues that are critical to the city will be greatly missed. And I'm really sorry to see him go. But he's just a professional and a leader of the highest caliber and we've been so lucky to have them. So thank you, Jason. Great. Well, Jason, I know there's a celebration for you. I believe next week, I think it's on the 18th at two o'clock at the fire department. And I know many of us will definitely be there to celebrate you and you're just going to be greatly missed here. So thank you for all your work and we'll get as much out of you in the next eight days that we can. You're lucky there's a red tide. Otherwise, we'll get it.  Okay. Well, thank you, Jason for all your work. Appreciate it. We'll now move on to our next scheduled items. Next is the a few announcements I'd like to share with those who are listening today. Today's meeting is being broadcast live on community television channel 25 and streaming on the city's website city of Santa Cruz dot com. If you wish to comment on an agenda item today, instructions are provided on your screen. We will provide these instructions throughout the meeting. Whenever we move into an agenda item that will be opened for public comment, please note public comment is heard only on items council is taking action on and not regular updates and reports. The items that will be open for public comments during today's city council meeting are numbers eight through 31 on our agenda. I'd like to ask the council members if there are any statements of disqualification today. Vice mayor Brunner regarding agenda item 19. And that is updates to the downtown parking resolution. I just wanted to say all the downtown association receives no funding from parking fees. I will be recusing myself from item 19 out of caution due to my employment with the downtown association of Santa Cruz. Thank you. Vice mayor. Thank you. Are there any other statements of disqualification today? I'm not seeing any others. Okay, I'd like to ask the city clerk to announce any additions or and deletions to the to the agenda today. There none. Thank you. Just a quick announcement about oral communications. Oral communications is an opportunity for members of the community to speak to us on items that are not on the agenda. Oral communications will occur immediately or after agenda item 31 today. If you wish to make a comment during oral communications. And towards the item towards the end of item 31. I'd now like to ask the city attorney to report on closed session. Good morning. Mayor Myers members of the city council. This morning the city council meeting closed session at 1030 a.m. to discuss the following items. For the conference and legal council concerning liability claims. Those are the claims of farmers insurance. Lynn Gallagher and McKenna court LLC. Those items are also listed as number 15 on your consent calendar this afternoon. Number two was real property negotiations involving the city owned property at the Pogonip and negotiation concerning the price terms of payment or both for a proposed lease with the homeless garden project. Number two item was deferred until the second closed session, which is scheduled to begin on or about 430 this afternoon with the other items that are listed in the agenda for the afternoon calendar. There was no reportable action. Next is item number five on our agenda, which is the city manager report and I'll go ahead and turn this over to Martin Bernal, our city manager. Thank you, mayor and council. We have three updates to provide to you today.  So we'll start with the pleasure of hearing from Jason again regarding our fire situation and then move on to water and the black lives matter. Thank you, Martin mayor and city council. So there's increasing and we're no different than other areas in the state. And I know that we've we're having some really significant fire behavior in the state. But I want to emphasize that we have different conditions here locally than those areas. As many of you are aware of the morning it's been fairly to repeat. We've had that fog that's come in which has helped with some of that moisture recapture. So our relative compared to what you're seeing at the Dixie fire and we have crews that are there. But we're dry and that lack of precipitation is going to increase the risk of a fire starting the more importantly of a fire starting and spreading rapidly. So we need to be really conscious and aware of what our actions are and how we go about, you know, limiting those risks. Our vegetation management is moving forward within the city. We've done significant work in our open spaces, putting in fuel breaks, removing that fuel, but also providing those barriers so it doesn't spread, you know, quickly and allows us to suppress it. We've also been very successful in eliminating those known ignition sources within our open spaces. Specifically Covenev and Sycamore Grove, which is our largest continuous fuel source within city limits. And that's going to be ongoing work that we're doing. I'm also happy to say that our efforts for outreach and prevention within the fire wise community is paying dividends. I don't know if you're aware of what the Highland group did within the goat funding. But those efforts are the culmination of years of outreach and work and getting the neighborhoods engaged and prospect types is doing that. We hope to foster that and encourage that people being prepared is what we want. Hardening their home impact of a fire is what we want within our neighborhoods in addition to trying to prevent this spread within the vegetation management and limiting the ignition sources. The state of the whole is very dry because of that. And so we're getting into our highest risk of the year. When we get into August and September, October until we start getting persistent rainfall. And I know that Rosemary from the Water Department, who give an update on water were very much connected to that. So our fire danger is elevated compared to what it is in other times of the year and from years past. But locally here within the city because of our weather patterns, we've made it, we're moderating that risk. And so we're continuing on all efforts. I equated to, you know, when you're driving a car, you wear a seat belt and have an airbag. It's not one of the net prevention, limiting those ignitions and trying to prepare the communities a whole. And so I would ask that everyone go to our website.  And we also have information for what you can do to not start a fire, but also not suffer the consequence of a fire for a wildland. And so that's an on effort that's going to continue on long after I'm gone. And so I would say don't be afraid, but be prepared. That's the message that we want people to take from this. Any questions from council for chief project? Senior. Thank you, chief. Our team. Next we'll have a resume and are doing update on the drought and water supply conditions. Good morning members of the council, Mayor Myers, Vice Mayor Brunner. Thanks for this opportunity to give you a quick update. I'm going to share my screen, at least hopefully I'm going to do that and have a little bit of a slide show for you. I want to just cover today is a quick update on the status of where things are with water supply. And fundamentally, the story is not that great. We block loman reservoir is down 23 feet below full. We've gone down. We didn't fill this last winter. So it wasn't full to begin with, but we've gone down 10 feet in the spring. And fundamentally, this is our main source of water supply right now. The daily demand is running about seven and a half million gallons, which is a little bit less than last year, which is good. It's pretty much that's the kind of, you know, indoor use and some irrigation use, but not that much is what what we've got going on with respect to that that demand level. And we have a situation where we do have a stage one of water shortage emergency in place, and we know that the allocations are much lower than they were 2014 and 2015. The last time we did allocations for customers and about that in a minute, but fundamentally, our demand is so efficient already that about 30% of our residential customers are really struggling to try to reduce their consumption to stay within their allocations. And this is a really important issue that, you know, we need to be talking about here, not because I think people need to be doing more because I think the level of efficiency that people have achieved is really excellent. I think it's that how much more is there available from that particular source. I'm going to talk a little bit more about that in a minute. And I think the key thing for me is that the projections that have just come out in the last couple of weeks with respect to a potential another an additional La Nina winter, which could bring us, you know, sort of very dry conditions such as we saw in this last winter and that would be quite, quite challenging for us. So the next slide is hopefully, what can I find that. There we go. So this is something that you saw earlier in April when we brought you a projection. It was starting at about 71%, 72% and going down to about 58%. That was our projection. We've actually seen quite a bit accelerated use on this on our facility, partly because the dry conditions and also stream flows have not been as available for us to use for, you know, water supply from our flowing sources. So that has made a lacklomen reasonable focus of what we've really been focusing what we're what we have to use and the updated projection is that will end the year, the water year kind of at the end of October for us that drive season period at about 56%, 56 and a half percent. That's done pretty well. That's, you know, only about 15% down from where we started, but the fact that we weren't pull really makes this kind of a position going into next year. And I'm going to talk a little bit more about that here shortly. So I wanted this is a graph that has a lot of numbers and figures on it, but I wanted to show you some patterns because one of the things I've been doing is I've been really looking at the difference between critically dry years and this is the one you see here, the 2020 is a dry year at about 33,000 acre feet of cumulative discharge from the San Lorenzo river system. And then all these others that are here and these little patterns are from critically dry years with 1977 being our worst on record. You can see that kind of bunch up here in in some ways with 2014 2015 being is about 14,000 acre feet of cumulative discharge. These numbers here from 88 and 90 being at about 20,000 acre feet. These numbers here being at about 25,000 acre feet. And here we are 2021 kind of running just over 15,000 acre feet. So we're not going to be quite as dry as 76 or 2014, but definitely are in a challenging situation. And I show you this because I've chosen some of these, these years to sort of do a forecast into the future. I'm going to show you on the next slide. And so I've chosen them from these kind of sets here, if you will, one from 2014, 1990, 1989, I think, 1977 and a 2020 to say, if we started a little bit lower than I think we'll we'll project ourselves to start and ran this exact same forecast going forward. What does it look like next year if we have another critically dry year and that's what is shown on this graph. This is our gentle for the reservoir the the sort of gray shaded box here is what traditionally has been our sort of reserve that we like to carry over our insurance policy of about a billion gallons to carry over from one year to the next case we have another dry year. And what you can see is if we take those projections that I just showed you from the various various water years, and we forecast them going forward, we dip into the sort of reserve level pretty significantly with a 77 obviously down to 10%. These are about to 10% is about 280 million gallons so you can sort of get a sense here. And this is what we're looking at. And these are projections. And these aren't there's not even a high probability that any of this would happen. So just looking forward and sort of saying what if and how do we get ready if we have something that is going to challenge our ability to maintain water service to our customers and to our community in an after another dry year. So this is a scenario planning we're working on. You can sort of see that an 89 year that's purply line here. Things get better actually because we're getting that's a that's about 25,000 acre foot nowhere near normal in 2017 the cumulative discharge of the 1000 acre feet so it's still pretty darn dry, but it improves the conditions quite a bit just by a little bit more pre ship. So these are again they're not projections. I can't even tell you the probability that any of this would happen, but it's us using this kind of information to think what about next year, which is the key. It's all about for us at this moment and you know I'm going to date myself with this but growing up in the 1950s. We had an old black and white television and there really wasn't many knobs or dials that you could turn you didn't have 100 channels you know you had three or four you wanted to improve the picture you played with the rabbit ears. And you could turn the volume up or down that was pretty much it. And really the water system is kind of like that. We have a relatively few number of things that we can do to improve the picture. And one is reducing demand. I'm going to talk a minute about that. Another one is modifying the system operation to achieve admittedly marginal improvements. You know we try to do what we have to do we can do turn every knob and dial that we can. And then last one is bringing on some new supply. And you know that's that's a good thing to think it's not so easy to do on a quick turnaround but we certainly are pulling out all the stops and looking at the options because some of those projections are you know those those scenarios I just showed you they're not too attractive. So we're basically looking at all of this and I'm going to talk a little bit about reducing demand sort of next. Well the council received a letter from Iran Pomerance about an item that's on that that's agenda a little bit and had a chance to talk with him yesterday about kind of some thinking that is a little bit updated on you know what he'd been used to his his assumption about that he's built into his comment about stage one not being a very serious situation is based on the old water shortage contingency plan. And I mentioned about this is the stage two in the old plan stage one actually didn't really have any real reductions but stage two at a 15% reduction. All these numbers are for the different categories but the bottom line is to bring demand down to 2.1 billion gallons. And there's stage three plan which is what we used in 2014 and 2015, where we did actual rationing it was to bring demand to 1800 1.8 billion gallons. The water shortage contingency plan that we that council adopted in February this year, the stage one reduction is a 10% reduction and it's to bring water demand down to 1.2 billion gallons. And stage two is just over a billion gallons. So you can water consumption and if you look at all these, you know, what's the amount that is in how much the single family is using the significant reductions that have already occurred among customers to improve the efficiency, the long term efficiency of how they're using water. Basically, every case here, a 40, 50% reductions on the total demands that that customers are using so when I talk about adjusting, you know, further adjustments to reduce customer demand and when we talk about the fact that 30% of our customers are struggling with meeting the allocation. This is why there's not much more that you can get from these kinds of measures, even putting a stage two allocation in with a, you know, with penalties. There's a limit to what can happen there. So that's just a part of the reality. Another piece that we're doing and I mentioned that we can do some changes and operational changes. We certainly are bringing all of our sources that are online. We were making some changes to the fish flow releases that are marginal, but it's trying to improve our conditions going forward as best we can this year. So, really, we are turning our attention, not that our plates aren't already full, but we're turning our attention to supply augmentation strategies and looking at, you know, things like emergency repair of the Mages Creek pipeline. It's been out of service since the failure in 2019. And the reason it's been out of service that long is it's an extremely difficult terrain. It's not only expensive, it's extremely difficult. Another option that we've already been working on and we've reported some over time and certainly been very engaged with the Water Commission on this topic is awkward storage and recovery. And we think we have the possibility of actually implementing awkward storage and recovery in our bell 12, 8 and 12 this coming winter, which would give us the ability to take more water out of groundwater next summer to help improve supply situation. So these two measures and others are, you know, being worked on and we're at the point now where I think that's it. We, you know, all we can do is wait it out and sort of see what actually happened because the weather part is not something we're in control of. So happy to take your questions. Is there any questions from council members for Rosemary council member Contari Johnson. Thank you for that update Rosemary. You mentioned there was three things that we're looking at to improve the picture and it was reduced the demand modifying system operations and bringing on new supply online. These examples of what bringing the new supply online look like. That's awkward storage and recovery and the, you know, fix the majors pipeline. majors has been a part of our system historically hasn't been a very big part. But right now we don't have access to it because we don't have a pipeline from its diversion to the north coast pipeline. They're talking about some kind of emergency repair, which would be sort of temporary but would potentially get us access to that water in the now and then over the winter potentially and into the, you know, next year. Okay, thank you. I had a question. Rosemary on the fish, the fish releases, the flow releases for the steelhead and coho is still mostly happening. I assume in the river Salar is a river. Are you also looking are you working with those flows up on the north coast stream. There's not really enough water in the north coast stream to make a difference up there at this point but we definitely are looking at the tape diversion. There's an exception year flow where we can reduce from eight CFS to three CFS. So we're certainly trying to do that. One of the issues there having to do with the river is so down at this point that getting the extra water to divert into our intake is a little challenging from a hydraulic perspective but we're working on that. And then there's also a blow release from a new creek dam that we're in the process of putting together what's called a temporary urgency change this petition that would reduce that flow a bit and allow the reservoir to maintain that storage rather than putting it into new creek, which then comes down, you know, to the lower part of the system. Okay, great. Well, let's hope it starts raining in California soon. It's a pivotal year for sure. Okay, not seeing any other council questions. Thank you Rosemary and I guess I had one other question. I believe there was also some emails that came in just about drought awareness and I mean we continue to do those communications and right on those. So the comment I would make on that is that unfortunately it's driest a little bit more broadly than maybe it's actually been experienced but there is a lot of one on one and you know that the level of communication isn't happening by bus signs and you know bill inserts getting produced and delivered as much as it is in the interactions with individual customers and as they're looking at how to, you know, try to match their water use. Putting together packages that people can, you know, we have a little put your order in and then pick up kind of thing, you know, distribution thing going on for water efficient devices. There's quite a bit of work going on and working up, you know, online informational thing like a water school kind of application that's going on that could potentially be used even outside of the water school opportunity to help people understand what those, you know, what the situation is and what the and so all of that is really what the additional funds that are part of the plan that was actually put together for the implementation but were split because of the two fiscal years. And has they have the hotels and all the lodging and they've been pretty responsive in terms of, you know, notifying, you know, you know, visitors and all that. Right. Yeah. Okay. The interesting thing is because of the COVID impact on on business consumption over the last couple of years, the business consumption was lower than what their allocation would have been from the, you know, from the stage one reduction. So, imagine that they're that they're, they're like 20 or 30% below what they would have been asked to reduce to in the, because they were so far down. So we've seen some increase in business use, you know, between June and July, for example, but they're still below what their allocation would have been. But we haven't asked them to do, you know, the kind of thing being like in Mendocino where they're asking customers that put particularly, you know, visitors to come in to conserve. We just aren't seeing that kind of demand from that sector. So, and of course, you know, the similar kind of thing going on and many of the other sectors where, you know, there aren't so many people in town will start to see something change when the university students start coming into town here next month. But at the moment, you know, things are pretty sort of stable and so the big focus is on residential at the moment. Okay. Thank you. Thanks very much, Rosemary. Next, Martina, I believe you were going to give an update on the Black Lives Mural Black Lives Matter mural. Yeah, and I'm going to have actually a capping them to an update on the discussions around the repairs and then Bernie's got an update on the criminal aspects of the vandalism. So I'll turn it over to Kat Kat. Thank you, Martin, and Mayor Myers and council members to set some context for this update when the Black Lives Matter mural was installed in Santa Cruz in 2019. The mural organizers envisioned the artwork as a vehicle for activism, accountability, and policy change for Santa Cruz and beyond. And that being the stop of one of the lead artists since the original installation activists have formed into the Santa Cruz equity collaborative with the yoga for all movement serving as the fiscal agent. And since the acts of the early evening of July 23 that we're addressing now, the equity collaborative has been working closely. To one tally the costs related to insulation restoration of the mural the initial estimate was approximately $22,000 but that's been updated with additional costs over this time. And second, they've been working with the district attorney's office to convey the impacts of that aggression that have been felt by the community. The equity collaborative wants to wait for the outcome of the legal find an opportunity for restorative justice before planning the timing of the repair of the mural. Currently, the equity collaborative is in the process of creating outreach materials to provide background about the Black Lives Matter movement about the Santa Cruz Black Lives Matter mural and about the impact of actions on July 23 in the community. They'd like to display the materials in close proximity to the mural, perhaps in the short term in the windows of the library building and in the longer term in some kind of city hall courtyard display case. The equity collaborative will be issuing a public statement in the form of a press release in the near future about what restorative justice means to them. And they'll be asking for endorsement of this statement by the Arts Commission and the city council. In the very near term, the equity collaborative is scheduled to give a presentation on restorative justice and the Black Lives Matter mural at the August Art Commission meeting tomorrow evening at 6. And that's a meeting open to the public and the Zoom details are on the agenda that's posted on the city website. Have to take any questions. Thank you, Kathy. For Kathy. Councilmember Cummings. I had a campaign thanks for that update. I had a related question. I know that when the mural was defaced, I'd also brought up the fact that the, it appeared that the flag that was supposed to be flown outside of city call had also gone missing at some point during the summer and I wasn't sure if there had been any follow up. I guess I'll use the question from our team, but I know that had been brought up before too, and I hadn't really heard any response, but I was wondering if there had been any follow up on that as well. Yes, I believe it was reported to the police. I think we replaced the flag somebody took it and I think they're looking into the scene if they could get any video evidence. So that's being investigated followed up on as well. I think the question would be, because I've had a number of people from the community reaching out asking about like who they could contact or they're having questions about the mural and and when it's going to be repaired or what's going to be done. I'm wondering if there's anyone in particular we should direct those questions here. The yoga for all movement is hosts the equity collaborative and the equity collaborative has a Facebook page. I'd be happy to field any questions and direct them the right way if that's easier for someone. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Kathy. And there was also a town hall sort of meeting held the Sunday after the incident and we'll take some time. A number of council members did attend that. And we'll, you know, provide some under our item number seven today. Any council members that would like to share sort of their attendance or follow up activities. As they've been working on the on the Black Lives Matter mural vandalism situation, please feel free to share that, you know, with with the public and with other council members during item number seven as well. Martin is Bernie, Bernie would be. Thank you. Thank you, Martin. And good morning, Mayor Myers and all of the council. So a brief, I guess, summary of the initial response and where we are today with the case.  To start collecting evidence and work the case as we're notified of the vandalism. The detective put in a 12 hour day on that Saturday. And by the day they had two suspects in custody. So it was a remarkable job by our team. I have to say, The district attorney's office has filed to felony charges, felony vandalism and the felony hate crime enhancement. The both suspects are out of custody. They bailed out. And it continues to process evidence. There's a lot of evidence to go through. And they continue to work the case every single day and chip away and a lot of digital evidence that they're sorting through to prove the case. At this point, there is a preliminary hearing before September 20 in department six at 9 a.m. For those of you that aren't aware of preliminary hearing is is basically a part of the process for the judge to determine if there's enough evidence to hold the suspects to answer as they as they call it and then proceed to a potential trial A settlement in between that time. So the preliminary hearings on September 20. The DA's office will present the evidence before the court and they'll determine if the suspects will be held to answer. The the the detectives also continue to reach out to three other. There's that we know we're we're inside the vehicle at the time. And at this point, we believe all or at least two of those passengers were juveniles. One of them being from outside of the state. So we're trying to track those people down. I think, you know, obviously this is an active case. So we don't get into too much detail. We let the court handle it from here. But I think that as a department and as a city, the response definitely sent the message that that as a community, we don't we don't tolerate this type of behavior. So we're we're proud of our our department and proud of how the the city, including most of all council members and the response to this as soon as we found out. So I can try things that I can if anybody has any questions. Questions council member coming. I just want to start by thanking the police department for a rapid response in this matter. I know that sometimes these matters in certain communities may not be taken as seriously. But one thing I've been pointing out to people is that, you know, within 24 hours, you know, we had these two individuals in custody. And I think that's something that's really really should be highlighted and we should give a lot of credit to our police department for taking this matter seriously. So I just really want to thank Santa Cruz police for really moving swiftly on this case. The other question was, did you know what the time the preliminary hearing is on September 20? Yeah, it's scheduled for nine and nine in the morning at this point. But if anybody is familiar with the court system, stand by for the extended or rescheduling and all of that. But right now at 9am. Thank you. Any other comments from council members or questions. Yeah, I just also just want to give my thanks to to the police department. Chief Mills and city manager, Martin Bernal and also Kathy. That was a really busy weekend. Also, I want to recognize Elizabeth Smith. There was a lot going on just from the period of time when there was the notification of the vandalism had happened. And yeah, I arrived at the scene and the police were there within minutes of me really notifying that. So I'm just, I really do want our community to know that our police department was immediate and very thorough in what they did really within minutes of the reporting of what had happened. So I do really, really want to recognize your department's work. Deputy chief and just the response from our public works department. Obviously Kathy immediately becoming available that weekend. Martin Bernal, you know, getting city staff getting the questions answered as quickly as possible. So I do want our public to know that this is a very, very high priority. And certainly we'll get update the mural as much as we can during this period during the city managers. You know, updates as needed so we can at least use our council meetings as a place to where people can learn what's going on. So just want to say those things as well. If there's no further questions, Martin, is that do you have any other items today? Thank you very much. Okay, great. Thank you all. Next up is, I'll now call on the city clerk to provide any updates to the city council calendar. Bonnie, do we have any? Sorry, no, we have no updates. Okay, great. Thank you. Mayor, I was wondering if I could ask a question related to the calendar and this is larger for the city attorney. I was just wondering, so item number 36, it's on our agenda today. We've been getting a lot of people reaching out to us from the community and wanting to have some kind of discussion around this item and this item is related to the 831 Water Street project. And so I don't know what the appropriate way is that we can go about having a discussion, but knowing that a lot of people that this is a pretty controversial item. And that there appears to be some differences in opinion between members of the public and the staff interpretation of the role that council plays with regards to density bonus law. I'm wondering if there's, there could be an opportunity for us to discuss this since it's on our agenda, but it's not a discussion item. And so I was wondering if you could provide some clarity about how we can potentially discuss this item because I think since it is on technically on our agenda, but not for discussion that if we can have some discussion about it that it might be helpful for the members of our community who are, you know, really passionate about this item. So, I don't, I don't, I see the planning director is in attendance this afternoon. I also received funds from members of the public requesting to have a discussion on this item. Unfortunately, however, it is listed on your agenda as an information item after the, the adjournment of the meeting and so a member of the public who is, you know, looking over the agenda would get the impression that it is not listed as an item for discussion. And so I think if you had a discussion on this item, you would deprive members of the public who in good faith read the agenda of an opportunity to participate in this and maybe just tuned out the meeting. I do believe that the that the memo that was presented to the council as an information item does identify the opportunity for the council to review the project and make comments on its consistent with objective standards in our general plan and zoning code. And so that's what I was just hoping to confirm with the planning director is that there is that opportunity and my recollection from reviewing the item is correct. That will likely happen in mid September. Yeah, I was going to say that that we have agendized this item we will be agendized in this item on September 14 that is currently scheduled just so the public is clear. And I believe the memo might mention that it's somewhere in the memo but yeah. Yeah. Thank you. I just wanted to follow up on that because yes, that is very clear in the memo, but given the number of people who contacted at least some council members and I know all the whole council got some communications. And there are people who really want to be able to talk about this and want to see the council take more of a role within the confines of SB 35 there are things we can do, and I don't want to talk about it right now because I know it's not her agenda but given all of that I feel like we should provide an opportunity for to have a discussion about this before we get to the end of the timeline we don't we won't have much time. And that's the number 14 given the 60 day turnaround. So, you know, I just, I just would like to see us have an opportunity to discuss this, and make some recommendations prior to the kind of final moment when we we hear well it's everything is fully formed and there's not much that can be done that that seems to happen a lot and so I'm just wondering if we could get a response on where else we might be able to have an opportunity for for folks to discuss this or will they we just have to maybe suggest that they come to oral communications. Sure. The first thing that I would suggest is that we're hosting the second community meeting for this on Thursday evening. The first one was held earlier this year and it was about two and a half hours. This one is also scheduled for an evening session. I believe it's 6pm this Thursday. The information is our website. You can go to the three one Water Street project website and find the latest plans to the FYI memo that was sent to the council that details the process that also provides a link to the HDD regulations that that's going to significant detail about the overall process and that meeting is a great opportunity for people to provide feedback and to hear about what's proposed and about the process that were mandated to follow through SB 35. If I could just respond very quickly. I think the point that I'm trying to make is I think there are many very well informed about what's happening and they've been following this very closely doing other research from what I understand. So I think it's there are people not only who want to an opportunity to hear the you know what what the city is saying I mean they have that information but want to be able to engage about it. So you know that that is going to be a day that there's possibility of having giving that input on Thursday but I'm just kind of wondering if there's any space for you know input and discussion because the last community meeting that I went to didn't appear to have that it was very much a you know just raise your hand and say gave your testimony and move on. So again just to find ways to open up a conversation. This is what I hear people wanting to do. Well I'm happy to pass that feedback along with respect to responding to questions. I know that many of the questions were responded to at the last community meeting. However there were also you know over 200 people if I'm recalling correctly at that community meeting and we we did allow everyone to speak who wanted to and that you know was as I mentioned a two and a half hour meeting so you know I'm happy to pass that information along and talk with the team about responding to questions that you know the response to some of the comments that are received is also provided as part of the discussion. I do you know I'll just I'll just note Councilmember Brown that you know we're trying to we're trying to balance at those meetings to allow her as many people to participate as possible when you've got you know a couple hundred people on the line with providing lengthy dialogue back and forth and those are some beating interest but I will also say that our staff has been in communications regularly with members of the public and so I would encourage them if they wanted to have dialogue outside of a formal meeting to go ahead and reach out to the project manager Ryan Bain reach out to the current planning principal planner Samantha Hatcher and they've been having regular conversations with members of the community. Yeah I'm going I'm sure throughout the process Tony excuse me Lee would you mind just maybe just so the public knows I know this is agendized. Will that be a I would anticipate will be accepting public comment on September 14th as well. The council has the opportunity to engage on the question around the objective standards correct. That's correct. Yes in fact you know what we'll be presenting is an analysis of all of the objective standards that we believe are applicable to the project along with the analysis of whether the project is consistent with those objective standards or not. And I know staff is busy working on that analysis now. Thank you. I just want to make sure we don't go too far into exactly to this too far. Tony are we going a little far into this in terms of this is the item the meeting calendar so I just want to double check where we're at with regards to. I think we're I think we're OK but we're getting close to you know a little bit close. OK council member coming. I just wanted to you know in terms of recommendations for what we're able to discuss at the next meeting. I hear the item about the objective standards but I think there's also some concern around density bonus and you know the council being able to be considered an opportunity for density bonus concessions and waivers will that be a part of the discussion as well because it seems like there's there is the potential for the city to play a role in you know the approval of the density bonus and I just want to make sure that since that brought up by the community whether we'll have the opportunity to discuss that as well. I can speak in detail about that and our our analysis of that but I don't think that that's the right time for that. I'll just leave it as yes we will be provide the council with an analysis of the density bonus as well as the potential for the council to how the council can review the density bonus under the SB 35 regulations and we have been and will continue to work closely with our city attorney's office on that. Thank you. And I would imagine council members with your department Lee with many all these questions leading up to this. Absolutely. Thank you very much Mayor Myers. I would encourage any of you to have questions related to that to reach out to me and happy to have conversations with you offline and likewise to my office. Thank you. Vice Mayor Bruder. I just wanted to say in relation to the calendar. It would be helpful to have staff and maybe we could consider the September 14th or special meeting time to have SB 35 discussion being this is the first one or density bonus helps the community and the council members and staff to consider that. Thank you. Vice Mayor. Okay. Any other comments on the meeting calendar? Not seeing any. Okay. We will move on. Why don't we take a just a five minute break and just go to bio break and just come back in at 1220. We'll start our council memberships in C groups and outside agency agenda next or item next which is item number seven. So we'll just take a five minute break. Come back and we'll be agenda item number seven for the public external at external boards committees and joint power authority meetings. And I'll go ahead and just sort of go one by one as they see you on the screen. Vice Mayor Brunner for the members of the public were on item number seven on our agenda. This is reports on council memberships and city groups and outside agencies. Thank you Mayor Myers. Okay. I will start with the visit Santa Cruz board meeting and an action item out of that Maggie Ivy has served 26 years on that board and announced retirement from Santa Cruz and so a new search committee is being formed to hire replacement. So very significant Maggie Ivy has just been a very valuable. We've been evolving that organization over the years and so we received very in depth visitors and online versus in person over the past year and that those were interesting numbers overall to receive that information. And it's really broken down into very detailed analysis in terms of travel guides and wildlife watch guides and online visitors and what they're looking for in the city of Santa Cruz and in the county of Santa Cruz and different platforms. So that was a brief quick summary of the visit Santa Cruz board and I will let Mayor Martin Watkins council member Watkins also attended that meeting. So if they have anything else to add to that. The other meeting was community meeting as you mentioned Mayor Myers following the Black Lives Matter mural vandalism and that was well attended and we had several council members in attendance at that meeting as well. And it was attended by the media and it was an update on at the time it was an update on the police and the progress at that time and also a space to really talk about action going forward which has led to some very concrete steps from council members working in various going forward to help ensure that our community can feel safe in different ways. Moving forward and that actions like this that happened to in the vandalism can be addressed in our policy and tied in with our health and all policies. So that created a great action point for for us moving forward and that's all I have to report. Great. Thank you Vice Mayor Brunner. Next I'll call on Council Member Watkins. Thank you Mayor. I think I'll start also with the visit Santa Cruz kind of just briefly piggybacking on what Vice Mayor Brunner said the only additional input I share was just the hoteliers who are on that board sharing their challenges with actually getting products and just sort of a symbol of delay that I think a lot of businesses are experiencing as well as management of kind of tourism and influx of tourism. Although we're kind of entering in sort of component of our tourism as we're meeting our summer months. Let's see we have our CJ meeting this Thursday. In addition I guess I just say how appreciative I am of our State Department of a mayor and vice mayor and all those who attended our community event following the vandalism of the Black Lives Matter mural. It's great to hear the voices of the community to allow that space for processing. And there was a I think overall a sentiment around wanting healing and wanting ongoing dialogue and I so I just sort of want to share that with our community and my colleagues that weren't able to attend that. I had a core update at our community program. Oh, sorry. My dog just came in the third of our feet. We had a core update at our community programs meeting right before the July break and then lastly with public safety, we had a conversation about restorative justice and wanting to move in that direction. And directions follow prior council direction around wanting to see our police department move in that direction. Also, kind of just starting conversation and community awareness around the impacts of hyperdermic needle waste in high highly sensitive areas. Like storage as well as crime reports and and then just briefly, I know that the city manager's office has had a kind of mapping, but one of the things we're also talking about prior to some staffing on leave is really starting a conversation around redefining public safety and eventually having that conversation come to the whole council. We I've learned that a number of communities have actually really started this process. And I think it really aligns with some of the conversation we heard at the community event around wanting to have kind of a common understanding of what we all feel is a component of public safety. So that should be forthcoming. And I know we intended to have that coming sooner rather than later, but given some of the staffing challenges, it has not been on the full council agenda. I think that about covers my membership. So thank you, ma'am. Thank you, Councilmember Hawkins. Councilmember Brown. Thank you. I will speak first about the Regional Transportation Commission meeting, which was held last Thursday. We had a couple of items on the agenda that I think were really critical to the maintenance of the Santa Cruz branch rail corridor. In particular, forward with work on two of the sites that were washed out as a result of the 2017 storms. So moving along and trying to get that network done and also a project to address coastal erosion at the Manresa beach section of the rail line where there's significant, significant challenges. And there's a lot of work needs to be done. We did, you know, the ability of the RTC to at least make a commitment to building some retaining walls and, you know, kind of just shoring it up for now. And so those were obviously there will be cost to those, but the RTC measure funds will cover those. The other committee meeting that I want to report on is the seniors, the Council, the AAA area agency on aging. I don't have much to report aside from one really critical issue that I've mentioned before, but it's starting to become much more urgent. So folks who are out there listening and, you know, folks in the Zoom meeting here. The Meals on Wheels, the Live Oak Senior Center is going to be probably raised to develop housing and some other facilities for the Live Oak School District. And they are desperately looking for a location that where they can be to prepare meals. It's where all the Meals on Wheels meals are prepared. It's a congregate dining setting and other meetings happen there. And so this is going to be a really big loss. And so they are trying desperately to find a location that would be suitable to engage in those activities and have some office space. We're just looking for anybody who has thoughts and ideas on how that, you know, just what's out there, what's available. And I think that that's all from me. I did not get to attend the BLM, the meeting at the community room I was out of town, but I was able to watch it. So I appreciate everybody who was able to be there and share your commitment to moving forward in a productive, positive way. Mary, you're muted. I wonder if you're calling on me. Thank you. Yeah, I'll start with the BLM that I was able to attend and want to just echo my thanks to the mayor and police chief and all the community members who showed up. I won't repeat what my colleagues have already said, but just want to say that what I heard loud and clear was an ask for meaningful continuous dialogue. And look at how we how we measure racial equity and racial justice in our community and where the gaps might be. So there were other dialogue conversations and points brought up, but those were two of the pieces that I took from that community meeting. And I am working with Vice Mayor Brunner and Mayor Myers on operationalizing some of these pieces that were brought up both at the community meeting as well as follow up letters from black coalitions and other allies. I would like to give an update on the Metro board. Actually, our next meeting is this Friday, but we haven't met. We met last June, just after our prior so it's been a while, but it was a pack meet. We talked about we approved the FY 21 22 budget, which is about $55 million. We renewed the CEO's contract for another three years Alex Clifford. And there was an ask by the Metro board to support the infrastructure bill, which I see just past the Senate this morning. So this is a trillion dollar by proud of it. Well, that would really significantly provide investments for public transportation. And it would go to local communities. So there's an item on our consent agenda for the city council to also support this, but Metro board put forward letters to our representatives in Congress to support this. I'll let Mayor Myers add anything that I might have missed. It was a pack meeting but pieces that I pulled out. Council member Watkins touched on the community programs committee, but just to add to that, we're working with city staff to look at the core RFP process that should be coming out soon. And city staff is going to be meeting with with the county consultants who are working on core and with CBO this week to engage in how this could look different. It's going to look very different from the last round of funding. So that will, there will be more coming to the council probably in September around the core funding and how we'll allocate those funds in our community a little differently. I also attended the RTC meeting that council member Brown touched on that. And I think that's it. Great. Thank you. Council member Johnson. Council member Cummings. You just let folks know I wasn't able to attend the community meeting regarding the mural, but I was able to attend the hearing and I've been engaged in many conversations with people around the vandalism that occurred there. And it's similar to what folks have been saying. I think overwhelmingly people want to see a restorative justice, see the through a restorative justice lens rather than a punitive lens. So hopefully we can continue to have discussions about, you know, what comes maybe around this. Since the last council meeting, I was able to attend the LAFCO meeting on October or August 4. And I think there was one annexation of a parcel dishonor in Scott Valley to CSA 10. And so that resolution was adopted. And then the other item was countywide parks and recreation service and sphere review. The park districts of Boulder Creek, La Selva Beach, Opal Cliffs and all the recreation and ultimately in approving the parks and recreation service and sphere of influence review. We reaffirm the sphere of influence for Boulder Creek, recreation and park district and La Selva Beach recreation, recreation and park district. But then we adopted a zero sphere of influence for the Alba Recreation Park District, Opal Cliffs Recreation District and recommended the solution of those two districts by August 2022. And so that would require that those two districts initiate the disillusion of those districts with concurrent annexation into county service area 10 by December 2021. And neither of those parties, the commission will consider initiating a disillusion in accordance with government code. And so that's pretty much all I have to report on LAFCO. Thank you council member. I think I am next just a couple of things. The cows working did not actually meet over the summer or since June, but just to reiterate cows beach was off the beach bummer list again this year. So that's good news. So that's the second year around now it's been able to stay off that list, which is great news. There will be a city select committee meeting on August 27. And I have brought forward the live oak senior center potential closure as an agenda item for the city select committee, which is a meeting of all four mayors in the county, as well as with the county so that we can have that there that is a public meeting. And that will be on August 27 that two o'clock so that will be a place where we can have a conversation about the loss of that facility and its impacts across the whole county and in our individual cities. I attended the two by two committee member committee meetings throughout the summer. The big news from those are a couple of things there. One is that we did receive notification from senator layers office that he was able to identify and secure 14.5 million to bring to city of Santa Cruz for addressing and helping with our homeless needs and and we will be convening a meeting with he and assembly member Mark Stone, probably in the next few weeks. Once some of the budget things get done in Sacramento and certainly we will be providing a full update. Both the county will and the city will regards to the use of those funds and the two by two will be sort of one of the main groups that sort of helps facilitate sort of a description of where those funds may go. Very thankful that senator layered really sees the severity of the issues that we're dealing with and was able to bring those resources to the city and the county to work with to continue to work on addressing homelessness. I'm more services as well as shelter and other needs for folks who are experiencing homelessness here in Santa Cruz. The two by two committee also had a meeting with the Department of Housing, Community Housing, the head of the home project home key and project room key. We have the staff of each of those organizations, excuse me, each of those agencies in attendance to understand the upcoming opportunities with project home key and project room key between those two sources. And I believe there's almost $3 billion in money is available to, again, address homelessness and try to expedite that the development of housing. We talked about various opportunities here in Santa Cruz as well as throughout the county. And that does include could include things such as buying properties and things like that as well. So it's not just for purchasing motels. They made it very clear communities have been using that the funds for purchasing other types of buildings as well as other properties. So we've been working. Supervisor McPherson organized that specific meeting as well as Senator Layard's office also facilitated and arranged that meeting with Senator, excuse me, Supervisor McPherson's office taking the lead on organizing the discussion with those folks. We're getting a lot of assistance with really getting connected with state agencies that we'll be looking at just distributing some of the funds that the governor has put out for homelessness. Again, to the downtown management corporation meeting this past month as well, and very much focused on getting services and working downtown to help with the area more activated as well as working towards, you know, addressing some of the some of the improvements while we're transitioning obviously through some of the empty storefronts. So that group has been very active and also in touch with our economic development department as well. And I think that is it for me in terms of report outs. And I do want to thank also the community for attending the Sunday morning meeting after the Black Lives Matter mural. Vandalism we had a really I think about 50 to 60 people there we had really good. It was a very it was a good meeting people were very emotional obviously and you know we will continue to bring items forward for our community and for the City Council to consider in ways that we think are meaningful in terms of. You know, addressing some of the issues that are this is obviously shown we've also I've done some outreach with my fellow mayors as well as I know some of the folks who work in the education field have done some outreach with some of our education leaders as well and so this really will be a community effort to really address what was, you know, a very obvious attack on numbers of our community. So, that's it the only other meetings I was involved in I did do a couple of meetings with tannery arts community members regarding some of the issues across the river as well as issues with the campus and some upcoming items and tend to several of those meetings during the summer as well. So, but we will move on to the next item. The next item is our consent agenda. And these are items eight through 26 on our agenda today for members of the public who are streaming this meeting. Now it's the time to call in if you want to comment on items eight through 26 instructions will be on your screen. Please remember to mute your streaming device press star and your hand and then listen for the queues saying you have been unmuted. All items will be act upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. Are there any members who wish to comment or pull any of the items from our consent agenda today today. I have a comment on item I believe it's 11. Let me just double check. No, it's not 11. Sorry. Yes, it is item 11. Thank you. Okay, is there any other council members that have comments or questions or would like to pull an item on the on the consent agenda. Okay, with that, we will head in. Sandy, why don't we go ahead and have your comment on item 11 and then we'll bring it out for public comment and then we'll look for a motion on this agenda. Okay, sure. Thanks. So I just wanted to thank my colleagues for bringing this forward. This is a pretty significant struggle. That this group of work been through and I do appreciate your pointing out that we want to support workers in their efforts to both unionize and improve their workplaces. And I just want to say I hope that we all continue to have that approach and make those commitments when we are addressing our own city workforce. Thank you, council member Brown. I'll go ahead. And if there are members of the public would like to speak on any agenda on any item on our consent agenda. There's been no items pulled today. Now is the time to do so. Please press star nine on your phone to raise your hand when it is your time to speak. You will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted. The timer will then be set to two minutes and I see we have Mark McCliff is in attendance today and has his hand up.  Pardon me, mayor. I would just like to remind the council that for agenda item 19 Vice Mayor Brunner has refused yourself. There's no reason to pull that from the agenda, but it should be reflected in a minute. Thank you. Yeah, I was going to do that. Thank you, Tony. Appreciate that. Mr. McCliff, go ahead, please. Good evening. My name is Mark McCliff. I'm calling about item number 11. I've been a security officer for dignity health for three years now. Security officers across dignity health have suffered immeasurable inequalities. Security officers suffer constant harassment, intimidation by upper management, violence, low staffing, lack of proper protective equipment and resources, continuous COVID exposures and unequal benefits and pay. For example, the janitorial staff get paid about $6 more per hour than a security officer dealing with the constant influx of behavioral patients. And you may have seen those touching human kindness commercials. Now, if you were employed by Dignity Health, you would also know about our mission, which refers to our commitment to social justice. Social justice means equality, freedom, fighting against injustices and to fight for the common good. Management does not uphold this mission with their frontline security workers at dignity facilities. Dignity Health's vision states a healthier future for all. As security officers, a healthy future can only start with gaining the respect, equality and social justice from Dignity Health management throughout their facilities. Dignity Health's values state compassion, inclusion, integrity, excellence and collaboration. This is all we as security officers are asking for. Dignity Health claims to be committed to these core values. Several hundred security officers across the state of California are asking for compassion for the security workers. Inclusion in the same benefits and programs offered to other coworkers. As frontline workers, we deserve collaboration to work with our employer to give and receive social justice. Today, I'm asking the council to unanimously adopt the resolution supporting the right of security officers at Dignity Health facilities to have their social justice. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. McCliff. Is there any other attendees today in the meeting that would like to speak to our consent agenda? I am not seeing any. Okay, I will go ahead and bring this back to council for any additional deliberation or to look for a motion, please. Council Member Cummings and Council Member Calentary Johnson. I'll go ahead and move the consent agenda. Council Member Calentary Johnson? I'll second. Okay, we have a motion from Council Member Cummings, seconded by Council Member Calentary Johnson. And moving the entirety of the consent agenda with the note for Item 19 that Council Member, excuse me, Vice Mayor Bruner will not be voting on that item. Can I ask the clerk please call the roll call vote? Council Member Watkins, Calentary Johnson. Aye. Council Member Golder is absent, Vice Mayor Bruner and Mayor Myers. That item passes unanimously. Great. Okay, we will now move on to our public hearing, which is going to be Item Number 27 on our agenda. And Item 7 is a public hearing or the municipal code amendments relating to accessory dwelling units responding to modifications requested by the California Coastal Commission. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if this is an item you want to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order will be the item by staff followed by questions from the Council. We will then take public comment and then return to Council for Deliberation and Action. Today we'll have a presentation by Sarah Noyce, our Senior Planner and Matt VanWar, our Principal Planner. And again, this is on Item Number 27. This is for municipal code amendments relating to accessory dwelling units responding to modifications requested by the California Coastal Commission. So I'll turn it over to Sarah or Matt and or Matt. Thank you, Mayor Myers. My name is Sarah Noyce. I work in the Planning and Community Development Department in the Advanced Planning section. And I've been the planner primarily responsible for updating our municipal code as it relates to accessory dwelling units or sometimes called granny units, essentially separate units that are built on site with typically traditionally with a single family home, but with the updates to state law that came into effect at the beginning of 2020, they're now also permitted on parcels with multi-family housing. And so many of the Council members may be aware that we have been updating our code. We've updated it several times in the last two or three years to bring it into compliance with state law. So at first we were kind of leading the state and then, you know, the state caught up and exceeded us in certain areas. And so we've gone through several rounds of amendments, two or three rounds. And some of the changes we made actually are in portions of the code that are subject to review by the Coastal Commission. And so I'm going to share my screen now and we'll walk through how that process works on the Coastal Commission Reviews, our ordinances, where we are today. Can everyone see my screen? Okay, great. We've updated, as I mentioned, our ordinance to comply with state law. So those amendments related to, you know, development standards where on a site a unit could be built, what size it could be built. They also related to the permit process that could be required for this type of dwelling unit. And also one of the one of the big changes that we made was related to parking and how much parking was required for ADUs. And some of those changes, amendments, as I mentioned, are in portions of our municipal code that are part of our local coastal program or LCP, which means that they affect coastal resources or access to the coastline. And that therefore they are subject to review by the California Coastal Commission, which is a state agency that has jurisdiction over development in the coastal zone. So the state law, as it changed, required municipalities to adopt a lot of changes to their code. And there is one section in there that says, you know, you have to make all these changes and for nothing in this code shall supersede the Coastal Act of 1976. So to the extent that the Coastal Act requires protection of coastal resources and access to the coastline, the Coastal Commission maintains their jurisdiction over those provisions and the places where there's sort of tension or conflict between the requirements for ADUs and the requirements of the Coastal Act, we sort of get into a place where we're negotiating with the Coastal Commission each jurisdiction to sort of find the right fit and the right answer for these different things. So typically, when we make an amendment to our LCP or the portions of our muni code that are part of our LCP, we conduct an analysis to show how they are consistent with the LCP, you know, to ensure that they are consistent with the LCP. And we submit that to the Coastal Commission. Sometimes they request more analysis and, you know, we kind of go back and forth and explain to them how the proposed amendments are going to function within the LCP and within our rest of our muni code and our general plan. And typically that conversation and the additional analysis we provide is enough to sort of have them feel convinced that we, you know, are complying with the Coastal Act and that the actions we're taking aren't going to have a negative impact on coastal resources or on the community of all Californians to access their coastline. Sometimes, however, it's not enough. And this is one of those times where they actually feel pretty strongly that there was some place of some amendments and further modifications to our proposed LCP amendment. And, you know, we entered into a good face negotiation with them and, you know, this isn't a perfect outcome. And I think this is actually a really good outcome, the space where we've come to the modifications are reasonable and we're trying to balance these conflicts. We're very interested in ensuring that there's access to the coastline. And so, just so that we're all familiar with the process and the Coastal Commission has is recommending that our city make these amendments to our ordinance. And if we choose not to we actually start over completely so we would have to rewrite the ordinance basically from scratch. Thanks, Mission. Back to the City Council first and second reading and then we submit to the Coastal Commission a new ordinance. So, I'm really hopeful we can we can move this through today and if there are any concerns or, you know, questions we have or like further work we'd want to do, we would I would really request that we start that as a new process because we do have some applicants that are waiting to submit applications based on these this ordinance. So, there's three areas that the Coastal Commission wanted us to address. The first was the applicability of the Coastal Development Permit Process. There are just a few areas in the Coastal Zone where Coastal Development Permits are still required for ADUs and they just wanted to make sure we were without really clearly in our code so we added some additional language and to put two places in the code to just reiterate. Yes, this is required. You know, yes, you are going to need a Coastal Development. Then there were a couple of changes to sort of clarify and in one case actually correct one of our existing standards about when ADUs are allowed on multi-family zoned property that they're actually allowed also with a multi-family structure, not just with a single-family home on a multi-family zoned property. So we were glad that they caught that and we were able to roll that correction into this modification. And then the place where we took our time negotiating was about the parking requirements for ADUs in the Coastal Zone. So the city had eliminated all parking requirements for ADUs. So the ordinance that we proposed requires zero parking for ADUs anywhere in the city. And the Coastal Commission really wasn't comfortable with that in areas, especially areas closest to the coast where they know visitor or that on-street parking to, you know, facilitate their visit to the coastline. So the place where we ended up, the language that's in the proposed ordinance today would require some replacement parking in the Coastal Zone. So where parking is removed, that's either in a driveway or on a parking pad, so not in a garage or not in a carport. It would be required to be replaced within the Coastal Zone. And then within this area, between the line shown on this map and the water, any ADUs that are built there will require one additional parking space for the ADU. And then they will require that any parking that gets removed or has areas converted, you know, in the case of converting a garage, all that parking will need to be replaced in order to meet the parking permit for the primary residential use on the property. So that's different. Outside the Coastal Zone, no replacement parking is required and no parking is required for the ADU. So we are going to have some sites closer to the coast that's going to be a little bit more challenging to, you know, get that parking configured. And this is the balance that we were able to strike with the Coastal Commission. And that's from today. You know, if we, assuming we approve this first reading of the ordinance, the second reading will take place at the next thing on August 24th. And then the ordinance would take effect 30 days after that. So in the meantime, we will be submitting the adopted ordinance to the Coastal Commission for their determination that it is adequate and complete. And that determination is reviewed by the Coastal Commission during one of their public hearings. And so we're hoping to be at their public hearing in the middle of September, which would allow all of these changes to really take effect and be available to our applicants in the Coastal Zone the month of September 2021. So with that, our recommendation is that your city council pass a motion to adopt a resolution acknowledging receipt of the resolution of certifications from the California Coastal Commission, including the suggested modifications and introduced for publication and ordinance amending chapters 2404, 2410 and 2412 of the municipal code related to ADUs in response to action by the California Coastal Commission. There are any questions. Thank you, Sarah. Are there any questions from council members council member contrary Johnson. Thank you for that update there. What within the zone that's required to replace parking. Do we have an approximate count of how many parcels or how many sites that is. How we would suspect or think that that would impact the building of you to ADUs. And so I don't have an exact number of parcels in that area. You know, that's certainly something we could run in our GIS my guess is that it's been like probably around 1000 parcels. You know, I think some of those parcels, it's not going to be too hard to actually meet that parking requirement. I think a lot of those parcels already have the three parking spaces that would be required. So, you know, we made these changes to our residential parking standards at the end of 2020 that now sort of max out any residential use that two parking spaces is the most that could ever be required.  And I think a lot of places can kind of accommodate that. I think once you get into neighborhoods that are sort of closer to the harbor or over in Sebrite, that's going to be trickier. Those lots are smaller.  Those are older neighborhoods and it is going to be more difficult. And I think there probably are going to be some places in those areas that aren't accommodate that parking and won't be able to build an ADU. Thank you. Is there any other questions? I had a similar question. Sarah, did you, did you guys talk about alternatives to parking, for example, providing bikes or, you know, especially, you know, just curious if there was any conversation around trying to kind of wreck the value of additional for, you know, units, obviously, and balancing that with impact for visitors coming, you know, just the perspective they bring to the table, certainly because, but I was just curious if there was other opportunities are, you know, obviously the jump by not jump anymore, but, you know, shared bike system or even, you know, bicycle parking, et cetera, things like that.  So I just curious if there was conversations around those. Yeah, we talked about a lot of stuff related to parking. We actually actually went out and parking so sort of count all the cars that were on the street at, you know, 7am on a weekday to in an attempt to demonstrate how much parking is really available to visitors. And looking at all of the parking resources that are available, both, you know, paid and free but strikes. And while we didn't necessarily discuss bikes, you know, explicitly, we talked about a lot of different things and their concern was really about making sure that folks that are visiting really from like the Central Valley are able to come and they don't have to pay in order to access the coastline so that there's some sort of resource for them to, as Californians, get access to the coast for free.  You even have to, you know, you have to pay to park at meters in a lot of places. And I know that I don't have all of the details on that, but I know that we've had some challenges with the coast of the mission just in terms of, you know, limiting parking along West Cliff to two hours to ensure that there is turnover and there is access provided for, you know, new visitors and people throughout the day. That hasn't always been an easy sell with. There certainly are other options for managing parking. It's an ongoing conversation we have with them. Anytime we talk about parking near the coast, it just takes a long time, honestly. They're just, they're really concerned about maintaining that free access. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Not surprised when I read the staff report.  Yeah. And they did, you know, we really, you know, they had started off asking for a lot more and we really were able to sort of demonstrate and show them that really the demand, if they're really concerned about access to the coastline, then we're really concerned about, you know, sort of those first 300 feet, you know, adjacent to the coast, not in the whole coastal zone, because there are places in the coastal zone where you'd have to walk, you know, path of travel, it's almost three miles to get to the beach. You know, there's no reason that we should be requiring those places to provide parking, you know, under an office of visitor access. So, yeah. Great. Thank you. Okay. Now, the questions from council, I'll bring this out to the public now. This is for item number 27, which is the municipal code amendments relating to accessory dwelling units responding to modifications requested by the California Coastal Commission. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if this is an action, if this is an item you want to comment on now is that using the instructions on your screen, the order, excuse me. I'm not seeing, if you are interested in commenting, please raise your hand by pressing star nine on your phone. I'm not seeing any hands coming up. So, I don't believe we have any folks here today that would like to speak on this. So I'm going to bring it back to council. For a motion council member Brown. Or further deliberation comes out and then. Thank you. Brown. Yeah, I would go ahead and make the motion that we. Move the staff recommendation as it's as it's written, and that would be to adopt a resolution acknowledging receipt of the resolution of certification from the California Coastal Commission, including the suggested models. And introducing for publication and ordinance amending those chapters 24.0 for 24.1 oh and 24.1 to related to ad use in response to action by the coastal commission. Great and council member coming. Go ahead and take it in that motion. And I see vice mayor brooner. Did you have a question or comment? No, you're okay. Great. So we have a motion by council member Brown and a second by council member Cummings. To basically adopt the staff recommendation. And could we have a roll call vote please. Council member Watkins. I. Calentari Johnson. Brown. Aye. Cummings. Council member Golder is absent vice mayor brooner. And Mayor Myers. That motion passes unanimously. Step is our general business items. And these are items number 2829 30 and 31 on our agenda this afternoon. Council member Golder is planning to come into the meeting has requested that we move item number 29 to the end of these items. So Bonnie, if you could for the record, just make sure that we know that 29 will be taken up after item number 31. And for members of the public who are streaming this meeting, we are now on item number 28. The item is an item you want to comment on now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order will be a presentation of the item by staff followed by questions from. We will then take public comment and then returned to the council for deliberation and action. If you are interested in commenting on item number 28, which is reenvision Santa Cruz interim recovery plan update. I'm going to start on your phone to raise your hand. What is your time to speak? You will hear an announcement that you've been unmuted. I'll let folks know in the public when it's time for public comment. I'll be announcing that as direct. So I'll go ahead and turn this item over to Laura Schmidt, our assistant city manager for a presentation today. Laura, we can't hear you. Thank you, mayor. I was double me. We're so muted that actually your button didn't even show up anymore. So somehow you broke the mute on zoom. Well, then, yeah. You know, we former IT people have ways to do that. Thank you, mayor. Good afternoon, council members. I'm here to give you an update on reenvision Santa Cruz building a future for everyone together. So this follows up on the strategic plan that you all developed at the end of last calendar year. And we'll go over the accomplishments for the latest quarter and the performance metrics and work that you directed us to do in April. And we're reporting back on how we can incorporate equity into performance measures for the envisioned Santa Cruz. So just as a quick reminder, our focus areas for the next 12 to 18 months are fiscal sustainability, downtown and business revitalization and infrastructure. As far as the accomplishment, so this covers the period of through June 30th, and that would be the end of our fiscal year 21. So on the fiscal sustainability front, you all passed some impact fees at the end of the last fiscal year and those became effective to June 28th of 2021. So fiscal sustainability has various departments looking at development fees as well as fuller cost recovery. This was an area that you all worked with the departments on and just with those becoming effective in June 28th, it was just a few days of being live and that brought in 7000 in revenue. So that will continue to keep pace and bring revenue in that's much needed. Regarding fiscal sustainability and being and being more effective in the way that we process different applications in our planning and community development department. They focused on a few different application processes and those improvements that they've done will reduce our processing time and from one to two weeks for each one of those application types. On the grant writing front, we have a project being led out of city manager's office and that is to take a more holistic city-wide view of the way that we pursue grants and grant funding and coordinate those more effectively. And we currently have finished a questionnaire with all the departments that the grant writing consulting firm is leading and then we will be to you hopefully in the September timeframe with the roadmap that the consultants recommend as far as grants in the city of Santa Cruz. And then finally we passed some code compliance update fees from planning and community development and those went into effect at the end of June and they are in the process of rolling those out. And once those go long, we'll be seeing some updated fees that we'll be able to recover. In the downtown and business revitalization section, some of the highlights are the downtown expansion plan. So the consultant with the planning and community development department went out for RFP. They hired the consultant and that project will actually launch in August. Among other programs, economic development continues to heavily support our small businesses and our unique local businesses in the city. And they have a downtown pop specific program that focuses on bank and commercial space in our downtown area. They had 15 applicants and you'll be starting to see those spaces occupied in the near future as those applicants are rewarded and the leases established. Planning and T development is working on single room occupancy and small ownership units to be able to help our affordable housing availability in our community. And then in the Pacific Station North project being led by economic development, 100% affordable housing project. They've hurtled. They've completed three additional process hurdles. The Olympics are going through my mind and I'm very distracted on those. It's very exciting to be able to watch those. I kind of miss them every night. So, but they're making really strong progress on the Pacific Station North as well. On the infrastructure front, we have a pre apprenticeship program that they're that we are working on with the County Board of Education and they're in the process of getting that put together so we can launch that. For water infrastructure funding and they're working with and being. Agency funding availability to be able to bring in some funds for the various water infrastructure projects we have going. The green jobs initiative. There was one session that was happening and there's another session at the end of August. So we'll be able to make some progress on that front. Additionally, Climate Action 2020 is wrapping up. Dr. Tiffany Wise-Less of the city manager's office has launched Climate Action 2030 with the community with various outreach meetings. So that's in process as well. And for the rail segment segment eight and nine, they are in process with various design and environmental review steps. The full narrative report on the accomplishment through June 30th are in attachment one in your binders and online in our agenda management system. As far as the metrics, if you'll recall our metrics lag by one quarter. So instead of ending June 2021, we're at the end of March of 2021 with our metrics. And some highlights from the full metrics support that's in attachment to our commercial vacancy rate is down. So we are seeing the impact of the economic development work with our business. And then hopefully there'll be future additional positive impacts, especially as the downtown pops applicants come into fruition and the spaces get occupied. On the utility termination side, which is the way that staff ended up trying to look more accurately at various commercial businesses going out. Those terminations are down 12%, which that's a good positive indicator for our community. In the transient occupancy tax space, we have about a 5% improvement compared to the previous quarter's year to date totals. But extended mission tax, we are still struggling and we did not see improvement from this quarter year to date compared to the previous quarter year to date. But because this ends in March, we are not seeing the impacts of the opening in June. So in the next two quarters, hopefully we'll see positive impact on sales tax and ad tax. And with the Delta variant in process in our community and around the world, we're going to have to see what happens and how that impacts the various masking requirements and other limitations that could affect the reopening of our economy. This is two high level indicators that we graph every quarter is the commercial vacancy. We had a peak of vacancy in the second quarter. This gray one is fiscal year 21. The blue is fiscal year 19. Orange is fiscal year 20. So you'll see we had a peak. Hopefully that is the peak and we're starting to go down. So hopefully we'll see a continued downward trend on the vacancies as businesses ramp back up and the programs that ED is putting in place come to fruition. The sales, as I mentioned, this is especially one that lags by at least a quarter June. The June 15th California wide opening is not reflective. So we're seeing the sales tax revenues say about statics this quarter to last quarter in the previous. The other aspect in this agenda report that you directed us to look at in April is Dr. Tiffany Wise West, who as part of her overall duties leads health and all policies from the staff side. So she's been working with the department to report in the metrics every quarter to back to all of you to see how we integrate equity into the performance measures that you identified and you identified for us to track for our interim recovery plan. So they've been analyzing them in attachment for you'll see the list of performance measures that they're recommending that we focus on for an equity lens. The next step that they'll need to do is drilling down further on those identified performance metrics and figuring out can we get the underlying equity data associated with them. So that'll be that able to report progress back to you on that work in the next quarter. I did do some research with the work of other jurisdictions, but we're kind of ahead of the learning curve in this regard as far as the performance measures and getting that detailed equity data as it relates to a strategic plan. They quite frankly didn't find much of use. So we're charting some new territory here and they're going to go ahead and dive down into details on that data and get back to all of you. That is the five minute quick summary of re-envision Santa Cruz and what's been going on in the last quarter. The recommended action for you today is to accept the second quarterly progress report on re-envision Santa Cruz or 12 to 18 month interim recovery plan and provide feedback as desired. Departments are available for questions as well because they know their accomplishments and the amazing projects they've been working on. So we've got various folks on the line for questions should you have them. And with that mayor I'll turn it back to you. Thank you Laura. You're welcome. Are the questions from council members on the report so far? Council Member Brown. I thank you. Thank you for the update and looking forward to getting more info when the next quarter totals come in. I didn't see the metro station south project listed here and I'm just wondering I'm glad to hear that we're making progress and we've been getting updates about that all along. But I'm just wondering if there was anything to update us on that piece of the project that south end. And I see Bonnie. Let's come here. So I'm guessing that's for you. Thank you Mayor Brown. I mean Council Member Brown and good afternoon mayor and members of council. We do have some updated information. It's a reporting period that this report is on. However, I will mention that we received a favorable ranking in some of our tax credit rounds. We are anxiously awaiting a letter later this month on pack station south. And right now we're on eligibility ranking to be funded. So, you know, fingers crossed on pack station south it will be huge for us if that does happen. But, you know, they're very competitive projects were also because of the size of our county. You know, there are some some, you know, a variety of projects county wide that are competing in the same tax round. It's always a very competitive process. But right now we are looking really good. And then we all will, which will be in the next reporting period on pack station north as well as far as some of the infrastructure grants that we applied for and meeting some eligibility threshold. So we're continuing to make progress on securing funding for both pack station south and pack station north. That's great. Thank you for the update and all of your work. Thank you. And either Bonnie from council members on this. I had a couple of questions. I just wanted to thank the staff. It's not very. I don't feel like in the time I've been on the city council to have a one pager to really get a variety of different activities that the city's engaged in. It's helpful this metric kind of attachment to kind of shows the metrics performance metrics. I think it's kind of a cool way to just get a sense of what's happening with our economy. The kinds of building, you know, what's going on with people building applications to all of that. That information is either, you know, it's really hard to find that information. I appreciate, you know, Laura, your ability to kind of figure out how to convey this in a really very easy snapshot that's easy to to kind of understand more, you know, in a very quick kind of glance, which is great. I had a question about the general fund performance metrics. It looks like it's down about 27%. I just want to make sure I'm understanding what that means exactly. So this is the budgeted year in fund balance that looks like that showing that reduction. And is that that's reflective of basically the reserves that we had to use that we brought into our basically our operating budget to offset the losses for COVID and the losses and revenue correct. And this one, that one is an annual number. So it's not, we were not going to change that throughout this reporting period until we have an updated budget comes through for fiscal year three. That's why we noted the annual on that because it's a static number that we don't plan to update every quarter. So that's about just under not 6 million, it's about 5.2 million. So that reflects the adjustments that have been made over the last fiscal year in order to pull from the reserves to make that operational budget work without without any further layoffs or anything like that. Okay, that's what I just wanted to understand. I wasn't quite sure the word annual. Yep. And every budget cycle, the finance director will bring back to your attention the general fund reserve target that they have and how we're doing in relationship to that. Obviously, due to the panda and the CZ lightning complex fire, we we use those so called rainy day funds as we were supposed to that's why we create those rainy day fund reserves but we did use them. We lowered them and depleted them and we're going to have to build them back up in preparation for ongoing other disasters or things that might hit us financially. Okay. And then I had that's great. The other question I had was admissions tax. It looks like it's still lagging is that I mean this goes through end of June right so boardwalk was still sort of kind of under operating. It looks like we only brought in down by like 96%. This one actually is through the end of March. So, this is in April, May and June, so it probably won't be for another quarter even after that that will see the impact of the California wide opening. So we're probably looking at six months before we see add tax. Okay, that makes sense. Okay. Yeah, that's right. This is just through June or through March. Okay, great. Yep. I just was wondering I was hoping that with the news that we receive the funding for the homeless work, maybe there's a way to talk that as something to track under this, maybe under infrastructure because I would imagine a lot of that will hopefully boost our ability to invest in some infrastructure for the future. But I just was curious on where we might talk that outcome because I think we'll be telling people will be interested in sort of watching us track in terms of the recovery model that we built. So just curious about your thoughts on where we might be able to track that in terms of this kind of reporting. I think for the California specific homelessness fund that Senator Laird helped us get as well as the federal American recovery funding. Those are probably a little bit different as far as how we deploy those resources and the uses of those funds. So we will need to based upon what is currently going on with the Delta variant and our financial situation right now. I think what we will need to be doing and the city manager's office will work with the finance and other department heads to be able to go back, to update our forecast model and come back with a financial update to the council sooner rather than later. We don't intend to wait until our normal mid-year update in February. So we're going to be starting that process with the department and be able to give that of what month will be able to report back with the current financial situation. And I think in that we should report back on the homelessness funding as well as American Recovery Act funding. Both of those sets of funds, the American Recovery as well as the homelessness, we are still figuring out the parameters for use. So there's a lot of bulletins coming out. There's tons of webinars still have American Recovery Act. We're still finding out what limitations, how we can use them. Can we use them for the $21 billion revenue shortfall over the last two fiscal years? What uses can we do it? And the same is happening with the California homelessness funding. We're still trying to figure out what the parameters for use are around that. So it kind of will work in progress then. Correct. Okay, great. And then my last question was, did you actually, did you want, I noticed the draft equity indicator recommendations, did you want any kind of council to sort of direction on that? Or, you know, I read it, I thought it was, I think you guys are on the right track. Is that something you would come back with a little more formal? Here's where we landed or what kind of, what kind of feedback could we give you back today if anybody wanted to do that? We're obviously open to any specific feedback from the council today, but based upon the direction in April, we're basically marching along the path of taking the next steps that we outlined in this agenda report. We identified the performance measures that we think lend themselves to equity. And those departmental leads that work on these performance measures will be working with Tiffany and Ralph out of the city manager's office to drill down and figure out, can we get to the data in these ones that we recommended and then continuing to report back to you on progress. So we'll, we'll inherently do that based upon the, the April direction that we received. Okay, thank you. Council Member Compton. Thank you. That was one of my questions as I had some comments and first of all, thank you for that report. It was an incredible amount of work and a very, very trying time. But I did have some feedback on the equity indicators and didn't know when it was appropriate to provide that. So it sounds like at a later time or directly with staff. You guys are matching comments today. So is now the appropriate time or do we want to take it to public comment first? We could take it out to public comment. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I just had some general feedback on the equity indicators and the grant consultants. I'll wait. Thank you. Great. Any other questions from council members at this point? Okay. I'll take it out to the public now. I'm number 28, which is the quarterly, second quarterly progress report on the city's re-envisioned Santa Cruz strategy. Are there any members of the public that are looking to make comments on that? I'm not seeing any hands. If you are interested, please press star nine on your phone to raise your hand. You're interested in commenting on this today. Okay. I'm not seeing any. I'll take it back to council and I'll go back to council member Calentary Johnson. Thank you. So I'm really impressed with all the amazing work and having it packaged in this way is so helpful to see in the framework that we're working with and everything that's happening. So thank you to Laura and everyone who's worked on this. So sort of questions, comments on the grant consultants. I'm really, I'm looking forward to seeing the strategic plan that the consultants are putting together. A couple of thoughts. I don't know how much we can provide input to the consultants, but making sure that there's pieces where we have cross alignment across departments. So departments talking to each other as we are planning for how to pursue grants because I think if we align and we work together across departments, better opportunities and then similarly cross jurisdiction and cross sector. So partnering with other jurisdiction in our community and community based organizations and public departments. I think it will open up more doors. And hopefully we will look at, I saw the note in there that we consider future scopes with these consultants to help with specific grant proposals. I hope that we will go in that direction because I know it can be really, really difficult for staff who are boots on the ground getting their work done to apply to these grants. Those are just some comments on the grant pieces, but really, really excited to see that moving forward. And then the equity indicators really, really great set of suggestions. A couple of thoughts. I'm glad we're looking at disaggregating the data by age, gender and ethnicity. Wondering if we can consider sexual orientation as part of the disaggregated data. I think we all know that LGBTQ community often has experiences inequities beyond some other sub populations in our community. So I'd like us to consider looking at sexual orientation now. And then let's see, how do I package this so so I'm not going to go into the weeds, but if there's an opportunity for some of the indicators. There's an opportunity to look at youth indicators as well. Just some examples are youth consuming fruits and vegetables, childhood obesity rates, binge drinking, youth mental health. And I can follow up directly with Tiffany or whoever else is appropriate. But I think for some of the adult indicators that we're looking at, it would be great to have the youth indicators as well. And I think they're pretty readily available through existing systems. And then a question about, I noticed that data is not, is not available through data share. So how do we, how do we approach that without putting the burden on the city? And how can we, this isn't a question for you, Laura. This is just a question for us to think about. How can we just work with data share or community assessment project and the data gathering entities to make sure that the data we're looking at, they're also looking at, and they're able to capture, because those are the entities with expertise in data collection, and we're hopefully just pulling that data for our purposes. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's out of the scope of the city to collect this level of data. So how can we work with community experts who are doing this to ensure that what we're doing is aligned with what they're doing, and we're collecting the data that's needed for the whole community, frankly. Because I think these equity indicators are relevant across our county. So again, a question that doesn't necessarily have an answer, but just for us to think about. So those are my comments. Thank you so much for the work. Thank you, council member regarding the grants consulting. One of the key things that we are trying to figure out is that integrated you because we do tend to silo within our departments. And that was one of the key drivers of why we went out to hire a consultant. And so we were definitely follow up on that, not just integrated across city departments, but other jurisdictions and other sectors. The other thing, this is the first what we view as the potential phase of work. We wanted to work with a consultant to put together a roadmap and then follow up as far as do we use the consulting firm to increase the city's capacity to be able to apply for grants. And the other huge issue that we run into as a city with our limited staff availability is once we get a grant or as we apply for grants, we have to look at the back end. And the administrative support that's needed for that grant, the reporting requirements, those could end up really burdening an agency unless you look ahead of it and say, okay, we're going to have to do XYZ for two years. So working with the company to understand that, but also potentially getting capacity in that regard from them. Regarding the equity indicator work, we will continue to integrate your thoughts into that. Tiffany will work with the department leads on following that. And I think the unanswerable question that you asked, I mean, this is the work of the core and the RFP process. This is the work of all the other agencies you see changing the way that they go about doing their business and looking at additional ways to imbue equity into a recruitment process into the way that we deliver services. So as I think the global village of how we go about conducting ourselves on a day-to-day business changes, then the data to get captured and the systems be they process our actual IT systems begin to catch up with us. So it'll happen. And it's moving along, but probably not at the pace that we want. Great. Thank you, Laura. You're welcome. Council Member Watkins. I'll keep my comments short. But since Council Member Calantari Johnson brought up the data to chime in and just also thank Laura for really talking about holistically how an organization in our entirety with thinking about equity can incorporate that in all aspects of what we do. And that is ultimately what Health and All Policy is about. So I just get really excited and I just really appreciate that. But I think you brought it up to like core for sure is measuring impact, right? And community well-being. So how are we as we go to core thinking about the alignment with that? There's a number of other sources, particularly around youth in terms of the CHIC survey and the Gallup surveys that the schools are doing, and I'm happy to be a resource for you. And then just briefly in terms of what I think I heard you say around the grant process. I fully understand the rationale and I think, you know, ultimately just going back to what is the broader impact of that resource to go towards, right? In terms of the cost-benefit analysis and sort of thinking about, okay, yeah, there will be a lot of maybe administrative overhead and costs and outputs. But if the impact is greater than how are we kind of measuring and kind of factoring that in. But anyway, just a few thoughts on that. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member. Okay. With that, we will just look for a. Mayor. Sorry to interrupt. I got an email from a member of the public that they tried raising their hands, but it doesn't, it didn't work. So if we can go back and hear from Garrett Phillips. Sure. Garrett, if you could go ahead and press star six to unmute yourself. And we're not. So Garrett, press star six to unmute yourself, please. Okay. One second here. I'm back here. Yeah, I was trying to raise my hand. It didn't recognize me as being as having raised my hand, which was unusual. Anyway, I'm sorry here. A sneaky systemic globalist leftism has infected the entire city's politic known as health and all policies are high up. We must think councils of the past operated with delusional thinking how they could possibly openly debate considerable factors making criminal progress decisions based on the merits using American principles without being handcuffed by Marxist leftist policy filters, assuming all disparities come from victimization. People never voted on adopting the radical redefinition of the equity term and flag injustice and everything. And the leftist so-called data driven policies higher priority prioritizes are not science or city business, but Marxist leftist social statistics subject to fraudulent assumptions of causation easily manipulated into poor justifications for really bad law. This item as the rental data collection idea does proposes to expend resources collecting personal information using any means I assume leverage on the public to obtain irrelevant private personal information in a witch hunt for probably then misdiagnosed disparities to justify equity diversity quotas of which monetary resusputional theft and discrimination by city government be a high up may be the result. As examples, high up is responsible for the systemically racist cannabis licensed qualification ordinance, which discriminates against white people. Similarly, the development impact fee illustrates the data logic abuse of high up saying, lookie here, kids live in bedrooms, developers build bedrooms, therefore developers must owe childcare fees. No, actually that's just plain kooky pay to play extortion like two plus two equals five. It's an equation. It must be true. Pay me or else high up totally ignores the limited purposes of the government. What other factors produce different life outcomes and is loaded with assumptions of leftist defined organizations supposedly needing social justice worrying with the public monies? I must have missed any reference to helping restore the small businesses the government forced out of business or helping landlords recover government forest rent damages. Let's see plenty of references to the usual uncheck leftism. Thanks. I'll bring it back to council and look for a motion to accept the quarterly report from the interim recovery plan council member Watkins followed by council. I will make the motion, but I just have one last thought that I've recommended, which was in regards to some of the data conversation that came up at the community meeting for the Black Lives Matter mural of the Council Member Callentary Johnson. Okay. Yeah, I'd like to second. Right. So a motion to accept second quarterly privacy report on the city's re-envisioned Santa Cruz strategy. And Bonnie, could we do a roll call vote? Council Member Watkins. Aye. Callentary Johnson. Aye. Brown. Aye. Council Member Golder is absent, Vice Mayor Brunner and Mayor Meyers. Aye. That motion passes unanimously. We're not going to move on. Oh, just thank you. Thank you, Laura. We're not going to move on to item number 30. Again, we're going to be moving items for 29 to after item 31. Item number 30 is the establishment of four additional city sister city subcommittees for members of the public who are streaming this meeting. If this is an item you want to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order will be a presentation of the item by staff by questions from the council. We will then take public comment and then return to the council for deliberation in action. And so I'll go ahead and turn this over to Rachel Kaufman, our recreation superintendent. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Mayor Meyers and City Council members. Rachel Kaufman, recreation superintendent and a liaison to the sister cities committee. I bring today's item before council per council policy 15 points, I'm sorry, 5.12 titles advisory body standing subcommittees, which states that city council approval must be obtained by an advisory body to establish a standing subcommittee within six months of its establishment. And at the March 8th sister cities committee meeting committee members voted unanimously to approve the addition of four standing subcom