Okay, well good morning and welcome to our 11am public portion of the closed delitigation session of the November 26 2019 meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council and this part of the meeting the council will receive public testimony thereafter the council members will move to the courtyard conference room for our closed session. I'd like to ask our clerk to please call the roll. Thank you Mayor. Councilmember Crone. Here. Clever. Here. Mayor. Here. Brown. Here. Matthews. Vice Mayor Cummings. Here. Mayor Watkins. Here. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak to us on our closed session agenda? Okay. Why don't you please come forward and you'll have up to two minutes. Are you not here? The person who raised their hand. Are you here to speak about closed session? Yeah. Yeah, please. Yeah, you'll have up to two minutes. Right. Okay, please come forward. Good morning Mayor Watkins, members of the Santa Cruz City Council and staff. My name is Kirk DeChico and together with my wife we own the 7-Eleven store on the corner of Ocean and Broadway. I submitted a claim about 45 days ago because of the fire hydrant that burst on the corner. It's the fourth time in five years that we've owned that store that this has happened. Last year it caused a bodily injury to someone when it projected and hit one of my guests. This time it's caused financial burden in that the city closed two of the parking entrances down for two days. Broadway was open but since the ADA that we had to conform we've lost two parking spaces. That entrance is not used very often. I worked with Angela and filled out and submitted lost sales for the two days. The third day went on when they started to concrete. If you've driven by it recently you'll see the undulation and the sinkholes and they just keep getting deeper and deeper. The fire hydrant broke down two feet below the surface and water ran for two hours and I'm sure there's other claimants down ocean. But anyway so I submitted and then I received a letter yesterday short noticing I needed to come and present my case. So I'm sure you're all armed with the financials that I presented last year's sales, customer counts sales that were off this year and happy to answer any questions you might have of me. I did not hire an attorney I you know just didn't think that I wanted to add that to the claim it's just what that what information I could come up with but happy to thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members of the community who would like to address the council on closed session please come forward. Yes I would just take another two minutes to explain further more. If you ever travel on Broadway and ocean at that 7-eleven store we start out with 7 parking space. People who shop at 7-eleven is an impulse shopper. As they travel that ocean they cannot take the right turn into the store they will just skip it and keep going. We will lose that chance the only chance that we have with that little parking lot. After bleeding with the city they open the little side on the Broadway but even with that get in and get out of the parking lot of that corner is really a hassle. So we thought many we thought over and over do want to address this for a few thousand bucks but it is the four time that thing has burst. It's become a hazard and I'm not sure if the city will ever look into it. I know we need to have a team in case of fire but maybe another safer spot for the spotter to be. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you. Morning. I'm speaking on closed session item real property negotiations. Jilda's restaurant down on the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf. My name is Dino Stagnaro and I am the president of the corporation. First off I'd like to express my appreciation for the long-term working relationship the city has had with the Stagnaro family for over a hundred years now. As you discuss and provide direction to the economic development department regarding the future of Jilda's restaurant it is my hope that the city and council recognize the values that Jilda's contributes to the hardened soul of the wharf and a community of Santa Cruz. Over the years we have had a successful partnership with the city in building and maintaining the various structures which have housed our businesses. In fact the current buildings which house Riva Fish House, Firefish, Woody's Cafe and Jilda's were all funded by the C. Stagnaro family corporation. Jilda's has been an iconic and historical family-run business for nearly 50 years. Personally I've worked there for the last 47 years. Unfortunately with no fifth generation to carry on our business me and my brother have decided not to renew our lease. We plan to retire. I've been working with Cabrillo College Small Business Development Center, the Community Foundation and the Economic Development Department to try and see if there was a way we can form a co-op or something with the employees that are remaining there but none of them seem to be interested. I am asking council to provide direction to the Economic Development Department to assist with the sale of Jilda's by approving a long-term lease that would be a beneficial to a buyer. Your time is up but you're welcome to leave the documents with our city clerk here and we'll go ahead and have those in closed session. Thank you very much. Were you here to speak to closed sessions? I'm just going to read a statement. I have a claim against the police department here. I've asked Angela to provide the statement to the council and have further testimony on Facebook. My name is Dr. Kenyon T. Blomquist. I'm the director of Neuroscience at Semmel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA Medicine. I'm a businessman and a statesman. I was the target of an attempted murder by police officers, the district attorney of San Diego and a family in Fallbrook, California. I'm here today to indict the following people, indict at least meaning to put thoughts into speech. Officer Garrett Baldy, SCPD Badge 441 for harassment, intimidation, invasion of privacy and conspiracy to perpetuate a hate crime and filing a false police report. Summer Sanders, the San Diego district attorney, six officers of the San Diego Sheriff's Department, unnamed officers of the San Diego County Correctional Staff, Sarah Becroft, Robert Becroft, Linda Becroft for intimidation, assault, filing a false police report, false imprisonment, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, aggravated during the commission of a hate crime, illegal possession of firearms, aggravated during the commission of conspiracy to commit murder, coercion, grand larceny, gross bodily injury, obstruction of justice, torture. And I'd also like to indict Donald John Trump for inciting a hate crime perpetrated by the above parties against me in the 49th congressional district and genocide as a general application of my case to the population of the United States. I was charged because of my race and identity. My entire personal and familiar history was stolen for personal gain or destroyed. I was expected to die as one of my assailants testified in court. The eradication of personal and familiar histories in a prejudicial manner with the expectation that parties will die or be unable to recover constitutes a crime of genocide. Officer Garibaldi made vulgar reference to this crime, which I'd remain silent about out of fear and murder by defacing my homeless services ID in direct reference to the injury sustained during the murder attempt perpetrated by police officers against me. And it sounds like your time is up. You have my side. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Okay, seeing no other members of the community who want to address us at closed session, we'll go ahead and adjourn to the closed session. I think City Attorney Condado might have an announcement. Oh, did you have an announcement? Yes, we've received a request from Risk Manager Patty Heyman or rather from Water Department Director Rosemary Menard through Risk Manager Patty Heyman to remove the David Bruce Press claim from the agenda, which would really apply to the open session. But we will not be discussing that claim in closed session today. And we don't need to take any action at this time, other than that was just an announcement. Okay. No. Thank you very much. Okay, we'll go ahead and adjourn to closed session. Okay. All right. Well, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to our 12 now a little after 12 p.m. session for the November 26 2019 Santa Cruz City Council. I'd like to ask our clerk to please call the roll. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Krohn. Here. Lever. Here. Myers. Here. Brown. Here. Matthews. Here. Vice Mayor Cummings. Here. Mayor Watkins. Here. And if our clerk could please lead us in the pledge of allegiance. We'll move right along to the introduction of new city employees. And let's go ahead and start with our planning director Lee Butler to introduce his new employee. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council Members. I've got two new employees to introduce today. I will start on my left with Breonna Sherman. She recently joined our team as an associate planner one. She moved here from Bozeman, Montana and says she is happy to have left the snowy winters behind. She graduated from Appalachian State University in North Carolina and has over three years of planning experience in the public and private sectors. She has two bachelor of science degrees in community planning and geography and geographic information systems certificate and a minor in sociology. Upon graduation, she worked as a GIS specialist for a local nonprofit enhancing Appalachian communities and she moved to Bozeman in search of a GIS field program where she ended up working with the U.S. Forest Service's Wilderness Trails program. Working to protect and preserve public land sparked her desire to make a difference in shaping the built landscape so she joined the community development department in Montana's fastest growing county, Gallatin County, where she was a planner for the past two years doing development review. She enjoys creatively working to solve problems and is happy to be back here. She is a Northern California native and she plans to spend her free time backpacking, biking and hiking. So please join me in welcoming Brianna. I write Alison Webster recently joined the city as an administrative assistant to she says that she loves all things art, colors, layout, architecture, crafting, you name it. She tries to bring art into every area of her life, thinking it can be found in almost anything. She's a Santa Cruz native born and raised and graduated from Harbor High School and then moved to San Diego and Pasadena to further her education, specifically focusing on print design. She realized being away from Santa Cruz was not all that it was cracked up to be. It's not, is it? And she moved back here in 2012 and joined the place where she had her first job as a teenager with San Lorenzo Lumber and was working there since 2012, most recently as an administrative assistant in the River Street store. She is she says she's got a very inquisitive mind loves learning all types of new things and she's obsessed with her cat. And she says that Maya Angelou quote sums up her point of view on life which is people will forget what you said people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel. So please join me in welcoming Alison Webster. Welcome to the city or welcome back. All right. So we'll go ahead and invite up now Tony Elliott to introduce his new employees in our parks and rec department. Realize I was walking really fast. I'm glad you're glad you're here. Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council for the record Tony Elliott Parks and Recreation. It's my pleasure to introduce Brian McNulty. Brian is a park maintenance worker who works in the east zone with Mike Godsey who's back in the audience here. Brian has been with Parks and Recreation as a temp employee for about two years and recently moved into a full time position. Brian grew up going to city parks. He really grew up in this in Santa Cruz County and grew up experiencing parks and going to city parks. So it's really kind of his background and passion from a young age. Brian got his degree in computer science from Chico State and worked in high tech for a number of years. But he realized after high tech that his true calling, his passion, beliefs and love are in Parks and Recreation. So we're very fortunate to have Brian within Santa Cruz Parks and Rec. A couple other things. So Brian, yeah, before this job worked in tech, worked various jobs in property management and grounds maintenance. He enjoys hiking, running, weights, gardening, reading and outdoors in general. He and his wife recently visited Zion and Bryce National Parks in Utah. So we're again, we're very happy to have Brian as part of the team. So please help me in welcoming Brian. Welcome Brian. And then last but certainly certainly not least we'll go ahead and invite up Chris Schneider from Public Works to introduce his new employees. Good afternoon, Mayor, City Council, Chris Schneider, Assistant Director of Public Works. We have two new city employees, Public Works employees. First is Micah McManus is a solid waste worker. And Micah was born and raised in Santa Cruz, third generation Santa Cruz, and he's married with two children and a bulldog. And previous experience, he's worked for Costco in facilities, as well as a number of other jobs delivery primarily. He lives in Santa Cruz Mountains, loves being there, loves hiking, riding West Cliff and riding his quads on his property. So please welcome Micah. Then Joanna Edmonds. Joanna, we stole her from the Regional Transportation Commission. She's the transportation coordinator filling an existing position. She's been a Santa Cruz resident for about 20 years. She's married with a three year old daughter. Like I said, she worked for the RTC and before that she worked for the University, all in transportation. So we're happy to have her with all her experience and transportation. She graduated from UCSC. She loves to garden, cycle, the outdoors. She's excited about working on the new Go Santa Cruz program with the downtown merchants and employees on improving, you know, ride sharing in TDM in the downtown area. So please welcome Joanna. Welcome to all the new city employees. We're glad to have you as part of our team. So before we move on to our regular agenda, we have a few presentations and a proclamation. So I'd start with inviting up some of our friends from our sister cities committee to share our experience in Shikyo. Please come forward. We have Andrea. Thank you, Mayor. Greetings, Council. I'm Andrea Rosenfeld and I am on the sister cities committee as well as the co-chair of the Shingu subcommittee. And thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about the mayoral delegation to our sister city, Shingu Japan. 2019 marked the 45th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Santa Cruz and Shingu. To honor this relationship, an invited delegation of city government officials, sister city members and community members, led by Martin Watkins and myself, visited Shingu in October of this year. Here's the delegation at Nachi Falls, Japan's highest waterfall in a very sacred area. The Wakayama region, where Shingu is located, has many sacred temples and shrines, and includes a pilgrimage trail called the Kumano Kodo. The area was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site 15 years ago. Our hosts showed us around the beautiful and interesting region. We visited many of the shrines and temples in the area. Here are delegates purifying before entering the Hayatama Grand Shrine, which is located in Shingu. We experienced blessings and rituals at the shrines. Here we are with the priests in front of a 1,000 year old tree planted by the then emperor. The tree is considered to be sacred with its tough leaves representing bonds that are difficult to break. We visited Mayor Taoka at City Hall, in addition to asking us how we were enjoying Shingu, he and members of the Shingu Sister Cities Committee presented Mayor Watkins with a gift honoring Tia, Salika, Adamic, a student delegate that visited Shingu in 2017, who tragically died in the boat fire, along with her family, best friend, and others, many of whom who had ties to Santa Cruz. The gift was a hanging sculpture made of over 5,800 paper cranes, which were lovingly made by members of the Sister City Committee and community in Shingu to honor Tia's family and the others who perished. This outpouring of sympathy and love by our friends in Shingu for the Santa Cruzans who perished in this tragic accident is really the best example of the beauty and depth of connection that exists between the two cities. We truly appreciated the sincere gift from our friends. The sculpture is currently being displayed at PCS, where Tia and Baranis went to school, and we hope to add an additional permanent display case at City Hall to house the sculpture and other artifacts that were given to us. We were invited to participate in an annual autumn festival parade that is celebrated by the entire community. On the left is part of the delegation with Mayor Taoka and our Mayor Watkins, and on the right were the rest of the delegates, including in white Linda Schnook, the current chair of the Sisters Cities Committee who I'd like to thank for her year of service this year that she's about to finish. But continue on our committee. We had fun learning a dance that symbolized a fruitful fall harvest from land and sea where we were thrilled to learn that the entire town hall participated doing the same dance. Here's the group of us who participated with friends from the Sister City Committee with Mayor Taoka on the left and the woman next to him being someone who helped get us dressed and teach us the dance. Here we are at the farewell party. Our delegation was shown overwhelming hospitality and sincere kindness and friendship. We were so appreciative that Mayor Watkins was able to take time from her busy schedule to participate this year. We hope more members of the city government as well as community members get involved in the Sister Cities program to experience the genuine friendships and connections we have created in Shingu. And you will all have an opportunity to celebrate the 45th anniversary of our Sister City friendship with Shingu as the mayor of Shingu is heading to Santa Cruz, heading a delegation sometime in October 2020. I encourage everyone to learn more about upcoming events for Shingu as well as our other Sister Cities by going to the website listed here. And there are also four days left for any City of Santa Cruz eight through 10th graders who are interested in applying to visit Shingu this spring. Applications are online. And I thank you very much for your time today. Thank you. Thank you, Andrea. And thank you, Linda and the committee for being here and for your commitment to our relationship with Shingu. Thank you also for not showing the video of the dancing. I appreciate that. That was an incredible summary of our experience and our longstanding relationship with that community. And so I look forward to reciprocating our relationship when the mayor and the delegation comes to Santa Cruz in 2020. Thank you so much. We'll move right along and welcome up Claire for our presentation on Go Santa Cruz TDM program. Good morning. Still morning. Yes, good morning, Mayor and Councils. I'm Claire Fleece-Lair, transportation planner for the city.  As you know, we launched on October 1st. And so this is just an early update on how it's going and to give you more information on the program. So our Go Santa Cruz program offers transportation options for our downtown workforce. The, this is a little different. There we go. The point of the program is to reduce the drive-alone rate of 50% in our downtown in line with our Climate Action Plan goals to offer transportation options for our employees in the downtown really by meeting people where they are and offering solutions that can work for all people, whether it be bus, transit, walking, carpooling, working remotely from time to time. And then finally to maximize our available parking resources, as you all know, part of this action was in response to our parking crunch in downtown. So offering a way for positive behavior change by our downtown workforce. So what does the program include? It's really changing how employees travel. It includes, can I yell from here? This is easier. So it includes transit passes, an annual transit pass available to all downtown employees that is available on all local transit service, not Highway 17, but all other local buses for unlimited rides over this period. It includes bike locker cards preloaded with $20 that you can use at all of the bike lockers in our downtown, offering a secure bike parking option should you choose to use your own bike to get downtown. It also offers jump benefits, and this is the first of its kind in the nation, a program that we've partnered with Jump On, $2 off per trip for 60 trips in a 90 day period. We also offer rewards, so if you log 10 carpool trips we'll give you $10 in downtown dollars, and if you log 25 alternative trips of any kind we'll also give you $10 in downtown dollars. We'll also have challenges going on throughout the year. Another important thing I want to call out here is that this is money generated from the downtown parking district via parking user fees that then we're using these downtown dollars as an incentive to keep that money in downtown. It's been a great partnership with the Downtown Association. We have special downtown dollars that have transportation images on them. And so how to get started, it's, we like to say, it's as easy as one, two, three. You sign up at the link on your screen. You can find all this information in the Go Santa Cruz page. You sign up at the link on your screen. You scroll down to the My Rewards section and select your options. And then someone from the Go Santa Cruz team, Joanna, who has just introduced her eye, will physically come and deliver your transportation benefits to you. The high touch nature of that means that we can answer anyone's questions as we do show up. We can do continued outreach at the businesses that we go to visit and can offer more information to other employees who might be interested. We've cracked 800 downtown employees signed up. That is 20% of our downtown workforce in under two months. This is huge. Far quicker adoption rate than we're anticipating and we're really excited about it. Of that, we have delivered 456 transit passes, 156 jump benefits, 93 bike link cards, and we've had 53 rewards claimed. For the program outlook, we have already reached over 125 unique businesses. Some have had almost all of their employees sign up. Some have had just a couple, but they are spread throughout our downtown workforce and we're tracking it over time. So where have we delivered benefits? Where have we done outreach? Where have we done lunch and learns? Where have we distributed information? Where have we cold called? Where have we done all of these things to visit? And so we're getting some great metrics from that. So we're really excited about the reach that we've seen and it includes all sectors of business that we've seen. It includes ground floor retail and restaurant, the whole spectrum, and it's been really interesting to physically go and visit, especially some of these upper floor businesses that you might not have known existed and it's been really nice to make those continued connections there. So finally, just in closing, you can find more information at citiesanacruz.com slash goSanacruz and if you have any questions, we also have an email address goSanacruz at citiesanacruz.com that goes to both Joanna and I and we're happy to do any continued outreach, show up, we've been offering to go to staff meetings, lunch and learns, other presentations to continue to get the word out and if you have any questions, I'm available but just wanted to give you guys a short update on how excited we are about the program. Wonderful. Well, congratulations and fantastic work. Thank you for sharing all of the successes as well as the opportunities to continue to engage and thank you for the update this afternoon. Thank you. All right. Okay. So I'd like to now invite up, I think Kayla Kumar is here from Food What and I have a proclamation that I'd like to present to the Food What team. So I'll just read a few of the where as is and thank you for your work and if you're welcome to say a few words if you'd like to as well. So in 2007, Food What was founded to support the well-being, liberation and empowerment of struggling yet resilient Santa Cruz County youth by creating meaningful opportunities for them to engage in relationships with land, food and each other. Fresh organic food is not available to low-income families within our community due to its high cost limited access and other barriers. Food What use youth use their power to access opportunities that lead to major diet change, critical job training, personal growth and more. Many youth share that through Food What, we find healing, inspiration and family. It is important for our city to celebrate inspiring and effective nonprofit organizations in our community and recognize such leadership as a contributor to our community. So it's my pleasure as mayor, Martine Watkins of the city of Santa Cruz to hereby proclaim November 26, 2019 as Food What Day in the city of Santa Cruz and I encourage all of our citizens to join me in congratulating Food What on its state and national recognition this year and expressing our heartfelt appreciation for its numerous contributions to our Santa Cruz community and our youth. So I have this proclamation. I'll go ahead and hand it down. And I'll just say, just having worked in other capacities with Food What, how much I appreciate the commitment, the mission, the purpose. I had an opportunity to have the mayor's breakfast be the nonprofit of the choosing for the financial contributions of that and just really want to thank you from the heartfelt thank you for all your work and for the youth that you serve. So I'll go ahead and hand it down and I know Councillor Myers may be ahead. Yeah, I just, working in the nonprofit sector for a long time myself and having many, many colleagues in it, I just have been so impressed with your work and for those watching Food What received an award this year as nonprofit of the year in Senator Bill Monning's district which I think is quite an honor, especially considering Senator Monning's history in supporting so many different communities throughout the Central Coast. And also they were recognized at the Eco Farm Conference this year at a Cilimar for their work as well and I believe they received the Justi's Award which is a national honor. And so I'm just pleased that we have such an amazing organization here. I took a tour of the farm and I would encourage everyone to get up there and check that out because it will ground you in all ways. So congratulations. Thank you all so much. I'm honored to accept this on behalf of Food What and just want to thank Mayor Watkins and Councilmember Meyers and all the rest of the council who has found a way to plug into the work one way or another. I also, I really want to honor alongside you all the youth, right? And so we've been honored with recognition for our work and our work is centered around youth, the youth power of Food What and when we come together like we have, we see that when youth are provided with the resources and opportunities and training that resonates with their dreams that they always choose to be well. You know, youth want to be well, youth want to thrive, youth want to contribute to the community. So I just really appreciate the way that we've come together around that point. And then as Mayor Watkins so graciously invited me to do, we have pies available at New Leaf. It's one of the youth's projects so they step into a leadership role at the very end of their year to create these really good pies. They still won't even tell me what's in them. It's magic. Thank you again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here. Gotta say, Food What? Wonderful. Okay, so we'll go ahead and now move right along into our general business portion of the meeting. Before we do, I have just a few announcements. So today's meeting is being broadcast live on Community Television Channel 25 as well as streaming on the city's website at cityofsanacruz.com. Our rules of decorum are on the window ledge to my left and it's my job to keep our meeting running without disruption. And we ask that you respect your fellow citizens while you are inside and outside of our council chambers. I'd like to go ahead and ask if there are any council members who have a statement of disqualification today. Okay, seeing none. I'll go ahead and see if our city clerk has any additions or deletions to our agenda. We do. Item number nine, the agenda was updated but it was removed by staff. Okay. All right. And then I have a brief announcement around oral communications. Oral communications is an opportunity for members of our community to speak to us on any item that is not on today's agenda. And it will occur at or around or as close as possible to 7 p.m. this evening. We'll go ahead and turn it over to our city attorney to report out on closed session. Thank you, Mayor Watkins, members of the city council. This afternoon's closed session convened in the courtyard conference room at a little after 11 a.m. Discussed in the closed session were item A, conference with legal council, liability claims. The claims of Kurt Allen Diciccio, California beer festival, Kenyon Thomas Blomquist and Deborah Brown. Item two under liability claims, the claim of David Bruce Press was removed from the agenda and there's also a request to remove it from your consent calendar when you vote on that this afternoon. It would be real property negotiations. The council received a report from and gave instructions to its negotiator on the following properties. 125 Coral Street, the property known as Jildus on the Wharf, 808 River Street, 744 River Street and a property without a Citus address designated as APN 008 17216 in the records of the Santa Cruz County Assessor, owners of the property, Richard L. and Tawny Santy, trustees of the Santy family trust. Lastly, item C was a performance evaluation involving the city attorney. There's no reportable action. Okay. Thank you. And I don't believe we have a city manager report today. Okay. So next on our agenda is the city council's calendar and that is to be revised as needed. Is there any revisions to the calendar at this time? No, there's not. Moving right along, we'll go ahead and move on to our consent agenda. And so first up on consent, our items five through 11 in our agenda packet, except for item number nine, which was removed by staff ahead of today's meetings. All items will be acted upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. I'd like to see if any of my colleagues would like to pull an item. You're coming? Item number 10. Any others? Okay. Any comments on any of the items other than item 10? You see none. Is there any member of the community who would like to address the council on our consent agenda that is going to now exclude items nine and 10? So essentially six through 11 without 10 being included. Please come forward and you'll have up to two minutes. I did send my comments by email and the request is to pull the item eight regarding the covert project from the consent agenda so that it can be open to public comment. Item number eight is for a permanent drain pipe on the San Lorenzo Lagoon. And as far as I can tell, there is a permit for a project, a temporary pipeline, but not a permit for this project, a permanent pipeline. That is my question. I would also like to help the council a little bit about the seals at the lagoon. There's a poster behind you about the seals of the city of Santa Cruz and there are also marine mammal seals of Santa Cruz that are at this lagoon that should be protected during this project. Thank you. Are there any other members of the community who would like to address us on our consent agenda? Given the questions that were raised in regards to item number eight, I don't know if there's any staff who would like to speak to that at this time. Public work, is it? No, he's not here. Okay. Any questions on behalf of the council? In regards to the section? Councilwoman Mathews? I'll go ahead and make a motion to move the consent agenda, which consists of items five through eleven with the exception of item number nine and item number ten, and on item number six, item B. If I'm correct on that. I would like to remove item eight and probably maybe get a staff person to talk about that. Okay, you'd like to make the request. I'm concerned about that as well. Thanks. Okay. So we'll go ahead and pull eight and then have the remainder moved at this point. Okay, I'll go ahead and second the motion. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. All right, do we want to start with item eight? Do you have a staff person who could speak? Chris is here, he can answer. Okay, great. I think basically the question was about whether this is temporary or permanent and has there been anything to keep in consideration the marine mammals that evidently live where this goes into is what the question from the public was. Sure. Christian Eiter, Assistant Director of Public Works. We are working with all the regulatory agencies, Fish and Wildlife, both California and federal, NOAA, Army Corps of Engineers. Anyway, a number of public agencies on this project. It is currently considered a permanent project and we're in the process of getting all the permits finalized, completing the design on the project. The intent is to be under construction next summer and it's got a lot of moving pieces that are taking a lot of time. Staff has met with the woman that came up to speak to you and answered her questions to the best of our ability. We believe that all the agencies are going to be considering the wildlife that's associated with the project. Thank you. I hope that answers. Is the person still here? Oh, yeah. Okay. I hope that gets to it. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Any further discussion? Any other members of the community wanting to address this on this item? Okay. Seeing none, we'll go ahead and return back for action. Councillor Mathews. I'll go ahead and move that item. Approval of number eight. And I'll just note for the public, we have been many years in the making and just in terms of environmental review, the staff report does explain that the agencies involved in review it include the Department of California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Coastal Commission, State Regional Water Control Board, Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA National Marine Fisheries and the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife. And it's spectacular when you get that many different agencies headed in the same direction. Move the motion. Okay. I'll go ahead and second that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. That passes unanimously. Okay. We'll go ahead and hand it over to Vice Mayor Cummings who pulled item number 10 in our consent agenda. So I just wanted to make sure in the recommendations that we're approving, yesterday it came to my attention that there was a discrepancy between the recommendation and then what was in the staff report around apprentice hiring and the recommendation. It states that there will be an exemption for apprentice employment requirements. However, in the report, it stated that the contract will maintain the requirements for apprentice hiring. And then earlier today, we received information from the Water Director, Rosemary Menard, that the apprentice employment would still be required and would not be exempt. And so I just wanted to make sure that that was clear in the motion that we are making today. Okay. And I see staff here. I don't know if you're interested in speaking to that or... No. That could be an error in the map changing the title. Okay. Thanks. Councilmember Cronin? Yeah, I had more of a question. Maybe it's for the city manager. I'm not sure. I see nothing here that takes into consideration the fact that we have a camp at 1220 River Street. Are we making amends? Are we going to move that camp? Will they be able to move back once this work is completed? What does it look like? Sure. I don't know if you can answer that. So we clearly recognize that the River Street camp will need to be relocated as a result of this, but that's not till March. And in the meantime, and you'll get more of an update on this in your item this evening, but we do have identified potential options for relocating the camp that are achievable. It'd just be a matter of coming back to council with the various options for you to consider and the Board of Supervisors. Because one of the things that we'd like to look at is not just simply relocating, but is there also an option to relocate and expand capacity at a relocated option or facility? But yes, we feel pretty confident that we have the ability to move it by the timeframe that is needed to do that. Last question for Rosemary Menard. How critical, as a March date, is that fixed or is there any flexibility to say that we found something but it wasn't going to be ready until a couple months, a month or two later? Thanks for that question. The reason that the schedule is what it is is that we need to do this project in the dry season. And in fact, when we started talking about doing this project, we got the design organized and actually made the conclusion that we couldn't get it underway in July or August this last, you know, 2019 because it's a eight or nine month construction window and it requires us to go through the wet season if we, God willing, will have a wet season, but it requires us to go through the wet season during the construction. The construction involves digging two very large pits, one on the west side that's going to be 70 feet deep and one on the east side that's going to be 50 feet deep and then drilling a microtunneling under the river with the connection. And doing that during the wet season is just really asking for lots more complications. So the schedule of starting in March is kind of, has the same effect basically of needing to get the construction underway so that we can finish it kind of by the November timeframe next year and that's really what's driving the schedule as well as the critical nature of this particular facility as I mentioned when our correspondents earlier that we've had a history of leaks. If it failed under the river, it's not repairable and it's very possible that it could fail under the river and really on many, many days during the year 100% of our water supply that is ultimately produced and delivered to our customers goes through this pipeline. So the timing is really being driven by trying to make sure we get it done in the drier part of the year rather than the wet part of the year. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate it. I'm encouraged by what the city manager said that he is on it as far as, oh, our staff is finding a alternative location to that river street camp. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Myers and then Council Member Brown. Did you have a question? Just a quick follow-up question. Thank you for the explanation. Do you anticipate that this site might be available then after the work is done? Is there any need for the water department to continue to use it? Or would it be possible to? The plan is to restore it to its current condition, not just the site itself. Now, the one thing that we've been talking about that could potentially impact the availability of the site is, as you'll know from the public safety power shutdowns that we've had, that facility has a generator on site. And we probably need to move that generator out of the location it is because it was one of the sites where we had flooding in 2017. But we also need to install a larger tank for diesel fuel to run the generator during the power shutdowns if we're going to continue to experience those. So there's been some conversation about partly using part of that site, but there's nothing definite at this point. So that's the only other... I mean, we've used that site for years as a storage site for pipes and parts and things, but we don't have a long-term defined need. There have been some talk, but not anything permanent. So I guess just if I could make a comment in light of that response, I would hope that that site then would continue to be maintained as part of the discussion around emergency shelter given that we have ongoing, kind of consistently have had ongoing issues with identification of sites. So it's my hope that that'll be part of the mix once it's made available again. Yes. Thank you. Is there any member of the community who would like to address us on this item? Come forward, you'll have up to two minutes. Hey, let's see. Through the City Government Academy, I was given the opportunity to ask questions and learn about the Pipeline Placement Project. I understand and support our water department and its continued efforts to maintain and update our water infrastructure. At the same time, our community struggles as our citizens experiencing homelessness struggle to find solutions. And I do ask that this project is scheduled in a way that does not worsen the situation for most vulnerable, our most vulnerable and our community. So I offer for one of you to make a motion to require City staff with input from the catch before starting the Pipeline Replacement Project to find a suitable alternate location for the 1220 River Street Salvation Army Program and renew its contract, which ends March 31st as well. And to have this be separate from the efforts of renewing the VFW site program, which is an effort, unless it's going to have enough beds for both, which I would accept. So just saying that, yes, it's absolutely important and making that as a directive to possibly make more sites available if it actually was a directive to find that before it happened. Thanks. Any other members of the community wanting to address this on this item? Okay, seeing none, we'll go ahead and return back for Council. Members and then Vice Mayor Cummings. I was going to go ahead and move the item. So I'll make a motion to approve the plan, specs and contract documents for the Coast Pump Station Raw Water Pipeline Replacement Project, authorizing an exemption from local and apprentice from local. Yes. And authorized staff to advertise for bids and award the contract in a form to be approved by the city attorney. The city manager is hereby authorized and directed to execute the contract as authorized by Resolution Number NS-27563. I'll second that. Okay. So we have a motion by Council Member Meyers, seconded by Vice Mayor Cummings. Any further discussion? Council Member Cummings. Sure. We'll go ahead and have you make a comment, then we'll have it over to... I'll say with regards to the relocation of the homeless encampment there that I know that there's an item on tonight's agenda that we're going to do a lot of discussion around homelessness so I think that would be the appropriate time where we can discuss that coming back and I do want to make note that the city manager's office has made a strong statement towards trying to find alternative locations for that and the city's commitment to trying to be aware of the concerns around moving homeless people and making sure that this camp has an alternative place to go. So I just want to put that out there. Just probably to be consistent with our Robert's Rules of Order, it makes sense probably to reserve our conversation until the evening as it's not agendized on that topic. Okay, Councilor McCartney. Can we put that in the motion to the cities committed to finding alternative space when we displace 1220 River? As we mentioned, that's going to come tonight. I'm not going to take that. This is a different project right now. It is within the scope of this... This evening we're going to discuss the shelter update. I'm going to provide a shelter update and in the context of that discussion, I'm going to discuss the three items about increasing shelter capacity as you've directed, as well as an update on the River Street camp and next steps there as well. So I think there's going to be plenty of opportunity to discuss all these things and for you to provide direction and be easier just to do it all together and separately and honestly. My question is, are we committed to finding alternative space for 1220 or not? I just would like to hear that commitment and it would be great if it could fit within the motion. I'll go ahead. That is the topic that is on your evening agenda as well. So we'll reserve action and deliberation on that topic at that time, correct? It's not agendas under this item as well, correct? That's right. Okay, Council Member Glever and then Council Member Matthews. Thanks for not getting too much into detail whether I think what I'm picking up from Council Member Cron is that if we were to pass this now and give authorization for the project and then say later tonight not ensure there was a safe relocation for the people that are at the space, then it would put those people at Jeopardy and those spaces at Jeopardy. I don't think if we're talking about it in detail, it's more just saying in approval of this that since there is something already at that site that we are committed to making sure that that is sustainable moving through the project without getting into much detail about it. I don't know why there's so much resistance in us making a clear statement that we approve it but we want to make sure that the people there have a place to go without specifics but just that we are committed to doing that but just putting that out there. Council Member Matthews. This question obviously occurred to everybody and I did have a good talk with both the city manager and water director about the commitment they are aggressively working on alternatives and I'm confident we will find them. Yeah. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. All right, thank you. All right. So that concludes our consent agenda and we'll go ahead now and move over to our general business item, item number 12 and we'll invite activity wise West. Good afternoon city council members and mayor, Tiffany wise West sustainability and climate action manager and I am so pleased to be here today to speak with you about the outcome of the six month endeavor on health and all policies. I know the mayor I think want to make some introductory remarks. Yes, please. Well, I just want to first all just I'm so pleased as well. I'm so impressed with the work product and truly grateful for the sub committee's time as well as the staff's time and the community's time and all of our consultants. It's really it's an exceptional result and it's been a really extraordinary journey to be a part of this. So just sort of in context I want to just sort of remind the council in the community that this was effort that was decided upon several months ago and this is what we have before us today is the final work work product of the planning team as well as the department head subcommittee input and if anybody who was here engaged in it and I see a few folks want to be acknowledged. I'll just sort of list a few. We have Shebra Kalantari Johnson who is our consultant. It's an extraordinary job. I had council member Matthews vice mayor Cummings as part of the subcommittee. We have Lee Butler who's here as well. Tony Elliott who was here earlier and Bonnie Lipscomb who's still here and Rosemary Minnar and Cheryl as well from finance. It was a wonderful team and just really incredible work product. So I'll kick it over to Tiffany and just before I do I'll briefly just remind folks about kind of just overall purpose and context of what health and all policies is. And here comes Ian as I speak. This is Ian who works with Tiffany in the city manager's office and did a really incredible job on the whole process as somebody who attended a lot of the listening sessions with me but also a lot of the research and work product that we have before us today. So one of the things that health and all policies really hinges on is the fact that no government body can really do this alone. And it's really looking at how we as an institution as well as our partners both public and private also all orient around health equity and sustainability in our decision making. And as we go through the presentation as Tiffany goes through the presentation we'll sort of reorient around the three pillars of what health and all policies is really looking at the health equity lens, the public health lens and ultimately the sustainability lens. So with that I'll go ahead and hand it over to Tiffany for the rest of the presentation. So with that in mind you City Council that the purpose of the health and all policy subcommittee and the work plan that you adopted back in April was to develop a collaborative and collaborative and coordinated policy and process for internal and external reflection on equity public health sustainability and their use as factors in decision making that ultimately will result in an improved community well-being. And we've used this slide many times before and coming before you with the work planned, as well as at the study session and our most recent quarterly update. And it really just, this kind of circle emphasizes, collaboration, intersectoral collaboration, the co-benefits that can be had, most obvious to me between public health and climate adaptation. And the importance of engaging stakeholders and creating processes and policies that really incite structural change. Before we get into what our work product includes and what the recommendations from the subcommittee are, I just wanted to have two other slides. One that really documents the broader support of health and all policies. As we mentioned to you in our quarterly update, Governor Newsome has allocated three cabinet level positions in the state government in order to prioritize health and all policies. Also, the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency has indicated their support and commitment to facilitating and convening around health and all policies issues. And through the work we are doing, Watsonville has taken notice and they also are considering adopting health and all policies. If I could briefly just interject, and we have my friend and our wonderful Watsonville Mayor here, Apoco Estrada as well, so welcome and thank you for being here. Yeah, definitely and on that note, just this work we've been doing over the past six months has really allowed us to collaborate and identify partners in this work and we're really seeing some momentum in this space. Also, there is a new study that just came out and this speaks to a question that Council Member Crohn had asked me some time ago on the efficacy of the use of health and all policies in having more positive community well-being outcomes. This study just came out last month as a matter of fact and it examines three communities who've been pursuing health and all policies long enough to achieve meaningful policies, systems and environmental change. What this study indicated is that communities can't achieve health and all policy and community well-being outcomes that they desire overnight. This convening collaboration, engaging and visioning requires an investment of time. But the communities in this article do illustrate that each step taken towards health and all policies makes each subsequent step easier. And the study also found that these communities that have enecrated health and equity across the range of plans and policies, that it does indeed shape decisions, lead to actual community transformation and improve community health outcomes. So this is the first study that we've seen longitudinally. I thought you might be interested in. Okay, to jump into the timeline, this is really a repeat of what you've seen before a little over a year ago. You directed a subcommittee of both city council members and department heads to prepare a work plan. We came back in April with that work plan, which you approved. We dove deep through a study session in June. In September, we were back giving you a quarterly report. And here we are in November where we have completed the evaluation, the evaluation report and are bringing forward some policy and implementation recommendations for you for consideration. In January of 2020 then, we anticipate with your approval today to hit the ground running and that will be dependent on your decision today. But we already have an eye towards what the work ahead will be. So, getting into the process that we have taken or this pathway we've taken over the past six months. In order to conduct an assessment and evaluation, we really drew from five different sources of information. And I'm going to be going through each of these in detail. So, first of all, in terms of our employee survey, the subcommittee developed and administered the Health and All Policies Survey over the month of July of this past year. Where employees were surveyed on their awareness of the cities and their own utilization and prioritization of health and all policies pillars in their work. The survey's response rate was 19%. And we utilized these data in our gap analysis, which I'll talk about later, and our recommendations, which I'll touch upon right now. So, some of the findings from the employee survey and all of the detailed data and analysis is contained in volume two of the report. So, if you ever want to dive in and take a look for yourself, there are also cross tabulations by demographic that you can also take a look at. But these are really generalizations from the entire population or sample rather of employees that took this survey. So, we did notice that there was a general lack of understanding of what those three pillars mean, and equity in particular. This is despite the fact that a vast array of outreach efforts are being conducted across the city that aim to address equity. There is also an expressed interest in better understanding and integrating and understanding how to integrate the three pillars into employees work. There were also many different examples provided by employees when asked how they use the pillars in their work. For example, I didn't know that some employees are using trauma informed care and providing services. We did know that the Arts Commission is centering equity in its mission statement. And also, there was some perceived progress made in improving access to services for marginalized populations and groups as well as providing interpretation and translation services. These findings were important, particularly in the development of the recommendation around training. They really informed the training. In terms of the community survey, so the subcommittee developed and administered a community survey during August and September of 2019. It was distributed through various community lists, social media, flyers, and announcements at community meetings. The community was asked to provide feedback on their perceived levels of well-being for themselves in the community and the impact they believe the city has on individual and community well-being, and this is a pretty extensive survey. Unfortunately, due to some technical difficulties with our website, we really had a low response rate. So the generalizations or the findings that I'm presenting to you today are really generalizations that are limited to that sample. And I think it's really important to keep that in mind, although I am going to highlight them for you nonetheless. By the way, this survey was both in English and available in English and Spanish. So first of all, we did find that respondents indicated a positive responses with respect to the use of alternative transportation. We also found that respondents said that there were excellent to good opportunities to participate in community matters, but at the same time expressed concerns over fairness, accountability, and openness. Respondents also said that there was fair to poor access to affordable housing, affordable access to childcare, and quality physical and mental health care. However, that is contrasted with respondents expressing excellent to good opportunities for health and wellness opportunities, which to some degree we interpreted as self-care, fitness and recreation, and volunteering, all of which are oftentimes used as indicators for community well-being. We also found that people unevenly experience unfair treatment because of their demographic factors, things like race, gender identification, religious affiliation, shelter status, and etc. So however, 71% of respondents also indicated that local government has an impact on health and well-being, this is an important finding. And this ties directly to our recommendations for an ordinance and agenda report language so that we can foreground these three pillars in all our decision making. Next, the mayor embarked upon a listening tour of 13 different community groups between the months of August and September. And actually, the last one was just in November, Green Schools Committee was the first opportunity we could get on their agenda. Meeting with everyone from business organizations to the Health Improvement Partnership Council to environmental groups, the Beach Blats community, education folks, seniors, teens, and the United Way. And we had some structured questions that we asked in these meetings after the mayor presented what is health in all policy. So the first question, when you envision successful community well-being, in one word, what does that community look like? Really, this revolved around being happy, healthy, safe, vibrant, and a collective community. So I'm trying to use less text and use images here. The second, so these were the common responses across the majority of the sessions that I'm sharing with you. The second is what is working? What is contributing to community well-being of our city? And we heard that jump bikes and innovative vision, those were common themes that we heard across the majority of the sessions. And then in terms of what's possible? What is one action the city can take to realize our vision? Building more affordable housing and increasing opportunities for community outreach and participation were those that were expressed commonly across the majority of sessions. I want to remind you that in our community survey, we did hear that there are excellent to good opportunities to participate in community members, but clearly there's an eagerness for more. So with those data, as they informed our recommendations, we also utilized some of this data in what we're calling a gap analysis. So through our gap analysis, we looked through all six of these various policies and programs, put them in a matrix and decided which addressed the three pillars, included those. And then we had a variety of city functional work areas across which we indicated where each policy or program fell into. So we looked at the general plan, the six month city work plan, the free responses from the health and all policies employee survey, some policy documents including the city council policy manual, the APOs. And then we also did a survey of programs across the city departments. And what we found is that equity, public health and sustainability were not so much addressed across these different functional areas of the city's operations. We looked at 13 of these areas. So here we really are day lighting where we are not intentionally and consistently using these pillars. And it shows us where opportunities lie within the organization. And the recommendations of agenda report language and training will help us to address these various areas that you see here before you in this slide. So with that, we have compiled all of those data sources, that analysis and evaluation into a two volume report that was included as an attachment to this item. It contains three recommendations with the third having a few parts to it. Number one, the adoption of a health and all policy ordinance and a city council policy. So today would be the first reading of that ordinance, the inclusion of language in the analysis section of city council and commission agenda reports. So we would prepare guidance for staff so that they understand what the expectation is here. We're not necessarily asking for a new section. This could be a language that could be in the analysis section of the existing agenda report format. And number three, approval of a city council policy that includes monitoring of well-being indicator metrics. And again, as a reminder from our quarterly update in September, we're really tying those to the core and the community assessment project, which incidentally their latest results have just come out this week. We're really tying them to those metrics so that we aren't reinventing the wheel here and that we're aligned regionally on this effort. We are also recommending training for staff, commissioners and leadership on these three pillars and in fact have already been in conversation with human resources on how that might take shape. Again, to be defined and brought to you in a work plan, implementation work plan in January.  And finally, in order to accomplish this over the next year, I cannot express how valuable it was to have Shabra's assistance with this. As well as Ian, I didn't get to give a shout out. And Shabra, we could not have done this effort without both of them. And so it is critically important to have this annual budget allocation in order to carry out these modest but impactful, potentially impactful recommendations that the subcommittee has brought to you today. And in terms of what would that budget cover, we are expecting that would cover the monitoring, reporting to council on that monitoring, ongoing outreach and coordination on those convenings that we mentioned, and grant writing. Importantly, we really have an eye towards pursuing a couple different grant opportunities that are out there to go further into this work and try to accelerate and amplify our impact. So with that, I'm happy to take any questions that you might have. Thank you, Tiffany and team for the presentation. And I'll just say how wonderful it was to engage with the community on this topic and to really come together to talk about our common vision and desire for a thriving Santa Cruz for all. As well as really a recognition of some of the strengths of our city, but also some of our challenges to address. And I appreciate you also integrating the recent report that was shared with us in terms of how this is the first sort of leap, if you will, that hopefully subsequent steps will contribute to making this longer term sort of shift and impact really influence in a positive way. And just actually yesterday, I was at the community assessment project. And if those of you who were here for the study session or who observed it at home, remember the city of Gonzales presented to us. They received and were recognized yesterday for receiving the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize Award. And if you can recall, they had really robustly integrated the health and all policies framework in their city. So I think it really speaks to kind of the national movement around how we're as local institutions able to work with our partners around these three pillars. So with that, thank you again for the presentation. I know some of our staff is here. I'm happy to see if any of the other council members who are on the subcommittee want to say a few words and or if there's any questions from the council at this time. Council member Glover. Thanks. So first I want to congratulate you on this. It's an attempt, it's super important for us to be able to approach serious issues in the community, especially surrounding health equity and sustainability. It's also commendable for us to start the process in general. So I want to applaud you on getting this moving forward. Also show some similarities and some of the things we're interested in, at least on the forefront. That being said, I have lots of questions with regards to the process up and to the point, reviewing some of the stuff and in the agenda report. Specifically, I'm glad that it touched on the outreach aspect of things. Because there was that instruction or approval from the council to participate in the work plan and then open up the dialogue with the community. Now as mentioned, there were community list surveys, social media flyers and announcements at community meetings, but there were only 82 responses to the survey. So it was everything online and just reliant on the website that malfunctioned. Or did it go out through social media? It was a combination of all of them. The survey itself in both Spanish and English lived on our website. We did provide it through a variety of outlets. I provided paper copies to the beach flats area, but did not receive any completed copies back. So unfortunately, yes, due to this technical glitch that essentially caused surveys to take about three minutes to submit. We did hear from folks that they abandoned even trying to submit the surveys. And we worked really hard with IT to try to figure that out. We had actually tested the survey and gotten 32 surveys completed ahead of time. And it was unclear why this happened. And we ultimately were not able to resolve it, unfortunately. And did they ever figure out what the situation was or? No, they didn't. Okay, that's unfortunate. And what was the software that we were using? It's our website. Our website, questionable, I guess. It's a website that I've utilized in the past for surveys and had no problems with it. IT, I have to give them a lot of credit. They really tried to work with our vendor to try to figure this out.  Please do wait for the submission, but we do understand that that most likely discouraged folks from submitting. And how long did that unexpected delay or thing happen? Was it like a one-off day that it tried to get fixed or was it over weeks? No, it was over weeks. Yeah. And when it couldn't get figured out the first time or the first day or two days or three days, how come we didn't explore any alternative surveying options? Because we had put a lot of time into promoting the survey through this and we didn't realize that we wouldn't be able to solve it. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, with that 82 number that the stat or the generality, I guess, that was up there with regards to how unevenly people experience discrimination was a little problematic for me, especially knowing the demographics of the community. And was there a demographics question on that to identify what they identify with? There were demographic questions, yes. And do you have those percentages? I don't have that right now, no. I can certainly get that if you're interested. It is contained in the volume two of the report. Great. Yeah, it's 130 some odd pages, I figured I'd just ask. So that's okay, unfortunate type of difficulties. Okay, so I just want to move on then to the Spanish language survey. So it was all contained on the website, but I know there were physical ones handed out, but we got zero back. Correct. That's unfortunate. And then with the listening sessions. Okay, so really acknowledge the outreach and the attempt to reach out to various sectors of the community and really capture their perspectives. It's really good with everything. Full transparency though, I'm a little confused with the results of the evaluation report. For example, according to the agenda report, it says that the listening tour sessions range from 20 minutes to an hour, which included time for the mayor to provide information on health and all policies and an opportunity for participants to respond to a set of questions. But 20 minutes to be able to express everything that has to do with health and all policies and then to get feedback seems like a really short amount of time. So can you tell us which of the sessions lasted 20 minutes and why? Sure, let me get to that slide. So we really tried to work with existing structures that were in place. So in some cases, for example, Chamber of Commerce or Santa Cruz County Business Council, it was a 20 minute agenda item. Whereas the teen center, the senior center, we had a full hour. In fact, I think most of the sessions were an hour. So what we did was develop agendas for the range of time that we had with groups. And in some cases, particularly when we had shorter time frame with groups, we had a worksheet so that if everyone could not share out loud, we could collect that worksheet and get input from everyone on those four questions that I mentioned. So that's why the variation in the time frame with whom we met with was, it was opportunistic on existing meetings. And in some cases, we did have fresh scratch meetings that weren't necessarily aligned with some kind of regular meeting. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. I asked that just because of the idea of equity, which is one of the pillars of the process. And just reviewing the evaluation reports, I came up with some questions, especially with regards to the beach flats. Because it looks like there was a listening session, two that took place on the same day, August the 15th. One with the beach flats community and the other with the Santa Cruz Business Council. But there's a stark difference in the format of the responses. And maybe you could speak to that or someone can speak to that. Just with regards to the beach flats community, it seems that the only thing that appeared in their report back was the comments. Which was, there's vague one-liners essentially. But the business council, and I believe every other one, we don't need to go through each one. But every other listening session was made up of specific questions. Like when you envision a successful community well being in one word, what does that look like? And so on, and then ending with comments and questions. So can someone explain to me why the beach flats report back is only comments? And were they given the same format and questions as the rest of the groups? Sure, so that was actually a session I was not in attendance for. But the mayor was at, and from what I understand, there were not a lot of people in attendance. And that it seemed to be a better fit to just talk with the community versus posing these four questions and asking for feedback. But I do have to defer to the mayor to provide more details as I was not there. But that's my understanding. Sure, so what that evening consisted of was a video screening. It was a movie that they were going to be showing at their community outdoor area. And so prior to the movie screening was the opportunity to have this listening session occur. But given that there was sort of just kind of a mix of individuals at the park there, what we did was have more of these individual type conversations and notes taken from our conversations. Peter was there, and I'm sorry, I'm failing to remember his last name. And he was there as well to help kind of document some of the conversations as well as ask those specific areas and sort of insights. So apps in a more structured kind of meeting format and we were able to draw out some of their input that way. And so you say it was a film in the park kind of evening. Was there specific outreach associated with the health and all policies presentation associated with that park event? Or was it just a go to the park and then talk to whoever's there? And then also how long did each one of those meetings go for? Was the beach flat, how long was the beach flats interaction? And then how long was the business council, which would happen the same day? I think the business council might have been about 20 minutes if I remember correctly that was in the morning. There was a fuller agenda on that one. And I was down at the beach flats for probably about an hour, just kind of hanging out. And it wasn't necessarily, as I said, we coordinated with the beach flats community center down there. And so it wasn't that we just sort of showed up, it was expected and. Yes, if I might add to that, through my resilient Cosana crews work, I have been working really closely with leaders in the beach flats area. And we really wanted to make sure that we came to them first on what is the best way to reach people in the beach flats. We didn't want to just come in hot with a meeting and say, hey, come on, do this. And they made the suggestion to align it with this movie that was going to be happening. They felt that that was the best way for us to reach a lot of people in that area. There was one other thing I was going to say with respect to that. I might have lost it. The other thing that I was going to say is that, and we did actually go down and fly or the beach flats area to promote this, that folks come down and it went out through Edgar Landera's newsletter and so forth. So we actually tried to promote that more so than I would say almost any other of the sessions that we did have. But just uneven success and I've really learned from my outreach that this is an iterative process and we have to try many things and learn from those kinds of things. So clearly there's some gaps in how we, or the type of data that we collected. But we do feel like this was a good effort, the best effort that we really could have made under the time constraints that we had. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks Mayor Cummings. I just want to start by thanking Tiffany in particular for all the hard work you did working with the mayor on bringing this forward. There was a lot of effort that went into this. I mean obviously you can see through all the outreach efforts that were done, the surveys that were done, and the ability to really incorporate the voices from the community. And when things happen, when we try to launch big initiatives like this with regards to technical difficulties, but I know that that's one piece that we'll learn from. And as we continue this over time, I think that not only will we be able to refine our efforts and techniques around incorporating information from our community, but we'll be able to use this information to make sure that we're addressing a lot of these issues around affordability, inclusivity, justice, and health in our community. And I think that as we move forward, if we can continue to incorporate this into the things that we do in our everyday lives. It will be able to, I think that it will be a good tool to help us have a better community. So I want to thank the mayor for having me on this subcommittee as well. And I'm looking forward to seeing how this can be incorporated in our community. Yeah, thank you for your time, Councilman Mack. I'll make just a couple questions, and then we want to hear from the public. And when the time comes, I'd be happy to make the motion. This was an ambitious project. So I do want to thank the mayor for championing this. And Tiffany, you just did a heroic amount of work. And Ian, where are you out there?  And, Shabra, for your help, really, it was definitely a team effort. And the research and the documentation that went into it and the outreach. Sure, there can always be improvements, but people were really making a sincere effort to reach a variety of community members. So as I say, it's ambitious. I thought from the very beginning that we wanted to acknowledge the values and traditions in the city of Santa Cruz that already demonstrate our commitment in these areas, those are reflected in much of our general plan and many pick a specific plan, climate action, housing, whatever. I mean, I think these are just our active transportation. These things are embedded already in so much of the public. Already in so much of the planning work that we've done. But this pulls it together in one spot. And it's also clear, I think that going forward we do rely on partnerships and reliance on other entities, both for the implementation and for the evaluation. You mentioned the cab report and there are many, many others. I also talked with the county and I know that particularly in their health department, they're trying to be more structured in their investments and they're looking for impact and we can certainly share that without having to recreate that wheel. I do have a couple of, I would say, basically minor edits in the final recommendations. I've shared them with the other committee members and with Tiffany. So when the time comes, I'd like to go ahead with those. Just have two questions. I was wondering how did the bike, the jump bikes, what was that about? You know, when we asked people what's working, it came out. Almost every group said they love the jump bikes. Now, granted with my resilient cost hat on, there are conflicts between the jump bikes, pedestrians and other bikers on West Cliff, so that's another issue. But all in all, the jump bikes are perceived to be very positive. And back to the number of surveys, what do you think, you know, you've done a lot of research, advanced degrees, what would be an adequate number to really inform us? Is 82, is that good enough or should we be getting how many would you say? I didn't do that calculation. There certainly is a calculation that can be done, but it's more on the order of hundreds. I mean, I fully acknowledge and I tried to preface that slide with the fact that generalizing around 82 person sample is not robust. It's not probably reflective of the community. Yet nonetheless, I wanted to share what those findings said. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. I'll just maybe if I could add that this is hopefully the first step to something that is going to be larger in the time. And so more opportunity to come for community engagement, ideally. Yes, we can certainly build upon this, learn from the lessons from this. And so forth. Yeah, I totally see this as a starting point. Any other questions, Councilor Mc? Just some comments. Okay. Well, why don't we go ahead and, you have a question? I mean, if we're going to get into the ordinance and stuff like that, yeah. Questions? Yeah, we didn't give more people some time. Okay, so we can jump back into it. So there's some language questions I have with the ordinance, specifically around some of the definitions. So I notice in the equity definition, ours is equity is just and fair inclusion into society in which all can participate, prosper and reach their full potential. But when looking at the state task forces sheet, essentially. And looking at their definition of equity, it goes on, say, equity is synonymous with fairness and justice. So that's in line, but is both an outcome and a means to an end. So the means in which to get somewhere requires it to be equity. It needs to be achieved and sustained. Equity needs to be thought of as a structural and systemic concept. So I was just curious, because there are other ones that in equities, I believe, which is a direct copy from the other ones. So is there a reason for that change language in the definition of equity? Any thought going on? I'm sorry, I don't know what the question is, a change from- From the state task forces document, where did we generate these definitions? Not necessarily, no. This was a working definition that the subcommittee considered throughout the duration of this six months. If the city council feels it's appropriate to change it, that's completely feasible. Great, I was just curious how it got there. Subcommittee, do you know how it got there? I think, if my understanding is that this was also generated from the change lab solution. That's correct. Model ordinance template. And so we essentially were working off that. And they're the experts in health and all policies work. Okay, great. Thank you. The other one also is racial equity. So I noticed that there's no definition of racial equity in the ordinance. It does appear as a term in the top of the second page, I believe, but there's no included definition. So is there a reason why? The reason I ask those, because the inclusion of the term racial equity is something that stuck out to me. I couldn't help but notice that if you look at all of our documents, it only appears twice in the 171 pages of reports pertaining to the Santa Cruz research or the intention of implementing the policy. And it appears once in the employee responses to racial equity where it says, quote, in response to the statement that the city partners with other institutions and community organizations to advance racial equity, a weak minority of supervisors agreed but non-supervisor respondents were equally split among agreeing and neither agreeing nor disagreeing. So just curious, because if it's in a survey question, why there's no emphasis or discussion around racial justice. And again, I will point out that on the state task force version of it, it appears 17 times in a 15 page document. So there's some severe disparities between our acknowledgement and the emphasis on racial equity as opposed to, say, the state. And I don't know if you're operating off of the framework of the other organization that you just referenced, but it's rather problematic for me and concerning. So can we speak to that? Why is there such a disparity in the term of the language being proposed in Santa Cruz? And why is there no definition included in the documents? There's no, in my opinion, no intentional omission of that for any reason that could easily be added. This health and all policies is looking at the three pillars. It had a really specific outcome or specific outcome in terms of policy and process. I certainly think that we need to dive deeper into racial equity. I myself am interested in power analysis, equity screening tools, racial equity screening tools that I'm starting to implement in my work. So I don't think there was any deliberate omission of that. I don't think so either. Yeah, that's why I'm maybe I should preface that or clear it up. I don't think that there was intentional, but maybe it was okay to say it was an oversight. We didn't think about it, I don't know why we didn't have it in there. But I think it's indicative of a larger problem that we have here in Santa Cruz of our failure to look at and emphasize the importance of racial justice in our policies. So that's one of the things I think was highlighted by the structure of this as it's brought forward. So good to know it wasn't intentional though. I didn't think it was in the first place, but thank you for clearing that up. Okay, so now we can move on to the ordinance, which for the most part I totally thought was good. There's one glaring issue that stuck out though and it is the framework surrounding the social determinants of health. There's not much in reference to housing in there. There's one piece later on, and this is just a small addition, but I want to bring it up because I think this is a fantastic item as we move into the evening. We'll be talking about some of the items later on with regards to housing and being sheltered or unsheltered because according to a wide array of studies and reports conducted by entities ranging from Kaiser to the Center for Disease Control, housing is a primary social determinant of health. And there are lots of links here, I was trying to get in early enough to print out copies for all of you. But I'm happy to send you links or Bonnie the links and she can send them out or whatever that might be. And so we could change the second paragraph of the whereas to add or make it say, quote, whereas there is a growing awareness that health and well-being are influenced by the interaction of many factors such as housing and not simply by genetics, individual behavior, access to Medicare. So when we get into the, after we hear public comment, that might be something I'd be interested in exploring. We want to go to public comment or, okay, why don't we go ahead and open it up to public comment. If those of the community who are interested in speaking to the council on this item, please come forward and you'll have up to two minutes to address the council. Sure, Jared Phillip. This policy should not have cost a dime and been implemented with only one sentence. Policies should be considerate of the effects on citizen health and be equitable and sustainable and mean exactly what the dictionary definition of those words mean. To pay for it to be loaded up with a globalist leftist manure pile of unaccepted ideology and redefine those words in the way they are is an affront to the people and a waste of tax dollars at best. At worst, it demands reprioritization of every policy in almost any way you choose by defining health, equity, and sustainability differently as you choose. The definition of health is and always should be, quote, the state of being free from illness or injury to a person's mental or physical condition, unquote. The definition of equity is and always should be, quote, the quality of being fair and impartial, unquote. You seek to explicitly redefine and install into the politic costly voluminous pages of other justifications for government overreach largely taken from anti-American directives from foreign globalist authorities like the UN or the World Health Organization which instead should be pristine American made of principles. The logic is corrosively defective. The potential of a human is not measurable and is really just an affemurable abstract, unverifiable opinion, not a concern of equity. The social determinants you mentioned as inequitable include income inequality and immigration status. To whatever extent I demand these be removed. Some people are worth more than others and justly get paid more. Illegal aliens are criminals, are unvetted, take jobs from Americans, lower our wages, import poverty, cost a ton, and if not, sworn an oath to accept our nation's principles or respect our culture and laws. At my point, there are always other considerations than prioritized, monofocussed equity definitions of leftist stale grievances and slogans. You should only be in the business- That's close, almost made it. Next speaker please, you'll have up to two minutes. I'm really, really happy that I accidentally came early today. This is one of the best things that I've seen in city council and in city government for a long time. And I just want to thank you for your leadership on this, Martine. And I think it's incredibly encouraging about the work that we can do in city government in general. I just want to make a few comments. First of all, I did hear Ms. Tiffany Wise-West say that we can build on this and what she's interested in and the work that went into it, your listening sessions. And that is also really, really encouraging. I have just scanned it. I'm just going to add a few. Of course, I have to be critical, you know me, have to be critical. Don't feel alive unless I'm critiquing something. So I am going to just make some suggestions. I did notice that in the equity section, there's references to income. And there's another word that goes along with that. I would like if I had my druthers for status in class to be much, much more overt. Because I feel that certain statuses are so self-perpetuating. For example, once a person falls into homelessness, if they don't have good family support, they're likely to stay in homelessness for a very, very long time. And it's just because of factors in the society in general. I'd also like to see low income housing. That kind of language added whenever we talk about affordable housing, because affordable is more based on the market rates. I would love to see low income housing get special notice and for that to start to be included everywhere. About the jump bikes, I think they're fantastic. I live downtown, people use them all the time. People are thrilled and happy to be on them. There are safety issues. I know Vision Zero is addressing some of that. I agree, we do need more data. And the number of persons in the sample is a little low, but I look forward to the future where it's higher. Just in closing, I want to say thank you again for really bringing this into our city discussions. Thank you. Good afternoon, honorable city council members. On behalf of the Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County, I'm here to speak with enthusiasm for the health and all policies recommendations being brought forward to you today. My name is Elisa Arona. I am the executive director of the Health Improvement Partnership. This includes the four hospital systems, the medical health plan, multiple county departments, mental health and behavioral health treatment partners, and philanthropy granting in health. And I am thrilled to see this intentional effort to put health at the center of the city's decision making. In August of this year, HIP partners participated in the listening tour regarding the city of Santa Cruz's health and all policies work. And there was resounding agreement among the diverse group of partners that the health of our residents is contingent on far more than what services can be offered in a clinic or in a hospital. Adopting an HIP ordinance is an important step in coming together as a community to consider the many other arenas of investment and policy that can promote and will ensure the health of our community. I commend you all for the commitment to community engagement that was clearly part of this process of bringing this forward thinking approach to today's decision making point. I assure you all that there is traction among the healthcare providers to work in collaboration with the city of Santa Cruz to spread the IHEP approach across the county. We are also fortunate to have an HIAP model implemented in the county of Monterey as Mayor Watkins shared. So we have a real opportunity here to affect change through a new way of approaching the way we do business that puts health at the center. I look forward to working with the city of Santa Cruz in making your work visible and supporting you. Thank you and have a wonderful thanksgiving. Thank you. Mayors try to. Good afternoon mayor, city council, city staff. It is my absolute honor to be able to address you today. And I simply just wanted to be here to commend each of you for this amazing work and for leading in this area. And we hope to also be starting our own process soon and implement something similar. So kudos to each of you and I hope you vote in favor and support of the recommendations. Thank you. I support this. How can you not support this? Ever since Mimi did the presentation last year, we're all in agreement and I'm really proud to be part of Santa Cruz to have this part of thing. All the people that put the work into it. I super appreciate that. I within the report, a lot of the listening groups mentioned homelessness, but it doesn't show up on the actual ordinance. And for homelessness, the biggest social determinant of health and longevity is housing. There's no other change as a social determinant that will extend a person's life even if you're talking medical care. There are a couple places that you could add it if you wanted to. At the end of the second paragraph, it could be added. It is also widely accepted in the medical community that the housing of those experiencing homelessness is a single biggest social determinant of life expectancy. You could add it as the fourth paragraph, the first word, homelessness, comma, food, food access, housing, transportation. Or in the sixth paragraph, where it says, whereas addressing the social determinant of health can lead to reduced health care, you could also add better outcomes for the community and in regards to those experiencing homelessness, less trauma, more dignity and extended life expectancy. Again, thank you very much. And for this to be something that is part of our discussions is beautiful because we care about our people and I hope it is also part of the discussion tonight about the shelter stuff. Thanks. Are there any other members of the community wanting to address the council on this item? Okay, see none. Thank you for those that spoke to us. We'll go ahead and return back to council. Council Member Matthews, Myers Glover, Vice Mayor Cummings-Brown. I'd like to put a motion on the floor. I suspect there'll be some changes and I have some as well. Again, I want to thank Tiffany and Ian and Shebra for all the work they did on this. So I'm going to try and follow the recommendation in our packet here. I'm not sure it's entirely the same. First is to accept the high app evaluation report and recommendations and secondly to introduce for publication and ordinance adding 6.0 to the municipal code and I do have personally an amendment that I would like to add to that. Mine is and I'll scratch this on it. It's all marked up because I had typos on it but you can maybe project that. I would like to add in the, and I'll continue on down with the rest of the items. I would like to add under the definition of public health which is on page 12.7. The following public health is the signs of protecting the safety and improving the health of communities as a whole. To me that was missing from the concept of public health and to me it's fundamental. And then that statement goes which I cribbed from Center for Disease Control and World Health variety of definitions. The mission of public health is to promote conditions in which people can be healthy. This work is achieved by researching disease and injury prevention, education to promote healthy lifestyles and public policy to address the health priorities of communities and populations at risk. So I would just like to add that into the definition of public health. And I agree with some of the comments that Drew made. We can come back but for my motion that's the one addition that I would like to add on the municipal code. The third item shown is the adoption of the health and all policies implementation city council policy. And I did have some change to that. And that's on page 12.8. The implementation section there talks about things happening within a year or a specific budget amount. And those to me seemed not appropriate for an ordinance that's intended to last over time. So I would suggest the following. In implementation, which is the section 6.03050, simply say the analysis section of city council and commission agenda reports will include reference to how the report considers the high app pillars. It doesn't talk about it being prepared within a certain time frame. And then secondly, the functional procedures for integrating the high app framework into city operations will be defined in council policy. So it's just kind of a more general direction. And I think that's it. Let me see. There is somewhere the reference to the $25,000 annual allocation. That's in the city council policy. Oh, that's in thank you, Tiffany. And that's on page 12.10. Yes, turn the page. And for that, I would prefer to take out that amount. And just say under implementation, when developing city council departmental work plans, the following things will be included. One is an annual budget allocation to support grant writing, monitoring, reporting to city council and or outreach. Two, annual evaluation of the city's high app effort. Three, training for new staff, commissioners and leadership in all three pillars. And four, participation by staff and leadership in stakeholder and partner convenings to ensure cross section, cross sector collaboration. There again, I didn't put it in the number per year, but I think the intention is there. So again, those are just a little bit editorial. But and then the other would be to direct staff to return with an implementation work plan by the first meeting in January. And I would be happy to also include, because I took the dollar amount to say we recommend 25,000 in the coming budget year for implementation. I'll second the motion. But then I would like to see if I could add some further direction and then we can maybe nuance some of the language. But the further direction would also be to have our city manager's office research initiating Tiffany's position to be full-time climate action manager. I know that she has a shared portion of her time spent doing other things. And given this work and broader work, I think it would be worthwhile for us to explore how to make her full time in that position. And I invite the city manager, I know we spoke about this in advance if you want to say a few words as well. Yes, certainly we can definitely look at that as part of the budget process and mid-year budget process. I think the kind of language I'd be comfortable with would be direct city manager to explore opportunities for more robust staffing of this function.  Which could include potentially increasing our existing budget. Could we add that, which could potentially include. I'm just going to say to investigate the possibility for more robust staffing for this, for the high-app function. We add which could potentially include increasing our not permanent climate manager to be potentially permanent as a specific option. That feels weird to me. No fans on Tiffany. Okay. Well, we can maybe look at that later if we want. We can separate that out. That's implied. And I will say I didn't go into detail, but the expectations here of research, analysis, metrics, et cetera, are exceptionally ambitious for the fiscal and people resources that we have. And we have a lot of other functions to measure. And I mean, this is, I'm just going to be honest, this is kind of written like it's a PhD project or it's a think tank project. And we can't do all of it, which is why I asked about the other community resources that are doing the kind of research that could be useful to us that we don't have. And I don't know if at least it's here. Yes. I don't know what HIAP is doing, for example, in terms of health data that could be useful that we don't have to recreate ourselves. So I think I'd like to just leave it there. Okay. So maybe what we'll do is I'll just maybe say that that wasn't, we'll maybe separate out the potential amended amendment or supplemental direction and revisit that after we go through the motion as, as presented by Councillor Ahmed. I'm going to go ahead and withdraw that and then I'll reintroduce that or have maybe a colleague reintroduce that as a potential solution after if there's interest. Okay. I did want to also, in terms of amendments, acknowledge Drew's comment because racial equity popped out at me. There are a lot of kinds of equity issues that not being the only one. So a possibility is to talk about promoting healthy communities, equity across various factors of disadvantage of which there are many ethnic, social, class, educational, et cetera. That's just one possibility. Excuse me. Could you tell me where you're referencing in the document so I can track that please? Big document. And I'm just, I'm just suggesting it as, but it would be in, it's not a numbered whereas the, the whereas at the top of 12.6. Your page is not numbered. No. It's the second page. It's the second to last findings. Well, it's near the bottom of the warehouses. It's the second to last whereas. Thank you. Yeah. It just that leaped out to me as a rather restricted definition of equity issues. I'll just open to discussion. Okay. We can definitely discuss. I'll just sort of maybe if, if, if I may just sort of reorient us around, you know, this is really clearly not perfect, but it's really good. And it's a step in the right direction and we'll have ample opportunity if we move in the direction of wanting to make this a priority to refine, to recommit to engaging the community for input and to have it reflect hopefully holistically what we want it to reflect. So knowing that there may be elements of imperfect, that there may be, there is absolutely opportunity for it to be iterative and grow. That's a really great first step. And it's, and it's based on a model that has been presented by the go to statewide consulting agency presenting these different opportunities for communities. Okay. I believe I had Councilor Meyers, then Councilor McLeaver, then Vice Mayor Cummings, then Councilor Brown. I just have a couple of additions. Overall, I just want to compliment the subcommittee and Mayor Watkins. You know, we, government likes to do things in siloed ways and I think currently we're really starting to see how that results in really missing some major issues as they arise in our community. So I think what this is doing is really blending what people would think of as typical city services with the recognition that, you know, there's people living in cities and there's families living in cities and there's kids living in cities and there's seniors living in cities. And so what I think this is powerful as a policy is that it really kind of makes us take a step to really acknowledge the population and the community as regards to sort of what typical city services are. So I really compliment Tiffany, your work, Ian, your work, the whole group that worked on this. And I think as we see cities struggle with a lot of societal issues moving ahead, this kind of framework helps us have a place to really evaluate things from. So congratulations on all the work that you guys did. I have a couple of suggestions in terms of the words environmental sustainability and the ordinance. One, I would just suggest that maybe we provide a definition for that and I'm going to look at Tiffany because I know you can probably do that for us very easily with a minor amendment in terms of making sure that we identify what that does mean and it does show up two or three space places in the ordinance and I do think it's important environmental sustainability is sort of a big concept. Some people interpret it as transportation goals, others interpret it as land-based goals, others interpret it as clean air or clean water. So if there's a way to kind of understand that, especially moving ahead so we can really tie that into the actual human health and community health objectives as well. Excuse me, Council Member Myers may ask you a clarifying question please. So under the definitions we do have sustainability, so are you suggesting replacing that with environmental sustainability or yeah? I would suggest that we provide a definition of environmental sustainability in the definitions as well. Okay, thank you. And a suggestion if possible and I don't want to create a lot of work for people but I was impressed with the whole report. I did read however many pages it is and I guess one of the most powerful things that I saw in this and it really tracks with how we do our outreach during general plan processes and other things when we update our transportation plans, these big planning processes but the amount of outreach and groups and organizations that were involved, obviously our housing effort two years ago was very similar to this. I don't know if there would be a way to capture, there's an impressive list which I'm not able to find right at this moment. Somewhere in an appendix. Yeah, it's in appendix L. We have an impressive list of organizations as well as a list of the listening tour. A lot of these organizations exist in town. It would be probably overwhelming to try to describe each one but it just capturing a way to really describe sort of the interrelatedness of some of these groups might be helpful. For those who may not be completely familiar with all, especially the service providers, health service providers, some of these groups are so important to our community. I don't know if we can put a little snapshot of a few of them or if we can incorporate maybe even just the ability to look at those occasionally via the website or something like that and really get a sense of what their mission is. I think it would be helpful to provide context that way to this work as we kick it off. Those are just two suggestions. Let me just make sure I'm trying to keep this. I think those are my main one. Many of my other comments have already been made and so I'll end it there. Thank you. Can I ask one more clarifying comment? So you are not suggesting that we revise this report but rather in the future perhaps when we bring the implementation work plan or other products throughout next year to look at that, how those missions intersect and the interrelatedness between the organizations. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. First I just wanted to ask if Cynthia could repeat the phrase that you used when you were talking about racial equity. It was something along the lines of racial equity across. What was that? I just said various factors of disadvantage. Various factors of disadvantage. Because there are many. Yeah. I felt really weird about that. Okay. That phrasing because I don't think being of a racial category is a disadvantage. I think that socially and structurally the system makes it a disadvantage. So I would really be, I would appreciate it if we didn't use that language. That was problematic for me. And just to be open and honest and clear and transparent as our book says. Then also how many times did the steering committee meet? Or the subcommittee? Subcommittee, Matt. Maybe four to six times. Four to six times. And that was over six months, right? Correct. Okay, cool. I was wondering because that was a lot of additions at the end there because it was even really hard to track all of your amendments and suggestions. I would have thought those would have come to us in the presentation, but I don't know if we're going to be able to get that up there at some point, Bonnie, to be able to review before the vote. Okay, cool. Because that was a lot. And yeah, especially with the addition of staff time or hours or cost or all that kind of stuff that seems like that wasn't incorporated in any of the suggestions to begin with. But we'll get back to the amendments that I was talking about. So with regards to the second paragraph, I think we could add such as housing afterward factors. So the are influenced by the interaction of many factors such as housing, but then also end that paragraph with it's also widely accepted in the medical community that the housing of those experiencing homelessness is the single biggest social determinant of life expectancy. Do you have a question of which of the whereas? This is the second whereas. What was the other? Could you state the last request? Right. So second paragraph, second line after factors would be such as housing and simply not by genetics, common individual or whatever. And then ending that paragraph with the sentence. It's also it is also widely accepted in the medical community that the housing of those experiencing homelessness is the biggest single biggest social determinant to life expectancy. I wonder if that would be a separate sentence in that the framing is around I think a more common definition for the social determinants of health that I've seen, but a separate sentence could be the influence of housing is an impact on. I'm happy to put on that the first part there. I'm going to rearrange a tiny bit interaction many factors not simply by genetics, individual behavior, or access to resources such as housing, education or medical care. I would like to fold housing in with those other resources. Sure. As long as housing is represented there, absolutely. I am interested however in getting specific language to acknowledge the impact of shelter on people experiencing homelessness. If not there, then I have some other suggestions, but I'd like to see that at the end of that section. Tiffany, if I may. In terms of how I've seen the social determinants of health framed, the language here is pretty consistent. Is that your interpretation as well with how it's written in many ways? It is, but I have to acknowledge I'm not an expert in this field, so I really can't comment any further on it. I would just say personally I'd rather keep these whereas as general. There may be other places to. Maybe we can look at another place. Okay. Well then in paragraph four on the third line, starting it so it says policies related to homelessness, food access, housing, transportation, public safety, education, sustainability, climate change, parks and air, et cetera. Where are you? Give me a number. Paragraph four, line three. On what? You're reading it. On the ordinance. Okay. Third line. So the entire thing would read, whereas policies implemented by the city of Santa Cruz outside of the traditional health sector significantly affect the social determinants of health, including policies related to homelessness, food access, housing, transportation, public safety, and so on. That fits more clearly for me. Thank you. Wonderful. Cool. Excellent. And then paragraph six, or whereas six, one, two, three, four, five, six. Addressing the social determinants of health can lead to reduced health care costs, better outcomes for the community in regards to those experiencing homelessness, less trauma, more dignity, and extended life expectancy. As well as to a whole lot of other people. So I'd like to leave that one really clean the way it is. Okay. Well, at least we've got housing and homelessness in there at least once. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. I think we had, sorry, vice mayor coming, then councilmember Brown, and then we'll go to you, councilmember Brown. Just going to acknowledge that there are a lot of comments that came up earlier around racial equity, the well-being of people. And I just want to point out that that has come up a lot throughout this, that we, you know, we bring up racial equity within this. And this is within, what, four pages on a number of occasions, we also are mentioning that this policy is to improve the well-being of all people. And so I think that we are really trying to be intentional around saying that we are trying, this policy is intended to not discriminate people because of race, housing, socioeconomic class. This policy is to address inequities and try to bring more equity to people within our community. And so I just want to point that out overall. And I have an additional motion to make after we move forward with this. Councilmember Brown. Councilmember Glover pretty much raised the questions for some changes that I thought would be helpful to make around acknowledging homelessness as part of this. So I'll leave it there, but I'll take the opportunity to thank the staff, Tiffany, for all of your work, consultants and subcommittee for your work to bring this to us. Councilmember Cronin. Yeah, I just wanted to say I do appreciate you bringing this forward and I really love a lot of the language that's here and things that we're attempting to undertake and define. I appreciate the equality, equity definitions and the differences between those two things. I think it makes it really clear. There were... I was wondering if we could, if it would be appropriate on this one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, five. The fifth whereas to put in and city council member collaboration interagency and city council member collaboration can lead to improved decision making and outcomes and greater efficiencies in service delivery. Does that make any sense there? I'll just say I think the intention was all the aspects of the city with all the other agencies out there. That's what I was wondering. That's all I had. Thank you. I love on page 12.7 under the thing, the safe housing, access to healthy and affordable food, really important, really, really big and the concept of stewardship. I always see our role up here as stewarding the resources we have here in the city and getting the best deal for our voters and residents. So I appreciate the concept of stewardship and the responsible management of resources. Thank you for including that. Well, I just want to thank everybody for their input. And similar to our process, I'd say with the community and internally that the more fingers, the more voices, the more additions that show shared ownership over this, the better. So I appreciate the willingness to dive into this a little bit with us. Councilor Morathius. And I'll just say, I read through this a few times and every time I read it I saw different stops. Sorry for the later things. I also resonated with the issue that Donna raised about sustainability. And this definition, I didn't even mention all the things that leapt out. But this was one, sustainability means creating and maintaining conditions so that humans can fulfill the requirements. I don't think of sustainability as totally human oriented. I think of it as the whole natural world. And so I'm wondering if we just flipped the two parts of those. Sustainability can be thought of in terms of environmental, economic, and social impacts. It encompasses the concept of stewardship and responsible management of resources. If we just put that first and then say it can also mean creating and maintaining conditions. Because I think of having sustainable institutions, a sustainable environment. If we just flipped those, would that do it for a year? Maybe it's just me, but I think that environmental sustainability is a really important concept as we move forward because we will be making choices between water and habitats. So I just, I'm going to hang on to my one comment around environmental sustainability because it is an integral part, the word environment there. And it's actually used both in the state language as well as mentioned in the, so. I think we want to do a first reading. Can we just, I'm wondering if we do the first reading. Throw it in now. I'll offer some language for the second reading. Would that dramatically change it if we. It needs to happen today. I wonder if though what we could do in the interest of continuing to move this along but knowing it's going to be iterative is that one of the first sort of, or one of the areas that the implementation kind of work encompasses is really exploring environmental sustainability as it relates to this work and potentially in integration. Let me just see if I'm in the, if you can rearrange some words. I got a thought here. Yeah, let me just. I think so. I can, I see where you're, yeah. I'm fine with that. Absolutely. I don't want to hold this up just over that. Just flipping it. Let's flip it. So you'll be, so it'll be sustainability. Sustainability can be thought of in terms of. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And where we're going with that. This means creating me so that humans. I would say and humans and. That's just okay. We'll keep it at humans. I'm good with that. Okay. Great. Thank you. I think. Thank you all for your insights into making it something that we all share and have a role in creating. Do you have a comment? Mr. Yeah, I just wanted to comment a little bit more on the question of staffing. Maybe can we do that after we finish up this motion? Because I do believe that there is going to be. If I could maybe have you reserve that. Perfect. We'll go ahead and have you speak to that in a moment. Okay. So I think we're pretty much there. I know we had some nuance language. So Cynthia made the motion with the recommendations that I think she provided to you in regards to some of the language changes. I feel comfortable with those recommendations and as the seconder and then the sort of some of the nuance language. Did you feel that you were able to capture much of what you decided in those areas or do you have questions? I believe so. But can I ask a couple questions? So we are not including the environmental sustainability definition. We are or not replacing the equity definition with the state definition. I'm unclear on that. So we are not replacing it, but we are adding it. The public health definition. Is that what you mean? I'm sorry. No. Equity. I don't remember. I brought that up as one of his first comments. Oh, I forgot. I don't remember. Do you want to go ahead and restate that? Yeah, it was just mainly had to do with the differences between the definitions because there is no definition of racial equity in the Santa Cruz health and all policies aspect. And so that was the second question. My first question was on the equity itself. I believe you made two comments. Karen was on the definition of equity as it relates to the state definition. And then my one of my next questions was the is the do you are you all wanting the inclusion of racial equity definition as well? Great. Thank you. The first part to that is just the differences talking about the acknowledgement that it's also an outcome and a means to an end and also structural and a systemic concept. Now elsewhere in the document it references structural and systemic stuff. So that's less of an importance. And it's, you know, I was just mainly curious about the difference if people are okay with the existing language and don't want to add the equity is both an outcome and a means to an end. I'm okay with that. It's not, you know, a severe thing. I am more adamant about the inclusion of a definition of racial equity so that it is included in there. And to speak to the vice mayor's comment, yes, you're absolutely correct. We want to provide equity across all realms of our community. However, there are groups that need to be specifically identified to make sure that they are taken into consideration in the implementation of the policy and held accountable through the decision-making process, which one of my primary areas of focus is making sure that there is racial equity on this body and in our policies, which, you know, there has been problematic aspects with. If I could just add that I know the vice mayor has a quick question or comment in regards to the health disparities definition that really specifies the difference of preference of disease health outcomes or access to care among different distinct segments of the population, including differences that occur by race or ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, education or income, immigration status, et cetera. Does that cover sort of what your intention is around looking at how we're factoring in health disparities for specific subpopulations in this work? So it's good to know that there's an acknowledgement of health disparities and acknowledging all those different subsections. I'm just looking at the state task force model and their intentional inclusion of racial equity in a tremendous amount of references in 15 pages of document and are very lacking to almost none. And I think that it's important that we include a definition of racial equity in there so that it's present and I think it should be something that we should be focusing on as a primary thing because we have a severe amount of racial disparity in Santa Cruz in general. So it's something that we should be looking at and making sure all of our policies are intentionally acknowledging and taking into consideration when evaluating the Health and Health Policy Framework. Vice Mayor. So if today is the first hearing then we would need to know what that definition is in order for this to continue to be the first hearing. Is that correct? It is. So do you have that available then? Yeah, the suggested language could be an I'll go slowly because I know this is not on the screen or anything. Racial equity is achieved when race can no longer be used to predict life outcomes and outcomes for all groups are improved. So it gets back to what the vice mayor was referring to about wanting to see all included but it's important and the emphasis around this comes from the history of the country and how it was founded in racism and how it still perpetuates racism through either unconscious bias or through under the radar racist policies which disproportionately impact low income people and specifically people of color. So that would be the language. I'm fine with that. Do you want to go ahead? I've got a place to put it. I am happy in my motion to include in the section on definitions then we have equity is the first one. I'm happy to add equity is both an outcome and a means to an end. That appears in many places and then there's a little inset there equities are unfair avoidable and unjust differences that are created etc etc. I think you could just say for example and then put your sentence in right there race is that work for you under just sort of the broader definition of equity. I mean it's something it's better than nothing but I don't understand why we just couldn't add another line and just define racial equity so that it's clear and specific. This is a general description and it fits their will. It's true that health disparities further on down refers to disparities by race or ethnicity but there are many other aspects of equity aside from health. So I'd like to just leave that first section on equity general but include the sentence you offered as a second sentence there. It's a compromise but at least we'll get racial equity in there as a defined aspect of the overall equity thing. So sure absolutely. So to be clear then after letter A equity is inequities and after that will be a statement that will essentially be the definition of racial equity that council member Glover just expressed. Is that correct? Just say continue that one section that starts inequities and then just on that as a second sentence just say for example etc. And then we'll just go into the definition of racial equity. Or might I make a suggestion that we just continue the equity statement so that it is equity is a fair inclusion into a society in which all can participate, prosper and reach their full potential. For example racial equity is achieved when race can no longer be used to predict life outcomes and outcomes for all groups are improved because then it's not connected to inequities. We want it to be connected to equity and it incorporates the term racial equity and a definition. Or it could just be a definition of stand-alone in either way. Vice Mayor coming? I was going to make a recommendation actually that I think might be something that fits. Correct in that. So equity is just fair inclusion into a society in which people of all races, ethnicities, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, functional impairment, geographic location or the combination of any of these factors can participate, prosper and reach their full potential. So it's pretty much taking the last one under health disparities and it's just putting it in after in which people of all and then including that. Why don't you just say. All can participate, prosper and reach their full potential regardless of, that's a little cleaner, regardless of race, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do you accept that then? I'll accept that as well. So at the very beginning of equity it would say into a society regardless of, and then it goes into that last sentence of race, ethnicity, gender, et cetera. Has the clerk gotten this? Because I don't have it all down. No, we're going to have to watch the video. I think I know too, but I just want to get it right. So it takes that, and then I think we could still meet the interest around having racial equity included in that if Councilmember Glover is open to it as sort of a second subset to the equity definition. Okay, let me rewind for a second. That's a great suggestion. I'm a little confused as to why there's such a resistance to putting the term racial equity in the document, specifically racial equity. And I also find it strange that we're moving away from the state-acknowledged definition of racial equity and focusing on how we can mesh it into this so that it's less specific around the issue of race. It seems strange doing this battle with you up here and also Vice Mayor Cummings, since I would hope that we would be able to emphasize the importance of racial equity as this is the first time there's been black people, black men on the city council. So, you know, I get it. I mean, we can move forward with whatever, because I don't need to approve it. The seconder and the motion need to approve it. But I'm just saying there's an amazing amount of resistance to put the term racial equity into this document. I don't understand what the... Well, I think we have it in there. I think if we're open to having it in there as a subset of the equity definition, it's still in there. Ideally, you know, given it's not your preference, it's still listed as part of the definitions in a defined term. The word race is included, but the definition of racial equity is not included. So, but that's okay. Whatever. Okay. Vice Mayor Cummings. I'll just state that, you know, one of the big things and it's not a resistance to putting this end by any means, but I think what we want and what we're intending to do is not just limit our definitions around equity to just race.  We have to think about people of different ages, sexual orientations, functional impairments, all the things that we've listed here, we want to make sure that we are including when we discuss, when we're discussing equity, because it's not just race. And I think that, you know, it would be, you know, it would be a disinterest to not include all of these people and people of our entire community into a policy that we're trying to create. So there's no resistance to it. I'm just trying to find a way that we can make sure that we're including everyone in this policy. I agree. And I think we have found that way by changing that first sentence to include everybody and then also saying as an example and then using the language around racial equity as suggested by Councilmember Glover. So I do think it's, I think we're there if that works. Just a quick response to the Vice Mayor. So I don't think that the incorporation of a specific definition of racial equity in any way distances or lessens the impact or the inclusion of other people in relevance to this document. I'm looking at the state version of the document and how they have intentionally in their 15 page document included the term racial equity 17 times in a city that has a 1.8% approximate African-American rate and even lower Native American rate or indigenous American rate, the issues of the disparities that are faced by the Latinx and immigrant communities, all of those things that surround race, the very real prevalence of white supremacy here in Santa Cruz, the history of white supremacy and the policies that have built this city, that is why it needs to be specifically included in my opinion and that's why there is resistance because racial equity in the definition cannot go in the document. It has to be sparsed in with some other defi