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Members of the public that are attending the meeting virtually please leave the meeting and rejoin at one PM when the regular meeting resumes. Thank you. And this is a summary that has been compiled with all the departments in the city on their progress. Hey, just real quickly. The city this we're working on the implementation of our second climate adaptation plan that was adopted in 2018. It has a five year time horizon and was developed in parallel with our local hazard mitigation plan. However, we have a long history of climate adaptation planning in the city. In fact, we were one of the first in the state to develop a climate adaptation plan back in 2012 that was developed again in conjunction with our local hazard mitigation plan. Together, those plans are certified by California office of emergency services and FEMA. And the benefit of that is that anything that's contained in those plans since they're coupled together are eligible for certain categories of FEMA pre and post hazard mitigation funding, of which we've taken advantage of quite a bit over the years. A minimum of $7 million in that type of funding has been accessed since 2018 for our climate adaptation planning. So it really is in our benefit to continue to be leaders in this space and to develop out those two plans together. As you see the plans both the both have a sunset horizon of 2023 and we have a grant pending with FEMA to develop out our 2024 to 2029 LHMP and climate adaptation plans. And I'll share with you a little bit more later what will be new in those plans. But reflecting on the 2018 plan, it does contain 44 different strategies. 25 are categorized as very high priority strategies. Nine is high and 10 is important. And I think it's really shows the the intent and the leadership of our departments in that every single strategy has been worked on except one. So we're making very good progress. I do want to mention two of our top priority strategies and where we're at with those that are not necessarily associated with a specific hazard. And I should mention, by the way, that all of these that prioritization that you saw on the previous previous slide, all of these strategies were prioritized using what's called the FEMA stately prioritization rubric, which utilizes factors, social, technical, legal, economic and environmental factors to help us to prioritize those strategies. So with respect to these two really high priority ones regarding increasing public awareness and evaluating all decisions through a climate lens, I thought I would just share with you some of the progress made on these two in particular. We have had with respect to wildfire, we have two fire wise communities that are meeting regularly. We've done extensive sea level rise planning, particularly with our communities of concern. Also, the water department has done quite a bit of engagement, particularly with its water commission and some extensive work on water reliability and climate change. As you know, also, we are in, we're entering in the second year where we're integrating health and all policies, which again prioritizes equity, public health and sustainability in our budget. And we go through the budget each year and we determine which projects implement the climate adaptation plan. And that will, that gets put on the beginning of the budget for your purposes for decision making purposes. Yeah, I think that that kind of gets to the extent of our two really high important strategies. So what I'm going to be doing throughout the rest of this presentation is sharing with you kind of a refresher on the climate hazards that we're facing and then what we've been doing with respect to those hazards. So some of these slides might look familiar to you. We are expecting an increase in temperature by the end of the century between four to seven degrees Fahrenheit, which is pretty astounding. And we will be expecting, and in fact, we have already begun experiencing more heat waves by the end of the century. Anecdotally, I was talking to the fire department last year about going, looking at doing a study on high heat and what we can do. And they had said to me that before the past two years, we really would have never thought we had to deal with high heat here on our coastal temperate climate, but things are changing quickly. Obviously, high heat not only impacts public health, but, you know, tons of cascading other things, water availability, water quality, ecosystems, ecology and species and so forth. Now with respect to high heat, we haven't really done any intensive study. And in fact, in our next adaptation plan, we will be focusing in on this area. But what we have done is a lot around trees, which of course provide cooling. They provide filtering of water and so forth. So I think you know that the Street Trees Plan was completed last year and Parks and Rec has on their work plan over the next couple of years, developing an Urban Tree Master Plan, planning 3,000 trees by 2030. And as I mentioned, we'll be doing a high heat study as part of our adaptation plan that we'll be embarking upon by the end of the year, perhaps the beginning of next year, depending on if we receive the funding that we are anticipating. With respect to increase intensity and frequency of storms, inland storms and flooding, we separate inland versus coastal. What you're seeing on the screen here is our FEMA flood hazard zones. The A99 or purple area is the area that is protected by our levee system, which is currently going through FEMA certification right now. So we've done a bunch of different studies, geotechnical hydraulics and hydrology studies to understand how that will perform in terms of FEMA. Now FEMA does not require climate change yet, but that is a study that we are also trying to get funded right now. We do continue to participate in the community rating system, as well as the National Flood Insurance Program, which by the way, if we were unable to certify the levee with FEMA, which we are on track to do, we would actually see an increase by 50% of all the flood insurance premiums within that purple zone that I showed you. So we will be saving our residents money by going through that certification process. We have fully scoped a flood protection and climate change study that we're right now going for Prop 1 funding for through the IRWM process, the Integrated Regional Water Management Agency. We also are pursuing an $11 million grant with FEMA right now. We've made it through the first round to upgrade pump station number one to account for future flows. Of course, the Rivermouth Culvert Project is going to be providing some relief for nuisance flooding that occurs. And we have the Brands of Forty Fish Passage and Sediment Removal Project, which also will help us to prevent flooding upstream in the watershed and downtown. In terms of coastal flooding, well gosh, we've done a ton of work here.  What you see on the screen here, especially where these kind of shaded blue areas are, are areas where we anticipate future flooding if we did nothing at all due to rising tides or sea level rise. And you can see, no big surprises here. We have lower ocean, beach flats area, and some of our downtown and neary lagoon area that are projected to be flooded due to sea level rise. You also see that some of our critical facilities are in this area. But as I said, we have done and we have, you know, up to a billion dollars in assets. And that's just an infrastructure and property alone that is at risk of sea and exposed to sea level rise. This also shows you erosion and landslides. And we're looking again at coastal. If you look down at the bottom of the screen here, you see this shaded red areas.  And in fact, 50% of our coastline is armored right now. But the red areas show where we would expect erosion to occur, making an assumption that perhaps by 2060, no armoring will either be allowed or the failed armoring we will not be able to replace. So this kind of gives us a worse case scenario to understand erosion. And in fact, we would see, should that be the case, we would see erosion entering into this first and second lane of West Cliff Drive. But we have completed the West Cliff Drive adaptation and management plan, as well as at which your council adopted in April of 2021 that outlines a number of different projects over the next 10 years to help bolster our planning and our protection of our coastline. And then also gives indications further out in the medium and longer term of our options, including planned relocation potentially and other types of strategies. Of course, as we implement the West Cliff Drive plan, we will need to continue to have dialogue with our community on this topic and these various options. We also have a local coastal program amendment that's in progress right now that will codify policies to support beach and public access protection. Both of those plans have not been approved by the Coastal Commission yet. We have had quite a bit of delay with a lot on their slate from the city, but we have reengaged recently with them on getting that through their process. And the benefit of that is that particularly for the West Cliff Drive plan, their environmental review is a substitute, an equivalent substitute for CEQA. And so that is a great benefit for us, obviously. And then the LCP amendment must in fact be approved by the Coastal Commission in order for us to implement it. So we continue to work on this, particularly right now we are developing out a coastal change monitoring network. We just did our first drone flights last week from both the ocean side and the landward side to and got high resolution imagery that we'll be doing year to year and using some sophisticated technology to do some analytics on coastal change. We're also looking at ways that we can engage our community through them taking photos in different spots and uploading them and really engaging folks in a community science kind of endeavor. We have over 14 different agencies that are involved in developing out this coastal change monitoring network with our other lead agency being UCSC's Coastal Science and Policy Graduate Program. We have two grants for this work, one through the Coastal Commission, which is also supposed to result in a second LCP amendment to codify this monitoring program as well as from the National Science Foundation. As part of this, not only are we developing, we have physical triggers, things like, okay, when beach width gets to 100 feet, we're going to do this, right now we're developing out social triggers as well. For example, property values or number of evacuations and things like that that will help us to do more improved planning and implementation of our coastal resilience work in the future, particularly working with our communities of concern. We have a lot of funding to compensate groups to participate with us. A future piece of work will be to develop ecological triggers, which by the way, in our adaptation plan, we have only touched very lightly on ecological impacts and so that will be an area we'll be focusing on in our next adaptation plan update. With respect to wildfire, I think these were the projections that we had, which was that we would see increases of really modest increases of areas burned, but I think that's really been blown out of the water based on what we experienced two years ago. And in fact, there have been 276 wildfires in the Wildland Urban Interface since 2018 alone. However, our fire department's been super proactive on this. They've received eight grants for vegetation management since that time. Your council passed a ordinance in 2019. That's a Wildland Urban Interface. We have cooperative agreements with UCSC and others, and I already mentioned the firewise. Two big things for fiscal year 23 that the fire department and parks jointly intend to pursue is a five year vegetation management plan, sorry for the typo, and a forest management and fire resilience plan. So lots of activity going on in this space right now. With respect to increased erosion and landslides inland, we know of course that the wildfire impacts definitely cause more erosion in the watershed and in fact increase the risk of landslides or mudslides as well as sediment in our river. We know, however, that the water department has been doing a lot of work in this area and public works as well. The water department's realigned is in the process of relying realigning their raw water pipelines out of a landslide hazard zone. They're making upgrades to the treatment plant to account for different water quality based on the wildfires and the runoff that we're seeing. Public works is interested in doing a San Lorenzo River Nutrient and Sediment Management Plan and the water department is replacing the Newell Creek Dam inlet and outlet. So again, lots of activity going on in this space. With respect to droughts, we are expecting more intense storms in the watershed but also contrast that with the exact opposite longer droughts and more frequent droughts. I got to give a big shout out to the water department. They've been super proactive working with balanced hydrologics as well as researchers in the University of Massachusetts in doing water supply reliability studies that and they've been implementing their water supply augmentation strategy so that we have reliable water into the future. And lastly, they're developing a securing our water future policy. So how do they make decisions in the future about infrastructure, operations and so forth in the context of climate change. Very sophisticated work going on here I might add. By the way, they have also done a series within their department of lunch and learns so that employees can learn about this kind of stuff. It's been really cool and we're expanding it to all employees to be able to view or packaging that together right now. I think you've seen the slide before really getting ready to wind things up here. We did do in 2018 a social vulnerability to climate change assessment where based on the factors you see in the lower left hand corner, we developed a social vulnerability score by census block group and we ranked them relative to one another. So the areas in red are those with the highest social vulnerability. And those that are in green are those with the lowest. Now this is just kind of a starting point to look at this kind of thing. It is limited to the factors you see on the left poverty and so forth. But this is really I think catapulted us in terms of the work that we're doing with communities of concern to really get to this and address this. And as we go move into the climate adaptation plan update, we will be focusing more so also on people. A lot of our adaptation work in the past has focused on infrastructure and more physical preparedness. And going along with that are the impacts on public health human health that we also are going to be focusing on quite a bit in our adaptation plan. We're so fortunate here to have a temperate climate and good air quality with our ocean acting as some lungs kind of pumping in good air quality. But things will be shifting and you know there are not just impacts related to air pollution. There are disease vectors that could be increasing with increased temperature and so forth. And so this is an area we're going to hone in on in our next adaptation plan as well. So just to round things out what's next. Well we've got those two plan updates I mentioned. We also are integrating this work into our master grant strategy that's been in development and will be finalized by the end of the year. We also are going to be addressing combinations of hazards. In the past we looked at kind of hazards in a stand alone kind of fashion. But as we saw in Santa Barbara where we had a drought followed by fire followed by a 500 year storm and a landslide. These things occurs in combinations right. And then lastly I mentioned develop ecologically oriented strategies addressing public health, high heat, living shorelines and nature based solutions for our coast. And then lastly tying our health and all policies, community well-being, outcome indicator metrics to everything in the plan which is what we've been trying to transition to do. So that's my update for you. I'm happy to take any questions you might have. I know that's a lot of information really. You leave that last slide up for a minute. Absolutely. While we go for questions. Absolutely. Thank you. Vice Mayor Watkins had a question. Let's see. I had a couple of questions on some of the slides, but I don't you need to go all the way back. In regards to the map that we just saw in the red areas is yes. Okay. So those are just to kind of put this like the beach flats area. For some reason I can't really see it very well. There's beach flats, lower ocean and then kind of the greater sea bright area is this red area up here. And I'll tell you why that turned up is red is because there's a large concentration of old folks homes there. And so the the age is the age is the driver in that area. And you know, so one way to think about this is when we looked at that, we're like, Oh gosh, okay, what if there's like a wildfire and are on a gulch that's nearby? Yeah, we got to make sure that those older folks that have mobility issues are evacuated first. Well, in fact, when we looked at our fire department's routing, they in fact had already thought about that. So those are some of the ways that we're using this work in our planning. Thank you for the opportunity to I really appreciate that. And I think with the triggers coming in and really factoring in that with strategy for, for example, one of the vulnerability aspects or criteria is the English, you know, those strategies are different than the elder. And anyway, so just thinking about the whole picture, I think is really great. The other is I know that the governor put out a document around, like, you know, really adapting to the heat and extreme heat. And so an infrastructure is a critical component of that. And we saw them cooling bridges, right? And so as we're thinking about that too, I'm assuming that we're tracking some funding that will likely come from the state. But that seems like a big, big one to really kind of Absolutely. As I mentioned, all of the high priority strategies are getting folded into our master grant strategy. And as I had mentioned, we really are going to be diving into high heat in more detail because we really took a cursory look at it back in 2018 before we really thought that we had to worry about that. But it's come a lot quicker than we thought. But you're absolutely right. There's a lot of funding out there for us to secure for this. Nice. And then just, you know, always appreciate that the health and all policies tie in because I do think there's such interconnection between sustainability and wellness. And we saw that with the health indicators and how we're thinking about making that point or kind of bridging the kind of the kind of asylum thoughts around some of those things and making this connection. So thank you. You're welcome. And I have to say it's really great that we have those indicator metrics developed because it's great to tie into them. That gives us a way to track. Are we are we make a different way to track how we're making impact? Thank you. Council member Cummings. First, just want to thank you for that presentation, that update. It was really great to see what progress is being made on this. My question is along the lines of, you know, seeing that some of those areas of high impact and priority are like, you know, beach flats, lower ocean, the potential for flooding. I'm just wondering, because this has come up when I've spoken with people about, you know, what point do we try to move people out of those lowland areas into higher areas? And I know there's discussion about, you know, paying for new pumps and that comes at a cost and maintenance and upkeep. And I guess at what point does it seem like within some of the planning that we've done, would it trigger kind of moving people from those lowland areas to higher ground? Thank you for that question. Well, we have already initiated that conversation through the Resilient Coast Santa Cruz Initiative that we started a few years back. And that was, I think, a big deal to be able to just start laying it on the table as a possibility. With respect to the pump station, that needs to be upgraded. We're pursuing funding for that. So that's happening, right? And that's going to solve some issues down there for certain. However, we have not yet really come to consensus on when do people move? And I don't want to scare anyone because that is going to be farther out. It is not in the next probably decade or two, maybe not even in three. But that comes to those social triggers that we're developing right now is where we're addressing that. And in fact, we're going to be having a community meeting with the beach flats in the next couple of weeks to really just start giving them information about this project and then enrolling residents in becoming part of our decision-making team on this project and compensating them for that effort. So to be determined, but working on it in earnest. Thanks. Yeah, I just say like as a comment, I think it's important that as we're thinking about planning in terms of, you know, development and where we're developing in the city and what kind of housing we're building that we're also keeping that in mind because if we do have to move in that direction, even if it's 30 years from now, taking that into account now is probably going to be really important as to where will people go. I think you're absolutely right. And in the nearer term, we may want to be thinking about and in fact, we are what's called adaptive design. So how can we accommodate and I'll give an example. If you have been to Napa, Napa redeveloped an area in their downtown that's meant to be flooded. But when it's not, it acts as a community space, a park and activation. So looking at those kinds of things, I think we're going to be really critical before we get to that relocation point. Thank you, councilmember Cummings, councilmember Myers. I just had one question. Thank you for the report and all the work that you've done. And you're right, we're so far ahead, you know, and so now it's just important to follow the plans, you know, and really stick to them. And I think unlike a lot of things that we used to sort of do as we could because of grants or availability, you know, this, all the work you've done has just really shown we really have to commit to this as a community now moving ahead that there's just going to be infrastructure and places and ways that we're going to just really need to invest in that adaptability in our community but also, you know, basically really face some very real likelihood of infrastructure loss and things like that. Back, did you know the cave collapsed yesterday? I do. It's only the first foot of the opening and our engineers have been out to take a look at it and say that it poses no concern to the infrastructure people. Good to hear. Yeah. My question was around, I remember hearing or reading one of the reports, some concern about the Tate intake and this maybe, but I'm sure that I know you worked really closely with water. So that the possibility of the Tate intake on the San Lorenzo River, which is our main water diversion site on the San Lorenzo could be influenced by saline water or brackish water. Is that, that's still on the list of things to. It's happening right now. Yeah, we have a study. I should have mentioned that. I'm sorry I missed it. We have a study going on right now that I've been participating in on that. That should be done soon. That will be incorporated in the redesign of the Tate Street diversion. So that's happening right now. The water department funded that work. Oh, great. And can you speak a little bit to the Branson 40 and the fish passage study? I know that was on the list a while ago and I'm just curious about the update on that. Yes. So we've partnered with the resource conservation district on that project. I have to admit I'm not working on it day to day, but they, the city's committed a little bit of funding and I believe they have grant funding for that. And our public works department and I've been kind of coming in and out of it, have been participating. They're really just at the start of that study. They've been in the data collection and discovery phase right now. But it does have dual purposes in that it will be a sediment removal project as well as the fish passage improvement project. So self scour again, hopefully. Hopefully that's the intent. That's great. Yeah, because the sediment can really, I mean, seen 30 foot tall trees in there.  I don't think it's done yet. I don't have the most current update on that. But just having rode my bike by that a few days ago, it's, I don't think it's finished yet. Okay. And I don't know maybe, I don't know if Nathan maybe might want to come on and say something if you wanted some more details. I can send him an email or I go down and check it out. And I yeah, I also just want to comment on the the community work that you've been doing because ultimately, you know, that we are the people who will be experiencing all these unfortunate changes in our world. So glad that you're creating so much connection and doing all that evaluation ahead of time instead of just reactively, you know, trying to manage people in a crisis is going to be well, well appreciated for the people who have to do that when when some of these events hit. So thank you. Thank you, Council Member Myers, Council Member Brown. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Tiffany, for the update. It is really wonderful to see all of the work that's happening and see it kind of condensed and organized in this way. It's a lot. I wanted to just taking a step back on the questions around social triggers and ecological triggers and social triggers. You mentioned that that is kind of an increasing area of attention in our planning. And and so I'd like to hear just a little bit more about that. I'm thinking in particular, you said social triggers, for example, you know, property, I think you said property values made with asset. And obviously, looking at the vulnerability assessments are important. But I'm just wondering if you could talk a little bit more about what that looks like for you in terms of your planning.  They are renters. We've heard stories about people who are currently living, you know, like in the beach flats and lower ocean area with black mold and flooded, you know, you know, under the foundations and the like. And so there's already a challenge that we know. So and you're going to be reaching out to beach flats. I love the work that you're doing to really try to engage the community and segments of the community that are not traditionally involved and will be most affected. So with all of that being said, I just would love to hear just a little bit more about what you mean when you say social triggers, how that will play in how that will factor in to our decisions or recommendations that come. Absolutely. Thank you for the opportunity to expand on that right now. And you in fact mentioned some other social triggers we're considering right now. And we are in fact working not just with the beach flats, but with the homeless garden project and with the Amamutsan Tribal Band on development of these social triggers. This really to understand why social triggers really requires mentioning adaptation pathways, which is the adaptation approach that we're utilizing. It's considered a smart and proactive approach. And what what it entails is that we how we decide when to initiate a next step adaptation strategy is based on a set of triggers that when a threshold is exceeded, we would go on to plan or implement the next strategy. So we have developed out physical triggers, things like beach with when it gets to 100 feet or less on main beach three times in a winter season, we need to go in a valuate, make sure that do we need to go to a living shoreline, we need to move back, there's different options that we have. We recognize, though, when we develop these physical triggers that they really they didn't get to the social element. And that there were in fact things like the mold that Council Member Brown mentions other health outcomes. I mentioned property valuation, flooding of the garden in the beach flats, for example, which is the lowest point basically in the city or in that area. So there is a whole universe of social triggers that we're looking at right now that could in fact trigger some of the physical strategies that we're considering like living shorelines. But what might come out of this work are other strategies that really get to that people piece. And as I said, we've just started this work. However, we have these different groups on board as well as our 14 other partners. And I should say that to your point about, yeah, not everyone's a homeowner, there will be different triggers for different segments of the coastline. The low lying areas will be different than the bluff and cliff top locations depending on what's going on. So really, this is a very rapid project. And we'll be developing these social triggers, they will be, we will have a draft set of them by February 1st. And so, again, really on a rapid pace for this. Now, one of the thing I should say is that with respect to this strategy, this adaptation pathway strategy triggers and thresholds, it's an iterative kind of thing, right? Like there's no exact science to selecting these things. And as we develop this out, we may have to adjust them over time and revisit them as we will have to with all of our strategies, as things change, as we understand the temporal aspect and the spatial aspect of them. So I hope that satisfies you, Council Member Brown on just a little bit more about this triggers-based approach. That's great. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's good to hear you talk about it a little bit more. My pleasure. Council Member Golder, thank you, Council Member Brown. Thank you so much. It was really informative and I love, I love learning all about what has happened over the last few years and how you're planning on addressing climate change moving forward. I do have one question that keeps getting brought up to me by community members in regards to West Cliff Drive and I know we've talked about this before, but I'd like just for you to reiterate what is the plan for West Cliff Drive? Sure. So our West Cliff Drive adaptation and management plan has basically a 10-12 year time horizon. It calls for restacking our riprap on our coast, replacing some failed riprap and retaining walls around the greater Mitchell Cove area with integrated seawall, very similar to East Cliff Drive and Pleasure Point. If we can get all of that approved through Coastal Commission. And then it also calls for enhancements to transportation in terms of better signage, better striping for safety. It calls for restoration of ice plant out there. It calls for a master signage project to get rid of the clutter, get consistent signage, address surf etiquette signage is another concern that we want to address. And those are really kind of the major areas. We've already replaced three sets of stairwells out there. That was in the plan. That's already complete. We also will be filling a couple of sea caves. That's what our plan calls for. Now, we will continue to have conversation about and also as our interactions with Coastal Commission will help us to understand what is really possible going forward. We still have on the table other types of strategies to consider for the future. Nothing codified or planned yet, but things around planned relocation. I know a very hot topic is going to one lane, one way on West Cliff. There's nothing in our plan that calls for that right now. We will continue through all these next step projects to have conversation about that, especially as the regulatory climate is starting to move closer and closer to that, as well as do we need to relocate utilities and other critical infrastructure. So all the options are on the table for the future, but our plan is really set on those areas that I just described. You're welcome. It looks like that concludes Council questions. Thank you so much for laying out those updates and breaking it out into those categories and showing what's next. I appreciate all the community work and like Councilmember Brown really highlighting those social triggers, I think is a real great highlight here for us to see and see that work. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Thank you for joining us. We will continue on with our agenda. I have a few announcements and then we will continue. Today's meeting is being broadcast live on Community Television Channel 25 and streaming on the city's website, cityofsanacruz.com. Our rules of decorum are on the window ledge to my left here at Council Chambers and it's my job to keep the meeting running without disruption. And we ask that you respect your fellow citizens when you are inside or outside of chambers. For the consideration of our community, please stay home if you have any symptoms of a cold or flu or feeling unwell in any way. 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And now I'd like to ask if there are any, if council members have any statements of disqualification today. And let me just make sure I see council member Brown. Okay, none. Thank you. Seeing none, I'd now like to ask the city clerk to announce any additions or deletions to today's agenda. There are none. Thank you. Thank you. Now like to call on the city attorney to provide a report on our closed session this morning. Yes. Good afternoon, Mayor Brunner, members of the city council. This morning the council met in closed session at 1130 AM in the courtyard conference room with council member Brown appearing remotely to discuss the following items. First item was a conference with labor negotiators. Council received a report from its labor negotiators with respect to three bargaining groups. The SEIU temporary employees, SEIU service employees, and OE3 supervisors. Second item was a conference with legal counsel concerning existing litigation. The council received a status report from the city attorney's office with respect to the matter pending in the Santa Cruz County Superior Court entitled City of Santa Cruz versus Regents of the University of California. There was no reportable action on either item. Thank you for that report. I'd like to call on the city clerk to provide any updates to our calendar. There are no updates. Okay. I just would like to make a reminder that our next regularly scheduled meeting is November 15th, the third Tuesday in November. At this time, I will ask council members to report out on any actions at external boards, committees, and joint powers authority meetings attended. For future meetings, please come prepared to provide an update on any meetings or actions that have occurred since our last council meeting so that council members and the public can be informed. So I will begin with council member Cummings. The only external committee that met was Ambag and council member Brown was at the meeting as an alternate. So I don't have any other updates to report. Thank you. Our next council member is council member Myers. Miss the Metro meeting this month. There was a special meeting to do some planning work and I was unfortunately out of town. And my other assignments did not meet this past month. So my report is also very short. Hopefully, council member Calentary Johnson can tell everybody about Metro. Thank you. Thank you, council member Myers. Council member Brown. Hey, well, I think I'm going to use up some of that space, the times he did from my colleagues. But I'll try to keep it organized and succinct. So I'll start with the regional transportation commission. We had which met on the 9th, I believe 6th of October. And so we've had some mercifully mile mannered meetings since the measure devote and but we have been moving ahead with maintenance and project delivery. And so I'll just highlight at our October 6th meeting, the RTC adopted new revised plans for the Pajaro River Bridge rehabilitation project, a really important project south end of our county and then a little further north erosion, supporting erosion and maintenance work along the branch line near Manresa State Beach. It's a really problematic area.  And I want to send a real thank you to the city, our cities, public work staff for your commitment to working with the RTC on share of cost and the arrangements for how that work will be done. It's just really wonderful being at the RTC representing a city that's really on board and collaborating and working closely with the RTC. Then let's see, I'm back. I did fill in for council member Cummings and Ambag on October 12th. The board adopted its final six cycle regional housing needs allocation plan, which we've been talking about for quite some time for both Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. And so the process that part of the process is complete. And as we know, this reflects almost a fourfold increase in the allocation to the city of Santa Cruz with a big chunk of that in the low income and very low income categories. So but that is now we're now moving ahead. The other item of note that I'll mention is that Ambag staff has been working on a program framework for the regional early action planning or REAP 2.0, which you've heard about because the city is also engaged in this. And as we've heard the priorities are infill, fair affordable and fair housing and reducing vehicle miles traveled. And so Ambag's advanced applications have been approved and we'll focus on competitive grants, local sub allocations and and then additionally technical assistance. So the city of Santa Cruz will benefit from this and continue on with the good work that's happening there. The Monterey Bay Air Resources District, I attended on October 19th and there I guess one thing of note, I think I've mentioned this, but I can't remember if I mentioned it during one of these updates that the so m m Bard is in charge of funding that is a DMV surcharge for emissions reduction projects under state law. And the grants or the funding has now been approved for supporting incentives to replace like duty vehicles. City of Santa Cruz is benefiting from that and also clean air management, which means fixed assets that yield emissions reductions. So some really great projects across the Tri-County area are happening there. And the final update I'll give is from the area agency on aging. First, I want to let everybody know that Project Scout and the Foster Grandparent Program are both currently hiring for program specialists. These are bilingual positions relatively well paid for nonprofit work. And they're, you know, they're just they're programs that do really, really amazing work. So Foster Grandparent being awaited for older residents to connect with kids in schools. And they they also say just since I'm doing a PSA at this point that they're looking for volunteers that COVID really challenged this program. And it's been hard to reactivate the volunteer base that they had, given that there just wasn't a way to operate in the schools for some time due to COVID. So they're looking for volunteers. So I really highly encourage folks to look it up, tell your friends, tell your older friends about the program and help us get our volunteer pool back up. Then in other good news from the seniors council, staff there along has been working with the county to identify alternative funding to keep the man the federally mandated ombudsman advocate program that is operated by Advocacy Inc. Open. You'll recall that program staff has been on furlough and the program has really been at risk of closure since the board and the council voted to eliminate their funding in the core process. But we have so there we've found funding to keep them ongoing for at least the immediate future through ARPA and then also a funding source for the older Americans, older Americans recovery and resilience funding, I think it's called. So that was really great news and I'll send another shout out of thanks to Randy Morris and Alicia Morales at the county who have been so committed to working with the seniors council on this and Advocacy that we're we're in feeling good there. I think that I will leave it there. Thanks for the time. Thank you, Council Member Brown. I Council Member Golder. I do not have any thing to report other than I have met with a group of about 20 Westside business owners and they're interested in starting a Westside business district and I reached out to Matt and to Bernie who they would like to come to their next meeting and they wanted to talk to other department heads and so I'm working on coordinating that but no none of my other groups met. Our last meeting. Thank you. Council Member Calantari Johnson, I did have the opportunity to attend the special Metro meeting that Council Member Myers referred to three theme areas for that workshop meeting. One was around increasing ridership with a goal of 100 percent ridership increase within the next five years. We had some really excellent presenters that came and spoke about various strategies and design concepts that we can think about as a community. The other focus area was centering transportation and the environment so we spoke a lot about moving to purchase of only zero mission buses before the state mandate. I think it's a state mandate is by 2029 I think. I have to look I have to look but but to start to do that now before the state mandate date. And then the third theme was around housing and transportation. The goal of developing 175 housing units at Metro Transit District within the next decade and there was just a lot of conversation around supporting building housing on transit corridors. There was a really interesting survey that was completed by the Metro that showed I'm really synthesizing but that people really want bus routes where there's housing and where there's work. And so to create these sort of transit walkable communities was a theme that we saw in the survey and you can access the survey through the Metro. I'll also just share that councilmember Myers vice mayor Watkins and myself with the support of city departments fire PD parks homelessness response partnered with fire wise leaders and partnered with supervisor Koenig's office and the county or three office and housing for health as well as association of faith communities and hosted a town hall last week. I think maybe 50 to 80 community members and attendants and the theme there was prevention communication evacuation and it was a lot of information sharing and there is hope that this is this will be the first of many series that fire wise leaders will partner with city and county to bring forward. Thank you councilmember Calentari Johnson. Vice mayor Watkins. Yeah thank you for bringing that up that was really wonderful. I think the only thing I have to add is that I think all of our my colleagues here colleagues here know the farmers market and the city signed to MOU and they put out a joint statement. I serve on the farmers market board and this is a really monumental moment and really getting that affirmation through. I participated in the conversations leading up to the signing of the MOU. However I just wanted to let you all know that I did recuse myself from the final vote given my unique position although the majority or the whole board aside from me recusing myself did support the MOU and just really want to thank Bonnie Lipscomb and our city manager Matt here for their hard work and conversation and it's a really wonderful step in the right direction and really opens up the door for a lot of opportunity for ultimate permanency and commitment to seeing that through. So anyhow really exciting wanted to bring that up and share that also with you all and with the community. And I think that's all I have to add as well this time. Very short. Thank you councilmember Brown for all your updates and hard work. OK thank you vice mayor Watkins. I guess that leaves the two by two committee and we had a pretty full agenda. There was this is a committee with city and county elected and staff and with county housing for health. And we had a brief update on the San Lorenzo Park restoration project and the Benchlands sectioning and updates on campers that have been offered relocation options and how many people and how many sections so far. And we also had from the county some project home key updates that they have applied for in the county to have some more county options for locations and that led right into a discussion on funding opportunities update. So there was a home key round three eight million dollars for Harvey West studios and no place like home funding a Cal aim and Medi-Cal funding California home ARP winter twenty twenty two funding opportunity and CDBG disaster recovery funding for multi family affordable housing. And I think some of that was my understanding to go towards rebuilding housing that was lost. For example the CZU fire disaster recovery. Let's see. We also had a discussion about one twenty five Coral Street and also contract with the Salvation Army and some of the temporary housing project planning in the city and the county. The county is also looking at some county land options and locations and looking at structures and and more of like cabin design structures that could be used and in temporary housing that would be a landing spot in between a path to permanent housing and then we talked about safe parking and having the options of safe parking locations for vehicles and especially oversized vehicles. So essentially free locations for people who need to be able to park their vehicles and have access to water and restrooms and dumping and the county is also working to identify those locations in the county and we also have I think now fourteen vehicles in our city one of our city tier three safe parking locations and I think that was our complete update there. There was a well that that was not at the visit Santa Cruz update so that will be our next update from council members. Okay so now thank you everyone for your updates and we now have our consent agenda. These are items six through thirteen on our agenda for members of the public are streaming this meeting now is the time to call in if you want to comment on items six through thirteen. Instructions should be on your screen and you can please remember to mute your streaming device if you call in. You can raise your hand by dialing star nine so I can see that you wish to speak and you can also select raise hand in the webinar controls of your computer. All items will be acted upon in one motion for the consent agenda. Unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. Are there any council members who wish to comment on or pull any items. Council member Brown. Yeah thank you I just have a question on the minutes which is item seven I think. Okay a question on item seven the minutes. Okay so it looks like that's it we'll go right to your question. Okay so this is really just a question Bonnie Bush I wanted to just get if I could. I saw that there was some communication from members of the public about the specific wording on the motion that was made around the wharf. And so I just wanted to see if that where that's at is the or the because I don't see that correction in the minutes or on the website. Thank you council member Brown. I was only notified about one area. Where it was the final approved motion. Got it. So I added as amended. Got it. Which would then reflect the friendly amendment that was a concern that was brought to me. Okay yeah sorry to bring it up here but I just wanted to make sure it was settled. Thank you so much. Okay that concludes questions and comments by council members. So at this time then we will go to members of the public and I will look out to see if there are any hands raised and look at our virtual attendees. I'm not seeing any hands raised to any members of the public wish to speak to our consent agenda items 6 through 13. Please step forward. Welcome. Thank you. My name is James Ewing. I don't know what to say. Consent agenda item number 6 about the resolution authorizing the city to continue teleconference public meetings pursuant assembly bill 361. Now where's the actual evidence of any actual emergency that you guys tend to speak about? Yeah because there's a lot of evidence that there's a lot of things going on that you guys often don't speak about. About as polite as I can be. Thanks. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on consent agenda items? Please step forward. Welcome. Thank you. I'm just looking at consent agenda item number 9, green waste, wood waste, and construction and demolition material, grinding services. I just wanted to kind of put a little check mark there to ask people to think about reuse of resources. I'm not sure what's getting grinded, but I know that as an ecologist, very much an amateur, I see a lot of things like tree limbs, tree trunks, and things like that getting ground up. And I know that there's an economic value to that that's probably very, very legitimate. But I just wanted to ask that as we're moving into the future and addressing things like climate change and sustainability, designing with sort of really a creative mind about sustainability that maybe not everything that's getting ground up should be getting ground up. Perhaps reuse could be considered or other ways of using these materials. And I just wanted to say that because it's kind of to me like those leaf blowers, you guys. They're everywhere now because they're so efficient and they just are so much better than taking forever to sweep up leaves. But there's a real environmental cost, not only with air pollution and noise, but just the combusting and all that. So I'm just getting just kind of flagging that I'm hoping that when it comes to like climate adoption plan and health and things like that that we're just thinking about these things. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public that wish to speak to our consent agenda items? OK. Let me make sure that no other virtual attendees have their hands up. OK. Seeing none. OK. I will pull it back to council and I'm looking for a motion on I consent agenda items. Six and thirteen. I'll move the item. OK. We have a motion by council member Myers with a second by council member Golder. And I'd like to ask the clerk to do a roll call vote. Please. Member Calentari Johnson. Aye. Golder. Aye. Cummings. Aye. Brown. Aye. Myers. Aye. Vice Mayor Watkins. Aye. Mayor Brunner. Aye. That motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Moving on into our agenda. Next up is our consent public hearing. These are items 14 and 15 on our agenda. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. All items will be acted upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. Items number 14, the tri-annual 2022 Building Standards Code adoption consistent with state building standards and 15 adoption of the 22 edition of the California Fire Code and Fire Code Standards, including annual supplements and state amendments and ARATA. So are there any council members who wish to comment on or pull any items? And let me make sure I see council member Brown. OK. You're good. Seeing none, we will now go out to public comment for items number 14 and 15. And I am not seeing any attendees with hands raised. Press star 9 to raise your hand. If you are joining us in person, you can step up to my left. Seeing none in person, I will bring it back to council. And I'm looking for a motion. I'll move Consent Public Hearing Items 14 and 15. Thank you. I can second. OK. So we have first by Vice Mayor Watkins and a second by Calentary Johnson. May we have a roll call vote? Council member Calentary Johnson. Aye. Golder. Aye. Cummings. Aye. Brown. Aye. Myers. Aye. Vice Mayor Watkins. Aye. And Mayor Brunner. Aye. That motion passes unanimously. OK. Thank you for being here and being available. Next up on our agenda is item number 16, Youth Well-Being Snapshot Status Update. Again, for members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if this is an item you wish to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order here will be a presentation of the item by staff, followed by questions from council, and then we will take public comment and return to council for deliberation and action. So I would like to welcome Tony Elliott, our director of Parks and Recreation. All right. Thank you, Mayor Brunner. And joining remotely today and our team has kind of spread out all over the city and county today. We'll be coming to the council here remotely. So yeah, just for the record, Tony Elliott, director of Parks and Recreation for the city. We've got a few of our Parks and Recreation team on the call, Isis Ray, Robert Acosta and Lindsey Bass. And then from the United Way's Youth Action Network, we have Chris Alonzo as well. So this item is really just a status update or a check-in with the council on the status of the youth wellbeing snapshot. This is a report that council I really wanted to see and directed staff to work on just about a year ago. And it's really that the purpose is to create a baseline of metrics in terms of the state of youth in Santa Cruz. So how are young people doing in Santa Cruz? And this is really in the context of a lot of work that the council and the community members and staff have been working on over the past year. These things range from the Children's Fund and measure A about a year ago to the Children and Youth Bill of Rights. It was also put together about a year ago. So some really amazing, incredible work, you know, really focused on youth investment in youth in Santa Cruz. And so as all of these pieces have been coming together, this report, this youth wellbeing snapshot has really been intended again to provide this baseline set of metrics so that we can assess where are we now? And then how do we make, you know, thoughtful and informed policy decisions and budget allocations moving into the future in terms of investing in youth but using those benchmarks to really gauge our success and how we can continue to improve over time. So that's a brief intro. We'll talk a little bit about the status of the report, but wanted to just acknowledge the council subcommittee, really the city schools subcommittee that has been working on this over the last year. And so that is Vice Mayor Watkins, Council Member Calentary Johnson and Council Member Golder, who've done a huge amount of work on this. So I actually want to defer to the city schools committee to kind of speak to some of these components on the work done over the last year and then we'll bring it back toward the end of our presentation here on what this means for the report and where we're headed from this point. So with that summary, I'll send it, Mayor, back over to you and to the city schools committee to report on progress. Great. I'm going to kick us off. Council Member Calentary Johnson, thank you so much, Tony and Iseth and Robert and all of the staff and team for your work on this and welcome, Chris, to the group. So I'm just going to briefly talk about the larger context than the why. A year ago, just shy of a year ago, the Surgeon General released a report that mental health challenges were the leading cause of disability and poor life outcomes in young people in the United States. And we see similar numbers here in Santa Cruz County. Our last data is from 2019, a little dated because of COVID, but the California Health Kids Survey shows 37% of 11th graders reported having experienced chronic sadness or hopelessness and 13% who had seriously considered suicide in the past year. So as a council last year, we brought forward and approved unanimously the Children and Youth Bill of Rights because we, as a council and as a city, have a role to augment youth well-being. So that's kind of the background and the context as to why. We have been working over the last year. I'm the liaison to the Youth Action Network. And we've been working directly with the organizations and youth who are part of the Youth Action Network and really thinking about what are the broader partnerships across our county and what are the roles of the various departments within the city? What are we already doing and how can we expand on it? And as Tony mentioned, what we have here is a baseline to help kick us off. So I think with that all pass it to Vice Mayor Watkins to speak a little bit about how we've operationalized. Thank you, Council Member Calentari Johnson. And thank you to our Parks and Rec staff as well as Nicole, who supported this process. You know, the only addition that I'll add is really just my gratitude, one for this council and for the community for really affirming our commitment to kids with the passage of Measure A, which really has really, I guess, doubled down on our investment in youth. And this is just a status update around the work that we've been trying to do to really tie it into not only the Youth Bill of Rights, but the broader interest around health and all policies and holistic supports for our community and our youngest residents. And the Measure A, within that ballot measure, that language really had written into it to have a community oversight committee. And I know it's in the agenda report. But just to speak to that, that specifies specific stakeholders to participate in this oversight body and really how that will look will be forthcoming and will be brought before the council, but really wanting to think about how we can be thoughtful about their time, about their expertise in the community and how that looks in terms of other precedents that's been happening within other jurisdictions and what we can learn from that. But ultimately to ensure that the dollars can be leveraged to support the specific populations outlined in the ballot language and is also used as often a kind of a hindrance is the requirements associated with different funding sources. So this could be a way to really be nimble as needed to support kids based on the boots on the grounds input from our oversight committee. So that's been part of the discussion as well. And then really looking at the data and the needs not only from our youth directly who are participating in the youth action network but also all ages of youth and families because we have our youngest residents, right? We don't really hear from them but we need to have their voice heard. So really looking at how are we being really mindful about setting up what this looks like moving forward and the North Star really being what's outlined in the Bill of Rights. So yeah, happy to have the opportunity to share this status update with you all in the community. And I'm just going to add one one brief couple of comments is thanks to the staff and everybody that helped with this as well. I know the three of us have been really passionate about youth in our council work and our personal lives and our work. And and I think the one thing that the pandemic showed us was that more youth died by suicide in this county than by COVID. And we have a responsibility and obligation to augment parts of their life experience in the ways that schools and other organizations can't. And so I think just like council Rice Mayor Watkins said was just the ability to be nimble with these funds and the way that we were able to respond to the needs of youth and parents with childcare and using the FOPAR funds to bring rec leaders on-sites to elementary schools and it's just been a really great experience. And I just really appreciate all the collaboration and teamwork. And I can't wait to, you know, this is really just a starting point. I can't wait to see where it grows and leads to. Thanks, everybody. Does that conclude? Back to Tony. Back to Tony. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. And as was mentioned, Nicole Young, who's our consultant from Optimal Solutions Consulting really kind of shepherded us through a process over the last several months to help build this draft report. And so just to speak to that briefly in the packet today is a... I don't want to call it our draft Youth Wellbeing Snapshot Report, but it's really kind of the beginning stages of that. It is a draft. And for the public in particular, what we've really and what Nicole really modeled this on are those 10 components of the Children and Youth Bill of Rights. And so with those as guiding objectives, we're really using those to try to capture different types of data, really identify all these different sources, whether it's state, county, local resources through our nonprofits, whatever those might be, to really assemble the story on what is the state of our youth. And so we've got kind of a draft version of that in the packet. But a lot of work left to do on that. And so a couple of key things that we want to really flesh out over the next several months, or next few months. One is in regards to the timeliness of the data. A lot of the data that we captured was from 2018, 19, 20 pre-pandemic times. And we didn't think that was necessarily reflective of the current state of youth in this sort of kind of late, hopefully late stage pandemic timeframe that we're, and so we want to make sure and really identify how do we get the most timely data to include in the final draft report that we bring back to the council into the community. And secondly, and I think perhaps most importantly, we want to make sure that this report is not built by a group of adults saying what is the state of our youth, but we need to involve youth. We have to have youth voice. And so different ways we can do that through our partners at city schools, through our youth that participate through, for example, the team center or through Parks and Recreation. But one avenue that I think is especially valuable is through the United Way and the Youth Action Network. And so really working on the beginning stages of partnership with the Youth Action Network through the United Way to really connect with the youth action network connect with youth, do surveys or figure out the right methodology to get youth voice in this report to really make it reflective of the true state of youth. So with that said, I also wanted to just briefly introduce Chris Alonzo with the Youth Action Network and United Way just to speak briefly about the partnership and what we hope to achieve in this component of the Youth Wellbeing Snapshot Report. Thank you, Tony. Good afternoon, everyone. As Tony said, my name is Chris Alonzo. I'm the new community impact coordinator for United Way. So I'll be coordinating the Youth Action Network and working with those youth and a little bit about the Youth Action Network for folks that aren't familiar with it. The Youth Action Network is actually two kind of components. The larger component being the network itself, different community stakeholders, youth serving organizations, being a part of this network and kind of being able to send youth or kind of contribute right in that manner of helping us guide and carry the word of the work that we're doing. And then there's the actual Youth Steering Committee, which is made up again of the broader network. So these youth are already like the superstars who are already taking on other activities and tasks and what have you, and they're also being a part of the Youth Action Network Steering Committee. And so, you know, with that, we're definitely, you know, like the mayor, the vice mayor mentioned, the Youth Bill of Rights, the Children's Network, that's something that the Youth Action Network and myself were going to be working with, you know, other organizations, other community stakeholders to really find opportunities for a lot of our youth to kind of strengthen their skills, their leadership skills, development skills. We know that doing this and having opportunities for them is important, right? Because it creates those like tight-knit communities that they need, especially during these times.  And so it's important that we have these opportunities available for them. I know we were mentioning mental health.  And then we're also partnering up with UC Santa Cruz on a youth participatory action research project where we're also trying to, or the youth actually, not us. The youth are really going to dive deep into approaches of mental health. Like how do youth find resources? How do youth get past that stigma and ask for help? Or how do we as adults help them in seeking resources or seeking information when it comes to mental health? So there's definitely a lot happening out there for youth and I'm really excited. I know, sharing with Tony earlier, I'm a father. So a lot of the stuff that I'm trying to do right now or I'm involved in is, you know, things that I hope I can get my son in or that he'll have these opportunities once he's older to participate.  So, you know, thank you for this opportunity to allow me to kind of give a little quick glimpse of what we're doing and what we're going to be a part of in the upcoming months and throughout the next year. All right. Yeah, thanks, Chris. And yeah, just to kind of build on that a little bit. So the Parks and Recreation Department within the city obviously is a key stakeholder as it relates to youth and teens and serving young people in Santa Cruz, of course. We don't have all the data. We don't have all the information. So partnerships like the one with United Way, with Chris, with County Office of Education, with the many organizations out there, city schools, we're really just kind of in the middle of the collaboration and the engagement to try to get the data, engage youth and help pull this report together for the city council and the community. So I just want to appreciate Chris and the commitment to be involved there. And yeah, really this item today for the council is a request for the council to hear this update, to accept this update. We anticipate that we will be back in the first quarter of 2023 with a final draft report to report back to the city council on the state of youth or otherwise known as the Youth Well-Being Snapshot. So again, really amazing work all coming together. We've got a little bit more work to do and just really appreciate the council support on this, the United Way support and the many partners that will engage moving forward. So thank you and happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Tony Elliott. I had a quick question and I'll open it up for other council member questions. I really appreciated the attached report in the agenda. I almost wish it had been shown here for members of the public who didn't see it. I really encourage you to find it on our agenda packet. I think it was really visually clear and well done. Thank you. I was really happy to see the demographics especially when it came to transgender youth and gender sexual orientation. My question though is in the Well-Being Snapshot, is there support for LGBTQ plus and transgender youth and where I didn't see any indicator metrics, for example, those experiencing sadness, like what is that related to and is it related to LGBTQ plus transgender or racial? I can speak a little bit of that and then I welcome others as well just because I oversee the Healthy Kids Survey. This is just a snapshot of specific indicators. However, these are all public sites where you can access this data and disaggregate it based on the various criteria you'd like to see. So for example, if you were to go on the County Office of Education's website or if you were to go to Cal Schools, which is the California Chick Survey, the California Healthy Kids Survey website, you can tinker with the different criteria that you'd like to see, such as looking at specific populations, for example, their graduation rates, their poverty rates, their correlation to sadness and feeling connected to school, et cetera. So those are the ways that you can kind of do that in real time through the various Tableau-type website availability. But this just is sort of like a snapshot kind of picture, here you go, summary, kind of that level. If that answers your question. Yeah, that's helpful to know that you can tinker around with that Council Member, Helen Terry Johnson. That's some of the work that we have to do in partnership with Youth Action Network, City Schools, Youth from the Youth Teen Center is what are those desegregated data that we are interested in diving into? There's a lot of information out there, so what are the pieces that we really want to dive into to see what's happening in our community and try to get some whys? So is that kind of the next step? Yeah. Okay, thank you. Yeah, just quickly to build on that as well, I just echo similar comments, and I think that the nexus there in Youth is to really first ask the question in this draft report, is this representative of communicating the state of Youth and what are we missing and how do we fill those gaps? So that's kind of a key next step, probably the first major step following this initial draft here. Great, thank you. Let's see, do other Council Members have questions on this report? This is not an action item, I just received this report. Let me make sure I look at Council Member Brown. Okay, you're good, thank you. Council Member Cummings. Just a quick question, so is this going out to public comment and then we're just, or is this just accepting the report and moving on? We're accepting the report and we're not taking action on it. Okay, then I just have a comment that I'd like to make. The one question, thanks Tony and everyone who's worked on this and for bringing this forward, the one thing that I've been hearing about consistently as it relates to kind of this item, but also with the Children's Fund is kind of what's happening with the Children's Fund, how's that money being spent and we haven't gotten an update on that and so when this comes back in January, I think it'd be really critical that we start showing the public about what types of youth programs have been funded with that money, what are the outcomes, and then also kind of what is on deck for what programs will be funded next year and how much money will be going into that because that's the one thing I've been hearing is like hey we have this Children's Fund but what's it getting spent on? How's the money being used and how do we access those funds? So I think that would just be something helpful for transparency around how that money has been used and how it's been used in the past and the outcomes as well. I have one more addition to that as well. How would someone apply for those funds was the other question that I hope in our next update, if not now, in our next update would be available. Yeah, and Mayor, just to speak to that briefly. Yeah, so the use of the Children's Fund will absolutely be reported when we bring this back in Q1. We also bring it as part of the budget each year to report out on it but we can definitely do a better job at communicating that, whether it's publishing it on a webpage or somehow communicating that better but part of Measure A, in particular with the increase to the Children's Fund, contemplates this community oversight panel on the use of the funds and so that will be created here in the coming months and that panel will really add, I think, a new degree of transparency and oversight on the use of the fund and really help advise the council into the future on where future funds could be utilized. So as far as an application process, we don't have an application process right now. The process for appropriating those funds is really through the City Council's budget process which occurs in the spring and summer timeframe. But as we move forward, and as that fund continues to grow, it's good news and a good source of funds to invest directly in youth. We will have an opportunity through that community oversight panel and a more transparent process leading into the budget each year for both the community to see and potentially get involved in that way. Our principal management analyst, Lindsay Bass, just logged in here and I would just welcome her any kind of high level comments on where the funds have gone over the past few years just to give a little bit more kind of weight to where we've been over the past couple of years. Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Tony. And appreciate the questions from the council members. We do have a summary of how Children's Fund resources have been spent over the last four fiscal years and there is a summary slide that I can make available to the council and I think it would be easy for Tony and I and the management team to put our heads together in terms of where we could situate that on the website just in the interim. So that council members and members of the public just get a snapshot of where the funds have gone to date and then as we move towards further and future updates on the Children's Fund and its structure, we can adjust where that lives and make sure that that continues to be updated. Thank you. Okay, that concludes that item. Thank you very much for that update on that report. The Youth Well-Being Snapshot item number 16. Thank you very much, everyone who attended and was present. Thank you. And for all the work thus far. Thank you. Next on our agenda, we have a break. That went fast. So we will return at 4.30 p.m. for oral communications and just a reminder, oral communications is an opportunity for members of the public to speak to us on items that are not on today's agenda. So we look forward to seeing you at 4.30 p.m. Thank you. Okay, is the city ready? I am, thank you. Thank you. Okay. Welcome to oral communications. We are returning from our break. Oral communications is an opportunity for members of the public to speak to us on items that are not on today's agenda. For members of the public streaming this meeting, if you wish to comment during oral communications, now is the time to call in. Instructions will be on your screen. If you'd like to raise your hand virtually, please dial star nine on your phone or select raise hand in the webinar controls of your computer. You will have two minutes to speak. Members joining us here in person, if you wish to address the council, please line up to the right of the dais to my left. You will have two minutes to speak. And we request that you sign in to ensure accurate spelling of your name in the meeting. However, it is not required. Please remember, oral communications is a time for council to hear from the public. We are not able to engage in dialogue with each member of the public, but when we are able, we will address questions raised after oral communications has completed. Okay, I will begin. Looks like we've got several people joining us here in person. Let me look to our virtual attendees and see if there are any hands raised and then I can alternate. I'm not seeing any hands raised virtually. So I will begin with our first member here in person. Welcome. Hi, welcome. My name is James Ewing. I signed in earlier. I wanted to talk about item 16. It's all about the children. You know, I'm kind of at a loss. I'm not here that often. Took the day off. I spoke in the supervisor's meeting. It was really quite amazing. How about a public service announcement? What am I drinking in here? Besides some decent water, decent coffee, it's got boron, diatomaceous earth, bentonite clay, a good baking soda, and a couple other things. I'm going to talk a little bit about that. I'm going to talk about some rehydrated jalapeno peppers, which have 200 times the vitamin C of an orange, and some rehydrated blueberries. Why would that be important? There are so many things that you guys just don't talk about. I could talk about the Fabian society. Why do that? You got Ryan Coonerty. Really kind of at a loss. You have some humor that you guys wouldn't really laugh at at all. So what's the point? You guys seem to mostly be following scripts. I just wonder what's going to happen when something really important and dangerous actually happens. But that's already happened.  I think it was August 12th or 19th on the Tom Quinn show. Dr. Young was interviewed. It was a great Abbott and Costello show. Basically, at the end, there's two kinds of people. There's the people that detox, and there's the people that die, because a bioweapon has been released. And it's also in the air. It's in the liquids, and it's in the foods. I don't expect you guys to talk about it. Anyway, see you next time. Thanks. Thank you for your comment. And I will go to the next person here joining us in person. Welcome. Good afternoon. I'm a librarian, not a poet, but I wanted to share this with you, because I guess I got inspired to write. There once was a measure named O. To another garage, we say no. Bait and switch brought distrust. Outreach was not robust. This mixed use project must go. Affordable housing's a need. Developers chortle with greed. Parking they won't supply. But that on you and I, not on lot four, we plead. Our library's innards are dated, but surely can be renovated. So ditch this bad project, our trees to protect, council trust needs to be reinstated. A floor plan we still haven't seen. The funding may be just a dream. Yes, downtown is changing, but this rearranging is one that makes me want to scream. We all want good libraries. That's true. The trend is to reuse, renew. We've heard what we've said, but our hopes aren't dead. A fresh start is long overdue. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Our next member of the public, and then I will go to some of the virtual hands. Hey, what's shaking gang? Um, that was great poem. I really actually, I I've ever since like the very first time it came before council, like I had a really good feeling about the Warriors arena when that came before council, and this was the exact opposite.  I mean, just dumb, like to have a parking garage on top of a library. The whole idea just really pardon the expression, but it really sucks. Um, I just wanted to, um, I don't know. I don't know what else is involved in measure. I haven't really read it carefully. I just wanted to actually say that if you're, you know, you're voting, one thing that's really kind of cool is this League of Women Voters easy voter guide that they have over at the library. They got a million of them and they're just a really concise summary of the initiatives that we're facing, you know, whatever changed the water temperature a little bit this way or that way, you know, for everybody. I myself am a libertarian. That's the opposite of a fascist, if you don't know. But basically, like I'm in favor of the tribal gaming, I think we should have the sports betting sports book in California. I think that's fine. I think that the flavored tobacco should be like I had to go to San Diego to buy flavored tobacco, but basically I don't, I don't see why I don't, I don't, I don't see why.  People just prefer joint tobacco. Thank you for your comment. I'll take one more and then I'm going to go to a virtual hand. Hi, welcome. Can you lower the mic to your mouth please so we can hear you. Thank you. Great. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I am here today about a notice which was posted eight days ago on the trees in the farmer's market lot. It is a cutting permit and it has to be responded to by this Friday. Well, actually it's been extended to Sunday. Never mind. We will file by Friday an official on the official form C. A lot of people are very upset about this. I set up a response Google response form on Saturday morning and we had 686 responses and I've been watching this about 3% of them don't agree with us. The rest say because this is a question do you agree that the tree cutting permit should be stopped or voided or put on hold and 95% of these people have said yes. They also some of them were able to record and we have about 40 local organizations already. Given that most organizations have to have a meeting and then poll their members getting that many groups to, I didn't even know half these people existed getting that much responses quickly is pretty amazing and it's continuing. So we will be making noises communicating with people and because this was done so close to the election so that it looks to some people like there's a plan to cut down trees before measure election happens. That's bad. Thank you for your comment. I'm going to go to a virtual hand just to alternate and I have the name I am watching and I'm going to go ahead and press star six to unmute yourself. I'll share some concerns here about the movement to install a memorial plaque and interpretive narrative about the water street bridge hanging in said having listened to previous advocacy of this I find it similar to acts to either rewrite history or slant to support a modern day leftist narrative viewing everything in racial terms especially anti-white terms justifying modern leftist anti-white terms is uncomfortable for the likes of the 1940s and 1970s. 1777 passed was long ago in a different time and unlike those who would proclaim relevance even equivalents to today, it really had a place in history viewed in the context of what I call moral evolution which can only be fairly compared to what came just before and just after. The judging of such acts has engaged in a native people's mass genocide fueled by the California Gold Rush greed with bounties on native scouts. Not only 12 years before that the entire country was engaged in mass casualty, civil war to end slavery. Both were extraordinary examples of almost normalized and common ultraviolence and rays did play a part in those. But in just a few dozen years by 1877 though, by witness accounts, those two hung were probably guilty of robbery, murder, not the victims of racial hatred but the violent retribution of vigilante justice. And nobody involved was worthy of any honor by our modern standards. Far from a defining sparking mission moment of white racism, it actually marked more so evidence of the need for even more moral evolutionary change in justice considering just 20 years later innocent until proven guilty became the law. A great deal of the current Marxist left his racial victim oppressor ideology involves this all our people is racist narrative, which is false and it's leftist group identity propaganda is the standout form of racism today. Thanks. Thank you for your comment. I will now return to in person. We have our first member here in the public. Welcome. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I am basically just someone who wants to live in a healthy town. A town that has a positive social community and addresses the needs of the entire population here including the homeless and the housed. I've been very concerned about the direction that the town has gone in the last four years, five years. And I went to the first library meeting and the recommendation at that library meeting was the architect had had done a plan about the renovation and they've done a plan about what it would cost to build a new library and the recommendation at that time was to go ahead and renovate the library. I was at a meeting the other night and I heard the advocate for yes on oh speak and the advocate for no one oh speak. And there was some discussion around the fact that the library that exists across the street now does not get used. I have a grandson that's 11 years old now and I used to, our most fun thing to do was to go to that library every chance we could. And I actually stopped, he used to come and spend two nights a week with me downtown in my, because I live downtown. I wouldn't have him come downtown. After 2019, I would not have him come down here anymore because of what goes on on the street. I feel like that our culture has deteriorated and I feel like that we're rushing to build this housing and I just think that we need to take a longer look at it. And I'm an advocate for yes on oh. Thank you for your comment. Thank you. I will now go to a virtual hand and the name is Jason.  Thank you. My name is Jason Lopez and I am the treasurer of the Villanova Homeowners Association at 180 Dakota Avenue. I wanted to inform the council that our association will be invoicing the city for $37,000 for new fencing. In addition to past costs previously incurred due to the long-term homeless encampment down Lorenzo Park. For more than three years, our association has been asked to shoulder the impact of the camp directly across the street from us. The fiscal cost of this has totaled more than $50,000 during this time, ranging from increased security, clean up, fencing and window repairs. Despite this, our residents continue to encounter human waste, drug paraphernalia and broken windows on a daily basis. Breaking point came this past month when a resident's three-year-old son nearly stepped on a needle because he had the audacity to play outside on a warm day. The result is our association has no choice but to fence in our entire complex. As it has been the city's actions that has led to this decision, we expect prompt payment of our invoice. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. I will now go to the next person in line here in person. Welcome. Thank you for allowing me to speak. I am also wishing to voice my support for the trees on lot four. We need their beauty, their cooling shade and the shelter that they offer to birds and insects as we face climate chaos and loss of diversity. We don't need to house polluting cars as they worsen our air, add our safety and our health and increase greenhouse gas emissions. Please renovate our library as we voted to have done in 2016. Please revitalize our city with a downtown park and only affordable housing on city surface lots. Please save our heritage trees on lot four. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. And I'll give it to the next member here in person. Thank you. Hi, my name is Joy Wood. I'm a 40 plus year resident and voter. And I agree with everything the last speaker said. We voted on measure S, which was to renovate, remodel and refurbish. Modernize. Modernize, thank you. Existing libraries. The other branches have been, this has happened with that money. That's tax money that we voted to spend. There was, I don't believe there can be a use of that money for a new project. And I agree with the last speaker. We don't need a new parking garage. I don't believe that the units will really be affordable. And I certainly do not want the heritage trees cut down. As a resident, if I had a heritage tree, I couldn't have it cut down. Why is the city any different? Why can't you abide by our same laws? So I too am disappointed in all of the development. The high rises, I know that we need to go up instead of out, but this huge monstrosity is beyond anything us citizens who have lived here and supported the town. I've been a teacher for 35 years in this town. And I agree with the other speaker. I'd always go to this library or the Live Oak Library to check out materials for my students. They would go there to use the computers. I don't see that we need to do more building. We have lots of empty storefronts, lots of empty parking lots, parking garages. I just disagree with it completely. So I urge you to please support Measure S, which calls for renovating the existing library. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. I'd like to welcome our next member of the public in person. Hi, Elise Caspier. I want to speak on the Warfish year, which was covered at the last city council meeting. I was able to do a little bit of research. And my understanding, first of all, I have to say that it didn't really add up because my understanding was that in February, Judge Burdick, how do you say this? He gave a definitive order that the wharf plan, as it was presented to him in that court, was to be, what's the word, scrapped. And that the EIR was also supposed to be scrapped. This is a matter of legal, of law and process. And it shouldn't be fuzzy, it shouldn't be confusing to the citizenry. And my understanding is the EIR needed to deal with certain parts of the wharf plan. And this is why I'm getting a little confused because there was what the judge ordered and then what happened last week. And so I just want to say that I believe that the judge ordered that that wharf plan needed to be scrapped along with the EIR and we needed to restart over. I'm sorry I wish I was better informed on the issue, but I did speak to people who are extremely well informed on the issue. So I just wanted to say that. And secondly, may I address another issue? Really quickly, the reason I want yes or no is because the whole thing has been illicit. The voters were misled. We want a common area downtown with an open space. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. And I will invite the next member of the public. Welcome. Good evening, everyone. My name is Iman Oshari and I'm here to bring some attention to some cycling issues in this community. For context, I'm 17 years old and since I moved to the United States at the age of four, something never changed. I always cycled. Cycling to myself and many others is a way to escape the confines of life and it is a way of living. Most importantly, cycling is a way of transportation. I assume everyone here has ridden a bike at least once in their lives. Now imagine if you never rode a bike, you'd have an extreme lust to ride one. I've talked to my peers, college students, teachers and friends about their thoughts and what I said previously is the current reality of cycling in this community. My high school peers don't wanna ride their bikes to school because they don't feel safe. College students who can't afford to drive cars want to ride their bikes but they don't feel safe. Schools don't feel safe when students ride their bikes to school so they've stopped doing bike to school events. And I don't feel safe so I don't wanna ride my bike. A couple of months ago, I was in a hit and run on Soquel Drive. Unfortunately, because I'm not a very good mountain biker, I know how to take a fall. But if someone else would have been in my position, like an eight year old commuting to school, the same eight year old that I was commuting to school, what would have happened then? Had Measure D gone through, I probably wouldn't have been here today but Measure D wouldn't have been able to fix safety issues. So I'd like to advocate for one issue because I don't have much time would be an initiative to better define bike lanes and build protective behaviors, like barriers like the ones that we had on Port Chola Avenue. I'm here today asking the council to begin considering actions to protect our fellow Santa Cruzians and to promote a healthy eco-friendly way of transportation. I've taken the initiative to create an organization that repurposes lost or forgotten bikes and gives them to those who can't afford it. But I cannot in good conscience continue leading this initiative, knowing that bikes I give out are threatening the lives of those who I'm trying to help. I'm doing my part, now will the city do theirs? Thank you. Hi, welcome. And if you could move the microphone down to your mouth so we can hear you. Thank you. Thank you. I am Jane Doyle and I just came from an eye exam and now I can't read my notes but I'll try to remember what I was going to say. I am here because I actually wanna talk about $14 million. $14 million that the city of Santa Cruz got to aid in some way, the homeless, those who are unhoused. And I thought, this is pretty cool. Only then I started looking into things and I read the June report and there is nothing in what you are planning or have already done as far as I can tell that is actually going to the service of those individuals who woke up at 48 degrees the other morning and they were outside.  You have $14 million. How about some money for those two programs that actually take care of everyday needs? Not only the kinds of needs that we and you can all take care of at home. You can be warm, you can be dry or cooled off if it's hot. You can take a shower, you can cook food. Well, that's what Food Not Bombs does for people who are hungry and that's what the warming center does for people who are so cold that they can barely take care of themselves and they need a shower and they need a blanket and maybe they need a new jacket. What are we doing with $14 million besides hiring a lot of very smart people who talk to each other, having committee meetings, meeting with the county, perhaps meeting with the state? But what about the needs of the people? I suspect that somebody who put this grant together thought that they would actually get some services, maybe just a few, but a few services to the people who really need them. I am so upset that the warming center and that wonderful secret garden center for women who are now safe, because it's not safe to be unhoused. So I hope you will think about doing something a little bit with this $14 million that is for the people it's intended for. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Are there any other members of the public in person or virtually? Okay, it looks like that's it for oral communications and as I mentioned earlier, we are not able to engage, but we do, we did receive an update on the $14 million and there has been a lot done. I'm sorry that that information was not easy to find. I will make sure that it is very present on our website, at least, thecityofsandercruise.com slash homelessness. And it's gone to everything from infrastructure investment, contract with Salvation Army, all kinds of things, working collaboratively with the county who's providing services. So sorry it was not easy to find.   Council member Cummings had his hand raised. Thank you, I just had a, I wanted to follow up on one of the comments that was made around biking in Santa Cruz because having access to bikes is obviously something that many people are interested in and there's been discussion back and forth on the bringing back the electric bike share program and I was just wondering when we might be able to get an update on what's happening there and when that's coming back because I've been hearing and I know members of the community have been asking, like, is that gonna come back? It would really help for people, especially low income, to have access to bikes and also people who are, like myself included, like I would stop biking as much as I used to because my bike got stolen too many times and I got sick of spending money on a bike and then only to have it disappear. So I'm just wondering if maybe we can get an update or know when we should get some information on the city bike share program, which I believe is also going to be in collaboration with the county now too. Yeah, thanks for the question, Council Member Cummings. I'm happy to speak to it broadly. We're really excited that we're gonna be bringing back a regional bike share program that'll be kicking off around springtime next year. Public Works has been really leading the charge with the other jurisdictions throughout Santa Cruz County to expand the program, to being county-wide for the first time and we look forward to bringing that program back in the new year. Thank you. I would add, I also inquired about that bike share program and there was an RFP and a vendor has been selected and the latest update I received is since it will be county-wide, which is pretty exciting. There will be stations in Watsonville, Cabrera College, UCSC, so a lot broader reach than our previous bike share program, which was only within the city of Santa Cruz. Early next year, hopefully. Okay, and there was several inquiries about the heritage trees and the noticing and I'm wondering if there's anyone on staff that can speak to that. My understanding is it follows the timeline of the direction that the project is on and so back-dating to projected construction time and construction next year. This is the timing of noticing for those trees and so unless the measure changes things, obviously that would not happen but it is a lengthy process apparently so that's why the noticing started now and my understanding is it had nothing to do with the election but that is the length of process that it would take. Is there anyone that can speak to that noticing briefly just for any information that we can direct folks to? Yeah, thanks, Mayor Brunner. I believe Bonnie is on. Bonnie Lipscomb, Economic Development Director. She's probably best to speak to it but you're right that this is the first step in the noticing period just to provide some assurance to those that are here in the chamber today. There's no intent of removing those trees prior to knowing the outcome of the election so this provides that noticing so that those that may want to appeal would have the ability to do so and to move through our heritage tree ordinance removal process but Bonnie may have more to add. Thanks to the city manager and thanks for bringing up this question and I understand how there was some legitimate confusion around this and really the timing of it is related to the fact that there was a formal application submitted to the city and the heritage tree permit and that process is a very long process and staff was trying to align the process and the numerous steps and actually additional steps of processing the heritage tree ordinance to align it to come back to council ultimately as it goes through, it's gonna go through the Parks and Rec Commission, there's an appeal process, there's multiple steps involved but ultimately everything is going to come to council as part of the full project package and so as they were looking at the whole timeline and also working with the developer on future funding applications, that was sort of what was around the timeline of that coming forward but this is just part of the regular consideration process and I see that Director Elliott is on and I think he has some additional information to share on the posting itself to provide some clarity so I'll turn it over to him but I will say that from a process timeline, yes, ideally from the election, there certainly was no intention to cause alarm and there will be no actions on this prior to the election and obviously the outcome of the election will really dictate how we move forward but we're really, we're just trying to follow our noticing procedures that we have when applications are submitted. Thank you, Director Elliott. Yeah, thanks, I think Bonnie covered it perfectly there just in terms of the notice that went out just to clarify we did post new notices earlier today with some additional information and language on those notices about really this sort of contingency that the number of steps that would have to occur including the election, council approval, issuance of building permit until this would occur so we added that language on the notices for the public just to help clarify but always welcome questions if community members have additional questions on that process with any application there's an opportunity to appeal as well and so I'm not aware of appeals at this point but the Parks and Recreation Commission does serve as that appeal sort of hearing body if you will for when those come up but just wanted to clarify with the council and for the community that updated notifications went out with some more context and information on this process. That's helpful, thank you. Is there somewhere, I know there's a library housing website on the city of Santa Cruz dot com website is there any information there or in terms of updates I know that there were updates being posted just where would be a good place to direct folks. Yeah, I think we haven't posted it there at this time but we could just for clarity since there definitely has been a lot of confusion around that so we could put an update there as a lot of folks are very familiar with going to that link and there is a main link on the main city frame page so we're happy to do that. Great, thank you. I think that was it. Do any other council members have any other? Okay, thank you everybody. We will adjourn until 6 p.m. And our agenda item 19 at 6 p.m. will be on permanent outdoor dining program updates so we look forward to seeing everyone then, thank you. And if council members can turn off your cameras. Okay, is the city clerk ready? I am, thank you. Council members, okay. All right, we will begin. Good evening and welcome to our 6 p.m. session of the October 25th, 2022 meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council. I would like to ask the clerk to please call roll. Council member Calentary Johnson, President Golder, coming. Here. Brown. Here. Myers. Present. Vice Mayor Watkins. Here. And Mayor Brunner. Thank you. Next up on our agenda is item number, there's a difference of numbers in my, 17 is our next item on our agenda, permanent outdoor dining program update. This is the first reading of the parklet ordinance for permanent public on street parking spaces. For members of the public who are joining us virtually and streaming this meeting, if this is an item you wish to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. If you are joining us here in person, you can line up here on the, my left to the right of the dais and sign in at the clipboard when I call the item for public comment. The order will be a presentation of the item by staff followed by questions from the council. We will then take public comment and then return to council for deliberation and action. In addition to public comment tonight, we also received five emails to city council at cityofsantacruise.com. If you are interested in commenting on permanent outdoor dining program and you're joining us virtually, you can dial star nine on your phone to raise your hand or select raise hand feature in the webinar controls of your computer. Okay, so now I will hand it over to our staff for presentation of item number 17, the first reading of parklet ordinance, permanent outdoor dining program. And I'd like to welcome Bonnie Lipscomb and Rebecca unit, economic development manager with the economic development department. Thank you, mayor and members of the council. Good evening. I just wanted to introduce the item. I know that there's been a lot of interest from the community and just wanted to briefly explain the three items before you this evening and then turn it over to Rebecca who has been the project manager who has been working so diligently on this for over the last year. So this is a long time in coming. We're pretty excited to bring before you today the introduce, the first reading of the parklet ordinance for public spaces or public parking spaces. I'd say overall the temporary outdoor dining program has really been a lifeline for many restaurants, food and beverage establishments during the pandemic and it's been widely embraced by the community and we're really excited to bring this before you this evening. Just to jump in quickly too, I just wanted to clarify that there are three items regarding this topic tonight. And so for members joining us, item number 17 is the first item and it's specific to parklets in the city right of way. The next item will be outdoor dining specific to private property. So I just wanted to have that clarification for those joining us. We will have separate public comment and Rebecca I'd like to hand it over to you. Thank you. I'm sorry, I'm mayor. I just have one more comment. So I was gonna also clarify that the first one we originally was going to have one item where we went into each different recommendation but decided there was enough differences between the public parking spaces and the permitting process for that then from the private property and the permitting process for that. So that is why we've broken them out. So this first item is to really talk about the outdoor dining program for public on street parking spaces as the mayor identified. I also wanted to acknowledge one change from when the staff report and recommendations went to print. We were planning on having the first reading of an ordinance amendment as the third item before you this evening to the existing ordinance which allows for temporary use of both public and private property for the purposes of outdoor dining. We have an existing ordinance for the temporary program and we had two different extension timelines. We are now merging them into one. So both the private property as well as the public property also known as the parklets most of those are downtown and some on the wharf and a couple in the beach area. We're proposing a recommended change and Rebecca will go over that in detail to align those together so that the new recommendation in the temporary extension goes through October 31st of 2023. So I wanted to clarify that at the very beginning because I know there's a lot of interest and probably some confusion on the timeline and we'll go into the details of that in Rebecca's presentation. So with that, I also just wanted to acknowledge I've mentioned the hard work Rebecca's had over the year ahead. I also want to acknowledge the sense of outreach to the community, the businesses and the input from other departments. So in answering questions that you may have this evening we have been working really closely with fire, with public works, with planning, with building throughout this process. So there's other members of our team that have a lot of background on this. And so in addition to Rebecca we'll have other support staff from across the city available to answer questions as the evening progresses. So with that, I will turn it over to Rebecca. Thank you. Thank you, Bonnie. Good evening everyone. I'm Rebecca Unit, Economic Development Manager. I'm really excited to bring this next step of our outdoor dining programs to you this evening. So I'm gonna share my presentation. Go through it. Okay, so tonight we have our first reading of our Parkland Ordinance. Okay, I wanted to give a little bit more just a reminder of sort of our timeline of how we've gotten here. So in 1991, we sort of created some of our initial outdoor dining programs in the downtown specifically after the earthquake as a recovery tool then. In 2015, we launched a Parklet Pilot Program in the downtown on side streets. And from that, we got two incredible Parklets in front of Hulos and Lupalo on Cathcart Street. And in 2017, we formalized that into the downtown plan. There weren't any additional Parklets constructed after that period. We heard a lot of feedback around some of the confusion with the permitting process or the complexity and some of those rules. And so in March of 2020, obviously the shelter in place and then we enacted our temporary outdoor dining program for public spaces and private spaces in June of 2020. We've gone through a number of extensions as impacts of the pandemic have continued. And as well as bringing forward these new permanent Parklet Ordinance details to you. So currently our program is set to expire at the end of this year. And later this evening, we'll discuss an extension to that to October 31st of 2023. I've been mixing up my years. So apologize if I do that. But tonight we are presenting our first reading of the Parklet Ordinance, which sets out a new permit process for Parklets allowed citywide. And so also just diving into sort of what our temporary outdoor expansion Parklets usage looks like. We have 26 businesses currently using Parklets in the downtown and that's taking up, utilizing 61 of our parking spaces. We also have activity in the beach area with six businesses on the wharf, currently using 44 spaces, one business on Beach Street using two spaces, one in an unmetered space on the grant. And then on the west side, we have one Parklet in an unmetered parking area. So what we sort of worked towards in this permanent Parklet program and the goals of this new ordinance is really looking at consistency of design as we transition from the temporary model into the permanent. And that includes all the various amenities of the Parklets in terms of their construction and sort of built materials, looking at improved safety and maintenance standards, allowing these Parklets citywide on streets that are 25 miles per hour or less, or revised fee structure and permit process, really looking at sort of what the previous model was under the Parklet pilot program pre-pandemic and what was codified into the downtown plan. And then also really recognizing that this is intended to be a recovery tool. It has been that over the last several years and wanting to be able to make this transition possible for businesses looking at affordable and long-term construction solutions. So the Parklet ordinance that we are presenting through you this evening will replace the current outdoor curb extension ordinance in the zoning code. So previously the planning department had administered the Parklet permitting process. And with these really being in public right-of-way spaces, we determined that it would be better handled under Title V of the municipal code and we'll be taking on the permitting process within economic development since planning typically deals with more of the private property permitting processes. So we did, we've done a number of different outreach activities throughout the last couple of years as we've been sort of refining the temporary program and understanding the goals for the permanent program. And just recently we did bring this to the downtown commission for a recommendation for approval at their September 22nd meeting. When we did get a recommendation from them and we also were directed, I was directed to work with the Parklet ad hoc committee. And so we reviewed the Parklet in more detail, the Parklet ordinance in more detail and the design guidelines. And then I also have presented this to the Transportation and Public Works Commission after October 17th meeting and received a unanimous recommendation to the council to adopt the ordinance. So getting into more of the details of the Parklet ordinance and sort of what it does. So this is our really sort of the legal structure and framework of what the Parklet program is. And it covers all the core components around the Parklet permit process, design guidelines and operating standards, suspension, revocation and removal processes and any appeals process. So the permit application process is really the big hurdle as we're sort of rolling out the new Parklet program. And we looked at revising that process. As I mentioned, the permits were previously handled by the planning department. And so these will now be administered by Economic Development, the core components of the application are general business information, property owner authorization to apply, neighbor authorization if a Parklet encroaches on the frontage of a neighboring business. And then their operational information, construction details, ABC authorization if needed and our standard insurance requirements since these are in the public right away. We are considering sort of a different review process depending on what businesses are presenting. So as we've looked at the pre-approved or the, excuse me, the Parklet permit process, we have been preparing some pre-approved design options. So looking to provide sort of a streamlined approach for businesses that they can take some pre-approved designs and implement them in their space without needing to go through their own custom design process. And with that, since they've already been reviewed and will be reviewed and approved by city staff and by the council, those would have sort of a streamlined review by Economic Development and Public Works. And then custom designs would be reviewed by Economic Development Public Works building and the fire department. And then retrofit designs. We know that a number of businesses have constructed some form of Parklet in their space. There's really sort of a mix of the level of construction that has occurred with the temporary program and so wanting to respect those investments that have been made. And if people want to be able to keep those, conducting a site inspection and preparing sort of a checklist of any changes that need to be made to meet the new program guidelines. Working through that process. So then the other core component of the ordinance really covers the Parklet guidelines. We've provided a draft set of guidelines and we'll be bringing those back for final adoption at the November 15th city council meeting. But those really cover a lot of the details around how the Parklets are constructed and located and those design features. So going into a little bit of detail on what's included in those guidelines. So we've set out some site and location requirements. We're proposing to have a maximum of two parking spaces per Parklet, so per business. There's some exceptions where that might, businesses might be able to have more than that. If their frontage is wider and has additional spaces within it or if there are even spaces available that they can get approval from a neighbor for to be able to utilize, we'll sort of consider those on a case-by-case basis and site-specific basis. As I mentioned, they're going to be allowed on streets 25 miles per hour or lower city-wide. There's specific requirements that really pertain to sort of traffic safety in terms of, they have to be located at least 20 feet from any corner, not located in front of fire hydrants or any of those utility or manhole covers so we have access to those in the public right-of-way and then not located in blue zones for disabled parking and not blocking the view of conflicting movements of traffic. So making sure that our stop signs are visible, crosswalks are visible and all of the, everyone can move around safely within the street around the Parklets. So here's sort of a visual presentation of typical Parklet design within two parking spaces in parallel spaces. So with the guidelines, it sort of lays out that businesses are able to use the majority of the parking space to what we call the parking tees in this area and then with a four-foot setback on each end and that's to enable navigation around Parklets from adjacent parking spaces, retaining a 12-inch wide and six-inch high storm drain clearance so that we have clear flow lines between the curb and the Parklets all the way down the street and then placement of traffic barriers and the placement of those barriers will also depend on sort of the traffic circulation around the Parklets where in some instances a middle barrier might not be required but the end barriers are typically always required. And then this is elevation view sort of the typical Parklet layout so traffic barriers on the end standard fence railing with the allowance of poles to hang string lighting or seed sails and this is the head-on view just to show what that looks like with all the different street users. And we also have a few angled parking spaces as well and so this is sort of that standard layout for the angled parking. So as I mentioned there, these Parklet guidelines really go into the key components of the design of the Parklets so laying out the platform materials, we do our two existing permanent Parklets who lives in Lupalo use a concrete base and so we definitely would support that or steel frame decks. We do want these to be durable materials so that they are long lasting and don't deteriorate over time so that they stay safe for the users. There's no attachment allowed to the roadway or the sidewalk so everything has to be placed on top of the sidewalk or the roadway and maintaining that drainage clearance and then we have specific requirements around fencing and barriers in terms of the height and having them be generally of an open design so that you can see into them as you're going down the street. As I mentioned earlier, really maintaining that visibility on the street so that we have safe, clear views of all traffic moving along the street. We are allowing umbrellas and posts to hang lighting and heaters but we are not allowing any fixed or solid overhead structures and then we have some requirements around cleaning making sure that there's any spills or anything is cleaned up regularly and making sure that we're not needing to have vector control issues come up and then accessibility making sure that all of the state and federal accessibility standards are in place and then utilities making sure that the parklets aren't covering any of our utilities on the street or if they are that there is easy access to those through a deck or some access hole of some manner. So that was a lot of the design guideline components and then we also have requirements around the operating standards. So this is how the parklets can be used and what we have put together is the parklets are really limited to only food and drinking establishments for outdoor dining and we do have an allowance for operation until 11 p.m. And that the parklets need to be closed or gated when not in use. There's no live entertainment allowed and businesses have to have the proper ABC approvals to be able to serve within the parklet areas and this county health requirement but no outdoor food preparation is allowed in the parklet areas. Additional operating standards relate to cleaning like I mentioned previously making sure that they're free of litter and any food spills and making sure that they're easy to clean underneath the platform if there is a deck in place that there are access places so that that can be cleaned out on a regular basis. Making sure that the parklets are maintained well and then secured as well. So having a letter of authority on site for no trespassing and then no smoking within the parklets. So as I mentioned, we have been working on some pre-approved designs but we don't want to limit businesses just that we did hear from our feedback that businesses really wanted to be able to customize their spaces and so these are sort of the three main buckets of design options available and we'll have more details about pre-approved designs at the November 15th meeting but she wanted to talk through that. And then with the parklet program we're looking at revised fees compared to what was previously allowed under the pre-pandemic parklet program. So under the original program businesses were required to get a design permit from the planning department and a temporary approach and permit. And so those two fees are current rates are $2224. And then we also had annual fees that we had a number of fees that applied to these. And so we had parking meter revenue replacement which amounted to $2,500 for two spaces. Oh, we also charged parking deficiency fees at $850 for two spaces. And then we also charged a license fee for the square footage of the space which was just over $2,000. So those totaled $5,419.76 on average. And so under the new program we are proposing to have a $500 application fee and the pre-approved designs and retrofitted design parklets would go under that fee. And if a custom design is proposed we would have the $500 application fee as well as additional hourly time, hourly costs for review by the relevant departments. And then on the annual fees under the new program we're proposing $2,000 per space annually. So $4,000 per year for a typical two parking space per clip. And then in the unmetered spaces as I mentioned we have two currently. Those would use our cafe extension license fee rate of the $5.88 per square foot which is just over $2,000 for a typical two space parking two space per clip. And then we're also proposing to have an annual permit fee. So instead of having a long-term license agreement this would be an annually renewing permit and we would have a $250 renewal fee and that would cover the costs of an annual inspection just to ensure compliance with the operating standards and that everything is in good condition and safely operated. And so that is our annual. And then I did wanna just cover sort of the data that we've tracked from the temporary program and usage of these parking spaces since June of 2020 just to give a picture of sort of what we're projecting of what those spaces would have generated. So we have the downtown area on this top left here and we're looking at potentially there would have been a revenue of $312,646. This is based on a $4 per day average. So that's calculated by what we looked at in terms of the 2021 real revenue for downtown parking meters. And then on Beach Street, it has a higher rate at those meters. And so we looked at a $6.75 per day average. So with those, we had nine spaces originally in 2020 and 2021. And then it reduced to just two in 2022. We liked that we're looking at $42,292. And we're also projecting forward to the October 2023 proposed extension. Just that's clear. And then on the wharf, we also have even higher rates just because of the turnover of those spaces and the demand there. And so that was, it's projected at $505,347 revenue generated. So this is our proposed sort of park lot program transition from where we're at today until our proposed extension expression of next October 2023. So today we're doing our first reading. Since council adopts the first reading, we would come back for the second reading at the November 15th meeting. And then the ordinance takes effect 30 days later on December 15th. We are then proposing that the applications would open and we would require all temporary permit holders to submit an application by the end of March. And at that time, we would also work on removal of tents and canopies that are currently out there and are really intended to be a temporary measure. And then also looking at removal and reduction of underutilized and inactive parklets that are currently operating under the temporary program. And then from April to October, that would be sort of the permit review process and construction period for businesses with the goal of construction being completed by October 31st of next year. And our intention with the application deadline is that temporary operators who are interested in going into the permanent will apply by that time and we'll be working with them to help them get the approval and the timing that they need to be able to begin and complete construction by that October 31 deadline. So currently, we are proposing this parklet to be effective city-wide. We do still need to obtain our coastal commission approval for that. So this will require a coastal permit. City of Capitola is actually the first city in the state of California to have gone through that process and received their permit. So some great lessons learned from their experience. So we already initiated the conversations with coastal commission staff on that process and with council direction, we'll continue to get that approval. And we have eight businesses currently operating in the coastal zone. And so that brings me to our recommendation this evening. There are four parts. So we were recommending that we introduce for publication the parklet organs establishing a permanent parklet program city-wide direct staff to bring the parklet guidelines and parklet fee schedule for adoption at the November 15th city council meeting. Direct staff to coordinate with the coastal commission and process a coastal permit to authorize implementation of the parklet organs for the construction, use or operation of parklets within the coastal zone under chapter 5.83 of the Santa Cruz municipal code. And just direct staff to initiate the process of repealing Santa Cruz municipal code section 24.10.2341 the outdoor curb extension area pursuant to Santa Cruz municipal code chapter 24.06. Now I'll welcome any questions. Thank you, Rebecca. Thanks for breaking down the parts of the timeline. I think that was helpful. And also seeing the revenue loss or the money t