What's worth Here councilmember story Here vice mayor Brooks Here and mayor Peterson here. Thank you, please rise and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation one nation In accordance with the current shelter-in-place order from Santa Cruz County Health Service and executive order in 2920 from the executive department of the state of California This council meeting is not physically open to the public as you can see We have limited council members and staff physically present in the council chambers during this meeting The rest of the council has called in to participate remotely As always this meeting is cable cast live on charter communications cable TV channel 8 and is being recorded to be Re-broadcast on the following Wednesday at 8 a.m. And on Saturday following the first rebroadcast at 1 p.m On charter channel 71 and Comcast channel 25 Meetings can also be viewed live from the city's website city of Capitola dot org Our technician tonight is Benjamin Thompson. Thank you for being here Benjamin Despite being physically close to the public Participation is still possible public comment can be emailed to the council for their attention during tonight's meeting Please identify the item you wish to comment on in your email subject line Emailed comments will be accepted starting now up until I announced that public comment for an item is closed Each emailed comment will be read aloud for up to three minutes or displayed on a screen Emails can be sent to public comment at ci dot Capitola dot ca dot us Emails received at that email address outside of the comment period outlined will not be included in the record Lastly, we want to thank you for your patience tonight as we adapt to this different way of conducting council meetings for the safety of everyone involved We're gonna move forward. Are there any additional materials? No, thank you any additions or deletions to tonight's agenda Staff has no changes great We'll move on to item for public comment now is the time for members of the public to address the city council on any items Not on tonight's agenda Let's wait a minute here and see if we have any public comment come in via email Look like we do all right No public comment then we will close the public comments section of tonight's agenda and move on to city council and staff comments Let's start with council member Bertrand. Do you have any comments? None at this time Thank you council member Batur if any comments I Have no comments. Thank you mayor. Thank you council member story No comment. Thank you vice mayor Brooks. I Have none. Thank you. Thank you And I just want to say Briefly that if there are any members of the public that are in need of assistance There's still many community organizations that are available to assist second harvest food bank Community bridges has their community resource centers open as well as meal on wheels is still operating Please do reach out to your community if you are in need because there are community resources available to you I'm going to move on now to the Consent calendar all the items on the consent. Oh, I'm sorry. Are there any staff comments almost skipped over staff there Thank you, madam mayor. I Think the only thing I would notice is for those of you who have tuned in last week or two weeks ago for this council meeting We're using the same format. There's very few staff in the room here this evening We do have our department heads are available to answer any questions. Should they come up? They've logged into the zoom call. So I think that's it and everything else. I'll have in the presentations. Great. Thank you Any further staff comment? Okay, we're gonna move on to our consent calendar then items listed in the consent agenda will be enacted in one motion Is there any? Excuse me any council questions on the consent calendar. I have a comment about item a the minutes on the February 27th meeting Just a comment Well, yeah, our a requested change or correction Okay, let's go ahead and Vote on the remainder of the consent calendar first Let me bring it first a public comment. Is there any member of the public that would wish to pull an item from the consent? Or any emails came in saying as such. I don't see anything. Okay with that Let's we'll entertain a motion to approve the remainder of the consent calendars Agenda item 6 B and C and then we'll come back Councilmember story to item a for for the consideration of the change Second think I heard a Bautorf and seconded by return. Okay All in favor. Let's do a roll call vote. My apologies keep forgetting. We're not here to do that kind of boat Do a roll call, please councilmember Bertrand I agree councilmember both Bautorf Hi councilmember story Hi vice mayor Brooks Hi, and mayor Peterson. Hi. Thank you. Thank you So now we're gonna return to item 6a on the consent calendar councilmember story. You said you had a requested change Yes, mayor. Thank you on item D. And it's at the page top of page nine in the packet There's a sentence that says councilmember story would like the city to purchase the carousel and my recollection was that I wasn't I had reservations about Purchasing the carousel Since we had no stated purpose for it And I think I expressed that and and that statement seems to be Fairly unambiguous that I wanted the city to purchase the carousel and I don't recall that Reflecting back on the meeting Councilmember story I was not present at that meeting But I will double check and take what you just said and I will amend the minutes appropriately Yes, thank you. I think if you go back and just check the video no problem. Yeah Great. That's they all that's only changed that I And Okay, are there any further comments on consent calendar? item 6a if not, we'll entertain a motion to approve item 6 of 6a of the consent calendar I'll submit With with the amendment with the amendment. Yes So I'll second. All right. We have a motion in a second. Can we get a roll call vote, please councilmember Bertrand? Hi councilmember Botsworth I Councilmember story I Vice mayor Brooks I and mayor Peterson. I thank you. Thank you All right, we're going to move along to item 7 general government public hearings And we'll begin with 7a an update on the COVID-19 emergency declaration I think I have to do this in the proper order here. I think we're having some technical difficulties with our screen here Yeah, it's just taking me a moment. Okay Everything has to happen in the right order here great, okay Mayor council the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the mask off just to make sure that it's everyone can understand me Because I know that it can be challenging given everyone different technological devices that they're using This is the second update we've done on the COVID-19 Situation I want to talk a little bit about first the regional Regional update and I want to talk a little bit about the city attorney will talk about what the state's doing and then we'll focus in on What's happening here at the city? As everyone's aware, we have the shelter-in-place order that was originally issued By Santa Cruz County health officer, it's now been extended through May 3rd Just this week. We also had orders from the health officer recommending wearing facial coverings cloth facial coverings when people are out of their homes In addition, we had a relatively dramatic order this week They came through that closed all beaches and parks within the entire county through next week This was done in anticipation of some of the potential crowds that could be coming to our community over the Easter holiday And the Santa Cruz County Public Schools will remain closed through this through this year Wanted to share with you some data some stats I think everyone knows that I'm a bit of a data freak So I will try to keep it relatively short, but this is a summary of sort of a regional status This is information that can be found on the county's website, which is a great source of information They did a recent update to the website much more user-friendly format with a lot of data They showed that the total number of known cases in the county is 80 13 of which were required hospitalization That is not the number of people that are currently in the hospital I believe that number is currently about half that figure and it breaks the cases down by age and known gender As well as underlying conditions Also on that page shows the number of new cases over time And I think this is one of the data points that I think is helpful if you can see my mouse right now I'm showing this is showing the number of case positive tests that we've had over time And you can see that we have not had a spike that normally when you look at these sorts of curves They show this sort of dramatic exponential growth. We've seen a relatively flat curve Which really goes to show the work that this community has done in terms of social distancing and trying to do its part To slow the spread of the virus This is some other information that I presented at the last meeting and I thought I'd share an update on it This is from a website Unicast and they're pulling Data from people's cell phones that show how much they're traveling and then they give a score for every county in the state as well As all the states in the country California as a whole is getting a bee right now. It looks like Santa Cruz County were to be plus A lot of the coastal communities are doing pretty well. Interestingly It's the first time that I've seen that the Bay Area counties weren't leading the way What this chart on the bottom shows is over time the sort of average amount of time that these phones traveled and how far and it shows That starting right around May 13th 14th that we started to see a drop in travel and all the way down to where we are today Where that figure is hovering around minus 50 to 60 percent of the normal travel and then in addition you can see up here Are the number of new cases in the state and again, it's a similar Pattern maybe not as a dramatic as in our county But you can see that with a typical exponential curve You'd expect to see this number way up here by now and we haven't been seeing that the number of cases has not spiked in recent days Another data point I wanted to share is this is cumulative cases by county throughout the state This is from the LA Times and it shows all the different counties and the different curves This is going back to when they first had their 20th case and then how many cases they've had cumulatively over time a steeper a curve the more Vertical it is the worse a community is doing because it means the cases are doubling more quickly a flatter curve is better It shows that the cases are growing much slower One of the good pieces of news is here as you can see Santa Cruz County and Santa Cruz County is actually on the Lower end of the trajectory for all the counties in the state and shows that it has a doubling time at this point of approximately Once every two weeks and again I think that's a testament to the work that our community has done to try to really Observe the new rules and the health orders issued by the health officer Next I'll turn over to Samantha Zell or the city attorney and she's prepared to give a little bit of an update on what's been Happening at a statewide level on the crisis Sam Thanks, Jamie. Can you hear me? We can Okay, great. So I You know what feels like every day is a year in some ways and so it feels like things have moved so quickly But one thing I just realized is we have not met since the governor Issued his executive order on March 27th. It seems like a year and a half ago Um Perhibiting evictions and yeah, he did that the night after or the day after the evening in which we The city of capitol adopted an urgency ordinance prohibiting commercial and residential evictions And his order was a little different his order Perhibited it extended the deadline in which a tenant who has served with an eviction lawsuit has to to that lawsuit for 60 days And so the effect of that was essentially to prohibit just residential evictions for 60 days um, so that happened on march 27th then on Three days. It was monday of this week The judicial council Issued a set of 11 emergency rules And one of those emergency rules is I think the most dramatic action on evictions we have seen to date And that emergency rule it was the first emergency rule The effect that it is to essentially prohibit evictions from 90 from now Until 90 days after the governor's stay at home order is listed and that judicial rule Applies to residential and commercial evictions um The governor's order and the city of capitol's ordinance Required that the to take advantage of the protections that the eviction be related to An inability to pay due to medical expenses or covet 19 the Rule by the judicial council does not include such a limitation So the only limitation is that the only evictions that are permitted to go forward are those that are required It's for health and safety reasons for the protection of health and safety reasons No other evictions residential or commercial are permitted permitted to go forward From the date the judicial council issued the rules, which I think is with april 6th To 90 days after the governor's stay at home order is listed The judicial council one of their rules also applied the same restrictions to foreclosures So those were issued on april 6th also on Just recently the governor the governor's office has issued a flurry of orders One of the most interesting. I think was issued on Earlier this week It was april 3rd and it's um Prohibited price gouging There's already a statute on the books and the penal code that prohibits price gouging After an emergency decoration is issued by the state the feds or city and that statute already says that Certain businesses cannot including hotels for instance and businesses that provide Supplies that are necessary to deal with the emergency Cannot raise their prices by more than 10% Within 30 days after the emergency decoration is issued That's um that regulations that or statutes been on the book for a long time A lot of cities relied on that or even Strengthened that after the recent fires what the governor did here was strengthen that prohibition He extended the protection date to september 4th of 2020 He also broadened it to include all consumer goods The price on consumer goods cannot be 10 higher than the highest price on February 4th 2020 unless there's unless it's for a specific reason and they write it in the order So that's my update. There's a lot going on, but I think that's the highlight All right sam. Thank you So now very quickly. I'm going to focus on what we've been doing as a city as a city to respond to this The first item and this is going to be this is an action for the council to consider taking this this evening is I believe it was late last week I issued an order basically to try to Help avert some of the issues that we saw potentially coming With crowds coming to our beach and so what we did was we closed the upper and lower beach parking lots The intent behind that was to make sure that we didn't those lots are very large and they're intended to accommodate A high high level of traffic of people coming and visiting our beach, which at this time is isn't appropriate In addition, we reduced all parking in the village to one hour from three hours We also banned large shade structures. That's tents and pop-ups from the beach The intent behind that was again just with our very limited sand area That we were concerned that the shade structures can effectively take up so much room that they end up really impacting social distancing protocols So that is there's a resolution on to this evening and a recommendation to approve to sort of ratify these orders that we've made We've also been working very hard on a special edition newsletter for the community This would just be a print version of some of the information that's contained in these presentations And also found online to try to get out to our community for folks who maybe don't have great internet access We've been working with the county To provide some disaster service workers to help outside the city With the food distribution Networks as well as call centers some of the shelters So our staff has been stepping up and helping helping out there And again on the HR side There's been so many changes with the federal rules around leave that we've been working to implement those changes as well The police department has continues to respond for calls for service Our officers are wearing personal protective equipment when interacting with the public Our lobby does remain open. It's one of the few city facilities that is open to the public With social distancing restrictions that apply The police department has also formed a covet operations team that began operations today Really the intent behind that is to get out on foot bike Motorcycle to help offer sort of visible compliance team to help Make sure the people are complying with the social distancing requirements Public works has been very focused recently especially on the closure and barricades for the beach and park given the health Direct health officers orders to close these things. We've also continued our cleanings of our Existing facilities There's several projects that are going on going construction projects as well as two projects that are going out to bid right now And they're continuing to process encroachment permit applications for development projects as they as they come forward At this point the only publicly open facility on this list is the police department everything else is you will call that the list was more balanced last time but with the closure to the Parks and beaches and the restrooms that are located in the parks at this point these facilities are closed I will note that the the parks and beach and the Esplanade restrooms. We will be Obviously looking out for the potential new rule or what the changes would be after april 15th Should they come into effect? Finance department, they're working remotely at this point We're doing weekly accounts payable check processing and we're really focused on revenue and cash flow projections for the remainder of This fiscal year next year because as we talked about last time the fiscal implications Of this are going to be very significant for the city And so we're developing models and alternatives for the city to to consider future meetings What actions we can take to help avert Avert the worst of the impacts Planning division they have a planning commission meeting last week fully remote similar processes What we're doing this evening they received some public comment by email and by all reports it went well Building division is continuing to oh one of the important things that came out in the updated shelter in place ordinance Was the number of construction projects that were allowed to proceed was significantly pared back So we developed a list of all the Active essential construction projects that are taking place at this time The building inspector is doing proactive patrols to make sure other projects aren't taking place And the police department has been made aware of the list and so that they know which projects are supposed to be Being worked on at this time and which ones are not recreation division pretty interesting Program the nicky was able to launch this week was online public recreation program that 85 class participants have signed up for the first four week series A lot of positive feedback about the program And we are also looking very hard at our summer programs about what we think we may be able to offer this summer particularly for the youth Um, we will need about five weeks to sort of get it up and running as I mentioned previously We have held at this point the junior guard registration And we will we'll be revisiting that and taking a look and seeing when we may or may not be able to open that up So the recommendation for this evening is by a super majority vote to make a determination That the hazards related to the pandemic still exist at number two The second Recommendation is to adopt the resolution in your packet that ratifies the emergency orders That would limit parking in the village continue to limit parking in the village to one hour closing the upper and lower beach parking lots to public And banning the large shade structures on the beach and with that i'm available for questions Great. Thank you Let's go down the line for questions from council council member bato of any questions I have no questions questions, mayor Council member betray on questions On none at this time. Thank you council member story Yes, thank you mayor, um, jimmy I have a couple of questions. Um, one it's concerning the, um, parking paystations I'm wondering it. Are we taking any action to, um, you know, wipe them down, um, you know, during the course of the day And if not, I mean, do we have signage letting people know that there are all alternatives that they could use? That they could use Or recommending that, you know, they use them with plugs Hold on. Sorry about that um So that it was just, you know about, um, the public's use of the parking paystations So it's my first question. Um, my second question is concerning and Trying to be optimistic and looking looking at moving Beyond, um, the shelter in place orders Um, has there been any discussions or thoughts about, um, how we guide the public and transitioning out to, um, maybe, um, you know, more, um, community contact, um, and doing it in a thoughtful and, um, I think more measured way or are we just going to You know, like open the doors and tell everybody to have at it. Um, so those are my two questions and I'll go on you Take them offline Okay, great. I think the first question Chief McManus can help us out with the pay stations and what we're doing with them Good evening, Mayor Peterson and council members with regard to the pay stations. Uh, the short answer council member story is Yes, we are wiping those down cleaning those as best we can Monitoring the usage of the stations given some of the park and restrictions And we've been able to do that by increasing the number of hours one of our parking service officers is able to Both repair maintain and keep those stations properly cleansed as best we can In addition Yeah, thank you chief In addition, I think we've also developed some additional signage that lets folks know that they can pay by phone Have we've been able to implement that? We have been able to, uh, we each of the stations has the signage for the, um Mobile app park mobile park mobile is a technical name We've added additional signage throughout the village esplanade area to try and encourage The public to use that app that way they can prevent touching the machines at all We haven't looked at the numbers yet. Uh, sergeant evans is following up on that doing some research We think that we have increased participation in the park mobile app Um, and we might be able to produce a number at a later date, but I don't have that number currently Great Thank you chief mcmanus So the other question was about how does this how is this going to get unrolled? You know, how are we going to move from where we are today in a shelter in place back to the next step And that has actually been an area of some uh quite a bit of discussion that i've had with the other city managers As well as the county executive officer, um at the end of the day One of the one of the realities of the situation which is is very it's interesting to live through is is that The position of public health officer during a pandemic is probably one of the most powerful Um public sector position somebody can have There's a huge amount of authority vested in the public health officer during a pandemic And and they can make determinations which Practically would never be possible in regular times for example closing all the beaches in the county So In the conversations that we've had internally we've talked about what do the next steps look like and I don't think anybody has Has a silver bullet at this point, but I can tell you that all the conversations are Focused on a stepwise approach That what really would need to happen is is that there would be some iterative lifting of some of the restrictions at times so that maybe the list of essential businesses would expand for example or the allowed types of construction activity could change and In doing in this stepwise fashion and continuing to monitor the data to understand what that's doing to the The growth curves of the virus So I don't have an answer to how it's going to work I can tell you that the conversations are taking place and at the end of the day It'll be up to the health officer to issue those orders and then us to help at a city level to help communicate with our community And force those orders um as we move forward Thank you, jamey. Um, and I would just ask this, you know, maybe you could keep us informed as these discussions evolve And conclusions are drawn Finally about How we're going to start to move away from the shelter home, but thank you I can do that Thank you vice mayor brooks any questions I do. Thank you. Um, I have three questions about your, um, the presentation itself Um, city manager. The first question is, um, if I can just go back and Uh, let me know what the data site that you were using, um, with all of the graphs. I I think you mentioned it, but I missed that Um, secondly, how many staff of ours actually Are being used or um working with the county? Has anyone actually moved over to to support the county? And then the last question is about the comments Um at the bottom of your slide that says the comment on this, uh, email the public comment And is that something that's new and are we, um, are the city council members receiving those comments as well? And those are my three questions. Thank you okay So the first question, um We're going to go back and look at the The data So this slide and this slide come directly from the santa cruz county health departments page on covet 19 This page Comes from unicast and the way I always find it is by typing in google and you can see the url at the bottom of the page I just google that term at the bottom social distancing scoreboard And it pops up This these data are from the la times and the url is at the bottom of the page And it's just a tracking site that they have that shows sort of how the different counties are faring in terms of cumulative number of cases The next piece of your question was how many of our employees are currently serving as disaster service workers? In my understanding is it's three right now? And then the last part of your question was Please remind me. I'm sorry about the public comment. Oh the public comment Yes, so the public comment when we get to that when we get to the end of the questions I will put up on the screen any public comment that we do receive and we'll read it Um, we'll read it into the record as well as displayed on the screen so you can see it Thank you. So that's the email for for council meetings themselves not Up all of the time or is that available for folks to email anything? So that's that's intended to be for public comment during the meeting Thank you. All right Thank you. If there's no further council questions We will bring it to public comments Okay, so we'll see that email address in action here While we wait to see if anyone has emailed us with public comment on this item It doesn't look like it doesn't look like we did. All right Seeing none, we'll close public comment for that item and bring it back to the council for Uh, just further discussion and a vote Let's start with um council member story. Do you have any additional discussion? I have no additional discussions and I'll make a motion to prove the staff recommendation Thank you. Uh council member botorf any additional discussion? Uh, no additional comments and I'll second that motion Okay count. We have a motion by council member story is second by council member botorf council member trend any additional comments? Yeah, no, I appreciate the city staff and jamie in particular being the Aggressive on the actions that we're supporting here Vice mayor brooks I have none. Thank you. All right. Uh with that we have a motion and a second Uh, can we do a roll call vote? council member bertrand I council member botorf I council member story I Vice mayor brooks I and mayor peterson. I thank you. Thank you. Motion carries unanimously Uh, we're gonna move on to item seven be a report from the santa cruz county regional transportation commission on an approved measure d amendment and highway one projects So this item is is um On the agenda at the request of council member bertrand. Who's our rtc representative? And I believe we have guy preston on the line and guy if you're ready I'm prepared to guy preston as the executive director for the rtc and I'm prepared to Staff to man your um your presentation. Just give me your cues Uh, thank you jamie. Um, good evening council members and thank you for the opportunity to present here today. Um this as uh jamie stated is uh, this presentation was out there request of Your council member bertrand who I refer to as commissioner bertrand as he serves as one of my 12 commissioners as does Commissioner botorf who you know as council member botorf, but um, he is uh, one of my 12 commissioners who's well and They represent capital very well Um, um with that, uh, I think I'm ready for you to advance to the next slide So I'm here today to talk to you about um, measure d and um, measure the, um expenditure plan provided for Revenue to be allocated to um, to uh, the highway program, but um starting from the very beginning On november 8th 2016, uh, the voters of santa cruz county approved the measure d ordinance Enacting a retail transaction and use acts dedicated to making transportation improvements The ordinance includes an expenditure plan and a requirement that the santa cruz county regional transportation commission In its role as the measure d authority shall allocate Minister and oversee the center of all measure revenues, which are not directly allocated by formula annually to other agencies through an implementation plan I'm ready for the next slide So the expenditure plan outlines the use of measure revenue Distributed across five investment categories The investment categories are consistent with the regional transportation plan and improve mobility promote sustainability And improve safety regionally. There are five categories on the neighborhood and Projects represent the biggest pot and not shown there in fuchsia at 30 percent transit and paracrantic received 20 percent of revenue The highway corridor, which we're here to talk about tonight receives 25 percent of revenue The rail corridor receives 8 percent and the act of transportation category to see 17 next slide so the As I mentioned earlier the expenditure plan provides 25 percent of revenues to be allocated to the highway one and highway 17 corridor um, and their projects are to increase The safety and efficiency of these corridors in santa cruz county Highway corridor investment category of the expenditure plan states that highway investments included in the expenditure plan Improved traffic flow and safety on highway one, especially for south county and mitch county commuters small businesses bus riders and first responders By adding auxiliary lanes. Um, it also allows their bicycle industry The auxiliary lanes are identified as lower cost highway projects that can improve Low by separating entering and exiting traffic from the through lanes and can help improve the safety on the high traffic volume corridor We also are allowed to use the senators for travel our Information in traffic to map management, which we do primarily through our three slides and one program And the highway quarter investment category also states that programs have reduced fatal injuries Collisions on highways and reduced congestion are funded by measure revenues next slide So although measure d provides significant funding to deliver regional Investments identified through the expenditure plan. It was not intended to fully fund all investments Section nine of the ordinance states that leveraging or matching of outside funding sources is strongly encouraged When the ordinance was written and adopted by the voters There was limited and unreliable state and federal funding sources in 2017 The california state legislature passed and the governor signed Senate bill one Also known as the road repair and accountability act and that increased transportation funding by an estimated 52.4 billion over the next 10 years There's several key competitive grant programs included That rtc plans to target for various different Uses including the active transportation program, which provides 100 million dollars per year to agencies that are successful in certain those grants Two most important ones for highway one are the next two and that's the local partnership program That provides 200 million dollars per year and the solutions for congested quarters program provides 250 million dollars per year to successful applicants Next slide so um after The senate bill one passed rtc was concurrently working on um a A feasibility study actually on on june 26 2018 the monterey solinas transit and the catapult metro college in transit district Completed a project report and feasibility study on bus on shoulder operation for state route one in the monterey branch line identified a hybrid Lane bus on shoulder project on state route one between morsee boulevard and freedom boulevard interchanges As a sustainable and cost effective way to provide meaningful benefits to transit riders in the corridor next slide Meanwhile, um rtc was working on uh trying to identify all the Investments that um the county kind of wanted to do regionally and on january 17 of 2019 the rtc adopted a unified corridor investment study which identified a preferred scenario improvement on three east west corridors including the highway next slide The preferred scenario from the ucis included Integrating bus on shoulders with the construction of a gillery lane With a strategy to use utilize measure d funds as matching funds to compete for and secure state and federal competitive grants for the hybrid on the gillery lane bus on shoulder Next slide so rtc worked with um the chp and uh calc rams and uh Metro and um on may 23rd 2019 it completed a report for the state route one auxiliary lane bus on shoulder concept of operation Which represents a hybrid auxiliary lane bus on shoulder facility extending from monterey boulevard to freedom boulevard and uh calc rams and the highway patrol both supported this project um and um This fulfills a key requirement of the legislation which allows us on shoulders and as you can see in the Slide in the picture it kind of explains what what we would be doing We'd be building on gillery lanes between the interchanges where the ramps come on the the blue Colored area is an auxiliary lane It shows it extending from an on ramp to an off ramp And then the bus would be allowed to travel in the yellow area Which would actually be the shoulder that goes underneath one of the over costs and here we show one going under is 41st avenue Next slide So the measure d um expenditure plan This is an actual excerpt from it and it shows that the auxiliary lanes are included in the expenditure plan and um They actually spelled out three specific ones 41st avenue to calc rams they ordered to um uh park Avenue and state park to park avenue I'd also mentioned the bicycle and pedestrian over crossing and then you see down there at the bottom The highway safety and congestion reduction program So when I first looked at this I saw auxiliary lanes included and I also saw that um that uh programs that reduce Uh improved safety and and congestion reduction was also included so, um, I was working with the commission and trying to see if we can expand the program so we I brought an item to um put out an rft to um Had out an additional set two sets of auxiliary lanes and um And they directed me to move forward However, I received a comment that um, we specifically didn't include those two additional auxiliary lanes and the measure the um expenditure plan and they requested that we actually amend the expenditure plan Be able to move forward with those two additional on filler units next slide So the ordinance does allow the measure the expenditure plan to be amended to provide For the use of additional federal state and local revenues To account for unexpected revenues and to take into consideration unforeseen circumstances Um, if we are to amend it it has to be initiated by the authority Regarding findings from the subsidy We need to provide notice after that has been done to the board of supervisors and city council, which I did immediately after um Record of the subsidy findings um were made by the um commission and then um that Uh amendment becomes effective 45 days after the notice was given and that became effective on march search Next slide So this is actually an excerpt of the amendment. You see it's pretty minor amount of uh Language that was added. We just added the two sets of auxiliary lanes And we actually decided that it would be prudent to add dust on shoulders We specifically called out of a highway safety and congestion reduction program next slide So this is a summary of what we're trying to do here on highway one. Um, we're doing it in phases If you look over to the right side, you'll see highway 17 Um, the green the first set of green Lines you see are the existing auxiliary lanes between Morsi boulevard and stokell avenue Um, you see there in fuchsia would be the bus on shoulders going underneath the stokell avenue Overcrossing then you'll see a new set of auxiliary lanes from stokell to 41st avenue And then um, the bus on shoulders would continue from there. That's 2.75 mile phase one Is uh, well underway. Um, poor fortune of it has already been built as as previously explained The section from stokell avenue to 41st avenue. We're in final design right now And we're working on our application for solutions to congestive corridor program sunday Phase two it would be three miles long and would include two additional sets of auxiliary lanes from porter to um Park and from park to state park that project is currently in the environmental stage Stage and will be advancing to design in thereafter That project also is going to be included in our application That we're going to submit in either june or july depending on when the ccc Besides our applications are due. Um, we hope to have funding for those for phase one and phase two applied for By that deadline and if uh, we're successful Phase one could be under construction in 2021 phase two could be in construction in 2023 2024 And then the new sets of auxiliary lanes that were added by the amendment from state park to rio damar and from rio damar Freedom avenue. We have already hired a consultant and they're starting the is off the environmental phase right now and In two years, there'll be a next another round of funding and we hope to apply for Funding for that round and that would complete the buff on shoulder corridor From morsy boulevard to freedom boulevard And that concludes my report and i'd certainly be uh willing to answer any questions that uh Council members Great. Thank you so much Let's go down the line with the council members here. Uh council member botch or if any questions I have no questions. Thank you for that report guy Council member vertrand any questions Yeah, um, I was wondering guy, uh, it's actually a director guy would you Uh, give a little more description of what the bus on shoulder program does and how they'll Help us in the high commute times and also talk a little bit about how this whole were all overall program in the three stages Should increase the efficiency of the highway corridor So, uh The problem we've been supporting transit in this county since the 1970s. We had a hot the county has a Half-cent sales tax or that's dedicated to kind of cruise metro And we have a pretty good bus system. The problem is our buses get stuck in the same traffic That single occupancy vehicles get stuck in on the highway so You know, there's only so much room on the highway. There's only so much money to be done and Um, you know that that we have to to complete our project So we're trying to convince people to get out of their cars and ride the bus instead of Using their their vehicles by themselves and we believe that that would be a good way to reduce congestion on the highway system The best advertisement for the bus would be to see the bus moving by all the cars sitting and idling in traffic But we also do think that the auxiliary lanes do really traffic as well as you have Driven on highway one pre-covid 19 um It's pretty much a standstill Um, except In the area where the auxiliary lanes were already constructed. It moves pretty well there So we do think it's going to provide some relief to to the average Traveller that over time, you know Once you provide a certain amount of relief it starts to fill up So the the buses would be allowed to drive in the auxiliary line It'd be allowed to go across the gore points and underneath the overcroft and and and by half all that traffic And uh, we believe that by doing so that will increase Tramps of usage and that would also really reduce congestion on on the highway system. So um by each phase of the project as we build each phase we're going to um Provide some congestion release release and providing opportunity for the buses to use The auxiliary lanes and the shoulders to fight out the traffic We can't build it all at once because um, we don't be able to apply for the funding and get it to funding in place Must have environmental clearance So we will um, we'll apply for it in phases and move forward out. We can until we can complete the system I don't know if that answers your question If not, let me know and I'll see if I can You know, I No, it does and I think it gives a pretty good idea how the buses With the addition so the auxiliary lane and the bus on shoulder is going to help conservatively And I like your comment about the advertisements And you know, one of the things that's really important about applying for this funding is to propose the source of projects that California Transportation Commission is looking for and um, the cpc is is very much interested in seeing multimodal projects projects that include More than one mode of transportation So our project would reduce congestion for single occupancy vehicles and trucks driving on highway one But it also has a transit component and it also has The bicycle pet overclockings included in them as well. We have one at chance clear avenue. We have one at marvista We're also i'm going to be replacing the bridge at capitol avenue and the new bridge of capitol avenue and the city of capitol will Have bicycle lanes on it. Um, so we find it to be very attractive. Um, the new project that we added from State park to rio del mar includes the two railroad bridges And those are going to be replaced with, uh, longer bridges to accommodate the auxiliary lane Um, that'll provide shoulders in those locations where there currently are not no shoulders so that's going to improve spacey and um Allow emergency vehicles a place to go if we're ever in an emergency That's uh, different from this one where we're at stay home one that requires us to Evacuate you will actually have additional width on the highway system for those huge safety components in it as well um, we're looking for innovative projects and projects that um that kind of think outside the box and um Every single meeting that i've gone to statewide and talked about this project. Um, it's been extremely popular Santa Cruz and monterey county are the only two counties in the state that have legislation that allows buses to ride on the shoulders So we're going to be very unique in our application and we think um, based upon those factors We have a very good chance of being Thank you Great, thank you Let's see councilmember story any questions Yes, thank you mayor. Um, and guy, thank you for coming on and giving us this report and particularly the visuals On the relationship between the bus on shoulders and the auxiliary lanes Um, and it appears that the bus on shoulder is a continuation of the auxiliary lane um And I and my question is I mean if you could confirm that the bus on shoulder is exclusively for buses only But I know that the auxiliary lanes or not And so I went what is going to be the enforcement mechanism is this like signage and And and fines for cars that may travel on the shoulder So I was just curious about that Yeah, we've been working very closely with the php and Santa Cruz metro We are going to have a significant signage out there that shows that buses are only permitted on the shoulders and the shoulders that they're using are only Under the existing overclocking Um, they will be using the auxiliary lanes along size or With the vehicles that will also be allowed to use the auxiliary lanes. So you pretty much answered your question With your statement that um, you know, is it going to be fines and And enforcement by php. Yes, that's exactly how it's going to be done We don't really think that there's going to be too much abuse. Um, I think it would be pretty obvious That only a bus is allowed. You know, I know that there's abuse of hod lanes Those are the high occupancy vehicle lanes that you see But um, you know, it's very hard to tell what those high occupancy vehicles if there's a small kid in the back or if they're You know, if they have an exception to ride in in the hod lane based on them being an electric vehicle But um, when you're riding under the overcroppings only buses are going to be permitted and We do think that um, most of the public would comply and if they don't php is looking um towards enforcing and we are looking to provide paved areas for the php to Park in and so that they could be very visible and enforce the The requirements of the law which would not allow the Vehicles to ride under the overcroppings on shoulders That's good. Thank you Great. Thank you vice mayor brooks. Any questions? I have none. Thank you. All right, great Um, with that we will bring it to a public comment. Have we received any? uh emails From the public on this item Refreshing it looks like we did not seeing none. All right We will close public comment for this item and this was just an informational report. So there's no additional action, correct? That's correct. All right. Thank you so much. Uh, guy Preston executive director of the regional transportation commission We really appreciate you providing that update for us this evening You're very welcome any time just let me know Wonderful. Thanks again. Take care We're going to move on to item 7c the final item of tonight's agenda Consider allocate allocating 10,000 of emergency grant funding to help address the covid 19 pandemic and we will go for a staff report All right council members mayor This item is on the agenda on the agenda the request of Mayor peterson who suggested that we could get an item to talk about utilizing the 10 000 of emergency grant funds That were set aside To help in the event that some need arose in our community. I think it was Insightful to put the set funding aside. I think just none of us could anticipate how great the need was going to be when that need did arise So we've identified some potential uses for the grant funds this first one Building off what count mayor peterson mentioned at the last meeting is to help offset The cost for personal protective equipment that the city has been incurring Really for the police department public works other employees We're looking at some decontamination equipment that would be Utilized by officers as they went back into the station after their shift um, we estimate that about $5,000 is sort of our total spend at this point on ppe extra Cleaning equipment that we've been using to date Another idea is about um, I mentioned earlier the online recreation classes We're trying to buy down the the cost if you will to help Community become engaged in this new recreation offer offering as well as You know keep the recreation department moving and active Through this shelter in place order And and so one suggestion would be that through the 85 class participants We've been waiving the $18 registration fee We could use that to sort of help supplement that account To help buy down the cost for the community as well as Sort of help the recreation department pilot another lower cost option A couple other ideas we've been looking at a website update. We're actually due for one The downsides of the the website obviously is much more important than it was before given the fact that city hall isn't accessible And so many other so many people are now accessing information from the city on the web The problem of course is is that we can't get it done in three weeks two weeks So this is you know more of a longer term project But I thought I'd put it in the mix and we have some information about what that might look like if you're interested Then we estimate that at about $4,000 to complete the website upgrade We've also We could install some public sanitation devices, maybe a McGregor esplanade jd street parks That sort of be public hand washing stations Um cost isn't too significant each one is about $120 a month plus a $30 setup fee Obviously, we couldn't put them in the parks until the parks became open But that is a fourth option to use the grant funds and then the fifth option Mayor Peterson brought this up I think when she mentioned the site of it our last meeting Was that the community foundation has established the covet 19 local response fund? The funds are used to support organizations organizations and their response throughout the county As of the end of last month, they'd granted over $500,000 out of this fund And the first fund priority is for organizations that are on the front lines of the covet 19 response and so with that The recommendation is is the council to identify some uses for the $10,000 of emergency grant funds And i'm available for questions All right, uh councilmember bothor if any questions I have no questions. Thank you. Thank you councilmember Bertrand questions Right, so how How how fast can we act on the improvement of the website? And um, I agree with you. This is a long term benefit to the city Um, can you give me a expand a little bit about what um, we'd be working on? So i'm going to turn to the clerk who's been spearheading this effort So the question was is is could we fast track the website update? And are there any options to to get that down or is the three to four months really the minimum you think it would be necessary From discussions, um, can you can everyone hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. Okay, great. Thank you. So from discussions. I've had with um, our staff and with our representative from our website um manager The three months is is a short period of time compared to what they have discussed. Um, so that would be The soonest I think we could get a really really nice product for the community up and and ready Zance answer your question council member vitron Well, I'm sort of wondering what the enhancements are and and the features that would be of benefit to the city of capitol and the residents Absolutely, so, um Would you like a little bit? We do have a few slides to show what they would look like. Is that would that be helpful to take a look at? Yeah, yeah, that'd be great. I'm just trying to envision if this is the choice of the council What we'd be spending our money on thank you okay, so Thank you. Um council and mayor I think we're all Aware that our website is a little old. It could be revamped. This has been something we've discussed for a while But like our city manager said, um city hall is closed Most people are getting information they need from our website. So it's very important that that information is clear easy to access Of a significant thing is that it should be mobile friendly so that those can access our information on their phones Not just on a laptop or personal computer And something that's close to my heart is that our social media accounts could be better integrated into our website So at this point, I hate to say that our website is a little confusing. It's text heavy There's a lot of information, which is wonderful, but it's a little hard to navigate So I have some examples here um There's too much text happening if you click through that'll become more apparent And yes, there's I believe there's too many steps For example to get to our instagram page from our website There's not one not two Not even three but four clicks Where there could be one So what we do want as I said is clear information that's concise I feel it's important for that to make sense to people that don't work for the city or aren't super familiar with The way we run public meetings for example So how can we use keywords and logical explanations so that you know, anyone can really get the information they need And it should be pretty So here's an example This is a revamped website that exact same fee that we would pay the four thousand That the city of los altos had gone through with the same provider that we use as you can see There's a very clear obvious bar there at the top that has covet 19 information if you click if you were to click on that the next slide shows A very nice. This is a little small just for our screen But a clear page with with links that are embedded in the first page not hidden at the bottom as our website is now For all different information takes you to the appropriate resources based on the current emergency so Yeah, do we want to That would be yeah, that's the example I have ready Off the top of my head. I have a few more cities that have gone through the same process But I think we can agree. This is a good thing to do just maybe not right now. That's of course up to to you Thank you Um, let me see. Who was that councilmember story or who was I who was asking that question for trans. Thank you Uh, did that answer your question councilmember pertran? Yeah, I think that gave me good idea. I'm Obviously, I've had some issues with our website. So I'm glad the city's addressing this Great. Thank you councilmember story. Any questions? Yes, can you hear me? I've Yes, we can hear you a little technical difficulties, but um I had a question about the hand washing stations um, and I just um Are the bathrooms that they ask will not in j. Street park? Have they or will they be open? Um, will the hand washing stations be in the bathrooms or outside of the bathrooms and Are the bathrooms available for hand washing? Steve are you online? Do you want to answer that? I'll take a stab at the answer. So in general the bathrooms are available for hand washing. Obviously, they're not accessible now, so they are closed We talked about potentially getting these hand washing stations You know, maybe at locations that were a little bit removed a little bit further distance from the restrooms That was certainly a conversation we had internally was how much of a need was there at jade street in the esplanade given that there are already restrooms, but we think We think that potentially getting them a little bit further away from the restrooms even when they're open Would provide some benefit Does that I thank you? All right. Thank you vice mayor brooks any questions? I have none. Thank you. All right. Thank you Um, I thought I had a question Maybe I don't so We will bring this to public comment. Did we receive any emailed public comments on this item? What's the wrong thing? Do a quick send them received to make sure? It's interesting the planning commission got I think three or four public comments.  No, it doesn't look like we got any public comments. All right Seeing none will close public comment for this item bring it back to council for a discussion and a vote We'll start down at the other end or who would be at the other end of the table tonight Let's start with councilmember story. Do you have any additional comments?  Thank you, mayor. Um If I just wanted to express, um Coming out of this, um pandemic I think that we're going to have some significant distilled issues for us And I think I would would have us rather wait On how we Expend money until we see What those physical issues are going to be the depth of them? And what all the needs will be before us at that time With that said, I think it would be appropriate to spend the $5,000 for the PPE Because that's in that's probably supplanting general fund money um That we're would be using And um And also the hand-washing stations, um, that's that's a that's kind of a minor expense Um, so I think I I mean I believe that the staff whether they felt that that was A needed service that we needed to provide Um, but in view that you know, we have the bathrooms at jade street And at the esplanade um, and if we just make sure that um, they were Stocked with the necessary soap um And drying um paper towels or the or the drying machines um And but at you know McGregor when that opens up again, um, I don't know that we have anything They're suitable so that may be appropriate. That's a smaller amount um But you know, I think that I would like to see us hold off on any of the other expenditures And and that's not an expression about their worthiness. I think they're all very worthy And at some point we need to address them But I think at this time, I think that we need to look Toward addressing some significant fiscal issues that may be confirmed to us So those are my comments. Thank you. Thank you councilmember story vice mayor brooks Yes, thank you. Thank you, mayor peterson for bringing this um forward to the attention of for the to the rest of council Um, I would agree for the most part with councilmember story. Um I think that they're that it is hard to weigh out what What our actual financial needs will be when we come out of the shelter in place and even further down the road I think that the funds should be utilized for directly for For the pte the five thousand there and then be released for the rest us to Uh, the general fund for at the discretion of staff to decide where to supplant the the rest of it Afterwards, so those are my comments. Thank you Thank you councilmember vertrand Yeah, um I think sam's actually correct that we will have financial issues coming up but um The immediate issue right now is personal protection and I think the last meeting I talked about that Especially for our police department. So in general, I think we should provide that protection We may not need five thousand. I would support Um a measure that said, you know as as we need it Um, I don't want to be short of money for that particular concern um Maybe we could put signs up to remind people that there's bathrooms And they could definitely go into the bathroom at jst park or at uh, yes or not and in busher ends there um The other reason why I think um, we should expand on the website is as sam brought up earlier We're going to have to do a lot of work. I think if we engage with our community, especially if we make that effort To prepare city capsules for all the developments that are going to be unfolding As we get out of this crisis Um, it's probably going to be quite extensive the different things That the public will want to know about So From that perspective, I think we should have a website that is very easy for people to use um The people in this town are going to look to us To help be a main source for that kind of information and I think this website development Would be very critical in that regard. So I would support the four thousand for that for sure. Thank you Thank you councilmember bothor Thank you, mayor peterson Before I weigh in on how I think this money should be distributed. I want to go back a little bit because This is kind of a fund that's near and dear to me yet If uh, I think this fund I mayor peterson, you and I got together I think it was about three years ago and came up with this ten thousand dollars As a fund for something we had no idea what we were putting the money aside for and as the City manager alluded to we first started It's great that we have this money available to us for something that we Planned for but had no idea it was coming And I think this is exactly what we were talking about three years ago When we set this money aside was for something that we couldn't predict But rather than have to like right now We all know that because of sales tax and other issues with the city Our dollars are going to be tight But this is money that was set aside just for this purpose And I remember at the time that we took a little bit of abuse for for setting aside money That wasn't dedicated for any fund and I think it's a great luxury that we have this money now to use it because The ideas that have come up. I think are justified at this time I totally support the the five thousand dollars For the police department for ppe. I think that the risk that they're assuming right now is Beyond measure. So if that's what they need that's what they should get I am disturbed by our website This is how as we as we sit at home as the public sits at home as they try to reach out and find out what they can This is where they need to go and the fact that I think I think chloe brought put it very uh Delicately when she said that our that our website is locally Shortcoming so I think that as we move forward and the public's going to go to us It should be very easy for them to find what they need So, uh, I I think that this probably would be a good use of the funds Uh, and the the money for the hand washing we can't keep people Staying at home all the time. They want to get out.  I think that personally I feel that our parks are woefully inadequate for what we provide We have parks that don't have bathrooms don't have a place to wash your hands. So in this case places like McGregor and jade street and the Esplanade where the hand washing would come in I think all three of these are a good use of money Uh, I would um, you know, I the the amounts were recommended I think are They could be adjusted I I I mentioned to the mayor that I said, you know, I think this is a great idea that you brought this forward However, you wanted to allocate the funds. I would support that So I'm not going to Nail down any final allocations of funds right now But I do believe that all three ideas that were mentioned were good And if there happened any money left over to go back into the city general fund, that would be fine, too So I I will support this measure Whatever the uh, whatever the allocation that the mayor recommends is what I'm tend to be leaning towards. Thank you Thank you, um, okay, so it sounds like Um, I would agree and it sounds like all the four of us All the rest of the council members would also agree That we feel that the personal protective equipment is uh, first and foremost One of the important things for us to spend these funds on to ensure that our first responders Our police our fire Are are safe as they're out continuing to do their essential services and keeping the rest of our community Safe and protected So that's that's my first comment is I think the PPE would be the most essential um I'm I'm split uh on the remainder I agree that we're probably going to be facing some financial difficulties when we come out of this and we're going to need to Consider how much of this emergency fund we might want to save until that time Um, but I also agree that our website is incredibly important since that's essentially the front door of the city right now Um, that the hand washing stations are, uh vital Um, once our parks reopen and and we have more people out in the community to have those kind of sanitation stations would be very important um, and I'm also intrigued by the um The virtual recreation That it was for a virtual recreation. Correct. Yeah because For as long as the shelter in place stays in order I think if we're asking people to stay in their homes as much as we can do to encourage them to do that um, and provide them some kind of recreation that's beneficial to A mental health during this time. I think would also be very important um So I I guess I'll I'll Open it up for further discussion in a motion But I I think that we can all agree that the the PPE the personal protective equipment Um, is is first and foremost one of the most important things we spend these funds on If I may um, mayor peterson Uh, go first with some comments. Yes, please Sure. Um, thank you. I so hearing the feedback on the rest of council. I'm not sure how realistic this would be and maybe Our city a manager can help with maybe Setting the priority saying that the PPE is our first priority Then the website For me personally if it were to come down to the hand washing stations or the recreation department and supporting them After the shelter in place, I fully believe that we're or during the shelter in place with our beaches being closed I really feel it's important that we support our community members in other ways possible and I think offering um discounted Recreational opportunities via virtual platforms is is important. So for me if we were to release these funds for the emergency These emergency funds and thank you councilmember plot or for Reminding us what they're supposed to be what it's supposed to be used for I would say that my priority would be to To spend them first with the PPE Then the website then the recreation and if there were enough less And to look into the hand washing station Thank you. Thank you Mayor Peterson, I'm prepared to make a motion if uh, if you're ready for that. Sure. Go ahead um Just one quick question for the city manager if you could just uh, give me again the numbers for the recreational program and the the bathrooms So the sanitation stations are 120 bucks a month with a $30 setup fee So if we just put one in McGregor If you know there'd be 150 bucks for the first month to 70 I want to say after two months um The other question was about can you see my screen right now? The recreation the other question was about the recreational fees, right? So the recreation program. So the recreation program right now I mean We in order to help drive recreation. We were rolling this thing out pretty quickly this online rec class So the city in fact actually waived that $18 registration fee for the 85 residents who signed up for the class. So You know in a sense, this is something we've already done This was really intended to help help people during the shelter in place as the council members have noted As well as make it affordable and um get people other activities So the cost of waiving that for those 85 class registrants so far is $1,500 Okay, thank you. I'll go ahead with the motion. My motion is to uh Allocate or utilize the grants on money for the amount of $10,000 to be distributed in the following fashion $4,500 for pp and e $3,500 for the website $1,530 for educational The recreational program and $470 for Uh bathrooms at necessary parks I'll second that All right. Uh, so we have a motion in a second So I'll go to the two that weren't part of the motion or the second vice mayor brooks any additional comments On that motion or on the item No, none. Thank you Okay, uh council member story Council member story. Do you have any? Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Yeah I'm here. I'm sorry. I'm having a little technical difficulties, but Um, well, I have a lot of difficulties spending $3,500 on the website at this time It won't be up and running for three or four months Um, I think that we should be keeping our attention on the you know, the impacts of uh, this Of the current emergency I would just limited. I mean the request for the ppe was actually $5,000 both for the police public works And for employees I think that that should be fully funded at this time So that's what I would prefer that we would have focused on those things And spreading it around in this fashion and not knowing what we're going to be confronted with even before These emergency orders are terminated This all seems rather feels premature to me Um, and so for that and I'm not going to support the motion as it stated. Thank you Thank you Uh council member Bertrand any additional comments? No, I You know, I I like the idea of what the vice mayor said in terms of the prioritization Which I thought was the way to focus our comments And I agree definitely that ppe is um Protecting our employees, especially the police and anyone in direct contact with the public like public works um primary um, I agree with sam that the um website Won't be out very quickly, but I think by the time we get this done We will be in the midst of trying to engage with the public and making sure that they engage with The city and trying to move forward. We have so much to do get our commercial sector going Getting the regular activities of our village going. I think the website will be very critical at that time. Thank you. Thank you Um, oh, I'm sorry, uh, mr. City manager Mayor counsel one point that we didn't make during the presentations We were talking about the website is if we do include funding to the website upgrade We think that potentially having a council member assigned to a subcommittee that could help kind of guide the process Could be valuable not necessary, but certainly could be helpful So you may want to consider that as part of the motion if we do decide to include the website at this time Okay I think it's um, mayor. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Go ahead No, I was just gonna um If uh council member botch or wanted to amend his motion, I would be more than happy to join that committee Uh council member botch or if do you accept that as a friendly amendment to your motion to, um recommend uh vice mayor brooks To work with staff on the website Did we lose it? And I think your microphone might be muted I'll take that as a yes I will agree with the uh as the second I'll agree with it Okay, so we have the person who seconded the motion agreeing with it We're just waiting for a council member botch or if can you hear us? It looks like We might have lost him might have lost Can this be a mayor's committee? It's connecting if you give him one second. I could say it's connecting. Okay Is that something that would need to be part of the motion or that could that be decided? offline Um, it could be decided offline the council could simply say that the mayor has the authority to appoint somebody to a committee Okay That that works for me Do I need do I need like council consensus that I as mayor can appoint someone to that committee or How would we move forward with this? Given that we're having the discussion of a meeting. I think it probably would be appropriate The challenge here is it looks like we've lost council member botch or if so um Should we take so if that's true and if someone would just like to make another motion If you make if someone makes another motion, it'll be voted on first Oh, okay So that was a bit of a need for the first one then I think we saw the problem great. I'll make a motion um Similarly to council member botch or for note sake, I think Chloe has those The addition I would add is to ensure that um the recreation Uh, the recreation and the hand washing That is for the extent of the shelter in place I don't know if that needed to be said, but I just want to make sure that's noted. Um, and that I would be more than happy to To assist in the website editing Okay second by council member Bertrand Okay How many bathrooms or hand washing stations will that $470 get us just one, right? I think that gets us um Isn't it is it a hundred and a hundred and twenty dollars for each station plus the thirty dollar setup? Yeah, so That would be three for oh, no, I'm sorry. I'm yeah, I'm looking at the wrong math. You're right. So three for one month For one month, okay Hmm Mayor Peterson, do you want me you are you thinking that we should amend it if it's just Three for one month versus me saying the extent of the shelter in place Is that your concern? The only yeah, my only concern is if we say for the extent of the shelter in place We need to have the funding to be able to continue it and right now it's about it would be about 400 dollars a month For three bath three sanitation stations to be set up. I hear you. Yeah. Yeah, I agree Um, so I would just strike that from my motion and if Either that number I'm sorry. I didn't mean I was going to say either that or if we wanted to get three bathrooms for I don't know three months Um, we would essentially need to take that funding from somewhere else Possibly like reimbursements from the from the rec Yeah, that's not what I would do. I would just leave it to the discretion of the staff to utilize the dollars To the extent of what we have Okay, so what I'm hearing is is it was 3500 For the website $1,500 to help out with rec and then I think the remainder Although I don't think there is any remainder with $3,500 plus $1,500. Oh the ppe Yeah, I have 4500 for ppe 3500 for the web with the vet serving as a council liaison Correct 1500 for the rec department and it leaves or 1530 for the rec department and that leaves about $470 for bathrooms. So that's about one month Or or sanitation stations not bathrooms. Excuse me. That's about one month With three locations for the three locations for the three locations. Yeah Um I mean as a recommendation, I think You know the recreation councilman botter. Can you hear me? Hey, yes, welcome back. You're back Sorry for the technical difficulties. I just want before you get too far down the road I guess not sure if the other motion is already on board, but it sounds like it's consistent with which what I had Which is fine. Yes, and there's a challenger. There's only $10,000 And you know, I think it's just we give the guidelines on the motion with the amounts And the the city manager adjusted as needed, you know, maybe you don't need all the money for ppe Maybe you need it for the bathrooms, but I think there's enough of a guideline To get some essential things with all that we have. Yeah That's just my my my my two cents. I agree. Um, uh, so Councilmember botch off when when you were off the line councilmember brooks Made an additional motion that was almost exactly the same as yours But we did that because we weren't sure if we'd get you back and so now councilmember brooks's motion will be voted on first um Councilwoman I would like to respond to my motion if I can Oh, you're going to withdraw it Yeah, so then okay councilmember botch can finish. Thank you. Okay, so councilwoman brooks And i'm okay with the friendly amendment for councilman brooks for vice mayor brooks to be on that committee Okay, so councilmember brooks vice mayor brooks has withdrawn her motion. We're back to councilmember botch orf's motion with The amendment that evet be added to the committee. Would would there be um Oh a willingness councilmember botch orf and councilmember pertrand who seconded it For the interest of ensuring that all of our needs are met to say that that we as a council are um Agreeing to expend this $10,000 and we recommend that it be spent in this manner As councilmember botch orf laid out and that way if there's any need for the city manager to rearrange some of these funds accordingly Um to ensure that all the cities needs are met that that they would have the ability to do so Just would that seem appropriate? All right, that's an amendment. That's a friendly amendment. I think that's a good guideline to give To give the city manager. Okay. I I agree with the guideline. Thank you. Okay Uh, does the city clerk have the motion as I know it got a little complicated for a second there Okay, um, I'll just give a period of silence for just a second here to see is there any additional council comment on this issue Hearing none. We have a motion in a second. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Yes councilmember bertrand All right councilmember botch orf. All right. Thank you for all your patience councilmember story No vice mayor brooks I And mayor peterson. I Thank you. Uh, motion carries, uh, four to one That brings us to the end of a night's tonight's agenda Thank you so much for all the council members and all the staff that joined us tonight via the zoom meeting Thank you to the staff that's here in the room practicing social distancing and wearing our face coverings as is recommended now For health and safety of others And of ourselves Thank you to our police and our fire and all our first responders and everyone on the the front line Please take care of yourselves and take care of each other Be safe and be well Meeting adjourned


Hi, my name is Catherine Davies and I'm responsible for the suprofis app store and the ecosystem of partners here at suprofis. Today I'm going to show you something that is, I think, of interest to you if you're a service manager. Because then you're likely want to know if there are obstacles in your services, if there are things that you can improve and you want to know what's going on, basically. So let me show you a set of standard reports that will tell you the say to play in your suprofis service database. So to find these reports what you do is you look at under statistics. Here you see an option called standard reports and when you press this you'll get to a dashboard of lots and lots of interesting and fun standard reports that you can look at. They will show you different criteria but you can also change these criteria very easily yourself. For example, if I go to this trend report and look at, these are a number of messages over a month, I can say well actually I want to have this over a different type period say past 28 days, show results and you have the same report by a different criteria that you've set. So I hope this has inspired you to explore these reports because there are plenty there. These are to use and very instant give you an insight into what's going on in your service department and basically I hope you find them valuable like I have. Thank you very much for watching and have a good day.


Verily, all praise is due to Allah. We praise Him, we express gratitude to Him. We seek His help, we seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from everything that we do, all of the bad actions we do and from our bad states. And we testify that there is no God but Allah, He is alone, He has no partner, no share in His oneness, no share in His authority, no share in His existence as He exists subhanahu wa ta'ala. And we testify that Muhammad ibn Abdullah, the best of creation, is his Prophet and messenger, his servant, his slave. May the peace and prayers of Allah be upon him, upon his companions, upon his family and upon all of those who follow him to the last day, and may Allah count us all among them. Allah says in his Arabic Quran what translate roughly as, O you who believe, have fear and consciousness of Allah as is His right, and die not except in a state of submission. And in another place, in Surat An-Nisa, O people, O mankind, have fear and consciousness of your Lord who created you from one soul and from that soul is made and sent forth from those two many men and women.  It's related in our tradition, related that Musa and Adam, may peace be upon them both, met at one time and had a conversation. Musa turned to Adam and Musa knew what Adam had done, knew his history, that Adam was the one who was placed in Jannah and then because of a decision that he made was brought down to earth and the rest of us have to deal with the implications of that. Musa talked to Adam and said, how could you do such a thing that we're all having to suffer the consequences of your decision? And Adam threw that right back at him and said, would you really take me to account for something that Allah has destined for me to do before he even created me? We see Musa expressing similar sentiments, a similar need for clarification on a certain level in the story that we find in Surat Al-Kahf, the 18th chapter of the Quran which we're encouraged to read on Fridays. In that we find Musa meeting a slave from among our slaves, his name isn't given in the Quran though we know through Tafsir that it's, through tradition tells us that it is Qadr according to the Ahadith on the subject. So Musa meets Qadr, this strange charismatic figure, who Musa has been inspired by Allah to go and meet in order to learn something. And so he goes to him and Qadr says to him, no, you won't be able to have patience with me and what, I can show you. And Musa was insistent, he said, no, no, no, no, I can bear it inshallah. I want to learn from you and so they go off on the journey in Surat Al-Kahf and various things happen that Musa doesn't understand, things that apparently happen to be at the hand of Qadr who Allah has inspired to Musa that he is supposed to learn from and yet every time Musa cannot bear it, first Qadr puts a hole in a boat, seemingly inflicting hardship on the owners of that boat. And he goes and kills a young boy for no reason, taking away that life from this world. And then in a strange twist, they come to a town that's full of no one really good in the town and he does a good favor for them. He builds up a wall that's in the town that was about to fall down. And so Musa can't handle this on the way that he's used to relating and understanding things, the understanding that he had in those moments in both of these stories, in this discussion with Adam, alayhi s-salam, and in his meeting with Khidr, that to a certain level he can't understand these things in the position that he was. He was looking at these stories, he was looking at these happenings on a level of seeing just the actors in it, just the human actors in it. And yet what Khidr finally tells him and the sentiment is expressed by Adam as well, is Musa, you're not looking deep enough. You see what I do and yet you don't understand the real one taking care of things, the real one doing things, the real one who is the only one with the rights and the ability and the authority to make anything happen in this world is Allah. You're looking at the actions of a human and all you're seeing is that human. You're not seeing Allah in those actions and that is a poor state for us to be. A state that many of us, most of us, if not all of us at one time or another are in, in that Allah has created us, humanity as one of the greatest signs of him, of, we can't even talk about of his ability, of his attributes, of his, of his, all of these qualities that Allah has, we don't talk about them individually, we can see in humans, in men and women Allah has placed all of these attributes of his, all of the characteristics are manifest in us to some extent or another as much as is possible for us. Our desire, our vision, our hearing, our speaking, our ability to do things, all of this, Allah is the true one who has those attributes and who does that and yet he has made us as signs for him and so if we are one of the greatest signs in creation and all we see when we look at our own humanity and look at ourselves is ourselves, subhanAllah, what a poor state that is. Musa was put in that state, alaihi salam. Musa, a prophet, one of the best of mankind was put in that state, may peace and prosperity be upon him and so how much more are we likely to be in that state as well? This is something we must be aware of that it's important when things happen in our lives or when we see, when we witness things happening in other people's lives that we look beyond the veils and we look for Allah, we try desperately with all of our being to see Allah in everything because verily Allah is in everything. There is nothing in existence that does not come from Allah, that does not have its existence dependent on the existence of Allah because he is the one who gives subsistence and when we say that he is the living, that he is the subsistence, that means that everyone who makes a claim to life, who makes some claim of existing is ultimately making that claim only through Allah and by Allah and with Allah and in Allah if only we could realize it and so in this time when soon enough our brothers and sisters will be returning from Hajj, returning to our communities, blessing us again with their presence it's important for us to take some time to reflect on what really is our opinion of humanity that when we look at ourselves and others when we look at humanity what are we really seeing? We're told in our tradition that the Hajj is obligation upon us as long as we are able to do it. Allah says so in the Quran. We're also told that we don't just get nothing from this Hajj that the true reward of an accepted Hajj is that we return from that Hajj as new, restored human beings, return back to our humanity as if it's the day or shortly after the day when our mothers gave birth to us. The verse we quoted at the beginning of Surah An-Nisaat at the beginning of the Khutbah says have fear and consciousness of Allah through whom you ask of your various affairs and the wombs that bore you, and so many parts of the Quran, in many parts of the Quran Allah calls us to return, return to something returned to what we sometimes refer to as the fitrah, the original creation, what humanity, the essence of humanity really is. But how many times do we actually lose sight of that? How many times if one of us were to go off on Hajj and return feeling that that Hajj was a completed Hajj, feeling that Allah must have insha Allah accepted it, that we are as He has promised, restored to our humanity. When we come back and we do something that displeases us, we commit some kind of sin, whether it's raising our voice at someone, whether it's raising our hand to someone, whether it's anything we can think of, big or small, when we come back to that and have to face up to that and all we see is ourselves, we're missing the point. When I commit a sin and I say how horrible am I? What am I doing? How could I let myself do this? I thought I was a good Muslim. I thought I was a good person. I thought I was a good human. We're showing that we don't truly understand the meaning of humanity, if that's all we can say. However, what we must say, what Allah and indeed His whole creation requires us to say, is bringing it back to Him. We say Astaghfirullah. We say I seek forgiveness from Allah. We say Atubu il Allah. We say I turn to Allah in repentance. That every time anything happens in our life, good or bad, the key is not to see ourselves in it as much as possible. We see Allah in that thing. That when we commit a sin, we say Allah, forgive me. When we do something good, we say Allah laka al-hamd. Every good and every positive thing that ever happened and ever will happen and ever is happening in this world is yours, ya Allah.  We return it to Allah. But how many times is that difficult for us? How many times when we should be making zikr of Allah, when we should be saying Alhamdulillah, we should be saying Astaghfirullah, we make zikr of ourselves. How bad am I? How could I have done this? What kind of a person am I? I thought I was a good Muslim. On the other hand, wow, how good am I? How great is the thing that I have done? Subhan Allah, Subhan Allah. If we could just say that, Subhan Allah, in every circumstance, we'd start learning how to get back on track and how to actually return to our humanity, return to our humility and what we owe to our Creator, the one who is making all of this happen, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. It's important for us to read the Quran and reflect on the meanings because Allah says in the Quran, Allah tells us that man, humankind, is created weak. He even says in the Quran, inna insana wa balloomun kafar. He says in no, he says in completely explicit terms, verbi inna at insan la balloomun kafar. If you study Arabic, you see there are two points of emphasis there, there's inna and there's la. Two points that show that what is being said is very emphasized. Truly, mankind is oppressive and rejecting, right? Rejecting of the benefits of Allah, rejecting what Allah has to offer, rejecting Allah's rights, and oppressive committing injustice and real injustice, volm, as we understand it, as its true meaning is putting things in the places where they don't belong. And the solution to volm is adab. Adab is putting things in the right place, and adab is one of the essences of shari'ah, that when we learn shari'ah and when we practice shari'ah, the way of Allah that He has prescribed for us and all the details therein, we're putting things in the right place. When we come to prayer, we line up with the brothers or the sisters and we put our heads on the ground, we're putting ourselves in the right place. We're putting our heads in our minds and our hearts in the right place. Indeed, our whole bodies, our soul, our spirit in the right place. It's adab, the solution to volm injustice. When we treat people with the respect that they deserve as creations of Allah, it's adab putting things in the right place. And this is what Allah tells us to do. Allah tells us to put Him in the right place, not us in the place where Allah should be. And so, when I come to pray, when I come to, for example, make salat al-asr and I do my four rakahs and I say to myself during and after the prayer, man, I didn't feel much right there. I didn't feel something spiritual. I didn't feel like that was completely right. What's happening then? We're making vikr of ourselves again. We're putting ourselves in the picture when only Allah should be in the picture. Why do we pray? Okay. Yes, we normally, we often feel good things when we pray because Allah has created us in a sense that deed down, Alhamdulillah, to guide us to the straight path. He is placing us things that engender in us when we put things in the right place. We generally feel good, but often that's not the case. We're having a bad day. We're stressed out. We don't understand things so well. And we come to pray and we don't get what we want out of it. Whereas the salah that Allah requires us to do five times a day, that's not ours. That is Allah's, just like everything else in creation. Indeed, ourselves, we are Allah's. Inna dillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. That we belong to Allah right now. And if that's too hard for us to acknowledge, if we try desperately, try our best to see ourselves when we should be seeing Allah in ourselves. Inna dillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. We're going to be returned to Allah and have to face up to that fact when there'll be no room for denial at all, when everything will be clear to us. But how much, how much are we in need to understand this reality before it comes time for that day, before Yom al-Qayyama comes, before we're standing before Allah and we have no chance to actually finally put things in their place. Things are put in their place for us. Everything is revealed. Everything that we've done and that we've thought and what we've given to Allah, what we've taken for ourselves and held so desperately for ourselves because we think that's the right way. All of that comes out and is put in the proper place and we have no ability to say anything to do anything but say, yeah Allah, I deserve to be thrown in the fire. Subhan Allah. What have I done? But even on that day we won't be allowed to say that. What have I done? Allah, Allah, Allah, Subhan Allah. And so it's incumbent upon us now that we have the ability to try desperately to see Allah in all of these things. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to each other. If our relationships with others, if our understanding of ourselves are based on Allah and seeing Allah in everything that goes on and returning all of it to Allah, how much easier, how much better would our lives be? We would be granted the Tawfiq to see, to be in the state that Allah describes His awliya in the Quran. He says, that there is no fear on them nor do they grieve. How much could we be without fear, without stress, without worry if we simply return things to Allah, return our humanity even indeed ourselves to Allah and admit that truth. See forgiveness of Allah in this blessed time so that we can all return to Him. Allah commands us in the Quran to send peace and praise on the Prophet. And this is a key to returning us to our humanity, indeed returning us to reality. At the Prophet of Allah peace and praise be upon him was someone who not only understood humanity, not only understood himself, indeed the whole creation, but he was able to manifest that in his actions as well. And so the more that we look into his life, the more that we implement the things that he told us to do, which is Islam, the more that we trust in him and try to think the way that he must have thought and have the opinions of Allah and of creation that he must have had, that's the level of iman. But the more we try to return to him and gain inspiration through him, as Allah has taught us by making salawat on him, that is the station of ihsan. When Allah tells us in the Quran to send peace and praise upon him for a specific reason, it's something that doesn't just affect the body, it doesn't just affect the mind, it touches us on a spiritual level, the real, the higher, the real substance level that we're created on. The Ruh, that there's something that happens to the Ruh when we make zikr in a way that also mentions the Prophet alaihi salat wa salam. And so whenever we're feeling like this is difficult, whenever we can't figure out how to see Allah, how to reach Allah, how to put things in that proper place, salawat on the Prophet is one of the most powerful things we can do. Tried and tested, 1400 years of our tradition that people who keep up this practice of regular salawat on the Prophet alaihi salat wa salam, they can tell you through experience and through their writings that it does have its effects as much as we might wonder how words could do something. Many people stand before us in our communities or as we read about from their books, their writings, as testaments to the fact that this has some profound effect. And so finally I would like to encourage those of you who are able to participate in the one billion salawat today. I believe there's an event going on here at MCC this weekend with that initiative. It's a powerful initiative, but may that be a time for us to come together in making salawat on the Prophet alaihi salat wa salam and also be a catalyst for us bringing that practice into our lives. Allah tells us to do it. So who are we to deny that benefit when Allah shows he tries desperately to bring into our lives the realization of what these things can do, what sending salawat on the Prophet alaihi salat wa salam can do, what making vicar of him can do, what following shari'ah and following adab and putting things in that proper place can do. So may Allah grant us tafeeq in that, may He facilitate that. Ya Allah, O Rabbana, Ateena fi dunya hasana kufil aafirati hasana wa qeena adab and naaf. O Allah, give us good in this world, give us the best in this world and the best in the next world and save us from the punishment of the fire. Ya Allah, help us to actualize taqwa, actualize Islam, actualize iman, actualize ihsan. Ya Allah, grant us the facility to really live the deen and implement it into our lives. Ya Allah, bring us away from all the false opinions and the false gods that we put before you. Ya Allah, purify us to receive the only true reality in this world. La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah. Ya Allah, bring us to that state and may the last word that we say and may the last thing witnessed by our actions be la ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah.