All of our council members are here now. Good afternoon. Welcome to our 1pm session of the November 9th, 2021 meeting of the City Council. I have a few announcements and then we will move on to our meeting. Today's meeting is being broadcast live on Community Television Channel 25 and streaming on the city's website, cityofsanacoust.com. If you wish to comment on an agenda item today, call in at the beginning of the item you're wanting to comment on using the instructions on your screen. Please meet your television or streaming device once you call in and listen through the phone. Please note there is a delay in streaming, so if you continue to listen on your television or streaming device, you may miss your opportunity to speak. When it is time for public comment, press star 9 on your phone to raise your hand. When it is your time to speak during public comment, you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted. The timer will then be set to two minutes. You may hang up once you have commented on your item of interest. And I would like to ask the clerk to please call the roll. Thank you Mayor, Council Member Zvodkin. Here. Council Member Johnson. Here. Here. Vice Mayor Brunner. Present. Present. I have a few announcements and then we will move on to our regular meeting. Today's meeting is being broadcast live on Community Television Channel 25 and streaming on the city's website at cityofsantacruz.com. If you wish to comment on an agenda item today, instructions are provided on your screen. We will provide these instructions throughout the meeting. Whenever we move into an item, an agenda item that will be open for public comment. Please note, public comment is heard only on items Council is taking action on and not regular updates and reports. The items that will be open for public comment during today's meeting are numbers eight through 12, excuse me, eight through 32 on our agenda with the exception of item number 27, which has been removed. I'd like to ask the council members if there are any statements of disqualification today. Seeing no hands, I will go ahead and ask our city clerk to announce any additions or deletions to the agenda today. Thank you, Mayor. What you already mentioned that item 27 has been removed, other than that, that they're done. Thank you. I'd like to make an announcement about oral communications. Oral communications is an opportunity for members of the community to speak to us on items that are not on the agenda today. Oral communications will occur immediately after agenda item number 32. If you wish to make a comment during oral communications, please call in towards the end of item number 32. I'd now like to ask our city attorney to provide a report on closed session, please. Thank you, Mayor Meyers, members of the city council. I have a couple items to report today. This morning, the council met in closed session to discuss the following items. Item one was public employment and specifically the council considered the city manager position in closed session. There's also an item on your afternoon agenda relating to that. Item two, bear with me while I open. Item two was a conference with labor negotiators and the council received a report from its negotiator. And with regard to service employees, SEIU service employees has received a report from its labor negotiator on that item. Item three was a matter of existing litigation involving the county of Santa Cruz at all versus Purdue Pharma at all. And with respect to that item, council unanimously adopted a motion directing city manager to sign all necessary documents required to join a settlement agreement with opioid distributors. Ms. McKesson, Cardinal Health, Amerisource, Bergen, and manufacturer of Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Settlement agreement has been proposed for that item. And as soon as that is executed, it will be available for inspection upon request by members of the public. Item four was an item of significant exposure to litigation. Council received a report from the city attorney. And that item will also be continued at the end of your open session for further discussion this evening. Item five was a conference with legal counsel involving anticipated litigation considering initiation of litigation and one potential item, one potential case was discussed. There was no other reportable action. Thank you, Mr. Pindotti. We'll now go into item number six on our agenda, which is the city manager's report. Rosemary Munard, our interim city manager is here. Good afternoon, mayor and council members. So we're going to give you a quick overview of several things today. One is an item, an update on COVID. We haven't had that on the on the agenda for a little bit. So we'll have that. And then Lee Butler, our deputy city manager and and, you know, homelessness response manager in addition to the planning community development director will be giving you a quick update on homelessness. And I do want to mention that there was a an FYI was distributed this morning. It will be posted, so it will be available publicly. But I wanted to have you have that. He's going to give you a quick overview of that. And then I just have a few slides about upcoming events. And we'll close with that. So with that, Chief Vody. Yes, thank you, Mayor Myers, Vice Mayor Brunner. I'll be short and sweet. Just want to give you guys an update for the COVID pandemic for November 9th. Currently, everything is, you know, optimistic in terms of in the last 14 days, we've seen a 15% decrease in the number of cases. Although with that in mind, the California Department of Public Health does warn that due to the holiday and the colder climate, they are sort of concerned about a bump, if you will, in terms of number of cases. Transmissibility is still substantial. In this county, 60% of it is due to community spread.  I think it's important to note that Monterey County has reinstituted their indoor mask mandate. With that in mind, masking indoors is still strongly recommended by the health director of Santa Cruz County. In terms of vaccines, we are currently at 398,620 doses administered. So currently we're at 72%. The population has to have at least one dose. And in terms of full vaccination, we're at 67%. So in context, the state is currently at 73.5%. So we still have some work to do as a county. And again, I wanna put it out there that appointments for vaccinations, both initial and boosters, are at myturn.ca.gov. In terms of children, the Pfizer vaccine has been approved and is rolling out for five-year-olds to 11-year-olds. They are currently taking walk-ins and appointments. As of last week, the Santa Cruz County Office of Education has implemented this plan as of yesterday, November 8th. For those that are wondering, it's one-third the adult dose. It's two shots three weeks apart and it is extremely effective. And then for those that are under five years, six months to four years, they're expecting to have some sort of approval in early 2022. Next slide. Here's a quick snapshot of the Delta surge, if you will. So you can see up in the upper right-hand corner. It's from July 1st to November 5th. And it sort of shows you that we are currently leveling off in terms of number of cases. But I think the most important part of this slide is on the right side. If you see person-to-person community acquired is still 60% of the current transmission and only second to only the person-to-person in the household. Next slide. We are currently seeing a significant decrease. Although I have to be honest, the last couple of weeks, it's been in the 30 to 25% range. And now we're sort of leveling off at a 15% decrease in the 14-day change in terms of number of cases. And as you can see, the preliminary data indicated by the triangles indicates that we might see some changes that are less than desirable. So next slide. But we currently, as you can see here in terms of transmissibility in Santa Cruz County, the, we're well below the one, the number one in terms of transmissibility. So we currently are on a good trend and hopefully can continue that path moving forward. Next slide. And in terms of vaccinations, I think it is important to note that currently at least 72% of the county population has at least one dose. In terms of complete vaccination, fully vaccinated in the county, we're at 67%, again, in contrast to the state, which is at 73.5, we still have some work to do. And I think we're gonna see some significant increase in terms of vaccinations once children between five and 11 are vaccinated. Next slide. And then just to sort of push the booster doses. Again, if you are someone who is 65 or older, or you have underlying medical conditions, it is advisable that you get a booster shot for the vaccines that are currently available. All three are currently available in terms of boosters, Pfizer, Moderna and J&J. Pfizer and Moderna are recommending that after six months, after your second dose, you get a booster as opposed to the J&J, which is two months after the first dose, you would need to get a booster. So something that I wanna push out there because I think only way we're gonna turn the corner is by giving vaccinations and of course getting the boosters as needed. And so in order to do that, I say go to myturn.ca.gov to locate schedule initial vaccine and boosters as needed. Next slide. And of course, for any additional information that you may need, go to centerpiecehealth.org to get additional information up to date in terms of COVID and the vaccinations that are available in town. That's all I have. Thank you so much. Thank you, Chief Odie. Is there any questions from council members? Hey, Director Butler. Hey, Rosemary and good afternoon, mayor and council members. As Rosemary mentioned, we did provide the council members today with an FYI memo that will also be posted on our website. Wanted to take this opportunity to just quickly go through that with you. Some of it contains information that you are already aware of, like the county continuing its operations up at the armory through the end of the fiscal year and therefore the need for us to readjust our approach on the safe sleeping program that we were planning up there. But it also contains some additional information regarding our approach to various directives that we have from the council. The memo outlines four different safe sleeping and or 24 seven programs that we would have one at the armory, one at the 1220 river site that the city owns, another at the bench lands, which is currently existing and then a fourth at it yet to be determined location. It also identifies the estimated costs associated with those as well as estimated costs for a RV safe parking program. And each of the three tiers that the council is contemplating as part of the prior consideration of the oversized vehicle ordinance and the same item that's on your agenda this afternoon. And finally, it talks about some additional costs with respect to potential services like a dump station and RV dump station or mobile service. And so all of that is in the memo and feel free to reach out to myself if you have any questions about that. And we will be bringing additional information back at future council meetings related to the next steps associated with the items identified in the FYI memo. The last thing I wanted to point out on the homelessness front is that with respect to the $14 million that the state has authorized, we have initiated a process with the county and many of you will recall Dave Sampos with the Sacramento State Consensus and Collaboration Program. He is working with us to go through a process with the county to help make sure that we're aligning those resources in a manner that meets our long-term objectives and not just our objectives, but also those of the county to try and get those resources pointed to where they are supporting the long-term efforts of multiple organizations. As part of that, we're also going to be looking at how that may also be used to inform our regular interactions and how we can improve our collaboration and coordination and communication. So we're happy to have Dave on board for that. And we are looking forward to working with the county on getting those dollars put to good use. And I'm available for any questions that the council may have. Council member Contari Johnson and council member Cummings. Thank you so much for the memo. I wanted for the public for it to be clear that the 24-7 transitional shelter that you've identified in the memo is part of the CSSO and is part of the safe, is instead of the safe sleeping. Is that correct, Dr. Butler? So we're looking at how we might incorporate 24-7 camps in lieu of some of the overnight only. And that can result in better outcomes. And so we're looking at that and we wanted to put that out there to let the council know of as well as the community know that we're contemplating that approach at this point. That's great. We really appreciate your work and staff's work on that because that is something that we heard is a concern from the community and from folks in the public health world. And I also just want to point out that for members of the community who are concerned that nothing is happening around service provision and standing up services that there is actually a lot happening and taking place from behind the scenes. So I want to acknowledge you, director Butler and the rest of the team. And just I appreciate all the work that you're doing to stand up these services that are really, really much needed in our community. Thank you. The one thing I would add there is that, we'll also be coordinating with people in the surrounding areas. So we haven't done some of that outreach yet that we want to do 1220 River comes to mind. While there was a program there before, we will be reaching out to folks in the immediately surrounding area to talk with them to understand the concerns they have and to try to build in provisions to help address those concerns. Great. Thank you. I look forward to hearing more next time you guys bring this to the council. Council member Cummings. Thank you, Mayor. I had a question that I brought this up with the Interim City Manager the other day. But Lee, since you were mentioned the $14 million I thought maybe this would be a good time to ask this question. So will there be a time or an opportunity for the public to weigh in on how this funding should be spent prior to the city and county kind of making a formalized agreement? Because it seems like there's, obviously we want to invest in infrastructure. I think that's a good kind of route to take with the funding. And I think that that was part of the rationale for getting the funding brought to the city of Santa Cruz to help us with our infrastructure needs. But I'm wondering if there might be an opportunity for folks from the public and members of the council to weigh in on this prior to agreements being made between the city and the county. I'll take that one. So I have a room coming that I did discuss this and I would be happy to bring back an agenda. To sort of talk about sort of the general approach we're considering. I think a number of us really do want to sort of tee up the funding question and where that money's gonna go kind of as the initial thing so that we can get some of it being put to work. And so I think that probably for something like the December 14th agenda I could put something on that would allow for us to have a discussion about what we're considering and the ideas that are behind that. So I'd be happy to do that. Great. Thanks and I think a lot of members of the public would just appreciate the transparency and opportunity to hear about this. So thank you. I have a quick question. Lee, if you could maybe just take a couple of additional comments. There is a lot of frustration about the conditions and not kind of moving forward with some of the hopefully what we were hoping in terms of finding some stability for folks, especially over there on the bench lands. And you mentioned that sort of reformatted a little bit and looking at a 24 seven camp and you mentioned because of better outcomes and can you maybe explain to the public what you mean by better outcomes? Because I think we've learned quite a bit, the county's learned quite a bit about placing folks from the previously supported hotels due to the COVID situation as they've gone through there, the project re-home, I think there's some learning going on. And so I think maybe we're being influenced a little bit by some of those findings. Could you maybe expand on those a little bit? Sure, so the county has been in the midst of a re-housing wave that they have targeted at the individuals that they have had in the hotels primarily. And both through that program as well as through other service provider experiences, the stability and the stabilizing effect of the 24 seven programs has established has proven in many instances to help move people along into more permanently housed situations in a manner that is oftentimes better than just the overnight only programs. There are certainly exceptions to certain programs but in general, that's been the finding. And so that's one of the things that we have been taking into consideration as we've been consulting with nonprofits, like focus strategies who does work throughout the United States and in our conversations with the county and learning from their experiences as you noted, Mayor Myers. And do these shelters, the 24 seven encampment, what I would call sort of a temple, which basically is kind of filling the role of a shelter in many ways. I would understand that those are probably much more expensive to run than a overnight sleeping site. Is that right? They can be. There is additional staffing involved. It's interesting that one of the things that we heard from some service providers was that there sometimes needs to be more staffing for an overnight program because that the community hasn't been established. There isn't that level of trust among participants. So there might be more staff but they're for a shorter period of time. So that daytime staffing isn't provided and that is more expensive. So the 24 seven programs are more expensive. And one of the things that we're taking into account is those outcomes. If we can actually have better outcomes that are moving people into housing then those expenses could be better off in the long run. Can those go ahead, Rose. Can I just add a comment to that? We did, I think the FYI memo that was distributed does sort of show you what the differential is. It is more expensive to run the 24 seven but not dramatically. So I think that's really the takeaway. And, but the 24 seven could be facilitated as a place where people are provided shelter, but also are managed, have a case manager have the ability to access housing. So one of the diagnoses that shows up in the focus strategies work for the county is that we just aren't, we don't, people are not leaving, right? I mean, so we're not making that next connection in their ability to, you know, to move out of homelessness. And so they're ending up staying in shelters and in cabinets for a long, long time. Would we operate this sort of in the vein of trying to, you know, move people through into transition on them permanent and then, you know, on and on in terms of that housing goal that the county, you know, has basically set. So would we be mirroring their goals, I guess, by establishing these kinds of facilities? So I think that's a really good question. I would say, in general, yes. The county has some very specific timelines that they have identified for their goals with respect to shelter stays and percentages of placements. I can't say that, you know, we're going to have those exact same numbers in terms of percentage of permanent housing placements and timelines for, you know, placements and timelines for the maximum length of stay or average length of stay. That said, at the basic level, yes. We want to work with both the county as well as what we have included in this FYI memo is having some level of case management support that the city also provides to help connect people to many of those county resources and help them move from these locations into more permanent housing situations. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I think it's really important that, you know, the goal of the camp and standards ordinance, you know, really recognizes the larger public need to be able to access parks and, you know, places that are really truly meant to be for the public and not, you know, becoming. So I just worry a little bit that, you know, we're going to continue to, you know, fall into the cycle of not really having any ability to help people get into, you know, I just, I'm a little worried that we're going to be setting up things that again, we're not getting what we need in terms of sort of a systematic approach to helping people out of homelessness and then, but also providing additional places for people to be. So we don't have, you know, our parks being used, frankly, you know, I mean, that is something that came through very clear as we develop the camp and standards ordinance. So I'm glad that we're moving towards something, but I really hope we can keep in mind that we do need additional places for people to go so that our public spaces don't become our impromptu shelters again or places for people to be. So I'm supportive, but I just hope we really, you know, we put all the pieces together. Do we have any updates from the County on the 120 spaces they committed to finding last March? Is there any spaces that have been found in the County at all for helping with our needs? I can say that the County is pursuing a number of project home key applications and the city has had one conversation with H, the housing and community development at the state regarding project home key and has another one scheduled. And so they are pursuing through project home key some other options, you know, where those ultimately end up we'll see because some of that is competitive. Okay, great, thank you. Appreciate it. Sorry for all the questions. Moore, Rosemary, do you have additional items? I said one comment. Oh, sorry, go ahead, Justin. Yeah, I just wanted to express appreciation for the potential 24 seven shelter models just because there are, you know, for people who are homeless and trying to find whatever jobs they can get, there are people who work night shifts and those people need places to stay as well. So if we're, if we only have overnight sleeping, you know, that also kind of prevents having some kind of sleeping areas for people who may need to sleep during the day. And so I appreciate moving in that direction because it might be that, you know, we can work with some local businesses that operate during the evenings to try to find people job placement and that can be in somewhere where they can find shelter when they're working night shifts as well. So just started with that out there and express my appreciation because it can help support that demographic for all of this population as well. Thank you, council member. Okay, just a few slides. I'm going to share my screen now to talk about a few things that are going on. This is a, in the ramp up to the holiday period, we have a ton of things going on that I just wanted to give the council members a, you know, a chance to sort of see and also sort of talk to the community about. So on downtown plan expansion, we are seeing a number of community workshops are scheduled starting this weekend. And there's a community survey that's out. There's idea walls of places that you can post comments or join an existing discussion and interactive maps. So the link to that is here at cityofsantacrews.com backslash downtown. And so we're encouraging taking lots of input on this topic and encouraging everyone to get involved. And then on objective standards, that process has, there was a robust conversation at the planning commission last Thursday. And so if you have information that you would like to review with the existing proposed objective standards or feedback, and there's a virtual community meeting tonight on that. So make yourself, if you're interested in this topic that's where to go. Library mixed use projects, a number of meetings were held last week and workshops will be upcoming in December to review the design concepts with the community. So stay tuned for that, lots of stuff going on. I'm sure there's a website on this one that you can sort of get some feedback on what's been going on there. And then there's later on in today's agenda is an item of resolution related to anti-hate week that's happening next week actually. So this is a series of events that are united against hate week events. And you can see that there's a quite a bit of information here and you'll be able to access all these through the QR code here or I'm sure there's websites on the united against hate week website. And just to a heads up, we've got heading into the holiday season. There are a series of city office closures on Thursday for close for veterans day. Thanksgiving closed for the November 25th and 26th. And then the winter closure is the 20th to the 31st where the offices are closed but essential services will continue. So just giving the community a heads up on those things. And with that, I'm gonna turn it back to you. Thank you, Rosemary. Maybe one other additional announcement is I believe we will be going back into a hybrid council, city council meeting starting on November 23rd. Right. So we will be back in city hall and we will also be broadcasting or not broadcasting. We will also be having a hybrid with a Zoom. So those folks who were interested in getting back into person, you will find a very different looking city hall when you walk into the council chambers but we will be able to go back in person there at the city hall chamber at the council chambers starting November 23rd. If you do wanna come to the council chambers, I know there'll be information that will be made available regarding requirements for masks and demonstration of vaccination, limitation, the number of people who are in the chambers and can be in the chambers waiting room over in Tony Hill room. So there's a series of things please if you wanna come down to the council chambers, please take a minute or two to go online and take a look at that. We'll be highlighting that on our website so you can get all the details before you get here. Well, that information also maybe be posted outside council chambers early on, Rosemary. If people don't have computers they can walk by and check it out. Yeah, happy printed in Spanish also potentially. Okay, great. Thank you. I'm not today for the city manager's report. Any other questions for the city manager today? I've not seen any. Okay, we'll go ahead and I'll call now on the clerk to provide any updates to our calendar. Next up is our consent agenda and these are items eight through 20 on our agenda today for members of the public who are streaming. My video went off. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting and now is the time to call in if you want to comment on items eight through 20. Instructions will be on your screen. Please remember to mute your streaming device press star nine to raise your hand and listen to the queue saying you have been unmuted. All items will be acted upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. Are there any council members who want to comment on or pull any items? Please raise your hand. Council member Cummings. Questions for 17 and 18. Any other council members with a comment or question on item or a request to pull an item? I'm not seeing any additional hands. So we don't have any items pulled today. I'll go ahead and have council member Cummings ask his questions on item number 17 first. Thank you mayor. I just had a question that came from a member of the public. They were asking about the status of the vegetation and the arts plan that are associated with the rail trail segments and kind of what the status is like where they're at and kind of what's the plan for moving those pieces forward. Good afternoon. Nathan Lynn, transportation manager of the city of Santa Cruz. Happy to answer your question there, Justin. So the rail trail vegetation plan as part of the rail trail segment seven phase one parks for access assisting us our assistance city year in revamping the vegetation that was installed earlier this year. By the time second seven phase one was constructed it was spring. So some of the hydro seating and plantings are doing quite stick. So arts and rec is going to give the sub coming winter and they should be hydro seating along the rail trail end of this month. When it comes to the arts portion of the rail trail we're still having a tough time getting a contract to come in and install the poetry that was a part of second seven phase one. Economic development is the lead on that. And we're trying to assist and get a contract on board for a reasonable price to get that included. In addition to that, we also have art scheduled for the ballards on Palm Street. So it's mosaic tiles too that I believe that again economic development is going to be reaching out to get an artist on board and getting art installed as planned on that segment. I see Bonnie Lipscomb has turned on her camera. I don't know if she has anything to add on those questions. Yes, thank you, mayor. I would just add to what Nathan and Nathan said is that we are hoping that some of our card that's the city arts recovery design pilot grant program applicants may be able to actually work on the mosaics for the ballards. And so we've been Kathy Menz who's been working on that with applicants has been working on that. And specifically also, in addition to those projects there are also two card applicants working on proposals for installations on the rail trail itself. So we are working to move that forward and it's a little behind the scenes at this point but it is being worked on. And just a quick follow-up, has there been any just mentioned this to the arts commission to see if they might be able to help identify this cook it up with some of these efforts? I know that Kathy is in regular communication with the arts commission and specifically around all the opportunities around the card program, the card pilot program. So I don't have confirmation exactly as it relates to the rail trail but I can circle back with that specific information. Okay, that concludes my questions on this item. Thank you council member item number 18. Yeah, so again, received some correspondence from members of the, from a member of the public and with regards to the fiscal impact they were wondering if this was the cost of the final design or the total overall cost for the design. I was wondering if staff I'd be able to provide a comment on that. Certainly I have to apologize my camera seat functioning this morning. So I just have my name up there. This is Josh Spengard, Mayor, members to these council senior civil engineer with Public Works. This is regarding amendment number, I believe nine for the design contract for the Murray street bridge. The design is essentially complete. So what this amendment is about is getting the utility agreements in place and final coordination with various utilities including the county sanitation district and that coordination facilitated a fairly major revision in the design. So I don't know how specifically you wanna define design. I mean, the design is essentially done but we're just trying to get through the last administrative hoops with Caltrans as far as getting the funds available and moving phasing around and getting these utility agreements in place. Once we have the utility agreements in place we'll have a right away certification which will essentially allow us to request funds for construction from Caltrans. So we're pretty close to the end of this this whole thing right now is just if there are any additional amendments to this contract they would be along the lines of providing additional information for regulatory agencies, for example or construction support once you actually go into construction. But the design is really it's done and it's been done for some time. Thanks. Yeah, I think what the concern was from one of the members of the public was whether or not there were any other costs that came up around the design earlier on that maybe weren't captured in that $459,959. And so that was really what I was trying to get at is just to know whether or not this was the total cost for that, the design phase or if this was just the final cost for the final design. So yeah, I don't expect that we would see any more amendments during the design phase. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you council member. Okay, I'll now take this out to public comment. So this will be for our consent agenda today. And if there are any members of the public that would like to speak to any item on our consent agenda we have not had any items pulled today. Now is the time to do so. Please press star nine on your phone to raise your hand. When it is your time to speak, you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted and then the time rule will be set to two minutes. And again, this will be for items on our consent agenda agenda today which are items eight through 20. Council has not pulled any items today from this consent agenda. Like a peek at our attendees today. If you do want to speak to any of these items please press star nine on your phone to raise your hand. And I am not seeing anyone with their hand up on these items. So I will go ahead and look for a motion for our consent agenda today. Council member Watkins and then council member Brown. Sure, I'm happy to make a motion to move our consent agenda. Council member Brown. Okay, thank you. We have a motion by council member Watkins and a second by council member Brown to move our entire consent agenda this afternoon. And that is going to be items number eight through 20. And Bonnie, could we do a roll call, please? Council member Watkins. Aye. Council member Johnson. Just see if she's having problems here. Hang on one sec, let me just see if I can reach her. I don't know if she's having internet issues. Okay, I guess we'll go ahead with that vote. And my vote is that is I also, I'll try to see if she's having issues. Okay, that motion passes unanimously. We'll now move into our... Just to clarify, it's not unanimous. We don't have... Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, sorry. That motion passes six in favor with council member Boulder being absent. Okay, we'll now move into the consent public hearing items today and this will be items number 21, 22 and 23 on our agenda. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if you want to comment on items 21, 22 or 23, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. All items will be acted upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. Are there any council members who wish to comment on or pull any items on the consent public hearing today? Council member Cummings and then council member Bruder. I'd like to pull items numbers 21 and 23. Vice Mayor Bruder. Thank you. I was going to... I just had a question slash comment for item 23. Okay, that item will be pulled today. So we can have that, we can do those comment slash questions during that item. Okay, for members of the public who are listening, there have been two items pulled from our consent public hearing. That's item number 21 and item number 23. So we will go ahead and... Here, hang on, let me catch up with my stuff there. If there are members of the public that would like to speak to any public consent public hearing item with the exception of item number 21 and 23, which have been pulled by council members, now is the time to do so. Please press star nine on your phone to raise your hand. When it is your time to speak, you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted. The timer will then be set to one minute. So we will not be... So this will be... Let me see here. This is just for item number 22 on our agenda, which is the second reading and final adoption of ordinance number 21-19, amending the Sanctuary's Municipal Code chapter 6.12 to comply with state-manded organic waste disposal requirements. That is the only item that still remains on our consent public hearing. Is there anybody in the audience who would like to speak to this item? Okay, I see none. I will go ahead and bring this back to council and I look for a motion for item number 22 on our consent public hearing. Council member Cummings. I'll move item number 22. And I'll second that. So why don't we go ahead and go with a roll call vote? Council member Watkins. Aye. Calentari-Johnson. Council member Golder. Bill Absent. Vice Mayor Brunner. And Mayor Meyers. That motion passes six in favor of zero against with council member Golder absent, currently absent. Okay. We will now move on to item number 21, which has been pulled by council member Cummings. Thank you, mayor. So this item on our agenda is the 2020-2021 but action plan second amendment for CDEBG funding allocation. And one of the things that stood out in this item, which I'd heard some concern from members of the public on was the funding for the hygiene bay and how that's being shifted. And one of the things I've heard as well is that we're spent, there's a considerable amount of money being spent on the kind of temporary showers that are being used in that location. And one of the things I would like to recommend as part of our discussion, since we're gonna have the discussion about the 14 million and a lot of that goes towards infrastructure, we'll be recommending that we have the consideration of funding for the hygiene bay renovation be considered as part of that discussion. So I mean, I know this is a major infrastructure project that the city had committed itself to and I think that at a minimum, if we're gonna discuss how the 14 million should be allocated that we include this as part of that discussion. That's where we're brown, did you have comment on that? I just wanted to make a quick comment that I support that consideration as a member of the community programs committee, we received this request from housing matters several years ago and in the process of getting funding headed their way, obviously we, they had a lot of costs as a result of that to use the temporary facilities, the mobile showers and that's a continued cost for housing matters. It's not inconsequential and we're gonna end up spending a lot more money in the long run if this isn't, if we don't identify funding to get those shower bays up and renovated. And as we see the cost has increased substantially and so the longer we go with this, the more money we're spending that is then not available to actually make the repair and the renovation that's needed for the longer term. So I do think that it's important that we just acknowledge that. I support the making the change under the circumstances at this time and just wanna make sure that we don't spend another multiple years trying to figure out what to do about this because I think we were committed to providing that support and it is a city property. So just wanted to add my support. And I would maybe look to city manager or someone with economic development for any further updates or clarifications on the proposal for that. I don't know Rosemary, I'd say turn on your camera. I think Lee has got some basic background. I know this is in discussion. So let's start with Lee and then see if there's, if Bonnie has anything else to add. Thanks and good afternoon again, mayor and council members. Yes, we are looking one to continue some level of CDBG funding for the hygiene bay. And even if we took all the CDBG funding that we have available, it wouldn't get us to the point where we could fund the current cost estimate for the hygiene bay. But it is something that we also see as a priority and that's one of the things that we're hoping that we can get alignment with the county on to support because that is an integral part of the services that are provided out there at the housing matters campus. And when I say getting alignment on and getting the additional funding, the 14 million is a prime candidate for that. But we are, as I mentioned before, going through that collaborative process with the county. And I will also say that given the change in costs and scope of the hygiene bay, we are also public works is in the process of preparing documentation for a formal bid. So the wheels are moving and we do still need to confirm that funding. And so I appreciate those comments and that's sort of in alignment with the direction we're hoping to head as well. So council member Cummings, are you comfortable with the motion that was drafted for this item? Now that there's a little more information. I didn't have any concern with the recommended motion. I just wanted to add that when we have that discussion that we also include on the 14th about the 14 million that we include the hygiene bay as part of that. So that's the only change to the motion, to the recommendation before us. Okay, any other questions from other council members on item number 21 on the consent public hearing? Okay, I would look for a motion then on the site. Public comment. Oh, excuse me, I'm gonna go on to public comment. Yep. So I'll go ahead and take this out for public comment. This is gonna be on item number 21 on the consent public hearing. If you are interested in commenting on this, item please press star nine on your phone now to raise your hand. And I am not seeing any hands going up and take this back to council for a motion and council member Brown. Thank you. I will go ahead and move adoption of the resolution amending our fiscal year 2022 budget to reallocate CDBG funds to the fiscal year 2022 budget and the staff report as it's listed in the agenda for the rest of the staff report. Thank you, council member. Council member Cummings. I'll second with the amendment that we discussed as part of the item on December 14th, the hygiene bay renovation. Can you specify what that amendment is for the minute? Sure. The amendment is to add to the discussion regarding the $14 million on December 14th, funding the renovation of the hygiene bay and housing matters. Does the maker of the motion accept that amendment? Yeah. I just want to clarify that's the discussion about funding homelessness response and services in general, including the 14 million. So, yes. City manager. I was just going to say that the presentation is sort of about the process that I'm imagining is about the process we're working on with the county. That will be the core of it. We'll see where, what else gets wrapped around it. But yeah, that's fine. We can talk about this when we get there. Great. Okay. Yes, I'm on board. Thanks. Okay. Okay. Let's go with the roll call vote. Bonnie. Council member Watkins. Aye. Calendary Johnson. Aye. Vice mayor Brunner. That motion passes 6-0 with council member Golder currently absent. Okay. We will move to item number 23, which was pulled by council member Cummings. I just had a few comments on this. And given that there's been a lot of discussion around this item, I just wanted to say my final comments. There were members of the public who reached out and there was a number of things that they wanted to have expressed at the meeting. One was that the intent of this ordinance is meant to help individuals experiencing homelessness who are living in their RVs. And they had expressed that having the enforcement tied to services would be beneficial because it's currently not. Another comment that came up was that the gray water provision, which is outlined, technically would make washing your cars in the streets illegal due to the fact that it says, including but not limited to discharging of recreational vehicles holding tanks. And so that's something that people were concerned with around the language and the ordinance. If the city is developing this program in the absence of working with the county and other jurisdictions, there's concern that we could potentially see an influx of RVs before the only safe RV program in the county enforcement shouldn't just fall on the police. And there should be an interdepartmental approach that should be taken given that we also have code enforcement and parking enforcement.  And we're going to discuss the funding for implementation later, but there was also some concerns around the fact that we haven't identified, you know, costs the who's going to provide the services and where the funding will come from. I know today we received a memo on that and I'm sure that, and I'll be sure to share this with members of the public as well, but I just wanted to share that with the council because people had asked that we express this during this meeting. And so that ends my comments on this item. Thank you, council member, council member Brown. Thank you. I just wanted to make one additional comment with a positive communication I received from actually two groups who I believe are beginning to connect with each other about volunteer efforts to develop some kind of supportive assistance to folks who are living in their RVs around vehicle repair and, you know, addressing issues to get their vehicles road worthy so people can move and also to potentially facilitate RV dumping because we don't have, as we've discussed and we know don't have a lot of facilities for that and where we do, it is quite pricey. So there are efforts underway and I think a group of retired people, they said we're retired people, we have time and we wanna work on this. And so there's a couple of cool things happening that I just wanted to, and so this conversation while it has been difficult, I think has elicited some community response that about ways that people can be involved and try to help us help the city out and help our community out and the neighbors as well as our unhoused neighbors moving forward. So I just wanted to stay tuned for more and thank you for giving me an opportunity to raise that here. Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Calantar-Johnson. Thank you. Thanks for bringing that up, Council Member Brown. I know there are also neighborhood groups who want to and are working on the same as supporting. So I don't know if those are the two groups that I've met up and if not, then maybe we can help facilitate that with their neighborhood groups and community groups who also want to support those efforts of getting vehicle repair support and registration support and supporting where dumping, fees for dumping. So I'm glad that you brought that up. And then I just wanted to comment on Council Member Cummings comment that community members have brought up that the subcommittee and staff have been actively working with the county and well, maybe Director Butler can share more, but the county is also looking at standing up safe parking in unincorporated areas. So it won't be only in the city. And I'll just leave it at that. Thank you. And I'll also queue up and I'll maybe look to lead Butler potentially. It just for the public to know that the county and the city also as part of the work through the two by two over the last year and then Director Butler's work with county, lead on the county staff and our new homeless service manager, encampment policy and kind of a more of a county wide sort of approach to encampments is in the queue. And I believe also Director Butler, we are also because we've received some funding from the state, we're also starting to tap into some technical provider that technical for providing for encampment management, et cetera, through the state HCD, I believe. So this is all part of the governor's new multi-agency, multi-effort to physically bring about one point, I think it's about $1.3 billion for homelessness this year, about three times more than the federal government will be doing, but there are a number of different technical resource availabilities that are starting to show up because of that. And obviously because of the two ordinances we've passed, we have opportunity to continue to work with HCD and other state agencies to kind of refine the fact that many, many people unfortunately are sheltered outside in Santa Cruz. And so these ordinances start to move us towards finding better resolution and better solutions. I don't know, Director Butler, these are things that we just learned about basically in the last couple of weeks as the governor's been rolling out a comprehensive program statewide. Sure, thanks Mayor Myers and council members. I'll just add onto that briefly in that we're doing a lot of things to help coordinate with the county and we have had some of those conversations with respect to how the county can locate RV and oversize vehicle parking opportunities, whether they're city run on county property or if they're county owned and operated properties. So those conversations are ongoing and we're also continuing a series of other conversations. I mentioned the conversations led by Dave Sapoos with Sacramento State University as well as the county has been working with us and focus strategies and focus strategies has been providing some technical assistance to us. And then we're also working with the county and we've got an initial kickoff meeting tomorrow with respect to encampments and the city and county response and that's actually going to also, Watsonville has been invited to that as well. So it'll be a broader effort as it relates to that technical assistance which is also being supported by a nonprofit organization. Yeah, and I'll just finalize just for the public to know how these pieces are fitting together. The governor's created a new California homeless coordinating and financing council and there's additional funding actually through a grant program that also looks at encampment solutions and specifically the city of Santa Cruz and the county of Santa Cruz are mentioned as cities and counties who are what he's now calling sort of the initial cohort of part of his governor's 100 day challenge. And so again, we're very much in the front lines of kind of where the governor and the goals and objectives of a homeless response system that is literally sort of being developed this coming year. And by being the recipient of this major investment, we hope to be in a really good spot in terms of continuing to receive resources. And I certainly understand the concern about how we pay for these things. And we'll certainly hear about that later today. But again, we're at the front lines as a city now. We were not there a year ago. And we've really do the work of John Laird and Assemblymember Stone, they've really raised the consciousness of what we're faced here as a small city. So many resources for homelessness are going to the larger cities in California, cities of millions of people. And because of the data and the information and the hard work of our staff and the work of our state electeds, we've really raised the awareness of the kinds of issues that we're focusing on. So again, for our community to know that this is not, these are not actions that we take lightly. They are very much a set of actions to actually position the city of Santa Cruz to get as much help as we can for the people who aren't in homelessness. And also in the beginning of this year, the state has announced that they will be creating a new California Interagency Council on Homelessness. And again, the work we do here, especially with our encampment management policies will be looked at. And I hope we can continue to receive state resources. Certainly we're out of the gate in a really good spot. So just wanna make sure that the community understands that these are not a punitive approach, but building upon that system of hopefully resolution and better solutions to having people sleeping in their cars on the street. Any other comments or questions on this item? I know Vice Mayor Bruin, you had your hand up earlier, yeah. But my comment was a lot of great things were said, but my comment was regarding some members of the public and just really, I know that Dr. Butler mentioned, touched on it earlier regarding the safe parking program and any update on that progress. And I think they're just in talking to people who had reached out, it wasn't clear exactly what a safe parking program was. And just kind of if there was update on the three tiers and really for the members of the public to understand that it is a program that we are proposing to direct staff to implement that would have elements, all the needed elements that are missing currently, which are designated areas with trash receptacles, restrooms, water hygiene, access to services, social services and connections to whatever needs are needed for whoever is in an oversight's vehicle. So I know there has been work since our last meeting and I just wondered, Lee, if you could give just a quick update on any progress with that. Sure, happy to Vice Mayor Burner and thanks for that opportunity. And we have met in the past two weeks, we've met a number of times with our internal staff working groups, including both public works and police department, as well as members of our city manager's office team. And we also had a discussion with the council subcommittee related to the tiers. And we've been looking at a number of things. First with tier one, we are looking at the police department parking lot there. And we talked through with police how that could work and how we can put together reference materials for individuals at those locations that give them both the rules for that program and how to connect with the additional tiers. We've also talked about potential locations for the additional tiers that would be tier two in particular and how that would be an overnight only program with access to the hygiene services that you mentioned and also how we would hope to partner with some nonprofits that could potentially for tier three have a longer term, even if it's not 24 seven all the time, but closer to 24 seven for the tier three, again, to provide that stability, but that's yet to be determined in terms of that would require partnerships with nonprofit organizations. And so we're a little bit further along in our discussions with tier one and tier two, but also starting to think about tier three at the same time. Thank you so much. Thank you. Council member Cummings and council member commentary Johnson. Council member just started a question in my head that I had last time and I wasn't able to ask. So I was just curious with when it comes to people who are living in their vehicles and we don't know if this has come up at all, but it's just out of curiosity. When we're having conversations with the county, because for example, there are people who are living in their vehicles who aren't having a negative impact. They really don't need mental behavioral health services. The issue is that they can't afford housing, right? And so I'm just wondering what kind of programs or services that the county has to address that population, which is really just a population of people who are down on their luck and can't find an affordable place to live. So they're living in their cars and just how that kind of factors in so that the people who we don't wanna have, who aren't causing problems really aren't being penalized for the fact that they have to live in their vehicles. So both thank you, council member Cummings. Both with the city and the county, there are opportunities for first and last month rent assistance and assistance related to rental payments in general. There's limited funding related to that and particularly limited staffing with respect to the county's rehousing wave, for example, but they are looking at expanding that and offering that. That's the rehousing wave in itself has been focused on housing, navigation for individuals who were in the COVID hotels, but they are looking at expanding that out to the armory where they're operating up there and similar services could also assist individuals at the safe sleeping locations. And we would be looking to do that is to the extent that we can connect individuals who are at the safe parking locations with the county service providers. Okay, is there any information on the city's website or the county's website regarding how to connect people to those programs? The city's website is through our economic development department. It is chooseanacruz.com. There's information on various housing assistance programs there. And the county does have some information on their website but also some nonprofits that I believe both of those websites will point individuals towards as some of them are operated through third parties. Thank you. Council Member Calentari-Johnson. Thank you. Yes, briefly, I did forget to mention that Vice Mayor Brunner, Council Member Golder and I are continuing to work with staff and continuing to meet with community groups on the design of the safe parking program. So just wanted to make sure the public knew that we are staying engaged with this process. And then I did want to, just again, I know acknowledged earlier, but for folks who weren't listening earlier, I wanted to acknowledge Director Butler and the team for how much work has been done, in particular around the safe parking and just a very short amount of time since our last meeting. So I wanted to acknowledge and thank you for that. Thank you, Council Member. Okay, I will go ahead and take this item. This is item number 23 on our Consent Public Hearing, which has been pulled. And I will go ahead and take this out for the members of the public who may want to speak to this item. Now is the time to press star nine on your phone and that cues you up for public comment. When you hear, when it's your time to speak and I will call off either your name or the last four digits of your phone number, you will hear an announcement that you've been unmuted and then the timer will be set to one minute. I have approved two groups that I'll take first and these are group requests representing organizations and I'll go ahead and have West Side neighbors go first and then I will have Stepping Up Santa Cruz go after that.  I'm not sure which phone number I was told that I believe Manuel Prado was going to, Prado was going to be the representative today but I'm not sure which phone number you're on. Bonnie, did you have any communications with there? The person who was going to speak today? Just the name, I can lower the hands and you can ask Manuel to raise his, everyone else to keep their hands down and Manuel raise his hand. Okay, great. Other than that, I have no, I don't know. Okay. I just lowered everybody's hand so Manuel can raise his hand. If the representative from West Side neighbors could raise their hand, I'm interested it would be Manuel but I believe Carol Paul Hamas also was another rep that is anyone here to speak on behalf of West Side neighbors? Please raise your hand. Okay. Bonnie, I'll see if they come back in. I'll go ahead and take, stepping up Santa Cruz and I see Serge had called in and so Serge please go ahead and press star six to unmute yourself and you will be ready to go. And it looks like maybe I have, maybe we did locate the West Side folks so we'll look for that phone number next but Serge go ahead and go first please. Good afternoon. Can you hear me? Yep, we can. Thank you. Okay. Thanks. Good afternoon city council. My name Serge Cagno and I'm speaking for stepping up Santa Cruz. I pay taxes. I volunteer for county boards. I volunteer for neighborhood courts. I volunteered for the city's past cats committee. I worked as a consultant last year helping set up the COVID shelters and motels. I presently am the executive director of a nonprofit program. I've been a part of this community since the 90s. I love Santa Cruz and work to be a positive member of my community. I live in my van and I use it as a mobile office. With this proposed ordinance, I would not be able to have done that work because at times I worked nights supporting those programs as they were starting. There were other night staff at the Vets Hall shelter who lived in their vehicles as well and they would not have been able to do that work either with this ordinance. With this proposed ordinance, I would not be able to go downtown to a bar and spend time with friends after midnight because I couldn't park on the street. Nor would I be able to see a late night movie or visit, stay the night at a friend's house if they didn't have a driveway for me to park in. Please stop saying doing something is better than doing nothing. Doing the wrong thing is still wrong. None of the nonprofits providing services or the county staff support this ordinance. There is no research showing that criminalizing homelessness is helping helpful to get people housed. Things you can do, work with the county and nonprofits to help those in need, provide an adequate number of syringe disposal containers, provide a free sewage dump site within the city limits, stop vilifying all people living in vehicles as criminals who dump sewage, leave trash, steal and cause problems. Some of us are productive members of the community. As long as the safe parking is a required part of this ordinance, you're clearly illegally making it illegal and unwelcome for those living in their RVs to live in the city and work in the city. Thank you. Thank you. I'll go ahead and see if we have the member from West Side Santa Cruz up to be here. Is that number, phone number ending in maybe 6959? Or are we unmute them and see if that's them? Bonnie? For star six to unmute yourself. Are you with West Side neighbors? No. Okay. Okay, why don't we go ahead and hold take regular public comment now. Go ahead, the person on the line ending in phone number 6959, please go ahead. For star six to unmute yourself. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. This is Lynn Renshaw with Santa Cruz Together. Santa Cruz Together collectively supports this ordinance. This public comment, the point I want to make is that this public comment is only one way that people provide input. Most people are working right now or picking up kids. Instead they call you guys earlier or send email ahead of a meeting. 335 people emailed city council about this second reading over the last weekend. 310 of those emails support the ordinance. 25 were opposed. This is consistent with the email public correspondence uploaded on the weekends before September 26th and October 26th. There were nearly 1000 additional emails with about 10 times more people in favor of the ordinance compared to those opposing it. No one in the press. It is him. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I will go ahead and see if West Side Neighbors is up. Bonnie, can you lower everybody's hands again and see if I can get the West Side Neighbors folks person cued? If you are the West Side Neighbors person, please raise your hand.  There we go. Okay, I see phone number ending in 1943, but press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes, please. This is Manuel Proto speaking on behalf of West Side Neighbors. Wanna thank the council members who brought the ordinance forward in response to neighborhood concerns about the impacts of overnight RVs parking, particularly in the West Side neighborhoods. Also wanna thank the council members who voted to move it forward. As the previous speaker mentioned, we know there's very strong sports ordinance over 800 emails sent at the previous two meetings in support of the OVO, as well as I think a thousand signature petition to request enforcement of no overnight parking. This issue has become unmanageable as it exists now. We support the ordinance in the first step in addressing the valid concerns of the neighborhoods and businesses negatively impacted by this issue, as well as the needs of those living in their vehicles. We support the safe spaces parking expansion on city county property, not in the neighborhoods. We do not want people sleeping overnight in their vehicles on city streets. We support providing services to help people improve their situations, including county case management and services. We support enforcement of the existing overnight parking rules and the establishment of a program, including enforcement that will help people to move to safe spaces where they can receive supportive services and sanitation services. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, that concludes the two groups that had extra time in two minutes. So I'll go ahead and just cue everybody up who wants to speak on this. Again, if you press star nine to put your hand up and I'll go ahead and take caller phone number ending in 7211, press star six to unmute yourself, please. One number ending in- Can you hear me there? Yes, we can. Go ahead, please. Hi, Peter Cook. So I lived in the neighborhood lower west side and I've seen over the years that by not enforcing these rules we continually have new people coming in to see a new license plate from Georgia, one's from Washington state, one's from Canada. And by having this open door policy, what we're doing is we're continually allowing new people to come into our neighborhood and our community and overburden our systems so that we're not able to help the homeless people that are here already. And so I think we need to have rules in place so that we're not continually just allowing more and more people to always come into this neighborhood, bringing in new vehicles and new problems and a continual basis. And so I think that would be for the homeless people that are already here as well as the neighbors that live in the neighborhoods and the businesses. I think it's really important that we have some rules in place so that we are able to start actually addressing the problem, not always just growing the problem. So I thank the council for taking this on. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Sabina. Hi, can you hear me? Yes, we can. Great, thank you. I wanna call out that in the oral communications on the agenda, it says that no extra time for groups will be allowed, but it seems like you've given extra time for groups and so I'd love the legal council to weigh in on that because it seems pretty unfair to me. I also wanna call out that this is obviously a cruel and inhumane ordinance that is going to cause more people to be unhoused. And I wish you would stop just listening to your wealthy west side homeowners that are contributing to your campaigns and actually listen to the folks that this is going to affect. All of this is super disappointing, but we're all disappointed in you guys, so not very surprising. Thank you. Next I have Hollis Maloy. Lower at their hand. Okay, yeah, I was gonna say it just disappeared. Okay, phone number now ending in 0249, please. This is Carol Paul Hamas. I wanna thank council members Golder, Brunner and Conn Tari Johnson for bringing forward this ordinance and thanks to the five council members who supported passing it on the first reading. This week, somebody brought to my attention that there are two apps, one's called I Overlander, one's called RV Life, both list specifically free parking overnight on the lower west side. People who are living in vehicles by choice should be able to afford an RV park. People who are living in vehicles out of necessity are in a whole different category. They need help by very much support expanding, excuse me, the Safe Spaces Parking Program and providing easy access to sanitation and services for people who need assistance in improving the conditions that they're living in. Thank you very much for supporting this ordinance and for passing it today. Thank you. Next up is phone number ending in 4844. It doesn't sound like the public is really being included in this discussion. I'm Robert Norris-Hoff. The Butler memo that you discussed has not been made available on the agenda that I could see. So I'm not sure how you're gonna square this with the Brown Act. There's no provision for any kind of real new places to go police lot, are we kidding? It's a lot of talk. Now it's not that intelligent comment from the public would necessarily be much point since it's really clear that the council is a preconceived enforcement agenda that's directed at driving homeless people out of town, particularly if they live in their vehicles and it's ridiculous, of course, so just drive them onto the streets. For the community, however, and any interested council members who want to take actions directly, monitor support and protect folks in RVs and vehicles and not wait for Lee Butler's latest vague report that comes in and simply asserts what we already know. And so really that's what you listeners have to do. Money for the homeless is going to be used for enforcement bucks to clear the park, nervous privilege and walk their dogs. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Sophie. Hi, I've been a resident in Santa Cruz for about 10 years and I also just want to say I'm deeply saddened and disgusted by this ordinance and the misimpregidious that it's based on. As you all have said previously, the only thing this ordinance offers is that it increases criminalization for activities that are already covered by existing law and enforced by city and county staff. So you've made it clear that your priority is to spend city resources on having the city attorney take on prosecuting people into desperate situations and directing more ticketing rather than prioritizing setting up plans ahead of time and resources that will actually solve the problems that folks have emailed in about. Because I doubt that the majority of people who feel that this is an issue that's affecting their neighborhoods think that the only option is to jail everyone and get them out of town. I think there's plenty of people who also agree it's a problem and that there are things we can do. And I think that directed in advance, the winter will already be in desperate situation now. Thank you. Thank you. Next I have Hollis Malloy. Yes, hello. Thank you for taking the call. I'm in full support of the overnight ban and there's a couple of things I'll take a lead from some of the council members and saying I think there's some information the public should know, which is there is a huge distinction between the unhoused and these problem RVs that the police and the West side are dealing with right now. People who simply are in their vehicles living unhoused do not get the police called on them. They do not disrupt public peace and they are not the issue that we are complaining about. What we are complaining about is the problem RVs that is drunk and disorderly conduct, child endangerment, environmental issues. The city dump won't take these RVs anymore because it's an environmental issue and they will get penalized. Well, leaving them on the city streets is a dereliction of duty. We must get these problem RVs there, environmental hazards off the streets. For the advocate saying that we don't care, well, this clearly has safe sparking. We are offering services. It requires willing participation. And so thank you for the over the ordinance. Thank you. I'll ask one more time if there's anyone here that wants to speak to item number 23 on our agenda, which is the ordinance on the Oversize Vehicles, please press star nine to raise your hand. Okay, it looks like we have heard from the public. So I will go ahead and bring this back for a motion and a vote by the council. I look for a motion by council member, Palantar Johnson. Thank you, mayor. And thank you to all the community members who have called in and who have written letters and who have taken time to meet with various council members. Again, your input helps us design the safe parking program and helps us move forward. And this is, as many people said, the first step. And I'm hopeful that we will be moving forward with a services oriented approach and we will get folks into a pathway to housing, which is ultimately what we wanna be working towards and everything that we do. So with that, I will move to, let's see, I'm looking for the motion language. Do I read it straight from here? Move to adopt ordinance number 2021-20 amending title, 10 vehicle and traffic at chapter 10.04 definitions and chapter 10.40 stopping, standing and parking and chapter 10.41 citywide parking permit pertaining to the parking of oversized vehicle and chapter 16.19 stormwater and urban runoff pollution control at section 16.19.070 discharge of sewage prohibited. Motion as written in the agenda packet. Thank you, council member, council member Watkins. I'll go ahead and second that motion. Okay, we have a motion by council member commentary Johnson to adopt ordinance number 2021-20. And we have a second by council member Watkins and I would ask for a roll call vote please. Council member Watkins. Aye. Council member Johnson. No. No. And for the record, I'd just like to say that I and many members of the community who I've spoken with agree that we should be addressing problematic RVs but this ordinance really targets any vehicle over 20 feet even for those people who are not problematic or homeless and also that it fails to address the previous concerns raised when this was appealed to the coastal commission. So I'm supportive of all the services that are being offered and look forward to seeing how we can roll this out but I do not support this ordinance for many of the reasons that we're brought for by the public. So no. Holder. Aye. Vice mayor Brunner. And mayor Meyers. That motion will pass with five voting for and two voting against. So that motion does pass. We are gonna go ahead and take a come back in about 250 take a 10 minute break here. And for the members of the public, I'm gonna move item number 24 ahead of item number 25. So item number 24 is the appointment of our new city manager. We're gonna take that item when we return at 250 and then we'll go to item number 24 which is the public hearing and adoption of our 2020 urban water management plan. We'll take a 10 minute break and then come back. Okay, thank you. Okay, we'll go ahead and get started. I'm sure council member Brown and Watkins will come in as we get open back up. I just wanna for members of the public, we've made it just a slight change in our agenda this afternoon. We're taking item number 25 now and then we will take item number 24 following this item. And item number 25 is the appointing of our new city manager approving the city management manager employment agreement and authorizing the mayor to execute the agreement. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if this is an item you want to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order will be a presentation of the item followed by questions from the council. We will then take public comment and then return to the city council for deliberation and action. If you are again interested in this item, please press star nine to queue yourself up and we'll move to public comment after a brief number of comments and discussion regarding the items in the item. I'll go ahead and start this item and I see Mr. Huffacher has joined us, which is great. I first want to start the item by recognizing and thanking interim city manager Rosemary Menard for coming on top of her already very busy job as our water director to really fill the shoes of our retiring city manager, Martin Bernal, who is really one of two city managers that the city has had in the last, gosh, almost probably 40 years, I think, I don't know the exact amount, but again, long-term longevity and Rosemary has not only filled those shoes, but she has just really dove in head first in really picking up a lot of very complex policy issues that council was working on, getting ourselves ready for our budget, looking at obviously some difficult policies around homelessness, looking at some of the development proposals that we're currently struggling with. Her leadership has been greatly appreciated by the city council members. I know that all of us have learned from her since her appointment starting in August and I know she'll continue to be a leader amongst our department heads as she transitions back to the water department and helps our incoming city manager, Mr. Huffaker, get ready and succeed in the transition. So Rosemary, I think all of us just really wanna give you a round of applause and thank you for everything you've done. I know we've got a few more months working with you, which we will enjoy, but again, really just stepping out of a very complex department that you're doing and leading and jumping into city manager was really a gift at this point in time. So we're very lucky that you did that for us and we so appreciate it. Extremely thrilled to introduce to our community and folks watching today are the council's choice to be our new city manager, Mr. Matt Huffaker, he's here on the screen. Matt is coming to us from the city of Watsonville with a over 15 year career in city administration and city management most recently as the city manager for the city of Watsonville. And I know we all feel that our city in common here in the county is giving up a great leader, but we are just thrilled that Matt has decided to come work here with the city of Santa Cruz and embark on what I think is an exciting decade of projects and programs and policy that this council and past councils have set in course and including new civic buildings, really committing to housing affordability longterm and also looking at other economic development opportunities for helping our businesses stabilize and grow as well as completing some major infrastructure needs such as rehabilitating our wharf and working on the civic auditorium eventually and our swimming pool and other needs. So Matt is stepping into a very big job. His energy is contagious. There was unanimous consent from the city council about bringing forward his nomination as our choice for city manager. And we are pleased to present him as our choice and I'll close there and offer my council members, I was like, before she go into a coffee pit, I would offer my fellow colleagues to make comments and Matt if you would like to also comment at the end and then the item before us for the public, is that we will be appointing Mr. Africa will be approving the employment agreement and then authorizing my execution of that agreement. So I'll turn it over to my council member colleagues to see if they have further comments. And then Matt again, we'd love to hear from you if you have a few words. So anybody want to queue up for any additional comments? Council member on Tari Johnson. Thank you, mayor. Matt, I have had the privilege of working with you on some of the projects I've done in the city of Watsonville and I know how much you care about community members throughout our county. I know how dedicated you are and I'm just really thrilled that we'll get to work with each other in this capacity and roll up our sleeves and do the hard work that's ahead of us. So thank you. Council member Cummings. Thank you, mayor. I just wanted to thank all the council members and the staff for all the time that was taken to go through this process. It has not been an easy process too. And I just want the public to know that, you know, it has not been an easy process to land on who our new city manager was going to be. And, you know, it's probably one of the most important jobs in this community. And it took a lot of time for us to go through all of the various applications and multiple rounds of interviews. And I'm just happy to see that Matt is gonna be our next city manager. I've had an opportunity to interact with Matt on a number of occasions last year in particular during COVID when we were having the city manager mayor meetings frequently and a variety of different conferences. And I've always heard good things about Matt when people were working in the city of Watsonville, members of the council down in Watsonville. And so I'm just excited to see what's to come for the city of Santa Cruz and look forward to working with Matt moving forward. Thank you, council member. Council member Watkins. But thank you, mayor. And I'll just echo my colleagues' comments and express my appreciation. One, to Rosemary for stepping in in this interim capacity and doing an exceptional job while being here. I'm really grateful for your leadership and excited to have you also support our incoming city manager, Matt. And I wanna welcome you and I look forward to working with you in this capacity. And I know that the community will get to know you in the coming months and as well as the staff. And yeah, lots of great work to do. And so thank you for taking on this role and onward. Thank you, council member, vice mayor Bruder. Matt, welcome to Santa Cruz. We really went through a long process and I would really like to thank our HR staff recruiting firm, the city staff, everyone that walked us through this process. We work together as a team. I really appreciated the council through the interview process and we've landed with this appointee, Matt Hefaker, who I'm very confident will bring wonderful strengths. I look forward to working with you, Matt. Thank you for making Santa Cruz your next home. Thank you, vice mayor. Any other council members? Okay, I will go ahead and Matt, if you are willing and yeah, we'd love to hear a few words from you. So again, congratulations. Yeah, I'm very happy to you. And for starters, mayor Myers and council, I'm just incredibly humbled and excited to be considered for this opportunity. As many of you have mentioned and the mayor has mentioned, it's a really exciting time for Santa Cruz. It's a special community and I'm very much looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and working with each of you, working with our incredible city team and our community members to help emerge from this pandemic stronger and to continue advancing the many important and exciting initiatives that are underway. I'll also have the opportunity to continue supporting our region as a whole, as I know that many of you are committed to that as well. So I just couldn't be more excited and very grateful for having this opportunity and I look forward to the days and weeks to come. So thank you. Thank you, Matt. And thanks for joining us today. I know that you're queued to go back to your council meeting as well. So I really appreciate you taking the time. I will go ahead and take this out unless there's any other comments from council. I'll go ahead and take this out for public comment at this time. We're on item number 25, which is adoption of the resolution in appointing our new city manager, Mr. Matt Huffaker. And if you do want to comment on this item, please press star nine on your phone, raise your hand. And I'm not seeing anyone out there to raising their hands. So I will go ahead and bring this back to council for a motion and we'll go from there. Vice mayor Bruder. Oh, you're muted. I would like to make a motion to adopt resolution appointing the new city manager, approving the city manager employment agreement and authorizing the mayor to execute the agreement appointing Matt Huffaker as the new city manager. Thank you, vice mayor and council member Boulder. I'll second. Okay, we have a motion by vice mayor Bruder, seconded by council member Boulder on adopting the resolution to appoint Matt Huffaker as our new city manager, approving the employment contract, excuse me, employment agreement and authorizing the mayor to execute the agreement. And Bonnie, could we have a roll call vote please? Council member Watkins. Calentary Johnson. I, and I apologize. I had to step out for a moment, but I'm also thrilled that you're gonna be joining us. Mr. Huffaker. Hi. Boulder. Vice mayor Brunner. I. And mayor Meyers. I, that motion passes unanimously. Matt, we will see you here on January 3rd. Thanks so much. Thank you, take care. Okay, you too. Okay, we will now move to item number 24, which is a public hearing for adoption of the 2020 urban water management plan and water shortage contingency plan. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if this is an item you want to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order will be a presentation of the item by staff followed by questions from the council. We will then take public comment and then return to the council for deliberation and action. Our presenter today is Sarah Easley Perez, principal planner with our water department. So I'll turn it over to Sarah.  I, this was one of the items that I need to combat the interim director of the water department. And I agreed that I would kind of keep a tab on as we went forward along with the financial item that you're gonna hear more about next month or next meeting. But I did want to give a little bit of an introduction to this. But there are water management plan of which the water shortage contingency plan is a part, is a requirement that the water department has from the state. And it's a plan that has to be developed and updated every five years. It's quite a regulatory driven document with lots of, you know, the charts and the date and the analysis has to be exactly in this format so the state can be able to sort of look at things kind of across the board and across a whole range of very different kinds of water utilities. And sometimes that works and sometimes that's a little bit of trying to put a round peg in a square hole for individual projects and programs such as, you know, the one we have where we're not connected to any of the state water infrastructure and et cetera. But fundamentally we work this plan together. We've done this, this is probably, I think the first round might have been in 2010 that we had to do one of these. And so we've had to update it every, actually even earlier than that, multiple times. So it's a project that is required, the process in front of you with respect to the review and adoption has to be in the public care format required by the state. And with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Sarah who's been the main architect and project manager for this and let her give you a brief overview. Thank you. I'm going to share my screen. I'm the mayor and council members. I'm Sarah Perez, principal planner with the water department. And I'm here today with Benjamin Pink, our environmental project analyst to provide an overview of the 2020 urban water management plan, which includes the water shortage contingency plan that's before council today for public hearing and consideration of adoption. I'm gonna run through a quick presentation and overview and Ben and I will be available to answer any questions. This is driven by regulatory requirements. And then we update the plan every five years. It is a plan that captures a snapshot of the year 2020, looks back to the previous five years between 2015 and 2020 and looks forward on a 20 to 25 year time horizon. There are a number of required topics that will be included and I'll be overviewing some of those key topics. The water shortage contingency plan. This plan is required to be a part of the urban water management plan but at the same time it must stand alone and be adopted independently. The city council did adopt an interim updated water shortage contingency plan in early 2021. And this allowed us to implement in 2021 as it was needed. But there were some new requirements from 2020 that were deferred in that 2021 plan that have now been included. And those include some regulatory requirements such as describing the process by which we evaluate our water year and some other requirements like that. So in the 2020 urban water management plan the water shortage contingency plan is comprised of two components. It's chapter eight which is water shortage contingency planning and appendix O which is the water shortage contingency implementation. And that appendix is the updated version of that interim updated water shortage contingency plan that was adopted earlier this year. I just wanted to quickly go over a public review of the urban water management plan and water shortage contingency plan. The plan has been made available on the city website the downtown library in person, engineering counter at the water department. We did publish notices of public hearing and a newspaper. We additionally took the plan to the water commission for their recommendation for adoption to you. And to date we have not received any public comments on the plan, urban water management plan. There's a lot going on in this graph but I can provide a quick overview. This graph looks at 1951 through the year 2020. Population is shown in green. We have accounts in purple, water production in red and along the bottom it shows our annual precipitation and additionally droughts are highlighted in red. And the main takeaway here I wanted to point out was really the diversion in 2020 of population where population continues to increase but water demand has really been steadily falling since 2020. So we've really seen a disconnect there between growth and a water demand. And that's due primarily to conservation, changes in water code and more efficient use of water. Additionally, in 2014, you see a large drop in demand here during our last drought. So our community really came together and conserved during that drought but since then water demand has really not rebounded. We've maintained at a very low rate of water use. Projected water use, which is a requirement of the urban water management plan. We can see this table here is in a million gallons. So in 2020 our demand or our water use was 2.6 billion gallons and in 2045, when we expect population to increase by about 18%, we're only projecting about a 4% increase in water use. So really a very slow increase in water use and that again is due to Fleming codes, ongoing conservation and the high efficiency of new development, especially multi-family developments. The LXD7X, which was passed in 2009 and this required all urban water suppliers to reduce urban water use by 20% by 2020. So this 2020 report was that reporting out on how well we did that. This orange line here was our target and 110 was our target to meet that goal and our gallons per capita per day here is 74, that's our GPCD. So we very well met our goal of 110 and additionally I wanted to point out this green line, our residential per capita water use. It's not required to be calculated for XB7X7, but at 47 we're among the lowest residential water use per capita in the state. A quick overview of our water supply where our system relies primarily on surface water sources with about 90% of our supply coming from our North Coast Springs on Lake Dell and Laguna and majors on the San Lorenzo River as well as our single surface water reservoir, Loch Loman, and we get about 5% of our water supply from our belt's wells in the live oak area and those operate during the summer dry season. Onto water service reliability. To summarize some of the major constraints on our water sources, our local supply variability as paired with our limited storage with having just one surface water storage reservoir are challenging to our supply. This water year classification graph shows rainfall from 1921 through 2020 and it's classified by wet, normal dry and critically dry years and the main takeaway from this graph is an incredible amount of variability in the type of water years that we get and in addition, in the years in the 2000s, we're seeing a lot of wet-lash weather where dry-dries followed by wet-wets which makes it very challenging to operate a water supply system with limited storage. Some of the additional challenges that the water department faces are ecosystem restoration and protected species. Our goal is to provide habitat supportive of an anatomous species, coho salmon and steelhead trout while operating our water system. And there are challenges in working those together. We additionally face constraints on our existing water rights as well as a source water quality in our existing surface water sources and treatment capacity. So to ensure future reliability, we are safeguarding against future water shortage by implementing future water supply projects that are described in the urban water management plan. This includes implementation of our water supply augmentation strategy which we've been pursuing since 2015 at the direction of city council. And we have four elements of water supply augmentation ranging from demand management, which is conservation, transfers and exchanges up for storage and recovery. And as a backup to that, either recycled water or desalination with recycled water currently prioritize. In addition to that, we're implementing a number of other projects to help implement the water supply augmentation strategy. Those include the Santa Cruz Water Rights Project. This project is wrapping up its final EIR and it's expected to come to city council next month in December. That includes modifications to our existing water rights, water supply augmentation components as well as a surface water diversion improvements. And we are additionally implementing our Santa Cruz Water Program, upgrading a number of our major infrastructure facilities, including our single surface water treatment plan, the Brown-Gram Hill water treatment plan, raw water pipelines and improvements to the TAKE diversion. Slide looks at a couple of the required reliability assessments of the Urban Water Management Plan. The drought risk assessment, which is this assessment here, looks at near-term supply reliability from 2021 through 2025, assuming the next five years are drought. And the takeaway here is, if we assume our water rights modifications, which include agreed flows that are protective of fisheries, so those anadromous fisheries in our watersheds, before we've implemented, but before we've implemented water supply augmentation projects, we project a fairly significant shortage if we had five years of consecutive drought. This projected supply availability analysis, it looks out on a longer term from 2025 to 2045 and in that we can assume the implementation of our water supply augmentation strategy and we see improved reliability where we expect supply to meet projected demand going forward as long as we implement those supply projects. It looks at our demand management measures, our conservation programs. The city has a long history. This graph goes back to 1981 of implementing conservation programs, which has brought us to having among the lowest per capita residential water use in California. The very low water use is great in a lot of ways in terms of needing demand, preserving water resources, but it also presents some challenges with a hardened demand that makes it harder for our customers to cut back further during temporary periods of drought. So that demand hardening really necessitates that our implementation of our supply augmentation to safeguard our future water supplies. Next, I'm going to overview the water shortage contingency plan. As many of you are aware, I'm sure this May through October, we implemented the stage one water shortage warning from our water shortage contingency plan with a goal of a 10% reduction in peak season demand. Based on that experience, we made some minor modifications to our existing water shortage contingency plan. And those changes are summarized here. We added a couple of core principles. We made explicit some flexibility in the way the plan is implemented, as well as clarify of allotment exceptions who does and doesn't qualify for very exceptions. 2021 implementation, a couple of highlights. We had targeted monthly outreach to educate customers who exceeded their allotment. And this brought down from customers exceeding from 34% in May to 25% in October. So we were able to reach a number of people. We processed over 5,000 exception requests through our system with no appeals. And additionally, we implemented water smart software, which helped decrease the level of manual processing. And we were successful in getting almost 40% of residential accounts registered on the portal. And 32% of single family accounts went into the portal and actually updated their profiles, which is great. We expect this to be a key tool for us moving forward. I want to just summarize our next steps for the urban water management plan and the water shortage contingency plan. Today, we're consideration of adoption by resolution of the two plans individually. Following that, within 30 days of adoption, the plan will be filed with Department of Water Resources. And within 30 days of that filing with Department of Water Resources, we'll also make the plan, the final plan publicly available and provide to the jurisdictions that we serve water. The presentation, thank you. Great, thank you for that presentation. I will go ahead and see if council members have questions regarding the presentation. Thanks, Sarah, that was great. Any questions from council members at this time? Not seeing any hands. Okay. Okay, I will go ahead and take this out to our public right now and see if we have any attendees in our meeting today that would like to comment on this item. If you do, if you would like to comment on this item, which is the adoption of the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan and Water Shortage Contingency Plan, please press star nine on your phone to raise your hand at this point. When it's your time to speak, you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted and then we'll set the timer for two minutes. Is there anyone in the meeting attendees today that wanna speak to this item? I do wanna recognize that Water Commissioner Doug Engfer is on, I see in the audience. So Doug, thank you to the Water Commission for shepherding this to us. Just wanna recognize you. I'm not seeing any raised hands in our audience. So I will go ahead and bring it back to the council. Excuse me. Excuse me. Council Member Cummings. I'm happy to move the staff recommendation. I did just have one kind of question of curiosity. There is the potential for the university to be expanding in the future. And I'm just wondering how university expansion and population on the university campus might influence the water saving plans in the future. Water management plans under drop. Yeah, I'd like to build that question. And then Sarah or you could add in. As you know, the university had done a lot of work between the 2005 and the 2020 LRDPs. And basically kind of added about 10,000 students to their enrollment during that period of time and had their water use stay pretty much the same as it was. So they did project in their EIR, they projected 192 million gallons of additional demand for the 20 year period that they're working on. That demand is integrated into the forecast information that you saw. And it doesn't mean that we support what's gonna happen or don't support it, but we plan for including it. And you can see that even with that additional demand, which presumably is related to a lot of additional housing that they were planning to have on campus, right? That we're still able to incorporate that. There are a couple of other issues that we've been, that we've talked to the university about in our comments having to do with the potential for them developing alternative supplies, which we don't support because they would come out of the car system, which underlies the work campus, but could potentially have negative impacts on water quantity and water quality, particularly temperature in the lower river by changing the dynamics and the amount of flow that's coming out of that car's resource into the lower San Lorenzo River. That could have a negative impact on our ability to support the inadmiss mysteries that we've done a lot of work on. So I think that's kind of a high level overview of that issue. Thank you, Rosemary. Any other comments or questions? We have a motion by council member Cummings. That means a second. I'll go ahead and second that. Any other comments from council members? I just want to, again, thank our water director and our water department for all the work you guys do, you know, for a city of our size, we have one of the most progressive and proactive water departments in the state of California. So, and it shows in our conservation statistics, we have a very aware public, and we have a really great laser focus on not only modernizing and updating and taking care of our water system, which a lot of communities, unfortunately, can usually oftentimes lose track of, but we've also made this huge commitment to actually simultaneously, as we take care of water for humans, we've also made the commitment to take care of water for our fish and wildlife species that depend on our, especially our streams that we get our water sources from. So we're very lucky to have such a competent people managing the most important resource that our city survives on. So just want to compliment you, Rosemary, and your whole department on the work that you guys continue to bring forward. It's really, really those of us who, you know, we probably maybe won't recognize it as we're sitting here, but future generations will definitely be very thankful for all the proactive work you guys do with regarding to our water supply and managing it for the future folks. With that, I will go ahead and ask for a roll call vote. We have a motion by council member coming seconded by myself and this will be to adopt the 2020 urban water management plan and water shortage contingency plan. And it is adopting a resolution for both the management plan and the contingency plan. And can we have a roll call vote, please, Lonnie. Council member is Watkins. Aye. Calentary Johnson. That motion passes unanimously. Well, thanks again. Okay, we will move on to our next item under general business. And this will be item number 26, which is health and all policies year one implementation report and fiscal year 2022 to 2024 work plan for members of the public who are streaming this meeting. If this is an item you want to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order will be a presentation on the item by staff followed by questions from the city council. We will then take public comment and then return to the council for deliberation and action. I will invite up Tiffany Weiswest, our sustainability and climate action manager. Welcome, Tiffany. Thank you, mayor. Good afternoon, mayor and city council members. Tiffany Weiswest, sustainability and climate action manager and the city manager's office. I'm going to go ahead and share my screen with you for the presentation. I'm very pleased to bring it to you after some time the year one implementation work plan progress report, as well as the community wellbeing indicators that we're proposing adopting and our work plan for the next two years for health and all policies. In January of last year, 2020, city council adopted the year one implementation work plan after nearly two years of work evaluating what health and all policies might look like here at the city, looking at how other agencies have operationalized it and conducting a series of listening sessions led by then mayor, Martine Watkins. That resulted in this work plan that you see here today that was a follow on to the city council policy and the ordinance that was adopted in November of 2019. This year one implementation work plan contained five objectives, eight actions and a number of different process and impact evaluation metrics. The outcome evaluation metrics are the ones that we're bringing to you here today. So that was the last piece that was outstanding. Just to look at the progress on those objectives which is detailed out much more in the agenda report for this item. But chiefly, these five objectives we have achieved. The first was really preparing guidance on how do we actually look at equity, public health and sustainability, the three pillars of health and all policies in our agenda reports because that was one of the requirements from the ordinance and the policy that came through. We developed a guidance document, a half hour training video and we've conducted a number of group trainings on how to incorporate health and all policies into the agenda report. That guide, we'll see a bit later on what the quick reference chart looks like to guide folks through that process and thinking through these three pillars with respect to their item. We also have brought forward today a framework from measuring and reporting on equity, health and sustainability and improving the wellbeing of our community. I think it's important to remember that these community wellbeing metrics are those that we expect to see on the yearly or really more the decadal scale of change. This is not like our interim recovery plan that has quarterly metrics that we're tracking that do change more frequently. We're looking for the longer term change and identifying the trends and those changes. And that those proposed indicators are also an attachment to the agenda report. It's seven pages and fortunately, those all come from our county data share site. So they're very easy to update. We also said that we would conduct an annual evaluation of this effort and report to council. That is what we're doing here today is reporting for really it's been a year plus. And next we will do our next annual reporting one year from now at the end of calendar year 2022. Our fourth objective was to ensure new staff commissioners and leadership are trained in all three pillars of health and all policies. And we've really taken an iterative and somewhat experimental approach to this. We did add with human resources a number of new trainings beyond those that are mandated by law around diversity, equity and inclusion and some deeper topics. We did have over 200 staff go through those trainings. We also conducted and many of you participated or I think maybe a couple of you participated in March of this year in our leadership equity screening workshop which was a really valuable, I think workshop that allowed us to explore these topics in much more depth than I think we have before. And also as an attachment to this agenda report you see the summary outcomes of that workshop which I think are really interesting. And then lastly, the last objective was to support stakeholder partner convenings. And we were looking for one or two cross-sectoral convenings and we did do more than those. We participated in a couple of course coffee chats a regional sustainability and equity convening as well as on the national level the national association of cities, county's health officers as well. There's a lot of interest in what we're doing here in Santa Cruz with health and all policies as other jurisdictions across the US are doing the same thing exploring what can health and all policies mean in our jurisdiction. So that's been very rewarding interacting with these other folks and learning what they're doing as well that we can bring back to our work here today. So that's really a snapshot of where we've been also in your agenda report you probably saw in the table one that there were over 60 new and ongoing projects, programs, policies and other initiatives that align with health and all policies. And I think that's rather an astounding body of work. And you'll see in that table which pillars are directly applicable or being addressed in that table. So S crossed by P is sustainability by public health in case there is any confusion on what that nomenclature meant in that column of that table. This is what the agenda report guidance quick reference chart looks like. And this of course accompanies it's the short version of our broader guidance documents that's fairly simple and gives some really concrete examples of how folks have incorporated health and all policies language in the agenda report. And I thank you all for continuing to look for that language and ask for it. As you can see this quick reference chart has each of the three pillars down the left hand side and then ask a number of prompting questions to really kind of get the juices flowing and instigate kind of some deeper thought and analysis as to how these pillars either have been incorporated or have not into this item. And for the equity piece we're really drawing on we sought to not reinvent the wheel on tools that already existed such as Monopma County organs, equity and empowerment lens. And this is really the equity piece of our quick reference chart that we ask people to take a look at. And in fact, this quick reference chart and the Monopma County five piece that you see on the screen here it does not only need to be used for the agenda report it can be utilized at the beginning of a project a policy and initiative to think through from the beginning and do some planning to ensure that those principles are incorporated throughout. So we're offering it as kind of the moment in time when it comes to council but really this can be leveraged in a lot of ways. And in fact, many departments or several departments have already begun to do so. This then is page one of seven pages of the proposed community wellbeing indicators. And a few things to note about this. Number one is we align with the core conditions for health and wellbeing. Seeing as that is a city and county framework that a lot of this health and all policies work falls under. So aligning with that. First of all, as well as the core community impacts that the county has developed. So again, just looking to marry these things together for ease of use for employees. And then you'll see the actual indicators and the indicator data. On the far right hand side, we have the current city Santa Cruz value and their current county value. And in some cases city scale data are not available and we would need to default to county data. And I think that this is going to be something that could evolve over time. I know with the interim recovery plan as we phase out of that over the next year, 18 months, whatever it may be, perhaps there are some of those metrics that maybe belong in here for looking in long-term. And similarly through the climate action plan 2030 process we anticipate that there will be some green economy metrics that come out that may be integrated into this in the future as well. So this is something that's adaptable and it's really easy to use. Then we have some kind of next steps that we're proposing along those five objectives that were in the original work plan. We really want to expand staff engagement on the guidance document for the language and the agenda reports. We had 10% of agenda reports in 2020 that included health and all policies and that was before we even had a guidance document. Our target for this year is 50% and for next year 90%. And so we are looking at how can we expand engagement? And in fact, we have brought back by popular demand and have put on the employee training catalog for calendar year 2022 is agenda report guidance that will be co-taught with the assistant city manager and myself where we can also talk about health and all policies. So how to craft a cogent concise but informative report that includes health and all policies. In terms of the framework we've brought it to you here today, the implementation plan calls for reporting on that every two years. So we will do so in two years from now. We will bring our next annual evaluation to city council one year from now as well. And in terms of training, this was something that really came up in our leadership equity workshop as a very high priority is that, okay, we have started to do some of this basic training around these topics, but now we need to go deeper into these topics. And in fact, in addition to the agenda report, we have two new trainings that are on the calendar for 2022, one of which I'm really excited to co-instruct with our communications manager that will be best practices in equity engagement. So we are developing that right now with our civic spark fellow. And then lastly, supporting participation by staff and leadership and more convenings. We have not identified those convenings for this year, but we'll be doing so shortly. However, one thing that also came up in our equity leadership workshop was that there really was a need for community engagement that's non-project based that is solely for the purpose of relationship and capacity building. And so we really wanna flesh out what does that look like? And I know that our communications manager is doing a really great job of helping to connect the dots across the department on the engagement that we're doing. So we're doing it more efficiently and doing it with that equity lens, of course. And I'm really pleased, in addition to that, there are over 15 new and ongoing projects, programs, policies, and other initiatives aligned with health and all policies going forward. And many of those are reinforced through the next item on your agenda. The racial discrimination, I'm not saying the right term, I'm sorry, but the next item that's on the resolution regarding the structure of racism and white supremacy and actual steps towards a more just, inclusive, safe community. I'm sorry, I wasn't sure what that was exactly called, but many of the 15 new and ongoing projects are reinforced, for example, joining the Government Alliance for Racial Equity that would bring really great frameworks and resources to the city to be able to, again, guide deeper in training, provide tools for our employees to utilize as well as the community. And that is my presentation for you here today. And I have the recommended motion on the screen, but I'm happy to take any comments or questions that you might have at this time on health and all policies. Thank you, Tiffany. Great presentation. I'll go ahead and look to Council for comments and questions, Council Member Cummings, Council Member Watkins, and then Council Member Calmentari-Johnson. Tiffany, thank you for that presentation. It's good to see how this is all rolling out. And the various policies that are lining with health and all policies. I'm just curious, I know you mentioned that there's a number of trainings that are being offered through health and all policies, and I'm just curious kind of what metrics are being used to evaluate the kind of impact and outcomes, just to understand how these trainings, like what kind of effect they're having whether it's on employees, policy development, but really just trying to understand the effectiveness of these trainings and how we measure that. Yeah, thank you for that question. All of these trainings do post-training. We ask before people leave to evaluate the training in a Likert scale kind of format. That's not something I have at my fingertips right now, but in general, we saw very positive reception to these trainings. Some comments on, hey, going deeper and broader would be useful and took that to heart that something else that came out of the equity leadership workshop. And so that is why right now I'm exploring with HR what are the deeper kinds of trainings. As I mentioned, equity best practices and engagement is one of them that we're gonna be offering. And then of course the agenda report guidance is the second one. And then there's a third one, which I'm not recalling right now that we already have scheduled as, oh, that's on the time at action plan 2030. We have scheduled for late 2022. And then I think we're still evaluating with HR what are some other next step equity ones that we can bring in for this year. So any suggestions on topics or facilitators on that would be welcome. This is the right time for that as HR is compiling that employee training catalog for next year. Thank you. You're welcome. Council member Watkins. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Tiffany. I don't really have any questions, but I do have a couple of comments and one I just really wanna thank. I wanna thank you, Tiffany, for all your work on this and for really carrying this through from a concept to figuring it out with the community, with the staff and then now to actualizing it and seeing all of the things that are listed in the table in terms of the work that we're doing is so encouraging and knowing that this is a foundation for us to build on is so exciting. And I know that we have in the next item to really think about how we can support this work going forward and kind of a proposal to reconvene a council subcommittee to do so, which I am very much so in support of, but I also just really wanna take a moment to really, you know, applaud the uniqueness of this being centered under our climate action manager, really recognizing that sustainability and the existential threat of climate change and public health and equity are so interconnected. And that is, I think, really forward thinking that I just wanna take a moment to highlight because I think it's truly remarkable and I think hopefully other communities can learn from what we're doing here. And we know that it's a continuous improvement process and these first steps have been really just wonderful and deserve to be celebrated and thank you. So thank you for this report. You're welcome, Council Member. Council Member Collin, Tari Johnson. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, I would like to echo Council Member Watkins' remarks. Thank you so much, Tiffany, for all the work you put into this. This is so impressive to see what has already taken place and what's coming. I had one question around the metrics. I love seeing these metric tables. The, there were two areas under community connectedness and under safe and, or not safe, excuse me, stable and affordable housing. I see that we don't have metrics at the city or county level. And I'm just wondering what our plan is to find those indicators or to find indicators that are close to them. You know, I'll have to look into that and get back to Council Member Collin, Tari Johnson. As I'm looking at this, I realize it was about a year ago that we actually developed this and it's really now only coming forward. And I would love to be able to consult with Nicole Young, our consultant, who helped to prepare this because she has a pulse on, as you note, there are some that mentioned that there could be data coming online in the data share and that could be, these could be a couple of them. So I'd love to be able to report back to you on that once I'm able to answer that question. Great. Well, I was impressed to see how many boxes were filled and how much data is accessible to us. And I think, you know, all of this is, makes us really ripe for additional sources of funding for the work that we're doing in our community. It's just, it's really, really quite impressive what we have in place, the data we have in place. I didn't mean to point out what's missing. I was just wondering what the plan was around it because what we have in place is really quite robust and impressive. So thank you for all your work. You're welcome. Thank you. Other comments or questions from Council Members at this time? Okay. I will take this out to public comment now. So this is item number 26 on our agenda, which is Health and All Policies, year one implementation report in fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2024 work plan. And I will call on Pauler ending in 1-8-1-0. Yeah, this is Garrett. I have spoken before of the potentially un-American aspects of the high-up policies declaring them as Marxist, leftist, globalist dogma. I won't repeat those here except to repeat, high-up is based on the false assumption that all life outcomes must be equal and or inequality itself is an injustice, which is moronic and this justifies assigning privileges to some because of loosely correlated differences in life outcome and leads to unjustified discrimination and excessive government central control that tends in the extreme as communists clearly requiring that government must then control every aspect of people's lives to force equal life outcomes or any outcome it so chooses, citing health safety cover authority to control almost anything imaginable.  While information is helpful, just how far you intend to go violating people's individual rights and discriminate against people or businesses to achieve your goals should concern anyone who values liberty. I imagine like the let's go Brandon Patriots feel when Biden goes too far. High-up itself is not concerned with American principles of liberty. Just an idea, if you wanted to improve health and wellbeing statistics, maybe stop importing poverty here to come such as illegal aliens with sanctuary city status or homeless enticements such as increasing subsidies or drug crime leniency, but instead promote outright prosperity through making businesses easier to form instead of shutting them down with misspoke as ill-considered lockdowns. I have concerns data cited to justify action goals are not simple objective measurements fact, but from observations or surveys or comes from data share, the steering committee of which are largely non-profits and potentially less than objective oriented self-serving interest, potentially tainting the data whose existence depends on a perception of their societal need. Community assessment project data is similar. The baseline year, Ohio core condition status indicators also appear old or unavailable or questionable as measurement facts. It is strange for a one year report, there is no update for this incomplete year old or more indicator list. Thanks. Thank you. Any other members of the public who wish to speak on item number 26? We just caught that number. Anyone else? Okay. We'll bring it back to the council. And yeah, I just very quickly make a quick comment. I just, I think local government is shifting whether people want to sort of acknowledge but more and more people are looking to local government for some of the things that local government didn't used to do. We used to do a lot of pipes and not as much programming, but where I think we're learning the success of our community really relies on access to local government and I think health and all policies provides that access. So it's a very complimentary policy and set of work that I think really makes sense, especially now where community is wanting to understand more about how to stabilize themselves, whether it's in an economic condition or a family condition or what have you. So Tiffany, I just want to applaud your work. So thank you for what you're doing and how you're operationalizing this. I have council member Watkins raised your hand and assuming you will look to make a motion. Back to, I'd be happy to move the recommendation, which is a motion to accept the health and all policies year one implementation report and approve the proposed fiscal year 2022, fiscal year 2024 health and all policies work plan. Council member Collin Terry Johnson. I'd like to second. Okay, we have a motion on the table to accept the health and all policies year one implementation report and approve the proposed fiscal year 2022, 2024 high up work plan. Motion by council member Watkins, seconded by council member Collin Terry Johnson. And could we have a roll call vote please, Bonnie. Council member Watkins. Hi, Collin Terry Johnson. The motion passes unanimously. Okay, we will move to me again. You're welcome. We'll move on to our next item, which is actually item number 27, which has been removed from the agenda this afternoon. So we will not be having discussion on this item. Council member Cummings, I believe you had, I believe you might have had a statement or did you have anything to include on this today? We'll move on from this item. I know you had some conversations with some of the community members. Yeah, no, I think that I can save my comments for the next item since they kind of tie hand in hand. So if we can go on to the next item, I'll have a couple of comments I'll make at that time. Okay, great. We'll move on to item number 28 now, which is a resolution recognizing the history of the current existence of racism and white supremacy and actionable steps to work towards a more just, inclusive and safe community. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if this is an item you want to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order will be a presentation of the item by the council members who brought this item forward followed by questions from the council. We will then take public comment and then return to the council for deliberation and action. I will go ahead and introduce Vice Mayor Brunner, who will open this item. And then council member Collin Tari Johnson will follow Vice Mayor Brunner, and then I'll have a few comments at the end. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor Myers. This item, really I'd like to speak to a brief background and how this came about. And it stems back to July, I believe, was the joint statement that Mayor Myers and myself made regarding declaring racism a public health crisis and standing united to be committed to anti-racism and anti-discrimination work and to take meaningful action. And there was a statement that we posted, it was about three paragraphs, that really we wanted to commit and part of my goal over the next year as well is really committing to ensuring that our policies and programs and practices in the city are safe and welcoming for everyone. And so we really wanted to take some of the information that we had also received from various community members and information working in alignment with some of the information from the health and all policies plan and tying it to action and actionable steps and committing it. So we really quickly wanted to, first of all, acknowledge and recognize what is happening and historically in the city and identify and recognize internal analysis and needs for where we can continue improving internally in the city and increasing also opportunities for leadership, opportunities for people of color. And really trying to take what started as something very simple quickly grew to many components in this. And we really wanted to make sure that we were addressing some really key components in this resolution. So I will hand it over to council member Calentari Johnson to kind of speak of that process. Thank you Vice Mayor Brunner and thank you for your leadership on this. As Vice Mayor Brunner just stated, this is really our commitment to action and our commitment to operationalizing parts of the health and all policies framework that we just heard from Tiffany Wise West. We received a number of correspondence from members of the Asian-American Pacific Islander community from the Black community Latinx community. And there were some specific asks in response to some of the hate that's been happening h