 Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Mayor Corsi Thank you so much and before we begin council. I want to oh and that council member combs Yes, thank you and council member combs. Thank you. Yeah and council before we we actually begin I do want to point out you have a Risk band in front of you will be giving these out as the city manager has one as well They are in preparation for the one-year commemorative event for the October fires You'll be getting a run of show for events happening on the 8th and the 9th So just want to make sure that the council is aware that that is moving forward and that the details have now been finalized On what that will look like more information to come With that we have One item on our agenda today. That is the public hearing mr. City manager Item 3.1 public hearing placement of annual stormwater enterprise Charges on the Sonoma County property tax roll unless those charges do not meet the county minimum of ten dollars and or Parcel owner contact information is known to be incorrect lawyer banning presenting Good afternoon vice mayor rogers and members of council. My name is Rita Miller I'm the deputy director of environmental services in the water department and I apologize that heavenmore is not able to attend this evening due to personal circumstance Very much appreciate you're attending the public hearing So a little bit of background information the stormwater enterprise was created by council in accordance with title 16 of the city code in 1996 The stormwater enterprise provides funding for implementation of the city's national pollutant discharge elimination system or npds Stormwater permit as well as activities such as creek restoration and stewardship flood protection public outreach and education storm drain system maintenance and water quality testing The assessment is based on an equivalent Residential unit or ERU and that ERU is based on the size of a parcel the amount of impervious service on the parcel and The land use type for that parcel The current ERU rate is thirty three dollars and fifty four cents And that rate was approved by council during the fiscal year 1819 budget process in June In order to simplify the payment process for property owners and to minimize collection expenses We are asking that these charges be collected on the Sonoma County property tax roll on the city's behalf We have done this annually since the stormwater Enterprise was started back in September of 1996 It is in the best interest of the city that those parcels that are not billed by the county due to the charges not meeting the county's ten dollar minimum billing amount and parcels with known incorrect Ownership contact information shall not be separately billed by the city as the cost of separately billing exceeds the potential revenue and Any charges that are not collected as a result of that will not affect other parcel charges So today's public hearing in accordance with title 16 of the city code will adopt the stormwater enterprise charge report Approve placing the charges on the county tax roll for collection and Allow the public the opportunity to protest the method of collecting the charges And our recommendation it is recommended by the water department that the council by resolution adopt the stormwater enterprise charge report and Approve placement of the stormwater enterprise charges on the Sonoma County property tax roll To be collected by the Sonoma County auditor controller or treasurer tax collector at the same time And in the same manner as Sonoma County property taxes are collected Unless those charges do not make me to the county minimum of ten dollars and or parcel owner contact information is known to be incorrect And with that I'd be happy to answer any questions. Great. Thank you so much and just as a point of clarification the The ability for the for us and for the public is more about the collect the collection of the tax Not about the amount of the tax. That's correct. Yes, right councilmember tippets. Thank you vice mayor my question Rita is So currently the city collects these revenues Is that the we collect them we have collected them through placement of the charge on the county tax roll ever since the assessment began back in 1996 so we do collect the revenue every year through the county's help so we're collecting the parcels under ten dollars as well no, we Since the county has helped us they have a minimum that they do not bill if it's less ten dollars or less and A couple years ago. We did bill all the parcels and we found that the That the expenditure to collect that was much higher than the revenue that we collected Okay, so we're we don't we're not going to be losing Potential revenue collecting a seven-dollar assessment by moving it to the tax Well, we will be losing revenue But the effort and expense to collect that revenue is higher than the potential money's collected. All right. Thank you All right Let's come as we have any cards So this is a public hearing so I will open it One card Dwayne DeWitt Hello, sir. My name is Dwayne DeWitt. I'm from Roseland in 1996 I attended meetings and watched as this was originally put together I had advocated that there be some help to Rosalind Creek with the way funds might have been used Due to the fact that a good portion of Rosalind was already in the city and they just did annexed a portion instead under Mayor Jane Bender and others Colgan Creek was picked as a spot to do activities where Creek restoration where funding is used so I Have concerns tonight that I hope you can answer for me the recently annexed areas of Rosalind Which were former county parcels? Is there going to be a new fee upon them or was there already a fee and it went to the county and now It'll be coming to the city Secondary to that the city's use of the funds From those parcels in Rosalind can they be specifically directed For use on Creek restoration in the Rosalind area Instead of putting it in to a general pot where the most disadvantaged community in the city is helping projects in other areas While ours go deeper into neglect Last but not least I'm really concerned that Most of the folks I knew in Rosalind Didn't know much about today was going to have this special hearing and that there was not really a good opportunity to find information out about this topic the Items that are available tonight didn't show which parcels are going to be affected although a Informational message was put out that you could come to the city hall And go to the clerk and find out a list of which parcels are being affected One would hope that that would be here at the table for the public to be able to look at One of the things that's been happening Is the city is doing a process of utilizing electronic information at some of the meetings That's just not working well to get information if more than one person wants it You're not able to get it through The device at the same time Whereas with booklets up here you can take pages out look at them Share information with people in the public and find out more You may think that's trivial, but for the public that pays these extra taxes and fees It is helpful. Thank you very much for your time Thank you, mr. Dewitt. Is there anybody else who would like to speak on this item? All right, I will close the public hearing And let's go ahead and get a couple of answers to some of the questions we heard There was the question about whether rosalind was previously paying a fee to the county And is that just being re diverted now through the annexation or is this a new fee that falls on rosalind properties? The stormwater assessment was not collected on the prior county parcels But will be collected on any parcels in the city that are of course Would generate an assessment more than ten dollars or have correct not have incorrect contact information. So the The Any county fees for the rosalind area that was in the county? I can't answer to but I can say that because that rosalind area that was recently annexed is now in the city And they will be receiving the benefits of the stormwater teams efforts as far as Meeting stormwater rules regulations and other types of activities that are funded by the stormwater enterprise Those properties will be charged the assessment from this point on Great. So it sounds like there may have been at the county level a different Fear assessment, but but that this one is the city specific one. They obviously were not subject to when they were not within the city uh for the use of the funds there was a question about Specifying that they go back to restoration projects within that that zone Madam city attorney, would that require a two-thirds vote on them to dictate where those funds go? Where the funds go is are actually not on the agenda for tonight So would not you would not be able to discuss and give any direction on that point. Okay And then as as to the question about which parcels are affected does this apply to all parcels located within the city limits? It does apply to all the parcels in the city limits There was a book printed with all of the parcels and all the charges in that booklet was Available in the city manager's office as noted in the public notice in the paper And one thing I would like to add if i'm able to the rosalind creek is Listed in our city wide creek master plan that was approved by council years ago Great. Thank you. Councilor. Are there any other additional questions? No council member sweatham. Would you like to put a motion on the table? Thank you, mr. Vice mayor I'd move a resolution of the council the city san rosa proven in adopting The report for proposal to play stormwater and drainage charges on sonoma county property tax roll for collection with the county property taxes fiscal year 2018 through 2019 And ordering that the city's annual stormwater enterprise charges be collected on the sonoma county property tax roll unless those charges Do not meet the county minimum of ten dollars and or partial owner contact information is known to be incorrect and wait further even in the text Motion and second in that this does require five votes council. So your votes And that will pass with six eyes With that we are adjourned Thank you Meeting up I didn't realize I think the shortest meeting