 Pablo, can we please do a brief mic check from the Spanish Channel? Thank you, you came in loud and clear. For those just joining the meeting, live translation in Spanish is available and members of the public or staff wishing to listen in Spanish can join the Spanish Channel by clicking on the interpretation icon in the Zoom toolbar. It looks like a globe. Once you join the Spanish Channel, we recommend you shut off the main audio so you only hear the Spanish translation. Charles, can you please restate this in Spanish? For those just joining the meeting, live translation is available in Spanish and people wishing to listen in Spanish can join the Spanish Channel. To change the channel, click on the interpretation icon in the Zoom toolbar. It looks like a globe. Once you join the Spanish Channel, we recommend you shut off the main audio so you only hear the interpretation clearly. Good afternoon, folks, and welcome to today's City Council meeting. Happy new year to everyone. Madam City Clerk, could you please call the role? Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Schroedhelm. Here. Councilmember Sawyer. Here. Councilmember Rodgers. Councilmember Fleming. Here. Vice Mayor Alvarez. Present. Mayor Rodgers. Here. Councilmember Rodgers, have you joined us? Okay, let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Councilmember Rodgers. All right, thank you, Madam City Clerk. Before we dive into our full agenda, I want to do a strong opening welcome to our new City Manager, Marrakechia Smith. Miss City Manager, welcome. Would you like to say a couple words? No, just thank you, Mayor Rodgers and City Council, for your support during this process. I'm definitely honored and humbled to be serving as your leader. I'm excited to get to work in the community and continue the great work of the staff. We definitely have, it's been a great week. It's been a really good week to get to know the staff, so I'm really excited to get into the community and continue the great work that's been done here thus far. Thank you. Absolutely, and I know I speak for the entire council when I say how excited we are to have you there and I was very excited walking out and seeing you at the table with the City Manager placard and I know you've been working really hard even since before you've been here, so just thank you so much for being willing to come to Santa Rosa and to work with us to better the community. We also have a special guest in the audience and I'll call out our interim City Manager, Jeff Cullen, who has just done a phenomenal job filling in in your stead and I know we got a chance at the end of the year to say some kind words about Jeff as well and I know he's been helping with the transition and he's been on and I just can't say thank you enough to Jeff for your service as well. With that, let's go ahead and get to our agenda for the day. We don't have any closed session items. We don't have any study sessions or report items. No proclamations. We're keeping it nice and light to start the year but we will start with our staff briefings. Item six on your agenda and specifically item 6.1, our COVID-19 response update and I'll turn it over to you City Manager Smith. Thank you Mayor Rogers and members of council. So council item 6.1 is our COVID-19 update. So yesterday Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mays issued a health order counseling large gatherings of more than 50 people indoors or more than 100 people outdoors to further prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the county. This order goes into effect at 12.01 a.m. on Wednesday January the 12th and will remain in effect until February the 11th. A gathering is defined as a public or private event or convening that brings people together in a single room or single space at the same time such as an auditorium, a gymnasium, stadium, arena, large conference room, wedding venue, meeting hall or any other indoor or outdoor space. Large gatherings do not include those that occur as part of regular school instructional events or outdoor recess, workplace settings, courthouse activities, places of worship, cafeterias or any venue that is open to the public as part of the regular operations such as shopping malls, stores, restaurants, food, facilities and museums. The order also specifies that gatherings of individuals who are at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19 such as senior residents and those with underlying health conditions must be limited to no more than 12 people except for family gatherings. The order is being put into effect out of abundance of caution following a dramatic surge in cases spurred from the omicron variant. Over the course of the past two weeks, Sonoma County's case rate has increased from 24.4 per 100,000 to more than 121 new cases per 100,000 per day and is predicted to continue rising during January. Now although evidence shows that a large percentage of those who test positive for the omicron variant require hospitalization compared with previous forms of the various virus, excuse me, local hospitals could still be overwhelmed during the surge due to the sheer volume of cases that are anticipated. In Sonoma County alone, COVID hospitalizations increased from 28 on January the third to 76 on January the ninth nearly tripling in six days. Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Mays also issued an appeal yesterday to residents to stay home as much as possible for the next 30 days and limit interactions with those outside of their immediate household. When people do venture out from their homes, it's important that they follow all health and safety protocols to protect themselves and their community. This means getting boosted or vaccinated if they have not already done so. Following the new recommendations by limiting exposures to people outside and upgrading to facial coverings to N95, KN95, KF95, or surgical mask. So more information is available online at socoemergency.org. Thank you. Thank you so much. Council, do we have any questions on the COVID-19 update? Seeing none, we'll see if there's any public comment on the update. And Madam Deputy City Clerk, do you see any hands on Zoom? No, Mayor. There are no hands on Zoom for item six. And additionally, we receive no written public comments or voice message public comments. All right. We'll move on to item number seven then. That is our City Manager and City Attorney reports. Sue, I'll go ahead and let you start. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is our monthly litigation report. We are doing these reports monthly now, pursuant to the open government ordinance, which is now fully in effect. We have no new settlements, over 50,000 to report. Nothing, no new settlements in December. We currently have 31 open cases and I'll walk through those just very quickly. We have five receiverships. Remediation is underway on three of the properties. Remediation is completed on one of the properties and that property has already been sold. So that receivership is, we anticipate that will be closed out in the near future. One of the properties is just getting underway for remediation and we have two or three new receiverships in the works. So that work continues. We have nine general litigation matters and that includes contract disputes, an ADA claim, a civil rights claim, a wage claim, and a number of others. Two of the cases we believe are close to resolution. One is the Public Records Act case and the other is a Proposition 218 case concerning our water rates and we will provide more information as we get closer to resolution on those. The other matters, other seven matters, are all at various stages of litigation. We also have seven personal injury cases. Those include allegations of dangerous conditions of public property. Two of those cases are set for trial. Four are in the discovery phase and one is a newly filed case concerning a bicycle accident. We have five open cases concerning police actions. Although we'll emphasize that two of those have already been settled and we've reported out on those settlements previously. But we're just waiting for the final paperwork to close those two out. The remaining three are at various stages of litigation. And then we have five Ritamandate cases. One has settled and that's the ABC versus City of Santa Rosa case and we're waiting final paperwork on that. Two of the Ritamandate cases are in discovery phase. One is awaiting trial final briefing and oral argument and one we do believe will resolve shortly through a dismissal. We had only one new claim filed in December and that also concerned a bicycle accident. So I am happy to answer any questions and again this will be a monthly update pursuant to open government ordinance. Great thank you so much Madam City Attorney. See if there are any questions from council. All right we'll go on to our city manager. Thank you Mayor Rogers and members of council. So I have two updates. The first one is the development at the site formerly known as journeys in mobile home park now called 3575 Mendocino Avenue closed its financing on November the 24th. The city of Santa Rosa through the housing authority has committed 11,917,110 dollars in community development block grant disaster recovery funding and 17 project based vouchers from the housing choice voucher program to phase one of the project which will be 94 affordable senior house rental units. Can the construction has begun and we'll have a ceremonial groundbreaking once things kind of slow down a little bit with the coronavirus. So police today the city of Santa Rosa and staff and partner organization marked its first day of operations for the new in response mental health support team with the ribbon-cutting ceremony. So staff and the public can find more information about in response and it's available at srcity.org slash in response and I'm I'm really excited about this program as we bring the right services to the right people at the right time you know providing a holistic holistic and upstream approach to mental health. Thank you so much council do we have any questions for the city manager and I did just want to give a quick shout out to captain kregan and his team our community engagement department our fire department our nonprofit partners it really is a collaborative effort to see in response thank you to council members schwethelm and Fleming and rogers and others who have been intimately involved through the public safety subcommittee to make that happen as well it's a great collaboration and it's one I was joking with the the chief anything we do from the day as people tend to have questions about that's one that I have not seen heard a single person who didn't think that it was the right direction for us to go or the right approach for us to have so thank you to everybody for making that happen and for organizing today's event. With that we'll go to public comment on the city manager and city attorney reports. Go ahead Thomas. Yes I was hoping to address this thing sort of behind or at least quietly and and I still hope to do that. What I was going to say is that there is a case that the city has which is against smart and it has to do with janish crossing and I think there's an opportunity first of all there's a great need is it smart I believe I've been involved since 1995 and we're with bill cordham and George Elman in strategizing and do his very things they were you know at the community level and at the communication level and I was at the strategy level and with regard to the rail and the and the freeway and there was various compromises dealing with also the trail and so on but to get to the point here is with Jennings is that I don't I don't see any way that we can actually extend the tax measure if Jennings crossing doesn't isn't accomplished and the smart is that a little bit of the logger head and and of course the city has has its action against smart and maybe there's a way to compromise and I think we have to find a way to compromise otherwise we're going to lose smart to give you an idea what that means and I mentioned it earlier at the economic development board was that you know there's 600 to 700 million dollars that has been expended on smart and it's going to end if we can't extend that tax measure the whole thing will just go away we'll sell the cars everything will be ended in 2028 so that'd be you know in six years we'll lose six seven hundred million dollars it's a hundred million dollars a year and and not only would we lose that but we lose the benefit of what that could have so those would all be gone that there would be nothing there and we would also lose the benefit of what that would be in economic benefit so you know it's a tremendous hit we can't we can't have that so there's got to be a compromise that's just what I want to approach is that hopefully there's a way that we can sit down and and it's you know it's a compromise you're not going to get everything you want but but hopefully we can talk about it and we can make it go forward and that's what I want to thank you thank you thomas I don't see any hands up on zooms we'll go ahead and bring it back we'll keep on moving to our statements of abstention from council members councilor are there any abstentions tonight councilmember schwedel thank you mr. mail i'll be abstaining from item 10.1 i was not an attendee at that meeting see if there's any public comment oh councilmember alvarez uh yes i'll be abstaining from item 10.3 a special meeting vice mayor need you to state why you're abstaining say that one more times quickly i need you to state for the record on why you're abstaining from absolutely i was not present for the meeting thank you all right see if there's any public comment on abstentions saying none we'll move on to our mayors and council member reports does anybody have a report mr. vice mayor thank you mayor on on the eighth sorry i'm bad with dates but i i know that i had a lot of fun uh there at the mecote the food park we had a toy uh distribution in memory of vince harper and uh present were the rosin library folks especially the river otter their mascot so i had a lot of fun with the big blow up otter that was there they say it's the only thing bigger than me so i was i was happy to see something larger uh senator's police department as well as the senator's of police officers association we thought the food park and land next hub as well as lice's collective were also members and contributors of the event and i'm happy to say we we made a lot of children smile which i'm very proud of so thank you thank you council member council member sweddle thank you mr mayor i just have two appointees to announce i'll be appointing cow weeks to the community advisory board and i'll be appointing general and homes to the measure o oversight committee thanks okay council member soyer thank you mayor um first of all i want to thank mr. henry wicks for his dedicated service to the design review board a very important and always prepared member of that board he will be missed by staff and his fellow design review board members and we wish him well in his future endeavors that he will definitely be missed and i'll be appointing mark staff to the design review board a very dedicated community member who also has been known to be very prepared in his duties as the measure oversight committee member so he's moving from one committee to to a board position and i know he's looking forward to getting involved in decision-making at that next level in design review board so welcome aboard mark and thank you henry for your dedicated service secondly i want to do a report on this warning's economic development subcommittee meeting i served there along not with staff and also with our vice mayor and and council member um phleming and we had three items that we dealt with um we had a report on the sub committee strategic plan staff was able to consolidate and clarify the plan's objectives and the changes were unanimously approved by the subcommittee secondly we had a report on our local preference ordinance and received information on the challenges and opportunities in developing a comprehensive plan it is the hope of staff and the committee members the staff will do research and present their findings in march or a bit later if necessary it is not it sounds easy to deal with this kind of ordinance but um a the reality is a local preference ordinance is no simple task and they want to do a great job it's been hanging uh uncompleted uh incompleted for us quite some time and they are dedicated to getting that report finished and before the council as soon as possible and that there ultimately a recommendation will come to council for its import input and final approval and finally the subcommittee received a report on the community meeting regarding the unum sculpture where two more languages were added to what i believe is the final list um readying the piece for production and final installation in courthouse square looking forward to that it's a very elegant piece and we'll definitely add to the cultural value of of that square so i'm looking forward to it and that is it thank you thank you council member council member fleming yes i wanted to wish everybody a happy new year welcome our new city manager and um thank council member soyer for his update on our very productive meeting this morning of economic development subcommittee i wanted to comment here and share the that um the jewish community and i stand in solidarity with our jewish community are very distressed by the second vandalism of the memorial the holocaust memorial in the rural cemetery you know it's there's no evidence at this time to suggest that it's a hate crime but it is difficult when um you know to be part of a minority group and my family emigrated here in 1960 after escaping the holocaust to see this type of thing happen again and i just want to say that you know i'll i'll speak on behalf of myself but i think i speak on behalf of our community that this type of thing is unacceptable and it's unacceptable against the jewish community and any other community and that we do not tolerate or accept any form of defacing memorials or any type of um symbol that that stands to represent what minority groups have gone through so i i truly hope that we don't find out that this was a hate crime um but our distress is is real and we are very concerned thank you council member um first i wanted to start with a thank you and that's two assistant city manager jason nut his team kelly kikendall all the folks who scrambled to open a warming center when temperatures dropped here in santa rosa as many of you might remember the county has taken over responsibility for code blue what we which we previously had and given covid concerns there were legitimate concerns amongst our community that there would be no resources available for our houseless community when temperatures were freezing uh and his team worked hard and thank you to catholic charities for their work as well to make it happen so that we had a place for people to go during the cold and obviously we've got a number of different programs that we have been moving forward but it was a great opportunity for engagement it did help lead to putting some folks into permanent services as well and so all around just a good work from his team making something happen particularly when um with new year's eve looming i know that staff had plans uh for that evening that they had to cancel so i just want to be do put a big thank you out there into the universe for them and i hope that they see this john was far too kind in in talking about moving up uh mark to uh his his position in the design review board what what john actually is saying is he was stealing a good public servant uh from the mayor uh and i just want to thank mark for his five years of service as uh appointee for the measure o committee he really has been fantastic so with mark moving on to other things i'll be appointing nick castin to fill his spot on the measure o committee uh effective at our next meeting uh and i believe that they had a meeting i believe they have a meeting coming up in the next week uh for that committee to talk about some of it so that'll be reflected in the roster with that we'll see if there is any public comment on councilmember reports seeing none i'll bring it back councilmember soyer thank you mayor and this has to do with the comments made by uh councilmember philming i'm hoping in the newspaper article about the destruction of that fountain there was no indication as to where help citizens can help with uh financial contributions i don't remember seeing a anyone to contact at this point i'm hoping that um the one way or another that the jewish community uh reaches out to the press democrat or whatever or social media one way or another to um allow citizens to uh or anyone uh residents and community members to participate in the uh financial financial contributions it will be um much more expensive to do the reparations um to this time because this is the second time that the piece has been um vandalized and but this is much more extensive and so i'm hoping that they will reach out and let us know um to those that that that can or wish to participate in the fiscal responsibilities of getting that that piece back back in place for the mayor if i may it's my understanding that mr judd has started a go fund me page i have not come across it yet but i will reach out to call in a taggy of the press democrat and ask him um or see if i can get the contact information and uh share it through the the clerks office with the rest of the council excellent thank you okay let's move on to item number 10 that's the approval of the minutes did any council members have any corrections to the three minutes that are listed here for october 26th november 9th and november 16th seeing none i'll open it up to the public to see if there were any corrections seeing none i'll go ahead and bring it back we do have two abstentions on this council member sweat helm abstaining from item 10.1 and and vice mayor alvarez abstaining from item 10.3 without objection we'll show them adopted with those abstentions seeing then we'll move on to our consent calendar city manager smith mayor rogers and members of council we have nine items on the consent calendar today item 11.7 is being pulled for consideration and will be brought back at a later date so item 11 one is a resolution ratification of first amendment to agreement with sonoma county community development commission for funding of operations during the covet 19 pandemic at the samuel jones hall a homeless shelter item 11.2 a resolution fifth amendment to professional services agreement f 00 11 28 with the santa rosa chamber of commerce item 11.3 a resolution acceptance and appropriation of grant funds from the state of california department of justice tobacco grant program item 11.4 a resolution waiver of competition be excuse me competitive bid appropriate funds and approval of professional services agreement with co-operative personnel services doing businesses doing business as cps hr consulting item 11.5 a resolution approval of a purchase order to nixon lg equipment company for the purchase of one lee boy 8500d asphalt paving machine under source will cooperative agreement number 0 52417 dash btl item 11.6 a resolution approval of professional services agreement with carl al macy incorporated item 11.8 a resolution request that the city council declare pursuant to government code section 5 4 2 2 1 that's certain real property owned by the city and located at 702 and 716 bennett valley road and 921 and 927 ruttledge avenue assessor parcel number 038 dash 151 dash 004 038 dash 151 dash 011 0 not 009 dash 333 dash 009 and 009 dash 333 dash 0014 is exempt surplus land that will be transferred as affordable housing pursuant to government code 37364 item 11.9 it's a resolution making required monthly findings and authorizing the continued use of teleconferencing for public meetings of the city council and all city boards commissions and committees pursuant to assembly bill 361 item 11.10 adoption ordinance adoption ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa rezoning the property located at 2660 pediloma hill road also identified as assessors parcel numbers 044 dash 370 dash 002 044 dash 370 dash 1010 044 dash 051 dash 073 and 044 dash 051 dash 055 from the csc community shopping center and pd 96 dash 001 c to the r dash 3 dash 30 multifamily residential zoning district file number prj 21 dash 011 rez 21 dash 002 thank you council do we have any questions on the items on the consent calendar council member schwetel thank you mr. mayor so i have some questions on 114 and 115 and i can start with 114 do we need to promote someone or how do we want to we're looking for amy i believe one moment as i look for amy on the attendee side okay and did you say 115 was the one absolutely if we have zack uh as well maybe we can start with 115 while we locate amy i promoted zack and brandyland okay good afternoon council this is zack brand so this is for 115 um thanks zack my question on this piece of equipment 197 k i know council and the long range financial planning audit subcommittee has heard about um creating or establishing a fund for large ticket items and specifically mentioned during those meetings were like a fire ladder truck and then from police department uh tasers and body worn cameras and then i see here uh it's come to council 179 000 which is i'm guessing the reason why it's not part of the vehicle replacement fund but i also noticed that the department had set aside funds for this purchase so i'm just trying to find some consistency and how does this differ from let's say a fire ladder truck or police tasers um for use of those surplus dollars to purchase this type of necessary equipment versus it was already included in your budget okay so i'm trying to read through the documents real quick fiscal impact on the item indicates that this is funded through the replacement fund so i'm sorry i thought it was out of the actual tpw's budget this is part of the vehicle replacement fund this this particular item is funded through tpw replacement fund correct okay and is there a dollar cost item once a piece of equipment hits a certain dollar amount then it is a different process again let me just use the ladder truck which is a million bucks so i know it's a lot more than this but is there a dollar amount that differentiates when you use the vehicle replacement fund versus general fund additional dollars uh at this time i don't have a high cap on replacement fund i have a low cap and about under five thousand dollars we really don't participate in the plan okay thank you and i'm sure we'll have on the long range financial plan out at subcommittees we start talking about those additional uses of excess funds establishing funds for this i'll try to get more clarity there so thank you zach you bet and i see that amy has joined us do you had questions on 11.4 yes so amy i have a couple questions a i noticed some of the rules and responsibilities of this consultant is to do the covid testing process and i thought we had federal or state dollars that would be available for that versus general fund dollars can you talk a little bit about the differences about what this contract from the general fund would be doing versus what state and federal funds are available sure um this contract actually is providing professional human resource consulting services to supplement staff activity while we focus on covid testing policy development communications etc um so cps is actually helping us with items such as recruitment um we've been down to one analysts are now up staffing to two but um we've just been burdened with the covid workload and are trying to use cps consulting to supplement the day-to-day operations and human resources right great thank you that's very helpful and maybe for the city manager i noticed on february 15th we have a mid-year budget adjustment why would this type of item be coming now versus the mid-year budget adjustments what's the difference not knowing what we're going to be seeing on february 15th through the mayor um i think this particular item we are in need of staff replacement at this time there are several vacancies in the human resources department and we really need to get up and run and get positions filled testing continues to change rules continue to change and i know at one point there was an individual that was actually serving to assist the human resources department with covid and they are no longer there so this is an item that needs immediate attention as we continue to look at our vacancies okay great thanks and i recognize that we have not had what three weeks four weeks of council meetings where it would have been an opportunity to discuss it so thanks for that clarification any other questions from council let's go to public comment if you're interested in providing comment on the consent calendar go ahead hit the raise hand feature on your zoom or approach the podium jeff you're allowed to give public comment now if you if you want to all right saying then i'll go ahead and bring it back mr vice mayor could you please put a motion on the table thank you mayor excuse me mayor we do have a voice message public comment to play all right thank you i'm 11.2 solution working with the chamber of commerce just continues a far too cozy relationship that should probably just be based on them paying their own way and working with the city in good faith along with that resolution 11.6 the approval of the professional services agreement with carlyle and macy carlyle and macy have also been involved with the city so many times and yet when i asked a friend who lives right near south davis park he'd heard nothing about this effort to do a master plan instead of these top down very expensive situations you should work with the community let them pick one of the professional services landscape architects people such as that who could work with them to have a community based authentic community engagement plan for their park instead of this top down heavy city bureaucracy type of approach 11.8 11.9 the surplus land that used to be the senior center for south santa rosa you need to find another replacement for that senior center the south is being discriminated against and then keep 11.9 the teleconferencing to allow us to do these calls but allow people back in the chambers thank you for your time that includes public comment mayor all right thank you mayor i move items 11.1 through 11.10 with the exclusion of 11.7 as requested by our madam city manager and way further reading of the text second all right we have a motion from the vice mayor and a second from councilmember soyer let's go ahead and call the vote councilmember schwaethelms hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember fleming thank you vice mayor alvarez hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with six eyes all right it's not yet five o'clock so we'll keep moving and come back to our public comment for non-agenda items we'll move on to item 13.1 city manager smith mayor rogers and members of council item 13.1 to report resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa adopting the 2022 city of santa rosa state legislative program and this presentation will be given by scott alonso intergovernmental relations and legislative affairs officer we're having a hard time hearing you scott not yet sorry about that is that is that better that is go ahead all right thank you sorry about that uh good afternoon everybody uh mayor rogers vice mayor alvarez members of the council and city manager smith i'm scott alonso the city of santa rosa's intergovernmental relations and legislative affairs officer i'm also joined this afternoon by dane hutchings with rppg he's member of our state lobbyist team and dane is joining us virtually from sacramento late last year rppg was hired as our new lobbying team they've worked with city staff to conduct an analysis of our legislative priorities funding goals and helped prepare today's platform for your consideration this is the first time that the city has established a formal state legislative platform and we hope to continue this practice on an annual basis moving forward we can certainly advocate for topics not mentioned specifically in the platform we would just follow our existing legislative policy 000-40 that was adopted by the city council in 2013 and that would require us to work with the mayor and city manager to get an item on the council's agenda i do want to acknowledge and thank all the staff members involved in this process a few weeks ago and months ago we met with various departments and program staff to help prepare tonight's platform and then we also met with members of the council as well just as a meet and greet with rppg where members of the council met with dain and his colleague Sharon Gonzalez the adoption of the platform will aid our lobbying teams efforts to better respond in a more efficient manner on behalf of the city and on the council and really fast scott if we could move through the presentation i'm not sure who's controlling it oh no that's okay we're gonna have dain take over just in a moment once we get yeah once we know the next slide and i think we're just trying to find him to promote him so just one moment just bear with me just so you know i do not see dain on the attendee side dain if you can make sure you are up to date with your zoom app and reconnect to the meeting at this point i do not see a dain hutchins logged into zoom okay it looks like he says he's raised his hand he may be trying to update his zoom app i see no raised hands at this time in zoom okay i saw a hand to pop up uh twice it seems to have disappeared and that name disappeared off of our list let's see if we can get dain to reconnect and there there's the hand to go i think it might be under it's all bissetta i think that's the name it's showing up as okay i think we're good hi good evening hey dain can you can y'all hear me yes we can great okay well unlike what my title here says i am not itself as sara and she's was our was our legislative analyst on our team i'm not sure why that's up there but i am dain hutchins i am the managing director with the renny public policy group and it's certainly a pleasure to be here with you this evening and happy to walk through this this platform and again i was on and want to echo scott's uh the statements about you know we we worked really diligently with each department head met with just about every member of the council uh and really dug into this and think we've got a great robust platform and and looking forward to getting into it today so next slide please so just quickly just about the renny public policy group um we have um our team has been around as our ppg for about two and a half years however our team uh has come from all walks of city government life i've i've forgot about 15 years of local uh in state government affairs experience prior to heading up the renny public policy group i was a lobbyist of the league of california cities for about four uh in a half years um i have uh also on our team dan karig who is the former uh league of california cities deputy executive director and legislative director uh for the league of cities as well as sharing insolves who has about 15 years of experience both in the state capital and outside lobbying specializing in all public policy areas specific to local government um and you know we were certainly thrilled to be brought on board to elevate the city as um engagement here in california not only looking for opportunities to advance policies of importance but to protect the city's interests and as well as you know seek out and look for opportunities to capitalize and all this budget surplus we've got here in california next slide please and so you know before we jump in i did want to just briefly you know the legislature has been in now for about a week and and two days and so before we jump to this i just wanted to spend maybe 30 seconds to give you a quick hit on what's happening just really in the last 10 days uh legislature came back january 3rd we had 27 members uh that were impacted by covid right off the bat and so like many of us we they're grappling with those and so we are continuing to work remotely limited contact um uh for direct engagement uh up to this evening there have been 64 new bills introduced just in the past week and uh we will expect you know thousands more before the february 18th bill introduction deadline uh moreover the governor did release his budget proposal yesterday um we have to say that california is blessed to have about a 45 billion dollar surplus however about 25 billion that is airmarked through prop 98 um at prop two and other uh ongoing earmarks leading about 20 billion of discretionary revenues projected and we haven't even got to the may revise that which we expect to see more revenues coming in uh due to higher than expected capital gains the governor focused really on five key areas in his budget proposal number one uh covid response and recovery number two uh climate and climate infrastructure number three homelessness and really the first um uh real sizable investment homeless encampment uh cleanups and transition which we're really pleased to see housing of course both funding production streamlining uh and number four combating organized retail crime it's important our law enforcement so um a lot of what we're seeing in our today's proposed platform really aligned where with where the governor is really trying to push the state this year and trying to take advantage as best we can with this surplus that we have next slide please and so when we we've met with um a series of of staff members we conducted what we do is our as our deep dive meetings really when we're going through uh our deep dive process our onboarding process we assess what state policies have um a significant impact on departmental operations ongoing local projects and programs that we need to be aware of as your advocacy team here in Sacramento and of course tasked in in and present funding requests uh both through grants uh or through direct conversations with your state delegation we want to be privy to what's important and where we can try to maximize that opportunity um and so when we are um um you know i think part of the importance of establishing um the uh deep dive process oh yes next slide please uh you know uh the oh it looks like i am we can go i'm sorry back one slide my apologies so it should be slide three um you know the purpose of this of this legislative platform i just realized now that my slides three and four were switched my apologies but um the the importance of the legislative platform as scott alluded to is number one uh we want to make sure that we are communicating the city's uh state policy uh project priorities to the state legislature it allows us your team to sift through the thousands of bills that are being introduced um uh in the beginning of the year and also as these bills become you know go through the legislative process and are amended allows us your team to be able to go through really pick out and figure out which ones have the most importance for the city of santa rosa it allows us to assess and move quickly on those issues knowing that the council has uh has adopted and and supports these policy positions provides guidance and direction to city staff and our state representatives not to mention the city state and regional bodies as with respect to potential funding priorities uh as well and so certainly uh these are important statements and then you know one thing as well to keep in mind is that these policies these platform statements really the way our our philosophy behind this is really building out what we refer to as living document meaning that each year we assess these these platform statements we work with your we work with your department staff we field questions from council if there's a specific bill that they that they have perhaps want to engage in but maybe the the current platform doesn't touch on it we would then you know retain that that correspondence and then find ways to incorporate that next year and so we see this as a living breeding document that is evaluated and then and then potentially revised each year in advance of the legislative session so when when we come back we are ready to go and we're jumping in right away next slide please so now we're moving on to the proposed state priorities and as i said as i said with at the top are the priorities that we have drafted actually fall right in line with where the governor has indicated where he wants to be and really where the legislature is as well and so it's great to see some harmony between where the city is and the direction based on our meetings and really where the state is it's good to have to have partners in in in trying to serve the residents of Santa Rosa and so starting off with COVID-19 response and economic resiliency priorities so we of course you want to support legislation that provides direct and flexible funding to local governments for cost incurred as results of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic support legislation that provides assistance for rental relief water utility sewer payments to those residents impacted by loss of revenue due to COVID-19 support legislation to protect employees and the community from COVID-19 and before move on to the next slide what i'll do before we go to each policy i'm happy to answer any questions i'll just do a quick you know and and by the way i should i should maybe ask the mayor would you prefer to just perhaps take questions at the end of the presentation or would you prefer for me to stop between each policy and open it up for questions let's go ahead and go through the platform and council members can ask questions at the end fantastic next slide please wildfire wildfire resiliency and recovery this is a huge huge issue for the city and it's been widely recognized by the state legislature evidence by their continual commitment ongoing funding commitment as of late so support legislation that supports policy and funding needs outlined in the city's community wildfire protection plan oppose legislative attempts that shift wildfire costs associated with iou's and utility cause events to the city and its residents that's that inverse condemnation that we have seen from time to time support programs which provide funding to hazard mitigation projects such as wildfire flood protection measures including those identified in a FEMA approved local hazard mitigation plan next slide shifting gears to administration human resources risk management support maximum flexibility for local governments in contracting and contract negotiations support legislation that promotes efforts to advance workplace diversity equity and inclusion support legislation that facilitates the ability of local governments to share resources to increase to increase efficiencies and decrease cost including local efforts to address regional management of fire services next slide governmental transparency and public access we've heard some folks from public comment today um and and why we're able to meet remotely this is we're touching on part of that right now um this is certainly something with COVID is going to be ongoing for some time and we see this is being a trend in the legislature so support legislation that balances increased public trust confidence and access to public meetings while realizing the fiscal and operational constraints of local government support state funding efforts to assist with enhanced public access for members of the community uh and support legislation that permit the city to provide electronic copies of documents to satisfy california public records act requests that uh especially when you're talking about these voluminous requests you think that nature can certainly become costly when having to print paper and not exactly environmentally sound either next slide economic development now it's the largest city in the county this is of course a big importance as you are the economic hub of the entire region so it supports international statewide regional and local efforts to attract retain and provide resources for current and future technology base commercial and industrial businesses support efforts to provide funding mechanisms for economic development tools including infrastructure investment housing child care and other needs critical to a foundation of equitable economic resiliency and then support policies projects and programs in support of workforce resiliency addressing more equitable economic growth next slide environment climate change sustainability um so we're looking at a wide variety of policies here and again one thing i may have not touched on at the top we'd like to keep these these policy statements somewhat broad and the reason why is because when we see you know 500 different housing bills or 500 different policies touching on climate change we want to make sure that we're not putting ourselves so narrowly in a box but more so be able to have a cast of wider net to be able to bring more bills and analyze those bills and bring them to your attention so support legislation that provides funding opportunities focused on coordinating sustainable planning and transportation housing and economic development support legislation that provides local government assistance in reducing ghd and total energy use support policies guidelines incentives and funding for programs with combined benefits to air quality water quality housing infrastructure including multimodal transportation systems and public health slide water quality and supply that is a large one i will i will skip reading the entire thing because i believe you all have the slide deck in front of you but we are talking heavily on water quality and water supply supporting all of those availabilities and usage for water quality and water sustainability of course need to focus on water supply improve water quality in the region including drought relief and as i touched on this governor has recognizing that and is really trying to put forth some money behind the legislature introducing more policies that are going to help that so we're looking to engage on those issues next slide okay one of the more larger issues particularly what we saw in 2021 and i know this is a near and dear to each council member that we spoke to with respect to the importance of being pro housing and wanting to ensure that you're meeting the demand in the community to support efforts to strengthen the legal and fiscal capability of local agencies to prepare adopt and implement plans for orderly growth development beautification and conservation of local planning areas support housing measures that promote the preservation of existing affordable housing and support measures that increase inclusionary affordable housing and increased affordable housing investments and partnerships homelessness support efforts to increase funding for the development and ongoing operations of permanent supportive housing including resources to finance the development of new units and resources to provide long-term sustainability for supportive services support efforts to increase state funding to prevent and reduce homelessness in Sonoma County support measures that provide resources to address mental health alcohol substance abuse and needs of persons experiencing homelessness next slide shifting of parks and recreation support legislation and funding opportunities that would help the city fund improvements for parks open space natural resources historic preservation the arts and cultural resources promote local agency control over policies that recognize the benefits of park and recreation facilities i know that was near and dear to some of the folks that we spoke to on council and your incredible staff support efforts to fund housing related parks programs offered through department of housing and community development public safety support legislation of funding that will help local governments with improving community policing and rebuilding community trust through officer training and mental health first response for crisis involving mental illness homelessness and addiction and support programs like the edward buying memorial justice assistance grants program recommend funding opportunities be created for public safety to include diversity and police and fire hiring recruiting and education practices support legislation that coordinates public safety shutoffs psps events between customers regulators government officials and public safety partners speaking to your team that was of particular importance ensuring that you know ios and and regulators and local governments were on the same page ensuring the public is notified and they have the tools they need to deal with these psps next slide i promise you this is the last one you'll hear from me and then we'll move on to the questions of comments transportation public works and utilities support legislation that would increase funding for local transportation projects including the litany that is listed below but we really really wanted to focus on all of the different ways that we could improve multimodal transportation facilitate development for transit oriented development enhancing bike and pad support policies aimed at equitable access for transportation systems specifically for disadvantaged communities support funding for increase for increasing the use of broadband including middle and last mile expenditures and i'll pass it back over to scott great thank you dame for the the overview and just as context you know during tonight's presentation for this power point we pulled out some of the top level bullet points you know the entire platform in your exhibit is eight pages long and so all these issue areas have a robust discussion with our bullet points there so we just wanted to kind of highlight a few and we can certainly dive into any of these issue areas more but the recommendation is that by the communications and intergovernmental relations office that the council by resolution adopt the city's 2022 state legislative platform and dane and i are here to answer any questions or get more feedback great thank you so much scott and dane council do we have any questions council member schwedow thank you mr mayor thank you dane scott for the presentation um dane i have a question regarding the homelessness slide 13 can you just use as an example i know we've applied for project home key funding for two projects in santa rosa we've already applied there can you let us know how you and your firm can assist us with receiving of some of those funds or how would you lobby for santa rosa to be included in some of those funding opportunities well a couple of things number one would like to and i would need to go back and look at my notes to see how far down the process the city is with applying for those for those home key funds but i think it's multi-prong number one being able to craft a narrative to tell your story about the need and the use also working with the homeless sustainability council and folks in the administration to ensure that they understand the importance in the need and if there is opportunities out there specifically with the application itself jake wittaker on our team who is works as our grant advisor could certainly help craft and work with your team to help craft a better narrative ensuring all those boxes are checked from an administrative standpoint so not only will we be wanting to work administratively but want to work on a communication strategy and engaging your delegation the administration and also working with the with the governor's homeless council that's really spearheading that home key funding so i appreciate that and i realized with project room key you know there's a certain amount of monies um that's been set aside for our part of the state and i know two of our jurisdictions one north of us one south of us have already received i think it was either the first round of the second round of funding so i guess my interest is that i know at least one of our applications have been submitted um whatever we could be doing you know i would appreciate um your firm and our lobbyist firm in sacramento taking a proactive approach to that versus a reactive or a passive role um and i know there's a lot of communities can make some good arguments but i really think santa rosa um i'd love to see some of that funding come in our direction because we've done so much collaboration to try to address this issue and so i'm just throwing the feel here out there that whatever you can do i'd really appreciate it and one point of clarification was that room key funding applications or home key there's two two two separate programs i just wanted to make sure that i just so i i'm writing the notes down correctly right it's my understanding it's the current home key funding okay that currently they're allow or offering funding for different projects perfect thank you dane just a quick question and obviously your your firm's contract is with the city of santa rosa but we have a number of regional partners that we work very collaboratively with as well and in fact have representation on i'm thinking specifically sonoma county transportation authority regional climate protection agency uh sonoma clean power how do you plug in and how do you coordinate and and supplement their activities as well given that their success is our success typically yeah i think that's a great question mayor um really it's about contacting and getting a sense of of who well depending on the subject area in particular or the piece of legislation um working directly with their representatives here working with through your your for example of its transportation working through your transportation team to help make some of those those regional connections but you know almost all of those folks have great representation here in sacramento and so you know working in a blended strategy we call it sort of the blended approach where we can form a like-minded coalition and and and really advocate for whether it be increased funding or legislative authority and so well while it may not be necessarily you know it's sponsored by the city if it's a transportation issue in particular that's going to affect a regional system it's certainly something we want to be engaged in and we can certainly if there's anything in particular that we need to keep keep special mind to uh we'll we'll engage and keep you updated of course yeah i'm thinking specifically with things such as sonoma clean power they're part of the california clean community choice aggregators alliance they have their own lobbyists and their own team as well i just want to make sure that our team is talking to their team and making sure that they're supplementing one another and plugging in as they need or as they see fit yeah cca's are and that's one of the big issues we saw a couple of two year bills um cca's and i are used particularly around raid equity um we do know the folks over at cal cca the statewide organization for cca's but also happy to work with the the regional cca organization as well okay great any other questions from council let's go ahead go to public comment on this item let's see if we have anyone in the public who is interested in speaking on this item or hit the raise hand feature on your zoom madam deputy city clerk did we have any voicemails you received no voice messages on the side and mayor all right i'm going to have councilmember soyer put a motion on the table thank you mayor i will introduce a resolution of the council of the city saneroza adopting the 2022 city saneroza state legislative platform and way further reading so we have a motion by councilmember soyer and a second from councilmember swedham did we have any additional discussion or comments vice mayor thank you mayor well just want to thank the team for for sitting with us over the last week and and i'm really excited about about having partners at the state level to advocate on our behalf and i definitely want to make myself available to anything that i can help with with with those efforts thank you i think i'll just echo the comments from councilmember swedhelm i'd really appreciate and i know that your team is a proactive approach towards public policy obviously what happens in sacramento has a pretty big impact on what happens to us at the local level and so everything from questions about specific legislation to funding opportunities to even if it's you see an opportunity for an appointment for somebody from the city to a border commission that might impact what we're doing at the local level reach out to us and give us an opportunity to be as involved as as possible one thing we've found in santa rosa particularly since the 2017 wildfires so we punch above our weight class when it comes to federal legislation and state legislation and i think it's something that we pride ourselves on is helping to lead not just the north bay but california so thank you to your team for helping us with that over the next couple of years absolutely with that madam city clerk if you could please call the roll thank you mayor councilmember schwedhelm hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember flaming hi vice mayor alvarez hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with six eyes all right thank you so much dean thank you scott welcome to the team thank you thank you we're gonna go ahead and go back to item 12 that's our public comment for non-agenda items if you're interested in providing a comment on an issue that is not on tonight's agenda go ahead hit the raise hand feature on your zoom as a reminder to folks because it's not agendized we can't get into a back and forth with folks the councilmembers can take notes down ask staff to follow up if that's appropriate i see one hand let's go to asher yes do you have me unmuted yes but i wanted to bring your attention to something that came down yesterday afternoon at the public art committee meeting concerning the unum sculpture as you know it's been long in development and yesterday was to be the final decision on the project and the forwarding of the guidelines from the city to the artist and everything's been great i thought until the very last step so as you'll remember there were two arms to the process of making unum live up to the word of unity and the concept of unity and oneness in our community the first arm was to get broad input on what concepts word concepts single words would be on the sculpture and the second part was to choose the languages and the languages choice as one of the committee members said last night oh this proved to be much more troubling and difficult than we had anticipated at the then had a very thoughtful discussion and i was encouraged to think that they would take time to pause before commissioning the artists finally but as it happened the four people who were there able to vote were on the side of going ahead as planned and the problem is that at least two and more languages that should be represented on the sculpture in my opinion if we are to have a truly unifying symbol at the portal to the city at old courthouse square those two languages are japanese and Hebrew particularly japanese for all the historical reasons that everyone knows and Hebrew because if the word shalom as former chair of that committee Nina bonus pointed out means wholeness oneness and peace and peace of course is one of the principal words that was chosen by the wide city process so i wanted to alert you to the fact that there is at this very last moment some discomfort on my part and that of others i know i've been in contact with in the last 24 hours and that it it's not too late i think to do with any artist any writer any city council does just before it's too late you say well let's take another look and see if we miss something and i think we did so i'd like to encourage a pause as was discussed at the meeting yesterday just long enough to see how to address what i think is a glaring mistake if we are to honor our past and the people we are so thank you very much for listening all right thank you asher madam deputy do we have any voicemail public comments we do not mayor we'll move we'll bring it back and we'll move to item 13.2 item 13.2 is a report to make findings pursuant to california environmental quality act CEQA guidelines adoption of the CEQA checklist adoption of the relocation plan and approval of the acquisition of 976 herne avenue 980 herne avenue and 1004 herne avenue jill scott real estate manager will be delivering this report good evening mayor and council members i'm jill scott i'm the real estate manager for the city and we're here tonight for council's consideration of the approval of three acquisitions located at 976 980 and 1004 herne avenue make CEQA findings of the environmental quality act guidelines adoption of the CEQA checklist and adoption of the relocation plan for the acquisition next slide please so the city is seeking to require to acquire these properties for the plan future extension of the Dutton avenue of Dutton avenue the colgan creek multi-use path and for many other public potential public uses some of those are the relocation of fire station number eight which is currently located and undersized on sabastical road a new snowmobile library facility for the rosaline area a community center a recreation center a public pool and or a neighborhood park next slide please so every time the city acquires any type of property we do an environmental analysis and review in this case we hired ghd consultant to perform the environmental review and to prepare the CEQA documentation for the acquisition so ghd prepared the checklist the CEQA checklist as part of its analysis and determined that the acquisition of the properties is within the scope of a previously certified 2016 EIR that the city did that EIR was for the rosaline area sabastical road and the rosaline area annexation and under that no further environment environmental review was required for the acquisition of the property that 2016 EIR fully analyzed the impacts of including roadway improvements municipal use municipal uses and various buildings I do want to be clear though that this is for the acquisition of the property only if the city went or when the city moves forward with building a library a fire station will do a full project level CEQA for those next slide please so although this acquisition is currently funded with local funds we do anticipate that federal funds will be used for the building of some of these amenities and because of that the city council is required to adopt a specific relocation plan under the federal guidelines so we've been planning the city as a whole has been planning this acquisition project in a manner that minimizes the number of properties that need to be acquired also minimizing the number of residents to be displaced and it's presently anticipated with these three acquisitions that we would be displacing two households which in those households that would be a total of two people next slide please council is required to adopt the relocation impact study and the last resort housing plan which documents how the city will provide relocation assistance to these two impacted folks and that's why we're here tonight with this plan we developed the plan and we circulated the draft plan potentially to the all potentially impacted occupants and we provided it for 30 days it was also on our website and available at our msc offices at 69 Sony Circle for review next slide please the process for relocation is what i just discussed in the last slide it begins with the circulation of the draft plan and as i said that was posted online it was sent to the residents and located at the city offices for review we've done that the next step is what we're doing tonight is we're coming to council and asking council to consider and adopt the final relocation plan that we've put together and in that relocation plan we'll adopt the relocation laws for the relocation program if council does adopt that tonight then the city will provide relocation assistance to the two occupants of the three properties next slide please and as i said before there's two properties and we believe two tenants residential tenants that are eligible for relocation assistance that assistance would include moving costs assistance with storage costs replacement housing payments and assistance and refining in finding replacement housing next slide please so the contracts the property owners and staff have negotiated price in terms for the contracts based on multiple different appraisals and staff has secured acquisition agreements in line with the price and term parameters that council gave to staff in closed session and now we are seeking approval of these acquisitions from council tonight next slide please so the recommendation for tonight it is recommended by the fire department transportation and public works department and real estate services that council by resolution one make findings pursuant to the state sequel guidelines section 15162 and 15168 that the acquisition of the properties is within the scope of the previously certified 2016 program eir for the roseland area sabbatical road and roseland area annexation projects specific plan and that no further environmental review is required at this time to adopt the sequa checklist three adopt the relocation plan and four approve the acquisition of 976 hern apn 043 191 018 980 hern apn 043 191 019 and 1004 hern apn 043 191 020 subject to all contract contingencies and the demolition of the structures located there on and five authorize the assistant city manager or doesn't need to execute all documents necessary to complete the acquisitions subject to approval as deformed by the city attorney and that is the end of the presentation tonight and i'm happy to answer any questions great thank you so much jill and i will look to my colleagues to see if there are any questions on this item let's go ahead and go to public comment on the item then and i do see we have our fabulous director of the Sonoma county library system raising her hand let's go ahead and go to ann first very i thank you very much mayor rogers vice mayor alvarez city council members and staff i'm an hamond sonoma county library director i'm here today to thank you for the vision and commitment behind this project and to publicly state that the library is thrilled to be your partner in providing service to santa rosa we know this is an incremental step in a process and we plan to walk beside you as it moves forward the library's role in this project is the culmination of a decade of advocacy by community leaders who have worked closely with us to create momentum and support and who are committed to working with us to see this through the city's pledge of funding and collaboration is incredibly encouraging and the outcomes of this project will be seen in greater access to all that a modern library offers from baby story time to elder programming the synergy with city services in the same project will allow us to amplify each other's effectiveness which is very exciting this project will provide equity and parity with other parts of the city which many of you have identified as your priorities these are priorities we share with you the council has been very supportive of the library and we thank you for reaching out asking how you can help and voting with your hearts i would also like to take a moment to acknowledge the city staff who have worked with us as well they're great partners and problem solvers we're proud to take this next step and to work with you on a community needs assessment that will help us design and build a library that is as diverse dynamic and vital as the community it serves thank you very much thank you let's see if we have any other public comments on this item let's go to our voicemail public comments hi i'm calling for item 113.2 i support the purchase of current avenue also i would like to see something done about the traffic there or resolutions of how to uh for the roads and how to handle that better it gets backed up at the corner of her and Dutton going both ways um also would like to see services like library community center fire station stuff in that area thank you hi my name is Ann Devlin and i'm calling for item 13.2 so i support the purchase of her an avenue and what i would like to see there is either a library a community center or a park so for me i live in Santa Rosa for about a year and i was there from 2020 to 2021 um so yeah those are my thoughts on this item thank you guys bye hello i'm calling to support agenda item 13.2 because i am a i was a former resident of Santa Rosa for two years near her an avenue and i would like to support the community here with resources such as a public park or a community center i used to work for the elementary school system here and i believe this would be a very beneficial resource to the young students and the residents in the area um i would possibly like to see a library that can help enhance the knowledge for these young kids and provide resources that can help them provide a better future for themselves thank you very much hi good afternoon my name is uh Hector Chavez i am calling to support the purchase of her an avenue for Eddie Alvarez he has supported the community he has helped out the community he has provided jobs employment and i fully support the purchase of her her an avenue thank you hi my name is Lynn Norse i'm commenting on item 13.2 i want this to happen it's a good thing for the neighborhood and finally if we can get this done perfect thank you hi my name is Ashley Karate and i'm calling to support item 13.2 the purchase of her an avenue i strongly feel our community needs to come together and uplift to rebuild this area and create a better environment for our future generations thank you have a good day hi there i'm calling uh hi my name i'm my name is Alejandra Salazar and i'm calling to support the item 13.2 um for the her an avenue that would be a beautiful and positive way to actually make our community better we have to go all the way to either what is it family center or redway to even swim in the library all the way to downtown so that would be beautiful to see that in our community um so i'm totally supportive for this i would love to see it happen thank you hi my name is Nicole Williams i am in favor of the her an avenue project item 13.2 this project will potentially bring a library a community center and possibly a swimming pool thank you so much for hearing me today again my name is Nicole Williams and i am in support of project item 13.2 the her an avenue project thanks again bye hello i'm calling um to support the purchase of her an avenue um because it would mean a lot to our community my name is Oscar thank you my name is Kim Lee i am a member of Sonoma County community in Rosemont California and i would like i am calling to support the purchase of of her an avenue because i would like the community center and fire stations i am thank you so much for posting all right bye hi my name is Leanne Nakashima and i'm calling the call comment on item number 13.2 the her an avenue project i am for the her an avenue project i believe having a library and a fire station and a possible pool will only bring benefits to that community please please consider that and know that we are for this project thank you for all your hard work and dedication i hope you have a wonderful day hello i am a homeowner on Corby Avenue i am i support the purchase of her an avenue because we really need a community center a new fire station a swim center we need this in our part of town again i'm a homeowner on Corby Avenue and i approve the purchase of her an avenue for all of the new wonderful things that this part of Santa Rosa needs thank you hi my name is Victor Castro and i'm calling in support of item 13.2 the purchase of her an avenue i feel that it would be a great place for a community center to help benefit the community for children's programs senior programs things that would help give people out from their homes and participating in the community and i look forward to this passing thank you so much further hi good afternoon my name is Eddie Mendes i'm calling to support item 13.2 the purchase of her an avenue i personally think this is a wonderful idea and i would love to see this project come to be a reality i think that we should have a community center on this location where we can number one come and develop ourselves further as people and community members but also where we can come and engage our community where we can be a positive influence to our center also youth develop our leaders for tomorrow and just create an overall better community for all of us um i'd also like to take the opportunity to send a special shout out to Vice Mayor Eddie Alvarez and to everyone out there that's working to create a better city and a better future we appreciate your hard work and everything you're doing thank you very much bye bye now hi my name is Eva Kirov born and raised here in san rosa the roseland district i love love love my city i want to thank everybody sitting on city council the mayor vice mayor i'm calling about item 13.2 i support the purchase of her an avenue i want to see a swim center a library a park i want our community to have everything that we deserve just like anybody in this county we put our part in too and we like diversity in san rosa is a beautiful city that's filling up with diversity and i just want to thank everybody and just tell you that i support the purchase of her an avenue and hey what's up Eddie Alvarez this is Eva Kirov have a nice day everybody thank you so much one moment as i bring over one of our interpreters to assist with a couple of the public comments my name is Concepcion Dominguez and i am calling in support of the situation with item number 13.2 on her an avenue i want to support the the community center a library or a pool in that area i just want to support all of it on item 13.2 parking on this situation according to the executive summary purchasing of this land has been built on an idea of a not yet determined specific public use that may potentially be built on the property this happened 13 years ago at rosland village shopping center with the county purchasing land expensively tearing down buildings and still after 13 years not being able to get things done this is the same kind of thing that could happen here 12 years ago the city bought landed 1400 burbank avenue for four times what it was worth and essentially a land sharking situation helping out a friend of a local bureaucrat who's then left under a cloud should this land be purchased do not move the burbank avenue fire station to the south the disadvantaged underserved overburdened rosland community which needs services more than anywhere else needs to keep its fire station up north by sabastacle road and that library that just opened up as a matter of fact the library that promised for that rosland village land 13 years ago so yeah build a new library build a new fire station for the south santa rosa south santa rosa you intend to put in tens of thousands of more people there due to the dictates of development which you're all about with that in mind then build new things for them but don't tear down or take away anything from the rosland residents to the north one and a half miles 16 000 rosland residents already here need these services don't be taking them away for some potential specific future public use that are not yet known that's what your own executive summary says so this whole thing sounds like a bamboozling boondoggling balderdash kind of attempt by bureaucrats there's money unless you have a plan and you have the public involved in the making of the plan in the first place this top-down money growing thing not good thank you my name is marisol and uh i am calling to support the project for the library in item 13.2 and i would like it to be uh carried out we don't have a library we don't have a place for youth or kids or even some of the adults we support this and hopefully you hear our voice mayor that concludes pre-recorded public comments on this item great thank you so much we'll go ahead bring it back councilmember fleming could you please put a motion on the table for discussion sure proudly i would like to move a resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa making sequa findings adopting the sequa checklist adopting a relocation plan and approving the acquisition of 976 herne avenue 980 herne avenue and 1004 herne avenue and wave further reading of the text second we have a motion from councilmember fleming and a second from councilmember soyer is there any discussion on the item councilmember swedham thank you mr. mayor yes i'm fully supportive of this project and it was interesting reading the staff report specifically uh attachment a that i think joe referenced when i heard checklist i thought oh this will be a real convenient thing just to make sure all the you know eyes are dotted tease across the 100 page document was fascinating to read especially the little glimpse into the history of santa rosa i think the first pictures were from the 1950s 60s 70s all the way up to you know current times and just see the evolution of that property in that part of santa rosa i also want to just make a comment and it's unfortunate that there's not more people in the chambers as we had it at last discussion regarding a land use decision that was before this council in roseland when we annexed roseland in 2017 this is exactly what i saw that we said we were going to do we're going to invest in that new incorporated part of santa rosa and this is walking the talk in my eyes we're investing in this area as we said we were going to do we're going to treat it as if it was any other part of santa rosa and i think we're walking the talk here so i'm very supportive of this project and thanks to staff for all the work that they've done i really appreciate the amount of education that you've provided to this council so that we can make a very educated decision on this item thank you vice mayor thank you mayor you know as as i think about what we've been able to accomplish in the in the short term that i've been here and i guess i speak for myself on this one is is i'm very grateful for the support that that district one has received and i think i speak for the entire council when i say the proof is in the pudding many speak of inclusion but we are definitely proving it and i think i thank each and every one of you i thank our staff for making such effort to assure that the people of district one the people of southwest santa rosa know that they're being heard thank you thank you council member and i let's go to council member rogers um i just would like to thank our staff i would like to thank jill um it is definitely i'm i'm just happy um to see southwest santa rosa being put on the map in a different way now um and to see services being brought in a permanent way um for us to to be able to have uh just the thought of us having a pool and having a permanent library and there's all these buildings that are permanent that will be there i think it was uh ashley that said it during her her public comment but she said generations and generations and that's what i'm thinking of is not not our generation or even my children but their their children's children will be able to to go to that pool and we will be able to tell the story of how we approved um you know the funding to have the pool being built there and how we we saw it being built and so um definitely making history here and to to thank the rest of the council for being trailblazers and for i i said it earlier like i think we're doing some wonderful terrific things so thank you guys so much for the hard work that we all are doing um and again thank the staff so much you guys rock thank you thank you council member i want to echo some of the comments that council member schwedhelm made that there's not a whole lot of fanfare around the item i know land acquisition is not the sexiest of topics to talk about but it is the first step that allows us to realize the vision that we have heard articulated from the community it's an ideal spot that makes uh makes our community safer from a fire strategic perspective it is an opportunity site that allows us to build partnerships with our library system and it allows us to provide community resources in an under invested area of our community and change the lives of the folks who live there it is an exciting item for us to start 2022 with i really want to thank staff and our library partners and everybody else who has been focused on this for bringing this item to us we'll obviously have a lot more community engagement around what it looks like we'll be talking with the neighborhoods to make sure that it meets their needs and that it continues to show their vision for their families and their children but i'm looking forward to being a part of the process uh and tonight is a feel good moment as we call the vote on this one with that madame city clerk thank you mayor council member schwedhelm hi council member soyer hi council member rogers hi council member fleming hi vice mayor alvarez hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with six eyes thank you so much good work jill we have no public hearings tonight we have no written communications we'll try one more time to see if there's any additional public comments on non-agenda items on anything that we did not previously discuss under item 12 or the rest of our agenda i see no hands so we'll go ahead and adjourn our meeting thank you everybody there we have we have a voicemail i my apologies i thought we already listened to the voicemail in item 12 i hadn't played it i was intending to play it on 16 okay let's go ahead and play it really fast my apologies folks dwayne de witt from roseland item 12 public comment on non-agenda items please let's have a good new year beware bamboozling boondoggling bureaucratic balderdash benefiting bureaucratic bamboozlers santa rosa and sonoma county taxpayers are exploited and victimized by local political bureaucrats bamboozling and boondoggling local legal graft land sharking cost taxpayers millions of extra dollars while bureaucrats pad their pensions and laugh all the way to the bank bamboozle is to deceive to confuse frustrate or throw off thoroughly or completely by underhanded methods boondoggle is to waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects think the boondoggle smart train the express boondoggle express half a billion dollars spent on that thing and very few riders or santa rosa the boondoggle courthouse square project tens of millions of dollars spent so 46 parking spaces could go in to benefit who the boondoggle series building now for the sonoma county board of supervisors moving their staffers bureaucrats to downtown santa rosa after they moved him out there to the county administration center just 50 years ago and now maybe santa rosa city council members will be bamboozling for as much money as sonoma county board of supervisor bamboozlers who knows they call a charter review put in term limits and a popular elected mayor then we could have a little bit more public involvement now also after years of telling rosalind residents there would be a library at the rosalind village shopping center bought for millions of dollars with taxpayer funds 13 years ago there may be a bait and switch and play saying no to the library somewhere else they may put it more than a mile and a half away from sexual rosalind where it's needed anyway also you guys demolish houses you demolish houses while you say there's a housing crisis so far dozens of houses have been demolished in rosalind all the while telling us we must have more housing built here it's just a bamboozling boondoggling bureaucratic balder dash that's benefiting the bamboozlers more than the residents out here so local residents hold on to your wallets while the local government officials go round and round saying that concludes public comment great thank you so much and with that we will adjourn