 Good morning everyone and welcome to our community conversation for the Santa Rosa general plan update. It's great to have all of you here with us. I want to welcome you and thank you for making time to be with us this morning. My name is Jamila Jordan with MIG and MIG is one of the consulting firms who were selected in collaboration with Placeworks to help the city of Santa Rosa develop the general plan update. And we are excited to kick off our engagement process in earnest with today's conversation. And we have a lot in store for you a lot of information and really we want to hear from you though that's the purpose of today is to hear your thoughts your comments and your ideas. So we want to welcome you and thank you again for making time to be with us. I'm going to step through just for some of us who may not be as familiar with zoom how to use this online platform. Just a couple of the key ways that you can chime in and give your input today. And the first one is using the chat feature and you might notice a toolbar at the bottom of your screen there and it includes the chat option. And you would simply click that and type in. For this particular conversation, you can type in the select questions and comments. And that would direct any questions or comments you have throughout the life of our program here today to our staffer who's working behind the scenes and they will share your comments and questions with us, and we will address them as we move through the meeting. So this is one of the best ways for you to give input, share ideas, share questions as we move through the conversation. So that chat feature is an important way for you to connect with us today. And another feature that I want to call your attention to is raising your hand. And this lets us know that you have something that you want to share and this one we're really going to encourage you to use this feature as we get towards the end of our program as we get closer to more of the open session. But this is another way for you to chime in and give your input and you can click the raise hand option there that you can see, you'll click on the participants list and then you can simply click the raise hand option and that'll let us know that you want to share something and that we can call on you as quickly as we can. I also want to share just a couple of key principles and just as we would for an in person conversation. We have a couple of just common courtesy agreements that we ask you all to follow as we move through our conversation today. I want to let you know that as I mentioned you can definitely feel free to share your comments and questions using that feature that I just shared with you. We ask that you be respectful of one another's opinions we imagine there's a real diversity of people in the zoom room here today, and we just ask that you be respectful of other thoughts and ideas. For any questions that we can't answer today will be sure to follow up with you with more detailed responses after the session. We have several pause points throughout our program today for you to chime in for you to share thoughts questions ideas recommendations we want to hear it all. And I want to just end on reminding you that this is just one meeting and in fact it's the first of our community conversations in a much longer larger process so this is a three year effort and today is just one meeting in that much longer process so there's no need to feel like you have to get everything in that you want to say today. There'll be plenty of other opportunities and ways for you to give your input to us as we move throughout the program and the process. I also want to just call our attention to this statement here from the city of Santa Rosa, and the city is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment that's free from disruption. And we will not tolerate any hateful speech or actions and our well staff to monitor that everyone is participating respectfully. And if not, then we're going to have to remove those individuals. And if necessary, we will also immediately have to end the meeting, and if the meetings and it will plan on recording another presentation without participants that will be posted on the project website. And this is to create a space where everyone feels safe welcome to share their thoughts and ideas and can do so in a way that is consistent with transparency, and just with civility. So we ask you all to abide by that as we move through our program here. I also want to let you know that today's conversation is being recorded. And so we will be putting this up on the website and allowing people to see it at their leisure if people were not able to join us in the real time that they will be able to do it on demand so to speak. And with that, I want to turn it over to Andy Gustafson, who is with the city of Santa Rosa to provide some welcome and opening remarks. Andy. Andy, it looks like you are muted. Unmuted Andy. We're all adapting to the virtual world of way of doing meetings. So I apologize. Let me say again, thank you, Jamila for that introduction. And, and I do want to wish everybody good. Good morning and welcome to this community conversation about this general, this community involvement strategy. My name is Andy Gustafson, and I'm city planner for the city of Santa Rosa and for the next year, three years will be managing the update of the city's general plan. It is an immense honor and responsibility for me to work with all of you and my colleagues on this important and timely project. I really thank all of you for taking time to participate today. It's also a pleasure to acknowledge the support we have from Kaiser Permanente which has provided us with a grant that allows us to expand community outreach and integrate health policy into the general plan. We also have an exciting collaboration with Latino service providers who will work with us on community outreach throughout this three year program. I wish to recognize that we have David going here who director of planning and economic development. And for those of you who I missed that are here from the city. I also appreciate your attendance to this meeting. So, today we have a presentation about the community involvement strategy for the general plan update. This presentation will include a series of live surveys that we will use to finalize the community involvement strategy. Your participation today will help to ensure that our general plan update is based on broad and inclusive public input, and that we plan for a city where we all want to live, work and play. What brings us to this point? We all recognize now as a pivotal moment in our city's history. Santa Rosa is grappling with immense challenges. In the last three years alone we have faced devastating wildfires and ongoing housing and homelessness crisis, repeated electrical grid blackouts, a global pandemic, calls for social justice and racial equity. These events have all of us discussing how our neighborhoods, our city will adapt to these changes. Most importantly, these events force us all to recognize how important it is to act to engage with our neighborhoods in our city. Your involvement here today will help the city bounce forward to overcome these challenges and help the city become more sustainable, resilient, healthy, inclusive community. You will hear today the general plan will provide you with all an opportunity to shape your city, your neighborhood in our city. Only through inclusive public engagement will we be able to set meaningful goals and actions that will guide how the city will adapt and grow in a way that is supported by everyone in the city. The general plan update will pull together and address many if not all of the issues that are on our minds right now, including housing for all neighborhood quality and connectivity, economic development, wildfire hazards and climate change, public health and all our neighborhoods and community groups, equitable access to community amenities and services, education access, environmental stewardship. The list is comprehensive. Most importantly, our general plan project team will ask you today will present you with the plan, and they will lay out that this strategy is a toolbox that we will use to inform and get feedback from the community as we prepare the general plan. The project team will ask you if it includes the right tools to reach all groups and neighborhoods within our city. The team will present what we learned today. And from comments that we will receive during our month long public review period to the city council. The community involvement strategy is tentatively scheduled for the council's August 18 meeting. If you have any further information about the general plan update or the community involvement strategy, please go to our website by searching Santa Rosa 2050 on your favorite web browser. If you have any comments or suggestions. Please email them to us at GP comment at SR city.org. And with that, I really, again, thank you for attending today's meeting. I'll turn it back to or over to Dan and step or actually yes. Well, what I'd like to do is introduce the next presenter, which is Dan Amsten, and you will also hear again from Jamila, Jamila Jordan later in the meeting. She presents the community involvement strategy. I turn it over to you Dan. Thanks so much, Andy. And I'll actually take it from here. Appreciate those welcome and opening remarks there really helps to set the stage for today's conversation. As Andy mentioned, we have a couple of other presenters here, myself included and then my colleague Dan Amsten from MIG. We also have another a number of other individuals on our call today, who are here supporting the meeting from Amy Lyle, Claire Hartman of the city of Santa Rosa, Carolyn Berhine, Ana Padilla, and then we're also really excited to have our colleagues from Placeworks on the line, Charlie Knox, Andrea Howard, and then our colleague Michelle Gervais. So we have a full team represented to respond to answer your questions and hear your feedback points. And these are individuals who will be involved throughout the full entirety of the GPU process. So today's conversation, what do we have in store for you today? We have three parts. The first is a conversation around the general plan update. What is, why is it important? How does it relate to my everyday life? From there we want to share what are the highlights related to the community involvement strategy, also known as the CIS. And that's a document that was released, I believe it was maybe about three, four weeks ago or so. And so hopefully you all had a chance to review that and bring some of your comments and ideas to today's conversation. If not, it's on the website. There's also a summary document that captures sort of the high level feedback points of the CIS for those who don't have time to read the full in-depth document. So we'll go through some of the activities and tools that are outlined in the CIS for all of you. And then we'll wrap it up with next steps and give you a sense of what's coming next in our process. So that's what we have in store for you today. We also want to leave time for you to ask other general questions, comments, and share other feedback points with us. So we feel like we'll have plenty of time to do so today. And again, I want to welcome you all to our community conversation kickoff. And to get us started, we want to get a sense of who's in the room today. And we have a couple of key polling questions for you. And I'm going to start our polling now. And the first question that we have is what's been bringing you joy lately? What's been bringing you joy? Is it A, spending time with family and loved ones? B, spending time outdoors in nature. Santa Rosa is a beautiful city, beautiful place. A, excuse me, a new hobby. D, working on home projects. We often have a lot of time at home these days. Is it E, gardening at home? Is it F, enjoying art? That may include music, dance, painting, you name it. Or G, something else, something that we haven't thought of here. We want to know what's bringing you joy lately. And we have, see three people have commented so far. Let's go ahead and you just simply click in your response. And we'll give you some time to do that. We haven't quite heard from everyone yet. We're going to keep it running here. What's been bringing you joy? So let's go ahead and see these results right now, everyone. As you know, on a Saturday morning, I only want to talk about joy. And the results are A, spending time with family and loved ones. You all overwhelmingly think that that is what's been bringing you joy most. Followed by gardening at home. We have a couple of gardeners in the house here today working on home projects and spending time outdoors. This is excellent, everyone. We have two more questions for you that we're going to go to here. The next one is we want to get a sense of, are you a resident of the city of Santa Rosa? Are you a resident of the city of Santa Rosa? Option A, yes. Option B, no. Okay, I think we had just about all the results in here. Let's go and see the outcome. Yes, overwhelmingly, we have the city of Santa Rosa is well represented amongst residents here today. So thank you all for making time to be with us. And we have one more question for you. And this question is, which category best describes the organization, agency, community group that you represent today? Is it A, community-based organization? B, business? C, government agency? D, neighborhood group or resident? Let's consider that. Or E, other? I think we've heard from just about everyone. So let's see the results. As you can see, community-based organizations are well represented here today as well as neighborhood groups or residents. Business is another option here and other. And I'm curious for the others. Why don't you go ahead and type in the chat what the other represents for you? What would you say is best describing who you're representing today? Okay, so thank you everyone for participating in that poll, those polling options there. This is just for us to get a sense of who's in the room here today and give us a sense of how we can maybe extend our outreach further to invite other people to participate into the conversation. So now I'm excited to pass it to my colleague, Dan, who will give us an overview of the general plan update process and what you all have to look forward to. Dan, take it away. Thanks, Jamila. Good morning, everyone. Again, my name is Dan Amsdon. I'm with MIG as well. And I'm the overall project manager for the general plan update. I'm working closely with Andy and Jamila and the whole team here over the next several years on this really important and honestly, I think a really exciting project as well. And as Andy mentioned, you know, this is a pivotal time in Santa Rosa's history and a great opportunity to really continue this community discussion on the future of Santa Rosa and the future of the community and how we can bounce forward. And while there's a lot of challenges, there's also a lot of opportunities to change policy or programs or to reinvent new ideas or think about new things. So a general plan update is honestly something that most cities don't do that often every 15 or 20 years. The city currently has an adopted general plan. It was last adopted in 2009 and is a bit, not as they outdated, but it's definitely a time to rethink the vision, the goals, the principles of that plan, which is really going to be the heart of this process. So the first key question is, well, what is a general plan? Well, it is the city's overarching policy documents for land use, new development, mobility, health, sustainability, equity of services and programs, and protection of resources. It's really considered a blueprint or almost a constitution that decisions by city council appointed officials need to follow the general plan. It really provides us overarching guidance. It is required by the state to be a comprehensive document. And what that means is it looks at a range of issues, topics, and areas of interest, but it also has to be internally consistent. What that means is, one, it ties all these different issues together from a policy standpoint. But if you have a policy in one chapter, let's say housing, that policy needs to be consistent with policies and every other chapter. So it really makes an effort for us to think about everything holistically and working together and integrated. So for the city, the key way of thinking about a general plan is, as I mentioned, is this overarching policy document and guidance. But a lot of decisions by the city, whether it's updating specific plans like the downtown specific plan right now or others, making changes, the zoning or subdivisions, approvals for individual projects, building permits. All of these different actions need to be consistent with the general plan. Very intentionally, it is general in nature and more policy guidance. And as you move down this pyramid, other plans actions get more detailed as well. The state requires every city to look at a range of chapters or topics and there's requirements for certain actions or policies within these chapters. This is, for lack of better terms, sort of the minimum threshold for general plans, but the city has tremendous discretion for what topics what policies, what ideas to include in the general plan. And that really is a starting point for how important these community conversations and engagement will be over the next three years is to really get the communities ideas and vision encapsulated in this new plan. So some big picture or key topics that include in the plan. We know city starters and community conversations in advance of the update last summer. But as I mentioned, the general plan is going to address land uses, but more importantly areas of change, most parts of the city don't need or desire new development more intense development, but certain areas and certain neighborhood centers may feel the need to use these uses or services or schools or facilities and really thinking about where they're most appropriate and how they can be implemented over time. Tied together all in or connecting all this is a multimodal mobility system. So roads for driving but also for bikes for pedestrians for transit, given the range of this plan also for autonomous vehicles which may be here in 15 or 20 years So really thinking about how people move through the city access schools assets access jobs commercial areas will be key as well. We know given a lot of recent events the fires in particular natural hazards flooding while in fire areas but also natural resources are really important as we talk about this holistic and comprehensive planning effort. So the city is going to be moving into account from a planning and policy standpoint will be really important to ensure the city is resilient in the future and also becomes more sustainable. In addition, this is a city guiding policy document so the allocation and distribution and staffing of public facilities and services throughout the city is also really key and making sure the infrastructure and the programs reach every neighborhood is going In addition, as Andy mentioned, we also know there are some very timely and very important topics that we want to engage the community and discuss through this process. One key is around housing and how we can create housing for all. Partly that's a range of different densities or types of housing and different affordability whether it's market rate workforce affordability or affordable subsidized housing. But it can also be and should be looking at reducing barriers to home rentals and homeownerships and a very key topic here as well is building upon local and regional homeless strategies and transition to permanent housing through this process as well. Really want to take a look at economic development. We are going to acknowledge we are in a challenging time with the economy with COVID-19 and where the economy is going to go in the future. But as a comprehensive economic development strategy for the city, looking at ways to retain support and grow existing businesses and employers who are already here, tracking new businesses, supporting our commercial centers and entertainment centers, but also thinking about the residents, the jobs, the access to jobs and type of jobs that are available in Santa Rosa and improving that access to employment or job skills for that employment as well. So really taking, again, a very holistic approach to how we look at economic development in the future. Another really important topic and as Andy mentioned, Kaiser Permanente provided a city with a tremendous grant, which is fantastic to really look at a citywide comprehensive healthy community strategy. And community health flows through all aspects of a general plan or all aspects of a community, safer neighborhoods, more walkable neighborhoods, but also things like access to healthy foods, parks, recreation, open space, access to healthcare, wellness, transportation options. This is really going to be a key component of this process as we go through the next three years. Also very importantly, looking at environmental justice and social equity and racial equity. The state of California has created some new laws in the last year and a half to require this in general plans. All of that's part of this process, but I do want to know the city very intentionally is going above and beyond the state's requirements on this topic, and many others, especially community health. What we mean by this is the fair treatment of people of all races cultures incomes with respect to development decisions allocation of public facilities access the parks, recreation impacts resiliency as we go through this general plan process. As I mentioned, there are specific requirements, but really the city is very proactive in making this a much bigger component of this project than most cities undertake, and really looking at this on a neighborhood level citywide, which is a very exciting process, going forward. So this is a bit of an eye chart, but it is available on the project website. This is a snapshot of essentially the next three years and in a general plan process. These are these are big planning projects and very involved projects. There'll be a lot of different documents research analysis and evaluations that are done before even a draft plan is created. I want to highlight we are at the starting point of this process. And really the goal of today's discussion is to talk through the community engagement strategy and how we engage the community. Again, there's a very important project, but as you can see in that second line, this line B, there are going to be a lot of opportunities for community engagement throughout the next three years, and really an opportunity to create a refined vision for the city moving forward. Thank you so much for that presentation, Dan, really nice overview of the general plan update process and now we want to pause for a moment and just see if there are any comments or questions about the general plan update process that we can respond to now. I know our colleague blaze is working behind the scenes blaze have we gotten any questions or comments from from many of our participants here, and just to remind people, you can go ahead and use the chat feature. And in the chat you would type your response comment or question to the item that's labeled questions comments and that'll be blaze who's helping to respond to some of that so blaze any questions or comments that we've received so far. No questions or comments just yet. Okay, well we're just getting warmed up here everybody so that's okay think about it we'll have plenty of time to unpack and further discuss any comments or questions that come to mind as we move through the program. So with that, why don't we go ahead and go ahead blaze one question. We actually had one question come in. The question is, are there going to be plans about climate action. Yes, excellent question. The short answer is, yes, the cities update the climate action plan is part of this project and while the climate action plan maybe a separate standalone document the integration of the climate action plan. It's strategies around greenhouse gas reduction operations and ways to become more sustainable will be closely integrated the general plan as well. So as we go through discussions and meetings moving forward. There'll be discussions on both climate action planning and the general plan as we get this opportunity to sort of bring both together. Thanks for that Dan blaze any other questions come in. Another question. Yes, will 2020 census data be incorporated in the update. Really good question, because there'll be a little bit of time before we get that census data. Yes, right now the consultant team is putting together what's known as an existing conditions report. It's basically taking inventory of all information I'm available to us right now. We don't have a 2020 census information as of yet, but as we move through this process when the updated census information is available. In particular for the housing element. So you know, may know that term is really the housing chapter of the general plan. When we get more involved in the housing elements, we will be pulling in 2020 census information and we will also have time ahead of the environmental analysis which is probably about a year and a half or two years away to also integrate the census information as well. Okay. Great well blaze. Oh, go ahead blaze. I think we can keep time for more questions here. We have a couple more coming in. One question is also asking is a portable and clear energy being addressed part of the general plan. Yes. And as we start going through some of these policy options and choices. I think identifying what those existing technologies are today and how they can be further implemented throughout the city, but also allowing some policy flexibility because additional technologies may come in the future. So we have heard from staff and from the community as well that energy resiliency is a key topic as well. And I think strategically thinking through how that can be done. And how that can be implemented or implemented is another great topic to be discussed in general plan update. I think we have a few more coming in we have request. If the project team will be sharing ideas that we think are good. I think the whole excuse me I'm misinterpreting question. So basically asking the question about being will you share ideas that reinforce the concept that everything must tie together. Listen to the general, the general plan elements during three year process. Absolutely. So one of our first round of community engagements that Jimmy will talk about here in just a second our first big session of engagement will really be an opportunity to talk big picture about the community vision for the future and some assets opportunities and challenges. During that conversation and those meetings website events materials, we'll really want to gain not only always different ideas or topics to be addressed. I mentioned also really highlighting the integration of all of these as part of the general plan process. As I mentioned earlier, it does need to be as a document internally consistent, but also so many of these topics touch so many different issues or areas of the city, and really making sure that everything's addressed holistically is going to be a very big goal of this project. Thank you. Just a few more here, gender equality being addressed in this part of the general plan update. Yes, gender equality and actually all elements of equality will be addressed as well in various ways throughout this project I should highlight both from a policy standpoint and how it's addressed but also we're taking a very positive approach for how we are starting this process and structuring it and making sure that there is no implicit bias or structural racism or other issues from a starting point of this project. For instance, one of the things we're working on right now is a survey that will go online here in a few weeks, they'll provide residents and community members to map their neighborhood. So starting with existing neighborhood mapping or other structures, we really want to create this from the ground up and create a very equitable process. So sort of a larger response on a specific topic and Jamila, you may want to, I don't know if you want to add to that as well but we're taking a very, very concerted effort to make sure this process is inclusive and open to all. Thank you so much. I think you said it very well and just to add on or build on to that is that we are embedding equity throughout every element of the general plan process and it's about both process and outcomes and we want to be sure that this results in equitable outcomes for all Santa Rosa residents and community members will be applying an equity lens throughout every aspect of these various general plan elements. We talked about land use, for example, we talked about neighborhood amenities, talked about environmental justice and so we'll be very intentional about applying an equity lens throughout every aspect of the process. And we look to the community members to as to provide additional ideas suggestions about how we can step our efforts up even more. So we want to meet and exceed the requirements of the general plan process and we want to do so with the support buy in and ownership of the community. Great. Thank you. More here, we have the request to say it again, the project team and their roles. Sure, and I'm going to pull that slide up for us Dan. And I'll provide a verbal sort of bigger picture summary of this city staff is very much in the lead on this project. And Andy is the key project manager on the city side working closely with Amy Lyle and Claire Hartman and many others on this project. On the consultant team side Charlie Knox of place work is the overall principal in charge. And as I mentioned, I'm the, the data project manager to me was the engagement project manager. But I do want to highlight on our consultant team, we actually have a, what I'll call a very deep bench of technical experts and topical experts, we have about seven different firms that are part of this team, including wild and fire resiliency experts sustainability experts, economic development infrastructure pipes and roads infrastructure and mobility as well. So there's a big team on both the city and consultants and to make sure we're really getting the experts we need to address this enormous amount of topics that we'll be talking about this process. I think we have a one more question here. multifaceted word. Just general plan process and final plan. Are we going to be addressing various issues such as industry innovation infrastructure, asking if being the hungry home home services, clean water sanitation work as just what is being encompassed from those subjects in the general plan update an excellent question to, I think summarize this whole process, all of the above. And really, you know, the general plan again is this overarching policy document for anything around the built or the natural environment. It's the people who live and interact with the build the natural environment. So really provides this opportunity to address all of these issues. And the, the, the great value I've always found doing general plans is the way policies are structured are really orienting actions on the behalf of city but also other partners as well to solve or address these issues throughout the city. And one of the things we talked about with staff and this is actually staff staffs idea love it is structure in the general plan more around a neighborhood focus. All these topics would be addressed but almost at a neighborhood level so we can really prioritize where the needs are and where issues need to be addressed. I do want to also mention that information on our project team, including the contract scope of work, and all the detail behind that is available on the project website as well if people like to use more information. So blaze we're going to move on forward to the next part of our agenda here and everyone you can keep the questions and comments coming in. We're going to go ahead and shift into the next part of our discussion which is around engaging the community and sharing some of the highlights from our community involvement strategy. So this is a document that outlines the key outreach strategies and methods, what are our communication tools, who are our target audiences, and what's the proposed timeline for implementation and I see this document as really a foundational tool that we'll use throughout the life of our general plan update process we see it as a living document we want to continue to augment it as we move forward. There are often new emerging needs opportunities and issues that come up over three years and so we have developed a document that is flexible that's nimble, and that's able to be responsive to community concerns and desires. We have five key elements within our approach, one of them is about leveraging local networks we want to tap into the relationships that already exist and build on those we're not starting from scratch. This is an incredibly well network community with a ton of community based organizations and deep relationships that go from years and years decades in fact and we are excited to have Latino service providers be a key partner and integral to our team as well. So that's just a little taste of some of the networking that's already happening right now. We also want this to be a process that creates opportunities for inclusive and equitable participation. We want to hear from people who may not traditionally participate in processes like these due to resource or time constraints for example, we want to make it easy for people to give their time and their, their, their ideas and input to us we want to make it fun, engaging, thoughtful and we promise to use your time wisely with each of the activities that we have in our process here and part of that, that ambulance going by something real is happening in my neighborhood right now. So, so we want to create opportunities for inclusive participation and we have a number of different ways that we can do so. And I'm going to share some of that as we get further into the presentation here. We also want to identify barriers to participation, what are the reasons why people might not be coming to these types of events, what are the reasons why they might not be able to participate and for us to identify those barriers and then to work around them to develop strategies and solutions that create a more equitable access to this process We already have a lot of ideas from Spanish translation, for example, multilingual translation, tapping into our community based partnerships, for example, providing incentives for participation and a number of other ideas that we can remove barriers and make this a process that everyone feels welcomed and feels like they have a seat at the table. We also want to collaborate and inform general plan decision making. This is really important for the input that we collect from all of our community based activities to inform the next steps in the process to inform the decision making to inform the development of the policies that emerge from this process. And then lastly, it's about building long term capacity for civic engagement. This is a really important process and we want this to pay dividends down the line for the city to continue to nurture, cultivate relationships with community members and organizations to inform the growth, development and community design of Santa Rosa for many, many years to come for many generations. We want to cast a wide net as well. And this includes residents, youth, limited English proficient individuals, seniors, parents, children with families, for example, parents with families and things of that nature. We want to make sure that we are hearing from a wide variety of community residents as we move through the process. Everyone's voice is important and everyone is welcome. And we also have a number of other audiences that we're seeking to engage from the city of Santa Rosa departments to the county of Sonoma departments. We want our city council and elected officials to be at the table. We see Santa Rosa Metro Chamber, for example, business associations, large employers, local businesses, educational institutions are also incredibly important. We want to be sure that we're tapping into schools and universities and other educational entities that play a role in the city. Transportation Service Providers is another one. We're looking at SMART, we're looking at Santa Rosa City buses, ride share programs, for example, community organizations. I've already touched on this, but I think this is so important to underscore. We already mentioned our partnership with Latino service providers, LoCN, Santa Rosa Together, Club Colonitario de Rosalín, Petaluma Blacks for Community Development, Sonoma Land Trust, just to name a few. And this is just a snapshot. I want to be really clear in saying that these are just some of the groups that we are highlighting on this slide, but we already have a really long, robust database of other community partners and agencies that we hope to engage and partner with to ensure that we hear from a wide variety of residents. Neighborhood Associations is also really key. This is a citywide process, but we also want to drill down to the neighborhood level and make sure that we're elevating the voices, ideas and concerns of various neighborhoods and making sure that those individuals, those groups, understand that they play a really important part in making sure that this is a robust general plan process. We're also looking at faith-based organizations. We want to be sure that we're tapping into those constituencies and being sure to bring them along in the process as well. And a host of other individuals, audiences, and groups. And we look to you all to help us. Let us know if you feel like there are some things or some groups or audiences that are missing. Don't be shy. We want to know. We want to engage. We want to connect, and we'll continue to do so throughout the program. So an important part of our strategy here is around guiding principles, and you can see there are seven of them there. Some of them I've already touched on. One of that I want to focus on right now is high touch and high tech. And we recognize during COVID-19 that our ability to connect in person is somewhat limited right now. And so right now we're choosing to use some of our higher touch, quote, unquote, opportunities to connect using, for example, Zoom, these webinar type meetings, connecting online, using social media, using the website, which is under development right now. So it's balancing both high touch and high tech. And high touch might include going out, meeting the community where they are, going to farmers markets, going to festivals and other community events, outdoor soccer games, for example, you name it, we'll be there. And we are going to follow social distancing guidelines. But as soon as we're able to, we're excited to connect with community members face to face to hear your thoughts and concerns. And so that's a really important principle that's guiding our effort here. It's also important that we be clear, focused and understandable. And oftentimes when you have a general plan process, there may be a lot of jargon that's used, a lot of planaries, if you will. And we want to distill it down to its purest essence. We want everyone to connect to what are the key concepts and ideas in our process, and what are their thoughts about how we can address some of the challenges facing Santa Rosa. And we can do so by being really clear, and also providing high level graphics that we don't always have to communicate just with words, but there are visuals that we want to use and Dan already has shared some of the maps, for example, some of the other illustrations that we'll be using throughout the process. Equity, as we talked about, is interwoven throughout every element, throughout every aspect of our process, and will continue to be so. Respect is the one I want to end on. We talked at the very beginning around civil conversation and dialogue around this. We respect each and every one of you, and thank you for making time to be with us. And we promise to carry that theme throughout every aspect of our engagement process. We want to make sure that people will respect that their time is valued and their ideas are considered in the most earnest way. So those are some of the guiding principles. And again, this is all available in our community involvement strategy, which is on the website. It's a really important resource that we'll use throughout the program, the project rather, and I encourage you to take a look at it if you haven't already done so. And we want to invite your comments and ideas around how we can expand the community involvement strategy even more. What are some ways that we can augment that document to better connect with residents, community members and other stakeholders. So I'll pause for a moment and just get a sense of do you have any comments or questions regarding the community engagement approach or those guiding principles that I mentioned. And I'll look to Blaze to see if we have any comments or questions. So a few comments came in at the beginning. I can read some off here. One of them is we have some excitement around the neighborhood focus of the process and that we think they'll have organized the neighborhood in the long term. And they another comment reaching out to black organizations and black students is important. We are less than 2% in this county. Bear voices must count as well. And to reach out at black students union and at SRJC and SSU as well. Uplifting black leaders and young leaders important. And another comment came in. Blaze let me just respond to that one real quick though so I think that first of all thanks so much for these comments that are coming in everyone we really appreciate it. It helps to round out our thinking around how we can be even more equitable in our approach to engagement. And in terms of, you know, making sure that we hear from the African American community within Santa Rosa. That's a key focus of our approach. You know, we want to hear from all community members and, and particularly those who are underrepresented in processes like this and so we'll be doing some targeted outreach throughout the entire program. And we want to tap into the BSU for example the black student union and other groups we also really want to be mindful of how the black lives matter movement will impact the general plan process and to think about ways that we can address structural racism. Throughout this planning project and to identify solutions to address or redress some of the issues of the past. So really appreciate that question and comment rather and that'll be a key consideration as we move forward in the engagement process. So there's a concern about a technical information so a lot of concern about some community members for the pink movie being more kind of a lack of understanding of some of the technical concepts so the important to help these individuals and groups understand the technical projects under consideration and that a virtual explanation would help a lot. So people can learn their own pace and time. Yeah, that's a really, really important point there and I appreciate the person who raised it. One of the things we want to do is provide a baseline of understanding for what is the general plan. What is it and Dan's already illuminated some of the kind of key factors that go into developing a general plan but we want to provide something of a general plan. And this will be a key feature of a lot of our engagement activities. It's just educating and informing the community about what are the core components of the general plan. Why is it important and how can they leverage the general plan to improve their quality of life. And so that's going to be a key feature of really most of our engagement activities is just providing that baseline of understanding for everyone to get on board and understand how to leverage this process to improve their communities quality of life. Great, thank you. And then one more question here. We'll feedback from neighborhood organizations he filtered through an equity lens to prioritize needs in the city. Yes, great question there. Absolutely, we're going to filter everything through an equity lens. And we also want to invite and encourage community based organizations and groups to participate. We've already gotten some really great feedback and ideas from some community organizations that have already helped to inform our thinking about how we can further augment our approach to engagement. And so we want to keep those coming in and we will continue to be nimble and responsive to all of that great input that we get. So the big answer is yes, and we can drill down further by having more detailed conversations with individuals and organizations as we move through the process. Right, thank you. And we have a few more. So we have a comment awesome guidance and strategies and a question will all resources surveys and outreach be available in Spanish. Great question. Yes, and I want to just as a plug for an upcoming community conversation. We have another one very similar to this model that we have here today will do the very same thing in Spanish. And that'll be next Saturday. So just a plug for that will cover that a little bit more towards the end of our agenda here. But yes, we definitely want to make sure we understand that Santa Rosa has a large Latino population and we want to make sure that everyone is able to participate and engage. And so we'll be translating the large bulk of our materials into Spanish community involvement strategy, for example, is translated into Spanish. We have that summary document available on the website. We'll also be working very closely with Latino service providers and other kind of Latino serving organizations throughout Santa Rosa to make sure that we're tapping into the ideas concerns strategies that those community members want to raise. And so absolutely want this to be a multicultural multilingual process and everyone has a seat at the table. Okay, thank you. Another. The question here, more of a concern. So there's a concern. This comment reads, you're concerned about outreach and technology. Many don't have access to the internet. But most have cell phones. Will you be including texting. Yes, you know, I really appreciate that. So that's something that we can certainly build more into our approach here. We recognize that internet access is something in the digital divide is really real in all communities across the country. And so we're being very strategic and intentional about making sure that we're bridging that digital divide that we're not relying solely on quote unquote high tech channels to connect with people will be using community based organizations working very closely with them to tap into their relationships and their constituencies. Phone baking, for example, is another one. We will be out in public as well. Once we're able to do so to connect with people in real time in person to get their thoughts and ideas and meeting them at places where that's convenient for them. So we're going to go out to the grocery stores, we're going to go out to the community centers to the libraries, the soccer field, the other athletic events, for example, and make sure that we're connecting with people on their terms. When they feel like it's convenient for them to get input. So we definitely want to be mindful of the fact that everyone doesn't have access to digital tools and so we can use things like texting to better connect as well as a host of other strategies. These are great questions everyone. So if there isn't anything else, please we're going to go ahead and keep the next part of our program here moving and again I invite everyone to keep the questions coming in. This is all really good input that we're collecting from you right now. We appreciate this feedback. So I want to share now a little bit about our partnership with Kaiser Permanente and we mentioned that they have provided a very generous healthy communities grant and this is focused on providing opportunities for us to deepen our engagement with underrepresented communities. It also will give us additional resources to focus on healthy city policies and actions. We want this to be a key component of cornerstone of our approach throughout the entire general plan process and the funding really allows us to add and to expand on many of our engagement activities. We want to use some of these dollars to help better resource our engagement program and to connect with the communities who, again, who may not traditionally participate for a variety of reasons but we can do what we can do to tap into those networks and those communities and we're excited about leveraging this Kaiser grant to do so. There's also the partnership with Latino service providers. They are a key partner in our entire program here. A lot of the work that we'll be doing with them will be focused on community outreach and engagement. Youth engagement is also a critical component of the project. This is a plan for the future and the youth are the future. We want to make sure they're the present and the future I should say. We want to make sure they're looped into every aspect of the planning process and again I think this is where that baseline of understanding that general plan 101 becomes even more important. We want to make sure that people understand what are the key components of a general plan and why is it important to their communities and so that'll be a key feature of some of our work with Latino service providers is just making sure that people understand the role and the importance of a general plan and then how to leverage it to improve their community. I also want to call your attention to this community advisory committee also known as the CAC and this is a really important part of our community involvement strategy as well and we see the CAC as a cross section of Santa Rosa community members and this will serve as the ambassadors to the project. This will be a really important key touch point touchstone as we move through the project. They'll be providing feedback on products such as the city profile, such as our existing conditions analysis, land use and circulation alternatives, our draft general plan as well. So this will be a diverse constituency of individuals that we use as a sounding board that we use to test ideas and again to make sure that we are ready to go out to the full public and to share some of the key elements of the planning process. So more to come on this but this will be a really important feature of our community involvement strategy. So this is a high level illustration of the community involvement process here and you can see we have five key phases. I know it's a bit of an eye test here. It's also available on the website as well in our summary document but it just articulates what are the key activities, the key engagement opportunities that you all have to inform the process as we move from phase one all the way through phase five. So it just gives you a high level overview of where the best intervention points are, where we're hoping to get input and how that input will be used to inform some of the major work products throughout the planning process. So this will likely continue to be updated as we move through the program but this is just a nice snapshot of all of the engagement opportunities, the breadth and depth of engagement that will happen throughout our process. So I'm going to go through these fairly quickly because this is all in our CIS document and it's a lot of information here. I want to make sure we have time to hear from all of you but this in these next couple of slides I'm going to share with you what are some of the key engagement activities for each phase of our planning process. And this first slide here is around the ongoing activities and these things will be happening as we move through all of the GPU process and I've already touched on the Community Advisory Committee, the CAC meeting, so they'll meet about 10 times or so. And you can see the items with an asterisk there, the items that are mentioned with an asterisk, those are partially funded through the Kaiser Permanente Healthy Communities Plan. So that's again really providing us with some additional resources to augment our engagement program. So we'll have CAC meetings regularly. We also have a technical advisory committee which consists of city of Santa Rosa staff, some county departments and some other individuals who provide that technical expertise that we need to keep in mind as we move through the planning process translation services. We already had a great question about what will be available in Spanish and other languages. And we have a line item here that will help us address and meet those multilingual needs throughout the process. We also have a website, and this is under development as we speak we're going to be excited to launch it in the next couple of weeks or so, and it'll be a clearing house so a place where you all can come and connect with the process and see the latest and greatest of what's happening with the general plan update and to connect with us as well. We'll have some online surveys. We'll have the first one coming up fairly soon here and we'll have like maybe one or two others that we share throughout the three year process but this is a way for people to connect at their own time from the comfort of their home, on their way to work for whenever it's convenient for them. So online service will be a really important tool. One that I'm really excited to share with you as well is this general plan video series and I think this speaks again to this idea of a one on one. What are the basics of a general plan and how can people connect with the process and so we'll be producing a series of videos in different languages as well that illustrate and convey why the general plan is important and how people can leverage this process to improve their quality of life. We also are planning to have a general plan studio and this can be both in person and online and this is you know it might be for example hosted at one of the local community based organizations or at a community facility. And people can come in and get a sense of what are the latest maps latest graphics the latest data related to the general plan process they can get input they can talk with staff for example. So we want this to be very interactive really engaging and people can come in on their free time and just stop in for a moment and learn what's happening with the process and share their thoughts and ideas. Another one I want to share with you is this growing better places game. And this is all about civic based gaming and as we have mentioned a little bit throughout our presentation. We want this process to be fun we wanted to be engaging and what we found is that civic based gaming is one way to engage people in who learn differently you know everyone doesn't learn by reading off of a PowerPoint for example. And so this is another way for us to connect with people of different ages of different ethnicities and for them to understand why this process is important and what are some of the tradeoffs associated with different options from the various general plan element items. Youth engagement is also a really critical component of the planning process. And again we're going to be working closely with Latino service providers, the local schools and universities as well to make sure that we're tapping into what are the concerns of the youth and how can this planning process address those. So those are just some highlights of what's going to be ongoing engagement activities. And then we have a few other phases in the process. The ones I want to call out to you now is this number four which is the community discussions and events set number one, and this is all about our vision. You all will be helping to craft what's the vision for Santa Rosa over the next 1020 30 years for example. And how can we use this process to set that vision into motion will also be hosting a series of focus groups as well. Some of them may be virtual some may be in person depending upon the health restrictions but that's another really important touch piece for us to hear some intimate responses around what are the key issues and opportunities facing the city of Santa Rosa and particular community groups. We have pop up events that we're planning in phase two as well and this is all about meeting people where they are we're going to go out to the community we're going to hear their thoughts and concerns. We imagine going to festivals we've imagined going to libraries farmers markets grocery stores, other organizations events as well. We also are planning to have a plan band, and this is all about mobile outreach, and we will wrap a band with the logo and project of the general plan and go out into the community and we'll go wherever you are wherever you recommend we call will be there and so we'll be bringing our surveys will be bringing our display boards and whatnot, and collecting input and just hearing concerns and ideas as well. Double Decker bus is another really fun and interesting feature of our engagement. So people will be able to do tours of the city and what are some of the key areas that we want to focus on. So getting outside of their neighborhood and going to see another part of the city that they don't get to what are the concerns of those community members, for example, so we're excited about this mobile feature to get people more engaged in areas where perhaps they don't visit that often or they don't know much about to understand what are their concerns and issues will also be frequently going to Council and Community or excuse me commissions to share updates and also to hear from those leaders about what are the key issues that we should be focusing on in the project. Phase three is very similar will be going out into the community and what we're calling this preferred alternatives section here so we want to get a sense of what of all of the alternatives that we've identified. What is what are the alternatives that you want to focus on what's your preferred choice, and we'll be doing a lot of community engagement to get a sense of that, and again going back out to Council and commissions to hear their thoughts and ideas as well. Similarly for phase four it'll be more about the draft general plan document that will be developed and we also will be finalizing the EIR the environmental impact review. So that'll be happening during phase four and in phase five we hope to wrap it all up with a general plan adoption and the EIR adoption. So we'll be doing a number of community presentations commission presentations. We'll be going to City Council hearings as well, all to make sure that the plan is grounded in community sentiment and community ideals and community data as well. So I know that was a lot everyone and again I want to mention that we have this available on the website. I hope that you all have had a chance to take a look at it if not, feel free to do so at your leisure but I want to pause for a moment and just invite any questions or questions on the engagement techniques or activities that I just mentioned. Liza are we getting any questions on that section? Yeah we just have one question coming in so far. The question is will the board game be online? Well the board game be online, yes we have that option. I appreciate that question. So one of the things that we've done in other projects is we actually had it checked out at the library as well. So we'll have both physical sets of the game board to be available for checkout and distribution. We can have sets available at community-based organizations as well. So there will definitely be a physical component of the game that's available but it can also be online as well. We want this to be both high touch and high tech and so we'll provide it in an online format also. But that's a great question. And another question came in and the question is what are the preferred alternative activities going to discuss? Good question. So what are the preferred alternatives? We don't know them just yet because we haven't gotten a sense from the community as to what their general alternatives might be. But we'll use community input and engagement to get a sense of that and I invite Dan to share any other feedback on preferred alternatives. Yeah it's a great question about process. So as you go through a general plan update process, early on in these initial discussions we want to really work with the community to identify opportunities, challenges, key issues. From that we'll develop a series of alternatives. It could be three, it might be four, it might be two depending on how the discussion goes. But the alternatives are going to look at different options for how the city could grow, where things get provided, economic differences to evaluate as well. And through that discussion evaluation, it eventually leads, and it's kind of a technical term, but to a preferred alternative, which is really a combination of maps and diagrams and emerging policies. It's essentially kind of like a draft general plan. And we use that to then do the full environmental analysis to really understand what impacts or issues may or may not be associated with it. So it's still very draft and has the ability to change up until we actually pull it all together in a draft plan. So it's more about a process step but as far as the content of that, the content of the preferred alternative will come out of all of these engagement efforts. All the questions I'm seeing so far. Feel free to send more in. I'll read them off. Great. Thanks, Blaze. Thanks everyone for the questions and comments that are coming in. So the last part of what we want to share related to the CIS or the community involvement strategy is around the metrics of success. And this is something that we wanted to give special attention to in today's conversation, because it's so important that we understand who we're reaching and how well we're doing in reaching those individuals. And so we've outlined four key metrics. And the first one is accessibility. We want to be sure that our involvement process is accessible, that it's welcoming, that it's understandable to everyone who wants to participate. And some of the ways that we'll track this are through surveys, through evaluation forms. As you noted, we have some polling in this conversation today. We'll have some kind of closed out evaluation polls that we ask you all to do as well. And this can happen both in person and online. And it will just get a sense of what's your opinion on the overall accessibility of the general plan update process and how can we do better? We recognize that it's all about continuous improvement. And we look to the community to help us step up our efforts and be even stronger in making the process accessible. So that's the first one I want to mention to you. The second one is around reach. And this is that the community involvement process will involve and inform as many community members as possible. We want to hear from everyone. We want to cast a wide net in this effort and tap into those existing community networks. And we strive to reach all of the households and businesses in the city through our process. And some of the ways that we'll do that are through workshops, through focus groups, through mailers, social media, surveys, radio advertisements and a variety of languages, and many other creative approaches. So we'll use some of these different activities to measure our reach, quote, unquote, in tapping into community perspectives. The third one is diversity. It's really important that we have a diversity of ethnicities, incomes, geographies, age groups, and special needs of the Santa Rosa population that they be involved in this process from the very beginning. And today is just the start of that. And really a continuation of the listening sessions that happened in advance of these sessions here today. And so we'll be tracking and measuring the diversity of our participants, making sure that they reflect the demographic and the geographic composition of Santa Rosa's population. So we have a very clear sense of what the demographics are Santa Rosa, and we'll be doing our best to mirror that in terms of our engagement activities. The last one that I want to call your attention to is around impact. And it's really important to us that you all understand that your input will be influencing and informing decision making your participation, your ideas, your comments. It will all be really important factors in influencing and informing the outcomes of this process. And so we'll be using surveys and other evaluative tools to get a sense of how well you feel your input has informed the overall decision making process. And you can see some of that will be reflected in our engagement summaries, for example, you can see how your input led to different decisions in terms of process and policy decisions. So impact is really key for us. So these are some of the four key metrics that we'll use to indicate our success and our continual evolution in engaging the community as well. So I'm going to pause for just a moment and see if you all have any thought suggestions or ideas around metrics of success. I actually had a couple questions come in around the King engagement and yes, great, let's hear one of them being for saying one of them being your community involvement strategy will be reviewed by city council in August, but you also say it will be work in progress by what process will you be revising strategy as you go along. Who will improve changes and Al. You're a great question. So we want to send the draft CIS before the city council, based on the timeline that we shared earlier. And so this is just to get general agreement and approval of the outline of approaches that we have here in that CIS document. That being said, we also want to be nimble. And if we find that there are needs in phase two or phase three of the process to course correct or to adjust or adapt our approach. We're able to do that. And so we see it as something of a living document, but it does give you a general framework for how we'll be engaging the public. And we'll be working very closely with city staff as well to help articulate what are some of the shifts and changes in the community involvement strategy that we need to make. Great. Thank you. Another question came in. Someone read about the focus groups and strategy. How will participants be chosen. Great question. So that's something that is still under development. We haven't gotten quite there just yet, but we definitely want it to be a process that's equitable that's inclusive, and that incorporates a variety of viewpoints and so we will work with the community to establish the criteria for the focus groups. What are some of the key questions that will pose working very closely with the city staff. We're not quite there yet, but we anticipate having a robust discussion about how we organize the composition of those focus groups and the questions that we pose. Thank you. Another question. Will state lawmakers be engaged on issues that require state involvement, whether through funding or resources in order to better adjust them. I'm going to turn that one over to Dan. I'll start and maybe Andy or others on staff want to add to it as well. There's a lot of integration discussions with other agencies, local level and state level as you go through a general plan update project. In particular, Cal Fire is one state agency that will want to engage through this process best practices policy strategies as well. So we do have included within this process within the contract discussions with regional agencies and state agencies. Ultimately, this is very much a city document city policy document, but making sure we're coordinating with those folks is key, as well as I think coordinating with regional and state elected officials as well on particular topics where the city may want to advocate for different policies or different changes for good reasons. So the long answer of saying yes, the integration with other agencies will be key or discussions I should say other agencies will be key. Again, I'll add just a little bit of specifics there with the housing element, for instance, we are currently involved with the regional discussion on the housing needs analysis and the allocation for housing that we need to account for in the housing element. In addition, law changes at the state level all the time and, and because so the general plan truly must be a living document so for instance the environmental justice guidelines are changing right now as we're speaking and this team, we're very aware of the changes on board they have a lot of capacity and expertise that will help us and staff be able to keep on top of those changes so that when this general plan goes forward is current and relevant. Great. A few more questions comments here. Next question exactly how will you measure whether your participants mirror the diversity of the community. Yeah, good question so one of the things we'll be doing is taking a look at what's the demographic profile currently of Santa Rosa and making sure that we are mirroring that in our outreach and engagement so for many if not most of our outreach will have an opportunity for people to share their demographic profile with us. So for example on surveys will have a piece that of standard questions that we ask and get a sense of how much of that community is mirrored in the demographic profile of the city at large. We find that there are moments or times when we're not so successful in reaching the full demographic representative population. And we can course correct in real time and we can micro target we can go for example we're not hearing enough from youth or seniors or African Americans or Latino community members that we can adjust our outreach activities and that's again I think it's speaking to the nimbleness associated with the community involvement strategy is if we find that there are voices that are not being represented. Then we can go out into the community and make sure that we're targeting those voices in a very real and intentional way. So those are some of the strategies that we use as well have demographic questions associated with each of our outreach activities. And from there we'll analyze and assess where their gaps where we missing voices and from there we can micro target and make sure that those voices are included in the follow up activities. Great. Thank you. And just a couple comments here. We have one comment. Santa Rosa need a advocacy inclusion diversity and equity for all. Another comment loves it in the metrics. I think you should also serve at people who did not participate as well as those who participated. Great. Yes. Great ideas. And as always send in more comments questions as we go along. But for now that we don't have any more. Okay, wonderful. Thanks so much Blaze for reading those off and thanks everyone for sharing those comments and ideas. Let's keep them coming as we move towards the tail end here of our program and so next steps and I would just share this Andy so we wanted to get into let you know that in terms of next steps we have a community conversation coming up it'll be monolingual Spanish speaking conversation scheduled for next Saturday July 25 from 10 to 1130 will have the very same format that we had in today's conversation just that it will be conducted all in Spanish. So if you all have colleagues friends neighbors who you think would be interested in joining that conversation. Please feel free to share the information with them will be doing a full on outreach push to make sure that we have some good representation in that conversation next Saturday as well. We also invite you to share additional ideas or comments on the draft CIS or the community involvement strategy. We want to be sure that it's as robust and creative and intentional as possible and so we'll be presenting that to City Council in early September. So please feel free to share any additional comments or ideas we've already gotten a lot from you today that we can use to maybe flesh things out a bit in the future. Be sure to submit any additional comments to the website or excuse me the email address that you see there GP comment at SRCity.org by July 25 if possible and that will just give us enough time to build in your comments respond to them in a way that let's us make sure that it's representative of your feedback. Andy looks like you want to chime in here. I just wanted to say a plug that we hope to get to the Council in July or August 18 so but please all of you who are watching go to the website. The final confirmed date will be published there and hopefully again it's in August 18 Excellent. Thanks Andy. So the next part here just a couple more next steps and what's coming next in our process. We're also developing an online survey and this will be a chance for community members to share what they see is the opportunities and challenges facing Santa Rosa. We are excited that they'll have a mapping feature and Dan commented a little bit on this at the top of the meeting. It's an opportunity for you to define your neighborhood. We don't want to use old maps or maps from the past that may not be entirely reflective of how community members see and envision their neighborhoods and so we're looking at you all to help define and map your own neighborhoods and also share what are some of the issues assets and opportunities that we can address in the planning process. The first round of community virtual meetings and online events will take place in September we're going to kick those off in September so right around the corner here but we're excited to launch those building on a lot of the input that we've gotten from these community conversations as well. So be on the lookout for more of that coming soon and everyone work near the tail end of our official program here so I'm going to go ahead and speaking of metrics and measuring success and tracking representation we want to give you all a chance to give some feedback here via some additional polling questions so I'm going to launch our next question for us. And the next question we want to ask is did this meeting address the topics you wanted to cover at this meeting address the topics you wanted to cover. Yes or no and no hard feelings but it's good to see that a lot of the responses are coming in as yes I'm going to go ahead and close out this poll here right now in full. So overwhelmingly yes the meeting address it for the individual who listed no I would encourage you to type into the chat. What it was that you wanted to cover that we didn't get to today and we'll be sure to perhaps address it later in our program which we have a free open session to discuss other comments questions and ideas so feel free to type that into the chat. If you would like so as you all can see we had about 95% people say yes we did cover the items that we wanted to in this discussion. One person indicating no for that person we do want to hear from you so go ahead and feel free to type it in the chat to questions comments and we can see if we can address that as we move forward. And let's go to our next question here. Did you have enough time to share your ideas and to ask questions. Did you have enough time. Okay, so I'm going to end the poll here looks like we've heard from a good amount of everyone. And the results are yes 88% felt like you did have enough time to share your ideas and ask questions to people or 13% indicated no. So again if you have questions concerns ideas that we didn't address go ahead and type into the chat and we can cover them today. So rest assured that we will have plenty of time on the remainder of our program if you'd like to share additional comments and ideas. And the last question that we want to put to you is, would you be interested in staying involved in the GPU process. Would you be interested based on all that you heard today. Would you be interested in staying involved in this process. Okay, let's see here. So overwhelmingly the answer is yes I am interested so I think we've done a good job of presenting what the plan will entail and how you can get involved so we appreciate this feedback and we will be looking to you all to stay involved stay connected. As we move through our program and through the process here so as you can see overwhelmingly yes you're interested in being involved, and that's fantastic everyone so we appreciate this input. The good the bad and everything in between. We will be incredibly responsive as we move through the process and look to you to help keep us accountable. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and just shift into letting you know again we want to thank you for participating today it's been a real pleasure to connect. We hope to see you in person very soon but in the meantime hopefully this was a way for you to feel engaged and involved in the GPU process if you have other comments thoughts ideas, you can go ahead and send them to GP comment at srcity.org. You can also go to our website there you can see the website address. It's a bit long right now, but one other thing you can do is you can just simply Google Santa Rosa general plan and you can find our website that way as well. So want to thank you all so much blaze did we get any other comments questions coming in. Yes, thank you yeah we have a few more coming in if we don't have so time would love to let this look to you all get some comments questions answered here. Um, first one. Are we going to be a date for having a American Sign Language workshop or outreach since there's a large non hearing community in Santa Rosa. Good question. Good question. So that's something that we can take under advisement and think about how we can integrate that very thoughtfully into the program here so we can take that and share it with our city colleagues and see when the best time in place would be for something like that but we appreciate that feedback and we'll definitely take that under advisement. Thank you. Another comment question how about using poll functions of zoom to assess those who respond to your outreach within this and other other than Absolutely yes we want to use all of the features of this high tech engagement to collect input and so we can certainly create some poll questions that capture that person's comments there so We did a little bit of that today but we can certainly expand on what the polling features can do to help us get a sense of how well people are connecting to the process. Great another question. If I did permission about these conversations takes a bit of searching is there a way to make these opportunities more visible on the Santa Rosa connection site. Yes well I appreciate that feedback there and we want to make it easy for people to connect so we've done a pretty major push via social media through the website E Blast we also had some radio advertisements as well but what I'm hearing you say is that it needs to be even more accessible and so we can identify some ways to better push out the message that these conversations are happening. I think the idea that you share was around the Santa Rosa connect website and so we can work with our city staff colleagues to tap into that that channel as well. Thank you. Another question regarding community comments and feedback from the community engagement how frequently and how are we going to be sharing what comments we are receiving through the process. Yes yes good question so for example in this community conversation will have a summary that emerges from from this one and the one on Sunday or next Saturday excuse me. And so we will summarize and synthesize all of the input and questions that we get and post that out on the website. So it'll be available pretty closely after the meetings include we want to give enough time for staff to respond to the questions in a thoughtful and detailed way. But we'll post the feedback that we get in a summary document on the website and that will be the case for for most of our engagement activities whether it be surveys whether it be pop up events workshops. We'll always do a thorough process documentation and give a sense of what the questions were what the responses are and then how to stay involved. Thank you we have a few more coming in. We have a. So there's a comment piggybacking on the American American family language. For question before it was saying that there is an Earl Baum Center for the blind in Santa Rosa and that'd be a good resource to connect with further spend engagement. Great. Yes, and then the comment about reach out to them. And a comment about the polling questions being too narrow and we're suggesting that maybe something in the middle between some of those responses to get more accurate answers. Okay, that's helpful feedback. And there's a question. So I think that the answer that is city staff would be in charge of approving mid course corrections they are leading this effort and we are working in close collaboration with them, but it would be up to city staff and I'd you know the venture to guess that their their senior leadership and executive team would also be involved as well. But that would be decisions based upon city discussions. And Jamila, I'll add to your response. The document that's been drafted is something that will hopefully be inclusive of all the tools that we're using. And as we go through three years of various phases of the general plan update and the environmental review. There may be additions to the tools that we don't see today that become that reveal themselves in the future. I don't envision this document would be narrowing the tools but rather potentially expanding the tools as we go forward. And really, as we move forward into each of the phases and we have an element that we're working on, you can refer to that chart that was earlier shown on the screen. We'll look at what works in the past and deploy the tools that will be effectively work in the next phase. So it's going to be dynamic and living that way. And then finally, we will always be reporting out and transparent through the website through meeting processes on on how we are working on engagement and using our metrics of success to be able to judge whether what we're doing is working well and whether we need to do something different. If you have a follow up question that so that can kind of which city staff, which, which body will open the approved the CCIS that community involvement strategy. The community involvement strategy will be presented to council in a report as a recommended plan or approach. So we will be striving for their agreement going forward. Thank you. Another question for the recording of these meetings be published immediately. Good question. So we would like to provide a summary and so we often want to review and reflect on the questions comments that were asked and give time for city staff to provide some thoughtful comments and responses. And so we aim to get them up shortly after the meeting but give us a little bit of time for us to make sure that we're being able to be thoughtful in our responses to the questions that were posed. But in general, we're aiming for about a week or so after the meeting. Thank you. And I have a comment here. I think it's super important to fulfill Santa Rosa's potential and dignity and equality and a healthy environment. Sustainable Development Goals were announced adopted by other, by other countries and we have to do our part here in Santa Rosa for 2030. Okay. Any other comments, please. I believe that captured everything. So a quick follow up to the comment about having this information available. Do want to also just note that as you mentioned earlier, we're recording this discussion and can have this video available pretty quickly. We are also recording a closed captioned text version of this as well. So in addition to the more formal summary respond to comments, we're also recording this discussion as well. Great. So if there are any other questions or comments related to the CIS or to the general plan process, I want to just thank you all so much for making time to be with us here today. And invite you to share any other comments or questions with city staff were available for some informal discussion as well. We have Andy and some of his colleagues on the line with us here today. So if you have other comments or questions you'd like to suppose now would be a great time to do so. If not, you have the access to the email address and to the website. But I want to just give a moment for you all to share any additional feedback with us. Thank you. Thank you. Well, then, stating recruiting more participants would be improved by publishing. By publishing soon. Yeah. And that means the. The recording following up on that. Sure. Yeah, we can get the video recording up pretty soon. So we can work on that. So everyone, if there aren't any other questions or comments for us right now. Thank you for making time to be with us today. I want to thank our city colleagues and the other members of our team who didn't get to see per se, but who are definitely here working behind the scenes. We will get the video recording out fairly soon and look forward to participation in the meeting next Saturday, which will be a Spanish monolingual speaking community conversation. If you have colleagues or friends or neighbors who you think will be interested in that, we'd appreciate your help in spreading the word. We encourage you all to stay involved and stay connected to the process. And with that, thanks so much and enjoy the rest of your Saturday. Thanks everyone really appreciate your time.