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Councilmember McDonald. Here. Councilmember Fleming. Vice Mayor Alvarez. Present. Mayor Rogers. Let the record show that all councilmembers are present with the exception of Mayor Rogers and Councilmember Fleming. Very well. We'll go ahead and move into item 2.0, announcement of closed session items. Today we do have two closed session items both 2.1 and 2.2. Do we have any pre-recorded messages as I see or unless we have someone here present to comment on today's closed session items? No sir, I was asking if you were going to comment on the closed sessions items of the day. Thank you sir. And we do not have any pre-recorded comments for closed session. Very well. With that we will close both public comment and also we'll be back in just a second after our closed session items. Thank you. Good afternoon everyone. Have all instructions been read to the public? Yes they have Vice Mayor. Very well. With that being said, Madam Senator Clerk, can you please call roll? Thank you. Council member Schwedhelm. Here. Councilmember Sawyer. Here. Councilmember McDonald. Here. Councilmember Rogers. Present. Present. Councilmember Fleming. Present. Vice Mayor Alvarez. Present. Mayor Rogers. Thank you. Let the record show that all council members are present. Very well. Thank you. All right there is no study session today and we've already done our roll call so we'll move on to item number five report city attorney if you would like to report on today's closed issue items or closed sessions. Thank you Mr. Vice Mayor. Yes the council met in closed session today on items 2.1 and 2.2 and on each of those gave direction to staff and I have nothing further to report out. Thank you. Thank you. We do not have any proclamations either today and we do not have staff briefing so we'll move right along to item number eight city managers city attorneys reports. Madam city manager would you like to start this off? Thank you Vice Mayor. So yesterday the city of Santa Rosa public art program in conjunction with the national arts program announced the 20th annual national arts program exhibition and competition here in Santa Rosa. Entries will be exhibited at the Finley Community Center. Santa Rosa artists are encouraged to apply online at nationalartistprogram.org forward slash Santa Rosa and registration closes January the 6th. Thank you. Thank you Madam city attorney. Thank you again and we have our monthly litigation report today. We have no settlements over $50,000 to report as I go through the ongoing litigation that's listed and we'll note a couple of settlements that either are either under $500,000 I'm sorry under $50,000 or that have previously been reported. So in terms of the ongoing litigation our numbers are really staying pretty steady. We get cases resolved and we get new cases in. We have a total of 31 cases currently listed on the report although as you'll see five of those cases have been resolved. Some of them are just waiting for the final paperwork to go through. In terms of litigation we have two receiverships both are which are either resolved or close to being resolved and I want to note this includes the Visini property that was a notorious drug house that had been in existence for many years and that has that property has now been fully cleared and we heard just last week that the property has now been sold. So we're very pleased with that result. The other receivership property has also been cleared and sold and all that remains in that case is a determination of the fees and costs. So for receiverships we're in very good shape. We have 11 general litigation matters. The Apigee Gardens is still listed but that was recently settled and previously reported out and that settlement was a little over $50,000. We have 11 personal entry cases listed and again three of those have settled. Two were settled at no cost to the city. One was settled for $7,500. We have four police cases listed and one of those matters has been resolved with the court has granted the city's a motion to dismiss so that case is completed. And that grant of dismissal was just two weeks ago so that was very good news as well. Three RIDA mandate cases are still on the list but again one has been resolved. That is the Apigee Gardens Public Records Act case that I previously reported out and that settlement was just under $45,000. Again previously reported and then we've received two new claims in the past month and we are continuing on. We have a number cases set for trial in the coming months and we have some a couple of very large cases that we're working on. So we're keeping busy and as I always remind council this is not a complete list of all the litigation matters in our office. In addition to this list we have all of our code enforcement cases, the dog animal control cases, the weapons cases, pitches motions and all of those other similar kinds of proceedings so but this is the more this is our general litigation report so thanks happy to answer if you have any questions. Thank you both. Council do we have any questions for either city manager or city attorney today? Seeing none from the council is there anyone here in the public or via phone or zoom that wishes to make a comment on item 8.1 today? Do we have any pre-recorded messages? We do not have any pre-recorded messages for this item. Very well we'll go ahead and close public comment and move on to item 9.0 statements of exception by any of my fellow council members today. Seeing none we will go ahead and move on to item 10.0. Mayor council members reports who would like to start that today? Council Member Rogers. Thank you Vice Mayor Alvarez. So I just had a few things on November 14th which was yesterday. It was the Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day and many of our student staff and family members around the city walk to school to celebrate diversity in our schools and to remember Ruby Bridges and if you do not know on November 14th 1960 at the age of six Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into the elementary schools in the south. So this was a big thing and really proud of all the staff in the schools that were able to do this and the parents that helped them to pull it off. So also on November 11th and 12th we pulled off a really nice Veterans two-day event. So I just wanted to give a couple thank yous. Thank you to the residents in Santa Rosa and surrounding cities for showing up and showing our veterans some love this weekend. A special thanks to the city of Santa Rosa, our city manager, our assistant city manager, whose team did a wonderful job. So thank you so much assistant city manager. Matt Jensen, Andre Rogers, Katie, capture photography, Caroline and Allie from the chamber helped to organize the event. Starbucks on both 4th Street and Stony Point provided coffee for the event. Our Santa Rosa police honor guard participated and did an awesome job. So thank you to them congressman Mike Thompson's office, the Redwood Empire Food Bank we partnered with to do a successful food drive and all of our local veteran organizations that participated. Thank you for making it a really special couple of days and I hope that this is just the beginning and we will be able to keep it up for years to come. And we also had a special project that we were able to complete at the Palms that could not have happened without sponsorship from Heart and Armor. So it was really nice and it was a lot of fun and I'm just hoping that it can get bigger and get more participation. Thank you. Absolutely. Anyone else? Councilman McDonald? Thank you. So a couple things that I was able to do the last few weeks was meet with board of directors from save our Bennett Valley golf course and had lunch with them out at Bennett Valley to hear some of their concerns around the golf course and some of the things that they'd like to do with Galvin Park and so I really appreciate the opportunity to go out and meet with them. I was able to attend the Locien event at the Luther Burbank Center which was a great event celebrating Dia de los Muertos and so it was really well done. I just want to do a shout out to Locien and for all that they're doing for their events to uplift our Latino community. I went to a mixer at the railroad square businesses at 6th Street Playhouse and so I just want to say thanks to all of those businesses in railroad square that are doing a lot to support their businesses and some of the things that we're doing within the city to work with them. I attended my first open government task force and Chair Rogers might want to report out on some of that that we went over during that or I'm happy to and want to say thank you to her for her leading the way on the Veterans Day events that I was able to attend and congratulations to Dwayne DeWitt for his acknowledgement of a congressional honor. I really thought that was special. He was almost getting hit by a car at that time but we did honor you in those moments Dwayne so I just want to say congratulations for that. I was happy to be there and see that happen. And then last but not least the Park a Month event was at Doyle Park this this month and I was able to attend that so thank you to Parks for doing that but then also I wanted to say thank you to Highway 101 Panda Express. It was a group of community members from those businesses that came that day and they did the entire baseball field to make sure that it stays play ready for not only our kids but our baseball team so I just wanted to do a shout out to them and thank you for coming to support that event. Thank you Council Member. Yes Council Member Rogers. Sorry I'm back. So on November 7th the WAC met the Water Advisory Committee and we had a presentation from Sonoma Water staff and they provided the year end update for 21-22 budget. Water deliveries are 4% below budget due to drought revenue and expenditures were also less than budgeted and Sonoma Water staff also provided an update on preparations for the next fiscal year budget. And a draft will be provided to the Technical Advisory Committee very soon. Sonoma Water staff provided a water supply update also noting that Lake Sonoma is the lowest level recorded for this time of year and Sonoma Water is filing another temporary urgency change petition with the state to continue reduced minimum and streams flow requirements and is continuing drought outreach messaging because we are still in a drought. And an update on the Potter Valley project was provided PG&E is in month 3 of their 30 month license surrender process and is soliciting for consultants to develop the surrender application and decommissioning plan. Sonoma Water staff presented on the schedule and process for updating their local hazard mitigation plan. The last plan was completed in 2018. This update will build on the 2018 plan as well as include additional projects. A draft of the plan will be available for review in spring of 2023. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? On my behalf, I want to thank all the candidates who ran our local races. As far as I'm concerned, they're all victorious. It's because of their willingness, their bravery to share their ideas and concerns that our democratic process continues to thrive. And by debt of gratitude should be shown to each and every one of them. Thank you. With that being said, let's go ahead and open public comment. Senior Dwayne DeWitt, I will gladly start with you, sir. Hello, sir. My name is Dwayne DeWitt. I'm from Roseland. I wanted to thank all the council members that came to Veterans Day and especially be recognized that the members of the American Legion Post-21 and the Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 223, were forever grateful for your help to keep this event going and to prepare for next year already. It was mentioned you like to keep these things going. Next year is the 70th year of the peace truce and the Korean War. And there were veterans at our event here on the 11th from World War II and Korean War. So one of the things that was most appreciated by the folks who were there was how kind council member Natalie Rogers was to be the master of ceremonies, if you will, and to have each of those people that she recognized get an opportunity to speak and be there. Also the police department's honor guard. That was a quite moving presentation that they did. They're very skilled and it was definitely something that many people were glad they were there on such a day. So I'm not going to use up a lot of your time. Just want to say that folks are really appreciative of all you're doing to recognize the veterans in our community that basically don't take a political stance per se, but make a point of saying that there's balance in our country. Our republic is a good place and participatory democracy is a good thing to have. No matter which sides you take on different issues, it's always nice to know that at least in our land, we have people who will stand up to make sure that our constitution is up held. There are currently countries around the globe that are facing all kinds of problems. And yet here we have balance and we have an opportunity to go forward, especially peacefully after the election that was just held. So thank you once again for your service that you step up and you serve our community and all of your staff members also, Ms. Smith and the assistant city managers, both of you there. All the best to you all. And I look forward to seeing you later this evening. Bye now. Thank you, sir. Is there, yes, sir, please, if you'd like to approach the podium? Yes, they fear of public speaking, but I'll try and make this fast. Good afternoon, council members. My name is Roger Montgomery. I'm a resident of Santa Rosa and an advocate for homeless people. I wish to thank you for implementing homeless solutions, strategic plan, in response, downtown street teams and all the other programs you have a place to help our homeless population. Due to a disability, I was homeless in the 90s, too. I was reminiscing about those days with a friend and the thought came to me becoming champion for the homeless. What does that mean? I asked myself, I had to Google it to learn the means to speak up on behalf of others. Thinking the thought was of divine inspiration. I realized, sure, I can advocate for them. I have personal experience in all areas homeless people face today. First, I reintroduced the husband cart, the bicycle trailer I invented that a person can sleep on that project is still on the drying board. Then a friend and I came up with a plan where some people could work, maintain our forest, then learn there's already California Conservation Corps doing that. I realized how they get in short supply would really help these people with jobs. I figured I could donate the funds to sponsor one person a month to help them with resume haircut, clothes, everything needed for them to secure a job. Then I found job link already up and running doing the same thing. So I begin passing out their flyers. Folks are reluctant to seek employment because of housing issues and all the needs associated with holding down a job. Would it be possible for the city of Santa Rosa and your partners to supply their needs? You have showers tokens for laundry could be obtained. You have comp encampments where people are housed. Sonoma County actually kindness passed out 100 meals a week. We could maybe we could work something out with them for helping our project. Another concern near to my heart is people experiencing mental illness. True, you allow them to make up their own mind concerning medications, but most don't know what is best for themselves. And they are missing out on quality of life. Education is key to helping people in mental health challenges, understand why medication is helpful in their treatment. Most people won't understand why and how medication can change your lives until they are taught how meds can help balance their thinking, help them confront their addictions and find recovery. These are a few of my views to aid in finding the solution to our homeless crisis and tend to become more involved in some of the services you have in place in the coming year. Thank you. God bless. Thank you, sir. Sir, I believe your comments were more directed to our item 14.1 today, which is for the homeless issue that we'll be speaking about, but I definitely took down some of your questions and I will be asking the staff then. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Is there anyone else in chambers that wishes to make a comment on item 10.1 today? Seeing no more or none in the chambers. Do we have any prerecorded messages? We do not have any messages for this item. Very well. We'll go ahead and close public comment on item 10.1 and move on to item 11. Approval minutes, seeing that we have none. We'll go ahead and move on to item 12. City manager, would you like to read those off first, please? And thank you. Item 12.1 is a resolution, approval of third amendment to general service agreement number F002035, a one year extension and increase in compensation with bright viewed landscape services, Inc., doing business as signature coast holdings LLC. And item 12.2 is a resolution, approval of public works contract with Cone, Inc., for modernization of the elevators in garage 12 located at 555 First Street. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any questions or any items that need to be pulled today? Council Member? Yes, I'd like to pull item 12.1, please. Very well. Do we have any questions from council before we open public comment on either 12.1 or 12.2? Do you have questions or would you like to add them to be pulled? I pulled the item, but I can ask the questions and then Tom can put them on the floor. Do you want to have Tom put the motion on the floor to approve 12.2 and then go back to 12.1 after my questions are answered? If you answer your question and it's not satisfied, I'd be more than happy to pull that item for the discussion. I have a few questions. Very well. Please. Item 12.1 then. So a couple of things that I noticed on this particular contract was it came to us right before it needed to be approved. So I'd like to see us maybe start a process where contracts that are coming before council come up with a bit more lead time. And the reason being is that on consent items, if we're able to get these from staff in advance and ask questions or give direction from council, we'd have an opportunity to, and it wouldn't be so tight up on that timeline of approval. So I'd appreciate that in the future if we can work towards that. And then a couple other things that I noticed is as the city has brought contracts forward, I've noticed that we'd sometimes have first amendment, second amendment, third amendment on this particular contract tonight. But I've seen us to do as far as nine amendments on some of our contracts coming before council. So as we move forward, I'd like to be able to have a better fiscal analysis on our contracts for several different reasons. One, I think that during COVID it made sense that we were approving contracts because it was difficult to get folks in house to do some of the services. But as I look at contracts, specifically this one, I do have some questions around potentially being able to have in house services. So my first question on this would be, this is the third amendment to the contract. Can you tell me the original contract amount? Do you have that information? Can you promote Joe Shivani, please? We'll promote him. We have promoted James Castro for this also as he's listed as the person. And Joe Shivani has been promoted. Let me see. Good evening, Vice Mayor Alvarez, members of the council. Councilmember McDonald, to answer your question, I would have to refer to our finance team for the original, you're looking for the original contract amount. Yes, sir. So I don't have that dollar amount in front of me. I would have to get that from our finance team. Okay. Could you tell me the percentage of the increase of the contract over the last three years, which would be difficult to do if you don't have the original contract amount in front of you? So that's something you could get back to me on. But those would be consistent with questions that I would want to know whether it's this item or future items that are brought before council if you don't mind. And then the other question that I have is have we done any fiscal analysis on what we would have paid to employees in-house over the last three years for these services, including an unfunded liability? So let me take that question. We are actually working through that right now. For this particular contract, what's important for me is before we decide to bring individuals in-house is to do a complete site inventory assessment. So I want to know how many miles, how many linear feet need to be maintained. Are they alleys? Are they bridges? Are they islands? Are they right-of-ways? Are they steps? Are they walls? Where are the actual sites located? Are we going to do trimming? Are we going to do mowing? Are we going to do hedging? And to that part, then we would go back and then determine how much labor hours need to be allocated in order to maintain the level of service that we would like. How many passes need to be made in each area? And actually until I have that actual thorough assessment, I think right now that's the reason why we're going to continue to go with this contract because I think it's important that we do that actual assessment because you need to know exactly what types of equipment that you need to buy. Not even personnel, but the equipment as well. And given the state of our mowing and our medians and our right-of-ways, I would like to do this right and not just kind of half bake it and say, okay, we need five employees. I want a true site assessment, understanding the miles and the linear feet that we need to maintain before we move forward. But Joe, do you have any analysis in front of you? No, I don't have analysis in front of me. It does look like I do have the original contract amount, if that's helpful, but I don't have that dollar analysis in front of me. So I guess to that end, my understanding of what this contract is, is a mowing edge contract and it's not fully vetted to all of the services that you're talking about, City Manager. So I appreciate doing a thorough analysis of everything that needs to be addressed in the City of Santa Rosa. And so to that end, will there be another contract coming forward about the medians and the other items that you listed in your statement? And when will Council see that so that we're aware that when we approve this, it's only one portion, perhaps, of the contract that actually is getting approved with City? Thank you for the question. We are actually working towards a short-term and a long-term assessment on how we're going to handle the green space locations in our City. So I'm certain that something will be coming back to you and we're creating actually some volunteer programs as well to help us move forward with maintenance. Thanks. Okay, so just a couple more things, Joe, when you go back and get those numbers is I'd like to also know what the analysis on PERS was because I am often told that it's the unfunded liability that prevents us from increasing staff within the City. So I know that this year PERS may be high but I'd like an average of what PERS has been over the last say five to ten years and I think that's important for decision-making for the City for fiscal solvency so that we're aware of what we're actually approving here. And then also there seems to be a pretty hefty increase to the contract and while I understand that construction costs have gone up, I would like us to keep an eye on that and the reason being is as we continue to increase contract costs, I think that might be offset by the cost of an unfunded liability. If a contract's going up 10-12 percent but an unfunded liability is roughly the same then we would be breaking even but we would have in-house people being able to do our own work. So I'm comfortable doing this contract tonight with the caveat of all of my other questions being answered in the future and really taking a stronger look at all of our contracts as they come before council because I do think we have an opportunity for growth in our workforce and I think that that provides opportunity for growth in as a city. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member McDonnell, I do have some of those original numbers if you are interested in them now. Yes, thank you. So the original contract was a three-year contract for 3,234,168. This contract I will mention is it's about an eight-eight-and-a-half percent increase over what it was the cost for this particular service on the previous award. Thank you. Council Member McDonnell, are you comfortable moving forward with the questions that have been answered? Yes, I'll move forward and if Tom wants to put the motion on the floor. Very well. Before that happens we'll go ahead and open items 12 consent items for public comment seeing Mr. Dwayne Dwayne moving towards the podium. If I could ask that all public speakers raise the podium and put the mic as close to your mouth as possible. We have some folks who are listening online and cannot hear your comments. Thank you. I do not want to. Hello, my name is Dwayne DeWitt. I'm from Roseland. I would like you to continue this item. I had looked at it and thought that it was too expensive. Back in the day the city did not approve anything over a hundred thousand dollar contract unless it was discussed by the council at length. It's changed over the years obviously and now you can perhaps look at like a million like it's not a lot but a million dollars a year contract is a lot. I was very heartened to hear the city manager say that she's looking into volunteer programs that might help with our green space infrastructure and our programs. The North Coast Conservation Corps is a really good organization helping youth here in our community get work experience and the opportunity to become involved in gainful employment as they move forward. This contract is to affirm out of Napa. It's not even local. We need to be helping our local youth get jobs in these types of activities. It wouldn't be a problem for you to continue this item until you get all of the information from city staff. You don't have to rush ahead on this. Winter's coming. It's going to be cold out there. Not a lot of trimming is going to be going on. This is an opportunity for Miss McDonald which she has just pointed out she wants to have stronger fiscal oversight on this to take the opportunity to say an eight percent raise might be too much. I'm really concerned about this because we've gotten into this approach during the COVID times that oh we'll just go with what we got whatever staff said boom we're done. This is an opportunity here to stop this approach and get it so we have more in-house workers on this type of activity and at the same time help our volunteers out there these nonprofit organizations. There's a number of them that are trying to do things for what the mayor of Santa Rosa says is a priority. Resiliency and sustainability. He even says that we have a climate action plan. So if we have such a thing this should be part and parcel of how we're handling it. This is the green infrastructure. This is the type of thing in which we can begin to train our young people to prepare for their future and have them get gainful employment with firms here in Santa Rosa. Not somebody from Napa. No offense to the wine country over there but I like our wine country over here and I believe Santa Rosa's young people and youth could step up and make our place just as nice and green as anywhere else in the entire nation. Green infrastructure is a very important thing especially was mentioned earlier about the drought and water so creeks water retention all kinds of good things could happen Thank you kindly for your time. Thank you. Is there anyone in chambers that wishes to speak on Consent Calendar today? Seeing none Deputy City Clerk are there any recorded messages? There are no recorded messages for this item. And for those watching it's either start nine if you're calling in or the raise hand feature should be should you be joining us via Zoom? Britain let's bring it back to City Council Are there any questions on our Consent Item Seeing none Council Member Schroedham I appreciate you taking the Consent Calendar today and if you wish to proceed. Thank you Mr. Vice Mayor I'd move that Consent Items 12.1 and 12.2 and wave further into the text. Second. We have a motion by Council Member Schroedham and second by Council Member Rogers Madam City Clerk if you wish to call vote. Thank you. Council Member Schroedham I Council Member Sawyer I Council Member Rogers I Council Member McDonald I Council Member Fleming I Vice Mayor Alvarez I Mayor Rogers I That motion passes with seven ayes. Thank you. We'll go ahead and move on to Item number 13 public comment on non-agenda matters. This is an opportunity for folks who speak on items that are within the City of Santa Rosa's business but not on the agenda tonight. Seeing Mr. Duane DeWitt approach the podium. Thank you sir my name is Duane DeWitt I'm from Roseland. I wanted to thank you for all the efforts that are going forward on your part Mr. Vice Mayor as you're trying to help Roseland get a balance with the rest of the City of Santa Rosa. One of the things that veterans groups out in that area have been working on for years is the opportunity to have what we call the southwest greenway and a veteran's trail along that greenway to the south side of Roseland Creek. We've also asked to have a veteran's grove and a veteran's healing garden. Congressman Mike Thompson turned in a letter of support for those efforts over four years ago. The City Manager at that time held on to it but it was then passed forward to the Council. We've given the new City Manager a copy of that letter and the thing that we would like to see happen is that you allow the community members out there the youth at that Roseland Creek Elementary School and the Roseland University Prep High School who've been going out into the area near Roseland Creek already to interact with the city's staff that handle the creeks. You have a creek stewardship program and we'd like to have that be a collaborative and cooperative effort in which the veterans groups could also be working. My Vietnam veterans of America Chapter 223 built a veteran's trail at Annadel Park 20 years ago. We know how to do these things. We could get this done and we're not trying to get any money from any agency. We're volunteering and that's something we'd like to see be allowed to go forward. The dilemma that we run into frequently is the city has a policy of risk aversion if you will. They're more concerned about liability and maintenance than perhaps what the community might need at the time. So we want to thank you because the city in the past did recognize that Burbank Avenue was such a nice area. It should be a scenic road and that still is stipulated in various city documents. What we would hope now as construction is going forward out there in other areas that the city staff would begin to interact with the community to help Roseland. We know you're quite busy now helping Bellevue to the south and we understand that you want things to happen down in Bellevue. But we need to get things done up in Roseland and we've been having this on the burner for decades and it's always been staff that's kept it from going forward. Now that you have a new management team we're hoping that the new city manager will talk to the two assistant city managers there and say yes let's get a meeting going out there with these people and get that Roseland Veterans Trail and that southwest greenway. Thank you sir. Is there anyone in chambers that wishes to make a comment on non-agenda items tonight? Seeing none Madam Deputy City Clerk are there any pre-quarter messages or people on Zoom who wish to participate? We have one caller to participate on Zoom. Very well. Eric Frazier. Thank you very much. Vice Mayor Alvarez hello and the rest of the council hello. Thank you very much for entertaining my comments. Perhaps I will not need the whole three minutes. Clearly it's very exciting here in the Fourth District when it comes to the recent election nip and tuck. But one thing is really clear in that nobody is going to be elected with a majority of the vote. And it's really important that that strong consensus strong majority happen. And one of the ways that that could have been achieved is through rank choice voting. And so I hope that we still considered to keep that alive because I think it's very very important when you have and you want to attract multiple quality candidates to a contest so that their ideas can be heard and shared. And so I think that's how we can elevate ourselves is by having educated voters look at their first and second choices and apparently also their third choices so that we can end up with the majority of consensus for our representative. The other thing I wanted to address of course is that oh the dumpster fire called the short term rental urgency ordinances yesterday was a community meeting. It had to be classily expensive because of the number of planning staff there. You wonder if there's a joke as to how many it takes to screw in a light bulb perhaps because the STR ordinance is just way off track. The abuses into people's rights and process could have been adjusted and should have been adjusted by now. But no. And while it is important that people come together and talk and that's great to foster that environment it doesn't help when there's a layer of storytelling and fiction that permeates the proceedings that bubbles up from staff. That's really it's not going to stand the test of time and it's not really the way to make regulations because they won't be enduring unless they're based on fact. And experience. So it's a heavily defective process still have very expensive. And I don't think anybody is satisfied. You guys really got over your skis. What a mess. Perhaps you need to not have your current staff handle it and have bring in somebody that could do this more efficiently effectively and listen to the stakeholders. Thank you. I didn't need all my time but thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Frazier. Are there any more callers or pre-recorded messages? No callers and no recorded messages for this item. Thank you. With that we will close public comment on how non-agenda matters and move on to item 14.1 Homelessness Solution Strategic Plan. Item 14.1 is the Homeless Solution Strategic Plan. Kelly Kaikendal will leave the discussion. Thank you. Thank you City Manager. Good I guess it's evening by now. Vice Mayor Alvarez and members of the council I will be presenting about our Homelessness Solution Strategic Plan. I want to introduce virtually Tracy Bennett and Megan Kurthev-Shatz. They're joining us from Focus Strategies the consultant that we worked with to develop the plan. So they're here virtually to answer any questions that you might have at the end of my presentation. Next slide please. If we could up can we place 15.1 on ice for just a second seeing that this is going to be a lengthy presentation more than likely. I would like to go ahead and and take a public hearing prior and even before the public hearing if we could uh no actually we'll do the public comments on item 17 after our item 15 please. So let's commence here and I'm sorry about that Kelly we'll commence with item 15.1 public hearings. Excuse me item 15.1 is a public hearing Walnut Court partition for addition to the Talbot area residential permit parking zone parking manager Chad Hedge will lead the discussion. Thank you. Good evening council and city manager my name is Chad Hedge I am the parking manager tonight's item is public hearing on the Walnut Court petition for the addition to the Talbot area residential permit parking zone. Next slide please. So Walnut Court currently has time limited parking of two hours and it's been there for quite a few years Monday through Friday's 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. They currently are not part of the residential permit program and once again city code section 11-44050 has established the process for designating permit zones. Next slide please. A petition was received from the residents of Walnut Court to be included in the Talbot area residential permit parking zone and then so the residents who opt into the program can purchase permits that will exempt them from the current time limits. Next slide please. We have different zones in the yellow is the current Talbot zone and in the red box is where Walnut Court will be added into the zone and it just happened to be the closest zone that made sense for our numbers. Next slide please. So approval of this item will provide a relief to the residents allowing the park beyond the posted time limits that are currently on the street and the two hour time limits that are there will continue to serve as a deterrent for long-term spillover parking freeing up that parking space for the residents. Next slide please. It is recommended by the finest department that council by resolution approve the Walnut Court petition to be included in the Talbot area residential permit parking program. Next question. That's all I have. If there's no questions. Thank you. Councilor are there any questions in regards to public hearing 15.1 today? Council Member McDonnell. I just have one question about the permit process. Is the permit given to a resident or would it be registered to a car? Both. So in order to get the permit we registered to a vehicle but the person has to prove that they live or rent at that address via a bill lease agreement or something that we can demonstrate they live there. And then my second question would be if someone was to come and visit a resident and wanted to have access to parking on that street would they need to have an additional permit that they could apply for to be able to be used or is it limited to just certain hours that somebody could park there. I just was thinking more along some of the things I've seen in San Francisco or some of the things I've seen in Sacramento for parking in front of residences. Of course. Thank you for the question. So the permit program we have guest permits that can be issued out. We have contractor permits that can be issued out. We have landlord permits that can be issued out. So there are opportunities for multiple benefits in this program. Thank you. Council Member Schwal. Thank you Mr. Vice Mayor. Regarding the petition I didn't there wasn't the petition was not attached to our staff to the staff report. Is there any verification of residency with the petition? Yes. So we had 15 of the 25 residents on that street sign the petition and we did verify that the 15 residents who signed the petition were actually residents on that street. And that's what equals the minimum threshold for this to move forward. Correct. We hit 60% with the 15 out of 25. Okay. And then is it accurate? I think I read in the staff report two folks attended the informational meeting. Correct. Correct. We did send out emails. We sent out U.S. mail. We posted public public hearing notice on the third. And so I'm not sure if we're going to get some more responses tonight but only two responded. And with that informational meeting where was that was it virtual or did it take place someplace? It was virtual. It was virtual. Great. Thanks. Of course. Are there any additional questions from Council? Seeing none let's go ahead and open up public comment on item 15.1. If there's anyone in the in the chambers that wishes to speak on item 15.1 please stand and approach the podium. Mayor. I'm sorry. Yes, sir. It's already interrupted. Is it important to or is it the time we would open the public hearing or after Madam City Attorney? Yes. If you could formally open the public hearing that would be great. Oh, I thought I did. I'm sorry. Let's go ahead and open the public. Say that one more time, sir. Open the public hearing. Oh, this is this is when I get to use this thing. Open the public hearing at 523. Thank you for the assistance both. Now that the public hearing is open, now we can commence with with the public comments. All right. Is anyone in the chambers that wish to speak on item 15.1? Seeing none of the chambers, do we have any pre-recorded messages tonight? We have no messages for this item. Very well. With that being said, we will close the public comment section and bring it back to council. Council, are there any further questions for item 15.1 tonight? Seeing none, I believe council member McDonald, this is your item. Thank you. I move by resolution of the council of the city of Santa Rosa to approve addition of Walnut Court to the Talbot area residential permit parking zone and waive further reading of the text. Second. We have a motion by council member McDonald. I believe the second came in from council member Sawyer. Madam city clerk, can we have a vote? Yes, thank you. Council member Schwedhelm. Hi. Council member Sawyer. Hi. Council member Rogers. Hi. Council member McDonald. Hi. Council member Fleming. Hi. Vice mayor Alvarez. Hi. Mayor Rogers. Thank you. That motion passes with seven ayes. Very well. We are done with item 15.1 and we'll proceed to item to item 15.2 also a public hearing. Assistant city manager, I believe. Thank you, vice mayor. Item 15.2 is a public hearing code adoption and amendments to the California building and fire codes. City code chapter 18. And madam city clerk, if you could promote Jesse Oswald and assistant fire marshal Mike Johnson. Yes, they've been promoted. Good evening. Vice mayor Alvarez, council members Jesse Oswald, chief building official at the city Santa Rosa here. And we also have online with us assistant fire marshal Mike Johnson along with the system chief building official Lou Kirk. And also I'm sure waiting in the wings is fire marshal Paul Lohanfall. So tonight we have our second reading for the adoption of the California building and fire codes where we've already introduced the at the first reading on November 1st. And tonight we'll run through the same same presentation to get on the record next slide please. So as we see here, the building standards commission in California publishes their codes every three years building and fire building and fire codes are included in these publications. 2022 the California code of regulations was published in on July 1st, giving local jurisdictions a chance to get their eyes on it and make amendments. The after action is that the effective date of this new code will be January 1st 2023. Next slide please. So we have California code regulations there are parts one through 12 that there's a large bank of books. The building standards are statewide standards for all public and private building construction in California. Includes building code, fire code, plumbing code, mechanical code in the list as you see here, green code, energy code. And these are updated every three years as we mentioned. And the standards commission allows us to go through these and amend these regulations. We can never amend to a lower standard required by the state. So our local amendments would be more stringent than the state requirements. Next slide please. The 2022 adoption edition was adopted on January 1st of this year, and like we discussed published in July, we have until January 1st of 2023 to get the adoption done, but we do need that 30 day on the 31st day lead time to ensure we are in effect January 1st. So our teams have collaborated internally and with our external peer organizations to develop the ordinances and local amendments specific to the city of Santa Rosa. Planning and economic development provided an update to the Climate Action Subcommittee on October 12th for the all electric only re-adoption. Next slide please. So as I mentioned, some collaboration that occurred this year as which does occur when we do these cut adoptions on this three year cycle. We worked with our local Redwood Empire Association of Code Officials, Sonoma County Fire Prevention Officers, building officials from jurisdictions like Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and other surrounding jurisdictions all participated in our in our discussions through the region to remain as much consistency as possible, although just jurisdictions do have their own needs specifically. We do try to ensure that we're all on the same page when moving forward with these adoptions. Next slide please. Here's a list of some of the participants this code cycle that we worked with in our communications that started back in July to come to this wonderful time of a full-fledged document ready for adoption. Next slide please. So some examples of ordinances we've recognized opportunities to protect not just our newly built communities and structures but existing communities and a focus was on dangers of wildfire obviously through construction standards and to provide the ability for maintenance and reduction of hazardous vegetation following our vegetation reduction in management principles that continue to grow as we gain more knowledge and effectiveness of those. The ordinance also identified and addressed known hazards such as needing multiple points of access for developments and also the the cannabis industry does continue to evolve. So we addressed additional standards for those moving forward along with some other items addressing fire alarm maintenance requirements, water supply again, most of these are focusing on increasing and maintaining vigilance and standards for fire protection. Next slide please. So we're going to backtrack a little bit Santa Rosa's all electric only requirement, some background on this in 2019 City Council adopted the all electric only ordinance and that was targeted at what we not we the code calls low rise residential which is residential construction of three stories or less and at that time because it was very new especially in the North Bay we did lead the way council chose to adopt a standalone ordinance based on the California energy code and that was the accepted approach at the time for the new what are called reach codes. So moving forward well let me back up a little bit during that adoption three years ago the California Energy Commission required the execution of a cost effectiveness study to justify the approach to ensure that cost was not a prohibitive factor in going all electric only. So with this new code cycle California Energy Commission has determined that reach code adoptions for decarbonization do not require this cost effectiveness study. So the 2022 codes did not accompany a cost affecting the study with with our adoption as they now land in a new section of the code which is the California green building standards code which most of us know as the Cal Green code. So with that we propose moving the requirement which is much more simplified into the California green green code next slide please. So lessons learned in the past three years with the all electric only code here locally in Santa Rosa approved effective with new housing starts without fuel gas connection with approximately 1000 or more new units that have been constructed without a gas connection but they've either been constructed or are under construction. So the permitting we have permitted approximately that many 1000 units. The current adoption that we are under at this time exempts accessory dwelling units. This is a realistic approach and in somewhat matches the state approach to accessory dwelling units as they typically are developed on existing parcels with existing services but we do have a caveat to that that new standalone full new construction ADUs do have to meet the all electric only requirement as in our current code and we are proposing that in the upcoming adoption we do have that same requirement brand new construction meet that requirement. Some exemptions that follow some of the state law that has followed our all electric only code is one exemption proposed as reconstructed buildings lost in a disaster calamity such as our recovery efforts. That was codified by the governor in 2019 and we were able to carry that forward with the disaster recoveries for the Tubbs nuns fire and then council did choose to elect that same exemption for the glass fire here locally. So we're proposing to continue that exemption essentially for those disaster recoveries. One additional exemption we're proposing is that if if infrastructure exists on a parcel and the owner would be required to remove that infrastructure at their cost which we're learning from PG&E is a reality that we would want to exempt that that parcel meaning picture as an example a home lost downtown Santa Rosa wasn't part of a declared disaster that home had infrastructure in place for electricity and natural gas and if we were to require them to go all electric only PG&E would require the removal of the gas infrastructure and likely require the upgrade of the electric infrastructure whereas if they rebuilt the home back to original requirements other than meeting current energy efficiency they would not have to remove those at their cost and the item number three is not part of the actual ordinance we struck it from the the actual ordinance so it's meant to be removed from this this presentation next slide please so before we go on to some of the elements that we work closely with our fire marshal local fire department some data in facts that Mayor Rogers at the climate action subcommittee asked for that 1,000 units of all electric only that are through the within or through the permit process here in Santa Rosa essentially equates to 2,400 metric tons of CO2 what they call equivalent savings so to speak in other words had those thousand homes been dual fuel and have have fuel they would have emitted an additional 2,400 metric tons therefore we saved so to speak that much emissions over the period just by those thousand units so we continue to gain see significant gains in reductions I shouldn't say gains in reductions in emissions CO2 wise so moving on to the home hardening requirements these are to specifically address our local needs for our wildland urban interface a lot of us like to call it the wooey additions and alterations to buildings within the wildland urban interface would need to meet the requirements of what are shown here the california building code chapter 7a or the california residential code section r337 those requirements are typically in base code only applied to new buildings here we wanted to find a path to increase the safety on when we're doing additions and alterations within the wildland urban urban interface also fences attached to buildings in the wildland urban interface to be fire-resistant construct construction for the first five feet meaning that connection to the house typically we have those those yard fences that connect to the house we're actually witnessed as being a wick so to speak that carried fire from say an outer area of a property and literally carried fire to dwellings in many times fire burned on say a wooden fence under an overhang or an eve and started the eve area on fire and many many resulted in total losses of the homes re-roofing within the wildland urban interface is to be of class A which is the higher highest fire resistivity wood excuse me roofing materials are and we've also carried that throughout the entirety of Santa Rosa proper within our city limits that all re-roofs have to meet this requirement and that was another lesson learned due to what's called cast-off in those embers and things being cast-off in in advance of the fire that are either still on fire or can create ignition down the road and wood shingles and shakes are now disallowed within the wildland urban interface when a re-roof occurs so they cannot be reinstalled with with those materials next slide please we also moved forward a previous adoption for some emergency housing that housing and community development in California had adopted pre-2019 adoption they allow for optional temporary emergency housing measures that give very specific and helpful guidelines for development of emergency housing such as even tents, RVs, tiny homes and those things so those are embedded in the code we we did move those forward again with this proposed adoption it gives us those options for additional emergency housing when needed next slide please so next steps the final document that we prepared was peer-reviewed by fire agencies as well as the other agencies that we've discussed throughout the presentation much of the final language has been incorporated with other agencies in our in our region and we are comfortable with being able to say we have done that collaboration and we are all like-minded in our approaches to the to the adoptions on November 1st was the introduction and first reading of the ordinances and then today we have our second public hearing for the adoption of the ordinances to become effective January 1st 2023 next slide please before I move to the recommendation we did discover an error a very simple clerical error I'd like to read into the record if I may simply stating that city code section 18-20.302.4 number one sub number 1.5 we want to change the distance identified into the parentheses of that statement to 14 feet instead of 13 feet now with the recommendation it's recommended by the fire department and the planning and economic development department that the council one adopt an ordinance adopting by reference the 2022 edition of the California code as adopted and amended by the state of California and repeal and replace chapter 18-44 of the Santa Rosa city code modified to meet local requirements and reflect the new model code next slide please and two adopt an ordinance adopting by reference with local amendments the 2022 California administrative code the 2022 California building code the 2022 California residential code 2022 California green building standards code 2022 California energy code 2022 California electrical code 2022 California mechanical code 2000 California 2022 California plumbing code 2022 California historical building code 2022 California existing building code 2022 California reference standards code the 2021 international property maintenance code and the national pollution pollutant discharge elimination permit and waste discharge requirements and next slide please if there are any questions we have staff on board to answer anything thank you thank you for the presentation Jesse council do we have any questions this evening we do not Madam city attorney since there's two ordinances do we present them at the same time or should we present them separately I'm seeing ordinance one and ordinance two they should be presented separately very well thank you and actually we're going to open up the public hearing yes the public hearing for public comment is there anyone in in the chambers that wish to speak on item 15.2 seeing none deputy city clerk are there any pre-recorded messages there are no recorded messages for this item very well with that said we will close public I don't know if I'm doing that too hard there close public comment and bring it back to the council council seeing I believe there's no further questions so with that council member Rogers would you like to read the the first ordinance being presented. thank you vice mayor I will go with fire first I would like to make a motion to adopt an ordinance entitled ordinance of the council of the city of Santa Rosa repealing chapter 18-44 of the existing Santa Rosa city code and adding a new chapter 18-44 adopting by reference with local amendments the 2022 edition of the California fire code and wait for the reading of the text. second. we have a first by council Rogers and a second by council member Macdonald deputy city I'm sorry city clerk would you like to call a vote. thank you vice mayor council member Schwedhelm aye council member Sawyer aye council member Rogers aye council member Macdonald aye council member Fleming aye vice mayor Alvarez aye mayor Rogers aye that motion passes with seven ayes. I would like to make a motion to adopt an ordinance entitled ordinance of the council of the city of Santa Rosa adopting by reference with local amendments the 2022 California administrative code 2022 California building code 2022 California residential code 2022 California electrical code 2022 California mechanical code 2022 California plumbing code 2022 California energy code 2022 California historical building code 2022 California existing building code 2022 California green building standards code 2022 California energy code 2022 California reference standards code 2021 international property maintenance code and the national pollutant discharge elimination permit and waste discharge requirement and way further reading of the text. Second. Perfect we have a motion and a second by council member McDonald. Yes sir. Can I just get clarification because I know Mr. Oswald read in a change in one of those is that included with what Mr. Oswald suggested that change be? Yes it would be helpful for you to identify that that revision is incorporated into your motion. The revision is incorporated into the motion that I just made. Does the second still stand? Yes. Very well the motion is still seconded by council member McDonald. Madam city clerk would you like to call the vote? Councilmember Schwedhelm. Aye. Councilmember Sawyer. Aye. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Councilmember McDonald. Aye. Councilmember Fleming. Aye. Vice mayor Alvarez. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. That motion passes with seven ayes. Very well thank you all and let's go ahead and move back to item 14.1 The homeless solutions strategic plan. Kelly welcome back. Thank you take two. Good evening vice mayor Alvarez and members of the council. Kelly Kaikendal with housing and community services and I'll be presenting on our homelessness solutions strategic plan. Also in our virtual audience I have Tracy Bennett and Megan Kurtiff Schatz with focus strategies they're the consultants that we worked with to develop the strategic plan. Next slide please. This slide provides an overview of my presentation. I'll provide some background leading up to up today to bringing forward the strategic plan. I will cover the purpose of the plan and the scope, the strategic planning process and findings, stakeholder engagement and key strategies that came out of the strategic planning process and are incorporated in the strategic plan. I'll discuss implementation which would be next steps and then obviously seeking council feedback on the draft homelessness solutions strategic plan. Next slide please. The next few slides will be backgrounds. As you well know council goal number two is to reduce homelessness and its impacts. I have some bullet points here with the data from our most recent homeless count that was conducted in February of 2022. Based on the count there are 1,658 persons experiencing homelessness in Sonoma County. 66% of them are unsheltered so roughly 1,000 of the 1,658 are unsheltered in Santa Rosa. Our population in Santa Rosa comprises 57% of the countywide count which is 2,893. In Santa Rosa saw a 13% increase in its homeless count from 2020 to 2022. We typically do a homeless count every year. We did not do one in 2021 due to the pandemic and the 13% was in Santa Rosa. It was a 5% increase countywide and we have seen increases in all of our subpopulations except for families and those subpopulations are persons with chronic homelessness. I already mentioned families, youth and homeless veterans. Next slide please. So the city council has been increasing its investment in homeless services over the past several years. Additionally we have improved coordination across city departments to improve our response to homelessness and then we've also increased our collaboration with regional partners to address homelessness at a regional level. In 2016 the city began shifting its approach to housing first in alignment with best practices that included expanding shelter bed capacity at Sam Jones Hall and lowering barriers to entry at that shelter making investments in street outreach and providing flexible funding to help people obtain housing as well as investing in supportive services. The city is investing approximately $5 million annually in homeless services. Additionally last year the council approved $2.3 million for a safe parking pilot program for two years. During the COVID response the city invested $10 million to support our most vulnerable community members and the city has made additional investments in that in response program and recently received two awards totaling $24.6 million from the state for two projects that will provide interim and permanent supportive housing. 90 units between the two projects. Next slide please. So why are we doing a strategic plan and why are we here this evening to discuss the strategic plan? This is all part of the city's effort to further its strategic response to homelessness. So in 2022 we issued a request for proposals seeking a consultant to help us develop a strategic plan. From that process focus strategies was selected from the six proposals that we received. In March 2022 we began our strategic planning process. I also want to make you aware of regional efforts that are underway to develop strategic plans. So North Sonoma County and the cities of Sonoma and Petaluma have recently adopted plans and that Sonoma County continuum care or regional planning body is on track to adopt its strategic plan next month in December. There are also regional efforts to evaluate these plans and that work is being done by the Sonoma County Community Development Commission which is the lead agency for our continuum of care and their consultant home base and this may result in potential adjustments to our strategic plan. I'll touch more on that later. Next slide please. The next few slides I will touch on the purpose of the plan. So the purpose is to have a five-year strategic plan and action plan aimed at achieving functional zero in alignment with Sonoma County continuum of care. We recognize that that is a very ambitious goal to provide you with a definition or a little more explanation or information about functional zero. This is a goal of our system of care. That homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring and resources need or exceed demand. So what that means is when a community member falls into homelessness we hope to address that as quickly as possible ideally within 30 days and then prevent them from falling into homelessness or returning to our system of care. Functional zero measures both inflow and outflow so we're not just focused on people that are in our system of care and moving them out of the system of care. We're trying to prevent people from falling into homelessness to start with. Next slide please. So more on the purpose of the plan. The purpose is to identify resources and gaps excuse me develop goals that are actionable and measurable and implement strategies to effectively reduce homelessness in Santa Rosa. We are part of a larger system of care and the plan before you this evening recognizes that. Next slide please. This slide covers our scope of services with focused strategies and there were three phases. The first phase is to conduct an assessment of existing systems and stakeholders. Phase two entailed a synthesis and draft plan development and phase three is to finalize and approve the plan which is a subject of the this evening's council item. Plan implementation is not part of our scope of services with focus strategies and I will be touching on implementation and next steps later in the presentation. Next slide please. So in terms of process the strategic planning process phase one and phase two involved a quantitative and qualitative assessment where focus strategies looked at program and system data focused on Santa Rosa. They looked at homelessness in Santa Rosa and also our current response to homelessness in Santa Rosa. So pulling from the homeless count and other data sources and assessing homelessness in Santa Rosa and then the process also involves extensive stakeholder engagement in both the assessment and draft plan phases and I will be discussing that in a couple slides or covering the stakeholder engagement in a couple slides and then lastly phase two is the completion of a draft plan. Next slide please. So key findings from the strategic planning process include both strengths and opportunities for improvement. Starting with strengths the assessment and the strategic plan acknowledges that we have gradually shifted towards housing first and our programs becoming more housing focused. We've increased our shelter capacity and we've also invested in outreach services. In terms of opportunities for improvement we need interim housing that supports rapid transition to housing. Prevention I mentioned that a couple slides back so not just focused on individuals who are homeless at the moment but preventing those from falling into homelessness. We need sufficient rapid rehousing permanent supportive housing and affordable housing. We need a supportive services focused on housing retention so helping people keep their housing once they exit homelessness and also outreach that is focused on solutions. So of those individuals that we're engaging making sure that it's more than just contact that we're connecting them with the services that they need and ideally shelter and housing. Next slide please. So the next few slides I will touch on stakeholder engagement and feedback. During the assessment phase focus strategy conducted 39 one-on-one meetings this included with city and other city or county staff, the city council, health, behavioral health, legal services, business, advocacy and faith communities and individuals with lived experience. So 20 individuals with lived experience both sheltered and unsheltered. Next slide. Continuing with the assessment phase focus strategies also conducted five focus groups including representatives from our housing provider and developer community, homeless services provider, lived experience so in addition to engaging individuals they held a focus group with the continuum of cares lived experience advisory planning board and then two city interdepartmental groups so with our homeless action team and our homeless encampment assistance program. Next slide. As part of the assessment phase we also hosted a community input session on May 23rd and a survey went out to the community. 75 attended the virtual community input session. There was also an option to provide input via email for those that couldn't attend the meeting and we received 107 responses to the survey. Information gathered throughout the assessment phase including the community meeting and the survey have been summarized in the plan and then for the draft phase members from housing business, homeless services, neighborhood, county, other city, advocacy and lived experience so these communities were invited to participate in a focus group and if they couldn't participate in the focus group they were welcome to provide input on the draft plan via email to focus strategies. Next slide. So wrapping up the stakeholder engagement with the stakeholder feedback, themes that came out of that process which you will see incorporated in the strategic plan is a need to improve our response to unsheltered community members, invest strategically in existing system and new resources, further our regional collaboration, increase access to services so basic services such as hygiene services all the way up to more comprehensive robust services such as health, behavior health and substance use, increase housing solutions and focus on broader community well-being which ties it back to council's goals that were also reducing impacts of homelessness on the community and the stakeholder feedback was translated like I said to the strategic plan and is incorporated in the strategies and the key actions which I will be covering in the presentation. Next slide please. The draft strategic plan is informed by local data input from stakeholders and aligned with best practices. It provides a framework for guiding program and policy decisions for the upcoming five-year periods of 2023 through 2027. It acknowledges that the city is part of a broader system of care and we cannot do this alone. Next slide. So next I'm going to go over the three overarching strategies and the key actions and these are all high-level strategies and actions. Before I do that I just wanted to read briefly the vision of the strategic plan from the document itself. The vision of the Santa Rosa homelessness solutions plan is that all people in the city of Santa Rosa have a place to call home. Our home includes a range of housing types such as shared housing, affordable housing and permanent supportive housing. The city along with its regional partners aim to achieve functional zero homelessness where homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring. To achieve that goal resources are available as needed to quickly resolve homelessness when it does occur. So starting with strategy one performance, this is related to improving both response to homelessness as well as our regional homeless response system. I'll just run briefly through these points in the slide. So strategy one, excuse me, the first bullet here is prevent homelessness, enrich and expand mobile outreach services, provide low barrier shelters. So we're doing that at Sam Jones Hall but there is a need for non-congregate shelter options, expand housing solutions and that's a variety of housing solutions. I just touched on some of those in the vision statement. Embrace housing first. So we're doing that. It's a matter of continuing that, support people to retain housing so that's housing retention, implement performance measurements and invest strategically. And the last bullet invest strategically is really about improving our existing programs and building capacity of our existing programs before we consider investing in new programs. Next slide please. Strategy two relates to improving our response to unsheltered homelessness. The first bullet is provide services and support to encampments, build collaborative relationships with people living in encampments and we have started that through the planning process. I touched on the extensive stakeholder engagement that was conducted as part of the strategic planning process, provide safe temporary locations for people to stay, connect unsheltered people to housing and provide enhanced community supports to neighborhoods and that ties back to broader well-being. So well-being for everybody in our community related to homelessness. Next slide please. Strategy three, this focuses on collaboration and continuing and enhancing that collaboration with our regional partners and key stakeholders. Part of that strategy recommendation is to adopt the five-year plan that is before you this evening to continue partnerships for regional housing solutions. I think Home Key is an excellent recent example of a regional housing partnership and I shared with you a couple slides previously about the city's recent award from the Home Key program from the state. Develop formal partnerships with regional partners. That could be a potential memorandum of understanding with the county for some of the services that are needed in in Santa Rosa such as behavior health and substance use and include people with lived experience. So I mentioned that we did that as part of the planning process also that that work is ongoing through the continuum of cares lived experience advisory planning board excuse me and then center equity and address disparities and this is a really important one because we know from the homeless count and it's also highlighted in the strategic plan that black and native and indigenous individuals or persons are overrepresented and are homeless population we need to develop strategies to reduce these disparities and be inclusive of individuals that are impacted by these disparities in developing strategies. Next slide please. So modeling there's something from the strategic plan that I would like to highlight. I'm going to keep it at a very high level because it's it's very nuanced but Tracy Bennett with focus strategies is here to answer any questions if council wants to take a bit deeper dive with modeling. Also want to point out that our continuum of care through their strategic planning process with their consultant home base is looking at a variety of different models. Essentially what modeling is it's a tool to identify gaps and resources needed to address our housing needs and some models look at shelter needs as well to best prioritize our resources and what focus strategies found in their modeling assessment or analysis is that we need to increase our rapid rehousing and permanent supportive housing resources. We also need to reduce our length of time that individuals are staying in rapid rehousing and we could also repurpose some of the rapid rehousing resources that are currently prioritized for families for individuals and making these adjustments to our system would result in sufficient shelter capacity for unsheltered population helping us get closer to the goal of functional zero. So what you have in this slide here is that focus strategies and analysis or assessment estimates that approximately 1400 individuals in Santa Rosa could benefit from permanent housing and they've created and adjusted three-year model. I touched on some of the points the adjustments that need to be made in order to get us there and I'll just say that we're going to be spending more time with this. We're interested in adapting the modeling that they put together specifically for Santa Rosa based on our current housing pipeline. The assessment that focus strategies did is based on our system resources that are available system-wide and not just to Santa Rosa. So more to come on the modeling but I did want to share this with you as part of the presentation. Next slide please. So moving on to action plan and implementation. The strategic plan includes a year one action plan for 2023 and really that part of the plan is getting us started with the first year of implementation and it builds on the key actions that I just covered during the presentation. So we have the three overarching strategies. We have the key actions and the action plan is also high level but there are or overarching action items that we can implement but there are also some very specific actions as part of the plan which I wanted to touch on briefly. So under strategy area one which is related to improving performance we have continuing participation in the Built for Zero initiative and developing outreach standards. So that's a specific action under the strategic strategic plan and there are a number for for each of the strategy areas so I'm not covering them all just just highlighting a few. For Sam Jones Hall for example one of the items that we'd like to look at or evaluate in terms of improving performance is potential programmatic and facility improvements at that shelter and that includes applying for the housing and homeless incentive program. Under strategy area number two which is improving our response to unsheltered homelessness there's a specific action in the plan that refers to applying for the state encampment resolution fund which we are closely watching and that should be coming out in announcement early next month and that ties into supporting both our unsheltered community members and then also reducing impacts to neighborhoods that are near encampments. And then lastly under strategy area number three which is really about collaboration there's a specific action and item in there for developing an investment strategy and reporting out on how the city is investing its resources towards homeless services annually. So again just wanted to cover some of the specific actions that are covered in the action plan. So next steps subject to your approval of the strategic plan this evening would be to develop an implementation plan so that we can operationalize the key strategies and actions that we covered or that I covered this evening. Next slide. One more slide and then I'll be moving on to the recommendations so the purpose of the meeting is to adopt the plan. I'm here staffs available to receive your feedback as I mentioned focus strategies has joined us virtually as well. There's a potential for alignment with regional plans I mentioned that earlier on in the presentation and feedback we received as part of the strategic planning process from stakeholders is that they really urged us to align and partner with our regional partners. And then in terms of making changes to the strategic plan to align with regional plans we'd be working with the city manager to make those changes. Next slide. With that I'll move into the recommendation. It is recommended by the housing and community services department that the council by resolution approve the homelessness solution strategic plan for the five-year period 2023 through 2027 which provides key strategies and actions to improve the city's response to homelessness and alignment with the Sonoma County continuum care to achieve functional zero homelessness. Next slide. And authorize the city manager to make minor or non-substantive modifications to amend the strategic plan to ensure alignment with the COC regional plan. This concludes my presentation. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. Thank you Kelly. Councilor, do we have any questions on item 14.1 this evening? Councilmember McDonald if you'd like to start. Thank you so much Kelly for a great presentation and I think the roadmap is really helpful. My question to you is could you show me in the document where we really highlight mental illness and drug addiction as part of the strategic plan to address some of the issues around homelessness or is that in another document? I'm just not seeing it highlighted as much but perhaps I just missed that. And then I had another question. Did you mention something about we would know about potential state funding in the next month? I'm sorry if I missed what you said. Thank you for the question. So I'll start with the state funding. Yes, we're anticipating an announcement to come out from the state for the encampment resolution funds. Early December they'll be seeking applications from communities to apply for funds for that particular program. We did not apply last year. The city of Petaluma did and received funding and we are planning to apply. I know there's some other cities in the county and there are other cities in the county that are interested in applying the county as well. And then you had a question about where in the plan do we address the mental health and behavior health and it's throughout the plan. I'm looking through it right now. I do know that in the action plan itself, give me one second, there is a recommendation for, let's see, that's going to be collaboration. Oh yes, so under strategy area three, we do have develop and adopt to MOU with county of Sonoma and key providers for providing essential health, behavior health and substance use services. So it is, it's in the document itself and then also in the action plan. And then it, this is also feedback received, excuse me, during the stakeholder engagement from our advocacy community and also from our neighbors and businesses, you know, strong voice, strong feedback that we needed to provide mental, mental health or behavior health and substance use support. And just, just to be clear, it's in the homelessness solution strategic plan that five year plan. It's in that document that we were given or is it part of an action plan that supplements that document? I apologize if I'm not understanding. No, that's okay. So it's, it's throughout the actual strategic plan itself in terms of feedback we received from the community about the need for those types of services. And then also in the action plan, which is a part of the strategic plan, it's on page 26. I'm pointing to a specific item or action or activity. It is E, where it talks about developing an MOU with our regional partners to provide these types of services. Thank you for that clarification. And then it's in this document also, is there anything around in response as part of a strategic plan? So in response is called out in terms of one of the programs that the city is investing in, but it's not rolled specifically into, into the strategic plan. If that's an interest of the council, we can certainly incorporate that into our implementation plan, which we will be working on. The reason I mentioned that explicitly is because we know that that's been one of the strategies that has been extremely helpful. And so I'm not certain how it would be best implemented in this plan or whatever your recommendation would be on that. I'm comfortable with. I just want to make sure that that particular program is highlighted. And some of it has to do with ensuring that there's proper funding as the next five years go on. And so I'm not sure the best way to do that in this part action plan. Maybe city manager has something on that. I apologize. I could have asked that one in advance. I just see the picture of the in response man, but I don't see how the strategy is implemented. Thank you for the question. Councilwoman McDonald. Those are two separate services. We don't want to include that specifically in the homeless strategic plan, because they're actually not outlined and outfitted specifically for homeless. While they do serve that population, we want to make certain that we bifurcate those two. Thank you for that clarification. I appreciate it. Sorry to call you about your chair for that question. So those would be most of my questions, and I just have some comments maybe later on, but thank you. Thank you. Councilman Schwab. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. Thank you for the presentation, Kelly. And I have some comments and questions. And since I know you've got the strategic plan in front of you, I'll try to share with you what my comments, what page they're on. First of all, I really want to compliment the authors and the whole team that put this together regarding some of the language on page two, specifically regarding item three about the collaboration. And I think it's worth reporting and pointing out that the city will embrace a vision for reducing homelessness that is informed by data and equity considerations and proves coordination across jurisdictions and engages all stakeholders in contributing to solutions to homelessness. When I read that, I said that's spot on. That's what we've been trying to do for a while. So to actually memorialize it in this five-year document is excellent. And then on page three, we listed the dollars that have gone towards these activities. And I had a question about administration. It indicates of the $4,945,850k plus was for administration. Can you share with me what goes into the administrative costs there? I can pull up the budget for that or it'd probably be in the moment easier for me to get back to you on specifics. But so the administration covers the staff time to oversee all of these programs. And it's certainly not my salary alone. There are multiple staff across housing and community services that charge into this. This does not account for what the city is spending on homeless services. So police and fire and other departments that are responding to homelessness, this is largely housing and community services administration of these homeless services programs. Okay, that number just seems kind of high because I get what you're saying and I know city salaries aren't that expensive because I don't think we have that many employees in your division. So it would be helpful if we could have a little breakdown as to what those different dollar amounts equal to. And then on page 8, once again, I really want to compliment the principals, the housing focus, strategic and data informed person centered and equitable. I think that's excellent. Page 10, there's a reference to the home first coordinated entry system. My understanding home first is a current contractor who is managing the coordinated entry system. They don't have their own system. Could you confirm that? And if so, I don't think we need to have the current contractor's name in our five-year strategic plan because the county used to manage that effort. Council members, which page are you on? I know that's in there. I just thought I was trying to look at the budget. Page 10, first paragraph. Okay. Let's see. That is correct. So they are administering coordinated entry, but it's not their system and we can correct that. Great. I just want to make sure, yeah, we're trying to get on one page here. Then if we fast forward to page 19, and on one of these are going to be some specific questions. I have some general questions too after I go through this document on 1.3 provide low barrier shelters. And it talks about enhance existing programs of building capacity within service provider organizations to implement low barrier emergency shelter with the focus on improving exits from shelter to housing. One of the things that will be coming for the continued care board on both the 18th and one hopefully we'll be approving on the 30th is to standardize some minimum compensation for service providers compensation and training. And that is the strategy that the continuum of care if adopted will be approving, but I don't see any language in our strap plan about compensating those outreach workers and service providers. Was there any thought about including that in this plan to be consistent with the COC? And quite frankly, I think it's a long time coming. Thank you for that input. And I am aware of the pay equity conversations that are happening at the continuum of care level. It's not here in the plan. We can include that or I can incorporate it in our implementation plan. Thank you. Then on page 20, 1.6 about support people to retain housing. I just had a conversation last night with the landlord who made a comment that they typically are the first folks to understand that there might be an issue with their tenants. In other words, tenants say I can't make my payment. Is there anything I can do? And this landlord had nowhere to look to. Where can we find resources to help the landlords to help retain that tenant within that housing? Could we include some language that landlords would be part of that and resources given to landlords who want to retain their tenants so they don't have to go through an eviction process? And or is there a reason that landlords weren't included in any of the language on 1.6? I'm reading through this right now and receiving your feedback. Thank you. We can certainly make a change to it either here in the plan itself or incorporate this feedback in the implementation plan. Great. Thank you. I just think they're a body that could be some early adopters they might know before other folks, other members, are parts of the system understand that someone goes into that prevention. Let's try to keep them housed versus having to go through the eviction. And then on 1.7 on still on page 20, they implemented the performance measures and continuous quality improvements. I would strongly encourage you, I know you're familiar with HAP around four in the state has identified six different metrics that the Kingdom of Care is responsible for reporting on. I believe those six measurements are going to retain the same. And I know our governor recently made some comments about the numbers may not be to his liking, but I believe the categories are going to be the same. Is there any way we could just incorporate whatever HAP around four is adopted? Because there's approximately eight and a half million bucks to come to Sonoma County. It'd be great to everyone beyond board at the same measurements. And ultimately what I would really like to say is forward facing dashboards from every jurisdiction, every city in the continent of care reporting on the same data so our community can start understanding what's working and what's not. Any opportunity for potentially change some of these metrics to those HAP four metrics? Because they're pretty close. It's just a little bit wording different. Thank you for that feedback. And I do if I can go back to your budget question. So the administration and that was back on page three, whoever's following and looking at the strategic plan. The question was about administration for it's roughly $850,000 and that includes my salary, a program specialist. We do have a vacant tech technician position that we're trying to recruit for right now. And a portion of the director and administrative secretary secretary as well as allocated costs so there are several positions that account for that $850,000. Great. Thanks for that. And the reason I'm bringing it up, I think it's always an area that we should be evaluating so we have more dollars going towards services. Obviously administration is a very important aspect of that. Just being sensitive to make sure we're getting the most bang for our buck with these dollars. And then on page 21, looking for some clarity on this one. So 2.3 as we're going to provide in safe temporary locations for people to stay. When we say temporary locations, is that going to be a permanent item for the city or is it just temporary locations for both the city and those who are participating in let's say the safe parking sites? What's the interpretation of 2.3? So there's room for interpretation here and I think that's something that we can work through to define in the implementation process because that can be many things. And I think as part of our implementation plan, we need to figure out what that looks like and how we prioritize that among the other strategies and key actions that are identified in the plan. Right. And the reason that's important for me is this is a pilot program, our safe parking program. And I know earlier iterations of the strat plan talked about evaluating its effectiveness is that the best use of those dollars are there, should we put more money into rapid rehousing, perimeter support housing, anything else? So I'm not sure I'm actually here to say that or at the point yet where the data would say safe parking sites do get people housed more quickly and efficiently than other housing methodologies that we've been employing. So more to follow on that one. And then the last one before I go to some overall general ones on page 22 and you briefly mentioned about develop formal partnerships with regional partners. You're probably aware also that this continuum of care is looking at four different MOUs between it and let's say the coordinated entry provider, HMIS system. Do you have any more information about what MOUs do you think that the city of Santa Rosa would engage with the county of Sonoma? Because that's rather specific from the COC perspective about lead agency coordinated entry and HMIS. Could you give us an example about what MOU the city of Santa Rosa might want to initiate with the county? So the strategy areas and the key actions associated with each strategy area are high level and overarching and not as specific. I think that's what you're looking for right now. I think the specificities staff are planning to flush out an implementation plan. I don't want to overstep here because I know our city manager has been in conversation with the county about a number of things on the homelessness front. So I defer to the city manager to see if she has anything to add to this. Thank you Kelly. Thank you council member Schwedhelm. We are working on MOU the original city managers with the COC and the county so we can all be in coordination on funding and programs and I believe that's come to the COC board and we're just looking to finalize it. And so that's what I'm looking clarification on. Is that what you're talking about the MOU because I know the seven cities at least represented on the COC in negotiation with the county. Or is this a separate thing that just the city of Santa Rosa is going to be trying to get an MOU with the county of Sonoma or other regional bonds. No this is the MOU with the jurisdictions and the COC along with the county. Okay thank you that clarifies. Okay and then Kelly for some bigger area overall I noticed there's no use of or no mention of housing vouchers and again it's discussions that we've had at the continued care. Has there been discussions with our housing authority how some vouchers may be able to assist us in this effort to get to functional zero. Thank you for that question or comment. So our housing choice voucher program or commonly known as our sectionate program is housed in housing and community services so homeless services in that program are meeting we meet on a regular basis. Again that's level of specificity is not included in the strategic plan or the action plan but those conversations and that sort of coordination planning is happening on a regular basis and we can certainly make sure to include that as we move forward with the implementation plan. I think it's a valuable asset and just with the process that we did for the emergency housing vouchers which has both the city's housing authority and the county's housing authority if we need additional resources to get those more challenging folks get housed that's why I'm like if we're all trying to do the same thing I think it would be very helpful for it to be included in here. And then were there any discussions about identifying a priority population you'd mentioned earlier Kelly but like focusing we really want to focus on this sub population the next five years. So not as part of the strategy or an action plan there is a specific item called out in the action plan about it's under strategy area one it's on page 24 it's action B and it's continued participation in regional built for zero initiative to develop the by-name list and outreach standards and that work in terms of prioritizing a specific population is is currently happening through that effort and I sit on a couple different committees for that work and I know that there are other staff involved in this initiative so we were not through the strategic plan focusing on a specific sub population but that work is is happening at a regional level. So I guess I would be very supportive of whatever the continuum of care does if they identify a priority population that we adopt the same priority population because if we're trying to work together and my personal emphasis would be focusing on the chronically homeless which is a much more challenging population to try to house and maybe some others and the reason why I think it'd be great for us to have it when we make funding decisions if we're focusing on chronically homeless there are going to be some additional costs potentially then if we did some other ones let's say families because I'm confident in the very near future with caritas we'll get to functional zero with families so if we say no we're going to be focusing our priority not focusing our priority is going to be chronically homeless I think that helps whoever the seven folks up here make those funding decisions this is what we're going to focus on here's an opportunity to assist that and then I know Kelly you had mentioned a little bit more the details because when I look at strap plans especially effective strap plans it gets down to who's doing what by when and we don't have that detail here yet and I also noticed there's over 24 year one action items a concern I have do we have the capacity to take on all 24 of these or is staff going to recommend to this body here are the priorities of these 24 action year one action items here's the ones that we're going to be focusing on because I don't think we have the capacity to do them all at the same time your thoughts on that Kelly I agree with you on that there is a lot here and that's why I've reiterated at least a few times this evening that staff will be working on an implementation plan following hopefully your adoption of the strategic plan this evening our intent was to work with that work at the staff level with that and this through the city manager I imagine that work will also occur with our housing and homeless ad hoc committee and I defer to the city manager if she has any other you know ideas around around how we might accomplish all 24 of these I think the intent is to kind of refine it streamline it into some action staff steps via an implementation plan well I love the aggressive nature of the staff I think we do need to go back and outline what priorities are so that we're successful in implementation and again with what the COC is trying to do we've asked the CDC staff what are your priorities they've identified 47 priorities year one which in you know Kelly made reference to it I'm part of the committee that's trying to coordinate all six of the strap plans and if you look at some of the the capacity of all the different agencies it can be challenging I'm more of a advocate of let's accomplish things let's get stuff done versus try to spread our resources across the board I know it can be some challenging discussions and decisions for the seven on this council on this body but I think really to make that change the world we want to get in five years from now I think we need to start doing that but thank you so much Kelly for the presentation all the efforts on this I think we're moving in the right direction thank you councilman uh the council member of planning are you there thank you vice mayor alvaro thank you are you able to hear me now I can thank you miss kike and all and um the consultants for this presentation my questions have to do around um what was kind of a light brush over potentially neighborhood services and um if you go to page 22 item 2.5 and correspondingly on page 25 item g there's a mention of neighborhoods that are impacted by unsheltered homeless folks um as well as um caught on page 22 uh in quotes it says an enhanced community supports neighborhoods dealing with unsheltered homeless and um impacted by interim and permanent supportive housing for the homeless um and then again um the corresponding item on the table and g says only talks about outreach engagement and increased services for for neighborhoods but that doesn't mention um the impacts of temporary shelters or neighborhoods and so I'm just curious to know a little bit more about what kinds of services and how that might be operationalized and I understand if it's something that you don't know today I'm fine to give information later but just wanted to highlight that that left me with some outstanding questions and I do apologize for not presenting them to you sooner that's putting you on the spot and like I said I'm fine to take my answers later thank you counselor member Fleming for the feedback um want to point out that during the strategic planning process we we heard from neighborhoods that are impacted by homelessness um encampments but to your point counselor member Fleming also from um neighborhoods that are impacted by um programs um and services that are in their neighborhoods so I think the point that you were making that's raised in the strategic plans and I'm looking right now for the specific hold on one sec uh well let me find it excuse me um anyways there there is a right it's 2.5 it's provide enhanced community supports to neighborhoods um and I spoke yesterday morning with a community member who read through the strategic plan and had similar feedback like this is great but I want to know specifically what does that mean because my neighborhood's been impacted by encampments um and so I said we don't have that level of specific specificity in the strategic plan in the year one action plan um it's something that we're wanting to flush out and work through with the implementation plan also taking into consideration the feedback that um council member Schwedhelm provided and the city manager that we can't do all 24 things here but we did hear strongly um from stakeholders that is something that has to be part of our plan it needs to be balanced so absolutely we're focused on our unsheltered community members but also on the broader impacts and so it is definitely something that we will be thinking um we're thoroughly about um with the implementation plan yeah and I think to council member Schwedhelm's and point in what you're echoing that we can't do all 24 things but I think just you know even communicating that we are doing things like in response and our you know police responses um and tying them back to how that translates into neighborhood services and the communication of that will be helpful in allowing some of the resident concerns and I'm sure you and I are hearing similar concerns from the community so again thank you for for that um that's all that I have in terms of questions thank you uh Kelly if I may are we prepared for winter temperatures rain so we're not scrambling at the last minute thank you for that question and it's not part of the strategic plan um this evening in front of you but we do last winter um in response to uh dry very cold weather we established an extreme weather um uh policy um that set certain benchmarks for activating a warming center last year we did it at the drop-in center of the temporary location at 610 Wilson and this year Catholic Charities is preparing to do it um at the drop-in center that's been relocated to Caritas um and that would be um you know after hours um and on the weekends and there are two triggers um I don't have that document right in front of me this evening um but it's extreme cold so typically freezing temperatures um predicted for more than three nights in a row or extreme wet weather so we're with the current um cool weather that we've been experiencing our fire department is monitoring that weather on a daily basis um and we're preparing to activate um should we need to thank you and and the following questions I'm sorry if they're a bit redundant and if you've already answered them on on one of them in regards to measure O that was passed in 2020 have the funds flowed down from the county which allows us to focus on the mental health issues of our population here in the city of Santa Rosa thank you for that question vice mayor alvarez and it's a good one and I'm not prepared to speak to that this evening um I know I've heard that question come up in other meetings and um I don't know if the city manager has information about that or if um council member Schwethelm maybe because he sits on the continuum of care I don't have that information in front of me at this time but I have met recently with the county administrator about measure O funds and how they can be disseminated to the jurisdictions and we've actually been talking about that in terms of whose funding is going to run out first and how we can help augment the city's current funding so we can make certain that those city's programs continue to move forward and serve the those most in need so I don't know if councilman Schwethelm actually has more information just that it has been a point of discussion on the continuum of care and it's talking about uh equitable resources throughout the county because you look at some of the data and you look at how much measure O resources are going to unincorporated versus incorporated cities and it's it's not balanced whereas I'm pretty darn sure a heck of a lot of city's hand rows of voters pass for the passage of measure O so we're having those discussions I know also the in-response team and some of those supportive services are receiving some of those employees are receiving some measure O funds so I it's not a black and white issue we're having the discussion because it gets to be the challenging who makes the decision there's an oversight committee with the county but then there's also the five board of supervisors and supervisor Corsi who is on the COC board is well aware of those conversations very engaged with it so we're working on it and and that actually leads me to another question uh in regards to the two areas of the city of Santa Rosa that have historically uh seen the homeless population affect this community I'm wondering if this plan here if it helps alleviate those areas by distributing the homeless population more evenly throughout the city of Santa Rosa thank you for that question um vice vice mayor alvarez and I I'm certainly aware of the areas of town that are more impacted by homelessness than others the plan doesn't specifically address that I will say that it does call out centering our response on equity and addressing the disparities it does not go into the specifics specifics of how we do that and I know that the continuum of care is also looking at that work so it will be part of our work moving forward with our regional partners um and I mentioned earlier on in the presentation then in responding to councilmember mcdonald's question about the state encampment resolution funds um the we don't know the guidelines for this next round of funding but based on what was released last year from the state they want you to target a specific encampment a 50 or more occupants or a specific area it can't be an entire it couldn't be the entire city so staff and I are already looking at areas of the city that are um more impacted than others by homelessness and that would include southwest Santa Rosa the southeast particularly particularly the south park neighborhood um and then as we know our downtown and along the Santa Rosa avenue border so so to be clear at this point in time we have not addressed uh or the plan doesn't address the to support disproportionate impact on the different sectors of our city quite yet would that be correct statement that's correct it identifies disparities in terms of populations that are overrepresented in the homeless population it does not identify areas of the city that are impacted by homelessness and how to address them so how to address that very well councilmember alvarez let me add to that and while the plan does not specifically speak to that I have raised the awareness to staff um from the lens that I see it we are to provide equitable services throughout the city so it's one of the things that I noticed when I first came here and we are addressing that so thank you for the question and I appreciate that first as well uh one of the questions that we heard literally on from a comment uh here in the dais was uh or it was a question how are showers medication and education being provided to our homeless population uh could you give us a little bit of insight did you say shop you know I was thank you I was listening to council at that time and I had a hard time understanding or hearing the individuals so thank you for raising that again so showers um there are showers available at the drop-in center at caritas center um the redwood gospel mission I don't know their schedule but we can certainly find that out has a mobile bathroom shower trailer we have a mobile bathroom shower that was used at the relocated drop-in center which is currently being repaired and we print we plan to put that back into circulation it might take a couple months um but we'll update council once it's back in circulation and share the the schedule um uh you know certainly for people who are participating in our programs there's obviously showers at um you know our safe parking pilot program and it's sam jones hall and throughout other facilities throughout the county um and then the other question about medicine yes I believe it was uh providing medication to the houseless population as well as education I'm unaware of uh street medicine occurring in the county aside from a pilot program in healdsburg um there's one of the actions in the strategic plan let me just look at the action plan over there um where one of the actions is um you know trying to provide not just outreach to individuals but some type of medical support medical assistance in the field um and then lastly education so um I'm not sure what type of education the community member was if I wasn't mistaken I believe it had to do with educating the homeless population on resources that were available to them thank you um great question and so certainly uh that work is happening at a city level through a contracted outreach provider the homeless outreach services team um is out in the field um in our encampments and on the streets on a regular basis um educating people about resources that are available and connecting them to services and certainly um individuals can drop by the drop-in center at the karychoff center um to get connected to resources and services throughout the county um and 211 is uh also a good resource so there's a lot out there and there are a lot of different teams throughout the community that are getting the word out to our population um about uh services and resources that are available thank you very much uh council are there any further questions or kelly who's hearing yes please um I do know that the county had or it's not the county but it's in corporate center parkway there are showers available there for people that have um mental health uh concerns and then in addition um if someone is connected with the county depending on what team they're on um they do go out and provide medication services to them they don't have to come um to them so there are resources available within the community thank you seeing that there are no further questions let's go ahead and open up public comment all right sir if and I know you spoke earlier in regards to the wrong I don't put please step forward I would love to hear from you not a problem sir not a problem oh it's not uh well they can't is there any way I can get a hold of what you're reading to us what I'm reading to you sir now what was mrs kirk and dosta here oh the actual plan itself yes yes and that would be on what on our city website I believe okay although provide they're going to provide you with that information sir oh great thank you very much thank you very much for what you're doing this is great appreciate that sir thank you are there any pre-recorded messages on our item tonight we we do have three hands raised on the zoom so we will start with um surely chile and the next step will be nick caston hello hello this is uh surely chile and I'm working with a safe parking program at first united methodist church and both of my comments are based on conversations I've had with unhoused people one I'm hoping that as you develop the implementation of this plan you consider the fact that some of the unhoused are unable to get the necessary and urgent medical surgeries um because they have no place to go afterwards I realize catholic charities has a small um center but oftentimes um the person I was talking to needs a hip replacement that they they just cannot go back on the street so their doctor is unable to perform the necessary surgery um another conversation that we've had actually quite frequently is there's a gap it seems to the folks that there's a gap in um provision of services um they are people who are not using drugs and alcohol they are they have no children so it's not a family issue they're not a veteran they're not over 65 and they're certainly not service resistant in fact they're looking for housing and they're looking for a clean and sober place to go um Sam Jones is is not a good place for them unless there's a separation of perhaps an area or something that is clean and sober so they are resorting to having to stay in their vehicle so I'm just bringing that up to you because that's the kind of people that we deal with and many of them are very newly unhoused and a floundering in the system um and we try to get them hooked up as best we can but thank you thank you for all that you do I appreciate the fact that there is going to be a plan and it's going to be implemented and hopefully we'll support so many of these folks that need it thank you thank you okay next up will be Nick Casten and then following will be Annette Arnold thank you um Nick Casten I'm speaking as a resident of the southwest Santa Rosa and the Bellevue community and also as someone who grew up unhoused through multiple periods of my childhood um I know very viscerally how difficult it can be my mom who's a single mom had to go to multiple offices in order to apply for housing uh keep support services and actually my very first introduction to the city of Santa Rosa was the St. Vincent's default dining room um when I was in elementary school so I think everything that you've talked about tonight and have worked on for years and the tens of millions of dollars and resources you put into housing programs and support programs and the work of Catholic Charities and all those partners are very important and I look forward to codifying them prioritizing them and making sure that they continue to be successful one of the elements of success in my opinion is continued and sustained community support for those programs and the impacts that neighbors and those that are around encampments feel and also as I was telling you I just mentioned earlier those like around some of the support services feel can erode that support for programs that are doing good I would encourage you to prioritize the 2.5 enhanced community supports to neighborhoods and specifically look at the period of time between an encampment arriving in a neighborhood and the ability of the city to remove the encampment it's a very dangerous period from what I have seen um it appears to be coordinated on Silver Spur about a block from my house we had a RV encampment arrive recently um it was at least 10 RVs arriving on the same day and setting up and the propane tank setup wasn't a dry grassy field the black waste connections to the sewer systems within the RVs were set up in our drainage our stormwater drainage systems and for the period of time from the encampment arriving till the city was able to open up the lot and provide the towing services it created a public health and safety risk so when you're looking at the services to provide throughout reach the neighbors I would heavily encourage that to be a priority for the public health and safety services to be prioritized it was very timely to have the building and fire codes up before this item those are the things that have to happen before someone occupies a house and similarly having building and fire safety when it's in a park or on a dry field or in those types of areas is also incredibly important again and I'll use my last 15 seconds just to thank councilmember Schwedhelm for all of his leadership over many years both as our police chief and his current role on this issue um I think you're leaving a great legacy as you step off the council thank you thank you thank you and next up will be Annette Arnold thank you very much for your time uh first off I would like to thank Kelly Cuckendall and her department and the police department for helping South Park out with the recent uh encampment that we had here we're very grateful for what you're able to do for us when we really come together and ask for some support I'd like to comment on Denise Hill submitted a document outlining some changes that she felt were needed in this report and I read through that and I think there's some very important things in here that should definitely be considered um the first one is on item 2.5 for providing enhanced community support for the neighborhoods as I know from South Park we've experienced a lot of trash and health issues and safety issues so it would really be nice if somehow in this document there was some specific support for the neighborhoods that get impacted we've been impacted several times and it is definitely a health a health issue um under uh item number D on page 18 goals and measures to track progress number one it says improve the performance of the city and regional homeless response system and the update would be to detail what would be needed to achieve improved performance on pages 19 and 20 under the strategy area under prevent homelessness include addiction and mental health treatment to expand beyond just housing services and um item number 1.3 on pages 19 and 20 add requirement that those utilizing homeless services should be asked to agree to a code of ethics especially when they're in a neighborhood and um they should be encouraged to participate in and give back to the community program like trash pickup sweeping of sidewalks etc we our neighborhood has spent a lot of time cleaning up after the homeless people here and it's a big burden on us and it's a we've spent our own money to get trash bags and take things to the dumps and we really need the city's support behind that on again on pages 19 and 20 under strategy areas 1.4 expand housing solutions we would like to add a requirement that the housing needs to be spread throughout the city and not just in neighborhoods that are uh under resourced and such a south part under embrace housing first item 1.6 support people to retain housing given the recent failures of the palms 1.6 should be had more information that defines case management how many visits will there be per week the response time to a client with a crisis and service providers are offering these services should have an inspection by the city's code enforcement department on a quarterly basis item 1.7 implement performance measures have the system performance measures the number of people who refute service and why and the number of people who did not live in san rosa the previous year and last one um monitor and evaluate effectiveness thank you thank you next we will have denise hill and then following jerry londberg hey everybody thank you for the presentation um am i going if can you hear me we can hear you okay great uh and i boy i got my own words taken out of my mouth there but i appreciate the other caller um reading my comments that i had submitted uh i would like to kind of um maybe put an exclamation mark on a few of them also i feel like i'm not hearing anything about addiction substance abuse treatment and that's worrisome because obviously uh there is a large population of people they're probably the chronically homeless that are addicted and i realize that some of that comes from a county level so that i would like to think that in addition to addiction the mental health treatment the number of beds that we have in our county is is you know amazingly low i believe it's less than 20 and a couple of those are earmarked for um murrin county and that's through the county behavioral health facility so i would like to think that the city is approaching the coc if that's where it goes but i have a feeling it goes higher than that to the county to say we need to see some of these funds that are coming in measure of funds be earmarked to expand treatment services for long-term treatment rather than just short-term treatment or no treatment at all and in regards to that i do believe when in response first was launched it was mentioned that they were going to have somebody who would be qualified to make sure people who are mentally ill and on the streets would be taking their meds so i do think we do have an element that's going on if it's being utilized but i would say a step further on that is as a neighborhood that's called many many times to in response since it was launched we run into the issue of them saying well the person refused treatment the person refused to you know so we're in this cycle where we're not finding out why people are refusing children not finding out why people are refusing treatment yet we're trying to solve the issue without that data and i really feel like we need to concentrate on acquiring that data not in any way to shame anybody but to actually help them because they certainly don't have the judgment to get themselves off the street if they're mentally ill or addicted and by ignoring why what their responses are and how we can work with that and maybe get their responses to yes i will accept services i think that's critical if we're going to see any reduction in the homeless we have on our streets so i do i do hope that that's going to be incorporated into year one and along with helping the neighborhood which is critical and i appreciate your time i've run out of time on my own comments so i hope everybody can read what i've submitted thank you thank you good evening this is jerry londberg am i audible we can hear you sir thank you yes i'm a resident of pateloma but i was a long time resident of the city of santa rosa and actively involved in these issues for for quite a while um this morning homeless section submitted to you a statement in support of this strategic plan so i i cannot tell you enough how pleased i am to be able to make that recommendation in the letters that i sent to you and to the staff um i we incorporated some of what our concerns were i think on the high level because that's where we are today i want to call out more clearly the necessity for a regional data initiative and i want to i was asked to make that statement by teddie pierce um i also want to express my support for the two previous commenters um who over the years um all of us have been considered about considered this issue and cared about this issue so the the main message is always kindness and transparency that we're moving along all of these things and we need that kindness and that transparency um to get to where we want to be uh and it in terms of the addiction and the mental health issues um i'll remind everyone the city of santa rosa does not have a behavioral health division the county does so i think the efforts and the collaboration that's already underway um between the city city staff is to be lauded for that um and the county behavioral health uh with the coc merging into county health um all of those we need to acknowledge that that it is all a collaborative effort effort um my final point would just be a caution about articulating the chronic homeless folks versus the vulnerability of folks we want we're talking about the prevention and getting people off the streets in a pretty quick area and then we're also talking about the most difficult to serve when we talk about chronic um a target population that is not mentioned enough but is rising significantly in our county is elders um there are a variety of of indicators we need to get the elders off the streets and get their health care and all of those kinds of things because they are the most vulnerable so i really um want to want to call that out and then in terms of the housing solutions um and the neighborhood involvement both involving the neighbors as community members but i think more effectively involving them as providers either working with shares in oma county or catholic charities or whomever is providing home matching services and and um and community housing um all of those things are solutions i think we're moving towards them and i want to thank the city of santa rosa for the efforts that you've made at this time thank you i'm seeing no other hands raised on zoom and we have no uh prerecorded voice messages for this item perfect we'll go ahead and close public comment and bring it back to council council are there any further questions or points that you'd like to make for further discussion yes uh councilman soyer thank you very much mayor no i have no questions just a great deal of thanks um before we vote and i i am hoping for a positive vote of course well all the work that has gone into this into this plan and plans change and this one will too it's a it will be a living document and so my hat goes off to all of those dedicated individuals um mr caston mentioned uh councilmember schwethelm whose dedication is um will live on uh i was always hoping that we would reach um the the the desired what is it the zero the um functional zero um before he left the council but um you know you've gone so far and with the help of our safety public safety officials the city manager's office city attorney's office this council and the the and the community as well and um all of those that have been that have touched this document and will touch it into the future and uh it is it we've probably gone further in in this community uh than most if not all of those in the region and people will be looking at what we do here today uh when creating their own plans to deal with this very um difficult and challenging uh issue around the individuals that are so um challenged by their homelessness mental health and drug addiction as well so um my hat goes off to everyone that has been deeply involved there in in this process coming up with this plan um as kijkendall i don't know how you do what you do um you are a an angel to not only this council and this organization but to the homeless individuals as well and the community who come to you with their complaints and their and their concerns uh you have been a stellar um member of this organization that has been dealing with this issue for quite some time as we all have but not in the trenches quite as much as you have so um i just want to say thank you um and we will just keep going this council um the new members of the council will be faced with lots of great important decisions and uh they will be um touched by the the decisions that are made today and in the future with this plan and the implementation thereof so my thanks thank you council member yes please thank you thank you for those comments so much council member soyer and i too want to thank council member schwedhelm for his years and years of service to the community specifically um your amendments tonight in this document um honestly no one knows uh the challenges of our unhoused population and what we could do to support them as council members as much as you do so thank you so much and i know that we've met a couple times over this but never i don't think it will take me 30 years to be able to know what you do so i appreciate your comments and somehow we're going to retain you in this area and arina have already set my mind to it but just a couple things that i did want to um call out tonight specifically around looking at measure o and how those funds are disseminated i do want us to make sure that we are at the table when those discussions are happening to make sure that we are getting our fair share i think santa rosa ends up taking the lion's share of um of challenging situations for folks and so i want to make sure that when that money is um disseminated it's appropriate and it's done by jurisdictions who are taking that on and then also i really want to make sure that and i don't know that it's part of this strategy in this plan but anything that we can do to work with the state and federal funding i know senator padilla had the housing act for all which really addressed homelessness and in some of the areas that council members should help address tonight around um rental assistance making sure that landlords are being included in some of those funds and so as that legislation moves forward which federal legislation is much slower than state legislation but i think it's important that we keep our eye on those potential resources that we can maybe get as far as a city um municipality goes so i i do want to just say thank you so much for the thorough presentation tonight for the comments from the community members that have taken time to read through these documents and give suggestions and i'm glad that city manager has an opportunity to adjust this so that we're part of continuum of care and and that we can make these adjustments and it's a living document to be able to move us into the right direction so just thank you to everyone great job tonight kelly thank you so much you always make us so proud thank you all um are there any further no further questions perfect uh with that said uh let's go ahead and councilman fleming are you still with us by any chance i am i'm so with you i'm glad to hear that i'm glad to hear that if you could i present this i would greatly appreciate it right to be clear um i heard somebody um i think it was council member mcdonald's reference amendments made by council member schwedholm are there amendments to the resolution go ahead sir at this point i'm comfortable with the conversations we have with the city manager and kelly to incorporate some of that language because again a lot of my questions deal with the specificity who's doing what by when it sounds like that'll be a document that's going to be produced after staff has heard all these comments so i have no friendly amendments to what's being proposed right now okay well that makes it easier for me and um with tremendous gratitude for your work and for the work of miss kike and all and her staff as well as focus strategy it is my pleasure to introduce a resolution of the council of the city of san aroda approving the homeless solution strategic plan for the five-year period 2023 through 2027 and authorizing the city manager to make minor or non-substantive modifications to amend the strategic plan to ensure alignment with the sinoma county continuum of care regional plan and waive further reading of the second perfect we have a motion on the floor by council member fleming and a second by council member mcdonald uh madam city clerk if you can call the vote thank you council member schwedholm i council member soyer i council member rogers i council member mcdonald i council member fleming i vice mayor alvarez i mayor rogers okay that motion passes with six eyes and mayor rogers is being absent yes sir um i'm very appreciative of this past unanimously and there's more opportunities if you want to continue with the discussion this friday the continuum of care will be doing this exact same process through its strategic plan we set aside three hours for it so the public is invited starting at nine o'clock and then in november 30th at our next continuum of care board meeting the hope is that that board will adopt the plan that we worked on on the 18th and then if you're really excited on december 15th we'll have the election a new board for the continuum of care members so there are we voting on new people who can actually vote for who's going to be on the board but those are three exciting opportunities to continue to participate in all of these efforts on a regional basis thank you and council member will these three meetings be via zoom yes very well thank you sir with that being said we are we have no written communication and we will go to item number 17 public comments on non-agenda matters let's go ahead and open up a public comment and see if we have anybody in the chambers who wishes to speak on on things that are of the city but not on the agenda seeing no one in chambers do we have anyone who's made a prerecorded message or participating via zoom i'm seeing no hands raised via zoom and we have no prerecorded messages perfect we'll move on to item 18 and first i do want to wish our mayor safe travels on his way back from egypt back to san rosa and on a more somber note i would like to close in the memory of larry marie who passed at the age of 70 he served our san rosa police apartment our community for 30 years in fact one of his final assignments was being the first school resource officer at both elsie and cook junior high go mustangs after retirement he continued to remain at elsie as its athletic director coaching both varsity and junior varsity at uh full ball his brother is a retired senator as a police officer and his nephew is is actually helps form uh our senator as a police department so with that this meeting is adjourned