 All right, it's four o'clock. Let's go ahead and get started. Let's go ahead and call the roll. Are there rushers? Here. Council Member McDonald and Council Member Rogers. All members are present with the exception of Council Member McDonald. So I appreciate Council Member Rogers for you for being here. We are going to reorder really quickly the agenda. We've got public comment for non-agenda items. Listed as number two in department reports. Listed as number three. If you're inboxed in anything like mine, you've received some correspondence that I'm sure we'll hear about in item number two. So I'm going to actually reorder and let the department reports go first so that our staff can give an update related to a couple of things that are happening, but specifically one thing we've been getting emails about and then that will make it, I think, a little bit of a different conversation for folks or at least allow folks to have some context when they make comments in public comments for non-agenda items. So let's go ahead and promote Jason Nutt. Jason, I'll let you go ahead and kick it off and then I'll see if Tasha has anything to add for department reports. Thank you very much, Mayor Rogers, Council Member Rogers. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with some of the, well, one of the department concepts. As Mayor, you mentioned we are receiving a number of emails relating to questions about the alternative transportation program grants. These are the ATP grants that are generally issued by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission associated with bike and pedestrian improvements as well as some other alternative transportation modes that exist out there. As many of you recall last year, the city was successful in receiving $12 million through the ATP program for the design and construction of the bicycle and pedestrian over-crossing that will eventually connect Edwards and Elliott on the north side of town near Coddingtown and the centers of junior college. Very exciting that we were successful in getting that particular grant with the newly released job infrastructure bill from the Biden administration. There is additional funds that are coming through the ATP program this upcoming year. Their call for projects is being released. There's been question about whether the City of Santa Rosa will be submitting for that. As staff has reviewed our bicycle and pedestrian master plan looked at other projects that are out there relating to multimodal transportation. We haven't been able to identify specific projects that are federally eligible at this point in time. Part of the message that's gone out is that Santa Rosa is not intending on submitting an application specifically for the federal component of ATP. And that's the reason why. It really boils down to there are certain criteria that need to be met in order for federal dollars to be successfully used in our projects. And at this point, we haven't been able to identify projects like the bike and pedestrian over-crossing that would be really stellar projects and would score well. With that said, there are other components of the ATP program that are non-federal dollars. And staff is actively working on how we might be able to incorporate projects in that competitive program process. And in addition, we're also looking at whether there are partnerships that we can form for the federal side where Santa Rosa may be a partner or a support mechanism for another agency's grant application. That would benefit residents of the city of Santa Rosa. So those are the primary aspects of the ATP program. With that said, we are always looking for ways where we can improve our alternative transportation system. And staff has spent an enormous amount of time really looking at the H-SIP program, which is state money that comes through Caltrans. Predominantly looking at how we can improve the safety of users on the roadway associated with bicycle and pedestrian improvements, as well as vehicle crashes and run off the road type of improvements. Staff is excited about many of the projects that we have started to line up. And we've been doing a number of community meetings with corridors. And the entire intent is to look at how we can utilize the H-SIP funds to pay for that. State money is a much easier process for us to invest. It's not as complicated. We have far fewer limitations in how the money can get spent. And that's really where we're putting the most of our focus is to try to secure a substantial amount of H-SIP funds that come into our community. So with that, Mayor, I wanted to make sure I provided that update. I wanted the community to know that we are not turning our back on our alternative transportation program. We are looking at the non-federal side of ATP and we're focusing very much on the H-SIP program through the state of California and hope to bring in some great projects into our community at that point. I'm happy to answer questions if you have any. All right. Natalie, do you have any questions? No, I'm sorry. Okay. Do we have any other staff briefings for tonight? Departmental briefings. Yes. I have a quick announcement here. And I am going to try and share my screen. Roberta can allow me to do that. You should be a co-host taught to be able to share your screen. Okay. I'm not sure why. Normally works. Doesn't seem to be working today. Okay, here. I apologize. Okay. I don't know if this is not going to come through here. All right. Well, I guess I'm just going to chat through it then. So I wanted to let you know about some upcoming events in this month. And we have an Arbor Day celebration that's happening this Saturday. And it's in honor of Luther Burbank. It's happening at the Rika Valley Community Park in Santa Rosa. And that is from nine until 12. And there will be a tree planting that we are hoping to plant 50 trees. And there will be kids events and all kinds of fun things happening. So please come out and join us and enjoy that day and plant a tree. We have the St. Patrick's Day 5K that's happening in Courthouse Square on March 13th, the following day. And that is from 11 a.m. until two. That's going to be another fun event. So we hope you can also enjoy it. Join us for that and cheer on all of our runners. And then there's the Water Smart Garden Maintenance Workshop that's happening on March 13th as well. And that's at Santa Rosa Junior College. It's from 10 to 11.30. And then finally on this list, we have the Mary Lou Lowrider Reveal Ceremony, which is going to be amazing. That's going to be at Santa Rosa City Hall in the parking lot. That's March 26th from 4 to 8 p.m. And you can go on our event calendar on our city website and find out about all these different things. And then I also want to let everyone know that we are bringing Earth Day back again this year. So taking a little hiatus, but we're coming back. That'll be Saturday, April 23rd. It's going to be from 11 to two in Courthouse Square. And we invite you all to walk, bike and roll on over. We're going to have live performances from Zoom Zoom. And we are going to learn how to go green by saving water, energy, and then also we'll have an area for climate-friendly transportation information. We will also have bike parking there as well. And we'll also have an area that will be for zero waste living. And you can come over and find out more about that. And then we'll also be handing out Water Smart Tool Kits as well. We'll have our kids' activities will be back. And that can all be found at srcity.org or slash Earth Day. So we hope that you'll come out and enjoy all those events. And then we have Fix Elite Week. And that is March 14th through 20th. We're going to have, it'll be promoted through various social media channels. There will be a 30-minute Spanish language interview on Nuestra Tierra, that's KBBF 89.1 FM. And then there's also going to be a 10-minute challenge during that week. And so if you visit the website, that's www.srcity.org or slash Fix Leaks. So we really hope that you can participate in these events and then our Fix Elite Week. And we appreciate all the attendance and support. All right, thank you so much, Tasha. Let's go ahead and go to public comment on our departmental reports for today. If you do have a comment, go ahead and hit the raise hand feature on your Zoom. We'll start with Michael and then go to Aris. And I'll ask the co-host to put up the timer screen. Thank you. And Michael, one moment. Michael, if I need you, go ahead and mute on your end. Yeah, can you hear me? Yes. Yeah, well, thank you for letting me speak. I've made comments at several meetings previously. I'm a long-time cyclist. That's my primary motor transportation. And sorry about that. And therefore I'm on the streets every day. And a question for Jason, he talked about his projects, by and large, not qualifying for federal monies. And I'm wondering if those projects are taken from the 2018 updated bike ped master plan. If they are, I feel we're kind of missing the boat. We need to step back and look at the bigger picture. And that is re-changing our focus to an integrated network. The master plan is a piecemeal of different pathways. And if we're gonna make this work for our community, not only for helping mitigate climate change, but to reduce cost, get all folks of all ages and levels out there riding bikes, we need protected bike lanes. Survey after survey indicates that. So that's my question to him. And if we could reframe it and ask for monies relative to an integrated network of bike paths. And there are many examples, Austin, Denver, New Orleans, Providence, Rhode Island, Pittsburgh, all have really focused on integrated networks and not focused on piecemeal pathways that are not safe enough for individuals. And that would also include security once we get to our location. And it also would include maintenance of the bike pathways so they're secure at night, et cetera. So that's my question and my comments. And I hope we move forward. We have an opportunity here and we have to let it be known that we're working for an integrated network. Thank you. Great, thank you so much, Michael. And we'll take comments and then I'll have Jason reply back to some of the things that he hears. Eric, followed by Chris. Thank you. I'm Iris Weaver, Executive Director of the Snowm County Bicycle Coalition. And don't worry, I won't repeat anything that I already sent you in writing. I know that the city is a large entity with many moving parts and competing priorities. And when the city or any organization or individual even sets goals, there's a sweet spot between setting goals so high that they're impossible to achieve. And on the other hand, making them so easy that it doesn't really stretch you, right? We want goals that are a little bit beyond our reach to keep us striving for improvement. But then those of us who set those overarching goals from our role up at the 10,000 foot level are not the same people who are working on the ground. And the message doesn't just trickle down all on its own. It's the responsibility of those of us who set those goals. And when I say we, I'm including myself as the leader of my organization, we have to engage in the difficult work of culture change because invariably some individuals and some departments or units within our organization are inevitably more open to change than others are. Just now Mr. Nutt in talking about this funding program three times refer to it as the alternative transportation program. That is not the name of it. It is the active transportation program. That might seem like just semantics and a small difference, but that is actually a really key cultural difference. Seeing alternative transportation is still keeping the car centric and that everything else is, oh, just some other alternative. Active transportation is transportation on which we use our own bodies. It is a mind shift that needs to filter its way into that whole department. I talk with staff a lot. And when I didn't get a satisfactory answer from a lower level staff, which was why I contacted Mr. Nutt and gave you a week before escalating. It gave you a chance to respond and I would have been happy to talk and find out more. But knowing that this deadline is coming up and that it does take time to prepare grant applications, seem like to get movement happening that needed to work my way up the food chain. So, yeah, we need to get the message to all the parts of the city that if our goals are to get people out of cars to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, we have to think differently. Thank you. All right, thank you so much, Eris. We'll go to Chris and then to Callum. Thank you. I'm concerned that we're in the middle of a climate emergency and I'm really happy that we have a climate action subcommittee. But what I'm concerned is about oversight of our goals, our city goals. For example, the bike and pedestrian master plan it exists as a document, but there's nobody tracking those goals. And when I asked at the bike and pedestrian advisory board meeting who was responsible for tracking those, I was told that nobody was. Nobody's tracking those goals. And I think it's the responsibility of the city council to oversee what the department of transportation and public works is doing and make sure that if we're gonna create these wonderful plans in support of reducing our impact on climate that they actually get followed through on. And I have to agree with Eris about a culture shift. We need to have a shift within the city to focus on these goals. It's nice to talk about them and it's nice to have events and all that, but this is an emergency and I'm not seeing people act like this is urgent. Thank you. All right, thank you, Chris. We'll go to Cal. Dear Major Mayor Rogers, Council Member Rogers and staff, my name is Cal Weeks and I'm the policy director for Generation Housing where we advocate for more, more diverse, more affordable housing and on many occasions for policies and funding opportunities that can help create the vibrant, walkable and bikeable community that will carry Santa Rosa forward. Housing solutions more often not depend on infrastructure thoughtfully developed really to improve the walkability and bikeability of our neighborhoods and commercial corridors. And really our state of values of equity and sustainability cannot be achieved without looking towards a future that is less dependent on automobile centric transportation infrastructure as the previous speakers have so thoughtfully noted. And as I kind of just alluded to, more often not during these housing projects one of the top line stated concerns is ostensibly centered around the safety of the community. And one of the ways that we can make our corridors, our neighborhoods more safe is by actually creating protected bike lanes so we can ensure folks can transport themselves back and forth to their jobs, downtown, et cetera whatever it might be. And so today I just wanted to offer our full-throated support to our partners at the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition. We really appreciate all the work that they do. It helps supports us, we help support them. It's a beautiful relationship. So if Santa Rosa is really set to achieve its active transportation and climate goals we really encourage the city to be aggressive and pursue all viable funding opportunities that might present themselves. As always, thank you very much for your service and have a great day. All right, thank you, Caleb. We'll bring it back. Jason, would you like to answer some of the questions you heard during public comment? Yeah, Mayor, thank you very much. I think it's exciting that folks are really engaged in wanting to make these types of mode shifts in our community. And I think the staff is very dedicated and interested in moving forward and seeing those happen and looks at every possible option to bring new investment into our community. I will admit, as Aris pointed out, I used alternative instead of active. That was my fault. It was not an intentional semantic change. It was just merely searching for the right word in my head and I picked the wrong one. So in any case, the team is very committed to deploying, implementing, and shifting mode splits in our community. So we get the benefit of what transit oriented development is looking for. Michael brought up the concept of integrated networks as part of our bike and pet master plan. We're gonna be looking at updating our bike and pet master plan. Again, probably beginning the discussion next year. We do updates every five years. And I encourage Michael to come forward and have those discussions about changing the method with which we do bicycle pedestrian planning in our community. Right now, unfortunately, the mechanism that we're implementing project delivery is based off of the bike and pet master plan from the 2018 update. There are a series of priorities that are in there. Every year, staff come to the bike and pet advisory board looking for a work plan and getting a work plan approved and adopted. That then gets translated into the capital improvement program, which council approves every year. And so there's intentionality in the way with which we select projects. And the bike and pet master plan or bike and pet advisory board really is the entity that's helping us pick those projects with the highest priority. And so I certainly recognize that we want to invest as much as we possibly can. And I'll say that this department of public works has been incredibly successful in bringing in money to benefit our non-motorized community. And I think they will continue to be successful. When I bring up ideas or suggestions or issues such as, is it compatible with federal dollars? A majority of the projects that live within the bike and pet master plan still require things like right-of-way. They require ground disturbance. And when you're dealing with federal dollars, those increase the challenge and difficulty and time associated with completing those projects to a point where our data has shown, our history has shown it is nearly not cost effective for us to utilize a federal dollar to implement that type of project. And therefore that's why we try to focus efforts on statewide or other local dollars, whether it's measure M transportation dollars or whether it's gas tax dollars. So Mayor, hopefully I was able to answer some of the comments that came up during the public comment period. Great, thank you so much. We'll move on. We'll jump back now to item number two, public comment for non-agenda item. So if you have a comment about things that are not on today's agenda, go ahead and hit the raise hand feature. Okay, I'm not seeing any hands. I'm guessing it's because most of them were on that specific item. Let's go on to new business item 4.1, our climate change, excuse me, Sonoma climate mobilization strategy update. And I believe we have BC here. Good afternoon. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Very good. Okay, I'm going to share my screen. Oh, let's see. I guess I need some special permissions to share the PowerPoints I have. I just upgraded you to a co-host so it should be coming through. There it is. Thank you so much. One more moment while I get this set on my end. I just want to confirm. Can you see my opening screen there? Okay, great. Well, good afternoon, Mayor Rogers and Council Member Rogers. My name is BC Caps. I'm with the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority. Many people know us by our acronym, RCPA. First off, I wanted to thank the subcommittee for having me speak today. And I wanted to thank the city staff for the invitation and for getting me all set up as part of the presentation. So I move on to my next slide. So my purpose today is I'd like to give you updates on several efforts that we are working on here at RCPA that may be of specific interest to the city. These are included in the four items here on the slide. I wanted to speak briefly about our community-wide greenhouse gas inventory we're working on. Wanted to talk about our proposal for the banning of the construction of new gas stations that we've been working on with a number of jurisdictions. Touch on some of our policy objectives for last year. And then talk about some of our upcoming policy objectives that we're gonna be working on for the next year that I believe has some application for the city. So before launching into that though, I did want to give just a little bit of a brief overview and a background on our Sonoma Climate Mobilization Strategy, which all of these items are connected to. So in a little bit of a history, in 2009, the RCPA board passed a climate emergency resolution, which was then followed on by all of the jurisdictions, all the cities and towns within Sonoma County, so that we have all 10 local jurisdictions have now passed climate emergency resolutions. And with the passage of that document in that resolution in 2019, staff here began working on our Climate Mobilization Strategy, which identified a number of strategy objectives to attempt to, that we were gonna be working on between now and 2030 in an attempt to become a carbon neutral by 2020 for county-wide our greenhouse gas emissions. These are grouped into these kind of, these strategies are grouped into four major areas. The first one is decarbonization, and that's looking at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from building energy, from transportation, and from solid waste. Our second major area of initiatives are around carbon sequestration and ecosystem services. Those really have to do with getting carbon stores back in the ground, back into the trees, back into the soil. Third, we have an initiative area on resilience and adaptation. That's really looking at climate adaptation and resilience techniques for how we can continue to function and survive as the climate changes around us. And our fourth major area is equity and community engagement. And that really has to do, look at a lot of the overlaps with between our climate initiatives and the climate initiatives and social equity concerns. So that document was adopted by our RCPA by our governing board in March, 2021. An initial set of priorities were established at that point. And then some additional priorities were just adopted at our February meeting about a month ago to guide our work for the upcoming year. So with that kind of as a bit of a background, let me run through these several topics here and provide some updates on the work that we've been working on recently. So acting as a foundation below our mobilization strategy is a county-wide greenhouse gas inventory of which the RCPA staff here attempts to update every two to three years. The first one was done in using data from the year 2010. And that as part of that effort that set a baseline greenhouse gas emission for the year of 2010. And we were able to backcast that number to an approximation of what we believe of the county admitted in 1990. Since then there have been updates done in 2015 and 2018. And I am currently working on the update using 2020 calendar year data. And we'll have those results available hopefully sometime in June or July. This is our inventory we work on here is a county-wide inventory, which looks at the community-wide emissions from both kind of the unincorporated areas of the county and all nine of the incorporated jurisdictions. And then we roll that all up into a county-wide total. The work there is organized around five major areas of analysis. First is emissions from building energy. Second is emissions from transportation. Third is solid waste. Fourth is water and wastewater emissions. And then lastly, there are some emissions from fertilizer and livestock. I wanted to specifically mention here that we have been in consultation with the consultant team that is working with your city staff there at the city about the greenhouse gas inventory that they are doing as part of the general plan process. And so we've been working there to do some initial sharing of information, just making sure we're getting our calculation factors synced up. And as results of our two efforts there at the city and then the work that I'm doing myself at the county level, as we start to get results from those two efforts, we'll be able to compare the analysis as we move forward into the spring. One last piece I wanted to mention on this is I recently learned that the county of Sonoma itself is actually going to be also conducting a municipal operations inventory. And so we're also working with the staff there with the new climate action and resiliency division to again sync up the work that we're doing. And even though we're looking at a different scope of numbers for the analysis, just making sure that our calculations and the coefficients that we're using behind the scenes really are the same throughout all of the efforts. So we'll keep moving on and at the end we can come back to answer if there are any questions on any of these items. Next up, I wanted to give a brief update on the work that we have been doing here at RCPA focused on the proposal to ban the construction of new gas stations and new fossil fuel infrastructure. This is an initiative that really started, the first started with the city of Petaluma. They passed a ban on the construction of new gas stations and the item was brought to the RCPA board and our board passed the resolution congratulating city of Petaluma on their action and encouraging all of the other incorporated, well, the county and all of the rest of the incorporated cities within the county to adopt bans on the construction of new gas stations. I wanted to just take a quick minute to say just to clarify, this is not about, this is not related to any existing gas stations. All of those gas stations that are currently here within Sonoma County, those are permitted and will continue to provide services to our local residents. What we're really focused on is looking at the long-term trend of the goals that are both set here at the local level, state and federal level for the reduction of gas powered engines. And with this, we're kind of really working through jurisdiction by jurisdiction to figure out what fits best kind of at the local level to ban the construction of any new gas stations or upgrades or expansion of existing stations. I wasn't really planning to go through this list in detail, but here is a snapshot of all of the efforts that we know about. I mentioned city of Petaluma. Currently, Ronert Park and Sebastopol are both working on their final language that would move forward as part of a permanent ban. Town of Windsor is also moving forward. And I understand that the city of Katadi is working on a draft ordinance themselves. So I think that, oh, one last detail, I just realized I wanted to add one wrinkle that has come up with this. And I know that having listened to the discussions at this subcommittee and the direction that's been given to city staff looking for an ordinance for the city of Santa Rosa, one thing that has come up and I wanted to pass on the recommendation is we're really encouraging to keep this action focused on specifically on gas stations and the construction of new gas stations and banning those gas, banning that construction. Any additional actions that the city would wanna take on encouraging EV infrastructure, encouraging additional charging stations, looking at alternative fuel or fueling stations using hydrogen or other fuels. I think those are all laudable goals, but our encouragement is to really keep those separate if possible from this topic and possibly to pass things kind of in a one, two fashion so that they can be looked at together, but really to kind of keep the discussion around the new gas stations focused on those stations and let the other alternatives that we would like to encourage kind of have their own, kind of to move forward at their own pace. Next, I gave an overview of the climate mobilization strategy that was adopted by our board in March of 21. And this here is a list of some of our accomplishments during the course of the first year of working on that strategy. These are items that are kind of specifically that were identified by the board for priority actions. There's a few I just wanted to call out here underneath the work on decarbonization around building energy. I wanted to highlight the work we've been doing as part of the Bay Area Regional Energy Network. Bay Ren is the acronym they go by. This service provides incentives and consultation for residents and businesses that are interested in making energy upgrades to their homes. And we have a whole slide show on that topic if it would be of interest for either this subcommittee or for the council as a whole to talk about services that are available through Bay Ren. I also wanted to specifically call out work within the transportation sector of where we are looking here, our staff at our CPA. We are co-located, co-housed, housed with the Sonoma County Transportation Authority. And so we are looking at areas of where artwork on climate and the transportation authorities work on transportation improvements. We're looking at areas of where those overlap and so we've been providing quite a bit of input on to the comprehensive transportation plan that was adopted last year. And as well as you can see the work that we've been doing on banning the construction of the new gas stations throughout the county. Under resilience and adaptation, I wanted to highlight the report that we released this last year from conjunction with the Urban Land Institute. This work was co-sponsored by the city of Santa Rosa. We worked very closely with the planning team there to host a group. It was a virtual hosting, but we brought together a group of, they were 10 or 12, I think individuals from around the United States who were convened by Urban Land Institute who spent quite a bit of time learning about Sonoma County and provided this back with a recommendation report for us to consider on adaptation and resilience techniques. So we're here working through those recommendations and looking how we can integrate them into our climate mobilization strategy. And then I think first on the bottom within equity and community engagement, there's also been some initial discussions about potential funding initiative for that could fund climate work throughout the county. And we have a group of the funding for climate and ad hoc of our board has been formed and it's been holding those discussions, preparing for a kind of a community engagement and outreach plan. And then on kind of social equity topics as well, we also hear staff at our CPA and SCTA recently gone through the first kind of crash course on equity training. And we're looking at areas where we can really, we've started development on kind of a larger equity framework that we can use for public engagement and across all of our programs to really try to more deeply integrate kind of concerns, kind of issues of social equity across the board in all of our programs top to bottom. So finally, the last thing I wanted to wrap up with here is and talk about these six items very briefly. These are our priorities of which myself and our staff here are going to be focused on over the upcoming months. And so these are areas where we have already been in contact with a number of staff on a number of these. And if there are any guidance or any input from the subcommittee on next steps we should be taking, I'm very interested to hear those as part of the discussion here today. First off, we are doing looking at energy code related ordinances and the adoption of reach codes throughout jurisdictions within Sonoma County. The city of Santa Rosa has an existing reach code that was adopted a year and a half, two years ago. Those reach codes adopt goals that are above and beyond the standard California building code for energy efficiency. That reach code will be for each of the jurisdictions in most cases needs to be readopted with each three year code cycle. So that it's an opportunity over the course of the upcoming months if the city is looking to maintain that reach code. This is the time to be looking at either moving out forward as is or adding in any additional requirements that reach code. So we are working here to provide and collect resources that are available from the state, regional, and local level on all the various options that exist around energy reach codes. On number two, actually I should say number one, reach codes that really has to do with new construction. That's looking at energy efficiency within new construction. Number two is looking at the energy efficiency. How do we increase energy reductions and cost savings in our existing buildings? And so one area here, we have thousands of existing buildings that all need to be upgraded over time. One of the things that I'm looking at is a recent strategy document that was produced and adopted by the city of Berkeley, which I think lays out a very viable strategy on doing kind of large scale electrification to existing building stock. So that's something else that we'll be looking and digging into as the year progresses. Number three, jumping down to transportation. I mentioned the work that we are doing here between our CPA and SCTA, our Transportation Authority. So we are looking to really bring together the work that we are working on with the mobilization strategy on climate related initiatives with the work that's being done by SCTA staff on the comprehensive transportation plan and the draft position zero action plan looking at safety concerns around transportation. So we're looking to bring that work together between the various efforts, various kind of staff here across our organization. Number four, this is parallel in some ways to the electric reach codes that I discussed a moment ago. Number four, route EV reach codes. This would be providing materials to jurisdictions. The city of Santa Rosa and others on methods that can be used to adopt for requirements around the installation of additional electric vehicle charging equipment. So we're looking into those policies that we can support on the installation of that additional requirement, additional equipment as we transition from gas powered engines over to electric vehicle infrastructure. Number five, looking at carbon sequestration. We are going to actually just receive news this week that we are going to receive some graduate student support to help us here on developing a survey and an overview of all of the tree protection ordinances and urban forest conservation plans at the county and all of the cities within the county, all of our member jurisdictions. So that's work that is going to be a comp going to be moved forward this summer. We're looking to better understand what is the existing tree protections that are out there. What would be some model ordinances that could be used if the city or others wanted to update and upgrade their tree protection ordinances or their longer term conservation and management plans around kind of urban trees. And then we really wanna focus that on what are the techniques we can use to really maximize carbon sequestration with looking at the ways that trees planted even within our cityscape can really be used as a to reduce carbon, kind of reduce airborne carbon over the longer term. Finally, and I'll wrap up with this. We, I understand the city of Santa Rosa and a number of other jurisdictions are moving forward on general plan updates either updating their entire general plan or updating some specific sections. And we're looking at areas where staff here at RCPA can provide some guidance and involvement with how to more deeply integrate climate risk and climate reduction, climate mitigation strategies as part of those general plan updates. So I wanna also look at ways that we can more integrate carbon sequestration into that work. So with that, that concludes my presentation on available to answer any questions that may have come up from the subcommittee. And I just wanted to say thank you again for having me here today to present. All right, thank you so much, BC. And we really appreciate the update and it's some substantial work that you guys are doing. My main question for you is about working with partners. Obviously you're here working with the city of Santa Rosa and it's been sort of a push pull on policy development, which I've really appreciated when we've pushed forward on things. We've had RCPA support. And then when RCPA has been able to get all of the cities on board with the same sort of thing, we've been, Santa Rosa has always been willing to help adopt and refine some of those things. But what about groups like Sonoma Clean Power? And I know that they are looking at electrification. I think that the term is gonna electrify everything. How's the RCPA working in conjunction with others to try to drive policy and make sure that we're all working together? Let's see. Sonoma Clean Power is not an official member of our governing board, but we do have regular check-ins with staff at Sonoma Clean Power. And I believe we've met just last week or the week before where we are, we actually, there's a triumvirate of groups that really that we are working very closely with. RCPA is working very closely with both Sonoma Clean Power and with the County's Energy and Sustainability Division. And those three groups together, those three organizations together, we really try to stay in constant contact about the work that we're doing, how the overlaps of where that work is, and how we can kind of provide support to each other. So I don't know if that gets, I know in the specific details on projects, but that is a, I would say it's a relationship that is in a very good standing and that it's kind of in regular communication, both that are kind of executive board level, as well as kind of at the staff level. And then what type of feedback when we go to public comment here, what type of feedback would be helpful for you just from our folks who are regularly engaged with, with our committee, what would be helpful for our CPA to hear? I think of the specifically thinking about the policy priorities that we're going to have for the next few months. It would be great to hear of any input from residents that that kind of struck a chord with. And also thinking about, especially in this area of community engagement, a lot of the work that we really do, it is policy oriented and it's really a lot of it is staff communications and coordination. And I think that there's an area there where we do have the opportunity to broaden slightly and think about how do we bring in community-based efforts more fully into the conversation. So I think it would be really useful to kind of hear if there's any of these topics that I raised today, how, which of those really, if there are existing groups that are making strides and I'll just bring up one example, it's not from the city of Santa Rosa, but the city of Petaluma, some of the work that I'm really thinking about for the Untreat Protection Ordinances, that is actually a direct outgrowth that some conversations I had with a group there, Petaluma Relief, who is working on urban forestry issues in Petaluma and as an interest in sharing the information that they've been gathering for their city across the rest of the county. Okay, thanks, B.C. Natalie, do you have anything? Yes, thank you for your presentation. I was just gonna, when I was very interested in the community engagement piece of it, all of it I'm very interested in actually to see it implemented and done, but I was very interested in the community engagement aspect of it. And I wanted to make sure that we not lose sight of, when we say community engagement, I think that's a term that is so broadly used now. And I think it is used for the BIPOC community when people think of community engagement. But when we're talking about climate, the climate period, I think that we need to look at people that have a lower socioeconomic and people that otherwise maybe have not explored the benefits of climate change and why that is important and how they can contribute and what in little ways, what things that they can do to contribute in more of an educational stance. And I don't know if you ever watch our meetings, but I'm so big on education and just really getting out there and educating the community and asking them how they feel like they can contribute. Because the same staff, we tend to sit around the table, the same and so our juices, we're not always in the community in different ways. As our constituents are. And so when we ask what is it that we can do for you, then we tend to get a better response. And so I just wanted to bring that part up because I think it is so important that we not only look at the BIPOC community, but we look at other communities that might not look at the climate action the same. Let's go to our public comment then on this item, if you don't mind, BC. We'll start with Alexa. Hi, y'all, thank you for the presentation, BC and Mayor Rogers, Councilwoman Rogers. Very excited to have a chance to talk to RSCPA and my city leadership at the same time. So much good work is going on here, a lot of great work, BC. So congratulations to you, Antonia and everybody else. I really appreciate that. And also I appreciate both of the Rogers, passing the gas station ban. I think that's really important, but I also think it is important that we look at where we're going next and take that really seriously. And the one piece of feedback I would have about the priorities and BC, you didn't have a chance to really get into this in depth, but I do think your presentation reflected something I noticed in other RCPA presentations when it comes to the transportation piece. And I know that RCPA has a dual prong strategy which is both a fuel shift and a mode shift. So switching when we are driving, switching from fossil fuels to electric and then also getting people out of their cars or providing options for people who don't currently have cars. And I feel like that's underrepresented in the work that's happening. I would like to see more focus on that specifically in Santa Rosa, which is why I'm glad to have the leadership, both leaderships represented here, especially as we look to develop more high density and medium density housing and go into this general plan that's gonna create a denser city. There just isn't room for single user vehicles. And I feel I'm all for electrification. I've run out of electric like charge in an electric car and it was not a nice experience. So I want there to be charging stations, but when we invest in electric vehicle infrastructure, we are helping the people who can already afford those cars. And I think a large portion of our population might be better served with robust investments in public transportation and bike and pet infrastructure. So I just wanna make sure that that piece isn't falling out as we talk about electrify everything. We already have really awesome technology that has a low carbon footprint. It's buses and bikes and we can just reinvest in that stuff and make a difference too. So I'm for an all of the above approach. So I'm glad you're working on all angles, but I just really wanna see that lifted. And I also wanna say Councilwoman Rogers, I really appreciate your point about reaching out to all the community members and hearing from them. I also want to draw your attention to the Peacock work that was done by Daily Acts where they paid people to participate in these things as a model to get folks that couldn't otherwise afford to participate to the table. And throw that out there as a possible solution for our city. Thanks all. All right, thank you so much. Alexa, we'll go to Eric. Hi, thank you. I just wanna echo Alexis point. I've been following this whole project of RCPAs from the beginning. And if all we do is turn, the gas powered cars into electric cars, we're still not solving our problems. We're still, a car is still a car, uses lots of resources and still takes space or requires pavement. And yeah, there's just not enough in that plan to my thinking about mode shift. Quite some, probably a year ago when we instigated our bike to a campaign which Mayor Rogers participated with us in of working on getting people to use bikes for distances shorter than two miles. I actually had spoken briefly with Tanya Narvath at RCPA about is there some way that this, reducing that this plan of RCPAs and our campaign we are ready could somehow collaborate, having a little more reach with a partnership, but that's sort of fizzled out. So I would love to revive those talks, but yeah, we need to get, we don't need to just change the cars. We need to get rid of more of them. Thank you. All right, thank you, Eric. And point definitely noted, I see no other hands. So let's go ahead and bring it back. Anything additional, Natalie? I think that was a no. I just want to say thank you, BC, for being here, for being a good partner for all of the work that you're doing at RCPA. I think Alexa mentioned Tanya as well. We had Tanya in here a couple of different times and the work that you all are doing, your entire team has been really appreciated by the cities. And I think it's not lost on most of us that the work that you do is allowing and enabling smaller cities to also have a greater impact on what they're trying to do around climate change. We are grateful that we have our city staff who are so dedicated to this issue and having RCPA just on top of that as an additional layer is additive for us and it helps us move things faster. But particularly for some of our smaller cities, they wouldn't have any capacity if it weren't for the work that you're doing. So I just want to say thank you on that. Thanks. All right, we'll go ahead and go on to our last item here on the agenda. It is our, sorry, what was that PC? Just saying thank you, it was a pleasure to present. Of course, let's move on. We'll go to future agenda items. Tasha, do you want to talk about item 5.1? Yes, so we continue to try to have these dynamic, very interesting presentations. We did hear earlier this year from Sonoma Clean Power. I'm happy to have this great presentation from BC at RCPA. I'm looking forward to having the county at a future meeting as well and continue to bring forward our various partners throughout the county and all the great work that they're doing and in collaboration with us. It's a long laundry list that I have there for future agenda items. We'll continue to put that on the, as an attachment to the agenda. So everyone can take a look at them there. And that's it. So thank you very much. All right. Natalie, any questions? No, sir. All right. We'll look to the public and see if there's any hands. All right. Seeing that, I'll bring it back and we'll go ahead and adjourn for the day. Thank you so much for being here, everybody, and we'll see you soon.