 para unirse haga click en el icono de interpreter interpretaciones en la barra de herramientas de zoom que ahora parece como un globo terraqueo una vez se una canal de español se recomienda que apague el audio primario para solo ir la interpretación al español welcome everyone to our december 5th 2023 santa rosa city council meeting it is now 3 p.m. and we will be in our meeting seeing the quorum madame city clerk can you please call the roll thank you mayor councilman councilmember rogers here councilmember okrepki here councilmember mcdonald here councilmember fleming councilmember alvarez president vice mayor stab here mayor rogers let the record reflect all councilmembers are present thank you that felt really nice to hear vice mayor step all right let's see how long that lasts we are going to proceed to item 2 2.1 2.2 and 2.3 which are closed session items for the day madame city clerk can you please facilitate public comment on these items we are now taking public comment on closed session items if you are in the council chamber it would like to comment please make your way to the podium i'm seeing no one in council chambers for public comment thank you we will now recess into closed session okay welcome everyone to our december 5th santa rosa city council meeting it is now 4 p.m. and we will be starting our meeting seeing the quorum madame city clerk can you please call the roll thank you ma'am mayor councilmember rogers here councilmember okrepki here councilmember mcdonald here councilmember fleming here councilmember alvarez president vice mayor stab here mayor rogers president let the record reflect all councilmembers are present thank you we have no study session today so we will go down to our report on closed session madame city attorney thank you madame and good evening councilmembers item 2.1 was continued to next week's city council meeting december 12th item 2.2 and 2.3 proceeded in closed session and there is no reportable action from either item thank you thank you madame city clerk can you please facilitate public comment we are now taking public comment on item 2 if you're in the chamber would like to comment but if please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period as you approach the podium please state your name for the record if you choose to do so please go ahead when you're ready thank you we have no additional speakers on this item thank you moving on to our proclamation for this afternoon which will be read by councilmember mcdonald thank you mayor it's my honor that i get to actually do this proclamation tonight so i appreciate that so this proclamation is for eddie curio am i saying it wrong curio thanks whereas streets crew supervisor eddie curio has well and faithfully served the city of santa rosa for 49 years exemplifying the commitment to make santa rosa a safe place to live work and play and whereas on december 4th 1974 eddie was hired as a temporary maintenance worker in the public works street section of the city and whereas in 1984 eddie was promoted to the streets crew supervisor a position he still holds today in eddie's storied career he has seen the city grow from a population of 83 000 to over 175 000 and whereas he's been through numerous floods and fires that have impacted the city greatly all the while tirelessly serving this community the best he can and whereas on december 4th 2023 eddie worked his last day for the same public works street crew section he was originally hired to and whereas over the years eddie has been an outstanding employee and major contributor to the streets team by giving exceptional customer service and offering his wealth of knowledge mentorship and sense of humor to one and all eddie curio will definitely be missed now therefore be it resolved that our mayor natalie rogers of the city of santa rosa on behalf of the entire city council due by here thank you eddie curio for his 49 years of dedication and service to this city congratulations on your retirement eddie would you like to say something can you go to the podium so everyone can hear you well eddie says thank you um if no one could hear that and those at home so madam city clerk would you please facilitate public comment and oh eddie you're gonna talk all right i just want to thank everybody and for being here and support me on on my first day of retirement so i appreciate it very much and thank you to all of you and i love you guys we would like to thank you for your service eddie thank you so much for your service to our community so we will conduct public comment unless there is anyone that would like to speak okay so we will conduct public comment and then we will invite you down eddie to take a picture with the council and then if we can get a picture with the council and your crew if we can all fit in here that would be great so let's go ahead and do public comment first we are now taking public comment on item 6.1 if you are in the council chamber and would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period as you approach the podium please state your name for the record if you choose to do so i am seat good afternoon mayor council members jason nut city employee and resident and really i i have had the opportunity to work with eddie now for the last nine years uh he is one of those as you heard in the proclamation just outstanding employees that really has set a phenomenal culture within our within our departments he has been a phenomenal leader he's provided training and mentorship to so many in our organization i won't tell you how old i was when he started but i was actually here so that's the good start we have the opportunity to celebrate eddie's annual service award recently and i got the luxury of giving a little bit of a spiel i won't do that today but i will say there was a couple of stories that came out that were very impressive and fun to listen to where eddie had his family they've been they know our corporation yard as well or better than most of the staff that are here they've been there around meeting the team members for a very long time and they are part of our family so i figured this was my opportunity to express a huge thanks to eddie for 49 years of outstanding service uh from the department side and from the constituent side so thank you eddie no additional comments um we'll invite eddie down um by himself to take a photo with us please and then we'll have everyone else come down and we'll take a great big photo for eddie so eddie you want to come on down okay we will continue to item seven which are staff briefings madame city manager thank you mayor good evening mayor vice mayor members of council community empowerment plan lawn of he talking all right good afternoon mayor vice mayor members of the city council lawn peterson director of communications and our government relations for the city um i'll be providing the community empowerment plan update for december so first thing um now through december 31st the santa rosa police department is holding a toy drive to benefit the united's woman group which is the group of demahadas unitas a group of women and rosin who work to provide resources and need to their community they're requesting new unwrapped toys for all ages to be delivered to santa rosa police department at the lobby at nine six five a sonoma avenue by sunday december 31st toys will be delivered to children at targeted distribution events in january and next and final i'm excited to share that we're on the process of hiring for the community engagement manager position and we're looking forward to getting somebody on board in um 2024 that's my update thank you are there any questions from council members all right seeing none madame city clerk may you please facilitate public comment we are now taking public comment on item 7.1 if you are in the council chamber it would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period as you approach please state your name for the record if you choose to do so please go ahead when you're ready hello my name is dewayne dewitt i'm from roseland thank you for mr peterson getting this uh position and hopefully making it stronger especially with the idea of authentic community engagement we had an opportunity in august of last year where two members of the planning and economic development department amy lile and beatrice akuna came over to roseland and began to speak with members of the public at a local restaurant we were able to do it a couple of times and it began to give people in our community the feel that there might be an opportunity to actually have san rosa city employees listen to what the community might like to see out in our area unfortunately miss lile has moved to another spot we haven't seen miss akuna ever since and it had to do they said with the general plan well part of a general plan process is to have authentic community engagement and to really get the people involved and that hasn't been happening folks realistically what's been going on is kind of a shadow game utilizing the internet saying we're doing these virtual meetings and oh yeah this is happening and that's happening but the real deal is come out and talk to people in their neighborhoods and be there let them know what's really going on with you downtown and don't just work them actually say hey we're listening to what you have to say and we're going to try to implement it into what our policies are going to be the whole situation is most people look at it like well what's the city going to do to us rather than what are they going to do for us and with us so i appreciate that mr peterson is here and he's got an effort to go forward i'm hoping that you're going to hire somebody for community engagement who's not just going to shine us on who's going to be somebody who actually gets in there and says we want to have that true community engagement that we talked about over yeah 30 years ago almost when they put together the community action team that's what first was going forward and during that whole life of that situation it's been more about your way and not necessarily what the community might want and you've got a community advisory board and they're basically just no offense intended but the term for many people is like they're going along to get along folks they're not there coming out to our community and talking to us and saying hey what is it that you want they're basically saying this is what we're going to do and having their meeting and then that's what goes forward so you basically have heard it from me before but authentic community engagement is a real thing the united states government through the environmental protection agency actually embraces it through what's now known as environmental justice so you folks could actually be bringing some revenue into our community by just following some of the guidelines that are out there from the federal government and not just making it your way let's actually make it our way all of us in our community a democracy yeah that'd be a great idea thank you saying no additional public comment we will now go to our city manager and city attorney reports madam city attorney i have no report this evening thank you madam city manager yes thank you mayor the 21st annual national arts program exhibition and competition has announced it's called to artist registration is free and the registration deadline is january the 5th 2024 all are welcome to apply so there is a chance to win cash awards totaling 3400 dollars the exhibition is scheduled to run at the finley community center from february the 5th through april the 19th you can find out more information at srcity.org forward slash call for artist and again the registration deadline is the 5th of january 2024 thank you thank you madam city clerk may you please facilitate public comment on this item we're now taking public comment on item eight if you are in the council chamber it would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period i am seeing no public comment in the chamber thank you moving on to item nine statements of abstention by council members looking looking seeing none we will now move to item 10 which are our council member reports council member mcdonnell just one quick report i had a meeting this week with comcast and i wanted to remind community members of the program that they have for free or reduced internet for families that qualify so if there's any questions you can go on their website but if there was something in in particular that was necessary i know we could help facilitate that um and it's for anyone that qualifies not just around children and families that was one of their programs that they had but it's actually a give back program of about 30 a month so i just wanted to announce that thank you and i believe there are no more reports so madam city clerk can you please facilitate public comment on this item um we are now taking public comment on item 10 if you are in the council chamber and would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period i am seeing no public comment for this item thank you moving to our consent madam city clerk can you please read the consent item item 12.1 is a resolution ratification of purchase order 170391 for 8 Ford f350 truck cab and chassis to 72 hour LLC DBA national auto fleet group group under source well cooperative contract number 091 521 dash NAF thank you bringing it back to council are there any questions seeing no questions on this item we will now have public comment we're at 12 12.1 yes sir we are now taking public comment on item 12.1 if you are in the chamber it would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that podium as you approach the podium please state your name for the record if you choose to do so seeing no public comment for this item thank you vice mayor staff can you please make a motion thank you madam mayor i move item 12.1 second we have a motion made by vice mayor staff in a second by council member mcdonnell madam city clerk can you please facilitate or can you please call the vote council member rogers council member okrepke hi council member mcdonald hi council member fleming hi council member alvarez hi vice mayor staff hi mayor rogers hi let the record reflect that passes with seven eyes thank you it is not yet five o'clock so we are going to skip over 13 for right now and go to our first report item 14.1 madam city manager item 14.1 is bay area housing finance finance authority baffa and 2024 regional affordable housing bond good afternoon mayor rogers and members of council i'm meghan bassinger director of housing and community services and with me is nicole delfie or antino housing and community services manager nicole is going to pull up the presentation and i'm going to just lower my mask all right so tonight we'll be presenting an informational item on the bay area housing finance authority in the proposed regional housing bond this report is for your information and does not require action other than receiving the report we do ask that you have a motion at the end of this item if you are so inclined directing staff to conduct the outreach for the expenditure plan and we will get into that as the item proceeds so to quickly the computer is frozen one moment please okay so a quick overview of the information we will be covering is an overview of the bay area housing finance authority known as baffa a summary of the regional housing bond measure that they are proposing review of the expenditure planning process next steps and then we'll answer any questions that you may have so the bay area housing finance authority is a regional organization that was created to help solve the affordability crisis throughout the bay area it was formed in 2019 and its primary mission is to address the three p's which are production preservation and protection of housing so how baffa works is it was created through state legislation and it's sits in a bag mtc it's the first statewide organization that offers tools and solutions to address the challenges throughout the nine county bay area the core power they have is to raise revenue funding and that's through the proposed bond measure that we'll be touching on in the coming slides and they collaborate with cities and counties throughout the bay area to improve systems and fund housing so some of the pilot programs that baffa is currently developing and launching include the doorway program which is a portal to find housing this is primarily occurring in the south bay but they will be expanding it in 2024 developing an affordable housing pipeline by gathering information throughout the bay area and providing access to residents who are interested in learning more about affordable housing a tax exempt preservation program which is similar to some of the the efforts that we have through our affordability restrictions and this assists properties in receiving tax tax exemptions which improves affordability a preservation pilot program priority site development and then rental assistance to prevent homelessness so the primary purpose that we're before you tonight is to provide information on the upcoming housing bond so baffa has been planning this measure for quite a while and has been convening representatives throughout the bay area and council member fleming is a member of the baffa group they've also been working with representatives and staff from cities and counties to provide peer support and help with the education process so currently baffa my clicker got a little too excited baffa is evaluating bond size looking between 10 to 20 billion dollars to support regional housing needs this requires voter approval and they are looking at the november 2024 ballot for this measure if it is approved it would be dispersed over 10 plus years and the current horizon is 10 to 15 years based on the estimated expenditure of the jurisdictions that would be receiving funding the eligible uses of the proceeds we'll touch on in later slides but they're set forth in the state legislation and they will be monitored by baffa so related to the bond measure and also set to appear on the november 2024 ballot is a constitutional amendment known as aca one which would change the voter threshold for affordable housing general obligation bonds which is what the baffa bond is from 66 percent or two-thirds to 55 percent so if aca one is approved then baffa could be approved at 55 percent but since they're appearing on the same ballot if aca does not pass then the baffa bond would need two-thirds approval in order to be approved so as i touched on depending on the size of the bond and baffa is currently working on how to look working on their polling on how to size it the city of santa rosa is set to potentially receive 121 million if it's a 10 billion dollar bond up to 242 million if it is a 20 billion dollar bond and this is a general obligation parcel tax so it would appear on our parcel tax statements and be repaid over the course of time and so as oops i can go back as you can see the nine counties are listed the what's traditionally referred to as the big cities oakland san francisco and san jose are identified as recipients of direct allocations and then santa rosa which is noted in red at the bottom and then also the city of napa are set to receive direct allocations and this is because of the portion of our regional housing needs allocation rina for sonoma county santa rosa has in excess of 30 percent of the very low income rina and so that qualifies us for a direct allocation of bond proceeds if the bond is to pass so baffa legislation prescribes how the funds can be spent and how they will be allocated if santa rosa was if the bond is to pass and santa rosa receives funding and this example here is for the 121 million which is the 10 billion dollar bond you can see in the top 121 million would be allocated to santa rosa we can spend up to five percent on administration and i will note there's a fair amount of administration that does accompany affordable housing solicitation document preparation and then the ongoing compliance monitoring which will be required for the duration of the projects for rental housing we require 55 years and then ownership is generally a minimum of 30 but we can extend that beyond 30 years so there is a long-term commitment to monitoring projects once they do receive affordable housing funding and in the lower portion of the slide you can see production the minimum level is 52 percent preservation which is one of the areas that the housing authority does currently assist but additional funding is definitely needed and helpful this would be to provide rehabilitation dollars to existing either affordable housing projects or to assist projects that are exist in existence with rehab needs and then restrict affordability tenant protections which is a five percent allocation this is a component that's not currently allowed by state law but if there are changes would be included and this would help fund programs and access to services to help tenants in our community receive information and protections and then finally there's 28 percent which is identified as flexible funding so this would be something that we would explore through the expenditure plan process and identify how best to use that in santa rosa the primary thrust of the bond it would be to help address our arena goals and we have 4 000 plus units we need to strive for so production may be an area where we would want to see that but again that'll be something that we would evaluate during the expenditure plan process so again this just provides a chart of how those funds can be expended and as you can see um bafa on the right would retain 20 percent and they administer some programs themselves and then 80 of the bond proceeds would go to the cities and counties that were identified on the part one of the prior slides so bafa also involves a lot of regional coordination and accountability measures a bond of this size if it is to pass will require a fair amount of oversight and compliance so as i noted it's governed by officials at abag mtc there's an advisory committee that assists with identifying programs and steering this process forward if the bond is to pass every jurisdiction that is identified as receiving funds would need to prepare and submit an expenditure plan those would need to be reviewed to make sure they are in compliance with the enabling legislation of bafa and then would be publicly made available there would be ongoing monitoring to make sure that the jurisdictions and bafa itself is in compliance with the expenditure requirements um and that we are hitting the housing outcomes that are identified throughout the legislation also if it was to pass we would have local level oversight so projects would would need to be approved and reviewed locally and then we provide that information on to bafa so the overall investment goals of the bond is to support innovative and diverse cost efficient housing um have it be financially sustainable um so similar to how that housing authority in santa rosa currently structures its programs are loans that we administer now are based on repayments so it is a revolving loan fund and i would anticipate seeing that with the bafa fund so we can continually reuse the funds also there be a focus on equity and environmental sustainability so this is a quick overview of some of the information we've already touched on um 80 percent of the funds would go to the county of origin and so the allocation that i touched on previously is based on the assessed value of the tax rolls for each jurisdiction um so that is what bafa is using to help size the bond and to identify how the funds will be divided up among the jurisdictions um as i noted san jose oakland and san francisco will receive allocations as the big cities within our nine county region and santa rosa and napo can receive direct allocations because of our rena proportion so again just to reiterate what the required future requirements may be of um the city if the bond is to pass we would need to prepare an expenditure plan that meets the requirements um of the percentages for production preservation and if approved protections as well as identify how we would use the flexible funds bafa is encouraging that the projects prioritize extremely low and very low and low income households to help meet the rena goals for the jurisdictions the funds can be used to up to 120 percent of area median income but again the focus would be on our lower income households and as long as the expenditure plan satisfies all the requirements it will be accepted by bafa so general rules that would accompany the funding would be all housing must be deed restricted and as i noted this is our common practice for all of the loans that we administer through the housing authority and funds that are directed through the city council to the housing and community services department all housing must be affordable up to 120 of am i rental ownership and then interim housing would be eligible and again everything must tie back to the expenditure plan so to give you a quick overview and there's two slides that are fairly similar on the timeline we are currently here in fall 2023 and this is the prescribed engagement process that bafa has laid out um you're receiving the information today the county board of supervisors received a similar item this morning marine county had a similar item last week so everybody's trying to move in concert um it's receiving information at this point in time uh a bag and bafa will vote in the spring whether or not to place an item on the ballot for november 2024 and that's when there'll be a more concerted public information effort and then november 5th 2024 is when the item is identified being placed on on the ballot so our local timeline would be to proceed in a little bit more um depth here if council directs us to proceed with beginning an expenditure plan outreach would be conducted in 2024 we can report back to the council as that process evolves and then bafa is currently identifying the expenditure plans of being due no sooner than 90 days following voter approval so it would be february of 2025 so this process is still a fair ways out um but it's important to get it in front of all of the the council's imports of supervisors as well as the public to let them know what is coming up and that concludes the presentation nicole and i would be happy to answer any questions you may have thank you for that presentation looking to council to see if there are any questions starting with council member okrepke thank you very much madam mayor thank you so much for that presentation um it's a lot of information to digest um my first question is about the timeline of the bond and the parcel tax is there any limitation on i know it's supposed to be distributed by in 10 to 15 years ish and let's say 10 billion dollars if it reaches that does does this cease to exist or does that is it ongoing does this ever expire uh yes thank you for the question so the bonds will be issued in tranches and each tranche is going to carry a 30 year term so the property tax in the early years will be very small about two or three dollars per hundred thousand dollars of assessed value and then uh because the taxes only have to cover the first issuance at that point um it will reach its peak when the bonds are outstanding at about 20 per 100 thousand dollars of assessed value and then it'll start going back down after that so the if the last tranche is issued on year 10 after the voter approval the tax will continue for another 30 years after that okay so that $10 62 cent rate um that's in the report that's just like an average of all that over the time period that is an estimated average yes um so forgive me i'm not an expert on affordable housing when it comes to applying for tax credits and stuff like that but um can you educate me a little bit my understanding is that when applying for tax credits um funding from other sources and such as this kind of limits the your ability to as to what you can do um in terms of what you can build is that correct so oftentimes in affordable housing we see a layering of resources tax credits being um a larger component of some of the funding tax credits do have to comply with irs regulations and that requires that a minimum of 40 percent of the units be restricted to households at or below 60 of am i and so that's the minimum it's also a highly competitive process at the state level so in order for projects to be successful in the tax credit competitions they need to greatly exceed the requirements um so the majority of projects that we see with tax credits lately are 100 affordable providing very robust services and amenities to the proposed tenants which is hopefully this is the point of your question which is why we are seeing affordable housing being on separate parcels so we wouldn't see mixed income sites in a lot of these these developments okay so how does this mesh with our goals for various areas whether it be fully affordable or mixed income would this prohibit any sort of development of the any of those kinds or make it extremely difficult i should say so with uh the tax credit program for financing as well as other various state programs for funding of affordable developments it's not necessarily prohibitive from the regulations to do mixed income developments but the competitiveness of the tax credit program as well as the expertise needed at the developer level and the the additional cost to manage those two separate funding sources for affordable units versus the market rate units adds to the overall cost of the developments in the mixed use developments so it's ultimately up to the development community that we have here if they are willing to undertake a mixed income project like that knowing that certain level of expertise and additional cost will be needed for those versus the way that we have historically seen these types of projects and scenarios are like the former journey's end site that overall ends up being a mixed income development by means of separating out the parcels to have one parcel with its fully market rate and then other parcels that are strictly affordable okay thank you and then um i guess so would would we be able to apply the these funds to what we what is deemed affordable by design or would they have to be specifically determined as affordable by by statute or law these funds do require the deed restriction to keep them affordable and so the affordable by design is not necessarily associated with having that 55 year deed restriction okay thank you sorry i just a few more questions i apologize um it's my understanding that for this to go into effect it's not just sonoma county that passes it has to be the entirety of the nine counties that are incorporated in baffa that is correct my understanding is it needs to pass in each of the nine counties and at the threshold that is dictated by that ballot so again if aca one passes it could be at 55 percent but if aca one does not pass it would need to be two-thirds okay um last question am i correct that there's multiple housing bonds expected to be on the ballot in 2024 throughout the state and our region so in 2024 just a quick survey of other bonds that are on the ballot um there is a statewide bond for 10 billion dollars which will be on the march 2024 ballot and that's a general state housing bond to fund hcd programs there is a mental health bond for housing and psychiatric um assistance for homeless individuals um and then san francisco in march of 2024 is also advancing their own 300 million dollar affordable housing bond and then sonoma county it has a sales tax for um fire services also on the march 2024 ballot okay thank you so much i appreciate it councilmember mcdonnell thank you mayor um my question actually was around the two different votes that um aguilar curry was putting on their assembly member curry she wants to do the lower the threshold for 55 percent and then it really was and just to be clear there's nine counties that have to pass this at the current rate of two-thirds unless that was to pass at the same time so aca one will be a statewide measure to reduce the threshold from two-thirds to 55 yes so if that passes then the baffa measure which is going to be on bay area ballots so within the nine bay area counties could pass if aca one passes it could pass at 55 percent but if aca one does not pass it would need to pass it two-thirds and then just to for clarification on that do they take the total voters cumulatively and make sure that we're at two-thirds of how many voters there are or literally each county has to do the 66.6 percent i'm just want to make sure we know our numbers not that i'm i'm for this project and i want to make sure but i just wanted to know how that worked when i've never heard of a regional vote like this so it's it's new it's a new one to me actually that is a very good question and i don't believe we have the answer to that i want to believe that it's accumulative yeah i think it would be important to know so we know for our advocacy it is cumulative it is accumulative so if we had a hundred percent of the votes here could offset another one of the regions that may not reach that two-thirds vote we can find we'll research that and come back with a clear answer for you that's an excellent question thank you thank you are there any more questions council members all right seeing no additional questions madame city clerk can you please facilitate public comment we are now taking public comment on item 14.1 if you were in the council chamber would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period as you approach the podium please state your name if you choose to do so please go ahead when you're ready. Dwayne DeWitt Sonoma County Housing Advocacy Group formed over 30 years ago because this town and this county has never provided enough affordable rental residential housing at least not for the last 50 years i look over here at these teenagers and i think back to 50 years ago when i knew that most folks just getting out of high school could not afford any kind of apartment in santa rosa without the help of family and friends so as you go forward with this ask for the whole big panada go for 20 billion and then ask also that there be stipulations in there at one point on slide 12 it states the project to serve those most in need and basically there's too much wiggle room in this thing right now there's no stipulation that says shall serve those most in need and then on page slide 14 28 percent of this funding could be housing related use that's where the big wiggle room is because there'll be people who try to manipulate that and say oh well this is housing related i would ask that you folks look deeper and say let's give higher percentages to the preservation amount and higher percentages to the situations of tenant support that's who needs us most is the low income people this is going to be marketed out there like you're helping the least among us but if you can't specifically say this must do that there's going to be a lot of people who are detractors they're going to say wait a minute this is looking like a bit of a a slush fund 28 percent that's a lot of money folks that's billions and billions of dollars so there needs to be a situation in which we can protect the housing market and make it mixed income and make it be something where these young teens who they're advancing out into their careers they can afford to live here in our town and our county this is really a very important bond i'm supportive of it in most ways but i'm distrustful of the way government works and i know that there'll be people who manipulate this not necessarily to get more rental affordable residential housing and that's the biggest need it said here you wanted to put in 4 000 units we always meet our numbers for above moderate rena numbers are always filled for that but they haven't been filled for over 30 years for low income and over 40 years for extremely low income you get to change that paradigm you get to be the ones to make it all different thank you for doing that please go ahead when you're ready no sorry sorry go ahead now thank you yes uh tomas ells civil environmental engineer and uh i was uh a municipal bond broker so i sold millions of dollars of these kind of bonds uh development bonds non-rated bonds highly rated bonds state bonds um california general obligation bonds many all different types and millions of dollars and bonds and and it's a great idea it's really good um some of the the technicalities that are important um are for instance in and i'm all for preservation of housing but you know if you're preserving affordable uh rental housing that means it's already full of tenants so they're already paying their rents so that's great all you need to do is fund the down payment to preserve that as affordable housing the down payment amount because the ongoing income is going to fund that on a monthly basis going to fund those bonds no problem i mean that's a highly rated bond that's a terrific bond i'm telling you that it'd be a great bond as far as the security for that because it's got all the income from those in the case of producing affordable housing it's much more difficult since it's a torturous process and so again the bond funding can be a supplement and is usually a supplement and needs to be a supplement for the layering of of the housing affordable housing financing and so that part again it doesn't have to be the whole thing that can be a layer on top that is necessary to to bridge the the funding uh other things that it can do is help development meaning uh pre pre-project development funding right it's very important for that the engineering the some infrastructure off-site infrastructure the planning process is enormous the overhead i mentioned here last time about agency executive costs right that's huge for an ongoing project that for instance Burbank or something like that they have a lot of already they already have they own lots of houses here developed by my friend who's a hospice right now john um uh yohan uh morgan was there uh many years as an engineer for them and developer uh designer and so on um they already have but but for anybody else that's new they don't have that executive funding to deal with how many years it takes to actually produce a housing so it's very important to have that thank you uh good evening mayor roger's vice mayor staff by the way congratulations council members and staff uh my name is calum makes him the policy director of generation housing first and foremost it is my understanding that is a percentage of all the voters at vote in the nine county area uh just uh share that a little bit of information uh and and really my my request of you is is quite simple uh we would like to see this brought to you in the form of a resolution preferably soon around later uh obviously housing is reached ultimate uh well we're out of crisis it's it's quite plain and simple and so moving on this is important it sets the tone for how others might perceive how they should potentially vote and maybe won't sway a a wide share of our voters but certainly it sends a strong message that our city is is willing and able and and ready to step up and we know you all are leaders and and we've you know had really great conversations with you and and we're appreciative of everything you're doing and so we're hoping you'll continue to be leaders and you'll bring a resolution forward uh soon so that we could vote on it and we can move forward and hopefully could respond past and work towards transforming the bay area and getting us back on track uh with that I always welcome any questions feel free to reach out thank you uh always appreciate your leadership and time and have a wonderful evening seeing no additional speakers on this item thank you um I'm going to bring it back to council for comments but I did want to thank Megan and her team for all of your work generation housing and also thank our own councilmember Fleming for all of her work and dedication um to our community thank you I'll pass it over to councilmember Rogers all right thank you mayor uh and I also want to say thank you for everybody who's been working on this we did have a chance to see a presentation also at the Sonoma County Transportation Authority uh and it was presented to us as though a simple majority across the entire district uh excuse me uh uh the votes across the entire district would matter not each county also having to sign off on it which was one of the main concerns that we heard from some of our smaller cities is not just allowing Sonoma County to be used for our votes but actually making sure that the other jurisdictions not just Santa Rosa who has a direct allocation was able to compete for funding as well uh and I think that when we talk about housing we do talk about it in terms of regionality we talk about it in terms of needs uh and so one of the things that I'll be really cognizant of as they're crafting it is not just that Santa Rosa gets its slice but that Sonoma County has a whole that runner park and Petaluma and Windsor and Healdsburg that they all get what they need in it as well um and don't just have dollars that are siphoned off from Sonoma County to then go into other counties that might have more population than we do uh I am supportive uh I think that if we do a uh bring forward a resolution that's supportive in concept that really does express what we're trying to accomplish as a city and how this could help us to achieve those goals I think that that'd be a good footing for us I do think we also need more details as the expenditure plan plays out before any of us can fully sign off and say yep that's the measure that that for sure we are backing and that we want to make sure voters vote for uh but I think at this point being supportive in concept really aligns with our city's goals are there any other comments from council members all right council member Fleming can you make your comment and then roll into your motion can I um make the comment yeah I do need the ordinance pulled up if somebody has that my grant because it's down that'd be fantastic uh so I'm just going to focus on the couple of comments I want to first start by saying thank you to people for giving us your feedback I've been working on this with the staff at MTC for quite some time now and I'm going to be um part of a small working group going forward to actually craft this so if you have things like should shall may must please email me um and let me know where you think we ought to make adjustments because this is not something that we want to do to the people this is something we want to do with the people and for the people and the reason why we want to do this don't just extend to simply building affordable housing what is buried in this that's really remarkable is based on this new york housing fund model where the 20 percent that gets remitted to the housing authority essentially creates a banking function and that banking function means that every time the barrier housing finance authority originates alone that fee that normally would go to a private firm and get paid out to private shareholders gets reinvested back in the bank and what that allows us to do is spend that money on operating expenditures for things like permanent supportive housing and other types of supports for folks who are acutely low-income people who don't qualify at the 30 to 60 percent area median income so that's one of the most exciting and powerful pieces of this want to address another point about the percentages and what gets allocated to what they're not set in stone forever they're a five year term and then they can be readjusted based on needs and we'll be listening carefully to what the public has to say and also what the sub regional issues are and that brings me to another point which is I believe and have been advocating for greater communication while Santa Rosa it might seem like we get ours in this situation because we're direct allocation jurisdiction it doesn't really make sense for us to be operating in a silo and I've been working closely with supervisor rabbit as well as other cities in the area to make sure that we develop not just in Sonoma County but probably in the north bay the four north bay counties of Solano Napa and Marin to make sure that we don't create or exacerbated jobs housing in balance we don't want another highway 37 situation which is you know distinct in and of itself but we don't want to create a situation where we have a lot of people coming here for housing and then having to go elsewhere for jobs we want to make sure that we develop in ways that are safe particular interest to me is making sure that we build in ways that don't exacerbate our natural disaster risk so that we're not building in flood plains that we're not incentivizing growth in wild and urban interfaces and that we're always keeping in mind what makes sense environmentally and economically and for the people a couple things I heard that I want to touch on is the 28 percent and they're there first of all there will be money that goes towards planning we have a great planning team we have a we're a good mid-sized city we have robust staff but it's never enough and the smallest cities really do need money to make sure that they plan and plan well and again I'd like to see a sub regional plan developed that addresses not just the needs of san eras and Sonoma County but the north bay another thing that that money can be used for is for the development of services that need to go along with housing you know you can't just put you know a thousand two thousand homes in an area and not have park services a lot of times a big barrier for developers and making and putting in housing is the the required upgrades to the sidewalks to the streets to undergrounding utility wires so a lot of this is not for is not a giveaway it's so that the housing actually does get built and the community is not worse off for the wear of the housing that goes in so we're building complete communities and then last thing that I just want to emphasize is this communication and trust I know a lot of cities and counties struggle with trust and I've been working to increase the the strength of the language around the communication plans that the cities have to have with the county this is again not an issue in Santa Rosa but all of the jurisdictions all of the eight other cities in the county have to work directly with the county and Santa Rosa does not and I think that that's a mistake I think that Santa Rosa ought to have to plan with I'm glad we get our own and I'm not looking to have to ask the county for how we ought to allocate it but I do think that we should have a communication with all 10 jurisdictions the nine cities and the county and I think that the count the other cities in our district in our in our county need to have a greater degree of confidence that the board of supervisors is not just the language as it stands is that they they shall listen and they shall confer but I do agree that we need something stronger than than just listening because the trust level is not there and I do believe that it can be rebuilt in that our board of supervisors and our our councils across the county have the willingness to get this done right and that we can use this as an opportunity to repair but if anybody has any thoughts or ideas or input about how we can operationalize that improvement I'm really looking forward to hearing about it my email is V Fleming with 1m at srcity.org and I look forward to your input it will go straight to the top on this one um it's my pleasure to bring forward a recommendation by housing community services department that the council one received information about the barrier housing finance authority and the 2024 regional affordable housing bond and two by motion direct staff to conduct outreach and development and development expenditure plan outlining the use of bond proceeds returning to the city council at a later date for adoption second we have a motion made by council member Fleming and a second made by council member o'crefky madam city clerk can you please call the vote council member rogers hi council member o'crefky hi council member mcdonald hi council member fleming hi council member alvarez vice mayor staff hi mayor rogers hi the motion passes with seven affirmative votes thank you it is a little bit past five so we're going to go back up to item 13 which is our first public comment on non-agenda matters madam city clerk can you please facilitate public comment we are now taking public comment on item 13 non-agenda matters this is a time when any person may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council if you were in the council chamber would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period we'll take 12 speakers under item 13 if we have more than 12 public comments on item 13 the remaining speakers will be forwarded an opportunity to speak on item 17 non-agenda matters as you approach the podium please state your name for the record if you choose to do so i would like to use the overhead if i can okay please go ahead when you're ready thank you so i just wanted to go back and remind the council of what we were talking about last time which is hurt avenue and the misalignment of koana springs in yohanda that i go back if not you know i mean decades if not more than that and remind the council of the situation along 101 is that there were only three crossings todd road hern and the corby baker over crossing of which there are only six lanes available to cross east or west um of 101 and when you replace when you replace hern here i mean it's going to a great extent in order to keep these lanes operating while you make two lanes remove the existing two lanes and add two more lanes the effect of that is destroying an existing over crossing and adding an over crossing totaling three rather than what really should have been done originally conceptually and was i mentioned before it ends up being by centennial gets done instead of this through machinations the the point being is you have the opportunity to add a 33 percent increase in the number of crossings by adding one to three is a 33 percent increase as opposed to just keeping it the same number of crossings and by adding four lanes let's say you add four lanes which are planning to add four lanes if you add four lanes that's a 66 percent increase of the existing six lanes of over crossing so you would add 66 percent instead of adding two lanes which would barely be 30 33 percent to those um so the question i would ask and hope you would ask is how can we do this how can this be done and i sent an email to you of of toks um um i'll try to pronounce his name okushani i believe okushoki um who is the secretary of transportation and i met him down at the north pedaluma station of slark when that was being put in and this guy is a great guy this guy he is a very impressive guy i i didn't know his bio and i met him i said i'm a civil environmental engineer and he looked at me and he said oh get my information from from his person his secretary person that he's on the i'm sorry he's on the that's sorry the timer the timer is not showing because of your um that lectern but the three minutes did did run do we have any additional speakers on this item please go ahead when you're ready hello my name is duane d whit i'm from rosalind i wanted to thank council member fleming for her comments tonight and i think it's a good idea that she's giving out her email asking people to get back with her with these ideas on that funding i came to talk about 909 humble street basically over a decade ago a speed limit sign was put on the telephone pole in front of 909 humble street because there was traffic calming efforts going forward there the idea was that there would be this solar operated speed limit sign it would show the folks how fast they were going get them to slow down well for the last month a van from alaska has been parked in front of that and it hasn't moved and that sign is inoperative and i noticed nobody seemed to care and i thought well that could actually help rosalind because herna avenue is basically a raceway it's a speedway people are out there all the time burning rubber going fast not caring about things luckily occasionally some motorcycle police officers come by and some tickets are issued but if you were to put that solar operated speed limit sign there on some of the poles we could have a little bit more safety last week you heard the capital improvement program for the transportation and it pointed out there'll be a signal put in at the corner of burbank avenue and herna avenue it may take sometimes six to eight months in the future you could move that speed limit sign over there to herna avenue in just a day if you got your crew on it so please look into that i know people along herna avenue that live near southwest community park and they would welcome that speed limit indicator you also have portable speed limit indicator signs that you could put out there we really need it because people have essentially adopted an attitude like they don't care and that's where they can come out and drag race so early in the evening when the commute has lowered people become a bit more aggressive and they come out there and they race and it's dangerous somebody's going to get hurt we said this in the past about people getting hurt before Jerome Patrick Scott Patrick Jerome Scott excuse me was killed out on Bellevue avenue decades ago and we made a point of saying you need to have the safety beforehand so please do something about this as soon as possible so none of our youth end up being a casualty as a matter of fact in the past three or four the pedestrian and bicycle casualties have been over in the roseland area so this is a perfect time speed limit signs on herna avenue thank you kindly for your time thank you i'm seeing no additional comments on this item thank you um bear with me we're going to take the agenda out of order a bit and we're going to go to our first public hearing which is 15.1 madam city manager item 15.1 is a petition to expand the downtown residential permit parking zone to include the 300 block of Lincoln street situated between Washington street and morgan street i think you need to turn your mic on please thanks yeah that better sounds better we're going to talk about uh the petition to expand the downtown residential permit parking zone to include the 300 block of Lincoln street so currently up to 300 Lincoln the downtown residential permit parking zone was established in may 27th of 2003 and the council city code section 1144-050 has established our process that we have to follow for folks who want to enter the so petition has been received from the residents of the 300 block of Lincoln street to expand the downtown residential permit parking zone the zone will have a two hour time limit limited parking from 9 a.m to 8 p.m monday through friday and the residents may purchase permits exempting them from the time limits so you can see the proposed expansion right now for the residential permit zone the brown is the existing permitted zone and the the aqua is the addition to the zone so the benefit approval of this item will provide relief to the residents allowing the park beyond the posted time limits in the in the permit zone and the two hour time limit will serve as a deterrent to long-term spillover parking freeing up spaces for the residents is recommended by the finance department that the council by resolution approved the petition to expand the downtown residential permit parking zone to include the 300 block of Lincoln street between washington street and morgan street are there any questions thank you looking to council to see if there are any questions on this item and seeing none we will now open the public hearing madame city clerk thank you mayor we are now taking public comment on item 15.1 if you are in the council chamber and would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period as you approach the podium please date your name for the record if you choose to do so are you yes go ahead and that podium is fine are you please go ahead once you're ready okay can you hear me all right yes my name is andy graham i live at three one six excuse me lincoln street right in the middle of the zone that's being discussed and i feel for the most part i am in favorite i i just want the record to state that i don't like the idea of paying a permit fee to park in front of my own home that i pay taxes on it's just one of those it may seem maybe that's petty of me to say but just more of a principal thing i um i don't expect my opinion here to change that but i just wanted to be on the record that i i live there i've been there 13 years and i plan on living there a long time and i just i don't like the idea of having to pay to park in front of my own house so i don't wonder if there's a way to waive that or if there's any possibility i would just want that anyways that's all i wanted to say i just wanted that to be on the record thank you thank you we have no additional public comment on this item can you tell us a little bit about the the parking fee like how much it is how that works yeah of course so the the fee is only $20 for a year it's an annual permit that that $20 includes guest permits for it contractor permits are all included in there so we try to make it as as easy as possible for these folks and then really it's it's just to try to help make sure that the spots in front of their homes stay open so the $20 fee covers a lot thank you so we will now close our public hearing councilmember rogers if there are no questions from council can you make a motion yeah and with with respect to the fee i think that is something that we can take a look at at some point it's all throw that out there but i will introduce a resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa expanding the downtown residential permit parking zone to include the 300 block of lincoln street situated between washington street and morgan street within the downtown residential permit parking zone and wait for the reading of the text second we have a motion made by councilmember rogers and a second by councilmember mcdonald councilor are there any comments saying none madame city clerk can you please call the vote councilmember rogers hi councilmember okrepki hi councilmember mcdonald hi councilmember fleming yes councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor stop hi mayor rogers hi the motion passes with seven affirmative votes thank you thank you very much for being here in that presentation all right we will now continue with 15.2 which is our second public hearing item 15.2 is adoption of revised animal services fees good evening mayor and councilmembers jason that assistant city manager i am joined here by brian whipple and michelle renais from sonoma county they'll be providing you with a presentation relating to the county animal services and fee and fees that are being increased in order to cover costs for service or fee adjustments that are being made in order to ensure there's nearly full cost recovery and they'll go into more detail about that as a public hearing i wanted to let you know that we did do a public notice let folks in the community understand which which fees were going to be adjusted and how they were being adjusted what the current rate is and what the proposed rate is so that was put into the newspaper on november the 25th and therefore we feel we've been we've provided some adequate notice so that we can engage in this discussion in more depth and with that i'm going to hand this over to brian whipple good evening brian whipple director of animal services for sonoma county animal services we we actually did go through a pretty in-depth fee study over the last year we hadn't had one that really brought out what our what our services are and what they actually cost us to do and provide those services i think that you know what we'll see is that we are we may be increasing some fees but there are also fees that are decreasing through some work with an outside vendor we're able to actually decrease the the cost for a dog license which is a you know basically dropping say a unneutered male dog or an unspade female dog from a hundred dollars down to 20 which is you know much more from the efficiencies that we've created with this with this new group called docupat and it's really created some some good benefits for the community you know our mission and and what we do is we protect you know animals from people and people from from animals and you know a lot of what we do is we investigate animal cruelty we educate the public there and a lot of our job is education you know we rather get compliance than come in with the stick we'd rather come in with a carrot and gain that compliance we we we also want to reduce that over population because i will say that our our shelter is extremely full right now and that is a direct result of too many animals in the community and a lot of the pandemic puppies that that that folks got over those years that now we're we're we're seeing come through our doors on a daily basis nationwide there's been a 10 increase in animals going into shelters and a 4 decrease of animals leaving shelters so we're getting you know more animals in and not enough for leaving through adoption or other positive outcomes say transfer adoption those types of things and like i said we contracted with docupat in 2022 in order to to be more efficient and you know one to a more online web based solution to to create a better way of of doing the dog licensing it's uh there was some growing pains because it is all online so there are some things that go along with that but it has actually you know increased our compliance with it as well as within the county area the unincorporated area we have seen more compliance because the fees have been lowered as well which has been a great great piece for us the wolfer consulting was the the group that we worked with we we animal services isn't a a full cost recovery type of business you know if we don't have if we charge too much people aren't going to come and get their animals out of the shelter we want to remove every roadblock we can to get animals back with their people and by doing so it's really working with the community you know whether it's if somebody's just struggling financially we'll work with them on those fees and payment plans if that's what it comes down to we we just want to remove those roadblocks get animals back home and create better outcomes for everybody that comes through our door uh the the changes in our business structure is that in adding some of the fees because we do see uh the the amount of work that goes into some of the different pieces of our work so say a dangerous dog investigation those take a really long time or really a lot amount of staff time to do those investigations and that that takes a really heavy toll on the on the operation because those folks are dedicated to making sure that that that piece is taken care of and it's a lot of investigation that goes into that can be going back and forth through court multiple times or going back to a location to correct to collect more evidence on on what's going on and as you can see here these are some of just some of our statistics and our response time to those and in order to to you know service the community and this is just for Santa Rosa Calls for service right here that you're seeing you know a police or fire assist you know over the last last fiscal year there was a hundred that we responded to and we got there in 18 minutes and that's that's definitely a good response time there we do we want to improve that absolutely and that is our goal to be able to do that and here is just kind of a listing of what some of our fees are and were and what they're going to like I said we're not full cost recovery because if we did go full cost recovery we would be inundated and we wouldn't be able to operate again want to make sure that that we're being fair to the community and it's equitable to so that everybody can actually come through our door and work with us to get their pets back and this is where boarding fees look like over the year and what the change will come to and then the the the dog license says I stated before you know we want to be able to make this more equitable so that folks can can do this and be compliant with state code and with with county and Santa Rosa code and this is where you see our sharpest increase is in the the dangerous dog and and potentially dangerous dog you know like I said there's a lot of work that goes into that and that also is with the city attorney's office the amount of time that's invested in that as well so there's a lot a lot that goes into those types of investigations and you know it is recommended by by us in the city manager's office that we do the you approve these fees we're hoping that that that comes to resolution this evening thank you I'm going to bring it back to council for for questions but I did have a question on one of your slides it said you will improve fairness and equity I just wanted to know how will you do that and can you give me an example of where you feel you need to improve you know I want to say like over the years there's been struggles with reaching certain communities and in and really getting our message out and understanding that they're we're there to help um you know once the city you know annex roseland they gave us a lot of opportunity to be able to get more in depth to speak to the community we do want to be able to hold more community meetings and be able to say hey we're not here to punish we're here to help and we want to be the resource for for the entire city and for the entire county you know we may not have a service that we provide but we sure know who does and we want to connect those people with those services and being able to do that across the board with with everyone whether it's working with our behavioral health units or with just you know any other you know group that's out there whether it's a non-profit or another county or city organization we want to be able to use those resources for all um second question if someone finds a dog are they able to drop it off at your facility or where do they go yeah um our address is 1247 century court um it's up off a airport airport boulevard uh and you know our hours of operation uh for the public are 10 to 5 um and that's all in our adoption hours are 12 to 5 um but anytime during that and also if it's an off hour um you know uh we have officers that are on 24 hours a day seven days a week um the overnight and and and those days are more emergency based response but during those days if you have a dog that you know ends up in your backyard which does happen quite often uh we will we can have an officer come out and and collect that animal as well um and i know we're talking about increasing some of your fees but i did have a question uh sometimes people are hospitalized for reasons that they have no control over and a big fear that they have is that if their animals go they won't be able to get them back and so they don't want to take care of either their physical or mental health is there something in their low income so is there something to assist with that absolutely we actually do have hardship boarding programs um and a low cost program both for housing and for spay neuter so if somebody does end up in the hospital that you know they can't control that we'll take that animal in for a minimum of seven to 14 days depending at for no cost whatsoever um and then once that period ends it can be negotiated i wouldn't say that we we hold anyone's feet to the fire when it comes down to that part of it because again we want to make sure you know everybody has an opportunity to get their pets but those programs have been just greatly successful um they are based upon you know our our limited housing and so that can be difficult sometimes but we've been able to make a lot of accommodations on that front and we do work with some domestic violence groups as well to be able to provide emergency housing as needed when that comes up perfect it is great to hear that thank you so much vice mayor thank you mayor uh and and thank you for for all the information you're providing on what the county is doing um that's that's really important work uh i wasn't aware that there's that the shelter population was increasing as quickly as it is so thank you for that stat um on a slightly different note though i was looking at the license fee chart suppose that you had a dog so suppose someone had a dog who was both extra cute and really really good are there additional discounts that could be had in the licensing if we can use pictures possibly all right um but more seriously thank you for all you're doing thank you looking at council it doesn't appear that there are any more questions so we will now open our public hearing madame city clerk we're now taking public comment on item 15.2 if you're in the council chamber and would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period as you approach the podium please state your name for the record if you choose to do so will you be making a public comment saying no one approaching the podium to make a public comment we will now close the public hearing and are there any comments from council i just want to say thank you so much for being here when the mayor told me we were going to have a public hearing on the increase in fleas i thought she meant uh city hall and the issues that we've had over the last couple of months so uh thank you for clarifying that it was fees not fleas this is one of those moments when i wish i skipped you all right so we're gonna go over to council member alvarez to make a motion thank you madam mayor you know here the response from the question that the mayor posed about the extended stay and the services are being provided i have to say i wish that humans treated humans as well as you treated the animals so i definitely have to commend your efforts and with that said i do want to put forth the resolution of the council of the city of san rosa approving and adopting the sonoma county animal services revised fees and way further reading of the text motion made by council member alvarez and second by council member rogers madam city clerk can you please call the vote council member rogers council member okrepke i council member mcdonald i council member fleming i council member alvarez hi vice mayor stop hi mayor rogers hi the motion passes with seven affirmative votes thank you very much for being here and thank you for the presentation we're going to go back up to 14.2 madam city manager item 14.2 introduction of ordinance adding chapter nine dash 30 to the san rosa city code pertaining to hazardous vegetation and fuels management good evening mayor rogers vice mayor members of the council my name is paul oenthal division chief fire marshal joined by adam mabel from the city attorney's office bringing forward the hazardous vegetation and fuel management ordinance also in the chambers of chief building official jesse oswald who is part of the development of this ordinance as well as members from water parks departments as well the hazardous vegetation and fuel management ordinance is a current goal and objective ours for council for this fiscal year it's also been a goal of ours under the community wildfire protection plan and was identified as a priority for calendar 2023 so currently what we have is our wildlife interface that in some cases has had measures and steps taken by the community in the city and other parts of it that have not where ultimately we're trying to get the entire community to do their part to mitigate the risks of future wildfires i remember sitting here providing a council update after the glass fire and hearing comments from the council that we can't allow another disastrous wildfire to affect our community and since then we've been committed to taking measures and steps to help prevent that and that's exactly why we're here what we've seen since 2017 is parts of our our wildland urban interface which impacts roughly 9 000 properties throughout areas that we refer to as the bennett valley portion of the city which is in between summerfield nanodale state park monocedo and fountain grove which primarily extends roughly from the flamingo to the north city limits and to brush creek road and over towards mendicino avenue the skyhawk area as well as the southern part of oakmont in between oakmont drive and and adult state park in areas that were impacted by the wildfires both the 17 tubs guns and then 2020 glass fire we're seeing vegetation and fuels come back worse today than they were pretty 2017 that's with the change of ecology that we're seeing as well as a lot of the dead fuels that have accumulated as a result of those fires went ahead and selected some pictures over the next this slide the next slide that just show what we're trying to address this is an example of a lot of the hazardous vegetation along what we refer to as one of our evacuation routes and then the second picture also shows mulch which in this particular case is a stringy fibrous mulch commonly referred to as gorilla hair which proved to be quite challenging for us during the glass fire when we fortunately had a lot more firefighters mobilized to help deal with this but that's not always the case and we saw the challenges of the destruction that it led to in some cases the extended amount of time that resources were tied up dealing with it to prevent additional loss the top picture shows one property owner that's done their part but then is directly impacted by another property owner that hasn't done their part and you'll see how we're going to attempt to address this the last two pictures as well as another example of in this case scotch broom that's growing out of control in an area in oakmont i'm sorry in fountain grove that used to be once oak and grass woodlands and again with the loss of tree canopy it has changed our ecology and the growth of the fuels within our community so what we're proposing is to take the community wildfire protection plan which has been identified as kind of the framework of our vegetation management program to lay out the the goals and objectives of this ordinance and keep in mind the community wildfire protection plan involved a lot of community involvement which is exactly what it's for and so a lot of the action items that came out of the community wildfire protection plan were incorporated into the development of this ordinance we also were fortunate that we received a half million dollars from community development block grants mitigation program that will assist in educating and providing outreach and materials to educate the public and exactly what this means as some of these new rules go into effect because ultimately our goal is education way before we get into actual enforcement so getting right into what the ordinance covers currently wildland urban interface or defensible space inspections or oh sorry let me back up currently defensible space is only required by law within very high fire hazard severity zones that have been mapped by cal fire that represents a very small portion of our overall wildland urban interface the first step in the first goal of this ordinance will be now to require all properties with structures within the wildland urban interface comply with defensible space and so we will institute education outreach and inspections of those properties as we move around the city to make sure that they're all in compliance with the standards the second thing that we will do is what has been a challenge that both fire and pet have heard about since the fires is the volume of dead trees within the burn scars one thing that we've realized that there's really no way that we're going to be able to address all of the dead trees within the city at least well while i'm here and probably a lot of other people are here but that's one of the issues that we're seeing across california with just the volume of of wildfires that are taking place is you have to try and figure out which ones to address first at least as we kick off a program like this and so what it's going to redo is require the removal of dead trees along right a ways within 30 feet of a right away along property lines where we're seeing the potential of dead trees affecting one property to another and also again within defensible space zones where it's an added fuel load so this are what we've identified as our highest threats and the requirement will go into effect 365 days after this ordinance goes into effect which gives people time to start making plans to address those trees we're already seeing a lot of them take place the volume of trees in these areas is definitely down from when acting director oswald and jesse and i first did the analysis following the 2017 fires the third item is it will require the removal of invasive species primarily scotch room and french room from again certain areas identified by the ordinance which again includes a long evacuation routes and public right of ways within 30 feet along property lines and away from defensible space zones we just conducted a fuel management project in this Thomas Lake Harris open space to remove scotch room french room on city owned property using vegetation management funds that were allocated by council and found that some of that scotch room french room is upwards of 14 to 15 feet in height which is obviously a concern in ours and what's leading to this step this also will apply to parcels vacant parcels and undeveloped vacant parcels within the wildlander interface and it's primarily around the boundaries of those properties we already have weed abatement ordinance requirements what requires them to be in compliance and cut the fuels within 30 feet of property lines and this will expand upon that and help provide that level of protection and the final thing that will do is require the removal of fibrous stringy mulch which is again commonly referred to as gorilla her mulch within 30 feet of a structure which will improve the defensible space around that home so ultimately it is our recommendation that the council adopt the ordinance adding chapter 9-30 to the Santa Rosa city code pretending to hazardous fuel and vegetation management ordinance to reduce the wildfire risk within our community and minimize the threats to property and the environment and again i'm here if you have any questions as well as adam from the city attorney's office and jesse on behalf of pet thank you for that presentation and i see chief westrope here and i also want to thank you guys for your commitment and your team's commitment to keeping our community safe it does help us to sleep a little better at night knowing that you guys are doing everything you can do to keep us safe so looking at council members to see if there are any questions we have no questions so madam city clerk may you please facilitate public comment we are now taking public comment on item 14.2 if you are in the council chamber and would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period please state your name for the record if you choose to do so please go ahead when you're ready hello duane duwit from rosalind there's a curious approach here hopefully this ordinance is applying throughout the city not just in the wildland urban interface areas hopefully it's anywhere where there's a chance for underbrush and shrubs to become overgrown and be next to residential areas that then could be prone to a type of a fire this is especially important on city-owned lands i was hoping that perhaps the city would be more proactive in limbing trees and pulling out underbrush in areas that might be hazardous in certain communities thank you seeing no additional comment for this item all right bringing it back to council and seeing no comments from council members council member o'crefky thank you very much madam mayor i will move an ordinance of the council of the city of san erosa adding chapter nine dash three zero to title nine health and safety of the san erosa city code pertaining to hazardous vegetation and fuels management and wait for the reading of the text second we have a motion made by council member o'crefky and a second by council member mcdonald madam city clerk can you please call the vote council member rogers hi council member o'crefky hi council member mcdonald hi council member fleming hi council member alvarez hi vice mayor stop hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with seven eyes thank you again thank you so much for the presentation moving on to item 14.3 madam city manager item 14.3 acceptance of fy 2023 2022 2023 measure o annual report oversight board name change an amendment to the implementation plan good evening mayor and city council members my name is veronica connor i'm the budget and financial analysis manager and also the staff liaison for measure o today we're going to be presenting to you the measure o 22 23 annual report but before i turn it over to the departments i'd like to go over with you a couple administrative items that we covered at our most recent coc meeting so first of all we met with the coc in november of this year we meet with them annually in the fall to go over the annual report which covers in detail the expenditures and revenues of measure o measure o was passed back in 2004 but was renewed in 2022 by measure h so there was confusion about what we call the items that measure o isn't measure h so we discussed the opportunity for a name change we wanted to move away from a more generic tax measure name so after some deliberation and discussion with the citizens oversight committee they voted on the name the public safety and prevention tax citizens oversight committee so for short we'll call this the p sap coc so this does require council approval by vote so for the remainder of the presentation we'll still be calling this measure o the name hasn't changed yet but should council approve the name change when you hear from us again we will be the p sap coc second at the coc meeting last month we also discussed a change to the implementation plan you may recall in the spring when we bring the budget forward there's usually an implementation plan for measure o this has been a multi-year plan showing the detailed expenditures for each department the implementation plan was part of the measure o ordinance and was originally just a one-year plan providing more detail on expenditures however this was changed in 2015 to be a 10-year plan to account for the winding down and expiration of the tax measure so with the renewal of measure h the citizens oversight committee expressed a desire to change this back to a one-year plan the multi-year plan didn't seem to be serving a purpose it was confusing it wasn't it was a multi-year planning was arbitrary there's a lot that can happen in many years so the they voted to change the plan back to a one-year plan and this also does require council votes with six affirmative votes there's an attachment on this item that shows an example format of the implementation plan the numbers in there are not actual numbers that we're adopting it's just an example it's just the format that you will see going forward so on this item in addition to approving the annual report there are two resolutions one to change the name the other to change the implementation plan and so before we move on to the annual report i'm happy to answer any questions related to the name change or implementation plan if there are any and if not i will be happy to turn it over to the police department good evening mayor rogers and city council my name is john cregan our chief of police and i'm joined today with our administrative services officer pam laurence and we're going to go through the police presentation go to our next slide there good evening everybody and pam laurence aso for the police department i'll go over the expenditures and then i'm handed off to chief cregan this this slide shows the beginning fund balance of 1.9 million dollars we i'm sorry is that better is that better thank you our revenues were 4.8 million dollars and we had a loss of seven thousand four hundred and four dollars our expenditures expenditures for the year were 3.9 million leaving us an ending fund balance of 2.8 million this shows where those expenses happened this last year as you can see the majority was in our salaries and benefits for our 16 employees funded by measure o and we also had 388 thousand in services and supplies which included 155 thousand for our axon fleet program in car cameras that chief will talk about a little bit more we also had our maintenance for vehicles that are included in measure o our fuel for those vehicles and our replacement plan for those vehicles you can see a small slice of that pie up there that is for land that 1% is for some documentation for the purchase of our roseland substation which we purchase this fiscal year this shows our expenses and revenues year-over-year since the beginning of the program as you can see our expenses have been outpacing our revenues year-over-year except for that slight dip in 21-22 where we remove three officers from this program but we do anticipate our revenues and not not meeting our needs in the future years right thank you know go quickly through a highlight of how we're using these resources for this last fiscal year we have 16 funded positions for this last fiscal year 11 of those are sworn full-time employees we have one lieutenant that manages our traffic division or downtown enforcement and a really important part of all of our special events such as at the fairgrounds the rose parade and all these other things like that that we have going on across the city one sergeant dedicated specifically to our downtown enforcement team and nine police officers and those police officers are split into three buckets five are enhancements to our patrols so they add to our patrol resources going out the 911 calls every day two are dedicated motor officers or traffic officers that are going out handling not only investigating collisions and fatal collisions but also doing traffic enforcement and two are part of our downtown enforcement team then we have five civilian positions or full-time employees and the first two are for our field and evidence technicians they process all of our crime scenes and when they're not processing crime scenes and testifying in court that they're handling more low-level reports such as vehicle collisions and no suspect burglaries of the such same with our community service officers they are they're not able to process crime scenes but they go to the lower priority calls of parking citations across the city graffiti vandalism things like that traffic collisions and no suspect burger reports a communication supervisor that handles our 911 dispatch center we'll see later that we had over 246,000 calls that came into our 911 dispatch center so the supervision is critical to make sure that we maintain our high level of service with our dispatchers and one police technician which works in our records division which processes the thousands of police reports and citations and other mechanical things that come through our processing next slide please some of the things we're really excited about is that we were able to do directly with measure of funds is to be able to fund the first in Sonoma county that we have all 64 of our mark patrol vehicles are now equipped with axon fleet program which includes from the front a 260 degree view of camera so we're recording everything both visual it has both audio and video recording and anyone who's transported in one of our vehicles so in the rear passenger area whether it be a suspect going to jail or whether it be a victim or other community member getting transported full video and audio on that I think that's really important for three prongs that we've talked about number one is the transparency for our community that we can see that the body worn cameras can be rather limiting at time so now we have a lot more view on traffic stops pursuits or community contacts on the side of the road and then also anyone who's transported our car so the transparency accountability that if we say something that we don't like that's going on with our officers that we have the ability to hold them accountable and then for the liability that many times that we're seeing whether it be collisions or pursuits now we have a very clear view of exactly what occurred and able to use that any court proceeding so that's been a big exciting enhancement that we were able to done and work throughout this last year to get all those installed and now all vehicles are installed we talked about some of the enhanced patrol services that were able to provide with the nine officers assigned to our field services division to measure oh and we're really been focusing on some of those things with the key area of traffic safety and violence reduction and we're seeing improvements in each of those last year we had eight fatal collisions in the city of Santa Rosa and I'm happy to report we still had two fatal collisions was this tragic but is a significant reduction from eight to two and the same thing that we're seeing reduction in our shootings a reduction in our homicides last year we had 12 homicides we still have had a busy year with 12 with nine homicides this year but we're hoping to finish out this year with a 20 percent reduction and we're seeing shootings down 13 percent right now too so we're seeing a reduction but still more work needs to be done in this area without a doubt one of the ones that we're really excited about and council played a key role in this of helping us not only with the measure of resources but with our sideshow ordinance and we were seeing side shows of being almost an every weeky and occurrence in the city of Santa Rosa community members were very frustrated about it so far in 2023 we've actually only had one side show in the city of Santa Rosa and was shut down within 10 minutes so we've come close to eliminating this behavior in our city not only through some of the enforcement strategies that are supported by measure oh but some of the outside support as well and so we're really excited about that and we're going to continue our focus on that and the same thing with some of our violence reduction efforts what we've really talked a lot before with our council and get strong agreement is we know we're not going to arrest our way a lot of these issues rated with the guns and the violence and even with the side shows so we really partnered with the violence pension partnership on so many efforts and we've really made them embedded with our community policing efforts and really trying to work with them whether it be the gang summits are setting up or any other programs and they've been such a key partner with us to kind of dive deeper into some of the root causes of what's going on in our streets next slide please if it comes sorry it's moving a little slowly looks like our computer froze over here we'll see if we can get it cracking again oh there it goes well we can continue on without the slides but we can talk about some of the other things that we've been talking about that we're using measure oh to be able to do is some of the community policing projects and that's been by these enhanced nine patrol officers in our community and we've done so many events that i'm proud that council's been able to help participate in those and we've had two tacos with a cop event we've had ice cream with a cop we just had cookies with a cop this weekend so if you're eating it you can come join the Santa Rosa police department we like to eat I think is what you're we're getting out of this so we're really trying to get out there and be involved in some of these community events and it's really been exciting to be able to get invited to different events that we're getting to be able to participate whether it be at different organizations or across our city different community really working with our partnership that's a minus pension partnership and getting our officers out there and really it's important for me not only for our community to have a chance to interact with our officers but what I'm really seeing it's rewarding for our officers to be able to have that like the non-police type of context with our community be able to engage in some of these conversations whether it be sitting around having a taco on on apple valley like we did enabled to have like conversations that maybe we won't normally be able to happen so that's really an important one for us and we want to continue that and we're really going to focus too as the summer comes back in around with a new year about preparing for some of our major events like with country summer which is our biggest event that we have at the sonoma county fairgrounds and then obviously the fair and the wednesday night market rose parade all these different events that we'll be preparing for so then measure i was able to play a key role in that next slide please then we'll do a quick glance we talked about this and we've talked before about our for this last fiscal year that our priority one response time to the emergency 911 calls was at an alarming time of seven minutes and seven seconds i am proud to say that we've seen some progress in that and as of this month i just got the stats this week they're up to six minute and 52 seconds so the needle's moving in the right direction even though i still think our goal has always been to have them under six minutes so we still have work to do but at least it's not progressing up and it's progressing downward and we hope to see continued progress on that as we see our calls for service continue to rise each year next slide please a quick highlight we won't go through all these to be brief but we certainly have seen some of the biggest trends that we're seeing with some of this in the streets of santa rosa is access to firearms and we're seeing that could take up year after year and one of the alarming trends is juvenile access to firearms and in the fiscal year or in the calendar year 2022 we had four juveniles arrested for possession of firearms just so far this year we've had 20 juveniles arrested with firearms so that's an alarming trend it was a 400 increase so measure over going to continue to focus on these resources out in the street and partnering with our key partners here in the city to see if we can drive those numbers down last slide any questions or comments related for the police department's presentation looking at council does he have there any council member alvarez uh chief could you repeat the numbers of the 13 percent uh drop in shootings there was a number that you've stated prior to that the one before was the so far if we're on track we'll do a 20 percent reduction in homicides and a 13 percent in shootings reported to the police department thanks sir yes it's great to see uh the department going towards the transparency and really striving to ease some of the community concerns um and that the officers are okay with it i think that that says a lot about our department and the people that you hire i did have a question about the videos they're continuously going are they only going the cars on or they can be turned on and off so when the car is in service if it's in the back lot of the police department that they they log all off but once the officer logs in and starts their shift they have a buffer the same with our body worn cameras are like always buffering for 30 seconds so when they turn on it goes back 30 seconds because sometimes you don't you miss like what led to the officer turning on their cameras so they're always going on that and then they're automated actively anytime the lights go on uh in the vehicle then they automatically turn on the camera and the officer can manually turn them on anytime so if they're doing any enforcement contact by policy their camera both their body worn camera and if it's an enforcement contact involving a vehicle then the vehicle cameras both have to go on and we have monitoring uh internal monitoring steps to make sure that that's occurring thank you video cameras are great because they not only protect the public but they also protect our our officers so i think that that is great that we have those no additional councilman brogers yeah i just wanted to say thank you chief i know uh you're very proud and and i'm very proud i know the city manager is on all of the work being done around uh side shows our council has been very supportive of trying innovative approaches uh and uh we talked a couple weeks ago and i told you you weren't allowed to jinx it too soon uh when you talked about the 2023 numbers but really at this point towards the end of the year one that you shut down within 10 minutes uh tells us that uh we've changed the reputation of santa rosa for folks who want to do side shows uh and that we have uh really the things that we've tried have worked so i want to say thank you to you and to the department because i know a lot of those were officer led suggestions on how we might be able to respond better yes thank you and it's been such a city-wide effort of getting people with our city ordinance and with the violence prevention partnership helping us with some of the community education so we're really proud of kind of the city-wide effort on this area with no additional question oh oh councilmember flimmy yes i i wanted to commend you on the increase the improvement in the um the homicides in particular and the fatal car accidents i think that's um you know every life that's lost nine is too many um but it is not 12 and hopefully we'll continue to see these downward trends and it's a result of all of the different things that we do together i'm also really heartened to hear that the officers are enjoying getting out there in the community i am we'll share this anecdote just to help you continue to be competitive in that last week my daughter's Boy Scout troop because you know Boy Scouts is in they still call it Boy Scout whatever her scout troop um hosted the sheriff's department at hidden valley and they they made no mention of the work that you guys do and they talked all about their beats in the city and i just thought that you might want to know that all right yeah um and then they turn on all their lights and all this stuff and all the boys going out and climbed in all the cars and the girls lined up to ask more questions and my daughter wanted to know what you had to eat in the county jail so priorities since you guys are really concerned about food right so at any rate um i know that that you guys do a lot with Boy Scouts and um it's a great way to get involved with kids but i just want to make sure we don't leave anything on the table including any food thank you for everything you do thank you council member michael thank you so much mayor i do want to thank you for your report and everything that you've been doing not only in the work in the police department but everything you're collaborating with with the violence prevention program and and i know that that's been a huge effort as well what we're doing to impact our youth and that's going to be the next presentation that i know we're going to hear but i do want to call out a couple things in the report and that's a significant amount of staff that our community has helped to fund through measure o and now through measure h and and i think that's to be really recognized in that long report you can see how many there are after this report tonight but i i want to say thank you and then could you repeat about the cookies and the cops event um i didn't hear when that was so is that this weekend or did i miss it last saturday so sorry well thanks for the email on that one sorry so maybe the next one we can let council know because i do enjoy going to those events to reach our community members and let them know what we're doing to support them so thank you again yes absolutely i second that i didn't get an email about the cookies either i just want to say that i'm sorry all right chief you're in the hot seat i'll get some crumble cookies for you guys all right well thank you for being here thank you very much for the report and it doesn't look as if we have any more questions from council madam city manager good evening mayor rogers vice mayor stappen members of the council jeff tibet's deputy director for recreation and parks brought the team with me tonight so good news means you don't have to listen to me very much tonight um and we're also going to play a little game of musical chairs because we're recreation and parks and mice will make a game out of it uh with me this evening i have our aso jason pairs who will cover the financial slides and then on the programming side for the update of what the uh amazing staff and community groups have been doing out there uh i have daniel gardenia our violence prevention partnership program manager and joanna more the recreation supervisor over the neighborhood services section good evening madam mayor members of the city council i'm jason pairs the aso for recreation and parks and this is a very positive slide for us uh with the beginning fund balance of 450 000 when two short years ago we are looking at a similar size reduction in programs and so times have changed for us as you'll see we had 2.4 million dollars in revenues that were collected with the 2.1 million dollars in expenditures which included the extension of the cycle 10 grant cycle uh grants approved by your council and so our ending fund balance at 682 is very extraordinary and uh that we are coming out with a new measure and we also have a uh a fund balance that allows us to pursue different policy options so as you could see the majority of the program are in two expenditures one is personnel and that's divided roughly one third of violence prevention staff to do the planning and the community outreach one third of that is the recreation staff uh who actually plans and oversees and manages all the direct neighborhood services and the final third are actually the seasonal temporary employees uh which are in a third or more in some years are the actual children who participate in the program that then come on to work for us so and as you could see the choice grants are fully funded roughly around 35 percent of what our total revenue input is and as you could see there's a little blip at the very end within the violence prevention and the recreation portion of this program our interest is converting the revenue directly over to community service so we don't try and build up a reserve for capital purchases and in this case we have just had an extraordinary turnover in staff coming out of the last couple years in covid which are now all getting filled thankfully and um and as we move forward we're in a very positive financial situation and i will turn it over now to joanna more will present the recreation portion of the presentation good evening joanna more recreation supervisor with neighborhood services and today i'm going to talk about all the amazing things that we're doing in neighborhood services neighborhood services provides programming for youth at-risk youth low-income youth youth and homeless youth and families throughout santa rosa we provide a safe space for youth to enjoy recreational activities social events and activities and athletic leagues and we do it in a place where they feel safe without the fear of drugs gangs or any other negative influences we provide access to our community by making our programs and our athletic leagues affordable most of our programs are ten dollars or free we have a few programs that are twenty dollars we also make sure that we provide programming in areas um um in high need neighborhoods so we're very strategic in the locations that we choose to provide all of our neighborhood services programming and we also make sure that we have quality programming that we're offering our community and of course since we're we are recreation it is a whole lot of fun um one thing that is super important for our the recreation team is that we like to create meaningful relationships that provide support and encouragement to our youth and our families that participate in our programs we really feel like it's important to create um or to build trust within um our participants and their families and in doing so we're able to identify when families are in need of extra support um our services within the community and since we work so closely with the violence prevention team we are able to refer them over to their wraparound coordinator and we are um assured that they are getting educated on all the different resources and um services available to them and um and getting them into the programs or different um services available um this past year we've had an extremely successful year in neighborhood services we served over 1600 youth and provided just under 200 uh 200 000 service hours some of the sports leagues that we provided this past year was our junior giants baseball um we also did junior warriors basketball cheerleading futsal flag football and dance all of our sports programs are coed in addition to our sports programs we also offer camps to the community so whenever the schools are closed um that's when we step in and provided much needed child care for our community we have camps um fall break camp winter break spring break and summer break camps in addition to our seasonal programming we also offer um some year-round programming so we have our after-school programs our after-school programs take place at eight different burbank housing communities throughout santa rosa um we provide homework assistance um we provide recreational activities and um enrichment programs such as stem the arts and also some prevention programs we also have our family fun events um these are events that we provide to the community we have a halloween bash that we just um we just did in october with the violence prevention team um we also do our spring fest where our families and our youth get to meet the easter bunny and take pictures we wrap up the summer with a huge pool party um it's called the splash bash at the ridgeway um aquatic center and then we also offer several family barbecues and um dances throughout the year neighborhood services has been operating at risk um youth programming since the mid um since mid 1990s and since the um measure o passed um in 2004 we have been able to increase the amount of offerings for the community quite a bit um the neighborhood services team um works diligently to um build trust within our community and especially um challenging neighborhoods um and by doing so we have been able to um our retention rate with our participants and our youth is really high this past year we increased our membership by 38 percent and lastly with the longevity of our program um one thing that um we're really um we really like to see is when our participants um in our programs they become neighborhood services staff and um this isn't valuable to us because their knowledge of the families that we serve and the communities that we serve um is just so important um for our team and then also it's great as staff because um one of our many goals is to make sure that we keep our youth on track and um help them resist those negative influences out there and when they come back to us and they're working with us um you know we know we've done our part thank you very much I'm going to go ahead and pass it over to Danielle thank you hi I'm Danielle Gardunio program manager for the violence prevention partnership as you all are I'm sure aware violence prevention partnership has been extremely busy um over the last fiscal year and in our current year as well um we covered a lot and partnered with a lot of our community partners um in the last fiscal year so I will try to keep this as brief as possible um so first and foremost we activated our crisis response team in the last fiscal year three times uh first with the March 1st incident at Montgomery High School pulling together our community partners to provide resources and support to the high school including free therapy sessions for students directly impacted by the incident as well as um art therapy sessions in class and also during the lunch hour and facilitated discussions with students who witnessed the violence about cultivating and maintaining um safety on their school campus um in addition to that um one of our choice grant granted agencies also provided support to the rosin school district because while the incident happened within a different school district a lot of the fear radiated out to other schools in our community and so worked on a parent education event where our staff helped participate in that as well we also activated the crisis response team after the two June shootings this year which were within eight days of each other so again activating our community partners to provide services and support to um the the uh victims families as well as those who are witnesses um this included um working with buckaloo programs foresees life works our police department and the district attorney's office to assist one of the witnesses of the first shooting um with obtaining services um for both himself and his family members including mental health therapy and relocation assistance in response to these two shootings we also hosted two community of community wellness pop-ups in both impacted neighborhoods so the first one being at belview ranch a neighborhood park and the second one being at the continental apartments on corby avenue these were an opportunity to bring services and resources out to those impacted neighborhoods and have conversations and engage with the community members there about what we are doing to help reduce youth violence in our community as well as link them to services that are needed we had about 15 community partners participate in the first event and 10 participate in the second event and reaching a total of about 150 residents between both neighborhoods in addition to that we also continued to implement our life skills curriculum during the fiscal year the first round that we did was at um roseland accelerated middle school where we worked with um six youth throughout the 12 12 week course and then we partnered with our neighborhood services team um in our teen summer camp sports camp program reaching 24 youth during that particular camp over a five-week period of time so the youth got to participate in the camp itself and then they also got to participate after the camp in life skills course where they received curriculum around anger management conflict resolution as well as exposure to other city departments including our police department fire department and then other parts of our recreation team finally our team also hosted this year's Rosalind Cinco de Mayo event which was a huge success given that we only had about two weeks to plan it we brought together about 26 community partners and reached about 1500 community members throughout the course of the five hour event and while it rained and also while we don't typically plan this community event doing so this year helped provide our community with a safe family-friendly space to celebrate and also prevented sideshow activity and incidents of violence that we've seen over the last couple of years so it was a it was a great success moving on we also implemented our guiding people successfully program which is our referral program here at the city linking youth and their families to needed services and support um this is funded um the position the wrap around coordinator position is funded through our Sonoma County probation department um but we also utilize our measure o funding through our choice grant partners to link those referred to us to services directly this year we saw a spike in the number of referrals coming our way um we had 119 non probationary youth referrals coming in mainly from our schools um as well as 20 referrals coming in from the probation team um this is a 43 percent increase over the last fiscal year um which we had about 60 total referrals um so 48 non probationary youth and 12 probationary youth in 2021 2022 um and then um another uh so i just also want to point out in 2020 through 2021 those numbers were even lower at a total of 46 total referrals so we have seen those numbers go up we're seeing them currently going up this year as well um and we're seeing a lot of those come in from our schools and i think it has to do with uh the violence that's currently happening in our community and happening in our schools and then finally um measure o funding was also used for our choice grant program we implemented year one of our choice cycle 11 program where we funded eight agencies in the first year at $750,000 and um are still currently um implementing that in year two as well um we utilized uh what's called a results-based accountability framework to evaluate our success um and with that framework we look at how uh how much do we do how well are we doing it and is anyone better off i'm not going to go through all of the numbers because there's quite a bit there in the report but i will say that um we engaged 5858 participants across the board in our funded agencies and this included providing youth and parents with one-on-one intensive case management services um enrolling youth um in programs such as camps and tracks and art projects um youth and family members being engaged in therapeutic services students trained to be peer leaders um school staff participating in school based programming and adults and youth participating in community based programs events and activities uh we also held five violence prevention awareness series events throughout the year reaching a total of seven eight hundred and seventy eight participants and in addition to the larger grant program we also implemented our choice midi grant program where we're able to um provide funding for nine agencies um to um to provide operational costs for some of their violence prevention work at $45,000 total um in the upcoming year we are um working on um shifting the focus given the state of violence right now in our community to shift those mini grant funds um to address crisis response needs including relocation costs and um linkages to support for victims of violence that is it well thank you very much for that presentation just hearing everything that you guys have been doing makes me really tired so i know that you guys are doing um a lot and it is great for our community are there any other vice mayor oh sorry not vice mayor i've been saying it for a year sorry i gotta get used to it councilmember mcdonnell thanks i'll keep the title i liked it okay sorry mark i just have a couple of comments and and really um want to thank you for all the work that you do on this particular part of the work of the city of santa rosa so um under the evaluation results on page 26 of the report i just wanted to call out a couple of things because i think they're so impressive so if we ever are questioning the money that we're investing in the youth in the community i think this part of the report really says why it's such an important investment when we're looking on specifically return of investment when we talk about kids the impact is so much greater so if you look at 140 youth and families engaged in counseling 89 percent showed a reduction in risk taking behavior like gang involvement and substance abuse the other one was 223 which are duplicated so they could be these same children they participated in a diversion and intervention services 86 percent did not violate probation while enrolled and 96 percent did not incur new criminal charges when enrolled in these programs so i think that these numbers and that's why i call out this part of the the actual report are so incredible it's amazing that we're able to fund the staff positions and fire and police which are critical in the city but i think the impact that we're able to make with the measure o and now going into measure measure h funds is so important and so i just want to say thank you i know we're pushing forward and doing a lot in year one implementation and looking at how um our choices in the choice grants are going to impact that strategic plan so i just want to say thank you again to staff for all the work that we do in parks and rec that what we do impacts the kids in the community and thank you to the voters for saying that this matters to us and that we want to continue to do so vice mayor i basically want to want to reiterate the vice mayor married us this point about the the violence prevention partnership i know we speak for both of us um we we very much enjoy being part of the policy team um for the vpp um and this year it's been easy to see the value as as the vice mayor married us pointed out um when when we're out talking about the issues that are going on with our schools and you underline these this is a big part of the response that the city has to give to what is the city doing to make to make um school safe and make our streets safe especially when it comes to to use and at risk youth um so the spotlight is really on your team and you've done an amazing job and it's been it's been a pleasure to watch you watch you work um and chief kregan mentioned it as well uh just the way that you two are the way that your these two groups are working together the police and the violence prevention team um good things are happening thank you very much to both of you seeing no other questions i do have a question um it is for the neighborhood services my question is i know that we're focused on measure o right now which is great but i ask the same question every year jeff you probably can say it verbatim what question i'm going to ask and that is um have we or what are we doing to integrate the youth programming um not based on the ability to pay yeah so there's there's a few things that that we have done um with our events it's a little bit easier so a couple of our events have been integrated the fairy tale ball the halloween bash um we're also in the process right now of revamping our scholarship our general scholarship program and that's going to open a couple doors for us to continue to make progress um where all this is a great integrated as part of recreation and parks um a big piece where that's going to happen is in our work experience program uh which i think in the work that we're doing is a vital element of participation in programs to volunteer in programs to staff in programs and it's that continuum of service with the youth to keep them on the right track and and make sure that they're successful um so that would be an element of programming that we're expanding on in terms of a lot of the neighborhood services based programs we're still struggling a little bit we're still working on it um i will turn juanna i off the top of my head i can't think of the last program that wasn't that wasn't full that neighborhood services is offered um juanna i don't know if you have one off the top your head but that includes summer camps that includes the break camps that includes the sports leagues i guess flag football is an area where we're still looking at that's a new program we brought back that we're looking to expand to one of the first areas that we're looking to integrate and um we just need to build a capacity so we're dealing with you know on two fronts is the capacity on the staffing side to grow the programs um and then the capacity on the facilities and the amenities that we have um some of those programs that we have that are very popular or limited by gym space and some of those to you know the size of the dance room the amount of instructors that we have to teach these things um so we're making progress on some of the things behind the scenes and some of the structure that allows us to grow um but we are we are at capacity issues and so right now some of that integration is in order to integrate most of these programs would mean moving some of the kids that we're serving onto a wait list and so it's it's that battle that we're working on right now like you just gave me the guilt trip but i'm happy to know that you guys are are are working on that because i really feel that in order for us to have the diversity and inclusion uh we need to have integrated programming um and it should not be based on the ability to pay so i said it last year i said it this year and i'll probably continue to say it next year because i'm very passionate about this and i feel like it is very important um thank you one more thing if i just add um and they don't have to say yes but i guarantee you they would say that uh it has been a topic of conversation that we're having regularly um and one of the things that has also been taking place that the salaries say right the dip in the expenditures because of the staff turnover um our management team is soon going to be 80 percent replaced um in the next month uh and so that's a piece of it too as as this new management team comes forward it's certainly something that they're looking at across the board of all recreation again not see not singling out neighborhood services programs but across the board so we've talked about some of our very young that are traditional recreation programs well how do we integrate and get some of those neighborhood services kids into those programs that have never been measure oh funded programs and so on both right strategies looking both sides how do we get these kids so that they're all playing together in those traditional recreation swim lessons whatever those things might be and then how do we do the same on the neighborhood services side as well yes and i would like to clarify i was not a singling out neighborhood services i think that as a whole we need to figure out how how to integrate so thank you very much for the presentation i think we have fire coming down good evening mayor rogers members of council scott westrop fire chief of the city of san rosa with me tonight is sarah roberts our finance analyst and sarah is going to take the first couple slides thank you chief westrop the next slide will show you the beginning fund balance for the fiscal year 2022 23 we started the year with 3.8 million and our revenues were approximately 4.8 million our expenditures were about 4.4 with encumbrances of 1.1 those two encumbrances are about approximately 870 000 for our type one engine and 244 000 for mobile radios that project is still being implemented and staffs working digital diligently to get it to get them all installed the next slide shows our salaries and benefits services and supplies administration and transfer out of debt the debt service is on our former fire station five site lease it it'll come to it'll end in september or not september summer of 2025 and approximately 3.5 million of our budget goes towards salaries and benefits and services and supplies and our revenues and expenditures since the inception of the fund have stayed pretty close we run a pretty tight ship and our reserve our revenues will continue to be monitored thank you sarah so as council knows there's three funding items that measure o can pay for for the fire fire department that's personnel fire stations and locations and special equipment so in looking at what measure o funded as far as personnel goes we have three fire captains who are the frontline supervisors and there are also paramedics staffed by measure o we have one fire captain who is assigned to our training division who runs the training facility on west college avenue three fire engineers who are the apparatus operators who are also paramedics and three firefighter paramedics measure also pays for 25 percent of the ems division chief which we'll talk about here a little bit more in a moment and it pays for the paramedic consent to pay for six firefighters so that our ladder trucks are now advanced life support or paramedic equipped so the impacts of measure o to the community are it's provided nine firefighters and a training captain it's provided three engines and two trucks to be advanced life support or paramedic equipped and staffed it's enhanced the emergency medical services management through partial funding of the division chief and as you know ems is about 65 percent of what we do on the 30 000 calls a year we run for service so it's very important to have that oversight and with all of that the if you look at what it takes to staff a fire engine it takes three people on three shifts so it takes nine people so measure o essentially pays for an entire fire engine and if you look at our deployment we have 10 fire engines on duty on a day-to-day basis so it equates to 10 percent of our firefighting force as far as fire engine goes so the renewal of measure o into measure h was vital for us or we would have lost about 10 percent of our firefighting force with that comes a reduced fire loss improved ems patient outcomes increased community outreach and then obviously we financed some of the fire station construction projects with it so looking back a little bit fire station 10 which is in the southwest where our our office is at was constructed in 2008 with measure o funds station 11 which is in the junior college neighborhood was open in 2009 and then the previous station five on new gate court was open in 2016 and we lost that station during the tubs and we're currently a process of rebuilding fire station five permanently in a different location as far as the special equipment goes measure o has purchased two type one fire engines one is currently on order as sarah mentioned it's the funds are encumbered as part of a purchase of five fire engines out of last fiscal year it's purchased one type three wildland fire engine four command vehicles once with water rescue trailer and 55 mobile radios and eight mobile repeaters and with that we'll turn it over to you for any questions or comments you may have looking at council for questions or comments council member rogers yeah thanks chief not to stray a little bit from the topic but we just implemented not too long ago the vehicle replacement fund how is that integrated with this conversation around what we can do with measure o and how's that working out so far so measure o vehicles are not part of the equipment replacement program the capital fleet replacement program so for instance the the one engine that we have purchased previously with measure o it was paid for again at a measure o and same with the type three when it comes to you will pay for it out of measure o so those engines are sort of set aside and kept out of the the general fleet conversation just like the personnel are okay is there any ability within the measure o scope to create something specific for the measure o engines i think so it's something i need to talk to the cfo about and make sure that the coc is good with but it's something we can certainly explore okay great thanks sarah it's good to know that you run a tight ship over there chief thank you so much for the presentation both of you thank you and with that we're going to turn it back over to Veronica to close this section out well thank you very much to the departments as you can tell it's a wide array of staff and resources and talents that go into turning this quarter cent sales tax into all the programs and services and thank you for your questions listening to our presentation so we have two actions for council today one is by motion to accept the annual report for fiscal year 22 23 as well as change the name of the committee the citizens oversight committee to be the public safety and prevention citizens oversight committee formally measure o but for short we will call this the p sap coc and then also by resolution to approve the change of the implementation plan to return to a one-year model so thank you thank you and before i turn it over to councilmember o krepke i would like to thank councilmember rogers for all your hard work you see where the funds are going and you really are providing a service to the community by keeping them coming in to our community so thank you so much for that i want to thank event minor and also the other members of the oversight committee that worked really hard to make this happen so we can continue to get these funds in our our community and with that councilmember o krepke thank you very much i will move a resolute we'll do these in two so first we'll i'll move a resolution of the council of the city of san erosa amending the implementation plan for the measure o for transaction and use tax second we have a motion made by councilmember o krepke and a second by council by vice mayor step actually real quick if we're renaming this do we need to alter that resolution because it says measure o you're you're taking an action um if you're if you're passing the motion first and then renaming and then um the motion is you will be renaming it so then the second action would be the resolution and if you so choose we can make sure to make that correction on the resolution to use the new name which you will have just renamed okay okay so we're going to start we're going to do the withdrawal that it depends how you want to do it if you want to do the resolution first then i think the name hasn't changed if you want to do the motion first then the resolution can have the new name if you so specify we'll go ahead and make that change if you make the name change first you have to change the name right i'm good okay then we'll just keep going the way we are okay so can we call the vote um i believe you need to take public comment first before you take about public comment we have public comment we are now taking public comment on item 14.3 if you are in the council chamber would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period please go ahead when you're ready hello my name is dwayne duwit i'm from roseland thank you for this report i would ask that you also implement a new approach and you have a three-way equal split i believe that now that you've got money left over at both the fire department and the police department that shows that they can get by with what they're getting and you could use this money to help over with the youth you could get this going to where if you're splitting it three ways equally 33 for each this could improve the approaches that have been happening for the youth and as was presented here today everything seems to be looking up and that the youth are being served but there's more youth that need to be served i do believe that if you folks would take the initiative tonight and look at this like we can take the chance now and get more funding over to the violence prevention partnership over to the youth efforts and the other things that make a community not just livable but enjoyable that's something that's really important especially for low-income kids and disadvantaged underserved neighborhoods the disadvantaged underserved neighborhood of the roseland census district actually is listed as the most impacted by the portrait of sonoma county 2021 update in which they showed that that census district is the most disadvantaged according to the human development index that they use these aren't my numbers these are numbers that come from the sonoma county efforts that they put forward with the original portrait of sonoma county finally a boys and girls club was put out on sabbatical road with private funding and that's made a difference but there's such a need i was actually told by youth out there that because there's an agreement with the roseland school district some youth nearby can't use that boys and girls club you have to be a member of the roseland school district so there's these types of things that actually could be changed if you offered up a little bit more money coming with an equal split i think that this type of an approach may seem to the fire department or the police department while you're cutting into our pie you're taking something from us and i don't think that's the case i think if you look at it like we're splitting it evenly you'll find that they'll have less calls for service perhaps from the police because our youth are being served better working with the violence prevention partnership and as we used to call it the gang prevention task force that got this all started and basically you saw we've had more violence so let's look towards doing it this way thank you for your time seeing no additional comment on this item council member rogers thank you so much first of all i want to thank everybody for the presentation as well as the work that's been done on this i want to thank our measure o oversight committee that has been deliberating one of the things that i think is really important and i'm supportive of in the the name change but want to make sure i call it out is that by having it the public safety and prevention tax oversight committee it really does prevent false advertising for folks who get on the the measure the citizens oversight committee their role is to make sure that we are adequately spending the funds the way that voters have said that we need to spend the funds that come in from measure h from that tax so i want to make sure that we're very clear very deliberate for folks when they take that role that they're not telling the chief whether it's the fire chief or the police chief how to spend those dollars they're making sure that the police chief or the fire chief is spending those dollars consistent with the way that the voters ask them to be spent and i just i like that i know there's a pretty robust conversation amongst the measure own members and so i want to call that out as a very specific and deliberate thing that they did when they renamed it public safety and prevention tax citizens oversight committee can you explain to us about the percentages so in the measure that was approved by voters it broke down what percentage of the measure o funding needed to go to each category area that was a discussion that happened more than 20 years ago we briefly discussed it as well to see if there's an alteration that needed to be made before we put that measure back on but the the tax measure itself that voters approved dictates what percentage goes to what department so i know i did hear the suggestion about reallocating the funding so it's 30 30 30 that actually would not be permissive under what voters approved that'd be a misappropriation of the funds based on the city's agreement with with voters if folks wanted to change the allocation amount they could go back to the ballot that's one way that they could do it but our role as a council and as the city is to implement the tax measure the way that the the public asked us to when they passed it and the coc that we're approving their job is to make sure that we do just that thank you councilmember rogers so at this time we have a motion made by councilmember okrafki and a second by councilmember stat and i believe we can now call the vote for the first councilmember rogers hi councilmember okrafki hi councilmember mcdonald hi councilmember fleming hi councilmember alvarez the vice mayor stat hi mayor rogers the motion passes with seven affirmative votes all right for the second part i'll make a motion to accept the measure o annual report for fiscal year 2022 2023 and change the name of the measure o citizen oversight committee to the public safety and prevention tax citizens oversight committee second we have a motion made by councilmember okrafki and a second made by vice member step madame city i mean madame city clerk councilmember rogers hi councilmember okrafki hi councilmember mcdonald hi councilmember fleming hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor stat mayor rogers hi the motion passes with seven affirmative votes thank you thank you very much for everyone that came and gave presentations all the departments um so we're moving on to item no written communications item 17 which is our second public comment on non-agenda matters madam city clerk we are now taking public comment on item 17 non-agenda matters this is a time when any person who has not previously addressed the council under public comment item 13 may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are subject matter of the council if you are the in the council chamber would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period seeing no one approach the podium for public comment thank you um we have no announcements but before closing the meeting i would like to wish miss charlene griner a happy birthday she is a community volunteer um she contributes to the redwood empire food bank she volunteers at the women's shelter and she has been a part of her church for decades inspiring and empowering women so miss charlene happy birthday and with that we will adjourn the meeting thank you so much