 Danielle, if I have my count right, we need four more to get going, correct? I believe a member in Ossensio is joining us now. Correct. So now we're down the three. It's the countdown. Or the count up, I should say. I see member Wiseman has just joined us. It looks to me like we have eight. Thank you everyone. Good evening. This time I'd like to call the order. Our community advisory board meeting. Or the month of April. And Danielle are here for a roll call. Hey, starting with member Barnett. Here. Member Bartholau. Here. Member in Ossensio. Here. Member Lange. Lange. Not here. Member Rom. Here. Member Richardson. See her. Member Rodriguez is absent today. Member square. Member Steffi. Here. Member Wiseman. Here. And vice chair weeks is also absent today and chair grapes. Here. And I'd like to know member Wiseman. I do believe you have to turn on your camera for us to. Officially have a quorum. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Danielle for that. And at this time, I'd like to go to our second agenda item. For public comments. Currently no hands raised for public comment. And actually I am promoting member. I'm going to go to panelist right now. Oh, I'm sorry. It looks like we do have one hand raised here. From Pat. So let me, like I said, we're just promoting one more member. All right. Public comment coming up. I told myself that I would be my remember to go over. This information for public comment. So would you, would you like me to do that? Yeah, go ahead, chair. Of course. Okay. Thank you. So public comment may be made live during the meeting via zoom or submitted by 5pm. The Tuesday. Before the meeting, which about would have been yesterday, the 26th. And via email at community engagement. Sarah's a city. Or SR city. Or via recorded voice message at seven or seven five, four, three, three, zero, eight, zero. Recorded voice message comments will be played up to three minutes each. At the time that the agenda item is discussed during the cab meeting and email public comments will be provided to all cab members prior to the meeting. If you have any email comments at this time. This public comment is when any person may address matters not listed on the agenda, but which are within the subject matter of the jurisdiction of the Canadian advisory board. The public may comment on agenda items. When the item is called later in the agenda. As well. Public comment may be made live during the meeting via zoom. And each speaker is allowed three minutes. Or comments. Public comments may also be submitted. And that's going back to the information I had read earlier before 5pm, the Tuesday before the cab meeting. So at this time, do we have that cuter? We do. Okay. And the first hand that we have raised is from Pat Cuda. Pat, I have given you permissions to speak. Do you see the timer on your screen? I'm trying to unmute. You're good. We can hear you. Great. It's just a quick question. I had made a request that the members of the community advisory board be given Santa Rosa city email addresses so that they can get communication. This is a protocol that the charter committee has. And I know the advisory committee, the general plan. So I was hoping that that's something that could be implemented soon. Thank you. Thank you. And the next hand that we have raised is from Judy Kennedy. Judy, I have unmuted your microphone. Do you see the timer on your screen? Yes, I do. Okay. Your timer begins now. I just wanted to let the advisory board know. That I'm here to answer questions. Thank you, Judy. Thank you. Thank you. You discussed the. The grant for the rainbow. Fly crosswalk. So that's it. Just to let you know that I'm here to answer questions when that comes up. Thank you, Judy. Thank you. Okay. There are no other hands raised for. Great. Thank you. And I do believe that I have heard through. Some one of the staff and council member great buying that. Email addresses are hard to come by. There's only so many that can go around. So. With different servers and whatnot, but I, I assume that staff will come back to us with that information at a later date. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That will close out the public comments and. Go on to agenda item number three, which is approval of the minutes. This was our minutes. February 23rd. And our regular meeting at that time. The attachment. Is from. February. Is that correct? This wouldn't have been. Yeah. That's correct. That's correct. That's correct. So I'm a little fuzzy. All right. At this time, are there any. Comments. Edits. The board members from the February meeting minutes that were embedded in your agenda. I'm seeing no raised hands. Looks like no comments are going to be made. So. That's correct. I move to approve the minutes of February 23rd. I'll click on that. All right. To catch that. That was member. The motion and seconded by member. And now we'll go to public comment before we take a vote. There are no hands raised for public comment. Introducing member Barnet. Approve. Member. Approve member. No. Member. Lange. Member. Member. Move. Member Richardson. Number. Member square. Okay. Member seppy. Approve, there's just an H on the first part of my name. Sarah. For update, but otherwise approved. Okay. We'll have them change that. Thank you. And share graves. approval minutes and we're going on to the CAB announcements. This is exciting stuff because I know that in the last couple months there has been a grand opening of life again out in event world. So I'm excited to hear from all of the CAB members not only events that you may be looking forward to or items that are of note out in the community but also things that over the last two months that you might have been able to go out and engage with the community. So I'm going to go around the screen to make sure that everybody gets an opportunity to do this. Remember Bartholomew I'll start with you but everybody you don't have to raise your hand because I will I will get to you. Thank you so much. I wanted to let everybody know about the first inaugural water summit happening on May 10th and 11th. It's being held by the Sonoma County Farm Bureau but all are welcome. It's a two-day event. Some of the keynote speakers are pretty high level including secretary California's secretary Wade Crowfoot California's natural resources secretary and Karen Ross the secretary of food and agriculture for Santa Rosa. I'm going to be talking about groundwater sustainability. You know over two days there there are quite a few things we're talking about but it's the purpose of this is really to get people together to learn and collaborate and you know try to come up with some solutions to the problem that we are having in this elongated drought and you know just not having enough water resources and needing to learn how to live with less. So everyone's welcome and you can find out more at the California Farm Bureau website. You happen to have the dates you said it was over two days but yes it's May 10th and 11th lunch is provided with the cost of a ticket. You can come one day or you can come both so whatever works in your schedule. Thank you. Thanks for that update. And member Blanche would you like to update us? Yeah. Of course my computer is free as soon as you say my name. Everybody's screen probably is in a different order than mine too so. No it's totally fine. I'm just running on a hot box today. I haven't heated or turned off my computer but a number of updates. So we've got a platform and an ACP center as a Sonoma hosted a food drive in March and fed over 431 families so we will be bringing that back on May the 28th which is a Saturday from 10 to 12. If folks are interested in volunteering I can circulate the sign-up sheet for that. We do a Friday before prepping the boxes and then the morning of everything is locked and loaded. We also give out personal care items and COVID home tests and then the county partners with us to bring forward a vaccine clinic and test kits available there too. The last few times they've been giving out delicious boxes of seized candy for partaking and said endeavor so if you like candy and would love delicious food from all local vendors it's a really great opportunity. Everybody's welcome we don't ask for any type of information outside of just an assessment of what your food needs are and you can take as many boxes as you need. If you are unable to physically get yourself there we do have a trustee's fleet of drivers who will do door delivery for those who don't have access. I can circulate the flyer to you Danielle if you don't maybe already have it to get to everybody else for those details and that information for folks who may know and need. We are all we as in the Juneteenth committee which is a compilation of a number of our local county's black organizations are already underway planning Juneteenth. The flyer should be going out if not this week then early next it will be on June 18th in the MLK park right off of oh gosh the name is escaping me but by the fairgrounds. There you go Hindley and it'll be a fun filled day and afternoon we're kicking it off with a tribute walk in honor of Vince Harper from Juilliard Park to the park with the youth in Capsanoma and all of our membership organizations so that'll be fun and a nice collaborative Saturday afternoon event in the park and outdoors together. Our orgs are working to bring back the forum that took place at Sonoma State with college readiness and youth support and so stay tuned for availability and dates on those things and I think that's it that I have at the top of my brain. Thanks that's great and two notes on that that I believe the event was it in March with the Sonoma County Black Forum and NAACP the 431 families that was a grant funded by the community improvement grant so that's awesome to do. Yeah great work um thank you so much and big need out there in the community um and member square would you have anything for us? No just going around going around the computer screen all right thank you uh member Weisman would you have anything for us? No not not this time. All right we'll catch you next time uh member Innocentio. Nothing to report of this. Thank you and remember wrong you're probably going to beat me to the punch on some things. It's great to see you at an event. Maybe you will. And first of all thank you for Chair Graves for coming out we had our adoptive park at Coughlin Park we had over 150 people there it was a great turnout we got eight I think it was 18 yards of garbage that got hauled out of there so it was outstanding um so thank you uh also I wanted to say that we have a flea market so the flea market down on San Rosa Avenue is moving to Kmart parking lot starting May um the the Indians uh the chairman there you know Franklin has leased it to them until they actually built something so at least that will be usable property rather than just being a fenced yard so there's a lot of excitement for that um and then I attended the low rider with member Barnett I saw her there and that was pretty impressive it was neat to see all those cars and and uh see see everything going on down there it's kind of nice to see them in the city hall parking lot having an event down there and then the only other thing I will say is that I I've challenged my family we go on bike rides now in different neighborhoods we did South Bay District on Sunday when geocaching and if you know what that is and saw the art district and stuff just had a great time down there so we're picking a different we're doing rosalind this weekend and just picking different places to ride through just to experience San Rosa because everybody there's all this negative Nellie's about what's bad but there's so much goodness I mean Juilliard Park is a jewel if you've never been there so uh we're just challenging our family and friends on that and that's all I got great stuff thanks for sharing and member Barnett well good evening everyone um so my world great I hand off their member ROM is bike month so may is bike month is a national recognized event and so this is my little hey ride your bike it's May there's a whole bunch of month-long activities for bike month and bike tour every day's uh just put it in your guys's calendars Friday May 20th is the official bike tour every day there will be energizer stations all over Santa Rosa I also want to bring it to this organization as well that there is a new uh from the ground up grassroots organization called bikeable Santa Rosa it's a group of residents that have come together um for exactly that reason they want to make Santa Rosa more bikeable so they're having monthly community rides and then they meet up in a park and talk about ways that they can improve Santa Rosa make it more bikeable for everybody um so that's kind of in the immediateness it was fantastic to see member ROM at the uh Mary Lou event um which was absolutely extraordinary uh and I do want to take an opportunity a huge shout out to Magali and Danielle um and Madeline who's quietly behind the scenes and um I mean it was an extraordinary event I cannot begin to tell you how incredible it was to witness all of that behind the scenes work all at once it was extraordinary and your team did an incredible job and I forgot to just give a shout out to Danny right there I mean I also know that there was like a team of multiple departments multiple agencies and that's like well over two years of work that you guys brought together but it was incredible it was absolutely incredible to see as a launching event for the city of Santa Rosa so I have to give you guys a huge shout out for all of that work it was extraordinary that's it all right thank you and member Steffi yes hi sorry I was lucky enough to actually help out at the city booth at Earth Day and again I have you stole some of my thunder there but shout out to Danielle and um Madeline sorry she's always behind the scenes so I almost forgot her name I'm great to work with and they showed me the ropes and it's just great I really urge all of us to get out there and now that we can and you can wear your mask you don't have to be afraid of COVID right you can take precautions if you need to but getting out there and actually meeting people face to face and talking with community members and representing the cab and all the great programs that the golly's team does it was just awesome I enjoyed it thoroughly and I appreciate the opportunity and look forward to the next time great thank you for sharing that wonderful to hear all of these uh stories of engagement and connecting with the community it's great to see folks back out um and yes you definitely can take care of yourself uh wearing a mask I do when I'm out and about um but I want to point out that yes of the park a month program just in case you're interested in that uh another one is coming up here in May on the 14th at Howard Park so those are from 9 a.m to 12 usually at each park and it is well stacked they have equipment for you they even have gloves but you can bring your own so that you don't use those supplies and just show up and you will be given a task as strenuous as you would like probably so it's easier to join in and it's very family friendly too I just want to point that out um another event that is coming up that might not be on everybody's radar but is near and dear my heart is this Sunday on May 1st is the May Day March and it is supporting workers rights and immigrant rights uh here in Sonoma County and far and wide starting at one o'clock if I didn't say that and Roseland Village so that's at the old dollar store 777 Sebastopol Road it'll be gathering there at seven at one o'clock in the afternoon and then marching over to Fort House Square and there's also a performance I believe starting at three o'clock by the Almas uh at at and that's exciting that that's happening and I'm sorry I don't have more details about that but there's a performance in Fort House Square so that's exciting in and of itself um and I also want to share that uh over the past seven weeks I have been attending the police community experience it is an experience that all residents could take part in um you do have to apply um because there's limited spots I think there's about 15 of us at this point um and it's eight Wednesdays and one Saturday it's in person and you've learned to learn more about the police department um I would love to see a more diverse crowd experiencing this but I also understand uh the safety concerns and risks uh and putting oneself out there and um it does tend to be heavily attended by folks that are very um committed to supporting the police department um and so that sometimes can be a risky situation for some folks and um I have felt I have felt that myself so uh I understand I am will be talking about that um with leadership the new leadership coming into the police department and how to potentially change that uh so that more folks could take advantage of it and potentially learn the information but with a less risk um and more safety in that situation so with that uh if there oh one last thing one last very important thing just a virtual shout out right now across the pond to our mayor who just got married yesterday so congratulations to our mayor there we go it's very exciting uh and his and his bride his wife now beautiful photos on Facebook if you don't follow Chris Rogers please do not just because he got married but because he is wonderful at transparent communication on social media channels and you can learn a lot about what it goes on at the city and within our community by following him on Facebook Instagram and even Twitter so with that I believe we're closed not closing out item number four but moving on to public comments on item number four tab announcements there are no hands raised for public comment thank you uh so that'll close it out on item number four and moving on to staff updates uh gonna hand this over now to Danielle and Magali there's a time reserved for the city staff to provide a briefing on issues of interest and no action will be taken on these matters um so except to have future consideration it and it has an agenda item so Danielle looks like you are raring to go yes I have a lot so let's do this all right the Mary Lou lowrider update so as member Rahm and member Barnett mentioned we did hold the event on May 20 or sorry March 26 at city hall parking lot it was absolutely amazing as they both mentioned we had at bare minimum 500 people but probably more just packed the parking lot with a lowrider car show um pomo blessing and several performances before we got to the unveiling of the car and we finished off the event with a cruise downtown and down Mendocino which was pretty amazing um so um next steps with the car we are um working on developing programming um particularly um around engagement and youth leadership development with the car um so Gustavo Mendoza and I are working on um reaching out to other jurisdictions that have similar vehicles and programming to see what they do um in addition we've been out with the car at community events including the health and wellness fair at El Celan High School on April 3rd and we have a lot coming up you'll see the car at the lowrider council Cinco de Mayo events on Saturday May 7th from 2 to 5 at Doyle Park that'll be a really great event another big car show um our team will be out there as well as center of the police department to table and provide information to participants there will also be a hydraulics hop competition during the event um so come out and see that's going to be pretty awesome the car will also be at the south park ice cream social and public safety day on May 14th well far ready um in courthouse square on May 21st we are also going to be cruising the car in the pride parade on June 4th um as well as the Peggy Sue cruise on um June 11th and we are also hoping to bring the car out to the Juneteenth event in South Park on June 18th um so that is the the current schedule for the car although there are many other events coming up um we're also working on prioritizing which events in the future to go out because this is quite a bit for our tiny team um so we will come up with a way to prioritize um events and um particularly for neighborhood and community groups um moving on from oh and one final thing and I hope Mandela doesn't get too mad at me for saying this but we are also working with the center as a police department on looking at the no cruising ordinance that is currently on the books and talking with them about taking it to council um to propose repealing the ordinance or modifying the ordinance to take cruising out of it um because it doesn't really make sense that we have the car now and are doing all this great work around engaging the lowrider community and then we have this ordinance on the books so we are working to to change that policy um moving on this weekend Saturday April 30th at 10 a.m at the Finley center is the town hall meeting with our new city manager she will discuss her first 100 days in her position listen to community concerns and gather feedback on person issues facing centers or residents community members are encouraged to email their questions prior to the meeting to community engagement at srcity.org um and we hope to see cap members there it's a great way to come out and learn more about uh marakisha our new city manager and um just have a conversation with her um and next sorry marakisha smith is our city manager thank you golly um next up wildfire ready we will be hosting a wildfire ready resource fair on saturday May 21st from 11 a.m. no sorry 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. uh in courthouse square um this event will be continuing to help our community prepare for wildfire season and in like alignment with national wildfire ready awareness month uh our police uh i'm sorry our fire department and office of community engagement will host wildfire ready a one day resource fair open to all community members whether you're senator as a resident or not the city along with participating organizations will provide event participants with information about wildfire preparedness including individual and family preparedness home and property preparedness emergency alerts and notifications evacuation zones for centers or residents mental health and other wellness resources during emergencies disaster resources for neighborhoods and much more uh some more information to come and i will be um talking more about that particular event in an upcoming agenda item later on this evening moving along um we have the hern avenue community hub project um our community assessment rfp update um so our office receives six proposals for the hern community hub needs assessment and collaboration project the purpose of the needs assessment and collaboration project is to gather community input and participation and development of the multi-use site identified and acquired by the city of san aroza and the cinema county library in south san aroza key outcomes of the project will be to provide input and data to the city council on possible uses including a library a multicultural community center an aquatic center and a community and or neighborhood park next steps include evaluating and selecting the consultant and start date for this project is set for july 1st of this year moving on to the multicultural roots project update for the month of april uh some of you may have already seen but we are um highlighting low rider culture and low low riders here in uh cinema county in san aroza for may uh we will be shifting gears and highlighting stories in honor of um asian american and pacific islander month um and then in june we will be highlighting stories around pride month um the project team is also working with staff from the arts and public places program to feature the multicultural roots project at the fendling community center starting in august and running through september and we're also working with them um in utilizing the space and city council chambers just to share our stories on a monthly basis um and we are also reviving our partnership with the cinema county museum um they have uh requested a meeting with our team to figure out our next steps in our partnership and finally last update um is our diversity equity equity inclusion and belonging spaces mini grant program city council approved use of $150,000 in PG&E settlement and arpa funds for our diversity equity inclusion and belonging spaces mini grant program the goal of this mini grant program is to support our BIPOC community members in accessing and securing spaces that create diversity equity inclusion and belonging eligible applications include classes events workshops projects that celebrate cultural wealth and educational opportunities for the community around diversity equity inclusion and belonging all events classes workshops and projects must be free to participants um our staff um is currently in the process of developing the program and application process um and we are moving it along to the city manager to review and then after that it has to go to city attorney for review and approval um our staff will review evaluate and make funding recommendations recommendations to magali who will ultimately make the final selections however we would love to include the community advisory board in the decision making process and hope to put together um a small team um out of the the larger board um so if you are interested in being part of this process please reach out directly to myself um in an email and let me know and that is it for all of our updates this month thank you Danielle um at this time it is Henry I'm going to hand it over to those board members who have questions or actually just questions for Danielle regarding her presentation and information she just shared don't see any hands up at this moment does anybody have any questions and I also don't see anybody unmuting so that's a that's a sign right there um I have a couple questions one might actually well let's separate it into two you talked about the Hearn Avenue Community Hub needs assessment that is such vital information to know um um can we get that information in written form it's really challenging to to know all those details from just you vocalizing them um just so that we can or where would we access that information there will be a lot of information coming out about this process um we're just currently in the process of selecting the consultant and once we get there then there will be a lot of um of information and communication coming out to the whole community about the process and what it looks like including a timeline and I just want to give kind of a heads up that um we are our public information office is going to be creating a let's connect page so that if there are community members or community groups that are like hey I want to make sure that I'm participating in this listening session process and feedback collection process we capture that and um capture the names or groups that that are interested in in being part of that so that is um coming soon this is going to sound like a comment but I'll try to make out a question uh is there a possibility uh that this online type of engagement of capturing people's uh information that that may because they may have questions um getting out information in an online manner is there a possibility that we have this information as a flyer that that can be distributed around the area outlying area because I just think it's an accessibility issue um getting this information online potentially that was a question yeah Magali I'm looking at you so if I if I heard uh the question correctly uh Chair Grace are we are you asking if we're going to have like sort of an outline of information of like what is the project and how people can get involved kind of like an FAQ type style thing but in one page correct like a flyer type of a thing and they're not so wordy and of of course my question would also is it going to be bilingual um I just I just think that this warrants um more a little unfortunate using us some trees for this and get some paper out there oh yeah there so what I just gave you is like very like preliminary information this is going to be a substantial project with tons of communication with tons of engagement which won't start until July 1 so yeah in the meantime we are preparing all of those materials on how people can participate on how they can get involved where they can go for more information that's all being developed currently right now so yes all of that information is coming yeah that was Danielle gave you the 22nd trailer um two a three hour movie uh so so there will definitely be um because one of the the the biggest goals is to make sure that we've gone like every area of Santa Rosa and have had conversations with all the groups that you know want to be part of the conversation and also that we put the information out there in a way so that folks understand um you know and also that we use um the information that we know now about like you know um where are we collecting the bulk of info community feedback from right and then how do we go to the other areas of town um because clearly we're working really well and doing wonderful things in some areas of town and we're getting that good feedback so how do we push push out more to the areas of the city that we are not hearing from so there is going to be a very intentional effort for that as well all right I would assume so but I need to ask the question out loud so I appreciate the answer um and my second and last question is around that decision making process for the DEI belonging mini grants and I appreciate looping us in that's awesome and availing those opportunities to CAB members I ask that uh shortly after this meeting if that information can go out to the remainder of the CAB members so that we don't wait a month to loop them in with the minutes um that way great yeah thank you are there any other questions just circling back to members I see none so at this time moving on to public comment for staff updates there are currently no hands raised for public comment great thank you and that closes out item number five and moving on to our scheduled items this evening uh first up is the 2022 first quarter q one community improvement grant application selections uh the CAB will be making funding decisions on applications submitted for the this cycle 2022 q one cycle of the community improvement grants and um Danielle do you want to take it away from there with these four applications yes so we have four applications totaling $9,140 and funding requests one from or one for the brew rainbow crosswalk project second is for the railroad square music festival third is the south park coalition ice cream social and safety day event and the fourth is the water trailer purchase project from circuit writers um let's see I have one other piece of info um so your currents um so we still have some outstanding projects that were on the old reimbursement cycle um we currently have um $8,328 dollars in outstanding projects that still need to be completed um but you're left with um currently $33,738 left um in project funds for this grant program so you have plenty of money to fund all four projects um and I think that's about it this time pretty short and sweet great thank you at this time uh we can have a round of questions I know that it was posed if you had questions you could get those questions into Danielle so that she could get that information over to the applicants were there any questions Danielle that no not this time all right um so without any questions unless there's something that has popped up in this moment is there any discussion around having all four voted on it once or is there any application that is anybody have a concern to have an application pulled out at this time be voted on separately and let you know that that would be me so it looks like there's none there's none from the board members but I'm going to ask that our railroad square application be pulled out from the group of four to be discussed further um so if there's no objection to that I don't see any so at this time is there a motion for approval of the three other applicants which is the brew rainbow crosswalk project the south park coalition ice cream social and safety day and the third one being the water trailer purchase project so I hear a motion a motion to approve approve those three projects member second and the second is so that was member stephy made the motion and member lounge made the second at this time we go to a public comment on just these three by the way thank you we do have one hand raised for public comment one moment while I get our screen up okay so the hand raised we have a net Arnold and that I have given you permission to speak do you see the timer on your screen I do thank you thank you thank you very much I would just like to say I'm so happy that you've approved the grant for the south park ice cream social and safety day I think it's going to be a very big event in our neighborhood and it's open to everybody we'd love you guys to come and experience it we have the fire department coming the police department coming and several vendors so thank you so much we really appreciate it that's all I wanted to say thank you thank you very much in it after a net we we have one other hand raised and Gregory I had given you permission to speak do you see the timer on your screen yes I do thank you your timer begins now hi my name is Gregory Farron I'm with Santa Rosa together but I just wanted to comment to a net in her application there's a $250 amount for renting a sound system the cab board long ago funded a sound system it's a nice beautiful fender system at our request it's currently on loan to an agency but can easily be loaned out to this event community action partnership is actually the owner of it and it wouldn't take very much to just acquire it for the for the day so that part of your budget I don't think you need to spend okay thank you very much hopefully you can connect and after that there are no other hands raised at this time I won't go ahead and connect both of you offline thank you Danielle and I'm gonna have to get better at this I'm gonna have to develop a little tagline before I hand it over to public comments when we make our motion and our second that did not approve anything we still have to vote but it's just a matter of procedure that we make a motion and a second and then we go to public comment before we actually take a vote so that it's no guarantee but at this time we will do a roll call vote and Annette you hold hold on your seat right there we'll we'll get this vote going so Danielle would you like to do that I would okay member Barnett approve a member Bartholome approve member Innocentio approve member Lane Lange sorry it's okay I approve okay I remember wrong approve member square member Steppy approve member Wiseman approve and share graves approve awesome so all of those applications have been approved for funding congratulations thank you thank you everyone and likewise pulling out an application does not mean that it has not been approved it just means that we are now going to open it up for a bit of discussion as I asked for it to be pulled out from the other ones I will open up this discussion by saying that why I asked for that is looking at the budget of railroad square music festival which is a wonderful festival in railroad square and I'm glad to see that it's coming back it has a $12,000 grant or income from the city so funding I should say instead of income so the city is providing $12,000 for this event to take place and Danielle I know I can see your face but I just yeah why don't we go ahead and just give me a second here I'll get to you in a second Danielle so institutional grants on their income it has city $12,000 and then under under that it has our potential of a community improvement grant for $2,500 so this this raises a challenge for me a concern being that there's nothing written within our community improvement grants saying that that can't happen but I think that we may want to discuss the spirit of you having the city provide funds for an event and then having the community advisory board and the community improvement grant then provide additional funds so that's challenging for me because I know that there's a number of other events that are out there that do receive funds from the city and this is going to come up again potentially if whichever way it goes so that's my concern is there any comments or with or without I don't know how to phrase that but well I'm raising I'm raising the concern I'd like to I wish this was brought to my attention sooner because I could have reached out to to them to see what they meant by city $12,000 reason being is we are not doing the community promotions funding which is the event pot of money that the city has for these types of event this year so those funds are not available so I don't know what they mean we don't as far as I know there are no other city grants that have provided events funding this year at all so I'm a little so and they and just to clarify that I mean they do have community investment funds which is the funds that you're talking about it says NA because that's not available but then they do list that the city is providing $12,000 in income or funds so I mean this is you know I'm sorry I didn't have a question about this until I was able to look at this information but being that this is the information that it said it's concerning to the challenge so I'm going to hand it over to the board members now I kind of see nodding and whatnot if you feel that you'd like to make a comment please raise your hand member Bartholome yes thank you just really I'm looking for clarification can this this grant request be handled at the next meeting or does it have to be done tonight I mean it seems like we need to do a little bit of homework around what that $12,000 number is so can we just address it at the next meeting I mean we could the next meeting is May 25th the event is on June 10th and 11th I believe so it doesn't give them a whole lot of time I mean it's not a make or break I think for their event but they were they had a specific item that they were going to cover the event with so I mean it's up to you guys I'm trying to get an answer right now and thank you for that question and member Rom is there anything in the charter or anywhere that prevents them from getting grants if there was some sort of grant no no we've actually provided sponsorships from our department to events that have received community improvement grants before so it has happened okay thanks yeah and member Barnett so yeah when I look at this I have my suspicions and I think one of the two things it could be is it could be either the city's waiving of permit fees or it could be economic development is the two that I suspect from previous years events but per the grant guidelines we don't have um it's a it's not a prohibitive if they're getting funds from another city department and I do want to let this organization know um that this event that's happening their operating budget is they are operating with ten thousand dollars less this year they lost one of their sponsors and so that's part of the reason I think also why they're coming to our organization is because they do have a budget deficit they're trying to make up for because they obviously want to keep the event free and open to the community so um but yeah I I have a suspicion that it has to do with permit waiving um because the exact amount um so I you know I mean and the other part about it is is that with it being on June 11th um pushing it to our main meeting um I don't know I just because it is a very direct ask I'm a little hard pressed to defer it to the following month when I suspect that this is that the city's it could be sponsoring it but my my gut check on this is that it's a permit waiver or that at least part of that funding is permit waivers I just checked in with our economic development team and they have said that there are no funds from economic development or the normal sources of event funding for this event or for any events this year going towards that so we're not clear on what that is yeah and I from past experience I don't know of any of permit that cost $12,000 um and nowhere close to $12,000 um except from uh even if you were covering police services that might be a stretch for one day but uh and I don't know um so it's worth finding out but remember in a sense you know you can have your hand up yeah so I guess I was just gonna say if if I I would be more than willing to support this and maybe we could discuss that a later day but if we have no language or any um thing prohibiting for us from from funding it I think it's totally fine seems like a big event a big fun event um and there seems like a pretty expensive to put on as well so I think if we can help them out with the cap grant I think we definitely should um just my opinion member Barnett uh to hand up again yeah I just went on the event website and the two pieces that might fill in the gap it's out there Santa Rosa which is economic development but it is a project of economic development they've contracted out for out there but as a grant applicant they may not realize that and then it's the Santa Rosa Metro Chamber which is another possibility that it could be that the grant applicant is thinking Santa Rosa Metro Chamber but I do see on there it's out there Santa Rosa which I can see where they would interpret that as the city of Santa Rosa so just giving a little bit of clarity of what's on their actual website thank you are there any other questions uh I will say before this goes to a vote that I'm still challenged by this um and I I think it's just the the Pandora's box of opening this up and I realize that we have no language around it um but um events that are larger um just I also grapple with the public perception of having that line item uh having a large funding from quote unquote the city and and not knowing what that is and then adding on to that so I realize I might not might not have a popular opinion but uh I I'm just uncomfortable and challenged by it so I I need to voice that and and go with that myself um I just remembered a piece of historical information too for the board um they that particular group the music festival has given cab free booth space each year um at least for the past what should he like five six years or so um so it is a an opportunity that the cab is historically utilized to table and get information out about the grant program as well so at this time um oh number wrong in the nick of time uh have has cab has this been funded but through through cab before no um only because we've had the city's community promotions funding which usually takes care of all of the the permit fees and you know the cost for police and things like that because because I mean 2500 is a small in the bucket of the whole expense if they don't have the 12 grand if they think they have 12 grand and they don't have it they got bigger issues than than 2500 that's my old comment now I'll point out that most events that in my knowledge um that have had funds from the community investment funding which is available once a year um through the city of Santa Rosa um usually for larger events uh those when the city does provide those funds um then tabling can happen so I just don't want that statement of cab has tabled at this event to be any type of leverage that's not how that's supposed to work um you know if you if you get tabling space it's not leveraged to then get a grant later on um I just you know I know you didn't mean it that way Danielle but I don't want any suspicion of that being being said publicly I just want to mention um Raisa De La Rosa who is the economic development director is jumping on right now to talk about what this potentially might be she'll be on in just a second to answer some of that hopefully clarify so just give us one moment right here is Raisa hi Raisa hi I am coming in cold and blind but I understand you have a question yes um so we have an application from the railroad square music festival for a cab grant and there is a line item in their budget that's is stating that they are receiving $12,000 from the city but it doesn't specify what they're receiving if it's coming from you know what department so there was a thought that it might be coming from out there Santa Rosa oh yeah I need to um double check that if um so Tara Thompson runs that program for us and we had been in discussion specific to um the way in which uh are out there Santa Rosa program can have a presence um but um I would need to double check with Tara if um that's the amount or what it is and if it is from out there Santa Rosa it would be very specifically for us to have a specific presence and acknowledgement within the program as supporting for that specific program perfect thank you I appreciate that there sorry I can't be more helpful it's okay the problem is that all you need for me yes thank you okay bye bye thank you for that and at this time do we have a motion on the floor for approval move to approve the community improvement grant for the railroad square music festival I'll second it and that was member Barnett that had the motion and I think it was member Stephanie that yes and at this time we'll go to public comment we do have one hand raised for public comment Gregory I have given you permission to speak do you see the timer on your screen yes I do thank you your time begins now thank you my name is Gregory Farron I'm with Santa Rosa together again um similar to what I said before about trying to help cab build capacity among the neighborhoods and among any group that wants to put on anything I have a couple of suggestions any event that gets put on in the community usually needs sound and that's what I was saying before about you've already funded a sound system that's available to anybody who wants to use it the other thing that that I would like that I see in this grant and I'd like to see a little more attention to buy cab is power everybody you know who puts on an event usually goes out and you know buys himself a generator or rents something that's not exactly the best climate concerned tool and lately a lot of groups that I know of are are buying you know basically battery powered power systems for about the same cost that basically are non-polluting and and not very noisy so I guess what I'm suggesting is when you give a grant to somebody think about the climate think about what you're doing and especially take a bold move to model what other people and other groups can begin to do to not use the kinds of polluting devices that we've seen in the past so I'm asking you to be bold but I'm asking you to you know be a model of trying to figure out a way of having people come to an event and not have to do it in the same way that's wasteful and and highly polluted this one is I will bet that that money they've got in there for power is going to you know use a generator and we shouldn't be doing that we should be trying to figure out ways of living lightly on the land and so that's my request of you is to look into this one and perhaps you know buy yourself a power system or two and and start loaning that out we long ago have suggested that you know the lending library of of tools and equipment that can be used in any of your grants ought to be you know bought and centralized and everybody ought to have access to it whether they get a grant from you or not if they're a neighborhood group trying to do something think about becoming a resource to the neighbors who want to do things that require these kinds of tools even trucks I mean there are lots of things that you know small groups don't have the money to buy and if you had those kinds of things you'd be a lot more valuable to the neighbors thank you thank you there are no other there are no other hands raised thank you and I would like to say just before we move on to comment excuse me to the vote that those are all great suggestions by Gregory and sound systems are varied in their capacity and I know for a large event that the railroad square music festival is that it requires a sound system and in all transparency this line item was dedicated to having a sound system but their needs are quite expansive and larger than potentially a bought sound system stored at community action partnership would provide so I can see both sides of the point there so I'm happy to discuss that further if any if anyone from the public would like to talk about that being that I have a vast experience so now going on to the vote yeah yes all right member Barnett approve member Barthelot yes member inocentio yes member Lange yes thank you remember wrong absolutely remember square yes member Steffi yes member Weissman yes approve and share grapes you're on mute before I vote I just want to again do a logistics thing I know I'm very excited about member square is performing in the railroad square music festival um so question about a vote is not getting paid through the grant so I don't think it's a conflict of interest okay being have to put it out there for the public so I just want to be transparent as much as possible my vote is yes with a little bit of hesitation but I'm getting over it okay great so that grant application is also a first thank you all right thank you everybody thank you for all gathering that information and thanks for the great comments and getting through that moving on to item number 6.2 which is our community presentation from Santa Rosa together Santa Rosa together is a non-partisan coalition of volunteer residents and over 20 organizations they will present their idea for creation of a network of neighborhoods to the community advisory board their presentation was provided in an attachment in our agenda and we do have a presenter here to seal and you are here to join us to make the presentation this evening thank you chair graves excuse me I am so happy to be back here um some of you know me from as a former cab member and I'm really I can't tell you how happy I am to be here and to be presenting I'm so impressed with the people that are part of the cab right now and so it makes me a little bit jealous that I'm not on the cab anymore and so yeah I'm going to go right into a short presentation because we've given you information from Santa Rosa together which is who I am here representing and basically I want to entitle this investing in social capital and the way that we look at let me pull up my notes sorry the way that we're looking at a network well actually we want to call it a council of neighborhoods because we are advocating for cab to become a council of neighborhoods now we would love for you to be partnering with us if that happens or not you know all we can do is advocate so we are advocating because we look at a network a strong network of neighborhoods as a very important way or structure or infrastructure for a local democracy okay so I do want to say first of all that Santa Rosa together is we're a group of nonpartisan coalition so we try not to let our politics actually interfere with our the way that we operate we don't advocate for any political side or the other and we do have different political beliefs within our group but we are trying to renew and revitalize the democracy on a local level we started we started doing quarterly neighborhood meetings and we actually often partnered with the city to do it and then we had a really big one a two-day quarterly meeting and we invited Jim Deers who was the first director of of neighborhoods in Seattle and he came and inspired us we had county and city government and city staff and then we also had community members on the second day but that was maybe a month before the pandemic hit so we had this really inspiring thing and then the pandemic hit and we were no longer going outside so we want to kind of revive that around we we are working on we had one quarterly neighborhood and then we had to go back indoors but we actually believe and this is in your packet that we do believe that a robust network of neighborhoods would actually empower cab members and it would build capacity for cab members to lead groups to through dialogue and problem solving if that's what you're interested in there are many benefits to a strong network of neighborhoods and like just imagine if you know well first of all our democracy depends on strong voluntary community and neighborhood organizations so imagine that most of our neighborhoods are strong and we it allows more of our residents to become actively engaged in what happens in your own neighborhood and in the city um it you know if we had to make decisions on a neighborhood of land use nearby or a park or what we want to bring like to a community maybe there's no supermarket like close by and so there was a decision to be made on bringing in a healthy food market and imagine that you were making those decisions together and you knew like you were so well organized that you knew somebody was missing from that decision making and you know you're aware of who you are basically so imagine that's possible imagine that Santa Rosa made a significant breakthrough progress on work that provides affordable housing or it we've developed community-based policing and we're addressing climate change it's empowering for everybody to be on that level of engagement so now that we're you know a district a seven district city we are we've created an open government task force implementation report it's still being worked on but we pretty much have that we have the office of community engagement which is you know it's relatively new we have an equity officer which is relatively new so we have all of these things that required effort and advocacy so we do want to propose as a top priority that the council adopts an ordinance that elevates the role we believe it's elevating the role of the community advisory board to become a council of neighborhoods. John McKnight who is the co-founder of asset-based community development institute said about community safety there are two primary determinants of our local safety one is how many neighbors we know by name and the other is how often we're present and associated in public life outside our houses police activity is a minor protection compared to these two community actions so the benefits of a strong local group of neighborhoods making decisions for themselves and engaging in decisions of importance to the whole city it increases social capital and social cohesion and that means we're getting to know each other we we are always in communication we are actively increasing our awareness of local services and programs because we're interacting with city agencies we have less conflictive problem resolution so there are fewer conflicts we're learning how to make decisions together increase civic engagement is a given it actually increases in terms of public health and healthy neighborhoods it increases population resilience and community resilience so we're helping each other out it actually reduces crime rates it increases property values it stimulates local economic activity these are all the things that are possible if we're making decisions together and we're imagining what we want in our neighborhoods so um I'm being very aspirational but we actually think that a true democracy is aspirational and we're seeing what can happen right in the world now with a stronger democracy and with people helping each other so I want to comment on the work that you're doing and you're looking at the strategic plan it's the refresh I went and looked at I watched your February meeting and really um you know first of all I did I did have a little bit of you know remembering the work that we did we have community members in in that strategic plan process it was a really robust um like kind of event and thinking and um member Barnett I hear you block parties I'm with you she's been saying that for years and I I actually agree I think that we want flexibility in the way that neighborhoods are able to to do things it's it's hard because there are all these constraints that we have to consider safety constraints but the the more we can make that easier the better um and the more fun it is the better um but some of the things I heard you say are actually uh they dovetail with the idea of infrastructure for a neighborhood group so imagine that's an overriding concept for cab you're helping neighborhood groups with infrastructure being able to form so I heard that you want to actually actualize some of the strategies that are there excuse me in the strategic plan empowered diversity of voices that somebody said creating structure well I identified it as creating structure but a packet of um about how like a roadmap or a how to five steps in creating an organization a community group I just want to remind us some of those who were here for the quarterly neighborhood meeting with Jim Dears neighborhood groups start small it's however groups are organizing you start there the groups that already exist one of the members talked about how she was back they were she's a mom and she and her husband were back on the in the parks for playing baseball with kids and parents talk I mean that is a natural group that you know start getting them to think about like go to those meetings show up here with their concerns are ask them what their concerns are and then um like take it back to a council member that's the kind of thing and the kind of structures we were trying to create with the um some of the uh tools like the list so I want to I just I that was so much a part of I felt so strongly about that and we did have a lot be a lot of names on that list it was something like hundreds and it was because we started with small groups we asked people just to name groups that got together and they we tried to create tiers so those are the kinds of things that will help a neighborhood network creating that structure for cab to help create that structure the only other thing oh one of the other members talked about how in some neighborhoods they're too tired to organize and maybe worrying about like trying to figure out how they're going to get food well cab could actually support um helping those groups and maybe a place where food can be given out becomes the place where they organize or where they talk together anyway um I that's really all I wanted to kind of present to you of why it's so sorry my throat is really dry and of course don't have water here but I do want to ask we did want to hear from you um and we did put some of our questions were basically do you what do you think about a community-wide network of neighborhood organization that's supported by the office yep I'll jump in there um so appreciate that presentation and I know uh it I believe I may be incorrect in this and Danielle can help me out with it this may be the first community group that has provided the presentation at least in the time that I've been here for a couple years I don't know if that's all time's sake but I'm focusing what I'm saying here um that way because this might be a little bit new for for us as well as for you um kind of how this logistics of this goes um so if I'll let you wrap up your presentation as far as what you what you have to say um but after your presentation is done then I will open it up to the board to ask questions okay and then if we are we'll have a discussion uh and Danielle might have to help me out with this as well but uh this is our time to have to ask questions of you and then we may have a further discussion at a later time after this presentation okay so what I'm hearing is um of course I do want to hear from you and if you have questions for me but I can't really ask questions of people in the group is that there's no yours I'm just going to follow your procedure your process so leave me in the direction you want all right do you have a closing words on your presentation um I guess I just want to say that I I really feel like the cab is is pointing in that directions from what I heard in the strategic plan that there was a lot of energy for you to be interacting with community and I we I see that personally as work in um the beginning of supporting but we want to see of course a very formalized structure and I you know that's kind of our um we would like to see you being involved in that so that's it I'll let you ask questions if you want to great thank you I want to get you a glass of water thank you I do too okay so at this time uh and remember that you did have that attachment embedded into the agenda this evening as well as you just heard from Cecile a bit of a presentation from Santa Rosa together uh are there any questions from the board for Cecile at this time and member Steffi I'll start with you thank you hi Cecile um thank you for that I can tell there's a lot of passion around um the group and um all the whole idea neighborhoods in that meeting you said you had where you were inspired a month before the everything shut down so I can appreciate you wanting to bring that back um a couple gosh I'll frame it maybe as a question um I'm curious it sounds like you have ideas about where you think cab should go as far as how it engages with the community have you guys been in touch with the charter review folks because I'm assuming that would be something maybe you've already been doing and if so I'm curious if you've had dialogue with them or what you've heard from them so um one of our steering committee members is on the charter committee and um we actually feel like there's no need to change the charter um it would accommodate um the but to to make it a more robust um you know structure for a council of neighborhoods would be to change maybe by ordinance because it's easier you can change ordinances the charter is solid for 10 what 10 years I think so you don't necessarily want to do that um you know even if there's well you know we would like to see a council the title of the council of neighborhoods but um I think we we have heard some pushback on that um but you know we're we're advocating for it um does that answer your question there that yes the charter doesn't need to be changed really yeah that answer that answer is my question um and then it leads me to another one because I when you you're kind of talking like you said aspirationally but when you talk about expanding the role of the cab I'd like to know personally as a cab member what that would look like in reality right as far and maybe that maybe you can't answer that right now but we are a group of volunteers and a lot of us volunteer in lots of ways and we have our you know it's been different since obviously since COVID we haven't been able to get out there and engage but that's one concern or question is like what does that look like in in in real life and then the other is when you talk about a council of neighborhoods my last comment is you look at COVID the last two years and I know a lot of us on the cab we had a list of all the previous if you will neighborhood groups and a lot of us took like 10 of those and reached out and tried to get a hold of folks and find out is your neighborhood group still happening do you need help maybe getting it revitalized of my 10 I reached out to I only heard from one and I tried hard to reach out so I wonder if we should take some baby steps now after COVID and just make sure we can maybe assist neighborhood groups be coming again and communicating again and structure and organizing again and then maybe later think about them all forming a council I just tend to look at things in small segments if you will so that we can have luck with meeting our objective so I'll leave that there but I want to at least share that with you thank you I didn't hear a question for me but I so appreciate um baby steps also thank you member Steffi and before we move on I did hear a question in there um so I want to make sure that uh and member Steffi correct me if I'm wrong um but you asked about expanding the role of CAB and what does that look like what to for this proposal it was but I really didn't think necessarily that Cecilia was going to answer that right now but that's something to take back to central that together maybe because at least for me and we should hear from other CAB members it sounds great like it just doesn't sound like there's a lot of I don't know meat behind it as far as what that would really look like and how the role of CAB members might change and if it's if it's doable and I also while I have the floor again I know the Office of Community Engagement they do a lot of projects you heard Danielle's update earlier and I know in the material you sent out it said I think expand the role or it seems like you also were requiring in your vision a lot more of their resources and that's a concern for me just because since I've been on CAB I know how much they're already doing with a really small staff so again not necessarily a question although it was a question Chair Graves but I didn't think it would be answered necessarily tonight so thank you um and what I will say is um we do see with the districtization um that there could be an expansion of the member of of CABs and maybe even the expansion of more community engagement Office of Community Engagement not just if we really want a strong democracy local democracy where we have you know maybe funneling into associations that are bigger in each district you know where people are doing the work in some cities it's so well organized that they're actually paid positions uh neighborhood associations um so you know it I don't know the answer ultimately but I do not it's not about adding and um putting on more work first the the number of people that are in existence right now right I appreciate that and one more thing I did do some research on the Seattle group the um that man you mentioned um they have over 50 employees in that neighborhood group if you will now they have like three times the amount of people as we do in Santa Rosa but still that's a lot of people and so it's it's an interesting model to look at and I personally don't see getting from here to there in any short order like that was the goal so again I'm taking up too much time but I at least want to share the I done the research on the Seattle group and it was interesting but they have a huge amount of staff so anyway thank you thank you member Ron oh my goodness okay so thank you member Steffi and thank you for acknowledging the time constraint right there I saw member Ron's hand up and then member Lange you'll be next thank you all right so member Steffi she took my thunder by expanding the role of cab but my other question was is centers together uh not only talking to cab is there other organizations or or boards or groups that you're trying to gather as well yeah so there are different funding um sites or groups out there as well and there we've so one of the um neighborhood association South Park for instance got an influx of money from um Providence St. Joseph health and they're doing a lot of work because they were given money and so people can use that money and get out there and and do stuff so I think that of course there's um foundation money um but we do want the city um to also recognize that it's an important thing and we are advocating for it you know for institutionally um a structure of neighbor a network of neighborhoods and of course it can be done in baby steps we can't just have something overnight that occurs we do see this as a step um you know in our way it has to be where it works for Santa Rosa not putting implementing something I mean there are other models not just Seattle out there okay thank you member Lange hi yeah hi so uh so member Lange we'll take your next thank you I don't have any questions but I do just have some things that are coming up for me that are concerning that I would offer us points of feedback for you to take back to the group thank you first being this is very aspirational but it also doesn't really embody the um diverse lifestyles that folks live in the community and recognizes the difference of um lived experience that people have for example assuming that folks are not civically engaged because they don't know about things they may just have to work really hard one or two jobs to maintain their households we have a number of community members that are experiencing housing insecurities at high cyclical rates and when we look at the demographics of who that impacts it's also our communities of color so when we think about the intersection of the disparity and the ways in which they can engage and or see excitement about something at this level these are folks barely trying to get by day to day and survive and thrive I think um taxing this type of board and the city with an additional expansion knowing that their priorities and resources have been on addressing those very issues um again long-term shot if everybody had housing security and a place to live and knowing where they were laying their heads at night and they were like nice and bubbly neighborhoods that we all could live in I think it would um fare well but we definitely have a dynamic of haves and have nots that are divided between freeways and hillsides and I think that that takes away from the opportunity for things like this to be true when people are really trying to just get by on the day to day I look at the neighborhood and community that I live in people are working class there's a lot of renters and a lot of folks just trying to keep their heads above water I don't really see that there would be aspirational engagement but I do see what gets posted on next door and it's pretty um targeted and mean and so if that's the group that's governing what happens in my neighborhood I have grave concerns about what that looks like because those are the homeowners the haves that are making decisions for the have nots myself a renter right and the lived experience is very different the opportunity for access is very different I think this if we lived in a place that was large and had the support and resources to make a model like this come to light I think it would be kind of cool but I think we have to really think about where we live and what's happening and what's taking place and I'm not sure if you all sat with the data of the portrait of Sonoma but um black residents live 10 years less than any other demographic in this county so while we want to look at how people can be more engaged um I heard safety thrown out there in some really complex ways that don't necessarily matriculate to the data that I know to be true I think it'll be really important to recognize that again maybe we should look at the lived experience that all folks are having and really think about a model that could serve or work for those different nuances especially as we're navigating the pandemic um loads of racism and systemic injustice that exists in our community and within the city itself and the complexity around the economic insecurities and folks don't have a home and until I think we really look at targeting how we support and elevate and amplify those needs something like this just kind of glosses over the fact that there are people who don't have essential needs in their world thank you I will um and I would love to actually learn more from you and take this conversation offline I personally am a renter and um and a working really I consider myself working class so I'm not a homeowner that you know and I still see this as a working possible working model but I so appreciate your comments thank you thank you so much for that and member and I'm sending us your hand up yeah thank you I guess I have a couple comments not sure it's really a question but first thank you for presenting I've seen this effort and I've seen it the model in in cities that are much bigger like Los Angeles or Seattle and I could see how it works well just with that level of just having a larger population being able to have money flow into these neighborhood groups but I think at least in my own experience the most precious resource is time and I don't I don't I think creating a neighbor or a council of neighborhoods and neighborhood groups puts the responsibility on the neighborhood and challenges and taxes their time to things that maybe they don't have so while I really you know like the idea of it I think we just need to increase our capacity to do community engagement which I know you know our office of community engagement is doing but I think spending our precious precious resources engaging with those communities with people who are paid to do that I think is ultimately what what's going to benefit Santa Rosa in the community as a whole you know I think it it takes a lot of social capital to create a neighborhood group and to maintain the neighborhood group and you need to know planning you need to know how to reach out to people who would talk to in the city it's a lot of work and unless it's paid in some way I don't see it being sustainable with our current at least in my neighborhood I don't see it being sustainable but thank you for the presentation I think it's a great idea and when executed well I think it'd be a lot better bring a lot of benefit but I don't see that right now I appreciate your comments thank you very much all right I don't see any other questions um I will echo many of the concerns that member uh Lange brought up uh and I know I've shared this with the cab before that I had met with members of Santa Rosa together back in January just as a somewhat of a listening session um in trying to do research and actually brought up the question of whether or not Santa Rosa together wanted to make a presentation at that time they didn't want to make a presentation to the cab and then later changed course and that's why this presentation is happening um and I too have concerns I have concerns with equity um and having uh I'll start backwards just a little bit I know from talking to folks that were part of the formation of the community advisory board that it was aspirational um in in information as well and uh that community versus neighborhoods I don't want to have a versus right there but if we're just talking about uh just the the words in a title um I feel that community is wide serving and neighborhoods may be narrowing the focus actually and although I hear and I respect and acknowledge you saying that this would uh you expand the role of cab I believe that the perception could be that it would actually decrease uh our role and or um decrease our impact so my concern with equity being that not everybody identifies with their neighborhood uh their deep their deep concerns with that member land was actually speaking to that to to some degree and I agree with her um there are not just renters but there are people of low income there are people that are um you know workers that are very much not in our mainstream of our society there are people of color communities of color there are people that have uh age issues uh ability uh different abilities I'm thinking of skilled nursing facilities I'm thinking of uh group homes so when we're talking about neighborhoods sometimes my reflection on that is that not necessarily everybody is included in their neighborhood structure um when a neighborhood group is first being formed or even if it has been formed for a long time um and my questions around that would be uh what steps will do you see that uh neighborhood council uh will be more representative of Santa Rosa and address concerns of diversity equity inclusion and has Santa Rosa together come up with ideas around that so I will just point out that um the idea is to go to groups that already exist so if you have um like board and care homes for instance where people or places where people are developmentally disabled or homeless we we did a project called homeless talk and we engaged um people who were not housed in our conversations and we met with we brought people together along with homeless people and we actually had conversations and we um we gathered the data from the conversations and we arrived at how we could actually help people who were unhoused so it it's not about just all of the wealthy people coming together it's actually trying to organize and having other people in the neighborhood recognize what is in their neighborhood like who who do we live with I happen to live in a low income housing and you know so I'm gonna start here and I'm gonna talk to people in my building and I'm going to find out um you know what are their concerns and it you start there you start by listening and hearing from them so our model is not at all or this idea is not at all trying to bring in only people who have time um going and talking to people is not that hard and it people do stop and talk to you if you go to them so you know there are many ways for us to have conversation but the problem is that we're not doing it outside of our own silos so going down to a more local level at least allows that to happen and then we come together um you know we then we know we bring we try to bring different people together to make decisions um you know I like we don't envision this at all as a um you know you can start by just one building like me in my building I could go around talk to people we get together I don't know we have some event we get together um and then we go talk to our council member we invite our council member in when we advocate we meet with council members they want to know what solutions people are coming up with not just what are their concerns how do they want to solve it and that's you know that's a place to start so I appreciate that all of these concerns and the tension that it you know some of the presentation brought out um and that is the failure of my presentation because I I we don't envision that at all so um oh yeah so I guess there's another question I'll let you facilitate I wouldn't necessarily call it a failure but I think it's an opportunity to recognize that there are some real harms that happen in some neighborhoods and it can be triggering and it can bring up a lot for folks so when we think about really aspirational plans at this level there needs to be a level of like trauma-informed engagement that needs to be at the center of that and I appreciate you sharing where you live but quite frankly I have neighbors that have Confederate flags up because they thought we were going to rob them right that would determine from engaging absolutely level like this and recognizing who's coming to the table and lots of those dynamics exist in various neighborhoods where police and law enforcement are weaponized against neighbors right so there are some like intrinsic issues that exist and while I heard loud and clear um ideologies vary and that's the root of why you all came together when people are living in these environments that is not always the safest way that they could come to the table or even come to engage at this type of level so I think again while it while it is envisioned to be a very like lovely initiative there are some real root deeply rooted challenges that would prohibit people from actually having human conversation and human engagement and I think that is what I want to make sure is is loud and clear outside of an assumption made on an assumption that may be coming from my words it is literally some neighborhoods are not safe to engage door to door yeah and and there's no there there's no reason for that to be forced I agree with you there is no reason to go somewhere that people don't really want to talk I did consensus work and you know we're we were meant to just ignore the beware of dog sign and go up to the door anyway so there's you know I kind of learned to push through a little bit but trauma informed care absolutely I also do work for public health and and if we have nothing to offer there's no reason to to ask somebody for something but there are ways that I think what we need are people who are part of the community that are maybe somewhat interested in doing that work you just it there are ways but you're right I and I so appreciate you bringing in trauma informed care absolutely necessary so um I'm not seeing any other questions at this time and Cecil appreciate your willingness to come forward Santa Rosa together um for their time and energy that they have put into their thoughts um around a proposal for a neighborhood council um this is at this time there is no action item for us I believe but we may have a discussion about this later we are going to talk about our strategic planning continuing on with that later this evening so I have a feeling that this will get intertwined quite readily in in that some of these thoughts so I just want to again appreciate you and thank you for coming in front of us this evening and sharing this presentation and I'm sure that you will be and Santa Rosa together will be in touch with Danielle and Magali in our community engagement office for any uh further advancements that Santa Rosa together makes thank you for inviting us I appreciate it and at this time um Danielle needs some guidance from you actually if I go to public comments or yes okay thank you I appreciate it so public comments we are headed in that direction are Madeline are you still with us yes um at this time there are currently no hands raised for public comment okay thank you I feel like I should give out a second but there are no hands raised so I will uh bring it back to the cab and as I understand it after a presentation and after public comments on that I move on to the next agenda item Danielle correct me if I am wrong you are good to go let me catch my spot here uh we have closed out item 6.2 and moving on to item 6.3 the continuation of the cab strategic plan refresh and so the cab will continue working on updating their strategic plan and prioritizing objectives brainstorming that were brainstormed at the previous meeting there was a cab strategic roadmap that was included with our agenda this evening as well as objectives and priorities list that was developed in our last meeting in February and I can see my friend Juan Lopez is here this evening joining us thank you Juan and uh we'll help to facilitate our um our conversation around narrowing potentially our objectives and priorities list to something that is more functional moving forward um and I just have to say before we go on Juan because you're coming in potentially a little blind to this is that um we just had a rousing uh conversation or questions and comments from regarding our last presenter and I do realize that some of that might come up because we have talked quite a bit about um engaging of neighborhoods and I did make a comment earlier around the difference between neighborhoods and communities um I am very invested in neighborhoods but I do realize that neighborhoods are not necessarily uh what everyone identifies with um and there are many groups that people identify with and or cultures and or uh a time of your life um or uh many other facets of of an experience that people identify with so I just want to make that clear that sometimes we use the word neighborhood and we might be meaning something else as we're walking into this next discussion if you want to clarify yourself as you um bring up about a topic please do uh we're here we're here to work together and to listen and to hopefully prioritize our list so with that I will move on uh to Juan and did I sit you up well enough Juan are you are you ready to go thank you madam chair actually I've been on since six o'clock so I've seen and heard all of the comments um but uh before we proceed I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you or the board if you needed five minutes for a bio break before we jump into this so that's up to you um what's the pleasure of the group yeah it you know it is eight o'clock thank you for bringing that up Juan I I'm remiss that I didn't see that uh it is eight o'clock and a five minute break would be called for at this time um so let's let's let's go for six I call it six all right we will resume in six minutes then thank you everyone hello how you doing good I'm glad we did that because the heater turned on in my office and it blows directly down on top of me I was like don't let him see his sweat is that it yeah right so that um is there a time limit do we just continue or is there a hard stop we don't have a hard stop so we continue um unless the board says no or unless we lose our um our quorum okay yeah and but being that we've been going for two hours one yeah already um between you and I let's uh let's let's shoot for like 20 minutes okay you know I know that's lightning fast speed uh somewhat of a time warp kind of a thing but I think it could be done I think we just have to decide you're so awesome like you're just beyond awesome I I I appreciate your energy walking into the room or the zoom or whatever you want to say we just have to determine what our set number is and then looks like everybody needed a little brief break well we'll we'll keep that on the sidelines for now all right it has been six minutes so folks can hear us come back please there's an old uh old school rap song that somewhere in there said the line six minutes six minutes Dougie fresh you're on and that is my reference to six minutes whenever but anybody asked me how much time I need I say six minutes okay you gotta be you gotta be old school to know that one and you gotta be fast to move it six minutes as well so I see that we still have some folks joining us I'll give it another minute before we start we just gotta get them on screen so as we get these member Wiseman member square and member wrong if you're hearing me and you can come up on screen we need at least two of you to get going I believe thank you member wrong remember Wiseman thank you so at this time we are resuming our community advisory board meeting after our short break uh so I call us once again to order and handing over the floor to our facilitator Juan Lopez who will get us through prioritizing our objectives from our priority list and hopefully we can get uh I believe our goal was three of these priorities to focus on over this next year and behind the scenes Juan and I were just chatting and we're hoping to do this in 20 minutes or less so that means I need to work fast I just like to encourage you all if you're sitting please stand stretch we could do this while you're moving because you have certainly been on zoom for two and a half plus hours and usually that that does impact people so as you all recall in February we discussed the road map we walked through some of it and more clearly what we decided because of COVID was that a number of the goals that you had established um had not been uh you know the cab had not had a chance to really begin to work on some of those things because of the pandemic and the protocols that were in place so shortly after that after the discussion what we did is moved into brainstorming and uh the question was asked of the group let's do some open brainstorming come up with a list of items that are important to you um and these would be things that you would like to work on between now and the end of the year and so we had uh I think a very good brainstorming session and I believe most of you have the list of items in front of you is that correct all right so if we look at the list first off in terms of all of those bulleted points are there any clarifying questions regarding uh what's on that list because it comes again from all of you anything that's unclear this would be the right time to ask the question Juan I'm oh I do see a question member wrong no my question was we don't have a list which list are we referring to I'm sorry oh we actually um Juan I'm going to ask if we can put that up on the screen thank you I'm working on it thank you uh one one note that I had one was that uh we can just strike the Wednesday market that's not available to us to participate in okay that was that was one of the bullet points so when we see that come up on screen okay and also revisiting neighbor fest that's not available to us so that's something else that can be stricken it's not going to be available to us this year I should say in this uh in this time period so that can also be stricken from the list okay any others Madeline are you trying to bring the um I am hold on oh hold on I got it okay okay thank you Daniel I almost had it thanks there it is sorry I don't want to make it any smaller so folks can't see it so did you just do it a bit yeah okay Daniel are you able to just strike through those two items that I mentioned this is a PDF so I can't do it on yeah never mind yeah okay and um in the agenda it was also included as part of the attachment if that would be easier for some of you to open up on your computer as well it was listed in the minutes if you just want to open the minutes and go down to that section the whole list is on the minutes there we go okay so and then Wednesday at market correct yes yeah okay good so um I know we looked at this rather quickly but I was asking if there was any clarifying questions with respect to the items that are on the list looks like there's no questions one okay then my second question is is there anything missing uh that you may have um put up on this list when we did the brainstorming and as you look at it you go wait what happened to that brilliant idea I had that any of that anything missing yeah uh this is for I brought up um looking at newsletters I've seen if cap could take a roll or something like that oh there it is I didn't see the neighborhood newsletters yes never mind good thank you though good for bringing it up let me know if you want historical information too brought in here Leslie or Charlie sorry thank you and I think we will go forward with narrowing down our priorities with Juan's help um if historical information is needed we'll we'll circle back around to you but okay good so uh in February when we were going through the brainstorming list we had stated that what we were seeking to do was to come up with a set of priorities and we talked about three maybe four um but being clear about some priorities that were realistic and at the same time took into account what is the capacity of the cap board to get some of this work done because we always have to look at that as well um so in terms of looking at the list let's um decide um are you comfortable with going with three as a group that was a question and there was uh there was no one on that one that uh had to sentence that so we're going with three okay so as we look at at um this list I think the most efficient way to do it is to ask each of you to identify three from this list and that what we could do afterwards after you identify your three and we hear them out and and oh wait there's a question a member of Bartholome. Yes thank you um just just looking at this list it seems like some of these could be kind of grouped together as one or condensed so um I mean I'm just looking at the first two reactivate and reconvene neighborhood groups and facilitate neighborhood groups how to start a neighborhood group I mean those two seem like so close that they might be one thing um I don't know just a thought that might make it a little bit easier on us are there um others that people look at in terms of the list and say you know those two look pretty close we could combine them is there any others that are as natural as the first two there's no hands raised for comments on that side oh I did sorry I have I was a little sorry yes okay um I think maybe the the develop the hybrid tools to make um available to educate the public and document the tangible benefits of cab I think could be a combined opportunity okay are people comfortable with that any um questions or disagreements to that okay go further and say maybe even the team building exercises is built into the tangible benefits of cap um you can say that but my understanding of the team building is work for cab itself in terms of developing a more cohesive group and how it works together okay I'll leave it okay so thus far what I see is that we're taking the first two bullet points and and really forming that as one and then we're taking um the document tangible benefits the cab to share with community and develop hybrid two tools we're combining that so those now represent the second one is there any others that you see naturally uh that may fit I do I have I guess more of a question under wildfire ready in May there's so many events that the group um that Danielle and Macaulay's group were doing that's like a a different animal it seems like than everything else we're talking about here so either that goes away or maybe it's you know attend and engage with the community at all the events just a thought yeah I would ask Macaulay to respond to that because in February uh that was an item that she presented to the group as a um set activity already Macaulay what are your thoughts on that yeah I just want to kind of add a little bit more about um the wildfire ready event um is pretty much uh put together and we would want cab to to table that uh and again I just want to remind folks that it's sort of in lieu of like neighbor fest and um sort of a placeholder for that so is it something that they have to choose or not choose as a priority I I would say they would have to choose it as a priority or you know decide on whether or not they want it um with neighbor fest we had a team of cab members for every neighbor fest to help staff so it's like volunteers for each event so we would be a team of volunteers for this event from the cab okay um Danielle just correct me again if I'm wrong just jumping in real quick um but we already have that on an agenda item coming up with our event schedule so um we can address that there and maybe have this be a little bit broader scope of our priorities moving forward sure okay um so are we uh just taking this out of this list uh um is that what you're saying that is what I'm saying I'm committed to being there and they so I'm getting two more folks I bet we can do it okay so then based on um the comment here it doesn't necessarily have to be voted on as a priority it's already a done deal correct okay so then that leaves us if we look at it with and I'll just read through it reconnect with community well actually I'll go back to the first one reactivate reconvene neighborhood groups and facilitate neighborhood groups and how to start a neighborhood group so that could be a manual of sort I think that's how we talked about it the other is reconnect with community using parks fields and creeks and gather data on how people want to connect with the city boost cabs overall engagement with and empower the community and uh city decision making fund block parties with community improvement grant program general block party outside of NF document tangible benefits the cab to share with the community and develop hybrid tools and make available to educate the public on what city government does and how to access services civic 101 videos fund neighborhood newsletters making a presence in all seven districts use data from portrait of Sonoma county to recognize issues of inequity and serve community members where they are team building exercises and trainings and uh I guess just as a point of clarification that's more internal facing uh at least that's how I had heard it if I'm not correct please state so and then the other is explore the diversity of the community within the areas of interest stated above huh do you think let me just ask this question of the group do you believe or do you think we could combine explore the diversity of the community with the areas of interest stated above along with the portrait of Sonoma or do you see them distinctly different I see them together okay others any problems with doing that okay I will then move to do that unless there's any disagreement can I make an observation please I would almost think that you could move this up into this work here with neighborhood groups the last bullet point the use the data from the portrait of Sonoma and then exploring the diversity this really should be part of this work right here I support that too you all in agreement with that okay can you move it in to that area I tell you it's it brings facilitators great pleasure when the list starts to shrink and combine and people are still happy with it so with that then as we look at the remaining items what I'd like you to do is pick your top three and then we'll go around and see what your top three are and we'll document and we don't necessarily have to finalize that but at least we'll get a tally of the top three and then see where we shake out there we have a question from member Bartholome Bartholome I'm sorry yes thank you I was just looking at now bullet point two and bullet point three and I think those can be combined as well uh those two let me see we can actually I think that that the sub bullet point on number one using the data from portrait of Sonoma County I think that that should be a sub bullet point to to the three that with every one of the three that we pick oh I see what you're saying you want to say more about that why yeah because I think we need to do that with regard to everything that we do so that's the length yeah okay but um so I yeah I mean I don't know how others feel about combining two and three but you know it's it's we're we're wanting to convene with people in in parks to find out how they want to connect with the city and it seems like the other side of the coin of that is empowering the community and city decision making you know we're coming together we're finding out what they want to do and what they you know how they can do that essentially um that that's what that looks like to me and then again I would put the use the data from portrait as a sub bullet point under those two combined things so this might read boost caps overall engagement with and empower the community and city decision making by reconnecting with committee using parks fields and creeks that kind of thing yes exactly all right so we could combine those two I have a comment on that um so respectfully I agree with your second point to use that uh that and before Daniel moves them all together is uh I I agree with the sub sub bullet point being useful in whatever we decide on our three priorities but I would say to keep those two bullet points that you first mentioned separate um out of respect to our community services board that works and engages with the community and parks and through the parks and rec department I feel um whereas we could potentially engage with our community services uh board at a future date and do something in conjunction uh it may not be appropriate for us to have parks as our engagement point one that is really their engagement point okay excellent point I didn't that's a good catch I didn't think about that I didn't think about the parks group I was just thinking more generically about parks so you're talking about the partnership with the parks as well okay what about this edit right here that I just made we can change it back because it captures all of the community events right here yeah community events would be more appropriate for us um rather than the parks specifically um their their level engagement in the parks has to also do with policy and use and all kinds of aspects of the parks I just don't want to muddle the ours and theirs and get a little a little confusing it already used to the public sometimes so given that clarification can we merge the two now since parks is out or do you still prefer to keep the two separate as it stands now for me it would lend itself to emerging what's the pleasure of the group yes no maybe yeah for me perfect okay so how many do we have now one two three four five six seven and member innocentio has his hand up please thank you thank you I think the making a presence in all seven districts I think that could be combined with either the first or second bullet point um yes what do the rest of you think yep I can't see the full gallery so yes all right so we're gonna move that up to the first one or the you said the second one uh or the first one uh I think really it'll fit in both but I think it goes better with the second one so yeah okay got it you're on it daniel you're doing that telepathy thing that's good all right so um now the question is um and madam chair please uh add your perspective on this because it came up while we were brainstorming do you think that last one team building exercises this is really a particular project or is that just something that the cab uh board is going to engage in should it be on this list um I understand the point that being made for it to be on the list I I think maybe leave it on the list but maybe we should do our top three uh signal our top three as individuals so that we can see um where we all land as a group so if we if we all went around and said these are our top three um and take a tally I'm sure we can take a tally of that and then we will find out where the group has a majority for their top three focus okay and now we're down to five items so it should make it easier to select your top three so why don't we uh do you have your hand up still yeah um so even though I brought up the neighborhood newsletters I think that's more a tool to achieve the first two goals rather than um a goal in itself so I think I would be open to removing it even even though it's my bullet point but I'd be definitely willing to remove it remove it and move it somewhere else or remove it knowing that it's going to be done anyways removing it and seeing if uh I guess just removing it and if it turns out that we can you know use newsletters to um boost the overall engagement of cap and that's great but if not that's okay too okay sounds good so we have another one removed now we're down to four is that correct now still five five well we thought team building we we may or may not vote on that one correct everyone can still vote okay we're leaving it open for the vote got it okay so now is everybody ready to vote pick your top three write them down and then will we go through uh a roll call if you will you'll state your top three we'll we'll take notes on what those top three are and then we could decide if we have time to kind of go through the process of prioritizing it or tallying it and getting it back to you what do you prefer uh madam chair let's just go for tallying right now and then we'll take a temperature read after that so um and then you know we need to keep this public so would you like to do this as a roll call vote um or it's not really a vote I can't call it a vote but yeah handle I guess my question is how do we best handle this and I need to defer to staff I'm sorry everyone I'll be your assistance mm-hmm yeah so can can I just call out everyone's name and they give me their their numbers we'll just say that like for example bullet point one is number one and so on and so forth okay before you do that member wiseman does have her hand up I want to put her the floor oh okay yes um hi sorry thank you just would you mind because I'm having trouble I'm looking on my tiny screen would you mind just stating the the five oh sure uh options or record whatever we're calling them recommendations okay I'll read through them again and then and then each of you will select year three so the first is reactivate reconvene neighborhood groups facilitate neighborhood groups how to start a neighborhood group and and uh sub bullet point under that is use data from portrait of stoma county to recognize issues of inequity and serve community members where they are explore the diversity of the community within the areas of interest stated above the second item is boost cabs overall engagement with and empower the community and city decision making by reconnecting with the community at community events and gather data on how people want to connect with the city making a presence in all seven districts number three fund block parties with community improvement grant program general block party outside of nf number four document tangible benefits the cab to share with the community develop hybrid tools and make available to educate the public on what city government does and how to access service services civic 101 videos and number five team building exercises training internal so those are the five and each of you will select your top three and then daniel will do the roll call and you'll give your number to your top three and then we'll see where we shake out and daniel just a quick note should we be stating them in specified order one two and three first choice seconds are just these are our three these are our three thank you yeah yep all right i was starting with member barnett three four and two two and two member barthelot one two and guess four okay um member inocentio uh one two and four member lounge one two and four number wrong one two four i'm sensing a pattern member square looks like member square are you still here if you left us um member steppy one two four member wiseman one three four three four and chair graves one two and four four thank you very much um i mean overall it looks like one two and four of the top three here um of the whole group are we prepared to say those are the priorities you want to go forward with if that's the if that received the most votes chair graves just i want to put it out there if there's any um compelling comments or other interests and i'm not seeing i'm seeing oh now i see member wiseman did you just not put your hand down because i know you're on a small screen it's challenging on a small screen thank you and member steppy yeah i just wanted to say that really we're going to get grants and grant requests in every three months and we could definitely fund block parties as part of that overall charter of cap so i don't see that as like losing out because that's kind of going to happen naturally and we can choose to fund them or not just want to throw that out there okay thank you for that point any any bit board member want to make a passionate appeal if one of your items didn't get selected and this is your opportunity to convince your fellow board members why you're right doesn't look like it's the problem with long meetings right okay so it almost seems and we we have an opportunity to come back and we and discuss this but it seems like most of the votes went with one two and four and as a member steppy said that the item around three is going to be popping up on a quarterly basis so there's an opportunity to look at funding for block parties in that context as well is that correct correct okay so i would say that you arrived at your priorities there's no going there's no going back no buyers remorse you you've come up with what you're going to work on and hopefully you considered capacity in terms of of your energy and also you know the ability realistically to get it done and and i would just say based on what i read they all seem very realistic and i really like the idea of of putting the portrait up there as a sub bullet point of each item because it would also add that focus that you've been talking about so is there anything else you need of me one i just need your attention so i can tell you how wonderful you are and we thank you so much appreciate your time and energy joining us not only this evening for this time but for that that preview time that you are spending with us when we didn't see you always a pleasure and i look forward to seeing you again we'll be chatting in the future okay sounds good i'm not only comment to the board is that i really did like in that presentation the level of discourse that took place the respect for a diversity of thought but also the clarity at which you really emphasize your perspectives and and i just believe that that's a good sign of a board that's working well and has some good emotional intelligence when you're looking at all of that so it's a pleasure to work with you all thank you and good luck thank you sir have a good evening you too and with that we do need to bring this to public comment there are no hands raised for public comment all right thank you um and that closes out item number six point three moving right along to six point four upcoming events uh this is it yet another discussion and prioritizing of uh the events that were attached to our agenda um this might also need to be brought up on screen for some events that we have the potential to table at in 2022 and um we could get some members to sign up on the table currently i'm just going to throw it out there right now i'm going to jump in right now and start it off uh i am available for may 21st june 18th and august 4th and i'm excited about it so i'm seeing uh i missed that you miss what no dates okay that was may 21st june 18th and august 4th and as i understand it um maybe this can be more of a working discussion where we potentially throw out our our desires and where we want to be on this and if we fall short or one doesn't get um you know three members then that kind of shows where our priority is right there but we do have other members that aren't available this evening as well so this could be a working document so i'm seeing lots of hands up member lange uh i can do may the 7th um may the 21st i will be there so if there's like a a block of time that i could agree to that probably would work best um um june the 12th i can be available for a block of time june 18th i'm one of the collaborators so i could commit to a block of time and august the 4th um i can be available and i'm willing to give it up if other people are going to be available too but i thought i'd be yeah i and we can have more than three here is just i just put the numbers up for now with the june team festival you might want to hold on to that especially and then it's going to be busy um so thank you and then member bartholome hi i i don't have my calendar so i'm going to have to get back um i'll send danielle can i send some dates to you yes okay thanks thank you and member innocent you can put me down for the 18th and august 4th june 18th there you go okay and member ron i am playing to be there this saturday that's just uh city hall or city manager time council or time meeting and then also may 21st is my only other day i have available okay great so i believe that that might finish us out for this evening um for folks that have their calendar available if there are um members who are present now or and or of course we'll be sending it out this is one of those items that i'd love for the email to go out pretty quickly after this meeting so that we we get on this and i apologize for not being available this saturday i will be out in the date of bay announcing for the funny wooden boat races for those folks that know about that um so i think that concludes our input on that do we have a public comment for that there are no hands raised for public comment great so that closes out item number 6.4 the next item is 6.5 there is i think there's two 6.4s but just so we know this really is 6.5 issues of concerns to city residents are there any issues of concerns this is a standing agenda item tab members will report on issues of concern to community members within their cab areas and the city as a whole community members may use public comment um during this item to bring issues of concern to the cab so i see member ron tan hi i'll keep it quick uh so there's a my center as an app that's currently out there it is uh i have lots of people that reach out to me and they say they've posted something on there it gets on there it says completed but what completed means is that whoever receives that sends that complaint or that issue to a department and it goes nowhere so we have members that are posting the same issue multiple times and i've actually reached out to gay boss born as well but to find out how what's the next step where where did they go from there when they're not getting any kind of response and that goes to abandoned cars um limbs on roads you name it i think the transportation department's been about the most responsive when it comes to like potholes um or something but this is it's getting it's hard to empower the community to talk to the city when the city is not responding to the community so i'd like to get some sort of direction on that thank you member ron and may i make a suggestion um before moving on to the next member is uh since having some conversation in the city to consider the language being used on the app uh if completed is not the message that you want to send out when it's in the queue to to be completed um members of the community are not mistaken by the word they're mistaken mistaken by the intention that is being communicated by the word so uh we we may need a word change on that app potentially but that's my input anyway so uh moving right along members definitely yes i'll be quick also so they know it's past some of our bedtimes um mine is just real quick has nothing to do with anything we've talked about tonight but i've been involved in a community issue right here in my neighborhood around the corner two dogs got out in february and they killed two family cats in their backyards and i've learned through lots of communication with elected officials and others that a dog can only be deemed vicious and taken into custody if they kill or injure a human they can kill a animal all the animals they want and they still get to go back home so i'm working on this issue from different angles there'll be a uh hearing in june potentially because actually i had some letters written to our mayor and he assigned this to the public safety subcommittee so victoria plumbing is in charge and it'll be out of um at an up at their upcoming meeting in june to look at changing the city code pretending to how you define these types of animals just to improve and improve the safety all over this is just in my neighborhood but the city attorney i'm working with adam abel is working on seven cases right now that are similar so these animal issues are happening everywhere so i'll give you an update on what that when the hearing is and if any of your community members might want to attend it'll be i believe june 15th but i'll update you at the next meeting thank you great thank you so yes our main meeting will be before that june 15th and i want to commend um member stephi for working on this this is the type of engagement that goes un unheard um and unacknowled sometimes uh and i think that each and every one of us does uh many different forms of engagement with the community um with a wide array of members of the community and uh i i know i know that we all have those kinds of stories but i want to thank them for stephi for pursuing this and making that engagement with the city so i appreciate appreciate you um member lounge i saw your hand was up no okay um also want for myself to bring up obviously we all know that the side shows have been a huge area of concern if you haven't heard already the bot dots i want to say that correctly have been dispersed out in uh intersections throughout the city and will be continuing to be dispersed and laid down in intersections i'm making motions with my hands down you can't see it uh but they are the their dots that are affixed onto city streets they're in intersections where a driver uh who's going through the intersection throughout the day in the evening will not be impeded by them in any way shape or form unless you're trying to do donuts in the middle of the intersection during a side show and then that makes that quite difficult and they're super effective in uh decreasing that activity so appreciate the city for following through with that and for seeing them out there like on petaluma hill road and over in the roseland area and whatnot i just want to make sure to acknowledge that there's many tactics that are being used for side shows it's a very complex issue and we appreciate all the work that's being done so uh that now needs to go to public comment for item number 6.5 issues of concern there are no hands raised for public comment thank you that closes that out and future agenda items number seven this is scheduled as tentative and subject to change pending final publication and posting of the meeting agenda you saw this in your agenda i will quickly go through this continue working on strategic plan as needed uh the public safety funding measure o presentation potentially in may of 2022 so next month city's diversity equity and inclusion initiatives potentially intensively for june this year also our new city manager meet and greet uh that we know is this saturday if you are available if i can make it before i go out there or something like that i am going to try to um please help to spread the word the information is on our social net social networks and you can easily share that information uh to all of your friends and followers office of community engagement strategic plan uh that will be coming up some time in the future to be determined and also a presentation by the out there santa rosa initiative uh thank you member barnett for requesting that that'll be sometime in the future as well are there any additional items uh to add to that list seeing none uh go to public comment and no hands raised for public comments thank you and that closes out item number seven without any uh objection we can go to adjournments uh no objection seeing none i will take that as a first and a second from all of you thank you so much for your time and your energy i really appreciate all of the engagement that happened this evening and uh as always stay safe we'll see you next time