 Our meeting format is integrated with members of the public via zoom members of the public who are using zoom may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and on the agenda. Welcome to the board members and members of the public and our staff. Thank you everyone for joining us today. We have myself, Logan Pitts, the chair, we have our vice chair, Paul Castillo is arriving just in time. And board members Guido Boca Leone, Madonna Cruz, Omar Lopez, Carolina Spence and Carol Cuant. Our hosts for tonight are Julie Guzi and Amy Hennessey. The host will coordinate comments from the public and assist during the meeting and take notes for any follow up needs. Please silence your cell phones while on the meeting. And if you're phoning into the meeting and you choose to speak during public comments portion of the agenda for privacy concerns, we will rename you to caller and only show the last four digits of your phone number. 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The emails received are not read into the record. Thank you, Julie. And then before I convene the meeting, I do want to welcome Julie as our new staff on the Board of Community Services. Thanks for joining us. And I also want to thank Paul for stepping in the last two meetings and chair. Thank you. Glad to have you back. Thank you. Good to be back. With that, I call this August 23 2023 meeting of the board of community services to order at 505 p.m. Next May we have roll call please. Please respond when I call your name. Chair Pitts. Yes. Vice Chair Castile. Present. Board Member Boblioni. Here. Member Cruz. Here. Board Member Lopez. Here. Board Member Spence. Here. Board Member Quan. Here. Let the record reflect that all board members are present. Great. I'd like to open the floor for public comments on non agenda item matters. This is the time when any person may address the board on matters not listed on the agenda, but are within the subject matter of our jurisdiction. Post. Do we have any public comments? Yes, we do. We have one great person. Hello, Mr. Do it. Please proceed. And I wanted to come today to make sure and thank some of the recreation and park staff. We've been helping us at what we call Rosalind neighborhood. We're Bank Avenue and we've been having a good time. It seemed a bit neglected. There have been times in the past where we were almost overwhelmed because of how folks who decided it would be a good spot to camp came in and began to live in the area. We do our best out there at trying to keep it nice and clean. Doing good things. Last, I'd say at least a year and a half more staff here in your department has been helping much more and it's much nicer. And I actually want to give a shout out to the park supervisors because they've been making sure to come over there and pick up stuff that gets dumped on the street. Even though the signs say no dumping, no camping, people ignore that stuff. Recently I've come, Mr. Pitts missed the last couple of times, but I brought up the idea that was put forward by the elected representative of our district number one. His name is Eddie Alvarez and he's put out the, I guess you might call it community feeling. We would talk with people and then let it be known that he felt they were correct in having what you call a community park be called Pomo Park and Preserve. And in the past, when this effort was first put forward to save that land from development, people had pointed out that Pomo had lived along the creek. That was acknowledged in city documents. It's always been put forward by the community. There should be a recognition that the Pomo were there first. And the preserve is because the agricultural open space district already purchased 11 acres put under a conservation easement to the north side of Rosalind Creek. So the park, a neighborhood park could be there on the creek in the south side. Please put that in the record. Please let today's record show in your minutes that this has been brought up because no one has gotten back in touch with me over the last couple of months about how to rename this. Even though I've come here and we put it forward, it should be a relatively simple process for someone to contact with and give me the document that I might need or whatever has to be done to go ahead and do it. I've taken the time to separate days over two months. This is the third time. So let that be known to staff. How do we rename this? I've seen in previous meetings in the past where people came forward and asked to get things renamed in there. Thank you for your time. Pomo Park and Preserve. Thank you, Dwayne. Do we have any other public comments? No, we do not in person or in zoo. Okay. And we are crafting a naming policy, Mr. do it. So that is in process. Yep. The next item is item for the approval of minutes. Are there any edits or corrections to the minutes of July 26, which I believe Julie has printed out for us all. Yes. Okay. I guess that is the appropriate thing to do. So I'll abstain as well. Do we have any other edits or corrections? Okay. We will consider those approved to submit it with myself and board member Cruz abstaining reports on upcoming events and accomplished events Deputy Director Santos. Please give your report. Thank you, Chair Pitts. And with respect, I would like to request that we move item 8.2 before this is possible to allow our staff member to attend an award ceremony. Otherwise, I'd be happy to provide the report as well. So we'll do that. Okay. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Would you like to move that to right now? This. Do you? Yes. That's fine. Okay, so that we can allow our staff member giving the presentation to the tenant award ceremony. That's fine. You have to tell us what the award is, though, and why you're getting it. Great. That was all the information I got about people. Okay. Well, congratulations. Yeah, go ahead. Good afternoon and evening, whatever time we're in now. Jeff Tibbets, Deputy Director for Recreation. Daniel Grady, new program manager for the violence prevention partnership. So it's a great way to introduce the violence prevention partnership is that Santa Rosa City Schools is honoring the partnership for their support of the schools. And again, we'll get a little bit more information this evening to those specifics, but for the partnerships role in supporting the schools. So, we thank you for being flexible and let us go a little bit earlier so that we can be in both places this evening. I, this is really going to be Daniel's presentation to you in regards to kind of an introduction of what the Santa Rosa violence prevention partnership is. And I just wanted to open up with why we're giving me that presentation today. So, as some of the restructuring has taken place with our department recreation and parks formally back together to the department. Sometimes a lost detail of that was that the violence prevention partnership is officially back under the umbrella of recreation and parks as well. So, violence prevention partnership is part of our department, and hence the reason of wanting to introduce you. Our goal was to introduce you to the whole team, but we've asked the rest of the team to go straight to the other board meeting, but you'll get to see their faces on the screen. And then you'll get to introduce a little bit, but we are really excited. The violence prevention partnership starting as the mayor's gang prevention task force when measure was first passed in 2004 was under recreation and parks. So this is a, this is not something that's totally new. And so we're excited about it and neighborhood services which you perceive presentations about the different programs that they do summer programs after school programs sports those things. I think it's really going to be good for our community it's going to increase communication it's going to increase some efficiencies and so we're really looking forward to neighborhood services and PPP. They've always been working together but being under the same umbrella is really going to open opportunities and Danielle and I are discussing on a regular basis how to make that work the best and pull those teams together and really have them collaborating and addressing the services that are needed in our community at the highest level. In addition to, and I won't go too far into addition to all the other organizations that are part of the partnership and, and making sure you know I think we all know right. It takes a village that that's essentially the approach of the partnership. It takes a village to bring all those people to the same table and make sure that we're providing services so with that said we just wanted to give you a little bit of an introduction of what the project is, let you meet the team, not in person, but let you meet the team and we originally we're going to do this as a presentation of the PPP and neighborhood services together but just the timeframe of all the change and everything we decided to introduce the group more about first but yeah there'll be a part of the department that you'll be hearing more from the future so. Thank you and thank you for having me here this evening. I am excited to introduce the partnership to all of you. Next slide please. Oh, it takes a minute. She's, she's in a different location. So just say it loudly so she can hear you. As Jeff mentioned, the partnership was originally formed as the Mayor's Game Prevention Task Force in 2003. In 2004, a ballot measure went before the voters here in Santa Rosa called Measure O. It was a, it is, it was public safety sales tax, providing 20% of the funding to violence prevention. In last year, 2022, voters voted to extend that tax measure down as Measure H for the public safety sales tax to 2045. With the partnership still receiving 20% of the overall public safety sales tax funding on our 20%. As you can see here on the screen, 35% of that 20% goes directly back out to the community through our choice grant program, which I'll talk about in just a bit. And the remaining 65% is for funding of staff. So that includes a partnership staff as well as neighborhood services staff and our operational costs for that. And in addition to receiving the public safety sales tax funding for violence prevention, we also received funding from probation for one of our positions around coordinator position which I'll talk about just a bit. Next slide please. So we recently updated our mission vision and guiding principles through our strategic planning process. The mission of the Santa Rosa violence prevention partnership is to lead mobilize and align our resources in our community to create a safe and healthy environment where all youth are empowered to reach their full potential and all community members thrive. Our vision is that Santa Rosa emerges as a strong resilient and interconnected community where all residents are safe, healthy and thrive. And we have six guiding principles that we use in our work. We build safe communities. We make a commitment to equity. We commit to using a coordinated community response. We do this work using a shared responsibility model. We build trusting relationships with each other in the communities in which we serve and we value our youth and include them in our work. Next slide please. So now I will introduce you to our staff. Aside from myself as program manager, we have Madeline Brown who is our current interim choice program analyst. So she oversees our choice grant program as well as helps me out with some grant writing. And she's also our senior admin assistant as well as out with the day-to-day operations of our office. Gustavo Mendoza is our community outreach specialist overseeing our street outreach and crisis response programming. And then we have Miles Bergen, who is our community outreach specialist overseeing our communications education and training components. We also have two vacant positions currently. Those are our wraparound coordinator position, which we are in the process of filling that person is in background right now. So hopefully they will be joining us next month. And I'll talk about the wraparound program that we have as well as our administrative analyst position, which is the permanent position that oversees the choice program that Madeline is filling in for right now. Next slide please. The partnership has had the same structure since the early days of Mayor's Game Prevention Task Force. We have an executive team, which is made up of the mayor and or sorry, it's actually the vice mayor. It's her design team, who is the chair of the policy team, our chief of police, our program manager and Jeff also sits with us as well. And likely are not sure about how it's going to go when we get a recreation director without invitation will also be extended to that person as well. We have a policy team, which means are open to the public. We meet the every other month, third Wednesday of this month. So the next one is September 20th, 9am at Stealing Community Center. This team is a diverse set of stakeholders who all interface with the issues of youth gain violence from different perspectives, while adding various resources to the discussion. These members provide leadership and direction by setting policies and monitoring the effectiveness of our work. We also have a steering committee of the policy team, which are select members of that team. The act as an advisory committee to provide leadership guidance towards implementation of our strategic plan. We also have an operational team, which is our roots on the ground folks working for our variety of different partners, working directly with their families out in the community. This team runs our multi it's considered a multidisciplinary action and referral team. So they have very specific case discussions about youth and families that need specific services. We also have a community report as well as discussing or having a community climate update and sharing amongst one another so that they can share what's happening in their sector and how they can support one another. Those meetings are closed to the public because of the case discussion component of it. It actually calls under the welfare institutions. Next slide please. Now I'll go over to some of our current programming efforts before I jump directly into our new updated strategic plan. Next slide please. So as I mentioned, we have a grant program called the choice grant program. We're currently in our 11th funding cycle current cycle 11 we fund eight agencies at $750,000 per brand here. We just finished year one and started year two in July of this year and the cycle runs through December of 2024. We have a variety of different programs with these different agencies and including reentry program, parent education and case management, safe school ambassadors program through community matters, connecting youth to nature, mental health counseling and services, youth leadership development and access to child care services for preschool and after school care. We also have a choice mini grant program, which provides up to $5,000 to eligible agencies. It used to be kind of a catch all for those programs that weren't funded through the larger grant, helping them with some operating costs, however, due to the current nature of violence in our community. We've shifted the focus of that grant mini grant program for crisis response and so we're developing some protocols for how we evaluate those applications coming in with this shift and funds will be used for things like temporary relocation if someone is witness to an active violence or relocated to a different area or you know anything like paying for access to food access to child care and those sorts of things. Next slide please. We also run a variety of other programs including our guiding people successfully successfully program which is our referral based program. This is in partnership with some of the county probation department here is where our wraparound coordinator works with our community partners receiving referrals for youth and families that need additional resources and support that those referring agencies cannot provide taking the referrals that you can take with the families and to make the appropriate referrals to our participating partner agents. In addition to that, our community outreach specialist who's double Mendoza overseas street outreach crisis response. He does school engagement and teaches a life skills course with some of our participating schools so when there are tensions that are high on campus. He's been working with middle schools and high schools in Santa Rosa to help de escalate some of those tensions checking with the kids. And he's only been able because he's only one person has to navigate some other program areas. He's a teacher life skills class but he's only been able to do it at Santa Rosa middle school, Rosalind accelerated middle school, and then he partnered with our neighbors and services staff this summer and taught the life skills course that the team sports camp this summer. We'll talk a little bit more about what that school engagement will look like under our new strategic plan that we have applied for funding to help us expand on that and provide more outreach outreach workers to our middle schools and high schools. We have a crisis response protocol where we respond after an incident of violence in our community so has to rise to level something like a shooting or stabbing someone is seriously injured. Or there's a death that has resulted in that incident where we go into neighborhoods, we provide outreach and connection to resources for the neighborhoods that are affected by the violence that there is a victim that has been seriously injured. We meet with them connect with them and help connect them to the resources that we need while they recover. We also provide community education and awareness. So by training for our partners within the partnership. We've done trauma informed care series results results based accountability training and other value evaluation training and support. We also do trainings around best practices and comes to violence prevention. We do an annual seminar, which is looking to the public. We are coming back for the first time since 2019. It will be held on November 2nd this year. And we're really excited about what we're going to be bringing. It'll be going back to the basics and resetting for us. So we will provide a panel of experts from other communities across California to talk about best practices from their communities. And we're bringing in a keynote speaker who is an ex-gain member from Los Angeles who has written a couple of books. His name is the least year of this. He is a former gang member from the early or sorry, the late 60s, early 70s was in prison was a dictator and was able to turn his life around through writing and activism. And he loves to come share his story about how he made it out of the gang lifestyle. So we're going to invite him or we haven't invited him. He's accepted. He will be our keynote speaker. He'll also be. At the end of the seminar as well. So we're excited about that opportunity and hope to continue to do that each year. Next slide please. So, looking ahead, we have updated our strategic plan. Our last plan was implemented in 2017 and expired in 2022. So we went through the process of updating our strategic plan. It's really important that I just want to briefly touch on where we're at right now when it comes to violence in San Rosa. There's no surprise that we've seen a pretty significant uptake in violence here, community violence and violence among our youth in particular. We've had three youth that have died under the age of 18 this year. And since December of last year, we've had many youth that have been seriously injured due to gun violence as well as stabbing here in San Rosa. We've seen an uptake in fights at our middle schools and our high schools and our community partners have also noted a significant increase in behavioral issues that they have never seen before. As well as gang involvement starting at earlier ages. We had a community partner report to us that a nine-year-old that was showing active signs of gang involvement, which is missing like third or fourth grade level. So it's a serious issue. And so we are, we have updated our strategic plan to reflect the current climate here in our community. So next slide please. We went through a very extensive process. We hired a consultant who actually happened to be a former program manager and former city council member Ernesto Alvarez to help us through this process. We conducted an analysis of previous plans that we have here with the partnership as well as other engagement efforts that we have recently done including our community hub, community engagement phase, our community empowerment plan, engagement listening sessions, and our most recent community needs assessment through the partnership. We also held one-on-one interviews with former program managers and staff, partnership, as well as members of the California City's Violence Prevention Network to figure out what was working for them and what was challenging for them. We also conducted focus groups with youth and pretend that several community listening sessions, school safety, and held six workshops with our policy and operational teams. And that all culminated into a draft strategic plan being shared with our community at a June 27 community meeting held at Rosalind University. We also conducted extensive research on other strategic plans and planning processes of other similar communities. Next slide please. This leads us to our new plan and where our focuses are going to be. So I will be very transparent. Our first year is going to be heavily focused on intervention so that we are able to actively stop violence from happening in our community. This includes building out-of-street outreach in our school outreach pilot program. We have applied to the Bureau of Justice Assistance for a three-year stop school violence program. And that will allow us to hire several youth outreach workers to deploy to our middle schools and high schools. Increasing student engagement, being able to provide twice double straining our courses at all of our middle schools in our high schools here in Santa Rosa, and working with school staff and school administration on safety plans. In addition to that, we've applied for funding to build up our crisis response team. We partnered on the application with Buckley programs. We responded to the request for proposals that we put out earlier this year. I think it was through the California Department of Social Services that we submitted the application and that will allow us to deploy community violence responders out into our community to do street outreach and respond to incidents of violence here in our community. And also provide a more robust hospital-based intervention services for victims of violence. Included in all of this, we are looking at bringing back our workforce development piece. We're looking to use job opportunities as well as training, resume building, interview skills development. And working with our partners on providing diversion enforcement and pre-entry as well. Next slide, please. Prevention is another big area of focus for us. We do, we have a lot of organizations here in Santa Rosa and Stone County that do great prevention work. So we're looking at continuing to support those programs as well as providing more pro-social activity and safe spaces for our young people. We're really wrapping up our youth engagement. So we are looking at bringing back the Santa Rosa Team Council and building a structure for that and also trying to find funding and staff to be able to do that. Offering again preventative services including mental health support and including youth and the design of those programs. Supporting our schools of school readiness and student engagement opportunities as well as working on gun violence prevention as well. Next slide, please. Also continuing our work and sharing our story out to the community as to how we're doing and how we're using our public safety sales tax dollars through communication outreach and education. This first year we'll be working on building a communications plan as well as revamping and revitalizing our social media platforms. We're also looking at doing a newsletter out to the community to keep everyone to date on our progress with the strategic plan. And we're also looking at doing some proactive community wellness pop-up events as well that many have come here. I mentioned our seminar, bringing that back and providing additional parent workshops for adult supporting youth in our community. Next slide, please. That is a good point to also be another focus for us this year. As you saw, we only received 20% of that public safety sales tax and we're a very small team. We need more staff with more support for this work. So we actively pursuing grant applications and opportunities as well as building out our community outcomes and our shared measurements within the partnership so that we can measure in part what we're doing, see how we're being successful and also see improvements that will allow us to continue to be eligible and successful in funding. And then also continue to be fiscally responsible with our public safety sales tax dollars and the grants that we have coming in. Next slide, please. And finally collaboration. So we will be taking a look at will continue to operate the policy and operational teams. We actually used to have a 13, which was our multi disciplinary assessment and referral team also known as mdart we collapsed that with operational team, because it makes more sense to have those case discussions at the operational team and all of our groups on the ground folks were attending. So it provides more opportunity for collaboration. In addition to that we're also looking for this first year at developing our community advisory arm of the partnership and building out a subcommittee of the policy team. We have community members including you actively a part of the work that we're doing. And then also looking to the future probably not in year one, but playing the foundation this year to start looking at how do we make our efforts regional violence doesn't stop at the borders of Santa Rosa. And so we need to bring in other cities and accounting into this work so that we can be successful and shared measurement again is making sure that we're collecting the data and we're sharing that information. And improving what we need to improve with that next slide please. Thank you. How long do we have before Daniel. Like 10 more minutes. Okay. Yeah. Thanks for your time. Do we have any questions from the board. Yes, I'd like to tell me give your email address so we can get new news what's going on. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Good. Good. I'd like to be on your list. Carol and then Madonna. First broad question is the current situation you need to Santa Rosa County in California. No, we're seeing this across the country actually the behavioral issues are. You know, here in Sonoma County, Santa Rosa. Have a wildfires. We've had. We've had the COVID social unrest in our community. All of that is compounding trauma, but other communities across California and across the nation have experienced our own. Incidences of trauma that continue to compound and continue to impact you and their families. It's definitely not new to Santa Rosa. Thank you for that. My second question is, I was, I'm very familiar with and engaged in neighborhood services, which is kind of like your happy bro happy sibling. Where our recreation team does this great outreach. What you're describing is much more serious than neighborhood services. And my question is, what the hell is this doing under park and wreck to be perfectly blunt to Santa Rosa have mental health services. Why isn't this in a different department? Why is this part of the park and wreck? It actually started in 2003 under parks and wrecking was part of the neighborhood services. We've actually come across a ball. And if you look at other models across California and other cities, including San Jose, we're all after they're all housed under recreation parks and alongside their neighborhood services teams. The way I see it is I see neighborhood services as the prevention arm of the work that we do and the partnership is the intervention piece. But also on top of that, the partnership isn't just our staff. The partnership is a collaboration of over 70 organizations here in Santa Rosa County. And so we work actively with all of our participating organizations because again, get a small part of that public safety sales tax. And so we have to leverage, align, mobilize our resources so that we're able to be effective and provide the services. And I'll just add to it. I think, especially when we use the term prevention and intervention, there's an element of prevention is the fun stuff, keep you alive, travel and the intervention is responsive. I think if we do this right and I think being under the same umbrella gives us the opportunity to do it better is that intervention doesn't have to be responsive. And yes, with neighborhood services, there's so many fun stories to tell and there's that element of what we present. There's also an element of building relationships with these families and realizing things and starting the intervention policy process before it's something that's in the newspaper. So they're not just writing it doesn't end that the kids come and play basketball, it's getting to know the families and realizing, oh, there's an older sibling that this is going on or, you know, building those relationships and parents and so the more we were doing on the prevention side, the more the intervention becomes proactive instead of reactive. And I think that when we are, again, there's never a point that they weren't working together but obviously, you know, the closer you are in proximity and admission and all those things that it's easier to do those things. So I think there's a lot of opportunity for us to address things in our community in a way that sounds positive. And we've seen it right I mean the model worked. And unfortunately in a way that our system works sometimes it works too well, where we had the problems that we had in the 90s and into the early 2000s that led to this, and numbers dropped a lot we made a lot of progress. Unfortunately because of that progress we lost access to some of the other funding and those things that we had, then you couple that with all these trauma resources, you know, unable to provide resources because of COVID and those types of things. But I think we've seen that we've got to a place in the community where it was being more proactive and that safety net was there to catch people before they fell or at the beginning of falling instead of waiting for people to fall and be hurt. Yeah, the other thing I forgot to mention to is so it started out as the mayor's aid prevention task force in 2003 and it was quite reactive in the beginning and then it kind of evolved to what it currently is now as a partnership but in 2015 when it was reminded to the partnership, we adopted a public health model. So, looking at any public health issue right that Jeff was just talking about prevention intervention. But with any public health issue, you're going to see improvements. So, when you do really put in the effort and the funds and the resources into the issue, just like tobacco prevention. So I have a background in public health. So I always use tobacco prevention as an example. Put a lot of effort and resources and funding to tobacco prevention. And we saw the numbers of people using tobacco decrease. And then when we saw those numbers decrease, the funding was less and less. And then the rates started going back up again. This is a public health issue. So you are going to see fluctuations with any public health intervention as well. Donna, in the choice grant slide, you said amount, what was that amount? $750,000 per year currently for this cycle. Okay, great. And the seminar in November 2nd, I'm really interested in attending that. The age of the youth that are getting younger and younger, that you mentioned nine years old was one. Do, would you be sharing the data of what race, the location that they live and then what maybe their basis score is? We don't have that level of data. However, at the seminar, we are going to have a workshop conducted by centers and police department on just game trends in general in Santa Rosa. And they can definitely provide, they'll be able to provide the hotspot areas, so locations that these are happening in. And some of the data that they collect, but we don't collect specific information about the specific. And just to touch on a little bit more. I mean, you want to be careful in terms of some of that update is some of that climate update that's taking place in the service providers. It's a whole extra step to take to officially identify that youth as a gang member. The ramifications that have so there's also a lot of just though we're not collecting it, but it also takes a step to take to, you know, as opposed to saying, hey, in the climate, we're noticing these things. This kids showing signs as opposed to they are naturally taking a step over to officially identify that work to be data. Again, and then also in the mission statement, all youth are empowered. What are the local tribal public youth being empowered up? Well, we're actively engaged the some kind of any health project. So we're putting together the team council, right? And my staff has just gone out and completed focus groups with a variety of different partners that have youth programming. And we went to some county health project and talk to their staff. You know who you met with. I can't remember the name. I would like to know the name. Sure. I didn't get that information. Got feedback from how they run their program programming and what their youth, what would work for their youth in our new team council. And so when we actively group, then we want to go back out to those agencies and then open it up also broader for participation. Thank you. Then you talked about positions that you're opening up. Are you considering because I don't see any commos on staff. And there are a lot of promo youth here with last names that may look Hispanic. But they're in schools because I know I volunteer my time a lot in the school. So I'm going into work with promo kids. But will you be staffing somebody to go do that? I would want to go through that major application process, which I don't have. It's all it's all blind all the way through until we do the interview panel. So I actually don't have access to any of that information. It's the applications that HR screens and then it's up to us. And then just on your shared measurement on the slide for number five, are you going to be collecting data on tribal youth? Again, don't collect specific data on specific youth. We are looking so we use results based accountability for our choice grant program cover and we are looking into modifying it and going towards what's called race based results based accountability where we're able to collect that demographic information through our choice funding agencies. So we will be able to collect that information and see what the demographics are. My last one I swear and then I'll have another meeting with you because I'm not done. The choice grant program. I don't see any local Native American names there. And that's your 10 minutes. So can we continue this conversation? Okay. I got a few questions for Daniel. I swear I'll be quick and let you escape. I have on the regional coordination. That's great to see that happening. I used to serve on the measure of board and helped on the campaign for measure H. But I noticed he didn't mention the oversight board. Is that still part of your process going before them? Yeah. Okay, let me just give you a feedback that I think you should make. I don't know if there's a public facing slideshow, but I think members of the public want to hear about that. I can tell you from my experience that provides more support in the community for what you're doing. So just a recommendation to add it in there. And then please give the information on the November conference to Jen or to our staff. We'd love to know about that. And then just one last question. Do you have any interaction with the in response program? Yes. We're actually modeling our crisis response team that will move up in response to what they're doing with that program. Do you ever make referrals to them? Yes, we do. Okay, great. That's it. All right. Good to hear. They responded to one of our summer programs. Yeah. Okay. Great. All right. Unless we have any other pressing questions. Yes, Carol. Could we ask you to come back? Of course. An annual update would be great. Sure. All right. Yeah. Like I said, we considered neighborhood services and BVP doing this one together and decided to be better just to kind of introduce the BVP team. But there's been a lot more integration with that. So I think through different presentations, you'll hear more about it. Welcome to the family. Thank you. Yeah. Go get your award. I will. All right. Congratulations. Thank you. Do we have any public comments on that item? Yeah. You're standing in that chapter. We did. Oh, we don't. That's great. All right. So we got 8.2 off the agenda. Go back to six for the director update. Is that your preference? Yes. That's fine. Great. Please provide your update. And we also did we do reports on upcoming events? No, we did. Okay. So sorry. Item five. Okay. We'll have a copy of our upcoming and accomplished events. I would just like to highlight. Our next park a month. It's going to be an exciting one. All of park and Prince Memorial Greenway. We have some heavy duty volunteers working down there already. So that's going to be a nice one to attend. On Saturday. September 2nd. 9 a.m. to 12. Should be nice to clean that area up. And as far as accomplishments, I just wanted to highlight our over 300 participants at our neighborhood services. In light of having our VPP team here at our splash bash and rich weight pool. So this is free to our neighborhood services. Members. And they got a hot back dinner. Cool games and free raffle. So I wanted to highlight. This is a really important thing. Free opportunity. We offer our neighborhood services. Participants. And you're right before. Great. Thank you. And then on to director updates. All right. Chair. So I just wanted to announce that we'll be changing the board of community services schedule of. Items to consider. So for September and October, so that day camps are scheduled for October. We'll be presented in September instead. And Howard Park. Recreation and maintenance update will be presented in October. That allows some of our staff to have the opportunity. So we're just going to switch us around. Not a huge deal, but I wanted to let you know in case there was any. Anybody looking particular forward to one of those, you could have that information. We have been. Monitoring an invasive beetle that was reported by the press Democrat. Not too long ago. That's attacking our native oak trees. And staff were able to go to a training. Recently. And I am looking forward to receiving. An update on that training. And we'll be returning back to this board to. Provide information on what our plan is. And where our actual plan is to address this beetle. For, from a maintenance perspective. So stay tuned on that. Last night, the council approved the transfer of general fund reserves and the amount of $2 million over to the Benna Valley golf course so that we can start the process of looking at updating a very. Old 50 year old maintenance irrigation supply system. It's a really desperate need. We're really critical. So I'm really glad they proved it was huge accomplishments. For us to get. Get some investment in the golf course and improve the golf course operations. It's going to make it easier for everybody. It's going to make it easier for everyone. It's going to make it easier for everyone. It's going to make it easier for everybody. And it takes off the pressure of us worrying about the system failing suddenly. Let's see. I also on the vein of Benna Valley golf course. If you haven't been out there lately at the iron and buying restaurant, I encourage you to attend. They have new, new carpeting. It's, it's been, it's been a minute since I'm the new carpeting is the same carpeting they had in 2005. I mean, the whole carpeting is from 2005. So I'm actually really excited to check it out. I haven't seen it myself. I've seen pictures. It looks good. So I wanted you to have that in case you're encouraged to go check it out. And then also I wanted to mention that Sharon Wilson, we said goodbye to her today and heart. She's retiring from the city as our recreation supervisor over neighborhood services. And Joanna Moore. Has. Has received that position as Sharon leaves and we had a nice party for her last night to say goodbye and thank you for her. 20 plus years. She has she's yeah. Been in many work, many hats. At the city and we're sad to see her go, but very happy for her retirement and happy to be working with Joanna on the neighborhood services team. We have, let's see, for our next council meeting on the, of September 12th, we have our friendly aquatic center going for award of the construction bid. Yay. We will have the new bit of valley golf carton lease going as well. And we'll be providing a recreation update to the board. The first one ever. I don't think we've ever done that. It's been a long time. And then definitely last, but not least, I wanted to update you that the, among the southeast greenway project I mentioned last time that council approve the staff to move forward to purchase. The property and we are working through that with the ag and open space working. There's a lot of details to work out there. We're hoping that it will be purchased. As the new year comes in sometime between January and March, the very latest. But I also wanted to mention that for those of you that are interested, there is an upcoming tour of the greenway for the public on August 28th at 6pm. The Sonoma land trust is hosting this option. And I will definitely, I'll be sending that with some of the other things you requested tonight as an email to the board members, but I wanted to announce that to everybody. They walk around the greenway because it's still being held by Caltrans. So it's not, it's not property we can get on, but they, they do a really good job for what I've heard. I'm looking forward to attending one of these in the near future. And that is the end of my report. Thank you, Jen. Any questions for Jen from the board? All right. We'll move on to the reports from the board. I'll start at the other end there. Board member Cruz, do you have any reports? Can you come back to me? Sure. Okay. Board member Spence. Do you have any reports? I'm very excited to say that the narratives are going to be happening in September. And since it will be before our next meeting, I want to encourage you all to come. It's September the 18th. It's right here at family. It's a, it's a wonderful event. I can't tell you it's very hard for me. Bring a Kleenex. It really is fabulous. And I know you're all going to want to be there in the front row to clap and applaud and who, who all the winners. What time does that start? It starts at seven o'clock. It's on my calendar. And that's good. Well, yeah. So that, that's that. And I did go to the golf course. And it's, it looks fabulous there. And Galvin Park is actually quite nice. And very well used. So that's why I kind of threw that in. Taking the tour. Great. Thank you. Back to board member Cruz. Thank you. Thank you so much. I haven't been to any parks lately, but what I want to bring to the attention again is, like on my way here to this meeting, lots of graffiti on Lake Lane and West night street on by the field of Lincoln school. I don't know. I just wanted to go put up like a fake camera there or something. It's just always just kind of crazy looking. Not, not an area just look bad. And then also I want to invite everyone here in the room and also listening in to dry creeks. Big time. 2020 three, September 16th at dry creek redwood, Arbor at three, two, eight, eight skis Springs road, Lake Sunama, guys of real California, If anyone wants to contact Angela Cordova for vendor space or information 7074798089 no drugs, no alcohol and no pets and please be respectful of the land. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you for your report. Yeah, so I had actually thought I'd taken the majority of the month off and when I started writing notes, it turns out that I haven't. I was able to go to the last concert at Julliard Park where Dylan black played. It was great. Good turnout. The weather was an interesting mix of oh my God it's hot and wow it's cooling down the breeze coming off of the ocean. It's just a real tricky and wonderful thing this year. And I enjoy us that we had that series and I'm sad to see it go in driving around like a rather crazy person this afternoon in the heat. I went by a lot of parks and I'm proud to say, God, it's nice to see green grass. It's nice to be out from under the drought. The new signage at Depot Park. Oh my God, great. I also had the opportunity to go to Rink and Ridge and spend some time in the native garden. The Manzanita Grove that's contained with a split rail fence is a marvelous tribute to the fire and also to resiliency. And if you have not been up to Rink and Ridge, which is challenging to find at least for me, it is worth a visit because it is a very unique city park in collaboration with. I'm going to forget the name of the, do you remember the plant society? Yeah, I think it is the California Native Plant Society. Myla Baker branch of the California Plant Society. It's really a tribute to who we are as a community. Also, I am signed up for the UC Davis Board Beetle seminar, which is being held specifically for foresters but people, just regular people can tune in on Zoom and as someone who spends way too many hours at the rural cemetery and not to make Paul feel specifically bad. We have to track our hours because as volunteers, the more hours you report, there's a possibility that Park and Wreck could use this to obtain funding. We have X number of volunteer hours. So we are not only encouraged, we are prompted on a weekly basis to report our hours to can hatch the volunteer coordinator. So I was a real slacker in the last month. I only logged about 35 hours in the rural cemetery and that amazes and appalls me at the same time because I obviously have no light. One of the things I wanted to say about rural cemetery, other than if you didn't get your tickets to lamp light too bad for you because we are very sold out. I tutored the hoard of Bob the painter, a new volunteer who has sanded and painted literally everything. We are the best looking park in Santa Rosa. Thanks to Bob the volunteer. He looked at our 21 and a half foot flight pole, which is over 100 years old. Old growth fur was on the Elks Building downtown Santa Rosa. When that went down, it went to a ranch in Kenwood, the cemetery group repurchased it and it's now gracing our GR monument. So Bob the painter is doing this. So I could use painting. You can't do a ladder scaffolding. That's not volunteer grade. So the volunteers of the rural cemetery got in touch with park maintenance and through some creativity, a training session on a new member of park maintenance learned to use the boom truck at a Santa Rosa park and was able to paint our sand and paint our flag pole. It was the most wonderful thing to see the creative partnership between a volunteer group that's working its butt off for this historic park and also park maintenance who got a little bit creative in a very timely fashion. It was like the best in the world and kudos to everybody at park and rec who allowed this to happen. We're also exploring an outreach to Santa Rosa City School fourth graders to come on a field trip. And it would be under the guys of California history fourth grade history at your feet. Welcome to the real cemetery. Thank you. I have a very brief one. I was able to take a nice occasion to Los Angeles earlier this month to go to our concert. I will say I had a lot of fun, but it was very much reminding me of what I like about Santa Rosa and its size and a world cleanliness. It was a fun time, but I'm glad to be back. And I really also want to take this chance to thank Julie for bringing us all together. You are a new administrative assistant. And I think seven year title. Pardon. Well, what would be your new title. I'm an administrative secretary secretary secretary. You did a great job. I had a lot of practice for seven years with city council. I think I'm a professional at that. So I really just want to thank you. Thanks so much for a member. Do you have a report? Well, my report on Southwest Community Park is that it's being kept up beautifully. It's so active. And I'm just very proud of it when we get some other ideas that I'd like to bring up later and what we could put it also put in there that I've heard people request. I'll bring that up at another meeting. But I am concerned about and one enough we have any information on this article that was in the press democrat here regarding that two miles stretch on highway 12. That says it's going on the east portion there that's divided between. Oh gosh, I forgot the name of the road here but it's going to be developed into a park and maybe. That's what that's again was referring to earlier the southeast green line. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Do we have any anything further on it? I hope it never happens because it should be a nice freeway all the way to powers park out there. But I think I just I lived in Penalema where we had something like that and it was it was annoying as heck because of the traffic behind your fence and you know your backyard and so on. But it would make a beautiful nice pathway by way or something but to put a parks and noise and you know it did. I'm just curious if anything's coming up on it. Yeah, we this has been talking about it for longer than 10 years. Yeah, I will send you a lot of information to that so you can get up to speed for sure and I'll be updating the board as things develop out there. Because I have some friends that live on what is that? Yeah, there are. Yeah, it does. It's pretty long. It goes across. I think it are long hoeing. Yeah. And I have some friends that live along there and they I told them about I guess they didn't see the ad paper and I told them about it. They said no way. So yeah, I think there's better things that could be done with that. Thanks for the report. Board Member Castille. Small one. The first shout out to Board Member Claude. He always had the best updates like that. Well, he's so active. It's great. I had a vacation. Oh, it was somewhere else. I personally got to attend a kids birthday party at Hogwarts Park and they did the thing where they rent out the area and got the tickets, the carousel tickets and train ride tickets for the kids. And parents who hosted it for their kids said it was great and shout out to the park for making that like a nice portable place for families and parties and whatnot. And a little train ride is fine. Shout out to that as well. Alright, bringing back some childhood memories for me. My report from this month, I didn't meet with someone from the Salon, Sonoma Land Trust, their public policy staffer. They were interested in knowing more about the southeast green light so been following that in my professional life for over 10 years. So game, some of the updates on that. It will never be a freeway, so you don't need to worry about that. It's been relinquished by Caltrans, which they very rarely do. So it will never be a roadway, and it was supposed to be a road over Spring Lake to Oakmont freeway so that's never going to happen. And it'll be something else. I also went to Juilliard Park for the music in the park and that was nice. I'm really glad we do that there. And then I took a vacation. I'll just mention this because it reminded me what I don't like about Santa Rosa is we have no public transit because that's all I took around Chicago. So that was that was my reminder from vacation. They got some great parks to and then my new parks that I visited while on the board was three parks so I kept busy on that. So Jennings Park, Eastside Park and Brendan Park, all of which Brendan and Eastside are kind of in the middle of homes. So not probably something we do anymore that sort of construction but I'm guessing that was like surplus land or something back in the day but anyways, they're all nestled basically within people's backyards and you can access them from from the street, but older nice place to sit peacefully. So that was my report from the month. And now we're moving on to our scheduled items. So we did do 8.2 already so we have 8.1. We have our senior planner, Sherri Meads to give us a general plan 2050 update. Actually, we have here tonight, but she is a wealth of knowledge we've been to a couple of meetings with her regarding the general plan but I also wanted to preface her presentation tonight with a reminder to the board that park staff have been very much involved in this general plan update. It's a relatively significant update for recreational parks, which is long overdue. And I won't go to all of that but I do have a map in the back of the room for those of you are interested in looking at it that shows existing parks and proposed new parks. So that's one of the things that the general plan does is look for where we need new parks based on future housing and future needs etc. But I will turn it over to our expert. Thank you, Jen. Good night everyone. My name is, like Beatriz, but in Spanish. I am a senior planner in the advanced planning team and my role is an equity and public health planner. So most of my work is focused on looking at how planning can change the quality of life of people and improve the health of our community. And so I'm going to talk today about the general plan. Please stop me if there's any questions that you have at any moment during the presentation. I'll try to be as brief as possible. It's a little bit long process because we've been here for almost three years now. Doing the planning but also the community engagement. This is a community driven plan. So I've seen some of you around and events and pop-ups that we have created. But we're putting out the work in the community but also honoring what the community requested us in this draft. So you know what we're presenting today is a draft as Jen mentioned. This is a work that has been done both with community and staff members. So this has passed through all of our staff in the city of Santa Rosa to kind of conjugate both community input and what the city can actually do with the staff that we have and the resources that we have right now. And also due to city council's request, it's also a visionary plan that puts out dreams that on things that we don't have budget for in some cases, but that we're willing to work on to get that budget if that makes any sense. So if we can start with the presentation, please, thank you. So when we think about planning, we usually think about where are we going to place schools? Where are we going to place buildings? Where are we going to place parks? Where are we going to place roads? And so if we can go to the next slide in this general plan, one of the things that we are focusing on is actually thinking about people. How people can stay safe, how people can have access to education, have access to jobs and have voice in the decisions that we're actually making in our city. So just to frame how we're really thinking about this general plan and if we can go to the next slide, please. The general plan update we've branded it as Santa Rosa Forward. This was a naming that we wanted to put because we know planning is not very popular. And when people hear planning, they're like, oh, it's boring people who talk about fences and that's not what we really do. We do a lot of policy work and we're really excited to put it out there with the community and try to translate it into easy ways to engage community members and let them know how it affects their lives. And so for us, the goal of this whole process has been to think about how we want to improve Santa Rosa and how we want to see it in the future in this plan. So you know, it's a plan that will be working for the city till 2050. So it's a 30 year plan. That means once it's adopted, it will be in operation till 2015. So if we can go to the next slide, please. Our general process for the ones who have not been engaged in the past processes. We are right now on the draft of the general plan. But to get here, we went through many processes before. The first one was creating a community involvement strategy, which meant we wanted to analyze how do we get to all our community members, all our residents, business owners, students, people who are part of the community. And then we defined how we were going to reach out to communities who are usually not engaged in planning processes and particularly focused on 10 communities that we consider equity priority communities. And we'll talk a little bit more about that. Existing conditions, analysis and a vision were created an existing conditions document. It's basically all the demographic data on parks, data about emergencies, data about fires. So this document is public and it's out on our website, Santa Rosa Forward.com. If you want to see any of these documents, they're all public and they're all accessible for community members. And yeah, you can get to them at any point. I'm going to point them out later so you can know exactly where you can find them. We also have a land use and circulation alternatives exercise where we presented how based on the numbers that we have of the arena numbers and for the people who are not familiar with the arena as a regional housing allocation number that is provided by the state. They give us a number of units that we have to build in a certain number of years. The cycle for our housing element is eight years. So we actually had to think how in the next 30 years we're going to accommodate the housing that is the housing numbers that are provided by the state. So based on this, our consultant team helped us figure out how we're going to distribute this housing based on our vacant spaces as well as the opportunities that we had to develop higher density in some locations of the city. So based on this we created this alternatives. We put them out in the community and we asked people how do you want the city to grow in terms of this alternatives. We got to the point where people actually want to go through, want to see growth in central corridors of the city as well as downtown. That's where the city is concentrating growth and this way we can actually accommodate our arena numbers, our regional housing allocation numbers. And that guided us later to the draft general plan. So based on this model of growth that we have from the city as well as circulation because once you define how housing is going to be accommodated, we define how roads and how different circulation and transit elements are going to be supporting people to get to the places where they have to go. So, last but not least the draft, which is the process that we are at right now is a process where we actually drafted policies coming out from the community's input at the model of growth that we have. And that's what is now out there for public review in our community. We will have three more steps which is an environmental analysis when we define the final draft, and we will have zoning amendments that will come out from this general plan update. And finally we will have a public review and adoption through city council. Right now we're going through every board and commission that has any connection to general plan related matters, including this board. And we want to let you know that we've been doing a fair amount of community engagement to get to most of the residents that we can get to. And we're here too to hear any other suggestions that you have for us to join. And we'll be happy to do that. If you want to tell me now, I'm having to take notes, but if not, we'll have time for feedback and questions. So just when you say community engagement, I think of the tribal people. And so like I was announcing the event, I would like, those are places where we're at if you want us to talk to you. So I just want to extend that invite again if you don't have a lot of the local tribal people's advice or comment. We would love to come if we're able to be invited to. You're excited. I'm excited. Thank you. Yes, if we can talk later to figure out how exactly you want us to do the engagement, what we have to come. Thank you. Just real quick regarding, I guess, final step adoption, what is that timeframe? Yeah, so we're still this draft is going to be out there till the end of September. So we're getting full two months of community involvement. And after that, we have to wait for winter of 2024 to get the environmental impact report and to get there. And once we have that, we're thinking about, yeah, spring, spring 2024 is the adoption. We're thinking about April. It depends a little bit on how the process goes because the environmental analysis requires that from the community. So we have to go back and respond to questions and concerns that people have about the environmental report. So yeah, that's an estimate. Spring, summer. Correct. Can I ask you a question? Yeah, of course. If someone files a lawsuit against your environmental impact report, does that delay adopting the overall plan? Yes, it does. Hopefully that doesn't happen. But if it does, yes. Okay. I also have a question and that is when the unexpected happens. And unfortunately, we have all too many fires COVID. Is there a giant asterisk that says all of this is subject as you go through it to redefinition based on unforeseen, whatever. Absolutely. And I think the starting point of this general plan update came from COVID related matters as well as wildfires, because you will see there's a big part of our general plan update that is connected to wildfires. And this was for us an opportunity to adjust the policies related to wild and urban interface and you'll see some interesting mapping in the document to that is connected to what Cal Fire updated, which was not what we had on our previous general plan. So yes, and we know something else could happen. We were trying to stay on our own track and try to hold the calendar with that we currently have in the case of the housing element, which was the first element that was approved on the on the general plan update. That one did have a deadline and because it was mandated by state, but the rest of the general plan update does not. And this is just a budget and timeline that was established by the city. And I will just attack on to that. One of the things we've looked at, because one of the things that's happened after the fire is we've recognized that some places that we thought we're going to be one thing have now turned into something different. And it would be great to have a public park to support, you know, the new community, the new idea that's coming there. So we've looked at the when you look at the map, you can see that they put parks and places or recommended parks and places where you don't need a park right now, if anything should change with the land use or with the type of housing that's there, we want to be ready for that. So there is a nexus there is a requirement for a park to to be there. And when they finish when the housing element is done, one of the things we look at with parks is understanding the density. We want to make sure that we're putting parks forward based on not only geographical location, but the density of the housing. So it's really important that the housing element was done. So we understand what is coming. We could prepare and put parks where they should be based on those two things as well. So thank you. Yeah. And if we can go to the next slide, please. I mentioned previously that we had a lot of reports that are out there in our website so you can find the community involvement strategy, the existing conditions report. This is a great document if you want to like play trivia or tell your kids do homework, this has information related to Santa Rosa that you might not find anywhere else and it's pretty updated. So very useful in case you want to find information connected to any type of demographic and any type of geographical information just so you know. And I think it might be useful for the work that you guys do. The briefing book, which is basically a summary of what we found in this in this huge existing condition report document. We wanted to make a simple version of this for community members we don't want to read 400 pages and might just be interested on knowing the highlights. We also included in August 2021 a vision statement that was created by community members. And we have to be very honest in this community mission was built during the pandemic. So we had a really hard time doing engagement online and trying to do alternative ways of outreach. So we still believe there's a very strong vision and we're satisfied with what we got but we actually have it so you can see it here and we can go to the next slide please. And I want to share with you because for us this is something that is guiding the whole process of the general plan so I'm just going to read it so community members can also hear it. Santa Rosa San Diver's Equitable and Sustainable Community built on civic engagement that empowers everyone to provide and support equal and affordable opportunities to obtain good housing education and jobs to enjoy vibrant cultural events and arts and to leave healthy and resilient neighborhoods that adapt to social and environmental change. So this is this is what the community built and then we when we put together after hearing the input of our community members and if we can go to the next slide please. And I'm going to stop just a little to get any questions that you have about the project so we can go a little bit deeper into the elements and the part that is more relevant for today's meeting which is parks. The comment I'm going to make is traffic. I think somebody is not planning right because the traffic is getting so bad around Herna Avenue, Santa Rosa Avenue, down when you want to go to Costco all in that area there and south of Herne where they built that 500 unit that's going to be opening soon. Past Smart and Final. I don't know where if there's one car to one unit, which there probably will be two there's going to be a thousand cars there's no place to park them all. There is no they're going to be they're going to be parking all over the place. And there's again I have brought this up before that there's no park there for if there's one child in every one of those room that's 500 kids. And they're going to be playing in the street or playing at the shopping center parking lot. And then we're going to have problems there too because they'll be doing the wrong thing some come. So it's to me it's like we need to tax revenue so let's build build build but we're not thinking about the people and and and the children and where they're going to go to school and so on. The school buses going up and down they turn the red lights on you know and block up the traffic like crazy and it's going to be more of them. I mean it's just I think there's plenty of space if you go out on Petaluma Hill Road and Albert and so on. There's a lot of places where it would be more spread out but you're really congregating a lot of in areas where it should be for shopping and that type of things. So you get in and get out and go and so on. And then putting up all those buildings those apartment complexes is just even Santa Rosa Avenue now they've got a big one down there. If there's six whatever the street on 4th Street there and where are those kids going to go play. They're going to be running back and forth across the street to the Jewel yard it's that park across the street there. I mean it's it's just not like to me it's not being planned right and a lot of people are complaining. We go down Herne Avenue and I want to go up to up to Santa Rosa Avenue to the Costco or someplace there. And the traffic at 3 o'clock in the afternoon is backed up to Southwest Community Park. And it takes you 15 minutes to get up to the to go to the overpass. Let me provide one on the Herne Avenue. We know they are improving that freeway over crossing. So the city just got funding to improve that and make it a lot better. That is something council member Alvarez helped do. So that is on that maybe interest. It should have been started before when they knew this was going to happen. Okay. Until after then they really jammed up. Maybe maybe explain that idea of planning around corridors and how that's going to work. I think I want to explain a fair amount of questions that we have because I think we have traffic. We have parks. We have kids in relationship to traffic. I think one of the main things that we wanted to do with this plan and this is connected also with climate change is get people out of their cars. And I know this is difficult because of how transit is right now. But it's kind of like the chicken and yet we need density to get transit to be able to operate in our corridors. So I agree 100 percent. But with the transit please try when they put it in please try to provide a place where they can pull off the traffic where they load and unload. Instead of out in the middle of their four ways going and everybody's got to stop behind them. And then you're trying to get around them. They really need to pull over. I mean we do have a good spot there and they need to do more of that. Welcome and thank you to the transportation and public workers for sure. And in relationship to that we also are thinking and I'll put a map after after we pass the questions. We're we know Santa Rosa is a very big city. So the idea of a 15 walking 15 minute walk distance city is not a cheap call for us. So what we are thinking about is complete neighborhoods. Areas where people can actually get access to services schools and different opportunities of jobs in the same location of housing. And this is an idea that has been pushed by other cities and other states. But we know because of the size of our city at a complete city is not going to be something achievable. So we're thinking about complete neighborhoods and you'll see the policies and maps that we have in connection to that. So yes we know a lot of the housing is going to bring more density. But we're also expecting that to bring more transit to the city. And this is this is a high level plan. We still have to work with each of the teams to be able to figure out the parks situation specifically in relationship to Santa Rosa Avenue. We are we just got funding to start a South Santa Rosa specific plan. So that will be an area that we'll be focusing on particularly. So stay tuned because we're just about to start. That's actually our plan for the beginning of January. So we are trying to finish this plan on time so we can start South Santa Rosa specific plan which fall under the umbrella of the child plan. Thank you for the comments. We really appreciate it. And I think we're working toward those objectives too. So we really appreciate that. Not only because I'm driving it all day. We'll also want you out of your car. But it was like Donna and Carol and let me say there are about 10 more slides for Beatrice to show us. But go ahead with your questions. I just want to say thank you and I just want to help you connect to my Native American community. I know it's hard for them to just talk to somebody they don't know but I would love to connect you to that to get their advice input. And a concern for me is just safety of youth in the streets. It's not very safe out there or persons with disabilities as well just because of the scary things that I've seen and the very mean drivers that are out there. So thank you very much. And I wrote my information. Thank you. And I have to go to another meeting. So I have to leave right now. I'm going to take her with me. Thanks for Donna. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Thank you. Carol, did you have a question or comment? Yeah, I just wanted to check in with the county just this week weighing in and approving, expanding unincorporated mandatory statement. We did housing, much of which will be surrounding Santa Rosa. Is your group working hand in hand with those projects since they'll all be interrelated? Which projects? Can you? So Tuesday's. The approval of the housing element. The housing element. Correct. Thank you for that clarification. Are you in partnership with the county as they go forward with a similar. No, I don't know. These would be unincorporated areas. If the county's. We know it's right now. We work with the county in terms of planning for it for the numbers of units. And that happens before the allocation of the regional numbers. Now we're, I don't think we are. And I would, I can get actually specifically on the properties or the areas that you're talking about. If you want specific information. It's more important that you understand it than I understand it. No, I get it. I just, we have a separate team that does all the specific development review work. So I can speak for the work that they're, that they're actually doing. But there's a partnership in understanding the. We do work with the county. We collaborate with them in a lot of different topics. So, but, but I don't know if you were talking about specific property. So that's, that's. No, I wasn't. Okay. Just the ones. Bumping up against Santa Rosa. Good. Okay. Continue on. Thank you. So if there's no more questions, I just want to show you how the general plan is organized. And we can talk a little bit about the details. If you're interested, if not, I would just walk you through the plan. And I would invite you to review as deep as you want to do. And if we can go to the next slide, please. So, you know, this, as I mentioned, is the draft of the Santa Rosa general plan. So we're going to go to the next slide. And this plan has our contents, contents, contents organized in elements, which is what the state requires. There are actually eight elements that are then dated by the state of California, which are the ones that you will see in green. So that for us would be land use. It would be circulation. It would be open space. It's noise, safety, housing and environmental justice, which is the last and most new element, because this comes from SB 1000 and was updated in 2013. And so around 25 or 26 jurisdictions have an environmental justice element. We would be one of the new jurisdictions adding it. The requirement for this element is that anytime that you update more than two elements, you actually have to create an environmental justice element. So this new plan includes this element now. And you will see that we added other elements that community members requested or that our staff was interested in including, which actually includes parks. This parks was something that is not mandated by the state, but that we actually wanted to include it. It was important for our team. So you know, our plan is organized in goals, then policies and then actions. So this is the three levels of planning that the city has. The general plan, as I mentioned before, is a general plan. So we don't have specific details in here. This is just policy that mandates the rest of the city actions and decisions. So when you think about it, if you want to see very specific things in here, this is not specifically, this is not the right place for that. But when you review the policies, just think about how decision makers and how city council makes decisions and if this would be a guide that you would like to have for them. And if there's anything that you would add or like to take away from here. If we can go to the next slide, please. So this is our equity priority areas. If you are familiar with Planned Bay Area in 2050, what we got from them is two variables that are really relevant for them in terms of where are we prioritizing our investment in terms of infrastructure. And these are areas that we're broad-lined. I'm sure you're familiar with this term, but if you're not, those are areas that we're under invested because of the lack of government support and the lack of loans provided by the state to have property owners in those areas. So there's two variables that create this layer of the mapping. One is the lowest income census blocks in the county. And the second is the areas with the highest concentration of people of color. So those are the census tracks. Additionally, we added to one more layer, which is the color by our screen layer, which means the areas that are most highly polluted in the state. This is the 75th percentile of pollution in California. And we have two, and those are in the southwest community area. That map was created with the purpose of identifying specific policies that we want to prioritize in these particular locations, including thinking about how we allocate budget in terms of improving infrastructure, which means also bike lane sidewalks and parks. If we can go to the next slide, please. The other layer that we created is called areas of change. And this is connected to the conversation that we were having before in relationship to how we create complete neighborhoods. And so these are the areas where community members and planning staff in the city identify areas that require creating additional services, additional housing, additional infrastructure. Each area has different needs. But we want to create areas in the spaces where people can actually walk and bike or just go around without having to use a car and use transit too and be able to get access to all the things that they need on a daily basis. So you can see we have plenty of areas, but they're mostly focused on the central corridors of the city. The only one that might not be in that space is actually open. They actually want to create mixed use area where they can actually have access to services too. So if we can go to the next slide, please. Just so you know what is the content of the general plan, we have the land use and economic development. The change in this element was actually integrating land use and economic development because we know that jobs and access to jobs is very connected to housing and we want to create this connection. So that's how we shifted this element. And there's a lot of new things in here, including the additional of community gardens on every land use as well as having access to more mobile businesses and having new spaces to let people be creative about how they do business in the city. So if we can go to the next slide, please. I'm being very general because I know we have a lot of slides and I want to respect the time that we have allocated for this presentation. You're doing great. Thank you. I appreciate that. We have the circulation open space conservation and green gas reduction element. This is a huge element. It has a lot of policy included open space that is a little bit connected to parks, but I wouldn't say this is the core of our interest for the meeting of today. However, one of the important things to know is that we have a greenhouse gas reduction strategy included in this general plan. So all the actions that we used to have separately are now included in this plan because for us it's something that has to be intersecting with all the actions that the city is doing. So if we can go to the next slide, please. We have an additional element that is focused on urban design, historic preservation, arts and culture. This is something that we thought was extremely relevant because the community feels very proud of the things that Santa Rosa has in terms of arts and culture as well as historic preservation. So this is basically focusing on those topics. If we can go to the next slide, please. We have, as I mentioned earlier, a safety climate resilience, noise at public services and facilities. This element contains a new mapping of the wildland urban interface as well as the califier maps that were updated recently. So these chapters include some new ideas that would actually can make us the first city in the state that would be retreating from the wildland urban interface. That means maybe exploring the idea of buying properties that are in this area so we don't have to expose our firefighters and our emergency services to have to go into this area when they face fire risks. So these are some of the things that we're exploring in this type of policy. And this is out to the public so that we can get feedback and understand that community members feel that this is something that they want the city to do. If we can go to the next slide. The last one I think the most important for today's meeting is the health equity and environmental justice element. This is where you will find parks out. If we can go to the previous one, sorry about that. Oh, okay, I guess we don't have it in here. I apologize for that. I do have it in my printed version, but number six is health equity and environmental justice. And since we don't have it here, I just want to tell you what is included in here. As you probably know, we have a partnership with Kaiser Permanente and this grant that was provided to the city of Santa Rosa was actually provided for us to intersect a health policy for the whole city. And what we decided was that we were going to create a health element connected to our environmental justice element since these two topics are extremely connected since pollution and built environment are actually very relevant social determinants of health for our community. So we joined these three topics and we thought equity was actually pretty connected because as you can see, the areas that are low income and that are majority people of color are actually the areas in the city that are most disinvested. So this is heritage of previous policies that happened throughout the 30s and the 70s and that we are being inherited with, but that we actually want to change and that we actually want to create policy to shift to a better place. And so that's what this element has. And to some of the questions that were asked before, I also want to mention that we have a violence prevention part on the general plan as well as the parks chapter and goal that is including 16 policies connected to parks. So that's basically the general description of what is included in the general plan. I hope this cuts your attention and makes you want to go deeper and explore what the policies are in here because there are plenty and I don't think we have enough time to review all of them, but just so you know, we have a survey going on and a QR code that gets us to a bilingual survey that can be responded by community members if they don't want to read the whole plan but want to give us their opinion on the main policies that we think are the most controversial ones including the ones that I've mentioned before, but for example, we're going to be banning drive-thrus, which is something that is connected to our climate action plan as well as reducing our emissions and accomplishing other purposes in terms of reducing our vehicle miles travel. So you can provide feedback through this process. We are also hosting workshops. We have hosted two. We are hosting one on each quarter of the city. We have two more left. One is going to be on the 30th in the Brinkham Valley Library at 5 p.m. on the 30th and we are hosting another one on the 31st at Latina Service Provider's Office and that's going to be on the 530 on the 31st of August. After that, we're hosting an online open house which would be on September 13 and we're popping out or we're popping with our maps and all our surveys and all the documents that you just saw today on the screen in all of the community events that we get from our city, from our community partners and we're trying to be out there because we know people usually don't come to board so our city council or commission so we're trying to literally go everywhere. We have planned more than 30 events where we're attending and providing information to people. We're hosting six events ourselves and we have planned more than 15 pop-ups around the city in the next couple of weeks so if you have any other invitations besides the ones that I got from board member Rosa I'll be very happy to take your requests and try to figure out if we can make it to your events so thank you so much and if we can go to the next slide and I just want to open the space for questions, discussions, feedback that you have on the things that we mentioned and of course we know you probably might need more time to review the document but just so you know this is all on our website if you want to provide very specific feedback we have an app called Conveyo which is basically a PDF where you can underline and make comments and provide feedback directly in the document that is public and that we will download and analyze once the outreach process is over so thank you very much for your time and we are very happy to take any questions that you have Did you say you said wherever you could pick up a booklet or whatever of all that information? Yeah if you are interested on getting one of the documents yeah we'll be happy to bring it to you again they're also available on our website if you prefer a PDF, whatever works better we can get you a physical document or Where do you have that? Can I buy and pick one up? Yeah I mean if you want this one I have a very happy chance to pick it up Great, I would love to have one Yeah I can let you all of the politicians Beautiful job, I don't know how you remember all that Carol do you have a question and then Paul I do, this is probably, gosh I don't know how many of your presentations I can remember going to a city council forum and there was a huge map on Chox floor, that was this correct? So this is probably my fourth or fifth and I'll be here again tomorrow morning for waterways 50% of what you said? Right over my head I know you know what you're talking about and you're very engaged I consider myself a rather informed person I don't know how much the general public is able to absorb process and truly give you feedback on at this level Is this something, I don't know, does anyone else kind of feel a little... That's why I want to copy of that Does anyone else feel it all overwhelmed or are you guys 100% I appreciate that comment because I was actually going to compliment her on not doing that and so I think that that's a good perspective to provide Carol And there are some simple things like I was looking at slide 11 which is a map If you could go back to slide 11 Now I lived in Santa Rosa, next slide please I've lived in Santa Rosa pretty much my whole life I don't know what some of these neighborhoods are because there's no street names If you put something identifying the neighborhood I'd have a clue You know what you're talking about The people who live in Santa Rosa don't have this level of knowledge that you do And you want to inform us You have to... I worked in the textbook industry for college level My parents were told to write at the eighth grade level for college students Because that was something they could absorb You're conducting a master's class I'm a junior high school I appreciate very much the comment And 50% of the information actually stayed in I feel very grateful Because we know this is very overwhelming And I totally understand what you're saying We're doing a lot of efforts at different levels to have different types of conversations I actually brought one of the samples of things that we have been doing So this is for kids that are in elementary school And we got this bilingual books, coloring books from one of our local artists This is a partnership where we actually explain to kids what planning is like And kind of try to involve them Asking them what they like about their neighborhood So you're totally right And we're trying to make different efforts So we have another partnership with artists who are helping us do trainings in poetry And kind of like getting input through that way So we have different levels of engagement for different groups of people And the survey that we have is kind of like a very simple survey Where you don't have to read anything You can provide your opinion about like the most relevant policies And the problem with the general plan amount of information is that We're mandated by state of the things that we have to include So we do our best effort to try to explain the things that are key for community members There's some others that are just state requirements that we absolutely have to comply with And they're hard to bring down to earth in some ways Even for planners, so I just want to be very honest But yeah, you're totally right And if you think, I mean arranging the street names And you will see it, when we bring the huge maps, it's way easier to see it And the screen is just like really hard to do it But just so you know, if you go into our electronic documents You can zoom in as much as you can And you'll see the names of the street Because the quality of our mapping is pretty good So I hope that helps in terms of looking at another print I've tried to fill out the survey at least twice already I've given up the frustration both times It is so daunting, the level of reflection you want me to do That is so above my pay grade I do not feel, not intelligent I do not feel equipped to weigh in with any kind of Not even authority with a usable comment I've given up because I've been overwhelmed And maybe that's because I wanted to do a really good job Thanks for the feedback And if you want us to chat and have a conversation Like with more detail about what things you would like to Like adjust, we'll be happy to do that Has anyone else made that kind of comment That this is overwhelming for the late person? I think we have done a lot of surveys with communities So we are there to explain exactly the changes That are coming out from the job plan We're kind of doing a guided survey And for some people we just leave it there But when we do the pop-ups and we went out with the community We bring our tablets and we have conversations with people Show the maps around and have like a more interactive Survey plan if that makes any sense If you want to do that, we'll be very happy to do it I'll see you in the morning Sounds good Well, and Parkstaff will be at the other meetings that are Not the pop-ups, but the open houses The open houses, thank you We'll be there as well We bring our map, we're there for questions To really drill down a lot of information It is daunting, I appreciate it But the takeaway is that this is the document That we rely on heavily when we do anything In parks and recreation So this is the time to dig in And even if you just want to tell us Or be a trace or something We can pass along information about things That you've been thinking of that would be great And we can help determine if it's something That needs to go to the general plan Or maybe something for a future specific plan As well, we'll do our best to help as much as you want But I completely agree with you It can be really daunting To look at everything all at once But we appreciate your comment We really do And this is absolutely something that we've tried And it's something that we have in mind So we're there with you And we want to do better So if you have any ideas on how we can do better We're very happy to hear that And work with you Any other questions, Paul? Any other questions? Kind of more of a general question The concept of And I understand some of this is state-mandating But the concept of environmental justice That just seems good But that seems to be a very broad concept And distilling it into a general plan I guess how is it articulated And what does that look like And what you're trying to implement Yeah, so the definition of the state for this Is kind of providing spaces that are healthy And that people have access to In a similar way for everyone No matter race, ethnicity, country of origin Language spoken Kind of having this access to healthy environments And the policies that are included In the document, the way that we translate it Is kind of putting more attention To specific areas that have higher levels of pollution And figuring out what type of policies We can create to improve Not only the reduction of pollution But infrastructure to prevent creating additional burdens Or improving or reducing the amount of industrial land That we have in those areas Because a big part of it is highways The things that pollute air quality But also we have land uses that are less healthy For those areas So try to compensate what has happened On those specific areas of the city And that's how we translate it The definition of environmental justice The additional part that I want to mention Is participation of communities That have never been involved in the planning process So decision making in the past And the reason that red light areas Ended up with all the industrial So many has to do with the fact That communities were not asked If they wanted industrial lands Or other land uses in their neighborhoods They just had to deal with it And I think a big part of this Is involving communities Leaving those areas that are already overburdened By different pollution indicators To be part of the conversation About how they want this to be changed And so community engagement is a huge part Of the part that we are including On environmental justice I answered the question that I don't know if it did No it really does And that it just raises a host of other questions If you remove that industrial areas It's like we'll wear these jobs That community typically wears That industrial field The idea is to figure out where you place housing And where you place industrial areas And how you can, for example One of the policies that we have Is separating housing 300 feet from the highway Or doing additional measures To prevent the bad air quality Entering into the housing So there's different ways Where we can find a middle point Where we don't take away jobs But we also have the health of the community Protected in a different way And parks is a really good measure And that's why they're included In environmental justice Because you know there's this whole idea About the amount of park space That you need per capita To have a healthy environment So that's what we're working with In terms of parks too So yeah, this is why this is a great space For us to have this conversation too But thank you for the question Any other questions from the board? I had a few questions When does the south Santa Rosa Specific plan process begin? Our request for proposals is already out So we're planning to start By the beginning of next year Okay, great And echoing one of our board members And parks will be a part of that I assume? Yeah, definitely Great This is kind of more general I didn't know this is parks Always been a part of the public health component Of a plan, of a general plan Or is that a newer reflection? Health is not a mandated element It's an element that we decided to include Because it was complementary To environmental justice and equity Other cities have it there It's kind of something very new As I mentioned there's around Probably less jurisdictions That have a health element So we would be one of the few ones Getting this element in there Parks has been in some of them I would say The analysis of social determinants of health Definitely includes green space As one of the very relevant things For people's health So that's why it's included in here Okay, you said I think it was slide the element 5 The one that involved the wildfire mapping The cowfire maps you referred to I don't think those have been finalized yet They haven't been finalized But we're including the Wild and Urban Interface maps Which are similar maps We're missing the newest cowfire maps But they will be included and updated Once they're finalized Okay, and maybe this is Maybe I'm just I have a wording question I guess So you talked about buying properties In the wild and urban interface To prevent future damage basically People referred to that as managed retreat Yeah, do you use that term in there? Yes, I just didn't use it here I was trying to be better in my wording Could you give an example of one of those properties Because that was part of the right of my head No, I can't Because this is just something that we're going to explore This is a policy to try to figure out If we can do this work And how a community feels about it So we don't have any properties selected Could you make that an example of what it would be? Yeah, Oakmont is one of the examples Because that area is specifically On the wild and urban interface Could you say Oakmont too? Thank you I encourage you to continue that work That'll be very difficult politically And in the public That's what we want to hear from the community Good, that's great Good luck Okay Did we have any other comments or questions From the board? Any public comment on that item? So I will just say one last thing I was going to say the exact opposite Of what Carol said So I think this is an interesting examination Of how different people see this Because I'm like a planning nerd And I was like, wow She's using like Saying environmental impact report Instead of EIR So I thought you were good about not using acronyms But some of the terminology Is just not general, you know English language usage So that was an interesting observation From both of us I didn't just manage to retweet So I thought I got extra points from that Yeah, good job No one knows what that means And it sounds kind of scary anyways So we need a better term for that But I think this is great And like I said on a planning nerd So this is really cool That we have such a great document Maybe figure out different ways To socialize it out And have people understand it And also I was going to say You came to one of our part cleanups once The one in Lincoln Valley And I've seen you at other things Like the Wednesday Night Market I think So that's great Keep up that stuff too And going where the people are I think that's it I could talk about planning for a while But I would also like to make a comment I have actually been a part of this process For a while from the very beginning So it was hard for me to figure out how easy it was to understand, I will not make a comment about that. I have seen a lot of the work that you have to do in so much of the department that I took, so I do want to just acknowledge that they've done a lot of work for this. And as someone who has been in the process and for my job I have to look at this a lot, it is very, very interesting. So if you have time and you have points of interest like traffic circulation, like parks to definitely take time and look at it. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Yesterday we had a partnership right here in this room with the food system alliance. They created a partnership with us to have host a specific open house connected to only food access. So there's a whole chapter related to food access in our general plan, which was an interest of the community too. So I mean there's different topics that are probably less complicated or less technical. Overwhelming. Less overwhelming. But the community is interested in and we were expecting to have this partnership with different organizations. And we had fortunately and so we are very grateful to community members who have given us that opportunity to partner and have this discussion. So yeah, thank you. I hope you'll buy this to other events and we'll be happy to reach out to the food groups too. And I loved your maps. Thank you. Great. Any other questions or comments? All right. Thank you for the presentation very much. Thank you for having me. Thank you for your questions. I think that's my intention. Yeah. I want to get the hook from her. We're almost at the end, but if you can give that to the staff, do you need a break? Yeah. Okay. We're almost done. Don't worry. We'll be done in a few minutes. Jen's got it for you. And they give those out to in the community. Like if there are boots, they have it the ones that I have one that I got from one of their boots. So yeah, they're out there, but we have one for you. So great. We will move on to agenda item nine committee reports. I think we're going to have a date from the mayor's lunch. Well, that's happening tomorrow for the first time in 2023. So yeah, not taking me anywhere. We're going to city hall, sadly, but I think it was Julie who got the good food last time. Yeah. So hopefully we get good. Last time we had Indian food. That was great. That was better than just sandwiches. Nothing against 4th street deli. Hopefully we have something great again. I hope so. I would like to have the report back. Okay. I'll provide that at the next meeting. So just as a reminder for folks, that's the, all the board chairs come together and meet with the mayor once a month. Mayor Rogers hasn't convened it yet. So we're looking forward to doing that with her tomorrow. 9.2 Santa Rosa waterways advisory committee. Carol, is there any update for that? There was a field trip last week out to the last month out to Colvin breach. I'm going to say two, which was fascinating because it seems like every time I blank Southwest, Santa Rosa has expanded yet again. It seems like only yesterday LCO high school was an island unto itself. It is no longer an island. Good news is that parks is looking ahead and securing land. The Colgan reach originally. Originally was a creek, which was channelized, which is returning to a creek. And it is now being managed for the hundred year flood rather than the 50 year flood. And going on this field trip with hands on with. Steve Grady, who's one of the leads in the creeks program, just getting great knowledge of both native plants interacting with other agencies planning for the future. And my favorite part of all was a woman on a bicycle came up and said, we need more doggy bags here. There are creek stewards out in the hinterlands volunteering and working. We're all in this together nature of that field trip was so impactful. I think field trips are the best for all boards. And tomorrow we have another presentation of the one we just got here, which will emphasize more of the creeks. And I will try not to be as overwhelmed that one cannot guarantee it. All right. Thank you. Thank you. I want to write that down. Thank you, Carol. Take Rosie, the trolley. Maybe a trip to the future Southeast Greenway or something like that. Just to give Jen more work. But yeah, great idea. I love field trips too. And now we are on to 9.3. The BOCS governing documents subcommittee. We did not meet two weeks ago. So we've had one meeting of that since it reconvened. Basically, we're just trying to make our ordinance a little tighter. We got feedback from the city manager's office that it was a little lengthy more than what they wanted to use some terminology that crosses over into what some other departments basically do. So they just want us to tighten it up a bit. We still eventually will be the wrecking parks board or parking wreck board if that's what the city decides to do. But we're going to be whatever that name is with board at the end after we're done. And of course, fix our quorum. So we're meeting again, I think next week. Yeah. So we'll have more on that. And then number 10, Deputy Director Santos. Do we have any written or electronic communications? We have received none. Great. Thank you. Thank you. And on to item 11, are there any future agenda items? Are there any future agenda items anyone would like to see? Yeah. The one that you just mentioned. I know it's probably still a work in progress, but City Council did pass the change in homelessness in parks in San Rosa. And when the department has a better handle on how that either is being rolled out or will be rolled out, I think it would be good to provide us with that information. Are you talking about the camping ordinance? Okay. Yeah. And so Council did the second, they approved the second reading of that. So it should be rolling forward soon. Great. So there's no camping in the parks? Is that one? Yeah. So there's a step what I can do is send you all the ordinance. So you can look through it, but. There's available steps for making sure we don't have excessive, you know, potentially excessive camping in certain places. There's steps the city can take. To help those that are unhoused find our temporary housing locations between the city and the county. And that it kind of help alleviate the. Huge encampments we've seen in the past in parks because they have done a fair amount of damage. When there's a lot of campers in certain spots. So there's a lot of outline in there for. For the city to be. A little bit more proactive and providing services. To the unhoused and. The city has done a lot of work on that. Hopefully that'll be a benefit to the. Parks. That's the, that's the goal. And to other public spaces. His city has done a lot to try to provide spaces in conjunction with the county. For those that are in house. So I'll bring that. I'll get you all a copy of that. And we can bring some more information. The city used to have an ordinance that banned all camping. And there was a ninth circuit court decision that made that. That was the first one. That was a very successful decision. That had to be passed for the city. But that comes to that. Four years later to craft a new camping ordinance. Yeah. I figured you know that being a love council. So yeah. A lot of cities are doing that. So. I agree that that'd be a great thing to learn in the future. Guido, did you have something? The most amazing that you said you're going to tomorrow. Carol said she's going to know. Okay, though, then there was another that hold it under 93 But the government the documents subcommittee the subcommittee meeting that we have next week And that regarding that's that's the subcommittee we formed to update our ordinance. Yeah What is that meeting? Yeah, I'd like to attend it. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I guess you well No, then we'd reach a quorum. Yeah, you can't attend because we'd have to do it as a brown act meeting and take public comment It's pretty dry stuff. It's we're updating an ordinance, you know, that's on Monday I mean, if you have thoughts you can you could You can share them. I mean 9.3 would have been the time but if you have it now, that's fine. Could you have any suggestions? So If there was going to be a separate meeting for that I'd like to We can't have you attend though because as a member of this board that would make it a Committee which has not been officially formed. So I'm sorry lawyers law run that not lawyers the law, but Yeah But we will give you an update at next month's meeting on what happens Are there any other future agenda items any board members would like to see Okay, any No public comment there. All right, so we have reached the last item item 12 That was a dense meeting, but we got through it So the next regular scheduled meeting of the board will be held on Wednesday September 27th at 5 p.m In this room with that I adjourn this meeting of the board of committee services at 7 o 9 p.m Thank you