 Thank you. Excellent. Thank you very much. Council, any other reports? Sure. No. Mr. Mayor, I'm just going to let the council know that when the farm yard crab feed was going on, I was at the North Bay Black Chamber of Commerce's Black History Month event down at Speckles, and they had a fantastic band. The name is the two for one band, but it's not spelled that way. Anyway, fantastic. And this great fashion show, you know, throughout the history, and just wonderful, wonderful event. I think Ann has left, but great event. Well it sounds like with a fashion show and the band, that's probably the only two things that might have made that crab feed a little bit more exciting. Is this where we mention our appointees as well? That's coming up actually. Okay. Yeah. Any other reports from council? Well, we did have a goal setting last week, and I want to thank the council and all the staff that have participated. It was a very productive two days. It can be more exhausting sometimes than doing other things that might seem more physically exhausting, but it was well worth it. It was well planned, well facilitated, and kudos to all of you who participated fully, and I really appreciate that, and some really good work was done. And we will see the fruits of those labors as we move into the next year and a half. At this time, we will move to the selection of our Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board member that we interviewed this afternoon, and we will say that by ballot. Yes. In your folders, there are ballots. As discussed before, the normal practice would be to vote for two additional applicants beyond the number. In this case, there's one position, so generally that would be three, but since you only have three applicants, I suggest in order to expedite it, you start with two votes, which the city clerk will call by roll, and then we'll see if any of the candidates are eliminated by that, and if there's a need for further voting. Thank you. It is there. It's kind of, it's one single page that says ballot at the top. It's kind of... Okay. We're doing this orally. Are we not? Did you... As opposed to paper ballot? Yes, there's no... Okay. Okay. So we'll be voting for two, and you'll do this down the line. Or... Okay. I'll start with Council Member Schwedhelm. If the Council is ready. So I will go Pedgriff and Cushman. Council Member Carlstrom. Pedgriff and DeWitt. Council Member Combs. Pedgriff and Cushman. Vice Mayor Corsi. Pedgriff and Cushman. Mayor Sawyer. Pedgriff DeWitt. Council Member Boisaki. Pedgriff DeWitt. Council Member Oliveris. Pedgriff and Cushman. Okay, so no one was eliminated in that round, so now you have one vote. Council Member Schwedhelm. Pedgriff. Council Member Carlstrom. Pedgriff. Council Member Combs. Pedgriff. Vice Mayor Corsi. Pedgriff. Mayor Sawyer. Pedgriff. Council Member Boisaki. DeWitt. Council Member Oliveris. Pedgriff. So Mr. Pedgriff is the selection. Thank you very much. Thank you, Council. We'll now move to 10.3.2. Mayor's and Council Members announcing appointments to various boards, commissions and committees. This does not necessarily mean that all the appointments have been made, but those Council Members who have appointments to make, would you please do so at this time? Mr. Oliveris. Thank you, Mayor. I will be appointing Rebecca Forth to my at-large cab position. Thank you. Mr. Boisaki. I have appointed Harrison Tibbets as my representative to the Board of Public Utilities. Thank you. Other appointments? Council, Mr. Schwedhelm. Having gone through this for the first time, I was very impressed with the quality of the number of candidates that we had. And I have four different boards to make appointments on for the Planning Commission, re-appointing Kurt Groniga, Design Review Board, re-appointing Doug Hilberman, Measure Oversight, re-appointing Karen Weeks, and for the Community Advisory Board, my at-large appointment is Vince Harper, and for the North Area, Krubin. Thank you very much. Mr. Weiss, Mayor. Thank you. I also want to thank all of the people who have applied for boards and commissions. These are volunteer jobs, and a lot of people have devoted a lot of time to the community through these. My appointees tonight are for the Planning Commission, Shirlene DeRozendez, for the Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Beth Dadco, that's a re-appointment, Design Review Board, re-appoint Michael Birch, the Measure Oversight Committee, Ramon Miraz. He's here. Thank you, Ramon. For CAB, my appointee from the Southwest is Sarah Lewers, and my at-large appointee is Linda Adrienne. Thank you. If anyone else is here that I just mentioned, leave your hand. I don't think there are. Thanks. Good job. And I have some appointments and also announcements of chairs for the Bikin Ped Board, Michael Lopez, and announcing Beth Dadco as chair of the Bikin Ped Board. For the Planning Commission, I'm appointing Peter Stanley, and Patty Sisko is the chair. Cultural Heritage Board, I'm appointing Daniel Flock as a member and also the chair. Design Review Board, Kevin Zuko, Doug Hilberman, chair. For the Board of Community Services, Carolina Spence, with Kat Spengross, chair. Sorry, Kat. Measure O Committee, Jane Bender, and also Jane Bender as the chair. And that completes my appointments for this evening. And I think we're getting very close to the end of our appointing process, but there are still some CAB members yet to be appointed, and we will get those done as soon as possible. May I ask a clarification? Did you say that you appointed Doug Hilberman to DRB? As the chair to the Design Review Board. Did I hear someone else say they were appointing Doug Hilberman to Planning or did I mishear that? No, you misheard it. I misheard it. Thank you. No problem. Okay, so we will now move to other appointments. You have a list in front of you of the appointments. Some were specifically done by me and others were need to be voted on by the Council. This can be done in total. There's one change I wanted to show in the mayoral appointments. Generally speaking, the first name that you're seeing there is to act as lead under the Violence Prevention Partnership Policy Committee. The Tom Schwedhelm is the lead and he is joined by Vice Mayor Corsi. The liaison positions require council approval and unless there are questions about those appointments I could entertain a motion to approve them as they are written. So moved. Second. Thank you. And your votes, please. Thank you, Council. I do have one card actually on 10.2 and I neglected to mention Deborah. You wanted to speak to the Council updates. Are you still in the audience, Deborah? Seeing her not rise, I'll assume she's left the chambers. We are now going to move to city manager or city attorney's reports. Mr. City Manager. Yes, I just want to take the opportunity to once again thank the entire staff for the work they did over the last weekend managing the storm system that ran through on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I think the evidence was in how well they tackled issues that came up and that was across the entire organization. Additionally, I'd like to recognize that the city of Santa Rosa was recently selected by the California Energy Commission to participate in an innovative energy project to implement microgrid technology at the Laguna wastewater treatment plant. Thanks to the leadership of our City Council, Santa Rosa was awarded one of the three awardees out of 55 applicants to demonstrate secure and reliable microgrid technology and is set to receive almost $5 million worth of upgrades to the Laguna wastewater treatment plant. I'll get this right one time. Piloting microgrid technology at the Laguna one more time. One more time. Laguna treatment plant will allow Santa Rosa to generate more electricity on site, reduce demand on the main electrical grid when energy demand spike and demonstrate how Santa Rosa is building a resilient, low carbon future infrastructure. Thank you very much. Madam City Attorney. Thank you, Mayor. I've asked for authorization from the City Council today. One of the items in the Open Government Task Force was a suggestion that we report on a quarterly basis settlements that are approved by Council which means any settlement over $50,000 on a quarterly basis. I just want to make sure that I have your authorization to go ahead and do that. I would plan to present that similar to the CIP updates that you receive be a quarterly report, it would be put on the written communications and certainly at that time if you have any questions, I'll be available to answer any questions. So if someone could make a motion to authorize that, I would be very pleased to answer that question. Can we also possibly? Let's get it on the board for a second. So I have a motion and a second. Discussion? I would like to add to that that in closed session we have a quarterly report out on what hasn't been resolved yet. I need a better understanding of the status of the ongoing workload in the department of what cases are currently pending. I can do that as well. That would be very helpful. Yeah, I can do that as a separate report in terms of what cases are still pending. There may be some limited information about that in terms of ongoing settlements. But the idea was to obviously we still comply with the Brown Act and report out settlements that you authorize in closed session that were required to report out. Sometimes as you know it's not an agreement and so it hasn't been reported out at that time it is available to the public. So let's make sure that there's more transparency in response to concerns raised by the committee. But I'd be happy to prepare a separate status report. I am delighted to have the more transparency coming forward. And just wanted to make sure that we understood what the full status of other items that were required to be provided to the public. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to, as the last of the Mohicans, if you will, from the Open Government Task Force, let the Council know and really appreciate the city attorney for embracing the recommendations that came from the Task Force. I think that she has a sort of standing member of the Task Force and has a lot of expertise and information, but really embraced this conversation at the Task Force level. And I just wanted to make sure the Council was aware of that. And thank you, Caroline, for bringing this item forward so quickly. You know, it's a bit like watching your child grow up. I'm so thrilled to see little milestones come out of our Task Force. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Waisaki. When do we have this for full Council discussion scheduled to come back from us? Because we have yet to have that discussion at the City Council level. And I'm a little concerned when I see Implementation's piece meal. We're still working on that scheduling of that item. I believe we had a conversation that would be soon. We're working through that with the Mayor to figure out exactly what's going on. Mr. Alverser. To follow up on Mr. Waisaki's comment, on some of the easy-to-implement pieces, we are going forward with some of those with Council approval, not unlike the changing of the, or the addition of a time at the beginning of the meeting, time certain to receive public comments. So where we can make changes that don't require a discussion. We're trying to move forward as quickly as we can. I appreciate your question about the timing. So we will put that item that you just mentioned on the next agenda for the 24th about public comment. Excellent. Thank you very much. We didn't have a vote yet. So we have a motion and a second. All in favor of the motion concerning the reports. Thank you very much. And I will move to consent. Mr. McLean. Item 12.1, motion, contract award, police interview room, video audio equipment and evidence management software. Item 12.2, motion, bid award, 2015 four-door SUVs. Item 12.3, motion, contract award, Montecito Boulevard and St. Mary drive vehicle. Item 12.4, resolution, amendment to the city council policy, number 0000-58 debt management. Item 12.5, resolution, authorizing submittal of a grant application to the California Department of Water Resources for the implementation of the efficient fixtures direct installation program for residential and commercial services. Resolution, amendment number one to the measure in cooperative funding agreement in 30706 Hearn Avenue improvements. Item 12.7, ordinance introduction. Ordinance of the council of the city of Santa Rosa amending section 1-04.020 of the Santa Rosa city code regarding minor modifications of the city logo. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just with respect to item 12.2, I'm sure you know the question that's coming. Do we not have a local Ford dealer? I believe that this is the lowest price bid that we got. And so I will turn that over to our team. Good evening. As far as I am concerned, we went out to bid with the specification for these midsize SUVs. There is a local dealer that bid on it, but however, this dealer was the lowest bid, lowest responsive bid. I can appreciate that, Mr. City Manager. You'll no doubt understand this will inform our local preference conversation as it comes before us. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. On item 12.6, there just were a couple of errors in the resolution, excuse me, the agreement references the county a number of times instead of the city. Under recitals item 3, county and authority amendment. I would assume we want the city to be agreeing. I'm Dave Vannevere with the transportation and public works department. Hi, Dave. That one draft of the amendment got in there as a draft along with the original 2005 cooperative agreement. And then, secondarily the final draft, which had that correction in the city, not the first one. I would assume it would as exhibit A, I think it was. We should have taken out that other draft. It didn't get taken out. But still, the official document is exhibit the exhibit. Wonderful. Thank you. Thanks. Could catch. Sorry, it does still say county exhibit A. In the final. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. At least as I'm pulling it up here on my iPad. I'm sure you'll check it. I'll check into that. Thank you. If we need to bring it back, we will. But thank you. Yes, I just have a question on 12.3. And I have a good friend who has a traffic signal. I have a traffic signal that is not on her area. So just so that I can answer when she calls me. Why have we done a street light at Montecito Boulevard in St. Mary's and not for the children crossing Santa Rosa Avenue. This is a traffic traffic signal. Traffic signal. Yes. Okay. Traffic signal. I'm talking about a traffic signal. It looks for some time for a signal on Santa Rosa Avenue. And the lady who likes to wants that signal calls me regularly. So I'm just asking if I can explain why the signal and not her signal. I don't see Mr. Sprinkle here, but generally there's requirements that you have to meet in order to install a signal. And I would assume if we haven't done it, it's either because it doesn't work. I'm happy for you to get back to me with an answer on this one. We will give an answer to the council about the termination processes. Okay. Because I do hear quite a lot from this person about the one on Santa Rosa Avenue for school children. The other question I have is on 12.1. Does this include some kind of storage for the data that is available? I'm concerned about the storage. Thank you. And Santa Rosa Police Department technical services division. And that is true. It does include storage. It has a vast server that goes with it. And a software backbone that does include that. Thank you, Mr. Schwedhelm. No repeat. Any other questions? Any other questions? I have 4. About the debt management. On page 13 of our copy here, it talks about public statements regarding financial information and indicates whenever the city makes statements. And I guess I either suggest and it seems rather vague. Shouldn't there be an owner of that? Someone is making those statements. I don't think the city is that accountability issue I think can surface. Everywhere else it gave a specific, here is the person or the position responsible for it. But then it goes to the city as a whole. And this was in page 13 or 14? Yeah, on item A. It is number 15. My interpretation when it says the city, basically it's you or the city manager. So this is if we put stuff out on our website. And that is typically comes from the finance department. So we could easily say that, but it's supposed to capture anybody that puts any information up on the website that could be considered disclosure for the investors. We need to make sure that. And it's referring to the city's bond financing where required and you approve a disclosure statement that's written by our bond council. And so that's the city making a representation. So we need to make sure that that's accurate because that's what's used to attract investors. So then the authors of that would either be the city council or the finance. The authors of that are typically the finance department or the finance department. And so that leads to the accountability because if someone does make a public statement, who is making that, who has the authority to make that statement. That makes sense. I can certainly clarify that. It needs to be an official city declaration. Here's the folks who can have the authority to say that. Period. Okay. So I think that's the possibility for making sure all that information is up to date. There's no requirement that we actually put that information out there yet. If we do, that would be a requirement of the finance department because we do the annual disclosure. So we would ensure that the information up there is the most current information. So again, I would offer the chief financial officer shall be responsible for that. So I think that's the possibility. I just had a question. Dave is still here. About the, yes, he's up there about the due date that the I'm assuming it's you, David, about item 12, 5, the due date for the grant. It says it was due December the grant application December 14th of 2014. So I think we should actually keep the grant applied for. Otherwise, and that's due at the end of the month. Otherwise, we have to pull our application. Right. So I guess my question are there any consequences for us being almost two months late with the application for that? No, we have until the end of February. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. A couple of questions. One is how do we select the people who are going to receive the fixtures that are being installed from this grant? It will be just on a first come, first serve basis. They will sign up on our website. And where is that? Where can they find that now? It's not open yet. It will be open if we receive the grant. This is just to approve us to apply for their grant. Does this grant include money for marketing that? Yes. Does it also include money to cover inspection and administrative costs? It does in the staff time. About $17,000. Sorry. Thank you. To cover our staff time and we'll just do spot checks on that. So the plumbers will, that we choose will be checking to make sure that they have a 1.6 gallon toilet before it's removed and replaced with the new toilets. So there's no expectation that this will cause any additional cost to the city? No. It's going to be run with the existing staff. Thank you. Council, any additional questions on the consent calendar? So I would suggest that item 12.5 be taken, I'm sorry, 12.4 be taken separately to indicate that's to be amended as requested by Councilmember Schwedhelm. Thank you. I'd like to move items 12.1 through 12.7 with the exception of item 12.4 and way further reading of the text. Second. Your votes please. And I have 7 ayes. Thank you Council. And 12.4 as amended by Councilmember Schwedhelm. So moved. Second. And your votes please. And I have 7 ayes. Thank you very much. Councilmember Combs has reminded me just to clarify that with respect to 12.6 that any typographical errors will be dealt with. Yes, we'll double check that. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to report items. Item 13.1 of Community Advisory Board 2014-15 Community Improvement Grants. Nancy Manchester and Jeff Tibbets Community Advisory Board staff liaisons. Good evening, Mayor Sawyer, Councilmembers. My name is Jeff Tibbets. I'm one of the acting staff liaisons for the Community Advisory Board. And it is our honor to present to you today the recommendations for the Board's Community Improvement Grants for the 2014-2015 funding cycle. The issue before you this evening is should the Council approve the Community Advisory Board's recommendations for the 2014-2015 Community Improvement Grant funding cycle recommending 24 grants totaling $22,945.60 for the 2014-2015 grant cycle. So good afternoon, Mayor Sawyer, members of the Council. The CAB grant program was designed to support community building, improve neighborhoods, and strengthen relationships amongst residents. Funds can be used for public improvements, community events and practices or may include elements of both. All projects should be inclusive, accessible, and focus on broad community support. Grants may be made for up to $1,000 and projects should be completed within one year. Applicants are required to provide matching funds. Applicants were invited to present their projects to CAB last October. The CAB reviewed each grant application and decided that all grants approved by a majority of the CAB members would be approved for funding. I'd like to introduce Tonya Narath who's the current chair of the CAB who will review with you the grants that have been put forward from here. Good evening. I'm very happy to be here presenting these grants to you this evening. First, I want to say thank you to all of the Council members for the CAB appointments. If I counted right, we now have 10 out of 14 CAB members appointed, which means we most likely will have a meeting this month, which is fantastic, so thank you. I also want to thank staff, Nancy and Jeff and Catherine for all of the support that they provided both during the grant process and that was before Jeff and Nancy's time with us and then most recently for Jeff and Nancy really stepping in and helping get this process wrapped up, so thank you. We're very happy to see that you're actively in the process and spent many, many hours reviewing grants and making recommendations. So, and then one more comment. I also want to express our appreciation to Council for broadening the scope of the grant program in this last year. Those of you who were here previously may remember that the Council at one point decided to narrow the scope and then made a decision to broaden that scope again and so that's enabled us to do something that really will help improve community building like the SAY Barbecue and the Hoenn Avenue Block Party just as an example. So, just in terms of an overview, which Jeff mentioned the number of applications that we received, the number that we are recommending for funding and of the 28, three of the applications are not recommended for funding and one was withdrawn. So this gives a breakdown by area and you can see that most of the grants or a large portion of the grants were citywide and then we had across the different segments of the community and then you can see the dollar amounts recommended for funding by major area and I'm not going to go through all of these in detail unless there are questions and there are other CAHB members here tonight that can help answer questions if I'm not able to. So these are the grants that were recommended for citywide funding and then a second page we had the largest number of grants under citywide and then we have recommendations for core funding and please stop me if I'm going too fast and then for the northeast and northwest and you'll probably get a sense of the areas that we still have work to do in terms of encouraging more grant applications, one of which is obviously the northwest so that's an opportunity for CAHB members in the coming year and then recommendations for funding for the southeast and we're happy to see as many applications as we received from the southwest, very active neighborhoods and partnerships going on there which is very exciting and then finally the applications not recommended for funding and there are three this year and I can tell you I wasn't at the meeting where these decisions or recommendations were put together but I've talked to CAHB members who say that it was a very good process that was used this year to make these decisions or recommendations and there was quite a bit of discussion to make sure that the CAHB as a whole felt really strong about these so the three that aren't being recommended are the Santa Rosa, Sesquicentennial which is the creation of a website for information on the Santa Rosa, Sesquicentennial and the key concerns on that one that the CAHB had were the group didn't feel like there was broad enough support from different groups in the city to illustrate collaboration and community building and then some concerns about how the dollars were going to be used that three-quarters of the grant funding was requested for website building and then a quarter $250 for the domain name and so those were the main reasons that the CAHB did not recommend that one the transition Santa Rosa training was not recommended because the grant included a request for salaries and that's not allowed under our grant rules and then the final one, the Lincoln Manor HOA the neighborhood was not able to demonstrate that they had the matching funds which is again a requirement of the grant funding. So the number one, the Sesquicentennial that had to do with salary as well basically. It's one for clarification. Thank you. Not to say that the CAHB didn't think these were all great projects and important projects but just didn't fit within the requirements of the CAHB grant. Thank you. And then finally the recommendation as Jeff stated at the beginning that we recommend the 24 grants to be approved with the total amount of $22,945. I think that's it. So, questions. Good job. Thank you for your presentation. Council questions from Ms. North or any other members of the CAHB seeing that I can move to public comment at this time. Thank you. Jeremy Nichols Mr. Mayer members of the council. Good evening. John, it's good to see you up here again. I think it's good to be back. The Bird Rescue Center here in Santa Rosa is a mostly volunteer organization which cares for orphaned native wild birds. We also provide a home for 21 wild birds. Raptors, mostly hawks and owls which are unreleasable back to the wild and would be euthanized if we didn't give them a home for the rest of their life. Thirdly, we provide education in the importance of wild birds to our environment to adults especially to youth and especially to youth from underserved areas of the city and county. We are entirely supported by grants and donations and I am here simply to thank you for your support by approving the grant to help us improve our education program. Thank you. Thank you for your hard work and important work. Josephina Friguoso D. Ramirez Hello, good evening. I'm here representing Amigos Unidos. It's a group here in Sonoma County and sitting primarily in Santa Rosa. We began our project with literacy working with the libraries here in Sonoma County. Our grant is just that. It's to help train and teach methods to read and our focus will be southern Santa Rosa. I'm here to talk a little bit about the program and to say thank you for allowing this type of funding. Thank you. Kira Janssen Hi again. I'm Kira Janssen and I'm here to talk about the program. I don't know if you're all in email this morning, but I want to put in the public record what I had to say. My very small grant for a CPR training class for 10 members of my small community that is in a homeowner's association and so the homeowners can't pay for the association or our COPE committee the application for a training of a CPR training and we're delighted and we're going to pursue that and be better citizens because we're ready for the next one. But what I really want to say is how this represents a perfect example of the kinds of things that the open government task force was asking for a partnership between the community and the city and the opportunity for my neighbors, some of whom are sometimes a bit skeptical about the efficiencies of our city government to feel as though there is something for them, for us that we ask for that we communicate with you about and that we exchange a lot of city funds for the benefit of my neighborhood and of the city so thank you for that. Thank you. Those are all the cards I have on this item Council, any further questions before we move forward? Seeing none, Ms. Combs, you have this item. I am very proud to bring this item forward and I know that I've received a message from Omar Gallardo that he has a sick child and he also wants to say thank you for his program moving forward through the CAB grant application process. Resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa approving the community advisory board's recommendations for the 2014-2015 community improvement grant funding cycle and authorizing the city manager or designee to execute grant agreements and waive further changes. Thank you, Council. And your votes, please. Can I make a quick comment also? Because we usually can comment but not after the questions. It's okay. I just wanted to thank the CAB for working through this so effectively. I know there were changes as this was moving forward and CAB really did a good job. I want to thank my CAB appointees and other appointees who are here. Can you raise your hand if you're a CAB appointee and you're present? Okay. Thank you very much for attending today also. And it would be really nice if in the future after the grants are awarded and completed if we could have a celebratory moment over the completion of the grants at the end of the grant cycle. I would really love us to come through our community. So thank you very much and I'll shut up and let us vote. Mr. Vice Mayor. I just want to echo Ms. Combs there that this is a moment for celebration. This is a small amount of money but it goes a long way in the community. It does what we're supposed to be doing. Building community, improving neighborhoods, fostering community. I appreciate the work that goes into this and it's nice to have an item where all the speakers come up here and thank us. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. It takes us a bit of second to hit the lights and say yes. But we know that it took hours and hours and hours and the entire council appreciates all the effort not only by those members of the community but by the members of the community. And I know the entire council appreciates your work and the work of the community and keep those applications coming in because that's how we find out of the need. So thank you very much. And now you're both please counsel. And I have seven eyes. Thank you very much. And 13.2 report Russell Avenue vacation of right away. Joe Johnson members. The number for you is a resolution of intention to consider the vacation of public street right away for a section of Russell Avenue. And I just went away. Yes, it did. So you go away for a number of, you know, months and months and that technology just gets better, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. It's intuitive completely. I'm going to get to the next slide. I just want to get to that. If I can get to that area, it will be great. Practice this. So what you want to do is use the arrows. Okay. I'm using that. Okay. And freeze a resolution of intention to vacate public right away section of Russell Avenue extending approximately 500 feet east of State Highway 101. Okay. This is by Centennial Way Highway 101. So the section of Russell Avenue we're talking about for vacation is this area here at the where this is Ventura where Russell Avenue dead ends into Highway 101. The county has purchased these properties on all sides of this section of Russell Avenue and the county's request of this city of Santa Rosa to allow their fleet storage facility which is located off this aerial. The state wants to put a new courthouse in that location so the county needs to move their fleet storage and they would like to move it to this location here. And the reason they went to vacate the street is that it would give them extra design flexibility and designing that so that's why they have requested the vacation. The first step in the vacation process as required by state law is what we're here doing today. This is to see if the council feels this has any merits at all and to start the process the council adopts a resolution of intention. Once the council adopts this resolution of intention then the vacation commission would move to the planning commission and there would be a public hearing and at this point there's a change here but we're looking at going to the planning commission on March 26 and that would be a notice public hearing at the planning commission they would discuss this in its entirety. There would be a report coming back to the council. That date that we're looking for councils has also been changed in your packets at April 21. We've talked to the county about that date and the preferences would be to come back to council on May 12. There would also be a public hearing before the city council and at that meeting you would hear the planning commission and if the council approves the vacation it does get recorded with the county clerk and that future project the county project would not come before the city it's a public project on county land and therefore the city would not have any jurisdiction over that project so there'd be no conditional use permit and no design review. City utility lines in the streets, sewer and water, those would remain. So a big portion of the city's review is to make sure that the city would have access to those utility lines 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So in conclusion it is recommended that the city council adopt the resolution of intention with the amendment to the resolution changing the resolution. That concludes the council public hearing date from April 21st to May 12th. And that concludes staff's presentation. Thank you, Mr. Galbraith. Excuse me. Council questions? Yes. I just want to check. Does doing this create a county island? No, this is all in the city limits. So as a question, will there be street access to these? No. I'm essentially making sure that we're not creating a county island. They're on the city now when we're done. They will still be in the city. And would they be responsible for maintaining the street after we vacate our... Are we vacating in ownership? What are we vacating? We have a city area along Russell Avenue that was a subdivision done in the county before it was annexed to the city. And at some point the city annexed those properties and the public right away. So right now, Russell Avenue is a city maintained street with city utility lines like any other street in the city. So by vacating the street, the city is saying this is no city. They would own... It wouldn't be county or what, it would be county property. And the city would maintain easements underneath that county property for the existing utility lines, sewer and water. And the county becomes responsible for maintaining the street? Yeah, it wouldn't be a street. It wouldn't be any kind of a street. It would be county property that they would be responsible for maintaining or any of the properties in the county facility. Okay. Mr. Weisaki? Thanks for the presentation, Joel. You had mentioned that the county initiated this because they are replacing the courthouse, which is a little bit to the south. I believe the state has purchased... And we have some county people here that can tell me... I believe the state has purchased this property here where they have fleet storage. Do you have any understanding as the courthouse is... Yeah, I think... If you want more details on... No, I guess that's good enough. That's where the replacement courthouse is going, or is that a... I believe there shouldn't be a new additional... My understanding is a new additional courthouse in the area where their fleet storage is now, which records that storage area to be relocated somewhere. The effect of such courthouse will have on, I assume, that that city property there. That's done by the county, and it's gone through the court process. So the court, which is a separate entity, is building it. It's going to be a new criminal courts building, but we don't have jurisdiction over it. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Schwedhelm? Thank you. Joel, would you consider this vacating, and I'm just trying to get my arms around this, city right-of-way. Like most streets in Santa Rosa, the city did not purchase the right-of-way at some point. Actually, this was subdivided and created in the county, originally in the city annexed it. So we have responsibility for maintaining that city right-of-way of the street, but it's not properly that we own or re-optitle to it. Again, it's not falling into either. It's an asset of reliability. It's neither. Is there something that we are giving up? What's the consequence of that? The asset part that the city has to maintain is we have city sewer and water lines that go under, that are in this property and go underneath Highway 101. They serve us a big area, so that's an asset the city has to keep. The street, Russell Avenue, what's unusual about this, Russell Avenue, right now the county owns properties on both sides of what they want to vacate, so it's not affecting the vacations not affecting other property owners, which is one thing we do look at, is it affecting cutting off someone's access. That's a big point of doing the noticing having public hearing is to make sure, because we can't cut off somebody's access. That's what the city looks for. Are we cutting off somebody's access or will we need the street in the future? We're probably going to somehow merge some of these lots, because the county owns them now, but there's no guarantee this property happens. Project happens in the county, so we do need to look at it to make sure when it's all said and done that these properties have access to a public street. So that's the main thing that the city is looking for. In the end, just for clarification, this is just the first step in the process to see. You're not approving the vacation that comes back to council. Thank you. Ms. Combs. I had thought this was straightforward and now I'm beginning to hear some things. So we're going essentially from owning a right-of-way to receiving an easement for maintaining our utilities. Is that the process that we're planning on? It's city right-of-way. We don't own the land. I understand. But we have a right-of-way. We have a right-of-way, right? And we're going to switch it from right-of-way to having an easement so that we can maintain the products. So basically, if it's vacated, the public would not be able to drive on the road. It stops becoming public property and it becomes county property, which is public a different way. It's not a county property but would not be a public street that anybody could drive down 24 hours a day. Right now anybody can drive down 24 hours a day. If it's vacated and the county builds a project. Sometimes we're told we can't give something because it becomes a gift of public property or has some value. So I just want to confirm again, this does not have value. It does not have value. It does not have value. I'm just thinking of it in terms of part of the review. If you do initiate the process, that's part of the review that we do when it goes to the planning commission comes back to council. We will have an answer to that question. That's something we do review. But what we've seen so far and based on the research I've seen, it was dedicated by the property owner when the city funds were used to purchase the property, then we can't typically just give it away. But if it was dedicated to the city for right away, then we quit using it for right away, then it goes back to the adjacent property owner. Thank you very much for clarifying that. Could it also be said, Joel, that the city is being relieved of the liability and obligation to maintain that right away? Yes. It's not a three-street. It doesn't carry traffic. So I probably are the street maintenance people. We'll be happy not to have to go down there and check it. The negative part that we need to look for when it goes through is the people that maintain the utility lines. If it's a public street, they have free access 24-7 to get there at any time in an emergency. It's a little more difficult for them, so we have to make sure we're not impeding access to those utilities. Thank you. Thanks, Council. Any other questions, comments? Mr. Alvarez, you have the side. Thank you. The intention of the Council of City of Santa Rosa to consider vacation of the public right away for approximately 30,000 people. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Alvarez. With the amendment to the change of the hearing date. With the amendment with respect to the hearing date. Thank you. A second, please. Second. Thank you. And your votes, please. And I have seven eyes. Thank you very much. We have no public hearing this evening. Thank you very much. Written communications. I am 15.1. Marin, Sonoma, Mosquito and Vector Control, District Manager's Report for January 2015 provided for information. Thank you very much. Now I'll move to the public comment part of our meeting. I do have so far I have one card and probably more on the way. In the meantime, I'd like to thank you. In the meantime, I'll Carl Cheney. Did he just walk out? Go ahead, Carl. Maybe he'll come back. We'll take you next in the meantime. If he comes back, we'll call him next. Mr. Cheney. That's okay. There you go. Take two. The taxi driver here in Santa Rosa duly licensed by the ordinances here. We come to speak about Uber and Lyft who have been grabbing a lot of our business. They're apparently completely unregulated by, as far as I know, anybody. They grab fares in front of us. They visit the airport and take fares there, although that's not your purview. If you google the words Uber and Hammer, you'll find out about a horrible incident that took place. Apparently Uber has shrugged their shoulders and said that's not our problem. All we do is arrange rides which is rather disingenuous because clearly they're in the taxi business, then they'd have to play fair like everybody else. So we would ask that you enforce existing rules such as not double parking to pick up fares and pay attention to Uber parking and taxi stands and such. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Mr. Cheney. I'd like the city attorney to comment on that. We do, if an infraction is seen by our police department, it would be the driver would be ticketed, would they not? Yes, that's correct. As we've discussed on a number of occasions, the California Public Utilities Commission is the entity that's regulating licensing and permitting of companies like Uber and Lyft the police department is actively enforcing if those vehicles are parking in designated taxi zones or if they're double parking and Lieutenant Navarro is here if you have a specific question for him about that. Thank you. I think you've answered my question. Council, any further questions? Mr. Waisaki. Is it possible, Madam City Attorney, that we could have this discussion in a future agenda? I do have some sympathy for our local licensees. They went through our process and we required them to jump through some hoops and now they've got another competitor that just, you know, hasn't gone through those same hoops. I know that I've heard in the past that the PUC is the one taking it up but perhaps we could consider a resolution of the PUC that this is really usurping local authority. I think you could certainly authorize the mayor to send a letter to the Public Utilities Commission and I think it's been a problem here in the City of Santa Rosa. I'd also urge the taxi drivers that they can file complaints directly with the Public Utilities Commission and let them know of those items. They're continuing to make more rule regulations which we are following and certainly understand the concerns and are sympathetic to the concerns of the taxi drivers but the state has preempted that field so far. So the other option is to urge other to be some local regulation of that. Thank you. Vice Mayor. At some future date can we get some data regarding how many citations have been issued regarding double parking or using taxi zones? Yeah, I've asked staff to actually in response of this to put together sort of an encapsulation of what is happening in the enforcement and we're going to get that information out to the Council. Thank you. I've been in contact with staff at Senator McGuire's office regarding interpretations as to how far the city can regulate and it might be appropriate for us to have a future discussion about things that we can regulate. It is some interpretations that it is possible for us to regulate up to what the CPUC regulates that one of the examples given to me by liaison was that we could require the background checks to be on file with our city for the Uber and Lyft drivers. So there may be some things that we can do to level the playing field and I would really like us to be able to find out more about that and I would like an opportunity to share that information as I'm finding it out. So it would be if we can have the city manager check and see what the current status is. I can share what I have with the city manager. That would be great and then we can affirm that and then go forward. If there's something more we can do. Thank you very much. I feel considerable sympathy for folks who are doing it the right way. I never thought that technology was going to affect our taxicabs. Mr. Meyerson. Please. Thank you very much. So you guys all got my letter. Pretty much said everything. These guys there's certain things in the law. I've done a lot of research. There's 132 cities fighting Uber and Lyft in America right now. Nobody's winning but there is certain things that can be done. I spoke with the officer right there about it on the street one day. But they're double parking and picking up passengers without commercial plates. That's got to be a ticket. A bullet fence. Sometimes three or four met the same time on one block or out there with their flashers for 5, 10 minutes. Stealing all the customers. They're standing in front of bars soliciting. That's against the law. Those are things that we can attack them with without getting into big lawsuits against Uber because I know everybody's afraid of that. But parking in taxi stands. You know, these aren't people doing it for a career. They're not doing it for a living. These are kids. A lot of them are kids or young women that don't know how to drive very well. And that's pointed out by the rollover that happened in Reading where people got killed. The Santa Rosa has to wait until a little kid gets killed like in San Francisco. It's the public safety is a factor. The factor when we you guys started this ordinance was safety for the public. And we're all going along with it. And we're doing our best to try to do it. And I'm the manager of Golden and we have quite a few vans out there and cars. We need help because they're killing us. I mean, it's bad where, you know, we're going to lose our companies. Everybody's going to lose. And I have a mortgage, you know. And it's not fair. So if there's ways to attack it, then we attack it that way. But I really believe that the city has the power to require a permit. And I've read a couple, that's how Nevada is getting them out and keeping them out of the permit. And Uber is not paying the permit. So they're operating illegally and then the officers are taking their cars. And, you know, the Federal Traits Commission is on top of it. They're saying that you guys can't stifle competition or whatever. But they have banned them from every airport in California. So they're not safe. And the reason why they're not allowed at airports is because they're not safe. There's no background checks. These could be criminals driving them. There are criminals driving them. And it's scary. And it's not fair. And I'm paying $300 per car for my insurance. They're paying $300 a year. How can I compete? There's no way to compete with these people. We're paying that high insurance because of the regulations that we were put on in the taxi ordinance. And maybe we can ease up those regulations. Personally, I'm glad that there's good insurance. But there has to be driver permits. There has to be inspections of their cars. Let's see who's driving these people. There's no alcohol testing. There's no background checks. What's going on? You know, why is it all on us? Thank you, Mr. Meyers. And as mentioned by the city attorney, we are required to follow state law. And until they catch up with the city attorney, we will be exactly what you're talking about. Our hands are tied up to a point, but we have our sympathy. And we will do what we can as a city. But right now, permitting is not part of the part, is not on the option list. Not in the state anyway. But hopefully the state laws will start to catch up with your issues. And we will be enforcing them as soon as they do. And we will do what we can. And we need to stop enforcing the parking issues when they are there to observe it, or if you report it in time for them to cite the vehicle. Thank you very much. Should they call 9-1-1 to report a flashing light? Or is there another number you would prefer people to call? What number would you prefer people to call directly? I'll let Lieutenant Navarro address that. So if folks driving taxis see a problem, what number should they call? 9-1-1 is used for emergency services. So the proper number would be to call what we term our non-emergency number, which would be 528-5222. That's 528-5222? Yes. And that goes into our dispatch. And they will dispatch that based on other calls for service. And it goes directly to dispatch. So it's the same people answer the phone, but it's not an emergency. Can folks report license plates to you? Or is that useful in any way? They can. Again, if there's a violation regarding the double parking or use of taxi stands, that's a city ordinance violation or a violation that would be an infraction. And so that has to be done in the officer's presence. But if there's continued issues with transportation network company, then again, as the city attorney said, it's the best way to go about that is to notify the Public Utilities Commission and they can also give us the information so we can keep an eye out for those issues. Again, we've addressed this with our patrol officers and weekend sergeants, and they're aware of the problem, and they will be working on it as they can in between other calls. Thank you. Thanks, Ray. Having no further business to attend to, I will adjourn the meeting. Our workspaces don't have four walls or a desk, but there's a lot to be done to get this place up and running. It takes a big team to cover so much ground. Each space is unique, requiring its own special method of care and service. And it's of utmost importance to see that it happens each day because our workspace is your leisure space. And it includes 950 acres of Santa Rosa. It's the parks, the trees, the fields, the trails, special gathering places, community spaces, and it belongs to everyone. We work for our community. Striving to improve quality of life. We provide family experiences, friendly competitions, leisurely evenings, and places to bond with man's best friend. We create space for celebration, relaxation, and artistic expression. You can learn to serve a ball or learn to serve a meal. Take a walk on a path or walk the plank. We've got beautiful settings, space to show off our history. We have room to roam, we allow for the silly, the serious, the cool. We offer countless ways to work on your health. We keep our youth safe and teach them to keep others safe. We challenge people to want to challenge themselves. We foster creativity, guide athletes, hone passions. We allow for little minds to dream. And we'll keep doing what we do each day because we know that for our community farce made life better. In the middle of everything. Over 90 miles of creeks run through Santa Rosa. Run off from streets, roofs, and parking lots end up in our creeks through the storm drain system. To help protect creeks, keep your street gutters and roadside ditches clear of trash and other pollutants. For more information on the benefits of our creeks and tips on how to enjoy them visit the stormwater and creeks webpage. Have you ever seen a flashing yellow arrow on a traffic light? I'm Rob Sprinkle, traffic engineer for the city of Santa Rosa here today to talk to you about a new type of traffic signal. Beginning in 2013, flashing yellow left turn signals will be installed in some of the intersections in Santa Rosa. Studies show that drivers better understand the need to yield to oncoming traffic with a new flashing yellow arrow signal. These new flashing yellow arrow signals give drivers more chances to make left turns, but more importantly, they stress the need to use caution when turning left. Some drivers may be confused when they see a flashing yellow arrow because they're not exactly sure what to do. Let's run through how these signals operate. The green arrow means you have the right of way to make a left turn. All incoming traffic and pedestrians are stopped. The solid yellow arrow is a warning telling you the light is about to turn red. The red arrow means stop and wait. Now for the new part, a flashing yellow arrow. The flashing yellow arrow means you can make a left turn if there's a safe gap from oncoming traffic. Check for oncoming bicycles and pedestrians attempting to cross the intersection. Always yield to the pedestrians as they have the right of way. If you don't see a gap in traffic, don't take a chance. Just wait until the next green arrow appears. The city of Santa Rosa will be evaluating the sneak technology at locations throughout the city. It will be up to all of us to make sure Santa Rosa is safe. Santa Rosa, out there in the middle of everything. Santa Rosa, out there in the middle of everything. In recreation and parks, the days begin when the sun rises. Most of our work spaces don't have four walls or a desk, but there's a lot to be done to get this place up and running. It takes a big team to cover so much ground. Each space is unique, requiring its own special method of care and service. And it's of utmost importance to see that it happens each day. Because our workspace is your leisure space. And it includes 950 acres of Santa Rosa. It's the parks, the trees, the fields, the trails, special gathering places, community spaces, and it belongs to everyone. We work for our community. Striving to improve quality of life. We provide family experiences, friendly competitions, leisurely evenings, and places to bond with man's best friend. We create space for celebration, relaxation, and artistic expression. You can learn to serve a ball or learn to serve a meal. Take a walk on a path or walk the plank. Beautiful settings. Space to show off our history. We have room to roam, to roll, or to run. We allow for the silly, the serious, the cool. We offer countless ways to work on your health. We keep our youth safe and teach them to keep others safe. We challenge people to want to challenge themselves. We foster creativity, we allow for little minds to dream. And we'll keep doing what we do each day. Because we know that for our community farce made life better. Santa Rosa, out there in the middle of everything. Over 90 miles of creeks run through Santa Rosa. Run off from streets, roofs, and parking lots, end up in our creeks through the storm drain system. To help protect creeks, keep your street gutters and roadside ditches clear of trash and other pollutants. For more information on the benefits of our creeks and tips on how to enjoy them, visit the stormwater and creeks web page. Have you ever seen a flashing yellow arrow on a traffic light? I'm Rob Sprinkel, traffic engineer for the City of Santa Rosa here today to talk to you about a new type of traffic signal. Beginning in 2013, flashing yellow left-hand signals will be installed in some of the intersections in Santa Rosa. Studies show that drivers better understand the need to yield to oncoming traffic with a new flashing yellow arrow signal. These new flashing yellow arrow signals give drivers more chances to make left turns, but more importantly, they stress the need to use caution when turning left. Some drivers may be confused when they see a flashing yellow arrow because they're not exactly sure what to do. Let's run through how these signals operate. The green arrow means you have the right of way to make a left turn. All incoming traffic and pedestrians are stopped. The solid yellow arrow is a warning telling you the light is about to turn red. The red arrow means stop and wait. Now for the new part, a flashing yellow arrow. The flashing yellow arrow means you can make a left turn if there's a safe gap from oncoming traffic. Check for oncoming bicycles and pedestrians attempting to cross the intersection. Always yield to the pedestrians as they have the right of way. If you don't see a gap in traffic, don't take a chance. The green arrow appears. The city of Santa Rosa will be evaluating this new technology at locations throughout the city. It will be up to all of us to make sure we use them safely. Santa Rosa, out there, in the middle of everything. In recreation and parks, the days begin when the sun rises. Most of our work spaces don't have four walls or a desk, but there's a lot to be done to get this place up and running. It takes a big team and a lot of effort. Each space is unique, requiring its own special method of care and service. And it's of utmost importance to see that it happens each day because our workspace is your leisure space. And it includes 950 acres of Santa Rosa. It's the parks, the trees, the fields, the trails, community spaces, and it belongs to everyone. We work for our community. Striving to improve quality of life. We provide family experiences, friendly competitions, leisurely evenings, and places to bond with man's best friend. We create space for celebration, relaxation, and artistic expression. You can learn to serve a ball or learn to serve a meal. Take a walk on a path or walk the plank. We've got beautiful settings, space to show off our history. We have room to roam, to roll, or to run. We allow for the silly, the serious, the cool. We offer countless ways to work on your health. We keep our youth safe and teach them to keep others safe. We foster creativity, guide athletes, hone passions. We allow for little minds to dream. And we'll keep doing what we do each day. Because we know that for our community, parks make life better. Santa Rosa, out there in the middle of everything. Over 90 miles of creeks run through Santa Rosa. Run off from streets, roofs, and parking lots, in our creeks through the storm drain system. To help protect creeks, keep your street gutters and roadside ditches clear of trash and other pollutants. For more information on the benefits of our creeks and tips on how to enjoy them, visit the Stormwater and Creeks webpage. Have you ever seen a flashing yellow arrow on a traffic light? I'm Rob Sprinkel, traffic engineer for the City of Santa Rosa, here today to talk to you about a new type of traffic signal. Beginning in 2013, flashing yellow left turn signals will be installed in some of the intersections in Santa Rosa. Studies show that drivers better understand the need to yield to oncoming traffic with a new flashing yellow arrow signal. These new flashing yellow arrow signals give drivers more chances to make left turns. But more importantly, they stress the need to use caution when turning left. Some drivers may be confused when they see a flashing yellow arrow because they're not exactly sure what to do. Let's run through how these signals operate. The green arrow means you have the right of way to make a left turn. All oncoming traffic and pedestrians are stopped. The solid yellow arrow is a warning telling you the light is about to turn red. The red arrow means stop and wait. Now for the new part, a flashing yellow arrow. The flashing yellow arrow means you can make a left turn if there's a safe gap from oncoming traffic. Check for oncoming bicycles and pedestrians attempting to cross the intersection. Always yield to the pedestrians as they have the right of way. If you don't see a gap in traffic, don't take a chance. Just wait until the next green arrow appears. The city of Santa Rosa will be evaluating this new technology at locations throughout the city. It will be up to all of us to make sure we use them safely. Out there in the middle of everything. Santa Rosa, out there in the middle of everything. In recreation and parks, the days begin when the sun rises. Most of our workspaces don't have four walls or a desk. But there's a lot to be done to get this place up and running. It takes a big team to cover so much ground. Each space is unique, requiring its own special method of care and service. And it's of utmost importance to see that it happens each day because our workspace is your leisure space. And it includes 950 acres of Santa Rosa. It's the parks, the trees, the fields, the trails, special gathering places, community spaces, and it belongs to everyone. We work for our community. Striving to improve quality of life. We provide family experiences, friendly competitions, leisurely evenings, and places to bond with man's best friend. We create space for celebration, relaxation, and artistic expression. You can learn to serve a ball or learn to serve a meal. Take a walk on a path or walk the plank. We've got beautiful settings, space to show off our history. We have room to roam, to roll or to run. We allow for the silly, the serious, the cool. We offer countless ways to work on your health. And teach them to keep others safe. We challenge people to want to challenge themselves. We foster creativity, guide athletes, hone passions. We allow for little minds to dream. And we'll keep doing what we do each day because we know that for our community parks make life better. Over 90 miles of creeks in Santa Rosa run off from streets, roofs, and parking lots end up in our creeks through the storm drain system. To help protect creeks keep your street gutters and roadside ditches clear of trash and other pollutants. For more information on the benefits of our creeks and tips on how to enjoy them visit the stormwater and creeks webpage. Have you ever seen a flashing yellow arrow on a traffic light? I'm Rob Sprinkel, traffic engineer here today to talk to you about a new type of traffic signal. Beginning in 2013 flashing yellow left turn signals will be installed in some of the intersections in Santa Rosa. Studies show that drivers better understand the need to yield to oncoming traffic with a new flashing yellow arrow signal. These new flashing yellow arrow signals give drivers more chances to make left turns. But more importantly, they stress the need to use caution when turning left. Some drivers may be confused when they see a flashing yellow arrow to make sure what to do. Let's run through how these signals operate. The green arrow means you have the right way to make a left turn. All oncoming traffic and pedestrians are stopped. The solid yellow arrow is a warning telling you the light is about to turn red. The red arrow means stop and wait. Now for the new part a flashing yellow arrow. The flashing yellow arrow means you can make a left turn if there is a safe gap from oncoming traffic. The vehicles and pedestrians attempted to cross the intersection always yield to the pedestrians as they have the right of way. If you don't see a gap in traffic, don't take a chance. Just wait until the next green arrow appears. The city of Santa Rosa will be evaluating the new technology at locations throughout the city. It will be up to all of us to make sure we use them safely.