 Welcome, everyone, to the October 30th meeting of the Santa Rosa City Council. Thank you for your patience. Ms. Gomez, could we have an announcement of the role, please? Let the record show that all council members are present, with the exception of council member Combs. Thank you. And Ms. Gallagher, do you want to give a report on our closed session? Yes. The council met in closed session on item 2.1 and gave direction to staff. Thank you. Thank you. We have no proclamations or presentations this afternoon. Mr. McGlenn, is there a staff briefing on the fire recovery and rebuild? Not this evening. Thank you. Any report from the city manager? Go ahead, Mr. DeWitt. Hello. My name is Dwayne DeWitt and I'm from Roseland. During the fire recovery, I was speaking with someone from Journey's End and they told me that they believed all of the water infrastructure below the 44 unburned mobile homes had been burnt in the fire. And I thought, well, that seems a bit unreasonable and I know that you folks put a lot of time and effort into researching the burnt plumbing and infrastructure for Fountain Grove. I'm hoping you've done the same thing for Journey's End. I can't find the information online. Perhaps that could be shared with the public. It just seems really unreasonable that fires could burn below mobile homes without the mobile homes catching fire. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Let's see if we can get an answer at a future recovery update. Mr. City Manager, do you have a report tonight? Yes, thank you, Mayor. Couple things from the Recreation and Parks Department. On Saturday, October 20th, 350 families participated in the eighth annual Floating Pumpkin Patch, which was held at the Ridgeway Swim Center. On October 27th, the Rec and Parks Neighborhood Service team hosted a free Halloween bash at Steel Link Community Center for 400 families. The event included a haunted house tour, trick-or-treating carnival gains, and a costume contest. And also on Saturday, 27th, the department hosted its popular Halloween at Howarth Park, trick-or-treating Acton Activity Day. The sold-out event brought 550 children and their families to the park. Sounds like Halloween must be right around the corner. Thank you. Ms. Gallagher, any report from the City Attorney? No. No report this afternoon. Thank you. Thank you. Any statements of abstention from Council members? Yes. Mr. Swayer. Thank you, Mayor. I'll be abstaining from, it's not a very serious one, the 11.3th of September 7th special meetings, Council meeting on this absent. Thank you. Anyone else? And I'll be abstaining on the minutes of October, sorry, August 21st, September 4th, and September 17th. And now we will move on to approval of those minutes. With those exceptions from Mr. Swayer and myself, are there any additions, corrections? We'll show those accepted as submitted with Mr. Swayer abstaining on 11.3, September 7th. And me on the other three. Moving on to our consent items, Mr. McGlynn. Mr. Mayor. I'm sorry. Mr. Mayor, if I may, did not address 10.2. You know what? I turned two pages at the same time. It was optimistic of me. We'll go to Mayors and Council members' reports. Who would like to start? Mr. Rogers. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Three things to report. Last Thursday we had our cannabis subcommittee meeting where we are continuing to work through our conflicts as we move forward. We did have a pretty substantial conversation about setbacks around schools. And I'm sure there will be more that will come to this entity at a later date around that issue. I then also had a different type of community office hours than I usually do. Normally once a month I have office hours out in the public. I had a chance this month to do joint office hours with school board member Ed Sheffield here at City Hall inviting the leadership and debate classes from each of the different high schools to send students to talk to us about what issues they care about, what they're not hearing enough about in the election, sort of how to move forward. So that was an enlightening conversation. And then finally today I had a chance to represent the city to testify before the joint insurance committee over in Napa for the state senate and the state assembly. Specifically I asked them to continue to work on a number of issues moving forward legislation to extend the 18 months of temporary housing assistance that our fire survivors are receiving to review the cascading effects that insurance has had on our rental market as people have been displaced from their homes in favour of fire survivors who are able to pay much more through their insurance to pass legislation eliminating the need to itemise the destroyed personal contents for individuals. That's the McGuire bill from last year. Ban insurance clauses that prevent people from rebuilding smaller on their lots and then to develop tools to help us to rebuild better in other communities. It was a good conversation. That link is public on the senate website and we'll be taking it back to the subcommittee to discuss further action. Thank you. Anyone else? Mr. Mayor, I do want to follow up on the vice mayor's comments related to the cannabis subcommittee. I believe you all received a memorandum from the city attorney's office with some updates on some of that. We had a good discussion at our meeting this last week. Members of the public came and presented their concerns. They have provided some good information for us and they have also are working on providing more question and answer facts on the website so that the community can go there and look at the regulations as they evolve. From that, of course, we will still be examining projects as they come forward. We may see some of those coming before us is what I'm saying. Then beyond that, I was hoping that councilmember sorry to be given a report on his jacket but apparently not. A brief report on my jacket. It has to do with the death of coach Frenchie from Montgomery High School. Forty-five years ago when I was, I called him coach. More recently, I had the honor and the pleasure of calling him friend. He was a great loss to our community and to all of his students. He leaves behind a wife and a family that is going to miss him greatly, as will many people in the community. I wear this jacket in his honor tonight. Thank you. I just wanted to mention that last week I had the opportunity to speak to the local government commission's sustainable energy coalition who had their meeting in Santa Rosa on Thursday morning. This is a group of local government staff. Staff from the California public utilities commission, representatives of investors owned utilities around the state. The message that I gave to them in addition to reporting on the city's recovery from the Tubbs fire was that while I and I think that we support the idea of de-energizing the grid during certain dangerous conditions that can lead to wildfires, that communication needs to be better, notification needs to be better, intergovernment and utility communication needs to be flattened out. So we're getting answers from people who are on the ground with us here in this community and not having those people have to ask San Francisco for answers. Also talked about the need to have some kind of a regional 211 system where people are able to get information easily and quickly from one central point of contact in an emergency. It was a well attended conference and I was glad to be able to pass on some of the comments that we've received from residents of the city post PG&E's first de-energization experiment. Also on Saturday I attended a funeral for Helen Rudy who was a notable figure in our community for 100 years. She died in September at the age of about a hundred and a half I think she would say. Helen was a president of the school board in Santa Rosa. She was the third district representative to the board of supervisors. I also considered her a friend and she was a neighbor and we'll miss Helen Rudy but she made a great impact on this community. With that we'll move on to 10.2.1 which was a request for an agenda item regarding all electric ready ordinance. This was requested by council member Combs who is absent. Council member Tibbets you seconded this. Do you want to add anything at this point? I do have a card on this but what we usually do Mr. Turgeon on these is we're voting to put this on a future agenda and I will let Mr. Tibbets make that motion. Sure I move I guess the item from previous council meeting to pursue all electric ready construction and do I need a second? Second. Yeah oh excuse me and to do a cost analysis of evergreen power. Still seconded. The clerk is getting the other panel. That passes with six votes and that will be on a future agenda. Moving on to the do we need to do the approval of minutes again or are we okay with that? All right now Mr. McGuinn consent. Item 12.1 resolution grant application to the federal emergency management agency for funding of 1512 lead EKG monitors 12.2 resolution approval of purchase order to great Garten tractor incorporated for the purchase of two Holland tractors and diamond flail mowers through NGPA source well cooperative agreements 052417 DMN and 021815 CNH item 12.3 resolution professional services agreement caritas village environmental impact report item 12.4 resolution resolution one the approve approving the downtown action organization is the management organization for the downtown community for benefit district to authorizing the Santa Rosa downtown community benefit district management and disbursement agreement three appropriating general fund and parking district funds to pay city assessment and four authorizing the finance department to disperse assessment funds item 12.5 resolution approval of an exclusive negotiating agreement to extend the negotiations with cornerstone properties for the potential acquisition and development of city of Santa Rosa surface parking lot to located at 521 5th street subject to approval of a disposition and development agreement item 12.6 resolution extension of proclamation of existence of local emergency due to the fires item 12.7 resolution extension of proclamation of local homeless emergency thank you mr. McGlynn are there any questions from the council do we have any cards on this dwayne do it and he'll be followed by Anita Lafellette hello my name is dwayne do it from roseland before I begin I'd like to take a moment for silence for the 11 massacre Jewish people in Pittsburgh and let us not forget that you have to fight Nazis no matter where they may be so what I'd like to bring your attention to on 12.3 is that stand tech has also gotten an opportunity to do research in roseland through a us e p a grant and that a few folks were savvy you could link in with them and try to get even more money for what's known as community wide area planning for brownfields revitalization the old general hospital site has toxics on site because they had a morgue every morgue has freon and freon is a pollutant and I believe that we should be very innovative in approaching how you go about helping the catholic charities to get their project done we could do that by finding extra funding and be more forth forthcoming and dealing with pollution that may be there and catch it before people get upset about certain things secondary to that you have item 12.5 which gives a exclusive right to cornerstone properties and I believe you folks need to be very observant in how the development agreement is undertaken I say this because back in 1996 the w ranch was built in roseland based on a development disposition agreement that promised there would be multifamily affordable housing as part of the project 64 units to be specific but what happened was is the developer basically reneged on that agreement basically violated it and what ended up happening was Burbank housing stepped in and used taxpayers money to do self-help home ownership housing and the apartments weren't built out there you may think it's a small thing but it's had a precedent that's been happening a lot people tend to look at these development disposition agreements and look at like hey whatever we can get away with so I'm hoping that you folks in your role is the oversight for this will make sure that these people definitely guaranteed 100% give us all the affordable housing that they're promising and that be a part of the payment package that they do instead of the taxpayers having to pick it up make sure that you get a fair rate of return on the value of that property taxpayers property can be used in a really good way but only a few folks have a good oversight on it thank you for your time and remember no Nazis in America thank you sir miss Lafellette I just wanted to remind you that we have people homeless on the street and they're dying too as you know the winter is coming up and the winter months are harsh on people who have to live in tents I find them behind bushes behind trees because they're not allowed to have an encampment like we had previously and this is not okay and also the RVs are being pushed around you know it's really easy to get an RV right now I could get one myself for free I'd have to work on this is a new thing because they're out there and they're like giving them away so why wouldn't someone live in it it's an alternative to trying to build enough homes but I also want to let you know that there are a lot of homes for rent yes they're out there all up and down Santa Rosa Avenue there are signs trying to get people to rent Jennings is for rent like you lupa is for rent they just want too much money and so no one can afford them that's the problem and also developers are kicking out old ladies just because their son slept on the couch yes they're being evicted for very little and no one's dealing with these issues that are causing homelessness so I just wanted to remind you brought my tombstones that I'm not allowed to put out but every one of those tombstones is an actual homeless person that's died glad you guys are there thanks thank you miss Lafellette we've got one more card it looks like mr. Cherneth regarding the extension of the proclamation for the fires Genesis 1924 three days before the fires began they were commanded and they happened exactly the day that I said they would and what's happened in this county and in California is people would rather make lawyers or savior as opposed to being on their knees to create our almighty and so it is it'll be further commanded that Sonoma County's alter to oil the Sears Point Raceway will also meet that very same lightning and thunder from beyond beyond and down under and be dispatched and there'll be a no way that any lawyers or media can spin that one and blame it on PG&E PG&E workers have been blamed for these fires and they had almost nothing to do with it you could say that it was the iron rod of God as I said you could say that it's the Hopi prophecy of purification or you could call it the Star Wars technology of lasers and people will argue which one of those three is true they are all true and they will continue until every knee to the earth be remanded I am Peter I am the brother with the keys and this be the law that puts the world to its knees is the 40-day strike which I've shared for 20 plus 25 years and now the whole world's walking a true trial of tears we are the most powerful people on the planet the 40-day strike has begun with the hotel workers strike and those that are in the mood to complain about any issue whatsoever that has to do with the corruption of this system be commanded to join and strengthen this strike to withhold your mortgages and rents get off the fence cease paying into the system I am hell bent in heaven sent and it's time for us to withhold our consent to the very system that is causing us all these pains and I've said before to all you you people that came in here come in here complaining to the city council they're your servants give them the 40-day strike and they will serve you better for they are not in charge of Almighty Creator but the power resides within us all to do the right thing as the most powerful people on the planet I say you here it is so it is done thank you Mr. Chernoff I'm gonna bring it back to the council are there any additional questions of staff all right councilmember Schwedhelm I'm gonna come to you for a motion so I'd move consent items 12.1 through 12.7 away further in the text and your votes that'll pass with five eyes with councilmember combs absent and councilmember Corsi has temporarily stepped away from the days Mr. City Manager 14.1 item 14.1 report fiscal year 2017 18 measure oh annual report Chuck McBride chief financial officer leading a cast of characters honorable vice-mayor's member of the council this is the measure oh annual report for the year that just ended June 30th 2018 so the agenda for tonight I'm gonna give you a very short introduction on the financials for measure oh and then you're going to be addressed by the three main functions of measure oh police department fire department and violence prevention partnership we did invite the oversight committee chair to come tonight on unfortunately he was unable to do to a conflict we deserve if I could get you to speak into the microphone sorry vice-mayor and so we did bring this to the oversight committee on September 26th and so they have seen this report already so the financials for measure oh just to remind you who's passed in 2005 it's a quarter cent additional tax brings in approximately nine point two million dollars per year so you can see that in the right hand column there it's spread out on an allocation of 40% to police 40% to fire and then the remaining 20% to violence prevention and you can see as I said revenues of 9.2 million dollars you can see the 2017 18 expenditures expenditures there in the fourth row overall 8.4 million dollars so in each of those functions we actually added a bit to the fund balance for police fire and violence prevention that can be used in future years just keep in mind that this course and sales tax does sunset in 2025 and then that line that you see there reserved for encumbrances of three hundred and twelve thousand dollars violence prevention will go into that with a little more detail but that was just a encumbrance that was made in the last fiscal year for joy choice grants in this calendar year so you can see the net available fund balance between the three major functions there of 4.8 million dollars at the end of fiscal year 2017 18 and this graph just shows you the strength of that revenue source since this inception in 05 as you would imagine it rises and falls with with the general sales tax for the city but it's been over 8 million dollars for the last five years and sitting all-time high of 9.2 million dollars in 17 18 so at this point I'm going to pass it over to our police chief chief Schroeder vice mayor council members the police department I do this measure of funds supports positions a total of 3.4 from the recap in the police department the trend line revenues and expenditures for the police department the positions that are funded in the police department total of 19 and they cover two different divisions primarily within patrol and our technical service division within our field service our patrol division one lieutenant one sergeant 12 officers to field evidence technicians and one community service officer are funded by measure O in our technical service division a communication dispatchers and our records or police technician is funded this is the results of those specific positions for measure O but the reality is without the funding from measure O there would be programs within the police department that would be dramatically changed without the support of the program any questions council are there any questions for the chief vice mayor council members Tony Gosher fire chief for the city center of it and I'm here to deliver the fire department's presentation so for us the bulk of our cost is salaries and benefits we have nine people in major at this point we have some vehicle expenses and some service and supplies for a few of our stations total in three point four million dollars again this is the the trend line for revenues revenue is exceeding our expenditures which is good so the remaining money goes into a fund balance and these are the positions that that are funded so we have three captains three engineers three firefighters that makes up one engine company for the city of Santa Rosa all of those positions are paramedic trained we have one fire captain that resides in training and we have a battalion chief that's assigned to EMS reason why it says 23% is because back when it was funded it was 25% there's no escalator built in that so that's why you see that position going down and it also pays for paramedics on the two truck companies we got Jesse and San Epps for those six firefighters again this is a slide basically stating what I just went through and what I really want to point out is major oh is is fundamental in helping us build fire stations moving forward we built station 10 station 11 and station 5 with major oh funds we have funding to help fund rebuild station 8 and station 9 as well however we are looking at some of that money to as you all know we're looking at moving station 5 a little bit further west of where it was and that's going to be a little more costly for what we want to do so we're looking at some of the major oh funding to help with that purchase and funding for construction as well so these are stations station 10 which is off of circadian way station 11 off of steel lane and station 5 up a new gate those are the three stations that major oh help fund and then we've added two type one engines which is what I call a structure engine or we call a structure engine and type 3 engine which is a wildland engine which we have up staff today for the red flag event and we have four command vehicles and a swift water rescue trailer that we funded through major oh so as we was looking ahead we continue to develop and refine a strategic plan as you know we went through standards of coverage we've done a strategic plan we're currently looking at doing a staffing study for our department so moving forward that'll that'll help shape how we move forward and there is funding for station 8 station 9 in the south that southeast which is quanta terrace and funding for replacement of the portal buildings at station 11 so station 11 is a temporary building that was had a lifespan of seven to ten years it was built ten years ago and we're still in it so that's one of the stations that we need to rebuild as well and with that I can have to answer any questions council members what oh thanks you for the presentation regarding the looking ahead part you talked about the strap plan those other things is there a timeline a task to that the strategic plan has completed the standards of coverage was pleaded in 2016 and the staffing plan we're going out to bid right now so in best case scenario you were looking at six months for the staffing plan six months from now from now that's what I'm shooting for yes thanks mr. McBride under measure oh we just heard from the chief that we do end up having more revenue come in than expenditure and we put that aside presumably to put into new stations and other projects was there any of that in the police budget as well I seem to remember when we passed the budgets fire was barely above the baseline but police was pretty significantly above the baseline are there future projects that we are also putting dollars in tours that specifically staff by smear within the police budget there was a minor revenue above expenditures but it was due to a position being vacant for a period of time at our point we trend right at the expenditure and revenue line okay and under measure oh it's not problematic for us to allocate funds that end up going into a pot for a further future use so long as they stay within public safety as long as they stay within sudden public safety as vice mayor so is there a limit to that and what I let me ask sort of in another way we this year obviously saw the exponential increase in the city's budget which increased our baseline for both fire and police theoretically could we have kept the staffing models the same and taking that additional dollars and put it into a police and fire for future uses that end up being equipment down the road or undefined I believe you could it's you can allocate as long as you stay within within the realm of what the measure was passed for you're okay to do that so for instance we have surpluses and in all three of the main main areas so the council would have discretion to use that money to budget for other equipment so that's allowable under the measure oh ordinance and I'll just add to that that it cannot supplant anything that we've already done so if we're simply repurchasing the equipment that we've already had that's considered supplanting so it's upgrading new equipment it's got to be an enhancement so if we had to replace engine one we already have engine one we can't use major oh funding to replace that engine because it's already the city asset before major oh interesting it has to be an enhancement is the way I understand major oh okay so theoretically if we were replacing engine one with a fuel efficient engine one we couldn't take the differential between the original engine one and the increase that I don't know we would have to look at that by smear I was curious we'll move on thank you so I'm Kahlua Barnes the director of community engagement and the interim director for recreation parks and so we'll be got we have Jason Carter here the program manager for the violence prevention partnership and Kelly Magnuson who's the deputy director for recreation and we have a little gift of a 17-year-old who's participating in a program that'll say a few words as well so I won't go over it here since it's already been mentioned but essentially 20% of the measure oh actually goes to violence prevention part of that money is in the partnership and actually part of it is in programs and neighborhood services and recreation department and so here's the split between the two departments in terms of how the allocation the programming that's done and normally what we've done in the past is the two departments actually come together and kind of develop the plan for how we use this 20% so it's it's not an even split and each of them will tell you more about what the programs are doing in their respective areas here the trend line you see revenue and expenditures and the one place at 1314 where we see a spike and expenditures that actually just represents when we went from a single year grant model to multi-year two-year programs and then with that I'll pass it on to Jason Carter please vice mayor council members the partnership staff continued to enhance alignment with several community initiatives such as the funder circle health actions cradle-to-career the California cities violence prevention network and more recently the portrait of a graduate design team and upstream investments policy team gang prevention awareness week is focused on educating our residents on the city's collaborative efforts to reduce youth and gang violence in partnership with all of our community based organizations during this fiscal year we also started the planning for our first annual gang prevention awareness month we wanted to separate some of the activities so our partners could better enhance and support other partner agency-led organization events I don't want to give away all the surprises for next year's much anticipated Mejro annual report but we did mix up some of the events we had a wrecking parks three-on-three youth basketball tournament we also had a Rosalind unity run in partnership with land paths I think it's a great way for our residents to have much more opportunity to celebrate our neighborhoods and community we also funded 11 community-based organizations through the grant choice grant program and continued our guiding people successfully referral program here's a snapshot of the cumulative outcomes from the choice cycle 8 report and as you can see evidence of our upstream alignment is shown on the right side of the chart reflecting services to ages 0 to 17 and as described in the scorecard strategic recommendations the partnerships public health model supports a two-generational approach with 14% of choice services supporting our parents of at-risk youth and as mentioned earlier here are some of the metrics from the GPS component through calendar year 2017 one of the highlights of this model is that 88% of youth that were previously on probation that received at least three months of services of GPS did not re-offend that is a statistic we are very much proud of because these are high-risk offenders that are receiving services from the city San Rosa also to wrap it up it is with great pleasure that the partnership staff introduced a council a young man that received services from a choice funded agency the Boys and Girls Club of Central Sonoma County's reach program Jose Morfinn vice mayor and council members my name is Jose thank you for having me speak today and I am one of the breach members before breach I was a child kid I didn't really care about like consequences or like rules in general which ended up leading me getting expelled from my district school and then from there I got sent to Amorosa Academy at Amorosa Academy I had no confidence in myself I was disappointed of how low I had sunk in and felt like giving up I had no hope I thought I was done for and then I met reach they set they helped me set my goals up to get back into district and help me like find myself and help me find what I want to do after like high school and that is to go to the JC and then become a firefighter through there they help me regain confidence and they pushed me outside of my comfort zone they also helped me follow a lot of my passions that I had before that I incredibly active and without reach I wouldn't be here I wouldn't have learned my lesson or matured the way that I would have done it before and then just thank you for funding reach and the program makes a difference for other kids like me it gives us a second chance to get back up on our feet thank you for your support and your time thank you I want you to know that you'll also find great opportunities at the police department as well you know say your say your your side's higher okay he did say that's plan B and just to be clear clear reach is actually a program put on by the boys and girls club so they they're one of the choice nine grantees and he's been participating in that program and now we have Kelly Magnuson with recreation parks where the balance of the measure of funds are spent on violence prevention in the neighborhood services program good afternoon vice mayor and council members Kelly Magnuson I oversee the neighborhood services section of the measure of funding and we provide programs year-round to school-age youth and some teens and when our goal is also to hire staff right out of those programs we started off the school year strong with programs but then the fire hit so our permanent staff became emergency workers at our shelter at the Finley Center so we were down for a few weeks not doing programs last year but we continued on and we were able to offer several sports programs they're listed up there our most popular being the junior Warriors basketball program our cheerleading program and then the the Giants baseball and softball programs during the school year we have after-school sites across the city and kids come straight from school we have a strong partnership with Burbank housing we had two sites last year and then we had two of our own sites at the Apple Valley and Valley Oak rec center and then this year we've added four more Burbank housing sites so we're really excited to be offering six Burbank housing sites this year so the children arrive after school directly to the program they get homework help they do arts and crafts they go on field trips and then they also participate in our sports programs during the summer we offer what's called recreation sensation it's a full-day program for elementary-aged kids at different schools in Santa Rosa and then we also offer a teen gym program for middle school students at Santa Rosa middle school those are very popular programs we wish we could offer more of them the kids are there for seven weeks out of the summer and there's about 140 kids at each site and then I have a little three-minute video I'd like to show that tells the story better than I do so if you could just bear with me I'll change the laptop here to log back on services is a section of recreation parks that provides low-cost affordable recreational programs to families in need in Santa Rosa and the emphasis is to reduce youth delinquency gang activity just by giving kids something positive to do a positive setting they can learn and grow be exposed to positive role models and we want to set them on that right path of going to college getting a job not getting involved in gang activity drug use alcohol use teen pregnancy right after school it was definitely a somehow you spend my time a lot it was something I look forward to and certain areas these programs are necessary because we work in high-risk areas so programs like this for me kept me out of trouble and gave me something I'll turn it to do after school so it's a safe space where kids can come get help on their homework play games play sports outside be exposed to positive role models we're exposing them to creative activities and different activities that they might not be able to do at home there's a lot of potential activities to take these kids to a next level an opportunity that otherwise but you're nice coaches I want to help you each and every practice and every she was scared up first and now she loves it she doesn't feel like you know I can't do it now she feels like even if she tries she can do it to provide our youth with a safe space to learn and grow and become the best people they can be this is done through the activities we run whether it's physical activities or academic activities but we're really trying to get kids to use their bodies and use their minds and expand their social skills and give them that self-confidence to feel that they're worth it that they can pursue higher education or pursue a career you know make positive life choices that's the end of our presentation are there any questions thank you council any questions council member Oliver's yeah I just wanted to make a comment related to this this part of the presentation is we've been at this for a long long time and I think we've really evolved as a community and how we address youth and gang violence I think we started this officially back in 2001 maybe 2002 well before measure O was passed that helped bring forward a lot of wonderful programs of course building that capacity was very important and one of the things for us when we started it was building capacity to respond to things that we were not used to responding to because primarily we relied on our local law enforcement agencies to do that for us but we still see them as obviously a strong partner but we've developed what we've developed more and more partnerships and hence the renaming of the mayor's game to miss a task force to the partnership that continues to grow my point is that we've evolved over time over the many years really struggling to find out what we needed to do in our community to make that change we were in a very serious crisis back in the late 1990s or the 2000s here in Santa Rosa across the nation but because we've taken ownership of these issues in our communities and are engaging our youth we've I think we made some quite a bit of progress my point is I hope that over time we're able to reach out and demonstrate to the community what we have been done because things are different our approaches are different we weren't talking a lot about trauma informed approaches when we first started back in the 2000s the the heavy engagement of our health care professionals focusing on issues related to income and housing and health care all these underlying factors that contribute to our community's youth education of course we've always known as is one of one of our one of our silver bullets if you will because we know that and we keep our kids engaged in schools help them succeed and help them graduate they're less likely to be involved in high-risk behavior and criminal activity so this is a great stuff I think we sense it we sense that Santa Rosa is different than it was back when we started and that's a good thing so hopefully over time we're able to share with the community what these what their tax dollars have brought to them as far as safety and engagement from our community really working towards building a safe community that does not produce crime so congratulations to all of you and of course all the great things from the police department of the fire department will support our efforts as well so thank you any other questions mr. Rogers yeah I apologize I know that this question has been asked before but if you could go back to slide 22 and just remind us of the 1.5 million there's a decision that's made on how much of that goes into the violence prevention partnership and how much of that goes into recreation and parks can you talk a little bit about how that decision is made and who's in the room when it's made so the question is what is the process force arriving at the expenditure between the two programs what I've been here for about a year and what we've done in the past is actually each group kind of starts with the programs that they're already developing and then we come together and see if we sustain them at that same level what I'm expecting to do going forward to probably starting in January after we have a better sense of the budget is start to think about at least now with the with the two departments under the same leadership is to see whether or not the current distribution of funds between them is the one that makes sense and want to kind of come up with some recommendations and then meet with the oversight committee to see what that looks like and then the second thing that I'm really interested in doing is start to see how the plane lands assuming that we're not successful in 2025 and kind of a two path or success continues and then what if and so hopefully when we're coming back we'll have a better sense of decisions that are more that are more updated between the two programs no and I appreciate that that's actually where I was going with this is if you could bring this sort of a discussion to the oversight committee to talk about maybe putting additional dollars into recreation parks given some of the other cuts that we know that they have sustained a lot larger than some of the departments that maybe there are programs that fall into this category as well that are extremely effective that we need to continue to sustain funding for understood thank you I do have a card on this Dwayne DeWitt hello my name is Dwayne DeWitt I'm from Roseland I was an inspiring presentation I remember well the gang situation that we have been facing in Roseland for decades I wanted to double check on a couple of things one is that station 8 we call it the Roseland fire station somber bank Avenue and there's talk that it may be replaced I would hope that you have community members involved in the planning of where the new station may be and I'd ask you to save the old building we consider it historic and if you wanted to perhaps find a way to reuse it it could be veterans housing such as you've just done with the Benton Street fire station a Roseland veterans village would be a nice touch if you will then just now the last presentation especially the video pointed out that these programs guiding people successfully has been helping young people well and the young gentleman that spoke to us let us hear how things happen for him in a positive way it makes me want to ask you to reach out and get more young people in our community that are struggling and give them the opportunity to perhaps in turn and be a part of the mix with the recreation and parks department parks actually need care taking almost every day the Roseland neighborhood that we have over on Burbank Avenue we have to go through there almost every day to try to keep it nice and it would be really a wonderful experience for young people I think if they were a part of the cow grip and reach programs and doing something that could lead to them being employed perhaps with the city on these types of outdoor activities it's the type of thing that I know myself and others when we were young would have jumped at the chance something to be outdoors and get paid to do something positive so I'm hoping you'll look into that I wanted to thank Mr. Carter also because it wasn't mentioned earlier but on Saturday the 27th over in Roseland Recreation and Parks Department was helping with make a difference day and there was a nice event at Bayer Farm and the folks from the city were out there and folks went over through a number of smaller neighborhoods in Roseland including over to the neighborhood and did some positive things and got to have a nice barbecue afterwards and I was told by the community action partnerships community-building initiative people the part of the funding came from the city the violence prevention partnership and I was like wow that's wonderful we could never get a dime now we got some time so I'm a happy guy and I hope they keep coming back visit us in Roseland and remember the neighborhood and congratulations to you young man all the best to you in the future thank you Mr. Witt bring it back to the council any final comments on this Mr. Schwedholm I did have one question though it is my understanding Recreation and Parks does hire several youth especially during the summer can you quantify that Kelly at all there's about 40 that we hire annually 40 is the high in the summer and then about 30 through the school year yeah thank you because I know it's been a very successful program and it's great seeing some of the opportunities that the kids are getting so I also do want to compliment all three departments that are made presentations today it's one of those things I think councilmember Oliver has mentioned it I don't believe the city of Santa Rosa is in crisis with either it's you know fire related items police related items or violence prevention recreation items but it's great and thank you Jose for coming and sharing your thoughts there because unless someone actually knows you a lot of members of our community don't realize this work goes on 24-7 we're making a difference in the lives of the kids and this is that return for me that return of the investment of the voters when they voted for measure out here that it's not right in front of your face like some other communities are you know counting their success by the you know the reduction in their juvenile homicide rate that's not Santa Rosa because been working on it and also the strategy of the partnership is taken from this public health model where we have you know 17 different indicators of success it's that upstream investment in all the partners including the Boys and Girls Club we're all in this together so thank you for this presentation it's great to hear this so with that I will make a motion to accept the measure out annual report for for fiscal year 2017-2018 second and your votes it has six eyes thank you very much let's go to SPF some cards and go back to our public comment period a few cards here we'll start with Gabriel fights I'm pronouncing that correctly followed by Dwayne DeWitt go ahead Gabriel my name is Gabriel feats and I'm a student at rinkin valley charter school each year eight million tons of plastic goes into the ocean and which is equivalent to dumping one of our city garbage trucks full of plastic into the ocean once every minute and four out of five plastic water bottles are thrown away and just one plastic water bottle takes a thousand years to biodegrade and supplying America with enough plastic water bottles for just a year it takes 47 million gallons of oil marine biologists that study it trash and how it affects the ocean and wildlife in the ocean are sounding the alarm the only reason we really have plastic water bottles is out of laziness metal water bottles are actually way better for the environment and for your wallet because you get more use out of it and we've done already a lot to ban plastic bags and some brave cities are doing it the amount to ban the plastic straws so I think that we should be the brave city to ban plastic water bottles thank you for your time thank you Gabriel well done Dwayne DeWitt followed by Peter Chernef hello my name is Dwayne DeWitt I'm from Roseland and on Saturday the 27th in Roseland there was a really good effort by a number of different people throughout the community who typically would not know each other or interact but that we've been doing something called make a difference day that day has done nationwide and we've only been doing it for about 11 years specifically in Roseland but it's begun to reverberate beyond just the folks that originally put it together and the community action partnership has been able to entice funders from Kaiser Permanente and other organizations due to the fact we have a Southwest Area health action team and what I wanted to kind of stress to you folks is the opportunity for the city to capitalize upon that partnership this was the first time I'd seen the city workers out there but they told me it was the second time they had specifically been a part of this effort we always see Alistair Blythus and the Creek stewardship person because we're always down trying to clean that specific area this would be a wonderful thing now for the future no matter if you have any more taxes or not this is the kind of thing that you can utilize just an interaction between your city staff and community members to achieve a positive outcome there at the Roseland neighborhood where we do our best to try to steward that area we find that we can frequently work with one or two city staff employees from recreation and parks and we can get some positive things going there's been some turnover and advancement on the part of various staff members and we'll have to reestablish some of those connections with new people moving in to the new positions but I'm hoping that after this election those of you who are still on the council will welcome if there is anybody new that person oh yeah there should be one new person excuse me but you'll welcome them and you'll say hey look over here in that disadvantaged underserved overburdened community of Roseland it's we annexed a year ago we're trying to get a better working relationship with a very diverse community not just one set of people per se like the community action partnership or that type of thing to school district but people throughout that large community of almost 15,000 16,000 official residents probably more with the uncounted thank you for your time Peter Trineff followed by Travis Summers is Peter gone Travis Summers hello my name is Travis Summers I am a student from RBCS Sequoia and I'm here to talk about speeding in residential areas around my home on a Monty Bertie Drive there has been many cars many cars going at least twice the speed of the speed limit there and I think that many actually lots of students come on that road from school they walk home and it's not safe for students walking on that road with cars going at least twice the speed limit thank you thank you Travis Gregory Fearon thank you Mayor Corsi and members of the council you and I have shared for a long time an ambition to try to get everyone in the city engaged with the city so I just want to provide you an update on what homeless action has been doing over the last month to try to better engage with the city and the county and provide you with as many ideas about what you can do with the homeless emergency assistance funds those 12 million dollars that your members of the council and the city and the county and Petaluma will finally have to decide probably around the middle of December on October 12th we had a conference out at the Center for Spiritual Living in which a hundred people came and shared their ideas all afternoon we taped it we tried to provide as much information and will continue to give you the results of that this Saturday we're having the second of three planned meetings to try to bring to the city all of the ideas we can in order to make the best possible use of those funds by your members it's a meeting on Saturday at 5 30 here in this council chambers Sharon Lee who's the executive director of low-income housing Institute up in Seattle is coming down to share her innovations and homeless housing solutions the third of these open collaborative meetings that we're planning is again here in this council chambers on December 1st in which we'll hopefully invite as many Santa Rosas to come in a collaborative process to share their ideas about what it is they think ought to be done to house homeless in addition to our three meetings there's also as you probably know a meeting in Sebastopol this Sunday over in their community center from I believe it's one to three in which Sebastopol is asking their citizens to come tell them how they should be spending the portion of money from the 12 million that they believe they need in order to house their homeless there are many other meetings we're trying to put together but I wanted to let you know that those are the official meetings we're trying to help you have we're also as a group organizing and participating in all of the continuum of care quarterly meetings the new leadership council meetings we've signed up for the tech advisory committee we are fully participating in partnership with all of you in order to try to get the best ideas out on the floor so that when you finally have to decide you've got enough to think about and we hope that we've been a real partner in that the one other thing I wanted to also take the three minutes to remind you is that this sat this Friday is Dia de los Muertos it's a day of the dead and we have lots of tombstones for homeless who've died in Santa Rosa and their surroundings this one's for Donald O'Rourke he died on College Avenue 51 years old thank you thank you that's all the cards I have and with that we will adjourn in the memory of coach Frenchie from Montgomery High School the stadium is named after coach Frenchie at Montgomery he was synonymous with Vikings football and he retired as the winningest coach in the Redwood Empire high school history adjourn in his honor thank you