 The hour of 1045 having arrived the Santa Cruz City Council meeting is called order and the clerk will call the roll Thank You mayor council members Newsome present Brown here What can here? Grinner present Helen Terry Johnson as it Vice mayor Golder here and Mayor Keely here a quorum having been established. We will move to recording in progress Excuse me Okay We will move the item regarding the city council's closed Session this would be the opportunity for anyone who is with us today either in chambers or on the phone Who would like to comment on any of the items as published in our agenda relative to closed session? Let me ask if there's anyone first who are in chambers with us today. I See in here. No one wants to comment on this miss bush. Do we have anyone online? We do not know we do not The items that will be Discussed in closed session are on the closed session portion of the public agenda What we will do at this point is we will adjourn this meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council into closed session We will return Upon our work in closed session. We will be here either at 12 30 Or as soon thereafter as we finish our closed session at this point. We stand adjourned in closed session The hour of 12 30 haven't arrived the city council is back in session following our closed session Earlier in the day We are on item number three on our agenda today Mayor sorry In our regular session click we'll call the roll. Thank you mayor council members Newsom President Brown here what can hear Brunner present Calentary Johnson as it vice mayor Golder here and Mary Culey here Quorum having been established we will proceed item number three. This is a mayoral proclamation declaring June 27th as LGBTQIA plus youth and allies leadership day in the city of Santa Cruz and it is a Pleasure every year in this welcoming wonderful community of ours to Welcome that community into our presence here in City Hall and To give you a proclamation and thank you for your courage and your presence in our community. It is indeed a Privilege that you have the courage to stand up be yourself And it's our privilege to honor you in that regard I'm going to come down and hand you this proclamation and I would like to invite you to make Comments once I have done that So mayor Caley and city council members I know some of you and my name is Stewart Rosenstein I am the chair of the queer youth task force and a co-chair of the queer youth leadership awards that now and it's 26 year As some of you might know the queer youth leadership awards is now in its 26 year It started here in Santa Cruz at a little restaurant called Hobie's it doesn't exist anymore and We've been honoring and celebrating queer youth leaders and their allies All these years and it's become a really beautiful event many of you are there and attend and It's just really important that in Santa Cruz the city of Santa Cruz A proclamation like this that's quite beautiful and very lovely and very important It sends a wonderful message to our youth leaders It sends an important message to the teachers to the GSA and the saga advisors in the middle schools and in the high schools And now in the elementary schools. It also sends a really important message to parents and guardians So this is really important and very beautiful and just very thankful We have some of the people who were involved with the queer youth leadership awards here Brian who's a UCSC intern who is one of our assistant coordinators? And then we have two students one of them a nominee one of them an awardee and they would like to say a few words again Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much Welcome. Good afternoon. Good noon. Thank you for having us. I'm Brian Hannaway. He's him I'm a recent UCSC graduate and I've been working with Stuart for about I think six months now and the career task force and It's just been an honor to be a part of QILA I think that the work that they're doing to really bring Youth that put effort into advocating for themselves for their peers for their families in the spotlight of Santa Cruz is really important and it's amazing to see them get the recognition that they deserve as well as QILA for the Proclamation that you've given us today. And so yeah, I just want to say thank you so much for having us And I think that this shows that Santa Cruz really is an amazing place to live Thank you so much Please good afternoon Hi, my name is Luca Brown. I'm 17. I use he him and they them pronouns I'm homeschooled and I do a lot of my advocacy work in the city of Santa Cruz I'm incredibly grateful to have been a nominee for the career leadership awards And I'm incredibly grateful that we as queer people have this outlet and we are recognized and validated in this community And I'm incredibly grateful of all the fighting that everyone including allies does for us especially considering the current climate in this country and how trans people like me are Treated and what we are faced with I want to I want us to be given the visibility to highlight our oppression and the things that we face and this applies Not only to officials, but also the average citizen in their household Centrality is neutrality in the face of marginalization and you have the power to oppose what Your people are faced with every day Thank you so much Good afternoon Good afternoon. My name is Aiden Parton. I am 13 years old. I'm going into eighth grade at Branson Forty Middle School I work with youth at the Downtown Santa Cruz Boys and Girls Club. I volunteer. I also am the president or co-president of the Musco Queers at my school, which is our GSA And it's been such an honor to work with all the amazing people to make that made this a thing And it's just really cool to see the recognition that to give queer youth The recognition to for the work that we've been doing and I just want to thank everybody and thanks to it It's been really amazing to work with him. Thank you Thank you so much sir. I just want to end with the name Terry Kavanaugh who founded the queer youth leadership awards in 1998 he is from Santa Cruz now lives up in Oregon and I think he would be proud of what the city is doing I also want to highlight the rainbow flag and the trans flag that you have here I thought they were outside and I'm sure they are but I didn't know they were sitting behind you And that's really touching to me a middle-aged gay man that didn't come out into his 30s I just want to thank you very much. Thank you Well, thank you all of you so much for being here and the fine work that you do in the community on Justice and civil rights. Thank you very very much for being here today Questions We're all just so happy to see you here We are on item number four, this is a mayoral proclamation declaring July as Parks and Recreation Month and Unsurprisingly we have mr. Elliott here Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Thank you very much mayor Keely and city council members It's my pleasure to be here very grateful for the opportunity To kick off July as Parks and Recreation Month So with me are a couple Parks and Rec staff here as well as our Parks and Recreation Commission chair Christina Glavis And our vice chair Holly Locatelli is back here as well So I just want to mention you all look great in your hats. We've got a lot of work to do out in the parks Yes So we would welcome you guys to get involved in the field with us after the Presentation today at some point but appreciate the time very much I'd like to hand it over to our Commission chair Christina Glavis to share a few remarks and then our recreation Superintendent to remain head and Jones to share some remarks as well. Thank you the chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission is recognized. Good afternoon Thank you for having us Each year since 1985 Americans have celebrated Park and Recreation Month during the month of July to recognize the importance of parks and recreation in Establishing and maintaining the quality of life for and contributing to the physical Economic and environmental well-being of communities Through efforts led by the National Recreation and Park Association The US House of Representatives passed an official resolution for Park and Recreation Month in 2009 This year the National Recreation and Park Association theme for Parks and Recreation Month is where community grows in Recognition of the vital role parks and recreation professionals play in bringing people together Providing essential services and fostering growth of communities and now on to Trey Thank you Commissioner Klavis Council excuse me. Can you? Thank you So I'm going to conduct an informal poll with council right now How many of you have been to a park within the last 30 days? Raise your hand keep your hands up. How many been to a park within the last week? How many have been to a park within the last day? And how many have been in a park in the last hour? Technically that last one was a trick question because technically city hall is a park Next slide please Technology so this ties into Our mission which is to build a healthy community to foster equity and to better the environment Visiting parks are part of that value and we have and hold in the community The services that parks and recreation professionals provide is vital for our healthy community and well-being From protecting open spaces and natural resources to providing activities and resources for all Parks and Recreation Month encourages everyone to reflect on the exceptional value and parks and recreation professionals bring to our varied communities Next slide please For this parks and recreation month. We encourage Community to visit Santa Cruz parks rec comm to find ways to participate and explore this month's activities a few highlights We want to share are the Tuesday nightlife content series at the wharf on July 11th The team glow in the dark beach party on July 14th and the wildly popular tree walk with our urban forester Leslie Keedy on July 29th. We hope to see you in the parks So the last slide here is our one more This month our challenge to the city council into the community is to snap photos of your parks and recreation adventures post them to Facebook Instagram Twitter whatever your socials are and use these hashtags hashtag July's Park to Rick month and hashtag Where community grows to officially kick off the 2023 Parks and Recreation Month. We've shared with you some goodies in your swag bag What you guys are all representing right now. Thank you And we also ask that the council and the mayor if we can approach the dias to take a photo And we'll post this to our social media as well the presentations for the presentations Good that well. Thank you very much for being here. We will we'll do what you've asked here Thank you, mr. Mayor just a moment and when I do that all when we walk down there will Hand you madam chair The proclamation from the city and thank you all so very much. We I think I think I speak for the council and saying that In the city of Santa Cruz with not only our 66,000 residents, but the hundred thousand people that come over Eight months of the year who come over here to enjoy our city a very big part of it is the wonderful welcoming well maintained Seriously staffed by wonderfully competent people our park system and we are so grateful to you It is one of the parts of our city that we take pride in not the sin of pride But the pride of a job well done We know that we can and should do more on this and we will as time moves along But thank you so much for the great work that you do that makes life in this community Greener happier and more fun every day. Thank you for that All right With cameras Thank you, Bonnie Yeah And thank you for that but while we are still on this item, I'd like to recognize council member Watkins I just wanted to before the parks team leaves I just wanted to say thanks to also the folks who couldn't make it because they're at the junior guards competition This morning, and he was like, this is the first one I'm missing So a shout out to those folks in addition to the entire team. So anyways, thank you. Thank you All right We are on Item for I do not have announcements To make at this point statements of disqualification any member have a statement of disqualification Ms. Brunner Let's see item number 29 as it relates to my employment other statements of disqualification All right seen and hearing none deletions Consent agenda Let me see if miss bush we do have Thank you mayor not to the consent agenda, but item 30 which is the David way appeal The appellant has emailed us to let them know let us know that they are withdrawing their appeal So it will be removed I want to make sure since this is noticed on our agenda and the appellant has withdrawn We need to take no action of any kind. It is simply has disappeared off of our agenda Okay, so if you were here or someone who is online was here on that Wants to comment on the item the item has been removed at the request of the appellant Let me Those of you unfamiliar with our consent agenda The consent agenda is a group of items items 6 through 27 That are all Going to be acted on upon one vote. So you're going to have an opportunity to comment or pull such items miss bush Thank you. Sorry. We just need to let the city attorney give his report out. Yes Mr. City attorney Thank you mayor keely members of the city council There are several real property negotiation items on This morning's closed session agenda Item one was the city owned property of approximately 8.15 acres Located on mount herman road in scott's valley The parties are the city of santa cruz and the city of scott's valley Item two is the city owned property at 3 3 3 front street here in santa cruz Negotiating parties the city and the homeless garden project under negotiations the price in terms of payment for a potential lease Item three is property located in unincorporated santa cruz county Along firehouse lane Owners are seashore a partnership Robert our written house and edith and written house and denoyer f o laughlin and nancy t o laughlin Negotiating parties are the city of santa cruz And the property owners just mentioned Item four is real property at 6000 lama drona drive scott's valley Uh Owner of that property scott's valley fire protection district city is negotiating Terms of purchase of an easement and a temporary construction easement on that property Item five is real property on sims road at 175 sims road Owners craig yates and nicole yates co-trustees Again, city's negotiating potential price in terms of payment of a of an easement Last item on the closed session agenda was pending litigation two items of litigation Case entitled city of santa cruz versus the regents of the university of california at all Currently pending in the santa cruz county superior court Second item regents of the university of california at all versus the city of santa cruz Apparently pending in the sixth appellate district court of appeal There was no reportable action on any of those items Thank you, sir Madam clerk anything on the council calendar? No, nothing. Thank you Item six through 27 inclusive are the items on our consent calendar today. Let me ask if there are Items that council members would like to either pull or comment on We'll start on my left miss bruner Comment on 14. Yes question on 16 That was it 14 and 16. These are both comments, correct 14 and 16 one comment one question. Okay got it 23 comment 23 I miss con tar johnson madam vice mayor good Miss walkins miss brown. I'd like to pull item nine and I have a Comment on item 22 And a question on 20 which I've received an answer to but I just want to make sure that the folks in the public who asked Got an answer. So I'll ask that question. I want to make sure then we do the one more time for me So, okay, just pulling nine pulling nine and then a question on 20 and a comment on 22 Very good. And uh, mr. Newsom. Okay All right, let's start back through this on Questions and comments Let me go to miss bruner. Let's start with 14 Uh 14, let's see. This is first amendment to A graffiti abatement services agreement with graffiti protective coatings ink under economic development department and um this is An item to authorize a continued agreement with the great graffiti protective coatings ink for graffiti abatement throughout The city and one of the main ways that the public and We can report graffiti is through our city crisp app the community request for service portal And I just wanted uh, my comment is that The graffiti protective coatings um have done an excellent job and I'm really happy to see this continued agreement um, their response is quick and timely they remove very large graffiti tags on private and public buildings and infrastructure and I just want to say thank you miss bruner uh on 16 16 an award contract for safety footwear Um, this item is to award a contract for citywide purchases for safety footwear to beck shoes ink Campbell, california for a three-year term um, and then my question on this, uh Let's see. Who would I ask? City manager, it's under City It's finance. I can answer or elizabeth millway is also on okay, and she could answer. Thank you. Um, my question. I just In the agenda packet the I'm just curious the if there were other Bids other options within the city of santa cruz in order to support A local business and to keep that tax revenue here in this city That's a really good question. Thank you, uh, elizabeth millway a purchasing manager finance department Thank you mayor and council for the question So in this scenario, we are utilizing the media code that allows us to piggyback using a cooperative purchasing mechanism Which is allowed for in our municipal code Bex is although we are utilizing a contract that was bid out through santa clara county There is a local bex store that we will be utilizing to procure The safety footwear if an employee chooses that option This is one of two contracts for shape safety shoes. Both are locally procured One is at the bex store In capitol and the other is the red wing The contract that we have in place. So both are local businesses Is that the red wing on soquel avenue in santa cruz? It is. Okay. Thank you Thank you that answers my question. Thank you councilmember collin charry johnson on item 23 Thank you. Yes. This is the west cliff drive stabilization project I just wanted to acknowledge and thank public works and The entire team for the tremendous amount of work you've done to get us here. Um, I know this had to be expedited because of funding Restrictions. So just want to acknowledge and thank you for your work Thank you councilmember councilmember brown How about we go to item 20 where you had a comment? Got it. So actually question on 20 and I want to thank lee butler and matt starkey for getting back to me on this question Which was related to this is the contract amendment with Emily horn for downtown expansion planning work and So some folks in the community are wondering and concerned about the traffic study portion in particular And the fact that we use weekday Peak we do use peak uh morning and evening or afternoon For weekdays, but or do not include weekend traffic and Given the location it feel where there is a major influx of weekend traffic It Want to know why we're not looking at that. Thanks Good afternoon. Good afternoon matt starkey transportation manager So our traffic study guidelines is where we get the requirements for these These applications that come in for development And we choose the weekday afternoon peak hour because that comes from our general plan In our general plan, we analyze these different trips And we evaluate that growth as we Increase development in the city. So those differences we are looking at as we increase growth are only calibrated to the weekday afternoon A challenge with doing saturday is that it's um As we all know trying to get to the beach on beautiful saturdays and sankers are very challenging And those weekends represent only a very small portion of the traffic that we experience out there So if we were to then analyze and design our roadways for these very Small portions of the year we might end up with results on our roadways What we didn't want to live with for the rest of the year so for that that big picture thinking and our Requirements from the general plan is why we stay with Afternoon peak hour requirement here Thank you. And if I could just follow up it sounded like in the response that I received thinking about other Road related infrastructure transportation infrastructure. So bike lanes pedestrian paths and if we the roads Are widened for cars then that limits the space for other amenities as well Yeah, exactly. That's the challenge we start to get if we try to solve a vehicle problem on the Most heavily used days we'd end up with you know highway 17 going right to the beach I don't think we'd want to Necessarily live on those those roadways. And so that's the challenge we get out there It's good to note in the scope that we we have heard this concern and there are some other items We're looking at for example The laurel street extension road which goes from front over to third We're looking at some access management there so that we could potentially in the summer have Residential access emergency access bus access to help alleviate some of that congestion people are concerned about And also in the scope what we're working at transportation demand Management strategies will help reduce the amount of traffic caused by the development I appreciate that and appreciate the efforts to address some of that. I'm looking at The those choke points particularly around emergency services and emergency response. It feels like Um people want to know that they can be Accessed Thanks. Thank you There's brown on 22. Thank you. So I I just want to make a comment on number 22 This is the permit fees for the oversized vehicle ordinance. Um, I Well, I want to register no vote on this one when the time comes But I just want to say I notice here that once again, we see no communication with the stakeholder group that was Intended to be part of the process of developing and operationalizing this pilot coastal permit, so Just making a note that there are folks who want to be involved in this conversation and have been kind of Designated to be to do that and they're not hearing from the city when decisions are being made. So I hope that we can do better with that aspect of this pilot project Thank you On item 20 if I could Ask mr. Butler on this item sir. I'm sorry Yes, mr. Butler if I could ask you I thank you for responding to the council's previous discussion regarding Increasing the number of community meetings that will take place through this process so From here forward There will be how many noticed Comprehensive public meetings So we're looking at a number of approaches that engaging the community With large community meetings one of those approaches Two community meetings are anticipated. We're also expecting focus group meetings as well as online engagement and survey work And that's an increase over Previous of two additional. Is that correct? I believe it's one additional one. Yes one additional meeting one additional And I would imagine as we move through time on this if it's determined that Additional public outreach public meetings, whatever it might be We could take additional action here working with you and the city manager Uh, if we wanted to say well that Based on circumstances as we're moving through this very significant planning effort That we say gee here's here's one here. We didn't anticipate back in the end of june of 2022 Here's here's something as we're in you know, february or march of 2023 We say here's something else we we have the ability to amend the contract work with you work with others to Have additional meetings if we think that's if the council thinks That's the appropriate thing to do. We are not in other words We're not limited to this number except to the degree we're signing a contract That's correct. We've added Additional monies for the public outreach not only that one larger community meeting but also the focus groups and assistance with the survey and The earlier versions of the contract did include flexibility in that outreach as needed I'm just going to confirm that that flexibility is still yes I'm getting a thumbs up from the team that flexibility is still in the contract so that We can tailor that engagement as we need as we go forward I'll give you a wild guess right now We're going to be talking about morris timers. That'd be my wild guess on this Thank you for your response on that. I would like to pull item 10 We are on item the this Let me ask the public first of all anyone with us today wish to comment on any item on our consent agenda And do we have folks online as well What we'll do on this because we have folks online is first we'll take someone from who's with us here Then we'll go online then we'll go someone here. We'll we'll toggle back and forth. Good afternoon. Afternoon My name is Kevin Hewlin. I'm the manager of Cardroom downtown south of laurel on pacific avenue We are one of roughly 75 active licenses in the entire state card room gaming licenses Overseen primarily by the california department of justice We've been in business at this location for over 20 years quietly Recently moving into wanting to engage with the city more And so one of the items on the consent agenda been working with the city I just wanted to introduce myself but also Voice my appreciation for the work the city's done on this resolution Although it's not exactly what we were asking for it's a It's a beginning And so i'm grateful I'd like to continue the dialogue Appreciate your time before you leave the dias and that is on item Said thank you very much. Make sure we tied those together for you Thank you for for being here this afternoon your kind words. We'll go online First person online We are good to go with you Okay. Yeah. Hi, this is carrot. Hey, I will comment on item number nine later when it comes up by itself But could you comment further on item 11 as to how four million dollars to operate 135 homeless tents As shelter spaces amounting to a minimum if rent capacity of 30 000 dollars per homeless tent per year As a how is that a value proposition? That's about what a minimum wage person earns working 50 weeks a year Consider if that service was provided to every person in Santa Cruz It would cost 1.8 billion dollars in simple math 30 000 times 62 000 A bit more detail on how many people at what salaries at what duties are involved and what the actual cost is for these services Especially it should be compared to some result goal, you know in order before swallowing this costly bill I would comment on item 15 that adjusting the spending limits to the maximum allowable expense women allowed by law Seems typical of the mindset. I see every two weeks And I get in trouble here, but I'm going to take some liberty here and I'm going to assert that no living person Is an lbgt qia plus person that is a fictitious Made up leftist group identity of an amalgamation of very different people with very different ideas And different opinions about a great many things Some are wishing to transfer legitimacy of some issues to very different other ones Some of which I'd say violates other people's individual rights Thanks Thank you Next person who's with us. Good afternoon Good afternoon mayor council members gillian greenside. I'd like to comment on item 20 I listened carefully to the traffic engineer and it doesn't answer the concerns not just of myself But probably most people who live on the lower west side The rationale for limiting the traffic study to the weekdays if I heard it correctly Was that the weekends are just a small percentage and we don't want to plan our roads for What's not the most usual usage? Well, anyone who lives near this area knows that this is not commuter traffic Root people go up to mission for that And that the impact on the weekends is dramatic And I'm assuming I may be incorrect here, but I'm assuming this information gathered Will also be used for your sequa environmental review If that's accurate that statement I just made then this is woefully inadequate You're supposed to be studying the environmental impacts Of the quite massive development that will be in this. What is it 13 square acres? that's that's People will be outraged when they hear that you are studying traffic just on the weekdays for an area Which is jammed now with beach going Boardwalk going traffic on weekends that has to be studied so you can mitigate it There are mitigations possible, but to just avoid it and and the with the rat that rationale. I think No, it's not going to sit. Well, it's not going to give you the information you need And the community needs to mitigate the impacts of possibly 3,000 new residents in this small area I I know the state law has changed in terms of you only have to look at vehicle miles traveled not congestion However, if you read that carefully you will see that site specific Variations and studies can occur if there's a site specific reason To look at congestion and I would say that anyone who's been here for a while and knows that area Knows that that is what we will be facing. It's it's incumbent on you To have the traffic studied on weekends now and then extrapolate 3,000 more people With or without cars and the impact of that. I hope you will make an amendment to that study. Thank you Thank you Next person online We will Ms. Bush, you'll tell me when they're ready ready to go good person online. Good afternoon Members of the community and city council Um, I'm sorry. Mr. Norse just just we're gonna alternate back and forth. So we're gonna take somebody No, it's quite all right. So the person online. Good afternoon Uh, hi, this is Reggie Meiser. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Yes, mr. Meiser. Good afternoon. Thank you. Um, I think I just want to comment a little bit on the overlook emergency shelter contract, uh I appreciate that you guys are trying to keep that open and you're trying to use the remaining funds to like keep those folks stable I do think though that like If you just do a quick check on the math for this like, uh Blues trailer right blue from downtown streets team cost about $18,000 If you gave every single person In the emergency shelter a detached trailer It would cost $2.4 million. So like half the price of keeping the shelter open They would have basically permanent shelter That would be an improvement over what they have now And we could use the remaining money, uh You know on things like The pallet shelters at housing matters And I just feel like this need to like police and criminalize people like the ovo does with its criminalization of detached trailers Or how the armory shelter Spends so much money just kind of keeping people out of sight and, uh Containing their poverty It's just it's a huge amount of money wasted. Um When if we just kind of we're a little more creative And a little more trusting, uh, we could accomplish so much more with the amount of money we have Uh, and so I just want to sort of Bring that kind of thinking to you Uh, because I know that like As city staff brings these ideas forward as community groups like Santa Cruz neighbors who have a large voice Uh speak up it often feels like creativity is incredibly limited And then the only things we're allowed to do is criminalize people Spend huge amounts of money on things that like don't work For a very long amount of time like Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, uh to give people temporary shelter for like a few months When we could just give them some kind of permanent detached trailer Or vehicle like a converted van And uh, and we could spend money on outreach Getting uh neighborhoods bought in to a letting people park in their neighborhood building relationships between the people in vehicles And the people in uh housed areas Instead of just this constant, uh apartheid type thinking And separation and lisa murphy herself said there is no housing available at a recent budget meeting So why are we wasting so much money continually on these temporary, uh springboard sort of plans That rely on caseworkers To get people into housing because we know that that's not a so Just I I urge you to think like critically about these kinds of plans because ultimately it's going to be like People are just going to complain to you later. Anyways, so Thanks. Thank you, sir Good afternoon, sir So, um, I'm going to try to invoke the progressive promise of one of the council members santi brown that the public be allowed to Hear from the staff and community on an item that was traditionally the case for years Before the muzzle as I see it was imposed So I'm only going to ask that items 1112 and 22 be removed for a brief comment By the public and perhaps any staff questions that members of the council and the The community may have items 1112 and 22 and if I could say In my own case, I made an error when I said that I'd like to continue item 10 I meant item 11 uh to pull it on to For further discussion. So we will take items 1112 22 and nine Will not be part of our vote here. We will let me see if there are other comments folks online as bush Do we still have other folks? No, anyone else Present chambers today who wishes to have an item continued Excuse me pulled Seeing hearing none The motion would be in order to approve the consent agenda as amended I'll approve the consent agenda with the exceptions of items 9 11 12 and 22 Such as the motion is there a second? I'll second second by council member newson debate or discussion miss brunner under discussion I just had a question In response to one of the public comments On the traffic study on weekends and what that would entail to include that Versus not including that Okay, we have a staff member approaching on that. Good afternoon, sir Hi, good afternoon. Matt Sturkey again transportation manager Adding weekends would be very expensive. I think that's one of the one of the items here is we're looking to Control the cost that we as the city are spending on this study We're We're thinking that that would be um, I don't know. It's a high order magnitude cost that would change Uh change the study so we're not putting it in Council member which item is that community? Uh, this is item number 20 I believe Is it am I on the right? 20. Yeah, I'm going to What I'm going to do like this is going to engage us in further conversation. I'm going to pull that item if that's all right Okay, let's take it out of this. We'll get back to you all right minus item 12 where Excuse me item 20 and the other items that have previously been included in the motion for continuation Motion on the remainder of the consent agenda for the debate or discussion Seen here none the clerk will call the roll Council member newson. Hi brown I 22 polled. Yes. Okay. Um, what can I? Brunner. I Calentary johnson. Hi vice mayor golder. Hi, marykeely. Hi Consent is amended as approved. We will start with Item nine miss brown Thank you, mayor. So this item is an update to our council policies And um, so I want to start out by saying that I am not asking these questions or Making these comments to suggest that the work that was done here in for the purpose of Making our policies consistent across different documents and Kind of cleanup related to state law all that work was I absolutely appreciate it and I'm not being critical of that but it did what this did cause me to do was Take, you know relook at our Uh council policies and the handbook attached and in particular I have some questions mostly for my colleagues really about You know about about what I see as balancing concerns or in an interest in making meetings more efficient and You know and getting through meetings more quickly so that we are doing the business here But a lot of the other work gets done outside of the meetings I recognize that as a goal and it's uh, it's a laudable one and one I share And I think we should be balancing Those efficiency concerns with access for the public And so I just wanted to ask about a few of these And so in particular related to policy 6.5 and 6.6 Which The purpose of this is to align with our council handbook. This is related to Oral communications in particular. I know this has been An item of considerable contention on this council during my time on the council and You know, we've had we've kind of swan and we've had wild swings in terms of how Count the particular councils want this to be addressed and Right now and and I'm I don't have a strong opinion on Exactly when it is Because there's always going to be a challenge whatever time of the day People don't like seven because it's family dinner time people don't like five because they're still getting off work People don't like during the day Because they're at work, however Having an indeterminate start time. I think I mean I would hope we could see is problematic in and of itself and so I'd like to see us try to find a way to get to some kind of Time where people know they can come and address the council and items not on our agenda Without having to wait all day and then maybe have to come back for the evening session Um, or you know, I mean, I know we can do it online now But it just it's very difficult and I hear from so many people who say well I was there and I wait and I tried or I came back and it was over And so I just feel like it would be it would be really great to find a way to Do something about that and so I'm asking my colleagues if you might consider How doing something differently and and one of and I'm just putting this out here and and Idea I'd like to have Kind of worked this through in advance, but can't do that with the brown act and it just came to our agenda so Could we think about having The beginning of the open session Be open for oral communications for a certain amount of time um short amount of time And so people could come and just get that done the board of supervisors does this and they let people come at the beginning of the meeting Speak to any item on the agenda and then they can leave and they don't end up having they're not stuck Unless they want to be and be really involved in the just you know here for the discussion So I just I don't know that we can make that change today, but rather than making it, you know codifying that it's gonna be um at the end of the session or at the beginning of the evening session Could we talk about some kind of set time and if it's if there's too much oral communications We could always return and people would have to wait, but it just it just feels like this makes it completely inaccessible to people They have no idea when it's so that's a question I have for y'all Before we Deliberate thank you councilmember Miss Watkins on this item I appreciate you bringing that up councilmember brown having been through a lot of these Back and forth discussions around oral communications. Um, yes, it has been a contentious often Point um within our policy I just want to make sure i'm really understanding what you're suggesting And so if if i'm hearing you correctly what I hear you say is that you're suggesting we open at the beginning of the meeting For oral communications and for an opportunity for individuals to speak on items on the agenda Well, I just brought that up because it's the way the board does it. I don't have a strong feeling about that, but um It could be nice if people want to consider it again I don't know that we can really open that up as a conversation here because it's not on our agenda as a recommendation, but if people are interested perhaps we could just look at that Direct that we not make the change on this policy this time and that we direct to come back with a recommend or some kind of report on Starting at the beginning of the yeah best practice Really, it's just having some definitive time certain Is would be great and when it comes to our regular items That's not what we're talking about here, but it occurred to me that it also could be really helpful for people who want to come and speak on an item so Again, I mean I appreciate that i'm open to that I think you know I I look to the mayor having sat in that chair I know it's also a balance of how you're planning the agendas so having that certainty might be helpful Um, I think that having zoom as an option has definitely changed the way that we can hear from the community Particularly individuals who aren't able to make it to chambers or don't feel safe and comfortable Which has often been things that I've heard in terms of some contentious items that have come before us So all that to say is I am supportive of potentially having and I think the mayor should sit within the room or The committee or with our city staff on what that looks like in terms of Structuring that because I know it goes hand in hand, but I appreciate the suggestion and i'm open to that personally Vice mayors recognized and miss brunner. I know the mayor and I have been talking and my Autism that we should start moving away using zoom and We don't agree on that necessarily at this point, but to that end I think having a time certain or at least if it's the beginning of The afternoon session where it's like you can look and see what time it begins then you would know even if it did change and I do like how the board does it where you can speak to any item I think it would be in the end kind of a time saver for us as well and for the public Miss brunner's recognized Thank you. Um, thank you councilmember brown for um bringing this this detail up on this item um So last year when I was mayor we did a time certain oral communications um, and I worked with the city clerk on figuring out How that would be with the agenda and that way there was always a time posted of when oral communications was um, I think You know zoom did help or the the online attendance Helps people to be able to attend no matter what time it is um I think having time certain is More beneficial than not And whether it's at the beginning of the meeting as you say the county board of supervisors does it or at any time Certain on the agenda I think it's um, helpful for the community to have that Um, councilmember callantari johnson. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for bringing this up because I've been hearing from the community about this as well Um, I know that this will be probably it looks like we're moving in the direction of having it be discussed With the mayor and staff. Um, but I'll just put a pitch that I think time certain is is a good direction Um, and what we tried last time when you were mayor was difficult because um, there were sort of interruptions to the flow so perhaps a way to Solve for that is to do it at the beginning For the comments on the signer mr. Deuce. I just want to briefly thank Uh, my colleague councilmember brown for bringing this up. I've heard a good bit about this too And I think some certainty on when oral communications takes place would be would be good to look into Yeah For the comment on that Uh, I I want to make sure miss brown if I could ask you this question here I'm not sure if they're one issue or two issues here. So I'll make sure I understand this With regard to the oral communication I absolutely I think there's a sense of the body right now that we're gonna have a further conversation about this with the City manager and city clerk city attorney myself will will engage in that I want to make sure I understood the what I thought might be the second portion of what you said So oral communications one issue commenting on items on the agenda When we are not yet at that item I want to see if you could I think you want to do something on that as well. I I think that's a little bit More difficult to do but I want to hear what you want done on that Thank you. Uh, so I what I really want done primarily is a time certain oral communications time and as I thought about how it's handled with other agencies and See the county meetings. I get to see them in the mornings before we start And it seems like it works to have that time certain They also do allow for people to comment on items that are on the agenda. I don't have a strong feeling about that now um, I I just you know, hopefully you could Perhaps the mayor and vice mayor could talk with staff and come back to us with a proposal for when oral communications Time certain might work best And if there are other changes you might You talk about it and it seems like it would work then that you know, I'm not opposed to doing it that way I just put it out there kind of but really what I want to see is oral communications Very helpful. Thank you. Anyone wish to comment on this item? Good afternoon, sir So, um, I'm supportive of councilmember brown's idea, but I I would go further on this because I looked I just had a brief look at it and there is dozens of changes in this document And many of them may just be Insubstantial, but I noticed one particular one Which caught my eye and I just began to look at it Which is at first preference shall be given to people who didn't speak at the previous meeting Now this was the policy of during one or two mayors about 20 years ago And it was founded by the first amendment coalition You can't do this because what it does is it it makes it more difficult for people who are regular speakers And it's a way of shoveling shoveling them to the back Particularly if you're limiting time for oral communication Now I mentioned this not because i'm asking that we change this at this meeting But I think the public needs more input on the general changes that are being proposed Sounds like a lot of council members have heard about this one issue But also I would imagine just having noticed that issue that there's other issues too that might come up That require some input and I would even suggest it go into some kind of study session Where the public is admitted For some real interchange Thanks. Thank you Ms. Bush do we have anyone online on this item? We'll go to the person online. Good afternoon Yeah, hello again Hey, uh, the public would be foolish to comment before the agenda presentations and a discussion that follows Unless uh, other people also have the opportunity to speak as it is now I mean, it's bad enough that things change with friendly amendments and whatever that occur after the public speaks Uh, and it would only make it worse to speak at the beginning of the meeting for other agenda items But what item number nine acknowledges is that the council in the city has been operating outside written policy for a long time Operating outside official policy is technically a violation of policy like who needs policies There are 39 such up to states listed here And some for section six that the council admittedly for months has changed policy unofficially But these originated more so by unilateral declarations or a certain lucy goosiness Relative to existing written and approved policy rather than presenting Proposed policy changes with open public discourse and then a full council approval of them I suppose somebody like the staff has to eventually clean house If nobody else is but uh, again how these get started is an issue And i've noticed several of these unofficial policy changes happening For instance allowing a council member to speak at length from their seat during the public's oral communication time Instead of perhaps resigning the meeting and coming down to get in line like everybody else And address the council from the public podium or this elimination of the pledge of allegiance to the united states flag Although various other flags seem now to be honored in the chambers Contrast this dismissal of the u.s. Flag with the elevation of one Representing a baffling movement support for child mutilation unhealthy puberty blockers the destruction of women's sports bathroom privacy Etc coming from the science denying juvenile gender confused or the mayor offering up a no notice blindside Motion sponsoring an end around a two-thirds required vote for an ever-increasing tax for socialized public welfare housing Which is a mockery of the very clear rule prohibiting motions by the mayor Is oh well, we just didn't get around officially changing policy a valid process not really On item nine related matter I'd like to see a policy of listing all resolution documents that passed Including the letters written similar to the chronological list of ordinances passed by council every year All in one place on the website similar to the publication of ordinances link since they do carry legislative authority They're very hard to find Also more consistently as needed and the speaking times allowed and a better reason to limit oral communications to two minutes Then because I could is needed when so few wish to speak Thanks Thank you, sir Good afternoon Nice hat Yeah, well they had something Yo yo, uh, what's happening in council members? Could have lightened the mood by saying good afternoon angels, um Let's see, um Zoom is amazing. Uh, you know zoom, uh, I I watched uh last uh weeks meeting via zoom and You know, I've I've been to the zoom headquarters where you can see like, I don't know maybe You know, if it were nighttime, you could see everyone here up on the zoom building and that's kind of cool Um, I guess I I feel like you know for you know, just civic engagement. It's it's a wonderful tool It's also it's a little it's a little off-putting to not really know You know, like johnny fever and the uh, w KRP episodes like there are literally hundreds of people listening And you don't know, you know, like there's just a pool the statistics on exactly how many people are Are listening in and you know even recording The comments and you know and scrutinizing it analyzing it I mean I don't know. I like going to the boardwalk and you know being disoriented and distracted and that's kind of what zoom is um Anyway, uh, yeah, no, it's uh, it's uh, you know, I guess they're I guess they're it might be interesting If there was like some kind of zoom for government conference where they said, you know, hey Um, you know, we should we should limit I guess I feel like they should limit the comments because you it could be endless could be bottomless How many people could come in and make comments like maybe zoom should be more of like a one-minute limit for comments if uh, you don't specifically request for longer time and Uh, get it approved ahead of time because it just yeah Honestly, it could just be kind of endless and the people are you know, clearly, you know, very anonymous Like you don't see them. You don't know who they are Garrett fill it. So I'm sure is a very handsome person. I don't know some of the things he says. It's kind of unusual Um Anyhow, uh, oh, uh, what else did I have to say? Well, I have a minute to say, uh Yeah, I guess. Yeah, if you did have like that is so sandy was suggesting, um, you know, it uh You know, if you had people comment Um before the meetings it does kind of steer the meeting, you know, maybe in an odd way I mean there are emergent sort of problem problems with doing that, but Um, it's it also seems like kind of kind of sensible and uh, And it's important that people um, you know, uh can access these meetings convenience now that things have changed with the existence of zoom Um, I don't think I don't know if the word zoom existed before like, uh Around 1600 when the telescope and the microscope were invented. Um, just kidding. Anyway, thanks so much for listening to my comments Thank you, sir Do we have someone else online miss bush? Good afternoon Person online. Good afternoon Let me put that on pause for a second and ask the next person who is uh with us Please come forward Thank you, ma'am. And thank you council member brown for Bringing this topic up and um, I get feeling that this council is really interested in Opening it up for the public and much more welcoming to hear from the public than has been true In past some past decades Um, I really I and others really appreciate that it does make a big difference is specific to the issue you're talking about Way back when so marty wormhouse time Council had an afternoon session And an evening session the evening session started at seven and that was oral communications I don't remember an occasion when the evening session didn't happen So that was a time certain and that was a structure that has changed over the years So my comments are just as you Discuss this and uh with star My experience when it was timed time certain is very important. You know, that's the bottom line When it was time certain in the afternoon or at six Um, there were some occasions where I might be here. I might be part of an appeal And we had to stop halfway through for oral communications And that was the I think the worst of all possible worlds and I'm sure for other people's issues They felt the same way So I'd urge you to not go in that direction where it might be broken up in the afternoon And if you're not always having an evening session, then it seems that the beginning of the Council meeting is perhaps the Best of all alternatives, although it's not going to be good for people who are at work. However With zoom Maybe that does open that up, but nothing is perfect But I I do think just sharing those few thoughts from past experience hope will be helpful And thank you for considering this very important. Thank you Now back to the person online. We'll be with you in just a moment Oh, there's bush. We're ready to go. Good afternoon Hello, have you got me? Yes, mr. Geiger. Thank you Thank you very much. Uh, well The reason I'm going in here on zoom is I tried repeatedly to use the telephone access and I'll admit I'm pretty lousy at technology, but Uh, anyway, I got through one way I just wanted to comment on my councilmember browns Urgings to make this process more open and you know more accessible to democracy Maybe i'm a futz, you know and and have a hard time getting on but Certain number of people are going to be having trouble and also, you know, it's more effective to come down personally and It always worked. I think there was a few people who abused it, but there's time limits, etc It always worked for the community at much more community participation when there was a fixed time personally, I favor seven o'clock, but You got to go with whatever works for the majority of people but With covid, you know, everybody sort of dropped out of dealing with the government and dealing with everything and That's not healthy And we can encourage people to come if you can tell them when to come I hope to bring some petitions down later today And it's on me because i'm retired and i'm one of the very few people that can try to Jock around with all the Agenda timing and maybe get down there without spending the whole afternoon on a hard pew I'm 76 years old. I got arthritis. You guys have comfortable padded chairs. Give us a break So thank you. Thank you, mr. Kiger. Thank you Anyone else with us wish comment on this? Do we have anyone else online? okay Matters back before the council. I wonder if the appropriate motion. Let me ask city attorney on this miss city attorney I would I would suggest to the council that a motion on this would be to approve item nine as submitted With the exception of continuing Item 6.5 on the policy portion of this with direction to the mayor The city manager and other appropriate staff to meet and return At an appropriate time but not later than a meeting in september With a revised Set of recommendations item 6.5. Would that be an order, sir? Yes, I would also Recommend that you add 6.6 and 6.6 and 6.6. Is there a motion in that regard? I'm happy to move that Debate or discussion on this and I ask one more. Yeah, I have one more question. Uh, so Could length so 6.7 lengthy reports It just says lengthy and I appreciate I like the policy But I could we put some parameters there? What I know I've heard 10 minutes, I think Is there just to give people a sense of what that means lengthy? I don't know It's not essential, but it just feels a little weird to say lengthy And it's kind of subjective and we don't know what that means Why don't we bring that back 6.7 to include I guess we yeah, okay We'll bring we'll bring definition to it 6.7 back as well. Thank you both are Uh pulled out of this direction to the city manager and the mayor meet and Discuss on this item bring it back No later than a meeting in september These items there is a motion and a second for the debate or discussion. What do you have the motion? Sorry, I'm gonna make sure that you have the clearing I do um, I do want to just clarify that um In addition, I can put it in the motion if you want but in addition to the policies regarding um Oral communications, we would also update the council handbook We'll line each other. We're not back and forth. Very good. Wonderful All debate ham and cease to click. We'll call the roll Council member newson. Hi Brown. Hi Watkins. Hi Brunner council member brunner I Calentary johnson. Hi face mayor golder. Hi and mayor keely. Hi Motion passes and so ordered over to my Agenda item so miss brown that Dispenses with your items. I believe We will move to item 11 Thank you mystery and walley Looking forward Thank you. Good afternoon mayor and council. Good afternoon, sir And thanks to you and your staff for The good and very hard work that you do every day. It's very much appreciated, sir on this item I want to be certain that That I understand or that that what I am thinking is the case going into budget year plus one is true If I understand this we have A multi-million dollar Award from the state of california and we are using that To as the appropriation of the funding of this contract, correct that is correct and That homeless grant from the state of california Had was a total of 14 million dollars. We have we have spent a fair amount of that How much have we spent before we authorized this contract? Good question. I The budget we presented and adopted in june included both the 14 million from the state as well As arpa funds that were approved by council And I know we had just over six million remaining with those two sources and at hand I don't have the specific amount for each of those Right about six left, correct And uh, this is four of that which remained which means two million left Correct. Okay So I I can't do math, but I can do arithmetic They're different If we approve this and We have this four million dollar contract with To run the Overlook program and all of its component parts In budget year plus one I'm going to assume That even that two million dollars might not be here. We I suspect we have other ideas With that two million dollars of the remaining So we get to july 1st Next year, which is budget year plus one. We start the new fiscal year Next year on july 1st And let's assume for a moment that we want to continue this Am I right in thinking that absent An additional grant from the state or some other stranger who may want to give us money That if we want to continue this this is a city general fund obligation at that point Correct absent any other new revenue source that may be available that would be correct The governor and the legislature yesterday reached an agreement on the state's fiscal year budget and In reading what the league of cities and others have said about this About the budget agreement reached between the legislature and the governor I did not at least see Popping up to me that the state is going to renew There there is not as I read the budget agreement There is not an agreement to continue to fund this program from the state level Correct, correct. That was a one-time grant legislative remark And in their budget, they are not somehow renewing this or saying well, it's no longer this color dollars Uh But don't worry about that because there's these other color dollars. We're going to route your way There is no such thing in the state's budget. Is that correct to the best of my knowledge that is correct. Okay Thank you very much. I appreciate that those are my questions on this item And my point is to say that Which I won't belabor Which is that converting this from Bringing our state tax dollars back in town letting us spend it on that Absent that we're going to be in a position where if we want to continue this level Of shelter and transportation and meals and so on it'll come straight out of the city's general fund And uh, I think that is a highly problematic Concept in the context of precious general fund spending And all of the pressures on the city council To spend general fund monies, uh on a wide variety of very pressing issues in the city of sanikers Let me See, uh someone pulled item 12 and if you'll forgive me, uh, this is the uh I believe someone pulled item 12 on the tier three miss brown. Was that you? It was a request from mr. Norse And which and I have said I will pull items. I didn't get an email because I can't get my access to my email. So, yeah Yeah, I'll Item 10 was called I'll be glad to take that item 11. We'll we'll take public comment on that Good afternoon, sir so, um item 11 You want you all to remember that The city has spent a quarter million dollars recently Demolishing people from their makeshift homes along highway nine and six months before that a million dollars in demolishing the bench lands And creating a huge refugee population. That is still refugee in the city so I'm sure that I would imagine your staff City manager larry and walley and give you some notion of The estimate of police and service time that was spent and the cost of that. Let's say compared to um What might have been spent for Simple shelter of some kind for folks. I mean it's been suggested by a reggie misler that there be vehicles cheap vehicles be purchased There's all kinds of concerns and problems about that But if you consider the huge amount of expense that's being Spent i'm just looking specifically before this gets voted on i'd like to see the comparison with how much All these enforcement actions have cost and how much they will likely cost In the next few months or if you will in the next year based upon Past experience and whatever reasonable predictions can be made And I would say this appropriation should be delayed until such time as an analysis is made And then also unclear in some of the stats or the longevity and nature of the so-called Permanent or I don't know alternate housing obtained for a small minority of the participants And I say this not to disparage The shelter that is being provided per se but to suggest that the money Is that while that's happening you need to stop criminalizing the people who are Making their own shelter and perhaps contributing some of that money to the most essential services Porta potties that have been removed wash stations that have been removed Electrical outlets that have been removed trash pickups that have been made more infrequent Thank you. Thank you, sir. Do we have anyone online? On their side No hands yet Good afternoon again, sir Bonnie, I'm a little confused why item seven got kind of skipped, but Um, I do have a comment on this item, but maybe someone can can Enlighten me why why seven was Walked over or past everything. It was uh It was including the permitting the like the bedding limits and the kissy nose in there Maybe when you ask a question Um, then when I provide an answer we don't cross talk Item seven was included as one of the items on the consent agenda Oh, it was all taken up as one motion except those items. Okay, pardon me. Yeah, okay I I I only heard the names of certain excuse me. I only heard the names of certain items on identity or seven Okay, now I understand. Um One million dollars. I'm you know, I mean I mean the modulo on that 48,000 that's it's more money than you know, I made two years as a grocery checker But you know, that's I mean that that I feel like giving it Giving it to the right people if you give it to the Salvation Army I feel like all of it going to Salvation Army is maybe a little you know, kind of problematic But deciding who it goes to is similar to Um, I guess it's like the volunteer center and don't you know, you know, don't you know United way or you know like all the different charities, you know Who gets it and there's a lot of desperation about like who gets it and why? Um, I feel there are other shelters in the city that are administrated Um in different ways that help different people. You know speaking of you know diversity You know being parallel to variety, you know, and and there's a certain beauty and uh redundancy Uh, you can say that again Um, okay. Anyway, um, yeah, I'm a big fan of uh, Elm Street right there by the metro Uh, and they're not traditionally considered a shelter, but they do have Kind of features of that and then there are other places in the city. I mean It's funny how I've I've noticed there are more pizza places in the city than there are Churches, but there are a lot of churches and the churches are kind of there for a reason That's for people of faith to help people need Often, you know, that sets their purpose. They're they're kind of their mission. So Anyways, uh I'm sorry too much. I'm sorry enough. I'm done. Thank you, sir Anyone else online on this item Mr. Mollie Ask you one other question on on item 11 And that is uh, does the county of santa cruz Operate are they the lead agency in operating shelter? Uh Directly, they do not through the continuum care. Are they fund shelter operations at a number of sites across the county? But in terms of directly operating one, no, they don't Do they operate any should the degree to which they do fund Do they operate something? That we would say is equivalent to what we're doing under this contract Do they do something equivalent anywhere in the county? I believe the Shelter that is operated navigation center in south county in watsonville also operated by the south nation armory is a good analog And is that the counties or the city in the county of the city of watsonville in the county? That I believe is county Specifically not including the city of watsonville. So in mid county to north county Does the county operate in the unincorporated area? Anything similar to what we operate in the city of santa cruz in the north part of county The the shelter at housing matters within the city limits is the most substantial and Most comparative Shelter that the county funds. Do we all could do we also contribute as a city to that operation? Not specifically to the shelter operations, but the broader infrastructure on that campus. So for example, we recently Spent 1.6 million. I believe it was for renovation of the hygiene bay and the poly lofts Of ground leases for the property and parcels over there. So significant infrastructure investments And is it right that about Half of the counties in the most recent point in time survey that Roughly half Of the folks who are currently unhoused county-wide and including in the four cities About half of that's in the unincorporated area about half. Would that be right? Uh, it's more of a 60 40. I think it's approximately 63 percent Within the city limits of santa cruz and 37 percent in the remainder of the county And if I understand that the cities of scott's valley and capitol uh have With their adopted budgets are not participating in any of this. Is that correct? uh, they make Jurisdictional contributions to the continuum of care and so those are Contributions i'm aware of i'm not familiar with any other contributions. They don't operate Shelters in their communities. That is correct. Okay, and the county Operates something in south county and contributes to something at housing matters But otherwise the county of santa cruz does not operate shelters in the Complete and robust way that we offer that at the At the armory including the overlooked campground and the safe parking for vehicles and so on is that correct? Correct And you know With the exception of what we already discussed with housing matters in the north county and the salvation army Down in wassenville. There's other Small shelters that they contribute some funding to Uh, but nothing at the scale of those two that we've discussed the scale that we do I raise that and thank you. Mr. Imola. I raise all of this for the obvious reason of saying We're gonna do this this year next year. We want to do this absent any other changes It's if we want to do this it comes straight out of our general fund The county in my view is not stepping up to take care of its Share the responsibility either in the unincorporated area or in city of santa cruz Which is the county seat? And I think that that's a very significant failure on the part of this county of santa cruz Thank you for that All debate having ceased on this item clerk will call the roll I think we have a move the item. I'll move the item. I'll move item 11. Thank you second Second by miss count tarry johnson Clerk will call the roll Councilmember newson. I Brown I What can I runer? I Calentary johnson. I vice mayor golder. I and mary keely. We are an item 12 This item was uh continued At the request of This is the tier 3 safe parking operation Did you ask for this sir to be pulled? Please come forward on item. Uh, we're on item 12. Good afternoon, sir Yes, I'm sorry Sure So i'm i'm in favor of the successful expansion of the tier 3 program of course who isn't uh But of course the specific cost of expanding the program to actually service the 50 person waiting list Uh, who will then be if it isn't vulnerable to the ovo Uh is of a very serious question. So Considering the city made a commitment to the coastal commission that it would provide access to the coast for everyone and part of that was the issue of People who live in their vehicles and those being oversized vehicles because that was the ordinance that they were considering so um This of course is going to come up in two other items that are on this agenda So i'm not going to belabor it But my question here is what provisions as a part of this appropriation have been made for the waiver program I don't mean the permits For the year that you can get Four of them for a year for what 12 days That's not for that has nothing to do with overflow From the uh waiting list situation for people who can't get into the tier 3 program And that's the majority of people in their vehicles as I understand it from Evan Morrison's account of this he runs that program So you need to freeze All enforcement against people who are in their vehicles Not relating to particular health and service and safety needs Done with regard to the martin versus boy z guidelines Because they don't have any options the coastal commission was advised that these would be the options They're not included in this appropriation You're advancing this appropriation without those options being specified without a procedure for getting those waivers as far as I understand it And again, it's rather complicated and lengthy. So maybe I'm missing something and if I am good for The staff for doing that, but I haven't seen that and folks who are going to be suffering because of this Uh and the police are going to be running people around even those who have their own shelter in vehicles. It's it's Senseless it's outrageous and it also is I think not particularly cost-productive of And I'll leave it there Thank you If anyone else who wishes comment on the item there is a We have a motion on this item As recommended as recommended Second on this item is brown For the debate or discussion on this item Seeing hearing none. Click will call the roll Um, did you make the motion? I did. Okay, thanks Um, council member newson. I brown I What can't I Turner I Calentary johnson. I Nice marigolder. I Mariculia. Hi motion passes and subordered item 20 was continued I got my question answered on that item Uh, I've received my answer on that So I believe a motion to approve As recommended would be in order. Is there such a motion? May I ask? Council member bernard, did you get your questions answered? I thought we had kind of delayed here because my question was answered But then you had a follow-up That was based on the you're right the public comment on weekend traffic. Yes Yeah, so, um, hi Welcome back Good afternoon Council member Um, so my question was on item 20 The uh, there was public comment regarding the Uh impact study traffic impact study And it was stated that um based on our general plan traffic impact studies are conducted peak afternoon weekday hours and um community members the community member who spoke and I've heard in the past at some other meetings that There was concern because of weekend tourism traffic Um is heavily increased Um, I don't have data on what that is and how that would impact and if it i'm just curious about um You know what it would take to to it At first site it doesn't seem like it would hurt to have that data and so and it might even support us In a certain way or support something else, but um, I'm just wondering if you could speak to that I know earlier you mentioned cost was a obstacle and You know, I think it's important to look at the big picture of weighing all the costs that go into A a large expansion plan like this. So Yeah Thank you for the opportunity to talk about this again I think the the first part is really the separation of The sort of vehicular delay conversation and level of service from our sequa analysis requirements And so the scope of work that was developed is really to comply with sequa. I think there's that's a really important dividing line for us here um The sort of issue with studying saturday is one that It would be very hard to mitigate A saturday peak in the uh in the summer And so the challenges with those would actually be in conflict with some of our general plan policies that actually Ask us to accept more congestion in our downtown To make it a more pedestrian bicycle friendly environment So because of that if we you know, if we study it, we're going to come up with this solution That's going to say oh man, we should build a really big roadway here But that would actually in fact be in conflict with what we actually want to do in the area Is that But if that's what the data shows we need then We need to know that information, right? um I think the general but the general plan also tells us to not do that. So that's the That's the challenge that we have here Maybe would you like to add anything? I would if I could thank you leave out there planning community development director. Um The challenge is that the two are often at odds um if you're planning for vehicular convenience Then you're going to create a situation where um pedestrians and bike bicycles have a harder time navigating the area And so in our downtown, we're prioritizing the pedestrian and bicycle environment Because we know that that's how we want people to be able to move around In that area. And so if we are um, if we are mitigating to saturday afternoon traffic on you know july 10th then um There would be and and I say that mitigation as outside of sequa because as matt was saying, you know this the LOS is outside of sequa now. We have our transportation guidelines that speak to VMT as the sequa measure they speak to um VMT as Being a non significant impact When you're in a half mile of high quality transit as is the case for this particular Location so we are not going to have a VMT impact We're not going to have a sequa impact as it relates to transportation based on our transportation guidelines and The fact that the the delta that we're studying is really not that large It's a large number of units in that area But we're already planning for the plans already have over a thousand units in that area Right, so the number of additional trips is not based on the 1600 or 1800 units It's based on the delta between what's already planned So between all of those factors. I'm not anticipating a significant impact under sequa for VMT But that LOS we do have a local policy that speaks to to LOS outside of sequa And that LOS is a measure of delay And if we're looking at that measure of delay And contemplating that we should build our roadway network for the Summertime weekends, we're going to have a very wide roadway network And that's going to mean it's longer for people to cross It's harder for bikes to navigate And there's less land available for Development because there is wider roadways All of those are things that we're not trying to achieve in our downtown We're trying to achieve a pedestrian oriented environment and one that's bike friendly And so even if we were studying those weekend levels We wouldn't be looking to mitigate outside of sequa again to those levels I know that's that's a lot. No, that was great. That totally um Help me understand and and clarify Um The goal here and um what we're um aiming for in terms of the downtown district and Uh the pedestrian bicycle friendly less wider roads, um I just think at some point In this process And when I say weekend saturday and sunday, I notice each time you only mentioned saturday, but to me weekend is saturday and sunday um that There's um A certain level of information that informs That comes into a fact when we Are developing an area I think, you know, the public needs to understand like there's visions of choke necks and emergency vehicles How will they get through if there's more cars on that narrow road? Um, where's the emergency vehicle going to go now? It's going to take an hour to get across town those kinds of concerns somewhere need to be addressed and need to be in The informed data and how we're moving forward with this project. I think I just I feel like that's really important for the community to see that that that has been considered and And somewhere in that that that we are, uh, um, taking that into effect in x y z Um somewhere in there not that we're planning Um, like you said your example highway 17 in that case would go straight to the beach, right? um so but Understanding that that area gets, um more traffic and um in the summer and holidays and What are some of the things in in planning and development that we are doing to accommodate those? limited Not significant impacts The piece there is I don't think we actually need to do a level of service analysis to know that saturday is a Sunday or any major holiday is a challenge to drive around in this area And that's why in the scope of work where we are looking at transportation demand management strategies Which are ways that you get people to bike and walk through the area more effectively So we're looking to really reduce that impact as well of this project that we are studying The other element that's in there that would help existing neighbors today is the study again of the The laurel street extension connection between front and third as I mentioned um We don't need to do level of service to know that's a good idea to look at and really start to think about how that could be operationalized to create A connection to that neighborhood and to the beach to get through those No, for emergency vehicles and whatnot on the the busy days So the the fact that we're not studying it Doing level of service analysis isn't that we don't Care about the issue or think that it's a challenge. It's just that the solutions we we have for those Are beyond Widening the roadways and all of that sort of items that we talked about they're about Reducing the transportation demand For people driving in the area and those solutions are ones that are in the scope already that we'll look at in the study Um, can I ask that that continues to be a priority emphasis? um, that's called out As that this process moves forward that the the community really understand that and it's clear Thank you Further on this item I just have one miss walkins. Um, I appreciate the further discussion and I understand the logic and The conflict amongst the two What I'd be interested in knowing over time as we have these studies Conducted and the mitigations in place and increased active transportation options How are we tracking uh use and what does that look like and what are we seeing as effective? Interventions or mitigations and could those be replicated? So as we look at it contextually in terms of the bigger picture Over time I think as we kind of continue to invest in our downtown and see growth and have b-cycle and other alternatives available How are those playing into either kind of no net gain or in terms of like we're not seeing any Additional rides, but we're not seeing Less or not, but just to track that I think over time would be really beneficial, but that's just my comment It's kind of a bigger picture comment Thank you I'm happy to move the item miss brown Just a quick comment follow-up comment, uh, because I you know, I I recognize the The challenge you face here and I agree that Looking towards alternative transportation and developing that infrastructure is really critical. So I I'm with you there However, the concerns will You know continue to be present. I think particularly for people as miss greens. I suggested who Really do use that that corridor For commutes and it's one of the only ways to get to the west side really from downtown. So Um, it it will have a significant impact that isn't really being Fully addressed I think from the public's perspective at least some members of the public and so I feel like we if you could I'm making a plea here that as those Community meetings move forward as the conversation is happening with the community that this issue be addressed That you that you all be prepared to talk about that and and what you're doing In order to just not So the people understand and that there's a response to those concerns as they arise So I just want to put an emphasis on that as well. Thanks councilmember brunner For the questions or comments on the item, I believe there is a motion and a second miss bush Sorry, who with the second I moved it but his motion here I can second. Yes, that's right. Ms. Brown did second that Food debate or discussion seen and hearing it miss bush good on this Okay, seen hearing none clerk. We'll call Newsome I Brown I what kids I Brunner I Elementary Johnson I place mayor golder I and mayor Culey. Hi Motion passes and so ordered Item 22 was requested to be pulled. This is overnight parking permit fees related to oversize vehicles Whoever asks That was mr. Mr. Norse on item 22 Good afternoon I think not to belabor this because it's really been brought up a lot. Oh, probably should be belabor Um, and I think uh, the mayor referenced this as well earlier The the situation here is do you want to advance? A permit process at the same time and this is a repetition of what I said before but it's the same substance and it relates to that issue which is There's going to be plenty of people who are going to be Under under a danger once the once you pass the ovo in And a month passes and it's in in effect They will have that's where they live And they can't get permits and until this this particular proposal Actually includes them in a meaningful way Because there is no option for them The option supposedly granted by this council under the css or in the ovo do not exist for the majority You must not allow this to happen Without there actually being A real process in place Wait until the process is in place then reconsider this Thank you. Thank you, sir Ms. Bush is there anyone online who wishes to comment on this item? No hands are right Anyone else who is present with us. Good afternoon again, sir Hi, I live in a trailer park and um There's uh, there's there's few in the camp. I mean, there's some you know, they have kind of interesting history a lot of them do like, you know It's a short of a high rise, you know where you can stack a lot of people, you know trailer parks very practical There's always that one guy kind of rubs you the wrong way in the park and I'm you know, certainly not that guy I know, uh, yeah, um, I know that living in a vehicle is um, very very, uh, tricky There are a lot of chutes and ladders, you know, where can you park where working? Get get in trouble for parking and um Back when I was I was my early 20s. I rented a bw van from a guy And you know, I parked in various places that today just you wouldn't think of parking there because the city's gotten bigger You know, traffic's you know, I'm traffic parking, etc So, uh, I think this is hand in hand with a lot of your your issues with You know, like we're talking about emergency vehicles on weekends in the summertime That is that is a very very very important issue. Um I like, uh, I wanted to speak on the last issue. I'm kind of Speaking on the last issue a little bit, but I think it does pertain Um, I I feel like parking infrastructure. Um, one thing I've noticed is the gallery of parking lot doesn't have an elevator And then so that um that dissuades people from using it And I've discussed with don lane the possibility of I'm retrofitting, um an elevator just like those, uh, um those elevators made by the The company that you know, like it's the elevators on the Pacific Avenue buildings that are going up, you know, an external elevator just to retrofit it with an elevator It's not that big of an engineering issue and you you've increased the utility of the parking Another thing I like is that the summertime circulator Uh, the shuttle and I feel like it could be more of a like a circulator or maybe using, uh, scmtd funds to You know, uh, like watsonville has a really sweet circulator. I don't I've never ridden it I don't get over to watsonville as often as I'd like, but Santa Cruz could probably benefit from having something that takes people from say a county Building parking lot on weekends, which has nobody parked there often and down to the boardwalk and you know, people Knew oh, it's easy to go to san Cruz. You just you know, you can park it You can you often find parking at the county building and then get on this simple shuttle thing takes you to the Maybe it'll be included in their their parking fees at that location To uh, you have a free, you know transit via the shuttle. Anyway, um, well, yeah Well, how that pertains to people parking in their vehicles is less pressure on On people if you know everything's harmonious with all the transit. Thank you. Thank you, sir Ms. Bush still no one else online anyone else wish to comment on this item Seeing and hearing none matters back before the council It's the pleasure You're going to move item 22 Motion to move as recommended is there a second Miss calentari johnson seconds the motion For the debate or discussion seeing and hearing none the clerk will call the roll Councilmember newson. Hi brown no Brunner I Calentari johnson. Hi vice mayor golder. Hi and maricule. Hi Motion passes and so ordered We are now on item 28 Item 28 Item 28 is the second reading final adoption of an ordinance related to parking of oversized vehicles Is there a any report on this we have material in our packet? Let me see if there is public comment on this item Seeing and hearing none Matter is back before the council for any questions comments Is there a motion on this item? Is there anyone online who wishes to comment on? Matter is back before the council's our motion by Ms. Watkins a second by mr. Newsom All debate having ceased the clerk will call the roll Councilmember Newsom. Hi brown. No What can I Brunner. Hi Calentari johnson. Hi vice mayor golder. Hi And mayor keely. Hi item passes and so ordered Members we are on item 29. This is a cooperative retail management business real property improvement district assessments for the upcoming fiscal year I I'm mayor Good afternoon. Ms. Lipscomb. You're up on this item staff members running over to the council chambers as we speak So I thought I would just jump jump on and introduce the item Item came up a little faster than we were anticipating sure We we also as they're running over right now Um, I did want to take just a minute and say that today We've received um out of several hundred, you know properties in the area of 31 ballots returned We will be tallying those as part of this process This assessment it's been over 10 years since we've um actually increased the downtown assessment We've held it flat for a variety of such sort of economic reasons in the downtown But we've now fallen pretty significantly behind what the actual cost is of providing the services So the recommendation and the assessment That's related to the ballot today Relates to increasing that cost to bring it more in line with the cost of delivering the services and then also a separate Sort of ballot for those in an expanded district on a portion of front street and a portion of cedar Recognizing that the downtown is larger than the existing District and the needs for those services is larger than the existing district So that's what is before you today. As I said, we've received about 31 ballots Protest ballots. Um, we do believe we only need about five minutes to tally those ballots So, um I have my team if they've entered the council chambers. I can I can turn it over to them to proceed and if we can recess once we open the hearing and we'll be in the courtyard conference room We only need five minutes and then we can return To the council chambers. So with that, I'll turn it over to my team. Ms. Unick. Good afternoon. Good afternoon economic development manager back unit So today we are here for our public hearing for the downtown management corporation. Excuse me So we have received a number of ballots ahead of this meeting And so this is a period where we count those ballots Determine if our assessment has passed And then welcome any public comment on it or Protest during this meeting. So happy to answer any questions. Thank you, miss unit. Are there questions of miss unit? Thank you for your your appearance here today Let me ask if there's public comment on this item Is there anyone on line miss bush? No one with their hands up. Thank you The Ballots are in the possession of the clerk Let me take just a moment. This doesn't happen very often here Where we do this kind of thing. Let me add additional complexity to it and that is that The city clerk's very trusted right-hand person Went home ill Today at the beginning of our council meeting what we're going to do In order to make this as easy as possible as possible. We will take a recess here Rather than have try to do too many things simultaneously. So you need about five minutes You will absolutely have 10. We are at 230. We are going to take recess until 10 40 Excuse me 240 I'll come back Council's bad concession and a note to some council members recess for the summer will begin on adjournment of this Not during this meeting. Okay. We are on item 29 This is uh A improvement district assessment issue the ballots have been counted miss unit will recognize you So we have completed the counting of our ballots And we only received No votes around eight percent for the first question was was to increase the assessment We received about nine percent no votes on the current assessment And 5.8 percent no votes on the expansion of the district. So without reaching the 50 threshold Those have passed and so we asked that the council move the stack for accommodation Let me see before you leave the podium there are other questions or comments of miss unit on this Thank you very much and miss bush. Thank you and your team so much for help tallying the ballots matters back before the council Let me ask if there are questions or comments and see if there are any public comments on this we are Uh a motion to approve as recommended based on the results of the Tallying would be in order. I'm with the recommended action Moved by mr. Newsom second by miss brown For the debate or discussion seen in here none the clerk will call the roll Council member newson. Hi brown. I what can I? Brunner Calentari johnson. Hi Vice mayor golder. I Hi motion passes in sorted. Thank you all very much for your fine work on that We're on item 30. This is an appeal of the proposed single space marking on David way as indicated earlier In our morning session The appellant has withdrawn their application So there is no item 30 We are on item 31 the five-year strategic plan Excuse me for just a moment Ah the vice mayors made a good recommendation and and I think we'll follow this as I understand it There are several people here who are here on item 32. Is that correct? Folks are back here on item 32. Let's let's take item 32. Then we can return to 31 I think we might be able to to move on this rather quickly. We're on item 32 the 2022 commission for the prevention of violence against women annual report I will recognize miss long To present on this item And good afternoon. Good afternoon mayor and council members So my name is emeline I am the principal management analyst for the city manager's office and also the Staffer for the commission for the prevention of violence against women So today as we bring forward to you as a 2022 cpv annual report And I just want to take a moment to really think the members who are here today and also introduce The public to the members here. So we have chair long And for the rest of the commissioners so to please stand up real quick So that could introduce you as well And we also have vice chair simonton give it wave We have a commissioner novak commissioner balinger Missionary hero commissioner fireman And commissioner madura So everyone is here. So it's very exciting. Um, so, you know, despite the challenges and the things that were happening Um with commission and the overcame and we've adapted and really worked together to achieve a lot of the things in 2022 And without further ado, I will pass this along to chair long Thank you very much miss long. Good afternoon and thank you for all of your service to our community in so many ways I know we did You are a member of it I was merely the convener on the public safety task force several years ago and Your very thoughtful work on that was was very helpful and thank you for your continued work on the commission. Thank you Um, so I'm going to present our annual report for 2022. Good afternoon to all of you. Thank you for having us today Uh, as em said, my name is daniel long. I'm the chair for the commission for the prevention of violence against women And as a commission our meetings have been over zoom until march of this year So we're excited to to return to in-person meetings as well as presentations And then we have the entire commission here as well to present The commission so some of our highlights for the year the commission hosted a three-day event from october 28th to october 20th To mark domestic violence awareness month with the goal of engaging the community in the commission's vision of ending Sexual violence sexual harassment and domestic violence in the city of santa cruz The three-day event included a screening of the powerful documentary titled My name is and andrea at the del mar theater in downtown santa cruz followed by a compelling discussion amongst those in attendance Excuse me a statement from cpba w and a mayoral declaration from then mayor Brunner, thank you for that. We hosted over 125 community members and collaborated with wilna avenue Family and women's center as well as monarch services both agencies were present and provided resources and information At a table at the event The second event in the series was a sign-making event held at the santa cruz museum of art and history whom we thank for providing the space for this event Space and materials were provided by Were provided for community members to come together to make signs Denouncing sexual violence as well as to hold space to share ideas about a world and community free of rape sexual harassment and femiside community members across santa cruz Ma staff cpba w commissioners and members of the ucsc's the women's center were in attendance On the final day cpba w hosted a rally in march to close out the three-day event for domestic violence awareness month this event Started on the steps on the front steps of 701 ocean street where we had an incredible lineup of speakers Including members of the community musicians authors poets community activists a council member all of whom are named in our report This event was recorded and also posted on youtube for community members to view Following the rally members of cpba w marched collectively with members of the community This was our first community event Since the pandemic marking 41 years of cpba w We look forward to many future collaborative events promoting the mission and vision of the commission to prevent violence against women In addition cpba w worked to increase public information around the prevention of violence by distributing educational and preventative Messages printed on coasters and posters and distributed across the city at bars and restaurants As well as collaborating with gadget box to produce three 20 second videos as well as two public service announcements highlighted in our report We have included the santa Cruz police department data report for 2020 to 2022 Where we can see the data for domestic violence battery calls rape cases sexual assault stalking and homicide amongst intimate partners Any questions about this? report this is this was provided to us by santa Cruz police department And if anybody has any questions about that then we can follow up with the police department to respond Despite the many challenges of the pandemic the backsliding of the years of progress through the overturning of roe vs wade cpba w is proud to serve the santa Cruz community and city council by Continuing to work towards our collective vision of ending sexual assault sexual harassment And domestic violence through prevention educational programs and public policy On behalf of cpba w i would like to thank the city of santa Cruz the city council As well as the santa Cruz police department for your support and continued prioritization of working to prevent violence sexual violence in the community And here's we also included some goals For our future where we want to increase visibility and impact Through events in the community Strengthen our community partnerships We are working towards having some youth commissioners We're working with the santa Cruz county office of education to have a couple of youth commissioners on our commission in the 2023 And then also strength strengthen process through Our annual Our annual report which will include not limited to activities metrics goals and objectives. So we're planning to Provide you with a 2023 report most likely in december since we've we've been a little bit behind because of the pandemic Does anybody have any questions or comments? Let me see if members have questions or comments I just I just want to say thank you and it's really encouraging to see the entire Commission here. I served on this committee in this commission years ago, and I just appreciate the work It's very important and just want to thank you for your volunteer time and for your efforts in this way And serving our city in this way. So thanks for being here and for the report and I appreciate the goals as well Vice mayors recognize I would just echo the same sentiment and I appreciate that you're all here this afternoon And thank you for your good work in your Same same same Thank you so much for all your work and the report and the additional information With the data included in your presentation And then I just had a comment that we as part of the children youth bill of rights We are including a youth liaison in some of the work that we're doing So maybe there's some opportunity to collaborate there with the youth commissioner that you're bringing That's definitely that would be great. Thank you Thank you to the entire commission. Thank you for being here It's great to see all your faces and appreciate the time that everyone puts into This really important work in our community um, thank you chair long And um, I appreciate also we had received an email with some questions. So I appreciate seeing some of that data and um Understanding the goals. Thank you Please please I just had a question. I really I really liked the the posters and the coasters and things you put out in the bars I'm wondering and I it's only because it came to me when I was at the airport the other day And he had a thing about human trafficking And that I know that it happens here in Santa Cruz whether we want to admit it or not And I wonder if there's an opportunity for this commission to explore ways that we can help prevent that in our community And I don't I don't know what that would look like, but yes, I think that's a great idea that Yes Can I add to that I know that there's a there's a tri-county coalition working on that You probably already know this chair long, but um, there's some work being done on in a tri-county effort with Child welfare services leading it in our county. Yeah, we can collaborate with them Councilmember Newsom Thank you, Mary Keeley. My comments will echo my colleagues as well. I just want to thank you and your colleagues on the commission for your For your important work And you know really want to thank you for bringing awareness to these issues and for educating the communities on these issues as well Thank you Councilmember Brown Thank you. I too appreciate the work of the cpva w and I know it's been a challenging several years For folks and I just appreciate you all just sticking with it and and really making some Doing some some program and and events that that really make a difference and I want to ask if some questions about that So just to get a little bit more of an understanding Because as we were reminded earlier today when we were doing policy council policy review That the cpva w's policy statement core policy statement is really About preventing rape and domestic violence in our our community that this should be one of our city's highest priorities So i'm kind of reminding us of that as well because you all don't have the resources that you need to Do the job that you probably want to do In in addressing these issues in this regard. So I want to thank you And then I just I wanted to ask about the How it is that you're you're collaboration with local stakeholders in law enforcement You know how you're working together to ensure that that we have best practices for responding to Violent crime I'm glad to see the data Now provided it wasn't in the report and we it used to be in the reports And we've seen more extensive reports in the past So I'm I appreciate that and I hope that that can be included You know officially in the document so that people have when they go to look at this they can see that data And So just a little bit more about that You know how you work with your local partners and and law enforcement To achieve your your programmatic goals We have a So we have a committee that works with We collaborate with santa cruz police department and The commission requests the stats that we get and that that that are that we want to look at and then we get those stats from our Right now our liaison is deputy chief bush That I don't know if that's going to change Upcoming now that there's a lieutenant up in investigations So we receive the the he comes in and provides us with with a report of The cases that we're asking about we don't receive personal information about anything that's Anything that is can identify a victim We don't because we don't want to include it into a public record So we don't request any any personal information about any victims And then as far as our stakeholders and our partners we include them in any events that we do we reach out to them When We have Agencies that ask to collaborate with us. We have They'll they'll use one of our Brands the cpba w so any anytime you see cpba w on any kind of Information out there in the public. It's because we're we have a collaborative relationship with them Thank you And then I also wanted to ask you one other question sort of related About you know, the your strategies and discussions around how to engage the public In the work that you do i'm asking this in part because you know some people this was on the agenda I had some people reach out and they were mostly talking about issues that really are Issues that I said you should go to the cpba w and have those conversations right and really attend the meetings and talk with the commissioners and so I'm just wondering how How you work with the public, you know, what ways to engage the public in the work you do I know you have meetings people don't always know So how can we make it a space where you get? Also support from the public and you can communicate more about what you're doing in that space We would love for the public to come and now that especially now that we're in person our meetings are in person They're posted just as the city council meetings are posted on the city's website So people are able to any you could direct people to the website to look and see what are what the agenda items are And we welcome any community members to come we have we have had a few not many During coveted. We had a few on zoom, but again not many so anytime you have a Community member reach out and wanting to collaborate or talk to us Please direct them to one of our meetings we would love for the public to come out and and talk to us and then as far as A larger collaboration we the events that I spoke of that included There was a three-day event where we invited community members to come out and make signs and then to march with With the commission and then we had multiple speakers And we also had the the film where we had about 125 community members attend great great events one of which I missed do it because I was teaching class but The great events okay last question related to I've heard about the psas. I haven't actually seen the psas. That's my bad, but I'm just wondering how like how those are going. I mean, are you getting feedback about them? Where are they shown? And kind of more generally, you know social media and you know what you're doing there to kind of help Maybe also market or advertise the work you're doing So the as far as the psas, I believe they're on the on our Yeah, they're on the city website and then we also have an instagram page that We don't have a ton of followers, but we do have an instagram page and And we have a facebook page as well So that's so we have our psas on that the coasters We don't have any coasters on that. I see those Yeah, they're so people can test their drinks to see if there's any Their drinks have been drunk so awesome really great. We give those out to the bars and restaurants So everyone I think the conclusion I have I'll I'll wrap up here Oh like cpvw Become you know get on their ig feed and Let's activate that instagram. Sorry Um If I know I'm so not tech savvy and you know and then Just keep thinking about ways that we can help spread the word too Yeah, and I think now that we're out in the public and we can have more public events It's going to be much easier because for the last two years We haven't even you know, we've been meeting online and So now that we're out, this is I think it's going to Hopefully activate the community more For the questions or comments As long thank you so very much Let's see if there's anybody with us who would wish to comment upon this And miss bush. Do we have anyone teed up online who wishes? Please come forward No one hands raised. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Um jillian greenside Well 41 years ago. I was one of the founders of the initiative that led to the commissioner I was its first chair in 81 82 And then chair again in 2004 and five if I'm remembering correctly So I want to appreciate you know each gen decade that volunteers step forward to Take on this difficult work I'm going to be critical and you did receive my email Because I think it would be dishonest to not point out and my comments are directed to the city Not to the commissioners The comments are that you have an ordinance that mandates That preventing Rape and domestic violence shall be one of the city's highest priorities And I think that it's very clear that this has not been the case Especially in the last what 15 years When I was on the commission in 2005 I'll give a shout out to our teen representative Amelia Quavis who was Our teen rep for three years and Did an amazing job of bringing latinas into the dialogue and we had events in the schools, etc But at that time we had a 20 hour a week designated staff person Who did the work that obviously a volunteer meeting every two months cannot do Uh, we had a budget that was sufficient to put on teen women's day in the civic where we brought From all of the county schools teen women for a day of education and awareness We had a robust self-defense class for the community My time's running out so I can't go on it was in my email But the point is that since that time And one important thing we had an office downtown a storefront office Where our supplies were it was visible community could come in to get resources all that has gone I understand that that era it was difficult budget times, but it hasn't been replaced And now we feel it's sufficient to have a meeting every two months uh with no office space And not a dedicated 20 hour a week staff person I think the city has to step up to the plate and fulfill the requirements of the ordinance 81 29 Sorry, my time's running out, but I would like to make the point that We have oversight of the police department's function vis-a-vis rape and domestic violence Commissioners should be able to read all of the reports not just get data And from those reports they're redacted. There's no personal information Give the community a picture Of what is going on with respect to rape and domestic violence That is not happening and do we know The community doesn't know Santa Cruz is unique in having a preponderance of rapes committed by men who are Complete strangers to the women they rape That is unique in the whole country Doesn't make it worse. It means that your strategy for how to address that is quite different from acquaintance non stranger rape The commission has to be given the resources to get back on track so that you can proudly say and the community can know That as is mandated by the ordinance that the prevention of rape and domestic violence Is one of the city's highest priorities. Thank you. Thank you Good afternoon, Fred Geiger. I certainly lack Miss green sites expertise in this matter and I think it's kind of ironic that I'm up here as a non-woman looking at you and saying Why don't you do what you said and fund this very important activity? When you look at some of the appropriations that go out every Meeting like this one you got hundreds of thousands this consultant and that I mean Looking at it only on a practical level Santa Cruz a tourist town our reputation and appears Is in jeopardy especially with the number of sexual assaults by unknown persons to the victim That that tells us tells me anyway that we don't have much You know security going for our visitors That could be very damaging to our to our tourist industry in our town in general And one way you can help that is to adequately fund these things She's mentioning and I just want to say I was very impressed at the coaster idea What a terrific idea because I've got daughters granddaughters, you know It's like that's really something that I tell them about all the time and it's a real problem That's really an excellent solution. So I hope you'll give them the kind of funding they used to have I think they certainly did a lot for the money that they got. Thank you. Thank you, sir Anyone else who's with us today? Anyone else online? Back before the council The recommended action here is to accept the report. Is there such a motion? I'll move the recommendation motion. Is there a second? Second by the vice mayor for the debate or discussion on the item Miss Brunner Thank you. Um, so I'm curious, um about um If if anybody can state or can specify what that ordinance mandates What spells out how that priority? is Is Implemented I don't have that information off hand, but I'd be happy to look into it and report back to the council. Great. Thank you Um, and then um, I think that just kind of for me um In making sure you know that We we listen to our community and when there are concerns that it's not a priority And we think it is and I I see a lot of the work that is being done with the commission As examples of showing that it is a priority But it seems like there has been past historical different ways of implementing that priority And so I think it would be helpful to understand What's required? what The commission maybe they can at a future meeting have a discussion about How they feel that they're implementing that priority And understanding that ordinance and making sure if The commission needs any further funding or resources specific for any type of Implementation that that comes to council via a commission recommendation I think um, I know myself. That's a huge priority. I think the city Um historically as long as I know and and from working downtown, um, I remember that that um There have been various resources and even safe space stickers and windows and various efforts over the years different creative ideas different PSAs different events So that was that's my question. Thank you To the city attorney for getting back on that Thank you Ms. Watkins then miss brown miss Watkins Yeah, no, I appreciate you raising that having been on the commission over the years. I think it has um kind of Wax and waned and had different resources at different times and different programming and an evolution of a of a commission and a commission's Implementation strategies make sense right in terms of what the needs are and so if that is If there are areas that are priorities that should come back before the the full council for consideration You know, naturally that should be something that we hear and Have an opportunity to weigh in on and I know him as our staff person is our liaison there and and you know And thank you for your work as well Um, I I do remember reading the redacted report So I do understand that component of it and that tracking and that was helpful for the data So I don't know at some point to get clarity on what's going on there I do have a question though and I see our chief police back there And I was wondering if maybe you would want to speak to What the some of the community members brought up in terms of the types of Rates by strangers and I think if that statistically is true in the data I mean we we want to know and um have correct information or misinformation corrected. Good afternoon chief Good afternoon council, uh, bernie escalonia chief police um You know, I was looking at Some information that is collected by the SART program that does the sexual assault kits countywide Over the last two years 2021 2022 there was a total of Of 125 SART exams that were completed by the program and a total of 10 that were Indicated by the survivors as as strangers um So that's countywide. I can't speak necessarily. I don't have the data for for the city today But certainly one of them is too many, right? So But that's the numbers that I have as far as uh, that's generated out of this SART this SART program that produces this report every year And there's also Uh Our victim advocate also does a report at the end of every year That produces numbers such as calls for service, but it also covers not just sexual assault But domestic violence domestic violence related calls for service as well Okay, well, I appreciate that and I think you know Longitudinal data and kind of contextualizing trends. I think will be helpful and their work and our strategies and their strategies as well So I appreciate I appreciate you speaking to that and and just to add to that I I looked at the data over the last 14 years I felt like going back just to 2020 2021 the the numbers are a little skewed as we know with coven with everything um and and on average the the police department has had 36 Uh sexual assault reports Uh per year We've had high numbers up to 50 maybe low 60s. I also want to bring your attention to 2014 Our ucr report uh reporting requirements changed through the fbi it used to be just uh 261 of the penal code rape forcible rape was reported After 2014 or actually january 1st of 2014 the reporting now Includes a number of other kind of other sexual offenses um So the numbers naturally Win up, but as a whole over the last 14 years that was our our average Some as low as the low 20s But again, obviously none of them are Are appropriate Anyone else on this item any other council members on this item miss brown? I just want to echo that. Thank you for the response. I just want to echo the Sentiment of my colleagues in Asking you all to Really to to come to us when when there are things that you think resources that would be helpful for you Because it is true. This is a long history. I saw em you kind of your eyes I saw the expression changed when you heard a 20 hour a week position for this commission in the past and so You know that erosion over time has affected the work and I just want to echo that I think that we all have responsibility to be open to Supporting you and your Work. So when there are requests, please reach out further Seen here none the clerk will call the roll Council member newson I Brown I What can I Brunner I Johnson I vice mayor golder I And mary keely I motion passes in sordid. Thank you all very much for your terrifically good work. Thank you Chief thank you as well included in that. Thank you Members we are on item 31. This is the five-year strategic plan Good afternoon miss Schmidt Thank you, mayor lurch Schmidt your assistant city manager I am here to introduce dancy headrick with baker tilly They are the consulting firm that has been assisting us with our five-year strategic plan As you all know the last time we meant to discuss this in person was an april 18th special council meeting and it was a workshop I believe for most of the day And based upon the feedback from you all the departments and especially our community Baker tilly has edited Various components and pulled them together with to make up our five-year strategic plan draft which we are Putting before you in the community and asking for your input today and with that I will hand it over to nancy Good afternoon Good afternoon mayor members of council. It's nice to be back. Nice to see you today Delighted to present The strategic plan that is the culmination of lots of effort including our time together back in april I was was mentioned by the assistant city manager Um, I'll put the the draft plan that we have provided to you is intended to reflect the content and the discussion that we all had together But today is an opportunity with fresh eyes with fresh time to take a look at it provide feedback So i'm going to take us through The content i'll highlight those areas that have been updated and adjusted based on the the time we spent together And happy to take any questions as well Thank you If I can actually get a clicker to move I don't know You'll ask for there we go. Okay Um, so we'll do a quick overview Kind of where we've been how we got to today just as a refresher for the public but also for each of you Uh, then we will look at the draft elements of the strategic plan including the vision statement And then those key focus areas the goal statements and all of the strategies contained therein That's really the meaty part of the plan And so we'll walk through each of those First of all just a Look back and a reminder as we started our workshop together in april. We talked about the importance and value of strategic planning and really the Commitment to looking at one of those big focus areas those big rocks that you want to keep in sight keep in view For all of you, but also for your public. That's what leads us to the strategic plan and now I've just testing laura's skills on the There we go. There we go There we go. All right, so here's the framework that we have used This is you'll remember this from our our time together vision is aspirational. It's what you want to see for The city for the community. It's a statement of the future intended to be concise and memorable The focus areas and strategic goals and the strategies all align up to that A little bit of a process overview. You'll recall we began Way back in the the latter part of last year We did a series of interviews with members of council. We did a questionnaire with departments We also did a community survey. We reviewed a lot of background documents. All of that activity led us to The work we did together in april at the workshop Reviewing a draft set of the strategic plan elements which have been updated and reflected here today This is the draft Vision statement. Oopsie. That is not the vision. There we go. No There we go. They're draft. It's going to keep jumping. I think All right Yeah, I will set my clicker down and we'll work in partnership because we like partnership, right? That's a good thing So the vision statement a vibrant healthy and resilient community for all We also had some discussion at the workshop about you know, some kind of energy or tagline that might accompany that Beyond the the vision statement itself In that discussion, we talked about find your joy in Santa Cruz. And so we have used that as part of a branding piece As a part of your strategic plan to accompany that vision statement All right, so on the next slide We have the seven focus areas Those those key buckets those big rocks that we talked about When we were together they reflect a number of different areas. We'll walk through them each Including the the goal statements themselves and touch on the revisions that we have incorporated So rather than walking through these individually, we'll just go right on in the first one We have is financial sustainability and transparency And on that next slide that shows the list of strategies I'll highlight those areas where we made some modification As the result of our workshop together in that first bullet that first strategy We incorporated the idea of being creative using different creative approaches In the identification of resources that really reflect the uniqueness of Santa Cruz So that latter part of that statement there. So identifying creative and expanded revenue approaches Was one area of modification the others Stand the same as when we work together the last of the strategies was added And that is to leverage grant funding and advocate for resources at the state and federal levels Recognizing the importance of those resources and being in front of them No other changes were incorporated to that set of strategies The next focus area is strong business communities and a vibrant downtown We did do an update to the goal statement itself So it reads cultivate a thriving downtown and local businesses citywide to support economic health and vitality We really expanded that to incorporate local businesses citywide and also to infuse that element of vitality as a part of that statement Within the strategies we had several adjustments that we incorporated In the second strategy, we wanted to make sure we emphasized youth and family friendly As a part of the downtown that was a really important part of the conversation to infuse that into The plan and make sure that stood out as a priority So promote a safe promote downtown as a safe youth and family friendly center for commerce housing and transportation We also in the original version had incorporated the downtown plan expansion expansion as a part of that second strategy But because it's such a big deal and we've heard about some of that today Including the permanent arena for the santa Cruz warriors. We call that out as a separate unique strategy contained within the plan The second from the last of the strategies listed here was the last area where we made some modification We wanted to really call out and specify those specific Business areas across the city that you want to prioritize So grow events and cultural activities in the downtown work in other commercial areas to attract residents and visitors For example Midtown lower sea bright harvey west industrial area. So making sure that we're inclusive of those important areas In that statement. We also I should add actually that was the third to the last We changed or added the word to the last second to last strategy to use the word activate That was something that was really important to counsel to infuse that energy and bring life That's part of the vitality that is stated in that goal statement. So we incorporated that word into that strategy If we go to our next focus area It focuses on housing, which we know is a big area of interest The goal statement to create and preserve housing for all with a focus on affordable and workforce housing is the same as it was when we were together Well, we have added into the strategies is in the third from the last Um strategy we incorporated the idea of leveraging partnerships and the importance to do so Um in that strategy. So leverage partnerships government resources and private funding to create Affordable and transitional that was also added to be explicit in the strategy Housing projects in the community. The other strategies remain the same that we worked together previously If we turn to the next one, which is homeless homelessness response We saw the partnership and the importance of working with the county is really essential when we were together So we updated the goal statement to lead with that. So it says working with the county Move towards positive outcomes in the homelessness response safety and health Balancing the interests of persons who are unhoused and housed with the business community. So really looking at that as a partnership There were a number of strategies that we had some discussion around and made some modifications to If we look down midway through that begins with identify and leverage Existing county resources that was a new addition to the set of strategies Um to connect individuals and resources again really leaning into that partnership with the county The third from the bottom We added the last part of the strategy to add specific focus on developing service delivery and accountability metrics Recognizing the importance of accountability and and understanding how things are operating in the community And lastly we added the final of the strategies listed here Which is to advocate with the state and federal government for improved mental health and substance abuse disorder Or substance use disorder support easy for me to say Um in recognizing again the importance of advocacy on in many of these critical at need areas In the second to last I think nope third to last of the strategy areas We have public safety and community well-being No change to the goal statement which reads to provide public safety services that support well-being and healthy communities So a nice broad focus in the well-being of the community We have a number of strategies The second one list in there Was modified so we have evaluate and potentially establish an integrated health response team for the city That reflects work that is envisioned in I believe underway The last two strategies that are listed within this focus area Seek community input to find to define an updated view of public safety was added and incorporated Reflecting the need to engage with the community but also to get clarity around what does that mean when we talk about public safety Making sure that people are presented the opportunity to share what that looks like to them And then lastly to create opportunities for pro-social youth activities And that was a discussion we had really in the spirit of trying to Prevent get ahead of homelessness and how to do that successfully With pro-social activities programming resources within the community The next strategy or next focus area rather is the natural and built environment We really wanted to focus on the combination of not just the built environment But the natural beauty and the amenities that are available within the community As an asset So investing in sustainable climate adapted infrastructure and community assets is the goal there For this one, we added the very first strategy there Following the environmental scan and lots of conversation around the need to address deferred maintenance So that stands out right up in front address deferred maintenance and critical infrastructure That includes water pipes the wharf streets other major assets The third strategy down We've added in maintain and further develop a skilled and trained workforce in recognition that you have an outstanding workforce already it's not a matter of of just If having to increase it but actually to maintain and sustain and invest in that area The strategy right below that we added in the last part So we have improved public transportation infrastructure to increase equitable access to sustainable travel options That's mobility within the community And then finally the last strategy we added in the idea of public partner public private partnership within Identifying resources so continue aggressively identifying and pursuing grant public Private and low interest loan financing programs including becoming educated on how to best plan and structure projects to be grant eligible So making sure you can seize those opportunities when they become available And i'm happy to go back on any of these i'm trying in the interest of time to hit the highlights The last of the focus areas is the thriving organization In order to get all of these things done there's recognition as we discussed at our workshop that you need to have a thriving Organization and so we spent a lot of time really emphasizing those can those critical component components here So advance a high performing organization where employees employees are empowered to deliver outstanding services to the community. That's the goal In that first strategy Listed on this on the chart. I recognized that The draft document that we provided we had added in listened to So it reads foster a positive work culture where all employees are valued included listened to and supported So that's an error in the slide there in your draft document that was incorporated We also added in That third to the bottom of the strategies to collaborate with regional part with regional agencies including the community college other school districts And employers To develop a more direct workforce development and recruitment pipeline for the city So recognizing that there are great resources out there and building those Partnerships and working together to support that and lastly we added the the final strategy Which is to continuously improve and modernize city service delivery And really embrace that spirit of continuous improvement for the the delivery of services and for public Programming so those are the changes that we have incorporated Happy to address any questions and I'm very interested to hear your feedback and your comments You have had some time to percolate on this important work and get your thoughts and comments So our next steps will obviously we'll take your input today And from that we will be preparing a final version of your strategic plan And then from there the the implementation activities that will Commence through your staff. So thank you for the opportunity to present this back to you like like to hear your comments Thank you very much questions or comments by the council the vice mayor is recognized Thank you so much. I really enjoyed that day that we had together and I appreciated how Every you synthesized everything that everybody kind of brought to the table and everyone's different viewpoints are Elevated here and we can all work as a team moving forward just a couple of tiny details Um, and I don't know if it's just me but the the little find your joy in Santa Cruz I don't know why I didn't like it I was just wondering joy just seems like it reminds me like a christmas song or something It's like it's kind of semantics, but if we could find something else, and I don't know if I'm the only one maybe then maybe I wonder on that point I think maybe more than one person might might comment on this You know in the constitution we're managing towards a pursuit of happiness So I wonder if finding your happiness in Santa Cruz might be a little better I like that. I like that that sounds nice Um, and then the only other thing that I saw where I was like, I didn't see it anywhere Was in the homeless response was there's no mention or in the public safety about personal accountability And I understand that Homeless individuals are suffering and there's a lot going on but I think in this town There's been a lack of account of individual accountability And um, it's frustrating And I don't know if there's any place to add that and maybe it's not but that that first, um Uh vision statement at the top where it was like working with the interests honestly My interest is with the the The other members of the community the business that housed And I'd like to see if because when we're offering shelter and they're not accepting it then what because that's what my experience has been and I hate to like beat a dead horse here, but It just got back from a third world country and guess what we didn't see on the ground Any garbage or and I didn't see any homeless people wandering the streets and we went to three different cities and so We can do it too. We can do it Thank you, madam vice mayor. Thank you We will work our way around miss bruner Thank you, um Um, I'll start where you kind of left off on the joy And I was just pulling up my notes because I remember that um, there was a discussion around several options, um And I think it was really trying to incorporate Um, you know create a sustainable livable city that brings joy A vibrant healthy resilient community find your joy. We kind of played around with all those um topics Building a future for everyone together of thriving community equity wellness health sustainability and and so um It's funny that we're revisiting it and it stands out in a different way now because I feel like that's what we landed on um, but You know For me, it's Either way, they all incorporate. I think what our vision and our goals are um my input for this is um, I really We we touched on it in that That Retreat in the workshop seniors And the natural the natural environment um our two Places two two topics that I'm not really seeing Called out in in here and whether it's in housing community well-being um, I think you know as we recently have um worked towards being an a a rp designated city and um, so the senior component and our um priority of our natural environment and investing in our parks and um amenities and open spaces. I think You know it and I remember that that was all around what it means to be A livable city what that you know as we define there was Trying to define livable city and defining public safety. There were some discussions. I remember around those two points And so I just think there's a way to really incorporate that in here um a little more Well, I'm gonna if I could might on the under the natural infrastructure We'd added in the word natural, but I'm hearing is where's the strategy that the environment and in the yeah, okay Less so the infrastructure. I mean not less so like infrastructure and the natural environment Thank you. Thank you Call sorry johnson. Thank you. Um, you weren't alone. I also the tagline didn't resonate with me there. I just kind of was like Ranging a little cheesy and I know we talked about I looked at my notes too But then when I saw it it didn't um Didn't land with me. I like the mayor's suggestion better than what we have here Um, but other than that I thought this that you thank you for integrating the feedback that you received on that retreat day and from all the various ways that you've been Getting information from the community I explicitly wanted to call out the integration of youth and families into many of the strategies So I really like to seeing that I do recall talking about our health and all policies as The prisms in which we look out um For every strategy that we have and so that was a very big missing Um in this report for me um and even if it's At the beginning when we have our vision statement With a visual that shows that this is all within the framework of health equity and sustainability I don't know what it looks like and um my colleague council member Watkins may have some other suggestions um And then you know just the other thing I shared with our city manager It's a lot of different strategy areas or focus areas And I kept wrecking my brain of how we could consolidate, but I think I think we would lose something so Just having worked on strategic plans before and knowing that you typically want to keep it to like three to five areas And we've got how many seven seven It's a lot. I I don't know how we solve for that. I I couldn't figure it out Each of these areas is really important. The strategies listed are important. It's very thorough So I don't know but it's a lot Yeah Thank you Thank you Let me move this way Council member Watkins is recognized. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Thank you so much for your work It's really nice to see the edit the edited version and incorporation of all of our thoughts and comments So I really appreciate that. Um, I I agree with the suggestions in terms of the joy I think you know, it can come off that way. I like happiness. I think that feels good So as we look at revisiting that that makes sense to me um I'll just share because I was thinking of my daughter when I said all of her like have fun and like I told her that and she's like and mom like black lives matter. We need more rights for women So She wanted to have fun and all the other things that we're doing. So I just wanted to contextualize that. She's like, don't miss The passion. It's a passion part. Exactly. Exactly. But it's all about really how you feel here in our community, right? And so how do we capture that and how do we implement strategies that reflect that? Um, I do agree with the health and all policies. It could be as uh simple as a Visual there's one in Richmond that is like a prism and you can it basically shows like decision making and then it comes out through The prism of these lenses of health equity and sustainability. So just as we you know, integrate that that's one suggestion We could do just visually keeping it. Um, kind of shorter on which I really like Um, so yes about the health and all policies. I agree about the age friendly cities um, and our climate change strategies for sure and then um, I'm assuming But I think to your point counts member um, Calentary Johnson Like how is this not a strategic plan that goes on the wall? But ultimately like an adaptability plan that we're using to guide us and to prioritize as years To come right and so as we're thinking about Revisiting this this plan, you know, what is built into how we revisit it would be of interest to me And so not losing track of the work but also tying it to the priorities and the implementation strategies and checkpoints along the way Um, but other than that, I think it's I think it's really great I really like that it's I think less is more in terms of wordy. It's not very wordy, which I appreciate Um, and yeah, I really appreciate your your time and energy and effort to make it reflect what we said So thank you and thanks for being here Other council members on this Miss brown. I would I would just add or or sort of Associate myself as the mayor says with the comments made by my colleagues Around the kind of some of the specifics with respect to age friendly cities Kind of how we are looking across the age spectrum children and youth to make that more prominent Um, and you know, I I have a hard time engaging with documents like this It's just not the way my brain works. I'm like am I a nuts and bolts person. So, um, You know, there's a there's a lot here and um, I think that Council member calendari johnson's point about, you know, how is it that we're Going to put this into action. That's a question for all of us for the future as well as just a comment here for the document So, thank you Ask it off to my colleague No pressure Mr. Newsom without pressure. No, thank you Thank you, marikely and my my comments will be brief. Just want to thank you for all your work on this document and for incorporating all of our For all of the feedback that you received on the document and I do want to associate with the comments about the As well to find your happiness as I like that suggested as well For the comments If we can go through a few items Last one that stands between us and our summer vacation as I understand this Yeah, yikes Let's start with The page that has The handsome city manager on it On that a message from the mayor if you'd be kind enough to have that be a mayor from a message from the mayor and city council If you would agree on the last sentence to change that to we Look forward to working with you. That'd be helpful. Thank you if we go over to Let's go over to homeless response for a moment Two items there. I imagine everything in this report is fair game Okay, good enough Some will be obviously more important than others I wonder if in response to the vice mayor's question on homelessness response if we might add a bullet That read something like this Support efforts that increase personal responsibility as an outcome. Excuse me as an element of program outcomes I'll read it again support efforts that increase personal responsibility As an element of program outcomes get you where you want to go. Okay, something like that Perhaps without objection Also the photo on that page May actually be something More suitable for natural and built environment I think there ought to be an honest photo there And by honest, I mean what we're doing in that regard something 1220 river street housing matters Something that goes to homelessness, which I don't think this does and I might just a note on the con The photos some of them we are interested in having higher quality. We needed to do some placeholders. And so noted In that same vein on the next page on public safety and community well-being I think again, I'm not sure this photo matches up to that as much as one of the most significant things That's ever happened in this community on this issue Which took place again last weekend, which is the repainting of the blm Meryl out in front of city hall might be an appropriate photo here Staying in this vein on thriving organization Um, although I know these are pictures of the county vehicle fleet I Some of which are getting a little long in the tooth But I wonder if instead some people photo of our wonderful city staff folks and Some kind of setting that that brings recognition to them rather than a special event that that is run by the parks department That would be my feedback. Let me ask if there are other comments Councilmember Watkins, no, I appreciate you Raising the the comment and the point about adding some language there and then tying it, you know In terms of a common around the picture for the Black Lives Matter Because I think what happens when we have discussions about accountability It automatically feels like criminalization or penalty and really what For example, the Black Lives Matter conversation was about accountability as a part of healing as part of personal Responsibility and it's part of growth as a community and acknowledgement of truth and and reconciliation in that way So I don't know how we capture the nuances of what that means because I think it is part of how our individuals able to learn from mistakes or circumstances situations supported Healed as a community and supported to be successful independently and that's part of our court system or our county system our programs are our system our police is I mean It's so integrated So I I guess I I say that because I feel like The nexus between the experience that happened with the Black Lives Matter is a really great Example of what a restorative justice accountability approach could be to what ultimately I think you're getting out Vice mayor with your concern around how that can be an opportunity for an individual to grow and to thrive and become Healed as a community our community healed from any Experiences and then an ability for hopefully thriving right and and ultimately actualizing our vision So I I guess as we think about the nuances of the language with that particular bullet I don't know how we can capture that and you know succinctly But I think it's really important as a value and as a approach to a really complex issue that I know we all Face and can sometimes be over generalized in one direction or another Thank you for the comment for the comment The action on this was to do what we just did provide you with feedback I don't believe there is an official action which needs to be taken unofficially. Thank you very very much long process Thank you so much Mr. Geiger good afternoon Sorry, I'm not so fast folks, but I did run under on my last comment I'm here to represent People on this petition. I'm going to submit to the clerk about 80 people from Delaware. I'm sorry. We're on public comment No, I'm sorry. I thought you heard you. Mr. Geiger. Let me let me clarify. I just can't control myself. Not a problem You do a pretty good job though I want to see if there's any any any further comment on the strategic plan anything Sure, please Good afternoon again. Yes. Good afternoon again jillian greenside I'm not usually a fan of strategic plans. However, there's some good things in here and I just like to Highlight a couple. I really is the word associate myself with council member bruner's Focus on open space. I think that really needs more focus Than the natural environment On behalf of so many people in the community Could we get rid of the term midtown? They call it the east side. It really great for a lot of us So I would very much Like to that to happen. I was really happy to see that In I couldn't get it or it's very hard to see actually the power point from the public's point of view But it was ensure that development is adequately balanced with Other things that I'm just looking at time. That is often Completely absent when we're talking about development new housing and growth I mean if you're trying to get an appointment with your dermatologist and you can't get one you've got to go over the hill All of those sorts of little personal things are tied with our expanding community Where we're bringing people in but we don't have the adequate resources people focus on water, etc Rightfully so I guess but it's the other thing So I hope you will take that to heart as you talk about development or approved developments I thought that was a great idea to reach out to the colleges to recruit workers for the city fabulous idea So where's time? What's there also? I've been doing that all day Time you're fine. Thank you Under public safety and community well-being That's was the area that I was disappointed in There are I think eight bullet points and two that I wrote down one is Establish or potentially establish an integrated health response team for the city That might be okay. The other one was determine the feasibility and funding of a regional public safety training center I'm not quarreling with those But what struck me especially after My focus really and what I shared with you was my concern about rape and domestic violence in our city And the ordinance that requires addressing that to be one of our highest priorities But that doesn't rate a mention under that category of public safety and community well-being So I'd ask if you could support having a statement in there That acknowledges that focus and address So, thank you very much. Thank you very much any other comments Person online good afternoon Yeah, hi, let's get it again. Hey, uh, my earliest remembrances of five-year plans were the communists who seem to have a five-year plan every two years But seriously, it is good to have a five-year plan But I don't really see that this is that it is mostly very vague at times a manifesto of beliefs knife sounding general ideas ideologies You know, uh, many of the uh, which are the socialist variety Actual five-year plans have objective quantifiable objectives such as reduced crime and potholes by 20 or complete the cip this or that and such Little here is measurable like none of it Not surprisingly the first plan strategy mentioned is about getting your hands on more money a lot more money i.e. Identifying creative expanded revenue approaches money money money without limit a vague smorgasbord of whatever you might do when it comes later Including support housing production for permanent supportive housing and low very low very low Housing which sounds like maximizing I'd say a vague out of your scope socialist subsidized welfare government housing plan And a deepening of this s pool of government dependence here locally Welfare is not a simple matter nor the city's function as far as I'd very reluctantly go is buying a very limited Specific amount of land preferably surplus government land and putting it into a permanent affordable housing trust to incentivize low-cost housing bills Beyond that it's just a huge no it's too socialist and caters to and invites poverty as it does I would also mention this BLM billboard has caused nothing but grief for two years and the lesson there is it wasn't a state I could go through virtually almost every directive here and not be able to say what specifically or exactly these words salads mean But provide services to people at risk of eviction to prevent homelessness seek community input to better define updated view of public safety Identify priorities need capital investment support climate adaptation You know the idea that current climate change goals will produce a rational Quantifiable betterment of the human condition is not an unquestionable fact and it needs a real slow go Sweden just announced today. They are abandoning renewable energy and they will go full nuclear Again, these are all easily hijackable issues like covid like many things Drive diversity equity inclusion efforts to strengthen sense of belonging You know it can In other words foster diversity and inclusion discrimination and trash merit to make people's lives somehow More equal despite the fact that they are undeniably just different and have responsibility for their own life Again, it's an easily and dangerously hijacked leftist mantra I missed the part where you ever figure out the right size and purpose for government state the limits what the government should or shouldn't do And including not do all in a sustainable way instead of this Thank you, sir. Good afternoon 30 31 that was that's the uh uh strategic plan I just want to talk a little bit about um, you know integrative um strategies for uh Let's see harm reduction to the natural environment Whether within or or surrounding the city and the green belt Parks developments But I was really surprised, you know, like I was really surprised to see a coyote in sky park up in scott's valley. I was like, wow This is this is this is really This is really earth shattering seeing a coyote running through sky park Um, yeah, I mean, maybe I just wasn't there when the coyote was around but Uh, they're you know, like, uh, yeah in terms of in terms of the variety of wildlife in the city in the in the The great, you know natural beauty that our county has You know, we have to realize that you know every every, you know tourists who dumps the diapers and the fast food Trash on the you know on the off the curb on the you know, just conveniently laying right out of their door That's something that in one or another ends up, you know, potentially affecting the balance of the natural life here in our In our in our city in our county So I I do Not unlike Miss miss brunner who I commend for her efforts. I do a lot of Clean up just you know, I get my hands dirty. I wash my hands a lot, but I get my hands dirty. I pick up a lot of stuff I see it I know I've talked a number of times about ocean street and how I feel ocean street Could be improved. It is sort of a keystone kind of place. It's a spot um And you know, because it's the it's the thing people see when they come here and then they get an idea of like Well, that's how Santa Cruz is so Uh, I uh, let's see. I just wanted to say I'm a I'm a big fan of public transit I'm a super client of public transit and uh I like the uh The shuttle, uh, it just stops at two few places if you ask me that thing could go all over It could serve all these intersections in the city different places county building ocean water It could go up to bay and laurel mission street safe way it could go over to Morrissey and so cal So cal and ocean you just go in a number of places in a in a kind of not too circuitous a circuit But like a circuit that serves a lot of the community and people it's just a dollar and it's a smaller bus It's manageable, you know, it's just for people, you know people's convenience. So no matter what level they're on I like it a lot. I like it a lot. I think it could be really expanded upon And I don't I don't even know what I'm doing here talking. Okay. Thanks. Bye Thank you very much appreciate anyone else online Next person online. Good afternoon Hi as regimizer again from Santa Cruz Cares. Um So I was uh supposed to get five minutes for this item So, yeah, let me just quickly talk about, um The public safety slide, uh, the bullet point determined feasibility and funding for a regional public safety center staff, uh, kind of skipped over this one, but Uh, this is kind of a big deal. Um You know, I don't know if you guys know about the atlanta Forests we lani forest Where they're doing a cop city as it's called um, a domestic urban warfare uh training center for police And given the proximity to the Santa Cruz mountain forests, uh, it feels like this is an attempt to do something similar here We will not accept that kind of project in our backyard Policing and prisons do not prevent crime or increase public safety. Our modern police are rooted in slave patrols and union busting We've been through the george floyd movement. You should all know this by now Their purpose is to maintain racial and class hierarchies Because that was their route It is not to ensure public safety That's why they can't be bothered to look at rape kits. That's why They're constantly Coordinating with anti-houseless neighborhood groups to selectively ticket poor people and vehicles That's why when we told scpd that they shouldn't ticket people based on illegal overnight parking signs in the coast Chief escalante told look out Santa Cruz if there's a parking sign we enforce it And then it required us to go to the coastal commission to stop them from doing that That's why when tomario smith died in our main jail Leading community members to ask for an oversight committee. Sheriff heart resisted that demand This is not good faith. This is not a training problem This is not something that you resolve through communication. This is a structural problem because of what police And prisons were originally Designed to do and therefore what they continue to be designed to do The safest communities are the most well-resourced With housing healthcare and education. They are not the most well policed And though those with the most resources for policing and imprisonment So we appreciate the bullet point In the public safety slide that says seek community input on an updated view of public safety Because that's what needs to happen here We cannot keep moving forward with this frankly anti-black anti-homeless anti-poor Perspective of public safety which upholds and invests more and more resources Into structures that were originally intended to segregate the poor people of color and Step on unions and break their backs The george floyd movement was not about that. You know that like you you've been around right like Minneapolis tried to pass in a abolished police amendment. That was like That was something they tried to do the black visions collective. They burned down a police station, right? Like you know that happened. They didn't like although we kneeled with our police That was not what they were asking for. They tried all the different reforms. They have the black fem led intellectual tradition of abolition and also rooted in W. E. B. Du Bois So it's like this the information is there guys like This is to try to keep moving down this path of just deep deep Pretend like this is going to keep working for you. It's not. I mean I'm we're going to organize to stop any cop city you try to build here And we're going to organize to move forward an actual racial justice movement. Thank you Thank you. Anyone else who's with us in chambers anyone else online? Next person online. Good afternoon Hello, can you hear me? Yes Okay. Hi, my name is jasmine. Mia Um, I appreciate that there was a planning process overview in the strategic plan And I noticed places where I wish to see more transparency For example under council interviews who was interviewed the community survey only yielded 275 responses Which seems nowhere near reflective of the people's opinions It said the survey was made available on the city's social media channels Not everyone follows the city. So you already have a selection bias there Not everyone even has or can access social media. So you have an accessibility issue there I'd like to see more voices included in the feedback Next I was shocked to see a line item under public safety and community well-being that says quote determine feasibility and funding of a regional public safety training center That sounds like what at lanterns are calling cop city and reggie addressed this in his comment The people of atlanta do not want cop city and I doubt standard cruisans do either. I know I don't These training centers are often used to teach military strategies And uh, truly seem aimed at calling the masses when we exercise our right to protest It can even produce more violent tactics that get turned against our own citizens, especially black and brown ones like me um And as a personal note, I feel very unsafe around police. Um, and I'm physically traumatized almost all the time when I see them It scares me that you slipped in such a contentious line item How many people are actually reading everything in the proposed Strategic plan and how many people have shown up time and time again to ask you to defund police We don't need a training center You can't train your way out of a systemic imbalance of power that stands to uphold interests of the capitalist class Please use any money that would go to this training center to instead fund more social services like housing and mental health Which would help meet people's basic needs thereby preventing many crimes I'm pretty confident that social services will increase public safety more than a regional public safety training center All this being said, I'm highly offended about the idea of using a photo of the black lives matter mural as a photo for public safety Since the fight for safety for bypox needs to be an abolitionist one Following in the work of angela davis mariam kaba ruth wilson gilmore and more Also public safety is so synonymous with law enforcement Lastly, I agree with some of the comments that these goals are very vague And it seems like it will be hard to measure if or when they are met In fact, they do seem so all-encompassing. I don't see how they can be accomplished within five years if at all I would love to be part of further conversations on how to break these down into smart goals Specific measurable achievable reliable and time-bound Additionally, I agree with jillion that public safety and community well-being should include some commitment to the prevention of violence against women Especially after the presentation today. Thank you for listening to my feedback Thank you very much Anyone else miss bush Okay, next person online. Good afternoon Hello, this is joy shumble decker Also of santa cruz cares I support everything that reggie made in his comment to you As well as what jazz just commented I would like to point out that the comments about personal responsibility are Unhoused on our streets and in our shelters those comments are profoundly ableist and Don't recognize that Substance related and addiction disorders are recognized in the dsm 5 These are disorders They are chronic illnesses and they are treatable We have medically assisted treatment or medication assisted treatment and and Safe injection sites. We have harm reduction These are evidence-based research fact Widely accepted and effective ways of helping people who have addiction related disorders and personal responsibility and accountability In the way that I think you're talking about it. Correct me if i'm wrong I don't think comes into account very much in this We need to provide people with a social safety net and programs which we know are absolutely minimal in our county And in our city We do not have the treatment available for the people That I have heard comments echoed about here today That people need to be personally Um responsible We do not have the treatment available for them We do not have the housing available for them and everybody on this city council Including mayor kealy And everybody else except for councilmember brown Voted to send an amicus brief in support Of the lawsuit against the harm reduction coalition recently Vice mayor golder is part Of that lawsuit the sequel part was thrown out And now it's going forward as a public nuisance lawsuit This is like totally unacceptable when you wrap it all together So thank you for listening. I appreciate it. I would really appreciate being part of these kinds of conversations and stakeholder groups Thank you Thank you. Anyone else online? Let's go to the next person Good afternoon Good afternoon person online. Good afternoon council. Yes. Hi. This is judy grunstra And uh, I've got a quite a simple observation about this What is lacking in this plan? I also have been reading some strategic plans lately by the parks and rec commission Parks and rec department and the library everybody's coming out with these strategic plans that are vague and one thing that I Think is quite a simple Recognized need our public restrooms. I don't see anything about that in the parks and rec strategic plan Or this under you would think it would be under public safety and community well-being But it's been talked about a lot like how come we don't have you know enough public restrooms and I'd like to see that addressed somewhere. Thank you Thank you. Anyone else online miss bush? Excuse me No, all right Anyone else wish to testify? Matters back before the council. There is no recommended action except to hold this This discussion this afternoon We are on oral communication This would be the opportunity for anyone to address the city on a matter under our jurisdiction But not on today's agenda and good afternoon. Mr. Geiger After that, let me try that again, right? I've got some petitions here. Uh, these are people in the delaware lmar Woodrow area about 80 signatures about 95 of the people approach sign this This is in regard to the traffic diversion due to the west cliff drive unfortunateness So naturally everybody wants less cars on the street except perhaps auto mechanics But there are none here. I'm not here today. So they're not represented Oxford Way Had 600 cars a day. I believe was a study and it went up to 2000 And somehow that was deemed extremely Unacceptable by somebody somewhere in the bureaucracy because now they have barricades stopping cars from going through I think most of us would agree the intelligent way to approach a problem is to gather data Analyze the data and formulate some kind of a policy and at least see if it works I don't believe that was done in this case. As soon as west cliff was closed There was immediately detour signs sending people up to Delaware Avenue How come well, I've heard that it's well, it's an arterial Well arterials are main streets. Yes, but to get people from somewhat distant points This detour is like how you look at it either three short locks or one long block I think an arterial is irrelevant to the fact that the detour was sent up there This plan if it was a plan is in violation of the city's climate action plan It's causing unnecessary driving three blocks up three blocks back thousands of cars a day You're talking about some serious mileage by the end of the year But that's not the main problem here. The problem is actually a matter of life and death If you're familiar with Delaware Avenue You'll think about where the divided part going west ends and then you have to swerve over In front of councilmember golder's sister's house I believe they've lost three cars totaled in the last five years the neighbor's next to That's bad. That's really bad. But what's even worse is the bicycling At that point it disappears and people now are into the traffic And putting more traffic onto Delaware Avenue is increasing this hazard There's no reason to put more traffic on Delaware Avenue. This is where kids ride their bikes to school They don't ride down the other streets because it's not an arterial It would make more sense to put the traffic from west cliff on the closest streets to west cliff Thanks Thank you, mr. Geiger Let me see if anyone else wishes to comment on oral communication. Is there anyone online? Mrs. Bush Okay, very good and the clerk will be glad to accept those. Thank you, mr. Geiger. Good afternoon, sir um Let's see Let's see. Yeah, I just wanted to touch again on my I mean my thoughts on um A circulator and sand crews as opposed to you know, um, you know solely one that They have in in Watsonville, which is uh from every indication people have talked to you is really highly utilized It's it's very it's kind of a favorite of the community there in Watsonville um One thing I've I've noted from Going up to campus a lot is that A lot of people don't you know get off very often at the base of campus, but they do they do quite a few But if there were a bus some kind of bus that went just to the base of campus It would really facilitate that huge issue that students have about like they're not being enough buses um Because you know just take pressure off those those buses that they they do have Um, it's just a thought on that um But um, yeah, uh getting to the boardwalk itself. I guess one thing I guess I I mean, I guess I haven't kind of see why excuse me I'm eating some um I guess I can see uh why they don't don't go up beach street to the boardwalk itself like per se get to the boardwalk Um, but you know, I kind of feel like the circulator could could Um, as such, you know, it's administrated by her her professional administrative capacities It could probably serve, uh, you know, I think if I mean, it'll be nice if it served a few more stops I mean, I've talked to your drivers about that. They agree. I think um, you know seem to um Five minutes. Uh, have a great Have a great summer Anyone else online miss bush Anyone else who's with us? Good afternoon. Good afternoon at the risk of really being standing between human vacation I thought since I'm still here and it's oral communications. I'd share something which Um, I've shared in other places, but not here and it is first of all My guess is nobody has a plane at like five o'clock Take your time. You're good. Thank you. Um I like to echo the appreciation for the public work staff For moving ahead to fixing the damage on west cliff What has disturbed me is that that has not been The central thrust of all of this Uh, you know, that should be the story It was damaged from a storm. The storms are not, um, unprecedented Uh, the engineers said that the parts that really were damaged were because they were from the 90s and they weren't Fixed they didn't have maintenance the parts that were recent. Um riprap stood up well So the the end of that story is well, we've get federal money to fix this and fix it so We can withstand further storms But then there's a side show and the side show Is people who want to turn west cliff one way? I'm not one of them and there are a lot like me who don't want that And that has seemed to have captured a lot of city staff's attention and, um, consultants and public meetings and that stirs me because it feels like it is not the central issue and it was sort of almost symbolically Indicated at those public meetings in london nelson center When the public work staff was sort of at the back corner and the other presenters with their big bold ideas for 100 years in the future Had center stage and lots of, um, you know Bling to to share So I just hope we will be honest about this and keep centered on what is needed The road will be opened up for two way and then the situations that mr. Geiger mentioned Will go away. So I'm hoping that will be in our future. Thank you. Thank you very much Good afternoon We're gonna do we're gonna do you'll be right up after the somebody did call in Toggle back and forth. So good afternoon person online. Welcome Okay, this is good again Hey, this so-called workforce affordable housing should Apparently be called for what it is government price controlled subsidized welfare housing or public project housing Consider the end game where more and more parcels are subsidized and more gain welfare exempt property tax status Fewer and fewer people remain to be coercively forced to subsidize and more and more subsidized tenants neither pay for all their housing Nor for the city services. They consume it burns the economic candle at both ends Under what socioeconomic theory is an ever increasing welfare state a viable indicator the city is headed in the right direction It is defective equity or burning socialism or anarcho c to rich because what it is not is free market capitalism without monopolies You suggest we belieffully gush over expensive city software showing us the constantly growing parcels of price control subsidized welfare housing Instead of seeing it as spreading economic decay and the deepening cesspool of government dependence Big surprise. I've not received my email invitation to any further public meeting of the welfare housing initiative That's okay. It was a poser convention all around I've wondered if someone like in oceans 11 would get the empty home tax gang back together for one more caper Or how many people who don't live here or will pay is involved So far who they are is a mystery last meeting the socialists were out in the forest Regurgitating the immoral real estate transfer tax. I assume they drool while contemplating its direct death nature High jacking the valid purpose of attacks intended to cover actual minor Documentary costs knowing very well it will never apply to them The very few cities that do this are cities were rising crime in moral and economic decline in the east bay in san francisco We all have helped just rank san francisco dead last in the nation as to how well run of big city is Thank you, sir Good afternoon Mayor and council, my name is grant wilson I guess I've been coming sporadically to city council meetings since I moved here in the 1980s Um, and I feel a bit of frustration about the structure and process Because I've come I've tried to come to speak at oral communications. I think Maybe two other times in the past two or three months But I would find that well, it's it's actually unclear when oral communications happens and to me It's very frustrating because I think at least maybe for 20 years or more It was always at 7 p.m. At the start of the meeting that to me seems good because it allows Working families working people who have jobs to be able to get home from work and be able to come and speak And I know sometimes it's frustrating Sometimes you don't hear pleasant things by from the public, but that's the democratic process That's the process of representing the community You have to hear people who don't agree with you or don't like you or whatever But I think by putting oral communications at an arbitrary time I mean I called the you know the city council office today to ask well What time does it happen? Well, they certainly couldn't tell me. I don't think any of you could tell me It's just when the other agenda items are done. And that's To me, that's just not very democratic. That's not very transparent. That's not, uh, that doesn't allow people to come and speak and I feel like that's Evading your responsibilities as elected representatives. So I would implore you and encourage you to Shift it back to a time where the public could actually speak and could plan on speaking So Thank you. Welcome Stay here for just a second Customarily, we don't respond by which I know that an informational piece for you earlier in our agenda today on item nine There were a whole series of sort of technical issues and so on some of which were moderately substantive And the council on the issue that exactly the issue you're raising Pulled that item gave direction to the city manager and to me to meet and Look exactly at this issue about when does oral communication happen for the reasons you're talking about it So thank thank you for for bringing that to our attention And also Let me ask if there is anyone else online Anyone else anyone else with us? And was there a Certainly miss brooner um a question on Um The the whole detour sign Uh item that was brought up in oral communications and I understand public works has been working on that And there are updates to that um Can someone tell me at in city staff where that information where the public can find that information um for the most recent updates with detours and the whole um You know, uh oxford cul-de-sac pelton wood row almar delaware alta pelton delaware And all of those signage because we've we've all received a lot of concerns Regarding those impacts and and while I understand it is temporary as they're working through that I think it would be good to just publicly say where those and that updated information can be found for folks I can answer that There's all I just I get I get emails and phone calls daily. I think maybe more than any of us Because of where my district is there's a website and um, it's on the city of santa cruz Website and they're in the title of the page is west cliff storm damage and temporary traffic controls And there's a bunch of links on there where you can find up-to-date information and claire and matt have been really responsive to the neighbors Going out and meeting with neighbors and responding to their emails and questions as they come up And so, you know, I've been really impressed with their professionalism and the level of customer service that they're giving to those neighbors and it hasn't solved all the problems and so We have a meeting scheduled after the 4th of july where we're meeting up with city staff again and Kind of figuring out next steps and circling back with neighbors after mid july probably Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all very much for the business to come before the council Ms. Bush for their action we need to take mr. City attorney Someone's hand did go up all good here. Excuse. I'm sorry one more hand just went up if you want to oh online Okay, we'll we'll take one more one more Good afternoon Person online. Good afternoon. Yes. Good afternoon I'm going to give you three more one two three Sorry about that. Uh, whoever was online, uh, we'll we'll talk to you in august. I suspect All business having finished. I'll just use the the prerogative of the presiding officer to say this is uh ends up my first six or seven months on this council and I want to thank colleagues for your kindness and thoughtful approach to your civic responsibilities here as elected officials to miss bush who even with Diminished number of staff people here performed heroically again today. So thanks to you and your Wonderful staff in the city clerk's office city manager City attorney all the staff of the city of santa cruz Thank you so much for the first half of this year being one of a lot of hard work and a lot of Progress in various areas and thank you all very much. We all I believe wish everyone here Happy summer vacation for a while and we'll see you again at the beginning of of august A motion to adjourn would be in order the vice mayor moves Every member of the city council seconds, but we will designate mr. Newsom as the official second on that non debatable those in favor signify by saying aye Opposed motion carries and so ordered happy summer