 Good afternoon. I'd like to ask the interpreter currently on the Spanish Channel to commence translation of the meeting for those just joining the meeting live translation in Spanish is available and members of the public public or staff wishing to listen in Spanish can join the Spanish Channel by clicking on the interpretation icon in the zoom toolbar. It looks like a globe. Once you join the Spanish Channel we recommend you shut off the main audio so you can only hear the Spanish translation interpreter. Will you please translate this in Spanish. Welcome to those who just joined the meeting live interpretation in Spanish is available and any member or staff wishing to listen in Spanish can join the channel. To join, click on the interpretation icon that appears in the zoom toolbar as a globe. Once you join the Spanish Channel we recommend you shut off the main audio so you can only hear the Spanish interpreter. Council Member Rogers. Council Member Okrepke. Council Member McDonald. Council Member Fleming. Council Member Alvarez. Vice Mayor Stapp. Mayor Rogers. President. Let the record reflect all council members are present. Thank you we will now proceed to item 3.1 which is our closed session for the day 3.1 is conference with labor negotiators. Madame City Clerk can you please facilitate public comment on this item. We are now taking public comment on closed session item 3.1. If you are in the council chamber and would like to comment please make your way to the speaker. Mayor I'm seeing no one in council chamber for public comment. Thank you we will now recess into closed session. Welcome everyone to our April 16, 2024 Santa Rosa City Council meeting. It is now 4.03 and we will be starting our meeting. Seeing a quorum Madame Deputy City Clerk can you please call the roll. Thank you Mayor. Council Member Rogers. Council Member Okrepke. Council Member McDonald. Council Member Fleming. Council Member Alvarez. Vice Mayor Stapp. Here. Mayor Rogers. President. Let the record reflect all council members are present. Thank you moving on to item 6 which is our closed session item. Madame City Attorney can you please report out on closed session. Thank you Madame Mayor. Council Members I have nothing to report there was no reportable action taken in closed session. Thank you. Moving on to item 7 which is our proclamation for today and that will be read by our own Vice Mayor Stapp. I'm back. Thank you Madame Mayor. I have a high honor to welcome Sonoma Wine Month. Whereas the grape vines of Sonoma County have awakened from their winter slumber and hopes for another good harvest run high. And whereas the 400 Sonoma County wineries including many in Santa Rosa produce wines from more than 60 great varieties that rank among the world's finest. And whereas Sonoma County boasts a remarkable 19 designated American viticultural areas in which grapes are grown. Representing all of Sonoma County's beautiful ecosystems that include ocean side meadows, mountain hill sides and valleys cooled by marine fog. The fog is still very important to the grapes. And whereas the Sonoma County wineries produce wine worth $8 billion annually, inspire an additional $1.2 billion in tourism for Santa Rosa in the county, support one out of every four local jobs and draw visitors from around the world to our city. And whereas Sonoma County Vintners is the leading voice of Sonoma County wine. Representing more than 250 local wineries and has helped establish Sonoma County as one of the world's premier wine regions. And whereas the Sonoma County Vintners Foundation has donated more than $42 million to local nonprofit organizations to strengthen our community. And whereas the city of Santa Rosa celebrates the legacy of Kanai Nagasawa, pioneer of Santa Rosa winemaking, his statue is in the back left there for those who are interested. Former Samurai warrior, the first Japanese national to live permanently in the United States and the winemaker who introduced Sonoma County wine to Europe and Asia. At the same time, we raise our glasses to the thousands of local workers who create delicious local wine for the world to enjoy. And whereas Sonoma County wineries will toast wine month with an amazing, diverse and tasty offerings throughout Sonoma County, now therefore be it resolved that Natalie Rogers, mayor of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city council, does hereby proclaim April 24 Sonoma County wine month in the city of Santa Rosa. People are a little happy up here about wine month. Thank you very much, Vice Mayor. I would like to invite the representative or representatives that are here to accept this proclamation to make a comment at this time. If you would like to do so. Thank you so much. My name is Mike Haney. I'm the executive director of Sonoma County Vintners and Sonoma County Vintners Foundation. And I want to thank the council here tonight on behalf of our team, our board, and of course our Sonoma County wine community. Thank you so much for this great honor. We so appreciate it and we're humbled by this wonderful proclamation. So thank you all so very, very much. Thank you. We are going to have public comment. So Madam City Deputy Clerk, if you can facilitate that and if you want to start making your way down because we will like to take a picture with you after our public comment. We are now taking public comment on item 7.1. If you are in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. Mayor, I am seeing no one approach the podium for public comment. Thank you. You can come on down. We'll take a picture. All right. Moving on to item 7.2. Madam City Manager. Item 7.2 is a presentation. Sonoma County Library Director will provide an update on Sonoma County Library Service to the citizens of Santa Rosa. Residents, excuse me. There we go. Good evening, Mayor Rogers, City Council members, and City Manager Smith. I'm Erica Toboe. I'm your county librarian and I am joined today by your commissioners, David Cahill, who represents the City of Santa Rosa and Sara Legos, who represents the city and county. And we're here to share some information about our library and the resources that we provide. In July of last year, the library conducted a community survey involving over 800 people. And we tabulated the results. And what you see before you are the main points that people want for our library system. Qualified librarians, reading programs for children, homework help, career support, and computer labs, safe place for children after school, and clean, safe places. Next slide, please. We have a strategic plan, which we call the Reimagining Plan, which was finalized in 2021. This again was an extensive outreach. Over 1,000 people took part in meetings, focus groups, and individual interviews. And it helps set our priority in terms of program services and facility needs, as well as how they are funded. So that's our basic plan and it's available on our website, which is SonomoLibrary.org. So if you want to know what we're doing and why we're doing it, it's in the Reimagining Plan. One of the parts of the plan is to make sure we have some branch staff get out of the branches and into the communities to reach people who don't often go to a branch library. Commissioner Serra Lagos and I will now give alternating thumbnail sketches of the four Santa Rosa Libraries. And Sarah, we'll go first. Sure. So Central Santa Rosa Library. It's just three blocks away, so you can take a quick walk over there if you want. Central Santa Rosa Library opened in its current location in 1967, but we've been a part of the community since 1859. We average about 50 different programs per month. Some interesting features of the Santa Rosa Library is that in addition to, of course, all the books and materials that are checked out regularly, we also offer the home of E Street Studios. E Street Studios offers two sound studios and two editing stations where you can create professional level audio recordings such as podcasts, songs, poetry, so no more need to podcast from your basement. You can also check out a wide variety of camera equipment as well as over 1,600 pieces of sheet music from the Central Music File, from genres including classical, Broadway musicals, folk, jazz, country, pop and rock. Central Library is also home to one of my favorite programs that the library offers. The Adult Literacy Program Office is located inside Central Santa Rosa. The Adult Literacy Program provides free services to adults who want to work one-on-one with a community volunteer tutor to improve their basic reading, writing, or English language skills. The programs are learner-centered and community-oriented. We train the community volunteers as tutors to help adult learners accomplish their learning goals. So I encourage you to stop by the Santa Rosa Libraries and check out some of the collection of writings by the members of our Sonoma County immigrant communities who participate in this program as they share their stories of what it's like to immigrate and find their place in Sonoma County. These anthologies, which are printed and in circulation in our libraries, give us a tiny glimpse into the lives of these community members. Northwest, that's my branch. It opened in 1968. You can see some statistics on your screen. This is a busy branch. And it collaborates with the Charles Schultz Museum. It has a statue of Lucy in front of the branch. There's a mural in the children's room. And it is a big participant in ZenFest. The third annual ZenFest is this coming Saturday, April 20th. Next slide. So the Rinken Valley Library has served northeastern Santa Rosa communities of Rinken Valley, Bennett Valley, and Oakmont since 1994. It averages about 24 programs per month. And in addition, of course, to all the books and materials that are checked out there, it's also home to the Montecito Studio, which is another sound studio with equipment available for recording and editing, as well as one of our convenient 24-hour Bibliobox lockers. So you can pick up your holds at any time, 24-7. Don't have to wait for the library to be open. You can also check out one of our self-service laptop kiosks there. The kiosks hold 12 full-featured laptops and offers a flexible option for going online anywhere inside of the library. One of my favorite programs at the Rinken Valley branch is the Free Stay and Play Cafe. So children and their caregivers ages zero to five. So if you know anyone who's expecting a baby anytime soon who might want to be looking to build community as a first-time parent, we really encourage you to stop by and check out our Stay and Play activities. These are events that are designed for new parents to come build community, come as rate on their loss of sleep, and also explore toys, costumes, and discovery centers in the library. So I encourage you, if you know anybody, to let them know about this great event that's happening at the libraries. So the one last piece about the Rinken Valley is we're preparing for a modernization project in 2526. So we're currently in the selection process for an architect for the project and look forward to welcoming our community into that revitalized space in the next few years. The Rosen Regional Library. Right now we have a temporary library which replaces the temporary library in the front of an abandoned furniture store. This one's really nice. It opened three years ago. And one of the things that I would like to point out, this is the smallest branch with regard to square feet, and I think with regard to circulation. But it offers 950-plus programs a year. This is an example of the outreach to the community. I could hardly believe it when I saw the figures. So it also has story walks. It works with Shone Farm. And there's a rotating quilt exhibit. Of course, this is just the prelude to the Herne Library, which is in the design phase now thanks to the generosity of this council. We hope to break ground late this year. So that's it for me. Right. So I'm going to share with you just general overview of the accounting library system. We have 15 locations. As far north as Cloverdale, south to Petaluma, Gernville and Sebastopol to the west, and Sonoma Valley to the east, and all points in between. Your countywide library system allows us to provide a million books, hundreds of digital resources, and a comprehensive interlibrary loan system. A mobile library van and much more. By partnering with you, we can offer more expensive library services than you could provide if you ran the library as a city department. We have about 300 employees, and an administrative center that's located in Rohnert Park, where all of our back-of-house functions are done. So now I'm going to share with you some statistics from last year, some accomplishments that we are very proud of. These include our full implementation of Sunday hours. All of our locations are now open from one to five on Sundays. This was a result of the Measure Y sales tax funding. We know that families love the Sunday hours. We saw an immediate increase of 320% attendance based upon that, and some of our branches actually report having to ticket some of their programs because they're so popular that our room capacities just don't have the space to allow everyone who wants to attend. We also completed our facilities master plan, which the city should have. We assessed all of our buildings to determine what needs we anticipate over the next 20 years. We launched our fundraising campaign for Roseland in November of 2022. The foundation has raised 1.2 million at this point, and they're on track to continue raising more. The total goal is 3.6 million for the Roseland Library. We also negotiated an MOU with the county for Juvenile Hall. We provide a professional librarian at that location 20 hours a week, which far exceeds the average that most county libraries provide. Most county libraries provide three to four hours a week, and we have somebody who is full-time, who works at Central Library half the week, and the other half the week they're at Juvenile Hall, where they are doing collection development, conducting book clubs, and working with those incarcerated youth. We also had our Volunteer Leadership Recognition Day, and this was where we recognized all of our fantastic volunteers, our friends of the library, our lab members, our commissioners, and let them know how much we appreciate their work. And lastly, we applied for multiple Building Forward Together grants. These were grants that the State Library had. It was about 476 million. We, out of 12 branches, we got grants for six. Four of them are in this round two, and Santa Rosa Northwest was one of the branches that was awarded the funds. The funds are currently on hold because of the state's budget deficit, and we were really worried that they would be clawed back, but we have some, you know, positive, you know, vibes from the State Library that we think those funds will be restored, so we're hoping to hear more about that in May when the governor gives his May revise budget. So last year was a banner year for the library. We had 1.2 million visits to branches, and this was a 37% increase over the previous year. This was due to a concerted effort to expand hours, including Sundays, as well as a hard work and commitment of many library staff. We hired 20 additional staff to enable us to do that, and we now offer service 765 hours at all branches every week, which is a 30% increase above 2017 level. We also had a banner year in terms of circulation. We exceeded 4 million, and this surpasses all previous years, as you can see from the graph. The orange is our digital and the blue is our physical. That includes books, DVDs. Our physical circulation is about 68%. The digital is 32, and that really increased during the pandemic when we were only curbside. People realized that they could get their books, they could download them to their phones, to their laptops, to their iPads, and we've really seen exponential growth in that area. Even our physical circulation, though, has really increased since the pandemic, and we are on track this year to exceed what we did last year. Our budget is 51.3 million. As you can see from this pie chart, most of it goes to salaries and benefits. We also have some for our building facilities, which is from our fund balance. Per capita cost county-wide is about $89 per person. That's actually quite good compared to other jurisdictions in the state. And this is our Building Forward Together grants we applied. We got $5.5 million from the state for these projects. This year would be the History and Genealogy Library, which is the one location that the library actually owns. And that was deeded to us by the previous tenant. But Rohnert Park was funded, as was Gernville and Northwest. And as I said, we hope that the state will be restoring those funds to us soon. We provide all kinds of services to youth and adults. Our adult services is really self-directed. We have learning and life goals, including high school diplomas that we offer through our Career Online High School program. We also have all kinds of welcoming spaces and access to technology. We provide one-on-one tech help as well as classes. We have tax preparation classes, as well as rich and diverse programming. This Sunday, I was at Central Library where they had a cookbook author, a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author, Bryant Terry, and the Friends of the Library graciously gave all of the attendees copies of his cookbook. So that was a really wonderful event. These are some of the things that we offer adults in addition to our adult literacy meeting rooms, printing and outreach, which is exemplified by our Bibliobus. Our Bibliobus goes to all areas of the county, including apartment homes, schools, some of our unincorporated areas, including Bodega Bay, Casadero, Monterey-O, the Springs, Geyserville. So if you see that blue bus on the road, that's our Bibliobus. For youth, we offer a variety of different programs, including early learning, story times, literacy support, like Read to a Dog, if you've ever seen that. That's for young readers who are building their confidence in their reading skills. They get to read to a very patient, well-behaved dog, and better their reading skills. We also offer school support with our Student One Card Program, and this is county-wide. Students can get a library card through their school in addition to their regular library card. And then we provide STEAM and educator support. And then this summer, every summer we do a summer lunch at the library, and this is for those families that are battling food insecurity, and we hire teen interns to help with our summer lunch program. They pay them and they do a program as part of their services to that community. We have extensive collections. We have over 600,000 items across all of our locations. But we also share our library collection with Lake County and Mendocino County. So if you are putting a book on hold, you might get it from one of our branches, or you could get it from Lake or Mendocino. We also have an amazing service called Link Plus, which is a network of 70 libraries throughout the state that if you can't find something that you want from your local branch, you can go to Link Plus and request it. And it's really especially good for those niche items. My husband is a filmmaker and loves these really obscure, you know, 1970s Czech feminist films, and he gets them through Link Plus from as far south as San Diego, San Rafael, San Francisco Public. So really great service. We also have extensive digital content. Libby is our main e-book and e-audiobook platform, and we have surpassed one million checkouts two years in a row. And in the state of California, we are actually number five in terms of circulation out of 180-plus library jurisdictions. We are number five, so we're really proud of that, and we know that people love this digital content. We also provide other services such as PressReader, where you can get the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Press Democrat. This is all available with your library card. And then we have learning platforms like LinkedIn Learning and Mango Languages for people who want to teach themselves new skills. We also have what we call our Library of Things, and these are things that you can check out, including parks passes, state parks passes. This is a three-week checkout. You take it home, and you can go to as many parks as you like in that three-week period. Again, it's a very popular program in Sonoma County. We are number five in the state for the state parks pass, and that just demonstrates how much people love the great outdoors here. But we also have other things such as our stories to go, our DIY toolkit, and our Sonoma Phi, which are hotspots that we lend to patrons. We have hotspots, about 1,000, that we lend to our branches for people who don't have internet access or have spotty internet access. As Sarah was pointing out, we do have these Biblio boxes, which are 24-7 booklockers. They're outdoors, so you don't have to wait for the library to open to pick up your holes. We have them at many of our branches by this point, and eventually we will have them at all. We currently have them at Gernville, Sonoma Valley, Ringen Valley, Healdsburg. Windsor's just went live yesterday, and Cloverdale's as well. So by the end of June, we'll have them at Northwest and Sevastopol. And then the laptop kiosk, which she also talked about, is in the middle. That is for checkout while you're in the library. You can't take those home, but it is a flexible model that people can use. And then we have our Biblio bus and our Chrome kit, which is a Chromebook and a Wi-Fi hotspot. And people can check these out and take them home. Really great product. So this is one of my favorite quotes. This is from an article, an op-ed that I did in early April, a patron responded, that our library was one of the best, one of the very few institutions that improved during COVID. The increased access to electronic resources was huge. And I have to say, I'm very proud of the work that we have done during and since the pandemic to provide responsive, community-based programs and services. And our usage over the past year demonstrates that our community recognizes the value that we provide and the overall positive impact it has on their quality of life. That concludes our presentation. Thank you so much for being here and thank you for the presentation. As you know, I just saw the presentation, but I think that you are doing a wonderful job with the library. And so that is very great. So thank you very much. We will now look to see if Council has any questions. No? I think Chris is really going to benefit having the new baby. Yeah. And with that, we will ask Madam City Clerk if she would like to take public comment. Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 7.2. If you are in the council chamber and would like to comment, but have not provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period. As you approach the podium, please state your name for the record. If you choose to do so, first up will be Dwayne DeWitt. Dwayne DeWitt, I'm from Roseland. Thank you for the wonderful presentation and thank you for the library services that we have here in this county. I've been familiar with both the downtown and the Northwest branches since they opened those new buildings. My hope to you is that all of you folks will advocate for a 16th branch, that we keep the existing Roseland branch where it is in Roseland on Sebastopol Road in the heart of the most disadvantaged, underserved and overburdened census district in the entire county, and that the branch that you're planning for down by the Herne Avenue would be the Bellevue branch for the Moreland district, which you'll be annexing and adding tens of thousands of more residents. That brand new branch right there would serve all those new residents very well. It's about a mile and a half from the Sebastopol Road corridor, which is the heart of Roseland, and right now that branch sees all kinds of activity. It would really actually be a money saver to keep that branch as it is without having to go through any transition, and then as you build the new one to the south, you can get that all ready for those new residents that will be moving in. You can actually also be getting what are called exactions from the developers who've been building the housing out there and get dedications in which it would help that new branch be even more helpful to the entire county, not just to Santa Rosa. But back to Roseland, that area that I'm most familiar with, and which I come here to advocate for with you folks. The people at the Library Commission have heard me speak before, and this isn't about undermining any of the plans you have for that new branch there in Bellevue, this is about adding more to the resources and facilities of the library system. This could be done by reaching out to various funders. Other people's money could come from not just the state and the federal government, but also from community foundations. We have a foundation of Sonoma County, and there are other groups that could actually step up to be more helpful on this. One of the things that just passed in the last election was that our governor passed a proposition, one, to help with mental health issues. One of the best ways to do those mental health type approaches is to have a vibrant library nearby where people can go and read and take a time off, if you will, a break from the stresses of our community life these days. I know that you folks, if you'd look into it, you'd find this proposal would actually be welcomed in many other forums. And so I'm more than willing to give all my time to volunteer to try to get you more money so we can have a separate Bellevue branch and we can keep our branch in Roseland. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm seeing no additional speakers for this item. Thank you. Bringing it back to council to make sure no one has any comments. And with that, thank you very much for the presentation. We have no staff briefings today, so we are going to continue to item nine, which is our city manager and city attorney reports. Madam city manager. Thank you, mayor. Good evening, council. Have a couple of items for you tonight. So the first one, our nominations are being accepted now through June the 14th for the city's 2024 Merit Awards. These awards celebrate and honor Santa Rosa's outstanding community volunteers. You can visit srcity.org forward slash merit awards to nominate an individual. My second update, the recreation and parks department is seeking volunteers to help with junior Giants baseball. The free program is a partnership with the San Francisco Giants Community Fund and it teaches baseball basics with the emphasis on building character. Baseball knowledge is not a requirement to volunteer. You can visit srcity.org forward slash junior Giants for more information. And my last update on this Thursday evening, beginning at 5 30 p.m. The city will host a virtual community meeting for a coffee park and Fountain Grove neighborhood road recovery project to discuss pavement work that is beginning at the end of this month. This is an 18 month project that will resurface 33 miles of roadway that was damaged during the Tubbs fire. You can visit neighborhood roadrecovery.com for more information. Thank you. Madam city attorney. Thank you, madam mayor, council members. I have my litigation report out for the month of March 2024. There was one settlement over $50,000 that was finalized in March 2024. And that settlement was previously authorized by the city council in closed session in the matter of Bay City's paving and grading versus city of Santa Rosa. The case involved a $10.2 million public works construction contract dispute arising from phase two of the stony point widening project. The lawsuit was brought against the city by contractor Bay City's paving and grading. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the city's design consultant GHD will pay Bay City's $3.75 million and the city will pay Bay City's $2.75 million. In exchange, Bay City's must dismiss the lawsuit against the city and the city releases all claims against GHD. This settlement is conditioned on the city council appropriating sufficient funds to pay the city's share of the settlement. If the city does not appropriate sufficient funds, the settlement will not become effective and the case will be reset for trial. The necessary request for an appropriation is on this evening's consent calendar as item 13.10. Otherwise, our case load remains fairly consistent at approximately 30 matters. Many cases are currently in discovery phase and many have trial dates assigned to them. We continue as always to try to resolve smaller cases with little or no cost to the city. And that concludes my report this evening. Thank you very much. And Madam City Deputy Clerk, may you please facilitate public comment on this item? We are now taking public comment on item 9.1. If you are in the council chamber, it would like to comment, but if not provided a speaker card to your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period. As you approach, please state your name if you choose to do so. Please go ahead once you're ready. Yes, hello, my name is Dwayne Dewitt. I was curious about the settlement that's being discussed later today between you folks and the paving company and those millions of dollars. And I was hoping there'd be a bigger explanation of why the city of Santa Rosa has to pay so much money to that paving company. Thank you. I am seeing no additional public comment on this item. Thank you. Moving on to item 10, which is our statements of abstention by council members and looking to council members to see if we will have any today and it does not look like we do. Council Member Alvarez. Item 16.3, I will be abstaining due to the subject property being close to one of my businesses. Thank you. We will now move to item 11, which are Mayor and Council Member Reports. Council Member O'Crufkey. Yeah, so last week on the 11th, we had a great showing from the City of Santa Rosa to the Engineering Contractors Association Public Officials Night. It's an opportunity for not just the elected officials, but also staff members from Transportation and Public Works and planning to get together with those that build our streets, move the dirt that we build houses on and have just frank conversations and interact. It was a great showing with a majority of my fellow council members and executive staff there. I'm not going to name everybody because I think there ended up being 20 some of us. It was the best showing that we've ever had at that event, so I take great pride in that. The next day, I was invited by Supervisor James Gore to be a part of the general session at the, excuse me, at the Khaled Conference where we had a panel regarding preparedness, leadership and collaboration in the face of natural disaster. It was a great presentation by my fellow panel members and I was happy just to be on the stage with some of those individuals and imparting the knowledge that we so definitely earned and struggled through in our times recovering from the various natural disasters, fire but flood and everything else that this community has been through. Later that day, I was able to attend the Khaled Luncheon an award ceremony where our city actually got a, we'll call it an honorable mention for our Southeast Greenway campaign and it was great to be a part of that with city staff who was there and to be able to have our staff and community and city's efforts recognized by a statewide organization. Thank you, Council Member Plyming. Yes, last week on Wednesday in San Francisco, MTC met the Barrier Housing Finance Authority Oversight Board discussed moving forward the housing bond in November, especially in light of the necessary labor standards. The board unanimously voted to move forward, not yet agenda, not yet place on the ballot, but to move forward the current housing bond and make it dependent upon the labor standards that are going through the state legislature sponsored by Senator Cortese for those of you who are following that bond as it goes along. And then on Thursday, I addressed the Khaled conference in regards to the importance of downtown as an economic generator. Thank you to staff for setting that up. And then I wanted to announce the appointment of Derek Knowles to the Community Advisory Board and thank him and his community for beautifying and working so hard on North Street Community Park. Anybody who makes a big point of our parks and our open spaces has a special place in my heart and so Derek gets an appointment. Thank you, Council Member McDonough. Thank you, Mayor. As Council Member Krepke said, many of us went to the Northern California's Engineering Contractors Association dinner and I just wanted to thank them for hosting that and giving us the opportunity to hear about what's going on, not just in our community as far as infrastructure goes, but what's happening in the other communities as well and the awards that were presented that night. So I wanted to thank them for that. And then I too was able to attend the Khaled conference and want to thank all of our staff that really did their great effort of making sure that the city was spruced up all over town to make sure that the walking, I guess you call them field troops to different parts of our community were well led things to SRPD for the guidance along the way. And I just want to say thanks to parks, to streets, to everyone who did all the work to make sure that Sonoma County and specifically Santa Rosa just shine so much that day. I'm so proud to be part of this council but even prouder of the staff for all their hard work. So I just want to say thanks to them and to bring the conference to Santa Rosa. It was great to see that and all the positive comments from other people around the state of California and it's great to show off where we live. So thanks. Thank you Vice Mayor Staff. Thank you Mayor. On April 11th, Mayor Rogers and Council Member Crepeke and I had the chance to attend the ribbon cutting at Canine Companions. Canine Companions, a well-known local nonprofit, they're opening a huge new building that's going to double their, it's an animal care center and it's going to double their ability to raise and train dogs that help disabled individuals across the country. I don't know if anybody saw the Press Democrat article that came out this week to talk about Canine Companions and in particular the work that Canine Companions is doing even in places like San Quentin. It's important to underline that Canine Companions, it's based here, it was founded in Santa Rosa, but it's a national organization. It's got a really impressive history and it was great to be there celebrating with 180 or so community members and donors who helped make that organization possible. And then on the 12th, I'd like to thank Council Member, excuse me, City Manager Smith and James Castro from Parks and Rec. I'm not sure if I see him and Doug Williams from Transportation and Public Works. They and their teams helped organize a great Park of Month program here on the City Hall site. So if you notice the things look a little tidier coming in, that's thanks to the pressure watching and the new mulch and the weeding and just general tidying here on City Hall grounds. In addition to city staff, we had I think 20 or so volunteers and it was just a great and very efficient morning. So thanks to all the members of the staff here who made that possible. And then in conclusion, on April 2nd, my wife and I happened to be traveling to South Korea rather. And we managed to gain an audience with the mayor of Jeju City, South Korea, Santa Rosa's sister city. Many of you probably noticed the statues that are right across the street. I don't know if I'm pointing in the right direction, but those are statues from Jeju Island. And so we met with the mayor and his staff, Mayor Byung-Som Kong. And this was the first in-person meeting with the mayor, we think at least since 2018. Obviously COVID and the fires have interfered in recent years. It was a great discussion talking about our respective cities. There was a gift exchange, an invitation on behalf of the mayor. I should have mentioned that. I was glad to be there representing our mayor and all my colleagues here on council. But an invitation for Mayor Kong to visit Sonoma County, which he was interested in doing. And then Mayor Rogers has followed up since that event with an official letter, a formal letter to the mayor. And it looks like we were able to restart our sister city partnership with Jeju City and South Korea. So a really nice affair. And I should mention again for the budget hawks out there that my wife and I just happened to be in South Korea. This was not taxpayer funded. But we were happy to be able to do this on our vacation. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. And I will wrap it up and just say I attended a ribbon cutting ceremony at Chick-fil-A for, as they introduced a solar micro grid, which is very exciting. And they also provided tours. I was happy to welcome everyone to the Cal Ed conference. I am, I can't tell you how excited it is to have people coming to our beautiful city at a conference. So I'm hoping that we get more conferences that are booked in the city of Santa Rosa so people can see where we live and why we love to live here. Okraki reported out on that. And I was able to represent Santa Rosa at the Sonoma County Mayor and Council Members Association membership meeting. So that was very informative and we're trying to continue to keep our relationships with our other surrounding cities so we can have regional approaches to some of the challenges that we face. And yesterday, this is the fun part, yesterday I was able to walk with our parking enforcement Officer Chris and parking manager Hedge. And I want to say how I met Chris was I was eating at Grossman's and he is parking enforcement. No one's supposed to like parking enforcement because they give you tickets. Well, Chris comes in and he says, I know you guys are eating, but we have like 10 minutes before I start giving out tickets. And so I just thought that that was so great that we have someone that takes the time to do that. And it just really sheds a light on our staff and the dedication that they have to our city and also building relationships with everyone that lives and visits our city. So thank you, Chris, for educating me, allowing me to follow you around. And thank you for being an exemplary employee. So with that, Madam City Clerk, may you please facilitate public comment. Thank you, Mayor. We are now taking public comment on item 11.1. If you were in the council chamber would like to comment, but have not provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period. Mayor, I am seeing no one approach the podium for public comment. Thank you. Moving on to item 12, which is our approval of the minutes. We have one set of minutes, which is March 26, 2024. Council, are there any corrections? It's an abstention. Okay. Thank you. And seeing no corrections and acknowledging the abstention from council member Fleming. Madam City Clerk, can you please facilitate public comment on this item? We are now taking public comment on item 12.1. If you were in the council chamber, I would like to comment, please make your way to the podium. You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period. I am seeing no one approach the podium for public comment. Thank you. Minutes will be adopted as presented with one abstention. Moving to item 13, consent items. Madam City Clerk, can you please read the consent items? Item 13.1 is a resolution. First amendment to memorandum of understanding F002662 with conservation core north bay incorporated for vegetation management and hazardous fuel reduction services. Item 13.2 is a resolution. Acceptance approval of an agreement and appropriation of funds from the county of Sonoma, major O for the in-response program. 13.3 is a resolution. First amendment to professional service agreement number F002624 with O. D. P. Business Solutions LLC for a storage area network update. Item 13.4 is a resolution. Cooperative purchase with Motorola solutions for police radio equipment. 13.5 is a resolution. Extension of agreement number F002154 with Sonic LLC for internet connectivity and public Wi-Fi in Courthouse Square and Railroad Square. 13.6 resolution. Approval of professional services agreement with Sage Renewable Energy Incorporated, DBA, NV5 Global Incorporated for the development of the citywide electric vehicle infrastructure master plan. 13.7 resolution. Extension of proclamation of local homeless emergency. 13.8 resolution. Approval of infill infrastructure grant catalytic qualifying infill area program application and delegation of authority to accept and execute grant documents for program. 13.9 resolution. Service contract with the Santa Rosa City School District to provide summer programs for youth. 13.10 resolution. Amendment to the fiscal year 2023-24 adopted budget and appropriation of $1,850,000 from the general fund reserves necessary to pay the city's portion of the settlement in Bay City's Paving and Grading Incorporated versus City of Santa Rosa. Sonoma County Superior Court case number SCV-26533. 13.11 ordinance adoption second reading. Ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa amending ordinance 1544 to convert Riley Street between 5th Street and 7th Street from a one-way street to a two-way street. Thank you. Bringing it back to Council to see if there are any questions with the consent items. Seeing none, Madam City Clerk, can you please facilitate public comment? One moment, Mayor. We are now taking public comment on consent items 13.1 through 13.11. If you are in the Council chamber and would like to comment, but have not provided a speaker card of your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period. If you would like to approach the podiums, please state your name for the record if you choose to do so. First up will be Dwayne. My name is Dwayne Dewitt. I'm from Roseland. On item 13.1, I'm hoping that you might be able to get these folks from the North Bay Conservation Corps to do some specific work in the Roseland neighborhood. And I do believe if you advertise the opportunity, you could get some community members to do donations of time and money to help make this happen so that we could keep that neighborhood in good shape. We'll be out there again on Saturday and I'll tell you more about that in a moment. But first I wanted to thank you for the extension at 13.7 of the proclamation of the local homeless emergency. It seems that we are not solving this problem and I do believe that this extension of the proclamation has been going on for at least five or six years now. So number 13.8, that resolution could help us with that problem that's just been mentioned because this is about the infill building and you could make a point of saying to any of those people who are going to receive money from these grants that they put some specific units in for extremely low income people. There's been an effort here in the county by hotels and to build new buildings and the people that get those places to live stay there and become good tenants. A specific example is the Benton Veterans Village on Benton Street at North Street which was a former fire station for the city of Santa Rosa. Also 13.10, that was about the Bay City's paving and grading getting a million point eight dollars from the city's general fund. Money that could have been used elsewhere for some dire needs and I haven't really heard a good expression from anybody yet to explain why those folks get that money from the general plan. One of the things about the Open Government Task Force that happened ten years ago was that the city which signed on to it said they were going to make information more available to the public so it was easily understood by the public and it was well disseminated to the public and yet we've fallen away from that. You counsel the meetings for the Open Government Task Force you have these long consent agendas where there's 14, 15, sometimes as many as 18 items under consent and give the public only three short minutes in order to try to talk about those things. Please embrace the theory of your own Open Government Task Force and tell us where the money gets spent and why it gets spent before it gets spent. Not when you've made the decision here today and we have to come back later and say, oh, where'd that money go? We could have used it over in Roseland. Thank you for your time. Thank you. I am seeing no additional speakers for this item. Thank you. Looking to Vice Mayor Stapp. Thank you, Mayor. I'll make a motion and we approve items 13.1 through 13.11 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. Motion made by Vice Mayor Stapp and a second by Councilman McDonald. Madam Deputy City Clerk may you please call the vote. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Councilmember O'Crepkey. Aye. Councilmember McDonald. Aye. Councilmember Fleming. Aye. Councilmember Alvarez. Aye. Vice Mayor Stapp. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. Let the record reflect the motion passes with seven affirmative votes. All right. So we have two minutes before we can take our public comment on non-agenda matters. So we're going to take a click two minute stretch break and then we will be right back at it. Thank you. All right. I hope everyone enjoyed the stretch break. Madam City Deputy. Madam Deputy City Clerk may you please call the roll. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Councilmember O'Crepkey. Aye. Councilmember McDonald. Aye. Councilmember Fleming. Aye. Councilmember Alvarez. Aye. Vice Mayor Stapp. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. Let the record reflect all councilmembers are present. All right. It is now five oh two and we will be moved to item 14, which is our public comment on non-agenda matters. Madam City Clerk, can you please facilitate? We are now taking public comment on item 14, non-agenda matters. This is a time when any person may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda, but which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council. If you are in the council chamber would like to comment, but have not provided a speaker card to your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period. We will take 12 speakers under item 14. If we have more than 12 public comments on this item, the remaining speakers will be afforded an opportunity to speak on item 18, non-agenda matters. As approached the podium, please state your name for the record if you choose to do so. First up will be Tom followed by Ian and then Ruby. Tom, please go ahead when you're ready. My name is Tom Lupena. I'm the president of the Santa Rosa Manufactured Home Owners Association. Good evening Mayor Rogers, council members, and city manager. I'm here asking you to place the senior zoning overlay on the council agenda as well as reduce the in place transfer fee from 10% to 5% so that the city and county ordinances will match. I can inform you that the overlay is currently pending in the planning department and that housing and community services is waiting to receive it from planning to complete their plan in the process. In fact, I was advised when I arrived here tonight that you have initiated the start of that process. Please keep us advised if you would. We are aware that this will take time. So we asked the council to place it on an upcoming agenda for passage possibly by summer's end. Let's say around July 27th. So that it can be signed into law before year's end. Again, I want to thank you for all that you have done for us as a council. You're keeping our homes safe as the last affordable housing in Santa Rosa's for seniors. I always ask you to do the right thing. Some of you will smile when I say that because I keep saying it. But I know you always do the right thing so I really shouldn't ask but I feel better when I do so just pardon me with that. I trust and believe you will as you will always have been there for us. Thank you so much for all you have done. Thank you, my friends. You've really stepped up. It means a lot. I had a general meeting this past Saturday. You see about 10 of my people in the room today. Some of them were still gun shy about coming because they sat so long the last time. But I appreciate what you've done for us. You've been great. I can never give back to you what you've done for my group. Thank you. Next up is Ian followed by Ruby and then Dwayne. Ian, please go ahead when you're ready. Hello, my name is Ian. I'm from District 6 and I've written you a short poem today. Dear council, I stand here today with doubts that you will hear me though I invite you to prove me wrong. I think I speak for many in my community when I say that this genocide has continued for far too long. You say we have no business calling for a ceasefire than what business do you have funding Israel's war? Do you not realize how quickly we must act when over a million people in Gaza are at famine's door? Because as you stand silent this violence persists as innocent lives are lost every day and every hour. It's true it takes courage to choose to resist but council staying neutral only benefits those who are abusing their power. Though I've known for many years the cost of your neutrality I bled in the streets as I was kicked in the face and I'm far from the only victim of this brutality received simply for sleeping in the wrong place. So it's no wonder you condone brutal occupation worldwide when to condemn it would be to admit the horror of this country's roots but the only way to heal its wounds and to turn the historical tide is to truly hear our voices and accept these harsher truths. Yet still in your arrogance you've not taken a stand. You say you want peace and I'm here to call your bluff. Council when will you understand that the people of Palestine have suffered enough? So I ask you dear council how will you proceed now that you have heard it all how much longer will the world have to bleed before you live up to the values of liberty and justice for all. Thank you next up will be Ruby followed by Dwayne and then Valerie. There you go. Please go ahead when you're ready. If you could move the mic just a little bit closer up and if you can start over because we didn't hear you. Thank you so much. Ruby Nunn Curtis. There we go. I think I just wasn't on Ruby Nunn Curtis district four. You've made it clear that you have for whatever reason a complete disinterest and a complete disdain for the people who are calling for a ceasefire resolution. However, there are other ways that you can demonstrate our city's objection to the mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Our city is currently invested in general dynamics and Lockheed Martin to weapons manufacturers whose weapons are used to target and murder civilians in Gaza. We are also invested in Caterpillar whose bulldozers are used as weapons against Palestinian homes and whose bulldozers were used to murder the activist Rachel Corey over two decades ago. In your investment parameters you have a provision for socially responsible investing and I'll quote it. One possible it is in the city's policy to invest in companies that promote the use and production of renewable energy resources and other socially responsible investments. I do not think investment in weapons is socially responsible. The city of Hayward was able to divest from complicity in this genocide and they do not even have a socially responsible investment provision in their policy. If this is unconvincing I would point out that in your city council stated goals you have one of them as addressing climate change. The global war machine contributes more emissions than most nations. So to enact your goal and fulfill a moral imperative I suggest you divest from these companies. If you do not find that it is possible under your current investment guidelines I would say that it's probably within your power to change them. They were amended over a decade ago but maybe it is time to change them now. I'll leave you with a quote from Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience. I quarrel not with far off foes but with those who near at home cooperate and do the bidding of those far away and without whom the latter would be harmless. I have absolutely no voice to those who are committing genocide. I have no way to speak to them but I do have a way to speak to you my city council who is complicit in the genocide that is all. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next up is Dwayne followed by Valerie and then Joanne. I'd like to use the overhead projector. Hello. My name is Dwayne DeWitt. I'm from Roseland. After such a serious presentation just before me I don't want to detract from that but I do want to say that you're all invited to come over to Roseland where we veterans of the U.S. military have been looking at the idea of putting a veteran's trail along the south side of Roseland Creek where the property is already owned by the city of Santa Rosa. So we go out there every year on Earth Day and also on Make a Difference Day in October. We've been doing it since Mike Martini was the mayor which is over 24 years ago and we really think that you folks would enjoy it if you came out there. It's something that last year we invited the mayor and our district representative Eddie Alvarez. They came for a few moments and they liked it so much they stayed for two hours. It's a good time out there even if you're doing a little bit of work. We got some excellent refreshments that come from Flora Halusak who bakes up some of the best banana bread here in the whole area. So anyway, the main thing about it is veterans want to do these types of things because as you see there's a healing garden proposal by us also. Veterans who've been involved in wars and even those who stay at the state side reception areas for the injured that come back the maimed, the crippled, those who are amputees, those who have head injuries they all suffer a bit of trauma even those veterans that come back having been in an actual firefight in whatever area they're at they still bear a bit of the burden of that support for our nation's policies and we do it gladly. Everybody now for the last 50 years has been a volunteer. The draft's over. I'll never vote for a draft Dodger I'll let you know that doesn't apply to you guys luckily but you get the drift on all of this. It's about we work together to help America be a good place. So come on out there excuse me a little catch in the throat there please come out there Saturday morning April 20th at 10 in the morning and it's only until 12 and you can leave anytime you want to after you get some cookies and cakes you don't even have to stay. It's all good we're gonna have a good time out there we invite anybody all over Sonoma County to come to this beautiful place in 1683 Burbank Avenue is where the school is where you can park and the park is actually 19 acres we're putting together a pomo park and preserve partnership with local pomo Indians to try to help get this done sooner than later because some of our members have been passing away thank you. This is Valerie Shlovky I'm a housing navigator with Sonoma County Housing Authority and I've been here before and reminded you that many many of the people I help since I serve people who are unsheltered are seniors. So we're here tonight to say thank you for taking our comments into consideration and please look at the zoning overlay for senior mobile home parks. We have quite a few parks in this city and we have quite a few people who live in those parks who are really low income and in need and if we don't do this park owners aren't really interested in seniors they're interested in profit and this would allow them to turn those parks into all-age parks increase you know the fees and the rents and push us out. I will say that I've been a renter all my life while I was able to buy a home in a mobile home park and it's been a profound change in my life so I'd like to be able to think that other people will be able to have that opportunity as well. Thank you for supporting us and thank you for remembering the seniors of Sonoma County. Thank you and next up is Joanne followed by Ari. Good afternoon Mayor Rogers City Manager Smith and members of the City Council. My name is Joanne Jones and I'm the President of the Country Mobile Homeowners Association and the Vice President of the Santa Rosa Manufactured Homeowners Association and I'm also here to say that we appreciate all the effort and work you have done to change legislation for the betterment of seniors living in manufactured housing communities. Thank you so much. With that I would also want to say I would also like to ask you to take the next step by starting the process to create senior park overlays by zoning and designating the 12 manufactured home parks in Santa Rosa as senior parks. By doing so it would make it more difficult for out of town investors to come in by the parks, change them to all-age parks, raise the space rents and force many seniors out. Senior park zoning would be a viable solution until residents are in a position to buy the parks themselves if that ever happens. Thank you again. Thank you. Next up is Ari and then if you'd like to speak on this item please make your way to the podium at this time. Please go ahead when you're ready. Hi my name is Ari Vinyan I'm from district two so Mr. Stapp if you could not be doodling on your iPad that would feel really awesome. Thank you. I'm here to ask you all to add a ceasefire resolution to the agenda. This has been a long process you know we're here we're at week after week there's been so much public attention and presence here. I don't have anything eloquent to say that I haven't already said and hasn't been said better than other people who have spoken here over the past months but this genocide is continuing and we are complicit here in Santa Rosa. It is so important for us to speak as a community and say no to genocide. I know you think this is not a local issue but it absolutely is you know our other resident here was talking about how we use our tax money and also how we invest as a city in arms creation. That is not something we should be doing that is not ethical. I also want to point out that a couple weeks ago the Santa Rosa school board passed a ceasefire resolution they were brave right this room was full of people everybody was forced ceasefire but you know what we did we had a discussion and you won't even allow that please add this to the agenda so that we can have a full and robust discussion and ultimately I believe with my whole heart that we will pass it if it is put on the agenda so please serve your constituents add this to the agenda make right with your hearts someone said earlier what is right speak against genocide allow your city to speak against genocide thank you ceasefire now thank you and I am seeing no additional speakers approach the podium for this item thank you being as though it is 519 we are going to return to items we will start our public hearings for tonight so 16.1 madam city manager item 16.1 is a public hearing authorizing submittal of the 2024 to 2027 consolidated plan fiscal year 2024 to 2025 action plan and the 2024 fair housing plan to the U.S. department of housing and urban development good evening mayors city council members with the city of senorosa housing trust division and presenting this item today is coy steward our program specialist hello and thank you for your time in summary of our presentation we will be reviewing three plans the 2024-27 consolidated plan its 2024-25 action plan and the 2024 fair housing plan information gathered in the consolidated and fair housing plan aids our decisions on how to distribute the funds allocated to the city by the federal government the 2024-25 action plan describes how the funds will be spent for that fiscal year the funds come in the form of community development block grant or CDBG funds home investment partnership program or home funds and housing opportunities for persons with AIDS or hapwa funds which are required by HUD and recreated every three to five years and its corresponding action plan is created yearly some background HUD provides us with templates that are used nationally and we personalize it to the city of sanarosa the main data sources used to prepare the consolidated plan are the census data which is updated every 10 years and the comprehensive housing affordability strategy or CHAS data comprehensive is gathered every four years and we are using the 2016 to 2020 numbers so for consistency purposes we are using 2020 data from both data sources this ensures we are comparing apples to apples we realize the data is older so we do check to see if there are any significant changes and for this purpose we use American community survey or ACS data an example of some of the figures gathered and included in the plan are the data sanarosa has 66,580 households that fall into the four income limits that are shown on the screen for example the income limits for a four person household 80% of the area median income can make $100,660 a year or $8,388 a month we use 80% of the AMI area median income because HUD uses 80% as a threshold for affordable housing for affordable household characteristics 45% of households are renters 55 are owners 25.7 of renter households and 17.8 of owner households pay more than 30% of their income for housing which is considered cost burden another area of data collected for analysis is our housing stock according to the 2020 CHAS data 59% are single family units as for Santa Rosa's housing cost the California association realtor states that the average rent for a one bedroom apartment is $1,825 and as of October 23 the median sales price for a single family residence in Santa Rosa was $840,000 the next two slides are a list of priorities based on the needs assessment the housing market analysis city council priorities and the eligible uses for CDBG home and hop of funding our needs they increase supply of affordable rental housing for lowest income households preserve existing affordable housing stock provide housing assistance support services for low income persons with HIV or AIDS and their families provide housing and services to special needs populations and increase access to home ownership opportunities the first slide includes items A through D which are first tier priorities the second slide includes items E through G which are second tier priorities with the exception of item H due to home program requirements to fund CHOTO organizations the second tier items would be included in our action plan if the city receives additional funds from HUD or other resources the list of needs has also been available for feedback in agreement on the plan outreach the citizen participation plan was used as a guide for requiring feedback regarding the previous list of needs and the plans in general this slide lists the outreach conducted in the preparation of the consolidated plan we had participants provide feedback at the community and stakeholder meetings and then new this year we added an online survey that had over 450 responses to interested parties upon request and made available to city hall annex city manager's office and the central branch of the snowman county library in downtown Santa Rosa the other plan that has been updated in 2024 is the fair housing plan the fair housing plan is similar to the other plans and is also required by HUD it furthers the policies and purposes of title 7 known as the fair housing act it also uses an analysis of demographic and housing data to foster more inclusive community the plan is created in collaboration with the county of Sonoma and the city of Petaluma and is also required by HUD for all entitlement jurisdictions moving on to the funds we receive as an entitlement jurisdiction we need to mention that these are estimated from numbers based on last year's allocations we are waiting for HUD to provide us with actual numbers we hope to receive in the future the first of these funds is a community development block grant or CDBG funds some of the uses for CDBG funds include acquisition of real property rehabilitation and public services we can use 15% of our CDBG funds for public services and we'll be presenting grant agreements at a later date once we've received our actual allocation amounts from HUD the second jurisdiction is the home investment partnership program or home funds these funds are primarily used for funding tenant-based rental assistance or the TIBRA program which provides rental assistance for low-income households at 60% AMI or less at least 15% of home investment programs or home funds must be set aside for specific activities to be undertaken by a special type of nonprofit called a community housing development organization or CHODO our last federal fund is housing opportunities for persons with AIDS or HAPWA the HAPWA program is the only federal program dedicated to the housing needs of people living with HIV or AIDS it is solicited along with other public service programs during our grant application process HUD requires public comment as part of our citizen participation plan and all comments received today will be included in our consolidated plan along with all the previous comments that were received during the outreach process so after careful analysis of data gathered from the census and CHAS data its alignment with the city council priorities and input from the community is recommended by the housing and community services department that the council by resolution 1 authorized the middle of the 2024-2027 consolidated plan the fiscal year 2024-25 action plan the 2024 housing plan to the U.S. department of housing and urban development and 2 authorized the city manager to execute any forms or documents required by HUD to implement the 2024-27 consolidated plan the fiscal year 2024-25 action plan and the 2024 fair housing plan so at this time we welcome any questions you guys might have thank you very much for that presentation and looking to council to see if there are any questions and it does not look like there are so we will now open the public hearing Madam City Clerk thank you we are now taking public comment on item 16.1 if you are in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period as you approach the podium please state your name for the record if you choose to do so step is Dwayne Dwayne are you here I am not seeing Dwayne I am not seeing anyone approach the podium for public comment on this item thank you we will now close the public hearing and bring it back to council it looks like we may have public comment okay please go ahead and raise the podium so it's closer to you and go ahead when you are ready okay my name is Michael Tatone I do a lot of different work with unsheltered passing out meals with snowman county acts of kindness although I am not speaking for them today and I have worked with them pretty closely and there was some interest from residents of jover dota trail about what the city is doing to basically help them in their situations a lot of the folks there have been very politically homeless a lot have disabilities and they have been in and out sometimes of housing and sometimes they really haven't been offered that much what struck me with the consolidated plan was it seemed like a lot of stats that are vague about work that's been done or alluded to about talking to unsheltered people and providing access to shelter but it's unclear if that refers to them being offered shelter or if they are on a waiting list for shelter and there's a large group of people who don't know what's going to happen with them and I don't feel like the plan addresses what's what they're actually going to what's going to happen with them like a lot of people aren't included in the solution and the solution seems to be forcing people to move constantly and putting giant boulders on the trail now some of that's the county it's not really city but the same applies to the city because host has come out to Joe Radota Trail and I've heard accounts that they've come out and they've just told people like well we don't really have anything to offer you right now but we're just letting you know that we don't and then they're being swept so is that count as like engaging with is that make us look better because they were offered something of some kind by just to have conversation you know there's a lot of vagueness and I'd like to know what are the actual solutions because people have lost a lot of property when they're being swept people have they're constantly being seized and it's just not really any clear plan what I'm hearing is that folks would like a place to go they'd like some ownership over the management of that property how is it managed how is it governed and I think something like that would potentially solve the issue but I don't see a whole lot I see a lot of the same solutions supposedly that don't seem to be addressed toward anybody thank you thank you and next up is Stacy and then if you would like to speak on this item please make your way to the podium please go ahead when you're ready my name is Stacy and I live on the trail which over to the trail and I have a lot of people that are there that I care about and my health is really bad about just a lot of people dying here if we don't get help a lot more well yes people have a problem some may have they drink or they do other things you gotta understand that they're just they're broken people nowhere in any of these programs has there been any healing healing doesn't just mean a program or to detox we need a lot of people need to detox so do I we're all perfect none of us and my father was one of a man that stood up for his people I'm Native American I'm from here this is where my roots are they keep throwing me off that trail but really where do we go I can't work because I'm sick but you know my workers trying hard to do all the things she can to make sure I'm okay and that's not okay that she's one person I believe that if we had his space like we've done before and we're able to function ourselves around this maybe a base rule or rules and it's like I don't understand why people are waiting house into a house with a bunch of cameras nobody else goes home and it says hi to the camera that people are watching I feel like that's rude and that's just something that I was not ever used to and someone to tell me how to manage my money I could understand it's going to school and learning but you're telling me I can't buy this that and the other I can only have this much stuff it's too much too much too soon and or late you know because I don't know when we're supposed to have all this knowledge besides having gone through this certain things and learning the only way we learn is how to teach and I would tell anyone of my elder friends you can't school that young one you can't yell at him you can't do that and tell him what to do you gotta show him and I need people to start showing us we are I had a friend say man you guys are savage you held out on the cold cops take our stuff yeah cops and the the Rangers take our stuff right before a freeze it's not okay a lot of people are dying I feel like nobody is adjusting that thank you and we have no additional speakers for this item thank you we will now close the public hearing and bring it back to council for any final comments and seeing none council member alvarez can you please make a motion I'd like to make a motion and put forth the resolution of the council of the city of san rosa authorizing the middle of the 2024-2027 consolidated plan fiscal year 2024 2025 action plan 2024 for housing plan to the U.S. department of housing and urban development and we have further reading of the text second I have a motion made by council member alvarez in a second by council member mcdonald madam city clerk can you please call the vote thank you mayor council member rogers aye council member okrepke aye council member mcdonald aye council member fleming aye council member alvarez aye vice mayor step mayor rogers aye the motion passes with seven affirmative votes thank you moving on to item 16.2 madam city manager item 16.2 to have for a public hearing an issuance of revenue bonds by the california municipal finance authority an aggregate amount not to exceed 1 million for visual light senior apartments 1945 long drive hi again it's still me here with me now is angela morgan program specialist to present the next two items we have two teffra public hearings coming next good evening council thank you nicole the item before you today is the request to hold a public hearing and approve the issuance of bonds project thank you jurisdictions are required to hold a public hearing receive public comment and approve bond issuance consistent with the tax equity and fiscal responsibility act an internal revenue code of 1986 this action will not result in any fiscal impact to the general fund and the financial responsibility shall be of the borrower in this case the borrower will be visual light senior apartments and the public hearing will be available in the next slide please the project is an existing affordable housing development located at 1945 long drive it is adjacent to the flamingo resort hotel and the flamingo one shopping center which includes a grocery store restaurants drug store a bank and other businesses within walking distance next slide please once the developer has obtained and closed on the necessary project financing to acquire and rehabilitate the project it anticipates the commencement of construction by July 2024 and completion by September 2025 the project will further counsel tier one goals by meeting housing needs with the city's jurisdiction the project consists of 49 units and includes 12 studios 36 one bedroom and one two-bedroom managers unit the existing project provides deeply affordable housing for seniors in Santa Rosa targeted to households with incomes up to 50% of area median income next slide please it is recommended by the housing and community services department that the council one conduct a public hearing under the requirements of the tax equity and fiscal responsibility act and the final revenue code of 1986 as amended and two by resolution approve the issuance of tax equity multifamily housing revenue bonds by the California municipal finance authority in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $20 million to finance and refinance the acquisition rehabilitation development and equipping a vigil light senior apartments 1945 long drive within the city of Santa Rosa next slide please this concludes the presentation for this item and in addition to myself and staff we have representatives from pep housing present here in chambers tonight and Anthony Stubbs from CMFA who is the bond issuer on zoom to answer any questions that you may have thank you very much and I'm looking to council to see if there are any questions and seeing none we will now open the public hearing thank you we are now taking public comment on item 16.2 if you are in the council chamber it would like to comment but if not provided a speaker card to your name please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period I am seeing no one approach the podium for public comment on this item thank you and seeing no one we will now close the public hearing and bringing it back to council and if there are no comments council member Fleming I'll bring a resolution of the council of the city of Santa Rosa authorizing submittal of the 2024 2027 consolidated plan fiscal year 2425 action plan and then 2024 fair housing plan to the US department of housing and urban development oops I'm sorry that was a tougher hearing I know which one resolution of the council of the city of Santa Rosa approving the issuance of revenue bonds by the California municipal finance authority in aggregate principal amount not to exceed 20 million dollars for vigil light senior apartments 1945 long drive and waive further reading of the text thank you council member I have a motion made by council member Fleming and a second made by council member Alvarez Madam City Clerk can you please call the vote thank you mayor council member Rogers council member Okrepke council member McDonald council member Fleming council member Alvarez vice mayor Stapp mayor Rogers the motion passes with seven affirmative votes and we will now continue with item 16.3 item 16.3 Tefra public hearing an issuance of revenue bonds by the California municipal finance authority in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed 55 million for Del Nindo apartments 850 Russell Avenue good evening the next item is another Tefra item before you and it is also the request to hold a public hearing and approve the issuance of bonds for the Del Nindo apartments project. jurisdictions are required to hold a public hearing, receive public comment and approve bond issuance consistent with the tax equity and fiscal responsibility act an internal revenue code of 1986 this action will not result in any fiscal impact to the general fund and the financial responsibility shall be of the borrower in this case the borrower of Del Nindo and the sponsor for this project is Eden housing the project is an existing affordable housing development located at 850 Russell Avenue it is adjacent to the civil and family law courthouse a bank across the street from Bicentennial park on range avenue a convenient distant from cutting town mall and a large variety of nearby businesses once the developer has obtained and closed on the necessary project financing to acquire and rehabilitate the project it anticipates the commencement construction by June 2024 and completion by July 2025 the project will further counsel tier one goals by meeting housing needs with the city's jurisdiction the project consists of 206 units including 59 studios 145 one bedroom units the existing project provides affordable housing in Santa Rosa targeted to households with income ranges 30 to 60 percent of area median income and includes two unrestricted manager units it is recommended by the housing and community services department that the council one conduct a public hearing under the requirements of the tax equity and fiscal responsibility act and the internal revenue code of 1986 as amended and two by resolution approve the issuance of tax exempt multifamily housing revenue bonds by the California municipal finance authority in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed 55 million to finance and refinance the acquisition rehabilitation development and equipping of the needle apartments in the city of Santa Rosa this concludes this presentation and in addition to myself and other staff we have representatives from Eden housing present in chambers tonight and Anthony Stubbs from CMFA who is the bond issuer on zoom and available to answer any of your questions. Thank you very much again and council are there any questions for this one . All right seeing none we will now open the public hearing Madam city clerk we are now taking public comment on item 16.3 if you were in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium mayor I am seeing no one approach the podium for public comment on this item thank you will now close the public hearing and bring it back to council I do not see any comments from council so I believe it is council member oh Diana oh council member McDonald it's fine can you please make a motion I'll move resolution of the council the city of Santa Rosa proving the issue of revenue bonds by the California municipal finance authority and agreement on the budget . We have a motion made by council member okay any second councilmember Mcdonald Madam city clerk may you please call the vote councilmember Rogers councilmember okay councilmember McDonald I councilmember Fleming I councilmember alvarez has recused and the council member councilmember alvarez has recused. Vice mayor stop. Mayor rogers. The motion passes with six affirmative votes with council member alvarez recused. Thank you. We will now go back up to our report items starting with item 15.1. Madame city manager. We will now move on to the public records request reports 2002 and 2023. Good evening mayor, vice mayor and council. I am dean of manager city clerk and I am here to present to you today the public records request reports for 2022 and 2023. The 2022 and 2023 public records request reports are the first reports of this sort since being adopted into the up and government process. We will now move on to the public records request report in 2021. This part of the city code requires the city of Santa Rosa to embrace the culture of transparency, participation and collaboration and specifically under article 3 of the city code the public records coordinator myself a city clerk shall prepare a tally and report of all records request brought before it. We will now move on to the public records request and those that were unfilled. In addition to the minimum requirements identified in the code the city clerk's office has identified additional information related to a year over year look back of the volume of public records request received over the last four years. So ahead of the official report data I thought it would be helpful to explain or provide a brief information about the request that we have been requesting over the phone, e-mail, mailed in or via the online portal that we use currently which is called next request. Additionally we added a new kiosk in the city manager's office for the public to use to submit or review the request that they have submitted in next request. The next step is to clarify and assign the request in order to verify and narrow the scope of the request in order to efficiently fulfill the request. Each department or it is then assigned to departments that may have responsive records and each department has their own designated department public records coordinator as other duties as assigned within their normal scope of their job and they read through and review each member if needed. And if the staff can easily direct the request to a public portal where it's already available online we do so. If they can't find it online or if the link isn't working or they just need additional assistant we will attach it to the public records portal to make it easy for them. When it's a more complex request we gather all the records. At step three in department records that may live in their departments. And they work with their subject matter experts from the different divisions that may be housing those records. At step four we review the public records coordinators reviews what has been gathered to ensure it is disclosable and no exemptions apply under the public records act. And at step five we upload and release the records. Some release of records are only a handful of records that have fallen under the request. Other requests are more voluminous and we do a rolling request to allow time to gather those records and do an adequate review of those records. Again at step five at the final review ahead of closing out the public records request the city clerk's office confirms any notes or citations or redactions and applied the correct citations to the public records request. And throughout this whole process the city clerk's office and the department public records request coordinators and city attorney's office all err on the side of disclosure. Similarly we have an e-discovery process for which is defined for the city of Santa Rosa as it relates to public records request as e-mails that fall within the scope of a request and that s an important component because many of the requests they cast a wide net because they are not sure what they are looking for so we reach out to the requester to try and get search terms so we can help narrow the scope and get an understanding of what they are actually looking for so we don t provide them documents that they are not looking for. And when we are drafting these queries or we have a lot of e-mails and some may not have any responsive documents so then we will rewrite the query to try and incorporate and find the records that they are looking for. Again one request can result in thousands of e-mails so it is imperative for the city clerk's office staff to work in partnership with the requester to narrow the scope of the search if possible. The query is written through the e-discovery process and the e-discovery process is to deduplicate any duplicate e-mails then our staff goes through and does a manual review of all of the e-mails and then it is assigned to the departments for additional review to make sure that what we are reviewing are those e-mails that were gathered through the e-discovery process are in fact disclosable and relevant to the e-discovery process. So now that I have provided that overview of the public records and e-discovery process I am going to start going into the 2022 report data. Again we are supposed to touch on the number of requests received, the nature of the request, the request unfilled and the reasons for the e-discovery process. So now that I have provided that overview of the public records and e-mails and the reasons why they were unfilled so in 2022 we received 1,321 requests we fulfilled 957 328 of those went unfilled but we will go into greater detail on that number in a later slide and 36 of those requests were duplicate. And the nature of the request is broken down by department and the report that's attached to the staff report breaks down what types of documents live within each department. The one category that I do want to highlight is the multiple category. This is requests that cross multiple departments where responsive documents may reside in more than one department and this number is not included in the individual department's counts. So the 2023 report data we've fulfilled 827 408 were identified as unfilled and we had 52 duplicate requests. To go into further breakdown of the unfilled requests of the 328 from 2022 that were categorized as unfilled 68% of those of that 328 were no records in the no records categories so they were either no records or the records simply did not exist in the normal course of business therefore we have nothing to distribute. And you can see that is indicated on the slide on the blue pie slices. Yellow pie slices if it's looking yellow kind of limey green up there. Those are no response where we have asked the public to fill out the records. So that is the equivalent of 11% of the unfilled requests. The shades of red are actual non-releasable records these includes draft plans bank plans draft documents items that fall within the public records act as non disclosable or exempt. And then the orange slice of red is the non-releasable records. So when you break it down to that level of the 1,321 requests received in 2022 while it was 328 indicators unfilled only 33 requests were denied due to exemptions acceptable under the public records act so 2% of our total requests were denied due to exemptions. And it's a similar breakdown for 2023 of the 408 that were indicated as unfilled. The blue items on the pie chart are the equivalent of 54% or no records. Again many people reach out to the city and they're looking for county records that we just don't have our hands on. If we can provide them the link on the pie chart. So we have other agency records as a part of the blue or part of that 54% records simply do not exist or they were county assessor records. The shades of yellow again were 31% or no response from requester again they didn't respond to our request to clarify the search. Or the record they were requesting required in affidavit of the total. The shades of red again here on the pie chart are those that were non-releasable and that was the equivalent of 11%. So again the actual unfilled that were acceptable under the public records act was 47 total public records requests or 3% of the total 1316 submitted. Here's the quick five-year snapshot as you can see in this slide. We have a number of requests that we first fully use next request and we tracked 970 requests received. 2020 we had 959. In 2021 we peaked at 1,514 requests. Then we started tapering off in 2022 and 2023 which we just reported on 1,321 in 1,316 that peak in 2021 was due to COVID and the front offices and front counters being closed. We fill a lot of public records requests just with walk-ins that we don't even track but in those years we didn't have the office open so people were forced to put their requests into the public records request portal next request. During the open government task force meeting in March where they originally or they first received the number of unique requesters for those numbers of requests so in 2022 of the 1,321 requests received 821 requesters submitted those 1,300 requests. In 2023 839 unique requesters submitted the 1,300 public records request so that means that many requesters were submitting many requests. Before I read my recommendation slide I do want to acknowledge my administrative technician Lauren Wiley in 2023 we were understaffed by one full-time employee and she did the lion share did all of the work in getting these public records requests coordinated and distributed out to the departments and yes she had some work not behind but so the progress of the other work that it's assigned to her but she did all of the heavy lifting on these public records request what we've been under filled I'm happy to say that we are now back to having her counterpart a counterpart for public records request and the balances slowly being restored to our universe. So with that it is recommended by the city clerk's office that the public records request report and provide direction on how future reports should be presented to city council that last point there was no clarification in the chart or in the code on how you would like to see this if you would like to see it as a future report item or simply as a written communication we're happy to oblige in either direction in either instance we will be uploading this report to our srcity.org. Madam city clerk for that presentation and I'm bringing it to council to see if there are any questions vice mayor step. Thank you mayor and thank you city clerk and deputy city clerk it's a lot of work to deal with these requests and to put together this report in no particular order I'll respond to the question you just asked I don't mind receiving this as a written report that makes things more efficient for your office I would let you or the rest of the council be the guide there one question I have and one data item I'd like to see included in our future reports if possible I know it's tricky is what is the cost to the city to gather this data in terms of staff time other expenses etc. Thank you vice mayor we are working on better metrics around the cost to support public records requests I can speak anecdotally on I have two full-time or the city clerk's office has two full-time administrative technicians on staff who spend about 80% of their time towards the support of public records act requests and management so that is equivalent or their salaries the two salaries combined at 80% is about $114,000 plus the software that supports so another $17,000 so roughly $131,000 just from the city clerk's office what that does not include which we are trying to improve our metrics and tracking on is the staff time from the departments so we are encouraging staff and requiring staff to put in their time dedicated to public records request fulfillment within the next request portal so we have better metrics to report on in future reports. And so there would be benefit costs associated with that not the city clerk's office would be able to provide benefits across city departments so we are talking about $100,000 in terms of city resources being used to fulfill these requests. That is good to know. Thank you. Seeing no additional questions we will now go to public comment. Thank you mayor we are now taking public comment on item 1. I am seeing no comments for public comment but have not provided a spirit card or your name please make your way to the podium. I am seeing no one approach the podium for public comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no comments I believe this is your item. Thank you mayor I will go ahead and make a motion to accept the comment. Thank you. Seeing no comments I will add it on the consent agenda for folks to see as a written communication in the future is helpful and also less staff intensive particularly since we see it in the open government committee as well. Just for clarification do you want to for future excuse me through the mayor am I okay to ask a question? I think if you put it on the consent agenda for council I think I am good with it. Thank you. Any other comments? I have a motion may I get a second? Second. Motion made by council member Rogers and a second by vice mayor stat. Madam deputy city clerk can you please call the vote. Council member Rogers. Council member Ocrepke. Council member McDonald. Council member Fleming. Council member Alvarez. Vice mayor Stapp. Mayor Rogers. The motion passes with seven affirmative votes. Thank you again for that presentation. Thank you council. Moving on to item 15.2 Madam city clerk. Madam city manager. Item 15.2 approval of the preliminary fiscal year 2024-2025 regional water reuse system operating and maintenance capital improvement and debt service budget and allocation of cost. Good afternoon mayor Rogers members of council my name is Nick Harvey I'm currently the acting deputy director of administration with Santa Rosa water. I'm joined tonight by my colleague Gloria Banek she's Santa Rosa waters deputy director of engineering resources and we're here tonight to talk about the fiscal year 2025 regional water reuse budget and request your approval thereof. Before I begin an earnest I wanted to speak briefly about the updated staff report resolution and presentation on this agenda when the preliminary council agenda was posted the initial expenditure appropriation request was 47 and a half million dollars since then the expenditure request has been completed. When we first prepared our budget the cost for this request we're not fully included in our expenditure budget and after posting the preliminary agenda and working with the finance department we realize that these costs were not fully included and that has been corrected and that's why all the documents were updated to show the corrected increased expenditure appropriation request and no other changes have been included. Now we're going to talk about our resulting user agency contribution allocations touch on some CIP project highlights that we have planned for the upcoming year and touch on our remaining budget schedule. Our regional reuse system generated over 7 billion gallons of recycled water in fiscal year 2022-23 with Santa Rosa contributing over 73% of the flows. Now we're going to talk about the maintenance costs for the treatment plant. Moving on to expenditure increases we're seeing about a 1.5 million dollar increase due to our 2.5% COLA assumption as well as the addition of the two new positions and additional overtime costs which have been under budgeted. Our plant is a 24-hour operation and looking at recent years actuals we've been looking at a 2.5% COLA assumption on the slide. This is simply a budgetary assumption it's in no way meant to suggest that we are going to or have adopted a 2.5% COLA this is essentially a budgetary mechanism that serves to mitigate the budgetary impacts for our regional partners should new labor contracts be adopted mid-year. For professional services are some of our leases on our services. We're not sure how much land will be available for land application moving forward so we increased our outside services budget over $600,000 to account for possible increased cost for biosolid disposal with list tech which is a higher cost alternative to land application. Insurance and IT allocations is a reminder are out of our control we're seeing insurance premium increases of over 20% for all electric fleet future where we're replacing vehicles at a higher price than the price paid to acquire our current fleet. For operational supplies price increases for several items stocked in the warehouse and additional PPE for increased staffing levels are contributing here. We're also budgeting for further cost increases for chemicals used in our treatment processes. We're also planning on PG&E increasing rates yet again and so we're trying to keep up with that budgetarily. We're increasing our cash funded CIP by $1 million from $10 million up to $11 million and that's per spoken agreement amongst ourselves and the sub regional partner agencies. Here's a look at our proposed operating budget by category. Here's a chart reflecting the $10 million that we're offering for next year including CIP and debt service appropriations. We also like to include the miscellaneous revenue figure in red serving as a reminder that we always budget our partner agency allocations net of that figure. As of June 30th, 2023 our regional refund reserve sits at $2.8 million as a reminder these amounts are held on behalf of each partner agency to be used for rates that are actually owned by ourselves and the four partner agencies. And Sebastopol has applied $200,000 to their current year 2023-24 allocation which leaves a net of $303,000 available for next year or future years if they so choose. We're continuing to see a strong growth trend in our tipping fees for truck waste at the plant so that budget we will be able to provide specifically brought down a couple line items here. That's interest in pooled investments in miscellaneous revenues. We haven't hit anywhere near those figures in recent years and with the Fed holding interest rates at the highest level they've been in recent history. If we didn't hit our interest income targets during last year then we should probably adjust that a little bit. So the Windsor agreement is escalating by 3% per the contracts we have with them. So here's a look at how we arrive at our total O&M and CIP contributions for the fiscal year. We start with our total operations and maintenance request of $47.7 million. We then add the $11 million in cash-funded CIP and the $592,000 needed to increase our operating reserve to the total O&M budget. We then add the total miscellaneous revenues of $5.5 million to get to our net total O&M contribution of $53.8 million for the upcoming year. So looking at our proposed contributions for next year we can see that the total O&M budget plus the total CIP budget equal the total $53.8 million contributions calculated on the previous slide. And adding the total regional debt contribution of $5.3 million. All agencies are seeing a modest increase in their allocations for next year with the exception of Sebastopol which is actually realizing a small decrease in their allocation. And Santa Rosa is seeing an increase of 5.34% in the proposed budget. Okay, so of the $11 million being appropriated for CIP projects next year, $900,000 is programmed to be invested in our geysers pipeline directly to our plant infrastructure. And I will now introduce Lori Urbanek our deputy director of engineering resources to touch on some CIP project highlights. Thank you Nick. And as Nick mentioned we have $11 million in CIP funding this year. And I do want to let you know that we have proposed the projects that you're seeing now solely based on critical infrastructure replacement as the main driver is risk. And that means if we had based on critical infrastructure failure so a high consequence of failure and then a likelihood of failure. So you're seeing some of the most critical infrastructure replacement going on out at the plant. So the first project that I want to talk about is the LTP project. There are multiple locations that need to be upgraded. This was brought forward in one of our master plans and showed that this is a very high consequence of failure should we lose the electricity out at the plant it would shut down all of our operations. So the estimated total project cost is $35 million just to give you some perspective. And we're proposing $8 million this year for the project. Next slide. Also out of the treatment plan is the reclamation building and this is also a project that will provide new reclamation pump station building for pump station E which is a critical piece of our reclamation process operations. The existing building is in a complete disrepair and needs to be refurbished. The cost is $500,000 and we anticipate the project to start to be completed in July of 2025. And the last piece that we have is the geysers pump station electrical upgrades. Like many of our other systems key components have reached the end of its useful life and no longer supported by the manufacturer. These pumps and electrical control equipment are some of the most critical parts of the project. We have $500,000 programmed for this budget year. And just a touch on our remaining budget schedule. As you all know May 7th and 8th we are having our budget study sessions myself and director Burke will be sitting with you on the 8th to discuss our water budget with ultimate budget adoption scheduled for June 18th. So it is recommended by the Board of Commission that the council by resolution approve the preliminary fiscal year 2024-25 regional water reuse system operating and maintenance capital improvement and debt service budget and allocation of cost for the purposes of notifying the regional water reuse user agencies of their allocation of such costs by May 1st, 2024. And with that we are happy to field any questions. Thank you. I'm going to go to the council to see if there are any questions and seeing none. Madam city deputy clerk can you please facilitate public comment. We are now taking public comment on item 15.2 if you are in the council chamber it would like to comment but have not provided a spear card or your name please make your way to the podium. I am seeing no one approach the council. I am looking to the council not seeing anyone that wishes to make a comment. Vice mayor step. I will move that we approve the preliminary fiscal year 2024-25 regional water reuse system operating and maintenance capital improvement and debt service budget and allocation of costs for the reading of the text. Thank you. I have a motion made by vice mayor alvarez. Madam deputy city clerk can you please call the vote. Council member rogers. Council member okrepke. Council member mcdonald. Council member fleming. Council member alvarez. Vice mayor step. Mayor rogers. The motion passes with seven affirmative votes. Thank you again. Moving on to item 15. This item is being continued to May 21st 2024 which is scheduled as a regular meeting. And we have no written communications for tonight. And we will now have our last public comment on non-agenda matters. So madam deputy city clerk we are now taking public comment on item 18 on agenda matters. This is a time when any person who has not previously addressed the council under public comment item 14 may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council. If you are in the chamber would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium. You will have three speakers. Thank you. Madam deputy city clerk at the end of that period as you approach the podium please state your name for the record if you choose to do so is Michael here. I have Michael and Tyler signed up. Michael please go ahead when you're ready. What was that? I'm Tyler. Oh Tyler go ahead Tyler. Thank you. And so this is what I think is about why our property and distribution is failed by weapons purchased using our tax dollars. Despite what it may seem this number never goes down. These children never come back and you can never replace them with new children this number just continues to rise well these deaths may seem distant our communities contributions to this genocide go beyond our tax dollars. Our silence is to us sending our community members to battle fields we could have avoided had we spoken up today. It is our moral obligation to speak up now for those dying in Gaza and to prevent any of our community members from potentially dying in the future. Help bring the tax dollars used for this genocide back to Santa Rosa. As you've heard today and at every other city council meeting there is plenty of need for that money here. Please join that. The Santa Rosa Human Rights Commission and the school board stands to end the genocide in Gaza by voting to make a resolution calling for AC's fire and to make Santa Rosa's stands clear. Please I implore you this is important clearly to make sure that we make keep putting pressure from all the communities across the United States on our federal government who actually can impact these military operations overseas and it is still incumbent upon us as citizens of the United States to push our elected leaders to represent us and our moral righteousness. Thank you. Thank you and I believe Michael had signed up but is no longer here and have you did you speak previously on item 14 non-agenda matters. Okay thank you please go ahead when you're ready. I'm Michael Tatone I live in district 2 in Santa Rosa. I'm here to implore you to pass a ceasefire resolution just a few weeks ago in this very room Santa Rosa school board passed a ceasefire resolution. It was a local issue to them. They passed it because they felt that students need to know that they're safe in the school district and they know that there is harassment and bullying and lack of safety that comes with these wars and the propaganda that comes with these wars and so promoting peace is the best way to achieve those goals. I think it's time that you all gave the citizens of Santa Rosa that same consideration that we don't tolerate hate in this community and we're here to support residents Palestinians as well as Jewish residents and we're standing up to the horrible atrocities that our government is paying for. Just this morning there was a protest at General Dynamics in Healdsburg where residents and folks who joined that protest spoke about the lack of action that city councils have been the actions that city councils are failing to been due to pass these ceasefire resolutions as why they need to move. They need to go and do direct actions in the community. There was a blockade of General Dynamics for several hours. I think that this is going to escalate and I think it's good because I think that honestly it's about time we start calling out the profiteers who are profiting off of genocide and it's about time we start taking action. So I'm calling on you city council to work with folks to get our ceasefire resolution passed. Folks have reached out to you. They've provided a draft. Please pass that ceasefire resolution. The time was several months ago and it needs to happen. Someone's got to put it on the agenda so I'm asking my representative Mark Stapp to be the person to do that. Thank you. Thank you and I am seeing no additional comment on this item. And with that we will now adjourn the meeting. Thank you.