 Okay, madam city clerk that is mayor Tom Schwedhelm. I've got it as four o'clock. Could you please do a roll call? And I like to call this meeting to order Yes, councilmember Dowd councilmember oliveris here councilmember Rogers councilmember Rogers councilmember Sawyer councilmember Tibbets here vice mayor Fleming mayor Schwedhelm and And I am here and let me check as a councilmember Rogers here Okay, let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of councilmember Rogers All right. Thank you for that information. There's a couple of reminders for council If you're not speaking, please have your phones on mute And if you haven't been called upon that you're going to share some comments, please identify yourself And then additionally as you all have read the agenda if the meeting goes quickly and we get to item 13 Public comment on non-native items before five o'clock I will be recessing the meeting and I would ask that everyone stay connected and just put it on mute And then we'll do another roll call at five o'clock to finish the agenda so with that Mr. Rogers did that just sort of another beat Are you okay? Thank you miss it's councilmember Rogers Everyone's here. All right. We had no closed session items. No study sessions We just did the roll call No proclamations or presentations. Mr. McGuinn. Do we have a staff briefing today? Just very briefly There is a couple things in process right now There's a new face covering health order which goes to effect on 1201 on Friday morning The the health order is to stop the spread of corona virus locally The order states that people must wear a facial covering before they enter an indoor facility other than their home and In any enclosed space or an outdoor space where they cannot keep a distance of six feet away From others at all times cloth face covering should fit snugly But comfortably against the side of the face be secured with ties or ear loops Include multiple layers of fabric allow for breathing without restriction be able to Be laundered or a machine dried without damage or change to the shape staff is working to Get some questions because there are obviously Community and operational impacts that we want to to to be able to communicate very clearly I believe those those questions are going to be forward on to the county later today so that we can have a very full and Complete FAQ to respond to community concerns about the the new health order Additionally The Riaza de la Rosa have forwarded on a list of projects List of events and permits that have been canceled through May We're working with the June group. Some of those groups have already canceled their Events we are also looking at our entire operation as as you well know council Summary is a very busy period of time for us traditionally But we're in the process of evaluating What summer programs the city is going to be able to sponsor this year and how? We will be back to report out At a future meeting and that concludes the presentation. Mr. Mayor Okay, council any questions for the city manager on that staff briefing? Mary enough team and I'm sitting quick. We're in any cards on I'd be seven No card submitted All right, thank you. Mr. City manager. Did you have an additional report? I do not have additional report Thank You madam city attorney. Did you have anything you wish to report? I'll just report that we continue to work closely with a Sean's team with the operational team to support and further all of their efforts to address and and To mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic Tremendous work being done by the operations team Great. Thank you for that report Statements of a stanchion by council members are there any council members that need to abstain from any of the items on tonight's agenda? There are none. We'll end to go to mayors and council members reports and I'm just going to go down the line Mr. Oliver's do you have anything you'd like to report? Nothing to report mayor Thank You mr. Sawyer. Thank you, mayor. Nothing to report. Mr. Tivots Nothing to report Mr. Rogers Briefly, we have continued to have our mayors and council members meetings once a week Where we're checking in with our colleagues from around the county What's been nice is each week a different member of our legislative delegation has joined us to be able to answer All of our questions last week it was Jim wood the week before that it was build odd So it's nice to know that our delegation is very very involved in what's happening at the local level We also had Sonoma County Transportation Authority yesterday from afar As you all know, we have been working for months to decide what we were going to do regarding a reauthorization of measure M We did not come to any type of a concrete decision other than to tell staff to continue to look at what that might What what that might look like going forward, especially with all of the uncertainty that we have and at our next meeting We will likely be giving the go or no go on whether or not we ask the public to extend that measure So we're still happening behind the scenes. All right. Thank you for that report. Mr. Doud anything you'd like to report Are you there? Okay, let's move on vice mayor Fleming anything you'd like to report No report. Thank you Thank you. Just two things I want to report on April 9th. We had the groundwater sustainability agency board meeting um Rather light agenda, but we were just uh, received updated information on the groundwater sustainability plan and the well registration program additional action will be taken in future meetings on those items and then the on yesterday April 13th the leadership council ad hoc had its first meeting to discuss State funding that the container of care received we did receive one written request From the community development commission the ad hoc chose not to take any action as we had information that we Needed to make our decisions and we did not have a representative From the community development commission on the line. So we'll be doing some follow-up on that now We'll report out to this group when we do have our next meetings So with that, uh, we have no minutes On to uh consent items and madam city attorney did you have some comments on one of our agenda items? Of the consent calendar? Yes, I do I'm going to ask the council to take some preliminary action before it moves into the Uh, full vote of the on the consent calendar Um item this respects item 12.4 12.4 was added to the Agenda after publication of our preliminary agenda preliminary agenda was published on april 2nd and in Are in order for the council to consider the item Given that it was not on the preliminary agenda The council will need to make certain findings under the council's Early council agenda policy. That's policy number 000-35 And that policy requires that all items that are going to be heard by the council Be published on an advanced agenda Published at least nine days before the meeting. So that nine day publication did not occur in this case The policy though Does allow the council to consider an item that was not included in the preliminary agenda If it finds that good cause exists to hear the item and the policy States that good cause will be found only if the council finds And i'll quote the policy That as a result of exceptional circumstances beyond the control of the council Compliance with a nine-day notice requirement Would impose a substantial burden on the city's ability to conduct its business Or result in prejudice to a private person The issue here was that after the publication of the preliminary agenda staff did learn That the that the applicant I'm sorry the Purchaser of the property Is facing certain financing deadlines and that Burbank faces an april 20th deadline for its freddy mac refinancing And that that financing is essential for its acquisition and improvement of the property To enable the properties continued use for low income housing We do believe that that those facts provide a basis upon which the council Should it so desire can make the good cause finding I also understand that jill scott is on the line If you have more if you have further questions about the circumstances That have arise And The finding of good cause Given that all council members are here today The finding must be supported by an affirmative vote of at least five Of the council members And happy to answer any questions or or or pass it over to jill if if you have questions of her Thank you for the information council any questions of the city attorney or miss scott Very none that I would entertain a motion So move the so you're here so move that the findings are adequate to move forward with 12.4 I Could you please repeat the second All right, thank you Ernesto making the second, okay, I'll do them up Let me just make sure okay, we have a motion a second. Are there any additional questions? Okay, madam city clerk. Could you do a roll call vote, please? councilmember dowd I vote yes councilmember alvaveras hi councilmember rogers councilmember soyer councilmember tidbits vice mayor fleming mayor schwedhelm That passes with seven eyes All right. Thank you. So we do have uh item 12.4 in the agenda. Um, mr. McGlynn consent calendar Yes, 12.1 resolution discounted evening employee garage permit item 12.2 resolution Temporary waiver of parking fees during covet 19 shelter in place Item 12.3 Resolution third amendment to the warped agreement to provide enterprise asset management system software item 12.4 resolution approval of the sale of 1289 martha way sanarosa apn 014-552-029 to gross men apartments lp Reservation of a public utility easement and authorization for the city manager to execute all necessary documents necessary To complete the sale right council any questions on the consent calendar Mayor soyer here. I do have a question regarding um The 12.2 on the temporary waiver of parking fees. My question is this there are I don't know the number but I am uh, it's been brought to my attention that there are potentially a number of merchants who have pre-purchased um permits for Very it's not necessarily the well for both garages and of the um the other parking facilities if indeed Those were purchased and there are still a couple of months or maybe even even if only a month um, how can we Fairly acknowledge their purchase at full rate of the Other parking facilities via their permit fees and how might we extend Once we are finished with this emergency How might we extend their use of the of the surface lots and the garages? Because of their purchase through the permit process Mr. McGlynn do you have someone on the line that could answer that? Uh, miss nadeau can you answer the question? Yes I think I might need some clarification on the question. So for those Uh Parkers who have pre-purchased permits We can refund Permit fees that have been paid per the month of april with the approval of this action We can refund permits that were paid in advance Uh, what they paid for april or future months Um, and that would apply to both garage and lot permits. We can also apply a credit to future permit Invoices in the future when we return to Uh, normal operations um, I'm not sure if I I one concern I may be misinterpreting your question But we have had questions from permit holders who are worried about losing their place where there there might be a waiting list So we're we're not going to be having anybody lose their Their permit right if they were had a permit in good standing at the end of march and we're we're not Our garages are closed and we're not charging for permits in april Whenever we do resume back to normal all those people who already had permits would be the first people who would be able to continue to have permits so I Hopefully I answered your question. If not, please please let me know I know I think Go ahead Kim could you first identify yourself in your title just for everyone's listening? Oh, sorry about that. Yes. Kim nado parking manager Things can thank you go ahead. No, thank you mayor. Um, so it um things may have changed since I used to have a parking permit On the surface lots Are there's how does one identify a current? Parking permit in the surface lots We used to have paper Permits that we that would change every three months. I think in different colors in the garages I never had a permit for the surface lots. How does one keep the Keep the the sense of validity During the next month are they stickers? How does how how are they kept valid? Well, there's no there for right now again, assuming that you were to approve this this This action There there will be no permits that are required or necessary all parking downtown would be free So there would be no need to display a permit during this period of shelter in place So once the um once the emergency is over And they have a um, I assume that there's some there's a display of a permit in one windshield Given the early part of april So they've been paying and have had to Pay for a permit through the month of march To extend would mean just would be just be one month. Is that correct? Once the once the emergency is over it would just be a month That they would that they potentially could have paid for And not have the value of because it's now free Would are there any are there any that went beyond like a like may june and july or is it only Is april the end of the potential for Having paid for something that they that the service that they would not be getting the service of We do allow Account holders to pay up to six months in advance So it is possible that there are accounts that are paid beyond the end of april But as I said, we will issue refunds Up to those who would prefer a refund or will extend credit So that for example if they paid for april that could be applied to may Or that could be applied to june if they paid to may so nobody will Be um paying for something that they didn't receive for the month of april I appreciate that I was I was sure that there was a way that you would Be looking for a way to make to to create parity with the with those that had prepaid And I I'm just wanted to bring it to the attention that I had received that request And I appreciate the response and that we're going to be able to accommodate those that have paid in advance All right, council any additional questions or other questions on the consent items Very men madams city clerk. Do we have any public comment on any consent items? Yes, we do have public comment and deputy city clerk manis will be playing those now Allison Thanks in appreciation to kim they do and her team for their attentiveness and quick action In relation to the employee parking pass program being discussed today in item 12.1 Although the dao is not taking a formal opinion on this issue Kim took the time to meet with and listen to business owners to figure out an option that meets their needs And will hopefully alleviate some of the issues they have been facing with parking downtown We are very grateful for her willingness to collaborate and the creative problem solving That went into this program. Thank you for taking the time to review this issue on the agenda Especially in the midst of the current shelter in place order Comment received from natalie balfour It is well understood and agreed that the parking downtown needs improvement As property owners of 50 old courthouse square This is something we hear all the time from our tenants and their customers We really want to thank the council and staff for working hard to find solutions to this problem Although it is clear how the discounted employee parking permit Will benefit restaurants and bars it needs to be pointed out that having the permit start at 3 p.m Will hurt businesses that are open only during the day Office and retailers depend on the availability of daytime parking for the entire work day We are hoping that the council will make a compromise in order to balance the needs of all the surrounding businesses Our proposed compromise is to have the permit start at 5 p.m Instead of 3 p.m This would achieve the goal of the employee permit without infringing on the office and retail users The proposed 3 p.m start time will definitely negatively impact our current tenants and their customers Every parking space used for a restaurant or bar employee During normal business hours in the garage will reduce the number of spots available to office and retail tenants Additionally, this would make it more difficult for us to lease space in the future Given there is an extremely long waiting list for reserved spots in the third street garage We can only offer the remaining spaces Given this start time will hurt the office and retailers Which are vital to downtown We believe that starting this evening permit at 5 p.m would be a great compromise If that isn't something you want to do we would ask that the third street garage be exempt from this resolution This is the most used garage with the fewest unused spaces All of the parking spaces are extremely vital to our tenants in 50 old courthouse square And the surrounding office and retailers. Thank you very much for your time and consideration Comment received from Sonu Shandy I am writing to share with you my support for item 12.1 on Tuesday's council agenda Discounted evening employee garage permit As a downtown business owner, I believe this will be very helpful to addressing some of the previous issues We have had with parking downtown By providing our evening employees with an inexpensive and safe place to park They will no longer need to utilize street parking Which will make more spaces available for our patrons and community members coming downtown in the evening hours Also, I think that COVID-19 will set a new normal Which may mean that we will need to be nimble to make further changes to the parking department So it can play a key role of its mission the economic success of downtown as a collective Your support for this program is greatly appreciated. Thank you Very good that That is the end of public comment on consent items All right. Thank you print back to council any of those comments generating any questions from anyone on council Hearing none, uh vice mayor Fleming. You have this item Yes, thank you mayor. I'd like to move consent items 12.1 through 12.4 and wait for the reading of the text May I get a second Who seconded? Okay, we have a motion in a second any additional comments Okay, madam city clerk. Can we do a little call vote, please? Yes councilmember dowd hi councilmember oliveris hi councilmember rogers councilmember soyer councilmember tibbetts vice mayor Fleming yes mayor schwedhelm hi Consent items passed with seven eyes Okay, thank you Not being five o'clock yet. We'll skip over item 13 We have no report items no public hearings No written communications So with that we will take a recess until five o'clock again council your options are stay connected on you Or rejoin at five o'clock and we'll do another Real call and have a clock and hear the public comment from non-agenda modems. Thank you meetings It down We'll be calling the meeting to order shortly All right, madam city clerk is mayor schwedhelm. I've got it five o'clock. Did you do a roll call, please? And we'll proceed with the meeting Yes councilmember dowd councilmember oliveris here councilmember rogers here councilmember soyer councilmember tibbetts vice mayor fleming here mayor schwedhelm And I'm also here Let the record show that all council members are present Thank you. Um item 13 on tonight's agenda public comment on agenda matters Madam city clerk, did we have any public comment on this item? Yes, we do have public comments submitted Deputy city clerk Manus will play the recorded emails and voicemails received official under control If we are expecting a huge spike in cases in the upcoming six weeks What's been the point of nearly a month of isolation? The county and city given the stats and our particular situation are being ridiculous A lot of cya going on at our expense and the choices of what's essential business Guns good wineries good craft stores good winemaking supplier bad I'm disgusted. I have always supported government officials But your behavior is turning me into a libertarian and I am a dedicated voter and not alone Comment received from jan aoki Where are we supposed to get the required face masks? Thank you Comment received on agenda item 13 non agenda items The following duplicate comment was submitted by alie barklow ben penn Don saxon Erica delight Emily albert Alex chrome We ask that you impose a moratorium on small cells and other wireless infrastructure permits process And deployment until the covet 19 emergency is over The wireless providers are using the covet 19 emergency as cover to expand and cement their rapid And virtually unsupervised deployment of harmful wireless infrastructure Our local leaders should not have to dedicate time and resources to policing Whether the wireless companies are following local and state law They have far more important things to do the FCC wireless permit rules allow emergency moratoria Homeland security guidelines emphasize that maintenance of existing communications capability Is the priority new construction is not essential The covet 19 emergency has led to a government shutdown of non essential activity Hospitals emergency response and local officials are overwhelmed And they must be allowed to focus on what is indeed essential Now is not the time to be dedicating resources to expanding rather than just maintaining our networks The FCC has directly held a local jurisdiction can impose a temporary halt To deployment and permits during the emergencies In the amount matter of accelerating Wiredland broadband deployment by removing barriers FCC 18 dash one one one 33 FCC rcd 7705 comma 7784 dash 7785 comma paragraph 157 2018 We recognize that there may be limited situations in the case of a natural disaster Or other comparable emergency Or an express or de facto moratoria That violates section 253 a may nonetheless Be necessary to protect the public safety and welfare Or to ensure the continued quality of telecommunication services Homeland security has declared that local government is on the forefront and can take control over determining whether the To temporarily halt all non essential activity Homeland security guidance documents prioritize maintenance of existing communication systems And do not support essential status for new construction See homeland security cyber security and infrastructure security agency identifying critical infrastructure during covet 19 at https From d. Cerelli With the situation in Sonoma county stabilizing why are you requiring masks to be worn? 175,000 people in Sonoma county 147 confirmed cases To deaths we have successfully flattened the curve And received from rich colorado been to dozens of stores and nobody sells masks So where can I get at least two? I'm 82 years old and my wife is 77 with dementia. I just feel stupid asking where they are Been to dozens of stores and nobody sells masks So where can I get at least two? I'm 82 years old and my wife is 77 with dementia I just feel stupid asking where they are Received from daniel guinella union hotel restaurants john frenzel cattlemen's mark starks Starks reality restaurants Roger purée plan from lagar Sonu shandy from shandy hospitality Heather ham from legends benet belly and synthia kaufi from home run pizza As you may know existing law Mandates minimum wage increases of one dollar per hour per year for three years for smaller businesses And one dollar per year for two years for larger businesses The result of which is a minimum wage of $15 per hour at the conclusion of the stated time periods The state law mandates existing trajectory to a $15 minimum wage Are an historic set of increases that in and of themselves post significant economic and operational challenges Teetering on insurmountable for most if not all restaurants The city of santa rosa's vote to significantly Accelerate the state of california's timeline By immediately increasing to $15 per hour Minimum wage effective july 1 2020 Is repressive and poses an impending undue burden to already tenuous small businesses in the city of santa rosa in fact The california restaurant association C. R. A. Is actively working with the governor in an effort to delay the current path timeline To $15 minimum wage as provided in senate bill three past april fourth 2016 The c. R. A. Recognizes the untenable nature of senate bill three the city of santa rosa must recognize that as well And we send its ordinance to accelerate the minimum wage timeline effective july 1 2020 Restaurants have encountered historic and significant challenges here to for never experienced The fires of 2017 and 2019 the pgn at e psps power outages of 2019 and likely 2020 The pandemic of 2020 And now the minimum minimum wage increase of 2020 Few restaurants could survive any one of those blows It remains to be seen if any can survive all six Now is not the time to increase the burden on small businesses in santa rosa with the current COVID-19 economic situation at hand I implore you to rescind the city of santa rosa's minimum wage ordinance and leave the minimum wage to the state of california If our concerns fall on deaf ears, I fear that the city of santa rosa landscape will look very different And not in a good way. I look forward to santa rosa becoming a more business friendly city Thank you for your time and consideration Comment received from amy heflin How are they going to enforce the mask wearing will people be arrested for not wearing one? received from greg lucas Have you people lost your mind the flu kills one percent of the people that get it We've had two deaths in sonoma county out of 540 000 people Let me show you what that looks like percentage wise 0.0000038 This is what one percent looks like if you're sick or have an underlying health concern stay home You will destroy this economy if you thought the great depression was bad wait until you see what you've done I hope every one of you are fired because there'll be no tax revenue to pay you Get it. I don't think you do educated way beyond your intelligence Comment received from sandy mezker You are taking away our civil liberties It's not right to quarantine people who aren't sick or haven't been exposed Now everyone has to wear masks just about everywhere We are becoming a police state and you threaten with citations jail and fines Have the very old and very sick stay at home and wear masks put people back to work social distancing If we must we will never recover economically if you keep this up More people die of influenza each year. Are you going to make a stay at home and wear masks? Each flu season enough is enough Comment received from jack osborn Like all people even then the doctor adjust their beliefs with great difficulty The problem is that they are concerned with individual deaths and are not considering the changing of the death rates Or percentage of death of the general population in the area Which causes them to worry about individuals It is only when the death rate of the whole population goes up significantly That there should be some concerns about the lives and actions of the whole population If the normal death rate in america is 1 per cent per year Then you would expect three million deaths a year and any significant increase would have to be 300 000 a year from covid-19 But that would not affect the death rate total very much because some of the additional deaths would have been from the normal deaths that occur each year But there must be something else going on here in the politics of the nation Too much money being made by the hysterical reporting of the disease I guess and the states are asking for more money from the federal side of the nations Someone is profiting somewhere and it must be in the political end of the economy Comment received from brianna paul cop Thank you for the dumpsters and hand washing stations. We are now at the point. We should have been years ago How's the vulnerable women now? I know several women who have agreed to sexual relationships for safety Due to lack of services People are suffering and will die because you did not act I am considering starting a youtube channel exposing the human rights abuses here Including video of srpd violating human rights abuses after they have agreed not to be To the public start doing your job to prevent this I don't want to be in the public eye, but I will if you keep torturing people Open the parks to homeless people srpd and western security violated the injunction the shelter in place order and the cdc recommendations by Continuing to clear Doyle and other parks parks are a vital resource to unhoused people and by closing them You have forced me and others to move more widely about the city and some have even left This is in direct conflict with the shelter in place order If housed people can't control themselves. That's your problem But western security and srpd should not be moving unhoused people and violating both cdc county state and judicial orders Along and the roads need to be unblocked for unhoused people who have nowhere else to go Except neighborhoods all around town potentially spreading the virus Comments received from erin reinberg I am ready to make a public comment for the city council 41420 meeting To add that the hearing appeals regarding prj 19-031 c up 19 dash 095 db 19-009 dr 19 dash 053 dr 19054 maj 19-003 For the burbank avenue subdivision be postponed until such time when these hearings Can be held as normal with full citizen participation Neighborhood members making these appeals Do not all have full access to the internet to fully participate in virtual meetings and the commenting process There is no need to rush these appeals and disregard key components of the brown act during the Shutdown as the appeal hearings are not essential and not emergency related Postponing until all shutdowns have been lifted so that full citizen participation can occur in a normal manner Ensures that the voices of neighbors are fully heard and appropriate decisions can be made Thank you for your consideration That ends our public comment all emailed public comments were Sent to the city council and all comments whether email and the voice recordings Will be made part of the archive record Council any questions For staff based on any of those comments None and no further items on the agenda I will adjourn this meeting our next center of the city council meeting will be on tuesday april 28th is adjourned