 All right, Adrian, it looks like we might have everybody on. Are we good to go? Yes, we do. We were giving it just another minute to let some attendees join. But we are ready to get started now. Welcome everyone. I am Adrian Mertens. I am the chief communications intergovernmental relations officer for the city of Santa Rosa, and I will be facilitating this evening's meeting. This is the glass fire rebuilding and recovery meeting hosted by city of Santa Rosa staff. The meeting is intended to provide updates and answers to questions for those who are rebuilding repairing their homes within the city limits in the glass fire burn scar area. And also for those who are living within the glass fire burn scar area and Santa Rosa and want to be kept up to date on what's happening with recovery and rebuilding. So I'll touch on a couple of quick logistics. All community members that are joining this meeting are participating as zoom attendees. And so your microphone is muted and your cameras are off and only today's panelists will be viewed on screen during the meeting. And also if you're calling from a telephone for privacy concerns Kaylee or zoom host is renaming your viewable phone number to citizen, and only the last four digits of your phone number will show on the screen. Also, we are recording this meeting. And so if you are able to stay on for the entire meeting, and this will be made available on our website and the next 24 to 48 hours, and will be sent out in one of our future recovery updates this week. I do want to thank everyone for taking time to join us this evening as we embark on the new year. We recognize that there's a lot going on right now. And we recognize this is an especially difficult and stressful time for those in our community who are rebuilding or repairing their homes. Joining me this evening, our staff from our cities glass fire recovery team who have been working the closest on our efforts as we move forward from this disaster. Our hope for tonight is that we are able to support you with answers to any of the questions that you may currently have related to recovery. Before we jump into updates from our panelists, I am going to turn it over first to Mayor Chris Rogers and then to Council Member Jack Tibbets, who represents District three, which includes the areas that were impacted by the glass fire. Both of them would like to offer just a few brief remarks before we begin and so I will start with Mayor Rogers. Thank you so much, Adrienne. And first of all, I wanted to welcome folks. We are in a new year. We do have a new mayor and new council members, but the priorities of the city have been shifted. And we are here tonight. Mostly to listen is to see what barriers still exist for getting folks home and to maintain that commitment to do so and to work with you to get everybody back. We know it's been very challenging with the pandemic. We know that even seeing a red flag warning this last week has induced some PTSD for folks. And we just want to make sure that you understand that we're here to support you and to hear from you. I represent the downtown area for Santa Rosa, but now as mayor also want to be involved in all of these issues. So feel free to reach out to me if you do have anything that you need or any questions. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Jack Tibbets, who is our council member who represents district three and Jack I know has been working hard day in and day out to make sure that people get what they need as we move forward with our rebuild. Thanks, Mayor. To the folks who are attending tonight's meeting I just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you. For those of you who probably don't know me. I am your council representative in Santa Rosa's district three. I just want you to know that my heart goes out to you. I can't say that I've lost my home and I know what that's like, but I can tell you that you will have my own yielding support. And I think I speak for everybody here who's a part of this team at the city of Santa Rosa. I've watched Jesse Oswald and his team and a lot of the people who are here tonight get us through multiple fires now and the pandemic and in my opinion they do a very good job. They do the best of their ability. And if there's ever a time where you feel like something might not be getting through or you need just that little extra push. I hope you will email me so that I can work with them to try to find a resolution to whatever issue could present itself in your rebuilding process. So with that I want to give you my personal email address it's the one I check the most, and that is Jay is in Jack, Tibbets, T-I-B-B-E-T-T-S, one eight at gmail.com. And again is Jay Tibbets 18 at gmail.com and again please reach out to me so I can advocate for you. I will say that in the almost four and a half years that I've been on the council, being able to advocate for fire survivors is probably my biggest honor and this is certainly no different. And I wish you all the best. Thank you mayor and council member. Okay, so our staff panelists are prepared to give updates on several topic areas for agenda this evening. And Kaley's put the topic areas up on the screen. We will take up to two questions from attendees. If there are any following each of the staff updates, and then we will have additional time for more Q&A at the end of all of the updates. And then once we open for questions from attendees, I'll ask that you raise your hand using the raise your hand feature and zoom. And if you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Great. So let's get to our first staff update. And then we'll be starting with an update on Skyhawk Park and open space area, specifically to cover the damages from the fire repairs and the reasoning for the ongoing closure of the open space area. To kick things off it'll be Jeremy Gundy our deputy director of field services from transportation and public works. Good evening my name is Jeremy Gundy I'm the deputy director for field services for the city's transportation and public parks department. So tonight I'm here to speak about the city's open space located in the skyhawk community off mountain Hawk Drive. In the last fire, the area was closed to the public do the hazards created when the fire burned through this area. The remain this remains closed until the repairs can be made and the hazards can be eliminated. Now some of these hazards identified include the fire damage trees, wooden pathway steps, the storm drain lids and the pedestrian bridge that burned. After the fire, the city has been working on mitigating the hazards by removing the trees, replacing storm drain lids and inspecting storm drain pipes. Initially, 160 foot section of damage storm drain pipe was discovered. And then following some significant rain events that we had in December, a second section of pipe was also discovered. The discovery of this pipe prompted the city to harden the closure of the open space with some additional snow fencing and some signage and barricades. And then city crews took immediate action to stabilize the surrounding area and are currently in the planning phase of the work of the repair work. Along the along with the two sections of the storm dream pipe that burned. The crews are currently working on securing the contract for additional erosion control measures and purchasing the additional materials to repair the bridge and the steps. Our goal is to reopen the area to the public as quickly as possible. And we do appreciate your understanding and patience while we work towards repairing this damage. And this concludes my report for the open space and I'd like to turn it over to Sean McNeill, the deputy director of environmental services. Thank you, Jeremy and first I'd just like to say I'm sorry for the impact that the glass fire has had on you and your loved ones and my heart goes out to you. But I'm going to speak a little bit about the impact that the fires had on the environment and what we can do to help protect that. The buildings and infrastructure burn the pollutants from those buildings in that infrastructure can make their way into our local creeks and if they do get in there. Then it's very difficult for us to get in and remediate that damage so our efforts really are on trying to keep the pollutants in place where they are located and prevent them from migrating into our creeks. And doing that is by providing free waddles for people to put out around their burned areas. We're protecting our storm drain system, which flows directly from our streets into our creeks, and making sure that the inlets there. And then we're working with Jeremy Gundy's team to ensure that the infrastructure that has impacts to our creeks is getting repaired as quickly as possible. We know that the burned plastic pipes can emit many toxins so it's a deep concern for our watershed task force to abate these burn storm drain pipes and get that damage cleaned up and repaired as soon as possible. So we are also on the side of getting the park open for everybody. It's part of protecting the environment. Another thing I want to just mention is when fire comes through an area and burns heavy and hot. It does change a lot of the characteristics of that landscape, as far as its ability to shed water. What happens when it rains is that water then starts instead of getting captured by plants and taken into the plants. It's now flowing over surfaces potentially causing erosion, carrying debris down into our local riverways, which can cause debris flow and mud flows. So we are under a heightened worry for potential flood and debris flows and signs have been placed. And just want to remind folks that if you are concerned about these hazards to just pay attention to the local alerts, please go on to the city's website. We have a whole landing page rain ready on the alert side, please take a look at what you can do on your property there, as well as what you can do to protect yourself. Should we come under a situation of debris flows or mud flow events. We would know this well in advance before it happens. Fortunately for us, the rainfall that we've gotten so far is what we're calling Goldilocks rain, which is it's just the right amount to get vegetation growing in the burned areas, and not enough to cause runoff and erosion. We would like a little more rain than we've been getting but it's it's been good so far for the risk of flooding. So should we move to the next slide please. I also just want to reiterate that the city is making these waddles available for for free for people who would like to help the city protect our storm water by controlling the pollution running off from any burned properties. We have protected the storm drain inlets and these with these waddles these are weighted waddles. You can place these around the perimeter of a burned property to prevent any pollution from migrating off that property will be captured by these waddles. We also have on our website have directions and how to use them, and they're conveniently located at Skyhawk Park and rink and valley community park. So if you're in the burn scar area, please take advantage of these free resources that the city is providing. I just want to mention, not necessarily related to our storm water system but our drinking water system. The city did go through and do extensive testing of the drinking water system in the affected areas. We noticed that there was no elevated risk of pollution from the fire that we were able to maintain positive pressure throughout the event, and that has not led to any contamination of the water so the water is safe and dependable. Both for people who are living within the burn scar, as well as people who are planning to rebuild with that I think Jeremy and I are available for any questions. Thank you, Sean. And just for those on the meeting Sean referenced a website a couple times. And so all the information he just shared is available on srcity.org forward slash glass fire recovery. There is a rain ready section, as well as updates on Skyhawk Park and open space. And I did say we would take two questions before we move to the next update so at this time if there are any attendees with questions related to open space to Skyhawk open space area or to watershed protection concerns. We'll take those now. Mark Brown has a question. Mark I have enabled your speaking permissions. Good evening everybody. My name is Mark Brown I do live in the skyhawk subdivision and I first wanted to thank you all for the work that you've been doing before, during and after the fire it's been incredible. And not quite a question but I'll get to a question I completely support your closure of the open space area. Yes it's an inconvenience but you guys have your good reasons. So what you're watching disbelief is people walk by the signs that say it's closed apparently those signs don't count for them. And, and I do understand you guys will be putting something up that kind of explains the why for the closure, and perhaps that'll that'll help. I think we can look at this fire as a reset for the bramble that started to accumulate in the creek bed. I know that it is a very difficult chore to keep up on that but perhaps this is an opportunity to start grazing goats or sheep in the bottom of the creek bed, and do that on an annual basis and that'll really help with keeping that down and just wanted to ask if that has been considered. Thank you very much. Can I take that as far as the, the watershed in the creek area. Yeah, I think that's a great question mark. We're definitely interested in looking at creative solutions for maintaining our open space areas. But I can say for water quality perspective we typically try to keep grazing animals outside of creeks. And just that's that's kind of the regulations around that, but it doesn't mean that we're not open to creative solutions for the issues that that we face. Also, I want to mention that riparian areas which are the air, the vegetation around creeks have special protections, both from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, as well as the regional water quality control board. So we are not, it's not easy for the city to do a lot of vegetation removal in these areas, as we're there trying to keep them fish friendly. I don't know Jeremy if you have more to add about maintenance of the park. Well, I was just going to say to the beginning of the first part of Mark's question we are. As you mentioned, we, yes, I can confirm we're working on signage that does provide more of an explanation as to the reasoning behind the closure. And we do expect to get those signs produced and posted in the next few days. And then on, we will have further discussion on vegetation management it wasn't one of the items called out on our, on our agenda for tonight, but we did send out a survey to our residents within the glass fire burn scar area and got a number of other concerns related to, you know, what the city would be doing in terms of prevention, future wildfires and so we did have that as an item we were going to ask that question at the end and have our assistant fire marshal speak to that as well so we will get to that to more information on that later in the meeting. And it doesn't look like we have any other hands on watershed protection. So we'll go ahead and move to our next staff update. And we are going to cover fire damage trees on private property and to start that off we'll have Paulo and follow our assistant fire marshal. And then following him will be Jesse Oswald our chief building official. Good evening. And thank you attendees for being here appreciate everybody's time. So, diving right in to fire damage trees unfortunately we got some experience in the effects of them following the tubs fire a number of staff on this call dealt extensively with the concerns, not only of ours but of the communities following what we saw in both the tubs and the nuns fire and we took a lot of those lessons learned and move them forward into the 2020 fire. The first thing that wanted to cover was the addition of the fire damage trees under the state's debris removal program. So in 2017 that was not something that was available for us however it was something that we advocated for and did a lot of work for behind the scenes that we hope is actually what played into having this program available first for the campfire in Duke County and then for us here in Sonoma County. What that means is that if you have fire damage trees that will or are likely to die is to die as a determined by an arborist that is provided by the state. Within the next five years those trees will be available to be removed through the state's right of entry program. We saw a lot of needs for tree removals in 2017 and we understand that typically the bucket of money available for for tree removal is typically pretty limited. So there is a benefit to enrolling in this program and having trees that are a threat to the right away meaning the tree could fall into a road or onto public infrastructure so whether it's a water meter hydrant or some sort of public utility. If the tree is likely to fall in that it would be most likely eligible under the state's program. So we're really working hard to get our residents into that. Obviously not only does it remove the, the tree but it also remove the eye hazard or I saw. And then we did want to clarify. We are already getting a number of comments about a lot of trees, whether it's an open space or throughout the burn area is that we're not going to actually require the removal of every single tree to be not requiring every single tree to be removed in the burn scar. So we're going to remove require the removal as many of them as we can that would be a threat to either right away a threat to following falling on a neighbor's property, or some or a public safety risk, but you will see a lot of trees that are going to be left in place. And I'll tell you a little bit more on what I mean by the bucket of tree money so typically on your policy, you'll have different line items so there's policy or money available for debris removal for accessory structures and then a lot of policies will actually have a very specific line item for tree removal. I think from the experience in 2017 losing my home and a number of trees that had to be removed. I definitely would have stood to benefit from a program like this. Oftentimes you only have the several thousand dollars to remove the trees. So offsetting some of those costs with the state's program would be beneficial. If it costs the state to remove $20,000 to remove your trees but you only had $2,000 worth of tree removal money. That's all that they would ask for in return. However, there's likely additional work that you'd have to do on your property so if you had other tree removal work that need to be done and you exhausted that $2,000 you would know nothing to the state. Another issue that we're working on is the PG&E tree removal issue that has become quite a hot topic. So PG&E has been removing what they refer to as priority one and priority two trees within the glass fire burn area. Several thousand trees have been removed. The issue that we have run into is that PG&E is not currently offering a wood removal program. So when a tree is felled on your property by PG&E is ultimately your responsibility to have it removed. The city and county are both working to get that changed and working to have PG&E potentially mitigate that. We're working with not only our legal side but also with the California Public Utilities Commission. So we understand that has caused a lot of concerns and a lot of issues within the glass fire footprint but know that we are still working to advocate on behalf of our community about some of the issues caused by those trees that have been felled. Another thing really quickly is there's also been concerns regarding some of the what appear to be fire trees that were damaged or dead following the fire that are not. So we did have an arborist come through and removed a lot of the trees that Jeremy had talked about earlier. But there's a lot of trees that had the foliage burned off of it but an arborist has determined that those trees will survive. So with that, those will remain at this point in time but will continue to monitor it. So if you have concerns, again, feel free to reach out to us. But know that it's definitely not something we're ignoring. We are actively working on it, similar to what we did in 2017. We're encouraging people to take the proactive approach and deal with the trees as they can. We know that there will be some property owners that can't or won't deal with them. Not to understand what they're going through but we understand also the concerns of those neighbors that do want to see the trees removed and ones that do need to be will have a process in place to deal with that so we're currently working to modify an ordinance that we have right now to deal with the remaining fire damage trees that need to be removed, both in the tubs, nuns and now glass fire footprints. And that is all I have. I'll let Jesse jump in and talk about any proactive tree removal permit requirements from the city. Good evening everybody thank you for spending some time with us this evening. My colleague is we're very sorry for the losses you've suffered, and this team is committed to working with you to get through and get you all back home and get things taken care of for your property. So trees fire damage trees on private property specifically with this segment. It's really about these trees that are considered either heritage trees or protected trees that you may have on a property on your property that could be damaged and you wish to remove those. And again, this segment is specifically for those folks that have not enrolled in the state's ROE program for tree removal or have some other method that they're going through, and it really is targeting these heritage or protected trees. I'm going to give a summary of the process but we do have a very clear step by step process on the same web website that that we're all referencing this evening. Basically what it comes down to is if you have one of these trees and there's a list on the website as well of these trees. And that you believe is damaged want to have it removed we have a no cost application to submit to us to have the tree removed in a quick part of this that makes it easier for us to approve is again certified arborist would evaluate the tree and provide a statement that the tree is either hazardous or dangerous, and that it does need to be removed in their professional opinion. With that submittal coming to us here and planning and economic development, we would process the the removal approval approval quickly, especially when it's accompanied by that certified arborist report. I can help you with those and again reach out to myself or any of the team to to give you any more details on that and again, we do have some great information on our website. Thank you Jesse. And again that website is srcity.org forward slash glass fire recovery and there is a button icon on that homepage. So if you have any damaged trees and all of the information that Jesse covered and that Paul covered is on that page. All right, I will stop now to see if there's any questions on fire damage trees on private property before we move to our next staff update so if you do have a question use the raise your hand feature to let us know. And seeing no hands raised we'll go ahead and move to our next staff update, which will be focused on debris removal. And so I will first turn it over to Kimplin Robbins our assistant fire marshal from the Santa Rosa fire department to give an update. And then that will be followed by Jesse Oswald again with some additional information. Thank you, Adrian. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for taking the time to be with us tonight. Paul Lowenthal, excuse me Paul Lowenthal and I are the co leads for the Santa Rosa debris task force. And we are glad to see that several residents have already had their parcels cleared of fire debris and are mostly waiting for soil sampling results before they are approved to begin the process. Currently, with the exception of a couple parcels, all residents with damaged or destroyed structures have entered into either the state consolidated debris removal or private debris removal program. And the task force has now focused our attention on providing resources and support to those residents who have non structural or minor debris remaining on their property. We want to remind those residents to work with their insurance companies before removing debris in case a claim was or can be made on the removal of these items, which can include fences, trampolines play structures patio furniture, barbecues covers and recreational sporting equipment. We are issuing exemptions for those who would like to take these minor burn debris items to the landfill for disposal. And you can find and complete the conditional exemption form at SR city.org forward slash glass fire recovery under the hazardous waste and debris removal icon. We have received questions related to treated wood waste, specifically railroad ties, which are considered a hazardous waste. And we are working with the state currently to determine the best way to pick up and dispose of these items. If your property has treated wood waste and you have questions on proper disposal, please feel free to reach out for to us for any assistance. We do have cleanups underway in city limits, although we don't receive notice before work is initiated on a property. Once we are aware we do track this information. There will be a deadline established for debris removal completion. And if it seems that a parcel is waiting for this removal it may be a state consolidated consolidated debris removal program property. Parcel debris removal is prioritized based on risk areas, which can include schools, waterways environmentally sensitive areas and vulnerable populations. Cal OES has created a debris operations dashboard that can provide specific details of the cleanup process for all fires in the state. The city has added the link for this dashboard on our SR city.org forward slash glass recovery webpage for reference. If there are any additional questions or concerns on the debris cleanup and removal, you can reach us at rebuild at SR city.org or call 707-543-4649. And that is all I have for now. All right, hello again everyone. Jesse Oswald chief building official. We'll now talk about some of the next parts of the process which is actually our permitting a rebuilt center and permitting for say repairs and rebuilding. Can I just stop you for one sec. I'm sorry. I just want to make sure there weren't any questions on debris removal before we move into that next item. And it looks like we do have one. I'm healing you want to facilitate that. Of course Sonya I have enabled your speaking permission if you're able to unmute your microphone. Hi, good evening. Thank you city of Santa Rosa people for being here for us. I had submitted this question earlier. My home is in rink and valley and it was partially burned. We still have a little, some of the structure is still standing. And I've just was up in the neighborhood today and I've gotten talked to my neighbors at length about their concerns. When we have high winds, our roofing material is blowing off our house. We have not been able to settle with our insurance company as far as getting debris removal. Anyway, our latest windstorm this week, one of my neighbors found 45 pieces of our roofing material in his yard. It's scratched up his car, and I don't know what to do at this point we are working with an attorney, but we would really like to put some pressure on our insurance company to approve our debris removal and so we can move forward and keep our neighbors out of harm's way. Thanks for the question. Really quick just to clarify so I can answer it appropriately are you already submitted have you already submitted a private debris removal application for your residents or did you submit a state right of entry form. We did a private one and I understand that we could not do a state one because there are still portions of our house still standing. Okay, so I'll try and answer as quickly as I can so we surveyed all homes within the glass fire burn burn scar and found approximately 10 homes that were similar to what you're describing where there was more than one wall standing. And are currently submitted all those addresses to the state for potential inclusion into the program. All but four different properties submitted private debris removal applications and only four actually submitted the right of entry form. We did initially deny that a process that the request and we're in the process of filing an appeal to include the properties that submitted a right of entry that are similar to what you're describing into the state's program so that's still underway. So it was an option that we were working to fight for our residents for for the private property debris removal programs it sounds like you've got an application in for it, but your property or your insurance will not allow it to proceed because they're not considering it a full debris removal is that correct. They haven't just, well, I guess they haven't decided whether or not they, we should remove the foundation. They had told us before Thanksgiving that they had approved it, and then they are turning went back and said does that mean you're approving full removal including the foundation they said oh wait a minute let us get back to you. Well they finally sent an engineer last week so it's we're going on almost two months since they had, you know, looked at our debris removal estimates, and they just really seem to be dragging their feet and at this point. It's, it's not looking good. I mean I'm just really concerned about and I was just there I see pieces of metal gutter hanging off the end of the roof and I understand so it sounds like the process of being held up until the determination can be made on the status of the foundation so from a safety standpoint we can work with you offline. Myself Kempelman and or Jesse Oswald just from a structural stability and a safety standpoint for the neighborhood because I'm 99% confident I know which property you're talking about. It might help work to get you what you need from documentation that shows that it is destroyed the structure itself to at least move forward regardless of what they do with the foundation to kind of mitigate the threat. Much appreciated, thank you that's what I needed. Thank you Paul, and, and I'm seeing no other hand so I will send it back your way Jesse, thank you. Thank you Adrian. So the, the next part of our mission for all of us here you folks that have lost your homes or have damage is going to be the permitting process. Our permit center, so to speak is all permitting for the glass fire recovery is going to be done through permanent city staff. We'll be prioritizing to meet the same time frames that we committed to for the Tubbs fire rebuild inspections, we will prioritize as well to keep projects moving once permits are issued. Our emails and calls will go to the same contact information that's contained on the website and it's essentially the primary contact and best way to get documents to us is rebuild at SRCity.org. And that team will give everyone involved that needs to, to get your projects moving. So for repairs on homes that that were not destroyed so we simply need some some permits to do any, any measure of things that is not a home replacement. You will likely need permits. And if you're not sure if you need permits for it certainly reach out to me directly my contact information is here on the screen. It's Jay Oswald at SRCity.org, and my direct line is 543-3249. There are some I have some brief examples of things that do not need building permits to repair replace fences that are seven feet tall or less accessory structures that are 120 square feet or less. Those are structures that we consider truly accessory structures like sheds play structures and things like that. Retaining walls don't necessarily need permits and inspections unless they're over four feet tall. And that measurement is from the bottom of the footing to the top of the wall. And any height retaining wall does require a permit. If it's holding what we call a surcharge in other words it's it's holding a hillside back behind it. There's pressure on the wall. Landscaping and irrigation generally don't need permits. We do get into items that do need permits. Most times plans will be required sometimes it can be very simple plans. Homeowners can draw their own plans. We can help you through that process and provide you information specifically on what you need to see, or we would need to see. There's the possibility always that certain permits don't even need plans. It's simply an application submitted to us, and we can work through describing it well and issue a permit in that manner. So that's that's a brief overview of permitting for repairs. The building is going to follow essentially the same processes that had had in the past and in our past fire and the new homes replacement homes will have to meet the 2019 California building and or residential codes. So, did exempt glass fire rebuilds from the recently passed all electric only ordinance for Santa Rosa so that's not going to be a concern. If folks were worried about all electric. We certainly encourage the all electric only for the benefits of provides the environment. So minimal landscaping is required on rebuilds for the front yard. Gabe Osborne will be coming up after me to describe some more details about landscaping and a bunch of our tools and we have to assist with that. And again, all of our submittal requirements that we have step by step processes for what it takes to develop a full permit submittal package. So if you have trouble finding any of that information again reach reach out directly to me at Jay Oswald and SR city dot org, or you can call me directly at 543-3249. And with that, I will turn it over to Gabe Osborne, unless we want to take questions before we go into landscaping and tools. No, let's go ahead and go to Gabe. Good evening everyone and I'd like to start by just mimicking what my colleagues have already mentioned. Truly sorry regarding the situation and what you're going through right now. Both Jesse and I were intimately involved in the rebuilding efforts associated with the tubs fire. We've really lived that process for three years now and we understand some of the struggles that you're going through. And most of what I'm going to touch on now is some of the tools that we develop that really cater to the full on rebuild that that is the heavy lift. That's going to take a significant amount of time. And we understand that that's on a different timeline than then potentially some of those other quicker restoration efforts. And in 2017 we saw a significant amount of permitting activity in the first quarter of 2018. And then we saw quite a bit the next year and we still see permits now so we understand that that timeline is a very personal decision there's a lot that goes into that. But we want to make sure we have the appropriate tools in place to help you make the decisions and support you along that process. Jesse mentioned for a full rebuild there is a whole permitting process to rebuild the house and that permitting process the heavy lift behind that is usually done by the licensed professionals you hire so you will have an architect that designs and you will have a contractor that builds. What we found in the tubs fire is there's a lot of steps along that process where you are actually making decisions. Those decisions are based on the design of the home. They're based on the placement of the home because we have created flexibility in our process to where you don't have to build back exactly what you had before. So in order to make these decisions we wanted to present as much of this information as possible in a self help sort of format. That was critical in tubs fire because we just had a significant number of people going through this, but I think it's equally is important in this period of time because of coven and our restrictions we're trying to publish as much information and digital format as possible. Next slide please. So one of the important decisions because we do have flexibility if you're going through the rebuild is really how do you want that home to look and we created as much flexibility as possible. And we knew that if there is any silver lining at all in this whole process as you rebuild that home hopefully it gives you what you needed, and hopefully it creates a home that more better matches the lifestyle you're currently in now. That can involve moving it on the site that can involve shrinking or growing the footprint. Sometimes that can grow it involve growing height so adding stories to that. It's an important piece to that decision before you even start that process or whatever referred to as setbacks. So that's the distance that a structure must maintain from side front and back property lines. And it's really critical to understand that box as you go through it, because you can make decisions about how large you can move that foundation or excuse me expand that foundation or if you can slide it forward or backward to increase your backyard. The tools that we've provided are available on the website that Adrian mentioned which is srcity.org slash glass fire rebuild on that front page there is a link to a parcel report search tool. You can click on that and it gives you the ability to either search by entering an address or you can search a map and select a parcel, and you would be presented with this format. And as you can see now the planning tab is highlighted on the static image. And what this does is give you very unique information about your parcel. So those setbacks will be that setbacks that apply to your parcel and those are minimum numbers. And important piece to this is we try to create as much flexibility as possible. So those setbacks may be less aggressive than the previous home so for example you may have had a 10 foot side yard setback. And in some situations you can reduce down based on zoning requirements to five feet so there might be a little more flexibility. So it's important to note it doesn't necessarily have to go back in the same placement that the foundation was prior to the fire. In addition that information we also have some standard information associated with fences how tall do they need to be can I put lattice on top of it. What if I wanted to build an accessory dwelling unit we have information on the page associated with that. So this is really catering to the property owner that's trying to make decisions on how to move forward the parcel. And once the building permit is applied for this website will also show a status of that permit. So you can click on the permits tab. You will see information about the review timelines the comments generated when it goes under inspection you can also track the inspection see what was scheduled whether it was approved or denied on our side. So we found that in the tabs fire this was a very helpful tool and we were able to incorporate all the specific data for the glass fire to allow it to translate over that fairly well. Next slide please. So in addition to a lot of the parcel specific information for making those decisions we also found the property owners are also we're also very interested in just really general information. What you can see here is we have a rebuilding document library that's also available on the same website. What's available now is some information that's really specific to the processes that you're going through, which might be doing still smoke damage if you've evolved past that you might be looking at rebuilding so it gives some information about what that building permit needs to look like those documents will expand with time. For example in the tabs fire we produce documents for reestablishing mail service we produce documents for what to expect when you're re occupying your home, as well as impacts to the street as construction commences and noise things of that nature as construction activities ramped up. So this will grow with time as we translate those documents over, but this is a really good resource to check for information that's really more global to the rebuild. And one of those documents as Jesse mentioned is associated with landscaping requirements and the reason we want to focus on this as you dive into the rebuild this may be something that the contractor pushes back on the property owner. We did see this in the tabs fire landscaping is required when it's associated with a building permit so if you're pulling a building permit to reconstruct the home, a small amount of landscaping in the front yard will be required. So there's state requirements associated with water use efficiency. There are certain requirements that go along with landscaping and those requirements, historically have required a property owner to hire someone to actually design a plan and submit it to show that it's consistent with state guidelines for water use efficient landscaping. We tackled in the tabs fire because anytime you bring in another licensed professional another plan that can add a layer of cost. We actually developed a program where you have free templates that you can use that are designs that can be scalable to your lot, and they can be submitted free of charge you can use them freely. And they can meet that requirement so it should help deflect some of that cost you would normally have on hiring landscape architect. We also have consultation services available within our permit center that will help you navigate that. So these are just some things to think about. As you move forward, based on where you are in the process, these documents are here, we completely understand that you might not be ready to dive into these quite yet. But just know that there's digital resources and then both Jesse and myself have committed to work with people directly to help them navigate any of these documents or any other issues that aren't presented on the website. And that includes my overview and at this point Jesse and I are available to answer any questions you might have about the rebuilding process. Thanks Gabe. And one thing I want to note that URL that's, oh, we just lost the screen that's okay. And the SR city or forward slash glass fire rebuild that's actually a new website. We have published that this week. And it's kind of an extension of the recovery website that has been available since very shortly after the glass fire, but this is really focused on the home repair and reconstruction process and everything related to permitting and everything that Jesse and Gabe covered so if you haven't been on that site and you are repairing or rebuilding your home and it's something we encourage you to take a look at. All right, and I will open it for any and all questions that anyone may have on any recovery topics at this time. Okay, and I'm not seeing any hands immediately and I did want to be sure that we addressed the question that we received a lot of feedback on in the surveys we sent out and that was how will the city be addressing the threat of future wildfires in our community. And so Paul, if you could take a stab at that one and perhaps in the meantime we might get more hands. Thank you. So yeah, like Adrian said we saw a pretty common theme and a lot of the responses that we got regularity regarding not only vegetation management in the burn scar but around it as well. There was feedback and comments regarding an adult state park. Howard Park spring lake, a lot of the open spaces so a couple pieces to that. A number of the questions and concerns were actually identified and addressed and what we refer to as our community wildfire protection plan. So those of you that are not familiar with it. The city approved and adopted a plan that we have developed over the last year and a half or so through council in September of 20. Ironically, and unfortunately, it was actually approved just a matter of weeks before the glass fire occurred and it did identify the greatest threat to the community is the area between the tubs and the nuns directly above skyhawk. They've been working on plans to implement for that area. Unfortunately, we saw the fire do exactly what we were worried it would do. But nonetheless, we're still committed to doing not only work in that same area, but around the city so there remains a threat to our community primarily right now. In the Malita Road corridor. Kind of the backside of Oakmont from what we would typically have is our normal south southwest wind flow where it could potentially push a fire out of spring lake or Howard Park direction towards those areas. There's a lot of unburned fuels and risks to the area up around the flamingo and really multiple parts of our community, including what burned in the tubs and nuns fire with the regrowth that's occurred. So, with that, we are doing a lot we're currently applying for three different grants. Speaking very generally total about $3.1 million and are fit into three different types of programs one is for evacuation route hardening so a lot of our major streets in and around our community primarily on the east side of town. We're looking at doing fuel reduction along those evacuation routes we're looking also looking at doing vegetation management and fuel reductions in open spaces that include areas like the skyhawk open space, as well as a lot of other areas in and around the east side of town. So we're very aware of the concerns we're aware of the risks, and we're currently working, not only towards grant applications, but there's also been an overwhelming request and support from our community to potentially use PG knee settlement funds. So we have provided a council with information, both through our public safety, the council's public safety committee, the economic stuff committee as well as to our full council, and currently are asked specific to vegetation management is five and a quarter million dollars. That is geared towards $5 million to start working on actionable items that are identified in the community wildfire protection plan, and then a quarter of a million dollars to put together another plan in five years from now, so that we continue to meet the needs of our community. Just recently, we currently have a budget that's specific to we debatement. That is what most residents up in the skyhawk areas specifically as well as out in Oakmont and the rink and valley area have seen the city do. There's a lot of the work that we do on our we debatement program. We are aware that based on how the fire burn. We're going to be working on the rock areas that were heavily brushed that we would not typically have done we debatement work on. We will be doing we debatement work on where it is required so we're going to be coming forward with an additional request for funding through council, based on the additional needs for we debatement following the glass fire meaning areas that we didn't have to deal with in the past we'll have to deal with now. There's a lot of projects that we're going to want to do in the area. So there's a lot of work that will be done that needs to be done. And quite honestly we look forward to working with our community partners and making a lot of these things happen. We've been eager and wanting to get a jumpstart on it. There have been several unsuccessful attempts for grant funding since the 2017 fires to do a lot of the work that people specifically asked for know that we're working very closely with council and very close with our consultants to work on securing grant funding so that we can absolutely take advantage of this place now to start mitigating the risks and protecting our community from additional wildfires that seem to be coming the new normal here locally unfortunately. Thank you Paul. All right, and so I will ask her. Oh, it looks like we have a question. You want to grab that one. Brian I have enabled enabled your speaking permissions if you can unmute your microphone. Brian are you able to unmute your microphone. It looks like he might have gotten disconnected. Let's wait a moment and see if he's able to jump back on. Looks like Mark Brown has a question in the meantime. Mark and I have enabled your speaking permissions. Good evening again and again thank you for everything I appreciate you guys put your time in tonight. And it's more of a request as you move forward with your vegetation management and I asked that you use a science based approach for contemporary development and science, which is exactly included in your community wildfire protection plan, and I asked that you not follow the poorly informed and fearful approaches that some people have been asking for such as completely removing all vegetation from our open space that quite frankly is not the answer to our problem. The answer is for homes to be hardened and people to take a house out approach. And if you look at all the homes that were destroyed in Skyhawk, and I've looked at every one of them. It was because what was done on the person's property or their neighbors property and not the wildland area that burned their homes down so I asked you to take a science approach science based approach thank you. Yeah thank you for that mark for background awareness yeah we are familiar and have had some HOAs throughout Santa Rosa that I don't want to minimize it but have had some knee jerk reactions where they want to do something that may not be in their best interest We typically understand that there's dollar amounts to mitigating different risks and we want to make sure that the money that is spent is going to do the most good for our community so yeah I have watched some HOAs remove all their spend their money on removing all the fuels within the open space, the larger diameter fuels the brush throughout the entire area, and it doesn't truly mitigate the risk of wildfire so we are very aware of your concerns. As you just indicated is address the scientific based approach is outlined in the plan, and our goal is also to help educate the community on what they can do to harden their structures. It was something that was actually noted by Cal OES and FEMA the director of Cal OES and the Region 9 coordinator from FEMA were in Skyhawk immediately after the glass fire and actually looked into the Skyhawk open space and saw a lot of the fuels, a lot of the landscape materials that were used in that area, that actually in some cases helped support the spread of fire. So our goal again is to is to help mitigate those risks and to help educate our community on what they can do in their rebuild process to build something that is more likely to withstand Embercast and withstand fires in the future. Thank you. Any further questions from our attendees. Okay, seeing none. We have put the contact information back up on the screen. So you can jot that down and that is a way to reach any of us about various recovery questions. So please feel free to reach out. If any time you have any questions. And I want to thank you again for your time tonight and again this meeting will be recorded. It's being recorded and will be posted on our recovery website in the next day or so. So thank you to everyone and have a good evening.