 We are getting close. If council members that are here, if you could turn your cameras on, so I know you're available. Sure, Vice Mayor Bruner will come in. We'll go ahead and get started. And I will call the meeting to, I will call the meeting to order. Good afternoon, welcome to our 1230 session of the June 8th, 2021 meeting council. I have a few announcements and then we will move on to our meeting. Today's meeting is being broadcast live on Community Television Channel 25 and streaming on the city's website, cityofsanacruz.com. All council members are participating in this meeting remotely. I want to thank the public for staying home to view today's city council meeting. To comment on an agenda item today, call in at the beginning of the item. You're wanting to comment on and using the instructions on your screen. Please mute your television or streaming device once you call in and listen through the phone. Please note there is a delay in streaming. So if you continue to listen on your television or streaming device, you may miss your opportunity to speak. When it is time for public comments, press star nine on your phone to raise your hand. When it is your time to speak during public comment, you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted. The timer will then be set to two minutes. You may hang up once you have commented on your item of interest. And I would like to ask the clerk to please call the roll. Thank you mayor, council members Watkins, Calentary Johnson. Here. Currently absent and Mayor Meyers. I'm here. Item today is a presentation. We are pleased to have the Hans Christian Anderson Awards. I'm gonna go ahead and turn it over to, oh, hang on one second. We are pleased to have a special presentation of the Santa Cruz Cities Committee, Hans Christian Anderson Writing Awards. This is a wonderful writing competition for children, teens, and adults sponsored by the sister cities committee. I am pleased to introduce Douglas Hall, who is chair of the sister cities committee along with Isabel Tonser, chair of the subcommittee of the sister city of Sestre Levante. Welcome Doug and Isabel. Good to see you again. And I'm gonna go over to Doug now. Thank you mayor. Our Santa Cruz sister cities, Hans Christian Anderson, as a competition is presented by the Hans Christian Anderson Fables Bay Competition organized by Sestre Levante, our beautiful sister city in Italy. It's Christian Anderson used to live there and he's a favorite son. This is now the 54th edition of this contest, which is also inscribed within a larger celebration of youth and children. It's this 54th edition and one of the largest writing contest in Italy. This year, 3,500 submissions were received. The competition opened to children and adults in four age groups. Three are focused on youth and one is for young adults and adults. The essays can be about any subject but must be written in folk tale or fairy tale form. And the committee of readers determines first place for Santa Cruz and the winning entries are then submitted to Sestre Levante and entered as part of the overall 3,500 submissions. Since we could not hold an in-person meeting this year, we're going to be showing pictures of the winners holding their certificates and recognizing their achievements. And the second and third place winners also received downtown dollars as part of their prize. And this year, I would like to recognize or invite our mayor, Donna Myers, to join me in presenting the awards. Thank you, Doug. It gives me great pleasure today to acknowledge these creative and talented writers and winners of the Santa Cruz sister cities committee on written writing contest. Each of the council members had the privilege of reading your work. We are so proud of your efforts and wish you all the best luck in the Sestre competition. And our local winners are, I'll turn it back over to Doug. For the younger category, ages six through 10, we have two second place winners. And we know Pozner Minami with the city and the cloud. Asman Harris Shankin with the Isle of the Wind and first place winner, Sullivan Lebe with Clay and the Animals. In the middle school and high school, 11 to 16 age group, the readers picked one winner. First place, Kyra Garner with to be a lady. The adult division, ages 17 and up. The winners are Marshall Pyrus with a combustible tail. Third place, Micah Pozner with Puppet Tom. Second place, Joan Pribilish with the Scalind Iceman. Second place, Sylvia Pace's Fishtail at Fable. And first place winner, Nancy Lenz with Never Wash and the Devil. Thank you all. Council members and members of the audience, please join me in a round of applause for these talented writers. This is one of those events where you really wish you could be in the chamber. So please know that we really appreciate everything you've done. And thanks to all of the participants and our sister cities committee. We are lucky to have such an active committee and such a talented group of young writers in our community. So thanks for joining us today and for all your work. And great to see you, Isabel. And again, another wonderful tradition done here at City Council in June. So thank you all and appreciate it. Take care. Thanks for being here. Okay, we'll move on to our next presentation, which is a mayoral proclamation declaring June 15th, 2021 as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. I'm going to be presenting the proclamation to Whitney Barnes from the Adult Protective Services Supervisor at the cruise. I will read a few lines from the proclamation. And then I believe Whitney is here. This is a mayor's proclamation, whereas over 1,600 reports of abuse against our elderly are received every year by Santa Cruz County Adult Protective Services. And whereas over 8,000 of the City of Santa Cruz residents are 60 years of age or older. And the population over age 60 is anticipated to more than double by 2060. And whereas it is estimated that one out of 10 Americans aged 16 over have experienced elder abuse and as few as one out of 24 elder abuse cases are actually reported. And whereas our elderly population has greatly influenced today's world, yet are often vulnerable to abuse and neglect and may be unable to prevent, seek protection from or report criminal elder abuse. And whereas today, there is a system of collaboration among the Human Services Department, Adult and Long Term Care Division, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department, the Santa Cruz Police Department, the District Attorney, the Seniors Council, Area Agency on Aging, the Long Term Care Abundance Program, the Public Guardian Program and many community service partners to prevent abuse, protect victims and prosecute offenders who abuse our elderly. And whereas Santa Cruz County is a leader, California in assisting our vulnerable elderly citizens through education, advocacy and collaboration on abuse issues. And whereas we as one community come together each year to dedicate ourselves to providing a safety net to keep our elderly citizens safe from abuse, neglect and exploitation. Now therefore I, Donna Myers, Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz do hereby proclaim June 15th, 2021 as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and the month of June, 2021 as Elder Abuse Awareness Month in the City of Santa Cruz and encourage all citizens to join me in this observance. Whitney, I believe you are here. Welcome, Whitney. And we're happy to hear any words that you have to say today. And thank you for bringing this to our attention. I appreciate the time and on behalf of the Adult Protective Services Team of Santa Cruz County, I would like to thank the City of Santa Cruz for this proclamation. Our team responds to allegations of abuse, neglect, self-neglect and exploitation among older and dependent adults throughout the whole county. We partner with the older adults that we serve to offer them support, guidance, advocacy and since navigating complex systems. We endeavor to reduce the risk and enhance the safety for all of the community dwelling older and dependent adults in Santa Cruz County and ensure that our older residents can safely age in place living in their own homes or in their preferred location. And the issue of elder abuse is significant not just in terms of impact, but also in scale. What you mentioned, the issue is certainly growing with our ever-increasing aging population. National Council on Aging has published reports suggesting that roughly 10% of all Americans over the age of 60 have experienced some form of elder abuse. In addition to this, several studies estimate that the issues of self-neglect adversely affect somewhere between 10 and 21 American older adults. Bear in mind that studies suggest only four out of every 100 incidences of abuse against elders is ever reported to authorities. That highlights the importance of events like this. Raising awareness about elder abuse and the programs that are designed to intervene against elder abuse will increase attention to the reality faced by many older adults. This awareness can also ease fears around seeking help or support and hopefully continue to create a community where we all come together to work toward the elimination of elder abuse. Thank you. Thank you, Whitney. And I'm happy to join us today. We really appreciate you being here. And thank you again for bringing this to the city and we're really pleased to do it. Next, I'll issue a mayoral proclamation declaring June 2021 as LGBTQ plus Pride Month. The city of Santa Cruz cherishes the value and dignity of each person and appreciates the importance of equality and freedom. And whereas all are welcome in the city of Santa Cruz to live, work and play and every family in every shape deserve the place of home where they are safe, happy and supported by friends and neighbors. And whereas the city of Santa Cruz denounces prejudice and unfair discrimination based on age, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation or physical attributes as an affront to our fundamental principles. And whereas Pride Month began in June of 1969 on the one year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City after lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and plus individuals and allied friends rose up and fought against the constant police harassment and discriminatory laws that have since been declared unconstitutional. And whereas the city of Santa Cruz appreciates the cultural, civic and economic contributions of the LGBTQ plus community which strengthens our social welfare. And whereas it is imperative that young people and our community regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression feel valued, safe, empowered and supported by their peers and community leaders. And whereas despite being marginalized to LGBTQ plus people continue to celebrate authenticity, acceptance and love and on May 26, 2020 the Santa Cruz City Council passed to approve displaying the LGBTQ plus and transgender pride flags on the front of city hall and in the city council chambers annually during the month of June. Now therefore, I, Donna Myers, mayor of the city of Santa Cruz do hereby proclaim the month of June, 2021 as LGBTQ plus Pride Month in the city of Santa Cruz and to recognize the contributions made by members of the LGBTQ plus community and to actively promote the principles of equality, liberty and justice. Thank you everyone. And I wanna also recognize that the cities of Watsonville and Capitola and the city schools and career of college have all raised the rainbow flag this year for the first time in history as well. So we're excited to see that growth. And I've talked to mayors, many mayors who are raising their flag for the first time this year. So I think our leadership has been helpful in helping people, helping other elected leaders bring this expression to their communities as well. So thank you everybody. And there's a lot of good pride events this month. So please join in and have some good times with folks this month. And I wanna call out the diversity center for all the planning for the month of June that they've put together for Pride Month. Okay, we will move on to, I have a few announcements and then we're gonna move on to a regular meeting. Today's meeting is being broadcast live on Community Television Channel 25 and streaming on the city's website, cityofsanacruz.com. If you wish to comment on an agenda item today, instructions are provided on your screen. We will provide these instructions throughout the meeting whenever we move into an agenda item that will be open for public comment. Please note, public comment is heard only on items city council is taking action on and not regular updates and reports. The items that will be open for public comment during today's meetings are numbers 11 through 35 on our agenda. I'd like to ask the council members if there are any statements of the station today. Seeing any hands, okay. I'd like to ask the city clerk to announce any additions and deletions. There are none. There are none. I'll make an announcement about oral communication now, oral communications is an offer. Those are the community to speak to us on items that are not on today's agenda. Oral communications will occur at 6 p.m. If you wish to make a comment during oral communications, please call in at 6 p.m. tonight. I'd like to, next is our city attorney report on closed session. I'd like to call on our city attorney to provide that report, please. That's it. Mayor Myers, members of the city council. We have a number of items discussed in closed session this morning, which convened via Zoom at 9 a.m. The first was public employment regarding the city manager recruitment. Item two was a conference with labor negotiators concerning SEIU temporary employees. City received a report from its negotiator, HR director Lisa Murphy. There are several real property negotiations discussed at this morning's closed session. Item one was real property at 115 Coral Street. Item two, properties at 790 Mariner Parkway, 141 Eaton Street, and 425 and 555 Bromer Street. Item three was real property negotiations concerning the real property at 144 Fairview Place. Item four, it concerned real properties along the railroad corridor and bridge north adjacent to the Murray Street Bridge, owner of that property of Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission. Item five was real property at 136 Fairview Place. And item six was real property at 132 Fairview Place. Council received a report from and gave direction to its real property negotiators on those items. There was no reportable action. Item four was a conference with legal counsel concerning liability claims. The claim of Eric Price has also listed, I believe it was number 19 on your consent agenda for action in open sessions this afternoon. Item five was a conference with legal counsel concerning anticipated creation. Council received a report from city attorney's office regarding one item of potential exposure to litigation. And there was no reportable action. Thank you, Mr. Kedai. I'll now turn the next item on our agenda is city manager report. I'd like to call on Martine Bernal, our city manager, to provide updates on the city's 19 response in any event. Sorry about that. I was muted. Thank you, mayor and city council. I wanted to provide a few updates as we've been doing. First, I'd like to have our fire chief, Chief Hayduk, do an update on the latest COVID-19 on the county health. And then after that, we'll have Lee Butler provide an update on the encampments. And then I wanted to just spend a few minutes talking about beach cleanups, but I'll turn it over to Chief Hayduk first. Thank you. I am muted now. Mayor, city council. So I'm gonna start today with a map of the US and what this is from the CDC and this shows vaccination rates by state. And as you can see, the more populated places in particular California, we are leading the charge for COVID vaccination, which is directly tied to where we are right now within our county. Next slide, please. And as you can see, the golden state is becoming golden again. The majority of the counties are yellow and orange. There's a few that are red. And this was from a week ago, I wasn't able to update it in time for the meeting today. But as you can see in our local area, our rates of COVID have gone down and that is directly tied to our vaccination that are basically crippling the ability of COVID to spread from person to person. It is anticipated that a number of these counties will change and that's good. That means that we're heading in the right direction at least with this phase of the pandemic. Next slide. And so here's, you can see this is from our county website and this is our vaccination rate and we're doing really good. As you can see, over 63% of the population in the county has received at least one shot. The one thing that's a little bit troubling as you can see starting back in January, very small vaccination rate. And then as we get to May, a really big percentage of the population but it's starting to level out. And part of that is because the age range 11 under that still isn't available but there is some vaccine hesitancy within the population but the vaccine is widely available and this is what's gonna get us out of here. Locally our case rate is 0.7 which is great compared to where we were and our positive 0.4. And that puts us in the top 10% within the state as far as where we are for COVID as we get further and further into summer. And just as a kind of a perspective, back in January, 35% of all people coming into the hospitals, whether they're getting tested, coming in for surgery, whether, you know, whatever it was, 35% were testing positive for COVID and 2% were. So radical reduction in the number and that's directly tied to the vaccination rate as we go forward. Next slide. Where we're headed for here is locally we're doing great and we're gonna get you beyond the blueprint and that's the June 15th and that's gonna be a state governor decision that will impact us. And really what this is for private citizens and how they go about doing their business. What I take out of this is if you've been vaccinated there will be fewer restrictions in what you can do. If you have not been vaccinated, a lot of those things will still be in place and you can see here they talk about negative events. In towards over 5,000 people you're at show proof of vaccination or no negative COVID tests, you participate in that. And after the 15th employers are gonna have additional restrictions for how vaccinated and unvaccinated people interact. But the more people to get vaccinated the less restrictions we have and the more we can open up is really the bottom line. So as those trigger points are hit we will open up and to do more of what we have not been able to do in this last year. So we're definitely headed in the right direction. And again I would urge all of you as council members and leaders within the community to urge people to participate in vaccination. Next slide. So here you can see all Californians who are over the age of 12 are eligible for vaccination. And again multiple ways to access return.ca.gov or go to sanacruzhealth.org for local providers. They also the county health has the ability to make house visits to vaccinate people who are unable to come to a clinic. So that is something that is in place and they've made a really concerted effort to fill out and get those people vaccinated in that age group or have that disability or inability to come to a clinic to get vaccinated. One of the questions that is whether or not under 12 will be eligible. And right now it sounds like late fall possibly but again that's still kind of winding its way through the process for vetting that. But again the more vaccinations we get into arms the sooner we can get back to normal. And last slide. And I'm going to end on this one because I've been using and it's wash your hands wear a mask, keep your distance, stay home if you're sick and more importantly get vaccinated. They've seen a radical decrease in the number of flu and cold cases this previous year and that's not tied to vaccinations that's tied to our behaviors. As far as washing hands, social distancing and wearing a mask it prevents the transmission. And so they've seen it's just bottomed out they've seen levels that they've never seen before as far as those things that we take as a seasonal activity. So these things work and we are getting closer to getting back to normal and I'm optimistic that we're going to continue in that direction especially here locally. We're doing really good in this county. And as you saw earlier our surrounding counties are very much the same. So regionally we're doing really good. And I'm more than happy to answer any questions if you have any. Are there questions for Chief Hydro? I'm not seeing any hands. Chief and appreciate the reports of super helpful and also very inspiring that we're going the right way. Great, thank you so much. Okay, next, Martin do you have additional presentations with other staff, correct? Yes, I've got the lead butler who's going to do an update on the encantments. Thank you, Martin and good afternoon, mayor and county. As the county officials noted when they presented to you all on May 18th, we have about 400 shelter beds that are scheduled to no longer be available at the end of September. And that's due in large part to the expected expiration of COVID funding at that time. Obviously, this is a really significant concern for the city for many reasons. And city staff and two by two members are talking with the county to better understand all of their upcoming efforts to address this significant drop in shelter bed capacity. And on that note, one of the things that the county has done is a boat services. And I wanted to let you all and the community know about a landlord appreciation event that they have going on a week from today on Tuesday, June 15th. The goal is to get landlords to people who will be losing their housing, people that are currently in some of those county beds. And they're offering a range of landlord incentives like guaranteed on-time monthly payments and financial incentives for signing people up, points of contact, a 24 hour emergency service and then tenant emergency contact service and then tenant support services as well. At that meeting, they'll have landlords and program participants. And they're offering a range of gift cards for participants. So a little plug there. The contact at a boat services is Cherie Gradyk and her email is sgradyk s-g-r-a-d-e-k at abode-services.org. So we're encouraging landlords to participate in that conversation one week from today. Moving to the bench lands, our team, our citywide team continues to support the efforts at the bench lands both for the camps on the north side and the south side of the bridge. And one additional announcement is that fire is still planning to enforce a no camping requirement in Hoganup and Sycamore Grove as of July 1st. And we didn't get as much rain as we had hoped for this year and given those conditions and the potential for fire, the July 1st deadline is when fire has been communicating to individuals out there and we're aiming to get the word out as well. And I'm available for any questions that the council may have. Elise is there for Lee today on his reports. Thank you, Lee. Okay, thank you. Just one other item and also just to note that at your next council meeting, we're gonna have a Chief High Duke do an update on our wildfire prevention program as well as kind of an update on our status of where we are with the wildfires. You'll get a more in-depth update on that at your next meeting. And then with respect to, just really quickly, just wanted to just for the public make a comment about the beach with respect to, we've been receiving some complaints about the trash on the beach. And just wanna let the public and the council know that we're aware of the need to have additional capacity out there to maintain the beaches and we're working really hard to do that. The biggest challenge, frankly, has been the ability to staff up sufficiently. The C-Sec Company who also staffs up and does quite a bit of cleaning, they're working really hard to just get staffed up. So it's just really been challenging to hire folks right now. And that's really been the, why it's been hard to do that. So we're doing that and working just to find all we can to provide additional support out there for cleaning and for servicing the trash cans. In the meantime, as we work to staff up, we do ask the public to the extent that they can to please pack up your garbage. If you see a garbage plant, please pack it up and take it with you or look for containers that are maybe close by that may not be full rather than just leaving the trash containers that are already full. So just make an extra, if they could just make an extra effort to, again, deal with the trash. We're working hard to increase service, but it's going to take a little bit of time before we ramp up and get it to the place where it used to be, again, just because of the staff and shortages. Anyway, just want to let you know about that. If that may be ignored and we're working on it and ask for the public assistance stuff. And with that, that concludes my reports and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. So any council members, council member Cummings, please. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you all for those updates and those reports. I brought it up last time at the last meeting, but I know that a lot of the eviction protections and the programs to help support renters have been impacted by COVID-19 are supposed to be expiring. And I don't know if there's any update that we have on whether those timelines have been extended or if, because I think it was June 30th is when those evictions protections are supposed to expire. And so I'm just curious if that's still the case and if so, where can we direct resources? Cause I've received some emails in the past few weeks, but I would imagine that really trying to get information out to the community sooner than later so that they can prepare is probably gonna be beneficial for not only like the tenants, but many landlords who have been impacted as well. I see that the city attorney, Tony, can Dottie respond to that question. Yes, my office has been monitoring that issue carefully and are preparing a report to the city council that can be shared publicly with identification of those resources as well as the status update on where things stand with regard to pending litigation. And I see Stephanie Duck from my offices also on the call. And Mayor and city council members, that's correct. My understanding is the eviction protections, most of them do expire June 30th. The city does have the emergency ordinance governing that with the moratorium on commercial evictions, that is tied to the governor's executive order, which is set to expire on June 30th. We have not seen anything about him extending that or a plan to extend that. And he's done so roughly the month before it expires. So if he is going to extend it, I would expect to see it around now. We are keeping an eye out for updates or any new legislation. My understanding is more legislation was promised after SB 91, but we have not seen that yet. SB 91 did come out extending AB 3088. I think it was only like two days before that was set to expire. So across that there's more legislation coming. We are keeping an eye out for that and can provide more update for the next city council meeting on resources. If you'd like. Yeah, and we, council member Cummings, I definitely have that put on the agenda for June 22nd as needed. So it will be, we will have a discussion and provide updates to the community then. Thank you. And Mayor actually have one other item that I wanted to cover really quickly. Apologize about that. This is regarding just an announcement around the Juneteenth celebration. So just happy to announce in this year's Juneteenth celebration will be held on June 19th from one to four in Lower Park. This will be the 30th year the Santa Cruz Juneteenth celebration has been hosted in Lower Park at the London Nelson Community Center. Juneteenth or just short for June 19th is a celebration commemorating the ending of the enslavement of African-Americans in the U.S. Juneteenth is a special day for anyone who believes in freedom and equality for all people and the Juneteenth event committee and the Parks and Recreation Department invite the community to attend this year's 30th anniversary event for amazing food, delicious, I'm sorry, for amazing music, delicious soul food, interactive booths, kids activities and the basketball skills contest. This year the event will include a series of activities leading up to the annual celebration including a liberation paddle out on June 13th at Cal Beach and Fish and Hikes the morning of Juneteenth. This year's celebration includes both a live event and pre-recorded content that will be available to stream from home or watch in the park. The event will follow all state and local event guidance for outdoor events including masks and social distancing requirements and following capacity limitations. Caller enjoy live music, poetry, dance, arts and crafts and delicious food at the 30th Santa Cruz Juneteenth celebration at Lower Park on June 19th. The event lineup and details are available at sianacruzejuneteenth.com and on behalf of Juneteenth event committee and the parks for recreation department and everybody here on staff, we hope to see everyone out there and thank you very much. You caught my one question I had for you, Martín. So for catching that, I'm flicking in my list. I think we forgot one thing, Vice Mayor Brunner, or sorry, Council Member Brown and then Vice Mayor Brunner if you have questions or comments, go ahead. Vice, Council Member Brown, first please. Thank you. Two questions, one related to the eviction protection matter and thank you for bringing it up, Council Member Cummings and thank you, Mayor Meyers, for planning to agendize it. I am wondering, so my understanding is that there are some local jurisdictions intending and some of them local to us and regional who are intending to eviction moratorium at that level, at that jurisdictional level. And I'm just wondering, Tony is part of your looking into this, if you've seen that happening, if there are models, I think it would behoove us to think about how we can be proactive here. I know that in thus far, the state has been stepping in and may do that again, but in the event that that doesn't happen, just wondering what to do. I mean, we can give resources, you know, resource lists to folks, but that's not gonna keep them in their homes necessarily. Yeah, we certainly are looking at what other jurisdictions are doing with bearing in mind that we also need to make sure that we have a solid legal foundation upon which to make recommendations for additional council actions. And thus far, the actions that the city council has taken have largely been pursuant to executive orders issued by the governor that have essentially amounted to a listing of state preemption that otherwise would predict our ability to provide addiction protections beyond those that are authorized over the state unlawful detainer law. But as I said, we continue to, and the legislature has also made some, you know, some legislation that has given us more flexibility. So we continue to monitor that and we'll also pay attention carefully to what other jurisdictions are doing. Thank you. Second question is related to the issue of trash pickup. Thank you for providing some information, Martine, about the challenges we're having and what we're doing. We've been receiving, as I'm sure you have, many, many messages about this problem. It's a problem that kind of extends around the city. It is more intense, obviously, near the beaches in kind of the tourist areas and also in the areas or in and around encampments. And we are, so we are at a, we're in a challenging place because we, on the one hand, don't have the resources to be covering all this, but on the other hand, we end up paying more in some cases later when we aren't able to manage in the kind of regular course of business. So I, and it's a huge concern. It's not just on the beaches. It's from what I understand, and I had conversations with folks in Sebrite about this also on the west side. It's up on the cliffs as well when there isn't, and there aren't trash receptacles on the beach. People may pack their trash up off the beach to parking areas and whatnot. And when there's no place to dispose of trash there, there it often fits. So I guess I'm wondering, I want to better understand the challenge. Is this the hiring challenge is really now related not to resource question for staffing, it's not being able to find people to take those jobs. I just want to, if that's the case, then I want to try to get that message out there that we, that we're hiring and that's a position that is open at the moment. Yeah, and I'll ask Tony Elliott to weigh in if I have additional information. But with respect to the beach, it's a main beach, they're at the combination of the city and the Seaside Company, the Seaside Company really staffs up quite a bit, particularly with respect to main beach. And they are having a really hard time staffing up, not just for beach cleanup, but also just for their own operation of their own rides and other business activities there. With respect to west side and the east side and those beaches, I'm not as familiar with that and maybe Tony can add to that. And before we respond, but just also want to note too, and that also we are having many of the community organizations step up and I also want to acknowledge their efforts too with doing a clean up as well and there's some again to continue that work and for others to join in. But that has been also a great assistance but this is not sufficient. But with that, I'll turn it over to Tony Sidney as I'm more at with respect to the other areas of the city. Yeah, thanks Martin. Yeah, Council Member Brown, I think you raised a really good point. This is a huge challenge for us. And I think in summary, the factors affecting trash from the community, I mean, it's coming from a variety of sources, increase tourism, it's decreased our kind of low staff numbers at this point. The seaside is still low on staff so they're amping up and hope to return to full staffing by August of this summer out at the beach. I think the presence of a number of vendors, the sidewalk vendors near main beach has had a big impact. So, filling dumpsters with boxes, in fact fill up that space so that our tourism crowd, doesn't have as much space in those. But I think across the community, whether it's the west side or the east side, we have, just on the west coast alone, we have 32 waste receptacles. But we see household trash in those, we see all types of different trash there. So the issues are open spaces, obviously, most of our trash in open spaces is a result of encampment. So I began my week, last week with Mayor Myers on Monday, cleaning up main beach. And then I spent my Friday, last week, with open space crew cleaning up a large encampment, vacated encampment up in Pogona. We, as far as parks and recreation, we are at main beach in particular, we've added dumpsters. They're dumpsters covering main beach. Working with public works very closely, we have significantly increased our staffing presence out at the beach to address trash. We're working with volunteer partners, for example, Downtown Streets Team, the Rotary Club, Save Our Shores, are all lending a hand down at the beach, but we have a major problem. And it's just the volume of trash that we are facing around the city and coming from multiple sources. And I'll share, we're actually doing some analysis within Parks and Recreation right now. We estimate that we spend 10% of our annual budget, roughly a million and a half dollars on trash collection. And that's labor hours, that's just picking up trash around the community. So roughly, before we do our full analysis, that's our initial estimate, and it's not enough. So I think this is a challenge. I unfortunately don't have a good answer for you, but just wanted to acknowledge that the sources are many and the views are really spread across the community. So this is something that within Parks and Rec and then with our partners at Public Works, State Parks and elsewhere, we've got to get a handle on how do we address this problem in a more upstream way? Because the way that we're dealing with it is completely downstream. And at that point, it's already affecting riparian corridors or marine sanctuary and ultralaric quality of life if we just have trash. So we've got to address this big challenge. Thank you for sharing that. It sounds about like what I'm experiencing and your experience with it is very intimate and your oversight of it is, I'm sure, challenging but also very much appreciated. I guess the follow-up question I would have, I'm just trying to think about ways to get more bodies available to do this work in whatever configuration that might be, seaside, city employees, volunteers. And so if there are places that people who are paying attention to this issue can go to try to find out opportunities for getting involved, volunteer opportunities, I know a lot of them are kind of DIY, I participate in those too. But if there's a place, if there's any coordination happening where people can go, just let us know. I think it would be, I'd like to help solve the problem and find others who are interested too. Yeah, just to respond and for the public, if people want to get connected variety of channels but if they want to reach out to us we can help point them in the right direction. So if the community wants to contact us at Parks and Rec at cityofsantacruz.com, Tray is going to yell at me because the inbox will fill up but please reach out to us at Parks and Rec at cityofsantacruz.com and there are opportunities through, like I said, save our shores through a variety of volunteer avenues through cities and directly through Parks and Rec so we welcome that interest and appreciate that interest as well. Thank you, Council Member and Tony. I've got Vice Mayor Bruder and then Council Member Golder. You're muted, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor Myers. Tony, before you leave, can you, I know all the things you just mentioned with the volunteer groups and the added dumpsters and added pickup and crew there, you also had mentioned in a previous, whether I think it was either an email or a conversation about signage for visitors and did that already happen or is that in the works? That's a good question. We have new signage up out at Main Beach, new welcome signs and those include rules but also pack your trash type of information. When Mayor Myers out at the beach, we saw a number of other opportunities to include signage on waste receptacles in particular. Again, what we see a lot is if a waste receptacle is full, people are inclined to just leave their trash next to it, birds get into it and it turns into a big mess and so I think there are some different opportunities for signage, whether it's on drains or trash receptacles or other public areas on how to dispose of trash. So I think all of that type of information could be helpful and then word of mouth too, I mean, just the engagement, talking with people on the beach. I know the mayor did that on Monday. I think that's a huge aspect of this and our success is just engaging with people to encourage them to help join us in that responsibility to keep our beach clean. Have you already connected with Visit Santa Cruz? I know a lot of their outreach efforts are to visitors and I wonder if some type of partner communication could happen through that channel. We can definitely do that. I know they have made that part of their campaign through summer in terms of packed or trash but we can definitely make a more concerted effort to work with them. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Tony, for all the efforts. I know I'm spreading the word as well. I think we can all help with it. After the city manager's report, I just wanted to make sure we go back to the statements of disqualifications. I'm sorry I was slow to raise my hand, but I do have that, so. I'll go back. Okay, thank you. And then one last comment. Thank you, Martine, for bringing up Juneteenth. I also wanted to bring up, in addition, Saturday, June 19th is also Sunday, June 20th. It is a continuation of Juneteenth celebration and a repainting of the Black Lives Matter mural on Center Street in front of City Hall. And so that will be 809 Center Street downtown, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. And there will be speakers, poetry, roundtable discussions, painting, and community members. And it's put on by the same artists that organized the Black Lives Matters mural last year. So it will be refreshed and repainted. So I just wanted to share that information as well. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Golder and then Council Member Brown. I have a couple of comments. Martin Bernal and I were talking briefly about this yesterday. And I noticed when I was up the coast this last weekend, some local artists put signs that were really artsy all up and down Highway 1, reminding visitors to act their trash in artsy ways. And some of them didn't have any artists out there that wanna help make some DIY signs. And maybe they could contact the Parks Department where they could get put up, but they were really cool. The second one is we do have those Junior Life Scars out there. So we have those Army of Little Volunteers that can help us with that messaging this summer. And the third thing is there was an email I got from the Seaside Company earlier today where they're offering a $2,700 bonus to work. As we were talking about without the college students here, the high school students kind of built in the next level of jobs. I know both my kids got jobs they wouldn't have otherwise qualified for. They would have probably started at the Boardwalk. So I think the Boardwalk is really clamoring to get people and I know they've done the trash collection there on the beach. So if anyone's looking for work, it says you can get $2,700 for any time between now and the summer there's details on their website if you... Thank you, Council Member. And I'll just, Council Member Brown, I'll get you in a sec. I was gonna cue myself up real quick. Just invite any Council Members on the weekends. I won't be here this weekend, but I'm planning to go to the beach Saturday and Sunday mornings. I've talked to about 20 families last time. Everyone was very responsive of kind of fun for to introduce yourself as a Council Member or the Mayor and people want to engage. They love Santa Cruz and they understand that we're understaffed. And I think it's, that personal contact really made a big difference, I think. And probably between all of us, Tony was covering part of the beach and I was covering the other part, but it's not a huge beach. And with five or six people out, we could probably hit a lot of people as they're arriving and remind them of what our goals are as a community for our beaches. So a super low key way to do it, but fun to meet people out there and talk about them and why they come to Santa Cruz. So it was a lot of fun. Council Member Brown. I'm actually set, thank you. You're good. Okay, great. Okay, well, thank you, Martín. We will go back to item number, just to make sure you're right, the number. So many pieces of paper. I'd like to go back to statements of disqualification from Council Members and I will have Vice Mayor Bruner make her statement. Okay, I'm making a statement of disqualification for items 28 and 29 on the agenda, the Downtown Association and Downtown Management Corporation due to my employment with the Downtown Association. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Okay, we will now move on to the Council Meeting Calendar and I will call on the City Clerk to provide any updates calendar. The only updates I have are the additions of the special closed session that has been confirmed for the 25th and 26th of June. Thank you, Bonnie. We will now start on our consent agenda. I think what I'll do is we're running pretty good on time. I think if folks don't mind, I may be able to take a very quick 10 minute break to use the restroom and then we will reconvene at 1.35 and then we will be starting on our consent agenda for the public who's watching. Thanks, everyone. Don't go ahead and get started again. For the public, we are reconvening. We're now on the consent agenda and these are items 11 through 27 on our agenda. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting, now is the time to call in if you want to comment on items 11 through 27. Instructions are on your screen. Please remember to mute your streaming device press star nine to raise your hand and listen for the cues saying that you have been unmuted. All items will be acted upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. Are there any council members who wish to comment or on or pull any items? Please raise your hand and I'll write them down. This is for all items on our consent agenda items number 11 through 27 on our agenda. I see council member Brown. You guys have a comment on 25. Council members that need to pull an item or comment or have a question on an item on consent. I have, yeah, I have a question on 20. Well, it's already been asked to have a comment on. Last call for any other items for on consent. Okay. So we will not have any items pulled off of consent today. And now I will take this out for public comment. Excuse me, let's go ahead and we'll go ahead and do the comment on item 25 and then I'll take it out to public comment and then we'll look for a motion. Council member Brown. Thank you, mayor. I just wanted to make a comment. This item is our measure D expenditure plans for our transportation network within the city and beyond. And I, so I just wanted to comment here. This item provides an overview of the many projects that are funded through measure D. And while most of the oxygen in the room of debate around TTC projects and transit projects are rail and highway widening debates, but there's so much other work happening. And I think it's really worth mentioning that, many of these other projects that we may not hear about, they don't get a big splash, but they are happening slowly but quietly through the work of our public work staff. And so I just wanted to appreciate that and encourage people to look at the list. You can see here that this funding is helping us build out our rail trail, segment seven, all of the components of that, it's funding school safety, bike safety, and also looking at bike that's really going to support and expand our multimodal transportation network. So I just thought it would be worth saying that here and appreciating all the work. I see Chris Knight is here and others in public works as well. So thanks so much. Thank you and we'll pass that on to what? Thanks for bringing that up, Council Member. You're exactly right. There's so much air out of the room on these other items that there's just so much really great stuff that we're paying to. And that's a tax that the people, all of our folks who are paying that tax every year just know your streets are getting rebuilt, you're getting bike lanes, you're hopefully safe for getting to school. I had one question on that item, Chris, if you'd be mine. I wanted to get a little bit of information about the Bay Street project. We did get a letter regarding that and it does mention in the action that the Transportation and Public Works Commission took that staff will develop a plan for the Bay Street corridor that will evaluate multimodal needs and a cost estimate that will ultimately be included. So I think, I believe the question that contacted us was there was concern that the repairs on that path might not be done this year. So I just kind of wanted to get a little clarification from you on that. Chair, Christian Eider, Assistant Director of Public Works. The Bay Street path, actually the project has been awarded for constructions that will be happening this summer. And that was storm damage from, I believe it was 2017 that we have the funding to do now. On the Bay Street corridor, we're essentially talking between Escalona and High Street where we have the two landing in both directions. So we're looking at the intent, improving the bikeways, potentially adding sidewalks that are on the edge of the road rather than within the channel that's there now. So we have some work to do to define what can fit, how's it gonna fit with the amount of traffic, the number of buses, obviously it's one of the biggest transit corridors in the city and how we can deal with bicycles and pedestrians as well. So we're gonna bring some ideas back to the commission and then start looking about how we can fund that out in the future. Some of which will be through probably through measure D. Okay, great. Thank you for that clarification. Appreciate it. Okay, I will take this out to the public now to see if any of our attendees are in public comment on our consent agenda and which is items one, excuse me, agenda items 11 through 27, which is our consent agenda today. I am not seeing any hands being raised right now. So I will go ahead and bring this back to council. And I would look for a motion on the consent agenda today. And council member Watkins. Sure, I'm happy to move the consent agenda. And council member Brown. If I won the race to raise my hand, I'll second that. I don't know how Zoom figures that out. Must be a very complicated something that gets calculated there, great. So we have a motion by council member Watkins, seconded by council member Brown for approval of the consent agenda items 11 through 27. And I would ask the clerk to please take a roll call vote. Thank you, mayor, council member Watkins. Hi, Calentary Johnson, vice mayor Brunner and mayor Myers. Hi, that motion passes unanimously. Thought up here in my script to our consent public hearing. These are items 28 and 29 on your agenda. On our agenda for members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if you want to comment on items 28 and 29, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. All items will be acted upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. Are there any council members who wish to comment on or pull any of the items? This will be item 28 and 29, 28 is the downtown association parking and business improvement area assessments for fiscal year 2022. And item 29 is the cooperative retail management business real proper district assessments for fiscal year 2022. Are there any council members that want to pull either of those two items? And I will just announce for the public, vice mayor Brunner has conflict of interest with these, so she will not be voting on these two items today. If there's no interest in pulling any of these, any of the two items, then I will go ahead and look for a motion by council. Or excuse me, I'll take this out to public comment now. If there's anyone in the audience in our attendees today that would like to speak to this item, please raise your hand now. Any raised hands? So I will go ahead and bring it back to council and I'll look for a motion on the consent public hearing items. Council member Cummings. I'm happy to public hearing items 28 and 29. Thank you. And council member Contari Johnson. I'll second. Great, thank you. We have a motion by council member Cummings, seconded by council member Contari Johnson to approve the consent public hearing items number 28 and 29. I will ask the clerk to please call the roll call vote. Oh, excuse me. I'm going to quit. Oh, no, council member Contari Johnson, did you, you didn't have any further questions, did you? I was getting ready to, okay. Great. Can we have a roll call vote? Council member Watkins. Contari Johnson. Vice mayor Brunner is disqualified and mayor Myers. Aye. That motion passes unanimously. I will now move on to our general business items for today. These are items, this is item number 30, the fiscal year 2022 budget adoption. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if this is an item you want to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order will be a presentation of the item by staff, followed by questions from the council. We will then take public comment and then return to council for deliberation in action. So I will go ahead and invite up for item number 30, the fiscal year 2022 budget adoption. I believe Kim Kraus, our finance director is here and Lupita Alamos, our budget manager is also here today for presentation. Vice mayor, members of the council, we do not have a presentation today. I just have a couple of comments about the budget. The agenda item before you today is the adoption of the fiscal year 2022 operating and capital improvement budgets. The council did hold budget hearings on May 25th and 26th. During these hearings, we were asked to bring back some information that no changes were made to the project. So what you saw on the 25th and 26th is the same as what's in your packet today as we did not have any administrative changes either. I do want to note that late last week we were notified that we should create a separate fund for the American Rescue Plan funding. So we will be doing that and bringing it back to you in the form of amendment. As I mentioned during the budget presentation, the Department of Treasury is still creating rules around the use of the American Rescue Plan funds. I do believe for the fiscal year 2022 budget, as we are operating at a deficit, we can transfer those funds into the general fund. We create the separate funds to balance the general fund budget. So that concludes my comments. Thank you, Director. And I'll go ahead and open this up for discussion and questions, or excuse me, questions and comments for our, excuse me, questions from council. And I will look for council hands to see if there are folks who have questions regarding the budget at this time. I have council member Cummings. Yeah, I had a question. I know that as we've discussed the budget, the programs that Council member Cummings programs, that that was supposed to be kind of status quo and should roll over from the previous year, but one of the programs I didn't see was funding for tenant sanctuary. And so I looked through the line items and I know that tenant sanctuary, we've in the past given them $30,000 a year to operate and I didn't see them. And so I was just wondering if maybe that was overlooked if I'm missing something or if we need to add that. And the other item I would also bring up is that we've been working with the UCSC, the city county task force has had an advocate that's been funded through the city and the county and that position also wasn't included. And so I was wondering what we would need to do today in order to ensure that funding was available for that position. I can respond to the tenant sanctuary question. Council member Cummings, that is funded at the fiscal year, $21,000, $30,000 level that is carried over to be funded in fiscal year 22. So that is in the budget. That's correct. So the proposed budget included items that were included in last year's budget where there were amendments or changes. Those were not included unless there was a request from council members. But so with respect to the UCSC advocate position, there is a request for an increase. We did distribute information on that. I know that there's a council members that are on the work for the committee. I guess the work group who participated on that. And there is a request to increase the funding this year for the advocate. So we can answer any questions you may have on that. But there's also on the committee so it can also be available for any questions. But that is a request that's been made to increase that funding. So we would need direction from council to add that to the budget. And then I had another, I have two thoughts. One is, so I know that there's been a lot of discussion and I've been in communication with some members of the public on the potential for certain feasibility studies to be done in the future. And I guess the question would be, if we want to provide funding to help support those studies, would we have to allocate those funds now or would there be a potential, some point down the line, to have funding available for, for example, we've been in contact with the people for public banking and there's an opportunity to regionally help fund a feasibility study with other cities to bring forward public banking. And the idea there would be that each city would chip in a certain amount and given that those conversations are ongoing, we're gonna be moving forward with that. But within the next, within this fiscal year, there's likely an opportunity for us to help fund that study that would come in. And I know as well, I've been hearing from members of the public who are interested in us moving forward with some kind of feasibility study around mental health crisis and behavioral crisis response. And if we wanted to see how that would work in our community, they want to do a feasibility study. And so I guess the general question is, if those are potentially coming forward within this fiscal year, how would we be able to fund those kinds of opportunities? I'd be happy to answer that question. Yes, certainly we're the two possibilities there. So I think the thing to do would be to, those can come back to council. And it's particularly also relevant to bring it back when we know what precisely the amount is. So I think once we get additional information with respect to, for example, the public banking and we have a sense of what to allocate, we'll bring that back. And I know there's a group working on that. So we are preparing an item to bring that back to you once we get the additional information and have a better sense of what that might be. With respect to the mental health services delivery options, I do know that we expect to provide an update on that at your next meeting as it relates to some of the follow-up items around homelessness, items that the council asked that we look into. So we'll have some additional information with respect to that at your next meeting and certainly at that time too, and once we get additional information, you can always do a budget amendment to adjust accordingly. And I had two last questions. It'll be pretty quick. On a tonight's agenda, we have the consideration of changing Loudon Nelson to London Nelson. And I'm just curious if that were to move forward, would there be the potential, would if we need to have any funding to make changes to signage, et cetera, would that need to come back as well? I'll have Tony and Rachel answer that question. I know they have some costs for that and considerations for that, but we'll have to mention that. Yeah, thank you, council member and Martine. I'll send it over to Rachel here. Rachel has the best details, a few different options on how this could play out with the community center. Yes, thank you, council member Cummings. And we have been looking at this, the costing of that change. And we do have some budget savings this fiscal year that we've already earmarked. If that were to move forward with city council and we have that savings because we were planning for the community center to potentially open sooner. We were hoping in the spring, but as the guidance still remains very restricted indoor operations and programs, we were able to kind of capture that savings. And the center is open now, but we would, we've earmarked that savings to go towards the costing of changing the name. So in fact, the cost would be covered in this fiscal year and wouldn't carry over to next fiscal year. Great, thanks. And then the last question I have, last year, I think it was last November, we were discussing the rental data collection and that was supposed to come back after or around the mid-year budget and we haven't, that item hasn't come back yet. And so I know that after speaking with the planning director that they're working on updating permit tracking program and after our discussion, it became clear that if we're to move forward with that, then it would be good to try to incorporate that into the permit tracking program. And so I'm just wondering, depending on the cost of that, how we could, whether that's a discussion we have today or if that's coming back in the near future, how we can have discussions around what the cost would be and how to ensure that there's funding available should we move that direction. I'm going to go ahead, Leigh Ann. Sir, thank you Councilmember Cummings and thanks for talking with me yesterday about this. I know that a couple of the council members were not on the council when we gave our last date back in early November, but you may have been listening in as members of the public. In any case, the estimate that we have from the start of February of 2020 was about $77,000 as the initial startup costs and about $42,000 ongoing annual costs for a software program called 3DI which has the capabilities to do a lot of clean online platform for data collection for the public as well as some nice and easy to use analytics. As I mentioned to you yesterday, Councilmember Cummings, the big concern right now is that we are substantially revamping our rental housing program as far as it interfaces with our permit tracking system. We're doing an overhaul of that. And we're looking at all of our new processes in across the board in the entire permit tracking system. So IT, that's a really big effort, both for IT and for our team. So from a capacity standpoint, we're really focused on making sure that we've got efficient processes in place that we can then integrate into the new system. We would not have the capacity to take on that new system in this coming fiscal year, but we could consider how any future software system will integrate. So as we're designing the system, thinking through how that a future rental housing data collection system may integrate within that if it's a separate system or how we might be able to collect information, how we might design the system up front. So collecting information through the system itself. That may not have as many capabilities as the specific vendor. And so we would have some limitations there. But in any case, we can certainly think about that. And if that's something that the council would like us to do, we can take that into consideration as we are developing that permit tracking system so that we're considering the end in mind as we're designing the back end programming for the system. I guess my last follow up to that is that, are we gonna, is there an item that's gonna come to us to discuss that permit tracking system or is that something that the discussion that we need to have today or? So the permit tracking system itself has been budgeted by IT. We are close to entering into a contract. I don't know, can chime in if that's gonna happen this fiscal year or next and how that budgeting has been done. As far as the consideration, if you wanted to just provide us the direction that, hey, we do want to integrate something and we wanna take into consideration the integration of that system for the future, then you could let us know that now and can speak much more eloquently than I can about what that means on the back end programming and with respect to the funding and the contract. With regards to the contract, council member Cummings, we are still in final negotiations. We've been going back and forth with our attorneys over the last couple of months. We did preemptively do a business process optimization with a track at Central Square to get an understanding on what really does need to be fixed and fundamentally they did call out the rental inspections module to be looked at. So we're a little uncomfortable at this point just with how the data looks and how it converts to the new program. So there's a lot of work to do there before we would wanna take on integrating with 3EI and then just in addition to that, the resource capacity of IT is really limited to take on more than one or two of these at a time. Typically we see an application upgrade like this take anywhere from 12 to 18 months. So that's kind of what we're anticipating, hope we're hoping for sooner, but we need to build in a little bit of time there in case we run across data conversion issues or just business process issues or staffing issues in both departments. Thanks, that's all my questions for now. Thank you, Council Member Brown. Thank you. Yeah, I have a quick follow up on the rental data question because I was also a member of the subcommittee that worked on this proposal and learned a lot in the process. I bring if, so if we were to include a direction to take into consideration thinking about how this might integrate in the future at some point, does that mean a lot of extra work at your end now would it require us to make any budget decisions now or could we just say we'd like to take a look at that and what would need to happen I guess in order to do that work on the front end prior to making a decision about whether that whether that rental data software would be contracted and utilized or not. Just kind of trying to figure out how they fit together and the technical part I have no understanding of so I just want to get a better understanding for me all what you think about how that would flow. Can you want me to take a shot at the non-technical and then you do the technical or? Yeah, yeah, fair enough. Okay, so from the non-technical side I don't think that you need to make a budget decision right now I mean if we're taking on that software like realistically it's not gonna be this coming fiscal year as Ken said it you know 12 months best case more likely 18 months for the rollout of this system and we're not quite in contract yet so that will be the following fiscal year. So you wouldn't need to make a budget decision at this point and then from the perspective of integration I'll see if Ken has more to add on the technical side but I think like as the subcommittee we talked about a number of different data fields that we could collect information on and there is a public facing element to the new permit tracking system and so thinking about how we may design the system such that those data fields could at some point be made publicly available probably not in as clean a design as we saw with 3DI but nevertheless a functional design could potentially think through where that might live and what we might be doing and then if we do have 3DI how would we design the system so that if it's going through that third party or separate software where would it then talk to the permit tracking system so that they can integrate with one another and that's my non-technical response let's see if Ken has anything else from that. One of the inherent issues we have with our current platform is there's not an elegant application interface to work with all these other secondary and third party software systems so identifying the data that we want to be integrating with 3DI is not necessarily a huge task it's getting to this new platform so that we have that kind of up-to-date API or application interface with 3DI so just to support what Director Butler said not a whole lot of effort at this point in the funding again we are 12 to 18 months out and the actual funding for the upgrade that we're doing right now goes back a couple of years we've just rolled over because we haven't been able to get lift off so to answer your question I do believe that once we get on a more current system the data sharing with other applications a lot simpler. Thank you, I have one, actually I have two other no I have one other question, no two, sorry, two questions one with respect to the UCSD advocate position we did receive communication from you Lee which was very helpful, thank you for that about the kind of breaking down the cost and I'm just wondering what would the action today then be to looking at this budget move if we decide to do that move a particular allocation based on this budget to be included and that would be your recommendation on how to move forward with this making sure this gets funded. The council would like to fund that if you give that direction, we have been paying for that work through the planning and community development advanced planning consultants budgeting and we've in large part been able because we've picked up a lot of grants in the last few years and so we haven't had to bring on consultants through our own funding so we can still do that if the council provides that direction that's where the funding would be coming from so you wouldn't need to change anything in the budget other than providing the direction to fund that and we would do so through our AP advanced planning consultant funds. Thank you. Last question is about the Civic Center. We talked about this during the budget hearings and I think I have a pretty good ending of the challenges there and the needs and the challenges and kind of the longer term view of really rehabilitating and making the Civic a greater asset to our community but we did receive a significant number of messages, community, various community members, some involved in some of the activities that happen at the Civic and others from the general community and so I just wanted to ask if you could say a little something about that and just acknowledge that this is not something or from my perspective it's not something that we're intentionally ignore there is some thinking going into it and so I just love to hear a little bit about that I think that the community is obviously love the Civic as do we and want to know what's next. Yeah, thank you council member Brown I think that's well said we would echo that same sentiment I think generally I mean the Civic, friends of the Civic, Cabrillo festival, the symphony, Derby, Follies these are all very close partners and parks and recreation so this is really difficult to put forward these budget recommendations we don't want to cut our budget but because of the structural deficits that we're facing we feel like we need to put forth recommended reductions for a number of reasons a lot of our reductions last year were one time in nature and so we are proposing structural reductions this year some of those include the Civic Auditorium what we want to do with the Civic though and our commitment to the community through the Civic Auditorium is to make sure to the greatest extent we can that it's a venue for the public to be able and for cultural events for performing arts for concerts and so forth the model that we have right now is not perfect and it's something that we want to invest time and energy into to build a real business plan to improve our financial sustainability at the Civic Auditorium but it's also a venue that was built in the early 30s and it's a we need to sink you know multiple millions of dollars into in terms of capital investment and so we're committed through our partners to you know even though we're offering up these reductions through this budget process our goal is really to build back better we want to find opportunities to build that business plan find grant opportunities work with our partners and really reopen and read over the long term and so what we put forth in terms of budget cut to get very nuanced and I'm happy to have Rachel Kaufman speak to some of these details but we have an opportunity right now as part of the situation that we're in with vacant positions within Parks and Recreation and needing to shift things around internally we have an opportunity now through these reductions to do a little bit of some reorganization internally so that we can win the right seats in terms of areas like our community center sports and beaches in those areas where we can generate revenue and help not just Parks and Recreation but the city recover as we navigate through the pandemic but also the reductions for the Civic in particular there are opportunities for alternative service delivery so specifically we spend a fair amount of money on seasonal staff or temp staff and that includes purchasing products food and drinks to sell at the concession stand so there are a lot of these type of nuances to our budget reductions where we may cut budget related to our ability to buy food for the concession stand to resell but that's an opportunity for us to work with promoters and organizers on things like food trucks so is there a different way that we can do this while we work together on kind of a new business model so I'm talking a lot here but I just want to acknowledge that we this is not something that we take lightly we do not want to continue making budget cuts it's very very difficult but we in facing the structural deficit we need to be responsible in terms of our budget and so again we want to have these relationships continue to foster these relationships and create opportunity for the community to use the venue but I'll send it over to Rachel to speak a little bit about some of the details on the budget reductions that we've put forth Thanks Tony and yeah you've covered that well as far as just looking at other options or business models and it was something that even prior to COVID supervisor Jesse Bond and I were looking at and in particular how are there ways that we could model our concessions that are more financially sustainable and there are other side rooms of the Civic and we were exploring if there are other rental packages that we could offer so that it wasn't you know there's other options for people to rent out the side rooms or other parts of the Civic rather than a civil large event venue and I do think that um Jesse Bond is the right person for the job here at this time and I'm sure in your letters you saw a lot of support for Jesse and so I really look forward to working with her on how to build the Civic back better as we always been feeling President Biden phrase there so but yes I'm if you have questions just about the Civic I'm happy to answer those but just know that this was something we were already planning on looking at for the Civic and unfortunately you know due to this structural deficit in COVID it's you know we're making these reductions now just in the hope that we can have a structure are able to build back and that we're not having to make larger reductions down the road so that is the why we're doing that now I just had one one of the things I made you know and I think the department budget overall we were very lean and so as we were looking at budget reductions um you know we were having to really decide you know where do those come from and and wherever they come from there's obviously there's no fluff in our budget and so wherever those come from it's going to be felt it's going to be impact to our services and so that was really challenging and so these reductions aren't you know a value judgment on our part of what's important and what's not but it's really geared toward it's really geared toward really geared toward trying to get this right in a way so that we can build back and that we've got opportunity to recover um and so yeah as we were facing budget reductions I mean it's a matter of do we keep parks closed or do we reduce hours at the community center or do we uh you know reduce services at the civic so this is kind of where we are due to the lean nature of our budget um but certainly welcome council direction and feedback on we how we move forward from here I just want to say thank you for talking about that for just a little bit I and I agree I really appreciate you saying this is not a value know that and you know we've been talking about this so we've had that information about what the you know kind of short term and and longer thinking is uh so I I appreciate you taking the time to to lay that out and uh hopefully members of the public who are listening know that our intention is to uh build back better this isn't a value judgment it's a this is triage at the moment and um I just appreciate everyone to keep us keep it going thank you council member brown uh next I have council member excuse me uh vice mayor Booner and then council member colantara johnson and then I'm going to cue myself in there go ahead vice mayor thank you so much uh Tony and Rachel if I could invite you back for my question thank you so much uh thank you council member brown I know we've all had um many conversations from our constituents and I've asked many questions and combed through to understand where we are at with the needs and challenges um and the greater long term views so with these proposed budget reductions specifically at the civic um can you talk about what will happen in this next fiscal year at the civic certainly Tony you're like going to take that one yeah Rachel go for it thanks okay yes um with you know guidance changing and of course anticipating the beyond the blueprint coming uh you know it's hard to know as far as just both um with these budget reductions and with the California state what we'll be able to offer um so that is a challenge certainly a challenge to plan um not knowing the guidance so um we have heard from some of our returning organizations and events that are planning events um like the symphony I know is moving forward with planning um follies has already um canceled for this year but of course we're we're hoping they'll return next year and we are just starting to hear from um kind of larger promoters who are reaching out with this real interest to hold events so we do think we will get this ask back for events um it's really hard again to know um I will say we have seen kind of across the board in recreation this is a very chat statement that as things open up there is a real interest in demand that happens right off the bat so this could happen with events as well and some people are actually predicting that so um these uh reductions would certainly um make it difficult if we do suddenly get this flood of interest in operating um events at the Civic and the um the cut in particular to the temporary you know it's uh we're reducing the temporary budget proposing by half which is uh a lot so that would be a definite um would hamper our ability you know and we will have to be creative on how to offer events but we we're not sure how we'll be able to support um events we might have to see how we can pull other resources if we did get a big name that comes in and we want to make that happen that is where we um can bring in uh revenue when we get a big name person that wants to come to the Civic so that's something we definitely will need to look at um and it'll be just really an event by event basis on kind of where are you know how far we was temporary dollars throughout the year the Civic will be a COVID testing site for um the first two months of the fiscal year July and August so we know we'll have some savings you know in that temporary budget as well as we have a current uh vacant position um apart one of the part time or uh one of the facility attendant positions will remain vacant for the summer so we'll have some savings there hopefully then be able to spread out you know over the nine months but um coming into next year when we're looking at a 12 month cycle um if we had this same budget it would it would certainly be a challenge so you know we're just hoping to use this year to do um some evaluation and planning and uh kind of business planning around the Civic so that we um may be able to come to council next year at budget time some you know recommendations for a different business model but um I hope that answers your question Vice Mayor Brunner like I said it's very difficult to say what we will and will not be able to do and where the the promoters will come back and there are certain groups that we work with regularly that we haven't heard back from this year um yet so um it's hard to tell I guess that was my question and you know some of the regular annual um event producers promoters um events that happen there if there um has been conversations about moving forward in some way and figuring out alternatives to the temper that is proposed in reduction which my understanding is concessions and ushers and um anything else with temporary staff it's concessions um it's some of the ticketing or just event prep you know that goes into the press hearing for these events um there's a lot of temporary budget but again um we're kind of spreading that out over a 10 month period instead of a 12 month it's not so clear due to COVID testing site or actually I should say it would be um nine months because for the month of September the plan is to really focus on the building itself there's some maintenance to be done and so our plan is to open really to events in October okay any other things that you know happen at the Civic of course you know um we have our basketball leagues that we run at the Civic I mean there are a number of just cities um meetings and events that um we hold that we will just um have to figure out different ways to operate those if it's that city staff may have to you know up and break down their events um when they reserve the Civic so we may have to have more of that type of model so it'll be it'll be tough um uh thank you so much for answering those questions thank you Vice Mayor uh Council Member commentary Johnson Vice Mayor Brenner asked my question and I realized my other question is related to item 31 but I did want to thank Council Member Brown for bringing this bringing this up great I have just a couple of questions too and yeah I wanted to thank Council Member Brown also just for those questions I think it helps us all understand sort of where the Civic is at so I really appreciate staff responses and ability to kind of help our help our community understand sort of what's happening with the Civic so it's possible um my questions are for parks um so go ahead and stay where you are um I just quick questions um on the robotics pool program I see and your goals for the year you want to complete the pool feasibility study which goes back to work that was done in 2019 2020 fiscal year but I also see that the budget actually goes down curious about that pool adjustment there it looked like um last year well the year in estimate is 159 100 the fiscal year proposed is 151 965 so I'm just comparing those two numbers but I'm just trying to get a sense I'm sorry the adopted budget um for this fiscal year uh was wanted to be 6 so it's gone down a little bit I'm just wondering is that a reflection of revenues I'm just trying to understand the pool budget a little bit better Tony yeah that's a great question uh Lindsay Bass our principal management analyst is tuned in here so we know Lindsay here for some feedback sure thanks and thanks for the question um so there's just a slight decrease in the pool budget that we were able to make because we had increased the budget last year to be able to do capital project in partnership with public works so that investment is being made to upgrade the boilers we're hoping that that will allow us to take advantage of additional upgrades that we've made at the pool and run the facility more efficiently so that is a very marginal decrease that we were able to make we actually kept that higher than it has been historically just because we anticipate having to make potentially smaller improvements just to keep the facility operating as that pool feasibility study continues and the resources for that are wrapped in our CIP so those continue to be there for us right and similarly a jump in the surfing museum budget pretty significant from actual 2020 just curious about that jump is that reflective of anticipated revenues I know that or needs or repairs on the building or I'm just looking at that so it's the budget now is 49 865 so I don't know if there was cost savings because of closures last year or kind of where that number maybe just came from just I've had a few folks asking about the surf museum I'm assuming it says museum so I'm assuming that's the surf museum because you guys no longer do the natural museum so I don't know if Lindsay or tell me if you guys have not one in your daily which that's correct it may have been just due to some reductions that were made in FY 21 that are being restored from the one time cuts that were made this fiscal year so outside of that that budget is remaining consistent with where it has been in the past okay so it's been it's basically been restored with this this full year this okay that's great and then I definitely have some follow-up when we get back into you taking any action later things that those are my questions so I'll go ahead and take this out to the public now so we are mayor I just want to just bring up one item before we do that just so the council is aware of this so we are also recommending another addition or amendment to the budget and that is the following up on the discussion around the temporary position in the city manager's office and so we after following up on that we are recommending that that be changed 0.65 FTE so again we have a chance to and look at the options there and so we are recommending that that be added to the budget 0.65 FTE so Martine that is in the attachment for us I thought it was a 0.25 FTE is that going up 5 it's no it's the it's not in your attachment I don't believe it's because we just were able to finalize the number but it's basically it's going from temporary the agenda report that you have we gave you an estimate for a 0.50 and a 0.75 where we came down on it was a 0.65 okay that's right okay thank you for that clarification okay I will go ahead and take this out to the public now this will be our item number 30 which is the fiscal year 2022 budget adoption and if you are interested in commenting on the fiscal year 2022 budget adoption please press star 9 on your phone to raise your hand when it is your time to speak you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted the timer will then be set to 2 minutes okay I've got phone number ending in 0.575 good afternoon my name is Ken Bear I live in the city of Santa Cruz work for the city of Santa Cruz and I'm the president I'm asking you to pay our employees a fair living wage facilities maintenance assistance courier drivers administrative assistants custodian service trainees are all underpaid by as much as 26% when compared to other agencies of the same size that's bad but you know what's worse is that your predecessors exempt the city from the living wage work to continue to take advantage of that to fail our employees by paying them less than you would pay anyone else is that acceptable please direct human resources to enter talks with the union to correct the situation thank you thank you next up is phone number ending in 1-810 hi this is Garrett Phillip Garrett you're muted you pressed star 6 Garrett you're muted there you go I pressed a lot of star 6s anyway this is Garrett Phillip I question whether tenant sanctuary provided much value in a year where there was a moratorium on evictions and the original staff of that organization were the most radical anti-lord-lord activists in the city and personally I think funding civil legal advice to one group of people against another isn't your job also 15 minutes on the internet can normally answer any tenant rights question you are aware I'm sure the city does not operate as a free market it is a monopoly when it comes to just about every service it provides about the only constraint you have is not going bankrupt with that you have a great so the city is not to collect revenue from every source imaginable then spend that money any way you please as if the citizens were cash cows to milk it well for instance calling the water refuse wastewater funds enterprise funds as if those revenues are for profit or should be used for anything other than producing those services is morally wrong and seems like it is and has been for a long time be a source of abuse or monopoly water refuse waste water revenue morally should only pay for the cost of those services and I don't buy this suggestion everything is related to those only you make those expenses related by diverting that money to other expenses if you decide money can be legally transferred that way it seems also the list of transfers of unrelated revenue sources into the general capital improvement projects fund considering the priorities expressed for that seemed a little to do with those and it's another puzzling example there are many water goes to fund public art okay I'm not an accountant but the budget looks hinky to me and that it deserves a better explanation of your principles thanks next up we have phone number ending in 1798 you could press star six to unmute and we're ready to have you speak if you could press star six to unmute yourself you should be able to speak we can't hear you at this point there you go you're ready or no you're not 1798 you'll need to press star six to unmute yourself okay I'll move on to the next person who's in line to speak this is about the oh okay 1798 okay 1798 you go ahead I'm sorry sorry this is Judy Grunstra someone who has volunteered many hours ushering at the Civic I urge you to support the Civic Auditorium and not cut staff only a few years ago the city was celebrating the Civic's 75th anniversary and inviting people to share their memories many many people have great memories of events they've attended there we've seen what happened when the library was 50 year old library was neglected so let's not throw the Civic under the bus and I was happy to hear the staff first renting meeting rooms at the Civic because as you know meeting rooms are much in demand and considerable square footage is being devoted to meeting space in the new library projects so yeah rent out rooms at the Civic and maybe reduce some of that meeting space at the library thanks thank you and the last person for this is Krista welcome to members thanks for taking my comment this is Krista aka Skirt Vonnegut formerly of the Santa Cruz Derby Girls and I just want to put in my support for the Civic please don't cut funding to the Civic and the wonderful staff there I got to know some of the staff members who during my time skating and they're just a wonderful facility we would have five to six or seven events at the Civic each year and it's a wonderful draw for the community to come down to the Civic and enjoy sports or arts and then afterwards go downtown and eat at a restaurant or go drink at a bar shopping or something so it's just really wonderful to have strong support at the Civic to give the community that artistic and cultural center that makes our community so vibrant so thank you thank you okay I'll bring it back to the council and I see council member Golder how's your hand up just was wanting to ask Tony based on the comments of Skirt and Judy just to clarify we're cutting and funding can you to maintain that yeah council member Golder to good question we will so the reductions include a variety of sources so in part and a big chunk of those include general staff or temporary staff as we talked about so those are folks who would be helping with ticketing or operations or set up or concessions for example none of those positions are filled right now so just to be clear that would be budget that we would that we would reduce as far as maintenance of the facility we have significant capital needs at the Civic Auditorium our capital improvement budgets part of the proposal for city council is related to the civic roof so that's a approximately $400,000 item just to replace the roof that is leaking and we have a lot of needs to invest in the facility and that's really for more of a capital investment standpoint the Civic Auditorium master plan I think is in the ballpark of $24 million total to redo the civic and that would be the ultimate goal but as part of our reduction proposal we would propose shifting some staff positions including the attendant moving some of those around so I would welcome Rachel if she wants to weigh in on any of this specifically but what that would mean is that with a reduction in overall events we our maintenance would be reduced overall but our routine maintenance we're not going to completely turn our back on the Civic or mothball it but we would step back in terms of that day to day maintenance but that's largely due to not having so many events so we wouldn't need that setup and prep and so forth and the where and care would be less because there's less people moving through the building that's right that's right but the capital needs still remain I mean it's an old building and we need to invest in the really the structural needs and things like the roof over time so that's the money that we've got to find and I want to take an opportunity here actually appreciate Skirt's comments a moment ago Derby girls is actually one group that we have tried to reach but have not been able to so if listening or anybody from Derby girls we would love to chat with them that's been one group that again we've not been able to really coordinate with prior to this meeting but thank you very much the questions or comments from the council I don't see any questions before we get into motion and I'd be happy to entertain a motion one question I had was I wanted to understand a little bit more Ralph had provided us the two tenant sanctuary which were great I appreciate reading those I just wanted to understand a little bit about the contract and how it works the one thing that I noticed in the reports and I don't necessarily think this needs to be part of the motion by any means but it would be great if maybe some of our own rental rent assistance type of programs might be provided in a workshop setting so we do have various things that are through our housing division and working with the housing authority I see I saw quite a bit of information about state legislation and some other workshops and obviously a lot of work with individuals which is great but maybe tenant sanctuary if anyone's here listening or folks who have contact with us folks if we can make sure that we also are informing people as much as possible about all the programs and the funding available for example for last and security there are certainly a lot of the state programs that are coming out that the governor passed this year with regards to forgetting certain amounts of rent during COVID so I do see I do see some a little bit of that outreach and I don't know I'm not in any of the sessions but I'd like to make sure that local programs are highly promoted with this funding because I understand the intent is to help tenants but I think making sure that they understand all the systems in place that could be best for their use is really important and could be a really important activity of tenant sanctuary so I'd like to I think Ralph manages this maybe manages this contract so I don't know if there's a way to give those folks back that way I see Laura came on but I just want to make sure there is a little bit of a not once in a lifetime but there is quite a bit of resources coming here I think from both the state and I just want to make sure we can somehow capture that in the scope of work with them for the coming year Laura do you have a comment on that Ralph is not here today but we can definitely incorporate what you're requesting into the amendment for the upcoming school year that we do with them okay great and one other thing on one of their reports Laura maybe it looks like they did some survey work this past year which is again helpful in understanding more about the population I do notice they have income they have age and the amount paid per month and some other demographic information and I was wondering also they have household income I was wondering if there's also maybe a way to capture I see we have a lot of younger people I'm assuming that those folks are students but it would be nice to maybe also capture either employment or kind of status in terms of that because I see a correlation with people and also you know the most people who are making under 15,000 so I think it's important to understand some of those things as well so maybe they could add something like that to their survey but it does appear that this group is collecting data it's not in a database as we were discussing earlier but I think to the extent that we're spending $30,000 a year I'd like to if we can somehow pull some information so that we're a little more active in understanding what this group is doing and the kinds of information that can help help renters in our community so those are my comments on that and then I do have Mayor could I clarify for that so in the last year's extension we removed the requirement for the full on reporting that we had in the original year of the contract yep would you is it okay to leave that as status quo or do you wish or is council wishing to have the reporting back so the reporting that I saw in the earlier report which is the December 2019 report there was a long table that had a lot of you know various information in it the one from 2019 to May 17, 2020 it seemed like they sort of were able to collapse it so that we just have some good data points to work from I just would like to maybe have the staff work with them to make sure we're capturing the right data points as well and so I think if there's a way to also potentially look at employment or status so in other words if people are retired maybe they're students maybe they are working professional you know I don't need to know if someone's a truck driver I just am looking at some employment staff so we can kind of correlate that to the wage information that they're reporting in the but I like the I like the second report I thought it provided good information the table is pretty long and extensive but so I'm not I'm also reflecting on maybe some other categories to discuss with them in how they're putting that data together to make sure okay thank you yes thank you okay so I would look for the start to a motion on the budget it looks like council member comes yeah and just remember the public I know that it's always difficult when we have budgets especially during these years when we're you know coming out of years when we've had major deficits and we're trying to kind of make the community whole again that being said I think that there's a lot of you know potential for us to understand how the rescue funds are going to be spent I think we're on a good track in terms of the recommendations coming from staff so I'm happy to move the staff's recommendations and I don't know if I need to read if it'd be best if I read through those for clarity the motion would be I'm sorry go ahead yes so adopt resolution number NS 29835 adopting the 2022 budget including the capital investment program effective July 1st 2021 and to approve related and applicable transfers in out between funds and authorizing the finance director to make additional appropriations to provide for commitments carried over from the prior fiscal year including contract and purchase order encumbrances and project balances so long as there's sufficient fund balance to finance these commitments part two is to adopt the fiscal year 2022 priority one capital investment program projects and implement as funding becomes available three acceptable water commissions recommendations regarding the water department's fiscal year 22 operating capital investment program and then a couple other items that I wanted to make sure we included which were to direct staff to consider what is needed with the updates to the permit tracking system to integrate local data collection into the permit tracking upgrades including but not limited to the incorporation of 3D technologies and then the last part continue to split the cost of the county for the UC task force advocate position and I just was able to see that the county had appropriated $62,000 for that and so the recommendation would be for the city county task force advocate that we allocate $62,000 for that position and I'll mention too with the task force sorry not the task force the rental data collection this isn't really to appropriate any funds at this time what it really is doing is as the permit tracking program is being upgraded to really see if we're going to move in that direction what would need to happen in order to incorporate rental data collection into that but it sounds like it could be done internally we may need to go with 3D I but it sounds like there needs to be some thought around how that would be incorporated into it and so this is considering just the what would be necessary and so the recommendations would also be to get an update from staff when they bring that back to us Council Member Brown did you want to second that I did yes I'll second that thank you and I have a friendly amendment duration I'd like to also add maybe another item six which would be to request that parks and city manager and police return with an operational plan looks to restore our parks rangers for next fiscal year so and I'll explain a little bit make sure I get the the wording right but I spoke with Marjean Bernal about this so the intent with this is really to not say that we will be bringing back all of our rangers but I just want to clear for the public our rangers were moved from our parks department back to the police department several years ago and in watching the impacts on some of our parks and the lack of having park ranger present which is very different than police rank police presence I feel like we have lost some of that individual park management and home solving and so my intent with this is that we direct the staff either working with management partners or and you don't have to put all this in the motion but that we use the process that we've done to really look at an operational plan to plan for having a park ranger force come back to our parks department so I'm watching as you read this Mayor Marjean Bernal and I think you got that that's great and maybe I would add to look to restore park rangers back into the parks and recreation department Bonnie thank you so if that might be accepted great and then I just have a question about the rental the data system so your intent is to understand how it fits these IT upgrades but because I don't know that we have proved creating a rental database I can't remember where we ended with all that to kind of make sure that kind of and then have staff bring back a report okay that was just my question okay great accepted well this is the maker of the motion I accept and then with the second I will go in as the second I absolutely accept and just want to thank you Mayor Myers for including that it's a big priority for me as well and I'm sure others so let's get it in the mix for consideration did you want to comment on that yes I just want to make sure that incorporated into the motion is the adding the 0.5 you know right that was the other one yeah 0.65 right yeah 0.65 0.65 thank you for catching that it's this right here right the position okay correct it would now be 0.65 FTE management analyst did that go in as 6 or 7 there we go sorry you guys don't have to wait for me if you want to okay so we have a motion any other questions or comments from council members on the motion not seeing any okay we have a motion on to adopt the fiscal year budget with I'm not going to read all the language again but the motion was up on the screen so that motion was by council member Cummings and a second by council member Brown and I will go ahead and ask for a roll call vote thank you mayor council member Watkins Callentary Johnson Vice Mayor Bruder and Mayor Myers hi that motion passes unanimously okay the city will be open for business thank you I just want to thank Martine and Tim and all the department heads and all the departments for all the work they did for the budget this last actually these last two years it has been an extreme interruption in the city and I know all of you spent countless hours pouring through your budget to try to get us to a status quo budget moving ahead but also really helping the council understand the work that we need to do ahead in terms of really understanding the structural deficits that we're facing and also how to plan for capital projects and also for some of the things that came up today just now in terms of programs and projects that back at our community so being on the the revenue committee and also the budget committee previously I just want the public to know that our staff just works tirelessly to prepare these budgets and so what kind of gets just filled down into a pretty short report it's really really months and months about four months of work so I just want to thank all of our staff and Martine for your leading that on and also Tim Crouch our new finance director who this is her first budget with us so congrats and thanks everyone for all your work we'll now move on to general business item number 31 which is the resolution amending the city of Santa Cruz personnel compliment and classification and compensation plans for members of the public who are streaming this meeting I don't mean want to comment on now it's a time to call in using the instructions on your screen the order will be a presentation of the item by staff followed by questions from the council we will then take public comment and then return to the council for deliberation and action I will turn this over to Kathy Bonino principal human resources analyst with our human resources department excuse me good afternoon actually I'm going to take this one I didn't know no worries this one hopefully should be pretty simple this is a procedural process when you adopt the budget then we subsequently come to you and adopt the resolution to amend the Santa Cruz personnel compliment and classification plan and that's what this next item does so all of the stocking changes that you just approved as part of your budget now we'll do it as a resolution however I would like somebody to also make the amendment to include the point 65 management analyst position that was added and that actually concludes my presentation thank you Lisa is there any questions from council members on this item which is item number 31 I'm not seeing any hands okay I will bring this out to public comment then are there any members in the public that would like to comment on item number 31 in our agenda this is under our general business agenda if you are interested in commenting on the many of the Santa Cruz personnel personnel compliment and classification and compensation plans please press star 9 on your phone to raise your hand when it is your time to speak you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted the timer will then be set to 2 minutes I'm not seeing any hands raised in the public so I will bring this back to council for continued deliberation and I see council member golder followed by council member Watkins I'm happy to move item 31 the resolution limiting the classification and compensation plans for the 2022 budget okay and council member Watkins I will second that and just to make sure that it reflects the point 65 full STE assessment adjustment as well great okay we have a motion on the table council member did you have a question or comment I just had a comment I wanted to acknowledge and thank parks and rec staff on their thoughtful process and the difficult decisions they have to make and make note of the increase in personnel for youth sports and youth programs we've been hearing a lot from Santa Cruz City Schools in our city schools committee and just from the community of the significant needs for youth programming given the impact of COVID and a year long more than year long distance learning so I just wanted to acknowledge and thank parks and rec their thoughtfulness and their shift in the use of the youth in our community thank you council member council member Cummings I had a comment and I actually just sent some additional language over that can probably come as a separate motion to the main motion but that I've been hearing from folks and that it is really reflective of kind of where the city I feel like is heading and other people in community have been expressing is that we're really starting to move into taking on homelessness as a role of the city and it's pretty apparent with the part time position that we have with the vacant homeless manager position and now creating a higher level executive position working on homelessness as well and so I was thinking about this a little and I wasn't sure whether to put this into the budget discussion or this discussion but I just sent Bonnie some language so that's for part of it it's going to address homelessness and then the other was after having some discussions and really seeing how we're addressing equity the consideration of other cities have chief equity officer positions and I know as we're talking about increasing diversity in public safety divisions and with the help in all policies the two motions that I've had and I don't know if Bonnie got my email but and this can either be a friendly amendment or we can do it as a separate motion but it would be direct staff to create the process and timeline for discussing the structure of roles and responsibilities for division on homelessness behavioral mental health response in conjunction with the public safety committee city staff and community stakeholders and return to council with updates and recommendations prior to the 2023 budget and the other part would be to direct staff to the public safety committee to discuss the creation of a chief equity officer position for public safety including but not limited to roles or abilities cost and location for the position and return with recommendations prior to the 2023 budget discussion and so this is really trying to allow for the public to have some opportunity to weigh in on where we're headed with homelessness and especially since we're going to be thinking about mental health crisis we're going to be seeing how we can create where would this be located getting some input from staff and from the community and then also as it relates to equity especially around public safety considering thinking about whether we want to have a chief equity officer who really I think would be it would be a good position to have if we want to ensure that helping all policies continues to be moved forward and so those are the two maybe friendly amendments or separate motions and actually I'd rather have it as a separate motion because I do still have some concerns around the deputy city manager position so I'll stop there can I just confirm really quick councilmember Cummings because the way you had it was two separate additional motions but can you have them as one additional motion? Okay, councilmember Brown Thank you mayor so just to clarify what we're talking about here the second motion is we'll come to us after we complete our discussion personnel complement changes and I just want to say I think and I'll talk about it more when we get to that that motion I want to say I think this is a really interesting idea given where we're at and how much we struggled with how we however reluctantly or you know proactively depending on the situation make interventions in homelessness response you know I think that having some kind of unifying space to have those conversations and to plan for our future activities would really benefit the city I think we've had a lot of trouble over the year because we have had this very uneasy relationship with you know well as the city's responsibility as the county's responsibility and I'm so glad to see that we're finally in a place where we're poised to make a lot of progress and I I think that the city's role you know is becoming more pro to try to find a creative structure a staffing structure that fits with the goals of the city with respect to homelessness, mental health response all of the issues that have really been bubbling up that we've been talking about and struggling with and it makes a lot of sense to me to go that route I will say with respect to the personnel changes I appreciate the different departments efforts to and particularly Parks and Rec because you are taking obviously the biggest hit but I'm not going to support that motion today because I'm still very concerned about what is well not while it won't be felt immediately is essentially acknowledging that we want to have another executive managerial position in the city manager's office I have real concerns with that and it has nothing to do with the individual who is going to be you know is already working in that position I'm very glad that that's happening but I'm just not comfortable with adding you know and I understand we're not adding a position it was in there but funding a position and so making that position active is going to change the situation the overall personnel so I just don't really feel comfortable doing that at this time I think it ought to happen in conjunction with kind of our city manager who will be coming on and you know any other kind of restructuring that's going to be done so I won't be supporting this motion at this time it doesn't mean that I don't support the overall goals of you know addressing staffing to be more effective at responding to issues I have a procedural question for our council I'm a little unclear whether or not the suggestion motions fit with this agenda item looks like we're talking about a new department as well as potentially a new position and I'm curious I'm just curious about where this fits with regard to the actual noticed item yeah you're right I think that's a good point I think it is appropriate as a discussion of the budget the item you just concluded but doesn't really fit with this particular item you know one thing that could happen is there could be a motion to reconsider the previous item after the council takes action on this item okay so to the maker of the motion I'm just just trying to follow procedure like in looking at the noticing I'm just trying to trying to understand how we properly honor your interest in making a motion but I'm not sure that it fits with this item here so councilmember Watkins, councilmember and then vice mayor so I guess I'm trying to think about how to structure my comment so in regards to that before I you know I'm comfortable as the seconder of that in regards to the proposed motion language without kind of going too far into a kind of a realm outside of this item I think that you know generally I guess I would say is I think these are ideas worth considering and I'd like to have broader context particularly with the health and all policies work in the equity work that's already established in the city we have we're providing a report to us in the coming months and it'd be great to have that foundation inform any kind of specific directive around equity although I change the interest behind that but definitely want to use it as a foundational component of what health and all policies is on the book so at this time I think I'd like to wait until that report comes forward and kind of we hear more about where we're at internally with our work around that and then in regards to the homeless division I think that's a much bigger conversation that I don't want to go too far into but I think what's being proposed really opens up a larger conversation about funding, accessing funding county over overlap etc so I have some concerns without knowing how far we can discuss that Tony I guess in terms of what to kind of bring up around that at this time yeah so I guess what I was suggesting is that if the council wants to discuss proposed items for consideration as part of your next fiscal year's budget the appropriate thing to do would be to reconsider the previous item on your agenda relating to adoption of the budget and then the council could proceed to take action on this particular item concerning personnel complement and then return to that discussion if there's a motion to reconsider that's adopted on item 30. If I can for clarification mayor yeah please go ahead in regards to the reconsideration of the previous item I'm hesitant to move in that direction given that the recommendation isn't until next fiscal year for these recommendations I think that these require robust conversations with more information and potential considerations in both sections so given that there's not a huge urgency to accompany the previous item I don't know if that's necessarily required they can come back as a future agenda and was that correct Tony? yeah that could be brought up at any time during as the council move preparing to adopt its next fiscal year budget as well so I don't think it's necessary for the council to take action on that but if you do are inclined to do that my recommendation would be that you consider a motion to reconsider item 30 and then add that to the action approving the budget for this fiscal year so I have so these were friendly amendments to the motion on the floor from what I do that as I understood it was toward the end of council member Cummings comments he indicated that he preferred that it be presented as a separate motion so my recommendation would be to have the council move forward on the motion that's on the floor and then if the council wants to continue discussion on the next fiscal year budget considerations that you do so as I've suggested so let me just ask council member con tarry johnson and vice mayor bruner do you have questions on the motion on the floor or comments on the motion on the floor or the new items that may be revisited in a different different motion going back to item 30 but I'm not guaranteeing that that's going to happen either because we need a motion to actually do that council member con tarry johnson I'm calling tarry johnson yeah I had comments on the second so if that's not appropriate at this time then I'll hold my comments okay council member cummings thank you mayor I was just going to mention that similar to council member brown I've heard concerns from members of the community around the creation of the filling of the deputy city manager position I thought when this came up last year when we voted on this because this isn't the first time it's come before us but I thought that the planning director who's been taking on these responsibilities was being compensated for the additional work that he had been doing to address these issues and so there's been a lot of concern coming from the community around why are we getting rid of a planning director position and why are we creating this new position so that's been something I've been trying to grapple with and we've reached out to me and expressed their discomfort with that and that's the only I'd say position that's being listed that I've had concerns with and that I've been hearing from people who've been concerned about us taking action on that item before us today so I just wanted to express that I'm supportive of the other positions but that's one of the positions that has there's been a lot of concern raised around it and so that's going to be my hesitation for moving forward with that item and again and then I'll withdraw the motion that I made earlier but I would like to make a motion to reconsider item number 30 because I think that where we're headed the year when we can have all these discussions and we can learn about we can take the input that we're receiving from the health and policy report that's coming forward that can help inform whether we should move forward with this division but if we can get some momentum and start determining what a process could be and how we can move forward with having those conversations similar to what we just heard bringing back to Parks and Rec Park Rangers I think that it would be good for us to have a discussion around considering I brought forward. Okay so did you make a motion? I would say my motion but I said yes. I might just call on either Lisa Murphy or Martin Bernal my understanding with just so for public clarification is that the reassignment or I don't know what the right term is with the deputy city manager position and I'm assuming it falls under the deputy city manager too which also allows basically for a person to fill an executive director level position of a department and so is that kind of what we are doing with our deputy city manager slash you know person who is now also assigned to homelessness do you understand my question when I read the staff report that's basically what we're doing is that we are creating the deputy city manager place in the city manager's office and but that position has two classes a one and a two and the two does allow for that person to actually serve also as a department head so we're not really losing our director of planning and community development is that correct? That's correct so basically all we're doing is assigning the level of pay that's commensurate to a department head that has a larger set of facilities so it's equivalent to department head that has a bigger department so that is really the change and the title is simply one that is one that oversees and looks at operations that are across department alliance and so which again is the title that we had before so because the scope of the work involved working with all you know center departmental in each term working with departments and all of that so basically the quarter percent of the time would be in the homelessness response area and then the three quarter time would be as planning director and that is included in the staff report for the item that we are currently I make sure for mostly for the public that that is the staff report description associated with item number 31 for details of that information okay council member Golder and then council member Johnston and again we're just focusing on item number 31 and the existing motion question there so I can put thank you council member Johnston yeah thank you for that clarification I just want to reiterate my understanding is that we're not in the executive position we're expanding the scope of this position since the shift in the title and just to note that we are we have directed and asked us to do quite a breadth of services around homelessness and I'm so happy to at least in recent history I don't know that we've done we've made this kind of effort we certainly need infrastructure to put that in place in the last meeting when I made the comment that maybe we should wait for the new city manager to come in because this is a significant restructure Laura responded with you have directed us and asked us to do this work now and you're absolutely right we want to move with the sleeping side we move with the transitional shelters there's a whole array of services that we are going to stand up with a county during COVID standing up a shelter sheltering program is not an easy task so I agree that we need to restructure quickly and we need to restructure thoughtfully so that we can actually implement the direction that we've given to staff should the ordinance pass later. Thank you councilmember councilmember Brown Thank you and this is mostly a response to councilmember which I absolutely agree with related to staffing up or making sure that we have the staffing to get the work done I don't disagree with that and my intention here is not to suggest that I don't want that work to happen so I just this issue has become very convoluted I'm not going to call it complicated actually is pretty simple and so but because it's been framed for us in a way that suggests that this is that it's very particular to this particular case when I step back and I look at job classifications and the classification complement within the city manager's office which has expanded significantly over the past decade to be fair a lot of you know the work has expanded but I just feel like you know we are kind of adding a position so just to try to make clear what I'm trying to say here could somebody answer the question what would the city do what will we do if at some point the current occupant of that position will either move on or retire and so then what will we do will we hire a planning director and another deputy city manager I'll ask Martina in which case we are adding another managerial executive position well first of all we're not anticipating that that's not something that we anticipate however what we would do at that time it would likely be my successor would then evaluate the structure and whether it would continue in that fashion or not and then make recommendations accordingly and so if the structure works well and we can recruit another individual they can maintain that complement responsibilities and if it was working well then that would be appropriate there was another model that made more sense given what's learned and the experience that that is learned and there might be a different recommendation okay I've got to clarify the planning and community development director with the action that you take today is no longer funded so if the hypothetical happened that manager at that point would only be able to fill the deputy city manager if he or she wanted to organize it differently they could not hire the planning and community development director job because there's no budget appropriation for it by your action today okay so we have a motion on the floor to basically go with the staff recommendation is there additional I see council member callitari johnson and then council member and then I'd like to vote on this motion sorry I just forgot to put my hand down oh no worries okay I would like to add one comment I feel like we're kind of at a point in San Jose where we're moving into kind of unchartered territory where we haven't in the past as a city to the best of my knowledge collaborated in such a way with the county and the state and really worked towards finding solutions for homelessness as a city and so I'm thinking it fully funded 1.0 FTE position we're working on advocacy at the state and federal level for resources that's never been created within our city before and so I think one person do that job where we're saving money on benefits and retirement at this point I think the department has stepped up and has been serving in this capacity already and acknowledging that with this title. Thank you council member Vice Brunner. Vice. Thank you Mayor Myers council member Golder you brought up a point that you know we're really taking on some new responsibilities as a city and you know what I'm understanding is that we're forming this team it's not quite a department since there is no department that technically works with impacts of homelessness in the past historically that has been through other organizations and the county and so we're really proactively it sounds like staff is making changes and with our commendations of late to a whole array of services we're forming this team I wonder if it's appropriate if Laura has slide number 6 I mean that just is helpful to understand the scope of work that this position I think to see everything that is needed and why it is in the city manager department is because it's dealing with each department with fire with police with water with public works and so that comes from the city manager's office and so those levels of all that work is Laura here she is here playing on you do you I don't even know what to call it but yeah the homelessness response is a program within the city manager's office it is not a department nor a division is just one of the programs it's an integrated citywide program that sits in the city manager's office because it is citywide and has substantial needs to be able to integrate across multiple policies as well as integrate with regional partners similar to how crime and action and sustainability ended up being seated in the city manager's office and health and all policies as well homelessness responses and other programs that ended up seated here this is just an overview of the work that happens in the homelessness response space in the meeting space we participate in 2x2 with the county and that involves our elected officials with county's elected officials are you able to hear me very well yeah we can Laura and then the homeless action partnership we participate in the west coast cities in the United States interagency council and we have every other week city county coordination meetings we have a citywide operational coordination meeting across all departments that we coordinate internal city manager's office response team meeting that we do and then we also coordinate and do homelessness response out into the community from the city manager's office and then we also participate in the emergency operation center work as it comes up as you know we are participating right now because of pain as well as the disease and lightning fire and then any ad hoc meetings that come up additionally the actual work that is not meeting this is this mattering of what we do in this function so there's outreach there's pop up encampment manager there's vendor and contract management any temporary personnel that needs to be managed in this gets managed out of the city manager's office resources we coordinate with AFC for the safe parking program we work with the foundation army and the county for the armory we help with the San Lorenzo park and bench lands community requests for service that come in calls that come in from the community or emails are on the IT portal will help respond to those that they relate to homelessness the hygiene bay remodel work we are leading that project and along with public works and housing matters and county other CDBG related projects that are funded out of our community development block grant programming in the homelessness space will have to coordinate and project manage those communications and engagement happens from our centralized patients manager but the subject matter expertise for those communications and those community meetings comes from the staff we also coordinate community partnerships with housing matters encompass downtown streets and the county and then all of the work is stated with the camping services and standards ordinance the request for qualification has been coordinated from this team and then the stand up of the storage they've seen the mansion campments the operational policies that you've asked for restorative justice and exploring those options as well as how we report back to you those would all be developed from this group we also do location assessments and work with economic development for real estate identification whenever there's a civil grand jury and it has to have follow up from homelessness it comes out of this team we explore other service models that you've directed that's one of the things that's on the plate right now and then any ordinances and other policies and then the short-term medium-term and long-term strategy and planning that needs to happen will come from this small but mighty work group so as you can see from this cluster of items that I've just gone over really quickly it is well more than one point seven five F2Ds that we're asking thank you Laura and I think hopefully that answers your question thanks and if it's the pleasure oh thank you vice mayor it's the pleasure council I'll go ahead and let's go ahead and go ahead and I'm sorry sorry we have a motion by councilmember and moved by seconded by councilmember walk-ins to go with the staffer recommendation which is adopting a resolution amending the city of sanitary personnel complement and classification and compensation plans for the following departments economic development police parks and recreation planning and community development departments and city managers office so I would like to ask for a roll call vote on this thank you mayor so just to confirm the city managers is the point six five language right yeah it would be the 15 requests in the agenda report as they stand with the addition of the zero point six five appropriation for the management analyst that the council approved in item 30 and I do see that I'm sorry Callentary Johnson no and for the record my no vote is largely around the filling of the deputy city manager position I'm in favor of all the changes holder that motion passes with five in favor of the motion and two against okay we will move on to item number 32 councilmember coming before we move on I'd like to actually make a motion to reconsider item 30 of the budget so that we can discuss the processes for the two items that I mentioned previously around discussions for the homeless response division and I lost my notes but there was the chief equity officer is there a second for that second motion on the floor to reconsider adoption item number 30 which is adopting the budget to include a homeless to creating a homeless response division and a chief equity officer so we'll go ahead and do a roll call vote I'm sorry Vice Mayor Bruner I ask a clarifying question my understanding was that Tony Kandadi mentioned two options one would be to reconsider item 30 and then have that discussion would be to make was it a motion to bring it forward for another for further discussion at a future meeting was that my understanding I don't recall saying that specifically but those are indeed the council's consideration I see councilmember Watkins I appreciate the I just sort of want to reiterate my comments before I appreciate the interest in wanting to move forward in some of these discussions I again feel that the equity position or conversation really would be informed informed by the health and policy work we've been doing so I would like to have that we could potentially discuss that at this time in regards to the homeless division I feel like that's also a more robust conversation that I don't necessarily feel like it ties to a a conversation for next year's budget adoption and sort of reverting back to the next item reasons I don't I won't be supporting the motion yeah I guess I'll just make a quick comment too on the motion I won't I won't be supporting it I feel like we we have made great strides and we are going to start things that we have not done before with regards to simply managing and assisting people in homelessness but we also are faced with a structural deficit that's going to move forward and adding additional you know directing stuff right now to go into you know evaluating additional new completely unfunded positions and then also divisions new divisions within the quite a lead to me so I won't be supporting the motion so we'll go ahead and do a roll call vote Council Member Watkins, Callentary Johnson No I'd like to say for the record that the purpose for doing this is to have discussions and to initiate a process so that we can get input from the community on creating these many of my colleagues had just mentioned that you know we may need to start having these discussions because we're moving into new uncharted territories and especially if we're going to be really focusing on equity as it relates to public safety this is an opportunity to initiate those conversations and so I just wanted to make sure that that was clear so I'm voting in favor Vice Mayor Brunner I would like to say that I agree in having those discussions however tying it to item 30 and reverting back to item 30 doesn't I'm voting no on that and I'd like to really bring forward that we have those discussions for a future date and I appreciate that tie in with the health and all policies reference that Council Member Watkins mentioned an appropriate place to consider Mayor Myers I'm sorry I'm going to vote no so that motion fails with 5 against and 2 4 so we'll move on to item number I'm sorry you guys have additional comments I'm not quite okay do you have comments on item 31 the most the motion was was killed so I don't think it's appropriate that we continue the conversation I think we've got good direction that this is an item people are interested in continuing to speak on but I don't think we continue to speak on it right now I just had a quick question for the City Attorney go ahead Tony so Tony guess what would be the best way for us to bring this it sounds like there's a desire to have discussions around these two topics and I'm just wondering if it's not coming with the budget like is there opportunity to bring this forward at this time through a separate motion not tying it to the budget but bringing forward these items for future discussion that's all the focus is it isn't to the ties of the budget it's really just trying to find and it wasn't clear what the personnel it seemed like talking about new positions would fall this discussion but since it appears that they don't but it's related to some of the topics we're discussing what would be the appropriate way for us to important item Tony I'm I'm like comfortable with where we're going we're being asked to try to make a motion for items that we have no information about at all about creating a new division in the city there's no staff report that's not even part of our strategic plan so I'm really trying I'm trying to manage I'm not trying to shut anybody down but I'm just really trying to manage expectation on on the agenda today I think the way this is typically done is for a request to be made either to the mayor or by my three members of city council to to a subsequent agenda and that doesn't have to be at this meeting that can be as part of the you know in the normal course of the work week so that the item can be prepared and a report can be prepared and in an appropriate staff recommendation can be brought forward so that would be my recommendation at this point do you have any comments on that Martin had to step away I think as far as council policy what city attorney reflected is correct as far as being able to make a request because this would be definitely over the eight hour threshold and that would be the process to go through thank you I'd like to move on to item number 32 now next up on our agenda is item number 32 resolution to authorize the agreement between the city of Santa Cruz water department and the bank of America for $50 million line of credit for members of the public who are streaming this meeting is an item you want to comment on now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen the order will be a presentation of the item by staff followed by questions from the council we will then take public comment and then return to the council for deliberation and action David Baum from our water chief financial officer is here to give the presentation oh no I see rosemary that's okay I was mayor good afternoon mayor and council I'm just going to introduce David also so I'm going to turn it over to him he's got a brief presentation for you great having difficulty getting this on the screen let me know if you want me to pull it up one minute please I'm not I'm not allowed to share my screen there you go now I am working for you David do you want me to pull it up is that on are you guys able to see his screen no we're not I think good idea for you to pull it up as far as place now it seems to be coming okay there you go there it is well thank you I just wanted to give a brief presentation on the action before you today the $50 million line of credit supported by special counsel Jones Hall chick Adam who is present and also our financial advisor I made and so with that I'll get started the purpose of this is to provide cash for us while we wait for a reimbursement from a revolving fund because as you recall the city council has approved loans from the state revolving fund in the amount of $149 million however what we've learned is that they're very slow to reimburse us and so it puts us in a difficult position so move on to the next slide again as I want to thank you in your earlier item you approved the water department's budget and the capital investment plan is $291 million as part of that is the $149 million loans from the state which we find very attractive for 30 years and so that's really the attractive part but the difficult part with these loans has been the time it has taken to get reimbursed I'll get into that in a minute our first request went in in December for the Newell Creek dam inlet outlet project and it was as you can see on this page it's a box of 3,000 pages and there are some nuances about this program whereby for example it can only be printed on one side and it needs to be delivered as paper it's just a way of saying that it takes time to get reimbursed with all this paperwork that they require and so I thought showing a picture of all this paper that was in just one filing in December for $23 million that would be a way to see for yourself just what a task it is so here we try to chart this out again the cash needed until the state revolving fund pays so what's here is the blue bar on the left is the amount of the claim delivered to the state revolving fund in December that was about $23 million the on the right hand side is the orange bars the orange bar represents the payment to the water department from the state and that first claim it was in two parts one was delivered in 111 days and the other one was delivered in 94 days where they say their performance measure is and so we had no we really didn't expect it to take so long and so we really in March we started to get nervous and felt that we wanted to reach into the toolbox and one of the tools in the toolbox was something the water department had done when it had it obtained a line of credit and so we thought this is the time to go out and seek a line of credit but what this says also so the orange is the reimbursement the gray is the line representing the amount of claims still outstanding so as of today we have about 13 million outstanding that we've paid out but we're waiting to get reimbursed from that loan that was given to us by the state implementing just a real short statement here about what takes so we're getting a line of credit it's at a lower interest rate than what we could obtain in the long-term market if we said did a bond financing we again we did this earlier in 2018 and we're just doing this because we need some to make sure that we continue to pay the construction going on in the CIP we need this to stay current we pay within 30 days of getting requests for payments so we sent out the request for proposals for this revolving line of credit in April and we received two responses we sent 20 we solicited directly 20 institutions two of them were in Santa Cruz one Bay Federal Credit Union and Santa Cruz County Bank but both of those said that this was a little bit beyond their scope of what they can do so we ended up having two bids from the usual suspects and the fact we only got it's not that easy to get this but fortunately Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are the partners that we received in the request we are offered a $50 million line of credit I mean this is not just similar if you're on a home if you want to replace your roof you might get a line of credit because that's an extensive undertaking so I mean this is kind of what this is and the interest rate is a variable interest rate of three year period or until we receive the reimbursement and then it becomes like a revolving credit facility where we get money from the state and we can pay it back to the bank in order to restore the $50 million available to us and it is secured by a pledge of the net revenues of the law department so that would be the differences against the total revenue that's what's pledged to repay this we compared the two bids the one from Bank of America and the one from JPMorgan and they offered similar terms except that primarily JPMorgan was kind of more expensive in terms of their interest rate and so we just did this six month the six month apples comparison has a b of a cost of $92,000 in the similar if we drew down 20 million a similar cost for JPMorgan would be $115,250 so it's a pretty clear that the b of a was a better option for us other considerations the Bank of America has a requirement that we would establish revenues such that we could achieve a coverage level of $1.10 of net revenue for the total debt service outstanding if we wanted to issue more bonds it would be $115,150 coverage on the max annual debt service of all the banks that in order to receive the money from Bank of America under this plan their legal fees are sort of typical at around $25,000 JPMorgan's covenants to us were a little more restrictive along the lines of what we already have with our long term debt so not only in terms of pricing but also in terms of covenants the Bank of America was offering so the next steps would be for the council to approve the line of credit agreement that's part of today's packet and the resolution and the plan would be to complete this transaction with Bank of America on the 15th of this month we could access the line of credit of $50,000,000 prior to the end of this month one of the benefits not only being able to make the payments but also through the long range financial plan and something we're going to be updating in the months ahead we have certain targets and certain metrics that we want to meet so this line of credit also helps us to achieve our internal targets such as our coverage level on our debt and cash available in our reserves and the reserves have been used during this time in order to meet our obligations and so this will just shore up the financial capability of the department during this time so that concludes my presentation and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have okay thank you very much for the presentation are there questions from council members on this I'm not seeing any questions at this time I guess I'll make a comment just state grants a lot over the years I mean this is a fairly normal practice it's for government to do especially when you're looking at the pay timelines like that you demonstrated David in one of your slides it seems like a prudent thing even though the wonderful work of the local institution it's hard to get that kind of capital I would imagine without going to these you know these bigger firms so thank you for the presentation if there's no questions from council I'll go ahead and bring it out to public for public comment so if you're interested in commenting on order excuse me if you are interested in commenting on the resolution to authorize the agreement between the city of sanitary's water department and Bank of America for a $50 million dollar line of credit please press star 9 on your phone to raise your hand when it is your time to speak you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted the time rule will then be set to 2 minutes and I see we have phone number ending in 810 you're unmuted and you should be able to talk yeah this is Garrett again hey item 32 seeks to give business to Bank of America in 2020 Bank of America paid out $16.65 billion in a historic justice department settlement for financial fraud leading up to and during the financial crisis the largest civil settlement with a single entity in American history in 2019 Bank of America agreed to pay $75 million to sell a lawsuit of extracting overdraft fees that didn't earn from customers they also paid $4.2 million to sell government allegations of race and sex bias and hiring locations in four states 2018 42 million settlement with Bank of America occurred over what called the masking strategy which was applied to 16 million client trade orders between 2008 and 2013 representing over 4 billion traded shares Bank of America undisclosed agreements with electronic trading firms, Citadel securities, Knight Capital, DE Shaw, Two Sigma Securities and you guessed it, Maddoff Securities to handle the trades instead in 2017 Bank of America agreed to pay $66.6 million to end the lawsuit to get of collecting unlawfully high rates of interest styled as fees from customers who let their checking accounts stay overdrawn for several days I could go endlessly on you must surely get the idea that they never learn and they never pay the real price which is jail the mega banks and B of A is one of them is number two in mega banking but they're number one in paying for misdeeds don't play by civil rules or play fair get caught all the time, hand slapped and short memory types of all kinds happy banks without continuous malintent settlements, just an idea find one and I don't meet the socialist public bank and chase isn't that much different, thanks okay, seeing no other members of the public I will bring it back to council and look for a motion grab my okay, I see council member colder I'm happy to move the item I do agree with circumstances aren't allowed today so happy to move the item okay, thank you and council member call and tarry johnson second okay, thank you, so we have a motion by council member folder seconded by council member call and tarry johnson for the resolution to authorize the agreement between the city of sand cruise water department and bank of America for a $50 million line of credit and I would ask for a roll call vote please aye mayor brunner aye that motion passes unanimously we're running just a little bit I'd like to just take a five minute break so we can just use the facilities and we'll come back at about 405 410 and restart we have two additional items on our agenda this afternoon and then we'll have our evening session starting at 6 tonight so we'll just take a 10 minute break please come back at 410, thank you yeah, we're ready to go okay, next up is item number 33 the ordinance amending chapters 10.64 10.65 and 4.02 of the sand cruise municipal code pertaining to special events for members of the public who are streaming this meeting if this is an item you want to come on comment on at the time or call in using the instructions on your screen the order will be a presentation of the item by staff followed by questions from the council we will then take public comment and then return to the council for deliberation and action I have Lindsay Bass our principal management analyst in our parks and recreation department as good afternoon, thank you mayor and council members I'm going to share my screen I appreciate your time and review of our requested updates to three ordinances that govern the work that we do to permit a variety of city special events as you all know the parks and recreation department has long been permitting events in our spaces and places which means that we bring a good deal of experience and knowledge to this discipline however we expanded the scope of our work in January 2020 when the department added to its responsibility permitting for the following special events let's get this into presentation mode for you the responsibility from the city manager's office with the transition of the special events coordinator position over to parks and recreation that meant that we added to our portfolio of permitting public major special events minor events gathering neighborhood block parties as well as film permits you can see some examples here to give you a sense of what types of events fall into those categories new permit responsibilities came municipal code chapters that provide specific orders and how we are to permit in the case of 1064 public major special events gathering and expression events this of these chapters is to promote public safety and welfare and to provide the city with time to logistically accommodate the activity that is being suggested further in the case of 1065 there is an additional aim to assure that first amendment rights of those who wish to peacefully participate in public gathering and expression events in our city are preserved and protected and also to public property by other community members the third ordinance included in your packet is 4.02.021 which ensures the permit officer within the department has the ability to issue citations for permit noncompliance if the director so desires what was driving those changes was the fact that there were just a variety of updates that needed to be made so we focused our efforts to modify the ordinances to reflect the responsibility so in many cases the ordinances refer to the city manager's office refer to the city manager or city council as the governing body most closely aligned to the city manager's office transition that to the parks and recreation department in many cases and to our appointed council which is the parks and recreation commission so you'll see those updates throughout in the red line document we also looked to update language where it was outdated identification language in terms of examples of where we made language the third element that we focused on was modifying areas of the purpose and the definitions to promote more clarity so in some cases there were redundancies in the code that could lead to necessary so we really tried to work with the city attorney's office to streamline and clarify those areas of the code as well as to clarify certain definitions or to add definitions that were now germane with the transition of authority to our department that we looked at was around the appeal process that basically creates two pathways for appeals in the permit work that we do the first pathway aligns with our standard department appellate process that we manage through the parks and recreation commission secretary which is a staff member within the department and then a second pathway for an expedited appeal process and so the nature of events is that and the nature of our commission meetings is that they may not line up and so we wanted there to be a process where that producer could appeal in their fashion and have their issue resolved more quickly in line with the timeline for the event and that would be recieved and decided by the city manager and this piece, the appellate piece, received a good amount of focus from the commission when they heard this item and so I just want to make a special note that it's important for us to convey that event appeals are very very rare and how we've only been overseeing the special event permitting process shortly the person in that role prior to our taking it over could only remember in one instance where there was an appeal so this process provides a deslexibility before I close and open it up to questions I did just want to give you guys a little bit of an overview of the process that we took to review and recommend the updates that are coming to you today so from January to September of last year as I mentioned this role transitioned to our department and over that time we became much more familiar with the ordinances came to understand areas that required the updating that we flagged earlier we were able to talk to folks about particular weaknesses and how we could address that within the given language and where we couldn't we then from September to March of this year made updates to the ordinance and draft form and then took those to the commission and the public for feedback in early March of this year that was incredibly helpful find that the commission review and comments in detail are part of your packet and note they're mislabeled as attachment 7 they are attachment 5 so apologies for any confusion there but we did work through those comments from the commission and the public that we worked with the city attorney's office to do a final update of the ordinances so what is coming to you today is the product of that review work that we did from March through June with Tony Condati's team close for your questions and comments and again thank you so much for the opportunity to bring this to front of you today thank you Thank you Lindsay, I'll go ahead if any of the council members have questions on this item Vice Mayor Bruder Thank you Mayor Myers Thank you Lindsay there was a lot of red to read through I thought it was given this attention to detail I know Kathy was for many years in this role and so updating it and keeping it current was necessary thank you for the work that went into it and to the commission as well my question is related receive some correspondence from constituent and I'm saying about the best way to ensure there's flexibility to ensure that events don't disrupt quality of life for residents and with certain events that can be the case and so giving the balance with the needs of the residents and the permit process and so I'm just wondering what direction would be most helpful and how if already it is incorporated in any of the changes made and I think every event is going to be its own situation I know each event requires so many different moving parts and so it's hard to blanket one rule or ordinance or system given that each event can just vary and so wondering incorporate direction and language that allows for an assessment of the needs that really balance the quality of life in a neighborhood or and I can reference this one specific email that was very specific recommendations for one event as an example that's my question I think that's a great question and it's something that would flag when we went to the commission as well and the ordinance as written does allow for be able to evaluate and modify in a number of different ways so the first thing that we do when we're assessing a permit is we always evaluate it based on time, place and manner and so we're always using that as an assessment of how to place conditions on that permit in a way that does strike that balance that you just chapter 10 .64.1.5 allows action sorry, rattle that off very quickly for .150 .150 is action on application and section D of that does allow the director to promulgate administrative policies and procedures that govern the issuance of a permit so we can if needed policies and procedures that will help further balance the impacts of major events resources to manage the events as well as the needs of residents so we do have that ability to do so and that's the the first thing that comes in our mind is the proposed order of ordinance further chapter 10.64.2.3 0 is the section on permit conditions and so that lays out all the different ways that we're able to condition an event so that gives the permit officer a good amount of discretion and the permit sure to send that feedback to you, you as a body, the city council, to us, to the commissioners, so that that information gets funneled to the permit officer and can be placed in the file for that event. And so if that event comes back to us, we can use that performance as a measure of how to place conditions on. And public feedback is always really, really helpful and appreciated for how we can make these events better and better balanced to your point. The final piece is that we, in the ordinance, there are provisions around notification of residents that will be affected. And we know that that's an area where jurisdiction now, we think that we can modernize that to help folks gain better access to events that will be happening in their area. And also take a look to make sure that we're doing our due diligence with the event producers that they're following through on the notification that they are required to do as part of receiving that event. So that's an area, in the last slide that I showed, once we have the blessing of council states to the ordinance, and you all may have some changes for us, but part of that piece of work that we'll do next is to focus on process improvements and to make sure that we have a good, dialed in effort to ensure that we're meeting the community's needs as we permit these events. I'd like to recommend that some of those details are incorporated for sure. And this one email from Anita Webb really specifically calls out the notification process to include two advance notices, for example, and that road closures and detours that block access to or from entry driveways have a two to three week advance notice and a 72-hour advance written notice to each doorstep. And I think if we can make sure that those recommendations are included in the language, that would be really helpful. The only question that I would give on that is, but things we can absolutely do that in events where those can present, and we can do that through the authority that the ordinance provides for us. So that's part of incorporating that feedback from the public into our evaluation of the events. I would caution putting that into the ordinance language just because it might create a requirement for us to do that. Yes, that's receiving a permit under this ordinance. And some of them are not that big or may not hit that threshold. And for that reason, it would create an added layer of paperwork and bureaucracy potentially. But we will, we are absolutely open to a recommendation from the council to incorporate things like that into policies that govern the work that we do around permits. Thank you. Understanding that, yeah, each event is very different and so incorporating it into the policies and procedures. Okay, great. That answers my question. Oh, I had one thought. Are there follow-up surveys ever done with events? Like, how did it go? What did you experience and pros and cons? And that way for those regular types of events, there's tweaks that can be made for the following year, the next time. Yeah, that's all a salient comment, a great one. It's something that we've got three outstanding people that are tackling aspects of this permit work in the department, and that's one area that they started talking about. So this hasn't been done historically, but we see it as an opportunity for all the reasons that mentioned that we want community feedback to improve events, but we also want event producer feedback to improve our event process. So we're looking at ways to incorporate that into our process and ways to automate that, so Tremaine Head and Jones, who is managing a lot of this for us and is also our tech guru in the department, is looking at how we can manage other systems in the city to potentially help streamline this and facilitate, like, the sending out of evaluations to event producers post-event and being able to keep that type of learning in-house so that we can move towards continuous improvement. Tremaine, Tremaine, on the line, Tremaine, if you have any other comments on that piece that you want to add, feel free. It looks like my video is stuck, but I'm here, council. Yes, we are trying to incorporate a couple of different changes once those go through, the first being actually developing a special event brochure slash guide, similar to the city of San Francisco's guide on producing special events within the city. They have the various agencies involved, as well as the various districts and neighborhoods involved with producing special events. It goes through the entire lineup in terms of the application process and procedures as well as any ancillary permits that may be required. That's similar to our city as well. In addition, we'd like to have a post-event evaluation form, which would essentially be a survey that would go out to the producer of the event, as well as any other community respondents. Over time, we hope to collect that information, and Lindsay has mentioned, use that to help better cater events and also create events for our community. Council Member Brown? Thank you. By the way. Thank you. Thank you. I just wanted to thank Vice Mayor Brunner for bringing those thoughts up. I share turns and definitely the letter that we received resonated. So, I guess I'm wondering if, because as we know, events are very different in different parts of town and different purposes and different numbers of people, different times, all of those things. But there are some, and in particular, the one that was discussed in that communication is a really intensive event. And so, I'm just wondering if you've contemplated the possibility of, in addition to noticing, trying to do some kind of, have a conversation or create a space for approximate to that who are, who just aren't going to be affected in these ways and it kind of can't be helped if the event's happening, you know, thoughts on how, their thoughts on how to ameliorate the impact. So, I don't know if it's possible to contemplate that in the case of, like, major events and disruptions related to those events. Yeah, Council Member Brown, that's a great point. Thank you for raising it. And I think we, as a department, take, you know, community concerns very seriously. And I think you'll note that they can also be the repositories of great solutions, you know, because they have lived through these events year to year, and we should be tapping them for ideas. And I think that's definitely something that we do want to do. There's absolutely an appetite. I will just mention the process for the department to onboard this new responsibility has been fraught and delayed. We recruited and hired someone who then left, and then we had to eliminate the physician and we've spread those responsibilities out across the staff, and so we're a little behind in where we would like to be in terms of feeling like we're more on a proactive footing. The pandemic didn't help that at all, just creating a lot of additional curveballs for us to address. But we are getting back on our toes with respect to these things, and I think we do intend to reach out to neighborhoods and community members. We have already done a bit of a location analysis of events for 2019 as well, just to kind of understand, like, where are these events landing in different neighborhoods? So who are those neighborhood communities that are seeing a lot of this activity? And so I think that will help drive those conversations of where we go to say, hey, you know, how is this going? Can we make some improvements? This is what we've heard. Help us understand how to make that better. So I think as we get organized and utilize these analyses, we'll definitely get into that. And we'll just ask for your patience as we work through that just given staffing constraints at the moment. Absolutely. Thank you. I just want to say, I mean, you have a lot on your plate, all of you, and we totally recognize that. And so this is just kind of a question for kind of a longer term, how we handle these processes. So I really appreciate your thinking on it and your presentation. Thank you. Thanks for the question. Okay. Is there any other council members with questions at all? Do you have any? Okay. I'll take this out to the public now. So this will be if you're interested in commenting on the ordinance of ending chapters 10.64, 10.65 and 4.02 of Santa Cruz Municipal Code pertaining to special events, please press star nine on your phone to raise your hand. When is your time to speak? You will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted. The timer will then be set to that. It doesn't look like we have anyone in the public that would like to speak on this item. So I will bring it back to council for a motion please. Vice Mayor Brunner. I move to introduce for publication and ordinance amending chapters 10.64, 10.65 and 4.02 of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code related to special events. Great. And council member Cummings. Second it. Great. Okay. I have a motion proving our ordinance amending chapters 10.61 pertaining excuse me won't rate at all pertaining to special events here in the city. And I will ask for a roll call vote. Council member Watkins. Hi. Calentary Johnson. Brown. Hi. Vice Mayor Brunner. Hi. And Mayor Myers. That motion passes unanimously. Did you catch council member Golder or was she muted? I know she was muted but she kind of cut out. Okay. I caught it. Okay. Great. We will now move on to item number 34 on our general business agenda. This is the resolution authorizing the renaming of locations and landmarks to honoring Loudon Nelson to London Nelson to accurately depict the history of Mr. The members of the public who are streaming this meeting if this is an item you want to comment on now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. The order will be a presentation of the item by staff followed by questions from the council. We will then take public comment and then return to the council for deliberation and action. I would like to invite Rachel Kaufman, our recreation superintendent for the presentation. Thank you, Mayor Myers. Good afternoon, Mayor Myers, the council members. You have quite a parks and rec agenda here today. See all of us a lot. So today we are bringing back to the council the question of correcting the name of locations and landmarks honoring Loudon Nelson to London Nelson. And as before when I presented, since the name of Mr. Nelson, just for clarity in the presentation, we'll refer to him as Mr. Nelson. And joining me as panelists today for the presentation are Brittany Lyndon Potter, the person who launched the petition on change.org to correct the name of the community center, Santa Cruz equity project founder Luna Bay, local historian Ross Gibson. The Loudon Nelson community center supervisor, I said Ray. Civic supervisor and the city liaison to be a friend at the town clock to see bond. And so all were a part of the project team that was formed in December with the task of researching and discussing this topic. And I'll just wanted to note other members of the project team were Brenda Griffin, current NAACP president, Anna Martin, who is the key organizer of the Juneteenth Celebration Mall Park, as you heard over the last 30 years that it's been happening. And city council member Justin Cummings. So included again in the agenda packet are historical documents and articles which both affirm the complex history of Mr. Nelson's name and show the community struggle with how to appropriately honor his contributions to the city. And so getting started, just wanted to clarify this recommendation of Mayor Myers just read that for you what you will be voting on today. So on April 13th, we came to you and asked the council to adopt a resolution just endorsing the community's effort to explore the regions of locations and landmarks honoring Loudon Nelson to London Nelson and pursue a more accurate depiction of the history of Mr. Nelson and explore further education efforts on his contributions to Santa Cruz. We also ask that you direct the Historic Preservation Commission to place an item on the May 19th agenda, the name correction, and then bring back a recommendation. So after taking the item to the Historic Preservation Commission and receiving unanimous support for changing the name, which I will expand upon in a moment, today we're bringing this item back and asking to adopt the resolution of the following that the Santa Cruz City Council approve renaming locations and landmarks honoring Loudon Nelson and specifically the Loudon Nelson Community Center and pursue a more accurate depiction of the history of Mr. Nelson and again explore further education efforts on his contributions to Santa Cruz. So that's what we're here to discuss today. And this conversation began with a petition as I noted by community member Brittany London Potter that she launched on change.org to rename the Loudon Nelson Community Center, the London Nelson Center, and the petition reached over 1,300 signatures and is still active online. Brittany was unable to attend the last presentation, as you remember, because she had just given birth to her son, but I'm happy to say she's able to join us today. And I would, at this time, like her to share her screen and her own words, the inspiration behind the petition. So Brittany, if you're there, invite you to. I'm here. Thank you so much for considering this agenda. Sorry, it was a little bit windy. I'm actually currently at the boardwalk with my son. I promised him that we would go today. So I just looked to the beach and I'm hiding in a corner trying to do this meeting. So I apologize to be here a little bit of noise and maybe some screams. But as Rachel just said, yes. So the community center has always been like a huge, huge, huge part of my life. I actually remember the day when my mom actually told me, she was like, oh, just so you do know that this center right here, is that named after like one of the first black men to show up in Santa Cruz? His name is actually walking out. It's probably like eight or so at the time. And I remember always feeling like really slighted. Like, okay, like we know his name is not correct. And yet no one does anything about it. You know, we don't call Jack O'Neill, John O'Neill. You know, we give the credit where the credit is due. And so in the midst of the pandemic last year, I really got to thinking like, what's the positive thing that I can do for our community, meaning the black community? And that was the first thing that popped into my mind. I've always gone there for like friends birthday parties for every year. That's just something that I always remember. I was popping into the center and just asking, can I use the phone? Can I use the restroom? And never being turned away and never being looked at funny because I, you know, am, the center always made me feel extremely welcome. And so with that being said, I thought why not correct this, you know, this mislabeled history? I reached out to Rachel after starting the petition and it just kind of took, you know, took off from there. And I am elated that it's, you know, it's come this far in a short amount of time. But, you know, as Rachel and you'll soon hear Mr. Nelson was, and I think with the center along with his gravestone and the other landmarks that are mislabeled, they all need to reflect who he was and then we'll also create dialogue for the community and the community will also really know who Mr. Nelson was and is. And that's why, you know, I started the petition and that's why I, I think, deserve a change. Great, thank you, Brittany. And always, always a loyal mom there, right? Through and through. You've been your promise. Yes, exactly. Mom first. And so considering the complex history and, you know, ongoing kind of community dialogue of the name of the community center, as you know, our project team of the people I previously mentioned was assembled to research the history and discuss potential next steps. And so in January and February of 2021, the group held four meetings to see if and how to move forward with the renaming of locations and landmarks. And items discussed at these meetings included review of historical evidence, the opposition by the black community in 1984, the various locations where Mr. Nelson is honored and what further efforts, you know, should be pursued to educate the community on Mr. Nelson's legacy. And when we originally presented this item at council, we really reviewed the history in detail. And while we won't go into as great a detail this time, we still feel there are many folks who are watching, you know, maybe they missed the first presentation. And we always see this as an opportunity to share with the community of the history of Mr. Nelson and his renaming, so I will go into a little of that now. And so Mr. Nelson was born into slavery in 1850 on a cotton plantation. And in 1850, after news of the gold rush, Mr. Nelson was taken from the plantation by a slave owner to California. And Mr. Nelson was eventually able to purchase his freedom from enslavement. And after becoming a free man, he arrived in Santa Cruz in 1856 and leased a cabin along San Lorenzo River. And he farmed the land and sold the produce in addition to working as a cobbler. He was eventually able to purchase the cabin and plot of land from the owner, Mr. James L. Pruitt. And in April of 1860, Mr. Nelson fell terminally ill and he did die in May of 1860. Dr. Asa Rawson recorded Mr. Nelson's oral will upon his deathbed and also present was Mr. Nelson's friend and local businessman like Anthony who served as witness to the oral dedication in which Mr. Nelson bequeathed all of his belongings to the local schools. A year later, after Dr. Rawson's own demise, Mr. Anthony served as executive of Mr. Nelson's estate. And just know the school district later sold the land which provided the school board the means to demolish the small Mission Hill school by an adjoining Mission Hill lot and construct a four story Italian with a small high school in the attic. And today this property is the site of the Santa Cruz City Schools administrative office at 133 Mission Street. So at this time I'll share my screen and just show a photo of the Mission Hill school in 1972 and then also where the city school administration offices are now in 2021. So this is the site that was purchased with the sale of Mr. Nelson's property. And the contribution to the city is significant and many groups over time have a look to honor Mr. Nelson's generosity and support for education. But the question became the name to use to honor his contributions and his name is both recorded as London and Loudon Nelson as well as other misspellings. And again, we are lucky to have local historian Ross Gibson here to talk more about the various names of Mr. Nelson and he presented these slides before but I thought worth sharing again as they are the kind of definitive evidence that we feel is compelling that make us feel his name with London Nelson. So I'm Ross. I'm about you to speak at this time and I'll share these slides. Hello. Can everyone hear me? As we can. Thank you. Thank you. Phil Reader did the original research on London Nelson traveling throughout the South to collect documents that told part of his story. He showed that owner William Nelson named his enslaved workers after English cities, London, Canterbury, Marlborough, and Cambridge. At the Santa Cruz County Courthouse, Reader assembled around 50 documents half of which were copied a second time as a negative in efforts to read the difficult handwriting. So in the 75 documents we learned that during Nelson's life and after his death, all documents refer to him as London Nelson. Yet probate did not close until 1875 15 years after his death by which time most who knew whom were gone or had forgotten. Thus the written record became all the more important yet the poor penmanship is either London or Loudon and clerks definitely started spelling it Loudon. Next slide. One of the probate documents was written by Dr. William Slocum, clerk of the probate court, and editor of the Santa Cruz news. And he included a clipping of the newspaper probate notice which easily shows referring to the estate of London Nelson and writing notwithstanding. Next slide. This wasn't the only time poor penmanship had changed his name. Here we see his handwriting name has also been interpreted as Shannon Nelson on a mining document London Nelson on a deed Lyndon Nelson in one Sentinel article and Ludlow Wilson in one surf article. So with this wide variation of interpreting his name how can we be sure his real name is London? Next slide. The survey of sources shows all newspaper articles in 1860 and 1861 refer to him as London when they give a first name. This corroborates the handwritten documents. Yet after probate closed in 1875 the poor penmanship evolved into deliberately spelling his name Loudon on which the inscription on his tombstone was based when erected in 1876. Yet even with Mission Hill students honoring his legacy and tending a grave that reads Loudon and historians continued to insist that his real name was London. These include historian Leon Rowland in articles and books and Margaret Koch in Santa Cruz County Parade of the Past called him London Nelson also known as Loudon Nelson. Next slide. Termined that his last will in testament was the closest thing to the man himself confirming his name was London Nelson. Thank you. Thank you Ross. And on main by direction from the City Council the project team presented this item including Ross's slides the historic preservation commission and the historic preservation commission voted unanimously to support changing the name of the community center as well as other locations and landmarks from Loudon Nelson to London Nelson and included in their motion to approve the name change was a request for the project team to return to the historic preservation commission in the fall to provide update on our progress. And so in doing so the commissioners wanted to make the correction of the community center of priority as well as correcting the other locations and landmarks. And during the discussion portion of the meeting Commissioner Bliss inquired about possibly pursuing recognition of other African-Americans buried in Evergreen Cemetery similar to the Memorial Gate that was installed in 2014 to honor Santa Cruz's early Chinese immigrants and Luna Bay has been working with the MA on both correcting Mr. Nelson's grave marker and associated plaque as well as efforts related to honoring other African-Americans buried in Evergreen and given Commissioner Bliss's comments before council today of the further education efforts at this time wanting to invite Luna Bay up to share just a little more about this current work with the MA at Evergreen and how we'll be moving forward. So Luna if you want to jump on now and I'll share my screen again to go through some slides. Thank you so much Rachel. Thanks for this opportunity I'd love to share with you all some of the things I've been doing and some of our future plans. So as you can see this is the London Nelson grave marker his name is spelled incorrectly on the tombstone the plaque that was on top of him has been removed up to request, my personal request to request a bit as well as we just feel that it was fair to have the name of the person who enslaved him over top of his body. The museum has been very very perceptive to that request they have removed it and I'm currently working with them to create new language to go on that plaque to accurately honor his legacy and his memory as an individual person and not solely as an enslaved person. So next slide. Rachel do you want to go to the next slide again? So we did an event at the Evergreen Cemetery to honor the other people who are buried there. We know that there are at least six other people buried there and we have an extra spot for the unknown and the unnamed. I believe that there's a possibility that they're buried there they're not allowed to be buried at Santa Cruz Memorial. This work has been a personal passion project for me as a person who deeply is connected to especially work and especially generation. I was asked to do this project in conjunction with the 10 year old dancing cultural center and the Santa Cruz Black Health Matters initiative along with the mall and we are working on continuing efforts to honor their legacy. We have something that is we're working on the Lemonelton Research and Restoration proposal. We're proposing six different actions. The first one we're like to re-engage with the research around the genocin historical data to be interpreted as a black and rich group. We're like sort of gravestones and the first two were at the Chinese Memorial which is in line with what commissioners act for us to do. We're also like an information package they're looking for and possibly have this information in a rejuvenated heritage hall at the Lemonelton Community Center or at the mall with this information about black pioneers and Santa Cruz. We also would love to see a mural placed downtown within the boundaries of Mr. Nelson's property to hit the contribution to the city. We also would like to see a mural in the high school to be rejuvenated and to engage with the school board on making black pioneers part of the curriculum there. This is all what's prior to commissioners with this comment but it's wonderful to see how everything is aligned and hopefully as I and the mall and black health map initiative co-elect and bring this to the city to engage with the project. Thank you Luna. In addition to Mr. Nelson's grave marker and evergreen cemetery Mr. Nelson is recognized at Loudon Nelson Plaza which is by the city school administrative building with a monument there as well as as Luna referred to mural at Mission Hill Middle School and I have kept city administrators and city school representatives on this effort to correct Mr. Nelson's name and at the last city school board meeting on Wednesday June 3 the school board unanimously passed a resolution 38-20-21 titled Renaming Locations in Landmark Bring Loudon Nelson to London Nelson and it was resolved that the Santa Cruz City School District supports the name correction and commits to correct the name of Mr. Nelson at city school district locations and so that because that happened last week it wasn't able to make the agenda report but I'll make sure that city council members are able to see and support from the Santa Cruz school district so finally just considering all the information today the project team is asking city council for a final recommendation to the Santa Cruz City Council approve renaming locations and landmarks honoring Loudon Nelson to London Nelson specifically the Loudon Nelson community center and pursue a more accurate depiction of the history of Mr. Nelson and explore further education effort on his contributions to Santa Cruz and just want to highlight this item before council strongly supports the health and all policies pillar of equity as we strive for historical importance we emphasize the importance of community connectedness diverse representation in cultural life and a sense of belonging and so without that our presentation and just happy to stay on for questions or comments from council. Thanks very much Rachel and thank you to everyone involved I will go ahead and see if Council has questions or comments Councilmember Golder Thank you to everybody who worked on this as a team I think it's really important to to make these corrections to reflect the historical to remember him as he has his name and I'm happy to move that resolution as written in our past. Thank you guys and I will be back in a second to the motion because I still have to go for public comment. Yeah sorry back to that Councilmember Walkins Do you have a question? I was just going to second the motion but I also know we need to go to public comment I just really want to I don't have a question but I'll maybe take the opportunity to make a really short comment was to, from the beginning conversation to initiating it to the work that was done in terms of the research to the next steps to further this movement of really having accurate history restored and the importance of that. And I just also wanna highlight how individuals are policy makers in their own right. And this is a really great example really mobilizing the community for change. So just a huge shout out to Brittany and to Luna and to those who really worked with the city, worked with the community and brought this to fruition and now into being an instituted change policy. So super huge and incredible congratulations and thank you so much. This is just a wonderful presentation. Great, great example of really important work. So, thank you. This is out to the public now. So if you are interested in commenting today on item number 34 on our agenda, which is the resolution authorizing the renaming of locations and landmarks honoring Loudoun Nelson from London, Nelson. It's exactly to pick your Nelson, please start ordering your phone to raise your hand. Ladies, your time speak, you will hear an announcement that you've been unmuted. The time will have ended six minutes. And looking at our attendees and I'm not seeing anyone with their hand up. So I will bring it back to council. You do have a motion on the floor to approve the staff recommendation which is your resolution affecting locations and landmarks honoring Mr. Nelson and to pursue specifically the renaming of Loudoun Nelson from London Nelson Center, Peering Center, pursue a more accurate depiction of the history of Mr. Nelson and explore further education efforts on Mr. Nelson's contributions to campuses. I have council member Brown, council member Kahn, sorry, Johnson is in council member. Yeah, hi, thank you so much. This is really just to express my gratitude to members of the community, Luna and Brittany and others who worked with you to bring this to the city. I think this is just an amazing example of how community members can initiate projects and bring things before the city and be heard. And the work that's, and I wanna thank the Parks and Rec Department and council member Cummings and everybody who at our end of the city and responded and created the space to make this happen. So it's been a long time coming. I'm really happy it's here today and Luna and Brittany, I think Brittany's off now, hopefully on the giant dipper or something. Your work, it's really inspiring. So thank you. Council member Kahn, sorry, Johnson. Yes, I would also like to express my thanks to everyone involved in this project. I won't name all the names because they've been names. Really appreciate honoring diversity in our past and I think it really sets us on a path we need to to honor diversity, equity and inclusion as we move forward as a city. So thank you to everyone who worked on it. Council member Kelly. I don't wanna sound like a broken record but just wanna thank everyone who's been involved in this and just seeing it go from a petition online to really become a collaborative working group that really tried to hear everyone out and figure out, look forward and determine how we were gonna come to the conclusion that we're at today. And so I just wanna thank the community members and city staff for all their hard work. I know Rachel was really instrumental for organizing the group and keeping everybody moving forward. So thank you so much for all of your help with the city and to the point that Councilor Brown made and to other colleagues. I think it's a really good opportunity for members of the public to see how reaching out to the city, forming collaborative relationships and figuring out how we can work together can really have positive tangible outcomes. And so really looking forward to figuring out how we can continue to bring these kinds of items forward and really have a government that is buying for the people. It's Mayor Brunner. Thank you to Rachel and thank you to Brittany for bringing this forward. It's amazing what a year can bring. And it's nice to see smiles on everyone's faces for this type of movement. And I just wanted to say, and Luna, thank you. You touched on some of the work that is still continuing. And I hope we can look at all of our rich diverse history in Santa Cruz and how we may continue to honor and acknowledge that history in accurate ways whenever there are inaccuracies. And so thank you so much for all the work through this past year up until this point. And this is really a historical moment. It's huge and it will go down in the history books which is pretty amazing. So thank you to everyone involved in this process. Thank you, Ross. Thank you, Luna. Thank you, Brittany. Thank you, Justin. You were involved too and Parks and Rec Department. And my thanks as well. And yeah, I think the vice mayor really summed it up nicely as you guys have made history. And I think you have a couple of numbers that are in full support of your efforts to continue to document the history. The history of folks who have been here in Santa Cruz and it's really important that that history be revealed and that those memorials be properly displayed and taken care of and honored in our community. So thank you so much for all your work. It's wonderful to see. So congratulations on what you guys have done. So we have a motion and we'll go ahead and do a roll call vote. And again, congratulations and thanks everyone for your work. Oh, did you have one more comment? Was there a second to the motion? We didn't have a motion by Council Member Colder seconded by Council Member Watts. Okay, I didn't hear the second. Thank you. Okay, we'll do a roll call. Bye. Bye. Callentary Johnson. Bye. Brown. Cummings. Colder. Vice Mayor Brun. And Mayor Myers. Aye. That motion passes unanimously. Congratulations and thanks again everyone. It is five o'clock, five o'nine, and we are going to recess until six o'clock where we roll our evening session and we'll have oral communication followed by item number 35 at that time. So we'll be in recess until six p.m. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Hi everybody. Sonya, we got a lunch break and a dinner break here. No promises after this meeting. One day to talk. Can I just share that my boys made dinner tonight? Real dinner at Rice and Salmon. My name is Sonya, I see you on camera but I also see you on the phone. Are you on phone too? That was my previous device that. Yeah, it was shut down. No worries. Remember I was having technical difficulties at first. Some members could turn on their cameras. We're going to go ahead and get started. We've got her, there's Sandy, Martin and Peter. I will go ahead and call the evening session to order. Welcome to our six p.m. session of the June 8, 2021 meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council. I have a few announcements and then we will move on to our meeting. Today's meeting is being broadcast on community television channel 25 and streaming on the city's website, cityofsantaacruz.com. All council members are participating in this meeting remotely. I want to thank the public for staying home to view today's city council meeting. If you wish to comment during oral communications or during this evening's agenda item, call in using the instructions on your screen. Please mute your television or streaming device once you call in and listen through the phone. Please note there is a delay in streaming. So if you continue to listen on your television or streaming device, you may miss your opportunity. When it is time for public comment, press star nine on your phone and to raise your hand. When it is time to speak during public comment, you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted. The time rule will then be set to two minutes. You may hang up once you have commented on your item of interest and I would like to ask the clerk to please call the roll. Thank you. Council Member Watkins. Here. Callentary Johnson. Here. Boulder. Vice Mayor Brunner. Present. Mayor Myers. Present. We'll now move on to oral communications for members of the public who are streaming this meeting. If you want to comment during oral communications, now is the time to call in. Instructions that are on your screen. Oral communications is an opportunity for members of the community to speak to us on items that are not listed on today's agenda. In addressing the council, please press star nine on your phone to raise your hand. You will have two minutes to speak. When it is your time to speak, you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted. We request that you clearly and slowly state your name before making your comment so that we can accurately capture it in the meeting minutes. However, it is not required to state your name. Please remember that this is a time for council to hear from the public. We are not able to engage in dialogue with each member of the public, but when we are able, we will address questions raised after oral communications has been completed. And we'll look for members of the public who are here this evening to talk to us as part of our communications. This is for items not on our agenda. I see a phone number ending in 1810, please. The problem with some, not all minorities don't score very well on standard achievement tests or drop out because too many illiterate underage students exist. Rather than blame themselves or the many, many other factors, the California Board of Education has decided the answer is to lower the standards for education, eliminate standardized testing, advance class choices, lower admission standards, devalue education, dummy the students down, remove any measure of educational performance, including their own as educators and don't choice electives with a leftist ethnic studies curriculum, including charter schools, which incorporates critical race theory in multiple subjects as their answer. Mandatory in college, it's now approved for K1 through 12. The only systemic racism in America is that of the anti-racist racist, codifying the teaching of critical race theory and policies of a... Imagine class day one, students, this is ethnic studies, lesson one, all white people are racist, always been racist, will always be racist. So if you're white, you're a racist, and if you're brown, you're a victim of their oppressive racism. This country was founded on racism, and if you fail, it's someone else's fault, the racist. Math classes preach higher math is racist, grading is racist, achievement testing is racist, interest exams are racist, costs are racist, COVID is racist, and so forth. This cure is worse than the false narrative problem. They are teaching impressionable children to hate each other, cops, their country, and that minorities cannot succeed. Nowhere does parental family discipline to study, achieve, missing dads, or cultural differences get a mention to solve this disparity. Lowering standards, blaming whites, dumbing the students that emanating merit testing isn't the answer. It's a race for the bottom. Leftists and doctorators want to graduate anybody with the lowest common denominator, pulse without measurement, but with mandatory regurgitation of all white people are racist. Mastery of anti-racist racism that is officially now approved public education. This divisive child indoctrination of DJI of critical race theory is gonna result in increasing racial tension. Thank you. Next caller, ending in 8346. Go ahead, please. Is it time to comment on the CSSO? Next item, thank you. Okay, okay, thank you. I am not seeing any other hands raised for oral communications. Again, this is for items that are not on our agenda tonight. I do see a phone number ending in 1197. This is just for oral communications, which is not for item number 35. Go ahead, please. Phone ending in 1197. If you press press star six, you should be able to unmute and we're happy to hear you. I would like to know when having the meetings in person and when you are going to be extending the public comment as well as the comments that are made during oral communications or after any of the victims. You have limited it to one minute, be four minutes, five minutes. Some cities have unlimited amount of time. I'm not sure why. It is one minute. It just shows that you are not interested in hearing from the public and what they have to say. So I would appreciate you having us back into the room or having the civic, which they have done in the past. And I'd appreciate if you could also have time. I think at least three minutes per person unless there's 50 or 100 people in line, then I could understand why it to maybe two minutes. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm not seeing any other members in the public. So we will go ahead and bring this back to our next item. Council Member Cummings, did you have a question? I did have a question. Maybe the city manager or city attorney, the member of the public, I was actually just thinking about this before the member of the public mentioned it, but I know the governor's lifting the, or there's going to be some changes to the mass order on June 15th. And I was just wondering if we're going to go back to in-person meetings for the next council meeting, or is that going to probably happen after July? Just so the members of the public have a sense, because if we're going to go back to in-person meetings, I would imagine there's likely going to be some need to kind of make the public aware of that. Right. Just thought I had that question. Yeah, there's going to have to be a transition plan prepared. The governor is lifting the mass order apparently effective June 15th, but it is not all of the executive orders that have been issued, including the executive order that authorized its meetings to be conducted remotely. Followed by town. And some mass restrictions will ain't in effect. So we don't know exactly when the city is going to be required to return to in-person meetings, but at least soon and probably into August the count, the city will be authorized to continue to remotely as we sort of heal our way forward on how the state is emerging from the infection rates. I mean, we're doing very well right now, but it remains to be seen how long that's going to hold. And the governor has made it clear that the emergency executive orders relating to in-person meetings are going to remain in effect after the June 15th lifting of the mass order. The only thing I can add to that is I know that the discussions amongst the jurisdictions here locally in our county are kind of looking at August as a timeframe to come back to in-person meetings. Okay, thanks, those are all my questions. Yeah, the only thing I would add is that we have talked, we have had a meeting with city manager staff on sort of what this looks like and our city clerk has been involved in that as well with regards to planning. So we're trying to figure it out based on the governor's direction. Okay, okay, the next item on our agenda is going to be item number 35, which is the ordinance amending chapter 6.36 of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code relating to camping services and standards. For members of the public who are streaming this meeting, if this is an item you want to comment on, now is the time to call in using the instructions on your screen. Please note, public comment will be limited to 30 minutes or we'll have one minute to speak. The order will be a presentation of item by staff followed by questions from the council. We will then take public comment and then return to the council for deliberation and action. For those who asked for extra time this evening, I'll be, we'll be letting you have three minutes each and I have four groups that have requested that. So I will go ahead and turn this over to Lee Butler, our director of planning, community development and homeless response. And Lee, you have the floor. Thank you, mayor and council members. With this being a second reading this evening, I do not have a formal PowerPoint presentation, but I do have some general updates for you and the first in the council's May 11th action, there was a request that the ordinance be made publicly available for comments and the ordinance was posted online following that meeting. Second, I wanted to give a few quick updates. The first of those is that this is now the fifth time that the council has considered changes to the camping ordinance this year. And as part of many of those deliberations and actions, the council's given direction, not just related to changes to the ordinance, but also with a wide range of other things, things like coordination with the county, conducting a census, reporting back on how the ordinance is working and a whole range of other items. I wanted to let the council and the community know that we'll be coming back to you on June 22nd with an update on a number of those items and where they're at and a quick update for you. One of those directions was to release a request for qualifications to understand the scope of interest in organizations providing the operational components of the safe sleeping or managed encampments or shelter facilities. And we did release that last month and the responses, the initial round of responses isn't ongoing RFQ, so there isn't a formal deadline. People can still submit, but we did request that the first responses come back to us by yesterday and we have received responses from five separate organizations, so that's just a heads up. And we will provide a little bit more information to the council related to that on June 22nd, but those reports are due in two days. And so we're not gonna have a full comprehensive analysis of all the RFQ responses at that point. And then finally, I just wanted to note for the council and the community that we've got 14 pages of ordinance language in front of you this evening and a lot of that is new text. We've worked very hard to get that wording right. Should the council adopt the ordinance tonight, we may still have future amendments that we bring to you. So it passed as we begin the implementation and as we hear from our stakeholder, as we learn about things that can be improved or clarified, I just wanted to note that this is the fifth time it's been in front of you, but it may not be the last. Last time is in front of you this year, if you adopted this evening. And with that, I'm available for any questions that you may have. Okay, thank you, Lee. Yeah, I'll sort of chime in a little bit here as we start the conversation this evening. I also tracked back through this and this is our fifth time in hearing the ordinance. We have had really good response to the RFQ. So this idea of inviting our community and the qualified nonprofits to help us up some of the services that we're committing to through this ordinance, obviously we're well received. I think we've had a lot of talk about how we need to get other folks involved. And obviously, when we made the motion to include the request for qualifications and proposals from qualified, we've seen those responses. So I'm encouraged by that. And we also have seen a lot of support for the ordinance. I did want to make a note just to the public, rather than bringing this ordinance back in two weeks, which we could have done, we went ahead and extended this and gave a full month between meetings so that additional public outreach, additional time for people to read the ordinance was made available. We did sessions regarding the request for proposal and obviously city staff, and I'm sure council members were in contact with folks if they had questions. So I do feel like we've done a lot of outreach. Again, drafting and completing an ordinance is a public process. It is, we, all of us have touched this ordinance now with different amendments and I am very pleased that we're here tonight. And I feel like it's an important decision to try to operationalize this ordinance as soon as we can. So I will go ahead and open it up to council members for questions regarding anything for staff at this point. Okay, in any questions from the council, I'll go ahead and take this out for public comment. And I do have four members who are, have made a request for extra time. So I'll go ahead and start with Westside Cares. You have three minutes. Westside Cares neighborhood group is urging their council to reject the camping services and standards ordinance. We also wish to uplift the messages found in the letters from the ACLU and disability rights California regarding this ordinance. Research demonstrates time and time again that punitive and criminalizing reactions to people experiencing homelessness are expensive and effective and harmful for our entire community. It was a summary of our actual research about the effects of camping bands and why we are so strongly opposed to CSSO. Camping bands are marketed as a way to prioritize outreach and services. However, research shows that when these types of laws are passed, the increase in services tends not to materialize, but fine citations and arrest increase. When shelters continue to be overburdened and affordable housing not available, people break the law by either sheltering in public and risking harassment from police or finding more isolated and hidden locations to avoid moving camp daily. This perpetuates the cycle of homelessness. Camping bands worsen public health by dispersing people in their belongings to more remote areas of the city with nowhere to discard trash or bodily waste while also making it difficult to provide services that could mitigate these issues. Disbanding encampments further worsens public health by making it more difficult to access stable shelter, increasing fights, attacks, and theft. These folks were notably compounded along lines of race, gender, disability, and sexual identity. The nature of having to pick up and move every single day is a well documented destabilizing force in people's lives. Even if police are tasked with outreach, really having frequent contact with law enforcement is detrimental to unhoused people. According to one researcher, when anti-homeless laws are enacted, homeless individuals have continual interactions with law enforcement that are designed to punish even if they don't lead to arrest. This creates a never ending cycle of homelessness, inflicting material and psychological harm, while deepening racial, gender, and health inequalities among the urban poor. This is termed pervade penalty. Using the criminal justice system and other municipal resources to move people who have nowhere else to go is costly, and counterproductive for both communities and individuals instead of focusing on proactive and productive solutions. This ordinance will funnel more money into the already bloated budget of SCPD, one of whose employees received over $75,000 in overtime in 2019. This is not should use of our tax dollars. At the last council discussion of this ordinance, council members discussed the importance of preventing people from losing their homes. We agree that this is important, but how can we believe that the council takes this seriously? When you voted in favor of taking steps towards building a luxury hotel in downtown parking lot, instead of prioritizing affordable housing, we can't believe what you say because we see what you do. There's no reason for us, your constituents, to believe the promised services in this ordinance will actually materialize in a way that benefits the majority of people experiencing houselessness. Criminalizing people who choose not to engage in offered services for any reason is cruel and counterproductive. We'll have some more help there if we can help with that because the time is so limited. Thank you. Thank you. Next up for extra time will be Serge. Hi, can you hear me? Yes, we can. Go ahead, Serge. Okay. Just want to make it something, a quick point. Yesterday, I talked to the Coastal Commission, the representative and Santa Cruz. As I believe all of you guys know, Coastal Act has jurisdiction over the coastal zone, somewhat like half mile from the ocean. And any development or access to the coastal zone is their purview. And we have a local coastal plan. And I was told yesterday that this ordinance, since it does affect people and their access to the coastal zone, needs an amendment to our local coastal plan before implementation, or we will be out of compliance of the Coastal Act, and as much as we've just had a whole lot of budget hearings on how financially strapped and less programs we have, we'll be open to lawsuit. And the Coastal Act also says that anyone who spews a jurisdiction and wins on a out of compliance issue for the coastal zone can have their legal fees paid for. So, so far we've been sued a few times by the homeless union. I don't think they've had the incentive to actually have their legal fees paid for. It is the seventh whereas on the bottom of the first page makes it very clear that we actually are trying to access a limiting access to the coastal zone. The end of that sentence says without a camping prohibition, the city is perceived as attracting ever more unsheltered people to a highly desirable community without the ability to provide adequate services to them, which proclaims pretty clearly we're trying to limit access to the coastal zone. So I just want to put that out there. I really would prefer that our city stops spending money on legal defenses of things that aren't really defendable and also put out the Iran Gulf needs a separate amendment to the local coastal plan. I've had this question this up before in city council and Lee Butler can probably talk about this a little bit more. He was on the emails with the coastal commission. Okay, thank you. Stay safe. Thank you. Next up I have Robert Norse for extra time. Robert, are you here this evening? I've got Robert Norse for extra time on item number 35. Okay, I'll move on to the new houseless coalition for extra time on item number 35. Go ahead and unmute yourself and we'll start. I don't know who, I don't know if Mr. Norse or the new Santa Cruz houses coalition has a phone number. I'm not sure who to unmute. Right. If the person representing the new houseless coalition could unraise your hand momentarily. I think if you want mayor, I'm okay. If you wanted to proceed and then if we get to those two I'll just change the time to three. That's a good idea. Okay, okay. For those listening, if Robert Norse or the new houseless coalition is in the queue here in our meeting attendees, we'll have you, we'll go ahead and give you that three minutes. So I'll move on to our regular time and I will call on Tom Brown. The city council again, the duration of what is really just an intractable issue. I think when I perceive right strong we appreciate the commission's willingness to reconsider the original and I think poorly conceived ordinance. The result we have in front of the council tonight I think is well balanced in its approach to address our homelessness issue and a good result, especially from where we started. So short, sweet, thank you. I think it's worked well done and very much appreciated by C. Bright strong. Thank you. Next up is skirt. Hello council members. So this is skirt served an internship with the ACLU a bunch of years ago. I worked as a paralegal. I'm an admin assistant with a special district here in the county and it's really clear to me that this could be sued if you engage in this action. I think it's pretty likely that a civil rights law suit will be lodged. I'm an engaged citizen. I'm a former Santa Cruz Derby girl. I love this town. I'm a wife, I'm a homeowner. I plan to be in Santa Cruz a long time. So I just say that although I feel anger at you and at, I'm sorry, at many of you who have been supportive of this ordinance. I'm not here to criticize you. I'm here to help you. If I could have like 30 more seconds. Yeah. I'm here to help you. Is this really how you wanna spend the next few years of your term of service in a civil rights lawsuit for discriminating against disabled people? Really hope that you think about what that's gonna feel like one year from now. Thanks. Thank you. Next up is phone number ending in 8346. Link in as the representative of Westside Cares to pick up where they work off. I'd like to start with a quote from the US Interagency Council on homelessness. Quote, the forced dispersal of people from encampment settings is not an appropriate solution or strategy. It accomplishes nothing toward the goal of linking people to permanent housing opportunities and can make it more difficult to provide such lasting solutions to people who have been sleeping and living in the encampment. End quote. Productive evidence-based solutions that Westside Cares supports and criminalization are as follows. According to the US Interagency Council on homelessness, quote, in order to end homelessness, we must link people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, including those who live in encampments with permanent housing opportunities matched with the right level of services to ensure that those housing opportunities are stable and successful, end quote. In order to work towards this goal, we would like to see at least 25% of the Santa Cruz Police Department budget reinvested into permanent supportive housing and or support services for those who live in encampments. In a 2019 internal survey of SCPD, it was estimated that 80% of calls for service are related to homelessness. Investing money into housing solutions instead of criminalizing ordinance is proven to save a significant amount of money for cities in the long term, particularly in law enforcement and healthcare costs. Thank you very much. Next up, we have phone number ending in 4844. Go ahead, Mr. Norse. Yeah, most of the arguments that Westside Cares have made of course are very pertinent to the point, but they need to be brought up in lawsuits and in on-ground action in support of actual homeless people living in survival encampments. You are clearly, you the council are not listening and aren't interested in having your own prefabricated agenda. Seems to have been cooked up by mills and the staff. The community listening who cares about this needs to work through groups like SOS, the homeless union, food and up bombs, Nomad, DSA, Copwatch, Huff, other groups. I haven't mentioned everyone, but it has to be direct action that defer the injunction that you are currently, the taxpayers are paying for it because the city attorney and the city manager are foolish enough to engage in their activities in the midst of winter and still in the midst of the COVID crisis. It's a ridiculous situation where the homeless, people cannot even finish their comments here with this ridiculous bell-dinging. You have plenty of time to give to this if you wish and you actually have plenty of time to go to homeless service providers and homeless people. You spent a whole year with catch and you ignored their resolutions. You've removed all specific locations from the ordinance giving full power to the city manager to set things up, which is, I think, an attempt to horn-swoggle even those who favor harsher camping laws, various groups who have urged you to criminalize homeless camping citywide because you can simply then just, by not having a specific location, you'll give people the illusion that they won't have homeless people in their neighborhoods. That's not the case. You know that's not the case. You aren't providing any specifics about services and instead it's the fact that people who really care about this, who really act on this, and people actually have to do something to take action to stop the kind of abuses that the city police is being directed to do, agency. I encourage people to do that and I remind you that you violated the Brown Act this morning by not providing information in the case of Eric purported being assaulted by the police as a member of the homeless union. Yet you went ahead and considered his claim without providing the specifics on the agenda for that. So that's a real pity. It should be the basis for another lawsuit and if anybody wants to do that, I'd be happy to join on to it. Thank you, Mr. Lewis. Okay, I'm not seeing any other in the audience. Oh, here we go, 1-8-1-0 please. Yeah, please care. So hey, as usual, the communists come out in force when the subject is homelessness. They have no problem with unlimited numbers of homeless here. They like to enrage those to satisfy is to justify anti-American values promoting anti-American politics. I've said it many times before. I need to say it all again. I actually am willing to support this but it needs evaluation every year or so to see if it actually reduces homelessness in the city or actually increases it. The unholy alliance between the homeless industrial complex and the government hasn't worked so far. I'm skeptical of what happens when the camps fill up or adding homeless services in the city limits permanently subsidizing homelessness with no real path out of it as far as just providing shelter which might just make it worse. And I do recognize it's a hugely difficult problem. Any increases of failure? I'm curious about those closed session leases of so many parcels at the harbor, homeless camps? What, you're gonna leave as later what it was for? I think a compromise between banning camping permanently in some areas and leaving other areas. Okay, I guess that's my time, huh? Okay, bye. Thank you, sir. Okay, I'm not getting any other hands in the audience so I'll go ahead and bring it back to council and see what we've got. If you, council member Watkins has her hand raised. Thank you, mayor and thank you to the community members who've been engaged and are with us just evening to speak to us on this item. We've just at length and as was said before I don't think this will be the last time we're gonna be talking about this but I also really feel passionately about moving forward with action and continuing to try to pursue solutions to learn from what works and to make adjustments from what we learn along the way. And with that, I know we're at a second reading at this point, so to kind of keep the, kind of the conversation in the policy direction moving on how to stop by moving the recommendation to consider the second reading and final adoption of the ordinance, number 2021-12 amending chapter 6.36 of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code relating to camping services and standards. Thank you. And I would like to see other hands. I see council member Calentale Johnson, I'm sorry, my, and also I saw Vice Mayor Bruner's hand go up. Council member. Thank you. And I'll go ahead and second council member Watkins motion. And I just wanted to comment that a lot of work has been put into this. We've been talking about it way before February but this iteration and with the public since February. And I appreciate the efforts by the team and the staff to engage the public and the community throughout this process. I have also reached out to service providers and really trying to understand how what we're offering through this ordinance will be aligned with what homeless service providers and public health providers are doing in the community as well as what the county is doing. So I'm hopeful that this will be a piece of the larger holistic puzzle that our community is trying to put forward in an effort to address this devastating in our community. So with that, I'll let others speak, let other council members speak. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Bruner, did you have your hand up and pop up for a moment? I was going to second the motion that council member Watkins had made and. I'm sorry, I wasn't sure if you were commenting or I'm sorry. But okay, please go ahead. Yeah, so I think one of the things we've gotten to is a point of where we've really got the operations and addressing some of the direction that we've implemented from the beginning in this process with the ordinance. And I am looking forward to seeing this continue to move forward and to continue to evaluate. I believe it was Garrett Phillips who was mentioning the annual evaluation. And so I think we just need to begin. And this is where we've landed through a lot of process and dialogue and conversations. And it's addressing for the first time, we're really making steps as a city to address some of these impacts within this ordinance. So that's it for my comments. Thank you very much, Vice Mayor, council member Cummings. Thank you, Mayor. I did want to ask a question first from city staff about the comments that were made by surge regarding the ordinance and the coastal commission. So I was just wondering if you all would be able to comment on that. Sure, I'll take a first crack at it and see if Tony wants to add anything. So we did identify some of our perspectives as part of the report that came to the council on May 11th. We have had communications with the coastal commission. It's clear to us that it is a LCP amendment. It could ultimately be an LCP amendment. We will continue if the council chooses to adopt the ordinance, we will engage in further conversations with the coastal commission and get to an understanding about whether that actually an LCP amendment and the implications of that in terms of the council's actions and what needs to happen in front of the coastal commission if so. But you'll see in the May 11th ordinance that we coordinated with our attorneys and we've conveyed some perspectives to the coastal commission, whereby we're not as clear that it is an LCPA. And I think should the council move forward with this tonight, then we'll have a specific ordinance to discuss with the coastal commission and come to a final determination on the status as it relates to local coastal program amendment or not. Yeah, I guess the only thing I'd have to add to that is that, can you hear me by the way? Because I'm two options. Well, there are three. One is, is this development as defined by the Coastal Act to change in that density or the intensity of the use of land or water? I think arguably not, because this ordinance really just continues provisions of 636 of the community code that we're going to affect prior to the Martin versus Poison decision. So from a legislative standpoint, it doesn't amount to a significant change in the law as the Coastal Act defines development. And then I think planning director's correct that we need to take a look at whether or not this is an LCBA and amendment to local coastal program or is a coastal development permit application required in order to implement the ordinance. I haven't heard from the Coastal Commission that they view that as a requirement, but I think we're open to discussions with the Coastal Commission and we'll evaluate any comments that they have and recommend any appropriate actions based on those communications when they take that position. And Mr. Cagno is right that a prevailing plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging a Coastal Act violation is entitled to recover prevailing plaintiff attorney season costs. The key there is prevailing. So we certainly take those kinds of claims seriously and evaluate them carefully as we move forward with the implementation of the council policy. And then a follow-up question, I guess, given the fact that it sounds like there's going to be, there's a need to have some review of this by the Coastal Commission or conversations, would it make sense to have those first before passing something? Because if my question is, if we pass something and if we're in violation and somebody files a lawsuit, you can't really backpedal from that. So. And our experience has been when the Coastal Commission feels that it's important to weigh in on this issue, even though the traditional mechanism for the Coastal Commission's purview over local government decisions is on an appeal. The Coastal Commission, it has weighed in before a decision is made by the city council. So the fact that the Coastal Commission knowing that this ordinance is before you, obviously having been receiving communications from members of the public about it and not having weighed in at this point to the city council suggests that it's probably not a critical item for the Coastal Commission, but if the commission does reach out, we can certainly bring some attention before any significant implementation activities are undertaken. So I don't see that as the basis for not moving forward at this time. Yeah, I would just add that it is, we still, as the council knows, the way the ordinance is structured, implementation will not occur until certain things are in place, storage facilities, the safe sleeping sites and so forth. And we still have some work to do to get those things up and running. So I do anticipate coordination with the Coastal Commission. In the very near future, should council choose to adopt the ordinance this evening? And if there are additional steps that are needed, then we would seek to accomplish those in advance of actually implementing the ordinance. Okay. Well, I guess I'll just make my final comments on this because we've discussed this a lot. And my biggest concerns, then the biggest concerns that I've been hearing from the community has largely been around the process, which many people have expressed to me has been rushed and people have not felt included. I've tried to advocate members of the community who've reached out, so I wanna thank you all for contacting me largely so that we could create a clear and transparent process. But we continue to push this through rapidly and even today we're hearing about how this might need to have more input from the Coastal Commission and many people felt this has been a very rushed process. And a lot of people have been in contact with, have been supportive of a lot of the aspects of the ordinance where we've landed on today. But as I mentioned before, many of them have felt that because they haven't been included and their voices haven't been included and a lot of the parts of this process that they don't feel that there's a lot of hope around their voices being included and they've been feeling really bad about not being included in this process from the beginning. And these aren't just activists, there are lawyers, parents, homeowners, professionals, retirees, teachers, renters, and I could go on. And so I'm just gonna express on their behalf that I'll be voting no on this ordinance. I do support the services that we're bringing forward and many of these people do as well. And many people do who I've been in contact with understand the need to address the issues, keeping large encampments from forming and also trying to manage those impacts. But a lot of them have felt that along the way that this has been very rushed and as a result, their voices haven't been included. And so those are my statements and I'll end there. Thank you, Council Member Brown and then Council Member Qualitary Johnson. Thank you, Mayor. I would just echo the comments made by Council Member Cummings with respect to hearing from community and the breadth within the community that we've heard from in opposition to this particular route to addressing our challenges with our on-house community members. I'm not gonna give a big speech about all the reasons that I am concerned about it and I can't support it. I think I've made that pretty clear and there's not much percentage in saying it one more time. But I do wanna raise the concern about the potential legal costs that we are, this vote will potentially take us into. And I see that reflected in letters that we've received. I see that and I hear that in discussions that I've heard about going on in the community and I just think we're, it's a big risk. And I understand that my colleagues wanna take that risk. But I think given that it's quite important that we develop some mechanism for tracking and doing some analysis of how much this costs us in legal fees to be continuing to do an enforcement-only approach. And I realize we're not doing an enforcement-only approach at this particular time, but that has been the case every other time that we've discussed this. So we're doing a little better here, but I don't think that gets us out of the legal risk zone. I'll leave it there in terms of my concerns, but I would ask my colleagues to please consider including some direction to ask for tracking of legal costs related to this ordinance and our approach to homelessness response. Unfortunately, we won't have a baseline to work from because we have never tracked this. And I wanna thank Tony Kandadi for raising it, he's trying to work on finding ways to do that. But I think it's incumbent upon those who wanna see this ordinance implemented to ask for that information. And I certainly would want to see that in the first reporting that comes back to us in terms of progress reporting. Thank you, Council Member. I have Council Member Callentary Johnson and Council Member Golder and then Council Member Watkins. Thank you. Yes, I just needed to respond to my colleagues' comments around the community process. We've mentioned before that we've taught as a community as a council, we've talked about not this council, but other councils have talked about homelessness for years now. And yes, not all of the recommendations by the catch of input forward. And some of them have. We've been with this council talking about this addressing homelessness through an ordinance since February. And there have been many opportunities for community members to participate. I've also taken the steps to reach out to community members both in favor and in opposition, truly listening and integrating their voices and perspectives in what we have brought forward and what I have brought forward. A lot of the services and the shape of what the services should look like have come from folks in the home providers world that have helped shape that. I've been hearing from a lot of community members from both sides and I've been hearing from a lot of community members that want to see action and that want us to move forward with something that helps mitigate the negative impacts of encampments and that helps move solutions and services forward. It's really difficult to make these votes. I've been very conflicted. I have worked in the homelessness world and I have been on both sides and it's a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to make the vote. And ultimately we have to do it in order to move forward. Ultimately it is about community wellbeing. And I know that some folks out there don't believe that this is the way forward for community wellbeing. I believe it is. I believe we're moving forward with solutions. I know that some folks out there don't trust this process but I will just say for myself as an individual who really cares about this issue, who's worked on the issue I'm gonna make sure that our county staff and our city move forward with the services that we have committed to. I'm committing to that right now publicly in front of everyone and I'm ready to make the hard vote. That's all. Thank you. Thank you, council member. Council member Golder. I'd like to echo what my colleague that I helped from her colleague, Terri Johnson said. And I just have to say downtown and gone door to door and talk to people and I would argue that one of the top three concerns of maybe top five, but top three for me of every citizen in town was homelessness. Walkthrough homeless and cameras with some of you have walked through homeless and cameras with staff. I don't think this is a perfect solution. I'm not gonna pretend that it is, but I think we're at a point where we have to do something. Jenny has had plenty of opportunity to get involved. We've definitely implemented aspect-wise and I'm definitely ready to move forward and I remember coming concerns around the legal risk. I have to say the most illuminating thing for me from being on council stuff through the city. We get super, I think we probably will get sued. It's really important. And thank you, council member. I have council member Watkins. Thank you, mayor. And I just, I think I too just want to extend one my appreciation and gratitude to you for the extensive community outreach that you did to refine and to bring revisions and to hear the voices of the community in regards to the concerns, which has led to, yes, not a perfect proposal, but a community in full. And I do really share that it's very difficult to take these votes. It's very, very difficult to take risk even though it's calculated. And what it's worth though for me is to do nothing or to continue to postpone and to have no decision and no action even if there's things that we're not gonna get right and there's things that we are gonna get right, but we're gonna keep moving because we wanna hear solutions. And I struggle with that not seeing enough process as well in regards to one, just the time I've been on council and I know it's been a contentious and challenging issue for many, many years for this community. And we've had a number of ad hoc committees and community committees formed and making these tough decisions is always a really tough part. And I just acknowledged everything of one of my colleagues where I believe that we completely share a commitment to want to see solutions to the board. And as imperfect as they may be, being in action is our job and making tough decisions is our job. And so I really stand by that and recognize that it's gonna be a process of continuous improvement as is and as should be everything in my opinion, we're always learning and growing as people as government, as community and aspiring to have a healthy community for everybody. So that I do agree in that we have balanced process and now it's time for action. And that brought us here this evening after many, many, many, many, many hours of public input and community input and opportunity for community input, either us going to the community or them coming to us. And in regards to, I think a lot of the legal challenges that I share that we have a very litigious, it's a litigious environment and by not doing anything also engages us in litigation as well, right? In terms of the issues that we see bringing us to federal and dealing with large encampments once they're formed. So I'm hopeful that moving forward with solutions at the forefront will bring this issue to some pathway to seeing more people having healthier lives in our community. So with that, I am prepared to move forward as we're proposing this evening with the second reading. Thank you, member, Council Member Brown, did you have another statement? Sorry, I just wanted to say one more thing that I kind of forgot, which is, I think it's very important and I'm really doing this on behalf of the many people who I've spoken with who have concerns about another risk, likely much greater, and that is the fire potential because what we know is that we displace large numbers of people from the parts of town that are not fire prone inside the city, people go into the program that people go into Sycamore Grove and I recognize that we have a very capable and committed city staff who are gonna work very hard to prevent that, but at the same time, we're talking about not having resources to pick up all the trash. So it's hard for me to imagine that we're gonna have the resources to constantly perpetually keep people out of fire prone areas and setting up encampments. We've heard it since the clearance of Highway 1 and 9 from our neighbors up the river who are now experiencing more impact and they're really worried. I think that's just gonna get even more difficult as the season goes on. And I just wanna just remind us that that is where people will go. They're not just gonna disappear. And so, and I don't say any of this to suggest that my colleagues don't care about or wanna make people's lives worse. I recognize that we're all trying to do something that we think is gonna help address the issues. I wanna see us move forward on those pieces to act in ways that some of those services and spaces that make people's lives better and more stable rather than the actions that keep people moving around in instability and moving into places that are hidden. So as to not be ticketed and potentially jailed. So I just wanted to add that. I've heard it from so many people. I think it's really important that we talk about that and we understand that it's gonna be a different situation once we have more people moving in. And it's just is what it is. But I'm saying it because I hear it as a concern, a real fear, and I share that. Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Cummings, did you have additional comments? I just had one last comment that came up that I forgot to make, which was I really just also, well, one wanna thank everyone who's weighed in on, but I do just wanna also express that I do want the community to understand that we're not creating any false expectations around what's gonna be happening. Homelessness is a very difficult subject and the passing of this ordinance is not gonna make all of our issues disappear overnight. And so there's gonna be a lot of ongoing discussion on how to mitigate these impacts. This is gonna take more time. And I'm just hoping that as this continues to move forward and as we learn more that we can create more opportunities and processes for people to engage and feel like that they're being reached out to before major decisions are being made. I know that this has been before since February, but one of the reasons why we're still here today is because many people felt like they were left out of the conversation when this was approved, when the second reading was approved the previous time and we were gonna be allowing for sleeping when facilities were full in industrial spaces. And that was one of the things that people were really concerned about along with also saying it was okay for people to sit in our open space. Those people who live around those areas felt like they were not a part of that conversation. And I think when we're dealing with major topics like homelessness that we try to do our best to create, be transparent at the outset versus having people going to people after we've already began making the decisions that impact their neighborhoods. I totally agree that all of us are very much committed to homelessness and trying to help people who are experiencing homelessness, but we also have said that we're committed to creating an inclusive and equitable process for how we make decisions. And I think that we need to make sure that we are committed to that as we're making decisions moving forward. And then also wanna express to the extent we can continue having a productive and positive relationship with the County and finding ways to collaborate with them, moving forward is really gonna be critical for us to be able to make sure that these programs are successful. And so I will continue to be engaged. And although I'm not gonna be supporting what's before us tonight, that I am committed as well to addressing homelessness and trying to find solutions and working with the community as this moves forward. Thank you, council member. I am not seeing any additional hands up with council members. So I will go ahead. We have a motion on the floor by council member Watkins, seconded by council member Calentari-Johnston to consider the second reading and final adoption of ordinance number 2021-12, amending chapter 6.36 of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code related to camping services and standards. And I would ask Bonnie to do a roll call vote, please. Thank you, mayor, council member Watkins. Aye. Calentari-Johnston. No. Boulder. Vice mayor Brunner. Mayor Meyers. Aye. That motion passes with five in favor and two against. And that is our last item of the evening. And so we will be adjourning until our June 22nd meeting. I wanna thank everyone for being here tonight and please have a good evening. Thank you, everyone. Good night. Thank you. Bye-bye.