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Item 3.1 housing investment opportunities for PG&E settlement funds. Claire Hartman interim assistant city manager presenting. Great good afternoon. Can everyone hear me? I get a thumbs up because last time I had audio issues. Okay okay well good afternoon Mayor Swellhelm and members of the city council. Tonight we are bringing you a study session and this is on housing investment opportunities. So this topic is one of many topics that came out of the public comments related to the use the potential use of the one-time PG&E settlement funds that had come that the city did receive as a result of the Tubbs fire three years ago. So this session is considered in a series of sessions as you consider options related to these funds and as you recall we've staggered these throughout your time and there are there's more to continue in the series. We started in September where we talked about the potential use of the funds to stabilize the city organization through the budget process. Next week we're going to hear a study session on wildlife preparedness and resilient city infrastructure and emergency response support and tonight you're hearing about housing investment opportunities. Next slide. So it's a study session so we're not looking for action tonight. I want to be clear the idea of the study session is really to lay some policy options on the table for you considerations and allow the public and the city council to ask questions about these opportunities. So the policy questions really tonight that we're laying out is should the city invest PG&E settlement funds into housing. These are special funds we've prioritized housing over the years but there's a lot of competing interests with the fund so but if so should you invest it in a regional joint powers authority the red we'll talk about what that is it's kind of a unique opportunity to invest in that way or and not just or but and or another opportunity is always our city's housing authority and funding money through that and investing in the long term through our own authority. Next slide. So this is the presentation outline. I'm just going to give a little bit of context but we're going to jump right into the two primary speakers or two sets of topics. So we've got Michelle Whitman and she'll be our next speaker following me and she's going to introduce what the renewal enterprise district is that's the red that you might have heard about. Followed by Michelle we have actually three speakers that are going to represent consulting firm called Forced Street and they are going to talk about the red housing fund. The names of those speakers are Eulise Lipens, Olivia Speck, and Daniela Greville. And then followed by the red housing fund presentation we're going to jump into the other opportunity that we're presenting tonight and that's Dave Gwine he's the director of housing and community services he's also the liaison to the housing authority and then we'll wrap up and facilitate some questions. Next slide. So just to set the context housing has been one of the top priorities for the city. Certainly in the last five years it's always been at the top tier so we've been addressing it in a number of ways over quite a lengthy time and we've been very diverse in how we've approached supporting and investing and housing it's not ever just been fiscal it's been programmatic it's been regulatory it's been you know frankly organizationally culture you know culture changes and programmatic changes. We focus on housing production we focus on housing preservation. In 2016 the council adopted a city's housing action plan and that sort of solidified the multifaceted approach that the city was taking to support housing and then in 2017 when the Tubbs fire did hit we were already in a housing crisis but the Tubbs fire certainly exacerbated that not only did the city lose close to 3,000 housing units in one night and we had the to rebound from that but we are also needing to rebound it not just in the recovery area but city-wide and frankly the Tubbs fire and the Nuns fire they exacerbated housing crisis throughout the county and so it quickly got us working with the county and looking at at housing as a regional issue. In 2018 the city and county formed the a regional housing joint powers authority and that sprung out of that and that's the red that's the renewal enterprise district and then fast forward to July of this year the city did receive the $95 billion settlement fund from PG&E and since that we've been conducting the community outreach on what we should do to make the most use of those funds and relate it to the opportunity the unique opportunity that is before you and so one of those topics that came out of the community outreach was housing it I would say it's not it wasn't the top topic but it certainly was part of the conversations as we accepted community comments and the county of Sonoma they likewise received a settlement and they have also gone through a series of discussions but in October October 6th to be exact the board supervisors went as far as motioning to make use of those funds towards the investment in housing and in particular investment and in the form of a loan to the red housing fund and it was a motion for $10 million on the contingency that the city matched that and then shortly after that action and we also heard from our own local house city housing authority and they submitted a letter of interest to the city council and they asserted that they're also ready to make use of the one-time funds and they're they're ready they have the staffing available and they have experience with processing funds so the whole purpose of tonight is to go over these two opportunities that have presented itself and to let you consider as you move forward in in evaluating the best use of the funds next slide so quickly just for context this is a chart that you've seen many times before quick summary in terms of meeting our regional housing needs which is our hna's regional housing needs assessment we've been averaging about 300 housing units per year we really need to have ramped it up to about a thousand per year to really meet those targets so we're we're fairly deficient in meeting our housing needs and then we are entering in the next year our new or next couple years our new housing cycle so it's going to be a new eight-year housing cycle and as many of you already know the housing numbers and needs are going to go up because we meet regional needs not just locally created needs and so our numbers in our current cycle were about five thousand they'll probably go up to about 6500 that's about a 30 increase but one thing to keep in mind is the county's numbers are going to exponentially go up and what it looks like is it could go up as high as 900 percent so what does that mean to santa rosa it means there's going to be a lot of pressure to build housing outside the city limits and that's an opportunity to work with the county to place those units in a more appropriate location next slide so what this slide reminds us of is the work that the city did in conjunction with some nonprofit organizations in 2015 and we worked with a consultant team called urban three and it was a focus study that really wanted to look at return on investment type data and so one of the things that the study found was that your best return on investment is downtown it's transit oriented development it's because it's where all the infrastructure is it's efficient to serve with police fire sewer water your roads and so it is really in terms of your investment you get the highest return and it's not it wasn't evaluating short-term it's evaluating long-term because as you know the projects get built but then over time the burden of supporting that does fall onto the city and so this is the and so this philosophy this this approach has been sort of inherent especially in the last couple of years where the city council has really initiated quite a few incentives for building downtown a lot of our housing action plan incentives did special service to downtown housing so with with that we're going to jump into the two presentations so our next speaker is going to be Michelle Whitman she's the executive director for the renewal enterprise district thank you Claire I really appreciate the introduction and city council I appreciate the opportunity to make the presentation to you today one matter of housekeeping and I probably should have been more clear about this if the clerk could elevate rich grows with enterprise community partners he has a small role in this presentation as well and if we're not able to elevate him we'll make do next slide please great thank you so if you'll indulge me for just a moment I want to begin with a vision statement from the county's recovery and resiliency framework because it's really a nice summary of what guides the renewal enterprise district both generally and with respect to the new housing fund we're here to discuss today and to paraphrase the red works to jumpstart a housing market that is affordable to area workers and where all of our community members have equal and fair access to a diversity of homes located near transit jobs and services in a vital economy next slide please so with that vision as a backdrop let's unpack the black box of what the renewal enterprise district or the red is really simply stated it's just a partnership of the city of santa rosa and county of sonoma that was created to accelerate the production of infill higher density housing near transit jobs amenities services and most importantly opportunities to carry out this work the red was formed to pair public funds with traditional private financing to shorten the time it takes to produce housing and finally by focusing on urban centered infill housing our combined financial resources can be directed at development that meets our climate equity and housing goals all at the same time next slide please so this all begs the question of when will we be seeing taller buildings with more housing in downtown santa rosa and other urban settings in the county well first we have a math problem to solve most developers across the spectrum of affordability are having trouble making their projects pencil out you'll hear more about why that is in just a moment but developer math is really the problem we're looking to solve for with this new housing fund next slide please so as we continue through this presentation we're going to we're going to share the steps in our work plan to create a housing fund including those listed on this slide but first i'd like to ask rich gross and it looks like he did get elevated from enterprise community partners to lead us off with a few insights rich will be followed by our consultant team as claire led with led into with this presentation from foresight street advisors both enterprise and foresight have been pivotal in the development of housing funds across the country including the san francisco housing accelerator fund each fund is different and designed to solve for a given community's unique needs are included so with that rich you're on deck great thanks and i appreciate your inviting me to this meeting i'm with enterprise community partners we are a national nonprofit organization in affordable housing and community development we work in a number of areas in federal and state policy we work in we have programmatic work throughout the country and we are we we work in capital we are the largest investor in affordable housing in the country um and we work deeply in california we have an office in san francisco and los angeles and i've been enterprise for 21 years in various roles i've worked with a number of communities that want to set up funds like like the red is trying to set up and and i can say that most communities want a housing fund it is you know the it's it's it's very clear that there's a housing crisis in california and the need to create public funds public private funds is really critical but most of them have difficulty doing it they don't have the capacity the the financial commitment the ability to invest public funds the market or the personnel and and that's that's what makes me very excited about the red and about what you're doing here the unique structure as a jpa is is really exciting um the potential for significant public funding is something that is not available in many communities and is really critical here um you have a leader in michelle who should give you tons of confidence she has guided this thing from the beginning and and i am personally very impressed by that and that that that's a real strength that you have there and then working with foresight we we've worked with foresight around the country we've worked on a number of projects i can say they are the best consultant in the country for developing community funds um public private housing funds around the country we've worked with them with a number of funds and so the the potential for success in this is is is very exciting to me and and i i'm i'm happy to help help we're going let me turn it over to foresight and they can go into more detail and i'm happy to answer questions later if you haven't next slide please so thank you richa michelle um my name is elivia spack and i'm joined by my colleague stan yalla graville and you leave this and we are very pleased to be presenting an overview of the red housing fund to you all today and next slide please so to just give you an idea of what we're going to be focusing on um we'll go through our project dynamics and work plan and then discuss a bit on capital raising as well as the funds formation next slide please so starting in february 2020 we started meeting with a variety of different stakeholders and from these interviews that really informed what was missing within the current development landscape within santa rosa and then also informed the types of investment products that a new fund could provide that would catalyze and build development and so this information is summarized in a report that we produce the options and feasibility assessment and we are of course able to make that available to any city council member who would like to read or review it um going into phase two we've really been focusing on capitalizing the fund and identifying our capital partners as well as evaluating legal and management structures essentially what we need to operationalize the fund um we're targeting a fund launch in july 2021 and we understand that that's a bit quick but if we stick to our timeline there's no reason to think that that's not possible um i'll turn it over to daniella now to discuss the fund products next slide please good afternoon everyone my name is daniella um so i'm gonna talk a little bit about the loan products for the developers so we spent a lot of time earlier this year talking to local stakeholders to figure out why infill development wasn't moving forward downtown and in other urban areas despite there being a number of projects that were shovel ready and the finding was that the existing financial products available weren't meeting the developer's needs and so the products we've developed are highly responsive to what we heard is missing in the market and these are new products that don't currently exist so the first one is a subordinate loan for affordable housing um although there are um long term residual receipts loans available from state and local housing agencies and there's always a need for more funding this product is designed to be a low interest loan with required repayment um and it can work alongside those existing funding sources to fill in that last gap of the project's capital stack the second product is a subordinate construction loan for middle income and market rate housing a big challenge for financing infill development in downtown santa rosa is that this product type hasn't been built before in the local marketplace so there's no comparables for the banks when they're underwriting their loans and so the result is that projects are receiving smaller construction loans and they need and they're unable to move forward so this is a subordinate construction loan that would cover approximately 10 percent of the project's total cost and this loan really is the key missing financial piece that is not currently available elsewhere so by issuing a subordinate loan for just 10 of the project's cost that in turn unlocks the remaining 90 of capital both debt and equity from traditional financial institutions that really has been sidelined to date and the final product is a mezzanine permanent loan so if necessary all or part of that subordinate construction loan could convert to a subordinate permanent loan for middle income and market rate projects and it would be behind the bank's first mortgage it would also have required monthly payments and it would be due at the end of the loan term or sooner if there was a sale or refinance of the property and lastly the fund and the products are really meant to be flexible and responsive to the market needs so after a loan is repaid those funds can be recycled into new loans of the same type or if the fund chooses it can create entirely new products that are responsive to future market needs next slide please so now I'm going to talk a little bit about the terms for the city's investment into the fund so we are requesting 10 million dollars from the city if the city invests in the fund the county will then match that for a total of 20 million dollars which is immediately immediately doubling its impact and with 20 million as just a starting point the fund could initially invest in four to five projects which would result in 400 to 500 new units of housing I want to reiterate that this is a loan it's not a grant so the funds would get repaid and returned to the public agencies at the end of the term it's also really important that these public funds be as flexible and as low cost as possible so that the fund could then in turn provide low-cost loans to the housing developers these public sector funds would also be subordinate to any additional funds we raise from private and philanthropic capital I'm in terms of the interest rate in the term we're proposing a 20 year loan at zero percent interest with an option to extend and I want to clarify that that zero percent interest rate is the rate to the fund when the fund loans the money out to the housing developers they will be charged an interest rate so we want to keep that rate as low as possible so the projects can be financially feasible and finally just in terms of geography the fund will support projects around the county that meet the red criteria but we do expect that many projects that will be ready to go when the fund is first launched will be in santa rosa so with your investment there really is an immediate opportunity to make a significant impact to the city itself I'm going to pass this on you can go to the next slide I'll pass this on to Ulysse. Thanks Danila, thanks Olivia, thanks Rich and thanks Michelle so as Danila was setting up with the prior slide there's various terms associated with the proposed public investment public loan to the fund that really are critical to achieving an investable structure for the fund which means that on top of the public sector investment we are going to try and also raise additional resources for the same purpose alongside the public sector on foundations and philanthropies from corporations and other local employers and stakeholders from financial institutions and what that additional money can do is alongside the public's investment make the fund that much bigger that much more able to do even more projects so just to give a sense for the kind of scale that can be achieved over time in similar funds that we at 4Safe together with Rich and with others at Enterprise around the country have worked on I'm in San Francisco we took an initial 10 million dollar investment from the city and county of San Francisco and that fund within just a few years very quickly in fact is an over 200 million dollar fund that's already invested over a quarter billion dollars into the city of San Francisco elsewhere in New York and Los Angeles in Baltimore we also have funds that have terrific track records of taking an initial investment of 10 or 20 or in some cases 50 million dollars from the public sector and transforming that into a significant impact that's just leveraging the resources within the fund itself which means as Daniele was describing it that's the 10 percent of project development costs that the fund would be financing in addition to being able to leverage more resources within the fund itself with the kinds of products that we're proposing to provide at the project level there would still be more additional leverage in the form of additional construction loans that otherwise wouldn't be made in the form of additional equity that can be invested in projects that otherwise wouldn't be able to be invested in those projects next slide please so i'm going to go quickly through this slide in the next one at this point in the development of the fund we are of course seeking to capitalize the fund we're also evaluating different options for how the fund could be structured from a legal organizational governance and management perspective and i would just say some of the key considerations there are the structure of the fund needs to be investable for the public sector for philanthropies for private funders for others so that we can leverage that private invest that public investment with additional resources in all cases we seek to create funds that are self-sustaining that pay for themselves over time without any further grant or other funding from the public sector we look to structure these funds so that they provide their services in a cost-effective fashion so that all of the functions that a fund needs to provide whether underwriting, fund management, other things as well are done at a high quality and for as low a cost as can be achieved and lastly also a very important consideration is just the mission alignment of the fund mission alignment with the red here is of course a critical consideration next slide please so alongside setting up this fund at the red some other options that in the past we've used to make the funds as effective as they can be some options are a subsidiary of an existing CDFI CDFI organizations like Enterprise that sometimes can set up subsidiaries that are the fund other options as in the case of the San Francisco Hasn't Accelerator Fund are to create a new 501c3 and there's other options that we would evaluate as well and that's going to wrap up this slide let's go to the last one. Thanks Helice just to wrap up we are of course available for any additional questions or discussions should they rise we are continuing to reach out with prospective investors to gauge their level of interest with the fund as well as continuing to evaluate the legal and operational structures that you just touched on so that is our presentation we are of course happy to take any questions later on in this session and if it's the pleasure of the city council this is Claire Hartman if it's the pleasure of the city council we could take questions now that's particular to the red housing fund before we move into the housing authority discussion. Yes Claire I'd like to see if we do have any questions and we do have one and then we'll do our last question and answer period at the end so first up Mr. Sawyer you have a question. Thank you mayor and thank you for this presentation I'm curious you know we start out with assuming that we went forward with the county's offer and taking 10 million and and creating 20 right off the bat what are the costs involved of the fund formation and we'll just honestly with that so what what is after these things have to cost some money I would assume that they're not that the found that the formation does not come at a small cost what would we actually end up with if we were to get the 20 million and then have to move and then we of course would be moving forward with the formation of this of this body or this tool what's the cost of the formation. So I'll start and then I'll turn it over to foresight that that's okay council member Sawyer you're right it these things don't create themselves and there is a price tag and we've been really fortunate to have community support for this we've the original options and feasibility analysis that was included in your agenda packet was funded by the community foundation the costs of creating the fund the phase two work plan so far we've had we've raised a hundred and five thousand dollars toward a hundred and fifty thousand dollar price tag to create the fund we've been doing some financial modeling about what it'll take to support the fund in its first year or two before it is paying its own freight and I will pitch it over to foresight to talk about at what point a fund like this is paying its own freight. Sure um so the real answer is just we need to be making loans quickly in order to quickly get to that self-sustaining point and we're fortunate as we know from the analysis we did in phase one leading to the final options and feasibility report there are many projects that are shovel ready that are ready to go and thankfully we're also moving quite quickly so far with respect to the process with the county and we're fortunate to be here as well speaking with you today we're hopeful that we can move quickly to a july 2021 closing date for the fund proceed to underwriting deals and you know get to self-sustaining much more rapidly than would normally be possible that said there are some costs associated with getting to the closing point and getting those first deals closed there's a hundred fifty thousand dollars that michelle already mentioned there's costs just to you know for us to work on this for for legal counsel to chime in when appropriate and there will be cost on an ongoing basis to provide the fund management services loan underwriting services and things like that but those will be paid for out of the actual activity of the fund so hopefully we'll be able to move quickly and rapidly get to the self-sustaining point so just to continue on that point um in your experience i mean we've been talking a lot about 20 million dollars so if you do you have a sense are you are you prepared tonight to give us a sense of what we would on the day that we are we have done the formation of this um tool um and it's impressive but i'm curious as to on the on the day that we start to go out to the community and and look for opportunities to participate with them how much money we would actually be beginning with it can't be too much it can't be 20 million because we're gonna there will be expenses unless unless those expenses are expected to be raised by private dollars so i'll jump in again quickly before you lease feedbacks um councilmember Sawyer the red as you know i think you know is funded through a grant from the Hewlett Foundation we do have a line item in our budget a $250,000 line item in our budget that's set aside for a housing project that $250,000 is realistically a half a door in a housing project um it if we're not able to raise grant funding to cover the initial operating costs of the fund i will likely go to the red board and ask to have that money repurposed to pay the overhead of the fund perhaps as a loan to be paid back so that the fund on day one with its 20 million dollars is ready to start making loans thanks michelle hi mr rogers you're next thank you mr mayor so one of the things that we're very cognizant of is that these funds that we're talking about are public funds that were given to us for for a specific reason or for a specific purpose we all have talked a lot about the value of creating housing in our community so i don't need to go too far into that but there are housing projects that we're talking about that are not um nonprofit projects so what is the expected rate of return on a project from some of the developers that you talked to that might be accessing this public fund i'll let the foresight team take the lead on that one yeah are you asking what the rate of return for the developers is yeah for for their investment um i don't know the exact answer but when we discussed with them you know primarily you know you they're taking out loans and then they're taking out equity so loans you're just repaying that interest you know to the lender on the equity side the developers are really been looking for as cheap low-cost equity as they can find because the returns are really going to the equity investors which right now aren't even double digits and that's why this product is really necessary because they can't find investors that can even invest for the rate of return that the projects are delivering okay i appreciate that and that's a a number that if we can get a little bit more clarity i would appreciate it i'm nobody's going to argue with developer getting a reasonable rate of return but if we are talking about finding that final 10 percent having that other number which is the rate of expected return on the investment i think makes it a lot easier for us to have that conversation with the public just so that we're being very clear that this isn't we're not mining developers pockets and we're not you know that we're getting those moving and then one of the things that was brought up was how quickly we could get established and that the self-sustaining comes from funding projects and making these agreements faster is there any consideration for once somebody is approved for the loan how quickly they have to actually break ground and utilize it so i'll start off and then foresight can add to the answer there the renewal enterprise district board of directors is very sensitive to project readiness that is a part of the reds criteria they originally when we last had a criteria discussion said they want projects that receive red funding to break ground in 180 days they can extend that under extenuating circumstances but that was the direction given by the redboard and i'll see if foresight wants to add something to that there i mean i think one of the things that's great here is that from our outreach it sounds just that there are many projects that are close to being ready to go they're just missing that final piece so i think if we move now we can those projects are still there we can make them happen if we wait those projects may move sideways and become less feasible going forward okay thank you so much yeah thank you before i go to mr tivitz uh because i i do want to provide an opportunity for mr tivitz and vice mayor phleming who are on representing santa rosa on the board make any comments or any additional questions i just want to say it's very appreciative of the foresight you know the testament one of the report the 24 page document has a lot of information that i think is going to be like a roadmap to how the reality of this will occur so thank you for all the time and effort that went into that so with that mr tivitz thank you mayor um i was going to ask a clarifying question to i think assist with with mr soyer's thinking which is a good one and you know how much overhead or administrative costs will the city of santa rosa be contributing to and michelle what i'm hearing you say and please correct me if i'm wrong is that we have a line item for 250 000 that's essentially carrying this effort so far so it's reasonable to assume that you know assuming the red board would approve this it's not going to be an administrative cost of more than 250 to 500 000 out of this fund could you kind of give us maybe a worst-case scenario yeah so um actually let me clarify so far this project to date has been funded by grant funding we've got a community foundation snow county grant to do the um original assessment we've gotten um and it'll be on your red agenda on december 17th the acceptance of a $90,000 grant from kaiser a um $10,000 grant from brink housing a $5,000 grant from rebuild morphe foundation and we and that fundraising effort continues we're trying to cover uh these costs not out of that line item councilmember tivitz but out of um grant funding that we're raising as we go along because we want to preserve that maybe it will be used as a grant to a housing project maybe its highest and best use will be to cover the overhead of the housing fund until it is self-sustaining so um i hope that clarifies what i was really trying to say it does well i'm hearing that you're saying it is private financing that's gotten us here and as a board member i can certainly attest to that we've got it from a number of sources i was hoping to try to pin you down on more of a number though you know is it going to be 19,500,000 worst case scenario that's going to be available for loan making since that is the request before the council today um but if that's if you don't want to speculate on that just yet because i recognize there are a number of variables that's fine but my takeaway is that our our plan as a board is to make sure that we continue to you know fund or fund and provide for this through continued grant making with private organizations like Hewlett Packard or Community Foundations Sonoma County okay so um we did we intend correct me if i'm wrong force life team but we intend that the 20 million dollars in seed funding that capital will be granted out it's not going to be used to pay the overhead of the fund not granted out it will be received right we'll be loaned out we anticipate that the full 20 million dollars would be all lending capital used by the program to make loans um to developers for housing projects yeah okay and none of that would be used to pay for any administrative or other costs and i'll say as a board member you know i will do my best as one of four to see to that because i think it's important that we go in with with that number the other thing i want to say that just as a kudos to this team that i'm excited about is that this is the first time that government is actually providing loans where conventional lenders are not and that's what i think is so cool about this this isn't a loan like a lot of government agencies historically do which is you know you have to repay the the amount 30 years or not if you're an affordable project we'll just renew your terms and you don't have to pay so the taxpayer did get a project but they didn't get that capital and back for another project and this seeks to accomplish this so i just wanted to highlight the importance of that you know as as far as the renewal enterprise district is concerned the other thing is is chris i did run numbers on the loans you know you were concerned about the rate of return for for the taxpayer if we loan out 20 million dollars at 2.5 fixed interest the rate of return the net profit returned over the 20 excuse me it would be a 30-year term that's what i calculated is eight million four hundred and forty eight thousand dollars so that's more capital becoming available to the red fund to do more projects so i just wanted to share that number with the council and thank you michelle and tom thank you thank you tibbetz vice mayor flin yes thank you mayor a couple of things here from my end one is that i appreciate all the questions from my fellow council members in the presentation from director whitman as well as the forces street team and one of the things that i hear bubbling up from my my council members is about the potential cost and i always like to turn that on its head and ask what is the cost when we don't do this especially since a mixed and diverse housing stock is a really essential part of our economy and while we have our housing authority which is really quite adept at providing one type of housing you know it's it's not in a position to do certain things and so i was wondering michelle if you could speak to the leveraging capacities that other housing accelerator funds in the region and perhaps beyond have been able to access through this type of funding or seed funding from governments and what that signals to the private sector i appreciate the question and i've really appreciated working with vice mayor Fleming as the chair of the redboard with all due respect i think that question will be more thoroughly answered by the foresight team so with your permission i'll turn it over to them of course so i've just pulled some of the numbers here um so i think just tallying up public sector investments for four different funds that foresight has worked on is around san francisco in new york city in los angeles and in baltimore those four funds collectively have public sector investments totaling 88 million dollars they currently have total capitalization of over half a billion dollars and in the time that they've been around which is the longest one has been around for new york city was founded in that was the first of these funds it was in 2006 that one's invested already half a billion dollars um the san francisco fund has already invested a quarter billion dollars um an aggregate across the four funds there's been a total investment of over a billion dollars um and that's created over 20 000 units created or preserved new units or preserved units thank you mr leap it's just for you know more ease of like uh information processing can we focus in on san francisco and you said they've been able to leverage a quarter million dollar to fund what was the investment um from the government in order to secure that quarter million dollars in private funding sure so initially they um so that fund launched in 2017 with an initial investment of 10 million dollars from the city and county and in 2019 they upsized to 20 million dollars recognizing the value that that initial investment had provided them okay so same amount of money as we're talking about from rjpa getting a quarter million dollars in funding right that's helpful to hear thank you um and then my next um you know question is more um for or maybe it's more of a comment and it's around fire resiliency and the type of housing that the the red is really set up to build which is infill and housing in the urban areas and as we look toward attracting folks who might typically live in more suburban um or hilly work wildland urban interface areas um one of the things that particularly excites me about the red is that we may be able to reduce demand for that type of housing that is more fire prone and hopefully attract people downtown and then as um you know my fellow council members as you all saw earlier my last pitch to you would be that um that the economic aspects of building in this infill housing development are are really great in that without um doing something with a joint powers agreement we will not be able to leverage uh the eifd and i was wondering michelle if you could speak at all to the potential of having an eifd so the potential for an eifd was something that was presented to the red board in april 2019 before i came on board and there was interest on both the city and county sides of the coin i came on board at the end of july in 2019 and tried to pick up that ball um we immediately went into psps's um red flag warnings the eocs were opening just about every other week it seemed like and then we had the kinkade fire all of that is a strain on capacity both at the city and the county so um kudos to claire and risa that eifd ball is has been picked up and they're running with it they did the city they did the study session for city council as you all know um the red is getting a study session on uh december 17th on eifd i've talked with um the county administrator and they're willing to do a workshop of which is the board of supervisors version of a study session in march um so that the eifd concept is alive and well and would be another resource to catalyze that infill building that we all want to see downtown great thank you that's the extent of my questions i appreciate your presentation great thank you so you know their hands up claire day are you going to continue the presentation yeah we'll get back to the presentation um and we'll move into the opportunity with the housing authority and dave guine yeah good afternoon mayor schwedhelm vice mayor phleming and members of the city council good to see you rich gross and michelle and the foresight team you know i was asked to present on behalf of the housing authorities letter of interest should the council decide to invest one time funding in for the production of affordable housing and consider using your existing housing fund the council received a letter from the housing authority when media reports indicated the board of supervisors approved funding for this purpose as a match proposal to santa rosa the letter was intended to remind the council of the existing partnership with the housing authority which the council formed in 1971 so we're approaching our 50th year anniversary so let me take a moment to review what is currently in place to accelerate housing there's an existing lending infrastructure that does not require additional administrative costs should new one time general fund resources be provided we call that plug and play we're doing that with the community development block grant disaster recovery money the housing authority has an existing portfolio value of 120 million dollars as an inventory of over 4 000 units in an average annual investment of five million dollars and what that investment does is it retrieves a return of about 15 to 20 percent annually up to around 750 000 dollars which is immediately recycled revolves into the housing trust to help new housing projects the next fiscal year the council may recall in 2016 the housing action plan that provided three million dollars of general fund money to sponsor both market rate and affordable units to spur spur production at that time and that was operated by the housing authority the point here being is that by far the bulk of our resources to assist our very low extremely low households which with long loan terms but we can adjust those terms based on the direction of the funding source to operate more towards moderate market rate and have shorter terms the housing authority is currently reviewing applications for the community development block grant multifamily program for presentation to the joint city council housing authority committee at the end of december of note is the council executed the agreement with the state at the end of october and now the following week the housing authority was soliciting proposals to the point we're reviewing them now you know within a 60-day time frame we currently have a pipeline we call it of affordable housing project developments under way that are sponsored and fuller in part so for example we have four developments totaling 188 units under under development currently three of which are in the downtown behind those there's another 12 developments somewhat funded waiting for approvals etc seven of those are in the downtown downtown station area plan or primary development area so the point here is is that the your housing authority sponsors developments for infill development smart growth things of that nature next slide please so as just mentioned the housing authority sponsors developments in the smart growth priority development areas and they also leverage products under various terms and conditions to occur for a variety of funding sources it comes down to what is the direction of the lender or the person providing the funding is it to support supply extremely low low very low is it to provide moderate market rate any of those market types any of those loan products can be produced through the housing trust but again certainly the focus of most funding sources that come from federal and state resources are to assist our very low and low income neighbors and that as a result of that our terms are 30 years with residual receipts notes because as folks know the deeper the affordability less likelihood of repayment at the higher the affordability into moderate market greater the ability for for return on the investment and repayment of loans so it really does depend on the city council's public policy goal do you want to invest in low very low moderate market the the message here is the housing authority has those tools and the staff to to implement that right away and then lastly the housing authority offers a range of investment options including project based vouchers through the section 8 program to assist development but here i list the four primary categories such as production if you were to resource the housing authority could go into acquisition rehabilitation we also do home ownership programs if there's a resource for that and then finally special needs facilities such as homeless facilities if you wanted to consider a further investment into say san jones hall carat house village other nonprofit groups that are trying to achieve those goals so that was what i was asked to do is just quickly go through a couple slides just to remind the council that certainly you have a tool that exists with a no additional overhead or administrative costs that you could certainly insert the resource to we can get going right away and i didn't want to sound like i'm coming as an either or we just claire and i talked this through we really wanted to present this as an option for the city council but make sure you understood the full breadth and scope of what the housing authority can do thank you so um we can go into the next slide but um i'd like to give davin opportunity to do questions that are specific about the housing authority and then we can broaden the discussion if you will so are there questions for mr guine or myself um about this this other opportunity that we're putting on the table all right thank you claire uh mr tivitz is your hand up you're on mute thanks yes it was a um dav thank you uh two questions for you first is relating to the dr money you know and i might have missed the boat the memo on this and if i did i apologize but you know back from 2017 we were supposed to receive i think it was about 49 million for housing that was supposed to come out of the dr funds did we get those funds yeah so the the city was awarded 38.4 million dollars for multifamily housing production it took a while for the federal government and state government to travel to us but the council on october 27th approved that standard agreement so we could start implementing and soliciting proposals we did that the following week they were due last week and so staff is reviewing those this month december to be in front of the joint city council and housing authority review committee by the end of the month the goal of council member is that our recommendations and proposals go but then back to the state for their final approval and we want to be time we want to be timely with that because then the developers are lining up for a series of other loans and financing in the in the calendar year i appreciate that dav yeah i remember that council meeting um that my memory does serve that far back fortunately but uh i didn't know if we actually got the deposits but i appreciate kind of you letting us know or at least me how that process is going to look and when we actually have money in our bank account to give out um if my follow-up question is relating to home ownership program um can you tell us a little bit about how that would work and how funded or underfunded it currently is sure so it would work two different ways one is what we call self-help or sweat equity developments typically through an offer profit developer that's the primary way the others with down payment loan assistance but there are there aren't any resources currently for us to do that to help home ownership or to help families buy a home right now it's just a resource question well i i appreciate that you know i'll save most of my comments for the end about that um thank you sure hey mr jim is mr rogers you're up next dav just a little bit of a follow-up on the first questions um so what i'm basically hearing from this one of the takeaways that i'm having is that one of the benefits of going through the runual enterprise district is that we would be giving out loans for projects that haven't been or can't for whatever reason get qualified by a bank for that uh last 10 percent that they need for their funding or or at least not enough for them to be able to get it and i'm also hearing that it'd be an opportunity to leverage private investment and commingle it if that's the way that you want to think about it so that private and public monies are both going towards these developments can the housing trusts do both of those things or is it going back to your statement about a public policy is it the direction that the housing trust has from the council and from its organizing documents that prevent it from being able to do those two things thank you council member it comes down to what is the direction of the folks providing the funding for housing so what i was trying to make clear is is that most of our federal and state and local resources are directed to help very low and low income households that's certainly the bulk of our business model but for example in 2016 when the council provided three million a general fund it could go to market rate and so that's what we tried to do so the point is is that if you wanted to provide resources to housing you could consider the housing authority the housing trust and just be clear on what the direction is on what you're trying to achieve if it's market rate gap financing equity bridge loans whatever it might be so if if i can make sure that i'm hearing correctly so it's not necessarily the construction of the entity that would be loaning out the money but more the parameters that have been put on that entity that there's a difference between the red and the housing trust in what their mandate or guiding principles are well i don't if i'm following the question council member i don't know if there is a distinction if if the council ultimately decides to put funding towards housing we would listen to you and follow those directions and implement those into to developments if i'm hearing you correctly yeah okay i think i understand thank you hey council any additional questions mr sure are you good i saw your hand was up you're on mute chris asked the question i was i was curious about so i'm i'm good to go but my freak my screen just froze there for a minute thank you and now you're back great okay uh claire back to you let's we have a couple more slides i think that will open up for more discussion and public comment okay yeah we're going to end on this slide i think um so really what we wanted to bring you and dav hit it on its head is we wanted to bring you options um you've heard about the red housing funds especially when the county made their their offer public um it's out there but we wanted to balance that with the existing opportunity through the housing authority and frankly there's probably many other opportunities that you know we could bring to you and so we're we're here just presenting sort of two obvious opportunities that are timely and a little different um and so basically uh what's before you is an opportunity to invest in housing you have you have very special funds available to you you have a lot of competing interests so if housing is something you want to invest in we've given you two solid opportunities to pursue um doesn't mean that you won't get additional information if you do pursue one of these opportunities we could certainly bring back more details um as you need them and as you as you create um that direction again we're not asking for direction tonight we wanted you to make be informed and and just consider these things so you know as you can see on the slide there's a variety it there's no way to like put this in a simple matrix so that because both of these funds can be adapted right the red housing fund has a lot of its framework set up but the criteria is currently in draft that the criteria is quite good for red housing fund projects to be located and funded for downtown santa rosa including the county's investment so you know that's solid um but there's additional criteria that could be added like timeliness of construction and things like that so that has a adaptability um we taught we i think we heard from both opportunities about administrative ready readiness two very different concepts um but both could be resolved right um and then also leveraging so i guess the one key difference here is you do have this unique opportunity to couple a couple of upper match the county's offer and they offered the ten million dollar loan uh we don't always get that opportunity to match up and also the um interest that was expressed to place that housing in the downtown santa rosa so that is that is a unique opportunity so with that i'm just going to leave you with these considerations um and it's um before you tonight all right thank you for that claire so we are going to now uh take public comments on item 3.1 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 to raise your hand you'll have three minutes um madame zoom host would you facilitate public comment on item 3.1 i can't turn a little appear before you for the convenience of the speaker and the viewers the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak please make sure to unmute your microphone when you're invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the comment period the first public comment will be from Gregory followed by diane. Gregory i have enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen yes i can thank you please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do do so and your time begins now my name is gregory farron and as most of you know i've been trying to house a lot of the people in the extremely low and very low categories um and the housing authority has been a very effective partner in trying to do that what i'm worried about and what i want you to think about is whether or not either of these choices um is going to make it easier or harder for me to continue to do that um i know the dr funds are coming in and they'll go to the housing authority but i'm worried about all of you abandoning the idea of trying to use public funds to try to help the most needed um we're all and i understand because we lost a lot of upper-income houses fascinated with red and others to try to help the middle class well the middle class is in need of a lot of help and i'm not trying to diminish that especially since it was their houses that built that burned down that have given us the PG&E money i can't claim anybody uh you know dropped a bunch of money on us for low-income housing but i'm worried that the city is going to abandon the energy enthusiasm and even uh flexibility to be able to build those houses that need the subsidy i don't want this city to turn into um you know in a in a car model i want some Volkswagen bugs i don't want a whole lot of Porsche Cayans i'd like to be able to have something that people can afford and i'd like to have your consciousness stay on how hard that is when everyone wants to build upscale housing downtown we're beginning to go from a uh an east east city upper class at a west city poor to in my opinion kind of central city up and for the rich and everybody else on the outskirts of the city and that's that's not looking like progress thank you Gregory the next comment will be from Diane followed by Brian Diane i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the time on your screen thank you thank you please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so when your time begins now hello um i am Diane test vice chair of the Santa Rosa housing authority thank you for holding this study session i support the efforts of the city in the county joint powers agreement for the regional approach to housing production for the renewal enterprise district red a fairly new entity the responsibility of establishing a housing fund putting together capitalization legal structure management and operations all involve startup strategies that will take some time to implement before projects and units get built the startup responsibilities will be required for the county's loan of ten million dollars to the red there's an important difference between red a startup and the timeline required to get up and running versus the existing structure of the Santa Rosa housing authority the housing authority has existing staff expertise and resources to deploy the ten million dollars from the city share of PG&E funds in a timely and efficient manner without added administrative staff the existing housing authority project evaluation process includes a review committee of city council housing authority members to keep the city council informed if the city council agrees to allocate PG&E funds for affordable housing the important question then to the city council is it willing to entrust the city's ten million dollars of PG&E funds to red in addition to the already ten million dollars pledged by the county of Sonoma or will the council allocate its ten million dollars to the city housing authority a respected trusted and experienced affordable housing provider i'm hopeful that you can appreciate the differences thank you for your consideration thank you Diane the next public comment will be from Brian followed by Robert Brian I've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on the screen yes thank you i see the time uh brian Lynn Sonoma county alliance and uh i just wanted to give my support to the red commitment and matching the county's commitment and we don't get opportunities like this often and the red has gained some great grounds in the last two years and and i think we need to support them wherever we can and just a point of urgency it can't be done fast enough and i know the bureaucracy can push things out now now but the sooner these decisions can be made and and funds made available the better for all as it was even related in the last call thank you thank you brian the next public comment will be from Robert Robert i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen i can see the timer thank you please identify yourself or public record if you choose to do so when your time begins now good afternoon i'm bob geiser i'm co-chair of the southeast greenway campaign committee we are requesting that the council consider using some of the pg&e settlement funds or the other programs and sources that are being discussed today to help purchase from caltrans the 9.7 acres of the greenway property the zone for housing development at medium high and medium densities the subsequent sale or transfer of this land from the city to private housing developers will give the city the ability to lure the per unit land cost and allow many new affordable housing units to be built directly implementing the city's housing goals the three parcels zone for housing development all have direct access to main streets bus service and nearby utility shopping and services two of the parcels are zoned from medium high density of 18 to 30 housing units per acre that can be mixed with limited commercial uses the 4.7 acres at the intersection of the highway 12 freeway and farmers lane could be developed with up to 142 housing units at four more stories and the 1.2 acre site on yulupa avenue north of home could have another 35 dwellings at the medium high density a third parcel at the end of valet avenue could have 67 attached two or three-story units at a medium density we believe that these housing development sites meet the criteria that the council is considering for funding intense development in central locations the property has been vacant for many years and is ripe for intense infill uses finally the city of santa rosa already has an existing agreement with caltrans that gives the city the first rights to purchase this land this is a unique opportunity for the city to help meet the community's housing needs thank you for your consideration thank you rubber the next public comment will be from luke luke i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen yes thank you and good afternoon council staff in santa rosa my name is lukelyn anglish with generation housing an independent advocacy nonprofit working to increase the supply diversity and affordability of housing in sinema county i want to start by talking about some of what the red will mean for the future of our community particularly to younger synomens so generation housing hosted a youth and housing webinar last night which included a youth panel of high school students and young adults from our community and hearing what they had to say about housing in our community for them was really enlightening the panelists unanimously cited first-hand accounts of displacement in their families due to the high cost of housing several high school seniors applying to college mentioned researching housing options here locally and determined that they'd have to leave synoma county for college i grew up in synoma county as well and know if the start stories are far too common the labor market and housing market are especially difficult for young synomens to navigate with careers wages and savings accounts still being established in terms of solutions that this youth panel provided they cited the types of projects that will be supported by the renewal enterprise district that are both affordable by deed and affordable by design those studios and one bedrooms well-suited for the younger workforce to occupy uh in our downtown and our younger work workforce is well poised to be an economic engine for downtown san rosa younger residents of synoma county are especially attuned as well to the dynamics of climate change as we will have to deal with the continuing consequences above all else and we recognize that infill housing is also not the easiest to accomplish but it's in a necessity for fire resilience and a vibrant downtown the renewal enterprise district is a unique opportunity to lower some of the financial hurdles specific to infill housing by establishing an infill specific self-sustaining fund that will continually build desperately needed homes right where we need to put them in downtown san rosa the strong potential to build uh thousands of homes in downtown san rosa has been discussed for my entire life it's the reason why i love cities it's the reason why i studied urban and city planning and it's the reason why i came home uh to work on the downtown stationary specific plan uh to work as a planning commissioner in the city sabbatical and now to work for generation housing and as someone who's been excited about downtown san rosa my entire life i can say confidently that this this the renewal enterprise district is the largest opportunity that i can think of to make that long dream a reality and i also dream of a cinema county where all generations of current and future synomens can remain return or arrive here that vision can be realized when the city council votes for our future and acts upon the unique opportunity presented today to establish the renewal enterprise district thank you thank you luke the next public comment will be from asus followed by jen asus have enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on the screen yes i can see the i can see the uh the clock there thank you please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so when your time begins now yeah uh good afternoon everyone my name is i'm the policy and advocacy director here for generation housing and just want to follow up on on my colleague luke's comments here as well and and encourage the city to help accelerate the pace of housing production across the affordability spectrum by allocating a portion of the pgne settlement funds to fully see the red's housing fund this is an opportunity to advance the city's tier one priorities in both climate change and affordable housing by investing in the red housing fund and centering housing and infill sites we can reduce things like vehicle miles traveled reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase access to more walkable neighborhoods and by investing in the red housing fund and and really importantly matching the county's existing ten million dollar allocation we can advance housing and equity goals by increasing the production of affordable housing mixed income and mixed use projects that are more integrated and that are near jobs and amenities in the core of the city so we want to ask respectfully that the council use a portion of the pgne funds to invest in seeding the renewable enterprise districts housing fund thank you he says pardon me the next public comment will be from jen followed by ananda jen i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on the screen yes hi thank you i can thank you please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so when your time begins now thank you good afternoon mr mayor and honorable council members of centers of staff this is jen close i get to be the ed of generation housing here following up by uh to my comments made by my colleagues hisses and luke um we are here to advocate for more and more diverse and more affordable housing um and and today i want to start by thanking your service there is never enough money to fund the needs of a community and the decisions on where to direct resources are often the weightiest so i appreciate um today that the staff and council members have repeatedly referred to the pgne settlement funds as one-time funding indeed these are one-time funds this is a singular opportunity um but there is also a singular opportunity to make these more than one-time funds to grow uh this money it's an opportunity to move the needle on the city's most significant needs and you're going to do this no matter how uh you choose to direct money towards housing um housing the housing prices is ranked on top of the city's listed needs for years and this is a singular opportunity to make progress on that challenge to get home built but the renewal enterprise district revolving fund offers a singular opportunity to grow these one-time funds into more money to make them more by building the housing we need not just now but through a fund that can operate in perpetuity forever and to make them more by investing in the kind of housing construction we need is infill development that will help act as an economic engine to to spur our economic recovery and to make them more than one-time funds by investing upstream in the kind of housing that will keep folks healthy um and and living um in a way that that helps our city thrive and helps our residents thrive and and ultimately uh increases our economic um prosperity in the city so i think that the best way that you can invest this money uh today is a way that leverages it that makes it more than one-time funds that makes it a fund that will serve us uh for for years to come and that's in the renewal enterprise district and i wish you could do that thank you thank you jen the next public comment will be from ananda followed by ben ananda i have enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen i can thank you please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now great thank you good afternoon mayor schwethelm and members of the council my name is ananda sweet with the santa rosa metro chamber you all clearly understand in this conversation that our housing crisis is an enormous threat to our long-term economic um success and recovery an investment in the renewal enterprise district's housing fund will meet a critical need and it's a tremendous opportunity to take advantage of a vehicle that will maximize and leverage this portion of those pg&e funds while providing the flexibility that's needed to meet the diverse and critical workforce housing needs by meeting our housing needs in these key ways and we'll taking advantage of an opportunity that will continuously create jobs and stimulate the economy an investment in the reds fund represents the opportunity to make a meaningful investment in our community and our economic recovery thank you thank you ananda the next public comment will be from ben then i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen yes i can see it please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now thank you my name is ben laroye i'm the special population programs director for santa rosa community health where the community health center that serves santa rosa's low income population first i just want to really applaud the city council for making housing and particularly affordable housing a top priority in the healthcare sector we've had a mantra for decades that housing is healthcare the pandemic has just revealed in stark terms that housing is not only a primary driver of community health but also community education the local economy and our community's resilience to states of emergency so with that in mind i really do want to encourage the city to allocate pgne settlement money in a way that leverages not only the county's conditional allocation of funds to the red but also invest in a revolving loan fund that can transform this one-time funding into something more sustainable in addition to matching the county's conditional allocation to the red i'd really love for the city council to please also consider additional resources for the city housing authority and their great work in supporting affordable and subsidized housing in the city for our residents most in need thank you so much thank you ben the next public comment will be from the lupa co-housing i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen yes i can thank you please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so when your time begins now yes my name is thea hensel and i am co-chair of the south east greenway campaign i would just like to applaud the city for maintaining the urban three principles embedded in all of the city documents i think we all realized how important the vibrant downtown is and i also want to follow up on what my uh co-chair partner mentioned earlier about the property owned by the state of california and caltrans the property that we're addressing is a little bit under 10 acres and we do feel that it's infill it's not downtown but it's in a vibrant part of the city of santa rosa and we hope that you'll consider a portion of the pg&e settlement money going towards the affordable housing distribution across the city and not just focused in one or two neighborhoods and we think that that's the best strategy going forward the attractive location of this property that we're talking about on yuluba farmers lane and vileo is attractive for supplemental funding and credits uh and we have been told by affordable housing proponents that this is necessary for a project to pencil out it is near grocery stores shops schools multimodal transportation and churches all vibrant to a walkable neighborhood we also think that it is attractive for developers because we can offer safe bike transit recreation both passive and active community gardens that participants who are interested who live in these developments can participate in it'll have picnic areas and it's also being surrounded by six schools provides opportunities for education so we hope you'll take it into consideration thank you very much thank you the next public comment will be from ali ali have enabled your speaking permission can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen hello i can see the timer thank you please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so when your time begins now hi yes i'm ali gaylord the director of housing development for midpen housing in santa rosa good afternoon mayor and city council members i'd like to thank you for your careful consideration of how best to use the pg&e settlement funds and i ask respectfully that you the city work in alignment with our shared priorities and values to invest and prioritize funding for affordable housing i know that there are many competing priorities for the pg&e settlement funds and i ask the city council to prioritize allocating funding towards housing as dav bine mentioned the pg&e settlement funds don't have programmatic requirements that the federal or state housing programs have and therefore is much more flexible funding that can address city priorities as determined locally funding the red or the housing authority is not an either or proposition it should be a both and through seating the ten million dollars as a match to the county's commitment for the red housing fund the city has a unique opportunity to leverage these one-times funds with the county allocating further funding to be administered by the housing authority will ensure that housing is locally funded and prioritized for the lowest income and most vulnerable residents these investments will give affordable housing developers the assurance that the city is prioritizing housing and will further the city's ability to leverage state and federal resources to increase the efficacy of each local housing dollar i would ask that the city council be clear that the policy goals of these housing investments should be allocated based on criteria that will support the goal of more lovable and vibrant sanarosa specifically infill housing it's a particularly important criteria given the ongoing fires the city has seen in the wildland urban interface and according to the youth truth 2020 student survey everyone agrees that affordable housing is the most pressing community wide need in response to the fires these long-term foundational investments in housing development align with just and resilient recovery and i ask that these goals be supported by the city council thank you and we're taking public comment on item 3.1 housing investment opportunities for PG&E funds if you are participating via telephone gov star 9 or raise your hand via zoom and i'm not seeing any additional hands raised or my public comment are you okay if i move along to record a public comment please do thank you session item 3.1 Dwayne DeWitt from the Sonoma County Housing Advocacy Group this is a interesting opportunity that's presenting itself it needs to have further public involvement especially because the renewal enterprise district is essentially a closed black box type of organization in which the taxpayers have little voice the same also perhaps could be said about the city's housing authority which is a top-down their way or the highway type of approach and doesn't really address the true level of affordable housing needs for the city of Santa Rosa for decades the housing authority has not been able to keep up and keep pace with the need for affordable housing at the very low low income levels by always shifting everything to moderate we essentially get market rate housing built without providing for the people most in need and that's the extremely low income the very low income and the low income residents of our city these funds could be utilized in such a way to help end totally alleviate the homeless problem at least for those long-term Santa Rosa residents we'll never be able to stop the transients that move in and apparently take over our parks but i believe if you were to work with the community on these investment opportunities there could be a true community empowerment approach to getting the affordable housing that's needed for the lower end of the spectrum of housing thank you thank you mayor that concludes public comment received all right thank you for that so we'll bring it back to council again this was this study session was information only and a lot of information was provided i really appreciate all the presentations council are there any final questions or comments you'd like to make on this item mr tivitz you're on mute jack so close thanks hi i i know that we have a lot of decisions to make in the coming months um and but this one i am particularly excited about because i think you've heard me say time and again i i just so want to see the city make some investments and this is an investment on so many fronts it's it's money that will get repaid to the entity it is money that makes money and it's money that's focused towards a priority of the city in this case housing um you know i'd like to to see us when the time comes to look at just doing 10 10 million to the renewal enterprise district so we can obtain that county match but i'd also like to see us entertain 10 million to the housing authority um if that 39 million dollars in d r money does in fact go through then i'd like to tailor some of that housing authority money more precisely to our other priorities such as homelessness and permanent supportive housing or homeless dedicated housing and also home ownership you know i think it's such a shame that we as is government as we look into housing and we seem to be hyper focused on affordable and predominantly rental housing and i think that's a good thing um obviously all housing is a good thing but um ownership home ownership in particular is i just think important it's poverty ending it becomes a financial tool for families they can do refinances home equity lines of credit help pay to put a kid through school have a place that they can age into as they get older and not be worried about things like eviction um so i i hope that we can consider that you'll hear me talking about it more as we go through this process um and the last thing i guess i just wanted to add for whatever it's worth is you know i i think my personal struggle going forward through this process is going to be having to make decisions between repairing a sidewalk in a neighborhood that was affected by the fire because i think we certainly have a responsibility to do that but also making these investments in the community that's going to make it universally accessible for everyone and in that i was trying to think about that how was i going to come down going going through this process and this and while the sidewalks are certainly important i think that what makes a neighborhood is not a sidewalk it's the people who live in that neighborhood or the routine that somebody has when they drive into town on their way to work in the morning who you know who did they see behind the counter at the coffee shop and that's what we're talking about here and i'm watching a lot of people leave Santa Rosa right now more than ever and so i hope this one-time money can help stem that flow of people that exodus of people out of here thanks for the opportunity to speak mayor hey jack on mr. Dowd you had your hand up i did and i i want to re-emphasize what some of the council members have said and also the public in that uh i support us the city as a city moving forward i see us as doing a collection of different things like red and then also housing authority funds um to support and i and i while i appreciate the need for affordable housing i can see it across at least to moderate housing pricing in the whole package but i also want to be sure that there is absolute total concentration on the fact that this is not one-time funds but rotates back again and again and again that can be used to really help um our community get back on its feet and so i'm just saying just just watch that and guide it thank you thank you mr. dad mr rogers thank you mr mayor i did uh appreciate the comments that everybody had earlier and i do uh definitely know that one of the things we'll be talking about is how all of our interests is a city aligned and i did just want to remind the council and and for our new council members who are coming in that what was mentioned sort of briefly today is the new rena numbers that are coming down the regional housing needs assessment numbers uh and there is a parallel conversation that continues to happen at the Sonoma county transportation authority level about how the cities in the county can continue to collaborate on that housing production and just because i know many of us are very strong supporters of community separators in our urban growth boundaries what that means is that we're going to be having difficult conversations about either changing those principles or i think what's much much more likely is the city is going to be asked to take on a lot of that workload that claire mentioned for the county not just santa rosa but other cities as well because that's how we're going to both retain those urban growth boundaries those community separators that people value and also meet those regional housing needs assessments so i know we're not making any decisions today i am definitely waiting to hear the presentation next week on the community wildfire protection plan and where some of the this funding can be utilized but i do think that housing will be a good investment for us not just as a priority for for housing and for homelessness but also from a climate perspective as well great thank you vice mayor yes thank you mayor and i once again want to thank you know dave wine claire harpman and force of team and michelle for your presentations and i i want to challenge a couple of things that i've heard over this one is that you know that the housing authority and the rural enterprise district exist in black boxes as the chair of the rural enterprise district i want to assure all listeners that we are a brown-acted body and that we do all of our work out and open in the public as does the housing authority and that we invite and welcome community participation in both bodies the second is that that this is an either or while you know we have limited and certainly one-time initial funds coming through from pgne the way that i'll be approaching looking at deploying these funds will be in terms of if i were managing a mutual fund or an investment portfolio and looking for what things will bring us the greatest return on investments so that we have economic resiliency going forward for generations and so while not every project and every every initiative will get funded i i hope that it won't be interpreted that one thing is less important than another and i really don't want anyone to get the impression that something like homelessness is somehow less important than providing low moderate or even you know market rate housing that what is really important here is that we have the ability to provide for our future for all of the residents that make up the community which includes people of various different incomes but most importantly the ability of everybody regardless of their origin to live a sustainable and independent and self-directed future where they have equal access to opportunity so those will be my principles going forward and and with that i'm sure my council members will join me thank you thank you mr alvarez thank you mayor thank you for the presentation not from both uh thanks to the red and also david for overview of the housing authority and some of the options there i would encourage you as you move forward to explore options for the housing authority as to whether or not it can it it may be able to implement some type of a revolving loan fund there as well so i don't know what the limitations are but just consider being creative as you move forward thank you mr alvarez mr soyer thank you mayor i would like to echo councilmember oliveris's comment because i think it's this is the first time that i have heard a good discussion around what our own housing authority not only does but what they are capable of doing so it was really important to hear that and thank you i think everyone for their for their presentations i know much with with more clarity now the the product which is red and also more about the our housing authority and their willingness and ability to be creative thank you thank you mr soyer in my final comments you know i really want to applaud uh city manager and staff one of the things that this council did with the settlement dollars we wanted feedback from the community and feedback we have received directly from the community uh this was a great example of a community need we got a lot of information now to mow over before we make those final decisions sometime next year and i know next week will be another feedback opportunity related you know to our fire department so i really appreciate all of the information that is being provided to council so that we can make the best decisions that we believe will be in the best good of the community so thank you for all this information it's a lot to consider um and claire did you have any other information that you wanted from council or any final comments no i think uh i think we we did a good job discussing with the options were great thank you okay uh since council's been at it since 130 we're gonna take a recess until five o'clock and to let everyone know as is has been the practice with the council we will try to do our public hearings as close to five o'clock as possible so when we do reconvene we will be starting with item 15.1 our public hearing so we'll recess until five o'clock thank you madam city clerk are you ready to continue yes i am okay we'll reconvene the december 8 2020 santa rosa city council meeting uh can we please have a take a roll call yes councilmember dowd here councilmember tibbetz here councilmember soyer here councilmember rogers here councilmember oliveris here ice mayor phleming here mayor schwaetham here let the records show that all council members are present okay thank you since it is uh five o'clock and it has been the practice of this count council to have public hearings as close to five as possible we will now jump to item 15.1 the public hearings so this is uh general plan amendments are considered three times per year in accordance with the general plan policy so we have three of such items today and uh so council is aware and anyone who wishes to make comment on this we'll be handling them uh in the following order first at 35 75 minisino avenue that will be uh public comment or public hearing will be opened and closed then we'll do the same on item two which is yolanda industrial project and item three tnl micro cannabis facility um madame city attorney would you like us to vote at the end in one motion on the three separate ones or do you want us to stop and vote after each presentation sorry i had a little technical problem there um i think just given the complexity of these of this package you're going to be in a better position to vote after each item but i would ask that you simply make clear as you introduce that this is all all three projects are components of the 2020 fall uh general plan amendment package so okay great um then before i ask for uh expartee disclosures mr. city manager did you want to introduce who will be making the presentation for our first one yes the first presentation will be um amy nickelson senior planner okay thank you amy before amy starts your presentation on 35 75 minisino avenue i'll just go around uh each council member and ask her if there if you had any expartee communications uh mr. dowd i i met uh for a briefing with uh effort choreo and the project manager on this course and we discussed some of the elements of it such as ingress and egress to the project and that type of thing but it was just informative thank you mr rogers thank you mr mayor i uh also met with uh mr choreo and the applicant to discuss uh and no information was presented in that meeting that is not public in the staff documents thank you mr sire thank you mayor i also um had a conversation over the telephone and met with mr choreo over the length of this project and uh but nothing new was learned other than what's in the staff report in this presentation thank you mr olivares hey mayor same disclosures as the others i did have a meeting with the project representatives no new information thank you mr jivitz no communication and vice mayor funding same as most of my council members i met with uh mr choreo and uh did not learn anything that is not present in the information that's available to the public thank you and i too had the same meeting with mr choreo and kathy the project manager everything that we discussed is in the record so with that um we're ready for the presentation good evening mayor schwedholm vice mayor flumming and members of the council the item before you is part of the fall 2020 general plan amendment package and it is specifically for the project of 35 75 mendesino avenue next slide please the project represents up to 14.5 percent of the city's market rate housing goal by the year 2022 and 9.8 percent of the very low and low income goal next slide the uh approvals before the council this evening would allow for the development of up to 532 units of which 162 would be dedicated for low and very low income senior households the project also includes a one-acre park with public access in addition to necessary improvements for the residential development next slide please this graphic shows the proposed site plan and also the location of existing and proposed transit stops and proximity to the project site the high frequency bus stop located on bicentennial way is just 0.2 miles south of the project site and there are a number of both city and county bus stops located along mendicino avenue the project does include a proposal to relocate the existing bus stop on the west side of mendicino avenue a little bit south shown on the graphic in orange and that would be abutting the senior housing component of the project next slide please the approvals before the council this evening include a sustainable communities environmental assessment or a ski and this is required for sequel compliance a general plan amendment and rezoning are also requested in addition to approval of a phase tentative map a design review application for the affordable senior housing component has been submitted to the planning and economic development department and action on that design review entitlement will be following council's action this evening design review for the market rate component is forthcoming once a market rate developer has been identified next slide please the project site is located at 3575 mendicino avenue and this is just south of the mendicino overcrossing and east of highway 101 the site is located within one of the city's priority development areas or pda's called the mendicino avenue corridor and these are areas where increased residential densities are envisioned based on proximity to high frequency transit next slide this graphic represents an aerial of the project site from february of this year this is the former site of the journeys and mobile home park which was impacted by the tub's fire in 2017 during that fire event 116 of the mobile homes were destroyed the remaining 44 mobile homes which are shown on the slide here were removed from the project site in july following council's approval of the journey's and mobile home relocation impact report next slide the slide represents a number of the project milestones just a few items to note are the pre-application meetings that were held in february which included both a neighborhood meeting and concept design review the waterways committee waterways advisory committee also reviewed the project based on the proposed stormwater outfall into rustle creek and the environmental document was circulated for public review on september 28th the planning commission held a public hearing for this project on november 12th and at that time the commission made a recommendation of approval to the council for each of the four entitlements next slide please the project includes a general plan amendment from mobile home to transit village medium the transit village medium land use designation is intended for properties within a half mile of a transit facility and requires residential densities between 25 and 40 units per acre the proposed project is consistent with this land use designation the project also implements a number of general plan goals and policies especially those related to housing by providing housing for special needs groups in addition to locating a high-density housing project in close proximity to services and transit helping to achieve a number of the land use and climate change goals and policies next slide please the project site is currently zoned rural residential with a resilient city combining district as the council recalls the resilient city combining district was formed following the tubs fire to streamline the rebuilding process for those fire affected parcels the proposed rezoning is to transit village residential and this is consistent with the proposed land use designation the resilient city combining district would be applied going forward as well and a senior housing combining district would also be applied to a two and a half acre portion of the site this is the southeastern portion where the 162 senior units are located the project does meet each of the development standards in the transit village residential zoning district except for vehicle parking there is an allowed concession from development standards if a project is consistent with the city's inclusionary housing ordinance and i'll be speaking more about that later on in the presentation next slide please the project has been reviewed in compliance with the california environmental quality act and a sustainable community's environmental assessment has been prepared i'm going to take just a moment to provide some background on this type of secret document since it is new to the city there is a senate bill that was signed in 2008 senate bill 375 and the bill essentially provides the framework for a sustainable community's environmental assessment for sequel compliance the intent here was to align land use development and infrastructure spending with greenhouse gas reduction mandates this bill establishes the concept of sustainable community strategies and also transit priority projects the regional government of mtca bag has created a sustainable community strategy for the bay area by the document called plan bay area and this document also has a certified eir next slide please just to walk through some of the benefits of a ski a document for sequel compliance there's not the need to describe or analyze any growth inducing or greenhouse gas effects from cars and light trucks and this is because this document is relying on the sustainable community strategy eir which was prepared for the region it also does not require analysis of impacts to the regional roadway network that were previously analyzed a ski is similar to a mitigated negative declaration that the council is familiar with except for the following reasons one is that cumulative effects that are mitigated in a prior eir so the plan bay area eir are not considered cumulatively there again there's not the need to reduce to repeat that analysis i previously mentioned the substantial evidence not fair argument applies and then in this case because the city doesn't have a policy in place the council adopts this document when typically the planning commission would be able to do so next slide please in order for a project to qualify for a ski eir it must be considered a transit priority project and this is defined as a residential project or a mixed use project with 75 percent being devoted to residential uses the project site also must be located within one half a mile of a high quality transit corridor and be at least 20 units per acre included density of at least 20 units per acre excuse me in addition the project must be consistent with the state sustainable community strategy eir and the plan itself and the ski must incorporate all feasible mitigation measures performance standards or criteria within that eir finally it must be concluded that all impacts are less than significant next slide please the sustainable community's environmental assessment for this project was circulated for public review on september 28th of this year there were a number of mitigation measures identified and those are shown on the slide here no written comments were received during the public circulation period however the city did receive written correspondence from the federated indians of great and rancheria on december 7th and minor modifications were made to the ski a resolution mitigation measures and the mitigation monitoring and reporting plan which have all been revised and are included as attachments to the staff report in addition there is a minor revision to the tentative map resolution which reflects comments from great and rancheria next slide please this graphic shows the proposed site plan the affordable senior housing units are located in the southeast portion of the site there are three points of ingress and egress onto mendicino avenue and the only public street off of mendicino avenue ends in a roundabout there is also the one-acre public publicly accessible park and this is located central to the project site next slide please this slide shows the proposed phase tentative map it is divided into two phases with the first phase shown in yellow so the first phase would include the senior housing component which consists of three separate lots and also the public street the map in total creates eight lots one would be for the park and the remaining lots for the market rate development next slide please so this slide shows the proposed private park with public access the park includes both active and passive recreation spaces which would be made available to residents of the community and also those members of the public the park does represent a 100 credit of park impact fees for the senior housing component of the project and would also represent a 45 credit for park fees for the market rate component next slide the project is in compliance with the city's inclusionary housing ordinance by providing on-site affordable units if the project develops to 532 units then 22 percent of the overall unit count would be provided as deed restricted affordable the inclusionary housing ordinance does allow for affordable units to be concentrated in one area of the project site due to funding and phasing and that is the case with this project the project also includes a request for a concession from vehicle parking spaces and the applicant has provided the demonstration of cost reduction that is required the zoning code states that the city shall grant a concession and unless the city can make a written finding that either the concession does not result in cost cost reduction that the concession would have an adverse impact on public health safety or the environment or that the concession would be contrary to state or federal law the planning commission and planning staff have not been able to make any of those findings and as a result have found that the concession concession should be granted next slide please in response to a public comment received early in the project review process the applicant provided an emergency preparedness plan this plan outlines the roles of emergency coordinators and available resources and also necessary measures to be taken in the event of a number of emergencies this plan also includes building evacuation and shelter in place procedures next slide in response to Kaiser Permanente which is located immediately south of the project site and their concerns that the parking provided as a part of this project might impact the parking on Kaiser site the applicant was able to redesign the parking layout and and added 84 additional parking spaces the parking counts reflected in the staff report do indicate these additional 84 spaces but i wanted to provide this graphic to show that this was based on a public comment received next slide please this slide shows a number of public comments received during the neighborhood meeting and as the council knows there have been many comments received in support of this project and those are included as a part of the staff packet next slide please with that the planning commission and the planning and economic development department recommends that the council by resolution adopt a sustainable community's environmental assessment and by resolution approve a general plan amendment changing the general plan land use designation from mobile home to transit village medium introduce an ordinance rezoning from rural residential to transit village residential with a resilient city combining district and senior housing combining district and by resolution approve a tentative map for those parcels located at 3575 Mendocino avenue next slide please that concludes my presentation and city staff are available to answer any questions you may have the consultant that prepared the environmental document is also available for any specific questions on the ski a document thank you great thank you for that presentation amy bring it back to council any questions on that presentation i am not seeing any amy will the applicant be making a presentation also yes okay why don't we move to that then miss massie i have been able to speaking permissions and what can prepare to advance your slides on your behalf oh good afternoon good evening members of the council larry florin ceo and president of urban housing i'm just going to introduce this item our rock star a project manager karen massie will be doing the bulk of the presentation so you won't be hearing from me thankfully for all of you but i actually wanted just to take a moment to thank the city staff that have been working with us on this project now for three years now every project sponsor stands up and says they really want to thank the city staff but we really really want to thank the city staff we broke new ground in so many areas and your staff was at our side every step of the way in terms of getting here to where we are right now and and we literally could not have have got to where we are we're actually from our estimation we're at about the second second phase after the closing of the part this this step and then the next step being the financing which is going to follow soon thereafter and we could not literally have done it without your staff so right first first and foremost thank you thank you thank you to all of you to us this represents the reason why Burbank is an existence this this particular project as a 41-year-old locally based non-profit affordable housing developer we really feel as though our mission is tied to the community here and that community of Santa Rosa and in there was after the tubs fire we really looked at ourselves and said what could we do as an organization to participate in the recovery and the rebuilding and lo and behold this project came into focus for us the the property owners of the former now journey zen mobile home park were fabulous to work with and they have been incredibly supportive of what we're trying to do here but and without all this pulling together there's no way this is what we think recovery looks like in the best of all worlds bringing back what had been but better and that's what is represented by you here today so with that i'm just going to introduce Karen massi who is senior project manager at Burbank to take you through the details great thank you so much larry good evening mr mayor members of the council as larry said my name is Karen massi i am the project manager we are very pleased to be here tonight i want to echo larry's sentiments i'm pleased to be able to present this important fire recovery and housing project to you all staff has been tremendous in the last three years and we really appreciate their efforts and support in getting us to this point tonight next slide please i'd like to introduce the members of the team that i have here with me this evening you've obviously met larry here tonight i'm also joined by effin choreo with burbank housing as well as and silverberg from related california we're also joined by the property owner ramsey surei too as well as the team of consultants following project approval the property owner will take the project to market to identify a market rate developer for the project next slide please i also want to acknowledge the many organizations that have supported the prior residents in this process over the last three years you're seeing many of them on the slide in front of you now this has truly been a collaboration and a collaborative effort and there's been wide support for this project which is demonstrated by the almost 20 letters of support you have in your agenda packet tonight next slide please the 2017 Tub Spire was the first in a series of disasters in our community and we were faced with a steep learning curve to align resources to adequately respond to needs this has been a long process as larry shared our first year was really spent focusing on the prior residents trying to obtain funds to help support them and also determining what to do with the future of the park 2019 was spent after finally receiving direction from the state and federal government 2019 was spent beginning to issue housing assistance payments to the prior residents and issues and discussions regarding closure of the park also began this year saw formal park closure as well as the middle of our redevelopment application and we're optimistic that in 2021 we will all see reconstruction of the site began next slide please we also wanted to be able to share with you that with the help of many of the organizations here today our prior residents have restabilized almost 60 of them have either purchased or rented a new mobile home moved into affordable housing or renting an apartment in or near Santa Rosa we have received 26 letters of support from prior residents for the project and we're happy to also share that 32 of those prior residents have inquired about being placed on the waitlist to move back to the site next site several key project objectives guided development of the project site we wanted to make sure we designed a project that advanced the city's housing and recovery goals rebuilt a more resilient and safer community create a created a healthy sustainable community and maximize the city's existing infrastructure investments next slide please the project before you tonight advances the council's top priorities of housing and recovery it will rebuild 17 percent of the units lost in the 2017 wildfires it also maximizes the site's location in a priority development area near high-quality transit and near six of the county's major employers next slide please the project also aligns with the general plan goals and objectives it proposes a compact development pattern of high density and affordable housing with a variety of housing types on one of the city's major arterials next slide please the project also achieves housing action plan objectives it increases affordable housing provides housing for all ages and incomes accounts for almost 25 percent of the city's housing goals and will rehouse our prior journeys and residents next slide please the project also seeks to leverage existing investments it will maximize existing transit opportunities as well as utility infrastructure and create greater synergies with existing amenities in that area next slide please the project also rebuilds a more resilient community as many of you may know the prior mobile home park was built in the 1950s and most of the coaches were from the 1960s and 70s many of them didn't have many fire and life safety systems that were required today we have met extensively with fire marshal moon and assistant fire marshal hardridge to ensure that we have designed a project that is as safe and resilient as possible we designed the project to exceed the access requirements by providing three points of access we have improved site and building safety by providing connections to the city's water system and on-site fire hydrants designing buildings that will have certified alarm systems and fire sprinklers backup power sources in the event of power shortages and also incorporated fire resistant building materials as well as fire resistant landscape design and materials and finally we have emphasized readiness and preparedness by preparing an emergency response and preparedness plan for future residents so that they can know where their evacuation routes are and how best to respond in the event of an emergency next slide please finally the project supports community health and wellness it creates a diverse and inclusive community that encourages outdoor activities through the use of public and private green space and promotes socialization and engagement a health action plan is also being prepared for the project to address issues related to health including isolation access to preventative care and transportation issues that are common to our senior population next slide please next steps for the project after council review this evening we will move forward with director level design review this month we are also applying for state and federal funds we recently responded to the city's notice of funding available for cdb d dr funds and our hopeful will be selected to receive some of those funds concurrent with that we are undergoing the design development and preparation of our construction documents all with the goal that the affordable component will start construction by next september september of 2021 with regard to the market rate component the next steps are that the property owner will take the project to market to identify a market rate developer and we're optimistic that we will have a new partner in early 2021 next slide please we have reviewed the mitigation measures and revisions that staff has brought forward and agree with that with them and with that we are happy to try to answer any questions that you might have thank you camera and larry for that presentation council any questions from the applicant not seeing any thank you very much okay i'm going to open up the public caring which will be an opportunity for members of the public to make comment on this if you are attending via zoom please raise your hand and if you are calling in via telephone please dial star nine madam host would you facilitate the public comment of this public caring we'll do down timer is before you for the convenience of the speaker and the viewers the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak when the countdown begins please make sure to unmute your microphone when you are invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown timer the first public comment will be from luke followed by ananda luke i've enabled your speaking permission can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen yes thank you very much and hello again council staff and esteemed public once again my name is luke lindenbush with generation housing i'm here to reinforce the comments made in generation housing's letter of support for 3575 medecino avenue and strongly encourage the city council to approve this vitally important development and its rezoning from an objective technical standpoint 3575 medecino is a slam dunk for all the prior reasons well presented thank you to everyone at burbank housing and senior planner amy nicholson for several years of dedicated work to ensure that a formidable project could emerge the respects the legacy of the site and also thank you to the rest of the application applicant team for work on a project that has been known by no means easy but that is incredibly easy to support for the scale of the benefit that it will bring to santa rosa from a more holistic standpoint i adhere to the old saying that a society or in this case a community can be judged by how it treats its elders at the planning commission hearing on this item i spoke to the personal importance of this project as my own grandmother lived in a santa rosa mobile home much like those that were destroyed at the former journey's end and i know that i'm not the only community member for whom the destroyer of this affordable housing option for seniors was one of the most viscerally difficult losses of the tubs fire 3575 medecino reflects an undeniable opportunity to reaffirm that santa rosa is a place where seniors of all incomes can live and thrive this proposed transit oriented development provides more affordable homes for seniors than stood before with abundant access to senior specific needs including medical services after phase one the residents of nearly 400 market rate homes delivered by related california will benefit from a central location near jobs ambitious projects like this like 3575 medecino create conditions for our community to live intergenerationally and are in line with generation housing's housing's mission to create more more affordable and more diverse housing in sinoma county thank you very much once again to the council for supporting 3575 medecino thank you luke the next public comment will be from ananda followed by kevin ananda i've been able to speak in permissions please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen i can thank you please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now hello again mayor schwet helman members of the council this is ananda suite with the santa rosa metro chamber i'm here to express the metro chamber's support of the redevelopment project at 3575 medecino avenue as you well know santa rosa was facing a housing shortage before october of 2017 when our crisis was magnified overnight including the loss of the journey's end mobile home park the proposed redevelopment of this site aligns with the city of santa rosa's fire recovery goals and this project represents the exact type of investment that we need in santa rosa while addressing our critical housing shortage santa rosa's housing shortage is the greatest threat to our long-term economic and cultural success it's impeding business growth and causing economic community health and environmental damage as our residents struggle to access adequate housing or are forced to commute long distances the result is increased air pollution and traffic congestion growing inequity and reduced productivity housing is one of the largest challenges for local employers who need to recruit and retain employees in order to stay and grow in santa rosa the development of both affordable and mercury housing is vital to address these challenges and an increase in housing near transit retail and major employers will bring tremendous returns to santa thank you so much to the applicant team and city staff for work on such important project placing high density housing at this location is exactly the type of development that we need in our community and we urge you to support this project thank you thank you ananda the next public comment will be from kevin have been able to speak in permission can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the time on your screen yes and thank you please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now thank you my name is kevin riley and i am a regional representative at green belt alliance green belt alliance is one of the outreach partners mentioned tonight by karen macy and we are an environmental nonprofit that encourages both the protection of open space as well as directing development and growth into our existing communities we endorse developments in the bay area that help further these goals by providing an independent validation of smart infill housing master plans and mixed use projects and after careful review green belt alliance is pleased to endorse this project uh this the the proposed journeys and project that was being discussed here tonight you know given the current coven 19 crisis it is more important than ever than ever before to make sure everyone in the bay area has a place to call home and has a short commute to work this project has an impressive commitment to deep affordability with its 162 senior affordable units which represents about 30 percent of the affordability for the project as you well know this project site is located within a short a short walk or bike ride from the bicentennial way transit corner which has several bus stops it has direct access to existing bike lanes furthermore the reduced parking paired with 160 bicycle parking spaces mean that this project will encourage a walkable and vibrant community in santa rosa for residents across the income spectrum by also providing a public one acre central park this project carries a host of other environmental and quality of life benefits everything from having a place for children to play to being a stormwater bioretention area and every city in the bay area must play must play their part to increase the housing stock and make sure the local workforce can afford to live in places that are close to jobs and schools parks and services and we need to spend more time with our family and friends and less time in traffic congestion i believe this project is is can really help the city be able to do all these things um we need to improve the social fabric of our communities and reduce the climate damaging greenhouse gas emissions produced by driving and also spend less time in our cars and more times with our friends and family the journey's end project is kind of a climate smart night development that we need in the bay area right now to meet our housing goals we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and we're going to make sure that local residents are able to grow and thrive in their own communities as housing costs continue to rise we hope its approval and its success will inspire other cities and communities around the bay area to redouble their efforts and grow smartly thank you to the development team and the staff for your support and please uh support this project thank you thank you kevin the next public comment will be from linda linda i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on the screen okay i do see that and can you hear me now linda i can thank you very much please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now i am i am linda adrian i'm a former resident of jurean san um i'm probably going to cry because i always do when i talk about it i miss not having a home um i wish we could get the senior apartments built as soon as possible they're going to be built by verbank housing uh i only have actually one complaint about it is that almost all of the apartments are single one bedroom apartments and and most of the at least half to a third of the homes and juries and were two or at least two bedroom because it's only having one bedroom that means a senior cannot have a caregiver live with them unless they're going to share the bed which would be terrible um that that's my only complaint is that there's not enough two bedroom apartments so seniors can have caregivers stay with them otherwise i wish they would build it as soon as possible so i could have a place to live anyway has to be thank you very much sorry thank you linda again we're taking public comment on 15.1.1 the first project under this public carrying item 3575 minisino avenue republic comment raise your hand via zoom dial star nine if participating by telephone here i'm seeing no additional hands raised for this item are you okay if we move on to the recorded public comments yes please do thank you point one dwayne with roseland regarding 3575 mendicino avenue this proposal states this will be a transit oriented project because there's a bus stop nearby but this is a case of cod fraud transit oriented development cod the idea that people are going to utilize transit in mass is not occurring any of the elected officials and various highly paid staff members feel if you just build it they will come but that is not the case many people prefer to use private vehicles it's very important that you not engage in cod fraud and not call this a transit village because this is essentially going to be a high-density project next to the freeway next to a road that people will be using their cars on it's important that there be honesty in the city planning processes and that there be honesty and the public policy of elected officials agreeing to certain stipulations and then those things not occurring so this parcel 3575 mendicino avenue the former journeys and mobile home park should not be considered transit oriented development and just be considered regular development but because it's next to a high rise hospital building it could also be high rise and have higher densities without utilizing cod fraud thank you mayor that concludes public comment on 15.1 and i'm seeing no additional hands raised for this portion of the public hearing all right thank you for that we'll go ahead close the public hearing and i do want to thank linda's comments i never have to apologize for passion for a project and i know you speak for many of the former residents and journeys in that i've talked to so thank you for sharing your thoughts so with that are there any additional questions from any council members on this project not seeing any uh mr rogers you have this item thank you mr mayor i will first start with the resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa making findings and and approving the sustainable communities environmental assessment and mitigation monitoring and reporting program pursuant to the california environmental quality act for the 3575 mendesino avenue project assessor's parcel number 173-030-001 and 173-030-001 file number prj20-002 and wave for the reading of the text i think i saw mr alvarez lips move first um so we have mr rogers second on mr alvarez uh because i how many additional motions will you be having mr rogers on this item uh looks like there are three more mr mayor okay so if would anyone like to make a comment before we put it to a vote on this first resolution if i may mr mayor i did want to i to get clarification that you are referring to the amended resolution that was updated today yeah correct the revised resolution that was in the packet thank you okay we have a oh mr sire go ahead just just want to say you know this looks like once it's completed this is going to be the crown jewel um or the jewel in the crown of bourbon housing i just want to thank everyone involved this is a this appears to be an incredible project and it's at the gateway of santa rosa i think it'll it'll start people's um one appreciation for our city as they travel in either direction thank you for that mr sire okay we have a motion in a second madame city clerk can we do a real call vote please yes councilmember dowd hi councilmember tibbetz hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor phleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven i's okay uh next i will introduce an ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa amending title 20 of the santa rosa city code by reclassifying the property for the 3575 mendicino avenue project located at 3575 mendicino avenue assessors parcel number 173-030-001 to the transit village residential resilient city tv rrc and transit village residential senior housing resilient city tv rsh rc district file number prj uh 20-002 and rez 20-002 and wait for the reading of the text second okay we have a motion by mr rogers second by mr alvarez any question council see none madame city clerk real call vote please looks like dick has a question do you have a question dick yeah we we talked about uh the x party meetings and i wasn't sure that it covered this one as well i did meet with uh one of the owners of this project and uh their project engineer took me on a tour just so i could see what it looked like uh but nothing that wasn't already in the public presentation yet this is still on the journey's end we have four resolutions on journey's end so we're are you speaking of the second one on yolanda yes yeah we're still on the first oh i'm sorry i'm sorry okay madame roll call vote please councilmember dowd hi councilmember tibbetz hi councilmember soyer right councilmember rogers hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor phleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes okay i will introduce a resolution of the council of the city of san arosa approving a general planned plan land use diagram amendment from mobile home to transit village medium for the property at 3575 mendicino avenue assessor's parcel number 173-030-001 file numbers prj20-002 and gpam20-001 and wave further reading of the text second okay we have a motion by mr rogers say my mr alvarez madame city clerk can we do a roll call vote please yes councilmember dowd hi councilmember tibbetz hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor phleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes all right and finally i will introduce a resolution of the council of the city of san arosa approving the 3575 mendicino avenue project tentative map located at 3575 mendicino avenue assessor's parcel number 173-030-001 and 173-030-002 file numbers prj20-002 and maj20-001 and wave further reading of the text second motion by mr rogers second by mr alvarez madame city clerk roll call vote please and me and just to confirm this is the revised as of today yep thank you councilmember dowd hi councilmember tibbetz hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor phleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes great thank you so much for all that uh congratulations and uh mr glane who will be introducing the yolanda industrial project before i go to exparte disclosures dizzy murray will be handling that okay council i'll just go around to query it if you have any exparte disclosures regarding the yolanda industrial project uh let's see mr dowd i already announced it but i'll do it again in order is that i did have a tour of this project just to see what it was uh being proposed and met with the owner and the project engineer and nothing was discussed or presented that wasn't in the package as well okay thank you mr soyer no it's partake thank you mr alvarez thank you mayor i did meet with the applicant's team and i did not discover any new information thank you mr tibbetz no communication thank you mr rogers uh no exparte communications thank you vice mayor phleming nothing to report thank you okay and i know i was at the site it was all pre-covid so i think it was 2019 uh and also uh mid november i met with the applicant and learned about the project which is all included in the public presentation so with that uh susie you're on thank you and good evening mayor schwedhelm vice mayor phleming and council members the project before you is the second project in the fall 2020 general plan amendment package yolanda industrial project next slide please the project involves a mitigated negative declaration and i want to point out that that includes the development or the changes to seven parcels general plan amendment for five parcels changing them from retail and business services and then one parcel from medium high density residential all six to light industry industry and then it also involves a rezoning for the same six parcels five of which are coming from the general commercial zoning district one from the multifamily residential zoning district all into the light industrial zoning district consistent with the general plan land use there are also other entitlements currently under review by the city to design reviews to redevelop two sites which i'll show in another slide and a conditional use permit for cannabis related uses next slide please here's the slide i said at the top of this graphic is the yolanda or yolanda avenue just to orient yourselves and those parcels all the parcels fronting yolanda avenue will be redeveloped with a new commercial building well a new commercial building and a new storage building the longer building on the right side of that graphic is a longer storage building next slide please can you hit the arrow down again so my flint there we go just to kind of give you an idea about the neighborhood context the property to the north is currently undeveloped but there's an entitled multifamily residential project to develop a 252 unit apartment complex to the west in between the project site and san rosa avenue or predominantly commercial uses as is to the south those are also commercial uses and then along the eastern order we have commercial and light industry fronting yolanda and then multifamily residential to the south of that some of the existing uses are really more appropriate for the light industrial zoning district and light industry general plan land use designation and most of those uses will remain next slide please so there's a long project history for the site i've kind of highlighted what i thought was a little bit more appropriate and probably here going back in the 2018 the applicant began meeting with both neighborhood and city staff next slide the project again went back to the neighborhood back in august of 2019 and probably most appropriate for tonight is that on november 12th last month the planning commission made a recommendation to council to approve the project or the entitlements before you next slide please here's the general plan land use diagram the image on the left and the zoning map the image on the right and this shows the current zoning and general plan land use the project site is outlined in black right the red shows retail and business services the gray portion in the northeast corner is the one parcel that doesn't require rezoning it's already got a general plan land use designation of light industry and consistent with the zoning and then there's a parcel that's in that terracotta color and that is medium density residential and we'll talk a little bit more about that as i get further into the slides the the area is also within priority development area santa rosa santa rosa avenue pda next slide please initials initial study was conducted and it resulted in the preparation of a mitigated negative declaration that document was circulated for a 30-day public review period commencing on june 30th the document also includes a mitigation monitoring and reporting program and includes measures to reduce potentially significant impacts that were identified in the project next slide please so this is where i wanted you to remember that terracotta colored parcel some of the issues that came up during staff's review the first senate bill 330 which is also known as the housing crisis act of 2019 and with that that bill doesn't disallow an agency from redesignating land from residential uses to non-residential uses but it allows those changes when those projects are reviewed concurrently with other plans that would offset that so there is no net loss in land designated for residential development this property that is part of this project could have been at one time developed with six potential residential units given its its current zoning and land use once it's developed that property would be landlocked and it's developed on all four sides would require access to through this project site from from yolanda so considering that during the review we had the offset of both the review of the downtown station area plan and the project you heard about before this one 3575 menacino those two resulted in about 5600 more housing opportunities so it substantially offsets that six the loss of those six units so another thing that came up during the the review process was a stop work order for some building that was occurring without benefit of permits permits have been submitted that that stop work order has been resolved and we're all good to go now so next slide please the project has been for this meeting uh was noticed in compliance with zoning code chapter but i wanted to point out that it's been noticed several times for neighborhood meetings or the circulation of the environmental document for the planning commission hearing and now for the city council hearing and until today i hadn't received any uh any comments i did i didn't receive a comment today i just received um a phone call from a gentleman who needed instructions on how to call in and i do hope that he made it in so next slide please so with that the planning commission and the planning and economic development department recommend that the council by resolution adopt a mitigated net negative declaration by resolution approve general plan amendments changing general plan land use designations from retail and business services to light industry or from or and from medium high density residential to light industry and introduce an ordinance rezoning from the cg general commercial or r3 multifamily residential zoning districts to the light industrial zoning district for those parcels located at zero three twenty four three twenty four that is not a typo there are two three twenty fours three twenty eight and three forty three thirty three fifty eight and three fifty and three twenty six and three sixty eight yolanda avenue which are also identified as assessors parcel numbers zero four four zero eight one zero two nine zero four four zero eight one zero two four zero four four zero seven two zero zero six zero four four zero seven two zero zero seven zero four four zero seven two zero zero eight zero four four zero seven two zero zero nine and zero four four three nine zero zero six one aisle number prj zero zero two next slide please that concludes staff's presentation i believe the applicant would also like to say a few words and i'm available for questions if you have any great thank you susie council any questions for staff on the presentation mr soyer thank you mayor i'm not a question i just have to revise my expert communication i got this mixed up with it with the next item i did have a zoom meeting with the applicant okay any additional questions for staff not seeing any um okay susie can we go to the applicant's presentation he doesn't have a presentation he's just going to be saying a few words i think all right alan i haven't able to speak in permissions and you have your time for your presentation or your brief comments thank you okay thank you mayor schwedhelm vice mayor Fleming and city council members thank you for hearing me so this this property i've had for 20 years it's kind of a dilapidated few buildings that have already industrial tenants in there and so it would it would be better if all of these parcels were all light industrial to fit the industrial use the as as as mr murray said the residential one acre parcel is landlocked and you'd have to go through two gates just to get to there so we're i plan on putting in a 17 000 square foot building multi-tenant industrial building light industrial use which will have a lot of small tenants in there and then also in the front of yolanda tearing down a dilapidated building that has a used car lot office there and putting in a nice 8400 square foot retail business there and so i will also be widening yolanda avenue doing the improvements putting in landscaping and beautifying the beginning of yolanda avenue as you turn off of santa rosa avenue so it would be helpful if i had all the parcels light industrial instead of one general commercial one medium density residential event the rest general commercial so i i thank you for your time and look forward to your votes great thank you mr henderson council any questions for the applicant not seeing any thank you very much okay i will go ahead and open up the public hearing if you'd like to make comment on this item via zoom please raise your hand if you're calling in for public comment via telephone please dial star nine madam host would you facilitate comment or the yolanda industrial project thank you mayor as you can see there is a timer before you for the convenience of those participating in today's meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged invited to speak please make sure to unmute yourself when invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown if you wish to make a comment on item 15.1.2 the second project of the public hearing the yolanda industrial project please raise your hand via zoom if you're participating by telephone please dial star nine may i'm not seeing any hands being raised for item 15.1.2 the yolanda industrial project and there were no email or e-comment received and no voice message public comments thank you very much for that okay i will then close the public hearing and bring it back to council any final questions on this project from council and mr soyer i'm assuming your hands up from the exparte there we go yes okay thank you any additional questions from council on this project seeing none uh this is back to you mr rogers i'm starting to think like this is hazing mr mayor i'm going to introduce the ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa rezoning of the properties located at three two four three two four three two eight slash three four zero three three zero three five zero slash three five eight yolanda avenue also identified as assessors parcel numbers zero four four dash zero eight one dash zero two nine zero four four dash zero eight one dash zero two four zero four four dash zero seven two dash zero zero six zero four four dash zero seven two dash zero zero seven and zero four four dash zero seven two dash zero zero eight from the cg zoning district to the il zoning district and the property located at zero yolanda avenue also identified as assessor's parcel number 044-390-061 from the R315 multi-family or multi-family residential zoning district to the IL zoning district file number PRJ19-002 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. Fabulous job Mr. Rogers and your second was also as fabulous Mr. Sawyer. So we have a motion and a second before we go to vote. Are there any questions or comments from any council on this motion? Seeing none. Madam City Clerk could we do a roll call vote please. Yes thank you. Council Member Dowd. Aye. Council Member Tibbets. Aye. Council Member Sawyer. Aye. Council Member Rogers. Aye. Council Member Oliveris. Aye. Vice Mayor Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes for seven ayes. All right I think John's job is easier than mine on this one. I'll introduce a resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa approving a general plan diagram amendment for five parcels at 324-324-328-340-330-350-358 Yolanda Avenue. Assessors parcels numbers 044-081-029-044-081-024-044-072-006 044-072-007 and 044-072-008 from retail and business services to light industry and for one parcel at zero Yolanda Avenue. Assessors parcel number 044-390-061 from medium high density residential to light industry for the Yolanda Industrial Project file number PRJ19-002 and wait for the reading. Well done second. We have a motion and a second Madam Clerk could you please do a roll call vote. Yes Council Member Dowd. Aye. Council Member Tibbets. Aye. Council Member Sawyer. Aye. Council Member Rogers. Aye. Council Member Oliveris. Aye. Council Member Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes with seven ayes. All right and then finally I will introduce a resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa adopting adopting a mitigated negative declaration for the Yolanda Industrial Project located at 0-324-324-328-340-330-350-358 and 368 Yolanda Avenue also identified as assessors parcel number 044-081-029 044-081-024 044-072-006 044-072-007 044-072-008 044-072-009 and 044-390-061 file number PRJ19-002 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. Hey we have another motion by Mr. Rogers second by Mr. Sawyer Madam City Clerk can we have a roll call vote please. Council Member Dowd. Aye. Council Member Tibbets. Aye. Council Member Sawyer. Aye. Council Member Rogers. Aye. Council Member Oliveris. Aye. Vice Mayor Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes with seven ayes. And that's all those Mr. Rogers for this item. All right we'll move on to 15.1.3 Mr. City Manager who'll be doing that presentation before I check for ex parte communication. He just popped up Andrew Treville will be doing that one for us to see. Welcome Andrew. Okay so I will check for ex parte communications on the TNL micro cannabis facility. Mr. Dowd did you have any? I did not have any. Mr. Tibbets. Not that I can recall. Mr. Rogers. Nope. Mr. Oliveris. No. Mr. Sawyer. No sir. Vice Mayor Fleming. None. And I also did not have any ex parte communication on this topic. Andrew you're up. Great thank you Mayor Schwedhelm and good evening Vice Mayor Fleming and members of the council. The third and final general plan amendment package project for your review this evening is the TNL micro cannabis facility at 3515 industrial drive. Next slide please. The project includes a request for a general plan amendment from retail and business services to light industry and a request for rezoning from general commercial to light industrial of two parcels in order to allow operation of a proposed commercial cannabis facility consisting of cultivation manufacturing and distribution land uses. Next slide please. The project site is located in Santa Rosa's northwest quadrant is surrounded by a variety of commercial and light industrial uses including public self storage facilities occupied and unoccupied commercial retail spaces fitness health and indoor recreational facilities and wholesale merchants. Next slide please. Specifically the project site is on the northern side of industrial drive east of its intersection with airway drive at 3515 and zero industrial drive and is comprised of two assessor parcels. The approximately 1.23 acres project site was developed in 2004. Next slide please. The project fronts industrial drive and is developed with public improvements site circulation areas and surface parking and a two-story 19,500 square foot commercial industrial building. It's oriented towards industrial drive with parking along the southeast and north sides and it sets back at least 25 feet from all property lines and adjacent development. The loading area is located on the west side of the building. The site currently provides 54 parking spaces three of which are ADA compliant and city water and wastewater services including fire flows are provided. Next slide please. The building's exterior footprint is approximately 13,650 square feet. The total 19,500 square feet of internal space is distributed between ground floor and mezzanine levels. The site is currently used for furniture retail with accessory furniture warehouse. Next slide please. A required neighborhood meeting was waived by the director because no residential neighborhood would be impacted by the proposed project. No notice of application was distributed as required by the zoning code. However the zoning code allows that a defect in the notice procedure shall not affect the jurisdiction or authority of a review authority to take action on a matter. Property owners and occupants within 600 feet of the proposed project received a mailed notice of intent to adopt a mitigated negative declaration for the TNL micro project. Mailed planning commission and city council public notices have had access to onsite noticing for planning commission and city council public hearings and both public hearings were advertised in the press democrat as well as distributed through the city's email service. Next slide please. The current area general plan and zoning designations include light industry retail and business services to the northwest and south and retail and business services to the east. Next slide please. Real estate market demand studies show a less than 5% vacancy in industrial spaces in Santa Rosa with just over 5,000 square feet of available industrial space in the second quarter of 2020. A higher vacancy rate would facilitate negotiating power of leases and encourage a variety of uses sizes of operations and market mix. Amending the general plan for this property would provide approximately 20,000 square feet additional square feet of industrial zone space. With regard to the retail environment following the 2017 Tubbs fire the area surrounding the subject parcel suffered a loss of productive properties. The Kmart property once provided an economic anchor for the neighborhood as well as a retail anchor but following its destruction the neighboring retail businesses have suffered. Property owners do not anticipate that a major retail anchor will redevelop the former Kmart property. Additionally in-store retail is a less profitable enterprise. Next slide please. The project would implement a variety of general plan goals and policies. The general plan seeks to protect the industrial land supply and ensure compatibility between industrial development and surrounding neighborhoods. Conversion of existing development land in response to market demand would ensure that the industrial land supply continues to meet economic needs. Rather than promoting development to vacant greenfield sites conversion would foster a compact development pattern that reduces travel, energy, land and materials consumption while promoting greenhouse gas emissions reductions citywide. Also amending the general plan to allow for industrial uses aligns the property with its neighbors as well as the actual current intensity of the use of the building. Next slide please. The project would implement a variety of general plan goals and policies. The general plan seeks to protect the industrial land supply and ensure compatibility. Conversion of existing developed land in response to market demand would ensure that the industrial land supply continues to meet economic needs. Rather than promoting development and I may be repeating these notes so let's just go on to the next slide please. Regarding the zoning map amendment the light industrial zoning district is applied to areas appropriate for some light industrial uses as well as commercial service uses and activities that may be incompatible with residential retail and or office uses. The light industrial zoning district is consistent with the light industry land use classification of the general plan and it implements this land use designation. Resoning to a zoning district that is consistent with the general plan land use designation and implements that land use designation would be consistent with the goals and policies of the general plan. Resoning for light industrial uses would not foreseeably increase the intensity of the property's use nor have any foreseeable effect on the public health safety convenience or welfare. And finally the project as proposed in conditions meets all required development standards for the light industrial zoning district. Next slide please. The required conditional use permit for cannabis land uses was approved by planning commission on November 12th subject to city council approval of a general plan amendment and adoption of a rezoning map amendment. The applicant is required to comply with all applicable zoning code regulations governing general cannabis operations and operation of cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facilities specifically including the requirement to obtain all required permits from local county and state agencies. Next slide please. An initial study was prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act that resulted in a mitigated negative declaration. The proposed project would result in potentially significant impacts in the areas of air quality greenhouse gases and transportation. The project impacts would be mitigated to a less than significant level through implementation of recommended mitigation measures contained in the mitigation monitoring and reporting program prepared for the project. Planning commission adopted the project's M&D and MMRP on November 12th. Next slide please. No issues exist that are not addressed through mitigation or conditions of approval. Next slide please. Additionally no public comments have been received for this project. Next slide. It is recommended by the planning commission and the planning and economic development department that City Council by resolution approve a general plan amendment changing the general plan land use designation of the subject parcels from retail and business services to light industry. And that City Council introduce an ordinance rezoning the subject parcels from general commercial to light industrial. Next slide please. Applicant representative Aaron Carlstrom would like to offer brief comments to Council and staff that's available for any questions. Thank you. Thank you Andrew bring back to Council any questions for staff on the presentation? Not seeing any. So if we can have a representative of the applicant if Ms. Carlstrom will we make a presentation feel free to proceed. Thank you Mayor I have enabled Ms. Carlstrom speaking commissions. Ms. Carlstrom. Hi yes good evening. Can everyone hear me? Looking good. Well thank you Mr. Mayor and Vice Mayor Fleming council members. It's a pleasure to join you this evening remotely. I am the voice from beyond on behalf of Andrew and Tao Nguyen. They are your building owners as well as your applicants this evening. They're waving but of course you can't see them. We are also joined by Justin Witt from Relgie and Race who were our environmental consultants and did draft our initial study and mitigated NEGDEC in the event you do have any questions in that arena. We're very grateful for your staff's assistance and Andrew's efforts to get us here. Andrew has done an amicable a wonderful job describing the project and its components. So we are here. I'm not going to make a formal presentation. If you have any questions the team is here. I do want to take a moment of personal privilege to thank our two outgoing council members for your many years of dedicated service to our community. Thank you in particular to council member Oliveris with whom it was a remarkable privilege to serve. And with that I will conclude my comments unless anyone has questions of us later and thank you all for your service to our city. All right thank you. Council any questions from Ms. Carlstrom? Not seen any. I am then going to open up the public hearing for this. If you want to make comment on this item via Zoom please raise your hand. If you're calling in via telephone please dial star nine. Madam host would you please facilitate public comment for item 15.1.3. Thank you Mayor. As you can see there's a countdown timer before you for the convenience of the speaker and the participants in the meeting tonight. The first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak. What invited to do so please unmute your microphone at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the comment period your microphone will be muted. Again this is for the public hearing on item 15.1 project number three. Raise your hand via Zoom if you wish to make a comment dial star nine. There I am seeing no hands raised. Additionally we had no voice message public comments received on this item. Okay thank you. I will then close the public hearing. Council any final questions or comments on this project for this item? Seeing none. Mr. Rogers hopefully you've catched your breath. It's back to you. All right I will introduce a resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa approving a general plan land use diagram amendment for two parcels at 3515 and zero industrial drive assessors parcel number 148-050-027 and 148-041-049 from retail and business services to light industry for the TNL micro cannabis facility file number GPAM19-003 PRJ19-039 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Rogers. Second by Mr. Tibbetts. Any final comment or questions by Council? Not seeing any. Madam City Clerk can we have a roll call vote please? Councilmember Dowd. Aye. Councilmember Tibbetts. Aye. Councilmember Sawyer. Aye. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Councilmember Oliveris. Councilmember Oliveris. Aye. Thank you. Vice Mayor Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes with seven ayes. All right I will introduce an ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa amending Title 20 of the Santa Rosa City Code by reclassifying the property for the TNL micro cannabis facility located at 3515 and zero industrial drive assessors parcel numbers 148-050-027 and 148-041-049 to light industrial zoning district file numbers PRJ19-039 and REZ19-010 and wait for the reading of the text. Second. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Rogers. Seconded first by Mr. Tibbetts. Madam City Clerk could we have a roll call vote please? Councilmember Dowd. Aye. Councilmember Tibbetts. Aye. Councilmember Sawyer. Aye. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Councilmember Oliveris. Aye. Vice Mayor Fleming. Aye. Mayor Schwedhelm. Aye. That motion passes with seven ayes. Is that it Mr. Rogers on this item? Yep I believe there are only two resolution or one resolution and an ordinance. Great thank you very much for that for all the presentations on this. Okay we'll now get back to our regularly scheduled agenda. Just for purpose of the break I'm going to try to get us through the consent calendar we'll take another break excuse me and then continue on item 13 public comment 14 and then item 17. So with that we've already taken the roll call. Madam City Attorney could you report out on our closed session today? Yes the council met in closed session on items 2.1 and 2.2. On item 2.1 the council gave direction to the real property negotiator and on item 2.2 gave direction to our legal council. Thank you. Great thank you. We have no proclamations. Item 7 staff briefing briefings. Mr. McGlynn any staff briefings this evening? Yes just one on 7.3 glass fire recovery update. Mr. Paul Lowenthal will be doing the presentation. One moment I just promoted Lowenthal to panelists. Good evening Mayor Vice Mayor members of the council Paul Lowenthal assistant fire marshal with the Santa Rosa fire department reporting out on the progress of the debris task force. The phase 1 is expected to be completed in all of Sonoma County by this Thursday and phase 2 is underway. We are now participating in two additional calls one with what is being referred to now as the inland branch that's being hosted by Cal Recycle and Cal OES and is Sonoma County, Napa County, Lake, Mendo and Solano because of the vast number of fires across the state they are breaking us into branches. Our branch debris is underway and they reported today that the first two official properties have been cleared so things are ramping up which is good news here locally. We're also participating in another call that's dealing with burn vehicles abatement as well as firearms that are being filled on found on properties and based on our experiences in 2017 we're actually getting an opportunity to be leaned on a little bit by some of our neighboring counties in fact Chief Navarro who was actually assigned to our debris task force back in 2017 and I actually put our heads together to help Solano County with an issue that they're experiencing regarding vehicles that was similar to what we helped kind of shape for the state back in 2017. Regarding trees the city put together a draft letter that we are addressing to PG&E regarding what we discussed last week with the tree issue. We were informed by Cal OES this morning that 11 counties now are interested in joining our efforts regarding our concerns with the lack of a wood program for our residents. Cal OES is obviously engaged in this issue. We were able to work with Adrienne and get a letter over to the county which they provided comments back today and we'll be coordinating the signatures between our city manager and the county administrator and sending that to PG&E and cc the number of our delegates and Adrienne's working on our ledge side. So everybody's in the loop and Cal OES is looking forward to seeing the letters that they can share it with the other counties. Ultimately our goal is not only to deal with the trees that are ineligible through the state's program because PG&E failed them but ultimately advocating for all of our residents in trying to bring a wood program back. We have finalized the numbers that we talked about so we do now have the full public releasable account of all of our damage destroyed residential structures and commercial properties. So we'll get that posted and we'll send it to council that is complete now and it also takes into account the county complex which is in the city limits so you'll see kind of a spike in the number of commercial structures that we had previously talked about. The MRIC at Maria Carrillo is shutting down early. It is actually closing down now tomorrow at 6 p.m. and that is because of COVID concerns. So FEMA is shutting down all mobile intake centers at the various fires that have been impacted. Residents can still register online so information to those resources can be found on our glass fire recovery page and that should do it with where we're at as far as our updates right now unless there's any questions. Thank you Mr. Lowenthal for that presentation. Council questions. Mr. Rogers. Thanks Paul. Did you say seven counties had joined us? Is that the number? 11. Okay thank you. Council any additional questions? Not seeing any. Madam Host would you please facilitate public comment on item 7.3 staff briefing. That may be. As you can see there's a timer before you for the convenience of those participating in tonight's meeting. If you would like to make a comment please raise your hand. If participating by telephone dial star 9. The first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you are invited to do so. At the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown timer your microphone will be muted. Mayor I'm not seeing any hands raised for public comment on item 7 staff briefings. Additionally we received no voice message public comments on this item. All right thank you so much. Thank you Mr. Lowenthal for your presentation. Item 8 let's start. Mr. City Manager do you have a report for us this evening? I do not. Thank you. Madam City Attorney I believe you do. I do thank you Mr. Mayor. This is our quarterly report on settlements and active litigation so I will go through this very quickly. You have the information in your agenda but over the this this is a report for the third quarter and during the third quarter we had two settlements. We've discussed both of them in the past. The first is the Iran settlement that settlement came out of injuries that were suffered during the protests last spring. The second settlement is a settlement of a case in which the city was the plaintiff. It's on the go wireless case and we were we recouped access phone charges that the city had paid in the past and we recouped almost $107,000 in that case. As to pending litigation we have about 34 pending cases in our office right now. Seven of those cases are close to settlement or close to obtaining a full dismissal of the claims. The remaining 17 are in various stages of litigation some in early pleading stages some in discovery and some getting ready for trial and it's a wide range of cases as always. The cases include matters that arose out of personal injuries. Injuries arising out of motor vehicle accidents arising out of alleged unsafe conditions on sidewalks similar kinds of accidents. We have two CEQA cases currently in the office on a challenge as you know to the all-electric reach ordinance and then a new CEQA case that was just filed recently a challenge to our downtown station area specific plan. We have the case pending on that raises constitutional challenges to police actions during the early days of the protests last spring. We also have of course our Vanucci case which raises constitutional challenges to the city's efforts to address homelessness. We have a couple of cases that involve construction and contractual disputes. We have our litigation ongoing against PG&E regarding the damages that the city suffered in the 2019 wildfires. We have a series of code enforcement and receive or ship cases and of course others as well. So we do have a very busy litigation team. We have four attorneys on our litigation team. They do other work as well not just litigation very skilled very capable and I will note that this list of cases is in addition to the more routine court hearings that they frequently attend including pitches motions weapons claims dangerous animal cases and a variety of other more routine motions. As to new claims we received seven new claims during the third quarter. We'll see if any of those evolve. We do anticipate that at least some of those will evolve into litigation matters and then I want to emphasize this is a snapshot in time. This efforts are ongoing and I will note that under the open government ordinance that is going to call for more frequent reporting of litigation matters in fact monthly reporting. So we'll gradually switch to to that schedule. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you for that report out council. Any questions for our city attorney? Not seen any. So we're now taking public comment on item 8 the city attorney's report. If you want to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand. If you're calling in via telephone please dial star 9. Madam host would you facilitate public comment on item 8 the city attorney report. Mayor as you can see there is a countdown timer before you for the convenience of those participating in tonight's meeting. First speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak. Please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so. At the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown your mic will be muted. Again this is for public comment on item 8 city manager and city attorney's reports. All right mayor I see no hands being raised via zoom. Additionally we receive no voice message public comments on these items. All right thank you very much for that. Okay on to item 9 statements of abstention by council members. Council are there any statements of abstention? Not sure how to interpret the absence of Mr. Tippett's there but we'll assume he doesn't have to. We'll move on to Mr. Tippett. Are you good any statements of abstention on tonight's agenda? Good thank you. Okay on to item 10 mayors and council members reports. Anyone wanting to make a report this evening? Seeing shaking heads I will report on two items both of which occurred yesterday. As your representative of the continuum of care I did participate in the vote and we were successful in filling all 15 spots on the new continuum of care. We'll have our first board meeting tomorrow at 2 30 and I'll report out the outcome of that very first meeting. Then additionally I participated in the city community meeting regarding the family safe social distancing. Mr. City Manager I like to really thank staff in the efforts to put that meeting on another opportunity to hear from our community about the lessons learned from the family safe social distancing site and I know we'll hear more at next week's agenda on the same topic. So with that we'll then go to item 11 both 11-1 and 11-2 were their approval of minutes from the June 23rd and June 24th council meetings. Were there any additions to or subtractions from any of those minutes? Okay we'll accept those as submitted. On item 12 the consent calendar Mr. McGlynn. Item 12.1 resolution early lease termination with sports restaurant of vented valley incorporated located at 3 3 3 0 Yulupa Avenue Santa Rosa. Item 12.2 resolution transfer a real property interest along Yolanda Avenue and relinquishment of a butters rights to the California Department of Transportation as part of the Huron Avenue interchange at highway 101 project. Item 12.3 resolution authorized authorization to utilize HGAC by cooperative agreement for two Simlin M2DH crack sealers to Simline. Item 12.4 resolution lower lower Colben Creek restoration phase two mitigation credit purchase authorization. Item 12.5 ordinance adoption of the second reading ordinance of the city of Santa Rosa adding chapter 1-10 to the Santa Rosa city code entitled open government. All right thank you council any questions on the consent calendar? Yeah I got a question about that one that sounds like the road repair could that be put in plain language please? Zach Brandt and trying to step forward. Zach transitions over to panelist site. Good evening mayor and vice mayor and council. Thanks for the question that one did sound a little odd. The product we are purchasing is replacements for a few or two asphalt crack sealing machines. The brand name of them is Kimline or Simline as pronounced and we are trying to purchase them off an HGAC cooperative contract. Thank you. Mr. Sorry you have a question? Thank you mayor I do I have actually a some comments on one question I received an email from one of the members of the open government task force and I told them that I would bring voice to their concerns so I have three items the first one actually is a question there was a mention actually by the city attorney that there were a number of items that had already been implemented and this member of the task force was curious if we could find out exactly what items that were recommended either by the first task force or the second subcommittee if those those that were already implemented could be listed or that we could be informed as to what those were they were mentioned but not listed. Secondly the member of the task force was surprised at the cost of the implementation of the various elements was not fleshed out and there was a concern that not having those items the cost of the items the various elements fleshed out could delay the full implementation of what we passed prior to our last meeting when we when we discussed it at length. And finally the member of the task force was was just made to hear that there that the supporting documents related to the preliminary agendas have not been available for some time this was a surprise to the member and that this had been a practice for many many years so the fact that this was not happening currently was was a concern to the member and that the new ordinance really was in their opinion less transparent for the public than what had occurred previously so that was that was a concern of theirs was this was the preliminary agenda and having those supporting documents available and earlier point so those so I guess the one question in here is actually two at what point should we expect the cost of the various elements of implementation or the various elements and their implementation be fleshed out I assume that's going to be happening during our budget talks and those things that have already been implemented how we can get a list of those items so that we can review them I would be curious to know as well because I'm not even I'm not sure what has already been implemented I know the city attorney mentioned it and and I've heard other people mention it as well that some things are already well on their way certainly and and we would be happy to put together that list and and get that to you and make it public I don't have it at my fingertips right now and I would be hesitant and hesitate to go based on my memory so happy to provide yes happy to provide that and then in terms of the cost of the items yes you're exactly right we're going to be looking at that as we move forward during the six months period prior to implementation and we'll be discussing those costs during the budget process thank you and remember the task force I know I'm appreciated being able to bring these concerns to the to the to the council thank you thank mr rogers hey mr mayor so it is a little dated now it's probably about a little over a year ago but there was a chart that staff did prepare that walks through every single item within the open government task force report uh and gave a status update uh like I said it's a bit dated now but perhaps that'd be a good starting point where if staff was able to update that make that public I think that this is an item of interest to the community that sounds good thank you all right any additional questions for staff not seeing any so we're now going to public comment on item 12 the consent calendar if you're calling in via telephone please dial star nine if you're want to make comment via zoom please raise your hand um madam host would you please facilitate public comment for the consent calendar item 12 thank you mayor as you can see there is a timer before you for the convenience of those participating this evening the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak please make sure to unmute your microphone when you're invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of public comment period the first public comment will be provided by Gregory Gregory have enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen yes I can thank you please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now my name is Gregory Farron and in this role I'm the treasurer of the Ben and Valley golf club one of the consent items is the early termination of legends a restaurant operator I was surprised to hear that today to read it on your agenda and I guess what we're what I'm asking since I'm also on the board of an agency that provides meals to homeless and is always looking for a better restaurant or a better kitchen in particular so I guess my question is has there any conversation taking place in the city about what you're going to use that restaurant that kitchen in particular in the 18 months before I guess you're going to put it back out to be it if you are interested in a group of nonprofits who are themselves trying to use a smattering of kitchens who could possibly build a coalition and use the kitchen well for the better use of those we serve then I'm interested in talking to you guys so if you could at least you know I'll contact the staff later but I guess I'd like you to think about not letting it sit there for 18 months being unproductive to any use thank you and I'll see my address to my time thank you Gregory in public comments for item 12 consent may I have seen no hands raised are you okay if I move along to voice message public comments yes I am thank you and there were none so there we have it hey we'll bring it back to council um mr glenn would staff be prepared to address item 12.1 in the future of that facility at this point mr furan can can reach out to the staff and we can discuss any options all right thank you very much staff or council any additional questions seeing none vice mayor Fleming you have this item sweet all right and I'll move item 12 one through 12 five second motion by the vice mayor second by mr olivera's any additional comments seeing none madame clerk could you please do a roll call vote yes council member dowd hi council member tibbetz hi council member Sawyer hi council member rogers hi council member oliveras hi vice mayor Fleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes all right thank you so much all right as mentioned before we will take uh another break we'll take a 15 minute break let's reconvene at 7 10 reconvene at 7 10 madame sirty clerk are we ready to resume yes i am okay we'll reconvene the december 8th 2020 senator was a city council many can we please take a roll call yes council member dowd here council member tibbetz here council member Sawyer here council member rogers here council member oliveras here vice mayor Fleming here mayor schwedhelm here at the record show that all council members are present all right thank you we're now taking public comment on item 13 non agenda matters is the time that any person may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are within the sub matter jurisdiction of the council if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 to raise your hand we will take 10 speakers under item 13 if we have more than 10 public comments on this item the remaining speakers will be afforded the opportunity to speak on item 17 non agenda matters to provide public comment madam host would you facilitate public comment on item 13 thank you mayor as you can see there is a timer before you for the convenience of the speaker and those participating in tonight's meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the comment period your microphone will be muted here i do not see any hands being raised for public comment on non agenda matters under item 13 are you okay if i move along to the voice message public comment absolutely thank you public comment on non agenda matters number 13 the way you do it from roseland thanks for an order to the city council perhaps or city staff who took action to get the final portion of hughes avenue finally repaved the area has been in such disrepair for so many decades people thought it would never come forward so three years into the annexation santa rosa stepped up and finished that hughes avenue repaving thank you for that also thank you to alastair blythus he was on sabastopol excuse me burbank avenue at roseland creek just a week ago taking care of trying to limit the amount of debris left by the homeless who have taken up residence in the land the city owns next to roseland creek the city has a jewel in the rough there with alastair blythus and i do hope that you'll find ways to get more staff to assist him and the city staff working to keep what parklands and open space lands the city owns from being overrun by the homeless it's really an important thing hopefully city council will direct city staff to make that a priority in the new year thank you that concludes public comment on item 13 all right thank you so much item 14.1 mr city manager you know 14.1 report 2050 santa rosa general plan community advisory board committee member selection process and organizational framework andy gufson senior planner presenting or amy lyall thank you so much i'll just be kicking this item off and then handing it over to andy good evening mayors went home vice mayor clemming and members of the council so tonight um and i know dean is pulling up that powerpoint so i'll just start off by just letting you know that this is a quick follow-up report on the formation of the community advisory committee for our general plan update so andy gufson will be presenting some information about our staff cac selection and the organizational framework so and and those um dean do you mind moving on to the next slide and for those members of the public that are on that aren't familiar with our general plan update we did kick this off back in march of this year and the general plan is a comprehensive policy document that guides development for the city over a 20 year period of time so it's a really great time to get involved and we're really excited to kick this off so a major component of the planning effort is community engagement and public outreach needs to involve a broad range of individuals and for this effort especially this effort we are trying to engage folks that were traditionally left out of some of these civic conversations so those that may be excluded due in the past due to race citizenship language age income um we really want this to be a robust conversation with all members of the community so with this general plan update we're also blessed with an infusion of grant money thanks to kaiser permanente and so we are partnering with kaiser and latino service providers on the outreach as well so your council authorized the formation of the cac as part of the acceptance of the community involvement strategy back in september 15th so the and just to note the cac members don't really have a policy advisory role so this committee is a little bit different these members are more are serving as our outreach team and will be serving as liaisons for us to get deeper into the community and into more of a neighborhood level so with that and he's going to briefly go over the staff selected cac member demographics and providing your council with information for your selection for the remaining cac members and some information on the organizational framework so i'll kick it over to andy thank you amy um and good evening uh mayor schwedhelm vice mayor phleming and members of the council so in your packet uh you have two items one is a description of our cac selection process and the other is a um organizational framework or bylaws that will govern the cac the um selection process commenced immediately after the council authorized the formation of the 15-member committee last september and there began a six-week recruitment period with applications and invitations that were sent out via social media email even referrals by individuals to people who thought might be really interested and supportive of participating on the cac the applications that were submitted were followed up with interviews with the candidates and at the end of that process in early november staff was able to come up with a selection of 18 members that represents the first stage of the formation of the committee and uh in a moment i'll describe their characteristics or the sort of the general diversity um measures that we use of those 18 the second stage of the of the cac formation will be the council selection of the remaining seven members each council member um will select one uh to the cac and we'll be asking that the council members do so by january 12th that would allow us to begin uh convening our first council uh cac meeting at the um middle or late uh january so what are the kind of things we looked at when we uh had and we can advance the slide please next slide please uh so this basically shows the two different stages or steps that i i described we had 13 excuse me we had 35 respondents um they really uh demonstrated through their applications and interviews that they were highly qualified and and came from a diverse group uh we had a very even um participation or response by male and female and uh also we had a pretty high response by people who had not been engaged in um uh civic projects before so we were very encouraged by that we partnered with latino service providers to help to ensure that we were reaching um non-english speaking community groups and the youth um and if we advanced to the next slide i'll just begin to show uh the diversity of of that uh 18 selection here we see two charts uh that compare the ethnicity and race of the of the cac members with the general population of the city shown here in that orange or red line so you can see that the two track pretty well um with our uh community with our cac members we follow the sort of the the racial mix of the general population except you can see we're a little short on the hispanic or latino group as well as the asian pacific islander group in terms of age distribution uh it's a very even track except for a little bit short on the um 56 to 70 age cohort so those are opportunities uh where council selections can help to uh better improve the diversity of the group the second next slide please this chart simply shows the reported interests and and experience or life experience of the cac members and and um here we see a lot of people interested in community neighborhood and industry or or economic vitality in the community plus a lot of people expressed you know interest in these other topic areas that we know will be vitally important during the discussion of the general plan update next slide this this uh map uh shows where the 18 selected members are located in the city they all self reported neighborhoods or general areas where they lived um we did not ask for specific addresses uh nor do we represent that here for for uh concerns of privacy um but we do show here I think that there is good distribution of the members throughout the the city with some notable gaps that I want to call to your attention in the northwest north of highway 12 and west of highway 101 there's no representative outside of the coffee park area likewise um if we look at the area in northeast center rosa the fountain grove hidden valley area we don't we're lacking probably where we should be having the representative and similarly in the benefit valley area uh we um a question did come up regarding how these uh representatives or these cac members lie in relation to the council districts we can't really uh precisely map that with the information we have but going forward we'll be able to aggregate that information in the future so we'll be able to report out if not a location precisely but we can report out account by districts next slide please so the other part of of the packet tonight is what we call the the framework it's really like the bylaws it's the um the document that governs how the cac meetings will be run and how um the cac members will conduct their activities what's really important uh is that this is a public process this group will provide the consultant well i'll say the project team a constant source of information and feedback throughout the project lifetime which is going to be approximately three years so we will be able to go back to these individuals and uh and have them feed give us comment on um the documents that are out for public review the public will be able to attend these meetings they will be conducted according to the brown act will be noticed um and what's also important uh about the uh the framework is that it outlines the activities or the guidelines of the cac members when when they are participating in these cac meetings or when they're out in the community acting as liaisons as liaisons that can be a very powerful um uh supporter or agent for the general plan update by bringing out into the community their social circles their information their passion their interest in the general plan update to the people they know and they can bring that comments back to uh to the project team in a way that that is efficient and probably we could not um uh accomplish on our own the cac will be one of the tools within the community involvement strategy um it will not be a policy advisory group but it'll help us inform policy as we develop it so that concludes the information report if we advance to the next slide um and and uh the recommendation is that you receive the report and if you have any questions i am here to help answer those thank you thank you any for that presentation council any questions not seeing any so we're going to go ahead take public comment on item 14.1 if you'd like to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine um madam host would you facilitate public comment on item 14.1 there we'll do as you can see there is a timer before you for the convenience of the speaker and those participating in tonight's meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the timer your microphone will be muted again this is for public comment on item 14.1 the general plan citizens advisory committee selection first public comment will be from Gregory Gregory have enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on the screen um i'm unmuted this is Gregory's wife Pat Cuta we're sharing a computer okay thank you for identifying yourself a public record your time begins now i just briefly want to commend the staff on the excellent effort they made on outreach and selection of a diverse um membership for the cac um Santa Rosa together is excited to work with and partner with the cac and the city and the general plan process and we think we have an excellent beginning thank you here i'm not seeing any additional hands raised for item 14.1 public comment in order to receive any voice message public comments on this item okay thank you very much mr. Dowd you have this item i'm going to have to uh please have somebody else take it if you don't mind because uh i had some computer problems and so i don't have the resolution uh available to me okay uh others on council uh mr. sorry do you happen to have it available there i do there is no resolution i'm sorry to interrupt um there is no resolution on this item it's just a call for council to receive the report okay well i can i can move that then can i bear that works for me so you make that motion we receive that report that and just provided to us yes i make that portion second and the second with mr. tidbits any additional comments from council seeing none uh madam city clerk would you please take a real call vote on the acceptance of this report yes councilmember dowd hi councilmember tidbits hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember hallowbaris hi vice mayor fleming hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes all right thank you so much mr city manager item 14.2 item 14.2 report fiscal year 2019-20 measure o annual reports shelly riley interim deputy director of finance and megalitaeus deputy director of community engagement uh leading off a complete presentation uh good evening mayor schwedhelm and members of the council um my god is here director of community engagement um just going to wait for the presentation to come up and in the meantime as we have the presentation uh come up here um i just oh there we go um we're going to go back there we go um thank you so much so i just wanted to thank you all for the opportunity to share the fiscal year 2019-20 measure o annual report next slide please and i also wanted to share that we are going to be going um we're going to be presenting uh in this in this order with violence prevention partnership the fire department and the police department um and i just wanted to remind our community members that the violence prevention partnership uh is housed under the community the office of community engagement and we are very much looking forward um to seeing you know um that work and where there are parallels in alignment with our community empowerment plan uh which we'll be presenting soon and i'm going to hand it off to my colleague uh jason perish mayor schwedhelm members of the city council um if you could please advance this line and one more so the current year balances as you'll be able to see uh from what we started at and what we ended with used approximately 270 000 dollars in the measure o reserves of this amount you'll be able to see in this table the 294 000 dollars that's currently encumbered for the choice grant program you could advance this line so as you can see the largest expenditure is the choice grants program as required by the measure ordinance so that we have to spend at least 35 percent of the youth violence prevention costs uh overall so the second largest uh salaries i just wanted to call your attention to as 40 percent of that six hundred and eighty six thousand dollars of that is made up of recreational seasonal temporary staff who are frequently the very youth that our participants in the program when they're younger you could advance the slide please and as you could see the neighborhood services and the violence prevention programs have been tracking with the revenues uh with a a what was a uh timing issue that can fiscal year 1415 and now i will turn the presentation over to my colleague violence prevention manager jason carter and if you could please advance the slide mayor schwedhelm vice mayor phleming and members of the council jason carter violence prevention manager for the community engagement office uh partnership staff continued to participate on both local and statewide initiatives such as the adverse childhood experiences committee california violence prevention network funder circle and health action among others to ensure the city's efforts are consistently aligned with various initiatives and strategies also as part of the gang prevention awareness month in september of 2019 the partnership hosted the violence prevention annual seminar managing trauma to build a resilient community with over 180 in attendance strategizing on how to best serve those that have experienced trauma breakout sessions included workshops delivered by san rosa police department san rosa city schools and child parent institutes with additional events including in partnership with recreations neighborhood services a youth basketball tournament with over 300 in attendance a safety media uh excuse me a social media safety training for parents that identify the many potential dangers of social media out there for their children community action south park day night festival as well as the west ninth night walk for safety with srpd and lifeworks during such a unique and critical time not too long after the jaco's park incident also during fiscal year 1920 staff began the planning stages of expanding upon the monthly model by creating the first annual violence prevention awareness series a series of events that span across the entire calendar year the year started off with the training for parents in the south park area as well as engaging cook middle school students in conversations with local law enforcement but unfortunately in march we had to table the series and definitely look forward to providing an update at next year's annual report also in the upcoming slides i'm happy to provide an overview of the choice grant program and gps referral component next slide please cycle nine of the choice grant program funded nine local nonprofit organizations that ultimately serve over 15 000 youth and families through various activities such as land paths outdoor summer programming we had child parent institutes triple p positive parenting programs and in-home mental health services for both youth and parents of all the services delivered through cycle nine 93 percent of services were provided to those zero to 24 years of age with seven percent to young adults and parents also in alignment with the strategic plan and community safety scorecard 100 of activities were delivered in areas identified as underserved with 40 of these activities in fiscal year 1920 specific to the roseland areas some of these events included early childhood education activities and support truancy prevention activities as well as career readiness workshops including paid internships also staff has been capturing some of the historical impact of measure rose since 2004 which has resulted in an impressive amount of calculating 10 million 210 000 dollars invested into local nonprofits and schools since the launch of the choice grant program as well as over 270 000 in many grants delivered to support one-time projects throughout the year next slide next slide please the guiding people successfully referral component receives referrals from probation schools various non-profit organizations where an intake and case reviews are brought to the multidisciplinary assessment and referral team also known as mdart to manage referrals for wraparound coordination of services with all measure out choice funded agencies also by leveraging local measure of dollars the partnership has been awarded additional funding over the years through the board of state and community corrections initially with cal grip and more recently with the california violence intervention and prevention grant also known as cal vip as noted in the slide through cal vip the city is able to administer additional pass-through funding to lifeworks of sonoma county to deliver bilingual family-based intervention services and also to social advocates for youth to provide intensive case management work readiness workshops and paid internships unfortunately the cal vip grant concluded in august of 2020 but through multiple conversations with sim county probation the city was able to secure funding support funding support to support gps through the end of fiscal year 2021 and as i wrap up i just wanted to share that since the launching of gps the program has provided 5718 one-on-one services through the end of june 2020 which include pro-social activities crisis intervention and various developmental opportunities for young residents of san rosa and with that i will turn it over to recreation deputy director kelly magnificent good evening council members can you hear me can you hear me thank you good evening of mayor and council members is kelly magnuson with recreation and parks presenting about the neighborhood services section of the recreation division that benefits from measure o we continue to offer programs year-round to the underserved youth in san rosa predominantly first through eighth graders but then we also have a summer team program a sports program we partner with the schools who provide us gym space and classroom space for our programs and we also continue to hire from the neighborhoods that we serve and a majority of our staff are bilingual which is very helpful so at the top of the slide there our sports programs are highlighted they go year-round we were able to provide nine sites we we had footsal basketball and cheer our most popular program our junior warriors program unfortunately was postponed last fall of 2019 because of the kincaid fire and then when we went to start it again in the spring we had the shelter in place so we weren't allowed to we weren't able to get a lot of basketball in this this last fiscal year and then coming down to our community programs that's basically our afterschool programs we have space at eight burbank housing sites and the apple valley rec room over in the apple valley neighborhood we serve about 400 youth daily during the after school hours we were able to provide homework help arts and crafts field trips community events nutrition and guest speakers and extracurricular activities next slide please when the shelter in place began last spring our staff were trying to figure out how they could help the youth in our program to with their schoolwork so we started a virtual tutoring program which became very important for some of the students that were really struggling we wished we had more time to serve more students but we were able to serve about 35 students weekly with their schoolwork remotely and then while that program was taking place our permanent staff started to plan summer so normally during the summer we have a full day program at four different sites we serve about 500 youth each summer daily but this past summer we weren't able to do that we had to regroup and we had to figure out what we were allowed to do we worked we worked with the county and we were able to offer a day camp program that only had 12 youth in each cohort lots of staff to help with sanitation taking temperatures you know the locations had to be clean constantly but we were able to pull it together and we had programs at all of the sites listed there and then about a couple weeks into the program we decided it was working really well and we wanted to bring in a couple more cohorts so we started up two more groups at Findlay Community Center and that was going really well we were able to use Rosie the trolley to take all the kids to the Findlay pool because swimming was allowed in the small groups and then we were also able to take the kids to Howard Park so they could do the paddle boat rides so they actually had a lot of fun over the summer and that that program was successful I just want to point out and commend our staff for all the work they've put into ensuring that all the youth in our program are safe during the day with the social distancing and the face coverings and the sanitations that our staff have worked really hard to provide these programs and as we go into the next slide 12 Jason Parrish will talk about how we're looking ahead but as you know we are offering the distance learning program now we have about 90 kids in our program that are benefiting from the program thanks to Measure O funding and we plan to continue that into the third quarter of the school year so I'll turn it back over to Jason Parrish at this point. Thank you Kelly. Two primary efforts there moving forward right now are updating the community scorecard which is used to aggregate community demographics to ensure all of our programs in the violence prevention partnership and neighborhood services are focused to the greatest needs in our community and recreation is also planning additional spring and summer programming to complement the school of rec support that the children are receiving in anticipation that Sonoma County will eventually ease COVID restrictions on recreation activities we hope you could please advance the slide. As you can see we started out with utilizing $270,000 in reserves last year we have a little bit over 280,000 this year and that's going to be the guy one of the guides in our budget development that starts this coming February. Both community engagement and recreation have spent significant time evaluating their main programmatic components and we'll be entering budget development in January with those in mind including what the community safety scorecard will tell us the choice grant programs and how the school of rec programs can also be supplemented if you could advance this line. Are there any questions or comments on our portion of the presentation? Thank you Jason and the rest of staff for that presentation. Council any questions on the violence prevention presentation? I'm not seeing any hands raised. Okay I do want to thank everyone specifically dealing with the things that we actually have control of there's so much with this program that we have no control of and I think City staff both in recreation parks and violence prevention done a fabulous job of doing the best in this very challenging situation so hats off to all of you so thank you. Good evening Mayor and Councilmember Tony Gosner fire chief of the city of Santa Rosa I'll start off the presentation for the fire department on the first slide and then we will work through our ASO Jim Arand who will deal with the financials and then Deputy Chief Scott Westrup will go into the operational first I just before this slide kicks off I just like to let everyone know major is a very important program for us it gives us the ability to do things that we just wouldn't be able to do otherwise and that's provide a really good service the best service possible in today's world moving forward so without major we would we would definitely not be doing as well as we are so with that I would just like to to say that major is a very important part of our department and the city in my belief with that when we go to the next slide we'll turn over to ASO Jim Arand thank you this is Jim Aaron calling and I'll go over the first slide on number 16 and we're looking at a beginning fund balance of $3.1 million we due to a drop in our sales tax revenue our expenditures exceeded our revenues by about $24,000 this year which brought our fund balance down to $3,097,545 and again as I said before that was principally due to the drop in sales tax reduction in sales tax revenues you want to go to the next slide and this one you're seeing where we're at where their actuals and our salaries and the major differences here first thing to point out is up at the top of the pie chart you'll notice that 84 percent of the expenditures we do in measure O our salary and benefit driven it will get into the details of that as we go further into the slides but it's a pretty major chunk of our of our expenditures are people driven due to that our we had some major variances on our expenditures salaries were up about $60,000 due to multi-year contract settlement that happened during 1920 our benefits were up 113,000 and that was primarily due to CalPERS going up and then we had some minor internal vehicle maintenance that went up so overall expenditures were up roughly $196,000 over the prior year the next slide here you're seeing our line graph where we've got a revenue and expenditure over time since measure O began and you'll note that this particular year for 1920 was the first time since 1415 that expenditures actually outpaced revenues and again as I said before we're down about 24,000 this time that's a planned event we we monitor things pretty closely in fire and measure O our goal is to accumulate fund balance because we've got some big expenditures planned down the road related to helping fund stations move them etc and a lot of that it's going to it's going to need some additional funding so we're very careful with what we do and that's why our fund balance is pretty healthy and it's grown to where it is right now with that I'll turn it over to Deputy Chief Westrop. Thanks Jim good evening Mayor Schwedhelm Vice Mayor Fleming and members of the Council Scott Westrop Deputy Fire Chief for the City of Santa Rosa Fire Department if we could advance to the next slide please so I'm going to go through in the next couple slides and talk about some of the operational enhancement that measure O is provided to the fire department so we could provide a better service to the City of Santa Rosa and looking at the personnel that are assigned to measure O we currently have three fire captains who are the frontline supervisors on our fire engines and fire trucks assigned to measure O we have one fire captain who's assigned to our training division it's the training manager out at the training facility on West College Avenue is assigned to measure O three fire engineers who are the apparatus operators fire engines and fire trucks and three firefighters we have one EMS battalion chief assigned to measure O 25 percent of that position is paid for by measure O and then the paramedic incentive paid for six of our firefighters who staff our truck companies to essentially upgrade our truck companies to a paramedic level service are funded by measure O as well next slide please so some of the impacts that measure O has had for the fire department is provided us with nine firefighters and training captain which we covered in the in the last slide it's applied us with three fire engines and two fire trucks upgraded to paramedic status it's enhanced our emergency medical services management through the partial funding of the battalion chief and as a lot of you know EMS or emergency medical calls account for about 65 percent of our call volume and so it's very important that we have that management and supervision in place for the EMS division it improves our response times and the deployment of our resources by adding additional stations by adding additional personnel and giving us the equipment to respond on and then it reduces fire loss for those same reason it improves EMS patient outcomes by upgrading a lot of our equipment to paramedic status and providing that paramedic level of service to our community it increases community outreach by giving us the ability to go out and engage the community and and to be part of the greater good and greater community of Santa Rosa and at finance station five construction and we talk we're talking about the station five that was on that we lost in the tubs fire in 2017 next slide please so the station the other stations that measure is funded our station 10 which serves the southwest community it's also where our fire administration is at it built station 11 which opened in 2009 which serves the junior college neighborhood it's on lewis road and then of course like we were just talking about fire station five which was completed in 2015 on new gate court and then it was lost in the tubs fire and we're currently working on rebuilding next slide please and some of the equipment or apparatus that the measure was added to the organization it's purchased two type one fire engines which is the the big engine you see on the right there that you see on a daily basis one type three wildland fire engine which is the the first picture below the text that's specifically made for wildland firefighting and unfortunately it's gotten a lot of work in the last couple years four command vehicles which you see in the center there the titles that we drive to command and control incidents and one swift water rescue trailer which you see there on the right that we hook up to one of our utilities and we bring with us to any swift water event we have during the rainy season which hopefully we will see soon with that I will turn it back over to aso erin and answer any questions at the end that you may have and you want to advance the next slide go one more while you're at it this is our looking ahead slide where we're kind of taking a quick snapshot of the 2021 budget as you can see it's a repeat except for the bigger number that we've got a negative in this case again the department strategy to recover from the use of reserves is we're going to this was this principally again due to sales tax revenues they dropped about 611 thousand dollars this budget cycle so we're looking at about a 476 thousand dollar loss for the year luckily in this case we have almost 3.1 million in fund balance so that will bring us down to 2.6 million dollars in positive fund balance that's not ideal we clearly wouldn't like to be doing that we've worked hard to build that reserve up but we're fortunate that we have it at this point and we're hoping that the sales tax revenues will maybe come around a little better than projection and that number won't be quite as dismal as it looks right now but we are thankful that we at least have the fund balance to cover it so we're not looking at any cuts per se just a hit to our planned build up for cash so we can move stations and build and build new stations so that that's a hit in itself and with that I'll open up any questions or comments thank you Jim council any questions on the fire presentation not cna thank you very much let's continue the presentation good evening uh mayor schwedhelm vice mayor phleming and members of the city council reiner navarro chief of police for the city of santa rosa uh i'm here today with pam laurence our administrative services officer to present the police department's portion of the measure annual report pam's going to go over the budget slides the first few slides that we have and then i will provide an overview of the measure impacts and how it impacts our mission which is to make our city a safe place to live work and play and how it helps us reach our vision which is to be the standard of excellence in policing measure o is vital to the work that we do in providing direct services on a daily daily level we can't we could not do what we do without measure o right now in how we provide many of the enhanced services that you're going to hear about to our community so with that i want to turn it over to pam and i'll be back in a few slides good evening mayor vice mayor and city council members and pam laurence aso so i'll be going over the financials and then i'll hand it over to raise uh chief navarro as he said and so on this side you can see that our beginning fund balance was about 1.1 million our sales tax revenues were down as um as o erin said and so we had about 3.8 million in tax revenue about four thousand dollars in interest or other revenue and with expenditures expenditures of four point two million dollars and making us use some of that reserve balance about um 382 thousand we used out of reserves leaving us with 756 thousand remaining next slide please dina this slide just breaks it down to show you how we use those funds as you can see the majority of our funds about 94 percent were spent on salaries and benefits for the 19 positions that we have in measure o 135 was spent on services and supplies which covers um three vehicle maintenance or maintenance on three vehicles um the downtown enforcement lease for that office as well as insurance and and various supplies we spent 112 thousand on general fund overhead or administration next slide please this is an overview showing you um the since inception of the program where we where our revenues and expenditures have been as you can see over time our revenues and expenditures have been um pretty even every few years or every couple of years we've had to spend some money out of our reserves um which is just due to um increased expenses and decreased revenues mostly due again to staffing increases um you can see that spike in 910 that was one time staffing for staff positions that we moved in during the downturn and then we're either later cut or move back to the general fund next slide please chief Navarro will take it from here thank you Pam so um as you see the measure o funds 19 positions within our police department that is both sworn and civilian uh who are assigned throughout the department including um a lieutenant a sergeant and nine officers who are in designated assignments which address priority issues such as traffic and homelessness we also have five civilian staff and that includes one manager in communications and uh four staff members one in records and three others who are on the streets as field evidence technicians or community service officers to address cause or service such as burglaries and assisting with traffic accidents the again these positions are vital to meeting the mission and vision of our department and then also the city council's mission of providing high quality service uh to and and cultivating vibrant and resilient city next slide please so measure o helps us enhance our patrol services in patrol alone measure o patrol officers responded to over 4800 calls for service measure allows our staff to address specific priorities based on community feedback and council priorities in the past i'll give you a few examples two years ago measure o helped us update our radio infrastructure to address our response to natural disasters such as the fires that we're having and other major emergencies we've purchased equipment such as our electric motorcycles for our downtown enforcement team which allows us to go in some of our more rural areas such as the hills and also provides better access to some of the the open open lands within the city and it also pays for our downtown office which is next to the transit mall which allows our downtown enforcement team to provide better response and more efficient response to the downtown area the measure also assists us with doing our community policing and with those efforts several of our measure o officers and staff assisted me last year in conducting five community listening sessions they were vital in the planning and preparation and implementation of those meetings where we received valuable feedback this year we've used our measure officers to work with community partners throughout the year in several of our meetings such as downtown meetings and several of our nonprofit partners in the area of homelessness and in traffic if measure o does provide the ability to increase and our traffic enforcement and maintain grants as you can see there's a couple of stats up on this slide here and it has in effect our measure o staff has arrested almost 500 people and issued over 400 citations and this isn't just when you look at this it's not just enforcement of violations criminal violations but it's also a reflection on how we're impacting the community as far as helping out helping out our victims so measure o has helped numerous people such as victims of violent crimes victims of domestic violence and also prevents tragedies through DUI enforcement that DUI crashes can bring next slide please measure o again has provided a huge benefit to addressing our local emergencies our measure o staff has directly been involved in the evacuation efforts related to the Cancay fire and the glass fire this past fall measure o has also has been very valuable to us because our measure o staff was directly involved in taking the lead at the onset of our COVID emergency our officers set protocols and maintained equipment for the safety of our staff and our community it is measure o has helped us develop strong partnerships with the Santa Rosa City Schools rosen school district and several other smaller districts within Santa Rosa we've been able to educate staff and students in a variety of topics and crisis issues if you recall back in October 2019 one of our sros was able to quickly respond to a shooting that had occurred in front of a local school and helped lock down the the school for the students student and staff safety and that that incident resulted in a very swift response and culminated in an arrest and without anybody being any additional people being injured outside of the shooting that occurred on the street our sros who are measure o they provide youth community experience or the youth community experience program to our two students throughout the the city of Santa Rosa and we are currently working on an additional one that will be virtual sometime in the future even with no campus classes right now we still get calls to assist with crisis crises that occur and the calls come directly from school district staff to to get assistance and in case there's anything going on on campuses on the closed campuses or with any students that they feel might be in danger we also have engaged with local nonprofits to mentor youth and engagement similar to our community listening sessions they've been a part of several virtual meet meetings through some of our local nonprofits local nonprofits such as chops where we've held community meetings with young people we do a lot of work with homelessness our downtown enforcement team is directly involved in that working with our nonprofits they do daily referrals to homeless services and they meet weekly with various homeless service providers to do what we can to provide services for people experiencing homelessness right now and it's also increased our customer service as a whole to again meet our vision it is vital again to our staffing and it has helped us maintain some of these enhanced services such as downtown enforcement team school resource officers motors and then meeting grant requirements in the areas of alcohol and DUI enforcement next slide please so we will we continue to have needs in the area of staffing within the police department we have needs for our facilities and and also providing innovating innovative programs to meet the needs of the community the city and the department right now as you've heard from Jim and Pam that we are feeling the financial impact of COVID right now and we are continuing to work on those and we're coming up with strategies for this next year next slide please as Pam said we have been dipping into our reserves for several years and to address some of the rising costs for salaries benefits and striving to provide excellent service we have we began our year with 7656,000 in our measure reserves salaries and benefits make up 94% of our expenditures and we no longer have the reserves due to the reduction in revenue this year due to some of the COVID issues so to address the reduction in revenue we have frozen two school resource officer positions that equates to about $400,000 in savings this decision was not made lightly we thought a lot about this and I made this decision based on the reduction in revenue the current virtual state of our schools which we have closed campuses right now and also with the increasing staffing shortages that we have within our department with that being said we will continue to evaluate our priorities for measure revenue based on both the department and city priorities in the areas of public safety emergency preparedness traffic homelessness and violence that concludes our portion of the presentation and we're Pam and I are more than happy to answer any questions that you might have thank you all right thank you chief council any questions on the police portion of the presentation uh mr rogers thank you mr mayor chief just a quick question on the budget savings that you put in there at the end with the school resource officer officers I assume that that is in communication with the school district as well and that process that's been playing out that is correct I did have direct contact with the superintendent for centers of city schools and they're well aware of that and we have we're continuing our conversations with them excellent thank you council any additional questions not seeing any all right thank you chief we're not going to take public comment on item 14.2 the measure annual report if you'd like to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 madam host would you facilitate public comment on item 14.2 thank you mayor you can see there is a countdown for you for the convenience of the commenter and those participating in tonight's meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown this is for public comment on item 14.2 the measure oh annual report the first public comment will be from Ellen Ellen I've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen thank you can you hear me I can't thank you very much please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now thank you my name is Ellen Bailey and I'm the chair for the citizens oversight can be for measure oh the public safety sales tax measure that you'll have been just talking about as stated by the staff the coc met on November 2nd and after this presentation by the police department the fire department and violence prevention partnership the coc unanimously recommended the cease the city council approval of the annual report for this fiscal year 2019 2020 I want you to know that the committee is impressed and I am personally very impressed with the work that each one of the department continues to do to enhance the services that they provide for Santa Rosa especially during this time of wildfires social unrest and a pandemic I want to thank all the staff for their hard work their flexibility and their creativity in the time of unprecedented crisis and I want to thank them for their commitment to the safety of the community of Santa Rosa in addition I want to take this time to remind the public that this sales tax measure has a sunset date of 2025 which would mean the loss of some or most likely all of these services if you if the public wants any more information about that they're certainly welcome to contact me and if I don't have the answers to their questions I'm glad to share find out the answers or send them on to the right staff person and that's basically it thank you thank you Ellen here I'm not seeing any additional hands raised for item 14.2 and we did not receive any voice message public comments on this item all right thank you very much we'll bring it back to council mr oliver as I believe you have this item thank you mayor I have this item I don't believe I have a resolution for this either I believe we're accepting this report but I do want to take this opportunity to thank the citizen oversight committee I know they do a lot of work they don't have to meet often but when they do they do a lot of they put in a lot of work to make this happen so thank you to them I also want to thank the staff from all of those that report it from violence prevention fire police this is this is a monumental task especially today with COVID we've been at this effort here locally in Santa Rosa going back to probably 2001 and we continue to go at it we were having a hard time even before COVID trying to meet the needs of a lot of our youth and families in vulnerable neighborhoods and populations throughout the city and it's made it even tougher now with COVID and not being able to interact with them directly so it had to be very creative and if I applaud their effort in doing that but I also know that it takes it takes its toll on those providing the services so I encourage the you the city to continue to work with with our providers including those that we contract with to ensure that they're taking care of themselves so that they're able to take care of those families and you thought they're in our community because this this is very hard work it's hard work because I've seen it I've done it I see it happening across the state in the nation and everybody that does this my advice of them is take care of yourselves it's so important so with that my recommendation to the council is that we accept the 2020-21 measure annual report second thank you hey we have a motion on Mr. Alvaro second on Mr. Rogers any additional comment by council not seeing any I do want to echo Mr. Alvaro's comments and the chair of the measure oversight Ellen Bailey who is spot on it's very impressive the work that's done in these very challenging unprecedented times and you know I also want to thank the voters of Santa Rosa who in their infinite wisdom past measure because we're seeing the benefits and the fruits of that labor so I look forward to ongoing conversations and providing fabulous services to the city largely do in part are largely due to the efforts of Mesero and all the staff in the non-profit providers that are also engaged so thank you all for your efforts and with that uh Madam City Clerk we do a roll call vote for the acceptance of this report please yes councilmember Dowd hi councilmember Tibbetz hi councilmember Sawyer hi councilmember Rogers hi councilmember Oliveris hi ice mayor Fleming hi Mayor Schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven i's great thank you so much all right on to our next item uh item 17.1 and let me just share the process that we're going to follow on this so we will receive the report we'll take public comment and before the vote I'll provide an opportunity uh for any council member to make any comments about uh two of our of our colleagues will be leaving this body and then we'll go ahead make the vote and move on from there so with that Mr. City Manager item 17.1 items 17.1 report declaration of results for the general municipal election held on Tuesday November 3rd 2020 for one the purpose of electing members up for four district-based offices of the city council for districts one three five and seven each for a full term of four years and two submitting to the voters measure q relating to the sales tax Stephanie Williams city clerk presenting thank you um this is to declare the results of the general municipal election held on November 3rd 2020 next slide please um as I said the election was held on November 3rd pursuant to the center as a city charter section 30 and the Sonoma county registrar voters has canvassed the returns of the elections and has certified those results next slide please following completion of the canvas of the votes and and before installing the officers the council must adopt a resolution declaring the results of the elections for council districts one three five and seven and the adoption of measure q next slide please so it is recommended by the city clerk's office that the council by resolution recite the fact and declare the results of the consolidated general municipal election held on Tuesday November 3rd 2020 for the election to the city council of eddie alvarez for district one Harrison jack tidbits for district three chris rogers for district five and natalie rogers for district seven each for a full term of four years and the approval of the santa rosa measure q city of santa rosa one half cent sales tax and adopt the ordinance adding chapter three dash 30 to title three of the santa rosa city code to impose a temporary half cent general sales tax and use tax thanks right and i'm happy to answer any questions great thank you Stephanie for that presentation and again does anyone on council have any questions about that presentation not comments just any questions for clarification not not seen any i would then like to move to public comment on item 17.1 so if you'd like to make a comment on this item via zoom please raise your hand if you're calling in via telephone please dial star nine madam host would you please facilitate public comment on item 17.1 timer before you for the convenience of those participating in the site meeting the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the conclusion of your comment or at the end of the countdown the first public comment will be from brian brian i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen i can see the timer thank you thank you brian please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now brian ling on the executive director sonoma county alliance and i also would am proud to say that uh after many years i am back a santa rosa resident official resident again for about the last month so glad to be back in town i want to say thank you to dick dowd and ornesto oliveris for their commitment to the city of santa rosa mr dowd for his one year on council but probably more importantly for his multi decade decade commitment to the bpu which preceded this year's council participation uh his reputation is outstanding and um thank you for serving this last year and and all the years for the city of santa rosa uh mr oliveris during his tenure he's witnessed and led us through the deepest economic recession the city's ever seen the worst disaster since the 1906 earthquake he served as mayor he shared the dias was by my count probably 20 other council members he's always been open for all discussions he's been calm in his demeanor he's been fair and honest his decisions we were i wish we were in person and not zooming so i could lead dick and ornesto on a standing ovation that they well deserve thank you thank you the next public comment will be from ellen ellen i've enabled your speaking permissions can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen yes i do thank you thank you please identify yourself a public record if you choose to do so when your time begins down sure my name is ellen bailey and i'd like to acknowledge council member oliveris's commitment to the city you've been a council member for a very long time 12 years and before that a public servant long before that and your story is one of success that begins in mexico and then immigrating to california as a very young child your parents risked everything behind by leaving everything that was familiar to them so that your family could have a chance at the american dream and you have brought honor to your parents and their sacrifice becoming by becoming an exemplary citizen hardworking thoughtful generous public servant and of course a loving father and husband at the same time i remember clearly when your mother stood with you in city council chambers and gave you her blessing during the swearing in ceremony for the city council her pride in you was palpable as was your pride in being her son and your pride in your own heritage it was a beautiful moment for all of us to witness you have had many accomplishments and see as a city council member in all areas of your adult life you advanced to become a lieutenant in the san rosa police department you became the manager of the newly formed gang prevention efforts which is now called the violence prevention partnership and you really helped to catapult those efforts forward and then you became a city council member and ultimately the mayor and the first mayor latino mayor on the city council for the city of san rosa in addition you have served on many boards and commissions such as the memorial hospital board of trustees the luther bourbon center for the arts the life force advisory board and the united way of the wine country just to name a few you are currently the executive director for the california violence prevention network which continues to be a heartfelt mission for you to support the youth of our community and across the state i fully expect you will continue to serve our community and share your experience and your wisdom to make life better for all of us thank you ronesto for your leadership your hard work your big heart and your generosity our community is better for it thank you thank you ellen you have not seen any additional hands raised for item 17.1 the declaration of results for the general municipal election and we did not receive any written or pardon me uh voicemail public comments okay thank you for that so we'll bring it back to council again before we have a motion uh any of our council members like to make any comment on this item and or outgoing comments or outgoing colleagues so we'll start with mr rogers thank you mr mayor and i wanted to piggyback on ellen's comments there uh councilmember oliveris one of my favorite moments that i had with you over the last four years was the two of us actually doing read across america and i i came into the room as we were finishing up reading to a class and you were talking about your story and how important it was to you and how you had an opportunity to be the first latino elected to mayor and that you were going around the the room going and you can be mayor and you can be mayor and you can be mayor and to me over the last four years the thing that i think i have enjoyed the most working with you on is your willingness to prop other people up to make a difference not just in our local community but but specifically in the lives of the youth within our community to make sure that they see opportunity and that they see a better life as well and that they can be a part of of something bigger than themselves and i'll just always appreciate that near your 12 years that you put in at the city and then obviously time ahead of that so i'm looking forward to continuing to work with you in other capacities but we'll definitely miss you from the day us uh dick i just want to say thank you for for stepping up you know we've talked a lot about your 30 years on the board of public utilities and i don't know how anybody comes up to speed particularly during a pandemic and is able to meaningfully contribute to the city the way that you did over the last year just thank you so much for your service your continued service and i know that it hasn't been easy but we've all really appreciated it and i know that we'll be working together as well in the future and thank you um vice mayor phleming um thank you mr. dowd for um stepping in and for um both your exemplary attendance as well as your sincerity in your approach to all of our matters it is greatly appreciated and not lost on any of us mr. oliveris um ronesto um in the short two years that i've had the honor of serving with you i have been impressed by um that your approach to things that you come to things with um not a desire to show vote or to grandstand but to really get things done for the people and with a special eye toward people of color and women and underserved people with the idea that anybody can make it here with the right opportunities and that is our job to provide the right opportunities for people and make sure that they have them and so for that you've been an excellent partner in accomplishing many of our mutually shared goals um but i i think my favorite thing about working with you is your excellent sense of humor i'll never forget that time that you drove me um just a short cross town i hope you'll forgive me for telling this story and i told you about this great job that the srpd did in cracking this case of this guy he did a smash and grabbed my car and i showed you the picture of the apprehended suspect you just turned you're like well thank god he's white and and i was like oh my gosh this guy is hilarious and a great partner and um i'm really going to be sad to see you go so thanks for all your work on behalf of our youth and our underserved communities and the women and children of the city of santa rosa you will be missed by me thank you victoria mr tivitz thank you mayor um i i agree with what brian linguist said i wish i we were in person tonight so i could stand up to walk with you through the door and shake your both of your hands one of the thing that that just amazes me as a young person is how many years you've been dedicated to this city and public service in particular dick i i think it was 18 years on the board of public utilities or something like that and if i'm wrong i hope you'll correct me in or nesto 12 years here any lifetime of service on the police department there's public servants and then there's public stalwarts and you guys are certainly stalwarts so it's been uh an honor and a privilege to work with you and and as a young person to also learn from you it's a big change for me and i've certainly dick from you and i recognize i'm not following the rule tonight but during the big controversial hearings always wear a tie um or nesto uh i want to also just say thanks thanks to you for showing me that um sometimes being uh pensive and thoughtful on decisions um is the way to go and also to look out for your staff thank you um mr sorry did you want to make any comments on your leader liar thank you for i can do it down early we go back quite a ways lsr 13 seems like a long long time ago and it seems like yesterday as well and i remember when you decided that you were going to run for council and how pleased uh dan and i both were that you were willing to step up into that in that the uh forays of of running for office and and and then service so you know what i'm what i'm going to miss um your attitude toward governance and policy making which is what we're elected to do and almost exclusively what we're elected to do and you do it very very well your manner not only with the public but with your fellow your your colleagues over the years um i'm really going to be missing that your respect for staff um and the respect for the for your colleagues and the and the and the community as well and i agree with with victoria your sense of humor um i always call it cop humor um as there's there not everyone can get away with it and not everyone he everybody has it and you have it and i'm going to miss it um at the dais and elsewhere and we'll just have to wait for cove it to be over and we can see each other at the polenta feeds but thank you for your amazing service um and your dedication um and now and and good luck in whatever it is that you do next and and and you know you and rita can either take it easy and relax a little bit i don't think that's going to happen actually but good luck in the future my friend you take care of yourself thank you john and dick you know in my 45 years of being in in because probably because of soya's news being downtown and being at city hall a lot and hearing your name i don't remember when there was a time when i didn't hear your name and so your your service is clear your dedication is unflappable and thank you for for stepping into this position during a very very difficult time it's been an honor serving with you on the council and back to retirement assuming that that's what you're going to do but enjoy and thank you for your service thank you mr soyer um you know my comments you dick i was so disappointed that your entire time on council it's been via zoom we i know we had made plans the vice mayor and i had been making plans for the welcoming dinner and then this pandemic hit so i've really appreciated your contributions you know most recently on city council although you know we had interspersed interactions with your my understanding it was 25 years on bpu that is um i know mr galvin is a little bit behind you but i don't know if he's if anyone's ever going to make that kind of commitment on the board of public utilities you're just going to stellar job and you talk to community members from throughout our community and it's nothing but admiration and positively about your contributions so you've made santa rosa a much better place for those of us that remember you know the geysers project and i know the challenge is that the bpu was going on back in those times and look at you're still here and i just i can't thank you for your commitment to this community and organization and for your anesto um i heard you on the radio this morning and although i i'm not into the 40 years you know we first met in 1983 when i started the uh with the police department um and i've learned so much from you um one of your most recent contributions to my repertoire you've taught me how to full t-shirts uh that i learned during a uh game resistance education and training program just like others have mentioned here's ronesto we're with i think a bunch of third graders and he starts showing kids here's the way to fold a t-shirt and you're i think mayor at the time it was just phenomenal your ability to connect with all members of this community is phenomenal you really helped me at the police department in a variety of roles you made me a better cop when we started promoting through their ranks you made me a better manager you were one of the first people i reached out to when i was considering entering council um and i will say you did not tell me everything that this would be about you didn't tell me about pandemics wildfires or anything else but i do appreciate your advice because i consider you a close friend and most importantly um i think you've made me a better person because i've learned so much from you and your contributions over your 40 year career you know ellen stole a lot of the words i was going to use you know um because i'd known you that long and it's just heart to heart um we have really been blessed to have you on as a member of this community both as your professional role as a police department and on city council 12 years i'd applaud you i'd love to as someone else mentioned stand give you a standing ovation as you walk out the door but we'll have to figure out some other way to celebrate that um so with that uh go around mr. dowd it's your now opportunity to make any final comments and you can comment if you'd like on mr. alvarez i will um first of all i thank you for all your kind comments the only thing that uh i regret about my year on the city council is that we didn't have the in-person meetings because of the pandemic i found all of you to be very collegial listens to each other and we collectively came to pretty unifying decisions throughout the whole period of time and i have grown to admire all of you as a consequence of even though there's zoom meetings i still have really grown to get to know you all better and really highly respect you the interesting thing about it is mayor schradel you were right it was 25 years on the bpu 16 as chairman and i also have to look over at my colleague uh Ernesto alvarez because for most of his 12 years on the council he was the pointer of the to the bpu i had a few before him but uh he was really consistent in keeping me on the bpu and i deeply appreciate it the last thing i want to say is i want to welcome uh now that we're through with the district representation type elections and now clearly have a city council member for each of the seven districts i think it will run much more smoothly and the community will understand it much better and so i want to welcome to uh eddie alvarez alvarez for district one and natalie rogers for district seven and the continuation of chris rogers for district five and jack tibets for district three i appreciate your continuing on the council you provide a great deal to it and it's been an honor to work with all of you uh thank you very much thank you dick mr alvarez anything you'd like to comment on yes i would thank you and thank you dick for all your years of service to the bpu uh it was always a joy having you there and being that expert to do that so thank you for that uh and thank you all of you for for your comments i i it's deeply appreciated um it is it's difficult to hear sometimes uh as you know being on on the receiving end of something like this but today is a special day for me uh today is my father's birthday he would have been 103 years old had he lived as i leave my council seat i want to honor him and dedicate this moment to him and my mother who passed away seven years ago friday well our family lived third poor in mexico my parents brought us to a better life of poverty in california where we worked as farm workers as immigrants we worked hard and my father made sure we clearly understood we were guests in this country it was not ours and he expected us to behave like guests we learned to respect people around us and to be thankful for the privilege of living and working in this great country my father had an eighth grade education and my mother had no formal education at all yet they taught me much including the responsibility to help others especially the most vulnerable in time my father became more aware of the many issues facing people in this country and around the world he kept informed by reading the callous of son herald for watching walter tronkite on tv soon he no longer saw us as mere guests but as residents who must play a stronger role in our communities the playing a stronger role meant we needed a stronger voice as united states citizens my father enrolled in night classes to prepare to become a u.s citizen and to obtain citizenship for those of us born in mexico as soon as he obtained citizenship my father registered to vote and he voted then as each of us turned 18 he guided us to the ballot box as well his belief in the voting process was so strong that he took time ma from work to volunteer at his polling place checking people in as they came into vote he told us it was his civic duty it was my father's values and his and my mother's commitment to helping others that guided me to a lifelong journey of public service this was my civic duty to them i'm most grateful today i want to thank the residents and voters of santa rosa for the privilege and honor of serving them as a police officer and council member i offer a special thank you to all my board and commission appointees meeting council members not easy there are many technical and special to areas that must be considered in making sound policy decisions being surrounded by such talented and passionate appointees made my job much easier a big thank you and big hug to all my extended city family it has been a pleasure working beside you for nearly 42 years to my current council colleagues and those i have served who i've served with over the past 12 years thank you for the honor of serving beside you we have faced many challenges but together we've done some great things for our city my heartfelt thanks to all the staff and city manager's office and to stephanie and dean and city clerk's office thank you for the special gift i'll show this to you this is a handcrafted bowl made by rick bunda bundle uh from california from a california black oak destroyed in the 2017 tons fire i'm very thankful for this gift thank you all to sub-gallagher thank you to you and all your staff and the city attorney's office for keeping me out of trouble over the years the three of the strongest women i know my daughters mandy cassian desrey thank you for taking this journey with me because of the work you do i know our community's youth and their futures are in good hands i love you all very much to my grandchildren james and aura i love you both above all thank you rita my wife and partner thank you for your support and for believing in me you're always there to hold my hand to let me vent and to rant to cry and to laugh thank you for walking beside me i love you mayor and council members i have to show you that i got one of these as well from the city manager staff and i've deeply appreciated it it it's beautiful thank you cheers bye thank you sorry yeah mr so where you get to follow that okay i have a resolution first to read i will introduce a resolution of the council the city senator rosa reciting the fact of the general municipal election held on tuesday november 3rd 2020 declaring the results of such other matters as provided by law and wait for the reading of the text second we have a motion by mr soyer seconded by mr rogers any additional comments by council uh vice mayor flamin yeah i hope this is the appropriate time i cut out for a moment to um to just say that you know a heartfelt thank you to mayor schwedhelm for your service and um you know in this changeover we acknowledge you know our outgoing council members doubt and former mayor all of the varice but i also wanted to make sure that you know that we acknowledge that mayor schwedhelm has taken us through a really difficult time in our recent history and has done so with grace and honor and with thorough knowledge of the process and so for that i'm very grateful and um we'll be excited to support this motion great okay uh we have a motion to second madam city clerk uh can we have a roll call vote please yes thank you mayor council member dowd hi council member tibbetz hi council member soyer hi council member rogers hi council member oliveris hi vice mayor flamin hi mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes all right thank you all okay uh we'll now move to item 17 mayor uh i have an ordinance i need to read i believe okay um city attorney shakerhead yes so um move an ordinance of the council the city san aroza adding chapter 3-30 to title three of the san aroza city code to impose a temporary half-synth general transactions and use tax to be administered by the california department of tax and fee administration and repealing chapters three dash 27 and three dash 29 of the san aroza city code and wave further reading of the text second motion by mr soyer saying by vice mayor flamin uh vice mayor flamin you have a question or comment on this yeah i just wanted to uh say uh quick thank you to the voters of the city of san aroza for believing in our ability to steward your tax dollars and get us through this very difficult time thank you i echo those comments um okay any other comments from any else on council okay i think we have a motion and a second uh madam clerk could we do a roll call vote please councilmember dowd hi councilmember tibbetz hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember oliveris hi vice mayor flamin i'm mayor schwedhelm hi that motion passes with seven eyes right thank you and i think that's it mr soyer right on this item um it is i'm i'm just curious as to when we are we are able to make our comments and thanks to you to your mayorship um why i don't see that on the agenda why don't we wait for 17 three okay um yeah i don't know um okay that's why out of an abundance of anxiety i just you know kind of went for it so hey and i started the ball rolling i i i appreciate that um so why don't we do the uh 17.2 mr city manager item 17.2 administration of oath of office to newly elected council members presentation of certificates of election and seating of the newly elected council members Stephanie Williams city clerk presenting thank you um madam host can you promote natalie and eddie as panelists so we can administer their oath and then i will administer the oath then to um councilmember rogers and councilmember tibbetz mr alvarez can you unmute um your video i am unmuted uh let me see here legal settings well i will start with um miss rogers first so please raise your right hand and repeat after me i state your name i natalie rogers you solemnly swear solemnly swear that i will support and defend that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california and the constitution of the state of California. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance. That I will bear true faith and allegiance. To the Constitution of the United States. To the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the State of California. And the Constitution of the State of California. And I take this obligation freely that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter to the city council. Thank you. Eddie, are you able to unmute your video so we can see you? Oh Stephanie, I am unmuted but the video is not able to. So is it okay if I administer his oath without being able to see? Yes, you may go ahead and administer the oath. Thank you. Okay, Eddie, please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I Eddie Alvarez, do solemnly swear, I Eddie Alvarez do solemnly swear that I will support and defend that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California and the Constitution of the state of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, against all enemies foreign and domestic that it will bear true faith and allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States to the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the state of California for your muted Eddie, and the Constitution of the state of California. the state of California. And the constitution of the state of California. That I take this obligation freely. That I take this obligation freely. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully. And that I will well and faithfully introduce to the night that tonight as a matter of country we ask the council to entered. Just charged the duties upon Ranch I am about to enter. Thank you. Welcome to the city council. Thank you. Thank you moment Councilmember. I wish you could see the smile on my face right now. Okay. Councilmember Rogers Are you ready for your auf? Go ahead. Okay. Please I, Chris Rogers do solemnly swear that I will support and defend that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of California and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic that it will bear true faith and allegiance I will bear truth true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States for the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California and the Constitution of the State of California. But I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter thank you councilmember tippets ready please raise your right hand i jack tippets do solemnly swear i jack tippets do solemnly swear that it will support and defend that i'll support and defend the constitution of the united states the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that it will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States, to the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of California, and the Constitution of the State of California, that I take this obligation freely, and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. Just charge the duties that I am about to enter. Congratulations. That concludes the oath of office, and then there is certificates of election that I will be sending to each of you tomorrow. Thank you for that Stephanie. So I'll offer an opportunity for any of the newly sworn-in council members to make any comments, and I'll just go in the order that you were sworn in. Natalie, would you like to make any comments? Yes, Mayor. Thank you. I am excited to serve on the Santa Rosa City Council, as you all can see. I would first like to thank God my husband, my children, extended family, friends, my church family, the residents of Santa Rosa, and the constituents in District 7 for supporting me to be the first District 7 City Council member and the first African-American female to sit as an elected official on the council. Definitely want to thank Indy Politics for their guidance during my campaign. There were a lot of long nights, and they were up with me and supporting me, and I would like to thank them for this opportunity. This is a historical moment for the City of Santa Rosa, and I am proud that the residents have trusted me to be a part of it. I have learned so much about the City and believe there is still so much to learn. Everyone who took the time out of their busy schedules to speak with me, to meet with me during my campaign, I would like to thank you. I couldn't let the opportunity pass without thanking the current council for their support. I have the opportunity of meeting with each and every one of you, and I thank you for your willingness to be a resource during my campaign and also now that I am on the council. All of Aris gave me some good advice, and that was to stay prepared, and that Santa Rosa, if I were to be seated on the council, that I was the promise. Everything else that I brought with me was a bonus, so thank you for that. It actually really helped me to get through my campaign. My goal is to deliver for District 7's residents, the businesses, as well as the City of Santa Rosa. I look forward to working with the council staff, community leaders, business owners, and residents, and again, thank you so much everyone for your support. I am ready to get to work. Thank you, Natalie. Welcome to the Santa Rosa City Council. Look forward to serving with you. It's nice to see your smiling face, Eddie. Would you like to make any comments? I would indeed, and I appreciate it very much. We got the problem resolved, thankfully. I would like to take this opportunity to address my Latinx community, if I may. And with that being said, gente, hemos ganado. Tenemos representación. Tenemos una voz. To my fellow council members, I can't wait to work with you to assure that all Santa Rosas receive dignity and employment, and that all future Santa Rosas have an opportunity to realize their dreams, such as I am doing so today. So with that being said, thank you, Santa Rosa, for the opportunity to serve on the City Council, and thank you to to my Sonoma County Democratic Central Committee for walking District 1, and letting the people know that there are political organizations that are here to benefit us, to help us to guide us. Pat, Val, Debra, I'm forever indebted to our local unions, North Bay Labor Council, my Latinx, Martinez, Walsh, Dennis Rosanti. It's been a fun ride, and I can't wait to see this these next four years and see what they bring to the fold. My late Mayor, Bob Lancer, I did it. Terry Olden, for opening the door to politics and demonstrating the importance of what becoming civically engaged means, and how important it is for our community. Resuit continuation, go Blue Jays. To my mom and dad, the first time my father ever went to school is when he dropped me off. My mother, third grade, field worker, and my dad, the baddest dishwasher the world has ever seen. So thank you. Thank you, Eddie, and welcome to Santa Rosa City Council, looking forward to serving with you. Mr. Rogers, you're up next. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to express how excited I am to get a chance to work with Eddie and Natalie and to continue our work with the other City Council members as well. I too wanted to thank a number of folks within the community. First, I have to thank Sarah. Not only has she put up with me for multiple fires and a pandemic, but then throw a campaign on top of it. And I can't imagine that I was particularly pleasant all the time around the house. And so I wanted to just start there and thank her for being so supportive through everything. My parents, I know my mom, I know my brother, I know my sister-in-law, I know all of them are watching, wishing that we could all be together as I know everybody's families are. I just thank you again for just being a rock and being there to be supportive. And to the community, thank you so much. I haven't been, I haven't been shy about telling people that I didn't expect to win four years ago and definitely came in wanting to be the hardest working representative that I could be for the people that I serve. I've been given opportunities to work with people who have made meaningful impacts in our community. Michael Allen, like McGuire, Mariko Yamada, Congresswoman Lynn Mulsey and everything that I do, I feel like is building on that legacy that they instilled and in that desire to do good in our community and to help people. And so I'm just so proud to continue to serve for the next four years. Thank you to everybody and we'll keep working hard. Thank you, Mr. Rogers. Mr. Tivitz. I will be brief, but I just want to thank three groups of folks. First is definitely my wife. We've been busy these last couple of years and I thank her for being supportive of this decision to go again. The second group of folks I want to thank is the residents of the third district and Oakmont in particular. I remember when I was collecting signatures, I felt a strong amount of support and that gave me a lot of vigor and energy and it really meant a lot. And then the third group that I want to thank is all of you. It really is something to be able to get up here just about every Tuesday night and have the privilege to, especially being young, to kind of give your perspective, but also with being young comes a lot of great learning curves. And I've got to say over the last four years, I have certainly learned a lot from you and I think it has influenced me and how I am on the council today. And I look forward to continuing with most of you and Dick or Nesto, I will miss both of you. Eddie, Natalie, I look forward to working with both of you in the years ahead. So thank you all. Thank you, Jack. Okay, now we're going to take public comment on item 17.2. If you're want to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're calling in via telephone, please dial star nine. Madam host, would you facilitate public comment on item 17.2? We will do. As you can see, there's a timer before you for the convenience of those participating in today's meeting. You know, those wishing to make a public comment. The first participant will be acknowledged and invited to speak. Please make sure to unmute your microphone when invited to do so. Your microphone will be muted at the end of your comment or at the conclusion of the countdown timer. The first public comment will be from Madonna, followed by Rick Madonna and have been able to your speaking permissions. Can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen? I can, I could see the timer. Thank you. Thank you. Please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now. Sure. No problem. Thank you. My name is Madonna Feather Cruz. I'm a project director at disability services in legal center here on Mendocino Avenue and I would just like to congratulate Eddie Alvarez on becoming a city council member for the people. And Eddie, I'm so proud of you, your family and my daughter's proud of you. She said you have her youth behind you. So she's ready to get to work. Let her know what she could do. And to the new members, I'm proud of you as well. And thank you so much for allowing me to have this moment to congratulate Eddie and from the Cruz family, Eddie, we love you very much. Thank you. All in my time now. Thank you, Madonna. The next public comment will be from Ellen. Ellen, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer? Sure. My name is Ellen Bailey and I wanted to congratulate Natalie Rogers and Eddie Alvarez in your new positions on city council. Welcome. You have big shoes to fill, but I have total faith in you that you will do that. Stay open and learn and also share new things with us. New blood is always really, really needed in the community. So thank you for that. And I want to take the opportunity to thank Mayor Schwedhelm for his leadership. Tom, when you started as mayor, I don't think you expected to have to deal with more fires, a pandemic, social and political unrest. But you rose to the challenge for each one of those things and you led us well. And I'm not surprised, but I'm truly grateful for that. So thank you for that. And for Jack DeBitts and for Chris Rogers. Thanks for hanging in there and wanting to continue. We, you know, we need you and we need the same kind of commitment that we've seen from the members on the committee that are leaving now, the council that are leaving now. We need that same kind of commitment from you. And I appreciate seeing that. So thank you very much. Thank you, Ellen. And this is for public comment on item 17.2, the administration of the oath of office to office for the newly elected council members. Mayor, and that's with that one more hand up. The next public comment will be from Star. Star, I've been able to speaking permissions. Can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen? Yes. Thank you. Please identify yourself for public record. If you choose to do so and your time begins now. This is from the family to my own. I want to congratulate Eddie that we're here for you and support you and big, big congratulations from family to my own family to my own. The next public comment will be from gasoline. That's when I've enabled your speaking permissions. Can you please unmute your microphone and confirm you can see the timer on your screen? Thank you. Please identify yourself for public record. If you choose to do so and your time begins now. My name is Jocelyn Martinez and I'm a student at Piner High School. And I would just like to say congratulations to Eddie Alvarez. I walked with you around Rosalind and I saw how much you worked and how you were so dedicated to the people. And it was an honor to walk with you and work with you and be alongside you through your entire campaign process and just a big congratulations. And this is truly a historic day for everyone who was sworn in today. So congratulations to everyone. And I would like to conclude my time now. Thank you, Jocelyn. The next public comment will be from Rick. Rick, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen? I can see the timer on my screen. Thank you. Please identify yourself for public record. If you choose to do so and your time begins now. Yes, my name is Rick Cruz. I'm a longtime born and raised Santa Rosa. I just want to congratulate my brother Eddie Alvarez for his involvement in our community. It is a blessing to us as Chicanos. And I am so proud of him. I just want to congratulate him, Eddie Alvarez. Very proud of you, bro. Let's get to work, bro. That concludes my statement. Thank you, Rick. The next public comment will be from Stacey. Stacey, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen? Yes, can you hear me? I can. Thank you, Stacey. Please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now. Yes, my name is Stacey Cook and I commend all of you on City Council. And I congratulate you, Mr. Alvarez and particularly Natalie Rogers. I know Natalie from when she was a student at the College of Marin and she served in student government as the student trustee. And you can see as well as I just how wonderful she is. And she'll do an exemplary job for the city and for all of the citizens of Santa Rosa. Blessings to all of you and much success to all of you. You'll remain in my prayers and in my heart and have a good evening. Thank you. Thank you, Stacey. This is for public comment on item 17.2. Mayor, I'm not seeing any additional hands raised for 17.2 and we did not receive any voice message public comment. Great. Thank you for that. Okay. For now, 17.3. I think what I'd like to do is just have the item introduced by the city manager and city attorney. I have some things I would like to do, so I will open up for comments from my council colleagues. We'll open up public comment and I'll facilitate the election of our next mayor. So, Mr. City Manager, do you want to introduce the item? Yes, 17.3 election of mayor. All right, so is there anything you needed to add or? I do not need to add anything. I don't know if there's a slideshow for the steps, but happy to walk through them if you would like. Stephanie, is there a slideshow? I know the process. I think all of us on council know the process. I'm more than happy to explain it once we get to that point. The presentation's up, but if we are not at that point, I can remove it for as you direct me. Yeah, it wouldn't be great if I could take that off so I can see everyone's faces we facilitate. Council comment before I do some thank yous. So, does anyone, as I think Ernesto mentioned, it's somewhat difficult when you're facilitating a process for your removal, but nonetheless, if there is anyone willing or wanting to make a comment, I'll go ahead and entertain that. Mr. Dowd. I just want to say, Mayor Schroedhelm, that it's been a pleasure to get to know you and I very, very much appreciate and want to acknowledge really how hard you worked as mayor, the amount of hours you put in for our community, and the community should and I'm sure is beholding to those efforts. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Tibbitts. Yeah, Tom, I just want to say thank you so much for your dedicated service, not just as mayor, but ever since I've known you. One thing I always appreciated about you is you were the guy that would sit down with anybody, even if they were coming, whether they supported you or coming for you, you would sit down with them, you would hear them, and you would incorporate their input into this process. And I hope you get all the credit you deserve for that. So thank you so much. And I look forward to continuing to work with you. Great. Thank you. Mr. Swartz, you're on mute. I'm not being critical of you, but you're on mute. Just the way it goes, huh? Thank you. You have shown tireless dedication and dignity and a plumb in your during your time as mayor. I'm sure, like, like Ellen said, you didn't expect to be walking into this very, very difficult time on the council. I don't think that we've been hit by so many challenges as we have during your reign as mayor, and you have really held up incredibly well. I'm not sure that just anyone could have done what you did during your term as mayor. It's very much appreciated. You kept the council together, and I'm sure that Jackie is going to be really happy to have you back a little more than she has the last couple of years. Thank you for your service. Look forward to the next two years with the new council members and our ongoing council members. And so thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Rogers. Tom, I'm going to pay the biggest compliment that I can pay somebody who I know cares about public service. And then that's that this city is undoubtedly better for having had your leadership the last two years. There has been one issue after another. You have worked your tail off. And quite frankly, I don't know that there's anybody in this community who could ever say that you have not put everything that you have into service for this community. Your leadership is going to be appreciated over the next two years, even if not in the mayor's seat. And I'm looking forward to continuing to work with you. You have been very open with all of us about trying to find common ground so that all of us are seeing results on the things that we care the most about throughout throughout our community. And I think that you've done a really good job of helping steer us into a place where this council is able to not only do incredible things, but do it together and do it well. Thank you so much. Mr. Oliver. Tom, what did I tell you about that fire hose? Remember, as soon as you become mayor, the fire hose is turned on. Well, congratulations to you because it's starting to start coming down to a little bit of a trickle for you here over the course of the next week or so. So I know that you're you're looking forward to that. But thank you for your leadership these past two years as mayor. We are in a strange place in this world, but we couldn't ask for a better person to have led us through this and who will continue to work for our citizens here in Santa Rosa and everybody that comes to visit us here. So thank you for your commitment and dedication to the city over the years. Thank you so much. All you for your comments. And I think all you know me, one of the things that I had said at the very beginning, I really consider city council a team sport. And I'm thankful for the team that we have. And I'm really looking forward to Eddie and Natalie joining the team because we can accomplish so much more working together. And I think this council has demonstrated. But just like that, it's not just the seven of us on council. We are so, so fortunate to have the outstanding staff. And I know I could not have accomplished nearly as much as we accomplished without the support from some people behind the scenes. And so first, I want to acknowledge the people in the city manager's office from Liz to Julie to Cali. Phenomenal. And again, I was, you know, I know Mr. Rogers made the comment that I think I've been the mayor that spent the least amount of time in the office. Wonderful line. That was great. I didn't have a comeback for that one. But when I was in the office, when we all could be in the office, Mr. City Manager, your staff is excellent and they're totally supportive of me and I think all my colleagues on council. And then as I once called them the wizard behind the screen that helps facilitate these meetings, city clerk's office, Stephanie and Dina and Gretchen and Sandy, they do phenomenal work that this goes, you know, and having been with some other meetings that don't go off as smoothly. I always come back to what, you know, specifically Stephanie and Dina are able to do. It's just phenomenal work. So thank you, thank you, thank you. And then as the mayor, being the spokesperson for the city, I've really gotten to work closely with Adrian and the PIO team. They are a phenomenal group of individuals. Frequently when they're wanting a quote from me, I'm basically taking what they are providing to me because I think they know me. They're very competent and it's just a phenomenal working job. So Mr. City Manager, again, the reorganization that we've put together, our PIO team and communication team, excellent work. And from Adrian and the rest of the team, they are phenomenal, easy to work with, so I really appreciate that. And then our two employees, you know, first are city attorney suits, been such a joy, as I think Ernesto said, you've kept me out of trouble. But what I really appreciate is the candor, at which I can call you, you're very responsive, and we're on the same, you're part of the team, you know, you give advice, and I really enjoyed working with you. And I look forward to the next two years, continuing our working relationship. And Mr. City Manager, I think you've made me a better mayor, you're a leader in the city manager community. And a lot of the conversations we've had, I don't think there's anything we're, we've avoided talking about, we talk about the reality, how do we make Santa Rosa better? And I appreciate your leadership in these challenging times. You heard what some of my colleagues said, you know, with a couple fires, pandemics, and also the public safety power shelf all uncharted territory, the road trips that we did to DC to lobby for our folks, that's all because of your leadership. So I really appreciate getting to know you. You've made me a better council person, and I really appreciate you, and your family's efforts to support you moving forward. So thank you. And the last person, obviously, I want to thank, John mentioned her, is my lovely wife, Jackie. I think she is looking forward to my return. I don't want to say normalcy, because I don't know what that is anymore. But being around probably a little bit more, I could not have done this without the support of Jackie, my kids and the rest of my family. So I appreciate everyone here and really look forward to moving forward. And I'm really looking forward to supporting the next mayor. And Eddie and Natalie, if there's anything I can do to help you be successful in this role, please don't hesitate to call me because it really is a team sport. I'm here for you to appreciate that. So mayor, if I may, something that really stood out from my experience with you as a constituent is the day that we made outside of city hall, where you asked me the question, Eddie, do you feel safe? And what can we do as a city of San Rosa to make you feel safer? And that question had never been asked it before. And I think it speaks volumes to the men that you are. And I do appreciate that of you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Mr. Soy, did you have a question or another comment or your hands still up? Okay, you'll get the hang of the zoom meeting shortly, John, I'm sure. Okay, so with that, don't count on it. I would like to take comment on item 17.3. So we're not taking comment on item 17.3. Madam city attorney, my notes have that were taken public comment for 17.3 and 17.4 or is it okay to do that? Yes, and if you would like, I'm happy to walk through either before the public comment or after to walk through the steps that will take to elect a new mayor, it may be helpful for for the public to know that in advance. It's a short process if you would like me to do that. Yeah, I think that'd be great. Thank you so much. So we'll do the presentation and take public comment for the mayor and vice mayor and then we'll proceed with that. Correct. I'll go ahead and just walk through. I don't know if there's a power point, but I will also say it has been a great pleasure to work with you as mayor and I certainly will look forward to the next mayor as well, but I will miss working with you on that daily basis. So thank you so much. Thank you. And in terms of the process for electing a new mayor, current mayor will will preside over the process and we'll call for nominations for the new mayor from the floor. Each nomination must receive a second and be accepted by the nominee to be able to be considered. If only one council member is nominated for mayor, then the presiding officer will declare that individual to be elected mayor by unanimous consent. If two or more council members have been nominated, then the election will be by a process of elimination. If two or more council members have been nominated, election of the mayor will be will will go as follows. Again, this is thank you for the for the slides there. Next slide, please. So each council member will vote. This is if we have two or more council members have been nominated, then each council member will vote by roll call for the number of nominees that equals one less than the total number of nominees. In other words, if there are two nominees, each council member will vote for one. And we'll go through the process subsequent votes each with one fewer vote per council member. And only nominees not eliminated may be voted upon. And then once a single nominee receives a majority vote, the presiding officer will declare the nominee the newly elected mayor and then pass the gavel to the new mayor. And then we'll go through the same process to elect a new vice mayor. So yes, we can go ahead and take public comment. I will also note that now that we have our new council members, they've been given their oath of office, they've taken their oath of office, they made now those two may take their seats on the dais. This is a little bit of an odd process, given that it's by zoom. But the tradition is that at this point, the former council members would vacate their seats on the dais and the new council members would step in. So as much as I regret saying goodbye to Ernesto and to Dick, now would be the appropriate time. And I so appreciate their service. I'm not seeing that. I think we can close out the PowerPoint so we can see the people. Sue, Dina will make Dick and Ernesto attendees if they would like to stay on the meeting. That would be great. Okay. And I'm not sure if Mr. Alvarez is. Oh, there he is. Great. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you for that, Sue. Council, any questions over the process we're about to enter into? Not seeing any. Okay, we're not going to take public comment on items 17.3 and 17.4. If you'd like to make a comment on the election of a mayor, the mayor and the vice mayor via zoom, please raise your hand. If you're making a comment via telephone, please dial star nine. Madam host, would you please facilitate public comment on item 17.3 and 17.4? As you can see, there is a timer before you for the convenience of the audience as well as those wishing to make a public comment. You wish to make a public comment via zoom, please raise your hand. Now if participating my telephone, dial star nine. The first public commenter will be introduced. Your microphone will be unmuted. At the conclusion of your time, pardon me, at the conclusion of your public comment, I will remove your speaking permissions. Again, this is for public comment on item 17.3 election of vice mayor and 17.4 election of vice mayor. I'm not seeing any hands raised for this item or these items and we did not receive any voice message public comments. Okay, thank you for that. All right, then I will move or I will entertain any nominations for mayor from any members of council. Let me get to my right panel here. Vice mayor Fleming. Yeah, I would like to introduce a motion that we make Chris Rogers the next mayor of the city of Santa Rosa. Second second. So I think I heard Mr. Sawyer. There's a first second. So motion by Vice Mayor Fleming to elect Mr. Rogers as the mayor or second by Mr. Sawyer. Mr. Rogers, do you accept that nomination? Thank you. Madam Vice Mayor, I will accept that nomination. Okay. Are there any other nominations for the election of the mayor? Very well. With only one council member has been nominated. I will declare that Mr. Chris Rogers to be elected mayor by unanimous consent. Congratulations, Mr. Rogers. And I wish I had a gavel to hand over to you, but I wish I could even change your square so you could be in the center. Well, congratulations, Mr. Mayor. The meeting is now yours. Thank you, Tom. Before I go on to the election of the vice mayor, I did just want to take a quick minute and express my gratitude to the council and to this community. We've talked about it a lot tonight, but the issues that cities are asked to grapple with right now and in particular Santa Rosa are not common or normal issues. They take a lot of time. They take a lot of complex thinking, and it takes people who are willing to work really hard and with a strong desire to make government work for the public that we serve to make it run. We have a fantastic city council here. We have a fantastic staff. Everybody has been working together for the last couple of years really well, trying to move our community forward. And I'm just really excited to work with all of you for another four years. I'm just so grateful and humbled by the opportunity to serve as mayor. Santa Rosa is where I was born and it's my hometown and for somebody like me who believes in public service and really believes that we can make people's lives better. I don't know that there's a better position out there than mayor. And I'm just so excited to work so hard for all of you, for this community, and for our future. With that, I will open up the nomination process for item 17.4, the election of the vice mayor. Would anybody like to make a motion? Council Member Alvarez. Yes, please. It would be my honor if Natalie Rogers accepts my nomination for her to serve as vice mayor. Second. We have a motion and we have a second. Are there any other nominations for the position of vice mayor? Seeing none, I will accept that nomination as a unanimous consent from this council. Congratulations, Natalie Rogers, our new vice mayor. Would you like to say anything? Sorry. Yeah, ask my husband to turn down his phone. But thank you. I don't, this, we are, I have no words. I am excited. I'm just ready to work for the city of Santa Rosa. And thank you guys for entrusting me with this. And thank you, Eddie. You're awesome. Thank you. Well, welcome to the team vice mayor. Welcome to the team, Council Member Alvarez. I know we're going to have a fantastic couple of years here. With that, we will move on to item 18 on our agenda is our last public comment for non-agenda matters. Madam Clerk, do you want to facilitate? Certainly. One moment. Member is now before you for the convenience of the speaker and the viewers. The first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak when the countdown begins. Please make sure to unmute yourself when invited to do so. Your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown at the conclusion of your comment. If you wish to make a public comment now, please raise your hand via Zoom. If participating by telephone, please dial star nine. And again, this is for item 18 non-agenda matters on tonight's agenda or not on Mayor Rogers. I see no public comment, their hands being raised for public comment under item 18 non-agenda matters. It looks like we have one that just popped up. Oh, thank you. The first public comment will be from Leslie. Leslie, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Can you please unmute your mic and confirm you can see the timer on your screen? Yes, I have unmuted and I can see the timer. Thank you. Please identify yourself for public record if you choose to do so and your time begins now. Thank you so much. And my name is Leslie Graves and I just wanted to say a big congratulations to our new Vice Mayor Natalie Rogers and our new Mayor Chris Rogers. As this is non-agenda items, I realize that's a little bit out of place, but I wanted to be a person in the public saying congratulations and not to miss that moment. I also want to thank all of the council members for your service and look forward to our next two years, our next four years and many years beyond that. Thank you so much for all of your service. Thanks for the history-making moment. That will be all my time. Thank you, Leslie. All right, Mayor Rogers, I'm not seeing any additional hands raised for item 18 non-agenda matters. Public comment. Okay, we have nothing for item 19. So we will go ahead and adjourn this meeting tonight. Thank you all for your participation and we'll be back at it next week.