 Welcome to tonight's Santa Rosa City Council meeting for January 15th We're going to jump to item number four an announcement of roll call madam city clerk Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of council member oliveris and council member Sawyer Thank you for members of the audience just let you know We're going to take some things out of order here since you can see we are missing some council members a couple other council members are not feeling Too well tonight, so we're going to jump to our consent calendar item 12 mr. McGlain Yes Item 12.1 Resolution general services agreement F is 0 0 1 8 4 7 approval unarmed security guard services item 12.2 resolution General services agreement with smile business products Inc for citywide copier lease maintenance and repair services Item 12.3 resolution amending council policy 0 0-4 to public our policy to transfer Authority and responsibilities under the policy item 12.4 Ordnance adoption second reading of ordinance of the city of Santa Rosa's amending title 20 of the Santa Rosa code updating zoning code chapter 2 0-3 1 density bonus and other develop developer initiate incentives to be consistent with the updates to California government code section 6 5 9 1 5 state density bonus law and to extend state law with a supplemental density bonus of up to a hundred percent within the boundaries of the downtown air station area specific plan and North Santa Rosa station specific plan file number re z 1-8 to dash is 0 0 4 Item 12.5 resolution extension of proclamation of existence of local emergency due to fires item 12.6 resolution extension of proclamation of a local homeless emergency Thank You council any questions Seeing none we do have a couple cards Mr. Dwayne DeWitt Hello, sir, and hello council good new years to you I'm concerned about two things here that I think are very important, but I'll deal with them after I thank you for the effort on 12.4 the density bonus and the downtown station area plan some of you may not have paid attention to know that a significant property or section of properties if you will in Roseland is a part of the downtown station area the Roberts Avenue area That is something that could be a very beneficial situation for the city should they follow into activities that are occurring with the county County secured funding from the United States EPA to do brownfields analysis They've been looking into phase one and possible phase two on various properties to make them ready for development This is something that really needs to be done in Cooperation with the city and I'm hoping that the city council will give direction To the city mayor and the city attorney and the director of planning and economic development and say let's get a Collaborative effort going with the county to try to seek more funding from the US EPA They're called community wide area planning grants Millions of dollars are available Even as you prepare to perhaps not have money in the future. There'll still be that dollar amount So then I'm concerned about the security services agreement 12.1 I Really sometimes wonder about something like this with extra money being spent when we have a really capable police force Really nice guys doing good stuff and women also and I really feel that What we should be doing during these difficult times It's going to be harder on our budget in the future. We should not be putting out this extra money We should be looking at what we've already got funded through the taxpayer Funded monies coming in for our extra police. I Am not supportive of that at all, but I'm sure I May not carry the day and then last but not least The extension of the homeless emergency It's become in a sense a parody now It's almost like you're not really trying to treat it as an emergency and not really making any big differences in it So maybe you should just say hey, you know, we did our best and that was that It's almost like we have a homeless Industrial complex going trying to seek out funding But they're not really solving the problem and there's still two tents over in the Roseland Creek Park Where people are camping out right under signs and say hey, no camping here So the guys I believe there should be a new approach. Thank you. Have a good new year. Thank you, Mr. Do it Peter Jenoff Right I'm worth three minutes for the whole thing as I mentioned Peter if you can get your most salient points So let's give you three minutes and let's see how far you can get through it. I'll be as salient as I know how thank you Okay, so I want to talk about Good afternoon. I want to talk about the number 12.1 with the security guards and You know We start doing that this place is gonna start looking like downtown LA where you got a guard in front of every store One in every corner You know it it exudes too much alarm and it takes away from our charm Lest of course we consider putting guards between children and certain religious entities that have been known to assault children repeatedly and I suppose to his credit Bishop boss has gotten a lot of press Which he attributes to? What's happening in Pennsylvania? Which is very really very interesting because I have verified beyond any doubt that He has actually harbored and abusing priests from a gang of Catholic priests that were involved in abusing and videotaping all 6,500 children in the kids for cash case which was covered up by a Corrupt Catholic judge who was the head of the Supreme Court Judge Castile and the two Catholic Judges that were involved in putting all these kids there are also in prison And the reason they put them there is to cover up the bigger picture and so I submit to you that The power of the mother church resides with the women and it's time for the women of the Catholic Church To have this church run by women and to do what I've already found on the internet today I saw something that said Catholic slash out at church leaders with their wallets regarding all this abuse and Sister Jane Kelly also said the same thing in her interviews with me back in 2010 That we should simply stop paying into the system. We know there's good Catholic people But we know that this corruption has been ongoing and so it is That the mother church should be run by women and these sisters and these Catholic women and the Mormon women are very powerful Maybe they should show the rest of these women in this county how to get things done. So instead of this 19th day where they're gonna do a march it's time to turn that into a beautiful 40-day shutdown of the economy and so too of these Organizations that they call themselves religious where they have covered up this abuse and simply stop paying into the system until The patriarchy steps down and the women's can fill their positions with nuns and lay women that have the ability to do so So to you women, I invite you to look up Sandy Fonzo who when I asked her on the phone About how many these kids were all abused in Pennsylvania all 6500. She said all of them and Her son took his life at the age of 23 because of the videotapes and the control and the abuse and The word is that mr. Vasa has harbored the very one person that abused her son. So please look up Sandy Fonzo. Thank you Any additional cards? Vice Mayor Rogers Thank you, mr. Mayor. I will move items 12.1 through 12.6 of the consent calendar and waive further reading of the text second Your votes that's for Five five o'clock public comment Yeah, we're not on that portion of the agenda yet. This is just on consent calendar Do we have everyone's vote and that passes unanimously with mr. Oliver is in the story or not present? Let's go back to our agenda Item five report on any study or closed session Madam City Attorney, could you explain what happened? The closed session items Item was cancelled for today will be rescheduled at another time Thank you. We have no proclamations staff briefings. Mr. City Manager. No staff briefings today. Thank you City Manager report Nothing to report City Attorney report and nothing to report. Do I have any statements of abstention from council members? Seeing none. Let's move to mayor and council members reports. Does anyone have anything they'd like to share? Miss Combs somewhat relevant to the an item coming I was honored to be appointed chair of the regional planning committee And I will be passing out the maps for sensitive communities that in that show the Santa Rosa sensitive community areas. Thank you Thank you. You know cyber report Mrs. Fleming Thank you Mayor Schwedhelm, I have a report out about some of my Board member and appointments I'd like to start by naming my planning commissioner as Charles Carter Charles Carter served for decades as planner for several municipalities in the East Bay as well as director of planning for Stanford University and along with all of my appointments except for the one from Roseland that's designated for community advisory board are from district 4 I believe that we will be lucky to have his leadership on the board of community services I am retaining Carol quant who served under mayor Corsi My design review board appointment is Adam Sharon. He is a landscape architect and He works for ground studio as well as has his own design shop and has a Project here in Santa Rosa for art in public places in the space between chilenos across kind of where grocery outlet is and He's gonna light it up. So it'd be interesting to see what he does with that And then my measure O oversight Member is professor dr. Marla Stewart a fellow social worker from and professor at UC Berkeley Who has extensive experience working with youth violence prevention? And I think we will also be lucky to have her my art in public places Member is Melanie Carter Jones. She started the Benton Street Improvement Association You can see the signs along with some of her neighbors all throughout our community Helping us to remember to Keep democracy in the forefront and social justice in the forefront of our minds. I'm hoping to get one of those signs eventually My my bike and pedestrian advisory board member is Elizabeth Riddlington She holds a degree in government from Harvard University and only rides in her car when it's raining So she is quite concerned with our street safety and she's a Big environmental advocate My community board advisory board appointment from Roseland is I'm retaining Danny Chappato He comes highly recommended from staff and I had the pleasure of working with him on that board for a short time My board of public utilities member is Mary Watts She brings three years of experience working on the BPU and is very familiar with Santa Rosa water department and operational needs and She understands what is required to oversee the city's water and sewer and et cetera She's gonna be teaching me quite a bit about water boards in the good the good sense of thorn and I Have not finished all of my appointments and I'm gonna leave it at that for the sense of private for brevity and because I'm losing My voice, so thank you Thank you any other reports seeing none on to item 10.2 the Sonoma County mayors and council members association selection committee Madam city clerk would you read the letters that were received and then I'll entertain a motion from the council for items 10.2 point one through 10.2 point five because I think there's only one nomination for each of the positions that is correct so 10 point 2.1 the Bay area our quality management district board for one position letter was received from Teresa Barrett and from Petaluma Golden Gate Bridge highway and transportation And that's for one position and that letter was received from Gina Belfort Rona Park and Metropolitain transportation Commission letter received from Jake Mackenzie Rona Park and Remote Access Network Board and that was a letter was received from Gina Belfort Rona Park City selection committee the chair and vice chair is Sonoma is the current vice chair in rotation for chair city and Windsor the city next in rotation for vice chair city program chair Thank you any questions from council vice mayor Rogers. Oh, no, I was just gonna make a Do we have public comment on this? Do we have any cards on these? I'll hold Are there any questions from council on any of those okay, we do have a couple of cards first one mr. Dwayne DeWitt you've got two car Yes, okay. You have ten point two two and then ten point four point one So you don't have any comments on this item? I'm not forcing you Dwayne so we're on Correct one on ten point two point one so you have no comments on item ten point two point one and There's four different nominations on that item mr. Rogers I will nominate Teresa Barrett for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board Gina Belforte for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District Jake McKenzie for the MTC Gina Belforte for remote access network and Sonoma as the vice chair and Windsor as the next city in rotation for the mayors and council members second We have a motion to second your votes and that passes unanimously Madam city clerk ten point two point two The Association of Bay Area Governments Regional Planning Committee letter received from Julie Combs, Santa Rosa North Bay Division League of California City's executive board letter received from John Sawyer Santa Rosa Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District Citizens Advisory Committee letter received from Leah Gold from Hiltzburg and Nesa Nisa Hinton Sebastopol and that's two positions and Smart the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit and that has two positions, but there were five letters received Jake McKenzie, Rona Park, Kathy Miller, Petaluma, Joe Nahocas? Thank you Hiltzburg Melanie Bagby, Cloverdale and Chris Rogers, Santa Rosa Any questions from council on that? You have a question? Do you want to wait for the tell-all after we wait we do have one card on this item I I have a question about how we do the vote for the fourth one where there are multiple persons What I was going to propose for the fourth one will take each there's two positions will take nominations for each position separately Thank you Mr. Dwayne is this the item you wanted to comment on yes, sir. My name is Dwayne DeWitt. I'm from Roseland I wanted to make a point of having you folks emphatically Embrace the idea of Santa Rosa being on the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit Board and essentially today as you put your support forward Making sure that mr. Rogers gets his opportunity to represent Santa Rosa the biggest city on the smart line and Also, I believe miss Miller from Petaluma should perhaps be chosen That's not to dissuade you from mr. McKenzie But he's already deep in the mix being with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission And we need to have newer voices Younger voices people who understand how you might be able to get more ridership onto that train I think it's really important that Santa Rosa be the fulcrum to Some logical decisions on how to maximize ridership and investment at the Santa Rosa Depot station and the build out there No offense to the people from Cloverdale and Healdsburg But I believe there are many many many years down the road or I should say down the tracks before they actually Should be in the mix miss Russell served on there for Cloverdale for many years And I think it's time that Santa Rosa should be on there So please put something forward in an official manner in writing to the smart board and say not just Let us be there but demand a place at the table for that smart board Thank you, sir done in less than two. Thank you. This is a way Do you have a comment you'd like to make vice mr. Vice mayor? Yeah, no, I appreciate that mr. Mayor just so folks know the way that these Appointments work every city in Sonoma County is taking votes on who to support and then the mayors and council members Association will actually have the mayor's voting on that so from Cloverdale all the way down to Petaluma Everybody is taking these same votes I will mention because I did receive a call this afternoon from from council member New York Who was not able to be here tonight? He actually ran into another council meeting as well spoken with both him and Melanie bagby at length obviously he's spoken with council member Mackenzie at length as well for his service for smart all of us are on the same page about making sure that Cities have a strong voice when it comes to implementation of the smart train So I think we'll be well served either way I did just want to mention that many of these folks have actually reached out have Contacted council members are very interested in representing Santa Rosa's interests as well Just as we are with runner park and with all the way up to getting the train to Cloverdale So I did think that it was worth mentioning that as well. I also I've reached out I've contacted almost every single council member in Sonoma County about the appointments So people are working for it and I know we'll all work well together on it great Thank you before I do come I just so you everyone's a clear on the process So I'll take items one two and three one motion and then item four will do it separately for each position miss combs with regard to item Four, I'm not really clear how the vote happens at the mayors and council among the mayors Does it happen that there is a second round of voting sometimes? My understanding is that sometimes there is Can we also consider what actions we would take if there needs to be a second round of voting and one of our top Choices is not included in the in the next round I'd certainly be open. I've never been in one of those meetings. Yeah, but if someone has knowledge of it That would help us. I think that I've been contacted by another individual saying please include a second round to choice So there'd be three separate motions then thank you first sec second and then third and then the alternative Either of the two don't move forward in another round of voting there Okay, thank you and I've never been on in on the meeting while the vote was happening But I have heard from folks who went through the agon open space Appointment two years ago that it actually took four rounds. Yes, then to get to two people So I do know that that takes a little longer. I've heard this rumor also, but I was not present in the room at the time Yeah, I can hardly wait mr. Tivitz Can I make a motion? Sure any comments no comments now entertaining any motions for the first three Committees so I motion Julie Combs for the Association of Bay Area Governments Regional Planning Committee John Sawyer for the North Bay Division League of California City's executive board Leah Gold and Nisa Hinton for the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District Citizens Advisory Committee second We'll motion and a second your votes, please and that passes by the vote of four to one with Ms. Fleming voting no Like a recount I'd like to request reconsideration, mr. Mayor. That sounds great. Why don't we reconsider? Let's your votes again There we go all green passes unanimously I do like the at the moxie the new council member throwing an elbow at the unopposed. I like it Okay So entertained motions will take for the first position for item for this number Marin area rail Transit mr. Tivitz Thank You mr. Mayor at first like to nominate vice mayor Chris Rogers and if I could take some rights and explain why I think that It's really important Santa Rosa has a seat on what is going to be the largest commuter rail Going through our community and the largest city actually being served by the commuter rail the second I also received a Phone call from Joe, and he provided a really compelling case about Healdsburg having a seat on that Board and I do hope that he has one in the near future. However Given mr. McKenzie's role with MTC and a bag and the potential for some cross-pollination and Having access to funding I got to believe that that's an important position for him to hold as well so I'd like to nominate again vice mayor Rogers and Council member Jake McKenzie Let's just say on a one-on-one. Okay, so I'll start by mayor Rogers, and I'm looking for a second for I'd like to second vice mayor Rogers And part of my consideration on that has been his regular attendance at the meetings and his Conversation regarding the Jennings crossing as well as his understanding of the full system. Thank you Are there any other nominations for the first position the first of two positions? Seeing none, we'll have your votes and that passes unanimously Congratulations, mr. Rogers I'll entertain nominations for the second position mr. Tibbets Thank you. Yes, as I stated I would like to nominate councilmember Jake McKenzie for the second position on the snowmower in area rail transit board And is there a second for that? I would second that nomination Are there any other nominations for the second position? I'd like to nominate Joe Help me with his last name. No, you'll kiss. No, you'll kiss And madam city attorney, should I recuse myself from the additional votes on this one? No, there's no need for you to recuse yourself We need a second for mr. Najokas or is there a second for it mr. Najokas Seeing none that motion fails. Are there any other nominations for the second position? Seeing none We have a motion and a second for Jake McKenzie is the second position your votes, please and that passes five zero Then I also heard a suggestion to be wise for us to name a third as an alternate I'll entertain any motions for that position Mr. Tibbets, I would like to nominate Joe Najokas from Healdsburg second We have a nomination a second. Are there any other nominations for this alternate position? I'd like to nominate Melanie Bagby from Cloverdale And is there a second for Melanie Bagby for the alternate position? Seeing none any other nominations All right, we have a motion and a second for Joe Najokas for the alternate position your votes, please And that motion passes unanimously, thank you Madam city clerk for item 10.3 How do we want to do it? Do you want me to just? Announce my nominations. Yes, and then I would need a second for my nominations and then we vote correct, okay? So I am ten point three point one This is an appointment of representative an alternate to the Sonoma County Transportation Authority regional climate protection authority I nominate vice mayor Chris Rogers and As an alternate council member Julie Combs second and your votes Thank you that passing unanimously 10 point 3.2 appointment of a representative and alternate to the Sonoma Clean Power Authority I nominate council member Tibbets as The representative and alternate as vice mayor Rogers second your votes That passes unanimously Item 10 point 3.3 appointment of representative and alternate to Sonoma County Waste Management Management Agency I nominate council member John Sawyer with an the alternate as councilwoman Julie Combs second Your votes and that passes unanimously item 10 point 3.4 appointment of representative and alternate to the Renewal enterprise district and my two nominations are council members Tibbets and Combs Second Your votes And that passes unanimously And city clerk are there any other positions a point of clarification mr. Mayor It says representative and alternate to renewal enterprise district It's actually two positions that are co-equal correct correct One additional one that wasn't on the list that I wanted to add can we just make sure that the minutes show the correction to the It's the appointment of two representatives in 10 point 3.4. Yes And I didn't want to add another one There's That's not on not on the agenda Which is not the your your you want to add something to the agenda So then I would like to add to a future agenda the groundwater sustainability agency for some reason have that's just a mayor's appointment I kind of put it in the same realm as some of the other ones So you're right again Thank you All right moving on to our next item Which I believe is public comment, and we're about 25 minutes short There have the regional positions 10.4 Which positions were those? All right. Thank you. Madam city clerk. So it is item 10.4 point one. I have a series of additional appointments And so I will announce all of these and look for the second and then the votes So the first position is the a bag general assembly The delegate for that is myself with the alternate council member combs Number two is the health action council and my nomination is council member Fleming Number three is the library advisory board My nomination is council member Tibbets number four is the League of California cities north bay division and my Nominations are council members olivares and Sawyer Number five is the mayor and council members legislative liaison to the League of California cities My nomination is vice mayor rogers with the alternate of council member olivares Number six is the Russian River watershed association My nomination is council member Fleming with the alternate council member combs Number seven is the water waterways advisory committee Two positions my nominations are council member combs and council member Tibbets Number eight is the water advisory committee or the whack My nomination is council member Fleming with the alternate of council member Tibbets And lastly number nine the homeless leadership council My nominations are myself and council member combs Second second to that and can we have everyone's vote? Thank you and that passes unanimously Now we're back at no other items recess until five o'clock Thank you Okay, let's reconvene the meeting of the Santa Rosa City Council Where I am 13 public comment on non agenda matters Dwayne DeWitt followed by Peter Chernoff. Thank you, sir. My name is Dwayne DeWitt. I'm from Roseland I wanted to say good New Year's to you Congratulate you on the things that you'll be doing with the new assignments and I wanted to thank the police department law enforcement and the enforcement of laws is really important to Rosalind now we've been in the city for a full year and There's some difficulties that go on out there we're called beat seven according to the city and Officer Ray Navarro has been quite kind to come to meetings of the health action committee Southwest health action and Explain how there can be a better interaction with the police department on some of the issues that are facing the residents of Rosalind What was really helpful is we had some folks that Essentially look at Southwest Community Park as it's their spot to party There's spot to catch a buzz get a heater on every day Not just days that you would think people would be at work Now the rules out there There's a big sign that states you're not supposed to drink in that park Between six o'clock in the morning of five o'clock in the evening and yet every single day There are a group of at least six to maybe ten Drinkers that go out there and start getting their heater on early And it really has an effect upon people who visit the park the young mothers with their children They can't go to that side where those drinkers are over by the restrooms and those folks their outlook is like Hey, we're just gonna catch our buzz and be there and if it weren't for the police they'd stay there all night every night and so the other day an officer Castro was kind enough to come over when some people were About to put in their RVs and stay for the weekend arrive in on Thursday and maybe stay through Monday or Tuesday and local residents said hey This isn't the way it's supposed to be As a matter of fact, there's only one parking lot on the east side of Southwest Community Park that's official. It's paved. There's another side to the west Where nothing should be parking in there and driving in there because that's an area that never got cleared from California Tiger Salamander So the general drift of this is the police are helping us in Roseland and we appreciate as much as they can do for us we know that there needs to be more done and The hope is that you folks will get a chance to understand how community parks and the designation for those people being able to drink there Sometimes is a negative situation For a big community like Roseland It's very important that you also have a really good new year And I wish you the best in all of your endeavors, especially housing the homeless Thank you, Mr. Duit Peter Chanoff followed by Gail Simons I am Peter and I am here speaking truth the power free of all fear. I'm talking specifically to the women With a command from the kingdom of heaven, which is in each of your hearts This is about patriarchy versus matriarchy The US Constitution has never been the law of the land and it was a gift from a matriarchal society called the Iroquois We're under martial law papal law corporate law and American jurors prudence if you can afford it But we see what's going on in the courts the abusers of children get set free The courts abuse parents and grandparents regarding children all over the map and The groups that you belong to whether it's the Catholic Church the Mormon Church any of these churches of faith Whether it's now it doesn't matter Those entities are not as powerful as you the individual women You are the true power. You need the release. You will release By command the power in your heart that the world has sought the heist that is the true power of Christ that is unstoppable And this 40-day Freedom strike is what walks us into the promised land that overturns all this corruption on every level It frees Leonard Peltier. It frees the US Constitution. It changes the entire game And a one-day march achieves nothing And action is only as powerful as what it attains the 40-day strike is the prophecy that sets us all free So let us paint a picture most beautiful release our hearts The power being spiritually dutiful This upcoming lunar eclipse followed by the full moon bay area women warriors as goddess now Arisen by the 40-day financial freeze frame it be our high noon for every problematic issue be connected to Usury and the industries of the slaughterhouse and oil The 40-day economic strike terminates that control as the promise be our goal And we be arisen being quite royal To cease the corrupted abusing patriarchy the 40-day shutdown frees The law by matriarchy, which is the US Constitution The power is with us the time is at hand to open these doors to the promised land of israel which is beneath our feet This is the power that we have This is the power you will abide you will enhance and you will embrace And when we stop paying our mortgages and rents after the 40 days We agree that only 25 percent of our mortgages and rents will be paid which is 25 percent when a thousand dollars becomes 250 Thank you, peter this allows everybody to work followed by 20 hours are still like more than they did be Thank you, peter I um Want to remind you that I am a retired nurse here in this community. I've lived here since 1974 I've been In my home on the east side of santa rosa since 1995 And as a member of the community that is concerned about homelessness I want you remind you that we are watching you we get to watch you on television. We get to read the minutes um We're um sometimes busy at other meetings, but we are very aware of What is going on in our community in a formal way? We're also aware that there are not enough shelter beds We read the newspapers we see the numbers even though they don't add them up and Give us a total. We know what they mean um We're aware that the shelter beds that are available Are often dehumanizing People are herded in and out They are temporary They are for nighttime only usually you can't choose your roommate Not even a neighbor you can't choose the person that's in the same room as you are next to you on a bed You must carry almost all your Possessions on your back in the daytime. There's no healthcare There's little food or often poor food at some Limited shower hours if there are any not to speak of any way to wash your clothes We all know probably that a man died here in our community last week unsheltered We need a system of encampments. This is my proposal we need Encampments that are sanctioned until permanent housing is built because it's cold outside It's wet outside Camp encampments can provide Safety a sense of community a sense of stability access to resources 24-hour bathrooms Can you imagine living without a bathroom available to you all night long? um Encampments could be a stepping stone system to health and to permanent housing We could start with an encampment with just tents and a fence and a porta potty and a garbage can For 20 a month. We could have another encampment with tents A fence porta potty and a garbage can and a portable shower For 30 a month. We could have an encampment with tents and a fence and a porta potty and a garbage can and an outdoor shower Or a portable shower and an outdoor kitchen and so on so this is a crude plan But it is a plan scattering people is not a plan Thank you gill. Yes. Thank you parker stagnoli followed by scott wagner Hello, my name is parker stagnoli today. I would like to make a very short comment on my support of parks within our city The experience of the outdoors is truly amazing an amazing one I think parks are an essential part of this experience when I'm discussing this topic of parks I don't mean just or I mean just neighborhood parks to To regional parks any type of park honestly Also, I think that sports and outdoor programs are important in getting kids outdoors I hope that the city council continues a support for parks in our city. Thank you Thank you parker scott wagner followed by bob hanson In homeless actions most recent uh meeting with mayor schwetham. We were told repeatedly That he could not support village approaches to homelessness because he quote Couldn't be sure they would work on their homelessness unquote Roughly half of the homeless population here suffer from mental illness that severely limits their ability to quote work on their homelessness unquote Others are working as hard as they can on it, especially The elderly while still others need a lot of help in the near impossible housing climate But that doesn't solve the mayor's problem faced with these and several other points He then shifted to his most important argument if we use things like villages to make homelessness too comfortable Or our solutions too successful other homeless people will come to take advantage of our system The word comfortable is being used instead of saying providing a place where we will not persecute them What I know to be true through volunteerism here is that homeless people especially the hardest to help Will typically not even move across the city let alone from far away Evidence out of seattle in san francisco indicate modest influxes of people for services on the order of 20 or less Typically from within or near the county While others are leaving the area It looks suspiciously like the ins and outflows of their normal population There is no difference between mr. Schwedhelm's urge to not make street people too comfortable And punishing them for being homeless We have a death rate for street people of over 1 per cent per year With high medical emergency costs Let's please stop the use of right-wing folk wisdom as an excuse for wholesale cruelty With the justification that we helped a few chosen veterans or families Please work to implement humane village approaches as our commission on human rights has implored us all to do The main difference between warehouse shelters and villages Is that homeless people like villages far better Mainly for simple privacy and dignity reasons About 80 percent who can't or won't go into shelters are happy happy to accept a bed in a village We as homeless action are happy to set up any programs mr. Schwedhelm wishes to mandate in villages to make sure People are working on their homelessness Unquote as long as these programs are also set up in the warehouse shelters Thank you Thank you. Mr. Wagner Bob Hansen followed by Elizabeth Nieland Good evening everybody My name is Bob Hansen vet Retired 35 year carpenter grandfather I've been cautioned by my circle of friends not to discuss this in public but for me If I do not address a problem i'm as guilty as the offending parties We have a broken corrupt state family court system I've got an 11 year old granddaughter Who's not in the sixth graded? better school petaluma She's sitting in holister california Under the custody of a man no grandfather would want raising his granddaughter This four-year custody nightmare for my family My daughter has never been questioned She provides a safe loving Learning environment for her family After four years she missed one court date State family court judge ordered a 90-day custody Coupled with a 90-day communications block on an 11 year old granddaughter No little girl should have to endure what she's going through Because of the massive federal subsidies that go into cps A business that's been created that uses our children as fuel Cps in the surrounding agencies that Supposed to protect our children do not Their focus is in keeping these kids in this system Until they're 14 years old Citizens of the united states have no legal rights in this court system until they're 14 Their views aren't even considered until they're 14 They don't have to be acted upon but they're not even considered until they're 14 grandparents Have no legal rights in this court system I can't even talking court To our county supervisors our county da and our city representatives Whose response to me has been this is a state family court system. We have no jurisdiction wrong answer These are our children that are being abducted Used to fuel this broken corrupt state family court system The bias against single mothers is well documented Thank you, mr. Hansen elizabeth nilan followed by tomas ells Hey, there's not as many of you as usual. Oh, well, hello there Um, I don't know how much Ready I almost didn't come at all, but I just want to say I was down in berkeley visiting my homeless son d'artanian yesterday And it ended up I was going to rent a motel room so he could take a shower because For some reason since he got shot in the leg by a homeless vigilante, he hasn't been partaking of the showers And that's been since september. So Um, I was going to rent a hotel room, but I ended up coming home and getting home around 2 a.m And that was like an 18 hour day and witnessing The encampment there were just really just at that time there were only four men there and They were getting ready for the storm and that kind of thing but In my son Had a brain injury And the center as a pd got involved and attacked him during the medical emergency And we've never I've never dealt with it at the level of the law But uh more like Survival level and it's been really an interesting four years since this all began But you know, I don't I've never had a chance to talk to the berkeley city council But boy if I ever do I'd be mad as hell And as far as locally I see people go down, you know, and I've heard of we had a friend die homeless this winter around the 5th of december he was only 35 and It was a sad thing, but um this this galley. No name brenda died. She was in a wheelchair and she froze to death Here in san rosa. I don't know where those Numbers are published as far as who is dying and who isn't But uh, yeah community. I mean it's vital and when we're not around people Our brains actually go into a state of alarm And so it's very healthy to be with other people and to You know being a calm state and not a state of emergency all the time Let's see. Oh two Guatemalan children died in the custody of the american government One on christmas eve a little boy and I think the 8th of december a little a seven-year-old girl Yeah, I I am shocked by many of the things in the world and uh, I'm sure you are as well So on that note, I'm going to go ahead and say thanks a lot Thank you. Thomas ells That was elizabeth kneeling Thomas Thank you for the opportunity to speak This is a comment regarding an article from city journal and it's called seattle under siege The article that i'm commenting on It says that the article says seattle under siege over the past five years Amral city has seen an explosion of homeless homelessness crime and addiction We know that all the way back to The grunge Music industry in seattle that they had an opiate crisis going back to before 1999 So to say uh that they have an addiction problem now is uh horses already out of the barn So directly speaking, um kings county 2018 homelessness in that's seattle area 0.57 percent in 2010 they had 0.4 percent and in 2012 it already risen to 0.46 percent So not in the last five years, but even still Sonoma county has Currently a 0.59 percent and in as recently as 2009 we had 0.69 percent homelessness. So No matter what across the board we're significantly higher than than seattle. So to say that they're under siege Is ridiculous or that there's been that much change really So I just wanted to start there so discovery institute is is where this article came from And they're conflating homeless population growth With a form of natural increase, which is the growth of population Like a disease culture or inbreeding of a group of individuals Which is not the case And it and therefore it violates scientific practice or method because they're talking about the growth of that population It doesn't grow The increase is from the general population. These are people that are excluded from the general population meaning they can no longer afford housing So it's coming from this very large population of two million people It's just a small percentage of the two million people Though they correctly state Oh, excuse me, uh, so no like before they correctly state Uh, the real battle is in the realm of ideas And so they've failed On the first hand completely violating scientific method and everything. Um, I'm not getting as far as I would like On the one hand, they claim the causes are for many factors Not rental increases mean that they're not a single population on the other hand the homeless causes are the daughters of financial stress making them In fact a single population. So it's very conflicted their whole article and their whole premise is conflicted Discovery Institute claims of moral superiority and pure economics as though by divine right of kings Which is without support and they claim that People support many They resort to many recourses Including moving away from the thank you, mr. Ellis And and I'd like to submit my my written comments to you so that you can see a little bit more about The ridiculousness of that article. Thank you. Madam said to click any other cards That's it. Uh, we have no report items. No public hearings. No written communication median adjourned