 resume our meeting. Madam City Clerk may you please call the roll. Thank you Mayor. Councilmember Stapp. Here. Councilmember Rogers. Councilmember Ocracchi. Here. Councilmember Fleming. Here. Councilmember Alvarez. Vice Mayor McDonald. Here. Mayor Rogers. Present. Let the record show that all councilmembers are present with the exception of councilmember Rogers and councilmember Alvarez. We have no study sessions today so we'll go on to item 5 our report on our closed session. Thank you Madam Mayor. The council just met in closed session on item 2.1 which is conference with legal counsel on an anticipated litigation. The council did receive information from legal counsel and no final action was taken. Thank you. Thank you. We'll now move on to item 6.1 and 6.2 our proclamations for this afternoon. Item 6.1 will be read by councilmember Stapp. Thank you Mayor Rogers. Whereas we are here today to express special recognition to Alan Silo and to honor him for his distinguished two decade plus career as president and CEO of the Santa Rosa Symphony. And whereas upon his retirement Alan Silo will be named the symphony's first president and CEO emeritus in the 95 year history of the Santa Rosa Symphony. And whereas the Santa Rosa Symphony has grown to become the third largest in the state with a music education program that serves some 30,000 young people each year. And whereas Alan has led the Santa Rosa Symphony to be widely recognized on the state and national orchestral map for organizational excellence artistically, educationally and financially. And whereas some of the highlights of Alan's career include accomplishing 20 consecutive years of being cash positive unsurpassed by any other California orchestra overseeing an endowment fund that grew from 1.5 million to 17 million today displaying commanding leadership that helped rejuvenate a capital fundraising campaign to raise 145 million to build Sonoma State University's World Class Green Music Center where Sonoma State Symphony has been the resident orchestra since 2012 and as a side note a special thanks from the Sonoma State University Advancement Office for that for that assistance. And whereas Alan's legacy of leadership as a champion of the arts has made a meaningful distance difference in our community now therefore be it resolved that I Natalie Rogers mayor of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city council to hereby recognize Alan Silo for his vital contributions to the city of Santa Rosa and the Santa Rosa Symphony. You are more than welcome to say something I was just going to invite you to the podium to say something well if you need to you can come right here if that's easier for you and I just want to say I don't think anyone has ever applauded for me for that long so you are very special. 21 years does count for something I'll be brief but I just wanted to say you know when I first came here when I was interviewed for the position back in the spring of 2002 the board asked me for one word to encapsulate the value of my contribution of being here and I said the one word was community because for me for my entire career the thread of motivation has always been how do I make a significant difference in the community that I serve. And with the Santa Rosa Symphony I would say mission accomplished beyond our wildest dreams you know the most important thing that I'm taking with me is the knowledge and the proof that our work and most of the people back behind me are part of that contribution is that our work has made a real meaningful difference in the lives of our community and in a small way made this world a better place and I'm very grateful for that and grateful for that proclamation. Thank you so much. Madam City Clerk may you please facilitate public comment. Thank you we are now taking public comment on item 6.1 if you are in the council chamber and would like to make a comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podiums if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. Mr. Allen we would like you to take a picture with us if you would be so kind to do so after we conduct our public comment which we have to do legally so if you can just hold tight for two seconds we will give you your written proclamation and take a photo with you thank you. So as there's lots of movement in the chamber is anyone approaching the podium for public comment give me a high five or a wave so I can move on to zoom if there's no one in public in the chamber. Okay I see no one in council chamber and I see no hands being raised via zoom. All right thank you very much Mr. Allen if you can make your way down and whoever else you would like to be in the photo we would love to take a photo with you thank you. All right we will be moving on to our second proclamation of the afternoon and that will be read by council member Fleming. Wow well this is also about beauty and community so what a beautiful day we have here in the chambers whereas the city of Santa Rosa recreation parks department make life better with equitable access to local parks recreation trails open space and facilities to promote the positive development of all citizens and residents and whereas the recreation and parks department promotes physical emotional and mental health wellness through organized and self-directed fitness playing activity and whereas the recreation and parks department supports the economic vitality of communities by partnering with local businesses and non-profits and offering events for residents engagement and whereas recreation and parks department creates memorable experiences through youth sport enrichment activities youth and adult programs senior activity centers adult fitness enrichment programs free community events and beyond and the recreation and parks department fosters social cohesiveness and communities by celebrating diversity providing spaces to come together peacefully modeling compassion promoting social equity creating social networks and ensuring all people have access to benefits it supports human development and endless learning opportunities that foster intellectual physical and emotional growth in people of all ages and strengthens community identity by providing facilities and services that reflect and celebrate community character heritage culture aesthetics and landscape and facilitates community problem and issue resolution by providing safe spaces to come together peacefully and serving as a key point of service helping our communities heal both physically and emotionally and sustains and stewards our national resources natural resources by protecting habitats and open space connecting people to nature and promoting the ecological function of parkland and supports safe vibrant attractive and progressive communities that make life better through positive alternatives offered in their recreational opportunities and remains versatile and innovative in providing vital services to communities through local national or global emergencies all while adhering to guidelines set forth by governing agencies and whereas the california park and recreation society has released a statewide public awareness campaign parks make life better to inform citizens of the many benefits of utilizing parks facilities programs services be it resolved that natalie rogers mayor of the city of santa rosa on behalf of the council to hereby recognize july 2023 as parks make life better month i just if i may mayor i just want to thank you for assigning me this incredibly it's got to be the windiest resolution and i left out like half of it because the reason why i'm so grateful to have this one is because of the work that each and every one of you sitting out there and all of your colleagues who couldn't be here do is the most impactful thing that we have that's always positive with our residents whether it's a kid swimming at a pool or a senior working out at the the senior facility or someone on a trail or getting to just have a moment of peace and quiet because they can't have it in their home or their school or whatever it is you touch every santa rosa's life in a positive and meaningful way and our debt of gratitude towards the work that you do cannot be adequately expressed in a proclamation although really we we tried um and i would like to invite whoever is here to receive the proclamation to say a few words but i will take the liberty of saying i definitely enjoy park a month and i know that you guys are like that's your thing and i love it and my family was able to plant a tree this last saturday so every time we go to julia park we will know that that is our tree although it is not our tree everyone but it is our tree because we planted it it was hard work so whoever is here to receive the proclamation please do come say a few words thank you mayor rogers vice mayor mcdonald and council members i'm jen santas with the city of santa rosa recreation parks department newly reformed so happy about that and how luck are we to have over a thousand acres to offer our community citizens to play and recreate um as you may be aware we are often called the department of fun and um that is definitely true as you've heard the proclamation we do provide fun programs activities and spaces uh we agree that it's also vital to our community and our well-being as humans and as the collective we our city's residents and visitors july is a really busy time for all of our park staff all of my colleagues are here and those who couldn't be here hopefully watching or will find out later um we have hired over 300 temporary employees to manage our programs which we do every year for our maintenance and recreation programs and from everyone in recreational parks we want to thank our citizens and the city council for caring about parks and proclaiming july as parks make life better month thank you thank you madam city clerk may you please conduct public comment thank you we are now taking public comment on item 6.2 if you are in council chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period seeing no one approaching the podiums in zoom or in the council chamber and no hands being raised via zoom that concludes public comment thank you with no additional or no comment i would like to invite all of you down to take a picture with the council all right we will now continue on to item 7 our staff briefings madam city manager good evening madam mayor i do not have any updates this evening i think they um you will hear a couple updates from the council members uh this evening that would have normally come from the city manager's office i would spend a long day um there are no staff briefings today is there one okay let me start over let me turn on my go item 7.1 is the community empowerment plan update lawn peterson can you make your way are you in the building good afternoon mayor and city council community empowerment update for this meeting we are currently um in the process of hiring a communications um engagement manager is it okay thanks um as well as uh in the process of working with hr to hire an admin secretary for the engagement um department and that's my update for this month thank you you're welcome i would like to invite mr. james castrell down for a park a month update oh director santos and mr james castrell down for a park a month update item 7.2 is a park a month program update we're going to get it together here soon all right hello again mayor rogers vice mayor mcdonnell council members jenn santos deputy director for parks and with me today i have jeff tibitz our recreation uh deputy as well as james castrell our park superintendent and we're here to talk about the park a month volunteer program um let's see i'm figuring out the technology here thank you for your patience so um we wanted to talk about the volunteer the park a month program we have a lot of variety of park programs but specifically today we're going to talk just about the park a month program although there are lots of opportunities out there um we developed the program with the idea that would be a simple way and an easy way a convenient way for the community to participate in volunteering in parks it's the second saturday of every month super easy to remember nine a.m to noon it's a city organized event so we put an annual schedule together which you can see over to the right side of the screen that's what it looks like we also have handouts up at the top there as well as all the council members have one and this information is available on our srcity.org website as well when you look and see what you would like to come and join a volunteer park a month event you can simply walk up and sign up at the event that day or you can sign up online either way is just fine we have a lot of staff and tools to help you so we make it super easy we have tools such as gloves rakes buckets trash pickers and similar for the projects such as spreading mulch playground fiber or sand painting trash pickup weed removal and small projects such as planting a tree as the mayor mentioned we also provide a lot of appreciation for our volunteers our staff work really hard out there to keep track of the park and take care of it and it's amazing and appreciative to us that we have volunteers coming to do this work and we had our volunteer appreciation last week at juliard park last saturday where we had a lunch provided by the mayor for our volunteers much appreciation for that and we we're looking at doing this a little bit more than annual but right now we're at an annual appreciation for our volunteer for our volunteers on the right the card that you see on the right there is our program and it's really easy all every single month is on there and where we are going to be at the next month each of these is a really fun event we have music we have snow cones we have a lot of appreciation for our volunteers who do amazing work we were as i mentioned last saturday at juliard where we removed trash we spread playground sand does a hard job planted trees and remove weeds we also were there with the folks from recology we were learning all about recycling that day as well it was really fun last weekend we also teamed up with the clean santa rosa program and so you could either come and volunteer in the park or clean up along santa rosa avenue and some of our streets around juliard park and thanks again for the mayor for honoring our volunteers and staffs with our hot dog lunch at the last event so we wanted to talk about this event about the park a month program it's a very successful program and here's the numbers to show you what we mean by that we are at 415 volunteers which is doubled our participation over the last year we had 11 events this year and approximately 1245 volunteer hours these are amazing events and if anyone knows how hard our park maintenance staff work we really do appreciate the time spent by our volunteers to come and do the work for us it makes a huge difference one of the things i wanted to talk about is how do we operate this program we really operated as a team and that's why you see the team here from rec and parks we our recreation team is busy putting together the opportunities for people to volunteer online they bring staff temporary staff to help volunteer sign up for the day of they're working with our comms team to make sure everything's updated on our website and that there's a lot of information on the website and available to folks to make it very easy to participate in our park a month program our park maintenance staff are busy organizing the day of bringing tools and bringing our lovely parks make life better volunteer trailer and it's full of tools and supplies from for our volunteers at the park as well as that snow cone machine and music our park planners are working together with the maintenance team to select and place trees in advance of the program so that we're putting the right tree in the right location so that it can reach full maturity our volunteer programs including park a month with everyone from rec and parks teams contributing successful volunteer event and then following our park a month event every month the park maintenance team follows up on the following wednesday with additional support from the team that are directed specifically at the location we had the park a month that so we're doing more heavier duty items with chainsaws and tools that need skills and we're cleaning things that require the skill sets and the training of our park maintenance team following that so it's a really targeted effort not just from a volunteer base but also from our staff base to really focus on one particular park per month to really give that park that extra special attention we've got a couple of our rec and park creation teammates there on the presentation you see kim hatch in the circle she's our recreation coordinator she does a lot of the organizing upfront with volunteers as well as making sure the information is on our website is clear making sure the back end of that program is working really well she is followed by a series of folks behind her that also help support that you're just seeing one image today of one staff member the same with elio Toronto our park maintenance supervisor he is of course representing representing a huge team of park maintenance staff that were in here earlier and we really enjoy the parks team and really enjoys these events it's a great time to get out and meet your community members and do something that's a really positive benefit for our community and provides that beautiful space that we enjoy in our parks and so you know we when we care for our parks are really caring for our community ourselves and the people who live visit and play in Santa Rosa I encourage anyone of any age to volunteer with park a month it's very easy to show up on the day of or sign up online prior to the event our next park a month is planned for a pioneer park at 2062 Peterson Lane and that's just north of college avenue in our northwest part of the city as I mentioned we always have music snow cones and very much appreciation and support for our volunteers the easiest way if you want would like some more information is to check out our link srcity.org backslash backslash parks volunteer that'll take you to our volunteer page and you can see all of the programs that we offer not just park a month or you can also go to srcity.org backslash park a month if you would like specifically to go to that program that we offer uh if you just would like to email somebody about it there's our volunteer Santa Rosa at us our city.org for an email we also have our phone number for reaching out if you just have questions 707 543 3279 super easy to get a hold of us and talk to us there's lots of volunteer programs to be part of this one is a very very easy one once a month and again we very much appreciate our volunteers and with that I'll take any we're here to answer any questions these are the experts here if you have any questions thank you are there any questions from council council members that no questions but I just wanted to to reiterate what's been said from the dyes here from those of us who volunteered that this that you make the program a lot of fun it's a lot of work for city staff but speaking as a volunteer when you show up everything's organized and it turns out to be just a great morning and a great chance for the community to come together so thank you very much for for putting the resources in the time towards this towards this project vice mayor mcdonald yes i just wanted to say thanks to the staff i've been able to attend a lot of the park a month event as far as jobs go mine is the snow cone girl so nobody gets to do that as a volunteer and i'm there but other than that it is a great opportunity to get out and i didn't realize how many parks we actually had in the city of santa rosa so there's a way you can expand on that so that the community knows just how many parks we have and seeing no additional comments i would like to make a comment and say that not only are the staff there but they're there with smiles they're there willing to teach us how to use tools that maybe some of us like myself have never uh been able to use before and it helps us to have a sense of pride within our our community and so i really love this i love this program and um james i've never been to a park a month that you were not there wearing a smile and willing to help and you're there from the time it starts and i mean you're just you're fabulous so thank you so much for having this program thank you for carrying it out in a very thoughtful inviting way so people want to volunteer it makes it makes it all worth it thank you so much and with that madam city clerk may you please conduct public comment thank you we are now taking public comment on item seven both staff briefings if you are in the chamber who would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period mayor i'm seeing uh no one approached the podiums and there are no hands being raised for these uh staff briefings with that thank you very much for the presentation we'll be moving to item eight city manager and city attorney reports city manager does not have a report today madam city attorney do you have a report uh yes thank you madam mayor um this is our monthly uh settlements and litigation report um i know we've um council has been at this uh it's been a long meeting starting early this morning so i'll keep it short we do have listed as a settlement the settlement that we've reached in polio versus utility partners of america i did report out on this case verbally at our last meeting um but it is now also published on our list uh just as a reminder it's a prevailing wage case um that was arose out of installation of enhanced water meters across the city um we have reached a settlement um with the plaintiffs and the courts um have affirmed that settlement as a good faith settlement uh so the city has no further liability in that case and the settlement amount was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in terms of pending litigation we have about twenty six cases currently pending several very complex cases we are deep in discovery taking a lot of staff time on those we have two two cases they're set for trial this fall and then another set for trial in the coming year in 2024 um so we are keeping quite busy um and i'm happy to answer any questions are there any questions from council seeing none madam city clerk may you please conduct public comment thank you we are now taking public comment on item eight point one if you are in the council chamber i would like to provide public comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period mayor i see no hands being raised via zoom and i see no one approaching the podium for public comment in chamber thank you moving on to item nine statements of abstention by council members are there any statements of abstention from council members for today seeing none we will move on to item 10 mayor and council members reports before we start i would just like to say i'm happy to report that congressman thompson and congressman jared huffman announced on monday june 26 that the city of santa rosa has received just under 10 million dollar grant from the bipartisan infrastructure law to put new american built buses on the road and improve transit services in santa rosa the grant is for phase three of the diesel bus fleet conversion to battery electric buses with supporting charging infrastructure projects so we are very very very happy about that are there any report out from council members council members that thank you mayor rogers a few items from me on june 22 the ag and open space advisory committee met and i'm sure that scott allanza was already on the inside of this but the advisory committee did recommend additional funding for tiara dorosas but unfortunately not for colgan creek so that's that is still in process with the final decision to be made by the by the um the full board uh sometime later this summer then on june 24th losian held his annual point to iguanas awards with catering delicious catering done by octavio and Pedro Diaz thank you very much um there were 500 or so folks out that evening it was a great event senator maguire did his usual nice job as auctioneer and a significant amount of money was made to allow more youth to attend losian events in the future then on june 27th uh there was a really interesting event uh it was it was a an event that was coordinated between sinoma county water and the danish trade commission focused on water distribution and resilience uh with with pretty wide participation by um a number of danish agencies or danish affiliated entities um as well as a number of local water water agencies including sinoma or santa rosa water um jennifer burk and peter martin both represented uh and supervisor hopkins and i had the had the honor of making introductions but a really a really interesting conference that day um in in in combination with with the danish trade commission and then finally on june 27th or the same day actually um the violence prevention partnership held its first uh community meeting to go over the strategic plan um and it was it was particularly well timed a few of us were there including council member rogers um given given the youth violence that is has been very publicly occurring in our community in recent weeks and months um as you can imagine there was a significant community turnout a lot of interest a lot of conversation um daniel gardenio and hernesto laveras um and the entire violence prevention partnership team did a really nice job of facilitating the meeting under emotional circumstances uh so it was a uh an extremely productive kickoff to what will be um an addition will be a series of strategic or a series of community meetings around the the violence prevention partnership strategic plan thank you mayor thank you council member rogers thank you mayor uh so we last week had our climate action subcommittee meeting where in which we walked through our current iteration of the climate action plan both the community and the minneas full ones and laid out a timeline uh looking forward for updating our existing one by rolling it into a lot of the work that we're doing uh and creating an annex within our general plan update related to climate and really having it filter throughout uh so thank you to both my colleagues for being there uh the mayor and council member fleming we also had our monthly meeting for uh this is a county transportation authority the regional climate protection authority yesterday the two main items of discussion uh one was advancing the recruitment for the new executive director with susanne smith retiring uh council members should see the brochure and the job posting for that as early as next week uh and we would encourage folks to circulate that far and wide so that we get a good candidate pool for that replacement it'll be open for about a month uh the second item was looking at the rcpa ballot measure that we had been working on for about a year and specifically looking at the public information polling that was behind it the top level results is that pretty much no measure is viable at the moment particularly with a two-thirds majority uh needed uh to obtain that so we're going to circle back and come up with different strategies for helping cities uh in the county to advance climate solutions uh the other final thing was we had our monthly cinema clean power meeting uh this last thursday uh one issue to keep on your radar as i like to frequently do PG&E has proposed and has received the preliminary approval from FERC to split off a number of their energy generation assets into a new LLC uh PG&E is saying that they are going to do this as a means for raising capital to advance some of the projects around resiliency and fire it just also would happen to have the side effect of shielding those assets in the event of an additional bankruptcy so it's something that we are keeping a close eye on given as i've previously reported out the challenges that PG&E has had in in energizing communities and putting in new transformers in generation for approved projects so just something for council to keep an eye on thank you councilmember okraki thank you mayor um on june 22nd i was able to attend the sip and see grand opening of the boys and girls club in roseland um phenomenal facility that uh a lot of our staff here um was able to not only attend but be a part of getting it to completion um it's a sorely needed asset to that community to take care of um afterschool needs and and um community needs um on june 26th i was able to attend the santa rosa police department's command staff briefing um which was able to give me an uh an education what the command staff does on a monthly basis and and it just so happened to coincide with the um uh the process getting started for the apprehension of the suspected individuals alleged to be responsible for the june 24th shooting uh in the meeting the first uh identification of the possible suspects in their location was made um and so not only was able to see the command staff uh do what they do on a regular basis but see all of that um uh the response to that go forward um at the same time which was very interesting and then on june 29th i attended the stem of county farm bureau premier member luncheon um out at uh dutton ranch um and it was a uh beautiful facility and it was uh great to hear uh that community and the guest speaker uh david rabbit discussed the future of agriculture along the family owned businesses uh in rural sonoma counties uh in the future for uh and what uh it holds for those individuals thank you and i would just like to make a change in uh subcommittee appointments for my report i would like to appoint council member jeff olcrupke to chair the public safety subcommittee so thank you um for agreeing to do that council member olcrupke and with that madame city clerk may you please conduct public comment thank you mayor we are now taking public comment on item 10 if you're in the council chamber and you'd wish to provide a public comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period mayor i see no hands being raised via zoom and no one approaching the podium for public comment thank you moving to item 11 approval of minutes we have two sets of minutes to approve june 6 2023 a regular meeting in june 20 2023 a regular meeting council are there any corrections to the minutes seeing none madame city clerk can you please facilitate public comment on item 11 thank you we are now taking public comment on item 11 if you are in council chamber i would like to comment but have not provided your speaker card please make your name way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine again you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period i see no hands being raised via zoom and no one approaching the podiums so that concludes public comment on item 11 then we will adopt the minutes as presented thank you moving to item 12 consent items madame city clerk can you please read the consent items thank you mayor item 12.1 motion authority to issue design build request for proposals for samuel l jones hall homeless shelter phase 2 improvements item 12.2 motion contract award for santa rosa pavement maintenance 2023 item 12.3 resolution approval professional services agreement number f 002619 for federal legislative advocacy services with h rod inc dba mmo partners item 12.4 resolution acceptance and appropriation of the state of california's business consumer services and housing agency encampment resolution funding grant of 3.88 million item 12.5 resolution cooperative purchase of one mobile hostage negotiation unit from ldv ink item 12.6 resolution cooperative purchase of five replacement transit and paratransit cutaway vehicles item 12.7 resolution acceptance and appropriation of grant funds from california state library targeted state grants for construction of the permanent library within the herring community hub project as amended earlier today those documents were uploaded to the public portal and shared with council at the same time and the amendment is to authorize the city manager rather than the chief financial officer to appropriate funds item 12.8 resolution second amendment to professional services agreement f 002544 with kim's and creative llc for assistance with the city's public art program item 12.9 resolution first amendment to professional services agreement f 002578 with david toss again associates ink dba dta item 12.10 has been continued to a date uncertain item 12.11 resolution amendment to blanket purchase order number 165561 with emergency equipment management ink item 12.12 resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa to amend for amendment to purchase order 164812 for zoom a three-year contract or a three-year extension under the naspo value master cooperative agreement a r2472 in state of california participating addendum 7-17-70-40-05 item 12.3 or 12.13 resolution third amendment to general services agreement number f 000599 for one-year extension with acella ink for planning and development related services item 12.14 resolution approval of amendment to blanket purchase order number 166038 with cone ink for elevator and lift maintenance 12.15 resolution approval of amendment to blanket purchase order 166742 with day management corporation dba day wireless systems for maintenance repair and inspection services for existing communications equipment item at 12.16 resolution appointment of interim city attorney establishment of compensation and approval a professional service agreement excuse me professional services agreement with berg williams and sorenson llp and to introduce an ordinance to establish the compensation for the interim city attorney item 12.17 ordinance adoption second reading ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa amending title six of the santa rosa city code chapter six dash 66 rent control mobile homes to set cumulative limit on rent increases for combined calendar years 2023 and 2024 and thank you madam mayor we do have one correction um and i apologize for this um on item 12.7 uh the the we're going to correct what was just announced um the changes are this is the acceptance and appropriation of grant funds from california state library targeted state grants for construction of the permanent library within the herne community hub project and the changes will be that it'll be authorizing the city manager rather than the assistant city manager to execute all related documents required for receiving such funds and in terms of authorizing for appropriations it will still be the chief financial officer uh so you'll all be authorizing the chief financial officer to increase appropriations to account number 17662 by the amount of the grant award so we apologize for that confusion thank you bringing it back to council our council member rogers thank you mayor i just wanted to make a quick comment on item 12.3 uh and just a huge thank you to kiriyakis and john and the entire team who've been there with us uh all the way through our fire rebuild you reported out earlier on funding that came from department of transportation and they were instrumental and critical in getting that and i think it's just a really good example of the return on investment that we've had as a city from their services uh and also i know how much they care about this partnership someone to say thank you councilmember alvarez thank you mayor i rather not pull item 12.1 and 12.5 if i could simply ask a question about both of those i'd prefer to do so yes you can start with 12.1 thank you in regards to 12.1 where do the complaints about some of jones hall go to do they ever uh actually arrive to a city department or is there a way that council can look at these complaints from residents good evening council i'm meghan bassinger director of housing and community services when complaints are received from individuals who are accessing services at sam jones hall they can come through catholic charities and then our staff and housing and community services reviews those and we work with the uh shelter operator to address those concerns and the follow-up question do those concerns ever reach any of our administrators here whether it be the city manager or city attorney they do perfect and i'm seeing that depending on the the extent of the concerns okay very well thank you and that was the extent of my questions on item 12.1 in regards to 12.5 uh question for the chief just just a general explanation of what the unit actually tells i know that one of the concerns from the community has been that not too long ago we purchased another ford uh also for for public safety and maybe an explanation of what this unit will do for the community absolutely and i brought captain dan marines who's been leading this project too but the one important thing for this to understand is this is made for crisis communication so i remember we have a dedicated hostages negotiation team and they're working not just with hostages uh circumstances but those in a mental health crisis that may be facing a suicidal uh situation that they're able to in our trained hostages negotiators are able to use this to be able to do negotiations and whether it be through phone calls or we have throw phones that we can throw in there so it's really a de-escalation tool but i know what it means is it going to be used in any type of like an offensive in our community and i don't know if captain marines wants to add anything to that from he's been working on this project yeah just to to echo that really what it is it's a it's a sprinter sized van and it's big communication tool so it's like a communication box so there's different modes of communication whether through computers through telephones through television set which allow us to get real-time information and so really the point of it is just to allow us in one of these incidents when we're trying to safely resolve an incident to get as much information and communication as possible so we can make the best decisions uh that we possibly can i do appreciate the leverage and thank you both does that resolve the questions that were indeed it does thank you mayor i do have a question councilman alvarez is there some additional follow-up you would like to see from my office as it relates to complaints that i received from sam jones hall well now knowing that that the information is being forwarded to you there are some instances some situations have been that have been made aware of that i definitely want to make known to you and see if those reports have been including and if they have been addressed so they're very general concerns and and that i would love to meet with you in private and discuss them thank you uh piggybacking on that i was i had a request to come to sam jones so i now have a tour that i'm going to sam jones again for to to look around because one of the residents did call me and asked me to come with nothing specific right there were some recent concerns that were forwarded to our offices um but for confidentiality purposes we were not privy to some information but i will continue to follow up with each and every one of you to provide you some information on concerns that come through our come uh regarding sam jones hall thank you vice mayor mcdonnell yes sorry megan i should have asked the question when you were down here before i just want to make sure for clarification purposes on item 12.17 that the red line items are making sure that there's absolutely no way that they can go over 8 percent over the next two years to raise any rent in the mobile home parks i had to read it a couple of different times it made more sense prior but now that i've read it i think three or four times i'm just i think i'm a little paranoid that i want to make sure that this language is absolutely clear that if a park um raised rent seven percent this year next year they'd only be able to raise it one percent because it's no more than eight percent over two years i'm i'm happy to take that on yes sorry i'm asking megan and i should have been asking city attorney i apologize both both the um uh dr bassinger and i have been very much involved in this and what we were attempting to do was to clarify i know there was some confusion at the um introduction in terms of what that language was um and so it is the lesser of eight percent would be the total between 23 and 24 cumulative increase or the if if it's lower than it's the um four percent plus what's ever allowed this year in 2024 as an increase which would be 70 of cpi not to exceed four percent what we were aware of is in monitoring where cpa cpi is right now that number is actually going to be lower than eight percent likely we won't know until august until the august numbers come out because it's 70 of cpi as of the august date 12 month cpi but that's why we have that the lesser of so in no case can it be more than eight percent but the limit very well may be less than eight percent i guess so that's still not clear to me on this dais right now so i guess my question is if it's eight percent that's over two years because the cap for us is four percent yes so this past year we know that some parks raised it five point nine or almost six percent isn't that right five point seven five point seven was the cpi increase for 2023 and in the um ordinance that is attached to tonight's agenda it explicitly lays out that there's two options the lesser of so it's four percent plus the allowed cpi increase for 2024 or eight percent of the rent that was charged in 2022 so we would look at that 2022 rent apply eight percent and whichever is lower would be the rent allowed for 2024 okay i just want to make sure that we're getting this right since it's come to us again that everybody's really clear from the mobile home parks as well that this is what we've been trying to achieve since the first adoption of the ordinance we are we're doing our best to try and make this as clear as possible and we will be communicating with the residents and the park manager i just got a tom a thumbs up from tom so i'm feeling confident now in my motion thank you because it is so difficult is it possible to communicate with the residents the management and if we have the information for the owners so that there's no break in communication we are planning on doing outreach to all those groups as well as providing the information on our website and then we also have staff who is available to assist in explaining with those residents thank you and we will be providing in that information actual examples taking in particular the 5.7 that some parks charged last excuse me for 2023 and we will give the example um of with the cpi for 2024 so the actual math actual math will be shown perfect yes thank you so much bringing it back to council are there any additional questions saying none i think madam city clerk we've given you a chance to get your breath and we're going to ask you right now to do public comment thank you mayor we are now taking public comment on item 12 the consent calendar if you are in chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period we received two public comment cards the first speaker from council chamber will be joanne followed by tom good afternoon mayor vice mayor and council members that all sounds amazing and great to me thank you thank you thank you um i i just i'm joanne jones from the country and mobile home park and um tom and i and roger have been working on this for a long time and we literally had nowhere nowhere else to go uh you know to have support and have people fight for us and you have really come through and so that for that we are exceptionally grateful so thank you i mean a small i know a small rent increase doesn't sound like much but when you're on a fixed income it's huge and i mean if you have a steady stream of income coming in you don't feel it so much but with you know a fixed income you do but anyways i'm not going to belabor it i think tom wants to talk about uh something else maybe uh in place transfers or uh something else thank you thank you the next public comment will be from tom and then we'll move to our zoom public comments my name is tom lupina and i'm the president of the santa rosa manufactured homeowners association first thing you guys got it right damn that was that was an unbelievable presentation by the city attorney megan basinsher who i'm probably driving crazy right about now with all of this but it took some time and and you guys really got it right but now i'm here to talk about more things and what pedaluma did last night at their meeting i i watched it online and it was painful it was a long time they were apologizing to their citizens because they went on late too but they do not have an in-place transfer that 10 red increase they had had one before when there was an eviction or when a home was moved out of a park they did away with that also there are no in-place transfers in pedaluma so they beat us on one count i want us to be the best i think i said that about our city manager at the last meeting she is the best the other thing is one of their council members spoke remotely about the zoning overlay protection because now youngston mobile home park because they initiated the rent control ordinance revision their owners want to change that park from senior to all age we've got that right now in carriage court they're trying to do that in eddie's district and we also have another park in eddie's district sunset that i called him about last week he couldn't make it there but i went there and and evan livenstone an attorney in town here was defending those residents it's an all-age senior park of 55 homes mostly hispanic residents who are being taken advantaged of and harassed and it's not right and we're going to see more of this because we're trying to fight for rent control and do what's right please stand with us stay with us we at we looked like it was going to be done at ask you for it for next year's goal setting the way these owners are moving we got to get it done quicker to copy pedaluma and get everything in place we're going to have a problem thank you very much thank you see no one else in council chamber wishing to provide public comment on this item i'm going to turn it over to our zoom host where we do have one hand being raised thank you margaret you have your hand up and soon i've enabled your permissions go ahead whenever you're ready good evening city council and staff margaret domaneo legal aid of sonoma county just speaking up to say thank you for this consent calendar item to finalize the amendments on the mobile home ordinance and you know i know tom mentioned fixes in the future and i've been speaking on a lot of mobile home ordinances lately pedaluma last night uh what to the county today you know but i i just want to thank you for being one of the first jurisdictions to pass much needed amendments and i look forward to uh working with you in the future on further amendments to make sure that our most vulnerable seniors and community members are secure thank you thank you margaret we have no other hands raised in zoom we do have one prerecorded comment i wish to have this comment played at the regular four p.m city council meeting of july 11th 2023 on consent item 12.6 purchase of five replacement transit and paratransit cutaway vehicles this is gig hideout resident of santa rosa also part-time city employee but i am not on the clock working as i record this message and i'm not speaking on behalf of my department it media these are my own opinions i hereby request that you pull item 12.6 from the consent calendar to discuss whether or not the new vehicles to be purchased run on electric powered hybrid or gasoline fueled engines the santa rosa municipal climate action plan calls for a transition away from fossil fuel engines and vehicles wherever alternative energy engines are feasible for the intended use of the vehicles if this purchase plan is for electric or hybrid vehicles that would be excellent and consistent with the city's climate action plan but if the vehicles to be purchased will burn fuels that produce greenhouse gases this purchase agreement should be cancelled please pull and discuss item 12.6 and cancel the proposed purchase agreement if the vehicles are incompatible with the city's climate action plan thank you for your attention to this matter and there are no other hands raised instant okay um incurring minds do you want to know though about 12.6 so is there someone here to answer the question about the vehicles that are being purchased lauren can you please promote uh urie cusslin oh there's rachel and hurry to follow good afternoon mayor members of council yes i'm happy to answer that question and i see i'm also being joined by urie coslyn um these vehicles are gas powered vehicles and i i want to take this back to our zero emissions bus rollout plan that the council recently approved um as part of that rollout plan we discuss some of the difficulties in transitioning specifically cutaway vehicles to electric at this point in time there aren't vehicles that are altuna tested that have the battery size to meet the range requirements we have for our services um on a single charge and and so it's not feasible at us at this time for us to transition these cutaway vehicles to electric but in the zero emissions bus rollout plan we do lay out the time frame for that transition and we will be reviewing every cutaway um and non-revenue vehicle order for opportunities to transition to electric from this point on and accelerate it as much as possible much as we have done for the fixed route fleet which as you all know um we're on a 100 percent zero emissions battery electric path at this point in time so i'm hoping that answers the question but uh urie's here as well if there are additional follow-up questions and rachel i'll just reiterate uh just to say that we've delayed these purchases uh in the hopes that we would be finding an electric vehicle because in reviewing the market we believe that that was going to be possible but the more we dug into it we realize that it's it's not just the range but it's the time period the vehicles are out in the field and we've we've interviewed other vendors and um and and it's really our hope to get there but the but the availability of vehicles that can that can do this range is not is not available at this time thank you can you please explain to us what a cutaway vehicle is sure it's it's uh basically a vehicle where the back part of it has been removed and then uh and then there is a uh that the seating has been put on to it's a it's a separate front from the from the it's a separate front of the vehicle from the back of the vehicle and so it's been uh reconstructed uh by the manufacturer um it's basically a small bus which you see out in the field is a small as a very small kind of neighborhood bus it's what our paratransit vehicles are out in the field thank both of you for coming on and explaining that to us are there any additional questions from council seeing none vice mayor mcdonnell may you please make a motion thank you mayor i'd like to move item 12.1 through 12.9 item 12.10 is pulled to a date uncertain and then i'd like to move 12.11 through 12.17 and if i may to clarify with the um revisions to item 12.7 as announced yes i meant to say that i second thank you we have a motion made by vice mayor mcdonnell and a second made by councilmember alvarez madame city clerk may you please call the vote thank you councilmember stepp aye councilmember rogers aye councilmember okrepke aye councilmember fleming aye councilmember alvarez aye vice mayor mcdonnell aye mayor rogers aye let the record show the consent calendar passed unanimously thank you we will now go on to item 13 our first public comment on non-agenda items for the evening madame city clerk thank you we are now taking public comments on item 13 non-agenda matters this is a time when any person may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council if you are in council chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period we will take 12 speakers under item 13 if we have more than 12 public comments on item 13 the remaining speakers will be afforded the opportunity to speak on item 17 non-agenda matters to provide public comment the first speaker will be nathan and then we'll move to zoom or any other public commenters in the council chamber please go ahead nathan oh there we go hi um my name is nathan kogan um i've grown up in sonoma county and have lived on uh my property at tanglewood park uh for the past 25 years so my request here is probably pretty low on the totem pole but um what i am seeking is help with signage for dogs off leash um i have been dealing with this issue for going on eight years now um speaking with lisa grant who was previous supervisor of city parks and then um tim finnegan uh supervisor of maintenance and then also um james castrow who was here previously um left him a message today um the long and short of it is that i have a large field in front of my home which looks beautiful and um every time someone comes out there that wants to train their dog or let them run around off leash i am also a dog owner it becomes an issue um they come and come up to the yard come up to the fence parking etc um the animal control folks uh supervisor kevin davis um he's probably sick of me at this point for calling you know just about every time that this happens so the long and short of it is that i have tried to remedy this uh by visiting the departments whether it be parks or animal control um directly everyone has said that there's no funds or um solution um so here i am to voice my opinion and the signs that are there now are so dated are vandalized or graffiti the only uh uh how should i say the only uh remnants of any signage that says dog off leash is something about the size of my coffee cup here that has a little dog with the the leash thing on them and people say that they don't see the the signs you know if they don't see them it doesn't apply um that park in particular there's about 10 different entrances and exits so it's really you know there's a lot of places where there could be signs um i'm running out of time here but um that's the gist of it so um here i am thanks a lot thank you nathan see no one else in council chamber wishing to provide public comment i'm going to turn it over to our zoom host thank you dina eris you're first up and i have allowed your our enabled your permissions go ahead and start whenever you're ready hi thank you uh this is eris weaver executive director of snow county bicycle coalition and i just wanted to give a thumbs up um i just recently took a bike ride along the brand new um two-way protected cycle track on armory and uh more please um it was the kind this is the kind of project that i want to see the city doing more of get it's not perfect um but getting something put in quickly that will help keep cyclists safer on the road is exactly the direction that we need to be going i'd like to see similar things on some of our higher traffic scarier roads um but i just want to give a thumbs up to um moving in the right direction thanks thank you eris we have no more hands raised and zoom thank you eris if i may nathan if you could just during public comment we can't get in the back and forth with people since it's not agendized but if you can shoot me or one of my colleagues in the email we can try to help you out okay um that concludes our public comment on non-agenda matters we have no report items so we will go to item 15.1 which is our first public hearing of the evening at this time i will ask council if there are any ex parte disclosures that need to be made seeing none madame city manager item 15.1 is a public hearing tiara derosa appeal um ext 22-0019 uh good evening mayor and council members i'll be presenting today for the tiara derosa's tentative map time extension um this is formally known as the rosin village neighborhood center and this is the tentative map time extension for this project this is also an appeal and the file number is ext 22-0019 and the location is at 665 and 883 sabastable road the tiara derosa's project was approved to subdivide two part two parcels of approximately 7.41 acres this would be a mixed use project with housing and some other elements such as a civic building the marketplace and a public plaza this project has pretty extensive history i'll be going over some of the more recent things um on in february 2019 the planning commission approved the overall project and a density bonus um and then following that approval there was an appeal of that project and it came back again for an approval with the city council on june 2019 and then in september 2020 there was an assembly bill that helped extend the project date to when they needed a file for a final map and then in december 2022 the applicant submitted an application for an extension of their tentative map on march 23 2023 this year the planning commission approved the one-time one-year one-time extension of the tentative map and on march 30th we received an appeal and that was filed with the city clerk and this appeal is regarding the circulation and parking agreement with the easterly neighborly property before the city council today is the one-year time extension appeal and the extended expiration would be from december 25 2022 last year to december 25 2023 which is this year um some overview about the project so there are several elements going on um there is the three to four story apartment buildings uh currently recently approved was costa roseland that is a that was a low-income low-income project for housing and that was 75 units and then they're currently in a design review phase for the public plaza previously on this currently on the site is the matote food park and they're working on the next phase which is for the public park um then the next phases include the mercado which would be a grocery store and then the civic building which would contain the public library and some meeting groups here's the project site located in roseland the general plan designation for the site is medium residential and retail medium sorry medium residential and retail medium residential the zoning is r3 18 and cg which is general commercial um and this is also in the roseland area and sabastopol road specific plan a tentative that this is the proposed and approved tentative map that the extension is going for and you can see all of the lots that are being created in this process a lot one and two are for housing three is for the civic building parcel a is for the park and parcel for sorry lot four is for the market um going now over for the appeals statement um so the project the appeals payment is the project violates a recorded easement for the parking and circulation um going over some brief history on this project it was built as the roseland village shopping center in 1954 and they recorded a grant over reciprocal easement in september 12th 1956 um at this time the parcel had the parcel was originally constructed with the building struggling across the property and there was an easement that actually now has the cdc property the cdc property um is almost entirely within this easement and once once what dealt was once developed with five buildings and on the other side is the mr palston's property and he has two buildings on that site that are within the easement and he has other buildings and property on that area some more looking into the appeal process the easement grants reciprocal rights to driveway and parking which presently exist or will be developed here after this space is stating that it is it foresaw there would be development on this site and there are no specific language regarding parking spaces or circulation rather than just access on the site um there is no restriction on the land use on this site as well and is not stated in the easement this the subdivision also will maintain a circulation piece to it as well between the two properties um at this time there's also a pending appeal judgment with the sonoma county council and they are currently drafting briefs about this appeal at that level for uh going over the calvarnia environmental quality act for this project this project falls within the rosen area and sabastopol sabastopol road specific plan which was adopted and certified in november 2016 um they have exemptions over under a seco guidelines 15162 under which uh there if there are no changes to the project there would be no further environmental review required and uh some similar languages under seco guidelines 15182 in government code 65457 in which there is an eir prepared for the project it is recommended by the planning and economic development department that the city council denied the appeal and affirmed the planning commission's action by approving the one-year time extension for the tier to rosa tentative map extending the expiration date to december 25th 2023 um here is my information if there are any questions thank you thank you are there any questions from council members seeing none we would like to invite planning commission board chair karen weeks hi can you hear me yes we can thank you mayor um mayor rogers and members of the council as stated my name is karen weeks and i'm chair of the planning commission i'm here today to give you a very brief overview of our action as it relates to this item as stated by the planner on march 23rd 2023 we review this item and we unanimously approved the tentative map time extension it was a standard tentative map extension and there were no concerns by the commission it was basically uh in our view a housekeeping item our role as you know is to carry out california planning and zoning laws within the city of santa rosa which includes implementation of ordinances and policies relating to land use matters at the time of the public hearing uh we heard from one member of the public uh who is the appellant or which was the appellant um and that was uh all that we heard from the public um and i'm happy to answer any questions uh if you have them thank you chair weeks are there any questions for chair weeks seeing none thank you very much thank you thank you we do not have a presentation from the applicant so we will now ask the appellant to come forward with their presentation i'm here i'm up here do you want me to come down there or up here ma'am oh up there i can just see you down here you want me down there no no no you can stay there but i can see you down here that's why i'm looking this way thank you shall i start yes sir can you hear me okay yes sir okay mayor vice mayor members of the city council my name is john paulson i'm the owner of the rosland village shopping center which is located to the east of the cdc midpen property i'm here appealing the midpen tentative map extension approved by the planning commission in fact i've attended all of the cdc midpen steering community meetings planning and city council meetings as well as sonoma county board of supervisors meetings were advice where i voiced my opinion to the cdc midpen's plans and tentative maps these plans ignore and destroy my property and more importantly my tenants historical and recorded easement rights to have their patients patrons park on the cdc parking area 272 spaces all of my concerns have been ignored by the cdc and midpen building of affordable housing which will eliminate the recorded easement and access to the 272 parking spaces on the cdc property as well as they're going to it's going to eliminate the traffic circulation all shopping centers to survive conning town the downtown they all have parking this this plan will eliminate all the parking thus if this plan is approved it will destroy the 14 hispanic and minority businesses that rent from me who cares apparently the city cdc and midpen don't midpen's own traffic study clearly states that there won't be enough parking spaces on their site just for what has been approved on their tentative map not taking into consideration my easement for for my tenants needs their tentative map even gives away land that i have a parking easement over to the city of santa rosa for city streets do recording easements matter does a deed for your house matter when you have a deed for your house and the city comes or the cdc or the county comes and says your deed isn't any good would you be up here like i am when you are midpen and the city of santa rosa can just run you over and destroy anyone in their way additionally midpen's plans of market rate apartments i believe it's on parcel two will eliminate the circulation of truck access fire and emergency access through the rear of my property this access is necessary for deliveries to the food market and other businesses just like any other shopping center that take deliveries of goods and supplies at the back of their store i would like the city council members to step into my shoes for just a minute i'll give you a little history just imagine city council members before you were born your parents started assembling a total of 12 acres that would become the site of the future roseland village shopping center the first shopping center in sonoma county not having enough money to build a shopping center your father sold seven acres to hugh cotting at a huge discount with the agreement that cotting would build an anchor tenant pam market and other buildings pave the seven acres create 272 parking spaces that would be used by both your father and cotting their tenants and customers of the shopping center to be mutually beneficial beneficial to both additionally cotting and your father agreed to this arrangement and signed and recorded and easement so that the parking and traffic circulation that was established by the buildings that were built have to have remained in the same location since the fifties 1950s until the cdc demolished most of them and there is a restriction in this recorded easement by the way it states that the shopping center will remain a shopping center quote unquote our property has not changed ownership my family's property while the cotting seven acres has changed hands each owner has honored the recorded easement in fact prior to the cdc's purchasing the property the lease their leases even stated that their tenants would not violate the recorded easements when the cdc was in escrow to purchase the property cathleen cayne acknowledged and initialed on the preliminary title report the easement stating paulson's parking yet the cdc and midpen ignored and pushed ahead wasted a lot of money and with the city of santa rosa blessing these plans yes if you uphold the planning commission's extension of cdc midpen's tentative map you will be destroying 14 hispanic and minority businesses that have thrived and relied on parking for their customers midpen's plans need to change i'm not opposed affordable housing i'm opposed to the cdc and midpen running over and ignoring property owners recorded easements property owners have rights to just like you all do city council members your vote affects me and my tenants don't kid yourselves someday a county or a city could do this to you and your property thank you thank you are there any questions for the appellant council member olcruppy yeah um for the city attorney just to clarify um we are not voting on any merits of the project we're not voting on easements we're not voting on design we're just voting to uphold an extended the extension of a map that was approved by planning commission in 2019 as well as held by the by the city council of 2019 is that correct that is correct thank you council member alvarez and this is a question for you mr paulson i'm very aware of of how much respect you have from your tenants as i know them all my question to you is what has i believe there's been purchased offers in the past am i correct sir yes there have been and i imagine that they have not been sufficient as i've been the issue with the offers let me tell you about the first offer from ben wickham from the cdc ben wickham was the uh fellow hired from portland to come down and ramrod this project and he realized quite quickly that and he knew that the project was going to violate my easements wipe out my parking and wipe out all my tenants businesses but he had to push for this for affordable housing that's why he was there so he called me to a meeting and he said and by the way thank you for asking he called me to a meeting he brought some documents and he said that he wanted me to sign giving up my easement in exchange for $50,000 dollars mr wickham stated at that meeting and i quote john do you think any judge in sonoma county would side with you over affordable housing you'd better take the $50,000 because you will lose in sonoma county court and it will cost you $50,000 to lose and that is when i filed my lawsuit the judge the sonoma county judge ruled against me incorrectly and i'm appealing that ruling and it's costing a lot of money but it's this is wrong i appreciate the liberation sir for myself i've been wanting to speak with you for a while but i wanted to be in public so all information can be heard by all including our conversations so i do appreciate it i do understand that this voting will be simply for the extension of the tentative map uh and moving forward i hope that some dialogue can continue between yourself and the city of san rosa to see how we mediate the issue as really the center itself is the heart of rosalind and is really the heart of southwest san rosa so i see how important coming to terms is for all parties involved thank you are there any additional questions for the appellate are there any questions for the applicant who is available for questions all right seeing none we will now open the public hearing madame city clerk can you please facilitate thank you we are now taking public comments on item 15.1 if you're in council chamber i would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card and you're not required to provide a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period looks like we do have a person at the podium if you would like please identify yourself for public record and begin your comment my name is robert nelson in 1980 i was working in the secretary of the navy's washington dc office legal department and received a brutally rapid lesson in real politic all government institutions and managerial employees have a deeply entrenched survival motive managers gain power and money and advancement not by telling the truth but by increasing their budget and number of subordinates there is rarely any adverse consequence to lying you could simply rule against the application you have the power for roseland there was a housing plan proposed by mission housing that would have allowed construction to have begun in 2016 the the current midpen plan guarantees that first construction will be delayed interminably and to the county and its partner the city of santa rosa will create a hellhole of never-ending problems if the midpen design is ever built when i came to roseland in 1983 40 years ago before many of you fiduciaries of the public trust came to santa rosa and your minions who play with the city of santa rosa property owner taxes like monopoly money could not balance a personal checkbook roseland village was a vibrant working family community center the counties and cities insistence on cramming the maximum number of low-income people of color into a minimal square footage residences with inadequate parking by their own traffic study rings hollow it is a racist agenda when i sued lana hannon reilly in 2010 and asked a press democrat to report the jury trial i was told directly lana hannon reilly buys a considerable press democrat advertising we will not criticize it in any manner so the theft of millions of dollars in clients funds gross breach of fiduciary duty and nonpayment of employees wages continued for years the same rules apply according to the press democrat for the city and county of san francisco the fourth estate here has no concept of its privileged duty as it endorses a fascist dishonesty of the city and county you need to take account in into the that the county bought the ballcotting property knowing of massive soil underground contamination when matoti began sewer excavation i could smell the the hydrocarbons everywhere the regional water quality control board has no record of proper testing for during soil transport this means someone is in violation of federal law the regional water quality board is aware of contamination at high level so being forced to conclude um the the city and county and the city of santa rosa thank you sir i think that your time has has expired thank you so much for your comment did mr paulson have any time left over on his 10 minutes i'm his attorney sir thank you your public comment time has expired thank you very much thank you see no additional public comments in council chamber we'll move to i'll turn it over to the zoom host where we do have hands raised thank you satnam you're up first followed by ramon i've enabled your permission satnam go ahead and start whenever you're ready hi could you hear me yes we can hi my name is satnam sing i'm the property owner at 921 sabastical road we're a unbranded local community gas station um in the rosen community i wanted to stress upon the importance of parking that mr paulson has implemented um parking in the rosen village is congested and crowded already and public easements like this are in my opinion are only going to make it more difficult my first example is the boys and girls club that was recently built in our community borderline that building if you were to just come here at 5 p.m forward p.m and just walk along and sing the where the parents are parking and how difficult it is for them to find parking and if they do find parking where are the parking uh majority of them are even parking on my own business property i've talked to the boys and girls club they really don't have a solution for this and going forward uh to extend a map a tentative map for a project where they're already taking up public parking for local businesses i think it's going to be a major issue second of all i would like to also stress upon the current businesses that are already here so we're currently building infrastructure in a community where there's already buildings yes they're quite old buildings but there are businesses here i have underground storage tanks that get fuel deliveries and those come in large trucks and street b is going to probably going to make it really difficult for my fuel deliveries to come in so i just want to provide a couple more examples of how parking for current businesses uh we've been here for a long time and if we're going to build a housing a parking and uh how local businesses will run there might be some difficulties that's it thank you thank you next up we have remone followed by joshua remone i've enabled your permissions go ahead whenever you're ready yes uh good afternoon can you hear me yes we can hear you remone thank you very much uh city council mayor everybody who's here today my colleague josh shipper is going to be talking from generational housing point of view but i want to talk my personal experience with this parcel i started studying urban planning back in 2000 and in my environmental impact review class we did a mock report on on this particular piece of property so i'm talking about 21 years ago that we were already slowing down the process on building any housing on this property i just wanted to stay that that even back then there were people that have been waiting for a long time and we are behind in our housing production i just want to say thank you for keeping this moving forward um think senator that was perfect we're going to find ways to coexist and to have a good community but we need housing today and i just wanted to reiterate 21 22 years ago is that i'm talking about that we were doing environmental impact review on these property and still we haven't started building the housing thank you very much and i really appreciate you all thank you remone up next we have joshua followed by margaret joshua i've enabled your permissions go ahead whenever you're ready uh great thanks so much um good evening may roger's vice mayor mcdonnell council members and staff uh again my name is josh shipper with generation housing we primarily want to thank you in advance for your consideration of support for the tiara de rosa's project by upholding the planning commission's recommendation we really think you can demonstrate your commitment to the longer term goals of more and more affordable housing for all santa rosa's um as as my colleague remone just mentioned uh we know it's been a very long road and a lot has been asked of you for a project that started in the sort of formal application status in 2019 but has really been in the works for more than 20 years it's met with a number of delays but we would not be close to its initiation and and in its current form without the guidance of the council at each stage preserving that total of 75 new affordable apartments complete with access to a variety of onsite services has required that the council at each stage has preserved the site for development kept the project on track and ultimately fulfilled the promise to the residents of roseland i will echo my colleague uh remone and just pass along how important historically this project has been to the community of roseland it was envisioned by the community designed to be used by the community um and in order to remake a site that was impacted by environmental injustice so for the people of roseland this this parcel has been a promise for several decades in the making they've been asked to participate in planning in terms of what the community would look like and they participated in kind they've been patient and and today we we see this as taking another step forward so we are primarily here to celebrate this project and where it's at today and we thank you for your continued efforts to see this project through thanks so much thank you joshua up next we have margaret followed by eris margaret i've been able to do permissions go ahead whenever you're ready hello again margaret samadio here was legal aid of sonoma county uh i just wanted to stay on for this i think it's super important for a community that is so needed a community project like this that's so needed that the community itself has had so much uh input on it's rare um and we are in the age of housing element and we are in the age of you know a housing crisis in which we need to be um focusing on affordable housing production and this this project goes you know well beyond that so i want to lift up the comments of ramon and joshua and you know i heard i heard the business owners earlier and you know i can understand um you know their their frustration but as ramon said nothing is going to be perfect you know we're not going to be able to make everyone happy um when we're when we're building housing um that's why it's taking so long but i'm sure that the city and the community is going to be able to find a way to um to solve that problem you know um and so i hope that you will uh take your staff recommendation and deny the appeal and just let this project move forward and uh thank you for your work thank you margaret next up we have eris and no other hands up eris have enabled your permissions go ahead whenever you're ready all right thank you um i haven't intended to speak about this item but but listening to um all of the conversation i want to echo uh the previous three speakers and add my own hit on this any project anywhere whether it's a housing project whether it's a new bicycle lane whether it's any any sort of improvement to make our our streets and our communities safer and more connected the main complaint that always comes up is parking as there's not enough parking we need more parking we need more parking folks the automotive paradigm is on its way out if we are ever going to meet all of our climate action goals if we're going to meet our vision zero goals we have to change our city in a way that gets people out of their cars and uses other forms of transportation that's going to mean better bike lanes better public transit lots of other stuff um and so but i don't know complaints about parking uh uh don't quite ever fall very friendly on my ears around that in about an hour 200 cyclists are going to um descend upon mitote food park with the taco tuesday to spend money and eat and have a good time and i invite uh folks to get out there and look at the joy coming down the road and if we want to remake a neighborhood that's the way to do it thanks thank you eric we have no other hands in zoom thank you mayor that concludes public comments on this item thank you we'll now close the public hearing bringing it back to council are there any questions of the applicant appellant staff vice mayor mcdonnell thank you um i just have a quick question for staff i know that there was a traffic report done and it very well could be that in the 94 pages i didn't see it but can you give me a percentage of how much the parking lot is full at any given time or during regular business hours is it 50 full or where are we at and then um how much would this reduce parking in those businesses just so that i'm aware thank you vice mayor for the question i don't have that information i can pull up the traffic study and review it but i don't have the answer i i'm not sure how it may have analyzed the parking on the site that would be impacted um from mr paulson's property so i i'd have to take some time to take a look at that to see if we have that information thank you thank you councilmember rogers is now the appropriate time for comments also are you just looking for questions i'm looking for questions okay i'll wait thank you we'll do comments after uh councilmember alvarez has an opportunity to put a motion councilmember alvarez thank you madam mayor i'd like to make a resolution of the council of the city of san rosa denying an appeal and upholding the decision of the planning commission approving a one-year extension of time for the tentative map for the tierra de rosas formerly known as rosin village neighborhood center subdivision located at six six five and eight eight three subaspal road accesses parcel number one two five dash one one one dash zero three seven and one two five dash one zero one dash zero three one file number uh ext two two dash zero zero one nine and wave further reading of the text second we have a motion made by councilmember alvarez and seconded by councilmember fleming is there any discussion or comments councilmember rogers yeah i i probably should just let it go but i'll i wanted to make a quick comment that in my seven years on council i have never had an attorney stand up and say that the city has a racist agenda because they don't understand state housing law so i hope you're not paying for that representation mr paulson because that's appalling to me i was very proud to vote for this project once i'll be proud to vote again and if it comes to us again which it sounds like every opportunity it'll come forward i imagine i'll probably be voting for it at that point as well madam city clerk may you please call the vote thank you mayor councilmember stapp hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember okrepke hi councilmember fleming hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor mcdonnell hi mayor rogers i let the record show this item passes with seven affirmative votes thank you moving on to item 15.2 which is our second public hearing of the evening madam city manager item 15.2 is a public hearing a resolution of necessity for the acquisition of imminent domain of temporary easement and fee symbol interest in portions of real property commonly known as 1975 cleveland cleveland avenue apn 012-490-052 for the highway 101 bicycle and pedestrian over crossing project and if the team could introduce themselves for the record thank you good evening council i'm jill scott the city's real estate manager and i have with me adam abel our city attorney city attorney excuse me i believe we need a comment from the city clerk first thank you i will note for the record that a proof of mailing of the notice of the hearing to the effective property owners were mailed on June 14th 2023 and again on June 20th 2023 it's good evening mayor rogers vice mayor mcdonnell and council members as you know my name is adam abel my role here today as legal is to respectfully outline for you the issues to be addressed at this resolution of necessity hearing and what you will be asked to consider pursuant to the california government code and the eminent domain act and those issues are threefold one whether the public interest in necessity require the proposed project two whether the proposed project is planned or located in the manner that will be most compatible with the greatest public good in least private injury and finally whether the real property described in the resolution is necessary for the proposed project and with that introduction jill scott will now address those issues through her powerpoint presentation okay so we're here tonight to talk about the highway one bicycle and pedestrian over crossing project and the resolution for consideration for council for the resolution of necessity hearing so there's multiple areas where the city would need to acquire right away or property tonight we're only asking you to consider one property that we need right away the others we're working with and in the process of acquiring the property is owned by the michael and ellen hornstein revocable trust and it's located at 1975 cleveland avenue so the project itself is of course in line with council goals to maintain sustainable infrastructure and it's because it does cross it's a bike and pet over crossing crossing and the north of santa rosa over us 101 it crosses a state highway so it is a caltrans oversight project and you'll see in a moment why that's an important point so there as adam described there's several reasons several things that council needs to consider tonight to see if you want to pass this resolution and necessity one of those is a public interest in necessity of the project so the project was came forward to provide safe access to bicycle and pedestrian use in the areas east and west of highway one and in the northern half of santa rosa so right now steel lane and college are the only crossings of 101 in the area so there's about a three mile gap which is considered to be too far for pedestrians and too far by public comment for most cyclists pedestrian and vehicle conflicts points need to be reduced and also we're looking to alternative modes of travel to be provided to alleviate travel congestion on 101 and on the side streets so that was the point of looking at first looking at this crossing not building this project would allow these challenging crossing conditions to persist and sometimes dangerously persist while failing to encourage a mode shift away from looking at non-motorized forms of transportation the next is the project location and this is an important point for council to consider several locations were looked at in this study so caltrans because this was again a state crossing and why a caltrans perform the study and so we'll talk about the study throughout the project throughout the PowerPoint and this was the initial study done with the mitigated negative declaration which is the environmental and so this was completed by caltrans california transportation authority and there were multiple locations looked at in 2020 they put together a project development team which they call a PDT the PDT consisted of staff from caltrans from the city from sonoma county transportation authority from the city of santa rosa and then the city of santa rosa consultants so the city had gone out with an rfp and hired bkf consultants for design and engineering and also associate right-of-way services to do was a sub-consultant of them to do the right-of-way work this was the PDT team that looked at all of these different locations so it was very important to get this right so they they considered all of the factors within the study so they did the relevant factors that they looked at definitely included all of the public comment that was put in during the study so when the PDT got together this is going back in history so we had to talk to some people that were included in this in a while because this predated some of us some of the locations that they looked at would just no longer be viable or or they found for a lot of reasons weren't viable and they wanted to triple check this make sure that this was the viable location the preferred location that came out which is the eliot this one right here that we're going to talk about tonight the Edwards and Elliot location the other location that they decided to look at just to triple check that could potentially be viable is called bear cub way and it's this long one right here it's further south on 101 so when when they looked at this during the study and this is going back I think like 2011 or maybe even sooner they hadn't made the decision on where the smart station was going to be at that time they were looking at different locations one of the locations I believe was somewhere around range avenue down here which would have made bear cub way a more viable location so pedestrians and bicyclists could have come off of here and gone down to range avenue and been at the smart station smart ended up building chose the Gernville road location which makes bear cub way really not viable it makes the project not viable really I mean it's a really long shot it makes eliot very close for pedestrians and for bike and for bicyclists so we put together from the PDT findings from the study we put together a side by side because one of the as Adam explained one of the important things that you need to look at tonight to consider this is was the location looked at for the greatest public good and the least private injury so the PDT looked at Edwards at the time when they looked at this on both sides of the road of both sides of the landing about 8800 square feet a right away was needed from the private sector so the city would need to purchase that from the private sector the bear cub way is substantially more 26,000 square feet Edwards way was a lower construction cost versus bear cub way which is a higher construction cost the Edwards eliot location is not considered they're not expecting to have impacts to the parking lot or the layouts of the pedestrian circulation on the landing spots on the bear cub way there was expected the loss of 47 parking spots to two businesses Edwards was closer to the smart station as I spoke to you before public perception in the comments in the in the ISM ND the study was that the bear cub way was far too it was too far for pedestrians especially but most bicyclists from the smart station the Elliot Edwards perception was perceived by the public to be much closer to public amenities such as Coddingtown shopping restaurants um they also perceived it to be more active pedestrian area um so they thought it would get more use and the JC preferred area preferred Edwards uh San Rosa Junior cars preferred Edwards Elliot location over the bear cub location because of the housing the location of the new housing facility which now they've built um they also had um JC also had concerns at the time according to the report um of the landing of the bear cub way because it was right next to a childcare facility and it was a lot of traffic um in the report they um the owners of what were in 1975 Cleveland who are speaking about tonight and some of the residents on Edwards Avenue um did speak up and did make comments that they did not like they thought there would be additional traffic they didn't want the landing strip there they really wanted the bear cub way um and those comments were reviewed by the they were considered and reviewed by the PDT by this committee and in some cases or in a lot of cases they put avoidance and minimization efforts so sort of sort of kind of mitigate mitigation efforts into place in the in the actual project itself and the design of the project which I'll show you a few um as we go through the presentation to kind of address those concerns so the next um again as I said before the preferred location on Edwards and Elliot um provides direct connections between commercial areas on the west and Santa Rosa junior college and residential areas on the east direct connections to smart corridor long-existing bike and pedestrian friendly streets and that's just uh shows you a little bit about where it is on the north end of 101 so a little bit about the subject property itself um 1975 Cleveland Avenue it's improved with commercial least buildings and you'll know those as Dick's Sporting Goods and Patelco Credit Union um the total property size highlighted in blue on your PowerPoint is 3.56 acres or 155,000 square feet we are requesting to purchase a total of 709 square feet of that 155,000 it's a very small amount the temporary construction easement that we'll need for the contractor during construction is a little less than three 3,500 square feet which would just be used like I said during construction and then vacated and given back to the owners and I apologize this slide is a little bit blurry but we wanted to show you this because it kind of gives you a little bit of an idea this is uh where these kind of parking spaces are right here this is the side of the Dick's Sporting Goods least building the purple-ish pink colored right here is the TCE that we need the temporary construction easement the 3,500 square feet and then this very tiny turquoise area is the actual acquisition of property that the city would need now most of the landing strip and the whole overpass and bridge is going to be built within city right away my understanding from the engineers again I'm not an engineer and they are here tonight if we have more questions but my understanding from the design team and the engineers is that they tried very hard to keep this completely in city right away but because of regulations and the skew of the bridge coming over from the east side there's only a certain amount of skew that's allowed and this is the maximum amount of skew and so they did have to do a take of 709 square feet here is a picture of the subject property now that's the side of the Dick's Sporting Goods and that is looking east on Edwards Avenue and that's looking towards Patelco, Cleveland, US 101 that's what it looks like right now all that sidewalk strip is all city right away and that's where the majority of the bridge would be built this is a schematic of what what it would look like and the landing strip right there and then right along where the trees are is the tiny little strip the 709 square feet that the city would need to construct it this is the view along Edwards toward Cleveland so you can see what it would look like underneath the bridge there'd still be a walking path and a sidewalk and then this slide is important because it shows the measures a lot of the measures that Caltrans and the city have gone to in the design and the design consultant to try to meet the needs and safety and think about safety in this project of where the landing strip comes down here so originally right on this like if I can get this mouse going right here where it's kind of built up there were openings right here originally where bike or pedestrians could get through and go into the Dick's Sporting Goods parking lot that was requested to be changed so they they changed that they put in a larger landing area mode separators safety lighting new crosswalk here they have these shower rows they're called right here to show and new signage to show the bikes and the pedestrians where the mode of travel is so that they're not taking them into the private property they're taking them onto the roads or the or the public right away and so that was all done in keeping in mind and trying to think of the public or the private property owners so as far as the negotiations with the the hornsteens or their legal counsel there has been negotiations there have been phone calls site visits emails and at this time we've been unable to reach an agreement this is a little bit of the negotiation timeline back in august these are all legally what needs to be done and back in august we had we gave them a notice of decision to appraise to the property owner in september the property owner accompanied the original appraiser during the inspection in october there were some changes made from that inspection to the exhibits and the we got revised land areas in november we got the original appraiser appraisal an offer was made in december to the property owner from the city to the property owner and then in february the property owners council sent a counter offer they decided to get their own appraisal they sent a counter offer to the city based on their new appraisal obtained by the property owner it was far apart this this hearing isn't about that but the city has decided to obtain another appraisal of a non-biased form of opinion to look at that but at this point we are pretty far apart our legal counsel and their legal counsel are working through that we do want to make every attempt to try and negotiate this but because there is a timeline for construction on this we don't want this to hold up the project construction so we're coming staff is coming to you and asking you to consider this resolution of necessity so that if we cannot negotiate a resolution to this and an offer and a purchase that we can move forward with the actual action for eminent domain and that is the rest of the presentation from staff we have everyone here if you have any questions we're available thank you for that presentation are there any questions from council members council member alvarez i think it's a great project first and foremost is there any any ideas of like refeering mitigation maybe the application of paint to the sides of this beautiful structure so it's not tagged in the future anything of that nature we'll have to have lisa welch answer that question she's the project manager it's very beautiful and i wanted to stay like that thank you mayor and vice mayor and council at lisa welch supervising engineering capital projects so related to the it's there's an antechor of feedy paint that will go on it and apply to it there's um that's the solution this time very great to hear thank you are there any additional questions from council seeing none we will now open the public hearing madam city clerk may you please conduct the public hearing thank you we are now taking public comment on items 15.2 if you were in the council chamber and would like to provide public comment but have not provided a speaker card please make your way to the podium again you are not required to submit a speaker card if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you'll have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period see no one approached the podium for public comment in chamber i'm going to turn it over to our zoom host for zoom public comments thank you eris i have allowed your permissions you can go ahead whenever you're ready thank you um this is uh eris weaver with the sonoma candy bicycle coalition it has been decades getting this project built and it is so necessary for bicycles and pedestrians to be able to safely get across the freeway from the east to the west uh looking at the maps that were just shared the amount of right away that's being requested from the property is so small along the edge um that i urge the city to move forward with this i did see in the documents online a letter from the um uh owners attorneys uh in which multiple times said that this location was going to uh pose a hazard to cyclists and pedestrians which is a little disingen i can't pronounce the word um given that the bike coalition and other community organizations have been uh preferring this alignment and waiting for this project to get built because we think it will increase safety for for their attorneys to say in their letter that oh no it's going to cause more injuries um is is really ludicrous so i'm um very happy to see this project move forward and hope that you will pass this resolution thank you thank you eris there are no more hands raised in zoom air that concludes public comment thank you we will now close the public hearing and i will bring it back to council for final comments seeing no additional questions or comments from council council member rogers can you please make a motion happy to i will move a resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa adopting a resolution of necessity for the acquisition by eminent domain of temporary easement and fee simple interests and portions of real property commonly known as 1975 cleveland avenue and more uh particularly described as assessor parcel number 012-490-052 for the highway 101 bicycle and pedestrian over crossing project and wave for the reading of the text second we have a motion made by council member rogers and a second made by council member okrepki madam city clerk can you please take the vote thank you council member step hi council member rogers hi council member okrepki hi council member fleming hi council member alvarez hi vice mayor mcdonald hi mayor rogers hi let the record show this vote passes unanimously thank you very much moving on to i oh great work moving on to item 16 written communications we have none we will go to item 17 our last public comment on non-agenda matters madam city clerk thank you we are now taking public comment on item 17 non-agenda matters this is the second opportunity to provide public comment i am seeing no members of the public wishing to provide public comment in council chamber if you are participating via zoom now is the time to raise your hand by dialing star nine i am seeing no hands being raised via zoom seeing no additional items on the agenda we will now adjourn the meeting thank you