 Well, I would like to welcome the board members and members of the public and thank you all for joining us today. My name is Logan Pitt, the chair of the board of community services and present with us today we have Terry Griffin, vice chair Steve Spillman, Carolina Spence. Board member Carol quant. And I'm, am I missing anyone there. No, great. And we have Shelly McClure today and Jackie Haman as our host. They will be coordinating the comments and assisting during the meeting and taking notes for any follow up panelists and presenters please silence your cell phones and keep microphones muted, if not speaking. Members of the public joining this meeting will have webcams off and microphones muted. If you're phoning into join the meeting and you choose to speak during the public comment portioning and agenda for privacy concerns the host will rename you to caller, and only show the last four digits of your phone number, but you're welcome to introduce yourself. Additionally, the city of Santa Rosa is committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment free from disruption will not tolerate hateful speech or actions. Everyone is expected to participate respectfully or if necessary the meeting will end immediately. Please be nice to each other. Madam host will you please explain how public comments will be heard at today's meeting. Thank you chair pits at each agenda item the item will be presented, the chair will ask for board comments or questions, and then at the appropriate time, open the floor for public comments. Please call hands until the public comment items is open. Once the chair has called for public comment, the chair will ask the public to raise their hand if they wish to speak on the specific agenda item. Those joining by phone may dial star nine to raise their hand. The host will then call on those who have raised their hands public comment is limited to three minutes and a cursey timer will appear on the screen. Email public comments received by the deadline have been distributed to the board of community service members and uploaded to the agenda prior to the start of today's meeting emails received will not be read into the record. Thank you. Thank you, host. With that, I call this May 25, 2022 meeting of the board of community services to order at 408pm and pursuant to government code section 454953 E and the recommendation of the help officer. The board of community services will be participating in today's meeting be a zoom. Board members and staff are participating from our remote locations and practicing appropriate social distancing and members of the public may view and listen to the meeting, as noted on the city's website and on the agenda. Host may we have a roll call please. Yes, please respond when I call your name chair pits. Yes. Vice chairs Philman. Here. Board Member Griffin. Here. Board Member. Board Member Cruz. Board Member Spence. Here. Board Member, but she alone. Yeah, but she alone. Again, board member spent or board member quant. Are you present. And hear me. I'm here. Okay, great. Thank you. I cannot seem to get my video. Apologies. No problem. We have four members present with the exception of board member. Cruz and board board member brought to you alone. Okay. I believe that'd be five. Let the record reflect that five board members you're present with the exception of board members Cruz and vocal Leonie. That is correct. Thank you for the correction. All right, I would like to open the for now for a public comment on non agenda items. This is a time when any person may address the board on matters not listed on this agenda, but are within the subject matter of our board. Host, do we have any public comment items for item three. No. Great. Thank you. All right. Next up is item for the approval of our minutes. Are there any edits or corrections to the minutes way back from March 23rd, 2022. Terry, go ahead. Just a couple of minor corrections under roll call it lists the names of staff but it doesn't list the names of the board members and I believe board member Cruz was the only person absent. At that meeting. And then under the nomination and election for vice chair, it says board member still man was nominated but I believe it should also say he was elected so nominated and elected unanimously. So this might only corrections. Okay, thank you for those Terry. Am I seeing any other hands up from anyone. No. We will accept those edits. As submitted, those seem to be minor edits, I think we can accept those, and we will move on to agenda item number five. That is the upcoming events and reports on accomplished events. Deputy director tippets. Yes, thank you chair pitts. Unfortunately, Jen Santa W director Jen Santos is out today so you guys are stuck with the B team tonight. But you receive should have received an email with the recent accomplishments and upcoming events, a few things I'll highlight and then see if you have any questions on any of the other ones. One is elder abuse month. So our senior centers will be participating and bringing attention to this. And we'll have flags up in our facilities I'm pretty sure their purple is the color for for elder abuse awareness so that will be taking place at our senior centers. Really excited to say that we have it's now up to his email that is 128 but I believe it's now up to over 130 teams registered for our built softball. They're exciting accomplishment of the rebuild of recreation program so last year when we brought it back for the first time I believe we had about 80 teams. And now we're back up to over 130 which usually we're in the 130 to 140 range for teams so exciting that programs are getting back up to full capacity again. Note June 10 is the fall 2022 sports field applications do as we know we have a lot of people who use our sports field so important everyone gets their information for fall usage for June 10. The fall season field usage begins August 1 2022 so again June 10 those applications will be due. The volunteer program continues to do strong. And we've got another park a month volunteer event coming up June 11 that Southwest Community Park so love to see people out there helping clean up the park and make Southwest Community Park with great we just had one at Howard Park and since we didn't have the last meeting we had a a park a month slash volunteer appreciation barbecue at Coffee Park. The month before so attendance continues well those and really get a lot of work done and make it a big difference in the park so thank you to everyone who has been participating in those. We hope to see out there June 11 at Southwest Community Park. And this one I'm going to read verbatim because I'm not super familiar with it so June 15 South what South Davis master plan update so the second virtual community meeting for the South Davis neighborhood park master plan update project is planned for Wednesday June 15 at 5 30pm survey results will be shared and three part concept plans will be presented. The presentation will be followed by community feedback so again we encourage everybody to come and participate in that to have their input get more information and have their input heard for the South Davis master plan park master plan. Also want to draw attention staff have been letting me know that merit award nominations are a little slower this year than they have been in the past so I wanted to highlight that July 10 is the deadline for submitting merit award nominations. I know a lot of great people out there doing amazing things here in Santa Rosa so please. Seek out the the nomination form for the merit awards and let staff and the merit awards committee know about the great things that we're doing so that we can honor those people for the work that they're doing so please get those nominations in. As far as some accomplished events, another celebration of program getting back up and running our work experience program which is the teen work experience of the summer has been down for a couple years due to covid we have over 200 teenagers registered again for this summer. Super exciting to have teenagers participating in a positive activity like that getting work experience. We're also super excited because that's such a great feeder into our hiring process and as everybody. Recreation is really struggling with recruitment and hiring of staff and we know that having 200 volunteers participate in that program again this summer is really going to be a big step in the right direction for us to get our staffing levels back up in the future so awesome to announce that. And then also want to let the board know that given still the chaos of bringing programs back and trying to plan budgets and covid and those types of things. Recreation has been trying to prioritize some of the areas where we haven't been able to spend all the funding because not all programs have come back so if you've driven by stealing Community Center you may have noticed that it is getting painted which is long overdue so that building is getting a nice coat of paint on the outside. We are working on also trying to get deterrent round barn included in that on this year. And then we also are working on with finance to hopefully get a project account set up so that we can use some of those savings in the budget this year to replace the chlorine generation system at Ridgeway pool, which the last two times we have had to get fixed. And that it's an outdated equipment there aren't replacement parts for it or getting lucky that they're able to keep it up and running. And based off projections the cost of chemicals now it's it's only about three years of us purchasing the chlorine that it would pay for itself so we're excited that we're able to use the most savings to get that equipment updated and replaced so that originally pool can stay open and functioning and safe for the public so. That is all I have unless there's any questions on any of those accomplishments or upcoming events. Thank you Jeff and you're definitely not the b team you're doing great. So thank you for stepping up for Jen. Can you also provide us with a director updates. Yes, so few thanks for the director updates. This is this is where the b team status for me will will come out a little bit more the Brown Act update I know that the board asked for this. Jen is certainly more familiar with the brown act that I am and can provide more information and answer questions if it doesn't cover any but I know that there was a question the board of why is the city asking you to notify the board secretary if you're attending events. And again it's you know the the the rule the Brown Act is written out where there cannot be a quorum that gathers and discusses topics. And so I know some of that question is like well if we're not going to if we're all going to agree that we're not going to discuss topics then why do we need to worry about not forming a quorum at these. And really writing the Brown Act is intended to protect the decision making process protects the public's, you know, confidence in how decisions are being made and so. While yes there is that caveat in the rule that it is gathering and discussing. Obviously the more that we have this board gathering, whether it's discussing you know at a community meeting for example the master park plan for south south Davis park. The perception could be there that this board is meeting as a quorum and they're having discussions. And that decisions are being made before it's in a public forum and before public comments are being heard so that's the reason that we tend to try to be a little bit more cautious with that and aware of that and make sure that we're. We're not just following the rule but we're also the intent of the rule of building that confidence in the public of knowing that the procedure is taking place the right way and they're not questioning how those decisions are being made so. If you have questions about that I could try to answer them but we'll probably defer any further conversation to when Jen is, Jen is back in. Again wanted to highlight the south Davis Park master plan update in there already mentioned but again that's Thursday March 20. I'm going to read again because I may miss some of the parts that that Jen put in this one so staff have embarked on grant funded project to replace the playground area south Davis Park and engage with the community. On what other amenities they might like to see at the park and what interest they may have for additional improvements at the park. The staff have conducted two community meetings thus far a virtual meeting was held on Thursday, March 24 with 13 attendees and an in person meeting was held up at the park on Saturday, April 9 with 24 attendees and online and paper survey was available from March 24 through April 22 and received 44 responses with 60% of respondents living in the southwest quadrant. The third community meeting for the south Davis neighborhood Park master plan update project will be virtual and is planned for Wednesday June 15 at 530pm survey results will be shared and three part concept plans will be presented. The presentation will be followed by community feedback Spanish interpretation will be provided the computer lab and the person senior wing at Finley Community Park. The community center will be open and available for community members to participate in the meeting who do not have computer or internet access at home. Online access is also available at the Roseland regional library and the central Santa Rosa library and online survey in English and Spanish will be available for three weeks following the meeting June 15 through July 6 project info can be found at the Reckon parks website for park projects. And then the last update, as many of you already know, staff would like to acknowledge stand go stand go, who was a longtime chair of the board of community services and participant with the board of community services. To be perfectly honest, I wish there was another staff member presenting while I did have the fortune of interacting with stand here and there. I know there are a lot of people over the years who who really built a close relationship with him. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to build as close to the relationship but I certainly interacted with them certainly know that stand is one of those community members who was really dedicated to public service and Santa Rosa community and the Santa Rosa staff were very fortunate that he was part of our community and that he made all the contributions that he did so we wanted to acknowledge stand with his recent passing and also announced as has been requested to be public to let people know that stands memorial service will be held on June 19 approximately 2pm and a male park. And so again I know we we may address this later on as many of the board members new stand very well. But on behalf of the city we wanted to acknowledge and honor stand for all the amazing work that he did here in Santa Rosa. And that is it for director updates. Thank you Jeff appreciate that for Stan. Do we have any questions from board members. Okay. So we will be moving on then to our scheduled items, and we're on item seven, which is our chair slash board member reports. So we only started doing this in March so I'll kick it off again just to sort of remind folks of the format I was hoping for. So we're just giving an update on what we've done as board members at the intersection of what we oversee of the board of community services so for me, that would be attending the Howard Park cleanup. A few weeks ago. One of our lower turnout still good, but we did have a special guest, the city manager did show up and did a great job raking leaves so we always appreciate any, any extra help, and it was good to talk with her for a while we also had design review board member mark staff with us. So that was great to see. And the other thing that I was hoping folks could do is try to go to a new park once a month, and then report back on which park you visited. So that's my challenge to everyone and I kind of went, I went a little crazy on that I went to five parks we've had two months. So I went to five new parks. I went to the park, Dane, Howard, I think that's how it's pronounced finale park went to South Davis Park, and I met with a planning commissioner commission member. And then today I had lunch at Colgan Creek Park. And there must be a GPS tracker on my car because two of those times, a maintenance staffer showed up right when I did and started cleaning the park so that was great timing good job staff. The parks looked great. So I wanted to let anyone else give an update and then I wanted to save the last update for Carol. If this is a good time Carol for you to speak more about stand out if you want to do that. So anyone else. I'll just call on folks you have no update to that's okay. Thanks to our vice chair Steve, any update this month. Any report Steve. I'm just continuing a couple of things one is working on a potential donation of land for city park is still confidential, and working with Councilman McDonald. I think she has a lot on her plate being the new kid on the block so to speak, kind of filling her in and we're discussing goals for the Board of Community Services for her district. Thank you for sharing your long experience and city government with with the new council member. Terry, any reports from this month. Yeah, I attended the coffee park volunteer appreciation event on April 9, which was wonderful. Great turnout staffed at a phenomenal job and encouraging local high school students to come and and get their community service credit. It was a fair number of high school students in attendance. I was really happy that we did this particular park in April because it was all about the weeds, and the ground was still forgiving enough to be easier to pull. But we made incredible headway on the weeds and coffee park so that was really fun event, which our city manager also attended as well and then I visited also south Davis park, which I had never been to even after working on so many years but it's just a little drool tucked away and that lost you, you lost me. Yeah, you're talking about David. Do we still have Terry. Can you hear me. Yeah, just go ahead, Terry. Okay. So, yeah, that's all I had to report. Thank you. Thank you. It is a lovely park Carolina. Do you have a report from this from these last two months. I, I should probably tell everybody that I've got a GPS on you, Logan, so I know where you are. So don't don't worry about a thing you're doing a really good job at going to see parks. I did take a spin over by Doyle Park, because I love that little part. And, you know, it is, it's looking much better. And, and I'm grateful for that I know that's a work in progress. And I can see that. And, but I'm keeping the hope alive on that one. And thank you again for the update and poke about the merit awards. I am chair of that committee and we are really, really encouraging people to send in awards it's a fabulous program and you're not going to you're going to hear from me a whole lot before it's over. Please think about submitting a nomination for someone, or if you need any information, please, please feel free to reach out. I'm very happy to help. We appreciate you taking the lead again on that Carolina thank you. Carol, do you have a report. First, I'd like to let everyone know that Stan is laughing at me right now, because I am having such challenges with my video of having just upgraded my operating system. And I don't know if I'm using as many four letter words as Stan would, but Stan and I are having a wonderful time trying to get my video to work. Do you see my still picture anybody. Yeah. Do you see, can you hear my voice. Yeah, we can hear you but we can't see you. Works for me. So um, Yeah, um, we'll start with Stan, because, because he is so present in my life. The thing at to Mayo Park is scheduled for two on Father's Day. It's a real neighborhood event. I have no idea how many people are going to be there. The video. The slideshow that's being put together, which goes back to Stan's childhood. Let's just say I got to cry already by seeing the pictures. So, Stan's going to stay with me for the rest of my time on this board and I hope he stays with a couple of other board members and some staff as he was larger than life, and he is skiing somewhere right now in heaven. So putting Stan aside for a second. I was at the coffee park with Terry I got to pull some weeds with our new city manager. I, I was at I don't know if it's part I was visiting a green space on the Santa Rosa creeped trail out in Lincoln Valley, which is coming up before the waterways committee tomorrow. I was at the green space this morning, and did my first stint as a docent at the rural cemetery for the sold out dark side tool, which was the night of Friday the 13th. We had a lot of murders and suicides and gunshots and above band, and it was a glorious night. Under an almost full moon. If these things interest you, there is another this is my promo for the rural cemetery. There's another night event coming up. It is lamp lights two nights, several spots still available in the middle of September. And also we are doing Memorial Day tours. Next Monday, we will have the flags up and be providing walking tours to anyone who comes by and there's no sign up required. Last but not least I also attended a couple of South Davis streets Park meetings, and we'll stay tuned on that. Thank you Carol, especially appreciate you letting us know about stands Memorial, very appropriate to be in a park, a beautiful park. All right. We are going to move on to agenda item eight. This is item 8.1 excuse me the measure update and public education outreach. Scott Alonzo and deputy director Jeff Tibbets are here to review the public education outreach material and Garner feedback from us for the potential ballot measure for November 2022. Scott and Jeff, it's all yours. Good afternoon chair pits and good afternoon board members, and we have other city staff here as well. We have our fire chief Scott Westrup, our police chief john Kreegan and our community engagement director, my god it is. So all of us are here along with Mr toots. So we're going to present a short PowerPoint I know I think some of you already seen it so. I'd like to share with you information about the dedicated sales tax, known as measure oh, and Garner feedback from you as the city council potentially ways that for potential ballot measure this November. So we're here tonight talking about maintaining public safety services in Santa Rosa. So next slide please. So in background briefly on measure oh, it is a quarter cent sales tax that was approved by the voters in Santa Rosa in November of 2004. It received 70.2% of the vote in 29.8% of opposition so it passed needed a two thirds vote to approve because it's a dedicated measure, which has specific measures and funding buckets that we'll talk about the taxes approved for 20 years. And so that tax will expire in March 31 of 2025 measure oh provides dedicated funding for violence prevention programs and public safety. So there's a specific city ordinance that outlines what the expenditure plan is for this money to the city council put on the ballot back in the summer of 2004 and subsequently has updated the ordinance. I believe twice in terms of the expenditures. Next slide please. The expenditure plan has very specific uses and because it's a dedicated sales tax, the money has to go to these specific uses. So for instance, 40% of the money goes to Santa Rosa police department that's raised by this tax, and the police department can spend that money specifically on patrol traffic control gang enforcement school resource services and bicycle patrol. And subsequently the measure all the expenditure plan and measure discussed that police specific services can also be used in railroad square, Prince Greenway and downtown, in addition to police support services. So for instance civilian positions within the police department. So 30% of measure of money can for is for the Santa Rosa fire department. And the center is a fire department can hire firefighters and paramedics construct or relocate fire stations and purchased specialized equipment. And so we'll hear more from Chief Westrop about that in a few moments. And last but not least, 20% measure of funding goes to our violence prevention programs, including programs within the recreation division. And also from Jeff as well. And so that's part of our neighborhood services programs, but also in addition for violence prevention. That's their entire team so violence prevention program helps run multiple grants to nonprofit partners which is part of our choice grant program, which the community engagement director will discuss, and also goes to violence education prevention and social services so in addition there's also youth counseling mental health services, all part of that funding that violence prevention does. So next slide please. And now I just want to turn over to our police chief, john cregan who's here this afternoon and he'll go over the impacts of measure of funding for the police department. Thank you Scott and thank you chair pits for allowing us to come together and speak with you and your board members today. So for the police department measure is a critical part about our department been able to sustain our safety measures here in the city of Santa Rosa. We actually have 16 funded positions a full time employees with the measure oh, there are 11 sworn officer positions and five civilian positions and the officers are dedicated to a variety of positions, including some of the enhancements to our police department and the motorcycle officers which are focused on traffic safety and we've already seen five fatal collisions so far in 2022, which is disturbing to us and dozens of other serious injury collisions and these motor officers are dedicated to those investigations, and to provide some of the traffic enforcement to reduce more of those collisions from occurring. We also have our downtown enforcement team, and they work specifically in our downtown core but also spread out to address some of the homeless related issues and other areas of concern that we have city wide. We have five patrol officers and these patrol officers are assisting us with our response times, but also send assisting and large events such as we're coming up into wildfire season and Chief Westrop will tell us with a host of the dangers and we all know too well here in our community with the wildfire seasons but the police department's role in that is evacuations and we know how overwhelming that could be and it's very resource intensive those evacuations especially when evacuating entire east side to Santa Rosa some of these larger events. We have a lieutenant who runs our special events and our traffic division, and then we have filled evidence technicians with process crime scenes we have a community service officer, which responds to non suspect reports like with burglaries with no injury vehicle collisions and a host of these other things. This year with measure over looking about how we can expand and we're responding to some of the community feedback. We're also looking at new intern positions which are going to be focused on community engagement. And we're also looking at some equipment with, we're getting, we're focused on being transparent as our agency and hearing some of the concerns from our community. So we're adding a new axon fleet system which is a camera system on our patrol vehicle so it has forward facing camera side facing camera and a camera, and the rear passenger area of anyone being transported a police vehicle so those are going to be important for accountability and transparency to our community and for protection for our city and for the community members who come in contact or near any of our vehicles. We're very busy so right here talks about in the slide and 2020 which is the last year data for that. We saw over 200 and 3000 calls came in and out of our 911 dispatch center with 72,000 of those calls plus were emergency calls to our 911 center. And for us it's really important to be able to see that and we've seen unfortunately some of our calls for service creeping up. We measure what we call a priority one call and that's an emergency call for service, needing immediate assistance, and taking right now our average response time is peaked up over seven minutes to seven minutes and three seconds. So that's important to us to be able to put the resources there to get that call response time down and measure a place such a key part about that so I just want to to say that but also to say it's not just about the doom and gloom about some of these things. Measures assisting us with some of the community engagement with some of the equipment we need to better serve our community. We're looking at using measure on the future to do great community engagement areas like building a rosin substation and that's one of my top priorities right now to build a substation in rosin have bilingual and bicultural staff that be there to have a material there in Spanish. And that's something that we're looking for a building now and see if we can find something that fits within our budget. So those are some of the key like summary of what we're doing with measure oh, but what I can say at the end of the day it's a critical element of the Santa Rosa police department's budget, and we would feel significant impacts without measure oh continue into the future. Next slide please. And I'll turn it over to Chief Westrop. Thanks john and good afternoon, chair pits and members of the board Scott Westrop fire chief the city of Santa Rosa. And like john talked about measure was pivotal to the fire department and I'll explain a little bit as to what that means to us, but just some background the Santa Rosa fire department in calendar year 2021 ran 28,000 calls for service. We typically see a two to 3% increase our call volume on an annual basis. So we will most most likely breach 30,000 calls for service this calendar year, about 65% of our calls are emergency medical service related, you might hear me use the term essentially all of our apparatus have paramedics on board. We're trained to a minimum of EMT but we provide the higher level of services paramedics. And we do that with the staff of 148 personnel across three bureaus in operations which are the boots on the ground out providing this level of service to the community. So we have 123 operations on top of our call volume. We also complete about 30,000 hours of training per year completed 3200 fire inspections between operations and prevention and completed 13,000 we debate inspections last year. Measure O quite simply stated, it can be broken into three different buckets for the fire department, it's personnel facilities and equipment. So on the personnel side, we have 10.25 FTE or 10 10.25 bodies assigned to measure O. That's three captain paramedics so that's the frontline supervisors on our engines or trucks, three engineer paramedics which are the apparatus operators, three firefighter paramedics, which are they ride in the backseat and do a line share of the work. And then also all of our truck companies the big long ladder trucks that you see their paramedic equipped due to measure O as well so there's six additional paramedics, their pay is tied to measure O. The training captain which runs our recruit academies and the training facility on West College Avenue is measure O funded as is a quarter of our EMS battalion chief or emergency medical services battalion chief. As far as fire station goes measure O built station five on Newgate which unfortunately we lost in the Tubbs fire last station 10 in the Southwest where I'm at the station 11 and the junior college district so it built those three stations. And we still have money that is being generated and measure O right now to build fire stations the unfortunate situation we run into with building fire stations with measure O or any other funding stores is the construction costs of far outpaced with the revenue for measure produces so we look at a figure of $15 million so to build a fire station so it's uphasted but it does provide us the flexibility to be able to purchase property like we just did for the new station eight or to do some enhancements or improvements to our current facilities. And lastly is the equipment. We've purchased type one fire engines which are the fire engines see on a day to day basis responding to all hazard emergency events type three fire engines which are the wildland specific firefighting engines. Swift water equipment and training to increase us to a type two Swift water team, it's purchased command vehicles when we expanded our command vehicle fleet. Recently we use measure O to improve our communications infrastructure in that we're putting in dual banded mobile radios and all of our equipment so we can talk not only on our frequencies, but a law enforcement frequencies. So as John referenced we're doing large scale evacuations or we have incidents where we're in unified command we can be on the same frequencies and the communications break don't break down. So for that, we also have that's coming with that package is mobile repeaters. So we can use our vehicles as repeater sites so when we have a line of site tactical channel and use we can now repeat it so some of the communications failures that we saw in our radio infrastructure during the Tubbs fire is being repaired now via measure of funds. So it's really pillarless those are the three main things that run fire department is the people, the facilities and the equipment and so measure is is vital to us and just to put it on par and into equate it. It takes nine people for us to staff a fire station, three people on an engine company for three shifts as nine people. So if we were not able to fund those positions in another way it equates to the loss of an entire fire station worth of coverage in the city of Santa Rosa we have 10 fire stations that are strategically located throughout the city. So you can see that it would be a significant loss if we were not able to find another funding source for those positions if measure was not to be extended. Next slide please. And with that it will turn it over to director tails. Good afternoon everyone my name is director engagement. So I'm just going to give you share the stage here with Jeff Tibbets and we're going to start out with talking a little bit about the balance prevention partnership arm of this and so the balance prevention partnership is a collaborative effort of over 50 organizations, focused on strengthening using families and creating safe and resilient neighborhoods through various upstream approaches. Some of our partners include schools superintendents local healthcare providers, nonprofit organizations which address rental assistance childcare and much needed services and access to bilingual my cultural mental health providers. The idea that there are deep rooted issues under our social problems which include poverty, lack of access to resources and historical systemic racism. These deep issues have been at the forefront for the violence prevention partnership and our operational team who are boots on the ground folks these are community agencies that we partner with this morning we met to not only discuss with the themes and trends have been in our most vulnerable communities, as well as a great discussion of what the current pro social activities are that are available for youth this summer, through the violence prevention partnership policy meeting we create common understanding of the core challenges that our youth are experiencing today. One of the topics at the lead of the most part of the multiple conversations that we're having in the community is schools with schools and nonprofit partners are around. How do we compete with games from an upstream approach, which agencies and programs can we connect used to that combat the deep need for mentorship activities and belonging, which are some of the fundamentals that gain life or offering are used for parents we connect them with specific parenting programs which are culturally relevant and provide resources and services to assist parents who have children who are getting involved or getting interested. Much of our work is framed in the understanding and research that provides that our most vulnerable families have poor access to health and mental health services, and to some extent violence has been normalized and prevention services, overall, as a community. Well, there aren't enough. And, as many, many of you may be familiar with the youth truth survey, which was a collaboration between career technical education at school found that youth themselves are saying that they need social emotional support so the violence prevention partnership is able to work with our nonprofit partners through our wraparound service coordinator and our multiple agencies to connect referred youth to this much needed support. The prevention partnership in the last two years has been working coalition with our local partners to assist and provide our communities with with access to some of the most basic needs like diapers food gas cards mental health services. So we focus on the understanding of a trauma informed approach when working with community. So, to talk a little bit more about how we also do this in the recreation side, I'm going to turn it over to Jeff. Thank you my golly. So yeah so neighborhood services as a section within the recreation division and it focuses on operating the programs that are funded through metro. So we've done this presentation to different groups and as I continue to think about it and what's the messaging it's. I found myself stuck in this we're trying to tell the history of it while we're also trying to look towards the future and what measure will do in the future so I'm going to try something a little bit differently here and this presentation and hopefully it, it will go through those so one of the things I thought about is with with neighborhood services and measure of funding, telling you what the programming is really depends on when I'm having a conversation with you so for the first six to eight years. Measure programs through neighborhood services were very emphasized traditional after school programs. We were at eight elementary schools we were at two middle schools. We were at neighborhood based programs through Burbank housing sites. And so that was really the, the, there were other programs that we ran in the summer and different things but that was really the root of the programming. As you may or may not know, after school for the need for after school programs is something that politically has gained steam over the last couple of decades. There were more funding sources and with more funding sources means more providers. And so in that 2010 2011 2012 range. We started realizing that there were other funding sources that can meet that need there are other providers that do some of those services. And so neighborhoods, neighborhood services programming step more towards some of the extracurricular activities so junior warriors basketball program neighborhood services cheer neighborhood services dance flag football programs. And so we had a lot of guidelines to add services to the community, instead of competing for, you know, services that there are other providers to meet. At that same time, we, we expanded some of our community programming through that and family programs having, you know, family dances and the spring fest for families to get together and celebrate do egg hunts and face painting and, and those types of events. And obviously here recently we had another drastic shift where as you can imagine a lot of those programs I just mentioned sporting events community events. Summer programs became a challenge to offer and the need for the community change to schools were closed and so measure Oh was a huge funding source and a huge reason that we were able to offer our distance learning assistance program where we had over 100 kids Monday through Friday for the entire year from 730 to 5 o'clock at night. And again, not something that I would have ever presented as what measure was going to do but as the community need changed. It is a very dedicated funding source and that has to be used a certain way but it's very unique and it's flexibility to be after school program summer programs, a distance learning program if that's what it's needed. Family gathering events, all those different types of things so it really is something that I am very fortunate to stand here and talk about these things and represent an incredible group of talented and passionate and creative staff. And when they're back with a funding source like measure Oh, we have seen for close to 20 years now the creativity and the way that they're able to provide services for the kids. And in terms of looking at the future and support for for funding it is, I can't sit here and tell you what those programs are in 2024 2025 2026, but I can tell you is that the component of those programs are going to be focused on giving a safe place to be giving children positive adult role models. I'm going to talk about competing with gangs, one of the things to compete about with gangs is giving kids a place where they feel like they're welcome, giving them a place where they feel like they belong. Having things like teams, you know, sporting events with teams after school groups summer camps those types of things where these kids feel like they belong they're building their self esteem. Again, I don't know what the program model is next year, well alone 10 years from now 15 years from now but those are the those core focus that we're going to do to make sure that we're providing good prevention programs. And then the last piece of what we're going to be providing is, it's a very unique way with a safety net, not just to serve the kid that's in the program. But these kids follow through multiple programs are junior warriors, right it's multiple ages so you build relationships that kid, that leads to building relationships with the families, finding out what their siblings might be going through. And then as my golly talked about with the violence prevention partnership. A big piece of serving these kids is not that one person has the answer for everything it's that we are a community that needs to work together, and neighborhood services as a very unique opportunity to serve a lot of youth to build a lot of relationships and identify when a child needs services that go beyond what we're offering and so working with my golly and her team working with the choice grant agencies working with the violence prevention partnership to get those families that need additional services so we're catching them with that safety net early on and keeping them engaged and getting them the programs that they need. And so that's kind of where we are with neighborhood services and the focus of measure out and my golly I don't know if you had something to add on after that. Sure, I just, I just wanted to give a little bit more background. So back to the choice grantees, they are doing a phenomenal job, despite everything that's that's happened in our community I just wanted to share some of their successes so which we're seeing in our reports. So one of our, our funded programs is life works of Sonoma County we fund mental health program called a point there, and we found that 93% of participants that we serve through that granted program showed a reduction risk taking behavior like gang involvement, and substance abuse, and another example via the reach program, which is another one of our choice granted programs is actually housed at the juvenile hall and 99% of the youth who participated avoided incarceration, while enrolled in that program so I just wanted to make this two of the agencies that are helping, you know, as part of that coalition to really make a collective push to work with our youth and as Jeff said create that sense of belonging, because we are up against a number of challenges. So that is the end of my piece. Thank you for the next fight. Thank you, Magali Jeff and the chiefs for for that information and an overview. So when we talk about measure of funding in the expiration, you know, each year the city that that fluctuates depending on how much sales tax revenue the city of Santa Rosa receives, but currently it's approximately $10 million a year. So, if that funding were to go away, we could see layoffs potentially within our fire department and police department, as well as service cuts within our recreation division. And as I mentioned earlier the entire violence prevention program team is funded by measure oh, and as chief Western mentioned the necessary staffing requirements for a fire station. So we could see impacts there, in addition to emergency response times, and how, as chief Kreegan mentioned the priority one calls to respond to urgent medical needs or violent crimes all those could be impacted with potential cuts without measure oh. Next slide please. If measure over war to be renewed. We could see the reduction of the risk of wildfires by improving wildfire prevention preparedness early fire alert systems rapid response and evacuation planning. We could maintain our fire protection services and prevent the closure of any stations. We could maintain our rapid 911 response, provide resources for youth and their families, such as those violence prevention efforts, and along with those choice grants to local community based organizations. And we can lastly prevent any reductions with measure oh funding in the number of on duty firefighters paramedics and police officers. Next slide please. So the current measure of sales tax there is an accompanied citizens oversight committee. Some of you may be familiar with that. And each year, they actually publish a really informative report to the community. And actually, I have a copy of it right here. You can read it on our website it's a lot of information there. It reviews all the funding that goes in that the taxes that come into the city, what it's spent on. There's with that mandatory financial audits. And so back in December that report was published for for the community, and the oversight committee, we presented to them back in April, and they traditionally meet every quarter of the year. All the money raised by this sales tax would be controlled locally and restricted for those uses only related to public safety or balance prevention. No money could be taken away by Sacramento or the verdict for other purposes. No money could be used for any sort of city administrator salaries and essential purchases like groceries and prescription management would be exempt from the quarter sent sales tax. So it's not an undue burden on those unlimited incomes or fixed incomes. And last slide please. I'm going to present this information to you because the city council is going to consider on July 12, whether or not to put a new ballot measure for this general election in November of 2022. So the city council is going to be considering a number of factors, such as does the tax go on this year, though the allocations change, right so right now it's 40% to police 40% to fire 20% to violence prevention partnership. And then that would be under consideration is how long with the tax potentially be for right now measure O is a 20 year tax, but certainly the council have that discretion when they consider it in July so part of our community outreach efforts is to hear from community stakeholders and neighbors and local businesses about currently what measure, what measure O is doing and potentially what we could see in the future for measure O. So we would like to take this opportunity to answer any questions and really hear feedback from you and the public who are attending tonight, and we are going to present that information to the council, like I said in a public meeting on July 12. So with that that's the end of our formal presentation and we're happy to dive in. Thank you, Scott, and I'll make sure to actually introduce everyone correctly so that was Scott Alonzo our new intergovernmental relations legislative officer so thank you Scott for leading that. We also had our fire chief Scott Westro our interim police chief John Cregan and the golly Teyes from the director of the Office of Community Engagement and of course our own Jeff Tibbets deputy director of recreation so thank you everyone for that. So we're going to go to questions from the board and also just want to point out that board member Guido Boca Leone is present Guido thanks for for being here. So we're just going to do questions right now board members will do our own comments after public comment. So if there's any technical questions for the presenters. Please raise your hand board members looks like Carol has a question. Go ahead Carol. Can I get my video up. Can someone from staff tell us what the current add on taxes are from the city of Santa Rosa their percentages and what they expire, and what they add up to. Thank you city and county as a whole. I saw we're at 9.5 currently, I can be corrected. It looks like we're about midway for cities in the state of California with a low of close to eight with a high of well over 10. So what are those add ons what are the when do they expire. Just to get a feel really for where this is in the bigger Santa Rosa city tax picture. Thank you. Yes, board member we we don't I don't have that information on my fingertips but we're happy to follow with our finance team and get that to you and we can follow up with staff to ensure that the full board has that information. I believe Santa Rosa has at least one general sales tax measure that was approved by the voters I believe in 2020, but I don't recall what the expiration date would be on that so but we can we can follow up. If you have a question if you would indulge me. I know that this tax essentially fully funds the special recreation programs which are targeted to at risk youth. Approximately what percentage of the police and fire departments are funded by by this. So what is the current supplemental funding and from your presentations it seems very important, hardly supplemental at all. Chief cregan do you want to go first on that. Absolutely so for us at get so far 2223 upcoming fiscal year we have $4.2 million so it funds the 16 funded positions out of 249 full time employee budget positions that we have. So percentage in front of me that it has but it's the 4.2 million per 16 funded positions and then really a focus is going to be on some of the enhancements we're getting for some of the equipment whether it be the fleet system that we have whether it be the rose and substation, whether it be some of the other like costs that are things that are kind of one time monies that are enhancement to our department and helps us provide a better service to our community. Thank you john chief West Grove. Do you have a. So for the fire department in the current fiscal year that we're in right now our general fund budget was 45 million, and our measure allotment was just over 3 million so I'm doing the math right it's about 15%, but again we have a staff of 148 and it pays for 10 positions out of the 148. Thank you. Director chaos, do you have an estimate in your department. What measure of covers. Well, I do want to highlight that of the 20% we get 35% of that funding also goes to fund the choice grantees. And then the rest of that we split between recreation and really just essentially the salary for our. Our community outreach specialist, and I don't have. I may have cleaned my desk so I don't have that exactly the exact numbers to I don't know Jeff if you have any of that information, but I will I can make sure to get it over to you because I want to give you exact numbers. Thank you you read my mind Jeff, do you know the percentage in your department. Yeah, I do not. I'd have to to look that up because it is. It's broken into a section of recreation and obviously operates a little bit separately so there is. So part of measure M is a measure out excuse me has the baseline requirement so there is a baseline of general fund that existed. There are two to the measure so there are some. Some contributions to the the those programs that is general fund, but the majority of the programming that is designated as the violence prevention programming getting prevention programming. It's definitely the vast majority of it is is I would guess it's about 80% measure but I can get the exact numbers on that. Thank you. Another question Carol. Okay, those generalities are good enough for me do not go digging on my account you guys have more important things to do. Thank you. Thanks Carol, any other board members with questions for our presenters, not seeing anyone else so all I have a few. John, I'm curious, do you is the in response program that comes out of the police budget is does measure contribute to that at all. It's currently contributing but I think what measure especially going forward is going to help in response be sustainable. So right now the first for the first 10 hour model so it's 10 hours a day for seven days a week was funded $1.1 million out of the general fund from the city. We now have a little bit of bank of some money from the American Rescue Plan Act and from a federal earmark that we have. And that's going to fund the team for about the next two years right around the time that measure row expires. So really will be important to the sustainability for this team for the future, especially as we get to a full 24 seven response model. So, would the current language allow you to spend funds on in response if the sales taxes renewed with the exact same language. It not with the exact same like because right now it's saying for police patrol services police traffic control gang enforcement school resource officers bicycle patrol downtown Redwood Square Prince Memorial Greenway police support services. So I don't I don't believe that in response would meet the definition of this and we may get some like maybe a legal opinion from our city attorney on that but it wouldn't be a straightforward. But what I do believe strongly is that by allowing this $4.2 million that like supply some of these core services and some of the hands of the police department, it allows the city to have the budgetary options to be able to continue an important program like in response and so important to me and Chief Wester open so many others that help led the creation of that team to make sure it's sustainable for the future and that in response is here for decades to come. Okay, thanks. Another question for you. It since it funds downtown operations. It seems like we've had more people downtown in the past few years as we've seen the new courthouse square which is great. It's a parks property. So we love seeing people there. Have you seen the cost for that part of your department rise or or even the needs, maybe not the costs, but the needs. We certainly have seen the needs and we get lots of calls from our downtown business owners about wanting more of a presence but now we have like just today the Wednesday night market kicking back off and so we have our dedicated downtown enforcement officers. They're there at no charge to the downtown merchants or to the Wednesday night market or downtown enforcement officers are putting more of an increased presence to make sure that for the protection of our community members there at that large event but also for calls that spill into our local businesses but we certainly are seeing the impact but honestly it's spreading citywide and as we see not just some of the criminal behavior but then we see now in the joining area of downtown along the Prince Memorial Greenway and in some of the other areas that go out there. We certainly send an increased calls for service in those areas. Okay, thank you. One other question and then I'll get to you Terry. Chief Westrop, you brought up the inflation issues. Maybe this is too wonky, but is that going to make it hard to estimate what you'll be able to purchase sounds like your equipment costs have gone up pretty fast. Yeah, the equipment costs certainly have gone up. We put a two to 3% you know the essential CPI escalator on all of our equipment. And what we saw this year we just bought two type one of fire engines we released. And so we were able to get in before we were notified that there was going to be an inflationary increase to that equipment so we're able to get in contract before then so we've just after after escalator to try to estimate it it's just like anything else you know we can't know what fuel prices are going to be or what you know vehicles are going to be much less capital, you know fleet so we have just recently deployed, and it'll be in this fiscal year's budget. A capital fleet replacement program so hopefully that everything that we have now will have the funding going forward to replace based on this system that we put in place for the first time ever. We can control the cost there and then as we look at specialized equipment will know you know that's the thing with measure out. It's specialized equipment so we'll we'll know at the time what the costs are going to be before we get into contract on it to make sure that we have the funds available to measure out to purchase those things so. You know the supply chain stuff and inflation stuff and it's, you know, it obviously is it's on scale so whatever you're purchasing at home, and we got to buy it bigger. It raises the price more so we're doing the best we can it that it's just it's just hard to budget right now and on the equipment side of things. Okay, thank you Scott. That's it for me Terry. Do you have any questions. Hi, quick question so. What if the ballot if the major were to go to the ballot this year or 24 whenever. Is there anything that would preclude the city from changing it such that the services that could be provided or targeted with the funding could be just as Chief Kreegan mentioned on the in reach support services so in other words could the could the measure be updated and worded in such a way that those services could be covered or any other services that the city deemed appropriate. Maybe Scott. Yeah, go ahead Scott. Mr. Chair prints Thank you. Yes, board member Griffin, the all options are on the table for the council. So they will deliberate in July that the staff recommendation will be a renewal of what currently is in measure oh but certainly that's just a baseline starting point. So they'll be I would imagine a robust discussion over some of those questions I had mentioned earlier about what would the allocations be with the tax increase right right now it's a quarter cent sales tax. The council can certainly can certainly consider all of those options in July and so that's why it's so important we hear from from folks like you all and other committee members about what they would like to see for the future of measure oh And one other quick question if I may chair and has the city done any polling on the renewal of major oh at this point. Thank you for that we have done. In addition to a public opinion survey we did our first one last fall and as part of that effort. We've also sent out some direct mail pieces to voters in their mailboxes. We are going to conduct a second poll right after the June 7 election, in addition to a few other mail pieces. And in addition to all that. And it with these community presentations we're also hosting with city council members, some virtual and in person town hall meetings in June. So folks can attend either in person or by zoom to weigh in on that so we're trying to get as much feedback as possible. But yes we have done some polling and we'll do another round as a follow up in early June. Thank you. On that will the polling be part of the public record in the presentation to the city council. We have a consultant outside consulting team for this public education initiative and so they will present with staff on July 12. So that information will be part I'm not sure how much of it, in terms of the, the finished product will, we're still working on that but yes that the results will be discussed for the council's consideration. Great. Thank you. Another question from Carol, go ahead Carol. Um, so I have both of the 1117 education pieces that's what they're being, they're being called the pieces that were sent out on measure. Oh, I take it those were not funded with measure own money those were funded out of some other department. I also did the survey that popped up in my computer today. And so I also attended one of the first public meetings at Santa Rosa High School. It was very interesting. How is the public engagement going or is it too early to really tell. Do you a board member for that yes we did see you at the meeting back in April and we did we're doing more robust outreach for those town halls in June. So we're we're excited about that actually our town hall on June 1 will be completely in Spanish in Roseland with Vice Mayor Alvarez, and then we're going to conduct other town halls throughout the remainder of that month. And get that all that information and we can provide the staff to send the full board on the city's website and it's srcity.org backslash measure oh, and so that has information about the town hall meetings that we're going to do in June as well as as you mentioned that online community survey that we also have in English and Spanish so we're encouraging folks to fill that survey out. But to your first question, none of the measure oh monies were spent on the public education initiative. That's from a separate allotment that the city council approved back in March of this year for a contract with our outside consultant. Okay, thank you for enduring our intense round of questioning. Do we have any last questions from any board members. All right. Well, we are going to now check and see if we have any public comments, host, do we have any public comments on item 8.1. No, there are no hands raised at this time. Great. So, now that we've gotten through those, we're going to go back to the board for discussion. So this is the commentary point if you want to, you know, offer a comment or suggestion. As Scott said they're looking for our feedback on on how to make this better. So, I'll open that up to the board. Any comments. Terry go ahead please. Well, I just want to thank everyone for the presentation. And for really giving us the detail about how major oh has impacted each of your departments. I know it's important and you've done this already with us but I'm going forward with the public to really tell stories about the impact major oh has had on the lives of Santa Rosas and it's great to have the data, but the individual stories that we have here it's from choice grant partners and people that have participated in those programs or after school programs or new equipment in the police department and how that's impacted the operation of that department and providing public safety I think it's important to tell those individual stories we had a young man come to this board, a couple of months ago that had been through the after school programs that offered by major oh and his story was so compelling it was very inspirational so to the extent that we can do more of that, that would be great. So, thank you so much for the presentation. Thanks Terry. Any other comments from board members. I'll offer some comments. I'll, I'll just echo what Terry said I think that's a really great point Terry that sometimes we can get lost in data and PowerPoints and I think it's really good to tie that to real life experiences. Like we heard like Terry referenced from a young man whose life had been changed. I was on the measure board for almost four years so I'm pretty familiar with a lot of those stories. But I think that they need to be told more. So yeah definitely want to underline Terry's point there. So, to Chief Craig and I hope that in response is added to measure oh, I'm not the police department budget expert but I think from a political perspective from a public relations perspective that's probably a very popular program. And, you know, maybe not everyone knows about it yet so let's get more people to know about the good work and in response. And if you can, if you can get that name recognition up and get it actually into the ballot description. I see that as a positive all around. And I understand we're saying how it how it gives you a little more flexibility with the rest of the budget, but I would just say it me personally as a voter I'd love to see that program have a dedicated funding source for whatever time period, the sales tax is renewed for. I also appreciated Magali, some of those statistics from the violence prevention program. I don't remember it being that detailed when I was on the board that was a while ago this was almost six years ago now but I really appreciate that detail about. Again, let's tie that to a real life experience but those statistics were pretty powerful so I really encourage you to compile those and to get a face to them. And then my one piece of constructive criticism is on the PowerPoint. I think that saying that it's not an undue burden on low income folks is definitely debatable. There's a lot of research that shows sales taxes are disproportionately paid by low income folks it's a greater share of their income and then higher earners. So maybe I'm just quibbling over the word undo. But I think there's, there's no reason I mean I guess you're anticipating a criticism of a sales tax. But I think that's getting a little wonky I don't know that most people are going to debate tax policy. So I would just disagree with that description of it. I know politically that's the easiest way to raise revenue and in California we have a very convoluted system for doing that. So you're doing what is probably most likely to pass I get that. Yeah, those would be my comments I really appreciate all the presenters. Oh Carol yes please go ahead with some comments. I'm going to hold off for a second because Carolina's been waiting for him. Oh I'm sorry Carolina I missed your wave. Yeah, go ahead. I want to emphasize what you just last said. It's very hard to to pass attacks, you know people look at it as attacks. These have been hard times, and people are going to go right to that. I would like I think the PowerPoint is really good. I would like to suggest that you go to every service group. There's one prof you can go to to get on their board agenda and show that be sure to show that whole scenario and have a couple of people and preferably one with the story, like Terry said, because there's you know over 400 nonprofits. You got a chance to meet people who vote. I would strongly suggest that you do that, because everybody, the minute they hear that what I have heard is their concerns, their concern is, they hear the word tanks. I would like to strongly join in on being sure to have a story and and absolutely use your PowerPoint which is very effective and very clear and even leave them a copy of it you know so they can use it themselves. Thank you Carolina. Sure. Carol, go ahead. So I look forward to going to another one of the live interactions. I think that is really the best place where the human beings who are doing the presenting have the opportunity to tell the stories and make it more about people than just about the tax because everybody's going to be calculating what this is going to take away from them under tough times. The other thing plain and simple. We've had it for 20, you want it more. This isn't a tax measure. This is a tax increase. It's not going away. And if I look at it like that, put those dots together, everybody else's tube so the real question is, is our tax base, and I'm also not a long is our tax base ever going to catch up with our needs for we're going to run it a deficit forever. And then we have to have these various various supplements. We've got one on parks county wide. This one is for fire and police. This is reality. Is this just where we are from here on out that there are going to be these additional taxes put on to make up for the difference in what we do not have inner city Congress. Thanks Carol. That's, that's a tough, that's a tough debate, because since prop 13 past we've seen local government scramble to find new ways to fund themselves and you really you can draw a direct line from that to a lot of these issues. It sometimes took decades for them to shake out but yeah, it's definitely a good debate to have how do we tax ourselves. And it's maybe the oldest debate in government. So, I appreciate those thoughts. Did any of the presenters want to comment on any of that or answer any questions. You did a great job. So no, don't feel the need to do that. Thanks, chair, it's just real quickly to some of the comments if what I think what we'll do next steps is, I'll email the staff to share the town hall information for June, or June town halls, and then in response that if folks have suggestions on groups or neighbors or neighborhood they would like us to come out to please let us know we're open to we've presented I think this is our sixth public meeting we presented to we actually have another one tonight at six. And a few more starting in June so we're trying to ramp up and talk to as many people as possible in person or virtually so we're very open to those suggestions and happy to meet people where they're at so in English or Spanish so All right, thank you Scott yeah I really appreciate the Spanish language town hall and more the more the merrier when it comes to public outreach so good job on that sounds like you got a lot of work ahead of you. So thank you for coming and presenting this to the board of community services. And with that, thank you to everyone tall the presenters you did a good job. We hope to see you again. So, with that, we will move on. So the next agenda item which is committee reports item 9.1. That would be an update from the mayor's lunch that's a quick one because it got canceled. They were in the middle of their budget workshops so the mayor was busy with that. Carol, you hit that a little bit but do you have an update from the waterways committee. We did not have a meeting last month. I can tell you that the city staffer has moved forward with an agenda item that we weighed in on which was the replacement fencing. So that's the real bring away for the Hyatt hotel and my sense of the waterways board was to move it further away from the creek and it to get further back. So that's the good news. Also, there was a ribbon cutting for a stretch of the Colvin Creek reach which I will describe as behind. Southern Avenue and east of LC Allen high school. So would you say that's for you there a little bit. No, but I know what you're talking about I think you got the geography right. So, well attended, well planted lots of natives. City staff and one of those a long term investment from a lot of agencies throughout Sonoma County that has replanted essentially a culvert a drainage ditch into what is going to be a wildlife accessory that serves a very important purpose in potential flood control if we ever have rain again. So that was last week. And tomorrow we are meeting on another project which has to do with another commercial building going up along Santa Rosa Creek and land very close to the creek is being built on. So we get to weigh in on that. Thank you for that update yeah the Colvin Creek projects very important for that neighborhood. I'll embarrass him slightly so the mayor in these strange times that was his first ribbon cutting, even though he's been the mayor for about a year and a half, and he was so eager to do it he actually broke the scissors. So, he's going to go fix them in the wood shop. But he was out there for that it's a great project. So thanks for that update Carol. Okay. Back to deputy director tidbits for agenda item 10. Do we have any written or electronic communications Jeff. So you were provided the Zest newsletter which is the senior senior newsletter that goes out to our senior members for the March April May 2022 newsletter. And I'm seeing nothing else. Great. Thank you. On to agenda item 11. This is our future agenda items. Does anyone have a desire to see anything on a future agenda. Anything you want to explore further or ask questions about Carol go ahead please. I think this may be taken care of at the next zoom meeting for South Davis Park but to get some survey results from the community outreach survey that took place on South Davis, and also the Fremont Park master plan I think that extended survey has also closed some information on the status of that project and specifically the survey and whether the staff has the information it needs to move forward. Great. Thank you for that. Good suggestions. Anyone else with any future agenda items. One, Jeff that I was hoping to see would be an update on the city's diversity equity and inclusion initiative. Maybe I think I brought that up at a past meeting that I think all the boards are getting that briefing and we got it at the charter review is the first board or commission to get that so I'd like to get that to be a CS. In the next few months so we can learn what the city's doing there. And all about that great program. That was it for my future agenda items. Any other thoughts from any other board members about future items. I'm sure I'm not missing any waving hands here. No, okay. Great. All right, well with that we are going to adjourn this meeting and I just want to. The next meeting of the Board of Community Services will be Wednesday, June 22 at 4pm and I also wanted to adjourn this meeting in memory of our former chair Stan Gal. Stan, his wit and wisdom will stay with us. He had a big impact on this board and on the city. And thank you Carol again for sharing your thoughts and the information on his memorial at the Mayo Park on Father's Day at 2pm, I believe you said, correct me if I'm wrong there. So with that, I would like to adjourn this meeting in memory of Stan Gal. And with that, I adjourn the meeting at 530pm. Thank you everyone.