 bienvenidos todos a las tres de la tarde en el marzo número cinco por favor le puede llamar al llamada. Gracias, nos presenté a Ryers, de member McDonough, Spani, member of Coastal Address Hill, y Mr. Ryers está al centro esta tarde. Excelente, esta conferencia es para los negociareros, por favor, podría comentar en este término o este tema. Muchas gracias, tomaré los comentarios de tres punto uno, comentarios. Voy a hacerlo a Mr. Dwayne en el podio. Qué tal soy el señor Dwayne desde Roseland y estoy en una recesión de los empleadores. Espero que le den un carédito a todos los trabajadores que trabajan en los parques y el transporte público y quisieras hacer un reconocimiento a los trabajadores que trabajan en el campo, especialmente con estas tormentas. Es muy importante que nos traemos solamente en guardar dinero o salvar dinero, con todo ese trabajo duro. Nosotros de verdad queremos que podamos negociar con ellos en buena fe y ellos pueden recibir un buen ingreso o un buen incremento en el salario. He visto que la gerencia ha traído grandes cantidades de dinero y parece que esta gente esta considera gente de segunda clase. Esto no está bien hacerlo. Además estos trabajadores trabajan duro para mantener todo en orden a pesar de las tormentas que nosotros tenemos. Básicamente la gente que maneja todo esto deberían de tener sus beneficios y un incremento en el pago. Gracias a todos. Hasta luego. Parece que nadie se está acercando al podio. Ok, vamos a tener un receso y cerrar la sesión. Gracias por su paciencia. Muy bienvenidos a nuestra junta de hoy. Le puede desear. Podemos empezar y pasar lista. Gracias por el estado. El vasí, el vicepresidente del estado, el miembro Rogers, el miembro Kaki, miembro McDonald, miembro Fleming, miembro Alvarez, miembro de Estado. Todos están presentes. Esa escesión del señor Rogers y vicecánsel Rogers. Gracias. No tenemos la sesión de estudio. Vamos a empezar con el abogado. Gracias. Tuvimos una sesión cerrada en la sesión 3.1. Entonces no hay ningún reporte, ninguna sección de reportes reportadas. Nos pondría que dar un comentario, por favor, porque no hay ninguna sesión. No tenemos por qué tomar comentarios. Vamos a empezar con las presentaciones del 7.1 con el miembro Alvarez. Gracias. Este es un llamado para la Cruz Roja. Nosotros hemos reconocido la compasión de la gente de Santa Rosa cuando tenemos una crisis. Nuestro espíritu general era por Clara Bender que en esta fundadora estamos haciendo acciones para seguir aquellos que sufren y viven de los individuos que nos apoyan en el norte de Califiana. Que nos dan ayuda para todos los vecinos que lo necesiten. Ahora la gente está salvando nuestras vidas y hace una gran diferencia. Mucha gente está donando sangre para los enfermos y además gente que cuida a nosotros para la gente que está haciendo servicio. Tienen servicios y habilidades como el CPR. Los demás están separados como con una asistencia global. Este mes estamos celebrando el mes de la Cruz Roja donde nos están haciendo más fuertes en la comunidad. Además, el mayor roger para las leyes de Santa Rosa y California. En marzo 9-9 en marzo 20-24 el mes de la Cruz Roja. Y estamos llamando a la gente de Santa Rosa para que nos apoye con esta gran labor. Este marzo 20-24 en la ciudad de Santa Rosa en California. Gracias. Van a llamar para los comentarios públicos acerca de la Cruz Roja. Y yo quisiera proveer. Hay gente que quiere hacer un comentario y tiene dos minutos para hacer comentario. Gracias. Ahora quiero acercarme al podio para hacer unos comentarios. Bueno, él es el que va a recibir la proclamación de los comentarios del público. Parece que tenemos alguna persona. Señor Álvarez, le gustaría hablar acerca de nuestra yenda y el caso 7.0. La Cruz Roja tiene una historia tremenda desde antes en la presidencia de Austria. Y antes de eso lo vimos en los en los en Jerusalén, en los caminos a Malta. Tienen una tremenda historia de exactamente eso, la hospitalidad. Y el bien Austria, el bienestar de la princesia de Austria. Esta princesa creó un grupo de enfermeras para conectar. John Art. Pero cuando sea han han sido han sido increíbles cuando se acerca una emergencia a los Estados Unidos. Buenas tardes. Mi nombre es Judith Moore. Soy un residente de Santa Rosa. Y me gustaría sugerir que agregan la la la resolución para la Cruz Roja. Es muy importante la Cruz Roja en ciertas situaciones como el medioeste. Seguro que será apropiado en mi opinión. Al agregar todo este esfuerzo de la Cruz Roja. Alguien más quiere hacer un comentario acerca de el acto 7.1. Grandes gracias. Ahorita quiero invitar a los recipientes al ponio y después nos vamos a tomar una foto juntos. Buenas tardes cancel. Muchas gracias por la oportunidad. Soy yo soy Leslie. Soy un profesor Leslie. Y quiero reconocer la la la la Cruz la Cruz Roja Internacional. Alrededor del mundo. Esta primera proclamación se dio el primero de mayo hace muchos años. Y desde ahora decidieron que la ciudad de Santa Rosa. Nos vamos a celebrar al mes de la Cruz Roja en marzo. Siempre han estado pendientes acerca de los fuegos y los desastres en el país. Tenemos miles de voluntarios de Sonoma County. Y el norte de California. Con todo esta junta que estuvo camin trabajando muy fuerte con estos fuegos. Y la gente de los bomberos siempre llaman a la red a la Cruz Roja para ayudar. Definitivamente colectamos sangre. La Cruz Roja es el primer proveedor de sangre en diferentes en diferentes hospitales y áreas. Haciendo transfusiones. Y si usted gusta trans puede venir en la Cruz Roja punto org. Usted puede donar sangre o. Agradecemos mucho la asistencia de la gente de Santa Rosa. Ahora le voy a encontrar. Les voy a presentar a Chris. Que es miembro de nuestro consultor en Solano. Y Santa Rosa County. Ahora me gustaría agregar. Algunos comentarios acerca de la Cruz Roja. Que además supervisamos a las fuerzas para los Estados Unidos. Eso somos 24 7 del año. Los miembros de servicio y en estaciones en todo el mundo. Otra cosa que quiero mencionar. Es que con la Cruz Roja o la gente de la Cruz Roja. En las en las noticias. O en los desastres con un chaleco. Ese voluntario de la Cruz Roja. No tiene paga. 90 por ciento de los voluntarios no tienen paga. Son solo voluntarios. Me gustaría. Enfacizar eso. Y muchas gracias por la confirmación. Annie y Steve muchas gracias por venir hoy. Por favor vengan al frente por algunos otros miembros de la Cruz Roja. Ahora vamos al 7 7.2 otra proclamación. Podéis llamar aquí. Gracias. Esto es por Aburwick. Por la semana de árbol. Especialmente en este tiempo donde podemos plantar. Árboles. En los cuales tenemos un millón de árboles. Desde 1900. No. Parece que nosotros tenemos el el cumpleaños de Luther. Básicamente estamos teniendo el. El plantar árboles. Donde proté protecten los árboles. Culin o frío y aire. Caliente. Además esto puede aportar a nuestras ciudades. Nuestra comunidad. Para las negocios. Y también. Y queremos preservación y dedicación. A. Los bosques de Santa Rosa o las áreas verdes de Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa ha sido reconocido como. Una ciudad de árboles. Y ha sido reconocido por más de 40 años. Y nos nuestros árboles son terríficos son. Me encanta eso. Entonces aquí en el en la ciudad de Santa Rosa. Y. Nos han dicho. Muy bien. Muchas gracias. Vamos a tomar. Si alguien tiene un comentario por favor acerque. Tiene dos minutos para comentar. Por favor diga nuestro nombre y adelante. Mi nombre es. Mi nombre es. Mi nombre es. Dos años yo mencioné que plantar árboles. Es muy importante para nuestra comunidad. Así como tenemos más empleados. Empleados en los parques y recreaciones. Básicamente tenemos que hacer más. Tan pronto sea posible para tener más árboles. Y con estos árboles. Que nos ha tirado las tormentas. Es muy difícil. Replazar estos árboles tan grandes que han tenido años y años. Creciendo. Me gustaría verlos aquí. Hablando por sí mismos. Y con los hablan con los empleados que están en la ciudad. Para que nos ayuden. Al mayor albares. Porque esto no es suficiente en el pasado. No. Haga más con la gente que estamos aquí. Para ayudarlos. Además necesitamos más estudiantes de Sonoma State. Así tenemos estudiantes que aplican para la ciudad. Y pueden ser más beneficiosos. Para cuidar nuestros árboles y los parques. Hace 140 años. Estaban todos queríamos. Y todo esto se logra con los árboles. Gracias por su tiempo hoy. Gracias. Vamos a seguir con la siguiente persona en el podium. Por favor diga a su miembro. A ver si estoy curiosa de cuántos árboles que no son de aquí. Han sido plantados recientemente. La ciudad ha sido hermosa. En Santa Rosa ha venido. Parece que por tres bloques. La ciudad ha sido hermosa. La ciudad ha sido hermosa. Dieron incótreas. Son horribles esos árboles. Dejan mucha basura. Usted podría hablar de lo que tenemos aquí. Y diga su problema. Lo que deberíamos de plantar. Los árboles que queremos plantar aquí deberían ser. Si me gustaría ver más árboles que crecieron. Y nacieron aquí en California. Gracias a Mr. Albers. Si me permite. Voy a hablar algunas cosas que vienen en el futuro. Y algunas cosas del pasado también. Acerca de lo que podemos hacer que es fantástico con Luther. Es increíble. Estudio recientes en Australia. Estudio recientes en Argentina. Estudio recientes en América. Sur África. Lo que están haciendo es que. Quitar árboles. Realmente tiene un problema con el agua. Del suelo. Deberíamos detener más árboles. Porque la sombra. Y es mejor para el suelo. Cuando piensa. Cuando piensa en agua del suelo. Debería de pensar en árboles porque eso es lo que ayuda. Además ayuda con el aire acondicionado. En algunos casos como la biblioteca. Y creo que tomaron alguna acción acerca de ello. Tenemos algunos. Árboles grandes que no tienen idea que hacer con ellos. Son árboles grandes. Ya bien crecidos. Los pueden usar en diferentes. En el centro de la ciudad o al sur de las. A los extremos de la biblioteca. Además son árboles de más de seis pies. Y que pueden ser replantados. Parece que nos puede ayudar mucho con la sombra. Y algunos beneficios que aporta la sombra. Por lo tanto. Me gusta. Me gusta más que quiera hacer un comentario. Gracias. Le doy la bienvenida al señor Santos al micrófono. Para recibir la proclamación. Parece que tenemos a todos en casa. Y gracias por hacer crecer nosotros. Gracias por la proclamación. Por lo tanto. Estamos aquí para invitar a la gente para tomar un momento. Y invitarlos para que trabajen con nosotros. Gracias miembros del consejo. Como ya dijo. Estamos este sábado 9 de marzo. Tenemos un evento. En el parque de la comunidad. Ojalá todos nos puedan acompañar. Por lo tanto. Por lo tanto. Los 39 árboles que han caído. Gracias por todo lo que han hecho. Y muchas gracias por todo. Ahora queremos invitar a todos. Muchas gracias y tomarnos una foto. Venga todo el equipo. Muchísimas gracias. Hola. Lleve la bonita. Hola. Yo le tengo miyorum a todos. Pueden dar vuestros dibujos. De esas. Minia. Mi nombre es chivis maour. Me deseo. into consideration when you're honoring women. Thank you. Thank you. The next public comment. Oh, there are no other members of the public wishing to provide public comment. Vice mayor, I'll turn it back to you. Wonderful. And I think we have Melanie Jones Carter from the commission on the status of women here tonight. Name is Melanie Jones Carter and I'm the vice chair of the commission of the status of women appointed by commissioner. Sorry, supervisor Chris Corsi and with me is Anna Diaz. We would like to thank the council for taking this time to acknowledge the work done by sorry, so lost my place. We would like to thank the council for taking the time to acknowledge the work done by so many impactful women in Sonoma County. It's quite a coincidence that today is election day and so many women work so hard for the right to vote in 1920. The commissioners are advisors to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and work to ensure that the issues impacting women and girls are given the necessary visibility to affect positive changes in public policy. This year, we have ad hoc committees focusing on reproductive rights, human trafficking, community engagement and voter turnout. Feel free to reach out to the commission if you have need any assistance on issues that concern women and girls in Sonoma County. Again, thank you so much to the council for this proclamation. Thank you. Thank you, Melanie and Anna for being here tonight. Do you want to come down and take a photo? Oh, Anna, did you have please go ahead. Hello. I just wanted to say one thing additional to everything that vice chair Johns had just mentioned, we would like to acknowledge the past women and founding sisters of the 19th Amendment that actually gave us the right to vote here today since today is election day. So I just wanted to honor all women here in Sonoma County and America and in the whole nation. Thank you. And in God and and in the whole world. Thank you. Thank you very much. Come on down. All right. We're moving along to item 8 staff briefings. Madam City Manager. Thank you vice mayor. This evening we have no staff briefings. That's incorrect. We do have a staff briefing. We have the community empowerment plan update. And we also have an introduction of one of our new team members or two of our new team members. Right. Good afternoon mayor vice mayor and city council. Long Peterson director communications, integrado relations. I'll be doing the community empowerment plan update this evening. So first it's my pleasure to introduce two talented team members that recently joined our team. First on my right, a newly appointed diversity, equity inclusion and equal employee opportunity officer Francesca Robertson. She has a solid background in DEI management and has played a pivotal role in implementing strategic DEI plans in her previous position. Her commitment to fostering inclusive workplaces is noteworthy. She has a certification in DEI program management and is a certified trainer. Next on my left joining the CERO team is newly appointed community engagement manager, Ana Horta as a bicultural and multilingual professional. Ana has worked in diverse populations in both Latin America as well as the United States. It's a proven track record of bringing people together from various socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. And she has expertise in community engagement as well as program management. Moving forward, Ana will be liaison to the community advisor board. And so with that please join me in welcoming Francesca as well as Ana to the team. One real quick thing and I mentioned this previous but the police department is developing a strategic plan and it's seeking community feedback and input and guidance on that. That first part of that is happening tomorrow, March 6, 6 p.m. At 35 Stony Point Road, the chief will be hosting community meeting to get input on public safety priorities. In addition to that meeting, the police department has launched a community partner survey. That's available in English as well as Spanish seeking feedback on community experience with the police department. Engagement interactive opportunities as well as safety priorities. And so the survey is open until March 18. And if you visit Santa Rosa pd.org you can participate or take the survey. And that concludes the community empowerment update. And would you like to say something? City manager. Well, first certainly acknowledging Madam Mayor in your absence by Smear and Madam... Okay. Hi. Okay, certainly want to acknowledge Madam Mayor in her absence Vice Mayor and Madam City Manager and our esteem council members. I am just super excited to be part of the team here at the city of Santa Rosa. I look forward to moving the needle forward in the work that has already been started and thank you for this opportunity. Good afternoon Mayor, Vice Mayor and council members and Madam City Manager. I'm very excited to be here and to be part of the city and to really continue to work on serving our diverse community. Thank you. With that, that concludes the update. Thanks to all of you. And I'm sure I speak for my fellow council members when I say how fantastic it is both of our new staff members here. Thank you for coming out tonight. And with that Madam City Clerk, would you please conduct public comment? We are now taking public comment on item 8.1. If you are in the chamber and would like to provide comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have two minutes in the countdown time or we'll alert at the end of that period. Vice Mayor, I'm seeing no one approach the podiums for public comment on 8.1. Thank you. Madam City Manager. Madam City Manager. Thank you Vice Mayor. I have no updates this evening. Thank you. I'm City Attorney. And I have no updates as well. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Move on to item 10. Statements of abstention by council members. I'm looking at my colleagues. Statements of abstentions. No statements of abstentions this evening. So then move on to item 11. Statements of abstention by council members reports. Any reports this evening from my colleagues. All right. We're not a chatty bunch tonight. Moving along to item 12. Approval of minutes. Let's see. Madam City Clerk. Oh, sorry. I was distracted for a moment. Are there any changes to be made on the minutes? Again, none. Now I'll turn to Madam City Clerk. Would you please conduct public comment? Thank you Vice Mayor. We are now taking public comment on item 12.1 February 13, 2024 regular meeting minutes. If you would like to provide comment, but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have two minutes and a countdown time or we'll alert at the end of that period. Vice Mayor, I'm seeing no public comments or people approaching the podiums for public comments. Thank you. So then, I think I'm correct in just adopting the minutes I submitted. Is that correct? Thank you. Moving along to item 13, the consent items. Madam City Clerk, would you please read the consent items? Certainly. Item 13.1, resolution, extension of proclamation of homeless emergency. Item 13.2, approval of professional services agreement with disability access consultants, LLC. Item 13.3, resolution authorizing submittal of a grant application to the Wildlife Conservation Board for the Lower Cogan Creek Restoration Project, Phase 3. And that concludes the consent calendar. Apologies. Looking to my colleagues. Alright. Madam City Clerk, would you please conduct public comment? Thank you, Vice Mayor. We are now taking public comment on items 13.1 through 13.3, the consent calendar. If you are in the chamber and would like to provide comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podiums now. You'll have two minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. Mr. Ells, please go ahead. Thank you. I just wanted to thank the council for continuing the resolution of homelessness emergency. There has been a reduction of homelessness in Sonoma County due to, I think, a lot to do with the governor's SIDS Home Key and there was another name for the other program. But my point is, is that many people have been housed through that program and there's been a lot of help. I know that, I suppose this passable in is empty at this point, that's really problematic, but hopefully maybe there will be some construction or I don't know exactly what's going on with that, but it's not a city issue, but I just wanted to say that we're still in a homeless emergency and I appreciate the city council's effort in that regard. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor, I'm seeing no one else approach the podiums for public comment on the consent calendar. Thank you, council member of CREPKE, may I have a motion? Yeah, I'll move items 13.1 through 13.3. Second. All right, we have a motion by council member of CREPKE and a second by council member Alvarez. Madame City Clerk, would you please call the vote? Thank you, council member Rogers is absent. Council member of CREPKE. Aye. Council member McDonald. Aye. Council member Fleming. Council member Alvarez. Aye. Vice Mayor Stapp. Aye. And Mayor Rogers is absent. So let the record show that this passable of the five affirmative votes with Mayor Rogers and council member Rogers absent. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Seeing that it is not yet five o'clock, we're going to have to hold off on item 14 public comment on non-agenda matters. Instead, we're going to go right away to item 15.1, item 15 report items. Item 15.1, our report on the resolution to approve citywide integrated pest management policy. Madame City Manager. I think we're good to go. Staff, come on down to the podium. Item 15.1, resolution to approve citywide integrated pest management policy. And if you could just please introduce yourself for the record. And council, just so you know, we have several team members in the audience to be able to answer questions. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Vice Mayor Stapp and members of the City Council. My name is Sean McNeal. I'm the deputy director of environmental services and I'm here today with Jen Santos and Paul Lowenthal to introduce to you the integrated pest management policy. So the outline for today is talk about the goals of integrated pest management which we believe that this policy before you meets. Go over some of the existing guidelines. Talk about the typical integrated pest management policy as well. So, first of all, we would like to start with some definitions just to make sure that we're as I'm saying these words that you're having the similar thoughts. So a pesticide is any chemical that's used to eradicate pests includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in a widely known commercial product called Roundup. It's recognized as an effective herbicide. The various trade names for glyphosate are based on the types of applications that they are approved for. So there's many different compounds that are many different formulations that are covered by our glyphosate ban as we identify in our integrated pest management policy. And then neonicotinoids are a broad spectrum group of pesticides insecticides that kill more than the intended species. And it has been shown to have dramatic effect on bee populations and that's why there's been a lot of movement throughout the country to reduce the use of these insecticides. Reasons to decrease pesticide use. Pesticides and fertilizers were used to help launch the green revolution. This is then used to increase crop yields, preventing hundreds of millions of people from starving. But then pesticide use began to have significant environmental impacts as they were overused in our environment. They killed non-target species and were linked to human health impacts. Specifically concerns with glyphosate is that the chemicals persist in the environment for days or months depending on the formulation and frequency of use. And they're widely used in agriculture and landscape maintenance. It has been listed as a probable carcinogen by the international agency for research on cancer. And lawsuits have been filed and won against the chemical manufacturer of glyphosate. And the health risks are most acute to the pesticide applicator and I believe our policy covers protection for our applicators as well. So integrated pest management, the goal of this policy was to develop a citywide integrated pest management policy which you have before you today. This policy would provide guidance to staff and contractors working for the city to ensure that the landscapes are designed and maintained in a manner that reduces the need for fossil fuel powered equipment, herbicides, insecticides and other anthropomorphic inputs that have an ability to exacerbate climate change. And also to ensure that the policy supports the city's ability to protect against increased fire severity due to invasive species and climate change. So I think the policy covers, threads the needle on meeting those goals. So our integrated pest management policy really starts with pest identification. You need to identify these pest research, the least toxic methods to address the impacts of these pests and if action is needed apply the least toxic methods first and then evaluate. And if further action is needed apply the next least toxic method. So any integrated pest management policy is going to start with non pesticide actions first planting spaces with dense plantings, talk a little bit more about that in a minute, mechanical removal of weeds where possible or our other plant pathogens. Avoid problematic species where possible and use pesticides as a last resort in following a least toxic approach first. So pest management solutions for insects first you have to wonder can you tolerate this amount of insect, aphids a good example many plants can be fine with aphids on them. You identify the disease, is this a disease that's going to really kill this plant or is it just going to retard growth a little bit. Can mechanical removal of these pests work if not then you might need to spray with an appropriate pesticide to protect the plants and if that doesn't work replace that type of plant with pest resistant species where this doesn't work is in Luther Burbank gardens where we are growing specific heirloom varieties to be period specific with Luther Burbank's time and his plant development. Pest management solutions for weeds can tolerate there's a certain amount of weeds that we can tolerate we can also make sure that our landscapes have high density plantings which out compete the space for the weeds mulching areas that aren't as densely planted with three inches of mulch can help prevent weeds from growing then mechanical removal where weed tolerance is allowed and then in large open spaces looking towards grazing and other removal and then herbicides as a last resort. Also the pest management the integrated pest management policy address plant pest management solutions for plant diseases first again it's very similar can you tolerate the damage can you identify the disease make sure that if you are going to try to eradicate the disease you need to know what you're after so that you can get the right tools mechanical removal of the disease probably one of the biggest diseases we have on fruit trees and any plants in the rose family is fire blight and the number one action for protecting those plants is to identify the disease early and cut the material away and get it out of the garden space so that wouldn't require pesticides if you identified that and then if you do need to use sprays use appropriate pesticide and use least toxic ones first like copper sulfate and then replace any pest problematic species with pest resistant species and once again the landscapes in lutherburbank gardens wouldn't be able to use that as easily because they're trying to preserve those species the draft the policy before you has a complete ban of neonicotinoids in the city minimize the use of all pesticides throughout the city using the policy and require staff to have a certified pesticide applicator to apply or supervise staff who are applying and then when spraying any pesticide staff will use goggles chemical resistant clothing chemical resistant gloves chemical resistant boots and these are above and beyond the minimum requirements for many pesticides but we thought in the policy to err on the side of safety there is also in the policy a ban on glyphosate use in most sensitive areas playgrounds, public gathering spaces picnic areas and other areas with identified sensitive receptors so that no glyphosate would be used in those areas but that we would have some specific exceptions should conditions get out of control and we need to get them in alignment those exceptions to the glyphosate ban would be to allow use in case of public health safety allow use on road medians in parking structures where the interaction with the environment is a lot less allow on ball fields that are closed for renovations, these are not active fields so people wouldn't be out recreating on them allow for use on invasive plants this would only be for non routine activities typically when restoring doing an ecological restoration of an area you might need to use chemicals to get rid of the invasive plants so that the newly installed native plants can have a chance to compete and then in these cases once the objectives are met that we would decrease or eliminate use of glyphosate in those areas completely and to make sure that we're following through on that the policy calls for transparency of our pesticide use the policy requires that we create a website to highlight activities to one prevent pesticide use and that would have this exact policy tips for managing pests without pesticides and then an annual report of our pesticide use on city properties so there would be an opportunity for the public and council to see how well the policy is doing to curtail our use of pesticides and that all pesticide applications will be posted prior to listed date of application and when planning to apply pesticides close to the area close the area to the public and post signs about pesticide application so it is the recommendation by and the recreation and parks department that the city council the council of the city of Santa Rosa by resolution adopt the citywide integrated pest management policy that take any open for any questions thank you very much and I'm turning to council for questions alright really no questions well let's go to public comment then Madison Clark we are now taking public comments on item 15.1 if you are in the chamber would like to make comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium you will have 2 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period please go ahead Mr. Els working now okay thank you very much I cannot thank the city and the city council enough for beginning on a process that is terrific both glyphosate and all these other pesticides neonicotinoids and so on really terrible for the overall environment particularly for the least of these we call them the smallest of the annals I've mentioned before that I'm an environmental engineer and I went through a postgraduate program in house materials management of which a lot of toxics and so on it was 1986 so it's high I'm glad to see this and particularly the approaches the least toxic approach first and replacing plants I assume native plants are usually more suited to the environment the question about tolerate disease you can weaken the plants and have significant problems with that I would ask that you amend your proposal or at least look at some things one of which is grandma putz methods use vinegar dish soap vegetable oil and peppers of various varieties black peppers, red peppers, green peppers you use the seeds from these peppers and then kill they'll kill ants if you have problems it's certainly any no nats or other types of things like that it's really terrific to get those they're very natural they're not pesticides I mean they're not toxic from that standpoint but also to have an emergency which I believe they're really considering which is a case something that everything else doesn't work that you can really take care of it and you need to thank you doctor please go ahead hello my name is Tess I'm a lifelong Santa Rosa resident I appreciate this proposed ban on certain chemical pesticides but I very much dislike the page on exceptions especially considering that I have three brothers who have all played baseball I used to play softball and I would roll around in the grass if I knew that there were chemicals thrown on that grass even a year or two years before I was on it that would make me concerned I'm a 24 year old who has lifelong chemicals they call them forever chemicals because of the practices that our country has engaged in for putting pesticides in our agriculture and in our recreation areas and this is not by my own choice this is you probably have forever chemicals and if you do not your children probably do so I think that there should be a further ban on these things and like Thomas said there are natural alternatives to take care of invasive species and different plants that we don't want I had the privilege last year to engage in a cultural burn with the North Fork Mono of the Awanichi ban from Yosemite and I learned from them that the ways in which we care for the earth is not how it has to be if we put human power onto it so I really would like to encourage you to look past all pesticides not just these few that are here but all of them like vinegar, water, peppers so please think about the children we have lives that we want to live and these pesticides all of them even the ones that have limited vans affect us without us even choosing it thank you thank you speaker on the next on the east lectern please go ahead Susan Lamont district 2 I also want to thank the council for the department for making this proposal I assume the council is going to accept it I also want to hold out the hope that you will eventually ban all pesticides I'm a landscape designer a permaculture certificate holder and there really are other ways to do this and I had to spend a lot of time with some of my clients explaining to them that we do not control the earth and we do not control nature and we need to get over the fact that everything must be perfect so thank you for this but I'd also like to take the opportunity at the beginning of this presentation the city clerk mentioned the audience we are not an audience an audience sits and does nothing but be entertained and my clap we are the public so I am hoping that from now on the term audience will be banned and you will now refer to this gathering as the public thank you Vice mayor I'm seeing no one else approach the podium for public comment on item 15.1 I'll turn it back to you turning back to council for any final final comments just let me extend our thanks to to Sean, to Jen, to Paul this is a very thoughtful proposal and there's a lot of work behind it thank you also to our maintenance and parks and rec teams I mean one of the implications of this proposal is that frankly there's a lot more physical work for the folks that we have in the community I myself have weeded an outfield and it's not easy so thank you for being willing to take on this extra work and with that I'll turn it over to council member Fleming for a motion thank you vice mayor I'll move a resolution of the city of Asan and Rosa adopting a citywide integrated pest management policy and way further reading of the text second alright we have a motion from council member Fleming and a second from council member Krebke Madam City Clerk would you please call the roll thank you council member Rogers as absent council member Krebke council member McDonald council member Fleming council member Alvarez vice mayor step and vice mayor Rogers is absent so this passes with five affirmative votes with mayor Rogers and council member Rogers absent thank you alright we're moving back up to item 14 public comment a non agenda matters Madam City Clerk thank you vice mayor we are now taking public comments on item 14 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 the chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card please provide your name to the administrator at the top of the well we have already received 12 public comment cards for item 14 the remainder of those wishing to provide public comment on non agenda matters will be afforded the opportunity to speak under item 18 non agenda matters the first public comment will be from Luanne followed by Roxy then Duane I feel that although I am a fairly new resident in beautiful Santa Rosa I get that what is most important here is peace the city of Santa Rosa proudly stands for diversity welcoming all and that inclusivity in that inclusivity there is tolerance in our hearts the heart of Santa Rosa is vast reaching and I know that its residents care about the world care about the future our city stands for peace we need to show the world that our caring doesn't stop at the city limits I urge a vote for the ceasefire resolution this stands for peace on both sides it stands for an end to the killing of innocent lives we can make a difference and be an example to the youth in Santa Rosa and the world and we can show that we believe in a future of peace ceasefire now thank you the next speaker will be Roxy followed by Duane go ahead thank you I am a trans queer I have seen the city become more accepting of the LGBT community I know there has been progress and inclusivity and diversity and moving away from the racist past of this county although there is much more work to be done I would hope that you as representatives of the city as political representatives of this country would take a stand for human rights would be able to say Palestinian lives matter like many have learned to say black lives matter would take a stand against mass murder and ethnic cleansing would take a stand for peace, justice and freedom I ask that you stand up for what is right to say Santa Rosa calls for a ceasefire and Gaza is not complicated to say Santa Rosa stands against genocide is not complicated to say Santa Rosa stands against anti-semitism and Islamophobia is not complicated I ask you to do what is right not what any powerful lobby or corporate entity or political machine or foreign government tells you to do what is right to say we are against this mass killing of tens of thousands of innocent children women and men we are against the forced starvation of hundreds of thousands of civilians we want the hostages returned and we want the political prisoners returned we want peace for Palestine and Israel saying we demand a ceasefire is the minimal and the most uncomplicated thing you could do you represent the city and this country call out and for anyone let us stand on the right side of history it is divisive to not call for a ceasefire it is not anti-semitic to securitize Israel it is just to say free Palestine must we all become Aaron Bushnell to be heard thank you for your time thank you the next speaker will be Dwayne followed by Elizabeth then Susan I'd like to use the overhead please coming up hello my name is Dwayne DeWitt I'm from Roseland earlier I showed you a publication from 32 years ago about cooling communities and this is a page from it that talked about urban heat islands and the greenhouse effect 32 years ago then President Bush he put together an effort for planting a billion trees is what he wanted to do here in the United States to try to counteract this greenhouse gas effect so I bring this back to you today because his effort was called America the Beautiful Urban and Community Forestry Assistance Program earlier you proclaimed Arbor Week and I think you should have someone from the city staff reach out to the National Tree Trust and work to get more trees for us here in the Santa Rosa Plain area lots of development is going on and they're cutting trees down they're not replacing them in a timely manner either one of the dilemmas about all of this is that what's happening is the urban trees that have been cut down like right over here at Courthouse Square that was grew there for 40 to 50 years it's going to take that long to replace them and their benefits de la sequestración many of these young people that are here now they want to make sure that they have a better environment in the future so we need to have some sort of effort on the part of our city officials to reach out to get these benefits from the federal government and the National Tree Trust you could do it it's not going to take that much effort and if you need volunteers there are those of us in Roseland who would put together the time and effort to try to get more trees with that in mind we're also doing an Earth Day event on April 20th which is a Saturday and we invite you all out there at 10 am thank you the next speaker will be Elizabeth followed by Susan then in Hui if my microphone yeah there it is I have to get closer okay it's been nearly 75 years that I've lived in this country in third grade I lived and went to elementary school en Toronto, Canada both my parents grew up in Ontario living in a supremacist country eventually has an extremely boring element to it that's the way I'm starting it I've carried many supremacist signs for about 10 years the guns proliferate the wars are grotesque and bizarre the current genocide in Gaza is a direct and obvious consequence of endless war and endless money for more and more weapons thank you thank you the next speaker will be Susan followed by in Hui and then Shivas Susan Lamont District 2 I recently saw the movie The Origin about Isabel Wilkerson's journey writing her book cast the book and movie draw the similarities between enslaving black people in the United States the exploitation of untouchables in India and the genocide of Jews during the Holocaust in Germany all use the dehumanization of a group of people for the purposes of exploiting them and killing them it is no surprise that Israeli officials have called Palestinians these murderous policies are gut wrenching but the ones most relevant to today are those of the holocaust could not help but think how can people to whom this happened do this to others there's a scene in the concentration camp in which a German soldier shoots a mother in the head for trying to protect her daughter now picture desperate Palestinians being shot while trying to get food for their starving children I know a teacher in California Jewish school born and raised in Israel she does not know about the nakba Jews have a name for the catastrophe the holocaust but in Israel it is illegal to teach about the Palestinian catastrophe or say it's name the nakba my sister is taught in three Jewish schools she says if you're a student you wouldn't even know that Palestinians exist she says the history of the state of Israel is as slanted and as inaccurate as the teaching of slavery and run to Santas Florida over the top propaganda as the order of the day we hear some speakers repeat totally debunked Israeli lies once we might have forgiven them their ignorance but they're no longer that excuse now it is that it is in far right Florida a self imposed ignorance and it is deadly only you can look inside yourself to determine whether you are also acting or I should say not acting out of deadly ignorance remember the silence of our representatives during the holocaust if you want to know what you would have done during the holocaust right now ceasefire now thank you the next speaker will be in Hui followed by Chivas then Diane please go ahead ceasefire 100 years ago 75 years ago now and forever today my city council member lost my vote my name is Inhi Lee greetings from very terribly said angry grandmother of two because I think of Palestine I think of Palestine a collective poem I recite I wake up thirsty and hungry I think of Palestine I go to the doctor's office I think of Palestine no bombs no snipers no there the baby graves in the parking lot I think of Palestine I think of Palestine I think of Palestine I think of Palestine when I see a rainbow I imagine rainbow over palm shell clouds in Palestine I think of Palestine when I see children flying kites without worrying about bombs falling over their heads I think of Palestine when I enter this city hall the building standing not in ruins I think of Palestine when I see and hear people like in Santa Rosa city council sitting on tax dollar payroll in silence and therefore complicit in Palestinian genocide by Nazi Israel I think of Palestine cease fire now and forever Thank you the next speaker will be Chivas followed by Diane then Gary Chivas we'll circle back Diane Gary then Matt Is this on? Oh it is great so hi my name is Diane and I live in Santa Rosa and I'm here to implore you to pass a ceasefire resolution I ask this as a Jewish person whose grandparents were fortunate to escape Europe with my mother on the eve of the Holocaust while all but one of my extended family left behind perished my mother and my grandparents escaped because some people literally risk their lives to get them out while at the same time others turned away and claimed they didn't know that anything was going on it is said in the Jewish religion that to save one life is to save the entire world Right now people are starving in Gaza dying from Israeli bullets and bombs over 300,000 people have died children have died of starvation Right now there are things we can do to save lives one of them is to call for a ceasefire one does not need to know everything about the situation to know that something is terribly wrong all one needs is a heart compassion and a bit of courage calling for a ceasefire is actually a mainstream opinion please call for a ceasefire now Thank you Thank you The next speaker will be Shivas followed by Gary then Matt Shivas then Gary then Matt He will circle back to Shivas again Gary please step to the podium and go ahead I'm Gary Huntsman I live in Santa Rosa and I've been troubled by the oppression of the people of Palestine for so many years and it's just incredible that the savagery is going on now and it continues at our tax dollars and I I think it's pastime for a change perhaps Aaron Bushnell did in action what we have been unable to do in words we've all been speaking and asking for help for these poor people I've gotten to know some of them they're very gentle, humble generous, very very nice people we could try to model after them a lot of us Americans has Aaron Bushnell opened our eyes and reminded us of our shared humanity and of our responsibility to each other if he did this for us may we make a decision at this moment to call for a ceasefire and work for peace he will live on in us and we will be better people for it Thank you Madam City Clerk if I could just jump in folks if you wouldn't mind lining up in both podiums so that we could be as efficient as possible with time between comments so you could speak from both podiums Thank you the next public comment will be Matt followed by Janden then Thomas Matt go ahead Hello, yeah Council members if you could look up from your computers right now please Council members you asked for public comments people from the public come here to be heard and so look and see you guys as people are asking to be heard for you guys to make a statement that is so easy ceasefire stop the violence and if you don't know turn on your computers maybe that's what you should be looking at right now look at your phone and look at footage of Palestine and find out why we are here asking you to make a statement you are our voice you serve no function to us we are going to speak for us and we are asking you to listen to us and say something for us and that is stop the killing and if you can't do that you have to live with your conscience because that is the statement that was made earlier what would you do during the holocaust you are doing it and your silence is simply unacceptable thank you thank you the next speaker the vice mayor I would like to make the announcement about the silent support to maintain an orderly meeting and respect the opportunity for those wishing to speak after each commenter we ask that rather than sharing and hand clapping that the show of support you use is a silent applause and if you can please this is the silent applause gesture we would appreciate it again 30 the next speaker jenden tythomis go ahead I am letting maria speak my name is maria barracad am a lebanese-american my great aunt rené lived in refugee camps and we had lentils to live on my dad talks about the taste las señas de mi hija, la muerte de la mujer de la hija, la sobrevivia de la mujer de las mujeres. Herrense por la misma relación. La persona otra vez que lo tocó, era la mujer de la mujer de los Snapdragonos, la diferencia de las mujeres en las que la mujer de los hologrocos era una mujer de los de lossted, la mujer de los fantas hydrogenes, sin ser, söyle, ¿que es la mujer de los bosques, la mujer de los bosques y todos los pocos de los bosques y los bosques de los electrolyte de los espacios. Se solía perder la clínica, a mi propia gente mi propio. Este viento permanece plenamente y chacamente silencio. No puedes parar por paz y justicia pero permaneció silencio en veces como estos para ser silencio es agarrar el sistema de violencia. ¿Por qué estamos aquí? Mьте atrás. Nos tagamos de la justicia. Cuando falten en la caída, lo significamos a todos los lados, el desperdicio de todos los hostiados, lo significamos justicia. No somos antisemplificados. que nos cuidan de todo lo que las otras U.S. generadas atrocidades imperiales ocurren hoy en Yemen, en Lebanon, en Sudán, en Haiti, en DRC y más. En realidad, estamos antes de este cuerpo y a alguien que nos va a escuchar denunciar todas las formas de supremacía y violencia colonial imperiales que no discriminamos. El apoyo de las U.S. para las atrocidades israelías hoy está precedente. El volumen y la velocidad de este genocidio en Palestine, un genocidio por definición, nos ha realizado para evitar esta violencia. Palestine necesita a nosotros ahora. El número de niños asesinados en los primeros tres meses de este genocidio se ha pasado el número asesinado en Siria en 11 años. Eso es por eso que estamos aquí ahora. Hacemos algo. Gracias. El siguiente speaker será Tomas, seguido por Jason. Tomas, por favor, vámonos. Gracias. ¿Puedes escucharme? Gracias. Una cosa que quiero hacer es regresar a la Glyphosate, un estudiador de Alemania, Glyphosate, y lo encontró a los 10 miles de donde fue aplicado. Así que realmente necesitas trabajar con el Counte and Caltrans. Por favor, seguid el Corte Internacional de Justicia. Ellos tienen escuchaciones, tienen escuchaciones. Presidente Biden ha escribido un orden exécutivo requeriendo la prueba de seguir las reglas U.N. en la Glyphosate Internacional. Él ha escribido esto como la última semana. Justamente, maybe a week and a half a go, two weeks ago, they have to provide proof. Israel has to provide proof within 45 days that they are following the orders of the U.N. They have not followed that. Now, how we are going to resolve that. It's going to be on you. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is Jason Sweeney. Hi. My name is Jason Sweeney. I'm a resident of the Center of California. I'm here again to speak to you about the need for a ceasefire resolution. We are trying to build critical mass around the radical notion that violence begets violence and that is why we want to use our collective words to end the harm being done and end the cycle of violence itself. For those of you who are still confused about this five months in, this is a quote from Chris Hedges, who is an author, a journalist, a author, commentator, and Presbyterian minister, if you haven't heard of him. Recent statement may be made in January. Genocide is not a political problem. It is a moral one. It is the crime of all crimes, and it is a purist expression of evil. Another quote in the same talk. A politics of hatred creates a permanent instability, one that is exploited by those seeking the destruction of civil society. What he's saying there is what we're saying, which is basically we need to unite around these ideas that we can stand together and draw the line essentially. I want to call out a quote from a movie called A Roadmap to Apartheid, and in this scene they show a document from the Israeli Ministry of the Planning Department where the government calls for the maintenance of an ethnic balance 70-30 Jewish to Arab. And that policy would not stand here in the U.S. If we were saying that we had to limit an ethnicity to only 30% of the population. So why is it not okay here but okay in Israel? I just want to say that we are here because of the Zionist project. We have no choice but to bring these issues, the truth forward and tell these stories of the innocent people that have been killed. And it's the only choice that we have. And those are the natural consequences. Thank you. Vice Mayor, that is 12 public comments on item 14 non-agenda matters. Wonderful. Again, we'll have a second round of public comment on non-agenda matters following our next item. But now we'll move on to item 16.1, our public hearing. Madam City Manager. Thank you. Item 16.1 is a public hearing, development-related cost of service fees update. Good evening. Vice Mayor, members of the council, Gabe Osburn, director of Planning and Economic Development. As mentioned in an introduction, this item before the council at this point in time is a development services fee update. And this is really the next step in the process to adopt the fees and it really is our final step. We presented this item to the council in a study session on January 30th. And at that point, the focus of the conversation was on a study that analyzed the full cost associated with providing development services. MGT Consulting Group has performed that study. Today is Cindy Scontz, who will also be participating in the presentation. Before we go into the background, I'd just like to provide a reminder to the council and members of the public that the fees involved in the study today are service fees. Those fees go into the time that it takes our staff to develop or, excuse me, implement services for development services. Those are typical plan review, inspection services that go into the processing and private development applications. This action is not infecting any impact fees in the city of Santa Rosa. As far as the feedback around goes, in 2004 the city council shifted the methodology associated with fees when service fees, excuse me, when financial strategies were adopted that attempted to achieve 100% cost recovery on development services fees. Prior to that point, fees were heavily subsidized by the general fund. Our most recent study was conducted for an overhaul of our fees in 2013. That resulted in fees being adopted in 2014 that affected our building and planning fees. We also adjusted a small number of our engineering and planning fees in 2017. I would like to point out that the fee study is a longer process than many of the things that we do, it can go over multiple years. So when we start this process and much of the data that is involved in the study was based on fiscal year 22, 23 and fees that existed a year and a half ago. As part of the study, we do quite a bit of outreach to our stakeholder groups. Typically that involves residents that pull permits. It's heavily involved in the development community that use our services quite often. We produce a survey in August and October of 2022 that involves 16 questions that were regarding restructuring options. That survey was launched in both English and Spanish. We received 301 responses to that. In May of 23, we also held a stakeholder meeting with the North Coast Builders Exchange. In November of 23, we held another meeting at the North Coast Builders Exchange specifically with their board members. In January of 24, we held a general community meeting. And as I mentioned earlier on in the presentation, in January 30, we held the council study session. As far as the comments received, they fell into a few different categories and we tried to incorporate all comments received into what you're seeing today. One of the main threads was that fees need to be easy to understand. That came through with members of the community and the development community. And that isn't necessarily that you need more or less fees. It just means that it needs to be easy to navigate from a fee schedule standpoint. So, one, people can understand upfront what the fees are and it's a predictable process. We also heard that fees should be based on efficient processes. What you'll hear today is the fees are calculated on the average amount of time that it takes to perform a specific service. So, instead of having that be based on an actual service, there was concern that we're actually putting those staff hours to something that's not efficient. So, what we did to address that is the averages that you'll see today are based on an efficient process and not necessarily the hours that are being performed today. It's when we actually can modify those programs and move forward in an efficient way. It's based on that. We also heard an understanding, excuse me, on that point, too, another piece that I think is incredibly important to this. Many jurisdictions, as you'll see as part of this presentation, are moving towards 100% cost recovery through an invoicing process. So, essentially, applicants pay as they go and they pay for the actual time. The development community had some significant concerns about that based on the fact that that does not abrid efficiency. So, we've removed that from the process moving forward. We also heard from the development community that there is an understanding that costs are raising. We haven't adjusted the fees in 10 years and many of the developers have seen costs raise on their side and understand that there is a need to raise the fees. There was also a willingness to pay more for reduced turnaround times. So, there is an understanding that the fees go into services provided and developers benefit from those services and the more resources that are in place to provide those services, the quicker development applications move through the system. We also heard concerns about fee increases applying to projects that are currently in the queue. We have a slide dedicated later in the presentation to talk specifically about that. We also heard that these fees, the service fees, are a very small percentage of the overall project cost. In many situations for larger projects, they're 1-2% on smaller projects, they're much less than that. This chart was shown during the study session, but I think it's very important because we have to understand the relationship between permit volumes, revenue, and expenditures. So, what we see on this chart, the bars actually show the number of permits that we received from 2015 to today, annually. Those permits are shown blue in building, yellow in engineering and green in planning. They do not include any activity for the fire rebuilds. So, this is really our core services. The red line shows our expenditures and the black line shows our revenue. What we wanted to do in this particular case is really show the true cost associated with development services. So, we excluded costs associated with our economic development division and our code enforcement division. And typically what we see on this chart is we see over time that permits will increase and decrease. And typically, the expenditures will grow as permits increase. And that's really the response to the immediate need of processing permits. And we attempt to really achieve a certain percentage of cost recovery in that process. So, we typically try to focus on a cost recovery in the 70 to 75% range. Very difficult to achieve year to year, but that typically is the goal. And what we've seen with our structure that we currently have over the last year as applications start to slow, our revenue starts to slow, in the gap between our revenue and our expenditures widens. So, really as we increase, we try to focus on a cost recovery in the 70 to 75% range. Very difficult to achieve year to year, but really as we increase fees, we're trying to close that gap. And that's very important to providing services to the community because in the absence of increasing that revenue, as permits reduce or our revenue slightly reduces, then generally our expenditures will reduce. And that strips resources to the permitting process. So, our goal today is to try to achieve that 70% cost recovery and to bring those lines closer together. In the next slides, we'll talk about objectives and the methodology used in the study. And at this point, I will hand the presentation over to Cindy. Thank you so much. One of our primary objectives as Gabe mentioned was to simplify or make the fee schedule much easier for your consumers to follow and understand what their fee would actually be. So, we did some significant restructuring just to simplify those fees, making them a lot easier for everybody to understand. We also wanted to define what it truly cost the city to provide those services. So, we looked at, okay, so what does it take to process that permit? What does it actually cost? We determined whether there are any services where a fee could be collected. There's been a lot of changes recently. So, we identified if there were services that needed to be added to the fee schedule that the city would be providing. And then, identify service areas where the city might adjust fees based on either full cost of service or other economic or policy considerations as Gabe mentioned. Our methodology was really based on transparency. We built a fully burdened hourly rate and we took that average time to provide that service. As Gabe mentioned, we took into account the efficiency factor. You may be spending a little bit more time right now, but the goal is to be as efficient as possible and that is how we cost those services out. Product of the hourly rate times the time is basically what it is costing to provide those services. There is a very clear nexus between the cost of that service by doing that. None of the recommendations that we are making are taxes. They are all in alignment with Prop 26, which means you cannot make a profit on those services or those fees that you collect. This is a snapshot of your current revenues versus what it's actually costing to provide those services. Now, some of this, such as building being slightly over it, that is purely volume. It is not due to fees being excessive. We were coming out of the peak activity for buildings. Basically, we were taking in a lot of permits at the time. We see a slight overage there. The overall cost recovery, you can see, was about 77%. Some areas were lower, some areas higher. Again, this is full cost recovery and this is not the target that Gabe had mentioned earlier, which he's going to discuss a little later in this presentation. There is a gap right now. You're currently recurring about 77% overall. Some of the fees need to be lowered. Some of the fees need to be raised to come back into alignment. Thank you, Cindy. Then a summary of what we're proposing today. The fee study is a fairly large document. There are quite a few fees that are addressed in that study. It's a very holistic approach to pretty much all of the building engineering planning fees that we have. I'll do my best to provide a summary of those. Generally, what we're seeing is the importance to set at a full cost recovery. That's really what we're proposing tonight, is that all fees be set at a baseline full cost recovery moving forward. Generally, what we've seen with the fees is there's been an increase in operational costs over time. We have had certain fees in the department that have natural annual escalators based on the consumer price index where they just go up every year. That's a very small number of fees. What we found is even in those situations with the 3% increases that generally happen through that process, they're not necessarily keeping up with the overall increase in costs. We've also seen additional cross support hours come into our fees. This is actually including hours that are applied to a permit process from other departments. Transportation public works fire are very active in our permit review process and this is capturing those hours. That's driving the cost up a bit. We've also seen additional state requirements that are increasing staff hours. There's been quite a bit of housing legislation that's come down over the years. That's creating unique processes, increasing our review time, and that ultimately is increasing cost. We've had a big shift into the digital arena due to COVID. We went from a paper process to 100% virtual and digital process and we found that that does have a technology cost to it. We're seeing more software companies going to subscription services and more software packages being involved in the review process. We've seen an increase of cost on that front. We're also seeing from our advanced planning standpoint that's a very heavy consultant driven exercise. Our internal staff control that, but we have a lot of those wrenching hours performed by consultants and we've seen significant costs in that area as well. So overall, that is triggering the majority of the fees to increase. What we're also proposing is some modifications to our existing fee classifications. We are adding some new fees to cover time that is not currently recovered. The example I provided of transportation and public works supporting processes. They actually have their operations team, for example, in a new subdivision where new streetlights are involved. That team activates those streetlights and that's a cost that's not covered. So we've added certain light items to recover those costs. We've also seen, as I mentioned, state housing legislation through SB9 and SB35. Those are distinctly different processes and as we've gone through that, we now have fees to cover those. We've also expanded a single fee into multiple categories and this is usually for clarity sake. For example, a fee could be based on construction costs, which is very difficult for a property owner to accommodate. So instead of doing that, we would have a line item of various costs that would go into that total and that might be for doing public improvement work that a property owner can understand exactly what it takes to replace a sidewalk square in a driveway approach as well as a combination of those two. We're also seeing certain fees decrease through this process and that is really a result of efficiencies that we put in over the years. As we analyze those hours, the number of hours have dropped down due to those efficiencies. So these project examples were presented during the study session but we'll go over those very quickly because they highlight some of the changes. So the first example is a residential subdivision project, a larger one of 100 lots or greater. These are individual building permits for all of those 100 lots. So what we've seen in this particular case is the building fee has increased per lot. We've seen a significant decrease with a new fee proposal on the engineering side. So that has resulted in a net reduction in the overall fee for that project. Our next example is a large multifamily project. This could be market rate or affordable. We've seen a lot of those come through over the last five years. It's very similar situations. We've seen a significant jump on the building side and we'll talk specifically about this building permit application in this particular slide when we look at our comparison analysis. Regionally, we are very low in this area. We have seen a jump in the planning side as well. That is a lot of those cross support hours coming into the equation and we've also seen the reduction on the engineering side but in this particular case that reduction does not offset the increases on planning and building. We also have an example of a standalone accessory dwelling unit that's a fairly common form of development. Very slight reduction on the building side and an increase on the engineering side. Typically, with accessory dwelling units that may be sidewalk replacement, it may be a driveway approach replacement or not and that's an important piece. They don't always have an engineering element so that if that's added on because we're seeing increases on those minor encroachment permits it would increase the cost. We also analyzed a commercial tenant improvement of 5,000 square feet. We're seeing a reduction on the building side. We're seeing an increase on the planning side. Once again, because of those cross support hours and we're seeing an increase on the engineering side as well. Very important to note that in this particular case as well it may not be all three. This really represents a worst case scenario for a commercial tenant improvement. So now this leads us to what we've been working on since the study session. So much of the conversation of the study session was to give an overview of the fee study but also to talk about areas where the council may want to see a reduction in the fees. So any reduction in the fee does increase the department's general fund burden. So those are our two main revenue sources. Fees or general fund and then they balance out year to year based on the amount of revenue that we get in through fees. So one of the fees that we have always historically subsidized have been permits that support health life safety. And sometimes when fees increase to the point where they cannot be digestible by the community we run into an avoidance situation where they do not pull the triggers more code enforcement action. We typically want to encourage those permits that provide safety to the structure and those are typically what we refer to as trade permits. They're mechanical, plumbing and electrical that goes into heating systems, electrical panels. We want to encourage people to pull those permits. So we're proposing a 25% reduction in that permit fee. What that 25% will do it will take the fee down to very close to where it currently exists so that's generally going to be flat moving forward with that reduction. We're also proposing a reduction of encroachment permits that replace residential sidewalks. So this would typically encourage because residential sidewalks are a property ownership responsibility, would encourage that individual to go through the process to fix uplifted sections to restore that sidewalk for a safe path of travel. So we're proposing a 50% reduction on that. We're also proposing a reduction on our planning appeal fees which have historically always been reduced dramatically. We've almost always seen a reduction to the tune of 90 to 95% on the appeal fees and these are very specific to the neighbor or non-applicant appeal. So this would be somebody appealing a project not necessarily an applicant that's appealing a denial of a project. That's a different appeal process. So the council also expressed an interest to see development specific reductions. So we did our best to put those into a few different categories. So we're defining grocery as defined in the Chapter 20 of the City Code. So that includes both large and small from a community market all to a full-blown grocery store. And we're looking at specific areas. So a grocery in the downtown station area or a defined food desert. So the food desert is defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and it focuses really on two pieces. It focuses on poverty rate and the distance people are within existing grocery stores. The calculation is there is a map and it's very easiest for us to follow that and to ensure that the property is either inside or outside that boundary. And what we're proposing is a 50% reduction on all associated building planning and engineering fees. So that's any fee that the department applies to that project will be applied at a full cost and reduced immediately by 50% for that reduction. We're also proposing something similar for day care facilities. So we wanted to make this fairly wide and a full definition of day care as defined in city code section chapter 20. And this includes child day care facilities which is your major standalone facility but it also includes the in-home child care both large, small and it includes adult day care. So that's an entire category in our zoning code of day care facilities and once again we're looking at a reduction of 50% across the board on all permit types. We're also proposing a reduction on market rate housing within the downtown station area and I think this is important to really show the support that we've all shown for development in the downtown over the years to encourage the market rate development and we're really focusing on housing units that are for units that are greater. So those are your larger housing projects wouldn't necessarily include an ADU or a smaller single unit on the lot. These are the bigger projects and we're focusing once again on the 50% reduction across the board on all fees but in this particular case we're applying that to building and engineering and we've actually made changes to the way in which projects are processed in the downtown station area through reduced review authority where a project may have been elevated to the planning commission and now goes down to the zoning administrator with very simple concept design review so we changed process and that process reduced the fee so we necked that down so they already really reap the benefits of that and that fee is fairly low and that increases which are happening really on the building and engineering side. So we also want to extend that same allowance and that same reduction to affordable housing projects. It is very difficult to define affordable housing projects. That means a lot of things to a lot of different people. We work very closely with our housing department to figure out a definition for where we would apply a 50% reduction and really this would be 100% affordable projects with an affordability level of 60% of less of AMI that would exclude on site management units so those are allowed to fall under a different category and it must be with a housing agreement with the city and this would be city wide it wouldn't be restricted to any geographic area within our boundary and they would receive a 50% reduction on all associated building and engineering specific fees. In this particular case what we will be proposing moving forward to the council and we get into our resilient city development measures it was we will be proposing to extend the same right to a reduced review authority to the same housing category as we have for the downtown so that will give them the streamline approach the fee will come down with that and that package will be brought to the planning commission first but then also the city council prior to the end of the fiscal year. So when we look at the impacts of those reductions it's always difficult to understand what it will look like because we don't always know the number of projects that will come through in a year. So in this particular case what MGT has analyzed is an average number of permits and then we looked at that average number of permits to try to better understand what type of subsidized or reduced permits would be in that total to understand the impacts that the reductions would have. So what we see on the trade permits is generally that's a small reduction about $55 per permit but it's across a high number of permits typically trade permits are a highest volume building permit anywhere from 4,000 to 5,000 a year is what we end up with so overall that reduction is anticipated to be almost 250,000 when we achieve those volumes. When we get into the larger projects and day care is all encompassing so if we look at a standalone day care facility that is a new build from the ground up that's very similar to a multifamily project that's in the same category that actually has a more significant reduction because of the fees are higher. So we looked at that category and assumed that if we had five of those larger projects moving forward in a year the reduction per project would be about 120,000 so that would result in about a $600,000 reduction in most years we don't experience that so this really is very aggressive with the estimates on what the impacts will be and I truly do believe represents worst case scenario. When we looked at the encroachment permit in the appeal fields they were very small we don't get a lot of those permits so we've added in $50,000 so really what we're looking at is around $900,000 for what the financial impact would be to those reductions I think that's an important point to the whole conversation Cindy mentioned that overall if we adopt this fee schedule we're looking at an increase in our revenue under those specific permit volumes to the tune of 23% so if we add these reductions into that that moves this down into closer to 20% so we're still looking at an increase in our fee it's 3% less now I think if we look out year to year when we aren't really able to project the total amount of permits that we see what we've analyzed is that generally year to year the reductions will have between 17 to 20% we'll still be basically seeing that level of increase in revenue so if we analyze the same permit total under our current fee schedule and our new fee schedule under most years that new fee schedule is going to achieve a 20% increase in revenue so we just discussed in the study session the comparison with other agencies too that's part of this process and I'll go through these fairly quickly because we did review them as part of the study session any time we do a comparison with other agencies it's really important to note when the agency did their fees the comparison surveys don't really dig far into the fee itself because it's what is published on the jurisdiction and we can't always understand what their true costs are or do salary and benefits match up to what salary and benefits are and to the city of Santa Rosa but the main catalyst and these are the development types that are always compared through these studies are the development of single family dwellings in the building fee and the development of multifamily units and the building fee so what we've seen the plan check and inspection fee in Santa Rosa is around $4845 under the current fee schedule we are slightly reducing that multifamily that's where we're seeing the big jump it's going from $29,000 to $54,000 but when we compare that to the other agencies on the single family side we can see that we're very close to the median actually under the median and under the average so we're still very competitive regionally and even with the increase on the multifamily we're still very competitive regionally being either at the median and under the average when we look at the planning side and this just points out a few pieces with planning and some of the trends that we're seeing with other jurisdictions SB35 came out of state housing legislation and really required a ministerial process on something that was discretionary we applied a fee that we thought would cover the staff time and when we did the analysis it did not so the current fee is around $4,000 $3,569 for an SB9 application when we truly proof that out as part of the study it jumped the fee up to $23,216 I think it is important to note that a lot of the projects that go through SB35 potentially would also be eligible for the reductions if approved with the minor projects we haven't seen the same fluctuation and actually on our subdivision maps we've seen a reduction in our fee it reduced down on the planning side the important piece that we're seeing here is as many of the trends as we've seen in the last cycle start slowing down a little bit many of the jurisdictions are moving towards a full cost recovery and that methodology typically involves a deposit and then billing until that deposit is drawn down and then collecting another deposit we are not proposing that but it's difficult to compare when that's actually used for other jurisdictions so the last slide deals with the effective date and then what we're proposing to do today the interesting anomalies occur when the fees actually reduce because then there's more of an incentive for a developer moving forward to take advantage of both fee schedules and we will allow that so a project that's a little bit more a little bit more a little bit more we will allow that so a project pays fees at certain points throughout the process so when the fee payment is due we will allow the developer if it's after July 1 to either pay based on the old fee schedule if it's less or the new fee schedule the important point is we don't make the fees retroactive so we don't provide refunds for fees paid prior to July 1 if the fees do go down so that brings us to the conclusion of the presentation we are recommending that the council adopt fees based on the fees studies appendix A we are also recommending that the council adopt the development fee reductions that are proposed in the exhibit B and another important point which also came out in the study session is we're recommending that the council grant authority to the director to update the fees annually based on the CPI that's an important piece to keeping the fees up to date with time we're happy to answer any questions that the council may have thank you both I'm going to ask one just to break the trend here I'm doing some back of the envelope math if the total cost recovery last year was around 10.9 million we're going to be able to increase the cost recovery by 17-20% so we're looking at somewhere in that $2 million range for additional revenue each year and what's important to that is the total of volume of permits coming in so when our study was performed on a fairly high volume of permits we've seen some of the highest permits that the department has ever seen over the last five years so really the relationship of the increase is based on the total amount of permits and if those permits reduce our revenue will reduce along with that so if our permits stay then absolutely yes en esos 5 años totales, que estamos tomando alrededor de 2.4 es lo que anticiparíamos 1,000,000 en adicional revención, si los volumnos permiten mantener. La única novena es lo que verá la próxima fiscalidad y calendario. Entendido, gracias. Y con eso, vamos a publicar un comentario, madr. City Clerk. Gracias, estamos ahora tomando un comentario público en item 16.1. Si estás en el cadáver, me gustaría comentar, pero no yet haber permitido un cartel de speaker o tu nombre, por favor, haz tu camino al podium. Tenemos 2 minutos en el tiempo de descuidado o bien alertado al final del podium. Me gustaría llamar el primer speaker, Kellam. Buenas tardes. Kellam, soy el director de la Policía de la Dirección de la Comunidad de la Generación y de la Residencia de Santa Rosa. Así que estamos en su apoyo a las recomendaciones de los staff para el día a día. Y como hemos estado durante la última sesión de este item, entendemos que el capital humano es realmente el gran asesino de cualquier organización. Y queremos asegurar que los staff de la Policía de la Comunidad de la Policía de la Policía de la Policía son completamente resorciados. Es también increíble y emocionante ver las reducciones de la ciudad avanzadas que pueden ayudar a la creación de servicios esenciales como el negocio de la ciencia. Las cosas que sabemos que necesitamos despidamente en esta comunidad, especialmente en el área de la downtown. Y es también increíble y emocionante ver a los que están tomando una fuerte actividad para apoyar a la necesidad de una casa de la fortaleza. Estas son las soluciones muy impresionantes. Interesamos los que pueden negar los beneficios de la ciudad, y los que pueden beneficiarles de lasumanidades de la ciudad. Y esta es la manera de que tenemos que promover la vestedez en todo el país. Y vamos a hacer un neutral Experiencia para llevarlo a través de las drogas a la ciudad de la ciudad de la Policía de la Policía de la Comunidad de la Policía de la Policía de la y que se pueda hacer. Oh, thank you for that correction. And we'll go to the next speaker. Please go ahead, Thomas. Well, thank you for the opportunity to speak and up. It looked to me like the cost recovery was about 50%. When I looked at that eight million dollars in revenue and close to sixteen million dollars of expenses, I'm not sure. We see with smart that freight does not pay for the maintenance of the way. And so the passengers are subsidizing the freight because they don't pay for it. That's a typical situation and smart is encountering a freight discussion at this time. In the case of the development, if the developer is subsidized by 25 to 50%, that subsidy is a general fund tax increase. So there is that effect of the tax increase. And I would recommend to you that you subsequently recover the fee reductions from the developers after the occupancy. So there was a period of time during the fires and the recovery that that fees were reduced and there was an effort to recover some of that afterwards. There was a discussion about that and I would recommend that for you. Is that you give the developer the opportunity to have a current fee reduction. But when they have occupancy, when they are passed and they are in the development stage, they are completed with the development stage in effect, and they are having an occupancy, then they reimburse those fee reductions because it's a very significant amount. It doesn't, I mean it looked like $900,000 there but where, it wasn't really expressed where the bulk of the fees are obtained then. Where do the fees come from? If those are the only reductions. Thank you. Are there more public comments on item 16.1? Please go ahead. Thanks again. I'm Roxie again. I'm just for one quick moment. I just appreciate all you're saying, but I just feel like this, a lot more needs to be done for affordable housing and like you say it's a broad category, and you said one category is left out of there, I guess that was more supportive housing maybe, management on site. By and I see this 50% reduction fees for market rate and 50% reduction for affordable housing. I feel there needs to be more incentive for affordable housing and that's a lot more and less, I know we need the market rate as well, but we need a lot more affordable housing in this county all over. Thank you. Vice Mayor Step, I see no one else approaching the podium and chamber for the public hearing on 16.1. Thank you. I think I can officially close public comment or close the public hearing rather correct and turn it back to council for additional comments, final comments. Also remember O'Crupe? Yeah, I just want to say thank you so much. This has been a heavy lift for quite some time now. I really appreciate it especially now that we've seen we were subsidizing basically $3.2 million average over the last three completas fiscal years that's massive. And as you pointed out this is, well, I guess it's illegal for us to profit off of this, but to make ourselves whole on our human capital that we have here is very important. And then I do want to point out that with the reduced review authority, it's a double edged sword of fast government, right, of everybody wants government to move faster when it's something they know about, when it's something they don't know about, they wanted it to move slower because, so, I think it's important to understand going through this, what we're trying to accomplish and why the review authority has been reduced is to fast track these things that the council and as well as staff and the community have agreed upon are important such as daycares, groceries and food deserts and those sorts of things. But overall, just thank you so much for the presentation, all the work you put in over the past few years. Any other comments from my colleagues? I'll just second councilmember Crepe said another thoughtful presentation. I like the emphasis on fee clarity, fee fairness. There were smart fee, smart and targeted fee reductions, all with an eye to budget. A nice job, it's with the revenue projections that you included as the city continues to watch the bottom line pretty closely. So thank you very much. And with that, Madam City Clerk, would you please call the vote? Oh, I'm sorry. I need to make a motion here. I believe it was councilmember Alvarez. Would you put a motion on the table? Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd like to put forth the resolution of the council of the city of San Rosa, adopting the full cost development service fees, authorizing the planning and economic development director to adjust all fees annually based on the consumer price index and adopting certain fee reductions to further city development goals and waive further reading of the text. Second. All right, we have a motion from councilmember Alvarez and a second vote. Oh, my gosh. McDonald's. Sorry. It's been a long night. Madam City Clerk, would you please call the vote? Thank you. Councilmember Rogers is absent. Councilmember O'Cruppke. Aye. Councilmember McDonald. Aye. Councilmember Fleming. Aye. Councilmember Alvarez. Aye. Vice Mayor Stapp. Aye. And Mayor Rogers is absent. This passes with five affirmative votes with Mayor Rogers and Councilmember Rogers absent. All right. With that, we move on Item 17, written communications in which there are none. So we'll move on to our final public comment, final public comment on non-agenda matters for the evening, item 18. Madam City Clerk, would you please facilitate public comment? Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 18, non-agenda matters. If you have previously provided public comment on non-agenda matters, this is not a second opportunity to provide public comment. If you have not submitted a speaker card or your name, please line up at opposite podiums to provide public comment. You will have two minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. The first speaker will be Tess, followed by Holly, then Tammy. So, Senator, as a City Council, I understand that today you have acknowledged this month to honor the Red Cross. That's so amazing because humanitarian aid and humanitarian workers are some of the most crucial people meeting those who are underserved, and I think right now there is a very large group of people who are being underserved and who need to be met. They are the 1.9 million Palestinians internally displaced within the Gaza Strip, the largest concentration camp in the world. Or further, they are the 5.9 million Palestinians that have been displaced across and around the occupied Palestinian territories through Lebanon, through Jordan, and many who even live here in our community today, who are still recognized by the United Nations as refugees. As you make this proclamation to acknowledge March for the Red Cross, it is important that you also make proclamations on behalf of your constituents here in the city of Santa Rosa to pass a ceasefire resolution to the United Nations. We have been in your chambers for months now. Israel has not stopped murdering for months now, and we have been asking you in this room and in other rooms wherever we can find you to do something. And I understand that some of you may be super uncomfortable with this, that this may not be a local issue, but it is also important to remember that in 1867 the city of Santa Rosa was taken a maravilla de San Gran by the state of California to settler Maria Carrillo. She was the first settler of our beautiful city, and she did on behalf of the state the exact same thing that Israel is doing to the indigenous Palestinians. Israel is American history 250 years later. We have a duty to act. Pass a ceasefire resolution. Thank you. The next speaker will be Tam, pardon me, Holly, followed by Tammy, then Maria. Sister, can you hear me? Sí. Ok. Cual wipe, son adelante. Tellow Thank you. Thank you. My name is Holly. Calicón I'm a resident of Santa Rosa. What you can call Have a W Fighting Before. What do I want to community speech in twenty nineteen o Two este parque de enerco a ella, fue el primer estudiante palestiniano que quedó, y me dijo que su vida y la sociedad que fue por la familia. Yo lo contigo, porque es verdad para esas personas de color y para las que tienen nuestros organicas hebrete por decir que la América de Estados Unidos fue ética en violencia. Como podríamos ver en nuestra propia comunidad, there's a lot of violence, the city council members talked about that earlier. We cannot forget our history and actually many of us are from the global majority. And that's why you see the world itself calling for an end to the genocide. So you can decide what you want to do, but the reality is the lands that we stand on has a lot of blood on It already and it is time to make repair. It's time to make repair for the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, en la ciudad de la isla, incluyendo a todos los pueblos californianos por su vuelo, y quiero que te pensemos sobre eso. Y también es hora de pensar en reparaciones para algunos de los pueblos esclavos, y eso está pasando en California. Pero también es hora de saber la historia, y estamos en la historia ahora mismo. Para los de ustedes que ignoran lo que pasa en Instagram y en TikTok que vemos todos los días, y yo soy un herbalista clínico ahora, y yo trabajo con mucha gente alrededor de la curación. ¿Cómo se cura? ¿Cómo podemos, como comunidad, curar a nosotros? No estamos curados por lo que es. El siguiente speaker será Tammy, seguida de Maria Vinsomer. A la mitad de un anti-zionista juicio que reside en Santa Rosa. Aquí estamos otra vez, una reunión de la ciudad de la ciudad donde tienen muchas voces que se presentan para preguntarte por la misma cosa que ustedes continúan ignorando. Más personas se presentan en la semana para hablar de este tema que cualquier otro tema combinado y que han estado por meses ahora, y que continúan ignorando estas voces. De reciente, la Comisión de la Comisión de Sinoma de los Humanos de la Paz de la Tierra, la ciudad de Fort Bragg, la Paz de la California, Amherst, Massachusetts, Athens, Georgia, Durham, North Carolina han todos recientemente pasado estas resoluciones. Y aún así, ustedes no han introducido una. Esto me recuerda a lo que en los años 80 y 90, muchos estados han adoptado Martin Luther King Day como un Holidays Federal. Arizona, por lo tanto, ha cubierto sus hielos. Incluso que se hizo un Holidays Federal en 1983, Arizona refugiaría a reconocerlo permanentemente hasta casi 10 años más tarde, en 1993. Y eso fue un estrés de retirar la hostia de la Super Bowl. Arizona será, por lo tanto, recuerda a estar en la misma parte de la historia para esta inactión. El gobierno de Santa Rosa, ¿qué es tu Super Bowl? ¿Qué tenemos que hacer en el orden de escuchar a las personas que consistentemente están mostrando y platicando con ustedes para la acción de esto? Hacente al concierto de la democracia que la lengua no fue neutra, ha modificado la lengua. Dañado. Es a SR Cisfire.com, si hay que leerlo. ¿ullo otra jugo que os platicarías? ¿O están determinados de estar en la ronda parte de la historia? Cisfire ahora. ¡Hace tiempo a hacer la right thing! Gracias, el siguiente espiñol será María, que y. de 40 años atrás, hay uno de 2017, y él explica, Hamas afirma que su conflicto es con el proyecto de zionista, no con los juzgos, porque de su religión. Hamas no es un conflicto con los juzgos porque son juzgos, pero es un conflicto con los zionistas que ocupan Palestine, pero es el zionista que siempre identifica el judío y los juzgos con su propio proyecto colonial y una entidad legal. Ok, segundo punto. Hací los datos, lo envié a ustedes, de todos los archivos desde que hemos venido aquí, desde diciembre, y desde todos los comentarios de e-mail, hasta entonces también. Comentos en persona, 91.2% han estado en favor de una resolución de cifras, y sobre e-mail, es sobre 83%. Entonces, a este punto, estoy justo preguntando, si no puedes estar contra la genocidia, y si no puedes bajar el proceso democrático por el que estás electado, ¿qué estás haciendo aquí? A continuación, si Santa Rosa es tan pequeña para hacer una diferencia, aún así, estamos en la tercera economía del mundo, California, y Santa Rosa es la larga ciudad norte de San Francisco, y aún no puedes riesgar tu cune, Santa Rosa, electa oficial para estar contra la genocidia, ¿qué es eso? Ceasefire, ahora. El siguiente speaker será Summer, seguido por Manbi, Giovanni. Hola, mi nombre es Summer Abdelcalek, yo vivo en la District 5, soy una americana palestiniana, y estoy aquí, una vez más, para hacer un comentario en el apoyo de pasar a la resolución de Ceasefire. Creo que estoy escuchando que esto no es dentro de tu jurisdicción o no es un issue local, pero me gustaría que sea el caso que es, y creo que es muy importante enviar un mensaje de Santa Rosa directamente, que creemos en las soluciones diplomáticas y creo que esto impacta a nuestra comunidad, y a nuestros niños, y de cómo los niños actúan en escuelas, ¿cuántos veces se abren el papel? Y escucho a un niño traer un arma a la escuela. ¿Cómo no podemos ver la conexión entre lo que nuestro gobierno federal está haciendo y lo que pasa aquí en Santa Rosa? Tenemos el poder de decir algo, y tenemos que utilizarlo. Espero que tú lo hagas. Gracias. Gracias al siguiente señor, followed by Giovanni, then Jacqueline. Hola, mi nombre es Maribi. ¿Puedo tener esto en caso de eso? Sí. Así que estoy aquí, again, para preguntarte para apoyarte una resolución de Ceasefire para ser adecuada a la agenda. Te estás honrando el Red Cross. El Red Cross, su pronunciamiento de misión, es para evitar y aliviar el sufrimiento de los humanos en la face de las emergencias por movilizar el poder de los voluntarios y la generosidad de los donadores. Por lo tanto, el poder de las personas. Por lo tanto, nosotros, las personas, estamos aquí convirtiendo por el Red Cross y su pronunciamiento de misión. Es hipocritico para nuestro City Council para honorar el Red Cross y refugiar a apoyar a Ceasefire una resolución. Gracias. Es una gran sufrimiento de los humanos. Estamos con ellas. Es una gran sufrimiento de los humanos. another hypocrisy of our city council members who refuse to listen to the constituents Arbor Day. We care so much about trees. Since 1967, more than 800,000 Palestinians all of trees have been illegally uprooted by Israeli authorities and settlers. Many were centuries old, para que mi dinero o mi taxpayer ira a tu opinión personal personal. Es para hacer lo que ustedes quieren. Y la semana pasada, 33 preguntan para una resolución de incendios. Opposas, solo tres. Así que, tu trabajo es hacer lo que queremos. Si no lo hacemos, lo que estamos preguntando, tal vez las personas se pierdan. No resolución de incendios. No voto en noviembre de 2024. Gracias. Gracias. El siguiente speaker será Giovanni, mi nombre es Giovanni, nací aquí en Santa Rosa, District 3. Yo estoy aquí para su apoyo para la resolución de incendios. Hemos pido los representantes a todos los niveles para la resolución de incendios y estamos preguntando aquí localmente para su apoyo. Tengo trabajo en el sistema publico con personas que trabajan tirelessly para esta comunidad, para esta ciudad que quieren una resolución de incendios. Si no lo piensas, la mayoría de los votantes quieren una resolución de incendios. Por favor, haz una resolución de incendios para la agenda. A este punto, es un esfuerzo activo. Gracias. Gracias. El siguiente speaker será Jacqueline, seguido por Sara Vinley. Buenas noches. Yo vivo en la District 5 de Santa Rosa. Gracias por darme atención, aunque sé que estamos todos cansados y probablemente no queremos estar aquí. No sé si todos queremos estar en casa. El día 150 de la Genocide en Gaza ha sido la wife de One of You. Ha sido la wife de One of You que se supone un minuto de paro para llevar una resolución de incendios en la agenda. Ha brindido un archivo que se llamó para la presión de todo. Lo ha TBO agilis contra sus argumentos flacidos que no es un tema local. Tu has decidido por mejor si no estás tan malo, al revés al Magna. En el mes de la semana, le di email a un libro Fue un pedido de extensión, los informativos de großer responsabilidad. Le llamaron por evadirippi en el reto de todos los precios. Elketa, ¿que haciéndose el abogado por el presunto de no combatidas, una transcribe a unarristance? Dicido de la posición de responsabilidad. ¿Qué se está haciendo? ¿Qué qué? En día de 150 de la la ciudad de Santa Rosa fue apresionada en honor al red cruz. de la crisis humanitaria y la crisis de la crisis humanitaria en Gaza, donde el sistema de la edad se desplazó completamente. Estos lluvios de lluvia de comida, agua, agua, medicamentos, 30,000 personas han muerto, 83% de ellos son mujeres y niños, y ahora 1 millón de más personas se enfrentan a la realidad real de la fama, 16 casos confirmados de los niños atrasando a la muerte. Voy a dejarles con las palabras de un parente que vea sus hijos atrasados a la muerte. El pan de comida causó desgracia y inflamación en sus nubes. Dice a Boba, por favor, déjame algo a comer. Yo fui al mercado, no podía encontrar nada, solo una pomegrina. Él agarró eso, y su respiración cambió. Su hermano dice a Boba, por favor, déjame suficar. Yo intenté el CPR, pero fue tan tarde. Él murió de la falta de nutrición. Él era como un skeliton. Él no tenía mi en él. No sabemos qué hacer. ¿Qué preocupamos más? El mercado es hi-gene, clínica, no medicina. Él está muerto ahora, ¿y qué puedo hacer? ¿Qué puedo hacer? El siguiente, el respiro será Sara, seguido por Lee y Bailey. Hola, mi nombre es Sara, soy residente de Sonoma County. Estuve nacida y creí en Sonoma County. Yo también soy juicio y creí en la comunidad de los juicios locales. Antes en la reunión de Ciudad de la Ciudad, nos dijeron de dejar de clapar y de seguir el decoro usando silencio en el nombre de respeto. Y quiero preguntar, ¿dónde es ese respeto cuando la mitad de vosotros miran a tus computadores cuando hablamos de cosas como genocidio? Yo vi a alguien hablando de su familia sobreviviendo en el holocaustio. Y a la mitad de vosotros miran a la hora en la época, o cuando alguien hablaba de su familia siendo expulsada en el NACPA, no estabas even mirando a ella. Y ¿dónde es el mismo respeto cuando tienes la mayoría de tus constituentes preguntando para vosotros que incluso hablamos de una resolución de la cifra y eso no se va a poner en la agenda. Así que si quieres que respetemos a vosotros, por favor respetemos a vosotros también. Cifra ahora. Pocs. Pocs. Vamos a seguir en buen orden. Gracias. Madam City Clerk. La siguiente hablar será de Lee, seguida de Bailey, y de Una. Yo. Yo. ¿Cómo ordenar a Lee? ¿Quién sería si sus familias estuvieran destruidas como están en Palestine? Yo estoy en solidaridad con mis palestinianos, con mis antizáneos, Jewish neighbors en asked you to respect your constituents, put a ceasefire on the agenda and make a ceasefire stain the majority of the country, the majority of the city, the majority of this county, is in full support of a ceasefire and it is really it's incomprehensible at this point that that you refuse to do it. I think it speaks to en el sector de la tierra. que destruyen las familias, por no ser víctimas viviendas. No tenemos ruedas. Estás honrando a las mujeres, y estás mirando a nosotros, y estás diciendo, estamos viendo a las mujeres dar la nación en Palestine, y estás hablando de las mujeres, y entonces estás hablando de la Red Cross, y estamos viendo a nuestro dinero, bombar las ambulancias de Red Crescent, con civilizaciones inocentes. No hay nada. Más niños han muerto en los últimos cinco meses, que en cinco años en Alemania. Cuando escucho a mis juicios anti-scientes, dicen, nunca de nuevo, en nuestro nombre, sé que lo significan. La siguiente hablará de Bailey, seguida de Una, en Chivas. Hola, mi nombre es Bailey, residente de Santa Rosa, he estado aquí toda la vida. Pero la pregunta que tengo es, ¿qué es Santa Rosa actualmente haciendo para apoyar esfuerzos humanitarios y servicios de la vida? Una de las las más exclusivas violaciones de los derechos humanos está ocurrida, no solo antes de nuestros ojos, sino también en nuestro daño. Lo siento para decir, pero hasta que te adreses, el genocidio, se verá cualquier otro trabajo que haces, tu glares hipócrata y estas proclamaciones. Si no puedes estar contra el genocidio, y tus palabras y tu liderazgo no significan nada, solo sea en el lado derecho de la historia. Eso es todo lo que estamos preguntando. Juste, se arroja ahora, yo lo haré el resto de mi tiempo. La siguiente hablará de Una, seguida de Chivas y Ari. Hola, Santa Rosa City Council, mi nombre es Una Rizzling Scholl, soy residente de Santa Rosa, y soy votadora de la District 5. Todo el que está aquí me ha dicho lo que quería decir, voy a decir muy rápido, que soy un miembro de la Junta Europea y los pueblos de California, y estoy muy familiar con lo que es el genocidio, y estoy devastada de que mis dólares textiles van a apoyar a este genocidio que se ha traído por Israel. Se parece que hay un error por la resolución de una movilidad política, sino que es un sencillo pronunciamiento de la humanidad. Tu trabajo es para dar moral a tus votadores durante tiempos negros, incluyendo, y especialmente, a las comunidades margenales, pero continúas a deslizar a tus votadores y ignorar la realidad de los palestinianos locales. Para ilustrar mi punto, te diré esto. La semana pasada, mis amigos y yo tuvieron un fundador para una familia local palestiniana intentando mantener a su familia vivo en Gaza. Desde 5 a 8 p.m., en un pequeño negocio local, tuvimos una línea de personas en la puerta de la rueda, queriendo desgraciadamente apoyar a esta familia. Yo estaba contado, de vez en, de vez en, de vez, que esto fue la primera vez desde el 7 de octubre que no se senten solos, que se senten que esta ciudad ha sido ignorar los horarios en Palestine, y que fueron inclinantes y oscuras, pero este evento, organizado por un montón de artistas se hizo más en una noche que todos los que han hecho, desde el 7 de octubre. Tienes la luz en esta oscura, mantien nuestros votos, adopten la resolución de la defensa. Gracias, el siguiente speaker va a ser Shivas, seguido por Ari, y Michael. Ok, voy a mover a Ari, y Michael. Hola, perdón. Por qué estamos aquí? Estoy en San Rosa constituyente, District 2. La transagencia de este consuelo es desgraciada, desgraciada. Mira cuántas personas están aquí. Tienes otras agendas, las personas vienen en sus suites, porque esto es un negocio, ¿verdad? Y te escuchas, oh Dios mío, tus personas, tus agencias, tus curiosidades, tienes preguntas. Y cuando hablamos de nuestros corazones, cuando hablamos de ser representados, nada, nada, nada. ¿Están votando para eso? Absolutamente no, pero es más allá de eso, ¿verdad? Es más allá de eso, porque somos personas. Y los gente y Dios deserve to live just as much as we do. Palestinian people deserve to have their home just as much as we do. You have this little bit of power, right? This little bit of power. Why won't you use it? Why? And I've been thinking about this, like you have all the information, people have given you all of the information, it's handed to you, it's so kind, right? And then, it's election day. I'm thinking, and I'm like, what could possibly be getting in the way here? Is it politics? I'm truly asking, if it's politics, I want you each to look at yourselves and look at your lives. Is that worth it? Is being silent and complicit in a literal genocide? Is that worth politics to you? We all will remember, the world will remember, everyone who stayed silent, thank you. The next speaker will be Michael, followed by Gary. Hi there. We've all heard Dr. Martin Luther King's quote, famous quote that a riot is the language of the unheard. And when people, I remember during the Black Lives Matter protests around George Floyd, we were hearing a lot of people condemning what was going on in the streets, which, really, there wasn't any violence or anything going on in the streets, but people didn't like that it was disorderly. And they thought we should be in these meetings more and we should try to go through the process and get things done and talk to our elected officials. And we've been doing that for weeks. And absolutely nothing has happened. So I'm brought back to feeling like, why aren't we out in the streets? We should be really making ourselves heard because this obviously doesn't work. And I've heard the statements that like, this isn't a local issue and we need to be a more effective strategy would be go to the federal officials who aren't listening to us instead of asking our local officials to use their platform and voice to stand up to them. But I don't buy that, I just don't buy that. I feel like that's a cop out. And I voted today for Andrew Engel because he showed up to these meetings. He thought it was important enough to try to get you all to pass a ceasefire resolution. I voted for him over Mike Thompson because Mike Thompson supports genocide. And so to me, that's the effect that people have when they bring this kind of stuff into the local sphere where people are where we can see them so we know where they stand so we know that something's gonna get done so we know that change is gonna happen so we don't go out in the streets and have a riot. The next speaker will be Gary. I had no intention of speaking tonight but I was moved by my fellow citizens tonight who have been very passionate in what they've said. I had no idea this was going on these last 150 days down here. But I want to applaud our city council for staying on the sidelines of what is obviously a very emotional issue and a tragedy because it does not affect the city of Santa Rosa, although it affects obviously the people in this room deeply. And I agree with them that I would like to see an end to that conflict. I think it absolutely is a tragedy but I also think that Israel has a right to exist. I think they have a right to defend themselves and the current crisis that's going on there is 100% at the hands of Hamas who was elected by Palestinians to lead them and their terrorists. And on October 7th, they kidnapped, killed and raped and pillaged their way through Israel and Israel has a right to defend themselves but I don't think it's something that this council needs to concern themselves with and so I think that you're doing the right thing and I appreciate what these folks have said here tonight and I agree with them that we should hopefully seek to end that conflict at some point but the quickest way to end it would be for the Palestinians to choose better leadership. Perhaps they could get... Let the shaker continue please. Our council here in Santa Rosa. So thank you for your time. All right, the next speaker will be... The next speaker, I'm going to circle back to see if Chivas has joined the meeting and I'm going to ask if there's anyone else wishing to speak on item 18, non-agenda matters who has not previously spoke on non-agenda matters to approach the podium. Please go ahead speaker. Hello, thank you. My name is Althea. I'm a lifelong Sonoma County resident currently reside in Council District 2. I am here asking for a ceasefire resolution to be put on the agenda and passed. We are begging you to represent us in our call for a ceasefire. The longer you go without doing so, the more we lose faith in your integrity. One of the core values, you as a city council claim. Your vision as a council is for Santa Rosa to lead the North Bay, quote. Embrace this vision of leadership. Do this by listening to the plea of the people to take the step forward to add a ceasefire resolution to the agenda. 61% of voters in the US are in favor of the ceasefire, including 76% Democrats, 57% independents and 49% of Republicans. This is not a niche issue. We do not want our tax dollars going to this. We do not want more people to die. This is within your jurisdiction the same way addressing climate change is. Another one of your core issues. It takes many to address a global issue. We deserve your respect, recognition and representation. We will advocate for ourselves and for those facing genocide. Cease fire now. Thank you. The next speaker at the West podium. Please go ahead. Hi, my name is Tamara. I'm from District One. It was through local action for the people that ended the Vietnam War. It was only through action like this that we were able to stop that because our government didn't want to. It is up to us. And you please listen to our voices. We are telling you this is not right. Everything we learned in our lives, we know this is wrong. This is wrong and we all know it. Cease fire now. Erika is the next speaker. Public speaking is not my favorite unless I am doing it as a scientific talk. So I just want to say first of all, thank you to everyone who is in this room who is actively participating and listening. We appreciate you continuing to hear these comments. And I just want to speak. I feel super compelled to stand up because you really are our only hope right now. It is really difficult to find hope in this situation. And I've been writing my senators, my representatives, my partner and husband has been writing President Biden and we don't find any responses. That's why we're talking to you at the local level and that's why this is a local issue. The only way this is going to make it to be a federal issue is if we start to pass ceasefire resolutions in all of the towns. There's precedence for this. San Francisco has to have a ceasefire resolution. Many other towns in California have. And Santa Rosa really matters. Like people have said, it's the biggest town north of San Francisco. We really matter here. And our voices really matter and how we engage whether it's on social media or in our communities with my Palestinian friends who have met through this movement. They're incredibly inspiring. And if you're anything, I've learned so much from the Palestinian people as they're showing resilience and hope through this atrocity. And more than anything, my tax dollars, I'm a constituent in Santa Rosa. My tax dollars are funding this genocide. And truly I believe that you as city council members are our only hope and our only option right now. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker, go ahead. I want to thank city council for focusing on our city needs and not adopting resolutions that will divide our community. I think many people gathered here will be happy to learn that your voice was heard. Israel has suggested a ceasefire plan for the next 40 days with the release of 40 hostages. Secretary Blinken said today, it's up to Hamas to accept an immediate ceasefire with Israel. Ceasefire could start tomorrow. You want ceasefire resolution? Hey, it's possible. Excuse me, one second. All right, folks, it's been a long night. Let's be well-behaved till the end, please. Please continue, thank you. Ceasefire could start tomorrow if the hostages are released. There are still six American hostages held by Hamas. This process can begin in any meaningful way until the hostages come home. There is nothing clearer than the urgency of getting them home. Every Sunday, we walk in downtown San Rosa advocating for immediate hostage release. They are held captive for the last 150 days. Every pro-ceasefire speaker here should call their Hamas representative and demand ceasefire and release of hostages instead of addressing the city council members that have no way to solve this problem. Demand ceasefire for Hamas. Demand it now by not mentioning Hamas in your speeches calling Israel Nazis using anti-Zionist rhetoric. You, we heard people today that they defend Hamas Charter. You blame this conflict on Israelis as we heard today, and you demand ceasefire resolution from San Rosa City Council. You just show the support of a terrorist organization. Not trying to resolve a conflict. Vice mayor, I'm seeing no one else. State folks, again, folks, again, right at the end. Madam City Clerk. I see no one else approaching the public or the podiums for public comment on item 18. All right. Y con that, that brings us to item 19, adjournment. Thank you very much, everyone.