 It's corner. All way out. In the disc there is one hand, the other. And he's got a little thing of this. It's so weird that's the thing going. Looks like that. Yeah, yeah. Every song about you in the background, they were talking about it. Okay, okay. They took quite a lot, everyone. Thank you. Oh, no, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll just see what I can do. Yeah, I'll just see what I can do. Okay. Okay. I know it's crazy. I'm bigger. I'm bigger. I'm bigger. I'm bigger. I'm bigger. I'm bigger. I'm bigger. No, I'm talking about microtonic. Oh. Good evening, everyone, I'd like to welcome you all to the February 22nd, 2023 community advisory board meeting. I just like to say, you know, I thought I'd have something, you know, pithy or profound to say, you know, being chair now of the community advisory board but it's been a really long day so it's great to be in this position, been here for a lot of years, super excited, can't wait, and then I'd also like to just take a really brief moment to just welcome all our new cad members excited to have you excited to see what we can do together and looking forward to meeting with you one on one at some point over the next month or two so stay tuned, I'll try to connect with you all. And without further ado, can we do the call to order and roll call please. Let's start off with the vocal chair weeks. Here, member Barnett, member home, member in a sense of member Diaz de Leon. Here. Thank you so much. And with that, we will open the floor to public comments. And this is for anything not related to agenda items. We have anyone online. There are no hands raised for public comment and no public comment in the room. Terrific moving right along. We are going to proceed to the approval of the January 25 2023 regular meeting minutes. Does anyone see anything that stands out to them that might be incorrect. And if not, I would entertain a motion to approve. Second. Second. Alrighty, then we will move to a vote. Share weeks. Sorry, do we have to do public comment on that public comment first. There are no hands raised for public comment and no public comment in the room. Great. Now we'll go to that. Share weeks. Yes. Member Barnett approve. Member home. Member in a sense of. Member Lynch. Member Diaz de Leon. Approve. Member Rodriguez. Member Sierra. And members. Sorry, as a point of clarification, you'll have to abstain because you are not at the meeting last month. Okay. So everyone's aware. Just make sure you press the button and then it turns red when we do it because otherwise it might not necessarily get captured in the audio. Just an FYI. All right, moving right along to item four have announcements. Does anyone have something that they'd like to share with the group and with the community. Now is your chance. Member on next. Member on. Some of you may or may not know I work for the stomach any bicycle coalition and may is bike month leading up to bike month we're doing a bunch of events and activities but I want to point folks to our smart cycling classes both happening in May and I'm sorry I'm happening in March and in April. I'm not encouraging folks because they're free and against an opportunity if you've ever thought about biking to work. We have free classes to give you the tools and resources to make it happen. Great. Thank you so much does anyone else have anything they'd like to announce with me. Number 10 right ahead. No good. Okay, the first one is Asian American and Pacific Islander coalition is currently doing a survey. Educational topics to help people in our community to better integrate themselves in the society and to understand the better about the municipal government operations. So you have members in your community or Asian American or Pacific Islanders. I can send the survey to them that they can provide input. Currently we have a few topics in place, including model education, understanding the school systems, and how it was to our children. And also about the state and the federal government laws. Last but not least is how to help them choose health insurance. The topics could be your planning. There is a family fun night at the multi-purpose room of Austin Creek Elementary School on the 24th starting at 545 p.m. We will have a bingo party and enjoy our Pasadena. Wonderful. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. Does anyone else have something they'd like to, they'd like to announce. I have a couple announcements this Sunday at four o'clock. Our NAACP youth are putting together a fashion show, and it is a celebration of black fashion, music and culture and the ways in which it shifted how we've dressed through the decades. A number of our elders have provided clothing from as far back as the 20s and 30s all the way through current day, and they also will be participating in the fashion show. A number of new voices will be doing a number of the, which is a Valley Academy locally black owned. They will be doing a number in the middle of the show, and we will also be spot lighting a number of local black businesses in the area. Our two upcoming meetings for March will be about, we'll have presentation from the health advocates for universal healthcare of some sort, and project through MBOP, and the other is in April will be our CP, which is the regional climate GPA situation that will come in and present about some of their environmental client climate efforts. And then the fourth one is as we're wrapping up the tail end of our environmental justice survey that we've participated with our state branch, which closes this week and we have more data to share with this body as well. We are also partnering with PG&E who is reckoning with their systemic structure and the challenges that they even looked at on communities, especially those who have injured disaster. So, Danny, I'll share the survey for you all to send to your community members to participate. And it's by region they are trying to grapple with the negative impacts and understand the climate resiliency that communities have had to put together, especially following disaster, which we know greatly impacted Santa Rosa. So I hope that folks will be able to share that with their community groups and networks as you see fit. And I think this event sounds great. I want to follow up with you after about that. Does anyone else have something they'd like to share. All right, seeing none, I'm just going to quickly recount, I guess, so this past month I participated in the parks cleanup and it was a place to play. Mayor Rogers was there and joined us there was a lot of weed pulling so much weed pulling and a lot of fun and I was joined by a chair of community services, Logan Pitts as well and so we had a really great time and it was great community event. Then the next one, I think that's coming up is going to, I think be the Arbor Day tree planning party but I'm not entirely 100% certain about that that's going to be on March 11. I encourage everyone to come out and join us it's at the Northwest Community Park there a lot of fun usually there's slushies or hot cocoa. And then we also have the same patties day 5k coming up as well on March 12 at 12pm I in, you know, plan on being there I encourage you all to join me as well it's usually a lot of fun. Ariana can race again, we can, we can race each other. And actually, the one thing I skipped over that's definitely more important. That is, is the Hopper Avenue improvements project community meeting. It's the second one will be on March 1 530 to seven so I encourage everyone to participate and to let your folks know in your community that this is happening so we can get a good with that. If anyone wants to see those forever with your piece all right, I am not seeing anything so with that we will close out item number four. And I would now open up to public comment. Public comment for item number four cab announcements, there are no hands raised for the virtual and no public comment in the room. Great, thank you. But that will proceed to item five staff updates and please feel free. All right, we just have two updates for you this evening. One is please. If you have not done so already send Danny you were photographed that you would like used on the cab website, as well as your most updated bio that you can include with that. We do have a couple photos of members so if Danny has your photo he'll be reaching out to you to get your permission to post it so you don't have to send one in. We also have the option of you coming in to have your photograph taken if you would like that done. So just let Danny know if that's something you'd like to do. Second announcement is I sent out this email last week but as of March 1 2023. All of our city's boards and commissions are moving to in person meetings. The governor will be lifting the emergency declaration, which allowed us to get around some of the requirements. And so with that, we will no longer be members will no longer be able to zoom in unless unless they post publicly their address on the agenda so you'll have to post where you're zooming in from and provide those details to the location details to the public. There are two exceptions to that. First one being just cause so there's a couple reasons that fall under just cause including childcare or caregiving of a child parent, etc. a contagious illness that prevents you from coming in they don't want to spread to risk board need to relate to physical or mental disability or travel on business of the city or another state or local agency. You are only able to use that and the emergency circumstances twice in one year so it can't be an ongoing thing and it has to be approved by, believe by staff and the chair. So, so just cause an emergency circumstances. So please take a look at that familiarize yourself and be prepared to come in person moving forward. Those are my updates. Assistant city manager. Good evening everybody Dario Dunstan assistant city manager for city of Santa Rosa. First and foremost I want to congratulate chair weeks on his appointment. And I also want to congratulate all the new members. I'm looking forward to meeting all of you all and being able to, you know, talk about some of the needs and how we can improve. I'm really excited about the opportunity before us. As you all are aware my godly pay us, I got a great opportunity with boys and girls club. And so we are in a bit of a transition at the time. And so Danny will continue to attend these meetings to provide tech support and be a recording secretary. And my colleague Lon Peterson, who is the director of communications and intergovernmental relations, he's with us online, but he will also be joining future meetings in person as well. And so I just want to, you know, make certain that you all understand, we are committed to the Community Action Board we're committed to being partners with you. I'm sorry, Cal, I'm sorry, chair weeks. I had the opportunity to speak with you, I believe last week, but two weeks ago really looking forward to continuing those conversations and understanding how we can best support this advisory board. So, thank you. Great, thank you so much and thank you for being here. Appreciate it. All right. I believe that's it for staff so we can open up to public comment. So hands raised for virtual public comment and no public comment in the room. All right. Moving right along item six scheduled items we I believe are getting a presentation from staff on a cabaret rotation so take it away. You are Madeline. Perfect. Thank you. Hi, everyone, Danielle garden, you know, I am the interim violence prevention program manager here at the city of Santa Rosa. I'm going to be providing you with an overview and orientation to the cab. So, welcome. Welcome new cab members and for all of my longstanding cab members welcome back. Great to have you here. Next slide please. All right, to start off with the cab's mission is to connect city government and residents so the public can have a voice and decisions that impact their lives and build a stronger community. There are some papers in front of you and that were linked in the agenda that provide an overview of the cab where it started, along with the associated resolutions. So, Council established the cab under the city charter in 2002. It's part of section 10 of the city charter. And it was created to have a community group that represents the views and ideas from the broader community on issues of interest to the city council. And the cab worked with city staff to update to provide a kind of a fuller in detail map of what the cab would be doing and to really flesh out their roles and responsibilities in 2003. And then there's a resolution in front of you which I believe is 28174 that fully dives into the details of the of the cab and I forgot to grab it. You grab it for me, please. Thank you. I'm going to just take a moment to go over those roles and responsibilities with each of you so that you understand what the charter outlines. And what the cab is responsible for. One being which you know is on our agenda as a regular standing agenda item is issues of concern to city residents, including issues of public safety. And so, those are really those those items that you're bringing back from what you're hearing out in the community to share with city staff, as well as your appointing council members, and then bringing it to city staff or able to move it along to the appropriate department so that the issue is being addressed. Second area is budget priorities for the capital improvement project. And so the cab is responsible for again going out to the community and collecting input and feedback from the community on what their infrastructure priorities are for the upcoming fiscal year for the city. And then what staff does is we take that information and then we provide it to the CIP or capital improvement project team. So that they can use that input as they build out their budget for the upcoming fiscal year. We used to do this in a variety of different ways we did town halls we did open houses utilize neighbor fest and Wednesday at market to collect that information. Pandemic really derailed all of that work. And so something to think about as you move forward as to how you would like to to gather that feedback one way that we did it during the pandemic is we had assistant city manager Jason nut provide a presentation to the board and collect that feedback during the meeting. Third area is participation in neighborhood planning meetings. So with this, the requirement is that each member is to attend a minimum of four community meetings city workshops and other such meetings that directly impact their area and or their group or organization. It could be a neighborhood meeting. It could be the end of the ACP meeting. It could be a variety of different meetings where you're able to go and hear what the community is saying and bring it back to the board. And that's what we use your cab announcements for is to is to utilize that time together that information. So this is a work strengthen public involvement process. And so this area is something that I think has been ongoing but we can figure out how to really utilize this and make it more effective is the board shall advise the council and possible methods and ways to increase public participation. So this is the building civic engagement throughout the community. One way that you have helped do that in the last year is help participate in the civic one on one videos and there's some other opportunities coming up for participation. And then building community again. And so I'm going to drive go hand in hand together because this also has to do with building civic capacity but also helping the city's community engagement efforts and providing feedback to our staff on best practices around community engagement and how to reach our diverse populations throughout Santa Rosa. So finally public public improvements that specifically has to do with the cabs grant program and issuing out those grants on a quarterly basis. So that is within that resolution. And then the other resolution that we have. Actually I'll get to the other resolution just a moment. So another point that you see here on the screen is there was a restructure of the cabs the cab actually used to be a lot larger than it is today used to be 21 members and now we're down to 14. So each council member appoints two members to the to the board. Please. Next slide please. I'm not going to spend too much time on the strategic plan, but the cab did go through a strategic planning process that started in 2017. Next slide please. Started in 2017 and was completed in 2018. And again the pandemic really threw it off the rails unfortunately, however, we did quite a bit of work and got a lot completed out of the plan so I just wanted to point that out. We implemented a pilot of the neighbor fest program. There was also some talk about civic engagement academy you're already proactively attending neighborhood meetings and community group meetings, and then assisting community engagement staff and creating a series of civic 101 videos which have been completed, and we'll talk a little bit later about what rolling out of those videos look like. So that was under the strategic area of community empowerment. Next slide please. And then under the second category community engagement expertise this is really the internal portion so providing training and technical assistance to members to develop their skills. And then to create a list of board assets and present one cab member for meeting as meet your cab member we did that. So that's, you know, it's something that really helped with relationship building among cab members and it's always something that could be brought back if the board wants to do that. Talking points flyer and FAQs for cab recruitment. We did that and provided that to city council members and that is available for council members. If they need some talking points for when they recruit their appointees. We also completed a cab orientation packet and mentioned well there was a mentoring program and that has kind of fallen off. But just because the pandemic happened it was really difficult to get and and also back then we had a lot of turnover right so most of you are new. So it's hard to do the mentoring piece when we haven't been been a member for that long so the board might want to look at that sometime down the road. But we do have the cab orientation packet available for all new members and each new member receives that when they are on board it and received their office. So we have the report to present to council outlining successes and challenges of implementing the strategic plan. We did not do this, although there is a requirement in the charter for the chair and staff to present every year on progress of the cab. So we could definitely incorporate that into the presentation. And then finally updating the cab grant program to reflect current community conditions including the pandemic that happens it's always an ongoing process every year to make sure that we're meeting the needs of the community. Next slide please. So on to the community improvement grant program so that's where this other resolution comes in so there's a couple of resolutions that go along with this the only the reason why I gave you the final one is because the other two are incorporated into this. Most recent one. So the cab grant program focuses on physical improvements and capacity building projects in the community that's on a quarterly basis. Community members can apply for up to $2,500 worth of funding, and then the cab receives all eligible applications. So prior to 2015 actually the cab would make recommendations to council, and then the council would be the final decision making bodies on the grant applications, however, in 2015 under resolution 28686 the council gave that power to the cab. So the cab now has the decision making ability to approve all grant applications moving forward. And the last resolution resolution 2019 124 that actually changed the grant program to focus on neighbor fest, but it also still includes the physical improvement projects. So the plan was before the pandemic was to incorporate neighbor fest and allow neighborhoods to utilize grant funding to fund neighbor fest events, but then of course the pandemic along and just completely through that off the rails as well. And since then we just we had a lot of staff turnover and stabbing challenges to where neighbor fest is just not going to happen in the foreseeable future. So cab grant program will continue to focus on those physical improvement projects and capacity building projects. However, neighbor fest moving forward will not happen unless it's directed again by city council or city manager. So now I want to go ahead and like, I want to jump into member requirements and then what city staff is responsible for when it comes to the board. So you should have received an email welcoming you from the city clerk's office as well as our team. You are to file a statement of economic disclosure every single year by April 1, I believe is the deadline and they will follow up with you on a repeated basis until you do that because there is a fine that is associated with not filling that out and filing it on time. So please make sure to work with the city clerk's office to get that in. You also have a mandatory ethics training. It needs to be completed within 12 months of your appointment. Which they did they should have sent the link out to that as well. So if you did not get that please follow up with Danny and you'll make sure to grab that for you. And then you're supposed to take a preventing workplace harassment training for elected and appointed officials within six months of your appointment and that will be sent out again to the clerk's office. I also wanted to list a couple other resources for you one. This is from 2019. So it's a little outdated. However, there's some good information in the video. It was the board's commissions and committees training great information in there about the Brown Act and meeting just basically meeting responsibilities board responsibilities attendance requirements. Check that out if you have some time. And then I'm not sure if they have got this up off the ground yet but prior to the pandemic we have an annual boards commissions and committees thank you lunch. That was hosted by the mayor, hoping that will come back everyone from the board is invited to attend when that happens it's usually in June or July. And it's a really fun event. I don't know how we did you ever go one of those events. I have not but it's funny because chair weeks of not related of the planning commission was just asking me about this the other day. So I'm glad you you brought it up because she was interested in learning more see if we're still doing it. Yeah. We'll follow up with the city clerk's office and see if that's still happening. Okay. Next slide please. Hello everyone staff. We give you your oath of office so everyone here should have had an oath of office and you have not. Let me know afterwards because you shouldn't be getting, we'll get your office. Provide you with this capital orientation. And then we take care of all the meeting items that you need agenda minutes presentations, you know, Danny works with the other departments when requested for scheduling those presentations, so on and so forth. So there is a city policy about boards commissions and committees. I will send that out after this meeting. That does require you to attend 75% of all of the meeting so meet fourth Wednesday of every month. So you are required to attend 75 75% out of the 12 that we hold. And you can participate in implementing the charter requirements. So, however that looks in your planning moving forward. Next slide please. Next slide please. Other board information. So again, congratulations chair weeks. Cal is or sorry chair weeks is for chair. I'm reaching out to you as he had mentioned before to get to know each and every one of you and to talk about your priorities and what you would like to see the board work on moving forward. The mayor appoints the chair, and that is a four year term and cab annually selects the vice chair position so as you may have noticed on the agenda tonight, you will be selecting your vice chair. That happens again every year and that is a wonderful opportunity, anyone is eligible, including new members. It's a wonderful opportunity to learn the ins and outs of facilitating the meeting. And a great opportunity to learn what it's like to chair board. You chair and vice chair can co facilitate the monthly meetings if that's something that chair weeks wants to do it's a format that our last few chairs have done to share those meeting responsibilities. And you also meet with staff on a regular basis before the agenda is put together each month. For meetings, the capital of the rules of the brown act, and in order to have a quorum. It's a little confusing so we have a total of 14 seats on the board so we have to have 50% plus one so that's eight members seven was one eight eight members in attendance to have a quorum. And we also meet the agendas every month so there is an agenda item at the end of every meeting for future agenda items and that is where you propose topics that can be brought up at a future meeting. So you have the ability to be part of that process. Your staff contact is damage part sitting over here to my left. If you need anything from him, whether it be an agenda, it'd be a city resource, having to do with your, your time here with the board please reach out directly to him, and he will hopefully get that taken care for you. And with that, I think that is it. So I will turn it back over to you chair weeks. All right, thank you for that thorough presentation. I'm guessing some folks might have some questions. Maybe not. No questions. No comments. Well I, I have, I guess a couple. I actually guess it's really the cab mentoring program I think that's you know really interesting that they brought that up and I'm glad you did because I you know I'm happy to make it and you know and coming upon myself to kind of help the new members here because I know you kind of just got thrown into this and you're probably wondering well what are we going to do like what's kind of you know the vision, you know the plan. Well I you know I'm happy to provide some some historical context and meet with you to give you the lay of the land so so I'll make that you know part of my responsibilities hopefully over the next month. Time permitting in my life. So I will, I will do my best, but, and then some of the community events one of the things that that we often do that I really enjoy is we'll come to community events in the past and you know we would set up boots and create opportunities for people to engage directly with the city. I don't know if we have the budget for that in this next cycle actually I think that's going to be determined very soon. There is going to be a workshop I, I, what's the date for the, the budget works on a goal setting, I think it is a goal setting or goal settings in March March and nine and 10. Okay, yeah budget doesn't we don't do that on me. I hope the budgeting will be May 9 and May 10 so that'll be the opportunity to hopefully advocate for more funding. We could start tabling again which I really enjoyed and I thought we're, you know, I think it was incredibly, you know, helpful to kind of bring people forward and answer all the questions. With that. Does anyone have any questions now any comments. Last chance or forever with your piece. All right, remember it. Anything I would say from the orientation. When I chaired, we used to have a roster of appointments of which council member from which district and who their appointments were. So that might be helpful for also was laid the land for getting to know who appointed you. I just checked the city website where the presentation I realized the city still has to update some of the council biographies as well so that would be one thing I would add to this just giving people their term and who appointed them so then they know like because when you're on the cab. No resident I've ever encountered really understands the districts process because it's so new. So when you're at a community event they're not going to necessarily come to you with an issue within your own district. And so it's helpful to know who is with each district because an issue can come forward. And it would be you know you may have to defer to that person and so that's where that comes into hand comes into being helpful because maybe oftentimes you're going to have a question that could just be roads water department. How do I you know how do I pay my water bill that's come to me. So but if you get a district specific thing it's helpful to have that roster so that you can reach out to when your colleagues and then that person can connect that way. That's a great idea we could do that. We'll we can send that we already have a roster without information so we can definitely send that out one thing that I do want to say though. This is really important and the reason why we have the do not reply all language in the emails is you cannot address or you cannot email the entire board in one email. You can email one person but do not email multiple because then you get into forum issues and become messy on the back end. And being the forgetful person I am I just remember the other thing I wanted to mention to some newer folks that are here. There's this handy little application that the city came up with known as my Santa Rosa and you can ask that access it either via the computer or via your phone. And essentially it's it's it's a software program that allows you to report problems in the community and really help you access city services so if for some reason. And you see graffiti, like, actually there's graffiti right now on the press will formally press Democrat building and they're building that just showed up the other day. You can report that, and then the city will be aware of it. If there's a pothole in your neighborhood, you can report that the city will be aware of it, you see something wrong with parks, report that they'll be aware of it so it's a handy little tool. I encourage you to broadcast it among your community members, I appreciate it I hope you do as well and with that. I'm done. So, public comment. There are no hands raised for virtual public comment and no public comment in the room. All right, and moving right along and thank you for that presentation I forgot to say that I do appreciate that item number six scheduled item sorry that's what we just did item. Item 6.2 council district town halls. be very short and sweet. We thought we would be able to bring more information to you this evening but we don't have that just yet. So, we hope to have it for you next meeting, we apologize. Again, due to, you know, staffing change over and staffing shortage is we were just delayed, so we will get to it, and we'll provide you with all of the information that you need to be participants in that process. Hi level click overview we've just done town halls in the past where it's an opportunity where all the community services there people can come they can ask questions interact directly with staff members. They've been really great, and usually had a pretty good showing we do them around the community and different places to create opportunities for everyone. I really enjoyed them as well. And yeah, very much looking forward to bringing them back. Does anyone have questions or comments about that I know she obviously can provide much. Yeah, I think the only thing for me would be how we can publicize them a little bit better and how like each of us could be good stewards of sharing the message around it because I think in the, lived in the community now 11 years like I see the same old people attending them, and it would be great to ensure that, you know, newer folks to the community have an opportunity to share their perspectives or even just get to know what's available here. And I'm extending an arm of saying, use me to help spread the word. Couldn't agree more and thank you. Thank you for volunteering I appreciate it. And we'll be working a lot on that. Does anyone else have questions comments. All right, seeing none public comment. There are no hands raised for virtual public comment and no public comment in the room. All right, terrific thank you item 6.3 have Vice Chair selection so who's the unlucky person that gets to work with me. All right, so the way that this process goes. First we're going to do around just temperature check who would like to be considered for Vice Chair role because not everybody wants to do it. So, if you would like to be considered for that please raise your hand. Not all at once guys come on. I would just like to know, I mean, generally speaking I don't think you're going to be tasked with doing a lot necessarily I mean it's really coming up on the chair to kind of steer the ship as it were. But yeah, it is a great opportunity to to essentially as you noted earlier to set yourself up for future leadership opportunities so, and even if you're new it's never too late to learn. So, again, it's not a huge time commitment. It's filling in. So it's helping to co facilitate the meetings so you gain those really great facilitation skills. And also is filling in for the chair in case he has to miss a meeting because sometimes things come up. And so we need someone who's going to fill in that position if he's not here. And then it's working with staff once a month for like 30 minutes to make sure the agenda is good and that if there's any issues that we need to deal with prior to the meeting that they're addressed with staff. Not a huge time commitment. Come on don't be shy now. Oh, all right member Barnett. And for the newer members who are not aware member Barnett is actually our longest seated member now with the Community advisory board I think I'm number two. So we are the OGs of the Community advisory board. Anyways, thank you for setting up just like just like the old days. We go again. Okay, so if we only have one person that just needs to be an official vote so I'll motion and then a second and then official vote, I move to a vote to support member Barnett to be the vice chair. Second. All right, let's get a vote going so. Questions are public comment required for this. Yeah, public comment. There are no hands raised for virtual public comment and no public comment in the room. I will meet again chair weeks. Hi. Member Barnett. abstain. Yeah, I guess. I'm wrong. Hi. Member in a sensual. I remember range. Member Diaz de Leon. Hi. Member Rodriguez. Members here. Hi. Member Chen. All right, let the record show that all members in attendance have voted for member Barnett to be vice chair. No promises. All right, moving right along item 6.4 issues of concern to city residents. I'm going to move to my fellow community advisory board members. Does anyone have something they would like to raise? Member Lange. Well, of course, you know that the ongoing conversations with a meeting to address. Those in our community who are cyclically unsheltered is definitely high priority. I was advised this morning that members, community members who live at the Palms property who chose to do interviews with the commission on human rights to share their experiences were. Group were then confronted with notices to vacate the property within three days. And while we all know it's illegal for tenants to be retaliated against for engaging in government process, this is something that those of us who are trying to work in partnership with our elected officials to remedy and to address, find very troubling when these types of things come about. I've also been advised that the trailer property that is just behind the fairgrounds has also been a place where black identified males have been targeted and noted as well. And I would like to thank members for asking clarifying questions on the in and out policies because of family needs that they've had and have also been had their trailers searched without cause and permission. And also a notice to vacate without being able to collect their belongings and with nothing to sleep in. And we know these last few nights have been freezing. And I think it's been a really good time for everyone who's coming up on the one year anniversary of the passing of a loved one who lived on the streets of Phoenix. It's definitely something that's really sensitive for me. And I find it really, really troubling that in our community that folks who live an unconventional life are being criminalized for trying to get on track to do the right thing. And I think that's something that's really important for us. And I think that's something that's really important for us before they are able to really prioritize people. It's even more heartbreaking when we have freezing temperatures. And every week, a coalition of us have to write to the supervisors and to city officials to open up warming shelters. Instead of everyone like we all look at the temperature. And we know I need to wear a coat. You know, I'm really worried about the health care system, but there is a need for us to be able to get it to work. And so we're really, really, we're really, really, we're really lost in the past. And folks should not be mistreated because they are speaking out and sharing the troubles of their experiences. And with the over representation of black and indigenous community members in this particular population. I'm deeply concerned at how many are being riddled with and the fragility that they get confronted with from city and county staff members. And on the heels of now it's announced that drove a total trail will be cleared yet again. Last summer when that same clearing took place, all but nine black men were offered shelter. Unfortunately, two of those men now have had other life experiences and moved them out of the community. And one has passed away of freezing in his tent. And so when we think about how we all have a responsibility to show up in these conversations, not with the, I don't want it in my backyard, I don't want it in my neighborhood, but I think we need to really think about how we in this body show up compelling those to come to these conversations with a more, with a wide and open heart because this tricky part that I've observed happens is the balance between what happens within city limits and what happens within the unincorporated areas. And it gets punted back and forth, back and forth. And I hope in this year that for whatever we tackle as a board that we all find what our voice will be in these conversations because people shouldn't have to die because they don't have access to mental health support and the proper resources to get on their feet. Assistant city manager. Thank you chair weeks and member Lange. Appreciate those comments. I learned a bit tonight and absolutely want to have a conversation with you online. I do want to say for the members here and the members of the public that the city of Santa Rosa has activated its warming center this evening, tomorrow evening and Friday evening. The only warming center in Sonoma County at Caritas village. And we can get you all the address, but it is open right now. It will be open between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. Again, this evening, tomorrow evening and Friday evening. And it will be open through Saturday morning. And so we'll be sure to push that information out and we'll connect. Follow on question. Is there an organization or someone at the city or even police officers that are just on their general patrol? Will they approach individuals that are on the street and suggest that they go to the warming center just for safety and health reasons? There are quite a few officers that do do that, but primarily it's our outreach teams that are canvassing neighborhoods and known places where unsheltered folks gather to encourage them to come inside. But it's a challenge at times. Yeah, I know there's a few individuals that usually bunker down near the formerly known as press Democrat building. And so those would be some of the individuals that come to mind that I'd be concerned about because it is particularly frigid. Yes. And while we encourage folks to come inside, especially when it's cold outside, at the end of the day, it is that person's choice. And so we highly encourage that they take up that offer, but we also don't wanna infringe on people's civil liberties. And so if that person chooses not to come inside, there are no punitive actions that are taken against them. Great, that's super helpful. Thank you so much. And thank you, Member Lange, for providing all that information, very helpful. And I appreciate you elevating that conversation. Is there anyone else who has an issue of concern that they would like to raise at this moment? Member Ken. Yes, in the section that I went out and the mountain of Hawke's Eye in the north-east of New York, seems to be an accident that happened and frequently a friend of mine was involved in the accident. Well, in the morning when she was taking her daughter to Austin Elementary. And I'd like to see if the city, I don't know if they have to get in the ring or if there is anything to be done so that we can make that inspection paper for Western students. Very good. Highway 12 at Mountain Hawke's Eye. Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Okay, yeah, I couldn't agree more. You know, one of the things I've noticed too, I think is just generally, and maybe I'm just imagining it, but people are, I think more often running red lights these days, but I know there's limited patrols and limited resources and so it is what it is. But we've definitely seen a shift, I think, in terms of overall traffic patterns and how people are operating on the road these days. Does anyone else have something they would like to share? Well, I'd like to talk about downtown. I've noticed a lot more graffiti lately downtown and it's not being addressed. I do manage some properties that we get graffiti and we clean it up the next day it reappears. And I'm at my wit's end in how to solve this. Because I mean, what's the point of cleaning it up if someone's gonna do it again? Maybe that's a good question to Assistant City Mayor. Yeah, thank you, Member. Through the chair, this is an issue that we understand continues to increase. And there are two sides. There's graffiti on public parcels and public buildings. And then in your case, there's graffiti on private parcels. And we're working with our code enforcement team as well as SRPD to figure out solutions on the private side. We do have resources for public right of ways and public buildings, but state, county, local laws come into play when we start talking about private buildings. But we acknowledge that it is a growing issue. I mean, maybe what we could do is let the property owners sign some type of waiver allowing the city to come in and take care of the graffiti. Because it's just too much. And personally, I've been getting red tag or threatened to be red tag if I didn't clean it up, but I cleaned it up multiple times. Yes, yes. And these are the active conversations that are happening. Code enforcement officers understand they're going to some of the same private entities. So they know you all are actually cleaning up the graffiti. But to your point, you shouldn't be penalized for a reoccurring issue. And it's something that we're looking into and we hope to be able to report out something in the near future. Great, great. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, thank you for raising that. I know with the kind of advent of COVID, we've kind of seen an emergence of side shows and kind of proliferation of graffiti in our community. And I know it's city manager, Smith's, one of our higher priorities. So I trust she'll come up with a plan and she'll let us know how we're gonna proceed forward with that in the future. So thank you for raising that. All right, just scanning the room one more time. Member Anderson. Thank you. Sorry, Brian, I think of the last video as well, but just the use of Civic Ready and kind of just the text messages that they send out are malformed or they're missing information or they're late. I guess just noticing a big difference between Nixle and Civic Ready. And it just, it's an issue that's been brought up many times I think people talk about it. And I'm wondering if there's anything being planned to improve Civic Ready, the use of Civic Ready or if we know why we switched from Nixle to Civic Ready? Because I'm concerned. I mean, things have been calm but if we have another set of fires, I don't think we can have alert system that sends out half a text message and then corrects it an hour later. So that's my main concern. Yeah, we'll have staff looking through those issues. Absolutely. Technology, it's always one step forward, two steps back. But yeah, I'm sure they'll look into that and thank you for raising that again. It is indeed incredibly important should we have a fire, Lord knows we need people to be alerted. All right, I'm just getting in the room and I don't see anyone else. Yes, I just wanted to provide for the record the address of the warming center. And so it's going to be at 3016th Street, Suite 108 and that's Caritas Center that is administered by Catholic Charities who's the city's primary homeless service provider. And the entrance is going to be on Morgan and 6th Street and again, the hours of operation this evening from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., tomorrow evening from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. and Friday evening from 7 p.m. and it will close at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning. And according to forecast by the National Weather Service, we do believe that the temperature will improve over the weekend. But should it not, we'll reassess. Member Kiancivillian. Thank you for sharing the address and once again sharing the times. Can you clarify if it then closes during the day and if that's the case, is there a place for people to go during that time? I know it's colder at night, but just want to know if there's someone that people can go during the day. No, the drop-in center is open during normal business hours. Okay, so it's all the way through. Correct. Member Burnett. Thank you for bringing this up, member. And since you, I have another concern from residents and that was also about the Civic Ready. And on January 26th, 3.28 a.m., they received a text message and thank you, Facebook, they put out what the actual message was and it was an incomplete text message saying, someone was stabbed at Safeway and no other information. So in addition to being woke up at 3.20 in the morning to with an alert on their text on a stabbing and it was just at Safeway. And the point that this particular resident made was, there's five Safeways in Santa Rosa. Which address are you referring this to? Which neighborhoods? But this person was over on College Avenue and it occurred to me of that does. So this is also, talking about having them potentially bring the Civic Ready program as a presentation to this board. And that was my other question of when they have, what is the geo map that they're working off of? In other words, does Civic Ready send everything out citywide to anyone that has signed up or do they have geo-fence capabilities that would make a lot more sense in an instance where, because what I know was happening was Santa Rosa Police Department did not want people going in that area, right? They were trying to discourage people from going into the area. But with it being such a broad alert, if that went out citywide without an address, did that make sense? And that was one of my questions that I was hoping to bring to the board of with Civic Ready's protocols, do they have geo-fence capability when an announcement goes out? And what are the protocols in place for an announcement going out? Because this is one of those instances where I turn my phone off at night, but not everybody does. And so this was one of those instances where they got, woke out of a dead sleep at 3.20 in the morning with an incomplete emergency action item, right? Going, what are you asking me to do with this? And so I had those lower my questions for the Civic Ready program of that geo-fencing capability and protocols in place for when they do send an alert out. Yes, there are protocols in place, but I take your point, I do think it would be beneficial if we could have or schedule a presentation from staff to get some clear answers to some of you all's questions. And so we'll work on getting that calendar. In the meantime, if you visit the city's website, srcity.org, and if you put in the search box, Civic Ready, one word, right? It will take you to a Q&A page if you will. And so it gets into why the city switched from Nixle to Civic Ready, and it answers a number of other questions. However, I do think it would be beneficial if we had a staff person come and just speak to some of these questions and concerns, which we're certainly happy to get scheduled. And then on your point about that half message, that was SRPD sending out the wrong message to the wrong list. Yes, and so certainly apologize for obviously the miscommunication and any inconveniences that that caused. All right, great. Thank you for that. One final thing that I would offer, if you are at all interested in learning to see if there is a dormant community or neighborhood group in your particular area, your neck of the woods, I would definitely encourage you to reach out to staff. They could probably connect you with a lead in that neighborhood. And you can potentially seize an opportunity to bring that group back. I personally trying to work on getting the JC neighborhood group back. It's taken a little bit of time, but one step forward. All right, without seeing any of the hands, public comment. We do have one public comment in the room. If you can go ahead and head to the podium, we'll put it behind you. And you can go ahead and just click on the microphone button for that to turn red. And we have a three minute timer set. Please set your name for the record. Your timer begins now. I hope this is the microphone button. My name is Gregory Farron. I'm here tonight to share some exciting news for your consideration. As you heard in the orientation, a part of your role is to advise the city on matters of interest to the community and to residents. And in particular, in the past, one of the biggest budget items that you were able to review and give comment to was the, was Jason, that's capital improvement project as was mentioned, that sort of faded partly because the coronavirus and getting together people and commenting. But it was also because Jason several times came and said, you know, most of the money that I've got is pretty dedicated to a project. And I don't have much that I can allow you to be able to help me re-budget or redesign. And so in many conversations I had with him, the fact that he had no real flexible money meant that it was kind of a boring exercise for both of you. That's gonna change. And the good news I'm sharing with you tonight is as you probably remember when ARPA came in, it was a federally authorized giant chunk of money that had very little restriction and was able all over the country to set up 200,000 projects spending $350 billion. I was a part of local Sonoma County's review group and I can tell you it's been an exciting process. The city also used its money and attacked a lot of different projects that it never had money for in the past. Now, that's 350 billion of a first trillion dollars that was called the CARES Act. Congress passed and the counties heard last week the second and third trillion dollar packages. One is called the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, BIL. And the other is called the Inflation Reduction Act, IRA. Both of them have strong community decided involving the community components. Congress wants to mimic what it did with ARPA. In fact, the special assistance to the president told the county representatives last week that it really needs to think of the three packages as part of one whole and that they need to, the counties need to put together projects that are community driven. Now, the difference between ARPA and the infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Act is partly which departments at the city and the county are going to be directly affected because while ARPA had a lot more human service ambitions and in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa, we attacked the areas of our city and county where there was a disparity in income and health. In our county, we focused on Roseland because of the portrait of Sonoma County showing the disparity between residents of that Southwest area and the rest of the county. And so a part of our ambition was not just to put out good projects, but to try to remedy the disparity. In Santa Rosa, we did much of the same thing with specific projects on guaranteed incomes, on childcare, on other things. That ambition was pretty unique to Sonoma County. I'm president of an association that is everybody in the country spending ARPA. And I can tell you that we are in about 5% of the whole country who took an ambition to try to take that money and do social good. I'm proud of our city and I'm proud of our county for that. But the rest of the country is taking notice and they're beginning to think about doing the same thing with the new money in infrastructure and inflation reduction. So we can keep champion that way. Now, what's the real message I'm saying? Infrastructure and inflation reduction were the term, were the titles of this money, not necessarily the limitations of this money. So when you think infrastructure, don't just think roads, bridges and ports. Infrastructure to Congress and in the law talks about social infrastructure as much as it does physical, okay? Inflation reduction is the same thing. So Congress is giving you $2 trillion, not $350 billion, $2 trillion to spend in these two areas. And way it gets down to Sonoma County and Santa Rosa, think three times as much at least as we had in our... Sir Pia, do you have an action item for us? I am. The action item is to ask you to put into your goals and your plan the encouragement and support of the citizens of Santa Rosa to plan how to use your $100 million. Take the initiative that we started at the county to basically use it as a community-driven strategy to tackle a lot of things that it will allow. And you'll be surprised how many things you champion and you have heard from your community already who you never had money to give, who you never had a way to help. I'm asking you to take it as your mandate. Thank you. Great, thank you so much, Mr. Pierron, I appreciate it. All right, do we have anyone else? There are no other hands raised for public comment and no other public comment in the room. All right, with that, we will move to item number seven, our last item of the evening, future agenda items, staff. So we did hear the request for presentation on Civic Ready. So we will add that. We are also in talks with our director of communication in your governmental relations about bringing a presentation on the My Santa Rosa app to the board, which was requested last year. So that is coming. And in addition to that, we still have the in-response presentation, which was supposed to be tonight, but we've pushed it back given that we needed to do the orientation. And I am so sorry to not notice that on the agenda item and I kind of did my brief little presentation earlier on the My Santa Rosa app. I think a presentation would be terrific because it's a great little tool and definitely we should broadcast this, not just possible. So I look forward to that and thank you. Is there any other items folks would like to raise? Member Barnett. Since Member Chen brought up the traffic incident on Highway 12, there's been several. And obviously my organization gets these reports, but I was thinking that it might be beneficial. I know we just had city bus here, but it might be beneficial for the board to know about what residents can do in a situation where there's a high traffic because I do believe the public works if they aren't, it could be through, well, there is a subcommittee dedicated if I can pedestrian safety, but I think tools from the city it might be beneficial if it's possible. This also could be solved on email. I could just send over the links or of what to do, right? If you have a neighborhood organization that has a high traffic or has a high risk, high traffic intersection, what residents can do, which departments they can contact to, because one of the things is it's, these reports are compiled. There is data, but it could be a beneficial tool of what neighbor, what actions neighborhoods can do because you can put traffic safety mitigation in place. You can do road calming measures, but it does take action from neighborhoods oftentimes to elevate a concern. So that might be a future agenda item to consider. Is it possible to combine that with the MySanRosa app presentation? I kind of feel like they go hand in hand. We can definitely talk to the director about that. Great, awesome. All right, thank you. Does anyone else have a future agenda item that they would like to add? Scanning the room, not seeing any movement. All righty then. I believe we also have to do public comment on this, yes? All right. There are no hands raised for virtual comment and no public comment in the room. Terrific, all right. With that, I will entertain a motion. Motion to adjourn. And member Lange is on it. Do I have a second? Second. All righty then. Thank you, everyone.