 I'd like to ask the interpreter currently on the Spanish channel to commence translation of the meeting. For those just joining the meeting live translation in Spanish is available and members of the public or staff wishing to listen in Spanish can join the Spanish channel by clicking on the interpretation icon in the Zoom toolbar. It looks like a globe. Once you join the Spanish channel we recommend you shut off the main audio so you only hear the Spanish translation. Gilberto will you please restate this in Spanish? Para las personas interesadas en interpretación simultánea en español de esta reunión regular del concilio de la ciudad de Santa Rosa pueden accesar este canal en la barra de funciones en la parte baja de su computadora o teléfono móvil. Haga click en el icono del mundo o globo terrapio, escoja su idioma. En este caso español se le pide también que mantenga su micrófono apagado hasta que se le pide hablar y la administradora o el administrador le avise que es su turno y le prenda su micrófono gracias. And welcome to our city council meeting today Madam City Clerk if you could please call the roll. Thank you mayor. Councilmember Schwedhelm, councilmember Sawyer, councilmember Rogers, councilmember McDonald, councilmember Fleming, vice mayor Alvarez, mayor Rogers. Councilmember Schwedhelm have you joined us? Okay let the record show that all councilmembers are present with the exception of councilmember Schwedhelm. Thank you so much Madam City Clerk. As a brief explanation for the public who's joining us via zoom we were originally not scheduled to have a city council meeting today we were scheduled to have this council meeting a week ago City Hall experienced power outage that actually took out our ability to connect via zoom and what ended up happening was because we had agendized the meeting as a hybrid meeting both in person and on zoom by not having the zoom component we were at risk of violating the Brown Act if folks could not participate the way that we had said that they could participate leading into the meeting. So we chose instead to continue all of the items from last week to this week and we agendized today's meeting as a zoom meeting in fact the only people who are in the chambers are myself and the City Clerk team as well as our IT department everybody else is via zoom that way just in case we didn't have the capabilities we then were at least able to do this offsite if we needed to. With that we'll go ahead and move into our meeting for the day we'll start with our proclamations with item 6.1 it's a proclamation for water professionals appreciation week it is as I mentioned was anticipated to be last week we will have council member Fleming read our proclamation item 6.1 please. Through the mayor it's going to take I'm having a tech issue of my own so it's going to take me a moment to pull that up if you'd like to reassign that you might save yourself a few moments. Is there a council member with 6.1 up in front of them that we can volunteer quickly? I have a mayor. All right go ahead council member Sawyer thank you I'm sorry my cameras I don't have camera today so we all have our own little tech issues but that's not uncommon for me. So it's my pleasure to read the proclamation whereas water is essential and without safe and reliable water and wastewater treatment no community and no sector of the economy can thrive or expand and whereas now more than ever we are proud of the important role the Santa Rosa water team plays in making sure our community has safe and reliable drinking water effective wastewater collection and reuse stormwater protection and clean and healthy creeks and whereas thanks to technological advances by highly skilled and trained water experts in the dedication of Santa Rosa waters professionals our communities drinking water and treated wastewater meets the most stringent water quality standards in the nation and whereas our communities drinking water is filtered cleaned tested and distributed in a process carefully managed by trained water operators who also make certain our water distribution system is operated to ensure reliable water system pressures for residents businesses and firefighting and whereas Santa Rosa is a leader in water recycling reusing nearly 100% of the city's recycled water for urban and agricultural irrigation as well as recharging the geysers steam fields to produce clean and renewable energy for 100,000 households in the North Bay and whereas our storm drain system and creeks are maintained to ensure a healthy natural environment for all and whereas these water professionals work 24 7 to plan for the future maintain and upgrade systems and improve the safety and resiliency of local water supplies for our community and whereas Santa Rosa water invests more than 135 million dollars each year on water related programs and projects that protect public health and the environment improve local water supply reliability replenish and clean our ground water basins provide water for fire protection and protect against floods and whereas 276 essential water wastewater recycled water and stormwater industry professionals at Santa Rosa water have dedicated their careers to keeping drinking water recycled water treated treated wastewater and our local creeks safe and reliable for our community as well as neighboring communities. Now therefore be it resolved Chris Rogers Mayor of the City Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire City Council to hereby proclaim the week of October 1 through 9 2022 as water professional appreciation week signed by the mayor on this date. Thank you, Council Member Sawyer and accepting the proclamation is Jennifer Burke our director for Santa Rosa water and director. Do you want to introduce your team that you have with you as well? So thank you Mayor Rogers and Council and thank you so much for honoring the Santa Rosa water team with this proclamation. Initially I had four staff that were going to be with me in person last week. However, they have all declined to participate in zoom. So you just get to see me accepting the proclamation. But I was going to have John Koslowski, one of our wastewater operators, Jason Leaf, one of our senior USO's Mark Shipman, one of our laboratory analysts and then Stacy Hatfield, one of our revenue and operations supervisors in water billing. Just again wanted to say that California Water Professionals Week, which takes place the first week of October, we will be appreciating all of the Santa Rosa water team for their dependability, relentlessness and their talent. And we really appreciate this proclamation. It recognizes the efforts of Santa Rosa water, not only of us, but also all water professionals and the essential jobs they perform for our communities. Day in and day out, water professionals make sure that we have safe and reliable drinking water, treat and beneficially reused, recycled water, and we are protecting our water resources and and the environment. So thank you so much to Council for recognizing these efforts. And thank you for recognizing all the work that water professionals do in Santa Rosa and the state of California. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you so much, Director. Go on to item 6.2. And this is Council Member Rogers's item. Thank you, Mayor. Whereas canine companions is a nonprofit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing expertly trained service dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnership. And whereas canine companions in their service dogs can help individuals live their lives to the fullest by providing best in class training, cutting edge research in a deeply committed community of support. And whereas we believe in the joyful transformative power of the human canine bond and whereas National Service Dog Month aims to educate our community about the benefits of service dogs and the laws protecting them and whereas the city of Santa Rosa continues to work towards becoming an inclusive community in which all citizens in their service dogs are respected and whereas the community is encouraged to celebrate genuine service dogs and be respectful to the adults, children and veterans that utilize these services. Now therefore be it resolved that I, Chris Rogers of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city council do hereby proclaim September as National Service Dog Month. Thank you so much, Council Member. And we do have Michelle Williams from Canine Companions as well as Wallace Brosman from Service Dogs, Granada, who I believe are on the zoom and have been promoted. Sorry, my name is Kristen Danbrowski and I'm taking the place of Michelle Williams. I'm our executive director here. I just want to say thank you to the council. Canine Companions invented the concept of service dogs nearly 50 years ago here in Santa Rosa and we're extremely honored and grateful to receive this proclamation in our hometown. And I wanted to pass it over to Wallace Brosman. She is our communications coordinator to say a little bit more. I wanted to thank you all for the opportunity to receive this proclamation. I am actually not only a staff member at Canine Companions, but a three time graduate with my own service dogs from Canine Companions and they have been 100% life changing. Our dogs know 45 commands. When we get them and they are just truly able to do anything from pick up something as small as a dime to carrying our groceries. And it really makes all the difference to recognize the great work that not only Canine Companions does, but excellent work that service dogs are doing every day. So from me and my current service dog, Granada, I thank you so much for the chance to have this proclamation. Thank you so much, Wallace. And Kristen, before we let you go, do you want to take a moment and plug your facility and the work that you're doing here in Santa Rosa? Sure, I think you might be mentioning our new facility that's underway. So we're really fortunate to be able to be building our new Canine Health and Wellness Center right next door to our current campus off Dutton Avenue. And this new facility is going to be home to our world class veterinary clinic, as well as combine our Canine Early Development Center, which is currently in a rental across the street. So we'll be able to consolidate basically all of our our veterinary care, our breeding and our puppy puppy program and research in one facility, which is going to be amazing. So we hope to have all of you out to visit once it's completed next year. Thank you. Excellent. And thank you so much for being here, both of you. And counsel, thank you. We'll open it up for public comment on our two proclamations for tonight, item 6.1 and 6.2. If you'd like to provide a comment, go ahead, hit the raise hand feature on your zoom. Seeing none, we'll keep moving through our agenda. Madam City Manager, let's move to item number seven. That's our staff briefing and our COVID-19 response update. Thank you, Mayor Daryl Dunstan with the city manager's office. I'll actually be providing that update. As of today, Sonoma County has reported an overall case rate of 8.7 per 100,000 residents and an overall testing positivity rate of 5.8%. It's important to still remember that vaccinations remain the most effective means to protect oneself from becoming seriously ill and from being hospitalized due to COVID-19. And for more information about the status of COVID-19 in our community, testing locations and vaccine information for all ages, please go to S-O-C-O emergencyalloneword.org. And that concludes my update, Mayor. Thank you so much, Mr. Assistant City Manager. Counsel, do we have any questions? See if there's any hands for public comment on the Assistant City Manager's update? Seeing none, we'll move on to our City Manager and City Attorney reports. Madam City Attorney, do you want to kick us off tonight? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I do have one announcement that I'd like to make, and that is with respect to a settlement that was reached late last week. This concerns the two cases from Apogee Gardens. Two cases. The first is Apogee Gardens versus City of Santa Rosa. It's a case brought under the Public Records Act. And then the second case is Apogee Gardens and Jason Smith versus Kelly Abadara at all. That was brought under Section 1983 alleging civil rights violations. That case, both cases combined, have now been settled for a global settlement of $95,000. And I want to thank Publicly Assistant City Attorney Adam Abel, who was the lead on the litigation and negotiated that settlement, which we believe is a fair and appropriate settlement. And happy to answer any questions. And that's the only announcement I have for this afternoon. Thank you, Madam City Attorney. And thank you to your team for the excellent work. Council, any questions for the City Attorney team? Let's go on to our City Manager report then. Great. Thank you, Mayor. Before I hand it over to Assistant City Manager Nutt, I just want to thank Assistant City Manager Dunstan, Chief Westrop, Chief Credian, Lon Peterson, Claire Hartman, Joe Ciboni, Public Works, Water and all the city employees for their quick response during the earthquake. You know, we have an amazing team. And I just want to publicly express my appreciation for a job well done. So Jason, I'm going to punt it over to you. Thank you, City Manager Smith, Mayor, Council members. I have two exciting updates for you today. One, the Transportation Public Works is excited to announce that the first two battery electric buses arrived in the corporation yard this morning, with the other two buses arriving by the end of the week, these 40 foot Proterra battery electric buses will be powered exclusively by local renewable geothermal and solar energy through snow and clean powers green evergreen program. And over the next several weeks, the transit division and fleet staff will work with Proterra and other vendors complete post delivery inspection and testing of the vehicles, install on board technology such as the fare boxes, clipper reader system, and provide training for staff in the operation and maintenance of the buses. A celebration of this important first step in the center of the city buses, we electrification program will be planned ahead of the launch of these buses into service. As they roll into the center of the city bus system with details to be provided in the coming weeks. It was very exciting to see pictures of those vehicles arriving this morning. Rachel Eade, our transit manager was extremely enthusiastic. So excited about transit. The second update relates to the Guarantee Basic Income Program, the pathway to income quality. The application period opened on September 1st and will remain open until October 31st. The application is bilingual in both English and Spanish. And families in Santa Rosa can get in person one on one bilingual application assistance via Esperanza, CAP or CPI. How these partners will continue to table at events and spread the word in the community and on social media to make sure eligible families are aware of this wonderful opportunity. Mayor, that concludes my report. Thanks so much, Mr. Assistant City Manager. Questions from Council? Seeing none, let's move to our public comment on the City Manager and City Attorney reports. If you're interested, hit the raise hand feature on Zoom. All right, let's go to statements of abstention by Councilmembers. Council, are there any abstentions for tonight's agenda? Seeing none, we'll move to our mayors and Councilmember reports. Do any Councilmembers have a report they'd like to deliver here tonight? Hit the raise hand feature. Start with Councilmember Sawyer. Thank you, Mayor. And what I have, not a report on any committee meeting, but I do have a request that the Todd Creek annexation be placed on our agenda for further discussion at the earliest convenience of the discussion would include a general plan amendment and how to best expedite the process for the purposes of housing. I am seeking a second for this request. I will make that second. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you, sir. We have a motion from Councilmember Sawyer and a second from Councilmember Alvarez to add the item to the agenda. We will bring that back at our next Council meeting specifically to vote on whether to see if there's support for adding this to our staff workload. So all debate will cease for tonight and bring it back for a noticed public discussion about that item. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Rogers. Thank you, Mayor. So first, I would like to say that I was able to attend the Merritt Awards. And that was that was great. And it was great to see what people are doing in our community and how they're providing service. And just it was a wonderful opportunity. So I think pretty soon they're going to be getting ready for next year, because it does take a long time to get those together. So if anyone has anyone that they would like to nominate, please look into that. Also, really quick. October 1st is the first day that the financial aid opens up online. So if your child is even thinking about going to college at all, please look in to filling out a FAFSA just to get them into the system. And that can be found at studentaid.gov. In addition, let me see, I'm still working on the Veterans Day event for November 11th and 12th. A lot of community community feedback and participation. So really enjoying working with that on this past Saturday, I was able to attend a food distribution at Face Eye Church, which happens on the second and fourth Saturday of the month. So that was really cool to see all the people that came out and that were in need, but that the need was able to be filled by Reboot Empire Food Bank. And I was able to tour the Greenway with Vice Mayor Alvarez and thank you to thea for putting that together, that tour together. And last, violence prevention policy team meeting was also really great. And we were able to get a bunch of people that care about the community that care about the youth. And really, I haven't seen so much discussion in that meeting, but it was really a great meeting to be a part of, to hear everyone kind of put their ideas on the table and see how we can move forward. And lastly, because I am here and I'm not able to be with my daughter, I would like to wish my daughter Tiana a happy 22nd birthday. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you so much, Councilmember, and that happy birthday extends from all of us too. Mr. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I wonder, well, Councilmember Rogers just informed or spoke about both of Greenway as well as a couple of other events that we were able to attend, including the Merit Awards. I want to add to that also the National Registration Day, which I was actually happy to participate at the McDonald's Food Park. It was a great event. We were actually able to register new voters, which I'm really excited to see in the Rosin area specifically. I also wanted to speak on a golf event that was hosted by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. I'm not a golfer. It's definitely a sport that I need to take up, but nonetheless, it was great to drive around the little caddies and try not to run anybody over. So that was always fun. Hopefully next year we can have a lot of our fellow Councilmembers join us on the Greens. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. I just wanted to take a quick minute and thank our Assistant City Manager and our entire team for how they responded to the earthquake a couple of weeks ago. Councilmembers were lucky enough to have finished up our meeting and have dispersed. And it was our new Assistant City Manager's first meeting in the hot seat. And I just told him that that's the way that Santa Rosa welcomes people is with some form of a natural disaster. So whether it was our water team who are responding and checking on our infrastructure, our transportation public works team, our public safety team, everybody at the city mobilized in a way that we all can be proud of to make sure that there was no damage to the city and that the needs of the residents were met in that moment. So I did want to just thank everybody for the way that they jumped in and reacted and continued to take care of this community. With that, we'll keep moving through our agenda. Let's go to our consent calendar. All right. Bear with me for this long agenda we have here today. So item 12.1 is a resolution. It's the third amendment to General Services Agreement F001842 with Yarborough Brothers Towing Inc. Item 12.2 is a resolution adopting amended conflict of interest codes. Item 12.3 is a resolution amendment to the city classification and salary plan to modify the salary range of the city attorney classification and adoption of the city salary plan and schedule. And item 12.4 which has some adjustments to it so let me read it clearly. It's approval of amendment number four to the city attorney's appointment agreement and introduce an ordinance to increase the compensation of the city attorney including one a five percent merit increase in salary resulting in a salary of $21,492 per month and two a three percent increase in deferred compensation for a total city contribution of eight percent. Thank you. Thank you madam city manager. Let's see if there's any questions on the consent calendar from the council. Seeing none let's go to public comment for our consent calendar. If you have a comment go ahead and hit the raise hand feature on your zoom. We do have one recorded voice comment okay 12.3. Let's go ahead and play that right now assuming the technology works with us. The audio does not seem to be playing on the recording. So we will comment was submitted by Jack Osborne and we will incorporate his comment into the minutes. Okay thank you so much. We'll go ahead bring it back then and keep moving. Mr. Vice Mayor if you could please put a motion on the table for consideration. Yes thank you mayor. I'd like to move items 12.1 through 12.4 and way further reading of the text. Second. We have a motion from the vice mayor and a second from councilmember Rogers. Any other discussion. All right let's call the vote. Councilmember Schwedhelm. Council member Sawyer. Aye. Councilmember Rogers. Aye. Councilmember McDonald. Aye. Councilmember Fleming. Aye. Vice Mayor Alvarez. Aye. Mayor Rogers. Aye. That motion passes with six ayes with councilmember Schwedhelm being absent. Okay it is not yet five o'clock so we can't do our public comments yet. We'll keep moving through our agenda where we have no report items no public hearings. We do have written communications quite a few of them specifically on legislation that was making its way through the final stages up in Sacramento. I will see if there's any questions from councilmembers on item 16.1 our state legislative update and public utilities commission update. Seeing none we'll see if there's any public comment on item 16 and I see no hands so we'll go ahead and come back. With that council the only thing remaining on our agenda is our public comment for non-agenda items so we'll go ahead and recess until five o'clock we'll come back for that public comment. Can I ask you to give it back? All right Madam City Clerk if we can call councilmembers back let's see if we have a quorum. All right I recognize a quorum let's go ahead and call the roll. Thank you Mayor. Councilmember Schwedhelm councilmember Sawyer. Here. Councilmember Rogers. President. Councilmember McDonald. Here. Councilmember Fleming. Here. Vice Mayor Alvarez. President. Mayor Rogers. Here. Let the record show that all councilmembers are present with the exception of councilmember Schwedhelm. All right thank you so much Madam Clerk we have one item left that's our public comment for non-agenda items if you'd like to provide comment on an issue that was not on tonight's agenda go ahead and hit the raise hand feature on your zoom and I believe for phones it's star six is that correct star nine. Star nine yes. Sorry my apologies star nine let's start with Tom followed by Joanne. Can you hear me Mr. Mayor? Yes we can go ahead. Okay my name is Tom LaPenna I'm the president of the Santa Rosa Manufacturer Home Association. First thing I wanted to say thank you to the manager Smith and the ladies of the council who attended our live barbecue we appreciate it very much and we thank you for your support there we started our quest for the RCO the rent control ordinance revision 2019 councilman Schwedhelm was now was the mayor and at that time we told them about the need for the revision of the ordinance and they put us on a tier two since then Mayor Rogers I think you'll remember earlier this year Roger McConnell and I had a zoom call with you and you put us on the goal-setting meeting for this year we did that I'm going to make I'm going to move on because I'm watching the clock also we had meetings and we've met with the chief city attorney we've met with Megan Bassenger from housing and community services and those meetings happened in August we're still waiting to have our first joint meeting ad hoc meeting with the owners our issue we feel is not with the owners our issue is with the outdated ordinance and we are asking begging please get this before you on your agenda for the council this year rent increases will go into effect starting January 1st according to the mobile home residency law our people must be notified 90 days in advance some of them have gotten a notice already you will hear from another speaker what that increase will be our prediction is almost exactly on the head we need your help we need your support we need your compassion please help seniors and young families because manufactured housing is the last affordable option for affordable housing for these groups in the city we need your help we need it now we can't wait any longer please get this on your agenda we know you support us we will support you will work with you on this please please make it happen this year thank you thank you so much tom let's go to joanne right i think it works better if i on you can everyone hear me now yes we can okay thank you good afternoon mr mayor um miss smith and city council my name is joanne jones and i'm the um vice president of the santa rosa mobile home association and thank you tom for speaking out again um so santa rosa is tied like tom said to a very old rent control ordinance established in 1992 and we would very much like to have that ordinance amended and changed we are tied santa rosa is tied to san missus go open and hayward san francisco's economy is tourism bioscience and technology santa rosa's economy is tourism wineries manufacturing and retail also the average price of a single family home in san francisco was 1.3 million whereas the average median price of a single family home in santa rosa is sixty thousand nine hundred seventy four dollars so there's really no parity between you know san francisco open and hayward and they're all kind of right in there and san rosa so we have been living with this ordinance for a very long time and we would like to be divorced from it actually um with that said we know we're going to still be tied to the probably for a while but we would desperately alike to see it amended and to reflect actually what open has done which is they've lowered theirs to sixty percent of the cpi and the three percent cap whichever is lower and i believe i'll have needed the same thing and so we're all part of that same group so if you would please please just keep us at the top of your agenda and do the right thing for us seniors and thank you for your hard work and dedication appreciate all that you have done also all right thank you very much thank you so much joanne let's go to resident five five four nine hello hello can you hear me yes we can hi my name is duane i'm from roseland and i wanted to point out that have also been a founding member of the sonoma county housing advocacy group and these are very important times to help mobile home owners manufactured housing is called 27 years ago that was one of the main things we were working on when we helped to save the journey then mobile home park from being destroyed put in a home depot store since it was burned recently it was destroyed some would say by an unnatural event and those uh last 40 units where affordable housing was available was then destroyed with the promise that more affordable housing gets built at that site one of the dilemmas in santa rosa which was just mentioned is that the median home price is up near seven hundred thousand dollars and a lot of young people cannot afford to get into that costly of a home so one of the things that's been happening is the build out of roseland a 30 year old plan called the southwest area plan has been put back into action and housing is appearing on the farthest edges of santa rosa's city limits even as you talk about city-centered growth which most people would think is downtown mr. huffy trell is building one taller building downtown and that's an example you folks could step up to the plate now and start getting housing built on the city owned lands such as the white house site which had a plan put together many years ago and basically become proactive about getting the housing into the downtown area this is vitally important because you're stressing out the infrastructure and the roseland area basketball road is a perfect example it's one of the most busy streets in the city overcrowded almost all day long and we can't get the transportation and public works people to take the parking opposite basketball road up there by where they have a planned county housing project that may come in our lifetime before that though because of that parking on basketball road there's extra pollution there's all these cars waiting on that road when they should pull that parking out let people turn right up into that situation thank you kindly thank you dwayne let's go to margaret good evening can you all hear me yes we can all right thank you so much my name is margaret samadio I'm the housing policy attorney of legal aid of sonoma county I think appearing here has been long overdue but I wanted to show up in support of a prior speaker tom on behalf of mobile home park residents I would encourage you to consider amending the mobile home rent stabilization ordinance in an urgent in an urgent manner the fact is the rent increases have increased not only for mobile homes but for other tenants as well because of inflation so a regular tendency is receiving 10% rent increase and then most of the mobile home rent stabilization ordinances are at the max of 6% you know to take effect next year so you have to act in a timely manner so that these increases don't result in displacement from one of our only affordable housing areas which is mobile home parks you know they're traditionally senior housing a lot of seniors live in mobile home parks and one of the things that we're supposed to be addressing in each jurisdiction's housing element plan is addressing the needs of seniors and the plan needs to delineate how they're going how a jurisdiction is going to do that and one method that we've been advocating for is for all of the localities to amend their mobile home stabilization ordinances because they're all outdated and in fact most places are planning on doing so and just haven't gotten around to it for instance Petaluma is one of their top 10 priorities they just passed a dose cause ordinance and we're anticipating the mobile home amendments will be coming next and the county they've had an amendment on the books for I think two years now and it's just a matter of the political will to get it done so I thank you for your time I really just urge you you know to talk to your constituents but to understand that when it comes to the position between a park owner and a mobile home owner there's an imbalance of power and it's not going to be you're not going to be able to find a magic middle ground there's never going to be one and that's why negotiations typically are not successful so I just ask that you consider you know the financial impact on our senior communities and consider amending in an urgent manner thank you for your time thank you Margaret let's go to Eric yes thank you this is Eric Frazier in the fourth district with Truth and Tourism also a community organizer I definitely want to throw my support behind the need for the mobile home update it seems to be a very critical issue and it is interesting that the previous speakers mentioned two areas that I think are really astute one is political will and the other one is imbalance of power most everybody on the council recognizes me for talking about short-term rental issues because I have some subject matter expertise in that and I will say that I surprised this past weekend when an email surface that showed that there's a lot of collusion between this homes not hotels group and a political candidate and in fact when we talk about political will it was all that sort of self-serving political will if you will to escalate this issue about short-term rentals and really turn it into a political policy crisis if you will it's all about political will and indeed those homes not hotel signs sprang up in the hills not as many as I thought but they're there and they're joined with the political candidate signs as this memo stated they would be but you wonder you know if that type of politicking is really what the city needs that type of political will where you're turning aside facts and the idea that you can work with a special interest group for months and months and months and months on the urgency ordinance this email seemed to suggest that the collusion went back several months before our new city manager was installed and to create the sort of again this urgency ordinance this regulation by urgency ordinance not talking to anybody in the industry and furthermore throwing fuel on this sort of psychological manipulation over the propaganda and stuff that was produced let me also say that just recently a couple days ago probably all timed within this political strategy a new survey was announced by city staff about str issues there's no date on the survey there's no deadline on the survey I'm sure it was written by staff and I wonder you know what is the political will of having really logical rational just leadership when it comes to managing the city through issues like this is everything have to be political I guess that's all I have to say today thanks so much and I guess we'll see you around the election time thank you thank you Eric I believe we have a voicemail public comment we do mayor we're bringing that up right now I call Osmore for our act jack item 13 as the president now has indicated that to COVID-19 is over in the country I think it is time for the city to get back to the normal operation of the city and seasoned is this trying to comply with the requirements issued by the government to do things to protect yourself from COVID-19 of course I'm an old man I'm 99 but I wish you all good luck thank you that's our last public comments with that we will adjourn thank you council members I'll see you in the coming weeks