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>> I'd like to ask the interpreter currently on the Spanish Channel to commence interpretation of the meeting for those just joining the meeting. Live interpretation 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 and Zoom toolbar. It looks like a cloak. If you're on your cell phone or tablet locate the 3 dots kept them lightly. Put a check mark on your preferred language. Click done to activate and begin the interpretation. Won't you join the Spanish Channel? We recommend you shut off the main audio. So you only hear the Spanish interpretation interpreter. Will you please restate this in Spanish? >> See what a start of that onion doing. But initial be coming in to put the finishing with onion is spending by. Don't use have fun Stick with the city he can. Con of the grille You can stand to least month ago. This soon Eappen in on that. Yet in pennies or is spending to stay, this with the defense had not that led look at it. There's this Does list that ea up with a disco. Hit them. Get any deal. My Spanish voiced by. No, I'm going to be bit. I said take in dawn on least took one day at that. Amina, though, even on the damage gets you right now, that cannot be bad. But as coach Antonian show not meant to end his planned unit. We just us back to you. >> everyone. Good to see you

all here. Time is 2.33. MADAM City clerk, would you please call the roll? >> Thank you, Mayor Councilmember Rogers, PRESIDENT Kripke is absent Councilmember MacDonald is absent councilmember Fleming. Councilmember Ben, when those here, Vice mayor us Alvarez absent. Mayor, stop here. Let the record reflect all councilmembers are present with the exception of Vice Mayor Alvarez Councilmembers, MacDonald and Okrepkie. >> Thank you. Over on to item item 3 are closed session items we have today items. 3.0, 1, 3.2, both conferences with property negotiators item 3.3 public emporium. Poor performance evaluation is going to pushed to the next meeting. And with that, I will call for public comment, but seeing no one in the chamber will simply go into research recess for closed session. Thank you. Thanks to everyone for their patience. Looks like we're Deputy city clerk. Would you please call the roll? >> Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Rogers resident Councilmember Okrepkie is absent Councilmember MacDonald is absent. Councilmember Fleming here, Councilmember Ben Willows here, vice mayor, however, as PRESIDENT Mayer stop here. But the record reflect all councilmembers are present with the exception of council members. MacDonald in Okrepkie. Thank you. >> We're back from closed session. Move on to item 4.1 person on board interviews. I think we have 4 into

interviewees today for the personnel board. Do we have? Want buy auto, preparing the Newseum. >> I am not seeing her on zoom. >> All We will come back to want to in a few minutes is Deana Martin here. What are you come down to the to the front? That's probably the easiest place to to speak. Thank you. Thank you very much for applying. And you can turn the microphone on. Hard to get used to in the bottom right in front of you. First time would you take a couple of minutes just introduce yourself, explain your interest in the position. Certainly. So I'm a longtime resident. And if you could speak close to the Mike apology can put even more closely to you. I think there you go. Has that take it takes a well-used, ok? Thank you. >> So I'm a longtime resident of Santa Rosa. I've been a homeowner here for a little over 10 years and I've been a transactional paralegal for a little over 11. I grew up in a firefighting family where labor issues were very regularly discussed around the dinner table that inspired an interest in labor relations. But more importantly, there were a lot of lessons learned about accountability, compromise and fairness. And I applied for the personnel board because I think that this is a meaningful way to engage in my community. Thank you. >> ask one other question before. Turning over to councils, he's what he perceived as the most important job of the personnel board. >> I think that the most important job in the personnel board is to. Is for each member to show up with an unbiased outlook. I I think that. Whenever possible. The goal should be working

towards. Corrective action that reinforces positive behavior. I think that we all come to the table with our own experiences and opinions and expectations. But doing one's best to shed that at the door so that one can clearly look at the set of facts clearly way each side of the story is is the most important function personnel board member Ken, except that. Thank you for that. All right. I'm turning my colleagues any questions. >> pair runs. Thank you first for the thank you for applying position my colleagues and myself are elected by the people to represent the people. And although our personnel through serves, the agency rolls But I would hope that. Also think of the community in doing their jobs as open alternative to the lives of Santa Rosa's. And I'm wondering what your feeling of that is. And what have you personally done to advocate for the people of Saint >> Well, I as far as my opinion on that, I agree that it's kind of symbiotic relationship. The people of the Santa Rosa of Santa Rosa. Work keep this a wonderful place to live while the personnel of Santa Rosa work for the people. We've all got a common goal. And as far as what I've personally to serve in Santa Rosa, I was a member of wine country. Young Democrats many years ago before aged out it in the last few years. I apologies. My volunteer work has been more towards working towards going

to school to get my doctor insight in clinical psychology. So I served as a counselor on the suicide prevention hotline for a year. Any other questions? Been with us. Thank you so much for applying so hard to find good So really appreciate it. And you have quite a very impressive resume. I have to say and I'm just curious. I mean, you're you know, your doctor done everything very qualified. I'm just wondering about personnel itself in that because I know you said you are a paralegal, which means you extensive legal background, but also was just wondering in terms of personnel work or human resource work. What kind of experience have in that area as well. Certainly so within my current position >> we we instated diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. >> Program in my job. And so participated on that team for a little over a year. We're we worked on mental health initiatives. >> Initiatives >> focusing on the? >> What's the word? I'm looking for. Apologize, recognizing our blind spots within the workplace. And then also I served as a as a mentor for a year in helping another coworker. Find her to promotion to to better herself within the company. So that's how I've involve myself in personnel about it. Any other

questions. >> All right. Well, again, thank you very much for applying. Thank you for being there for coming in person for the interview and look forward to seeing with our next candidate. All right. Thank you very much. And Stacey Specter here. Stacey, thank you for coming today. Good afternoon. When you settle in there. There you got the mike. You probably want to put a little bit closer. But when you're when you're ready to come in or to explain, tell us a little bit about yourself. Explain your interest in the position. >> Yes, and actually thank you for modeling the way. I appreciate that. And I have lived in cinema in Santa Rosa City, actually for 7 years. And my interest that compels me to be here probably started at the dinner table with my family, both my parents for an education. My dad was director of adult Ed for the state and my mom moved from a teacher to a counselor to assistant superintendent of hr. So as much as I tried to escape the family business, I couldn't. I became a teacher and then moved into administration on the instructional side of the house and then a defining moment in my career about 10 years ago brought me over to the personnel side. And from that, I moved into the assistant superintendent see of human resources with Santa Rosa City schools and now with Bellevue Union School District and it's always been my interest to ensure that. The employee of any organization represents the core beliefs and values of that institution and that it's our role in personnel to make sure that we provide that support. We recruit the best people. We train them and we hold them

responsible for how they serve the community and people. And I just thought that this would be another way an opportunity for me to do that for my community. Thank you for that. If you could also take a minute talk about what you think the most important role for that for the personnel board here >> Absolutely. I think the members of the personal committee are responsible for ensuring that all of our staff. >> Within the city of Santa Rosa follow the rules and precedents of the classified service. But we also ensure that we abide by the merit system and that we also. Play a very vital role if and when it's necessary to address issues of grievances and discipline. >> Thank. You know, I'm looking to my colleagues again, Vice Mayor Alvarez. >> I'd like to ask you the same question. Asked the other candidate and regards to >> our collective efforts to improve the life of every citizen and also your personal efforts in doing so. Absolutely >> specific to Santa Rosa. I'm also a member of the Juvenile Justice Commission and have been for the last year. And that comes from a very strong core belief again, about serving the most underserved of our community. When I lived in San Diego, I was executive director of juvenile court and community schools and had the opportunity to work in partnership with public agencies, the private sector and the county office to serve students. And I wanted to continue to do that. When came here. And so when there was an opportunity to apply for that commission. I did so in of enjoyed very much so in the last year. And then this just sort of alliance. Also to my professional capacity and becoming a member of this

commission. Hopefully. Thank you. Other questions. All right. We'll say thank you for thank you. Get application in for taking the time to come today. >> Absolutely. Thank you. Erica. Time Thank you for coming out. All right. We've seen that you've seen the routine. That's rain. Okay. There we go everywhere. You know what will come. Thank for having me. Thank you for coming out. Could you just take a minute or 2 to talk about your background and your interest in the position? >> Sure. So I'm Erika De Bois and I am a resident of Santa Rosa District 3 for about 2 years now. But in my professional capacity and the director of the Sonoma County Library, which is a public agency with 300 plus employees. We are union environment. We are not a civil service, but I do have experience in civil service and in my role as the deputy director, I was the chief negotiator for last contract. We're currently in negotiations right now as the Jpa. We are responsible for all of our labor relations. So I'm very involved and grievances. Personnel, disciplinary actions. And I actually have quite a bit of experience with discipline, not only at the Sonoma County Library, but in my previous role as a principal librarian for Las Angeles Public Library, which was a civil service institution, I also was on the executive Board of asked me local. 26 26. So I have experience on both sides of the table with labor

relations and negotiated the I was on the negotiating team for the 2016 contract with the city of Los Angeles. And Judy Kaye did grievances both as a supervisor as well representing other employees. So I have a lot of labor relations experience. It's something that I really enjoy. And for the city of Saint Rose, I would say that, you know, I know it's a complex and sometimes difficult process and it's good to have somebody on the board who who understands what it means to be in management, as well as what it means to be an employee and being able to see both sides and ensuring that the employees getting a fair hearing. That's the organization is doing their due diligence and making sure that they are, you know, doing all the things that they're supposed to do abiding by that the city's policies and procedures giving the employee the benefit of the doubt whenever possible. Thank you. And card already spoken to this to some extent in your first response. But in terms of the importance of the of the of the personnel >> You could use a bit more about that. >> Sure. So, you know, the made a major role is, you know, hearing grievances and disciplinary hearings. That is something that, you know, as I said, every employee has a right to under nba. They have a right to have their discipline appealed. They have a right to fair and impartial hearing. And, you know, making sure that the personnel board is reviewing you in any documents, they understand how to interpret it. That's I think that the most important

aspect of the role taking into consideration, you know, as you know, the city's ultimately ultimate goal of providing excellent services for its residents. >> Thank you for that. Looking to my colleagues. Any questions, Merrill Reserve Vice Mayor Alvarez. And I'll show you for the question posed to the candidates it, too, as well. >> Just year, your feelings about how Steph Our personnel very vital to the quality of Santa Rosa's. And also, if you can also live little bit more on your personal efforts to doing so improving the lives of saint reasons. >> Sure. So one of the things, you know, as a manager when you work in a public agency, I you know, I luckily I don't have this experience very often here. But in my previous employment, I would get complaints from the public about the service that was delivered to them. And my job was to try to understand the public and try to resolve their complaint and deal with that. If it was a customer service issue tied to deal with it with with the staff. So I think that customer service is one of the most important things that public agencies provide to their residents and making the residents feel heard that their concerns are being addressed appropriately sometimes, you know, in in in a disciplinary case, they they want to know what what action is going to be taken. And we know that any personnel action has to be confidential. So making sure that they understand that, you know, heard you were addressing the situation, but we cannot share the outcome of the investigation or any action

that we take. So that confidentiality is really important element of this process personally. You know, I advocate for this city residents every in my role as the library director making sure that we're providing great library service to the public you know, and advocating for all of our residents, especially those underserved areas of the of the city. Thank you very much. And you have any additional questions. >> All Well, thank you as well for putting your name and then for taking the time to condone interview today. My pleasure. Thank you. Thank And deputy city clerk all ask one more time to want to decide to zoom in today. I do not see low on on zoom. All right. Well, then we have concluded with item 4.1, but we looks like 6 minutes away from being a start to council meetings. So we're going to go into recess for 6 minutes. Back shortly. All right, everyone, thank you for your patience. Is officially 4 o'clock. And we're back. Deputy city clerk. Would you mind taking roll? Thank you, Mayor Councilmember Rogers, PRESIDENT Councilmember Okrepkie is absent Councilmember MacDonald is absent. Councilmember Fleming. >> Councilmember Ben Willows Vice Mayor Alvarez PRESIDENT Mayor, stop here. Let the record reflect all councilmembers are present with the exception of council members, MacDonald and Okrepkie. Thank you very much. And move on to item 7. A report on closed session. MADAM City Attorney. >> Thank you, MR. Mayor Councilmembers. There's no reportable action from closed session. But I will note for the record, Councilmember Alvarez joined us at

approximately 03:00pm. Thank you. We'll move on to item 8.1. We have a proclamation for American Heart Month. Councilmember Rogers. Thank you, Mayor. >> Whereas more than 350,000 people experience cardiac arrest outside of a hospital each year and about 70% happened at home and only about one in 10 survive and more than 23,000 children under the age of 18 experience, cardiac arrest outside of a hospital each year in the United States in almost 40%. These are sports related. And whereas cpr, especially if performed immediately, can double or triple a person's chance of survival. And only about 46% people who experience cardiac arrests receive cpr from people nearby while waiting for emergency responders to arrive. And whereas the American Heart Association has set a goal of doubling the survival from cardiac arrest by 2030, by turning bystanders into lifesavers now their forward. MAY it be resolved that our mayor marks that on behalf of the entire city council recognizes the importance of the ongoing fight against heart disease and stroke and the effort to double the survival rate from cardiac arrests do hereby proclaim FEBRUARY 2025. To be American Heart Month. >> I have I've had my cpr card for many years. Going need to renew it. This is and where the proclamation do we have Shane Valentine here are represented in Shayne. Why don't you just use that microphone right there? We

welcome a few words. Yes, we can hear. You often have to lean in pretty close to that Mic. Okay. Great. Thank you. >> Hello, I'm I'm seen The community impact director with the American Heart Association. Thank you for recognizing FEBRUARY American Heart Month this year for acknowledging our mission and work of saving lives from heart disease and stroke. This year as we move into the Heart Association second century of impact. Especially focused on building a nation of lifesavers so that we are all prepared in our communities to react through cardiac emergency, calling 9-1-1 and knowing how to perform As was mentioned just a few minutes ago over 350,000 people experience out of hospital cardiac arrest each year in United States. Almost 90% don't survive 10. We have a bold goal to double cardiac arrest survival rates by 2030. That is why we're encouraging all people to act and to use tpr to save the lives of friends, loved ones, community members and who would otherwise not survive. As the Santa Rosa resident, a parent and a member of the American Heart Association's Bay Area team. I urge people of Santa Rosa to learn cpr. I didn't. So can you? We are proud and honored to have served the city of Santa Rosa through our support of your tobacco retail license ordinance in 2024. And for hosting our annual Heart Walk in Santa Rosa in 24 and proud to say again this fall and Howard Park. Will have opportunities to practice hands-only cpr. The American Heart Association Grant gratefully accept proclamation and the city's continue support. It's worked. Thank you. Shane, thank you very much. And there with the

opportunity to do a photo and with the proclamation here in just a minute before we do that, are there any members of the public would like to speak on this item? >> Seeing none. All right. Change you have any other representatives of American Heart Association today. Won't you come on down for phone down down here in front. All right. Moving on to item 9 staff briefings. Say for a moment, looks like we have Nic sit down now to talk about or at the collaborative. Nick, welcome. Good afternoon. Mayor staff and members of the council. >> I am Nick City, senior environmental specialist with the water Department in the stormwater in Creek section. And I'm here to discuss a trash pilot program in community collaborative that we have coined is epic. Every piece inspires change. In 2015, the state Water Resources Control board, adopted statewide trash provisions. We refer to this as the trash amendment. The trash amendment requires that all particles greater than 5 millimeters in size to the size of a cigarette b# # # or greater. Have to be prevented from entering into our city storm drain system by DECEMBER of 2030. This order was issued to implement federal law and serves as a water quality standard federally mandated under the Clean Water Act. Citywide. There's approximately 18,000 publicly own storm. Drain structures connected to over 346 miles of storm. Drain pipes and 190's that are publicly owned and 190 miles of private storm. Drain pipes. City staff have identified 3 quarter mile segment on Sebastopol Road. From Roseland Avenue East to

all of street for the pilot study, this area has approximately 59 storm drain inlets and is predominantly defined by commercial and industrial land. Use. They're only 3 public trash cans in this area. And there's 6 segments that allow long-term parking. As you can see from the photos. It is common to see overflowing trash cans and in areas with a long-term parking occurs, you can see excessive trash. And you can see compost leaf debris. That's breaking down underneath the vehicles. This area is an important community and with restaurants, schools, gas stations, boys and Girls Club, grocery stores and has heavy vehicular traffic as well as being a high pedestrian and bus use corridor. In 2017 city staff conducted. And visual trash assessments to determine the levels of trash present on the street sidewalk and Associated Land uses in the area. And the protocol was developed by consultant in the Bay Area and was later adopted by the state Water Resources Control board and it was a mechanism used to establish baseline trash levels on streets and sidewalks and away to demonstrate trash loading reductions from stormwater conveyance systems. Do trash prevention and reduction measures. In the pilot Most of the areas defined as a high trash generating area. That means that it generates 10 to 50 gallons per acre per year with a very small segment that is identified as very high, which is 5250 gallons for acre per year. The So modifying behavior depends on building awareness, addressing public perception and removing

barriers. We want to do this while invest a fina, investing beautifying and engaging within our diverse communities. The final trash amendment produced by the state Water Resources Control Board recognizes that public education can be ineffective, implementation alternative to reduce the amount of trash entering water bodies. And the public that is often unaware that trash littered on the street ends up in receiving waters less much less. The cost of debating it. The pilot study intends to break the 3 Quarter Mile segment into 3 segments and we're going to try 3 different approaches in each of the 3 segments. So the first segment we'll try all 3 approaches. The second segment. Will you only use only 2 in the last segment will use only outreach. Based on research. Individuals are more likely to litter in space is already littered to address public perceptions. We plan to increase street sweeping to twice per month in the pilot did areas and one segment of the pilot area will include temporary. No parking signs in 2 of those 6 segments that allow long-term parking to allow the street sweepers to get in there and get the curb and gutter cleaned. This fully. Bilingual campaign will additionally included a volunteer cleanup. Although we will be installing have 4 additional traditional trash cans. We will also install Progressive Inc infrastructure such as the big belly trashcan that you see on screen here. There will be 4 big belly cans installed in the pilot area. These are solar self compacting trash cans that have trash chute to prevent mining of trash. The can also has a paddle for people to use that they don't want to use

the handle. The big belly can't hold 5 to 10 times more trash than a traditional trash can. And these big bellies will actually display artwork from the Rosen community and Sonoma County residents from an art art. I called for art that we recently did within the community. The initial cost for installing these is higher than traditional cat trash cans. However, it's anticipated that this will offset significantly lower annual maintenance costs. So the goal is to deliver a campaign that elicits behavior at high pressure, priority, trash locations across diverse audience is cultures and languages through a highly recognizable visually driven grassroots campaign. The street art inspired campaign is intended to pique interest and provide messaging through traditional and digital outreach. And the images selected are meant to represent the wildlife that lives in our local creeks. Each animal will hold a different colored piece of everyday common items that are discarded onto our streets. The pink will represent trash blue, represent recycling and green will represent materials. That should be com posted. Messaging will be additionally reinforced through social media campaigns. Qr code is intended to be placed on the piece that's discarded. It will drive participants to a trash dedicated Web site at streets to creeks, dot org. And that will highlight simple actions that have big impacts, Torre, trash reduction in our community. We will start installing 5 images. Per week for the first 3 weeks in APRIL, which will call many into Community Earth Day cleanup on actual Earth Day on

APRIL 22nd. And the pilot will run through. The months of MAY and JUNE and the pilot specific image you will be removed in JULY. Staff plans to assess effectiveness of the pilot through on land, visual trash assessments and the data collected will be used to inform the city for future sat strategies to meet the 2030 trash reduction requirements. As we build momentum up to this pilot, we begun collaborating with multiple departments, divisions, nonprofit organizations, businesses and community groups internally that's included tp w 0 Waste Transit, the community, an inner government, governmental relations office planning and economic development, arts and cultures coordinator. And we've also coordinated with the art in Public Places. Committee. Externally. We've collaborated with groups such as the Boys and Girls Club, Roseland Community Building Initiative Recology Sonoma Moran and raises collective. And we've also reached out to the roads and schools and local businesses in the pilot area. The city is coordinating outreach efforts with our regional partners, the county of Sonoma snowmen, water town of Windsor and the cities of Sebastopol Healdsburg Ukiah in Cloverdale. We are all implementing pilot programs related to trash reduction and plans and plan to share our findings with each other for future strategies implementation of trash, compliance reduction strategies. Thank you for your time and I'm available for questions. If you back. If you haven't. Nick, thank you. Bring it back to council for questions. >> Vice Mayor Alvarez. First foremost. Thank you for taking this initiative, including Rosen and especially as a

pilot program. So I will do everything. My powers to hope that we do not disappoint. I also want to it suggest that's reach out to the Rose and organization to also contribute and participate in this program. One of the things that when we have some different cultures, it's definitely that our community look sores. Our business community as the best way our best direction. Best information to be disseminated. So I would definitely put that information more than happy to provide that for you. And Jennifer, I know that this is there's definitely baby of the of the mind. So I definitely want to, you know, round of applause for you and the work that you're doing to improve our community and actually goes back to one of the questions that I posed to the candidates just a little bit ago that we as as as not only the representatives, but also the staff and person other make up the city of Santa Rosa. What are we doing to improve the quality of life of those the city Rosa? That's exactly what I'm speaking So so thank you. Once again. It's been Thank you, Mayor. >> First, I want to thank you all. So this is really a fantastic program and I'm really happy to see it and I just want I just don't want to just I would have is that because it looks like you've covered everything. The social media. >> traditional trash cans, but also the all the artwork. I think all of that, all of it is really fantastic. >> I think education is really the key. You know, I I have done single them out in

Roseland for 16 And I know what a challenge it is for an ominous to speak for myself in the Latino community and getting that message out, trying to get folks to use recycling bins and all of that. We struggle with that every year. So whatever I can do to assist Council member Alvarez and my committee as well, really want to support this because think this is long overdue. And I'm really excited that that you're doing this. >> How close are these garbage cans going to be located near bus stops? And have you taken that into consideration? Because we are having pedestrian area for >> We I am coordinating with transit and 3 of the big belly which hold a 5 to 10 times more trash. They will be next to bus stops. Yeah, the other big belly will actually go in front of the predominantly used area for the Boys and Girls Club. Yeah. >> Nick, you underlined Are you hinted at in your presentation? But just want to clarify. So the state. Santa Rosa on the hook as a result of the state legislation, 2 within the next 5 years, prevent very small pieces of litter. Go from morning to our storm drains we've got some choices we've got. We can try to educate and stop it from hitting a storm drains or if that is not successful at the end, the day we're gonna have to do is put in guards and filters that are expected be expensive and hard to hard to maintain. It's my understanding, correct. On that point. >> That's correct. You see the guards filters or inserts and the cost for maintenance is very prohibitive. It approach like this, if it's effective will be 4 times less stalling

that infrastructure. >> Thank you for clarifying that. And just from a from a community standpoint, that's what's at stake for the city. If we can make the education version work, it's gonna be a lot more cost-effective for the taxpayers as well as better for that for the environment. And then to with respect to bait the artwork. I want underline the first of all, the role that art is playing here, as well as a partnership with your public places. Committee, it nicely makes the point that art in public places committee or public are generally isn't just for beautification. Here playing a very active role saving the city money and doing better for our for our local environment. So I really, really appreciate that partnership. Thank you very much. And with that, we'll open up the public comment. MR. Do it. Paper route? >> From Stony Point Road Olive Street, it up and down all around. I go there often. I do believe one of the first things can do to be helpful based on what was said here already take out the parking on the north side of Sebastopol Road from Roseland Village Shopping Center eastward to all the street. It's that parking that collects that garbage. Some of those cars, they stay there for months on end. Secondary to that. The idea of the big That's a fun sounding name in its own right. But their solar operated and the tops will be graffiti. Very quickly. That'll be something that needs to be cleaned often to make sure that they work

because once they're painted over, you've lost their effectiveness. Now, the this is something that's really important. If you could give it to Roseland Kids. I noticed in the presentation and said Sonoma County residents. He'll be really nice if you give it to Roseland School kids because Roseland schools across the street from this project area. And then. Reached out to the Roseland Public School District to see about some of their students. I do believe you could get enough art from those groups that would cover the 4 big belly cans without having to go out anywhere else. And then last but not least. One of the things that's important is that you let kids take the art after it's been done. And you have a bit of get together, perhaps over in the Roseland School gym to look at all the art that's been submitted and then get the are chosen by the Roseland Kids and have it be up there. I don't think you need to involve the art in public places committee for this. I think this is a little bit of a stretch. And you know, they're busy folks and it costs you money when you do that, if you just get the Roseland kids involved and make this a real Roselyn based kind of project, you'll find that they'll be very interested in doing it and it will have ourselves a really good time as we're out there, getting the trash up off the roadway. Last but not least I guess next to those bus stops you'll actually need to clean them out more often than you

might think. So don't wait until they are totally full. Set up routine that comes early and stays late to get rid of the trash in Roseland. Thank you. Kindly. Thank you to Wayne, where any of the members of public like to speak. >> Bringing back to council for any final thoughts. MR. Rogers. So I did not talk to prior to today, but I do want >> question or reiterate how important it is to me. >> When we talk about having a call for our how broad that call is because sometimes only certain people respond to that call, so would be really cool if we could get the kids or have different levels. Age levels for the art involved. I'm looking at the the art that we have will be cool if the public could see that. So the art is really cool. But I can kind of tell, is it an adult that is probably really good at our because I could draw that if I my life depended on it and then really to know like how many responded. To the call for the are in. I It's not really that the pilot is about, but I think that. I having the art is very catchy for people and it will also be a good opportunity. If there are you that are involved for them to it. Show people there are in there. I would be showcased on a public street. And I just think that that pretty cool. I do think the pilot itself sounds really great and I'm excited to see you know what comes of to see if we can expand that. So it's always great when we have the pilot

to see if we can get it across where streets in Santa Rosa, sir, thank you very much for bringing this forward. >> Mr said thank you for making clear. Once again, that center is the waters get himself involved. A lot of interesting innovative projects. This is another good one. Thank you for the presentation today. And with that, we'll move on to item 9.2 speaking of water, the Laguna treatment plant disinfected to project update. MR. Afternoon. Mayor sap. >> Members of the city center is a council. My name is Mike Prinz. I'm the deputy director of regional water use operations for center of water. Here to give you an update on a pretty significant cip project going on out of the plan. It's actually been going on for quite some time. My introductory slide is actually a picture from the groundbreaking ceremony from OCTOBER 22nd 2022. Gives you an idea how long the project has been going on. The view of the attendees at ceremony is an actually zoomed-in well enough. But I think there are a number of you who are in that photo Broader context of that The assembly of people for the groundbreaking ceremony are within that red circle or a lapse in that photograph. And this is a relevant perspective because I've got subsequent photos that shows the progress of the project. But to put things into context, more recently. That's the picture have the same site. And again, the Red Circle represents where the groundbreaking ceremony occurred. Think this picture was taken sometime in DECEMBER

or JANUARY. This winter. Moving on in between those 2 time frames. There was some pretty significant construction going on. This is picture showing the insulation sheet piling which facilitates the excavation of the diversion wet. Well, which is the deepest excavation for the project. Pretty lengthy in and slow process in starting on the sheet piling for that project. And this is another view similar stage. But it does show that we have had to deal with some challenging conditions in the winter. This is actually a photograph during flooding conditions. The did slow down the project from time to time. But the contractor was still able to make progress through the winter on the project. All winters encountered actually. This is a far more worrisome picture from last summer that shows testing of the diversion wet. Well, similar perspective, but just zoomed in the diversion wet well as the ability to divert off spec recycle water for re treatment at the plant. This is a time series that shows basically photographs taken in 2023. On the left. Again, the red lips shows where groundbreaking ceremony took place in the middle is sometime in 2020 4 and then on the right is a picture, at least at the end of 2024, possibly the beginning of 2025, I don't have the exact dates. Anyway. Shows the progress of construction about the middle of the photograph. You can see the development of the channels for the uv system

under construction. Next. Want to shift your attention to the purple line in this photograph. All the photos that I just showed you were of the lower left hand quadrant, if you will, of the treatment plant, the Purple Line represents a pipeline. The diversion pipeline that was recently installed for the project that will allow walk water to be retreated, pumped up to the tap into the treatment plant for treatment. We've got a number of photographs of that. This is a picture basically looking west showing the diversion pipeline being pulled into the trench. It is a 42 inch diameter hdpe fused hdpe pipe line. So there aren't fittings in the pipeline. The ends of the pipes exes are actually melted together, which is a pretty interesting construction technique. Lot of the photographs that you're seeing were taken via drone. I MAY be obviously and those photographs were taken by some U.S. Who is the construction manager, project. This is view from the opposite direction. A little closer in showing the effort required to pull the pipeline into the trench. This is yet another photograph showing how much coordination it takes between different pieces of equipment to actually install a pipeline of that magnitude. Ths is another drone photograph that shows that ranch right through the main parking area at the Laguna Tree and Plant. This was probably the most invasive part of the project in terms of access to and around the treatment plant, but through quite a bit coordination, we are able to find alternate parking for staff and visitors while this construction phase

was going on. And then this is a photograph of one of the banks of uv bulbs that will be installed in the 5 channels for the treatment system. That banks is 104 palms. And there are 25 of those that are going to be installed for a total of 2,600 homes for the uv disinfection system. Some statistics for the project are as follows. There's been a lot of concrete pours on the project over quite a lengthy period of time 136 concrete pours as of the publishing of this presentation. Some very significant was 23 feet high, 3 feet thick over 7,000 cubic yards of concrete had been poured nearly 40,000 cubic yards of excavation that totals about 3,500 truckloads for the project. Almost 3 million pounds of rebar have gone into those concrete pours. There's been almost 175,000 labor hours by the contractor which it construction. By the way, depending on the nature of the work going on any given point, there are 20 to 30 contractors staff on site on any given day. And there's over $100,000 per business. Stay burn rate, if you will, for the contractor only moving on regarding construction payments has been a pretty significantly a lean year trend of construction payments since NOVEMBER of 2022, the yellow line or is on the line at the top says the contract value the red line above that shows the contingency of the contract value and at the publishing of this presentation, we're estimating in the vicinity of JULY as a completion date showing that we are going to using fair amount of our contingency for the project. I actually think

the project is going to be continuing past JULY of 2025. To date, we've spent almost 55 million on the construction and that includes 3.2 million dollars in change orders with that. I would be happy to entertain any questions you MAY have. Thank you very much for your right to counsel. Ask a couple questions this. Is so this will be one of the largest uv disinfection system is in the United States. Is that to my article correctly? >> I believe that's true. I say that and no one has contradicted me. So I'm I'm continuing to say that. And I believe that it was we put into our pr bridge here. But Ariel, so we'll just we'll assume that's true. Can you talk about some of the benefits of this system is going to bring to the community how this gives more flexibility, more capacity than than what we had before. Well, ultimately, yes, our old uv disinfection system was basically reaching the end of its useful life. So this is to replace our existing uv system, which is still functioning some time ago. Our existing system was de rated for through a regulatory process and its capacity was significantly reduced through that process. So this facility we'll restore, lost capacity through that the rating process and it will restore the capacity that we recently had, which is roughly 70 million gallons a day of treatment capacity through this system. It's critically important. Santa Rosa operates a very unique I recycle water system wherein in most years we recycle 100% of the water that we produce at the Laguna treatment plant. So having a system that is reliable and efficient is critically

important to the treatment process overall, it's worth mentioning that this system will be more efficient than the existing system and it's anticipated that will save on the order of over $400,000 a year in electricity costs. That would couple of bullet point for the slides. >> Thank you for Ironically, the water again for for for public benefit, much of the water that this system will disinfect. It goes up to the geysers geothermal fields. So it produces electricity for is at 600,000 customers and in Sonoma and Mendocino. Something on that order at something on the order that all right. And other other portions of the water go to agricultural use. So it goes to our local farms. So all the water that comes out of out of the system, this new and improved system is going to beneficial. Beneficial uses locally. And final data pointing to I haven't tried it correct that the that this treatment plan serves about 240,000 customers in Sonoma County. That's correct. Senator portion of the flow to country. And plan is only about. >> 73%. We also serve Sebastopol Cotati Rohnert Park and some unincorporated county islands. So again, for the public's benefit, think this is a is a huge regional resource. No further questions remain. And seeing none for my colleagues. Let's go to public comment the number 8 with any members of the public like to speak MR. Do it. >> I'm always curious what I hear the story about the water going up to the geysers. The curiosity that I've had for

the entire time, the project of the geysers put together. Begin with councilmember Noreen Evans. Her and I were talking back in the day. I guess that's like almost 30 years ago. And the question use the water that goes up to the geysers. Is it given away for free or do we get any money for it? Because water is a valuable resource. It's an asset. And I'm just curious when you say this is something that's helping the public. How much is the public being helped by money coming back on this project? Thank you. >> Thank you to Wayne with any of the members of the public to speak. Bringing bringing it back to council for any final words. But I'll just say, I'll say thank you again Lopes. Kuzma Rogers. Sorry. >> And so I just wanted to say when it comes to water since being on council have a a broader appreciation for water. And I know when we look at water, we look at the projects that need to happened in the challenges that we face with continuing to provide the level of service that we provide. It could be very daunting. But I wanted to thank our team because I think that you guys have way breaking it into pieces that make them a little bit more, chewable, not only for the council, but also for you guys so we can get to places like we are today. So we see pictures in it and it looks great. But it took a lot of work from all of you to make

this happen. So I am very thankful for everything that you have and are going to continue to do. And for me, you will continue to have my support. When you bring projects forward because it is very important that we continue to to give is resource to our community, although and I said it before. A lot of us take it for granted, right? We turn on the tap. Water comes out. We flush our toilets. It goes away like things. Things happen like that. We really look at the process that it took for us to get that. Thank you. That sums it up for me, Mike and Jennifer, entire center underwater team, thank you very much. Thank you for the good for the good report. >> And we will move on to item 10 editor of city manager and city attorneys reports MADAM City manager. >> Thank you, mayor and good evening, mayor members of council. So I have 2 updates for you today. One keeping with our heart being. So the recreation and parks departments a start for your heart class demo day on favor of the FEBRUARY. The 15th was a big, big success. There were over 159 community members participating in free fitness and dance classes. So the event was sponsored by the measure in Park for all funding. So we're hopeful that we can continue to have people participate and recreate in our parks. Recreation's recreation Parks are which whenever it ones tv show in one the Block Place program guide for spring and summer

season is now available and offers low and no cause camps. Sports sports leagues, recreation classes and events for at risk youth and their families. So these services are provided by the Neighborhood Services Program partnership with Violence Prevention and the funding is from the Public safety prevention tax. I will need to get the link to where to find So often that out and I'll have maybe honor someone. In and out to the community. So they know where to find that information. Thank you. Thank you. MADAM City, Attorney. Yes, good evening. Once again, I have my monthly litigation report. This one is dated FEBRUARY 25th. >> And there were no settlements previously authorized by council in closed session that were finalized in JANUARY. And our litigation mode remains consistent with approximately 30 litigation matters pending. Many cases are currently in the discovery phase with trial dates assigned to most. And as always, we continue to try to resolve smaller cases at little or no cost to city. And that is the end of my report. Thank you. Moving on to item 11, are there any statements of abstention are accused what council members? >> MR. Rogers. George did give details yourself just to give the details yourself. >> I was not present. So I just will not be voting on those minutes. >> We're just a minute. Yes. All right, sir, I can hear you at this annual more details than that. Mayor. No, that's

good. Thank you very much. MR. Over Thank you, Be upsetting for 13.2 as I was not present. Due to emergency. Thank All right. That takes us to item 12 mayor and Councilmembers reports. There any reports this evening, funding? >> Thank you. I wanted to get out ahead you before you talked about the pilot that we attended last Thursday. >> So us the city of Santa Rosa was selected via Metropolitan Transportation Commission to be the site Wayfinding pilot. >> And we were lucky enough to have our incoming chair and vice chair as well of our executive director regional transit leaders from all over the area come and celebrate with us as we kick off the pilot last Thursday, our mayor was are master of ceremonies and it was it was a great time to be had for sure. And the real point of it because don't know how many members of the public were actually there. There is quite a few people there. But most of them were on payroll. I think which is great that our staff is really into it. But at the end of the day, the has 27 different transit agencies and they all have to be coordinated and is a herculean task and it makes the experience for riders are really challenging. And we're really aware of how difficult it is and certainly committed to making sure that you can get on one side and get off and it's it's clear and you don't have that sort of anxiety of not knowing where you're going and where you're going to get there. And so we welcome all feedback on the new wayfinding really excited that we kicked off. Thank you.

MISS Ben And let's see. I just wanted him. I mentioned a few things. I've been kind of busy >> it's the first of all I attended the grand opening of high. Building for any a c p and the health action together really a beautiful event and they have quite impressive building. And I'm really wish them all the It's the home of intentional visioning for equity. So very, very nice event tended to the friends of Prince Real Greenway. >> And I just want to give a shout out to them. And I know they're not the only residents take tried it. You know, Stuart, our parks, but they do a fantastic job with the Greenway. And I just want to give a shout out to them. And also to word care costs Catholic Charities. Which I had not what an impressive building. It was just a great tour. And I I'm really impressed with the work that they're doing. And I just met with a lot of the residential groups who have a lot of concerns with in my district. And I'm gonna keep on doing that. And lastly, I just wanted to announced I'm going to be reappoint teen Nathanson to art in public places. Committee. MR. Rogers. >> although I've been attending a lot of different community events, it is really heavy on my right now. And I need to say this that my heart goes out to the families that have. Lost their children over the week in I guess, having 8 children, it's very difficult

every time that happens. But I do know that it can't just be the city. It can't just be the county. It can't be the nonprofit siloed like we have to come together as a community to see what we can do to save our children. Yeah, I do. I don't know where I'm going with this. I just know that my heart is very heavy and we need to do something and we need to come together. So if anyone has anything that you think might be helpful or are you want to get the word out or on something that your organization is doing? >> not as a council, but I guess as single council members, if we have a platform to get it out there, we need to get it out there. We will get it out there. We are invested in our community, but we need to work together because we can't continue to have parents afraid for their kids to go to school. We can't continue to have kids that we've their homes and not return and we can't continue to have parents that have no awareness of what our kids are facing right now in what MAY be going on right under our noses. So the more education we can do, the more resources we have. I think that as a community, we need to come together and do better for our kids. Thank you. All. >> Pickup on just by saying that the city's is well aware that we're responsible for public safety in all areas of the city, including public schools. >> MR. Rogers sentiments, I'm sure shared by everybody here in the day us and there is

lots of activity, lots of conversation locally, including with the City Council, met with City staff city leadership on how we can. We can best serve our schools and our community right now. Turning back to local organizations on FEBRUARY. 13th Santa Rosa hosted the mayor, the county mayor and councilmembers board and general membership meeting. This is a meeting of all 9 cities in the county. Thank you very much for city staff for putting this together. It was it was a very productive and and much enjoyed meeting. We had the honor at that meeting, the board id to vote in our colleague Victoria Fleming to the Smart board. Thank you very much for your service on that board. And then the the topic that night was another issue of of community resilience in public safety and that issues and immigration policy and how they how affect so many members of our community. There was quite robust discussion that evening, including with this and county District Attorney Karla Rodriguez. And then figure 21st first, the mayors and Councilmembers, a legislative committee met to discuss possible areas of advocacy that all 9 cities can share with our state representatives. Ways that we can push our county forward. Know nothing was determined that that's those conversations. We continue monthly to this year. And then finally in a very happy our own dpw director Dan Hennessey was named as a 40 under 40 recipients by the North Bay Business Journal. This is this is a great honor locally. And if I'm if I'm not mistaken, Dan also receive this award in Austin. So he's a double 40

under 40 recipient. I'm sure I speak for all by saying that we hope he's here long enough for you cannot receive a 40 under 40 for many other cities in the nation, but were certainly certainly congratulate him on this award. And then sure around of applause. And with that, we will move on to. Actually public comment and that apologies. Many members of the public like to speak. Seeing none. Move on to item board chairperson, important position board chairperson appointments. >> We're cleaning up a few final appointments from a couple of weeks And so with the support of my colleagues, I would like to a point to our local. Boards and commissions. Just because just to be clear here they were doing that were doing the chairperson some looking. Our deputy city clerk. All right. I want to get right this time. So Ben was mentioned, her point of Japhanie, Jeff Nathanson Jeff Nathanson to art in public places. Let's let's talk about Jeff twice tonight. What's the point? Jeff Nathanson Nathanson as chair of art public places. Congratulations. Chef. Thank you for your service. For board of Community Services. I would like to appoint Omar Lopez as chair. For a community advisory board. I would like appoint Andrew Rodriguez as chair. And then for our public safety and prevention, tax Citizens Oversight Committee, I'm not going I'm still not used to that name. What used to be its event. Minor. Thank you for your continued service event. And then for the personnel board, Lisa Maldonado, thank you for your continued service. Lisa. I would see we have do public comment before us. That rain. Let's go anywhere members of the public

to comment on that item. Seeing none bringing back to council. Think we need motion on that one. It confuse me. Union of Ocean. I have a motion for those appointments. >> like to make a motion to accept the mayor's appointments for the chair positions. Thank state All right. We've got a motion a second. Thank you both. Deputy city clerk. Who who is the second. It was vice Mayor Alvarez. Councilmember Rogers. Council member of is absent. Councilmember MacDonald is absent. Councilmember Fleming. Yes. Councilmember been well yes. Vice Mayor Alvarez. I. They are stop. Yes. Motion motion passes with 5 affirmative votes. Thank you very much. We're going to item 3012.1. >> This is the committee appointments to the personnel board. We had interviews earlier early this afternoon. There are 2 at-large vacancies with 4 years terms. And we we have for applicants. Let's go to public comment. Members of the public to speak. Seeing none bringing back to the back to Council for Motion. >> like to put for Deanna Martin in Erica to Bow. >> Second, we have a motion a second. City clerk please call the roll. Please, please call for a vote rather. Councilmember Rogers. Kept his absent. Councilmember MacDonald is absent councilmember Fleming. Yes. Councilmember Ben I. Councilmember Alvarez. Mayer

step. I. The motion passes with 5 affirmative votes. Thank you. Want to item 4012.1 mayor's appointments to county, regional and state positions. >> So with the support of my colleagues. We'd again, we have are just a few to clean up for bag General Assembly, alternate. But point Rogers. The library advisory board. Been we los. To the Sonoma County Homeless coalition. Again, as an alternate city staff are Kelly cake and all. And then. I'm doing ift here as well. Correct. So Tgif, d myself. We're step. >> Mayor, can I confirm? Did you initially a point to council members for the SEALs Sea? >> I think I originally It's been way lows and MacDonald. Okay. Are you going to remove one of them apologies. MISTER MacDonald, thank you. Thank you for clarification. Alright, turning public comment and of the public wish to comment on this item. Bringing back for council MAY have a motion. >> Like to make a motion to accept the mayors recommendation for appointments. Her factory, the motion a second. Deputy city clerk. We please call for a vote. Councilmember Rogers, I. Councilmember Okrepkie absent. Councilmember MacDonald is absent. Councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben Willows. Yes, Vice Mayor Alvarez. Mayer stop. I the motion passes with 5

conservative votes. Thank you very much. Brings us to our final appointment item. 5012.1 appointment, alternate to the renewal Enterprise District. >> All right. With council's report, I'd like to appoint Ms Rogers as the alternate to read the Enterprise District. Turning to public, going to public comment. Any member the public wish to speak? Seeing none ring back to council for Motion. Put forth motion to accept. We have a motion and a second with the second going MISS Something. And when you're ready, deputy city clerk when called for the vote. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers, Councilmember Okrepkie is absent. Councilmember MacDonald is absent. Councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben Willows. Yes, Vice Mayor Alvarez. Mayer staff. I the motion passes with 5 affirmative votes with Councilmembers MacDonald in Okrepkie. Absent. >> Thank you and thank you for my colleagues. As we clean up those appointments. Turning now to item 13 approval of minutes. I know we had Councilmember Rogers was Rick was recusing from was a 13.1. And we have a voice. Mayor Alvarez are accusing were 13.2. Are there any other edits to the minutes? Seeing? None we can. We public comment first when members of the public looks like to comment on the minutes. Seeing none we can. We can approve of minutes as they stand. City attorney. Did you have? You don't have enough PRESIDENT To approve. Since you have to recusals and separate items. I think. We had a 4 for for each IPs, correct? Thank you. Think that's the first time about my math right up here in the day.

It's it's a big moment for All right. This brings us to item 14 consent. Deputy city clerk. Would you please read the consent items? Thank you, Mayor. >> Item 14.1 is a resolution submittal of grant application to the California Department of Housing and Community Development for 5 million under the Calhoun program. Item 14.2 is a resolution has not acknowledging receipt of a report made by the Santa Rosa Fire chief regarding compliance with sections. 1, 3, 1, 4, 6.2 and 1, 3, 1, 4, 6.3 of the California Health and Safety Code for calendar years 2022. 2023 and 2024 item. 14.3 is a resolution approval of 2 general service agreements 0, 0, 2, 9, for 3 to cap Rent Environmental Services Corp and at the 0, 0, 2, 9, 4, 4, 2 to raise raise soon. Dba goats Aarhus for grazing services. Item. 14.4 is a resolution approval of general services agreement number 0, 0, 2, 9, 5, 7, hvac maintenance and repair services. Item. 14.5 is a resolution co-operative agreement between the state of California and the city of Santa Rosa for the construction phase of the highway. 101 bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing item. 14.6 is a resolution regional measure 3 grant allocation requests for fiscal year. 2025 dash 2026. 14.7 is a resolution. Active

transportation program, Grant and housing incentive Pool grant allocation obligation request for fiscal year 2025, dash 2026. 14.8 is an ordinance adoptions. Second reading. Ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa amending titles. 10, 17, 1920. And 21 the municipal code to address streamlining and process improvements for the landmark alteration permit process and consolidation of the duties and composition of the cultural Heritage Board and Design Review review board into a single design review and presentation board. >> Thank you for your back to council. Are there any questions? Good to the only Vice Mayor Alvarez? Actually, my mind's one point more of a point of order on for 2 although it was not present for the for a discussion. I did watch it over zoom. So therefore feel that I can vote on the item. Thank you for that clarification. I did have a couple of questions on item. 14.3. Is there. Anyone here would speak to that? That item? >> MR. Lawns, all. Gideon numbers, the council happy to help answer questions regarding 14.3. MR. Won't tell. You know that I'm I'm asking questions mainly going just so happy to see this. See this on consent calendar and wanted to give it to the spotlight and it deserves. >> But but actually couple of questions. How many, how many acres are rethinking grazing? >> So we're gonna look at what the feel-like looks like this

year would be the most up a couple location to use it. We've been in communication with a parks department as well our team from our fire department to look at some of the locations that would be the best to utilize the service. And again, it will likely depend on what the growth looks like this year. The area that prioritized as of right now would be the upper Greenway location in between Spring Lake and Summerfield were that would benefit from grazing and we did some initial estimates with costs associated with that location and felt that it would be the most effective and then just to good use in a good location where grazing would benefit the second location we're looking at is the undeveloped known as Brush Creek, Upper Gereshk Creek Park off Brush Creek Road. That's a mouthful, but it's an undeveloped park that also has the benefits for >> Excellent. And recall that when you when you get into some of some of the terrain where it's a little steeper, a little rockier, the grazing can be at least within ice Eyesight of cost parity or cost competitiveness with with mechanical removal from mechanical abatement. >> That is correct. We did evaluate some locations that are city-owned properties and found that it was much more cost-effective to do the mechanically and a lot faster to utilize those. We still do intend to prioritize locations that will be conducting weed abatement activities this year. But we have identified a number of locations were grazing would be beneficial to the particular type of growth on the property. And it would also allow us to break up some of the work orders that we have and be a little bit more effective and how quickly we're mitigating locations

across the city. >> Thank you. And one final one final question. What what was a dip? Why was there such a wide range in terms of the bits that we received? That's a great question. We typically do permit raising activities in the city and we primarily some of those same repeat grazers performing services here. >> a little bit of a loss as to why there was a spread. But happy to see that. We had to bitters here locally. >> As was let you off the hook, but I didn't want to say thank you. I know I'm I've been a thorn in your side of the city manager side on this issue. Thank you very much for finding ways that this work for the city I grazing is it's it's certainly and there are lots of people out there that are hoping we get. We can do more of this for for the sake of land. And frankly, just because people like seeing the animals. So while it doesn't make your life or city manager your life any easier hope it's good for the city overall. Thank you very much for getting this poor program started. Thank you. And with that, we'll go to public comment members of the public like to comment consent, MR. Do it. >> Hello, my name is doing to from Roseland. Thank you for these items that you're approved today. I'm curious how much previously been allocated for any down payment allocations. Such as being dealt with in 14.1. Then on 14.3 Rosen Creek Park is an excellent spot for grazing. And there are people here in the area that have their own sheep and goats that would be willing to do that. Also. Next on 14, 6, 7, We're going to need to cut the costs on many things in the future because we don't really know if the

state's budget is going to be able to hold up under the onslaught of take back from the federal government. The state's going to have serious difficulties due to the costs that are coming from the fires in the south and other problems. So hot. I hope that you might be looking into cutting the cost of this bridge by looking at a less expensive design. It's been proposed in the past that there were designs that were far expensive and just as effective. So whatever amount of money you do, good, please look to cut the costs on building the bridge across the freeway and then making sure that it sets with a nice connection to the junior college to get those students to be riding their bikes more only see about 3 bikes parked there ever. And most of those kids are driving. So the whole concept about this bridge had been that you are going to have students from the junior college be able to go across the freeway much easier. With that in mind. And the city helped to install. To a bike path along Armory Drive and putting green bollards. It wasn't costly endeavor in its own way. Very few people use it on that road a lot. Not by by Kenny Moore. I've been hit too many times in my bie. So I drive and it's one of these things were. I do believe you need to have oversight. I want to do something like this and see who actually use This was done with the idea like, oh, we're going to make it happen. If you build it, they will

come. That didn't happen. Folks. So the money was spent and nothing really came of it. Last but not least. I appreciate all the efforts that you're skews on these different situations. Glad consolidated the Cultural Heritage Board and design review. I don't believe any of those former members of cultural heritage should ever be on boards or commissions. Again, because I believe they violated the Brown Act and did some serial meeting beforehand. I was here at that meeting where I could see they had discussed what they were going to do that day when they boycotted. So last but not least good luck on all your endeavors this year with the Musketeers. MR. Rival. I'm Tall. I'm gonna I'm tall. I'm gonna raise it Good afternoon. There's that members of the city center city MISTER Weigel, and I'm currently the longest seeded member of the Design Review board and city of Santa Rosa. >> Been serving on the air be since 2017 and I have likely reviewed around 100 projects in my time in the board. I've also served as a member of the board vice chair and the chair. And I believe Mayor step was a member. The deer be when I was chair. Also licensed architect in the states, California, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas with 15 plus years of experience. I apologize. That was not here to make public comment. And your last meeting on FEBRUARY 4th regarding the proposed ordinance changes under item 14.8. Including free reductions and the merger of Design Review Board and the Culture Heritage Board. I appreciated the council's thoughtful comments. That's your last meeting while reviewing the proposed ordinance changes that I was

able to watch it on zoom my entire family was down with the flu except for me. As a private citizen as an architect and an architect in our community. I fully support the ordinance has passed with no amendments and look forward to your consent approval tonight. Common misconception regarding both entitlements in discretionary entitlements is that the process is over the long and onerous. While that MAY be the case in other jurisdictions, city staff has been working to help provide predictability and reason we swift actions to applicants to make Santa Rosa desirable location for new development and the re-imagining of some parts of our city. I've been on both sides of the diocese. Yes, on these items from being a both a deer. Remember and also a member of an African team. So I know what I speak. Our desire to few review board for the last decade. Plus has been a project positive board willing to work with applicants to get their projects to approval. Process works because we have a combination of experience to subject matter. Experts in the entire process. You know, the nuances of the design guidelines and the intersections of land use discretion or entitlement. We have also had the vision to include at-large members of the community to bring their own unique voices to the board. This group of volunteers continues to work with applicants with the hope that we're improving their projects through this process. In fact, I can remember at least 20 separate occasions where applicants have come up to me and my fellow board members after meetings thanked us for our positive process and for seeing things in their projects that they did not and

making them better. I'm confident that we can see a new design review in preservation board with the required experience, licensed professionals has included in the ordinance from members of her community utilizing professional organizations such as ai Redwood Empire. And others. That's the architects group and also finding interested at-large members of the community to ensure the development center is meets the needs of our community now and beyond. And also the bridge I've seen that design a number of times I think let's do the cool, cool bridge. >> Drew, thank you for your vote of confidence in for years of service and design review. With that, we'll turn to item 15. 0, no, we have to do a boat talking about bring it back to council, MR. As make a motion. Thank you, mayor. I like items 14.1 through 14.8 and wait for the reading of the text kit. We have a motion. A second second was by MISTER Rogers. Deputy city clerk are ready for the vote. >> Councilmember Rogers. Kept key is absent. Councilmember MacDonald is absent councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben Willows. Yes, vice however, as I mayor stop, I the motion passes with 5 affirmative votes with council members. MacDonald in Okrepkie absent. >> Thank you. And now we can turn to item 15. This is our first public comment on non agenda matters. Are there any with members of the public who would like to speak on any items not listed on the agenda? You'll have 3 minutes. Ic ic Karen Squall. Ya. Perfect. Karen, the microphone is yours. MR. Do it. You'll be you'll be next. Karen, thanks

for coming. >> Good evening. My name is Karen Squall and I am PRESIDENT Of the Valley Vista, One in 2 homeowner's association. I am here advocating for the 360 residents of our development for repair of the city maintain street. This is a follow up to Susan's f's presentation in handouts provided the city Council. And our 7th District Representative Natalie Rogers at the FEBRUARY 19, 2025 goal setting meeting. Valley Vista. One into is a senior common interest planned development with 269 individually owned lots, including land and structures. Property taxes are paid as single dwelling residents and the streets are public. An aerial map of the developed and is included in your hand out. The resident demographics. >> Excuse me, ages 70 to 90 plus represent 64.2% of our community. Added to this. The 6 the residents aged 60 plus. That percentage jumps to 90.1%. The city maintain roads in our development need urgent repair. Solomon monger from the pavement management team recently assessed Westgate Circle and Sovereign Lane, finding a pavement condition index or cpi of 28 to 37 indicating more condition. Temporary shallow patches were applied in 2020 2022. Photos of the road conditions are

also included in your handouts. The road conditions are at safety hazard, especially for seniors. I've tripped myself and fallen on Westgate Circle. Walking is an important activity for seniors. And it is difficult due to the rough surfaces. Many of our residents walk with the assistance of Canes, walkers or pushed while in wheelchairs. Residents must use the public street to walk the 92 resident dogs due to sidewalks only existing on the perimeter. Lots of Westgate Circle. It's going thank you. >> And thank and thank you for the handouts. MR. Do it. >> Hello, my name is Dwayne Do it. I'm from Roseland. The city is going to be having to cut costs. Things are going to be getting a bit testy. I do believe because of the way the regressive at the federal level. The folks I call the Musketeers are going to be stripping out money that might come your way. The folks will have to figure out how save more here. In the past. I've made some suggestions which haven't really been listened to yet, but perhaps today they might be. I do believe even cut some of the boards and commissions that you have. I don't believe you need the art in public places. Committee. I don't believe you need the community advisory board. I believe that both of them are something that actually is just kind of a feel-good type situation. That work can be done in the process of other projects going forward the way

they do. You've got a paid staff of marketing people. So those folks could take on a lot of this effort that goes through these different boards and commissions. Now is just mentioned about the design review board being re allocated. And I was at the meeting of the FEBRUARY 6th 2025 Design Review Board meeting, which was very disrespectful to Roseland residents who come here and a large number to hear public hearing about an appeal for the Rosen Village shopping Center where many, many businesses are having negative effects. Do the parking activities that are being undertaken by the county. And unfortunately, due to the way the meeting was set up, those folks had to wait over 2 hours listening to a concept review on a different project over in Pine district. That wasn't even technically a matter to be decided. It was just listening to an architect. Talk to the board, which is interesting. And by the same token, it's disrespectful when you've got a public hearing scheduled, those folks are gone first. And they had to sit through their public hearing for a long time. Also and MR. Whittle who just spoke actually told them that that decision that they were talking about the design review board in the past had been a mistake. I wish he would've stayed because he told them that in public MR. Alvarez was there. If you need to double check. He sat through the entire thing which I thank him for over 4 hours

sitting in here listening to that situation and which they were basically ignored. And we were told afterwards that it wasn't the chair of the committee that set the agenda, that it was the liaison from the planning department and that that woman. Didn't really think there be that many people there. Well, the whole thing is just disrespectful. When you get an entire neighborhood group of people to come down here and try to work within the the operation that you have set and then Tom know sorry doesn't go that way. >> Thank you to Wayne. Are there any other members of the public would like to speak? Seeing will move on to item 16.1. Our report, our annual report of the community wildfire protection plan. A wildfire annex to the local Hazard mitigation plan. Deputy chief fluent all welcome back. >> Good evening again. Mayor Vice Mayor Alvarez members of the council is Paul aunt deputy chief with the fire department here to present your 4th annual commute. Wildfire protection plan. We'll make one quick note. The document is uploaded did make reference to the 3rd annual report and for the record that will be corrected and updated tomorrow. So for those of you that are unfamiliar with the plan and this is your first presentation, this see wpp or the community wildfire protection plan was a plan that was developed here to ultimately prevent from what hap event. What happened to us in the past from happening again and do everything we can to mitigate those efforts ultimately protect assets, are homes or values our structures and doing what we can to make Santa Rosa safer. So a little

bit of history really the cwd was first funded by Hazard Mitigation Grant program funded by Callison fema. It was actually approved about 3 weeks before the glass fire and identify the greatest threat to the city of Santa Rosa was the unburned area between tubs and nuns fire, which is exactly what burned in the 2020 last fire. The was funded with 5.5, 5.0, 2, 5 million dollars initially for the 5 years. And part of that niche ul 5 and a quarter million was $250,000 for the redevelopment of a new c wpp. We bought a new reports in front of and ultimately this year we will be moving forward with the development of a new c wpp, some says was a 5 year plan. The plan identified 9 objectives. And 46 actionable items. The night objections lifts it here. We'll go through each of them individually and kind of give you have some highlights as to what occurred over the last year. The first one was the improve, the coordination and tracking a vegetation management activities. We have a gis database that we identify projects and upload them into. It helps us see where work has been done before and where we can do work in the future. That work also incorporates grazing activities primarily in the past from our private property owners. And now some of our new grazing. And then a lot of the work that large-scale projects that are a's do with in Santa Rosa that are beneficial on a large scale. Not just individual properties that help us see the large treatments within the city of Santa Rosa. This is an example of a location that receive the treatment this in the

Cobblestone Jean, 8 area where we routinely get a lot of complaints from our community about the eucalyptus and the scotch from the Domingo in that area. So that out. And in our database. The second action item that we had was improve evacuation routes we brought before council the Integrated Pest management policy that deals with a lot of the invasive growth. Primarily like we're seeing a lot along. A lot of our evacuation routes. More well, I should say that is more important. Equally important was the new vegetation management ordinance that will also deal with improvements to our budget. Our evacuation routes, including the removal of a lot of the fire damage, trees in close proximity to our right ways. And in some cases collapsing into our right away as well as the again, the removal of invasive species such as the Scotch broom. We also are working through one of our grants that is directly tied to evacuation routes. And that's where we opted a number of residents in 2 different locations in the city. 8 major streets where we are helping fund fuel treatments along their properties along those evacuation routes. On a side note, we're a little disappointed to see the turnout of people opting into that. We saw a lot more turnout in our home party which will get to. But a little surprising. So we'll see what we can do to offset that or or get more people opted into it or different projects in the future. This is an example of why we're doing. We're doing where you can see both on Saint Andrews

as well as Cross Creek. The change in the ecology, a primary with the lack of canopy that we've seen from the Tubbs Fire specifically in change the invasive growth that we can't let continue this way. And that's what brought that ordinance before council. Continuing to educate the public we've had 3 successful years of our wildfire ready event. That's primarily been at the Family Center this next year. We will be doing a coordinated while for red event. That's county wide that will be held at the fairgrounds. We're finding that a lot of the agencies rinse and repeating a lot of the same information are kind of competing for audiences and resources. So to be a little bit more effective in a large-scale wildfire ready campaign it is being move forward with all of the is. Well as the county of Sonoma ultimately be led by fire safe Sonoma. We have the $500,000 that we got through hcd that's helping with not only this education but the education regarding the ordinance that went into effect. Continuing to work with a lot of our neighborhoods as well as ultimately keeping our websites. The wildfire ready as well as read Esr websites up to date. Which continue to get were pretty popular until we released the new weather website which took over popularity amongst the city sites. Some examples of some of the education is taking place both with wildfire ready as well as in the community. Increasing the overall So continuing to work and improve our Copa neighborhoods. We now have map your neighborhood in Oakmont. And one thing we're excited to release this year is a new map that will be released for our community that will allow residents to

map their own Copa neighborhoods. We've had a lot of obviously coach neighborhoods formed well before the 2017 fires cope. Kind of exploded. No pun intended after the 2017 fires, it became a lot mor popular. But we've turned a lot of communities lose throughout Santa Rosa. Our goal is to not rain the men but get them to register their individual neighborhoods so that we can provide consistent communications to all of them. But more importantly, when somebody moves into Santa Rosa and they have questions about what's around them, we will be able to connect them within organized neighborhood that they MAY have just moved to. You can see other examples outreach that we're continuing to do. Increasing our structural hardening. This to code cycles ago. Are we refer to it as our admission free and some structural hardening ordinances. We've obviously improved upon that doing everything we can to improve structural survivability. We have inspectors that had initially last year been doing voluntary inspections and assessments which will now change this year is the ordinance went into effect after the one-year grace period. And then again, we have the hazard Mateer Hazard Mitigation Grant program. That is funding 2.1 million dollars and Louis modification. So home hardening to a number of residents across our Wild land. Urban interface. Treatment of vegetation. We use a combination of our vegetation management funds as well as any leftover funds that we have in our weed abatement program. So we have good years and we have bad years. Good years. We have to cut once and we can use the leftover funds to do targeted feel treatments. Bad years. We

end up having to cut grass is more than once and not necessarily have as much money left over for targeted treatments. But again, some examples we did this year where the cobblestone area as well as a fire access road in Oakmont. Continue to work with both the supervisor Cruiser as well as the conservation prove North Bay and then more importantly to the mayor's point and are now excited to be releasing and utilizing grazing. Here's an example of the one-off of Shin 8 where you can see what it looked like before we did some of the work and what it looks like after the targeted treatments. And then and proving defensible space, which we alluded to and you've heard a lot about over the course of the implementation of the of the new ordinance that goes into effect that's targeting not just our wildland urban interface, but our burn scars. We designed developed landscape demonstration Garden Fire Station 7 in Oakmont that was paid for by our vegetation management program as well as contributions from Firesafe Sonoma as well as our Santa Rosa Fire Foundation. And for this next year, we'll obviously move into phase 2 of the defensible space inspection program. We have our limited term staff and that we're implementing the program as well as Measure h employees that will be coming on board to assist in the workload associated with the across our wildland Urban Interface. We currently have one community outreach specialist of our 2 that's vacant. All their staff are in

place. And then the more recent developments we initially had in our community wildfire protection objective of considering expanding our Wu Yi and specifically Coffey Park. 2 years ago. We did that analysis and found that coffee part did not meet the definition of the wildland urban interface and did not move it forward and kind of left it is. And then kind of sat in this waiting game since about 2022, when we were first advised actually started 2021. When we were first advised that we'd be receiving new maps both for the state responsibility or as well as the local responsible area, local responsibility or is the city of Santa Rosa in 2022? CalFire released state maps. The new high fire hazard severity zone maps. And then we waited in limbo for about 2 years. And the new maps just came out yesterday. This is our existing until yesterday was our very high fire hazard severity zones that were mapped in Santa Rosa by Cal Fire. The top is kind of the heart and center of town grove. The upper right is above Skyhawk. The bottom upper right is the And then the bottom lower right is kind of the upper part of a Oakmont immediately adjacent to handle State Park. The woo we sorry the state responsibility areas around us were primarily high to the north of us and low and moderate around the remainder of the city. Prior to 2020 to 2022. That changed. We saw more essentially red or very high as well as a lot more moderate in the state responsibility areas around the fairgrounds. We saw some

reductions in the severity around Oakmont on the an Adele State park side and then some reductions and hazard around Oakmont. Obviously, you will, very quickly, if you're familiar with the laws that once the maps were released to the city, we have 120 days to approve the maps and bring them before council. We have a plan in place. In fact, 2 of arson fire marshals, both Kemplin Robbins. Those are fire marshal right now as well as Assistant Fire Marshal McDonnell. Both chambers both doing a lot of work behind the scenes with our 3rd Assistant Fire Marshal Mike Johnson to have everything in place over the next 120 days to bring the state's recommendations before council. Once we have adopted the state's maps, we plan fully to come back before council with modifications to our existing wildland-urban interface, both areas that we potentially could be expanding as well as the potential for areas that we could be contracting. Our In addition to what we just learned about yesterday, well, after was uploaded is obviosly working on new maps this year as well as implementing integrated pest Policy to do some targeted sprain in some areas that we intend to do feel treatments longer. Evacuation route. Conduct, more high visible projects continually to support a partnership of Firesafe Sonoma as they become the more of the lead, which they truly are fire safe Council, especially with what's going on Measure h

implement the the grazing as well as implemented the inspections associated with our vegetation management ordinance this year. I'm open to questions. Bring it back to council any questions. As Ben Wills. >> Thank you, You talked about the Coffey Park and the possibility of just wondering with the new maps. Is there any chance that Coffey Park I know it doesn't really meet the definition of of really, but I'm just curious. If that's possible. >> Yeah, no. With the new maps, it's less likely now that we make any recommendation. We saw the hazard severity down, not part of the city on the north end of the city actually decrease. It was primarily had some high and very high and it's now more down into low and moderate. And it's also based on a lot of the changes in construction that they see in the changes in the landscape. So, for example, on round boulevard that used to be acres and acres and acres of undeveloped land, it's develop now areas where we saw the town grove in. There's development areas. Were had previous vegetation some cases. Yes, there's a lack of education, but there's a lot that goes into it. And there's been a lot of changes that have reduced the risk and that particular area. >> I'm just one somewhat. They question to what, to what extent are our city ordinances with respect to want to to abatement and wildfire prevention keeping pace with the changes in insurance,

covering prep insurance company, preferences. Thinking of issues around. I mean, certainly been we've been looking issues like mulch tree of pavement, but even with the shoes of treatment, fencing insurance industry seems to driving the car. A conversation in many parts of the state in our city. What's the city relationship to the insurance company demands right now? >> So I sat on a working crew, a working group that hosted by unos United Policyholders. So we're group that addresses that and this is targeting a lot of those conversations and One of the topics that I have been discussing intend to continue working on with Amy who runs United Policy, any And that's really what I hope to be able to take back to that working group is to look at all the work that's been done here locally with specifically the ordinances that we put into effect. You see a lot of Comey's that we did have an ordinance is a defensible space ordinances believe taking a step further with addressing are true challenges that we have here locally. More specifically are scotch broom. Art are dead and downed trees. We're clearly not requiring the removal of everything, but we're doing more than typically communities have based on our lessons learned both in the 17 of the 20 fires. I don't know a lot of communities that don't allow grill her mulch within 30 feet of a home and there while interface. But we did that because of what we saw, the twenty-twenty glass fire. We can't tie of resources for most. That can just be you know, could have its use a void in those

specific areas. So we are involved in a lot conversations. We go to a lot of events and these are the kind of conversation we want to have of whether it had a policy holders are the sure. Commissioner to find out what can be done to show what's happening here in Santa Rosa and what that effect that could have on on homeowners rates. Excellent. Thank you. >> And with that, we'll go to public comment. Re members of the public, what was like to speak. Seeing none bring you back to council for any final comments. Well, just I meant to say thank you again for this report for all the I don't think going to be recognized and publicly here. How you have played such an important role with the la fires, which is a fire that impacted you or your community personally. Thank you for representing the city so well wasn't just you I know is that's our. It was the entire fire department. There was other city staff as well. It's nice to the chance Thank you. Thank you. Publicly. >> You know, I push it out of. There are a lot of city staff that are actively engaged helping not just la but a lot of the committees that have been affected by the wildfires. We have the city manager support right now we've been engaged with City, La County, I would say the agency that we met with last week, but I completely but share it. But a lot of work being done to highlight a lot of lessons learned that we've had, whether water, whether it's from Ted, number of departments our our city that are taking examples and lessons that we've learned and helping other communities. It great to >> The experience was hard-earned, but certainly a boon to the state right now. And in closing, I just wanted

to make make sure that you knew that I noticed you had grazing on to the slides that was well played. Thank thank you for that. And thank you. With that. We'll go to Let's see. It's item 19 or final public comment non agenda matters. Are there any members of the public marriage? We need to accept that mention, of course. Lets see and it's been as some sort skipped over. You're hearing the commotion. >> But Saeb, I'm I move that we except the 4th annual report for the community. Wildfire protection plan. A wildfire annex to the local Hazard mitigation plan. The Lnp mp in compliance with the Healthy Forest Restoration Act can. >> We have a motion a second by MISS Rogers. Deputy city clerk are ready for a vote. >> Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Rogers, Councilmember Okrepkie is absent. Councilmember MacDonald is at the sun. Councilmember Fleming. I Councilmember Ben Willows. I Vice Mayor Alvarez. All right. Mayer step. I the motion passes with 5, 5, affirmative votes with Councilmembers. MacDonald in Okrepkie. Absent. >> Thank you. And now we can go to item 19 public or comment on non agenda matters. Are there any members of the public who wish to comment on items not listed on the agenda? Seeing item sorry, mayor, we do have Lola Johnson signed up to Apologies. Thank you for that. Thank you for correcting that is little

Lola. You're here Surrey for skipping over you, please. The court. Your >> That's okay. And silly. Compared to. >> See if I can get through all. You guys are talking about today. Pat. I rode it out a little background. My parents moved here when I was 5 1960. My dad was civil engineer for the counting. I think when he retired, he was chief building inspector. But it was many, many years ago. >> So anyway, we there were 5 kids in my family. I'm the only one left. My husband and I raised her 4 kids here and we have 10 grandkids. And they tease me all the time for being a rule. Keeper. So we have some the stress in our family right now. Without a our kids at home, my husband and I got a mini Australian Shepherd. Who is, you know, I've never been a big dog person, but I'm very attached to her. So we were at the park the other day at Franklin Park and we were the only ones there. Me and my dog. And throwing the ball for her see needs to And the animal control officer came out and told me she needed to be on a leash. I you know, I said, you know, this off Ball Park there says in big letters, no dogs allowed. So I don't take are out there. I play with their here. There's nobody else that the park anyway, he ticketed me. And he told me there was a sign as you drove in. And so I went and parked my car and had to go over to this little sign. That you could barely read, write. And so then I went back to him and I said you really can't see that sign. And he said, well, take that to the City Council. And that's why I'm here like I would never come here and never speak in a public

situation. But since he said I just like the city design for living and that you can't just go play with your dog in a park. And he told me to go to dog parks. I went there and like 10 dogs and they're attacking my dog getting her ball anyway. All of that to say if they could be a little more discretionary MAY be on their lease law, you know, because a lot of people throw their balls for their dogs out there. And like I said with nobody there, she actually my dog actually went and dropped her ball at his feet. Like even a thought for me like she's not menace to society. So anyway. That is my because he said take that to city council. The host wire is here. So even though that sort of silly, I just don't know. Mike, with the answer is to that for a place for us to play with our Thank you for letting me speak on that issue. >> Lola, thank you for coming. And we're going adjourn here in a second. Perhaps you can pick up this conversation offline. With that will go to item. 21 adjournment work. We are included for the evening. Thank you, everyone.