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echoes to have most couple got it all People this in deposit is quick on and go get them. And in a spending the Dax. Yes, thank you. Back to you. >> Thank you. MADAM City clerk or the time is to and we will call this meeting to order at a city clerk. Would you please call the roll? >> Thank you, Mayor Councilmember Rogers, PRESIDENT Councilmember Okrepkie your Councilmember MacDonald here, Councilmember Fleming is absent councilmember Ben Willows here. Vice Mayor Alvarez is absent. Mayor, stop here. Let the record councilmembers are present with the exception of Councilmember Fleming and all for us. Thank you. >> All right. We'll move on to item 3.1 in 3.2 a closed session items. The first is a con conference with legal counsel and existing mitigation and item 3.2 is a conference Weber negotiators. I'm looking around council chambers and see if we have any members of the public who are seeing We will simply adjourning on the court session. Thank you. >> You know, nice boy, a I. >> Thanks for your patience, everyone. We're back time is 4 o'clock. And we can resume the meeting. MADAM City clerk, please call the roll. Thank you, Mayor Councilmember Rogers, PRESIDENT Councilmember Okrepkie here, Councilmember MacDonald, terror. Councilmember Fleming absent councilmember Ben Willows here. Vice Mayor Alvarez is absent. Mayor, stop here. Let the record reflect all councilmembers are present with the exception of Vice Mayor Alvarez in Councilmember Fleming. Thank you. And I'll just make a note for for gas

that items. 8.0, 2, 8.3 12.2 have been continued until the APRIL first meeting. >> Those are good ones. We invite you to come back and move on to item 6 report on closed session. MADAM City Attorney. Thank you, MR. Mayor, there's no reportable action from closed session this evening. Thank you. Move on. Then item 7.1. Our proclamation for national surveyors week, MR. Crappie. Thank you, MR. Mayor. Whereas serving has been an essential element in the development of the human environment since the beginning of recorded history. And it is a requirement in the planning execution of nearly every form of construction with most of year. Modern uses in the field to transport. >> Building in construction communications mapping and the definition of legal boundaries for land ownership and whereas to accomplish their objectives. Surveyors used elements of engineering, physics, mathematics, astronomy law and history and whereas since the colonial days of the United States surveyors have been leaders in the community states, people influential citizens in shapers of cultural standards. Former notable surveyors include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone and Henry David Thoreau among others. And whereas many services are now provided using sophisticated survey equipment and techniques, including satellite born remote sensing devices automated positioning measuring recording and plotting equipment. And whereas the establishment of the week of MARCH 16 through 20nd 2025 as national severe is weak. Is it fitting tribute

to all surveyors? Now, therefore MAY resolved that Mayor Mark staff of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of entire city council and recognition of our community do hereby proclaim that week of MARCH. 16th through MARCH 20 22nd 2025, National Surveys Week. Thank you. And we have Bruce Johnson with us to accept to accept this proclamation. A wonderful the microphones, all yours. >> Hello, my name is Monica coming in and I am the secretary for the California Land Surveyor Association's Nomo chapter. I would like to thank the City Council for the Proclamation of National Surveys Week. Our organization is comprised of a wide variety of surveyors from both the private and public sectors, including local and development companies and employees at the County Review survey maps and help maintain our county's history and records. We also have our treasurer who just retired from 25 years of working with the city of Santa Rosa. I myself had been in the industry for 3 years and never thought I would find a career full of people who love it as much as surveyors do. The average age of us are various 55, mostly because they just refuse retired because it is such a fun industry to work in. Serving is one of the oldest professions and comes with a lot of history and responsibilities that I know many surveyors who take their roles very seriously, whether it's for a client city or the county as a whole. When we saw boundaries, there's a lot of historical research and teamwork across the industry to ensure that things are done with a certain level of quality insurance. I'm very proud to work in this field and led to thank you again for this proclamation. >> Monica, thank you. You're you're a great recruiter for the profession. We're going photo down in front in just a

moment. But before then, are there any other members of the public they would like to make make public comment? Seeing none. Monica wanted to come on down will take a photo. We'll move on then to item 7.2, our proclamation for Women's History Month. Ms been we loves. >> Yes, thank you, It's my honor. Whereas women have always played a critical role shaping the economic cultural and social fabric of our society through their participation in labor force, working both inside and outside of the home in leadership positions and through creative inspirations where is Women's History Month provides an opportunity for schools and communities to expand and enhance with what our children in our community. No about the women's roles in history and their contributions to the development of this nation. Where is the story of American women is the story of women of all ages races and cultural backgrounds who led campaigns for equality and civil rights, advanced professional and educational opportunities founded in to tie early new enterprises and contributed significantly to the arts sciences and humanistic causes an whereas women from every background have long realized that an uneven playing field will never bring equality or justice and we all need to eliminate bias and discrimination entirely for our lives and institutions. And whereas the 2025 theme of the Women's History Month is moving forward together, women, educating and inspiring

generations, which celebrates the collective strength and influence of women who have dedicated their lives to education, mentorship and leadership and where is Women's History Month is both a call to acknowledge outstanding women. We know by name and to pay homage to the dedication of nameless women who contributed to our nation now, therefore, be it resolved. That marks tap mayor of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city council in recognition of the significant role played by women whose courage and vision inspire hope for today's women to make tomorrow's history, thereby proclaim the month of MARCH 2025. As Women's History Month. Thank you. And Melanie joins Carter. You here? Yes, I am wonderful floor. Is yours. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor staff and members of the council for this proclamation. >> I'm the vice chair of the commission today joined by. >> How many of cocky? >> We are especially honored to be here today because even though this is a national organization, it started right here in Sonoma County. This year's theme, all Women and Girls Rights Equity and empowerment. And we can certainly use that now. And then time when women's rights are being challenged on a daily basis, even as we speak, there are calls to remove women that have made great accomplishments and erased from history. And let's not forget the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion will set women back to the future. What can you do? You ask the International

Women's Day has created 32 ideas in action items. I'm going to list them all. Just kidding. Here are a few that you can do here. Support women, focus, Charities organize award ceremonies that recognize women as you have done today, mentor women call out gender bias. Every time you see and hear it and advocate for policy change by writing to local and national leaders. Locally. The Sonoma County Commission on the status of Women provides resources and input to the Board Supervisors on issues affecting women. This year, our focuses on mental health, homelessness and immigration support. I'd like to leave you with a quote by one of my favorite persons. Margaret Mead. Never doubt then a small group of fought full committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has and we are committed. Thank you. Thank you both. Again, we'll do a photo in just a second before that. And are there any members of the public would like to speak? >> All right. Invite. We come MR. Donald, please. >> Thank you, mayor and I want to say thank you to the commission on the status of women are always highlighting how much we need to focus on empowering other women in our community. I had the honor of serving on that commission in the past as well as our Councilmember Fleming did. And I just want to say thank you to all the work that you're doing continue to do. And I do

want to call out that the city Council has. >> For women. So we are in the majority on leaders in our community and I'm very proud of that. Not to say that the men on this day is not fact was too. But the women really, really fabulous. We have a city manager that is a woman and a city attorney that as a woman. So when it comes to empowerment, I'd like to see city of Santa Rosie. Santa Rosa is doing a great job. So thanks for being behind us for we hang you too. >> Wonderful come on down will take a photo. More. We will move on to item 7.3, our presentation on the downtown Action organization's annual update. Cadence Inkwell U.S. Welcome. Real close. Okay. >> Good afternoon. Mayor staff members of council. My name is Cain's Hinkle Allen Son and I'm the executive director of the downtown Community Benefit District. I'm here today on behalf of the district's management organization, the downtown action organization. I know all of you are familiar with the downtown This first side has a recap of the district's history since it was created by council in 2018, the biggest activation of the district has been to manage a street level service provider which was started in MARCH of 2019. It's known by most as the Blue shirts and we continue to manage that today through a contract with a company called next street. They have 4 and a half staff members. Plus a supervisor and they operate 7 days a week with hours changing seasonally throughout the year. Moving into 2020, we really only had

about one year of operation before the pandemic hit, at which point the partnered with the city and with the Santa Rosa Metro Chamber to manage the now program and more on some of the beautification projects that the organization had been planning to do. Since then, we've been focusing on additional beautification projects and street level services and make it a goal every year to work closely with city staff and elected Zahn, improving and enhancing downtown and making an attractive place to do business and to visit. This page is a map of the district. Roughly the district covers Santa Rosa Plaza to e and first to 7th Railroad Square on the other side of the plaza has its own community benefit district and we work closely and communicate with them on a regular basis. The downtown district has 159 parcels and about 112 property owners which includes the city of Santa Rosa. Properties are assessed based on their location within the district and then based on linear frontage a lot size and building size. Anticipated assessments in 2024. Word total just over 564,000. The the site is the deo's 2024 budget. So last year's budget, you can see that the majority of the funds received went to street level services, special projects almost $95,000 was raised to support are not covered by a generally not covered by assessment dollars. And I raised separately. So they are not included in the budget here. A few highlights from 2024. On this side, starting with last year's. It's our special projects. Sent the Rosie the trolley pilot. And then we also worked

with the city to get the new planters and banners installed in courthouse Square. Those planters and banners are now being managed and maintained by the d a o. We installed additional lighting in the redwoods and we started working with loose team on the bbl projects which has been really fantastic for our downtown community. Being in a bit more to the street level services provided by next treat. This page shows you map that highlights all the different tasks that were completed by that team throughout the year. And you can see that's really centered around courthouse square as the middle of the district. This side breaks down what all those dots we really entail. Nearly 9, nearly 9500 trash sweeps 1681 pieces of graffiti were cleaned and that's only graffiti up to 12 feet. Our team completed nearly 3,000 landscaping tasks, which includes watering all the planters. Weeding in clearing the sidewalks of leaves. 1457 bulk items were removed from public spaces, passageways and sidewalks. There were 209 instances of human and hazardous waste cleaned the team provided information to the public. Nearly 300 times and proactively checked in with businesses about 550 times. They also work very closely with srpd and host and they conducted quality of life checks or requests for assistance with an unsheltered individual 910 times throughout the year. We track and report these numbers monthly in the deo board's meetings and we it helps us to identify trends and were able to work with next tree to understand what might be unique to Santa Rosa, what might be a regional or

nationwide shift. So on the side. You can see the budget that was adopted by the dia Board for 2025, which is very much in line with years past. And they are operating with a negative budget this year because expenses came in under what was anticipated previously. The site has a list of our current board members. The deo board has 15 members, at least two-thirds of whom are property owners and they have a 5 person executive committee. We've been lucky to have assistant city manager Dunston serving on the board as the deo's as the city's representative for the last few years. The district schools for this year remain consistent with years past. Continuing to advocate for projects and policies that support our business community. Help police are vacant spaces and create an attractive inactive downtown for all of Santa Rosa. In addition to maintaining the high level focus on street level services and maintenance of the existing beautification projects. There are a couple key items the organization is focusing on a 2025. The first is updating our management district plan, which was which we had an ad hoc committee draft change isn't it was approved by the Board in FEBRUARY. The changes are meant to better align. The management district plan with the work happening in the district and also anticipate the needed shifts as a result of future development. We also plan to conduct an assessment audit for all of our properties within the district. The organization plans to review the parking study once it's available to the public and help put forward recommendations that will bring more businesses to the downtown. We are hoping to identify funding to help

install some paint permanent family-friendly activations, which we continue to see a direct need for. We're in the process of creating a universal window covering strategy for vacant space is what we anticipate being launched by APRIL. The organization has also eager to support park fees being spent within the downtown station area. Opening up opportunities for marketing with other downtown neighborhoods is something the deo is focusing on this year. The boundaries of the cbd are not particularly relevant to the members of our community. So we're hoping that we can appear more unified online, at least since it's a little more challenging in person. So where will be working with the other districts to try really make that effort happen? And then finally one of the big focuses of the organization this year is just to better engage with more of the constituents in the downtown, the business and property owners, including the new residents because we are hoping to quite a few new people moving into the downtown soon. And so we're using info sessions and community meetings as a way to achieve that. And finally, hoops ice are asked to patient. I Thank you for your time, your energy and your dedication to ensuring downtown remains a priority for the city. The deo is incredibly grateful for the ongoing partnership and the opportunity to work together to create a more vibrant, safe and welcoming downtown for the whole community. >> Thank you. Cadence. Outstanding or is always pretty. But the council for any questions. Any members of the public like to comment on this item? Seeing kids are just thank you again for all the work that the deal is doing its it does not go

unnoticed. The number of business community members, the number of downtown visitors that have come up to me and pointed out, think all of us really and talked about incredible improvements in the downtown area over the last well, since the da has been operating it, there's a regular refrain. It's a regular drumbeats compliments. And it's due to the work of you and your team. Thank you very much. You're making I just a huge dent in our in our downtown issues. Thank you. Thank you. It's it's a very supportive audience tonight. We appreciate that. All right. I get a reminder that items 8.2 8.3 have been continued for those of you who are not up to date on your agenda. These are the items regarding our economic development, strategic plan, which is a key key area of focus for the city and then also have interest in the United Soccer League in terms maybe doing something within our city. Those items we discussed on APRIL for on APRIL 15th, rather. So please join us then those are those are going to be important ones. We'll move on to item 9. The city managers and city attorneys reports MADAM City manager. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening. Mayor members of council have no updates this evening. Thank you. >> Thank you. MADAM City Attorney. Thank you again. MISTER Mayor, members of the city council. I have a brief litigation report. >> For month of FEBRUARY, there were no settlements previously authorized by the City Council closed session that were finalized. And a the month of FEBRUARY, our caseload remains relatively constant with 31 litigation matters. Currently. Many cases are currently in the discovery phase with trial dates assigned to most of them. As always, we continue to try to

try to resolve smaller litigation cases as well as claims that little or no cost to the city. And that's the end of my report. Thank you. MADAM City, attorney. >> I am keeping staff on their toes tonight because I just realized I jumped right over item. 8.1, Trina, my apologies. So we're going to go back to item 8.1 to talk about the Santa Rosa, active transportation plan. Again, apologies and the floor is yours. >> Thank you. I know this is going to be the most exciting item of the night and you just really wanted everybody to. Get very excited. So good afternoon, Mayor stop in council members. My name is touring a Wilson. I'm the city's transportation planner. So I deal in everything that has to do with our walking in are biking, infrastructure. The way that we do that in the city for the most part is we have a long-range plan where we map out everything that we would like to do roughly within the next 5 years. Historically, this plan has always been called the bicycle and pedestrian master plan. The last time we updated that was in 2018, it was adopted by council in 2019. And I'm here as the project manager for the current update. So you'll notice on the screen that version of the plan is now called the active Transportation plan. We're doing that. So it's a bit more inclusive of walking biking, rolling. And it also matches national best practice as well. So I've been here a couple of times to talk about various phases of this plan. We've been working on it for about a year and a half. That's a bit longer than we

usually take to update these plans. Frankly, we we wanted to do a lot better than we have in the past. We wanted to make sure that we were hearing from the community, but also that we were as in line with current best practices as we could be. So on the slide here, you'll see the various phases that we've gone through. I came and spoke with you in the APRIL in JUNE that 3rd bullet down for phase one of public engagement. This is when I went out to the community with a bunch of your other staff. And I said where the barriers and walking and biking infrastructure that the community experiences. What could we be doing better? But also what are we doing? Well, that you would like to see more of. We took all of this information. We turned this into a series of maps that outlined various walking and biking projects that we would like to see in the community. And then we moved on to that 4th bullet, which was face to of public engagement. So we said, here's what we heard from you in phase one. Did we get it right? Did we translate that correctly into the list of projects? We show that to the community. And then we asked for them to review it. After that, we went through a process of project prioritization, which is part of what we've done since I saw you last and then we put that into the actual plant itself, which is why I'm here with you this evening. We have a public review draft of the entire active transportation plan. It's ready. It's open for public review. Opened on MARCH 3rd, it's going to go for the rest of the month. And so I'm

here to give you a very brief. Hey, this is out there and we would love people to go comment on it. The next steps are we're going to take all of the public feedback will make some tweaks to the plan. We'll bring that document to the bicycle pedestrian advisory board. We think right now that will be happening in MAY and then they will forward it to you has the adopting body. And so you'll see this again, we believe in JUNE at this point. So here the contents of the plan. I'm not going to go into much detail because, again, this is live on the Web site and we would appreciate any of you taking a look at giving us your feedback on it. We go through existing conditions. We summarize all of the community engagement that we did. Chapter 4 is the recommendations. So you'll see a series of maps for both pedestrian and bicycle recommendations for every segment of our roadway system and then chapter 5 is where it gets interesting. So that's where we're saying, okay, we have all of these projects that we listened. Chapter 4 and then Chapter 5 is the prioritization. What do we think that we can accomplish within the next 5 years? And in what order will be like to do that? And then on the bottom of the slide, I have a list of upend to seize. We have many of them because we wanted the plan to be as concise as possible. We didn't want to have a document where a member of the public has to drill through 50 pages to get that one sentence of information that they're interested in. So all of our up and the seas are going to be listed separate. And you'll

see that on the Web page. The main item that I want to focus on right now is project prioritization and the way that it's going to the way that it is related to our Capital Improvement Project list. So when we have the list of all of the projects, we as a team sat down and we thought, okay, which ones are going to be the most important. Obviously they're all important. But we're looking at things like where other projects on our high injury network, where other projects in a disadvantaged community. We're community where families MAY disproportionately not have a car which projects are near transit are near schools are near parks, which projects are going to cause glass gaps in the system. So if we have an area where a sidewalk ends for whatever reason that project might get prioritized over some other projects so that we can make sure that the network continuous. Then the last point on the slide here pavement maintenance. And this is where deviated from what we've done in the past. So you've been receiving presentations from Transportation, Public Works. Director Dan Hennessey. The City Council has asked the Heat, take a look at the way that we implement our projects through our cip list. And what we determined is that one of the best ways for us to put in bicycle and pedestrian projects through pavement, maintenance, right? There's already a crew out there doing work. We repave the roadway. So we have to restrict it anyway. And so as we were developing the project,

prioritization, we went through the process of examining where the next several years of pavement maintenance MAY occur and where on those same roadways are there projects in the active transportation plan that we could lumped in with it? There's going to be many benefits to this one is that projects could get implemented. Pastor. So we know we're going to pavement maintenance anyway. And so let's slaps of extra projects in there when we have the opportunity to do so. But it also means that when we're doing these pavement maintenance projects that we're thinking about the transportation system holistically and we're implementing projects that are more based on complete streets. They're built for everybody. And theoretically, that would mean that they would become safer as well. And so you will be getting some more presentations. I know from that director Hennessey and you'll get a little bit more explanation. But I want to just give you that overall explanation of how some of these projects were prioritized, especially because a lot of the prioritize projects are. Along the arterials within the city. So you'll you'll notice that when you're looking entrapped or 5 of the document. So like I said, we're in the public review phase again. It opened on MARCH 3rd. It goes until MARCH. 30th. The entire plan is up on the Web page, including all of the maps that show where we have park projects, what types of projects that might be and which ones are high priority for the next 5 years. So on the Web page, it's an

interactive pdf. You can scroll to any of the pages. You can leave a comment and you can also see what other people are commenting as well. And if you feel so inclined, you can like somebody is comment. And then again, like I said, we'll take that feedback. We'll make some edits to the plan will be going to the bicycle pedestrian advisory board and then come back to the city council. So I anticipate all be back here in JUNE and your presentation at that point will be a bit more in depth. So this was a broad. Here's what we've got. And that is what I've got. Outstanding Arena. Thank you. Bring it back to council for questions >> Donald. >> Just for clarification, I get a couple of e-mails here and there about Montgomery Drive see that there's some parts that connect to Montgomery Drive that are highlighted in red. Is this the 5 year plan and is that something that will take into consideration is like we do 2 parts of it, but not the center part coming face to or that one in particular just connects through on those areas. And I've had a lot of feedback on that recently. So that's going to depend on which map you're looking at. So we use red color for different areas. So can you tell me name of that figure? >> About that? If you looked mission where it's red on the map here and then you were to go, it looks like a portion of Montgomery Drive. There's us. There's a section that's not highlighted. That's a section that I keep getting e-mails about that this particular road. >> Needs some work. And I don't know. That's repaving worth. They're looking at by connectivity. That would be one area that I see. I just wanted to know how this map

work and how we can direct people to go in and make their own comments on the map. If that's an area of need or that they feel that that's an area the city should focus on. >> So I don't have the plan open in front of me. So I can't tell you exactly if it's a pedestrian map. It could mean that there's 2 gaps of sidewalk. And then it's just that we would do those. But then there's a section in between. That's there. But I have a note that although take a look and make sure that there's nothing funky going on there because obviously there's many eyes on it. But we can always MISS Something for any member of the public. There are. So when you click on the plan on the project, Web page on the left-hand side, there's instructions. There's something that says Get started. You click that button and then there's instructions on how you can leave a comment. And I went through it. It's pretty intuitive. My contact information also on the project Web page. So folks can reach out at any point if they would like help on how to do that. And then again, they could toggle really the any part of the plan and leave a comment. There's been a few folks who have a detailed comment, but they'll just leave it Page one and though say I'm really concerned about this thing and because they give enough detail, I know what they're talking about. So they also don't have to really get into the nitty-gritty if they didn't want If that could be sent to us in an email so that we could actually posted on social media, our own social media or send it out to constituents that they can go in and leave comments. Sometimes that's just little easier way for us to get to people so that that date. >> Know how to interact with all of Thank you, though, for the presentation. I appreciate

it. Been us. Thank you, First, I just want to thank you so much for all your work. This is really the spectacular actually kind of along the lines of Councilmember MacDonald. I there are many roads and with in my district are that are on here. So I have I think you had said on a survey right social media. Which I shared and then I i love that the there that we can tells constituents that they can go directly to the streets because there are many streets for 2 guys looking at done in college that need work and fall into these categories of safety, especially and conductivity is something that I'm especially interested Just wondering if you're getting very much feedback about that. >> We always get comments about connectivity, especially in cases where it's a more walkable area near the downtown or right outside of the downtown or locations where folks are trying to get to public transportation. That's a huge thing that we see is, you know, even if you are using the bus, all of your trips are going to begin or end with walking or biking. And so we do get tons of comments like that. And there are comments already in the document itself where people say, you know, they go to one of the maps where we have a proposed project and they say this, I love this and so you can go in and you can see that people are really resonating with some of the projects that we've included. >> My question was more general one. All right. There's so much interest in the community in the way they were handling bicycle pedestrian routes across the city. How much public feedback we've gotten so far in the 2 weeks this plan's been

available. >> I don't have a physical number, but every day I look at the plan because I'm a nerd about it and I'm really proud of it. And so every morning I go and look to see if there's more comments and I've been impressed that there's a good number. So there's a couple of our maps and Chapter 4 or if you toggle down to them, you'll see there's up to 7 comments on just one map and then there will be a couple comments where people have liked their comments. And so it's been interesting to see even with a pdf document that's long. It's 100 pages. People are still going in. And you can tell that they're actually reading the whole plan. And so I've been I've been impressed. And then there's also think it's chapter 3 is the community engagement chapter where we have a summary of everything we did in phases one and 2. So that's when we actually went out to the community to chat with them. And we I think quadrupled the amount of outreach that we had from the 2018 plan just in those 2 phases of engagement. So we're really proud of the work that we were able to do. >> Excellent. That's great to hear. And with that, let's open it up for public comment. Are there any members of the public here today? Like to comment on this item. Floor is yours. >> Eris Weaver, executive director of the Snow County Bicycle Coalition. Do We not get my little 3 minute guy like it to talk as long as I want move. That's dangerous. >> And my job, I look a lot of these transportation planning documents and I think this might be the best. >> When I've ever scene. It is laid out very clearly and understandably, I love that

the the whole slogan of safety is the default. I'm just going to start saying that everywhere that I go the prior is the day shuns scheme where its high priority and then what we can do and we're doing other things is so much simpler and elegant. Then what has been happened in plans. >> Even even have you have it set up for the estimated costs words a number of hits rather than a number. You know, dollar signs like the one you're looking at restaurant reviews that Israeli. And because those numbers change just as soon as you've printed something. So and looking at old plans, the costs for things are just laughable. So from zoomed out, structural lover level. >> And I'm very, very happy with that. Some comments on some other specific things. I have had an ongoing pet peeve around garbage cans in bike lanes. And so I was very happy to see that in the plan is something to manage as well as a suggestion to Update one of the city codes to require bike parking at large events. Let's see. Driver education is mentioned in the plan. And I don't know if all of you know that we have been work. One of my certified by Constructors is also a former bus driver and put together a training. Bike, friendly training for bus drivers and has done that with all of the center is a city bus staff and as well as going out in the rest of the county. And so there's so we have a curriculum ready to go with any other entity like city fleets or other commercial drivers. Very happy about that. I mean, there's

still a few things here. And there some sections of college and of Stony Point are MARCH for class to where I think need Class. 4, a class one just because of the speeds and the number of traffic. But overall, there are so few class, 2 and class through lanes in there which makes my little heart happy. So good job all around. Thank you. Thank Are there any other members of the public would like to speak? >> Bring it back to council for any final comments. Well, we're not going we're not going deliver praise higher than Heiresses. So thank you. Thank you very much. Again, there are a few issues in the in the city that attract more attention to this and have and to have this plan out there that's meeting with such wide acclaim. That's just that's just a great, a great step forward for the city. So thank you very much. In my in my haste to get back to this item with with to end and I neglected to take public comment on our city attorney's report of a few minutes ago. She was reporting on settlements and active litigation. Were there any members of the public that wanted to make a comment on our city attorney's report? Thank you, member going to move on to item 10 statements of abstention recusal by council. Are there any statements of abstention recusal this evening? Seeing none. We'll move on to item 11 mayors and Councilmembers reports. Are there any reports this evening? As Rodgers? Thank you, mayor. >> just want to take a report out on events that I have been

able 10, 3, 8, I was able to attend the Arbor Day Tree planting at Calvin. >> Community Park in there were over 30 trees that were planted it. I want to 32 trees that were planted MARCH 10 through the 11 along with the mayor. I was able to attend mayor and ceo college and topics that were discussed. And economic well-being, ensuring our cities and residents and empowering American economic growth through energy, innovation and industry. MARCH, 11th, I was able to meet with both Congressman Thompson and Usman to provide encouragement to Inquire about how we can support them in. Reiterate the the continued need the the city of Santa Rosa on Saturday. 3.15, I held a town hall to educate the community members on how fentanyl is affecting our community what can be done to reduce risk and harm. I want give a special shout out and thank you to in a house who provided. Presenters a church unstoppable, who provided the venue and the Santa Rosa Police Department. Gave presentations on both gain and narcotics. Your stories, passion and commitment to our community is admirable. >> And that will be my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, MR. Creepy. Thank you, MR. Mayor, just 3 quick things on MARCH 10th. We had the ctca, the new of the cta, our cpa. As you can see,

it's much more condensed that way. So we have sec ctca meeting, the main point being there was that at the time there we thought that the only threat to funding was reduction of the tda do decline in diesel tax and gas tax since then, there's been some federal movement that MAY have an effect on some of bicycle projects. But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Then the next day on the 11th, we had economic development subcommittee, which is basically we just had updates on the strategic plan, implementation. Small business updates as well retention and expansion updates for businesses. But we plan basically doing now is we've done a lot of planning with through strategic plan and now we're going to implementation and actually getting to work to try to do some projects and undertake some some efforts better our economic vitality. >> And on. >> See MARCH week a MARCH 8th we had we had the meeting. While there's nothing specifically for Santa Rosa on the one thing I did want to do is give a shout out to Jean couple check. >> Who was in her 4th term and the current chair of Glasgow who had to resign because she got appointed to Sonoma County Planning Commission. So really quickly, just want to thank her for her service to Laugh Co if you never met Land use is her forte and she knows it very well. And she was an asset that will be missed on going forward. And that's my report. Thank you, MR. Donald. >> Thank you, mayor. Just a couple of things I want to

say. Thank you to the Brookwood Modular home Park for the tour that they gave me and along with the assistant Fire Marshal, Jared McDaniel last week, gun just walking through some of the concerns that they had in the park that MAY not be in the cities of Santa Rosa jurisdiction, thank you to fire for coming along to work with the neighbors to see what they could do. 10 home harden their homes and potentially with them on sharing some of the things that they do out Oakmont for safety. And I also wanted to update and the community that we did meet with the city's school ad hoc committee on a potential ammo. You I know or sorry. Former Mayor Rogers is a chair that and just want to report how that we are working in conjunction with the schools. Thank you, MISS Ben Thank you, Mayor. I just have one really announcement. I'm >> point teen Douglas Mondale to the community advisory board otherwise known as cab. And that's Thank As Rodgers. >> I did forget about that meeting. Thank you. Councilmember MacDonald, just to say that we have been working with the schools who were appointed to the ad-hoc in the school board members who are appointed to that hope. And we have a pretty much agreed on in You in the next steps are now for that you to be presented to both the school board and the council for approval. So that is where we are with that. Thank you for that opportunity. There. >> Thank all. Repeat or add just a few a few again on MARCH 8th. It was a things to parking record for hosting the Arbor Day celebration at Calvin Park. We had I don't

know how many community members must have had 100 plus community members out there. Plus city staff and we plan to about 30 trees, which we will all have the chance to watch grow. It was perfect weather in a fun day. And then Ms Rogers mentioned, 2 of us were in dc for the year. Mayors college, but then as importantly, lobbying on behalf of the city. It was an exciting week to be in dc because of course they were debating the continuing resolution. They were trying to keep the government funded and it became very concrete how the actions that are taking place in dc affect cities like ours. Unfortunately, they've stripped out the earmarks for 2025 earmarks that would have funded some key infrastructure projects in the city. We will not stop lobbying for those. But when you read that when you when you see the news read the headlines about what's happening in dc know that there are direct effects here in the And again, we will continue to advocate as much as we can with our elected representatives on MARCH 13th. The I was honor and met with the board of the Santa Rosa planes, groundwater sustainability agency. We approved a new annual budget for the upcoming year. 2.4% increase, but that's doing good work because they also released a report on our groundwater levels in the basin. And our groundwater levels are healthy. They recovered really nicely since the drought of a few years ago. And we have no areas of groundwater concern in in the Santa Rosa. Plain. And then as well. We approved installation of 3 new groundwater monitoring wells. We want to ensure that our ground water stays at appropriate levels. And so we have new testing. We have new wells to test to make

sure that's the case. And then on the 13th MARCH, 13th MR. Okrepkie MISS Been we listen. I met with the long-term finance subcommittee. You can read the details of that meeting in the press Democrat today. There's going to be a lot of coverage of the city's budget in the months and years to come. Suffice it to say that council is well aware of the budget issues that are facing the city, the long-term finance subcommittee and this body here are going to meeting frequently and regularly to discuss the budget and make sure that we're taking appropriate action so that we can bring that budget back into structural alignment. Again, check out the press Democrat for details be more articles to come finally on MARCH 13th, the Mayors and Councilmembers Association of Sonoma County Matt and with budget relevance. The main if not only topic of discussion at that on all of the cities of Sonoma County and a county representative in this case, Supervisor James Gore discussion of how the county's homelessness moneys can be better directed towards the cities. The county receives all all all money to fund homelessness services cities in Sonoma County, including including Santa Rosa, have been funding homelessness efforts out of our general fund cities across the county. All of them are having troubles with their general funds. And we're looking at the county to say we need you to help support with that with the homeless, this money that you have been receiving. And so there are some very direct conversations. Well, all over the place behind the scenes and and directly with supervisors talking about how we can we can support each

other in this effort. And last the last week there was another one of those. And with that, conclude and will open us up to public comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment comment on any of the reports they've heard? During this item. Then we will move on to item 11.2 matters from council regarding future agenda items. During during last while to during the meeting 2 weeks ago. I-2 members of the council were considering putting 2 additional items on the agenda. And I will turn to council in particular Ms who made the initial motion for both those items to see if you want wishes to make a motion again this week for discussion. >> For both 2011.1 2011002011.2. I will withdraw my motion due to the agreement between council members that we will. >> Strictly focused on the items that we outlined during goal setting, although I believe that these 2 are related and in some sorts with downtown cannabis dispensaries. >> Looking at economic growth. But in addition for the development certification of understanding process for energy production from solar panels and potential homeowners offset has to do with our climate in how we can encourage residents to participate solar. Receiving solar panels. So I do think that they are related, but I

will respect the council's agreement to focus on on our goals. So I will withdraw, though. >> Understood I'm looking MR. Crappie are there. Is there additional comment can tell if you're reaching for Mike? Moment. We have a question about whether we need to make a motion to withdraw or simply that the absence of a motion to approve is sufficient. There's no motion on the floor. Then there's a motion on the floor. We do need to take public comment on the item. However. Thank you. Yes, let's open it up to public comment. Again, this is for items. 2011.1 2011.2 with the first the And creating or or putting on the agenda discussion regarding downtown cannabis dispensary operations and then also I 2011.2 and agenda item regarding the development the process for energy production from solar panels. Are there any members of the public and like to comment on either of those those items? Seeing We will move on to item 12 approval of minutes. We have one set of minutes to approve from 2/19/2025. Were there any edits or additions to those minutes? All right. We can. We can approve the minutes as they stand or as they're submitted. MISTER Mayor, you need to take public comment. Let's do puppy. Actually was to public comment on on item 12. Are there any members of the public that wish to comment on the minutes? Seeing none. We'll move to item 13 consent. MADAM City clerk. Thank you. There. Item 13.1 is a motion contract award Florida Neighborhood Park. >> Item 13.2 is a resolution projects, Pacific maintenance agreement between the state of California and the city of Santa Rosa for their Hearne Avenue at Highway 101 phase 3,

rebuild the interchange. Item. 13.3 is a resolution approval of Second Amendment to blanket purchase order 1, 7, 0, 0, 9, 3, to increase compensation with Southern Tire Mart llc item. 13.4 is a resolution approving a Second Amendment to blanket purchase order 1, 6, 9, 0, 5, 7, to extend the term and increased compensation worth where Lee Enterprises, llc, dba national print and promo. 13.5 is a resolution acceptance and appropriation of 153,987 dollars and $0.86 bequest from estate of Rosemary Maki rum atg to the homeless shelter Operations fund. Item. 13.6 is an ordinance adoptions. Second reading ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa, amending title 6 entitled 20 of the Santa Rosa City Code by repealing Chapter 6 dash. 32 entitled Massage Therapy. Massage, Business or establishment in in its entirety. Adding a new chapter 20 dash. 49 entitled Massage Regulation and Massage establishment registration. Amending sections, 20 dash. 23.0 3, 0, and 20 dash. 24.0 3, 0, regarding permitting requirements for massage really did. It uses amending sections. 20 point. 5, 0, 0,

2, 0, k. 20 dash. 52.0, 0, 6, 0, and 20 dash. 62.0 3, 0 b, 2 by adding administrative adjustment provisions and amending sections. 20 dash, 70.0 2, 0, regarding definitions of massage related uses and business service uses. Item 13.7 is an ordinance adoptions. Second reading ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa, amending title 20 of the Santa Rosa City code to amend sections. 20 dash. 23 0, 3, 0, and 20 dash. 24.0 3, 0, regarding requirements for adult entertainment businesses. Thank you. Bring it back to council for any questions. >> Not a question, but I did want to highlight item 13.5, just because consent items can go by in a blur. It's an unusual sits, an unusual circumstance where we had the estate of Rosemary Maki Rama teachey donate more than $150,000 to the of the goodness of her heart. And we had city staff looking for information about what the possible connection was. Why this woman, they're why her estate wish to support the city's homelessness efforts. We don't have a lot of details. As far as I understand. Is that correct? Menacing manager. But we do as a council want to highlight this. This lovely gesture by this woman by the state for a way that you supporting homelessness efforts in the city and not let it pass a simple consent item. So if there are any friends or family of the of akiyama teaching family, I thank you very much for what you're doing for the city. And with that, let's open this up to public comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on any

of the consent items? Seeing? None. All bring it back to MISTER Okrepkie from Ocean. Move items. 13.1 through 13.7. We have a motion a second. MADAM City clerk. When you're ready. >> And who was the second MR. Donald, thank you. Councilmember Rogers, I. Councilmember Okrepkie. I Councilmember Macdonald pie. Councilmember Fleming is absent councilmember Ben Willows. I Vice Mayor Alvarez is absent council members. Sorry, Mayor, stop. I let the record reflect the motion passes with 5 affirmative votes with Vice Mayor Alvarez and Councilmember Fleming. Absent. Thank you. >> All right. I'm gonna talk extra slowly because according to my watch, we have 30 seconds before we can legally begin. The public comment on non agenda matters. So pretend that you've got elevator music going on in the background. We're going to wait again just a few more seconds. And in fact, if you want to get yourself ready again, this is going public comment for any items not listed on the agenda. Any items that are within the purview of the city but not listed on the Jen Matt not listed on the agenda. People have 3 minutes to speak. And with that, I'm officially going to open up this segment. A public comment. We're on to the rest of our meeting. Have a few names here. Let's start with Dr Richard Boswell and move on to Rich Carl. And we do have to we have 2 microphones. So looks like we have several several people interested in speaking tonight. If you could alternate between the 2 podiums again, starting with Dr Buswell and then Ridge

Caro. My name's DR. Richard Boswell and >> I want to address some issues that are going on to a park will control officers and >> if you could doctor Buss what you can see very close to the mic. There you go. Yeah, because I want to address the issues park about and will control officers and the public and people walking the dogs in. >> I've been walking over 40 years in the last little bit of time has gone a lot worse. And I understand the need for the lease was meant to snare it. Some things that I've done from talking animal control officers. And that is they see this as a issue of addressing the public and the public being lawbreakers. Told me that there are to click to get lawbreakers and that's what you're doing. And I was just, you know, it's something odd about that. The people are walking. Their dogs are not necessary lawbreakers and they MAY be breaking the law. I would ask you any of you do about your drivers this morning and then use a turn signal. You're also lawbreakers. So just consider that relativity. You know. But so now gone to the point that they have talked to several officers and they see that when people do not do what they're told him up with your dog on a leash. And when the officers walk away, people walking, people take their dogs off leash. Not a surprise that on for hundreds years. And so, but they take this personally. And so they feel like they believe that they have a right to sneak back into park and catch people taking the dogs off the leash lawbreakers, they're not your grandmother, you not their teachers and that the people are walking around apart and they do this at 805, they do that 5.40, as soon as they get on work through making sure they get before they get offered. Something wrong about that picture. And so what they do that they think that they

can walk into the park and spy on people from behind the trees. So they can catch him breaking a law that says something about that idea and who are we? And I will say my wife was on a park. She walked around without a dog and for her, the thought that there's people in a park spying on her walking in the park, just do nothing. I believe told me that made her feel like these guys are peeping toms. So you think about the policy that you're endorsing that allows people to go under inspiring people. Think about what that what you put into people's minds. You pretty unfair. Pretty intimidation. And it's all based on some arbitrary law. That animal. So before 8 o'clock, you can have your dog off leash after o'clock So where did come from to to come from? Is there going even fully explain to us? But clearly the time required to wash your dog off leash could be longer than 30 minutes. And that time kind seems depend on when the sun rises. So those views to be cut. And I know I'm going to say need to be conversation between City council who's ever in charge of those leash laws and the time that they go into effect like office was would be a conversation about the people in the park who are subjected to this park and And one of the things that people haven't taken apart. Julie, again, 350 north tickets, the junior grandparents, elderly the walking small dogs or not. The problem. And they can't afford a $300 ticket. >> You have to think about what you. >> Thank you. DR. Buswell who want a rich Carol. >> My wife and I think going into a park for a long time with our dog. We have no kids the people with kids have all kinds of parks and Dale Spring Lake. They have powers part. They have all kinds of parks, lots of acreage to take their

kids in play. Are dogs need a place to play as well? And granted, we have a little over 2 acres worth of dog parks in Santa Rosa. If you go to San Francisco, go to Crissy Field. Big City. You can use that as your example. All the dogs are a lot of the dogs are awfully should Crissy field. There's a lot more people there than there are Sure you're going to have problems. You can have problems in the dog park in the fenced area. Problems with the dog on a leash walking on your street. But regardless my wife has a social gathering there or had. Doyle Park. And we've been off-leash there when the park was filled with homeless people. It was a dog walkers and kind kept everybody, you know, in line and watch out for each other and the dog people that are walking with their dogs off leash and breaking the law. They're the ones they help clean up the park. They're the eyes on the park. It's one park. We want one 2 hours in the morning. Worked my wife's that work. My dogs at home. It's unrealistic to get. I mean, it's great that we have 2 hours from 6 to 8 in the morning that we can be off leash. And yeah, the dog catcher guys there. He's hiding in. And you know, now we have my wife doesn't have that social outlet. That park should be that one park. We have one park for our dogs to be off leash all the time. Not just a couple extra hours. Give us that park all the time. You know, everybody's got People that complain about the dogs. They have all the other parks. We want one park.

That's all we're asking but that I hear the dog catchers. They're writing there was an old guy there with a dog. The could barely walk. The dog was sitting next to him off the leash. While the guy was sitting on the bench, the guy gave him a $200 ticket because his dog was sitting next to him without a leash on it. I mean, c'mon, realistically is that guys agree with that? Maybe you do. I don't. A lot of us don't if you've got a dog, then chances are You got to run your dog. We've got a German shorthair. And if you know anything about dogs, it's it's a wound up spring. It needs to run. And if we put it in the dog park with all the other dogs, we're gonna have more problems. Because the dogs like to bully our dog. My dog just wants the ball. Want throw the ball and bring it back to me. Doesn't want to bullied by all the dogs in these little Dog Park sent you do offer us and the dog parks have would bark which if you ask any that is bad for the dog's paws. That's all I can say. Thank you, rich. All right. We'll move on to Emily Carroll and then Brenda. >> Emily Carroll and then Brenda. >> Those City Council and members of the audience. My name is Emily. Thank you for allowing a U.S. To speak. And I'm also talking about Doyle Park. I have been walking dogs at least 18, not 19 years and oil park never had a problem. There have been no dog catchers. Then now. So my question is why so much money? Oh, my goodness. I guess it's because of traffic court.

>> Now, these dogs in the park have nothing to do with being in traffic so that I don't understand. Someone gave me a suggestion. Why not have huge signs in the park warning people about the fines that they could get if they let their dog off leash right now, there is no warning about the amount of money that is required for for people who have let go of the leash on their dog. So that's my second fact. Why so much money? Yes, expand the areas, maybe even expand the time for an leashed dogs. They need to play. They need to run. They need to socialize. It's very healthy for dogs. Dogs on leash. Yes, they can be co-operative, but it's not doing anything for their socialization. That's very important for me. I'm a dog lover. Designate perhaps one other, if not more off-leash areas, perhaps even some trails can be put in with the park for off-leash dogs evening hours. Morning hours. Yes, I mean, that's something. But can we also have some evening hours for off-leash? How about giving a warning? First, rather, then rather than just come through the bushes right away. You're in the bushes with binoculars and you're spying on a person with, oh, my GOD forbid, you know that the dog has not unleashed. Let's have some reasonable accommodation. Please. Let's have some middle

ground. But I do encourage the city to post large signs with the amount of money that will be spent and I just ran into a couple 2 days ago, $800 because they have 2 dogs and each dog had to pay $400. That is obscene. So park used to be a very friendly park. Lots of people coming there. The amount of people coming out to park has dropped considerably. And I find that to be very sad. Any other facts I want to present. Thank you. Move on to Cairo, Brenda Stephen. >> As Carol here, I'm right up Thank you, Carol, yours. Thank you. >> My name is Carol Cranston and I live in the Doyle Park area. >> And I own my house for 23 years and I've been walking in the park for long. On FEBRUARY 15th of this year at 10 o'clock. I was given. Oh, shoot. I have my ticket. Their eyes going show it to you. I was given this ticket that says my dog was at large. He wasn't alarmed. I had simply dropped the leash down by my side to pet my friend's dog who was in front of me. And then less than 2 minutes I looked and I saw animal control. I don't know if I can say is can I don't know. Anyway. This one guy. So I grabbed the leash and walked away. He yelled, stop. So I did when I didn't want to give him my information, he told me I would be in big trouble if I didn't. So I did sign the ticket. And every granted in ever since because I didn't

look at it. It said my dog without large, my dog was or just plain right next to me. And then the next day, poor guy, Titan shoelaces have dropped his leash and he got a ticket anyway. So I called animal control right away. Because my concern regarding my ticket and the other people who been unnecessarily given tickets. I have spoken from the Board of Supervisors who contacted Jennifer Salido, who is the assistant director of health and services which oversees animal control. From there. She sent me to Bryan Whipple, who is head of Animal Control. I have been in contact with him for several days. I also requested records from the public record department for the past 6 months and did not get all the information. I asked for. I did get some information about the number of complaint up Dorrel Park which have nothing to do with our dogs. And as far as I can tell, there were only complaints about to loose dogs over the past 6 months. I'm also looking into who determines the cost of the ticket, which is $280. I was told by Bryan Whipple that traffic court determines that price. Many of us being taken did our senior citizens docile dogs that have been using the park for decades. Used to be a peaceful community. Need to go the last paragraph, the behavior of officer as parent, especially in contrast to the civilized behavior that other officers display. Please look into this matter with animal control, especially this one officer. Thank you for hearing

me. Thank you, Carol. Brenda. And then Stephen. >> Hi, my name is Brenda Pfahler Heart. I agree with each of my other Doyle Park. Goers I've been going to do a park for about 10 years. I have 3 little 10 pound dogs, ones. Blind one's death. So I keep my dogs on a leash for their safety. This one certain animal control officer that Carol is speaking know if he is too extreme. He's got me afraid to even set my least down to pick up my dog's waste. I'm not comfortable there. He's just he's out of control. So I am in support of off extended off-leash dog hours. And while Park, thank you. Thank you, Brenda. >> All right. Be forced before Stephen Speakes. I will. I will respond just to say that the city has heard very clearly the message that you deliver tonight, we have some overlapping issues here. We have the city ordinances that are on our books that we need to relook at. We have the signage that's in the park. And then we have the fact that animal control is actually a county operation, not a city operation. But what we're going to do internally, as we're going to work with the county and we're looking to look at the ordinances that we have to determine whether we can make things better because the situations that you're describing are what we want to encourage in the city. So thank you very much for coming out tonight. And with that, Steve, in the floor is yours. >> Thank you very much, Stephen. Santa Rosa Fire fighters. I didn't see the measure age on the agenda. So I just want to give brief

update from the union side. The countywide tax measure for fire and ems response. First of all, thank you so much to the Council for endorsing and supporting the tax measure city manager. Same thing to and most importantly to the public for passing it. Santa Rosa and the county in general has been far behind and fire resources for decades now in this tax measures going to get us to the point. Where we should have been probably 20 years Just just over as a brief update of what this tax was supposed to allocate for the city of Santa Rosa. It was going to be for engine 9 engine. 12 rescue. One says 3 new resources in the city which are vitally important drastically understaffed fire department. It's gonna build the station's for engine 9. The money to build to remodel and engine station. 6, staff of second battalion chief with city manager. We've talked about this many times, which is crucial to the management of fire resources when they're out there and then upset 2 more vegetation management inspectors, which we all know in this county and the city. We have been it with many fires in the last 10 years. So I'm just overly positive about where we're at. The first amount of money has come into the city. We're already have it in the bank. So it's it's what I'm looking for more we're excited to see working with Scott. The fire chief and city is to to start seeing the benefit on the streets of that. The union will be watching it closely. What we told the public was going to be there. And with the city council told the public is going to be there is what we

expect to see on the streets. >> And we know we will continue to push for that every single day. But like I said, it's it's a very positive step forward in this fire department and I couldn't be more excited to start seeing this happening. Thank you again to everybody that supported And I said most importantly to the public that voted for didn't pass it. I I couldn't be more excited to see my members have some more help out on the streets and that's to say. Thank you very much. >> Stephen, thank you. Are there any other members of the public that wish to speak on items, not on the agenda. So they please make your way to one of the microphones. The floor is yours. >> Janice Karman and I didn't expect to get into this. I just want to say something on behalf of the dogs and that is I had a small to and I had him in on a small and he was a pretty sturdy guy. But I had him at the dog park in Rincon Valley one day and there are 2 police officers who were working with a dog and everything is going really nicely. And, you know, treat his fine and and we looked over and Pitbull came and attacked the German shepherd and it was just mad chaos and of the dogs going into it. And it was very, very frightening. And the guy look like a gang, then member. He was screaming cursing at the police and >> it was just horrible. And I just wanted to say something in defense of the do hugs because having a leash on the dog, you don't know where your dog's going wrong, too. And they do like to Rome. I've had dogs all my life. And I just want to say something on behalf of the dogs so anyway, but it is a terrible situation with the stories I heard today and I have a lot of empathy

for everyone. >> Janice, thank you. Are there any other members of the public who wish to speak? Seeing none. We will go on to item 16.1. Our public hearing for the evening. This is our public hearing on ordinance designating fire Hazard severity zones as recommended by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and to amend Section 18 dash. 44.4, 907, 0.1 of the center of the city code to include the newly designated a high zone reference. Good afternoon, mayor stop members of the council. >> My name is company Robbins and I am the interim fire marshal for the fire department. My apologies for the slide not being updated. Having Paul's name up there. I am here today to for this public hearing to provide a quick overview and update on the adoption process for the state's fire hazard, severity maps that were released by Cal Fire. Government Code Section 1, 1, q's Mi 5, 1, 1, 7, 9, requires local jurisdictions to adopted by ordinance. The updated hazard severity zone maps that were released by Cal Fire within 120 days of receiving them. We received ares in the second round of the Cal Fire's rollout on FEBRUARY 24th. These maps created in response to the Oakland Hills fires in 1991. It called for Cal Fire to evaluate these severity zones and local responsibility areas or raise and make recommendations to the local jurisdictions where they see these hazards. Locally in 2009, the Santa Rosa City Council adopted the ordinance designated these fire very high fire hazard severity zones recommended by Cal Fire as well in tandem with designating our wildland urban interface or we fire areas as designated by the chief of the

fire department at the time. In 2 in 2021, the government code was also amended to identify moderate and high fire severity zones along with the very high fire in the local responsibility area. Here is the map that we received FEBRUARY 24th. You can see some some areas have have changed the hazards have increased as we've seen in parts of Oakmont area. We had seen them decrease. You can see by the yellow in the Fountain Grove Inn Skyhawk areas. And we have seen it shift and increase south of the fairgrounds and in the bill Bennett Valley areas as outlined in the Orange. >> We >> we anticipate that the ordinance that we're discussing will be taking effect in MAY at which time the areas identified as high and very high in the maps will fall under the new California Building Code Chopper 7, a building requirements for design and construction of new buildings as well as requiring hazard disclosure inspections known as ab 38 inspections locally. The fire department's going to be working with our internal and external stakeholders, including our community members on any changes proposed to our existing wildland urban interface, Fire areas. We'll begin evaluating. Are we following the adoption of these Cal Fire maps? We do have more information that has been updated on our website our city Dot org slash wildfire ready. That is the end of my brief report. But I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Bring it back to council for questions. MR. Donald. >> Thank you. And thank you for this presentation so much of the we is actually in my

have a couple of questions for you on the mapping. Do we have a current page on a website that shows what is actually in the we right now. So that folks know and then let you answer that. And I've got my second. The question. >> Yes, we do. We do have information on our Santa Rosa dockworkers story as our city Dot Org. Page were you can actually go and look up your address to see if it isn't that wild land, urban interface, fire area and we will be updating that as well as we go through our next process. >> Okay. And I know you're doing some community outreach. That's what was stated. Is there any way we could do a proposed almost like an overlay map that shows folks where we MAY be adding additional areas for the Willie. >> Yes, as we go through the new processor as we go through the process to update our willing maps after the adoption of these maps, we will be creating GIs maps that will predict will contain overlays so that we can see where those will Boundaries will be contracted. Or our expanded depending on our evaluation process with our stakeholders. Great. Thank you so much. Any other questions for counsel? That at this time we'll open the public hearing. Are there any members of the public who would like to make comment on this item? >> Seeing none. We will close the public hearing and bring it back to council for any final comments. I would just say that this that the combination of what we're doing with the fire zone

mapping and also the fema flood mapping is really adding a new they're adding new layers of discussion around public safety in the city and whether or not homeowners in the city realize it quite yet. It will be affecting them and their neighborhoods and decisions in the future. Thank you on behalf of council for all the work that has gone into this, it's going to be an important contribution to these discussions in the years to much obliged. Thank you very much. With that, we'll go back to item. Of course, one second off my game tonight. That goes to is that you MR. Donald, MR. Donald taking away the apologies. Thank you, Mayor. >> I'd like to introduce the ordinance of the council, the city of Santa Rosa to designate fire hazards, severity zones and amends section 18 dash. 44.4, 907, 0.1 of chapter 18 dash. 44 of the Santa Rosa City code to include the newly designated high zone reference and wave for the reading of the text. Second. >> We have a motion and we have a second. MR. Craig, be the second. Thank you, Mayor MADAM City clerk. Whenever you're ready. Councilmember Rogers, I. Councilmember Okrepkie. I Councilmember Macdonald. I Councilmember Fleming is absent. Councilmember Ben Wills. I Vice Mayor Alvarez is absent. Mayor, stop. I the motion passes with 5 a sermon of votes with Vice Mayor Alvarez and Councilmember Fleming. Absent. Thank And now we will

go back to item 15.1. Our report on Sonoma County water, Sonoma County water agency proposed fiscal year 2025. 26 water transmission budget and rate increase. >> Thank you both for being here. >> It's good evening, Mayor stopping Council members. I'm Nick Harvey, deputy director of administration with center is water and I'm here to introduce Jakes. Balding inland result. He was Sonoma Water who will present the proposed water transmission budget for fiscal year 2025 26. Before they begin, I want quickly review the annual process for approving the proposed budget and rates and explain where we currently stand in the process. So after developing the budget and proposed rates there than brought before and discussed by the finance subcommittee of the Technical Advisory Committee or Tack. In conjunction with staff from Sonoma Water process was concluded on FEBRUARY. 25th. the subcommittee voted unanimously to recommend the proposed budget to the full attack on MARCH. 3rd attack itself also voted to recommend the proposal followed by a vote to recommend by the Board of Public Utilities. During their report item at its meeting on the same MARCH 3rd. From here, each contracting agency will work representative on the Water Advisory Committee lack to coordinate how their agency representatives will vote for the purposes of lacked recommendation to the Sonoma Water Board of directors, which is scheduled to take place at its APRIL 7th meeting. This evening at the conclusion of the Sonoma Water presentation, we request that City Council make a recommendation regarding its direction to its

Representative Councilmember Natalie Rogers. How to vote. Make a recommendation as to how the council would like or to vote at that meeting. As a reminder, it's ultimately a dust up to the discretion of the Sonoma Water Board of directors to make the decision on how they'll proceed, including the final increased rate increase to be implemented. All votes leading up to that point in the process are simply recommendations. Santa Rosa Waters, financial modeling was developed assuming maximum wholesale watery increase 11% for next year. So after factoring in anticipated 1.1% increase in water deliveries due to growth as well as Sonoma. Water's proposed 8.6 8% increase to the wholesale water. 8. We estimate our fiscal year 2025 26 water Purchase budget. To be approximately. 21.6 million dollars. This figure exceeds our fiscal year 22,024 25 water purchase budget by approximately 1.9, 4 million. Santa Rosa waters. Current rate structure includes a rate increase of includes consideration for a rate increase of up to 11%. Such the increase in the water purchase budget will be absorbed by our budgetary assumptions for next year and should require no additional consumption of undesignated fund balances and offset those costs. And with that, I will hand it over to Jake Inland. Thank you. >> So my name's takes balding on the finance manager with Sonoma Water. And as Nic said, I'm here with lenders, Ali. We're here to give you a quick overview of the fiscal year. 25 26 proposed budget and rates for the water transmission system. And then we're happy to answer any

questions that you MAY have. So each year we develop the annual budget that meets the water transmission systems, operations, maintenance capital, as well as regulatory demands and similar to Santa Rosa's water system. Our water system is aging. And as it ages, there's a height need for infrastructure repairs as well as replacement so that we can continue operate, continue to operate it for all of our benefit. 24 7. So real quick. The water transmission system has 3 conducts Santa Rosa. The Petaluma and the of this community's obviously served by the Santa conduct. These were built between 1959. In 1963, and they are starting to show their age. And for the terms of the restructuring agreement, just want to remind you that each one of the water contractors pays the rate that's associated with the aqua duck that they're primarily served by, which means that not everyone pays the exact same rate. Nick did a really good job of going through the process that we we do every year. We are proud of the transparent and collaborative process that we engage in. I won't repeat at all since he explained it very well. That did just want to also say thank you to Jennifer Neck as well as people. Peter Martin, for their participation, both in the subcommittee as well as the attack. And are very appreciative of the fact that that act, the subcommittee as well as the bp you has recommended approving this rate. So once again, just a little bit of background on this on water transmission system, it's not just one fund. There's multiple funds,

the type of which you can see on this slide. Each one has its own budget and rate and then those are compiled to make a composite rate. And that's what the water contractors pay. So our system, you know, we're facing several challenges. Some of them are unique to us. Some of them are not unique to us. You know, than unique aspect is that we do have a fully volumetric rate and that what that means is when water deliveries have been on the lower side as they have been the last couple years, it does put additional pressure on rate increases. We also have a lot of challenges that are similar to the ones are having. You know, I mentioned before, you know, we we all have critical infrastructure. It's got operate. 24 7, it's integral to public safety. Public health. And yet that's you know, those assets are and ares similar to hers is getting a up there in age. You know, the majority of our facilities are currently 45 to 65 years old. About 40% of them only have 10 to 20% of useful life remaining. And as the high consequence of failure because we have to provide water. 24 7 to 600,000 residents. Sorry you know, to address the Sonoma Water. We are taking several actions. We are currently implementing an asset management program that program included preliminary condition assessments of all of our assets on the transmission as well as on the production side and that the analysis of those assessments did conclude that a lot of our assets are in less than acceptable conditions. So they are showing the as expected. We are also putting together a comprehensive 20 year water master plan. And this plan is going to take the data from the asset Management plan as

well other planning efforts. You know, the hazard mitigation, the water resiliency, planning efforts that we've done. So we really get an idea of what the systems needs are going to be going forward. How much is going to cost and how we can sequence those best, you know. And then in addition, the age of the system, we also are vulnerable to natural hazards particularly flood fire and earthquake earthquake being our biggest vulnerability and just wanted to let you know that this budget is taking efforts to address all of these challenges. So it's Sonoma water. We're dedicated to serving the communities, securing our future through responsible resource management and environmental stewardship. We continue to push with technical innovations to give us more things like water supply. Invest in our critical infrastructure as well as have affected fiscal management. So we've highlighted a few of the programs that we're currently doing or are planning on doing in collaboration with the water contractors. I'm not going to read them all off. But, you know, the the common themes here are things like hazard mitigation, reliability lost my thought, their reliability and as well as you know, water, education, water, conservation habitat enhancement and and other projects. There's more information on these and the packet that we provided as well as on our website. If you're interested in and learning more. So what's in the budget for 25? 26 on the capital projects side, you can see 5 projects that we have up here that address hazard

mitigation did just want to say, you know, we're always seeking offsetting revenue to help lower the local cost share. We have been able to get about 12.6 million dollars from fema to fund hazard mitigation projects in the past couple years. And we're going to continue to do that for all of these projects. In addition to hazard mitigation projects, we do have resiliency projects there's even longer list on here. I don't know the exact count, but, you know, did just want to point out there are several of these that, you know, I've been progressing last couple years. I know we've we've mentioned them to you before, but things like the Santa Rosa, Plain Wells that help us and drought conditions with additional water supply. There's also even newer projects on there that are multi-phase multi-year efforts, very large projects like the water treatment system, Henri Station project. But you're going to continue to see over the years something that we really need to replace some of our existing infrastructure. So the total capital in the budget is about 18.3 million dollars. On nm side. You know, in addition to routine operations and maintenance projects, we do have other projects that we're implementing as Some of the ones to point out here, you know, things rocket up the thought of protection program that prevents corrosion on the system. Our take rico tank maintenance program. That's a 10 year effort about 88 million dollars to re code. All the tanks in our system as well as things like emergency inventory procurement. So we have additional pipe and other parts on hand. If we do have seismic event causes a break in the system. Lastly, you know, the sub funds, these fun things like the biological opinion, water supply planning

and water conservation. We have completed about 5 miles of a the dry creek Habitat Enhancement Project which prevents larger costs in the system. We do get significant cost savings there, too, because the Army Corps picks up 65% of the costs are on it. And then on the water conservation side, you know, Sonoma water in the Sonoma Marin, water, saving partnership, continue to implement a very robust, successful water, education and conservation program continues to attract both federal and state funding as it winds awards every year. So when you put all these different funds together, we get a total budget. That's about 82 million dollars. This is being offset by about 20 1.3 million in grants used of fund balance and bond proceeds of note. This is about 7.6 million dollars more than the previous fiscal year's budget. And that's really due to both the capital and operations needs that I just mentioned also did want to point out that we are planning on bonding. This for the next 3 years our capital program. It's going to probably about a 33 million dollar bond. And you can see the effects of that on the debt service line up there. What are our Costco just wanted to real quick show, you know, operations and maintenance makes up about 56% of our budget as the largest bucket. Capital projects come in. Second at about 22% and then the sub funds and debt service round out the rest of the total. So real quick. I know we do this every year, but we just wanted to show you a primer on how are our water rates are calculated. This is a simplified version. But what

the restructured agreement basically says is that we have a fully volumetric rate. And so we take the costs and operations of maintenance and we divide that by the amount of water sold and for the amount of water sold, we have to use either the average of the last 3 years of annual water deliveries or the last 12 months, whichever is less. So when you plug those numbers and you come up with basically a cost acre foot and we show this just to emphasize the fact that, you know, with this fully volumetric rate, we really do get additional pressure when water deliveries are on the lower side. We are going to be using the 3 year annual average this year of 42,407 acre feet. And that is one percent below the number that we use last year. So there was additional pressure on the rates and just to show you kind of how sensitive the water rate is. 2 water deliveries we're estimating this year that about 500 acre deliveries is about a 1.3% change in the rate. So small fluctuations can have a big, a big change in the rate. You know, Sonoma water. We're sensitive to the fact that large rate increases are not popular. And we did our best to try and reduce the rate increase from what it was originally forecast to be. We work with our staff first and then we also work with attack budget Tech Budget subcommittee to make a round of cuts and deferrals as we went through this collaborative process. In the end, we were able to identify about 11.3 million dollars in operating costs, operating projects that we could either trim or push out on the calendar. In addition, we located about 5.4 million

dollars in fiscal year. 25 26 budget capital projects that could be pushed out and an additional 88 million dollars in projects that could be pushed out in that three-year bonding window, which factors into this year's budget because of the debt service. What this did was allow us to bring a rate increase that were originally forecast to be about 40% down to the 8.6 8. That's our 8.0, 6, 8%. But you're seeing today. This slide just gives you a little bit more detail on how the different funds create the overall rate that you pay. As you can see varies from 8.6, 8% for the Saint Rose Aqua Duck. Up to 10.7, 6% for the Petaluma Aqua Duck customers. One of the reasons why the rates aren't all the same as the contractors do have the discretion to set an aqua Duck capital charge. And access a rate stabilization told the Bild Fund balance for future capital projects. And each one of the aqueduct the awkward, a capital charge for Santa Rosa customers was determined to be the same as last year. So it's $11 per acre foot. And is a factor in why some like the Petaluma customers have a higher rate increased last year they had they had dropped down to 0 and they went back up to $10. An acre foot this year. So, you know, age of our infrastructure, the current conditions of the assets combined with, you know, substantial levels of deferred maintenance that we've had over the years really underscores the importance of making this investment today so that we can continue to provide reliable water to over 600,000 residents and with that, I'm going to pass it on to lend to talk about our long-range financial plan. >> Good evening. Winner Financial Services, division

manager for Sonoma Water. We like to give the water contractors, the long-range financial plan and at example, estimate of what we are projecting over this time over five-year period. We take the long-range financial plan projects there more. There are about 80 projects. We load them into the model and we use man in this particular scenario where using a demand growth of about one percent per year, which matches roughly what growth has been over the past 3 to 5 years and the result is that given the suite of projects that are in the long-range financial plan that we are projecting 8.7% rate increases for the next 5 years. However, if deliveries were to increase the rate would come down we use a different assumption for demand growth the rate will come down we are estimating 5% growth expenses and 4% growth in capital project cost. And plan itself for the 5 years includes 114.5 million in financing. Next slide. So each year we show a Sonoma Water's a whole so water rates per acre foot compared to other wholesale water agencies in the Bay area. >> We're on the left side there and we continue to have the lowest rates. We know that it's not apples to apples comparison. And the other water contractors, wholesalers also, you know, experience the same the same challenges as as

we do. And our and the water contractors do. But this just gives you an example of our rate increase compared to theirs next. I so taking a visor committee recommended unanimously to Water Advisory Committee. This budget and rates on MARCH 3rd Water Advisory committee votes on APRIL 7th. Our board will adopted on APRIL 22nd. And we're here today to ask that you make a recommendation to your representative. And just give you some examples that we have quite a few different videos that we have put together give us some background context and information about many of our our maintenance projects it helps inform the public. So we encourage everyone to take a look at these 2 to see the work that is being done. And with that, we're happy to answer any questions. You have. But once or anything, yes, before you do that, we take a look budget impacts from. >> Both a an enterprise level and a customer level. So as as I mentioned, leading leading into this 0.6 hit. >> 8.6 8% increase. Approximately 1.9, 4 million dollars. And we are using the 1.1% of gross assumption consistent with our long-range financial planning. That plan also in farming, our rate modeling for the rates that council will see on APRIL 1st in public hearing. Current long-range financial plan incorporates up to 11% increase the wholesale water rates for fiscal year. 25 26 so again, we're not unlike in the 2 previous years where the water fund balance had to absorb between 3 and a half and 5 and a half percent this year. We're we're covered

under budgetary assumptions so we will not have those impacts this year. And the pass through if adopted would begin for fiscal year 2026 27. So quick reminder, our next 5 year rate proposal does implementation of the pass through provision. So presentation, Bush, if adopted, will look a little bit different next Next slide, On the customer side, there are no additional impacts for next year. Again, public hearing for the right next rate cycle will be on APRIL. 1st. That's a 5 year. A package that would set rates for fiscal years. 25. 26 3. 29, 30, if adopted and again would include the wholesale rate passed through. Again. The 25 26 increase recommended by Sonoma Water is absorbed by the current assumptions in the long-range financial plan. And I think the best news in all this is that the water fund budget is able to absorb. The water purchase budget without impacts the fund balance. And given that we are able to return our plan cip investment of 15 and a half million dollars for fiscal year. 25 26 great news because if you're a call that the current year budget, we had to cut about 5 million dollars in cip appropriations in order to pass a balanced budget for the year and not overly drawdown reserves. Next slide. Please. And so with that, it is recommended by the board Public Utilities and Center as the water that the council by motion consider Sonoma Water's proposed fiscal year 2025 26 water transmission budget and proposed rate increase and provide provide direction to its water advisory committee representative for the 4/7/2025 vote on Sonoma Water's proposed. 25 26 water

transmission system, budget and rate increase. And we're happy to take any questions. >> Thank you all for an excellent and complicated presentation. Bringing back to council for questions. On. Thank you, mayor. Just a point of clarification on this to do say that the rate was started out an 11% and >> lowered now to 8.6, 8% for this city of Santa Rosa customers. >> We went to several rounds of deferrals and reductions in looking at the We actually started at a rate increase that was above 40%. And really had to work in order to get it down there. So at one point we did percent think an 11% rate increase to the city of Santa Rosa. And we were able to further get that down with the help of subcommittee to the 8.6 8 btc. >> I appreciate the work on that. Just one more question. I think I saw on the presentation that the county of Sonoma is rate increase was 7.6 and ours was 8.6, a can you give me an idea why there's lower than ours by 8% >> so there are a couple different factors that go into you know, because each one of the funds as its own budget and rate and people, people a different. Different rates based on what talk about their county of their city of Sonoma has historically had a higher rate because they have a lower dew space that helps to pay for projects on their output. So they start off at a different pace line. And then conduct service charge is also much higher because of that lower base. So that adds additional money to rate increase.

>> This is your biggest customer. I would have assumed an opposite that are the rates would potentially be lower than any other jurisdiction because we have a higher amount that we give it Sonoma water. So but that's not the case. And I was thinking it was county of cinema versus city of cinema. So that makes more sense. I appreciate I appreciate you clarifying that for me. So today and just want to be clear, you're looking for us to give directions for 8.6 8 rate increase. Just so I'm clear on what voting on. >> Yes, the recommendation is for the council to give formal direction to that Representative Councilmember Rogers as to how the council would like her to vote on our behalf at the at the walk, the >> ok? Thank you. Other questions and council. I just just one for me on the long-range financial plan, the estimated rate increases showing 8.7% out for the next 5, 6, years is that? How is that arrived at >> isn't listed like that simply because that's an average of the expected overall rate increase through 2031. >> No, it's not not an average rate increase with the model does is it tries to smooth the rate increases out over time. So we're not looking at in one year trying to decrease the rate increased 3% and then having a rate increase 12, 16, 20% the next year. So we're trying to smooth the rate out over those years. And the model itself, is it again that the you know, it's based what you're seeing there is based on the assumptions that we built into the this particular scenario. We redo this model

every year. And and it really is dependent on the projects that are occurring in the fiscal years shown on our long-range financial plan and the demand water demand growth as well as growth of other costs. But it it's not. And it's not an average, but it's it's not necessarily the same result are going to next year, depending on water demand and other factors, depending on whether the capital projects planned changes understood. And there's not there's always changes to this capital plans. >> Is there a more detailed version of this of this model that's that's accessible. >> There what we provide. The water contractors with 80 projects and it's a it's big spreadsheet. That itemized is out all of the projects by fiscal year. And when construction is going to start and what a productive is on or what if and it is funded out of and that provides the context for how how it's calculated. Basically understood. >> It is the is the assumption of the one percent water demand growth is at County wide ERs that specific the city of Santa Rosa. That's not specific air stop. Just to clarify, that is the assumption that was built into Santa Rosa Waters. Our rate consultant. When we look at the next 5 years that strictly >> center is water. Customers understand and how much how much of vary by city. The the want the the the expected

water demand growth vary between Sonoma Rohnert Park Center is at >> So I don't have all of the numbers. The on our side for our model. It was one percent growth for all the water delivery. So we take the total water deliveries and we look at the growth. I don't have, but we can certainly find out from you. But I don't have numbers regarding how much demand growth changes for the Saint Rose Aqua Duck versus Sonoma Productores Pelham >> That's fun is that it is not just center. Rose is also county. While in terms of that one percent. I think we both had similar assumptions. So 1.1 verse do Yeah. For 4 ares it spanning all the customers and they there is a lot of variability between them because everyone has different mixes of local production versus first buying from Sonoma Water. And then, you know, the environmental factors. But the weather every year or 2 does make some some of the customers very much more than city of Santa Rosa. That's >> understood. I don't mean to be putting it any of you on the spot here. I was just I was poking at the model it's so difficult take. There are so many variables and they change so frequently. It's hard. It's hard to make these projections into the future. But I was I just wanted ask a few questions about how we how we write to that. We're at today. And with that, if there more questions will open up the public comment. Are there any remaining members of the public would like to speak? Seeing none bring you back to council for a motion in any final comments. Actually. We'll start with the final comments any any final words of wisdom? All right. We'll just add. I thinks things from our group and from our city for all the work. That's doubt some water It's nice to be in

a county where at the city level and at the county level we I have water agencies are doing really innovative stuff. Things county could be could proud of. So thank And Ms Rogers. Thank you, Mayor. >> I just like to say last year it was not the. Most fun that we've had with presentations. So thank you guys for being here today. I know one of the comments that I made last year was transparency and that we really needed that so that we could speak to our rate pairs. You answering more questions this year. You shared more information we feel like you really took in our feedback. So I wanted to thank you for that. And with that, I would like to make a motion to approve Sonoma Water's 2025. 26 water transmission budget and proposed rate increase. Indirect. The city's water advisory Committee representative to vote accordingly at the Water Advisory Committee whack meeting on APRIL 7th 2025 and way for the reading of second. >> We have a motion for Mis Rogers in a second by MISS MacDonald. MADAM City clerk. Whenever you're ready to call the vote, looking there, Councilmember Rogers, I Councilmember Okrepkie. I Councilmember Macdonald. I Councilmember Fleming is absent councilmember Ben Willows. I. Vice Mayor Alvarez is absent. Mayor stop. I? Let the record reflect the motion passes with 5 affirmative votes with Vice Mayor Alvarez and Councilmember Fleming. Absent. Thank you. Thank you all for this presentation.

Thank you for being here tonight. With that, we'll move to item 17, the written communications, which we have none item 18. Our final public public comment on non agenda matters. >> Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on items, not on the agenda. Seeing none this takes us to. Rips a tournament. Thank you, everyone.