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North of the done all that. I mean, not but I could some ended up with that. It's quick check Septima incident which could ask a system Thank you very much. Back to you. >> Welcome everyone. The Times to 30, call this meeting to order. Clark, would you please call the roll? >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers. Cookie here, Councilmember MacDonald. Councilmember MacDonald. Councilmember Fleming. Councilmember Ben Willows here, Vice Mayor Alvarez resident Mayer step here. Let the record show that all councilmembers are present with the exception of Councilmember Rogers. >> Thank you. We will move on to item 3 are announcing a closed session items we have today and a 3.1 and evaluation of performance for public employee and an item, 3.2 conference with labor negotiators with that we'll recess recession to come into closed session. Yes, as Prep your money. We do need to take public comment. But seeing we were we will now recess in a closed session. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you for your patience. Everyone will reconvene after Publix after I closed session. MADAM Speaker, please call the roll. >> Thank you. Mayor Councilmember Rogers is absent Cookie Councilmember MacDonald Councilmember Fleming Councilmember Ben Willows here. Vice Mayor Alvarez present Mayor step here. Let the record show that all councilmembers are present with the exception of Councilmember Rogers. >> Thank you. On to item 6. A new report out on closed session. During closed session. The City Council adopted a motion with 6 affirmative votes and with

Councilmember Rogers absent when when one counselor absent we, we will disclose the following information from closed session. The city manager has requested that the City Council for use her salary and cost of living adjustments. I want to reiterate that portion of it. This request is coming directly from the city manager in another another show, the leadership to which we've become accustomed from her. She's requested. They be frozen for the next 2 years as part of a broader commitment to financial responsibility. This is a temporary measure taken in the interest and understanding for the city's current economic outlook. The council instructed staff to prepare an item for the upcoming council meeting that would allow the council to consider approving the council managers request. We want to thank city manager for her leadership in this aspect. Otherwise there is no additional reportable action from closed session this afternoon. Onto. Item 8.1, our Capital Improvement program status update, MR. Hennessey. Welcome. The floor is yours. >> Thank you, Mayor Vice Mayor Council. As soon as I find the correct file, I will start. Mayor weather. No reportable actions from the Cip update. >> If there are some changes that you all would like to see as we bring forth the budget, we can kind of take those and some of our one-on-one discussion so we can be prepared to move those forward and make. Thank you again. I think the last time I was here was maybe in DECEMBER for the last update. We talking about priorities and went over a few projects in particular about how those would be affected by that privatization process. >> This afternoon's update is about really trying to shorten

MAY's budget study session. So that can be explicitly about budget. And tonight I can answer questions about the status of any projects. >> For tonight, we have a review of parks and there I'm going happen from the program. Water and transportation public works. And then a few specific city facilities that will be of interest to folks at the end. The specific to parks. And there's little over 56 million dollars in current capital improvement funds for parks, capital planning. More than 30 million dollars of that is for projects that are currently in design with the vast majority of that anticipated to be delivered next fiscal You can see here on this table essentially those first 5 projects are all for delivery. And then the mlk Neighborhood Park renovation is for environmental review and clearance of that. So we expect to deliver all 5 of those projects beginning this coming fiscal year. Can specifically say that the South Davis and Kiwanis Springs projects there are written need one additional approval and then we'll put those out to bid. >> Similar for the Howard Coffin Park projects where very close to putting that to bed. >> I've also included the Valley golf course irrigation pond on the slide that just went through 75% design review and again is on track to be later right now. That's of interest to everybody. And talk about that again a little bit later. And Morgantown, one other project I wanted to highlight on this slide is the Roseland Creek Park. While though Park design is I'm going, we will be building a

path and a crossing to present a column entry school this coming summer. And we intend to have that opened before school starts next year. So I know that's a key connection through that. If you've been by that park, you see the goat trails of people walking through it, but providing that connection to the school and formal crossing. I think we'll be of great benefit to that area and particularly to students at that school. There's another on nearly 22 million dollars for projects that are in planning and design. And that bottom table, we are looking for ways to kind of rearrange the money based on timing of specific projects and see if anything can be advanced quickly. There's a certain amount of that money that is measure and money and looking for those 11 projects at the bottom there to see if if any of those are solely funding constrained or if there are design and permitting questions that relate to those. But essentially we've done an audit of every dollar the Parks department has available to it to deliver capital projects. You see all of those dollars on this on these 2 sides here and the tables. And so provide an opportunity for review and suggestions for budgets a session or any questions back to me or to park staff about where those dollars are are headed in the future. And with anticipated delivery dates for each of those projects, too. Directed him see before you go on, I want to draw your attention. To the Ml King Junior neighborhood Park you'll notice on the sheet. It says 2 million dollars remaining. What I have asked staff to most of the planning came from the community. >> What I've asked them to do

is we need to make certain that we spend this infill infrastructure grant. We want to make certain that we're getting the funding out the door. So we need to go back to the community and put this in phases. Go ahead pared down a little bit to the amount of funding that we do have. And in the event we do get extra funding MAY be for the 2 million dollars. We can put it in phases. So staff is prepared enough. Had this conversation with the director Hennessy as well to go ahead and get the funding out the door for phase one. Thank you for that city manager. >> Moving forward to water cip. There's nearly 150 million dollars in those accounts, almost 50 million dollars of that is currently encumbered either through design or construction contracts have just over 100 million dollars available. And more than 90 million dollars of that is either for projects that are currently in design or are ready for design. Speak specifically that's across all 3 funding sources for water speak specifically to those projects over the next couple slides for sewer in particular. There's 44 million dollars available, we have 32 million dollars of that is anticipated for projects that are anticipated to be in the next fiscal year. So you'll also notice that put in here on the table with the remaining need is for any of those projects. We are moving forward. And I with discussion we just had about funding projects that are ready to go and moving funds around for delivery. We have no remaining need identified right now based on our expectations for the majority of those projects. We have one that we've actually moved up. We think that we can get that done faster. And so that's why it's not programmed for full funding this year. As

of right now. But there is funding available to and center of water to move that around if we need to. And if we're able to deliver that as quickly as we think we can. There is there is remaining need for projects that are farther out. But we've started funding those for design permitting activities again facing those in overtime while not committing full construction funds to any of those until those funds are necessary. >> Similar story for the Water Fund. A dozen projects anticipated for the remainder of this fiscal year and fiscal year. 25 26. And that would be more than 30 million dollars worth of capital project delivery with no remaining need identified for any of those projects. Leslie of 4 out of the plant and supporting regional infrastructure. We have a half dozen projects. >> there are ongoing or anticipated to be let sometime in the next 12 months. >> mostly full, fully funded. And when there's contingencies available to to fund those projects. Highlight those to notice that across the 3 water funding sources, we have almost 30 projects that we anticipate to be in the next 12 to 15 months totaling just over 100 million dollars. So you see 100 150 million dollars available. That's a lot that they've been a lot of backlog. But we've really focus the last 6 months or so on getting them to the point where they're deliverable, expect to be able to do that. So expect some of numbers in terms of the dollar amount

available to us to go down in the next 12 to 18 months as we begin delivering some of these improvements and a lot of these water improvements, especially the ones out of the plant community will never see some of the other ones are buried under asphalt and our our list stations or than a complimentary of auxiliary facilities that are vital to the water infrastructure. But again, the community will only notice if they don't work. Moving to transportation. Public works. We have a number of projects ongoing construction right now. More than 20 million dollars of our funds are for projects that are currently in construction. Those include the Interchange Coffey Park and found Grove paving project section of Sonoma Avenue from the street to buy the lane. Center is Avenue and preparatory work for the bicycle pedestrian overcrossing where we moved a storm drain and the last couple months on the east side of the freeway from where the landing spot will be. So all of that work is either ongoing or completed. But that accounts for nearly 19 million dollars of the available funding. Of the 39 million dollars that we have for projects that are in design oops. More than 27 million dollars of that is for projects that we will be delivering by MARCH of 2026. There are 3 traffic signals on here. A half-dozen paving projects. A couple obviously the big one for everyone to take note of is the bicycle pedestrian overcrossing when the current status on that is that we are waiting one approval from Caltrans. We're waiting, won approval from pg e at which point we can go to ntc and California Transportation Commission and

asked them to give us the money that they promised So those are really the 4 steps. And then we will have a project that we can bit. Down to 4 steps. It's nice to have a short There's still a lot of work to and we're working specifically with pg and Caltrans to get those purples. Those are really the biggest hurdles. The rest is administrative and just kind Time Sox into in terms of the schedule. But they need to happen. Similarly for the others, we have moved funds around significantly so that we have no remaining need on any of these projects based engineers estimates we have completely funded every project. You see a number of projects on here that have been on on capital improvement lists for the last several years. We're fully confident that all of these can move forward. We'll have a number of projects opening bids in the next couple weeks. We'll have a couple of them more releasing bit opportunities in the next couple weeks. We've been sharing those opportunities and the anticipation of those opportunities with contractor community and they're increasingly excited about working with city of Santa Rosa making sure that they have capacity to deliver these for us. For close. I want to highlight just a couple of specific, a specific interest to this council. Again, I mentioned that nfl a golf course earlier, but we're really excited to be able follow through on that promise her community have we talked NOVEMBER? I believe about issuing word of contract we have since awarded the are issued a notice to proceed for that design. The design portion of the design build to continue and working with our contractor team. It's win or 10 and they're consulting

team. Things are going well so far I really confident about where site layout is and where the fire station is. And then lastly, as of 2 hours ago, we close to bin Opportunity for the garage and improved wastes for that that this council helped fund a couple years ago when I sat back down, I hope to have an e-mail showing me the results of that that opportunity. But just letting everyone know that did come to fruition the 26 people in the fleet, division are very excited about it as are a number of their clients hoping for improved and more quicker service as a result of that improve facility. Well, that's again will be back in MAY to talk about budget for fiscal year. 25 26. But a preview is that we funded most of the stuff that we're currently working on anticipate delivering quite a bit to the rest of this fiscal year and into next. Quietly. A very exciting report, MR. Hennessy, thank you. Turning to council questions. I'm working on this cookies. I was hoping to not have to go first, but I didn't see anybody else clamoring for me to buy you time All right. I mean, right, let me buy a little time. >> Dan, you hinted at this in your report, but can you just I know that a big point emphasis for keeping w has been to increase the momentum of getting projects out the door and were clearly making making are making progress in that direction. Do you have a sense that we're gonna be able to maintain this increased even even unanswered the years to come? What's your sense? Yes, with one caveat we have had increased sources of funding from. >> Federal recovery from state recovery sources. And so the number of projects that we've had has been very high as a

result of those recovery efforts. They've also dragging on a long time because of the complications from coordinating federal and state grants or says. And and maintaining the existing funds that we typically get through capital improvements or gas taxes and things like that. On top of that load. So there will be that pressure on the recovery portion of this will be removed in the next 18 months or so as we complete some of those projects that are on this list. And so we'll be able to get to the kind kind bread and butter stuff that I've been talking about for the last few months and more tune to pavement maintenance and making sure that the resources that we have that we expect to have in our part of a typical delivery program. I'm actually are programmed annually and we can deliver improvements for the community. So in answer to say yes, excellent and related question. I think I heard you say that you are. You have been in touch with contractors to determine whether they have the capacity to deal with that. We to deal with some or upcoming projects. >> Have we really had conversations asking asking firms or they can keep up with the city in the months to come. >> Yemen and maybe that a little tongue in cheek. Some of what I've heard in the last 12 months or so is that contractors can be a little bit blindsided by our opportunities when they're not anticipating them. And I don't want a lack of bids because they weren't anticipating them. So I've been sharing schedule, not dissimilar from this one with them. So that they can plan make they can spread through the engineering. Contractors associations are the builders

exchange or others. It changes. They know that, but at least they can have some anticipation of when different opportunities might be available to them. Excellent once again this morning. >> That's a great approach. I like that. I'm going to ask you probably predictably about the over cross its hard to hear that it's caltrain pg and e that is it just isn't lost and their administrative not lost. But is it stuck in most places? >> done a lot of work with Caltrans last few months to narrow the scope of this final review that we need. I think we've gotten to a pretty good place with them. And I'm fairly optimistic about where we are with Caltrans. Pg. E is a different story. He's Administrative hurdles and changing stories and uncertainty about exactly what level of agreement, what level of design review that they've had. Again, we inch closer every day but if you asked me what we needed to do 2 months ago, it would be different than what I would tell you today because of what pg e is required of Cautiously optimistic, but also very much paying attention to everything that happens on that front to know. How the winds turn on any given day. Director him ec. I will add the pga contact has been elevated to the city manager's office. So we have. >> Made a call to meet with pga need to talk about what we need to do to move the project forward. >> Thank you. And with that, we go to public comment, MR. Do it. Apologies, MR. Do it. We have we had did have one of the question for council. Actually, we have to now

there. Popping up like wildflowers as Ben Thank you, Mayor. I just had a question. Thank you for presentation directed him see. And I really excited that many of these projects are. >> You know, they're funded and they're going to go forward. I was just curious be remiss if I did not ask you about. Tp w Cip I don't know what pitch of is. I apologize. The North Dayton Avenue, Road Diet and pedestrian improvement. It just a few talk about that a little bit. >> Now one of North Avenue is on our Eye Injury Network, which indicates history of severe injury or fatal collisions. >> It's also on our bicycle plan through our traffic engineering team, there is excess capacity for vehicles on that road. North of 3rd Street. So one of the things we're considering is narrowing that section to make a protected by connection to improve the safety. There are a number of ways to do that. We have some funding set aside to do so. We have chased grandson successfully so far again, wherever struggling with the grant issue right now, especially in the safety round because our streets are safe. Are safer than a lot of our comparable agencies around U.S. Particularly around the Bay area. But we want to be better. And so we're moving that forward. There are ways to do that that are essentially striping on Lee could be done essentially by our crews. Also looking at some of the intersections north of there such as at 9th Street for alternative

configurations that might allow us to better utilize that infrastructure. I think what's going to happen is some kind of phased approach to that and include some community engagement. And that's why we're pushing it forward right now. Has a project that we're confident will happen. What form it takes? I think we'll still have discussion around it. I'm happy to talk more about that and we can talk more about that at the Budget study session. Also that project will get some funding from first proposed to get funding for fiscal year. 25 26. MR. Donald. >> Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. One I want to call out your color coordinated charts. So thank you. I appreciate that. It's not quite the red yellow green that I desire so much from cip projects. But you're getting there. So I appreciate that very much. Some of question goes around see that you have about 5 years. Snapshot on these projects and then there's funding that's in my car fifth-year. And yet you have projects that were supposed to complete in the next year that aren't quite funded. I'm not sure pass that 5 years. Do you have master plans or where money is being earmarked in those 5, 10, 15 years out year projects. And if we've considered reallocating some of those moneys for any of the cip projects, whether it's parts Ptp w simply it's because the increase of cost in construction that I'm very concerned about. And hearing that is going to go up about 25% more on some of the materials in the next year or

so. So I I have concerns again, even on a five-year plan where we have these out your plans for that. We're never going to quite get to these projects because we're not pushing some of them through right now. Yeah, this to with the mayor's question earlier >> remaining need and timing the projects. But I think what we're intending to do is getting as much done now as we can within our ability to pay for it and to deliver it. And I think part of the situation that we find ourselves in is that we've have funded a lot of projects for a number of years. And so that ends up with us working on twice as many projects that have half as much funding instead of. Happens. Many projects with full funding and that leads to staff constraints to I can speak specifically to transportation. Public works that, yes, that is an issue. I know center of the water is looking at it and city manager said earlier she's encouraged us to look at that for the Parks Department. Also and see if we can bump up some of those funds to deliver more while things are cheaper before we end up even more to deliver the same. Thank you. That will public comment, MR. Do it. Thank you for your patience. >> Wanted to say thank you to the city manager. This truly one of the most astounding things I've ever heard in a Santa Rosa City Council meeting. >> I've been coming for 30 years. Can black man and nobody along the way ever did anything as Magna many is is that so? On this item specifically, it's wonderful to hear that the possibility of the Roseland Creek Park having its bikeway the put

together summer. If all goes well and having it ready for the school year. Of other importance is also that the Burbank Avenue and Hearne Avenue traffic signal get moved forward as soon as possible. It's becoming very dangerous. There. In the past, I mentioned the idea of the speed limit indicator. There's one over at 909 Humboldt Street that just sits there on a tree on a pole. Excuse me behind a tree and you can't really see it. That could be helpful to us over on Herndon Avenue, the community having fire station. There's a number of people concerned about how that library is going to be financed. Will the city be putting forward a large portion of money to get that library? Build? And then last but not least doing overcrossing on highway 101. There MAY be financial problems in the future fiscal constraints that we don't see because our economy MAY be going into recession. And the difficulties that lie ahead of us MAY require us to look at where we can save money. A number of people have pointed out you can save money, but different design of the bridge that would be used over 101. There are different types. There are millions of dollars less expensive than that one that's being chosen now, which is more for and it's that exit shun. Then a functional approach. We need to save money. Obviously, it's great to see that you'll be spending money in the southwest area. Santa Rosa's Roseland District and so wonderful thing all the

way around. And once again, I just have to say thank you, city manager for doing this Friess for not just one year. Sounded like 2 full years. That's a stunning thing to have happened. Never before in the history of Santa Rosa City, administrative policies as administrator taking that type of lead. And I really think that's a wonderful thing. I don't know how you folks feel about it. But and she had to get one of those city proclamations. You give out. Thank you so much. Thank you to Wayne. When any of the members of the public like to speak. >> All Bring it back to council for any final comments. Vice Mayor. >> Are there any eyes looking at South Street which connects Dunn Avenue West Avenue when chance. And with our sidewalks. >> Yeah. So it's part of our that transportation that's been identified for sidewalks as being prioritized amongst a number of needs. You'll see that plan finalized and believe in JUNE. Have one of your JUNE meetings all approved carry-on have averaging approve that plan. And then. Transportation team has funding to begin, sir, addressing those be very clear and say that they far away our resources to address them. But we will start. And so that's the opportunity for us to do that. Appreciate that there. In the view. >> And if I can make a comment, it's really appreciated. Now staff is looking at how and you said earlier how to fully fund half the project. So the committee sees that there are changes being made within the community gone so long without resources. So it goes without saying that those efforts are her definitely noticed and we're very grateful for them.

Thank >> The green and Dan, just I'll just call back to a statement that you made where you pointed out that with some of the projects wastewater infrastructure, et people might not notice those projects going on, but they will notice the economic multiplier effect of eyes of the city pushing 100 million dollars. Plus out the door to get these projects going. And this and in parks parks a whole separate topic. These projects these projects make a difference economically and a lot of them do get noticed. And especially when we're in an era where our budgets are going to be tight and there is not going motion in some other aspects of the of the city to have these kinds of projects out there this. But people can see what the city is doing to make life better in the community. They're invaluable. So thank you very much. And with that move on to item a point to our community empowerment plan, update as Florida. Good afternoon. >> Mayor Vice mayor city Council community engagement manager with the communications and Intergovernmental Relations Office. And I will be presenting the community Empowerment Plan. Update. On APRIL second, the Violence Prevention partnership. We supporting it again and representation chops teens Club 509, Adams Street at 05:30pm. This event is presented by Senator Jose Police Department and said over the city schools and marks the 6th and final presentation of the serious. On APRIL 5th. The senator was the fire department and the Santa Rosa Police Department and hosting we many public safety at the Santa Rosa Fire Department training Tower. 2, 1, 2, 6, West College Avenue from 10:00am to 02:00pm. The

syndication All Expo will live demonstrations and networking opportunities to encourage when women and girls to enter the field of public safety. On APRIL 7 Mayor Mike staff and Vice Alvarez will be hosting the virtual community meeting via zoom, starting at 06:00pm. The meeting will follow a webinar format. Allowing participants to type questions in the nicu any section questions can also be submitted by emailing community engagement is our study. Don't court community members can visit. Is our city or slash calendar to obtain more information about the meeting? On APRIL 10th. The Violence Prevention Initiative will partnering would be participating at that youth employment and opportunity. Held a juvenile hold providing employment resources justice in bold youth incarcerated in the facility. On APRIL. 2nd. Community members can join the rules and community cleanup spot of every piece inspire change program to beautify Sebastopol Avenue, protect rules and Creek. The meeting point is that no less market parking lot, 4, 4, 0, that avenue from 9 to 11:00am trash because trash bags and gloves will be provided for more information. Community members can visit Www Dot Street to so he struck 2 creeks to local, edgy. On APRIL. 26 join the center. Also water Department for day festival idol courthouse Square feet. The full course clear hats, courthouse square from noon to 04:00pm. These free family-friendly Syria Ways Festival brings the community together through fun activities like performing arts, great food. And in spite Nick say that it's that raise

environmental awareness. Additionally, the Clean Slate Tattoo removal program continues to accepting new clients. Community members, interest costs, removal of their baseball again. Hate trafficking related tattoos shoot email center. Rules of Partnership is rc. Don't Board or call 7, 0, 7, 5, 4, 3, for 8, a 6. Finally, I would like to mention the neighbor to neighbor program and now new medical blunders, get Sally to pet date an and Ali, program is a partnership between AmeriCorps and the city of Santa Rosa. 2 can community engagement at the neighborhood level a goal of creating connections, building collaboration and full student civic engagement. Ally and Emily are fundamental to the implementation of the program and you will be seeing them out there in the community. And that concludes the community Empowerment Plan. Update for Thank you. Thank you. Questions from Council. >> Thank you. Could clarify the address for the rose and cleanup? Did you say, Sir, Possible Avenue or Sebastopol Road? >> It aims owns is going to be on Sebastopol Road. But meeting point it is no less market parking lot. 4, 4, 0 Dutton Avenue. >> Condon have. That's what they're going to be ok, but ultimately it will be some possible avenue for the Rosalynn Creek. Perfect. Just want to clarify. Think. Other questions for counsel. But we'll put it up for public comment. MR. Do it. >> Yes, thank you. My name doing to it on from Rosen. And I'm glad to hear of the activities that are occurring, especially the APRIL 7th

virtual zoom with the mayor and Vice mayor. >> There's a concern, though, from people over a rose and a lot we don't use the Internet. >> People are older and they still read paper and actually would hope that perhaps there's an opportunity they could be there in person. Could somehow come to where you folks are being online. Participate that way. It's really great to hear about the streets to creep effort that's occurring for the rose cleanup. I was uncertain of the actual timing and the meeting places. On 19th APRIL, which is this Saturday 10 in the morning. Many roads and residents are gathering of Rosen Creek Park for what they call their birthing effort. Hoping there's a way that we can talk more with the streets. Decrease people. Much from them that a information I was just giving now from what we've heard here. We're going to meet Lawless parking lot on Sebastopol Road at what Dayton time. I'd like to find out. And then. Rosen Creek was mentioned. So where they going on the creek. It runs from Sebastopol Road out, too. All the way of a Santa Rosa. So just to get clarifications, please. Thank you once again for all the work that they're and are taking. Thank you, MR. Do any other members of the public who wish to speak. >> And we'll bring it back to council. And I'll begin with just a quick point of information. The vice mayor 9 did hold a town hall, which it was the first in a series on JANUARY. 27th. This is the second iteration of the series. We're expecting to hold a couple of others. We would have a mix of both

in-person and virtual just because the people find it easier to access using using different methods. So always be doing next. We do hope that we get a good turnout in APRIL 7th. It was a robust conversation the first time around looking council for any final comments. All right. Well, just note that our community engagement team has a full agenda every time they come to counsel, you have a very busy crew and it gets noticed by the community. Thank you so much for all your work. Move on to item 9. Our city managers and city attorneys reports MADAM City manager. Thank you, mayor that evening. Members of council have no update this evening. Our assistant city manager, anything from you. Attorney rather excuse Thank you, Mayor. No, I have no reports this evening. Thank you. Both went on to item 10 statements of abstention or recuse away council members. Are there any statements of abstention extension recusal this evening? MR. Thank you, And Abstain from item 12.1 because I was not at that meeting. >> Thank you. Moving on to item 11 mayors and Councilmembers reports. Are there any reports this evening? MISS Manuel U.S.. Thank you, mayor. Just a really quick >> report. Attended the West and as neighborhood Association meeting last week. And I just wanted thank staff for coming. I did not ask them to come. I think it was it at the request of the association and it was a parking staff as well Rec and park. And it wonderful for them to come because many neighbors in the West and are really concerned about parking right now with all the building that has been done, which excellent. But now that many of the residents don't have place to park. So

they were trying to answer their questions and address some of the issues that they were raising. And then some of the changes with rec and park, especially with. What you going forward being able to, for example, ran out the demeo around barn a detour excuse me. Round barn. Things of that nature. So Israeli and also center as a police were also there. So it's really good meeting. I just wanted to thank staff again for coming out because I think the residents really, really appreciated it. Thank Thank you, MR. Donald. Thank you, Mayor. I have a couple things to report out on tonight. Just want to say congratulations to all of the city staff that received. >> Continuing service awards for either being here for 5 years, 10 years to mark there. Their parents. What I want to say, we know what they They're getting in a word for sticking with us for some. >> thank you to all of them received an award. I was honored to be part of that evening along with several of my other council members. >> And then I just have a quick report out on 11.1 points, 7 for 0 waste. Would you like me do that now? These thank you, Mayor. So I do want to say thank you to Sean Curran, who is a 0 waste representative for the city of Santa Rosa who provides me with excellent notes. I would not be nearly as good at this representation of it was not for her. So a couple of things. We had a presentation on 0 waste for the work Plan. Program's Progress report. Some of the highlights in an included that 6 solar panel recycling collection events

were held throughout Sonoma County and 453 were collected 415 were recycled. And 38 were reused a total of 50,000 little over 50,000 pounds of eu waste was collected in Santa Rosa through the eu waste collection events. Over a million pounds of home hazardous waste was collected in Sonoma County. And Santa Rosa had 13 different events with over 1000 participants. We had 455 mattresses collected for recycling throughout Sonoma County and stated that they'd be happy to give presentations regarding there's incentive programs to groups such as City Council are nonprofits or other interested parties. And I'm not sure if that includes going to schools to do presentations as well. But I can talk to them about that. And so if there are any other questions, please let me know. I will get the answers from Sean, but that concludes my report for this month. Thank you, MR. Creepy. Thank you, They have to report for this month took a vacation with my family Mexico to the and in true elected fashion cannot escape government. As a matter of fact, the person that picking up from the airport was the economic development director of the city of de Lisi, U.S. And Mexico. >> And he proceeded to give us a tour of the state Congress and city hall of the city of Chihuahua. And then we spent time in see us with the mayor was a personal friend of mine and discuss everything from water to agriculture. A lot of

cattle, pecans and now wind grapes in that area and further discuss any partnerships we MAY have, which sort of a driven me to look to undertake more. Direct approach to our sister cities initiatives many formalizing a little bit more going forward and seeing what we can do, whether that be student exchanges or anything else like that. Thank you as fun. >> I love that report. That's great. I love when you go to another city you find the city hall and you look at what makes each place, take it so fun. Love the idea of stronger sister cities, but my life has not been as exciting as MISTER Prep season last couple of weeks. I did want to touch a little bit on what Councilmember MacDonald mentioned about the marital the service awards. We have merit a worthy of service awards. And you know it for from my perspective, they're both really important that the thing that really stuck out to me about the service awards, which, you know, we get put different employees on the hot seat for who've served for 20 years. They get a speech by their director. Some of you are in this room looking down at your laptops. The point is the head. >> That our employees are the we people, the people who show up and take care of this city and take of our community with a true passion. That is not really in line with being pulled out and had having the spotlight shown up on them. They're people who do the work because that's where their hearts are. And that just shown through show through. So clearly. And it was really touching to me to see not just how dedicated you all are, but

also how much year your co-workers and your your directors notice benefit from that and how that just flows out of the city. And I was just really touched by it. And I wanted to know that. I wasn't here last week or 2 weeks ago. It because I was in Sacramento lobbying for mtc. I know we MAY feel a little isolated from the impending crash or fiscal cliff rather. That is coming for our Bay Area. Transit system. But we're really all that isolated. And so we are working on trying to shore up support for sb 63, which will not be on our ballot here. But I think is color attention to how interconnected we are in that apart. And Caltrans do fail. We will feel the economic reverberations here in the North Bay and that if you know, people who live in the southern counties in the Southern 5 counties in the Bay area that to show your support for keeping our systems going in and understanding how being regional it really matters to our local economy here. Always excited to talk about that offline. And then another mtc moment. I'm really pleased to announce that I was named the chair of the program and Allocations Committee, which has a lot influence over programming allocations. So look forward to working with you on getting your projects through mtc and being of service to in that way. Thank you very much. >> Excellent Vice Mayor. Thank you. Mayor. I actually don't might might have down so you have to excuse if I do not know the dates that these events happened or about to

happen. But we did receive the mayor, vice mayor and council members from sequel might be truck on Mexico who came to visit us with the intent of sharing culture ideas and wanting to become our sister city. And I have to tell you, I was pleasantly surprised at the level of both the speaking and understanding level of our mayor. I was very impressed, says I thought was going to have to interpret yet. He was holding his own. So congratulations are absent. Know for that. But nonetheless, it was a great exchange of of of ideas and wants and shared vision of what we want to see in our city, which is first safety. And secondly, economic growth and we're seeing how we can collaborate with each other and doing so. And secondly, I visited child's museum here in Saint Rose off of West Elaine. And I had a lot of fun, whether it's a big building blocks, the oversized blue in blocks. But I want to let you know that they're about to have a fundraising campaign effort and hoping they keep your eyes and ears open for that as they serve a multitude of children away from Mendocino County to San Jose or Santa Clara County. So that's one port for now. Thank you. And on the subject hosting international visitors, all just a mention only that we did host a representative from the Japanese Consulate office in San Francisco. The Vice consul came to discuss matters pertaining to the city. >> And also take a photo with our can I not a solid statue back here which attracting a lot of visitors lately. Actually. With that, I'll turn it over to Councilmember

Donald for one final announcement. I believe regarding and 12.1. >> Thank you, mayor. Apologize for that. I'll be abstaining from the minutes of FEBRUARY. 25th as I was not at that meeting. >> Thank you. And now will open up to for public comment on item 11. Are there any members of the public who wish to comment? Seeing none? We'll move on to item 11.2, the Sonoma County Mayors and Councilmembers Association appointments. And with that, gonna bring it back to council member Donald for possible motion or discussion. >> Thank you, Mayor. Would you like me to do a motion at a time or what is the will of the council? So start Measure h Oversight put a motion on the floor. I'd like to nominate or move that I I apologize. I like to move that we appoint Jeff Okrepkie from Santa Rosa and Sandra Love from Sonoma so they can. >> a motion and a second by the vice mayor. City clerk to open it up for public Of course. Apologies and any any public comment on this item? Seeing none. All right. Let's bring it to council for discussion. First before we go to a vote, any thoughts on that this? On this item? For item, are particular nomination? Seeing MADAM City clerk to call the vote. Councilmember Rogers is absent Crappie. >> I Councilmember Macdonald, I councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben Willows. I Mayor Alvarez. Mayor step. Let the record show motion passes with 6 affirmative votes and Councilmember Rogers, absent. Thank you. >> Moving on to the second

nomination the evening. Thank you, Mayor. Like to move that we appoint Susan Harvey from Cotati and Jen, a skater Thompson from Petaluma for these seats to the North Bay Division l occ. >> So >> All right. We have a motion and again, a second by vice mayor. Any any comments from the public? All right. Bring it back to council for discussion. Seeing none. MADAM City clerk, would you please call the vote? >> Gets Councilmember Rogers is absent councilmember Okrepkie. Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben Willows. I Vice Mayor Alvarez fight. Mayor step. I lets records show this passes the 6 affirmative votes and Councilmember Rogers absent. >> Thank you for a 3rd nomination of the evening. Thank you, mayor. For the snowmen County, agriculture and preservation Open space district citizens of right is right advisory committee. I'd like to recommend that we appoint John of Petaluma. And Karen now a Petaluma. >> All right. We have a motion and a second by MISS Fleming. Looking to the public to see if there are any members of the public who wish to comment. Seeing none. Bring it back to council for discussion. Seeing none. MADAM City clerk think you Councilmember Rogers is absent councilmember Okrepkie. Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. Yes. >> Councilmember Ben Willows. I buy some air over Mayor step. Let the record show this passes 6 affirmative votes and Councilmember Rogers absent. Thank you.

>> All right. Move on to item 12, 2.0. 1, 2, 0.2. We have 2 members of standing firm item, 12.1. >> Through with respect, Mayor step, there was an additional action. To be heard for council to authorize the mayor or their designee designated representative. To vote on any late nominations are recommendations at the board meeting. >> Oh, yes, I skipped right over that. All right. Back to back to council member Don. >> Like to make a recommendation that we allow the mayor or their designee to represent us and and give them the authority to vote nominations are recommendations that come forward and to the association board meetings. So >> All right. We have a motion and a second. Looking to the public for any comment seeing none. MADAM City clerk. >> Thank you. Mayor Councilmember Rogers is absent councilmember Okrepkie. I Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben I vice Mayor Mayor, stop. Let the record show this past the 6 affirmative votes in Councilmember Rogers, absent. Thank you. >> All right, now we can move on to item 12 approval of minutes. So 2 members are abstaining from item to any other members have any edits or adjustments. They like to make 2 on the either the FEBRUARY 25th 2025. Minutes of the 3/4/2025. Minutes. Seeing we can. We can approve them as they stand. All we need to call for public comment. First, any any public comment on this item? Racing right through? All right. See no public comment. We can adopt the minutes as

submitted. Moving on. Then to item 13 consent. MADAM City clerk. >> Respectfully mayor, did you call item that whole point to MARCH 4th, 2025 regular city Council meeting minutes. >> I read it out quickly. Read both those items again. Just 12 point point 12.2 MARCH 4th, 2025. The regular meeting minutes we can for both as as submitted. All right. Thank you. And with that, we can move on to item 13 consent. MADAM City clerk. >> Thank you, Mayor item 13.1 resolution approval of 2025. Update to Santa Rosa City. Best title 6 program. Item. 13.2 resolution grant application to the California governor's Office of Emergency Services for $250,000 under the state and local cyber security grant program. Item 13.3 resolution acceptance, an appropriation of grant funds from the city and county of San Francisco for the fiscal year 2024 urban Area Security Initiative Grant program funds. Item 13.4 resolution. It ratification of blanket purchase orders. 1, 4, 9, 4, 7, 817-1685, and approval of a five-year extension of blanket purchase order. 1, 7, 1, 6, 8, 8, 5, with increasing compensation for records. Management services. Item 13.5 resolution approval of Second Amendment to blanket purchase order 1, 6, 8, 9, 6, 9, to extend the term and increased compensation was superior supplies. Item 13.6 resolution approval of Second Amendment to blanket purchase order 1, 7, 2, 1, 3, 9, to increased compensation with Creams, towing incorporated. Item, 13.7 resolution extension, a proclamation of local homeless

emergency. Item. 13.8. Ordinance adoptions. Second reading ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa to designate fire Hazard severity zones and amends section 18 dash. 44.4, 9, 0, 7, one of Chapter 18 dash. 44 of the Santa Rosa City code to include the newly designated high zone reference. >> Thank you. Looking to council, see if there any questions. Seeing none. Let's open up the public comment, MR. Do it. >> On 13.1, it's very important to abide by what was once called the Civil Rights Act. The title 6 program is very important as a person that rides the bus off. And I would hope that you could do something with today's agenda were you will help with the transit mall. The site for the people who write out to Roseland on buses to to be and 12 are not protected from the rain when they did the repairs over at the transit mall, they didn't put any type of an awning to protect the seats from that area from the rain. So today you're getting $39,000 from San Francisco and it's not a pro. Excuse me, it's not okay to yet. Says here that the funds will go into a project. Key to be established by the chief financial officer budget. Put that $39,000 putting up rain on Protection for the bus riders for Roseland that go out there and now have to stand in the rain and wait for the bus. Where is everyone else that the transit mall doesn't have to? Then The matter of the homeless. The proclamation being extended

its very nice that we're doing that. There's still homeless people sleeping under the overpasses. Invested all kinds of money to try to help Catholic charities. Were there Cara Times project and got lots of things going on and yet. Yesterday during the ring, there are people out there under the overpass on 9th Street and 6th Street during the night sleeping outside. We're trying to sleep perhaps very difficult situation. And I'm hoping that we can find a way to resolve it. So that everyone, especially those using wheelchairs, those who are disabled can get in out of the weather. We MAY have a longer wet spring and then last but not least it's great that you're doing these fire hazard severity zones. It's really important that we have them. People mentioned years ago when the Fountain Grove overpass skews me when the founder of bypass is being put together, that that was through high fire area. We're the only fired in 1964. It's really important that we keep the history of where fires have been. And we make a point of knowing where there might be even further hazards and example is over the Rosen Creek Park. It backs up to people's yards. It has a lot of underbrush as campers, transit vagrants that come in there and start fires and basically had to call the fire department numerous times for them to come in and take care of fires. There. That is some sort of his own that should be looked at. Also, it's not in your current situation, but these are where those fires

can spread to those homes and then the city would be responsible through vicarious liability. You know, this dangerous area and the people catch on fire, they're going to come back and look at you. Thank you. >> Thank you. To Wayne. Would any other members of the public like to speak? Seeing none bringing it back to Vice Mayor Alvarez for Motion. I like to move items through 2.1 through 13.8 and wait for the reading of the text. We have a motion and a second MR. Crappie. MADAM City Clerk. >> Thank you. Mayor Councilmember Rogers is absent councilmember Okrepkie. I Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben Willows. I Vice Mayor Alvarez. I Mayor step. Let the record show this past the 6 affirmative votes with Councilmember Rogers. Absent. >> Thank you very much. And we are very close to being on time here. Move on to item 14. Our public comment non agenda matters. This is for public comment on items that are not on the agenda. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on any member matters not currently used on the agenda, MR. Do it. >> From Roseland that wanted to invite you and everybody else here to Roseland Earth Day efforts which are on Saturday. The 19th of APRIL at 10 in the morning at the Roseland Creek. We call it the neighbor. Would the city has an official name of a park? The folks out there have been doing this for decades and we're so glad that for the last 2 years we've had the city's mayor and our Councilmember Eddie Alvarez came out there. We're hoping also last year, MR. Stabbing Ms MacDonald were there to to

visit for short time. Hoping that you folks will come on out there and see what we're up to again, there's good things that are happening. It's one of these situations where we have to never say die and just keep trying. We know it's a difficult time financially. We know you might not be able to do as much as we would like. But the people in the community know when you're paying attention and things will get better. We're actually working up a bit of a team effort to do some pruning in limine of the underbrush and the things that are next to sir the street on Burbank Avenue. So they'll be. Avenue of sight. I was told by a planner so they'll be able to look right in there from the school across the street and see if any of those transient vagrants are camping in there where they want to walk through because many of the children are frightened by that stuff. Are doing our best. Try to keep it as nice as possible. And we do believe we can make it even better. We'll bring a flare to you folks in the future. So you'll be able to remember the exact time of 10 in the morning Saturday. The 19th of APRIL for Rosalynn Earth Day. We do Earth Day. Nature's way we go out and get in nature and do good stuff in the city manager was out there doing that with this in the past. Also. As wonderful. Her and former Mayor Rogers wanted to see more of the problems. But there's poison oak out there and they didn't want to walk into the poison Oak area. Were the transit vagrants go because they know people will walk in there. So we got to figure it out so they can see what's going on. Last but not least. Less than a week ago.

The city along with 2 officers from the police Department. Officer Klein and officer the Rhone had a team from the probation department out there who helped clean up the area and pulled out a couple debris boxes full of a just trash. I mean, it's amazing. Was get put out there by people who come passing through. So we think the city many times over and we hope you'll be there because we're going to keep on keeping on. And then we'll be there for your Thursday event on that Thank you so much from Rosen. >> Dwayne, Thank you very Are there any other members of the public would like to speak on item is not listed on the agenda? With that, then we're gonna go to item. See if item, 15.1. It's the first item of a busy night for Ms Burke. Come on down. This is this will be a report. On the summary on response to written objections received pursuant to state Bill ab 2020 2022. 57 recurrent requiring would-be challengers to exhaust administrative remedies with respect to propose water and wastewater rates for fiscal years. Beginning JULY first 2025 through 2029 by time we find by timely filing written objections prior to initiating litigation challenging proposed water and wastewater rates. All right. >> Good afternoon, mayor stop and members of the council. My name is Jennifer Burke. I'm the director of the Water Department. And as the mayor noted, we are here to discuss this item related to our

proposed water and wastewater rates. I'm joined today by are in term Assistant City Attorney, Dustin Cooper. He's been helping the water department for the last few months and has been our main attorney through this process. I'm actually gonna turn it over to Destin. He's going to remind the council about the new legislation that was approved earlier this year, a b, 2, 2, 5, 7, that the council directed us to include an our prop to 18 notice. And he's going to walk you through that as well as the objections and are written response. The Good afternoon. >> Just a reminder, I was before you in JANUARY where we discuss this. So this will be a a reminder of of an optional process that the council agreed to implement. Over the last 5 to 7 years or so. There's been a significant uptick in litigation, challenging cities and public agencies regarding that rate setting process ease. And in response, the Legislature has done a couple of things. One of which is a b, 2, 2, 5, 7, that allows agencies such as the city implement an exhaustion of administrative remedies requirement. We included that in our notices that went out to the public on JANUARY. 15th, there was an interim deadline of MARCH 5th for folks to provide a written objection. And failure to provide a written objection means that those parties cannot file suit challenging the right change. Let me before I go further, take a step back and maybe provide some further context. This is a quite narrow item that is

before the council. This is just responding to the 10 objections that we received later on in the agenda. We will have the protest hearing where any interested member of the public will have opportunity to comments and provide an objection or excuse me, a protest to the proposed rate changes. So are task tonight for us. The City Council is to respond in writing to each of those 10 timely submitted objections. We have to explain her rationale as to why we're retaining or altering the proposed fee. Our case, we are recommending that we retain our proposed And then lastly, we present written responses to the City Council for consideration prior to the protest hearing. That's why it was important that we're having this item before we conduct a protester. You have 4 options and responding to written objections. We can clarify our proposed rate change. We can reduce the proposed rate change, weaken table the item for further consideration at a future meeting or we can proceed to the protest hearing. So as I mentioned, we receive 10 timely written objections. You have a resolution before you and the structure of the resolution is such where those 10 objections are included in exhibit a 2. The resolution before you. They have been redacted. So removes the first name address signature and so on. But the content of the objection is still there. And then Exhibit b is our recommended responses to each objection. Most of the objections that we received

Rays policy arguments. You know, folks just saying I don't want to see this proposed increase, go through. They did not articulate a specific legal basis for rejecting or modifying the proposed rate change. A few of the objections. Do raise legal arguments and we responded in some cases we clarified without making proposed amendments to the rate change. And in other cases, it just gave us an opportunity to provide a more comprehensive response. As to all 10 objections. We are recommending that you proceed to the protest hearing which will occur later tonight. And that is our recommendation that you adopt the resolution respond to the 10 timely received objections conclude that the objections do not result in any amendments to the proposed rates and then proceed to the 2.18 hearing. >> Thank you. Bring it back to council for questions. Just just want to make sure I understood clearly. So we're going to be going through this rather narrow legal item right immediately after this. We're gonna go the full public hearing on the water and wastewater rates. I know that we have some people here in chambers who are interested in making comment tonight that I understand correctly that the public comment on this particular item is best focused on these very narrow range of of legal issues that you're that you highlight in your slides. And for those who are interested in commenting more broadly on whether the policy is wiser giving thoughts on the policy, those comments might be better saved

for item. 16.1 which will get to immediately after meeting the following. This one that I understand it correctly, that that's absolutely correct. All right. Thank you. There are other questions from council was opened up to public comment, MR. Do it. >> My name is Dwayne De Wit. I'm from Roseland. Legal counsel for the city has recommended to me that I mentioned I've been appointed to the board of Public Utilities by MISTER Eddie Alvarez, who Kylie thought of me being on that board. My comments tonight and no way, shape or form reflect anything that the city has a policy. They're just my private views. Having discussed matters such as this with people in the community for 3 decades. This is a very narrow situation tonight where you needed to have specific legal citations or arguments. As I stand here tonight, there's nothing here for me to see on this table about this item in any way, shape or form is a member of the public. No examples of the 10 protests that were turned in and there are no examples of the responses city has to the 10 items. In the past. The city used to have a binder here. When you came to this meeting, you got to see what was happening and there was all of the items. Each number there for us to see in the binder to understand what was happening for the public to know what's being talked about. Exactly. A typical member of the community who is not an attorney. Well not know where to find legal citations or arguments to bolster their

opinion that what's occurring is basically a loss of rights for the public members. You see this as narrowing the situation to what are called exhausting administrative remedies. Rate payers and members of the public. See, this is like, well, they're making even harder to try to participate and the discussion as to why we have to keep increasing our water rates even as we do better water conservation. Most of the folks I know doing that again to save more water, especially the farmers and the rural folks Santa Rosa City limits. Water rates always go up. >> Up up up. Over in Roseland people are on wells. A lot of them and they're glad to avoid the use of Santa Rosa City water. My concerns tonight or that you should be providing to the public. The actual examples. What's being referenced here as decision is being made by you. No member of the public can see it here. And it's just to me, not fair. And I do believe you can make things more fair by your stipulations to make these items available to the public, to be able to see them before you make your decision. Thank you. >> Thank you to Wayne. Would any other members of the public like to speak? Seeing none? I'll bring it back to MR. Creepy. Thank you, MR. Mayor all move to adopt a resolution entitled resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa responding to timely filed a written objections to the proposed increases in water and wastewater rate pursuant to requirements of state

Assembly. Bill. 2, 2, 5, 7, >> We have a motion and a second by MISS Funding. MADAM City clerk, you can call the vote whenever you're ready. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers is absent councilmember Okrepkie. I Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben, most. Yes, vice mayor for us. Mayor Air stop. I let the record show this past of the 6 affirmative votes in Councilmember Rogers. Absent. >> Thank Right now to stay on topic and to save our water team. Some steps we're going to we're going to cut over to item 16.1, which will be our public hearing on the consideration of the 2024 water and wastewater cost of service study adoption of the proposed fiscal year. 25 26 through fiscal year 2029, 2030 rate schedule amendments to center of the city code title 14, portable and recycled water. Thank you. And I should. I didn't I neglected think both of you your presentation. The previous item. Thank you again. The floors to yours. >> Thank you. Mayor staff and members of the council. Again, my name is Jennifer Burke. I'm the director of the Santa Rosa Water Department. I have again with me. Dustin Cooper are in term Assistant city attorney who's helping us with the rate, study and rate adoption. And then we also are killed Graham here withheld a brand consulting who is our right consultant that we have in place. Heat between the 3 of us. We're all going to be doing parts of this presentation this evening. We also have other members of staff in the audience in case there's any specific questions we can't answer. So with that we are going to go through

tonight. Quick reminder of the objection. Objection, objectives. Pardon me. The objectives and general rate setting. We are also going to go through our rate recommendations and then we will talk a little bit about cip delivery value of water campaign and how we've been providing information. Prop 2.18, procedures and then we will have a recommendation and open the protest hearing. I do know that mayor, I believe you have this recommendation to remind the public, but I also wanted to remind the public on the outset now is the time between now and when the public hearing closes. Anyone wants to submit an additional protest, they can do so and need to do so in writing. And there are forms available up at the table here tonight. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to mark and he's going to go through some of these flights. Great. Thank you, Director Burke good evening, MR. Mayor and council members. >> Thank you for having me again this evening. I'll go over this presentation which I have presented to council previously saw. Keep it brief when we do a rate study for water and sewer, we do start with a certain objectives and we have a list here of the objectives that we had at the outset. You will notice that legal compliance is at the top of the list because one of the most important part of my job is to make sure that the rates that are being proposed are compliant with proposition to 18 and the California Constitution and I can validate that. We also want to

make sure that we protect the both utilities, the water and wastewater utilities that they're financially stable and that you have sufficient revenue while minimizing rate increases to your customers, making sure customers understand the race that their pain and keeping the rates as affordable as possible. When we do a rate study, there's 3 general steps that we cover. The first is we call revenue requirements. You can also think of this is a financial plan. Where are we evaluate all of the existing revenue and the forecasted expenses over the next 10 years. And we develop a financial plan for how much rate revenue needs to be adjusted in weather. Debt needs to be issued. Those types of kind of larger picture decisions. Once we understand much rate revenue needs to be generated, we do it. What's called the cost service analysis rate design, which is the portion of the study where we make sure that everybody is pain and equitable portion of the rates that everybody's Payne relative to the cost of there imposing on the system and that were being equitable and how we charge rates. So jumping into the recommendations are first light. Here is a summary of the recommendations and the the overall rate revenue increases that are being proposed over the next 5 years in the first column you see that the water rates, the overall rate rate revenue is proposed to increase by 6% over the next 3 years. And then 7% for 2 years for wastewater is 5% per year for 5 years. And then the last we have just an example of what a typical single-family, silly

but utility bill would how it would be impacted between both the water and wastewater rate adjustments. So you can see a sort of the midpoint between 6 and 5%, but not exactly because it's a weighted average. Here's pitchers. Got a lot of information on it. This is the final recommendation and financial forecast for the water utility. The top graph is comparing revenues versus expenses. The green area graph in the background represents revenue and the blue columns and the 4 grand represents expenses. And in a year where you see the columns are higher than the background. That's a deaths a year where you're drawing down reserves. But generally speaking, you can see that the columns and that background green are at the same level. And so that's a year where the budgets balanced. We are drawing down a bit on reserves over the next 10 years. You can see in the line graph in the middle of the blue line is dropping a bit from about 30 million dollars. I to a bit lower. We lost the But we are despite the rate increases, reserves will get drawn down to some degree because of a pretty intensive effort to increase capital spending. And I'll show you those numbers here in a moment. >> think we can see that the on the bottom row. There you see capital appropriations currently. >> Are about 9.5 million dollars. And you can see by 2035 this cap appropriations are going to 34 million

dollars. That is one of the city's initiatives is to increase capital appropriations and so we are. We do have a plan to deliver on that over the next 10 years. For when we do the cost to cut cost of service and rate design. The general philosophy is that we identify different buckets for allocating costs. Here you can see we identify customer costs, which are cars driven by the existence of accounts capacity costs, which are driven by the size of the system and commodity costs, which are driven by the sale of actual water. And so we designed the race based on these 3 3 categories. And you can see a little bit more detail in there. The blue represents those commodity costs, which we recover through your use revenue. That's your variable revenue that will increase and decrease depending on how much water folks use any given year and the red categories or as your fixed revenue, which is going to remain fixed every year, regardless of much water as you. So you can see that about. 26% of your revenues fix 74% is variable. And here is a table that shows your current rates. The proposed rates for JULY 2025. So these are the proposed rates in year. One and then the change to those rates. Both expresses dollars as percentages. And you can see those percentages are not exactly the 6% that was described earlier. And that's because of the rate design. When you do Casa Service resigned. Update. As I mentioned, those buckets receive different costs are updated numbers and so different parts of your rate structure will be affected differently. And so that's why this percentages are all the different. It is important to note year to everybody's rates

will go up exactly the same. It's just in your one. We make this adjustment to account for the cost service. Update. On a slightly different topic. What is being proposed is to reinstate the Sonoma County Water Agency passed through and so we did. We didn't include this slide, but it's number county water purchases. That's a wholesale water agency. The purchases of this water is a very significant part of the cost to Santa Rosa Water and the rate increases that we've been experiencing from Sonoma County recently have been that higher than previously anticipated and also a bit hard to predict they're they're not able to give a very reliable forecast on what their rates are going to do over the next 5 years. So rather than try to guess at what Sonoma County is going to do with the rates over the next 5 years. We're proposing to implement pass through provision which basically waits to find out what they actually adopt. And then apply those costs changes to their rates directly. It benefits both parties. Your rate pairs won't accidentally pay too much. If we guess too high. If we were to try to guess and we're gets too high, then your repairs within over pain in place for us. If we if we guess too low, then the utility would would suffer financially. So the pass through provision is essentially protecting both sides by making sure that the cost of their charges are aligned with the costs are incurred by Senator was a water. And there's some

details on here that it's a little bit complicated because each tier is made up of a different amount of cars. But the basic picture is that about half of tiered rates is made up of Sonoma wine costs. And that's the portion of the rate that will be adjusted by Sonoma Water rate increases and the other half are Santa Rosa cost, which will be adjusted by the proposed rate increases that were mentioned earlier. We have another slide here that goes into more detail. That sort of takes you through the math and explains this in this particular example of the type you can see that 2027, Santa Rosa is proposing raise its rates by 6% and if in the event center send the count. Santa Claire. Certainly it. Sonoma County, sorry, 5 misspeak in. So the only county they were to raise their rates by 10%. This is the how the math would play and for any given scenario, the math will be run. And then the those numbers will taken to council and council will then adopt the rates that are being passed through. On the other utility for local wastewater. This is that same general graphic. We're showing 10 years of financial forecasts of cash flow and to general picture where you see the reserves are being drawn down that middle graph with the blue line shows that reserves are starting at 40 million dollars and they'll end up about 32 million dollars started to about

25 million dollars by the end of 10 years, despite the fact that we are raising rates and that is attributed to the fact that capital spending going to increase pretty significantly local at the bottom. You can see the local wastewater capital spending this year was 3.3 million dollars next year going to 14 million dollars. And by 2035, we are planning to appropriate 42 million dollars after that ramp up in capital appropriations and the same general idea for the regional capital spending increasing from about 8 million dollars of the 14, 15 million dollars after 10 years. And we have the same general cost allocation principles for wastewater customer cost capacity. Casa wastewater treatment costs. The only difference here is that for wastewater, there is a strength component. And so we do consider the strength of different commercial customers because it is more expensive to treat higher strength, sewage. Here's the fix for says variable components for wastewater. And you can see that 30% of your revenue they recover through wastewater rates is is for through fix revenue. Hear the race for wastewater the current rates, the proposed raise for JULY and the change. And again, that percent changes is different from the percent. The overall rate revenue increase for year one because of the updates to the cost of service analysis. But in years, 2, 3, 4, 5, every base rates will go up because exactly the same amount. And this final table is actually MAY be more helpful than it might appear on the surface because there's so many numbers. But this is a bill impact analysis which allows

you to look up any kind of rate type of customer that might be of interest to you to see exactly what their bill we'll any year one. So you can see at the very top, for example, we show a single-family home with a low water usage currently pays a combined. The bill $133.80 with the proposed rate increases near one that can buy and build will go to $141 and $0.43, which was I the combined increase of $7 and $0.63 or a 5.7% increase. And you can go through this table and and find different types of customers to see how they will be impacted. Now, obviously there's tens of thousands of customers and they all have different characteristics, meter sizes, water usage. And so we can capture it all here. But this is simply to give ache a cross section to help give give you a picture of how folks will be affected. And here is a survey that shows the combines bill for various utilities in your region. You can see the current rates right now. You're 6 from the bottom. And with the proposed rate increases, you'll leapfrog one other utility region. We don't set rates based on what other folks charge. You're not allowed to charge them that way. This is simply a data point to give you a sense of where you stand in the region relative to their costs. And once again, this slide we showed earlier, just a recap of the rate increases that are being proposed over the next 5 years for water and wastewater. >> So now all talk quickly about Capital project delivery as MR. Hildebrand noted we are looking to invest quite a bit more and the infrastructure on the water wastewater and regional system. The numbers we are aiming to get to over

the next 10 years are what we should be investing today. So that will get us closer and we'll have to revisit as we go forward. But these rates are really looking to do that. As was noted earlier by director and the Sea. We are looking at ways working together on how we can get more capital project delivery. One of the things we're looking to also do with this ramp up and increased investment is to look at issuing a request for proposals to get a consulting firm on board to help us with project management assist with getting more projects out than what the current capacity as with capital projects teams. So we're continuing to work together on that and looking to put that out so that we can have additional water projects. Delivered. Talking quickly about the outreach. In addition to what is required through prop to 18 and sending out our notice is that we after the council study session in JANUARY. We have really been doing a lot of outreach related to our value of water campaign, really focusing on the importance to the community of investing in their water systems. These systems are owned by the public. We are here to steward their dollars and make sure the systems continue to run. And so we really want to put that message out that it's important just like maintaining a house or car. You need to invest in these

systems to keep them running. So that was our focus from MAY through NOVEMBER of last year. And then we really started getting into the nitty-gritty of what the rate proposal would be and focusing on that. We advertised and and every which way that we could think of whether it was through our newsletter through different campaigns that we participated in to our water bills and also taking advantage of digital print and radio. In terms of the numbers you can see that using the Google ads we re screeched about 2.4, 8 million impressions reach folks that way. And there are about 50,000 clicks through to our value of water campaign and information on our website through our social media campaign. We received 110,000 impressions and 4,000 collectors to our information. So we really try to leverage lots of different media, whether it was print radio electronic. So I am now going to turn it over to Destin Uber. And he's going remind everyone about the prop to 18 procedures for this protest hearing. >> Okay. Good afternoon again. So there are a host of legal requirements, both in terms of process and substance that we need to comply with. I want to drill down on the last bullet point, the formal proposition to 18 process started on

JANUARY. 15th. That's when 58,470 notices were mailed to landowners and water and wastewater users here in the city. If there's a minimum 45 day, public review process were actually day. 76 of my math is correct. So we went beyond that minimum. 45 day period. This is a majority protest. Law. And so unlike an affirmative vote, a majority protest functions more like a veto. So has Director Burke mentioned earlier, folks have opportunity to provide a written protest up until the close of the public hearing that would be conducted shortly. We do. The clerk has printed forms of the protest. Folks would like a copy, we have them available. The majority number is 29,236. That would constitute a majority as of the start of this meeting, we received 156 so were substantially less than a majority. In fact, that's point to 6%. Again, that number is likely going to change. Voting so to speak is still open. Protests can still be submitted, but they have to be submitted in writing or a protest. Do not count. We've already covered this just briefly. We've already dispense with the written objection item earlier. The other optional procedure that the city implemented was to incorporate a 120 day statute limitations, period. That was included in the 58,000. Some odd notices that went out. It was prominently displayed and that notice. Next slide. And I believe I'm turning it back to you. Director Burke. >> The other item that is

before you is an amendment to city code title 14, you MAY recall and previous rate setting that we would set the water rates by ordinance and change to city code and the wastewater rates by resolution. We did a lot research and try to understand why we sent one by ordinance and one by resolution conferred with city attorneys office and after a lot of research and determination really did not find why one is by ordinance. And one is by resolution. And then checking with other entities, typically water and wastewater rates are set by resolution. So the amendments to the city code before you would actually change it so that we would mimic how the wastewater rates are set. So going forward, we would have both water and wastewater rates set by council by resolution. This is allowed for in the city charter. And again, it's just unclear as to why we picked one by a one vehicle and one by the other. So we're we're recommending that we sent both going forward by resolution. So that is the item that is part of this. Public hearing tonight. >> So with that. We did take this to your board of public utilities and they unanimously recommended what's before you today. And that is that after conducting a protest hearing pursuant to pop to 18 by resolution approved 5 years of the water or recycled water and wastewater fixed and usage charge rate increases, which would go into effect JULY

first each year from 2025. To 2029 introduce an ordinance amending title 14 of the city code to allow that water rates. Pete be established by resolution going forward. And then we also are recommending that you open the public hearing to allow for the protest hearing as required by prop to 18. And with that, we're happy to answer any questions that the council MAY have. And thank you so much. >> Thanks to all of you. What a lot of work. Bring you back to council any any questions on this item? MR. Craig t. >> Yeah. Just real quick on slide 17. The table on slide. 17 obviously that's a those are averages, right. And it would be safe to say that anybody who's using modern building code requirements Raiders irrigation sensors, tankless water heaters. Those things would be probably under those those numbers. >> For the for the which single family residential. For I would say the median water someone who is following all those coats would be probably below the median. I agree with ok? Thank you. >> MR. >> Just a quick question. I think thank you for the presentation. By the way, it is great. Just curious about are it early on either in the staff report or maybe it was in this presentation that on average the increase for repairs would be about $11. And I know that. Some people use more water. Some people use less and different size households and all of that. But that's that's the average today read that correctly. Yet, according to this table, yes, $10.69 would be the median, which is about the

average. Okay. >> and then. >> You know, I I understand why we need to do Of course, we need invest in r infrastructure in and it's not just about what's happening right now, but the future. For those of us, you know, MAY not be here in 20 years, but what's going to happen and how we're going to our services. I'm just a little bit worried about folks who are on fixed incomes because even though that doesn't seem like a lot of money for some folks, it is. So so that's my only concern. So that's why I wanted to clarify that. And does that include or might not understanding this correctly? The rate passed through as well. And that. >> this in this particular scenario, we're assuming that the pass through would be 6% so we're still waiting to see what Sonoma County is going to do with their rates and we don't know. And do they generally raise their rates every year or every fiscal year? Believe the announce it coming up pretty soon. Thank councilmember, while clarification for coming. >> Fiscal year. 25 26. We've already included a rate increase for Sonoma water. So there will be no Okay. So the numbers you're seeing before would are basically including what we anticipate. Sonoma Water's rate increased to be. You saw that at your last council meeting which was 8.6, 8%. We have that included in this next fiscal year. Budget

going forward for fiscal years, 26 through 27. Then we will now when bring their a proposal forward every year, that would be the rate that would win would be when we would start pass through. And and to your point, I think we are very cognizant and sensitive to, you know, the rate increases and the impacts. There's a couple ways that through the water department, we try really hard to assist. One is we have very robust water conservation program. So if there's many programs and assistance that's free. Call send us an e-mail. Let us know that you would like an audit will come out and do a free audit and help. If there's any way we can help you reduce your water use, which would then reduce your bill. We're there for you to help you do that. We also have our h 2 a program. It's our health help to others program, which is also available for those with certain income requirements. And that is available to help assist our customers as was laid out by before by Prop to a team. We are unable to actually truly print tap, propose a lifeline rate. But what we can do is through using our revenue that we generate through cell phone cell phone towers. We are able to offer great assistance to those that qualify through that program. So both of those are things that we do to provide to our customers so that we can help them as much as possible with their rates. Because we understand that any increase is an impact. All right. Thank you so much. >> and at the risk of being repetitive because you mentioned it multiple times in your presentation and it's come up on the dance as well. Could, but because it's a common question because we're gonna be having this discussion for the next

several years as rates continue to climb in fact, it was public comment. I think it's worth speaking to why it is that we rates go up. Even when people use less water. My understanding, correct that it is because we have this giant physical plant throughout Sonoma County and the city of Santa Rosa. We've got to see huge physical infrastructure that provides water and that has to be maintained. And in essence, what people are paying for when they pay water bills is not for the water itself. It's for the maintenance of that plant. >> Thank you, Mayor Sapp. That's a great question. And and and it is one of the most difficult with trying to make sure Iran educate and provide information related to water. Use efficiency and why we do it versus when you sell less water. I think I think water agencies are in the on the only business that I know of that actually are encouraging their customers to use less of their product. And and we continue to have cost and cost and increase. And the reason why we do that is because we really look at water use efficiency as a water supply perspective. And so if we were not implementing water, use efficiency programs, not only would we have to maintain the system that we're currently maintaining right now, but it would be even more expensive rates would be incredibly higher because we'd have to be building more water supply and more waste, water capacity. And so by not doing that by offering programs that more cost effective than what it costs St, they're purchased

the lot next. Increment of water supply or build the next increment of wastewater capacity. Water use efficiency, reduces both of those. So it actually in the long term makes the rates much less expensive than if we weren't implementing water. Use efficiency. So we understand that that short-term impact does happen by reducing water use. We we still have our same fixed costs. But in the long term, it's keeping the rates much less than they would be if we weren't implementing water, use efficiency. >> Thank you my recalling correctly that one of the slides showed that even with these increases, we are still in the bottom half of the regional water, water rates. >> Yes, we did work MR. Hildebrand, he analysis. And as you can see, we are still on the lower half rates in this area. And again, we don't. As was pointed out before, it is a data point. It's not what drives our rates, but it does just show you where we stack up compared to others. >> And then you also mentioned the value of water campaign. And that's why that campaign is so important as well as This conversation right here because people have already people in recent years have been hearing about the increase in water rates and the wastewater rates. Unfortunately, they're gonna continue to hear that conversation in the in the years to come. But the context is that the rates are low from a regional perspective and they could be a lot higher if the city and the county we're taking the steps they are right now to make sure that maintaining our physical plant and delivering water with the infrastructure that we have. That is correct. Well, spent. Thank you. And with that, we're going to officially open our public hearing. Our public protest hearing. And that requires me to read a little

bit of a statement before we actually start public comment because we are going public comment. But I do want to remind everyone as as Ms Burke did not too long ago that there's still time to file a written protest against the proposed increases to potable water or recycled water and waste raise water rates. But you must deliver your written protest. Emphasis on written to the city clerk before the close of this public hearing only written protests not or oral comments to meet the requirements for a valid written protest to be considered as part of the written protest to count. And let's see. At looking at Assistant City attorney. Do need to read the end of the specifics as well? Or was that sufficient? >> you could please provide the specific so that everyone's 100% clear. >> All right. We're gonna go for to do Stay with me. The requirements for a valid written protest under pro prop addition to 18 were mailed to all the city's utility customers customers in JANUARY. There are additional copies of that notice available on the city's website at sr City Dot Org. Backslash water rates 2025. Only written protests which include the assessor's parcel number or street address of the property receiving water or cities or or sewer service. Are signed by the property owners or tenants and received by the clerk before the close of the public hearing will be counted to determine whether or not there is a majority protest. The proposed proposed rate increases. A majority protest under proposition to

18 recur. If 29,236 valid written protest are filed with the clerk before the close of the public hearing. In addition, public hearings also for any comments on the introduction of the ordinance amending title 14 of the Center City Code. With that, we will now open. The public hearing will do this again. Just for good measure. And Dwayne, you are up. >> Hello, my name is Dwayne Wit. I'm from Roseland once again. I caution that I'm a member of the Board of Public Utilities and my comments made tonight are my own personal private view after discussion with Santa Rosa attorney to make sure I handle it correctly. And also to represent people in my community that I've talked with about this. A concern. If you go back to slide 17 18 and put that. People in my community. Ask me. Are these discussions about our monthly rates? Annual rates because it's not on what they could see. I am a renter. And it's factored into my rent. So I'm hoping that you will. Clarify whether that impact analysis and those totals. And that a person, low water use rain. He's only spending 133,000. Give me $133. Per year month. I basically. Wanted to thank Mayer staff. Clarified this issue of even though we'll keep conserving. And even though will keep using less.

We'll keep a more. And that's just the nature of the game. According to the staff for Santa Rosa Water that the costs will continue to go up. And hopefully find ways to. Decrease the amount of water that is used. This is a good water year. We've got lots of extra water and I do hope that will find ways in which we can save more of the water. So there will be available to us during the dry years. Folks will be speaking today. Thank you for your time. Thank you, MR. Do it. >> Quick point of clarification there. That is. That is something that that the the audience should know where the figures we're looking at with a monthly or annual. >> their monthly. So it's per billing, period. >> Perfect. All right. So just to reiterate that we're looking at increases of summer in $7.24 dollars per for residential users, depending on what kind of water they had both for water and wastewater rates. >> is correct that it's per per billing period. In monthly bill. Yes, perfect. Thank you for that clarification. Looking into the public, are there any other members of the public who would like to make comment on this item? >> Seeing none. Close the public hearing. The public hearing is now closed. Thanks to everyone for their participation. MADAM City clerk, can you tell us if there is a majority protest against the proposed increases and do we need a brief recess to determine that? >> I can just confirm with our administrator, the top of the

well, have we received any additional protests since you had to me the folder with the remaining protests? Thank you. Chair. So mayor, the city clerk's office has received 163 written protest with regard to the proposed rate increases by the close of the public meeting or the public hearing. Which appear to be valid written protest because there are 58,470 parcel subject to the proposed rate increases. It can be clearly seen that the number of protests received is less than a majority of the parcels. That would be subject to the proposed rate increases, therefore, a majority protest has not been filed in the council MAY consider adoption of the proposed rate changes. >> Thank you bringing it back to council for final comments. Seeing none MISS Fleming. >> There's 2 actions here. So go with the first one and move a resolution of the council, the city of Santa Rosa Loving and assessing water and wastewater rates charge for service in repealing resolution. Number r e s dash 2, 0, 2, one Dash, 0, 8, 7, way for the reading of the text. >> Thank you. We have motion and a second booster Crappie. Madam City clerk. Whenever you're ready. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers is absent Councilmember Okrepkie. Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming, yes, Councilmember Ben. Well lows. Vice Mayor Alvarez Mayor stop. I let the record show this resolution passes the 6 affirmative votes. Thank you. Want to and I'll bring the next one. But I just wanted to say briefly

ahead of that, you know, is not lost on me. And I don't think is lost on any of us that these are hard times and that I wouldn't be bringing this forward if I. >> didn't think it was absolutely necessary and well thought out. So with that, I'll bring an ordinance of the council, the city of Santa Rosa amending section 14, Dash 0, 4, 0, 9, 0 of chapter 14, Dash 0, 4 and amending chapter 14 Dash 0, 8, to allow fixed monthly service charges. Notable and recycled water service and delivery charges and charges for city maintain meters on private systems to be established by resolution of the city council and establish potable water and recycled water rates and charges policy establishment of rates and charges and rules and standards in way for the reading of the text. >> We have a motion and a second by MISS MacDonald. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers is absent Cookie. I Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben Willows. Yes. Vice Mayor Alvarez Mayer step. I let the record show ordinance is introduced with 6 affirmative votes in Councilmember Rogers. Absent. Thank And thanks to all members of the public who participated. By the way, I'm not sure if anyone is left in the room, >> thank you. Thank you for submitting that. Those those wouldn't written statements with that. Move on to item 16 point to our second public hearing of the evening. We title Ling and amending a Santa Rosa Municipal Code. Chapter 2 dash. 0, 4, Board of Community Services. Santos.

>> Good evening. Good evening. >> Mayor stabbed Vice Mayor Alvarez and members of the council. I'm Santa's the park's deputy director for recreation and Parks Department. We r I have Emily and are here with me tonight. He's either assistant part planner and Chilliness through our presentation tonight. And I'm just going to check to see if our board chair was able to make it tonight. He was planning on attending tonight from the Board of Community Services as well. But we are very excited to finally be in front of you to bring forward this ordinance and resolution that provides an update to chapter 2 point 2 Dash 4. And city chapter code and council policy. 6 to rename the Board of Community Services to the recreation and Parks board. And we have other administrative updates will be presenting tonight as well. And just to back up a bit, we started this journey with one seemingly simple question. White is a seven-member board, you know, five-member court. And with that, I'll turn it over, Emily. She's going to tell you what the answer is and what our proposal is for recommended updates. Thank you, Jen. Good evening. Mayor says. There are councilmembers. I'm Emily and assistant parks planner with the recreation and Parks Department. >> And I'm here today to present administrative changes to city Code. Chapter 2 Dash 4 Board of Community Services. In 1976. City Council adopt did ordinance 18. 32 establishing the Board of Community Services to advise Council and every aspect of the delivery of services to

the citizens of Santa Rosa. Council did this by consolidating 2 advisory bodies. The Recreation and Parks Commission and the Community Relations Commission as well as their missions roles and powers and duties into one advisory body. There have been, as you can see, appear for amendments to city Code. Chapter 2, Dash 4 since 1976. The one that brings me or us before you today is ordinance. 35 79 past in 2002. In 2002, there are too high quality candidates who applied for one vacancy on the board of Community Services. And Council chose to appoint both of those candidates and amend the city code to increase the number of board members from 7 to 8 also to increase the number of members needed to achieve a quorum from 5.45? The board had 8 serving members for 4 years from 2002 to 2006. In 2006, 1 of those members resigned leaving the board of the 7 members. The board has functioned with 7 appointed members 5 needed for a quorum for the past 19 years. So the current city code requires that the Board of Community Services have 8 members with each member appointed by the full Council. 5 members again, are required to constitute a quorum. Board members serve for four-year terms irrespective of their appointing counsel members term. And board members can be removed by 4 affirmative votes Council. This is what the code says, but this is not how the board functions. And that is because the requirements of city code do not align with either the city charter or with council policy. 6 appointments to boards,

commissions and committees. Needing to have 5 of 7 board members present places, a higher burden on each of your appointees to attend each and every meeting in order to achieve that And often results in meeting cancellation and or not being able to get through the full agenda because of the lack of quorum. It also places a higher burden on staff who poured an 8 organize and participate in these monthly meetings. For these reasons, staff recommended to the board that they form a subcommittee to address these discrepancies. The board formed a three-member ordinance Sub committee which met 8 times over the course of 2 years. They created recommendations to update their ordinance as well as their bylaws. So were here before you to accomplish 3 things. The first is to re title City Code. Chapter 2 Dash 4 from Board of Community Services to the Recreation and Parks board. Second is to amend the city code to align with city Charter council policy. 6. And 3rd is replace the name Board of Community Services with Recreation and Parks Board in Council policy. 6. So there are 7 areas of change that need to happen or proposed to happen. The city code which in Milwaukee through quickly. The first is on the board is recommending changing their name from the Board of Community Services to the Recreation and Parks board with the intent of having a name reflects the name of body that they the department, they advise but also to make the name more applicable to the public and accessible to the

public. Second, the board recommends reducing the number of members from 8 to 7 to align with the number of council members as well as what state and in the Charter and council policy. 6. 3rd, the board recommends reduced changing the way members are appointed from full council appointment to individual council appointments again in alignment with the city Charter and council policy. 6. The board recommends changing the way that numbers are unmoved from 4 affirmative council votes to serving at the pleasure of their appointing councilmember in alignment with council policy. 6. The board drafted a new purpose statement to better reflect what it does. The purpose goes beyond the old purpose to incorporate the board's role in public engagement as well as communication between the public the Department and council. Related to recreation and parks. 6, the board recommends reducing the number of members needed to achieve quorum from 5 to 4. And number 7, the board recommends updating and changing some of their powers and duties. So focus their work Holy on parks and recreation and away from community beautification. To specify the board's areas of oversight to advise and make recommendations to council. To actively engage with residents. And they're pointing councilmember. To support the recreation and Parks department with its engagement and education and promotion. To ensure that that

maintenance of Sanders's parks and recreation facilities is an of responsibility of the board. Finally, to provide the board with the ability to add one non-voting youth member to represent the interests of Santa Rosa's youth and recreation and parks issues. So with presenter, lengthy recommendation. It is recommended by the recreation and Parks Department as well as the board of Community Service. Is that the council by one ordinance and one resolution, introduce an ordinance to re title and amend City Code. Chapter 2 Dash 4 to change the name of the advisory body from the board of Community Services to Recreation and Parks. Update the board statement of Purpose Update the board's powers and duties to reflect their current role. Line. The number of members with a number of city council members reduce the number of members needed to achieve a quorum. Line members terms to coincide with the term of their appointing councilmember. Update the process for member appointment to and member removal from the board act to accurately reflect city charter Section 11 participation and diversity and boards and commissions as well as city Council policy. 6 appointments to boards, commissions committees. And to to adopt a resolution to amend Council policy. 6 to replace occurrences of board of Community Services with Recreation and Parks board. With that, I'd like it to turn it back to you for questions and discussion. And I very much appreciate your time. >> Thank you both. Bring about accounts of the questions. Ms

MacDonald. >> I have a pretty easy question for you. I wanted to know why you didn't call it the Parks and Recreation board. So it was phonetically and mine and more consistent with what we all know that to be. So I'm just curious why you decided to flip it. >> went to align with the name of the department and I think that was a discussion the department was being reorganized back as a recreation and parks out of transportation and public works. And community planning a So it's just an alignment of pure and simple for consistency. >> That alignment, I'm sorry with what we call it in. Our departments are in alignment with How would he I'm sorry. Can you tell me we call ourselves to just just still doesn't make sense to me. I want to switch it. To be like the tv show. Yes, exactly. >> I am Leslie Knope. I just want it for the It's too aligned with the what Santa Rosa Cause, the recreation and parks department. Thank you for And all just add also the Board of Community Services, Rick. >> Desired to align with the department as well. So that for consistent the consistency throughout the community, when we have conversations. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Any other questions you counsel? Seeing none. We'll open it up to public comment. Are there any members of the public would like to comment on this item? Seeing none. I'll bring it back to ms lotion, admit is forming from ocean. >> All right. Thank you very much, Mayor. Thank you to staff or your work. I'm looking forward to the board Community Services having greater functionality with their new and improved Corman

ratio to board members. Thing that'll be good. So move item 16.2. Every title Ling and amending center is a municipal code. Chapter 2 Dash, 0, 4, 4 community services and excuse me, I was reading the wrong thing. All introduce an ordinance to the council, the city of Santa Rosa. Retailing. Amending chapter 2 Dash, 0, 4, I'm sorry. I'm using this new interface and moved around. One last time ordinance of the council, the city of Santa Rosa Retailing, amending chapter 2 Dash, 0, 4, Board of Community Services of the center is a city code and way for the reading of text. >> I was close I want to MISS MacDonald, though, with the motion of this funding. MADAM City Clerk. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers is absent Councilmember Okrepkie. I Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. I councilmember Ben Willows. I Vice Mayor Alvarez. They're step I let the record show this. Ordinance was introduced with 6 affirmative votes in Councilmember Rogers. Absent. Thank to MISS Fleming. Resolution of the council, the city of centers that. Amending council policy number 0, 0, 0 Dash, 0, 6 appointments to boards, commissions committees. >> To remove references to the Board of Community Services and replace with the Department of Parks and Recreation. >> We have a motion and a second booster Crappie. For Believe the ordinance or the board of Community Services should be replaced with the recreation and parks board. Yeah, I was I was intentional.

Thank you for the Yes. We filming a parks and rec episode right I reminded City Clerk, do we have we We need clarification on the naming. What can you please clarify the naming convention you would want reflected on the resolution, the Department of Parks and Recreation. I guess that's what we're doing. Can I get a second? Oh, great. MR. Donald offered a 3rd. City clerk or aided river ready for the vote. With apologies, mayor and vice mayor mean, I apologize. I was expecting resolution to amend. >> The naming convention on council policy. 0, 6, Can you please restate the motion on the floor? >> Can you clarify was their problem I read it the first time. Or is it ok, I just want to make sure do it All right. Resolution of the Council of the City of Center is amending council policy. Number 0, 0, 0 Dash, 0, 6 appointments to boards and commissions committees. >> To remove references to the Board of Community Services and replace with the board of Parks and Recreation. Second. >> We'll give this one a MISS. MISS MacDonald. Is the most appropriate motion. And second. >> Can I just interject one thing? Sorry to confuse this is is like a taping parks and recreation. Just to clarify is at the Parks and Recreation Board or the board of Parks and Recreation because a lot of conversation about that's for yeah, it will call the Board of Parks and

Recreation's and try to. >> Thank you. And we worked with more from the Absent. I don't want to stand that I have board of parks, parks and recreation. If I MAY ordinance that was just introduced. Was changing the name of the advisory board to the recreation and Parks board. So the resolution that follows to change the council policy should also reflect the change to the recreation and parks port. As you wish. Thank you can the minutes reflect that. This all began with a joke by Councilmember And thank you, MISTER Court. That. >> I just want to say I have an extensive history in comedy and you guys are the worst audience I ever worked in front of. We have the vote. Please. >> So we have a question. We have a question as to whether we need to open this up for discussion, which sincerely hoping we might. >> I withdraw the motion luge for rated as the text is, isn't there? >> I'm I'm going to follow you on this journey. Oh, my gosh. All right. We really haven't. We really have an issue with our with our semantics here. Do we need to do we need revert to their original form? >> I will defer to the chair on this pardon me, department head or deputy director. >> Actually, there was quite a bit of conversation at the Board of Community Services on how it was a. How it would read. They originally wanted thinking of parks and recreation board. And when the department kept its name, they decided to make this alignment and they prefer that it would be recreation and parks board or the Parks and Recreation

board clarification would be appreciated. So we can clarify for our board members with respect to them. We're going to go with the Parks and Recreation board. >> That acceptable everybody here? >> Yes, we just need to make certain the ordinance in the council policy match. >> a great. Hear you. That's what are. >> So if if I'm keeping track and I don't know that I am. There is there was had a motion and a second. And we have parks and recreation. I don't really remember that part. At this point. Average today last captured was >> resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa admitting council policy. 0, 0, 0 Dash, 0, 6 appointments to boards, commissions committees to remove references to the Board of Community Services and replace with Parks and Recreation's board. However, that now does not align with the ordinance that was previously introduced. That was changing the name of the book Board, too. The Recreation Parks board. So we we have to go back I don't know that we need to redo that. That first ordinance to eat it. If you host out how strongly feel about this online game change about it at all. >> just supposed to a part of me that wants to you but out of concern things. It. Yeah, she returned. Retreat advert to ordinance as originally written. To the resolutions originally written. Yes, that's find out, ok, you can withdraw your dropped on the resolution make a new one. Yes, thank you. Resolution of the council, the City of Center is amending council policy number 0, 0, 0 Dash, 0, 6 appointments to boards and

commissions. >> Committees to remove references the board of Community Services and replace it with the board of Parks and Recreation. That's what's in front of me. I'm reading the text in front of me. >> I'm totally seconding that. >> If you want me to read that other language that was originally posted on the unit on Screams. >> MR. Donald, you really want to make it from him then missed? Because I have something different in front of me on the resolution in the packet. Not to make amendment that the board of Community Service as far as the resolution that's included in our pocket, be replaced with the Parks and Recreation board as opposed to what's in the packet, which is with recreation and parks board. Amending the resolution. I'm not sure what MISS Fleming is reading from from where she got her information. I have it something separate in here and I'm trying to go back in with I withdraw my motion. I'm just waiting for original text to come up. And we can all forget the last 10 minutes. Hopefully we know or done under our gift ever. So this finding red, the original ordinance just now correct. And I seconded that original ordinance. So with respect to the friendly amendment, I think that's not necessary unless our assistant city attorney says that is our city clerk. >> MR. Mayor, I did not read the original ordinance. I the clerk and put in my and I was rereading that there we I mail read their original ordinance as suggested by staff. Which is a resolution of the

council, the City of Center is amending council policy. Number 0, 0, 0, Dash, 0, 6, appointments boards, commissions committees. >> To remove references to the Board of Community Services that are in place with. Recreation and parks board. Wait for the reading of the text. >> All second that assuming that. >> Are good with that? >> Yes, she went to her first motion and so that was the correct motion that follows the language that's here on the resolution before us. And so a motion and second, we can vote on that. Thank heavens, man, city clerk. Councilmember Rogers is absent councilmember Okrepkie Councilmember MacDonald. Councilmember Fleming. Councilmember Ben Willows. Vice Mayor Alvarez. I. >> But the records show this passes with 5 affirmative votes. >> And Councilmember MacDonald voting no. And Councilmember Rogers absent. >> Thank you all. I'm going to cherish that memory for my time as Mayor. We're going to go back now to item 15.2. Our report on the 2024 general plan, inclusionary housing and Growth Management annual review report. And I believe that is as well as key. >> Good evening, mayor and members of the council. My name is Amy Nicholson and I am the supervising planner for the Advanced Planning Section and she'll will ski city planner will be giving the presentation.

Okay. Good evening, mayor. Stop and members of the council. My name is Sheila lost. Can a city planner with the planning and economic Development department and the item before you right now is the 2024 general plan inclusion or housing and growth Management annual review report. This is our opportunity to provide the council. We also did this with the commission, a review of calendar year 2024. And how the various departments and divisions their work, how it the goals and the policies of the general plan on. >> Following review and acceptance of the report tonight, staff will submit those to the state Office of Land use and climate innovation. And just to let you know, the planning commission recently reviewed this report at their MARCH 27th meeting and recommended it be forwarded to council. The first element will look at is the economic vitality element. This speaks to policies are prioritized economic sustain of the sustainability and development in the city of Santa Rosa. And some of these efforts are included on this slide in the top left corner is the cover sheet for the city's economic development strategy, which was adopted in 2024. This strategy addresses principles of innovation, sustainability and inclusivity through business growth adopt ability to economic conditions and community investment. In that

same vein city staff worked over the year to create what's called the business concierge program, which is meant to provide advising and consulting services for the community. In the upper right hand corner. You'll see this room with the couches that's now at City Hall. It's called Work Cafe and that's where current business operators and prospective business operators can come to city hall and meat and a nice environment and advice from city staff about permitting needs and whatever else they MAY need. Bottom left hand corner just a view of Montgomery Village staff has been working with the newer owners of the shopping center on design, review and building permits needed and we continue to see ongoing investment in that shopping center. Additionally city has begun efforts to coordinate with landlords of empty storefronts and potential business operators to allow for a pop-up business opportunity. This would be for vacant storefronts in the downtown and the goal of this is to. Get willing landlords who are willing and able to do shorter term leases to let some business operators try out of space for less cost in the downtown. Continuing in the same economic vitality element is a category in the report called downtown. And so we'd like to focus on the slide on some of the things that are happening in downtown to encourage economic vitality. There. One of those things that concerns are parking garages, city parking garages where they offer first are free to park and also of

the program called Free Garage Holiday weekends where parking garages are free every weekend from Thanksgiving through JANUARY. 1st. In the upper right hand corner, we see a project that was brought to the city by the Railroad Square Association where they propose to style string lights and these have already been installed. That photo is was taken a few weeks ago. That is 4th street going from the Smart Depots station to the highway. Underpass. Progress was also made by public art staff, too. Create a program called as our public art walk. And this is really supposed to be creating temporary art outdoor galleries for people who live here and want to visit the downtown to see new and ever changing our pieces in the downtown. And I believe the call went out called for went out in JANUARY. So that's that's moving right now. Also Santa Rosa and was selected as one of 2 cities in the Bay Area to test out these pilots Santa Rosa. Well, this one says Santa Rosa downtown station, but these transit hub signs that mtc would like to implement. In all of the Bay area. So there's consistent signage whenever you go to a smart station, the same as it would be a Bart caltrain. So there's a consistent message in theme. Next railroad square. There was a pilot wayfinding sign program that in 2024 became permanent. So no businesses have the opportunity to provide some way finding to their to their businesses. And then finally on the slide, city staff are approached by Dave and

Busters, which is a restaurant and indoor entertainment business about re tenant seeing fairly large space in the Santa Rosa Also states the staff have been working with them to determine any permitting needs. They MAY have. Another element in the general plan is the housing element and that was adopted in FEBRUARY 2023, it's an 8 year cycles. So the end of the cycle, we'll be 2031 housing element looks at residential units have planning entitlements and that could be a use permit or design review. And it also looks at those projects to have building permits issued that MAY already be under construction, as you can see from the chart in the upper left, this goes back a few years. This gives us information residential units issued in the last year. So in 2024, that was 297 residential building permits. And as you can see, 2021 through 2023 were pretty banner years. The photos on the slide to pick the fruits of our labors and demonstrate the significant number of building permits issued in not three-year period of 2021. Through 2023. These projects on the slider currently under construction or have completed construction in 2024. In the upper right hand, that row that project Hony a Glenn Project, which is located

Calistoga Road and Highway 12 99 unit affordable project that includes dedicated farmworker housing. These apartments are now being released and the project was process under sb. 35 or Senate Bill. 35 and that bill was designed to streamline multifamily projects that meet the city's objective standards for by right housing. Just below the building permit chart is South Park Commons, which is located at the former senior center site, which is Bennett Valley in Rutledge Avenue. 62 unit, multifamily project, also affordable and also took advantage of Senate Bill. 35 for processing. On the middle far right is for 20 Mendocino Project. This is 8 stories and wraps around Mendocino Avenue and Riley's Street. This project is almost finished construction and based on a site visit. It's now being marketed released as few links. If you're interested. I did skip the middle slide is the cannery project. And that is located right next to Santa Rosa Creek also affordable project. And finally, the bottom 2 pictures or the founder of Apartments. And this project includes 239 units spread out over 6 buildings that range in height from 3 to 5 stories. And this project is almost finished with construction. As I mentioned, the housing element also looks at projects that have approved planning entitlements and are waiting

to pull permits to construct. On the top row. Going left to right. That is the cornerstone project in the downtown that was approved for 114 units. The Middle Row is the Cherry Project that's located on Fresno Avenue and it's approved for 67 units and then the bottom row. We have the land strive project and that's in the city's north. What northwest quadrant. It's approved for 672 units of multifamily housing. 98 small lot. Single-family dwellings and 4800 square feet of community serving retail and outdoor Plaza. The regional housing needs allocation is part of the housing element California. Mandates each jurisdiction creates fair share of housing, called the regional housing needs allocation or arena. The California Department of Housing and Community Development Hcd determines the total number of new homes. The Bay Area needs to build and how affordable those homes need to build in order to meet the housing demands of people at all income levels after that, the Association of Bay Area governments or a bad been distributes a share of the region's housing needs to each city and county in the region. The table on this slide compares reena numbers for Santa Rosa with building permit issuance by income category to illustrate the remaining need at the end of the cycle, which again is 2031. The top row that's been

populated with numbers. And it's listed as the a baggy green objectives is the number of Reno units and income categories required by the city for this 8 year cycle. Skip ahead a little bit. The 2023 issued role really just gives you a comparison of what happened. The previous calendar year. And then we're at 2024. And that shows you that 297 units of above moderate units have building permits issued in this last calendar year. The row at the bottom, the remaining need by 2031 gives you a breakdown of the income categories in total number of units. But the city needs to to provide by the end of the cycle. Again, 2031. Land use and urban design element is combined on this slide and we typically go through and show you some of the things that the city has either approved permits for is considered concept. Design real props for projects in the city. Upper left is the zones which some of you MAY know is the boys and Girls Club that converted to the zones does similar things. They had a design review project for interior and exterior. All of their building permits are final in calendar year 2024. The 2 top right slides are canine companions and that's their facility on Avenue. And they also had a design review project finance finish building permit for the got their building permits finals in 2024. For a veterinary hospital, a canine health and wellness facility. And that awesome water feature the middle slide Something that's not yet approved. But something that the city has

been considering as a design review application, it would be an expansion of the Spring-like village retirement community and they're proposing 32 units. This is located roughly between Los Alamos and Montgomery Drive the bottom right picture in blue. That was a concept design review elevation for the Hansel Ford Commercial Truck Service building on Welton Court. And the bottom right is concept design review elevation for events and conference center at 3rd Street in the downtown. The transportation element is next. The general plan includes goals and policies in this section about creating improve transportation options and collaborating with regional partners. And you've probably seen many of these improvements that took place in calendar year 2024. Top left. We have the class to bike lane that was installed at 4th Street. And the view here is right before the merge to College. Ave now the middle top slide is a class for bike lane that was installed right out here. Santa Rosa Avenue between first and Sonoma and then the middle slide rfp. A lot of these were installed, rapid rectangular flashing beacons and these were installed in several crosswalks in calendar year 2024. To increase pedestrian visibility. The transit division worked closely with the regional transit agencies to coordinate efforts and schedules. And one of these efforts is called mascots or the Marine Sonoma Coordinated Transit service plan in this particular plan is really looking at analyzing the

highway 101, corridor to determine if there are efficiencies that can be made all of the transit partners that service that corridor. One thing I'd really like to highlight is the youth unlimited rides program, which allows a youth in the city of Santa Rosa to Ride City bus for free any time and anywhere that city bus is operating. And this program is vastly exceeded expectations prior to the initiation of this program in 2021. Youth accounted for 198,000 rides per year in this last year. Figure was 456,000, 867 writes. Now we're on to the public services facilities element which deals with goals and policies surrounding acquisition and development of park facilities, police and fire services air and water supply. First, the fire protection section calls for collaboration with other jurisdictions for fire services, which the fire department engages in with auto aid agreements with Sonoma County Fire District Sonoma Valley Protection District. They also do this with these sr mutual threat zone operating plan. Which is in partnership with Sonoma County for District in Cal Fire and covers specific wild land, urban interface, areas. In 2024. Fire department received 28,358 calls for service. 69% of which were for

emergency medical incidents in a total of 135 fires resulted in approximately 10.5 million dollars in for losses. Now on to please use services skews me this section also includes collaboration with other agencies and organizations which the police department doesn't. Several I think you heard tonight about the violence prevention partnership, our police Department partners with them as well as regional and federal task force is to reduce violence in the community and tried to address the opioid crisis in Sonoma County. During Twenty-twenty for police responded to 117,848 calls for service over 390 firearms were seized in criminal investigations. 124 of these were manufactured firearms are ghost guns. And that's a 20 125% increase from last year. In the same element, we have a section on water supply and that deals with goals and policies to ensure we have adequate water supply available for existing and future needs of the city and the city's water supply is primarily furnished through the Russian And as Jennifer Burke mentioned earlier, there are several programs that the city offers too reduce your water bill to do rain, water, harvesting rebates and things like that. The city plans for projected water demand water supply and water supply reliability through its urban water management plan that was adopted by the State Department of Water Resources in 2021. And they also a document called the water Shortage, contingency plan that describes how the city will respond during times of drought supply reductions in emergencies. Parks is also in this section. They have

several projects going on. I only have 2 listed on the slide. First is bottom left the Southeast Greenway Project. This is a live near area running from Farmers. Lane past summer. Feel road and connecting to Spring Regional Park. The acquisition process for this began in 2016 in the sale was finalized in calendar year 2024. Funds from a priority conservation area. Grant are expected to help with the planning process and at minimum, its proposed have a multi-use path in park area. The right hand corner is the much anticipated sprayed around and at the Family Aquatic Center, which was nearing completion in 2024. And that will provide 15 interactive spray features in 2 areas that have tables and people can reserve for parties and things like that. Birthdays. We're now at the open space in conservation elements this part of the general plan speaks to goals related to open resource conservation and in the section or updates on the city's Creek stewardship program. This includes outreach, Education, Volunteer Creek, stewards maintenance and enhancement days. And last fiscal year, almost 10,000 residents participated in these programs. Henry moved over 1100 cubic yards of trash and debris from our waterways. The multi-phase lower Colgan Creek, a project continues so much finish will provide field

base, education programming. Student-led science projects, Volunteer Creek cleanups Community Art, Project Opportunities in volunteer planting days. The settlement also includes a section ways reduction, recycling and composting. And in this vein, the city's 0 Waste Coordinator works with where works with the community towards implementing the cities are always foodware ordinance which was adopted in 2021. And the city's solid waste franchisee also works towards us by providing waste audits and waste reduction education at Santa Rosa, schools and businesses and during Twenty-twenty for this team provided over 1100 site visits 187 trainings, recycling efforts initiated it. 40 new establishments and composting programs were initiated for 166 accounts. The section also includes efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The city's draft community. Why greenhouse gas reduction strategy has been prepared as part of the Comprehensive General Plan. Update. It will be considered for approval in the next couple months. The stalking it will replace the city's current community, climate action plan and incorporate many of the elements of the municipal operations, climate action plan. Going for the greenhouse gas reduction strategy will be the one document measuring progress towards Santa Rosa climate neutrality by 2045, which is in accordance with state mandate. Now we're on to the youth and family elements and this looks a policies and goals to promote health, safety and welfare for all members of the community. Many

city programs touch on this, including this city youth. Unlimited rides program and some other programs are highlighted on the slider efforts from the city's violence Prevention partnership work by the partnership. In on a mentioned, a few of these things earlier. This includes Safe Campus Intervention program. The Clean Slate Tattoo removal program and street outreach in Crisis Response team which started in JANUARY 2025. In addition to the park's updates provided in the public facilities element, the recreation and parks team continues to publish activity guides twice per year offering camps training classes classes. I think I already mentioned that. And to members of the community and in 2020 for the city's work experience, program for teens had 256 participants. He logged 25,000 hours of community service in 12 different volunteer program. Areas. This annual report also includes an update on the city's growth management ordinance that was adopted in 1992. In response to record growth the Mid 1980's and concern regarding the city's ability to provide adequate services. Growth management was added to the Santa Rosa General plan as a separate optional element. And the city's growth management ordinance regulates residential growth by allowing 800 new residential allotments per year anticipates this development pace would result in the population for Santa Rosa of 237,000 people by the year 2035. And as a came earlier in the report, the Department of Finance most recent population estimate for Santa Rosa is 174,890 residents. Growth Management allotments are available from

2 reserves. They're called and reserve be and they each get 400 new allotments per year. The allotments are for housing products such as accessory dwelling units mixed use multifamily and smaller single-family under 12, 50 square feet. Reserve be are for single-family units that are over that square footage. So in 2024, as we reviewed earlier, 297 residential building permits were issued. And of these permits 156 were reserved a qualifying units and 141 were reserved. Be. The number of entitled units, those residential projects that received planning approvals but did not have permits issued yet was 699 and the reserve a category and 6 in the reserve be category. Now we're on to the review of inclusionary housing. Inclusionary housing requires that housing projects include on-site affordable units or the payment of inlude fees. Al-Qaida units are for nearly construction for rent or for sale units which are made available in occupied by household of lower moderate income. Types of units are also subject to occupancy and affordable rent or sales price controls for a minimum of. 55 years. When the city receives housing impact fees, money collected from the inclusionary housing ordinance is directed to the city's Housing Authority which administers these funds during Twenty-twenty for all 297 units were market rate. However, that generated in live funds in the amount of 1.5, 2 million dollars. Collected to support affordable housing in the

city. These funds will be used for the recently completed Stony Point Flats Project and for the future development of to affordable housing complexes and the pictures on these slides just a packed existing affordable housing projects in the city of Santa Rosa. For the environmental piece of general plan, annual review report is not a project which has the potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment. We're reasonably foreseeable in direct physical change in the environment. Pursuant to sequel guidelines Section 1, 5, 3, 7, 8, And before I conclude with the recommendation, I would just like to make a pitch for anyone who's listening or not already signed up for the city connections, newsletter. It's a free newsletter. It goes out once or twice a month and has a lot of the same information that I've provided tonight as well as opportunities to engage and community events. And the part of those 10,000 people who perhaps help clean up the creek. And with that, it's recommended by the planning and economic development department that the council by Motion Rivian except the 2024 general plan, inclusionary housing and Growth Management annual review report. This is my contact information. I'm here as well as supervising planner Amy Nicholson and we have several members of staff from various departments who will be available to answer

questions. Thank you. Thank you. For anybody. You ask themselves the question, what kinds of things to do? City staff do to make the quality of life in the city better? Well, there's answer right there. >> Bring it back to council for questions. Been us. Thank you for the presentation. >> Just a quick question about I was looking at the annual report. I saw the term the missing middle. And I've been hearing a lot about that out in the community. And I would if you would talk them that there was an ordinance coming, I guess I would if you would talk about that for a moment. >> Yeah. That's one of missing middle ordinance is something that's been contemplated by the city for quite some time. The city through the general plan update is proposing to include dot really to explain it briefly, it's to brought provide for gentle density. Where it's not this massive building. It looks more like a house. It at that, you know, maybe 2 and a half 3 stories, something that blends in provides more units and these missing properties would be located in areas that are walkable to services said the parking needs should not be as great as you know, if it on the outskirts of town Amy chime in. If she has anything else to say. Thank you, councilmember for the question. So it everything that Sheila mentioned is is accurate. We are moving forward with this missing middle housing initiative. >> We well be. >> Talking about it just briefly as a part of our General Plan update presentation because the

general plan update does really set the scene for missing middle housing to be allowed within the city. That's analyzed in the environmental Impact report as well. And so several months following the council's action on our General Plan update will be bringing forward the missing middle housing ordinance. And so you'll receive a full a presentation on that project later on in the summer. >> MR. Donald. Thank you, Mayor, thank you for your presentation. And and just your thorough job of taking us through. This just well done tonight. I did quick question on the arena numbers. And understand those numbers are set for Monday, different entity, but because of the high cost of construction right now on the impending potential of the increase of another, maybe 2025%. And in and construction. Do we have any concerns that perhaps we're not gonna be able to make those numbers simply because developers and builders are being priced out of the market to be able to qualify for some of our affordable housing. >> Yeah, that's a really tough question because the city is not a developer. We rely on the development community to come to us with their projects so we can process them. We're doing actually. Pretty well with above moderate. But even if we got access units beyond what's required by the state, it doesn't count towards any of our arena. So >> Megan. Do have those? And just the you know, do they make those adjustments? Megan has received like a reduction because it just looking at the numbers from. >> Your prior to this year 2024, it was quite shift. I have not seen an adjustment in

prior years. It's it's part of our buildings cycle that we go through. And as say that in addition to what we've seen in the permitting, we're also going to experience a decrease in funding for the past years. We've had an unprecedented resources that have come to us through the disaster recovery money through additional tax credits, robust money at the state. So we're going to see some of that will become more difficult to build units. But we do have several projects that are currently in our pipeline that the housing Authority has provided pre-development funding for are actively competing for funding and they also have resources that are available through the red that they can Were. We're going to keep pushing on the affordable projects and hope that we can get some better competitive at the state level for funding through hcd tax credits Ponce. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. And again, the for the presentation and night. >> That will open up the public comment. Are there any members of the public here was make public comment? Seeing none that bring about council for any any final Ocean. City manager, mayor packages have some clarification. Sheila and Amy, thank you for a job. Well Director and city attorneys office. Thank you for a job. Well done as we move to an update on the general plan. But oftentimes when we talk about the missing middle, I believe some people. When a am. I were talking about 120 are 140 percent. Am I so Amy, can you provide just a little bit more clarification on what actually the definition of

missing middle is. Sure. Thank you very much for the question. >> And that is true that there are some conversations that convey that missing middle housing might relate to affordability or deed restricted affordability. And that is not the case for what the city has been working on. It oftentimes because missing middle housing units are smaller in size. I think they typically average around 1000 square feet. They MAY be more affordable to additional households, but they're not required by any sort of local or state agreement to be restricted to affordable household. >> Thank you. The clarification. Any other final comments, MR. Thank you, MR. Mayor, that the Spurs kind of question in my mind would missing middle also include any sort of incentives to build condos or townhomes to create some sort of ownership latter. So you're not going from renting. >> To a single-family detached home. But there's somewhere in between as well as a step down the ladder not to go from. >> Only a single-family detached home down to renting, but something smaller that you can still maintain yourself. >> Thank you for the question. And this is actually a question that we've heard from our community recently as well. The missing middle housing ordinance does include an option for townhomes, but it doesn't speak to ownership specifically. And so in order for if if we were looking at condominiums, for example, the process to subdivided have a condo is it said a separate process from what the missing middle housing ordinance would

approve, which is essentially a planning approval. So that specifically is not considered in the ordinance, but again, the ordinance would allow for townhomes. That would be like a single unit and it could be attached on smaller lots. And so the incentive is that the process is streamlined and you're also able to build out a higher density than you would otherwise be allowed to if you are not following this missing middle housing standard or set of standards. >> All right. I just add my thanks as well. This is enormous amount of information very, very simply presented. And it really did speak to the incredible range of activities that city staff is involved Thank you for late. Think thank you for presenting thank you for laying it out in this way. And with that been with are the great promotion. >> I move a motion to accept the 2024 general plan, inclusionary housing and growth management. >> Annual review report and reading of the tax. >> Second. We have a motion and a second for MISS MacDonald. Thank you. Councilmember Rogers is absent Councilmember Okrepkie. I Councilmember I councilmember Fleming. >> Councilmember Ben, most yes, Vice Mayor Alvarez. I they are stopped. Let the record show this past of the 6 affirmative votes. >> Thank you very much. All right. We'll jump to item 17. We have no written communications item, 18 public comment on non agenda matters. Are there any members of the public who wish to comment on any items, not the agenda, seeing none. We are adjourned. Thank you, everyone.