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on in a span Yadi good ask yes systems start than this. Back to you. >> Hello and welcome everyone. To our DECEMBER 10th 2024 Santa Rosa City Council meeting just wanted to point out that the year is approaching very fast but we are here and I'm seeing a qorum. So MADAM City clerk, can you please call the roll? >> Thank you, Mayor Councilmember Okrepkie your Councilmember MacDonald here, Councilmember Fleming here, Councilmember Alvarez. Here. Vice mayor stop here. Mayor Rogers here with the record show that all council members are present. Moving on to item. >> The Re. >> Our closed session items for today. 3.1, 3 0.2 3.3, 3.1 conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. 3.2 conference with real property negotiators and 3.3 conference with real property negotiators. MADAM City clerk, can you please facilitate public comment on these items? Thank you, Mayor. We are now taking public comments on item 3. If you'd like to make a comment, please make your way to the podium closed session items. Seeing no one approach to putting a mayor. Thank you so much. Now. Recessed into closed session. Welcome back, everyone. To our DECEMBER 10th 2024 Santa Rosa City Council meeting. It is now 3.30, and we will be starting our meeting seeing a Corum Adam City clerk me please call the roll. Thank you, Mayor. Crafting your councilmember MacDonald care Councilmember Fleming. Bres PRESIDENT Vice mayor step here. Mayor Rogers PRESIDENT, let the record show all council members are present. Thank you. Moving on

to item 4 the point when our study session for today, MADAM City manager. >> Thank you, Mayor. Good evening. Members of council item 4.1. It's tp w Capital Improvement program. Prioritization update. Thank you. >> Thank you. Mayor. Vice Mayor City councilmembers at the nsc director, Transportation Public works back following up from our AUGUST 20th discussion about how to prioritize dpw. Public works projects. It's brief presentation should only last about 15 minutes or so. I wanted to first start by just for money or we discussed last time and what we heard. I know this is not a all encompassing, but it provides a snapshot of some of the feedback that you provided to us about making sure that we're delivering projects focusing on the safety of our community on becoming a more equitable community, looking at climate forward projects. You know, when I was remiss in into the mayor went last and she asked that we focus on children and it occurred to me that that was a really nice summation for a number of things on this slide. From your other comments about. Keeping communities safe and looking forward and making it a better place to for future generations. Going one last time. Go back to the slide from past budget showing art homeade and looking at the types of projects that we have considered in our planning documents. And there's a number of projects on here. A number of categories that don't really fit with those priorities that you provided

back to us last time for some in just right through the city facilities portion because the part of privatization that we're talking about today doesn't response to the funding sources gas taxes, impact fees and utility funds but looking at those top 2 categories of new roadways and roadway widening Those are not the type climate forward thinking projects that respond to those priorities. They're also very difficult deliver and so that's very difficult to wrestle with the priorities 60 put forward last time. So if we look at through that lens, we reduce the total need of of our capital improvements by more than 3 quarters. And then we're able to especially focus more on ongoing maintenance news that we've talked about in the past. I look back at the previous 5 years of Capital improvement program and a number of things struck first is that we total almost 110 million dollars a budget allocation during that time. There's been a great deal of uncertainty, though, from year to How much would be allocated to us based on different funding sources? So you can see in some areas as little as 18 and a half million dollars in other years. Almost 26 million dollars makes it very difficult think about this on a annual cycle. Also, I want to share that that bottom row, where called them past

promises. We've spent more than 44 million dollars in the last 5 years on just 3 projects. Those being the Hearn U.S. Interchange, the phone or road widening and the bicycle pedestrian overcrossing. All valid valuable projects. But more than 40% of our cip budget those 3 things. While we have and a number of smaller scale sidewalk crossing pavement, maintenance just really hamstring our ability to to make those changes. Thinking about how to reorganize that. If we some those same categories over the past 5 years and look at a forward thinking budget for the next 5. What does it look like if all of a sudden we're not hamstrung by those past promises and the roadway widening projects, how what are we able to do by not committing ourselves to those types of things and essentially everything else can see an increase in funding as a result of that. So based on those the buckets that you see up there, a different project we're just through not being distracted by those projects that are not align that with our goals and really focused on the delivery ability of this scale of projects, we're able to deliver the types of projects that respond to the goals and that the community is continuously asking us for the other thing that this does, is it instead of doing this annually is that we start looking at this programmatically over a five-year period such that this can become more predictable over time and we're not allocating funds to projects before they actually need them. We can fund planning design permitting construction separately and sequentially as appropriate. So that money doesn't set. One

of the things that and kind of reconstructing this moving forward that occurred to me is that in JANUARY each year we begin submitting our budget allocation for the following year. And then that gets approved by council in JUNE and becomes available to us on JULY. 1st. No new money becomes available to us until the following JULY. 1st. So there's a period of almost 18 months where a new issue comes up and we don't have any resource available to us to respond to those issues. So some of the things that your constituents bring up to you that you bring up to me. I sometimes my default answer is that's great. Will add to the list. I can't do anything about it right now. And that's the honest answer. And it's a bad answer is this will provide us more flexibility to respond to those kinds of problems and have an honest conversation about whether or not it's worth doing not just the fault, too. We'll have the resources, but we can talk about on its merits. Instead. Through this reorganization. You'll also notice that the contingency category is removed from our budget and what this really means is that essentially every category and every program manager here would be responsible for their own contingency. So you're planning staff member who responsible for the bridge category is responsible for bridge programming. Same with sidewalks and intersection improvements such that they're not reliant on each other. There will obviously be overlaps between these funding categories for certain projects. And I hope that encourages collaboration between our teams that almost certainly need to to make funding happen for some projects. But instead of looking up, our teammates will be able to look towards each other for that support and

essentially be more responsible. You know, that the bottom is still have a past promises category. That is for a few projects that are either under construction right now or about to start and are not quite there. And I want to highlight those specifically to share with you what I think we will be bringing to you next year for for a budget proposal. Those 5 projects include the bicycle pedestrian overcrossing were about 2 million dollars short for future needs. What we have right now is enough money to get the project bid, which will happen in FEBRUARY or MARCH. We will be releasing that forbids at that point when we need to guessing about what that project costs and find out what it costs. But there's a number of costs associated with the during construction period that we don't need to have right now that we can allocate JULY first, 2025 or even JULY first 2026. Such that we're able to start that project sooner. There have been crossover rounds and also some additional streets added to Coffey Park and fountaingrove projects that need to get amended so that that 2 million dollars accounts for a little less than 8% of the total cost of the budget. Again, there have been streets that were not included in the initial that as a result constituent inquiries. We've added as a result, but we need to catch up there. The council, the road project is continuing to move forward in design, as continued to refine that design, we've got a better understanding of the cost of this. A clean that up. The 4th

bullet there is for low impact development features from the Stony Point road projects that were not included. We need to make amends for that with the water agencies of this. Well, clean that up and help ease our storm. Water divisions, concerns and then lastly couple of years ago we did a corridor study for Stony Point Road between Sebastopol and 3rd Street at 3rd Street. applied for a number of grants that course to study came about as a result of a couple of fatalities on that road. We've been unsuccessful in those grant applications. And as a result of the time. The fatalities no longer show up on our benefit cost analysis. So it's making our grant proposals weaker. I'm not super interested and waiting for the next Taliban happened. I want fund that project moving forward. So that will come from the safety bucket of enhancements. But we're going move that project forward in earnest starting next year. Part of the discussion last time was talking equality across that geography. The city versus equity. I think we've developed a way to kind of split that baby that might make everyone happy. Really focusing on the pavement maintenance bucket. What we intend to do is essentially make that a priority to be equal across the city council districts in terms of the operations and maintenance of the city. Again, not annually because that would spread a sweet tooth and to do that. But got a 5 year rolling basis that that would essentially be equal across the city council districts. The nice thing for us is that with our updated street design standards and the new focus on from the active transportation plan, which you will see in MARCH.

Those will also safety improvements as we refine all the streets as they get repaid will be looking at how to relate them out those come back I asked our team to with that in mind to develop what a paving plan might look like over the next 5 years, actually asked them for that use on a previous slide. I included 55 million dollars based on our proposed budget. This is the shows up to 75 million dollars. And I did that for 2 reasons. One is that again, I want us to reserve the amount of flexibility that we have to respond to conditions over time coordinate with other departments, namely water as as these projects happen. I also wanted to show the scale of what a 60% increase in our pavement maintenance budget can do. It's a lot, but it's still not everything that all of us get emails about. So even with this renewed focus on maintenance and operations, we're still not all the way there, but we can but a better dent into that that need. Throughout this presentation. I haven't mentioned the word flexibility a lot. And I think maybe you are understanding that part of this is asking for your trust. That will also come with a need to be accountable for this with the uncertainty around the general I'm really looking for ways additionally to reduce our burden on our maintenance teams. And I think this proposal does that. It helps to right-size our existing infrastructure and it might not be. Visionary, but it's also not want to just and it'll encourage all Acosta be planned for programmatic Lee as they're through the life

cycle of of project development process. As a result of that, we're gonna have to be very organized. We are going to have to be more willing and able to report back to all of you exactly what we're doing through that. What we're proposing to do is create a written report sent to the city manager quarterly that provides updates on how are using that flexibility so that we don't go unchecked. And with the city manager support, we're asking for the creation of a mobility and infrastructure subcommittee where we can have more in depth conversations about the types of things that we're considering. Both so that we don't need to do that in the full council setting. But also that gives you the opportunity to ask us a lot more questions determine what needs to come to a full council through that flexibility. So looking forward to your feedback on that proposal. Again, the basics of this or that will be spending money as needed instead sticking it in a key and waiting. And as it as projects get delivered will be able to think about things programs so that they can go directly to contractors with support from our teams as their bid as their as the projects are developed. We're looking for are about to release master professional services contract to get a new bench of contractors specific to the services that we take sorry to designers and planning and consulting firms to types of services that we expect to need. We'll be looking to do the same for contractors as well. Again becoming flexible, making sure that deliver ability is our focus here and spending money

on the types of projects that respond to our priorities. So with that, the feedback that I'm specifically looking for is does allocations that we showed slide 6 today makes sense. Are you comfortable with us thinking about this more programmatic Lee instead of annually? Okay. With a little bit less certainty, a time of budget with more kind of backwards reporting instead of forward forecasting about with so many unknowns. Is the proposal for our level of accountability in line with your expectations thank you for the opportunity and look for your feedback. I'd like to add on the proposal for another subcommittee. We were not trying to get ahead of the new mayoral vice >> Election. But what we wanted to do is to begin to have you think about some of the priorities you have asked us for and pass meetings, whether or not it's parks planning. Well, there's with the cip and water infrastructure. So just trying to give you some ideas on how we can create a subcommittee, maybe sunset another subcommittee so we can provide you with information that you've been looking for for the last year. >> And thank you for that presentation looking to council to see if there are any questions comes from real >> Thank you. MADAME Mayor, thank you so much for that presentation. I appreciate it. My one question is going back to the outstanding. Projects to finish. I just for clarity sake, the Coffey Park found growth. There's there's 3 different projects that went on a coffee which which one is that? That's big paving project or the residential

streets there. A couple. I know that they Hopper Avenue project a separate that's ongoing. So on schedule maybe some much smaller number that needs to added to that project to be supplemented. But everything else is >> Going as it's supposed to perfect. Thank you, Dan. After public comment, I get my. My comment. >> Councilmember MacDonald. >> For clarification, mayor is our time to provide comments and feedback on the questions for him questions. Callaway. And vice mayor is that. Another very informative presentation or Tennessee one somewhat leading question. And in fact, you alluded to in earmarks. >> We the city, all of us. We get constant questions about when is the street from my house can be repaved. One of the potholes can be fixed. We have a little bit of that information online right now, which is fantastic. Understanding is that there there is an effort internally to find ways that we can make that to report that information in more in real time. And they're in the process of thinking through how that would work right now is that is an accurate death. That's exactly right. And I think it's both the information that's available gets stale a little bit quickly. >> And also is more guesswork than we'd like it to be. So with this kind of intentional. Funding, constrained approach will be more honest about what we're planning to unable to do. I think the community will really like that. Thank you. >> Council member Al Thank

you. >> was a little out. I appreciate creates the difference between equity and equality. I at the possibility that we're looking his road repair. Wondering, which system. Can we please? Overspending in a district over a spend also say another district. We have a road that's dire repair at time. How we address >> Appreciate the question. I think in the short term. Not really an issue because every district has needs in excess of our ability to spend there over time. That will become a question of the presentation. And honestly, that comes from us to to say. Districts don't need it. Need to have an honest conversation about why we're doing that. We're not going to treat streets that don't need it for the sake of equality. But we do want to be it to have that that a quality framework in place so that we're analyzing from that point of view. And then if we need to make a different decision, we can do so. So it's in the short term. I think that year your question is probably not a major concern. As we improve the condition of the streets, certainly could be a concern. And that will be part of the transparency for us explaining. Here's what we're planning for the next 5 years. And here's why. It's not equal. >> course. And that is that one. He's turning on the lenses. Roads Santa Rosa very thankful for. I have co than what the extinction and the funny, the 600 1000 per year. How would that play into the funding to tell investment? >> Yeah, thank you for that

question. So we're considering because of that. That's a previous agreement made for the annexation were considering that a totally separate funding source. That's not in the mix for the equality. So whatever that funding would be would be on top of this distribution to ensure that the equity portion of the committed funds to that annexation. From that extension agreement are made and then Rosalynn gets and district one gets the appropriate investments that everybody else gets over the next 5 years. >> Really appreciated. Thank you. >> going also to see if there any additional questions. And with that MADAM City Clerk, MAY you please facilitate public comment? Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 4.1. If you are in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name. >> Please make your way to the podium. You will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. As you approach the podium, please state your name for the public record. If you choose to do so. The first speaker will be Chris. >> Chris, come through with Michael Santa Rosa I'm sure it will come as no surprise that we are strongly in support of reprioritize ation And I know many members of the council recall we spoke on this and corresponded with you in AUGUST when the criteria was initially proposed and reviewed and at the time we advocated for a fix, it first approach. So prioritizing investment in our existing infrastructure as opposed to expensive in largely ineffective road. Widening projects. So we're thrilled with the results not just on the surface, but frankly, the amount of thinking that's

clearly gone into this and the strategy behind some of the additional modifications that Director Hennessy proposed. I also wanted to underscore the point that was made at the outset about the focus on children and reiterate that that was really the founding catalyst for Bikeable Santa Rosa, both for my family and for many of the families that participate. Dealing with we're confronting the fact that many kids my my children's school and other schools in the area encountering traffic violence on a regular basis and feeling like we can and should do better and they wanted to link it to some MAY be aware there's actually a an international design guide called Designing streets for Kids. And I was listening to an interview with one of the people involved in that initiative in her first point in her sort of overriding point was you think I'm talking about just kids, but actually the principal is when you design streets for kids, you're really designing them for everybody. And so and I think that's really important. And just see massive benefits for the whole community with this approach. And in a similar vein, I want to underscore the fact that when we talk about infrastructure, I've told you many times we're really not just about bikes and accessibility for bikes. We're really about the kind of city that has that feature and all the other things that tend to go with that. And so again, with this approach, I see this opportunity for investment in the real bones of the city and all the benefits that that

brings with it, not just for transportation, but for economic vitality for community development. If we can make the streets that we have nicer, more welcoming, think of what could happen. Think of the kind of investment to come with it. And the last thing I'll say and I didn't mean to take the whole time, but I just want to just say a special thanks to Director Hennessy and his team again for the amount of thought that's gone into this and the impact that it's already having and his leadership on our streets. Thanks so much. >> Thank you. Is there anyone else in the room wishing to speak on item 4.1. Mary, back to you. Thank you. Now look into council council broken. >> Thank you again. MADAME >> So I love the spending allocations on based on aid budgets. I'm good with that. The count of the really go to that. The programmatic Is And I do like the way. The you've created a as much as possible way to be nimble and an address. What we need to get done in and out the door so that's that's my feedback. And also to the city management not to get ahead of the next council, but I'm all for and infrastructure committee to review these kinds of things. I really do appreciate the work effort that's gone into I'm supportive of all recommendations. >> Councilmember MacDonald. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to thank you for the presentation and really the focus on going back to taking care of our infrastructure that's been in place.

>> And making sure that we're taking care of the streets and roads that are really the law. But hey, you know, use right now? And I I've often said we've been kicking the can down the road and now that roads a dirt road and now it's full of potholes and it's a disaster. So for you to be able to get us back into being able to fix is shared infrastructure that we all want to see. But with that thought on safety and bikeable and more pedestrian friendly, I think is a way to go. I also like the organization of making sure we know what's happening in the districts. And as you develop that, know I've said it a million times. I'm going to keep saying it until I see the document that breaking it down for each district, not just so that we understand what's happening, but it's form of communication to the community. What we're doing with their tax dollars and what projects are happening. So use, for example, when Calistoga Road had some recent work done on it. I wasn't aware that work was starting and it was the beginning of the school year. We had lots of people late to get to school. We have lots of teachers not able to get to school on time. So with that thought in process as developing when council can know we can help year spokesperson on what's happening in the timeline to our constituents and community members. But overall, I totally agree with the way that we're not over committing. And I like that. We're finishing the project. So we've committed to, but that you have some flexibility for us to be able to get back to what I call it like they

grassroots taking care of what we need to. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. >> Councilmember for me. Thank you, Mayor. >> You know what? I look at all this stuff right? Think about how that that chart you are table. You put a little while ago with how much costs us to get everything we needed an for infrastructure. And what I look at this, I think it's really her mind everyone can take this as Iranian the chairs on the Titanic because we just don't have and that money. And we don't, you know, these are really difficult decisions really challenging things to prioritize the you come up with some really reasonable solutions to help us make these difficult decisions, which should not have to be made. We should be able to fully fund a safe infrastructure program across the city. But it is what it is and I'm fully supportive of all of the recommended and just want to say thank you again for the update on the over cross. We're really excited about it. Watching this really closely. 2 million dollars MAY seem like a large amount of a gap, but it's it's actually were right there. I want the public to hear that this is going to happen. We're going to see this one through. So thank you. >> Thank you. Vice Mayor step. >> I really just going to echo my colleagues and also Chris certainly, yes, told through the questions that you asked with particular support the idea having an infrastructure subcommittee. If if that's the way that the mayor future Council wants to go and beyond that. Thank you very much just a very thoughtful, thoughtful way to changes how power allocating infrastructure, doggone dollars to do more for the community. Councilmember Alvarez gave you a 2 thumbs because he's having difficulties else. I would

like acknowledge that. But for myself, I will say that I love the presentation. I love to where you're going. When we talk about the subcommittee, I don't have a problem with the subcommittee, but I would like to have regular point of contact for the council that are already written in. Not that we have to ask for so subcommittee fine, but I want to if I'm not on the subcommittee, I still would like to know what's going during certain points of the year. With that. Do you have the direction that you need? Yeah, thank you very much. If there's any follow up on, I think the only outstanding question us. >> How frequently the whole council like those updates. So you can provide that to the city manager at as you're able But I'm happy to do whatever everybody here wants. Just comment on that. Really quickly, I don't want to tell you how often because if I say I want every month. >> We know projects don't move. So moved that fast in this is not my expertise. So I'm looking to you to tell me that I want a meaningful presentation when you come or a meaningful, it doesn't have to be a presentation. It can really be an update but I wanted to be meaningful. I don't want you just to come to tell me something. And you really don't have anything to tell me. So if you could determining when those are appropriate that they happened at least well like twice a year, then that would be great. Will thank you. Thank you. All right. And it is our lucky day because it just turned 4 o'clock. So we have no break. Moving on to item. >> 6, which is a report on

closed session in. We just completed our study sessions so announcement closed session. MADAM City, Attorney, thank you, MADAM Mayor Councilmembers, there's no reportable action from this evening's 3 closed session items. >> Thank you. We will take public comment on that item. >> The question is whether you have to take public comment. No, we do not need to take public comment on that item. I know. I just always take it on that item for the past 2 years. The item attic. You're welcome to do so. Dana said no. City clerk calling the shots. All right. >> Moving on to item 7, we have no proclamations are presentations today. Item a staff briefing and I will hand it over to the matter. City manager, thank you. Item 8.1 is the prevention pilot program. Update. >> Give us just a second to pull presentation. Good afternoon. Mayor Rogers, vice mayor staff members of the council, I'm Sasha Brown program specialist with Housing Community Services. Here with me today is Kelly Kuykendall Housing, Community Services manager. The item in front of you today is a staff briefing on the homeless Prevention pilot program. Keep People House cinema or keep it just because all home ab area nonprofit organization has worked with several Bay area communities including Oakland Contra Costa County. And most recently Solano County develop and test their regionally coordinated homelessness prevention system. Which is for low-income households at the highest risk of homelessness. The Cape huge

system pairs, rapid flexible financial assistance with housing, stabilization services, and legal aid referrals for people facing eviction. In the Bay area. For every one person successfully housed 3 more become homeless. According to research paper from Homebase, a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to the social problem of homelessness. On average, it costs more than $60,000 to move household from unsheltered status stable permanent housing for 12 months. Effective prevention programs can resolve housing instability before household enters homelessness at a fraction of the price $6,000 on average, Kay ph is a proven effective and efficient program. And in Sonoma County will aim to prevent 350 to 400 households from falling into homelessness over the next 2 years. Kay ph is a public and private partnership getting and keeping people housed is a shared responsibility. City of Santa Rosa took the lead with this program and collaborated with county of Sonoma and city of Petaluma to identify 1.3 million dollars in local match funding. All home then doubled this contribution. Providing 2.6 million dollars for a total of 3.9 million dollars for this two-year pilot program. Following a competitive request for proposals process committee on the shelter lists. Cots was selected to be the lead agency for Kph Sonoma. Partner, agencies or local hubs in each sub region caught selected community support network or csn as the local provider for the Santa Rosa region. In AUGUST. This council approved the grant agreement between

the city and cots for 1.3 million dollars. Ki ph offers short-term rapid flexible financial assistance, including rental assistance, utility assistance deposits, can cover unexpected costs like vehicle costs, transportation costs, medical bills, all in the name of getting people have asked keeping people housed. The assistance will quickly assess households at the highest risk of homelessness with these one-time costs that will allow them to re stabilized and self-sustaining. Ki ph uses an online application don't by Bay Area. Community Services or backs, which is another local Bay area nonprofit the online platform analyzes evidence-based research to score applications, ensuring those at the highest risk of homelessness are prioritized for this assistance. Basic eligibility requirements are living in Sonoma County experiencing recent financial hardship and having income at or below 50% of the area median income. And I. To determine those at the highest risk of homelessness. The online platform reviews risk factors including zip codes. The household composition, health issues, disabilities, age and history of homelessness, incarceration and eviction. Kay Ph is launching Monday, DECEMBER 16th individuals and families interested in receiving assistance can visit, keep people housed, dot org to learn more and apply. This concludes my presentation and I'm happy to answer answer any questions you have. Thank you very much. That was a

wonderful presentation. I like the Lee said getting people house is a shared responsibility because it really is. >> Looking council to see if there any questions. No questions and comment. Okay. Can put. >> So Jean Kelly, thank you very much for this. And Sasha, you did a great job in Sonoma County Alliance. Last week present this to broader community. What it timely topic right now. We're looking both to do more for the people were face facing housing issues but do so in a very cost-effective way for the city. And it's and I'm proud that Santa Rosa's really mean this initiative. So thank you very much for the presentation today. >> Looking see if there's anymore questions or comments from council members and seeing none. We'll hand Odom Adam City clerk to facilitate public comment on this We are now taking public comments on item 8.1. If you're in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name. >> Please make your way to the podium. He will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. As you approach the podium, please state your name for the record. If you choose to do so. In a push to Putin for public comments on this item. Again, thank you very much for the presentation. And I will tell you after you did the presentation. I think it was last week. >> Are called and was like she did such a great job. That was such a great presentation. So it was awesome. Thank you so much for doing this. >> Moving on to item 9 city manager and city attorneys report will hand it over to MADAM City manager. I have nothing to report this evening. Thank you. >> Thank you, MADAM Mayor. I

have no further report. >> city clerk, can you please facilitate public comment? Is there is no reports made. There is no need to take public comment on this item. Thank you. I don't in statements of abstention by council member Councilmember MacDonald. Thank you, mayor. I will be abstaining from item 2011.1 out of abundance of caution. >> My form 700 economic interests. It showed a previous association with mosquito vector as a former client of a business. I had an Tristan. So just out of caution, I will recuse myself from that. >> Thank you. So now we will move into mayor and council member reports. Everyone, right? All right. Perfect. >> before we do I would like to acknowledge. >> Our colleague or our former colleague in congratulate Assembly member Rogers and ask that if you can come down to the table. And well, he is coming down let everyone say their piece. I would just like to say for me, it was an honor to work with you to learn from you. And I am excited. To see what it is that you're going to do Sacramento because you have served the city of Santa Rosa. So well, I know that you will continue to serve your district so I will look to now other council members to see if anyone else would like to make a comment. Council repeat. >> Thank you, MADAM I had the

pleasure of meeting my former colleague when he was staffing for. Of wire and I was on the board of a nonprofit that was trying to make a change at the at the level. And all remember from him that in our first meeting was introducing himself briefly and then continue leaning over to the centers and we have to go. We have to go to times up. We have to go. But luckily enough, I got to know him over the years and one thing that I really appreciated as when I first ran for this position, he supported me early and that he. Because I'm older than him. I don't want to say he took me under his wing or mentor because good 10 years older than him. But he gave a lot of direction and a lot of that was focused on good governance, not necessarily specific policies. But here's how the to do things. Here is the right way to do things. And here's why it's important to do those things. And it has been a sincere pleasure to spend last years serving next to him on on this body. And there's other subcommittees and more so than that, having the opportunity to a good been remarkable you are where you're supposed to You've definitely outgrown us you have a lot of good work ahead of you. >> Vice Mayor step. It's hard to quantify the impact that someone like Chris has made the community, especially off the But I'm sure that most people in this room are familiar with Chris. >> And familiar with with what he's done for our city for. Over. Well, over a decade now coming in and the time that he did in 2016 to the city with all. That was the following me

in the years immediately after that multiple years of fires and flooding pandemic. And there, Chris was it was at the heart of with some other good people in the council as well. But Christmas during the in the thick of things. We could I think all go on for a long time or what Chris brings in the city of Des don't use just one item and its recruiting. Kris loves of government and loves politics so much. He wants us all to be part of it all to play in the sandbox with him. All right. He has recruited. I think multiple members of us on the day into into the roles that were serving in now and speaking for myself, I had I certainly was not planning to do this. I did a lot of arm twisting from Chris. He, in fact, did point me to my first government for my first local board, the committee then things things lead from there. And Chrissy Bennett, you've been a mentor and friend the entire way through. As I know you have been for. I think everyone on this council, I see a lot of head nodding as well as for city staff and for the members of the community. Again, there's no way that we can. We can go into detail what you meant to the But you made center was a very proud and very much looking forward to seeing what you and your team doing. Sacramento. You're gonna be a special group Thank you. >> Councilmember Fleming. Thank you. When I came in today, it was, you know, your absence here. Not absence but sitting with was. >> really noticed. And I was our first meeting with It definitely a little sad, although we're so happy for you. I think that it goes without saying for the public Chris has done a tremendous

amount for. For the city. But I want to share some of the things that I think really led the way on in particular. I mentioned this at Sonoma, Clean power. Our last week earlier this last week that Chris is really a leader in communications that he is really effective at this still in what we do in a way that is easily picked up by both council and staff as well as our constituents. And that's a real hole that I think we're going to MISS. And then on top of it is just an incredible policy thinker I've wondered for so long how he did it. And I think that Chris, just studies. The psychology of politics and policy constantly. And he's cultivated a really wide network of thinkers that he interacts with on a regular bases in order to to be such an effective policy maker and the state couldn't be more lucky. And we are default. Really lucky to have you there. In addition, he's really kind. He loves to help people. It's genuine. He just can't help himself to help. And he's really put me. I mean, funny weight >> and, you know, he's really stubborn on one thing in particular. I've been serving with him for 6 years. And I don't really like as much as he does. I like beer, but he really loves I love whiskey. >> I wanted to share with him a drink of whiskey for so long and one day we will. But because of his intransigence on this issue, I'm going to tell everybody is Russian River order. He regularly orders and with out like never seen him straight from Never once he gets a diet Coke and

at least 2 over the course of the meal pizza bites and a blind pig probably too, to it anyway over it's become the most predictable thing in the world. Has anybody ever seen different? Okay. All right. So here's the thing about Chris. He's really loyal. He's a creature of habit. He's a good dad, a good husband, a good, good partner to all of us. You know, anybody who's lucky enough to work with them just knows that that they happened upon just a really special person. I wish you the best of luck. I wish you and Sarah happiness forever and your son as I event just had the best Let me know your what your bet betting stocks are buying because, you know, that's the way things are going to go really happy for you. Council member. Thank you, Mayor. >> So like everyone else, we all have a story of how we first met Chris and like Jeff, it was when he was working for the Senate. And I think he was maybe 12 at that time. It's been amazing to watch you grow as you know, human and the old enough now to be able to have a seat in the But truly, Chris, when I first got on council you do you take all of us under your wing and you give us some background and perspective on policy that a lot of times we don't think about. And your knowledge on how things work not just here locally, but how it feeds into this state and help support our community is so commendable. You have always been a fair colleague of mine. You're always thoughtful in your approach to things. And I I really have been able to learn a lot from you. And that can be hard for an old dog to

learn new tricks. But you should have taught me quite a few of them. If you're truly a statesman and it's been an honor to work with you, we're excited to have you go to the assembly simply because we know when we call you better, take a meeting with us because you know how difficult we can be if you don't. So I I do want to say thank you. You've worked from on the environment, on our transportation, on the infrastructure to make sure that we're doing things. And I thought the way to address climate action and not something you push for the entire time that I've been on council with you. So I sad to see you go mostly for your dad jokes, but also, you know, for your thoughtful responses and how well you can bring all of us as colleagues together. That is certainly going to be missed. I think. And I appreciate what you're doing. I'm excited for you. I'm excited for our state to have someone like you joining those ranks and I look forward to see even what you do after this. >> Councilmember Everest. >> We went out understand we today. I got to tell you, rather, you will be missed. Jokes. That is like is he even my mind? The I have to have that you, if he's on a bag of Doritos. Make sure you keep because if you do you mind up with a chip on your shoulder. As I really awesome. I was in the west for that one day. I'm not actually build culture. Her statue so we can commemorate packed because a lot of it. Confidence and you help us. Realize that we have to serve our city. It's regrettable. Those we were PRESIDENT. I know that I know that I love the city more than

I do. It's you. I know you do well, I know we're better off because you decide his coop. I know you love because you can't. Thank you, sir. >> I would like give the opportunity for our city manager and city attorney say a few words if they would like Adam City manager. Thank you, Mayor. >> So what I'll say is I remember driving down the room. After my last interview receiving your phone call. Asking me to be a city manager in Santa Rosa. I first thought to myself, what did I just get myself into? But what I will tell you is I wish all city managers had the leadership. Their first year being city manager under your leadership. I will say I grew up in Santa Rosa. You definitely challenge me the many times you knocked on my office door saying I have an idea and I thought, oh, my GOD. How are we going to get this done? But we were able to do some great things together. I am all of year. The way you handle policy. You love government and you love people. You love the city. You love the employees. And I think many individuals could learn a lot from you. I'm gonna MISS You said no city manager ever to a politician, but I am definitely gonna MISS You. I do expect you to answer your phone when we caused many times. We had to call some of our other delegation saying,

hey, can you, will you? But I know you're not going get forget Santa Rosa, but I want to thank you for trusting me and the individuals on the diocese's. Well, who are part of my process? For trusting me to be your city manager and I can't thank you enough for lead the city under your leadership. >> City attorney. Thank you, MADAM I too will MISS You greatly. I had the great pleasure of. >> Actually being your interim city attorney. Many years ago when you were first sworn in and became a new councilmember and it was very clear than that. You had an incredible passion for public service. You had to fantastic ideas and incredible desire to really do all you can. And we're dedicated on behalf of the city. I didn't know then that when bid for farewell to you all and handed the baton to your recently. Retired city attorneys who Gallagher that I would one day come back and fill the chair that she vacated when she retired and get to with you again. And so grateful to council for the opportunity and really to you for welcoming me back. 4 helping me with my transition just so appreciate your dedication to the city, your dedication. 2, this success your counsel and what you what you did to bring your council together and to really move

the city forward in a positive direction. And think that the state is quite lucky to have you. And I think we are lucky to have implication. I wish you all the best look forward to staying in touch and really thank you for all that you have given to the city and to me over the years. Thank you. >> So we have a gift for you. I'm gonna bring it out to you. I have we're thinking twice about it because no baby, no gift. And also to let you know, the 4 years that I've worked with you, I've never won strength. One of your diet Cokes. But here I am drinking one of your diet cokes. Bring your gift out and again, congratulations. We have a lot of students in the room. And if you don't know. Assembly member Rodgers was just elected to the assembly member. So he will now be working Sacramento, still advocating for the city of Santa Rosa. So we're very grateful for that and use your And we want to get a photo with you. If that's okay, MR. Someone Do want to say something. While walking your gift over, I would love >> was. So first of all, I want just say thank And some of you had a chance to have individual conversations with about this first and foremost, these types of interactions always make me feel really awkward and uncomfortable. I know when I was passing over the gavel, I tried really hard to pass it quickly. And then any made us stop so that we can go back and have conversations about sort of what we've accomplished and what not. But for me, it really does. You know, we all

have to do. Self promotion were running for office when you're talking to constituents about what your vision is and the things that you've let on. But the reality is we all know nobody does it on their own. The best advice that I got when I first was elected was always figure out how to count to 4. If you can't count to 4, you can't do anything in the city. And that means that you have to understand your colleagues well enough, the things that move them, the things that they're passionate about to be able to count to 4 without actually counting to 4 with the Brown Act. And that means that you need to know what some of biggest issues are, how their district is going to respond. And I've had a chance to sort of watch this gamut starting as a citywide elected official with Tom and John and Jack in Julie and then moving into districts with each of you individually as well. Remember sitting down with that, Ian asking him, what do we need to accomplish for Roseland? So that Roseland will feel like district elections matter and that electing somebody who could advocate for their voice would matter. And then watching him systematically go after those things and knowing that so long as he was moving in that direction, he was going to give deference and other policy areas that maybe were less important to him as well. But having that relationship to have those conversations with them, and nothing that I've been able to do with the city one. Nobody's gonna remember who I am. 10, 15 years down the road. That's the way that it works in politics. But I will get to see the changes that have come from being able to work with

all of you and working with staff. I just can't thank staff enough for everything that they have done for this city going to work every single day, especially through fires and pandemic and flybe. I know that I get to raise my son in a city with people who care and people who want to see the city thrive. And that for me is is really meaningful as well. So yes, answer the phone call. Yes, I always will. I promise that. And it was a little bit deja vu all over again. I get sworn into office on Monday and then we had a 7.3 earthquake up the North Coast and the district 3 days later. I thought this is exactly why I do. This is because there's no better time to be involved in government that when you can help people and when people need that help. So thank you for the opportunity. Thank you so much for being there. Being successful with me over the last couple of years. Thank you to the staff for everything that you do as well. There's no 1300 incredible people who work for the city. And I'm just looking forward to working with you for another 2 years, at least. Are we watching? >> Wynonna, >> And by the way, the baby was finally finally napping. >> year. If this box is empty. It's you like >> This is going my office in Sacramento. If that works. >> We love And you would be so kind to take a picture with

us, we would like that horse all Thank you all for your patience. We will now go to our. >> Councilmember reports and I'm looking to >> Thank you, MADAM So just real briefly last Thursday, a I had the opportunity to speak at an event for the National Association of counties. Their PRESIDENT Is Supervisor James Gore. He had a group from across the nation come in and basically the they had their regular meeting with. They did a tour. And one of those was the resiliency area. The area affected by the Tubbs Fire and under in our efforts to to organize and rebuild. And I was very honored to be asked to be a part of that along with multiple members of our staff who had their chance to shine with a great job today did post hubs fire and I think one of the one of the highlights was talking to somebody from West Virginia about house prices here their reaction thinking that all these houses must be like $250,000 before the fire right now is like maybe about 30 years before the fire. Yes, they are $250,000, but it was a great opportunity to share what we've done and what we do and what we've put together then yesterday we had a cta, some countries, Haitian Authority meeting kind of light agenda. But we did have an update on the narrows and specifically the hov lanes that are going to go in there and trying to find some way to make it a consistent through Sonoma County through the narrow that they were in county. So you're not, you know, 05:00am in Marin County doing hov and then all the same you get to Sonoma County is until 06:00am and I would make it consistent. And then we have update on highway 37

in the short-term and long-term solutions that are investigated. They're very interesting. Be great if we could I will say that they are. Expensive to the tune of 1.7 billion Today's dollars. Not 10 years, 15 years from now dollars. So that those are still ongoing. And with in my report. >> Thank you. Councilmember Everest. >> Thank you, I want to fight community out to the vision unveiling for their community of it's come to step we are. One close one step closer. 2 unvieling. What I see this going to be the the drop of the currents, white with the vision of our not only our library pull that entire project avenue. There's over 3 years in the making. So I want to buy a one of you out to the backstop over 4 to 55 Oprah Parkway. It's going to be understood that. Well, has 6 o'clock in the evening. I hope you all can join us Thank you. >> Thank you. Vice Mayor step. Thank you. I said Daniel new in the audience and to recently she's still here over there she is or violence. Prevention Partnership program. Director. >> It's a busy couple of weeks for the dpp team on NOVEMBER. 20th, we had to file mention partnership policy Advisory team and it was a memorable meeting because the focus of conversation was Sonoma State University and the amazing work that the upward bound a trio programs are doing. It's no mistake for especially 6th grade through 12th grade, reaching first generation low-income students throughout the region that includes Lake

and Mendocino and Sonoma. Napa. Giving them career in educational Pathways. Thank you very much, Daniel, for scheduling that meeting and then also in DECEMBER 5th, the entire violence prevention team did great meeting and tabling event at Montgomery High School that was focused on educating families about issues pertaining to gang membership and gang violence, especially among school-age youth. It was well intended. It was a two-hour discussion. I think the family very much appreciated it. So thank you, Daniel. The ppp team and then a DECEMBER 3rd, there was celebratory event. We finally officially celebrated the city's possession of the of the Southeast Greenway. I see just got the audience. Thank you again, many of us were there including council members Okrepkie MacDonald and then Mayor Rogers didn't did an excellent address and we probably had probably 60 people, including so many from the Southeast Greenway volunteer group, Sonoma County Land trusts him a county ag and open space. They taking possession of the Southeast Greenway really was a partnership involving the entire county and it was families to be there celebrating with all of them. So thank you again to city staff especially and worked at for putting event together. >> I've been up to a few things. NOVEMBER. >> 2031 to every tree celebration over in Oak on the 3rd of DECEMBER, went to Kaiser for the World aids to acknowledge those that have

been lost to aids in. We think that we're not losing people, but we are continually losing people. So just to bring awareness. And friend DECEMBER, 46. I attended the Cal City League leaders conference and that was poor Cal City leaders to establish the advocacy goals for 2025. I'm currently serving as the vice PRESIDENT For the North Bay Division. So that was very interesting to see how the city's can come together to advocate. And lastly on the which was yesterday, I had the honor of attending a police wearing in ceremony. I don't think I've missed one and it is always wonderful to welcome more civilian and sworn officers to our family here at the city of Santa Rosa. And with that, MADAM City clerk MAY please facilitate public comment. Thank you, Mayor. We are now taking public comment on item 11.1. If you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card >> where your name please make your way to the podium. You'll have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. As you approach the podium, please state your name for the record. If you choose to do so. And move towards the podium for public comment on this item. >> Thank you. So we will now move to item 2011.1 and I councilmember MacDonald. To excuse herself. The point to his work commission and committee appointments. The council. We'll consider

tonight the appointment of got Conrad to the Marin, Sonoma mosquito, Vector Control District Board of trustees for a two-year term ending in DECEMBER 31st. 2026 looking to council to see if there any questions or comments on this item. In seeing none. I will now ask MADAM City clerk to take. Public comment on this item. Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 2011.1. If you're in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. >> You have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. An approach the podium for public comment on item 2011.1. Thank you so much. Bringing it back to the council looking to make sure there are no comments and I'll hand it over to Vice mayor set. >> Thank you, To make a motion that we appoint Scott Conrad to the Marines and a mosquito Vector Control District Board of trustees for a two-year term ending DECEMBER 31st. 2026 second. >> We have a motion by vice mayor staff in a second by council member Okrepkie. I knew it was coming from Councilmember Alvarez we'll look to City clerk to call the vote. Thank you. Cookie. MacDonald has recused Councilmember Fleming. Bres. Council members are vice mayor step. I? Mary Rogers. I let the record show this passes for affirmative votes. Thank you. Moving on to item 12 approval of the minutes. We have one set of minutes for NOVEMBER. T'wolves 2024. Council. Are there any corrections to the minutes? In a way to get eye contact with Councilmember MacDonald's to make sure there are no

corrections with the minutes. So we will now take public comment on this item city clerk. We are now taking public comments on item 12.1. If you'd like to make a public comment and have not yet provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. >> an approach to Putin for public comment on item. 12.1. Thank you. We will 0.1 as President Continuing on 2 items. 13, our consent items. MADAM City Clerk me, please read the consent items. Thank you, Mayor item 13.1 resolution, 6 Amendment to professional services agreement number 0, 0, 2, 2, 7, 0, with Gary. She o'Donnell Creighton and Mitchell pc for legal representation. Item 13.2 resolution adoption memorandum of understanding and single role. Paramedics. I letter unit 2 firefighting represented by the International Association of Firefighters. I a f f local 14 0, 1, effective JULY one, 2024 through JUNE. 30th 2027. Item. 13.3. Resolution assignment and Assumption of Professional Services 0, 0, 2, 0, 6, 1, in First Amendment to agreement with U.S. Bank or Asset Management Incorporated for investment advisory services. And item 13.4 has been continued to the DECEMBER 17th regular council meeting. >> Thank you bringing it back to. >> Council to see if there any questions or comment on any of the items. Seeing none. MADAM City Clerk, Lee, please facilitate public comment. Thank you. We are now taking public comments on item 13.1

through 13.3. If you're in the council chamber like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card. Please make your way to the podium. You'll have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. As you approach the podium, please state your name for the public record. If you choose to do so. All right, gentleman on the Please go ahead. >> Thank you very much. To Porter director center of the firefighters. I just want to say think City Council. Thank you so much for all the hard conversations we had to get to this point. There's a long process, but nobody shied away from the phone calls and the talks we had to have to get it doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated. And thank you so much. City managers. Your team was amazing. I know it was an incredible amount of work. We had our conversations Allen. Probably got tired of hearing from us and all the conversation about the finances, the hr team. How many can. Sarah, thank you so much for always being there to to take the questions constantly deal with us for almost 12 months. Obviously, we don't want to go that long, but that's just the way it goes. Sometimes like I've always said, there's no hard feelings with this. It's a it's a business. Both sides are always going to have their rights and wrongs on But it was a it's a huge victory for the city and for the firefighters. And I appreciate it so much. And then, of course, again, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my negotiating team. Can Martin sitting in the audience? His experience and his time. Invaluable. We never would have got to this place without him and kind. Thank you so much for that. Sam Holmes on into one. I'm sure we've heard to go by couple times already. These are one of our fire captains are leaving to go. She ate are on the union side

and his time and effort was invaluable as well. And then the entire negotiating team credit people not going team but it was a it was a long process. I'm glad it's at the end and we can move forward with all the other things got to do. But in all sincerity. Thank you so There was I get like I said already there was a lot of hard conversations, but nobody shied away we And we've got to the point you needed to be too. So thank you, everybody. Thank you. The council, thank you. The entire city and staffing. I'm excited to see where we go from >> Thank you. Is there anyone else in council chamber wishing to provide public comment on the consent calendar? Please go ahead. Go right ahead. >> The land to it from Rosling. One of the things that's most important about. Any of these types negotiations to go on with paramedics and firefighters and things of that nature to understand that the people who actually saved the lives of the paramedics and the emt's at the bottom. The management people at the top, they make some decisions. They shuffled paper work and the discussions like this gentleman just said, but the people who are truly saving lives or emt's and paramedics, we've got to make sure we don't skip on their wages and their benefits. They're the ones that actually respond to the accidents, fires shootings and stabbings, things of that nature unfortunately, it frequently happens. Is government tries to skimp? On giving those folks what they need for a good standard of living in the community such as ours, which is actually becoming one of the most expensive places in the entire United States to

live in what shocks me because the place hasn't really gotten that much better since I was a kid growing up here, it has something to do with the way I guess what's current term for it? The term used to be just basic inflation. Now it's called hyper inflation. And so I do hope that in this negotiation and then these contracts are being finally signed and everything good to go forward. You made a point making sure that the paramedics and the emt's we're giving a good livable wage with over time stipulations, especially if these people have to work. 12 hour shifts. Do 16 hours? 2 doubles the types of it's really important. And that wasn't really discussed much here today. But I think it needs to be brought out. Last but not least on consent. One of the things that goes on when you folks are doing the purchase of new equipment is you don't really describe to the folks in the community how that equipment is going to help. I do like the fact that basically when you're talking about this new sewer inspection vehicle, it has been shown as to why this is going to be helpful. As you saw on most recent rains. Things are causing flooding, storm water. Sewer aren't supposed to mix technically what it does happen. And I'm hoping that we'll make sure that this inspection vehicle we'll go look at the sewer and sanitary sewer system and the other drainage system for Sebastopol Road because in the

past the piping was leaking and it caused underground contamination of the opera for from that point on road all the way South West out into Roseland and caused the red zone to be declared by the city and the county decades ago because of a leaking pipe. So thank you for getting that equipment. Look forward to seeing you more tonight. >> Thank you. Is there anyone else wishing to provide public comment on item 13? Mayor? Mc no one else approach to Putin's for public comment. Thank you very Looking council to see if there are any. Comments or questions and I'll hand it over to Vice mayor >> Thank you. Move that we adopt consent items. 13.1 through 13.3 and wait for the reading the >> We have a motion made by Vice Mayor stop and a second by crept key. MADAM City Clerk Lee, please call the vote. Thank you. Crappie, I councilmember MacDonald. Councilmember Fleming. I Councilmember I vice mayor step. I Mary Rogers, I but there could show this past of the 6 affirmative votes. Thank you. Moving on to item 15 report items for this evening. Madam City manager. >> Item 15.1. >> Fy 22 2023 2024. Public Safety and Prevention tax annual report. >> Good evening. Vice mayor staff members council SkyWest

Row Fire chief, the city of Santa Rosa with me, as always, is Sarah Burt, our finance analyst for the fire department because we're first up on the list. We have the pleasure of introducing the fiscal year. 23. 24 public safety and prevention tax also known as p step. On OCTOBER, 30th, all the departments with finance presented to the annual report to the Citizens Oversight Committee. The coc members approve the annual report with the vote of 601, and we'll jump right into our 23. 24 fiscal year report. And that will turn over to the police Department violence Prevention partnership. So with that, turn it over to Sarah for the first couple slides here. >> new councilmembers mayor, Vice Mayor. In the fiscal year. 23. 24, we began the fund balance of peace op with 4.1 million with revenues of 4.6 million. We had interest revenues of 176,000 and are expenditures were 4.3 million, one incumbents that we did have was 876,000. That is for type one engine that has been on order since OCTOBER of 2022, as you'll recall there also for type one engines that are being funded through the general fund with that order. And our actual Zara salaries and benefits account for 80% of our piece. Top expenditures, 398 $1000. Is it allocated to services and supplies with 800 sorry? 88,000 dollars to fleet maintenance fuel equipment. Rental repair and 52,000 to liability insurance, the rest of the expenditures are essentially to our station 11 operational expenses. This next slide shows are revenues

and expenditures since the inception of peace op. As you can see, our expenditures Lise slightly below our revenues at this time. Okay. So jumping into what we did with Sorry, piece funding. It's a hard habit to break funding. >> fiscal year. 23 24 for the fire department is pretty simple. We can spend those funding streams on 3 things, personnel facilities and special equipment. So the funded positions that we have in the fire department through peace app are we have 3 fire captains who are paramedics, 3 fire engineers who are paramedics and 3 firefighter, paramedics. So what that equates to and importance of the peace app, sales taxes that equates to an entire engine companies. So we have 10 engine companies on the street on a day-to-day basis. So to count for 10% of our firefighting fleet as far as far as fire engines or fire stations go. We also have the fire captain assigned to our training division. Deposition runs the facility on West College manages all the training, all the certifications, all the personal protective equipment for the organization. It also pays for 25% of our ems division. Chief. And as you all know, ems is about 65% of our business, including at all. And in response and into that as well. So it's a very vital role for us. And Chief Todd Thomas is in that role now for another 7 working days. Your tires on Sorry to DECEMBER, 30th. So he reminds us of his day count every day when he comes in. And then lastly measured, I'm sorry, pays for the paramedic

incentive. Pay for 6 firefighter positions which allows her to a ladder truck companies to be advanced life support, equipped and staffed as well. So the impacts we've talked to roughly about the the firefighters and the training captains. It also has made 3 of our engines and 2 of our ladder trucks, paramedic units. And really it enhances the emergency medical services management of the organization. This all results in improve response time deployment of resources, which reduces fire last improves patient outcomes increase is community outreach. We'll talk about it more in the next slide. But the piece app also has funded quite a bit of our fire station construction. Station, 10 in the southwest constructed in 2008 fire station 11 and the j c area was open in 2009 and unfunded fire station 5, which we lost in the Tubbs Fire. And the good news is that the debt service ends on the old station 5 that burned down this JUNE. So it's a last payment at a piece app. There will be going to the fire station. We don't have any more you'll see in the bottom left picture here. That's a a it's a real-time camera. This was taken obviously just for OCTOBER. 30th. That's a real time camera that shows the progress of fire station 5 and found Grove. I'm headed up. I want to make computer screens and watching like a good fire

chief every day and monitor the progress of that station waiting for it to open. As far East. As far as the equipment cause. And we funded to type one fire engines, which are the fire engine see on the street on a day-to-day basis and the top or a picture there, one that's in service and one that's still Sarah mentioned we are that OCTOBER. 22 one type 3. Well, then fire engine, which is in the bottom left for command vehicles. One swift water rescue trailer and then last year we had 55 new mobile Dubin radios in a mobile repeaters to our fleet as well. Which enhances our communication capabilities. So a lot, especially Cummins, been purchased by piece app and it's been very helpful. The organization as well. And with that, that is the fire department's presentation and will take any questions or comments you have for the fire department. We are back to council for any questions. Thank you very much. Want to the next next presentation. Great. Thank you. Owned by chief. A creeping up. Good evening. Mayor Rogers and City Council John Gray in our chief of police. And I'm joined tonight by our Administrative Services Officer Pam Lawrence. >> And we're going to go through our parents presentation. I'll start with our is so large. We'll start with our financial sleight. Thank you. Chief. Good afternoon. >> sorry went backwards. And so this slide shows our revenue and r and expenditures. So we start or a fund balance from the staff at 3.2 million, our sales tax revenues were 4.6 million, our interest and other revenues, which includes our lease

payments from the Rosen Library where 177,000 expenditures for the year were 6.5 million, which included the purchase of the roads library and being fund balance was 1.4 million. Shows where those funds were actually spent. As you can see, the majority was spent on our salaries and benefits for 17 full-time employees and our to intern positions. We spent 331,000 on services and supplies, which includes our Axon Fleet cameras and all of our patrol vehicles as well as our downtown enforcement team. Lease and are these 4 Roseland Substation or temporary substation? And we spent 120,000 in the administration which includes overhead insurance. That sort of thing. And then the 2.1 million for the purchase of the library. The shows are revenues and expenditures since the inception of the program, we've been working really hard to keep our revenue and our expenditures in line with each other. As you can see this last year was huge spike because we purchased the library. But this year anticipate then bring them back in line to each other. >> And we'll go through briefly. These are this is really one of the most important slides to talk about the heart of where the funds are getting spent for peace out for the police department. And we have the total of the 17 positions and 12 of those are sworn the one that ended just kind of breaking down overseas or traffic division, which includes our motorcycle officers are accident investigator dui, our downtown enforcement team, but also manages all large events that we have a special event, whether it be downtown are at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. The 2 sergeants, one we had at

this last year was the game sergeant getting crime team dedicated to our 4 detectives and the other is dedicated to our motorcycle team of our traffic officers. And then 9 separate police officers and 5 of those are going to one of our most important functions, which is basic patrol of being out there every days. Uniform patrol helping us to have a more rapid response and be able to have more systematic approach throughout the entire city with our response. The other 4 specialties to earn the downtown enforcement team. And that's helping us stay with our record that we've had 8 officers dedicated to downtown. And I can tell you how many business owners and community members I've talked to about seeing the difference downtown and quite frankly, that's attributed to our downtown enforcement team. But working in collaboration with our other city departments and really helping making a difference down there. The other 2 are dedicated to our traffic team of our motorcycle officers for civilian team. We have to fill the evidence. Technicians processing every major crime scene that we have across the city and whether or not processing crime scenes there testifying in court. In those cases, we have a crime lab. But the police department, they're helping with dna collection, fingerprint analysis and so much more that they do. And then when they're not processing all those things that help us with other report such is collision report said reports and such community service officer helps the same thing of that rapid response of taking some of those more

non suspect related reports of collisions and burglaries with no direct suspect attached to it. Communications supervisor we had over 250,000 calls come under 9-1-1. Dispatch center last year. So we have 3 line level supervisors that are helping manage the day-to-day operations for those when emergencies occur. Police technicians as an area that we've struggled over the years with the staffing in there. So this vital position funded through peace out and they're processing the literally thousands of police reports. The online reports all of our citations that come processed and then helping our community when they want to get a copy of the report. Our weather be for insurance reasons, whatever they need. And one thing we've made, a concerted effort is building our student intern program. A weed out 5 in turns and 2 of those are funded through peace out. And those are youth in our community who are involved in our schools. What we're really trying to do is open their eyes to the many opportunities that we have throughout the city of Santa Rosa. And just this week, we swore in one of our former intern's of police officer here, a young man who grew up here and Santa Rosa and was able to he went to cinema stated was able to become a police officer. That's exactly what we're trying to help and peace up helping make that possible that our next slide. Some of the quick impact. We've already talked about that role. The really been focused on some of the corner downtown and reducing violence without across our community. Undoubtedly these additional 17 personnel that we have in the police department. This helped us to some of those things that we've seen. Shootings are down year-to-date. 54% in the city of Santa Rosa. Homicides are down 75% this year. So we're seeing a remarkable decrease and some of the violence in our community and in my goals to keep that sustainable in the 2025. With the progress

that we've made continuing trans a mall of having that court downtown presidents. And as so Lawrence mentioned of having the not only the cameras, but also the automated license plate readers. And each one of our marked patrol vehicles. And that's been vital the summer of Iran's reduction is using technology in our community to be able to rapidly be able to solve crimes and to be able to make sure that we understand the issues that are occurring across our community, really proud of our Rosen substation that we open as we await further Rosen community hub to complete and then we'll move into our larger substation at former site for the Rose and library. But we want it. We didn't want to wait until that. It was something that we heard very loudly were from our community work really closely with councilmember any Alvarez on finding a location. And we've really been able to help with a more rapid response in the rose and community. But what we really wanted to do, we heard loudly from the residents. There is to be more visible in the community. That's something we're working and that's still a work in progress as well as our community engagement events. There's so many things are teams unable to do this year. We were at over on pine or we today tacos with a cop and so many other events throughout the city. But what I'm really trying to do is say it's not just about these organized events. It's every day and patrol. Get out of your car and the PRESIDENT, your community connect with our community here, some of the concerns and we're really actively doing that through the holiday with foot patrols right now. Next slide, please. Gang crimes team. We've talked before we were able to reinstate that team just a

year ago from this week that we're able to do in the 4 key priorities that it's not just about going around and doing just enforcement, but really wanted to make sure that they were more holistic team focused on prevention and intervention, education and enforcement and really working so collaborative Daniel and her team at the last Mission Partnership. And they've been such a true asset to our team of us being able to referrals directly to their resource. We talk after a violent incidents. We talk regularly throughout the week and be able to use we are the monthly operational team meetings that are other every month policy team meetings to work more collaboratively together on each one of these issues. Next slide. Please. Average response times we saw for 2023 wasn't alarming at 6.57. In 2022, we were over 7 minutes as of today. Your today we're down to 6 minutes and 34 seconds. So the needles moving in the right direction. My goal is to have it sub 6 for our rapid response to a priority. One call of someone saying I need a police officer right now need emergency It's working at our staffing levels are able to help us move that needle next slide. Please. Briefly, we talked about we so we sought alarming rate of homicides in 2022. At 12, 10 2023 year today we've had 2 homicides in the city of Santa Rosa. Those are 2 tragic loss, but were encouraged by some of the progress we're seeing with less shootings with less homicides. We've seen, though, an alarming uptick and we talked about it many times with counsel or firearms or ghost guns are up 127% increase in ghost guns seized off the streets of Santa Rosa year-to-date. A 65% increase firearms illegal firearms.

He's off the streets of Santa Rosa, including 3 that we've taken off local high schools just this year. That's something that we're working on toward. But part of this enforcement area working very closely in and just this week, Daniel and I were talking from the virus which a partnership about how we can collaborate more in some of the messaging to our students about the dangers of ghost guns and trying to get in front of these issues before their end up with bringing a gun to school. And that's something that we're going to continue to work collaboratively on this year. Next slide, please. And that's a quick overview of mainly of the 17 positions were having some of the equipment we're using, including our substation and the work that we're doing to enhance our police services with the peace out funds. Any questions. >> Looking to council to see if there any questions on this presentation. >> Seeing Thank you both for the presentation. Thank you. >> Good evening, Jeff. To its deputy director with the recreation and Parks Department. And with me this have Daniel New Orleans French in partnership manager and Joanna Moore, Recreation supervisor over the neighborhood services section. So familiar with these lights, no financial breakdown you can see are beginning balance fund balance a little over 1.5 million expenditures for the year and our ending balance there at just under a million dollars. And one thing I'd like to point out what's this is the reserved for incumbent says the majority of that money because choice Grant was a two-year cycle. The majority of that money is this current year's budget. We uncover those funds as part of the grant process. Ending Fund balance is actually a little healthier than it looks like in the slide because a slide showing the expenditures from 23. 24 as well as the

Conference for 24. 25. So as we head into the next year, fund balance is actually a little healthier, which you've seen our proactive and strategic approach to utilizing those funds to address the issues that are going on and the city right now and to enact more services. Just a further breakdown. No surprise salaries and benefits. A big portion of These are direct services out to the community. So obviously a very high staffing operation. And then the choice Grant program being the other large aspect of the piece funds under our umbrella. And again, they're the trends of revenue and expenditures. Obviously, the revenue fluctuates, a sales tax expenditures. We do the best as we can with programming to fluctuate as well. Which is why we currently sit with a Healthy Reserve fund. Before I hand off, I just want to take a quick second to acknowledge staff Danielle enjoin are going to highlight some great accomplishments of the team over this past year. And that's what they've been out there doing with the community behind the scenes. We've been in a little bit. Every structure is, you so happy to have the bounce, French and partnership back under the umbrellas, recreation and parks. We're really seeing the benefits of that efficiencies, communication, gps are getting people successfully program how it works both ways getting neighborhood services, kids into additional services, getting kids targeting people successfully into neighborhood services programs. It's been tremendous success, but it's been a lot of work on the staff. And I know if I just acknowledge Daniel and Joanna for that, they won't want to take it as on their themselves as well, though they've done a

great job with leadership. So click. You just want to acknowledge all the staff on these teams that have really done a great job behind the scenes, dealing with restructure and not stopping that from all the great work that they what they are doing in the community. So Miles, Burgeoned, Juan Flores were on Janez bit. A special shout out to Madeleine Brown. She's now with head but was involved with our transition. So thank you, Matalin. And then Victoria Vasquez, Justin Smith Eve Krueger Leslie crews and Hernandez and Jorge Alvarez, as you'll see in the rest of the presentation. They're doing amazing work out there and they were doing it this past year under some tough circumstances of restructuring. And I really appreciate everything that they did. With that. We will go into our neighborhood services programs and I will pass off to Joanna. >> Good evening. I'm excited to share that. It has been an amazing year for neighborhood services with a lot of achievements and exciting new programs. Primary prevention is key to enhancing committee well-being and safety. Neighborhood services strengthens our community by providing these primary prevention programs. The highlight physical fitness. And we also do a lot of programs Comey events that provide enriching experience experiences in classes for Santa Rosa Youth and families. We had fantastic participation in our sports programs with members joining activities like junior Warriors, basketball junior Giants baseball foot. Sol cheerleading nfl flag football and dance. These programs promote physical health. They also offer great will role models by working so closely

with the coaches. And we always encourage teamwork. Our camps for really successful this past year. And we provide a safe and encouraging environment for all of our youth to participate in our programs. >> During school breaks and during the summer. Our enrichment program saw nearly 200 and moments. And this year we rolled out some new programs in a stem and arts and it fell underneath our enrichment umbrella. We're really happy that the community responded really well to these programs. And lastly, we have our family fun events and these are the cornerstone of our community engagement with over 2000 youth and families coming out and participating in these events, these events and enhance ponds and help. Build a sense of community for all of our participants and our families with in Santa Rosa, some of the events we facilitate over the year is our last bash, which is at our Ridgeway Aquatic Center. We also host 3 events at our Family Community Center are Halloween bash are very tell ball and also Spring Fest. We also do a lot of barbecues throughout the year. And those are all throughout the community family barbecue. So we out in different areas and different neighborhoods. One of the highlights this year's our new Arts and stem program.

We launched artistic ventures with which is specialized classes. And we also family paint night this panicked family paint night has been really successful. And these classes, they fill up very quickly. The picture in the slide above. You can see a participant with a family member with him. They both it came to our paint night. They both get to create a painting. And then we also provide dinner for our participants that come and join us for that evening. We also started an engineering class where participants create lego pieces and create and build motors for these pieces. So like, for example, of some more to build a car, would also build the motor, put it on the car. So the car the car would go. This class has been a really big hit with a lot of hands-on learning and at the participants, Bill Towers and discussed concepts like gravity in structural integrity. This year. We also had our first neighborhood services art show. All summer program locations, participar dissipated of this art show and created art for are stealing community center. We hosted our reception to showcase the artist's work and it was a really special event for participants and families where we celebrated creativity and community. And I'm gonna go ahead and read a little blurb about the picture on the top there. It's a city of Santa Rosa logo. That's actually a piece of art that was created for art show. This is a painter high school Mid-grade Camp City of Santa Rosa picks elation 2024 acrylic in colored pencil on campus. All the participants and staff at Piner High School summer program completed this

collaborative art work. Originally an idea from a program participant the site work together to bring this vision to life in, create this wonderful piece. The artwork comprises at 18 campuses and 16,200 pixels to form the city of San r the city of Santa Rosa logo. So this was just one of the many pieces that we had are stealing community center. Our partnerships, enhance the quality and the reach of our programs. Neighborhood services values, our collaboration, Ys, and we understand how important they are to reach our goals and to leverage our funds. This past summer, we teamed up with Santa Rosa City schools and we hosted 2 recreation sensation summer camps elementary schools. And we also highlighted and math and stem program at Piner High School. This program was new and it was also not only a new location for us and Thiem of the math and science. But also it was great camp. So is forced to 8th grade, which is also new to us. We typically do elementary and middle school and this was something that we're able to reach the older elementary participants and all the way through middle school. Neighborhood services is really proud of the progress that we made this past year and feel really lucky to serve our community. We are a few also feel really lucky that we get know all the youth and families that we work really like deeper, great level. We're thankful for the community's trust and engagement. And together, we're building a stronger, safer, more connected community. Thank all right. Good evening. The violence Prevention partnership also

was incredibly busy over the last year. Not only did we are complete and adopt a strategic plan for the partnership. >> But we began hitting the ground running with implementation of that plan as well as implementing are continuing to implement other already existing programs. So starting first with guiding people successfully with funding leverage by the Sonoma County Probation Department. The partnership continued implementation of the gps program. Gps provides critical funding for system-level improvements to the partnerships, referral system which also supports evidence, informed prevention and intervention programs such as in-home counseling case management services and classes for parents. And this fiscal year we were able to provide 119 on probationary youth referral with to services and 21 probation youth with referrals for needed services, which was really consistent between the previous year and the current fiscal year. So well, we haven't seen numbers drop with our referrals. They also have not increased either. And in addition to that, we're also incredibly busy with community education and outreach over the last year, starting with bringing back our annual Violence Prevention seminar on NOVEMBER. Second of last year, we about 200 people in attendance. So it was a sold-out event. The event centered around resetting and rebuilding for the partnership asking the question, what is our purpose moving forward? And it also featured keynote

speaker Luis Jay Rodriguez. We also held 6 different breakout sessions at that event. We also held 3 parent education events, engaging 285 parents and one neighborhood presentation neighborhood group presentation reaching 15 community members at that particular event. And the partnership also participated in 55 total outreach activities throughout the year, including 4 visits to juvenile hall engaging 60 youth table and get a variety of different community events and presenting to small groups of adults and youth about partnership programming reaching approximately 7,757 people. Next slide. Please. Right implementation of our strategic plan components. As you all know, we began the safe Campus Intervention program in DECEMBER of 2023, Safe Campus intervention program is a crisis response and communication protocol aimed at preventing and de-escalating incidents of violence on and around school campuses. We are mobilized so my staff has mobilized by schools at the first sign of conflict to conduct mediation in de-escalation services as well as leader engage mentor and case manager at risk in getting involved youth. So tough in total. We had 39 skip activations at 8 schools. This included level one. Rumor control activations that were 24 level 2 de-escalation in mediation. Activations 7 total and level 3 crisis response. 8 activations total. The program also allows for relationship building and trust building on

campus. So my staff become regular adults. But the students are able to engage with and see consistently on campus and the become a resource available to them. So students are much more likely now to approach them when they see them on campus because of their constant consistent presence on campus. We also implemented the one circle, youth empowerment groups using one Circle Foundation curriculum. We held one group during the last school year at Slater, Middle School, engaging Twelve's students in this group. The group was held over a 10 week period of time, one day per week for an hour and a half to 2 hours each day, which is about 180 to 240 total service provided to the youth that participated and the focus aside from Kong conflict management management focusing in on toxic masculinity issues and what it means to be a man in today's society as well as nonviolent leaders on campus. It really allowed by staff too. Build deep, trusting relationships with the 12 students they worked with which was a benefit because the group was held towards the end of the school year. And as the 12 students entered into the summer, my south was able to regularly engage them throughout the summer. In additional case management services as well as pro social activities. And so they were able to take them on different field trips throughout the summer, including to Armstrong Woods, but they could pay. And even a San Francisco Giants game, which was really well received by the group and many of these students had never participated in these types of

outings before. So is a really great opportunity for during the summer. And because they had that relationship built with those students, not only at the end of the law school year and continue that throughout the summer, there were able then to engage with them. And at the start of the school year and ensure that they had all of the tools and resources they needed to be successful to start the new school year. The even were able to successfully enroll 3 of those students onto the football team at Elsie Allen High School this year, which is really fantastic. So really happy to share that we are seeing more of those stories come out this year. More those successes. And so hopefully i'll be able report even more to next year. Next slide. And finally, the choice Grant program we continued on into year 2 of the choice cycle 11 program with 8 funded agencies here. We continue to use the results based accountability framework for evaluation. And and in year 2 total number served through our choice funded agencies was 5,197 individuals, some duplication here because with some of the programming very difficult to separate that out. But for the most part, this fairly accurate number total number of service hours. 34,369 total service hours through programming. This is a little bit low because we didn't start calculating this in until quarter to sort missing

quarter. One data. Well, there are evaluated as working with our grantees on trying to gather that data. So we have a more accurate number. We also began collecting demographic data in year 2, we served a broad range of ages from 0 on up. But most of the services youth between the ages of 6.24 years old. And finally, we also over the last fiscal year began preparing for choice cycle 12, including development and dissemination of the request for qualifications as well as selecting a new agencies who will begin services. On JANUARY, first 2025. And I believe that's it. Thank you for the presentation. All of you that gave presentations bringing it back to council to see if there any questions comes. Member MacDonald. >> I have some questions but mostly have a few comments. One of the things that I'd like to say that I think that this is a trick. >> a great use of taxpayers dollars. We can see how public safety being fully staffed actually brings down crime and how are able to get out into the community, specifically through the ppp program is just exactly what I think that we're supposed to be doing. So I just want to say thank you to mayor for having me chair the dpp the last 2 years. I've enjoyed this so much. This is right. My ally MAY just want to point out a few things that I I really im proud of what you've done, not only in recreation, but also in the dpp program that really it was a strategic plan. And now with

the alignment of the choice grants where they're feeding into where we're giving our money in the city so that we can actually address the concerns that are coming up in our strategic plan. That was a bold move, I think, made by the city. And I think it's the right move that we're gonna be able to address the concerns that we've seen over and over and that we're putting our money where our concerns are. So I really appreciate the work that's been done on that. I also want to point out and thank you for the focus on steam education that it's not just science, you know, engineering technology and math, but you're actually focusing on the importance of arts and engagement with our use to ensure that they have an outlet. It's proven time and time again. The investment that we make and are used for afterschool programs and summer programs not only help with learning loss, but it really does help keep them out of trouble. So the work that you're doing and recreation along with our bpp. I just want to say thank you to staff. I know you're a small staff, but the work that you're doing is incredible. When you look at the numbers of the engagement with our families and the engagement that we're having with youth, that's something that the city should really be proud of. And I I don't know that this is done widely. The investment in our use in every city, but I'm very proud of that. And I'm I'm happy that I've been able to have some of the background on the importance of that coming into this role. The last thing I did want to know, does the cleans late removal? And I know you MAY have skipped over that, Daniel, but I know that that's been a program that it took a while to get and running. I want to say thank you for that. I know that that had been brought to council before, but that it lives in this arena and is

funded through here to me, make sense. And if you could just give us when that's going to start and the importance of continuing not program, just a brief one on that. Other than that, I just want to say thank you again. Thank you to mayor for letting me be part of this group. So I have insight prior to coming to council. But, you know, it's really been a pleasure. So thank you. But not all of leave that one over to you that you're leading question hearing out Hawaii when he began talking, I was like, oh, no, I forgot to clean Slate Tattoo removal program. >> so we did spend last year developing that program, bringing back, doing some research visiting San Jose to see how they operated their program. >> And what we decided to do that's a little bit different than other communities is rather than buying our own machine and running it in-house ourself, we decided to contract with 2 different local clinics here in Santa Rosa, North Bay Laser and laser freshest attics. So we need to work with purchasing to do that. That process this year for that selecting those 2 clinics and also developing out the program components. As a requirement, it has to be a visible gang-related, hate related or human trafficking related tattoo. And and participants have be ready to leave the lifestyle behind. They cannot have one foot in the door and out the other. They have to be fully committed. And then they also have provide 20 hours of community service and at least

for life skills classes as part of their participation in the program we fully pay for that. So we have peace out funds and the amount of $100,000 set aside and then we did receive a grant through the sheriff's office ab one 14 program 2 in the amount of $25,000 to provide services to folks outside of the Santa Rosa area because those piece funds have to be used locally. So we'll be able to spread our reach a little bit through that. And we're set to begin we're beginning now. Actually, we don't have to wait JANUARY. 1st because we do have our first contract with one clinic ready to go. And so my team is actively reaching back out to the waitlist and conducting and takes as we speak. Thank you so much. Thank you again for the presentation brought the different departments. I appreciate it. Thank you. >> Councilmember MacDonald, you slip past because she thank you, mayor, that you talk for 20 minutes and you only asked one question. You know. All right. I'm good like that. And with that. >> Any other questions from Councilmembers? All right, seeing none. MADAM City clerk, me, please facilitate public comment. >> are now taking public comment on item. 15.1. If you are in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium. You'll have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. Please go ahead. >> Thank you for the presentation. I appreciate that. There's lot of good things coming from this funding. I've always been interested, though, if we

could give more towards violence prevention side of everything. I know we cut a little bit into both the fire department, the police department. But if you gave 2 and a half percent more from them to these young people that are in need. It could be very helpful. And I will always advocate for that. Actually wanted to be 33% a 3rd for all 3 of them. The thing very interesting to myself and others. Out in the Roseland area is that it's been said now here tonight for sure that you're purchasing the current building. Rosen Library branch. The people in the community were curious about how much money was being spent. And I was just hearing today 2.1 million dollars. It seems like a really high price for that small building. And I do hope that you won't have to spend a whole lot more and modifying to become the police substation. We're very glad we have a police substation coming into Roseland and want to keep it there forever. Now we had a sheriff's substation in the past. It was very helpful having the police. They're seeing the cars and having them be able to respond more quickly, which is especially good. What you probably don't know is the motorcycles that are out there. Those motorcycle mounted police officers are able to stop speeding on Herndon Avenue, which is basically become a raceway. And it's something where we need to get one of those speed limit signs like Humboldt

Street has. Back to this one thing with the young people. I do hope that you get more money to the park's people for those young people, especially the middle grade math and science program. I hope it will focus more on biology and earth sciences. You might not be aware, but the effort by young students in Europe began with a 15 year-old granted to from Sweden and she got it going in a big way. She's actually spoken. Truth to power. A number of big international meetings and people throughout Europe are paying far more attention to what's going on. And that's here and American. We've been wrapped up with presidential election. I do hope that you'll make a point of. Letting these middle grade math and science courses deal with nature. Also. And not just look at science like let's do some chemistry. Let's do something. Engineering. Look at how nature its own science before humans got involved trying to change it around the whole thing about nature and how it's been able to go forward is a positive teaching our young people that we very good thing. Thank you. >> MADAM It. I know was going back and forth, but I think it's important for men and information standpoint. We get this comment all the time to adjust the percentages of who's given what this is a tax measure that was passed by the voters with the understanding that these percentages were ingrained in that tax measure. So the only way it can be changed is for the voters to do so. We have no ability to do that. We are bound by the voters. Want to make sure that

was made clear because this comment does come up from time to time. >> been around us. >> Thank you, Computer little for kitchen. I actually purchased. Knew I his road. Believe on this. Missed him. Chief, you might want to on this one. We purchase a property on the corner. There were the regional library is currently he's just not but the entire parcel was taken. You like Spurs, going to be a party. >> I'm sorry. So you want to exactly from my understanding he wasn't just little. It's a whole person. Are just the whole parcel with the building on it. I think clarification comes it. Como for additional store fronts. >> No, this orphans did not come with it. And the parcel is does not include to the right parking goes with was clear it was a square footages. Entire personal. It was 4500 square feet. Was the square foot of the building itself was pretty large. And that gave us. >> The ability be our first substation we've ever had in Santa Rosa Open to the public. And so we want to build a public facing lobby and have a bilingual staff. There were people can come in reports he can. And we also believe there's going to be enough space that we can have community meetings there. That's going to be really important for us for going the Rosen and have a space not only for officers to be there for riding reports, processing evidence, things like that. The public-facing lobby and space for the meetings as well. So 4500's were fees for

the building itself. >> And my intent was that the money, though, that being spent on this from this property Zack's catch that we all the are definitely rising Rosen specifically and quickly have both of space available community as well as a species for parking, just for the community. >> Yes, absolutely. And we really want to place that was visible from Sebastopol Road in the community and there were a lot of improvement to just been done to that facility in new hvac system. The bathroom is being made compliant with some of state law. So a lot of work are already down in the building which it's gonna make it a seamless transition for us moving in. >> And with about with my community has been asking for the most. Has been say for the community. So for me, it's very important that one of the first things do me controls and he's one of our substations with our police officers and only available prefer public safety. >> Yes, absolutely. And this is one we work really closely Scott and others like that and exhaustive. I believe she said it was one of the most exhaustive city projects he's worked on for buying a building for So it's really hard to find one that matter needs that was available, that our price range. And so this at the end of the day was actually a pretty good deal for us. >> And I'm definitely testament to that as we walk So that's where multiple times believe even more. Join the team focus. We times. So I do appreciate difference in fighting location, especially at the beginning of Rose I think was very very special. And I think we would look, we

will having to be able Thank you for being worst and trying to say. >> All righty. Look at council to see if there any additional comments. Seeing no additional comment. I will pass it over to councilmember others. >> Trends again, right? I want put forth a motion. Steps the the city Council who so Reza, accepting the public safety and prevention tax annual report for fiscal year 2023. 24 we We know second. >> We have a motion made by Councilmember Alvarez in a second by Councilmember MacDonald. With that MADAM City clerk me, please facilitate the vote. Thank you. Crappie, I councilmember MacDonald. I Councilmember Fleming. I Councilmember Alvarez, vice Mayor stop. I Mayor Rogers. Record show this passes unanimously. Thank you. We will now move back up to item 14. Our public comment on non agenda matters and I will hand it over to City clerk to facilitate public comment. Thank you, Mayor. We are now taking public comments on item 14 non agenda matters. This is a time when any person MAY address the council on matters not listed on this agenda. But which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council. If you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided bigger car door, your name, please make your way to the podium. We will take 12 speakers under item 14 if we have more than 12 public comments on 14, we will allow the remaining speakers to speak under item 18 non agenda matters. MR. Debate. Go ahead. >> Are you ready with the clock? The most important part of this, we got it. Time and the democracy. My name is doing to it on from Rose. And

I wanted to thank you for the opportunities that have been presented today with the improvements that are going on over in Roseland. I also sign newspaper article about the Southeast Greenway and the successes that have been happening there. We've been talking about the Rosen Creek specific plan since 2004. That's 20 years working on that. And we had come forward with those ideas. Modeled on the idea that you would be having. A walkable space. A spot where people would walk to that park and we had always had the idea that there shouldn't be that much of a need for cars. And I got to thinking about this is I read that Long article about the Southeast Greenway. And I looked at the ratio of what will be prepared for parking of cars with this type of project. And this is just some rough numbers. But basically at Roseland, where is 19 and a half acres and the city is going to propose 36 parking spaces that comes to 5.5 parking spaces per acre. So for the 49 acres on the Southeast Greenway at that ratio, that would give us 269 parking spaces that we should be perhaps putting over there looking at the same way things would flush out. I think this is really important because that long, narrow Greenway. There was a studio class uc Berkeley, environmental Design Department where they talked about you needed houses along

that Greenway, have eyes on the prize to make sure there wouldn't be crime to have a better natural environment for the folks who be using it. That hasn't really been put forward as much of the meetings that I went to the parking hasn't been talked about. So I do hope that you won't discriminate against the people in Rosen and say, hey, you guys need more parking even though you have a more natural area and you have more people right nearby who can walk to it and the people over at the Southeast Greenway. Where people are going to want to drive to get over to that. You see how many cars arrive. Montgomery High School. There's hundreds kids drive. They don't want to Park City more and their parents drive them to things. So I'm hoping that you use the same ratio of parking over there, the Southeast Greenway that you forcing upon the Roseland Creek Park. We came forward in the past asking for a special designation as a park preserve. And recently I was told well. Southeast is going to get us out. A special designation. I don't want to see that happen. If you couldn't give it to Roseland. Should be something that's the same. Both sides of the city. >> discrimination. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Connie. Good evening. You'll have to forgive me. I'm not used to speaking in and protesting but I live in Rincon Valley and I've lived there for 8 years in a lovely little a condo complex called

the Maples. And I have watched Santa Rosa put. Jumbo size storage facilities across the street from residential. Living. They're horrible to look at, but they're actually good neighbors, their quiet. And they put they don't have a lot of traffic. So there's sort of innocuous other than that. They're the ugliest buildings on the planet. But just recently Saturday, I received a card that there is a proposal for a quick quack car wash to go in directly across the street from my lovely little community. The card does not express the vulgarity of a quick quack car wash. It's a Disneyland. Kind of look ride that is a car wash with a dozen or so large vacuum cleaners, a very large hall. Car wash that cars will go through making all kinds of noises. I have to tell you that there are ready to car washes. There's the pride at Mission Circle and then there's the gas station that has a car wash. And the traffic between Mission Avenue and Streamside and Farmers. Lane intersection is Speedway. If people race from light to light to get through to go eastbound on Highway 12, we listened to it all the time. We listen to the noise from these other 2 car washes. I really want everybody to Google. What a quick quack car wash looks like. Please. There's very large plastic

duck that sits out roadside of a quick quack car wash. I will be listening to vacuum cleaners and also right now in listening to the will sounds of the other car washes from my home. So this is an increase in the noise traffic and seen looking business across the street. So I really am looking for support to stop this. The Sibley from going in across the street from residential area. I understand that it is s# # # # # for that type of business. But it's really across the street as residences. Thank you for listening. Man machine guns for Thank you, Mayor. I see no one else approaching the podium for public comments on this item. >> No, ma'am. We don't get into a back and forth when people get public comment. But I am definitely looking up the >> Car wash. Moving on. >> Councilmember I was just going to say it looks like she had a card for a public neighborhood meeting and is there somebody to get staff that could possibly described where the process so that she understands the stages at and that's not going in tomorrow. >> It's in the it's in the review stage. Moving on to item 16 are a public hearing for tonight. MADAM City manager. >> I am 16.1 is public hearing public hearing to review evidence of the fall by cornerstone Properties. 2 llc on the property located at 14 be Street Santa Rosa, California. Ap in 0, 1, 0, Dash, 0, 4, 5 Dash, 0, 2, 5,

>> Good evening, mayor and council members. I'm Jill Scott on the city's real estate manager. Here with you tonight to discuss for this public hearing to review new evidence of default by cornerstone properties to see under the agreement for the property located at 4.10, b street. Sorry about that. Okay. So in JUNE of 21, the city and cornerstone properties entered into agreements for the purchase and sale of the property at 4.10, b Street in that agreement. It was contemplated for a future infill development project. That property is owned by cornerstone. Now the city to transfer it it is currently still a publicly are publicly operated parking that the city operates. Because this was a non-traditional type of transfer. What I'll get into in just a moment. We included in the agreement, some post closing obligations, escrow closed in AUGUST of 2021. So normally when government agency those through a transaction to sell a piece of surplus property as we are doing ourselves right now on multiple other options. We go through an exclusive negotiation agreement. So we enter into and exclusive negotiation agreement. We negotiate a term sheet with the developer. After that, we will enter into what's called the dda, which is a disposition and development

agreement during the timing of that disposition and development agreement, which is normally a year to 2 years. Can be longer but is normally a shorter period of time. The developer will have a timeline for what they need to accomplish and the city or the agency will be following that timeline. The timeline is usually for entitlements. 4 design for a workable performance and for financing the project. And then at the end of that time and the financing is in Then the city will transfer the property at that time and construction will start. So that's a traditional process. Due to this property being in an opportunity zone. It's in a qualified opportunity zone. This developer had wanted to at the time. Invest in opportunity zone to invest in opportunity zone. You have to you only have a certain amount of time and I believe it's 180 days to take to not assess capital gains on investment. So he was on Carson was on a timeline to be able to invest in that opportunity zone. And because of that city council agreed to move forward and actually sell the property to cornerstone in advance. So other non-traditional way of doing it and the city did take a risk doing that and then put post closing obligations with in that agreement. So go through a little bit of what those of what those look like. Don't know why this isn't advancing. Sorry about that. So we'll go through some of the post closing obligations now there were a couple of

different ones that because the city decided take to take the rest, agreed to take the rest to do it this way. Cornerstone had agreed to. Make certain requirements and these post causing obligations. One was too. And it was for multiple developments, not just the development of 4.10, b street at the city on property. It was for development of their smart site. And it was for development of this for 10 b street and their existing adjacent site. So they had a total of 18 months to accomplish entitlement on this site and the others and the adjacent site and to pull building pill, building permits on the smart site. The process was due 18 months and ended in all Tobar of 2020 20 2022. And in response to a letter from cornerstone, the city manager did they asked for an extension of this? For an additional 18 months. The city manager go ahead and give them a mixed an extension. This gave them a total of 3 years to comply. The second one was the property. So that was for the smart station. The second one was this property for 10 b street and the adjoining property. That is what's not owned by the city it was owned by Cornerstone has a one development together. They also asked for an extension on this property as well. By AUGUST of 2024, cornerstone had not submitted any applications, which was the last date of when they could. So communication through. This was hold one second. Sorry, communication through this process was after the first extension, the staff and city manager, along with

cornerstones manager and staff met on a quarterly basis to go through and make sure that they were moving and progressing forward after those and staff also met with staff a cornerstone to continue that process. And after there was not a lot of movement towards entitlement or towards building permits. Those meetings also ended and so on. On AUGUST, 9th of 2024. 18 days before the expiration of the last extension. So the second extension that we gave cornerstone under the city manager's authority we contacted cornerstone and asked for a meeting. They hadn't asked for an extension of that period after we asked for the meeting and set up the mean they did send us a request for a 3rd extension on the project. On AUGUST. 26 of 2024 city staff and cornerstone met who discussed progress. Excuse me. Just a moment. >> We met to discuss the project to status, the project, the process and to see if cornerstone, if we have felt that they were making or if there was any way that they could make any progress. >> at all, in either of the either of the developments. After we discussed that with him at length we discovered that no process, no progress had been made on any of them sense. The time that we actually gave him the first extension. So there wasn't any progress at all. We asked cornerstone the direct

question if they did bring up in tight alene the for 10 b street. We asked corners on the direct question if they sought after entitlement, they would be able to move forward with construction of the of the project in a timely matter. And the answer was that they were unclear if they could. So on AUGUST 29th of 2020 for the city issued a notice of default. A cornerstone at that point, we thought it was councils it was really under council's discretion to decide if we're way we're going to go. And the way to do that was to issue according to the agreement, was to issue the notice of default and bring the public hearing to council to make the decision on where to go from here. The notice of default late out the basis for the notice quarters cornerstone that City Council would hold a public hearing of the default and review the default of the terms of the degree of the agreement. And after that notice went out, cornerstone requested a another meeting with staff and attorneys from both sides. We met with staff and attorneys at that time. The in original notice. And had indicated that the public hearing would be in NOVEMBER. They asked to set up a meeting. We couldn't make the meeting and the public hearing. So they asked for an extension. We did extend the public hearing to DECEMBER 10th, which is today we met with their attorneys and staff. And they did say what they think they've indicated in a letter to council as well that they can in title for 10 b Street property. But they gave no indication that they are able in a timely manner to move forward with the

construction, nor did we have get any information from them on the second part of the agreement, which was to pull building permits on the smart site. So staff discuss this with the city manager and decided that we would move forward and bring this to counsel at this public hearing. So with agreement, agreement is pretty specific about what needs to happen this the city. It declares the And in the post closing allegations, the city Council conducts this public hearing to review evidence of the alleged fall following the public hearing. The city Council has 3 options to discuss. So one you can find that there has been no different material to fall to agreement. 2, you can elect to purchase a property from cornerstone for the call. Purchase price. The call is are right. And the agreement too purchased every purchase the property and take it back to the city, which is 1.3, 4 million. Those funds are being held and have been held since the time sold the property in the parking Enterprise Fund or 3. You can establish a revised schedule for the poor performance of cornerstones obligations. If Council elects to go with option 3, there are some requirements that will need to discuss to go through. And with that, the staff recommendation after holding a public hearing and considering any overall oral written testimony provided at or before the public hearing. The city council elect to repurchase a property for the call purchase price of 1.3 4 million as provided for in the purchase and sale agreement following repurchase of the property the city can explore other options for use and development of the property in further ends of

the revitalization of downtown Santa Rosa. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you for that presentation. Looking to council members, cow's Repi. >> Excuse me, mayor, apologize. Believe the city attorney wanted to add some clarifying information to do presentation. MADAM City Attorney, thank you, MADAM Mayor and MADAM City manager, city manager the real estate division asked me just provide you a little bit of information that we did learn through publicly available documents. There is a lawsuit. That involve MR. Adani. Think I'm saying his name correctly and his business partner and that includes the llc. That is cornerstone need that the party that we've negotiated this agreement with that currently owns the property. It is an extended and rather protected piece of litigation. Seems to I think give doubt on whether or not financing would be able to be achieved within and a number of years. And so I think about is really part of. Why staff has this Again, I don't know more than just, you know, what's publicly available about lawsuit. But I think part of the concerned that staff has had here about the ability to move forward with this is tied the ability to finance construction. >> Thank you. MADAM City, Attorney Councilmember thank you you or anybody available. Give us a little bit of insight into the entire process. >> How law if something is entitled, how long that last same with permits if you pull a permit how long those last without taking any action,

those kind of things. >> unfortunately do not know how long that lasts. I can tell you that entitlements usually takes 6 to 9 months to get. And I'm sorry, I don't have that information for how long it will last. >> will gather the information while we're having discussion it. I'm good for now. Thank you. Thanks, Michelle. If the city were to repurchase the property, can you can you talk through at least possible next steps and also the timeline for this next step so that we have a way of comparing. >> What we would potentially be looking it for very nice tension are additional ascension, a cornerstone versus putting it back into the open open market some capacity. What's that? What's the city's best case scenario in terms having something moving on that site? >> hopefully answering this correctly, if I'm not, please let me know. So if we were to repurchase a property, could we would go through the repurchase. I'm going to let the city attorney addressed part. But all all talk about the sla process. We entered into an exclusive negotiations agreement originally with cornerstone prior to the changes to the Surplus Lands Act in twenty-twenty. So this was grandfathered and if you will. So we would need to take this item back to council if you wanted to. If we repurchase ending. We wanted to look for a development on this project. Take it back to council surplus it and put it through the Surplus Lands Act. So it would go out on a notice of availability for 60 days. And then we would wait to see if we get any other offers. If we do, we can negotiate with those offers. If we don't, we can put it out for an rfp. That process is not a long

process to go through. From that point, we would go through the whole process of probably more of the standard process will be recommended of any an a to a d d a likes to. As I spoke before about. And then again, the entitlement process and the and the whole routine that they would be starting now. Due to what the city attorney was alluding to and the problems that Cornerstone House right now internally. It's hard to see how they would move forward even after entitlement. They can entitle it. But how would they move forward with building permits construction and they did say they were unclear if they could. So I can turn it over the city attorney to add to that as well. I think the piece where I can add is your question about the process. Should you decide to move forward? >> a require repurchase of the property if the decision would need to be made today tonight to do that, staff would need to issue a notice within 10 days. These requirements are set forth in our agreement. These are not statutory requirement. Contractual requirements. So we would need to issue a notice within 10 days and then we would get cornerstone would be obligated by contract essentially sell back the property to us. We would do it through an escrow so we would have some procedural steps to put the funds in escrow. We would do all of those things and then the sale the repurchase would have to be completed by the 30th Day after the 10 day. Notice at that point in time, it would be hours of cornerstone failed to to do that. They would then essentially be in breach of

contract and if we could not reach some agreement with them about either extending their time, if they needed a little bit more time. We go through that process. But we got to a place where they were refusing to do what they were required to do under the contract and there wasn't just an additional time component that we could negotiate we would defile in court. A lawsuit for breach of contract arc. The agreement we have provides for attorneys fees. So we would essentially provide for breach of contract. There is a requirement for specific performance, which means they actually need to sell us the property back. And then if we prevail, which I think pretty clearly we would hear they would then need to pare attorneys fees. So it would be a very expensive proposition for them to require us to go to court because they would be paying for their fees and hours rather than doing just what the contract requires. Thank you for that. I was thinking less about that and more about the situation where we take. We take back the property we Surplus Lands Act. It. >> Are we looking at a year where again, we don't have a developer there because we're going process that the Surplus Lands Act process. And so we're in somewhat of the same situation I'm trying to. I'm trying to compare the the ai the opportunity cost of another extension cornerstone versus taking of property back and restarting the process are you will to to provide any any details making that comparison comparison. Sure.

>> And I would say that it's probably 6 months to year before we could enter into another exclusive negotiation agreement with another developer. The difference for me and what you are and what you're proposing is if you give cornerstone extension for a year, they entitle the property, but can they build it? Can they finance it? If we take the time to go back with another developer that can finance it and can build it. That's the difference. That's the difference for me. And it's unfortunate because I think cornerstone is is a good is a good builder and a good developer. But the situation is just and a tenable right now are seems unattainable. I will also say that once we go back out, if for some reason, everything clears up for cornerstone, they are welcome to come back and and submit on the property again and then council can consider them as well. That's a very helpful point. Thank you for mentioning that. And just against I've got that the apples to apples comparison in my head straight. >> Driver correctly that one of one of the possible benefits of cornerstone on that on that site is that they they own some of the adjacent cross properties. And so there is some talk in an ideal world of having I scaled on development, whereas if going out to Surplus Lands Act, this piece of property, we're talking about 1, 1, piece on that on That park right now. >> Yes, it would be a single development rather than development that in this agreement that is in the current agreement with cornerstone because they do Jason site. Ok, thank And are okay. Thank Joe. Know, this is a question you can answer with with the specter of our cfo up there. >> I would be remiss if I

didn't ask during the sla process. It is possible we would not be able to recoup that 1.3 million that we paid right because it would be a negotiation with whomever, you know, is awarded the correct? >> That is correct. Although I would say the property is worth more now. Right? But I mean, it could be, hey, will you know for us to build or that or the other? That's correct. We can going to be conveyed for yes West. Okay. Yes. Thank you. >> Yeah. Something city manager. MADAM Mayor. Yes, your permission? Yes, please. >> Dario Johnson, assistant City Councilmember Okrepkie. We pause because wanted to give you accurate information. The short answer is that they're yours generally speaking 2 years, but it depends on the application What type of permit that are pulling. But generally speaking, it's 2 years and happy to work with the team that had to get you a more nuanced answer. But hopefully that answers your question. >> For the purposes of this doesn't appreciate it. Thank you. >> MADAM City, Attorney. Is there an opportunity is there representative here from cornerstone? And is there an opportunity to ask them the questions? Because I feel like there's a lot of unknowns and staff answering questions for cornerstone. But I would like to ask then questions at what point would I be able to do that if it all? >> the only part I didn't hear was who you are directing your question to your directing it to me. Is that correct? MADAM City Attorney us me and my

apologies. You have a public hearing and so We conducted open the public hearing. We do suggest the cornerstone be given an additional amount. Anything staff's recommendation was 5 minutes because they're really not a member of the public, but we would need to make that part of the public hearing. They could give their presentation. And then I outside of their time. You could ask follow-up questions to their presentation. And then, of course, we would have public comment as part of the public hearing but in that situation, cornerstone would have already spoken. I do not know if cornerstone is here. >> So that answers that question. So. Any other additional questions from? Council members. >> Seeing We will now. Open the public hearing. MADAM City clerk MAY please facilitate public comment. Thank you. We are now taking public comment on the public hearing under item 16.1. If you are in the council chamber like to comment. >> But have not provided a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium. You have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end that period. MR. Debate. Go ahead. But your clock first. We'll do one moment. Please. >> When your clocks starts and should be right at 3. So I get to seconds. My name is Dwayne to it. I'm from Rosen, but I pay a lot of attention to downtown Santa Rosa because I grew up here and my family

once. Employed by a company on the street, the properties on street are actually quite valuable. And I do believe I heard that the money is already being held in the parking fund. So it's not coming from somewhere else. It's there. I do think that you should not extend any other agreement with these folks. That's important that you point out that this was contract early agreed upon. They haven't. Upheld their end of the bargain. And the bargain should end. Basically entitlements and some jurisdictions can last forever. People can get those entitlements and hold on to him. And make a neighborhood way for years for something to get done. But would really be nice tonight is if you folks actually got the property back, put out an rfp and then a surplus land it right away. Just looked around to see what type of a developer could come in and be helpful to our downtown. Basically, the city owns lots of properties downtown. And for decades, I've heard this story We want to revitalize downtown. This is a piece of property that can start that process right there. Basically you have it in your hand. You can say we want to start right here and we want to work with smart. It's MARCH. Got more money than most folks. And you also reach out to some of these other foundations and other organizations that say they want to help our city thrive. I always love that word. Thrive. The best way to do it I think is not to get bound in helping this. Organization cornerstone, which is under

some sort of duress. You have a cause that problem. This problem is their own. You should basically say we want this to be. Repurchased, followed up just like the attorney said, do everything like the contract that's in place. You'll have that property and you'll be able to reach out with something that's more valuable. Now. And it was then and you'll be getting a new federal administration coming in the federal administration is going to come in is about big bucks but making money on different things they can do. So you do work with the economic development Department of the U.S. Government find ways to get the funding to make something good happen here. If you don't do that, you might end up with another. If you'll excuse the expression, low play situation putting it out to surplus get somebody else comes back in convinces you and then they can't follow up on it. So you hold that says right here right now. >> If you do it correctly. >> Thank you. Is there anyone else in council chamber wishing provide public comment on item? 16.1. Merci no one approaching the podiums. Thank you. We will now close the public hearing I'm not sure if I thank you for the presentation in for all the work that you've done on this. But thank you. Coming back to council to see if there any questions or comments councilmember up >> Thank you, MADAM Mayor. Going do something that I generally which is sausage-making on the dais. I think based on what we've seen that the opportunity with cornerstone would probably exceed anything that we could do it through the sla based on

the properties and they're they're vested interest in it. So what I would like to see is maybe a 90 day extension for staff to renegotiate and put in some of the more traditional sort of looking for you know, proof of financing, those kind of things. So, you know, give 90 days. And then after 90 days were once the agreement made an additional year to get entitled and then maybe 2 years after that to get financing in place. So to incentivize them and I only say that because I've been on planning commission and I have seen things that have been entitled for years and temporary maps that have been around for 20 years and things like that. And so I want to give you no good faith say we want to see build. We want to see you, you bring to fruition. What you what you said. What you have planned. But at the same time, we can't wait forever for this to take place. So I don't know if my college to be open to something like that, but that's kind of what I would like to see as a as a middle ground. I would like to counter. Make a friendly amendment. Only counter it. >> So to me, we're at that point were out like 5 years. >> And that's not something that I would really want to do so and I'm not even sure if we can do this, but do then 90 days that they furnish MADAM City attorney. >> Do the 90 days where they do furnished the ability to actually develop and any of the other concerns that we're having address those and then give them a one-year

extension. That extension is too. Files. Start. Everything, not another 2 or 3 years. That seems and I never said on the planning Commission. So if I'm understanding the difference between what the 2 of you are saying is that you feel like the one to 2 years to get. >> Your construction financing in place or construction started substantial construction started or something along. Those lines is too long. And you would like to see. That piece when they this when they purchase the property, their financing should have already been in place. >> So I'm confused lower if I feel like we're going, we're starting from square one. If we're going to make sausage, I'm sorry. I just need to get a better understanding. And I'm I I want to be good partners. >> But also on, I also want to do what's in the best interest of the city. And so right now I'm trying to balance that. So but I would like them part of my questions did have to do with financing like being able to show that they can finance the project, a very strict or timeline on. Actually going through with some of the things that they need to do. And I would be fine with the one-year extension and not anything. Past that. And that is with showing us all, you know. Showing us that we don't really have concerns in the areas in which we have concerns because nothing against staff, I don't see

anything for me were speculating. And I want to see it. So if they can't furnished the that they can finance, then we know that they can furnish it right. >> a look at them and I can comment Yeah, I think Brown Simpson. I my understanding and correct me if I'm MADAM City, attorney tonight. What you can do only is extension. And if you give them an extension, that extension will you can't take it back. That will extend them to and to end title for 10 b Street and it will extend them to for building permits on the smart site. If you want to change or amend the agreement, we would have to bring that back we would have to negotiate a cornerstone to amend the agreement. But Carson does not have to agree to that. As well in the agreement right now. Once they entitle the property, they have 6 years to begin construction. And we can't change that without amending the agreement. So if you give them an extension tonight and they do entitle the property will have 6 years to construct. >> But 6 years from entitlement. 6 years and they don't have to show us that they can actually did not. Not unless we amend the agreement, but cornerstone would have to agree to amend the agreement. It's my understanding and less. MADAM City attorney, you have something different. Just to elaborate, I 100% agree. I think our leverage here is to give them a short term. >> Extension, which would be 90 days feels appropriate. During that period of time,

City staff can try to negotiate an amendment which would reduce out that 6 year period. So and with some evidence of either starting construction, substantial construction or getting construction financing in place which they won't be able to do entirely until they have their entitlements. So if you don't want to proceed tonight with. Going ahead in Repurchasing and you want to give them a short period of time. But renegotiate. I would recommend doing the 90 days that gives them free and clear 90 days, no changes to the agreement during that period of time. But that gives us the ability negotiate Neither comeback with something negotiated that they all agree with or to come back and tell you that we think you need to proceed. To go ahead and repurchase and so that we would be doing both pieces simultaneously. So you don't lose time. We could go ahead and issue another notice of default while we're negotiating schedule a public hearing. With all of that, the sequence of timing in case we don't reach an agreement with within that 90 day period. Friendly amendment. 100 in 20 days. >> But I have questions that I would like I would like answered if the council is okay. With that. And that would be to explain why you have not been able to perform today despite the city's previous extensions. Also, what is your timeline for actual construction of all 3

sites that are required to be developed under the agreement? And how do you plan to finance the development of these properties in what assurances can you give us that you will meet the deadlines and the agreement, completion of the project, if the city Council to allow for that extension. So those would have been the questions that I would have passed. Had they been here today that would Help me to to make my answer or to develop an answer. But I think since they're not here, it's really hard. And I want to give them the opportunity to answer those questions because I do know that this is a process. And I said 120 days because I know how fast 90 days goes for So You're okay with that. >> open to it. But I like to hear my colleagues have to say. Councilmember MacDonald. >> So I needed few points of clarification for my own brain to wrap my head around this If I heard correctly from you, this particular group is in litigation and will not be able to fiscally perform on the property. And that is why there is the desire to take the property back so that the city can then sell the property to someone who is telling us they might be able to perform in a reasonable amount of time. So what I want to make sure that that was the reasons for staff's recommendation is that we're understanding that cornerstone is not going to be able to for perform on this property because of their current litigation. 2, I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that public hearings go to everybody. So cornerstone would have been informed that, in fact, tonight, they could have shown to show up and tell

us what their plan would be. So I have concerns that we would extend that for anyone who would be having a public hearing for since this has been something that's been notice to the public. So I think that there has been more than one opportunity. It shows and what you presented tonight, there's been several opportunities and fact for some information to go back and forth. Cornerstone. I did see the letter that they provided to us, but there was no indication in the letter that they would be able to actually perform on this. We say constantly, we need housing. We need something to be developed. And our downtown area to me tonight is the decision that council needs to make and I would be supportive of the staff's recommendation. I don't have interest in doing any sausage making on this because I believe it's already been done. So while I appreciate the desire from council to want to work with our developers and I truly do, I think this is not an opportunity for us to on this particular item. Councilmember Fleming. >> I see the city attorney waving me down. Sorry, I was I apologize. Councilmember Fleming, I think councilmember in MacDonald had asked me a question and I just wanted to clarify about the litigation. Know, all we really have is the public information about the litigation and based on that litigation and where it is in the process. I think it. Is hard to see how they could get financing for this and how

a lender while that litigation is proceeding and it appears to be a multi-year process. In addition, when staff met with cornerstone, they answer to the question what can you can you actually? Construct? This was I think what it was we don't know. We don't think so. It's unclear at this time and clear. So I think that we're sort of piecing the parts together and not seeing how this would really pencil for them at this point in time and one-year extension doesn't seem too. Give them what they would need to actually move this forward. >> Has moved quickly. Thank you, mayor. >> There's a lot of pieces to this that are not out in the open because it's some of the confidential nature of the the negotiations. You know, I'm pretty convinced that they are. They're negotiating in good faith. And but I do see that from our and it doesn't because not super clear. That's what's happening. That it's difficult for us to continue to recommend. Extensions. I think 90 or one extent they extension to work with our staff to come to agreement is pretty reasonable as the winter season. Nothing's going to get. Bill told are financed in the next 90 days. It's just how it is. I mean, worst case. You know, we come back in FEBRUARY or MARCH and we're done with it and it's spring and it's a good time to to move the property along. But I just wanted to speak for it to You know, to why they're not here. I met Pauline from Cornerstone last Friday and had lunch and she she was unaware that made special meeting with me because she's just she's on maternity leave and she's the

person who polls their agendas. And I did get to bouncer to 2 month old, not too much bouncing snuggle her 2 month-old baby. Really get. And I met with alone a Donny and I really do think that they are genuine earnest in this process. Now, I can't predict whether or not they will perform, but I do do really firmly believe that it's worth giving them 3 or 4 months and it doesn't cost us much to give them this opportunity us. But in the other thing is, is that if we do surpluses piece of land, while it might be worth more than we sold it for its, I'm going to be more difficult to develop on its own. And so there's that additional risk for us that we have, you know, a doughnut, the whole of development where we'd like to see a cohesive series parcels develop. So I appreciate the concern over a didn't, but I'm going to be supporting. I don't I don't much to feel too strongly whether it's 90 or 120 days. But that's that's the direction of like to go. Vice Mayor. >> Ultimately, I'm echoing councilmember funding and Med a city attorney. I like the way framed the negotiating period where we have a 90 we have a 90 day period where we are not treating it simply as an extension, but a chance to renegotiate the underline agreement because that's that's really the catch here. And major cause of of my uncertainty. It's not that there's be a 6 year window before construction began. That seems that seems large. At the same time. It's it's a

different it's a difficult financing development environment right And while it's transparently clear in the presentation he put together jail that we've given them ample opportunity. I don't mind at this time giving them 90 90 extra days. To show with the but with renegotiation of the underlying development agreement that they really are serious about that, that that piece of land and they've got a viable plan near to mid-term viable plan. And so in that in that very qualified capacity, I'm supportive of having having a 90 day extension with the cabbie out that as we're as we're doing that, it's it's made clear to them that at least from this council members perspective, this is that this is their last chance to prevent Purdue to present a viable plan. After that, I'm I'm in. I'm in complete agreement with your underlying argument that that the city is perhaps better served by open this up to the broader development community. But if in 90 days we can come up with agreement, that is better for the city. I certainly like to give cornerstone that opportunity. >> Are you opposed to 120 days? You do know it's DECEMBER and there's multiple half of days within the next 30 days. At this point. >> To be blunt, like to hold their feet to fire a little bit more sun say that multiple years to come up with a viable plan if they haven't been able to do it since 2021, I don't know what an extra 30 30 day window would allow in 90 days. They should they they should at least be able show that they're willing to negotiate in good faith to come up with a plan that's better for the

search for the city all the way to seize. I do see a little bit of anxiety on our city managers face. And so I want I want to confirm whether whether this makes sense to you. Thank you. Vice Mayor. I would actually defer to Gio whether or not she needs. >> 9200 days for me, this isn't strictly a policy decision. And I know this council wants to move housing forward when they first approached me with the extension, there were some extenuating circumstances myself and the former COUNCILMAN Rogers and Joe met. And we thought, you know, we you know, make an exception to do an extension. Since then we've we just don't hear from cornerstone. We've had 3 projects that have moved forward and are moving forward. And again, I'm not there find it. You know, I'm not and I don't know their financing on know what their performa looks like at this point. But we're on upward trajectory as it relates to housing here. And I just want to make certain that said direction. We continue to go. >> So I do think if we're going to go in this direction, whether it's 9220 days again, now tougher to based on what is on her plate at this time. But we do need to do an amendment because I do not want to lose the trajectory that we have going forward in this city and how we're moving projects forward. >> I would like to recommend actually that we stick to the 90 days that we too aggressively negotiate with than 90 days. I just want to clarify is an extension. So it's a 90 day extension for

entitlement. Now. I've never seen anybody untitled project in 90 days, but if they didn't title for some usually takes 6 months and title, then they do have 6 years to construct and we are bound to that. >> COUNCILMAN, if I can offer a compromise because of some of the factors like the holidays and maternity leave. What if we just say they have key want to do it or the county is so cute. Threes say MARCH 30th and of business. That's the end of it. APRIL first, they are in default and we can move forward instead of trying to say 90 days, 120, is just date? Certain of MARCH. 30th is the end of it is. Is that alright? >> It's generally it to you counsel. I would highly recommend that you stick to the 90 days. City attorney. Think the piece that I that I want to just underscore what Joe just said is that the risk? >> Is that they managed to get the entitlements done within that period of time. And I just want you all to hear that. Then we can't remember we were we won't have any leverage renegotiate. I'm not sure that it's realistic that they would. And I see count council member wants to comment on that. But I just wanted to underscore that and then I think it doesn't matter with the pick a date or whether you say 90 days from today. We just wanted to be clear. >> vice mayor, is it ok? If I go to Councilmember Fleming, thank you. Councilmember Clinic. Respectfully disagree. I think the risk is that they don't get the entitlements. And I think that that's it. A policy to sit in for us to make about whether or not we'd like this to go forward. I get that. There's a lot of

frustration, but there's really significant insinuating the circumstances which go beyond maternity leave and if they are unable to perform, they're going to be unable to perform. But I think it's a real problem for us. If we get this parcel back. Even if we sell it for more money than we got it for, it's still going to sit there and it's going to be very difficult to develop as a tiny parcel on its own. Don't want that to happen. If it happens, it happens. But I think we should give them one chance. 2, get the entitlements and move on. And if they can't do it and they can't do it. But quibbling over take a few days here and there because we don't really wanted to work. That's that's not that's not feeling good to me. So I'll be in support of 120 days personally. The more I think about it, especially since we have 3 holiday weekend for holiday weekends in the next 90 days. Vice mayor is that. Councilmember Fleming dropped the mic. Said one clarification and back medal city attorney. More back to your discussion of the parallel time frames. >> So I think I understand it now. So if they if they do manage to pull off the world's fastest and title meant than the original, the original agreement holds. My assumption was that it was going to faster to potentially renegotiate that agreement. Then it would be to get the entitlements. But I guess that's not a certainty from the city's point. So we do have a a little wager, but do I still do understand correctly that we're still pursuing parallel tracks here where they've got whatever the whatever the day we agree on is to to get the entitlements. But at the same time, we're going to them saying we really

want to tighten up this development agreement the timelines, at least is that is my understanding, correct? On that point. >> Yes, did. You want It is. And it's I do want to clarify. It's not that staff does not want this to work stuff desperately wants this to work try to work with cornerstone for many years to make this work. And it's a very unfortunate circumstances that we're in now. But my fear is is that I would like to keep it to a short period of time so that we have to negotiate and we have to keep it done. 120 days is probably still fine because you can title it. I do want them to entitle it, but I would like to get to the point 0st that we're able to renegotiate agreement. So once they do entitle it. Then it's a productive development. So following up that would would be your preference. Better timeline is actually shorter and really focused on on renegotiating the agreement. >> The mad at 45 Day She ation 45 day extension where we're assuming that beat that we're just we're simply renegotiating. >> It is an extension. We would need a minimum of 90 days to be able to do it because everyone's point there is the holiday. I think I'm understanding your question, but I there's some things that I would suggest to council that we negotiate renegotiate. And during that time that were in their original agreement that maybe don't work for cornerstone either any longer so I think the project that we had all staff and cornerstone had looked originally is not

something that pencils any longer the perform and did not work. I did see the performace. So I think we have to look at what the new Project Inc. How they put the new project in place, how they finance it and where they go from here. >> And I want to be clear, the a policy called for this decision. Only going to bring you the recommendation that we feel is best from our perspective. Again, our goal is to execute. Your housing. Gold priority. And how are we get to that goal? We'll do it in the fashion that ask us to do. Understood. Thank you. >> Councilmember MacDonald. Just have one more clarifying question. And it MAY be that you've already answered it. But due to translation in my ears, I'm just going to make sure if they're able to get the entitlements. Jill, does that mean that the time mine starts over and they would have 6 years to be able to perform. So the the goal of keeping it a shorter time is so that they would not be able to get the entitlements so that we could renegotiate and make sure that housing goes up between this between now and 6 years or otherwise. They have a longer time which we all hope that that's not their goal. But in fact, they could do that if necessary. Is that right? >> That's correct. So we would want to give them an incentive to renegotiate the contract. I think they have other incentives to want to do that already because like I've alluded to, I think we need to relook at the project. We all agree on that. But I think we need to do it in a short period of time and just get it

done. Get just get the contract amended and then they can move forward with entitlements that the 6 years from entitlement is a really long Thank you for that. You know, I keep hearing that we don't want them get. I want to be clear. It's a it's an alternative option that we're looking at. We want to help cornerstone. >> Get to the finish line. So don't want there to be a narrative that we don't want cornerstone to get a b or c. We just want alternative options so we can help them to the finish line. >> Alright, is there any additional discussion? So? You want to cracking it? >> for to the city of Trump. How about this? I will say what I'd like to accomplish and have the city attorney translated in. >> Ordinance >> or resolution? Yes. >> All right. I'd like to see a 90 day air will go 120 temporary extension. >> To give staff time to renegotiate the contract to include more traditional incentives to develop. As Jill had said before. It is an extension. It's a very short-term extension, but it is an extension that once you get it, you can't take it back. >> So the 120 days would mean that they have 120 days. 2. Joe, can you walk through exactly what would have to be done in those 120 days? >> We would have to renegotiate the an amendment to the contract. So within that 120 days, we would work with cornerstone to talk about what the new project with look

at the number of units try and get c with her perform and make sure it's a performer that works. We would renegotiate the time for construction and it's council would like to be clear on how long they would like to give them. That would be helpful information for me to have. After entitlements. So they would we would renegotiate a certain specific time like 6 months or 9 months from title Ments from the Times that the amendment is passed by council and then a specific amount of time from there till they have to actually can finance and construct the project. I think my question was putting aside the agree the amendment we MAY or MAY not be successful amending and we're certainly gonna try and hope that we are able to achieve that goal. >> But the extension. The extension you're being you're giving so that we can go through this exercise. But the extension is independent of our success. And so that extension would extend the deadline to entitled the project. And to also get the permit incorrect. It would be the building permits on the smart side, according to the contract right now. >> And the entitlements on for 10 b street. >> And so they would they would be getting 120 day extension. So my my suggestion is the motion is to extend. Extend by 120 days. Those 2 deadlines that Joel just listed. And that's a period. And direction to staff. To attempt to renegotiate within that time frame Come up with all of the things that listed so improvements that are in the interest of the city. Some of them also be in the best

interest of the of the developer here. And in terms of change of the project, clearer and shorter timelines for construction and proof of financing and and the other terms that we are able to negotiate and we would come back to you with that amendment if we are unsuccessful getting that amendment, we MAY be coming back to you with another public hearing. 2, go ahead and do a notice of default for failing to comply with this new deadline which will be extended by 120 days and it would be 120 days from this evening. Is that is that what you have in mind? Yes, Anderson, it a guest from my point of view, is if they get entitled tomorrow, they took one extra day too. Meet the requirements we had in the original contract if but in looking at the the letter that was sent to us yesterday, they're working with an architect, which to me implies they are nowhere near entitling anything in the next 90 days. >> And mean, they're nowhere near submitting anything in the next 90 days. I don't have staff review it give their feedback. And Matt, you know, I mean, 90 days is is good. Time for 2100 square-foot single-family detached home. Let alone a project like this. So don't have any fear of that. And in terms of the feedback that you wanted and timeline, I if you're ok with it, giving you the latitude it to be in the person in the room negotiating this. But I'd say after the extension, 18 months to get entitled any

year to another 18 months to get, you know, substantial progress a construction. I think that would be. Reasonable if they're But I'm open it. I'm open to giving you attitude since you're having those discussions instead of just speculating from up here. >> That's helpful information. Thank you. >> All right. So we have a solution. In a second. MADAM City clerk. Please call them that. Councilmember Okrepkie. Councilmember MacDonald. Councilmember Fleming. I Bres vice mayor stop by. They are Let the record show passes unanimously. >> Very moving back up to fun. If team 0.2, MADAM City manager. >> Item 15.2 Marin, Sonoma Coordinated transit service plan mascots update and look and see if there's a mascot in the room. Vice mayor's is looking as well. >> The the In-joke very free began. Is that any different use the acronym, Akron mascot? We need a mascot. I assume it's I see what's in his Mascots. Excuse me. Thank you for coming to floor. Is yours? >> Thank you for having us and good My name is Matthew Wilcox. I'm a transit planner with center of City of City of Santa Rosa and looking at the table to my left is Kathleen Sullivan. She's the director of planning for more in

transit and spearheading this effort to a great degree. And then as you probably know, Rachel deputy director of Public Works Transit and they go through this presentation and Kathleen, Rachel misses at some point get it wrong. But I feel pretty confident going forward. So shore or view of what mascots the acronym stands for the Brand Sonoma Coordinated Transit Service plan. This is an effort between 6 transit agencies and 3 funding agencies. This they see introduction. So to get into the meat of this, why are we doing mascot? A lot of it has to do with the changes along the one on one corridor, the north-south travel patterns between ran Sonoma County in the Central Bay Area from a San Francisco a lot of or last year's have shifted the landscape that we once knew of that commute, smart bn services, one of the large ones and shortly after they started service, we enter the pandemic. So there wasn't really a good baseline of what that service does, how it aligns with the other north-south services along the corridor. So looking at the shifting travel, pan patterns decided there need to be a whole reevaluation of how the North-South, one corridor operates from transit perspective. This is a effort that is. Supposed to be more of a entering as a baseline like we have never looked transit along this corridor. And how would we operate it? That we not being city of us, but we being transit operators clarify on that. So the purpose in key questions, you

know, we want to improve the service efficiency effectiveness how the public understands how transit operates on the one on corridor. There are. It's huge confusion about what is the most efficient way for someone to travel from so in Sonoma, our snow, rain all the way into the Central Bay Area. What are the regional markets for transit and how can they be successful are we serving communities appropriately and you what should the future really look like? And this is not a planning exercise. This isn't a philosophical debate. Intent of this is to. Come forward with an actual service plan for the corridor that is. In a connection between all of these different operators that operate along the corridor. Obviously, smart Golden Gate and Sonoma County degree are are the biggest players along the movement of the north-south. But agencies like City of Des are an important part of the mix because we provide that last and first mile connections to that central corridor. So the focus and approach is on a regional service. The intent is not to repeat past work. And that's why, as we know is there's not a heavy emphasis on the Sonoma County operators operate locally like U.S. Petaluma Transit Sonoma County to a degree we have our own planning effort remember. We've come forward talking about the transit, integrate efficiency service planned between 3 transit operate bus operators in Sonoma County. So part of the work and there is informing what is happening in the mascot study. We're using the same consultant which is

Nelson Nygaard so they have that knowledge going forward about what is happening on a local level and there's components of what we will integrate into the plan. But for the most part, that focus is on the smart corridor and what city bus plays a role is how we probably will interact with smart. And as we get further into the slides, you kind of see how things change from the Golden Gate perspective. Just give you an understanding of where we are in this process. We have gone through phase one. Understand the current conditions, what services out there, what looks like we're now we're in phase 2. So we're developing different solutions to those findings through Visor e attack. And then finally, as we headed out of this month and the FEBRUARY, so very aggressive timeline. But we feel it's feasible going into the financial impacts of how those alternatives would book and then also feedback from the public and and she's like yourselves about what? Folks feel about those alternatives. So some key existing condition findings. So part of this was taking data mtc had on travel patterns. This is our patterns taken from electronic devices with gps unable to. This isn't necessarily trial patterns for just transit users. This is also people as they move through the Bay area in general. So about two-thirds of all trips for Marine Sonoma counties Cisco come from or

further point. So a lot of marine travel, more than three-quarters of trips between ran have origins and destinations within the smart travel shed just to reemphasize. That's important for us because save us is an important part travel should getting people to the station's if they're choosing to make those regional trips. And then 2 thirds of trips from Sonoma and Marin counties and up in San Francisco, downtown Fisherman's Wharf and the Civic Center areas. Smart invitation is definitely as related to change things quite dramatically along the corridor. More people are using transit since marking the service, which great. Smart being a It's faster. It's more reliable. Not there's no traffic for up to 8 in other than when asked to pass along the way. Now with smart kind of getting picking up steam it is actually has a larger share of the travel market then Golden Gate in Sonoma County service. So we're seeing the shifting trend of people going towards the train to make those North South regional trips just due to the level of ease and speed that it provides its its a little more consummate, too. Individual automobile. Then a bus can be who stuck in the same traffic. So just to give you a quick overview of Golden Gate Service 41st percent to 60% not regional for them in the pandemic. Uni cutting service Golden Gate was allowed to provide local service within the city and that was not the case before

is a little more territorial. And as you can see from the chart, some of the routes like the one 14 55% of the writer of that ridership local to San Francisco. So this points to the shifting trends and commuters, whether it's work from home being more prominent for commuter pass commuters or the fact that if you look even on a day-to-day basis, it fluctuates greatly. We're on Fridays. There even more precipitous drop in ridership as people do have that work from home. Work at the office. So just know, go further into the Golden Gate Service areas are the majority the carry a majority of the riders Orange County to San Francisco. So it's a once again, it's kind of that. You're not dealing with traffic and it's significant difference in fare and frequency between ferries and buses defending restart. But it also I think it gives that sense of it is a faster trip and there. That's why you see that dynamic between bus ferry and rail. So are key findings this is probably where we're most interested. As you probably know. And you can look at the map. There's a lot of duplication between services that go north south through the county's Golden gate. Parallel smart, smart parallels. Golden Gate since since we can see from the data that smart is kind of replacing that north-south community would indicate that. We should shift. If we are making those connections with the transit operator that does travel regionally, that city. But should look to create better connections to smart stations. I'll be at the

Transit Center and the smart station are not so close to each other, but there's other ways for us to overcome that providing more frequency along the corridors that do you go past the smart stations also working with Sonoma County, too. Also not be duplicative service in the city and work together to provide not the north-south connections to the city, but that East West connections that kind of feed that central corridor. Just a touch briefly on. We're the vast majority of Golden Gate Service, at least the productive parts of it or actually south of nevado. So in the Sandra fell corridor. So you can see that there's It would indicate that there is a possibility for goal, new service to be more truncated within Marin County to still provide those trips over the bridge for bus riders and potentially less service in 2, the northern part of Sonoma County up to Santa Rosa and not with smart would fill in that gap to get people. If they do want to make that full regional trip into the Central Bay Area that they could transfer to a ferry. Oracle gave us. Just to give you a sense of next steps. Right now we're in for a new giving you the initial findings. And then we will come forward with the alternatives and proposals will evaluate a publicly also by the general managers. Just another financial subcommittee for this effort that is looking at all how the finances play out and run reiterate that this is. We're attempting to make this very operator agnostic and that. The intent is to create a

cohesive transit system. Whether smart incidents of that Golden Gate did or Golden Gate something that smart is doing, the intent is to find the most efficient travel patterns that would encourage more transit trips and, you know, we saw that we can see the trends that are going up with trans you saw the quarter. We want to keep. Compounding up on those. So you can expect that we will come back to you. And this all happened hopefully early 2025. And with that, I would like to open up to any questions or comments from the council. Thank you for that presentation looking to council to see if there any questions. >> at this time seeing no questions. MADAM City clerk mean please facilitate public comment. Thank you. We are not taking public comments on item. 15.2, if you're in the council chamber but have not provided your name or a speaker card, please make your way to the podium. >> I see no and approaching the podium there. Look at council to see if there are any. >> Comments. Are crafty. >> Yeah. Thank you so much for the presentation. This I think maybe the 4th or 5th time I've seen that's just me I don't want to this to go by without emphasizing how important this is. I mean, it can seem somewhat of a dry, data driven concept, but when it can take hours to literally get from cloverdale to nevado. >> Or for. >> So to get from Healdsburg to Sonoma State University to go to class. You know, this is a big deal to align these kinds of things. So that. You know, I think if anybody's average commute into the city, they're trying to be responsible. You know, one of those things where like, alright, I'm getting off the

train. And then the next bus leaves exactly when the train leaves. And then sit there for 45 minutes to an hour. So the next one comes through. These are the kind of changes we're making so that people can can live work and play better and that I just want. Thank you guys. Presentation and I really look forward to this. >> Thank you. Again, I don't think it seems dry. I think that it is needed and it can encourage more people to take public transportation because I think that's been a draw a drawback for people not being able to get their connections or get to where they need to get. >> Fast enough. So on looks great. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much. Not handed over to Councilmember Fleming. To do the motion. Also. >> Thank you, mayor. We got the motion. This is informational. Only there's no will okay? Great. I don't know. But here we Maybe because I'm so excited about it. Just wait till we get a mask. So I to to let the council know This information is really useful for us for local funding at mdc. We're going to be using this report. >> To reassess tda funding, the transit development moneys and how all of that formula funding comes to the various operators in the region. It's in much meat is in need pretty urgent update. And so this work is really not so dry when matters about the money that but anyway, thank you very

much for your help. >> All right. Again, thank you for the presentation. So dry. Moving on to our >> written communications. We have one written communication, 17.1. I did not see anyone in the audience order make public comment on that item. But the same goes for item 18, which is our public comment on non agenda matters. There's currently no one in the audience to make a comment on that one. And after a pretty long meeting in good sausage making. I would like to say thank you to the council. This will be my last meeting that I will be able to adjourn as your mayor. Thank you very much. In the meeting's adjourned. Have a