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that of these to hold that, I need to back ask a system which has a sort of things. Thank you very much. Back to you. >> Alright, everyone. The time is to 30. We'll call this meeting to order city clerk. Would please call the roll? >> Thank you, Mayor Councilmember Rogers, PRESIDENT Councilmember Okrepkie here, Councilmember MacDonald here, Councilmember Fleming, your Councilmember, Ben Willows Vice Mayor Alvarez present step here. Let the record show that all councilmembers are present. >> Thank you say on to item 3 and out our closed session, public employee evaluation performance seeing no members of the public in chamber. We will. I will skip public comment and are in a closed session. Thank you. Thank you for your patience, everyone. We're back. MADAM City Clerk, would you please call the roll? >> Thank you. Mayor Councilmember Rogers kept key Councilmember MacDonald here, Councilmember Fleming here, Councilmember Ben. Well oath here. Vice Mayor Alvarez PRESIDENT Mayor step Let the record show all councilmembers are present. >> Thank you. Want to item 6? Report on closed session. I never get to do the report. So I'm but I'm glad to do it today. There's no report notice there are no reportable action from closed session. Item. We're going to a proclamation for Red Cross Month. Been winless. >> All right. It is my honor. Let's where as we celebrate American Red Cross Month by recognizing the compassionate

acts of people in Santa Rosa and by renewing our commitment to lend a helping hand to our neighbors in need. And where is since Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross Generation after generation has stepped up to deliver relief in care across the country. Our country and around the world volunteers who give back through the Sonoma Napa chapter the American Red Cross remain unwavering and their commitment to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of today's emergencies. And whereas their volunteer contribution shine a beacon of hope and people start this hours, whether it's delivering shelter, food, comfort during disasters providing critical blood donations for hospital patients supporting service members, veterans and their families saving lives with first aid cpr aed and other skills or delivering international aid and reconnecting loved ones separated by global crises. And where is this work to uplift? Our community is truly made possible by those who selflessly answered the call to help we here by recognize this month of MARCH in honor of their remarkable service. And we ask everyone to join and their commitment to care for one another. Now, therefore, be it resolved that our Mayor Mark Step mayor of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire City Council in recognition of our community do hereby proclaim MARCH to Red Clown Red Cross Month. We have Andy with home

here. >> Wonderful. Andy. Do You sure head up to the top. That might be easiest. Excellent. Excellent will do it. We'll do a photo right after public comment. Know, we can hear you. >> We want to say thank you very much to this city Council for passing their vaccination, declaring this the Red Cross Month. We also want to thank you for your services city council members, especially tonight giving up the opportunity to watch the State of the Union by sitting here doing should this really good of you? Red does a lot of work in million the community. We have our blue sky and our gray sky activity. Gray skies. When we respond to disasters like the Tubbs Fire and the Kincade fire that we're in this neighborhood and hundreds of volunteers showed up to help community members who lost their homes had to be shelters when shelter at the vets building as you're well aware. We've also had at the fairgrounds. Are blue sky activities, a little broader. We respond. We do trainings She pr and first aid. We saw smoke alarms. We've installed smoke alarms 5 or 6 different mobile home parks in hundreds of smoke alarms the homes elderly folks who now are safer because they will know if there's a fire in her home. We try or best to do education of young children. Have 2 programs will be used to have 2 programs. Now we have one called prepare with a drill. It's a program we do in the schools for kindergarten through second graders to prepare for how to deal with a home fire that might happen in their homes. We have debt responders, disaster assistance team who go out when Santa Rosa Fire Department or Healdsburg Fire

Rohnert Park Fire Department. >> Call Red Cross say we've had a home fire. Would you please come and provide assistance to the Lots of different ways that we're doing and we appreciate you recognizing that. And I want to get married chance to say something variant on the board of the Red Cross for Napa Marin and Sonoma Solano counties. >> I've Mary mj. I just want to say thank you and I was recently on a sound the alarm over at Rancho Miguel. One of our. >> Local. >> Mobile home parks over there and one of the residents actually was a Red Cross volunteer for 9.11. She's 89 years old and was actually helping to shelters. So these are your community members that are living within your area. And I'm just super proud. Also has a member has a household. My children go to school here in Santa Rosa. And so I greatly do appreciate it. Thank you. >> And the thank you both. And we'll look forward to taking photo just a minute. But first opened up to public comment. Are there any of any members of the public who would like to make comment today? Thank you to Wayne. Alright with that. We'll ask you to come down to the front here. We'll take a photo. We'll move on to item 7.2, which is a proclamation for our for Arbor Week. Cut you opportune time. You likely to tap dance. I think we'd all like that. >> Okay. All right. Thank you all for your patients. Whereas in 18 72, a special day was set aside for the plan to countries. And this holiday called Arbor Day was first observed with the planting of more than 1 million trees. Is now observed throughout the

nation and the world since 19. 0, 9, the state of California officially declared MARCH 7 Arbor Day to commemorate the birthday of our very own Luther Burbank. And whereas in 2025 National Arbor Day Falls on Friday, APRIL 25th and the city celebrates Arbor Day on MARCH 8th with a tree planting event on commune Calvin Community Park as service to our community local school programs. And whereas trees protect our resources, reduce erosion of topsoil, cut, heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean air, produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife and whereas tree support our city's economic development by increasing property values. Beautify her community enhancing the vitality of businesses, areas. And whereas the interest in strengthening community image and sense of place through a preservation of and dedication to Sanders's urban forest has been a major goal and commitments and center since the city's founding. Santa Rosa has been recognized as Tree City usa by the National Arbor Day Foundation for over 40 years and desires to continue as tree planting ways. And whereas trees are terrific in all shapes and sizes. No tree size shape me here now, therefore MAY be resolved. That marks tap mayor of the city center is on behalf of the entire city council in recognition of our community does hereby proclaim MARCH 2 to MARCH 9, 2025. Arbor Weekend. Thank you. It's nice to have so many member of our rec and parks team So again. Thank you. Thank you. Time and

to turn out. >> It just James Castro here very is James. Photo afterwards yet come right on down. >> There's Vice Mayor Alvarez Council members. My name is James The park's superintendent. Thank you for the proclamation and the recognition under Arbor Day. I do want to say a quick thank you to Dina Mannus and her team for always get these proclamations on that agenda on time. We appreciate you very much. Once a year, we as city employees, we have to look at our budgets and take a close look at cost savings and potential reductions in services. We present these to counsel and then we can trust direction on how to proceed. Park maintenance staff could stand up for just a second. No matter what services the city cuts or we'll cut like tree crew. If a tree falls in the city, this team responds no matter what. It doesn't matter what time it doesn't matter what the weather is and it doesn't matter if part of our city is burning. This team is there to keep our right of way clear. So the public can move through safely. We also get assistance from the streets team. I need to call that out. We're very thankful for this. Once a year we host an Arbor Day celebration. Tree-planting is this Saturday MARCH 8th at Calvin Park from 9 to 12. We hope you all can join us. That's it. Thank you very much. >> James, thank you. Your advocacy as much deserved. We know well what that what this team brings to the city. All right. Thank you for calling up the streets team as well. With that. Let's open it up to public comment before do the photo. MR. Do it. >> My name is doing to it on from Rosen. Also want to thank these nice men and women. Of that parks department who've

done all this good work with trees. It's really important that we recognized the superintendents and the parks who've been helping on this, especially over in Roseland, which was an area that didn't even have parks most of my life. Just a small little spot next to South Davis Street. So now they're farms over there and we've protected 19 and a half acres along Rosalynn Creek to be the Roseland neighborhood. I bring this up because these folks do the work. They come out and clean up after all the mess that's left by. I call transient vagrants. That happened to find a spot to sleep in. Stay for a little bit longer. Where we live. We call it wearing out their welcome. And these folks are kind enough to come and help us to clean up out there. We do this quite often will be out there more again. And I just want to make sure that in your budget talks, you know, it's like these folks. These folks are the ones are actually doing all the work that we need done and you make sure and keep their wages to be. I guess what they call it these days. The living wage, make sure they get the monies they need and hire some more folks. Even if you have to cut back on some of that management stuff up there at the top. It's like a tree. Job of the top believe the roots. Things are better for us all the way around. Some folks might not agree with that. But over in Rosen were likened it that way because these folks make Rosalynn better. I haven't seen any of the management folks roll through except Maraskeshia Smith and Mayor Rogers when she was there and hour as comes. So MR. Stabbing Ms MacDonald

stopped by. Earth Day last year. So we're doing another day Saturday. I think it's the 18th or 19th of APRIL. We'll get it out to you. Thank you. Once again, all you men and women of the Parks Department. Big with that color round of applause for you, folks. >> Thank you to Wayne again. Applause. Much deserved. Are there any other members of the public would like to comment? Well, then we could we might the park's team to come down and we'll do. We'll do a photo in front of the day. Yes, I think that might be might be easiest. Thank you We'll move on to our staff breeding briefings and we'll start with item 8.1 overview of the renewal Enterprise district. I think we Robin Stefani. Supervisor Coursey Mason made basket there. >> Good afternoon. Mayor staff and members of council with us today is Robin Stephanie, who's the executive director of the Renewal Enterprise District and Supervisor Chris Coursey. And they'll be providing you with an overview of what the district's been up to. An attorney Stricker. >> I see you all is said pleasure for me to be back here. City Hall to talk about a great collaboration between the city of Santa Rosa and the county of Sonoma, 3 of Newell Enterprise District. CHAIRMAN Of the board of the I'm here with Robin's defending who is the executive director. We have a short presentation for you and that hoping that we can answer any questions that you have. Just a quick overview, the renewal

Enterprise district is joint Powers Authority that was formed in DECEMBER of 2018. Members of the council who are involved in the district right now are Councilmember Fleming Councilmember Ben Willows, who is our our newest member and then myself and supervisor rabbit from the Board of Supervisors. This is and a district that was formed kind of child of the fires of 2017. After the fires. We knew that. We had to rebuild 3 have 3,000 homes and sit in Santa Rosa and another 3,000 outside of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County that the 2 were lost. But there was also a strong desire to make sure that we didn't get 5 or 7 to 7 years down the road be celebrating that we're back to 2017. So this was an effort to create a resource and policy and and money. 2 build more housing. The areas where we most need it. And in ways that we also most wanted. So the and the county contributed 10 million dollars to this effort that's provided leverage for millions. More from philanthropic entities and grants at the state level. That Robin, we'll talk about later on. Just description of what we're trying to do here is to create housing that that beats the following criteria. It has to be infill site. It has to be mid to high density. Has to be residential mixed use and it has to be in a

transit. Rich planned area has to meet all of those goals. And then one of several others. And those that it be affordable that it's serving disadvantaged community that provide onsite childcare. There's a menu here. What this has resulted in is more than 630 units of housing that are being lived in now by members of our community or under construction. Now, 3 new enterprise district didn't pay for all of that, but we did contribute key funds to make sure that each of those projects staying alive and either has become more is becoming reality. Real housing in the community for for all of us. All of that housing has been created in the city of Santa Rosa. Doesn't need to be in the city of Santa Rosa, but because of some of those requirements, that's where it is. I'll stop there in turn it over to Robin. >> So thank you. I just want that. I'm stepping into this role relatively recently. And there's been a lot of really great and innovative collaborative work that's gone into creating this program. And I just want to express gratitude to all of you helped us Vice >> That's better. And others and others of staff that have contributed and helped with what we've done. I'm going go over some of the focus areas that we've seen great success with the program and then also give you a recap of the Red Housing fund and then allow for questions to drill into

maybe specifics of of particular things that you want to hear more about. So in addition to the Red Housing Fund which directly support Sevilla loans, specific housing projects, the red has also been working on collaborative grants and this table here sort of reflects the grants that the Reds been involved in in supporting either on as support or managing the actual grant applications for. And this is important. Setting of the table for development of housing in the community because these types of funds are coming into the community that would otherwise not be coming into the community and they helped us at that table so that the developments can go after additional funding and be more competitive. So this is a really critical piece, too. And what we identified early on in the program, development of things that the red could do to assist in and accelerate housing development. Over the last 4 funding cycles that you see represented here. This effort has brought in on over 70 million in funding that's been leverage to over a billion actual investment in our community. The Red Housing Fund which Chris mentioned was the the creation of a loan product that included the 10 million from the city and the 10 million from the county was then leveraged to go after additional funding from the enterprise loan and the local Housing Trust Fund matching Grant to be aggregated together for the 22 million that we have in our fun right now that we loan out to various developments. And so those. I'm 6 projects represented. Here were the

result of the first know for that we put out and they represent 632 additional housing units in the community. When I showed you but the table previously, that was sort of early funding and then what this represents is that last little bit in got funding that comes in to support a project to get it into construction. So 2 critical pieces of the overall lifecycle of housing development. So growing, the funds been one of the things that I've been working on and that we are we continued try to achieve. I bring up the local housing trust fund matching grant because you can see here that. Because we are so competitive here. This is obviously something that we want to continue to to duplicate. And this brought in a million dollars that otherwise would not have been available. And this money went to help support the last project that we just fund in, which was the Casa Rosen project. So currently the fund has for projects that have been constructed and then are currently housing our community, 2 projects that are in construction care that on represent another 243 units and then we will the way that the loan is designed is that our market rate products are market rate loan product is a recycled product in that it is about three-year turnaround time for that money to be loaned back out to the next project. So we will be coming out. We're looking at coming out in 2025. Early. 26 with no

sir, to recycle those funds. Pullman laughs is one of the market rate products that we supported. And on. This has 114 market rate units into affordable units. This is located in the railroad Square area one of the first transit oriented development projects that we've seen in Santa Rosa adjacent sort of the smart station in downtown Santa Rosa. This is one of products that we were really interested in supporting to see if we could get a couple of market rate products going so that we can prove the model that downtown development works and that this would spur additional interest from other developers because one of the things that one of the things that the funded in the early stages of its formation was a lot of conversations with the development community not just locally, but outside the area to try to determine what we could do to. Move our housing forward downtown development. Infill development market share that we had been struggling with in Santa Rosa. So this is one of the projects that we supported that is helping to do that. The car zone is down on Stony point and possible road. And this is 77 units of affordable housing. One of the things that I really thought was great about Project opening that Vice Mayor Alvarez join me for was that the school district showed up to celebrate this project. They were really they're saying, you know, our families looking forward to this. We have several families that are moved in are ready and, you know, they see. Rightly so the nexis between housing and

education and having housing near education, the type of housing that families need to be able to support the school district. So it's really great to see them there. This particular project because it's an affordable project. It also had program related to it. And so they had a community space. And so I heard conversations happening between the school district about afterschool programs and so we really nice kind of mix scene of of that, you know, to different parts of our community that sometimes are little bit remote from each other in a little bit siloed kind of coming together and realizing that they have a shared interest in these in this community. Be r a is a project that is out on college next to the old Jean g a supermarket which is now safely. And this is 136 units of affordable units and it's a good example of. Project that is really located next to amenities where you could potentially walk and go buy your groceries because safely it's right next door and there's other services that are in that adjacent shopping area. And so although this isn't downtown proper, it's one of those adjacent hubs, if you will, that are important to for us to think about developing and to connecting our transit. Goals with so that we can kind of build these small little neighborhood hubs throughout the community of Santa Rosa. South Park Commons, which is down kind of. Adjacent like maybe a mile this direction. South Saint Rose Avenue. The crow flies about a mile. This is what was Bennett Valley Senior Center and has been redeveloped into what I think

is one of the most beautiful, affordable housing projects in our area. It also wins the word for closest. >> Fit to the rendering that we saw this project is 75 affordable units, including some section 8 voucher recipients from the city of Santa Rosa. For 20 Mendocino, which is really fantastic Project Market rate project in downtown Santa Rosa. And I think we probably all seen the cranes and the work being done here and so this is project 2 of the on the setting. The new expectation downtown Santa Rosa is a great place to come and develop mixed use. Projects that are going be helping to support the economic development goals of the city. While also meeting the housing needs of our community, which really spread across the spectrum from, you know, we really need all types of housing right now. And so this is a great example of a product type that we just we didn't have before. This is a new kind of model and it's pretty innovative in its construction technique. It's the first double podium construction in Santa Rosa. So that's also been one of that on kind of questions that people have wondered about whether that was a viable product tape to develop in Santa Rosa. It's proving the case. And I think that you will see more of this type of construction. Now that one's been built. So we are looking forward to this project opening this year. I've been, you know, waiting for the tour of it coming up. Really close to being completed and construction and will be starting to lease out this

year. And then, oh, sorry that a number of units for that one is 168. 168 market rate units and then Casa Roselyn. Obviously our latest project that we embarked on an close on the loan this JANUARY and has started construction and this project, really all of our projects exemplify this idea of complete communities, which is the idea that, you know, if you can live and work and walk and get public transportation in your community, you are going to have a healthier living experience in your community and you'll be on. Be able to thrive there in your community. This project really hits it out of the ball park in the sense that it's been long awaited and also anticipated and it is part of what? Is that town focus of the new town focus of Roseland with that. The square there that you see in the foreground that's under construction right now. That's going to if anybody is familiar with this particular site, it was, you know, parking And now it's going to be a park. So this really I think, a great project to showcase what affordable housing can do and housing can do to revitalize really a community because dot was the key piece that was needed in order to support the development that's happening here for the rest of the community. So those things really go hand in hand. Yeah. So that is the end of my presentation to have any questions. >> Thank you very much. Bring back to council for questions. Been with

>> Where's customers? Located, it's on Sir Basketball Road and not exactly sure the Cross Street but very close to West. Okay. Thank you. So I want thank you. I have one. >> I'm sorry, supervisor to just to add a little context. It's it's the heart of rose and where a food park is right now where where Cinco de Mayo takes place. Hield Rosalynn shopping center. Thank One question for Street over. 2020. 25 2026 much. And that's that some of the funds present previously been allocated become available for loans. Will be that will be that loan amount. >> They'll be another 1.3 million. We currently have about 2.3 million in the fund. So we will be aggregating not together. And the discussion is whether or not to go out within, you know, for this year to wait to the following year because then Mendocino for 20 Mendocino will much or and dot 7 million will then be available. >> Understood. Thanks for that. Clarification was >> Thank you, Thank you both for coming here today. I constantly bragging about all of the good work that you do in order to achieve our housing goals. And it's really amazing that we do it in partnership with our county partners. I was just curious if you could also speak to. I know we're not currently doing. The jpa I'm sorry. That was the word for it is essential functions essential function. Bonding. Yeah, I was just wondering if you could speak to that for just a moment. So Sharon's looking

here that potential inch? Sure. Well, I hope that that this is the first of many reports that I get to come back to present to you because there is a lot of exciting things that we are looking at this year. And one of them is essential function. Van. >> Which has been difficult to do for various reasons related to the market. But as things MAY be potentially cool off, there MAY be more opportunities. It's a little bit technical, but essentially it would allow us to purchased a project that is currently market rate bring not market rate project naturally into an affordable or middle missing middle product. And in a way that historically the reason that jpa is an essential function, bonds have been a little bit on ice. Is that? And there were some issues that we have now as collective community of people trying to do these have resolved. And we think we have a path that is going to work for the jurisdiction and work for. Product type. So we're just waiting for complete alignment on which largely has to do with interest rates and available projects. So I look forward to coming back with more information on that. Thank Thank you, Robin. >> Any other questions from council? Let's open up to public comment. I see that we have Stephanie Bauer. Was put her name in. Stephanie here. Thank you. After Stephanie, MR. Do it. >> Good evening, Mayor. Stop Mayor Vice Mayor Alvarez Council members and staff. My name is Stephanie and I serve as deputy director at Generation Housing. The red is exactly the kind of

collaborative multi-jurisdictional effort that can lead to enduring smart, leveraged and regional housing solutions. We're grateful to the center of the City Council for answering one of our first public calls to invest into the Red Housing fund, which sprung from the red in 2020. This innovative financing model has already provided critical gap financing to several projects bringing over 600 units high-density transit-oriented in climate smart units to center isn't the ability of the red housing fund to leverage public and private resources is key to accelerating housing production in addressing longstanding regional housing needs. Appreciate your ongoing dedication to the renewal Enterprise District and the Red Housing Fund and look forward to seeing the lasting benefits. These investments will bring to center of the Thank you. Thank you, Stephanie. MR. Do Thank you, sir. My name is doing to from Rosen. Also in the Sonoma County housing advocacy group. >> This has been a wonderful presentation. This is the most I've heard ever about what the red actually doing and how the good things are coming forward. So positive. I have never met MISTER Funny yet, but I'm looking forward to that situation specifically to advocate for even more housing over in the Santa Rosa specific plan area of Roseland, which runs along Sebastopol Road up to Denton Avenue and takes Roberts Avenue. These things are very close to the downtown Railroad Depot. One of the things that comes up often as people to understand how interact with different agencies. Understand where the transparency is to

get the information to be able to put something forward. Now that you talked about it tonight, especially this idea of how what's called Casa Roseland. Now. Has been something that is going to perhaps. Revitalize Roseland. It's going to take more than that. There's a lot going on over there right now. There's difficulty still, though, I do believe that a red when handled properly can bring in some sufficient. Incentive is the word to make good things happen in the next few years. That in mind, I would ask that you do wait. Before you put out another loan to get the funds, they're going to come back from 4.20, Mendocino. I Love that address. And the thing is it's good that you've been building in the downtown area. The closer you get to the center of the downtown, the better you off for all of us. I appreciate that. Sometimes you have to go further away. But if you truly believe in transit oriented development and the re energizing of downtown Santa Rosa. The closer you get the housing in the better these vacant lots. Some Santa Rosa properties MAY be and get the read to put in some housing on these parking lots and cetera. You get the drift. The main thing of it is is most of us in the public had no idea how the red is doing these positive things. There hasn't been what's the term bureaucrats choose roust. There has not been a robust community outreach to us to let us know what's really occurring. So please get more robust, especially for

Roseland. You could even make that to mean that could be one of those things you robust Roseland for housing. We want more housing there. Of course, we need the infrastructure to go along with it, but we can find ways to do it. I realize you also have to rely pretty much solely upon the state because I do believe the regresses, the national level, the Musketeers trying to tear down the housing Urban Development Department. She might not get funding from them but state and the arena numbers could help you. Congratulations and good luck missed a funny. Thank you to Wayne. Are there any other members of the public would like to speak? >> Seeing Bring it back council for final comments. Any final thoughts? Just add all and my compliments to those involved are already been given. The red is done. Such impressive things for the community, not only putting housing units into into production, but the the I specific developments, whether it's 4.20, Minutes ii know whether it's Casa Roseland, they're catalyzing neighborhoods. As you mentioned, your presentation. So thank you so much for the good work. And it's nice to nice to hear. I was going continue in the coming years. And so, Robin, Megan, thanks to you both and supervisor. Corsi even doing innovative things since you're sitting in this chair specifically with respect to housing. So thank you for all that work. And with with that, we'll conclude. All right. Thanks, Thanks for having us. Thank you. We'll move on to item 8.2 community Empowerment Plan. Update. It's hard >> Good afternoon, Mayor Vice mayor and city council. I am on a out community engagement manager with the communications and

Intergovernmental Relations Office and I would be presenting the community Empowerment Plan. Update. On MARCH 5th from one 20 to 03:30pm. Violence Prevention Partnership will be bringing the Mary Lou to the senator a charter school for the Arts, 7, 5, seek some bull street for the inevitable cultural day. On my also in much Fi fund 6 Central's up fire department on the Rosa Police Department will be participating in the wheat across America story hour. Helen Eckman Elementary Hidden Valley Elementary and Steele Lane Elementary school. Next on MARCH 15, the senators, police department would be bringing them out due to the body Khan show a center a Bible church, 4, 5, 7, 5, road from 11:00am to 02:00pm. This and Patrick 5 k will take place on MARCH 16 at Courthouse Square 10:00am the event organized, but Fleet Feet proceeds benefit. The center that Part Scholarship fund. The fun provides income qualified individuals and families with scholarships from lesson day camps. Another training classes. On MARCH, 25th to Santa Rosa Fire Department in collaboration with her. Later, middle school Hart, Safe Community and Safe Life. Sonoma would be hosting hands-on cpr and aed classes for 7th graders. Additionally, the senator also police department, the violence Prevention partnership, New Hope for Youth and partner organizations have providing direct outreach, intervention services, education and mental health support. 2 students at

several Santa Rosa City schools following a series of heart rending events. Finally from MARCH. First to much, 28 creation and Parks department will be hosting the Olympic Trisha hand. Community members can hand putting the puck and seeing how city parks and when the price. And now let's welcome a special guest that would be providing us with morning through macean about these event. Good evening, Mayor. Vice mayor members of the council. My name is and against Electric on. >> And I'm excited to announce partnering with your amazing Recreation and Parks Department for the month of MARCH as we hide leprechauns around city parks for families to go out and hunt the leprechauns and if they find them, they get some of my. Price treasure. But this and against don't just happen in our parks. They actually start right here in council. So council members, Vice Mayor Alvarez mayor step, if you could, please look under your desk area. You'll find one of my little friends are Santa Rosa leprechauns. These are lab work on 60 of them hiding all over our city parks, 20 of our city parks. So those are your leprechauns. You can take them to the Finley Community Center and you could claim some of my treasure if you want or you can distribute them to a community member. And MADAM City manager, MADAM City Attorney City clerk, the shenanigans would not leave you out as well. So you've already found some of my treasure. So our community members return to family. That is the treasure that they will be receiving. So thank you very much. It's a joy for me

to partner with your amazing recreation and Parks department. The city of Santa Rosa. >> That concludes the community Empowerment Plan update for Thank you. >> Other duties as assigned. There had better be some questions. Colleagues. More recommit I've been looking for you MR. Rogers. I thought you're going to wrap. That was more of a comment and a question. All right. This morning. >> Who should we attribute this idea too? I see okay. We determined that the city manager nobody knew about this so you could only attribute this to shenanigans the lab work on a hr has no file on. It's amazing thank you. Exxon clarifications. Are there any other questions before before we go to public comment on this item? >> All right. All right. Members of the public now is your chance. Open up the floor. MR. Do it any any other official public comments. Any other members of the public like to speak? All right, bring it back prevent a council for final comment. As Rodgers. >> Does shenanigans or app? Other final comments? There no words. All right. We are speechless. All right. We'll we'll do that next to be I I want to leave it on this happy note. But and I had bad, important update that I do think we need to touch on the council given given the headlines in the city for the past too many days. We were here last week at council talking about the issues that we have in our schools, with violence, with weapons being

discovered with on a pointed out, the very large rule. Their violence prevention team is playing on on city streets and in city schools working with you doing outreach. Trying to find solutions for the the multilayer problems that are affecting our schools first and foremost. But our city more generally. There will be more updates in the weeks to come about what the city is trying to do to address this in terms of everything from making making sure that Narcan is available working with our police department and city schools as the city as the city schools reorganize. We know we're going to have to look at our transportation systems. Look at the way that at our street. Traffic effects and street traffic looking at the facts and buses. There are, of course, a school safety issues that have been percolating in our community for years. Those are still alive issues. Our city still has the 3 by 3 committee. In effect. There will be a meeting I believe next week. Suffice it to say for that for the public's knowledge that there's a lot of conversation with our school partners, both school leadership and school board. This is very well while much of the decision making at the moment rests with school board leaders rest assured that the city council and city staff city executive leadership in the city are in constant communication with our school colleagues doing everything we can to support. So again, we're seeing the same headlines that everyone else in the city is. And we will be we will releasing more information in the in the days and weeks to come. My good, a good clarification for my calling. Vice mayor the 3 by 3 I is is shorthand for an ad

hoc community ad hoc committee that was a year ago. Something something on that order with 3 members of the city Council, 3 members of the school board specifically to discuss school violence issues and and solutions that we can bring to bear. So another meeting will be held next week. And we we we hope to be releasing more information at that time again, not and and I I Somber note, even though we know that's necessary, let's try to turn the mood around again, least temporarily with a photo. So should shun and and again is that was the name. All right, Anna, is that still your name? >> is Somalia. This keep it simple. >> Okay. All right. Good to come out Let's do a photo. All right. We'll move on to item 9. Our city managers and city attorneys reports that a city manager. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening. Mayor members of council, hopefully MISTER Shenanigans made it back to his office on one of our Redwood e-bikes. So are read what redwood Bike share program launched last week. So we launched with 35 e-bikes once fully deployed. The city will have over 80 e-bikes deployed through 12 locations throughout the city. The Redwood Bike share program is a partnership between a cta. 10:00am t am and drop mobility and it was funded by mtc Bike Share Capital program. Grant for more information on the bike share program. You can find it at Redwood Bikeshare dot com. And there are also some apps, other locations. And you can find those source

city Dot org forward. Slash Redwood Bikeshare. The draft active transportation plan has opened up for public review public comment on the draft, a active transportation plan will be open until MARCH. The 30th. The atp outlines a safe connected and comfortable active transportation network for the community. We are in the final phase of the plan. Residents are encouraged to review and provide comment on the draft as our city Dot org forward forward slash atv and council will be receiving a briefing on this at the MARCH 18th meeting and last recreation and parks. They will have the Saint Patrick's 5 k run and walk beginning at Courthouse Square on Sunday MARCH. The 16th proceeds from the fund raising event will go to the recreation and Parks Scholarship Fund which helps swim lessons for Pham for families in need. You can find more information at Santa Rosa wrecked dot Com. Thank you. Thank you. MADAM City, Attorney. All of this fun. It's a tough act to follow. And so with that, I have no report All right. We'll move on to item 10. Are there any statements of abstention or by council members? Seeing >> Mayor, respectfully, we need to take public comment on the city manager report item 9, thank you for the reminder. Yes. All right. Item 9, the city manager and and city attorney report. Are there any public and any members of the public alike to make a comment? Mr? Do it? >> To say what she was saying about the active transportation plan. I'd like to ask all of the city council

members to keep in mind that there has been an idea for a bike Greenway along the south side of Rosen Creek for over 20 years. And the land was finally given to the city 14 years ago. So hopefully all you folks will put that up as a top priority. There's a lot of people out there in Roseland perhaps won't be putting in comments. They might not know what's occurring. But if you'll keep us in mind, that would be a wonderful thing. We've been calling it the South West Greenway. As long as we've heard about the Southeast Greenway so that maybe we can get a little bit of with called the get some love like that. Southeast side. So bringing to Rosen active transportation plan along South. Senator wrote Roseland Creek at the neighbor would thank you. >> Thank you to a nanny. Other members of the public. All right. More long. Again, there are tements of abstention or recuse away by council will move on to item 11 mayors and Councilmembers reports. Are there any members of the council who would like to report out? MR. Donald. >> Thank you, mayor. Just like to make 2 appointments tonight. I'm going to be appointing Catherine Kelly to the bicycle and pedestrian advisory board. And Omar Lopez to the board of Community Service. >> Thank you, MADAM City Clerk, do you have that? Any other councilmember reports, MR. Rogers? >> I would like to look at possibly to future agenda items. The first would be dispensaries downtown. In the second. It would be requesting to have a solar ordinance

placed the ordinance will require single home builders on inner solar installation companies to provide homeowners with a form that states the estimated required amount of solar needed for a particular size of a home or building and the amount that is being a >> put in place. This form will need to be signed by both the installation person or builder and the homeowner. And I think this is important after speaking to some of our legislature to bring to council because homes are being sold in our community and are being solar. But they are not quit to actually provide the solar that is needed to run the home, which makes the homeowner have a deficiency. And for anyone that has solar. There is a true up bill at the end of the year which could be quite substantial if you do not. If you are participating in a solar program, but do not have enough solar. Or even so by law, they only have to put like a panel Some of the homes require a lot more than that. So it's just something that I think that will protect our community members that are purchasing homes are purchasing solar to participate. Climate friendly not activities, but climate friendly, whatever it is, I don't know the word. But also be advised accordingly. Second, both motions. Most of

come back to come back. >> All right. We got a motion a second, MADAM City attorney to some clarity down here. For some clarification, say. >> Good afternoon, Mayor vice mayor members of council gave Osburn director of planning and economic development just to ensure that I understand the recommendation on the table on the solar side, oftentimes solar is installed not to fully offset the electrical use and to understand the clarity is to ensure that as solar companies provide those options that do not fully offset that there is a certification and a process where the homeowner completely understand level of electricity that will be produced by the solar, that that is how I am. And putting that and happy to hear additional clarity, if if that is a misinterpretation of the requirement. That is correct. That is what I'm requesting perfect. And then on the cannabis side, is that just more of an understanding about the regulations for downtown cannabis use or excuse me? Operation? Yes. And if we want to revisit that, I've had community members ask so. >> Bring it back to council. >> COUNCILMAN, where Rogers? If I can actually make a friendly amendment to that request of council revisiting the kindness ordinance as a whole. They'll be with their request. >> And that we revisit it as a whole. Director more. Clarification. I am over a year for friendly amendment that we revisit ordinance as a whole. As a whole. >> What I MAY recommend if the

concern is downtown, that we revisit the ordinance under a very narrow band of the effect of downtown to avoid the overhaul of the cannabis ordinance that that is a fairly significant lift. So really to understand where the concern is and have a focus conversation that would be my recommendation. >> My concern is primarily downtown. Not quite sure Vice Mayor Alvarez. >> We tracked the PRESIDENT. Thank you. >> I just ask request of If regardless of how this goes up, it goes for the We buy for Kate. This. You said that when they come back or not voting on whether to put them on the agenda together that we can take each item separately based on its own merits. Yes, they will be 2 separate agenda. >> Do we have the clarification that we to be turning? We do that. We need to have seconded in order to bring him back for PRESIDENT Verification second, each one individually. Second, both items. >> Thank you. And as scheduled the item to come back for consideration, I will put Councilmember Rogers made the request with the concurrence from for and they will be edge and they separately. Thank you. Ready for a vote. You don't know nobody in here. There's no vote. Part of your two-part process. When we bring this back, the question will be whether you will have to vote to determine whether to put it on a future agenda. >> That's right. Thank you for the reminder. All right. Are there any other any other regular reports from council? Okay. We have no minutes to approve one item, 13 consent. MADAM City clerk.

>> Thank you, Mayor item 13.1 motion except 2024 annual public records request report. Item 13.2. Motion Coffey Park in Fountain Grove Neighborhood Road Rhodes Disaster Recovery, contingency action. Item. 13.3 resolution authorizing the middle of an application to the state of California Department of Housing and Community Development's Home Keep Plus grant program with Burbank Housing Development Corporation, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of this of Santa Rosa in Cary homes. Phase 2 llc has co applicants for care cars, homes, phase 2 out in an amount not to exceed 13.9, 5 million. Item. 13.4. Resolution authorizing submittal of matching grant application for the Lower covid Creek Neighborhood. Park Improvement Project. Item. 13.5 resolution service contract with the Santa Rosa City School district to provide summer programs for youth. 13.6 resolution regional housing needs allocation transfer. With a revised in final version of Exhibit a. Item. 13.7. Resolutions South Santa Rosa specific plan, professional services agreement. >> Thank you. Bring it back to council any questions on to send. All right. What a public comment members of the public or to speak, MR. Do it. >> It doing to from Roseland. I'm very concerned about 13 for not because we're going to be having a park there. Finally, we've been waiting for that for decades. Possibilities of how parks for provided in the past. The developers actually build our dedicated the land for the park to occur. And we change that. And now the taxpayers

pick up the costs of these parks that are an amenity. Is absolutely necessary. When you put in a larger developments, the developments out there along Belleview Avenue and along Bellevue's Side Street, which used to be called south. Now it's called Meadows. Those were part of the Southwest area plan from 30 years ago. And at that time the thought was the developing community would provide the parks and this hasn't been occurring. We don't have enough parks out there. There's a dearth of parks. This is a nice idea that we're going to get this coming forward. But having it come from the taxpayers is at least in my eyes and in the eyes of many others have been in the community a long time, an unfair shifting of that burden that used to be taken care of by the developers. So also on the idea of excuse me, the housing needs allocation transfer. So this means that the city of Santa Rosa has to provide those numbers of housing that the county used to pick up. And we want to make sure that, ok, we're going to get all that 641 housing units there out of that. 35 acres. So that's almost a stipulation that you have to abide by. Once you put this in once this resolution happens, there should be 2 main words. One is must. And the other is shell. If those words are in there, the new folks will be providing are helping to provide, I should say. The 641 regional housing.

It's supposed to come over to the cities. A city obligation. Now, once you pass this resolution. So I hope you understand what's going take place. Sometimes developers don't build what they promise. They say one thing and then amazing years later, it's still not there. So also perhaps look into a timeline and make sure when those units will be coming forward on the annexation. Thank you to Wayne. Any other members of the public wish to speak. >> Flores. >> Thank you. Good Evening. Council. As I have brought to your attention recently, I was not aware through copies, employment with George Peterson Insurance Agency. MISS Flores were on the consent calendar right now. Ok, sorry about it was a non agenda. >> All right. We'll be doing public comment on non agenda items in just a second. Any other members of the public wish to speak on consent. All right. The number back, MR. Alvarez are ready for a motion. >> Absolutely. Mayor, I'd like items 13.1 through 13.7 and the way for the reading of the text I get. We have a motion a second term. City clerk. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers, I Kentucky, I Councilmember Macdonald, I councilmember Fleming. I councilmember Ben Willows. Vice Mayor Alvarez. I step. I records show. This passes. Passes with 7 affirmative votes. >> Thank you very much. All right. Now we're ready. Move on. Item to now. We're ready to move on to item 14. Our

public comment on non agenda matters there any members of the public would like to speak on item is not listed on the agenda. Now is the time. MISS Flores will start with you. >> Thank My apologies to clarify. I'm inquiring because I wasn't aware that through copies position with George Peters, an insurance agency that he offers commercial lines for North Coast. Builders Exchange. And it's a workers compensation program. He was the former PRESIDENT, I believe, for the Northern California Engineering Contractors Association. So I'm just wondering because on his statement of economic interests, it was thought from George Peters and as an employer, but his clients are not itemize soon. If he is potentially having contractors or engineering consultants as clients. Then if he has approved any contractors, City Council where there is a potential conflict them should be audited. So I'm not sure took place. But I request for his clients to be disclosed because I did see on his campaign finance statements, for example, he received a $500 payment from Chalabi construction. And then the Engineering Contractors Association in 2023 had a private meeting with city management to see how they could expedite their bid. So that was concerning to me. As far as the discussion with having cannabis dispensaries downtown are revisiting the ordinance. I greatly appreciate those discussions. I would ask my biggest Oscar always is that I don't agree with certain aspects of dei for selecting applicants purely based on their race. I

think that's insulting a someone who is biracial myself. However, I would ask from an equity lens that we truly educate our community on these processes and how to apply. And we have more education as a whole so we can have greater involvement and not something that I would personally like to be involved with because I know of some wonderful applicants that would have interest in opening businesses. >> And the downtown area. So I thank you for your time. Thank you for listening this evening and got plus. >> Thank you, MR. Do it. Hello. My name is doing to it. I'm from Roseland and I. Attended a meeting on Wednesday. The Sonoma County Community Development Commission. At that meeting and they were discussing the sale of 5 affordable housing apartments. Having it be changed over to ownership. Now, one of the reasons housing authorities were set up in Sonoma County and in Saint Rose over 60 years ago is because of the dearth of affordable residential rental housing. And we've never overcome that. It's a matter of fact. The federal government has had in place. All the 60 years. Funding that comes forward to help with these needs. Unfortunately, the Musketeers that are up there at the federal level right now, the regress enforces that are looking to tear apart various agencies have their eye upon the housing and Urban Development Department. And they MAY undercut what those folks do,

which is provide funding for housing vouchers if that comes about. That means that many of the units that people living with housing vouchers may become prone to being sold. People who are been renting might say, well, this is a profitable situation. Now and we're going to find ourselves in some difficulties. That sale that I mentioned. Comes from unusual honor, Burbank, housing Development Corporation and the unit Surrency Ranch. All right. And so many years ago was set up to have those units, the Affordable. I bring it up to the center of the City Council because you do a lot of business with Burbank and you have to keep in mind that they have promised over the years to work with you on affordable rental residential units. Then after they say they're going to do it, they change it to homeownership. And that happened at Bellevue Wrench 30 years ago where they didn't put a covenant in and then those units. Homeownership south, help build. Sold by those people. Substantial profits and therefore will house was lost. These are things that you folks probably don't get informed about when you get on the council. This is stuff that's really important because you also handle. Vouchers for veterans under what's called the Veterans Administrative Supportive housing veterans. And it's really important year. The folks that are at forefront, we have over 100 vouchers right now. And yet we've got hundreds of homeless veterans and they're not getting the vouchers. And we

need affordable residential. This is really so important. Don't be swayed by folks and well, the market this with a market that or especially the regressive in the Musketeers say no. We've got to tear this down, maybe write some letters out to hood say no, we need to keep it. Thank you kindly. >> Thank you to Wayne. Are there any other members of the public would like to speak on non agenda matters? Seeing none. We're gonna move ahead to item 16.1 which we know is top of mind for many of you are a core here tonight. We're going our public which involves a consideration of massage ordinance, Municipal Code amendments and adult and an entertainment business zoning Code Amendment. Thank you to all of you. This has been an eagerly anticipated item. Thank you, Mayor. Bear with us as we pull up the power point. >> ok, thank you, Mayor. Vice mayor members of the council gave Osburn director of planning and economic development. And joining me today is Luke Hurt our system chief building official also manage our Code Enforcement Division. And Jessica Jones, our deputy director of planning, as mentioned in the introduction, the item before the council at this point in time is a number of code changes related to massage establishments. We hope also be proposing related fees associated with that. And we also will be considering code amendments pertaining to adult entertainment and 4 and the presentation over to Mister Kurt, I like to make a few high-level points about the purpose of today's actions.

When we look at illicit and that's really the illegal activity that has a tendency to incur in certain circumstances in massage uses this code section is really intended to address that. And it adds a significant amount of regulation on massage uses and that regulation has been shown to be a deterrent. And what we've seen at both the state level in other jurisdictions is they are adopting additional code language to be able to address this. So the challenge with this is that although we have a list activity operating in some of these uses, we also have very legitimate activity working activating and some of these uses. So the balance is really to understand how the regulation both detracts from the discourages the illicit use, but also encourages the legitimate use. So really over the last few months, we've been trying to balance that out. There is quite a bit of community engagement involved in that to really understand concerns on both sides. So what we're presenting today is the results of those activities. What I'd also like to point out is we also have code amendments pertaining to adult entertainment. This has created some confusion. The community, we are not attempting to regulate massage uses as adult entertainment. This is really an add-on. And what we'll see often is from an efficiency standpoint, we try to join together fairly like things just to ensure that we're using our staff time wisely. And we're adjusting some of our age code. So we'll talk a bit about the differences between the 2 as we go through the slides. And with that, I'd like to end the presentation

over to MR. Good evening, Mayor. Step. >> Vice mayor over members of the council it's a pleasure to be here tonight, too. Go over this. Ordinance with you. I apologize. We're having some technical difficulties are. It's just not sure the screen. With apologies. So moving into this since early 2024, there have been heightened community concerns about the perception that illicit massage proliferating within our neighborhoods. We had a number of meetings, according to that those concerns included threats to public health and safety, human trafficking and the like in response, the city. Embark on a multi-pronged approach to address this issue. The first part of that approach was to conduct some enforcement with our police department and code enforcement personnel. We went into several establishments known to be problematic in the city. And we had some immediate results. We actually closed a couple of businesses. And more importantly, we actually rescued 3 women who are being human trafficked. So a very important consideration when we're looking at the sort of ordinance, the second component of the effort was to address adopt an ordinance. And we started on that effort and that is the largest part of what we're talking about tonight. Currently staff estimates that there are 130 known massage establishments in the city. We do not know how many of those are complying with regulations and the total number is not completely known. So this is just to identify the scope of the problem and to qualify community concerns. The map that you're looking at now is showing the concentrations of

these establishments in the city. So clearly we have some issues that we need to address. That's further background. Our current massage ordinance was adopted in 2010. And since that time, there have been a lot of changes to state law which have caused rim and stuff all out of alignment. The ordinance as it stands now refers to state code sections that no longer exist and similar problems. We wanted to be able to address communication and outreach really have been something we've been looking at is a foundational aspect of this from the very beginning. We have the meetings in APRIL and MAY of 2024 with the community. We have a public safety subcommittee meeting in OCTOBER of 2024. And then in JANUARY of this year, we met with the massage community because we wanted to be open and transparent with all parties. We gain feedback from those meetings that informed our process and how we crafted this ordinance. And on FEBRUARY 27th last week we took this to the Planning Commission where we received some comments and again, some very positive feedback. We accepted industry feedback through the end of FEBRUARY. I've gotten ahead of myself. Forgive me the feedback we received in those meetings varied over time when this started early 2024, there was there was a feeling that the city needed to do something urgently. There was fear there was anger. And there was concern that we needed to address this problem. Through time as we saw this ordinance starting to take shape. And as we included. These community groups labor, the massage industry in our meeting. Those comments begin to change. The meetings were well attended we received feedback from them that helped us to make changes

and we hope to continue that outreach. This positive feedback again was echoed in the Planning Commission meeting inform some of the late changes that we made this ordinance. So let's talk about the redesign of the ordinance itself. We recognize the need for a comprehensive solution and we end it with a complete redesign. The purpose of which was to prioritize the safety and well-being of our residents and visitors by realigning the code and bringing the city into conformity with current state regulations. We are provided with with apologies to MR. Do with robust enforcement tools to end the proliferation of illicit massage uses. And as previously mentioned, we want to support the success of legitimate businesses by balancing the regulatory requirements against the needs of the legitimate massage uses and to differentiate them from. Being penalized. For a failure to comply. So these proposed standards will Codified entitled 20 20 Dash. 49 of the City Code under standards for specific land uses the existing with regulations located in Chapter 6 deaths. 32 are proposed to be repealed under the proposed ordinance. The key features of this includes state registration where as we do now, we would have our massage therapist Certified by Count We would at a city level of certification for the establishments and that would allow us to register them and be able to demonstrate their compliance with the ordinance

going forward. It would give us some flexibility for targeted enforcement where needed again without having to penalize legitimate businesses that are doing things the right way. The new ordinance will require related zoning Code amendments specifically to the land, use tables, permit review procedures and definitions which will cover in the next slide. So staff is proposing the following zoning code amendments. The first of these amendments involved to land, use tables, tables. 2.6, 2 Dash 6, which is contained in section 20 dash. 23, do and section 2 Dash 10, which is contained in section. 24 dash. 24 Rio. 20 dash 24. 0, 3, 0, these tables and sections established land use and permitting requirements for the commercial and industrial zones. For table. 2 Dash 6 staff proposes to add a new classification of massage related as a permitted use across all of the listed zones, subject to zoning clearance and the provisions of the new chapter 20 dash. 49. For table. 2 Dash 10, we propose a similar edition of massage related uses as a permitted use in the bp and I else owns only again, subject to zoning clearance and the provisions of the new chapter 20 dash. 49. Staff is also proposing amendments to allow director level review administrative adjustments, providing avenues of relief for certain categories of massage related uses. Lastly staff is proposing 2 amendments to update zoning code definitions. Specifically. The First Amendment is a new entry for massage related And the second is a modification of existing entry for business slash service, which is a subsection of the office definition

contained within section 20 dash, 70 by striking specific language that currently references massage therapist. At this point in time, turn it over to MR. Osborne to talk about fees. Thank you, MR. Kirk and I think one of the fundamental elements of enforcement in ordinances, a permitting process that allows us to review the use against the ordinance and in this particular case, we're referring it to referring to it as a certificate Massage establishments and operators are required to get a certificate. >> And what we really intended to do here is to reduce the fee, which is full cost. That's what you're seeing here on the proposal today by really simplifying the process. So that helps by reducing the staff time. It's over the counter. We can turn those around fairly quickly. So the property owner excuse me, the business establishment or operator in this particular case benefits from both a streamlined process and a reduced fee. So the total dollar amounts are a combination of proposed fees that we have shown in the exhibit attached to the resolution and existing fees that all permitting processes have to cover. And these are totals. So for a business, getting a new certificate, the fee is roughly $200 which covers the staff time associated with processing that certificate. An important piece for the long-term regulation is to revisit and that's typically why we have renewal processes this particular case. We're proposing a two-year renewal and that renewal fee is around $150 full cost. We also are evolving. Our process is for very simplified processes were typically people comply with the regulation. It's very easy for us to move that as you start getting code violations

that absorbs more staff time. So by really sort of bifurcated those 2 and understanding that you don't average that out if your triggering code violations, there's a separate fee. We've been trying to break that apart in our fee schedule and this is an example of that. So a renewal where they're active code cases and we're working through that typically has a higher staff burden to it because it's bringing the code enforcement team in and isn't a simplified process. And that particular case you see a slight rise around $330. If active code viol that are occurring. We do have an administrative adjustment process that really is identified in the code. You know, one of the things that we really had talked about is how do we support mobile massage? And, you know, that's a very unique business Could be centralized in another jurisdiction and simply coming into Santa Rosa to provide that. What we did is we provided administrative adjustment process to address the unique occurrence is that we learned were occurring within the industry as we started engaging with that segment of the community. And it really is a variance so you're not necessarily hitting the code. We take more of use, our discretion to make a finding. So the administrative adjustment has the feel of $150. If an application is triggering that. I think it's important to note that these are certification fees that as we go into inspections and especially if we're enforcing on something this potentially deemed to be an illicit use. We have the tools in the tool box that are typical code enforcement tools where they allow us to achieve cost recovery on that. And that

would be an add-on to this. And, you know, one of the unique situations in this particular case massages are very difficult to inspect and we're not requiring them to pay inspection fees so that really reflects the total proposal at full cost recovery that we are proposing to add to our fee schedule to cover the certificate. Thank you, MR. Osborne and nominate turnover MISS Jones. >> To talk about the additional zoning Code amendments. >> Thank mayor staff members, the council, Jessica Jones, deputy director of planning so has mentioned at the beginning of the presentation, there is a an additional add-on, ordinance before you and this separate and distinct from the massage ordinance that you're revealing. We recently had a project come forward that qualified as an adult entertainment business. And in reviewing our code, it came to light that we did not have a clear permitting path for adult entertainment businesses. In reviewing that, we determine we need to make some changes to our ordinance to clearly identify what the permit process was for those types of businesses. We have regulations in our code, but no doesn't specifically state that type of permanent. So something that we needed to bring forward as soon as we could. Again, as mentioned, when we have things like this, we've got other ordinances are coming for. We do try to consolidate our staff time and and what comes before the council. And so we package this with this item. But again, it is 2 distinct item. So you've got to resident ordinances in front of you. So leave it at that and happy to answer questions when the

presentation is over. Thanks, Jessica. >> Moving on, we have a planning commission meeting last week. The item was largely well received. The public comment was generally favorable concerns that were made were addressed. The planning Commission recommended a few minor adjustments. One was adding the definition of administrative adjustment to the ordinance. So we could say what it was. There were 2 other definitions that word modified. One was certified. Massage therapist and one was certifying body. And those changes came about both in response to the same concern as as you probably know, Cam Tech is the certifying body for massage therapist in California. They take their authority from the business and professions code. Unfortunately, that business and professions code section currently is set to sunset on JANUARY. First 2026. So out of an abundance of caution, we put a safety net him to allow us to accept other certifying bodies in the event that can tech does sunset. Now, I don't expect that to happen. But again, I mentioned earlier how our ordinance became misaligned with the state code and this helps to prevent out. Should that ordinance sunset the business freshen codes ordinance Sunset. We still have the ability to look to other certifying bodies until we reach a new equilibrium at the state level the next change had to do the hours of operation. We were proposing that the massage establishments could remain open until 10:00pm. This was based upon some sample ordinances that we were

looking at during the development of the program and in the in the Planning Commission meeting that was changed to 08:00pm rather than 10:00pm. Lastly, there were some minor some scrivener's errors that we discovered at the last minute. We just added some letters to some of the code sections. It didn't change anything in the actual ordinance. So that takes us to a recommendation, which is that the planning Commission and the planning Economic Development Department. Recommend that the city council introduced an ordinance to establish regulations from assaults distances, introduce a second ordinance to establish permitting requirements for adult entertainment businesses and adopt a resolution to establish fees from saws, business certification and other related services. Without that concludes, our presentation and all of us are available to answer any questions you MAY have. Thank you. >> Thank you for all the work of that presentation bringing back to council for questions. >> Thank you for that. I'm wondering if we can to Jones. You. You spoke about something and you know, when you said what you said, it all went over my head like I didn't understand, practically speaking, what any of them and I was on. If you could help me understand, sorry about that. Yes, certainly in our land use table in the zoning code that outlines various land uses that are allowed within the city. >> it to 2 tons of things are listed. Adult entertainment businesses are one of them within that land use table. It identifies the permitting requirements for each use within although zones in the city. So there is a pe for

permitted by right? There is an m up for minor use permit required. Up for a major conditional use permit required. I there can be a dash meaning that it's not allowed at all or we haven't s which means see specific sections of the code. For adult entertainment businesses across all of our commercial and industrial zoning districts. It has an s which then leads you to the adult entertainment section of our zoning code that outlines regulations for adult entertainment businesses. In that section. What it does not do is tell us what permit is required for an adult entertainment businesses where it can be the distances from other uses that type of thing. But doesn't say use permit is required or its permitted by, right? It's it doesn't state anything so in order for us to provide a path for an adult entertainment business to come into the city. We need to identify what the permit if any, is required. So what what we are proposing with this is to in all of those commercial and industrial zoning districts where it identifies the a# # to require a major conditional use permit, which means they would go before the planning Commission for consideration. Okay. That's helpful. Clarification. >> is it still the case that adult entertainment businesses are not allowed in the downtown station area? Under the new proposed will that you're adding under the proposed in all of our commercial districts, which would include our downtown, never require a major conditional use permit. >> But it is permissible under, but it has that high bar. Currently has the a# # which would lead one to believe that it is allowed under some sort of. Right permitting. Okay. It will. I think it's great to be,

brought all this and together to reduce future challenges. I do have the question going to massage parlors having to do with. The victims of human trafficking. I was just curious if you could expand on what plans you have to help these folks transition and how to prevent this from being a a whack, a mole and by these folks. I mean, the people who are being trafficked, not the traffickers, the other question, the second question I have is. How we're going to prevent this from from a a whack, a mole type of situation. So concern about people going to ground. >> Certainly for the for the question regarding the human trafficking victims in the relief, we MAY be able to offer them. That's really beyond the purview of my involvement in this project. But I know that we have some members from the police department here who can probably speak to that. What I would like to do in response to the question about optimal, is that the way this ordinance is crafted? Is to make it extremely difficult for a list of businesses to continue to operate. My expectation is 130 or so we saw. But the vast majority of those that are to list it will be gone. They probably won't even try to apply from establishment permit because we've designed the ordinance to be onerous against a list of businesses. Again, while maintaining that balance to minimize the impact against a legitimate ones. So, for example, if if a if if a business did receive an established permit and was acting illicitly and we caught them and were able to document that out. They would be immediately required to close. The space would not be able to be used for 2 years, but commercial space. If they were in the process of having an establishment permit revoked, they would not be able to transfer the business to

someone else with a clean slate or say they were selling it. It is designed again specifically to get those a list of businesses out of our city. >> have full confidence that we will. We will be successful in our city. I'm just concerned about the victims and about the neighboring jurisdictions. >> And I am John Cregan. I'm happy to be able to address some of these things. And so for us, it's really important agree with you with some of those very same concerns to our largest detective team that we have the police department, unfortunately, due to their call, volume is the domestic violence, sexual assault teams. We have 7 detectives and one sergeant dedicated full-time at the Family Justice Center. That's where officers are at so they can work very collaboratively with our other community-based organizations, Verity ywca. And the list goes on. But that's one of our concerns. And so I brought with me tonight, Detective Tim Raman, who is the state might expert on human trafficking. It's something that he's second time serving in that message about sexual assault team and really focuses on and he'll be a outlined some of the steps that we're taking. But also one of my concerns is we're going to create a model ordinance for the city of Santa Rosa. Same as we did with sideshows and other things. But the problem is not going away. They're going to move to jurisdictions. So that's where Detective Raymond, his team are working. But also we presented. So we have a Sonoma County Chiefs Association. We meet once a month. So I presented this is our last meeting talking the city of Santa Rosa is moving forward quickly on this. But let's not just move on to Rohnert Park Petaluma the other areas. So when this is if it's adopted tonight by City Council, then we're going to forward this. All the other chiefs and the other

jurisdiction to have them try to model this across Sonoma County and follow U.S. And then continue to work collaboratively with how do we get to some of the root causes and offering some of the services? Let me turn over. Detective Raymond will dive a little deeper into those details. >> Could you repeat your question about what the what you're looking for terms of what >> it's coming says are off and making my my concern is 2 pronged. I'm wondering one how we outreach to the victims in the period between now and the enforcement my understanding is 180 days from the second reading probably of this text, if not 180 days from today. So there's a period of time which people have to come into compliance. My mind. That's a real significant window of opportunity to do outreach to the victims and try to help them to get to some other opportunity besides going with their trafficker to the neighboring jurisdiction. That's one how we support people to get out. The second is how we partner with neighboring jurisdictions to prevent the whack a mole of them. Just moving on to another one. The chief answer that question pretty well as did MISTER Kirk. I think that there's a pretty solid plan for trying to work regionally, but I am still concerned about how we interface with the victims and work to prevent them from continuing to be trafficked. Sure. In so it and back in the day. But that law enforcement is addressing the list, massage businesses, law enforcement to go in and their way to be solicited by the victims >> or when the beginning started to engage in some sort of commercial sex act or negotiation for commercial sex

act, then they would want us trigger a bust and then they want to be arrested as well as any possible operators. That's an old model, right? Because that's criminalizing victims. And we don't want any part of that anymore. So now what we tend to do is we go in with code enforcement when they're doing the inspections and not only is look center as apd going and with code enforcement. But we're also bringing advocates from ideally, bilingual advocates. And if we don't have bilingual out kits with us, then we're make sure that we have our phones ready and we have Google translate and we all sorts of and we can try to use communicate with the victims and one thing that's important is that their cooperation with law enforcement is not requirement to getting services right hour. Primary objective is to offer services towards the victims. When we're going in with code enforcement. So we want to make sure that code enforcement is safe going into these locations because there is criminal activity going there. And we also don't want to just inside them for code enforcement violations when people need help. All right. So we go We bring an advocate. They have opportunity to speak with The Advocate apart from Santa Rosa Police Department. And if they say yes, I need services. That's great. Will get them services. Not necessarily us, but that our community partners, if they say no, I don't want anything to do with law enforcement. That's okay, too, right? That's that. Because our primary focus it's always going to be victims center and moving forward. So victims are offered resources such as media than they're given. They can be given gift cards for

food there. You can be given immediate housing sums to temporary housing, his stuff. But there there are some housing resources available. There's, as I mentioned before, there's oftentimes bilingual advocates. There's sometimes relocation services offered and then it's up to that individual. If want to accept those resources or not. But they're always given that opportunity. >> I imagine incredibly hard to compel someone, especially it MAY not be in this country illegally to do this. I would hope that, you know, part of that menu of services might be a connection with legal The other thing that because a lot of the countries that provide this workforce are not workforce but indentured servant force have really challenging relationships with government and authority. I'm wondering if we're working with Verity or the Human Trafficking Task Force to conduct any outreach, which could include something as simple as flyers or the stickers that you see in the airport that are multi-lingual that offer folks opportunities to create Some safety outside of interaction with an official government agent. Even if if somebody is nice as MISTER Kerik and his plain clothes, that's still probably pretty intimidating for for many folks in this position. >> Yes, but we go in. We do bring bilingual outreach materials back way before I got involved. Law enforcement been a victim outreach coordinator for anti-human trafficking agency in Washington, D.C., and so back in the day has helped design some of those Richmond cereals. So we do employ those not those same materials because times change right? But we definitely going to

these locations with outreach materials. If they say no, I don't want to think okay to take this cart. And we also have like sort nondescript cards that we can pass out so that can say, hey, this doesn't look like this is a card for resources. But if you call this number, you can get help. >> Okay. Thank you so much for everything you've done for our community are welcome. As Ben Willows. I just had to questions. Not sure can address them. But >> the first is more. It's more about the administrative side of the massage ordinance. I was concerned. I'm just concerned about staffing enforcement and do we have >> because I started looking at the kind all the different requirements and there's a lot in there I know that's gonna take a lot of time. And already identified possibly 130 businesses. There's probably more and I did watch the planning Commission have an item. Just preface so I watched most of the discussion. I didn't see the whole thing like when they went to vote. I did not see that part. But I saw a lot of the discussion and that's the thing that hit me was how are we gonna have the staffing? Whether it's in partnership with law enforcement as well as our staffing. And then the second question I had was something that you said, MR. Kirk around the illicit the assumption probably that listed businesses will not be applying for this. And right now it's something I think that was set at the planning Commission. You know, operate in the light of day for the most part with what noted as

red flags. The the neon lights and all these acts closed curtains and things of that nature. So my concern is that they will go even more underground and we won't be able to discover the human trafficking and things of that nature. Once this goes into effect. So those are my 2 questions. >> All right. I'll try to break those down as far as the administration goes. You've most of your for me say before the education and outreach is the cornerstone of the code enforcement. We've got 180 days from the effective date of ordinance before they're required to make registration to certify their establishments taken disorderly or but they've got that time. We're gonna make good use of that time. We're going to use outreach materials that will develop mailings site visits. And we're going to spread the word that this is coming and we're going to help everybody we can to become a certified establishment. We're not going to make assumptions necessarily there. We have some bad actors that we're aware of. But for those that we don't know. We're going to act on the assumption that they can become certified. During that process. Yeah, it'll be a lift at first because there's a lot of My expectation is that a lot of these places will simply not pursue it. They're going to have to make sure that all of their therapist or certified by Count Act, they're going to have to meet operational standards, design standards, hygiene standards. It's it's a lot. And so for someone that's operating at the fringe of legality or completely illegal we're going to drive them away. And you're right, we're going to drive some of underground. This is this is an old problem that we're dealing with and we're not

going to we're not going to cure it, but we're going to try to make it better for the residents are concerned about it. So again, the appearance is important being able to see inside that discourages illicit activity prohibiting the neon signs that does away with some of the stigma that makes a neighborhood look nicer. So all of those efforts are incremental and in trying to get us to where we want to be to get a smaller core group, a legitimate establishments. Once we get to that point again, we don't want to impact them any more than we have to when they've shown us that they're operating in compliance with our ordinance. We're not getting complaints about them. We're not seeing advertisements that are suggestive for having any other problems. We're going to try not to bother them. We want them to be able to do their business to succeed in in their their chosen path. And again, if we are able to coordinate with other cities and maybe versions of this ordinance appear in those cities. Maybe we can just continue to drive that away. I hope that answers your question. And if I can through the chair just very briefly, because I think that's and really important point to address the staffing impacts associated with this. >> Really, anytime we shift from what I refer to as reactionary code enforcement, a more proactive direction areas. You're really waiting for a complaint in your dressing. That complaint and oftentimes one would think that reactionary because the complaints or less is less staff intensive. But oftentimes it isn't because you're really focusing on the small amount that's generating

a significant number of complaints bite. So shifting to more of a proactive where it's predictable. So by not getting a certification with in the 180 day period, which is actually 30 days from the second reading of the ordinance would be the timeline. It becomes unlawful to operate the use. That gives us more enforcement teeth. What we've done is we've aligned the renewal processes. So they all really happened around the same time frame. So we can we shift our staffing resources to be able to account for it. And I think an important point is as we go through this exercise, we won't have 130 massage operations. It will reduce down to a manageable number and we'll have it on more of a regimented process. So I think this is how we can get away with a smaller fee. It's something that we really because it's a health life safety issue that we take seriously within the department. And we prioritize from a code enforcement and this allows us to give more bumpers and framework around it, which actually creates efficiencies and helps out with the staffing impact. MR. Donald. Thank you, mayor. Just a couple of questions. >> I noticed in the presentation that you spoke specifically about industrial and commercial zoning uses. And remember correctly when we had some folks come in and speak to in public comment prior to this, there was some conversations around residential use and is there anything in there that make sure that there's no illicit massage partners and residential neighborhoods because I if I remember it was a lady that came to speak that said her children live next

door to a home that is running massage parlor. So that was one of my questions. >> It certainly well, we have existing regulations now about home occupations and live work and work uses all of which can be out of a residential Rick was a type of use. So all of those regulations still apply. What the ordinance does is it does allow under certain circumstances to the administrative adjustment. A massage establishments to operate is either to exempt or non-exempt home occupation. One would be if they were just use a gets mobile massage just as a home office. So that's that's easy. That doesn't require a lot of review. Somebody wants to actually, I have a. Massage established within their home. That's also possible. But they have to go through some processes. They have to go through the planning approval. They have to get their home occupations certificate. Then they'd have to get their administrative adjustment and then it still have to comply with much of the ordinance. And again, I know that seems like a lot of hoops to jump through, but we're dealing with something happening in a home. It's not really a place of public accommodation. It's much more difficult for us to inspect and it lends itself to illicit activity. So we're going to make sure that those extra steps are taken to minimize And again, we feel that if somebody has the intention to act illicitly. They're not going to be able to navigate the process. So just to be clear, it is included in this ordinance to put the teeth in it for us to make sure that that isn't happening in

residential. I just wanted to be >> clear on that. And then as far as just having a little bit of statistical information. How many illicit massage parlors have we have unable to sign because of code enforcement to have any numbers on that? >> going to defer to my senior code enforcement officer, Daniela de Baca. >> Good Could you repeat that question? Sure. I just wondering how many of us at massage party parlors have we been able to fine? >> Through code enforcement. Okay. >> So through code enforcement currently the way it's. The way we've been able to work is that many our complaint based. Okay. So based on the complaints we currently have 18 cases. Of those 18 cases. I currently have 6 active investigations that are in various. Various forms of of enforcement at this point. Okay. >> Thank you so much. And then is there a specific number that they call when like a hotline or 0 way for the community to tip code enforcement that they they believe this is happening are do they call 9-1-1 or how does that process go? Just for the sake of this conversation? >> There's a number of ways those can come to our attention much as any other case does. Now they can come in through our our portal through the city website. They can call us. They can write us. They can email us. The police department also take complaints through their own process us because we do coordinate closely on these. So if if one of receives one,

we're going to share that information and act together on it. But their but there's a great it's easy to make a complaint or >> all right. Thank you so much. And thank you for all your work on this as well. MR. Creepy. Thank you, MR. Mayor threw the chair, the city manager. If I ask the chief and the detective some questions having seen this before public safety subcommittee, I think that there's maybe some important contacts on the historical aspect of enforcing against it was a massage businesses. The change attitude specifically victimizing the victims and to the point of going to ground the interconnectedness where if you read one others will lock up so that they don't get ready go in a little more detail about that and have it our decision making. >> So you're absolutely right. When we start to go into some locations, say we start on the West side. If we go into covid Forsman some locations. By the time we get to that you side 30 shut down. They're not answering the door for us. So that's a very experience that we have the second part question >> was the change in attitude is you know, we sit police were used to staying Zahn massage businesses. Now there's the the attitude that we should be victimizing the victim's Can you go in a little bit further with that and why we're going the code enforcement versus the law enforcement route. And i wouldn't say it's code enforcement versus law enforcement. I feel like law enforcement has changed law enforcement. The evolving. >> Back in 2020 part 2020,

there is no federal or state statutes regarding human trafficking right? So there are there are some laws, but there wasn't a human trafficking violation in until Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Right? So what can I say? In 2000? Excuse So 2000 started 2000 started that change, right? And then eventually California create their own human trafficking laws and which we for us as law enforcement. So it's not code enforcement versus law enforcement. Law enforcement adapting to the change of tides right? And recognizing the woman in these situations are they are being exploited and they they do need support and services so that it's it's evolution as much of life right. And now when you go in, I mentioned before, like the women who are working there and generally it's women. But the woman working don't have to participate in a criminal investigation, too. Receive services. But we are certainly welcome reprieve. We certainly welcome their statements. Me welcome. Their their cooperation. If they do want to participate with law enforcement, we will open up a criminal investigation. So it is not code enforced versus law enforcement. Conjunction. But to your point, councilmember, there's been a cultural switches and law enforcement and really our culture here. The police department is doing exactly what you're saying like. >> Let's focus and getting these victims support and not going out and doing misdemeanor citations of which really accomplish little to nothing with that. So we

really have made like a cultural switch with our organization really focused on getting the victims of human trafficking, the resources and then shutting down some of the operations better being used. And we're seeing this even in Santa Rosa with one analyst said owner owning multiple not only throughout the city but throughout the region and that's where really want to focus on. Is those like that and saying we're not going to allow that in Santa Rosa and we're going to work with our neighboring agencies across Sonoma County, really in the Bay area to bring these matching resources. Thank you. Appreciate I appreciate. Director was trying to say could boost for enforcement versus law enforcer, but I think it's >> a joint effort to combat this in a manner that is not victimize the victims and you know, we can't solve every issue perfectly, but I think to eat to your point with the contacts that this is the best manner in which we can as a city address this without taking advantage of people that have already in and humane scenarios. Absolutely. And if I can just add on to what the chief said, >> when we're looking at in force meant we're enforcing establishments. We're not enforcing the personnel. If a therapist is unlicensed, we're not citing the therapist. That's a violation against the establishment. We in the ordinance. We have categories of violations. One category is gross violations. If we find a single instance of human trafficking, we're prostitution or something like that. A single instance that shuts down the establishment permanently. Well, for at least 2 years they can reapply, but they'd have to wait 2 years. So again, the the ordinance is geared towards maximum enforcement on the list of uses and a balanced approach to support the legitimate business

community. >> Any other questions counsel? All right. Let's open the public hearing. We're now ready take public comment. Curtis panicked. You are appropriately up first. >> Good evening. Mayor staff and councilmembers. My name is Curtis Bennett. It's been a year in 2 weeks since a group of concerned citizens met the downtown library discussed to discuss our concerns about illicit massage businesses. I am bees in Santa Rosa. During that meeting. Subject matter. Experts from the California Massage Therapy Council ca mtc spoke about the well established connection. Between I am bees, organized crime and human trafficking. Based on that meeting under the leadership, the City Council. The Planning Department collaborated with the ca mtc. To thoughtfully addressed the issue. Balancing legal action against diabetes while safeguarding the livelihood of certified massage professionals that provided valuable therapeutic benefit to the public. The end result of this work is the proposed ordinance before us today. I urge you to vote yes and adopt the ordinance. Adoption of this ordinance will disrupt organized criminal enterprises that are currently engaging and human trafficking in our community. As a result, trafficking victims will be offered assistance. Criminals will be held accountable and the social fabric of our community will be strengthened. In closing, Mayor Stapp and council members. The Santa Rosa Police Department. The

planning Department. Code enforcement professionals Verity ca mtc the press Democrat and the others. I'm forgetting. Thank you for doing your part. Making today. A reality. The work you do stance to change lives sincerely appreciated by many. Thank you very much. The good news is Mayor stop and that the rest of the council, you'll get less emails from me in the future. So that's good. So I appreciated your wonderful and thanks for making these changes. Thank you, Curtis Patrick Murray and then Mark Dixon. And we do have 2 podiums. So, mark, if you want. >> Way to the other podium, you know, you can. We can. We can save a little time. Okay. That's a tough act to follow. If you have not read proposed ordinance, I would encourage everyone to >> It's kind along 30 pages. There's a little bit of legal leads, but it's really quite extraordinary document. And I think it's the culmination. Going back to over a year now of concern citizenship. I had sought to Curtis. I mean, I don't know what community came from, but their losses are game. It's it's been really extraordinary. One thing that really struck me with the proportion ordinances. How the riders were able to separate, not only the legitimate massage people, but education people, education, schools, doctors, health care providers so they don't get caught up. You know, the grind of trying to. Problem and not hurt the people that shouldn't be

heard. So it's been quite a wonderful document. My hat's off to everybody that had any input in it. I know City Council administration and police department, the community, it's it's it's very gratifying to see things moving in the right direction for our community. Thank you. Thank you. Patrick will go to mark and then it said Lori Fong and but Brad Childs. >> Market floor is yours. Welcome. Welcome to town. Thank you very much. An >> air staff and members of the council city manager Smith in chief Cregan. Good evening. I'm Mark Dixon share of the California Massage Therapy Council. Cftc is a public benefit organization with a mission to protect the public by implementing momentary statewide certification from a science professionals and approval of schooling that meets the requirements of the state law. For nearly 40 years as an activist and the most unprofessional. I am for good with city councils and county Boards Planning Commission's the legislature, law enforcement, trade associations and other activists to protect the public can uplift the profession. And I want to again confluence of enthusiasm, talent, hard work and persistence gathers the right people at the right time to make a meaningful and positive difference the community and in the profession. Does not produce perfection, but it does mean a greater understanding of the profession and the role it plays in the everyday lives are real people. Such a confluence is occurring right now in Santa Rosa. We appreciate the city. And see

him to see a certified massage professionals both deserve to be treated with respect. So to the City Council, the planning Commission to the activists who work so hard to burst the interests of the residents of Santa Rosa. And that includes Curtis Bennett. Thank you. Seem to see is working closely with Santa Rosa providing background perspective. We are united in wanting them aside for a that can be relied upon to safely provide health care. And you're like station services. It's a matter of record innocence there because mainstream dinner society listed in California's statutes as a prominent health care profession. We agree with you that massage therapy should never be characterized as adult entertainment. Cmt c certification makes it clear that professional education and training are paramount. We have been at the genesis of the development of Santa Rosa's new ordinance and we applaud you for your commitment to the eradication of interests that threaten the safety of the public and the dignity of the profession by using the sars as a subterfuge for human trafficking. Provided best procedures which include background checks of non-certified owners and clear list of violations. These updated practices will provide real tools for Santa Rosa in advancing massage therapy. We encourage city to be mindful that there are many busy residents who depend upon massage therapy to address pain and tissues. Whos schedule does not allow them to book appointments before 08:00pm. So perhaps the case can be made to allow them work to start as late as 08:30pm. MR. Mayor members of the council Santa Rosa deserves

credit for taking firm action as we move forward together. Thank you. >> Thank you, MR. Dixon misses long, MR. Childs. Mayor staff. Council members, thank you so much, Curtis, thank you so much. A lot of things to say and I think they're very connected. >> when we know that marginalized people, victimize, other marginalized people. >> The work that you've done, the careful work that you've done, MR. Kurt, Ms Jones, MR. Osborne, Detective Raymond, this is really great work for people for the people of Santa Rosa COUNCILWOMAN Fleming. I agree completely whack a mole, you know, had. And I heard you talk about that. You're going to be working with the municipalities. I mean, they should watching. This a case study and that we should be an entire county, entire region because why come all these people are mobile. They're going to be going everywhere. And I heard from Chief Craig in that 3 people were. Rescued but that 40 turned it down. And so these are women that are marginalized that are victimize. And I think 93% of them are from China. And so when we look at the The climate right now with ice, what happens to these people? And we're also worried about the legitimate owners and homeland security and ice. What happens? And so I think underground heard even for the legitimate people, I think there's a lot of fear there. But I also trust that Chief Craig in and Planning Commission are city Council mayor, that you have that kind of sense to Vitti. And

appreciated. I thank you. You know, as a community, we have to speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves. And we were thinking about those people who are existing on the very margins of the economic security, whether they're massage therapist, have massage businesses are or are looking for a way out of extreme poverty or other political oppression or other oppression and other countries. And they come here. How do we represent the very best? The very best of America, the very best that we have to offer in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa. So I want to say again that I'm grateful and I'm proud of all of us. Thank you so much. Thank you, Larry. MR. Childs. Good evening. >> They replace Mayor City Councilmembers. And just want to tell you that I was approached by Curtis while ago about assisting with this information about the massage parlors. And I don't know whether you know this or not, but there's such a thing called a fictitious business name that business has to file with the county clerk's office instead of Sonoma County. All entities doing business in the county have to file document. It's good for 5 years from the date of filing compliance is not enforced by the county. When Curtis approach I took a lot of the names of the massage parlors and went to the office to do research and what I found was there were a few of the massage parlors

that were not in compliance, their their licenses have expired. But the county doesn't enforce anything. And they didn't know whether anyone else did. I also was curious to know who the owners were of the parlors and their addresses. And as of JANUARY, first of last year, 2024. Those doing business in filing these statements need only provide the business address, not their personal addresses. And apparently there are privacy concerns. Imagine. It's so important to know information and resources are available to you to me to just contact offices, just call and ask a question who owns this building? Who who owns the business? How long they've been in business? Very, very simple to find And I want to thank you coming to this day and coming to this conclusion. After all the work that Curtis has been really very excited about And count the Councilmember MacDonald. I live down the street from the woman who said that her kids had seen the people coming in and out of out of the parlor and live I live near Curtis. We lived near 4 massage parlors and I don't know whether they're legitimate or not. I hope that they are. And I just want to thank you for your work on this. And I also want to say that tonight has

been a feel good night because I got to see some of the people from the parks division. I used to volunteer to a park to clean it for for 3 years after the homeless population was evicted from there got to no, number. The people also, I was very excited to see all of housing that's being developed in the because my background was property management of subsidized housing and helping these people. So it's a very, fulfilling even. >> Thank you, MR. Childs, are there any other members of the public would like to speak? Seeing none. I'll bring it back to council for a motion and final comments. MR. Mayor Ed, I prefer to wait since there's 3 motions. And will the final comments first. Final comments, MR. Donald. >> I just want to say thank you to staff for doing work on this. And I know that a year in a couple of months seems like a really long time to get something like this in place. But in governance, it's actually quite fast. So I want to say thank you for extreme amount of time that the Public Safety Committee did that law enforcement did to work with call code enforcement to make sure that our most vulnerable members of our community, no matter how they were brought here are going to be protected and whatever we can do as far ordinances go to put some teeth into things so that that happens. I just want to say thank you. We know that sex-trafficking in areas of Torres and specifically become more prevalent. And so I want to jam Blaylock who's also in the audience. I was on the commission on the status of

women with her and we did a lot work around sex trafficking to understand how that works in communities like ours. And so I think just seeing this come forward, seeing all of the documents, the 30 pages of really thoughtful presentation tonight of what's in there something I really, really appreciate. And I do want to say thank you to Curtis for bringing this forward. He has inundated us with lots of e-mails and I read all of them so that we were aware that this was being brought forward in a timely manner. So I I love this quote from Margaret Mead. And I think it's very, very perfect for tonight. But it it states never underestimate the power of a small group of people that are committed to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has. So that goes back to the community members that spoke out to city council and to our staff. Thank you for bringing this forward to protect our vulnerable community members that are out there being trafficked. Thank you. >> At my my students largely echoed Councilmember MacDonald's really eloquent statement. I've served on the city Council for over 6 years now. And I'd say this is one of the top 5 or so ordinances I don't know if it's a technically an ordinance, but don't have the item. But the point is, is that it is it's an incredibly important item for so many different reasons because it's it's a issue for our residents, quality of life. Every morning I walk, my daughter passed multiple massage parlors, loved ones that I suspect to be illegal or by 4th street. You know, it's just an unpleasant

nuisance in the neighborhood. But on a more profound level, there's incredible human suffering going on in in this process. And it's not, frankly, just limited to massage parlors. I see human trafficking on the Safeway on 4th Street or what I suspect to be where people are panhandling in pretty good condition. Year after year, selling strawberries in human trafficking is escort upon humanity. And it's something you know, that Jim walk has been working on that. I have always had a real interest in preventing. So I just want to thank our police department. Our code enforcement are planning department Curtis Laurie, it Janice, for all coming out here today and for your your long thoughtful work that you can have. The industry and the community in agreement have a council giving relatively few if any pointers in a different direction. It's real testament to the death of work. You've done. You got to be really proud this and I look forward to seeing our community and the people who are living in these facilities get some relief in the future. >> Before we go to market make the motion just underline my colleague I think we've empezaron think my colleagues at Forsyth exactly how important this ordinances, not just with respect to the human trafficking in trying to snap that on our community, but just from general protection of our neighborhoods and the citizens who stepped out, the residents who stepped out to highlight this issue for the city. For us here on the dais. We can't thank you enough. It was it's been a lot of work on your part. A lot of persistence and your part. I think it should be. I think it

should be remembered that the first meeting was actually Valentine's Day evening. And yet in spite of that, you still manage to pack out a room in the library with with 60 some people which testified to how much the committee aware, how much the community was paying attention to this. So on behalf of the city, thank you so much for all your effort. It is a pleasure to be to be voting on this ordinance tonight. And with that, I'll turn it to MR. Thank you, MR. Mayor. >> Yeah, most of my comments are in line with my colleagues have already said it's very rare that a body a city council can take enact change, too. Combat human trafficking. That seems like such a larger issue. And and something that is hard to grasp for just a city to do. But we're able to do that here. And I think that's a phenomenal, phenomenal thing. I've heard my colleagues concerns about lack of will. And with all due respect, do you one better. You can send it to the cheese, but I'll make make a a promise to my colleagues. I will. As soon as this meeting is over, I will text the chair of the Summit County Mayors Councilmembers Association to see if you'd like to see presentation on this. That one of the next meetings, I would encourage all of you to reach out to your colleagues and others restrictions and the supervisors that represent your districts to get them to do the same thing. We are going to lead the way on this. And if we're going to actually lead the way somebody has to follow and it's incumbent upon us to get people to follow our lead lastly, all say I'm sure like most of my colleagues

when people talk to us about being a city council member they and then they find out it's not a full-time job, at least in pay. They say, well, why do you do is do you like it? Is it fun? And this and I always tell them, I say, hey, they're e. Sometimes people during public say random things that make no sense and hair are not based in reality. But then you see something like this where you have community members to bring forward a problem that they are concerned about. They partner with. Planning code enforcement. The city attorney's office review it. Police, you know, so many other departments and then it comes to us before policy planning commissioners, all that. And it's a beautiful thing. Local government is a is a fantastic thing to be a part of because of this. You get to see change affected to those around you. Those you care about in the city love. And I'm very proud of our city to be able to do this tonight and such a collaborative manner with just about every department in the city taking place apartment. And so I want to recognize the work that all of you have done. And it's a phenomenal thing to be able to put forward these motions to ordinances. So you are right. And one resolution so first of all, say move to introduce an ordinance entitled Ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa Mending title 6 entitled 20 of the Santa Rosa City code by repealing Chapter 6, Dash 3, 2 entitled Massage Therapy, Massage, Business or establishment in its entirety. Adding a new chapter 20 dash 4, 9 entitled Massage Regulation and Missus, establishment registration.

Amending sections. 20 dash, 2, 3.0 3 and 2, 0, 0, 2, 4.0 3, 0, regarding permitting requirements for massage related uses amending sections. 2, 0.5, 0, 0, 2, dash, 5, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, a 2, 0 dash. 5, 2.0 6, 0, and 2, 0, Dash. 6, 2, 0, 3, 0 b, 2 by adding administrative. Just meant provisions and amending section 20.7 0, 0, 2, 0, regarding definitions of massage related uses and business services uses and wave further reading of the text. Second. We have a motion a second. >> Clarify who made the second as Thank Councilmember Rogers, I Cookie, I Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. I councilmember Vice Mayor Alvarez aren't mayor stopped by that? The records show this passes with 7 affirmative votes. >> I will now move to introduce an ordinance entitled ordinance to the council. The city of Santa Rosa Mending title 20 of the Santa Rosa City code to amend sections. 20.20 dash, 2, 3, 0, 0, 3, 0 20 dash. 2, 4, 0, 3, 0 regarding requirements for adult entertainment business. And wait for the reading of the text. Second. We have a motion a second with morning in a second. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers, I Crappie, I Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben lose. I Vice France step. I let the record show this passes. 7 affirmative votes. >> It just for clarification. Is it just the 2 ordinances resolutions? Well, there is a resolution that MAY impact the language in for you one

moment. Thank you. >> It's not here. You should see it on your device now. Got it. Thank you very much. >> I will now move a resolution of the council, the city of Santa Rosa's, damaging fees for the mist for the processing it administration and the size establishment certifications, renewals, administrative adjustments and inspections. We have a motion and a second. Ready for the vote. Whatever you are. >> Waiting on technology moment. Councilmember Rogers, I councilmember Okrepkie I Councilmember Macdonald. I councilmember Fleming. Yes, Councilmember Ben Month. I Vice Mayor Alvarez star Mayor step. I the record show this passes with 7 affirmative votes. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you again to our staff. Thank you. Community. This is a big deal tonight. >> And with that, we're going to go backwards. Item 15.1. Our our report, our annual police Department military equipment report. Chief Cregan. >> Good evening. Mayor's staff and members of John Cregan, our chief of police here in the city of Santa Rosa. And tonight we're going to go over that assembly bill. 41, the police militarization that's going to present our annual report from 2024, we're going to be highlighting 3 distinct things were going to be highlighting the equipment that we have in our possession that falls under these categories statewide police militarization. The times that we use that equipment and 2024 and then outlining any requests that we have for future equipment, for purchases for this year. And it really another focus that we want to be able to do is

present how are cautiously using this equipment, our policies and be able to answer any questions on that and how the end of the day we're using this equipment for the protection of our community. But for every one of the 184 police officers at the Santa Rosa Police Department. And I'm joined by one of our experts that we have with our police department tonight, Lieutenant Christopher her, and he's our tactical commander, meaning that he oversees our swat team hostage negotiations. Team and helps utilize and keep track of all this equipment. And he's going to present our report tonight. Will both available for questions? Good evening, Alec, to 70 MISS Cristol Hernandez with the police department. Thank you, MR. Mayor Vice Mayor Council city staff. But the chief said I'm overseeing the tactical teams. They swat teams, the crisis negotiators as well as our drone operators. Just a slight bit of history. I was never actually a swat operator, but actually come from the negotiations side of things. So the escalation is actually my skill set now overseeing all the operations of our tactical teams has been a nice ability for me to bring back my skill sets of de-escalation time and distance and working through our and our swat operators were very skilled at what they do. So tonight we're going to present you. 41 report from the assembly bill, like the chief said, our goal is to kind of really here to be here to answer any questions for you, but specifically, but the equipment we have, the equipment we look to purchased potentially in the future, at least get authorization for how we've used these tools in the last year and what tools we anticipate using in the future as well. And then answer any questions you have, which to me is to be the most significant portion of that presentation. So as you can see on the screen, I'm the kind of go through this park point fairly quickly. We are required every year to come back to city council to

discuss the items that we did use in the prior year. And then the items we intend to purchase over the next year or potentially ask for authorization that we would need to get this report you're going to see is going to be specifically from end, the beginning of 2024 to DECEMBER 31st of 2024. This next slide just goes over the requirements that we have to do with assembly. Will 41. It just talks about the fact that we have to have faced a public meeting after the report has been published online. And then we have another meeting and presentation in front of city council, which we're doing now as well. We're seeking to get approval of the policy in the ordinance as well as report. And just some of the information you have on there is kind of what we already discussed and why we're doing it. But basically going over the equipment used to maintain at the maintenance uses and the cost the quander. We currently possess the internal audits from what we have any input from the community that we receive. And then the request for acquisition of funds to associate with military equipment in the future. Before anyone talked about 15 different categories of equipment that fall under that law. Currently, the police department only uses 8 of those associated with that. Some of the things on the report, if you've already seen it are things are actually in the process of being decommissioned in aren't even being used. But we kept them on this final your report to be transparent. So council can see what we technically have, but also nor plan to get rid equipment that we no longer need. Isn't necessary for us. This is just some of the types of equipment that we do have. We're going to go over these little morning details. We move through the presentation. The first thing we're talking about are called launchers. These allow us to use chemical

agents or kinetic energy projectiles from a distance. So a lot of what these things are, similar related. So you can see this next slide or these 40 millimeter launchers and that blue foam around that there, these are less lethal rounds that we use to help de-escalate situations with people that MAY be going through a crisis or people that are being violent or have possess a weapon. They also help us to keep a distance. We're trying to negotiate with someone to get them to surrender peacefully are helping to get the resources that they need. We've specific launchers that do this that cannot launch anything that would be of a lethal methods. So you can't put any sort ammunition or anything. This only does these less lethal projectiles that would be able to go through there. And this gets us from a greater distance to be able to be disarm. Someone are able to strike and use other methods to get them into custody without using and increased support. An increased level of force. The specific items genuinely actually reduce our acts. More significant uses of force. Well, that's a canine or even lethal use of force like a firearm as well. Over the last year. I didn't. We did not use any of these 40's against another individual. We did use them on a couple of instances where someone barricaded in a vehicle and we use these projectiles to actually break a window in the vehicle so we can actually negotiate better with them to actually create a safe resolution that did not actually cause us to use any force. And those. So these are also used as ways for us to engage and increase our level of communication and gain attention to people who want

to surrender to peacefully. Again, this is just a photograph of that as well. The next thing on the show us that our chemical munitions and our other devices that are helping to distract and be able to go forward and actually result situation safely. A couple of those are commonly known as flash bangs. Only our swan uppers are allowed to use those. Those are oftentimes used when someone is barricaded inside of a building either with a hostage or usually with some sort of weapon or threat of iolence. We're able to answer one of these flash bangs into a location causing a distraction for the individual and usually be able to take them into custody without additional forces being used. Provides us an opportunity for our swat operators to get the upper hand in that moment and causing destruction. But just the story, it's the individual briefly in time. Additionally, we have several different kinds of commit chemical agents that are swat teams as well as our mobile field force operators are authorized to use. We have various levels of our chemical agents because it helps us to be able to decide what level of chemical agent we need to be able to use. For example, we have some that we can introduce into an environment whether it's a vehicle where residents some of outdoors as well with the goal of being a slower exposure rate to that chemical to be in your attempts to get them to voluntarily complying exit their vehicle or where they barricaded themselves when they escalate situation and they potentially have more violence and more opportunity to violent officers of the committee or MAY have a hostage. We have other forms of chemical agents that dispersed more gas into that same space. So we're able to actually forced them so to speak to exit because it becomes so uncomfortable for them. For example, this last year we used 3 different on 3

different incidents. We were able to use chemical agents of varying degrees to be able to get suspects to comply safely without using any additional force. The first one, we're of these chemical agents introduced during a high risk Search warrant where the individual had committed a homicide. A belief prior to that we tracked him down to a hotel. We're able to use a minor sense of a minor use of the gas to try again ensuring compliance in that incident. Another one, suspect had threatened violence with a knife at a business to an employee. Terrifying that employee and then threatening to bomb the store later. That suspect then barricaded himself in an apartment complex in his own apartment, refused to come out and threatened violence by firearm several times. We're able to use drones to keep an eye from the window paying attention to where his movements were. And then ultimately we introduced a large or use of gas to actually force them out soon as gas was introduced, like immediately flat out followed commands bias. Whoppers is taken into custody again without any use of force. And the 3rd you. So that was a smaller one. That was a cs gas, which is very similar to pepper spray. It just comes up from ball that we threw into the car that caused destruction of the driver who had just attempted to run over a police officer and commit a vehicle pursuit. It was now refusing to comply. That gas was used as an irritant. That suspect then did not like that. You're a tense because it was bought his eyes or his sign a system and officers were able to actually just taken by the arms and remove him from the vehicle without

additional forces. All 3 of those incidents involved is not using anymore force that was necessary other than the gas deployments in each of those. That's just an example. The different kinds of gases that we do offer. All of those are just one over. You're going come in to control vehicle. It's a rv, basically. It does have a lot of good capabilities for us to be able to negotiate with our crisis negotiators. We have a dispatch center in there as well. But it is kind of outdated. We don't use it very often. It's very cumbersome requires a specialty license to be able to even drive the vehicle. So we've actually replace that. We just took possession of that new vehicle show you in a second last month. Our goal is to actually remove this from our fleet within this year, see probably will not see this on our count on our report next year. This is our new crisis. Negotiation or crisis hostage vehicle that we're using a command post. So with this vehicle actually does on the inside. It hasn't operations ability to negotiate with anyone who's going through a crisis or is the suspect or we're doing a search warrant? This vehicle would come out negotiators can effectively communicate with an individual in a quiet, secure place. Usually somewhere between 3 quarters half 3 quarters to a mile away, giving our negotiators your safety on the outside of it. You're going to see a television screen right there as well. This is going to allow us to our command mean the tactical commander on incident, whether it's a search warrant or other significant incident when we have our drones in the air all be able to actually monitors exactly what's happening in the field and not just rely on what swat operators, our field

staff are saying. We'll get real-time information brought to our command post for people in the real-time decisions with the real information with no actual delay involved in that as well. The long-range acoustic device, this has been in front of council before. This is an item that's primarily used swat. It can also be used by mobile field force team. But the main purpose of this is to actually provide loud announcements to give people warning about information. So used primarily do search warrants before we even make any attempt to usually go inside of the residents are swat operators of how this on the outside of her armored rescue vehicle and they will make notifications loudly and the singles directed locations. So it for writing from the House. It will hit that house. It doesn't actually deal with many of the site houses. So it's not causing as much of an interruption in our communities. But the really big benefit of this is you can hear this when it's point in your direction for a far distance. So we're telling someone we have a felony warrant for your arrest. This is the police department come out. No force will be used. We get a lot of compliance with that. And that's primarily what it's used for. We have to have the ability also to use this when we have these natural disasters and particularly like we're seeing these atmospheric rivers, we can go through a neighborhood if need be and warned people, hey, the creek MAY be flooding. Please exit your home. There's maybe wildfires coming. Please exit your home immediately. This helps us to disperse information much more quickly to use our resources more effectively. Specialty, firearms and ammunition munitions are also required to be released in this report primarily things they're

talking about in this section is just like when we use cyber rifles, we do have them and rifles. Those rifles, in addition for those have to be approved by council for us to purchase those munitions as well. So that's going to be on here. We also have cartridges that are associated with a deployment of gas. So similar to what you saw in opening slide with that block looking firearm that only shoots the blue chips week actually dispersed gas. That same way. So instead of having to run up to a window of a residence which we very unsafe or the subject with a gun and threw a canister of gas. And there actually to play from a distance, giving our officers time and distance to be able to deploy that to get some of that come out voluntarily without moving forward. Movie personnel, Florida, maybe. Increasing the likelihood of force being helped force occurring. It's going to see a couple of examples of those rifles as well. The armored rescue vehicle. This is one. It was snowing here in Santa Rosa. No, this is the new one initial pictures that we have. So this picture of the armored rescue vehicle, it's a wonderful tool that we have for our community. What it's really used for isn't one of theirs, active threat to our community or officers or a high-risk search warrant where a swat team is activated to be able to go take someone into custody. There are no fixed firearms or weapons on this vehicle at all regularly. We bring that to community engagement events. Nothing have to be taken off of the vehicle for young kids, parents or anyone to go in and see exactly the tools that we're using. And there's nothing a fix to this vehicle that would equate it to be.

Unsafe or weaponized in any manner. We do use this on all high-risk search warrants because what this does allows us to actually get closer to a suspect's house to people to put that long-range acoustic device in the front and people to communicate effectively with the suspects to get them to comply with directions. We also use this vehicle several times now, unfortunately, we had some floods, I believe over and that whole ms and that general area or talk of those general areas. We've actually brought this vehicle out there and rescue people out of rising waters as well. It is very good for that kind of service. The other thing is all of our officers are trained to drive this vehicle. Even our patrol officers. So if there was an active shooter threat in our community, but an officer was already at the station report reading. Here is the active shooter call about actually jump in this vehicle, which is how is that our police department and can drive that directly to where that threat is to be able to quickly get people to safety. And if we had victims, we can pull them out by using this vehicle or we can use. Vehicle is covers are trying to get closer to negotiate and get someone safely surrender themselves. We do have a couple of brought breaching apparatuses. 2 of them are one is using these munitions. What this mission does it for shock and that would go into a specialty. Shocking of breaching shock and the only our swat operators use that we use as needed munition put up next to where the locking mechanism on the door is released. The released the munition and that would take off the locking mechanism, making it easier for us to get into a new residents are where we need to present to a search warrant. Additionally, we have a kinetic breaching tool. This is actually pretty amazing.

It's the same exact thing as the reaching shotgun. Except what we do is we put that from part where you can see what a flattened up against the door cam and it just to to make is that fired up and back. So actually shoot a projectile and breaks a locking mechanism well as well, allowing us to be able to get into a resident if need be for either rescue. We're first search warrant on a suspect fails to comply. We need to get inside of a residence. We also have old school standards of just. Battering rams will help us get the doors as well. Those tend to cause more injuries to officers and they're worth at times. But they're still old-school things in these tools exist for more high-risk things. Are unmanned aerial and ground systems. We have several different kinds of drones that we currently use within the police department. We do also have a robot that is only used by our swat operators a lot of cases that robot has been replaced by a lot of the drone usage that we've been having. The main drones that we do have that our views on a regular basis or one and auto of both 2, I believe that one is the one that has infrared and lights on it. So we have missing people, especially youth, seniors. These can help us light up area. So we're going to open up, for example, in someone's walked away. We can put this in the era, be able to check for heat signatures of people to find folks as well. On several examples at night time our officers have been able to use these drones to de-escalate situations that wouldn't normally have been able to easily to identify as de-escalation opportunities. For example, we had a suspect who was fleeing police crashed into a business and was not following are complying with

commands that have to exit the vehicle. Traditional means could have meant that we would have went up not knowing what was existing in that car we could have sent a dog or there could have been other things that would have been increased use of force. We're actually able to put drones up now light up the vehicle from the outside. See exactly what's happening in real time. And that specific incidents that suspect who fled from the police actually had a firearm sitting on the drive from the passenger seat. But more importantly, to be honest, to on the safety risk. He's actually pinned in the vehicle because of the collision. So he wasn't intentionally not complying with officers. He couldn't comply. So now that we have this real time information because of the strong were able to switch up the way we actually handle that call and actually going a little bit medical aid with keeping safety in at for him at the forefront because one of the guns next to him. But it changed the tactics that we do as opposed to saying, hey, we're going to use force because you're not listening. Now we actually have more eyes, more real-time information to help out with that. The bottom photo of the the great drone. These are these newer drones to our fleet. What are helping with the interior. So especially when swat is going into a residence when everyone they believe is complied and come out, we can actually send these drones in to get an idea if they're still anybody in the house as well. We can also use these drones if we have like a building that's broken in to help us go in there at night, they do have lights on them. So we actually don't have to send officers or dogs in these buildings to see if maybe there's just someone who broke into sleep, they're not actually enforce. We can actually find out what's happening there or if there's a suspect hiding in there. Now we know we have a barricade and how that's going to look

as well. The other great things about these drones are actually really good for low foliage areas like Creek trail. So we have lots of those in city can fly up and down the creek just pretty quickly helping us look for missing people or suspects as well. You can find all of our policies associated with use of force, as well as this report as well anything associated with 41 at the of this website, anyone who has concerns can also reach out to us before anyone that's our city dot org. And those in most are honored pretty quickly in response are going pretty quickly. The goal of this is to hopefully have city council approve the report of the resolution associated with it. Our goal is to see when you see the report, if you've already reviewed it, it does talk about what we're looking to potentially purchase in 2025, it is not a guarantee we're going to purchase. We're not asking for additional funding to purchase these things. This is just merely giving us the authorization, which is required by state law to look into purchasing them and whether that's through grants or other opportunities to be able to do that. That's the goal of the report is to really just give you an idea of what we need, why we need it and what we used. You're not approving the authorization to say, hey, chief, go ahead. Tomorrow by all those things and give them a to go along with it, just give us the opportunity look for funding to be able to do that as well. If you do not approve this, wrote this resolution, we will not be able to buy any of the items that are on there, which includes ammunition for a lot of the tactical situations that we need, which we do go through primarily through

training. But that's part of the reason you're proving ideally, hopefully this report itself. And I kind of with that kind of quickly, but I really want to get more your questions in see those ending so soon. Thank you both for a thorough and professional pond report is always pretty back to council questions. >> As Ben >> I just wondering, says looking back at your at the the staff report and so I just so just I guess a point of clarification. So if you if you have approval, you'll be able to look into purchasing these items. I think you were just saying you could and then if you decided to purchase something with that, come back to the council at that point or is that already budgeted? It's purchase itself. If we have the funding for it within our budget, would we be able to make that purchase? But that new item would be on the 2025 report. >> So you would see that exactly what we purchased the following year. And then there's something else in the report. >> talks about the fact that the items, I guess that you currently. It says none of the items for the and this is on page to just what I'm looking None of the items, the Santa Rosa Police Department possesses have been obtained from the military. Does that mean directly or indirectly? There's a 10, 30 we know. >> The 10 33 exchange that the program with the federal government that you can take in military equipment at a discounted rate. We do not do any of that. We have not participated in not the city that I believe also doesn't allow for us to do that. Other city jurisdictions have done that. But none of our

equipment are actually from the military. So, for example, are armored rescue vehicle. If you brought that to actually like a war zone in the military, they would laugh at that vehicle. But this is not equipped doing what you need to do. This is bill for jurisdictions like police departments and things like that. The state legislature just mandates what umbrella goes under. That's why we included here. But we currently do not have anything that's been used in the military and now has been now using for the police department. >> Okay. So thank you for that. So and then you mentioned during earlier in your report that there only been a few instances where you've had to use some of these items and it didn't sound like very much. Just sounded like they were just a couple of instances over the last year. Yeah, Frank, how many? Just generally, I guess how many times altogether do you think that you've had to use any of this type of equipment over the last year. I know you mentioned like. >> sure. So I can think of a thought. My head. We've only used. During one incident in Petaluma. We did use the blue chip rounds. One time it was on the Pelham incident with a suspected just commit a homicide refused to come out as we made entry into the hotel, the hotel, he still had a firearm owner's lap. We did use it at that 0. One time to that person because he was a firearm. That was the only time we use that that year. We used gas 3 times. One of the suspect to threaten a a local business, the same individual from the Petaluma incident and one more time of pepper spray, pepper spray. Little ball we use that was used on the incident with the suspect fled from police tried to run over a police officer and refused to come out of a vehicle. But no additional forces used

after gas was deployed in any of those incidents. Yeah, one important clarification on there, too. Is just because these for, you ears and were very strict about limiting the use. Having them available for our staff is so crucial there. So many times just having this is tool in the scene. Quite frankly, an alternative to lethal force with it. And that's what's so really important for me. And that's something that within the culture of organization where working to really be able to change or easy. Some of the national standards and something that I'm really proud about. The Santa Rosa Police Department goes to by far the highest call volume of any agency here the North Bay. And even northern California. >> With that the last time that a Santa Rosa police officer as shot Villages 2017. That's remarkable. When you see the violence in our streets, when you see 300 and the illegal 390 illegal firearms, he's off the streets of Santa Rosa specifically last year. And that's not by accident. That's by hiring the right stff by incredible training and then really putting great supervisors in the field who are managing these incidents. And these tools are very important for them to build a man is the situations really be able to have a focus on less lethal technology. That's what you're seeing with the 40 millimeters. But at the same time, the reality are that there's violence in our community and making sure for the men and women of the Santa Rosa police said they have those resources, the armored rescue vehicle is one that there were strong community concerns even council concerns that we heard about that. And so we're really trying to use it carefully. But even last

year, I remember I was actually at the National League of Cities Conference last year at the same month with that and our officers were facing a barricaded subject who was armed and fired shots at our police officers who are standing behind that armored vehicle. That was an important day for me of like that vehicle potentially saved the life of Santa Rosa police officers who were shot out just a year ago from this month. With that, those doesn't really get much local attention or anything like that. That officers were shot at with that. But it's something that I really noticed an early member and so thankful for the council support for these tools for not only for the protection of our community, but the men and women of the police department. Thank you. >> That will go to public comment. I see one member of the public as you wish to comment. Are you done enough? Curtis, bring it back to council for a vote to final comments. Vice Mayor Alvarez. >> For myself, I'm really proud of the men and women of the Senate was a police department. Having served on city Council for 5 years now, my perception of police officers is very different. Why? Because I've seen the way that the whole church or the the way that that that marginalized community is being respected treated. It goes a long way. So have to give Kuz again. Chief to to the men and women who serve under your your direction. It's it's. You know, we talk about create a model for other places. I believe that's what you're creating flee. Those are paid attention to what's being done. Hear the city of Saint Thank you. On second. Thank you. Thank you for the professionalism of the force that comes through reports like this and every day in the

field. >> You MAY council the city proud. And with speed you could make a motion. >> Thank you, Mayor. Happy to and I'm happy that we have the equipment needed to protect those who serve our community. So thank you for bringing this purport forward. A move to approve the Santa Rosa Police Department annual military equipment report which complies with the requirements of a b 4, 8, 1, and to review ordinance number or d dash 2022? Dash double '07 and 3. New ordinance number or d dash 2022. Dash to blow 7 codified is chapter 2 dash. 38 of the Santa Rosa City Code Perth, California assembly bill, number 4, 8, 1, and wave it for the reading of the text Saturday. >> We'll be about what vice Mayor Alvarez for the second. And with that with a motion by MISS MacDonald. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers, yes, Kpi Councilmember Macdonald. Councilmember Fleming, yes, Councilmember Ben I think a of staying. Vice Mayor Alvarez And step. Let the record show this passes. The 6 affirmative votes and councilmember Ben Willows abstaining. >> Just for my clarification, do we need a reason for the extension? And its tension is different than the recusal. A recusal is when you either have a conflict or out of an abundance of caution based concerned about a conflict in that case, you do need to give a reason and its tension simply an election not to vote. No reason has to be given, but certainly one can be given. Understood. Thank

you. And with that, we'll move on to item 18, which are as their last public comment gender matters. I'm not sure that we have anyone here in public wishing to give comment. But now is the time. >> Seeing none we want to and 20 adjournment. Thank you, everyone.