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>> Good afternoon. I'd like to ask the interpreter currently on the Spanish Channel commenced translation of the meeting for those just joining the meeting live translation in Spanish is available. And members of the public or staff wishing to listen in. Spanish can join the Spanish channel clicking on the interpretation icon in 2 of our, it looks like a glow when joined the Spanish Channel. We recommend you shut off the main audio so that you only hear the Spanish translation. Pablo, will you please restate that's in Spanish. >> The and I know. Going say that's going to be. I people need and gold, but to this a week and unknown down. You can or cannot. I don't need I speak in economy. Think that because you don't. Yeah, but isn't about of joint. This only able to you when say we're not going on. Unknown said communicate up by the sort which I'm like that because you don't. I don't know. >> Welcome everyone. To 8 MARCH 5th, 2020 for city Council meeting. The time is 301, and senior Corps will begin the meeting. MADAM City Clerk, we please call the roll. >> Thank you. Vice Councilmember Rogers. Councilmember Okrepkie your Councilmember MacDonald, Councilmember Fleming Councilmember offer us present Vice Mayor step in Mayor

Rogers is absent this evening. But the record show that all council members are present with the exception of it. Mayor Rogers and council member Chris Rogers. >> Excellent. Item. Our our closed session item our conference with labor negotiators, a medicine clerk. We please connect the public comment on this item. >> Thank you. We are now taking public comments on item 3.1. Conference of labor negotiators. I do have a public comment or from the council chamber and I will go ahead and turn it over to MISTER. Do it at that podium. >> Hello, my name is doing do with them from Roseland. In your negotiations with employees. I'm hoping that you will make a point of giving the hard working lower paid employees in the Parks and Recreation Department and the Transportation and public works departments and the other areas who are that I guess you'd say. Hands-on boots on the ground type employees keeping our city running, especially during these hazardous storms where many potholes are appearing everywhere. These are hard-working people. And it's really important that you not just nickel and dime them to try to save on expenses. Well, you've been getting big raises to the upper management people. They can see that and they are looking at it going. Wait a minute. It says doing this hard work here. And I really believe that what you could be doing is negotiating with them in good faith to make sure that they get. A comparable wage increase based on what you give to the

management people I've actually seen where the management people are bringing in really large amounts of money. Now and these people down the bottom who are doing the most of the work out there in our areas seem to be. Basically considered second class. And that's not the way it should be. It's especially important for maintenance utility system operators. Those folks there, they're keeping everything running while it's a storming in power outages, things of that nature. So please keep all that in mind. It's not to detract from the work of the management people. It's just to basically say that the people they manage should also be perhaps considered on equal footing in terms of pay and benefit packages. Thank you very kindly. Look forward to seeing you later in the meeting by now. >> Vice chair. See no one else approaching the podium for public comment on this item. >> Thank you. And with that, we will. We will recess in a closed session. Thank you. Thank you for your patience, everyone. And welcome to our MARCH 5th, 2020 for city Council meeting seeing a qorum we will reconvene after a clue since closed session rather a city clerk. Would you please the roll? >> Thank you. Councilmember step. Vice mayor stopped. Councilmember Rogers. Councilmember Crappie Fair Councilmember MacDonald. Councilmember Fleming here councilmember over U.S.. PRESIDENT. Vice mayor stopped here in Rogers is absence. So let the record show that all council members are present with the exception. Vice or put me here. Rodgers in Councilmember Rogers. >> Thank you very much, right?

We have no study sessions today. Some on to item 6 report includes Sessions. MADAM City, Attorney. >> Thank you. Vice there was a closed session as outlined in item 3 point I believe. And there is no reportable action from closed session. Thank you. MADAME City Clerk, please conduct public comment. As there is no reportable action. We do not need to take public comment on line and never mind. Thank you. We got moving on to item 7 are proclamations and starting with our time with Red Cross month. Councilmember Alvarez. Thank you. As >> And this is a proclamation for the Red Cross. Whereas. During American Red Cross Month of MARCH, we recognize the compassion of the people Santa Rosa and reaffirm our commitment to care for one another. In times of crisis. And whereas his generous spirit is woven in the fabric of our community and advances the humanitarian legacy of American Red Cross founder, Clara Barton, who know we dedicate yourself to alleviating suffering and whereas today kind-hearted individuals in our community exemplify Barnes, commitment as they step up through the Red Cross in the Northern California coastal region to provide a beacon of hope for our neighbors in need. Through their voluntary and selfless contributions. They make the lifesaving difference in people's darkest hours, whether it's delivering shelter, food and comfort during disasters providing critical blood donations for hospital patients, supporting military families, veterans and caregivers, the unique

challenge of service saving lives with first aid cpr and other skills. Or delivering aid and reconnecting loved ones separated by a global crisis. And we heard here by recognize this month of MARCH in honor of all those who lead with their hearts to serve people in need. And we ask everyone to join in this commitment to strengthen our community. Now, therefore, our Mayor, Molly Rogers. By virtue of the authority vested in her by the laws of the city of Santa Rosa and the state of California. Do hereby proclaim MARCH 2024. As Red Cross Month, I encourage all citizens of Santa Rosa to reach out and support its humanitarian mission in witness Whereof. Sheen. You're on to set by her hand. This 5th day of MARCH in the year. 2024 in the city of Santa Rosa, California. Thank you. Thank you very much. And before going recipients city clerk, would mind facilitating public comment? >> Thank you. We are now taking public comments on item 7.1. The proclamation for Red Cross. If you're in the chamber and would like to provide comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name. These make your way to the podium. You have 2 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that podium. Vice Mayor mc no one approached the podium for public comment on this item. Well, he's the recipient of the proclamation. I was going at that through the vice mayor. He was going to provide public comment. >> looks like we have 1, 1, individual. >> MISTER Ailes, would you like to speak on public comment for non agenda or for 7.1? >> The Red Cross has a tremendous going back to the

princes of And before that. To the toss patellar. From of Jerusalem, from roads on Multan and up. There were tremendous of. Of of exactly that hospitality and helping. And then through the princesses of the created they became owner, says, and that's the first nurse scene and so on. It was essentially a connected I believe it's Joan of Arc. But at any rate. They're wonderful. And throughout the United States a lot of emergency helping. Want to thank them. >> Good afternoon. My name is more. I'm a resident of Santa Rosa and I would like to suggest that you and the Red Crescent to resolution honoring the Red Cross. The Red Crescent is the equivalent of the Red areas the Middle East. So called Palestine, Gaza today. So it would be appropriate in my opinion, if you could add that. Thank you. >> Is there anyone else wishing to provide public comment on 7.1, the Red Cross proclamation. We're seeing none. I'll turn it back to you. >> Wonderful that like to invite the recipients to make their way to the podium. And then afterwards, if you would mind coming down get a photo together. >> Good afternoon council. Nice to be year. We appreciated the opportunity. Response. Lastly, this American Red Cross Month. So we do that. The red question does work in the Middle East and other parts and there are other international Red Cross,

organizations that work around the world. But this is American Red Cross Month. The proclamation was first made over 80 years ago by Franklin Roosevelt. Every PRESIDENT Since Franklin Roosevelt has declared MARCH of every year to the Red Cross Month led to do the city of Rosa is in that show ration Red Cross. As you all know, responds to disasters around the country. Not only like wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma, where many of Red Cross volunteers from general county and California are right now working. The people who are victims of those fires. They're also home fires in Santa Rosa and other parts of Sonoma County and people of fire departments always call the Red Cross to come an offer assistance to the victims of of those fires. In addition, do read, but we do a blood collection Red Cross is the primary primary supplier of blood to hospitals for people who come in from actions. Shootings transfusions, whatever they need you'd like to help the American Red You can donate blood in our You can find out when those are by going redcross Dot org. You can volunteer your time or you're my and we appreciate all of the assistance from the citizens of Santa Rosa. I'd also like to introduce us catch a ride voters who is a member of the Red Cross Board for Napa, Sonoma Solano and Marin counties. >> city council, thank you for the proclamation and I'd like

to add. And homes comments that the American Red Cross also provides services to the armed forces as United States. And that's 24 7. They support families of deployed service members wherever they are stationed around the world. And one other thing like to mention is when you see Red Cross person. On the news or disaster with the best. That Red Cross volunteer is not paid. 90% of the people that support American Red Cross are not paid. The volunteers. Want to point that out. Thank you again for the proclamation. >> Indeed, Steve, thank you so much for coming out tonight. Please come out of the front with any other members of the Red Cross take a photo. We'll move on to item 7.2, a proclamation for Arbor Week. Councilmember funding. >> thank you. Vice Mayor. This is for Arbor Week, whereas in 18, 70 to a special day was set aside for the planting of trees and this holiday called Arbor Day was first observed with the planting of more than 1 million trees are but is now observed throughout the nation in the world since 19. 0, 9, the state of California officially declared MARCH 7th Arbor Day to commemorate the birthday of our very own Luther Burbank. And whereas in 2024 National Arbor Day Falls on Friday, APRIL, 26 and the City celebrates Arbor Day on MARCH 9th with a tree planting event Skyhawk Community Park as a service to our community and local school programs. And whereas trees protect our environmental resources, reduce erosion of tops, well, cut, heating and cooling

costs, moderate the temperature clean there, produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife and support our city's economic development by increasing property values beautifying our community and enhancing the vitality of business areas whereas interests. And strengthening community image and sense of place through the preservation of and dedication to Santa Rosa's urban for us. Major goal and commitment since the city's founding center's has been recognized as Tree City usa by the National Arbor Day Foundation for over 40 years. Ms there's continue its tree planting ways and whereas trees are terrific in all shapes and sizes. Love that. So here's all that the mayor of the city of Santa Rosa here by proclaims MARCH 3rd, the MARCH 9th, a twenty-twenty for Arbor Week. What say you? >> Thank you. Madison clerk conduct public comment. >> Thank you. Are now taking public comments on item 7.2, if you're in the chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided year Speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have 2 minutes in a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. We do have wanting some. It's a farm will start with that sun aided name, MISTER To it. Please go ahead. The certainly. >> My name is Dwayne Do with it on from Roseland. Thank you to the city crews that help us with the trees. This book great hears from over 32 years ago and basically pointed out that replanting some very important thing for communities. I really want to see us have even more employees in our parks and recreation departments in our tree. Crews. Basically, we need to do more as soon as

possible to help get even more trees in. I've been told that a lot of trees were knocked down in the recent storms. And because of that, we're behind in a ball in a sense. One of the things that happens when the tree, especially a very large tree that's been around for a long time helping to sequester is knocked down. It's very difficult to replace. It's helpfulness takes years and years for trees to grow. So I'd like to see you folks there on the podium. Take it upon yourself to help our employees that are already with the city to do even We still have an actual arborist that the city and that was not filled in the past. Really be a nice thing to do that again, perhaps. But if you can't. Do more with people that are already here, helping them to get more assistance. There'd be a great way to do it with students from Sonoma State. Senator was your college and help them to work on our crews here and perhaps become interns to learn how they could get full time positions working with city and county government on this very important resource. Our leave you with this. A woman said over. 140 years ago, we all want quiet. We all want beauty. We all need face and it all goes better with trees. She's one of the people that coined the term neighbor Woods. Thank you kindly for your time today. >> Thank you. Will go to the next speaker at the podium on the East lectern. >> And while I applaud planting trees, I'm dismayed by how many? Invasive non native trees are being planted

>> recently. City is unifying a Santa Rosa Avenue. >> And planted along the entire strip 3 blocks getting coats. Gingko trees are terrible. They make a big mess. Their leaders are slippery and they're actually quite dangerous when they do there with with with with apologies for interrupting, would you want a meeting just a little closer to the mikes opinion every now. >> Perfect. Yeah. So the problem I have is the lack of native trees. We're going to be planting trees, they should be native trees, native trees, support The strip along Saint Rose Avenue are all Kinko's. And King Cole's are super problematic tree. So I would just like to see more native trees being planted. Thank you. >> Thank you. To the west sector, MISTER Ailes. Go ahead. >> Do forgive me. I speak sometime throughout things that in the future and things that urgent now and some things from the to forgive me, though, in regard Arbor Day. It's really great, obviously to remember. For Burbank, anytime we can do. That is fantastic. He was just incredible but recent studies in and and in South Africa, in places that desecrating. What they're finding is that the removal of trees really, really detrimental to the ground water, preserving the groundwater. And so we can benefit the groundwater by having more trees. We should

have more trees in the shade. Actually changes the whole. My Kleiman so much better for the city and much better for really actually a change. Lot of things for the ground. Water should be. When you think of things with groundwater, she really be thinking of trees. And one other aspect is that we have this demonstration forced. I mentioned that on the the of the air-conditioning question for the library with the with the library and the director of labor. And I think they took some action on that. But there's a demonstration forced over here that they have no idea what to do with that. And then some fully-grown force. So when talk about the time for these trees and trees are fully grown, they could be used here at this library. They could be used over at the Northwest Library that could be used around town where they could be read plan to and they're fully grown. 60 foot tall trees they can be replanted in. So if the worthy really change my climbing around them really benefit the community was shade. So a lot of because she but particularly a groundwater think people. >> Thank you. Vice mayor step. They see no additional people pushing that Putin for public comment. On 7.2. >> Thank you. And are we welcoming the city's own Jen Santos to the microphone? To receive to receive the proclamation? While she's making way up there. While she's making her will bother making way down. All just think all the numbers of parks and rec record came today. It's nice to see. We have we have a full Thanks for all you do. >> Thanks so much for this proclamation today. I'm Jen Center's deputy director for recreation and parks. And I

have with me today are park superintendent who we want to definitely invite people out her volunteer event this weekend. So I wanted to take this moment and talk about that. It's a really good event. >> council members, my name is James Kallstrom superintendent for Parks. As Jen said, we are holding a Arbor Day event this Saturday MARCH 9th from 9 to 12 have Skyhawk Community Park. We're going to plan teen over 30 trees. We hope everybody can join I'd also like to take a moment to recognize the park maintenance during this last storm that we had they responded to over 34 downed trees in a 16 hour time frame without a tree crew. Cheers to you guys. Thanks for all that. You do and thank you guys. >> thank you very much. And we want to invite everyone. I take a photo. Read the whole team. Come on down. >> You can hear move makes short of minutes. >> And for our last proclamation of the evening Item, 7.3 National Women's History Month Councilmember Bones. >> Thank you. Vice Mayor, thank you so much for the honor reading this. I get to read the Women's History Month proclamation. Whereas women have played a critical role in shaping the economic cultural and social fabric of our society through their participation in the labor force, working both inside and outside the home in leadership positions and to creative inspiration. And whereas National Women's History Month provides and opportunity for schools and communities to increase and knowledge held by are children and our community of women's roles in history and their contributions to the

development of this nation. And whereas the 2024 theme for National Women's History Month is women who advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion which directly recognizes the women throughout the country who understand that for a positive future. We need to eliminate bias and discrimination entirely for the lives and institutions and whereas National Women's History Month is both a call to acknowledge outstanding women. We, know, by name and pay homage to the nameless woman who shared our collective past now. And they're now, therefore, be it resolved that our Mayor, Natalie Rogers, of the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city Council in recognition of the significant role played by women, his courage and vision inspire hope and possibility for today's women to make tomorrow's history, therefore, proclaim the month MARCH 2024. As National Women's History Month in Santa Rosa. Thank you very much. MADAM City Clerk, would you please conduct public comment? >> Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item that 7.3, if you are in the chamber would like to make a comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium. We'll have 2 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. I'm seeing no. >> Speaker, please go ahead on 7.3 at the West Lectern. Yes. >> My name is Jim More on the resident of Santa Rosa. And I cannot help. Remember, the women who are outside the United States as well. And point out to you that the women in Gaza, for instance, are being killed by U.S.

Weapons. And with us money, please take that into consent. Send to into consideration when you're honoring women. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next public comment there are no other members of the public wishing to provide public comment. Vice-mayor will turn it back to you. >> Wonderful. And I think we have known he joins Carter from the commission on the status of Women here tonight. It is no need Jones. Carter number vice chair of the commission and the status of Women appointed by commissioner. >> Sorry Supervisor, Chris Coursey and with me is is. We would like to thank the Council for taking this time to acknowledge the work done by. Lost my place. We would like to think that council for taking the time to acknowledge the work done by so many impact for women in Sonoma County. It's quite a coincidence that today's Election Day and so many women work so hard for the right to vote in 1920, the commissioners are advisers to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and work to ensure that the issues impacting women and girls are given the necessary. Visibility to effect positive changes in public policy. This year we have ad hoc committee's focusing on reproductive rights, human trafficking community engagement and voter turnout. Feel free to reach out to the commission. If you have need any assistance on issues that concern women and girls in Sonoma County again, thank you so much to the council for this proclamation. Thank you. Thank you know, for being here tonight. Can now take a photo. >> but it did. You have please

go ahead. >> I just wanted to say one additional to everything that Vice Chair Jones had just mentioned. >> We would like to acknowledge the past women and founding sisters of >> the 19th Amendment that actually gave us the right to vote here today since today is Election Day. So I just wanted to honor all women here in Sonoma County and America. And then the whole nation. Thank you and GOD and and then the whole world. >> Thank you very much. Come on down. All right. We're moving on to item 8 staff readings have city manager. Thank you, Vice this evening. We have no staff briefings. >> That that's incorrect. We do have the staff briefing. We have the community Empowerment Plan update and we also have introduction of one of our new team members. Are 2 of our new team members. >> good afternoon, Mayor Vice mayor and city COUNCILMAN Pearson, director communications and their government relations all be doing the a community empowerment plan. Update this evening. So first, it's my pleasure to introduce 2 talented team members that recently joined team for some I write a newly appointed diversity equity inclusion and equal employee opportunity to officer Francesca Roberson. She has a solid background in dei management and has played a pivotal role, pivotal role implementing Strategic Dei plans under previous position. Her commitment to fostering

inclusive is noteworthy. She is a certification in dei program management and is a certified trainer. I left a The sero team is newly important and community engagement manager Horta by cultural and multi-lingual professional on and has worked in diverse populations in both Latin America as well as United States. It's a proven track record. Bringing people together from various socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. And she has expertise in community engagement as well as program management moving forward and will be liaison to the community Advisory board. And so with that, please join me in welcoming Francesca as well as to the team. 1, 1, real quick thing. Amanda mentioned this previous, but the police department is developing a strategic plan and it's seeking community feedback and input and guidance on first part of that is happening. Tomorrow Marks 06:06pm, 35 Stony Point Road. The chief host a community meeting to get input on public safety priorities. In addition to that the police department has launched a community partner survey that's been available in English as well as Spanish seeking feedback on Knicks community experience with the police department engagement, interactive opportunities as well as safety priorities. And so the survey is open till MARCH 18th. And if you Saint

Rose apd Dot Org you can participate or take the survey. And that concludes an update and say something. City mayor just. >> Well, certainly acknowledging MADAM Area Vice mayor Over okay. >> Okay. Certainly want to acknowledge MADAM Mayor absence ice mayor and MADAM City manager and our Steve Council members. I'm just super excited to be part of the team here at the city of Santa Rosa. I look forward to moving the needle forward in the work that is already and started Thank you for this opportunity. >> Good afternoon, Mayor vice mayor and council members city manager. I'm very excited to be here and to be part of the city and to really continue to work. And have diverse community. Thank you. >> With that, that concludes update. Thanks to all of you. I'm sure I speak for my my fellow council I say how fantastic it is both both Martin or new staff members here. Thank Thank you for coming on tonight. And with that MADAM City clerk, would you please can become a public comment? >> Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 8.1. If you're in the chamber would like to provide comment but have not read it a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium. You will have 2 minutes and a countdown timer will or at the end of that period. Vice Mayor mc no one approached the podiums for public comment on 8.1. >> Thank you, Rhonda. Item 9, the city managers and city

attorneys reports city manager. Thank you, Vice I have no updates this evening. Thank you. And city attorney and I have no updates as well. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Move on to item 10 statement. Some attention. My council members, I'm looking at my colleagues statements, abstentions, no statement to the sentient this evening. So the move on to item 11, the mayors and council members reports any reports this evening for my from my colleagues. All right. We're not a charity bunch tonight. Moving to item 12 approval of minutes. Let's see MADAME City Oh, I'm sorry. I distracted for a moment. Any changes to be made on the minutes? Again now tournament, a city clerk or would you please go public comment? >> Thank you. Mayor. We're now taking public comment on item 12.1 FEBRUARY 13th, 2024 regular meeting minutes. If you'd like to provide comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have 2 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. Vice Mayor mc no public comments are that people are pushing Putin's for public comments. Thank you. >> So then I think I'm correct in just adopting the minutes as submitted. Is that correct? You're correct. Thank you. All right. Moving on to item 13, the consent items. City clerk pretreat consent items. Certainly. >> Item 13.1 resolution extension of proclamation of homeless emergency item. 13.2 approval of professional services agreement with disability Access Consultants, llc. Item 13.3 resolution authorizing some middle of a grant application to the Wildlife Conservation Board for the Lower covid Creek Restoration Project. Phase 3. And that concludes the consent

calendar. Oji's. >> Looking my colleagues. All right. City public comment. >> Thank you. Vice mayor. We're now taking public comment on items. 13 0.1 through 13.3, the consent calendar. If you're in the chamber and would like to provide comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podiums. Now you have 2 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. MISTER Ailes, please go ahead. >> Thank you. Want I just want to thank the Council for continuing resolution of homelessness. Emergency. There has been a reduction of homelessness in Sonoma County to to I think a lot to do with the >> so homekey and there was another name for the other program. But my point is, is that many people have been in the House that that program that's been a lot of help. I know that suppose possible in his empty this point. That's really problematic. But hopefully say why people have gotten there. I I think they have to have some construction or I don't know exactly what's going on with that. But it's not a city issue, but I just wanted to say that we're still in the homeless emergency and appreciate the city council's effort in that regard. Thank you. Thank you. >> Vice Mayor mc no one else approach to Putin's for public comment on the consent calendar. Thank you. Councilmember Okrepkie MAY have a motion. I move items.

13.1 through 13.3 second. All right. We have a motion by Councilmember Okrepkie and a second by COUNCILMAN. Oliver is city clerk. Would you please call the vote? >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers is absent cookie. I councilmember MacDonald. I councilmember Fleming. Council member of are vice mayor stopped. And Mary Rogers is absent. So let the record show that this pass 5 affirmative votes with. Mayor Rogers and Councilmember Rogers. Absent. >> Thank you very much. All right. We seeing that it is not yet 5 o'clock. We're going to have to hold off on item. 14 public comment non agenda matters. Instead, we're going to go right away to item item, 15 report items item, 15 point water of work on the resolution approved citywide integrated pest management policy. MADAM City manager. >> I think we're good to go. Staff come on down to the podium. I don't resolution to approve citywide integrated management policy. And if you could just please introduce yourself for the record. And council just so, you know, we have several team members in audience to be able to answer questions. >> Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Vice-mayor staff and members of the city COUNCILMAN Sean McNeil and the deputy director of Environmental Services. And I'm here today Jen Santos and Paul Lowenthal to introduce to you integrated pest management policy. So the outline for today is to talk about the goals of Integrated Pest which we believe that this policy before meet go over some of the existing guy Lunt

guidelines. Talk about that. A typical in a good pest management policy that ours was built off and then our staff recommendations. Before we get started would like to start with some definitions just to make sure that as I'm saying, these words that you're having this So a pesticide is any chemical that's used to eradicate pasts includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and raised right then to sides glyphosate is in the active ingredient widely known commercial product called Brown Death. It's recognized as an effective herbicide, the various trade names for glyphosate are based on the types of applications that they are approved for. So there's many different compounds that are many different formulations that are covered our life, a safe and as we identify in integrated pest management policy. And then neonicotinoids are a broad spectrum group of insecticides kill more than the intended species. And it has been shown to have a dramatic effect on bee populations. And that's why there's been a lot of movement throughout the country reduce the use of insecticides. Reasons to decrease pesticide pesticides and fertilizers are used to help launch the Green Revolution. This the news to increase crop yields preventing hundreds of millions of people from starving. But then pesticide use began to have significant environmental impacts as they

were overused in our environment, they killed non target species and were linked to human health impacts. Specifically concerns with glyphosate. Is the chemicals persist in the environment for days or months, depending on the formulation and frequency of use. And they're widely used in a culture and landscape maintenance it has been listed as a possible probable carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and lawsuits have then filed and won against the chemical manufacturer glyphosate and the health risks are most acute to the pesticide applicator. And I believe our policy protection for applicators as well. So integrated pest management. The goal is of this policy was to develop a citywide integrated pest management policy. What you have before you today, his policy would provide guidance to staff and contractors working for the city to ensure that the landscapes are designed and maintained in a manner that reduces the need for fossil fuel, powered equipment, herbicides, insecticides and other anthropomorphic inputs that have an ability to exacerbate climate change. And also to ensure that the policy the city's ability to protect against increased fire severity due to invasive species and climate change. So I think the policy threads the needle on on meeting those

goals. So our integrated pest management policy really starts with past identification. You need to identify these past research, the least toxic methods to address the impacts of these pests. And if action is needed apply the least toxic methods. First and then evaluate. And if further action is needed apply the least toxic method. Any integrated pest management policy is going to start with non pesticide actions first planting spaces with dense plan. Teens talk a little bit more about that in a minute. A mechanical removal of weeds where possible are other plant pathogens. Avoid problematic species where possible and use pesticides as a last resort and following a least toxic approach. First. So pest management solutions for and First, you have to wonder, can you tolerate this amount of insect? You know, it's a good example, many plants can be fine with Athens on them. You identify the disease. Is this a disease that's going to really kill this plant or is it just going to retired growth a little bit? Can mechanical removal of pass work if not, then you might need to spray with an appropriate pesticide to protect And if that doesn't work replace that a type of plant with pest resistance species where this doesn't work is in Luther Burbank Gardens where going specific heirloom to be specific Luther Burbank time and his plan development. That's management solutions for Tolerate.

There's a certain amount of leads that we can tolerate. We can also make sure that our landscapes have high density plantings, compete the space for the weeds mulching areas that aren't is densely planted with 3 inches of mulch can help prevent weeds from growing than mechanical removal. Where we'd tolerance is is allowed and then and large open spaces looking towards grazing and removal and besides as a last resort. Also, mansion's in a good test management policy address Pest Management for plant diseases first, it again. It's very Can you tolerate the damage? Can you identify the disease? Make sure that if you are going try to eradicate the disease, you need to know what you're after so that you can get the right tools, mechanical removal of the disease probably one of the biggest diseases we have on on fruit trees and the plants in the Rose family is fire blight and the number one action for protecting those plants is to identify the disease early and cut the material away and get it out of the garden So that wouldn't require if you identify that. And then if you do need to use sprays, use appropriate pesticide use least toxic ones. First like copper sulfate or sell for. And then replace past problematic

species with pest resistance species. And once landscapes Luther Burbank Gardens would need wouldn't be able to use as easily because of trying to preserve the species. Draft, the policy before has a complete ban of new nicotine lines in the Minimize the use of all pesticides throughout the city using the the policy and require staff to have a certified pesticide applicator to apply or supervise staff who are applying. And then when spring, any pesticide staff will use goggles chemical resistant clothing and chemical resistant gloves in chemical resistant boots. And these are above and beyond the minimum for many pesticides. But we saw in the policy to err on the side of safety. There is also in policy, a ban on glyphosate use in most sensitive areas that would be playgrounds. Public gathering spaces, picnic areas in other areas with identified sensitive receptors. So that no glyphosate would be used in those areas, but that we would have some specific exceptions should get out of control and we need to get them in in alignment. Those exceptions to the life of safe and would be to allow use in case of public health and safety allow use on road medians in parking structures the interaction with the environment is a lot

less ball fields that are closed for renovations. These are not active field so people wouldn't be recreating on them. Allow for use on invasive This would only be for non routine Typically restoring ecological restoration of an area you might need to chemicals to get rid of the invasive plants so that the newly native plants can have a chance to compete. And in these cases, once the objectives are met, that we would decrease or eliminate use of glyphosate in those areas completely. And to make sure that we're following through on The policy calls transparency of our pesticide use. We would. The policy requires that we create a website to highlight activities. 2, one prevent a pesticide use and that would have the this exact tips for managing pass without pesticides and then annual report of our pesticide use on city properties. So there would be an opportunity for the public and counsel to see how well the policy is doing to curtail our use of pesticides. And that all pesticide applications will be posted prior to list a date of application and when planning to apply pesticides close to the area, close the area to the public and post signs about pesticide application.

It is the recommendation center as a water and rec and the recreation and parks department that the city the council, the city of Santa Rosa by resolution adopt the citywide integrated pest management policy. That taken in open for any questions. Thank you very Turning due to council for questions. >> All right. Really no questions. Let's go to a public comment medicine clerk. >> Thank you. Vice Mayor. We are now taking public comments on item 15.1. If you're in the chamber would like to make comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium. You have 2 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. Please go ahead. MISTER Ailes. Okay. >> Thank you very much. I cannot think the city and the city council and 4 beginning on a process like this is really terrific. Both blind to see and and only science community do So really terrible the overall environment, particularly for for the least of these will calm the smallest of the animals I've mentioned before environmental engineer and I went a post graduate program Hills man has been a witch. It was all about toxics. And so news 1986. So it's time and glad to see this. Particularly the approach is the least toxic crews first and then replacing plants. I assume native plants are usually more to the environment. The question about how worried the seas. You can weaken the plans and how significant problems

with that? I would I would ask that you amend the eu proposal or at least look at some things, one of which is grandma putts, methods. Use vinegar. Do so vegetable, oil and peppers various writings, black peppers, red peppers, green news that the seeds from peppers. You put it and they kill bill. Kill if you have problems, certainly >> Nats or other types of things like that's really terrific to get. Those are very natural. They're not pesticides They're not toxic. From that standpoint, the news very delicate leads really. Also to have an emergency, which I believe they're really considering, which is okay, something everything else doesn't work, that you can. Really take care of it and you need to thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker, please at the West Lectern. Please go ahead. >> Hello, my name is tense. i'm a lifelong center as a resident. >> I appreciate proposed ban certain Tessa sides. But I very much dislike the page on exceptions, especially considering that I have 3 brothers who have all played baseball. I used to play softball and I would roll around in the grass. If I knew that there were chemicals thrown on that grass even a year 2 years before I was on that would make me concerned. 24 year-old who has a lifelong chemicals. They call them forever chemicals because of the practices that our country has engaged in for putting

pesticides in agriculture and in our recreation areas. And this is not by my own choice. This is you forever chemicals. And if you do not your children probably do so. I think that there should be a further ban on these things. And like Thomas said, there are natural alternatives to take care invasive species different plans that we don't want like. I had the privilege last year to engage in a cultural burned with the North Fork with Dolly the sheep and from Yosemite. I learn from them that the ways in which that we care for the area is not how it has to be. If we put human power on to it, we can take care of these invasive species. So I really would like to encourage you to look past all pesticides, not just these few that are here, but all of them like vinegar, water So please think about the children. We have lives that we want to live in these pesticides. All of them, even the ones that have limited vans affect us without us even choosing Thank you. >> Thank you, speaker on the next on the East lectern. Please go ahead. >> I'm Susan Month District 2. I also want to thank the Council the Department for I'm making this proposal I assume the council is going to accept it. I also want hold out the hope that you will eventually than all pesticides in them. Landscape designer. A permaculture the certificate holder. There really are other ways to do this and, you know, I had to spend a lot of time with some of my clients explaining to them that we do not control the earth and we

do not. Control nature and we need to get over the fact that everything must be perfect. Thank you for this. But I'd also like to take the opportunity at the beginning of presentation. The city mentioned the audience. We are not audience. Audience sits and does nothing but be entertained and my class. We're the public. So I am hoping that from now on. Audience will be banned. And you will now refer to this gathering is the public. Thank you. >> I stand seeing no one else approach the podium for public comment on item 15.1 to turn to q. >> Turning back to council for the final final comments. All right. Well, then just let let me extend our thanks to Bush on agenda, Paul. A very thoughtful proposal. And there's a lot of work that went behind it. Thank you. Also to our maintenance and parks and rec teams. I mean, one of the implications of this proposal is that, frankly, is a lot more physical work for the for the for the folks that we haven't done in the community. I'm by myself and we did an outfield and it it's not easy. So thank you. Thank you for being willing to take on this extra work. With that, I'll turn over councilmember funding for motion. >> Thank you. Vice mayor all move a resolution of the city of the Rosa adopting a citywide integrated pest management policy. And wait for the reading of the text. >> All right. We have a motion from councilmember funding and a second from Councilmember Kentucky and that city clerk. Would you please call the roll? >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers is absent councilmember Councilmember MacDonald. Councilmember Fleming. I councilmember offer us all

right. Pierce step. I in mice or Mayor Rogers is absent. So this passes with 5 affirmative votes with Mayor Rogers in Councilmember Rogers, absent. >> Thank you. All right. We're moving back to item 14 public comment non agenda matters. Better. City clerk. >> Thank you. Vice mayor. We're now taking public comments on item the 14 non agenda matters. This is a time when any person MAY address the council on matters not listed on this agenda, which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council. If you're in the chamber, would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card. Please provide your name to the administrator at the top of the well, we have already received 12 public comment cards for item 14, the remainder of those wishing to provide public comment on non agenda matters will be afforded the opportunity to speak under item 18 non agenda matters. The first public comment will be from blue followed by rocks, even Dwayne. >> Lou, that's I feel that, although I am fairly new resident and beautiful Santa Rosa, I get that. What is most important year is he's the city of Santa Rosa. Proudly stands for diversity welcoming all. And that inclusivity. In that inclusivity. There is tolerance in our hearts. Of Santa Rosa is best each gene. And I know that its residents care about the world care about the future. Our cities stands for peace. We need to show the world that our caring doesn't stop at the city

limits. I urge a vote for the cease-fire resolution. This stands for. He's on both sides. It stands for and the killing of innocent lives. We can make a difference and be an example to the eu in Santa Rosa. And the world. And we can show that we believe in a future of peace ceasefire. Now. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Roxy followed by Dwayne. >> My name is Roxy showing I was born in Santa Rosa as a trans and queer person. I have been seeing the city become more accepting of lgbt community. Then when I was growing up, I know there's been progress and includes a tv in diversity and moving away from the races past this though, there's much more work to be done. I would hope that you as representatives of the city as political representatives of this country, we take a stand for human rights, to be able to say Palestinian lives matter. Like many have learned to say Black Lives Matter take a stand against mass murder and that the cleansing take a stand for peace, justice and freedom. I ask that you stand up for what is right. Santa Rosa calls for a cease-fire in Gaza is not complicated to say Sanders. The stands against genocide is not complicated to say Sanders a stand against Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia is not complicated. I ask you to do what is right. Not what any powerful lobby or corporate into tier political machine or foreign government tells you to do. But you do what you what you must know in your hearts right to say we're against is mass killing of tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men. We are against the 4 survation hundreds of thousands of civilians who want hostages return and we want the

political prisoners returned. We want peace for Palestine and Israel saying we demand a cease-fire is the minimal and most on complicated thing. You can do. You represent represent the city and this country call out this U.S. Funded genocide. Please. But it's not be seen as complicit. Never again, for anyone that is standing on the right side of history. It is not. It is divisive to not call for a cease-fire. It is not Anti-Semitic to see criticize Israel. It is just to say free Palestine must we all become Aaron Bushnell to be heard. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be 2 Wayne followed by Elizabeth been Susan. >> But to use the overhead Lee coming up. >> Hello, my name is Duane de from Roseland. Earlier I showed you publication from 32 years ago about cooling communities. And this is a patron to talk about urban heat islands and the greenhouse effect. 32 years ago. Then PRESIDENT Bush he put together an effort for. Plant a billion trees is what he wanted to do here in the United States to try to counteract. >> greenhouse gas effect. So I bring this back to you today because his effort was called America the beautiful Urban and Community Forestry Assistance program. Earlier, you proclaimed are and I think you should have someone from the city staff reach out to the National Tree. Trust and work to get more trees for us here in the Santa Rosa Plain

area. Lots of development is going on and they're cutting trees down. They're not replacing them in a timely manner, either one of the dilemmas about all of this. Is that what's happening is The urban trees that have been cut down like right over here at Courthouse Square. There was a crew there for 40 to 50 years. It's going to take that long to replace them and their benefits for carbon sequestration. Many of these young people that are here now they want to make sure that they have a better environment in the future. So we need to have some sort of effort on the part of our city officials to reach out to get these benefits from the federal government and the National Tree. Trust you could do It's not going to take that much effort if you need volunteers. Are those of us in Roseland who would put together the time and effort to try to get more trees with that in mind. We're also doing Earth Day event on APRIL 20th, which is a Saturday and we might their tenant. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Elizabeth followed by Susan. Then in Hawaii. >> My microphone. Yeah. There it is. They have to get closer. Okay. It's been nearly 75 years that I've lived in this country in 3rd grade. I lived and went to elementary school in Toronto, Canada. Both my parents grew up in Ontario. Living the prime country eventually has an extremely boring element to it. >> And and that's where I'm starting >> I carried many the premise

sign for about 10 years. The guns part proliferate. The wars are grotesque and bizarre. The current genocide in Gaza is a direct and obvious. Consequences of endless war and and money for more and more weapons. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Susan followed by a and b and then shoot us. >> Susan, I'm and district 2. I recently saw the movie origin about Isabel Wilkerson's journey, writing her book cast the book and movie draw the similarities between Enslaving Black people in the United States. The exploitation of Untouchables in India and the genocide of Jews during the Holocaust in Germany. Use the dehumanization of a group of people for the purposes of exploiting them and killing them. It is no surprise that Israeli officials have called Palestinians cockroaches and mice. All the scenes of these murders policies are gut-wrenching, but the ones most relevant today are those of the Holocaust could not help but think how can people to whom this This to others? There's a scene in concentration camp and what you German soldier shoots a mother in the head for trying to protect your daughter. Not picture desperate. Palestinians being shot while trying to get food for their starving children. I know teacher in California Jewish School born and raised in Israel. She does not know about the not Jews have a name for the catastrophe, the Holocaust Israel. It is illegal to teach about the Palestinian catastrophe or say its name, the not. My sister's Todd and 3 Jewish schools. She

says if you're a student, you wouldn't even know that Palestinians exist. She says the history of the state of Israel is and slanted as inaccurate as the teaching of slavery and Ron DeSantis, Florida over the top propaganda is the order of the day. We hear some speakers repeat, totally debunked is really lies once we might forgiven them, their ignorance pose their lone no longer that excuse. Now it is. It is is in far-right, Florida, a self-imposed ignorance and it is deadly. Only you can look inside your cells to determine whether you are also acting or I should say, not acting out of deadly ignorance. Remember the silence of our representatives during the Holocaust. If you want to know what you would have done during AUGUST. They're doing it right now. C is for now. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be in. We followed by Chevys. Diane. Please go ahead. >> Season 100 years ago. 75 years of all now for ever today, my seat becomes certain member lost my vote. >> My name is immunity. Greetings from Vanity. Katie, what is said and grandmother over too, because think what putting this time, I can go up just kind of click 2 up site. I wake up Thursday and I think all of Palestine, I go to the doctor's I think over Palestine.

>> No no not there. The baby grades to in the parking >> I think over involve a part of his sign. I'm single the Palestine. When I see a rainbow, it means MAY I'm in putting this time. I think all the pundits sign when I see 2 there and flying kites about the wording about I'm supporting well with is all the pundits time when I went the heart, the standing not ruins. I think with Palestine when I see and hear people in Santa Rosa Ca come see, the one pick started page in silence. And then pull completely in Henderson and Sand on site by not see is awry. I people had to She is a pioneer now and for >> Thank you. The next speaker will be shipped followed by die. And then Gary. Should We'll circle back Diane Gary than Matt. >> It right. So hi, my name is Diane and I live in Santa Rosa and I'm here to implore you to pass the cease-fire resolution. I ask as a Jewish person whose grandparents were fortunate to escape Europe with my mother on the eve of the Holocaust. While all but one of my extended family left behind the parish. My mother

and my grandparents escaped because some people literally risk their lives to get them out. While at the same time others turned away and claimed they didn't know that anything was going on. It is said in the Jewish religion that to save one life is to say the entire world. Right now, people are starving in Gaza. Dying from Israeli bullets and bombs. Over 300,000 people have died. Children have died of starvation. Right now. There are things we can do to save lives. One of them is to call for a cease-fire. One does not need to know everything about the situation to know that something is terribly wrong. All one needs is a hard passion courage. Calling for a cease-fire is actually a mainstream opinion. Please call for a cease-fire now. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Chevys. >> Followed by Gary. Even Matt. Should been Gary been Matt? He will circle back to ship is again, Gary. Please step to the podium and go ahead. >> I'm Gary I live in Santa Rosa. I've been troubled by the oppression of the people of Palestine for so many years. And it's just incredible that the Savage re is going on. Now and it continues. And our tax dollars

and I. I think it's past time for Perhaps Aaron Bush, no it in action. What we have unable to do in words, we've all been speaking in asking for help for these poor people. I've gotten to know some of them. They're very gentle, humble, generous, very, very nice people. We could try them all after them. A lot of us Americans. As Aaron Bushnell opened our eyes and remind is a reminded of our shared humanity. And the bar responsibility to each other. If he did this for us, MAY we make a decision at this moment to call for ceasefire and work for peace. He will live on in the U.S. And we will be better people for >> Thank you for City clerk. If I could just jump in, folks, if you wouldn't mind lining up at both podiums is going to be as efficient as possible. Time between comments. >> So you could you can from both podiums. >> Thank you. The next public comment will be Matt followed by Chandon than Thomas. Not go ahead. Hello. Yeah. >> Council members, if you can look up from your computer's right now, please. Council members. You asked for public comments, people from the public come here to be hurt. And so looking to see you guys look down from both your notes as people are asking to be heard for you guys to make a statement that is so easy.

Cease-fire. Stop the violence. And if you don't know, turn on your computers, look on your phone. Maybe that's what you should be looking at Now, look at your phone and look at footage of Palestine and find out why we are here. Asking you to make a statement. You are our voice. You serve no function to us you're going to speak for us. And we're asking you to listen to us and say something for us. And that is stop the killing. And if you can't do that, you have to live with your conscience because that is statement that was made earlier. What would you during do during the Holocaust? You are doing your silence is simply unacceptable. Thank you. >> Thank you. Through the vice mayor. I would like to make the announcement about the silence of port. To maintain an orderly meeting and respect the opportunity for those wishing to speak after each commenter, we asked that rather than sharing in hand clapping that the show of support you use is a silent applause. If you can, please this is the silent applause gesture. We would appreciate it again to maintain an orderly meeting in respect, opportunities up those speaking after you. The next speakers will be Jan Dhan followed by Thomas. Then Jason. Well, go ahead. They spelled my name wrong. So but I'm letting Maria speaking my turn in or swapping things. >> My name is Maria Bahr a cat. I'm a Lebanese American with family from Palestine. Migrate out. Renee was expelled during the Nakba and lived in new and refugee camps in Lebanon with her family for years making awful for them. Because they only had lentils to live on. My dad still talks about the taste of her falafel since the last time I was here before this body, almost 2000

people have been killed, murdered with us bombs and bullets. Since I saw you last, there has been a flower massacre over 100 people were killed and 700 wounded trying to get food, desperate and hungry with us bombs and bullets. A woman who tried to have children for 10 years lost her twins and husband in a bombing. I'm about to file my taxes and send my hard-earned money to Israel to kill my own people. This body remains painfully and shamefully silent. You cannot stand for peace and justice but remain silent in times like these to be silent is to uphold the system of violence. Why are we here week after week? We love justice. When we call for an end to the killing. We mean on all sides, the release of all hostages. We mean justice. We're not anti Semitic. We care about all of the other U.S. Generated imperial atrocities occurring today in Yemen and Lebanon and Sudan and Haiti in drc and more when facts stand before this body and anybody who will hear us to denounce all forms of white supremacy and imperial colonial violence. We do not discriminate. U.S. Support for the Israeli atrocities. Happening today is unprecedented. The volume and speed of this genocide in Palestine, a genocide by definition has rallied us to hold this violence. Palestine needs us now. The number of children killed in the first 3 months of this genocide surpassed the number killed in Syria in 11 years. That is why we're here now. Do >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Thomas followed by Jason Thomas. Please go ahead. >> Thank you. Can you hear me

thinking? One thing? Want to do is go back to the glad to see Germany studied see unfounded up 10 miles from where was applied. So you really need to work with the county and Caltrans. Please follow the International Court of Justice. The are having hearings they have here and you can see them on YouTube. You can something Africa in the media give the arguments of in before the court. It's very important. Previously ordered to. Israel to prevent civilian or prevent civilian deaths as much possible cree protection for them to prevent genocide. That's order that came out of the port are ready. The flower then demonstrates that Israel did not follow order. The actually structured we the trucks with a rhyme with the food aid in order to offices. The civilians with the trucks in between and that would where the civilians will be running towards of have a plausible deniability about how the fired weapons, 90% of the victims were hit in the head and the torso. PRESIDENT Biden has written an executive order requiring prove following u n. Rules and international law. He's just written this as of last week. Just previously, maybe week and a half ago, 2 weeks ago. The have to provide proof Israel has to provide proof within 45 that they're following orders of the un.

They have not followed there. How we are going to resolve that. It's going to the people. >> Thank you. The next speaker is Jason Sweeney. >> Many that we need a resident of Santa Rosa, California. I'm here again to speak to you about the need for cease-fire resolution. We're trying to build critical mass around the radical notion that violence begets violence. And that is why we want to use our collective words to end the harm being done and the cycle of violence itself. For those of you who are still confused about this 5 months in this is a quote from Chris Hedges who is an author journalists would journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian If you haven't heard of him. Recent statement in me made in JANUARY, genocide is not a political problem. It is a moral one. It is the crime of all crimes. The purest expression of evil. Another quote in the same talk, a politics of hatred creates a permanent instability. One that is exported by those seeking to destruction of civil society. What he's saying there is. What we're seeing, which is basically we need to unite around these ideas that we can. We can stand together and and draw the line essentially. I want to call a quote from a movie called a roadmap to apartheid. And in this scene, the show a document from the from the Israeli Ministry of the Planning Department where the where that the government calls for the maintenance of an ethic balance 70, 30 Jewish to era. Those that policy would not stand here in the U.S. That if we were, if we

were. If you are seeing that we had to limit and that this seat, only 30% of the population. So why is it not ok here? But okay in Israel. I just want to say that we are here because of the Zionist project. We have no choice but to bring these issues the truth forward and tell the of the innocent people have been killed and his only choice that we have. Consequence. >> Thank you, vice mayor. That is 12 public comments on item 14 non agenda matters. >> Wonderful again. We'll have a second round of public comment for public comment on non agenda next But now move on to item 16.1 public MADAM MADAM City manager. >> Thank you, 16.1 is a public hearing development related cost of service fees. Update. >> Good evening, my Vice mayor members of the council gave Osburn director of planning and economic as mentioned in introduction item before the council at this point in time is a development services fee update. And this is really the next step in the process to adopt the fees. And it really is our final step. We presented this item to the council in a study session on JANUARY. 30th. And at that point, the focus of the conversation was on a study that analyzed the full costs associated with providing development services Mgt consulting group has performed that study. And joining me today is Sunday Scots who will also be participating in the presentation. Before we go into the background, I just like to provide a reminder to the council and members of the public that the fees involved in the study today, our service fees, those fees going to the time that it takes our

staff to develop or excuse me, implement services for development services. Those are plan. Review inspection services that go into the processing of private development applications. This action is not infecting any impact fees in the city of Santa Rosa. As far as the feedback around goes in in 2004, the City Council shifted the methodology associated with fees when service fees excuse me, financial strategies were adopted that attempted to achieve 100% cost recovery on development services Prior to that point, fees were heavily subsidized by the General Fund. Our most recent study was conducted for an overhaul of our fees in 2013 that resulted in fees being adopted in 2014 that affected our building and planning fees. We also adjusted small number of our engineering and planning fees in 2017 like to point out that the fee study is a longer many of the things that we do, it can go for multiple years. So when we start this process much of the data that is involved in the study was based on fiscal year 20 to 23 and fees that existed a year and a half ago. As part of the study, we quite a bit outreach to our stakeholder groups. Typically that involves residents that pull It's it's heavily involved in the development community. These are services quite often. We produce the survey and always the caucus in OCTOBER of 2022 that involves 16 questions that were regarding restructuring options. Those that survey was launched. It is in both English and Spanish. You see 301 responses to that in MAY of 23, we also held a stakeholder meeting

with the North Coast Builders exchange in NOVEMBER of 23. We held another meeting at the North Coast Builders Exchange specifically with their board members in JANUARY of 24, we held a general community meeting and on, as I mentioned earlier on in the presentation in JANUARY, 30th, we held the council study session. As far as the comments received the they found to a few different court categories and we tried to incorporate all comments received into what you're seeing today. One of the main threads was that fees need to be easy to that came through with members of the community and the development community. And that doesn't necessarily that you need more. Let's fees. It just needs means that they needs to be easy navigate from a fee schedule standpoint. So one people can understand up front what the fees are. And it's a predictable process. We also heard that few should be based on a fission process is what you'll hear today is the fees are calculated on the average amount of time that it takes to perform a specific service. So instead of having that be based on an actual service that was that was concerned that we're actually putting those staff hours to something that's not sufficient. So what we did to address that is the average is that you'll see today are based on an efficient process and not necessarily the hours that are being performed today. It's when we actually can modify those programs, move forward and efficient way. It's based on that. We also heard and excuse me on that point to another piece that I think is

incredibly important to this many jurisdictions, as you'll see as part of this presentation are moving towards 100% cost recovery through and invoicing essentially applicants pay as they go and they pay for the actual time on the development community had some can significance earns about that based on the fact that that does not breed efficiency. So we've removed that from the process moving forward. We also heard from the development community that there is an understanding that costs are We haven't adjusted the fees in 10 years and many of the developers have seen costs raise on their side and understand that there is a need to raise the fees. There was also a willingness to pay more for reduce turnaround So there is an understanding that the fees go into service is provided and developers benefit from those services and the more resources that are in place to provide those services. The quicker development applications move through the system. We also concerns about fee increases applying to projects that are currently in the queue. We have a slide dedicated later in the presentation to talk specifically about that. We also heard that these that service fees are very small percentage of the overall project costs many situations for larger projects there, one to 2% on smaller projects. They're much less than that. This chart was shown during the study session. But I think it's very because it's we have to understand the relationship between permit volumes, revenue and expenditures. So what we see on this chart, the bars actually show the number

of permits that we received from 2015 to today annually. Those permits are shown blue in building a yellow in engineering in green and planning. They do not include any activity for the fire rebuilt. So this is really our core services, the red line shows our expenditures and the black line shows our revenue what we wanted to do in this particular case is really show the true costs associated with development services. So we excluded costs associated with our economic development division and our Code Enforcement division. And typically what we see on this chart is we see over time that permits will increase and decrease. And typically the expenditures will grow as permits increase. And that's really the response to the immediate need of processing permits. And we tend to really achieve a certain percentage of cost recovery in that process. And we would never achieve 100% because development services as much more than just processing applications provide customer service were there for the community. In many ways. So we typically try to focus on the cost recovery in the 70 to 75% range. I'm very difficult to achieve year to year, but that typically is the goal. And what we've seen with our structure that we currently have over the last year as application start to slow our revenue starts to slow and the gap between our revenue and our expenditures widens. So really, as we increase fees were trying to close that gap. And that's very important to providing services to the community because in the absence of increasing that revenue has permits reduce or our revenue slightly reduces and generally our expenditures

will reduce and that strips resources to the permitting process. So our goal today is to try to achieve that 70% cost recovery and to bring those lines closer together. And the next night we'll talk about the project eject of sand. The methodology used in the study. And at this point, I will have the presentation over to Sunday. Thank you so much. >> think one of our primary objectives, as Dave mentioned, was to simplify or make the fee schedule much easier for your consumers to follow and understand what their fee would actually be. So we did some significant restructuring just to simplify those making them a lot easier for everybody to understand. We also want to define what it truly cost the city to provide those services. So we looked at okayed so what does it take to process that permit? What does it actually cost? We determine whether there are any services where fee could be collected. There's been a lot of changes recently. So we identified if there were services that needed to be added to the fee schedule the city would be providing. And then identify service areas where the city might just fees based on either full cost of service or other economic or policy. I considerations is gave mentioned. Our methodology was really based on transparency. We built of fully Burnett, hourly rate we took that average time to provide that service. As Kate mentioned, we took into you fish and factor. You MAY be spending a little bit more time right now. But the goal is to be as efficient as

possible. And that is how we costed those service is out. Product of the hourly rate times. The time is basically what it is costing to provide those services. There's a very clear nexus between the cost of that service by doing that. None of the recommendations that we are making our taxes. There are all in alignment with prop 26, which means you can not make a profit on those services or those fees that you collect. This is a snapshot of your current revenues versus what it's actually costing to provide those services. Now, some of this such as building being slightly over at that is purely volume. It is I do to fees being excessive. We were coming out of the activity for building. So basically we're we're taking in a lot of of permits at the time and So we see a slight overreach there. The overall cost recovery you can see was about 77% eyes. Areas were lower. Some areas higher. >> Again, this is full cost recovery. And this is not the target that gave had mentioned which he's going to discuss a little later in this presentation. So there is a gap right You're currently recurring about 77% overall, some of the fees need to be lowered. Some of the fees need to raced to a I come back into

alignment. >> Thank you, And then a summary of what we're proposing Obviously, the study is a fairly large document are quite a few fees that are addressed in that study. So very holistic approach to pretty much all of the building, engineering fees that we have so do my best to provide a summary of those generally. What we're seeing is that important to set at a full cost recovery. So that's really what we're proposing tonight is that all fees be said at a baseline full cost recovery moving forward and generally what we've seen with the fees is there's been an increase in operational costs over time. And we have had certain fees in the department that have natural annual escalators based on the consumer price index, where they just go up every year. There's a very small number of fees. And what we found is even in those situations with a 3% increase is that generally happens to that processes that are not necessarily keeping up with the general overall increase in costs. So we've also seen additional cross support hours come into our fees. So this is actually including ours that are applied to a permit process from other departments. Transportation public works fire, very active in our permit. Review process capturing those hours. So that's driving the costs up a bit. We've also seen additional state requirements that are increasing staff hours. So there's been quite a bit of housing legislation that's come down over the years. That's creating unique process is increasing our review time. And that ultimately is increasing cost.

We've we've had a big shift into the digital arena due to covid. We went from a paper process to 100% virtual and digital process. And we found that that does have a technology cost to it. We're seeing more software companies going to subscription services and more software packages being involved in the review process. So we've seen an increase of costs on that front. We're also seeing from our advanced planning standpoint, that's a very heavy consult driven exercise. Our internal staff control that. But we have a lot of those wrenching hours being performed by consultants and we've seen significant costs in that area as well. So overall, that is triggering the majority of the fees to increase. But we're also proposing is some modifications to our existing fee classifications. We are adding some new fees to cover time. That is not currently recovered. They example I provided of transportation and public works supporting processes. They actually have their operations team, for example, in a new subdivision morning streetlights are involved. That team activates those street lights and that's a cost that's not covered. So we've added certain light and to to recover those costs. We've also seen, as I mentioned, state housing legislation through sb 9 sp. 35, those are distinctly different processes. And as we've gone through that we now have fees to cover those. We've also expanded a single fee into multiple categories and this is usually for

clarity sake, for example, he could be based on construction costs, which is very difficult for a property owner, understanding calculate. So instead of doing that, we would have a line various cost that we're going to that total. And that might be for doing improvement work that the property owner can understand exactly what it takes to replace the sidewalk square in a driveway approach as well as a combination of those 2. And we're also seeing certain fees decrease through this process. And that is really a result of efficiencies that we put in over the years as we analyze those hours, the hours all of the cost for the service in ours has increased. The number of hours have dropped down to those efficiencies. So this these project examples were presented during the study session, but will go over those very quickly because they highlight some of the changes. So the first example is a residential subdivision project, a larger one of 100 lots or greater. These are individual building permits for all of those 100, lots. So what we've seen in this particular case is that building fee has increased per law. We have seen increases on the planning side, but we've seen a significant decrease with a new fee proposal on the engineering side. So that has resulted in a net reduction in the overall fee for that project. Our next example is a large multi-family project. This could be market rate or affordable. We've seen a lot of those come through over the last 5 years. It's very similar situations. We've seen a significant jump on the building side. We'll talk specifically about this. A building permit application in the future slide. When we look at our comparison regionally, we are very low in this area. We have seen a jump in the planning side as well. That is a lot of those cross support

hours coming into the equation. And we've also seen the reduction on the engineering side. But in this particular case, that reduction does not offset the increases on planning and building. We also have an example of a stand-alone accessory dwelling unit. That's a fairly common form of development. I'm very slight reduction on the building side, but we do see an increase on the engineering side typically with accessory dwelling units and maybe sidewalk replacement MAY be a driveway approach, replacement or not. And that's an important piece. They don't always have an engineering elements so that if that's added on because we're seeing increases on those minor encroachment permits, it would increase the cost. We also analyzed a commercial tenant improvement. A 5,000 Square feet. We're seeing a reduction on the building side. We're seeing an increase on the planning side once again because of those cross court hours. And we're seeing an increase on the engineering side as well. I'm very important to know that in this particular case as well. It MAY not be all This is really represents a worst case scenario for a commercial tenant improvement. So now this leads us to what we've been working on since the the study session. So I'm much of the conversation the study session was to to give an overview of the few study, but also to talk about areas where the council MAY want to see a reduction in the fees. So any reduction in the fee does increase the department's general fund bird. And so those are 2 main revenue sources, fees or general fund. And then they balance out year to year that based on the amount of revenue that we get in through fees. So one of the fees that we have always historically subsidized have been permits that support

health, 5 safety and sometimes on fees increased to the point where they cannot be digestible by the community. We run into an invoice in situation where the permits not pull the trigger more code enforcement action. We typically want to encourage those permits that provide safety to the structure. And those are typically what we refer to as trade permits, their mechanical plumbing and electrical that goes into heating systems, electrical panels. We want to encourage people to pull those permits. So we're proposing a 25% reduction in that permit fee. What that 25% will do. It will rip take the fee down to very close to where currently exists with a slight reduction. So that's generally going to be flat moving forward with that reduction. We are also proposing a reduction of encroachment permits that replace residential sidewalks. So this would typically encourage because residential sidewalks are property owner's responsibility would encourage that individual to go through the process to fix up, lift its actions, to restore that sidewalk for safe path of travel. So we're proposing a 50% reduction on that are also proposing a reduction on our planning appeal fees, which have historically always been reduced dramatically. We've almost always seen a reduction to the tune of 90 to 95% the appeal fees. And these are very specific to the neighbor or non applicant So this would be somebody appealing a project, not necessarily an applicant that's appealing the denial of a project. That's a different appeal process. So the council also expressed an interest to see development specific So we did our best to put those into a few different

categories on the first is So we're defining grocery as defined in the chapter 20 of the city code. So that includes both large and from a community market all to a full-blown grocery store. And we're looking at specific areas. So a grocery in the downtown station area or the fine food desert. So the food desert is defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Focus is really on 2 pieces that focuses on poverty rate and the distance. People are within existing grocery stores. So the important piece with that calculation is there is a map. It's very zest for for us to follow that in to ensure that the properties either inside or outside that boundary and what we're proposing is a 50% reduction on also see a building planning and engineering fees so that any fee that the department applies, that project will be applied at a full cost and reduced in the media by 50% for that reduction. We're also proposing something similar for day care facilities. So we wanted to make this fairly wide. So we're taking our full definition of daycare as defined in City Code Section, chapter in. This includes child care facilities, which is your major stand-alone facility. But it also includes in a childcare, both large, small and it includes, don't they care. So that's an entire category in our zoning code of daycare facilities. And once again, we're looking at a reduction of 50% across the board on all permit types. Are also proposing a reduction on market rate housing within the downtown stationary. And I think this is important to really show the support that we've all shown for development in the downtown over the years to encourage the market rate development. We're really focusing on housing units that are for units or greater so that those

are your housing projects would necessarily include an ad. You are smaller single unit on a lot. These are the bigger projects. And we're focusing once again on the 50% reduction across the board on all fees. But in this particular case, we're applying that to building and engineering. There's a very specific purpose for that we've actually made changes to the way in projects are processed in the downtown station area. Through reduced review authority project MAY have been elevated to the planning now goes down to the zoning administrator with very simple concept. Design review. So we change process and that process reduce the feet. So we that down. So they already really reap the benefits of that. And that fee is fairly low. So with that, we're tackling the bigger increases which are happening really on the building and engineering site. So we also want to extend that same allowance in that same reduction to affordable housing projects. It is very difficult to define affordable housing projects. That means a lot of things to a lot of different people. We work very closely with our housing department to figure out a definition for where we apply. A 50% reduction. And really this would be 100% affordable projects with an affordability level of 60% of less of am I that would on site management unit. So those are allowed to fall under a different category and it must be with the housing agreement with the city and this would be citywide. It wouldn't be restricted to new geographic area within our boundary and they would receive a 50% reduction on all associated building and engineering specific fees. In this particular case, what we will

be proposing moving forward to the council when we get into a resilient city development measures, it was we will be proposing to extend the same rate reduce review authority to the same housing category as we have for the downtown. So that will give them the streamlined approach. The fee will come down with that and that package will be brought to plane at the excuse me, the planning Commission first. But then also the city council prior to the end of the fiscal year. So when we look at the impacts of those it's always difficult to understand what it will look like because we don't always know the number of projects that will come through in a year. So this particular what Mgt has analyzed is an average number of permits. And then we looked at that average number of permits to try to better understand what type of subsidize or reduce permits would be in that total to understand the impacts that the reductions would have. So what we see on the trade permits is generally that's a small reduction about $55 per permit. But it's a crossed a high number of permits. Typically trade permits are our highest volume building permit anywhere from 4,000 to 5,000 years. What we end up with. So overall, that reduction is anticipated to be almost when we achieve those volumes and we get into the larger and and day care is all encompassing. So if we look at a stand-alone daycare facility, that is a new build from the ground up, that's very similar to a multifamily project. That's in the same category that actually has a more significant reduction because of the fees are higher. So we look at that category and assume that if we

had 5 of those larger projects moving forward in the year, that production per project would be about 120,000. So that would result in about a $600,000 reduction. In most years. We don't experience that. So this really is is very aggressive with the estimates on what the impacts will be. And I truly do do believe represents worst-case scenario. When we look at the encroachment permit and the people feels they are very small. We don't get lot of those permits. So we've added in impact and that reduction. So really what we're looking at Brown, 900,000 for what the financial impact would be to those reductions. I think that's important to the whole Cindy mentioned that overall, if we adopt this fee schedule, we're looking at increase in our revenue under those specific permit volumes to the tune of 23%. So if we add these reductions into that, that moves us down into closer to 20%. So we're still looking at an increase in the fee. Its 3% less. Now, I think if we look out year to year when we aren't really able to project the total amount of permits that we see what we've analyzed is that generally year to year and the reductions will have between 17 to 20%, we'll still basically seeing that level of increase in revenue. So if we analyze the same permit total under our current fee schedule and our new fee schedule under most years, that new fee schedule is going to achieve 17, 17 to 20% increase in revenue. So when we discussed in the study the comparison with other agencies to that's part of this process. And I go through these fairly quickly because we did review them as part of the study session. Anytime we do a comparison with other agencies. It's

really important to know when the agency did their fees the comparison surveys don't really dig far into the fee itself because it's what published on the jurisdiction. And we can always understand what their true costs are. So the salary and benefits match up to what salary and benefits are into the city of Santa Rosa. But the main catalysts and these are the development types that are always compared to the studies are the development of single-family dwellings in the building and the development of multifamily units and the building fee. So what we've seen the plan check inspection fee in Santa Rosa is around $4,845 under the current fee schedule. We're slightly reducing that with the proposal and then what we're seeing from multi-family. That's where we're seeing the big jump is where it's going from 29,000 to 54,000. But when we compare that to the other on the single-family side, you we can see that we're we're very close to the median, actually under the median and under the average. So we're still very competitive regionally. And even with the increase on the multi-family, we're still very competitive being either at the median and under the average. When we look at the planning side and this just points out a few with planning and some of the trends that we're seeing with other jurisdictions sb. Came out of state housing legislation and really required a ministerial process on something that was discretionary. We applied a fee that we thought would cover the staff time and we

did the analysis. It did not. So the current fee is 4,003 $1569 for an sb 9 application. When we truly proof that out as part of the jump the fee up to 23,216. I think it is important to note that a lot of the projects that go through sp 35 potentially would also be eligible for the reductions if approved. With the projects. We haven't seen the same fluctuation and actually on our subdivision maps. We've seen a reduction in our fee at reduced down in the planning side. The important piece that we're seeing here is as many of the transit, especially as we see the development cycle start slowing down a little bit. Any of the jurisdictions are moving towards the full cost recovery and that that methodology typically involves a deposit and then billing into that deposit is drawn down and then collecting another deposit. We're not proposing that, but it's difficult to compare when that's actually used for other jurisdictions. So the the last slide deals with the effective It this point we're proposing that the fees go into effect on JULY. First that will give our staff Rick Stafford, time to actually incorporate the fees into our permitting system and ability of these fees. Typically what happens when fees increase? We do not apply those to projects that are currently under review. So for project comes in prior to the fee increase, it locks into that previous fee schedule. And that's what we're proposing to do today. The interesting anomalies occur when the fees actually reduce because then there's more of an incentive for a developer moving forward to take advantage of both fee

schedules and we will allow project pays fees at certain points throughout the process. So when the fee payment is due, we will allow the developer if it's after JULY one to either pay based on the whole schedule for its last or the new fee schedule. The important point is we don't make the fees retroactive so we don't provide refunds for peace fees pay prior to JULY one. If the fees do go down. So that brings us to the conclusion. The I'd like to just briefly go over the recommendations. We are recommending that council adopt fees based on the fee. Studies appendix a we're also recommending city council adopt the reduction fee reductions that are proposed in the exhibit b and another important point which I'm also came out in the study session is we're I'm recommending that the council grant authority to the director to update the fees annually based on the cpi. That's an important piece to keeping the fees up to date with time and with that and we're happy to answer any questions. The council man. Thank you Looking to counsel the questions. All right. I'm asked one just to just to break the trend here. I I'm doing some some back of the asked if the total cost recovery last year is around 10.9 million and run and be able to in increase the cost recovery by 17 to 20%. >> Are we? So looking at somewhere in that 2 million dollars range for additional revenue each year. >> That's 1, 1, of the important pieces to that is a total permits coming in. So when our study was performed, it was performed on a fairly high volume of permits. We've seen some of the highest permits that the department has ever seen over the last 5 years. So really the

relationship of the increase is is based on the total amount of permits. And if those permits reduce our revenue will reduce along with that so far permits. Stay than absolutely yes. If they fall within those 5 year totals, then we're assuming around 2.4 is what we would anticipate million in additional revenue. If those permit volumes hold, the only unknown is what they will look like. The next fiscal in calendar year. Students think you. >> And with that would a City clerk. >> Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 16.1. If you're in the chamber would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium. You'll have 2 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that podium like to call the first Speaker Callum. >> Good Counties in the policy director for Generation housing in a Santa Rosa So we're in full support of the staff recommendations for you tonight. And as we stated during the last of the session on this item, we understand human capital is really the greatest asset any organization. We want to ensure that the staff bringing pro housing policy life are are fully resourced. It's also incredibly to see the city advance fee reductions can help further creation of essential services like child care, grocery stores. Things that we all know we need desperately in this community, especially in the downtown area. And it's also really incredibly exciting to guys taking a strong to support a desperately needed affordable housing as well. These are really the bold solutions that

will move Santa Rosa Ford and and bring renewed vibrancy to this community. So thank so much for work on this. We look forward to that other fee discussion coming before you soon. And I just want to wish you a wonderful evening make sure you get out and vote. >> Vice a quick correction. I do want to note that the official opening of the public hearing this started at 603, just for to know in the minutes. >> Thank you for the correction. >> And we go to the next speaker. Please go ahead, Thomas. >> Thank you for the opportunity to speak looked to me like the recovery was about 50%. When I look at that 8 million dollars in revenue close to 60 million dollars of expenses. I'm not exactly sure. Why that was. There quite a diversion there. And that last year we see with smart that freed is not for the maintenance of the way. And so the passengers are subsidizing. Because they're not they don't pay for that's a typical situation. And smart is. Encountering a free discussion at this time. In the case of the development of the developers subsidized by 25 to 50%. That subsidy is a general fund tax increase. So there is that effect of the tax increase. And I would recommend to you that you subsequently recover the fee reductions from the developers after the occupancy. So there was a period of time during the fires and recovery that that fees were reduced. And there was an effort to recover some of that. There was a discussion about that. And I would recommend that for you is that you you give the

developer the opportunity to have current fee reduction. But when they have occupancy when their past and they're in the development stage there, complete with the development stage in fact. They're having occupancy that the the reimburse those fee reductions because it's a very significant amount, doesn't. I mean, you know, look like $900,000 there, but where it wasn't really expressed where the bulk of the fees are obtained. >> Where where do come from? If those are the only be done? Thank you. >> So are there more public comment Senate in 16.1? Please go ahead. Thanks again. Iraq's again. I'm just one quick moment. I just appreciate saying that. I think just feel like this. A lot more needs to be done for affordable housing and thank you. Says a broad said one Qatar is left out of there. I guess there was more supportive housing, maybe management on site. But I see this 50% production fees for market rate in 50% reduction for affordable housing and field. Needs to be a more incentive for affordable housing and a lot more and less of we don't and we needs the market rate as well. But you need a lot more affordable housing is county all over. Thank you. Vice Mayor step. I see no one else approaching the podium in chamber for the public hearing on 16.1. >> Thank you that I can officially close public comment or public because the public hearing rather correct. And turning back to council for additional comments, final comments. Some are prepping. Yeah, want to thank you so much. As he's been a heavy lift for quite some time now. Really appreciated, especially now that we've seen year subsidizing basically 3.2 million dollars average over the last 3 completed fiscal years. That's that's And as you pointed out, this is well,

I guess illegal for us to to profit off of this, but to make ourselves hole on our human capital that we have here is is very important and then I do want to point out that with the reduce review authority. It's a double edged sword of fast government right of everybody wants that government to move faster when it's something they know about what is something they don't know about. They wanted to move slower because I think it's important understand I'm going through this. What we're trying to accomplish and why the authority, the review authority has been reduced is to is to fast track these things the council and as well as staff and the community agreed upon are important such daycares, groceries and food deserts in those sorts of things. But overall, just a thank you so much for the presentation of the work he put it on the past few years. Any other comments from my colleagues? They don't just a second Councilmember Okrepkie another thoughtful presentation. I like the emphasis on the clarity. The there are some spare smart smart target. The reductions. >> I'm all with an eye to budget. A nice with revenue projections that you that you included as the as the city continues to watch the bottom line pretty closely. So thank you very much. And with that, MADAM City clerk, would you please call the I'm sorry, honey. Emotion I believe it was Councilmember Alvarez. Promotion on the table. Thank you, sir. Let's put forth a resolution. >> The council, the city of Santa Rosa, the top of the

full cost the service fees authorizing the planning and economic development. Director to adjust all fees will be based all the consumer price index. The top concern for reductions, 2 for the city development goals and wait for the reading of the text. >> All right. We have a motion from Councilmember Alvarez and a second from My gosh, MacDonald. Sorry. It's been a long night. Has corporate call the vote? Thank you. >> Councilmember Rogers is absent Crappie. I councilmember MacDonald. I Councilmember Fleming. I councilmember offer us Vice Mayor stop. I and Mary Rogers is absent this passes with 5 affirmative votes with Mayor Rogers and Councilmember Rogers. Absent. >> All right. With that item, 17 are in communications with their 9. So we'll move on to our final public comment. Pri final public comment on non agenda matters for the evening item. 18? MADAME City clerk with your 3. Take public comment. >> Thank you. We're now taking public comment on item 18 non agenda matters. If you previously provided public comment on non agenda matters. This is not a second opportunity to provide public comment. If you have not submitted a speaker card or your name, please lineup at opposite podiums to provide public comment. You have 2 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. The first speaker will be tests followed by Holly than Tammy. >> Lou Center as a city council. >> I understand that today you have acknowledged this month. >> Top honor. The Red Cross. >> That's so amazing. Because

humanitarian aid and humanitarian workers are some of the most crucial people meeting. Those who are underserved. And I think right now there's a very large group of people who are being underserved in who need to be met there. The 1.9 million Palestinians internally displaced within the Gaza Strip, the largest concentration camp in the world or further their the 5.9 million Palestinians that have been displaced across in around the occupied Palestinian territories through Lebanon through Jordan and many who even live here in our community today, who are still recognized by the United Nations as refugees as you make this proclamation to acknowledge MARCH for the Red Cross, it is important that you also make proclamations on behalf of Constituents here in the city of Santa Rosa to pass a cease-fire resolution. We have been in your chambers for months now. Israel has not stopped murdering 4 months now. And we have been asking you in this room and in other rooms, wherever we can find you to do something. >> And I understand that some of you MAY be super uncomfortable with this, that this MAY not be a local issue, but it is also important to remember that 18, 67. The city of Santa Rosa was taken from the indigenous peoples and given in a land grant by the state of California to idea could she was the first

settlers of our beautiful city and she did on behalf of the state. The exact same thing that Israel is doing. See indigenous Palestinians. Israel is American history. 250 years later, we have a duty to act pass a cease-fire resolution. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Tam airport. Me Holly followed by Tammy area. >> Since can hear I don't you since. Because they have something to I'm putting it on Thank you. Thank you. So my name is Holly Cregan, the residents of Santa Rosa. I really hadn't planned to speak today. >> What you see before you are are cranes that are in the tradition of the Japanese people. I used to be a teacher in San Francisco. I temper 26 years starting in high school. And Indian Elementary school. In in the early 80's. I talk a young girl names. Some you been This talk is in honor of her. She was the first Palestinian student that I had and she told me about her life and the that her family went through. I I commend our last speaker because it's true. For those of us that are people of color. And for those of us that have had our lands taken away, I need to say that United States of America was founded in violence. As we could see in our own community. There's a lot of violence of the city council members talked about that earlier. We cannot forget our history and actually many of us are from the global majority. And that's why you

see the world itself. Calling for an end to the genocide. So you can decide what you want to do. But the reality is that the lands that we stand on has a lot of blood on it already. And it's time to make repair. It's time to make repair for the didn't is peoples of Turtle Island, including all the California people's here for their land back. And I want you to think about that. And it's also time for us to think about preparations for any of the enslaved people as well. And that's going on in California. But it's also time for everyone to know their history. And we're in living history right now for those of you that ignore what's happening on Instagram and on TikTok that we see every day I started folding these because I had high anxiety and I'm a clinical frivolous. Now. And I work with a lot of people around healing. How do you heal oneself? How can we as a community heal ourselves? We're still not healed from what biz. >> The next speaker will be Tammy followed by Maria than summer. >> been on anti Zionist. You. Who resides Santa Rosa. Here we are. Again, another city council meeting where you have so many voices showing up again to ask you for the same thing that you keep ignoring. More people show up weekly to talk about this issue than any other issue combined and have been for months now. And you keep ignoring these voices. Recently, the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights Council cease-fire letter, the town of Fort Bragg, California, passed a

cease-fire letter. Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Athens, Georgia, Durham, North Carolina, have all recently passed the spy resolutions and yet you will have not have not introduced one. This reminds me of how in the 80's early 90's, most states have adopted Martin Luther King Day as a federal holiday. Arizona, however, dug their heels in. Even though it was made a federal holiday in 1983, Arizona refused to permanently recognize it until almost 10 years later in 1993, and that was under threat of removing the hosting of the Super Bowl. Arizona will rightfully be remembered as being on the wrong side of history for this in action. The government of Santa Rosa, what is your Super Bowl? What do we have to do in order for you to listen to the will of the people who are consistently showing up and pleading. >> With you for action on this. You've told the press Democrat, the language was a neutral enough. We have modified the language twice now. It's not as our cease-fire dot com. If you have yet to read it. Are there other hoops that you'd like us to jump through or are you just determined to stay on the wrong side of history? Cease-fire now? It's time to do the right thing. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Maria followed by summer. Then Monday. >> Me Maria switched places because they had to go back to work. My name is Jordan. I'm Jewish. I feel like we maybe haven't adequately dispelled some of the bs opposition talking points. So I just wanted to read you guys, the Hamas charter, because that's been a big talking point amongst opposition, which they

have failed properly source. What they've been referring to, which is from the charter 40 years ago. There's one from 2017 and exclusively states. Hamas affirms that conflict is with the Zionist project, not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wages struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish, but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupied Palestine. Yet it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project in a legal entity. Okay. Second point. I did the stats. A center to you of all the archives since we've been coming here since DECEMBER. And since all the e-mail comments. >> Through that as in-person comments, 91.2% have been in favor of the seas of a cease-fire resolution and over email. It's over 83%. So at this point, I'm just if you're not willing to stand up against genocide and you're not willing to abide by the democratic process by which you are elected. Then what are you doing here? Furthermore, if Santa Rosa is too small to make a difference yet we are the 5th largest economy in the world. California and Santa Rosa's largest city north of San Francisco. And you're still not willing to risk your puny. Santa Rosa. Elected official career to stand up against genocide, which isn't >> The >> next speaker will be summer followed by Mandy. Then

Giovanni. >> Hi, my name is summer of the public Eye Live in District 5 and a Palestinian American. And I am here. Once again to make a comment in support of passing a cease-fire resolution. I I keep hearing. This is not within your jurisdiction. It's not a local issue. But I would like to plead the case that it is. And I think it's really important to send a message from Santa Rosa directly. That we believe in peaceful diplomatic solutions. And I believe that this impacts our community and our children and just how the youth are acting in schools, like how many times opened the paper and I hear about a kid bringing a weapon to school. >> Like how can we not see the connection between what our federal government doing and what happens here in Santa Rosa. >> the >> power to say something and we need to utilize it. And I hope that you will do that. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker of men be followed by Giovanni than Jacqueline. >> Hello, my name is Marie be could I have thing on? Just in case certainly. >> I'm here again to ask for you to support a cease-fire resolution to be added to the agenda you're honoring the Red Cross, the Red Cross. Their mission statement is to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors, hence the power of the people. Hence we the people are here advocating for the Red Cross in their mission statement. It is hypocritical for city

Council to honor the Red Cross and refused to support a cease-fire resolution and refused to do their part to take the stand for human rights and speak out against the immense human suffering. We are witnessing another hypocrisy of our city council members who refuse to listen to the constituents Arbor We care so much about trees right since 1967, more than 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been illegally uprooted by Israeli authorities and settlers, many where centuries-old, which according to the human rights organizations, is a violation of un humanitarian resolutions. Why should you care? Because your constituents care? Proclamation for Women's History Month yet none of you seem to care about women in Palestine using 10, 10 class for sanitary napkins or when thousands have been murdered. Israeli forces pose with their underwear. They've murdered them and they're posing with their underwear. There's hundreds of pictures to see. I have my phone, but I want to keep talking. So why should you care about the women in Gaza because your constituents do? Lastly, Isaac Constituent do not assume that my bow or my taxpayer money goes to your personal public opinion. It goes for you to do what your constituents want. And last week, 33 ask for a cease-fire resolution oppose only 3. So your job is to do what we want. If you do not do what we're asking. Luckily, people get fired. No cease-fire resolution, no vote. NOVEMBER 2024, thank >> The next speaker will be Giovanni followed by

Jacqueline than Sarah. >> Hello, my name is Giovanni. I was born and raised in Santa Rosa District I'm here to show support for a cease-fire resolution. We have been pushing our for all levels, too push for a cease-fire resolution. And we're asking here locally for your support. I work in the public school system with people who are tires, the tirelessly for this community for the city who want to cease fire resolution. It's even if you don't it is a local issue. We simply asking to represent us. The majority of voters want a cease-fire resolution. Police that a cease-fire resolution to the agenda. At this point, it is becoming an active effort not to out it. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Jacqueline followed by Sarah Finley. Good evening. I live in the 5th district to Santa Rosa. Thanks for giving attention. Even though I know we're all tired. Probably don't really want to be here right now. I'm sure we all rather be at home. >> Stay 150 of the genocide in Gaza and still not one of you has been able to muster the moral fiber to bring a cease-fire resolution to the agenda. We brought you a draft that calls for peace for all parties will be countless rebuttals against your flask arguments that this is not a local issue. And still you've chosen at best blissful ignorance or at worse. All right. Now us last week emailed to a copy of the recent letter by the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights abroad. Hard copies of his. You haven't read it. Aleve is with the they're calling for an immediate cease-fire and release of all hostages. The commission states, quote, advocating for the protection of noncombatants is a shared responsibility. Transcending borders. So right now I'm asking you, sincerely, what

are you doing to shoulder that shared responsibility? What are you doing? You haven't done anything. 150 of the genocide. The city of Santa Rosa made a proclamation in honor of the Red Cross and encourage citizens Santa Rosa to support humanitarian missions of the Red Cross. The International Red Cross is diet declared a dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the health system is nearly completely collapse. Their dire shortages of food, water, fuel medical supplies. 30,000 people have died. 83 1% of them are women and children. And now million. Plus people are facing the reeling, grim reality of famine. 16 confirmed cases of children starving to death. And going to leave you with these words, a parent who watch their child starve to death. The canned food cause dryness and inflammation on his lips. He's a bubble. Please give me something to eat. I went to the market. Can find anything. Only one pomegranate. Thought that his breathing change. Brother said suffocating. I tried cpr but it was too late. He died from lack of nutrition. He was like a skeleton. He had no money on him. We don't know what to do. What we worry more about the markets, hygiene clinic, snow, medicine. He's gone now and not? >> The >> next speaker will be Sarah followed by leave in Bailey. >> Hello, my name is Sarah. I'm a Sonoma County resident. I was born and raised in Sonoma County. I'm also Jewish and grew up in the local Jewish community. Earlier in city council meeting, we were asked to stop clapping and to keep the by using seiling in the name of respect. >> And I want to ask, where's that same respect when half of you are looking down your

computers when we're talking about things like genocide. I saw someone talking about her family surviving the Holocaust. You're looking down during that time someone was talking about their family being expelled in the not but even looking at her and where is the same respect when you have the majority of your constituents asking for you to even talk about a cease-fire resolution as even be put on the agenda. So if you want us to respect you, please respect us as well. Cease-fire now. >> Let's let's keep good order. Thank you very much. Matter. City clerk. >> The next speaker will be lead followed by Bailey, then Ona. >> I wonder how orderly anyone would be if their families were being. Destroyed. As they are Palestine. I stand in solidarity with my Palestinian neighbors anti Zionist, Jewish neighbors and ask you to respect your constituents. Put a cease-fire on the agenda and make a cease-fire statement. The majority of the country, the majority of this city, the majority of this county, is in full support of a cease-fire. And it is really incomprehensible at this point. >> That that you refuse to do I think it speaks to. I other speakers have said have mentioned the relationship between not caring about Palestine is very similar to not caring about our schools, not caring that our schools are falling apart. And I 60 teachers are going to get laid

off because we defund our schools to fund. >> Military. We funded the military. We defund our schools. You don't protect us from billionaires. Who who who destroy families by not being living wages. We don't have roads. >> You're you're honoring women. And and you're looking at us and and we're telling you, we're watching women give birth >> in Palestine. And you're talking about women. And then you're talking about the Red Cross and we're watching our money. >> Bomb the Red Crescent ambulances with innocent civilians. There's there's no there's more children have died in the last 5 months than in 5 years. >> In Germany. >> This when when I hear my my anti Zionist Jews from say never again in our name, I I know they mean it. >> The next speaker will be Bailey followed by Dona and shipments. >> Rate Higher year. >> All right. Hello. My name is Bailey resident of Santa Rosa. Been here my whole life. But a question I have is what is is actually doing to support to support humanitarian efforts and lifesaving services. One of the greatest, most explicit human rights violations. The current not only before our very eyes, but also on our dime. I'm sorry to say. But until you address. Genocidal, it will overshadow any other work. You do your hypocrisy, glares and these empty proclamations. If you can't stand up against genocide and

your words and your leadership mean nothing. Just be on the right side of history. Like that's all we're asking. Just cease-fire now yield the rest of my time. >> The next speaker will be in a followed by should this the nari. >> Hello Santa Rosa City Council members. My name no wrestling Shull. I'm a lifelong resident of Santa Rosa in a district 5 voter. Everyone here is pretty much said most of what I wanted to sail. Just very quickly added in a member of the who Buy can cut it. Tribes in California. And I'm very familiar with what genocide means. And I'm devastated that my tax dollars are going to support this current genocide. Rabbi Israel. You seem to have mistaken a cease-fire resolution for a political move rather than a simple statement of humanity. Your job is to provide more out to your voters during dark times, including an especially those in marginalized communities. Yet you continue to gaslight your voters and ignore the reality of local Palestinians. To illustrate my point, tell you this. Last Friday, my friends and I held a fundraiser for a local Palestinian family trying to keep their families alive in Gaza from 05:00pm to 08:00pm at a local small business. We have a line of people out the door in the pouring rain wanting desperately to support this family. I was told time and time again by guess that this was the first time since OCTOBER 7th that they haven't felt alone. That they felt that this city have been ignoring the horrors and Palestine and they were increasingly scared and angry at this event organized by a bunch of broke. Artists did more in one night any of you have done since OCTOBER 7th.

Be the light in this darkness. Keep our votes, adopt the cease-fire resolution. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Chevys followed by Ari than Michael. Okay. I'll move on to Ari than Michael. >> Like why? Why are we still here? And Santa Rosa Constituent District, 2. The intransigence of this council is baffling baffling. Look how many people are here. You have other agenda items. People come in their suits because this is business right? And you hear them, my GOD, your people, your engage. If you're curious your questions. >> And then when we speak from our hearts. We speak about being represented. Nothing, nothing, nothing. We vote for Absolutely not. And that it's beyond that right? It's so beyond that because we're people. And folks in Gaza deserve to live just as much as we do. Palestinian people deserve to have their home just as much as we do. You have this little bit of power right? >> This little bit of power. Why would you use it? And I've been thinking about this, like you have all the information people. Can you all of the information it's we handed to you. It's so kind. And then. It's election day. Thinking I'm like what could possibly be getting in the way here? Is it politics? I'm truly asking if it's politics. I want each to look at yourselves and look at your lives. Is that worth is being silent and complicit in literal genocide. Is that worth politics to you? We all remember the world will

remember everyone who stayed silent. Thank you. The next speaker will be Michael followed by Kerry. >> Hi there. I'm we've all heard Doctor Martin Luther King's quote, famous quote, That riot is the language of the unheard. When people remember during you know, the Black Lives Matter protests around George Floyd hearing a lot of people condemning what was going on in the streets, which really there wasn't any violence or anything on the streets with people didn't like that was disorderly and they thought we should be in these meetings more and we should try to go through the process and get things done and talk to our elected officials. And we've been doing that for weeks. And absolutely nothing has happened. So. Brought back to feeling like. Why we out in the We should be. We should be released. You know. >> Making ourselves heard because obviously doesn't work. >> And I've heard the statements that like, you know, this isn't a local issue and we need to be a more effective strategy would be go to the federal officials who aren't listening to us instead of asking our local officials to use their platform and voice to stand up to them. But I don't buy that. I just don't buy that. I feel like that's a cop out and I voted today for Andrew Angle because he showed up to these meetings. He thought it was important enough. Just want to try to get you all to pass a cease-fire resolution. I voted for him over Mike Thompson because Mike Thompson supports

genocide. And so. To me, that's the effects that people have when they bring this kind of stuff into the local sphere where people are where we can see them. So we know where they stand. So we know that something's going to get done. So we know that change is going to happen. So we don't go out in the streets and how to write. >> The next speaker will be Kerry. >> I had no intention of speaking tonight, but I was moved by my fellow citizens tonight have been very passionate what they said. I had no idea this is going on these last 150 days down here. But I want to applaud our city Council for staying on the sidelines of what is obviously a emotional issue and the tragedy. Because it does not affect the city of Santa Rosa of facts. Obviously the people in this from people e. And I agree with them that I would like to see an end to that conflict. I think it I think it absolutely is a tragedy. But I also think that Israel has a right to exist. I think they have a right to defend themselves in the current crisis that's going on. There is 100% at the hands of Hamas who was elected by Palestinians to leave them and they're terrorists. And on OCTOBER, 7th, they kidnapped, killed. And raped and pillaged their way through Israel Israel has a right to defend themselves. But I don't think it's something that this council needs concern themselves with. And so I think I think that you're doing the right thing. And I appreciate what these folks have said here tonight. Agree with them that we should hopefully seek to end that conflict at some point. But

the quickest way to end it would be for the Palestinians to choose better perhaps perhaps they can get later. Shakers goodies are our council here in Santa thank you for your time. >> The next speaker will be shipped. The next speaker will. I'm in a circle back to see if Chavez has joined the meeting. And I'm going to ask if there's anyone else wishing to speak on item 18 non agenda matters who has not previously spoke on non agenda matters to approach the podium. Please go ahead. Speaker. Thank you. >> My name is off I'm a lifelong Sonoma County resident currently reside council district 2. I'm here asking for a cease-fire resolution to be put on the agenda and passed. We're begging you to represent us in our call for a cease-fire. The longer you go without doing so the more we lose faith in your integrity. One of the core values you as a city council claim your vision as a council person. There's for Santa Rosa to lead the North Bay, quote, Embrace this vision of leadership do this by listening to the plea of the people to take the step forward at a cease-fire resolution to the agenda. 61% of voters in the U.S. Are in favor of the cease-fire, including 76% Democrats. 57%, independents and 49% of Republicans. This is not a issue. We do not want our tax dollars going to this. We do not want more people to die. This is within your jurisdiction the same way addressing climate Climate

change is another one of your core issues. It takes many to address a global issue. We deserve your respect recognition and representation. We will advocate for ourselves and for those facing genocide cease-fire. Now, thank you. >> The next speaker at the West Putin, please go ahead. Hi, my name is Tim. I'm from district one. It was through local action the people that ended the Vietnam War. It was only through action like this that we were able to stop that because our government didn't want to. It is up to us in you. Please listen to our voices. We're telling you, this is not right. Everything we learned in our lives. We know this is wrong. This is wrong and all know it. >> Cease-fire now. >> Erica is the next speaker. Public speaking is not my favorite unless I am doing is a scientific talk. So >> I just want to say, first of all, thank you to everyone who is in this room who is actively participating and listening. We appreciate you continuing to hear these comments. And I just want to speak of field super compelled to stand up because you really are her only hope right now. He's really difficult to find hope in the situation. And I've been writing my senators, my representatives, my partner and has been has been writing PRESIDENT Biden and we don't find any responses. That's why we're talking to you at the

local level. And that's why this is a local issue. The only way this is going to make it to be a federal issue is if we start pass cease-fire resolutions and all of the towns. There's precedence for this. San Francisco has has a cease-fire resolution. Many other towns in California have. And Santa Rosa really matters. People said it's the biggest town north of San Francisco. We really matter here and our voices really matter and how we engage, whether it's on social media are in our communities. Palestinian friends who have met through this movement. They're incredibly inspiring. And if anything, I've learned so much from the Palestinian people as they're showing resilience and hope through this atrocity and more than anything. My tax dollars. I'm constituent in Santa Rosa. My tax dollars are funding this genocide. And truly, I believe that U.S. City council members are our only hope and our only option right now. Thank you. The speaker. Go ahead. >> I want thank city Council for focusing ocd needs and not adopt 2 resolutions that will do. I do community. I think many people gathered here. We'll be happy to learn that your voice was heard. Israel has suggested a cease-fire plan for the next 40 days with the release of 40 hostages. Secretary Blinken said today. It's up to Hamas to accept an immediate cease-fire with Israel. C is for it start

tomorrow. You want cease-fire It's possible Tuesday, 1, 1, 0nd. Alright, folks, it's been a long night. >> Let's be well behaved, and please. Please continue. Thank you. >> Cease-fire could start tomorrow is the cost are released. There are still 6 American hostages held by Hamas process can begin in any meaningful way until they pass to just come home. There's not been clearer than the urgency of getting them home every Sunday we walk in downtown Santa Rosa advocating for immediate cost. Israelis. They're held captive for the last 150 days. Every proceeds for speaker here should call their Hamas representative and demand cease-fire and the release of hostages instead of addressing the city council members that have no way to solve this problem. The man cease-fire from Hamas, the man that now by not mentioning Hamas and just be going Israel, Nazis using on design is rhetoric. You you. We heard people today that they defend Hamas charter. You blame this conflict on Israelis as we heard today and you demand cease-fire resolution from Santa Rosa City Council. You just show his support of a organization. Not trying to resolve a >> Vice mayor mc stay the folks folks again, right at the end. >> Matt is MADAM City Clerk. >> I see no one else approaching the public or podiums for public comment on item 18. >> All right. And with that