* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. COUNSEL RECORDING [00:00:01] IN PROGRESS. WELCOME TO THE [CLOSED SESSION - 6:00 P.M.] REGULAR MEETING OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL IN THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR AGENCY FOR MONDAY, APRIL 8TH. MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL, PLEASE? YES. UH, BARNACLE PRESENT. CATER THOMPSON. HERE. HEALY HERE. NOW. HERE. . HERE. SHRIVES HERE. MCDONALD HERE. AND THAT'S EVERYONE. WE'RE ALL IN ATTENDANCE TONIGHT. AND, UM, TONIGHT'S MAIN PURPOSE, UH, THE, WE HAVE A EAR EARLY PART HERE, A CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING EXISTING LEGISLATION, WHICH IS A CLOSED SESSION. AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR, UH, CITY ATTORNEY TO COMMENT ON THE TITLE OF THIS. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. I'D BE HAPPY TO DO THAT. THE COUNCIL WILL CONFER WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING EXISTING LITIGATION THAT'S IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 4 9 5 6 0.9, UH, SUBDIVISION A AND THE CASE IS RYAN CKEY VERSUS CITY OF PETALUMA, WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD CLAIM NUMBER 6 1 3 0 0 0. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND, UM, AS IT IS TRUE OF ALL MATTERS BEFORE THE COUNCIL, WE OP OPEN IT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AT THIS TIME IS REGARDING THE CLOSED SESSION MATTERS ONLY. UM, IT'S NOT OUR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE NIGHT, THOUGH. I DO SO MANY, UH, FACES IN THE AUDIENCE I KNOW WILL WANNA SPEAK. AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR CITY CLERK IF WE'VE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS ON THE CLOSED SESSION PRIOR TO TONIGHT. NO, WE DID NOT. WE DID NOT. AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR MODERATOR TO READ OUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR PEOPLE WHO WISH TO COMMENT ON THE CLOSED SESSION ITEM ONLY. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING THE MEETING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK OVER THERE IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED. PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION. THREATS OF VIOLENCE AND OBSCENITY ARE GROUNDS FOR REMOVAL FROM THIS MEETING. A COUNTDOWN WILL APPEAR FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE SPEAKER AND VIEWERS, AND THE FIRST SPEAKER WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED AND INVITED THE SPEAK WHEN THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR CITY CLERK IF WE HAVE ANY CARDS OR LETTERS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE CLOSED SESSION. NO, WE DO NOT. NO, WE DO NOT. THEN, UH, WE THAT WE WILL ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION AND, UH, WE WILL RETURN AND BEGIN OUR REGULAR SESSION AT APPROXIMATELY SIX 30 OR WHEN WE CONCLUDE OUR, UH, CLOSED SESSION. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE, ARE NOW, UH, ADJOURNED FOR THE CLOSED SESSION. [CALL TO ORDER] GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME. WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL AND THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR AGENCY FOR MONDAY, APRIL 8TH, 2024. IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT TONIGHT ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD OR IN THE BACK AND, UH, BRING THEM TO THE CITY CLERK WHO'S OVER HERE. AND NOW I'D LIKE TO INVITE MONICA RICCIO AND MARIA GALVEZ TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN SPANISH. THANK YOU. AND GOOD EVENING, MONICA. THANK YOU. WE'RE READY AND THANK YOU. AND WE HAVE OUR ROLL CALL FOR THE EVENING. BARNACLE PRESENT. CATER THOMPSON. PRESENT HEALY. HERE NOW. [00:05:01] HERE. . HERE. SHRIVES HERE. MCDONALD HERE. AND WE'RE ALL PRESENT. MAY WE HAVE, UM, RISE FOR A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE. THANK YOU. [AGENDA CHANGES AND DELETIONS (TO CURRENT AGENDA ONLY)] I'D LIKE TO LOOK UP AND DOWN THE, UM, DAAS HERE AND SEE IF WE HAVE ANY AGENDA CHANGES OR DELETIONS FOR TONIGHT. AND SEEING NO ACTIVITY ON THAT, THE AGENDA WILL STAND AS POSTED. [REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION] AND WE, UH, HAD CLOSED SESSION. I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR CITY ATTORNEY TO REP, UH, TO, UH, SPEAK TO ANY REPORTABLE ACTIONS ON TONIGHT'S CLOSED SESSION. THANKS MR. MAYOR. THERE IS NO ACTION TO REPORT TONIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MOVING NEXT TO [PROCLAMATIONS] OUR PROCLAMATIONS FOR THE EVENING, I'D LIKE TO INVITE, INVITE ELISE HEMPHILL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER TO THE PODIUM WHILE I READ THE PROCLAMATION AND THEN TO PROVIDE INSIGHTFUL COMMENTS. FAIR HOUSING MONTH APRIL, 2024. WHEREAS THE PRINCIPLE OF FAIR HOUSING IS NOT ONLY STATE AND NATIONAL LAW AND POLICY, BUT A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN CONCEPT AND ENTITLEMENT FOR ALL CITIZENS. AND WHEREAS DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, DISABILITY, FAMILIAL STATUS, EXCLUSION OF MINOR CHILDREN, RELIGION, MARITAL STATUS, AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA. AND WHEREAS AS A COMMUNITY, WE WELCOME ALL GOOD NEIGHBORS, RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND RICHNESS TENDERED BY A WIDE VARIETY OF YOUNG AND OLD MALE AND FEMALE PEOPLE OF ALL COLORS AND ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS, RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS, ET CETERA. AND WHEREAS INTERESTED PARTIES FROM BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR WILL PARTICIPATE IN A CITY, STATE AND NATIONAL EFFORT TO PROMOTE FAIR HOUSING NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, KEVIN MCDONALD, MAYOR OF PETALUMA, ALONG WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL TO HEREBY DECLARE THE MONTH OF APRIL, 2024 AS FAIR HOUSING MONTH IN THE CITY OF PETALUMA AND URGE ALL RESIDENTS OF OUR COMMUNITY TO PERSONALLY ADOPT THE SPIRIT OF EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND ADHERE TO THE LETTER AND CHARACTER OF THE FAIR HOUSING LAWS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MAYOR AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THANK YOU STAFF. UM, THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF HAS BEEN REALLY, REALLY BUSY IN FAIR HOUSING AND WE ARE SO PROUD TO PARTNER WITH A CITY THAT IS COMMITTED TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO THANK YOU AND THANK YOU. ALSO TONIGHT I'D LIKE TO INVITE DENISE REDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF HEARTFELT HELP FOUNDATION AND HEART TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT AND, UM, DE UH, DENEEN VUKOVICH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST AT THE DONOR NETWORK WEST AND A SIBLING OF A TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT TO THE PODIUM WHILE I READ THE PROCLAMATION AND THEN INVITE COMMENTS, NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH, WHEREAS MORE THAN 280 INDIVIDUALS IN SONOMA COUNTY ARE CURRENTLY ON THE NATIONAL ORGAN TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST. AND 22 PATIENTS DIE EACH DAY DUE TO THE SHORTAGE OF DONATED ORGANS. AND WHEREAS OUR DONOR NETWORK WEST SERVES THE FEDERALLY DESIGNATED ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN NEVADA, AND WORKS IN CLOSE PARTNERSHIP WITH FAMILIES, DOCTORS, NURSES, AND CORONERS IN HOSPITALS TO CONNECT DONORS TO RECIPIENTS. AND WHEREAS ORGAN AND TISSUE LIFE GIVING ACTS ARE RECOGNIZED WORLDWIDE AS EXPRESSIONS OF COMPASSION TO THOSE IN NEED AND SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES. AND WHEREAS THE NEED FOR ORGAN DONORS IS ESPECIALLY URGENT IN ASIAN, HISPANIC, AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. AND WHEREAS A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL'S DONATION OF HEART, LUNGS, LIVER, KIDNEYS, PANCREAS, AND SMALL INTESTINES CAN SAVE UP TO EIGHT LIVES. DONATIONS OF TISSUE CAN SAVE AND HEAL THE LIVES OF UP TO 75 OTHERS, WHEREAS THE SPIRIT OF GIVING AND DECISION TO DONATE ARE NOT RESTRICTED BY AGE [00:10:01] AND MEDICAL CONDITION. AND WHEREAS OVER 14 MILLION CALIFORNIANS HAVE SIGNED UP WITH A STATE AUTHORIZED DONATE LIFE CALIFORNIA REGISTRY TO ENSURE THEIR WISHES TO BE ORGAN AND TISSUE DONORS ARE HONORED. AND WHEREAS CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS CAN SIGN UP WITH DONATE LIFE CALIFORNIA DONOR WHEN APPLYING FOR OR RENEWING THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSE OR ID CARDS AT THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVE THAT I, KEVIN MCDONALD, MAYOR OF PETALUMA, ALONG WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE APRIL, 2024 AS NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH AND ENCOURAGE ALL CITIZENS OF PETALUMA TO CHECK YES WHEN APPLYING FOR OR RENEWING THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSES OR ID CARDS OR BY SIGNING UP AT DONATE, UH, DONOR NETWORK WEST.ORG. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL FOR RECOGNIZING, UM, APRIL IS DONATE LIFE MONTH AS A HEART TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT. MYSELF, I WOULD NOT BE HERE WITHOUT THE SELFLESS GIFT OF LIFE THAT COMES FROM ORGAN DONATION. AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY HERE IN PETALUMA WHO ARE WAITING FOR THEIR SECOND CHANCE AND THEIR GIFT OF LIFE. AND WE'RE SO GRATEFUL THAT YOU'VE TAKEN THIS MOVE TO RECOGNIZE THIS MONTH AS DONATE LIFE MONTH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR RECOGNIZING THIS PROCLAMATION. IT'S JUST SO IMPORTANT TO SO MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THE WAITING LIST. THERE'S 20,000 CALIFORNIANS ON THE WAIT LIST FOR A LIFESAVING ORGAN. 255 OF THEM RESIDE IN SONOMA COUNTY, SO THE NEED IS VERY GREAT. THANK YOU FOR HELPING US RAISE AWARENESS AND THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING THOSE THAT HAVE GIVEN THE GIFT OF LIFE THROUGH ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION BECAUSE THESE DONORS MAKE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT IN THE LIVES THAT ARE, ARE WAITING FOR AN ORGAN. TWO, THE TRANSPLANT CENTERS IN THE BAY AREA HOLD THE LARGEST TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. AND THE AVERAGE WAIT TIME FOR THE MOST NEEDED ORGAN, WHICH IS A KIDNEY, IS NINE YEARS. SO THIS MONTH WE RAISE AWARENESS OF DONATIONS, IMPORTANCE, AND WE REMEMBER THE PROFOUND GIFT THAT DONORS AND THEIR FAMILIES HAVE MADE BECAUSE WITHOUT THEM, THIS LIFESAVING WORK COULD NOT HAPPEN. WE COULD ALSO NOT DO THIS WORK WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR INTERCONNECTED COMMUNITY, WHICH INCLUDES HOSPITALS ALL THROUGHOUT NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN NEVADA, INCLUDING PETALUMA VALLEY HOSPITAL AND THEIR STAFF. WE ALSO PROVIDE EDUCATION ABOUT ORGAN DONATION AT CASA GRANDE AND PETALUMA HIGH SCHOOLS. AND TODAY, HERE WITH ME, WE HAVE ADVOCATES, CAREGIVERS LIKE DENISE ORGAN RECIPIENT. WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE WAITING FOR A LIFESAVING TRANSPLANT RIGHT NOW WITH US TODAY. SO THANK YOU FOR THIS PROCLAMATION AND FOR RECOGNIZING NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH IN PETALUMA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. [PRESENTATIONS] THAT MOVES US TO OUR PRESENTATION FOR THE EVENING, OUR SAFE STREETS UPGRADE. AND I'D LIKE, UH, TO INVITE OUR STAFF, JEFF STUTSMAN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, KEN EAD, SENIOR TRAFFIC ENGINEER IN BJORN GRUENBERG, PROJECT MANAGER TO, UH, TAKE IT AWAY FROM HERE. VICE MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS IN THE COMMUNITY. I'M KEN STED, SENIOR TRAFFIC ENGINEER WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES. I'M JOINED WITH JEFF STUTZMAN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OPERATIONS AND STREETS AND BJORN GRUENBERG, OUR, OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECT MANAGER AND STAFF LIAISON TO THE PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE AND ADVISORY COMMITTEE. SO TONIGHT WE WANT TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN OVERVIEW OF ALL THE IMPACTFUL WORK BEING DONE TO MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER FOR ALL, INCLUDING WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED, AS WELL AS WHAT IS CURRENTLY IN THE HOPPER AND THE OPPORTUNITIES MOVING FORWARD. ONE OF OUR HIGHEST CITYWIDE GOALS AND PRIORITIES IS FOR THE SAFE MOBILITY AND COMMUNITY CONNECTIVITY SAFE STREETS INITIATIVE THAT STRIVES TO INCREASE AND PROVIDE SAFETY FOR ALL USERS OF OUR ROADWAYS. WE HAVE BEEN MAKING SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ON THIS INITIATIVE AND ARE EXCITED TO SHARE HOW WE ARE MAKING THIS GOAL A REALITY FOR THE STREETS OF PETALUMA. EVERY PROJECT IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP REIMAGINE PETALUMA TO BE A SAFER, MORE CONNECTED COMMUNITY. EVERY PROJECT THIS TEAM WORKS ON CONSIDERS SAFETY AS THE FIRST PRIORITY. WHETHER THE PROJECT IS A MAINTENANCE FOCUS, A QUICK BUILD, A PILOT PROJECT, [00:15:02] OR A FULL ROAD RECONSTRUCTION WITH SPEEDING AS THE NUMBER ONE CONTRIBUTOR TO TRAFFIC COLLUS COLLISIONS, WE WILL SEE THAT TRAFFIC CALLING IS OFTEN THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IN OUR STREET SAFETY EFFORTS. WE'RE STRIVING TO REIMAGINE PETALUMA ACCORDING TO THE GOALS THAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE COUNCIL WITH A STRONG ENGINEERING BASIS. NEXT, SO THE CITY HAS A VISION FOR SAFE ROADS FOR FOR ALL USERS WITH A GOAL OF ZERO FATALITIES AND SERIOUS IN INJURIES IE VISION ZERO. TO ACHIEVE THIS, WE HAVE THE STRONG AND COORDINATED PETALUMA TEAM WORKING ON ENFORCEMENT EDUCATION AND ENGINEERING. THE THREE E'S THAT WE'VE HEARD ABOUT FOR ENFORCEMENT, WE HAVE THE PETALUMA POLICE DEPARTMENT WORKING DIRECTLY WITH ENGINEERING AND PLANNING TO GO TO EACH SCHOOL AS PART OF THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR EDUCATION, WE HAVE OUR COMMUNICATION TEAM ACTIVELY WORKING ON SPREADING THE MESSAGE FOR SAFE STREETS IN PETALUMA WITH OUR SLOW THE FAST DOWN CAMPAIGN. THIS IS ALL IMPORTANT WORK THE CITY IS DOING TO MAKE THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY SAFER FOR ALL USERS. THE CITY HAS BEEN ADVANCING A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF STRONG PROGRAMS AND PLANS. TO THIS END, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ABOUT THE FIVE YEAR PAVING PROGRAM THAT JEFF WILL BE PRESENTING AND BJORN WILL BE GIVING BACKGROUND ON THE SAFE STREETS PROGRAM TO GO INTO SOME OF THE PLANNING, ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING. HERE ARE SOME OF THE, THE DESIGN ELEMENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTING FOR TRAFFIC CALMING AND SAFETY TRAFFIC CIRCLES ARE A GOOD TOOL WHERE YOU HAVE A CONDITION WHERE 85%, THE 85TH PERCENTILE SPEED IS NOT ALWAYS AN ISSUE, BUT THE OUTLIER SPEEDS MAY BE BESIDES SLOWING OUTLIER SPEEDS. AS THE DATA, AS, AS THE DATA WE HAVE COLLECTED SHOWS TRAFFIC CIRCLES ALSO HELP TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 20% AS COMPARED TO FOUR-WAY STOPS FOR PEDESTRIANS. A MEDIAN REFUGE ISLAND WILL LESSEN THE CONFLICT ZONE THAT THEY ARE IN AS WELL AS SHORTEN THEIR CROSSING DISTANCE. THIS IS ALWAYS, THIS IS A SIMILAR EFFECT OF THE QUICK BUILD BALLOUT THAT'S SHOWN IN THE BOTTOM LEFT. AN ITEM I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, AND A KEY PART OF THE WORK THAT THIS TEAM DOES IS THAT WE ARE BASED ON DATA COLLECTION. SO IT'S A FUNDAMENTAL BASIS FOR ANY OF THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DONE IN THE PETALUMA RIGHT OF WAYS FOR CROSSWALK SAFETY. WE'VE THE LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVAL, LPI, JEFF HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTING THAT. WE'VE GOT OVER HALF THE INTERSECTIONS THAT THAT HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED. AND WHAT THIS DOES, IT ALLOWS THE PEDESTRIAN TO ESTABLISH A PRESENCE IN THE ROADWAY. AND BEFORE THERE'S VEH VEHICULAR MOVEMENT, UH, VEHICULAR TRAFFIC MOVEMENT INITIATED. SO CURRENTLY WE HAVE ROUGHLY HALF, OVER HALF THE, THE, UH, SIGNALS IMPLEMENTED AND THERE'S, AS SIGNALS ARE UPGRADED AND EQUIPMENT IS UPGRADED, WE'RE GONNA BE IMPLEMENTING MORE OF THOSE RED CURBS SAVE LIVES. IT'S PAINT ON THE CURB, BUT IT HAS A DRAMATIC EFFECT. THIS IS A SIMPLE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY MEASURE WITH A MEMORABLE NICKNAME DAYLIGHTING. SO DAYLIGHTING IS A STRAIGHTFORWARD IMPROVEMENT FOR EVERYONE IN THE STREET. TO MAKE IT EASIER TO BE SEEN AT INTERSECTIONS AND PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS. IT REQUIRES REMOVING VISUAL BARRIERS WITHIN A MINIMUM OF 20 FEET OF THE CROSSWALK INTERSECTION. THIS IS DONE BY PAINTING THE CURB RED. THIS IS BEING IMPLEMENTED AS PART OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY BILL FOUR 13 AND WILL HELP THE CITY MOVE THE NEEDLE IN THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE, AGAIN FOR ZERO FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES BY 2030. WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO JEFF. JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A QUICK UPDATE ON LAKEVILLE AND PINEVIEW. UM, SO THE CITY IS CURRENTLY MEETING WITH CALTRANS ON OUR SAFE ON OUR STATE ROUTE ONE 16 SAFETY WORKING GROUP, WHICH CONSISTS OF CALTRANS CHP CITY DEPART, CITY OF PALOMA'S POLICE DEPARTMENT, FIRE DEPARTMENT, PUBLIC WORKS, AS WELL AS THE COUNTY. AND WE ALSO MEET WITH CALTRANS ON A MORE, ON A MORE FREQUENT BASIS TO DISCUSS MORE PROJECT SPECIFIC AND IMPROVEMENTS ON AN INTERIM IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'VE MADE CURRENTLY [00:20:01] TO PINE VIEW AND SOUTH MCDOWELL BOULEVARD. UM, WITH INPUT FROM THE CITY AND CALTRANS, WE HAVE IMP IMPLEMENTED A SOLUTION ON LAKEVILLE TO REDUCE THE LANES FROM FOUR LANES TO TWO LANES FROM FREIGHT ROAD, ALSO KNOWN AS CATER LANE TO THE CITY LIMITS. THIS, THIS WORK HELPS TO PROMOTE THE UN UNNECESSARY AND PASSING ALONG LAKEVILLE HIGHWAY AND TRY TO REDUCE SPEEDS ALONG THE CORRIDOR. WE HOPEFUL TO CALTRANS IS HOPEFUL TO HAVE THESE IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS AS WE TRY TO MAKE INTERIM IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THIS CORRIDOR. CALTRANS ALSO DID SIGNAL AUDIT ON BOTH THEIR SIGNALS AT SOUTH SOUTH MCDOWELL EXTENSION AND CATER LANE TO IMPROVE THE CONGESTION AND HELP MOVE, HELP MOVE VEHICLES MORE FREELY IN THAT AREA AS WE HAVE CLOSED DOWN THE TWO INTERSECTIONS ON PINE VIEW. GETTING ONTO MCDOWELL. CALTRANS IS ALSO CURRENTLY FINISHING UP A RUMBLE STRIP PROJECT ON LAKEVILLE HIGHWAY, UM, WHICH WILL HELP WITH IMPROVING SAFETY ALONG THIS CORRIDOR. THE CITY IS ALSO RECOMMENDING, UM, BRINGING FORWARD LAKEVILLE HIGHWAY AS A SAFETY CORRIDOR IN THE FUTURE TO PROMOTE, TO GIVE CALTRANS THE OPPORTUNITY TO REDUCE THE SPEED LIMITS BY FIVE MILE AN HOUR WHEN THEY REDO THEIR TRAFFIC AND ENGINEERING SURVEYS. AND AS WE WORKED THROUGH THESE INTERIM SOLUTIONS, THE FINAL KIND OF PERMANENT SOLUTION IS IN THE BACK OF OUR MINDS AND BETWEEN CALTRANS AND THE CITY, WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS THAT GOAL. HOPE THAT GOAL RIGHT NOW IS LOOKING LIKE SIGNALIZING PINE VIEW AND OR PUTTING IN A ROUNDABOUT, UM, TO HELP IMPROVE SAFETY AT THAT INTERSECTION. CALTRANS WILL BE MANAGING THAT PROJECT WITH THE CITY'S SUPPORT THROUGH A PUBLIC OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH. THE INTERIM SOLUTION RIGHT NOW IS THE IMPLEMENTATION THROUGH CALTRANS SHOP PROGRAM, WHICH IS THE STATE HIGHWAY OPERATION AND PROTECTION PROGRAM. AND THEY'RE THINKING THAT RIGHT NOW THE SCHEDULE IS LOOKING TO BE AT THREE TO FOUR YEARS FOR FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW INTERSECTION OR ROUNDABOUT. AND I WILL HAND IT OFF TO KEN OF BJORN. OH, SORRY. TO BJORN, THANK YOU ALRIGHTYY. I AM, UH, EXCITED TO SHARE AN UPDATE ON THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM. THIS IS SOMETHING WE LAUNCHED BACK IN OCTOBER OF 2023, AND WE WERE REALLY SEEKING TO CREATE AN ACCESSIBLE, TRANSPARENT DATA-DRIVEN WAY FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO NOMINATE CITY STREETS FOR SAFETY AND TRAFFIC CALMING IMPROVEMENTS. AT THAT TIME, WE WERE ALREADY RECEIVING DOZENS OF THESE VIA EMAIL PHONE CALLS. SOME OF THEM ARE COMING INTO POLICE, SOME TO PUBLIC WORK. SO WE WERE TRYING TO CREATE A CENTRALIZED SYSTEM THAT, THAT WE COULD, UH, MORE EASILY TRACK AND, UH, IMPLEMENT. WE'VE RECEIVED OVER 500 REQUESTS TO DATE, SO OBVIOUSLY THERE IS, UH, A VERY HIGH APPETITE FOR SAFETY AND TRAFFIC CALMING THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND WE REALLY DO WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR TAKING THE TIME AND EFFORT TO SUBMIT THESE READING THROUGH THEM. I CAN TELL YOU MANY OF THEM ARE INCREDIBLY DETAILED WITH PICTURES, VIDEOS, DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF THE ISSUES THAT PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING ON OUR STREETS. AND WE JUST FINISHED MAPPING AND SCORING AND RANKING OUR FIRST, FIRST BATCH OF SUBMISSIONS, WHICH I WILL SHARE SHORTLY, BUT I DO WANT TO, UM, ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO CONTINUE TO NOMINATE STREETS. THESE ARE ALL BEING CARRIED FORWARD, UH, EVEN BEYOND THIS FIRST ROUND OF IMPLEMENTATION. SO WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO, UH, WE RANKED, AS I MENTIONED, WE SCORED AND RANKED ALL OF THE SUBMISSIONS WE RECEIVED BASED ON COLLISION HISTORY AND PROXIMITY TO SCHOOLS AND PARKS. UM, THE OVERALL TOP 10 SCORES ARE SHOWN HERE AND LOOKING THROUGH THE STREETS, YOU, UH, NOT TOO MANY SURPRISES. YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF OUR BUSIEST, UH, BIGGEST STREETS ARE INCLUDED THERE. UM, AND SO THIS IS GREAT DATA TO HAVE AND IT'S VERY HELPFUL FOR US, ESPECIALLY AS WE ARE PURSUING GRANTS, AS WE ARE, UH, LOOKING AT PAVING EFFORTS ON SOME OF THESE MAJOR STREETS. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, SOME OF THOSE BIGGER STREETS ARE A LITTLE BIT TOO BIG FOR US TO MAKE MEANINGFUL, UH, IMPACTS THROUGH THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM, WHICH IS REALLY INTENDED FOR SMALLER SCALE, UM, SPOT IMPROVEMENTS, TRAFFIC CALMING IMPROVEMENTS LIKE SPEED CUSHIONS AND BOUTS, TRAFFIC CIRCLES, THINGS THAT KEN SHARED ON A PREVIOUS SLIDE. SO WE'VE GOT TWO COLUMNS THERE TO THE RIGHT, ONE THAT SHOWS WHETHER THE STREET IS THREE OR MORE LANES AND THEN ANOTHER, UH, THAT INDICATES WHETHER THE PROJECT HAS ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED IN AN UPCOMING CIP PROJECT. AND THOSE ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE, UH, ULTIMATELY WE'RE RECOMMENDING FILTERING THOSE OUT, UH, AS WE MOVE TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION. SO IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THE RESULTING TOP 10 LIST. AND THESE ARE THE STREETS THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING AS PRIORITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN THIS FIRST ROUND OF IMPROVEMENTS. UH, THESE ARE ALL TWO LANE STREETS THAT DO NOT HAVE UPCOMING, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. AND, UH, WE ARE GOING TO, UH, WE, WE CAN'T YET COMMIT TO IMPROVING ALL [00:25:01] 10 OF THESE STREETS THIS SUMMER. WE WOULD LOVE TO, BUT WE ARE GOING TO BE REVIEWING OUR, OUR FUNDING AND, AND CREATING A SCOPE AND BUDGET BASED ON, UH, WHAT WE THINK WOULD BE NEEDED TO MOVE THE NEEDLE ON ON THESE STREETS. AND WE'LL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH, UH, WITH THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM, WEBPAGE AND EMAILS IN THE COMING WEEKS AS WE, UH, FIGURE OUT THOSE, UH, THOSE SCOPES. AND, UH, I WILL SAY WE ARE ALSO CLOSELY REVIEWING GRANT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. THERE'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY COMING UP, UH, THE SAFE STREETS FOR ALL PROGRAM THROUGH THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION THAT WE ARE EYEING THAT COULD SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND OUR CAPACITY TO IMPLEMENT MORE OF THESE PROJECTS, UH, IN A, IN THE, IN THE NEAR TERM. AND AS I MENTIONED, THESE, THE REMAINING PROJECTS THAT AREN'T IMPLEMENTED WILL BE ROLLED OVER. SO EXCITED TO SHARE THAT AND MORE, PLENTY MORE TO COME ON THAT. NEXT UP, UH, OUR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS TASK FORCE. AND THIS WAS CREATED, UH, JUST LAST FALL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH, UH, SONOMA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS AS WELL AS OBVIOUSLY OUR CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND, AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP. AND, UH, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ATTEND IN, IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR, UH, CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE CONDUCTING WALK AUDITS, UH, MONTHLY OF EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL IN PETALUMA. UH, WE ARE GOING TO COMPLETE ALL OF THOSE SCHOOLS SOMETIME IN 2025. SO WE HAVE A MONTHLY CADENCE WHERE WE, UH, DO A WALK AUDIT. WE MEET OUT, UH, IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL, DURING SCHOOL, UH, DROP OFF HOUR, WE WALK AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WE IDENTIFY, UH, WE TALK ABOUT THINGS WE'RE SEEING, WE IDENTIFY SAFETY ISSUES AND, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT. AND THEN WE ACTUALLY COME BACK AT A TASK FORCE MEETING, WHICH ARE, THOSE ARE HELD ON THE THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH AT 4:00 PM AND WE DEBRIEF THE WALK, AUDIT AND TALK ABOUT OTHER IDEAS, UM, AND, AND HEAR MORE CONCERNS FROM THE BROADER SCHOOL COMMUNITY AROUND HOW TO IMPROVE, UH, SAFETY IN, IN THEIR AREAS. SO THOSE WILL CONTINUE AND, AND THERE'S PLENTY OF INFORMATION ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT. AND THEN NEXT UP, UH, ON THE EDUCATION SIDE, OUR SLOW THE FAST DOWN CAMPAIGN, WHICH LAUNCHED IN FALL 2023. AND I'M SURE MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN THE YARD SIGNS, THE BANNERS, THE BUMPER STICKERS, UH, ALL AROUND TOWN, OR I SHOULD SAY BUMPER MAGNETS ALL AROUND TOWN. UH, WE'VE BEEN REALLY HEARTENED BY THE RESPONSE, THE POSITIVE RESPONSE TO THIS AND, AND MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE REQUESTED YARD SIGNS HAVE ALSO TAKEN THE PLEDGE TO, UH, IMPROVE OR, OR TO DRIVE MORE CAREFULLY AND MINDFULLY AS THEY'RE, UH, GOING THROUGH THE CITY. AND THE URL IS THERE IN CASE YOU WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A YARD SIGN. AND I WILL PASS IT BACK TO JEFF TO TALK ABOUT OUR WORK ON THE PAVING PLAN. SO ABOUT OUR FIVE YEAR PLAN, WE CURRENTLY HAVE A FOUR YEAR PAVING PLAN THAT WILL TAKE US OUT TO 2027, WHICH INCLUDES A LOT OF THE LARGER REHABILITATION PROJECTS PLUS PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROJECTS SUCH AS CRACK CEILING, ANCILLARY CEILING. THE REHABILITATION PROJECTS ARE SHOWN ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE, CITY OF PELHAMS STREETS AND PAVEMENT PAGE, WHICH HAS A NEW INTERACTIVE MAP THAT YOU CAN CLICK ON AND SEE THE CURRENT PROJECTS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON AND FUTURE PROJECTS. SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS INCLUDE MARIA DRIVE AND THE WASHINGTON OVERPASS IN 2024, HOWARD DRIVE AND RAINIER AVENUE IN 2025, SORRY, THE MARIA PROJECT WAS IN 2024 HOWARD DRIVE AND RAINIER WAS 2025 CAWFIELD LANE AND D STREET WOULD BE 2026. AND CASA GRANDE IS PROPOSED TO BE IN 2027. WE HAVE ESTABLISHED A RANKING CRITERIA FOR PAYMENT SELECTION AND ARE DEVELOPING A ROBUST FIVE-YEAR PLAN BASED ON THAT CRITERIA. NEXT PAGE. SO PRIORITIZATION CRITERIA. AS WE'VE DEVELOPED OUR PAYMENT RANKING CRITERIA, WE'VE LOOKED AT FIVE CATEGORIES, SAFETY, UTILITY PROJECTS, CLIMATE ACTION, GEO EQUITY, AND PUBLIC INPUT. WE TOOK THIS DATA AND APPLIED IT APPOINT VALUE TO THE CRITERIA IN EACH CATEGORY. SO EACH STREET WOULD BE GIVEN A RANKING SCORE TO WHERE WE CAN PRIORITIZE THE STREETS. AS AN EXAMPLE, AS AN EXAMPLE, TO HELP BRING THIS FULL CIRCLE IS LOOKING AT OUR STATE STREETS NOMINATIONS. AND ONE OF THOSE STREETS THAT RANKED VERY HIGH WAS ELI BOULEVARD, AND WHERE AND WHERE IT DOES RANK AND HIGH IN OUR PRIORITIZATIONS AS WELL. AND DUE TO LIKE PREVA, THE PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE, WHICH GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO KEEP OUR ROADS IN CON CONDITION, WE CAN ALSO LOOK AT ALTERNATIVE STRIPING OPTIONS WHEN WE GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS TO GET BOTH THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, AS WELL AS MAINTAIN OUR STREETS IN GOOD CONDITION. NEXT SLIDE. THIS GRAPH SHOWS OUR PCI VALUE AS WE STAND TODAY. LOOKING AT A, A GRAPH FROM 2021 TO 2025 PCI IS AN ACRONYM FOR OUR PAVEMENT CONDITION IN INDEX, WHICH IS HOW WE RATE OUR, OUR ROADS FROM ZERO TO A HUNDRED. WITH A HUNDRED BEING A BRAND NEW ROAD, THE GRAPH IS SHOWING OUR PCI VALUE FROM 21 TO [00:30:01] 25, AND THE DASH BLUE LINE SHOWS THE ACTUAL PCI PCI VALUE FOR EACH ROAD OR FOR EACH EACH YEAR. THE GREEN LINE SHOWS A ROLLING THREE YEAR AVERAGE OF THAT PCI. SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PCI, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE THREE YEAR AVERAGE AS IT REPRESENTS THE PCI TREND OVER THREE YEARS, AND IT REMOVES THE PEAKS IN THE VALLEYS AND GIVES A MORE REALISTIC LOOK TO OUR PCI. AN IMPORTANT NOTE TO BRING TO THE GRAPH IS THE UPTICK FROM 20 MIDDLE OF 21 TO NOW WHERE MEASURE U BROUGHT IN A LOT MORE FUNDING THAT WE WERE ABLE TO PUT TO OUR STREETS, AND I WILL PASS IT TO YOU. SO IN THAT GRAPH THAT JEFF SHOWED IS, IS HUGE BECAUSE THE REPORT WILL BE COMING OUT IN THE NEXT MONTH AND WE WON'T HAVE THE WORST PAVEMENT IN THE BAY AREA. BUT I DO LOOK AT, I DO LOOK AT THE WORST PAVEMENT IN THE BAY AREA AS AN OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE IT GIVES US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY IMPLEMENT COMPLETE STREETS. SO COMPLETE STREETS IS STREETS FOR EVERYBODY THAT ENABLES SAFE ACCESS FOR ALL PEOPLE WHO NEED TO USE THEM, INCLUDING PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLISTS, AND MOTORISTS OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES. THIS FOLLOWS CALTRANS 2008 AND 2014 DEPUTY DIRECTIVE POLICIES. IT FOLLOWS THE MTC, WHICH IS A MAIN FUNDING AGENCY WE HAVE WITH THEIR COMPLETE STREETS POLICY FOLLOWS THE CITY'S COMPLETE STREET POLICY OF 2016, AS WELL AS THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY RESOLUTION OF 2019 AND THE VISION ZERO POLICY FROM 2020. UM, I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED ON THAT PRIOR SLIDE WE'VE DONE OVER 16 MILES. NOW I'M GONNA GO IN A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE DETAILS OF THAT. SO COMPLETED, UM, OVER THE LAST TWO AND A HALF YEARS, WE'VE DONE, UH, ROUGHLY, UM, 6.4 MILES NORTH MCDOWELL, PETALUMA BOULEVARD SOUTH, AND, UH, GARFIELD WAY. SO KEY CONNECTOR AND ARTERIALS, UM, HAVE BEEN DONE. AND THESE HAVE BEEN, I WANT TO MENTION THAT PETALUMA BOULEVARD AND GARFIELD DRIVE, THOSE WERE, WERE PLAN DESIGNED AND IN-HOUSE AS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO STAFF UP, WHICH I THINK IS A SIGNIFICANT ITEM FOR THIS, THIS TEAM AND FOR THE CITY. SO SOME OF THE, THE BIKE WAY UPGRADES THAT WE'VE GOT IN THE, IN THE PLANNING STAGE ACTUALLY MARIA DRIVE IS IN CONSTRUCTION. WE'VE GOT OVER 10 MILES THAT ARE, THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN PLANNING AND DESIGN. SOME OF THESE ARE RECONSTRUCTION, OTHERS ARE PAVEMENT PRESERVATION. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT ADDITIONAL STREETS WILL LIKELY BE ADDED TO THIS WITH THE FIVE YEAR PAVING PLAN, THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM AND THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. UM, THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL HAS SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS, UM, THAT WILL BE TAKING PLACE AT PAY RAN AND NORTH MCDOWELL SECTIONS. UM, THIS WILL BE COMING LATER THIS YEAR AND INTO NEXT YEAR. THESE PROJECTS ARE ALL A RANGE OF BUFFERED BIKE LANES, CLASS ONE FACILITIES AND CLASS FOUR SEPARATED BIKEWAYS. SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO BJORN. THANK YOU. YEAH. AND SO OBVIOUSLY TONIGHT, THIS IS JUST A, A SMALL SAMPLING OF ALL THE THINGS WE'RE WORKING ON, UH, IN THE, IN THE STREET AND TRANSPORTATION REALM. UM, BUT WANTED TO QUICKLY ACKNOWLEDGE SEVERAL EFFORTS THAT ARE UNDERWAY IN OUR DOWNTOWN AREA IN CLOSE COLLABORATION BETWEEN PUBLIC WORKS, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AS WELL AS OUR DOWNTOWN STAKEHOLDERS. UM, WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO HAVE RECEIVED GRANT FUNDING FOR A DOWNTOWN AREA PARKING MANAGEMENT PLAN, WHICH HAS BEEN REFERRED TO BY MANY AS THE PARKING STUDY, WHICH WILL HELP US IDENTIFY STRATEGIES TO OPTIMIZE ON AND OFF STREET PARKING AVAILABILITY IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. WE, UH, OUR, OUR TRANSIT TEAM IS WORKING ON, UH, MICRO TRANSIT TO CREATE A MORE RESPONSIVE, UH, FORM OF TRANSIT TO MEET, UH, CUSTOMER NEEDS IN, IN AND AROUND THE DOWNTOWN AREA. WE HAVE GRANT FUNDING TO INSTALL BIKE RACKS THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND WITH A REAL FOCUS ON DOWNTOWN IN OUR FIRST ROUND OF INSTALLATIONS, UH, WHICH HAS BEEN A, A VERY COMMON REQUEST THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED. SO WE'LL BE ROLLING THOSE OUT OVER THE COMING MONTHS. UM, WE'RE ALSO OBVIOUSLY ALWAYS LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY AND, UH, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND ACCOMMODATIONS THROUGHOUT THE DOWNTOWN. AND THEN, UH, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, OUR, UH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOLKS ARE, UM, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM ARE, ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING VERY CLOSELY AT A LONG-TERM, UH, POLICY AND FOR, UH, PARKLETS AND, AND OUTDOOR DINING. AND IN ADDITION TO THESE, WHICH ALL THOSE ITEMS THAT I JUST MENTIONED, YOU'LL BE HEARING ABOUT OVER THE COMING MONTHS. UM, AND, UH, UPCOMING ITEMS ON TONIGHT'S [00:35:01] AGENDA, WE'VE GOT A PACKED ONE, OBVIOUSLY, UM, ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, AN ON-CALL, STRIPING AND SIGNAGE CONTRACT, WHICH, UH, I CAN TELL YOU KEN, JEFF AND I ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT FOR THE POTENTIAL TO STREAMLINE OUR EFFORTS TO DELIVER SAFE STREETS, UH, IMPROVEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. WE'VE GOT A FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE TO REDUCE ENFORCEABLE SPEED LIMITS, UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH A NEW STATE LAW THAT WAS PASSED LAST YEAR. AND THEN WE'VE OBVIOUSLY GOT THE, THE BIG ITEM WITH, UM, PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS ON, UH, D STREET AND FIFTH STREET, UH, ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT. AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, PRESENTING ALL THESE AND, AND GETTING YOUR THOUGHTS ON THEM. THANKS. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, UH, GREAT WORK, GREAT PRESENTATION. UM, CERTAINLY BIG CHANGES THAT, A BIG PIVOT IN, UH, UH, ACHIEVEMENT FOR THE CITY, SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. UM, WOULD LIKE TO NOTE TO THE PUBLIC THAT AS THE PRESENTATION, WE DON'T TAKE, UH, GENERAL PUBLIC OR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE ITEM, BUT THE FOLLOWING ITEM IS PUBLIC COMMENT. SO IF YOU WISH TO COMMENT ON THIS, FILL OUT A CARD AND WE GET THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THIS IF YOU WISH. UM, I'D LIKE TO BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL AND SEE IF ANYBODY HAS A COMMENT. UH, VICE MAYOR SHRI. KIM, JUST A COUPLE QUESTIONS. UM, I KNOW WE'RE WORKING ON LAKEVILLE, UH, RIGHT AROUND WHERE THE, UM, THE KAISER HOSPITAL IS GETTING THOSE, UH, ENTRANCES DONE, BUT, UH, A LOT OF FOLKS ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT SOUTH THERE OUTSIDE OF TOWN, AND I WAS WONDERING IF THE, WHAT YOU REFER TO WITH, UM, UH, THE STATE AND COUNTY WORKING ON THAT ROAD, WHETHER THAT'S GONNA BE PART OF WHAT THE PROJECT WE'RE WORKING ON OR IS, UM, WHAT'S AN UPDATE ON, ON SOUTH OF TOWN ON LAKEVILLE ALL THE WAY DOWN THERE TO, UH, UH, LAKE TH UM, HIGHWAY 37? 'CAUSE THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF ACCIDENTS HAVE HAPPENED. A LOT OF FOLKS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT SECTION. YEAH, SO WE'VE STARTED OUR, KIND OF OUR WORKING GROUP WITH CALTRANS, UM, AND LIKE I SAID, IT HAD, IT HAS CHP, PD COUNTY, SO ALL THE TOPICS THAT YOU'RE ADDRESSING HERE COME UP IN THAT MEETING THAT WE CAN ADDRESS. UM, CALTRAN IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE, THE LAKEVILLE AND TINS BAR INTERSECTION RIGHT THERE WHERE THEY ARE PROPOSING A ROUNDABOUT TO IMPROVE SAFETY. AND THAT IS A PROJECT THAT, THAT IS MOVING FORWARD BY CALTRANS. AND THEN AS YOU MOVE FOR FURTHER SOUTH FROM THAT AREA TO 37, THAT AREA IS UNDER THE, UM, THE COUNTY'S JURISDICTION. SO THEY'RE WORKING WITH CALTRANS AS WELL TO MAKE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS IF IT'S BECAUSE THEY JUST RECENTLY DID RUMBLE STRIPS, SO IF IT'S A MEDIAN, BUT THEY'RE WORKING, THEY'RE WORKING THROUGH THOSE, THOSE IMPROVEMENTS ON THEIR END. SO WITH THIS WORKING GROUP THAT WE HAVE, UM, WE'VE NOW HAVE A DIRECT LINE WITH CALTRANS AND ARE ABLE TO GET EVERYTHING ON THE DOCKET TO TALK TO 'EM WITH ABOUT. OKAY, GOOD. THANK YOU. AND THEN YOU, UM, ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NUMBER OF, UH, MILES THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING AND, AND IN THE FUTURE IN THE FIVE YEAR PLAN. BUT GIVEN THE PACE OF THE FIVE YEAR PLAN, THE NUMBER OF MILES OF ROADS, AND GIVEN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF, OF MILES IN OUR CITY OF ROADS THAT NEED REPAIR, HOW MANY, IF, IF WE GET EVERYTHING DONE IN THE FIVE YEAR PLAN AND EXTEND IT OUT, HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE US TO DO ALL THE ROADS HERE IN PETALUMA EVENTUALLY? UM, THAT IS AN EXCELLENT QUESTION AND IT'S ONE THAT I THINK ABOUT AND PONDER AND, AND I DON'T WANNA DELAY IT, BUT WE, UM, WENT AFTER A GRANT, UM, AND WE'RE AWARDED IT FROM MTC. IT'S NOT A LOT OF MONEY, BUT WE HAVE THE CONSULTING, UM, TEAM THAT'S GONNA BE MEETING WITH US AND I BELIEVE IT'S NEXT WEEK, UM, TO, JEFF IS DOING A FIVE YEAR PLAN. BUT WHAT'S THE BIGGER PICTURE? AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN RAISED. UM, ACTUALLY PEGGY SAID, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE BIGGER PICTURE HERE? AND I, I WANT TO GIVE PEOPLE THAT ANSWER. UM, WE DON'T HAVE IT JUST YET, BUT THIS CONSULTANT WHO WORKS THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA IS GONNA HELP US TO CRAFT A MEANS. AND WE'RE LOOKING AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY. MAYBE WE DON'T DO THE FULL RECONSTRUCTION, WE DON'T GET A 20 YEAR, 25 YEAR LIFESPAN. MAYBE WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING THAT'S 15 YEAR, BUT WE CAN GET IT, WE CAN GET SOMETHING IN THAT'S GONNA BE SAFE AND COMFORTABLE FOR PEOPLE TO, TO, YOU KNOW, RIDE, WALK, DRIVE ON. AND THAT'S, THAT'S OUR OBJECTIVE. SO STAY TUNED ON THAT. AND THAT WILL, I, I, I'VE MENTIONED THIS TO JEFF AND IT'LL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE MAYBE NOT FULLY FLESHED OUT FOR THE FIVE YEAR PLAN, BUT IT'LL DEFINITELY BE A PART OF THAT DOCUMENT. SO THANK YOU. 'CAUSE WE SEE SOME PROGRESS ON THAT. YEP. UM, 'CAUSE I KNOW, UH, WE DONE THE SONOMA MOUNTAIN FELL APART, THAT'S BALL BEEN REDONE, BUT ALL THE STREETS THAT WERE DONE ALSO RIGHT OFF OF IT, LIKE WHERE I LIVE INCLUDED, IS, UM, THE STREETS ARE CRACKING AND FALLING APART ALL OVER THE PLACE. YEAH. SO PEOPLE ARE, ARE GETTING CONCERNED, UH, ABOUT THAT. SO THEY JUST NEED TO HAVE SOME CONFIDENCE THAT YES, WE CAN, WE WILL, WE WILL GET TO THAT, THESE STREETS EVENTUALLY. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. [00:40:02] ANYONE? NO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNICLE? YEAH, JUST REITERATE MY THANKS FOR THE QUICK WORK ON PINE VIEW, UM, THAT'S GONNA SAVE MORE LIVES THAN PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING. SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING SWIFT ACTION TO PREVENT FUTURE ACCIDENTS. COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY, UH, JUST A QUICK QUESTION. IS THERE ANYONE OTHER THAN PACIFICA AND THE NINE COUNTY BAY AREA WITH A WORSE PCI THAN US AT THIS POINT? OR IF SOMEONE ELSE JOINED THE CLUB? STAY TUNED. IT'S GONNA, IT WILL BE OUT IN A MONTH. YES. COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON. I JUST HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS AND AS FAR AS PINEVIEW, 'CAUSE I HAPPEN TO GO DOWN THERE A LOT, AND THE TRAFFIC, UM, IS VERY HEAVY AND IT'S HARD TO GET OUT, YOU KNOW, LIKE TAKE A LEFT HAND TURN WHERE THE POST OFFICE IS, THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TRAFFIC THERE. PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT THEY CAN USE CATER LANE, THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO TO LAKEVILLE. AND SO I'M WONDERING IF THERE CAN BE ANY SIGNAGE SO PEOPLE KNOW THERE'S TWO WAYS AND NOT JUST THE ONE, BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET UP TOWARD LAKEVILLE, IT REALLY CHOKES DOWN, UM, TRYING TO GET INTO THE SHOPPING CENTER, THAT LITTLE CENTER THERE, AND IT'S JUST KIND OF ODD. AND SO I JUST WANT US TO BE MORE AWARE OF TRAFFIC IS SPEEDING MORE IN THAT AREA, I'VE NOTICED, AND JUST A LOT MORE TRAFFIC AND I'M HAPPY THAT MY VIEW IS GONNA BE TAKEN CARE OF, BUT THERE MIGHT BE A, WE JUST NEED TO LOOK AT A FEW OTHER THINGS AS FAR AS A REDUCING SPEED MAYBE IN THAT AREA. AND THE OTHER THING IS, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PROJECTS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, MARIA DRIVE, WHICH IS GONNA BE STARTING THIS YEAR, AND THEN RAINIER IS GONNA START NEXT YEAR. AND SO I KNOW THAT, UM, I'VE GOTTEN SOME CALLS FROM PEOPLE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IN THE INTERSECTION OF MARIA DRIVE AND RAINIER, THE KIDS ARE OUT THERE DOING DONUTS AT NIGHT AND IT'S, UM, BACK, YOU KNOW, THE SPEEDING AND STUFF. AND WOULD YOU CONSIDER LOOKING AT, UM, LIKE A MINI ROUNDABOUT, LIKE A, THAT'S UP AT UPHAM THEN THAT WOULD REALLY ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM. IT'S BEEN A LONG-TERM PROBLEM. IT'S STOPPED AND NOW IT'S BACK. AND I HAD NEIGHBORS CALL ME THIS LAST WEEK, UM, SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT OR, YOU KNOW, JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER. AND I'M REALLY HAPPY ABOUT, UM, WASHINGTON STREET BECAUSE IT'S PET PEEVE OF MINE WHEN YOU'RE GOING WEST. IT'S REALLY JUST, UM, TERRIBLY UM, BROKEN DOWN AND IT'S SUCH A MAJOR ROADWAY THAT IF THAT COULD BE IT UP, IT WOULD BE GREAT. UM, AND I DO KNOW I WAS AT SCTA TODAY AND WE'RE GETTING SOME MONEY FOR, UM, A FEW PROJECTS AT LYNCH CREEK TRAIL, BUT ALSO, UM, OLD REDWOOD HIGHWAY FOR SOME PAVEMENT IMPROVEMENTS. WE APPROVE THAT TODAY. SO LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT OUR STREETS BEING IMPROVED IN SAFETY. THANK YOU. GREAT PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. AND, UH, I HAD A SAFE ROUTE TO SCHOOL QUESTION THERE. UH, SO WE'RE GETTING ONE, UM, ONE SCHOOL AUDITED PER MONTH, NOT EVERY SCHOOL ONCE A MONTH. UM, SO WE'RE GETTING TO EVERY SCHOOL OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, AND THAT'S WITH THE HOPE OR ENCOURAGEMENT THAT MORE KIDS WILL WALK OR BIKE. JUST, IS THAT THE GOAL THERE? MAKING IT SAFE? YEAH, SO SAFE ROUTES REALLY KIND OF ENCAPSULATES EVERYTHING. UH, ENGINEERING EDUCATION, ENCOURAGEMENT ENFORCEMENT, UH, TO PROMOTE, UM, MORE WALKING AND BIKING TO SCHOOL. UM, THE, THE SAFE ROUTE, THE WALK AUDITS ARE REALLY ENGINEERING FOCUSED. UM, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE LOOKING AT THE INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THE SCHOOLS, BUT SONOMA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS HAS A WHOLE, UM, SLEW OF, OF, OF ACTIVITIES THAT THEY DO IN PETALUMA SCHOOLS TO, UH, PROMOTE MORE WALKING, BIKING, WHETHER IT'S THE WALK AND ROLL WEDNESDAYS, UM, THEY HAVE BIKE TO, YOU KNOW, BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY COMING UP. UH, LOTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. THEY DO. UM, UH, THEY EDUCATE, UH, CHILDREN ON HOW TO SAFELY WALK AND BIKE ON, ON STREETS, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY VERY IMPORTANT. UM, SO ALL THEIR PROGRAMMING, UH, REALLY SUPPORTS IT FROM, FROM, UH, THE NON-ENGINEERING SIDE. AND THEN THAT'S THE COUNTY FUNDED PROGRAM? CORRECT. AND UM, AND IT'S REALLY VOLUNTARY, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOL, IT'S, IT'S DEPENDENT ON THE SCHOOLS TO SIGN UP FOR THEIR PROGRAMMING. IT'S, IT'S AT NO COST TO THE SCHOOLS, BUT, UH, WHAT, WHAT IS NEEDED AS A PRINCIPAL OR A STAFF MEMBER TO SAY, HEY, WE WANT TO, WE WANT YOUR PROGRAMMING. AND UM, CHRISTINA PANZA, WHO'S THE DIRECTOR ACTUALLY PROVIDES AN UPDATE, UM, ALMOST EVERY MONTH ON WHICH SCHOOLS ARE RECEIVING WHAT, WHAT LEVEL OF PROGRAMMING ALL THE SCHOOLS ARE RECEIVING, UM, IF FOLKS ARE INTERESTED IN, IN GETTING MORE PROGRAMMING OUT THEIRS. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, I'M SURE I SPEAK FOR THE WHOLE COUNCIL WHEN I SAY THAT, UH, YOU CAN'T DO ENOUGH TO IMPROVE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND YOU CAN'T GET IT DONE FAST ENOUGH FOR US EITHER. SO I'M SURE GLAD TO SEE ALL THIS ACTION AND THOUGH, EVEN THOUGH TONIGHT'S CONVERSATION SEEMED ALL BE ALL ABOUT STREETS, UM, PART OF, PART OF OUR GOAL IS SIDEWALKS IN THE CITY IS ALSO TAKING AN ACTIVE ROLE IN DOING THAT. SO THANKS FOR [00:45:01] ALL THE WORK AND THANKS FOR THE GREAT PRESENTATION. ALRIGHT, UH, MOVING TO [GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT] OUR NEXT, UH, ITEM, WHICH IS A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT HERE TONIGHT. UH, I'D LIKE TO NOTE THAT, UH, DURING PUBLIC GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN CITY COUNCIL SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION AND ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA. UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO UP TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON, AND DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL TIME WILL BE ALLOCATED IN EQUAL SHARES OF NO MORE THAN 20 MINUTES. THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS RIGHT THERE. UM, I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR, UH, CITY ATTORNEY TO ANY REFLECTIONS TONIGHT BEFORE WE START THIS. ARE WE GOOD? I THINK WE'RE GOOD MR. MAYOR, UNLESS THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT ME TO ADD. THANKS. ALRIGHT. AND, UH, LET'S SEE. I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR CITY CLERK IF THERE HAVE BEEN, UH, EMAILS THAT ARE, UH, WITH US. WE DID. WE RECEIVED 10 PUBLIC COMMENTS, 10 PUBLIC COMMENTS TONIGHT. WONDERFUL. AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR MODERATOR TO READ OUR MESSAGING FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I'M ABOUT TO SET, UH, START A 32ND CLOCK AT THE END OF WHICH, UM, WE WILL SEE HOW MANY SPEAKERS WE HAVE. UM, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARD TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL ON THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED. SO PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION. ACCOUNT DOWN WILL APPEAR FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE SPEAKER AND THE VIEWERS, AND WE ARE STOPPING THE CLOCK THERE. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, EVERYBODY'S GOT THEIR CARD IN THEN. AND, UM, NOW I'VE GOTTA DO THE SIMPLE TASK ACCOUNTING. HOW MANY TASKS? UH, HOW MANY OF Y'ALL WANNA TAKE A MINUTE TONIGHT TO, TO SPEAK? AND, UH, SO I, THERE ARE, UH, WELL MORE THAN 20 CARDS, PROBABLY CLOSER TO 30. I STOPPED COUNTING AFTER 20. AND SO, UM, I THINK WHAT WE'LL DO IS SET THE TIMER AT ONE MINUTE TONIGHT AS SORT OF A MINIMAL TO GET YOUR MESSAGE IN RATHER THAN CUT YOU TO 45 SECONDS OR 30 SECONDS. SO, UH, MR. MODERAT MAY MODERATOR, MAY WE SET THE CLOCK AT ONE MINUTE PER SPEAKER AND, UH, WITH THIS MANY SPEAKERS, CLEARLY YOU'RE HERE FOR SOME OF YOU FOR THIS SIMILAR ISSUE. AND IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE BY SOMEONE PRIOR THAT YOU CONCUR WITH, THAT YOU AGREE WITH THAT YOU LIKE, UM, YOU COULD JUST SAY SO AND, UH, AND THAT COULD SAVE US ALL, UH, A A BIT OF TIME AND YET BE, UH, POWERFUL FOR YOUR VOICE BEING HEARD. AND, UM, WITH THAT, UM, I'D, I'D LIKE TO START WITH, UH, JASON TOMINO TO BE FOLLOWED BY COREY JOHNSON. UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IS IT ON? THERE WE GO. UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MY NAME IS JASON MINO AND I'M THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS REPRESENTATIVE FROM PG AND E. SO I'M NEW IN THIS POSITION AND I JUST WANTED TO COME DOWN AND INTRODUCE MYSELF TO EVERYBODY, SO IF WE SEE EACH OTHER IN THE GROCERY STORE, YOU KNOW WHO I AM. UM, AND THEN I'LL BE REACHING OUT TO ALL OF YOU TO TRY AND SET UP SOME MEETINGS. UH, FEEL FREE TO CALL ON ME AND I'VE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH THE CITY STAFF, UH, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU. UM, AND I WILL LEAVE IT THERE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. NICE TO MEET YOU. SO YOU'RE THAT GUY, HUH? OKAY. COREY JOHNSON TO BE FOLLOWED BY CATHERINE BOBOWSKI. GOOD EVENING, WHOA, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND STAFF. UM, IT IS SIX MONTHS SINCE A HORRIFIC ATTACK ON ISRAEL AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CONSTANT KILLING AND DESTRUCTION IN GAZA. 33,000 PLUS PALESTINIANS KILLED AND MANY MORE MISSING OR INJURED INFRASTRUCTURE DESTROYED, INCLUDING HOSPITALS IN A MORATORIUM ON SUPPORTING ESSENTIAL AID THROUGH UNAH. THERE'S A GROWING NUMBER OF VOICES IN PETALUMA, US IN ISRAEL, AND AROUND THE WORLD THAT ARE DEMANDING A CEASEFIRE RETURN OF HOSTAGES AND ROBUST HUMANITARIAN AID TO A STARVING POPULATION IN [00:50:01] GAZA. OUR VOICES OF DISSENT HAVE BECOME LOUDER AND LOUDER UNTIL PRESIDENT BIDEN LISTENED AND NEEDED TO RESPOND. THE WHITE HOUSE IS QUOTED, BIDEN IS SAYING THAT IN IMEDIA CEASEFIRES ESSENTIAL TO STABILIZE AND IMPROVE THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION AND PROTECT INNOCENT CIVILIANS. AND HE URGED THE PRIME MINISTER TO EMPOWER HIS NEGOTIATORS TO CONCLUDE A DEAL WITHOUT DELAY TO BRING THE HOSTAGES HOME. THE US HAS SUPPORTED THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN ITS WAR ON GAZA WITH MORE, MORE AND MORE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT, UH, MINUTE HAS EXPIRED. IT DOES GO BY VERY FAST. EVERYONE, UH, KATHERINE BOBOWSKI TO BE FOLLOWED BY SUSAN HOOTIN. YES, MY NAME'S KOWSKI. LAST WEEK I TALKED TO A VICTIM. HE SAID HIS PLACE WAS BEING ROBBED HIS HOUSE AND HE CALLED THE PINAL POLICE DEPARTMENT AND HE WAS, UH, HE CALLED. LET THEM KNOW THIS ROBBIE WAS IN PROGRESS AND THE PENAL POLICEMAN, NE POLICE DEPARTMENT NEVER SHOWED UP WHEN HIS PLACE POLICE WAS BEING ROBBED. AND I GOT A, A SUSPECT THAT'S BEEN, UH, VANDALIZING MY PLACE, MY HOME SITE, BOTH THE LICENSE PLATE NINE CH Y 1 59. HE AND HAS BEEN STALKING MY MAHOME, TERRORIZING, HARASSING, PUTTING MY SAFETY ENDANGERMENT. THE COPS WILL NOT DO NOTHING, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SUSAN HOOTIN TO BE FOLLOWED BY ADAM GARCIA. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS SUSAN HOOTIN. I AM THE CITY'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE MARIN SONOMA MOSQUITO AND VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT. TONIGHT I'M CALLING EVERYONE'S ATTENTION TO OUR OPEN HOUSE ON MAY 4TH, A SATURDAY AT OUR FACILITY IN CATADI FROM 11:00 AM TO 3:00 PM THIS IS A FUN-FILLED EDUCATIONAL EVENT FOR FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS OF ALL AGES. ATTENDANCE IS FREE INCLUDING LUNCH, CARNIVAL GAMES, DISPLAYS WITH LIVE INSECTS, AND A VECTOR CONTROL METHODS, A HONEYBEE OBSERVATION HIVE AND AN INSECT DURANT FEATURING EDIBLE INSECTS. EQUIPMENT USED FOR VECTOR CONTROL WILL ALSO BE ON DISPLAY, INCLUDING OUR NEW AIRBOAT HERE. THANK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOUR MINUTE HAS EXPIRED. OKAY. NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU LEARN AT CITY COUNCIL. ADAM GARCIA TO BE FOLLOWED BY JODY JOHNSON. GOOD EVENING CITY COUNCIL. I SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS AS A RESIDENT OF PETALUMA, UH, NUMBER ONE BAY AREA GREENPRINT. AS THE CITY PROGRESSES THROUGH ITS GENERAL PLAN UPDATE, I ENCOURAGE STAFF TO PLEASE UTILIZE THE FREE ONLINE TOOL, THE BAY AREA GREENPRINT, WWW.BAYAREAGREENPRINT.ORG TO HELP DESCRIBE THE CITY'S CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR ITS GENERAL PLAN. UPDATE AROUND NATURE'S VALUES AND BENEFITS, CLIMATE CHANGE, URBAN GREENING, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE HAZARDS, OPEN SPACE POLICY, AND MUCH MORE. NUMBER TWO, THAT'S ALL I HAVE TIME FOR. PETALUMA'S FIRE HAZARD ZONE. DID YOU KNOW PETALUMA HAS A FIRE HAZARD SEVERITY ZONE ON THE SOUTH WEIGHT SIDE OF THE CITY? IF YOU SAID NO, YOU ARE IN THE GOOD COMPANY OF MTC AND THE STATE. I ENCOURAGE THE CITY TO CONTACT MTC AND CAL FIRE TO CONFIRM THEIR HIGH FIRE HAZARD SEVERITY ZONE AS IT MAY UPDATE AVAILABLE FUNDING FOR FIRE PROTECTION OR OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO SAFEGUARD RESIDENTS FROM WILDFIRE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. JODY JOHNSON SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY KAY POLAND, CITY OF PETALUMA. WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT A YEAR AGO YOU LISTENED TO OUR ISSUES AND OUR REQUESTS ON THE RENT STABILIZATION ORDINANCE YOU DILIGENTLY LOOKED AT, CONTEMPLATED, AND VOTED IN MUCH NEEDED REASONED PROTECTED REVISIONS. MONETARILY THE ONLY DIFFERENCE FOR MOBILE PARK OWNERS WAS 0.0 0.9 OF A PERCENT OR 30% OF CPI IN OUR PARK THIS YEAR. THAT MEANT $4 TO $8 PER ADDRESS IS NOT ALLOWED, BUT $10 TO $16 A MONTH IS ALLOWABLE AVERAGE $444 PER MONTH. NOT ALLOWABLE, BUT 1,184 TOTAL PER MONTH ALLOWABLE THE RETALIATION, INTIMIDATION INCREASED, SUPPOSED MISTAKEN GROUND RENTS, ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE SOME OF US FROM THE PARK BECAUSE OF ADVOCACY ATTEMPTS AT CONVERTING THE PARK TO ALL AGE IMPROPERLY NOTICED ATTEMPTS AT CLOSING THE PARK WITHOUT LEGAL DOCUMENTATION OR APPLICATION TO THE CITY. AND OF COURSE THE $923 RENT INCREASE AND THE SUBSEQUENT ARBITRATION NOT ONLY WREAKED HAVOC ON [00:55:01] OUR SENIOR CITIZENS, BUT HARMED OUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND OUR PEACEFUL PURSUIT TO LIVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. KAY POLAND TO BE FOLLOWED BY KELLY WALKER PURSUANT TO LIVE IN A LIFE IN PEACE. THIS, I'M SORRY, THIS AND THIS HAS AND CONTINUES TO BE A WAR WAGED ON US AND THE CITY WE CALL HOME. WE CAN'T LET THIS RELENTLESS PURSUIT FOR MORE OR THE ENDLESS LITIGATION TO TAKE AWAY OUR PROTECTIONS VOTED IN THOUGHTFULLY AND FAIRLY ABOVE BOARD TO BE DECIMATED BY GREED. IN JULY, 2023, WE BEGAN THE PROTECTION SOUGHT OF A SENIOR PARK OVERLAY AGAINST AN LAW, EXCUSE ME, UNLAWFUL PARK STATUS CHANGE THAT WASN'T PROPERLY NOTICED. AND AS SUCH, ON OCTOBER 16TH, 2023, THIS CITY, AGAIN THOUGHTFULLY AND FAIRLY AFTER MUCH PROCESS VOTED IT INTO LAW. WE NEVER HAD ANY INDICATION THAT AN ARBITER WHO STATES CLEARLY AFTER AN EXHAUSTIVE CONSIDERATION THAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT MARKET RENTS, BUT ABOUT CURRENT RENTS WOULD ALLOW A MISGUIDED MOTION IN LIMINE DENYING US THE RIGHT TO PROVE THAT THE PARK OWNERS GAINED THE TREMENDOUS PROFITS AND HAD NOT PRODUCED THE FINANCIALS. WE COMPELLED THEM TO BE PRODUCED. WHAT BECAME CLEAR? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, KELLY WALKER TO BE FOLLOWED BY TIM PORTUS. HELLO. THANK YOU. WHAT BECAME CLEAR IN THIS ORDINANCE NEEDED CLARIFICATION FOR METHODOLOGY TO PARK OWNERS SEEKING A FAIR MARKET INCREASE. THAT BRINGS SAID, AFTER AN EXHAUSTIVE ARBITRATION, THE ARBITRATOR RULED AGAINST ALL THE METHODS PARK OWNERS TRIED TO USE AND THERE WERE MANY. IN ADDITION, WE BELIEVE THE ARBITRATOR WAS NEVER GOING TO GIVE US A DECISION. THAT TESTIMONY AND VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE SUPPORTED AND AS SUCH DEVELOPED A WAY UNFOUNDED IN OUR OPINION TO ATTEMPT TO APPEASE THE PARK OWNERS ARBITRATION FURTHER LIMITS US FROM BRINGING PERJURY CHARGES. BUT IN IRREGULAR COURT OF LAW THAT CERTAINLY WOULD'VE BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD AGAINST A PARK OWNER AND EXPERTS WHO TESTIFIED FALSELY ABOUT HIS OWNERSHIP AND ENTITIES OWNED AS WELL THAT BRING GREAT PROFIT TO THE MOBILE PARK WE LIVE IN. AS SUCH, OUR PROTECTION WAS TO BE CAPPED AT 4% OR 70% OF CPI. WITH THIS RULING, THE ARBITRATOR ALLOWS AN INCREASE FOR THE PARK OWNER OF $118 PER MONTH PER ADDRESS, OR ANYWHERE FROM 12% TO 16% INCREASE TO GROUND RENTS. THANKS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. TIM PORTUS TO BE FOLLOWED BY DEBORAH ROBERTS. HELLO MY COUNSEL. THIS GIVES THE PARK OWNER, EVEN THOUGH THE ARBITRATOR DENIES ALL THEIR METHODS, THE RATE OF RETURN THEY DEMANDED, IT ALSO THEN GIVES THE PARK OWNER AN ADDITIONAL $104,562 IN PROFIT PER YEAR AND THE PRORATED AMOUNT OF $52,000. WE ESTIMATE THAT OUR PARK OWNER WHO OWNS AND OPERATES 70 PLUS MOBILE PARKS PLUS ON YOUNGSTOWN, EARNS ON YOUNGSTOWN JUST SHY OF $1,300,000 ANNUALLY WITHOUT THE RV BOAT RENTALS AND PURCHASING RESELLING OF MOBILE HOMES HERE WITH PROFITS ALL THE WAY UP TO 100%. I WILL ALSO SAY IN ADDITION TO WHAT'S HERE, YOU GUYS KNOW THIS SAYING DAMN THE TORPEDOES AND FULL SPEED AHEAD. WE NEED TO DO THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU DEBORAH ROBERTS TO BE FOLLOWED BY BERT BODA. HI. MOST OF OUR RESIDENTS RELY ON SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONS AND HARD EARNED SAVINGS AND PAY GROUND RENT FROM $695 TO $1,600. ANOTHER ATTACK ON FAIRNESS, SINCE THESE, FOR THE MOST PART ARE ALL THE SAME SIZE LOTS, THESE SAME SENIORS PAY THEIR OWN TRASH, SEWER, WATER, ELECTRIC INSURANCE, MAINTENANCE OF THE LAND FOR THEIR MOBILE HOME SITES THAT SITS ON AND OF COURSE THEY OWN THE MOBILE HOME ITSELF AND ALL ITS UPKEEP. ON PAGE 38 OF THE ARBITRATION DECISION, THE ARBITRATOR CREATES A TABLE, THE FIRST BEING A $16 INCREASE, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE RENT STABILIZATION ORDERS, GRANTS PARK OWNERS IN PETALUMA. THE ARBITRATOR STATES THAT WITH $118 INCREASE, THIS WILL MAKE THE AVERAGE GROUND RENT AT YOUNGSTOWN $930, WHICH SHE STATES IS $30 OVER PETALUMA ESTATES AVERAGE A BETTER PROPERTY. [01:00:02] THANK YOU. BERT BODA SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY REBECCA SCHINDLER MISSING IS THE RESIDENT WITH THE CURRENT $101,345 GROUND RENT. WHO GETS THE $118 INCREASE? THE RESIDENT WITH A $1,250 GROUND RENT, WHO GETS AN $818 INCREASE? THE RESIDENT WITH $1,100 GROUND RENT THAT GETS $118 INCREASE AND SO MANY MORE. THIS IS INCREDULOUS THAT PARK OWNERS WOULD ATTEMPT TO SEEK $435,000 IN ATTORNEY FEES TO INCLUDE TALKING TO THE PRESS DECISIONS IN REGARDS TO WHETHER TO FILE A FAIR MARKET INCREASE, REDACTED MILITARY STYLE LEDGER LINES. IT CAN'T BE VERIFIED, EMAILS NEVER SEEN. AND OF COURSE, SHOULDN'T WE BE ALLOWED TO RECOUP ALL OF OUR ATTORNEY FEES ON ALL THE METHODS THEY USED THAT WERE ENTIRELY DENIED THAT WE HAD TO DEFEND ALL THE WHILE AWAITING THE ARBITRATION PARK OWNERS DECIDED THAT THEY WOULD DO WHATEVER THEY WANTED AGAINST THE ORDINANCE, ANY PROTECTION OR ANY SENIOR PARK OVERLAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, REBECCA SCHINDLER IS NEXT TO BE FOLLOWED BY ROD ALATORRE. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME'S REBECCA SCHINDLER AND I LIVE IN THE COTTAGES MOBILE HOME PARK. WE DO WANNA THANK YOU FOR, UM, PASSING THE RENT STABILIZATION ACT LAST SUMMER, AND WE'RE HERE TO ASK YOU TO PUT IN PLACE A PROCESS TO TAKE CARE OF THE VIOLATIONS FOR THAT. NOW, CURRENTLY WE ARE OWNERS ARE VIOLATING AND IGNORING THE LAWS IN PLACE BOTH STATE AND CITY HAVE, UH, ENCOURAGED. ONE THING I'D LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION IS IN JANUARY, 2025, ACCORDING TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, WE'LL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO HAVE RENT, UM, UH, RENT CON RENT INCREASES BUILT INTO OUR LONG-TERM LEASES. THAT MEANS THE NUMBER OF VIOLATIONS WILL EXPEDITE BECAUSE ALL YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE MOBILE HOME PARKS HERE IN THE CITY OF PETALUMA WILL BE LOOKING AT THEIR OWNERS VIOLATING THE LAWS AND ORDINANCES THAT YOU HAVE PUT INTO PLACE. PLEASE PUT A PROCESS IN PLACE TO CORRECT THESE VIOLATIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ROD ATOR TO BE FOLLOWED BY RON SANCHEZ. GOOD EVENING CITY COUNCIL. MY NAME IS ROD ELLA. TORI, I LIVE AT THE COTTAGES MOBILE HOME PARK. THE COUNCIL HAS VOTE, UH, VOTED FOR CHANGES TO MOBILE HOME PARKS IN PETALUMA JULY, 2023. IT'S BEEN NINE MONTHS AND NO NOTICE OF ANY VIOLATIONS HAS BEEN ISSUED TO FEENEY ON THIS OVERCHARGING RENT SPACE. TO THOSE ON RENT CONTROL, PLEASE GET THE NOTICE OF VIOLATION OUT NOW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. RON SANCHEZ TO BE FOLLOWED BY SUE SULLIVAN. HELLO, MY NAME IS RON SANCHEZ. I LIVE AT THE COTTAGES OF MOBILE HOME PARK COUNCIL. VOTED IN CHANGES TO MOBILE HOME PARKS PETALUMA JULY OF 2023 AND IT'S BEEN NINE MONTHS. NO NOTICE OF VIOLATION HAS BEEN ISSUED TO BILL FEENEY ON HIS OVERCHARGING THE RENT SPACE TO THOSE ON RENT CONTROL. MYSELF AND MY SISTER-IN-LAW, WHO LIVES IN THE SAME PARK, HAVE RECEIVED RENT INCREASES OF 4%. SHE HAS ALSO RECEIVED A ONE YEAR ADDITIONAL, UH, LEASE AT THREE TO 6%. PLEASE GET THE VIOLATION NOTICE OUT NOW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SUE SULLIVAN TO BE FOLLOWED BY MARTIN HEITZ. GOOD EVENING CITY COUNCIL AND REPRESENTATIVES. I'M SUE SULLIVAN OF THE COTTAGES, POLITE AND PATIENT. WE HAVE BEEN WITH REGRET. I MUST BRING THIS SUBJECT UP AGAIN FOR OUR PEOPLE. FOR OVER NINE MONTHS, WE HAVE WAITED FOR YOU TO ENFORCE THE ORDINANCE. LAW CHANGES VOTED IN BY THE COUNCIL IN JULY OF LAST YEAR, 2023 FOR MOBILE HOME PARKS HERE IN PETALUMA. WE HAVE PEOPLE IN THIS CROWD THAT ARE OVERPAYING IN OUR, OUR AREA. THEIR RENT SPACE, INSTEAD OF YOUR VOTED IN 2.03 FOR 2023, THEY ARE, SOME OF THEM ARE OVERPAYING UP TO 5.7%. THESE [01:05:01] ARE PEOPLE ON RENT CONTROL PAYING THIS OVERAGE SO AS NOT TO AVOID EVICTION BY THE VIOLATING PARK OWNER. WHERE DOES THE DRAFTED NOTICE STAND TODAY ON FEBRUARY 27TH, THIS STATES THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, MARTIN HEITZ TO BE FOLLOWED BY SANDRA SHAND. MY NAME IS MARTIN HEITZ AND I LIVE AT THE COTTAGES, THE MOBILE HOME PARK. 10 YEARS AGO I TOOK OVER SOMEONE'S LEASE. I WAS NEVER GIVEN THE CHOICE OF GOING ON A RENT STABILIZATION OR RENT CONTROL. I WAS TOLD TO NOT PURCHASE A HOME IN THAT PARK IF THAT'S WHAT I DESIRED. MY LEASE ENDED IN, UM, JULY OF 20 23, 9 MONTHS AGO. I'VE BEEN, I HAD BEEN TOLD, AND I HAVE AN INCREASE OF OVER 5% FROM THAT DATE FORWARD. NINE MONTHS, APPROXIMATELY 450 TO $500 OF OVERCHARGE. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT PROTECTION. ALL OF YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING, WE'RE SENIORS, WE'RE FIXED INCOME. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. BUT THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. THANK YOU SANDRA SHAN TO BE FOLLOWED BY JOHN O'BRIEN REGARDING YOUR SILENCE. I URGE YOU TO LOOK ONLINE AT DOCUMENTATION OF DEAD SKELETAL PALESTINIAN CHILDREN LOOKING LIKE THEY CAME STRAIGHT FROM AUSCHWITZ OF DEAD BABIES WHOSE MOTHERS NO LONGER HAVE MILK, CHILDREN AND BABIES DIE. FIRST TERRIFIED SUFFERING. CHILDREN ARE EATING GRASS, TRYING TO STAY ALIVE. MEEK GEESE WHO HELPED HIDE. ANNE FRANK SAID YOU MAY SILENCE YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT CRUELTY HAPPENING TO OTHERS BY TELLING YOURSELF IT'S NOT YOUR PROBLEM. BUT SHE URGED THAT ANY ATTEMPT AT ACTION IS BETTER THAN INACTION AND FRANK'S MESSAGE WAS TO STOP PREJUDICE WHEN WE LUMP ENTIRE GROUPS OF PEOPLE TOGETHER DENYING EVERYONE'S AN INDIVIDUAL WHO SHOULD BE JUDGED SOLELY ON THEIR OWN ACTIONS. FORCED STARVATION AND GAZA IS RACISM AND COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT. YOU'D CLAIM TO BE CIVILIZED DECENT PEOPLE. AND SO I ASK YOU, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? I FIND YOUR CLAIM THAT IT'S NOT OUR PROBLEM VERY THIN WHEN SO MANY PETAL LU HAVE CALLED ON YOU. THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOHN O'BRIEN TO FO BE FOLLOWED BY IS ER. HI, MY NAME IS JOHN O'BRIEN, AND THANK YOU MAYOR FOR HAVING, UM, DAN HERRERA WORK WITH ME. UM, I SENT EVERYONE AN EMAIL AND THE SUBJECT IS, UM, I'M ASKING CAN WE ASK CPUC TO GET AN AUDIENCE WITH PG AND E? DAN AND I, UH, HAVE COME TO THE IDEA THAT WE NEED INFORMATION, BUT WE NEED MORE THAN INFORMATION. WE NEED SOME SORT OF A JUDGMENT. AND I THINK THAT CPUC HAS THE AUTHORITY AND POWER TO DO, OH, MY, MY TIME DIDN'T START, BUT I THINK I'M, I THINK I'VE GIVEN MY MESSAGE. SO IF WE CAN GET THE START OF A GROUP, WHAT I'VE NOTICED IS THAT CPUC DOES GIVE A HEARING TO A GROUP, BUT AN INDIVIDUAL THEY CAN IGNORE. AND ANYWAY, IF WE HAVE A NAME OR A GROUP, WE CAN GET A HEARING AND WILL GET THINGS DONE. THANK YOU. I THINK WE JUST GOT A NAME THIS EVENING. SO GOOD. YEAH. UM, HIWAN HAUSER TO BE FOLLOWED BY JEFF MAINE. SINCE OCTOBER, OUR GROUP HAS HELD SATURDAY VIGILS CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE AND GAZA. DURING THOSE ROUGHLY 25 SATURDAYS, WE'VE EXPERIENCED A LOT OF SUPPORTIVE HONKS. THIS PAST SATURDAY, I DECIDED TO COUNT HONKS BETWEEN TWO 10 AND 3:47 PM I RECORDED 181 HONKS. I INCLUDED PEACE SIGNED HAND GESTURES, MOST OF WHICH WERE STUCK ENTHUSIASTICALLY OUT OF VEHICLE WINDOWS, AND THE USUAL THANK YOUS AND PEDESTRIANS YELLING HUNK. WE'VE CERTAINLY GIVEN THIS CITY A CHANCE TO EXPRESS ITSELF, FACE TO FACE, RAIN OR SHINE, YOUNG AND OLD. AND THE NUMBERS SAY THIS CITY WANTS A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION. WHOLE FAMILIES ICE CREAM IN HAND. STOP TO JOIN US. PICK UP SIGNS PASSERS BY BREAK INTO TEARS. TEENAGERS ASK GOOD QUESTIONS EACH WEEK. WE APPEAR DOWNTOWN FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR AND A HALF. SO WE CAN CALCULATE A BASE RATE OF 111.9 HONKS PER HOUR FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 4,196 HONKS. [01:10:01] IN ADDITION TO THE LETTERS AND EMAIL AND PHONE CALLS YOU'VE GOTTEN, I WONDER JUST HOW MANY RESIDENTS. THANK YOU, JEFF MAIN TO BE FOLLOWED BY JASON SWEENEY. GOOD EVENING. I AM VERY PROUD OF A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE PETALUMA MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION AND THE POME YACHT CLUB. AND TO BE PASSED AROUND FOR YOUR EDUCATION, WE HAVE CREATED A PASSPORT TO TREASURES SO THAT WHEN PEOPLE COME UP TO OUR COMMUNITY BY BOAT, THEY CAN AVAIL THEMSELVES EASILY OF 18 PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS AND AN INTERACTIVE MAP THAT THAT PASSPORT PROVIDES. SO WE'RE, WE'RE EXCITED TO LAUNCH THAT. TWO YACHT CLUBS ARE COMING UP ON BUTTER AND EGG DAY, WHICH IS THE 20TH OF THIS MONTH, GREENER PASTURES. THE THEME WE INVITE YOU AND THE COMMUNITY TO THAT, THE LARGEST ONE WE'VE EVER HAD, THE BIGGEST BUDGET WE'VE EVER HAD. SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO BUY THESE $5 BUTTONS TO SUPPORT THAT CAUSE THEY'RE AT THE PETA MARKET, THEY'RE AT THE VISITOR'S CENTER. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS. PLEASE GO TO PETALUMA DOWNTOWN.COM EVENTS, BUTTER AND EGG, AND SIGN UP. AND THEN WE'VE GOT OUR ANTIQUE FAIR ON THE 28TH. SO WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE. HISTORY WEEK ON THE 13TH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JASON SWEENEY, TO BE FOLLOWED BY MAGGIE. HOLY, GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. JASON SWEENEY. THANKS FOR TAKING MY COMMENT. I'M HERE AGAIN TO URGE YOU TO, UH, BRING FORWARD AND PASS A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION. I'M HERE BECAUSE THE SITUATION IS DIRE AND WE AS A COMMUNITY HAVE NOT DONE THE BARE MINIMUM, WHICH IS TO SPEAK UP AND TO CALL FOR HELP WHEN WE SEE SOMETHING WRONG. I'M HERE BECAUSE I'M ASHAMED. THIS IS NOT THE REALITY I WANT FOR MY DAUGHTER, AND I KNOW WE'RE BETTER THAN THIS. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THE CITY OF PETALUMA HAS GONE ON RECORD AS BEING UNWILLING TO DEAL TO DEAL WITH THIS ISSUE. AND THE COMMUNITY DIVISION, IT HAS REVEALED, IT HAS REVEALED MANY THINGS AMONG MANY THINGS, A LACK OF PRINCIPLE, THE GENOCIDE BEING DONE RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. AND THE SO-CALLED SAFETY OF SOME IS GROTESQUE AND BARBARIC AND COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THE OF THE US. ELAM PAPA RENOWNED ISRAELI HISTORIAN RECENTLY REMINDED US THAT ISRAEL IS BEHAVING LIKE A ROGUE STATE AND ROGUE STATES DON'T JUST CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR, THEY MUST BE PRESSURED FROM THE OUTSIDE. AND THIS IS WHY WE CONTINUE TO ASK OUR, OUR LOCAL REP. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAGGIE. HOLY TO BE FOLLOWED BY ELLEN OSLER. GOOD EVENING MAYOR, VICE MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS AND STAFF. UM, MY NAME IS MAGGIE HOLY AND I'M A VOLUNTEER WITH THE FLOAT HOUSE, PETALUMA BOAT RENTAL CENTER. I MOVED HERE IN 2007 AND I IMMEDIATELY, WITH NO BOATING EXPERIENCE, RECOGNIZED THAT THE PETALUMA RIVER IS OUR LONGEST PARK. I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE FLOAT HOUSE AND ITS, UM, PARENT NONPROFIT PETALUMA SMALL CRAFT CENTER SINCE 2007 AND 15 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, WE BUILT THE FLOAT HOUSE PETALUMA. IN OUR FIRST YEAR, WE PUT 2,500 BUTTS AND BOATS WITH, UM, TOURS AND, UH, MOONLIGHT PADDLES AND LESSONS AND S YOGA. AND I AM VERY PROUD TO PUT MY EFFORTS AT THE SERVICE OF PSCC ON THE FLOAT HOUSE. AND I'M VERY PROUD OF THE CITY FOR SIGNING AN AGREEMENT WITH THE FLOAT HOUSE AND BECOMING A PARTNER IN THE FIRST MAR PROJECT TO BE BUILT SINCE THE MARINA WAS BUILT IN 1990. AND I INVITE YOU DOWN TO THE FLOAT HOUSE. ANYTIME, JUST CALL US AND WE'LL PUT YOUR BUT IN A BOAT. THANK YOU, . THANK YOU ELLEN OSLER TO BE FOLLOWED BY DONNA ROSE BRADY. GOOD EVENING. UM, SO MANY VOICES CALLING FOR CEASEFIRE YET, UM, STILL THERE'S NO ACTION BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES REFUSES TO USE ITS LEVERAGE TO STOP THE VIOLENCE, TO GET THE REMAINING HOSTAGES HOME, TO GET ESSENTIAL OF AID EFFECTIVELY IN. WE ALL MUST DO WHATEVER WE CAN. I KNOW YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT'S WITHIN YOUR PURVIEW, BUT AS I'VE SAID TO YOU ALL BEFORE, YOU ARE THE COLLECTIVE VOICE OF OUR COMMUNITY. AND AS YOU'VE HEARD, OUR COMMUNITY IS BEING PRETTY, GETTING LOUDER AND LOUDER ABOUT WHAT WE WANT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU A BALANCED CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION. IF THAT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE, PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE. WON'T AT LEAST ONE OF YOU JOIN COUNCIL MEMBER POST K IN PLACING A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION ON THE AGENDA? I IMAGINE ANY RESOLUTION WILL GET A MORE UNIVERSALLY WELCOMING RECEPTION AT THIS POINT. AS CHEF JOSE ANDRES OF WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN RECENTLY SAID, THIS DOESN'T SEEM ANYMORE A WAR ABOUT DEFENDING ISRAEL. THIS REALLY AT THIS POINT SEEMS IT'S A WAR AGAINST HUMANITY [01:15:01] ITSELF. THANK YOU. THANK YOU DONNA ROSE BRADY TO BE FOLLOWED BY ANGELA CRUZ. HI, I'M COLLEEN. I GOT A LETTER IN THE MAIL ABOUT THE FAIRGROUNDS, UH, DOING EVENTS THERE, AND I WANNA DO A FLEA MARKET 'CAUSE WE'RE ALL POOR. WE NEED TO GO MAKE MONEY. SO SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, $25 PER PERSON STARTING MAY 1ST TILL OCTOBER. YOU GUYS MAKE MONEY. WE MAKE MONEY. PUT IT IN GOD'S HANDS, TRUTH SETS YOU FREE, AND WE CAN ALL BE HAPPY. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. ANGELA'S CRUZ TO BE FOLLOWED BY REVELLE MAST. CONTINUING THE SENIOR HOME PARKS LETTER. UH, YOU DID ADDRESS THIS IN THE DECEMBER, 2023 WITH THE DATE OF COMPLIANCE OF JANUARY 7TH, AND THE PARK OWNERS BROUGHT A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY, AGAIN, BESIDES THE ADDRESSES LISTED AS BEING SOLD IN VIOLATION ON THE SIGNED PETITION OF 87, UH, SUBMITTED BY THE SENIOR PARKS. THERE'S NO SENIOR PARK SIGNS, WHICH WERE TAKEN DONE MONTHS AGO. RULES AND REGULATIONS WERE NOT GEARED TO SENIORS. UH, MOBILE HOMES ARE BEING SOLD TO YOUNG FAMILIES AND YOUNG CHILDREN. PURCHASE AGREEMENTS ARE BEING DONE. UM, AND IT'S BEING LISTED AS ALL AGE PARKS, WHICH, UM, REAL ESTATE AGENTS ARE BEING TOLD FRAUDULENTLY THAT YOUNGSTOWN IS AN ALL AGE PARK AND CONTINUES TO BE THIS DAY. UH, IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS GOING AGAINST THE VACANCY, VACANCY CONTROL CONVERSION TIED TO THE RENT STABILIZATION, RAISING GROUND RENTS, UM, DUE TO DEATH, ET CETERA. THERE WAS INCREASE $1,863 IN RENT WHERE THE GROUND RENT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. REVELLE MASS TO BE FOLLOWED BY DAN LYNCH. HELLO, CITY COUNCIL. UH, CITY OF PETALUMA. UM, UH, YEAH, CITY COUNCIL HAS DECIDED THAT IT IS NOT, NOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO STAND UP TO THE US GOVERNMENT AND THE GENOCIDE THAT WE ARE COMPLICIT IN. UH, THEY, THEY ARE VERY MUCH CHOOSING THAT IT IS NOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY. CITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY HAVE CHOSEN TO, TO TAKE A STANCE THAT GENOCIDE IS BAD, BUT ATTEMPTED GENOCIDE IS BAD. I, THEY'RE, THEY'RE SUCCEEDING. UM, CURRENTLY WE ARE USING PRECISION GUIDED MISSILES TO CUT APART USAID WORKERS OR NOT USAID WORKERS TO CUT USAID TO CUT AID WORKERS TO SHREDS. THESE MISSILES WITH SWORDS ATTACHED TO THEM ARE BEING MANUFACTURED HERE. OUR MONEY IS BEING USED TO DROP DUMB BOMBS, DROP SMART BOMBS TO KILL. AND I, UM, AND ISRAEL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THE LAST SPEAKER OF THE EVENING IS DAN LYNCH, TYPICALLY TO DROP BOMBS ON . CAN WE HAVE THE AT HOME WITH THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS? NOT WHEN THEY'RE OUTSIDE. I AM SORRY. I THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DAN LYNCH IS OUR LAST SPEAKER FOR THE EVENING. GOOD EVENING. I HAVE GOOD NEWS TONIGHT AT DRUM COMMUNITY. DRUM CIRCLE HAVE BEEN FORMED AT THE PHOENIX THEATER, THE FIRST SUNDAY AT 1:00 PM EVERY WEEKEND OR THE FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH. AND OTHERWISE, THE OTHER THING I HAVE IS A PROPOSAL TO WHOEVER HAS THE HEART OF THE STOMACH OR THOSE PEOPLE WHO CALL ME HOMELESS OR HOUSELESS OR HOWEVER YOU CALL IT, JUDGE ME. 72 HOURS IS WHAT I'M ASKING FOR. IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO, TO WALK, WALK WITH ME FOR A COUPLE DAYS. I'M NOT THE PROBLEM. AND WHILE WE ARE DOING THIS, I'LL BE LOOKING OUT FOR YOU ALSO. UM, IT'S A SOCIAL STUDY I'D LIKE TO DO TO SEE IF ANYONE ELSE COULD DO IT ALSO, BECAUSE, WELL, HONESTLY, I DON'T THINK MOST OF YOU COULD KEEP UP WITH ME TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT CLOSES GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE EVENING, AND I'D LIKE IT [COUNCIL COMMENT] BRING IT BACK TO, UM, CITY COUNCIL FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS' COMMENTS IN THE EVENING. AND, UM, PERHAPS I DIDN'T MENTION THIS EARLIER, BUT SINCE WE ARE BEING, UH, SIMULCAST WITH SPANISH LANGUAGE, WE DO NEED TO KEEP OUR PACE OF WORDS SLOW ENOUGH THAT OUR TRANSLATOR CAN KEEP UP WITH US. UH, AND WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO, UH, INVITE OUR VICE MAYOR [01:20:01] TO LEAD OFF TONIGHT. OKAY. UM, SO I HAVE LOTS OF THINGS TO, I NEED TO REPORT TO THE COUNCIL AS TO, UM, WHAT I'VE DONE THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS. UM, STARTING OFF, I WENT TO AN INROADS, UM, WEBINAR AND IT HAS AN UPGRADED PROGRAM ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. AND SO IT MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE DOWN THE LINE FOR US TO ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN A WORKSHOP ON HOW, HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. UM, ON IT IS ON IT'S CLOSER TO YOUR MOUTH, PLEASE. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND, UM, SO WORK IN INROADS IS A MODEL CHANGE, UH, FOR CLIMATE. AND SO, UH, MAYBE A POSSIBLE WORK GROUP WE COULD ORGANIZE AROUND THAT. UH, I MET WITH THE, UH, WENT TO THE OPENING OF THE MUIR WOODS TEEN CENTER, WHICH WE NOW HAVE IN TOWN HERE IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, UM, WHICH IS JUST A, UM, NOT OVERNIGHT, BUT JUST ON SITE TO WORK WITH TEENS THAT ARE, UH, UH, TROUBLED AND HELP THEM OUT. AND IS A NEW SITE AT, UH, UH, FUNDED THROUGH INSURANCES. SO WE NEED TO PROMOTE THAT THROUGH THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS AND HELP, UH, FOLKS OUT. I DID MEET WITH, UH, SOME OF THE GROUPS FROM THE METHODIST CHURCH ABOUT D STREET, UH, AND THEY DO HAVE SOME A DA CONCERNS THERE, SO WE NEED TO BE WORKING ON THAT LATER TODAY. ON DISCUSSIONS ON D STREET, UM, THERE WAS A WEBINAR FROM THE SCHOOLYARD FORESTRY, UH, GROUP TALKING ABOUT SHADE AND HEAT. AND WE HAVE WORKING ON HEAT INDEX HERE IN TOWN. AND, UH, THEY WERE, UH, SHOWING RESEARCH SHOWING THAT ANY SHADE, WHETHER IT BE TREES OR BUILDINGS OR SHADE STRUCTURES OF ANY TYPE ACTUALLY IS BENEFIT. AND THAT ACTUALLY, UH, BUILDINGS ARE EVEN BETTER THAN TREES WERE REDUCING, UM, HEAT DOWN FROM THE SIDEWALK. AND WHAT PEOPLE ARE FEELING IS THAT THEIR HEAT INDEX THAT THEY WERE DESCRIBING. SO SHADE IS IMPORTANT. THEN ANOTHER, UM, SEMINAR WORK GROUP MET WITH GENERATION HOUSING UP IN SANTA ROSA AND THEY CONTINUE TO SUPPORT DENSITY, AFFORDABILITY AND INFILL, UM, AND DID A LOT OF MATH TRYING TO SHOW THAT IT IS ECONOMICALLY BENEFICIAL TO HAVE ALL THAT IN OUR, ESPECIALLY IN OUR DOWNTOWN AREA. UM, AND THEN UPCOMING ON THE 19TH AT SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY IS A, UH, WATERSHED, UM, CONFERENCE PART OF THE NORTH BAY WATERSHED GROUP IS PUTTING THAT ON. IT'S RUN EVERY TWO, ONCE EVERY TWO YEARS. AND SO IT'S AN ALL DAY EVENT AND TALKED ABOUT OUR WATERSHED AND WHAT THE IMPORTANCE ISSUES ARE AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO WITH ALL THE UPCOMING CHANGES THAT ARE COMING TO US. UM, SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU BACK THE, UM, FEEDBACK, WHAT I'VE DONE THIS LAST, UH, TWO WEEKS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON. UH, THANK YOU. UM, I WANT TO, I DO WANT ABOUT COTTAGES, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT THE VIOLATIONS BECAUSE I GET INFORMATION, GET PHOTOS, SEND 'EM TO THE CITY. AND SO I'D LIKE TO JUST FOLLOW UP ON THAT TO SEE HOW WE CAN ADDRESS THOSE SOONER THAN LATER. AND I WANT TO THANK, UM, UM, YOUNGSTOWN FOR COMING. AND IT WAS DISAPPOINTING THAT THEY GOT SUCH A HIGH, UM, $118 A MONTH, YOU KNOW, FOR MAINTENANCE. YOU KNOW, NOT, THAT WAS NOT ABOUT THE RENT INCREASE, THAT WAS JUST MAINTENANCE EVERY MONTH THAT THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO BE PAYING. AND THAT'S A CHUNK OF CHANGE WHEN YOU'RE ON A FIXED INCOME. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH THAT, BUT AS A CITY COUNCIL, I JUST WANT TO, YOU KNOW, CAN WE TIGHTEN UP THE, UM, ORDINANCE? DOES IT NEED TIGHTENING? I DON'T KNOW. BUT THIS CAN'T GO ON EVERY YEAR. THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO THROUGH ARBITRATION BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE ARE VULTURES AND THEY JUST CARE ABOUT MAKING MONEY AND THEY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT, UM, OUR RESIDENTS OF OUR COMMUNITY. UM, SO, AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS, UM, WELL, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT. I TALKED ABOUT ONE 16 EARLIER ABOUT HOW THE, THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING A ROUNDABOUT. IF YOU GO TO SONOMA NOW, THAT FOUR LANE INTERSECTION IS GONNA BE A ROUNDABOUT. IT SHOULD BE DONE WITHIN A YEAR, AND WHICH IS GONNA BE, UM, IT'S GONNA MAKE TRAFFIC FLOW. IT'S GOOD FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND IT'S GOOD FOR ALL OF US THAT DRIVE TO NAPA OR, UM, DAVIS OR WHEREVER WE'RE GOING. AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO, UM, WORKING WITH CALTRANS, WISH WE COULD GET, UM, PINEVIEW DONE QUICKER. UM, AND LET'S JUST KEEP WORKING TO MAKE IT, UM, QUICKER AND, AND REALLY LOOK AT, UM, SPEEDING IN TOWN BECAUSE SPEEDING IS DEFINITELY A PROBLEM. MIND HEARING A LOT MORE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, FROM NEIGHBORS. AND IT SEEMS WHEN WE REDUCE STREETS, UM, WE JUST HAVE TO REALLY LOOK AT HOW, HOW IT REDUCES TRAFFIC FOR THE LONG TERM. UM, BECAUSE LIKE ON MARIA DRIVE, THERE'S TWO SCHOOLS THERE AND PEOPLE ARE JUST USING IT AS A SPEEDWAY ALL OF A SUDDEN. AND I DO GET A LOT OF COMPLAINTS FROM RESIDENTS. [01:25:01] UM, I THINK THAT'S ALL FOR MY COMMENTS TODAY. THANK YOU. UH, THIS, WE APPRECIATE YOUR WORK ON SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY TO BRING ALL THAT BACK TO US. IT'S GOOD. MONEY'S COMING TO PETALUMA. GOOD. AND I'M GONNA BE FIGHTING HARD AND CONTINUE EVERY, UH, ONCE A MONTH I GO THERE. GOOD. AND, UM, IT'S GOOD. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. UM, I'VE HAD A FEW DIFFERENT MEETINGS. UM, I'LL KEEP MY UPDATES BRIEF. UH, THE MOST PRESSING THING FOR THE FOLKS WHO ARE IN THE ROOM AND FOR THE COUNCIL. WE HAD OUR SONOMA CLEAN POWER BUDGET. UM, IT WAS A GOOD NEWS BUDGET. UM, AND WE WILL BE POURING, UM, THE, THE GOOD NEWS INTO FUTURE RATE REDUCTIONS TO KEEP OUR RATES 7% BELOW PG AND E FROM CINEMA CLEAN POWER FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. SO THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. THANK YOU. JUST A COUPLE THINGS. UM, THE, UH, ZONE TWO, A ADVISORY COMMITTEE MET LAST WEEK, AND AS, UH, THE COUNCIL IS AWARE, THAT'S THE, UM, THE GROUP THAT ADVISES SONOMA WATER ON, UH, FLOODING ISSUES IN THE PETALUMA, UH, RIVER WATERSHED. UM, GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT, UM, SONOMA WATER IS ON TOP OF STREAM MAINTENANCE, UH, FOR THE STREAM SEGMENTS FOR WHICH THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE. THEY'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF, UM, UH, CLEARING OUT, UH, DEBRIS AND, UM, FELT, UH, INCLUDING UNDER, UM, WHERE, WHERE ADOBE CREEK GOES UNDER A COUPLE OF, UH, CUL GOES THROUGH A COUPLE OF CULVERTS. UM, THE LESS GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE CITY OF PETALUMA IS NOT ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE RIVER SEGMENTS FOR WHICH IT IS RESPONSIBLE, UM, OTHER THAN EMERGENCY DREDGING, UH, WHICH IS NOT MUCH. UM, AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT, UM, WE DON'T HAVE THE REQUIRED REGULATORY PERMITS IN HAND AND STAFF ESTIMATES THAT WE'RE PROBABLY TWO YEARS AWAY FROM HAVING THOSE REGULATORY PERMITS IN HAND. SO, UH, JUST TO GIVE THE COUNCIL A FLAVOR, SOME OF THE SEGMENTS THAT THE CITY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING, BUT THAT ARE NOT GETTING MAINTAINED RIGHT NOW, UM, ARE ALL OF LYNCH CREEK, EAST EAST OF HIGHWAY 1 0 1, UM, PORTIONS OF CORONA, WASHINGTON AND ADOBE CREEKS. SO I WANTED TO BRING THAT TO THE COUNCIL'S ATTENTION. IT'S, IT'S NOT GOOD NEWS. AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THAT ACTUALLY INFLUENCED THE, UH, FLOOD PLAIN MODELING RESULTS THAT WE RECENTLY RECEIVED. BUT, UM, THERE WAS ADDITIONAL FLOODING DUE TO LACK OF MAINTENANCE GOING ON CURRENTLY. SO ANYWAY, UM, THE WATER ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, MET THIS MORNING IN SANTA ROSA, EXCUSE ME, TWO THINGS TO REPORT THERE. ONE IS THAT THE, UM, PROPOSED RATES THAT WERE PRESENTED TO US, UH, A FEW WEEKS AGO, UH, WERE APPROVED BY THE WAC, UH, UNANIMOUSLY THIS YEAR. IT WASN'T UNANIMOUS LAST YEAR. AND THAT WILL NOW GO ONTO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. UM, THE OTHER PIECE OF NEWS IS THAT AT THE CURRENT TIME, LAKE SONOMA IS HOLDING APPROXIMATELY 20,000 ACRE FEET OF WATER MORE THAN WHAT THE WATER SUPPLY POOL WOULD, WOULD NORMALLY ALLOW FOR. AND THAT'S DUE TO THE AGENCY'S WORK IN, UH, IMPLEMENTING FORECASTING FOREIGN RESERVOIR OPERATIONS. SO IT IS HOLDING 265,000 ACRE FEET RIGHT NOW INSTEAD OF 245,000 ACRE FEET. AND 20,000 ACRE FEET IS A REAL BIG DEAL. THAT'S ABOUT HALF OF WHAT SONOMA WATER SELLS TO ALL OF ITS CONTRACTORS COMBINED IN A YEAR. SO THAT IS A LOT OF WATER. SO, AND THEN I WOULD, UM, CONCUR WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON. I WOULD LIKE, HOPEFULLY THE CITY ATTORNEY CAN ADDRESS THIS AFTER THE COUNCIL IS DONE, WHETHER, UM, SOMETHING IS, UH, IN THE WORKS TO, UM, PURSUE THE, THE MATTERS RAISED BY THE PUBLIC TONIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW. UM, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. UM, THE PARKS ROOM, I THINK, UM, THE MICROPHONE. OH, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. UM, THE PARKS ROOM RECS, UM, MEETING WAS LAST WEEK AND WE, UM, DI DISCUSSED WHAT'S COMING UP IN THE SUMMER FOR THE, UM, SUMMER CAMPS OR FILLING UP FAST. SO IF YOU'RE A PARENT AND YOU WANNA GET YOUR CHILD IN SUMMER CAMP AND ENROLL THEM IMMEDIATELY, UM, THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES, THERE'S SUMMER CAMP COUNSELORS AND TINY TALK TEACHERS AND REC LEADERS ARE NEEDED, UM, IN THE DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE, UM, HISTORY WEEK COMING UP. JEFF MAIN SAVED ME A LOT OF TIME, UM, BETTER NEXT DAY OPENING CEREMONIES WILL BE HELD AT THE MUSEUM, AND THAT'S PART OF OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT. SO IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO OUR MUSEUM, IT'S A BIG PART OF PETALUMA [01:30:01] AND THE KICKS OFF OUR HISTORY WEEK. OUR FAITH ROSS IS OUR GOOD EGG THIS YEAR. AND MICHAEL BUG DEKE IS OUR, UM, MASTER OF CEREMONIES FOR THE PARADE, WHICH IS THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY. SO, UM, WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT ONE OF THOSE EVENTS. UM, AS FAR AS MY AIRPORT LIAISON, UM, THE AIRPORT, UM, THE HANGAR RATES WILL BE ON OUR CAS, I THINK THEY'RE ON OUR CASS CONSENT CALENDAR. UM, NO, IT'S ON OUR FEE SCHEDULE FOR THE WORKSHOP FOR AGENDA NUMBER NINE. AND WE HAVE RIGHT NOW NOBODY ON OUR WAITING LIST FOR HANGERS. SO IF YOU HAVE AN AIRPLANE AND YOU WANNA MOVE IT TO PETALUMA, UM, MAKE SURE YOU, UM, FILL OUT AN APPLICATION. WE HAVE ALSO A JOB OPPORTUNITY AT THE AIRPORT FOR, UM, WE'RE RECRUITING FOR AN ATTENDANT POSITION. THIS IS, UM, THE PERSON WHO MIGHT PUT THE FUEL IN THE AIRPLANES THAT COME IN AND IS ONE OF THE FIRST, UM, FAMILIAR FACES YOU MIGHT SEE AT THE AIRPORT. UM, WE ALSO HAVE, UM, ONE YEAR COMING UP FOR, UM, OUR TENANT PROTECTION, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE OUR MOBILE HOME ORDINANCE. AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AN UPDATE FROM STAFF OR THE CITY ATTORNEY AND ADDRESS SOME OF THESE, UM, CONCERNS OF THE PUBLIC. AND ALSO WE'VE HEARD THAT A LOT OF RENTS ARE, UM, ASTRONOMICAL IN TOWN, AND MAYBE WE COULD GET AN UPDATE FROM STAFF ON HOW OUR RENT PRODUCTION IS GOING. AND IT'LL BE THE ONE YEAR, I BELIEVE THIS SUMMER FOR THAT, UM, ORDINANCE. SO THAT'S ALL FOR ME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ZEKE. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. UM, I ATTENDED A LANDLORD RECRUITMENT EVENT, UH, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, UM, PUT ON BY, UH, SOME OF OUR, OUR LOCAL HOUSING CONTRACTORS. UM, UM, AND IF YOU'D LIKE, UH, UM, MORE INFORMATION IF YOU ARE A LANDLORD, UH, ON INCENTIVES BEING OFFERED TO LANDLORDS THESE DAYS TO RENT TO FOLKS THAT ARE VOUCHER HOLDERS, UM, UH, AND SUBSIDIZED IN THAT WAY. UM, THERE'S SOME INCENTIVES YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN. YOU COULD CONTACT THE CITY HOUSING OFFICE. HEAR, HEAR, I'M SORRY. UM, I ATTENDED A LANDLORD RECRUITMENT EVENT AND, UH, WANTED FOLKS TO KNOW THERE THAT LANDLORDS, UH, ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SEVERAL INCENTIVES AT THIS POINT IN TIME. IF, UH, YOU WOULD, UH, RENT TO A, UM, HOLDER OF A, UH, FEDERAL VOUCHER, UH, WHICH SUBSIDIZES THEIR RENT PAYMENT. UM, AND I THINK YOU BEST FIND MORE INFORMATION ON THAT BY, BY CONTACTING ME THROUGH THE, UM, MY CITY CONTACT INFORMATION OR BY THE CONTACTING THE CITY HOUSING OFFICE. UM, SECONDLY, UH, THE, UM, CONTINUUM OF CARE OR THE SONOMA COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION HAS BEEN BUSY. UH, WE, UH, COMPLETED A, UH, TWO WEEKS AGO NOW, THE, UH, UM, DISTRIBUTION OF $8 MILLION IN STATE AND LOCAL FUNDING FOR HOMELESS SERVICES. UM, I WILL SAY THAT THAT WAS NOT AS MUCH AS LAST YEAR AND THAT, UH, UM, MOST OF THE PROVIDERS WERE NOT TOTALLY HAPPY WITH WHAT WE COULD OFFER. UH, BUT, UH, BUT CERTAINLY THEY ALL AGREED THAT THE PROCESS HAS BEEN CONDUCTED AS FAIRLY AS POSSIBLE. UM, SECONDLY, ANOTHER 4 MILLION HAS COME TO US, THE, UH, SOME HUD MONEY FOR RENEWAL OF EXISTING PROJECTS, WHICH WILL BE DISTRIBUTING OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS. AND LASTLY, I WOULD JUST ADD THAT, UH, I'M ALSO STILL IN FAVOR OF CEASEFIRE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, I'D LIKE TO NOTE, AND PERHAPS I SHOULD HAVE LED THE MEETING WITH THIS, BUT, UM, PETALUMA HAS LOST ONE OF ITS OWN AN EMPLOYEE IN THIS PAST WEEK. AND, UM, WE'LL BE CLOSING TONIGHT'S MEETING IN HONOR OF BRIE JORGENSEN, WHO WAS AN EVIDENCE TECHNICIAN PASSED AWAY LAST, UH, LAST SUNDAY. AND, UM, OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH HER FAMILY AND COLLEAGUES AT THE, AT THIS TIME, WE'LL CLOSE THE MEETING, UM, IN HONOR OF HER. UM, AND IN REGARDS TO WHAT I'VE BEEN BUSY WITH OVER THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS, I HAD A CHANCE TO GET TO LAFFERTY AND I, UM, UH, SEE THE, THE, UM, ACCESS IS, IS BETTER AND, UH, CITY HAS BEEN IN INVOLVED IN MORE THINGS. AND I WANTED TO GIVE OUT A SHOUT TO COUNCILMAN HEALY FOR HIS 20 YEAR EFFORT IN MAKING THAT A PUBLIC, UH, PARK. AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT ALL THINGS COME FAST, BUT THEY, WITH ENERGY, THEY COME. UM, I ATTENDED A SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL MEETING REGARDING LOMA VISTA SCHOOL. AND, UM, IT WAS, UM, [01:35:01] INTERESTING TO SEE THE PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT, PTA INVOLVEMENT AND, AND, UM, AND CITY PARTICIPATION THERE, SCHOOL PARTICIPATION THERE. AND IT FITS INTO ALL OUR CLIMATE GOALS. IT FITS INTO OUR NEW BLUE ZONE INITIATIVES GOALS. SO IT WAS, UH, A, A GOOD PROGRAM THAT'S BEING RUN THERE. I ALSO HAPPEN TO BE INVITED TO VALLEY VISTA SCHOOL FOR THEIR FIX IT AND BIKE DAY FAIR. AND, AND, UH, THE SAME MESSAGING THERE TO, TO GET OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, UH, ON THEIR BIKES AND, AND, AND TO HAVE, UM, LESS WASTAGE, MORE FIX IT, THE, UH, GOOD THINGS GOING IN OUR COMMUNITY. UM, I GOT TO SEE OUR SPECIALIZED BIKE, UH, BIKE LANE SWEEPERS IN ACTION. UH, AND, AND THAT'S ALWAYS A HASSLE FOR, FOR BIKERS, IS THAT THE, THE, THE LANES DON'T GET SWEPT. AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW TO GET THAT DONE. ATTENDED GENERATION H UH, GENERATION HOUSINGS WORKSHOP ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING, HOPEFULLY WITH LESSONS THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO GROW OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PORTFOLIO HERE IN, IN, UH, IN PETALUMA. UH, IT WAS HELD AT THE SONOMA CLEAN POWER FACILITY, UH, THERE IN DOWNTOWN SANTA ROSA. AND IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT'S COMING IN CLEAN ENERGY, ELE AND THE, UH, ELECTRIC OPPORTUNITIES, THAT'S A WONDERFUL FACILITY. I SPOKE WITH THE COAST GUARD ON, UH, COAST GUARD GRADUATION ON THE SUBJECT OF SERVICE AND COMMUNITY. UH, AND, UM, UH, IT'S NICE TO HAVE THEM IN OUR BACKYARD AS A RESOURCE WHEN, UH, WE NEED VOLUNTEER POOLS AND ASSISTANCE. THEY'RE REALLY A GOOD PARTNER TO THE CITY. I, I PROVIDED A PROCLAMATION TO THE, UM, THE CITY PROCLAMATION TO A SPEAKER AT ST. VINCENT'S HIGH SCHOOL, WHO WAS ONE OF THE CILLA CHILDREN WHO TOLD THE STORY OF THAT EXPERIENCE AND HIS LIFE OF SERVICE SINCE THEN. POWERFUL. UM, AND I, I WISH TO NOTE THAT, UH, BLUE ZONE, WHICH THE CITY IS A PARTNER WITH. UH, THE HEALTH DISTRICT HAS THEIR BIG EVENT THIS COMING SUNDAY AT THE JUNIOR COLLEGE, AND I'LL BE HELPING, UH, LEAD A BIKE GROUP, UH, LEAVING FROM LAER SCHOOL AT 1130. I HOPE YOU'LL ALL BE THERE AND JOIN ME. AND THEN, UH, I'D LIKE TO NOTE THAT OUR OWN ALBERT STRAUSS, A FRIEND OF PETALUMA STRAUS FAMILY CREAMERY, HAS WON THE NORCAL MEDIA HONORS FOR GRAND ACHIEVEMENT AND OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS. SO, UH, QUITE AN HONOR FOR, UM, THE STRAUSS AND FOR PETALUMA. UM, LET'S SEE. I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, ALSO SECOND THAT WE, UH, HAD LIKE TO HEAR FROM OUR, UH, COUNCIL, THEIR ATTORNEY, UH, BEFORE THE EVENING HERE. AND, UM, [CITY MANAGER COMMENT] THEN I BELIEVE I'M IN PASSING IT TO THE CITY MANAGER. I THINK THERE'S SOME HAPPY NEWS WE WANNA SHARE WITH, UH, THE PUBLIC TONIGHT. YES, THANK YOU, MAYOR, COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY. UH, WE HAVE A SWEARING IN OF OUR NEW POLICE CHIEF, UH, HERE NEXT MONDAY, UM, IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, AND THAT'LL KICK OFF OUR COUNCIL MEETINGS. SO, JUST A BIG SHOUT OUT TO BRIAN MILLER. UH, WE'RE SO PROUD, UH, TO CALL HIM OUR 25TH POLICE CHIEF HERE IN PETALUMA. UH, TWO OTHER, UH, ITEMS OF NOTE BEFORE I HAND IT OVER TO OUR CITY ATTORNEY. UH, THIS WEDNESDAY WE HAVE, UH, A MEETING REGARDING IMPROVEMENTS ON LIBERTY, UH, HOWARD AND WESTERN, AND THAT'LL BE WEDNESDAY, UM, AT 6:00 PM HERE IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS. WE ALSO HAVE, UH, A CLOSURE OF MCDOWELL, UM, FROM CORONA TO SOUTH POINT, UM, BECAUSE OF THE, UH, THE PLANNED CLOSURE, UM, DUE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTH, UM, PETALUMA STATION. AND SO IT WILL BE CLOSED, UH, STARTING FRIDAY NIGHT, UH, THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. AND IF YOU GO TO THE SMART, UM, I THINK IT'S SONOMA MARIN TRAIN.ORG, GO TO THE WEBSITE, THEY'RE, THEY'LL ALSO HAVE DETOURS SIGNS OUT. UM, BUT JUST YOU, IF YOU WANNA PLAN AHEAD TO GO TO THE WEBSITE. UM, AND THAT IS IF, IF THE RAIN DOESN'T AFFECT THAT, BUT, UM, A PLAN CLOSURE. AND THE CITY ATTORNEY, IF YOU WOULD MIND RESPONDING TO THE COUNCIL QUESTION. UM, I DO NOT MIND. THANK YOU PEGGY AND CITY COUNCIL. SO, A FEW THINGS. UM, FIRST I WANNA THANK THE, UM, PARK RESIDENTS THAT CAME FORWARD DENIED AND HAVE BEEN SOME OUS INFORMATION REGARDING CONCERNS OF, UH, UH, POTENTIAL NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THE CITY'S REGULATIONS, UM, IN THE PARKS. AND BY THE REGULATIONS, I'M REFERRING TO THE CITY'S MOBILE HOME RENT STABILIZATION REGULATIONS THAT REQUIRE AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT, UM, NEW PARK RESIDENTS BE OFFERED, UH, RENT PROTECTED SPACE, UM, AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE SINCE THEY WERE FIRST ENACTED. UM, AND ALSO THE CITY'S RECENTLY ENACTED, UM, SENIOR PARK OVERLAY, UM, THAT HAS, UM, PRESERVED, UM, SENIOR PARK RULES IN ALL OF THE, THE CITY PARKS THAT, UM, WERE, WERE PREVIOUSLY SUBJECT TO THOSE RULES, INCLUDING YOUNGSTOWN. UM, WE HAVE, AS I'VE MENTIONED IN, IN [01:40:01] REMARKS AT SOME PRIOR MEETINGS, UM, IT'S NOT A SURPRISE, I THINK TO MOST FOLKS THAT WE HAVE HAD AS OUR IMMEDIATE PRIORITY, UM, UM, PROVIDING, UM, THOROUGH AND STRONG DEFENSES TO THE CITY'S EXISTING REGULATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED, UM, IN TWO SEPARATE PIECES OF LITIGATION. I DO STILL BELIEVE THAT WE WILL PREVAIL IN HAVING THOSE CASES DISMISSED, UM, BECAUSE THEY LACK MERIT OF THE LAW IN MY VIEW. UM, WE'LL SEE IF THE, IF THE COURTS AGREE, BUT I, I BELIEVE, UM, THAT A PROPER RULING, WE'LL FIND THAT, THAT THOSE CASES SHOULD BE DISMISSED. UM, BUT WE HAVE BEEN, UM, REVIEWING THE MATERIALS THAT WE SEE RECEIVED CONCERNS FROM RESIDENTS ABOUT, UM, ALLEGED VIOLATIONS. UM, AND WE HAVE ALSO REVIEWED VERY CLOSELY AND ANALYZED CLOSELY THE RECENT, UM, ARBITRATION IN THE YOUNGSTOWN, UM, RENT ARBITRATION, UM, TO ENSURE WHAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON, UNDERSTANDABLY, I THINK, IS TO MAKE SURE THE CITY'S REGULATIONS ARE FUNCTIONING AS INTENDED. UH, WE WILL DO THE SAME WITH THE, UM, PENDING, UM, LITTLEWOODS ARBITRATION, UH, SO THAT WE CAN DO THAT REVIEW, UM, AND, AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK TO THE COUNCIL AS NEEDED WITH A FOCUS BEING TO MAKE SURE THOSE REGULATIONS FUNCTION AS INTENDED. UM, WE, UM, ARE IN THE PROCESS OF STAFF HAS SENT, THE HOUSING TEAM HAS SENT OUT, UM, UPDATED COMPLIANCE MATERIALS TO VERIFY, TO HELP US VERIFY COMPLIANCE WITH THE CITY'S REGULATIONS. UM, WHEN WE, WHEN WE RECEIVE THOSE BACK, THEY'LL HELP US ASSESS SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED. UM, WE ARE THIS WEEK GOING TO BE POSTING ON OUR WEBSITE, UH, WHAT IS NOW A PRETTY EXTENDED DOCUMENT WITH, UM, RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED. WE KEEP GETTING MORE, AND SO WE'RE ADDING TO IT, BUT WE WANNA GET IT OUT THERE SO PEOPLE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. UM, AND THE INFORMATION THAT IT PROVIDES ABOUT ARBITRATIONS PENDING AND OTHERWISE, ABOUT WHAT ARE THEIR RIGHTS UNDER THE CITY'S REGULATIONS ABOUT WHAT ARE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO HELP THEM PRESERVE THEIR RIGHTS AND, AND WHO TO CONTACT WHEN THEY HAVE QUESTIONS. UM, AS WELL AS SOME JUST, UM, HOPEFULLY WHAT PEOPLE FIND IS CLEAR, UM, SUMMARIES OF WHAT THE REGULATIONS PROVIDE. UM, UH, THERE'S, THERE'S MORE. WHAT AM I LEAVING OUT? OH, UM, OH, I'M SORRY. I THOUGHT THERE'S, KAREN, ARE YOU HERE? I THOUGHT I SAW IT EARLIER. UH, WAY BACK, KAREN, IF YOU'RE, UH, DO YOU REMEMBER, DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT I'M FORGETTING? 'CAUSE I JUST DREW A BLANK ABOUT THE, THE, THE STEPS THAT WE'RE TAKING. BUT ANYWAY, I ENCOURAGE, OH, WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT EASIER. UM, WE'RE GONNA PROVIDE FORMS FOR, I THINK THIS IS THE LAST THING FOR, UM, MOBILE HOME PARK RESIDENTS TO SUBMIT, UM, POTENTIAL COMPLIANCE CONCERNS THEY HAVE IN THEIR PARK. UM, THERE IS AN UPCOMING CHANGE IN THE LAW THERE, THERE'S BEEN CHANGE IN THE LAW, AND THERE'S, THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL CHANGE THAT'S GONNA TAKE EFFECT IN 2025 THAT WILL ESSENTIALLY ELIMINATE THE FORMER STATE LAW EXEMPTION, UM, FROM LOCAL RENT CONTROL REGULATIONS FOR LONGER TERM LEASES. UM, SO AS IT IS, UM, THE, THE CURRENT LAW, UM, UM, ONLY PROVIDES FOR AN EXEMPTION FOR LONGER THAN ONE YEAR LEASES THAT WERE ENTERED BEFORE. I'M GONNA SAY 2020, WAS IT FEBRUARY? YEAH. SO, UM, WHICH, WHICH NARROWS THE ABILITY OF PARK OWNERS TO EXCLUDE LONGER TERM LEASES FROM OUR RENT CONTROL AND MAKES MORE OF THEM SUBJECT TO OUR RENT CONTROL. AND IN 2025 ALL WILL BE SUBJECT IRRESPECTIVE OF TERM, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT SOME OTHER, UM, POTENTIAL COMPLIANCE ISSUES. WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THEM, UM, CAREFULLY, AND WE'LL BE BACK TO THE COUNCIL IF WE, AS, AS THEY WOULD EXPECT IF WE INTEND TO, TO BRING ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS, WHICH WE WOULD ANTICIPATE COMMENCING WITH NOTICE TO PARK OWNERS ABOUT COMPLIANCE PROBLEMS FOR THE, FOR THEM TO CORRECT. UM, THE LAST THING I WANNA MENTION IS, AS A, I'D LIKE TO GIVE A REMINDER TO, TO OUR PARK RESIDENTS. I KNOW THAT, I KNOW THE ARBITRATION PROCESS IS STRESSFUL. THEY'VE HAD TO, UM, THERE'VE BEEN A LOT OF, A LOT OF COMMUNICATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN STRESSFUL FOR THEM. BUT WITH RESPECT TO THE, UM, SENIOR OVERLAY, REMEMBER THAT UNDER OUR RULES PREVIOUSLY, AND NOW CURRENTLY WITH THE OVERLAYS, A SENIOR PARK TO QUALIFY [01:45:01] NEED ONLY HAVE 80% OF THE SPACES, UM, LEASED TO AT LEAST ONE RESIDENT 55 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. SO THERE'S SOME FLEXIBILITY THERE, SUCH THAT, UM, UM, EXISTING OR NEW LEASES THAT ARE DO NOT INCLUDE A SENIOR RESIDENT MAY NOT MEAN THAT THE PARK IS OUT OF COMPLIANCE. AND THAT'S ACTUALLY, UM, IT'S A LONGER DISCUSSION, BUT THERE ARE REASONS WHY THAT'S HELPFUL IN TERMS OF PRESERVING, UH, REGULATIONS AND THEIR VALIDITY. UM, SO PLEASE REMEMBER THAT, AND IT WILL HELP US, AND IT'LL BE NECESSARY IN FACT, FOR US TO GATHER THE INFORMATION THAT STAFF HAVE REQUESTED SO WE CAN SEE HOW THOSE NUMBERS PLAY OUT, UM, AND ENSURE THAT THE PARTS ARE COMPLYING AND, AND, UM, AS WE NAIL DOWN WHAT WE BELIEVE MAY BE COMPLIANCE PROBLEMS WILL BE, WE'LL BE NOTICING THOSE AND UPDATING THE COUNCIL. UM, AND TO THE EXTENT WE, UM, IN OUR REVIEW THESE LATEST ARBITRATIONS, UM, THINK THAT THERE MAY BE MORE WORK THAT THE COUNCIL MAY WANT TO CONSIDER WITH RESPECT TO THE REGULATIONS, WE'LL CERTAINLY LET THE COUNCIL KNOW ABOUT THAT. SO THOSE ARE MY REMARKS FOR TONIGHT. IF THE COUNCIL HAS MORE QUESTIONS FOR ME, I'LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, LET'S BRING IT BACK. COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. YEAH. UM, ERIC, THANK YOU FOR THAT UPDATE. I, I THINK THERE WAS, UM, AND, AND IF THIS WAS INCLUDED IN YOUR REMARKS, I I IT WENT OVER MY HEAD, BUT WITH, SPECIFICALLY WITH REQ, WITH REGARD TO THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE COTTAGES AND A REQUEST FOR A VIOLATION NOTICE, CAN, CAN YOU GIVE US A STATUS ON THAT? WE ARE DOING SOME, IT LOOKS LIKE. I, I MEAN, IT'S INTERESTING. WE, WE'VE GOTTEN A SLEW OF COMPLAINTS RELATIVELY RECENTLY, UM, NOT HAVING, UM, AT LEAST I'M NOT AWARE THAT WE HAD RECEIVED THEM PREVIOUSLY, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE PRACTICES THAT PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR QUITE SOME TIME FOR BASED FROM THE IN, IN INITIAL INFORMATION WE HAVE. UM, AND THAT INFORMATION THAT WE'RE GETTING IS SUPER IMPORTANT AND HELPFUL TO US. SO PLEASE, UM, KEEP PROVIDING TO US. UM, I ALSO WOULD ENCOURAGE THE RESIDENTS TO, UM, UM, THE, THE LEGAL COUNSEL REPRESENTING, UH, THE RESIDENTS IN THE CURRENT PROCEEDINGS ARE, ARE VERY EXPERIENCED AND SKILLFUL AND KNOWLEDGEABLE. UM, WE HAVE, HAVE HAD HELPFUL CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM ABOUT THIS OPERATION OF THE CITY'S REGULATIONS. THEY'RE A GREAT RESOURCE FOR THE PARK RESIDENTS TO COMMUNICATE TO US, UM, RECOMMENDED, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING OUR REGULATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS. SO PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT. UM, AND AS I SAID, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING SOME RESEARCH REGARDING WHAT WE'VE SEEN, UM, AND WE'LL BE COMING BACK TO THE COUNCIL TO ADDRESS THAT IN THE FIRST INSTANCE. UM, ONE OF THE CLEAR REQUIREMENTS THAT I, THAT I DID MENTION IN MY REMARKS EARLY, THAT HAS BEEN IN OUR REGULATIONS SINCE THEY WERE ENACTED, AND THAT WE ARE REEMPHASIZING IN TERMS OF, UM, PARK RESIDENTS RIGHTS UNDER THE EXISTING REGULATIONS, IS THE RIGHT TO BE OFFERED A RENT CONTROLLED SPACE. SO, UM, BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T HAVE THAT, THEY'RE, THAT, THAT, UM, THAT GREATLY DIMINISHES THE BENEFITS OF THE REGULATIONS. AND THAT HAS BEEN BAKED IN FROM THE BEGINNING. IT WASN'T CHANGED WHEN RECENTLY THE AMENDMENTS, IT'S STILL TRUE. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THE PARK OWNERS, I, I DRAW THEIR ATTENTION TO THAT AND I SUSPECT WE'LL BE TALKING MORE ABOUT THAT AND SOME OF THESE OTHER TOPICS INCLUDING, UM, SIGNAGE AND OTHER THINGS THAT, UM, UH, SENIOR PARKS NEED TO MAINTAIN AND ALSO ADVERTISING THEY NEED TO MAINTAIN TO, TO, UM, NOTIFY, UM, TENANTS TO BE, OR POTENTIAL NEW TENANTS THAT THEY'RE A SENIOR PARK. ERIC, CAN I ALSO ADD THAT I BELIEVE THAT WE SENT, UM, COMPLIANCE REPORTS TO EACH MOBILE HOME PARK OWNER, UM, THAT'S DUE BACK TO US BY APRIL 18TH. THAT'S RIGHT. SO THOSE ARE THE UPGRADED COMPLIANCE FIRMS YOU MENTIONED. SO WE WILL HAVE AN UPDATE FOR COUNCIL AND THE, UM, PARK RESIDENCE BY END OF MONTH. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I'M SURE THIS ISSUE WILL REMAIN A PRIORITY FOR THE COUNCIL FOR A BIT INTO THE FUTURE. LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING THE NEXT POSITIVE STEPS ON THIS. UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, WE'RE MOVING TO [CONSENT CALENDAR] OUR CONSENT CALENDAR FOR THE EVENING NOW. UM, IF ANYONE NEEDS TO STRETCH THEIR LEGS OR, UH, UM, LEAVE US, THIS WOULD BE THE MOMENT. AND, UH, I'LL TAKE A DEEP BREATH HERE. [01:50:10] OKAY. I'LL CONTINUE DOWN WITH THE REST OF THE, UH, AGENDA FOR THE EVENING AS, UH, EVERYBODY HEADS FOR THE DOOR. SO ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR TONIGHT, I'M LOOKING UP AND DOWN THE COUNCIL D TO SEE IF ANYONE HAS ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE REMOVED. NOT SEEING THAT WE WILL BE TREATING THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS ONE FOR THE EVENING. AND FIRST IN THIS, UH, IN THE CONSENT CALENDAR ACTIVITY, THINK I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR, UH, HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR ANGELA NICHOLSON. UM, FOR ANY COMMENTS TONIGHT, WE HAVE, UH, ANGELA COMING IN ON A ZOOM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE. AND WOULD YOU, UM, HELP US OUT WITH THE ITEM YOU NEED TO COMMENT ON? YES. UM, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR MCDONALD AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. MY NAME IS ANGELA NICHOLSON AND I'M THE INTERIM HR DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF PETALUMA. PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 4 9 5 3 SUBSECTION C3 OF THE BROWN ACT, I WANTED TO PROVIDE A BRIEF ORAL, UM, SUMMARY TO YOU ON THE SALARY AND BENEFIT CHANGES IN THE AMENDED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS FOR BOTH THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY, UM, ATTORNEY, WHICH IS ITEM SIX AND SEVEN. THE CITY COUNCIL RECENTLY COMPLETED A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS AND A, UM, EXHAUSTIVE EV EVALUATION OF SALARIES FOR BOTH THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY, RESULTING IN THE FOLLOWING ADJUSTED SALARIES. THE NEW CITY MANAGER SALARY IS 291,000. THE NEW CITY ATTORNEY SALARY IS $268,140. BOTH AGREEMENTS ALSO INCLUDE AN AMENDMENT TO THEIR VACATION PAYOUT PROVISION, ELIMINATING THE ANNUAL CASH OUT LIMIT OF 40 HOURS OF ACCRUED, BUT UNUSED VACATION. ALL OTHER REQUIREMENTS FOR CASHING OUT ARE MAINTAINED AND THIS BENEFIT WILL NOW MIRROR THE UNIT EIGHT AGREEMENT, WHICH IS COMPRISED OF UNREPRESENTED EXECUTIVE POSITIONS. ADDITIONALLY, BOTH INCLUDE MISCELLANEOUS BENEFIT, UM, LANGUAGE BENEFIT CLEANUP WHERE WE TRUE UP IN EACH AMENDMENT, INCLUDING UPDATING THE CITY'S HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRIBUTION AND HOLIDAY, UM, SCHEDULE SECTION. THE CITY ATTORNEY'S AMENDED AGREEMENT ALSO INCLUDES REPLACING THE EXISTING VEHICLE USE REIMBURSEMENT BENEFIT WITH A FLAT MONTHLY AUTO ALLOWANCE OF $400, SIMILAR TO THAT ALLOWED IN THE TO THE CITY MANAGER. UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE ON THE UPDATES, BUT I'M HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU MAY HAVE THEM. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ADDING THAT. UH, UM, I'M, I'M THINKING THAT'S A REQUIRED STATEMENT WE WERE MAKING THERE. , NOPE, NOT REQUIRED. . OKAY. UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH LOOKING UP AND DOWN THE DIOCESE FOR ANY QUESTIONS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, UH, LACKING ANY QUESTIONS. I'D LIKE TO ASK THE CITY CLERK IF WE'VE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC. WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY AHEAD OF THE MEETING. WE DO HAVE TWO COMMENT CARDS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THIS IS THE, UH, MOMENT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE ENTIRE CON UH, CONSENT CALENDAR, AND THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS, UH, ANY OF THE ITEMS IN THE CONSENT CALENDAR. AND I'D LIKE TO HAVE OUR MODERATOR READ THE, UH, MESSAGING. PLEASE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED. SO PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION, THE TIMER BEHIND THE DAAS, WE'LL RESET FOR EACH SPEAKER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UM, AND NOT SEEING ANYONE ELSE, UH, MOVING TO THE DAAS, I WILL, UH, NOTE THAT WE HAVE TWO CARDS, UH, IN-HOUSE FOR, UH, TO SPEAK. THE FIRST SPEAKER TONIGHT ON PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE NICK HARRIS AND THE SECOND BEN PETERS. HI. THANK YOU. UH, MY NAME IS NICK HARRIS, RESIDENT PETALUMA, UM, COMMENT IS ABOUT THE, UH, CITY MANAGER'S, UM, EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT REVISION. UH, THIS IS A REVISION TO THE PREVIOUS CONTRACT ESTABLISHED 15 MONTHS AGO, WHICH ESTABLISHED A 2% ANNUAL INCREASE FOR COST OF LIVING. THE NEW SALARY IS A 19% INCREASE OVER THE PREVIOUS SALARY. I'M NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT ONE PERSON'S SALARY. THAT'S, THAT'S NOT MY CONCERN. MY CONCERN IS LOOKING AT INCREASING COSTS TO THE CITY THROUGH A LENS OF MEASURE U. PRIOR TO MEASURE U. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE CITY WAS ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY TWO WEEKS AGO. THE [01:55:01] MEASURE U OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE RECEIVED A PRESENTATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 24 25 BUDGET. NEARLY ALL OF THE $16 MILLION PER YEAR OF THE MEASURE U TAX REVENUE WILL BE GOING TO THE GENERAL FUND, NEARLY A HUNDRED PERCENT. WHAT WAS PARTICULARLY CONCERNING TO ME IS THE ROAD IMPROVEMENTS FUNDED BY MEASURE U ARE REALLY FUNDED BY A $20 MILLION 30 YEAR BOND, WHICH IS BEING REPAID WITH MEASURE U MONEY. MEASURE U IS OF 1%, OR ONE SET, 1 CENT SALES TAX PASSED BY THE VOTERS. IT CAN BE REPEALED BY THE VOTERS IN OCTOBER. PETALUMA WILL HAVE A 10% SALES TAX RATE, 10%. NAPA SALES TAX RATE IS 7.75% AT SEVEN AND THREE QUARTERS. IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE QUITE A HIGH TAX RATE HERE. IT SEEMS LIKE THE CITY'S BUDGET HAS INCREASED, AND MY CONCERN IS IF VOTERS REPEAL MEASURE U, THE CITY WILL BE IN EXTREMELY POOR FINANCIAL SHAPE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND, UM, BEN PETERS IS OUR OTHER AND SECOND LAST SPEAKER. UH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. BEN PETERS, UH, LONGTIME PEN LU RESIDENT. UH, I WILL SAY I, UM, SOMEWHAT FIND THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER'S COMMENTS INTERESTING AND SEMI RELEVANT. UM, AS THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE MEASURE YOU COMMITTEE, I LOOK FORWARD TO A DISCUSSION OF MEASURE YOU AT THE BUDGET, AND I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM TO ATTEND THE BUDGET MEETING WHERE THAT CONVERSATION IS APPROPRIATE. I AM HERE SPECIFICALLY IN FAVOR OF ITEM SIX AND SEVEN, WHICH IS TO THANK OUR CITY MANAGER AND OUR CITY ATTORNEY FOR THEIR HARD WORK. AND THE BEST WAY THAT WE CAN IMPROVE THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THIS TOWN IS TO INCREASE SALES, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S TO REDUCE VACANCIES AND THAT'S TO HELP SUPPORT THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE. MY SPECIFIC FOCUS FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND THE GOOD AND HARD WORK THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY IS DOING, UH, IS RELATED TO THE SUPPORT OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LEFT THAT LIVE IN THE MOBILE HOME PARKS, RIGHT? THE CITY ATTORNEY WENT ON A VERY DETAILED AND LONG EXPLANATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOU IN THIS ROOM REGARDING HOW WE CAN HELP THOSE PEOPLE AND THEY DO NEED OUR HELP. AND SO I THINK IT'S INTERESTING TONIGHT THAT WE HAVE, UH, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SPEAKING OF COURSE, ON BEHALF OF THE MOBILE HOME PARK RESIDENCE, BUT POSSIBLY ALSO COUNTERING OR DEFENDING SOME COMMENTARY REGARDING STREET SAFETY PROJECTS. AND I WANT EVERYONE TO THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IS A SMALL BUT MIGHTY TEAM. AND SO WHEN WE HAVE RESOURCES THAT TAKE AWAY FROM SOMETHING LIKE PROTECTING OUR MOBILE HOME PARK RESIDENTS FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO DEFEND SOME FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS REGARDING PUBLIC SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, I THINK WE SHOULD THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT THAT. NOW, THE LAST THING I'LL SAY ON THIS TOPIC, AND THIS IS PARTICULARLY RELEVANT IF YOU'RE WEARING AN ORANGE SCARF, IS THE MOBILE HOME PARK RESIDENTS NEED OUR HELP. THESE LAWSUITS ARE MAKE IT OR BREAK IT FOR THESE PEOPLE. THE ARGUS HAS DONE A GREAT JOB OF COVERING THAT. AND SO PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES HAS A FUNDRAISING SITE TO FUNDRAISE FOR THE LEGAL DEFENSE OF THOSE PEOPLE. AND SO IF YOU HAVE THE MEANS AND CAN FUND LEGAL ACTIVITIES, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUPPORT THOSE PEOPLE. AND AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE HARD WORK OF OUR CITY MANAGER AND OUR CITY ATTORNEY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT WAS OUR LAST SPEAKER ON THE, UH, SUBJECT AND, UH, THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR. UH, I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT, UM, TO BOTH SPEAKER'S POINTS THAT, UH, MEASURE U YES IS THE, UH, GEM OF PULLING THE CITY BACK FROM, UM, [02:00:01] BANKRUPTCY OR, OR, UM, LACK OF STAYING CURRENT WITH ITS NEEDS. AND, UH, ALL OF THE COUNCIL, I'M SURE IS, UM, VERY INTERESTED IN KEEPING A TIGHT, UH, REIGN ON THAT. AND WE'LL LOOK AT IT AS WE GO INTO THE BUDGET SECTIONS, UH, IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO. THANK YOU. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. UH, WITH THAT I WOULD MOVE APPROVAL OF CONSENT, CALENDAR ITEMS ONE THROUGH EIGHT, SECOND PROPOSE A. OKAY, I'LL SECOND THAT. SECOND BY PO. OKAY. AND MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL? VOTE BARNICLE. AYE. CATER THOMPSON. YES. HEALY? YES. NOW YES. , YES. SHRIVES, YES. MCDONALD? YES. MOTION CARRIES. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND, [WORKSHOP] UH, NOW WE'LL MOVE INTO OUR, UH, WORKSHOP ITEM NINE, UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE USER FEE SCHEDULE. AND, UH, HELP US, UH, WITH THIS PRESENTATION. UM, I'D LIKE TO PASS IT OVER TO JESSE KOCH, OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR. GREAT, THANK YOU MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. WE ARE HERE TONIGHT TO DISCUSS OUR RECENTLY COMPLETED USER FEE STUDY AND THE RECOMMENDED UPDATES TO THE MASTER FEE SCHEDULE. THIS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY IS THE CITY'S FIRST SINCE 2015, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UPDATES WILL ALIGN THE FEE SCHEDULE WITH OUR CURRENT OPERATIONS AND THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS. THE STUDY WAS SPEARHEADED BY ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR CORY GARUM AND OUR CONSULTANTS AT WILL DAN FINANCIAL SERVICES, BUT IT DID REQUIRE INPUT FROM ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS TO ACCURATELY, ACCURATELY CAPTURE THE FULL PICTURE OF OUR ORGANIZATION. AND WITH US TONIGHT IS TONY THRASHER, OUR PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT AT WILL DAN FINANCIAL SERVICES TO GO OVER THE STUDY, UH, BUTTON. CAN YOU HEAR ME? PERFECT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, JESSE. THANK YOU MARY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBERS. UH, I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT USER FEES, RIGHT? UH, SO I'M JUST GONNA TRY TO KEEP IT FAIRLY BRIEF, UH, STRAIGHT TO THE POINT ON PRESENTATION, ABOUT 30 SLIDES ALONG, BUT WE CAN GET THROUGH IT IN FAIRLY SHORT MANNER. STOP ME ANYTIME YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AS I KIND OF GO THROUGH IT THOUGH, PLEASE. SO, FIRST, UH, DEFINING WHAT THE TOPIC IS. WHAT ARE USER FEES? WHAT ARE WE HERE TO TALK ABOUT? USER FEES ARE SERVICE-BASED, UH, SERVICE OR SERVICES PROVIDED BY YOUR CITY STAFF, UH, TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUESTS EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH A COMPLIANCE NEED. UH, SO PART OF THE REGULATORY REQUIREMENT IS THAT THEY NEED TO BE BASED OFF OF THE COST OF PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES. THEY ARE PRIVATE BENEFIT SERVICES AT THE REQUEST OF THE PUBLIC. AND SO OUR JOB IN THESE SORT OF STUDIES IS TO IDENTIFY WHAT THAT FULL COST IS SO THAT THEN YOU CAN MAKE THE DECISION ON WHERE YOU MIGHT WANNA SET YOUR FEES. AS I MENTIONED, STATE LAW REQUIRES, UH, THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE COST OF PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES ARE SO THAT THEY CAN BE SET AT THE MAXIMUM OF WHAT THOSE FULL COST, UH, RECOVERY AMOUNTS EACH CITY IS. LEMME SAY IT THIS A DIFFERENT WAY. I'VE NEVER WORKED WITH A CITY THAT DOESN'T HAVE SOME LEVEL OF SUBSIDY WITHIN THEIR SERVICES, BUT THERE'S CERTAIN AREAS IN WHICH YOU WANT TO GET FULL COST RECOVERY IN. AS WE GO THROUGH THESE, I'LL KIND OF DESCRIBE EACH OF THE DEPARTMENTS AND KIND OF WHERE WE TYPICALLY SEE A FULL COST RECOVERY FOR EACH ONE. THIS, GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. I'LL DE DESCRIBE THIS STUDY ITSELF. SORRY. SO WHY UPDATE YOUR FEES, UH, THEMSELVES, RIGHT? SINCE THEY ARE PROVIDED BY YOUR STAFF MEMBERS? THIS IS OPERATIONAL COST PREDOMINANTLY RESIDES WITHIN YOUR GENERAL FUND. SO IF YOU DON'T CHARGE FOR YOUR FULL COST OF YOUR SERVICES, IT CAN IMPACT, UH, THE RESOURCES YOU HAVE BECAUSE THESE COSTS STILL EXIST, WHETHER OR NOT YOU CHARGE FOR THEM OR NOT. AND SO, GENERALLY, UN OBLIGATED TAX DOLLARS WILL HAVE TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE, UH, BETWEEN THAT WHEN WE GO THROUGH EACH OF THE DEPARTMENTS, WE'LL, YOU'LL SEE THAT SOME FUNDS ARE ALSO INVOLVED WITH THAT, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THEIR COST RECOVERY LEVELS FOR THE SPECIFIC FUNDS. BUT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, IT'S ALL WITHIN YOUR GENERAL FUND. AND SO ANY SUBSIDIES THAT YOU HAVE IN THERE, IT DOES IMPACT YOUR ABILITY TO FUND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS, UH, SAY EQUITY PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY SAFETY, THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO IMPLEMENT. UH, IF YOU HAVE A DECREASED, UH, COST RECOVERY OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, IT CAN IMPACT YOUR SERVICE DELIVERY. UH, 'CAUSE ULTIMATELY, IF YOU, YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS. IF YOU'RE NOT RECOVERING FULL COST, EITHER YOU FULLY FUND IT BASED, UH, USING YOUR UNOBLIGATED TAX DOLLARS OR YOU DECREASE THE FUNDING TO THOSE DEPARTMENTS, WHICH CAN IMPACT YOUR SERVICE QUALITY. SO ALWAYS KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU'RE, AND DECIDING WHERE TO SET FEES. NOW, AS THE FINAL BOLT THAT I'LL HAVE ON A FEW OF THESE SLIDES IS STATE REQUIREMENT. YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOUR COSTS ARE FOR PROVIDING SERVICES. SO AT THE SAME TIME, KNOWING WHAT YOUR COSTS ARE, IT'S ALSO A REQUIREMENT SO THAT THEN YOU CAN MAKE THAT DECISION ON WHERE TO SET THE FEES. AND THEN EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO GO FULL COST RECOVERY, AT LEAST YOU HAVE THAT INFORMATION ON WHAT YOU'RE SUBSIDIZING, WHAT AREA. SO WITHIN THE STUDY, THERE'S TWO PRIMARY OBJECTIVES. THE FIRST THAT WE START WITH, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE GET THROUGH THAT FIRST, IS WHAT IS THE FULL COST OF ALL YOUR SERVICES? SO WE GO THROUGH YOUR FEE SCHEDULES, GO THROUGH THE SERVICES, IDENTIFY HOW THEY'VE BEEN PERFORMING IN THE PAST, AS WELL AS HOW YOU WANT THEM TO BE STRUCTURED, MOVING FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE. SO IDENTIFYING [02:05:01] NEW FEES, OBSOLETE FEES, AND CHANGES IN FEE STRUCTURES THAT MIGHT MAKE SENSE FOR EACH OF YOUR DEPARTMENT IS WHERE WE START, UH, THAT DISCUSSION WITH EACH ONE OF THEM. AND THEN ONCE WE HAVE THAT SET, WE GO INTO TALKING ABOUT WHAT IT TAKES TO PROVIDE EACH SERVICE'S LISTED ON YOUR SCHEDULE SO THAT WE CAN GET TO THAT FULL COST. THEN WE SHIFT INTO THE NEXT PHASE, WHICH IS WHERE YOU WANNA SET YOUR FEES. WE START OFF WITH WHERE YOUR CURRENT FEES ARE, AND THEN LOOK AT WHAT THE FULL COST IS TO THEN TALK ABOUT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT MIGHT BRING FORWARD TO YOURSELF AND THE PUBLIC. FOR CONSIDERATION FOR ADOPTION, UH, I MENTIONED THERE'S NO CITY THAT I'VE WORKED WITH, DOESN'T HAVE SOME LEVEL OF SUBSIDY. AND THE FEE SCHEDULE THAT'S WITHIN THE APPENDIX OF THE AGENDA DOCUMENTS ALSO SHOWS LEVELS OF SUBSIDY IN SOME AREAS. MOST OF THE DEPARTMENTS ARE, YOU'LL SEE SOME FEW PERCENTAGES. IT'S DUE TO ROUNDING DOWN TO THE NEAREST DOLLAR, BUT YOU'LL SEE MUCH LARGER SUBSIDIES IN AREAS SUCH AS RECREATION. LET'S GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. NOW, USER FEES, UH, THEY EXIST IN PRETTY MUCH EVERY DEPARTMENT THAT YOU HAVE. SO , RATHER THAN LIST OFF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE UP THERE, JUST NOTE THAT THERE NOT JUST GENERAL FUND DEPARTMENTS ARE UP THERE, BUT THEY AIRPORT, UH, MARINA. SO THERE ARE FUNDS ALSO EXISTING WITHIN THAT, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THEIR COST RECOVERY AS WE GO ALONG. AND THESE, UH, THESE TYPES OF, UH, STUDIES ARE VERY DATA INTENSIVE. WE START OFF WITH ALL THE COST STRUCTURE OF THE CITY, IDENTIFYING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES, PERSONNEL STRUCTURES, WHERE PEOPLE ARE LOCATED, AND WHAT THEIR, WHAT IT TAKES FOR THEM TO PROVIDE SERVICES. I SAY ALL THAT, BUT IT'S REALLY A LOT OF YOUR STAFF THAT'S INVOLVED WITH PROVIDING THAT INFORMATION. EVERY CITY WE WORK WITH IS, UH, COMPLETELY UNIQUE IN THE WAY THAT SERVICE IS BEING PROVIDED AND WHERE CERTAIN, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, CERTAIN TASKS ARE INVOLVED. AND SO WE NEED A, A HEAVY INVOLVEMENT WITH YOUR STAFF TO IDENTIFY WHAT IT TAKES FOR YOUR CITY TO PROVIDE SERVICE. AND SO IT REALLY TAKES A LOT OF OWNERSHIP AND A LOT OF ACTIVITY ON THEIR END IN ORDER TO BRING THESE TO FRUITION. HERE'S A SAMPLE KIND OF COST CALCULATION. AS MUCH AS WE CAN, WE TRY TO IDENTIFY THE FULL COST FOR EACH SERVICE USING FULLY BURDEN, HOURLY RATES, AND A REASONABLE TIME ESTIMATE FOR WHAT IT TAKES TO PROVIDE A SERVICE. AND SO WE START OFF WITH SALARIES AND BENEFITS, INCLUDING SERVICES AND SUPPLIES, INDIRECT COSTS THROUGH THE COST ALLOCATION PLAN, AS WELL AS ANY SYSTEM AND MAINTENANCE COSTS THAT ARE INVOLVED. THOSE ALL GO INTO CALCULATING A FULLY BURDEN AND HOURLY RATE FOR ALL POSITIONS SO THAT WE CAN USE THAT ALONG WITH TIME ESTIMATES TO DETERMINE A FULL COST FOR EACH STUDY. HERE'S A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION. I'VE GONE OVER THIS A LITTLE BIT, SO I'LL KIND OF SPEED THROUGH, RIGHT? THERE'S KIND OF FIVE PRIMARY STEPS VERSUS BUILDING UP THE MODELS SO THAT WE CAN THEN MEET WITH YOUR STAFF TO USE THE FULLY BURN HOURLY RATES TO UPDATE THEIR FEE SCHEDULE AND DETERMINE A FULL COST FOR ALL SERVICES SO THAT THEN WE CAN COMPARE THAT TO YOUR CURRENT FEES TO BRING RECOMMENDED, UH, FEE CHANGES, UH, TO YOU AND THE PUBLIC, AND AS A STUDY SESSION. AND THEN ULTIMATELY AS A PUBLIC HEARING FOR CONSIDERATION. I'M GONNA HAVE INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENT SLIDES, UH, COMING UP. NOW, THIS IS MEANT TO BE KIND OF A SYNOPSIS. YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF FEES, UH, SO THEY'RE WITHIN THAT, UH, THAT FULL REPORT WITHIN THE AGENDA DOCUMENTS. THIS IS MEANT TO JUST BE A REPRESENTATIONAL KIND OF THE FLOW OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING FOR EACH OF THE DEPARTMENTS AND AREAS. SO FOR ADMINISTRATION, IT WAS A TIME-BASED ANALYSIS USING FULLY BEARING HOURLY RATES AND REASONABLE TIME ESTIMATES TO COME UP WITH THE FULL COST FOR EACH SERVICE. AND THE SUGGESTED FEES WITHIN THE REPORT WOULD BE AN INCREASE TO 10 FEES. 21 FEES REMAIN AS CURRENTLY SET, AND THE AVERAGE FEE CHANGE IS 20% FOR THOSE FOR AIRPORT. WE USE THE PROGRAM COST ANALYSIS FOR THIS FUND, UH, TO LOOK AT HOW IT'S PERFORMING AS FAR AS REVENUES VERSUS COSTS, UH, ON AN OPERATIONAL LEVEL AND FOUND IT TO BE AROUND 98% COST RECOVERY. AND SO FOR THOSE FEES, THE SUGGESTED ARE AN INCREASE TO ONE FEE. UH, 12 NEW FEES WOULD BE ADDED. 34 FEES WOULD REMAIN AS CURRENTLY SET. SO THERE ARE HANGAR RENTAL FEES, BUT THEY WOULD CHANGE FROM BEING A PER SQUARE FOOT COST TO BEING A MORE TRANSPARENT ACTUAL AMOUNT FOR EACH CATEGORY. AND THEN ON THE SUBSEQUENT SLIDE, WE'RE GONNA SHOW KIND OF A LIST OF THOSE NEW FEES. SO FOR ANY NEW FEES THAT WE'RE, UM, TALKING ABOUT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LIST HERE. SO HERE'S THE AIRPORTS, UM, YOU KNOW, PAUSE FOR A MINUTE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS IN THOSE, AND THEN I'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT. OKAY. NOW FOR BUILDING, UH, WE USE A TIME-BASED ANALYSIS FOR ALL THE FLAT FEES ON THEIR SCHEDULE. UH, THERE'S A LOT OF 'EM, RIGHT? UH, NOW, OTHER, THESE, UH, BUILDINGS UNIQUE OTHER THAN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BECAUSE WHILE MOST DEPARTMENTS HAVE HAD A CPI INCREASE SINCE THE PRIOR STUDY IN 2015, BUILDING HAS NOT. AND SO THEIR FEES HAVE REMAINED STAGNANT IN THAT PERIOD. AND SO, UNLIKE THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WE SAW LESS COST RECOVERY OF CURRENT FEES. AND SO THAT'S GONNA BE REFLECTED HERE WHEN I TALK NEXT, RIGHT? SO WHEN WE DID A TIME-BASED ANALYSIS IN THE FLAT FEES, IT FOUND THAT, UH, YOU WOULD NEED AN INCREASE TO 27 FEES, TWO FEES WOULD DECREASE, SIX NEW FEES WOULD BE ADDED, 28 FEES WOULD REMAIN AS CURRENTLY SET WITH AN AVERAGE FEE INCREASE RECOMMENDED [02:10:01] OF 78% FOR THOSE FEES FOR THE BUILDING PERMIT, WHICH IS THE PRIMARY OR IS THE LARGEST, UH, FEE PROGRAM THERE, UH, THE ANALYSIS DETERMINED THAT THE COST RECOVERY IS AT 60%. SO IT IS A RECOMMENDATION TO SET UP FULL COST RECOVERY FOR BUILDING PLANNING ENGINEERING. THOSE ARE DEVELOPMENT RATED RELATED. TYPICALLY, CITIES LOOK TO GET FULL COST RECOVERY BECAUSE OF THE PRIVATE BENEFIT NATURE OF THOSE FEES. AND SO THOSE ARE TYPICALLY AREAS WHERE YOU ARE LOOKING TO GET FULL COST RECOVERY. IN MOST JURISDICTIONS THAT WE SEE HERE ARE THE NEW FEES, UH, THAT WOULD BE GO UNDER A BUILDING NOW FOR PLANNING, UH, IT WAS A TIME-BASED ANALYSIS FOR MOST OF THEIR FEES, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE DEPOSIT BASED FEES. AND SO FOR DEPOSIT BASED FEES, FULLY BURDEN HOURLY RATES ARE USED TO BILL AGAINST THOSE DEPOSITS TO RECOVER FULL COST FOR SERVICE. AND SO FOR THAT SCHEDULE, THERE'S SUGGESTED INCREASE TO 10 FEES. 44 FEES REMAIN AS CURRENTLY SET WITH AN AVERAGE FEE INCREASE OR FEE CHANGE OF AN INCREASE OF 1%. SO NOT A BIG CHANGE IN THERE FOR HOUSING, NO. SO FOR HOUSING WAS A TIME-BASED ANALYSIS FOR THE SERVICES THAT ARE, UM, BEING SUGGESTED TO BE, UM, PUT IN PLACE. 'CAUSE THESE ARE ALL NEW. UH, THEY WOULD BE ADDED TO RECOVER COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH MONITORING, ADMINISTER, UH, ADMINISTERING, UH, HOUSING PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS. AND WE CAN GO AHEAD AND GO AND, YEP. PERFECT. UH, SO HERE'S THAT LIST OF SEVEN FEES, UH, THAT ARE BEING SUGGESTED NOW FOR RECREATION. UH, IT WAS A TIME-BASED ANALYSIS FOR A LOT OF THE FEES. NOW RECREATION INCLUDES, UM, SOME FEES THAT ARE USED OF GOVERNMENT OWNED FACILITIES UNDER PROP 26. THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IN UH, TERMS OF KIND OF WHAT TYPE OF FEE THEY ARE. AND SO THEY COULD BE SET BASED OFF MARKET FACTORS, MORE POLICY-BASED. UH, BUT WE DID A TIME-BASED ANALYSIS ON, UH, RECREATION FEES AS WELL. UH, THEY BEAR A LARGE SUBSIDIZATION. UH, SO THE LIMIT OF INCREASE ON THESE FEES WAS 10%. UH, SO A RESULT OF THAT WOULD BE AN INCREASE TO 74 FEES. NINE NEW FEES WOULD BE ADDED, 20 FEES REMAIN AS CURRENTLY SET, BUT AGAIN, IT'S A LIMITED INCREASE OF 10% WITH, UH, AN AVERAGE SUBSIDY OF 81% ON ALL SERVICES STILL UNDER, UH, THAT LIST. SO LARGE SUBSIDY WITH A SMALL, SMALLER FEE CHANGE. AND HERE'S THE NEW FEES BEING PROPOSED, UH, OR OPTION ON THOSE NOW FOR FIRE AND THE TIME-BASED ANALYSIS ON THEIRS, THEY HAD A LOT MORE CHANGES WITHIN THEIR FEE SCHEDULE. AND SO YOU'LL SEE A BIT OF A VARIATION IN FEES GOING UP AND DOWN AND THERE. BUT, UH, ALL TIME BASED ANALYSIS TO GET TO, UH, NEW SUGGESTED FEES AT FULL COST RECOVERY WITH AN INCREASE TO 74 FEES, 53 FEES WOULD DECREASE, THREE NEW FEES WOULD BE ADDED. NINE FEES WOULD CHANGE IN THE WAY THAT THEY'RE BEING CHARGED. SO JUST A DIFFERENT METHODOLOGY IN THE WAY THEY'RE CHARGED. AND 14 FEES REMAIN AS CURRENTLY SET. AND HERE'S THE NEW FEES, UH, THAT ARE PROPOSED FOR FIRE, OKAY, FOR POLICE TIME-BASED COST ANALYSIS AND ALL THEIR SERVICES. UH, AND SO THE SUGGESTED CHANGES FOR THEIRS, UH, TO GET TO A FULL COST RECOVERY WHERE POSSIBLE IS AN INCREASE TO 16 FEES, NINE FEES WOULD DECREASE, THREE NEW FEES WOULD BE ADDED. 13 FEES WOULD REMAIN, IS CURRENTLY SET, AND THE AVERAGE FEE CHANGE WOULD BE AN INCREASE OF 16%. HERE'S THE NEW FEES FOR THE, IT'S DIGITAL MEDIAN PHOTOS, UH, FOR FLASH DRIVES NOW PUBLIC WORKS. UH, ANOTHER ONE TIME-BASED ANALYSIS. UH, SO ENT, OTHER RATES AND TIME IT TAKES TO PROVIDE SERVICES, UH, RE FOR, TO GET TO FULL COST RECOVERY BE AN INCREASE TO 11 FEES, ONE FEE WOULD DECREASE, ONE NEW FEE WOULD BE ADDED. FIVE FEES WOULD REMAIN AS CURRENTLY SET WITH AN AVERAGE FEE INCREASE OF 29%. HERE'S THAT ONE. NEW FEE, UH, IS BEING PROPOSED THERE. YES. MM-HMM. REMOVAL PERMIT. CAN WE HAVE THE MICROPHONE ON? YEAH. FOR A TREE REMOVAL PERMIT. UH, I THINK IT'S LIKE A HUNDRED AND AND 50, $175 NOW. AND NOW WE'RE RAISING IT TO A THOUSAND DOLLARS. IS THAT WHAT WE'RE SAYING ON THIS ONE? [02:15:01] JUST CAUGHT MY EYE. YEAH, I NEED TO CHECK ON THAT TO SEE IF THERE WAS A PRIOR, UH, FEE THAT RELATES TO THIS, BECAUSE THIS IS SPECIFICALLY FOR PUBLIC WORKS ENCROACH ON THAT. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. YEAH. THE WORD ENCROACHMENT SORT OF IMPLIES THAT IT'S FOR REMOVING TREES IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. YES. YEAH. SO IT WOULD BE WITHIN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. SO THERE WOULD NEED TO BE, UH, PUBLIC WORKS INVOLVEMENT ON THIS. SO I BELIEVE IT WOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT CONNOTATION TO THE FEE THAT YOU'RE THINKING OF CURRENTLY, BUT I WOULD NEED STAFF TO KIND OF ANSWER MORE. SO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE'S STREET TREE THAT FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE THAT THEY HAVE TO REMOVE, HAVE TO PAY A THOUSAND DOLLARS? IS THAT THE ENCROACHMENT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ON THIS? WHERE'S GINA? I'M HOPING STAFF CAN HELP ME WITH THIS ONE, BUT TYPICALLY, YES. I'M GONNA HAVE OUR CITY ENGINEER COME UP AND CLARIFY THIS FOR US. SORRY, I NEED TO SACRIFICE HERE. ENCROACH, I'M SORRY. OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS NOW. HELLO, JEFF. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS. UM, SO I WAS CITY ENGINEER WHEN WE WERE DOING THIS, BUT YES, A TREE REMOVAL PERMIT WAS FOR SOMEONE WANTING TO COME IN AND REMOVE A TREE, DEAD TREE. UM, THIS IS A COST RECOVERY FOR OUR STAFF TO INSPECT THE TREE REMOVAL, ENSURE IT GETS PLANTED CORRECTLY, THE COST FOR AN ARBORIST TO REVIEW KIND OF ALL THE CONDITIONS LEADING UP, UP TO IT IF IT IS IN GOOD HEALTH OR IF ENSURING WHAT TREE IS PLANTED MEETS OUR TREE ADVISORY LIST. SO THERE'S A LOT OF PIECES THAT GO INTO THE TREE REMOVAL PROCESS, AND THAT WAS THE, THE REASON FOR THE UPDATE TO THE FEE. OKAY. IS THIS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE, UH, UPCOMING POLICY THAT WE'RE GONNA BE HIRING ARBORISTS TO CHECK ON TREES THAT ARE BEING REMOVED? SO WE'RE GOING THROUGH FULL PROCESS, IS THAT RIGHT? THERE'S THIS INCREASE INVOLVED. YES, THAT IS. SO THERE'S DEFINITELY A COST INCREASE FOR HAVING THE ARBORIST COME OUT, TAKE A LOOK AT IT. UM, IT'S ANOTHER PIECE TO ENSURE THAT, UM, WE'RE GETTING KIND OF A SECONDHAND OPINION ON TREES BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF PEOPLE COME IN ASK FOR TREE REMOVALS BECAUSE THEY MAY WANT A DIFFERENT TREE, MAYBE THEY JUST DON'T WANT A TREE. BUT IN MOST CASES, THOSE TREES ARE IN GOOD HOUSE. SO HAVING LIKE A SECOND OPINION FROM A ARBORIST FOR WHO'S PROFESSIONAL AND KIND OF COULD COME IN AND GIVE A REALISTIC POINT OF VIEW FOR US TO, TO UNDERSTAND. OKAY. SO THIS IS FOR INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNERS WOULD HAVE TO COME UP WITH THIS, NOT JUST THE, THE BUSINESSES TRYING TO DO NEW THINGS? THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY. HONOR PER, OKAY. I JUST, UH, WE MAY HAVE TO DISCUSS THAT ONE A LITTLE BIT MORE. YEAH, I'LL LET IT GO. DO YOU WISH TO FOLLOW, UM, I'M ON THE SAME PAGE WITH, UH, THE VICE MAYOR ON THAT. OKAY. BACK TO THE FEES. ALL RIGHT. FOR THE MARINA FUND, UH, SO WE DID A PROGRAM COST ANALYSIS FOR THEIR SERVICES. UH, THE ANALYSIS FOUND THAT THEY ARE CURRENTLY OPERATING AT 81% COST RECOVERY, BUT THERE ARE NO RECOMMENDED, UH, CHANGE TO THE CURRENT FEES THERE. UH, BUT ONE NEW FEE IS BEING RECOMMENDED FOR LAUNCHING NON-TRAILER VESSELS AT $3 PER VESSEL. I'M GONNA THROW IT OVER TO JESSE FOR THIS SLIDE RIGHT HERE. YEAH. SO JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, YOU APPROVED A CONTRACT FOR THESE NEW ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE. AND SO AS PART OF THAT, WE ARE SUGGESTING INCLUDING AN OPT-OUT FEE ON THE MASTER FEE SCHEDULE. SO YOU JUST AWARDED THE CONTRACT TO PROFESSIONAL METERS, AND THAT'S GOING TO UPGRADE THE CITY'S METER TECHNOLOGY FROM AUTOMATED METER READING TO A, FROM A MR TO A MI AND A MI WATER METERS USE, UH, RADIO OR CELLULAR NETWORKS. SO IT'S ALL WIRELESS. AND WE KNOW THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME FOLKS OUT THERE THAT HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY. AND SO WE WILL BE ADDING, UM, IF YOU ADOPT THIS, OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE BRING IT BACK, UM, IT WOULD BE A MONTHLY FEE OF $20 IF OPTING OUT OF THE UPGRADE BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE ADDITIONAL COSTS OF MAINTAINING THE OLDER TECHNOLOGY AND SENDING FOLKS OUT TO DO THOSE METER READINGS INSTEAD OF BEING ABLE TO COLLECT THEM. UM, SO THIS WASN'T PART OF THE STUDY THAT TONY PUT TOGETHER, BUT WE DID, UH, CALCULATE THE FEE USING THE SAME METHODOLOGY. SO THIS WOULD BE A NEW FEE THAT WE WOULD BE PROPOSING TO ADD BASED ON THIS CONTRACT AND THE TECHNOLOGY CHANGE. OKAY. SO ROUNDING IT ALL OUT, UH, POLICY CONSIDERATIONS. SO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RECREATION VERSUS DEVELOPMENT RELATED FEES, RIGHT? UH, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS PRIVATE BENEFIT VERSUS A GENERAL BENEFIT, UH, THAT MAY BE INVOLVED. AND COMMUNITY BENEFIT IS REALLY THE, WHAT THE TERM THAT WE LIKE TO KIND OF FOCUS ON THERE. RIGHT? UH, SO USUALLY WHEN YOU, THERE IS A PRIVATE BENEFIT, MOST USERS ARE LOOKING TO GET AROUND A HUNDRED PERCENT COST RECOVERY ON THAT, UH, WHEN IT'S FEASIBLE TO DO SO, SO THAT YOU'RE BUILDING PLANNING AND ENGINEERING THINGS OF THAT NATURE. UH, BUT MANY CITIES STILL HAVE SUBSIDIZATION AND A LOT OF THEIR SERVICES. AND SO WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION, PROMOTING ACCESS TO SERVICES, WHICH TYPICALLY COMES IN LINE WITH, UH, SAY RECREATION BASED SERVICES OR TRYING TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE, UH, WHERE COSTS MIGHT BE PROHIBITIVE, UH, THAT'S AREAS WHERE YOU MIGHT WANNA CONSIDER, UH, SUBSIDIZATION NOW BASED OFF WHAT WE SEE COMPARATIVE TO KIND OF YOUR NEIGHBORS AND WHAT WE SEE ACROSS [02:20:01] THE STATE AND OTHER STATES AS WELL. UH, WE DON'T SEE ISSUES WITH, UM, COMPLIANCE FOR COST. UH, SO WE DON'T SEE A, UM, ANY COMBATIVE NATURE WITH THOSE. UH, BUT, UH, IT IS COMPLETELY UP TO THE COUNCIL TO DETERMINE WHERE YOU WANT TO SET YOUR FEES. BUT, UH, WE DO RECOMMEND THAT YOU INCLUDE INFLATION FACTORS AS WE HAVE IN THE PAST, MAYBE INCORPORATING BUILDING, UH, MOVING FORWARD, UH, TO KEEP UP WITH THE COST OF SERVICE, UH, AND THEN DOING ANOTHER STUDY EVERY FIVE YEARS. SO, YOU KNOW, UH, KIND OF WHAT CHANGES YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR COST AS WELL AS CHANGES YOU MIGHT NEED IN YOUR FEES. OKAY. AND I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY OTHER QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE. OKAY. LET'S BRING IT BACK UP TO COUNCIL AND SEE IF WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. UM, WELL THANK YOU FOR THAT COMPREHENSIVE, UH, PRESENTATION. UM, JUST TO, I GUESS THIS IS, UH, AN OBSERVATION THAT I'D LIKE YOU TO CONFIRM THIS. WE'RE NOT AT THIS POINT, UM, REVISITING, UH, DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES AT ALL. THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT CATEGORY OF BRAIN DAMAGE, IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT. I COMPLETELY SKIPPED OVER THAT POINT. , WE ARE NOT INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES. THESE ARE NOT TAXES, UH, ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE. UH, SO NO UTILITY RATES AS WELL. OKAY. AND, AND WE HAVEN'T REVISITED THOSE IN SEVERAL YEARS. AND I'M, I'M WORRIED ABOUT THEM GETTING OUTTA DATE AND MAYBE AFTER THE NEXT GENERAL PLAN IS, IS ADOPTED WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE TIMEFRAME FOR THAT. THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION IN TERMS OF, UH, FEES FOR SERVICES LIKE THESE, THIS IS SOMETHING, I MEAN, IF, IF YOU THINK THIS IS COMPLICATED, UM, THE, IF THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE MEASURE PASSES IN NOVEMBER, THIS BECOMES INFINITELY MORE CHALLENGING AND FRAUGHT WITH RISK, UH, AND LITIGATION EXPOSURE. SO, UM, THAT'S JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. THANK YOU. OKAY. VICE MAYOR SCHIBS. OKAY. A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU. UM, AS YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS OF EVALUATING THE, THE, UH, AMOUNT OF TIME AND EFFORT FOR DOING EACH OF THESE INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES AND WORKING WITH STAFF, WERE YOU ALSO ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE ACTUAL, UM, EFFICIENCIES IN THESE OPERATIONS? AND, UH, LOOKING AT IS, IS ARE WE BEING EFFICIENT IN WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HOW WE'RE COLLECTING THE MONEY AND PROCESSING THE MONEY THAT WE, WE WOULD BE COLLECTING? ESPECIALLY FOR THOUGH THESE NEW FEES? SO WE'RE LOOKING AT EFFICIENCIES AS WELL AS JUST COLLECTING MONEY. SO WHILE THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THIS STUDY IS IDENTIFYING THE TRUE OR REA OR TRUE COST OF THE STAFF ACTUALLY PROVIDING THE SERVICES AS THEY KIND OF TELL US WHAT IT REASONABLY TAKES FOR THEM TO PROVIDE SERVICE, WE DO HAVE DO SANITY CHECKS ON THE INFORMATION THAT'S PROVIDED, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S NOT OUTTA LINE WITH WHAT WE MIGHT TYPICALLY SEE FOR OTHER JURISDICTIONS. SO WHILE WE DON'T DO A COMPARISON OF, ALL RIGHT, WELL, IT TAKES A PLANNER TO DO IT HERE VERSUS A PLANNER TO DO IT HERE, 'CAUSE EACH CITY'S GONNA HAVE QUITE DIFFERENT PLANNING PROCESS AND REQUIREMENTS AND A LOT OF THAT STUFF IN THERE, UH, WE ARE NOT SEEING, WE DID NOT SEE ANYTHING WITHIN THE TIME DATA PROVIDED OR THE COST DATA PROVIDED THAT LOOKED TO BE, UM, OUT OF LINE, UH, BASED OFF WHAT WE WOULD SEE. UH, GOOD. THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. 'CAUSE THEN THAT MEANS OUR, OUR STAFF'S WORKING EFFICIENTLY AND PROPERLY AND IN LINE WITH EVERYTHING ELSE. THAT'S ALL. I JUST WANTED TO DO A CHECK ON, SEE IF YOU NOTICE THINGS ON EFFICIENCIES OVERALL ABOUT OUR WHOLE STAFF PROCESSES ON DEALING WITH THE PUBLIC ON THIS STUFF. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS MISSING FROM THE REPORT IS NOT JUST THE FEES THEMSELVES, BUT THE VOLUME OF WHICH FEES ARE BEING EITHER MONTHLY OR YEARLY. HOW MANY TIMES WE ACTUALLY CHARGE FOR EACH ONE, BECAUSE IT'S HARD FOR IT TO SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA JUST CHARGE $2 FOR THIS, OR $3 FOR THAT DIFFERENCE WHEN REALLY $2 MEANS NOTHING THESE DAYS. UM, UNLESS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF ITERATIONS. AND IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THOUSANDS OF ITERATIONS, THERE'S THE TIME TO PROCESS THOSE THOUSAND ITERATIONS. SO COUPLE OF US, I THINK WE'RE WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE VOLUME OF, OF FEES, HOW THEY'RE BEING CHARGED, AND THE EFFICIENCY OF THAT CHARGING SURFACE SERVICE THAT WE'RE, THAT WE'RE DOING. UM, IS OUR, IS OUR PROCESS EFFICIENT IN COLLECTING THESE MONIES AND IS THERE A LOT OF TIME BEING USED THERE WHICH WOULD COMPENSATE FOR THE ONE OR $2 DIFFERENCES THAT WE'RE SEEING AND INCREASES AND DECREASES? SO WHAT I'D SAY IS THAT THE PROCESSES THAT ARE BEING REFLECTED WITHIN YOUR FEES OR PROCESSES THAT ARE BEING BORNE BY TA BY YOUR STAFF CURRENTLY ALREADY. AND SO EVEN IF IT'S A SMALL DOLLAR FEE, IT GOES TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE COST OF THAT KIND OF ADMINISTRATIVE NEED OR THE PROCESSING NEED FOR STAFF, UH, TO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES. SO I CAN'T SPEAK DIRECTLY ON HOW EFFICIENT THEY ARE AT PROCESSING, YOU KNOW, UH, THE SPECIFIC APPLICATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT I CAN SAY THAT THE, THE FEES REFLECT SERVICE THAT'S BEING PROVIDED THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE, UH, BEING CHARGED FOR IF IT'S A NEW FEE OR IT'S HAVING TO BE PIGEONHOLED INTO ANOTHER FEE, UH, BE THAT DOESN'T BEST SUIT IT. AND SO THIS IS A WAY SO THAT THE FEES BETTER REFLECT HOW SERVICE BEING PROVIDED AND SO THAT THEY CAN BE RECOVERED ON ITS OWN GROUNDS. OKAY. WHAT I'M TRYING TO REFER TO IS, 'CAUSE IT'S NOT JUST THE FEE ITSELF FOR THE SERVICE PROVIDED. MM-HMM. IT IS THE COST OF ACTUALLY COLLECTING THE MONEY. AND, UH, SO I'VE HAD [02:25:01] A, A NEIGHBOR THAT WAS A, A COLLECTION AGENCY TYPE PERSON. SO IT'S COST A LOT OF MONEY TO GO AFTER FOLKS, A SINGLE CREDIT CARD, A BAD CHECK, A SINGLE ONE OF THOSE. YOU LOSE A LOT OF MONEY AND TIME AND EFFORT TO COLLECT THE MONIES. AND THIS, WE HAVE A WHOLE STAFF HERE AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF NEW FEES HERE, WHICH MEANS A LOT MORE PROCESSING OF CHECKS. COUNTERBALANCES, CHECKING ON THAT, DID YOU INCLUDE THE COST OF OUR, UM, FOLKS WHO, OUR FINANCE FOLKS WHO ACTUALLY HAVE TO MANAGE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE ITEMS, UH, IN THE ACTUAL COST OF THE SERVICE? BECAUSE THERE'S, YOU ADD THAT FEE IN ALSO THERE'S SURE. GO FOR IT. . THANKS TONY. YEAH. UM, I CAN GO AHEAD AND ANSWER THAT. SO I THINK AS PART OF THIS OVERALL PROCESS, GOING BACK TO WHAT TONY, UM, MENTIONED, UM, JUST ABOUT THE STUDY IN ITSELF, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF OUR FEES AND WE'RE SETTING WHAT OUR NEW FEES ARE GOING TO BE BASED ON THE TIME THAT OUR STAFF'S SPENDING, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHETHER OR NOT IS THIS FEE, HAS THIS FEE BEEN A PROBLEM WITH ADMINISTERING? IS IT TOO TIME CONSUMING? UM, WHAT'S THE COST BENEFIT WITH THIS FEE? UM, AND YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IN THE FEE STUDY, SOME OF THOSE FEES, UM, ARE ACTUALLY DECREASING. AND THEY'RE DECREASING BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN EFFICIENCIES IN HOW WE CAN ADMINISTER OR, UM, OUR TIME THAT WE, YOU KNOW, THE TIME THAT IT TAKES TO DO THAT TASK. SO AS PART OF THE OVERALL PROCESS, WE ARE REVIEWING THAT. OKAY. SO I'M, I'M JUST CHECKING IN DEFICIENCY OF COLLECTION OF, OF MONIES. MM-HMM. , IF THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE ACTUAL FEE THAT'S NOW BEING CHARGED, THE $3 FEE, ARE WE INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF THAT AS PART OF THAT? YES. OKAY. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. YES. IT'S, IT'S PART OF THE OVERHEAD THAT'S CALCULATED PART THE OVERHEAD THAT'S WORKED IN THE SYSTEM. MM-HMM. , UM, 'CAUSE I'M, I'M TRYING TO DO SOMETHING NOW AND I'M PAYING FEES ON THINGS AND I WANNA KNOW WHY. YEP. UM, JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. UM, WHICH BRINGS US TO THE OTHER THING ABOUT, UH, THE VOLUME. 'CAUSE WHAT WAS, UH, NOT QUITE CLEAR IS THE VOLUMES OF EACH ONE OF THESE FEES OF WHAT'S NORMAL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. SO, UH, SOME OF THEM ARE GONNA BE LARGE, SOME OF 'EM ARE SMALL, BUT, UM, SOME OF 'EM ARE GONNA, OKAY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THREE OR FOUR PER YEAR TOTAL, AND OTHERS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS PER YEAR. AND SO, UH, IS THERE AN ACTUAL TABLE THAT ACTUALLY REPRESENTS VOLUMES OF EACH OF THESE FEES THAT ARE ANTICIPATED IN THE TOTAL CALCULATION? SO I'LL START. UM, SO I HAVE NEVER WORKED WITH A CITY THAT ACTUALLY TRACKS ACTUAL VOLUMES OF EACH FEE THAT THEY COLLECT, JUST BECAUSE REVENUE CODES, UM, JUST AS, JUST THE NATURE OF CITY FINANCING IS THAT REVENUE CODES TEND TO BE, UH, A BUCKET FOR A MULTITUDE OF FEES. AND SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT A SPECIFIC REVENUE CODE, IT CAN CONTAIN HUNDREDS OF FEE REVENUES TO GO INTO IT. AND SO INDIVIDUAL FEE TRACKING AMOUNTS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE DEPENDING ON THE SYSTEM AND THE OUTPUTS, UM, THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. AND SO THAT'S TYPICALLY WHAT WE SEE WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO DETERMINE, SAY, A REVENUE EFFECT OF FEE CHANGES. IT CAN BE DIFFICULT BECAUSE YOU END UP WITH MANY DIFFERENT FEES GOING INTO THE SAME LOCATION AS OPPOSED TO ONE FEE, ONE REVENUE CODE THAT WE CAN THEN, UH, SEE WHAT THE EFFECT MIGHT BE BASED OFF OF A FEE CHANGE. GOOD. AND I THINK THAT BROUGHT ME BACK TO WHAT YOU'VE SAID ABOUT, UM, UH, WORKING WITH THE STAFF AND, AND BASICALLY STAFF AGREES THAT THESE ARE ALL APPROPRIATE, THAT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY THE STAFF AGAIN, AND NOT JUST BEING PRESENTED BY THE CONSULTANT, BUT THE STAFF HAS REVIEWED THEM AND SAID, WE AGREE WITH ALL THESE AND THIS IS ALL APPROPRIATE SO THAT WE ALL OUR STAFF IS ON BOARD WITH ALL THESE CHANGES ALSO, THAT THEY'RE QUITE WILLING TO DO THE WORK TO START MAKING THESE CHARGES, ALL THESE NEW, NEW ACCOUNTS. YES. OKAY. JUST I WANT A CONFIRMATION THAT, THANK YOU. I WANT FOR THAT TO BE CONFIRMED. UM, UM, AND THEN THE ONLY THING I HAD WAS ON THE, UH, THE REC FEES. UH, WE, WE SEEM TO BE SUBSIDIZING THOSE MORE THAN ANYTHING, UM, AT 80, 80%. UM, IS THERE POSSIBLE CHANGES WE COULD START THINKING ABOUT SHIFTING? 'CAUSE I KNOW THERE'S, UM, WE HAVE NEW BALL FIELDS, ESPECIALLY OUR ARTIFICIAL TURF, WHICH IS VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE THAT WE'VE PUT IN RECENTLY. UM, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE COULD GO BACK TO ACTUAL TOTAL COST FOR OUR ARTIFICIAL TURF FIELDS TO MAKE THAT MORE COMPARABLE? I DON'T KNOW IF THE COUNCIL MIGHT BE WILLING TO DO THAT OR NOT, COMPARED TO ITS REGULAR FIELDS TO MAKE THAT SHIFT AND CHANGE CHARGING FOR OUR ARTIFICIAL TURF FIELDS OR NOT. SO I WOULD SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, I COUNSEL YOU DO HAVE THE ABILITY AND AUTHORITY TO DECIDE THE SUBSIDIZATION LEVEL OF ALL OF THESE FEES. HOWEVER, I THINK THERE COULD BE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES WHEN YOU HAVE SOME FIELDS THAT ARE 80% SUBSIDIZED AND OTHERS THAT ARE A HUNDRED PERCENT COST, FULL COST. AND YOU MIGHT WIND UP WITH LESS UTILIZATION OF THOSE FIELDS, HIGHER UTILIZATION OF THE OTHERS, THEN WE RUN INTO MAINTENANCE NEEDS BECAUSE SOME BALL FIELDS ARE BEING PLAYED ON NONSTOP. I MEAN, WE WOULD JUST REALLY WANT TO TALK THROUGH THE WHOLE THING AND MAKE SURE THAT WE INCLUDED PARKS AND RECREATION IN THE DISCUSSION BEFORE HAVING THOSE KINDS OF DISPARITIES, UM, WITHIN THE SAME TYPE OF OF FEE. RIGHT? SO, YEAH, FOR, FOR ME TO, IN, IN, UH, IN ONLY A COUPLE DAYS TO REVIEW THIS LIST OF 30 PAGES OF FEES, UH, WOULD TAKE ME A LITTLE LONGER THAN, THAN A COUPLE HOURS [02:30:01] OF, OF RESEARCH TO, TO FIGURE THAT OUT. SO ONE, ONE OF MY COMPLAINTS WOULD BACK TO YOU WOULD BE MM-HMM, IF WE WOULD HAVE TO SEE THIS FAST MUCH EARLIER TO DO, TO REALLY LOOK AT THE POLICIES THAT MIGHT BE AFFECTED BY THIS, PARTICULARLY LIKE, LIKE THE RECREATION FEES. UM, AND TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, THAT WE COULD GENERATE. SO, UH, SO I WOULD'VE LIKED MORE TIME TO, TO REVIEW THE TABLE AND ACTUALLY ASK THESE QUESTIONS APPROPRIATELY TO SEE WHAT THE COUNTERBALANCES MIGHT BE IN A, FROM A POLICY POINT OF VIEW. I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MINUTE AND SUPPORT THE VICE MAYOR'S, UH, POINT HERE IS THAT, UH, I THINK TONIGHT YOU'RE ASKING US FOR FEEDBACK. WE'RE DOING A WORKSHOP SO THE PUBLIC GETS OUT, UH, WORD GETS OUT IN THE PUBLIC WHAT THE POTENTIAL, UH, EXPECTATION, UH, EXPECTATION ON CHANGE IS. UM, BUT MAYBE THE NEXT STEP WE TAKE ISN'T APPROVAL. IT ISN'T AN APPROVAL STEP. BUT MAYBE NOW THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US THE WORKSHOP AND WE GIVE YOU THE FEEDBACK, THE NEXT WE HAVE A DIALOGUE ABOUT, OKAY, I KIND OF GET WHERE YOU'RE GOING HERE. AND SO MAYBE THE NEXT STEP IS NOT THE VOTING ROUND ON THIS. UH, CERTAINLY WE HAVE, UM, A, A, A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF FEES. I I WOULD SUPPORT THE VICE MAYOR ON THE IDEA THAT IF YOU CAN PROJECT THE INCREASE IN REVENUE THAT WE'RE GONNA SEE TOTAL FROM THIS, YOU CAN PROJECT IT OUT PER CATEGORY, WHATEVER YOU USE TO COME UP WITH THE TOTAL NUMBER, JUST BREAK IT OUT AS LINE ITEMS FOR THE, UM, EACH, EACH OF THE AREAS, EVEN IF SOME OF THEM ARE UNCERTAIN AND THINGS. BUT JUST SOME MORE, UH, IDEA OF THAT. AND I'D ALSO SUPPORT THE VICE MAYOR ON THE EFFICIENCY OF COLLECTION. THIS IS THE FEEDBACK PART, AND THIS IS ME DOING FEEDBACK PROBABLY. OKAY. SO, UM, THE FEEDBACK WOULD BE A $3 FEE FOR KAYAKS. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU PRINT, PRINT THE, UH, OR SET UP A QR CODE OR DO WHATEVER YOU'RE GONNA DO TO COL THE COLLECTION PROCESS AT A $3 FEE. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, AND, AND IF WE DID THINK WE HAD 10,000 FEE CHARGES, THERE COULD BE AN ECONOMY THAT MAKES THAT PRODUCTIVE. BUT IF WE KNOW WE'RE NEVER GONNA CITE ON THAT BASIS AND ENFORCEMENT IS GONNA BE MODEST ON THAT BASIS, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THAT SHOULD BE A SERVICE. AND WHY WE SUBSIDIZE PARK AND REC, UM, 20% AND ONLY COLLECT 80% OR WHATEVER THE RATIOS ARE. MAYBE THAT'S A CITY SERVICE. WE AGREE THERE'S A VALUABLE THING TO SUPPORT, UM, AND FEEDBACK. ANYBODY ELSE? I MEAN, IT'S A GOOD PRESENTATION. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER POSE. OKAY. YEAH, I JUST HAD A QUESTION. I WONDER IF WE COULD GO BACK TO THE RECREATION SLIDE, THE EXAMPLES OF THAT, BECAUSE, UH, WE CAUGHT MY EYE WAS A BIG NUMBER FOR PICKLEBALL WHEN WE'RE, WHEN WE'RE SUBSIDIZING 80% OF MOST OF THIS, I JUST DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GET IT IN MY BRAIN. CAN WE GO PICKLEBALL AT 560 TO 925 PER TEAM? YEAH. IS THAT FOR A TOURNAMENT LEAGUE OR IS THAT A, IS THAT A, LIKE YOU REGISTER YOUR SOFTBALL TEAM FOR THE YEAR AND THAT'S A FEE IS FOR, OR IS, CAN OUR DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND REC WEIGH IN ON THIS ONE? DREW, PLEASE, THE PICKLEBALL. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL, UH, COMMUNITY DREW HALTER HERE, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION. APPRECIATE THE, UH, THE INTEREST AND, YOU KNOW, TRUE TO FORM MOST CONVERSATIONS EVENTUALLY LEAD TO PICKLEBALL. SO APPRECIATE THAT. . UM, YES, I THINK A, AN IMPORTANT CAVEAT IN THIS FEE SCHEDULE, AND I, AND I GET THE, THE STRUGGLE IS THERE'S A LOT HERE AND I THINK FOR RECREATION, THERE'S AN IMPORTANT CAVEAT THERE THAT WE PROVIDE AND HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO SET FEES AT THE RATE TO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES. SO THERE'S A, UM, A LINE THERE THAT YOU'LL SEE THAT'S OFTEN WHEN WE'RE COMING UP WITH NEW PROGRAMS, WHETHER THAT BE A PICKLEBALL LEAGUE OR A FLAG FOOTBALL DIVISION, WHERE WE CAN JUDGE, UM, BASED ON BENCHMARKING WITH OTHER REGIONAL JURISDICTIONS OR WHAT IT COSTS TO RENT A GYM IF WE DON'T HAVE ONE, WE CALCULATE THAT AND SET THE FEE BASED ON A RECOVERY TO PROVIDE THAT PROGRAM FOR THIS CASE. UM, WE'RE TALKING TO GROUPS THAT ARE ORGANIZED LEAGUES. SO THIS IS A SET FEE FOR SIMILAR TO A SLOW PITCH SOFTBALL LEAGUE WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, AS MANY AS 12 GAMES ROUND ROBIN FORMAT AND PLAYOFFS. BUT AGAIN, IF WE WERE GONNA CHANGE THAT AND, AND HAVE MORE OF A DROP IN, UM, TYPE PLAY, THEN WE COULD ADJUST THOSE FEES ON THE FLY. THANK YOU. CAN I ASK HOW MANY PEOPLE ON THE TEAM, YOU KNOW, TYP, TYPICAL PICKLEBALL IS, UH, PLAYED IN DOUBLES, SO THERE'S TWOS, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE, IT'S HARD TO, IT'S HARD TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION 'CAUSE THERE'S OTHER FORMATS THAT HAVE SEVERAL MORE THAN DOUBLES ONTO A TEAM. BUT GENERALLY IT'S A TWO ON TWO, UM, SMALL LEAGUE FORMAT. AND I'LL JUST ADD IN, LET ME ASK ONE MORE QUESTION. GOOD. CAN WE COMPARE THAT TO THE FEE FOR TENNIS? I DIDN'T. I I DON'T, IS THAT, AND THAT'S NOT ON THIS SLIDE. I WONDER IF ANYONE HAS QUICK ENOUGH ACCESS? [02:35:01] I, IF I BRING IT UP, IF I TRY TO BRING IT UP, I WON'T BE ABLE TO READ THE SMALL PRINT, UH, ON MY COMPUTER HERE. I DON'T THINK I WAS, I MEAN, YEAH, CUR CURRENTLY THE CITY, UM, DOES A LOT OF YOUTH TENNIS PROGRAMMING. WE DON'T ORGANIZE TENNIS LEAGUES PER SE. UH, WE WORK PREDOMINANTLY WITH THE PENDULUM TENNIS ASSOCIATION, UM, ON SOME EVENTS. UM, BUT WE DON'T GET INTO ORGANIZING THE LEAGUES, YOU KNOW, PICKLEBALL. I THINK THERE'S A MORE OF A NEED FOR THAT. UM, THERE'S A LOT OF DROP IN PLAY, BUT THERE'S CERTAINLY A, A GROWING PART OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT WANTS TO, UM, REMAIN ORGANIZED. OKAY. THANKS COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE. THANK YOU. YOU CAN LEAVE THIS SLIDE UP FOR MY QUESTIONS, LIE AS WELL. UM, ON THE BASEBALL FIELDS, SYNTHETIC TURF BASEBALL FIELD, IT, UM, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, IS THAT ONLY FOR SYNTHETIC TURF OR DO NATURAL TURF FIELDS ALSO HAVE A, A FEE ASSOCIATED WITH RENTING THEM? YES. GREAT QUESTION. THE, UH, HOURLY RATE IS ONLY FOR THE SYNTHETIC, UH, BASEBALL FIELD THAT'S SOON TO COME ONLINE. AND SO THAT WAS A RATE ESSENTIALLY SET THAT, AGAIN, WE FELT BENCHMARKING WITH OTHER FACILITIES, UM, BUILT IN A COST RECOVERY TO REPLACE OR MAINTAIN THAT TURF OVER ITS 10 YEAR LIFE CYCLE. UM, VERSUS OUR NATURAL GRASS. WE REALLY DON'T HAVE THE INVENTORY TO CHARGE MUCH OUT OF A, OF A, A SHORT TERM RENTAL. IT REALLY JUST HAS THE AMOUNT OF PLAY TO COVER SOME OF OUR, OUR YOUTH LEAGUES AND ORGANIZATIONS. GOT YOU. OKAY. I THINK I UNDERSTAND. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM, AND I KNOW YOU CAME LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK TONIGHT. UM, DO YOU WANT TO ASK SPECIFIC, YOU HAVE A POLICY SLIDE. IS THERE ANYTHING ON POLICY WE HAVEN'T TOUCHED THAT YOU WANT, UH, AN ANSWER TO? UH, NO. NO. WE WERE JUST LOOKING FOR GENERAL FEEDBACK BEFORE WE BROUGHT THIS BACK FOR RE RESOLUTION. ARE, ARE WE TAKING PUBLIC COMMENT AND DOING COMMENTS AFTER? YES. OR ARE WE DOING OUR COMMENTARY RIGHT NOW? UH, GOOD POINT. LET'S DO OUR COMMENTARY AFTER WE GET THE PUBLIC COMMENT IN. AND SO, UM, THAT BEING THE MOMENT, UH, LET'S OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE NIGHT AND ASK THE CITY CLERK IF WE'VE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS ON THIS. WE DID NOT. AND, UM, I'D LIKE THE MODERATOR TO READ OUR MESSAGING FOR THE EVENING. THANK YOU. MAYOR. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARD TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED. SO PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION. A COUNTDOWN WILL APPEAR FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE SPEAKER AND VIEWERS. AND I'M LOOKING FOR THOSE RUSHING TO THE TABLE TO FILL OUT CARDS AND SPEAK ON THIS TOPIC. AND SEEING NONE, I MAY ASK IF WE, WE HAVE NO CARDS SUBMITTED IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER TONIGHT, CORRECT? NO CARDS. AND WE'RE, UH, CLOSING PUBLIC COMMENT AND BACK TO COUNCIL COMMENT. AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE, YOU WANNA LEAD US OFF OR, UM, MY MAIN COMMENT IS ON, UH, RECREATION. AND THAT WHEN I WAS ON THE RECREATION COMMITTEE, I DISCOVERED THAT WE HAVE A, A TURF REPLACEMENT FUND THAT IS FUNDED BY FEES ON SYNTHETIC TURF. AND WE DON'T HAVE THAT FOR NATURAL GAS TURF. AND SO, UM, THERE'S A FEW QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE. I KNOW WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT, UM, TRYING TO TRANSITION AWAY FROM SYNTHETIC TURF. AND SO, UM, WILL, WILL OUR, UH, FEES COLLECTED BE ELIGIBLE TO BE USED FOR NATURAL TURF UM, REPLACEMENTS? AND THEN THE SECOND QUESTION IS JUST, UM, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE EAR MARKETING FUNDS TO MAINTAIN OUR NATURAL TURF FIELDS? UM, IF I CAN JUST ANSWER THAT FOR YOU REAL QUICK, UM, WE DO HAVE FUNDS THAT WE SET ASIDE FOR TURF REPLACEMENT. THAT IS NOT JUST FOR SYNTHETIC TURF, IT'S FOR ANY OF THE TURF THAT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. SO IT'S, AND THESE FUNDS THAT WE COLLECT WILL GO DIRECTLY INTO THE GENERAL FUND, WHICH IS HOW WE FUND TURF REPLACEMENT. SO THERE IS NO SETTING ASIDE OF, OF DIFFERENT FUNDS FOR SYNTHETIC VERSUS NATURAL TURF. IT'S JUST TURF. ALL RIGHT. WELL THEN I'M SUPPORTIVE OF SUBSIDIZING RECREATION WORK. UM, 'CAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. UM, AND I WOULD SAY LET'S NOT SUBSIDIZE THINGS THAT WE DON'T WANT TO ENCOURAGE. AND ANY OTHER COMMENTS? UH, COUNCIL, VICE MAYOR, UM, THE ONLY, UH, THING I'D LIKE TO ADD ON, UM, THE TREE ENCROACHMENT. THAT WAS ONE THAT CAUGHT MY EYE. 'CAUSE THAT'S A NEW, VERY LARGE CHANGE. AND, UH, THROUGHOUT, THERE'S A FEW. AND THEN THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE, [02:40:01] UH, LIST, THERE ARE SOME LARGE CHANGES. SOME OF THEM WERE, WERE NOTED AS TO REASONS WHY THERE WAS CHANGES. BUT IF YOU COULD JUST REVIEW THOSE AS FAR AS WHERE THE, THE LARGE NUMBERS ARE OR THE LARGE VOLUMES. WHERE IS THERE LARGE VOLUMES OF SMALL FEES AND WHERE ARE THERE LARGE CHANGES IN, IN A FEW FEES HERE AND THERE? UM, AND, UH, JUST I NEEDED SOME MORE INVESTIGATION ON THE TREE REMOVAL BECAUSE AT A THOUSAND DOLLARS PER TREE REMOVAL FOR A HOMEOWNER TO GET THAT INSPECTED, UM, I KNOW CONSULTANTS DON'T CHARGE THAT MUCH TO COME OUT AND DO THE SAME THING. SO WHY ARE WE CHARGING MORE THAN WHAT A CONSULTANT WOULD CHARGE TO DO THE EXACT SAME THING? UM, SO THAT'S ONE CONCERN I WOULD HAVE ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR FEE. BUT ACROSS THE BOARD, UM, A LITTLE MORE RATIONALE, UM, AS TO, UH, AND, AND WHERE THINGS THESE CHANGES 'CAUSE LOOK AT IN, IN STATISTICALLY LOOK AT VARIANCE AND, AND WHAT, WHAT MATTERS MORE. AND, AND 80 IT TURNS OUT IT'LL BE 20% OF THE THINGS CAUSE 80% OF THE CHANGE. SO CAN YOU IDENTIFY WHAT THOSE 20% MIGHT BE, UH, FOR THE CHANGES AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCE OF, OF THAT'S GONNA BE? WHAT'S THE REPERCUSSIONS OF CHANGING THIS, THIS MAYBE EVEN 10%, UH, A LITTLE BIT MORE STRONGER CASE? THAT'S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE IN THE LIST AS TO WHICH FEES ARE, ARE MOST IMPACTFUL, BOTH FOR US AND ALSO FOR THE, UH, OUR, OUR CITIZENS, WHICH IS GONNA AFFECT THEM MORE EITHER BY VOLUME OR BY QUANTITY OF, OF ACTUAL, UH, DOLLARS. SO THOSE, SO IF YOU'RE, IDENTIFY THOSE 10% OF THAT LIST AND THEN WE CAN INVESTIGATE A LITTLE BIT MORE IF WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS TO DIG DOWN DEEPER INTO INDIVIDUAL THINGS. OVERALL, I WOULD SUPPORT WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND HOW IT'S DOING. STAFF HAS, IS PROVIDING ALL THIS FEEDBACK. YOU HAVE AGREEMENT FROM STAFF ON ALL THIS. SO, SO PROBABLY WE'RE GONNA GO FOR IT, BUT WE JUST NEED TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE UNDERSTANDING, I THINK IS WHAT WE'RE AFTER. THAT MAKE SENSE? MAKES SENSE. WE'LL WORK ON THAT. THANK YOU. AND, UM, WHILE I HAVE MY HEAD ON THIS ONE AND THEN BACK TO YOU, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON. SO, UH, ON THE TREE, I, I CONCUR THAT THAT SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BIT COMPLICATED. I'D LIKE CLARITY IN OUR NEXT PRESENTATION WHETHER IT RELATES TO PRIVATE PROPERTY OR ONLY IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. AND THEN, UM, A BE, I MEAN WILL COUNSEL WILL NEED A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE POTENTIAL TREE ORDINANCE COMING FORWARD. WHETHER YOU COULD PAY THE A THOUSAND DOLLARS AND BE DENIED. UM, THE, UM, TREE REMOVAL, YOU KNOW, A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A DENIED PERMIT IS A LOT MORE THAN A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR AN APPROVED PERMIT. AND UM, UH, THEN ALSO, UM, WHETHER IN ADDITION TO A THOUSAND, YOU'RE REQUIRED REPLACEMENT COSTS OR YOU'RE REQUIRED FOR REPLACEMENT AND WOULD THERE BE ADDITIONAL COSTS ON A REPLACEMENT TREE COSTS? SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT WORK OUT FOR OUR NEXT ONE. COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON. I JUST WANTED A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARIFICATION ON THE TREE. SO THIS IS ONLY FEES TO EVALUATE IF THE TREE COMES OUT. NOT TREE, I THINK IT'S WRITTEN AS A PERMIT. FEE MOVE IS NOT PART OF IT. I THINK IT'S WRITTEN AS A PERMIT FEE TO THE CITY. YEAH. SO IT'S JUST A PERMIT FEE. THAT'S A CHUNK OF MONEY. OKAY. UM, LOTS OF LOTS OF FEEDBACK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR MR. MAYOR. YES. SORRY. DIDN'T SEE THERE, I JUST WANTED TO, UM, MENTION THAT THE AIRPORT COMMITTEE HAD AN AD HOC COMMITTEE WORK ON THE HANGAR RATES AND THEY RESEARCHED MANY AIRPORTS AND WHAT THE HANGERS WERE GOING FOR RENT BY SQUARE FOOTAGE, UM, AND SO ON. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SHOUT OUT TO THE AIRPORT COMMITTEE, AD HOC COMMITTEE WHO CAME UP WITH THOSE FEES FOR THE AIRPORT HANGERS. AND ALSO IF DREW IS STILL THERE WITH THE, WITH THE PARKS. I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S STILL ON, UM, THE NEW MIRACLE LEAGUE. DO WE, UM, THAT WAS BUILT BY THE COMMUNITY. DO WE, UM, DO WE RENT IT OUT TO OTHER CL CLUBS? I KNOW THE LITTLE LEAGUES HAVE USED IT. T-BALL FOLKS HAVE USED IT. DO WE RENT IT OUT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS PAID FOR BY THE COMMUNITY? YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. COUNCIL MEMBER. NOW, UH, THE MIRACLE LEAGUE BALL FIELD AT LUCCHESE PARK IS PART OF THE COMMUNITY INVENTORY OF ALL WEATHER FIELDS. SO YES, MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NORTH BAY HAS PRIORITY SCHEDULING. SO THEY HAVE LEAGUES IN THE SPRING, FALL, THEY'RE EXPANDING, WHICH WE'RE ALL GRATEFUL TO SEE. BUT IT'S BEEN A, A TREMENDOUS ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY IN A SEASON LIKE THIS YEAR WITH FIELDS BEING SO WET TO ALLOW, UM, ESPECIALLY LITTLE LEAGUE AND UM, YOUTH PLAYERS ONTO THOSE FIELDS. AND YES, UM, THE CITY HAS THAT END TO INVENTORY AND ISSUES PERMITS FOR FIELD USE. UM, WHILE WE'RE ON THAT, THE, UM, I'VE BEEN TO A LOT OF LITTLE LEAGUE GAMES AND PRACTICES IN THE LAST MONTH. THE PARKING LOTS ARE DISINTEGRATING. SOME OF IT IS WEATHER RELATED. SOME OF IT'S BECAUSE IT'S ON BUILT ON ADOBE. BUT WE NEED TO START USING [02:45:01] SOME OF THESE FEES THAT WE'RE COLLECTING TO DO THE PARKING LOT MAINTENANCE AROUND LUC CASEY PARK AND AROUND THESE BALL FIELDS. 'CAUSE AS WASHINGTON STREET COMES ONLINE, IT'S GONNA ALSO GET WEAR AND TEAR IN THE PARKING LOT AND THE ROAD MAINTENANCE AND THE, THE WEEDS FIND A WAY TO GROW. I DON'T KNOW HOW, UM, CAN I PARAPHRASE THAT BACK? UM, WE, WE HAVE, WE HAVE HEARD THAT THE, THE CAN, CAN WE PUT SOME OF THE, CAN WE, SOME OF THESE FEES ARE GOING TOWARDS THE, THE MAINTENANCE OF THE FIELDS, BUT CAN THIS ALSO BE USED FOR THE PARKING LOTS? IS IT, OR DO WE KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AHEAD TO THE BUDGET OR YEAH, THAT, THERE YOU GO. AND, AND, UH, IF I COULD PARAPHRASE JUST A LITTLE BIT YEAH. IS THAT, UM, SO THAT WE'VE HEARD TONIGHT THAT ALL FEES GO INTO GENERAL FUNDS AND UH, PROJECTS ARE SELECTED INDEPENDENTLY. THEY'RE, THE FEE DOES NOT PAY FOR A PROJECT. SO IT, IT WOULD BE MORE OF AN ADVOCACY THING FOR THE CAPITAL FUND, CAPITAL PROJECTS OR FOR MAINTENANCE IF, IF THE MAINTENANCE, IF, UH, PARKING LOT MAINTENANCE IS REALLY WHAT'S REQUIRED, NOT CAPITAL. SO THAT'S THAT, THAT'S GOOD FEEDBACK. IT, IT'S SORT OF TO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT THESE FEES COLLECTED ARE MORE THAN JUST MAINTAINING OUR FIELDS, BUT ALSO OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THE FIELDS, INCLUDING PARKING LOTS AND ALL THE OTHER RECREATIONAL AMENITIES AT THAT PARK. SO I JUST WANNA THROW THAT OUT THERE TO THE COMMUNITY. WHO'S PAYING THESE FEES? UM, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY IN THE DISCUSSION OF HOW WE'RE CALCULATING ALL OF THESE FEES, THESE ARE ALL COST RECOVERY FEES. SO WE'RE NOT COLLECTING MORE THAN WE NEED TO ACTUALLY COVER THE COSTS OF OPERATING THE BALL FIELDS. SO BASICALLY IF WE WERE TO TAKE THAT PERMANENT MONEY AND PUT IT TOWARDS PARKING LOT MAINTENANCE, THEN WE'RE TAKING MONEY AWAY FROM THE MAINTENANCE OF THE BALL FIELDS. SO IT WOULD ALMOST, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE A SEPARATE FUNDING SOURCE, UM, FOR THAT MAINTENANCE NEED. THAT'S FOR BUDGETS, I GUESS. , I'LL SAVE IT FOR BUDGET. THAT'S OUR PROBLEM. RIGHT. [PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION] OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GREAT PRESENTATION. WE'LL MOVE ON TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM NOW, WHICH IS ITEM UH, 10. UM, AND THAT IS RESOLUTION ORDERING ABATEMENT AND NUISANCE CONSISTING OF HAZARDOUS VISITATION, RUBBISH GROWING ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY, UH, ORDERING FIRE DEPARTMENT ABATEMENT, UM, ET CETERA. AND I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE OUR FIRE MARSHAL, UH, JESSICA POWER WHO, UM, WILL HELP US THROUGH THIS ITEM. UH, GOOD EVENING MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, COUNCIL, STAFF AND OUR COMMUNITY TONIGHT. I ALSO HAVE WITH US, UH, OUR ASSISTANT FIRE MARSHALL AMY SIGGY ON JANUARY 8TH, 2024. THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE HAZARDOUS VEGETATION AND RUBBISH GROWING UPON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY ORDINANCE. THIS DECLARED THAT WEEDS GROWING UPON PARCELS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY ARE A PUBLIC NUISANCE REQUIRING ABATEMENT. A PUBLIC HEARING WAS SUBSEQUENTLY SET FOR TONIGHT ORDERING ABATEMENT OF HAZARDOUS VEGETATION AND RUBBISH. A LETTER WAS SENT TO AFFECTED PROPERTY OWNERS ALERTING OF THEM, OF THEIR RIGHT TO ATTEND THIS PUBLIC HEARING. THIS PUBLIC HEARING AND SUBSEQUENT RESOLUTION MEETS THE INTENT OF THE LAW, WHICH ALLOWS THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND ITS CONTRACTOR TO ENTER PRIVATE PROPERTY AND FORCE ABATEMENT OF WEED RELATED FIRE HAZARDS. IF PROPERTY OWNERS FAIL TO ABATE THEMSELVES, PROPERTY OWNERS ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO HANDLE THEIR OWN WEED ABATEMENT. AN ABATEMENT BY THE CITY ONLY TAKES PLACE AFTER NONCOMPLIANCE WITH THE STATED ABATEMENT DEADLINE OF MAY 31ST, 2024 INSPECTIONS FOR ABATEMENT BY THE CITY WILL BEGIN JUNE 1ST, 2024, DEPENDING ON WEATHER CONDITIONS AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO NOTE THAT ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT, THERE IS ONE LESS RESOLUTION AS IT WAS FOUND TODAY. COUNCIL MEMBER NOW'S RECUSALS. UH, WERE UNNECESSARY. THOSE LOTS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE FIRST RESOLUTION LIST OF PARCELS, WHICH WAS UPDATED ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE THIS AFTERNOON. AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO ERIC UNLESS IF HE HAS SOMETHING TO ADD. NO, THANK YOU FOR FLAGGING THAT. THANK YOU MAYOR. FABULOUS RESPONSE THERE. UH, PRESENTATION. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, SO, UM, THAT BRINGS US UP TO COUNCIL FOR ANY QUESTIONS. SEEING NONE, I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE EVENING AND ASK HAVE WE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS ON THIS? NO, WE HAVE NOT. NO, NO EMAIL COMMENTS IN MAY I ASK THE MODERATOR TO READ OUR MESSAGING FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS IN-HOUSE. THANK YOU MAYOR. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC [02:50:01] ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE SO. SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED. PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION. THE TIMER BEHIND THE D WILL BE RESET FOR EACH SPEAKER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND SEEING NO CARDS, UH, IN-HOUSE, NO ONE RUSHING TO REPLY. UH, I'M GONNA CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS AND BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL. I'M NOT SURE IF ANYBODY WANTS TO COMMENT BEFORE WE GET GOING. UM, THERE IS, UM, THIS IS COMPLICATED BECAUSE, UH, THERE'S, UH, RECUSALS BY VARIOUS COUNCIL PEOPLE AND MANY MOTIONS TO MAKE. AND, UH, SO THE FIRST MOTION I'M GONNA CALL FOR IS THE ONE WHERE EVERYBODY'S HERE AND, AND DOES IT. AND CAN I HAVE A MOTION THERE? SO MOVED. SO MOVED. UH, THAT'S A SECOND AND A SECOND BY CATER THOMPSON. AND, UM, ROLL CALL. VOTE FOR THAT MOTION. ARLE AYE. AYE. CATER THOMPSON? YES. HEALY? YES. NOW? YES. ? YES. SCH SHRIMPS. YES. MCDONALD? YES. AND THE, THE NOW I RECUSE AND STEP OUT AND THE VICE MAYOR WILL RUN THE MEETING. OH, THANK YOU. MY FIRST TIME UP HERE. OKAY, SO DO WE HAVE ANOTHER MOTION? SO I WOULD MOVE APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION ATTACHED AS ATTACHMENT TWO. SECOND THERE. I'LL SECOND. SECOND. COUNCILMAN ATE? IS IT OKAY? AND UH, SO WE'LL JUST TAKE A ROLL CALL AGAIN, I GUESS. UH, BARNACLE. AYE. CATER THOMPSON? YES. HEALY? YES. NOW? YES. POST. OKAY. YES. SHRIVES? YES. MCDONALD. RECUSED. UH, RECUSED. SO MOTION PASSES AND WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT THING. SO WHILE THE MAYOR'S COMING BACK, I, I HAD, I PRINTED OFF THE RE THE RESOLUTION LIST FOR THE ORIGINAL. SO IS THREE THEN DELETED AND EVERYTHING ELSE HAS BEEN RENUMBERED UP ONE. IS THAT HOW THEY'RE GOING NOW? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. AND SO NEXT ON OUR LIST, I BELIEVE WE HAVE, UM, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ZEKE TAKING HIS TERM IN THE PENALTY BOX, UM, WILL MOVE APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION FOUR. LOOK AT THAT. IT'S ACTUALLY THREE NOW. OH, THREE AND FOUR, IS THAT RIGHT? THEY'LL, THEY'LL ALL BE RENUMBERED AFTERWARDS. SO IF YOU WANNA STICK WITH THE NUMBER THAT'S IN THE PACKET. I'M GONNA STICK WITH THE NUMBERING THAT'S ON THERE JUST SO WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. OKAY. SECOND AND SECOND BY HEALY. AND ROLL CALL VOTE BARNACLE. AYE. CATER THOMPSON? YES. HEALY? YES. NOW? YES. POSTY KAY. ACCUSED SCH SHRIMPS. YES. MCDONALD? YES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LET'S INVITE THE COUNCIL MEMBER POKAY BACK. AND INVITE AND INVITE MAYOR SCHIBS OUT. AND WE'RE OPEN FOR A MOTION. MOTION FROM HEALY. SECOND. UH, YEAH, THIS IS THE ONE ORIGINALLY NOTICED OR CALLED, UH, ATTACHMENT FIVE. SORRY. ATTACHMENT FIVE ORIGINALLY. SECOND BY CATER THOMPSON. OKAY. AND ROLL CALL VOTE BARNACLE. AYE. CATER THOMPSON. YES. HEALY? YES. NOW YES. POKAY? YES. SHRIVES RECUSED MCDONALD? YES. AND THIS IS THE ONE WHERE COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE IS ABSENT AND RECUSED. AND WE ARE NOW MAKE THE MOTION LOOKING FOR A MOTION FROM THOMPSON AND A SECOND FROM HEALY. SECOND ROLL CALL. VOTE PLEASE. BARNACLE RECUSED CATER. THOMPSON? YES. HEALY? YES. NOW? YES. POST. OKAY. YES. SHRIVES? YES. MCDONALD? YES. MOTION CARRIES. NOW WE HAVE, UM, AN, A MOTION FOR THE THE NEXT ONE. AND LET'S READ CAREFULLY WITH HEALY RECUSED. ANN ANN BARNACLE RECUSED. I'LL MAKE THE MOTION NUMBER SEVEN. THAT'S CORRECT. WITH TWO RECUSALS. SO WE HAVE, UM, A MOTION BY CATER THOMPSON. AND A SECOND. SECOND BY SHRIVES. ROLL CALL VOTE. UH, BARNACLE. RECUSED. UH, CATER THOMPSON. YES. HEALY. RECUSED NOW. YES. . YES. SHRIVES. YES. MCDONALD? YES. MOTION CARRIES. NOW WE INVITE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE BACK IN THE ROOM AND, UH, UH, HELIO ALONE IS RECUSED THIS TIME. OH, MOTION. MOTION. AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR A MOTION FROM CATER THOMPSON. SECOND FROM NOW. AND A ROLL COMM VOTE AR AYE. GATOR THOMPSON. YES. HEALY RECUSED NOW. YES. . YES. [02:55:01] SHRIVES. YES. MCDONALD? YES. MOTION CARRIES. AND LET'S INVITE COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY BACK. AND THAT COMPLETES THIS ITEM. AND WE ARE MOVING NOW TO ITEM 11. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GREAT WORK TONIGHT. APPRECIATE IT. AND, UM, WE ARE NOW, UH, HAVING A PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE COMMENTS ON THE CITY'S, UH, 20 24, 20 25 PROPOSED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM, ANNUAL ACTION PLAN IN 2024, AMENDED CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN AND ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE PLANS AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SIGN ALL DOCUMENTS REQUIRED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT. UH, TO HELP US THROUGH THIS IS SARAH WOLF, OUR, UH, HOUSING SPECIALIST. TAKE IT AWAY. THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. GOOD EVENING. UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. THE ITEM BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING IS A PUBLIC HEARING TO REVIEW STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS AND DISCUSS PROPOSED PROJECTS AND RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED CDBG DRAFT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN FOR FISCAL YEAR 24 25, AND THE AMENDED 2024 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN, WHICH I'LL REFER TO AS THE CPP THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. TO PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND. THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM, ALSO KNOWN AS CDBG, IS A FEDERALLY FUND FUNDED BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM PROVIDING FLEXIBLE FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS TO ASSIST INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES FROM LOW TO MODERATE INCOME HOUSEHOLDS. PROGRAMS MUST NOT ONLY ADDRESS NATIONAL OBJECTIVES, BUT ALSO ALIGN WITH COUNCIL'S PRIORITIES AS OUTLINED IN THE CITY'S 2020 THROUGH 2024. UH, CDBG CONSOLIDATED PLAN. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. UH, THIS SLIDE DESCRIBES THE PROGRAM TIMELINE. THE KEY POINTS I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT ARE BOLDED. ON MARCH 8TH, WE POSTED PUBLIC NOTICE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH IN THE ARGUS COURIER AND ON THE HOUSING WEBPAGE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENT. UH, THE COMMENT PERIOD IS STILL OPEN AND ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS RECEIVED THROUGH THE END OF THIS COMMENT PERIOD BY MIDNIGHT WILL BE CONSIDERED AND INCORPORATED INTO THE ACTION PLAN AND AMENDED CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UM, BECAUSE THE CITY HAS A POPULATION OF OVER 50,000 RESIDENTS, WE ARE IN ENTITLEMENT JURISDICTION AND RE RECEIVE AN ANNUAL ENTITLEMENT GRANT. TO DATE, WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED THE AWARD LETTER YET WITH THE EXACT AMOUNT, BUT WE ARE ANTICIPATING AROUND $330,000, WHICH IS TYPICALLY AWARDED IN MAY. ELIGIBLE USE HAS FALL INTO SEVEN CATEGORIES, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE. UH, BASED ON THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN GOALS, THE CDBG PROGRAM LARGELY FALL WITHIN THE TWO ELIGIBLE USES IN, UM, NUMBER THREE, REHABILITATION OF RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES. AND NUMBER SEVEN, TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME POPULATION THROUGH SUPPORTING PUBLIC SERVICES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. FOR THIS PROGRAM YEAR, WE RECEIVED FIVE APPLICATIONS ALL FROM EXISTING COMMUNITY PARTNERS. THREE OF THOSE APPLICATIONS ARE FOR PROGRAMS FUNDED WITH OTHER CITY SOURCES OF FUNDING. UH, THOSE PROGRAMS ARE PPCS FAIR HOUSING AND RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, AS WELL AS THE NORTH BAY HOUSING LAND TRUST FIRST TIME HOME BUYER PROGRAM. THE REMAINING TWO APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENT CDBG GRANT RECIPIENTS REBUILDING TOGETHER AND PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER. SEVERAL OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WERE INTERESTED IN APPLYING FOR CDBG FUNDING THIS ROUND, BUT CHOSE NOT TO FOR, UM, REASONS THAT EITHER THEIR PROGRAM DIDN'T ALIGN WITH THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN OBJECTIVE OR THEY WOULD'VE BEEN CATEGORIZED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE FOR WHICH WE ARE CAPPED AT 15%. UM, ANOTHER CHALLENGE WITH THIS FUNDING IS THE EXTENSIVE ADMINISTRATIVE TIME NEEDED TO MANAGE FEDERAL GRANTS. UM, IT'S CRITICAL THAT PROGRAMS WE FUND HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION BECAUSE IT'S VERY TIME CONSUMING. UM, MOVING ON TO STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS. WE HAVE A-P-P-S-E MEAL, MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM, A VITAL COMMUNITY SERVICE SERVING APPROXIMATELY 400 SENIORS, WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF ROUGHLY 75 CLIENTS FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. PPPS E'S PROGRAM HEAVILY LEVERAGES CDBG FUNDING WITH OTHER STATE FUNDING GRANTS AND AGENCY RESOURCES. THE CDBG GRANT COVERS APPROXIMATELY 14% OF THEIR TOTAL PROGRAM FUNDING. STAFF RECOMMENDS FUNDING THE MAX 15% PUBLIC SERVICES CAP AT 49,500. NEXT WE HAVE REBUILDING TOGETHERS PROGRAM, UH, IN ITS 28TH YEAR OF SERVING THE CITY AS THEIR REHABILITATION ARM, UM, PROVIDING MUCH NEEDED EMERGENCY REPAIRS AND HOME [03:00:01] MODIFICATION FOR ELDERLY, DISABLED, UM, HOMEOWNERS, TENANTS AND NONPROFIT FACILITIES. REBUILDING TOGETHER ALSO LEVERAGES, UH, C-C-D-B-G FUNDING VERY WELL. THE GRANT COVERS APPROXIMATELY 42.5% OF THE TOTAL PROGRAM FUNDING STAFF RECOMMENDS THE FUNDING APPLICATION, UM, FULL AMOUNT $238,000. REBUILDING TOGETHER IS ALSO WORKING TO INCREASE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION FOR PETALUMA'S MOST UNDERSERVED COMMUNITY, WHICH INCLUDES FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN, FEMALE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS, UH, WHO HOLD CLOSE TIES IN OUR UNDERSERVED COMMUNITY IN ADDITION TO A PROGRAM, UM, OUTREACH AND PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AND WORK-BASED TRAINING PROGRAMS. AND LASTLY, WE HAVE OUR ADMIN FUNDING, WHICH IS A 20% OF THE AWARD. UM, APPROXIMATELY $66,000 IS ELIGIBLE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND STAFF RECOMMEND A REDUCED AMOUNT AT 42,500, WHICH REPRESENTS 13% OF THE TOTAL CDBG ALLOCATION WITH THE ANNUAL OR THE ADDITIONAL FUNDS SHIFTED TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. AS AN ENTITLEMENT JURISDICTION, THE CITY IS REQUIRED TO HAVE IN PLACE DETAILED POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT PROVIDE FOR AND ENCOURAGE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ON THIS SLIDE. THERE ARE FIVE KEY AREAS IN THE 2024 AMENDED CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN. THREE OF THOSE, UH, ITEMS, ITEMS TWO, THREE, AND FIVE ARE ABOUT INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY. HOWEVER, THE KEY TWO AREAS I WANNA HIGHLIGHT HERE ARE ITEMS NUMBER ONE, WHICH IS, UM, A NEW REPORT THAT WAS ADDED TO THE LIST OF REQUIREMENTS BY ENTITLEMENT JURISDICTIONS, THE ASSESSMENT OF FAIR HOUSING OR FAIR HOUSING PLAN. UH, IT WAS PREVIOUSLY REFERRED TO AS THE AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING PLAN, THE A FFH. AND THIS IS A PLAN THAT'S DEVELOPED WITH THE COUNTY AND THE CITY. IT'S A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF FAIR HOUSING DATA AND IT COMES DIRECTLY FROM FEDERAL REGULATIONS TIED TO HUD FUNDING. THIS DOCUMENT DIRECTLY INFORMS ON LOCAL HOUSING ISSUES, UM, FAIR HOUSING, CONTRIBUTING FACTORS AND IDENTIFICATION OF FAIR HOUSING GOALS AND PRIORITIES. AND, UH, NUMBER FOUR, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING. AS A MEMBER OF THE CITY'S DEI CORE TEAM, WE'RE DEDICATED TO CREATING AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY WHERE EVERY VOICE IS HEARD, ACKNOWLEDGING THE NEED TO BETTER INVOLVE UNDERREPRESENTED AND MINORITY RESIDENTS. UH, WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING TOWARDS INCREASING ACCESS, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING IN PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, BUT ALSO MORE BROADLY APPLYING THESE THIS LENS INTO OUR PROGRAMS, OUR POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND SERVICES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. UH, THE ACTION REQUESTED TO COUNCIL IS TO CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING ASKING FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS AND ADOPT A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE FISCAL YEAR 24 25 ACTION PLAN AND THE 2024 AMENDED CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN. ALRIGHT, STAFF AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE HERE AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU. WONDERFUL. THANKS SO MUCH. UH, UH, HUGELY IMPORTANT SOCIAL PROGRAMS IN OUR COMMUNITY. APPRECIATE THE REPORT. ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNSEL? UM, I HAVE JUST WANTED, MAYBE WE CAN, IT CAN BE A SHOUT OUT FROM THE PARTNERS, BUT HOW MANY MEALS DOES PPSC PROVIDE A SHOUT OUT? SO WE'RE AROUND 10,000 MEALS A MONTH NOW, WHICH IS UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE. IT PID UP FROM 3000 TO 10,000 DURING COVID. WE THOUGHT WE'D SEE A BREAK AND IT COME DOWN. IT HAS NOT COME DOWN. IT CONTINUES TO GROW. ONE OF THE BIGGEST IMPACTS WE HAVE IS AT OUR MONTERO VILLAGE, THANK GOODNESS WE'RE ABLE TO, WE'RE ABLE TO HOUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE HOMELESS OR AT RISK OF BEING HOMELESS. BUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS MANY OF THOSE RESIDENTS ARE 60 AND OLDER. SO THEY QUALIFY FOR ALL OF THE PROGRAMS UNDER OUR OLDER AMERICAN ACTS FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVE FROM THE STATE AND THE FEDS AND THE COUNTY TALK ABOUT REPORTING . SO, SO THAT INCREASE HAS ACTUALLY CAUSED US TO ADD TWO ADDITIONAL ROUTES EVERY DAY OVER TO THAT LOCATION BECAUSE OUR DRIVERS CAN ONLY CARRY A CERTAIN NUMBER OF, OF HOT MEALS EVERY DAY. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S DIFFERENT WITH OUR HOME DELIVERED MEAL DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER IN, IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND ONLY OTHER NINE COMMUNITIES IN THE STATE, IN THE UNITED STATES, IS WE DELIVER HOT MEAL 365 DAYS A YEAR. MOST MEALS ON WALES PROGRAMS, INCLUDING [03:05:01] ONES UP NORTH OF PETALUMA AND SOUTH, UM, IN MARIN COUNTY, DELIVER FROZEN MEALS. AND WHILE THAT MEAL IS PROBABLY VERY NUTRITIOUS, WHAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE GETTING IS SOMEBODY KNOCKING ON THEIR DOOR EVERY DAY. AND THESE ARE OUR MOST VULNERABLE SENIORS WHO ARE CONTINUING TO AGE IN PLACE AT HOME. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND REALLY I SEE NO OTHER QUESTIONS AT COUNCIL. I'D LIKE TO OPEN THE, UH, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ON THIS ITEM AND ASK OUR CLERK IF WE'VE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS VIA EMAIL. UH, YES. ONE AND IT'S POSTED TO THE WEBSITE. THANKS SO MUCH AND BRING IT OVER TO OUR MODERATOR FOR OUR MESSAGE. THANK YOU MAYOR. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED. PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION. THE TIMER BEHIND THE DIOCESE WILL RESET FOR EACH SPEAKER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I HAVE TWO CARDS IN HAND AND I SEE NO ONE ELSE RUSHING FORWARD. SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE NICOLA FRY TO SPEAK TO BE FOLLOWED BY BEN PETERS. ACTUALLY, I BROUGHT EVERYONE A PRESENT, WHICH THE CLERK IS GONNA NICELY PASS OUT. UH, MY NAME'S NICOLA FRY AND I'M THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENIOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE. I'M ALSO THE SECRETARY FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR REBUILDING TOGETHER PETALUMA. AND I'M A VERY PROUD DELIVERY PERSON FOR THE PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES PROGRAM. MEALS ON WHEELS. AS YOU CAN GUESS, I'M EXTREMELY PARTIAL TO THESE PROGRAMS THAT YOU'RE PROPOSING THESE FUNDINGS FOR. IN ADDITION TO THE BENEFITS I PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED WHILE BEING INVOLVED IN THESE TWO PROGRAMS, I WANNA LET YOU KNOW A LITTLE ABOUT THE EFFECTS THAT THESE PE PETALUMA NONPROFITS HAVE ON SOME OF THE RESIDENTS THAT HAVE. I'VE SEEN JUST IN THE LAST WEEK, MY NEIGHBOR AND FRIEND JUDY AND I HAVE BEEN DELIVERING THE MEALS ON WHEELS EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS. UM, OUR ROUTE, WHICH IS ROUTE NUMBER EIGHT, DELIVERS HOT HEALTHY MEALS TO THE RESIDENTS OF 20 OR MORE EAST SIDE PALOMA HOMES. TWICE A WEEK I GET US TO EACH HOME, BUT JUDY DOES THE LEGWORK TO GET THE MEALS TO THE HOUSES. WE HAVE FORMED FRIENDSHIPS WITH THESE WE DELIVER TO. WE KNOW WHEN THEY ARE HANDLING ILLNESSES OR HEADING TO THE HOSPITAL WHEN THEY NEED CHEERING UP OR WHEN THEY MIGHT JUST WANT, NEED TO TALK TO SOMEBODY. WE KNOW WHO HAS DIETARY NEEDS AND WE'RE AWARE OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS THAT HAPPEN IN THEIR LIVES. AND WE EVEN KNOW ALL THEIR DOGS' NAMES. WE KNOW WHO HAS DIFFICULTY GETTING TO THEIR DOOR. SO WE CALL THEM EARLY BEFORE WE GET THERE. SO THEY'LL BE THERE WHEN WE GET THERE. UM, WE ALSO KNOW WHERE WE CAN LEAVE A MEAL IF THEY CAN'T BE HOME. 'CAUSE THEY'LL CALL US AND LET US KNOW. WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL AT ONE PLACE 'CAUSE THERE'S A ROOSTER THAT LIVES RIGHT AROUND THERE AND HE LIKES THE MEALS WE DELIVER. ALSO, . UM, WE ENJOY HELPING THE STAFF AND THE VOLUNTEERS AT MEALS ON WHEELS, TRACY AND BILL AND ALL THE OTHERS, THEY KNOW THAT WE LOVE FRESH BAKED COOKIES AND WE GET THEM EVERY SO OFTEN AS WE'RE REBUILDING TOGETHER. PETALUMA, I HAVE BEEN IN ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH THAT FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS. I FIRST BECAME INVOLVED WHEN THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SENIORS WHO NEEDED YARD WORK DONE AT THEIR HOMES. BECAUSE I LIVE IN THE PETALUMA STATES, A SENIOR MANUFACTURED COMMUNITY OF 215 HOMES, I WAS VERY AWARE OF THE NEEDS OF SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS. I CONTACTED DRAKE AND I OFFERED TO SET UP THE ORGANIZING INFORMATION TO GET MY NEIGHBORS SOME YARD WORK. WE KNOW WHAT WE CAN GET OLD. GETTING DOWN TO THOSE WEEDS IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST THING. THE DIFFERENCES THAT THE VOLUNTEERS AND THE DEDICATED CONTRACTORS OF REELING TOGETHER HAVE MADE IN THE LIVES OF SENIORS, FAMILIES, VETERANS, AND LOW INCOME RESIDENTS IS WONDERFUL TO OBSERVE. JUST THIS LAST SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH, I WORKED WITH 10 COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO CAME TOGETHER TO DO SOME SERIOUS NECESSARY REPAIRS ON AN OLDER MOBILE HOME. THEIR WORK WAS ACCOMPLISHED THAT DAY AND ALLOWED THE ELDERLY COUPLE BOTH IN THEIR NINETIES TO STAY SAFELY IN THEIR HOME. LAST SEPTEMBER, REBUILDING ALSO REPLACED THEIR BATHROOM IN THIS PLACE. AND I REMEMBER THE DAY OF PULLING UP THE TOILET, LOOKING AT THE SUBFLOOR, NOON, KNOWING IT HAD TO COME OUT AND THEN LOOKING THAT THE JOIST TEST ALSO HAD TO BE REPLACED, BUT WE HAD TO DO IT THAT DAY BECAUSE THEY NEEDED THEIR BATHROOM THAT NIGHT. SO WE HAD THIS SWEET OLD COUPLE BACK IN THEIR BATHROOM. WHEN YOU'RE INVOLVED AND ACTUALLY SEE THE DIFFERENCES THAT RO, THAT REAL BUILDING TO PETALUMA CAN MAKE IN THE LIVES OF THOSE IN NEED. SAFETY CHECKUPS, EQUIPMENT, NEW STAIRS, NEW RAMPS, NEW PORCHES, WEATHERSTRIPPING [03:10:01] AND WINDOWS, AND KEEP WATER HEATERS. NOT TO MENTION THAT SOMETIMES WE SEE THINGS. THANK YOU. YOU'D RATHER NOT KNOW WHERE PEOPLE LIVE IN THAT KIND OF CONDITION. THANK YOU. YOUR THREE MINUTES HAS EXPIRED. SHE CAN HAVE MY TIME TO FINISH, PLEASE. THANK YOU. PLEASE FINISH. WE SEE PEOPLE WITH ROTTED FLOORS, HOLES IN THEIR WALLS, HOLES IN THEIR FLOORS, AND MISSING HEATERS. CAN'T BELIEVE WE SAW SOMEBODY WHO, SOME CONTRACTOR CAME AND TOOK THEIR HEATER AWAY 'CAUSE HE SAID SHE DIDN'T REALLY NEEDED. UM, SO WE CAME, WE COME TO HELP THESE PEOPLE. OUR WORK IS CENTERED ON REPAIRING HOMES, REVITALIZING COMMUNITIES, REBUILDING LIVES ON. OUR GOAL IS TO CREATE SAFE HOMES AND COMMUNITIES FOR EVERYONE. WORKING WITH THESE TWO NONPROFITS IS THE GOAL OF MY LIFE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IN THAT PUBLIC CLOSES, PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE ITEM FOR THE EVENING AND FINE FE AND I DO WANNA RECOGNIZE THAT, UH, REBUILDING TOGETHERS, UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DRAKE CUNNINGHAM IS IN THE ROOM. AND A LOT OF, A LOT OF THE CREDIT FOR REBUILDINGS GOOD WORK GOES TO DRAKE AND HIS TEAM. UM, BRINGING IT BACK TO COUNCIL. UH, DO WE HAVE, I GUESS, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE? I MEAN, YEAH, THERE'S, UH, NEVER TOO MUCH FUNDING TO GO TO THESE TWO ORGANIZATIONS, SO I'M HAPPY TO MOVE THE ITEM AND REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THEIR WORK AND GRATEFUL FOR YOUR WORK, COLA AND EVERYBODY ELSE WHO, UM, MAKES THESE THINGS HAPPEN. THANK YOU. I'LL SECOND THAT. THANK AND A COUNCIL BY PO. UH, SECOND BY OSA. OKAY. AND A ROLL CALL. VOTE PLEASE. PARLE. AYE. CATER THOMPSON? YES. HEALY? YES. NOW? YES. POST. OKAY. YES. REBS? YES. MCDONALD? YES. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. UM, MOVING UNDER OUR NEXT ITEM, ITEM 12, INTRODUCTION OF AN ORDINANCE TO CITY COUNCIL. THE CITY OF PETALUMA REDUCED ENFORCEABLE SPEED FROM 25 TO 15 MILES PER HOUR, WITHIN 500 FEET OF SCHOOL ZONES FROM 25 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR WITHIN THE BUSINESS ACTIVITY DISTRICT. AND, UM, TO HELP US WITH THIS ITEM TODAY, UH, JEFF STUDSON, DIRECTOR OF, UM, OPERATION DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS. THANK YOU EVERYBODY. UM, EXCITED, EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT THIS ONE. THIS IS A, THIS IS A GOOD ONE AND IT, IT DEFINITELY FEEDS INTO EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THE MAIN SHOW FOR ID STREET. SO IT, AGAIN, IT FEED, IT FEEDS RIGHT INTO IT. UM, SO AS THE MAYOR SAID, IT'S A REDUCTION OF SPEEDS AROUND SPEEDS. SCHOOL ZONES FROM 2025 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR, THE SCHOOL ZONES. AND THEN THE NEW ONE IS, UM, REDUCING THE SPEEDS IN THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT FROM 25 TO 20. SO THE TRADITIONAL WAY THAT SPEED LIMITS HAVE BEEN SET WAS UTILIZING THE 85TH PERCENTILE SPEEDS, WHICH IS A SPEED THAT 85% OF THE PEOPLE DRIVE ASSEMBLY. BILL 43, WHICH RECENTLY JUST TOOK IN EFFECT JANUARY 1ST, 2022, MADE A NUMBER OF CHANGES ON HOW WE LOOK AT SPEED LIMITS. UM, MADE A NUMBER OF MAD CHANGES AND MODIFICATIONS TO THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE THAT AUTHORIZE LOCAL JURISDICTIONS TO SET SPEED LIMITS ON CERTAIN STREETS. UM, SECTION 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 5, 8 0.4. SECTION B ALLOWS THE, UM, LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO REDUCE THE SPEED LIMITS, UM, WITHIN SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITHIN 500 FEET FROM 25 MILES AN HOUR TO 15 WHEN STUDENTS ARE PRESENT. AND THE BIGGER PIECE OF THE AB 43 PIECE OF IT WAS A REDUCTION OF SPEED LIMITS DOWN IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA WHERE THEY REFER TO AS THE BUSINESS DISTRICT. UM, SO YOU'RE ALLOWED TO REDUCE THE SPEED LIMITS FROM WHAT IS TRADITIONALLY 25 MILES AN HOUR, DOWN TO FIVE, DOWN FIVE MILES AN HOUR. SO YOU GET 20 MILE AN HOUR SPEEDS. SO WITHIN THE STAFF REPORT FOR THIS ORDINANCE, THERE IS, UM, A LIST OF STREETS FOR BOTH THE SCHOOL ZONE REDUCTION AS WELL AS THE, UM, BUSINESS DISTRICT THAT IDENTIFIED THE STREETS THAT WERE, UM, CLASSIFIED, THAT MET THE REQUIREMENTS OF BOTH THOSE ORDINANCES. AND THEN AS PART OF, UM, AB 40 E THREE, WHICH IS KIND OF THE NEXT STEPS OF THIS, IS TO LOOK AT THE SPEED REDUCTIONS IN A BIGGER PART OF THE CITY AS WHAT THEY CALL THE, UM, SAFETY OR THE HIGH INJURY NETWORK, THE ONES THAT HAVE, UM, BASICALLY BASIS OF SAFETY OF RENEWABLE USERS. SO YOU'RE ALLOWED TO LOOK AT STREETS THAT ARE BASICALLY SAFETY CORRIDORS AND REDUCE THE SPEED LIMITS DOWN AT ADDITIONAL FIVE. SO THIS IS A SECOND PIECE THAT'S GONNA BE COMING WITH ANOTHER ORDINANCE IN, IN THE SUMMER OF LOOKING AT, AT THOSE. BUT THIS FIRST STEP WITH IDENTIFYING OUR DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICTS AND OUR SCHOOLS IS JUST A WAY TO BRING OUR SPEED LIMITS DOWN IN THOSE AREAS, TO IMPROVE SAFETY FOR ALL OUR, OUR USERS, UM, [03:15:01] BICYCLES, PETS, PEOPLE GOING TO SCHOOL. SO THAT, THAT'S WHAT I HAVE FOR, FOR THIS ITEM. SO IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE, UM, GLAD TO ANSWER ANYTHING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'LL BRING IT BACK UP TO COUNCIL FOR, UH, QUESTIONS. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. THANK YOU. SO, UM, THE ORIGINAL STAFF REPORT POSTED LAST WEDNESDAY WAS PROPOSING TO REDUCE SPEED LIMITS NEAR SCHOOLS ONLY TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. AND IT WAS ONLY FOR EAST SIDE, SOME EAST SIDE SCHOOLS. AND I GUESS AT SOME POINT LATE LAST WEEK, THAT WAS REVISED TO INCLUDE, EXCUSE ME, WEST SIDE SCHOOLS. AND NOW THE STAFF REPORT, THE REVISED STAFF REPORT TALKS ABOUT GOING TO 15 MILES AN HOUR, BUT I, I LOOK AT THE, UM, AMENDED LIST OF STREETS, WHICH GOES ON FOR FOUR PAGES, THREE PAGES. UM, AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT REDUCING THEIR PROPOSED SCHOOL SPEEDS TO 20 MILES AN HOUR, NOT 15. SO IT, IT SEEMS LIKE I, WHAT, WHAT AM I MISSING HERE? SO THE ORIGINAL, SO THIS IS AN ATTACHMENT THREE? YEAH, THIS IS THE NEW ATTACHMENT THREE. THE ATTACHMENT THREE SHOULDN'T HAVE CHANGED. THE ONLY THING THAT ADDED WITH THE ORDINANCE WAS THE MAP ITSELF. SO ALL THE SCHOOLS THAT WERE IN THE ORIGINAL ORDINANCE WAS ALL THE STREETS I LISTED ON THAT MAP, WHICH IS ALL THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS THAT ARE K THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL. YEAH. BUT MY, MY QUESTION IS THAT ALL, ALL OF THE STREET SEGMENTS LISTED ON IN ATTACHMENT THREE, SAY THE EXISTING SPEED LIMIT IS 25 AND THE PROPOSED SCHOOL SPEED IS 20. YES. SO THAT, THAT IS AN ERROR THAT WE DID. I DID NOT ADJUST TODAY. SO TODAY WAS, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME UP WITH SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT CAME WAS THE REDUCTION OF SPEEDS FROM 25 TO 20, SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AREA. AND BASED ON THE VEHICLE CODE AND ALL THE LAWS THAT GO WITH IT, UM, THE M-U-T-C-D REQUIRES THAT THERE WOULD BE A TRAFFIC ENGINEERING STUDY WITH A REDUCTION OF 20 TO 25 FOR 25 TO 20. BUT THERE IS ANOTHER, ANOTHER SUBSET WITHIN THAT FOR SECTION B THAT ALLOWED THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO REDUCE IT TO 15 BASED ON THE CRITERIA. SO THAT WAS THE ONE THAT WE WERE USING. SO THAT ALLOWED THE REDUCTION OF SPEED LIMIT. RIGHT. BUT WHAT, WHAT CHANGED BETWEEN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY? JUST THE TITLE OF, OF, OF THE ORDINANCE, CORRECT? YEAH, JUST THE TITLE COUNCIL MEMBER HEAL. WELL, EXCEPT, EXCEPT THE ATTACHMENTS NOW LIST TWICE AS MANY STREET SEGMENTS IN TOWN. THE, THE STREET SEGMENTS SHOULD NOT HAVE CHANGED. THE, THE, THEY DIDN'T, THE ATTACHMENTS THREE, THE ONLY THING THAT ADDED TO ATTACHMENT THREE WAS THE MAP ITSELF. THE LIST OF STREETS DID NOT CHANGE. UH, ALL THOSE STREETS ARE, WOULD FALL IN WITHIN THAT 500 BUFFER, 500 FOOT BUFFER OF, ALL RIGHT. WELL, MY, MY REAL QUESTION IS ACTUALLY FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND, UM, BEFORE I DO THAT, DID YOU COLLABORATE WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THIS? YES, WE DID. AND, UH, IS, IS THE POLICE OKAY, I SEE THE CHIEF COMING UP AND I, I GUESS MY QUESTION TO YOU, UH, CHIEF, IS, YOU KNOW, ON THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM, WE'RE GONNA BE HEARING A LOT ABOUT LACK OF ENFORCEMENT ON A MAJOR ARTERIAL D STREET. UM, AND, AND, AND RAMPANT SPEEDING. DO YOU REALLY HAVE THE BANDWIDTH TO, UM, DO TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT AT, AT 15 MILES AN HOUR ON THESE STREET SEGMENTS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY SMALL RESIDENTIAL STREETS THAT HAPPEN TO BE NEAR, UM, NEAR SCHOOLS, BUT IT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE MAJOR ARTERIALS NEAR THE SCHOOLS? SURE. YEAH. SO I THINK ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE THINGS THAT WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT THIS CAN ACCOMPLISH IS REDUCING COLLISIONS, IMPROVING SAFETY IN THOSE AREAS, WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY LEAD TO FURTHER EFFICIENCIES FOR MY STAFF. WE SPEND A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TIME INVESTIGATING COLLISIONS, RESPONDING TO TRAFFIC COMPLAINTS. UM, AND FRANKLY, WE, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS, UH, RELATED TO ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS. SO I'M, I'M MOST OPTIMISTIC, LIKE OUR SLOW, THE FAST DOWN CAMPAIGN THAT SOME OF THIS WILL BE EDUCATIONAL AND THAT PEOPLE ARE MORE AWARE OF THEIR SPEEDS AND THEIR DRIVING BEHAVIORS, AND IT'LL ACTUALLY ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING. O OKAY. BUT MY QUESTION WAS, DO YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO ENFORCE THIS? DO YOU HAVE THE STAFF BANDWIDTH TO ENFORCE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GOING 16 MILES AN HOUR ON CELL MART LANE? YEAH, I THINK IT'S NOT ANY DIFFERENT THAN WE WOULD APPROACH ANY OTHER SPEED LIMIT. UM, IT'S A CHANGE IN, IN WHAT THAT NUMERICAL VALUE IS, AND WE LOOK FOR DRIVING BEHAVIORS THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THAT, AND WE ENFORCE THOSE. OKAY. THANKS. ANY QUESTIONS? GOING TO PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, GOING TO PUBLIC COMMENT, THEN, UM, I'D LIKE TO ASK THE CLERK IF WE'VE RECEIVED ANY, UM, EMAILS IN ON THIS [03:20:01] TOPIC. WE DID RECEIVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT. IT'S POSTED ONLINE. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU. AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR MODERATOR TO READ OUR MESSAGING FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. THANK YOU. MAYOR. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARD TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS. AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED. PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION. THE TIMER BEHIND THE DIOCESE WILL RESET FOR EACH SPEAKER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I HAVE ONE, UH, SPEAKER CARD HERE, AND I SEE, UH, NO OTHERS RUSHING. SO, UM, UH, BARRY BAITZ WILL BE OUR ONLY SPEAKER, PUBLIC SPEAKER TONIGHT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, STAFF, AND COMMUNITY. IT'S REALLY BEYOND TIME TO SLOW THE FAST DOWN. 20 IS PLENTY. 15 IS KEEN . OH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, AND THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENT. UH, I'D LIKE TO BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL AND, UH, HAVE ANY, UH, COMMENTS, COUNCIL WISHES TO MAKE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON. JUST A QUICK COMMENT. ARE WE GONNA BE HAVING LIKE FLASHING LIGHTS TO SAY, YOU KNOW, 20 MILES OR IS IT SIGNS THAT ARE GONNA BE CHANGED? AND I, I AM CONCERNED HOW IT'S GONNA BE, UM, MONITORED BECAUSE SPEEDING IN FRONT OF SCHOOLS IS REALLY CRAZY AND A LOT OF IT'S PARENTS DRIVING THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL AND PICKING THEM UP. YEAH, I WOULD JUST, UM, AS AN EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING THAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE KIND OF WITH THE WORK THAT BJORN'S DONE WITH SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS OF DOING THE, THE WALK AUDITS AND EVERYTHING. OUR FIRST KIND OF, I WOULDN'T SAY PILOT KIND OF WAS, WAS MCDOWELL ELEMENTARY. UM, A LOT OF THINGS CAME OUT OF THAT, A LOT OF GOOD IMPROVEMENTS, SUGGESTIONS. ONE OF 'EM WAS RADAR FEEDBACK SIGNS ON MCDOWELL. WE GOT THOSE UP PRETTY QUICKLY. WE DID AN AUDIT. WE'VE RE REVAMPED ALL THE SAFE ROUTE OF SCHOOL SIGNAGE. SO ALL THE SPEED SIGNS AROUND MCDOWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OR UPGRADED. UM, SO IT'S, THERE WILL BE VERY, THE SCHOOL SIGNAGE IS VERY VISIBLE. IT'S HIGH FLUORESCENT GREEN. YOU'LL, YOU'LL SEE 'EM, SO WE'LL BE AS PART OF THIS PROCESS. OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT ENFORCEABLE UNTIL THE SIGNS GO UP. SO AS WE GO THROUGH EACH SCHOOL, WE'LL BE UPDATING THOSE SIGNS AND GETTING 'EM IN THERE. AND I KNOW THERE WAS A LARGE LIST OF STREETS WITH, WITH THIS, BUT FOR ME IT WAS, IT WAS SOMEWHAT OF A, THOSE WERE ALL THE STREETS THAT LANDED WITHIN THAT 500 FOOT BUFFER. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT LIKE EL NORTH MCDOWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THERE ARE CERTAIN STREETS WHERE SIGNS MAKE THE MOST SENSE TO GET THE MOST EFFECTIVE REACH TO ALL THE COMMUNITY. SO IT WILL BE A COMBINATION OF NEW SIGNS AS WELL AS WE'RE WORKING ON UPDATING ALL THE RADAR FEEDBACK SIGNS IN TOWN AND GETTING 'EM IN THOSE CRITICAL LOCATIONS AROUND SCHOOLS. AND WHAT ARE YOU, WHAT ARE YOU DOING AS FAR AS LIKE REALLY WORKING WITH THE SCHOOLS? I REALIZE A SAFE ROUTE TO SCHOOLS, BUT SOMETHING CONSISTENT THAT THE SCHOOL SENDS OUT TO PARENTS QUARTERLY TO REMIND THEM TO SLOW DOWN. BJORN, DO YOU KNOW IF WE'RE DOING ANYTHING RELATED TO KIND OF THE COMMUNICATION ELEMENT TO, UM, THE SCHOOLS? YEAH, SO WE CAN, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING AT THE TASK FORCE MEETINGS GENERALLY, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THOSE AS INVOLVE FOCUSED OR SPECIFIC SCHOOL, EACH TASK FORCE MEETING. SO THAT'S A CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING WITH PRINCIPALS AND DISTRICT STAFF AROUND, UM, MORE REGULAR COMMUNICATION WITH THEIR, UM, COMMUNITIES REMINDING THEM OF, OF SAFE DRIVING BEHAVIORS. UM, ONE OF THE REAL CHALLENGES WITH, WITH JUST THE NATURE OF SCHOOL IS THAT THERE'S A REEDUCATION THAT HAS TO HAPPEN EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL YEAR BECAUSE OF STUDENT TURNOVER AND, AND CHANGE. SO, UM, IT'S DEFINITELY AN ONGOING, UH, AN ONGOING EFFORT AND ONE WHERE WE'RE PARTNERING CLOSELY WITH THE SCHOOLS AND WITH SAFE ROUTES OF SCHOOL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VICE MAYOR. UM, YEAH, JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON, UH, THIS, THE IMPLEMENTATION HERE. UM, DO WE HAVE EACH OF THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT FIRST IS BOUGHT IN, I ASSUME, AND THEN EACH SCHOOL IS, IS BOUGHT IN ALREADY ON THIS, UM, MAKING THAT ASSUMPTION SHOOT. CORRECT. UM, IN THE IMP IMPLEMENTATION, WILL WE, GOING TO ALL SCHOOLS AT THE SAME TIME OR TRIAL ONE SCHOOL, THEN ADD ANOTHER SCHOOL, AND THEN DO AN EDUCATION PROGRAM AND EVEN WORK WITH THE, THE, THAT STAFF AT THAT SCHOOL. SO MAYBE FOLKS WOULD GET OUT THERE WITH LITTLE SIGNS 15 MILES AN HOUR DURING, UH, SO THAT WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE ONGOING PARTICIPATION AND, AND TRYING TO GET IT IMPLEMENTED. 'CAUSE IF YOU'RE JUST SENDING IT OUT, OH, WE'RE GONNA CHANGE THIS NOW, IT, IT MAY NOT WORK SO WELL. YEAH, NO, WE CAN, WE CAN WORK WITH OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM AND DO KIND OF A, A CITYWIDE ROLLOUT OF, OF THESE NEW CHANGES. I MEAN, WE WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED RIGHT NOW ON, ON SCHOOLS, BUT THERE'S THE OTHER PIECE OF THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT TOO, UM, WHERE SPEEDS ARE GONNA BE REDUCED. AND I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE THE MOST VISUAL TOO, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT MORE PEOPLE WHO DRIVE. SO THERE WILL BE A COMMUNICATION PIECE TO IT OF THE OUT OUTREACH. AND FOR THE ROLLOUT OF THE SCHOOLS, I DO SEE IT BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE OUR CREWS INSTALLING [03:25:01] THESE IN OUR CREWS, IN OUR, OUR STAFF DOING THE DESIGN LAYOUT THAT IT IS GONNA BE, NOT THAT IT'S GONNA TAKE MONTHS, BUT IT'S GONNA BE A ROLLOUT OF SCHOOL BY SCHOOL, BY SCHOOL, ESPECIALLY AS WE DO, UM, THE SAFE ROUTE OF SCHOOLS AUDIT. THAT'S A PERFECT TIME TO DO THAT QUOTE AUDIT OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL AND UPDATE EVERYTHING AT ONCE. YEAH. 'CAUSE I IMAGINE THE NUMBER OF STREETS YOU HAVE LISTED NOW, THE NUMBER OF SIGNS YOU WOULD NEED ON EACH STREET TO SAY 15 MILES AN HOUR. UM, THAT'S A LARGE VOLUME OF SIGNS GOING UP ON EACH OF THOSE INDIVIDUAL STREETS. UM, AND THEN MAYBE HAVING THE SCHOOL MONITORS STAFF OR VOLUNTEERS OR PARENTS COMING OUT AND WORKING AND, AND KICKING OFF THAT PROGRAM. SO THEY'RE VERY PARTICIPATORY. NOT JUST SAYING, WE'RE GONNA GO FOR THIS, BUT THAT PARTICIPATION BY THE SCHOOL, EACH SCHOOL ITSELF, AND WHETHER EVEN THE STUDENTS COME OUT THERE WITH 50 MILE AN HOUR SIGNS WAVING IT AT FOLKS, UH, MIGHT BE NEEDED JUST AS A, A REMINDER OF EVERYBODY. UM, SO IMPLEMENTATION IS, IS CRITICAL. WE NEED TO PUT SOME EFFORT INTO THAT, WORKING WITH EACH SCHOOL, UM, I THINK MAKE THAT ALL HAPPEN. AND, UM, AND THEN DOWNTOWN PRETTY SIMILAR THING. 'CAUSE I THINK WE'VE ALREADY REDUCED IT DOWN TO LIKE, WAS WAS 30 AND I THINK WHAT'S GOT REDUCED DOWN TO 25 AND NOW WE'RE REDUCING IT DOWN TO 20 FOR THE DOWNTOWN CORRIDOR. SO AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S, UH, EDUCATION AND, UH, INFORMATION AND MAKE EVERYONE INFORMED IS GONNA BE REAL CRITICAL. UH, ENFORCEMENT MIGHT BE A LITTLE TOUGH, BUT, UM, I THINK COOPERATION, NOT ENFORCEMENT. COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. UM, I PERSONALLY, I'M SUPER EXCITED TO SEE THIS ITEM COME FORWARD. UM, I REMEMBER SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE IN 2020 WHEN THE VISION ZERO ORDINANCE GOT ADOPTED AND I WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTING IT THEN. UM, THIS IS JUST US MOVING FORWARD WITH IMPLEMENTING THAT. UM, WE SAW IN THE SAFE STREETS PRESENTATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING THAT, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS UNDERWAY. THE SAY REST OF SCHOOLS AUDITS, UM, THE SLOW THE FAST DOWN CAMPAIGN, THE, UM, NOMINATION PROGRAM. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE DOING TO, YOU KNOW, REALLY CHANGE CULTURE HERE. YOU KNOW, THE, THE NEXT THING, THE NEXT ITEM WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT SOME INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES, BUT THERE'S A WHOLE SUITE OF THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE IT SAFER FOR PEOPLE TO GET AROUND OUR CITY. UM, AND I CAN SAY, UM, WITH A LOT OF CONFIDENCE THAT THE NUMBER ONE THING I HEAR WHEN I WALK DOOR TO DOOR IN MY CAMPAIGN IS PEOPLE WANT PEOPLE TO SLOW DOWN ON THEIR STREET. AND SO, UM, THIS IS STEP ONE IS SETTING THE SPEED LIMIT. UM, SO VERY MUCH SUPPORT THIS AND I'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE THE ITEM. I'LL SECOND THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT'S MOTION BY BARNACLE. SECOND BY CATER THOMPSON. COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. THANK YOU. UM, I DO SUPPORT THE REDUCTION IN THE DOWNTOWN CORE TO 20 MILES PER HOUR. I THINK THAT'S REALISTIC GIVEN THE TRAFFIC PATTERNS THERE. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE CONTINUAL PARKING MOVEMENTS AND DELIVERY TRUCKS AND JAYWALKING AND, AND EVERYTHING ELSE. SO I THINK 20 MILES AN HOUR MAKES A A LOT OF SENSE FOR THE DOWNTOWN CORE. UM, I WOULD'VE SUPPORTED THE ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION IN THE STAFF REPORT LAST WEDNESDAY TO REDUCE TO 20 MILES AN HOUR, UM, ON RESIDENTIAL STREETS NEAR SCHOOLS. I THINK 15 IS UNREALISTIC. UM, AND SINCE THOSE TWO ITEMS ARE COMBINED, I WILL RESPECTFULLY BE VOTING. NO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, COUNCIL VICE MAYOR SCHIBS. I JUST WANT SOME, UM, CONFIRMATION, 'CAUSE I WAS READING IT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY. UM, THAT THE 15 MILES AN HOUR IS ONLY APPLIED DURING THE SCHOOL WEEK, DURING THE HOURS OF DROP OFF AND PICK UP. OTHERWISE IT'S 20 MILES AN HOUR. THAT IS CORRECT. AND I THINK THE ADDITION OF AB FOUR 13, THEY DID ADD THAT IT WAS WHEN, WHEN CHILDREN ARE PRESENT, RIGHT? THE ADDITION IS THAT RESTRICTED TO, AS YOU SAID, 500 FEET, BUT IS THAT JUST, UH, IN 500 FEET? IS THAT LIKE ONE CITY BLOCK, UM, AND IS ONLY REFERRING TO THE ACTUAL DROP OFF POINT AND PICKUP POINT AT EACH SCHOOL? OR IS IT WITHIN THE ENTIRE SCHOOL? IT'S WITHIN THE ENTIRE SCHOOL BOUNDARY. SO IF YOU WERE TO LOOK AT, UM, ATTACHMENT THREE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, IT'S HARD TO SEE ON THE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO. BUT THERE IS A, ALL THE SCHOOLS ARE IDENTIFIED AND THERE IS WHAT WE CALL BUFFER AROUND THE SCHOOL THAT IS A 500 FOOT BUFFER. SO IT IS AROUND THE SCHOOL DIS LIKE THE SCHOOL GROUNDS ITSELF, RIGHT? 'CAUSE THAT MIGHT BE, UH, JUST FOR DR. SOMEONE DRIVING AROUND FROM THEIR HOUSE MIGHT BE DIFFICULT IF, IF THEY'RE A WHOLE BLOCK AWAY AND THAT GOING TO THE SCHOOL, THEY'RE GOING AWAY FROM THE SCHOOL AND IT'S A WHOLE BLOCK AWAY, STILL WITHIN 500 FEET. AND THOSE, UH, AND THEY MIGHT NOT EVEN KNOW, UM, AND MAY NOT SEE A VERY MANY STUDENTS THERE. SO IS THERE A WAY OF RESTRICTING THAT 15 MILE AN HOUR TO THE, UM, WITHIN 500 FEET OF THE DROP OFF ZONE AND THE PICKUP ZONE? YES. INSTEAD OF THE ENTIRE SCHOOL? YEAH. SO THE, THE, THE LIST AND MAYBE WAS MADE IT MORE CONFUSING, BUT THE LIST WAS IDENTIFIED BASICALLY JUST ALL THE STREETS THAT WERE WITHIN THAT 500 FOOT BUFFER. UM, BUT AS [03:30:01] YOU GET DOWN TO THE NITTY GRITTY OF IDENTIFYING AROUND THOSE SCHOOLS, THERE ARE CERTAIN SIGNS THAT MAKE MORE SENSE. AND I, I DO USE NORTH MC, THE MCDOWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AS AN EXAMPLE, AS THERE ARE A LOT OF SIDE STREETS, UM, THAT ARE, THAT ARE CUL-DE-SACS THAT MAY FALL INTO IT. BUT OBVIOUSLY SIGNING A CUL-DE-SAC DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE WHEN YOU HAVE 10 HOUSES ON IT. BUT THAT MAIN STREET, SAY MARIA, THAT FRONTS IT, THOSE ARE THE STREETS WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO TARGET IT, WHERE IT HAS A DIRECT IMPACT TO PEOPLE FEEDING ONTO THESE SAY, LARGER RESIDENTIAL ROADS THAT WOULD BE USED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN DURING DROP OFF AND PICKUP AND GOOD. AND THERE'LL BE SIGNAGE THAT REFERS TO THE HOURS FOR THAT PURPOSE, RIGHT? YEAH, THERE ARE, THERE IS A STANDARD SIGN THAT IS M-U-T-C-D AND COMPLIANT THAT, THAT SAYS SCHOOL ZONE. AND IT'S A SPECIFIC SCHOOL SIGNAGE. RIGHT. AND OUR OTHER CITIES, IF I COULD, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, BUT STILL HAVE DISCUSSION AFTER. AND, UH, WE WERE HAVING QUESTIONS BEFORE WE WENT TO PUBLIC COMMENT AND NOW WE'RE DELIBERATING. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, AND, UM, I I WANT TO CONCUR WITH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY A LITTLE BIT THAT, UH, ENFORCEMENT IS, UH, UNWIELDY, UH, AN A A LARGE, UH, ADDED, UH, TASK IF WE TRY AND, UM, ENFORCE EVERY INFRACTION. UH, AND I DON'T THINK WE DO THAT FOR MANY OF OUR CODES AND LAWS. UH, UM, BUT I, I DO THINK WHAT'S IMPORTANT HERE IS, IS THAT WE SET THE STANDARD AND SET THE, UH, EXPECTATION THAT WE COMMUNICATED AND THAT WE START, UH, UH, PRACTICE THINGS SAFER SPEEDS IN OUR STREETS. AND SO, UM, UH, I, I WOULD, UM, BE ON BOARD WITH THAT. WE HAVE A MOTION, WE HAVE A SECOND. MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL? VOTE BARNACLE. AYE. CATER THOMPSON? YES. HEALY? NO. NOW YES. POKAY. YES. SCHIBS, YES. MCDONALD? YES. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GREAT PRESENTATION. APPRECIATE IT. AND NOW, UM, WE'RE MOVING TO, UM, ITEM 13 ON OUR AGENDA, WHICH IS RESO RESOLUTION, SELECTING DESIGN ALTERNATIVES FOR THE D STREET TRAFFIC CALMING AND FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY PILOT PROJECTS. AND TO HELP US, UH, WITH THAT, WE HAVE, UH, BJORN GREENBERG, THE PROJECT MANAGER FOR THIS TASK. UH, WELCOME AGAIN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD EVENING AGAIN, MAYOR. COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, UM, I'M JOINED HERE BY JEFF STUTZMAN, OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, UH, WHO'S A LICENSED TRAFFIC ENGINEER, AS WELL AS WE'VE GOT BRIE ADAMS FROM PARAMETRIC PARAMETRICS TRANSPORTATION CONSULTING, UH, JOINING VIA ZOOM PARAMETRICS HAS BEEN ASSISTING US WITH THE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT FOR THIS PROJECT. AND YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE HERE. SO TONIGHT WE WILL BE GIVING A, A VERY, VERY BRIEF, UH, INTRODUCTION TO BOTH OF THESE PROJECTS. SOME OF THE POLICY AND PLANNING CONTEXT, UM, WHICH WAS REALLY EXPANDED UPON IT WITHIN THE STAFF REPORT. AND THEN WE WILL, UH, LOOK AT BOTH OF THE PROJECTS, UM, INDIVIDUALLY. WE'LL START WITH THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD, GREENWAY FROM WESTERN AVENUE TO MOUNTAIN VIEW AVENUE, AND THEN MOVE ON TO D STREET TRAFFIC CALMING PILOT PROJECT FROM OMA BOULEVARD SOUTH TO CITY LIMITS. AND WRAP UP WITH, UH, A RECAP ON, UH, AREAS WHERE WE ARE LOOKING FOR, UH, DIRECTION TO MOVE FORWARD. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO JUST TO BUILD ON OUR EARLIER SAFE STREETS PRESENTATION, OUR WORK ON SAFE STREETS AND ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION CONTRIBUTES TO BROADER EFFORTS BY THE CITY, INCLUDING IMPROVED HEALTH AND SAFETY, REDUCED TRANSPORTATION COSTS, AND REDUCED POLLUTION FROM TRANSPORTATION, WHICH IS OUR, IT'S OUR TRANSPORTATION IS THE NUMBER ONE SOURCE OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN PETALUMA AND SONOMA COUNTY. AND, UM, JUST FOR, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A, A AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON THESE PROJECTS THAT ARE OFTEN, UM, CAN BE DIVISIVE, UM, JUST WANT TO TO OPEN BY SAYING THAT, THAT WE ARE VERY WELL AWARE, UM, AS STAFF THAT WALKING BIKING ARE NOT FEASIBLE FOR EVERY TRIP OR EVERY PERSON. UM, BUT THE IDEA IS THAT, UH, AS WE'RE WORKING TO IMPROVE OUR STREETS, TO CREATE MORE BALANCED, UH, AND IMPROVE MOBILITY OPTIONS THAT IF THOSE WHO ARE WILLING AND ABLE TO WALK AND BIKE ARE ABLE TO DO SO EVEN OCCASIONALLY, THAT EVERYONE BENEFITS IN OUR COMMUNITY, INCLUDING DRIVERS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO, UM, FOLLOWING ON THAT, UH, LOOKING AT ALIGNMENT WITH RECENT COUNCIL ACTIONS, PLANS AND POLICIES, UH, SAFETY REALLY IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT STREET DESIGN AND OUR DESIGN EFFORTS THAT YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT TONIGHT ON BOTH FIFTH AND D STREETS IMPLEMENT AND ARE CONSISTENT WITH SEVERAL COUNCIL ACTIONS AND POLICIES, INCLUDING THE ELIMINATION OF SEVERE [03:35:01] INJURIES AND DEATHS FROM TRAFFIC COLLISIONS BY 2030, KNOWN AS VISION ZERO, UH, ACHIEVING CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2030 AND THE COUNCIL'S SAFE STREETS PRIORITY AND THE CITY'S COMPLETE STREETS POLICY FROM 2016. AND AGAIN, ALL OF THESE ARE DISCUSSED WITHIN THE STAFF REPORT AND HELP GUIDE OUR WORK. SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY PROJECT, FIRST BETWEEN DOWNTOWN AND MOUNTAIN VIEW AVENUE, AND YOU CAN GO TO THE HEAD TO THE NEXT SLIDE. UM, WE'LL JUST START WITH THIS INTRODUCTION TO NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS, WHICH ARE KNOWN IN SOME OTHER COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING WITHIN THE BAY AREA AS BIKE BOULEVARDS. THESE ARE EFFECTIVELY, UH, LOW STRESS, QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS WHERE, UH, WE'RE LOOKING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT, UH, OF LOW TRAFFIC VOLUME AND SPEED, UH, ON THESE STREETS THAT HAVE GOOD CONNECTIVITY AND PROVIDE PLACES WHERE PEOPLE OF ALL AGE AND ABILITIES CAN COMFORTABLY BIKE AND ROLL IN THE STREET, UM, WITHOUT ANY NEED FOR, UH, REALLY ROBUST INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THIS PROJECT ON FIFTH STREET WAS ACTUALLY CONCEIVED DURING THE CITY'S WORK ON PETMAN BOULEVARD SOUTH, WHERE WHEN COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND THE PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE SAW AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FIFTH STREET AS THE FLATTEST AND QUIETEST OF OUR ONLY THREE STREETS THAT RUN BETWEEN DOWNTOWN AND MOUNTAIN VIEW AVENUE, THOSE, THE OTHERS BEING SIXTH STREET AND PETALUMA BOULEVARD SOUTH. AND, UH, AS I JUST STATED, THEY REALLY DON'T REQUIRE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT AS SHOWN ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE. AND ON THIS ONE, THE EXPECTATION IS THAT PEOPLE OF ALL AGE AND ABILITIES ARE COMFORTABLE RIDING OUT IN THE STREET. AND, UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, TRAFFIC SPEEDS ARE GENERALLY IN THAT 15 TO 20 MILE AN HOUR RANGE. YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC OR THROUGH TRAFFIC. THE IDEA IS THAT REALLY THE ONLY VEHICLE TRAFFIC ON THE STREET SHOULD BE PEOPLE WHO, UH, ARE STARTING OR ENDING THEIR TRIP ON THAT STREET. SO WE'RE, WE'RE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF, UH, REALLY THE WAYS THAT FIFTH STREET IS ALREADY BEING USED INFORMALLY AND, AND IS, IS MEANT TO BE USED. THE FOCUS ON A STREET LIKE FIFTH IS REALLY ON, UM, ENHANCING THAT TRAFFIC, CALMING AND IMPROVING ITS MAJOR STREET CROSSINGS. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, IT'S A LOCAL STREET. IT'S NOT DESIGNED FOR THROUGH TRAFFIC. AND THE CONSEQUENTLY, UH, ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE BIKING, IT'S VERY CHALLENGING, UH, TO NAVIGATE THE MAJOR INTERSECTION CROSSINGS WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO DISCOURAGE THROUGH TRAFFIC FOR VEHICLES. SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE. UM, BUT THE INTERSECTIONS THAT COME TO MIND ARE D STREET I STREET AND MOUNTAIN VIEW AVENUE ON THIS PROJECT. AND THIS IS ALSO A FIRST OF ITS KIND PROJECT IN PETALUMA THAT WILL HELP US INFORM FUTURE GREENWAY DEVELOPMENT ON SIMILAR STREETS THROUGHOUT PETALUMA. AND WE'VE LISTED SOME EXAMPLES THERE. AGAIN, THE IDEA IS THAT THESE ARE LOW STRESS, LOW TRAFFIC, LOW VOLUME STREETS WHERE, UM, WHERE WE HAVE GOOD STREET CONNECTIVITY. SO A LOT OF RESIDENTIAL STREETS RUN FOR VERY SHORT SEGMENTS. WHERE'RE LOOKING FOR THOSE RESIDENTIAL STREETS THAT WHERE WE CAN, UH, CREATE REALLY GOOD CONNECTIVITY THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SO THE MOST RECENT ROUND OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR THIS PROJECT WAS DONE, UH, IN FALL OF 2022 INTO EARLY 2023. UH, AND WE, UH, SOLICITED INPUT ON EVERYTHING FROM, UH, PRIORITIES, CONCERNS, DESIGN ELEMENTS. ALSO TO THE NAMING, WE SAW INPUT ON WHETHER THE COMMUNITY PREFERRED TO CALL THIS A BIKE BOULEVARD OR A NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY. AND WE ACTUALLY FOUND THAT NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY WAS, WAS, UH, WAS THE OVERWHELMING FAVORITE. AND, UH, FOR EACH OF THESE, WE DID NOTICING THROUGH POSTCARDS ALONG THE PROJECT CORRIDOR WITH A, A GENEROUS BUFFER AND SENT EMAILS TO PROJECT SUBSCRIBERS. WE HAD A SUBSCRIPTION FORM ON OUR PROJECT WEBPAGE, WHICH IS, IS STANDARD FOR US ON OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS. WE INCLUDED THIS IN SEVERAL ROUNDS OF THE COMMUNITY UPDATE NEWSLETTER AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA. AND THEN, UH, FOR TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION, IN ADDITION TO POSTCARDS WE SENT, WE ACTUALLY, UM, HAND DELIVERED DOOR HANGERS ALONG THE PROJECT CORRIDOR. AND WITHIN ONE BLOCK ON SIDE STREETS, THE COMMUNITY PRIORITIES THAT CAME OUT OF THAT, UH, WORKSHOP. AND THE SURVEY THAT WE DID, UM, UH, THERE WAS A, A, A BIG FOCUS ON IMPROVING THE CROSSINGS WITH MAJOR INTERSECTIONS THAT I MENTIONED. OBVIOUSLY, A DESIRE TO SLOW TRAFFIC, ESPECIALLY ON THE, THE LONG, UH, OPEN BLOCK BETWEEN I STREET AND MOUNTAIN VIEW AVENUE, WHICH WHERE THE STREET WIDENS A LITTLE BIT. UH, WE HEARD A LOT OF INTEREST, NOT SURPRISINGLY, IN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BEAUTIFY THE STREET THROUGH ADDITIONAL TREES, GREENERY, UH, LANDSCAPING ART. WE HEARD CONCERNS ABOUT PAVEMENT QUALITY, UH, ESPECIALLY, UH, IN THE SECTIONS CLOSER TO [03:40:01] DOWNTOWN. AND THEN WE ALSO HEARD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF DIVERTED TRAFFIC ON SIXTH STREET, WHICH I WILL TOUCH ON SHORTLY. SO NEXT, WE WILL RUN THROUGH SOME OF THE MAJOR, UH, DESIGN ELEMENTS PROPOSED THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT CORRIDOR. AND WITH EACH OF THESE SLIDES, YOU WILL SEE A, UM, A, A MAP ON THE BOTTOM, UH, OR A DIAGRAM, I SHOULD SAY. UH, KIND OF A SIMPLIFIED MAP SO THAT YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG WITH WHERE THESE IM IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING PROPOSED ALONG THE CORRIDOR. UM, SO THOSE ARE HIGHLIGHTED WITH THE, THE DASHED CIRCLES. SO STARTING WITH, UH, BOUTS AND CROSSWALKS, THIS IS SOMETHING KEN TOUCHED ON IN HI IN OUR PRESENTATION EARLIER. UM, AND YOU'LL, YOU'LL BE SEEING, YOU'LL SEE THESE, UH, MUCH MORE AND MORE THROUGHOUT THE CITY AS WE DEVELOP OUR SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM. THE IDEA WITH THESE IS THAT THEY SLOW TRAFFIC, THEY SHORTEN THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING DISTANCE AND MINIMIZE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING EXPOSURE, AND THEY ALSO IMPROVE VISIBILITY AND, UM, AND REALLY SLOW, UH, THOSE, THOSE TURNING MOVEMENTS AT INTERSECTIONS. AND SO WITH THIS PROJECT, WE ARE PROPOSING, UH, BOUTS AND, AND CROSSWALKS AT ALL OF THE INTERSECTIONS EXCEPT FOR, UH, THE T INTERSECTION WITH E STREET NEXT DESIGN ELEMENT ARE TRAFFIC CIRCLES, WHICH AGAIN, SLOW TRAFFIC. THEY HELP IMPROVE STREET CROSSINGS, ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE BIKING, AND THEY PROVIDE A MORE EFFICIENT BICYCLING EXPERIENCE. UM, STOP SIGNS ARE REALLY NOT AN EFFICIENT WAY FOR, ARE NOT, ARE NOT WELL DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE, UH, TRAVELING ON BIKES ALONG NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS BEST PRACTICES TO ACTUALLY TO TRY TO REMOVE, STOP SIGNS AND IMPLEMENT OTHER TRAFFIC CALMING AND TRAFFIC CONTROL STRATEGIES ON, ON STREETS LIKE THIS ONE. SO, UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT, UH, G STREET, WHICH IS AN ALWAYS STOP REPLACING THAT. ALWAYS STOP WITH A TRAFFIC CIRCLE. AND THEN ALSO INSTALLING A TRAFFIC CIRCLE AT I STREET ALONG WITH CROSSWALKS ACROSS I STREET, WHICH SHOULD DELIVER SOME TRAFFIC CALMING ON I STREET, UM, ON A A, A FAIRLY LENGTHY STRETCH THERE BETWEEN THE HALLWAY STOP AT SIXTH STREET AND THEN THE, AND THE SIGNAL AT PETA BOULEVARD SOUTH. AND, UH, AND AGAIN, AS WE'RE SLOWING PEOPLE, AS THEY APPROACH THAT INTERSECTION, IT SHOULD BE MUCH EASIER FOR PEOPLE WALKING AND BIKING TO MAKE THAT CROSSING OF I STREET. SPEND SOME TIME ON THIS ONE BECAUSE THIS IS PROBABLY THE, THE BIGGEST, WELL, THIS IS THE BIGGEST CHANGE PROPOSED AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, AND THIS ALSO IS PART OF THE D STREET PROJECT. UM, IT'S THE REASON THAT WE'RE BRINGING THESE BOTH TONIGHT IS THIS, IS, THESE PROJECTS ARE, ARE MARRIED AT THIS INTERSECTION. UM, SO I'LL, I'LL START BY JUST KIND OF GIVING SOME CONTEXT HERE. THE FIFTH AND D STREET INTERSECTION WAS IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF OUR HIGHEST PRIORITY INTERSECTIONS IN THE LOCAL ROAD SAFETY PLAN. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IT IS THE, IT'S HAD THE HIGHEST COLLISION HISTORY OF ANY INTERSECTION ON THE D STREET PROJECT CORRIDOR. SO HIGHER COLLISION HISTORY THAN PETALUMA BOULEVARD SOUTH, WHICH HAS MUCH MORE TRAFFIC AND THE SIXTH STREET INTERSECTION, WHICH ALSO HAS MUCH MORE TRAFFIC. UM, SO BETWEEN 2020, OR SORRY, BETWEEN 2012 AND 2023, WE HAD 19 INJURY COLLISIONS IN THE FIFTH STREET INTERSECTION AT D STREET. UM, PELOMA BOULEVARD SOUTH AND SIXTH STREET INTERSECTIONS WERE TIED FOR SECOND WITH 11 OVER THE SAME TIMEFRAME. UM, OUR LOCAL ROAD SAFETY PLAN WHEN WE WERE GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS, RECOMMENDED CONSIDERATION OF AN ALWAYS STOP AT THIS INTERSECTION AT FIFTH STREET. BUT, UH, WE, THAT OBVIOUSLY GAVE US PAUSE BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF CONGESTION THAT WOULD ADD IN A SHORT PROXIMITY TO BOTH OF THOSE SIGNALS AT PEDAL MOBILE BOULEVARD SOUTH AND AT SIXTH STREET. SO WE ACTUALLY THINK THIS IS A VERY, UM, EFFECTIVE SOLUTION THAT WE CAN TRY OUT IN THIS PILOT PROJECT, SEE HOW IT WORKS. WE THINK IT WILL, UH, ELIMINATE A LOT OF THE MOVEMENTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE, UH, WITH, WITH THAT COLLISION HISTORY. SO WHAT THIS DOES, I'LL, I'LL KIND OF DESCRIBE, WE'VE GOT TWO SLIDES HERE IN THIS FIRST SLIDE. IF YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF TRAVELING ALONG D STREET IN THAT IMAGE, WHAT THIS DOES IS IT ELIMINATES LEFT TURNS ONTO OR OFF OF D STREET. IT ALLOWS THROUGH TRAFFIC ON D STREET, OBVIOUSLY IT PROHIBITS DRIVERS FROM CROSSING D STREET AT FIFTH STREET, AND IT ALLOWS RIGHT TURNS FOR PEOPLE ON ACCESSING FIFTH STREET OR COMING OFF OF FIFTH STREET. UH, PEOPLE WALKING AND BIKING CAN STILL CROSS D AT FIFTH. THEY'VE NOW GOT THE BENEFIT OF A NICE, UH, REFUGE AREA WHERE THEY CAN CROSS IN TWO STAGES. UM, AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT PROJECTS LIKE, OR IN INSTALLATIONS LIKE THESE, IS THAT THEY WILL INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD THAT DRIVERS WILL ACTUALLY STOP AND YIELD TO ANY PEDESTRIANS OR PEOPLE BIKING WHO ARE WAITING TO CROSS THE INTERSECTION. BASED ON, [03:45:01] UM, THE COUNT DATA THAT WE HAVE COLLECTED, WE BELIEVE THIS WILL DIVERT 80 TO 90 VEHICLE TRIPS THROUGHOUT THE SURROUNDING STREET GRID IN THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON PEAK HOURS. UH, WHICH IS, IS NOT A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT AND SOMETHING THAT WE WILL CONTINUE, WILL CONTINUE TO COLLECT COUNT DATA IN THE AREA AND MONITOR IMPACTS. BUT, UM, FOR NOW, WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT THIS IS A, A GREAT APPLICATION AND, UM, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT WE HAVE A STREET GRID HERE, WE HAVE THE CONNECTIVITY THAT YOU'RE NOT GONNA SEE ALL OF THE TRAFFIC DIVERTED FROM THIS INTERSECTION PUSHED TO ONE SINGLE STREET SEGMENT. IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFUSED THROUGHOUT THE GRID. SO ON THIS SECOND IMAGE, HERE'S JUST ANOTHER LOOK AT IT. IF IMAGINE NOW THAT YOU'RE APPROACHING FROM FIFTH STREET, THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE, ALTHOUGH WE'LL BE IMPLEMENTING IT IN THE PILOT PROJECT, AT LEAST WITH QUICK BUILD ELEMENTS. SO WE'LL LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT, BUT THAT GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT, WHAT THE DESIGN IS SEEKING TO ACHIEVE. AND I'LL JUST ONE LAST NOTE ON THE TRAFFIC DIVERTER. SORRY. UM, WE DID, WE DID SURVEY PEOPLE ON THIS IN BOTH ON THE FIFTH STREET PROJECT AND IN OUR SURVEYS ARE TWO SURVEYS ON D STREET. AND, UH, IN ALL THREE CASES WE ARE, UH, PRETTY STRONG SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY FOR AT LEAST TESTING THIS OUT. THE NEXT MAJOR DESIGN ELEMENT WE ARE LOOKING AT, I MENTIONED SOME OF THE SPEEDING ISSUES THAT WE'VE HEARD ABOUT ON THE LONG BLOCK, THE LENGTHY BLOCK BETWEEN ICE STREET AND MOUNTAIN VIEW AVENUE. SO THAT'S AN AREA WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT A COUPLE OF INSTALLATIONS OF SPEED CUSHIONS, AND WE ACTUALLY JUST, UH, WE ARE PILOTING OUR FIRST SPEED CUSHION RIGHT NOW OUT ON ICE STREET, UM, OUT TOWARDS WESTRIDGE. THE IDEA WITH THESE IS THAT THEY HAVE GAPS THAT ARE SPACED FOR OUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE VEHICLES, UH, TO, SO THAT WE DON'T IN INFLUENCE OR IMPACT NEGATIVELY IMPACT THEIR RESPONSE TIMES. AND SO, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE MONITORING THAT CLOSELY, WE'LL, WE'RE HAVING THEM OUT TO, UH, TEST IT WITH ALL OF THEIR DIFFERENT VEHICLES AND WE'LL BE ADJUSTING THE DESIGNS AS NEEDED AS WE CONTINUE TO PILOT THESE. SO OUR NEXT STEPS ON FIFTH STREET ARE TO MONITOR TRAFFIC SPEEDS AND ALSO TRAFFIC COUNTS AND ADJUST THE DESIGN ACCORDINGLY, UH, TO PRODUCE, PURSUE A REDUCED SPEED LIMIT OF 20 MILES PER HOUR IN ACCORDANCE WITH ASSEMBLY BILL 43. ONCE WE HAVE ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE ON SAFETY CORRIDORS AND TO DEVELOP NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY GATEWAY AND STREET SIGNS, I'VE INCLUDED A FEW HERE, UH, AND ADD OUR CITYWIDE BIKE WAVE FINDING SIGNS AS PART OF OUR ROLLOUT. WE'VE ALSO GOT, UH, NEAR TERM WE'VE LOOKED AT THE POTENTIAL TO INCORPORATE MURALS WITHIN OUR TRA OUR BOUTS AND TRAFFIC CIRCLES TO ADD, TO ADD SOME BEAUTIFICATION. AND OBVIOUSLY LONG TERM, IF WE WERE TO COME BACK WITH A PAVING PROJECT OR A MORE ROBUST RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT ON FIFTH STREET, WE COULD LOOK AT LANDSCAPING, UH, SOME OF THE BULB OUTS AND TRAFFIC CALMING FEATURES, AND ALSO HAVING THEM DOUBLE AS STORMWATER TREATMENT AREAS. AND IN OUR DRAFT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, WE'VE ALSO IDENTIFIED, UH, AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THIS GREENWAY AND POSSIBLY EXTEND IT INTO THE OAK HILL BREWSTER NEIGHBORHOOD VIA KELLER STREET. THIS WOULD REQUIRE A MAJOR INTERSECTION CROSSING IMPROVEMENT AT EAST WASHINGTON TO GET PEOPLE ACROSS WASHINGTON, OBVIOUSLY. BUT, UH, ONCE YOU GET PEOPLE ACROSS AND UP THE HILL, UH, THERE IS A RELATIVELY A GRADUAL ROUTE USING, UTILIZING KELLER PROSPECT STREET AND KENTUCKY STREET THAT CAN CONNECT PEOPLE OVER TO THE PETALUMA RIVER TRAIL AND OUR BRIDGE, UH, THE BRIDGE ACROSS PETALUMA RIVER NEAR BREWSTERS, CONNECTING INTO THE BROADER CITYWIDE NETWORK, UH, AND THEN ALSO SPLITTING OFF OF IT, SENDING PEOPLE UP KELLER STREET TO WEST STREET AND CONNECT UP TO TOWARDS ST. VINCENT'S HIGH SCHOOL IN THAT AREA. SO WE'RE LOOKING WITH THESE PROJECTS, OBVIOUSLY AT THE, AT THE BROADER ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK AS WELL. ALRIGHT, NEXT, MOVING ON TO THE D STREET ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC CALMING PILOT PROJECT FROM PELOMA BOULEVARD SOUTH TO CITY LIMITS. SO THE D STREET CORRIDOR CAME TO THE FORE, UH, A FEW YEARS AGO THROUGH ITS IDENTIFICATION AS A HIGH INJURY CORRIDOR IN THE SONOMA COUNTY VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THE STREET THAT'S BEEN IDENTIFIED THROUGH, UH, A COLLISION MAPPING AND REVIEW EXERCISE AS HAVING A HIGHER INCIDENTS, UH, HIGHER FREQUENCY AND HIGHER SEVERITY OF COLLISIONS THAN AVERAGE SONOMA COUNTY ROADWAYS. AND IT WAS ALSO, I MENTIONED EARLIER, IDENTIFIED OR SEVERAL INTERSECTIONS WERE IDENTIFIED AS HIGH PRIORITIES IN THE LOCAL ROAD SAFETY PLAN. WE NOTED IN OUR COUNCIL RESPONSES TODAY THAT ABOUT SEVEN IN 10 INJURY COLLISIONS ON [03:50:01] THE CORRIDOR HAPPEN AT THE NORTH END BETWEEN PILAMA BOULEVARD SOUTH AND SIXTH STREET. THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT IS THAT'S WHERE WE ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE SPEEDING ISSUES. WE HAVE SPEEDING ISSUES SOUTH OF SIXTH STREET. SO WE'VE GOT SOME DIFFERENT PROBLEMS THAT WE ARE SEEKING TO ADDRESS THROUGH THIS PROJECT. UM, THE SPEEDING ISSUES, UH, AS WE'VE NOTED IN THE STAFF REPORT, WE'VE GOT SPEEDS, UH, WELL IN EXCESS OF THE 85TH PERCENTILE SPEED OR THE 85TH PERCENTILE. SPEED IS WELL IN EXCESS OF OUR POSTED SPEED LIMIT OF 30 MILES AN HOUR. AND, UH, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE SOME OUTLIER SPEEDS IN THE, IN THE FORTIES, UM, ON, ON THAT STRETCH SOUTH OF SIXTH STREET AND GOING OUT ALL THE WAY TO CITY LIMITS. WHEN WE LOOK AT YOU LOOK AT THE CORRIDOR, IT'S, IT'S PRETTY EASY TO SEE WHY THAT'S HAPPENING. UH, WHEN YOU STAND AT EIGHTH STREET AND LOOK TO THE SOUTH OR STAND AT EL ROSE AND SUNNY SLOPE AND LOOK TO THE NORTH, IT'S PRETTY MUCH AN UNINTERRUPTED AWAY, NO CROSSWALKS, NO BULL BOUTS, NO VERTICAL FEATURES. IT'S JUST THE ROAD IS PERFECTLY STRAIGHT AND AND WIDE OPEN ON THAT STRETCH. SO IT'S NO SURPRISE THAT WE HAVE, UH, SOME SPEEDING ISSUES THERE. THAT'S, SO I MENTIONED THAT'S A, WE HAVE A LONG GAP IN CROSSWALKS THERE. THAT WAS, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE'VE, WE'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT. UH, WE'VE ALSO GOT BIKE LANES THAT FALL SHORT OF THE WIDTH REQUIRED TO ACCOMMODATE PARKING ON STREET PARKING AND BIKE LANES AND BIKES TO EXIST SIDE BY SIDE. SO AS A RESULT, UH, RIGHT NOW PEOPLE BIKING ACTUALLY HAVE TO WEAVE INTO TRAFFIC OR IMMEDIATELY THEY'RE KIND OF PINCHED BETWEEN A PARKED CAR AND VEHICLE TRAFFIC WHEN THEY ENCOUNTER A PARKED CAR. AND, UH, LET'S SEE HERE, I'M SORRY. I'VE GOT A LOT OF NOTES FOR THIS SLIDE. , WE HAVE SO FAR TO DATE, WE HAVE INSTALLED SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS AND FLASH ON, ON THE SOUTH END OF THE CORRIDOR, AGAIN, WHERE WE'VE SEEN, UH, THE BIGGEST SPEEDING ISSUES. WE'VE ADDED FLASHING BEACONS TO THE FOURTH STREET CROSSWALKS AND IMPROVED CROSSWALK SIGNAGE THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR, ADDED RED CURBS THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR TO IMPROVE SITE DISTANCE TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE SEEN AT INTERSECTIONS AND CROSSWALKS. BUT WE KNOW THERE'S MUCH MORE TO DO AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE EXCITED TO SHARE OUR PROPOSED DESIGNS WITH YOU TONIGHT. AND OF COURSE, WE'RE DOING ALL OF THIS REALLY WITH AN EYE TOWARD AN UPCOMING PAVING AND UTILITY PROJECT. AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT TONIGHT IS PROPOSED IN PILOT FORM USING STRIPING ROADWAY MARKINGS, UM, SIGNAGE, THINGS THAT WE CAN ADJUST AND REMOVE AS WE SEEK TO HONE IN ON A, A LONG-TERM DESIGN THROUGH THE UTILITY AND PAVING PROJECTS. SO GOING INTO THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT, WE INITIALLY SOLICITED INPUT ON PRIORITIES AND CONCERNS THROUGH OUR FIRST WORKSHOP AND SURVEY, WHICH RAN IN FALL OF 2022. AND, UH, AND, AND A PRESENTATION TO OUR PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE WHERE WE SHARED SOME OF THE EARLY FEEDBACK THAT WE HAD RECEIVED. AND, UH, WE TOOK ALL THAT DATA. WE DEVELOPED, UH, A RECOMMENDED, UH, DESIGN, WHICH WE THEN BROUGHT TO A COMMUNITY WORKSHOP IN APRIL. AND, UH, THAT DESIGN LARGELY MIRRORED WHAT YOU'LL SEE TONIGHT AS, UH, OPTION ONE, WHAT WAS REFERRED TO IN THE PRESENTATION AS OPTION ONE AND THE STAFF REPORT. AND, UH, FOLLOWING THAT WORKSHOP, WE HEARD A LOT OF CONCERNS, OBVIOUSLY ABOUT PARKING, REMOVAL AND THE IMPACTS OF PARKING REMOVAL. SO WE ACTUALLY ASKED OUR DESIGN CONSULTANT TO DEVELOP A SECOND ALTERNATIVE, UH, AND THAT BECAME OPTION TWO, WHICH IS BEING PRESENTED TONIGHT. AS WITH FIFTH STREET, ALL OF THE MEETINGS AND SURVEYS WERE NOTICED THROUGH POSTCARDS THROUGHOUT WEST PETALUMA GOING TO 5,000 ADDRESSES WELL BEYOND THE PROJECT CORRIDOR. UH, WE HAD AN ARGUS AD FOR THE FIRST WORKSHOP. WE'VE SENT EMAILS TO PROJECT SUBSCRIBERS, INCLUDED THIS IN THE COMMUNITY UPDATE NEWSLETTER AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA. AND FOR NIGHT, TONIGHT'S MEETING AS WITH FIFTH STREET, LEFT DOOR HANGERS ALONG THE CORRIDOR, AND WITH WITHIN ONE BLOCK ON SIDE STREETS, THE COMMUNITY PRIORITIES THAT WE HEARD ABOUT IN THAT INITIAL ROUND OF, OF DESIGN DEVELOPMENT AND, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. UH, A A BIG FOCUS ON IMPROVING THE EXISTING CROSSWALKS WE HAVE AND ADDING NEW ONES, ESPECIALLY ON THAT STRETCH BETWEEN EIGHTH STREET AND ELROSE. SUNNY SLOPE, OBVIOUSLY A DESIRE TO SLOW TRAFFIC THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR. WE HEARD REQUESTS TO IMPROVE CONGESTION AND IMPROVE BIKE LANES. UH, WE DID GET A QUESTION FROM THE COUNCIL TODAY ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THIS PROJECT WILL IMPROVE CONGESTION AND, AND FRANKLY, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS HARD TO ADDRESS THROUGH A PROJECT LIKE THIS WHERE WE'RE, UH, DEVELOPING, WHERE WE'RE LOOKING REALLY AT QUICK BUILD STRIPING SIGNAGE. CONGESTION IS SOMETHING THAT CAN MORE EASILY BE ADDRESSED THROUGH SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT. THERE'LL BE OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT. BUT, UM, SOMETHING WHERE WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT IMPROVING, [03:55:01] ACTUALLY IMPROVING SIGNAL HARDWARE AND UPGRADING OUR SIGNALS AT, UH, PEL BOULEVARD, SOUTH SIXTH STREET, L ROSE, SUNNY SLOPE TO IMPROVE DETECTION AND MAYBE HAVE MORE, UH, RESPONSIVE, UH, TIMING. AND THERE MIGHT BE SOME OTHER TREATMENTS WE CAN LOOK AT, BUT THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE DEFINITELY ON THE TABLE FOR THE, I'D SAY FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT, IF NOT SOONER, IF WE'RE ABLE TO FIND SOME, SOME GRANT FUNDING FOR SIGNAL UPGRADES. SO NOW GOING INTO THE PROPOSED DESIGN, AND WE'LL BREAK THE CORRIDOR UP INTO THREE SEGMENTS. SO WE'LL START WITH CITY LIMITS TO MICHELLE LANE ON THE MOST RURAL STRETCH OUT, UH, OUT GOING OUT TOWARDS, UH, VICTORIA. WE'LL COME INTO TOWN FROM MICHELLE LANE TO ELROSE DRIVE AND SUNNY SLOPE, WHERE THE ROADWAY NARROWS DOWN QUITE A BIT. AND THEN WE'LL LOOK AT THE STRETCH FROM ELROSE DRIVE AND SUNNY SLOPE TO BE PEL BOULEVARD SOUTH, WHICH IS A, A FAIRLY UNIFORM WIDTH. SO ON FROM CITY LIMITS TO MICHELLE LANE, IT'S PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD. UH, WE HAVE SOME EXTRA ROOM OUT THERE THAT WE CAN USE TO NARROW THE TRAVEL LANES AND WIDEN, UH, THE BIKE LANES, ADD BUFFERS TO THE BIKE LANES AND JUST PROVIDE CLEAR DEFINITION OF, UH, OF CREATING THAT ADDITIONAL SEPARATION, PEOPLE BIKING AND PEOPLE DRIVING, UH, ON THAT STRETCH. AND THIS SHOULD HAVE SOME, UH, SOME TRAFFIC CALMING EFFECT AS WELL JUST TO PROVIDE BETTER DELINEATION WITH, WITH NARROWER LANES. THE NEXT THING WE'RE LOOKING AT ON THIS STRETCH, AND WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT IT IN TWO AREAS, UH, APPROACHING BOTH WINDSOR DRIVE AND AT MICHELLE LANE, ARE SPEED REDUCTION MARKINGS. THESE ARE, UH, THE HATCH MARKS YOU SEE ON THE RIGHT THAT'S ACTUALLY TAKEN A PHOTO TAKEN FROM THE I STREET ENTRANCE INTO, UH, JUST PAST CITY LIMITS. THE IDEA WITH THESE IS THAT THE PROGRESSIVELY REDUCED SPACING IS, HAS A VISUAL EFFECT WHERE DRIVERS GET THE IMPRESSION THAT THEIR SPEED IS INCREASING AND MAKES, JUST MAKES THEM MORE AWARE OF THEIR SPEED. UM, IT'S OBVIOUSLY VERY CHEAP AND EASY TO IMPLEMENT, AND SOMETHING THAT, UM, WILL BE INTERESTED TO SEE, UH, THE TRAFFIC CALMING EFFECTS AT THE WINDSOR DRIVE AND PINNACLE DRIVE INTERSECTION. UH, SO THIS, THIS IS SLATED TO BECOME A ROUNDABOUT THROUGH THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS PROVIDED BY THE SCOTT RANCH PROJECT. SO ANYTHING WE ARE LOOKING AT UPGRADING HERE IN THE INTERIM, UH, THIS IS, THIS WOULD BE AN INTERIM CONDITION, I SHOULD SAY, UNTIL THE ROUNDABOUT IS CONSTRUCTED. AND, UH, WHAT WE HAVE DESIGNED HERE IS, UM, JUST AGAIN, PROVIDING BETTER DELINEATION OF THE DIFFERENT VEHICLE MOVEMENTS THROUGH THE AREA, FORMALIZING THE BIKE LANES THROUGH THE INTERSECTION AND, UH, AND AN EXTENSION OF THE MEDIAN UP ON COMING OFF OF WINDSOR DRIVE TO IMPROVE SITE DISTANCE FOR PEOPLE, UH, WAITING TO TURN ONTO D STREET. SO, UH, AGAIN, SOMETHING THAT WE THINK, UH, A SIMPLE DESIGN THAT, THAT WOULD IMPROVE, UH, JUST IMPROVE SAFETY AND OPERATIONS FOR ALL, ALL THE USERS OUT THERE. JUST PROVIDE CLARITY ON, ON WHO BELONGS WHERE THE STRETCH FROM, UH, JUST SOUTH OF MICHELLE LANE TO EL ROSE. AND SUNNY SLOPE IS A TRICKY SECTION. UH, THE ROAD WIDTH CHANGES QUITE A BIT. WE'VE GOT SOME AREAS WHERE PARKING IS ALLOWED, SOME AREAS WHERE IT'S NOT THE CURB KIND OF MOVES IN AND OUT. AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PICTURE ON THE LEFT THERE, WE'VE GOT A, A LARGE REDWOOD TREE THAT IS TAKEN OVER THE SIDEWALK, UM, THAT WILL NEED TO, WILL NEED TO BE ADDRESSED EITHER THROUGH TREE REMOVAL OR THROUGH A SIDEWALK BULB OUT AROUND THE TREE. UM, WE ARE LEAVING THAT FOR THE, THE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. IN THE MEANTIME, WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IS TO COMPLETE THE BIKE CONNECTION THROUGH THIS STRETCH BY REMOVING PARK PARKING ON THE INBOUND SIDE. THERE ARE THREE TO FOUR PARKING SPACES ON THE INBOUND SIDE RIGHT NOW. AND THEN, UH, ACTUALLY RETAINING PARKING ON THE OUTBOUND SIDE OF THE STREET, UH, ADJACENT TO THE APARTMENT COMPLEX AT ELROSE, UH, JUST OFF OF ELROSE DRIVE THERE. SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING IN THAT IMAGE, SORRY, PATRICK, IF YOU'RE LOOKING, UH, YOU'RE LOOKING UP THE HILL THERE WITH THAT, UH, CROSS SECTION. AND THEN MOVING INTO THE ELROSE SUNNY SLOPE TO PELOMA BOULEVARD, SOUTH SEC, UH, SECTION. AGAIN, WE'VE GOT THE DIAGRAM AT THE BOTTOM GUIDING YOU ON WHICH, UH, THE INTERSECTIONS WHERE THESE VARIOUS TREATMENTS ARE PROPOSED. WE'LL FIRST RUN THROUGH PEDESTRIAN AND TRAFFIC CALMING IMPROVEMENTS, AND THEN JUMP OVER TO THE, THE BIKE LANE PARKING DISCUSSION. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, BOUTS AND CROSSWALKS, UH, ACROSS THE BOARD, UH, AT EVERY INTERSECTION, UM, UH, VIRTUALLY ALONG THE CORRIDOR, [04:00:01] UH, WITH THE EXCEPTION BEING THE EL ROSE SUNNY SLOPE INTERSECTION AND THE PEDALO BOULEVARD SOUTH INTERSECTION. THE REASON BEING, THOSE BLOCKS ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE PARKING LANES. YOU CAN'T DO A BULL BELT WITHOUT A PARKING LANE. UM, AND, UH, BUT NEITHER OF THOSE HAVE, UH, ANY ON-STREET PARKING ON, ON THOSE BLOCKS. WE, I'M REALLY EXCITED TO, TO SHARE THAT WE ARE, ARE LOOKING AT ADDING TWO NEW CROSSWALKS TO BREAK UP THAT LENGTHY STRETCH BETWEEN ELROSE SUNNY SLOPE AND EIGHTH STREET. SO WE'VE GOT A NEW CROSSWALK PROPOSED AT LAUREL STREET, WHICH WILL PROVIDE CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN PEOPLE COMING FROM 12TH STREET. UH, SO, UH, 12TH STREET'S, ACTUALLY A CUT THROUGH THAT PROVIDES, UM, PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE CONNECTIVITY OVER TO MCNAIR, THE MCNAIR PARK, MCNAIR SCHOOL AREA. AND, UH, SO NOW THAT'LL, THAT'LL ALL BE CONNECT TIED TOGETHER, UH, WITH THIS, THAT CROSSWALK, UM, PROVIDING CONNECTIVITY OVER TOWARDS PETALUMA HIGH SCHOOL. AND THEN WE'VE ALSO GOT A NEW CROSSWALK PROPOSED AT THE T INTERSECTION AT 10TH STREET, AS WELL AS SOME, SOME OTHER TRAFFIC CALMING FEATURES THERE. AND ALL OF THE OTHER INTERSECTIONS, UH, EIGHTH, SEVENTH, SIXTH, FIFTH AND FOURTH HAVE CROSSWALKS CURRENTLY. SO WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING TO FURTHER ENHANCE THOSE. THE OTHER TREATMENT WE ARE LOOKING AT INSTALLING ON, UH, WHAT WE CALL THE UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALKS. SO THOSE ARE CROSSWALKS THAT ARE NOT, UH, DO NOT HAVE A TRAFFIC SIGNAL OR STOP SIGN. UH, SO THOSE WOULD BE LAUREL, LAUREL AVENUE, 10TH STREET, SEVENTH STREET, AND FIFTH STREET IN THIS CASE. UM, AND THESE, THESE CROSSING ISLANDS WILL SLOW TRAFFIC AS PEOPLE APPROACH THEM. THEY WILL HAVE TO ADJUST THEIR PATH OF TRAVEL, WHICH AGAIN, LIKE I SAID EARLIER, D STREET IS KIND OF A STRAIGHTAWAY RIGHT NOW. SO WE'RE, WE THINK THAT THIS WILL BE AN EFFECTIVE WAY AT CALMING TRAFFIC AND MAKING DRIVERS MORE AWARE. UH, IT SHORTENS THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING DISTANCE. IT GIVES YOU A PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET WHERE YOU CAN PAUSE AND CONFIRM THAT THE THE NEXT DIRECTION OF TRAFFIC IS CLEAR BEFORE PROCEEDING. AND, UM, I'LL JUST NOTE THAT FOR THE FIFTH STREET ONE THAT WE'RE CALLING OUT THERE, OBVIOUSLY THAT'S A MORE ROBUST MEDIAN ISLAND BECAUSE WE WERE PROPOSING THE FULL TRAFFIC DIVERTER THAT WAS DESCRIBED IN THE FIFTH STREET PRESENTATION. AND THEN NEXT UP GOING INTO THE BIKE LANE, UH, PARKING LANE DISCUSSION. UM, SO UN UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE WIDTH ON D STREET, IT'S, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE BIKE LANES AND PARKING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. SO WE ACTUALLY INITIALLY PRESENTED THE COMMUNITY WITH FOUR OPTIONS, UH, FOUR VERSIONS OF, OF THIS. THESE CROSS SECTIONS YOU SEE HERE, RANGING FROM AT KIND OF A ONE EXTREME WAS, UH, FULL PARKING REMOVAL WITH PROTECTED BIKE LANES IN BOTH DIRECTIONS AT THE OTHER END OF THE SPECTRUM, NO BIKE LANES WITH PARKING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. AND, UM, AND AGAIN, THE REASON WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS CLOSELY IS BECAUSE D STREET IS A, IS AN EXISTING, UH, A BIKE ROUTE IN OUR CITY'S BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN PROPOSED FOR ON STREETE BIKE LANES. SO, UH, BACK IN APRIL OF 2023, WE PRESENTED OPTION ONE AS OUR, UH, OUR RECOMMENDED DESIGN. WE REALLY VIEWED IT AT THAT TIME AS, UH, WHAT WE THOUGHT WE SAW AS A, A COMPROMISE. UH, WE HAD, WE'RE HEARING FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVED ON D STREET WHO WANTED TO RETAIN PARKING. WE WERE HEARING FROM PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T LIVE ON D STREET WHO WANTED PROTECTED BIKE LANES IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. AND SO WE SAW OPTION ONE AS, AS, UH, A KIND OF A, A WIN-WIN, SOMETHING WHERE YOU'RE ABLE TO RETAIN SOME ON STREET PARKING ON D STREET AND, UH, AND ALSO PROVIDE BIKE LANES THAT, UM, MEET AND ACTUALLY EXCEED ENGINEERING, UH, GUIDANCE ON, ON D STREET AND IMPLEMENT OUR BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN ADHERE TO OUR COMPLETE STREETS POLICY. SO WE HAVE SINCE DEVELOPED BOTH OF THE DESIGNS IN FRONT OF YOU HERE AND, UH, WE'RE READY TO IMPLEMENT, UH, PENDING YOUR DIRECTION. AND I'LL JUST LASTLY NOTE, THAT MUCH HAS BEEN MADE OF THE WIDTHS OF THE EXISTING BIKE LANES ON B STREET. SO, UH, OR THE FACT THAT WE HAVE EXISTING BIKE LANES ON B STREET, EXCUSE ME. SO THOSE BIKE LANES FOR COMPARISON ARE ABOUT FIVE FEET. AND THE BIKE LANES THAT WE'RE PROPOSING ON D STREET, UH, THAT'S THE MINIMUM WIDTH. THE BIKE LANES ON D STREET EXCEED THAT OBVIOUSLY BY, UH, A FOOT AND A HALF. SO WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF RENDERINGS TO HOPEFULLY BRING THESE CROSS SECTIONS TO LIFE A LITTLE BIT AND SHOW YOU SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES. THIS IS A MIDBLOCK RENDERING, JUST SHOWING A COMPARISON WITH OPTION ONE WITH THE BIKE LANES ON THE LEFT. OPTION TWO WITH NO BIKE LANES, WITH THE PARKING LANES ON THE RIGHT. UM, AND AGAIN, AS I NOTED EARLIER WITH THE CURRENT CONDITION WITH D STREET IS SIGNED AND MARKED AS HAVING BIKE LANES, BUT REALLY WHEN WE WENT OUT AND LOOKED AT THE WIDTHS, THEY, THEY DO NOT MEET, UM, DESIGN GUIDANCE FOR A COMBINED PARKING AND BIKE LANE. [04:05:03] AND THEN NEXT WE'RE LOOKING AT AN INTERSECTION CONDITION AT AN UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALK. SO THIS IS THE NEW PROPOSED CROSSWALK AT 10TH STREET. YOU CAN SEE THAT THE LANES HAVE SHIFTED A BIT, UH, TO PROVIDE THE MEDIAN REFUGE AREA, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT DOWNSTREAM AS WELL. IF YOU LOOK, IT'S A, IT'S HARD TO SEE, BUT IF YOU KIND OF SQUINT YOUR EYES, YOU SEE THAT THE LANES THEN SHIFT BACK AWAY FROM THE CURBS. UM, AND UH, IN BOTH, ON BOTH IMAGES HERE, YOU'RE NOT SEEING ON STREET PARKING. AND THAT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE, UH, AN AREA WHERE WE WOULD HAVE TO REMOVE PARKING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS, IN BOTH OPTIONS TO ACCOMMODATE THAT, THAT TRANSITION WHERE THE LANES SHIFT, UH, TOWARDS THE CURBS. AND THIS ALSO DOUBLES TO IMPROVE SAFETY BY ENSURING THAT THERE'S REALLY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF SIGHT DISTANCE SO THAT PEOPLE WAITING TO CROSS CAN CLEARLY BE SEEN AND AREN'T HIDING BEHIND A PARKED CAR. SO OBVIOUSLY MUCH HAS BEEN MADE OF, UH, THE PARKING, THE, THE PROPOSAL TO IN OPTION ONE TO REMOVE PARKING ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET. AND, UH, AS WE SHARED IT AT THE APRIL WORKSHEET, APRIL WORKSHOP WHERE WE INITIALLY INTRODUCED THAT DESIGN, UH, THIS WAS INFORMED BY A FEW PARKING COUNTS THAT WE DID. UM, WE MADE SURE TO DO THESE ON, ON WEEKDAYS WHILE SCHOOL WAS IN SESSION OUTSIDE OF HOLIDAY PERIODS. UH, WE DID A COUNT AT 7:00 AM 2:30 PM AND AT MIDNIGHT. THE IDEA WITH THE, THE EARLY MORNING AND LATE NIGHT COUNTS WERE REALLY TO CAPTURE THE EXTENT TO WHICH RESIDENTS AND THEIR VISITORS ARE RELYING ON D STREET FOR OVERNIGHT PARKING. UH, WHEREAS THE TWO 30, UH, COUNT WAS MEANT TO TRY TO CAPTURE SOME OF THE, UM, THINGS YOU SEE DURING THE DAY WITH, UH, SERVICE WORKERS AND OTHER DAYTIME USES THAT THAT MIGHT NOT OCCUR AT NIGHT. UH, THROUGHOUT THE, ACROSS THE, THE THREE COUNTS, THE DATA WAS VERY CONSISTENT. AND, UM, WHAT WE HAD DONE IN TRYING TO DECIDE WHICH SIDE OF THE STREET WOULD WAS BETTER UTILIZING PARKING WAS TO PROVIDE PARKING ON THE STREET WHERE WE SAW HIGHER, HIGHER COUNTS. SO THIS NEXT, UH, DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATES THAT YOU CAN SEE THE PARKED CARS SHOWN. UM, WE'RE SHOWING ON STREET PARKING ON THE, I'LL SAY THE OUTBOUND OR SOUTHBOUND DIRECTION BETWEEN EIGHTH STREET AND LAUREL AVENUE. AND THEN WE ARE SHOWING ON STREET PARKING ON THE INBOUND OR NORTHBOUND DIRECTION BETWEEN EIGHTH STREET AND FOURTH STREET. AND AGAIN, THIS IS BASED ON WHAT WE OBSERVED THROUGH THOSE PARKING COUNTS. UM, A COUPLE OTHER NOTES ON THIS SLIDE. WE DID CONFIRM THAT EVERY PARCEL ON D STREET HAS A DRIVEWAY, UH, AT LEAST EVERY PARCEL WHERE PARKING IS PROPOSED FOR REMOVAL, 44 PER 15 PARCELS OR 44% ARE DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO A SIDE STREET. SO THEY NOT ONLY FRONT D STREET, BUT THEY ALSO FRONT A SIDE STREET. ABOUT 74% ARE WITHIN 100 FEET OF A SIDE STREET OR PROPOSED CROSSWALK, AND 94% ARE WITHIN 200 FEET OF A SIDEWALK OR OF A SIDE STREET OR PROPOSED CROSSWALK. WE'VE ALSO ADDED THIS SLIDE TONIGHT JUST TO SHARE SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT CONCERNS WE'VE HEARD, UH, AT THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AT FIFTH AND D STREETS. SO OPTION ONE WOULD REMOVE FOUR SPACES THAT ARE CURRENTLY, UH, LOCATED ALONG THE CHURCH'S D STREET FRONTAGE AND FIVE SPACES ALONG THE POST OFFICE FRONTAGE. THE CHURCH FRONTAGE SPACES ARE CURRENTLY TWO HOUR TIME LIMITED SPACES, SO NONE OF THEM ARE RESERVED FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. UH, THE CHA THE SPACES IN FRONT OF THE POST OFFICE ARE ACTUALLY 12 MINUTE PARKING SPACES, UM, WHICH IS SOMETHING WE, WE ACKNOWLEDGED IN OR ADDRESSED IN, IN, IN DEPTH IN THE, UH, RESPONSES TO COUNCIL QUESTIONS TODAY. OPTION TWO WOULD REMOVE TWO SPACES ALONG THE CHURCH FRONTAGE AND ONE SPACE ALONG THE, THE POST OFFICE FRONTAGE, LEAVING SIX SPACES ALONG D STREET ON THAT BLOCK, OR ON, ON THE CHURCH AND POST OFFICE SIDE OF THAT BLOCK. UH, WE, AGAIN, WE'RE NOT PROPOSING TO REMOVE ANY SPACES CURRENTLY RESERVED FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK AT, UH, ON FIFTH STREET. WE CAN, WE COULD DEFINITELY LOOK AT ADDING ADDITIONAL PART-TIME LOADING AREAS FOR THE CHURCH OR ADDITIONAL RESERVE SPACES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ON THE, ON THE FIFTH STREET FRONTAGE TO MAKE SURE ANY IMPACTS ARE, ARE MITIGATED AND THAT THE PEOPLE WHO, UH, RELY ON THAT DIRECT ACCESS ARE, HAVE, HAVE CONVENIENT PARKING OPTIONS. AND JUST ALSO WANT TO CALL OUT THAT THE FIFTH STREET, WE ARE PROPOSING FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS OF THAT FIFTH STREET CROSSING, UM, WHICH HOPEFULLY MAKES, UH, THAT WALK ACROSS D STREET, UH, UH, EASIER AND, AND SAFER [04:10:01] FOR PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE TO DO SO. AND THEN LASTLY, JUST TO PUT THIS IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR DRAFT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UH, WHICH IS DEVELOPING OUR PROPOSED BIKE NETWORK, THAT'S OUR UPDATE TO OUR BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN FROM 2008. UH, OUR ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS THUS FAR HAVE, HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE POTENTIAL AND EXCITEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY FOR A NEW CROSS DOWN BIKE ROUTE THAT CAPITALIZES ON SEVERAL EXISTING AND PLANNED CONNECTIONS, INCLUDING THE WASHINGTON CREEK TRAIL, MACKENZIE OVERCROSSING DEVELOPMENT OF SOME NEW CONNECTIONS THROUGH THE FAIRGROUNDS, BOTH IN THE INTERIM THROUGH THE FAIRGROUNDS PARKING LOT AND, AND POTENTIALLY LONG TERM THROUGH THE FAIRGROUNDS, AS WELL AS THE D STREET BRIDGE, OBVIOUSLY BEING A, A, A CRUCIAL LINKAGE ACROSS THE PETA RIVER. AND, UH, ALL OF THIS LEADING OUT TO THE HELEN PUTNAM EXTENSION. UH, WE'VE, WE'VE GOTTEN DOZENS OF COMMENTS ON THE NEED FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE, TO THE FULL DD STREET CORRIDOR, UH, OUTSIDE OF THIS AREA, UM, WITH A LOT OF FOCUS, ESPECIALLY ON THE AREA BETWEEN PELHAM BOULEVARD SOUTH AND LAKEVILLE STREET. SO WE ARE CONTINUING TO COORDINATE WITH D ON IMPROVEMENTS NEAR WINDSOR DRIVE, UH, TALKING TO THEM ABOUT, OBVIOUSLY ABOUT THE ROUNDABOUT DESIGN, ABOUT ANY INTERIM IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE MADE, EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPEDITE PAVEMENT REHABILITATION OUT THERE. SINCE WE ARE NOT ACTUALLY RELYING, WE DON'T NEED TO TIME THAT PROJECT WITH THE UTILITY REPLACEMENT. UH, IT'S, THE UTILITY REPLACEMENT PROJECT IS, IS FROM L ROSE AND SUNNY SLOPE TO PHAM BOULEVARD SOUTH, SO I HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE FLEXIBILITY OUT THERE. UH, AS WITH FIFTH STREET, WE WILL LOOK AT WAYS TO REDUCE THE SPEED LIMITS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ASSEMBLY BILL 43. UH, WE'LL LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL TO EXTEND, UH, BIKE LANES TO LAKEVILLE STREET, ESPECIALLY OVER THE, ACROSS THE RIVER THERE. THERE'S SOME NEW BIKE LANES GOING IN WITH THE OYSTER COVE FRONTAGE. UM, SO WE'RE RECOGNIZING THE NEED TO START TO MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS. AND NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. WE'RE ALSO, UH, RECOGNIZING THAT ON A STREET LIKE D STREET, UH, WITH HIGH TRAFFIC VOLUME, UH, THAT, UH, THAT, THAT THERE, THERE IS A NEED FOR, OR THAT, THAT IN THE FUTURE WITH THE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT, IF, IF WE DO OPT FOR, UH, THIS AS A, A LONG-TERM BIKE ROUTE, THAT, UH, IDEALLY WE COULD GET SOME MORE ROBUST IMPROVEMENTS IN PLACE. UM, SO THAT COULD INCLUDE EXPLORING RAISED BIKE LANES, WHICH ARE SHOWN IN THE BOTTOM LEFT THERE, OR A TWO-WAY PROTECTED CYCLE TRACK SHOWN IN THE TOP LEFT. AND, UH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THAT RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT AT, UH, MITIGATING SOME OF THE STORMWATER ISSUES OUT THERE AND THE, AND THE LACK OF STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE. WE DON'T, WE'VE GOT CULVERTS THAT ROUTES THE STORMWATER UNDERNEATH THE ROADWAY AT THE INTERSECTIONS. UH, PUTS A LITTLE BIT OF AN ADDITIONAL DESIGN CONSTRAINT FOR US FROM AT LEAST WHEN WE'RE DESIGNING THE BIKE FACILITIES. AND, UH, AND, UH, YEAH, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT CLOSELY. AND, UH, THEN WE'RE ALSO GOING TO LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT ANALYZING THAT LEFT TURN LANE AND SIGNAL AT SIXTH STREET, WHICH COULD HELP IMPROVE CONGESTION, BUT WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE COME WITH TRADE-OFFS ASSOCIATED WITH PARKING LOSS. UH, LIKE WHAT YOU SEE ON THE BLOCKS BETWEEN L ROSE, SUNNY SLOPE, AND LAUREL, AS WELL AS FOURTH STREET AND TON BOULEVARD SOUTH, ALMOST THERE, . SO, UH, TONIGHT WHAT WE ARE SEEKING FROM COUNCIL, YOU HAVE A RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR DIRECTION, ESPECIALLY ON THE BIKE LANE PILOT FROM CITY LIMITS TO PELOMA BOULEVARD SOUTH. WE WELCOME FEEDBACK OR CONCURRENCE ON ALL OTHER PROPOSED DESIGN ELEMENTS ON BOTH PROJECTS. AND A NOTE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION PIECE, WE ARE, UH, EAGER TO USE THE ON-CALL STRIPING CONTRACT, WHICH IS APPROVED TONIGHT, AND SCALING THESE APPRO IMPROVEMENTS TO MATCH APPROPRIATE AND AVAILABLE LEVELS OF FUNDING, ENSURING THAT WE WILL HAVE SOME FUNDS TO ALSO DELIVER IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE HEARING, UH, ABOUT OR REC IDENTIFYING THROUGH OUR SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM AND SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL TASK FORCE AS THOSE ALL DRAW FROM THE SAME, SAME BUCKETS OF MONEY. AND WITH THAT LINKS TO OUR PROJECT WEBPAGES, AND WE WELCOME YOUR QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT'S, UM, VERY LARGE , A LOT TO, UH, UM, SEE HERE ALL AT ONCE. THANK, IT'S A GREAT PRESENTATION. UH, I'D LIKE TO PROBABLY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT OUR SPEAKER THERE. WE'RE GONNA ASK YOU FOR OTHER THINGS. WHO WANTS TO LEAD OFF WITH QUESTIONS HERE? I KNOW WE'RE, UH, BY THE WAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HEARTY SOULS WHO HAVE STAYED TILL 10 30 AT NIGHT TO HEAR THIS. AND SO HOPEFULLY COUNCIL QUESTIONS WILL BE QUICK AND, AND WE WILL, UH, BE ABLE TO [04:15:01] GET TO PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, QUICKLY OFF. AND SHOULD WE MAKE A MOTION TO GO BEYOND 11 AND AT THIS TIME, SINCE WE'RE PRETTY CLEAR, I'LL MAKE THAT MOTION. WE'RE GONNA BE DOING THAT. WHY DON'T WE HAVE THAT MOTION FROM BARNACLE AND A SECOND FROM CATER THOMPSON AND, UH, CAN WE DO THIS BY A CLAIM? ISN'T THAT SOMETHING WE CAN DO BY A CLAIM? SO GOOD. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR GOING PAST 11 ON THIS ITEM. OKAY, GOOD. WE'RE DONE. UM, THANK YOU. APPRECIATE THAT. COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE. UM, SO, UM, LET'S SEE. WHY DON'T I, UM, TAKE A FEW STABS AT THINGS FIRST. UM, UH, I'M KIND OF, UH, NOT THRILLED WITH HEARING THAT F STREET IS A PILOT, UH, PROJECT. UM, D STREET VERY CLEARLY IS A PROPOSAL FOR A PILOT PROGRAM, BUT I WOULD THINK F STREET IS, UH, THE GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE'VE LEARNED ON OTHER QUICK BUILDS. AND, AND I WOULD LIKE NOT TO SEE THE NAME PILOT ASSOCIATED WITH THAT, BUT I, BUT VERY DEFINITELY ON D STREET, I THINK WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF CUTTING NEW TEETH ON NEW AREA. UM, AND, UH, ON, UM, FIFTH STREET, I THINK ONE OF MY QUESTIONS ARE ON FIFTH STREET TILL WE HEAR MORE FROM THE PUBLIC ON D ON FIFTH, IF WE DO THIS ON FIFTH, WILL IT ALLOW US TO TAKE THE SHEROS OFF OF PETALUMA BOULEVARD? I MEAN, HAVING SHEROS ANYWHERE IS DANGEROUS. UM, AND, AND SO PETALUMA BOULEVARD FROM WHAT GEEZ, CHARLIE LIQUOR INTO DOWNTOWN HAS SHARES THIS WILL ALLOW US TO TAKE, NOT DECLARE THE BOULEVARD A BIKE ROUTE. A BIKER HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE THERE, BUT YOU KNOW, IF YOU GOT A GOOD ALTERNATE BIKE ROUTE, I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'D RIDE YOUR BIKE ON, ON THE BOULEVARD THROUGH DOWNTOWN YEAH. IN THE MIDDLE OF A LANE. UM, SO THAT WOULD, IS THAT A YES, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IF PART OF A FUTURE ISH COMPLETION OF, UH, OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION. I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WHERE WE'D LOOK FOR DIRECTION FROM CITY COUNCIL THROUGH THE ADOPTION OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN FOR THE REMOVAL OF ANY EXISTING BIKE ROUTES OR ADDITION OF NEW ONES, WHICH IS WHAT WE'LL BRING TO YOU WITH A, A, A PRETTY DETAILED MAP OUTLINING OUR FUTURE. UH, SO THAT'S SOMETHING, AND WE CAN CERTAINLY PROVIDE A RECOMMENDATION AND, UH, AND WE, BUT WE WOULD SEEK COUNCIL APPROVAL ON THAT. I THINK WE'RE HERE FOR, UH, OUR CONCERN. EVERYONE'S CONCERNS ARE SAFETY, AND I THINK THAT'S A GREAT SAFETY THING TO ROPE INTO THIS. UM, THE FIFTH AND D STREET DIVERTER, THAT'S QUITE A, UH, CONCEPTUAL CHANGE FOR THE DRIVING PUBLIC. UM, I'M ASSUMING OUR SKETCHES ARE SCHEMATIC SO FAR AND MAYBE A BIGGER BLOCKAGE OR SIGNAGE, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, FLASHY CHANGE CONDITIONS IS GONNA BE OUT THERE FOR WHAT ABSOLUTELY, YES. YEAH, AND, AND I WILL BE THE FIRST TO ADMIT THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WILL, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT AS ATTRACTIVE AS WE CAN, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S A LOT OF RUBBERIZED CURB SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU SEE OUT HERE AT THE UPPER AM BASSETT TRAFFIC CIRCLE. UM, IT'S TEMPORARY ELEMENTS THAT WE'RE USING TO CONSTRUCT THAT. SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S, IF IT WORKS WELL AND DOES WHAT WE THINK IT WILL, WE CAN MAKE IT PERMANENT THROUGH CONCRETE AND LANDSCAPING AND MAKE IT MORE ATTRACTIVE IN THE, IN THE RECONSTRUCTION D STREET RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. IT IS A, I I SEE IT AS OPPORTUNITY TO DO A PILOT AND BENEFIT FROM WHAT WE DO NOW. UM, I NOTICED ON D STREET THERE THOUGH, UH, WE HAVE 10 AND A HALF FOOT LANES. UM, IS THAT AN IN AND OF ITSELF SORT OF A, A TRAFFIC CALMING TOOL? IT'S A VERY SLIGHT REDUCTION FROM WHAT'S OUT THERE CURRENTLY, WHICH IS, I BELIEVE 11 FEET. SO 10 AND A HALF IS ABOUT AS NARROW AS WE WOULD GO, AND AS, AS, AS NARROW AS CALTRANS NOW RECOMMENDS ON ANY STREET THAT SEES, UH, TRUCK TRAFFIC, WE DO, WE SEE TRAFFIC CALMING BENEFIT FROM THAT MEASURE. UH, YEAH, THERE'S, I THINK THERE'S CERTAINLY A, A BENEFIT FROM GOING NARROWER VERSUS WIDER . YEAH. OKAY. THANKS. THAT'S, UH, ME, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SHRI, UM, JUST FOR THE, UM, THE CENTER LINE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, IS THAT GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT MORE EMPHASIZED NOW, EITHER, UM, A DOUBLE YELLOW LINE ALL THE WAY DOWN THE STREET, OR IS THAT, UH, 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S NOT REALLY CLEAR IN MANY SPOTS. YEAH, SO THE STRIPING OUT THERE RIGHT NOW IS PRETTY BEAT UP BECAUSE THE ROAD'S IN, IN ROUGH SHAPE. SO, WE'LL, WE'LL REFRESH THE, THE STRIPING AND IT'LL BE A VERY CLEAR, SO A DOUBLE YELLOW? YELLOW, YELLOW, YES. YEAH. AND CAN WE MAKE THAT EVEN ONE OR TWO INCHES WIDER? LIKE, I'VE SEEN A COUPLE PLACES WHERE THEY ACTUALLY WIDEN IT OUT JUST A TINY BIT TO ACTUALLY GIVE MORE SPACE BETWEEN THE, AS VEHICLES THEMSELVES UP AND DOWN. YEAH. THE, THE NEW STANDARD FOR CALTRANS, THEY CALL THE SIX INCH. SO THAT'S THE, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON, ON COFFEE LANE, IT'S A MUCH WIDER STRIPING, SO IT'S SIX INCHES VERSUS THE FOUR INCH. RIGHT. UM, SO IT'S MUCH MORE PROMINENT. IT KIND OF GOES BACK TO WHAT THE MAYOR SAID ABOUT TRAFFIC CALMING. IT DOES VISUALLY NECK IT DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE. SO IT ALL, ALL THE LITTLE FEATURES ADD UP. YEAH. SO THOSE LITTLE THINGS ON THAT. UM, AND THEN I DID MEET WITH THE, UH, FOLKS, UH, FROM THE METHODIST CHURCH WHO, AND, UM, I RODE AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD SEVERAL TIMES, UH, [04:20:01] DURING MORNING, AFTERNOON AND, AND AFTERNOON. AND, UH, SO THERE'S SOME CONCERNS THERE, UH, WE NEED TO REALLY WORK ON. SO, UM, ESSENTIALLY THEY'RE LOSING, WOULD LOSE FOUR SPOTS IN THE VERY FRONT. UM, IS IT POSSIBLE, UH, I THINK THERE'S THREE POSSIBLE THREE OR EVEN FOUR POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS I CAN THINK OF. UM, ONE IS, IS IT COULD BE IF, IF TAKING AWAY TWO, BUT LEAVING TWO SPACES AS A DROP OFF ZONE, UH, WOULD THAT HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT ON THE BIKEWAYS? COULD WE KEEP A DROP OFF ZONE IN THE FRONT AS A POSSIBILITY WITH THE, WITH THE BIKE LANE? UNFORTUNATELY WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE WIDTH ON D STREET. AND THAT GOES BACK TO THE KIND OF THE, THE, THE REAL DESIGN CHALLENGE HERE, UH, WHERE WE CAN'T ACCOMMODATE PARKING AND BIKE LANES IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. SO IF YOU, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT PARKING, BUT JUST A, A TEMPORARY DROP OFF ZONE. WELL, THAT WOULD BE ENCROACHING ON, IT WOULD BE ENCROACHING ON THE BIKE LANE AREA. SO, UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, YEAH, I, I FEEL LIKE WE'VE, I I, I NEVER LIKE SAYING NO OUTRIGHT, BUT IT'S SOMETHING WE'VE LOOKED SO CLOSELY AT THAT CROSS SECTION IN THE LIMITED WIDTH THAT I JUST, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE COULD, UH, DESIGN SOMETHING THAT MEETS. OKAY, BUT YOU HAVE YEAH. AS LONG AS YOU'VE LOOKED AT IT AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE. YEAH. AS CONSIDERING JUST THE DROPPING OFF, NOT A PARKING. OKAY. THEN RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER THERE IS, UH, TWO BLANKS, UH, REGULAR PARKING SPACES AND THEN A BLUE ZONE FOR HANDICAP, LIKE, LOOKS LIKE TWO SPACES THERE. SO THERE'S FOUR FULL SPACES THERE. UM, COULD WE CONVERT THOSE TWO REGULAR SPACES EITHER TO BLUE ZONES OR DROP OFF ZONES RIGHT THERE, RIGHT. UH, INSTEAD OF HAVING REGULAR PARKING ZONE ON, ON FIFTH STREET? YEAH, THAT WAS SOMETHING I, I MENTIONED ON THE, UH, SLIDE RELATED TO THE CHURCH WAS THAT THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN CERTAINLY, UH, ENTERTAIN AND, AND LOOK AT AND TRY TO BEST MEET THE NEEDS OF THE CHURCH THERE. OKAY. AND THEN JUST BEYOND THAT, THERE IS ANOTHER, UH, SECTION WHERE THERE'S PARALLEL PARKING. I'D SAY THREE OR FOUR CARS PARKED EVEN MORE GOING DOWN FIFTH STREET, ALSO ON THE OTHER SIDE OF, UH, D STREET ON FIFTH STREET. LOOKS LIKE THE STREET MAY BE WIDE ENOUGH TO DO, UM, ANGLED IN PARKING RATHER THAN PARALLEL. HOW MANY SPACES COULD WE ACTUALLY ADD IN IF WE ACTUALLY REDESIGNED THE, THE BLOCK BEFORE AND AFTER D STREET INTO, UM, INTO ANGLED RATHER THAN PARALLEL? HOW MANY SPACES COULD WE ACTUALLY ADD TO, UH, FOR PARKING? WE, WE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT THAT VERY CLOSELY AS WELL. BRIE, WHO'S ON THE CALL, RAN EVERY DIFFERENT PERMUTATION OF PARALLEL AND ANGLED SPACES, INCLUDING LOOKING AT ALL THE DIFFERENT ANGLE ANGLES, POSSIBLE ANGLES OF THE PARKING. AND THERE'S JUST NO WAY, IT'S NOT QUITE WIDE ENOUGH TO, UH, TO GET A, TO, TO INCREASE PARKING AVAILABILITY ON FIFTH STREET. UH, YOU WOULD HAVE TO REMOVE THE PARALLEL SPACES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET, AND THEN IT'S A WASH. SO, UH, THE PARALLEL PARKING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET IS ACTUALLY THE MOST EFFICIENT USE OF THAT, OF THAT ROADWAY SPACE. YEAH, I THOUGHT WHEN I TRAVELED I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE ENOUGH, BUT YEAH, SO I'LL JUST BY INCHES, INCHES WE WERE, WE WERE HOPING SO AS WELL. OKAY. AND THAT'S WHY WE ASKED BRIE TO LOOK AT IT . OKAY. AND, UH, UH, OF COURSE, I'M, I'M ASSUMING YOU DID THE NUMBER OF, OF PARKING ON SIDE STREETS ON FIFTH FOURTH, UM, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE POST OFFICE. LEMME BRING THAT UP FIRST ON THE POST OFFICE. UM, RIGHT NOW THERE'S A LARGE GREEN ZONE, WHICH I'VE RARELY EVER SEEN USED GOING UP ON DAY STREET. IT'S ALMOST ALWAYS EMPTY ANYWAY, UM, AND I, AND WHAT I HEARD WAS THAT THE, UM, THERE WAS AT ONE TIME THEY WOULD WERE ALLOWED TO KIND OF PARK IN A, IN A POST OFFICE PARKING LOT, BUT THAT WAS NOW, UH, RESTRICTED. AND THE POSTMASTER BASICALLY HAS SAID NO, BUT STILL THERE'S, IT'S THROUGH MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AND POSSIBLE SUNDAY. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSIONS YOU'VE HAD WITH THE POST OFFICE MASTER THERE TO ALLOW A LITTLE BIT MORE FREEDOM IN PARKING BY THE CHURCH MEMBERS ON THEIR PARKING LOT? YEAH, I'M REALLY GLAD THAT COUNCIL MEMBER NOW RAISED THAT IN, IN HER QUESTIONS TODAY. I THINK IT WAS COUNCIL MEMBER NOW WITH, UH, THE, THE LACK OF SIGNAGE. SO WE, THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD LIKE TO IMPROVE IN THE SHORT TERM IS, UH, IS AT LEAST PROVIDING SIGNAGE, CLARIFYING THAT THOSE 12 MINUTE ZONES SHOULD ONLY APPLY ON OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT DAYS, WHICH ARE MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, UH, 8:00 AM TO 6:00 PM MAKE IT CONSISTENT WITH THE TIME-LIMITED PARKING AREAS THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN. AND AT LEAST USE THAT AS A STARTING POINT AND THEN CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS AND ALSO LOOK AT THIS MORE CLOSELY THROUGH OUR, OUR DOWNTOWN AREA PARKING MANAGEMENT PLAN, WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING, UH, VERY CLOSELY AT CURB MANAGEMENT OPTIONS. AND WHEN I SAY CURB MANAGEMENT, THAT MEANS, UH, YOU KNOW, TIME LIMITED, UH, WHAT DURATIONS, UH, LOADING ZONES, A DA AREAS, ET CETERA. SO WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THAT VERY CLOSELY IN OUR, OUR PARKING PLAN, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW LOOK THAT THE, THE CHURCH DOES HAVE SOME, A LARGE LAWN AREA IN FRONT AND, AND A NICE SIDEWALK. UM, HAVE YOU, UH, LOOKED AT THE POSSIBILITY IF, IF WE HAD TO, IF AS A LAST RESORT, IF WE WON'T GO THIS DIRECTION WHEN WE DO THE ROAD, IS IT POSSIBLE TO LOOK AT THE, THE FRONT AREA OF THAT CHURCH AND MODIFY IT TO ALLOW, MAYBE SHIFT IT OVER AND, AND HAVE SOME, UH, DROP OFF ZONES ADDED IN AND PUT BY PUSHING EVERYTHING BACK, [04:25:01] UH, AGAINST, WITH THE LAWNS? IS HAVE WE LOOKED AT THAT AS A POSSIBILITY? THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY NOT FOR US TO SAY BECAUSE WE'RE NOT THE PROPERTY OWNERS THERE. SO THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD REALLY BE UP TO THE, TO THE PROPERTY OWNER TO MAKE ANY MODIFICATIONS. SO THE POSSIBILITY WE COULD WORK WITH, WITH THEM IF, IF WE NEEDED TO MAKE SOME OF THOSE CHANGES IN THE VERY FRONT IT, YEAH, I WOULD BE SUBJECT TO ANY OF THE OTHER, ANY OTHER, UH, MODIFICATIONS THAT A PROPERTY OWNER WOULD WANT TO PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER WANTS TO MAKE TO THEIR, TO THEIR PROPERTY. SO, OKAY. YEAH. BUT, BUT THAT COULD POSSIBLY WORK IF, IF, IF IT CAME DOWN TO IT. I, YEAH, I, YES, I, I WOULD SAY IT PROBABLY, IT PROBABLY COULD BE FEASIBLE, BUT AGAIN, IT'S, IT WOULD BE SUBJECT TO, IT'S UP TO THE PROPERTY OWNER. OKAY, GOOD. THEN JUST, UH, WANTED TO GET THROUGH THOSE QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON. UM, THANKS. UM, I'M CURIOUS, AS FAR AS THE CHURCH, I, I WAS DOWN BY THE POST OFFICE AND THERE'S A DOOR AT THE CHURCH THAT GOES INTO THE PARKING LOT. AND SO IS THAT DOOR USED? I MEAN, 'CAUSE YOU HAVE TO GO INTO THE POST OFFICE, SO IT SEEMS LIKE THERE HAS TO BE SOME TYPE OF A RECIPROCITY IF YOU HAVE A DOOR FROM A BUILDING AND YOU OPEN IT AND YOU'RE RIGHT IN THE POST OFFICE PARKING LOT. SO I'M CURIOUS IF THEY USE THAT DOOR TO GO IN AND OUT IN, IN THAT AREA AND DROP OFF. AND IT WOULD BE GOOD IF THE POST OFFICE ON, YOU KNOW, SUNDAY COULD JUST ALLOW PARKING THERE. 'CAUSE THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF PARKING THERE AND IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR THE CITY TO KNOW THAT ALSO. SO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE COULD ACTUALLY PARK THERE WHEN THEY GO DOWNTOWN ON, UM, ON WEEKENDS, ON A SUNDAY. UM, I'M CURIOUS ON D STREET, WHEN I'M LOOKING AT THE INTERSECTIONS, ARE THERE GONNA BE ANY LIT CROSSINGS? SORRY, ANY OTHER CROSSINGS, ANY LIT CROSSINGS? OH, YES. SO THEY'LL ALL BE LIT. THAT'S SOMETHING DEFINITELY IN THE, IN THE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE QUICK FIELD PROJECT. UH, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA SEE HOW FAR WE CAN GET THE MONEY TO GO ON, ON THIS. AND UH, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT. OKAY. 'CAUSE SEVENTH STREET IS ONE OF THE AREAS THAT I LOOK AT AND, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S AT AN ANGLE THAT IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S, UM, AN AREA THAT WE NEED TO REALLY LOOK AT TO MAKE SURE SAFETY, UM, FOR CROSSING IS NUMBER ONE. UM, IT SEEMS LIKE, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, D STREET CAN BE REALLY LOUD AND JUST SLOWING THE TRAFFIC DOWN WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH TRUCKS. YOU KNOW, YOU NEVER KNOW. UM, I, I JUST, UM, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA. I KNOW I HAVE A GRANDSON THAT DRIVE RIDES HIS BIKE OVER TO D STREET ALL THE TIME FROM HOWARD STREET. AND SEEING THESE CONNECTIVITY, UH, MAKES IT MUCH SAFER, UH, FOR MY GRANDSON, BUT ALL OTHER PEOPLE RIDING ON D STREET, UM, I THINK IT LOOKS LIKE A REALLY GREAT TEMPORARY PROJECT JUST TO SEE HOW IT WORKS. I'M REALLY PLEASED ABOUT FIFTH STREET 'CAUSE IT'S EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TAKING THAT LEFT HAND TURN, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM IF YOU'RE GOING SOUTH. AND SO BY BLOCKING THAT OFF, I THINK IT'S GONNA MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. UM, SO I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS EXCEPT, UM, MORE SO ABOUT THE PARKING, THE CHURCH AND THE DOOR THERE AND HOW THAT'S UTILIZED AND MAKING SOME, UM, I GUESS THE CITY MANAGER WILL PROBABLY CONNECT WITH THE POST OFFICE AND SEE, UM, WHAT HAPPENS. THAT'S IT FOR RIGHT NOW. THANKS, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE. UM, MY ONLY, I, I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. MY, MY REAL QUESTION IS ON THE, THE CHURCH, I THINK YOU SAID THAT WE CAN, UH, MARK SOME OF THE, UM, PARKING SPACES ON FIFTH STREET TO BE HANDICAPPED. THAT'S ACCURATE. YEAH. SOMETHING THAT'S CERTAINLY DOABLE. YEAH. OKAY. THANKS. COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. SO I, I GUESS I'M A BIT PERPLEXED BY CHARACTERIZING THIS AS A PILOT PROJECT, UM, BECAUSE THAT WOULD IMPLY TO ME AT LEAST THAT, UM, AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME, UM, THIS WOULD COME BACK TO COUNCIL. UM, AND PRESUMABLY THAT WOULD BE WHEN THE PERMANENT, UM, PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE WHEN THE UNDERGROUND WORK AND THE REPAVING HAS BEEN DONE. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE RESOLUTION DOES. UM, IT, IT'S, IT'S PERMANENT AND IT JUST DEFERS TO STAFF, UM, IN TERMS OF WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS DOWN THE FUTURE. SO, UH, THE WAY, THE WAY IT'S ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY SET UP IN, IN THE RESOLUTION, THIS IS THE COUNCIL'S ONE AND ONLY BY IT AT THIS. AND SO I, I DON'T REALLY THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE TO BE CALLING THIS, UH, A, A PILOT OR TEMPORARY THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER. UM, I WAS JUST LOOKING BACK [04:30:01] AT THAT 'CAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER THAT I, THE WAY I SEE 13 NOW, IT SAYS FOR GREENWAY PILOT PROJECTS, DOES IT SAY IN THE TEXT, UH, MR. HEALEY, THAT, THAT IF I COULD, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, IF YOU COULD BE CLOSER TO MINE, I HEAR BETTER. UH, I WAS, UH, JUST QUESTIONING WHAT MR. HEALY SAID AND, AND GOING, UH, BACK ON ONTO THE, UH, STAFF REPORT. AND I DIDN'T GET TO THE STAFF REPORT YET, BUT I'M WONDERING IF, UH, SO IT, IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY NOT IN THE STAFF REPORT. IT'S IN THE RESOLUTION AND IT'S, UH, PARAGRAPH THREE UNDER NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED. OKAY. UM, I'LL LET THAT GO FOR NOW. UH, I JUST WANTED TO, UH, ASK ABOUT, UH, I'VE ASKED THIS BEFORE, I, I WASN'T SURE ABOUT HOW TO INTERPRET THE ANSWER, WHICH WAS THE ACCIDENTS, THE 63 ACCIDENTS OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS THAT HAVE OCCURRED ON THIS STRETCH OF ROAD. I THINK THAT'S CORRECT. UM, UH, I'M NOT SURE IF, WE DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THEM WERE TRUCKS OR IF NONE OF THEM WERE TRUCKS INVOLVED. DO WE KNOW THAT TODAY? UH, YEAH. WE LOOKED, LOOKED BACK AGAIN AT COLLISION DATA TODAY, UH, AND ACTUALLY OPENED UP, BROADENED THE, THE TIMEFRAME FROM 2012 TO 2023 AND DID NOT FIND ANY INJURY COLLISIONS INVOLVING A TRUCK. OKAY. UM, AND, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I'M ALSO A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED. OH, I'M ALSO A LITTLE CONFUSED BY THE, UH, UM, THE, THE STATEMENT THAT THE, SO THE POST OFFICE HAS, HAS, UH, RE RETRACTED THEIR OFFER. I WAS JUST ON THE CHURCH WEBSITE AND MAYBE WE'LL GET AN ANSWER FROM SOMEONE IN THE AUDIENCE ON THIS AS WELL, UM, WITHIN THE WEEK, UH, WHICH WE JUST MADE THE STATEMENT THAT, UH, UH, PARISHIONERS, UH, CAN PARK IN THE, USE THE POST OFFICE PARKING LOT ON SUNDAY. UM, I'M WONDERING IF ANYONE HAS ANY MORE INFORMATION ON THAT RIGHT NOW. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING I I'M PRIVY TO, BUT OKAY. UH, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR NOW. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER. NOW. UM, THANK YOU. UM, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. IS THIS THE TIME WHEN I CAN, UM, MAKE SAFETY CONCERNS FOR IF IF YES, IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION? IN A FORM OF QUESTION? YES. SO IF A RESIDENT HAS A SINGLE CAR DRIVEWAY AND THEY PARK THREE CARS AND THEY HAVE TO GET OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAY, THEY'RE GONNA BE BACKING UP BLINDSIDING A, A BICYCLIST IF THEY'RE ON THE STREET SIDE THAT DOESN'T HAVE BARKING. SO WHAT'S GONNA, WHAT'S GOING TO PROTECT THE BICYCLIST IF A D STREET RESIDENT IS PAR IS PULLING OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAY? THERE IS A SINGLE CAR DRIVEWAY BECAUSE THEY'RE OLDER HOMES AND OLDER DRIVEWAYS AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE PULLING OUT, THEY'RE PRETTY MUCH BLINDED BY WHAT THEY SEE BEHIND THEM. AND IF IT'S A BICYCLE LANE, THEY DON'T HAVE THAT PARKED CAR TO BUFFER. DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? SO THEY CAN EASE OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE. WHEN I PULL OUTTA MY DRIVEWAY, THERE'S USUALLY A PARKED CAR I EASE OUT. I CAN HAVE A VISUAL. YEAH. SO YOU'RE, I THINK I, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING WAS THAT THE REDUCTION IN, SO WHAT, WHAT IS PROTECTING THAT BICYCLIST FROM A RESIDENT BACKING OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAY? 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT GONNA HAVE THAT BUFFER. SO THERE, THERE ARE, THERE ARE POTENTIAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH, WITH BOTH CONFIGURATIONS. WHEN YOU'VE GOT PARKING THERE, THERE'S SOME REDUCTION IN SIGHT DISTANCE WHERE SOMEONE BIKING. IT'S HARDER TO SEE AROUND THE PARKED CAR TO SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE DRIVEWAY, WHETHER IT'S A VEHICLE ENTERING OR EXITING. UH, AND LIKEWISE FOR THE CAR THAT'S PULLING OUT, THEIR VIEW WOULD BE PARTIALLY OBSTRUCTED BY A PARKED CAR. UM, WHEN IT COMES TO THE ABSENCE OF PARKING, UH, NOW YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF LESS WIDTH AVAILABLE AS YOU'RE BACKING OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY, BUT THE TRADE OFF IS YOU HAVE ACTUALLY BETTER SIGHT DISTANCE BECAUSE THERE WON'T BE ANY PARKED CARS IN YOUR WAY. UM, THE END OF THE DAY, THIS IS SOMETHING WHERE WE'VE LOOKED AT ALL OF THE ENGINEERING GUIDANCE THAT WE HAVE AND, AND WE'RE NOT, UH, WE'RE NOT SEEING ANY, UM, ANY MAJOR DESIGN FLAWS. YOU KNOW, THIS EITHER WAY, IT'S A VERY COMMON CONDITION THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA WHERE YOU HAVE BIKE LANES DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO DRIVEWAYS AND YOU HAVE BIKE LANES ADJACENT TO PARKING LANES AND DRIVEWAYS. SO I, IT'S, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT, THAT IN OUR DESIGN, WE, UH, THAT REALLY RAISED ANY CONCERNS FOR US. OKAY. THE OTHER CONCERN IN OPTION ONE, IF WE'RE TAKING AWAY PARKING ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET, UM, A RESIDENT THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE PARKING ON THEIR SIDE, THEIR LANDSCAPER IS GOING TO CROSS D STREET WITH TOOLS, [04:35:01] LAWNMOWERS, WEED EATERS, WHATEVER THE TOOLS THEY NEED, BAGS OF SHRUBBERY WEEDS, THEY'RE GONNA BE CROSSING. AND THAT'S A TRUCK ROUTE. IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT'S VERY DANGEROUS. AND THE SAME WITH THE AMAZON DRIVER, THE FEDEX DRIVER, THE MEALS ON WHEELS DRIVER, THE, UM, I THINK I SAW HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT GETTING DELIVERED. I MEAN, I'M THINKING ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE GONNA HAVE TO CROSS OVER THE STREET TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE THAT DOESN'T HAVE PARKING. YEAH. SO THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE, UM, UNDER THE SCENARIO WHERE A SERVICE WORKER IS VISITING A HOUSE WITHOUT, ON-STREET PARKING DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF IT, WHICH IS A CONDITION THAT CURRENTLY EXISTS THROUGHOUT PETALUMA. THERE ARE MANY STREET RESIDENTIAL STREETS WITHOUT ON-STREET PARKING DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF HOMES. UM, EVEN JUST A BLOCK AWAY ON SUNNY SLOPE AVENUE. THERE'S SEVERAL HOMES THAT DON'T HAVE ON STREETE PARKING DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSES. AND THE EXPECTATION IS THAT IN THOSE LOCATIONS THAT, UM, HOPEFULLY, UH, ANY, UH, SERVICE WORKERS, DELIVERY DRIVERS, ET CETERA, ARE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE RESIDENCE'S, DRIVEWAYS. AND LIKE I SAID, WE DID CONFIRM THAT EVERY EVERY HOME ON D STREET DOES HAVE A, A DRIVEWAY, UM, OR ALTERNATIVE. ALTERNATIVELY, THEY'RE ABLE TO UTILIZE A NEARBY SIDE STREET. UM, NEARLY HALF OF THE HOMES ON D STREET ARE DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO A SIDE STREET, OR THEY'RE ABLE TO UTILIZE A NEARBY CROSSWALK. AGAIN, IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL WITH THIS PROJECT, WE ARE SLOWING TRAFFIC ALONG THE CORRIDOR AND MAKING THOSE, AND ADDING CROSSWALKS AND MAKING THOSE CROSSING CONDITIONS SAFER. IF, IF PEOPLE DO, UM, NEED TO PARK ACROSS THE STREET. UM, THE SIDE STREET PARKING, I ATTENDED A FUNERAL AT THE, UM, CHURCH AND THERE WAS, OF COURSE, DURING THE WEEK THERE, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO PARK IN THE POST OFFICE PARKING LOT 'CAUSE IT'S THE WEEKDAY AND THE, THE CUSTOMERS NEEDED. BUT THE SIDE STREETS WERE GETTING VERY CONGESTED WITH THE, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE PEOPLE GOING TO A FUNERAL, SO THERE'S PROBABLY A HUNDRED, IT WAS A, A SCHOOL TEACHER, A BELOVED TEACHER OF PETALUMA HIGH THAT PASSED AWAY. AND SO THERE WAS LOTS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS PARKING CARS ON THOSE SIDE STREETS. UH, BECAUSE THE CHURCH DOESN'T HAVE ADEQUATE PARKING, THERE WERE A LOT OF ELDERLY PEOPLE. THERE'S ONLY ONE HANDICAP PARKING. SO I REALLY, I REALLY FELT BAD FOR THOSE NEIGHBORS BECAUSE WE WERE CONGESTING THEIR SIDE STREETS FOR A, A WEEKDAY FUNERAL. I'M SORRY, IS IS THERE A QUESTION? SO I WAS JUST, I WAS JUST LIKE, WE'VE GOT TO, WE CAN'T THINK OF THE POST OFFICE. WE NEED TO COME UP WITH ANOTHER SOLUTION FOR PARKING. THE, THE CONGREGATION AND THE VISITORS TO THE CHURCH. UM, AND THE B STREET IS TH THREE FEET WIDER, I BELIEVE, AS FAR AS THE OVERALL CORRIDOR, YES. IT'S A, IT'S TWO TO THREE FEET WIDER. AND IF I WAS GOING DOWN B STREET, THERE'S A LIGHTED CROSSWALK AT THE BOULEVARD TO THEN GO TO B STREET TO THEN TO FIRST STREET OVER TO THE, TO THE D STREET BRIDGE, WHICH WOULD BE SAFER THAN GOING D STREET OVER THE BOULEVARD TO THE D STREET BRIDGE ONLY BECAUSE I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS, TRYING TO WALK CHILDREN, UM, AND WALKING FIELD TRIPS IN THAT PART OF THE, THE, AND THERE IS A LIGHTED CROSSWALK, WHICH IS SAFER, I BELIEVE. SO WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO ? SO, UH, AS WAS SHARED IN THE IN COUNCIL, THE RESPONSES TO COUNCIL QUESTIONS TODAY, UM, WITH THE QUESTIONS REGARDING B STREET, UH, YOU'RE RIGHT, B STREET IS SLIGHTLY WIDER. IT HAS, WE DO HAVE ROOM THERE TO PROVIDE MINIMUM WIDTH BIKE LANES BETWEEN THE PARKED CARS AND VEHICLE TRAFFIC. UM, THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ROOM THAT WE DO NOT HAVE AVAILABLE TO US ON, ON D STREET. SO THAT'S WHY THE, THAT'S WHY WE'RE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT THE VARIOUS OPTIONS ON D STREET. UM, THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN FROM 2008, WHICH IS REALLY OUR, KIND OF OUR, OUR PLAYBOOK FOR WHERE WE'RE IMPLEMENTING BIKEWAYS INCLUDED BOTH B AND D STREET. AND, UH, SO OBVIOUSLY AT THAT TIME, UH, WITH THE FOLKS WHO DEVELOPED AND ADOPTED THAT PLAN, THEY BELIEVED THAT THERE WAS INDEPENDENT UTILITY FOR BOTH OF THOSE BIKEWAYS. UM, I'D SAY THAT THE, BASED ON THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE RECEIVED THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT [04:40:01] OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND, AND FOR THIS PROJECT, UH, MANY PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY, UH, CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THAT THAT THAT B AND D STREET OFFER INDEPENDENT UTILITY AND THAT, UM, AND THAT THERE IS CONNECTIVITY PROVIDED BY HAVING A BIKE CONNECTION ON D STREET. AND SO, UM, AGAIN, KIND OF GOING BACK TO THE MAYOR'S EARLIER QUESTION ABOUT CHANGES TO OUR PROPOSED BIKE NETWORK, I MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT COMING THROUGH SOME SORT OF A COUNCIL ACTION WITH THE ADOPTION OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN IF WE'RE GOING TO, UH, WALK BACK THAT PROPOSAL TO HAVE A BIKEWAY ON D STREET. AND I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, IF THE CITY ATTORNEY OR OTHERS HAVE ANYTHING TO WEIGH IN ON. THE BIKE PLAN IS PART OF OUR, IT'S PART OF OUR GENERAL PLAN, SO, OKAY. UM, OTHER QUESTIONS? NO, YOU'RE JUST UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THIS. I CAN TELL, BUT, BUT, UH, WELL, I HAVE MORE TO SAY, BUT THAT IT'S NOT GONNA BE IN A FORM OF A QUESTION. WELL LET, LET'S GET THE PUBLIC INVOLVED AND, AND, UH, BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, CO UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON ANOTHER QUESTION. NO, NO QUESTIONS. THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO GET THE PUBLIC INVOLVED. LET'S OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE EVENING. AND I'D LIKE TO, UH, ASK THE CLERK IF WE'VE RECEIVED, UH, ANY, ANY AT ALL EMAILS PERHAPS. YEAH. THOUGHT I KNEW THE ANSWER TO THAT ONE. WE RECEIVED 94 AND THEY'RE ALL POSTED TO THE WEBSITE. OH, OKAY. THAT'S SOME SORT OF RECORD. UM, THANK YOU. AND I'D LIKE OUR MODERATOR TO PLEASE, UM, UH, READ THE MESSAGING FOR TONIGHT'S PARTICIPATION. THANK YOU. MAYOR. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED. PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION. A TIMER BEHIND THE DAIS WILL BE RESET FOR EACH SPEAKER. THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, I THINK THAT'S GIVEN EVERYBODY A CHANCE TO GET OUR CARDS AND LETTERS TO THE FRONT AND MAYBE ONE OR TWO MORE . I THINK IT'S MORE THAN 20. UM, AND SO, UH, I'D LIKE TO SET THE TIME FOR TONIGHT'S, UH, COMMENTS AT, UH, ONE MINUTE A PIECE. AND AGAIN, WITH THE SAME NOTICING THAT, UM, IF COMMENTS BEFORE YOU HAVE BEEN MADE CONSISTENT WITH YOUR THOUGHTS, PLEASE JUST SAY CONSISTENT WITH MY THOUGHTS. YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT, UM, THING. AND SO THAT'S GONNA BE THE TIME SET FOR TONIGHT'S, UM, INDIVIDUAL PUBLIC COMMENT. ONE MINUTE IS WHAT WE'RE SETTING IT OUT. AND DO WE HAVE ALL THE CARDS IN? AND SO, UM, JOHN PERLIS TO BE FOLLOWED BY LINDA GALLAGHER. MAYOR, CAN WE DO TWO MINUTES? I FEEL LIKE WE'VE GOT, PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN UP HERE. IT FEELS LIKE TWO MINUTES IS I DO APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S PATIENCE IN GETTING US TO 11 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. UM, LET ME, UH, GIVE A RUN THROUGH AND SEE HOW MANY CARDS WE HAVE. 43. OKAY. WE HAVE 43 CARDS. UH, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE THAT IN THE, IN THE FORM OF A MOTION OR SUGGESTION? ? NO THANKS ANYONE. UH, OKAY. UM, SO LET'S BEGIN. JOHN, WELCOME TO THE COUNCIL. UH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WELL, , IN THE INTEREST OF BREVITY, I'LL NOTE THAT THESE STREETS A DOUBLE GATEWAY, UH, TO THE SOUTH. IT'S THE GATEWAY TO WEST MARIN. SO WE GET THE HEAVY TRUCK TRAFFIC. WE ALSO GET A LOT OF JOY RIDERS. PEOPLE ARE OUT FOR RIDES. A CERTAIN NUMBER OF THEM LIKE TO HEAR THEIR CARS, UH, IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. WE'RE GATEWAY TO, UH, THE, UH, D STREET BRIDGE. SO WE GET CONGESTION GOING IN THAT DIRECTION. UH, [04:45:04] BASICALLY MY REQUEST OF THE COUNCIL IS THIS, SINCE I HAVE NO TIME TO PREAMBLE, UH, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S YOUR DECISION TO INFLICT BIKE LANES ON D STREET, UH, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THE PLANS FOR D STREET ADDRESS ARE OTHER RELATED CONCERNS. FIRST, COULD WE PLEASE SEE, UH, SOME MOVE TO, UH, SOME SHIFT NON LOCAL COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC OFF OF D STREET? UH, SECOND, CAN WE PLEASE SEE SOME ACTION TO ENFORCE NOISE ORDINANCES? THANK YOU. MINUTE GOES VERY FAST. I APOLOGIZE. UM, OUR, UH, NEXT SPEAKER, UH, LINDA GALLAGHER TO BE, UM, MR. MAYOR, CAN YOU TELL THEM THEY CAN SUBMIT WHAT THEY HAVE IN WRITING? UH, THAT'S A VERY GOOD POINT. I APPRECIATE THAT. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE PREPARED COMMENTS, IF YOU SUBMIT THEM TO THE COUNCIL, THEY WILL BE PRINTED IN, UM, THE RECORD. UH, THEY WILL BECOME PART OF THE RECORD AND, AND PUT ONLINE, UH, SO THAT YOUR COMMENTS CAN BE FULLY READ, UH, TO BE FOLLOWED BY, UM, CHRIS COURT. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR THE TIME. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I OPPOSED TO THE, UM, PROHIBITION OF PARKING ON BOTH SIDES, AND FOR THE SAME REASON AS OUR COUNCILWOMAN SAID, UM, PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO WALK TO THE CORNER. IF THEY HAVE TO PARK ACROSS THE STREET FROM A HOUSE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO VISIT, THEY'RE NOT GONNA GO TO THE CORNERS. THAT'S HUMAN NATURE. THEY'RE GONNA, AND THE PARA TRAVELER WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PICK UP A PERSON WHO IS HANDICAPPED FROM IN FRONT OF THEIR HOME BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T PARK THERE. AND THE BUSES ARE BIGGER THAN THE DRIVEWAYS. THEREFORE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE HANDICAPPED WITH CANES, WALKERS, WHEELCHAIRS, TRYING TO CROSS AGAINST THAT HEAVY TRAFFIC. SOMEBODY'S GOING TO END UP GETTING HURT ALSO, CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN MIGHT COME AND IS IT TURN ACROSS THE STREET? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHRIS COURT TO BE FOLLOWED BY JOHN MILLS. HELLO, GOOD EVENING. UH, I'M GONNA READ THIS FROM THE REVEREND ROBERT HERMAN FROM THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. HE COULDN'T BE HERE THIS EVENING. DEAR PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, I'M THE REVEREND ROBERT HERMAN AND I SERVE AS THE PASTOR OF THE PETALUMA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. OUR CHURCH HAS SERVED THE COMMUNITY OF PETALUMA FROM THE CORNER OF FIFTH AND D STREET FOR 82 YEARS. WE ARE PROUD TO SHARE THAT THIS CONGREGATION HELPED TO START COTS AND PEP MINISTRIES THAT CONTINUE TO SERVE OUR HOMELESS AND LOW INCOME SIBLINGS. WE OFFER OUR LOCATION TO VARIOUS NONPROFIT GROUPS SUCH AS THE VILLAGE NETWORK AND 12 STEP PROGRAMS THAT OFFER VARIOUS IMPORTANT MEANS OF ASSISTANCE TO THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY. I WRITE TO YOU NOW TO ASK YOU THAT YOU VOTE AGAINST THE INSTALLATION OF A BIKE LANE ON D STREET. PLACING A BIKE LANE ON D STREET WOULD ELIMINATE VITAL PARKING SPACES FROM THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH AND WOULD IMPEDE ACCESSIBILITY TO OUR BUILDING BY THOSE WHO COME HERE TO RECEIVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT IS FAST. I APOLOGIZE. SUBMIT, SUBMIT FOR THE RECORD. AND, UH, NEXT IS JOHN MILLS TO BE FOLLOWED BY, UM, PAUL RIDGE. HELLO, MY NAME IS JOHN MILLS. I'M A 40 YEAR RESIDENT OF D STREET AND I'VE RIDDEN OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES ON MY BICYCLE IN THE LAST 15 YEARS. UH, WITH THAT SAID, YOU MIGHT THINK I'M ALL IN FAVOR OF A BIKE ROUTE ON D STREET. IT WOULD BE, AND PERSONALLY IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR ME TO HAVE A BICYCLE ON D UH, BIKE LANE ON D STREET. BUT THE PROBLEM IS I'M AN EXPERIENCED CYCLIST. I KNOW HOW TO RIDE, I KNOW HOW TO GO IN AND OUT OF TRAFFIC. I KNOW HOW TO GO AROUND CARS. I KNOW WHERE TO TURN LEFT AND TURN RIGHT. WHAT WE ARE DOING, WE'RE PUTTING A BICYCLE LANE ON D STREET, IS WE'RE SCREAMING TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, TO THE CASUAL RIDER, TO THE LITTLE KID COME OVER HERE AND RIDE ON D STREET. WELL GUESS WHAT? THEY'RE GONNA COME OVER THERE AND RIDE ON D STREET AND THEY'RE GONNA GET RUN OVER BY A TRUCK. IT'S GONNA HAPPEN, IT'S GONNA HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER. I'VE GOT FOUR PAGES HERE AND PEOPLE WERE GONNA DEFER TO ME. SO I'M GONNA GO RIGHT TO MY CONCLUSION. YOU CALL THIS A PILOT PROJECT, WHICH REALLY MEANS IT'S AN EXPERIMENT. AND DO WE REALLY WANNA EXPERIMENT WITH KILLING KIDS? I DON'T THINK SO. PAUL RIDGE TO BE FOLLOWED BY PATTY SCHAFER AND PERHAPS JOHN. THOSE ARE THE ONES WHO HAD TO LEAVE BEFORE MIDNIGHT AND OKAY, SO WE'LL PASS ON THOSE. THE NEXT SPEAKER [04:50:01] IS, UM, MICHAEL DAYTON TO BE FOLLOWED BY ERIC GRONER. I WANT YOU ASK IN ADVANCE, BECAUSE OF MY VISION FOR AN A EDA ACCOMMODATION FOR 30 SECONDS TO BE ADDED TO MY TIME BECAUSE I READ SLOWLY. IT'S, IT'S PERFECTLY FINE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS MICHAEL DAYTON. I LIVE ON D STREET BETWEEN SIXTH AND SEVENTH. AND I WANNA STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT I'M VERY, VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF THE D STREET TRAFFIC CALMING PROPOSALS. HOWEVER, AFTER READING THE CITY REPORT AT GREAT DETAIL, UH, IN GREAT DETAIL, I'M SORRY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN HEAR ME. UM, I DUNNO HOW YOU CAN READ THE CITY REPORT AND STILL VOTE IN FAVOR OF ADDING GRINDER AND, AND MORE ROBUST BIKE LANES ON D STREET PER THE CITY'S REPORT. THE D STREET CORRIDOR, SORRY, I'M HAVING A LITTLE HARD TIME. THE D STREET CORRIDOR WAS IDENTIFIED AS PART OF THE SONOMA COUNTY HIGH INJURY NETWORK. TWO, UH, SPEED SURVEYS CONDUCTED, ET CETERA, ET CETERA. I GOTTA GO FAST. 85% OF MOTORISTS DRIVING EXCESS OF 36 MILES PER HOUR. HIGH VOLUME OF TRAFFIC. IT'S A FREIGHT ROUTE, A FREIGHT ROUTE, IE TRUCK ROUTE. THINGS WE'VE ALL DISCUSSED THIS EVENING, I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS IS SAFE FOR BICYCLISTS PER THE, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, UH, NOW'S, UH, CONCERNS A ABOUT D STREET AND AS HER SUGGESTIONS ABOUT B STREET, WHEN YOU LOOK AT B STREET, WE'VE GOT A WIDER STREET. PARKING WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE CHANGED. THERE'S A, UH, SPACE FOR BIKE BICYCLISTS IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. CONNECTING THAT WITH HOPES TO THE PROPOSED P TWO P UH, CROSSWAY BIKEWAY, UH, AS THE COUNCILMAN POINTED OUT, AND I, I NOTICED THAT THE, UH, HER ROUTE, AS SHE SAID, DOWN B STREET DOWN, UH, UH, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO FIRST STREET AND ACROSS. THANK YOU BRIDGE. THAT IS THE, UH, TWO, TWO MINUTES. APPRECIATE IT. UH, ERIC GRONER. ERIC GRONER TO BE FOLLOWED BY ERIC TRUMP HERE. WELL, I HAVE TO MAKE, UH, MY SPEECH A LITTLE DIFFERENT SINCE I'M OUT OF TIME ALREADY. I LIVE IN THE 500 BLOCK OF D STREET. I CAN'T BELIEVE EVERY TIME I COME TO ONE OF THESE MEETINGS THERE'S MORE MISSION CREEP. THE PROJECT HAS CHANGED. YOUR OPTIONS HAVE CHANGED. IT'S NOT QUITE FAIR TO ANYONE WHO LIVES ON OUR STREET. BY THE WAY, THERE'S A DUPLEX ACROSS THE STREET FROM MY HOUSE THAT HAS AT LEAST THREE, POSSIBLY FOUR CARS ASSOCIATED WITH IT, WITH NO DRIVEWAY. I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GUYS GET YOUR INFORMATION. THEY'RE SUGGESTING THAT I COUNTED 10 CARS ON OUR STREET THE OTHER DAY BETWEEN FIFTH AND SIXTH ON D 25 GARBAGE BINS ON GARBAGE DAY. THEY'RE SUGGESTING WE CAN'T PUT OUR BINS IN THE BIKE LANE AND INSTEAD WE SHOULD PUT THEM AT THE BASE OF OUR DRIVEWAY. ARE YOU EXPECTING ME TO BE ISOLATED IN MY OWN HOUSE WITH A BARRICADE OF MY OWN MAKING? THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ONE MINUTE ERIC. UH, TRUMP THERE IN THE HOUSE, IN THE ROOM. UM, HIRAM SEHA TO BE FOLLOWED BY PEPPER FERNANDEZ. IT'S QUICK BRIEF, IT'S MORE TROUBLED. HI, MY NAME IS HIRA ZAHA. I AN LANDSCAPE DESIGN BUSINESS CUSTOMERS IN PERU. OUR LARGE GROUP OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON D STREET, I HAVE TRUCKS EMPLOYEES AROUND THAT AREA AT LEAST FIVE DAYS A WEEK, SOMETIMES ON WEEKENDS FOR LARGE INSTALLS. I AM HERE TO EXPRESS MY CONCERN TO SAFETY OF MY, OF MYSELF AND MY EMPLOYEES. ON A WEEKDAY, I HAVE AVERAGED EIGHT TO 12 WORKING PEOPLE AND AROUND D STREET. I HAVE WORKED IN PETALUMA FOR 22 YEARS AND PETALUMA RESIDENCE MAKE A HUGE PART OF MY BUSINESS. INCOME D STREET IS DANGEROUS FOR US WITH PARKING, CARS, SPEEDING, LARGE TRUCKS, PEOPLE RUNNING STOP SIGNS. IF PARKING IS TAKEN AWAY, MY GUYS WILL BE IN SIGNIFICANTLY MORE DANGER WHILE WORKING. MOST D STREET HOMES DO NOT HAVE DRIVEWAYS BIG ENOUGH FOR THE OWNERS AND US PARK OUR CARS AT THE SAME TIME. MY GUYS WILL HAVE TO BE GOING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS TRAFFIC WITH LAWNMOWERS AND OTHER LARGE EQUIPMENT WE WORK IN ALL WEATHER. WE DON'T. [04:55:01] THANK YOU. THAT'S THE TIME FOR THE EVENING PEPPER FERNANDEZ TO BE FOLLOWED BY BILL REED. I HAVE TWO PEOPLE SEATING TIME TO ME. SO I'M GONNA, LET ME ASK, UM, THAT, UH, BILL REED IS THIS UH, ARE YOU SEATING TIME? I HAVE UM, MARINA BUTLER AND I HAVE PAUL SHAR SEATING TIME TO ME. SO I'LL I HAVE PAUL SHAR, I DO NOT DO I HAVE A CARD FROM MAR MARIA? MARINA? YOU HAVE A CARD FROM MARINA? LET ME END. OH, OKAY. I HAVE PLENTY OF TIMES SO JUST LET ME KNOW. I'M SORRY. THAT NAME I'M LOOKING FOR IS MARINA MAR. MARINA BUTLER. MARINA. ALRIGHT. WELL I I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA ASSUME IT'S GONNA BE FOUND AND UM, UM, SO PLEASE PROCEED. THANK YOU. AND THAT'S A THREE MINUTE SET. OKAY. FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO THE VICE MAYOR. I LOVE THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU ASK. THEY'RE THE KIND OF QUESTIONS I WOULD ASK IF I WAS SITTING IN YOUR CHAIR. EVERYTHING I SEE IS ABOUT WHAT YOU GUYS DO, BUT NOTHING ABOUT OUTCOME. IT'S PROGRAMMATIC AND NOBODY IS TALKING EVER ABOUT OUTCOME. THANK YOU FOR THOSE QUESTIONS. I ALSO WANNA SAY THAT LAST WEEK, IT WAS THREE YEARS SINCE I CAME TO CITY STAFF TO ASK FOR TWO CROSSWALKS THREE YEARS AGO. THAT'S IT. SO THE OTHER THING I WANNA SAY IS I THINK THAT THIS WHOLE HOW GOVERNANCE AND CONSTITUENCY WORKS IS YOU CAN TEACH ME SOME THINGS AND I CAN TEACH YOU SOME THINGS. AND THE ONE THING I KNOW I CAN TEACH YOU IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE ON D STREET EVERY SINGLE DAY. BECAUSE WHAT I SEE FROM BJORN'S PRESENTATION, HE DOESN'T HAVE A CLUE. I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT'S THREE DIFFERENT STREETS. WHAT HAPPENS ON EACH OF THESE THREE DIFFERENT STREETS ARE IS NOT CAPTURED BY THAT PRESENTATION. IT'S CAPTURED BY US STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU, TELLING YOU. BUT WHAT I THINK WE ALL KNOW IS WHAT REALLY AMAZING LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE. AND EVERYONE WHO HAS ANY EXPERIENCE WITH GOOD LEADERSHIP WOULD LOOK AT THE SITUATION WE'RE IN AND THEY'D SCRATCH THEIR HEADS. YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU TWO CHOICES. ONE WHERE A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE WOULD BE HAPPY AND ONE WHERE A TINY PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE WILL BE HAPPY. I DON'T UNDERSTAND, I JUST DON'T GET IT. ONE WHERE WE IMPLEMENT THE TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES, THE D STREET COALITION REQUESTED, SLOW THE TRAFFIC AND ALLOW MODERATE TO ADVANCED CYCLISTS TO TAKE A LANE ON D WHILE FUNNELING BEGINNING BEGINNER CYCLISTS TO BE AN F STREETS AND PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON D TRAVEL IT EVERY DAY HAVE TO GET IN AND OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAYS, PUT THEIR TRASH OUT, HAVE DELIVERIES AND GARDENERS AND FRIENDS AND FAMILY VISITING CAN MAINTAIN THEIR PARKING. EVERYONE WINS EVERYONE INSTEAD, WE SIT HERE TONIGHT DIVIDED JUST LIKE IN NATIONAL POLITICS, THIS HAS TURNED INTO A POLARIZING ISSUE WHEN IT DIDN'T HAVE TO. I DON'T WANT TO BE SEPARATED FROM MY NEIGHBORS AND THESE ARE ALL MY NEIGHBORS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S A SOLUTION IN HAND THAT SOLVES A PROBLEM ACROSS THE BOARD. GOOD LEADERSHIP DELIVERS RESULTS TO EVERYONE AND BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER. I'M GONNA SKIP THAT PART 'CAUSE I JUST WAS GRUMPY WHEN I WROTE THAT. STAFF CONSTANTLY MENTIONED TO ME HOW DATA-DRIVEN THIS PROJECT IS. I GOT A GOOD CHUCKLE OUT OF THAT ONE. THE ONLY DATA STAFF HAS ARE TWO PUBLIC POLLS THAT WOULDN'T STAND UP TO THE TINIEST BIT OF LEGAL CHALLENGE AND A PARKING COUNT DONE BY STAFF DURING THE WINTER. I'M SORRY, THAT ISN'T DATA. WHAT'S MORE, THE STAFF'S PRESENTATION HAS ONE MASSIVE HOLE. IT'S SO MASSIVE THAT IF THIS WAS A CORPORATE PRESENTATION, YOU'D BE LAUGHED OUT OF THE CONFERENCE ROOM. WHAT DOES SUCCESS OF THIS PROJECT LOOK LIKE? WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE IN HARD NUMBERS AND HOW ARE THOSE RAW NUMBERS CAPTURED, ANALYZED, AND PRESENTED BACK TO US? SINCE THIS IS SUCH A GLARING OMISSION, I HAVE TO ACTUALLY ASK MYSELF WHAT OTHER THINGS ARE WE MISSING AND WHAT THAT IS OUR THREE, UH, THREE CYCLES THROUGH AND THAT, THAT THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND ARE, WE'VE BEEN THROUGH THERE OUR THREE CYCLES. YES. THEN I'LL HAVE ANOTHER PERSON SEED TO ME. WHO DO I IT DOESN'T, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY ON PAUL. I CAN'T. OKAY, WELL I GOT ONE LAST THING TO SAY. SO, UM, OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JULIA COURT. MAYBE SHE'LL SAY THAT FOR YOU. AND, UH, YOU HAVE A CARD NOTING GINGER. IS SHE GINGER STILL IN THE HOUSE? NO, BUT PATTY IS PATTY S SCHAFFLER'S HERE TO SEE MY, I'M SEATING HER. DIDN'T PATTY JUST SEE THE LAST IS THAT SHE'S SEATING ME HER MINUTES YET. PAUL CHAR I GOTCHA. YOU HAVE, YOU DON'T THINK WE'VE SEEN PATTY YET, SO PLEASE DO SO. SO WE'RE GOOD. WE'RE WE ARE AT TWO. OKAY. OKAY. I'M [05:00:01] GONNA FINISH PEPPERS. UM, SHOULD I GO? YES. SINCE ALL OF THIS IS KNOWN VERY WELL, IN FACT, DO YOU EACH UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE ASSIGNING YOUR NAME ON A DEATH OR AN INJURY THAT OCCURS TO CYCLISTS, PEDESTRIANS, OR MOTORISTS ON D STREET? WHEN THESE CHANGES GO INTO EFFECT, YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT'S NOT A COUNCIL MAYOR OR STAFF VOTING ON THIS. IT'S EACH ONE OF YOU PERSONALLY. YOU OWN THE RESPONSIBILITY. YOU HAVE TOLD EVERYONE IT'S SAFE, YOU BETTER BE RIGHT. WE ASK CALIFORNIA SURVEY RESEARCH SERVICES A PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH FIRM TO REVIEW THE BOTH THE CITY BIKE SURVEYS AND THE PARKING COUNT. THE ONLY DATA THAT CAN BE READILY RE RELIED UPON ARE THE POSSIBLY THE OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS, WHICH ASK RESPONDENTS FOR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS OF THESE, THE OVERWHELMING CONCLUSION IS RESPONDENTS HAVE D STREET CONCERNS THAT ARE ABOUT ISSUES OTHER THAN BIKE LANES. A TOTAL OF 79% OF THE RESPONDENTS WROTE ABOUT OTHER CONCERNS SUCH AS HEAVY TRAFFIC, DANGEROUS CROSSINGS FOR PEDESTRIANS, PARKING, LACK OF POLICE PRESENCE, AND SPEED. ONLY 21% WROTE ABOUT BIKE LANES. AND OF THOSE 15.5% WROTE AGAINST BIKE LANES WITH ONLY 5.5% RIDING FOR BIKE LANES ON D STREET. IN REGARD TO THE PARKING COUNT, THIS TOO OFFERS NO DATA OF ANY VALUE. IT WAS CONDUCTED BY NON-PROFESSIONALS ON ONE DAY IN WINTER, ONCE AT 7:00 AM AT 2:30 PM ON A SINGLE DAY AND ONCE AT MIDNIGHT. AGAIN, IF SEEKING TO BE INFORMED BY DATA PRIOR TO ANY POSSIBLE POLICY CHANGE IN DESIGN AND USE A MUNI MUNICIPAL ROAD, THE NORMAL PROCEDURES MUST BE FOLLOWED. BIDS WOULD NEED TO BE OBTAINED IN A PROFESSIONAL, UNBIASED GROUP CHOSEN TO CONDUCT A VALID AND RELIABLE PARKING STUDY. THIS WOULD INVOLVE MONTHS OF RESEARCH OVER ALL SEASONS, DAYS OF THE WEEK AND TIMES, AS WELL AS THE INCLUSION OF TRANSIENT USE, WHICH GATHERS DATA ABOUT TEMPORARY PARKING FOR SERVICES AND DELIVERIES, OFTEN PARKED FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. ONCE ALL THE DATA HAS BEEN GATHERED IN A FULL ANALYSIS MUST BE CONDUCTED BEFORE. THANK YOU. THAT TIME HAS EXPIRED. YO DEHE TO BE FOLLOWED BY MAUREEN HAW. YO, ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE? NO. UH, MAUREEN SHAW HAW TO BE FOLLOWED BY GABRIELLE VALEZ. HI, I'M A I A 21 YEAR RESIDENT OF D STREET. WE HAVE FOUR DRIVERS WITH CARS ON IN OUR FAMILY, WITH THREE OF THEM CURRENTLY LIVING AT HOME. WE HAVE A VERY SHORT DRIVEWAY AND, AND USE THE STREET IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE DAILY TO PARK OUR VEHICLES. THIS PROPOSED BIKE LANE AND LOSS OF PARKING WILL HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON OUR LIVES. I'M ON THE SIDE OF THE STREET THAT LOSES THE PARKING BY LOSING, WHICH I'M COUNTING 126 PARKING SPOTS. YOU'LL FORT HUNDREDS ON WEEKDAYS AND POSSIBLY THOUSANDS ON BUSY CELEBRATION TO CROSS D STREET. MY FAMILY ALONE WILL HAVE TO TAKE SIX TO 10 TRIPS ACROSS D STREET ON A DAILY BASIS TO GET TO OUR CARS. THIS INCREASED PEDESTRIAN FOOT, FOOT TRAFFIC ACROSS A TRE ROUTE A MAJOR ARTERY TO CURRENT AND PLANNED COMMUNITIES, AS WELL AS AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE ROUTE, WILL INCREASE THE DANGER AND HARM TO OUR COMMUNITY. ANY BENEFIT OF SLOWING DOWN TRAFFIC OR CALMING IT DOWN IS COMPLETELY LOST BY THE ADDED LAYER, FORCED PEDESTRIAN. THANK YOU. THE TIME HAS EXPIRED AND GABRIELA VALEZ TO BE FOLLOWED BY HARLEY BUTLER. CAN I GIVE GABRIELLE VAL MY, MY MINUTES? STACY ALIA. I'M SORRY. WHO IS SPEAKING? STACY ALIA. STACY. AND, UM, ARE YOU IN THE CARD STACK? I SHOULD BE IN THE BLUE. OKAY. UM, THAT'S A YES, KEVIN, YOU HAVE MINE TOO. JOHN DONNELLEY. THANK YOU. ANYBODY FROM OVER THERE? WANT GIMME THEIR TIME TO STATE SHERIFF, PLEASE. UH, LET'S OBSERVE SOME DECORUM HERE. READY? CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR. OUR FAMILY HAS LIVED AT THE CORNER OF D STREET AND FIFTH FOR 13 YEARS. I GREW UP ON THE WEST SIDE OF PETALUMA AND MY HUSBAND HAS BEEN HERE FOR 25 YEARS. OUR LOCATION IS WHERE THE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES OF DOWNTOWN INTERSECT WITH THE RESIDENTIAL AREA. WE BOTH WORK FROM HOME AND SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN AND AROUND THE HOUSE. D STREET IS NOT SAFE FOR CYCLISTS. WE INVITE ANY DECISION MAKER TO SPEND A FEW HOURS ON OUR PORCH, THE CONSTANT STREAM OF EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY VEHICLES SCREAMING UP D STREET, SPEEDING AUTOMOBILES, COMMERCIAL VEHICLES OF ANY SIZE AT EVERY HOUR OF THE DAY, AND TRAFFIC BACKED UP ON STANDSTILLS ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON. IT IS AN ENDLESS PARADE OF SCREECHING BIKES. BREAKS FROM, UH, FROM POTENTIAL ACCIDENTS, CARS [05:05:01] SHOOTING ACROSS THE ROADWAY AND REGULAR NEAR MISSES OF PEDESTRIANS. NO CYCLIST OR PARENT WITH A BIKE RIDING CHILD WOULD WANNA USE D STREET. WE TELL ALL OF OUR CHILDREN AND FRIENDS COMPLETELY AVOID D STREET IN THEIR CAR. AND WHEN WALKING, IT'S ENTIRELY UNSAFE NOT TO BE OVERLOOKED. REMOVING PARKING ISN'T SAFE FOR DELIVERY PEOPLE, CONSTRUCTION SERVICE WORKERS, AND THE ELDERLY WHO LIVE IN VISIT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. BEING AN AVID WALKER, I FIND B STREET TO BE MUCH CALMER FOR A FAMILY. BIKE RIDE AND BIKE LANES ARE ALREADY INSTALLED THERE. THE CONSTANT REFERENCE TO THE PARKING STUDY IS INCREDULOUS TO THE ACTUAL RESIDENTS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. TWO LESS THAN INDEPENDENT NON-RESIDENTS. SUPPOSEDLY COUNTING CARS AT VARIOUS TIMES DURING THE DAY WITH A VESTED INTEREST IN THE RESULTS IS NOT A STUDY. NO DOCUMENTATION, NO INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION OF THE RESULTS, AND NO OUTSIDE CONFIRMATION OF THE METHODS EMPLOYED AS LAUGHABLE. EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, THERE ARE CARS CONSTANTLY PARKED ON OUR BLOCK. 56 ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET. B STREET IS ALREADY EQUIPPED BY BIKE LANES AND NO ONE USES THEM. WE HAVE ALREADY HAD, WE ALREADY HAVE BIKE LANES ON B STREET, A COUPLE HUNDRED FEET AWAY PARALLEL TO D STREET THAT ESSENTIALLY NO ONE UTILIZES. IN SHORT, THE DEMAND FOR BIKE LANES IN THIS PART OF TOWN BY THE GENERAL OF PUBLIC IS CLOSE TO NIL IF WE WANNA CONDUCT A REV RELEVANT STUDY. HOW ABOUT ONE MORE? OH, SORRY. HOW ABOUT MEASURING ACTUAL USAGE OF THE BIKE LANES? I SUSPECT WE WILL LEARN THAT THERE IS A MUCH HIGHER DEMAND FOR INSTALLING BIKE LANES THAN ACTUAL USE. ACTUALLY CYCLISTS USING THEM, COMMUNITY AND DOWNTOWN PARKING EVENTS. WHO VIEW WHO PARKS ON D STREET? PEOPLE TAKING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEES DOWNTOWN. ATTENDEES OF STREET FAIRS, ANTIQUE FESTIVALS, PARADES, CLASSIC CAR SHOWS, THE UNHOUSED N RVS, CAMPERS JAM PACKED FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT SESSIONS FOR ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS AT THE METHODIST CHURCH, ALONG WITH EVERY IMAGINABLE COMMUNITY CHURCH AND SCHOOL BUSINESS EVENT. WITH THE GROWING COMMUNITY-WIDE COMPLAINT OF NOT ENOUGH PARKING DOWNTOWN. WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY END UP PARKING? THE RESIDENTS ARE THE ONLY CONSTITUENCY WITHOUT A POLITICAL AGENDA AND ARE UNANIMOUS IN THEIR ASSESSMENT OF THE, OF THIS ISSUE AND THE NATIONAL REMEDY. IN EVERY MEETING OF THE HOMES, POOLS, SURVEYS, AND FRIENDLY DISCUSSIONS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE DIAGNOSIS IS THE SAME. HOW DO WE REDUCE THE SPEED ON D STREET? WE URGE YOU TO PROPERLY FOCUS YOUR EFFORTS ON CALMING THE ROADWAYS, SLOWING TRAFFIC. THANK YOU. AND THAT WAS THE, UM, THREE MINUTE THERE. AND I HAVE TO ASK, WAS THAT VALERIE ROGERS? UH, THAT WE WERE CONS VALERIE? IS THAT, UH, THE NAME THAT WAS CONCEDING THERE? NO SEATING THERE? NO. OKAY. UH, HARLEY BUTLER TO BE FOLLOWED BY ANN DIGS DIGGAS. HARLEY BUTLER, NOT HERE. THANK YOU. AND DIGGAS TO BE FOLLOWED BY CHRISTOPHER SPAIN. CHRISTOPHER SPAIN IS NO LONGER HERE. SO FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU ALL FOR BRINGING THIS UP. THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. I, UH, FOR DISCOURSE. I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT MAYOR MCCONNELL OPENED THIS CONVERSATION BY POINTING OUT WHEN FIFTH STREET BECOMES A BEAUTIFUL THOROUGHFARE FOR BIKES, CAN WE GET RID OF THE SHEROS? THE IMPLICATION HERE IS THAT THE BOULEVARD SHOULD NOT EVER HOUSE BIKERS. IT'S A DANGEROUS STREET. WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS THE SAME SITUATION. D STREET IS DANGEROUS, EVEN WITH CALMING, IT WILL STILL BE OVERUSED AT HIGH RATES OF SPEED. HOPEFULLY THE SPEED WILL BE KNOCKED DOWN. BUT THE PROBLEM IS IT SHOULDN'T BE A BIKE ROUTE. WE HAVE A BLOCK OVER. WE HAVE B STREET, WHICH ALREADY HAS ACCESSIBLE BIKE BOTH WAY. TRAFFIC, AMPLE PARKING, AND LESS TRAFFIC. IT'S SAFER. SO WHY ARE WE PUTTING PEOPLE IN A STREET? THANK YOU. MM-HMM. THAT'S THE ONE MINUTE LEVEL. STACEY BATIA TO BE FOLLOWED BY JOHN DONNELLY. I GAVE MINE UP. THANK YOU. JOHN DONNELLEY. I GAVE MY THANK YOU NED, OR TO BE FOLLOWED BY KAREN DILU. WELL, GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. I ADMIRE YOUR ENDURANCE HERE. UM, I I SUPPORT THE, THE PROJECT HERE IN MIND, MAINLY FROM THE INTEREST OF HUMAN ECOLOGY. WE HAVE A PLANET THAT'S FALLING APART AND WE'RE JUST STARTING TO UNDERSTAND THAT NOW. NINE. AND AND THAT'S FROM THE WORK WE FIRST DONE. NOW, WELL, WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THIS. I'VE BEEN STUDYING IT FOR MOST OF MY LIFE AND MAJOR [05:10:01] GUIDANCE NOW FROM, UH, THOMAS BERRY WHO SAYS WE, THE 65 MILLION YEARS THE ZOIC ERA HAS BEEN ALONG IS WE'RE, WE'RE KILLING IT OFF RIGHT NOW. SO HE'S SAYING WE SHOULD GO TO THE ECHOIC WHEN HUMANS BECOME MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL TO ALL OF LIFE. SO THAT'S PART OF WHAT'S GOING ON HERE. AND PETALUMA HAS ALREADY EX SHOWED TREMENDOUSLY. THANK YOU. THE TIME DOES GO FAST. KAREN ULU, UH, TO BE FOLLOWED BY JERRY BARNETT. ON BEHALF OF MY FRIENDS AT THE METHODIST CHURCH, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT A HUNDRED YEAR OLD AND 90 YEAR OLDS, THREE SPACES OF, OF PARKING FOR WHEELCHAIRS IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THERE. AND IF YOU TAKE AWAY THE ABILITY TO PARK FOR THE 80 YEAR OLDS AND THE 70 YEAR OLDS AND MAKE US GO TWO BLOCKS, YOU'RE YOU'RE SHUTTING DOWN THE CHURCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, BARNETT. TO BE FOLLOWED BY GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS CHERIE BARNETT. I'M THE OUTREACH AND EVENT COORDIN WITH THE SONOMA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION. OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HAS SUBMITTED WRITTEN COMMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE OPTION ONE FOR THE D STREET PILOT PROJECT WITH CONTINUOUS BIKE LANE ON D STREET IN, IN PARKING ON ONE SIDE. I'M HERE TO GIVE COMMENT TO THIS BECAUSE HAD SOMEBODY TOLD ME THAT LESS THAN A YEAR SINCE I WAS RUN OFF THE ROAD ON D STREET THAT I WOULD BE STANDING BEFORE YOU ADVOCATING FOR BIKE LANES, I WOULDN'T HAVE BELIEVED YOU. THE OTHER IRONY IN ALL OF THIS IS THAT THE DRIVER WHO DIDN'T SEE ME IS WHILE I WAS DRIVING IN AN SUV. THE REALITY IS MODERN VEHICLES HAVE SOME OF THE LEAST VISIBILITY POSSIBLE ROAD COMING MEASURES AND PROTECTED BIKE LANES ARE WHAT WE CAN DO WHILE WE TRY TO GET AHEAD OF THE FUTURE THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW, I CAN TALK ABOUT THE STATS AND WHAT THE POWER OF BIKE LANES ARE FOR THOSE OF US WHO RIDE. I KNOW I'M UP HERE AND I'M PROBABLY A WHITE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM BECAUSE THANK YOU. THAT TIME HAS EN ENDED. UM, AND PLEASE SUBMIT COMMENTS SO THE THEY CAN BE IN THE RECORD. UM, ROB GILO, WHO I BELIEVE WAS SEEDING OR DIDN'T SEED, DIDN'T SEED DISGUST. AND I'M SORRY, ROB, DID YOU SEED? I DIDN'T. I WAS GOING TO, BUT I DIDN'T. ALL GOOD. OKAY. I WAS EXPECTING TO BE FOLLOWING MY, MY LAURA WAYLAN . OKAY. UM, ROBERT GILO, OLO A F FOURTH GENERATION D STREET RESIDENT. UH, I'VE BEEN ON D STREET FOR 42 YEARS, UM, BORN AND RAISED. MY MOTHER WAS BORN AND RAISED ON D STREET. MY UNCLE, MY GRANDPARENTS HAD BUILT THEIR HOME ON D STREET AND MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER BUILT HER HOME ON D STREET. I'VE SEEN MANY CHANGES TO D STREET. WE'VE LOST PARKING IN FRONT OF THE HOMES ALREADY, UM, AND WITHOUT BIKING LANES, THERE ARE BIKING LANES ON D STREET NOW. AND IF YOU'RE WE'RE SAYING THERE AREN'T THAT MANY CARS THAT ARE USING THOSE PARKING SPOTS, THEN THE BIKING LANES ARE ADEQUATE FOR THOSE TRAVELERS. I RARELY SEE BIKERS GOING DOWN THOSE, EXCEPT FOR THE WEEKENDS. AND IT'S USUALLY THE BIKING COALITIONS THAT ARE GOING FOR RECREATIONAL, WHICH THEY SHOULD USE IT, IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PATH OUT TO GET OUT TO THE COUNTRYSIDE, BUT IT'S NOT A REASON TO CHANGE D STREET WHEN THERE IS B STREET AND F STREET FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS TO USE THEIR BIKE LINES. THANK YOU. UM, LAURA WHALEN TO BE FOLLOWED BY BRUCE HAGEN. HELLO, UH, THANK YOU. UM, MY NAME IS LAURA WHALEN. I'M A PETALUMA RESIDENT AND PARENT OF THREE YOUNG CHILDREN. UM, I'M ALSO A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER HERE IN DOWNTOWN PETALUMA, AND I SIT ON THE PTA BOARD AT MY SCHOOL. MY KIDS BIKE TO SCHOOL EVERY MORNING FROM OUR HOME AT THEY GO TO MCNAIR ELEMENTARY. UM, AND THEN I WALK MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER TO PRESCHOOL ON D STREET, UM, AND 10TH EVERY DAY. UM, AFTER DROPPING MY OLDER KIDS OFF AND I AM IN SUPPORT OF THE BET MEASURES, I THINK THEY'RE REALLY IMPORTANT. I THINK IT'S SETS THE RIGHT TONE FOR OUR KIDS AND THE CITY THAT WE WANT TO SEE, DESPITE THE FACT THAT IT WILL BE HARD TO GET THERE AND THERE ARE GONNA BE PAIN POINTS ALONG THE WAY. I THINK WE WANNA, UM, CREATE A CITY THAT WE WANT OUR KIDS TO LIVE IN. UM, AND THAT IS MY BELIEF. UM, AND ALSO AS A CYCLIST, I'VE BEEN ENDURED [05:15:01] BY PARKED CARS, UM, WHEN TRYING TO GET AROUND A SWERVING VEHICLE, UM, I'VE BEEN SHOUTED OUT AND THREATENED, BUT I BELIEVE THAT SAFE DRIVERS MAKE SAFE CYCLISTS, MAKE SAFE PEDESTRIANS, AND WE'RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER. THIS IS OUR CITY. MY 6-YEAR-OLD WANTED ME TO SAY 'CAUSE HIS FASTEST . THANK YOU. THAT'S THE TIME BRUCE HAGEN TO BE FOLLOWED BY KEVIN MARKS. GOOD EVENING. UH, THIS IS A PICTURE OF WHAT WE COULD HAVE ON D STREET AFTER WE TEST THE BIKE LANES. IT IS A TEST. THEY WILL DISAPPEAR WHEN THE STREET IS RECONSTRUCTED. THIS IS CALLED SLOW D STREET FOR EVERYONE. IT HAS PARKING PROTECTED BIKE LANES. IT HAS TRAFFIC THAT MEANDERS BETWEEN PARKING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET. AND WE JUST NEED TO HAVE SOME PROFESSIONAL DESIGN. BJORN AND STAFF HAVE DONE A WONDERFUL JOB WITH THE PARAMETERS THEY'VE BEEN GIVEN, BUT IF WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT A REAL SOLUTION THAT MAKES D STREET MORE BEAUTIFUL, THAT RESPECTS ITS HISTORY AND THE PROBLEMS THAT THE NEIGHBORS ARE EXPERIENCING THERE, IF WE CAN SIT DOWN TOGETHER, FORGET THIS, UH, WARRING CAMP'S BS, WE CAN SIT DOWN TOGETHER AND FIGURE OUT SOMETHING THAT'S BETTER THAN WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW AND THAT WE WILL ALL END UP LIKING. SO I INVITE YOU TO TALK TO ME AFTERWARDS. WE ARE THE LAST GENERATION WITH A CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. LET'S NOT BLOW IT. KEVIN. MARKS TO BE FOLLOWED BY TEDDY HERZOG. EXCUSE ME. GOOD EVENING, KEVIN MARKS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. UH, REAL QUICKLY ON ON D STREET, UM, I REALLY HAVE TO APPLAUD, UH, KAREN NOW FOR LOOKING AT THE BIKE PATH GOING UP B STREET. IF WE CAN MOVE THE TRAFFIC OFF OF D STREET OF THE BICYCLE TRAFFIC AND MOVE, UH, MOVE IT TO B STREET AND ALLOW D STREET TO BE A THOROUGHFARE THAT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO BE, AND THEN TAKE CARE OF THE TRAFFIC COMMUNE AROUND IT SO PEOPLE CAN CROSS, UH, UH, SAFELY. AND THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT, GETTING FROM POINT A TO POINT B AND INCORPORATING IN THE LARGER SPAN OF THE BICYCLE TRAFFIC AND INCORPORATING INTO THE CITY. THAT IS THE BEST WAY TO GO. UM, I'M SPEAKING, I'M AN EAST SIDER, UM, BUT HAVING DRIVEN MANY TIMES UP B STREET, BOTH, UH, AS A CIVILIAN AND AS A FIREFIGHTER, UM, IT, IT IS A TOUGH SITUATION TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B WHEN WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR THE PEOPLE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, TEDDY HERZOG TO BE FOLLOWED BY BEV BEVERLY SHORE. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. I GOT TO RIDE, UH, DOWN D STREET AND UP AND OVER RED HILL THIS AFTERNOON. IT WAS AWESOME. D STREET'S ALREADY A WORLD CLASS BICY ROUTE. THERE'S ALREADY BIKE LANES, THERE'S ALREADY BICYCLISTS THERE. EVERY STREET IN PETALUMA NEEDS TO BECOME A SAFE, COMPLETE STREET SO YOU CAN DRIVE SAFELY, WALK SAFELY, BICYCLE SAFELY. YES, SAFE STREETS IS ALL ABOUT SLOWING DOWN THE CARS AND THE TRUCKS DRAMATICALLY. IN THE CASE OF D STREET, YOU'RE NOT GONNA DO IT WITH A SIGN, YOU'RE GONNA DO IT WITH A DESIGN. YOU'RE GONNA CHANGE THE DESIGN SO THAT WE SLOW THE CARS AND THE TRUCKS DOWN. AND WHAT ONE REALLY GOOD WAY IS A BIG AND BOLD BIKE LANE ON EACH SIDE OF THE STREET. THAT'S PART OF THE DESIGN THAT SLOWS IT DOWN. THE STREETS ARE THERE FOR EVERYBODY TO USE, WHETHER YOU'RE ON YOUR FOOT, ON A BIKE, ON A SCOOTER, ON A ONE WHEEL, WHETHER YOU'RE IN A CAR, IN A TRUCK. THANK YOU. THAT'S YOUR TIME. BEVERLY SHO TO BE FOLLOWED BY CATHERINE SHEDRICK. GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. AND I WANNA THANK STAFF FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT WENT INTO THIS PROPOSAL. AND I WANNA SAY THAT I LIVE ONE HOUSE OFF OF D STREET. I AM A WALKER, A BIKE RIDER, AND I OWN A CAR. AND I HAVE FAR MORE MILES ON MY BIKE AND MY FEET THAN I EVER HAVE HAD ON MY CAR, I BELIEVE. AND I HOPE YOU BELIEVE LIKE I DO, THAT IT IS CRITICAL TO CREATE SAFE BIKE ROUTES. MORE PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE RIDING BIKES, ELECTRIC BIKES, KIDS GROWING UP, USING BIKES, AND THINKING OF BIKES AS TRANSPORTATION, NOT JUST RECREATION. I HOPE YOU WILL ADOPT OPTION NUMBER ONE IF BIKE LANES ARE CLEARLY MARKED. THEY, THEY PROVIDE SAFETY. IT'S WHEN THEY'RE [05:20:01] AMBIGUOUS, WHEN THERE'S ROAD FURNITURE, LIKE SOMETIMES A CAR AND SOMETIMES NOT A CAR. THANK THANK YOU. UM, CATHERINE SHEDRICK TO BE FOLLOWED BY BLAKE COOPER. UM, I'M ALSO GONNA TAKE THE TIME FOR DEB FOX, WHO I THINK SUBMITTED A, A COMMENT CARD, DEB FOX. UM, THANK YOU COUNSEL FOR, UM, HAVING THIS DISCUSSION TONIGHT. UM, I WANNA GIVE A HUGE THANKS TO BJORN AND THE MEMBERS OF THE STAFF FOR, UM, WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE, UM, A VERY THOUGHTFUL, UM, COMPROMISE SITUATION THAT THEY'RE OFFERING OUR CITY. UM, I'M A RESIDENT OF FIFTH STREET. I'M SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THE, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY THAT'S COMING TO FIFTH STREET. UM, BUT I'M ACTUALLY HERE TONIGHT, UM, AS A HUMAN AND, UM, AS A PARENT. UM, I JUST RECEIVED A TEXT FROM MY DAUGHTER WHO'S 12, THAT SAYS, WHAT TIME ARE YOU GONNA BE HOME, MOMMY, SHOULD I WAIT FOR YOU? BUT I'M HERE WITH YOU AT 11:47 PM UM, BECAUSE WHAT WE TALK ABOUT IN MY FAMILY IS, UM, LIVING OUR VALUES. AND SO I'M HERE TONIGHT TO, UM, TALK ABOUT WHAT, WHAT MY VALUES ARE, AND I HOPE THAT I'M BEING A GOOD ROLE MODEL, UM, FOR MY CHILDREN. THAT'S ONE MINUTE. UM, MY HEART IS BROKEN, UM, THIS WEEK, UM, BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK AT THE PETALUMA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, UM, WHICH MY KIDS DON'T ATTEND ANYMORE FOR MANY REASONS. UM, MY HEART IS ALSO BROKEN. UM, LISTENING TO THE COMMENTS OF THE NEIGHBORS EARLIER TONIGHT, LIKE WHEN WE HAVE SENIORS THAT ARE TALKING ABOUT RENT HIKES AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOOD INSECURITY FOR SENIORS, WE HAD SOMEONE HERE WHO IS UNHOUSED TONIGHT, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN GAZA AND WHY ARE WE SPENDING 18 MONTHS TALKING ABOUT PARKING ON A STREET IN OUR TOWN. LIKE, WE HAVE SERIOUS ISSUES THAT WE NEED TO BE ATTENDING TO IN THE TOWN. AND SHAME ON EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM FOR SPENDING ALL OF THIS TIME AND HAVING ALL OF THIS DIVISION IN OUR TOWN WHEN WE SHOULD BE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE A BETTER FUTURE AND TO MAKE A BETTER PRESENT DAY. THANK YOU BLAKE COOPER TO BE FOLLOWED BY JESSICA MOSES. HELLO. I WILL SPEAK FAST. UH, I WANTED TO SUPPORT BRUCE HAGEN'S EARLIER POINT THAT, UH, WE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD SUPPORT OPTION ONE SO WE CAN GET THE DATA TO THEN HOPEFULLY DESIGN A SLOWER STREET AREA OVERALL WORK WITH THE NEIGHBORS TO TRY AND BRIDGE THAT DIVISION FOR EVEN BETTER DESIGN. SINCE THIS IS A PILOT PROJECT, I ALSO VERY MUCH WANT TO PUSH US REMEMBERING THAT PEOPLE ARE USING THIS NOW. STUDENTS ARE USING THIS NOW AS A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE TO GET TO SCHOOL. THERE'S A HIGH SCHOOL, A JUNIOR HIGH GRANT SCHOOL, AND MCNAIR'S ALL IN THAT RADIUS. PEOPLE USE D STREET. I WISH THEY USED B, BUT THEY USE D STREET. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE KI A LOT OF MY FRIENDS' KIDS DO RIGHT NOW, AND THEY'RE AT RISK RIGHT NOW. SO IF YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING TONIGHT, KIDS ARE STILL AT RISK BECAUSE THESE SPIKE LANES AREN'T SAFE. JUST AS THE NEIGHBORS HAVE SAID, THEY'RE CURRENTLY NOT SAFE, WHICH IS WHY ACTION NEEDS TO BE TAKEN. AND TONIGHT YOU CAN ACTUALLY TEST SOMETHING OUT SUCCESSFUL. THANK YOU JESSICA MOSES TO BE FOLLOWED BY WAYNE TRO. I'LL TRY TO GO IN QUICK BULLETS. UM, FIRST OFF, I WANNA APPLAUD STAFF FOR THEIR CREATIVE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CUES TO SLOW DOWN BOTH D AND FIFTH STREET. TO ECHO TEDDY NOT SIGNS DESIGN. UM, I WILL SAY I'M SURPRISED THIS IS, I'VE NOT, UH, BEEN KEEPING UP AS MUCH WITH THIS, BUT I I DIDN'T REALIZE THERE'D BE SO MUCH UPSET OVER LOSING ONE SIDE OF PARKING. IT'S ONLY ONE SIDE. AND IT FEELS LIKE A VERY REASONABLE COMPROMISE TO MAKE BIKING SAFER BY GOING WITH OPTION ONE AND PER CITY DOCUMENTS, BOTH B AND D ARE ON THE DOCKET TO BE MADE SAFER FOR CYCLISTS. SO LET'S GIVE IT A TRY WITH LOW COST PAINT. AS I'VE SAID AT THESE, UM, CONVERSATIONS BEFORE FOR A TP, IT'S VERY MUCH AN IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY'LL COME SCENARIO. I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME RESIDENTS DON'T SEE QUITE AS MUCH CYCLISTS ON THE ROAD TO WARRANT SOMETHING LIKE THIS. IT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT SAFE. SO WE HAVE TO BUILD THE FACILITIES TO MAKE IT SAFE AND THEN FOLKS WILL START RIDING. SO IF YOU WANNA ALLEVIATE PARKING, YOU GOTTA GET PEOPLE OUTTA CARS. THANK YOU WAYNE TRO TO BE FOLLOWED BY [05:25:01] BEN PETERS. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME'S WAYNE ESTRO. UM, I BELIEVE WE HAVE THE MECHANISMS ALREADY IN PLACE TO CALM THE TRAFFIC. IT'S CODE ENFORCEMENT AND TRAFFIC CONTROL. UM, A LOT OF THINGS THAT, UH, IS REOCCURRING IS SPEEDING, HAS BEEN THE RECURRING THEME. IF YOU HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE, MAKE 'EM RESPONSIBLE FOR, FOR THEIR ACTIONS, YOU WILL GET THE CALMING EFFECT THAT YOU DESIRE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU BEN PETERS TO BE FOLLOWED BY BARRY SITZ. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. UM, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAYBE DON'T ATTEND MANY CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, THERE IS A POINT ON DECORUM WHERE GENERALLY CLAPPING AND COMMENTARY IS FROWNED UPON. SO I WOULD APPRECIATE US MAINTAINING A DECORUM AND DECORUM. I, UH, SAY THAT BECAUSE I'M, UH, AFRAID TO ADMIT THAT I RIDE WITH MY CHILDREN ON D STREET. I THINK IT'S A LITTLE SURPRISING THAT I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING TO BE TOLD I'M A BAD PARENT BECAUSE I RIDE WITH MY CHILDREN ON OUR PUBLIC STREETS. I THINK US AS A COMMUNITY CAN DO A BETTER JOB OF LIFTING UP SAFETY IN OUR TOWN. I RIDE ON B STREET EVERY DAY. I'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR FIVE YEARS. THE HIGH SCHOOL IS NOT A SAFE PLACE FOR ME TO BIKE WITH MY CHILDREN. I WOULD MUCH PREFER D STREET. THE HIGH SCHOOL DRIVERS ARE MUCH WORSE THAN D STREET. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, BARRY SITZ TO BE FOLLOWED BY, UH, ELIZABETH STALLINGS, OUR CITY STAFF PRIMARY PRI UH, PR INCLUDING, UH, ESPECIALLY BJORN GRUENBERG, HAS GIVEN US A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT THAT ADDRESSES ALMOST ALL THE ARGUMENTS I'VE HEARD TONIGHT. AND OPTION ONE ONLY TAKES AWAY ONE LANE OF PARKING ON A STREET IN WHICH 86% OF THE PARKING IS UNDER IS NOT USED ON. I HAVE A SPECIAL CONCERN ABOUT THE METHODIST CHURCH AND MY FRIENDS THERE ON EASTER SUNDAY WHEN ST. JOHN'S AND THE METHODIST CHURCH WERE BOTH IN, IN, IN FULL SERVICE. I WALKED AROUND THE BLOCKS. I FOUND 35 CURBSIDE PARKING SPACES WITHOUT CROSSING D STREET THAT WERE WITHIN ONE AND ONE HALF BLOCKS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH. MOST OF THEM WERE WITHIN A BLOCK OR LESS AND REQUIRED CROSSING NO STREETS. THAT DID NOT INCLUDE THE POST OFFICE. IT DID NOT INCLUDE THE MAIL DEPOT WITH 18 MORE SPACES UNUSED. THIS IS A HARD CHOICE. I'M HERE TO PUT MY STAND WITH YOU. THANK YOU. UH, ELIZABETH STALLING TO BE FOLLOWED BY FRANK QUINT. OOH, I DIDN'T THINK I'D BE HERE FOR FIVE HOURS AND I'M LOW BLOOD SUGAR. BUT, UM, I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE PALOMA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. AND I WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONCERNS THAT YOU'VE BROUGHT UP REGARDING THAT. I HAVE PERSONAL OPINIONS ON THE BIKE LANES AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT I'M GONNA PUT THAT ASIDE BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE IN, UM, BIKING AND GOING FORWARD WITH THE ENVIRONMENT IN OUR, UM, CITY. UM, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS, AND THAT'S WHY I DECIDED TO COME UP HERE IS THE POST OFFICE DOOR IS AN EMERGENCY DOOR AND SHOULDN'T BE USED. WE DO USE IT AS A LOADING ZONE BECAUSE IT IS PART OF OUR SOCIAL HALL, AND WE WOULD LIKE TO USE THAT FOR EVENTS. UM, AND THEN SOMETHING ABOUT THE WEBSITE, I, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO UPDATE OUR WEBSITE, . SORRY. UM, AND THEN THE OTHER ISSUE ABOUT THE FRONTAGE PROPERTY THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE A LOT OF GRAIN SPACE THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE BECAUSE WE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT MORE ENVIRONMENTAL. AND WE'VE TALKED TO DA, UH, DAILY ACTS ABOUT THAT. SO WE ARE INTERESTED, AND THANK YOU. TIME HAS EXPIRED. FRANK QUINT TO BE FOLLOWED BY MARINA. MARINA AND MARINA SEATED. THAT'S RIGHT. OKAY. AND SO COULD BE FOLLOWED BY VALERIE ROGERS. UH, GOOD EVENING. UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. UM, AS SOMEONE WHO, UH, RIDES BIKE THROUGH OUR PETALUMA, UH, CONSTANTLY, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M ENCOURAGING YOU TO MAKE D STREET, UH, A SAFER PLACE, UH, FOR CARS AND BIKES TO COEXIST. UM, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE. UH, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO BIKE. UM, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO LIVE AND, UM, WE'D JUST LIKE TO MAKE IT SAFER FOR BIKERS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. [05:30:01] THAT WAS OUR, UM, I MEAN VALERIE ROGERS. NO, THAT WAS, UH, OUR LAST SPEAKER FOR THE NIGHT THAT CLOSES, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. UM, UH, BRINGING IT BACK TO THE COUNCIL. UH, UM, UH, WE HAVE A REQUEST FOR A THREE MINUTE BREAK, SO, UM, LET'S, UH, GO INTO RECESS FOR, UH, THREE MINUTES AND, AND, UH, AND RECONVENE HERE IN THREE MINUTES. STRETCH YOUR LEGS. WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT IN INDULGENCE. UH, IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME ON THE PODIUM FOR MANY OF US APPARENTLY HERE, UM, OR FOR ALL OF US. UM, SO, UH, APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S PATIENCE AND, AND, UH, HAVING CONCLUDED PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, WE'LL BRING 'EM BACK TO COUNCIL FOR, UH, COUNCIL DELIBERATION AND, AND, UH, COMMENTS WHO WOULD CARE TO LEAD US OFF ON, UM, THEIR THOUGHTS. COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON, WE DO APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU. UM, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER I LOOK AT A PROJECT, I ALWAYS LOOK THROUGH THE LENS OF, YOU KNOW, A DA TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S SAFE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, YOU CAN CROSS STREET SAFELY. AND RIGHT NOW ON D STREET, YOU CAN'T, I MEAN, I'VE BEEN ON D STREET MANY TIMES AND I'VE HAD TO WALK ACROSS THE STREET BECAUSE WHATEVER REASON, AND IT IS UNSAFE TODAY, AND IT'S UNSAFE BECAUSE THOSE INTERSECTIONS ARE NOT SAFE WHEN I LOOK AT SEVENTH STREET AND THE WAY THAT CURB IS. UM, AND I, I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT A PROJECT LIKE THIS, AND I KNOW CHANGE IS HARD, UM, BUT WE ARE IN A CLIMATE CRISIS AND WE ARE TRYING TO, UM, DIRECT THE CITY SO PEOPLE GET OUT OF THEIR CARS AND, AND WALK AND DRIVE MORE. AND I DRIVE A LOT, SO I'M NOT GIVING UP MY CAR. UM, BUT I REALLY FEEL AS THOUGH DOING THIS, UM, TAKING PARKING AWAY FROM HALF THIS, THE ROAD. I MEAN, I'VE BEEN GOING UP AND DOWN D STREET MY ENTIRE LIFE. I'VE SEEN, AND I'VE BEEN GOING AROUND THERE A LOT LATELY. AND I'VE BEEN COUNTING THE CARS, ESPECIALLY FROM SUNNY SLOPE DOWN TO, UM, SIXTH STREET. AND I'M COUNTING LIKE SEVEN CARS, MAYBE NINE CARS AT THE MOST. AND THIS IS ALL DIFFERENT DAYS OF THE WEEK. AND I THINK THAT FOR, UM, I WANT, I WANT MY GRANDSON TO BE SAFE. AND HE LIVES ON HOWARD STREET AND HE GOES TO PETALUMA HIGH. HIS FRIENDS LIVE OFF D STREET, OFF BROWN COURT. AND I THINK HE DESERVES TO HAVE SAFE STREETS WHEN HE IS RIDING HIS BIKE. UM, AND I BELIEVE WE ALL DO, WHEN I RIDE MY BIKE, I LIVE ON THE EAST SIDE, I GO OVER THE D STREET BRIDGE. UM, I WANNA GO UP D STREET, BUT THE CARS ARE THERE AND IT'S JUST SO NARROW THAT I DON'T GO IN THAT DIRECTION. I DO GO IN THE BOULEVARD AND THAT'S, I DON'T FEEL LIKE THAT'S VERY SAFE EITHER. BUT I THINK SAFETY IS REALLY IMPORTANT. AND I THINK LOOKING THROUGH THE LENS OF A DA AND LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE INTERSECTIONS AND HOW THE IMPROVEMENTS SO PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY WALK ACROSS SAFELY, I THINK IS SOMETHING PEOPLE NEED TO REALLY LOOK AT THE SAFETY ASPECT OF THIS PROJECT. UM, HAVING THOSE BULB OUTS MEANS THAT YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE TO CROSS THE STREET BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA BE INTO THIS BULB OUT BEFORE YOU GET INTO THE STREET WHERE THE CARS ARE COMING. DRIVERS HAVE TO SLOW DOWN. I MEAN, YOU HAVE THESE, UM, LOUD MUFFLERS, YOU HAVE THESE TRUCKS EVERYWHERE WITH WIDE TIRES. AND I FEEL AS THOUGH WE NEED TO ADDRESS A LOT OF THOSE ISSUES. BUT I REALLY DO THINK THAT D STREET COULD BE THE GRAND BOULEVARD IT ONCE WAS. UM, AND WE CAN GO BACK THERE. AND BY SLOWING TRAFFIC DOWN AND TESTING OUT NUMBER ONE DESIGN, I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO. WHY NOT LOOK AT IT AND SEE, I CERTAINLY WANT IT TO BE SAFER. AND WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT I HAVE TO WALK SO FAR TO CROSS THE STREET, YEAH. BECAUSE IT'S NOT SAFE TO CROSS THE STREET. 'CAUSE THERE'S NO INTERSECTIONS. BY THE TIME I GET TO LIKE BROWN COURT TO WALK ACROSS THE STREET, I MEAN, THERE'S NO CROSSWALKS THERE. SEVENTH STREET, IT'S GOT A CURVE IN IT. AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WHEN I LOOK AT A STREET, I WANT A COMPLETE STREET. I DON'T WANNA PUT LINES IN A ROAD, UM, AND SAY, OH, WE'RE DONE. I THINK IT'S REALLY THE SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT FOR ME. UM, AND I DO SUPPORT, UM, GOING FORWARD WITH, UM, NUMBER ONE, JUST LET'S SEE HOW IT [05:35:01] GOES. UM, BUT I, I THINK THE SAFETY OF NOT JUST PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS, BUT IT'S, IT'S SAFETY FOR EVERYBODY. WE NEED TO BE A LOT SAFER. AND I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS THE CHURCH I, THERE IS PARKING ON THE SIDES. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA JUST HAVE TO ADAPT A LITTLE BIT. I REALIZE, UM, OUR, OUR PATTERN IS A CERTAIN WAY AND CHANGING A PATTERN ISN'T ALWAYS EASY, BUT WE DO ADAPT. UM, I APPRECIATE WHAT, UH, BEVERLY SHORE TALKED ABOUT, JUST ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH SHE WALKS AND BIKES AND DRIVES LESS, BUT SHE ALSO LIVES IN AN AREA WHERE SHE CAN DO THAT. NOT EVERYBODY CAN DO THAT. UM, I, UM, PUTNAM PARK, THE EXPANSION OF PUTNAM PARK, IT IS A DIRECT ROUTE, UM, TO PUTNAM PARK. AND THERE'S PROBABLY GONNA BE MORE BIKING ON D STREET BECAUSE, UM, BECAUSE EXTENDING THE PARK ONTO THE D STREET SIDE. AND I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK INTO THE FUTURE AND, AND REALLY PLAN FOR THE FUTURE. AND THAT IS SAFE STREETS AND THEY HAVE TO BE COMPLETE STREETS. AND THEY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE LENS OF A DA AND EVERY STREET THAT WE DO BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYBODY HAS THE SAME ACCESS ON OUR ROADS AND OUR STREETS. THAT, UM, SOMEBODY THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE A DISABILITY AND PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE DISABILITIES BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK LIKE YOU HAVE A DISABILITY TO HAVE A DISABILITY. AND SO I JUST ASSUME EVERYBODY DOES. AND THAT WE NEED TO MAKE, UM, OUR TOWN SAFE. I LIVE OFF RAINIER AND THAT UNFORTUNATELY IS A 64 FOOT WIDE ROAD THAT WE'RE TRYING, THAT WE'RE REDUCING AND MAKING CHANGES TO. AND THE NEIGHBORS WERE NOT REALLY HAPPY ABOUT IT. AND THERE WAS A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, UM, DESCENT. UM, BUT NOW EVERYTHING'S KIND OF QUIETED DOWN AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CAR GOT HIT, BUT THE BICYCLISTS WOULDN'T HAVE BECAUSE OF THAT PARTICULAR DESIGN. UM, AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR ME, IT'S NOT ABOUT ME ANYMORE, IT'S ABOUT THE FUTURE. AND I THINK THIS GRAND BOULEVARD CAN BE BROUGHT BACK INTO THE GRAND BOULEVARD IT ONCE WAS. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, VICE MAYOR. OKAY. I, I'VE, UM, BEEN AN AVID BICYCLIST ALL MY LIFE. I HAVE A CARGO ELECTRIC BIKE NOW, UM, A HUNDRED POUNDS TO GET AROUND TOWN, BUT I ALSO HAVE A PICKUP TRUCK AND I DO A LOT OF, UH, VOLUNTEER WORK USING THAT. UM, BEEN HERE FOR 32 YEARS. I'VE BEEN UP AND DOWN D STREET MANY TIMES, AND ESPECIALLY RECENTLY, I'VE, I'VE MET WITH THE, UH, THE CHURCH FOLKS RECENTLY. I'VE WALKED AND BIKED UP AROUND THE AREAS AROUND THE STREETS DOWNTOWN TO GET A MUCH BETTER FEEL FOR THE SITUATION. SO I, UM, I KIND OF UNDERSTAND ALL SIDES. AND ONE OF OUR JOBS HERE IS TO LOOK FOR THE FUTURE. AND I'M NOT, THE GENERAL PLAN, WHICH I WAS PART OF WAS 20 YEARS IN ADVANCE, BUT OUR JOB UP HERE IS TO ACTUALLY LOOK 50 YEARS IN ADVANCE, MAYBE EVEN FURTHER, MAYBE EVEN A HUNDRED YEARS IN ADVANCE FOR CERTAIN THINGS. UM, AND ESPECIALLY FOR DEVELOPMENT. AND WE WERE CHANGING IN WHAT DIRECTION. AND THE DIRECTION WE'VE DECIDED TO DO, AND THIS HAS BEEN IN OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY, IS, IS TO MODIFY FOR COMING CLIMATE CHANGES, BOTH IN MODIFICATION AND ADAPTATION. SO IN THUMBS, THUMBS THINGS WE CAN DO TO REDUCE OUR TRAFFIC AND SOME THINGS WE NEED TO DO TO, UH, DO, BECAUSE, UH, CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING TO US AS WELL. SO, AND TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE ALL OF THAT IN THE FUTURE, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. AND, UM, SO I'VE, I'VE ALSO DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH IN, UH, WHAT MY LIFE IS GONNA LOOK LIKE IN 20 YEARS FROM NOW WHEN I, WHEN I'M 90, I'M 70 NOW. UM, I'M STILL RIDING MY BIKE, BUT I'M COULDN'T, NOT TOO LONG FROM NOW, NOW I'M PROBABLY GONNA HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ELSE AND HAVE, UH, MOBILITY ISSUES, YOU KNOW, LOTS OF FE SO I PLAY BRIDGE WITH LOTS OF 80, 90 AND A HUNDRED YEAR OLDS AND I KNOW ABOUT, UH, MOBILITY. UM, AND SO THINGS ARE GONNA CHANGE AND IN ABOUT 20 YEARS, MAYBE 30, MIGHT TAKE 30 YEARS FROM NOW, UH, PRETTY MUCH WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE CARS. CARS ARE GONNA GO AWAY. THAT'S WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN. AND IT'S NOT GONNA BE OUR CHOICE. IT'S COMING DOWN. AND SO THAT'S WHAT THE FUTURE REALLY LOOKS LIKE. WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE OTHER MO OTHER MODES. UH, WE'LL PROBABLY BE IN WALKING, WELL BIKING IS ONE THING, BUT ACTUALLY MOST OF US ARE GONNA BE IN EITHER, UM, MO I'D CALL MICRO MOBILITY SITUATIONS WOULD BE A TWO THREE WHEEL, FOUR WHEEL COULD BE ANYWHERE FROM A 50 POUND THING TO A THOUSAND POUND THING. BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA BE HAVING 2000 TO 7,000 POUND CARS AND TRUCKS IN OUR 30 YEARS FROM NOW. [05:40:01] THEY'RE JUST NOT GONNA BE ALLOWED. UM, THAT'S WHAT'S COMING. SO THAT'S THE FUTURE WE HAVE TO FACE AND WE HAVE TO DESIGN THIS CITY FOR THAT 30 TO 50 YEARS. UH, I'VE TRIED TO TALK TO, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I ASKED EARLIER WAS, WELL, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE ALL OUR ROADS? AND IF WE DO SO MANY ROADS, SO MANY MILES PER YEAR, FIVE YEAR PLAN REPAVING, AND YOU START ADDING UP ALL OUR ROADS AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GONNA BE 50 YEARS APPROXIMATELY TO GET OUR ROADS REPAVED AND, AND RESURFACED AND REDONE. SO WE'VE GOTTA START NOW AND PLAN AHEAD THAT WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH A SINGLE CYCLE. IT'S GONNA TAKE 50 YEARS TO DO A SINGLE CYCLE OF ALL OUR ROADS. OKAY? SO WE HAVE TO START NOW AND BUILD THE ROAD THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE USING 50 YEARS FROM NOW. AND HOW THAT, WHAT'S IT LOOK LIKE? SO WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE FOR ME? UM, AT LEAST IN 20 YEARS FROM NOW, I'M GONNA BE IN A PROBABLY A LITTLE A TV FOUR WHEELER THAT'S PROBABLY THREE FEET WIDE AND FOUR FEET LONG. UM, AND RUNNING DOWN ALL THE STREETS IN PETALUMA, RUNNING AROUND. AND ALONG WITH PROBABLY AN EXPECTATION, IT'S IN OUR PLAN. UH, WE'VE GOTTA CUT OUR VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED BY FIF CLOSE TO 50% IN 20 YEARS. 10 YEARS TO 20 YEARS. WE GOTTA SHUT DOWN OUR CARS BY CLOSE TO 50%. THAT'S ALREADY IN OUR PLAN. THAT'S OUR GENERAL PLAN. WE HAVE THE A TP PLAN. WE'RE PROPOSING THAT PLAN MEANS EVERY STREET, NOT JUST ONE STREET HERE, ONE STREET THERE, EVERY STREET HAS TO BECOME AVAILABLE FOR MICRO MOBILITY, WALKING, BICYCLING, MICRO MOBILITY, MICROCAR, UM, EVEN YOUR DELIVERIES. THERE'S, THERE'S, IF YOU LOOK AROUND, THERE'S NOW CITIES AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE TESTING. THEY DON'T HAVE DELIVERY VANS OR TRUCKS. THEY HAVE DELIVERY BICYCLES. THEY'RE GOING AROUND IN ELECTRIC BICYCLE VANS AND MAKING THESE MICRO UH, DELIVERIES. THAT'S WHAT'S STARTING TO HAPPEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. AND SOME OF OUR CITIES HERE IN THE US ARE DOING THAT. WE HAVE A CITY IN, IN GEORGIA NEAR ATLANTA THAT IT'S THE, THE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS ALL HAVE GOLF CARTS AND THEY HAVE 500 OR WHATEVER MILES OF TRAILS. EVERYBODY IS IN A GOLF COURT AND DRIVES TO SCHOOL IN GOLF CARTS. WE HAVE CITIES IN FLORIDA NOW IN NO CARS, ALL GOLF COURTS BASICALLY. AND THAT IS, AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES I'VE BEEN INVESTING MICRO MOBILITY. I'VE GONE TO CONFERENCES ALL OVER, UM, AND LISTENED IN. AND THIS IS STARTING TO HAPPEN MORE IN ASIA AND PARTS OF EUROPE THAN, THAN OF COURSE THE US YOU WE'RE WAY BEHIND THE, THE, THE CURVE ON CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION. THEY'RE ALREADY WAY AHEAD OF US. SO, UM, SO I'M LOOKING FOR WHAT I'M CALL BIKE LANES. I DON'T CALL 'EM BIKE LANES. I CALL 'EM MICRO MOBILITY TRANSIT SYSTEMS. AND THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE TO ME. 'CAUSE I'M GONNA BE OFF MY BICYCLE WITHIN 10 YEARS. UM, I'LL BE ON SOME OTHER MEANS OF GETTING AROUND. SO WHETHER IT BE SOME SMALL SCOOTER. AND I DO HAVE, UM, A 98-YEAR-OLD THAT PIPE BRIDGE WITH, SHE DRIVES HER CAR UP, SHE PULLS OUT HER TINY LITTLE THREE WHEELER THAT'S 10 POUNDS PER UNIT, FOUR PIECES COME TOGETHER, IT'S A SIT DOWN MOBILE. AND THEN SHE GOES FROM THE PARKING LOT WHEREVER SHE IS. AND THEN SHE CAN DRIVE AROUND UP TO 10 MILES ON THE THING, UH, GETTING IN AND OUT OF, UH, WHEN, WHERE WE'RE PLAYING BRIDGE AND AROUND THE TABLES. AND THAT'S HER MOBILITY THERE AND AT OUR HOUSE. SO THAT'S WHAT I'LL BE DOING DOWN THE ROAD. UM, SO ANYWAY, I'LL BE VOTING FOR THE, THE, THE PLAN. OUR DESIGN ENGINEERS HAVE REALLY WORKED HARD TO PUT THAT TOGETHER. SO I'LL BE VOTING IN FAVOR OF THE PROJECT, WHICH IS A PILOT STUDY, SHORT TERM, ONE TO TWO YEARS. WE CAN COME BACK IN ONE YEAR AND SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T WORKING, BUT WE NEED TO COLLECT THE DATA. WE NEED TO TRY IT OUT. AND I KNOW IT'S GONNA TAKE SACRIFICE, A HUGE SACRIFICE ON, ON YOU GUYS ON D STREET. IT'S A HUGE SACRIFICE WE'RE ASKING FOR. UM, AND WE'RE ASKING YOU TO TRY IT FOR MAYBE ONE YEAR, FIGURE OUT A WAY AROUND IT, COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTIONS. IT MAY BE THAT WE MAY HAVE TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. IT MAY BE ADDING IN PARKING SPACES, TAKE OUT SOME LAWNS AND PUT IN SOME PARKING THAT MAY BE, UH, WHATEVER IT TAKES. BUT WE HAVE TO TRY. AND SO WE GOTTA START NOW. AND THIS IS A SYMBOL OF WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TO DO. WE HAVE TO TAKE THIS AND SAY WE ARE GOING TO DO ACTION, CLIMATE ACTION. WE ARE GONNA HAVE AN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. AND WE'RE STARTING ON, SORRY, D STREET. YEP. THAT'S WHERE WE'RE STARTING AND SORRY, SACRIFICE. BUT, UM, AND YOU'RE NOT GONNA WALK ACROSS THE STREET. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND, DO NOT WALK ACROSS THE STREET, DO NOT PARK ACROSS THE STREET. YOU'RE GONNA PARK AROUND THE CORNER AND YOU'RE GONNA WALK DOWN OR LOAD ON YOUR MOBILITY DEVICE, GET ON IT, GO TO YOUR CAR AND GET THERE. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING YOU TO DO. UM, IT IS A SACRIFICE. YES. UM, I'M SORRY THAT I HAVE TO VOTE FOR OUR FUTURE. UH, AND RATHER THAN, UH, IMMEDIATE NEEDS RIGHT NOW, SORRY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE. YEAH. UM, THIS PROJECT IS A LONG TIME COMING. [05:45:01] UM, MY FIRST EMAIL ON THIS WAS JULY 11TH, 2021 FROM, UH, PEPPER ACTUALLY. UM, AND WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE EMAIL, I'M GOING BACK AND LOOKING, TALKED ABOUT A WHOLE SLEW OF NEW CROSSWALKS OF COURSE. UM, AND THEN REVIEWING FOR POSSIBLE GREEN PAINT AND BIKE LANES. UM, THEN THE ARGUS DID FRONT PAGE OF THE ARGUS. UM, IT SCARES ME TO DEATH. THAT WAS ME. I HELPED GET THAT, UH, THAT PIECE PRINTED BECAUSE AT THE TIME, SAFE STREETS WASN'T ON THE COUNCIL'S PRIORITY LIST. UM, AND WE, UM, PUT IT ON IT. I COULDN'T GET, UM, COULDN'T GET SUPPORT ON THE COUNCIL AT THE TIME. AND NOW IT IS. UM, AND WHEN WE ADOPTED THE SAFE STREETS PLATFORM, WHEN WE, YOU KNOW, DIVISION ZERO STUFF, IT WASN'T FOR SOME, IT WAS FOR ALL. AND, UM, I RIDE MY BIKE, I WAS A, A KID, I GREW UP IN THE COUNTRY, BUT I GOT DROPPED OFF IN, IN TOWN AND BIKES WERE MY TICKET TO FREEDOM. AND IT DIDN'T MATTER WHETHER THERE WAS A BIKE LANE OR NOT. UM, I RODE AROUND, UM, I STILL RIDE AROUND ALL OVER THE PLACE AND I WIND UP ON STREETS THAT DON'T HAVE BIKE LANES. AND ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THAT IT'S A STREET IS SAFER WITHOUT A BIKE LANE EITHER HAS NO EXPERIENCE OR ISN'T SERIOUS BECAUSE IT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. THERE'S THE, I ASKED IN MY COUNCIL COMMENTS, HOW MANY BIKERS, WHAT DO WE HAVE FOR STRAVA DATA? THERE'S OVER 4,000 TRIPS PER YEAR FROM STRAVA. THAT'S AN APP THAT DETRACTS FOR PEOPLE WHO RIDE THEIR BIKES. THAT'S 4,000 TRIPS THAT WE KNOW OF THAT ARE, THAT ARE LOGGED ON D STREET. IT'S NOT A, IT'S NOT A MYTH THAT LIKE, NOW WE'RE GONNA PROMOTE IT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN PEOPLE ARE GONNA START RIDING ON IT. NO, PEOPLE ARE RIDING ON IT RIGHT NOW. IT'S JUST UNSAFE. AND SO, UM, FOR ME, UM, THIS IS THE FIRST STEP, NOT THE FINAL STEP. THIS IS, UM, WHAT, WHAT BRUCE, WHAT BRUCE SAID ABOUT A BIGGER VISION FOR THE, FOR THE STREET. ABSOLUTELY. LIKE WHAT'S THERE NOW IS NOT GONNA BE THERE WHEN WE GET DONE WITH THE BIG CAPITAL PROJECT. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. THE WHOLE POINT IS TO SLOW DOWN THE TRAFFIC AND MAKE IT LESS NOISY IS TO MAKE IT SO YOU DON'T HAVE TRUCKS RATTLING YOUR FRONT WINDOWS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE COMMITTED TO DOING. THAT'S THE VISION THAT WE HAVE FOR D STREET THAT UP HERE ON THE COUNCIL AS IN JUST TO COME AND TAKE AWAY YOUR PARKING. LIKE WHEN I LOOK AT SOME OF MY EMAILS, I WAS GOING BACK THROUGH 'EM, EVERY SINGLE THING THAT THE D STREET COALITION WANTS IT GOT EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE THING. AND THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT DON'T LIVE ON D STREET. 65% OF 'EM SAID THEY WANT TO PROTECTED LANES AND WE'RE NOT GETTING PROTECTED LANES. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY A COMPROMISE. AND, UM, I IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT IT'S BECOME SO DIVISIVE. UM, THAT'S WHAT PARKING DOES TO PEOPLE . IT'S, UM, BUT, UH, WE, WE CAN'T SAY THAT WE SUPPORT VISION ZERO, THAT WE SUPPORT CLIMATE, THAT WE, AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE OTHER THINGS, YOU KNOW, ALL AGES, MOBILITY, BLUE ZONES, ALL THIS STUFF. IT'S ALL JUST RHETORIC. IF WE CAN'T TAKE AWAY ONE LANE OF PARKING ON A STREET THAT HAS AN AVERAGE OF 14% PARKING UTILIZATION IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH, LIKE I I, IT'S HARD FOR ME TO BELIEVE THAT FOUR, FOUR SPACES IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH ARE GONNA FORCE THE CHURCH TO CLOSE ITS DOORS. THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. UM, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, LIKE WE'RE GOING TO ADAPT. THERE'S GONNA BE CHANGES, THERE'S GONNA BE THINGS THAT WE DIDN'T FORESEE IN THIS DESIGN, BUT THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING IT LIKE THIS BECAUSE WE'RE ABOUT TO SPEND $10 MILLION MAKING D STREET REALLY AWESOME. AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, WHEN WE DO THAT, THAT IT'S INFORMED BY SOMETHING THAT IS TAKING US TOWARD WHERE WE WANT TO BE. UM, AND I DON'T SEE, LIKE, WHEN I THINK ABOUT D STREET IN THE FUTURE, I DON'T SEE LIKE 14% PARKING UTILIZATION FOR, YOU KNOW, 30 YEARS FROM NOW ON, ON D STREET. SO, YOU KNOW, THIS FEELS LIKE A PRETTY MODEST COMPROMISE. FIRST STEP, TAKING US TO WHERE WE WANT TO BE, UM, SO THAT WE HAVE A, YOU KNOW, A GREAT, A GREAT ENTRANCE TO OUR CITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW. UM, THANK YOU. UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR STAYING THIS LATE. UM, IT IS SIGNED A TRUCK ROUTE. WE HAVE A TRUCK ROUTE ON D STREET. THESE TRUCKS ARE AGRICULTURAL BUSINESSES. THERE ARE HAY TRUCKS, THERE ARE MILK TRUCKS, THERE ARE DAIRY TRUCKS. THEY'RE TAKING DELIVERIES FROM MCAVOY TO OUR MARKETPLACES. THIS IS OUR AG BUSINESS AND IT'S A TRUCK ROUTE. TRUCKS AND BIKES DON'T REALLY GO WELL TOGETHER UNLESS YOU ARE AN EXPERIENCED BICYCLIST. I AM A RECREATIONAL [05:50:01] BICYCLIST AS A KID. AND GROWING UP ON THE WEST SIDE OF PETALUMA, I RODE A BIKE TO GET TO AND FROM SCHOOL OR TO GET TO AN EVENT BECAUSE MY PARENTS ONLY LET US HAVE ONE CAR TO SHARE. SO WE HAD A BICYCLE, BUT IT WAS 20,000 POPULATION. WE HAVE A GRAND AVENUE, BUT IT'S ALSO A TRUCK ROUTE. SO WE HAVE TRUCKS AND BICYCLISTS, ONE STREET OVER THREE FEET WIDER. AND WE CAN COMPROMISE BY JUST ALLOWING PEOPLE TO, IF THEY'RE AN EXPERIENCED BICYCLIST, TO GO DOWN D STREET, USE THE BIKE LANE, AND WE NEED THE TRAFFIC CALMING. WE NEED THOSE TRAFFIC SAFETY, THE BULL BOUTS, THE CALIFORNIA LAW ANALYSIS. WE HAVE TO HAVE RED CURBING SO THAT PEDESTRIANS CAN SAFELY CROSS THE STREET. AND WE NEED CROSSWALKS. AND I HAVE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR LIGHTED CROSSWALKS SINCE, UM, SYLVIA, UM, VOLPE TOLD ME SHE ALMOST GOT HIT ON WASHINGTON STREET AND I ASKED FOR THE FIRST LIGHTS TO GO IN TO YEARS AGO ON WASHINGTON STREET, AND IT SAVES LIVES. THE GREENWAY PROJECT IS WONDERFUL. I SO SUPPORT THAT. IT NEEDS CROSSWALKS TOO. I COULD EVEN SEE SOME AT FIFTH STREET AND D STREET, UM, A, A TRAFFIC CIRCLE OR SOMETHING. SO IT'S EASIER TO CROSS. 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST TWO WAY STOP SIGN OR A STOP STOP SIGN. AND YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE TRAFFIC TO GET ACROSS THE STREET. EVEN AS A PEDESTRIAN. IT'S NOT SAFE. I ALSO WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO SENT IN AN EMAIL AND GAVE OUR CLERK SOMETHING TO GO INTO PUBLIC COMMENT, BECAUSE THEY SAID THE ROAD DIET ON PALOMA BOULEVARD 20 YEARS AGO WAS A PILOT. IT'S STILL THERE. RAINIER HAD PROBLEMS. IT'S STILL THERE. THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT CHANGING IT. NOT THAT I CAN SEE. AND THEY, THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS STILL KIND OF PROTESTING. THEY HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT HOW TO UNLOAD THEIR GROCERIES FROM THEIR PARKED VEHICLE AND WHERE TO PUT THEIR GARBAGE CANS. I STILL HAVE HEARTBURN ABOUT PUTTING GARBAGE CANS ON A SIDEWALK ON D STREET IF YOU TAKE AWAY PARKING. SO I SUPPORT THE GREENWAY ON FIFTH STREET. I DO NOT SUPPORT OPTION ONE ON D STREET. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. SURE, SURE. SO IN HONOR OF THE HOUR, UH, THE LATENESS OF THE HOUR HOUR, I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF. UM, UH, I ALSO SUPPORT THE FIFTH STREET GREENWAY. I THINK THAT IS, UM, UH, AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO BUILD COMMUNITY CONSENSUS. UH, IT IS A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT. UM, ON THE OTHER HAND, I THINK, UM, WHAT'S EMERGED IS THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION FOR OPTION ONE ON D STREET IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW NOT TO CREATE COMMUNITY CONSENSUS. UM, BECAUSE IT HASN'T ACHIEVED IT. I WOULD SUPPORT OPTION TWO, UM, ON, ON D STREET. UM, MY, IN, IN, IN MY EXPERIENCE, THE, THE, THE, THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH, UM, TRAFFIC ON D STREET IS, IS THE COMPLETE LACK OF MEANINGFUL TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. UM, DRIVERS ON D STREET HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO EXPECTATION THAT THEY'LL EVER GET TICKETED NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO. AND THEY'RE RIGHT. AND THAT'S REALLY TOO BAD. UM, AND IT, IT'S NEVER BEEN MADE A PRIORITY. AND NOW WE'RE COMING UP WITH THESE OTHER THINGS TO, UM, TO REMEDY THAT SITUATION. UM, I DID MY OWN OWN PARKING COUNT ON D STREET YESTERDAY MORNING, SUNDAY MORNING AT NINE O'CLOCK HEADED TO POINT REYES. UM, I COUNTED 21 CARS PARKED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE STREET. THAT'S TRIPLE WHAT'S REPRESENTED IN THE, UM, THE TRAFFIC COUNT. AND I, IT, IT LOOKED ABOUT NORMAL TO ME. I'VE NEVER COUNTED BEFORE, BUT THE NU THE NUMBER OF CARS LOOKED ABOUT NORMAL. UM, I CONCUR COMPLETELY WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS NOW, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW'S COMMENTS ABOUT, UM, A TRUCK ROUTE NOT BEING A GREAT PLACE TO ENCOURAGE, UM, BICYCLE RIDERS. AND I WOULD REMIND FOLKS OF THE TRAGIC ACCIDENT ON THE SILVERADO TRAIL, UM, JUST MONTHS AGO. UM, AND THAT, THAT WAS, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MIX BICYCLISTS WITH, UH, WITH, UH, HEAVY TRUCK USAGE. UM, AND AS I SAID BEFORE, THIS IS, UM, A PILOT PROJECT IN NAME ONLY BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE RESOLUTION IS, UM, UH, WORDED. UM, THIS IS THE COUNCIL'S ONE AND ONLY BID AT THIS. UM, AND WE ARE UNDER [05:55:01] THE RESOLUTION, WE'RE BASICALLY DEFERRING, UM, FURTHER ACTIONS TO STAFF. UM, AND I POINT OUT YOU GET BALL BOWS IN THE INCREASED CROSSWALKS UNDER EITHER OPTION. AND, UH, AND I THINK I, I SUPPORT THAT UNDER OPTION TWO, BUT I THINK OPTION ONE IS A STEP TOO FAR. UM, WHEN WE GET TIME FOR A MOTION, I WOULD PREFER, I WOULD REQUEST AS A COURTESY THAT WE SPLIT, UM, THE RESOLUTION IN TWO AND HAVE ONE RESOLUTION FOR, UM, THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY, AND THEN THE SECOND ONE FOR, FOR WHATEVER THE COUNCIL MAJORITY DECIDES TO DO ON D STREET. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND I BELIEVE THAT'S A VIABLE OPTION, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? UH, MR. CITY ATTORNEY TO SPLIT THE RESOLUTION INTO TWO VOTES, TAKING ONE SEPARATELY. UM, I'M, I'M SURE WE CAN DO IT. I WAS JUST PULLING IT UP TO SEE. I THINK THAT MEANS SPLITTING SOME RECITALS AND STUFF TOO, BUT I'LL, I'LL LOOK AT THAT IN THE BACKGROUND AND WE CONTINUE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DISCUSSION. UM, MR. MAYOR, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A MOTION. NO, THAT'S NOT A MOTION . THAT'S JUST GETTING OUR ATTORNEY A HEADS UP SO THAT, UH, WHEN WE, WHEN WE, WHEN WE THROW THE CURVE BALL AT HIM, HE IS READY. UH, AND COUNCIL MEMBER POKAY. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, HEY, THIS IS A, A DIFFICULT DECISION AND UM, I HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON IT. UH, UH, I, UH, I LIKE TO START WITH, IF YOU AND I, I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF BASED ON THE TIME, BUT, UM, THE TRUCK ROUTE ISSUE, YOU KNOW, UM, ONE THING THAT, UH, YOU NOTICE IMMEDIATELY IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE THINGS IS THAT THE, UH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP OF TRUCK ROUTES IN PETALUMA, AND YOU ALSO LOOK AT THE, UH, MAP, THE VISION ZERO MAP OF ACCIDENT SITES IN PETALUMA, THEY SIT ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. OKAY? I MEAN, WESTERN IS IS A TRUCK ROUTE THAT HAS A FEW MORE ACCIDENTS THAN MOST, UM, BODEGA AND EAST WASHINGTON AND MCDOWELL AND LAKEVILLE. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, VISION ZERO, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, I THINK, AND WITH THROUGH SAFE STREETS, WE'RE TRYING TO, UM, UM, ATTACK THESE ACCIDENTS AND LOWER THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS THAT'S OCCURRING. AND I THINK EVERY, I THINK EVERYONE'S GONNA BE SAFER, UH, ON D STREET WITH THESE CHANGES. UM, UM, LET ME JUST HIT ONE OTHER ASPECT HERE THAT, THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THERE'VE BEEN CRITICISM OF THE, UH, OF THE STAFF SURVEYS AND SUCH, UH, BUT, UH, THE COLORADO STUDY THAT I'VE BEEN REFERRED TO BY SEVERAL FOLKS, UH, AS SHOWING THAT PROTECTED BIKE LANES DOUBLE THE RISK OF COLLISIONS, UM, I ASK YOU TO, TO REALLY GO BACK AND READ THAT AND READ THE LAST TWO PAGES, UM, BECAUSE, UH, THAT IT IS A VERY POORLY DONE STUDY. IT WOULD TAKE ME 10 MINUTES TO EXPLAIN IT HERE. I'M HAPPY TO HAVE ANYONE CALL ME AT MY HOME PHONE NUMBER, UH, TO, TO GO OVER THIS IF THEY WISH. BUT, BUT, UH, AND, AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT NO ONE DID REFER ME TO ANOTHER COLORADO STUDY ALSO PUBLISHED IN 2019, UM, WHICH, WHICH, UH, GI WHICH GIVES MUCH MORE ARE DATA THAT THAT ONE WOULD EXPECT. I BELIEVE THAT SHOWS JUST THE OPPOSITE OF THAT, THAT THERE ARE TWICE AS MANY CRASHES IN, IN STREETS WITHOUT BIKE LANES AS THERE ARE ON ONES WITH BIKE LANES. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I, UH, UM, I PREFER TO LOOK AT THIS AS ASKING FOR CHANGE, UH, AND ACCEPTANCE OF, OF SOME, SOME CHANGES RATHER THAN A SACRIFICE. BUT, BUT I CERTAINLY CAN'T SAY THAT IT, THAT, UH, UM, IT IS NOT ALSO, UH, A BIT OF A SACRIFICE. BUT, UH, AGAIN, I THINK WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHERE WE'RE GOING, UH, WHERE WE'RE GOING AND, AND, AND GET THERE SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. UM, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND, UM, PROBABLY GONNA ECHO A COUPLE THINGS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN SAID HERE, BUT, UM, THERE IS LOTS AND LOTS OF GOOD ELEMENTS BEING BROUGHT INTO D STREET, UH, SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS FROM THE PROPOSED PROJECT PROJECTS. AND, UH, I WANTED TO, UH, SHOUT OUT PEPPER'S EARLY ADVOCACY THAT GOT THIS WHOLE EFFORT STARTED, UH, AS NOTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE EARLIER. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IT DID HAVE SCOPE CREEP. IT HAS GOTTEN BIGGER. UM, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I WANNA SAY IS, IS THAT WE, I READ EVERYTHING THAT COMES IN AND TRY TO REPLY TO EVERYTHING, BUT I, WE HEAR YOU ON ALL THE ISSUES THAT, UH, ARISE. IF YOU LISTEN TO THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS TONIGHT, THEY'RE ADVOCATES FOR ONE POSITION OR ANOTHER. AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE BIKE TYPE SAY THINGS THAT DON'T RESONATE AT ALL WITH THE RESIDENTS AND THE RESIDENTS SAY THINGS THAT DON'T ENTIRELY RE SO IT LEAVES US COUNSEL AS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE, WHAT, UM, THE COMMON EXPERIENCE IS AND, AND WHAT, UM, [06:00:01] WHAT THE TWO KINDS OF EXPERIENCES MEAN FOR EACH OTHER. AND THAT'S WHY WE LOOK AT, UH, WHAT CAN BE A COMPROMISED POSITION. UM, UH, CERTAINLY WE'VE ALL INVESTIGATED B STREET, WE'VE ALL, IT'S, IT'S AN EASY OBVIOUS, UH, ANALYSIS. YOU NEED TO, TO GO LOOK BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY OTHER DECISIONS. AND WE, AND WE ALL HAVE, AND WE'VE ALL LOOKED AT THE PARKING ISSUES AND, AND COUNTS. UM, AND WE ALSO CAN'T DENY THAT THERE'S AN INCONVENIENCE TO LOSING PARKING IN FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE. UH, AND I THINK WE ALL EMPATHIZE WITH THAT, UM, NEGATIVE, UM, BUT I FIND THIS PROJECT TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS AND THE PLANS OF THE CITY. UM, IT, THE, THE CLIMATE IMPERATIVE WE HAVE THE MODE SHIFT GOALS WE HAVE. UM, AND, AND, AND I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT YOU RIDE YOUR BIKE, I'M SUGGESTING YOU'RE NICE TO THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO MAKE THAT MODE SHIFT CHANGE. UM, IF YOU DON'T SEE A BIKE IN A CERTAIN AREA, IT'S NOT BECAUSE NOBODY BIKES, IT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT YET SAFE AND IT'S NOT YET THE MODE SHIFT PLACE WE NEED TO BE IN IN OUR FUTURE YEARS. IT IS ALL ABOUT THE FUTURE. SO, UM, I, UH, I, I SUPPORT THE OPTION ONE AND I THINK AS WE GET INTO, UM, A MOTION, I THINK THE MOTION NEEDS TO REFLECT THE CONCERNS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY BROUGHT UP WHERE THIS IS A PILOT ONLY A NAME, AND I THINK WE OUGHT TO INSERT IN A COUPLE WORDS THAT SAY, UH, IN OUR, IN OUR WAREHOUSES SELECTS DESIGN OPTION ONE AS PILOT UNTIL RECONSTRUCTED. AND, AND WITH THAT WORDING, I THINK WE COVER THE FACT THAT IT'S A LIMITED TIME AND YOU KNOW, IF IT IS ADOPTED, UH, AS A FUTURE AT THE TIME OF MAJOR RECONSTRUCTION, WELL, UM, IT MAY BE THE FUTURE AT THAT TIME MAY BE COUNCIL'S DECISION AT THAT TIME. AND SO SOUTH BOULEVARD WAS, VAL WAS STARTED AS A PILOT BUT WAS VALIDATED BY THE COUNCIL AS THE PERMIT SOLUTION. SO PILOT CAN TURN INTO SOLUTION, BUT IT'LL NEED COUNCIL ADOPTION OF THAT. THAT WOULD BE, UM, AN AMENDMENT I WOULD SUGGEST SOMEONE MAKE TO THE, THE RESOLUTIONS. AND, UM, THAT KIND OF CONCLUDES MY COMMENT AND I'M LOOKING FOR NEXT STEPS. COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY. SO I'M GOING TO TRY TO TAKE A STAB AT, UH, MODIFYING THE RESOLUTION FOR, UH, THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY ONLY. AND I'M GONNA ASK THE CITY ATTORNEY'S ASSISTANCE. I, I THINK THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE MODIFIED IS, UM, PARAGRAPH THREE AND THE, NOW THE THEREFORE BE RESOLVED SECTION. AND IT WOULD BASICALLY, UM, SAY THAT, UM, JUST DELETE THE FIRST, UH, FOUR, FOUR AND A HALF LINES, UM, AND, AND JUST HAVE IT, UH, SPECIFY THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY PROJECT. UM, AND THEN THERE CAN BE A SECOND MOTION ON, ON D STREET. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YES. UM, AND I, I WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT THE RECITALS AND THEY REALLY, THEY CAN STILL APPLY. SO, SO IF WHAT THE COUNCIL WANTS TO DO IS SPLIT THE RESO INTO TWO, SO THAT, THAT WOULD BE MY MOTION TO UM, MAKE A FIRST RESOLUTION, UH, FIRST MOTION ONLY TO APPROVE THE, UH, FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY SECOND. AND SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY A SECOND BY NOW. UM, IS STAFF CLEAR WHAT THE AMENDMENT AMENDED, UM, DOCUMENT WOULD BE? YES. THAT, THAT, THAT RESOLUTION LEAVES EVERYTHING PRETTY MUCH AS IT IS EXCEPT IN, IN ACTION ITEM THREE, IT REMOVES REFERENCES TO, UM, TO D STREET AND JUST REFERS TO THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY PROJECT. AND IS COUNCIL CLEAR WHAT YOU'RE GONNA BE ASKED TO VOTE ON? WE ALL GOOD? SO I GUESS THE ONE QUESTION I HAVE IS, UM, DOES THE COUNCIL STILL WANT TO WANNA TREAT BOTH THOSE PROJECTS AS PILOT PROJECTS EXPLICITLY? 'CAUSE WE, WE DON'T SO MUCH SAY THAT, BUT IT'S EASY TO ADD. AS THE MAYOR INDICATED, I DON'T THINK THERE'S A NEED FOR FIFTH STREET TO BE A PILOT PROJECT 'CAUSE THERE'S NOT THE KIND OF RECONSTRUCTION CONTEMPLATED IN THE NEAR FUTURE IS THERE. AND I CONCUR. OKAY. SO THAT COULD BE, YOU CAN SAVE THAT FOR THE UH, D STREET ONE. OKAY. THANKS FOR THAT. GOOD CLARITY RESOLUTION. DIDN'T SAY PILOT. NO, IT CURRENTLY IT DOES NOT. THE MAYOR HAS EXISTED. THAT'S WHAT WE WERE GONNA PUT PUT IN THERE FOR THE D STREET EFFORT. RIGHT. AND WE DON'T HAVE A MOTION YET FOR THE D STREET ONE. WE JUST GOT THE MOTION CORRECT. WE HAVE A MOTION FOR FIFTH SEAT BY HEALY AND A SECOND BY NOW. AND PLEASE HAVE A ROLL CALL. VOTE BARNACLE. AYE. CATER THOMPSON? YES. HEALY? YES. NOW YES. POST. OKAY. YES. ? YES. SHRIVES? YES. MCDONALD? YES. ALRIGHT. NOW, UH, READING WITH WHAT'S LEFT ON THE TABLE. YEAH, I'LL, I'LL MAKE A MOTION. I JUST WANNA ALSO SAY THAT, UM, SAYING THAT CAR BIKES AND AND TRUCKS DON'T [06:05:01] MIX IS SOMEHOW GIVING YOURSELF LIKE, SOME FALSE SENSE OF REALITY THAT, THAT LIKE BIKES AREN'T ALREADY ON THERE. THEY ARE MIXING, WE'RE KNOWINGLY MIXING THEM. THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON. UM, YOU MAY NEVER RIDE YOUR BIKE ON THAT STREET COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, BUT YOUR GRANDCHILDREN MIGHT. AND THAT'S, I'M NOT PICKING ON ME . THAT'S RIGHT. AND JUST, AND THEY'RE ALWAYS GONNA LISTEN, RIGHT? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT KIDS DO. UM, AND YOU KNOW, WE, WE DON'T, UM, THE IDEA LIKE THAT WE'RE GONNA LIKE BLAME THE BLAME THE PEOPLE ON BIKES THAT GET HIT BECAUSE THEY'RE ON D STREET. LIKE WE DON'T BLAME WOMEN WHO GET SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, YOU KNOW, LIKE THESE PEOPLE, UM, BECAUSE THEY'RE IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS IS, UM, LIKE IT IS JUST A, IT'S A REALLY TOXIC, UM, UH, SENTIMENT THAT'S COMING THROUGH FROM THE, THE NO VOTE ON THIS. I'LL JUST SAY THAT. UM, AND WITH THAT I'LL MOVE, UM, APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION SELECTING OPTION ONE, UM, THE STAFF PROPOSAL THAT THAT. AND SO WE HAVE A MOTION BARNACLE AND A SECOND BY CATER THOMPSON. AND I'LL HAVE TO ASK, WILL YOU ACCEPT A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO CALL IT OUT AS A PILOT UNTIL FULL RECONSTRUCTION? YEAH, IN PARAGRAPH THREE OF THE YEAH. SELECT OPTION ONE. UH, AS A PILOT UNTIL RECONSTRUCTION. JUST TO CLARIFY THERE, THAT THAT'S A, THAT'S A PILOT TO COME BACK TO COUNCIL. UM, DOES STAFF UH, THINK IT WARRANTS OF THE DESIGN? THE, NO, THE, UH, DOES STAFF THINK THAT THAT NEEDS EXPLICIT IN THIS RESOLUTION? OR IS IT OBVIOUS THAT A RECONSTRUCTION WOULD BE THEY'LL HAVE TO COME BACK BECAUSE WE'VE GOTTA GET IT OUT. SO IT'S GONNA COME BACK, BACK AS THE RECON, THE MAJOR RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. LIKE WE'RE NOT BRINGING BACK A DESIGN OF D STREET. NO, AFTER THIS, THIS IS LIKE GET IMPLEMENT, RIGHT? THAT'S, DO YOU WANNA SAY UNTIL COUNCIL APPROVAL OF RECONSTRUCTION? WELL THAT SATISFY AND AND THAT'S MY FRIENDLY AMENDMENT IS UNTIL COUNT, UM, PILOT UNTIL COUNCIL APPROVAL. YEAH. SO I OF RECONSTRUCTION, SO OPTION ONE STAFF, YOU KNOW, PROPOSAL AS A PILOT UNTIL RE YOU KNOW, UNTIL RECONSTRUCTION DESIGN IS IS APPROVED. OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. SECOND. AND UM, AND THE SECOND IS CATER THOMPSON. AND UH, MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL? VOTE BARNACLE. AYE. CATER THOMPSON? YES. HEALY? NO. NO. POKAY? YES. SHRIVES? YES. MCDONALD? YES. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT CONCLUDES THAT ITEM FOR THE EVENING. I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT TONIGHT WE ARE CLOSING IN, UH, OUR MEETING IN HONOR OF BREE JORGENSEN, OUR EVIDENCE TECHNICIAN CLERK WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO PASSED AWAY THIS LAST WEEK. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH HER FAMILY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.