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THAT IS TO SAY THE MEETING WILL NOW START.
GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL AND THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR AGENCY FOR MONDAY, APRIL 15TH, 2024.
IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE A PUBLIC COMMENT TONIGHT, UH, ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA OR OTHERWISE, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD THAT ARE IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM AND BRING 'EM TO OUR CITY CLERK HERE.
AND, UM, NOW I WILL INVITE MONICA RICCIO AND MARIA GALVEZ TO PROVIDE INFORMATION FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN SPANISH.
MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL FOR THE EVENING? YES.
LET'S STAND FOR A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS NATION UNDER JUSTICE FOR ALL AND A MOMENT OF SILENCE.
[AGENDA CHANGES AND DELETIONS (TO CURRENT AGENDA ONLY)]
AGENDA FOR THIS EVENING, LOOKING UP AND DOWN THE COUNCIL FOR ANY CHANGES OR DELETIONS REQUESTED, THEN IT IS ADOPTED AS POSTED.[PROCLAMATIONS]
COUPLE OF PROCLAMATIONS AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO INVITE BECKY FINE.AND, UH, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF VERITY AND KATE MCCOY, PRESIDENT OF VERITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AND SINO TERAN VICTIM'S ADVOCATE TO THE PODIUM AS WE READ PROCLAMATION FOUR, SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH APRIL, 2024.
WHEREAS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH IS INTENDED TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT SEXUAL VIOLENCE IS WIDESPREAD AND HAS A PROFOUND AND LASTING IMPACT ON EVERY COMMUNITY MEMBER OF SONOMA COUNTY.
AND WHEREAS VERITY SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION INTERVENTION AND HEALTH HEALING CENTER WORKED WITH OVER 1300 SURVIVORS IN SONOMA COUNTY IN 2023, AND HAS FURTHER CONTRIBUTED TO THE COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND OUTREACH IN 2023 BY HOSTING 64 PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS REACHING A TOTAL OF 8,404 COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH VALUABLE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES.
AND WHEREAS NATIONAL RESEARCH INDICATES THAT ONE IN FIVE WOMEN WILL BE RAPED AT SOME POINT IN THEIR LIFETIMES, AND NEARLY HALF OF ALL WOMEN WILL EXPERIENCE SOME FORM OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
AND AT LEAST ONE IN SIX MEN HAVE EXPERIENCED SEXUAL ABUSE OR ASSAULT, WHETHER IN CHILDHOOD OR IN AS AN ADULT.
AND WHEREAS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE AT GREATEST RISK OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
AND YOUTH AGE 12 TO 17 ARE TWO AND A HALF TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE RAPED, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, OR SEX SEXUALLY, UH, THAN THEIR ADULT COUNTERPARTS.
AND DISABLED PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF COLOR, QUEER PEOPLE, HOMELESS PEOPLE, TRANSGENDER PEOPLE, UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE, YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE, AND PEOPLE OF OTHER MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES ARE EVEN MORE LIKELY TO BE VICTIMIZED BY SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
AND WHEREAS OVER 18,000 MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY AND OVER 80,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE INCARCERATED EXPERIENCE SEXUAL VIOLENCE EVERY YEAR.
AND WHEREAS WITH LEADERSHIP, DEDICATION, AND ENCOURAGEMENT, THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT WE CAN BE SUCCESSFUL IN PREVENTING SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN SONOMA COUNTY THROUGH
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INCREASED EDUCATION, AWARENESS, AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF PETALUMA STRONGLY SUPPORTS THE EFFORTS OF VERITY AND ENCOURAGES EVERY RESIDENT TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EFFORTS TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE, INCLUDING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT SEXUAL VIOLENCE IS, HOW TO PREVENT IT, HOW TO HELP SURVIVORS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS CONNECT WITH CRUCIAL COUNSELING AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES, AND HOW EVERY SEGMENT OF OUR SOCIETY CAN WORK TOGETHER TO BETTER ADDRESS SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, KEVIN MCDONALD, MAYOR OF PETALUMA, ALONG WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL, FORMERLY DESIGNATE THE MONTH OF APRIL, 2024 TO BE SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS RECOGNITION.
IT'S TRULY AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO STAND HERE IN FRONT OF YOU AT THE HELM OF THIS INCREDIBLE ORGANIZATION SURROUNDED BY TEAMMATES AND BOARD MEMBERS WHO HAVE, UM, SERVED, UH, GREATLY TO, UM, SUPPORT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT THROUGHOUT OUR COUNTY.
YOU, YOU'VE HEARD THE STATISTICS.
THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY PERVASIVE ISSUE THAT, UM, TOUCHES EVERYBODY'S LIVES.
AND SO THIS RECOGNITION IS SOMETHING THAT HELPS TO ELEVATE THE AWARENESS OF THE ISSUE AND PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR OUR SERVICES SO THAT WE CAN KEEP DOING THIS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, FOR THIS RECOGNITION.
LIKE YOU, PATRICK GEORGINA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A WORD? OOPS.
I JUST WANT TO, UH, THANK YOU ALL OF YOU FOR THE SUPPORT THE, UH, EVERYBODY HAS PROVIDED, UH, FOR PARITY AND FOR THE VICTIMS OF PETALUMA.
AND JUST REAL QUICK, UM, TONIGHT IS ACTUALLY MY LAST NIGHT AS PRESIDENT AND BEING ON THE BOARD OF VERITY AFTER SIX YEARS AND TWO AS, UH, PRESIDENT, I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR HONORING TONIGHT THE SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH.
I'VE WITNESSED FIRSTHAND THE DEDICATION AND PASSION OF OUR COMMUNITY TO ADDRESS THE CRITICAL ISSUE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
AND I'M PROUDLY, IMMENSELY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED DURING MY TIME ON THE BOARD, BUT EVEN MORE SO, I AM CONFIDENT IN THE FUTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION AND WE HAVE A TEAM OF REMARKABLE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEEPLY COMMITTED TO OUR MISSION AND WHO WILL CONTINUE TO CARRY THE TORCH FORWARD WITH GRACE AND DETERMINATION.
WE'RE, WE'LL LEAVE SOME PAMPHLETS IN, IN THE HALLWAY FOR ANYBODY WHO'D LIKE TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE OR, UH, ACCESS OUR INFORMATION.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR ARBOR DAY, AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE, UH, DARREN KUZEN, THE TREE, OUR TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER AND CAROLYN, LESS OF RELIEF PETALUMA TO THE PODIUM.
WHILE I READ ARBOR DAY, APRIL 26TH, 2024, WHEREAS IN 1872, JAY STERLING MORTON PROPOSED TO THE NEBRASKA BOARD OF AGRICULTURE THAT A SPECIAL DAY BE SET ASIDE FOR PLANTING AND TREES.
WHEREAS THIS HOLIDAY CALLED ARBOR DAY WAS FIRST OBSERVED WITH THE PLANTING OF MORE THAN A MILLION TREES IN NEBRASKA.
AND ARBOR DAY IS NOW OBSERVED THROUGHOUT THE NATION AND WORLD, WHEREAS TREES REDUCE THE EROSION OF OUR PRECIOUS TOPSOIL BY WIND AND WATER, HEAT, AND, AND CUT HEATING AND COOLING COSTS, MODERATE THE TEMPERATURE, CLEAN THE AIR, PRODUCE OXYGEN, AND PROVIDE HABITAT FOR WILDLIFE.
AND WHEREAS TREES ARE A CITY IN OUR CITY, INCREASE PROPERTY VALUES, ENHANCE THE ECONOMIC VITALITY OF BUSINESS AREA AND BEAUTIFY OUR COMMUNITY.
AND WHEREVER THEY ARE PLANTED ARE A SOURCE OF JOY AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL.
AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF PETALUMA PARTNERS WITH THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS RELEAF TO PLANT MORE TREES, EDUCATE OUR COMMUNITY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF TREES AND TAKE STEWARDSHIP OF ESTABLISHING NEWLY PLANTED TREES.
WHEREAS THE CITY OF PETALUMA HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AS A TREE CITY USA BY THE NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION, AND DESIRES TO CONTINUE ITS TREE PLANTING PRACTICES.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, KEVIN MCDONALD, MAYOR OF PETALUMA, ALONG WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM APRIL 26TH, 2024 AS ARBOR DAY IN THE CITY OF PETALUMA, AND URGE ALL RESIDENTS TO SUPPORT EFFORTS TO PROTECT OUR TREES AND WOODLANDS AND TO PLANT TREES TO PROMOTE THE WELLBEING OF THIS AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.
UH, RELIEF IS VERY PLEASED TO BE RECEIVING THE ARB DAY AWARD FROM THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL.
IT MEANS SO MUCH TO US TO KNOW OUR EFFORTS ARE APPRECIATED AND VALUED.
WE COULDN'T HAVE ACHIEVED THIS HONOR.
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THE HELP AND GUIDANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND STAFF WHO'VE ENABLED RELIEFS WORK OVER THE PAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, UH, WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK A FEW PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SO HELPFUL ALONG THE WAY.FIRST, WE, WE MUST THANK CINDY CHONG, WHO GUIDED AND INSPIRED US BEFORE WE EVEN BECAME AN ORGANIZATION, AND REMINDED US AS PART OF OUR REACH FOR EXCELLENCE, TO KEEP FOCUSED, RESIST BRIGHT AND SHINY IDEAS AND VENTURES THAT DISTRACT US FROM OUR GOALS, BE REALISTIC ABOUT OUR CAPABILITIES AND PLAN FOR THE LONG TERM.
WE ALSO THANK DREW HALTER FOR HIS WISDOM, LEADERSHIP VISION, AND PROACTIVE ASSISTANCE.
HE AND DEENA BRADFORD HAVE HELPED US NAVIGATE OUR WORK WITH THE CITY.
AND DREW PROVIDED KEY IDEAS AND INSPIRATION FOR THE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT OF THE USDA FOREST SERVICE PETALUMA CANOPY.
GRANT RELIEF COULD NOT HAVE PERFORMED AS WE HAVE WITHOUT THE BACKING OF THE ENTIRE RECREATION AND PARKS GROUP, INCLUDING ITS COMMISSION AND TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
UH, WE THANK PEGGY FLYNN'S OFFICE, UH, CITY, CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE FOR FAITH AND SUPPORT OF OUR MISSION TO BUILD A GREATER AND HEALTHIER TREE CANOPY THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
IN PARTICULAR, PATRICK CARTER HAS SUPPORTED OUR EFFORTS FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS AND WAS SIMPLY ESSENTIAL IN LANDING THE $1 MILLION PEDDLING ME CANOPY GRANT.
WE ALSO THANK KEN ENGINEER IN PUBLIC WORKS, INGRID VERDE, DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, JEFFREY BART AND PARKS AND JAMESON BUNN COMMUNICATION PROGRAM MANAGER FOR INTERRUPTING THEIR NORMAL DUTIES AND SQUEEZING IN TIME TO HELP US HELP THE TREES.
LASTLY, WE RECOGNIZE WITH DEEP APPRECIATION, HEATHER HINES' EXCELLENT WORK ON A VERY CHALLENGING YEAR LONG ASSIGNMENT OF WRITING THE NEW TREE PROTECTION ORDINANCE.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE CITY STAFF AND COUNCIL AGAIN THIS YEAR.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS HONOR.
AND ON BEHALF OF THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, I WANT TO GRACIOUSLY ALSO ACCEPT THIS PROCLAMATION AND I WANT TO ELEVATE THE WORK OF BOTH THE COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF.
SHE JUST MENTIONED THE PARTS THAT I THINK ARE REALLY IMPORTANT, THE UPCOMING TREE PRESERVATION ORDINANCE THAT WILL HELP TO PRESERVE OUR URBAN CANOPY, THE UPCOMING FOREST MASTER PLAN, URBAN FORESTRY MASTER PLAN THAT'LL HELP GROW AND MAKE A MORE ROBUST URBAN CANOPY.
AND THEN OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM WHO MORE AND MORE IS INTEGRATING TREES INTO THEIR DESIGNS AND EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO.
UH, AND WE'RE ALSO GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY ON APRIL 27TH, SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH, UH, IN PRINCE PARK IN PETALUMA.
FROM 11 TO THREE, WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING AN ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION WITH OUR PARTNERS ATLE REBUILDING TOGETHER, UH, I BELIEVE DAILY ACTS.
WE'RE ALSO GONNA HAVE FOLKS FROM THE LAFFERTY RANCH DOCENT PROGRAM AND ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS AND FOOD.
IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT TIME TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY AND GET PEOPLE TO CELEBRATE THE TREES THAT WE KNOW AND LOVE AS WE'RE GONNA BE PROTECTING, UH, REALLY AN ANCIENT HERITAGE OAK THERE AT PRINCE PARK.
SO ENCOURAGE ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT CAN MAKE IT.
AND WE HAVE A FULL HOUSE TO ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC THAT WANTS TO BE THERE TO COME CELEBRATE TREES ON APRIL 27TH.
UH, AND THANK YOU FOR THIS PROCLAMATION.
MAY I ASK, UH, ONE QUESTION THERE? MAY I ASK ONE QUESTION OF RELIEF THERE? CAN, CAN YOU REMIND US HOW MANY TREES YOU'VE PLANTED IN PETALUMA? OH, UH, OKAY.
UH, IN DECEMBER WE REACHED A THOUSAND TREES, BUT THEN IN THIS LAST PLANTING SEASON, I THINK WE'VE PLANTED ANOTHER 700 OR 800 TREES.
SO WE'RE PLANTING A LOT OF TREES.
[PRESENTATIONS]
WE'RE MOVING TO THE SWEARING IN OF OUR NEW POLICE CHIEF.UH, I'D LIKE TO INVITE CHIEF BRIAN MILLER TO THE PODIUM TO, UH, PROCEED WITH OUR, UM, OATH OF OFFICE AS ADMINISTERED BY OUR CITY CLERK.
GOT A CHEAT SHEET JUST IN CASE.
I BRIAN MILLER, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE, THAT I'LL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE CONSTITUTION
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OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY, THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION, WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION, AND THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY, AND THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE THE DUTIES, DISCHARGE THE DUTIES UPON WHICH I'M ABOUT TO ENTER UPON, WHICH I'M ABOUT TO ENTER.
MAY I, SO I, UM, LITTLE OVERWHELMED, BUT I JUST WANNA SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS COMPLETELY WHY, UM, I WANTED TO TAKE ON THIS IMMENSELY IMPORTANT ROLE.
I COULDN'T BE MORE COMMITTED TO THIS COMMUNITY AND TO THE PROFESSION AND, AND TO PETALUMA.
I WANNA THANK MY WIFE, MY KIDS, MY PARENTS, MY FAMILY, MY FAMILY.
UH, THERE'S COMMUNITY MEMBERS HERE.
THERE'S MY NEIGHBORS HERE, THERE'S OUR DEPARTMENT HERE.
I'D BE REMISS IN NOT MENTIONING THAT RIGHT NOW.
UH, AND I'M JUST IMMENSELY, UM, YOU KNOW, APPRECIATIVE OF THE OPPORTUNITY AND GRATEFUL TO SERVE, TO CONTINUE SERVING IN THIS ROLE.
I'VE BEEN HERE ALMOST 20 YEARS.
WE HAVE A REMARKABLE ORGANIZATION.
THE CITY'S BEEN HERE FOR OVER 166 YEARS AS OF JUST LAST FRIDAY.
UH, I'M FOLLOWING IN IMMENSELY, HUGE SHOES BEHIND CHIEF SANO, WHO'S HERE TONIGHT.
UH, AND I BENEFITED GREATLY FROM EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM, FROM MY STAFF, FROM HIM AND OTHERS BEFORE ME THAT HAVE PREPARED ME TO FEEL PROVEN, PREPARED, AND READY TO TAKE ON THIS, THIS ROLE.
UM, WE INTEND AS AN ORGANIZATION TO CONTINUE STRIVING TO BE BETTER AND BETTER THAN WE WERE YESTERDAY AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING.
UH, WE PRIDE OURSELF ON BEING THE UTMOST OF PROFESSIONAL AT ALL TIMES.
AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT RECENTLY ABOUT MOMENTS LIKE THIS, ABOUT BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER FROM EVERYWHERE ACROSS THE COMMUNITY AND WORKING TOGETHER COLLECTIVELY.
'CAUSE WE KNOW THAT WE'RE STRONGER TOGETHER, WE'RE SAFER TOGETHER, AND WE'RE ONE PETALUMA TOGETHER.
I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING AND SERVING WITH YOU AND FOR YOU AND WITH OUR DEPARTMENT.
AND, AND WE THANK YOU, UM, AND YOUR FAMILY.
WE KNOW WHAT A DEMANDING JOB THIS IS.
AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S NICE TO HAVE YOUR FAMILY BEHIND YOU.
SO, AND THAT'S A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW, BUT I
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THINK WE'LLAND, UH, UM, IF ANYBODY WANTS TO, UH, TAKE THEIR LEAVE, THIS WOULD BE THEIR MOMENT.
I
THIS IS GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
[GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT]
DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS AND ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTERESTS THAT ARE WITHIN THE CITY COUNCIL'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL.
TIME WILL BE ALLOCATED IN EQUAL SHARES, TOTALING NO MORE THAN 20 MINUTES.
AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR CITY CLERK IF WE'VE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS ONLINE.
WE RECEIVED FOUR, AND THEY'RE POSTED TO THE WEBSITE.
AND, UH, NOW I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR MODERATOR TO READ OUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS.
AT THIS TIME, I WILL START A 32ND CLOCK FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
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 COUNTDOWN WILL APPEAR FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE SPEAKER AND VIEWERS.
AND, AND NOW THAT, UH, 30 SECONDS HAVE ELAPSED, WE'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO YOU, MAYOR.
AND LET'S SEE HOW MANY CARDS WE HAVE.
UH, TODAY I SEE 10 CARDS FOR TONIGHT'S AGENDA, AND THAT WOULD DIVIDE UP INTO, UH, TWO MINUTES PER PERSON.
AND THEY'RE SPEAKING, UM, SORRY IF YOU CAME WITH A THREE MINUTE SPEECH, BUT HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO BRING IT TOGETHER.
AND, UM, TONIGHT, UH, OUR FIRST SPEAKER WOULD BE SUSAN WHITFORD TO BE FOLLOWED BY SANDRA SHAN.
HI, MY NAME IS SUZANNE WHITFORD AND MY SON SWIMS ON THE AC SWIM CLUB TEAM AT THE PETALUMA SWIM CENTER.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THE CITY FOR FIXING THE BROKEN BOILER, UH, THAT WE HAD AND FOR REPLACING THE LIGHTING THAT WAS MUCH NEEDED.
AND, UH, THANK YOU TO THE CITY FOR FIXING THE BROKEN BOILER AND REPLACING THE LIGHTING.
UH, BOTH OF THESE AREAS WERE, UH, MUCH NEEDED.
THIS HAS BEEN A HUGE IMPROVEMENT.
THE SWIM TEAM IS NOW ASKING TO GET THE DATE FROM THE CITY AS TO WHEN THE POOL WILL BE RESURFACED.
UH, ONCE WE HAVE THE DATE, WE CAN WORK ON FINDING OTHER POOLS IN THE AREA FOR THE TEAM TO USE WHILE THE POOL IS BEING RESURFACED.
IT'S, UH, FROM EXPERIENCE WE FOUND THAT IT'S HARD TO FIND AVAILABLE POOL SPACE, AND, UH, SO WE WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE, UH, GETTING THE RES RESURFACING DATE AS SOON AS THAT'S POSSIBLE.
SANDRA SHAN SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY
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CARTER KELLY ANO SANDRA SHAN.UH, DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK? THIS IS MISS.
UM, WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY IS HORRIFYING ENOUGH FOR ADULTS TO HEAR.
I THINK IT WOULD BE TRAUMATIZING TO A CHILD.
IF THERE ARE ANY CHILDREN STILL IN THE ROOM, I BEG YOU TO PLEASE TAKE THEM OUTSIDE FOR A FEW MINUTES.
I WILL, UM, CYCLE, UH, CARTER TO, UH, LATER IN THE, UH, SEQUENCE.
IN MARCH, TWO AMERICAN SURGEONS TRAVELED TO GAZA TO WORK AT GAZA EUROPEAN HOSPITALS, ONE OF THE LAST SEMI FUNCTIONING HOSPITALS FOR TWO AND A HALF MILLION HUMAN BEINGS.
AS HUMANITARIAN SURGEONS, THEY SAID, WE THOUGHT WE'D SEEN ALL MANNER OF CRUELTY IN THE WORLD, BUT NEITHER HAS EVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE WHAT WE FOUND IN GAZA.
VIOLENCE AND DEATH, RAIN DOWN ON ANYONE AT ANY TIME.
AMIDST THE SMELLS OF SEWAGE AND GUNPOWDER, WE AS AMERICANS MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
IN FULL VIEW OF THE WORLD, WE FOUND EVIDENCE OF HORRIFYING VIOLENCE DELIBERATELY DIRECTED AT CIVILIANS.
A 3-YEAR-OLD BOY SHOT IN THE HEAD, A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL SHOT IN THE CHEST, AN ICU NURSE SHOT THROUGH THE ABDOMEN BY SOME OF THE BEST TRAINED MARKSMEN IN THE WORLD, INCREDIBLY POWERFUL, EXPLOSIVE, RIPPED APART ROCK FLOORS, WALLS, AND THREW THEM THROUGH HUMAN BODIES.
WITH THE ENVIRONMENT LITERALLY EMBEDDED IN OUR PATIENTS' BODIES, WE FOUND IT INFECTION CONTROL IMPOSSIBLE.
AS HUMANITARIAN SURGEONS WITH 40 SURGICAL MISSIONS AROUND THE WORLD, WE'VE BOTH SEEN INCREDIBLE SUFFERING LIKE THE UKRAINE AND NINE 11 AND HAITI.
NOW WE SEE THE PAIN OF BEING UNABLE TO TREAT A CHILD WHO WILL DIE SLOWLY ALONE, BECAUSE SHE'S THE ONLY SURVIVING MEMBER OF AN ENTIRE EXTENDED FAMILY.
WE HAVEN'T TOLD THESE CHILDREN HOW THEIR FAMILIES DIED BURNED UNTIL THEY RESEMBLED BLISTERED HOT DOGS MORE THAN HUMAN BEINGS SHREDDED TO PIECES THAT THEY CAN ONLY BE BURIED IN MASS GRAVES.
THE UNITED STATES HAS HEAVILY FUNDED AND ARMED WHAT WE CALL THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE.
THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL SAID THAT PALESTINIANS WERE SIMPLY A MATTER OF NO EXISTENCE.
AND 30 YEARS LATER, IT SAID THEY CONTINUE TO LIVE LIKE DOGS.
AND WE'LL SEE WHAT, THANK YOU.
THE TIME HAS RUN ELLEN OSLER TO BE FOLLOWED BY MAUREEN GODSHAW.
IT'S BETTER PROMISE ON THIS DAY ON WHICH I PAID INCOME TAXES TO A GOVERNMENT THAT IS SUPPLYING 68% OF ISRAEL'S FOREIGN SOURCE WEAPONS AND ENABLING A HUMANITARIAN HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE.
AND GAZA, I'M WONDERING WHAT I CAN SAY TO YOU TO PERSUADE YOU TO PLACE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION ON THE AGENDA.
YOU KNOW, THE CONTINUING TOLL ON INNOCENCE, BESIDES WHAT SANDRA JUST BEAUTIFULLY READ, UM, SINCE I WAS HERE LAST WEEK, SAMANTHA POWER, THE DIRECTOR OF THE US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TOLD LAWMAKERS THAT PEOPLE IN PARTS OF GAZA ARE INDEED FACING FAMINE.
YOU KNOW, ISRAEL'S INCREASING WORLD ISOLATION.
AND I ASSUME YOU'VE READ OR HEARD THAT SOME ARE CALLING ITS APPARENT ATTACK ON AN IRANIAN EMBASSY, A PRETEXT FOR ESCALATING THE REGIONAL CONFLICT TO GAIN MORE UNCONDITIONAL MILITARY SUPPORT.
ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT THAT'S WORKING.
ARE YOU FOLLOWING THE FREE SPEECH DEBATE BREWING WITH THE SILENCING OF SPEAKERS CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE OR DIVESTMENT? DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE RIGHT WING SOURCES BLAMING ANTI-ISRAEL, ANTI-JEWISH ACTS, ACTS I DENOUNCE AS A JEW AND A HUMAN ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION EFFORTS ATTEMPTING TO INSERT CULTURE WAR ISSUES WHERE THEY HAVE NO PLACE.
WE CAN'T DILUTE OURSELVES INTO THINKING WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE IS NOT DIRECTLY AFFECTING EVERYONE EVERYWHERE.
LET'S PLEASE BE TRULY REUNITED AGAINST HATE AND LET OUR FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES KNOW WE AS A COMMUNITY WANT THEM TO USE THEIR LEVERAGE TO MAKE THIS STOP.
ONCE AGAIN, ISN'T THERE ONE OF YOU WHO WILL JOIN WITH COUNCIL MEMBER POST K?
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IF NOT NOW, WHEN? THANK YOU MAUREEN SHAW TO BE FOLLOWED BY CARTER KELLY ANO.WHETHER YOU'D LIKE TO SEE THE BIKE LANE ON D STREET OR NOT, I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT ANY DECISION THAT INVOLVES PUBLIC SAFETY, EVEN AT THE PILOT STAGE, SHOULD BE BASED ON SOUND DATA COLLECTION.
WE ALL KNOW THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS.
THE DATA COLLECTION THAT WAS PRESENTED DETERMINE THE PARKING UTILIZATION ON D STREET WAS OVER TWO DAYS IN A NON-PEAK WINTER MONTH FOR A TOTAL OF THREE ATTEMPTS.
THIS IS BELOW ANY ESTABLISHED STANDARD.
WE REQUEST TO PUT OPTION ONE ON HOLD FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS.
ENGAGE A THIRD PARTY DATA COLLECTION TEAM WHO ARE EXPERTS IN THE TRANSPORTATION FIELD PRIOR TO THE PILOT COMMENCEMENT FOR ACCURATE DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF ALL THE CURRENT AND FUTURE FACTORS OF D STREET AND SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS.
PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DAYS OF MONITORING FOR A MORE ROBUST SET OF DATA POINTS DURING PEAK PARKING USAGE MONTHS, INCLUDING WEEKENDS.
APPROACH THE COUNT AS MIXED COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL USING PROPER DATA SURVEY COLLECTION STANDARDS THAT CAN BE PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC.
PROVIDE THE PUBLIC WITH AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THE PILOT, INCLUDING ADDRESSING THE A DA COMP COMPLIANCES FOR THE CHURCH AND ALL D STREET RESIDENTS DURING THE PILOT.
HOW WILL THE CITY ADDRESS PARKING SPOTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY BLOCKING CURBSIDE ACCESS WITH SHRUBS AND TREES? WILL THEY BE REMOVING THEM DURING THE PILOT, BEFORE THE PILOT? ARE THESE CONSIDERED VIABLE PARKING SPOTS FOR THE STUDY? IF YOU DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE CURB, WHAT WILL BE THE COST TO THE HOMEOWNER ON D STREET AND SURROUNDING STREETS TO COMPLY WITH THIS PILOT? THANK YOU.
KELLY ANO AND I SEE A SECOND CARD WITH THIS.
IS THERE AN INTENTION TO THE SECOND CARD FOR ME TO SPEAK? ARE YOU SEATING TIME TO CARTER? OH, NO.
I JUST WANTED TO BE PERFECT WITH IT.
KEVIN, HOW ARE YOU? YOU CAN DO IT.
I AM NINE YEARS OLD AND I LIVE AT 4 5 2 WYNBERG CIRCLE.
I LIVE IN A PEACEFUL NEIGHBORHOOD WITH LOT WITH A LOT OF KIDS.
WE LIKE TO PLAY ON THE STREETS AND GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN EACH OTHER'S HOUSES.
THE AIRBNB IS CAUSING PROBLEMS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE DON'T WANT IT HERE, AND OUR NEIGHBORS DON'T WANT IT HERE.
PLEASE HELP US DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS KIDS LIVE HERE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
HAVING STRANGERS STAY IN THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR DIRECTLY AFFECTS OUR SAFETY.
IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY DAY THERE ARE NEW VISITORS THERE.
SOMETIMES IT'S ONE OR TWO, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S A LOT MORE.
THE KIDS OF THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WANT TO FEEL SAFE WHERE THEY LIVE AND PLAY.
PETALUMA HAS A HOUSING PROBLEM, A LOT OF HOUSES THAT FAMILIES CAN LIVE IN.
WE NEED HOUSES THAT FAMILIES CAN LIVE IN.
THE OWNERS OF FOUR 50 LINDBERGH CIRCLE OWN FOUR HOUSES IN PETALUMA.
THAT TAKES AWAY HOUSING THAT MY FRIENDS CAN LIVE IN.
IT'S EXPENSIVE TO LIVE HERE, AND THESE PEOPLE ARE MAKING MONEY ON HOUSES THAT WE NEED THEM FOR FAMILIES TO LIVE IN.
SOMEDAY I'M GONNA BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND MY JOB WILL BE TO PROTECT THE US CITIZENS.
I AM ASKING YOU AS OUR CITY COUNCIL TO PROTECT MY FAMILY AND NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, CARTER SUMMED IT UP THERE.
UM, WE ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH THIS HOUSE NEXT DOOR.
IT'S BEEN A REVOLVING DOOR OF PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
WE SHARE A WALL WITH THIS HOUSE, SO CARTER AND I SHARE BEDROOM, UH, HAVE BEDROOMS THAT BACK UP TO THEIR WALL, CAN HEAR THROUGH THE WALL, ALL THE DIFFERENT GUESTS COMING AND GOING.
THEIR HOT TUB IS DIRECTLY BELOW MY WINDOW SO I CAN HEAR WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE.
LAST WEEK THERE WAS A HUGE PARTY, UM, ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT, UH, LIKE GETTING THEM TO LEAVE WAS AN ISSUE.
UM, SO I'M JUST ASKING THAT SOMETHING BE DONE ABOUT THIS.
WHEN THE ORDINANCE WAS CREATED IN 2018, UM, WE DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT AIRBNBS AT THE TIME.
AND I THINK THAT THERE'S SOME FLAWS IN THE ORDINANCE.
FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S NO CHANCE OF APPEAL FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
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THAT'S A HUGE ONE RIGHT NOW.UM, WE, THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT SHARED WALLS, ABOUT NOISE, ET CETERA.
IN FACT, IF THERE ARE THREE COMPLAINTS, THEN THE NEIGHBORS ARE SENT TO MEDIATION WITH THE OWNERS OF THE AIRBNB, AND THE COSTS HAVE TO BE SPLIT AMONGST THE PEOPLE.
I DON'T FEEL LIKE I SHOULD HAVE TO PAY TO TAKE MY NEIGHBOR TO MEDIATION BECAUSE OF A RUCKUS HAPPENING NEXT DOOR.
UM, AND, UH, THERE'S ALSO NO PROCESS OF DENIAL OF THE PERMIT IN THE ORDINANCE RIGHT NOW.
SO I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT THAT AS WELL.
THE CITY HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY RESPONSIVE.
I CAN SAY CO CODE ENFORCEMENT.
SHE'S THE MOST RESPONSIVE PERSON I'VE EVER MET IN MY LIFE.
BUT I'M ASKING THAT YOU ALL DO SOMETHING ABOUT CHANGING THIS ORDINANCE.
SO THANK YOU FOR LOOKING INTO IT.
FOR MYSELF, FOR CARTER, FOR MY FAMILY, FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, THANK YOU.
THANK YOU, UH, MICHAEL DAYTON TO BE FOLLOWED BY NICOLA FRY.
I MAY, LIKE LAST WEEK, I, I'D LOVE TO GIVE 30 EXTRA SECONDS FOR AN A, A ACCOMMODATION.
I MAY NOT, I'VE GOT A SHORT PIECE, BUT I JUST, I WANNA BE A LITTLE MORE CLEAR.
THANK YOU, UH, DEAR CITY COUNCIL.
UM, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I LIVE ON D STREET AT 6 35 D UM, AND THIS IS IN REFERENCE TO THE, UM, THE QUICK BUILD AND THE PROJECT ON D STREET.
UM, TO REPEAT MYSELF, I'M A HUGE ADVOCATE FOR STREET SAFETY ON ALL PETALUMA STREETS AND FOR DD STREET AS WELL.
NOW THAT THE QUICK BUILD HAS BEEN APPROVED, THE NEXT QUESTION IS HOW ARE WE GOING TO EVALUATE IT? LET US NOT FORGET IT IS A PILOT PROGRAM.
ONCE THE QUICK BUILD HAS BEEN COMPLETED, I ASK, HOW DO WE COLLECT VALID AND RELIABLE DATA IN ORDER TO PROPERLY EVALUATE THE OUTCOMES OF THE PILOT? IF WE DON'T HAVE GOOD DATA, HOW DO WE KNOW IF MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRUCKS ARE ACTUALLY SLOWING DOWN? IF WE DON'T KNOW THAT, HOW CAN WE MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS IN ADVANCE OF THE D STREET CAPITAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN 25 26? IF WE DON'T HAVE GOOD DATA TO DETERMINE IF ALL THE PARKING ON D BEING MOVED TO ONE SIDE IS COLLECTIVELY SAFE FOR RESIDENTS, GUESTS, AND PROFESSIONALS WHO, WHO FREQUENT THE STREET, WE CAN'T MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION ABOUT NEXT STEPS IN ADVANCE OF THE D STREET CIP.
AND IF THE DATA CAN'T TELL US IF THERE ARE MORE OR LESS ACCIDENTS ON D STREET BECAUSE OF THE QUICK BUILD, THEN WHEN, THEN WHEN IT'S TIME TO FINISH D THE D STREET CIP, WE REALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING.
THAT'S THE PROVERBIAL WE, WE MUST FIND A WAY TO ACCURATELY RESEARCH THE OUTCOMES OF THE QUICK BUILD SO THAT DECISIONS THAT DRIVE THE D STREET TRAFFIC, CALMING AND BIKE LANE IMPLEMENTATION DURING THE D STREET CIP ARE MADE WITH ACCURATE ANALYSIS.
I THINK I HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR MY LAST LITTLE PIECE.
LASTLY, I WISH TO ASK YOU ALL TO REALLY CONSIDER IF THE RESIDENTS OF D STREET ACTUALLY HAVE A VOICE IN THIS PROJECT.
I'M NEW TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
I'VE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE HISTORY IN THE LAST WEEK.
IT SEEMS THAT A, AT ONE TIME, A FEW YEARS AGO, THIS PROJECT WAS VERY COLLABORATIVE.
NOW, I'M NOT SURE, I'M SURE TRYING TO BE A COLLABORATOR AS WE GO FORWARD.
AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH.
THANK YOU NICOLA FRY TO BE FOLLOWED BY JOHN O'BRIEN.
UM, I'D LIKE TO INVITE PERSONALLY ALL OF YOU TO ATTEND THE RECREATION, MUSIC AND PARTS COMMISSION MEETING THIS UPCOMING WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH AT SIX O'CLOCK IN THIS VERY CHAMBER.
UH, WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IS THIS MEETING IS THERE IS A PRESENTATION BY THE SENIOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE ABOUT OUR NEW, UM, PROPOSAL TO CREATE SENIOR PLAYGROUNDS AND OUTDOOR EXERCISE AND WELLNESS PROJECTS IN PETALUMA, PARTICULARLY ONE AT LUCCHESE PARK NEAR OUR SENIOR CENTER.
IN ADDITION, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE CHAMPIONING THE PLACING OF OUTDOOR EXERCISE FACILITIES IN OTHER PETALUMA PARKS.
THE SLIDESHOW WILL PRESENT, UM, OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AND A PROPOSAL REGARDING OUTDOOR FITNESS, WHAT QUALITIES IT GIVES TO THE LIFE OF THOSE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN IT, AND HOW IT CAN BE UTILIZED BY ALL CITIZENS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH DISABILITIES.
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THANK YOU.JOHN O'BRIEN, TO BE FOLLOWED BY JOHN HANIA.
THERE'S BEEN A PROBLEM I'M DEALING WITH FOR ABOUT EIGHT YEARS, AND THIS ADMINISTRATION DID NOT CREATE THE PROBLEM, BUT THEY MADE IT GO AWAY IN ABOUT A COUPLE OF DAYS.
SO, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS UTILITY, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU.
IT'S BEEN HERE FOR NINE YEARS.
AND I DO WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT PG E AND CPUC.
IF YOU ENTER A PROBLEM ON THE PG E DATABASE AND YOU HIT SUBMIT, THEY GIVE YOU A TICKET NUMBER.
IF THAT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING, AND YOU GO TO CPUC AND THEY SAY, FILL OUT A FORM ON OUR DATABASE, YOU FILL OUT ALL THESE INFORMATION.
AND I HAD A FEELING THAT IT WASN'T GONNA DO ANYTHING.
SO I KEPT A COPY OF EVERYTHING I GAVE TO CPUC.
IT SAID, THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING.
WE WILL LOOK AT IT AND IF WE THINK IT'S WORTHY, WE'LL GIVE YOU A TICKET NUMBER.
THEY SAID, IF NOT, UM, WE WON'T USE ANY BAD WORDS,
AND SO THERE'S NO WAY TO CHECK UP ON WHAT'S GOING ON IN THERE.
AND I WANNA SAY THAT I'M A DEVELOPER OF EMBEDDED COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR ROBOT CARS.
I'M A TEST DRIVER FOR CRUISE AUTOMATION, AND I HAVE THINGS TO SAY, BUT CPUC GAVE PERMISSION TO, UH, THE AUTOMATIC CARS TO DRIVE, NOT IN THE PERIPHERY BUT DOWNTOWN.
AND A LADY GOT DRAGGED TO THE CURB WENT VIRAL.
SO, UH, I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.
I WAS A MECHANIC AND I WAS A DEVELOPER OF THE SOFTWARE AND I WAS A TEST DRIVER.
SO IF YOU NEED ME AT ANY POINT, I'LL GIVE MY TIME.
JOHN HANIA, IT IS JUST MY LUCK.
FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PROMOTING WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT.
UM, THAT OPENS THE DOOR FOR UPWARD MOVEMENT.
NOW YOU'RE GONNA HAVE AN OFFICER TO A SERGEANT, A SERGEANT TO A LIEUTENANT, A LIEUTENANT TO DEPUTY CHIEF, AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THE OPEN DOOR TO HIRE A NEW OFFICER, AND HOPEFULLY THEY'LL STICK AROUND.
THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT OF SANTA ROSA WILL NOT STEAL HIM, BUT I DO HAVE A REQUEST, AND THAT WILL BE FOR PEGGY.
THERE'S ONE INDIVIDUAL AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DESERVE THE DECADE RECOGNITION.
SOMETIME SHE CAN PUT A SMILE ON ANY PERSON'S FACE.
AND SHE'S THE MOST PLEASANT PERSON I EVER DEALT WITH, WITH THE LAST 34 YEARS AT THE FRONT DESK.
SO I HOPE YOU CAN BRING HER HERE TO GIVE HER THE RECOGNITION OF THE DECADE.
SO THAT'S OUR LAST, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS CLOSED THE EVENING.
I'D LIKE TO BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL
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AND HAVE, UH, COUNCIL COMMENT ON THEIR ACTIVITIES AND LIKE TO START WITH THE VICE MAYOR, VICE MAYOR SCH RIBS.UM, WE DID RECEIVE A COUPLE EMAILS ABOUT LEAF BLOWERS AND I'M, UH, WOULD SUPPORT, UM, THAT WE CHANGE THE RULES AND LAWS FOR THE LEAF BLOWERS.
I KNOW THE STATE'S WORKING ON THAT, BUT IF WE DO SOMETHING LOCALLY, YES, I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT.
ALSO, THERE'S, UH, SEVERAL FOLKS, UH, PARKING IN VARIOUS WAYS AND, AND VARIOUS TYPES OF PARKING.
A LOT OF FOLKS JUST COMPLAINED RECENTLY THAT MAY BE GETTING THAT INCLUDED.
UM, I KNOW WE NEED TO WORK ON ENFORCEMENT, AND ESPECIALLY FOR STREET SWEEPING.
I KNOW IN MY BLOCK, UH, STREET SWEEPERS DON'T GET TO IT BECAUSE THE CARS ARE PARKED ALWAYS IN, IN THE STREET THERE.
SO THOSE ARE ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED DOWN THE ROAD HERE.
UM, SO I JUST THOUGHT I, I READ THOSE EMAILS AND, AND SUPPORT THOSE CONCEPTS.
UM, RECENTLY, JUST THE RELIEF.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE TREES BEING PLANTED.
I WAS OUT THERE SATURDAY, UM, AND WE PLANTED 70 TREES WITH A CREW OF ABOUT, UH, 25 PEOPLE.
UM, THAT WAS OVER THERE BY SOME MOUNTAIN PARKWAY, UH, SMALL MOUNTAIN, UH, SCHOOL.
UH, AND THAT WAS GREEN BELT THAT WAS THERE.
AND I'LL BE WORKING WITH THE LEADERSHIP TEAM.
WE'RE GONNA PLANT MORE TREES OVER AT CASA GRANDE COMING UP IN MAY.
SO YEAH, EVERYONE, UH, UH, ARBOR DAY AND, AND, UH, EARTH DAY'S
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COMING UP, SO PLEASE SUPPORT THOSE.UM, THIS, UM, THIS MORNING, UH, THE RIVER PARK, UH, FOUNDATION HAD A MEETING AND THEY ARE DEMONSTRATING THE RIGHT WAY OF GOING THROUGH A WHOLE PROCESS OF GATHERING COMMUNITY INPUT.
WE ARE REALLY WORKING HARD ON MAKING SURE WE HAVE COMMUNITY INPUT FOR EQUITY.
AND THESE FOLKS HAVE GONE WAY OUT OF THEIR WAY, GOTTEN THE GRANT MONIES TO DO SO, AND ARE REALLY REACHING OUT TO EVERYBODY TO TRY TO GET THAT OUR RIVER PARK MADE RIGHT FOR EVERYBODY.
UM, SO THEY'LL BE COMMENDED FOR THAT, UH, FOR THE PROCESS THAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH.
AND IT'S AN EXCELLENT PROCESS.
UH, WE NEED TO ALSO FOLLOW FOR, UM, THE FAIRGROUNDS AND, AND OTHER PLACES HERE IN TOWN.
AND I THINK, UH, BESIDES, UH, AT SIX, UM, AT SIX O'CLOCK WEDNESDAY, BESIDES THE, UM, THE SENIOR, UH, PARK AT MC CASEY, THERE'S ALSO A DISCUSSION AT KENNELWORTH, UM, THAT I'LL BE GOING TO ON, UH, THE REVITALIZATION OF KENNELWORTH PARK.
THAT'S HAPPENING ALSO ON WEDNESDAY.
SO I HOPEFULLY PARTICIPATE IN THAT.
UM, AND, UH, MAYBE WITH RELIEF GETS MORE TREES PLANTED OUT THERE TOO TO REPLACE THE ONES THAT, THAT, UH, UH, HAVE PASSED AWAY.
UM, THAT'S WHAT I HAVE FOR TONIGHT.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON.
I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO REPORT, BUT I, UM, I HAVE BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT THE AIRBNBS AND WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT ABOUT MAYBE UPDATING THAT ORDINANCE.
UM, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LIVE IN A FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT ALL THE TIME, IT'S NOT AS COMFORTABLE.
AND I THINK THERE'S APPROPRIATE AIRBNBS.
UM, BUT I THINK, UH, IT DOES TAKE AWAY FROM THE HOUSING.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A HOUSING SHORTAGE AND THEN HOW MANY DO WE KNOW HOW MANY AIRBNB HOUSES, UM, VERSUS, UM, JUST SMALL, UM, AIRBNBS IN SOMEBODY'S BACKYARD.
AND CAN WE GET THAT INFORMATION TO I'D, I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW IT ACTUALLY WORKS AND THE DATA BEHIND IT, UM, AND MAKING SURE PEOPLE ARE PAYING THEIR TOT TAX AND HOW DO PEOPLE SIGN UP.
BUT ALSO REALLY LOOKING AT, UM, MAKING SOME REVISIONS TO THE EXISTING ORDINANCE.
AND I MET WITH, UM, MICHAEL DAYTON ON D STREET.
HAD A LONG CONVERSATION THIS LAST WEEK.
AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK, UM, WORKING TOGETHER WITH COMMUNITIES IS IMPORTANT.
AND SO AS THIS PILOT GOES ON, I THINK WE NEED TO, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST REALLY LOOK AT IT THOUGHTFULLY AND MOVE FORWARD.
UM, LAST WEEK I ATTENDED THE HOWARD STREET, UH, COMMUNITY MEETING HERE AT CITY HALL.
THERE WAS ABOUT 20 PEOPLE HERE.
AND, UM, REALLY GREAT PRESENTATION FROM OUR CITY STAFF ABOUT SOME OF THE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE GONNA BE, UM, MOVING FORWARD ON THAT STREET.
UM, THERE WAS A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT DESIGN ALTERNATIVES AND, UM, AT LEAST WITH THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM, IT WAS PRETTY MUCH UNANIMOUS ON WHAT THEY WERE CHOOSING.
THERE WAS GONNA, UH, I THINK IT WAS, UH, NOTABLE TO HEAR SOME THINGS ABOUT ADDING TREES.
UM, AND IT REALLY TOUCHED ON WHAT, UM, OUR TREE COMMISSIONER KUSON MENTIONED ABOUT OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM REALLY TAKING BEAUTIFICATION INTO THEIR STREET PARK, UH, STREET PROJECTS.
UM, THERE'S ALSO ONE OF THE CONFIGURATIONS THAT WOULD ADD ABOUT, UM, 20 PARKING PLACES TO, UM, AROUND THE CHURCH.
SO, UM, IN THE NAME OF PARKING THAT WAS, WAS INTERESTING.
UM, THE BUTTER AND EGGS PARADE IS NOT JUST ABOUT A PARADE.
THERE'S ALSO A COUPLE OF, UH, OPENING EVENTS.
THERE IS THE, UM, CUTEST LITTLE CHICK CONTEST.
YOU GOTTA GET YOUR ENTRIES IN BY FOUR 17.
UM, AND THEN DON'T MISS THE COW CHIP CONTEST THAT, UH, KICKS OFF AT REGISTRATIONS AT NINE 50 DAY OF, UM, I HOPE, UH, UM, CHIEF MILLER IS BETTER THAN CHIEF SIANO 'CAUSE I'VE, I'VE GOT A CHAMPIONSHIP TO DEFEND, UM, WITH THAT.
UM, AND THEN ON THE AIRBNB ORDINANCE, I THINK I'LL BE ASKING ABOUT THAT MORE ON, UH, ITEM FIVE.
SO JUST MAYBE SOME THOUGHTS, UH, THINK ABOUT WHAT THE PROCESSES MIGHT BE IN THE TIMING.
'CAUSE THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE WEIGH AS PRIORITIES TO HAPPEN, UM, ON AGENDA FIVE I.
AND THEN, UM, FINALLY, UH, FOR THE FOLKS IN THE ROOM THAT ARE HERE THAT WERE PART OF LAST WEEK'S MEETING ON D STREET, UM, I DID HEAR YOU.
UM, I AM COMMITTED TO A D STREET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYBODY A HUNDRED PERCENT.
WHILE WE MIGHT NOT HAVE AGREED, I'M GONNA BE KEENLY, UM, INTERESTED IN THE DATA COLLECTION METHODS AND IN, UM, THE RESULTS AND THE FINDINGS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PEOPLE ON D STREET.
UM, AND IF SOMETHING'S NOT WORKING, I'M, I'M GONNA BE THERE ADVOCATING FOR YOU BECAUSE I WANT A STREET THAT WORKS FOR YOU.
UM, I WANT IT TO WORK FOR EVERYBODY AND I, THAT MAY FEEL HOLLOW RIGHT NOW, BUT I COMMIT TO THAT.
UM, 'CAUSE IT, I'M SERIOUS ABOUT IT.
DON'T OVERLOOK CHIEF SHOCK IN THE COW CHIP CONTEST.
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ZEKE, THANKS.I DON'T, UH, HAVE MUCH IN TERMS OF, UH, UM, MEETING RESULTS TO DISCUSS TONIGHT.
BUT, UH, I WILL SAY THAT I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED THROUGH, UH, ATTENDANCE AT THE, UH, BLUE ZONES EVENT ON, UH, UM, SUNDAY AND THE, UH, PAMA RIVER PARK EVENT TODAY THAT, UH, OUR NONPROFITS THAT ARE DOING BIG STUFF ARE, ARE WORKING TOGETHER VERY WELL.
AND, UM, ALSO TOOK PART IN THE RELIEF PLANTING.
I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT, UH, I'VE APPARENTLY, UH, WITHOUT EVEN AN APPLICATION BEEN ADVANCED TO POD LEADER FOR RELIEF PLANTING.
SO I'M HAPPY ABOUT THAT AS WELL.
UM, IT WAS ONLY A WEEK, BUT THERE WAS SOME EVENT, UH, EVERY DAY AND SOME NIGHTS LAST WEEK.
I'LL SPARE YOU ALL THE DETAILS SINCE SOME OF THE INFORMATION I LEARNED WAS ABOUT OTHER CITIES IN THE COUNTY THAT HAVE RECENTLY WON AWARDS FOR THEIR INNOVATION ON PUBLIC PROJECTS.
BUT IT WILL BE GREAT INFORMATION TO USE AND HAVE IN PETALUMA ON DIFFERENT PROJECTS THAT THE CITY FACES IN THE FUTURE.
UM, SATURDAY WAS OUR HISTORY WEEK KICKOFF EVENT AT THE MUSEUM.
AND WE INTRODUCED THIS YEAR'S VETERAN EGG DAYS, UM, PARADE, GRAND MARSHALL AND THE GOOD EGG.
AND I'M ALWAYS HAPPY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MINI REUNION OF PAST GOOD EGGS.
THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD IN THIS COMMUNITY.
THE EVENT WAS HELD AT THE MUSEUM, WHICH IN FACT IS PART OF OUR PARK SIMS DEPARTMENT.
I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO STOP BY AND SEE OUR PARK'S HISTORY, I MEAN OUR CITY'S HISTORY AND BECOME A MUSEUM MEMBER.
PERKS OF MEMBERSHIP ARE FRONT ROW SEATS AT THE PARADE.
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU NEED TO BUY ONE OF THESE LITTLE BUTTONS FOR $5 AND THIS PARADE BUTTON WILL GIVE YOU DISCOUNTS AT NUMEROUS MERCHANTS IN THE CITY IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO.
IT ALSO SUPPORTS THE PARADE 'CAUSE IT HAS A LOT OF SPONSORS, BUT WE NEED ALL THE DOLLARS WE CAN GET ON SUNDAY, APRIL 28TH.
THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND IS OUR ANTIQUE FAIR, AND IT'S FROM EIGHT TO FOUR AT DOWNTOWN KENTUCKY STREET AND FOURTH STREET AND SUNDAY.
I ATTENDED ALONG WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND STAFF, THE BLUE ZONES PROJECT AT THE JUNIOR COLLEGE.
IT REMINDED ME OF AN OLD FASHIONED EARTH DAY FESTIVAL WITH LOTS OF HANDS ON INFORMATION FOR ALL AGES ABOUT HOW TO LIVE IN A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE, WHICH IS WHAT BLUE ZONES IS ALL ABOUT.
AND THIS PROUD TO SAY THE CITY OF PETALUMA IS A MAJOR SPONSOR ALONG WITH THE MA UM, HEALTHY PETALUMA.
THIS MORNING I ATTENDED AND PARTICIPANT ALONG WITH OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE MAYOR AND STAFF, A THREE HOUR WORKSHOP ON THE PETALUMA RIVER PARK.
THIS PARK VISION BECOMES A REALITY WITH LOTS OF PUBLIC INPUT AS I THINK, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER SHRIVES POINTED OUT.
AND I'D LIKE TO SEE US REEXAMINE OUR AIRBNB ORDINANCE AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.
I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH MR. CARTER.
SO I DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, LIAISON REPORTS, UH, FROM THE LAST WEEK.
UM, BUT I WILL SAY THAT, UM, I DO HAVE A PERFECT TRACK RECORD OF NEVER PARTICIPATING IN THE COW CHIP THROWING CONTEST,
AND THAT'S NOT GONNA CHANGE THIS YEAR,
AND, UH, YEAH, CARTER ALREADY HAS HIS SUIT FOR BEING PRESIDENT.
I HAVE TO SAY THAT THAT WAS, THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD.
UM, AND, AND I WOULD, UM, ALSO SUPPORT A, A, A VERY LIMITED REOPENING OF, OF THE AIRBNB ORDINANCE BECAUSE WHAT I'M HEARING IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION, UM, YOU KNOW, THE COMMONWEALTH SITUATION, I DON'T THINK IS SOMETHING WE HAD THOUGHT ABOUT.
AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE A TOWNHOUSE OR A CONDO OR EVEN AN APARTMENT OR A DUPLEX.
AND, AND I, I DON'T KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, PUTTING PARTY HOUSES IN THOSE KINDS OF FACILITIES IS, IS APPROPRIATE.
SO I DON'T WANT A BROAD REOPENING OF IT, BUT I, I THINK A LIMITED REOPENING ON THAT VERY NARROW ISSUE COULD BE, COULD BE APPROPRIATE.
AND, UM, TO CARTER, UH, WHEN YOU DO RUN FOR PRESIDENT, CALL US.
WE'LL HELP YOU GET TO BE PRESIDENT.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE LESSONS I THINK WE'VE SEEN WITH, UH, D STREET IS, UH, HOW YOU CAN NEVER DO ENOUGH OUTREACH IN COMMUNICATION.
AND, UM, WE HAVE FURTHER PLANS TO, UH, MAKE SAFETY ROAD SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, UM, REDUCING LANE WIDTHS ON CAULFIELD, ELI AND CASA GRANDE.
AND IT'S REALLY NEVER TOO SOON TO START COMMUNICATING WITH THE PUBLIC ABOUT SIGNIFICANT CHANGES LIKE THAT IN,
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IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.UM, I HAD THE, UH, UM, OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN, UM, A FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT MEETING WITH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON, COMBINATION OF THE CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD, CALIFORNIA TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, AND, UH, CALIFORNIA, UH, THE HOUSING, UM, THE HCD AND, AND, UH, IT WAS RIGHT HERE IN PETALUMA.
THEY PICKED PETALUMA TO, UH, HOST FOR THAT.
AND, UH, THE MAIN THING IS, IS THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW EQUITY WORKS WITH AIR QUALITY, WITH HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION ALL LUMPED INTO, THOSE ARE BIG INVESTMENTS BY THE STATE.
AND IF THEY'RE DOING 'EM IN AN EQUITY MANNER, WE CAN ACHIEVE GREAT THINGS.
UH, A LOT OF THE, UH, CONVERSATION, UH, REVOLVED AROUND THE AFFIRMATIVE FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING, UH, PROGRAM AND STATE LAWS THAT ARE COMING ON TO, UM, TO ASSESS AND REFOCUS RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE THIS.
UM, SO THAT, THAT, THAT WAS A PRETTY GOOD MEETING.
I ALSO ATTENDED, UH, THE, UM, RAND BOARD, WHICH IS, UM, UH, A COUNTYWIDE REGIONAL BOARD, UH, SHERIFF AND THE POLICE, UH, COUNTY IT WHERE THEY APPROVE, UH, TECH THAT IS, UH, BEING ROLLED OUT IN THE POLICE FORCES.
AND THE, THE, THE CITY HAS A, UH, UH, A SEAT ON THAT, UH, COMMUNICATION BOARD.
AND, UM, THEY HAD, THEY HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THEY NOTED WAS THE RISKS OF HACKING INTO EV CHARGING NETWORKS AND, UM, HOW THAT'S DIFFERENT RESIDENTIAL TO WHEN YOU MIGHT HACK INTO A POLICE CAR, COMPUTER SYSTEM.
UM, AND, UM, AND THEN I THANK ALL OUR COUNCIL PERSONS WHO ARE WELL REPRESENTED AT THE, UH, BLUE ZONE, UH, EVENT, UH, THIS PAST WEEKEND.
AND AGAIN, WHO ARE ALL WELL REPRESENTED AT THE RIVER PARK E EVENT HERE THIS WEEKEND.
AND, UH, I DO LOOK FORWARD TO THE, UH, THE BUTTER AND EGGS DAY.
THE, UM, THE, UH, GOOD EGG THIS YEAR IS FAITH ROSS, AND, AND IT COULDN'T, THERE'S NO ONE, UM, BETTER DESERVING IT.
AND THE GRAND MARSHALL IS BUG AS IT DE DE DIETER'S.
LAST NAME DE YEAH, DEACON DE DEACON, UM, OF HERITAGE SALVAGE, UH, TREMENDOUS PICKS FOR BOTH GRAND MARSHALL AND, AND GOOD EGG.
I'D LIKE TO PASS IT OVER TO THE
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CITY MANAGER.THANK YOU MAYOR, COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY.
UM, I DO WANT TO WELCOME TWO NEW, UH, UH, STAFF, UM, THAT HAVE JOINED US FOR THE PERFECT GOALS AND PRIORITIES CONVERSATION TONIGHT.
I'VE GOT KAT REISINGER, OUR NEW DEPUTY, UH, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND REC.
SO WELCOME KAT AND LINDA LEE, OUR DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES.
THANK YOU BOTH FOR JOINING US.
APPRECIATE YOU, UH, WANT, WANTED TO THANK YOU, DREW FOR LETTING ME KNOW.
UM, OUR POOL, UH, RESURFACING IS, UH, SLATED FOR, UH, THIS FALL.
AND WE, AS SOON AS WE GET, UH, A MORE FIRM DATE, WE WILL BE CIRCLING BACK WITH ALL OF OUR POOL USERS AND, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE INTERESTED.
UH, ALSO, UH, TO NOTE THAT IF YOU ARE ATTENDING BUTTER AND EGGS, WE HAVE A SHUTTLE.
UM, OUR TRANSIT IS FREE, UH, THIS WEEKEND AND NEXT FOR THE ANTIQUE FAIR.
AND WE WILL BE RUNNING, UM, SHUTTLES FROM THE EAST SIDE TRANSIT CENTER AT SAFEWAY.
AND, UH, THE BUS WILL TAKE PASSENGERS, THE COPELAND TRANSIT MALL, JUST A SHORT ROUTE, UM, WALK TO THE PARADE ROUTE.
SO HOPING THAT, UH, YOU FOREGO DRIVING AND TAKE OUR TRANSIT AND, UM, GIVE US A TRY.
SO WITH THAT, MAYOR, THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS.
AND, UH, WE SHOULD OVERLOOK THERE'S A BIKE VALET AT THE, UH, PARADE ROUTE TOO.
SO BRING YOUR BIKE AND IT'LL BE IN SAFE HANDS THERE.
ALL RIGHT, UH, WE'RE MOVING TO THE CONSENT
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CALENDAR HERE.DOES ANYONE ON DAZ HAVE A QUESTION STAFF FOR, UM, IF NOT, I'D LIKE TO OPEN IT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
DOES ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC, UM, HAVE A COMMENT? PLEASE FILL OUT A CARD.
UM, MADAM CLERK, HAVE WE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS ONLINE FOR OUR ROBUST CONSENT? NO CONSENT CALENDAR.
FOR CONSENT CALENDAR AND OUR MODERATOR, WOULD YOU READ OUR MESSAGING PLEASE? THANK YOU.
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 DAY WILL BE RESET FOR EACH SPEAKER, AND I SEE NO CARDS AND NO ONE MAKING THE RUSH TO COME FORWARD.
SO I'LL DECLARE PUBLIC COMMENT CLOSED ON THE, UH, CONSENT CALENDAR.
SECOND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY, I'D, UH, BE HAPPY TO MOVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ONE AND TWO.
AND A SECOND AND A SECOND FROM CATER THOMPSON.
AND MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL? VOTE
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BARNACLE.MOVING TO ITEM THREE ON THE CONSENT
[PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]
ON THE CALENDAR, IT'S PUBLIC HEARINGS MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION.ITEM THREE IS INTRODUCTION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, AMENDING CHAPTER 3.04 OF THE PETALUMA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADD SECTION 3.0 4.065, WHICH WILL PROVIDE THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES, THE AUTHORITY TO APPROVE PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, AND DESIGNS FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS, WHICH IS IN ADDITION TO CITY COUNCIL AUTHORITY TO REVIEW AND APPROVE PLAN SPECS AND DESIGNS.
UH, TO HELP US, UH, WITH THIS TONIGHT WE HAVE DYLAN BRADY, ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY, AND JORDAN GREEN, ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY, HELP US OUT.
GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY MANAGER PEGGY FLYNN AND OUR COMMUNITY.
WE WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE DESIGN IMMUNITY ORDINANCE.
IT WOULD CODIFY THE CURRENT PROCESS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES, WHILE ENABLING THE CITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE AND LITIGATION, WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY SAVE STAFF TIME AND THE CITY'S FINANCES.
UH, SO WHAT IS DESIGN IMMUNITY? IT IS A LEGAL DEFENSE THAT PROTECTS PUBLIC ENTITIES FROM LIABILITY FOR INJURIES ALLEGEDLY CAUSED BY THE DESIGN OF PUBLIC FACILITIES LIKE ROADS, BRIDGES, AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE.
IT'S A DEFENSE FOR A DANGEROUS CONDITION.
IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN WHEN SOMEONE GETS INJURED, THEY SUE THE CITY AND THEY SAY, I GOT INJURED BECAUSE THAT THE INTERSECTION OF THAT OR THAT INTERSECTION WAS DANGEROUS.
IT'S DOES, IT IS NOT A FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DEFENSE, WHICH MEANS IF WE DESIGN AN INTERSECTION AND WE PUT UP A STOP SIGN AND THEN VEGETATION GROWS AND OBSCURES THE STOP SIGN SO SOMEONE DIDN'T SEE IT AND THEY RAN THE RED LIGHT, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO USE OUR DEFENSE FOR THIS BECAUSE WE SHOULD MAINTAIN OUR AREAS.
SO THIS IS SOLELY FOR THE DESIGN AND OF THE INTERSECTIONS OR OTHER PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS.
IT IS CODIFIED IN GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION EIGHT 30.6, WHICH MEANS THAT THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE FELT SO STRONGLY ABOUT THIS DEFENSE FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES SUCH AS THE CITY OF PETALUMA, THAT THEY CODIFIED IT IN THE CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT CODE.
AND IN A COUPLE SLIDES, JORDAN WILL DISCUSS WHAT THE BENEFITS ARE AND THE PURPOSE BEHIND THE STATE LEGISLATURE CODIFYING DESIGN IMMUNITY.
SO HERE ARE THE THREE ELEMENTS THAT A PUBLIC ENTITY WOULD NEED TO PROVE, UH, TO PLEAD A DESIGN IMMUNITY DEFENSE.
AND THIS DEFENSE WOULD BE BEFORE ANY LITIGATION.
AND IT'S VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE IF IT GOT TO LITIGATION, THEN YOU HAVE A BATTLE OF THE EXPERTS WHERE WE HIRE AN EXPERT THAT SAYS THE DESIGN IS REASONABLE.
THE PLAINTIFF WOULD HIRE A EXPERT, UH, AND THEN IT WOULD BE UP THAT GETS COSTLY, THEN IT WOULD BE UP TO A JURY, AND THE JURY WOULD DE UH, DETERMINE BY, UH, A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE WHOSE EXPERT REALLY WAS CREDIBLE AND CORRECT.
WHILE IF WE PLEAD THIS, UH, BEFORE THE PLEADING, UH, BEFORE LITIGATION, THEN YOU DON'T HAVE THAT, UH, BATTLE OF THE EXPERTS.
UH, 'CAUSE ALL WE WOULD NEED TO PROVE IS THAT OUR DESIGN WAS SUBSTANTIALLY REASONABLE AND WE WOULD LIKELY WIN ON THAT DEFENSE AND AT LEAST GET OUT OF THE DANGEROUS CONDITION CAUSE OF ACTION.
SO THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE TONIGHT REALLY IMPACTS THE SECOND ELEMENT OF DESIGN IMMUNITY, UH, THE DISCRETIONARY APPROVAL, THE DESIGN PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION AND BIDDING.
AND THERE'S TWO WAYS TO GET, UH, TO PROVE THAT SECOND ELEMENT.
THE FIRST ONE IS EITHER CITY COUNCIL APPROVES THE DESIGN APPROVAL.
AND THEN THE SECOND ONE THAT REALLY IS THE KEY TO THIS ORDINANCE IS STAFF, UH, THAT HAS THE AUTHORITY THAT'S CODIFIED IN A STATUTE, UH, THAT THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ALSO APPROVE.
SO EITHER CITY COUNCIL OR STAFF WITH A STATUTE.
AND WHAT THIS ORDINANCE DOES IS IT CODIFIES AND SAYS, THE STAFF CURRENTLY WHO HAS THE EXISTING AUTHORITY, THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO APPROVE DESIGNS PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION.
AND THEN I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THIS THIRD ELEMENT, REAL QUICK, SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE REASONABLENESS OF THE DESIGN.
YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN IN THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS SOME NEW RECITALS AND FINDINGS IN OUR RESOLUTIONS THAT AWARD CONTRACTS THAT EXPLAIN WHY THE CURRENT DESIGN IS REASONABLE.
UM, SO THAT WILL HELP WITH THIS THIRD ELEMENT, AND THAT'S KIND OF OUR GONNA BE OUR PRACTICE GOING FORWARD.
SO WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF DESIGN IMMUNITY? IT IS TO PREVENT A JURY FROM SIMPLY RE RELAYING THE SAME FACTORS CONSIDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT ENTITY, WHICH APPROVED THE DESIGN.
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THE LEGISLATURE INTENDED TO INSULATE DISCRETIONARY PLANNING AND DESIGN DECISIONS BY RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC OFFICIALS FROM REVIEW OF TORT LITIGATION.IN OTHER WORDS, IT ALLOWS THE EXPERTS TO BE EXPERTS.
IT ALLOWS OUR CITY ENGINEERS AND TRAFFIC ENGINEERS TO REVIEW PLANS AND DO WHAT THEY'RE TRAINED TO DO.
BUT IT DOES NOT STOP THEM FROM BRINGING THOSE PLANS TO YOU AND TO ALLOW YOU TO REVIEW THEM AND DISCUSS AND PROVIDE YOUR INPUT.
SO THIS IS ESSENTIALLY ANOTHER EXAMPLE AND ANOTHER WAY FOR THE CITY TO TAKE CARE OF THE COMMUNITY AND TO PROTECT ITS ITS FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND ITS STAFF TIME.
SO ONE EXAMPLE WHERE THIS IMMUNITY, WHERE THIS COULD HAVE HELPED US, AND WE'LL GIVE A FEW MORE, IS THE ALVES VERSUS CITY OF PETALUMA CASE.
IN THAT CASE, THE ORIGINAL, WHICH HAPPENED AT EAST, EAST WASHINGTON AND KELLER, I THINK FUNNY, I THINK I WAS LIKE, THEY'RE IN TRIAL.
BUT IN THAT CASE, THE ORIGINAL DESIGN WE MET WAS APPROVED.
WE MET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS FOR DESIGN IMMUNITY, THEN WE HAD A DRIVER, I'M GONNA SAY CARELESS, WHO KNOCKED INTO A STREET SIGN AND KNOCKED IT OVER.
AND WE NO LONGER HAD A STREET SIGN THERE.
RATHER THAN JUST REPLACING IT, OUR TEAM OF ENGINEERS AND TRAFFIC CONSULTANTS, THEY REVIEWED THE INTERSECTION AND THEY DETERMINED, YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S NOT THE BEST PRACTICE RIGHT NOW TO HAVE THE SIGN THERE TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
WE ALWAYS LOOK AT WHAT'S THE CURRENT BEST PRACTICES.
AND THEY MADE CHANGES CONSISTENT WITH THEIR TRAINING EXPERIENCE AND BEST PRACTICES.
HOWEVER, BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE THE RECORD TO SHOW THAT THOSE CHANGES WERE MADE BY QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD THAT DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY TO APPROVE DESIGNS GIVEN, AND THAT DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY HAS TO BE GIVEN TO THEM BY LAW, WHICH COULD BE BY THE COUNCIL, ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE SUCH AS THIS, WHICH THEN BECOMES PART OF OUR MUNICIPAL CODE, THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE THE CLEAR RECORD TO SHOW THE COURT, HEY, THIS IS NOT A DANGEROUS CONDITION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
RATHER, THIS IS A REASONABLE DESIGN.
IT WAS DONE BY BEST PRACTICES.
AND SO WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT CLEAN RECORD AND WE CONTINUED THROUGH TRIAL.
WE WERE STILL DISMISSED FROM THE LAWSUIT.
BUT HAVING THAT GRANTING OUR STAFF THAT AUTHORITY IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS WILL HELP THE CITY SAVE, WILL HELP THE CITY IN CIVIL LITIGATION.
AND AS WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IT LATER, WE'RE ASKING STAFF TO ALSO DRAFT REASONABLENESS MEMOS, WHICH FURTHER PROTECTS THE CITY AND THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
BECAUSE WHEN THEY ARE REVIEWING PLANS SUCH AS INTERSECTIONS OR STRIPING, THEY HAVE TO WRITE DOWN WHY THIS IS REASONABLE AND WHY THIS IS REALLY THE BEST PROCESS FOR THE COMMUNITY.
AND I BELIEVE THAT ALVEZ JORDAN AND I WERE TALKING TODAY THAT HAD THIS ORDINANCE BEEN IN PLACE AND THE JUDGE RULED IN OUR FAVOR, PROBABLY WOULD'VE SAVED TENS OF THOUSANDS, IF NOT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ON THIS ALVES, JUST ON EXPERT FEES, ATTORNEY'S COSTS.
IT WAS A TWO, THREE WEEK LITIGATION, I BELIEVE.
SO, UH, DEFINITELY COST SAVINGS.
HAVE THIS ORDINANCE BEEN IN PLACE? AND THEN, UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
SO BESIDES WHEN CITY COUNCIL HAS DISCRETION, UH, THE ORDINANCE WOULD ALSO BE HELPFUL DURING CHANGE ORDERS.
LET'S SAY HERE'S A SKATE PARK.
SO CITY COUNCIL, THROUGH A ROBUST PUBLIC PROCESS, APPROVE THE CONCEPT AND DESIGN HERE.
BUT LET'S SAY HYPOTHETICAL, UH, YOU START DIGGING AND FOR WHATEVER REASON WE NEED TO CHANGE THOSE PLANS.
UH, SO STAFF, UH, SENDS A CHANGE ORDER THAT SAYS, LET'S MOVE THE HALF PIPE OVER, UH, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE FEET THIS WAY.
UH, IF SOMEBODY GETS INJURED ON THOSE CHANGED PLANS, WITHOUT THIS ORDINANCE, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DEFEND, UH, THROUGH DESIGN IMMUNITY IF SOMEBODY CLAIMS DESIGN, UH, OR DANGEROUS CONDITION.
AND THE DANGEROUS CONDITION COULD BE, UH, WITHOUT GIVING THE PUBLIC TOO MANY IDEAS HERE, YOU KNOW, THE BOWL'S TOO STEEP.
I GUESS THE HALF PIPE'S TOO HIGH.
I THINK I SAID THOSE TERMS CORRECTLY.
UH, SO BESIDES THE CHANGE ORDERS, THAT WOULD HELP.
THERE'D ALSO BE EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.
THERE WAS THE, UH, STAFF A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, UH, CHANGE THE LAKEVILLE ROUTES.
SO THAT WOULD HELP IN THAT SITUATION IF SOMEBODY GOT INJURED AND CLAIMED THE NEW LAKEVILLE ROUTE IS A DANGEROUS CONDITION.
UH, SO HERE IS THE ENTIRE ORDINANCE.
IT IS ONLY IN ONE PARAGRAPH, BUT WE DECIDED THAT IT WOULD MAKE IT A MAYBE A LITTLE EASIER TO READ IF WE SPLIT UP THE ELEMENTS IN BLACK AND RED AND THEN SEPARATE PARAGRAPHS.
BUT JORDAN, ON THE NEXT SLIDE WILL DISCUSS WHAT THOSE ELEMENTS ARE AND, UH, A LITTLE EASIER TO READ.
SO NEXT SLIDE PLEASE, CAITLIN.
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THANK YOU.SO ESSENTIALLY, AND I'D LIKE TO REMIND COUNSEL THAT THIS IS REALLY CODIFYING AN EXISTING PROCESS WITHIN OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM.
WE WILL STILL BE, BRING PROJECTS TO YOU, BUT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE ELEMENTS ARE WE, THE GRANT, THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITY, OR THEIR DESIGNEE, THE AUTHORITY TO APPROVE PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, AND PLANS.
OH, IT'S A TYPO FOR PUBLIC WORKS PRO PROJECTS AS THAT IS DEFINED IN OUR CHARTER OR STATE LAW.
SO THEY ALREADY HAVE THE INHERENT AUTHORITY, BUT THIS MAKES IT NICE AND CLEAN.
WHEN WE WERE TO FILE A MOTION WITH THE COURT THAT DESIGNEE MUST HAVE THE REQUIRED TRAINING AND SKILLS TO APPROVE PLANS HERE WE'RE, WE ARE REQUESTING IF YOU ADOPT THIS ORDINANCE, THAT THEY HAVE TO BE CALIFORNIA REG REGISTERED ENGINEERS.
AND THE, THE DESIGNEE SUCH AS A CITY ENGINEER OR A TRAFFIC ENGINEER WOULD STAMP THEIR STAMP ON THE PROJECT THAT THEY'VE REVIEWED AND APPROVED.
THESE PLANS WOULD BE PROOF THAT THEY HAVE THE RE REQUISITE AUTHORITY AND TRAINING.
SO ESSENTIALLY IT CODIFIES OUR STAFF'S ABILITY TO APPROVE PLANS TO HAVE THAT DISCRETION AND TO RAISE THIS DESIGN IMMUNITY, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE FOR DANGEROUS CONDITIONS REGARDING THE DESIGN, WHICH SAVES PUBLIC MONEY AND RESOURCES.
AND JUST TO SAY THAT CONVERSELY, SO OUR, UH, PUBLIC WORKS AS SENIOR STAFF IN THEIR JOB SPECIFICATIONS, IT ALREADY STATES THAT THEY APPROVE PLANS AND DESIGNS.
LIKE JORDAN SAID, THIS JUST CODIFIES THEIR AUTHORITY IN THEIR JOB SPECIFICATIONS TO APPROVE DESIGNS AND PLANS TO HELP WITH THESE DESIGN IMMUNITY FOR DEFENSES, FOR DANGEROUS CONDITIONS THAT, UH, STAFF APPROVE.
AND THIS DOES NOT CHANGE AT ALL THE PROJECTS THAT COME BEFORE CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL OF THOSE DESIGNS.
AND THEY TYPICALLY ARE THE BIG CIP PROJECTS OR THE ONES WITH A LOT OF PUBLIC, UH, PARTICIPATION.
SO THAT IS OUR PRESENTATION AND WE ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
GREAT PRESENTATION AS A CIVIL ENGINEER.
UM, UM, AND LET ME LOOK ACROSS THE COUNCIL FOR, UH, QUESTIONS THERE, COUNCIL MEMBER SHRI.
SO THERE'S, UH, TWO WORDS THAT, THAT SORT OF POP UP THROUGH THE PRESENTATION.
ONE IS CALLED REASONABLENESS AND THEN EXPERTISE.
SO WE NEED TO, UH, ESTABLISH ALONG THE WAY WITHIN THEIR RESUMES OR SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE THE PROPER EXPERTISE, THAT THEY'RE NOT UNQUALIFIED TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS, EVEN THOUGH THEIR, THEIR PRINT IS ON IT.
SO THAT PROCESS, DOES THAT REQUIRE MORE EFFORT, UM, OF DOCUMENTATION TO DEMONSTRATE EXPERTISE UPFRONT.
AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER ONE IS DOCUMENTATION OF REASONABLENESS.
IS THERE SPECIFIC FORMS OR, UH, DOCUMENTATION THAT HAS TO BE CREATED SPECIFICALLY JUST FOR THE LEGAL TERM OF REASONABLENESS? SO, ON THE SECOND QUESTION THERE, COUNCIL MEMBER, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTION.
THERE IS NO EXPLICIT FORM THAT THEY NEED TO CREATE.
WE HELP KIND OF CREATE ONE THAT WILL LIKELY BE INCLUDED IN, UH, FUTURE PROJECTS THAT YOU APPROVE.
AND IT WILL EXPLAIN THIS PROJECT DESIGN IS REASONABLE IN OUR OPINION BECAUSE, UH, THREE OR FOUR STAFF LOOKED AT IT.
OUR CONTRACTOR ALSO APPROVED IT.
IT MEETS THE SPECIFICATIONS OF THE M-U-T-C-D OR THE OTHER GUIDELINES.
UH, WE HAVE THE TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE, AND WE ARE A SENIOR ENGINEER.
SO THOSE WILL ALL BE FACTS THAT ARE LAID OUT IN THAT REASONABLENESS MEMO AND THEY'LL EXPLAIN WHY.
DEPENDING ON, UH, SOME OF THE FACTORS I JUST LAID OUT, MAYBE WE TOOK A LOOK AT THE RECENT SURVEY COMPLAINTS, UH, CRASH DATA, ALL THAT INFORMATION.
AND JORDAN, YOU WANNA TAKE THE FIRST QUESTION OR I CAN SURE.
UH, SO THE FIRST ONE, THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC, THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS WOULD ONLY BE DESIGNATING OR DELEGATING THIS AUTHORITY TO POSITIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS ALREADY.
OR IF WE CREATE NEW POSITIONS, ONES WHERE THEY HAVE THAT EXPERTISE, SUCH AS THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, SENIOR CIVIL ENGINEERS, TRAFFIC ENGINEERS, ONE WHERE THIS IS INHERENT IN THEIR JOB AND THEIR EXPERTISE IS ALREADY LAID OUT IN THEIR JOB SPECS AS REQUIREMENTS.
AND I ASSUME THAT, UH, THESE MEMOS OF REASONABLENESS THAT IT'S GONNA COME THROUGH THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT TO REVIEW ALL THOSE, TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE PROPERLY STATED? I, WE TYPICALLY, WE REVIEW ALL OF THE STAFF REPORTS, BUT HOPEFULLY IT WOULD COME FROM THE PUBLIC WORKS.
JUST 'CAUSE I CAN'T REALLY READ A BLUEPRINT OR HAVE THE SKILLS TO SAY WHETHER OR NOT THE DESIGN IS REASONABLE.
BUT I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT THE, THE MEMO OF REASONABLENESS NOTICES, THE ARGUMENT THAT I'M, THIS IS A REASONABLE PROJECT, A REASONABLE, UH, DESIGN.
SO THAT BEING, THAT'S A MEMO THAT'S BEING USED FOR LEGAL PURPOSES.
WILL THAT MEMO, WHEN THEY WRITE THOSE,
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WILL YOU BE REVIEWING THOSE JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT ALL THE INFORMATION IS THERE THAT NEEDS TO BE THERE IN REASONABLENESS? YES, WE WILL.JUST WANTED TO JUST DOUBLE CHECKING THAT.
SO IT IS GONNA TAKE A LITTLE MORE TIME AND PAPERWORK AND DOCUMENTATION.
BOTH TO DEMONSTRATE EXPERTISE A LITTLE BIT.
THAT DIRECTOR HAS TO HAVE THAT FORM, UH, WHATEVER THAT ONCE HE DOES THE DESIGNATE, THERE'LL BE, UH, PAPERWORK TO DEMONSTRATE THAT AS WELL AS A REASONABLENESS MEMO THAT'S GOT CREATED.
AND THAT, THAT'S TO SUPPORT THIS WHOLE PROCESS.
AND WE, WE HOPE THAT EXTRA STAFF TIME TO CREATE THAT WILL ALSO MAKE THE PROJECT SAFER.
'CAUSE THEY'LL TAKE ANOTHER FRESH LOOK AT THE PROJECT, REEVALUATE, UH, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THE T'S ARE CROSSING THE I'S ARE DOTTED.
VERY SIMILAR TO JUST A QUALITY CONTROL ASSURANCE Q AND A.
WHICH I'M FAMILIAR WITH IN INDUSTRY, JUST DOING THE Q AND A ON THE, ON, ON PROJECTS AS WELL AS DESIGNS THINGS.
AND, UM, SO I UNDERSTAND HOW THIS WORKS ON A PUBLIC BID PROJECT AND, UM, ON A CHANGE ORDER, ON A PUBLIC BID PROCESS.
BUT, UH, WOULD THIS WORK ON NON-FORMAL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT? UM, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU CALL THE CONTRACTOR FOR LESS THAN $30,000 WORK OR FOR STAFF IMPLEMENTATION? 'CAUSE I MEAN, THIS, THIS IS STOP SIGN INSTALLATIONS, REALLY? IT WOULD, YES.
SO CITY COUNCIL APPROVES THE AWARD OF CONTRACTS FOR ALL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS GREATER THAN THE CHARTER THRESHOLD, WHICH IS AROUND 33,000.
SO ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS, IT WOULD BE STAFF.
IT DOESN'T NEED TO GO TO CITY COUNCIL, BUT THOSE THAT STAFF APPROVE THE MINOR CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS WE CALL THIS WOULD PROTECT US THERE.
YEAH, I WAS INTERESTED IN, IN, UM, WHAT THE PROCEDURE WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, SOME DOCUMENTATION OCCURRED.
I, UH, REALLY DIDN'T DREAM THAT THE STOP SIGN APPROVAL RATING WOULD GO TO THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, INTERNAL PROCESSES ARE WHAT THEY ARE.
AND WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO OPEN THIS TO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM AND, UH, LIKE TO ASK THE CLERK IF WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO, UH, THE MEETING, UH, BY EMAIL.
WE DID RECEIVE ONE AND IT'S POSTED TO THE WEBSITE.
AND I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR MODERATOR TO READ OUR MESSAGING.
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 DAIS WILL BE RESET FOR EACH SPEAKER.
UH, WE HAVE NO, UH, UH, COMMENTS RUSHING IN FROM THE PUBLIC, AND I'D LIKE TO BRING IT BACK TO, UH, AAS COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.
YEAH, I'D LIKE TO MOVE APPROVAL.
UM, THAT'S A MOTION BY HEALY SECOND BY NOW.
UM, I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY CHANGE ORDERS, UM, I'VE PROCESSED THAT, UH, DON'T REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT, UH, LEGAL REVIEW.
AND, UH, SO I, I WORRY FOR THE LEVEL OF BUREAUCRACY INVOLVED IN THE WORLD, BUT I'M VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE INDEMNITY.
SO, UM, THAT, WITH THAT, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND I MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENT.
ITEM FOUR IS THE RESOLUTION APPROVING AND ALLOCATION OF OPEN SPACE ACQUISITION FUNDS TO EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE, KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT FOR THE HELEN PUTNAM PARK EXPANSION PROJECT AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SIGN DOCUMENTS FOR FINANCING OF THE PROJECT.
AND I BELIEVE, UH, MR. COUNCIL MEMBER POKAY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK.
I'LL NEED TO RECUSE FROM THIS, UH, UH, ITEM DUE TO YOUR PROXIMITY, HOUSING PROXIMITY.
UM, AND, UH, TONIGHT TO HELP US WITH, UH, THIS ITEM AS HEATHER HINES, OUR SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER.
AND WE AWAIT, UH, YOUR PRESENTATION.
AND I JUST WANNA CHECK IN WITH THE CLERK.
ARE YOU ABLE TO PULL THIS UP OR ASSIST? I'M NOT SEEING THE SHARE ON MY SCREEN.
UM, AS, UH, THE MAYOR INDICATED THE ITEM BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS A RESOLUTION FOR ALLOCATION OF OPEN SPACE ACQUISITION FUNDS, UM, TO SUPPORT THE HELEN PUTNAM PARK EXPANSION PROJECT.
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JUST AS A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND, UM, THE SCOTT RANCH PROJECT INCLUDED TWO COMPONENTS, 28 LOT RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION, AND THEN A 47 ACRE PARK AND OPEN SPACE PARCEL COUNSEL APPROVED THE MAJORITY OF, UM, THE ENTITLEMENTS IN FEBRUARY OF LAST YEAR, FOLLOWED UP BY, UM, DESIGNATING THE RED BARN COMPLEX, A LOCAL LANDMARK.UM, AND THERE ARE SUBSEQUENT ENTITLEMENTS IN PROCESS FOR THE SITE PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW AS PART OF THAT REVIEW PROCESS.
AND PART OF THE PACKET WAS A LETTER OF INTENT BETWEEN, UM, KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT OR EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE, UM, AND SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS.
AND WITH THAT LETTER, IT WAS THE INITIAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES SETTING UP FOR THE ULTIMATE DEDICATION OF THESE 47 ACRES TO REGIONAL PARKS, UM, FOR AN EXPANSION OF HELEN PUTNAM PARK.
UM, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT LETTER OF INTENT INCLUDED WAS PHASE ONE IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH IS PART OF THAT AGREEMENT.
THEY WERE TO BE COMPLETED PRIOR TO DEDICATION OF THE PROPERTY TO REGIONAL PARK.
SO THAT INCLUDES STABILIZATION OF THE BARN, MAIN BARN STRUCTURE, REMOVAL OF THE ABANDONED STRUCTURES ON THE PROPERTY, RESTORATION OF THE STOCK POND, ERODED GULLY, UM, AND KELLY CREEK RIPARIAN AREA.
AND THEN, UM, CONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTH TRAIL ALONG KELLY CREEK, THE LOWER PARKING LOT AND PORTABLE RESTROOM.
SO THE AGREEMENT WAS THAT KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT WOULD ACQUIRE THE PROPERTY, DO THOSE PHASE ONE IMPROVEMENTS, AND THEN DEDICATE IT OVER TO REGIONAL PARKS FOR ULTIMATE ONGOING, UM, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.
UM, ONE THING KIND OF TOWARDS THAT AGREEMENT AND A STEP THAT REGIONAL PARKS IS CURRENTLY GOING OUT TO PREPARING TO GO OUT TO BID TO COMPLETE THE CONNECTING TRAIL.
SO YOU MAY RECALL, AS PART OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FOR THE OVERALL PROJECT, THERE WAS AN ANALYSIS OF, UH, OF TRAIL CONNECTING EXISTING TRAILS IN HALLAM PUTNAM TO, UH, THIS EXPANSION AREA.
SO THEY ARE MOVING FORWARD, UM, WITH THAT ASPECT OF THE PROJECT.
THIS WAS THE PARK CONCEPT OR ONE, ONE VERSION.
UM, THE VERSION IN YOUR PACKET HAD A LOT MORE DETAIL, UM, IN, IN VERY TINY WRITING, BUT, UM, THIS WAS THE PARK CONCEPT PLAN, UM, THAT WAS REVIEWED AS PART OF THE, UM, OF THE OVERALL SCOTT RANCH PROJECT SHOWING THOSE PHASE ONE IMPROVEMENTS AS WELL AS SOME ULTIMATE, UM, DESIGN ASPECTS, UM, THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY BE, UM, AT THE DISCRETION OF, UH, REGIONAL PARKS TO IMPLEMENT AND THAT ONGOING OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.
SO PROJECT FUNDING, THIS IS A, A SLIGHT UPDATE TO, UM, THE PACKET.
UM, THE PROJECT COSTS, UM, $9.5 MILLION IS WHAT IS ESTIMATED TO NOT ONLY, UM, ACQUIRE THE PROPERTY FOR KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT TO ACQUIRE THE PROJECT OR THE PARCEL, BUT ALSO TO DO THOSE PHASE ONE IMPROVEMENTS.
SO THERE WAS $4.1 MILLION RAISED TO DATE THAT WAS REPORTED IN YOUR PACKET.
UM, JUST TO ADD THAT THE, THERE IS NOW AN ADDITIONAL 1.45 MILLION THAT WAS AWARDED FROM SONOMA COUNTY OPEN SPACE, UM, WHICH IS A MILLION FOR ACQUISITION AND 450,000 FOR UM, RESTORATION.
UH, ADDITIONALLY, UH, A PACKET IS BEING PREPARED FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR $1.8 MILLION, UM, TO BE ALLOCATED TO THIS PROJECT BY THE COUNTY.
SO THOSE ARE TWO ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT, UM, SOURCES OF FUNDRAISING.
UM, AND SO, UM, WITH THIS LOCAL ALLOCATION REQUEST THAT WOULD REALLY BRIDGE THE GAP AND, UM, DOWN TO 1.5 MILLION IN FUNDS THAT WOULD NEED, UM, TO BE FURTHER RAISED FOR THAT ULTIMATE 9.5 MILLION.
UM, AND KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT IS ACTIVELY SEEKING, UM, THOSE FUNDING SOURCES THROUGH BOTH PRIVATE AND OTHER, UM, THE COASTAL CONSERVANCY, FOR EXAMPLE.
SO THE LOCAL ALLOCATION THAT IS BEING REQUESTED FROM THE CITY DEMONSTRATES LOCAL SUPPORT, WHICH IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT TO INCREASE COMPETITIVE FUNDING.
IT WAS A QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED, UM, ABOUT
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WHEN THE COUNTY WAS CONSIDERING FUNDING, WHAT IS THE CITY CONTRIBUTING TO THIS? SO WHEN THERE'S LOCAL FUNDING, IT, IT HELPS SUPPORT THE PROJECT WHEN THEY'RE ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING.SO OUR OPEN SPACE ACQUISITION FUND, THAT'S THE REQUEST FOR ALLOCATION OF 250,000, IS FROM OUR OPEN SPACE ACQUISITION FUND.
UH, THE PURPOSE OF THIS FUND IS TO PROVIDE FUNDING TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE OPEN SPACE AMENITIES FOR PETALUMA RESIDENTS.
UH, THERE IS A STANDARD IN THE GENERAL PLAN THAT WAS SET FORTH FOR 10 ACRES OF OPEN SPACE FOR EACH 1000 PETALUMA RESIDENTS.
AND THIS IS A DIFFERENT STANDARD AND ADDITIONAL STANDARD TO OUR PARK LAND STANDARDS IN OUR GENERAL PLAN.
THIS FUND, IT CAN BE USED FOR A VARIETY OF THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING OPEN SPACE, INCLUDING LAND ACQUISITION.
UM, FEES TO, FOR THIS FUND ARE COLLECTED FROM ALL NEW DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS BASED ON SQUARE FOOTAGE OR THE NUMBER OF UNITS.
UM, AND THERE IS A CURRENT FUND BALANCE OF APPROXIMATELY $660,000.
WE HAVE NOT HAD OTHER, UM, USES OF THIS FUND IN A NUMBER OF YEARS.
UM, SO THAT IS THE PROPOSAL FOR WHERE THAT 250,000 WOULD BE ALLOCATED FUND FROM.
UH, JUST TOUCHING ON GENERAL PLAN CONSISTENCY WITH THIS, WITH THIS REQUEST TO OBVIOUSLY GENERAL PLAN CONSISTENCY FINDINGS WERE MADE FOR THE OVERALL PROJECT.
UH, SPECIFICALLY THIS ALLOCATION, UH, WOULD HELP TO SUPPORT AND FACILITATE NOT ONLY THE ACQUISITION, BUT THE NEEDED PHASE ONE IMPROVEMENTS IN RESTORATION FOR THE SUBSEQUENT, UM, DEDICATION OF THAT 47 ACRES TO SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS FOR HELEN PUTNAM PARK EXPANSION.
SO OPEN SPACE, UM, IN PERPETUITY.
UM, SO IN THE GENERAL PLAN, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF POLICIES ABOUT MAINTAINING PERMANENT OPEN SPACE AROUND THE EDGES OF THE CITY, REDUCING AND FEATHERING DENSITY DOWN AT THE UGB, WHICH THIS IS THE FINAL PROPERTY, UM, BEFORE THE UGB.
UM, AND POLICY TWO P 68 INCLUDED VERY SPECIFIC, UM, COMPONENTS THAT, UM, ARE JUST FOR THIS PROPERTY.
UH, SO IT TALKED ABOUT PRESERVING, UM, THE UNIQUE, UM, VISUAL FROM D STREET AND WINDSOR DRIVE ABOUT PRESERVING THE RED BARNS, PRESERVING AND MAINTAINING HABITAT AND TREES, UM, TRAILHEAD FACILITIES, RESTROOMS, AND PARKING WITH A CONNECTION TO HELEN PUTNAM PARK.
SO THIS COMPONENT OF THE SCOTT RANCH PROJECT REALLY DOES ALL THOSE THINGS THAT OUR GENERAL PLAN POLICIES WE'RE ASKING FOR.
I WANTED TO TOUCH ON JUST SOME MILESTONES.
WHEN IS THIS GONNA HAPPEN? A NUMBER OF COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC WERE CONCERNS ABOUT IS THIS REALLY GONNA HAPPEN? WHEN'S IT GONNA HAPPEN? UM, SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE MILESTONES, UM, THAT KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT PROVIDED.
SO ACQUISITION OF THE PROPERTY WILL HAPPEN ONCE, UM, DAVID ON HOMES RECEIVES THEIR SITE PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW FOR, UM, THEIR 28 HOMES.
AND THAT IS CURRENTLY IN REVIEW, UH, WITH AN APPLICATION IN REVIEW.
SO THAT WAS, UM, PART OF THE, UH, SALE AGREEMENT.
UM, SO ONCE THAT HAPPENS AND THE TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP TO CREATE WHAT IS SHOWN AS PARCEL B, THEN KELLY CREEK, UM, PROTECTION PROJECT WILL ACQUIRE THE PROJECT.
UH, THEY'RE ACTIVELY WORKING ON THEIR, UM, REGULATORY PERMITS, UM, AND ANTICIPATE TO HAVE THOSE IN EARLY 2025, WHICH WOULD THEN ALLOW RESTORATION AND PARK IMPROVEMENTS TO BEGIN IN SPRING OF 2025 WITH THE HOPE TO COMPLETE THOSE BY THE END OF 2025.
AND, UM, HAVE THE DEDICATION OF THE PROPERTY TO REGIONAL PARKS IN EARLY 2026.
SO THAT, THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
UM, THE RECOMMENDATION IS FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET FOR ALLOCATION OF $250,000, UM, TO KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT FROM THE OPEN SPACE ACQUISITION FUND.
UM, JARED EMERSON JOHNSON, WHO IS THE DIRECTOR OF KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT, IS HERE THIS EVENING AND WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL.
AND HE AND HIS TEAM ARE HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT THE COUNCIL MAY HAVE ON THIS ITEM.
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PROCEED WITH, UH, JARED EMERSON JOHNSON? GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.UM, HEATHER LAID OUT MOST OF THE STUFF I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT, SO I THANK YOU FOR LAYING IT OUT SO WELL.
UM, ALL OF YOU OF COURSE, HAVE BEEN WELL SCHOOLED ON THE HISTORY OF THIS PROJECT OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS IN SOME CASES.
AND, UM, UH, I JUST WANT TO MAYBE TAKE THIS TIME, UH, YOU KNOW, WE WILL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ABOUT IT, BUT I JUST WANNA TAKE MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO, UH, SPEAK TO JUST THE BENEFIT OF THIS PROJECT FOR THE CITY.
JUST AS A REMINDER, 'CAUSE WE GET SO CAUGHT UP IN THE DETAILS SOMETIMES.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THIS IS GONNA BE BRINGING A PARK SO MUCH CLOSER TO THE DOWNTOWN PART OF THE CITY.
IT'S GOING TO BE THIS INCREASED ACCESSIBILITY.
UH, IT'S GONNA CUT DOWN ON DRIVE AROUND TIME TO THAT CHILENO VALLEY ENTRANCE.
YOU KNOW, THOUSANDS OF MILES OF DRIVE TIME IS GONNA BE CUT DOWN, BEING ABLE TO ACCESS FROM THE NEW LOCATION.
UM, MUCH MORE BIKE ACCESSIBLE, WALK ACCESSIBLE.
UH, SO IN TERMS OF CLIMATE AND EQUITY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A, A HUGE WIN FOR THE CITY.
AND, UM, JUST TALKING TO OUR, TALKING ABOUT OUR LONG-TERM, YOU KNOW, TRAJECTORY, UH, IT FEELS, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMPLETING THIS IN 2016 OR 2026, IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE REALLY IN THE HOME STRETCH HERE, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A LOT TO DO.
WE'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, WORKING HARD, MAKING GREAT PROGRESS WITH ALL OF THE VARIOUS AGENCY APPROVALS AND CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AND, UM, ALL OF THE, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT HAS TO HAPPEN BEFORE WE CAN REALLY GET, GET INTO THE WORK OF RESTORING THIS LAND.
UM, UH, MY PRIMARY CONCERN AT THIS POINT IS REALLY DOING THE REPARATIONS OF THE GULLY, GETTING, GETTING THE LAND CONTROLLED SO THAT IT'S NOT CONTINUING TO DEGRADE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF, UM, KIND OF NEGLECT AND, UM, UH, OVERGRAZING, ET CETERA.
UM, AND SO THIS MONEY WILL REALLY HELP KEEP THINGS MOVING, KEEP IT ON TRACK.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING TO BE COMPLETE WITH ALL OF THE PERMITTING AND EVERYTHING BY EARLY NEXT YEAR.
AND, UH, DOING THE BULK OF THE WORK THROUGHOUT THE, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING MONTHS OF NEXT YEAR, UH, FINISHING UP, YOU KNOW, BY THE END OF THE YEAR WITH MAYBE A FEW LITTLE LAST DETAILS COMING AROUND INTO 2026 AT THAT POINT, HANDING IT OVER TO PARKS.
AND, UM, SO JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, HOPE YOU'LL CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT THIS, UH, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONAL ALLOCATION WILL MEET, WILL MEAN FOR, UH, GETTING US THAT MUCH CLOSER TO CLOSING THAT GAP.
AS YOU'VE SEEN, WE, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO RAISE A PRETTY LARGE AMOUNT OF THE MONEY THAT WE NEED TO GET THERE.
WE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BUDGETED IT ALL OUT.
IT'S ALL, UH, ITEMIZED AND CLEAR AND, UM, SO I THINK A, A, A SHOW OF SUPPORT FROM THE CITY, A CONTINUED SHOW OF SUPPORT FROM THE CITY IN THIS FORM WILL HELP US WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDRAISING.
IT'LL BE A SIGN TO OTHER POTENTIAL DONORS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL IN THIS AND THAT THE CITY IS BEHIND IT.
UM, AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO OPEN UP, IF POSSIBLE, TO HAVE LET, LET GREG CALL AND SAY A BIT, HE'S, GREG WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THE KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT UP UNTIL, UH, ABOUT THIS TIME LAST YEAR.
AND, UH, HE, HE MIGHT HAVE A FEW WORDS TO SAY ABOUT, UM, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE FUNDING AND KIND OF WHERE WE ARE WITH ALL THAT AND OUR EFFORTS TO, UH, TO GET TO WHERE WE NEED TO BE TO MEET THE BUDGET WE HAVE.
I'M GREG COLVIN, FORMER PROJECT DIRECTOR OF KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT, AND I BELIEVE IT'S APPROPRIATE TO HAVE TURNED THIS OVER AFTER LAST FEBRUARY TO THE NEXT GENERATION, UH, JARED, MY STEPSON,
AND, UH, I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW, I, I HELPED PARTICIPATE A BIT IN THE FUNDRAISING TO MEET THE GOALS FOR, UH, COMPLETE PHASE ONE AND ACQUISITION OF THE PARK.
AND, UM, MY ROLE HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, TO SORT OF WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE, THE COUNTY WITH, UH, UM, BURT WHITAKER AND STEVE T OF THE COUNTY PARKS AND ALSO SUPERVISOR RABBIT.
AND THE TWO THINGS THAT I'VE LEARNED EVEN MORE, UH, AFTER WE ORIGINALLY RAISED THE $4.1 MILLION, WHICH IS IN ESCROW, THIS IS NOT MONEY SITTING OUT THERE, IT IS IN AN ESCROW ACCOUNT CREDITED TO KELLY CREEK PROTECTION PROJECT FOR THE ACQUISITION.
THE ONLY THING THAT STANDS BETWEEN US AND THE ACQUISITION IS THE PARCEL MAP, THE TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP, WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO, UH, ACQUIRE PARCEL B.
AND THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENS NEEDS TO HAPPEN BEFORE THAT IS THE
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SPAR, UH, CONSIDERATION, WHICH IS JOINT BETWEEN DAVID ON HOLMES AND OURSELVES.SO, UH, IT TURNS OUT THAT WE ALREADY HAD A MILLION DOLLARS, UH, ALLOCATED IN 2018, UM, BY AG AND OPEN SPACE.
AND WE'VE TAKEN STEPS WHICH INVOLVE AN APPRAISAL AND INVOLVE, UM, UH, CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AND SO ON TO QUALIFY FOR THAT MILLION DOLLARS OF ACQUISITION MONEY.
AS SOON AS THAT COMES IN, IT'LL REPLACE 1 MILLION OF THE 4.1 BILLION, WHICH WAS RAISED FROM THE PUBLIC, AND THEN THAT BECOMES AVAILABLE FOR THE RESTORATION AND IMPROVEMENT WORK IN ADDITION TO THE 450,000, WHICH WAS SPECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY AGON OPEN SPACE, UH, A COUPLE YEARS LATER IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF RESTORATION, UH, AS WE'VE SAID BEFORE, THIS LAND HAS BEEN DEGRADED BY A HUNDRED YEARS OF OVERGRAZING BY LIVESTOCK, AND WE HAVE A GULLY, WHICH IS CREEPING UP THE HILL TOWARD THE STOCK POND.
AND THE STEPS THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE INCLUDE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO STOP THE FURTHER EROSION OF THAT GULLY.
SO THE TWO THINGS I WANT TO UH, SAY ABOUT FUNDRAISING TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT ARE SO MUCH I'VE LEARNED ABOUT TIMING AND LEVERAGE AND THE, UM, THE QUESTION OF HOW WE FILL THE REST OF THE GAP DEPENDS ON HOW DIFFERENT FUNDERS LOOK AT WHAT OTHER FUNDERS ARE DOING.
AND SO FAR, THE CITY ITSELF HAS NOT BEEN LOOKED TO AS A POTENTIAL FUNDER, BUT FRANKLY, OUR CONTEXT IN THE COUNTY SAID, YOU KNOW, DAVID ON IS BEING ASKED TO CONTRIBUTE IN LIEU FUNDS TO THE PARK, UM, AND OPEN SPACE FUND AT OF THE CITY.
ISN'T IT POSSIBLE TO LOOK TO THAT? AND I WAS DELIGHTED TO SEE THAT BY LOOKING TO THAT, THE 14 ACRES THAT THE CITY IS SHORT IN TERMS OF, ISN'T THIS RIGHT, HEATHER, IN TERMS OF MEETING ITS CURRENT GOAL FOR OPEN SPACE, WILL BE MORE THAN MET BY THE 47 ACRES THAT WILL BE ADDED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS, UH, BY OUR ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THIS AREA AS A PARK.
SO WHAT THIS $250,000 WILL MEAN TO US IS WE'RE RIGHT NOW ABLE TO PROCEED WITH ALL OF THOSE PERMIT WORKS AND RESTORATION WORKS THAT ARE OTHERWISE, UH, NOT PRESENTLY FUNDED.
I MEAN, WE COULD FUND THEM, BUT HAVING THAT 250,000 FROM THE CITY MEANS THAT, UH, WE'LL BE ABLE TO MOVE QUICKLY WITH THE RESTORATION.
AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, THESE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN EVERY MONTH DURING THE YEAR.
SO THERE'S SEASONAL THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DO THIS SUMMER AND, UH, PERMITS, ALL THE PERMITS WE NEED, HOPEFULLY WILL BE ACQUIRED THIS YEAR, BUT SOME OF IT MIGHT GO OVER TO NEXT SPRING.
WE WANNA STAY ON COURSE BECAUSE EVERY YEAR THAT IT DOESN'T HAPPEN ADDS TO THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS.
SO THE TIMING AND THE LEVERAGE OF THE AMOUNT YOU'RE CONSIDERING TONIGHT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL, AND I MUST SAY EXTREMELY WELCOME.
I'M HOPING THAT THERE'LL BE NO PROBLEM APPROVING THIS, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO MAKE WHATEVER REASONABLE, UM, POINTS MAY NEED TO BE COVERED ABOUT THE USE OF THE FUNDS.
AND DOES THAT CLOSE THE PRESENTATION THAT CLOSES IT? WE'RE, WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
I'D LIKE TO BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL AND, AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ON FROM THE DIOCESE COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.
YEAH, I HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR STAFF.
UM, IS THE PROPOSAL TO JUST APPROVE THE $250,000 TONIGHT FOR THEIR FUNDRAISING EFFORT, OR IS IT GONNA BE MADE CONTINGENT ON THEM ACTUALLY OBTAINING THE FULL $9.5 MILLION THAT THEY NEED? BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA, YOU KNOW, FINANCE, YOU KNOW, HALF A CAR.
UM, SO, AND ERIC CAN PROBABLY, UM, ASSIST ME HERE.
SO WHAT THE RESOLUTION IS, IS ITS ALLOCATION OF THE MONEY AND IT GRANTS, UM, THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE CONTRACT FOR THAT GRANT THAT, UM, THAT FUNDS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE NEEDED PROTECTIONS FOR THE CITY'S MONEY TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE ARE GETTING IS THE ULTIMATE PARK.
UM, SO I, I DON'T WANNA SAY THAT I KNOW EXACTLY HOW THAT'S GONNA BE STRUCTURED IN TERMS OF, SHALL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL, BUT THAT, THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE DETAILS WE WOULD WORK OUT WITH THE GRANT AGREEMENT BEFORE
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ANY MONEY IS ACTUALLY PROVIDED.AND THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION.
UM, THERE ARE NO TRANSACTIONAL DETAILS SPECIFIED IN THE RESERV BEFORE THE COUNCIL TONIGHT, BUT I APPRECIATE, UM, STAFF APPRECIATES, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY'S POINT.
UM, WE WOULD WANT TO ENSURE IN THE ARRANGEMENTS THAT WE MAKE AND THE CITY MATTERS SIGNS, UM, THAT WE ARE PROVIDING FOR GETTING THE PROJECT THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GET AND NOT FUNDING, UM, A PROJECT THAT'S, THAT REMAINS INCOMPLETE.
WE ARE HEARTENED AS I IMAGINE THE COUNCIL IS TOO, BY THE VERY SIGNIFICANT FUNDRAISING PROGRESS TO DATE.
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE SHOULD BE VENTURING PUBLIC MONEY TO SOMETHING THAT'S NOT GONNA BE COMPLETED.
SO, UM, WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE THAT AS DIRECTION WITH RESPECT TO THEIR ARRANGEMENTS, BUT IF THEIR COUNCIL HAS MORE CONCERNS, THEY WANNA RAISE, HEAR THAT? NO, I THINK, THINK, I THINK THAT WAS SATISFACTORY.
SO IF WE PASS THE RESOLUTION AS PRESENTED TONIGHT AND GIVE THAT DIRECTION, THEN, THEN WE'RE GOOD.
WE, WE WOULD'VE BEEN SENSITIVE TO THAT ANYWAY, BUT, UM, BUT GLAD TO HEAR THE COUNCIL'S.
DIRECTION WITH RESPECT TO THAT.
AND IN GENERAL, I, I FULLY SUPPORT THE, THE PRINCIPLES AND IDEAS THAT, UH, WE'RE MOVING FORWARD.
UM, BUT THERE'S A, A COUPLE QUESTIONS I THINK THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED THAT WE NEED TO REALLY ANSWER.
AND SO I, I'LL, I GOT BASICALLY THREE, THREE QUESTIONS THAT MAY BE LUMP 'EM TOGETHER AND, AND, AND WE WORK WITH THEM.
UM, SO JUST FOR, FOR KELLY CREEK, I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF MONEY THAT THAT'S GOING FOR A NON-PROFIT.
SO IS THERE A FINANCIAL AUDIT REVIEW OF THE ACTUAL OPERATION SO FAR? AND, UH, AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE $250,000, UM, AND, AND ALL THE OTHER GRANT MONIES.
I KNOW WHEN YOU'RE GIVING GRANT MONEY, THERE'S LOTS OF REVIEW OF THAT, HOW YOU, THAT GETS SPENT, BUT, UM, THE REVIEW PROCESS FOR THIS 250 K, UM, IS THERE, UH, WILL WE BE, AS COUNCILMAN HEALY WAS, WAS SUGGESTING A LITTLE BIT MORE OVERSIGHT ON THAT AND WATCHING JUST THE, THE OTHER CONCERN IS, UM, JUST HOW THE OPERATIONS ARE MOVING EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY, UM, MOVING FORWARD TO, TO GET ALL THIS DONE.
UM, I'M OPERATING IN THE ASSUMPTION THAT, THAT EVERYTHING IS, IS, UH, MOVING WELL FORWARD, CORRECTLY AND APPROPRIATELY.
UM, THE OTHER PART OF THE QUESTION WOULD BE, UM, WE HAVE 250,000 DESIGNATED OF THIS, OF 660,000, UM, WHICH LEAVES 310,000 BASICALLY FOR, UM, UH, LOOKING AT IT, UH, ACTUALLY IT'S FOUR, 410,000.
UM, WHAT TYPE OF ALTERNATIVES HAVE ALREADY BEEN PROPOSED? UH, WE DON'T WANNA HAVE MONEY JUST SITTING THERE DOING NOTHING.
SO THERE'S $410,000 LEFT OVER.
DO WE ACTUALLY, OR HAVE, UH, OTHER PLACES, OTHER OPEN SPACES THAT WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT 440, 400 10,000, UM, AT, SO THAT WE HAVE COMPETITION FOR, FOR THE MONIES.
AND THEN, UM, AND AS FOR EARMARKING, ONCE THE MONEY IS DESIGNATED FOR 250,000, IS THIS GOING TO BASICALLY OPERATIONS AND GETTING PERMITS AND THINGS, OR IS IT ACTUALLY GONNA GO INTO SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL LIKE THE PATH, UH, REBUILDING THE POND, RE-FIXING THE GULLY? IS THERE A WAY OF EARMARKING OR DESIGNATING THIS MONEY FOR SPECIFIC RESTORATION WORK THAT NEEDS TO GET DONE OR REPAIR WORK THAT NEEDS TO GET DONE RATHER THAN JUST A, LIKE A GENERAL FUND ALLOCATION? SO LET'S JUST LEAVE THAT.
JUST, UH, THOSE ARE THE AREAS I'M, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT.
SO, UM, THE WAY THE MONEY IS SPENT WILL NEED TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE FUND.
SO IT OUTLINES SPECIFIC THINGS THAT IT CAN BE, BE USED FOR.
SO WHEN WE DO THE GRANT AGREEMENT, WE WOULD BE VERY SPECIFIC IN TERMS OF MAKING SURE IT'S USED CONSISTENT WITH THE, THE WAY THE FUND IS SET UP.
UM, AND THERE WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, PART OF COMING UP WITH THAT GRANT AGREEMENT, WHATEVER WAYS WE NEED TO ASSURE THAT IT IS BEING USED THE WAY THAT AGREEMENT IS SET UP.
SO THERE'S A WAY OF, OF MAKING SURE THAT IT IS NOT GOING TO LET SAY SALARIES THAT ARE JUST FOR OPERATIONAL THINGS.
IT HAS TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE PARAMETERS OF THE, THE, THE USE OF FUNDS FROM THE OPEN SPACE, UM, ACQUISITION FUND.
SO I, IT, THERE IS SOME LEEWAY IN TERMS OF, IT'S NOT JUST ONLY, UM, ACQUISITION.
UM, I THINK IT SAYS ACQUISITION CONSTRUCTION, UM, IMPROVEMENTS, UM, ALL TO FACILITATE THE PROVISION OF THOSE AMENITIES.
BUT WE WOULD, WE WOULD WRITE ANY KIND OF GRANT AGREEMENT WITH KCPP TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE SPENT CONSISTENT WITH THAT, THAT FUND.
ANYTHING TO ADD TO THAT, ERIC? NO.
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OKAY.THEN, THEN, UH, THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT OUR ARRANGEMENTS WOULD COVER.
YOU SAW US IN THE MILESTONES FOR THE PROJECT, I THINK WE, WE ADDRESSED THOSE, ET CETERA.
AND THEN, UM, ALTERNATIVELY FOR THESE FUNDS, OR ARE THE 400, $660,000, IS THERE, UM, OTHER OPEN SPACE IDEAS THAT WE HAVE THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO FUND DOWN THE ROAD HERE OR, OR IS THIS MONEY JUST SITTING THERE? UM, IT IS NOT ALREADY ALLOCATED.
UM, SO THERE IS 660,000 APPROXIMATELY, UM, IN THAT FUND AT THE MOMENT.
THERE HAS NOT BEEN THE USE OF THAT FUND IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
I CAN'T QUOTE EXACTLY WHEN, BUT, UM, AND WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE CURRENTLY ALLOCATED TOWARDS THAT FUND.
UM, WE DO HAVE OTHER OPEN SPACE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON OR ARE, UM, WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE PROCESS.
SO, BUT THAT HAVEN'T MADE A, YOU KNOW, A, A, A REQUEST OR ARE FAR ENOUGH ALONG TO BRING TO COUNCIL FOR AL ALLOCATION.
'CAUSE I IMAGINE, UH, BETWEEN THE RIVER PARK, WHICH WE SAW THIS MORNING, THERE'S THAT FUTURE GREENWAY, THERE'S EVEN PARTS OF FAIRGROUNDS THAT COULD BE OPEN SPACE.
SO THERE'S, UH, OTHER LAFFERTY COULD BE ANOTHER PROJECT THAT COULD ALLOCATE GO AFTER THESE FUNDS ALSO.
I THINK WE'LL SEE THAT WHEN WE GET TO GOALS.
I JUST WANNA JUST CHECK OUT, UH, TOTAL FUNDS AND HOW THEY'RE BEING ALLOCATED AND WHAT THE PLANS ARE FOR, FOR THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF 660,000.
UM, AND THEN IS THERE A WAY OF, OF DESIGNATING, UH, IS THERE ANY SPECIFIC PROJECTS? COULD WE DESIGNATE SPECIFIC USES OF THE MONEY EVEN FURTHER THAN WHAT'S IN THE OPEN SPACE FUND? UM, THAT I'M, I'M NOT SURE IF WE WANNA GET MORE SPECIFIC THAN THAT.
ERIC, DID YOU WANNA WEIGH IN? UM, I'M SORRY, COULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION? OKAY.
'CAUSE I, I KNOW WITH THE OPEN, UM, UH, SPACE FUND, THERE MAY BE SOME, UH, A LOT OF GENERIC STATEMENTS AS HOW THE MONEY GETS USED AND THERE'S LOTS OF LEEWAY IN THERE.
UM, DO, WOULD WE WANT TO, UH, BE MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT HOW THE FUNDS ARE USED OR JUST GO WITH THE CURRENT, JUST, UH, THE OPEN SPACE FUND POLICY? SO, UM, THE, THE FEE LEGISLATION THAT THE COUNCIL'S PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED IS, IS WHAT IT IS.
AND SOME OF THEM ARE MORE RESTRICTIVE IN THE SENSE THAT SOME OF THE FEE PROGRAMS ACTUALLY LIST IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING.
UM, SO IT'S NOT BEFORE THE COUNCIL TONIGHT TO CHANGE THAT OR TO MODIFY THAT OR ELABORATE ON THAT.
WHAT'S BEFORE THE COUNCIL TONIGHT IS WHETHER TO ALLOCATE SOME OF THOSE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTRIBUTING TO THIS PROJECT CONSISTENT WITH THE, THE FEE PROGRAM AND, AND WHAT ITS PERMITTED USES ARE.
SO I'M NOT, I'M NOT SURE BEYOND THAT WHAT THE QUESTION IS, DO YOU COUNCIL MEMBER STRIPS, DO YOU MEAN DO YOU, HAVE YOU WANT TO BE NARROWER IN WHAT THE PERMITTED USE IS THAN THE FEE WOULD SAY OR, I DON'T KNOW THAT, UH, THAT WOULD BE A PO JUST A POSSIBILITY I'D THROW OUT THERE, UM, WHETHER OR NOT IT WOULD BE FOR, UH, THE PATH CREATION SINCE THE PATH'S GONNA GET CREATED SIX OR 10 FOOT, UM, TO GET THAT ONE TRAIL DONE.
SO LIKE PART OF THAT PHASE ONE CONSTRUCTION ACTUALLY DONE.
SO, UH, WOULD WE WANNA PUT IT TOWARD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS OR JUST GENERAL, UM, UH, MAKE THINGS HAPPEN OUT THERE? UM, I, I, I MEAN THE, THE, THE PURPOSE OF THIS ALLOCATION REQUEST IS TO CONTRIBUTE MONEY TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THE WHOLE THING HAPPEN.
UH, ONE OF THE CONCERNS IS LIKE, I, I WORK WITH NONPROFITS AND WHENEVER WE WRITE FOR GRANTS, IT'S, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA USE THIS MONEY AND IT'S GONNA BE 70 TREES IN THIS SPOT.
IT'S GONNA BE A HUNDRED TREES IN THAT SPOT, OR IT'S GONNA BE, UH, THIS MANY PLANTS ARE GONNA BE PLANTED.
SO ALMOST ALL GRANT MONIES ARE VERY SPECIFIC AS TO HOW THE MONEY GETS USED.
AND THIS SEEMS TO BE MORE OF A GENERAL, UM, GIFT TYPE MONEY FOLLOWING POLICY, UM, HOW IT'S USED, BUT IT, THERE'S SO MUCH FLEXIBILITY AND VAGUENESS OF HOW IT WOULD BE USED, UM, WHETHER TO BE PAYING SOMEONE TO GO GET PERMITS, UH, OR CONSULTANTS COULD GET PAID OUT OF THIS, UM, TO DO CERTAIN WORKS OR ARE WE MAKING IT A HARDSCAPE ON THE GROUND TYPE OF FUNDING? YEAH, AND, AND LIKE I I MENTIONED, WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN THAT SPECIFIC, WE HAVEN'T DRAFTED AN AGREEMENT YET.
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THE DIRECTION THAT WE WOULD GO AT WOULD BE TO DRAFT AN AGREEMENT THAT MADE SURE IT WAS CONSISTENT WITH THE ALLOWABLE USES OF THE FEE RESO, UNLESS THERE WAS SOME OTHER, OTHER DIRECTION.I KNOW THE, UH, STAFF IS WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH, UH, THE KELLY CREEK, UM, UH, FOUNDATION TO, AND AS WELL AS THE, FOR THE TRAFFICKING THAT'S GOING ON THERE, THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE GONNA BE HAPPENING MM-HMM.
SO I KNOW THERE'S LOTS OF COOPERATION GOING ON.
UM, UH, I KNOW THE DESIGN, LOTS OF WORK IS BEING DONE THERE, AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE, 'CAUSE AS SOON AS YOU START GETTING MONEY, YOU HAVE TO HAVE OVERSIGHT A LITTLE BIT.
UM, SO I'M JUST MAKING SURE WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE PROPER OVERSIGHT THAT THE MONEY IS SPENT WELL, UH, AND APPROPRIATELY.
UM, IT, IT, IT'S NOT AS LARGE AS THE, THE MILLION DOLLARS OR THE $2 MILLION THAT MAY COME FROM PARKS, BUT IT'S STILL A HEFTY AMOUNT OF MONEY AND JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S SOME FOLLOW UP AND FOLLOW THROUGH, UM, THAT WE DON'T LOSE TRACK OF, OF WHERE THAT MONEY WENT.
SO IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DISCUSSION WE HAD EARLIER IN RESPONSE TO COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY'S QUESTION, I JUST WANNA EMPHASIZE, W THIS IS NOT A GIFT.
THIS, THE, THE VEHICLE THAT IS BEING DISCUSSED IS A GRANT.
A GRANT IS A FORM OF A CONTRACT, MEANING THAT MONIES ARE DISPERSED, UM, IN ACCORDANCE WITH TERMS OF, OF THE DISBURSEMENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE GRANTING DOCUMENT.
UM, AND THESE MONIES WOULD NEED TO BE, UM, FOR PURPOSE THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE PURPOSE, UM, THAT THE FEES IMPOSED, UM, WHICH IS OPEN SPACE ACQUISITION.
WE'LL NEED TO CHECK TO SEE IF IT CAN BE USED FOR THINGS OTHER THAN ACTUAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION FOR THAT COST FOR OTHER THAN THAT COST.
UM, FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF, ONE OF OUR DEVELOPMENT FEES IS A, A PART DEVELOPMENT FEE THAT IS INTENDED FOR IMPROVEMENTS AS OPPOSED TO ACQUISITION.
WE HAVE OTHER FEES THAT FOCUS ON ACQUISITION.
THE, INTERESTINGLY, THE QUIMBEE ACT FEES THAT ARE, ARE, ARE A MATTER OF STATE LAW.
UM, WHILE THEY'RE EXPRESSLY FOCUSED ON ACQUISITION OF PARKLAND, THEY ALSO ARE PERMITTED TO BE USED FOR DEVELOPMENT.
SO WE'LL NEED TO SEE HOW, HOW NARROW IT IS.
I JUST DON'T HAVE IT COMMITTED TO MEMORY.
AND I, I, IT'S GONNA TAKE ME A FEW MINUTES TO ACCESS THE ACTUAL FEE DOCUMENT, UM, AS TO HOW MUCH LATITUDE IT GIVES US.
BUT WE'LL NEED TO LIVE WITHIN THAT.
AND, AND I, I DON'T THINK IT GIVES MUCH LATITUDE BEYOND ACQUISITION OF OPEN SPACE.
SO, UM, AND I, I USE SOME QUOTES DIRECTLY FROM THAT RESO IN THE STAFF REPORT, UM, FROM THE FEE RESO IN TERMS OF WHAT IT, IT SAYS THESE CAN BE USED FOR.
BUT AGAIN, WE WILL FOLLOW CLOSELY.
WE WILL, IT IS, UM, OBVIOUSLY IMPERATIVE THAT THE PUBLIC'S MONEY ISN'T MISSPENT FROM WHAT THAT FEE OUTLINES.
SO WE WILL MAKE SURE TO WORK THAT INTO ANY GRANT AGREEMENT, WHICH WE WOULD DO.
WELL, I'M, I'M FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF, OF, OF WHAT'S, UM, THE, WHAT WE'RE, HOW WE'RE SPENDING THE MONEY.
SO THE CONCERN BE IT'S 250,000 ENOUGH, UH, FOR WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
UH, ONE OF THE CRITICAL FACTORS IS HAVING ENOUGH, UM, UH, SKIN IN THE GAME SO THAT COASTAL CONSERVANCY AND THE OTHER BIGGER FUNDERS SAY, OH, THE CITY HAS SKIN IN THE GAME.
AND IF THEY'RE PROVIDING MULTIPLE MILLIONS, LIKE THAT IS $250,000 ENOUGH TO SH TO DEMONSTRATE THE SKIN IN THE GAME FOR THE CITY.
UM, IF I, IF I COULD AND, UH, YOU KNOW, HELP, UH, DIRECT, DIRECT THIS FORWARD, I THINK A, THE STAFF PROPOSAL IN FRONT OF US IN THE, IN THE KELLY CREEK, UH, PROPOSAL, UH, REQUEST IS FOR A FIXED AMOUNT.
I'M, I'M COMFORTABLE WITH HONORING THEIR, THEIR REQUEST AND THE STAFF PROPOSAL IS RATHER THAN HAVE ALL THE DETAILS IN FRONT OF US, GIVE THEM ANY GUARDRAILS WE WANT TO GIVE THEM, WHICH, UH, I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY HAS HELPED SET UP AND THE REPORT SET UP, UM, RATHER THAN US BE ABLE TO KNOW EVERYTHING TODAY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DELEGATING THE FINAL AUTHORITY AND MERELY, AND IF WE HAVE A CONSTRAINT TO SAY THE CONSTRAINT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT.
BUT I THINK WE ALL HEAR THE CONSTRAINTS YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT, AND, UH, HOPEFULLY WE CAN DIRECT STAFF TO EXECUTE ON THIS.
JUST WANTED, WANTED TO GET CLEAR AS, AS, UH, WHAT, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE AND WHY WE'RE DOING IT, AND I'LL ASK ONE FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
UM, IS KEL CREEK ABLE TO CONSTRUCT ANY WORK PRIOR TO, UH, ANY CONSTRUCTED FIELD WORK, UH, PRIOR TO OWNERSHIP? NOT, UH, DOES THE TRANSFER HAVE TO HAPPEN BEFORE YOU CAN GET ON PROPERTY? THE TRANSFER NEEDS, WE, WE NEED TO OWN THE PROPERTY BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING BEFORE, BUT YOUR STUDIES AND THINGS COULD PERHAPS PROCEED.
UM, YEAH, WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT FOR A WHILE.
COUNCIL MEMBER BARNELL, UM, YES, I'LL JUST TALK.
AS A PERSON WHO WORKS FOR A NONPROFIT, ALL THIS TALK ABOUT RESTRICTED FUNDS MAKES MY HEAD SPIN.
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UH, CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE LIKELIHOOD AND THE TIMING OF RETI OF RECEIVING THE COUNTY FUNDS? NOT SPECIFICALLY.I KNOW, I KNOW THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE CONSIDERING IT SOON, LIKE WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, I WOULD IMAGINE.
BUT NO, NO IDEA ABOUT PROBABILITY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
UH, WE'RE OPTIMISTIC, YOU KNOW, WE, WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT, BUT, UM, YEAH.
UM, AND THEN, UM, WITH THE RE RESPECT, LIKE WITH THE, THE NOTION OF, UM, RELEASING THESE FUNDS OR HOLDING THESE FUNDS UNTIL YOU HIT THE $8,850,000 MARK OR SO, WOULD THAT HAVE THE INTENDED EFFECT OF ALLOWING YOU TO KEEP ON TRACK AS WE SAID? OR, UM, CAN YOU REPEAT THE FIRST PART? I'M SORRY, WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY BROUGHT UP ABOUT LIKE NOT WANTING TO FINANCE HALF A CAR.
NOT RELEASING IT UNTIL, UNTIL WE MADE UP THE, THE REST, UNTIL THE FULL DELTA IS MET.
UM, BECAUSE PART OF LIKE, JUST AGAIN, PUTTING MY LIKE PERSON WHO WORKS FOR A NONPROFIT, LIKE, LIKE, UH, AND WHEN YOU'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO GO FOR SOMETHING BIG, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT RAISING FOR TREES, YOU'RE RAISING FOR A PARK, IS IT GOING TO HAVE THE IMPACT OF, AS WE SAID, LIKE SHOWING LEVERAGE OR STAYING ON TRACK IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, IF WE COULD RECEIVE IT SOONER, IT WOULD CERTAINLY HELP US RAISE THE REST OF THAT GAP.
AND COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON.
YEAH, I THINK, UM, I WAS ON THE SAME TRACK AS, AS COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.
COULD, COULD YOU REPEAT WHAT, UH, WHAT YOUR REQUEST WAS? WELL, I, I THINK THE RESOLUTION WAS THAT IF WE PASS THE, UM, THE MEASURE BEFORE US TONIGHT AND PROVIDE DIRECTION TO STAFF THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THEY'RE NEGOTIATING THE ACTUAL AGREEMENT THAT, UM, WE WANT, WANT ASSURANCES THAT THEY'VE ACHIEVED ALL THE FUNDRAISING THEY NEED TO, UM, TO, TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR GOALS BEFORE OUR FUNDS ARE RELEASED.
SO WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, FINANCING HALF A CAR.
UM, SO THAT, THAT, THAT WILL WORK.
AND ALL MY QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ASKED, ASKED, AND ANSWERED.
WELL, WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO, UH, MOVE IT TO, UH, UH, QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC.
AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR CLERK IF WE'VE RECEIVED ANY PUBLIC COMMENT PRIOR TO THE MEETING.
WE RECEIVED SEVEN PUBLIC COMMENTS.
THEY'RE POSTED TO THE WEBSITE.
AND I'D LIKE OUR MODERATOR TO, UM, READ OUR MESSAGING.
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK.
SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS, AND TO PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION.
THE TIMER BEHIND THE DAIS WILL BE RESET FOR EACH SPEAKER.
AND HOW MANY CARDS DO WE HAVE TODAY? SO WE HAVE, UH, THREE CARDS, THREE MINUTES.
UM, I'D LIKE TO INVITE DANIELLE VENTON, UM, TO BE FOLLOWED BY SHERRY FABRY.
I'M VERY PLEASED TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT AGAIN, IN FRONT OF YOU.
I'VE BEEN INTERESTED IN IT FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
I GREW UP IN THIS AREA AND REMEMBER THE PROPOSED ORIGINAL PROJECT AND WAS OPPOSED TO IT.
AND SO I'M REALLY HAPPY WITH THE CURRENT, THE CURRENT DESIGN OF THE PROJECT.
I AM EVEN A VERY SMALL DONOR, SO THE 4.1 MILLION, UH, DONATED BY THE PUBLIC
UM, I REALLY CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS PROJECT COME TO FRUITION.
I THINK THERE'LL BE AN ENORMOUS COMMUNITY BENEFIT.
AND, UM, SO MANY OF MY FRIENDS DO.
I'LL BE ABLE TO RIDE MY BIKE TO THE PARK.
THERE'LL BE ENHANCED RECREATION, UM, HISTORICAL BUILDINGS PRESERVED, YOU KNOW, HABITAT THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE RESTORED, RESTORED.
SO I URGE YOU TO DO WHAT YOU CAN TO SHOW SOME LOCAL SUPPORT OR, UH, CONTINUE LOCAL SUPPORT BEHIND THIS PROJECT.
MARCIA TO BE FOLLOWED BY CHRIS COURT.
MARCIA BEEN WITH THIS PROJECT FOR 20 YEARS.
UM, ALWAYS SUPPORTED A PARK EXPANSION FOR THE COMMUNITY.
UM, DIDN'T SUPPORT THE HOMES, BUT THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY.
SO, SUPPORTED THE BEST IDEA OF A PARK.
UM, WE'VE ALL HAD TO TIGHTEN OUR BELTS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
THAT MIGHT MEAN WE PURCHASE MORE GENERIC PRODUCTS AT THE GROCERY STORE RATHER THAN NAME BRANDS.
MAYBE WE DO STAYCATIONS GOING OUT TO THE COAST DOING SOME LOCAL THINGS.
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BUT APPARENTLY WHEN YOU CAN'T COME UP WITH THE FUNDS THAT YOU PROMISED TO THE CITY TO FINISH PHASE ONE OF A PLAN THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN APPROVED, YOU GET TO JUST ASK THE CITY FOR THEIR OPEN SPACE FUNDS.THERE'S ANOTHER OPTION, SCALE BACK THE PARK PLAN, BUILD ONE PARKING LOT AND A TRAIL ALONG THE EDGE OF THE PROPERTY TO CONNECT WITH HELEN PUTNAM.
SO ALL OF THE COMMUNITY CAN ENJOY THIS WONDERFUL PIECE OF PROPERTY.
THEN HAND THE PROPERTY OVER TO SONOMA COUNTY PARKS, LET THEM DECIDE HOW TO ALLOCATE RESOURCES TO MAINTAIN THAT TRAIL AND THAT PARKING LOT FOR THE COMMUNITY.
IF THEY HAVE MORE FUNDS, MAYBE THEY'LL COMPLETE THE ENTIRE PARK PLAN.
IF THERE ARE NO FUNDS, THEN AT LEAST KELLY CREEK PROTECTION CAN KEEP SOME OF THE PROMISES IT MADE TO THE PUBLIC YEARS AND YEARS OF WHAT WE WERE TOLD.
THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY ON THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE.
I'VE LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT POLITICS.
UM, ACCESS TO PELL AND PUTNAM PARK IS VERY, VERY MUCH WANTED.
INTERESTINGLY, ON NOVEMBER 6TH, 2023 FROM THE CITY COMMUNICATION, THE FINANCIAL IMPACTS, UM, FOR THE LANDMARK DESIGNATION OF THE RED BARN COMPLEX IS A COST RECOVERY APPLICATION WITH THE FULL COST OF ENTITLEMENT PROCESSING PAID BY THE APPLICANT.
NO CHARGES TO THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND.
AND I UNDERSTAND OPEN SPACE, IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT OF A TITLE, BUT MAYBE, UM, THERE ARE OTHER ENTITIES, MAYBE THEY KNOW THEY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT OPEN SPACE MONIES THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE PIPELINE.
UM, MAYBE NOT AS FAR AS THIS ONE, BUT THEY'VE BEEN AROUND AND THE COMMUNITY HAS WORKED ON MANY PROJECTS.
UM, SO I THINK IT SHOULD BE FAIR OF HOW WE'RE DIVIDING UP THE, THE PROJECTS, UM, THE MONIES.
UM, AND IF, IF THIS STUFF, IF THEY DON'T GET MORE MONIES IN THE, UM, SUPERVISORS DON'T AGREE WITH SOMETHING, ARE THEY GONNA KEEP COMING BACK WITH THEIR HANDOUT? SO I REALLY, UM, ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK AT THE WORDS THAT YOU WRITE ON THIS IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
YOU'VE A, YOU'VE ASKED VERY GOOD QUESTIONS, BUT MAKE SURE THERE'S DETAIL IN THE AGREEMENT BECAUSE THINGS WILL GET BY.
UM, YES, WHEN THIS, UM, PROJECT FIRST CAME BEFORE THE COUNCIL AND IT PLAYED OUT OVER SEVERAL YEARS, WE WERE ALWAYS TOLD THAT THERE WOULD BE NO COST TO THE CITY.
UM, WE HAVE MANY, MANY QUOTES THAT, UM, SPANNED FROM 2018 WHERE, UH, THEN CITY MANAGER JOHN BROWN, SAID THAT KCPP HAS NOT REQUESTED, NOR ARE THEY REQUIRING ANY FUNDING FROM THE CITY.
UH, IN 2019, EARTH ISLANDS SAID THOSE FUNDS THAT WERE RAISED WILL GO TOWARD THE EFFORT TO CONVERT THE PARK INTO PUBLIC, INTO A PUBLIC PARK WITH NO COST TO THE CITY.
UM, THERE'S AN EDITORIAL FROM DIANA GOMEZ AND RICHARD MARZO IN JUNE OF 2022.
KCPP HAS COMMITTED TO SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVING THE PARKLAND AREA BEFORE TRANSFERRING IT TO SONOMA COUNTY WITH NO COST TO THE CITY.
UM, THIS HAS, THIS HAS BEEN A PATTERN, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEETING FROM MARCH 15TH, 2021, ACCORDING GREG COLVIN ABLE TO ADD THIS LAND AT NO COST TO THE CITY.
SCOTT RANCH COMMUNITY MEETING FEBRUARY, 2021, NO COST TO THE CITY.
UM, ANOTHER MEETING GREG COLVIN, AGAIN, NO COST TO THE CITY.
UM, IT, IT SHOULDN'T BE IN INCUMBENT UPON THE CITY TO HELP FUND THIS.
THIS IS NOT HOW FUNDRAISING WORKS.
I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN MANY NONPROFITS FOR QUITE SOME TIME, AND, AND WE, WE CAN'T RELY ON CITY FUNDING IF, IF THEY NEED ADDITIONAL FUNDS, THEY HAVE TO MAKE A GOOD FAITH EFFORT TO RAISE THOSE FUNDS AND THEY CAN'T RELY ON THE CITY.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN MY EXPERIENCE.
UH, SEEING NO OTHERS, UM, COMING FORWARD TO SPEAK.
THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS CLOSED ON THIS ITEM.
I'D LIKE TO BRING IT BACK TO THE DIOCESE FOR COMMENTS.
SO I JUST WANTED TO EMPHASIZE ONE THING THAT MAYBE HAS BEEN STATED CLEARLY, AND THAT IS THAT, UM, THE FUNDS THAT WE'RE BEING ASKED TO ALLOCATE TONIGHT ARE,
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ARE NOT TAXPAYER DOLLARS.UM, THEY ARE DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES PAID BY, UM, DEVELOPERS IN TOWN.
UM, AND WITH THAT, I WOULD MOVE APPROVAL OF THIS WITH THE, UH, UM, DIRECTION THAT, UH, MR. DANLEY AND I WERE DISCUSSING EARLIER.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS AND COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE? YEAH.
UM, JUST KNOWING WHAT FUNDRAISING IS, UM, IN, IN THE NONPROFIT SPACE, THIS $250,000, LIKE I WOULD, UM, I WOULD SUPPORT CONDITIONING IT ON RECEIVING THE COUNTY FUNDS BECAUSE THAT CREATES MORE OF A MOMENTUM, UM, TO, UH, TO HELP GET THE COUNTY FUNDS TO SAY THAT WE HAVE ANOTHER QUARTER MILLION HINGING ON THAT WHEN YOU'RE ASKING THE COUNTY AND, AND THOSE COMMENTS.
UM, BUT THE, THE FULL AMOUNT, UM, CLOSING THE OTHER 1.5 MILLION, UM, WORK COULD START AND GET MOVING WITH, WITH 1.8 MILLION, OR IN THIS CASE IT WOULD BE 2.1 MILLION ROUGHLY OF ADDITIONAL FUNDING WORK COULD GET STARTED.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER 1.5 MILLION MAY COME A YEAR DOWN THE LINE.
UM, BUT IF WE CONDITION IT ON THEM HITTING THE FULL 9.1 MILLION, THEY'RE LIKE, UM, THE MONEY WON'T START ACTUALLY DELIVERING ANY BENEFITS.
AND, YOU KNOW, UNTIL THEY HIT THAT, UM, AND KNOWING IN THE FUNDRAISING SPACE FOR A NONPROFIT, WHEN YOU START SHOWING PROGRESS, YOU START SHOWING WORK STARTING, YOU START SHOWING THESE THINGS AND YOU SAY, WE'VE JUST GOT THIS ONE LITTLE GAP, UM, THAT CREATES MORE MOMENTUM.
AND SO, UM, IT WON'T HAVE THE INTENDED EFFECT OF REALLY SHOWING THE LOCAL MATCH IF WE ATTACH TOO MANY STRINGS TO IT.
AND JUST PUTTING MY FUNDRAISING HAT ON, THIS IS WHAT I DO EVERY DAY.
AND SO, UM, IF I WERE IN THEIR SHOES, I WOULD BE SAYING, CONDITION IT ON THE COUNTY, HITTING IT SO THAT WHEN THEY GO TO THE COUNTY, THE COUNTY THEN HAS MOMENTUM, AND THEN THEY CAN START WORK WITH $2.1 MILLION.
UM, AND ONCE THAT WORK GETS STARTED AND THEY CAN SAY, LOOK, WE JUST NEED TO CLOSE THIS LAST MILE AND VOILA, IT'S DONE.
AND THAT'S HOW YOU KEEP 'EM ON TRACK AND YOU AID THEIR FUNDRAISING EFFORTS.
BUT IF WE REQUIRE 'EM TO HIT A HUNDRED PERCENT OF IT, UM, THERE'S JUST GONNA BE THIS LAG AND IT'S GONNA BE THIS SLOG.
UM, AND IT DOESN'T REALLY HELP.
SO I WOULD PROPOSE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO, UM, CONDITION IT ON THE COUNTY CONTRIBUTING THE, THE REQUESTED AMOUNT, AND THAT WILL ALLOW THEM TO START PUTTING THAT MONEY TO WORK.
UM, IF I COULD, THERE, I THINK THERE WERE TWO COUNTY, UM, DOLLAR VALUES INVOLVED.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT, UM, THE FUNDING THROUGH OPEN SPACE IS ALREADY YEAH.
AND IT'S, AND ARE WE DISCUSSING THE OPEN SPACE OR THE, THE, THE BOARD OF 2.8 MILLION IN COUNTY PARK FUNDS.
THAT'S THE, WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS COMING IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS.
AND I WANT TO LIKE ABSOLUTELY CREATE AS MUCH MOMENTUM AND FOR THAT AS POSSIBLE, UM, AND TO, FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO SAY, WE'RE GONNA LOSE TWO, 250 K IF WE DON'T GET THE 1.8 MILLION.
UM, BUT I DON'T, UM, YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU GET THAT, I WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO PUT IT TO USE AND START, START WORK.
DO YOU, WE'VE PROVIDED SEVERAL.
UM, WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE THAT DIRECTION THAT, THAT, THAT'S WE'RE SUBJECT TO SIMILAR REQUIREMENTS OURSELVES SOMETIMES OR OTHERS.
NONPROFIT PARTNERS ARE DEALING WITH OUR, UM, I WOULD ALSO, I JUST CHECKED WITH HEATHER AND SHE SAID, UM, UM, ENOUGH FUNDING HAS BEEN RAISED TO ACQUIRE TITLE TO THE PROPERTY.
I WOULD SAY THAT'S A CRITICAL MILESTONE THAT WE WOULD WANNA BUILD IN BECAUSE, BECAUSE NOT HAVING SITE CONTROL IS A BIG DEAL AND, AND HAVING IT, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S, THAT'S A PERMANENT, UM, CHANGE THAT, THAT, THAT ITSELF LARGELY ENSURES THAT THE PROJECT WILL BE SUCCESSFUL AND, AND MATERIALIZE.
THE OTHER THING IS, AND THE COUNCIL MAY NOT WANT THIS, BUT I DID LOOK UP THE SPECIFIC PURPOSES FOR WHICH, UM, OPEN SPACE LAND ACQUISITION FEES CAN BE USED IN THEIR BROADER THAN JUST LAND ACQUISITION.
THEY CAN INCLUDE DESIGN ENGINEERING RIGHT OF WAY, UM, ENG UM, ENGINEERING COSTS, CONSULTANT COSTS, UM, TOWARD THAT END.
SO IF YOU WANT MORE DETAIL ON THAT, I CAN PROVIDE IT AND HAPPY TO TAKE YOUR DIRECTION ABOUT, UM, THE CONDITIONS, CONDITIONS OF THE GRANT THAT YOU'RE DISCUSSING.
WOULD THE MAKE A MOTION, UH, ACCEPT THAT FRIENDLY AMENDMENT? WELL, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T WANNA BUY HALF A CAR AND I DON'T WANNA BUY THREE QUARTERS OF A CAR EITHER.
UM, SO I GUESS THE QUESTION TO, UM, KELLY
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CREEK FOLKS IS DO YOU HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDS IN HAND RIGHT NOW TO PURSUE THE WORK YOU NEED TO DO BEFORE ACQUISITION? DO YOU HAVE THE MONEY THAT YOU NEED TO DO, YOU KNOW, PERMITS AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO GET TO ACQUISITION? ABSOLUTELY.WE'RE, WE'RE EXPECTING IT'S REALLY JUST THE SPAR APPROVALS THAT NEED, NEED TO HAPPEN, BASICALLY.
BUT YOU'RE IN THE MEANTIME, YOU HAVE THE FUNDS TO WORK ON GETTING YOUR, YOUR PERMITS AND THINGS.
YEAH, I, I, I THINK, I THINK I'M GONNA LEAVE THE MOTION THE WAY IT IS.
UM, I WOULD JUST ASK THE COUNCIL, UM, WE'RE GONNA, UM, WE'RE NOT HELPING THEM WITH FUNDRAISING AS MUCH AS WE THINK WE ARE.
IF WE PUT A, THAT KIND OF A STRING ON THIS, IF WE, IF WE CONDITION THIS ON THE COUNTY SUPPORTING IT, WORK WILL GET STARTED AND, UM, WE'LL START TO SEE LIKE, MEASURABLE PROGRESS ON THIS.
UM, SO, UM, I, I AM WONDERING MAYBE STRAW POLL IF, IF OTHER MAKE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE COUNCIL WHERE THEY'RE AT ON THIS.
UM, BECAUSE JUST AS THIS IS WHAT I DO EVERY DAY, LIKE, OTHER FOLKS HAVE OTHER JOBS, BUT THIS IS WHAT I DO EVERY DAY AND, UM, THIS IS NOT GONNA HELP THEM AS MUCH AS WE THINK IT WILL.
UM, I LITERALLY KNOW HOW TO DO THIS STUFF.
AND WE'RE, WE COULD BE HELPING THEM A LOT MORE IN GETTING MOMENTUM FOR THEIR PROJECT.
UM, YOU, THE COUNCIL CAN CERTAINLY COMMENT ACROSS THE DIOCESE.
UH, REAL QUICKLY ON ON THAT CONCEPT, UH, I'M NOT SEEING, UH, KELLY CREEK JUMPING UP AND SUGGESTING THAT COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY'S MOTION IS PROBLEMATIC FOR THEM.
UM, OR, OR STEPH IDENTIFYING THAT AS A PROBLEM.
AND I THINK, UH, WE'RE DELEGATING TO, UH, TO STAFF TO DO, YOU KNOW, UH, THE PROPER THINGS FOR BOTH PARTIES.
I'M, I'M COMFORTABLE THE WAY IT IS.
UM, DID YOU WISH TO WEIGH IN COUNCIL MEMBER STRIP? WELL, I, I'VE ACTUALLY WAS THINKING OF TYING THE TWO TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, WITH THE COUNTY.
'CAUSE THIS IS THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CORRECT.
AND WHEN IS THAT GONNA COME BEFORE THEM? THERE'S NOT A, THERE'S NOT A FIRM DATE.
UM, WHAT, WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD, UM, FROM KCPP IS THAT STAFF, THERE'S BEEN AN ONGOING CONVERSATION WITH STAFF.
THEY'RE PREPARING THE REPORT AND IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS MEETINGS IT WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
AND SO, SO THERE'S NOT A DATE I EVEN LOOKED TODAY ON THE AGENDAS AND DIDN'T SEE IT.
SO WHY COULDN'T WE PUT A CONTINGENT ON THAT? THE BOARD OF SU, YOU KNOW, ON THAT, UM, 1.8 MILLION BEFORE WE ALLOCATE OUR 250,000.
UH, WELL, I MEAN, I THINK YOU COULD, IF THAT'S THE DIRECTION FROM THE COUNCIL, I MEAN THAT'S, I WOULD SUPPORT THAT.
I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CROSS PURPOSES, RIGHT? I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER BARNELL WANTS TO ASSURE THE NOTE AND I THINK YOUR PROPOSAL IS MORE LIKE ENSURING THEY DON'T, UM, MOVE TO THAT NEXT STEP WITHOUT, I'M NOT SURE THEIR, WHO, WHO MOVE TO THE NEXT STEP.
UM, TO NOT ENCUMBER OUR, TO NOT SAY THAT WE'RE PUTTING OUR FUNDS IN WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT THE, THE PARKS IS TO CONSTRAIN THEM OR TO, TO CONS.
TO SAY THAT WE ARE WAITING FOR THE PARKS IS TO CONSTRAIN THEM.
UM, MAY WE INVITE, UH, JUST JARED, EMERSON JOHNSON BACK IN TO WEIGH IN? WELL, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT IF, IF, IF MAKING A CONTINGENT ON THE APPROVAL BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS, IS, IS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT, WE WOULD BE FINE WITH THAT.
WE REALLY JUST WANNA KEEP, KEEP THINGS MOVING ALONG.
UM, AND, UM, SO IF THAT, I WOULD SAY RIGHT NOW, THAT'S NOT WHAT THE MOTION IS.
THE MOTION IS THAT THIS IS CONTINGENT ON YOU RAISING, COMBINED A FULL AMOUNT OF $8.85 MILLION RIGHT.
BEFORE WE WOULD ACTUALLY RELEASE THE FUNDS, WHICH WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, NOT OUR PREFERENCE.
SO YOUR PREFERENCE IS TO MAKE A CONTINGENT ON THE COUNTIES IF, IF IT WAS ONE OR THE O IF IT WAS ONE OF THOSE TWO.
UM, BECAUSE 'CAUSE THAT'LL ALLOW US TO JUST KEEP, YOU KNOW YEAH, EXACTLY.
SO I THINK WE HAVE KELLY CREEK SAYING WHAT THEIR PREFERENCE IS.
UH, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR AND, UM, AND I, I, I, UM, DON'T SEE THE MAKER, UM, UM, JUMPING UP TO MODIFY THE MOTION AND, UM, SO AND A SECOND WITH IN A SECOND AND MOTION AND A SECOND.
AND SO I THINK WE'D LIKE TO PROCEED THROUGH TO, UM, OUR ROLL CALL VOTE AT THIS POINT.
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AND COULD WE GET A RECAP ON WHAT THE ACTUAL MOTION IS, JUST SO WE'RE ALL CLEAR? I, I'D BE INTERESTED TO HEAR, UM, WHAT OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO SUPPORT A, A ONE POINT, UH, CONTINGENT ON THE COUNTY FUNDS, UM, IF THAT MOTION WAS MADE.AND I'D ASK THAT YOU VOTE NO IF, IF THAT IS THE CASE, SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY HELP THEM WITH THEIR FUNDRAISING.
AND WE HAVE A COUNCIL MEMBER, SHR, YOU HAVEN'T WEIGHED IN IN A BIT.
UM, YEAH, I, I WOULD AGREE WITH, UH, COUNCILMAN BARNACLE ON, UM, THE PROPOSAL.
ALSO, JUST GOING THROUGH, UH, PROCEDURES, IF WE'RE DOING, UM, THE RULES OR PROCEDURES, I THINK WE DO HAVE TO HAVE SOME DISCUSS AFTER MOTIONS.
THERE SHOULD BE SOME DISCUSSION AND, AND STRAW POLL THERE.
UM, DONE, UH, BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY TAKE A VOTE, I REMEMBER FROM MY, UH, ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER.
UM, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, SUPPORT, UH, BRIAN BARNACLES, UH, SUGGESTION.
AND IF IT'S AN AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION, BECAUSE IT IS CRITICAL, UM, AS A NONPROFIT TO BE ABLE TO USE FUNDS, UM, IN ORDER TO GET MORE FUNDS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE USED.
AND THESE FUNDS NEED TO BE USED NEXT YEAR OR THE YEAR AFTER.
IT MIGHT TAKE THREE YEARS TO GET ALL FUNDING DONE.
AND I DON'T WANNA SEE US, THE PROJECT SIT THERE FOR THREE YEARS BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ALL EIGHT, $8 MILLION ALLOCATED.
THEY DIDN'T REACH THE 8.5 MILLION WHATEVER'S NEEDED, AND THEREFORE THEY CAN'T SPEND ANY MONEY FROM ANYBODY.
AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYTHING FALLS APART.
SO YOU'VE GOTTA USE MONEY AS YOU GO.
AND I THINK WHAT WE ARE DOING IS BASICALLY PROVIDING A LITTLE BIT OF CASH FLOW MONEY.
I DON'T THINK WE'RE PROVIDING PROJECT MONEY.
SO THIS IS BASICALLY JUST, UH, GET THE WHEELS MOVING MONEY AS FAR AS I CAN TELL.
AND SO SETTING UP ON MILESTONES, I WOULD SAY STEP TO TWO MILESTONES THAT WAS SUGGESTED.
ONE IS THE COUNTY AND THE ACQUISITION ACQUISITION GOES THROUGH THE COUNTY, SAYS GO WITH THEIR AMOUNT OF MONEY, THEN THIS MONEY NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO BE SPENT TO MAKE EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPEN, AND NEEDS TO BE AT THAT POINT, NOT WAIT THREE YEARS FROM NOW UNTIL ALL THE MONEY IS ALLOCATED.
SO I WOULD BE VOTING AGAINST IT IF THE AMENDMENT IS PUSHED FORWARD.
THAT WAS ORIGINAL, I WOULD BE VOTING AGAINST IT ONLY WITH THE ATTACHMENT OF, UH, MR. BARN'S, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BARN'S, UH, UH, FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.
YEAH, I MEAN, AS I SAID, I DON'T WANNA BE VYING THREE QUARTERS OF A CAR, AND NOW I'M, I'M HEARING COUNCIL MEMBERS SAY THEY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT THAT.
SO, UH, CALL THE QUESTION PLEASE.
AND, UH, WHICH, WHICH MEANS DEBATE STOPS.
THANK YOU FOR OUR ROBBERS RULES, CORRECTIONS, AND EVERYTHING.
AND WE'RE BACK OVER TO THE CLERK.
THE, THE, AGAIN, THE RECAP ON THE MOTION, IS THAT THE WAY WE HAVE IT SET UP AS THE, THE EXISTING? DESCRIBE THAT, PLEASE.
UM, THAT, AND I DON'T KNOW, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALEY ABOUT THE, THE TITLE ACQUISITION, IF THAT'S A CONDITION THAT'S PART OF YOUR DIRECTION, BUT I UNDERSTOOD YOU TO SAY THAT THE, UM, FULL RAISING, THE FULL AMOUNT OF MONEY BUDGET FOR THE PROJECT WOULD BE, UM, WOULD NEED TO BE SATISFIED BEFORE THE CITY'S FUNDS WERE CONTRIBUTED AND THAT WE WOULD'VE OTHER TERMS IN THE GRANT.
AND WE ENSURED THAT THE USE OF THE FUNDS WERE, WAS PERMITTED UNDER THE TERMS OF OUR OPEN SPACE LAND ACQUISITION PROGRAM.
DOES THAT CAPTURE IT? THANK YOU.
AND, UM, IS EVERYONE CLEAR ON WHAT THAT MEANS? OKAY, ROLL CALL.
BARNACLE, NO CATER THOMPSON? NO.
UM, JUST TO BE CLEAR, WE'RE WE'RE JUST DOING THE AMENDMENT OR THE FULL MOTION, AND, UH, THAT'S WHY WE WE'RE STILL NOT CLEAR.
ARE WE VOTING ON THE AMENDMENT? WE'RE VOTING ON THE MOTION AS MADE MOTION WITHOUT AMENDMENT.
AND, AND YOU JUST SAID THAT YOU WERE GONNA VOTE AGAINST IT AGAINST COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.
AND THAT'S WHERE I WANTED TO BE CLEAR.
I'M GONNA MAKE A SECOND MOTION AFTER THIS VOTING AGAINST THE AMENDMENT, NOT AGAINST THE, THE, THE ACTUAL ORIGINAL MOTION FOR 250,000.
THE ORIGINAL, THE ORIGINAL MOTION IS COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY'S MOTION, AS I JUST DESCRIBED IT, WE'RE NOT VOTING ON THE AMENDMENT RIGHT NOW, IT'S JUST COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY'S MOTION, WHICH IS TO, TO APPROVE ALLOCATION OF THE FUNDING IN INCLUDING A REQUIREMENT THAT IT BE SPENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PURPOSES OF OUR FEE PROGRAM.
AND THAT, UM, ALL OF THE FUNDS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR THE PROJECT ARE RAISED BEFORE THE CITY'S FUNDS ARE DISPERSED.
RIGHT? SO IT'LL BE ANOTHER VOTE ON, ON, ON OTHER MINUTES.
WE, WE DON'T, DEPENDS ON THIS.
CHANGE THAT TO, TO A NO, THEN, AND, AND I HAD DIFFICULTY DURING THIS WHOLE CONVERSATION TOO.
AND, AND, AND I'M ON A, I'M GONNA NO VOTE ON THIS.
SO THE MOTION FAILS AND, ALL RIGHT.
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THINK WE'RE OPEN TO A NEW MOTION.I'M GONNA MAKE A MOTION THAT WE WILL RELEASE THE $250,000 UPON, UH, CONTRIBUTION FROM THE COUNTY, UH, PARKS, UM, OF $1.8 MILLION OR PLUS OR MINUS, WHATEVER THE, THE FULL AMOUNT IS.
UH, SO WE HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND.
AND HONORING ROBERTS, WE'LL HAVE A DISCUSSION IF ANYBODY HAS ANYTHING TO COMMENT.
AND, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALEY.
SO JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, WE ACTUALLY DON'T USE ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER.
WE HAVE OUR OWN RULES, AND THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IS WHY WE KEEP OUR ATTORNEY IN THE HOUSE HERE.
UM, THE, THE ONE COMMENT I DID HAVE TO ON ON THIS IS THAT, UH, AS SEVERAL OF US SIT ON THE ADVISORY BOARD AT SONOMA COUNTY OPEN SPACE, ONE OF THE THINGS WE NOTICE IS ALL THE MONEY KEEPS SITTING IN THE BANK TILL SOMEBODY BUILDS A PROJECT, EVEN IF THEY'VE BEEN APPROVED FOR MULTIPLE YEARS.
SO I'M ANXIOUS TO SEE MONEY GET MOVING.
SO WITH A MOTION IN A SECOND, PLEASE HAVE A ROLL CALL VOTE YEAH.
JUST I, I WOULD STILL RECOMMEND THAT THE ONE OF OUR REQUIREMENTS BE THAT THE, UM, KELLY CREEK PROTECTION, UM, GROUP ACQUIRES TITLE BEFORE.
UH, PLEASE INVITE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER POKAY BACK INTO THE ROOM.
AND, UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, UH, THAT, UH, PRESENTATION AND, UM, UH, THE SUPPORT NECESSARY TO GET US TO THE CONCLUSION.
THERE WE MOVE NOW TO ITEM FIVE ON THE AGENDA.
UH, RECEIVE UPDATED GOALS AND PRIORITY WORK PLAN FOR FISCAL YEARS 2020 4, 25, AND 2020 5, 26, AND TO PROVIDE DIRECTION TO STAFF.
TONIGHT'S STAFF'S PRESENTING A WORK PLAN DEVELOPED FROM THE FEEDBACK RECEIVED AT OUR FEBRUARY 26TH WORKSHOP.
AND, UM, WE WILL, UH, WALK AND TALK THROUGH EACH OF THE COUNCIL PRIORITIES AND THE MILESTONES FOR ACHIEVING EACH.
SO, UM, I THINK THE WAY THE CONVERSATION'S GONNA WORK ON THIS TOPIC TONIGHT IS, UH, WE'LL KIND OF HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS AFTER EACH PRIORITY IS PRESENTED, AND THEN, UH, TAKE PUBLIC COMMENTS ON EACH PRIORITY AND BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL, UH, FOR, UH, FINAL COMMENTS TOO.
AND, UH, TO LEAD US OFF ON THIS, UM, OUR CITY MANAGER.
TONIGHT'S STAFF ARE EXCITED AND DULY PREPARED TO DISCUSS THE CITY'S, UH, COUNCIL'S GOALS AND PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT TWO FISCAL YEARS, AS IS THE COUNCIL'S PRACTICE ANNUALLY, WE REVIEW AND PRIORITIZE GOALS AND PRIORITIES IN ALIGNMENT WITH OUR BUDGET CYCLE TO ENSURE THE WORK PLAN IS SET FOR THE NEW FISCAL FISCAL YEAR.
STARTING JULY ONE, WE WILL BE PRESENTING A WORK PLAN DEVELOPED FROM THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED AT THE FEBRUARY 26TH WORKSHOP WITH COUNCIL.
WE'LL WALK THROUGH EACH COUNCIL PRIORITY AND THE MILESTONES AND TIMING FOR EACH.
COUNCIL WILL THEN HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS AFTER EACH PRIORITY IS PRESENTED, AND THEN WE CAN TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT ON EACH PRIORITY AND BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL FOR COMMENTS.
SO, AT THE COUNCIL'S FEBRUARY 26TH, MEETING, STAFF CATEGORIZED COUNCIL PRIORITIES INTO THREE AREAS OF FOCUS, WHICH ALLOW FOR MORE COMPARABLE PRIORITIZATION WITH WITHIN A CATEGORY, KIND OF AN APPLES TO APPLES, UH, THEN WITH WORK PLAN ITEMS REQUIRING A DIFFERENT SET OF RESOURCES, LEVEL OF EFFORT, FUNDING, SOURCE, AND TIME COMMITMENT.
AT THAT TIME, WE RECOMMENDED WRAPPING CAPITAL PROJECTS UP IN OUR ANNUAL BUDGET DISCUSSIONS IN MAY, AND TO PRIORITIZE THEM AMONG THE REST OF OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
TONIGHT'S CONVERSATION WILL TEE UP OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP IN MAY, WHERE WE WILL BE POSITIONING RESOURCES TO ADDRESS ALL CITY PRIORITIES, CAPITAL, OPERATIONAL, NON-DISCRETIONARY, AND DISCRETIONARY, UM, THOSE THAT ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE AND ARE REQUIRED, AND THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY PRIORITIES.
THIS TWO YEAR WORK PLAN IS PRESENTED FOR THE COUNCIL'S STRATEGIC CONSIDERATION WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF IMPLEMENTING EACH OF THESE PRIORITIES THAT ALIGN WITH OUR ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES, EMPATHY, EQUITY, INNOVATION, COLLABORATION, TRUST, SERVICE, AND EXCELLENCE.
THIS PRIORITIZATION PROCESS REQUIRES THOUGHTFUL DELIBERATION AND ALIGNMENT WITH THESE PILLARS OF OUR ORGANIZATION TO ENSURE THAT OUR RESOURCES ARE DIRECTED TOWARD THE MOST IMPACTFUL PROJECTS
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FOR OUR COMMUNITY THAT REFLECT OUR COMMITMENTS TO THE COMMUNITY AND SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATIONAL COHESIVENESS FOR ACHIEVING THEM.WE DEVELOP THE PROPOSED WORK PLAN BASED UPON OUR CURRENT ENVIRONMENT WITH THE STAFFING WE CURRENTLY HAVE, THE FUNDING WE CURRENTLY HAVE WITH WITHIN OUR CURRENT ENVIRONMENT, BARRING ANY UNANTICIPATED PRIORITIES, LET'S SAY FOR INSTANCE, LIKE DISTRICT ELECTIONS, EMERGENCIES, ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS, OR CHANGES IN FUNDING OR STAFFING.
UH, FOR THE MOST PART, THESE REPRESENT THOSE DISCRETIONARY INITIATIVES THAT WE ARE DOING IN TANDEM WITH NON DISCRETION, NON-DISCRETIONARY, REGULATORY, LEGAL, AND OPERATIONAL WORK THAT HAS TO OCCUR TO RUN A WELL-OILED ORGANIZATION.
SO, AS WE GO THROUGH EACH PRIORITY, YOU WILL SEE THIS CHART AND, UM, IT DOESN'T REALLY REFLECT THE LEVEL OF EFFORT, BUT IT DOES, UH, SHOW THE EFFECT DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE CHAMPIONING, UM, EACH OF THE MILESTONES THAT YOU SEE HERE.
AND THEN WE'VE, UH, BROKEN IT DOWN BY YEAR ONE, YEAR TWO, YEAR ONE IS OUR FISCAL YEAR, STARTING JULY 1ST, 2024 THROUGH JUNE 30TH, 2025, AND SUBSEQUENT FISCAL YEARS AFTER THAT.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, TO KEEP OUR FINGER ON THE PULSE OF OUR WORK PLAN AND, AND TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY IN AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF OUR WORK STAFF ARE PROPOSING TO PROVIDE REGULAR UPDATES, UM, OUR REGULAR STATUS UPDATES.
SO ONCE WE HAVE FORMALIZED THIS WORK PLAN, COMING BACK TO COUNCIL ON A REGULAR BASIS TO GIVE STATUS UPDATES TO THE COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY, CREATE A DASHBOARD ON THE CITY WEBSITE THAT'S UPDATED REGULARLY, AS WELL AS PROJECT UPDATES ON OUR WEBSITE AND IN CITY COMMUNICATIONS TO GIVE, UH, THE COMMUNITY, UM, AN IDEA OF WHERE WE'RE AT.
AND THE FINAL SLIDE, I BELIEVE.
SO THIS IS ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT THIS PROPOSED WORK PLAN.
IT'S A LITTLE, UH, WONKY, BUT, UM, WE HAD A GREAT TIME KIND OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW BEST TO SHOW, UM, WHICH DEPARTMENTS.
WE BROKE THIS DOWN BY DEPARTMENTS, AND UH, WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS EACH DEPARTMENT WITH THE NUMBER OF MILESTONES BY YEAR.
SO, AND OF COURSE THE, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN REALLY SEE THE BOTTOM PART OF IT, BUT YEAR ONE IS GREEN AND YEAR TWO IS THAT ORANGE COLOR.
UM, THE OUT YEARS ARE A LITTLE MORE NEBULOUS.
AND YOU'LL ALSO SEE, UM, AT THE BOTTOM NUMBER OF FULL-TIME OF, UH, FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT, UM, STAFF AVAILABLE TO WORK ON THESE DISCRETIONARY INITIATIVES.
NUMBER OF THOSE POSITIONS FILLED.
AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IN THAT DEPARTMENT.
AND WHY THAT IS SIGNIFICANT IS GIVEN THE WORK THAT WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS.
UM, MOST OF IT IS NON-DISCRETIONARY TIME.
IT'S REGULATORY, IT'S LEGAL, IT'S UM, IT'S, IT'S REQUIRED TO, TO RUN AN ORGANIZATION.
THE INITIATIVES THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT ARE WE, WE KIND OF SAY IT'S IN OUR AN, UH, DISCRETIONARY TIME, WHICH IS RELATIVELY 10% OF OUR TIME, UH, GIVE OR TAKE.
UM, AND SO JUST FOR INSTANCE, YOU'LL SEE, UM, OUR CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, WE'VE GOT THREE AVAILABLE STAFF TO WORK ON THE, ON OUR, UM, INITIATIVES.
THOSE POSITIONS ARE CURRENTLY FILLED.
UM, AND THEY HAVE A TOTAL OF FIVE STAFF, UH, CLERK, SAME THING, TWO AVAILABLE, TWO FILLED, FOUR TOTAL CMOS OFFICE.
MY OFFICE, WE HAVE FIVE AVAILABLE.
WE HAVE THREE FILLED, 'CAUSE WE HAVE TWO CURRENT VACANCIES, UM, WITH A TOTAL OF SEVEN IN OUR OFFICE.
SO, UM, OBVIOUSLY NOT ALL CREATED EQUAL FIRE AND POLICE.
UM, THEY ARE THE MAJORITY OF THEIR ORGANIZATION, UM, THEIR DEPARTMENTS ARE FOCUSED ON DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSE.
SO, UM, I HAVE JUST A FEW STAFF, UM, THAT CAN WORK ON, FOR INSTANCE, THE FIRE STATION.
SO, UM, JUST SO COUNCIL UNDERSTANDS, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, WORKING ON THESE INITIATIVES, WE'VE TAKEN ALL OF THIS INTO ACCOUNT WHEN WE'RE CONSIDERING SCHEDULING AND TIMING AND, UM, HOW TO STRUCTURE SOME OF THESE, THE IMPLE IMPLEMENTATION OF SOME OF THESE.
AND I THINK THAT'S THE LAST SLIDE.
WE WILL SWITCH TO OUR PRIORITIES LIST, AND WE HAVE 26 OF THESE INITIATIVES.
SO THERE MAY BE SOME THAT COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO DRILL DOWN FURTHER IN, BUT I WILL ASK EACH DIRECTOR TO COME UP AND TALK ABOUT, UM, THEIR LEAD INITIATIVE, WHICH I THINK RETAIL CANNABIS IS YOU AND IT IS.
I'LL WAIT FOR INGRID TO COME JOIN US.
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AND PEGGY, WE'RE JUST GONNA RUN THROUGH THE 2024 THROUGH 2026 THROUGH THE MILESTONES THAT WE'VE, RIGHT.AND OBVIOUSLY COUNSEL, THIS IS, CAN I ASK ON QUESTION BEFORE WE GET A LITTLE BIT ROLLING AND INVITE OTHER COUNSEL TO FEEL FREE TO YEAH.
CAN I CALL IT INTERRUPTING? UM, TO, TO INTERJECT QUESTIONS? ABSOLUTELY.
SO FEEL FREE DURING THE, THE COMMENTARY TO DO THAT.
SO THE PROPOSAL YOU'VE, UH, GOT HERE WITH THE, THE GREENS AND WHATNOT.
SO THIS IS WHAT, UH, UH, AGGRESSIVELY WE HOPE TO ACHIEVE IN YEAR ONE.
HOW DO WE DEFINE, IS THAT WHAT WE'RE SAYING? IT'S A VERY AMBITIOUS PLAN IN YEAR ONE.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THE GOAL, REALLY.
SO ANYTHING THAT COMES UP THAT'S NOT ALREADY IN GREEN IS UP IN THAT DISCRETIONARY CONVERSATION.
SO THAT'S HOW WE'RE GONNA VIEW THIS.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S, UM, AND I, I, I THINK WE'RE GONNA BE CHALLENGED TO, TO COMPLETE, BUT CAN COMPLETE ALL THE, THE GREEN ITEMS THAT ARE LISTED FOR YEAR ONE.
BUT IF WE ADD TO THAT, THAT'S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, MOST LIKELY BE A ZERO SUM EXERCISE FOR US TO LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE ADJUSTING, WE WOULD HAVE TO SWITCH SOMETHING ELSE OUT.
RIGHT? SOMETHING ELSE WOULD HAVE TO GIVE.
RIGHT? AND, AND WHAT WE'VE, THE WAY WE'VE ORGANIZED THIS IS IN SORT OF BUNDLES OF WORK THAT ARE SORT OF HOW WE STRUCTURE OUR WORK.
AND THE COUNCIL MAY WILL HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, AND WE'LL BE DOING OUR BEST TO ANSWER THEM.
UM, AND, AND THE VIEW ON THIS CHART, IT COMBINES BOTH YEARS AND, AND OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN SEE IN, IN THE DIFFERENT COLORS ON THE RIGHT TIMELINE COLUMN, UM, WHAT, WHICH YEAR INTO WHICH YEAR THEY FALL.
SO, UM, UH, START, I'LL, I GUESS I'M, I'LL START WITH THE YEAR ONE THINGS FOR RETAIL CANNABIS AND ASK YOU TO JUMP IN INGRID, ESPECIALLY AS WE GET TO YEAR TWO.
SO, UM, THE, THE, WHEN, WHEN WE SAY THE INCREMENTAL PLAN ON LINE ONE, UM, WE'RE REFERRING TO THE DIRECTION THE COUNCIL MOST RECENTLY GAVE, WHICH WAS TO, UM, TO BEGIN IN YEAR ONE WITH AMENDING OUR EXISTING REGULATIONS, UM, WITH, WITH RESPECT TO THE LIMITED LOCATIONS IN WHICH THEY PERMIT CANNABIS COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY.
UM, BUT THE NEXT LINE, UH, FURTHER, UM, CHARACTERIZES THE COUNCIL DIRECTION, WHICH WE RECEIVED, WHICH WAS TO PERMIT UP UP TO THREE ONSITE RETAIL CANNABIS SALES ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE CITY.
BUT I BELIEVE THE DIRECTION WAS, UH, UM, AT THE LOCATIONS WHERE CANNABIS COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES CURRENTLY PERMITTED, UM, BECAUSE IT'S THAT EXPANSIVE LOOK AT OTHER LOCATIONS, THAT IS, UM, ADDS A LOT TO THE, TO THE, TO THE TASK.
UM, UH, MAY I, MAY I ASK? SURE.
CAN I LOOK UP, AND NOW THE, THE GIA IS FOR A STRAW POLL.
UH, AND MAYBE, UM, DO WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHAT'S SHOWN HERE FOR CANNABIS? OKAY, EVERYBODY'S GOOD ON THE CANNABIS.
CAN WE MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM? SURE.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S THROUGH YEARS ONE AND TWO, NO QUESTIONS.
UM, SO THIS IS REALLY DOING MOST OF THIS IN YEAR ONE.
UH, SO COMPLETING THE DRAFT, WE ALREADY HAVE A PARTIAL DRAFT THAT DID GO BEFORE THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND RECEIVED SOME COMMENTS.
WE ARE NOW, UM, ADDRESSING THOSE COMMENTS, FILLING IN A COUPLE OF THE SECTIONS THAT WE WERE STILL WORKING ON.
AND WE ARE TARGETING A JULY DATE TO BE BACK BEFORE THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, WITH A FULL DRAFT CONCURRENTLY, WE HAVE STARTED STRATEGIZING ON OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH EFFORT, WANTING TO GET THAT STARTED, NOT JUST WHEN WE'RE COMING TO HEARING FOR ADOPTION, BUT TO GET THAT STARTED.
UM, SO THAT INFORMATION IS OUT THERE.
SO THIS REALLY HAS US, WE COMING TO CITY COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION IN YEAR ONE, THE URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN HAS KICKED OFF, AND WE ARE DOING, UM, SOME OF THE DATA COLLECTION, UM, THAT WILL GO INTO THAT PLAN.
UM, YEAR TWO IS REALLY THEN IMPLEMENTING THE ORDINANCE, SO UPDATING OUR PROCESSES, DOING FURTHER OUTREACH, UM, OUR PERMITTING SYSTEM, OUR, YOU KNOW, STAFF WORKING IN DIFFERENT WAYS WITH THE NEW ORDINANCE.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY ONGOING, UM, WORK TO WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, PLANTING EDUCATION EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN, PROTECT.
LET'S OPEN IT UP FOR A LITTLE COMMENT HERE ON THE, UH, THE COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.
SO THIS ISN'T REALLY A, A, A SCHEDULING ISSUE, BUT IT'S JUST, I'M KIND OF CURIOUS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, A PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS.
UM, AND THIS ONE'S KIND OF BEEN FLYING UNDER THE
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RADAR, AT LEAST FROM THE COUNCIL'S PERSPECTIVE.UM, IS, IS THIS PROPOSED TREE ORDINANCE GOING TO COVER TREES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, OR IS IT IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, OR PUBLIC TREES, OR, I THINK WE HAVE THIS VOLUNTARY HERITAGE DESIGNATION NOW, IS THAT GONNA REMAIN OR GO AWAY? UM, SO IT IS GOING TO BE DEALING WITH TREES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, BOTH IF SOMEBODY JUST WANTS TO CUT A TREE DOWN WITHOUT A DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, BUT ALSO AS PART OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, UM, IT WILL ALSO DEAL WITH STREET TREES.
SO TREES IN THE RIGHT OF WAY WILL ALSO BE PART OF THAT.
SO WE ARE DOING SOME UPDATES TO THE MUNI CODE AS WELL AS THE ZONING CODE TO CLARIFY THAT PROCESS.
UM, AND HERITAGE TREES, I DON'T KNOW THAT YET.
UM, WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT ELIMINATING THAT, THAT PROGRAM.
UM, SO WE HAVEN'T THERE, THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE FOCUS THUS FAR.
AND, AND THEN JUST FOLLOW UP ON THAT BRIEFLY WITH PRIVATE TREES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, WHICH WE'VE NOT REGULATED BEFORE.
MM-HMM,
SO THE I AND WE DO HAVE A SIZE, MINIMUM SIZE REQUIREMENT THAT'S WRITTEN IN THERE IN THE CURRENT, IN THE CURRENT DRAFT THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
THREE QUESTIONS, THREE COMMENTS.
UM, UM, THIS, UM, WILL OBVIOUSLY, UH, CREATE A, A, UH, UH, BUDGET IMPACT FOR THE CITY.
WILL THAT BE AVAILABLE TO US IN THIS BUDGET ANALYSIS HERE NEXT MONTH? UH, I, WELL, THIS CAME TO COUNCIL WHEN WE TALKED AND, AND BRIEFLY WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE FEES, FEES, THE FEE SCHEDULE, RIGHT? WE, I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY CAUGHT EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION WAS LIKE, UH, PERMIT COSTS WAS OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
WE'RE SPENDING A LOT OF ENERGY PLANTING TREES.
SO OBVIOUSLY THE ONES THAT WE HAVE, WE WANNA BE ABLE TO RETAIN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AS LONG AS IT'S NOT A FIRE HAZARD OR A PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE, RIGHT? BUT THE URBAN FORESTRY IS A BUDGET CONSEQUENCE.
AND THINGS LIKE WE, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, IT WOULD BE GOOD IF THESE INITIATIVES HAD, UH, LONG-TERM COSTS, UH, YOU KNOW, ASSOCIATED WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHERE APPROPRIATE, WHERE WE COULD MAKE BUDGET DECISIONS AS WELL AS POLICY DECISIONS CONCURRENTLY.
I THINK WHEN WE TALK ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION AND HAVE A BETTER IDEA.
AND WE, AND WE ARE TRYING TO LOOK AT, UH, AT THE ADDITIONAL COSTS THAT, UM, TO BE ABSORBED BY THE PERMIT, UH, TO HAVE, FOR INSTANCE, WE NOW HAVE, UM, A CONSULTING ARBORIST, UM, ON, ON, IN UNDER CONTRACT TO DO, TO KIND OF SUPPLEMENT STAFF RESOURCES AND TO LOOK AT WHAT WOULD THE PERMIT COST BE IF THAT CONSULTING ARBORIST WENT OUT AND DID THE SITE VISIT OR THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UM, THE CONSULTING ON DIFFERENT IDEAS TO DEAL WITH STREET TREES BEFORE THEY'RE TAKEN OUT.
SO WE ARE LOOKING AT THOSE COSTS TO HAVE THAT INCORPORATED INTO OUR PERMIT PIECE.
MOVE TO THE NEXT PLEASE, WHICH IS, THANK YOU.
UH, SO THE TOP LINE IS CUT OFF THERE, BUT WE'RE FOCUSING ON THE ZONING CODE UPDATE.
AND SO THAT IS INEXTRICABLY TIED TO THE, UH, GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
AND SO YOU'LL SEE IN THAT FIRST LINE ITEM, UH, WHAT WE EXPECT IN YEAR ONE, UM, COUNSEL WILL GET A PREVIEW OF THIS, UH, ON THE 29TH OF APRIL IS, UH, STARTING THE DISCUSSION AROUND LAND USE ALTERNATIVE.
SO ONCE WE'RE ABLE TO ESTABLISH WHAT THE COUNCIL, WHAT THE PUBLIC, UM, ENVISIONS, UM, FOR THE LAND USE AND WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE OVER THE NEXT 25 YEARS, THAT WILL HELP US, UH, KICKSTART THE ZONING CODE UPDATE.
UM, AND SO WE ARE TYING THE START OF THE ZONING CODE, UH, PROCESS, AND THEN THE ADOPTION WOULD SHORTLY FOLLOW, UM, GENERAL PLAN ADOPTION IN YEAR TWO.
AND, UM, YOU'RE ABLE TO DO CONCURRENTLY THE ZONING CODE UPDATE AND THE GENERAL BEFORE THE GENERAL PLAN IS FINISHED IN EIR.
SO, UM, SO WE WOULD, UH, THE, UH, GENERAL PLAN UPDATE PREDATES THE ADOPTION OF A, A NEW ZONING CODE.
SO, UM, THINK OF IT AS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF, UM, ALL THE GREAT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS THAT ARE LISTED IN THE NEW GENERAL PLAN.
ANYONE, ANYONE GOING ONCE? OKAY.
UM, LET'S MOVE TO, UH, PARKING ORDINANCE UPDATE.
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UM, CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE POLICE DEPARTMENT ITEM WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS, UM, LIKE ESPECIALLY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND OPEN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT HELPING WITH OUTREACH.UM, PUBLIC WORKS PLAYING A ROLE, UM, IN YEAR ONE, IT'S EVALUATING POTENTIAL MODIFICATIONS AND THEN ASSESSING POTENTIAL LEGAL ISSUES.
UM, AS A QUICK REMINDER, PRI PRIOR COUNCIL DIRECTION FROM PRIOR COUNCILS WAS TO ADAPT THE CENTER FELLOW REGULATIONS FOR THE CITY.
AND THOSE ARE GOOD REGULATIONS, AND THAT'S A STRAIGHTFORWARD EXERCISE.
HOWEVER, UM, THE ISSUES AROUND PARKING REGULATIONS HAVE EVOLVED SINCE THEN, SUCH THAT THERE'S BEEN LITIGATION IN OTHER COMMUNITIES ABOUT REGULATION OF PARKING THAT, UM, THAT IS, CAN BE CHALLENGED AS, UM, PROHIBITING, UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE OTHERWISE SHELTERLESS RESIDING IN THEIR VEHICLES.
UM, AND WE WOULD, UM, BE LOOKING AT SCOPE OF, OF WHAT WE'RE GONNA, WHAT THIS COUNCIL IS WOULD LIKE TO REGULATE, UM, AND PRIORITIZE IN THE, IN YEAR ONE.
UM, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE MAY BE CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT, UM, COMMERCIAL VEHICLES, UM, VERSUS, UM, RECREATIONAL VEHICLES THAT CAN BE SHELTER VERSUS RECREATIONAL VEHICLES.
THAT CAN'T BE, UM, A CONSIDERATION IN THIS, I THINK CLEARLY IS THE EXPERIENCE WE'VE GAINED IN THE CITY.
SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS IN PROVIDING FOR OUR SHELTERLESS COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UM, WITH BOTH ACCOMMODATIONS BUT ALSO CRITICALLY SERVICES.
SO, UM, WHAT WE'RE SHOWING FOR THE YEAR TWO WOULD BE THE ACTUAL ENACTMENT AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH, UM, PIECES THAT WE'RE USED TO FROM OUR RECENT LEGISLATIVE PROJECTS.
AND THOSE WOULD BE AS EXPANSIVE OR AS FOCUSED AS THE COUNCIL WOULD DIRECT.
UM, WE WOULD ANTICIPATE A GRACE PERIOD BEFORE ENFORCEMENT, UM, AND THEN COMMENCEMENT OF ENFORCEMENT.
AND THAT'S WHAT'S REFLECTED, UM, IN YEAR THREE, DEPENDING ON THE SCOPE.
AGAIN, UM, IF THERE'S A PERMITTING SYSTEM ADDRESSING RESIDENTIAL PARKING, UM, THERE'S, THAT'S A, THERE'S A SIGNAGE REQUIREMENT AND ALSO AN ADMINISTRATIVE AND REGULATORY COMPONENT FOR THAT.
AND HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY COUNCIL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBER SHOULD JUST A A, A QUESTION ON WHEN, AS WE'RE DEVELOPING THE PARKING ORDINANCE, I KNOW THERE'S SOME PUSHBACK AS TO MAKE 'EM MORE LENIENT, UH, OR MORE STRONG.
AND I THINK WE'VE HAD SEVERAL COMPLAINTS, UH, DESIRE TO, IF WE COULD MAKE A POLICY STRONG, BUT YEAH, ALLOW EXCEPTIONS.
SO FOR THE HOMELESS AND OTHERS, UH, EXCEPTIONS COULD BE MADE, UH, EITHER ON THE SPOT OR LATER ON, BUT YOU CAN ACTUALLY, UM, AVOID THAT ISSUE.
COULD WE AVOID IT BY PUTTING TOGETHER A REALLY STRONG PARKING ORDINANCE AND DO THE, THE PROPER STRONG ENFORCEMENT ALONG WITH IT, BUT ALLOW EXCEPTIONS AS, AS THE NEED ARISES BASED ON THE, THE CONDITIONS OF THE SITUATION? UH, THE, I THINK YOU'RE GIVING A STAFF DIRECTION AND, UM, YOU KNOW, GOOD.
BUT, UH, DOES THIS, IS THIS THE TIME TO, UM, DISCUSS WHAT THE ORDINANCE SHOULD INCLUDE? IS THIS, WE WISH TO GET INTO DETAIL AT THIS POINT.
WE'RE GOING, I WAS GONNA STAY AT A HIGHER LEVEL, UM, AND SAY THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES, WE COULD DO THAT.
AND, AND IF IT HELPS YOU ENVISION THAT, THAT SORT OF TEAMWORK PROCESS WITH THE COUNCIL GIVING DIRECTION AND STAFF IMPLEMENTING, YOU COULD THINK OF, UM, THE RECENT MOBILE HOME REGULATION WE DID WHEN WE LISTED FEATURES FOR YOU TO CONSIDER BEFORE WE DRAFTED REGULATIONS AND YOU GAVE US DIRECTION ABOUT FEATURES YOU WANTED, DIDN'T WANT SOMETHING SIMILAR COULD HAPPEN WITH RESPECT TO PARKING REGULAT.
LONG AS I KNOW THERE'S, THERE WOULD BE A PROCESS WE, WE CAN WANT, IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE POSSIBLE.
AND WE, AND WE COULD TREAT THINGS LIKE EXCEPTIONS AND, AND ALSO, UM, REQUIREMENTS.
LOOK AT THEM AT THE LEVEL OF FEATURES.
SO THE COUNCIL COULD BE CLEAR.
I THINK THAT'S ALL I CONCERN ABOUT THAT.
COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON.
SO I WANNA KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THE 72 HOUR RULE? SO YOU CAN PRETEND TO MOVE YOUR TRAILER THAT'S PARKED ON A CITY STREET AND WHICH IS NEVER MOVED BY THE WAY, MOST OF THE TIME, AND THEY'RE NOT GETTING TICKETED BECAUSE, UM, THEY'LL PUT A TAG ON THE VEHICLE AND THEN IF THEY SEE THE TAG, THEN THEY'LL MOVE IT AND THEY BRING IT RIGHT BACK TO THE SAME PLACE.
AND WE'VE HAD LIKE A 25 FOOT, 30 FOOT, YOU KNOW, MOTOR HOME AT BOND PARK FOR TWO YEARS.
AND, AND WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO ABOUT, UM, PEOPLE STORING THESE VEHICLES ON FRONT YARDS AND SIZE OF THE VEHICLE THAT'S ALLOWABLE IN DRIVEWAYS? SO WHAT THE, THE
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SHORT ANSWER IS WE WILL DO IT, THE COUNCIL DIRECTS, AND THOSE WILL BE AMONG THE FEATURES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS OF WHAT'S IN, WHAT'S OUT OF THE REGULATIONS AND WHAT ARE SOME ALTERNATIVES BECAUSE, UH, OTHER COMMUNITIES TOO STRUGGLE WITH ENFORCING THOSE SAME REQUIREMENTS.THEY'RE RELATIVELY EASILY AVOIDED.
SO THOSE THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE DISCUSSION, I'M SURE, BE PART OF THE DISCUSSION WHEN IN, IN YEAR ONE, I DON'T KNOW IF WE ARE, WE, IS THAT SLATED MORE? AND I THINK WE'VE LEFT OUT A PUBLIC, UM, PUBLIC INPUT, UH, COMMUNITY OUTREACH ON THAT PRIOR TO COUNCIL ADOPTION.
WE HAVE ONE AFTER COUNCIL ADOPTION, BUT PRIOR MIGHT BE GOOD TOO.
I THINK THE SEQUENCE THAT WE'RE SHOWING IS BACKWARDS THERE.
'CAUSE IT SHOWS ADOPTION BEFORE OUTREACH.
UM, WELL THE OUTREACH, I THINK WE'RE, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.
I THINK THE OUTREACH WAS THE YEAH, WE FOR THE FACT, BUT WE NEED TO DO OUTREACH PRIOR.
JUST TO ADD SOME INPUT THERE, THERE'S A FEW NOTATIONS THAT I THINK STAFF MADE THAT MAY NOT BE REFLECTED IN THAT ATTACHMENT, BUT WE HAD ENVISIONED IN YEAR ONE COUNCIL WORKSHOP FOR POLICY DIRECTION AND DEVELOPING THE SCOPE, UH, ALSO IN YEAR ONE, EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL MODIFICATIONS AND PREPARING WORKING DRAFTS BASED ON SOME OF THE CONSIDERATIONS THE CITY ATTORNEY MENTIONED.
ADDITIONALLY, CONDUCTING A COMMUNITY OUTREACH REGARDING THE DRAFT ORDINANCE AND THE REGULATIONS.
AND THEN IN YEAR TWO, GOING TO COUNCIL ADOPTION OF THE ORDINANCE AND THE REGS, UH, AS WELL AS IN YEAR TWO, DEVELOPING THAT PERMITTING SYSTEM PROCESS PROCESSES OR SYSTEM AND THE CITY SIGNAGE.
AND THEN IN YEAR THREE, GOING TO A SIX MONTH GRACE PERIOD OF ENFORCEMENT WHERE WE WE'RE BASICALLY ADVISING AND PUTTING COURTESY NOTICES ON EVERYONE IN VIOLATION, GETTING COMPLIANCE THERE WITH THE FOLLOWING OF THAT SIX MONTHS GOING INTO THE ENFORCEMENT PHASE.
AND THOSE WOULD BOTH BE IN YEAR THREE.
SO WE DO ENVISION THAT WORKSHOP PROCEEDED BY DRAFTING, PROCEEDED BY COMMUNITY INPUT, FOLLOWED BY THE ADOPTION.
I APOLOGIZE, THIS, UH, ATTACHMENT DIDN'T GET UPDATED, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT ON THE SCREEN THAT WE DID, UM, MAKE SOME SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS.
THERE'S A FEW MORE MILESTONES IN YEAR ONE, JUST AS THE CHIEF MENTIONED AS WELL AS YEAR TWO.
SO, UM, I GUESS WE'RE SAYING LET THE RECORD REFLECT THERE'S MODIFICATION TO THE RECORD HERE, AND THESE ARE INCLUDED ITEMS. GOOD.
UM, SO WHAT I'M HEARING IS THAT BASICALLY NOTHING'S GONNA BE DONE, YOU KNOW, SOME THINGS WILL BE DONE IN YEAR TWO, BUT ENFORCEMENT WILL NOT BE, AND WE'RE JUST GONNA STILL LIVE WITH WHAT PEOPLE ARE WRITING AND COMPLAINING ABOUT.
AND, AND, BUT THE 72 HOUR RULE, WE MAY AS WELL SAY THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THE 72 HOUR RULE IS PROBLEMATIC.
SO WE, WE DID, FOR JUST RECOLLECTION IN 2019, WE BROUGHT THIS BEFORE THE COUNCIL AT THAT TIME FOR DIRECTION AND CONSIDERATION.
WE DID A PRETTY EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY SURVEY IN ADVANCE OF THAT, UM, ITEM.
AND THERE WAS 57%, 60%, UM, SUPPORTIVE OF MAINTAINING THE 72 HOUR ORDINANCE AT THAT TIME.
SO IT WASN'T SOMETHING THAT WE GOT DIRECTION TO EVALUATE.
AND THEN GOING INTO 2020 AND THE SUBSEQUENT YEARS, THERE'S A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT CONSIDERATIONS NOW POST PANDEMIC AND IN LIGHT OF SOME OF THE CONSIDERATIONS THE CITY ATTORNEY RAISED, UM, WHERE WE'VE STILL BEEN MONITORING AND EVALUATING RECREATIONAL VEHICLES, BOATS, AND TRAILERS AND THOSE IMPACTS.
UM, BUT WE'D BE HAPPY TO INCLUDE IN, IN OUR WORKSHOP THE EVALUATION OF THAT 72 HOUR ORDINANCE.
AND, AND WE, WE WILL BE DOING A LOT OF EDUCATION.
I THINK WE CAN DO A LOT OF EDUCATION DURING OUR OUTREACH TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT 72 HOUR RULE IS AND HOW TO COMPLY WITH IT.
AND TO THAT, TO THAT POINT, I WOULD OFFER THAT WE WELCOME COMMUNITY INPUT WHEN THERE ARE CONCERNS OR A VEHICLE IN VIOLATION TO GET THAT REPORTED PROMPTLY SO WE CAN ADDRESS IT AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE.
UM, WELL, I HOPE THAT THEY ARE ADDRESSED BECAUSE I CAN ASSURE YOU I PROBABLY HAVE A LIST THIS LONG THAT IT HAS NOT BEEN ADDRESSED, AND I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS FOR EIGHT YEARS AND I FEEL LIKE I HAVE JUST HIT A BRICK WALL, BRICK WALL, BRICK WALL.
AND THEN WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE CONCERN WITH HOMELESS PEOPLE.
SO ARE YOU SAYING THAT THE TRAILERS, MOTOR HOMES AROUND TOWN, IF SOMEBODY SAYS A HOMELESS, SOMEBODY HOMELESS IS LIVING IN THERE, EVEN THOUGH THAT HASN'T BEEN THE CASE, THEN THEY'RE ILLEGALLY, THEN WE'RE JUST GOING TO CLOSE OUR EYES TO THIS, TO PEOPLE LIVING IN ON THE STREET.
WE'RE SAYING THAT THAT'S GONNA BE A TOPIC THAT WE PROBABLY NEED TO BE DISCUSSING AS PART OF THE COUNCIL'S DELIBERATIONS THAT WE DIDN'T DISCUSS BEFORE.
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OH, I DON'T LIKE TO SEE, WHEN I SEE YEAR ONE, TWO, AND THREEAND SO ARE WE, BUT YOU KNOW, I'M JUST MAKING IN THE BACKGROUND HERE, I'M MAKING NOTES TO MYSELF.
WE'RE LEAD OR, OR LIKE CO-LEAD ON SEVEN SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS IN YEAR ONE.
AND I'M GONNA ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M, MY NOTE IS LIKE, I ACTUALLY NEED TO CALENDAR, YOU KNOW, THE SEQUENCE FOR YEAR ONE, UM, CANNABIS, UGB TREE PARKING, P SAG PURCHASING IN WEST WING.
SO, UM, UM, ARE YOU FEELING THE HEAT YET? YES.
AND THE FOLLOW UP QUESTION IS, IS WHAT CAN WE DO TO SUPPORT YOU TO GET ALL THIS AND MORE ACHIEVED? WELL, AND WHAT I WOULD SAY IS, UM, WHAT'S REALLY CRITICAL ABOUT THIS IS THE PRIORITIZATION THAT THE, THAT THE REALLY, THE THINGS THAT REALLY YOU REALLY NEED TO HAVE US ACCOMPLISH THIS YEAR, GET DONE THIS YEAR.
UM, AND SO THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY MAKING PROJECTS, UM, YOU KNOW, GET 'EM, GETTING 'EM ACCOMPLISHED AND NOT SPREAD TOO THIN.
SO, SO WE'LL, WE'LL BE TAKING THE COUNCIL'S DIRECTION, THAT'S FOR SURE.
AND CAN I JUST ADD, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON IS WE ALWAYS CAN TIGHTEN UP ENFORCEMENT.
WE ARE GONNA GO THROUGH YOUR LIST OF EIGHT YEARS OF, OF THOSE AREAS THAT ARE PROBLEMATIC, AND WE WILL BE FOCUSED ON THOSE.
SO, YOU KNOW, IN LIEU OF HAVING THAT ORDINANCE READY IN YEAR ONE, WE CAN DO, THERE, THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE WILL DO, SO WE HEAR YOU.
IT, IT'S, UM, NOT FAIR TO THE RESIDENTS IN NEIGHBORHOODS.
IT REALLY IS NOT FAIR, AND IT'S JUST GETTING WORSE AND WORSE BECAUSE DURING THE PANDEMIC, PEOPLE BOUGHT THESE LUXURY, YOU KNOW, ITEMS AND THEY CHOSE NOT TO STORE THEM WHERE THEY SHOULD BE STORED, AND THEY'RE STORED ON A CITY STREET, AND IF THEY'RE STORED IN THE DRIVEWAY, THEN ALL THE CARS LIKE, YOU KNOW, ARE NOW ON THE CITY STREET INSTEAD OF WITHIN DRIVEWAY.
SO WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT PARKING, YOU KNOW, PROBLEMS, BUT WE CREATE OUR OWN BY NOT, UM, BY LETTING THIS RUN AMUCK FOR WAY TOO MANY YEARS.
UH, SO I, I THINK WHAT WE'VE DISCOVERED HERE IS, UM, WHERE A GOAL DOESN'T MATCH EXPECTATION AND I, UM, FOR TIMELINE.
AND SO I, I THINK THAT AT SOME POINT WE'LL NEED TO COME BACK AND SAY, WHICH GOAL GIVES TO EX, I MEAN, IF WE WANT, IF A COUNCIL MEMBER WISHES TO PUSH THE PRIORITY ON AN INDIVIDUAL HERE, UH, MAYBE THE PROPOSAL SHOULD BE AT, YOU KNOW, EXPENSE OF WHICH, BUT THESE DON'T HAVE A RANKING ACROSS THEM.
SO THAT'S GONNA BE A TRICK DISCUSSION WHEN WE GET TO THAT POINT.
IT'S GONNA BE, YEAH, IT'S GONNA BE REALLY DEPENDENT UPON WHICH DEPARTMENTS ARE REALLY LEADING THAT EFFORT.
AND, YOU KNOW, BUT WHAT ARE WE HORSE TRADING, RIGHT? SO IF THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE SAY, HEY, CAN WE, YOU KNOW, WHAT ELSE CAN MOVE ON? THAT'S ON THE CITY ATTORNEY'S.
SO WE'LL HAVE TO, WE'LL HAVE TO, UM, REMEMBER WE NEED TO COME BACK TO HORSE TRADING AFTER ONCE THROUGH THE LIST, BECAUSE I WANNA SEE EVEN NOW HOW CODE ENFORCEMENT, UM, BETWEEN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND THEN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, DIFFERENT CODE ENFORCEMENTS AND FIND OUT WHY THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ENFORCED.
AND I'M JUST GONNA GIVE AN EXAMPLE, A GUY WITH A, YOU KNOW, TWO COMMERCIAL FISHING BOATS IN A CUL-DE-SAC, IT LASTED THREE YEARS, NEVER A TICKET.
AND, UM, AND THAT, AND, YOU KNOW, FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING TURNING THAT MOTOR ON AND JUST BEING IRRESPONSIBLE.
AND HE WAS A FIREFIGHTER AND NOT IN PETALUMA, BUT IN MARIN COUNTY, AND HE WAS RUDE, DISRESPECTFUL.
AND I FEEL AS THOUGH THE DEPARTMENT WAS NOT DOING THEIR DUE DILIGENCE.
IT SEEMED AS THOUGH THERE WAS A PATTERN, IF YOU WORK FOR, FOR A MUNICIPALITY, YOU WEREN'T TICKETED.
KAREN NELSON GOT TICKETED, BUT YET THESE OTHER INCIDENTS, THEY DID NOT GET A TICKET.
SO I JUST WANNA POINT THAT OUT,
AND I WOULD JUST BRIEFLY SAY THAT THERE'S NOT ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT RECEIVES PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT WHATSOEVER.
AND IF THERE'S ANY INDICATION OF THAT, THEN WE WOULD ADDRESS IT AND HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO THAT STANDARD.
UM, WE DID MENTION THAT AS THE CITY MANAGER INDICATED AS WELL, WE'RE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO IMPROVE OUR EFFICIENCIES, IMPROVE OUR TRACKING AND REPORTING AND, AND OUR FOLLOW UP ON THE COMPLAINTS THAT WE'RE GETTING TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE ADDRESSING AND TOUCHING EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE COMPLAINTS THAT'S RECEIVED.
SOMETIMES OUR, UM, IT'S POLICY DECISION AND SOMETIMES IT'S, UM, CODE ENFORCEMENT DECISIONS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO, MAY, MAY NOT NEED NEW POLICY, WE MAY JUST NEED ENFORCEMENT.
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THAT'LL BE IMPORTANT TO DISTINGUISH, UH, VICE MAYOR.UM, ON THE, UM, UM, ONE THAT WHERE, WHERE YOU WANNA CONDUCT COMMUNITY OUTREACH CAN, UH, WE ALREADY KIND OF KNOW, UH, WHAT MIGHT BE THE RESPONSES TO FOLKS.
CAN WE ADD A STATEMENT IN THERE OR A SIMPLE ADDITION, UH, AND HELP FIND ALTERNATIVES? SO I KNOW WE MAY NOT BE, UH, WHEN WE'RE REGULATING AND DOING THINGS, SETTING LAWS, WE'RE A BIG STICK, BUT WHERE'S THE CARROT, UH, FOR THE FOLKS WHO, UH, DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO PUT ELSE TO PUT THEIR VEHICLE.
SO WE NEED TO HAVE A CARROT STICK ALSO, SO IN PART OF THE OUTREACH, NOT JUST ON THE ORDINANCE REGULATIONS, BUT MAYBE HELP, UM, FIND ALTERNATIVES, UM, FOR FOLKS WHO ARE PARKING ILLEGALLY, UM, SO THAT WE CAN FIND SOLUTIONS, NOT JUST HAMMER ON FOLKS.
SO WE HAVE TO DO BOTH OF THOSE THINGS TOGETHER, NOT, NOT JUST ONE, RIGHT.
LIKELY ALL THESE BIG INITIATIVES INVOLVE A, AN INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOPY THING AND THEN AN OUTREACH PERIOD, AND THEN A BACK TO COUNCIL PERIOD FOR YOUR INPUT.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, UM, I WANT TO DO A SHOUT OUT TO, UH, UH, POLICE CHIEF, UH, MILLER.
HE, UM, GAVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE FIRSTHAND ON A RIDE ALONG.
A LOT OF NEIGHBORS HAD COMPLAINED.
AND SO I WENT THROUGH THE DISTRICT AND I POINTED THINGS OUT.
SOME THINGS WERE LEGAL AND SOME THINGS WERE NOT LEGAL.
AND SOME THE NEIGHBORS POINTED OUT ARE VISUAL.
UM, THEY ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T CROSS THE STREET AS A A, WE HAVE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, BUT IT CAN'T BE SAFE IF IT'S A BLIND CROSSWALK BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE AROUND THIS BIG TRAILER OR THIS BIG COMMERCIAL BOAT OR THIS BIG COMMERCIAL, UM, TRUCK.
AND SO THEY MIGHT BE PARKED SORT OF LEGALLY, BUT WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE PUTTING IN, UM, THE RED MARKING, I FORGET WHAT THEY CALL IT, THIS NEW STATE LAW SO THAT WE HAVE MORE OF A BUFFER FOR THOSE CROSSWALKS AND FOR THE SAFE ROUTE TO SCHOOLS.
AND SOME OF IT IS PROPERTY VALUE.
A NEIGHBOR WAS SAYING, YOU KNOW, I'M TRYING TO SELL MY HOUSE, BUT MY NEIGHBOR HAS THREE BOATS IN THE YARD AND POSSIBLY SOMEBODY LIVING IN ONE IN AN RV PARKED, AND THEY HAVE FIVE CARS PARKED ALONG THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO SOME OF IT IS PROPERTY VALUE.
AND SO THE SOONER WE CAN GET ON BOARD WITH THIS AND THE BETTER.
UM, IF I, I COULD TOSS IT BACK TO CITY MANAGER FOR A SECOND.
UM, WE HAVE 28 ITEMS IN THIS LIST.
AND, AND I WAS WONDERING, DO WE HAVE A PLAN ON, ON PUBLIC, UM, COMMENT, UH, WERE WE GONNA WAIT TILL THE, THE FINISH LINE OR WERE WE, YOU KNOW, DID, WAS THERE A PLAN ON THAT? IT, IT, WELL, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT GOING THROUGH EACH ONE AND ASKING FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AFTER EACH ONE, BUT I, I THOUGHT I REMEMBER.
I THINK WE KIND OF, SO, UM, I THINK WE'RE MOVING RATHER FAST ON THIS AND IT'S, PARDON ME.
YOU COULD ALSO DO SOME BUNDLING IF, YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING BUNDLING MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA IF THE COUNCIL'S WILLING HERE.
AND WE ARE AT, UM, WE ARE AT FOUR ITEMS. I'D LIKE TO GET THE HOUSING ELEMENT IN AND THEN INVITE THE PUBLIC IN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AT THAT TIME, MAYBE BUNDLE AT FIVES.
SO, UM, HOUSING ELEMENT, WHO'S UP NEXT? THANK YOU.
THIS WAS, UH, ADOPTED BY COUNCIL, UH, MARCH OF 23, UH, CERTIFIED BY HCD, OUR STATE ENTITY.
AND SO WE HAVE BEEN WORKING, UM, TO IMPLEMENT THE EIGHT YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
AND SO THAT IN YEAR ONE, UM, IS WHAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON.
UM, ONE OF THE BIG TASK ITEMS HERE, UM, FROM A LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE WOULD BE, UM, UH, IDENTIFYING RECOMMENDATIONS TO DO, UM, SOME, UM, SOME AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING ZONING CODE.
AND SO WHEN I WAS LAST UP HERE, I TALKED ABOUT THE OVERHAUL FOR THE ZONING CODE, UM, AS A WHOLE.
UM, BUT WE ARE EXPECTING TO, TO OPEN UP THE ZONING CODE WITH A FOCUSED, UM, INTENT TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO FACILITATE, UH, HOUSING, UH, AFFORDABILITY, HOUSING PRODUCTION.
UM, AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING YOU'LL SEE HERE, UM, IN SHORT ORDER IN YEAR ONE.
UM, AND THEN, UM, WITH THE ACTUAL UPDATE, UM, TO FOLLOW SHORTLY AFTER, UM, IN YEAR TWO, AND THEN AGAIN ONGOING EVERY YEAR, UM, AS YOU GOT THE PRESENTATION, UM, ON OUR ANNUAL PLANNING REPORT, UM, IN APRIL OR, UM, AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING, UM, WE
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WILL BE REPORTING BACK TO COUNCIL ON OUR PROGRESS, UM, ON THE UPCOMING ITEMS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON, UM, AS IT RELATES TO THE HOUSING ELEMENT AND WHAT WE'VE COMMITTED TO THE STATE ON DOING COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE.DO WE HAVE ANY PLANS TO, UM, LOOK AT RIGHT SIZING IMPACT FEES, UM, ADDRESSING SOME OF THE, THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE SEEING NOW WITH LIKE WE'VE WAIVED IMPACT FEES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS AND NOW WE'RE SEEING AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPERS TRY AND, UH, NOT COMPLY WITH OUR DESIRE TO SEE, UM, FOSSIL FUEL FREE HOUSING.
UM, DO WE HAVE ANY, UM, PLANS TO LOOK AT THOSE SORTS OF THINGS? THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN.
UH, SO IN ADDITION TO, UH, LOOKING AT, UM, OUR SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD ON THE, UH, FEE REDUCTION THAT WE TOOK, THE STRATEGY WE TOOK THERE FOR, UM, FACILITATING A HUNDRED PERCENT AFFORDABLE THAT THE CITY SUPPORTS, UM, WE'RE LOOKING, UM, TO, UM, TO SEE WHERE ELSE WE WE COULD TAKE THAT.
AND SO, UM, I THINK OUT IN THE, UM, LEGISLATIVE WORLD, THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION AROUND MISSING MIDDLE AND HOW DO WE, UM, INCENTIVIZE, UH, PRODUCTION OF THAT HOUSING, UM, THAT IS, IS MISSING, I MEAN, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD.
UM, AND THEN ALSO AS PART OF THE HOUSING ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION, WE HAVE COMMITTED AS A CITY TO LOOK AT THE FEE, UM, UH, STRUCTURE, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF SOMEONE IS BUILDING A 1000 SQUARE FOOT HOME VERSUS A 25 SQUARE FOOT HOME, UH, BOTH SINGLE FAMILY, THERE SHOULD BE SOME, UM, WAY TO INCENTIVIZE PRODUCTION OF SMALLER UNITS.
UM, THE UNITS THAT, UM, THAT WE ARE LOOKING TO, UM, REALLY HELP PUSH.
SO I THINK UP UNTIL NOW, THE STATE, UM, OURSELVES, UM, MTC ABA, THERE'S BEEN, UM, RIGHTFULLY SO A BIG PUSH ON A HUNDRED PERCENT AFFORDABLE LOW INCOME.
UM, AND I THINK, UH, YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE STARTING TO SEE NOW IS, UM, NEEDING TO ADDRESS THAT NEXT STEP, UM, OF MODERATE TO ABOVE MODERATE.
AND THEN WE'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO BE LOOKING AT OUR FEES AND OUR, AS WE UPDATE OUR NEXUS STUDY THAT'S, WE'RE TALKING THREE YEARS OUT BEFORE WE HAVE LIKE FULL NEW FEES PROBABLY, RIGHT? YEAH.
SO THIS IS, UM, ESSENTIALLY, UM, SIMILAR TO THE ZONING CODE, UM, THAT NEEDS TO FOLLOW THE UPDATE TO THE GENERAL PLAN.
AND SO THERE WOULD BE A, A NEXUS STUDY THAT WOULD FOLLOW ADOPTION OF THE NEW GENERAL PLAN.
SO WE WOULD BE LOOKING, UM, IN THE, IN THE REALM OF TWO TO THREE YEARS, DO WE HAVE ANY PLANS TO DO ANY ADJUSTMENTS TO OUR FEES BEFORE THAT? AND IF SO, WHAT MIGHT THE TIMELINE FOR THAT BE? SO WE ARE LOOKING, UH, WE WANT TO COME UP WITH A PLAN, UM, AS WE'RE COMMITTING HERE, UM, IN THIS FIRST YEAR ON WHAT WE CAN DO AHEAD OF THAT, SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID WITH, UH, UM, 100% AFFORDABLE, UM, FEE, UH, FEE REDUCTION.
ALRIGHT, THAT'S ALL FOR QUESTIONS.
HOUSING ELEMENT, HOUSING ELEMENT.
UM, AS, SO THE, UM, AFFORDABLE HOUSING FEE WAIVER THAT WE DID DO, UM, UM, WAS A HUGE STEP FORWARD.
UM, ARE ANY OTHER, UM, EFFORTS LIKE THAT DIRECT, IT SEEMS UNLIKELY TO TRY AND ACHIEVE WITHIN A ONE YEAR WINDOW? IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE ANY OF THE, UM, REDUCED SQUARE FOOTAGE, UH, FEE, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER PATENTS, ANY OF 'EM ACHIEVABLE WITHIN A YEAR? SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE, UM, AS YOU SEE HERE, WE NEED TO DEVELOP THE WORK PLAN AND THEN WE CAN RECOMMEND, UM, WHAT THOSE CHANGES MAY LOOK LIKE FOR COUNCIL TO CONSIDER.
UM, AND SO WHAT I'M ENVISIONING IS A, A FULL SUITE OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE THAT'S, UM, THAT IS TIED TO, UM, STAFFING AND RESOURCES AND WHERE THE COUNCIL MAY WANT US TO PRIORITIZE OUR TIME AND RESOURCES.
AND I, I THINK HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE LOOKING AT, UM, A BALLOT MEASURE, UM, NOVEMBER BAFA AND, AND, UH, PUSHING MONEY INTO OUR SYSTEM.
DO WE HAVE BANDWIDTH TO DEAL WITH THAT? WE MOST CERTAINLY DO.
IT'S AT THE TOP OF MANY OF OUR LISTS AT THE MOMENT.
SO WE'RE WORKING, UM, IN CLOSE COORDINATION WITH THE COUNTY, UM, OUR PARTNERS, UM, UH, SUCH AS GENERATION HOUSING TO COME UP WITH AN EXPENDITURE PLAN FOR THE COUNTY.
AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING, UH, WE'VE BEEN MEETING REGULARLY ON.
UM, AND SO, UH, IT IS AT THE TOP OF OUR LIST, UM, NOT AS AN IDENTIFIED PRIORITY, BUT IT'S PART OF THE BASE WORKLOAD.
YEAH, I WOULD JUST REMIND FOLKS THAT THIS WHOLE IMPACT FEE AREA IS GONNA BE EXTREMELY FRAUGHT IF THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
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MEASURE PASSES IN NOVEMBER.UM, AND IT, THIS WILL JUST BECOME A, A TOTAL MINEFIELD.
THAT'S, UM, UH, ITEM FIVE HOUS, UM, HOUSING ELEMENT.
AND WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO GO TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE FIVE ITEMS WE'VE, UH, TAPPED SO FAR.
AND THE FIRST SPEAKER IS, UH, WELL, AND I, I HAVE TO ASK THE CLERK, HAVE WE HAD, UH, INPUT ONLINE TO ALL OF OUR ISSUES TONIGHT? YES.
WE RECEIVED 13 PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ALL OF THEM.
UM, SO OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS JOHN HANANIA, TO BE FOLLOWED BY SUSAN KIRKS.
I HOPE I DON'T SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD.
I HEAR THE CITY ATTORNEY SAY, YOU KNOW, ABOUT ADAPTING TO SANEL.
HAVE ANYBODY ASKED WHY SANEL HAD THAT MODEL? IT'S BECAUSE THE STREETS ARE TOO NARROW AND, UH, SAFETY VEHICLES, THE EMERGENCY VEHICLES CAN GET THROUGH.
LEMME REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING MIKE HEALY A FEW MEETINGS AGO WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE VERBATIM, WHAT YOU SAID, WELL, WHAT DO I DO? MY GARAGES WAS MADE FOR A MODEL T AND I TOLD YOU, REMEMBER THAT THOUGHT? SO WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE NO PLACE TO PARK? ONE OF YOU IS VERY ADAMANT ABOUT MAKING THE PARKING PASS VERY, VERY ADAMANT FOR A PERSONAL ISSUE.
I HAD A LONG DISCUSSION WITH JOHN SCHWIPPS, AND I THINK HE HAVE A GOOD IDEA.
LET'S FIND A PLACE BEFORE WE GIVE PUNISHMENT SOMETIMES.
OKAY, LET ME GO GET BACK TO, UH, LET ME JUST GET TO BRIAN BARNACLE TWO MEETINGS AGO.
WE'RE NOT IN PALM SPRING, WE'RE NOT IN HOLLYWOOD.
OKAY? YOU TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING IS NOT GONNA HAPPEN, OKAY? YOU NEED TO FIND A PLACE FOR ALL THESE VEHICLES TO PARK, OKAY? ONE OF YOU SAID, I DON'T CARE HOW MANY PEOPLE COME DOWN THE CITY HALL AND COMPLAIN, IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN BECAUSE I THINK THE DECISION SOMETIMES IS ALREADY MADE BEFORE IT COMES TO DISCUSSION BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
AND IT SHOULDN'T BE LIKE THAT.
ONE OF YOU CRITICIZED THE PARKING ENFORCEMENT.
WELL, IN MY OPINION, THE PERSON WHO'S DOING THE PARKING ENFORCEMENT IS DOING A VERY GOOD JOB, BUT HE NEEDS MORE HELP.
YOU CAN'T HAVE ONE PERSON FOUR DAYS A WEEK GOING AROUND MARKING CARS, AND YOU KEEP SAYING YOU DON'T HAVE MONEY.
I HAVE BEEN THROUGH SIX CITY MANAGERS, SIX MAYORS, AND WHAT BRIAN BARTLE BEING SWEARING ON TODAY WILL BE NUMBER EIGHT, POLICE CHIEFS.
NOBODY HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE OR THE EXPERIENCE THAT I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH, WITH PARKING IN THE CITY OF PAL LUA, BUT SOME OF YOU HAVE NO INTEREST OR DESIRE TO HEAR IT.
WHY? BECAUSE IT DOESN'T LINE WITH WHAT YOU WANT.
THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE BACK IN 2011 WHEN YOU HAD SIMS AS A INTERIM CHIEF, OKAY? STANDING BACK THERE WITH TIM LYONS, DAN FISH, AND SANO, WHO WAS THE TRAFFIC SERGEANT AT THE TIME, OKAY? THE PEOPLE LINED UP.
I THINK THE ONLY ONE WHO REMEMBERED THAT WAS MIKE HEALY.
YOU COULDN'T HAVE ANYBODY WALK IN HERE TO HOW MANY PEOPLE CAME HERE AND COMPLAINED.
SO YOU NEED TO FIND A MIDDLE GROUND FOR THE PARKING.
OKAY? SAN JOSE JUST BOUGHT TWO BIG LOTS.
ONE FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE, ONE FOR STORING VEHICLE VEHICLE.
WHY AREN'T WE FOLLOWING THAT MODEL? THANK YOU.
THANK YOU SUSAN KIRKS TO BE FOLLOWED BY STEVEN DELO.
UM, I WANNA SPEAK ON THE OPEN SPACE.
WE'LL SAVE THE CARD FOR THAT PERIOD.
IS IT IN THE FIRST FIVE? I'VE SITTING DOWN SO LONG.
UM, I I'M GOING TO SOUND LIKE THE BROKEN RECORD THAT I AM.
UH, AND I'M GOING TO, UM, START BY ADVOCATING FOR, UH, THE BANNING OF GAS POWERED LEAF BLOWERS.
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AND BY THE WAY, I REPRESENT A, A, A SMALL BUT MIGHTY GROUP CALLED G STREET ACTION ON PAGE 43 OF WHAT IS CALLED THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY.UH, THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS MADE BY 2026, CONSIDER BANNING GAS POWERED LAWN AND GARDEN EQUIPMENT IN THE CITY.
I HAVE LITTLE TIME TO ELABORATE, ELABORATE ON THIS MESSAGE, EXCEPT TO SAY THAT I HOPE YOU'LL EMBRACE ITS RECOMMENDATION ON GAS POWERED LAWN EQUIPMENT.
AS I HAVE SAID IN MY LETTER TO THE COUNCIL, WHICH I SENT TO YOU EARLIER, RID THE CITY OF GAS POWERED LAWN EQUIPMENT WILL FIRST SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE CARBON GASES ENTERING INTO OUR AIRSPACE.
AND SECOND, TAKING THIS STEP WILL SAVE MANY FROM THE HARMFUL TO HEALTH MEDICAL PROBLEMS THAT THESE, UH, INSTRUMENTS CAUSE SMALL OFF-ROAD ENGINES, OR WHETHER CALLED SWORDS FOR SHORT EMIT TOXIC PARTICLES, WHICH ARE VERY HARMFUL TO THE WORKERS WHO USE SORES.
FURTHERMORE, THE NOISE FROM THESE MACHINES MAY PO POSE HEALTH RISKS, INCLUDING HEARING LOSS.
I HOPE THEN THAT WE CAN DO WHAT MANY CALIFORNIA CITIES HAVE ALREADY DONE, WHICH IS BAN GAS POWERED LEAF BLOWERS, IF NOT THE SAME FOR ALL SEWS IN GENERAL, AND IN THE PROCESS, PROTECT BOTH OUR LAWN CARE WORKERS AND REDUCE SIGNIFICANTLY CARBON EMISSIONS.
THEREFORE, I ASK THAT YOU PLACE THIS ITEM ON THE AGENDA FOR DISCUSSION, THE DELIBERATION AND ACTION.
UM, I, I THINK, COUNSEL, I MEAN THAT ELISE HEMPHILL IS OUR LAST SPEAKER, BUT I, I WILL NOTE TO THIS PAST SPEAKER, UM, THAT WE WILL COLLECT IDEAS AND AFTER THE 28 HIT ALL NEW IDEAS, UH, WITH A COMMENT TOO.
ELISE HEMPHILL IN THE HOUSE? NO, ELISE HEMPHILL.
IT BRINGS IT THAT CLOSEST, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT FOR FIRST FIVE ITEMS, AND WE WILL, UH, BEGIN WITH THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH I BELIEVE IS PARKING MANAGEMENT.
SO THIS, UH, FALLS IN THE REALM OF, UH, I, I THINK, UH, TOTALLY APPROPRIATE JUST HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION.
AND SO THE FOCUS HERE IS ON A DIFFERENT PART OF PARKING.
UM, AND SO, UM, THIS IS, UM, RELATED TO OUR MANAGEMENT OF PARKING DOWNTOWN.
SO BY THE END OF THE UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR, UM, I THINK THE, UH, THE IDEA IS WE WILL HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE, UM, IDENTIFIED ON HOW TO MANAGE, UM, ONE OF OUR KEY RESOURCES AND, UM, COMMODITIES, WHICH IS OUR, OUR PARKING, OUR PUBLIC PARKING, UM, IN DOWNTOWN.
AND SO NOT JUST THE INVENTORY OF THE PARKING SPACES, UM, BUT ALSO THE USAGE.
AND SO THE USAGE OF OUR SPACES, IF, IF WE ALL SORT OF PUT OURSELVES IN, IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT, UM, DAY IN AND DAY OUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE NEW BUSINESSES, NEW OFFICE USES COMING INTO TOWN, INTO DOWNTOWN, UM, AND THEY HAVE SPECIFIC, UM, USES, UM, WHETHER IT'S, UM, ALL DAY PARKING, DIFFERENT NEEDS, SO ALL DAY PARKING, UH, SHORT TERM PARKING, UH, DROP IN, UH, PARKING.
AND SO ALL OF THAT WE'RE GONNA, WE WANT TO TAKE INVENTORY AND HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW PEOPLE ARE USING AND PEOPLE, HOW PEOPLE WANT TO USE, UM, OUR PUBLIC PARKING SPACES DOWNTOWN.
UM, AND SO THAT WILL, UM, KICK OFF, UH, WHAT WE, UM, ARE ADVOCATING FOR A MULTI-YEAR PROCESS, UM, UH, TO MANAGE, UH, PARKING DOWNTOWN.
AND SO THAT'S USING OUR, UH, PARKING LOTS.
THAT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, COULD WE COME UP WITH CREATIVE SOLUTIONS WITH OUR DOWNTOWN, UH, PROPERTY OWNERS ON SHARED PARKING, UM, AGREEMENTS.
UM, AND SO ALL OF THAT IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA EXPLORE AS PART AND OF THIS PROCESS.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH.UM, FROM THE DAAS PARKING MANAGEMENT COUNCIL MEMBER, BARNACLE.
I HAD A CONSTITUENT ASK ME IF THERE WAS ANY PLANS TO LOOK AT OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY, UM, AFTER THE, THE DOWNTOWN AREA STUDIED.
SO WHAT'S PROMPTING THIS, UM, UH, EFFORT IS A MTC GRANT, AND THE FOCUS ON THAT IS, UH, FOR DOWNTOWN.
AND SO AS WE, UH, COMPLETE, UH, THE FOCUS, WHICH IS, UH, DOWNTOWN PARKING AREA, UM, YOU KNOW, WE COULD COME BACK TO, TO ENTERTAIN AND, AND TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION ABOUT OTHER PLACES IN TOWN.
AND ALSO IMPLEMENT STRATEGIES THAT WE'VE LEARNED IN THE DOWNTOWN TO SEE IF WE CAN APPLY IT ELSEWHERE.
SO GATOR THOMPSON, YOU, SO YOU'LL BE REACHING OUT TO PROPERTY OWNERS FOR LIKE WEEKEND PARKING AND EVENING PARKING ON WEEKENDS, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF PARKING LOTS DOWNTOWN.
SO, UH, THERE ARE A LOT OF PARKING LOTS, A LOT OF PARKING SPACES DOWNTOWN.
UM, AND SO ONE OF THE STRATEGIES THAT WE THINK WOULD, WILL COME OUT OF THE PLAN WOULD BE TO EXPLORE, UM, UH, THOSE, YOU KNOW, MAKE THOSE OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO US.
SO, UM, CAN WE COME UP WITH SOME SORT OF, UM, TEMPLATE THAT WE CAN START WORKING WITH PROPERTY OWNERS, UM, WHEN THEY'RE NOT USING, UM, THEIR PARKING SPACES ON THE WEEKEND, UH, TO OPEN IT UP FOR OTHER USES.
SO WE'RE MAXIMIZING, UM, THIS CRITICAL RESOURCE DOWNTOWN AND WILL PAID PARKING BE JUST EVALUATED? SO IT ISN'T, IT'S A CONCEPT.
IT, IT'S NOT NEW, UM, TO HAVE, UH, UH, SORT OF A, A PRICE, UM, UM, PAID PARKING.
UM, AND SO IT'S A STRATEGY THAT IS GOING TO BE, UM, UH, OFFERED UP, EXPLORED ULTIMATELY THAT'S, UH, AT THE DISCRETION OF COUNCIL, UM, TO MOVE FORWARD.
UM, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF, UM, PROS AND CONS TO THAT AS WELL.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BALANCING THAT.
AND WILL YOU BE EVALUATING LIKE SHUTTLES SO BUSINESSES CAN PARK SOMEWHERE ELSE AND THEN THEY'LL BE ABLE TO GET DOWNTOWN WITH THE SHUTTLE EVERY 15 MINUTES OR WHATEVER? YES.
UM, GREAT UM, SEGUE INTO, UM, YOU KNOW, THE CITY LOOKING AT THIS HOLISTICALLY.
AND SO, AS OUR CITY MANAGER HAD MENTIONED IN OUR COMMENTS, UM, WE ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THE STARTING STAGES TO, TO CREATE, UM, SOME OPTIONS, RIGHT? SO ULTIMATELY, UM, WE WANT TO ASSESS, WE WANNA GET A GOOD SENSE OF THE PARKING SPACES, BUT THEN ALSO AS WE'RE MAKING, UM, AND PROVIDING, UM, OPTIONS, UH, TO GET PEOPLE AND INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE TO COME DOWNTOWN AND LEAVE THEIR CAR AT HOME, OR JUMP ON THE SMART STATION, UM, THE SMART RAIL TO GET INTO TOWN AND TO SPEND, UM, THEIR DISCRETIONARY FUNDS, UM, WITH OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES.
UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE ALL IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.
SO IF I KNOW THAT, UM, THERE IS GOING TO BE A FREE OPTION, UM, A UM, DEDICATED OPTION, UM, A RELIABLE OPTION TO GET DOWNTOWN, UM, I'LL DEFINITELY THINK PRETTY HARD TO KEEP MY CAR AT HOME OR SELL THE CAR EVEN.
UM, AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO BALANCE AND, UM, AND ACCOMMODATE FOR THE FUTURE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT CARBON NEUTRALITY AND ALL THE ABOVE.
TRANSIT'S AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE SUCCESS OF ANY PARKING MANAGEMENT PLAN.
AND SINCE WE RUN OUR OWN TRANSIT AGENCY, I THINK WE, WE MIGHT KNOW SOME PEEPS, SO MIGHT BE POSSIBLE.
UM, WHAT ABOUT, UM, UM, MERCHANTS PARKING IN DOWNTOWN? 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT STILL CONTINUES AND IT'S BEEN JUST DECADES AND DECADES OF A PROBLEM.
WILL YOU BE REACHING OUT TO TALK WITH THE MERCHANTS? ABSOLUTELY.
UM, THEY'RE, UH, A VERY INTEGRAL PART OF THE EQUATION.
AND SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THERE AREN'T ANY UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
AND SO WE'VE ALREADY STARTED THOSE DISCUSSIONS RELATED TO THE SHUTTLES.
UM, WE'VE, UH, RECENTLY CIRCULATED A PARKLET, UM, SURVEY WITH OUR DOWNTOWN, DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS, OUR PROPERTY OWNERS, OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, AND SO WE'RE, WE HAVE SOME PRETTY, UM, INITIAL POSITIVE, UH, RESULTS THAT ARE COMING OUTTA THAT HIGH PARTICIPATION RATE.
AND SO ALL OF THAT IS GONNA HELP INFORM THE STUDY.
AND THEN, UH, SO YOU'LL BE LOOKING AT PARKING TIME ALSO.
YOU KNOW, YOU'LL GET THAT SOMEBODY REALLY WANTS TO BE DOWNTOWN FOR THREE HOURS, BUT THEN THEIR PARKING SPACE IS ONLY GOOD FOR TWO HOURS AND THEN THEY GET A TICKET, RIGHT? SO WHAT, WHAT IS THAT SWEET SPOT? UM, KNOWING THAT,
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UM, SOME MAY SPEND THREE HOURS, SOME MAY SPEND FOUR HOURS, SOME SPEND THE ENTIRE WORKDAY, EIGHT HOURS, UM, AND ABOVE SOME ONLY SPEND 20 MINUTES.UM, SOME JUST NEED TO DROP IN AND PICK UP.
UH, I DO THIS FREQUENTLY PICK UP SOUL FOOD TO TAKE HOME, RIGHT? SO THAT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT THOSE OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AND THEY'RE IN THE RIGHT SPOTS.
AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WORKING IN CLOSE, UM, COORDINATION WITH OUR PUBLIC WORKS, UM, DEPARTMENT NOW.
UM, HANDICAP, AS OUR OLDER GENERATION IS LIVING LONGER AND WE HAVE MORE HANDICAP AND THEY'RE NOT GIVING UP THEIR AUTOMOBILES, THEY NEED THAT HANDICAP PARKING.
I HAVE, UM, GOTTEN TO AN AGE WHERE I AM DRIVING PEOPLE THAT NEED TO BE CLOSE TO WHERE THEY WANT TO GET, YOU KNOW, TO A STORE OR A RESTAURANT OR A HAIRDRESSER.
AND THERE'S NO HANDICAP AVAILABLE.
THERE'S LIKE ONE ON THE WHOLE BLOCK.
SO WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THAT AGING POPULATION AND HOW THE HANDICAP NEED MORE HANDICAP PARKING IN THE CITY.
I AGREE WITH YOU A HUNDRED PERCENT.
THIS WORK IS ALREADY, UM, COMMENCING, UH, WE HAVE A MULTI-DEPARTMENT EFFORT RIGHT NOW EVALUATING, UM, FOR TWO REASONS.
UH, BECAUSE OF THE NEED, LIKE YOU SAID, WE'RE AN AGING POPULATION.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, DOWNTOWN IS ACCESSIBLE FOR EVERYBODY.
UM, BUT THEN ALSO THERE'S, UH, A LITTLE STATE LAW THAT WE ALSO NEED TO CONTEND WITH.
AND SO, UH, WE ARE CURRENTLY GOING BLOCK BY BLOCK DOWNTOWN TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, UM, WE'RE IN COMPLIANCE WITH STATE LAW, BUT WE'RE ALSO, UH, MAKING SURE THAT THE SPACES ARE THERE FOR, FOR EVERYONE.
YEAH, I, I, UM, THERE IS SOME HISTORY TO ATTEMPTING TO, UH, REQUIRE PAID PARKING IN THIS TOWN, AND IT'S NOT PRETTY.
UM, AND, UM, UH, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE, UM, ON STAFF REMEMBER IT.
I'M SURE THE CITY ATTORNEY DOES.
UM, WE ATTEMPTED TO REQUIRE, UM, PAID PARKING IN THE, UM, UH, KELLER STREET GARAGE THAT DIDN'T LAST LONG, UM, GIVEN THE COMMUNITY PUSHBACK, AND I'M NOT SURE THAT MUCH HAS CHANGED, UH, ON THAT.
UH, SO COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, YES.
UH, WE, WE AREN'T ADVOCATING AT THIS POINT FOR PAID PARKING.
UM, IT'S JUST WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SCOPE OF PARKING MANAGEMENT STUDY, UH, STRATEGIES, UM, IT IS, UH, A POTENTIAL THING, UM, THAT WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION, UH, FULLY AWARE THAT THERE'S HISTORY.
AND AGAIN, WE NEED TO WEIGH THE PROS AND CONS OF ANY OF OUR POLICY AND IT AND THEIR IMPACTS.
I'M HOPING YOU'RE NOT ADVOCATING FOR ANYTHING OR AGAINST ANYTHING YET.
UM, UM, BUT I DO APPRECIATE HEARING THAT YOU'RE, UM, LOOKING AT, UH, CONVERTING OTHER LOTS OR, YOU KNOW, PRO NEGOTIATING WITH PROPERTY OWNERS.
CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY NASTYGRAMS WE GET, UM, REGARDING GETTING TICKETED AT VOL FEES OR TICKETED FROM, UH, THE THEATER DISTRICT WHEN SOMEONE PARKS IN BANK AREAS THERE.
IT, IT MAY NOT BE THAT WE ADD HANDICAP SPACING IS MAYBE WE CONVERT ISN'T THE STATE THING, BUT CONVERT TO, UH, HANDICAP DROP OFF SPACING SO THAT THERE'S ALWAYS A CURB FRONTAGE.
I REALLY APPRECIATE IN THE THEATER DISTRICT THAT, UH, ON THE BOULEVARD THERE'S A PICKUP SPOT WHERE YOU CAN PARK FOR 10 MINUTES THERE.
UM, AND, UM, AND IT MAY BE THAT, UH, UH, WHEN YOU DO BRING PROPOSALS TO COUNCIL, YOU'LL FIND, UH, ONE WHO, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, A MIX OF THE COUNCIL WHO WANTS LEFT AND WHO WANTS, RIGHT? AND SO GETTING TO COUNCIL'S IMPORTANT, LIKE, UH, THE ITEM OF HOW LONG A TIME SPACE SHOULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SCIENCE BEHIND ALL THIS, BUT IT MAY NOT BE THE SCIENCE THAT THE PUBLIC ACCEPTS.
AND SO HAVING THOSE PUBLIC DIALOGUES, MM-HMM,
YEAH, I JUST WANNA SUGGEST THAT, UM, I SAW THIS ITEM LISTED AS GOALS AND PRIORITIES, AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE GETTING AWFUL DEEP INTO THE WEEDS FOR GOAL AND PRIORITY SETTING.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I'LL ADMONISH EVERY, OH, ME, UH, YEAH, EVERYBODY TO, UH, TRY AND STAY ON, UH, THINKING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PICK AND CHOOSE HERE IN A MINUTE, RATHER THAN DRILL DOWN INTO THE TECHNICAL OF IT.
APPRECIATE THE COURSE CORRECTION.
UH, I THINK WE'RE SET THERE AND MOVING TO CHARTER AMENDMENT COUNCIL MEMBER.
NOW, DID YOU WISH TO WEIGH IN? I, I JUST WANTED TO GO BACK TO THE PARKING NOW THAT E-BIKES ARE SO, UM, POPULAR.
UM, I HAVE BEEN, UM, ASKED WHY THERE ISN'T MORE BIKE RACKS, AND I KNOW WE HAVE SOME GRANT MONEY COMING, BUT IF, IF WHERE WHERE THE E-BIKES PARK, ARE THEY LIKE A MOTORCYCLE? I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE ONES.
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I DON'T KNOW.DO YOU WANT TO TAKE OUR TIME OF THE, UM, PRIORITIES TO DRILL DOWN ON THAT QUESTION? OR CAN WE GET THAT FROM STAFF BACK IN A COMMENT TO US? I THINK I'LL TAKE JUST A SECOND.
UM, SO TO YOUR FIRST QUESTION, WE DID RECEIVE GRANT MONEY AND WE'VE PURCHASED BIKE RACKS, AND WE HAVE STARTED THE INSTALLATION.
I THINK A HANDFUL OF THEM HAVE GONE IN.
AND THERE'S QUITE A FEW MORE TO GO.
AND E-BIKES GENERALLY PARK IN THIS, USING THE SAME FACILITIES THAT WE INSTALL FOR REGULAR BIKES.
IT'S ALL, I CLARIFY CHARTER AMENDMENTS, WHO'S, WHO'S COVERING CHARTER AMENDMENTS? I'LL START WITH THAT ONE.
SO WE'RE SHOWING, UM, THAT FOR, FOR OUT YEARS, THREE AND FOUR, UM, THERE'S BASICALLY TWO CHARTER.
UM, THE, THE PROCESS FOR CHARTER UPDATES IS THE SAME AS ORIGINALLY ENACTING CHARTERS.
UM, THERE'S A COUNCIL CONTROL PROCESS.
THERE'S, THERE'S A PROCESS WHERE, UM, WHERE COMMITTEES ELECTED BY THE VOTERS THAT ADDS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME.
UM, IT'S, IT'S A PRETTY GOOD CHUNK OF TIME ANYWAY BECAUSE THERE'S A NUMBER OF REQUIRED HEARINGS AND PROBABLY EVEN MORE THAT WOULD BE NEEDED TO HAVE A REALLY SUCCESSFUL PROCESS AND THE COMMUNITY TO EMBRACE THE RESULTS.
UM, SO THE, THE MINIMUM, UM, EVEN FOR THE COUNCIL CONTROLLED CHARTER PROCESSES, LIKE SIX MONTHS OR MORE, UM, WE'VE SPLIT IT UP INTO YEARS THREE AND FOUR TO COINCIDE WITH, UM, ELECTION YEARS AND TO PROVIDE AMPLE, UM, TIME FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND DISCUSSION.
UM, THIS WOULD BE A VERY SIGNIFICANT, UM, BUT, UH, A REALLY, UM, REWARDING, UM, EXERCISE FOR, FOR ME AND FOR MY OFFICE TO DO BECAUSE I, AS I'VE MENTIONED, I THINK IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S ULTIMATELY GONNA BE A NECESSARY STEP TO REALLY MODERNIZE THE CITY FOR IT TO REALIZE EVEN MORE OF THE POTENTIAL THAT IT'S BEEN REALIZING IN THE, IN THE PAST FEW YEARS THAN TO GO FORWARD, READY FOR THE NEXT CENTURY OF ACHIEVEMENTS AND, UM, EXCELLENCE.
SO, UM, IT'S, IT HAS, THIS HAS THE FEATURES OF ANY, UM, SORT OF BALLOT MEASURE PROCESS BECAUSE IT IS A BALLOT MEASURE PROCESS AND THAT'S ANOTHER TIME FACTOR.
ANYTHING ELSE? SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SHOWING FOR THIS.
UM, COUNCIL COMPENSATION IS A FACTOR, BUT ALL, IF YOU THINK OF ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE IN OUR CHARTER, UM, VERY RESTRICTIVE PUBLIC WORKS PROVISIONS, OLD VESTIGES FROM WHEN WE RAN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTIONS, PRE PROP 13 TAXATION LANGUAGE.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF CLEANUP, A LOT OF RESTRICTIONS THAT I THINK CALL CRY OUT FOR STREAMLINING AND A MORE MODERN DOCUMENT.
ANY COUNCIL, ANY COMMENT ON CHARTER? JUST OKAY.
UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A WORKSHOP OR WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING BOTH ENDS OF IT HERE, IF YOU WILL.
SO, UH, LEMME START WITH THE, THE VICE MAYOR AND THEN GO TO THREE AND THEN, YEAH, JUST MAYBE A, UH, REQUEST.
UM, 'CAUSE INSTEAD OF WAITING TO THREE YEAR, UH, THREE YEARS FROM NOW, UH, TO ACTUALLY HEAR SOMETHING BACK, UM, IS THERE A WAY WE CAN HAVE AT LEAST UPDATES ONCE A YEAR AS TO, UH, WHAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE? UM, ONCE A YEAR, AT LEAST BETWEEN NOW AND THREE YEARS FROM NOW? UM, TO, WE CAN DO WHAT? I MEAN, YOU'RE OUR BOSSES, SO IF YOU WANT UPDATES, I THINK YOU'RE PROPOSING A MODIFICATION PROVIDE YOU, RIGHT? SO UPDATES, SO INSTEAD OF HAVING JUST YEAR THREE THERE AS FILE, UH OH, WOULD ADVISE COUNSEL REGARDING OPTIONS AND WAITING THREE YEARS FOR THOSE THAT TO ACTUALLY HAPPEN.
UM, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO YOU TO HAVE SOME FEEDBACK IN YEARS ONE AND TWO AS YOU'RE DOING THIS? UM, IT, YEAH, PRO PROBABLY, AND I'D PROBABLY WANT TO STRUCTURE THAT SO TO, TO HELP, UM, FACILITATE THE FEEDBACK.
UM, BECAUSE I MEAN, PROBABLY THE COUNCIL NEEDS SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT, HOW CHARTERS FUNCTION AND THE PROCESS, ET CETERA.
SO IF WE SHARED THAT, WHICH WE HAVE RESOURCES FOR THAT WE COULD, WE COULD FACILITATE THAT IF YOU LIKE.
I, I WOULD JUST CAUTION ABOUT WHAT THAT REALLY IS, IS STARTING THE PROJECT EARLY, UM, AND THERE'S A REASON WHY WE'RE PACING THESE THINGS AND THE COUNCIL MAY DECIDE THIS PROJECT'S GONNA MOVE UP AND THAT'S THE COUNCIL'S PREROGATIVE.
BUT, UM, THERE'S A REASON WHY WE'RE PUTTING IT OUT THERE BECAUSE IT'S A VERY SIGNIFICANT, AND THERE'S NO MORE IMPORTANT PROJECT THAT WE WILL EVER WORK ON ANY OF US.
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PASS THAT BACK TO IF IT WAS JUST HELPFUL TO YOU THAT IN, IN THE PROCESS.SO, SO BY THE TIME IT GETS THREE YEARS THAT YOU HAVE THE HELP YOU NEED, WE WILL CERTAINLY WANT SOME DIRECTION FROM THE COUNCIL TO ABOUT SOME OF THE, THE PROCEDURAL CHOICES AHEAD OF TIME.
AND WE'LL CERTAINLY BE READY TO, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SOLICIT THAT.
THAT'S ALL BEFORE, NOT, I DON'T WANNA JUST WAITING THREE YEAR, THREE, TWO YEARS, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE START ON IT, RIGHT? PETER THOMPSON.
SO THE GOAL IS TO GET THIS ON THE 2026 BALLOT.
THE GOAL IS, UM, I THINK IT WOULD END UP ON THE NOVEMBER 28TH BALLOT, 28 BALLOT.
SO IF WE WANNA START ON IT, TO YOUR POINT, COUNCIL MEMBER OR VICE MAYOR SHRI, UM, WE'D HAVE TO MOVE SOMETHING ELSE OFF THE CITY, AT LEAST THE CITY ATTORNEY'S PLATE, IF NOT MY, IF NOT MY OFFICE.
AND, AND SO UN UNDERSTOOD, UNDERSTOOD, RIGHT.
AND SINCE THIS TWO YEAR CYCLE, WE'D BE STARTING NOW-ISH, YOU KNOW, IF WE DID THAT.
SO MY COMMENT IS THAT I THINK CHARTER AMENDMENT SHOULD PROBABLY BE ON A MAYORAL ELECTION IN THE CITY SO THAT ALL OF THE DISTRICTS HAVE A LOCAL, LIKE SOMETHING LOCAL ON THE BALLOT.
UM, SO I THINK EITHER WE SHOULD CONSIDER IT A 2026 THING OR A 2030 HOLY SMOKES.
UM, BY THAT TIME WE'LL BE CARBON NEUTRAL.
AND, UM, AND MY QUESTION IS, IS IF WE HAVE IT HERE AT YEAR THREE, IS THERE ANY WAY YOU CAN PROMISE US YOU WON'T BE USING STAFF RESOURCES BETWEEN NOW AND YEAR THREE? YOU KNOW, IS, IS IT REALISTIC TO THINK IT WON'T BE COOKING IN THERE ALL THE TIME?
WELL, UM, I WANT TO RETURN TO COUNCIL MEMBER BARN'S SUGGESTION, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
BUT I GUESS ANOTHER CONSIDERATION IS IF, IF WE'RE GONNA DO THIS, I MEAN, THINK OF THE OUTREACH THAT WE DID FOR DISTRICT ELECTIONS, REMEMBER? AND WE DID MUCH MORE THAN WE WERE REQUIRED TO DO, BUT, AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY THE RIGHT THING FOR US TO DO THAT.
I THINK, I THINK THIS WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY SIMILAR.
SO IT WOULD REALLY BE A VERY OUTREACH INTENSIVE PROJECT.
I THINK VERY THOUGHTFULLY, VERY INFORMATIVELY.
'CAUSE THE WHOLE COMMUNITY'S GONNA NEED TO LEARN THE SAME THINGS THAT THE COUNCIL WILL ABOUT HOW CHARTERS WORK AND BUTCHER SUCCESSFUL ONES AND ET CETERA.
SO, SO THERE'S THAT CONSIDERATION TOO.
BUT I'M NOT, AGAIN, I'M NOT TRYING TO DEBATE PERFECTLY GOOD SUGGESTION.
I'M, UH, AND MAYBE, MAYBE I'M OVER OVERSTATING IT, BUT I JUST HAVE THIS FEELING IF WE WERE, YOU KNOW, UM, BUT THEN AGAIN, MAYBE MORE PEOPLE WILL VOTE IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, SO WE SHOULD DO IT THAT, YOU KNOW, IN A PRESIDENTIAL YEAR.
SO, AND THAT WOULD LEND ITSELF OBVIOUSLY TO 2028.
SO, UM, I MEAN, CLEARLY IT'S A CONSIDERATION AND OKAY.
IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S, WE'RE, THERE'S CONSENSUS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF OUTREACH FOR THAT PROJECT.
I'M JUST GONNA KEEP PUSHING FOR TIME HERE.
YEAH, THAT WAS GONNA BE MY POINT.
I THINK, UH, WITH ALL DUE, DUE RESPECT TO THE MAYOR, YOU GOT A HIGHER TURNOUT IN THE PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION THAN THE MAYORAL GENERAL ELECTION.
WE'RE ON URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY EXTENSION.
UM, SO THIS ONE IS ALL GREEN, UM,
SO WE ARE OBVIOUSLY, WE HAVE SOME PRETTY STRICT DEADLINES AROUND THIS.
MUCH OF THIS WILL ACTUALLY BE COMPLETED PRIOR TO THE START OF YEAR ONE.
UM, CAN I INVITE THEM? CAN, CAN I INVITE THE COUNCIL, SHOW YOU ALL A THUMBS UP? IS EVERYBODY GOOD? OKAY.
SORRY, BUT I DON'T GREAT PRESENTATION.
PLEASE DO ALL OUR PRESENTATIONS.
SHOULD YOU COME UP? UM, WE ARE NOW ONTO, UH, ADOPTION GENERAL PLAN 2050.
FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BRING HEATHER UP FOR THIS ONE
UH, SO IN SIMILAR FASHION, MUCH OF THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE, WE HAVE OUR MARCHING ORDERS, WE ARE IN THE THICK OF IT.
COUNCIL WILL BE RECEIVING, UH, A VERY, UH, ORGANIZED AND DETAILED, UH, WORKSHOP AT MONTHS END.
UM, AND THAT'LL KEEP US ON TRACK, UM, TO GET, UM, THE CITY'S NEXT GENERAL PLAN, UM, ON THE BOOKS.
I HAD A CONCERN THAT WE SAW, UM, SO MANY, UM, UM, ELEMENTS AS WORK ITEMS THAT REALLY ARE PART AND PARCEL TO GENERAL PLAN, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON.
THEY ALL KIND OF HAVE, I'M NOT SURE I WANNA DISCUSS THEM
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SEPARATELY WHEN THEY, YOU CAN'T FINISH ONE WITHOUT ALL, SO, AND I JUST WANNA, UH, SO WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.ADOPTION OF THE GENERAL PLAN WILL NOT BE COMPLETED IN YEAR ONE.
SO WE'RE, IT'LL BE BY THE END OF 2025, BUT IT WILL NOT BE BEFORE THE END OF JUNE, 2025.
SO, I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR, IS THIS A CORRECTION WE'RE MAKING TO THE PRINTOUT AND EVERYTHING? YEAH.
PAT PATRICK'S GOING TO TOWN THERE.
UM, AND, AND THE EIR IS YEAR TWO.
THE ADOPTION OF THE EIR, OR EXCUSE ME, ADOPTION OF THE GENERAL PLAN AND CERTIFICATION OF THE EIR WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE SAME TIME.
WELL, THAT WAS ALMOST AS FAST.
UH, WE'RE UNDER FAIRGROUNDS, MOSTLY GREEN AND ONGOING, SO THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
UM, THE, THE FAIRGROUNDS, UM, IS REALLY BROKEN OUT INTO SORT OF WHAT WE'RE DOING TO TAKE CARE OF THE PROPERTY NOW, HOW WE ARE SETTING IT UP TO PUT IT INTO USE BY THE COMMUNITY IN THE NEAR FUTURE, AND THEN HOW WE'RE PLANNING FOR THE LONGER TERM FUTURE OF THE FAIRGROUNDS.
UM, SO WE ARE HARD AT WORK THIS YEAR, BOTH GETTING A LOT OF WORK UNDERWAY AND GETTING READY TO DO SOME EXCITING THINGS ON THE FAIRGROUND.
UM, WE ARE ACTIVELY, UM, LOOKING FOR AND IDENTIFYING BUDGETS FOR FUNDING FOR TRANSITIONAL, UM, IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, WE ARE HARD AT WORK COORDINATING WITH D-E-A-D-A-A TO GET THE FAIR, UM, TO, UM, SUPPORT THEM TO PUT ON THIS YEAR'S FAIR IN JUNE.
UM, WE ARE WORKING BASICALLY DAILY WITH THE SCHOOL TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR NEEDS, OPERATIONAL NEEDS ARE MET.
UM, WE ARE, UM, ALSO LOOKING, UM, WE ARE MAKING IMPROVEMENTS TO BUILDINGS SO THAT WE CAN START PROGRAMMING THOSE BUILDINGS.
WE'VE GOT PROGRAMMING OCCURRING IN HERZOG HALL.
WE'RE CLOSE TO BE BEING ABLE TO DO SIG MORE SIGNIFICANT PROGRAMMING IN BEVERLY C. WILSON.
UM, AND WE ARE ALSO IMPROVING THE EXPO BUILDING SO THAT WE CAN GET THOSE, UM, GET ACTIVITIES GOING ON OUT THERE.
UH, WE'RE ALSO ACTIVELY TAKING OVER, UM, BOOKING OF FACILITIES FOR PRIVATE EVENTS.
UM, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SIGNIFICANT EVENTS.
I THINK THERE WERE FOUR IN APRIL.
SO WE'RE REALLY RAMPING THAT UP.
AND THEN, UM, REALLY KIND OF STARTING TO QUEUE UP THE, THE LARGER MASTER PLANNING PROCESS, WHICH IS WHAT IS TO BECOME THE FAIRGROUNDS IN THE, IN THE LONG-TERM FUTURE, BUT ALSO JUST TO, UM, GIVE A LOT OF CREDIT TO STAFF, LIKE LITERALLY.
UM, SINCE JANUARY ONE, THE, UM, THE WORK HAS BEEN, UM, DAILY AND SOMETIMES HOURLY, LITERALLY REPAIRS HVAC, ELECTRICAL ROOFS, PLUMBING ACCESS CONTROL, UH, REPLACING EQUIPMENT THAT WAS REMOVED, LIKE EVERY FIRE EXTINGUISHER REMOVED.
THERE WERE TABLES AND CHAIRS REMOVED.
THERE WERE OTHER EQUIPMENT THAT WE'VE, UM, RAMPS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO REPLACE.
UM, WATER AND SEWER LINES HAVE BEEN, JETTED DEBRIS HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM WATER LINES.
WE'VE IDENTIFIED SOME MAJOR SAFETY HAZARDS THAT WE'RE REPAIRING.
UM, WE'VE ENTERED INTO CONTRACTS WITH LANDSCAPING, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, SECURITY.
WE HAVE LICENSES WITH, UM, EACH OF THE YEAR ROUND TENANTS, AND WE'RE SUPPORTING EACH OF THEM.
LIKE I SAID, THE SCHOOL HAS BEEN THE, THE ONE THAT NEEDS THE MOST SUPPORT.
UM, UH, WE ARE, UM, INGRID, CAN I ADD? YES.
WE JUST RECEIVED A LIST FROM THE DAA ABOUT, UM, IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE ON THE PROPERTY SO THEY COULD DO THE FAIR.
SO WHILE WE'RE, AS WE MEET WITH THE FAIR, YOU KNOW, NOW THAT WE ARE THE ACTIVE PROPERTY MANAGERS, THERE'S A SORT OF BACK AND FORTH ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHO IS GONNA DO WHAT WORK, WHEN TO GET READY FOR THE FAIR IN TERMS OF BEAUTIFICATION OF THE SITE, MAKING SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SITE, GETTING BUILDINGS READY FOR THE SITE.
UM, SO KIND OF MANAGING THAT TRANSITION, MANAGING, GETTING TENANTS READY TO MOVE OUT AND GET OUTTA THE WAY FOR THE FAIR.
UM, AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, I KNOW DREW'S TEAM HAS BEEN HARD AT WORK, UM, REALLY DIGGING INTO PROGRAMMING.
WE'VE BROUGHT YOUTH JUDO ON SITE.
WE'RE LOOKING AT BRINGING PICKLEBALL, BMX VOLLEYBALL, ROLLER DERBY, BIKE EVENTS.
UM, SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO KIND OF BE GETTING SOME OF THE, UM, LESS EXCITING THINGS DONE.
I KNOW LIKE FIXING A ROOF IS NEVER AS FUN.
IT'S MUCH MORE FUN TO BUY FURNITURE.
SO WE'RE KIND OF IN FIXING THE ROOM AND FIXING THE ROOF AND DOING PLUMBING REPAIRS RIGHT NOW.
BUT, UM, SUPER EXCITED TO, UM, KIND OF, YOU KNOW, REALLY GET OUR HANDS DIRTY, REALLY GETTING THIS FAIR, UM, OFF THE GROUND.
YOU KNOW, THE DAA HAS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING THE FAIR AND THEY ARE ACTIVELY WORKING ON DOING THE FAIR, BUT IT'S VERY MUCH A PARTNERSHIP AND WILL BE A PARTNERSHIP AS WE ARE THE LANDLORDS IN KIND OF TRANSITIONING THAT THROUGH.
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SO, UM, THEN OKAY, SO LEMME GO.WE'RE ALSO LOOKING LET COUNCIL YEP.
COUNCIL MEMBER BARCO, UM, QUESTIONS.
I WAS GONNA ASK DIRECTLY, UH, WILL THERE BE PUBLIC OUTREACH THIS YEAR? WILL WE HAVE OUR WORKSHOPS AND, UH, OTHER, UH, CHARETTES FOR PROPERTY STARTING THIS YEAR? SO I, YOU KNOW, OUR GOAL IS, I IT TO START THAT MASTER PLAN RIGHT NOW, IT'S, IT'S IDENTIFIED IN YEAR TWO.
WE THINK THAT WE COULD MAYBE START EARLY, YOU KNOW, IN THE CALENDAR YEAR.
PEGGY, YOU WANNA WEIGH IN? I THINK, I THINK THE KEY IS, IS THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT THE PROPERTY KIND OF STABILIZED IN ITS CURRENT CONDITION, IT'S WE'RE, WE WOULD BE CHALLENGED TO, TO, TO PIVOT OUR FOCUS INTO OUTREACH, UM, ON SORT OF THAT FUTURE.
WE WILL BE DOING OUTREACH WHEN WE DO OUR, UH, WE ARE DOING OUTREACH, NOW WE'RE ASKING FOLKS WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO SEE ON THE PROPERTY, RIGHT? BUT, UM, ALSO WHEN WE'RE DOING THE PILOT PROGRAMMING, YOU KNOW, HOW DID YOU LIKE THAT? DID THAT WORK? HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MORE OF THAT? RIGHT, SO OUR GOAL IS TO DO KIND OF SOME MORE ITERATIVE FEEDBACK.
AS WE PILOT NEW PROJECTS, AS WE WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY, AS WE HAVE EVENTS, WE HAVE AN ONGOING CAMPAIGN.
UM, WE JUST SENT A, A MAILER OUT TO EVERY RESIDENT IN THE CITY, AND WE'VE GOT AN ONGOING SURVEY GOING.
SO THAT WILL INFORM THAT, THAT DISCUSSION.
UM, I THINK IN TERMS OF BRINGING ON A, A TEAM TO KICK OFF A MASTER PLANNING PROCESS, I THINK THAT WAS PROBABLY WHAT WOULD BE FURTHER OUT.
BUT I THINK THAT'LL BE HELPED BY THIS INITIAL YEAR OF REALLY BEING ON THE GROUND, UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE PROPERTY, WHAT'S WORKING, WHAT'S NOT WORKING, UM, JUST TO REALLY INFORM THAT CONVERSATION.
BECAUSE I THINK UP UNTIL NOW IT WAS REALLY, UH, I MEAN, MOSTLY A BLACK BOX.
LIKE, WE REALLY JUST DIDN'T KNOW.
AND THERE WE HAVE LEARNED A LOT, EVEN IN FOUR MONTHS, I SUSPECT, UH, YOU'RE, YOU'RE UH, RIGHT ON THE EFFORTS OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO BEFORE WE DO PUBLIC OUTREACH.
BUT I'M NOT SURE THE PUBLIC EXPECTATION WASN'T THAT, UH, WE'D BE HAVING THAT KIND OF CONVERSATION WITH THE PUBLIC.
SO I THINK MESSAGING OF WHEN THE ACTUAL TIMELINE OF THINGS IS OCCURRING IS GOOD MESSAGING.
AND I THINK THAT MIGHT BE TRUE OF ALL OUR PRIORITIES, IS THAT WE NEED, UM, A LITTLE ENCAPSULATED WHAT'S GOING ON NOW.
'CAUSE SOME OF OUR, SOME OF OUR PIECES ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ASPIRATIONAL SIDE OF THINGS AND, AND, YOU KNOW, CHEERING FOR THE GOOD THAT WE'RE SUCCEEDING AT.
BUT SOMETIMES WE NEED TO ADMIT THE, YOU KNOW, THE NITTY GRITTY OF IT.
MESSAGING ON ALL THESE MIGHT BE IMPORTANT.
AND I, I THINK WHAT, WHAT, UM, UH, MANAGER FLYNN WAS MENTIONING AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS PRESENTATION, AND SOMETHING I I'M GONNA BE WORKING ON TOO, IS REALLY, UM, YOU KIND OF SEE THERE'S PROBABLY EVEN JUST A DIFFERENT FORMAT.
WE'RE WORKING WITH A NEW PROGRAM TO, TO REALLY HELP BRING MORE TRANSPARENCY, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT'S LIKE, WELL, WHY YEAR ONE AND WHY YEAR TWO AND WHAT IS REALLY BEHIND ALL THESE? BECAUSE I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF DETAIL IN THERE, BUT UNDERNEATH EACH ONE OF THOSE LINES IS ANOTHER 10 LINES OR 20 LINES.
AND THEN THEY START KIND OF BUMPING INTO EACH OTHER.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT WAYS TO REALLY BUILD THE TRANSPARENCY AND REALLY LET EVERYONE UNDER THE HOOD, SO TO SPEAK, OF LIKE, WHAT GOES INTO EACH ONE OF THESE STEPS AND WHAT, WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THAT TIMELINE? SO OUR GOAL IS LIKE, ALONG, YEAH, ALONG WITH THOSE LIKE EXCITING ASPIRATIONAL PIECES IS MORE OF REALLY, UM, DAY LIGHTING.
EACH ONE OF THESE, UM, GOALS AND PRIORITIES, UM, WITH MORE SPECIFICITY SO THAT WE CAN, INSTEAD OF WAITING TILL THE END OF THE YEAR AND GOING THROUGH EACH ONE, IDEALLY WE'D BE COMING BACK MORE OFTEN WITH, YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF A, A DASHBOARD OF HERE'S WHERE WE'RE AT AND HERE'S WHERE YOU CLICK IF YOU WANNA GET INTO THE WEEDS.
'CAUSE WE CAN GO PRETTY DEEP AND WE CAN GIVE YOU MORE DETAIL THAN YOU EVER WANTED ON EACH ONE, BUT EVERYONE WANTS A DIFFERENT AMOUNT OF DETAIL ON A DIFFERENT PROJECT.
SO I ALSO NOTICED THAT WE HAVE FAIRGROUNDS, EVENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM DOWN IN THE OTHER PROJECTS AND FAIRGROUNDS, SPECIAL EVENTS PERMITTING DOWN IN THERE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALREADY GETTING CALLS FROM FOLKS WHO ARE RENTING AND RENT AVAILABILITY.
WHAT'S THE COST OF A HAUL THAT WE'RE TRYING TO RENT, RIGHT? UH, WHAT'S THE ALCOHOL PERMIT PROCESSING? AND YOU, YOU'RE GETTING, UH, THAT'S WHY THOSE ARE ONGOING, BECAUSE WE ARE DOING THOSE NOW AND WE EXPECT THAT TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE TIMELINE OF THE, OF THE MESS THOSE ARE CURRENTLY UNDER OF THE PLAN.
I, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE OTHER MAJOR, OUR OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS SEPARATED FROM FAIRGROUNDS.
FAIRGROUNDS SEEMS LIKE A GOOD CATCHALL, UH, YOU KNOW.
OH, SEE THE OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS AND OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS, YOU KNOW.
WE'RE BEARING, WE, LET'S, LET'S BRING THOSE UP INTO THE, THE FOREFRONT.
UM, AND WE'VE REACHED 10, WHICH IS ANOTHER PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, PERIOD AND HAVE TO ASK, IS THERE ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WHO'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON ITEMS FIVE THROUGH 10? AND, UH, THE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS IS NOW OPEN, AND I SEE NICOLA WANTS TO SPEAK.
PLEASE PROCEED DIRECTLY TO SPEAK AND TURN THE CARD IN CO UM, POST COMMENT.
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I JUST HAVE TWO THINGS.UM, WHOEVER DID THE CCB EXTRAVAGANZA, THANK YOU.
IS THAT YOUR WORDING? OR SOMEBODY'S WORDING? OKAY.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS, IS ON THE PARKING MANAGEMENT, UM, IF THERE COULD BE SOMEONE WHO IS WORKING ON THAT COMMITTEE WHO'S DISABLED, BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES HANDICAPPED PARKING SPOTS ARE PLACED IN SPECIFIC SPOTS THAT DON'T WORK WHEN YOU HAVE TO GET YOUR MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR OUT OF THE BACK OF YOUR CAR.
LIKE, I DON'T GO DOWNTOWN ANYMORE 'CAUSE I CAN'T DO IT BECAUSE THE ONLY SPOTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE PUT ME IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC WHEN I'M TAKING MY WHEELCHAIR OUT.
UM, MOVING TO, UH, IMPLEMENTATION OF BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY, I'M GONNA, YOU ALL START OFF, UM, UM, ONE SECOND BEFORE WE GET TO THE BLUEPRINT.
I JUST WANNA ECHO WHAT, UM, NICOLE JUST SAID.
I THINK WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT AT LEAST SOMEONE OR MAYBE MULTIPLE PEOPLE ARE ON THE COMMITTEE THAT ARE DISABLED.
COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT THE COUNCIL'S ACTUALLY GONNA GET A PREVIEW OF IN JUST TWO WEEKS, UM, AT THE APRIL 29TH WORKSHOP ON THIS.
SO THAT'S, UH, A NICE TEASE WHERE WE HAVE THE ADOPTION IN YEAR ONE, BUT WE'RE GONNA TAKE MULTIPLE BITES AT THAT APPLE.
UM, SO THE COUNCIL AND, AND ALL THE OTHER CCBS CAN, UH, INFORM THAT PROCESS.
THERE'S A LOT OF OVERLAP OF THE PROGRAMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE BLUEPRINT AND OTHER GOALS AND PRIORITIES IN HERE.
UM, WE KNOW THAT TO REDUCE THE GREENHOUSE GASES, THERE'S GONNA BE SIGNIFICANT MODE GONNA NEED TO HAPPEN, UM, REDUCING THOSE TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS.
UM, SO THAT MEANS A LOT OF ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, WHICH IS A, A PRIORITY IN HERE.
TREE PRESERVATION, UM, RELATED TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION, THE PARKING REGULATIONS THAT WERE ALREADY MENTIONED.
UM, CONNECTIONS WITH INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT AND OPEN SPACE.
SO, UM, THAT ADOPTION PROCESS IS SLATED FOR YEAR ONE.
UM, BUT WE RECOGNIZE THAT THAT'S NOT THE END OF THE PROCESS.
THAT'S REALLY JUST THE BEGINNING OF IT, BECAUSE EVERY YEAR THERE WILL BE, UM, TARGETS IN THAT BLUEPRINT, WHICH WILL, UM, NEED TO BE ADDRESSED BOTH IN STAFF RESOURCES AND, UM, BUDGET ALLOCATIONS.
SO WE RECOGNIZE THOSE, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT IS GOING TO BE ONGOING FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO HEATHER IF SHE HAVE ANYTHING SHE WANTS TO ADD.
I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD FOR, FOR SUCH A HUGE THING.
IN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT.
I WILL TAKE THIS ONE ON AGAIN FIRST, AND, UH, TURN IT OVER TO DREW IF HE WANTS TO ADD.
UM, THE GOOD NEWS IS THE COUNCIL ADOPTION IN YEAR ONE, UH, IS ALREADY DONE.
UH, THE PLAN ASPECT OF THE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT IS COMPLETE.
SO NOW WE'RE MOVING ON TO THE NEXT MILESTONES, WHICH INCLUDE DEVELOPING THAT PROGRAM.
AND THAT INVOLVES SIGNIFICANT, UH, PUBLIC OUTREACH STAFF TRAINING AND DEVELOPING THAT SCOPE FOR AN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR.
UM, SO THAT'S THE, THE INITIAL MILESTONE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN YEAR ONE.
UM, AGAIN, AS WE DISCUSSED AT COUNCIL, THERE'S GONNA BE, UH, SIGNIFICANTLY MORE, UM, TRANSPARENCY ON THE CHEMICAL USE.
SO THE, THE REPORTING STRUCTURE, MAKING THAT AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE, UM, MAKING CLEAR WHAT THE EXEMPTION, UM, PROCESS IS, UM, FOR THOSE THAT ARE REQUESTING IT.
AND THEN THAT DATA COLLECTION, EVALUATION, RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENT BEST PRACTICE LOOP, THAT'S, THAT'S GONNA BE ONGOING, UM, FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE PROGRAM.
SO HAPPY TO LET DREW AUGMENT THAT.
UM, GOOD EVENING, DREW HALTER, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION.
UH, JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE AGAIN, THIS IS THE UPDATE, THE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN UPDATE FROM THE 1999 PLAN.
SO THAT WAS A SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT.
AND LIKE PATRICK MENTIONED, OUR, OUR MILESTONE AND GOAL FOR THIS NEXT SIX MONTHS TO YEAR ONE IS THAT, UH, IPM COORDINATOR AS WELL AS WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS LIKE ROOSTER RUN ON AN IMPLEMENTATION THAT'S GONNA WORK, UM, FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THE OPERATION.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DREW.UM, SO, UH, OPEN SPACE ACQUISITION, I'LL KICK THAT OFF.
AND, UH, PATRICK AND DREW CAN HELP SUPPORT, UM, AS NEEDED.
UM, CAN YOU SCROLL THE PAGE UP? THANK YOU.
UM, SO OPEN SPACE ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT.
THIS IS REALLY IDENTIFYING SOME OF THE PRIORITIES WITHIN THAT BROADER TOPIC.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS REALLY BEEN A TOPIC IN THE COMMUNITY IN THESE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
A NUMBER OF EFFORTS HAPPENING, AND THIS IS, UH, A TOPIC THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT IT'S REALLY BASED ON OPPORTUNITY SOMETIMES.
SO, FOR INSTANCE, YOU'LL SEE, UH, CEDAR GROVE, UH, THIS IS, UM, A SITE THAT WE WERE EXPLORING FOR, UM, A PUBLIC PARK AND OPEN SPACE.
UM, IT IS IN YEAR ONE, LARGELY BECAUSE WE HAVE A WILLING SELLER AND WE HAVE, UM, IDENTIFIED FUNDING.
UM, SO THOSE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS THAT COME UP THAT MAYBE PUSH IT TO YEAR ONE BECAUSE IF IT'S PUSHED TO YEAR TWO, WE MIGHT LOSE SOME OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, THE GREENWAY, UM, AS I, I KNOW THAT ALL OF YOU ARE AWARE, UM, THERE'S, UH, SOME ACTIVE COMMUNITY EFFORTS.
UM, SO WE'RE MEETING WITH SOMEWHAT FREQUENCY WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO STAY ABREAST OF THOSE EFFORTS, CONTINUE TO, UM, SUPPORT THAT EFFORT IN WHATEVER WAY WE CAN.
UH, LA CRESTA, ENGLISH HILL, UM, THERE HAS BEEN SOME CHANGES IN PROPERTY OWNERSHIP IN THAT AREA, SO TRYING TO PIVOT AND LOOK AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
WITH HELEN PUTNAM PARK EXPANSION, THAT OPPORTUNITY REALLY WOULD MAKE IT WHERE YOU COULD WALK ON TRAILS FROM DOWNTOWN TO HELEN PUTNAM PARK.
SO THAT WOULD BE A VERY EXCITING, UM, BRIDGE FROM EXISTING, UM, OPEN SPACE AREA.
AND, UH, AN AMAZING RESOURCE FOR, UM, PETALUMA PAUL ELAINE LAFFERTY, BOTH SHOWN AS ONGOING, UM, TO CONTINUE OUR EFFORTS THERE.
SO HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, OR PATRICK, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD.
YEAH, JUST CHIME IN ON THOSE LAST TWO.
UM, THOSE ARE THE MANAGEMENT SIDE AS OPPOSED TO THE ACQUISITION SITE.
THOSE ARE PROPERTIES THE CITY ALREADY OWNS.
UM, AND THIS WOULD BE ABOUT EXPANDING THE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THOSE SITES IN A RESPONSIBLE WAY.
UM, IN THE CASE OF PAUL LANE, THERE'S A CONSERVATION EASEMENT, UH, THAT LIMITS, UH, THE, UH, USE OF THAT SITE.
AND WITH LAFFERTY RANCH, UM, IT'S REALLY ABOUT EXPANDING THAT, UH, PUBLIC ACCESS BEYOND WHAT IT CURRENTLY IS SO THAT, UM, MORE OF OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN, UM, PARTICIPATE IN PROGRAMMING OUT ON THOSE AMAZING SITES.
SO, AND THOSE ARE IN PERPETUITY.
UM, IT, I GUESS THE ONLY QUESTION I HAD IS THAT SOME OF THESE WERE TO BE INTENDED TO BE ONGOING CITY FACILITIES AND OTHERS, PERHAPS, UH, WERE ONLY ASSISTING IN OUT OUTSOURCING IT, HOPING THE COUNTY YOU'LL PICK IT UP IN THE END.
UM, HAVE, ARE WE TO THE PROCESS WHERE WE'VE IDENTIFIED FINAL OWNERSHIP IN ANY OF THESE? LIKE RIGHT NOW THE GREENWAY IS NOT CURRENTLY CITY LED.
SO WHICH ONE OF THESE ARE CITY LED AND WHICH ONES ARE, I THINK EVERYTHING WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE GREENWAY, UM, IS CITY LED.
UM, GREENWAY IS NOT CITY LED, BUT DEFINITELY CITY INVOLVEMENT AND, AND CONSULTATION.
UM, WE'RE ON, LET'S SEE, THAT WAS, UH, ITEM 13.
WE'RE ON TO, UH, DOWNTOWN INVESTMENTS IN BEAUTIFICATION.
SO THIS IS LARGELY A, A, UM, A CATCHALL.
UM, WE'VE TOUCHED ON A NUMBER OF THESE.
UH, IT'S A MULTI, I MEAN, IT'S REALLY A ALL AN ALL HANDS ON DECK, UM, EFFORT.
WE WANNA SEE OUR EXISTING BUSINESSES SUCCEED DOWNTOWN.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UM, IT'S A PLACE WHERE, UM, OUR COMMUNITY, UM, ACROSS THE BOARD SEES THEMSELVES, UM, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, ON THE WEEKENDS AND ENJOYING, UM, ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT OUR DOWNTOWN HAS TO OFFER.
AND SO, UM, THERE'S A NUMBER OF, UH, PROJECTS HERE THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED.
UM, WE ARE COMING TO YOU, UH, LATER THIS FISCAL YEAR ON A WORKSHOP ON PARKLETS.
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SO OUR FREE RANGE PROGRAM, WHICH WE, UM, STARTED UP IN RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC AND, UM, REALLY SUPPORTING OUR, UH, LOCAL BUSINESSES, UM, DURING THE SHUTDOWN, UM, UH, STARTING IN 2020.AND SO, UM, SO WE'RE LOOKING TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO WE'RE STARTING TO GET A LOT OF REALLY GREAT FEEDBACK, UH, NOT JUST FROM PROPERTY OWNERS, FROM OUR BUSINESSES, UM, AND OUR RESIDENTS AS WELL.
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SHARING THAT WITH YOU OVER THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS.
UM, AND THEN, UM, SOME OTHER AMENITIES HERE, UM, THAT WE'RE WORKING ON JUST TO ENSURE THAT DOWNTOWN'S A PLACE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO BE, PEOPLE WANNA THRIVE, UM, OR PEOPLE CAN THRIVE, WHETHER IT'S BUSINESSES OR, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WANTING TO SPEND THEIR MONEY.
SO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, IS THERE A, UM, PARKLET FEE THAT THESE MERCHANTS PAY THE CITY TO TAKE UP FOUR OR FIVE PARKING PLACES? SO, YES.
SO CURRENTLY THERE'S A TEMPORARY, UH, THERE WAS A TEMPORARY PROGRAM.
AND SO ESSENTIALLY IT'S A, AN ENCROACHMENT PERMIT THAT WE, UM, HAVE LOOKED AT.
WE'RE ALSO CHARGING, WE'RE CHARGING 70 CENTS A SQUARE FOOT FOR EACH OF THE PARKLETS RIGHT NOW FOR THEIR, FOR A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS OUR SPACE AND THEIR TENT.
AND, AND SOME OF THEM STILL HAVE THOSE UGLY ORANGE MM-HMM.
AND IT'S, IT, IT'S, I DON'T THINK IT'S BEAUTIFUL TO THE, TO THE CITY WORKSHOPS.
AND SOME OF THEM DON'T EVEN HAVE RESTAURANTS.
AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE GONNA COME BACK FOR OUR WORKSHOP IN TERMS OF KIND OF LOOKING AT THAT VOO RIGHT NOW, THOSE ARE REQUIRED FOR SAFETY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT KEEPS CARS FROM CRASHING INTO THE PEOPLE SITTING THERE.
BUT, UM, IN JUNE, THERE'LL BE A WORKSHOP ON, OKAY.
'CAUSE SOME OF THEM DESIGN GUIDELINES.
THERE'S ONE IN THE BOULEVARD THAT'S NOT EVEN BEING USED FOR TABLES AND BENCHES.
IT'S, IT'S NOT FOR RESTAURANTERS OR FOR DINERS, IT'S JUST FOR PEOPLE WAITING TO GET INTO THE RESTAURANT.
AND IT'S TAKING UP LIKE FIVE PARKING SPACES AND PRIME REAL ESTATE ON THE BOULEVARD COUNCIL MEMBER.
WE ARE, UH, WORKING ON THAT PROGRAM AND WE'LL BE BRINGING THAT TO COUNCIL FOR A PERMIT.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON.
I SEE, UM, BATHROOMS ON THE ONE YEAR.
AND JUST TO REITERATE THE IMPORTANCE OF BATHROOMS DOWNTOWN, BECAUSE I WAS TALKING TO DON FOREMAN YESTERDAY.
UM, SO, UH, THE, MY QUESTIONS ON THE, UH, BATHROOMS, WHY IS THAT NOT IN A CAPITAL PROJECT AND WHY IS IT ON THE, OUR LEGISLATIVE LIST? UH, AND JUST SIMILARLY, THE DOWNTOWN LIGHTING, WHY IS THAT NOT SIMPLY, UH, IN, IN, UH, CAPITAL PROJECTS AND NOT INCLUDED HERE? I WOULD SAY THE, THE LIGHTING'S PROBABLY MORE OF A MAINTENANCE ISSUE, UM, JUST LIKE THE TREE WALLS ARE.
BUT, UM, THE BATHROOM I THINK ENDED UP IN HERE, BUT IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE IN HERE 'CAUSE IT'S, IT IS A CIP AND, AND, UM, EE EVEN, I MEAN, LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD MARKETING IN HERE, BUT, UM, SOME OF IT MAY BE NOT IN GOALS AND PRIORITIES IMPLEMENTING MICRO TRANSIT, IF IT'S AN OPERATION COME JULY AT THE BEGINNING OF YEAR ONE, UH, ISN'T IT MORE APPROPRIATE IN THE OPERATIONS CON CONCERNS THAN IN OUR, WELL, IT'S ACTUALLY IT SHOULD BE IN THE DOWNTOWN AND THE PARKING MANAGEMENT, BECAUSE THAT'S TRULY ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE PARKING MANAGEMENT FOR US IS, IS ARE WE CALLING IT A PILOT OR, YOU KNOW, PART OF OUR STUDY BE A TO YEP.
UM, AND, UH, SIMILARLY IMPLEMENTING PUTNAM PLAZA COMMUNITY SPACE.
IS THAT A SIMPLE CIP? NO, IT'S, UH, PUBLIC ACTIVATION.
SO, YOU KNOW, COMING UP WITH MORE ACTIVATION OF OUR PUBLIC SPACES, NOT NECESSARILY A CIP, IT'LL BE IN CIP THIS YEAR PROGRAMMING.
THERE'LL BE PROGRAMMING THERE AND, OH, OKAY.
AND I DON'T SEE THE MUSEUM AS, UH, UH, ON HERE.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S A KEY DOWNTOWN, UH, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE PLACES PEOPLE REALLY COME TO SEE DOWNTOWN AND IT NEEDS TO HAVE ITS OWN ENTITY.
WELL, WE ARE, WE DO HAVE, UM, YOU'LL SEE, AND LIKE I MENTIONED, UM, IN MY OPENING COMMENTS, UM, PART OF OUR BUDGET CONVERSATION WILL BE ASSISTING THE MUSEUM WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDING SO THEY CAN ACHIEVE THAT NEXT, WELL, THEY'RE SEISMIC RETROFIT, BUT ALSO HELPING THEM WITH, WITH THEIR OPERATIONS.
SO ANYWAYS, WE WILL HAVE A SECOND CONVERSATION ABOUT THE MUSEUM.
BUDGET COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE.
UM, AM I, IS IT ACCURATE TO SAY THAT, UH,
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BIKE PARKING WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PARKING STUDY DOWNTOWN? YES.AND, UM, FINAL QUESTION OR FINAL COMMENT WHILE WE'RE DOING IT, IS, UM, BE INTERESTED TO HEAR, UH, ABOUT COMPARING THE, THE COST THAT WE'RE CHARGING FOR A PARKLET, UM, AND, AND WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF, UM, PAID PARKING AS WELL IN THE PARKING.
WE'LL HAVE THAT READY FOR THE WORKSHOP, AND I THINK THAT TAKES US TO THE HOMELESSNESS, TO THE HOMELESSNESS ITEM.
UM, SO WE ARE, UM, UH, READY TO KICK OFF YEAR THREE OF OUR THREE YEAR, UM, PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS.
UM, AND SO THERE WERE, UM, STAFF HAD REPORTED, UM, OUT EARLIER THIS YEAR, UM, UH, THAT WE WILL BE COMING, UH, TO COUNCIL, UH, WITH AN, A FULL EVALUATION OF THAT EFFORT.
AND SO, UM, AS WE, UM, GET TO THE END OF, OF THE THREE YEAR, OUR EXISTING THREE YEAR PLAN, UM, WE'RE WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, UM, EVALUATING THE STRATEGIES THAT WE PUT INTO PLACE, UM, UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE CURRENT NEEDS ARE ONCE WE HAVE BEEN WORKING, UM, AND INVESTING OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS.
UM, AND THEN, UM, HAVING ALL THAT INFORMATION BROUGHT TO COUNCIL SO THAT WE CAN, UM, UM, ITERATE AND COURSE CORRECT AS NEEDED.
AND SO WE'RE ALREADY HEARING ABOUT A, UM, A NUMBER OF EMERGING, UM, ISSUES, UH, A GAP IN SERVICE AND A GAP IN, UM, SHELTER FOR FAMILIES IN PETALUMA.
AND SO THAT'S, UH, ONE FOCUS AREA.
UM, JUST TO GIVE YOU A PREVIEW, I THINK THAT WAS A QUIET ACQUIESCENCE.
I DIDN'T HAVE MY THUMB, I HAD MY FINGER.
THERE WAS A PUBLIC COMMENT THAT, UM, RESONATED WITH ME, AND IT'S, WE HAVE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS OR UNHOUSED INDIVIDUALS HOUSING THEMSELVES IN THESE RVS PARKED ON OUR PUBLIC STREETS, AND THEY'RE AN EYESORE.
THEY'RE, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN'T MOVE EVERY 72 HOURS BECAUSE THIS IS, SOME OF THEM AREN'T IMMOVABLE, I DON'T THINK.
ANYWAY, IS THERE A, IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN DO TO LOOK INTO RESEARCH GETTING A LOT TO PUT THESE VEHICLES ON SO THAT THE PEOPLE CAN BE IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT? I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SAFE PARKING, CORRECT.
UM, BUT, BUT IT WOULD BE PART OF OUR HOMELESS.
'CAUSE THESE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE RIGHT NOW PARKED ON PAY LINDBERGH, LANE, SIDE STREETS, PUBLIC NA NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND THEY'RE LIVING IN THEIR VEHICLES.
THEY'RE LIVING IN BOATS, THEY'RE LIVING IN RVS, THEY'RE LIVING IN, IN BIG MOTOR HOMES.
IF WE COULD PUT THEM INTO A LOT THAT IS FENCED OFF FOR THEIR PROTECTION AND GIVE THEM THE HOMELESS SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE, THE ONES WHO WE PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, HOME KEY.
SO, SO COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, YES.
AND THAT, UH, WHEN WE COME BACK TO COUNCIL TO TALK ABOUT THE CURRENT STRATEGIES WE HAVE, 'CAUSE THAT WOULD, THERE IS, IS NOT JUST PROVIDING THE PARKING LOT IS PROVIDING THE WRAPAROUND SERVICES.
SO THAT'S JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING COUNCIL COULD CONSIDER.
UM, AND, AND, AND MAYBE, UM, AND FIND SITES, FINDING SITES.
BUT THE SERVICE PROVIDERS IS WHERE THE COST IS.
AND THIS, THE PATH COUNCIL HAS BEEN DOWN, UM, LOOKING AT, UH, SANCTIONED ENCAMPMENTS AND, AND, AND ALSO SAFE PARKING AND THINGS AND, AND HASN'T ELECTED TO THIS TIME BECAUSE SUPPORT SERVICES, YOU KNOW, JUST PLACING PEOPLE IN A PLACE IS MORE OF A MAINTENANCE EFFORT RATHER THAN A RESOLUTION EFFORT.
AND, UM, IT, IT HASN'T BEEN THE SUCCESSFUL PATH WITHOUT THE SERVICES.
AND WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT WORKING WITH OUR FAITH COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE'VE HAD, UM, SOME OF OUR FAITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS OFFERING, UM, THEIR LOTS, BUT THEN WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THOSE SERVICES.
AND THOSE SERVICES ARE COSTLY.
I MEAN, YOU SEE THAT WHETHER IT'S, UM, OUR, UM, HOME KEY, WHETHER IT'S OUR, UH, UM, PEOPLE'S VILLAGE, UM, EVEN SAFE RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND SAFE IS TYPICALLY THE ONES THAT HELP CHECK UP ON THOSE FOLKS THAT ARE, ARE LIVING IN THEIR RVS.
AND, AND I KNOW RECENTLY WE HAD A NEIGHBOR, IT WAS A DUMPING, SOMEONE HAD, UM, AN RV AND THEY WERE DUMPING THEIR WASTE.
I, I DON'T KNOW THE TERMS. I, I'M NOT
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AN RVR, BUT IT, IT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM A, AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISPOSE OF IT CORRECTLY, SO IT'S NOT A HAZARDOUS WASTE TO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.THEN I WOULD REFERENCE IT TO AN ARTICLE IN THE MARIN IJ ABOUT THEIR TROUBLES.
UM, IT'S PARTIALLY IN NEVADA AND OTHER COUNTY EXPOSED AREAS, AND IT, IT CLAIMS A POLLUTION TO THE PETALUMA RIVER FROM ALL THE ENCAMPMENTS THAT ARE OUT, ALL THE PARKING THAT'S OUT THERE.
UM, AND SO WE WE'RE GONNA HAVE A WORKSHOP ON, ON HOMELESSNESS.
SO, UM, AND THEN WE ARE AT, THAT IS 15, UH, IN OUR, IN OUR LIST.
I'D LIKE TO OPEN THE, UM, UM, PUBLIC COMMENT ON, ON THOSE ITEMS. AND I ALREADY HAVE A CARD FROM SUSAN KIRK.
SO I WILL INVITE SUSAN KIRKS TO SPEAK.
FIRST
MY NAME IS SUSAN KIRKS, AND A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND BEFORE I SPEAK ON THE OPEN SPACE ISSUE.
I HAVE TWO MASTER'S DEGREES, A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE.
I'VE TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL AS AN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR.
I WAS A LICENSED ACUPUNCTURIST AS ONE OF MY CAREERS IN SONOMA AND MARIN COUNTIES FOR 15 YEARS.
WHEN I MOVED TO PETALUMA, I ADOPTED TWO RESCUED HORSES, AGES ONE AND ONE RESCUED FROM SLAUGHTER.
THEY GREW UP ON PAULA LANE FOR 12 YEARS, AND THEY ARE NOW 23 AND 24 YEARS OLD.
SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND FOR THE COMMUNITY WHO MAY BE NEW ABOUT ME.
I LEAD PAULA LANE ACTION NETWORK, BADGER CONSERVATION NONPROFIT, THE ONLY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NONPROFIT BASED IN PETALUMA.
AND I SERVE ON THE BOARD OF MADONE AUDUBON SINCE 2008, AND I SERVE AS THE PRESIDENT OF THAT ORGANIZATION.
HERE'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO SAY TO YOU ABOUT THE PAOLO LANE OPEN SPACE LAND.
THE CITY OF PETALUMA HAS CAUSED SEVERE HABITAT DESTRUCTION, DISPLACEMENT OF WILDLIFE, AND SO MUCH HARM THAT WORDS REALLY CANNOT DESCRIBE.
THE CITY IS NOT EQUIPPED TO HOLD TITLE OR MANAGE A PROPERTY LIKE THIS.
AND THERE ARE VOLUNTEERS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND MORE THAN ONE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION WHO HAVE DEDICATED OUR LIVES TO PROVIDING A SERVICE AND A COMMUNITY AMENITY, A NATURE PRESERVE FOR PETALUMA.
AS A CONSERVATIONIST, I CONSULT WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS ON THE SPECIES THAT HELPED US SAVE THAT LAND.
AMERICAN BADGER DRIVEN FROM THE LAND IN 2021 FROM THE CITY'S VIOLENT DESTRUCTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A ROADWAY IN THE MIDDLE OF HABITAT, WHICH CAUSED THE ADULT FEMALE BADGER, WHOSE NAT TERRITORY IS THAT LAND TO FLEE FOR HER LIFE WITH HER FIVE MONTH OLD CUB.
NOW, WHAT WE WANT TO REQUEST, AND WE HAVE REQUESTED, BUT NO ONE ON YOUR COUNCIL HAS BEEN WILLING TO SAY IT, IS TO ASK THE CITY MANAGER TO BEGIN A CONVERSATION WITH THE PETAL IN THE CITY SCHOOLS DISTRICT FOR A POSSIBLE TITLE TRANSFER.
I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR FROM YOUR COUNCIL THAT THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE TOLD YOU WE CAN'T HANDLE THAT WE HAVE TOO MUCH ON OUR PLATE.
PLEASE BEGIN THE CONVERSATION.
THERE IS A BUNCH OF SUPPORT FOR THIS.
THE TIME HAS EXPIRED RESPONSIBILITY, AND WE'LL BE MOVING TO CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT RIGHT NOW.
THE, UH, THERE ARE NO OTHER SPEAKERS IN THE ROOM, NO OTHER CON OKAY.
PUBLIC COMMENT CLOSED ON THIS FIVE SET.
AND SO WE'LL MOVE BE MOVING TO THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS SEA LEVEL RISE FLOODPLAIN MODELING, INSURANCE MAPS AND ADAPTATION PLAN.
UM, IT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO THAT I WAS BEFORE YOU AND PRESENTING SOME MAPS.
UM, THIS IS A EFFORT THAT'S BEEN UNDERWAY FOR A BIT.
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OF, UH, EXECUTION THAT YOU SEE, THERE'S ONE LITTLE CHANGE I NEED TO MAKE THE, UH, THE SECOND ITEM LISTED, UM, AS YEAR TWO, INFORMED RESILIENCY FRAMEWORK AND GPU, THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW.AND THEN YEAR TWO IS THE FLOOD AND SEA LEVEL RISE ADAPTATION PLAN.
SO THAT'S THE PLAN THAT WE ARE, UM, UH, WE WILL BE DEVELOPING TO UTILIZE THE DATA FROM THE MAPS AND THE MODELING TO, UM, EXPLORE AND RECOMMEND, UH, ADAPTATION PROJECTS, PRIORITIZE THEM AND SET US UP FOR, UH, FOR FUNDING FOR LONG-TERM ADAPTATION.
UM, IN THE MEANTIME, WE WILL ALSO BE FINALIZING THE MAPPING AND, UH, UH, GOING THROUGH THE FORMAL PROCESS WITH FEMA TO INCORPORATE THESE MAPS, UH, AS OUR FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS.
THAT'S ABOUT A TWO YEAR PROCESS AND SHOWS THAT CONCLUDING AND, UH, WHAT WOULD BE THE END OF YEAR TWO.
AND, UM, THE ELEVATION CERTIFICATE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT.
HAVEN'T TALKED A LOT ABOUT THAT, BUT, UM, AND THERE'S ACTUALLY TECHNICALLY A NEW TERM FOR ELEVATION CERTIFICATES.
THEY'RE NOW CALLED CONSTRUCTION CERTIFICATES.
BUT THESE ARE THE, THE SURVEYED, UH, ELEVATION CERTIFICATES OF FINISHED FLOORS.
AND, UM, WE'RE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THOSE FOR, UH, FOR PROPERTIES IN THE SPECIAL, UH, FLOOD HAZARD AREAS.
AND WITH OUR NEW MAPS, UH, OUR NEW FLOOD MAPS, SETTING ASIDE SEA LEVEL RISE, BUT WITH THE NEW FLOOD MAPS, THERE ARE SOME PROPERTIES THAT, UH, HAVE COME INTO THE FLOODPLAIN, PARTICULARLY ALONG THE CREEKS.
AND, UM, UH, BUT IT'S PERHAPS JUST A CORNER OF THE PROPERTY, NOWHERE NEAR THE STRUCTURE WHERE THE, WHERE THE FLOODPLAIN IS ENCROACHING.
AND IF WE CAN PROVIDE ELEVATION CERTIFICATES AND COME UP WITH A PROGRAM TO ASSIST PROPERTY OWNERS, UM, THAT FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY, WE CAN ES ESSENTIALLY, UM, ELEVATE THEM OUT OF THE FLOODPLAIN DESIGNATION, UH, WITH THAT, WITH THAT CERTI, WITH THAT CERTIFICATE.
SO SOMETHING WE'RE LOOKING INTO, UM, AND THAT PROGRAM, UH, WILL, WILL START UP, UH, IN YEAR TWO AS WELL.
THUMBS OR FINGER? UM, SO, SO, UM, DOES THIS WORK INFORM OTHER GENERAL PLAN, UM, WORK LIKE LAND ZONING, UH, EFFORTS? DO YOU HAVE TO FINISH THE SEA LEVEL RISES BEFORE THEY CAN BEGIN OR FINISH THEIR EFFORTS? SO, I'M SORRY, SAY THAT AGAIN? I DIDN'T HEAR ALL OF THAT.
DOES THE, DOES THE SEA LEVEL RISE ANALYSIS AND, AND WORK THAT YOU'RE PRODUCING NEED TO BE FINISHED PRIOR TO OTHER ELEMENTS OF THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE? DOESN'T IT INFORM IT IT IS INFORMING THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE? ABSOLUTELY.
AND, AND IT IS, UM, IT IS, UH, THE, THE MAPS THAT WE PRESENTED ARE WHAT ARE, WHAT IS BEING USED FOR THAT UPDATE.
UM, NEXT ON THE LIST IS, UH, THE, UM, OF NORTH STATION SPECIFIC PLAN.
CAN I MAKE A MOTION TO GO PAST 11? YOU'D BE WELCOME TO MAKE THAT MOTION.
AND WE HAVE A SECOND FROM NOW.
AND CAN WE HAVE A QUICK ROLL CALL VOTE, UM, TO CONTINUE BUSINESS AFTER 11 BARNICLE AYE.
SORRY FOR THE INTERRUPTION THERE.
UH, NEXT UP IS OUR, UM, UPCOMING SECOND STATION.
AND SO WE WERE AWARDED $1.15 MILLION TO CREATE AND ADOPT A SPECIFIC PLAN FOCUSED ON OUR IMMINENT, UM, SECOND STATION ON THE NORTH SIDE OF TOWN.
WE ARE EXPECTING COMPLETION OF THE STATION BY YEAR'S END.
UM, AND SO WE ARE CLOSELY, UH, UH, TRACKING THE START OF THE SPECIFIC PLAN, UM, UH, WITH THAT EFFORT.
UH, ANOTHER, UM, PROJECT THAT WE WILL HAVE, UM, NEWS TO SHARE, UH, BEFORE YEARS END ALSO IS THE, UM, THE HOUSING SITE THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING, UH, DILIGENTLY, UH, MULTI-YEAR EFFORT THERE TO REALIZE
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SOME CRITICAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON SITE.AND THAT WILL REALLY, UM, JUMPSTART THE CONVERSATION IN ADDITION TO THE OUTCOME OF THE VOTER INITIATIVE ON THE URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY.
AND SO THE FOCUS BEING, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE GROW AND EVOLVE OVER THE NEXT, UM, YOU KNOW, 20, 25 YEARS, UH, WITH, UH, WITH THE TRAIN STATION, UH, WITH, UH, TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT, UM, NOT JUST, UH, WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF OUR NEW TRAIN STATION, UH, BUT ALL ALONG THE MCDOWELL CORRIDOR.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER KEY CORRIDOR THAT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
UM, AND WE WILL TOUCH ON IT AND THEN WE'LL WANT TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A, A DEEPER DIVE AS PART OF THE SPECIFIC PLAN.
DID I READ CORRECTLY THAT YOU HAD TILL 2034 TO FINISH THAT? YOU DID READ THAT CORRECTLY? SO WE, WE HAVE BEEN GIFTED ESSENTIALLY 10 YEARS, UM, TO COMPLETE THE SPECIFIC PLAN.
UM, AND I ALSO IDENTIFIED IN THE, IN THE Q AND A, UM, REASONS WHY WE MAY NOT WANNA WAIT THAT LONG.
UM, JUST WITH THE ONGOING OUTREACH THAT WE ARE HAVING, THERE'S A LOT OF MOMENTUM RELATED TO THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
UM, AND SO THIS IS, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR OPPORTUNITY TO STRIKE WHILE, WHILE THE IRON IS HOT COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.
UM, AND, UH, ARE THERE OTHER CORRIDOR STUDIES THAT, UH, UM, ARE PRIORITIES THAT ARE NOT, DIDN'T MAKE THIS, UH, 28 LIST, UH, WASHINGTON COURT? OR DO WE HAVE SOMETHING THERE? UM, YEAH, SO WE WILL BE PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT CORRIDOR.
AND SO, UM, AGAIN, WE'LL HAVE A PREVIEW OF THIS IN TWO WEEKS.
UM, THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THE, UM, THE NORTH STATION IS IT IS ONE OF TWO PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND THAT'S WHAT UNLOCKED THE MILLION DOLLARS FROM MTC.
UM, OUR CURRENT, UM, OR OUR, OUR ONGOING GENERAL PLAN UPDATE WILL EXPLORE, YOU KNOW, QUESTIONS LIKE WHAT, WHAT TO DO WITH THE WASHINGTON CORRIDOR.
WE DO HAVE A, UM, OPPORTUNITY POTENTIALLY.
UM, WE HAVE THE OTHER SPECIFIC PLAN ON OUR BOOKS, WHICH IS, UM, FOCUS ON OUR DOWNTOWN STATION, UM, THE CENTRAL SPECIFIC, UM, PETALUMA SPECIFIC PLAN.
UM, AND SO AS, AS THOSE NEEDS ARISE, UM, WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES DOWN THE LINE.
SO THIS TIME THE WASHINGTON CORRIDOR IS NOT IN OUR 28 PRIORITY.
IT'S NOT IN OUR ACCEPTABLE WORK AT THIS TIME.
WELL, IT, IT WILL BE, UM, AS PART OF THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE, SO, YOU KNOW, WITH THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE COMES THE POTENTIAL FOR REZONING.
AND SO, UM, WE WILL BE LOOKING, WE DO THINK THERE'S A, A KEY CORRIDOR ALONG WASHINGTON FOR US TO EXPLORE AS PART OF THE GENERAL PLAN.
UM, SO WE'LL BE HAVING THAT DISCUSSION VERY, VERY SOON AS PART OF THE GENERAL PLAN, BUT NOT AT A LEVEL OF DEPTH THAT, UH, WOULD REQUIRE YOU TO I TO IDENTIFY MILESTONES.
AND WE, DO WE HAVE A GRANT ON THAT ON WASHINGTON? NO SEPARATE FUNDING AT THIS TIME? NOT AT THE MOMENT.
SO REALLY THE KEY, UM, GRANT OPPORTUNITY IS THROUGH MTC.
AND SO WHAT ALLOWS US TO ACCESS THAT GRANT, UM, IS THE PDA.
SO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE TWO PDAS, UM, AND WE OPTED TO SELECT, UM, AND GO FOR, UM, OUR SECOND STATION, PDA THANK YOU POLICE OVERSIGHT.
UM, I'M SORRY, I GOTTA LOOK LEFT AND RIGHT.
UM, MOSTLY, UH, MY QUESTION ON THIS JUST PERTAINS TO, UM, THE NUMBER OF PLANNING AND OUTREACH EFFORTS THAT ARE ALREADY UNDERWAY WITH THE GENERAL PLAN AND THEN THE ZONING CODE UPDATE, THE FAIRGROUNDS PROCESS GETTING STARTED, UM, POTENTIAL CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
UM, AND MY, MY CONCERN, I, I GUESS WHEN I LOOK AT THIS IS LIKE WE'RE STARTING ANOTHER PRETTY SIGNIFICANT IN-DEPTH PLAN.
UM, WHILE WE'VE GOT A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS GOING ON, AND WHEN I HEAR, SEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT IS, YOU KNOW, INVOLVED IN IT, IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S OBVIOUSLY COMMS DEPARTMENT, CITY MANAGER'S, OFFICE, ALL OF THAT STUFF INVOLVED IN SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
AND, UM, AND THEN I THINK ABOUT SORT OF OTHER PET PROJECTS THAT I HAVE, LIKE A PARKS MASTER PLAN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT I THINK IS, UM, CRITICAL THAT WE START TO TAKE ON.
UM, AND THAT WE HAVE 10 YEARS TO DO THIS.
IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE A YEAR ONE THING.
AND IT FEELS LIKE IF THERE'S, UM, LIKE IF WE'RE GONNA BE LIKE WE'RE, WE'RE STACKING, IT
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FEELS LIKE WE'RE STACKING MORE STUFF ON OUR PLATE AND, AND LIKE WE MIGHT WANT TO JUST LIKE MAKE SURE THAT WE LIKE SHOVE THE GENERAL PLAN ACROSS THE FINISH LINE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT BEFORE WE TAKE ON ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT, YOU KNOW, SORT OF OUTREACH AND PLANNING EFFORT.AND PART, I MEAN, IT'S A, THERE'S A FINE BALANCE THERE.
SO, UM, WHAT, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS, UH, BY END OF YEAR FISCAL YEAR ONE, THAT'S JUST TO, UM, GET SOMEONE ON BOARD.
AND SO THE IDEA IS WE'LL ADOPT THE GENERAL PLAN.
WE'LL HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT PROCESS, UM, AND THERE WON'T BE TOO MUCH TIME BETWEEN THEN AND, UM, STARTING, I MEAN, I A HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE WITH, UM, NEEDING TO CONSIDER ALL THE RESOURCES THAT IT TAKES, UM, NOT JUST ON THE STAFFING SIDE, BUT ALSO ON THE COMMUNITY SIDE.
UM, JUST THERE'S FATIGUE OBVIOUSLY JUST WITH, UM, THE NUMBER OF, UM, OUTREACH EVENTS THAT WE'RE ASKING THE COMMUNITY TO DO.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE, WE NEED TO BALANCE AND BE AWARE OF.
I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING TO, UH, I DON'T KNOW HOW THE REST OF THE COUNCIL FEELS, BUT I'D BE FINE.
LIKE IF YOU DIG INTO THIS AND YOU SEE THAT THERE'S GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, A, A HEAP OF OUTREACH EFFORTS GOING ON ALL AT THE SAME TIME, I'D BE FINE PUSHING THIS OFF A YEAR.
OTHER COMMENTS? DID I MISS, UM, THEN, UH, ON POLICE OVER, UH, OVERSIGHT MODEL? UM, DO, CAN I GET A THUMBS UP OR, UH, WOULD WE LIKE TO INVITE CHIEF TO SPEAK OR DO WE HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT? GOOD.
I WAS TRYING TO SAVE YOU THE WALK.
UM, ON, UH, SIMILARLY, UH, CAN, CAN WE AGREE ON CITYWIDE, UH, DIVERSITY, EQUITY INCLUSION ALSO? THANK YOU.
AND, UM, CAN I ASK YOU, THE LEAD STACK IS AMERICA? UM, WELL, WE'RE GOING THROUGH A TRANSITION SO THAT WE'LL BE HR AT, AT, UM, WE'LL BE TRANSITIONING, UH, BOTH TO HR, UM, THE ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, I SHOULD SAY ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND STRATEGIC PLAN ON THE NEXT ONE.
UM, THIS WAS BASED UPON THE EMPLOYEE SURVEY.
AND SO WE, WE NEED TO BE WORKING ON MISSION AND VISION, FINISH THE VALUES.
SO, UM, WE'LL BE MAKING THAT TRANSITION WITH HR AND, AND WITH THE EXEC TEAM.
AND I WANNA, UM, UM, THANK THE HR STAFF FOR BEING HERE AND NOT ENGAGING IN ROBUST DISCUSSION.
BUT, UH, AND THAT BRINGS US TO 20, I THINK, UH, ON OUR LIST.
I'D LIKE TO OPEN THE, UH, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AGAIN.
AND, UH, DWAYNE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK? UM, YES, I WOULD.
DWAYNE BELLINGER HERE AND HAVING, UH, TRAVELED TO MIDWEST TO, UH, WATCH THE ECLIPSE, IT WAS INTERESTING TO SEE THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF THE, UH, CLIMATE CHANGE THAT'S GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
UH, THE, FOR THE FLOODS, THE WATER, THE, I, I HAD CLEAR SKIES, BUT, UH, THE, THE AMOUNT OF RAIN AND, UH, THAT THAT'S GOING ON OF THE PROJECTS THAT YOU'RE DOING THAT CAN, UH, THAT CAN SAVE US THE MOST CARBON.
THE PLACE WHERE MOST PE CARBON PETALUMA CAN BE SAVED IS, IS THERE AT THE TRAIN STATION BUILDING A PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED COMMUNITY THAT, UH, DOESN'T HAVE CARS OR HAS A MOST ONE PER RESIDENCE.
AND, UH, OR HAS A RENTAL AGENCY THAT, UH, LETS 'EM SHARE THEIR CARS OF THESE AND WATCHING THE PUBLIC, UH, DISPLAY WHEN THEY OPENED UP THE, THE, STARTED THE DIGGING AT THE TRAIN STATION.
I, I LIKE TO THINK THAT, UM, THAT THE NORTH STATION WILL GENERATE A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM AS IT GETS OPEN, BUT IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE TO HAVE YOUR CONSULTANT ON BOARD TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE DATE THEY OPENED THAT STATION, UH, LATER THIS YEAR, THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE YOUR CONSULTANT ON BOARD.
I BELIEVE THAT'S OUR ONLY, UH, SPEAKER.
AND SO, UM, MOVING BACK, I BELIEVE WE'RE ONTO, UH, OUR ERP SOFTWARE.
OH, I WAS HOPING FOR SOME THUMBS UP.
WAIT, WAIT, WAIT FOR IT FOR IT.
UM, I, I, I THINK WE'RE ON BOARD WITH IT.
IF IT SAYS THAT IT'S ONE OF THE AGGRESSIVELY SUCCESSFUL TOPICS FOR THIS YEAR, IT, IT'S THE BACKBONE OF EVERYTHING WE DO IN THE CITY.
LITERALLY IT'S, IT'S ALL OF OUR FINANCIALS.
IT'S OUR UTILITY BILLING, AND IT'S ALSO ALL OF OUR PAYROLL.
SO ALL OF THAT WRAPPED UP, CONNECTED TO GIS NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.
WELL, I'M ALSO OF THE PURCHASING POLICIES, YOU'RE PURCHASING POLICY.
SO IF YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THAT NEXT, UM,
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AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.UTILIZATION OF WEST WING TAKING BACK CITY HALL.
UM, MAYBE WE COULD TRY A THUMBS UP FOR THIS AS WELL.
UM, THEN, UH, SENIOR SERVICE RE REIMAGINING.
I THINK WE'D LIKE TO HEAR A LITTLE THERE.
UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY JUST HIGH LEVEL, THE, THE MILESTONE AND THE GOALS HERE IS TO EXPAND, UH, IN-PERSON PROGRAMMING FOR OUR AGENT ADULTS TO A SEVEN DAY OPERATION.
UM, AS OF MAY, WE WILL HAVE, UH, INCREASED HOURS FOR OUR SENIOR CENTER ON FRIDAY, BUT WE KNOW THE DEMAND, WE KNOW THE NEED, UM, AND WE KNOW AND HAVE IDENTIFIED PARTNERS HERE LOCALLY TO EXPAND THOSE SERVICES.
AND AGAIN, A LOT OF THIS EFFORTS ALREADY UNDERWAY.
SO WE'RE JUST HERE TO UPDATE YOU AND, AND LET YOU KNOW THE PATH THAT WE'RE ON.
COUNCIL MEMBER, SHRIMP VICE MAYOR, UM, SOME OF THE FOLKS WORK AT THIS, UH, SENIOR CENTER THERE, UH, HAVE SUGGESTED THEY REALLY NEED EXPANSION.
A WHOLE NEW BUILDING, WHOLE NEW LOCATION, DOUBLE THE SIZE, DOUBLE THE SERVICES.
UM, ARE WE NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT THAT AT THIS TIME? OR CAN WE PUT TOGETHER A, A PLAN TO MOVE FORWARD THAT, THAT MIGHT BE A POSSIBILITY EVEN TO, BECAUSE OUR, UH, THE, THE SPACE THERE IS COMPLETELY NOW, UM, WAY TOO SMALL FOR, FOR WHAT, WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING AND THE NEED.
GREAT QUESTION AND I APPRECIATE IT.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SHRIVES, UM, I THINK IT'S ILLUSTRATES THAT WE'RE OFFERING, UM, SERVICES AND PROGRAMMINGS BEYOND THE SENIOR CENTER.
WE'VE GOT PROGRAMS AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER, UM, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
UH, THE FAIRGROUNDS PRESENTS SOME MORE OPPORTUNITIES WITH ADDITIONAL FACILITIES.
UH, SO WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT KINDA CREATIVELY HOW TO PIVOT.
UM, BUT NOT JUST IN CITY OWNED FACILITIES, BUT OTHER NONPROFITS AS WELL.
UM, THIS IS A GROWING AREA, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT ANY AND ALL OPPORTUNITIES.
BUT AGAIN, IT'S THOSE SERVICE PROVIDERS, I THINK THAT WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON, UM, PARTNERING WITH, CREATING GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH, AND THEN WORKING TOGETHER TO SHARE RESOURCES, UM, TO GET PEOPLE MOVING AND TRANSPORTED TO THESE AREAS TOO.
BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO, UM, UH, SEE THAT MAYBE YEAR TWO OR THREE LISTED ON THIS ONE SAYING THAT WE'RE GONNA BE PLANNING FOR EXPANSION OF SOME POINT IN TIME, UH, AND WORKING ON THAT AS, AS A GOAL.
UM, MAYBE NOT THIS YEAR, BUT MAYBE I, I, SO THESE PEOPLE KNOW WE'RE THINKING ABOUT IT.
'CAUSE WE HAVE AN AGING POPULATION HERE THAT'S GONNA NEED A LOT MORE SERVICES.
AND IF A FEW OF US BECOME MORE HOMELESS BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMICS, THERE'LL EVEN BE MORE OF US THAT ARE NEEDING SERVICES.
SO I EXPECT A DOUBLING A NEED, UH, OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS, UM, 10 YEARS FROM NOW.
SO, UH, I THINK WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT THAT AND PLANNING A LITTLE BIT MORE AHEAD AND, UH, LOOKING AT EXPANSION OF SERVICES, UH, TREMENDOUSLY DOWN, DOWN THE ROAD HERE.
ARE, ARE THERE ANY DEMO, EXCUSE ME, DEMOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS GOING OUT 10 OR 20 YEARS AS TO WHAT THE NUMBER OF SENIORS AND, YOU KNOW, OVER 70 FIVES MIGHT BE IN THIS COMMUNITY, UM, OVER THAT TIMEFRAME? YES, I THINK APPRECIATE THE QUESTION.
I MEAN, WE'VE GOT OUR CHAIR FOR THE SENIOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE HERE IN, IN THE CHAMBERS.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, CALIFORNIA RELEASED AND THEY RELEASED THEIR REPORT, UM, MASTER PLAN ON, UH, AREA OF AGENTS AGING.
SO THERE IS A LOT OF INFORMATION AND DATA.
AND THEN EVEN WITHIN THE COUNTY, WE USE A LOT OF THE, THE DATA THAT THEY'RE COLLECTING.
SO THERE'S GOOD INFORMATION ON THE PROJECTIONS.
AND, AND YES, WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT.
COULD, COULD, AT, AT A CONVENIENT POINT, COULD STAFF PROVIDE COUNSEL WITH A, A BASIC SUMMARY OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE FOR US.
I KNOW THAT WAS REALLY A QUESTION ABOUT PICKLEBALL.
BUT, UH, IF, IF YOU COULD PROVIDE DEMOGRAPHIC ALSO, UH, FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS ABOUT THE, THE YOUTH PROJECTIONS, WHICH THEY NEED AND PROJ AND PROVIDE MM-HMM.
UM, AND, UM, AND, AND, AND I'D SECOND THAT, UH, BEING, UH, DOING SIGNIFICANT EXPANSION AT THE FAIRGROUND FOR SENIOR CENTER COUNCIL MEMBER NOW.
AND NOT JUST A YOUTH MR. MAYOR, BUT ALSO OUR YOUNGER, OUR, OH, NOT JUST A YOUTH, BUT OUR YOUNGER, OUR PRESCHOOLER.
I THINK WE NEED TO KNOW, I HEARD SOMETHING LIKE IN 10 YEARS THERE'S GONNA BE MORE SENIORS THAN TODDLERS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S FACTUAL, BUT IT'S TRUE.
THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE I GOT IT.
UM, I BELIEVE YOU'D BE LANDSCAPE ASSASSIN DISTRICTS.
AND, UM, LET SEE, DO WE HAVE, DO WE HAVE A QUESTION OR A THUMBS A QUESTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE? YEAH.
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IS THERE LIKE A NEAR TERM PER LIKE, IMPERATIVE FOR THIS PROJECT? I GUESS I JUST HAVEN'T, IT'S LIKE KIND OF A NEW THING FOR, TO SEE ON THE LIST FOR THE LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS.THE NEAR TERM IS TO UPDATE HISTORICAL ENABLING LEGISLATIONS RECORDS RECORD KEEPING FOR ALL 50, UH, LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS.
SO THIS WAS REALLY AN INITIATIVE THAT WAS BORN OUT OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY INVESTMENTS THAT THE CITY HAS MADE.
UM, AND REALLY SOME OF OUR STAFF, AMONG OUR MANAGEMENT ANALYSTS THAT ARE GOING IN AND A LOT OF THESE RECORDS, UM, WERE INCOMPLETE OR LACK THE DETAIL THAT THAT STAFF COULD USE TO ACCURATELY REFLECT SCOPE FOR MAINTENANCE.
SO THE NEAR TERM IS CLEAN UP THOSE RECORDS, FIND WHAT WE CAN USE, WHAT WE CAN'T, AND THEN DEVELOP A COUPLE OF COMMUNICATION TOOLKITS THAT WE CAN ENGAGE SOME OF THESE, UM, LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS, MANY WHO WE ALREADY HAVE BECAUSE THEY'VE SELF ORGANIZED, UM, AND USE THEM TO GO THROUGH A COUPLE OF PRO A COUPLE OF PROCESSES TO, UM, UPDATE THEIR, THEIR SCOPE AND TRY TO INCREASE THEIR LEVELS OF SERVICE, CREATE KIND OF THAT, UM, PROOF OF CONCEPT.
AND THEN WE CAN TAKE THAT AND EXPAND OUT, SO NEAR TERM UPDATE RECORDS, CREATE THAT COMMUNICATIONS TOOLKIT, UM, AND THEN START WITH WE'D SAY TWO TO THREE LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS, AND THEN COME BACK WITH KIND OF A MODEL THAT, THAT WE FEEL WORKS.
UM, PUSHING ON ONTO OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS.
ACTUALLY WE'VE GOT ACT YEAH, GO AHEAD.
I WAS JUST GONNA ASK MAYOR IF WE COULD GO TO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, BECAUSE IT'S MORE OF A YES.
LESS OF A DISCREET PROJECT, LIKE THE OTHER ONES ARE PERFECT.
UH, I NEED TO PULL UP MY, I CAN'T READ WHAT'S UP THERE.
UM, AND I DON'T HAVE IT IN MY PRINTOUT, BUT, UM, I CAN TELL YOU THAT OUR OH, THANK YOU.
THAT OUR, UM, AT PLAN, OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN IS, UM, POISED TO, UM, TO WRAP UP THIS SUMMER AND WILL BE COMING, UM, TO COUNCIL, UH, FOR FINAL REVIEW AND, UH, ADOPTION BY FALL.
IT'S, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR A COUPLE YEARS AND, UM, VERY EXCITED TO, TO SEE THAT.
FINALLY, UM, FINALLY READY FOR DELIVERING.
I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY WHAT'S IN THAT PLAN, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS.
THIS IS THE UPDATE TO THE, UM, UH, PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE MASTER PLAN THAT WAS PART OF OUR, UM, 2025 GENERAL PLAN AND WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO THE NEW GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
SO I GUESS THE QUESTION, UM, IS, IS IT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME? HAS IT BEEN PUSHED TO A COMMITTEE IN ITS, YOU KNOW, FINAL DRAFT FORM? IT'S NOT IN FINAL DRAFT FORM.
I WAS HOPING TO GET AN EARLY PEAK.
IT'S A BIG, YOU KNOW, SO MANY OF THESE THINGS TAKE LONG LEAD, AND WHEN COUNCIL GETS THEM, IT'S KIND OF LIKE, WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S THURSDAY.
WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO ON MONDAY? UM, I'D LOVE A LITTLE LONGER WINDOW WHEN THE FIRST COMMITTEE SEES THAT IF A DRAFT COPY COULD BE CIRCULATED TO COUNCIL SIMULTANEOUSLY.
YOU KNOW, I JUST, IT'S A HEADS UP.
I KNOW IT'S ON THE WEBSITE, BUT, YEAH.
I GOT A QUICK QUESTION AND A QUESTION.
GEN, SO IS THIS WILL BE INCORPORATED IN THE COUNTY'S ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN? DON'T, NO, I DO NOT BELIEVE SO.
THE COUNTY'S PLAN IS THE COUNTY'S PLAN AND I, AND TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY READ OUR PLAN AND ACKNOWLEDGE IT, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY FORMAL INCORPORATION.
DID, DO WE HAVE AN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCTA? MM-HMM.
I'M SURE THEY'LL REFERENCE IT IN THEIR PLANNING EFFORTS, BUT YEAH.
WELL, THERE WAS TALK ABOUT IT A COUPLE MEETINGS AGO, AND I'M NOT SURE IF THE CITY HAD GOTTEN IT IN THE PLAN YET.
SO WE'LL TALK, HOW ABOUT, LET'S JUST DO THAT.
YEAH, I WAS JUST MENTION, UM, SO THE COUNT, THERE'S A COUNTYWIDE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.
I ONLY KNOW THIS 'CAUSE I'VE WORKED FOR THE COUNTY BEFORE THIS.
UM, THERE'S A COUNTYWIDE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
UM, IT DOESN'T GET TO THE DETAIL THAT EACH CITY HAS.
SO EVERY CITY HAS A A TP, IT'S PART OF THE GENERAL PLAN.
IT SETS UP THE CIRCULATION ELEMENT.
IT IDENTIFIES, UM, LIKE WHERE ALL THE BIKE LANES ARE GONNA BE, UM, WORKED ON WHERE THE EXISTING ONES
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ARE.UM, AND SO IT ROLLS PART OF IT, THERE'S A ROLL UP OF ALL THE CITY LEVEL, BUT IT ALSO STAYS AT A HIGH LEVEL.
SO I KNOW WHAT THEY'RE ASKING OF EACH JURISDICTION IS, UM, WHAT'S IN YOUR CURRENT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN THAT NEEDS FUNDING.
UM, AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT THEY WOULD IDENTIFY AT THAT COUNTY LEVEL, UM, TO LOOK FOR FUNDS.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.
THANKS, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE.
UM, MY GENERAL COMMENT ON THIS IS IT'S GREAT.
UM, THERE'S SO MUCH MORE HAPPENING ON THIS THAT I FEEL LIKE THERE COULD BE MORE MILESTONES TO MEASURE SUCCESS, LIKE ON SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, FOR EXAMPLE.
UM, OR SOME OF THESE THINGS, LIKE WE JUST GOT A PRESENTATION AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING THAT WAS LIKE INCREDIBLY INFORMATIVE IN TERMS OF THE BREADTH OF THINGS THAT ARE UNDERWAY.
AND IT FEELS LIKE, AND SOME OF 'EM ARE CAPITAL PROJECTS, UM, BUT SOME OF 'EM AREN'T.
UM, AND SO IT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY I'M NOT GOING TO ASK YOU TO, WE'RE NOT COMING BACK AND REHASHING THIS, BUT IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S MORE TO, THERE'S A BIGGER STORY TO TELL ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING ON THIS THAN JUST ADOPTING THE PLAN.
SO INCORPORATING SAFE BRIDGE TO SCHOOL AND OUR SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM AND SOME OF THE OTHER INITIATIVES SURROUNDING ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, NOT JUST THE PLAN ITSELF, SOME OF THE PROGRAMMATIC ASPECTS, THE PROGRAMMATIC ASPECTS OF IT.
WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE THE, LIKE THE, THE METRICS AND THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA USE YEAR BY YEAR.
OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE ONGOING, BUT IT WOULD BE, UM, I'D CERTAINLY LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THOSE THINGS REPRESENTED IN, UM, IN OUR PRIORITIES LIST, JUST TO MAKE CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S DO AN AUDIT OF EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL RIGHT.
UM, BUT IT WOULD BE, I JUST THINK THERE'S, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A TON OF WORK HAPPENING ON THIS.
I'D LIKE TO SEE MORE OF IT REPRESENTED HERE.
AND THEN, UH, YOU KNOW, I CONCUR WITH THAT.
AT THE SAFE ROUTES, THE SCHOOL, THERE WERE SEVEN OR EIGHT STAFF IN THE ROOM AND, UM, THAT'S A HIGH CONSUMPTION OF RESOURCE.
UM, AND, AND YET PREVIOUSLY NOT NOTED AS GOAL.
UM, IT'S ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS PROGRAM OF GOALS THIS YEAR IS IT THROWS EVERYTHING THAT'S MAJOR ON THE TABLE, RATHER THAN TRYING TO DISCUSS JUST 10 THINGS THAT MAYBE WE COULD DO IN ADDITION.
SO, UM, THAT, THAT WAS PRETTY MAJOR.
AND THEN, UM, WITH THE COUNTY, WITH THE COUNTY, UH, SCTA BIKE FUNDING, IF, UM, WE ARE NOT GETTING SMART MONEY FOR COPELAND AND CONNECTING WHAT'S NOT ON THEIR, ON THEIR CORRIDOR, THAT COULD BE A KEY PROJECT TO FUND FROM OUTSIDE AND, AND ACCELERATE ITS COMPLETION.
SO, UH, DO WE, UM, DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THE OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS? CATEGORY, COUNCIL MEMBER, BARNACLE? I AM GONNA JUST STEP OVER HERE ON MY SOAPBOX.
WE'VE GOTTA GET, UM, IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE IN YEAR ONE, BUT WE'VE GOTTA GET THE PARKS MASTER PLAN ON THIS LIST.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE A BIG, A BIG VISION FOR OUR PARKS, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH WE'RE NOT INVESTING IN THEM.
UM, ONE OF THE MOST COMMON THINGS I HEAR IS LIKE, I WANT, YOU KNOW, OUR FIELDS TO BE IN BETTER SHAPE, AND I WANT THIS, AND I LOVE OUR PARKS AND REC COMMISSION RIGHT NOW.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE LIKE, WELL, GO TALK TO YOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS ABOUT ALLOCATING MORE RESOURCES TO THIS.
AND I KNOW IF EVERY, IF OUR PARKS AND REC COMMISSION WAS IN HERE, THEY'D ALL BE, YOU KNOW, BEGGING US TO PUT A PARKS MASTER PLAN ON HERE.
UM, PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENTS, WHEN I WAS ON THE PARKS COMMISSION, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS LIKE A LOT OF, LIKE, THE, THE SURVEYS THAT WE DO FOR PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENTS WILL CONFIRM THAT INDEED THE PLAYGROUND IS USED BY THE AGE THAT IT WAS DESIGNED FOR, BUT AS WE FOUND OUT, IT'S NOT DESIGNED FOR SENIORS AND WE HAVE AN AGING POPULATION.
UM, SO THINGS LIKE THAT ARE JUST NOT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT UNLESS WE TAKE A STEP BACK AND THINK ABOUT THE DEMOGRAPHICS AND THE PROJECTIONS OF OUR CITY AND HOW OUR PARKS AND OUR FACILITIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT ARE ALL, LIKE, I BIT MY TONGUE ON THE SENIOR SERVICES, BUT LIKE, UM, I SEE, YOU KNOW, THE SERVICES THAT WE'RE PROVIDING TO OUR SENIORS, YOU KNOW, IN THE FACILITIES AND THE RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE JUST NEED TO HAVE A BIGGER VIEW OF, OF THAT COMPONENT OF OUR CITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, I LOOKED AT THE GENERAL PLAN FRAMEWORK ON PARKS, AND I FELT LIKE IT SORT OF READ MORE LIKE A NATURAL OR, YOU KNOW, LIKE A NATURAL RESOURCES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I JUST DON'T THINK WE HAVE LIKE, UM, WE DON'T HAVE LIKE THE, THE LEVEL OF, OF VISION FOR OUR PARKS DOCUMENTED.
SO WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE PRIORITIZING AGAINST AND WHAT'S NOT HAPPENING.
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IF WE, IF WE TOOK THIS PROJECT ON, UM, AND WE PUT RESOURCES TOWARD IT, IT WOULD BE, UM, AN INCREDIBLY LIKE IMPACTFUL DOCUMENT FOR YEARS TO COME IN.UM, REALLY THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CREATING LIKE THESE AMAZING, INSPIRING PLACES BECAUSE, UM, IT'S NOT A LACK OF WILL ON OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT, IS THAT THEY'VE BEEN LIKE, HISTORICALLY HUGELY UNDERFUNDED.
AND IF WE CAN'T TELL THE CITY THAT, LIKE OUR RESIDENTS THAT AND REALLY CAPTURE THE, THE SIZE OF THE NEED, UM, IT'S ALL JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL JUST TALK.
BUT I REALLY, I, I THINK THAT PROJECT NEEDS TO GET ON THIS LIST.
I THINK THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD SEGUE INTO, UM, TRYING TO DO SOME, UM, UH, TRIAGE HERE AT THE END OF, UM, WHAT IS, AND, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT IS AND WHAT WE WISH TO ADD TO THE LIST OR WISH WE, WHAT WE WISH TO EMPHASIZE OR DE-EMPHASIZE, UM, COMPARED TO THE PROPOSAL THAT'S IN FRONT OF US.
AND I KNOW WE'VE HEARD AN AWFUL LOT OF DIFFERENT CONCEPTS AND THINGS, UM, AND I KNOW WE'VE HEARD GAS BLOWERS, AIR AIRBNB, UH, DAY LABOR HAS BEEN A CONSTANT THING THAT WE, WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT, BUT ISN'T, UH, OCCURRING HERE.
UM, AND, AND MAYOR, WE HAD TWO ITEMS, UM, THAT ARE ON THE LIST THAT, UM, AT LEAST ONE COUNCIL MEMBER, IF NOT TWO MENTIONED MOVING UP THE PARKING ORDINANCE AND MOVING UP CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
THERE WAS THE SECOND ONE, I COULDN'T HEAR YOU.
THE CHARTER AMENDMENTS, RIGHT? YEAH.
AND THE OTHER ONE WAS THE PARKING ORDINANCE.
AND MAYOR, I THINK WE ALSO, UM, PEGGY AND I IDENTIFIED THAT THE BFA, UM, YEAH.
RESOURCES NEEDS TO BE THE BAFF TIA INCLUDED.
WHICH IS GETTING US PREPARED FOR THE BAF OF MONEY.
IF IT GETS PASSED IN NOVEMBER.
WE HAVE TO HAVE A, WE HAVE TO HAVE A PLAN.
SO WE'RE FIRST AT THE, OKAY, SO WE'VE GOT AN APPLE CART AND NOW'S THE TIME TO TIP IT.
UM, WHAT, UH, WHO, WHO HAS A, YOU KNOW, WHO WANTS TO TRY AN ADVOCACY FOR, UM, A MODIFICATION OF THE LIST? UM, LIKE, LIKE NOTED, UM, WE'VE HEARD, UH, PARKING.
UM, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE CAN PROPOSE TO STAFF THAT WOULD SAY, IF WE MOVE THIS UP A, A A YEAR, WE CAN ASK STAFF WHAT COULD WE PULL DOWN HERE? OR DO WE HAVE SEVERAL VOTES THAT ARE INTERESTED IN MODIFYING PARKING? SEE, I HAVE TO KEEP TALKING TILL YOU TALK, SO I'LL BE HAPPY TO CALL.
I MEAN, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER TALK, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE PARKING, UM, CLOSER TO THE TOP OF THE LIST.
IT'S, YOU GET A LOT OF COMPLAINTS FROM PEOPLE, AND I THINK THE CITIZENS OF THIS TOWN DESERVE TO BE HEARD.
AND SAME WITH THE PARKS MASTER PLAN.
I HEAR A LOT ABOUT PARKS, UM, BUT I REALLY THINK IT, UM, THE PARKING IS SOMETHING THE PUBLIC IS REALLY ASKING FOR, AND I THINK WE NEED TO LISTEN TO THE PUBLIC, THE AIRBNB.
IS IT POSSIBLE JUST TO DO, UM, LOOK AT IT TO DO SOME MODIFICATIONS? UM, LET'S TRY AND BREAK THESE INTO SPECIFIC STAFF QUESTIONS.
AND I, YOU KNOW, GET SOME DATA BACK.
SO THE AIRBNB, IF WE WANTED TO MAKE A MODIFICATION, IS THAT MAJOR AND CAN I JUMP IN ON THAT? I'M SORRY.
YEAH, I, I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THAT.
AND, UM, IT'S IN IZO SECTION 7.1, ONE ZERO, AND THERE'S ONE SENTENCE IN SUBSECTION B ONE OF THAT SECTION THAT I THINK WOULD NEED TO BE MODIFIED.
SO YOU'RE BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT MODIFYING ONE SENTENCE, UM, TO, UH, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IT READS NOW IS, UM, SHORT TERM VACATION RENTALS ARE A PERMITTED USE ONLY IN RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT AND MIXED USE ZONING DISTRICTS, AND ONLY PURSUANT TO A SHORT TERM VACATION RENTAL PERMIT ISSUED, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
AND I THINK, UM, ALL WE NEED TO DO IS SAY THAT WE'RE EXCLUDING, UH, CONDOS AND TOWNHOUSES AND APARTMENTS AND ANYTHING WITH JOINT WALLS.
AND, AND THAT'S, THAT'S BASICALLY, UH, I, I, I THINK, I THINK THE, THE PUBLIC COMMENT HAS EXPOSED A FLAW AND, UM, AND I DON'T THINK ANYONE ANTICIPATED THOSE KINDS OF KINDS OF UNITS BEING, UM, RENTED OUT AS VACATION UNITS, VACATION UNITS.
BUT ANYWAY, UH, COUNCILMAN HEALY, UH, ABSOLUTELY CORRECT THAT THAT'S, UH, WHERE THE FOCUS OF THE AMENDMENT WOULD BE.
UM, UH, WHAT WE HEARD TODAY IN PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, AND WHY WE HAVEN'T HEARD UP TO THIS DATE IS, UM, IT'S LARGELY BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
UM, UH, WE HAVEN'T HEARD OF ANY ISSUES.
UM, AND THE PUBLIC COMMENTER MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, WHEN
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THIS WAS IMPLEMENTED.UM, SO I AGREE THAT IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD REVISIT, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S AS SIMPLE AS, LEMME ASK THIS.
SO WITH ALL THE, THE EXISTING, UH, PERMITTED, UM, UM, USES, ARE THEY, ARE THEY BASICALLY ALL STANDALONE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES? THAT'S TYPICALLY, UM, WHAT GETS RENTED OUT? YES.
AND WE SHOULD NOTE THIS ONE ISN'T PERMITTED.
THAT WAS WHAT THE ISSUE WAS, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S GOT AN OPEN RIGHT.
BUT NOW THEY'VE APPLIED AND IT'S PRETTY MUCH MINISTERIAL.
SO I, I, I GUESS THE QUESTION IS HOW, HOW MUCH OF A LIFT WOULD IT BE TO MODIFY THAT ONE SENTENCE? YEAH, SO AGAIN, YOU CAN NARROW THE SCOPE.
UH, THERE'S THE OUTREACH COMPONENT.
UM, LIKE EVERY OTHER LEGISLATIVE EFFORT, IT'S GONNA HAVE TO GO THROUGH PUBLIC INPUT, UM, THROUGH OUR CCBS PLANNING COMMISSION.
AND THEN BEFORE IT COMES BACK TO CITY COUNCIL.
AND I THINK THERE'S STILL A LITTLE BIT OF, YOU KNOW, STRATEGIZING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE A, WE DON'T HAVE, LEMME PUT IT THIS WAY.
THE, AND YOU SAW IT, I, I'M SURE COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY AND WHAT YOU'RE JUST REVIEWING, IT'S NOT A VERY REGULATORY SET OF REGULATIONS.
UM, AND YOU AND I WERE HERE WHEN THEY WERE ADOPTED, AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE THAT NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO GENERATE INCOME IN THEIR HOME, TO STAY AT THEIR HOME, UM, BUT ALSO TO ACCOMMODATE QUALITY OF LIVING IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, AND THEY, THEY'RE PRETTY LIGHT.
SO WE DON'T, FOR EXAMPLE, LOOKS, WE DON'T ADDRESS DIFFERENTLY, UM, UM, THINGS LIKE NOISE AND HOURS OF OPERATION.
UM, WE WOULD RELY JUST ON OUR REGULAR REGULATIONS FOR THAT.
AND THEY'RE PROBABLY INADEQUATE.
SO, UM, SO, SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF STRATEGIZING.
I THINK, I GUESS MY ULTIMATE QUESTION ON THIS IS, IS THIS A MINOR ENOUGH EFFORT THAT WE COULD ADD THIS TO THE PLATE WITHOUT HAVING TO TAKE SOMETHING ELSE OFF? IN TERMS OF MY PLATE, I WOULD SAY IT IS NOT, UM, BECAUSE IT'S SO FULL AND, AND, YOU KNOW, I, AND I WAS, AND I WAS GOING BACK OVER THE LIST AND I FORGOT TO MENTION PUBLIC RECORDS.
I PROCESSED, THERE'S ACTUALLY EIGHT ITEMS IN THE FIRST, IN THE FIRST YEAR.
SO IT'S, IT'S NOT A PARTICULARLY HARD THING.
IT'S THE KIND OF THING, YOU KNOW, DYLAN DOES THE INITIAL DRAFTS ON IN A WEEK'S TIME, YOU KNOW? UM, BUT THERE'S THE OTHER, OTHER STEPS FOR IT.
AND, UM, AND I DON'T, I THINK WE'D ALSO WANNA LOOK AT, UM, I MEAN, WE REALLY HAVE, I'M NOT REALLY AWARE OF OTHER COMPLAINTS THAT WE'VE HAD, SO IT'S BEEN A REAL, THIS IS A PRETTY LOCALIZED THING.
SO THAT'S, WE'RE STRATEGIZING TOO, BECAUSE WE MAY HAVE TOOLS TO, TO DEAL WITH THAT RIGHT NOW.
AND WE'RE CERTAINLY LOOK AT LOOKING AT THAT WITHOUT HAVING TO MODIFY THE ORDINANCE.
WE'RE THAT'S WHAT STAFF ARE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW.
SO, I MEAN, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN REPORT BACK ONTO TO SAY, ACTUALLY WE'RE DEALING WITH THIS WITH OUR EXISTING TOOLS.
UM, WE CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE PEOPLE HAVING TO TOLERATE, UM, SUCH INCONSIDERATE THINGS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
CAN FOLLOW UP QUESTION TO THAT, BUT WE'RE, I'LL JUST SAY WE'RE PRETTY TIED UP ON, UM, ON THE LEGISLATIVE PROJECTS COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE.
HOW, UM, DO WE RECEIVE A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT OTHER SHORT-TERM RENTALS? OR IS THIS SORT OF LIKE AN ANOMALY? OKAY.
AND AGAIN, THAT, UH, POINT WE MADE EARLIER ABOUT WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLICY AND ENFORCEMENT AND THAT KIND OF THING.
SO, UM, CAN WE PUT THIS IN A BOX OF, UH, REPORT BACK, UM, ON, UM, MAYBE SHORT TERM PARKING LOT
SO, UM, THAT WAS THE, UM, AIRBNB DISCUSSION.
WHERE, UM, ANY, ANYONE HAVE ANY OTHER, ANYBODY WANNA WEIGH IN ON WHAT WE'RE, WHERE WE'RE HEADED HERE? I THINK, UH, NOT WEIGHING IN MEANS WE'RE APPROVING AS IS.
SO, I MEAN, SO COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE, I'M GONNA THROW MY WEIGHT BEHIND, UH, HOUSING AND ALL THINGS HOUSING, UM, UPDATING THE, UM, UPDATING OUR FEES.
UM, AND THAT MEANS ADDING, UM, YOU KNOW, REQUIRING ALL ELECTRIC TO GET THE ALL AFFORDABLE HOUSING DISCOUNTS, UM, AND THEN RIGHT SIZING THE IMPACT FEES, THOSE TWO FEEL.
UM, AND THEN THE BAFA STUFF OBVIOUSLY FEELS LIKE A TOP, YOU KNOW, A HIGH PRIORITY.
UM, AND THOSE ARE ALREADY, I MEAN, THOSE ARE ALREADY AN HOUR.
THOSE ARE ALREADY AN HOUR PLAN.
UM, I WOULD, UM, I STRUGGLE, I STRUGGLE WITH THE, THE LADS AND THE SEEING THE
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PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENT IN YEAR ONE, UM, BECAUSE I JUST KNOW HOW MUCH WE'RE MISSING EVERY TIME WE MAKE A DECISION ABOUT PARKS WITHOUT HAVING THE BIG VIC PICTURE.IT'S, UM, AND I WOULD JUST, AT THE VERY LEAST, I JUST WANNA SEE THE PARKS PLAN ON HERE IN, IN YEAR TWO OR SOMETHING.
SOMEWHERE WHERE WE ACTUALLY LIKE, GET IT IN THERE AND SAY THAT WE'RE GONNA DO IT.
UM, 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW AS IT IS, IT FEELS LIKE IT'S JUST A CAN THAT'S BEING KICKED.
UM, SO COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE, CAN I JUST ADD, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT OUR, OUR PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENT'S MORE OF A LIABILITY, AND THAT'S HOW, I THINK THAT'S HOW WE'RE TREATING THAT.
UM, BUT I, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE COULD TALK ABOUT A PARKS MASTER PLAN IN YEAR THREE, AND IF WE CAN MOVE IT UP, WE ABSOLUTELY WOULD, BUT I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THE BANDWIDTH TO PUT IT IN YEAR TWO.
UM, JUST REAL QUICK, UM, I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION.
I APPRECIATE THE, THE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY FOR THE PARKS MASTER PLAN, UM, FROM YOUR TIME ON THE COMMISSION.
UM, I THINK REALLY IN COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC, THIS HAS BEEN A, UM, THERE'S BEEN A NEED AND IT'S, IT'S THERE.
I THINK WE'RE NOT WAITING FOR A PARKS MASTER PLAN.
THERE'S A LOT OF INITIATIVES THAT WE FEEL WE HAVE A, A REALLY GOOD STORY TO TELL ON SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS THAT ARE HELPING US CREATE GOOD INPUTS TO SET THE STAGE FOR THE, AN EVENTUAL STRATEGIC PARKS MASTER PLAN.
SO GETTING THE GENERAL PLAN OUT IN FRONT, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, PILOTING THE NATURAL GRASS TURF ORGANIC MAINTENANCE PROGRAM TO START PUTTING SOME NUMBERS BEHIND YOU.
TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF OUR NATURAL GRASS BALL FIELDS.
HOW WOULD IT LOOK, UM, TO SCALE THIS MAINTENANCE PROGRAM? HOW WOULD IT WORK WITH THE NATIVE SOILS WE HAVE WITH THE RESOURCES, THE EQUIPMENT WE HAVE? YOU KNOW, THAT'S A THREE YEAR COMMITMENT THAT WE'RE UNDERWAY NOW, BUT AS WE BUILD INTO THAT, THOSE ARE GONNA CREATE SOME REALLY GOOD INPUTS FOR THE, FOR THE MASTER PLAN.
UM, THE FAIRGROUNDS IS ANOTHER ONE.
I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY GOOD, EXCITING PROGRAMS THAT ARE UNDERWAY THAT I DO THINK HELP PAVE THE WAY FOR, FOR A MORE ROBUST ENGAGEMENT AUTHENTICALLY ABOUT A RU A MASTER PLAN.
AND I'M, AGAIN, I'M NOT TRYING TO, TO, YOU KNOW, INSERT BAD PROCESS HERE.
I'M ASKING BECAUSE WE'RE, I'M A TWO YEAR PROGRAM HERE.
I'M ASKING, I'M NOT ASKING TO BUMP SOMETHING.
DOES THE COUNCIL APPROVE AN ADD ADDITION OF A THIRD 30 YEAR PROGRAM AS PROPOSED? LET'S JUST WRITE THAT IN AS OF A, A THIRD YEAR PROGRAM.
ANYONE, COUNCIL MEMBER OSA? KAY.
UH, ARE WE MOVING ON AT THIS POINT? OR I DIDN'T WANT TO, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW? CHANGE THE DIRECTION FOR NO REASON, BUT I JUST, UM, I, I, I, I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, SEE WHERE, WHERE WE STAND AS A GROUP ON, ON THE, UH, BANNING THE LEAF BLOWERS AT SOME POINT, EVEN IN THE YEAR TWO OR THREE.
UH, I GOT A LONG LIST OF THINGS I MIGHT GIVE UP TO, UH, TO DO THAT.
UM, BUT IT WOULD START WITH, IT SEEMS LIKE THE LAST THING ON OUR LIST IS THE CHARTER AMENDMENTS, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T START TILL YEAR THREE.
UH, HONESTLY, I DON'T THINK THAT'S GONNA MAKE UP FOR STARTING SOMETHING WITH LEAF BLOWERS NOW, PLUS IT.
UH, BUT, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, IT'S HARD FOR ME TO SEE THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE 10 OTHER THINGS THAT WE MOVE AHEAD OF THE, UH, CHARTER AMENDMENTS WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
AND THE REASON CHARTER AMENDMENTS ARE IN YEAR THREE, COUNCIL MEMBER IS, UM, BECAUSE WE COULDN'T EVEN PUT THAT IN YEAR ONE OR TWO.
SO IF WE ADDED LEAF, I MEAN, IN THE ORDINANCE OF LEAF BLOWER, DEFINITELY WOULD TAKE TIME, TAKE SOME OUTREACH.
BUT REALLY THE MAIN PIECE OF THAT, AND STAFF'S BEEN KINDA STRUGGLING WITH THAT, IS HOW DO WE ENFORCE IT? RIGHT? WE'RE HAVING A HARD ENOUGH TIME TRYING TO WRAP OUR BRAIN AROUND HOW TO ENFORCE THE PARKING.
UM, AND SO HOW DO YOU ENFORCE THAT LEAF BLOWER BAN? SO THE, THE OTHER, THE OTHER HARD PIECE OF THAT IS THE TECHNOLOGY AND THE EQUITY.
OH, YEAH, NO, I, I CERTAINLY, UH, KNOW THAT THE HARDEST PART OF THAT WILL BE, UH, AN INCENTIVE TO PEOPLE WHO WORK WITH THEM TO, UH, HAVE SOME HELP.
UH, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT WELL, AND HAVING EQUIPMENT THEY CAN SHIFT TO, 'CAUSE OUR OWN, I MEAN, DREW CAN TELL THE STORY, BUT OUR OWN TEAMS CAN'T PIVOT TO ELECTRIC DEVICES YET BECAUSE THEY DON'T REALLY EXIST FOR AT THE COMMERCIAL.
YOU MEAN BATTERY? BATTERY? MM-HMM.
THEY'RE, BECAUSE THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T LAST LONG ENOUGH AND THEY'RE TOO HEAVY AND TOO EXPENSIVE, WHICH IS WHY FOR, FOR PRIVATE OPERATORS, LIKE YOU THINK OF THE SMALL LANDSCAPING FIRMS AND JUST LA LABORERS WORKING INDEPENDENTLY, IT'S PROHIBITIVE.
SO THIS IS ONE, I MEAN, THE CLIMATE SIDE OF IT SUPER CLEAR.
AND ALSO THE EQUITY AND THE TECHNOLOGY SIDES
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OF IT ARE SUPER CLEAR, AND THEY'RE ALL AT LOGGERHEADS.UM, THAT'S WHY I THINK THE STATE IS ON THIS KIND OF A SLOW FUSE, BUT A BUT A, YOU KNOW, BUT A PROCESS OF STARTING WITH PROHIBITING SALES TO FORCE A TRANSITION THAT WAY.
SO I'LL JUST SAY THAT, I MEAN, I, I, I'M NOT VERSED ENOUGH TO ARGUE IT, BUT I, I HAVE HEARD OF SOME, SOME LANDSCAPERS THAT ARE, UH, USING JUST ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT, UH, AS WELL.
AND, AND THIS, TO ME, THE, THE CALLING IT A CLIMATE MEASURE IS, IS A LITTLE BIT MISLEADING.
'CAUSE THERE ARE EMISSIONS, BUT REALLY IT'S THE LOCAL AIR POLLUTION, IT'S THE SMOG FORMING PARTICLES.
AND SO, AND THE, AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE USING THE EQUIPMENT ARE LIKE SUPER CLOSE TO IT, YOU KNOW? SO IT'S NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIKE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND LIKE NOX POLLUTION, RIGHT? AND NOX POLLUTION IS WHAT CREATES RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES, ASTHMA, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND SO IF YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, LOW WAGE WORKERS, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE, THE EQUITY ISSUES OF THIS, IT'S NOT JUST FORCING PEOPLE TO HAVE TO CONVERT TO THIS STUFF.
IT'S ALSO THE EQUITY ISSUES OF, OF, UM, NOT FORCING THEM TO CONVERT BECAUSE THERE'S REAL HEALTH IMPACTS HERE.
SO IT'S, TO ME, THIS IS, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S A PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURE MORE THAN IT IS EVEN A CLIMATE MEASURE.
AND THAT'S THE, CERTAINLY THE LENS THAT I WOULD, IT IS, BUT IT, BUT IT'S ALSO PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOODS THAT HAVE TO TRANSITION.
AND, AND I DON'T KNOW THE, YOU KNOW, I AGAIN AGREE TOTALLY NOT DEBATING THE POLICY.
I'M JUST SAYING THESE ARE THE ISSUES FOR US TO WRESTLE WITH AND, AND SOLVE TOGETHER AS A TEAM LIKE WE DO.
UM, SO COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON, UM, I LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
UM, ARE YOU, WERE YOU WANTING TO WEIGH IN ON THE LEAFBLOWER? YEAH.
UM, IS THERE A WAY OF NOTIFYING, KNOWING WHO HAS A PERMIT THAT DOES A LANDSCAPING IN TOWN? SO AT LEAST THE EMPLOYEES KNOW THE DANGERS, AND WOULD THAT BE A STATE ISSUE FOR NOTIFICATION? I DON'T THINK WE HAVE.
I MEAN, I GUESS I, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WOULD HAVE THE INFORMATION ON THE, THE PROVIDERS, RIGHT? I GET THAT.
DO WE HAVE BUSINESS LICENSES? YEAH, BUSINESS LICENSES.
BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'D BE ABLE TO TELL.
I THINK WE JUST HAVE THE TITLE.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE MAYBE, UH, WE MAYBE HAVE THE CATEGORY, BUT AGAIN, WE'D HAVE TO ADD SOMETHING TO THE LIST.
SO I'M JUST, I'M, YOU KNOW, AND THE STATE IS THE STATE BANNING, UH, THE SALE OF GAS BLOWING MACHINES 2025.
YEAH, BUT THAT'S, BUT THAT'S NOT THE USAGE.
IT'S THE SALE YOU CAN CONTINUE USING.
IT'S JUST THE BANNING OF THE SALE.
SO IF PEOPLE'LL BE CLEAN, THEY'LL BE CLEAN TO THE ONES THEY ALREADY HAVE.
PRESUMABLY, THESE ARE ALL REALLY HARD DECISIONS.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, DON'T THINK THAT STAFF AREN'T, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO CHOMP AT THE BIT, AND WE'D LOVE TO SAY YES TO EVERYTHING.
WE WON'T MAKE ANY TRACTION ON SOME OF THE THINGS THAT US THAT'S A FUNNY ONE.
IT'S MORE, IT'S MORE CHALLENGING THAN YOU, THAN YOUR FIRST THINK.
SO PLEASE, IS THE PARKING ORDINANCE MAKING THIS LIST OR NOT? SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE HORSE TRADING ONE ITEM.
AND UM, WE'LL ACTUALLY TAKE THE FLOOR ON THE, 'CAUSE WE WERE ON PARKING FOR A MINUTE THERE, WEREN'T WE? YES, WE WERE
UM, SO LET'S PUT THE, UH, UH, LEAF BLOWER TO BED.
UM, AND, AND SO WE'VE HEARD A VARIETY OF THINGS LIKE THE, THE COMPLEXITY OF IT, THE STATES, UH, UM, BANNING OF, OF IT IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, AND THE AMOUNT OF THE, UM, THE WORKLOAD, THE RESOURCE LOAD IT TAKES TO, TO DO THAT ORDINANCE.
SO DOES SOMEONE WANT TO ADVOCATE FOR WHAT DROPS OR WHAT CHANGES OR WELL, AND THE ENFORCEMENT.
THAT WAS THE OTHER BIG DEAL, IS LIKE, THAT'S HUGE.
HOW DO WE DO ENFORCEMENT WHO, I MEAN, THE POLICE HAVE
THE HARD PART, THE, THE DRAFTING THE LEGISLATIVE PART ACTUALLY FOR THAT ONE IS NOT THE HARD PART.
THE HARD PART IS THE, THE GRACE PROGRAM AND THE ALTERNATIVES AND THE BUYBACKS AND THE INCENTIVES AND THE INFORMATION, AND THAT'S THE HARD PART FOR THAT.
I, I FOR ONE, PROBABLY WOULDN'T NOT BE SUPPORTING IT OVER, YOU KNOW, ALL THE, THE HIGH PRIORITY THINGS WE HAVE IN HERE AND NOT SEEING ANYONE JUMPING UP JOHN? YES.
OH, UH, JUST BECAUSE I, I WAS IN THE LANDSCAPE INDUSTRY FOR A WHILE, WAY BACK WHEN, AND EVEN BACK THEN, 40 YEARS AGO, THEY TALKED ABOUT, UM, THE, THE DANGERS OF, OF, OF THESE EVEN SMALL MOTORS AND THE LIKE.
SO THAT'S, UH, NOTHING NEW, BUT THE STATE IS MOVING IN, IN A DIRECTION.
OSHA IS DEFINITELY MOVING IN A, IN A DIRECTION.
IT'S A MATTER OF HOW SOON, UM, AND THEY'RE GONNA BE REGULATING IT.
ANYBODY WHO HAS EQUIPMENT WILL BE INSPECTED, UH, BY OSHA AND OTHERS.
AND OSHA'S GONNA GONNA COME IN AND, AND DO THE INSPECTIONS HERE, UH, PRETTY SOON AFTER THE BANNING GOES ON.
SO IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF GIVING A A LITTLE BETTER TIME.
AND, AND EVERYBODY KNOWS THEY'RE GOING AWAY ANYWAY,
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SO IT, IT IS, IT'S GONNA HAPPEN JUST A MATTER OF, UH, DO WE REALLY WANNA SPEED IT UP OR NOT? AND, AND WHAT THE COST OF SPEEDING IT UP WOULD BE.UM, BUT WE CAN AT LEAST GET THE EDUCATION OUT THERE, UM, AND JUST, UH, MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY DOES KNOW.
ALL THE LANDSCAPERS DO KNOW, OH YEAH, WELL THIS, THIS IS, THIS IS COMING AND START PREPARING FOR IT.
I THINK THAT WOULD WORK PROBABLY A LITTLE EASIER THAN, THAN, UH, A BIG STICK COUNCIL MEMBER.
UM, I WOULD JUST PUT OUT THERE, UH, UH, JOHN, THAT, THAT, THAT THERE'S JUST A, UH, I'M FORGETTING THE NUMBERS NOW, BUT THERE'S JUST A, UH, OSHA CHANGE IN, UH, IN DEALING WITH, UH, LEAD LEVELS THAT, UH, PHYSICIANS THAT DEAL WITH THAT HAVE BEEN, UH, CALLING OUT FOR THE NEED FOR IT FOR 30 YEARS, MAYBE 40.
UM, AND SO I, I, YOU KNOW, I I, THEY DON'T DO A LOT OF STUFF TODAY OR TOMORROW.
UH, THEY'RE SLOWER THAN WE ARE, I THINK TAKEN AS A WHOLE.
AND THE OTHER THING IS, EVEN IF YOU BAN THE LIFE, THE LIFESPAN OF THESE THINGS IS 10 YEARS.
SO IT'S NOT A YEAR OR TWO THAT THEY'LL BE OFF.
EVEN WITH CHECKS, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE WILL, WILL BUY NEW ONES JUST BEFORE THE LAW GOES INTO EFFECT, AND THEY'LL HAVE 'EM FOR 10 YEARS.
SO, UM, HAVE WE, THAT'S ALL I GOT.
HAVE WE GOT AN ACTIONABLE, WE, WE'VE GOT A NO ACTIONABLE HERE, SO I'D LIKE TO PUT A LINE THROUGH THAT AND MOVE TO THE NEXT, WHICH WAS PARKING.
UM, JANICE, YOU WERE GONNA ADVOCATE A LITTLE MORE FOR PARKING.
DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WISH TO TRADE? I'LL TRADE ANYTHING FOR PARKING.
IN AN EFFORT TO, UH, HELP YOU OUT.
THE ONLY ONE THAT I, I MEAN, THE ONLY ONE I WANTED TO SEE ANY MOVEMENT THOUGHT COULD GIVE IT ALL WAS, UM, UH, THE, UH, NUMBER ITEM NUMBER THREE, ZONING CODE UPDATE.
AND, AND, UH, THE, A LITTLE BIT, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF LEAD LAG BETWEEN, UH, GENERAL PLAN AND ZONING.
I THINK YOU, DO YOU WANT TO ASK STAFF IF THAT, IF THEY'RE GAME FOR THAT TRADE, I WOULD LIKE ASK THAT.
IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, I'M JUST GONNA PUT SOMETHING IN THERE.
IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WE DON'T CHANGE OUR ZONING CODE AND IT'S GONNA CREATE THE APPLICANT MORE COST TO GET TO DO A ZONING CODE CHANGE.
I JUST, I WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF NOT UPDATING OUR ZONING CODE WHEN, WHEN WE GET THE GENERAL PLAN CINCHED UP.
SO YEAH, THE DIRECTION THAT THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE IS GOING, AND THERE WILL BE A CLEAR DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE GENERAL DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE CURRENT GENERAL YEAH.
AND, UM, YEAH, WELL, I JUST THINK IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING IMPORTANT.
IT'S BEEN LINGERING FOR A LONG TIME AND MAYBE YOU GUYS SHOULD GET ON YOUR BIKES AND START RIDING AROUND AND LOOKING AT THE GARBAGE THAT IS ON THE STREETS AND WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE WITH.
AND I, AND I THINK WE ALL AGREE ON THE IMPERATIVE OF ALL THE THINGS AND THE CONSEQUENCE OF EVERYTHING, BUT IN A PRIORITY SENSE, WHICH ONE ARE WE GONNA SAY? HOW DO WE MAKE THE HORSE TRADE? AND, AND HOW DO YOU, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE INTEGRATE THAT WITH WHAT STAFF'S APPROACHES AND WHAT OTHER COUNCIL APPROACHES? SO, SO COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON, WE ALSO MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT JUST STEPPING UP ENFORCEMENT AS MUCH AS WE CAN, AND ALSO MAKING SURE WE DO MORE EDUCATION IN THE MEANTIME.
AND IN THE MEANTIME, THE SEVEN TWO HOUR RULE RULES THE PARKING ORDINANCE.
AND THAT MEANS THAT PEOPLE CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT ON THE STREETS BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT BE, I'M NOT, I'M NOT DEBATING THAT.
THERE'S NO, I'M NOT DEBATING THAT THERE'S CODE VIOLATION THEN I'M, I'M NOT DEBATING THAT.
I'M JUST SAYING THAT'S WHAT WE CAN DO.
I MEAN, I MEAN, CERTAINLY, JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT A LITTLE BIT, UM, SELECTIVE ENFORCE, I MEAN, WE HAVE PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION AND THERE'S, THERE'S DIFFERENT RESOURCES, CONSIDERATIONS THAT COME INTO PLAY WITH WHAT WE'RE ENFORCING.
AND, AND IT'S STILL A LARGELY COMPLAINT DRIVEN PROGRAM, BUT WHEN WE'RE GETTING COMPLAINTS, SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT HAS NO PLACE HERE.
SO I THINK THERE'S SOME, WE'VE HEARD ABOUT SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS THAT YOU'VE AND OTHERS HAVE RAISED.
AND SO THOSE ARE THINGS WE CAN LOOK AT EVEN WITH THE EXISTING REGULATIONS.
UM, WELL, AS, AS, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW STATED, IF IT BRINGS SOMEONE'S PROPERTY VALUE DOWN, OR MAYBE WE COULD JUST OPEN UP THE WHOLE TOWN AND JUST SAY, IF PEOPLE WANNA PARK ANYWHERE, THEY CAN JUST MOVE IT EVERY 72 HOURS.
I MEAN, I MEAN, I JUST THINK IT IS, IT'S A NUISANCE.
CITIES GENERALLY REGULATE THIS ISSUE IN THE CONTEXT OF NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION REGULATIONS.
THEY'RE ABOUT ABANDONED VEHICLES AND NUISANCE CONDITIONS AND, AND FAILURE TO MAINTAIN PROPERTY AND THAT KINDA STUFF.
'CAUSE IT'S, IT'S A NEIGHBORHOOD THING, BUT WE ALSO HAVE UTILITY TRAILERS THAT ARE IN THE, UH, BIKE LANES.
AND SO THAT NEVER GETS ADDRESSED.
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ADDRESSED, THEN WE'RE JUST GOING AROUND IN A CIRCLE AND NOTHING'S GONNA GET DONE WELL.SO WE THINK OUR AND OUR NEW CHIEF CAN TALK ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDRESSING THAT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THOSE THINGS THAT ARE SAFETY CONSIDERATION, I MEAN, THERE'S THE CONVENIENCE THINGS WHICH ARE BAD ENOUGH, BUT THEN THOSE THAT ARE THE SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS, WHICH ARE CLEARLY PRIORITIES OF CHIEF, YOUR TURN.
YEAH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, I THINK WE WELCOME ALL THOSE COMPLAINTS.
THOSE ARE REALLY HELPING US BE SURGICAL AND STRATEGIC IN OUR RESOURCES.
UH, WE'RE WORKING ON WAYS TO BE MORE EFFICIENT ON THAT.
AND THEN I THINK, AGAIN, SOME OF THE CHALLENGES ARE IS, IS WE'RE SEEING AND HEARING THINGS FROM THE, THE RESIDENTS AND THE COMMUNITIES ABOUT POTENTIAL 72 HOUR VIOLATIONS THAT, THAT WE DON'T KNOW.
IS THIS ON MAYBE? YEAH, THAT'S ON, YEAH.
UM, AND SO IT'S, IT'S HARD FOR US TO DIFFERENTIATE WHAT COMMUNITY MEMBERS MAY BE SEEING THAT DON'T STAND OUT DEFINITIVELY OR THAT ARE NOT, UM, CLEARLY ABANDONED, STRIPPED, OR IN INOPERABLE.
UM, AND SO IF THEY'RE MOVING AFTER MARKING IT, IT, IT IS A SHORT DISTANCE TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDINANCE AS WRITTEN.
SO IT'S, IT'S CHALLENGING FOR US, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO BE RESPONSIVE.
THERE'S NOT PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT.
AND IF THERE'S INCONSISTENT APPLICATION THAT YOU'RE SEEING, WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THAT.
AND THEN IT'S EVERYBODY'S ROLE.
IT'S NOT JUST THE, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, TRAFFIC.
OH, VERY MUCH TRAFFIC OR THE, YEAH.
SO I THINK, I THINK THERE'S A MISCONCEPTION ALSO.
WE HAVE ONE ABANDONED ABATEMENT VEHICLE OFFICER.
HIS ROLE IS FOR ABANDONED AND ABATING VEHICLES THAT ARE INOPERABLE, THAT ARE DISPAIRED, THAT ARE BURNED, STRIPPED, ET CETERA.
72 HOUR ORDINANCE, UH, PARKING VIOLATIONS IS NOT SOLELY FOR THEM.
THAT IS EVERY SINGLE PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, CSO AND PATROL OFFICER.
AND SO IT'S IMPERATIVE AND, AND MOST HELPFUL FOR US TO BE TIMELY AND RESPONSIVE TO THOSE COMPLAINTS BY HAVING THEM COME INTO OUR COMMUNICATION CENTER.
AND ANY AVAILABLE OFFICER CAN CAN HANDLE THAT CALL AS IT'S PRIORITIZED WITH OUR OTHER CALLS FOR SERVICE.
WELL, LET'S HOPE WE SEE SOME CHANGE, BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN.
I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
IT'S, IT'S, THERE'S SO MUCH IN THIS TOWN THAT, I MEAN, PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TAGS ON THEIR CARS AND THEY'RE JUST, OR VEHICLES AND THEY'RE JUST ON THE STREET.
SO WHO, WHO SEES THEM? BUT THE PUBLIC, WE DON'T FEEL LIKE WE ARE BEING RESPOND.
I DO APPRECIATE THE, UM, DISTRACTED DRIVING SURGE CAMPAIGN AND PERHAPS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE SURGE CAMPAIGN INTO PARKING FOR A WHILE WHERE THAT'S THE, UM, EXTRA EYES OF THE MONTH AND, AND WITH OUR COMMS, UM, YOU KNOW, MAKING NOTE OF WHY WE'RE MOVING INTO THIS, IT WOULD, IT WOULD BE A START AT ADDRESSING SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, WHERE, WHERE IT'S VISIBLE TO THE PUBLIC THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO THE COUNCIL THAT THESE THINGS HAPPEN WITHOUT DOING IT AS A PRIORITY COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, UM, I JUST HAD A, UM, THOUGHT WE HAVE OUR ENGAGE PETALUMA APP CAN THE PUBLIC, AND I'VE NEVER SEEN IT ON THERE, TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH OF SOMETHING THAT'S EITHER BLOCKING, BECAUSE OUR, OUR ENFORCEMENT OFFICER CANNOT BE EVERYWHERE IN EVERY STREET ON THIS, IN THIS COMMUNITY IN PETALUMA.
SO IF THE NEIGHBORS HAVE A COMPLAINT, THEY COULD POST A PHOTOGRAPH AND, AND ALERT THE CITY TO THE NEED OF, HEY, MAYBE WE NEED TO LOOK INTO GIVING THEM A NOTICE.
OR THIS VEHICLE'S BEEN THERE FOR TWO DECADES,
I THINK, I THINK THAT MAY HAVE BEEN AN OPTION I MENTIONED TO YOU WHEN WE WERE DOING OUR TOUR.
I THINK THERE'S INEFFICIENCIES THERE.
I THINK I WOULD JUST CORRECT YOU OFFICERS, RIGHT? I THINK THERE CONTINUES TO BE THAT, THAT, UM, MUSCLE MEMORY OF PEOPLE ARE GOING STRICTLY TO THE ONE ABANDONED VEHICLE OFFICER.
THEY'RE EMAILING THAT INDIVIDUAL, AND THOSE AREN'T GETTING INTO THE CAD SYSTEM.
THEY'RE NOT GETTING INTO OUR DISPATCHING SYSTEM.
THEY COMES INTO A QUEUE OF WHEN WAS IT CHECKED ON EMAIL AND THE RESPONSIVENESS TO IT.
SO WE WELCOME THOSE TO COME IN SO WE CAN IMPROVE THE TRACKING ACCOUNT.
COULD IT ALSO GO TO THE DISTRICT OFFICERS THAT ARE, I MEAN, THAT WE DO HAVE DISTRICTS, SO WE HAVE 15 DISTRICTS.
I, I MEAN, I'M A COMMUNITY MEMBER LIKE YOU, I SEE THESE ISSUES AND DRIVING THROUGH TOWN AND WHEN WE SEE THINGS THAT HAVE WEEDS UNDER THE TIRES OR GROWING TO THE BUMPER, THAT WOULD BE MY EXPECTATION THAT ANY OFFICER COULD MARK THAT SITE THAT TAKES SOME ENFORCEMENT ACTION, THAT DOESN'T NEED TO GENERATE A COMPLAINT COMING IN.
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OKAY.UM, YEAH, I'D, UM, LIKE TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO TO ACCELERATE TO, UH, PUT, UH, DAY LABORERS, UM, AND RESOLUTION AND DAY LABOR PROBLEM AND COMPLAINTS TO THE TOP.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, DO WE HAVE A STRATEGY AT THIS POINT AND WHAT CAN WE SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC WHO ARE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THIS ISSUE? UM, WELL, I MEAN, REALLY IT'S LOCATION, RIGHT? WE'RE, WE'VE GOTTA FIND A LOCATION.
UM, WE HAVE THE FOLKS AT GRAYTON WHO ARE WILLING TO HELP US STAFF.
I KNOW THAT PPSC IS, IS JUST TRYING TO FIND A LOCATION AND FIGURING OUT HOW TO MOVE FOLKS, SEE IF THEY'RE WILLING TO MOVE, RIGHT? RIGHT.
UM, I I, I, IT AGAIN IS LIKE ONE OF THE OTHER, MANY OF THE OTHER COMPLAINTS AROUND THE CITY IS THIS IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, WELL, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO FIX THIS ONE THING? AND WE SAYING WE'RE DOING A HUNDRED OTHER THINGS,
SO, UM, CHALLENGING, BUT LET THE RECORD SHOW.
WE DISCUSSED IT TONIGHT AND IT, AND IT'S, IT'S A CONCERN OF OURS.
AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE BEAR, UM, THE BFA, UH, ISSUE.
DID THAT GET INCORPORATED OR IS THAT, WE HAVE IT ON OTHER PROJECTS, BUT I MEAN, THE TIMING IS BEFORE THE END OF THIS YEAR, ACTUALLY IN NOVEMBER IS WHEN THE COUNTY WANTS TO SEE THAT LIST.
SO IT'S IN OUR GOOD AGGRESSIVE PROGRAM.
I, I, IT'S, I THINK THERE'S SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO WHETHER B IS GONNA MOVE FORWARD AT THIS POINT.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT SUPERVISOR RABBIT WAS TELLING THE MAYORS AND COUNCIL MEMBERS GROUP LAST WEEK.
UM, THERE'S SOME RATHER TRICKY NEGOTIATIONS GOING ON RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S NOT CLEAR WHERE THEY'RE GO, WHERE THEY'RE GONNA GO.
I'VE LOOKING FOR HANDS COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY TO TALK TO RAISE A NEW SUBJECT.
UM, I DON'T THINK THIS IS ADDING ANYTHING MORE, BUT, UM, UH, UNDER THE OPEN SPACE ACQUISITIONS AND MANAGEMENT, UH, ITEM LAFFERTY RANCH OPEN SPACE WAS, WAS, UM, ON THAT LIST.
AND, AND I'M HOPING THAT, UH, THE PARK AND REC COMMISSION CAN TAKE UP, UM, ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT THE, THE, WHAT ITS VISION IS FOR, UM, FOR LAFFERTY RANCH DOWN THE ROAD.
YOU KNOW, THERE WAS THE ONGOING NEGOTIATION WITH THE NEIGHBORING PROPERTY OWNERS FOR YEARS THAT, UM, AND THAT, THAT EVENTUALLY COLLAPSED, BUT THERE WAS A VERY SPECIFIC PLAN, UM, WITH THAT.
AND THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD STARTING POINT TO GET COMMUNITY INPUT SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEPS, WE KNOW WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE, UM, BECAUSE WE REALLY HAVEN'T HAD THAT CONVERSATION WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
SO I'M HOPING THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE PARK AND REC COMMISSION CAN TAKE UP UNDER YEAH, THE OPEN SPACE, UH, PRIORITY ITEM.
I, I RECALL FROM MY TIME ON PARK AND RECREATION, THE FIRST MEETING OF NEW NEWLY SEATED PARK COMMISSION WAS TO TAKE A TOUR AND, UH, WE GOT TO SEE LA CRESTA AND THE OTHER OPEN SPACE THAT ARE NOW MANY YEARS LATER, STILL, UH, STILL IN PLACE, STILL HUNTING FOR CASH, BUT, UM, GOOD.
WELL, UM, ALL, ALL THIS QUIET SEEMS TO BE A CONSENSUS.
IT'S KINDA LIKE, UH, THE AUCTION WHERE IT'S GOING ONCE.
SO I, I THINK WE PROVIDED STAFF FEEDBACK.
DO WE HAVE THE FEEDBACK WE NEED? WE DO.
AND I, YOU KNOW, FOR ANYONE WHO FEELS LIKE, UM, WE DIDN'T HEAR, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU WOULD LIKE US TO PRIORITIZE THINGS A LITTLE HIGHER, WE WILL BE COMING BACK REGULARLY TO GIVE YOU UPDATES.
SO IF SOMETHING'S ACCELERATED OR ACTUALLY SOMETHING GOT STUCK AND WE CAN MOVE SOMETHING ELSE UP, WE WILL.
I MEAN, THIS ISN'T A STATIC LIST.
THAT'S HOW WE WORK AS A STAFF.
I'M SUPER PROUD OF THE AGILITY OF OUR STAFF, UM, THE ABILITY TO PIGGYBACK ON EFFORTS.
UH, THAT'S THE WAY WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET THINGS DONE FOR THE LAST FIVE PLUS YEARS.
SO, AND, AND I, AND I THINK THAT THE REALIZATION IS, IS THAT WE'RE VALIDATING THAT THE PRIORITIES YOU'RE SHOWING US.
AND I THINK, SO I, I THINK WE'RE IN ALIGNMENT, UH, HUGELY IN ALIGNMENT AND UH, YOU KNOW, WE ALL WISH WE COULD DO MORE, BUT, UM, BUT UH, IF WE GET THIS DONE, IF HAD A VERY GOOD YEAR.
SO I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY MOTION OR ANYTHING UH, NECESSARY ON THIS ITEM.
AND, UM, APPRECIATE THE CREATIVITY.
STAYING UP PAST MY BEDTIME AND, UM, UM, WITH THAT, THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED.